"HE CHARLOTTE NEWSMARCH I 19il
5
SOME SPRING NOVELTIES
t, w line Marquisites and Voiles in
0 desirable shades, also in stripes
tel checks with handsome side-
inds, 29c, 48c and $1.00 yd.
- isome Foulard Silks in the new-
1 patterns and polka-dots, also
J(,'l)and effects, 48c to $1.75 yd.
\ oily Ginghams in the most beau-
iiil Plaid combinations. Checks
;iici Stripes, 32 inches wide and
i lilting in price from 15c to 35c.
.lisiing Madras in all the neat stripes
; ul little figures for shirts and shirt
waists. 36 inches wide, 15c yd.
axons - A full range of colored fig
ures and sidebands, also White
C hecks and Plaids, 15c and 18c.
0. M. 0. Dress Shields
Spccial Demonstration and Sale
Now in Progress
Do you want to know some inter
esting facts about Dress Shields ?
Know why the O. M. O. is positively
odorless, as well as the best shield for
Summer wear? Mrs. Gasquoine, an
expert in her line is here to tell you.
The O. M. O. Shields are guar
anteed. They coatain no rubber,
impervious to moisture-hygiene and
odorless. O. M. O, Dress Shields are
light, fit perfectly and are easily
cleansed.
If you' knew all about O. M. O.
you’d never want any other kind.
Come to the demonstration tomorrow.
Laces—We are continuing the 7(51:
Lace Sale as the purchase was so
large we can replenish the table
with many new patterns that we
couldn’t show on opening day on
account of display space. Come
any day this week and get remark
able values in all kinds of Laces
for 7(5t yard.
Embroideries—Another shipment of
those handsome Flounce Embroid
eries, some in dainty colorings with
bandings to match and many new^
patterns in White Flouncing, 27,
45 and 54 inches wide; also the
narrower widths in all styles—Hob
ble Insertings and everything that
makes an Embroidery department
complete.
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'iry IS Trying
i’i'gre One.
- all 1 wad biieak
• • i' >i the room
!!) rcnsoii in the
■\h> h(.“ did
ai.yMiing lo you
: I never
■. 1 tru-'!. (1 him.
asked
>' lii> wile.’
Was iiol I
>•>'1 were not
■ iiiiiK "I that
• ; r,.(d a i)istol
kncA (>i. He
. :.t ufiihi when
i 1. mere :ie
t.1 was
11. ■ hweetesl
• II’- ni' face, lo
■ :.■ \\aiitcd to
SIK.V
U li\
in liis eves more than
1
Will yt
)u tell me what your real
u:
nu'
is ?
1 told
you yesterday.
Well,
would you mind telling
US-
ag
'tin ?
1 .OUiSH
Sietihens.
Q
Is yor.
r mother living?
■\.
.\'o, si
•. 1 have no pt^ople.
So .\our mother, fat bet and
al
,\()ur iK‘11
p!e dead?
s
r.
Whet e
was ,\o.;r (uiginal home?
A.
fJorn
uul r;iisfd here in the
S
■ lit h
What
town?
A.
Oh, do
I have to tell all that.
1
don't wa
nt to—don’t make me
te
n it
. if it
is not absolutely neces-
ss
^ } •
,
I thinl
it is rather necessary
th
n t
on slu
uhl teH it? I think it ;s
best for yon to make a clean sweep
of everyth.inij:. j
A. I am tellins: you the truth about
everything elso. so ])!ease don’t make,
nip tell titip, if it i.'’ not nooessary. !
Q. So yo'i don't want your jieople |
I to know wiiat kind of a life yon are
• absent fromijiving?
^ arid weni } \ jt jp not that. What is left
{of iny people is not near enough ti
one-half' in-> to rare. H is their name, what
but df>n I I have lieen, tliai is If I can be
■ ‘ " h**n he went I spared this—j)lease do.
' H. .Miss I.onise, I would make
a clean bieast of the whole thing,
1 ihink it is to your interest to do
that ?
\ Tf I ncust I vvill tell you—Eu-
fa'.iia, .\Iai)ania.
Wpre you ever mgrried?
\. Yes, I was. (Here witness again
broke down in sobs—out loud.)
your husband living? No
answer- still crying.
Q. Have you any children?
A. Yes. one.
il Is your husband living now?
A. 1 df)n'r think he is.
Q. H(»w long have you and he
New Orleans, been separated?
ich he used in j A. Over three years,
have l)een in Q. Did he leave you. or you leave
l;:iv>- it in his'him?
A. 1 left him, he was so cruel to
nio 1 could not stay with him.
Q. You have been living a ranib-
Mnd itrf'i tier's wife I ling life since separating from him?
lifor who live in-i .\. No I have not.
j Q. I mean you have been from
never told me | town to town?
■ w}i =; a married I A. Yes sir. I came here, this is
Ithe first time I have ever been with
n our name? Al. I ant telling .vou the truth.
Q. Whats was your husband
name?
A. Must I tell all that—please
don’t.
Q. Yes, it is better for you to
te’l it, all—the sooner we get through
with it the better?
iit.fr the num- A. Archie Dick.
Where were you married ?l?
F^ufaula, Ala.
Your maiden name was Steph-
tn an to Vir-
• 1: :!ild iip did
■ f*r is living and
aii-; that is what
nnkinp a trip to
is wliat, he
■a k his grip?
i ' ■ ' li>-d him to
•fiib'atie book.
'i\ telling me he*
hiug yesterday
(nt I fspuiidence
h.i Vf
always
have a
1 sent
lU-ve,
-■ -nt.
' . her and wife
•I,-; on Gaosa
it.fT the num-
I'e h:id not eat
Ilf* ;tiue here
li;ul tiikf-n a few
I" V! 1’ fats wlien he
ill down town night,
l-ot liini a fup of rof-
' up at he said
aII . tiling to eat.
vt I V rnu» h under in-
M>kev since he came
tfd him so differ-
Yes, sir.
Where is your child—do yon
A.
Q
ens?
A.
Q-
know?
A. Yes I do. With his grandmoth-
pr—\ir, Dick's mother. I took him
there m.vself, no one took him aw’ay
from me.
Q. It is a boy, is it?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. You don’t know whether your
■iiM ineij. It didn’t mal\e / huisband is living or not?
■ rj-./cil him. He was not I A. No, I have been told he is not.
'hiiil> h(> was utulcrj Q. You do not mind telling us
' of it very much. He what kind of business he is in?
A. Ranchman.
Was lie a resident, h('rn and
raised in FZul'aula?
,\. Xo, sir, he was from Texas.
(J. What town iu Texas?
A. ('larkville.
Q. Not let’s get back to this iillini;
a iittle more. Y'ou have made a clean
bieasi of .some things, vet's see il' you
can't make a clean breast of this kill
ing?
A. I told .vou truthfully all ! know.
(>. Is il not a I'act tluit he shot him
self l)cf(.ie \ou went in .Miss Wil.sou's
room ?
■\. Xo, he was standitig by the ta
ble. with t)oth hands on the table,
smiling. That is the trutli.
Q. XN’hy did you tell the housekeep
er to go and get the linen?
That was nothing tjuusuai. Miss
Wilson was dressed, and I was not.
and I went in her room and asked her
to get me some jiaper for .\1. Mrs.
Costello said to me, “Mrs. Winn, I
want your towels.” I said, "alright
get them, Al is i nthere.”
Q. That was when you came out?
■A. Yes. How can any one think I
would harm him, when he was the on
ly friend 1 have.
Q. Mrs. (’ostello met you when you
were going in Miss Wilson’s room?
.A. She did not, I was in Wilson’s
room.
(Now .Mrs. Winn we are not charg
ing you with anything—we merely
want to get the facts, and have to do
our sworn duty.)
Q. Miss Wilson says it was only
two or three seconds from tin'ie you
entered her room until Mrs. Costello
came and inquired for linen and you
told her to get it. and when she o])en-
ed the door she found Mr. Winn lying
in front of the door?
A. I can’t tell you to save my life
the length of time it w^as, it all hap
pened so Quick I don’t understand it.
Q. He showed you the pistol when
he came back?
A. No, sir, I didn’t know' he had a
pistol, he had never had one before. I
have heard him say he never did carry
a gun.
Q. He never has told you he had a
wife?
A. No. sir, not one word did he
ever sa.v to me abotit his wife. I had
no reason in the world to believe he
did.
Q. Did you tell him you had a hus
band?
A. He knew^ all aJDOut it. That, was
why he was willing for me to go away
I was going to Texas and going to see
if I could find out more than I knew.
1 write to Mr. Dick’s sisters and moth
er, and I ask iiiem about him. and they
don’t answer me. 'ITiey write about
other things but don’t tell that.
Q. Was your husband a Virginian
or was he a New Orleans man, origin
ally? I mean Mr. Winn?
A, He was from New Orleans, or
that w'as what he told me.
Q. Did nyou know he had any rela
tives at all in .Asheville?
A. Not a one, no sir. I can’t to this
day account for it. He was with me
every Sunday and every since I have
been here. 1 don’t understand it and
can’t.
Q. You say you wrote his brother
and brother’s wife, how' did they know
anything about you and circumstances
surrounding?
A. Because Al had told them.
Q. Told them he was living with a
w'ontan besides his own wife?
A. I don’t understand it,, since this
came uit They certainly knew it, I
(•a>i prove to you i wi-ote to them.
(J
Did titev Mcner imiiuaie any
thing in tliose icMers?
A. Xfvor, nev:'r.
Q. Did tliev answer vour letters?
dead man, in w'hich he .jsked for par
ticului'S. ' I
The News received information j
from .Asheville that the sick v.ife of
Mr. Winn w;is Ihere. and this w'as
A. .\iw:iy--, iliey really wrote to niejrlu' v.edge Htut drove luime the idea
oftei((^r than I wK'ie to them. | (hat suici(ie liad T’.ot been cotnniiti'i.
Q. Don't \'ou suiipose they thou,t;ht | and was also tiie fact, that coiitradict-
the\ were writiii:;' to liis real wife? | ed l.ou’se Srf jihens.
A. 1 don't ixuow v.hai his wil'-B’sj The coroner’s .iury met at 2 o'clock
name is. I'nless she had the same I yesferday in t he undertaking estali-
tir'.me that 1 did. I can’t think ef if i lishment of Coroner Z. Hovis. It
that ay. I really don't understauii it. [was comiiosed of the following mem-
It is ail a mystery lo me. hers: Messrs. W. D. \\ ilkinsoii, J. P.
ti. You ,ius! s;;id lii:-'- brother ar.dii.oug, W'. L. Po.oe. W. li. C. 13ark-
wife knew you were Using with him 1 lev and J. A. Davenport, with Mr.
illegally?
A. Xow you are mistaken. They
must have understood the thing as it
was. Al to4d them about me, btit if
they knew anything about the wife, I
don’t know it.
Q. Vou don’t know whether they
knew his real wifi> or not?
A. Xo. sir. 1 don't know anything
about it all .
(Mr. Hoover). ITis real wife is from
Xew Orleans.
Q. Whar is Mr. AVinn’s brother
name in. Xew Orlean^^.
A. .Jim and his wife is named Ha
zel. .lini Winn’s wife has been mar
ried before this. She has a daughter
nauied Delpha, I think. I have had a
letter from her. I don’t understand
it. Hazel and this giil have told me
rei'eatedly, iu letters, thitt Al had nev
er talked about anything but I.ouise
when there, and they don't hear any
thing else from morning until night.
Q. Do you know she is living w’ith
her husband ilie.gally?
A. I know nothing abotit her, ex
cept she is Jiiii Winn’s wife.
(Hoover). I suppos you did, as you
stated she had l>een married before
this.
(Witness asked twice to see Il’s re
mains, but was refused to do so, until
later in the day.)
Detained in Rooms.
W. E. Long as secretary.
The first witness was Mr. H. C.
AVilliams, proprietor of the I.,eland
hotel, in which the man was stopping
when found dead. B.v his register he
showed than on the 20th of Xovem-
ber, 1910, “A. ,J. Winn and wife, Bir
mingham, Ala.,” came first to the
hotel.
“Mr. Winn always paid the l)ills
and was iu the city every Sunday,
with the exception of Sunday belo!'e
last,” said Mr. Williams. AVi;ness
then told of how he was sitting by
his stoA’e in the lobby of the hotel
shortly after 10 o’clock, and of hear
ing a report. At first he thou-ht it
was of an automobile tire buisting,
but later vent upstairs to investi
gate. Mrs. Costello, housekeeper in
the hotel called him. saying that Mr.
Winn had killed himself.
Complicating Details.
The most signifiicant statement
made by Mr. Williams was that w^hen
he reached the top floor of the hotel,
the room of No. 17 was closed. In
tli8 conecting room, 18, was the dy
ing man. This was fully five minutes
after the shot was fired. No .lock
was on the door that connected the
rooms, and Mrs. Winn, or lx)uise
Stephens, says she left her husband’s
room and went into this connecting
room to get some paper from Dora
Wilson. Both women were in this
room within 'four feet of the man
when he was shot and neither heard
the report of the pistol, so they
say.
Mrs. Costello told the Jurors that
Not until after 6 o'clock in the af
ternoon of yesterday did the mem
bers of the coroner’s jury fully de
cide what to do in the matter. The
fact that the dead man had bought a
revolver some fifteen or tw^euty min
utes before his death was a circum- she asked for the linen from the
stance, that, to the minds of some room and Mrs. Winn, appearing at
of the jurors, tended to show sui- ', the door of No. 17, told her to knock
cidal intent. To other members it [on the door of No. 18. She did this,
w'as one suspicion in substantiation' received no answer and then entered
of suicide against a score of circum-ithe room and found the man in a
stances that precluded any intent of ■ pool of blood. She ran out and told
self-destruction. j Mr. Williams who came up.
So grounded, however, were all of ! .t. p. .Tones heard the' report of the
the mysterious circumstances sur-' pistol and went to the room behind
rounding the death, that the jurors Mr. AVilliams.
finally instructed Coroner Hovis to i Apparently very nervotts. Miss Dora
put the two w'omen, Ix)uise Stephens, W’ilson was brought into the room
who claims to be the v.ife of the and asked to tell of the circum-
dead man, and Dora Wilson, a pian- stances. Mrs. AVinn, so she said, came
ist, wiio occuiiied the adjoining room into her room for some w’riting pa-
to the suicide and who is an intimate per. She opened the door to call a
friend of the Stephens woman, under boy and then saw Mrs. Cosiello and
police surveillance for the night, hearing that Mr. AVinn w’as dead,
They were detained in their rooms in took Mrg. Winn into another room,
the hotel by Col. AAMlliams, the pro-j Louise Stephens,
pnetor, who is giving the authori-! Holding ammonia to her nose and
ties all the assistance possible. Both apparently greatly grieved, Mrs.
were great l.v incensed because of AVinn, or Tjouise Stephens, was led
the detention and the notoriety into to a chair in the center of the room,
which they had suddenly sprung. She could not, or would not, talk of
Brother Telegraphs. the affair. She said she was married
A telegram from Mr. .T. AA’^inn, to Winn in Denver, Colo., tw'o years
brother of the dead man, in New^ ago; that she had never met any of
Orleans, came after 5 o’clock in the his people, and had no people her-
afternoon and asked that the body self. Then she apparently broke down
be prepared for burial and shipped and the investigation ended,
there for interment. This followed a All of the circumstances were so
telegram from Asheville from Mr. conflicting, so suspicious, that ^the
George Delemore, lather-in-law of the jurors flnalljr decide^! to wail uiiiil
tO(]a.\' before reitdering a vridi' t. ,A’i'l
in ilio interim ihey asked that liif,'
two women be held. .To all intents
and i)urj)oses t!u-y were under arrest
in the hotel, and fni' a time there
was the greatest of excitement, tlaf 'i
woi\ian was indi-;nant.
Xo one !iad explained w iiy so much
blood was in a bowl on the diesser;
v.hy the room was disordered, why
Mrs. AVinn, in an adjoining rooiii
with a connecting door not fasten^.i,
did noi liear il;e slioi: wiiv she
denies a nttarrel w lier alleged
husband- v>];en it is pn:sitiv'ly stated
that the noise of the qnarrel was
heard.
Xor could any one say why the
man purchased a jdstol, fifteen cents
worth of shells, ordered the pistol to
be placed in a box, and fifteen mii:-
utes .afterwards, wliile dre^;sed tor
travel, with his suit case packed, was
found dying from the effects of a
btillet, w'ound iu his head. To have
fired the bullet himself, according to
the best of authority, the man initst
have jiulled the liigger with his
thumb.
Pickard. i\ i!. .Johnsion and George
Dunn.
Before marriage Mrs. Coston was
Miss l.ily Berry. She was well kuowa
and grtaily esteemed here.
5
Metropolitan Grand Concert Company, j
Mme. Chilson-Orhman, Miss Adah |
Hussey, Mr. J. Humbird Duffey, Mr,!
Frederick Martin, and Miss Susie ;
Ford, are the noted artists who vill
be heard here tomorrow night at the .
Academy of Music with the famous i
Metropolitan Grand Concert ('’ompany,
which is coming to this city under tiie
management of !Mr. W. Radclitfe.
The engagement of the .Metropolitan
Grand Concert Cotnpany in (.narlotte
will doubtles-s ))rove one of the most
artistic events of the current musical
season, and a crowded house w’ill most
likely be on nand to hear this noted
organization.
Seats ai’e now on sale at Hawley’s.
BRIEFS.
—Mr. Ituius T.ittle, of Little’s Mill:?,
is iu the city.
—St. Patrick’s Day in the morning
comes on Friday this year!
—The elegant residence of Mr. J. L.
Staten, un Elizabeth Heights, is erect-
rapidly. The plan is strictly Colonial.
—The executive board will hold its ,
weekly seance tonighi. Nothing of an ,
incendiary nature is iuiticijiated in the
order of Lii.-iuess.
—Mr. T. li. Matheson. of Taylors
ville, i. spending today with his son.
Dr. J. P. Matheson. Mr. Matheson is :
one of the most [irominent men of this ■
section of the st;ite.
—Rev. .T. A. Smith, synodical evan- ,
gelist for the Associated Reforint>d j
i’resbyterian church, has just closed |
a successful meeting at Mooresville, ^
and has returned to liis home here. '
Next w'eek he will go to Fayetteville,
Tenn., and conduct a week’s meetir.i.
“The Blue Mouse.”
Mary ^lacGregor, w’ho will appear
in “The Blue Mouse” at the Academy
of Music, Tue.^day matinee and night,
of next week, comes from a very prom
inent theatrical family, she having four
sisters and nine brothers all in the
theatrical world. She appeared when
a child with Fanaie Davenport, Kate
Glaxton and Rose Coughlan, and also
originated a role in the “College AA id-
ow\” Her brother is prominently known
as stage director to Charles Frohman.
Body of Mrs, Costan
Brought From Taxes
The remains of Mrs. S. M. Coston
will arrive here this morning on South
ern No. 3tj from Nacogdoches, Texas.
They will be tr.ken at once to the
home of Mr. C. M. Berry hill. No. 12
North Clarkson s-treet, where they
will remain until 2 o’clock tomorrow
afternoon. At that hour the fimeral
services will be conducted by Rev. Dr.
H. H. Hulten, pastor of the First Bap
tist church, assited by Rev. Dr. G. T.
Rowe.
The interment will take place in
Elmwood immediately afterward. The
pall bearers will be Messrs. J. H. Em
ery, T. W. Neal, Harry Stewart, J .A,
On©
Woman
ft’es BooliJet 0arc!
tau;5ht rae a lot ef
ka^’.yivig abaut.
^ ffcVY t»n centE t
italabovi^ I^yea ^&r-
r.ion/2e the ciinapm^-
jiuU ^r«:aaing '.^ oil, with
nry liaeeme, by tiy-eiug lot f f
freoh acd stylish,
JNO. S. BLAKE DRUG CO..
On the Square.
HAWLEY’S PHARMACY,
201 N. Tryon St.
R. H. JORDAN & CO.,
2 No. Tryon St.
C. R. MAYER & CO.,
301 No. Tryon St.
TRYON DRUG CO..
11 No. Tryon St.