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.Mit illntfttftni ft jit i POX. XXXII MOUJV2 AIRY, WORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY:. JUJVE G, 1912 JVO. 18 15- He Ha Not Escaped Chair Sstate Hans to Try Him For the Murder cf Sheriff Webb. Wytheville, June 1. After de liberating two hours and a half the jury ia the case of Claude N wanton Allen this aftcrn-on found the young man guilty of murder in the second degree for tlie killir? of Judge Thorton L. lassie, and recommended that hi punishment be fixed at fif teen yean in the State peniten tiary at Richmond. Sentence wat suspended in order that the prisoner may testify in the, other ea.se growing out of the shoot ing up of Carroll county court on March, ltth, la.st, when the five persona met their deaths at the hands of the Allen clan. Four Other Indictments. The verdict rendered today does not mean, that Claude Allen has escaped the electric chair. Four other indictments against him are pending, on any one of which it is possible that he be found; guilty of first degree mur der, and the prosecution, taking advantage of this fact, sprung a surprise on the defense when it announced, that it would next go into the trial of Claude Allen for the murder of Sheriff Webb The defense raised objection to this, and the objection will be argued and passed upon when court reconvenes July 1. Venire to Report July 2. Jutlge Staples gave, instructions for the summoning of a venire to rejort on .July 2, and remarked that he did not believe a jury could be secured from Wythe county. The prosecution immed iately moved that a venire be nroned from another emujty, the t.tffioujml!ug7 AitK"?u nesses had been examined af to the probability of another jury being secured in Wythe county, the court ordered a venire of one hundred to be summoned frmn Washington county. The case just ended was given J to the jury at 2 :.'!() this afternoon j and the first ballot taken stood) 9 for second degree murder, two; for first degree and one for man- slaughter. The second ballot was; unanimous. ) .Just before adojurnincnt Judsrej rviapfcs ordered tnut tne pris oner be taken to the Roanoke jail, pending the reconvening of Wythe county court and five of "them left tonight under a guard of detectives. Byrd Marion did not accompany them, being again released today under $1,(MM) bond. Wytheville, Va., June 1st. Breaking down completely when the jury had been out thirty-five minutes this afternoon, Claude Swanson Allen wept bitterly for Home time, as his mother and Hweetheart tried to console and comfort him. It was the first great show of emotion that the sturdy young mountaineer had displayed since lie had been on trial for his life. In a short tune, however, he recovered his composure and again looked forth with the same characteristic stolid demeanor. The prisoner, his counsel, his mother and his faithful sweet heart were grouped in a solemn communion of silence as the min utca lengthened while behind a door, a few feet to their rear, was being setlted for one of them the biggest question of his twenty-two years of existence. Attorneys for the common wealth, across from this little knot of men and ' women, sat quietly awaiting to see if their efforts to fasten on the defen dant the guilt for tin death of one who had but lately presided over this very court should suc ceed. And over the entire court room was an awed hiish, a tense ex pectancy, that hover always a rotind wlun the morbid come to see if a man shall be sent on his way to a legal death. As Attorney . Ilolman Willis, closing for the. defendant's cause, just before noon, besought mercy from the jury for that forlorn woman of woe, whose husband has been torn from her bv law's CLAUDE ALLEN GETS YEAR VEEDICT. stern demands, tears overcame Mrs. Floyd Allen, the prisoner's mother, and Miss Nellie Wisler, the fiancee of the young defen dant. Other eyes, too, were wet with sympathy for these sorrow ladcn women in black, who have drawn closer to the side of their loved one, as the end n en red. And so the trial that has befn in progress for two week enter ed upon its last peri oil when At torney Joseph C. Wysor, chief prosecuting counsel, began his simianing up to the jury the facts he. claimed should condemn Claw'e Swanson Allen to the strajw and elcetropedes of the chair of death in Richmond. Willis Speaks. Attorney It. HoLnan Willis, chief counsel for the defense, be - gan the closing address for his nide at 0:30 o'clock this morning. He launched into a series of at tacks uprn each of the common wealth's most important witness es, and in contrast, he lauded the virtues and reliability of every on of the defense's witnesses, who had testified to salient points Attorney Y lllis lost no oppor tunity to asperse Dexter Goad's motives in. the case. Every chance he got he vented his spleen on the clerk of Carroll county. But Mr. Goad, sitting in the? court room, a few feet away from Mr. Willis, watched the doughty little attorney with' amused tolerance. Willis is only a few inches over five feet tall; (load Is six feet in statue, wherefore Goad kept his temper and only smiled. Through his whole speech rang the praise by Attorney Willis for young Claude Allen in defending his father, as the defense views j it. "The law," he said, "didn't, j a'l'jt 'this handsome young fel intend that a boy should be ad-! ,0.vv" ll0 terms him, so that, he judged guilty of first-degree j mght marry. May heaven pro murder for shooting at a man ''"r ,n1:1 putting her in- wjhejj4kv j tryJJ!' wmtCshand! in thf hand. fTmy to kill or ininre his father, i stained with murder!" WA - I ina it lie lhl shoot .Judge Ma.ssie, in shooting at Dexter i (ioad, then he did not intentional-j lv aid and abet anv one to kill I Judge Massie." Attonu-v Willis then took up the instructions piveii to the inrv'tl'.e depths of her eirl irrief bad by the court, aud skillfully ti- terpretcd even the most impor tant ones for the commonwealth so t hat they might rebound t" the benefit, of the prisoner. Andther Warning. Again, as in Floyd's trial. thcM';"' was adjourned defenae could not resist the teni-; ehx-k. ptation to herald in advance, in a warning note to the jury, that Joseph C. Wsor is an orator and an advocate to be regarded skeptically, because of hN abound ing ability. Attorney Willis urg- ril tb, liieikrv rwit to )i. i.;irrteil ;.v .. ,.f ..o; ;,v I fhuned bv anv high-sounding high- lingi phrases, or diets. blood -curdling epi- Stprn .Io Wvunr a fp' miei-w away, tightened the muscles of ias jaw as he jotted down refer-1' ences for his final address. Mr. Willis concluded about 11 s:W o'cl.k ami was followed j v Ai..pn0- ! lor the cuimuonwealth Wyscr Begins. Mr. Wysor btgan by referring to Judge N. II. Hairston's state ment to the jury yesterday, when the attorney for the defense had said: "What are vou going to do when you catch Sidna Allen, if ; never operated a Sunday tram, you convict Claude for murdering; In .Tune of that year a Sunday Judge Massie?" j train wsa put on but there was Mr. Wysor ridiculed such an so much opposition to it from the assertion as being an insult to .ministers at Klkin and North the jury's reason. He said it was Wilke.lRro, backed by their re against all principles of law, spective codigregation.s, that jx "and Judge Hairston knew it titioiLs were circulated and the of- when he said it. i J hen ys.r turrwd Ins atten-! tion to the chief point of defense , the plea that Claude was; the line as far as Greensboro j remained the dry, secretive, cn-! physically and spiritualty. Mind, j rushed to the m st and found a shooting to save his father. jw cre giad to take advantage of fered, good-nautred American. J body and smd prepared for life's j rattlesnake in it ami to her hor "But what was Claude- defend-, the Sunday outing afforded andjwho was making a business of' effort. True character, pure ror, saw that the snake had life ing his father against?" demand-; visit these mountain towns. i flying. After avepting contracts principle ami right heart must un j ten both the bovs. ed Mr. Wysor "lie was defend- Citiens of these towns are with several European govern-de Hie the cultural bra'ui, andj In her anxit tv to do something ing him against law, against the ingaiii agitating placing Sunday ; ments for supplying airshij for ' with it all there is needed n ! for the older bovs, the 1 year-old court, against the offic rs of that . service on the road and many j military purposes. Wilbur Wright , clean, strong body. (child wa forgotten fr the time court 1 And yet he exacts such; have signed petitions to this cf- j returned to the Tinted States to j This is a busy" ;ig.. Every j being, and wh-n she returned tor a plea will save him when his feet. Counter petitions are being! find th.it "tlo i.rotihet witt.ont ' mar i in a nuh llar.lh- i;,,,,- f ! I at lie is doomed to d atb for that at same resist enee to that law '. Attorney Wysor went into the i commonwealth s tl.cory of cn- s piracy iy tne Aliens at great ; length, lie d tailed the evidence j adduced by both sides that might support Iils contentions and he arraigned his points in masterful fashion. Claude Fired Three Shots. Mr. Wysor contrasted the testi mony of Judge I). W. I'.olen and of Claude, the defendant. Judge Bolen said he saw Claude and Sidna advancing upon the court officers after Judge Massie had been. sh t down. Claude fired three or four shots toward the officers as he advanced, accord ing to Judge ltolen. Cla.ude, on the stand in his own defense, said he had not. fired after leaving the corner, but that he got behind his I'nclc Sidna, when, his own pistol hung. Other strong points were i brought out. by Mr. Wvsor in orderly and convincing fashion. Going through the many rami fications of tin case, deftly reach ing out at the weak twigs of the tree behind which the defense would shelter the prisoner Attor ney Wysor endeavored to prune thein down so as to reveal Claude's form of guilt standing out from beyond that protection. At length the chief prosecutor came to references to Claude's mother and sweetheart. He argu ed that it was no excuse for a man's crime because he had a poor, frail mother. Not in Love. "And I don't believe Claude was in love when he aided in shooting up a court!' declared Mr Wysor. "Jf he had truly loved this pure young girl he would not have engaged in such a slaugh ter. "Judge Ifairston asks von to ' I h i . . I. .11 XI" H f! XfT 1 """"l?" an mis jiiss uisier stared as if transfixed at the ; robust lawyer who was arguing! 'inst her lover's life. Her ! eye-s shone glisteningly but there; ! welled forth no tears perhaps ' already been sounded to the tennost. i With -a supreme exhortation to ! the jury to uphold the law and 1 to vindicate the murder of that ; law's officers. Attorney Wysor J cbtsed his address at 1 :10 o'clock.; till 2 :'!(); Maricn Released Again. For the second tim '""-e Claude Allen's trial began. Byrdjs,.s uf experiment. In l'.'Ol thev Marion, indicted jointlv with the .Aliens, and Kdwartlses, for the Illillsville murdei-s, was re eased He under bond this afternoon. " x lV u" m :.'JU l' ' nidge 11. Jiai-Mon went on Uyrd's boiul, in the sum of sfl,- XX). Liu-k of sufficient evidence LWH '"'n llf the reason for al " " 'ni MJ " " t,!W'' The release of Mvrd was effect ed after the jury in Claiwle's case ,iwl. rlmb fnai it nngnt not influenced by the H-currenc i i . . i . .. ... ) in considering its verdict. , Agitotion for Sunday Train. K1 kin, Jul- 1. About 20 years ago the North Western North Carolina Railroad was built from Winston-Salem to North Wilkes loro, and with the exception cf one month in l!fH the road has ticiaLs discontinued the s-rvice al- thougli ttie venture was a success an many people from e.11 down circulated by those ottHSid to J , Sunday trains on the road and j the fight will be taken to the of-1 f icwiLs at aslungtoii for settle-- i-.ein. nnat the outcome will be u problematical. NOTED AIRMAN DIES. Wilbur Wright Succumbs After Struggle With Fever. Dayton, Ohio, May :'.0. Follow ing a grim battle against hopeless j agone as "those crazy Wright ; before it can be on the lips. Be odds Wilbur Wright the noted air- hoys." ; fore you can act the truth of the man, died at 3 M this morning of ) But the Wright brothers were ! Golden Rule it must have possess tylphoid fever. Death came after (too busy to play the hero. They led the heart. Jesus taught that the distinguished patient had ling j had machines to make for the 'men should not be over-anxious ered several days in a semi-con-j world. They were making them concerning clothes, food and scions condition, and with a burn-, in Germany, in Scotland, and in money. Necessary are these ing fever. ' Davton, and still thev could not things, but the more iiniort.int vngiu tiu-u iouowing a Sinn- ing sjxdl which develotwd shortly after midnight. The aviator was surrounded by meunbers of his family which includes Bishop Mil toiWright and Orvill Wright.co inventor of the aeroplane. The most alarming1 symptonrs develop ed yesterday when the fever sud denly mounted to 106. At thus juncture of the crisis, patient was seized with chills. The physi cians were baffled Ty the turn of events. Patient was seized with typhoid May 4, while on a busi ness trip in the east. He took to bed almost immediately, con sulting Dr. Conklin. It was sev eral days before the case was diagnosed definitely as 'typhoid. Throughout the early part of his illness Wright attributed his sick ness to some fish he ate in a Boston Hotel. Arrangements foi the funeral are incomplete. One of First to Fly. Wilbur Wright shared with his ; brother, Orville, the distinction of being the first to fly. Stu dents of world progress havd plac ed these names in the Hall of Fame in immediate proximity to those other pioneers of advance ment, Gutenburg, Watt, Fulton, Stevenson, Edison, Hell ami Mar coni. Wilbur Wright and his broth er, natives of Ohio, began heir experiments in flying when '.ey Wrce niecrt. Jtovg 'pfir,. . it -jL father gave thefua heItLopte:, as a tov. The curious little instru- meut, when wound up, flew about the room over the heads of the tb lighted youngsters. Unlike most bovs, instead of mtarrel'mg for possession f the toy theyl;rd. idaved with it together and set ut-'tlieir precfK-ioiis young brains to the task of first imitating and then improving upon the toy. As they gr-w up their interest in aviation was manifested in the buildii'g of kites, and finally in Ib'.H't, thev took n i in earnest the stmly of actual flight. i ney were m tne nieycle ousi ness m lavttn, Ohio. it was with the profits of this business that thev defrayed their exoen- oiwr;itAjJ their- tirvfr frli,liiifr iti i t , r. less biplane. Kxhaustive" studv of air iresure tluring the follow ing winter was followed by more experiments in 1!MI2, increased in VM., and they then attached to the glider a gasoline motor of; 1H t",' eontmeikcemeiit season, the the type used ia automobiles. j beginning of active life. Vester Thcse later eXjH'rinneiits were , la.v. Wa a dream. Today, conducted at Kittv Hawk North 't wa reality. Yextenlav. life Carolina, iuid in lieu of a pas senger thev attached an anvil to -. - the biplane for the first fligliis. On the 17th day of October, 1W3 the machine flew with its inven tor. Owing to their secrecy, the world doubted their success un til four days later, when they publicly demonstrated their abil ity to fly, and proved beyond contradiction that two years be fore any other man had flown for one minute they had flown repeatedly for more than 20 miles With the perfection of the j Wright biplane, Wilbur Wright j the masonry. So with life. The j The boy went and without look went abroad, where he was hailed: beginning is the important period.) ing, nut his hand into the nest in every land as the ingenious Yankee who really could fly. In 1 ars, thej native aeronauts served only as a background for his fame. Royalty and nobility honored him everywhere, but he ; - --'--v honor in his own country" was a ! world idol to be honored at last ; at home. At the white h-use honors : honors : nd the : were showered on him and the ; armv adptcl him as mvi the nation's prestige in aerial navigation as applied in military manoeuvers. Dayton closed up shop and held a three-date fete! in, honor of the two men who - 1 had been known to them years! make enough of them. Their business grew and they quit flying. They taught others to fly and soon the countryside ' of every state was billed with; flaming announcements of avi- a tors in thrilling exhibitions in; the Wright machines. ; VSilbur right always counsel - e! caution in ilvmg. It was a s 'fence with him ; not a circus performance. The heavier than air machine he hail perfected had a valuable purpose in world advancement and his hopes for it were most sasngubie, but at the same time conservative. The main purpose of the biplane, he said, would be to make short trips speedily ;that it would never car ry more thiui two or three pas sengers or engage in freight traf fic, he did not believe. The Scriptures cn Success. Charlotto Observer. "Take gonl heed therefore un to yourself." .Joshua, 2:5:11. It was a great assemblage tf people that day, when Joshua, old and feeble, but still the leader surrounded by the elders, the judges and the officers, spoke words concerning the future of the Nation. The old leader has been with them in prosperity and in adversity. He knows their strength, and their weakness, lfe reminds them of the. promises, of O,od. TJjev are to ' ji the promised land for an inheritance. They are exhortel to continued confidence and courage. Then he warns them. They arc to remain a separate people. I i'1 '.v fh -v must remain true to their God will continue to blesS He heed t.ille if the people are steadfast. speaks the words. "Take (therefore unto yourself." Men and nations inu-t heed to self. If the highest i round of the ladder is to be reach j ed, if the dream of youth is to ! be achieved, if ambition is to b. i come realized, then, certainly, 'careful thought must be given tk self. Self is the all-important ! matter. Few men ami wom-n to - I t!lild of self rightly. Few i realize the powt of a rightly liv- i el III' j IJi-!lt is important. This ls the season of the year when many boys and girls, after years of study and preparation, are starting upon the race of life. It ;"f1,4 'l thought. T'nlay, I responsibility. Before ... .ii it is a ics the i fntun unknown and unmcasur- ' 1 irilt man the man iiue u me respoiisiouity piacett upon h1m by his Maker--liHks out upon the future and determines to prepare himself in the present for the best use of his opportunity. Buildings worthy of the name demand gonl foundations. Mil lions of money and vears of. time were expended at Hamburg a great harbor. Piling was driven deep into the sand as a bast' fori Success Ls the result of effort and follows individual will. Failure is crunmal and follows inaction. In the battle of life Be Sonie- body, hducation is trainiusr Self.! The best self is trained, mentally, 1 . .-. auiai I lilll IV.' consider self, but it navs to stooiin tti.. tiJi of wat.-r and win and 1-repare self for the struggle. It U time well sicnt. It is an f age of doing things. Doing them ; quickly, doing them well. Am-! age of doing things. Doing them quicklv, doing tlo-m well. Am-! ior ofjbitious, anxious, straining every j muscle and every nerve, man strives to win in the race. The ambition is laudable but. vou must be, somebody first. Take ; heed to yourself. The son if must be in the heart ithuig w that man should "seek first the kingdom of God and Hi righteousness." Righteousness signifies right living, Greatness is the anxiety of manhood today. Can a man be both good iuid great? As if in reply to the question eomc the : words of William McKinley, and who questions both his goodness and his greatness? "It is no longer a drawback to the prog ress off a man to be a Christian. Instead f a hindrance, it is a help. There was never a tlenvind as now for incorruptible charac ter." Gladstone was great and Gladstone, was good. Take heed to yourself. Jesus in the heart, and the product is goodness. Make the thought pure and the life clean; and with self prepared and controlled, with energy and determination, success in life U assured. Floyd Raves and Figtts in Cell. Wytheville, Va., June 1. The tiger in old Floyd Allen raged rampant again today. Hardly had day broken this morning when the Carroll moun taineer began to rave in his cell Ln the Wythe eoiuity jail. So violent did he become that the special guard was obliged to call several Baldwni-Felts detectives in the jail to quiet the prisoner. TiTes " a " sl reii uous ie w u tesT exercise, lie was finally brought around to a saner view of tilings. Floyd kicked out with lils un broken leg. striK-k out with his fists at the guards and mule things disagreeably active in the little cell. Dr. I. Green. avIio wa-J called in to attend old Floyd, said that the prisoner would probably suf fer no serious results from his tidal wave that surged over his self-eonrtol. and flooded his heart with torrents of ran'e. All the wh.i.e the caged moun taineer raven, he uttered no ar ticulate word but muttered and j chortled, and choked, with pas sions he could not stem. W. G. Baldwin, who arrived here this morning, said the pris oners except Claude would 1k taken to Roanoke jail at 2:0 o'clock 'this morning. lie ascribed Floyd's outburst this morning to the old man's stated aversion to returning to the Roanoke jail. Rttleanaka's Bite Fatal to Two Craven County Tots. Greenville, N. C, May :Ust. News reached here of a dis tressing occurrence just across the l'itt line in Craven county, in which three children of George; Adams lost their lives. His wife was doing some washing in yard while the children, the eld est 8, ami the youngest 1-year-old played nearby. Noises were heard froan a nest occupied by a setting hen, when Mrs. Adams told the eldest boy to go throw the fowl off the nest j to catch the hen. He quickly j withdrew it crying that she had pcoked him. The second ".'3 volunteered to throw off th hen. but soon screamed, that he h.i been necked also. The mother I lilt . .11 llai IL 1 iIU II Will drowmd. The had ben Jotte two boys . that en iiv a ratite- 'snake tie same davt ami all snake dn-d tiie three children three children were burial to- gether in the sath gravi
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