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CHARLOTTE DAILY. OBSERVER, JANUARY 23, 1009.' - YALZUELE FAFERS STOLEN JTtOM EX-JUXiE 8 HOME ' JCnvelope Containing Stork end Bond Valued art S2t,0&U and Splendid Old tiojd Watch said to Be Worth Sl.OOe fctoien lYarn Trunk to Judgrs By nutt' Bedroom Theft Committed Kvtdently by One Familiar With , PrewAaoB) T he M tatting Papers In . . Deal Payment on BverTthlns; Mopped and Recovery Probable An Jidrtooui W1U a History. An envelope containing bonds, Stocks and papers aggregating In i' -value 121.150 and a handsome old watch, very heavy and f gold, formerly-the property of General Hampton and Mid to be worth $1,000, were found to be missing from a trunk In ex-Judge W p., Bynum'a bedroom at hie home on West Trade street last 'night The discovery of the theft waa made by Judge Bynum himself, lie desired to see gome of the papers and walked over to the trunk. As usual It waa lor.ked. There were no tell-tale marks of violence and unsuspecting, Che clasps were undone and the top raised. Nor was there anything about the interior to Indi cate that anyone had effected an en trance or that anything was wrong When, however. Judge Bynum reached for the heavy envelope containing the papers of value. It was found to be missing. Gone also was the heavy smooth-faced hunting case gold watch whlrh always occupied a place hard ly the envelope This watch Judge Bynum prized as ti did few other possessions for it was an heirloom which hart been In his hands for many years. It belonged to General Hamp ton and was valued by its owner at SI, 000. Missing with the envelope were the following bonds, stocks and notes: Certificates of deposit on Merchants' end Farmers' and Commercial Na tional Banks. 110.050. Southern Hallway preferred bonds, I. BOO. Southern Railway bonds, J2.D0O. Note signed by Capt. John Wilkes, 11.I00. Not signed by Mr. Bowie, $300. Note signed by Miss Bowie, 1100 Stock In Rogersvllle, Tenn., Bank, 11,000. Tout, 121.150. LOCK NOT BROKKN The theft was discovered shortly af ter dark last night. An Investigation disclosed the fact that the lock had not been broken nor had the trunk been tampered with. 'i ha thief t im er secured a key, which enabled aim to unlock the trunk and relock it or the theft was committed after th trunk had been opened and while Judge Bynum i back was turned. The latter hypothesis is given little cre dence. Those who have loosed Into the matter hold to the belief tha: someone familiar with the premises and having access to the keys of the house, managed to procure a dupli cate key and purloin the property at a time when Judge Bynum was out. The theft was committee some time within the past two weeks for both the envelope and the watch were Observed by Judge Bynum the last time he opened the trunk. The pa pers were kept In this strong trunk under careful lock and key fur the reason doubtless that they mlKTit be accessible. Kor the past year or mere Judge Bynum has not been able t 1 i i out and vieit the bank as fre quently us he might wish and hence n.aiiv of Jils valuable pnpers were 1 . ; t within reach. Thia accounts for their presence in the trunk. ALL. PAYMENT STOPPED. No clue have yet been secured as to the thlel or thieves. Already notice kas been given all the banks, and other agencies likely to" be Inter tested that these papers have been stolen. L'nless they have already been disposed of, they will hardly be foisted on the luarket. Payment on the certltlca te pf deposit in the Mer rhants' and Farmers and Commer cial National Hanks has been stopped and trie Kmthern Railway has been notified that these bonds have been stolen. All of the banks and the public at large will be notified this morning not to accept any of the missing papers Should any appear In any of the channels of trade, they will he stopped without delay So also the heavy watch. It is peculiar workmanship and the first Jeweler under rrosn eye It falls will rerog nifce Its distinctive features While the theft on lt face appears to be a consldeeablf ne. It is hardly b lieved that ;l will materialize Into a great loss. Hero.ifier ncthr.f will be negotiable a.'1 Ir, t.me Hit1, certain regulations prescribed by law have been complied with, duplicate certifi cates of deposit and duplicate bonds can doubtleas be secured Some de Jay will result but nothing more. Tt Is expected that they will be recover ed without this Inconvenience fur a libera! reward Is being offered for their return. -If the theft was committed by someone familiar with Judge Hynum's premises and habits of life, there will be doubtlee one or more confeder ates. The police have been given all the fact and evidence In the case and development are experted. SCES TO'ASNlt 3IARBIA0E A WIFE CHARGES DECEPTION Knnrtay's Vesper Service. The special music for the S o'clock flundsv afternoon vesper service at the Yountr Women's Christian As sociation w Ulj he In charee of Miss Addle Stephens Mls Sherrard. the preneral secretary will be the speaker of the afternoon, taking as her sub ject "Treasures ' A cordial Invita tion Is extende.1 to all women, not only to st'rnd this service, but to re main to tea In order 'o become bet ter, acoualntert with the n rtaric and other friends, and also to be able to attend evening church service mere easily. Referred to fV.1 r. A. Olds. To the Editor of The Observer: Please explain. If you can. why the authorities have not talcew eeme ac tloa In regard to the carelessness of that guard who tried to escape from something and for some reason and killed a convict in 1 907 My Informa tics In full comes from your Raleigh correspondence for the 20th. "In TiffT - tfbnvlrf its k!Wd by a guard trying to escape,'' is what it says. R. 8 TAYLOR. :'l Mount Olive, Jan. 23d, 1909. Heavier Bails on line to Ball Park. fcpectal to Trie observer. Winston-Salem. Jan. 27. Heavier rait will be laid on the Liberty street car line, which extends to the base- ball park, so that the handling of the large passenger t raffle tlurlng the fan reason will be greatly Improved be sides wmcn also betterment in every, cay irar.sponarrorr wur ow ttntea. A HORRIBLE HOLD-FP. "About ten years ago my brother was held up" la ht work, health and happt- by what was believed te be bops! as Consumption. writes W. R. Lapaosmb. cf Wasbtngtoa. N. C "He took ail Unas of remedies snd treatment from several doe tors, but found a help till he aaatf L'r. King's, New Discovery and was wholly cured by si bottles. He t .weli man to-day." It's quick to relieve and the cure for . weak or wwe tang. ieTKHTBage. Cough and' Colds. Bron chitis," La Grippe, Asthma and all Bron t -. affection. Mr,- and ft. - Trial totrt- frea. Guru teed by W. I Band a co. ' - --. Mrs. R- K. Jones; Formerly' Mis Ocelle Cheshire, to . Bring Action For the Annulment of ller Mar rtage Evidence Produced) to Show . That He Waa .Married to a Louis ville Resident In JS03 -Had Desert ed Second Wife Three Times Ar rested In Meridian, Miss., and Fin ally Oonfeseiea Bat Is Released by Consent of Mr. Cheshire. Having run down his daughter' husband with all the energy of a father's desire for vengeance only to be forced by lack of funds to order his release from the custody of the police of Meridian. Miss., who had ar rested him on the charge of bigamy. Mr. J. A. Cheshire, of this city, has employed 'counsel for hut daughter, Mrs. Ozelle Jones, who will at once bring action to annul her marriage to Robert K. Jones, which' occurred In this city November SOth, 1997. The man In the case, say Meridian papers, when confronted by an array of dam aging evidence, gave in aid confessed that he had two living wives. It is also a story of what eems to have been a double deception of two inno cent young women at least one of whom never suspected anything wrong. Trior to his marriage to Miss Chesh ire, Jones had boarded at the home of her father at No. .106 North Pop lar street, working at his trade of linotype operator. After the marriage they lived for a time at Savannah, t'Hlm Reach. Fla., Charlotte, Birming ham and Meridian, Miss. On the 18th of December, 1S0S, the couple were on their way from Meridian to Sa vannah, when Jones left the train t Hirmlngham to Ket his baggage checked, so he said. That was the last seen of Dim. Mrs. Jones spent a month In Atlan.a with relatives. She heard from him In about a week, h!n letter saying tbui he was In Chlcto and would arrive h soon a some business Halters wcit attended io. About January Jst she wrote to her father here In regard to his actions and Mr. Cheshire left here for At lanta on the 14th, accompanying her to Meridian on th 18th. Tuesday morning, 19th. Jones was located and arrested on the charge of vagrancy. Later telegrams in reply to an In quiry, sent to Louisville, Ky., were re ceived on which a charge of bigamy was based. The first telegram Inquir ed of the police If R. K. Jones had ever been married In that city. The first in reply stated that license had been Issued for his marriage and the second specified that the time was six years ago. Nothing waa said of the, wife. HI8 FIRST STATEMENT. The Meridian Star of Wednesday morning said of this Btage of the pro ceedings: "Jones did not deny that he had been married In Louisville, but said that he thought his first wife was dead. He further said that they sep arated In about two years after they were married and that the last time he heard from her was about four years ago. She was then In a hos pital In Louisville sick with typhoid fever and not expected to live. Jones when questioned said that he was de voted to his present wife and that he had never been separated from her over four weeks at any one time. He ''aid that his wife was extremely lenlous and any quarruls that t?y had were attributed t) h,r Ualousy." He further said that he got drunk In Birmingham and went to Chicago, re turning In a few days. He claimed that he wrote her to meet him there." Twice prior to the last offense Jones had deserted his wife, once In May and once In June of last year, each time for about three or four weeks. He had been away from this city two or three months Just before their marriage. Mrs. R. K. Jones, the first wife of the operator, arrived In Meridian Thursday afternoon. 21st. Immediately on receipt of the telegram sent to Mo bile by Chief of Police W. H. Lyon In which he stated that Jones was under arrest. Arriving In the city the woman first went to police headquar ters where, after representing her self to be the surter of the prisoner she was admitted to see him. Later, the officers, remembering that Jones had told them that he had no Immediate relatives other than an atd mother, became suspicious and Investigated the movements of the alleged sister, arriving at the conclusion that she was the missing wife. "Later." says The Star, "when confronted with proofs of various kinds Jones admit ted to the officers that the woman who visited him was his first wife, adding that It ,vas useless to conceal the fact further, and then confessed that he was a blgA'iii.jt. At noon trt ilay (Friday) Mr. Jones was relei.-oj fmm custody on receipt of a telegram from Charlotte, North Carolina, stat ing that if Jones wou'.d sign certain papers so that his second wife would have no trouble In securing her re lease from him he would not be prosecuted. Chief Lyon released Jones on his own recognizance." ADMITS WAS MARRIED TWICE. The Meridian Dispatch of Friday makes this contribution: "Last night the facts were present ed to Jones and for the first time he frankly admitted that Miss Cheshire was his second wife and that the woman who came here, yesterday af ternoon was his first wife. He said that the latter came up from Mobile but on the advice of his attorney she left at S p. m.. over the Alabama Great Southern. He said that his wife No. 1 had agTeed to live with wife No. 2 but that Wife No. 2 would not apree to the conditions Imposed, not knowing. In fact, that there was a wife No. 1. His proposition to wife No. 1 was that his "other girl." wife No. 2. would pass off as his sister. "Another Interesting development In the case yesterday was a letter that Jones had torn up shortly after he was arrested Welnesduy and thrown In the stove. It pieces were put together and formed quite inter eslina reading. It waa five page Inn and couched In the most endeartngJ terms. It was said to have been writ ten by a lady stopping at a local boarding house and was signed 'Bes sie.1 " That Jones' first wife knew nothing of his second marriage would be In dicated by a Meridian press article stating that tbe Meridian police chief had received a letter from the Mo bile chief asking as to the where abouts of Jones. A young woman claiming to be hi wife, said tha let ter , -bad -eemplaltsei 8hat hgr 4vCTbn-4 had deserted her in Mobile and that she understood he was living with anotner, giving her name correctly. "The letter stated that Mrs. Jones de sired t know whether or not that wa the case, and If it was, she would return-to her home in Louisville as ah was without means of upport." "After hi discharge Jones admit ted that he had mad a number of conflicting statement, but Mid that he had done so under pressure of cir cumstance. 11 confirmed hi for mer declaration of Jove for hi Char lotte wife and said that he firmly In tended applying for a divorce from ondV THB MOTHER HEARD FROM. In thu meantime Mr. Cheshire and his daughter had returned to Charlotte.- The father from Atlanta bad written to Mrs, J. A. Fashaner, of Louisville. Ky., asking If her daugh ter had married a man named R- K. Jones. A few day ago he received tha following reply: "Tour letter asking for information was received to-day. . My daughter waa married to R. K. Jones February (th. 1902. at St. Charles church, of this city. Mrs. .Tone left this city the 23d of December with her husband for the South. Kindly anawer this as soon a possible and let me know why you desired this information, and oblige." Ha at once wired asking her if she would come to Charlotte and testify to that and thon wrote her, stating all the facts known. Application was made to Solicitor Clarkson fer requi sition papers, but these could not be obtained unless a witness would make the trip here and swear that Jones' first marriage wa a fact. Not feel ing able to advance the considerable sum of money necessary for this ma chinery of the law, and having no as surance that the mother would make the trip, Mr. Cheshire reluctantly ordered the man's release. nd asked that he sign papers which Would fa cilitate the obtaining of a divorce by the Charlotte young lady While a prisoner in Meridian Jones acknowledged the authorship of two letters written to his second wife from Meridian on Saturday and Sunday, January 16th and 17th. In these is made the cold-blooded proposition which, of course, the Charlotte young woman did not consider for a mo ment. Says one letter: "P have no excuses to make to you. You were treated exactly as you deserved. But this Is what I wish to say to you now and I want you to keep this entirely to your own self. If you care or love me enough to live with me and my other girl and treat her and loo her as a sister 1 am going to take you back once more. I lovo you both equally well and I am mt goin to desert either one of you as lorn? as you are good. My other girl has promised to be good to you nnd to love you. and I'll sea that sha does It. Bhe Is at presert tn the South end senas ner love to you. WOULD PLAY NO FAVORITES. "I am going to play no favorites." It continues later, "but am going to treat both of you girls exactly alike. You will be company for each other Bnd help one another at all times. I Remember If you do not think you , can behave better than you have In the past, I would advise you not to coine. But If you do consent to this new arrangement I'M do all I can to make both of you girls happy a can be for I love you both nad won't give up either If I can get out of It. In this town she will pass as my rlster. " A paragraph In the other letter says, after berating her for what he terms her Jealousy In the past. "You shall not be Jealous of my other worn- 1 an and you are going to share things , with her and love her as your slater. I am not going to have any trouble or friction of any kind between you two kids. If this will be agreeable to you. you can come when you wish." ! These are fair samples of the con- j tents of the letters In which unt o- j testing compliance with all his ar- j rangemente was demanded. "1 hava i his first wh and re-marrying th sec-j broke you two girl into my way of ooing ana I wlli not nave any false Idea of modesty out of you. Tea will be exactly a i bv trained yon to be. I am not going to show you any par tiality or love on more than the other. LJttl detail of our home life I am going to arraogs when w three get together. In th manner which I think 1 best If we will pull to gether X see. no reason why u three can't get along swimmingly. And I am going to see that- do." " Th Charlotte friends of tha former Mia Cheshire and those also in StatesvWe. where she J paUve. will regret to know of this unfortunate in cident she I a yotkng lady of unex ceptionable family and spotless char acter. Eh Intend to resume her family name as soon a a divorce ut secured. . "GET IT AT HAWJiET'S" MANICURE GOODS We have been sharply criti cised by some of our well meaning and prudent friend for the extravagance of Our collection of manicure neces saries. We dmlt It' the beat assortment In the South, but the way our sale have in creased In these goods Justifies our Judgment. "Well," raid a prominent woman recently, "I am glad there Is one store in this town where I can got what I want." That's the way we feel about It, and that's the reason w beg our friend to let their wants be known, dS we can put In stock any favdrit toilet article they may fancy. When onoe we have a call for an article, no matter what, or how difficult to obtain, our cus tomers have long since learned that ever afterward they can "Get It at Hawley'a." Hawley's Pharmacy TRTON ANp FIFTH 8TS. 'Phones IS and 240. Academy Advance Sale. 1UE ESQUiLiO cats blubber. TheluTobrrnen eal pork. The Norwegian fishermen ' live oh cod liver oil. ' These people are constantly exposed to cold and physical strain. Experience has taught them that fatty foods give. warmth and nourishment. Forjthose who have cold and thfn Jbo&es, or are threatened with consumption or any wasting -'disease, there is no fat in so digestible and palatable a form as Scott's Emulsion Physicians prescribe ft. , Send this xtmtite eat mmt h) which it appears, yarn rmt d ewntr rmliw aad wa will "CoeiiSetatuaNtyAUMMUMWerld" a 8 SCOTJsftBOWNE. 409 Feari Street. McwYexfc FOR RENT Those two desirable offices! over our store, now occupied by Drs. Russell & Matheson. Possession February 1st. J.N.McCauslandSCo. 221 South Tryon Street Muscular Pains Cured. "Purlng the summer of 1903 I was trou bled Willi muscular pains in the Instep of my tjet." says Air. s. yiir, or Toronto, Ont "At times It w so painful I could hardlv walk. Chamberlain's Peln Balm uaii lunmeruled to me, so I tried it and I ngd completely cured by one small hot- ! tin I have lnre recommend' It to sev eml of my friends, all of w. rx speak: highly of It." For sale by W. I Hand Co. THE SELECTION of a piano is very much Ilk the choice of friends. The more care exercised in the selection, the more certain we are of lasting friendship; and the greater one'a refine ment and education, the, more Judgment Is displayed in the choice of friends. The selection and exclusive use of Stleff Pianos in msny of the greatest educational In stitutions In the United 'States Is a source of gratification to us, and we feel Justly proud of the fact that In about two hundred colleges we have more than one thousand Stleff pianos. There must be a A shirt! We'll pull down our whole stock to please you no trouble to show goods here. All the good kinds plain or plaited bosom; attached or separate cuffs regular or coat styles. All prices. From $1.00 to $3.50. The Tate-Brown Co. 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' Our Furnishing Goods Department is complete in every detail. We believe we can supply anything you can Call for. We are showing a specially attractive fine of Boys' and Childena(, Clothes now. x ,. . For anything good in the Clothing and Furnish ing line, come here. ED. MELLOW CO. Remember, Mellon's Clothes Pit. HORSES AND MULES In our Sale Stable yon will find th ment f Horse and Mule In th State. largest and best assort- ROADS Sealed bid wilt be received by the County Commissioner of Iredell county until 1 a m, Monday, March let, 1101, for macadamizing about 4 miles of road near MooresvlII, N. C - Specification and ' profile can be had on application.- N. B. MILLS, Chairman, ' StateavtUa. ti. C. C. M. MILLER, Engineer. Salisbury. N. C Drop in and hear them. There's nothing like a Victor to enter tain your fnends these g long winter evenings. Victors $10 to $200. Stone & Barnnger Co. - - . . ,. ' Victor Distributors., Plant Woofs Seeds Tor The Garden 5 Farm. 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