Newspapers / The Twice-A-Week Dispatch (Burlington, … / July 9, 1915, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of The Twice-A-Week Dispatch (Burlington, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
IN HIS E S paiaciw, or AMKICAN HOMF» AND AMEBKAK INDC8TSIB&. ijJUMWE DAROLftj^'l! AY JULY. 9, 1915. NEimUB ENDS In Scttioj t^e Verdfet A$ule i|idi^:^Bid Dfidared ‘ I Haye Done So Becai^ I tbou^kMU Wtf no Me in the Plaintiffs Actiiwi’*'—He Dictates Foriml $Meinent. -,j,^ip,l!i.-p ip ji, . ,' thft eourtbouae. tlMre it »n unforta- ■'Kttiboro, July S.—“G«iiB*men, no ^ po««r teDMt]> Uih ««td •«« pie to get euttcd over importMt eases »nd this feeling imparts kaelf n^« tttt let ti^t Terdist gtutd,” iteinstieail; wUhiwd iedge M. . ^ . Boad today in the middle a state- *" **• ■_ •lisnt «a awMd «f ii;0>0 to ' tfce Fiaak Ca^i Min Loida M. Biity in Irar dftinage' Jttd^ Bond referred to tiM Frank stdt against W. H. Stone, Jr., of case. He bed a fine chatice to show Greensboro, wlmh ended Ifere this «ii»t dicuited his course here to^jr. morniag. The great outside'woi;^ ciamortng for It was chief of the thrUls that at- ^o Frank-found it strangely tended the trial covering the week, one combating the Georgia crowd ctaihant- in iritich tinbated public sympathy asking for the life of i man con- have impressed itself u^n a t^st clamor, jury that wrestled hard with the issue "A few days ago the governor of of damages. It slept upon the six Georgia while having upon him the last night and aroie this morning, a reaponsibility of standing between- a solid eleven contemUng with a single tnan and the gallows, had his man* one for a verdict five times as la^e. sion surrounded by excited crowds; so much as to necessitate his protectioi by armed force. This was done to make him disregard his own convic tion; of duty and rule a question to suit the v/him and caprice of an ex asperated mob. If that spirit is to take charge of the so-called courts of justice, and exact decisions, instead | Finally Willie Thomas, the standpat ter, yielded to fSOO on the issues of slander and false imprisonment, and at 11:15 the courthouse' bell called the little town together. Tlie omniscient knew what had tak en place. Those who aflfected to have been on the “inside" smiled patron is- ingly when a newspaper man guessed that $1,000 woaid be the snwllest anil (1,500 the larijrest. Eight had been far |7,0p6 or mon, it was whi^esail:- three for |10,000, one for 92.5,990, and a majority always for ¥6,000. T\ts defense hoped thruout for an award of nothing. At 11:20 Judge Bond called for the issues and the first as to the defendant’s speaking the words of the pleintilf as alleged in Uie com plaint, was answered against hini, 74tal Venikt for fl.OM. The jury held that thm words ware, not true. On the question of damages it gives $SDO. tlf^ihe second cause of action as to imprisonment of the plaintiff, the jury answered against Mr. Stone. the assessment was fSOO. The silence that met this return was the supreme tribute to Jud^ Bond’s overpowering the partisan Mia* JiUM» AMiiBM Beporita No War- (lag NatlM Bc»^ to Say itiiM. fHET WOULD C0N31DBR IT GonMay smI FniMe Be«fa )U^ Cob- cede 8m«e TUnio SlA Tkfaib: Von J«C*>w Says Asserka Hoa U^t tn S«H All the AmsiaidtlM She Chespies. GERNANY WiUNED 60 UREfliar Admira) . Trnpp^ Adviaea of Com- 4ueaee of Troubk WHk TMs Coiin- ts-y. LITTLE HOPE FOR S«t«w J^oas Day* of Eoiertaiaateat an ffinligtiteMUBt ^«e to CUwe. Tuesday NigM. HAXY HElABD mbs. PI^ETT Wife of Great Coofeder^e Geeeni! DeVghted Audieoce With Stories . •f Men Who Fought For the South. Tho pi'esentation Tuesday night of ,**Tiw Han from Home,” preened im- ise^tely by the concert by the Graayille-Hittes C«ntnhy, brought to k fitting close the seven joyofts days of the 1915 Chautauqua. But the tnd was a fitting climax. Lov ers of the good and the true and imro on- the stage rejoiced that thd Chavtauqua had brought such a VICTORY. weU^known and such a widely rec- — —■ ognised popular drama here as thsc Uncle Sam Not Only Would Give frotA the pen of Booth Tarkinton, Gsod Aceoont But Bring Other Neo- “A Pageant of Average Town,"' the trals to Side of The AlHes, He Jun^ Chautauqua Kay, given under Thinks; Opinion in Germany on tJie iSir^ion of the Association, but Amerkan Crisis Divided^ »y ^dren of the city.'was presentei .TJi^tlrisy afternoon^, was a dc- Dl TIS Mil a^tisaff k. iLAnl lU niJBRl of j lV*«s fun arid'y«^^^ amf/of course, was made particularly “for them. They seemed to enjoy it. Mr. Granville, of the Granville, of having them based upon cool and Buaineas Mels at Atlantic City W*nt SQqos Company, proved one of tha deliberate consideration of the evi* I to Make it Nation-Wlde~35 Stetes faVftrities of the stage this year. To PHliBITION detice in the cKse, then we'd as well { da oway with court houses and let Reprenentcd. en«gef or exerted groups of people Anti-Saloon Uague of America Be- doal out what to them appears, thrj their excited vision, necessary to satiate the cravings cf a cr9wd act ing with reason paMtiall^ dethron- ed." Judge Bond declared that He is as keenly sensitive to the cares of wo- mitnhncd and that in an experience cf 30 years at the bar he had been ap pealing for the husbands, children and relatives of women. He did his duty as a lawyer he said, but he -has a very different one as ^ Judge on the btnch. “The Judge is the onlj^ man who can stand between a jury and the en)wd. And we unconscioosly drift with the crowd" he said by way of «plaiBing how influences gatiier and spirit. The heaving of excited bo-H®'®**’*** public acts. S6IBS could be heard over the court-! *o this district I had room which, despite the absence of, l>e»rd of Mse," he said and Witice was nearly filled in the ftve ‘“>'1 he did immedUtely after minutes between bell and opening of ^ ‘he interest of the (Sbort. Judge Bond bit down ginger- s causa^ the complaint against ly upon his new cigar and A. L. Stone had been published in the Brooks, leading counsel for Mr. Stone. iGreenshoro Daily News. A large num- moved the setting aside of the verdict ‘ tliese papws hod bean caused elects BisiMp Lather B. Wilton, President; First of The Big tna»ir- ational Meetings is Held; !0r. Baker Attacks Msnn and Underwood. Bf JOMnNlFfimtt WiNHI HIS SECOND ATIEMPT TO HIS EXISTENCE. E«D on ^e grouiid at its violence to the principles. o£ law and to the wei|^ of the e'.'idence. Mr. Brooks declared it manifest that the spirit of the eut- s^e-had been all pervasive and $elt hielf on the inside dt the Jury box. Cnlpnel Barringir rose. Eis disap- po&^tment was apparent, - Ja^e liond had not yet remarked ^ut the Judge did not betray his amazement. The .ctdonei expected far more and liis theory was that Judge Bond’s chargis and daily admonitions to the jury had really made it give less than any jury without any knowledge of ^he esse would have done. When Judge Bond made his statement. Colonel Barringer protested with vehement eloquence, Jodge Bond had turned to an ani mated Vtoik of stone. Judge Bond called Hiss Hoover, the to be circulated in the county in which the cause w«s to be tried,” he con tinued. “I removed the case and wotiitt h&vs dene ^ every man in North Carolmo had signed a j>etition asking me not do so. As soon as I got here, I saw the swells of passian and prejudice of the'crowd. The second day I saw but allowed to pass unnoticed a sn\all ripple of applaus>. Another day this occurred and I warn ed the crowd,” Couldn’t Understand Jury. He briefly referred to the facts, told what Miss Riley admitted and whst she denied, what Messrs. Stone, KcCuii^n and Hicks, and Mi.;ses Ball, Moore, Morrow, Mrs. Prichett and other witnesses had said against the denial of Miss Kiley. “Three white men and five or six ladies ad- young Ashbon> stenographer Who faas^ ■ council to be of good char- done such splendid woHc oa the ea»9 and asked her id- take down what he said,' *lt is'most unfoitonsite," he bog?in, "that any case should be tried with a whirlwind of passion, excite ment and prejudice sweeping through ajstar, gave their testimony bgainst her. The men said'she confessed, the ladies ssid they saw her take-gcods. “The jur^ . have said that what these witnesses said was untrue and (Continued on Page JS.) NffTHING IS SAFE IN MEXICO CITY hiai WS! give.i the distinction of be- ink' Burlington’s favorite male voca! stiH: Miss Bentley last Saturday evening won the hearts of local Chautauqua goers, and Mr. Granville performed the same feat Tuesday af ternoon. He was assisted by f.n artist in his profession in Mr. Hines, who prances over the keyboard with as much ease as though it had nevkr been an eifort for him to acquire the familiarity with the piano which is ______ his. Both afternoon and evening the Bandit Soldiers Steal Autos aiid RWe performers were enchored again Around City in Gay Fashkm-t&e Uniform is SBpieme. saUsfied their admirers they . had come to that place where the ap- British Consul Forced to Take Part the louder and the longer, in Jail Delivery; Officers Fight Gun Granville had to refuse positively Di*{ in Crowded street; Thirty ^ Thftusand engaged in Mad ScnuaWe «> Tuesday, night but that was expected from the reception given them oh their first appearance in the afternoon. Mrs. Pickett Speaks. Daughters of the Confedev:acy, Con federate Veterans, and admirer.^ of the brave endurance of the men who followed the leaders of the South a half a century ago listened with almost breathless silence to the ad dress on “Friends of Yesterday” by Opinion PrevaiU In Washington That Mrs. George E. Pickett, widow of IntemaUonal Law i» The Kodt ijp- ®“n said to have led the great- on Which Thta Nation Fi^Iy snfsatry ir. all history. Steady and 51iat Alfrthing Less Pickett’s address was much i:i Will Fail to SufiSce. nature of recollection;) of the • men associated in the governnientai affairs of the Confederacy and witb the carrying on of the Civil War. She gave vivid illustrations and de lightful insights into the character ■' of Jeffei'son Davis, of Stonewall Jack- General Hamilton Tells of Landing son, Robert E, Lee, and o' Genevsl on Shores of GalUpoli—Tlie Death XT. S. Grant and Mrs. Grant. One of Traps Yawn. the most touching also, was the in- cident of Abraham Lincoln, tall, lanky, Turkish Machine Guns Cut Down Gal- bony man that he was, staggering up- lant Tommies Like Grain, But They on the porch of her itome in Richmond Snip Barbed Wire and Go at The'after the Coitfederate Capital was Ottomans With Bayonets, Until hurned almost to ashes in 1865, He Machine Guns Converge Fire, . came there to see the home of George 'JPickett and to speak a word to his Some people will think tlsat thj wife, since he and Kckett were such fifteen millions a day £nglai^ is payy-'good ^^md^ .ia their boyhood day&-. ing for the war is a mighty poor sag'^ saij- tlut. he jiist’wEnted to sej vestment, and with sn*fl prtjlpwt of \ *V.. —J- For Food. sERMANniiG m COMPHE Would Have The United States Sur- roider Some Important Neutral Rights—^The Suggestion in Vain. BitlTISH HEROISM Him CELLED Opened Artery in Arm With Lead Pencil ^rlier in Hie Day; Attead- . aitf Leave* Dow Open a Mookcnt aad -Piisoiw SHps Ont, CUmho on Top ^ Cell and Jumps Fifty Fe^ to Sodden Destli, Leaves letter Ask ing Wife to Care of The Balriri, Says Life Useless to Him and Ends Witii Request For Prayer That Slaughter Will Stop. Glea Cove, N. Y., July 6.~Frank Holt, the Cornell professor who shot J. P. Morgan in his home here last Saturday, commited suicide here to night by jumping from a jail window to concrete floor of the court yard about fifty feet below. Holt vfSiS under the guard of Je- remiah O’Ryan, a jail attendant. Tho prisoner apparently was sleeping soundly, and O’Syan hearing a noite on the other side of the cell tier, left his place in front of Kelt’s open door and started to investigate. O’Ryr.fi heard a noise, which, he said resemb led an explosion, and hastily returned to Holt’s cell, only to find it empty. Holt had slipped through the open cell door and climbed to the top of the cell tiers to an open winaow througil which he plunged to the narrow court- yaid below. Dr. Guy Cieghcrn, the jail physician and District-Attorney Lewis J. Smith were summoned. Dr. Cisgharn ex amined the body and found that th« skull had been crushed and that desth had been instantaneous. Useless Now To Live.' District-Attorney Smith sesrcKel Holt’s cell immediately after arriving at the jaii and found a letter bitten on yellow paper. This letter, whi«^h Holt must have written before he itt- tempted suicide eaviy this morning when the sancsl with which he tried to sever an artery, was taken from him, was addressed “To My Dears,’’ and follows: “I must wi-ite once more. The more I think about it, the more I sec the uselessness of living under circumstances such as these. Bring up the dear babie in the love of Gol and man. God bless you, my sweet. Affectionately, Frank. “P. S.—All please pardon me for al! the heart-ache I have brought you. Pray with me that the slaughter will stop. My heart breaks. Good-bye.’’ Conilicting Stories of Death. -4t midnight there was still consid- err.ble conftsion in the jaii and ccn- flicting stories as to the manner in. which Holt was killed were told by those attached to the Institution. Tlie attendants disagreed as to the. place where he body was found. Jeremiah O'Ryan, the keeper, detailed to wstrh Holt’s ceil, declared that he was posi tive the body was in a pool of blood in the cell when he first saw it. “It sounded to me like an explo sion,” said O’Eyan, giving his versio i of what occurred. “You will have hard work to convince me that it was not. The cell was in partial daikness as the lights had not been fully tuVned on. “I was fifteen feet from the cell when it happened and my back was turned. I heard a noise and then ran | scope. into the cell and looked around. It Wfss dark. "I couldn’t see at first . Then. I found the body in a pool of blood in a comer of the cell. “Holt bad been in remarkable good spirits. He had laugLed and earlier in the evening. That made me suspicious.” POTATO SLIPS ARE H^E TItose who have , been wsi^g. so long for potato slips can •end'' for them now, they are hert.^ We have only been able to weure the Norton Yam as yel, bvt u this is Ihe best variety, prewune all will be gild to get them. Please tell your neighfeor, and come quickly, potato pisnta do not last long unless planted. Will have Nancy Hall plants next week, but get these while they are to be had. baracas and PHILATHEAS TO MEET. The Baxaca-Philat^^s City Union, 'composed of nearly all the organist BsracK and Philathe classe.s of the various churches of the city, will hold its regular monthly meeting in the Webb Avenue M. E. church next Sun day afternoon at four o’clock. TMS rmeoting was to have been held last Sunday aftetnoon, but owing to the pittsonce of the Chautaqua, it was postj^ned one freak. We ttnderstoi;d the program conunic- t«e is artaiiging a very interesting program for this meeticg, which mil doubtless be. both d^iglttfUl and help ful. Among the business matters that will be transacted is the semi-an nual election of officers. Because cf these very important nmtters that will claim the attention of the Union at this ineetingi every class holding meaibei*hip in the organization is urged and expected to have a large repi'esentation of its members preset} The, public Is also cordially invited to attend the meeting. WEEKLY WE.\THER FORECAST. . Ilssttcd by the U. S. Weather Bureau^. Washington, D. C„ for the Week Beginning Wednesday, July 7, 1915. For South Atlantic and East Gulf States: Fair weather with normal temperatures will prevail during the next fovi- days except th.it showers are pri'.able on the South Atlanti: coa.'^^ The weather will become un^ settled with possibly showers after' the tenth and continue until the close of the week. There’s a lot of peace plans ru:\- ning loose about the country. W'hy not try them out on Mexico? If Mr. Bryan would only go to Sufope we believe h«. could end ths w^T. ' He would talk it to death. ^ It's a poor mother who can’t dis cover extraordinary brains in her. own ofi^prtng without the use of a micro- RINT
The Twice-A-Week Dispatch (Burlington, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
July 9, 1915, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75