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THE WEATHER: -Rain today; Saturday clearing and colder; brisk to high south and south-! west winds. - - THE MODERN IDEA, To keep the money stirring you've got to keep your Advertising Going. ' JPiOXJlsijDEtJ VOL. XC-NO. 6. DETECTIVES TAKE Starving and Fatigued, Claud Swanson Allen Surren ders to Posse. . FOUND NEAR HIS HOME Hope of Taking the Three Remaining Outlaws Is Renewed and Posses Continue the Search With Much Vigor Hillsville, Va., March 28. Starving, sleepless and fatigued, Claude Swan son Allen, namesake of a United States Senator, came out of the laurel thicket in the Blije Ridge today, point ed two six-shooters toward the sky, snd gave himself up to the posse which for nearly two weeks has hunt ed him. Complacent and almost hay py, h; sat down, sheltered from a driving storm by the little 'brick jail, a stone's throw from the Carroll coun ty Court House, where on March 14th. the Allen gang vengefully killed the judge, the prosecutor, the sheriff, a juror and a by-stander. All day the posses divided into small numbers, have been following a trail, thought to be that of Wesley Edwards, a nephew of the Aliens. Claude Allen, a son of Floyd Allen, who was the cause of th? Court House shooting, had been given up as having escaped. Detectives Lucas and four men were working toward Floyd Allen's , house when suddenly 25 yards or so off the iiount Airy road a figure creeping stealthily through the undergrowth was dimly seen through' the mist which overhung the mountain slopj. Close behind Lucas the other . men brought their rifles to their shoulders, when, to their surprise, Allen stepped out into the road with his hands up-f raised, a pistol in each. :: ' "I'm glad to get a chance to come in." he said. "I haven't slept in a led since the shooting.; Tm hungry-" In the presence tf. a detective younj; Allen described his own part in tfre Court House tragedy; admitted that he had seen Sldna Allen shoot and that he himself had aimed for Cle-Jc Gcad's head four times. He told a graphic story of the assassination. ' ' "I don't know who started the shooting," said Allen. "After It be ?an I shot four times at Clerk Goau and aimed for his head every timo I saw Uncle Sidna shoot at someboc'5', but don't know who. When the shoot ing in the Court House was over 1 went outside and saw Uncle Sidna on the ground shooting at Goad so I shot at him too. My brother, Victor, calle.l to me to stop but.' I had shot all my cartridges. Then we all went away." It developed that Allen was really taken in North Carolina, probably 150 yards over the line. The sortie which took the prisoner was directed by Detective Thomas L. Felts who obtained clues through the efforts of the fugitives to get food. "No one was more surprised than I to see Claude Allen," said Felts to night. The young mountaineer swung in between the men of the posse anl they started back to Hillsville. His pouched eyes and toughened face con firmed his plea of exhaustion, but his broad-shouldered,form towered, above the men who had taken him. "I could have shot you," said Allen, as he smiled and nodded toward De active Lucas, "but I was a little ex cited at having you come up on me so soon. Anyway, I didn't, want to have to kill anybody." Some bread and a cask of water was found hidden In the tmcket and Allen said it was all he had been liv ing upon for several days. Detectives declared one of the re volvers in his hands was used in the Court House shooting. ' The boy talked freely on the Ion? journey over soggy roads back to Hillsville, ahd .by the time the party reached the jail the drizzle had turn ed to a downpour. The troop of horsemen picked their way into a vil lage of darkness, where hardly a light broke the darkness. Though the whole countryside had learned by the "wireless" of the woodland country that another Allen had been taken, there was no excitement. The young fellow was put in charge of two arm ed deputy sheriffs. Claude's icapture gives renewed hope f the capture of the three remaining fugitives, Sidna Allen, his nephew. Friel. and Wesley Edwards. Although Claud stoutly denied any knowledge f the hiding place of the three, it is ''lu'v-d he was attempting to carry ,j"h: of his meagre stock of food to his relatives when he was taken. Yoiin.? Allen nrobablv will be taken tomorrow to the Roanoke jail, where some of his kinsfolk already are. , ; A movement has been started aniong Virginia women to present a sold medal to Jezabel Goad, tie laughter of Clerk Goad, who ran to bis wide when he was under fire by jne Alien gang and brought a freshly juadf-.i pistol for her father -to. con 'ii'K; the battle. Mrs. William H. .Mann, wife of the Governor, is head ,ru? the movement. In F v a i Thru Mnnthi. Jrom April 1st you will receive the in- 11 rf?t on the money that youi deposit '"th the People's Savings Bank on or ANOTHER OUTLAW "iuie April 2nd. . , . THE GOAL STRIKE Bituminous Miners and Oper ators Again Fail to Gome . '' to Terms. MINERS STOP WORK SUNDAY Ail Hope of Settling the Wage Diffi culty Now Gone Will Entail , , a Loss of Millions of Dol- , lars Daily. , . Cleveland, O., March 28. Little prospect of settling lhe bituminous coal miners' wage dispute to prevent a,8trike next Monday and the shut ting down of practically all mines ope rated by union men, was seen by the Loperators and union omclals today af: ter tney naa conferred for hours and had failed to agree. The lack of any steps toward imme diate settlement and the fact that ;cnly three more days Intervene before both the anthracite and bituminous wage scales expire, were said to make it almost certain that a widespread stop page of coal production will begin next week for an uncertain period and a strike, Involving about 500,000, may ensue. The situation tonight was: "The miners in s the anthracite fields of Pennsylvania will quit Sunday mid night because their agreements with the operators expire at that time and no new agreement, even if it were. be ing considered, could be put into ef fect in time to prevent the suspension. The union officials declare the suspen sion virtually will be a strike. The contracts of the miners in the bituminous regions also expire Sun day midnight and they probably will suspend because .they, have no new agreement upon which to continue. Officials of . ther union assert 4i a strike in both classes of mines is call ed It.rwiU entail a loss in pay to the men of approximately 11.000,000 a day. A conference held In the hope that a. frfk nr even the suspension in Ihe I bituminous. mines nugnt still be avert ed, was without result up to tonight. The operators and. miners or western Pennsylvania. 'Ohio, Indiana and Illi nois, who are trying to fix a wage and working scale not only for their own districts, but also as the basis for all other unionized , bituminous distrcts, then adjourned ' untl 9 o'clock tomor row morning. To brine the situation to a crisis Major Walker,. of the Illinois miners, proposed that air miners drop their demands and make a new one for an Increase of five cents a ton on- all coai mined. He explained that ms propos al did not come jointly from the min ers, but he made it on his own respon- sibitly, "to avert a proiongea maus trial struggle." The DeratorB' part 01 tne comer- ence then called for an adjournment. which gave rise to reports among me miners that the operators were going tn nrrmnse a compromise on the basis of five cents a ton increase over the present- scale. The operators alter meeting alone, stated they had decid ed to offer no such compromise, but rather to stand in their original posi tion to continue the present scale for two years and nothing more. That is the ultimatum, they said, which will be delivered to the miners at the full conference tomorrow. . I look for a breaking oir 01 an ne gotiations tomorrow," said w. m. lay lor, president of the Illinois operators. "It 'would nave come wuay uau u. been that we did not want to appear to be in haste in bringing about. a strike. We will offer no further com promise." . . , President Jokn P. White, of the United Mine Workers iof America, said that if a strikewere called among the bituminous, as well as among the an thracite miners, it would not be be cause the union had failed to exert every effort to avoid it. He added so far as the anthracite miners were con cerned, the strike already had been called to take effect Sunday midnight. The policy committee of the union is waiting here to take such action as may be necessary in case all nego tiations are broken off. In that event, the members say, their efforts simpry will be to devise ways and means In connection with the conduct of the strike.. ' . Government May Intervene. wnshlneton. March 28. ur. nas P. Neill. United States Commissioner of Labor, who is now in Cleveland, is charged with the responsibility of keeping the Federal government In close touch with all developments In the coal situation. . President Taft, it is explained, wants authoritlve infor mation the moment it becomes evi dent that the operatives and miners in the anthracite and bituminous fields are deadlocked. In that event, the government, it is said, may consider measures of friendly mediation. ' Officials of the Department of Com merce and Labor emphatically declare that Dr. Nelll at this stage is not en gaged in any mission to bring the con tending parties together. Anthracite Men Petition Taft. Wilkesbarre," Pa.," March ,28. At a conference of mayors and burgesses of the anthracite coal region held here today; a resolution was adopted call ing upon the operators and miners to hold another meeting and prevent" a strike and suspension. The conference 3)so adopted a petition which was for warded to President .Taft, asking him "that in the event of the anthracite W WILMINGTON, jcial PRECINCTS: FIRST WARD 1st Precinct . . FIRST WARD 2nd Precinct .. SECOND WARD THIRD WARD FOURTH WARD FIFTH WARD1st Precinct .. FIFTH WARD 2nd Precinct .. MASONBORO TOWNSHIP .... HARNETT Delgado .. HARNETT 7-Mile Post HARNETT Sea Gate CAPE FEAR TOWNSHIP FEDERAL PT. TOWNSHIP TOTAL MORE LIGHT Oil THE MYSTERY Affidavit by Traveling Man Contains Evidence Favorable to Mrs. Grace Saw Negro Leave Grace Home. Atlanta, Ga.. March 28. The name of Abe Steinburg, a traveling sales man for the Standard Varnish Com pany, of New York, wa3 brought into the Grace case today by the publica tion here of a letter from Joseph Smith, a Jacksonville, Fla., notary, asserting that on. March 16th he tcok an affidavit from Steinburg favorable to the defense of Mrs.'Grace. The af fidavit, it is stated, now la in the hands of Mrs. Grace's attorneys. The attorneys refused to admit that they had the document v In the affidavit, as the notary re members it, Steinburg says he passed the Grace residence in an automobile on the morning of' March 5th. .He de clared he heard the muffled report of a revolver and saw a negro emerge from the house, followed by a woman he thought, to be Mrs. Grace, who was laboring under suppressed excitement. The woman : spoke to the negro and he went away. Steinburg " says he was .in too much of a hurry to inves tigate further and hurried on down town, where he was surprised to see a woman he was positive was Mrs. Gracft,-whorrr be knew in Philadelphia. He "was then sure 4hat the woman he saw at the Grace residence was not Mrs. Grace.. On his way to Macon the same day, Steinburg says he recognized a negro on the train as the one he had seen emerge from the Grace home, whose name, he learned, was Gibb or Gibbs. He says he questioned the negro and gained information which he deemed expedient to hold in reserve, as Stein burg expresses his opinion, it is said, that the shooting waB due to an at tempt at robbery. He failed to state the time of the day he passed the Grace home. All efforts to locate Steinburg today have failed. Mrs. Grace declined to discuss the matter. TAX ON PHOSPHORUS MATCHES. House Passes Bill Which Will Put In dustry Out of Existence. Washington, March 18. The bill by Representative Hughes, of New Jer sey, Democnvtvirtually taxing out of existence the phosphorus match in dustry in the United States, was pass ed today by the House after a heat ed debate. The vote, 163 to 30, was remarkable in that Minority Leader Mann - was the only Republican who joined the Democratic opposition to the measured The high death rate among workers in the phosphorus match factories of the country inspir ed, the bill. " - Representative Underwood, leader of the majority, took the floor to argue against the measure, on the ground that it established a precedent that was highly dangerous.. If the' prohibi tory tax were imposed, he contended, Congress could tax out of existence any Industry it chose, provided the Supreme Court upheld the constitu tionality of such bills. Representative Rainey, o Illinois, Democrat, voted for the measure, al though he charged that the House was being forced into the legislation by a Dowerful lobby operated in the inter ests of the "match trust" Besides imposing a prohibitive tax on phosphorus matches, heavy fines and penalties are provided for viola tors . of the law. The exportation -or importation of the matches also is for bidden. The main features of the law will go into effect on July 1st, 1913,' if the bill passes, the Senate.- coal ' operators and. miners failing to arrive at an agreement within 10; days from the first day of April, 1912, a non partisan commission be appointed by you, or that you take such, other &teD or action as you may deem advisable to settle the differences between the Coal operators and the anthracite min ers Immediately." ; You Do Not Have to Wait five ) months for the interest on your money if deposited with the People's Savings Bank on or before April 2nd, because April 1st is the Regular In terest Period of this strong, old Sav ings Bank' and on all deposits mada there now you will get credit ror a Full Quarter's Interest on July 1st. 4 f . ' We will guarantee a . REPUBLIC Tire to over weigh any other tire on the market 10-per cent; we will "also guarantee ihc service you will get out of it: -A full stock on hand. Giboes Machinery; Co., Ill Chesnut street 2t. The Off N. C, FBIDA'E MOBOTNGr, Count in Wednesday's Primary Election I I' I L c c r tji ii i ,i 8 fedfe 2 iff St g SS o ij Z " 2 fe y n. I M a g x o 5. o " rJ - ', -.i. V S S CO ? Q xoo t lov 100 s 141 10a s isi 152 158 169 196 lOt 721 136 - 4415 99 102 215 At ,I5 I1 39 44 72 105 95 104 99 88 2 38 72 32 16 44 47 82 126 166 139 111 146 140 256 247 265 263 195 7 1081 183 120 16 119 143 145 189 263 232 123 210 232 . 396 389 399 380 263 7 199 252 212 18 199 228 176 93 233 188 86 183 ' 132 290 336 278 264 201 9 122 173 156 19 139 174 131 170 148233 62 148 145 208 181 180 177 220 29 85 138 55 32 91 96 234 "X "1 81 131- 135 218 209 195 200 199 21 77 163 65 46 100 96 207 21 36 43 11 3 52 44 34 38 39 38 2 19 21 19 4 25 11 50 1051 711 94 51. 53i; 106. 118 113 119 111 87 15 45 108 50 17 35 108 . 113 19 3i 36 11 13L 35 46 46 46 43 40 21 7 34 8 30 13 6 42 39 37 34 20 17 , 51 69 52 53 53 41 3 5 58 12 33 8 22 53 39 26 42 15 J7. I44 54 54 . 52 53 43 0 17 51 23 . 2 22 29 48 9 6 4 10 4p ll 14 . 14 13 14 9 0 4 14 1 911 14 I 10931,4231,452 7081,1101,26427)I1 SPOKE OH AUTOMOBILE ROAD Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt Made.. .Princi pal Address at the Southern, Ap palachian Good Roads Association. Spartanburg. S. C, March 28. Sev enty delegates, .from ihe , States through which the Blue Ridge moun tains extend, gathered here today for the Spring convention of the Southern Appalachian Good Roads Association, which will continue through tomor row. Of the addresses made today none attracted greater attention" that that of Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, president of the association and State Geologist of Norh Carolina on the proposed auto mobile highway on the crest of the Blue Ridge from Marion. Va., to Tallu lah Falls, Ga. For a continuous stretch vf 112 miles, this road will be from 3,000 to 5,500 feet above the sea level. It will cross Mount Mitchell. Dr. Pratt said that the project would be financed entirely by private capital and if it could be built in ho other way tolls would be charged for the use of the .highway. Forty miles of the road have 'already been constructed- Other addresses were, made by Maj or John F. Carson, of the United States Bureau cf Manufactures, and E. J. Watson. Commissioner fef ; Agriculture of South Carolina. Ifc-- The. association ' adoitect' a resolu tion authorizing a committee o solicit subscriptions towards building a road over the mountains from Tryon to Hendersonville, N. C. This is the final link in the highway from Colum bia to Asheville via Spartanburg. JOHN S. BLODGETT ACQUITTED Was Charged With Issuing False Ex pense Vouchers - ; Atlanta, Ga., March 28. John- S. Blodgett, Sr., former chief clerk in the railway mall service, was acquitted In the United States Court today on the charge of issuing false expense vouch ers. He was indicted last March .on 31 separate counts of issuing false ex pense vouchers while traveling on gov ernment . service. Subsequently he was dismissed from the service, after being in the government employ for 18 years. The jury was out less than 15 min utes. OUTLINES Roosevelt yesterday made six speeches in Missouri, in which he ex plained his political doctrines and stated his case to large -crowds. The conference between the mine owners and operators at Cleveland, Ohio, yesterday resulted in failure to come to any agreement, and the mi ners will stop wonk-Sunday night, en tailing a loss of millions of dollars dally. Taft adherents controlled the . Mis sissippi State convention - yesterday. Roosevelt followers, hopelessly out numbered, named contesting dela tions. Senator Lorimer yesterday won an overwhelming vindication at the hands of the special committee of eight Sen ators who finished a second investiga tion of his election. Dr. Joseph .Hyde Pratt, State Geol ogist of Nerth Carolina, spoke on the 1 proposed 'automobile highway on the crest of the Blue Ridge, before tne Southern Appalachian Good Roads As sociation at Spartanburg, S. C, yes terday. Additional evidence In the Grace case was disclosed yesterday in the form of an affidavit of a traveling man, who saw a negro leaving the Grace, home at the time of the shoot ing. ' Claude Swanson Allen, the cause of the Carroll county court murders, was taken by detectives and a posse three miles from his home yesterday. He surrendered without resistance and was taken to the Hillsville jail. Rev. Frank Norrls, of Fort Worth. Texas, was indicted yesterday on a charge of arson in connection with the burning of bis church on February 4. New York markets: Money on call steady, 2 3-8 to 2 1-2 per cent; ruling rate 2 1-2; closing bid 2 1-4; offered at 2 1-2. Spot cotton closed quiet. Flour moderately active. Wheat, spot steady; No. 2 red, elevator, export basis to arrive and 1.09 f.o.b. afloat Corn, spot' firmer; No. 2 corn nominal and export 77 1-2 , nominal f.o.b. afloat. Rosin and turpentine steady. Regular Interest Period of the People's Savings Bank, April 1st. The money you deposit with this bank on " or before the 2nd will re ceive a full quarter's interest on July 1st KARCH 29, 1912. FOR COMMISSIONERS: 1,92211,9001,8651,620 , 107 , 7881.403 79?) 257 BAPTIST MINISTER INDICTED Rev. J. Frank Norris, of Fort Worth, Charged With Arson in Connec tion With the Burning of His Church, Feb. 4th Fort Worth, Texas, Marph 28.--Rev. J. Frank Norris, who resigned the- pastorate of the First Baptist church, of this city, last night was indicted today on a charge of arson in connection with the burning of his church on the night of February 4th. ,Mr. Norris, suffering from a ner vous breakdown, it was stated, as the result of a series of sensational inci dents, of which he was the central figure, left Fort Worth early toda, ostensibly for Hubbard City, Texas, to spend several days in a sanitariuu.. Tonight, however, he could not be lo cated at Hubbard City. His resigna tion as pastor of the local church was because of ill nealth, he explained. Mr. Norris first attracted attention several months ago as a leader in a civic reform movement. Later his church was burned and the minister complained that he has received anonymous communications threaten Ing his life. On two occasions, he al leged, attempts were made to kill him. A grand jury investigation re sulted In the indictment of Norris, charged with perjury on the allegation- that he had testified falsely before the- grand ' Jury? and that, JiorriSuJtfmselt. was the authwef the' anonymous let ters. He was arrested and released under bond March 2nd. That night his home was destroyel by fire, Norris and his family escap ing with difficulty from the building The trial of Norris on the perjury charge was set for April 1st. FIFTEEN-YEAR SENTENCE Negro Gets Term for Manslaughter Several Charters Issued (Special Star Correspondence.) Raleigh. N. C, March 28.- Will Brown, colored, entered a plea of guil ty of second degree murder in Wake Superior Court today and was sen tenced to 15 years in the penitentiary. He killed another negro in Wake Forest township. The case of murder against Oscar O'Neal is to -come up tomorrow pro vided the grand jury returns a true bill by that time. He is also a negro and Mlled another negro. The Sec. of State chartered today The Southeastern Land Co., of char lotte, capital $12,000 authorized and $25,000 subscribed by J.,W. McClung, J. A. Durham, J. L. Staten and C. E . Mason. There are also charters for The Grubb Amusement Co., Salis bury, capital $3,500 subscribed by H. C. Grubb and others; The Burroughs-Pittman-Wheeler Co., Scotland Neck, capital $50,000 by T. B. Wheeler and others for mercantile business and The Fayettevllle Provision Co., of Fayetteville, capital $50,000 by A. Ship Melvin and others for mercan tile business. Disgusted by. five almost consecu tive failures to procure convictions in cases in which he felt that the evi dence was of most convincing nature, Herbert E. Norris, solicitor for the Sixth district, suggested to the Wake Superior Court, Judge Webb presid ing, this morning, that the entire re maining docket for the term be con tinued. He did not so state, but his action implied that the juries for this term are decidedly averse- to verdicts of conviction. Out of six trials there had been only one .conviction and that was a negro boy who appeared with out counsel. SALISBURY GETS COLLEGE Lutheran Synod Selects Site at Tht Town Greensboro, N. C, March 28. The committee of the Lutheran Synod, ap pointed to look into and elect a site for the Southern Lutheran College tor women, .to cost approximately $100, 000, has decided to recommend Salis bury as tha location, according to a special from Lexington tonight, where the committee spent today in looking over the site there. Several towns and cities in Piedmont North Caro lina made flattering offers, Including land and money.. The Salisbury offer was considered the most favorable and was accepted. - - Orangeburg, S. C March 28. Sev enth district delegates to Republican National convention, elected- today: J. H. Goodwin and A. D. Webster; instructed for Taft. "r All Money deposited with the People's, Savings Bank on or before Tuesday, 'April 2nd, will receive .the benefit of the New Interest Quarter, which begins April 1st CONSTABLE: o CO u o N H Z z z X i 0. 132 3 5 5929l 75 4 2 13 118 177 13 6 13 321 268 13 19 17 476 198 13 17 6 329 188 20 17 6 352 211 28 10 4 289 59 186 52 76 66 15 851,06311,5101,249 94 ltTm2fiZQ ROOSEVELT HAS A BUSY DAY Tne Colonel States His Case to the Peopel of Missouri Made Six Speeches to Very Large Crowds St. Louis, Mo., March 28.-7-Colonel Roosevelt stated his case today to the people of Missouri. He made five speeches in this city and another id East St. Louis, in which he explain ed his political doctrines. The streets were drenched with rain, but Colonel Roosevelt found a crowd awaiting him at the station; and wherever he spoke. large audiences applauded him. In addition to making sfx speeches, he attended a breaikfast luncheon and amnw, lssuea two statements, sent a message to the Illinois Senate, cov ered a large part of the city in his jaunts from place to place by automo bile and between times found oppor tunity to go over the political situa tion with the leaders of the Roose- yeltcfampaign In Missouri. The for imer President spoke briefly at the dinner tendered film by the Million Population Club; Colonel Roosevelt's main speech was delivered tonight in the First-Reg- Imenfc Armory. He discussed "The Right ,of the People - to Rule," and talked largely in the same vein as .lh his speech. In New .York last ; week upn th.9. same .topic., r-Za fin his address at "the luncheon: giv en by the City Club Colonel Roosevelt discussed" the recall of judicial deci sions. Six judges, four of them on the Federal bench, were seated at the table with him. "My proposition has been discussed by my opponents in a frame of mind which makes hysteria seem calm by comparison," he said. "Somebody told me that I was right on that proposal, but that . I shouTd not have Injected it into campa'gn. They said I was not In the least in terested in the campaign except as a means of gstting justice. I'd a million times rather lose the campaign and get justice than win it without get ting justice." The second speech Was made at' the Merchants' Exchange, where Colonel Roosevelt discussed his proposal for the creation, of an inter-Star.'? business commission to deal with large corporations. Thence he went to the Coliseum, looked in on the house hold show and spoke for two minutes. The remaining two speeches . in the armory and in East St. Louis were delivered in the evening. A report which appeared from sev eral quarters, to the effect that Col onel Roosevelt had Intimated that he might bolt the Chicago convention in case he should not be nominated, prompted him to issue two statements in which he characterized the report as. a "fake." His telegram to the Illi nois Senate was occasioned by an in vitation to stop off at Springfield, 111., and address that body. The Colonel wired his regrets, and said that a Presidential primary law, to consider which the Legislature is in session, is an important step toward, securing for the people the right to govern them selves. He assailed the politicians and "crooked men of wealth," who h said were opposing such measures. Governor Hadley, Thomas K. Nied ringhaus and several oth ers, who are-active in Colonel Roose velt's campaign, attended the confer ence at which the political situation in Missouri was discussed. Colonel Roosevelt would make no comment upon the outlook in this State. Welch, W. Va., March 28. Thirty eight of the 83 miners who were im prisoned in the mine of the Jed Coal & Coke Company at Jed, six miles south of Welch on Wednesday, by an explosion, still were unaccounted .for tcday. Rescue parties, under direc tion of expects from the United States Bureau of Mines, and State mine offi cials worked diligently to find other bodies. There is no probability that any of those not accounted for are living. Anderson, S. C.,, March 28. Samuel H. Hyde, aged 25. the first man sen tenced to die in the electric chair In this State, and 1 who will be electro cuted this Summer for the murder of his wife, today signed papers assign ing his body to J. C. Milford, J. N. Wobb and C. C. Horton, Anderson county students at an Atlanta, Ga,, medical college. The body will be shipped for- Atlanta -from Columbia, where the execution will take place. - . And. on Saturday Night. . , every deposit made at the - People's Savings Bank will draw interest from April 1st. This bank is . always, open on Saturday nights from 7 to 9 o' clock. . - - . r . WHOLE NUMBER 13,862. GETS VINDICATION Senate Committee Exone rates, Him of Legislative Corruption. WHITEWASH FOR HINES ALSO The Vote Was 5 to 3 in Favor of the Illinois Man Protracted Debate' Before the Senate Next 'Week. Washington, March 28. Senator Lorimer, of Illinois, today won an overwhelming vindication at the hands of the special committee of eight Sen ators who have finished a second in vestigation of his election by the Illi nois Legislature in 1908. Twice challenged and once acquit ted, the committee, Dy votes of five to three on all vital points, completely exonerated him of any knowledge of legislative porruption. Edward Hines, the millionaire lum berman, referred to in the investiga tion as ' "the man who put Lorimer lver:l als0 ot vindication by the committee. It had been charged that Hines raised a corruption fund of $160,000 to elect Lorimer to the Sen ate. The majority repudiated that and presented a resolution that the evidence had shown that he did not raise or contribute any sum improp erly. The majority held that no new evi dence had been adduced to justify a reversal of the Senate's previous ac tion in Senator Lorimer's favor; that there was no evidence of a jackpot in the Illinois General Assembly of 1909; in connection With his election, and flatly, that no corrupt practices had. been, shown by the investigation. , The , case will be squarely before the Senate probably, next week, when a protracted debate will. bearin. Ntth-' er side has made -a -thorough canvass 01 me suuauonv Kepublican leaders point "out that there,, will be about 27 new .Senators to , voteon the case in addition; to those -.who - have alrea'dy' voted on substantially the same charg-' es. : . ' .,l : - The basis of the committee's action was the plea raised by Lorimer's coun sel that the previous action of the Senate -bars reconsideration. The majority renort on tho main proposition willbe signed by Senators- uiiiingham. Gamble, Fletcher. John ston and Jones, and the minority by Senators Kenyon, Kern and Lea. Sen ator Jones was against Senator Lori mer on the first investigation. Today he reversed his position and nresented three of the leiading resolutions to ex- onerate Lorimer. The contention of the minority mem bers will be that the Senate passed upon the question of the former ad judication, when it ordered the pres ent investigation and that if res judi cata were to prevail, it should have been before a second exhaustive in vestigation at a cost of $50,000 was begun. They contend that the new investigation . was ordered largely be cause the former committe had not made a full investigation and the country demanded 'all the facts. Their viewpoint is that the new In vestigation has developed much perti nent to Lorimer's election, which the old committee failed to discover; that doubts as to the correctness of State Senator Holtslaw's confession has been dispelled; that State's Attorney Wayman, of Chicago, has clearly re futed the claim' that coercion was used to extort, confessions, and that Repre sentative White's confession was cor roborated in many particulars- They claim that the res Judicata plea Is a lawyer's subterfuge to befog the real issue. The committee was In session al most three hours. Senator Jones of fered a resolution that nothing had been developed by the Investigation to justify a reversal of the Senate's Judg- . ment. holding valid the election of Lorimer as a United States Senator. This was carried five to three, Sen ators Dillingham, Gamble, Jones, Johnston and Fletcher voting for it and Kenyon, Kern and Lea against it Thd adoption, however, was not until" after several amendments had been voted upon. Senator Kern offered a substitute declaring "that in the opin- . ion of the committee there were used -. and employed in the election of Wil liam Lorimer to the Senate corrupt methods and practices." This substi tute was lost by the same vote, aa was an amendment, by Senator Lea : to the Jones resolution,- which would have added that the committee's in vestigation shows that corrupt meth-. cds add practices were employed." Mr. Lea followed this up with a point of order that the -Jones resolu tion was not responsive to the Sen-, ate's resolution Instructing the com mittee to. investigate " and report whether there were corrupt practices used. - "; . Chairman Dillingham overruled this; Senator Lea appealed from the chair and the appeal was tabled.. senator Jones then offered and the oemmittee adopted by the same vote, a resolution declaring that there was no'proof of the existence of any Jack pot or other fund during the 46th Gen era Assembly of Illinois In connec tion witn the election or senator Lori mer, other" than the statements of White, Beckemeyer, Link nnd Halts-, law,. that they were paid money after the election and none of them except i! .11, uA if : "Ml 1 n ' "SI : U.ii' . " 'f v:'-;9 - V i I IF'- Mi Hi - IV ' :,:..tJ5 to '.-!! ', h v. : m " -, ft ' V 1", ri1 - V ' '
Wilmington Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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March 29, 1912, edition 1
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