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• AROL1NA. ML riACOCK ESCAPES FROM PRISON Wm I to Sww Life SmHmm* la friwhil *i Ralafcfc, Aug. SO.—Hacking Ms way theaagh en inch of »teel bar and twinging inm from hi* mO winde w on the third floor of Um 8teU prim on | rop» of fWa bed tbeeto, Dr. J. W. NaMtlt. committed (or the root of Kit lift to the criminal Ineane depart meat of Um prieon following Ma ac quittal of murder of J. g. Taylor, chlof of polka of Thoauerille, mad* hi* ■ettpa yeoterdajr Morning eomr tlma between Midnight and down. Scribbled regret tnat tka haata of Ma departure dM not permit Mm to Mf (Mdkjra to Deputy Warden kU|oni. and tho mwit that Ma baahe bo packed op and loot to Ma wtfa hi Thorn ***111*. and that BrMc «*a klm«i If toko Ma king (hair, it an that >*atoek loft behtod Mm ax jeapt tho Aw thooto dangling outeide of the window and a piaco of Ma hath mw an toeh long. HaoHly organised parauit t tat hod tka fugitive doctor aeraaa tho woodt j aroot of tha priaon and loot Mm I iiMtwhin beyond tho now tfto of | tha State Blind achool. Nobody taw Mm «o, and nobody yat know* wMthcr ha want. Superintendent Goorgo Ion Pm hat offorod a re ward of 9400 for hie capture, and hat troa dotted dncriptir* circular! all over the State. Peacock loft no cine in Ma note, which follow*: rnipwi» "i n»vr gu wn w; | without saying goodbye, hut My rxtmM haste mtkH It fa possible. Please pack ny books and thin if* and sand to niy wifa. Tha rocking chair 1 give to jw. May «aa joi MA spring if not sooner. Bast wishes. J. W T." The note was written on the back of as envelope. Tha an re lope had been addressed to Dr. Peacock from Thomas villa and was mailed there at • o'clock August 18. Prim affWala KSStftSS1 "W"2£2} to "885 West Morgan street." The note was found lying on the ban mattress from whieh the sheets had > Dt. Peaeerk gat the saw wHh | which ha hacked hi* way heavy steal ban Is act Poo. Utmost precaution has observed to prevent bias from recefv. mr such thhiga. His latter* hs»e| been opened, hia chewing tobacco bean examined, his loaves of bread | have bean broken opea. All of hia' many visitors have been entertained in tha prsaanc* ef i and many hooka inchea long, and R is believed by prison svthorttiaa that the hull u as eat eassa Into the prison concealed in tha covers of a hook. No examination has yet beaa made of hia conaldetahle library. PWe hod sheets in a cell are not immjul It waa Said. Otherwise Dr. Paqioek might have got hurt dropping down The er«p» *M discovered at day light when l>1i an ontaide the pris on observed the sheets dangling down tpM the walls of the inuM wing of the prison. Peacock'• cell was tn the southwest corner on the third floor. Ths window through which he esoaped la on the sooth side, iwr looking ths high prison wall, and <-«raityard where ths insane prisoners are exercised daily. Forty fast or am separata the window from ths gisaniL Evidently the dostar sauna dawn, and dropped over the top of ths prison wall that Is IB fset hiirh. A gusrdhouse sar vnounta ths wall about 10 feet fron ths prison and a ladder leads down outside. No guard is stationed there at aigkt. One* outside his window Dr. Psacoct had little difficulty in Catting away from the prison Guards are perpetually on duty in the corridor* of the insane depart-' asent. The deer* te the cells are of' solid eonstnstian instead of the barr ed type, and ths prisoners ara not undsr observation. Peacock could hear ths waMMg of the guard outside his door Ml' ii IdsliMj aaapsndsd operations when he came within hear ing. Hie saw was brsksn at Ms work Psaeseh Ik deecrihed as follows In the broadcast circulars: "Aire, 4ft; height, « ft; hair, dark sandy; alight - ly fray over teatpise; apse, hasy blue; j large pupils; face, narrow, thtai eess phnrion, aallaw; weight, 147; burnt sear en top of head; oeeapatien, phy alrian; nativity. North Carolina; sda •cation, college grnduate.' Peacock canm to the prissn June 5.. • St. IMI. Taylor waa ahet to death on tk« itrttU of Thomaaville \prfl 28, 1M1. Peacock fired ttrat with ■ ■hot |M friHB hi* office window w tho police chief wh ereaaing the itmt, and then. fearing that ha had not kitted hie mm. reeked down and emptied a* auto—Ik piatol into the policeman'* body aa he lay dying in the atrnet Brought before the jury, Peace tk pat up a plea of temporary tnaantty. The jury took the word ef kia aliea lata hut went farther and declared him out and oat Ineane. The trial laeted two weeka, witk the rniki that Peacock waa ineane, hot not guilty of first decree murder They committed him to the criminal ineane department of the prteen tor life, and a few daya later he waa brought here to begin earring hta eantonee. Taylor Incurred the enmity of the doctor through hie aethrtty in eup preeling the liquor traffic. PaaeoHi la aald to knee been In reived in aaae liquor tranaactiona. Later Nm'Vl garage waa horned, and the doctor aeeuaed the polir—an of having kindled the fire. Peacock la anid to hare been a man of eery violent temper. Peacock preeentod little appearance ef inaanlty In priaon. He ia pro foundly intellectual in appearance, of a very poliehed manner, and never at any time caueed hta keeper* the •Hghtoet trouble. Not evea the con tinued aaeociation with the hetpieaaly Inaane aeemed to dtetnrh him. Mneh of hi* time he *pent in hia cell reading. He had many viaitora. Recently there have been rumor* of pardona, and even of legialative ac- J tinn to free him from the priaon. but evidently the doctor did not believe mneh In them. He ha* gone and with out a trace behind Mm. Priaon offi cial* aeoat the idea that he had confederate* waiting ontaide tor him. Police throughout the State have been aakad to keep a cloee watch for htm. NO TRACE LEFT BY ^ ^Dj. PEACOCK Om Official S«]ri Ha >«liwn Friend* Ob Outsida Hurrted Him Away Raleigh, Sept. 1—Abaance of any tiding* from Dr. Jam#* Walter Poa ooek. after the aecond day of flight, moved PMnnttn who are her* thi* week to an ukiiwtton that may help naaa In Ma racapture. but will gira romance to tha aaaap». Dr. Peaooek'i extra auppiy of bad clothing, which furaiahed him the neeeeaary material that finally tat him down from the. third loff, (track many people hare aa etrange. Bat the explanation which appeal* moat to the imagination comaa from one la official Ufa here. It ia hia opinion that Peacock aa rapad with a confederate on the outaida who waa watting in an auto mobile. Than after the da»h of a hundred milaa or more, thia official belierea that a friend of Peacock mat the priaoner with aa aeroplane and urn mf nn iipw 10 win. inn weird story 1* backed op by the (act that Dr. Peacock has an intimate friend who owns an aeroplane. Moreover, it ia the judgment of this official who hesitate* to attack those responaible for Peacock, that the Thomaaville man will go to aiwftsr state, take up his residence there and fight extrmdMoa ea the same (round that John AlMtmi ChaVmer and Harry Kendall Thaw fought K. Once placed In another state without any crime to urge as the beaia for extradition, It la entirely probable that Peacock could take up hie reai dence in another commonwealth and Kurreesfully reaist extradition. Mere than one lawyer has declared that If he were Peacock's counsel he would recommend that procedure. Perhape no stan in the state's prison ever had leas general sympa thy lavished on him. The record of the prisoner while here was aa good as any man's, but the public always doubted the righteoosnaas of a jury verdict which acquitted Paacotk of moral or legal wrong-doing. It waa this public revulsion wMch so soon destroyed the peapaganda to free the physician. And the dieoouragement incident to that campaign told greatly on the impatient inssate of the criminal inaene ward. The uniform such— that has at (fndini the use of Chamberlain*! Colic ftiici Disrrhoee Remedy hi tha retMt and cove of bowel ssmalalnts, bath 'or children and adults, hu brought it into almost unireraal aea. ae that it Is precttcallv without a rival and St'lsmSCot eqaaf ** knows. STRANG! NAJUtATtVSOr A CHURCH LOCATION kriwr WouMa't SaU Ul But PwHw. Pfeaad Building TWw Aaykaw (Monro* Journal) The National Brain *ow»r Maga sine, In tha liyf >w leaaa. la pub llahing "True Ohoat Storiaa." fol lowing la mm eabwltted by Mr. Awa Milton fttoch, Jr., of Mmmm, N. a Tha honeaty of tMa writer la «o ivtdawt that wa feet th* latter will apeak far Itaelf, amaaing aa Mm atery undoubtedly lit Yob may not «onatter tha narra tive which I item It aa a ghoet atory, but It eontalna that ilammt af tha aupernatural that will give aciantlaU vomfthlng to think About. About forty yuan ago, tha ■Mitin af tha Method! at chureh la tha UtUa town af Swanqnarter. North Carolina, decided to bulM a naw chureh. Swaaqaartor la In Hyte county, la tha aaatern part of tha State. and la aa gwiifurtar Bay. The hay par tially Ihltei tha town. After raia tn« tha nataaaary fundi to build tha church, tha UethodiatB decided to try to buy a baautiful lot located diractly actoaa tha hay from tha old alto far the location of tha naw church. It happened that a berkeep ar owned tha alte aelected, and ha ra fuaod to coaaidar any offer* for tha property, aa they had to build the church on tha old alto. At that tiaM, Swan quarter waa often flooded by the high tidee from tha bay, and Immediately after the chureh waa erected there came a tidal wave that iwept tha town aad flood ed the entire hue hi in and Meat of tha raaldaatial diatrict. Than came the miracle that wilt never ha forgot Carolina. The rising waters swept the n*« church from ita foundations and canted it acroaa th* bay. The hand of God seemed to guMs the course of ths structure, far H ao*ad thrauch straata aad past groree of until it ftaattr mtadL facing ths staeet. on the beautiful la* owned by ^Mrkeeper WW* the waters subaioM it was found that it ot have baan pi could not hava baan placed batter if It had beea done by human agweiaa. The barkeeper araa so imprseaad that ha went before the members of the Church Board aid told than that they could now hava the lot free be cauae K waa the will af Cod that the church should be than. This story is shea lately true aad I invite any one who <loabU ita aa-| theatidty to write to the mayor, or the clerk of the court, ar any city official or to any preacher now resid ing in Swanqusrter and ftel out the facts from them. My grandfather, Rev. J. 8. Nelson was later the praiidinf elder la that Aiatrict and ha preached In the church very often after H had ham •wept by the tides to the boaotiful let acroaa the bay. My astlwr haa also bean there and attended eon ices in that church. SUPERINTENDENT BROOKS FAVORS CONSOLIDA TION Would Mean Larg« IncraaM in Numbor mi Pupils PuMf Through High School ! Baleigh, Aug. 24.—"In one county there are XfiO* children to the ele mentary grades of oar one and two-, teacher aehoola, bat only 40 paaaed the seventh grade toat year," Dr. I. C. Brooka points oat in a booklet just ieeusd championing the cause of aehaai consolidation. "The total number of graduate* annually of the seventh grade is not! sufficient to pwvlds move than one good high school Car the whole coon-' ty," he said. "But if the districts were batter organised they ought t» sand up to the high school fora 800 to 400 graduates instead of only M." Superintendent Brooks leaks an an educational system as oae starting at the first grade and running through high school. The sieaseatory grades da not suffice far him, aad he thinks every child should have the oppor tunity of high school training. Con sequontly, hs la making a strenuous drive tor consolidation to ths rural districts which, as ha tKuaUstos to his booklet, would turn M0 to 400 children into ths high school where only 90 sow go. liven with consolidation atony of the smaller achoaia could ha efficient ly continued. his booklet potato oat. hi the way of saatribottog a super abundance of argumsnt for ths aya tam. ANOTHER PAYMENT TO CO-OPEBATtVES SOON Sewed Cm* Wmymmmt Far TV bacco wn> fto IUmM By Cnwm WW Esprit* Da m)m km been mad* by the Wnn 0rowan' Co-operative asaaciatlon I* Um Important laaf dealers and mm facturara UmI sank atfvancti ktw boon Inenan* on tha dellvarioa of tobacco by Booth Carolina wamksH and a second cash pajramit will bo auufc In tka naor future, pravidsd the members increase thoir deliveries sufficiently within tho next tow weeks. fbe ayatam of marketing which started smoothly at tha August open ing of tha co-operative warabooaaa in Sooth Carolina and Faatsrn North Carolina la now in perfect working or dtrndcaahM&mihMrjrWiw loo, according to T. 0. Watklna, man ager of tha warehouse* for tha aaao ciation. In a letter mailad thia waok to all South Carolina mombora, M. a Wil son. secretary of tha aaaociation urges tha iwoaw to aid in haatoning tha second advance by delivering aa rapidly aa poaaihle. Secretary Wil son taya: "Our members have delivered to tha Tobacco Growers' Co-oporathre association in the South Carolina halt ten million pounda, bat as tho aalaa department has made three sales end can handle your tobacco aa rapidly as you make your deliveries aa rapidly aa poesiMa. If you will ssaka the delivery of your tobacco promptly you will have teitdeied the aaeecia tion and youraetf • imtM. for you will enable your offlcaca to maka a second payment at an early data and are will save aome expense in haedMae tH# tftbtffft On (lie at# —plIW.I that has been Mad* bp the banker eoeimkta* the advance arffl be (Taater than M baa Seen on what haa been delivered. bat tha |W»n that have delivered will receive the benefit of thie advance in tha aacond payment, ao that If rem will make the deliveries aa early aa you can pet the tobacco in proper conditio* H will mean an early dle 'ribut ion of the neat payment. Enthusiasm for the new marketing plan ia rapidly spreading from South Carolina and the east to the old belt of North Carolina and Vbrptnia, " nere incmsinf ntiifioers 01 growtn are joining the co-operative every week. N. C. MILLS MAY SHUTDOWN SOON Foci Supply Short With No Coal Co«a« l»; TImm Uf ■I PowtrStf* Charlotte, Aug. U.—While the possibility of u enforced shut-down of nssny textile Mill* in the Ctralinu within the next two or thrse weeks loons Urger daily, most of the mills in the Piedmont section of the two ■tate* operate exclusively on hydo • lee trie power and therefore art not m—scJ by ths glow tog scarcity of fnel. according to men familiar with the «i»uaUr>n. Many of the mill* operated on hydro-electric power can uae some <>»l, but comparatively little, It we* pointed out. E. C. Dwelle, secretary •f the Cbadwick-Hoekin* Company •aid tonight their plants have enough roal on hand to last only two or three week*. According to Winston D. Adam*, secretary of the American Cotton Manufacturer*" Asaoeistion, this condition Is typical of that of the Electrically driven mill* of this section fenerally. It wa* said by these officials that rirtuady no coal I* being received by my mm* In this Mctkm. and naloee the situation la relieved in the next wek or two curtailment of operation it many mills will be nmisery. Only one mill, the Laneaetor Cotton Mills, of Lancaster, South Carolina, thee far has been reported closed en iccooat of the eoal shortage. This sompany employed about 1,800 work rr*. It Hos*d last Saturday. Of the 1,000 or mew textile plants it all Mad* to the two Carolina*, 141, ■oetly in the Medmoat e*rtb—, nee hydro-electric power eatiartvety. while uae steam power only and Ml iM* both dodrie and *toaai power. Me geMVel abet-down of electrically tlriven plants la exported, sirnrdtag to he*I toellli adhwt. TNK 800 SOLDIERS LEAVE SPENCER Om Duty 13 Pay Cm TW Saltatory. Aug. II —The to the official ordar of am. of ■ tcaretty of train but they all rot my te la* the day AM Camp Morrlaea to! diairtid. The boya were how It days •ad tho coot of Morriaon. with IU MM waa to he handled. Ho had to* hoot bo eonM and waa happy to know that no aerinua trouble had attuned during the eojourn of his troope. Ho wanted to oipnu publicly hU Hiiiih for tho coortoona and cordial treat ment accorded hlmaolf end hU men and alao Cor tho splendid co-operation they received from the local official! and the public generally. Ho aapoc taHy appreciated the co-operation ho had received from the heada of tho crafta at Spencer Colonel Scott's wUifr* won Um admiration of tlx community from the first and their conduct hm waa such aa to maka friends of all tkoM wHh whom they cam* in contact. The boys broke camp this moraine and the Mt. Gilead company waa the first to got Htartcd, leaving at t:48 via Albemarle. Others followed a* faat aa train equlpowit could bo had, •to laet to haw hsteg tba f satof troopa from Hiekor- and Llncotnt—. who r«t away in tha afternoon. Dr. C. W. Annatrone, cowrtjr haalth officer, accompanied by Mayor Stra chan, of Salisbury, officials of Span oer, and a representative of tha strik ing shopmen, mads • thorough fai spectton of tha Southern's shops at atatssMnt •timed by aach man in tha party sotting forth sanitary condition* in tha shops wcro aa good as could he expected, no evidence of any slck nasa outside at minor ailmento. THE SPANISH KING HAD TO STEP TO ONE SIDE Miss Dkhty Lmtm Momrtk StuUlu AImm Ob Dwwflh Due* Floor New York, Sept. 2.—An «b*rru> ing incident on the crowded ballroom floor of the Casino at Deaurille, France, a Month ago. in which the Un| of Spain was left standing by hi* dancing partner, Miaa Katherine Oickejr, of Atlanta, while (he harried to greet her father, Jinn L Dicker, a director of the Atlanta National bank waa explained by the young woman today on her arrival en the Mauritania. The royal consternation at betas told to "wait a minute" In the middle of a dance and nMaly deeerted,' managed, however, when Miss Oickey sought out Prince Nicholas «econd son of the king of Bnmania. and induced him to etavey her stassn regreta. The king aessptod the aitua-; Hoa good-naturedly and remarked to i Prince Nicholas on the democratic! •deaa of American giria. *he story goea that King Alfonso •ought Miss Dickey as a dancing' •wrtner and diapatchad his secretary to arrange the formal tatrodmittona. At the height of the gaiety Mias Dickey caught sight af her dad, and. wishing to toll him something of "great importance" stopped in her tracks and softly told the king to "waK a minute." She dashed bm« the other dancers to the ink far her father, while thoee who uhssmd the pussled expreeeion m Alfonso's face aa ha waa left alone, gaapsd wKh as tonlshmsnt Whsn Miss Dickey re. turned the kta*r was atoning and mnl •sing the smbarrasstag sftantion cnuaad by her thsoghtisssaese, shs ■ucceeafully engaged Prince Nicholna twin cmr cm IN and fhw of >oUtw w«w doliro#«# to ttea (Voftntiti WmkHM In Ik* fro* C, 0. DixoR A. V. Bobbitt. of th« littm apd of tho *»»oci«tk>n. Oror Mlllu(. M . -I, Jitln ■■■ 1 U> pUUDOT WfH WutTIVI III lina and • million and a half tho Eastern Co-operative during tho past crowers I* r»ported at all delivery points, particularly la Soatfc Carolina. whar» a number of co-opoiatiso market!! during their first sins day* •f operation have paid the orgsnlaed glowers higher overages on thair first cash advances than they nnlwt as final payments tor their tobacco iaat year. W. T. Lee. field service representative for Sooth Carolina cities, the case of Darlington, whose 316,44* pounds of tobacco were said at an average of 14.68 on the Auctlaa maikets in 1*11, and where isashcrs of the Co-operative Association de live red HUH pesstk at an averag* at MM during the first afese days of operation by the aasociatisn. Conway is another asarist sWek shorn a net gnin to the organised growers over their average of *CJ8 under the Auction System, for the Co operative has paid aa average of 17.20 aa ita first advance at this point. Lamar. Manning. Maris*, Lynchburg snd Pamlico are other markets of the South Carolina bah which have paid the organised grow ers more money an their first saak advances than they received daring the first nine days of delivery last year, according to this report by the Soath Carolina growers w« hasten a second cash advance is ex pected to increase the receipts of the asaoeintien nest week. TURKS OVERLOOK COWS IN CELLAR N«*r Eut Family Sarwa Two of Hard By HMmg Thmm Chicago, Aug. 3*.—$T dmrtng two cow down m flight of stops into • c«IUr, tlM mother ot a Chicago mm nnd the* from confiscation, by tin Turks, according to • report juet ro ceired at Near East Relief Tha two Jerseys ara all that: of tha MM oattte to tha littJa C.a. ca*ns farm Tillage where the mother of Bagrad Tor Hanxttoaioa, ISM West Van Burea Street, ttree. Mr. Hareutunion's family is M tha founder af f silfhit • war it was one ot the Is tha Valley. Now tha two cow* ara Tha family hoaae is to the mother, brother. Mr of Mr. Rarootnnioa are m the only oao ef •till Intact. Arganaa Tor Harontml w, a brother, told relief workers that tmong tha family's loaaes was a hag containing 1* pounds of geld. 11m sows make tha family tha aai^ one ta tha village not entirely dupes lent upoa aid by the Naar East Ha lter. Mr. Harowtaniaa said that the rfltege had bean redoosd torn 1M fam INre of 11M persons to M* IndM the farmer* af tW 170 tons of grate asm slty Bat of their 1M* hand of east
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