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r - 4:C3 ?. ::. XTrJ-T Tcntzzl: FAIR, NOT BO COLD. PAX1 hi VOL. XVI. NO. 308. ASHEVILLE, N. 0., MONDAY AFTERNOON FEBRUARY 5, 1912. So PER COPY BANKER SNEED m PUT ON TRIAL l&vpori Crfcmy ls to Have a Prince as Member I It! . ,rU IinEIIEK lira IMS Thrbfe of Texas' Most Wealthy and Prominent Families ," Inydlted in Sensation-'. i1'!!,'i-.' :al Murder Case. THE UNWRITTEN LAW TO BE SLAYER'S PLEA Defendant Claims Millionaire He Slew Aided Young Boyce in Wrecking V ; His Home. Fort Worth, Tex., Feb. 6. Three of Texas' most wealthy and prominent families are involved in the trial be ginning here toduy of John B, Sneed, , nceused for the murder of Capt A. G. Iioyce, millionaire banker. The "un written law" will figure conspicuously in the trial. The killing was the se quel to the elopement of Sneed's wife with Captain Boyce's son. It is fore casted that mueh of the defense will be laid on the claim that the elder Hoyce aided in the elopement. All Texas is lined up on one side or the other. The trial Jury was com pleted Saturday. Events which led up to the killing were sensational. Sneed is a banker of Amarillo and Is regarded as weal thy. While she was at a sanitarium, Sneed's wife eloped with young Boyce. After a country-wide search Sneed lo cated the two In Canada. He notified the Canadian authorities and they or1 dered both deported, Boyce not being prosecuted as Sneed desired. Sneed went after his wife and she returned to the States with him, a reconcilia tion having been effected, it was re- ported. Shortly after Sneed returned to Texas he met Capt. A. G. Boyce in the lobby of a Fort Worth hotel and, no word being exchanged between the men, shot him to death. Then he sur rendered to the police. He refused tf discuss the shooting. " ivrpurcc rnri tonvo LI I.UiiUlU UUII.i J J . - .-1 v m ' mm- mmm m mw mm mm mw mw m m m mmm w m m m .v Take Corpse from Undertaker Settlement. Macon, Ga.. Feb. B. Charles Powell a negro who assaulted and robbed a young white woman here Saturday night, was taken from officers and lynched by a mob Sunday. The lynching took place In the yards ' of the Georgia Southern and Florida railroad four miles from Macon, where the officers, hoping to outwit the mob. had srone with their prisoner to take a train for Atlanta. Powell was tied to a telegraph pole and hun dreds of bullets fired into his body. The crime with which the negro was charged was committed about 11 o'clock Saturday . night while the young ioman was on her way home from work In the down-town district. She was seised by Powell, dragged down an embankment and assaulted Two policemen, . summoned by two voung men who bad heard the young woman's , cries, arrived on the scene Just as the negro made his way up the embankment. with his victims purse. The officers landed their man In Jail, but when news of the gathering of a mob was received, the negro was cretly taken' out a-back door, with the intention of hurrying him to Atlanta for safe keeping. The two officers Biiardtns: 4iim had stopped in the rail road yard waiting for a train when thev were found by the mob. At noon a crowd of between 300 and 400 men gathered behind an under taking establishment In the heart of the citv. entered the embalming room where the body of Powell had been taken. They placed the bony in wagon, carried It to the heart of the negro section of the city, and, after uhinfinir it with oil. burned lu was all done so quietly that the au thorities knew nothing of it until the torch had been applied. The coroner held an Inquest on the Iviichlnar late yesterday. .The verdict placed blame on "parties unknown.1 lip to nlgnt fall all was quiet and officials stated that no further trouble was reareo. . . CLAUDIUS KILLS MAN- Gcrmun Contractu Dlncaso from Horse Wliicli Sih-cwhI In His Face Kobbert of Speech. New Haven, Feb. 5. Albert Nagel Mm1 from glanders this morning tftcr nine weeks illness. He contracted the llBOse from a horse which sneezed In Ills face. Nugcl, a native of Germany, . after coming here learned English. After he contracted danders tie lost the powr of espre ion in English,. . Ccn. Wlilfi'lo An for IViUj'ouicut :h. i. Drlpirtle Whipi'le, piiyiiuis .rinv, t iv applied I- t:.- 3H j e:..V 1.1? 1': ICfUCiE Package ; Received by Helen Taylor Explodes, Killing . Her Instantly. New York, Feb. 5. A package re ceived by Helen Taylor in an uptown apartment house Saturday night ex ploded and caused her death almost instantly. The mystery with which the affair was cloudod baffled police detectives. V;' -y .' ' The woman, who was 32 years old, was called to the , vestibule of the apartment by a man Who presented her with a good sized package and then hurried away, She carried the package to her apartment and as she placed it on a table it exploded with a loud report Dr. Charles IS. Perkins, who was passing the house at th! time, ran In to aid Mrs. Taylor, but she died in a few minutes. The physician said that in his opin ion the package was an infernal ma chine. It contained a number of small dry cell batteries,-one of which was drivpn into the Woman's breast near her heart. Some of the batteries buried themselves in the walls and celling of the room, while fragments were blown through the windows so cleanly that the glass was not splin tered. After several' hours of secret investigation detectives arrested Chas. M. Dickinson, who 'said he was an employe of a motor company, and held him on a technical charge of homicide. 1 , " Edna LaMarre, a show girl, 25 years old, who. lived in the house but was out at the time the' fatality oc curred, was held as a material wit ness. Dickinson was said to have been in the room when the woman met her death. At a late hour the detectives had not made known any further de tails. . :.''. REBELS VM fiffiS "IP! iLli.M.. Government Control Strength ened in Northern Part of Country, However. Washington, Feb. 5. Although commanders at El Paso and other army posts on the Mexican border have received orders to hold them selves in readiness for possible mo bilization, unless the situation be comes very serious and non-combat ant Americans in Mexico are endan gered probably only one regiment of Infantry, will be sent to Join the troops already in the department of Texas. While dispatches to the state depart ment today seem to point to a better ment of affairs at Juarez and other points in North Mexico, messages from American , representatives, in Southern Mexico indicate the situation there Is worse. Zapatistas are report ed in control of most of the territory between Cuernavaca and Morelos and Chllpanzingo In Guerrero. It is not believed 25 Americans at cuernavaca are in danger. . Reports to the depart ment say the federal garrison tnere s large and well equipped. Rioting In Chihuunua. El Paso, Tex., Feb. 6. Chihuahua advices today state that rioting among tha trnons has been resumed. - it is reported that General Pasqual Orozco will be made Btate governor. SMI DEATH STftLKS STREETS OF RE17 Coroner's Report Shows Thor oughfares More ., Perilous Than a Battlefield. New York. Feb. 6. The annual xe- port of the New York Board of Coro nerss hows 6700 sudden deaths report ed durlnc 1911, the total being 200 treater than in 1910. Of these 3060 were nue 10 naiurui muneo, ..-.. mr,ft of a violent character. These included suicides, murders and acol dents. Of 430 casualties in Manhat tan ,90 Were caused Dy auiorouuueo, an increase oi j. The streets of this city are Decom In more perilous than a oameneia, says the report, "and it is high time some change In the laws governing the operation of automobiles be en acted." Victoria New Presldcut or Santo Do- Pun Domlnno, Feb. 5-Setiatpr Els die Vli'toria, who has been provisional president tnice ithi'i'-ih .... K.iscnnttnn rn November, 1810, was ti.dov (lifted president of UU re ' I '' ' . ... ! :,i';Juvi:4'l-L Y " ' A , lf COUMTEJ3 VON COUNT ' VON , Be.RNSTORFB, COL WATTEBSOirS WEIGHTY SEGBET Where the Money Kentucky Editor Supposes He Got Came From. v Gazette-News Bureau,' . , Wyatt Building, V -.-' Washingtdn, Feb. The writer is now In position to give the real, controlling jreasons that led ColoneJ- Watterson .ta.propqfle.. .fepsi tk-lnan ihiatfa. cotirt of honor to settle his controversy with ; Governor Wilson, who appeared willing"' tcr' let the doughty colonel do all the controvert ing and talking. A Mr. Penlleld con tributed quite liberally to the Wilson boom In its inception, and this Pen Held contribution,.' Colonel Watterson will no doubt claim, whenever the con troversy Is revived, he was instru mental in securing. This Mr. Penlleld is in Europe and since it was impos sible to reach him the Kentucky edi tor, in the mingled urgency and agi tation, of the moment, proposed his honorable court. Money Free from Taint. Tho antl-Wllson peopl.e with re spect to this Pontteld gift, hint darkly at a sum that would cause the pub lisher of the average North Carolina paper to gasp. The pro-Wilson men respond that Mr. Pentield is a drug gist, that his money is peculiarly free from taint positively wholesome, in fact and that this "distinguished citi zen," as he was designated in the Wat terson broadside, gave the money to Mr. McCombs direct, of his own voli tion, and that he would probably have done so had he never seen Colonel Watterson. It is said this Penlleld gift to the Wilson managers was con siderably less than 10,000, and the Information was added that Manager McCombs has himself been the larg est individual contributor, besides be ing engaged lna labor of love. Tlioy All Maintain. I "res Bureaus. In a formal statement to the, New York Sun a few days1 ago, Mr. Mc Combs told of amounts Tie had re ceived, giving their source, and it is said tht similar statements will bo published from time to time during the progress of the campaign. It will probably be considered notewortny that Mr. Bryan maintained a press bu reau during his last campaign. Hearst is contributing to the Chirk campaign. the Underwood boom will doubtless he well financed, while it la asserted that the Harmon lieutenants, wltn their highly mobilized and highly paid literary agents In this city, are proti ably spending ten times as much as the Wilson forces. This is probably true, as the Harmon supporters have four or five men on the payroll here. while Mr. Pence gives It ou that he has no assistance. . . Mr. IHmglilon Misquoted. Congressman Doughton says he was of course, misquoted in the interview setn out by Mr. Anderson, a member of The Gazette-News' staff here. Mr. Doughton says he certainly did not say that Governor Wilson could not secure a third the number of votes that Mr. Bryan could poll. What he' did was to express the belief that Mr Bryan would make a stronger candi-J date than Governor Wilson, and he did not wish to convey the impression that he felt that either could not be elected. ' Nor, on theother hand, does he attach such great Importance to the Sherwood pension bill vote; cer tainly It will be no determining fac tor, although he realizes that tho atti tude of various candidates on that bill may have some effect upon their as. plrationt In certain section of tha country. . . W. A. V. $,100,000 Fire In Chicago. Clii'-iiKO. Feb. 8. Fire destroyed the N'urth'Tn M:iltitig company's plant her in ! i". The loss is estimated at Now that it Is an assured fact that Prince Adelbert ffc'crdihand Victor 'of Prussia is toMs'Si' America, jiPxt sum. M LiiuW-AiavB ifteTma'S' . .- , j embassy at Washington transferred to Newport so as to be in readiness to re ceive the royal prince and to have for him and his large suite a villa head quarters commensurate with his sta Man, Womanand Girl Slain and Their Bodies Burned Inquest .Into Oklahoma Tragedy Fails to Solve Mystery of fhe Crime Arrest Expected of Man Who Frequently Called at The House. ' ' , Oklahoma City, Feb., 5. Indica tions are thut Harvey. Hurst, his wife and Elsie Adams, 16 years old, were murdered before their home at Dela ware was burned this morning. The bodies were found In ruins of the resi dence. 'Each victim had evidently Sustained frightful wounds about the head before they were cremated. PisVlosures made to the coroner's Jury Investigating 'the triple tragedy England Welcomes Home Her Returning Monarch London, Feb. B. King eorge and Queen Mary returned to England to day from- their memorable Journey to India. After a three monthi absence, during which they were crowned em peror and empress of India and re ceived the homage of many princely vassals tn the vast eastern empire, they were heartily wek-iotned back. Their present stay in the British isles will be short They are due to pay a round of state visits to Euro pean courts this spring and summer. After breakfast aboard the Medina MEETS TO DRAFT BILL ; FOR COURT REFORMS Bar Association Committee Considers . tlio Kedlstridlng Vlan Would Expedite Trials. Gazette-News Bureau, The Hotel Raleigh, Raleigh, Feb. 5. A special committee eof the State liar association met here today for the purpose of providing a tentative legislative bill to divide the state Into three Judicial circuits of eight dis tricts each, thus providing for 2 in stead of 16, to prepare a recommen dation for facilitating the speedy trials of cases in court and to amend the law with reference to the selection and challrntfirts of Jurors. C. W. Tillett of Chenotte is chairman of the com mittee. Fif'y-one young men are standing exnminsitmn todnv to pnictli-e , law. jn.i -f i i.it.t D. Vii-ker Five the ex- 111 IH tion as third son of the Emperor of Germany "''..' . In fact, ; the , prince will have two lmT,:ji 4hif Wdrirftmttioi,rtme government. .'"'' . ' Count von Bernstorff, the German ambassador, and Countess yon Berns torff expect to leave for Germany be fore the time set for the arrival of Prince Adelbert. , at Delaware added more mystery than light to th murder of Harvey Hurst his wife and Elsie Adams. The Jury discovered that both Mrs. Hurst and her 16 years old relative were in a delicate condition. The arrest of a young man who' called frequently at the Hurst home Is hinted. Witnesses tell of seeing a man run from the di rection of the Hurst home last night. This testimony developed , nothing speclft", . with the queen mother, Alexandria, the prince of Wales and other royal children, their majesties landed and were saluted by the guns of the forts around Portsmouth.' The king in spected the guard of honor and then boarded a special train and traveled here. Stations along the route were decked with flags. Premier Asquith, with other cabinet members, were the first to greet their majesties. Relig ious services for the safe return of the king and queen took place this afternoon In Westminster abbey and churches throughout the British Isles. GIRL POSTAL EMPLOYE ' HELD AS EMBEZZLER Shortage of I $6,118 In Postofflce at i New Betlilnhem, Traivd to Miss Ella Latimer. New Bethlehem, Pa., Feb. 5. Ella Latimer, aged 23, for six years a trusted postofflce employe here, was arrested here today charged with em bezzllng $6,118.80. The shortage was discovered by a postofflce inspector. 15 HURT IN WRECK Eastbound Norfolk and Western Pag sengr Train Derailed S3 MtW West of Petorsburg. Norfolk, Feb. B.-Norfolk & West, ern passenger train, eastbound from Columbus, was derailed 23 miles west of TeteMburg today. Fiftoen people, were In tred. some seriously. The train had five couches and four fllcep Inu cars. EXPLODING POHDER KILLS MID WOUfJDS Two Carloads Blow uo on Kansas City Southern at Jandon, Mo. Belton, Mo., Feb. ' 8. A boy was killed and several other persons were injured and considerable property de stroyed when two carloans of powder on the Kansas City Southern 'tracks exploded at Jaudon today. , GRAZED BY 610T REPORTS. 'F UTSllTf II TEfirJil Jeweler Opens Fire on Imagin ary Strikers Wounds Po- liceman Fatally. Jersey City, Feb. 6. After reading accounts of the textile strike at Law rence, Mass., Edward " Fortman, Jeweler, became suddenly insane here last night and fired over a score of revolver shots at Imaginary ' "strike rioters." He shot and possibly fatal ly wounded a policeman who tried to capture him and Anally shot himself fatally. .. A ROOSEVELT LEAGUE FORMED m NEW YORK letters Mailed to 20,000 Voters on Endless Chain Plan Urging Nom ination of the Colonel. New York,. Feb. 5. The Roosevelt league of New York, a new organisa tion, is today mailing to republican voters all over the state 20,000 copies of a letter urging Roosevelt's nomlna tion for the presidency. Each envelope encloses three postcards to' be passed on by the recipient to friends on the plan of an endless chain. CLASSIFIED PAGE New One-Dollar Bills Are to Be 'Given Away to Readers of Tine . Gazette-News. In a few days you will see an auto mobile circulating - around the city with a banner reading "Special Class ified Page of The Gazette-News." This special feature will be handled by an expert advertiser and he announces in a full gape advertisement today tnat he will give away new one dollar bills to the readers of this paper. Just when this page will be put on will be announced later. Should you want to get in on this free money keep your eye open for the Special Classified Page. J 7 BELOW IN HAYWOOD The Graded School at Waynesvllle Closed Today Because of the Bitter Cold, Special to The Gazette-News. Waynesvllle, Feb. 6. This was the coldest morning Waynesvllle hns ex perienced In 15 years. - The mercury dropped to seven degrees below zero. The graded school has suspended for the day. The Janitor could not get the building heated. - At $ o'clock the mercury stood at 80 In the building. At Hazelwood the temperature fell to 10 degrees below zero.i Per Gap!t Cin-vilutloa $34.6). WashltKrton, Feb. (.An equal dlvi slon of all the money in the lnite States would result In eaeh man, wo man and chili po '"r $at SI. T! Amount is the piT a - j ' r . t according to tha t: i ' 3 U "1. Jam at Niagara Breaks and Helpless Thousands See Ex cursionists Swept to Death. in Whirlpool. MAN AND YOUTH SPURN RESCUE, AIDING WOMAN She Becomes Exhausted in Race to the Shore and All i Three Lose Their A; ' Lives. Niagaras' FalW 'l-eb. 5. Although watchers) Were stationed at the whirl- v pool rapids, it was not expected that the. lcechurnng waters would soon ' release the bodies of the man, woman ' and boy swept down the gorge from yesterday's sudden disintegration of an ice bridge. The appearance of the whirlpool is ugly. Nothing; developed to make more certain the identity of the man and woman, supposedly Mr. and Mrs. ELdredge Stanton of Toronto,, excepting these .persons had not re turned to their' hotel. The father of BUrrell Heaoock -of- Cleveland, the , third victim,, arrived ..here, tuday. The great Ice bridge that has choked -the-river channel between the cataract and the' upper steel arch. bridge, below ' the falls for- the last three weeks broke from its shoring just at noon yesterday and went 'down the river, taking with it to their death a man and woman,; believed to be Mr. and Mrs. Eldridge; ; Stanton, of Toronto, and Burrell Heacock 18 years old, of Cleveland, o." Four other persons were on the ice1 at the time, but man aged to get ashore in safety. , v The bridge was considered perfectly safe. For weeks the great fields of ice had been coming down the river, pil ing up against the barrier until it was , from 60 to 80 feet thick and under the Influence of zero weather the great 1 mass, had Become firmly anchored to the shore. -' The Jam was about 1000 feet In. length : and in -some- places a ' quarter of a mile In breadth. For two weeks it had offered safe passage to the Hardy and yesterday an Immense crowd of excursionists came to view the winter wonder of the river. Had the accident happened an hour later -in the day hundreds would have lost their lives, for the crowd was moving into Prospect Park In the elevators that run down the cliff for the purpose of venturing upon the Ice. Somewhere deep In the great whirl pool sleeps the man, partially Identi fied as Mr. 8tanton, who twice put aside chances of rescue hi- order to remain with his terror-stricken wife, and who, in the shadow of death Just at the break In the rapids, spurned as sistance for himself and attempted to bind about the woman's body a robe dangling from the lower steel arch- bridge. The lad, Burrell Heacock, was cast in the same mould.' Had he not turned back on the Ice to give assist' ance to the man, he too, might have made the shore'. The man and woman started first towards the American shore but they were stopped by a lake of open water. , Back they ran again towards, the Can- a adlan shore, turned about and 'made :,' for the American side.' When hardly more than E0 yards from tha rocky shore, the woman fell on her face, utterly spent, . "I can't go on; I can't go on," she cried. "Let us die here." And all the time the great field of Ice, driven onward by a southwest gale ' and pressed by a Jam ' broken free from Its anchorage near the base of the horse-shoe falls, went on breasting the terrible outrush of the Niagara Falls Power company's outflow, the mightiest current in all the river, without being broken. Aa the woman fell, the man strove to get her to her feet again and tried to drag her along the Ice, calling; for assistance to Roth and Heacock, who were nearest. Heacock turned back to the couple and helped support the woman. The act cost him his life.' 1 News Spread Fast Word that the Ice bridge had gone out flashed through the city like wild fire and within a rhort time the Amer ican shore of the river was lined by thousands ' uf people who witnessed the tragedy being enacted in the deep ravine below them. . ' ' The Niagara Avenue firemen were sent to the lower steel arch bridge and there took station with a rope. Tho Canadian firemen had two ropes down from the Cantilever bridge, which Is about 800 yards above the other struc ture. ' Just above the Old Maid of the Mist landing, a quarter of a mile from the whirlpool rapids, the floe on which the three were borne broke into two sections, each about 200 feet square, the man and woman on one, Heacock on the other. Heacock waved his hand to hie companions in distress as his floe moved clear of the other, and, caught In a current, raced down the river. The other floe then shot to wards the Amerlean shore end was :u$bt in n eddy and whir!. 4 t!;- ?e .'or about five- m'uu'i-i. lli.s t lthin slpht of the j v that muTi I t' n rafiilstnid d 'u The ire 1 i n - u : the pr,. i; ' I
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