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TH& WEATHER, Fair In West, local showers in East portion Friday; Saturday fair, slightly warmer In interior; light to moderate variable winds. , ; - . if , ' , 5 , VOL. LXXXVI NO. 124, TOiMIKGTOK, iN. CC, TRlDAYi MOiiNmG, AXJGUST 12191 TYTIOLE NUMBER 13,371. ANXIETY IS FELT IT Rifle Matches at fiamp perry ''fSflOIID Throng TV'- BRISTQW CHARGES DECLARED ABSURD iange now for noe Bulletins on Mayor's Condi tion Somewhat Discred ted Last Night; V DOCTORS DID HOT DISAGEE Location and Course of the Bullet Cause of Uneasiness Physician Say His Condition is Sat- V ; Isfactory. . New York, Aug, 11. Mayor William J . Gay nor may be ' making satisfac tory progress, as his attending physi cians persistently " maintained ; today and tonight, . but there is an : under current of anxiety : evidenced tonight that runs contrary to the official bul letins. . v ?J,-i:.':. ' His surgeons say that he had a satisfactory day, that he Is cheerful and stronger and was resting quietly, more than holding his own against the pistol shot wound inflicted , on Tues day by James J. Gallagher. As opposed to the attitude of op-J timism, those who read the 10:60 bul letin thoughtfully noted reference to "complete radiographic''' examination, indicating that it was necessary to (rake a second set of negatives in or der to accurately find the position of the bullet. That an additional set of negatives was t aken uas' been report ed heretofore,' but the rumor lacked confirmation. Nothing Is said In the bulletin of the "split bullet" mentioned as indicated in the first pictures; instead.. the lead Is now said to be lodged in the roof of the mouth. Whether the other shadows, as indicated in the first pic ture, is a splinter of bone, none of the physicians would say. ..- A sample of the patient's blood was examined carefully, this evening and pronounced satisfactory, the relation of the white and red blood corpuscles having been found so near normal as to cause no alarm. Although rumors are afloat that his. physicians are 1n ! toe idrt'lJfMEment'KtiCei't Adamaon. his secretary, and E,' J. Led erle, . health commissioner of - New York," gave but-a statement discredit ing the reports of friction among the medical advisers. , Mayor' Not', So Cheerful. The patient's irritability . this foe- noon and the barrine from L the sick room of all save Mrs. Gaynor and the attending physicians, first gave rise to these disquieting rumors.. It was admitted that the Mayor had- lost, temporarily at least; his cheerful frame of mind, and had. requested that' his wife remain near his bedside almost constantly. Because of . Boreness of the wounded - throat, an antiseptic spray was used frequently, and It was during this process that the Mayor showed signs of fretting, Reports that dissension had arisen among the physicians over the advis ability of an operation met with prompt denial, but nevertheless, per sistent rumors came from the hos pital that . there . was serious differ ence of opinion as to the course to be pursued. One physician, it is said, holds that the bullet should be re moved immediately, while others main tain that they should let well enough alone as long as there Is no sign of infection John Purroy "Mitchell, the acting Mayor, visited the hospital this after noon, but was not allowed to' go to the sick room. He said he knew noth ing of the reported friction among pnysicians. - . - , (Jood signs of the day were the con tinued optimistic tone of the official bulletins and the deoarture of Thomas Gaynor, the Mayor's brother, for Bal timore Gallagher, the would-be assassin in prison in Jersey City, is beginning to ay the groundwork of his defense; t will be this way: His lawyers an tr. F. S. Potter, an alienist, held a conrerence with him this afternoon. Alexander Simpson, of Jersey City, of counsel for the nrlsoner savs he has Investigated the man's record, and finds basis for a trace of hereditary insanity. , .., ; . ' "When we reached Gallagher's cell,' ne said, "Dr. Potter pointed his fin ger at the man and cried: 'Why did you shoot the .Mayor?' Gallagher D'irst into tears and ' answered had to do so to eet justice.' " The New York authorities placed in . me nands of the prosecutor of Hud son county today copies of all the let ters Gallagher has written to Mayor aynor and other officials of the city administration While New York will have no dl rect hand in th trial whothar It be for assault with Intent to kill or for murder, every effort will be made to Provide assistance to the prosecution, if tried merely on the assault charge Npw. Jersey lawyers hold that Galla-j 8her is likely to get a sentence tanta mount to life imprisonment , It is Pointed out that if sentenced for only 12 years he is liable to a $3,00a fine, hich can be remitted only by. the htate board of," pardons. As .he T Is Practically penniless, paying the fine f Hiis to be an, Impossibility,-and in ueranlt of payment he may be kept in Prison Juat as .long as the board of Pardons deems advisable. - v Rig Bill" Edwards, formerly Prince ion s football Idol, whose strong arms pore down and almost crushed Gal - r wnen tne Mayor was shot, was Qemged with cable messages, tele - (Continued on Page Eight.) Sensational Affair in Which Former Officials Are Involved. ' ROSECOTIOIIS TO BEGIN SOON Hundreds of. Thousands Was Lost by Railroad Ira G. Rawn Was A Stockholder Names of Offi . ' cials Given. Memphis Tenn. Aug. 11. Disclos ures of a most sensational nature in volving high former omcials of the Illi nois Central Railroad in the conspir acy, by which the Memphis Car Com pany Is alleged to have defrauded the railroad of hundreds of thousands of doaars , were made today when a de cree was entered in Chancellor Heis- kell s court. ... . . By this decree every dollar's worth of property in the Memphis Oar Com pany's plant and a cum in cash will be turned over to the Illinois Central Rail road. Deeds were filed frgln the en tering of the decree. . i Prosecutions will immediately begin, t is said, against a number of the for mer officials implicated, probably in the Illinois courts (first and later in the Tennessee courts. " The stockholders mentioned in the decree beside E. H. Ward and H. C. Osterman, the. organizers of the Mem phis Car Company and their official po sitions at the time of the issuanrce of tKe stocks were: Frank B. Harriman,. general mana ger of the Illinois Central; Hugh Mc- Court, general superintendent of . the Southern' lines of Illinois Central; W. S. King, general superintendent of the Yazoo and MississiDDi Vallev Railroad. operating also the Mempnis terminals of-the Illinois Central. -' - 1 Willianr Renshaw,:Juntil May 1, 19dS. superintendent of A.jnachtnery having charge of the repair of equipment; Jos. E.- Buker, assistant superintendent of machiaETSrr-'iJoiiii M. ' Taylor, general Renshaw is said to be in i ranee, but as soon as a true bill Is secured-, ef forts will be made to bring him back. It is known that the Illinois Central railroads refused oners of large sums in settlement to include Immunity, de claring that the road would rather lose the millions of which it had been de frauded, than to have the officials who had been -parties to the alleged fraud escape punishment. . Two of the officials. It Is set forth, have returned to the Iillonis Central the amounts received by them as divi dend. These are Hugh McCourt and W. S. King, each of whom made voluntary restitution of 913,000 in cash. , One of the stockholders, Ira ' G. Rawn, Is dead. V REPORTED SHIP ON FIRE. r I . Rumor About Excursion Boat Caused Excitement in Chicago. Chicago. Aug. 11. A garbled wire- le8s message indicating that a ship was on fife - in the lake - some dis tance from Chicago created much ex citement in Chicago today, "especially among visiting Knights Templars A harmless inquiry sent by wireless from the excursion, steamer. Christo pher Columbus, with 2,000 passengers, mostly wives ana daughters oi visit ing; Sir Knights on .board, started the trouble.-:: , - The captain of thd Christopher Co lumbus had noticed smoke, and asked the steamer Grand Haven if she had noticed anything unusual. As the ru mor grew, it presently embraced; tne Columbus itself, and newspaper . tele phones were kept hot with the frantic inquiries of the visitors, whose- women folk had gone on the excursion It was some hours before, all boats could be accounted for and the mis take corrected. The fact that various wireless stations tried to work simul taneously did much to add to the con fusion. Before the rumor had ex ploded, half a dozen tugs and ships had left harbor here and returned from their course to look for the "ship on fire"'"- A.-,s :.y ' ''' -. . EARL OF EGypNT DEAD. Scion of Nobility Married South Caro- ..-.. .linaGirl n 1881. London, Aug. 11. Augustus Arthur Percjyal, eighth earl of Egmont, died todav. - He was born in 1856 Before succeeding to the title of the Earl of Egmont he was in such finan cial straits that for several years ne earned his living as a member of a Tendon fire brigade. He was the care taker of the Chelsea town hall when the death of a distant cousin gave him the earldom. In 1881 he married Kate, thA danehter of Warwick Howell. -of South Carolina. . : , , - SOUTHERN CHECKER. PLAYERS., Columbia Champion Present to' Defend -r :: ,. - His Tle. ':.'.. ' Macon. Aug. 11. The opening ses sion of the annual tournament of the Southern Checker Players' Association besran this morning, with 20 members iTrom various States in attendance, and as many more expected during the day. .-'.: V:: v , i,'' i'twice champion and the present holder I of the medal, is here to defend his ftltle. , ; The tournament will end Satt urday night i . 'ir'! ' ; 1 ; ' .x1 '"rliy. gF&nSECHteigTTtNS:WC FOR CONTggfgl tik iT-- s muJvd' TVS Camp Perry, Ohio, Aug.-11. Twenty rifle teams today shot the .first stage of the Ohio State Rifle Association's match for teams of -eight for the Herri ck trophy valued at $3,000, with the result that the United States Marine Corps'tpnight leads Ohio by the narrow margin of ten points, 11.33 against 11.43... A -second team for the Marine Corps ranks third with 11.42 and the United States cavalryy fourth .with 11.42 ,the United States. Infantry .11,37.' gives it fifth place and Massachusetts 11.22 sixth. Other scores are: Oklahoma 11.20; U. S. Navy 11.04; Naval Academy 10.99; Indiana 10.93; Maryland 10.92; Colorado 10.25. r The match will be concluded Friday morning at 1,000 yards. '- - (. . . ; , - ' The Chicago Police Department won the National Police team 'match, a new, contest this year, defeating Cin cinnati, 63 points and St. Louis by 105. The scores were: CL.cago 'Police Department 209 at slow "fire, "440 at timed fire, 460 rapid fire. Total 11.09. , The' national matches are to be. later during tfie meet, and jthe contest for the famous Wimbledon cup is attracting much attention. The .cup was presented to the National Rifle association in 1876 and has been contested for annually with the exception of during the Spanish-American war, when no match was scheduled. 'i Victor vH.Czegka is the present holder $f the cup Many other valuable trophies are to be con tested for before the tournament ends. ' c -'i' . - : . : . v'. AFTERMATH OF CONVEIiTIOII Republicans - Leaving Scene of Wed nesday's Contest Local Option . PJank'-Leaded -Congressional - ' Situation in-Fifth. (Special Star .Telegram.) Greensboro, N. C; Aug. 11. When the sun rose this morning- there were only a few -scattering delegates on the scene and the day after the Republi can' State Convention was Indeed a quiet One. Butler and wife left at mid night for Morehead City, the Samp son county fox, happy and contented. Settle left at noon for Asheville, wear ing- his happiest Smile. Dethroned Duncan went to. Raleigh this after noon, in anything but pleasant frame of mind, but as cheerful as could be ex pected under the circumstances.- He was first to arrive and last to leave. The action of. the convention meets general approval ' here and - the Dun- can supporters are making the best they can outv of the situation. All are agreed, to-take their "licking" and stand ' up - behind the successful man confident that the victory is theirs .. ' ! The clause covering local self gov ernment Is believed to be loaded and it is an open secret that .n wet coun ties this clause will be made to cover the iBsue of local option. It was in tended by some to have a local option clause, in the platform, but the opposi tion was so strong mat this was aban dohed and the "silent" clause inserted. ' There is but little interest in the Congressional convention, whicTh ad journed to meet Saturday, August 20th at 10 A.J M. Morehead has not made up his mind to accept the nomination ana many believe that he win reiuse to run. In case tin will not, then D. H. Blair, of Winston-Salem, is slat ed for the office. It is understood that Morenead .fears defeat and is. consid ering 'carefully before making, up his mind. ' He also wants to see how much the: people will beg him to make the race. v ? ,. There was the largest attendance ln the.hlstory of the party In the State according i to leaders : of . the .. party. Nearly every delegate was here and a majority of the ; alternates, in . addi tion to several hundred who were not honored by their county conventions, although they had been prominent in party , service, i V f r ' : MADRIZ ENVOYS Won't Say Whether They Have Come 'on a Peace Mission. V Washington, Aug. 11. Modesto Bar rios and Sebastian Salinas, special am bassadors of ' the. Madriz . faction in Nicaragua, paid an official call at the State Department this morning and presented their credentials. Three let ters in- Spanish, addressed to secretary Knox, 1 were also presented. Jhese were turned jover to translators. The contents are not known. -'. r! Barrios " and Salinas were received by an attache of the Latin-American division,- who assured them that they would later "be received for an" au dience with the same considerationas had been shown to Dr. Castrillo, ' the Estrada representative, and Senor Luis 3orea, who had previously represented Madriz. .-. v-;'.' ' ':"-U ' - Both the envoys declined to say whether the - letters they presented contained any" peace proposals- They departed to await a request from .the State Department ior,f tneir presence, .JT DEATH 'OF VIRGINIA WARDLAW - Believed - That' . She, ; . Deliberately . Starved Herself to -Death to Pre- ventt Trial o4orer The Mysterious Sisters. Newark, N. J., Aug. 11. Miss Vir ginia "Wardlaw, one of the mysterious sisters under indictment' for the mur der of Mrs.' Ocey W. M. Snead, the East Orange bath tub .victim,-died in the house of detention here this aft ernoon. Death was due, in the opin ion of physicians, to- starvation. The fate of the aged woman 4n this re spect paralleled that of -her alleged victim, for doctors who examined Ocey Sr.ead before her death said her ail ments wpre all due to lack of nour ishing food. In the opinion of jail attendants, Miss Wardlaw deliberately starved herself to death. This has revived rumors circulated at the time of Ccey Snead's death, when the history of the mysterious household- was un der investigation, that a suicide pact existed between Miss Wardlaw- and her niece. . , ' ; .For several weeks the; woman's con dition has been growing worse, and last Monday she was removed from th-3 jail to the "bouse of detention, - In the cell she had been occupying was found a quantity of stale food which the prisoner had concealed. ' At the aged woman's bedside when she died were her sister, Mrs. Rich ard Prlngle, and her. brother, the Rev. Albert Wardlaw, both of Chris tianburg. Va., who had Jbeen called here when her condition became alarming. But her- other sisters, Mrs. Caroline B. Martin and Mrs.' Mary W. Snead,'-jointly indicted with her, were in their jail cell as she expired. They were sent for, but the jailer refused to allow them to :visit the house of detention without ' the word of a physician that their sister was at the point of death. - What effect Virginia Wardlaw's death will have on the fate of her sister is still to be determined. She was the dominating ' influence of the strange household; and predic tions were iaade tonight " that Mrs. Martin and Mrs. Snead may never be brought to trial. FATHER KILLED SON. Horrible Murder in Davie County. - Result of Dispute. 1 ' . Raleigh, N. C, Aug. 11. ; Thomas Jarvis, a young Davie county farmer, was killed in a horrible : manner by his father, William Jarvis, near Ad vance."- - . '.. ; ; It appears that thhe father-and son got Into a" dispute; when the former dreww his "knife and cut the- latter across the abdomen from v hip to hip. after which . the father . stamped the son until his bowels protruded. The son died and the father has thus far escaped arrest . " -.... TWO CITIES' POPULATION.; . ' . .'... ; . ; ' . - A Census of Kansas C ty, Mo, and New -t. Haven- Conn. - r. . --; 'Washington, Aug. -11. The popula tion of Kansas City. Mo.,: Is 248,381, an Increase of 84,629. or 51.7 per cent" as i compared ; with -168,752 In 1900. The v population of New Haven, Conn., is 133,605, an increase of 25,i 578, or 23.7 per cent, as compared .-.-.V.-. .V.V.-. -A- f." 1 )i M k fix VISITORS AT SUMMER CAPITAL Mexican Ambassador" Makes Call' on - , Preside'nt-H as Decided to Avoid :--Xape''-Hatterartnawi Beverly, Mass., Aug 11. ;The Mexi can ambassador,- Senor De LaBarra, visited President Taft for half an hour this afternoon. The ambassador is re turning to Mexico soon and come to pay his leave taking respects-to the chief executive. The President was most cordial in is greetings and ap parently enjoyed the informal chat which followed: ,'i "It is an inspiration to my people", said the ambassador, after his call, "to know that Mexico has such a warm good mend as president Tart i deeply appreciated and recipocated, on be half of my people his many expresions of eood will and friendship. The Pres ident is always. most gracious and his cordiality today was an evidence of the sinceflfy of the relations existing be tween the United States and Mexicd." It is understood that the President sent .a message of felicitation to Presi dent Diaz, who he met and exchanged visits with at El Paso and Ciudad Ju- raez last October. - v Representative Weeks, of Massachu setts, one of the keen political observ ers reported to President Taft this af ternoon the impressions her had gained from a recent trip through. Minnesota, Montana, Washington, California - and other Western States. - He . declared fet "everything looked mighty bright for Republican successes at 'the polls this Fall." . - - -. Mr Weeks said that despite the re cent events in -Kansas and Iowa, the Middle-west is "swinging into line for the administration and will give a good account of itself." v . : . , - Secretary of the Navy Meyer paid a brief call at Burgess Point this after noon and had a preliminary talk wim the President regarding his. -trip to Panama in November. Detai's of the trin are to be arranged later. 5 u seems settled, however, that 'the President will sail from ""Charleston, thus' avoid ing the treacherous waters around Cape Hatteras. As on tneaccasion of his last visit to the Isthmus,: It is likely that the president will : sail on one of the af mored cruisers, of. the At lantic fleet and that a second cruiser will be sent along as a convoy and for use in case of any emergency. -VEHICLES TO COST MORE. Demand for Labor and IncreasecTCost of Material Assigned ' as , Reasons. ; Louisville, Aug. 11. The great de mand for competent workmen 'bf cer tain classes by the autompbile ' fac tories In the country and the steep adr vances In prices ' of materials used in . the construction .of -carriages are twp of the reasons , assigned by" the daleeates to trie annual meeting of the Carriage Manufacturers' : Association of North America, ior tne proposed Advance in the price of carriages and Heht vehicles. Leather, lumber, rub ber and . steel are materials ' used in the manufacture of carriages;, . " ThA rfeleeates refused to divulge the exact Increase in the price ;,of car riages which, they ' propose, rneir meetings are being held-behnd closed doors here .. , , -. Aldrich Explains Rubber Tariff Matter, and Flays Kansas Senator. i - DENIES THAT-TRUST EXISTS Asserts That He is Director of Rubber Company Qeals With Each ' Charge at Great Length Emphatic Statement. Washington, Aug. 11. Senator Nel son W. Aldrich, of Rhode Island, enu merating the counts under which he was Indicted by Senator Joseph W. 'Eristow, . of Kansas, In recent cam paign speeches, dealing with the tar- ff on 'rubber, in a letter made public tonight denies the charges; in their entirety. Incidentally he pays his ra- spects in caustic language to Senator Bristow and what he -terms a "little group of men" which entertain opln- ons similar to those of the Kansan. , The letter Is addressed to Hon. Wil- lam a. McKiniey, or Illinois," chair man of the Republican Congressional Committee and was sent .to tjhe head quarters of the committee in this city. The explanation of the rubber du ties and the denial of the charges made against him by Senator Bristow are based upon the ract that senator Aldrich was called upon by a Republi can candidate for Congress to furnish the facts connected with the charges made in the recent tariff act Referring to the charges made by Senator Bristow as "absurd misstate ments" Senator Aldrich said the per sistent reiteration of them Impelled him to make -a full statement. At. thi outset of his long-letter, the Senator divided -the speeches by Mr. Bristow nto five parts each of which contain ed a specific, charge. He then, dealt Iarthe first . Dlace itheisenatbr, de clared the increase ftomv 30 to 35 per centVoft j! ;siali'.number ot. article of manufactured rubber, articles wa3 for the. purpose: of making the tariff uniform" on kindred articles and t f acil- jtating the . labors- of1, the customs of fleers. ,' In that connection he made public a letter to Win from General Thad S. - Sharrots,' a member . of the New York Board of General Apprais ers, asserting . that the change was advisable, and had- been agreed to unanimously by the Senate and House committees and by the conferees on the tariff bill at the earnest solicita tion of the tariff experts of the treas ury department. Laying particular stress upon this charge made by Mr. Bristow, the chair- limn oi uie oeua-ue riuauce-uuiuiuitico said that "Neither he, nor any member of his family, has ever had any pecu niary interest as to whether the rates on manufactures of . rubber were SO, 35 or 300 per cent, or whether crude rubber was on the free or dutiable list." Dealing then with the charges that the Inter-Continental Rubber Compa ny, of Which he is a director, is a trust, that It advanced the price of crude rubber and controlled the world's supply; and that the comgany had paid enormous dividends, Mr. Aid rich treated each separately and at great length.. , Without raising any - Issue concern ing the "progressives" campaign gen erally, Mr. Aldrich referred to , Mr. Bristow and his immediate associates as follows: "In the : tariff discussions of other aays, the advocates oi the protective policy have usually been called . to meet in debate men with convictions on 1,he subject Democrats of charac ter, whose theories of government dif fered completely- from those held by Republican protectionists men who had some regard for the accuracy of their statements and some knowledge tuonunuea on'P"ge nagnuj OUTLINES. Mayor Gaynor,' who was shot in New Y6rk last Tuesday,, was holding his own, according' id Vf : latest bulle tins from his bedside st night, and his chance for Recovery Is favorable Senator Nelson W.- Aldrich, in a letter yesterday, denied the charges made by Senator Bristow in regard to the tariff on rubber, and declared his statement was absurd '-Former Pres ident Roosevelt yesterday : spent a day on the farms of Long Island. He returned-to Oyster Bay last night President Taft had a number of visit ors at Beverly yesterday, among whom was the Mexican ambassador, who made a farewell call on the President On account of a disagreement, the Kauf man-Langf ord bout scheduled for last night In Philadelphia, was called off 'Denver was selected yesterday as the place for the Conclave of Knights Templar in 1913 New York markets: Money' on call easy. 1 1-2 to'l 3-4 per cent; ruling rate, 1 3-4; closing bid 1 1-2: offered at 1 1-2; flour 'steady to 'firm; at the" old level of prices;, spot eotton. closed quiet, 25 Doints lower: middling uplands, ii.u; middling y gulf, 15.95; . - wheat, spot strong: new No. 2 red, S 1.08 elevator and 1.09 W f. o. b.; No. 1, Northern, $1.27 f. o.' b. to arrive; corn, spot firm: No. 2. 73 3-4 nominal elevator; domestic basis "to arrive; joats. - spot mixed nominal; rosin firm; turpentine steady; ' ..-'V''' Circumstances of Rock Spring Hotel Fire Still Under, Investigation. DEATH OF YOUNG CROMWELL Number of Developments Yesterday, "Batemfn Drops" Sold to Propria- tor Tuesday Night Prisoner t J Retains Counsel. By far the most important devel- ' opment yesterday In' connection with. ' the inquiry by .the1 coroner and hia jury 'into the circumstances of I the " death of young f Edward Cromwell: t' who lost his life In the Rock Spring : Hotel fire Tuesday night was the dis covery by Dr. C. D. Bell, the coroner. that Mr. Ll ! B. Sasser, proprietor of the Mission Pharmacy, had sold and. deliveredin person to J. (j. Holly ; propretor of the. hotel, 16 ounces ot'i -Bateman's drops, containing laudanum, ' 1 etc., about 10 o'clock the night of the 1 fire, and the subsequent and by the physician of the bottle in the hotel with less than a teaspoonful of the drug in it Dr. Bell stated that 16 ounces, equal to a pint, was1 sufficient to kill several persons. The purchase of 'the drops and the finding of .the bottle almost empty will probably be put before the coroner's Jury this morning- in the form of evidence. , . .- .1 Another feature of yesterday's in vestigations was the testimony of " Fireman , Jackson to the effect , that " while making an examination of the hotel building, he found on the bed. in the room' occupied by. young Crom well a small tin box in which was a. small quantity of liquid of highly, of-' fensive odor. Thetflreman i did not, ... think to take charge" of the. box, and. efforts to find .it - yesterday proved f u-1 : tile. .- Some are inclined to -think that this box might have much to ; do with eiplvliig' the' mystery; surroundings thei. - i deaths f ' the imsman; Cgtill --:-n other matter of some interest though , Srobably? of : ho': greater .: importance, ) ' rought, out was the fact .that there , was an , "ice cream 'supper", at the. hotel about 10 o'clock Tuesday Jiikht." and that young Cromwell ate ,an . ice . cream cone at the 'same . time the others at the boarding house were"1 eating cream , purchased from a drug' store or confectionery stand. Accord-, ing to the witness who testified to the ; eating of the .Ice cream, young. Crom well purchased his ice cream, from., an Ice cream cone vender. However. the' testimony is considered somewhat maerialto the case. ' , here Is no doubt, it is said . in the minds of those conducting, the invAestl- ; gatlon that. the fire was of an incen- : diary origin, and they are almost aa firmly convinced that murder waa committed, the only, thing now being the 'question of responsibility for the crime, and whether or not more than one person was concerned, if indeed the youth- met with foul play. Prob ably never before in the history of the State has a coroner s jury gone quite so thoroughly into the circum stances of the death of -a person thought to have been the victim of foul play. Every particle ' of evi dence tending In the slightest to throw light on the admittedly mysterious af fair, Is being sought by the Jurors and ' others connected with the inquiry, and t is quite safe to say that no verdict ' will be rendered until every person thought to know ; something of the ' matter has been examined. The fact that they have already given two ' days to an investigation and propose ' to meet again today is proof of . this. Nearly every witness -who has testi fied before the Jury has stated that . , the bedding In the room in which the ' young man's .body' was found .waa thoroughly saturated with kerosene oil, and no one who visited the room during or after the fire has given contrary evidence. While the investigation of the cop ; oner's jury is going on in the court : houset J. C. Holly, proprietor of the- . hotel that was gutted by the flames, is occupying a cell in the county jail a short distance away, almost a nerv ous wreck, according T to the state ment of .officers, who said that hi condition'was such as to require the attention of a physician. According to an officer, he wears an even more de- ! Jected look than the day before, whea he, was committed to Jail.' As stated yesterday morning. those who know; r him say that his health had been, bad for sdme time, and the strain that ha is now bearing Is calculated to tell on- him. ' .'' X '. ' '- V :. 1 County Attorney Marsden Bellamy, who is attending the investigation in his official capacity, and Coroner Bell,' stated last "night that the contents of the stomach of young Cromwell would be sent to Raleigh either today or to? . morrow for a chemical analysis, it being understood that the caunty will pay the ' expenses of the . same. " The i contents of the-stomach 'have , been placed' in a Jar of alcohol and sealed. and physicians say. that it can be pre- served Indefinitely; -The Jar, will not- be trusted by express, owing to dan- . . . L . L fit l A . Ij. . ' eer oi DreaKage, out -win ue kui, w Raleigh in charge of a thoroughly re- liable person.. .. . ' ' 1 . , . The body of young CrorawelL after; being , orepared for burial by TJnder- ; taker JR. W. King. 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