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9k Metrtlle fetfc fe. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES LAST EDITION 4:00 P. M. Weather Forecast: GKNF.RAI.I.Y I AM!. VOL. XVH. NO. 84. ASHEVILLE, N .O, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 17, 1912. 3c PER COPY GUILTY, .'."PI m. mm, Clansman to Pay the Penalty for Hillsville Court As sassinations in the Electric Chair. WRANGLING JURORS LECTURED BY JUDGE Report Finding After Declar ing They Could Not Agree Other Prison ers to Face Trial. Wytheville, Va.. May 17. Floyd Allen will pay the penalty for his crime in the electric chair at Rich mond. The jury was out all night and it wua after 10 o'clock this morn ing when the Jury agreed. When court opened the jury was called in. The foreman was ques tioned ly Judge Staples and declared that there were a number of points of difference existing in the panel and it was doubtful whether a Verdict could be reached. The judge stated that the case was of such magnitude that he felt he must send the jury back with a few words of caution and advice. The judge declared the jury was sworn to reach only one conclu sion that of the defendant's guilt or Innocence. He said if the jurors lost sight of that issue in private Indi vidual opinion they would do wrong to themselves, an unintended violence to their solemn obligations and grave Injustice either to the accused or the commonwealth. The jury aguin re tired and It was but a short time be fore the announcement that an agree ment had been reached. When court resumed the foreman announced the verdict. Besides the murder Indictment against Floyd Allen, similar Indict ments stand against Victor and Claude Allen, hjs sons; Sldna Allen, Frcll Allen. Wesley und Sldna Kd wards. Floyd's nephews, and Byrd ' Marlon. All are In jail except Sldna Allen and Wesley EdwnrdB. Tho other prisoners will be tried immedi ately. Vcrdli a Surprise. The verdict was a distinct surprise. It was thought the jury was hope lessly divided. One of- the 12 men. It is known, said previous to being sum moned for Jury duty that "you can',t always get justice in courts and may be the Aliens were not far wrong." The commonwealth attorneys had made arrangements to arrest him on a perjury charge sh uld he brin about a disagreement. Sentence was not pronounced on Floyd Allen, being suspended In order that he may test! fy In the othor cases. The commonwealth will next try Claude Allen on indictment charging the murder of Judge Massle. The trial begins Monday. The defendant's attorneys announced after court ad journed that they would ask for a writ of error. There was barely a handful of peo pie In the court other than the attor neys, detectives and newspaper men when the verdlcl was announced. Thi prisoner's wife sat beside him, dressed in black and wore a large poke bon net so that her face could not be seen. Allen Deemed brighter this morning, evidently expecting a mis trial. He was the picture of despair when the verdict was read. METHODIST PROTESTANT CONFERENCE COHERES Delegates Are Present at Bal timore Representing 200, 000 Communicants. Baltimore, May 17. The twenty -first general conference of the Metho dist I'rotestani church of America began Its quadrennial session today. Two hundred delegates representing 36 conferences and 200,000 communi cants, are attending. The sessions probably will continue two weeks. The forenoon meeting was devoted to religious exercises. The election of a president takes place this afternoon. The Methodist Protestant commun ion has annual or state conference extending from New York to Florida ml from the Atlantic coast to south western Texas. The church Is strong est In Maryland, North Carolina. Ohio and West Virginia. Young to Represent Kentucky. Frankfort, Ky., May 17, Oovernor McCrnary today appointed Gen. Ften- nett H. Young, eommander-ln-chlcf of the United Confederate Veteran v, its one of Kentucky's commlslsoners lo the blue and array reunion at Oct tyaburg neit July. gcil lit, Negro Woman Hies. Juthrle, Okla.. May 17. Ullvey ker, MR years old, a termer slave Erie's General Counsel Denies Boland Charges BBS SSBnaBBBS SffS Mat n si I 5 WiS JUDGE ROBERT irP 55v9l Washington, May 17. A ilat denial of the statements of W. P. lioland, on which were based the charges against Judge Archbald of the Commerce court, was entered before the house judiciary committee yesterday by 11. F. BrOwnell, vice president and gen eral counsel for tho Erie railroad. Brownell declared emphatically that the statements made by Boland to At torney General Wickersham regarding llrownell's connection with the pro- TIX BILL DOOMED IN SENATE Committee's Report Adverse Lodge Substitute for Sugar Bill Favored. Washington, May 17. I he senate finance committee today authorized a1 t'livornlito renort ml the Ln.ure stlhstl-i tute for the nouse free sugar bill and an unfavorable report on the so called house excise income tax bill, which proposed a tax on Incomes ex ceeding $5000 annually. The Lodge sugar bill would elim inate the differential and duties stand ard from the tariff and leave the du ties otherwise practically as at pres ent. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF FAIR IS TO MEET Will Hear Committee Reports and Discuss Flans To morrow Evening. A meeting of tho executive commit tee of the North Carolina Fair asso ciation has been called by Secretary Guy Weaver for tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock In the Gates building, where Mr. Weaver has his office. Tho meeting Is for tho purpose of discuss ing plans for the fair this full, und the rcnorts of the educ ational and horticultural committees, which were! made some - days ago, will also by passed on. It Is the intention of the J management to make these two de-' partments very Interesting and as complete as possible. HOLD BUSY SESSION lllg Volume of llus'mss llofore the rritdiytcrlan General Assembly at houlSTlile, IxiuUvlllo, K'., May 17. -.-Commissioners to the 124th general assembly of the Presbytia rln n church of the United States i f America undertook a big volume .f business wihen tho convention assembled today. The usual reports of hoard and committees and the list of overtures were laid before he assembly. Hays Oppoaeats air fol itcal itcpub I leans. cbllllcothe. ., May 1 7. "Our op pononta are not the real republicans we ars," i said Colonel Roosevelt. I speaking at Portsmouth today, "There I never was a man who truated the peo-i pie more Implicit 1 than Abraham I Lincoln. Mr. Taft has tried the dan gerous experiment of Improving ?n I INCOME a. V. BUCK. posed sale of the Katydid culm dump to Judge Archbald and Edward J. Wil liams were "unqualifiedly false." " want this committee to ask Mr. Boland specillcally about every, state ment Boland made In the attorney general's office regarding this trans action," said Mr. Brownell. "I pro nounce them unqualifiedly false. If Roland will make the statements un der oath that he gave to the attor ney general, I want to say that he Is liable for perjury." TRIAL IS BEGUN Jury Is Being; Selected The Taking of Evidence Be gins Monday. L,os Angeles, May 17.- The trial of Clarence 8. Harrow, the Chicago law- yer charged with bribery of prospec tive jurors In the McNumara trial w is resumed today. A jury will be obtaln- j cd this week. J Attorneys believe the taking of tes- timony may begin Monday. COES TO INDIANAPOLIS Asheville Fails to Get This Year's Session of Big Organization., A communication has been received at the Asheville board of trade from Thomas S. Shlpp, executive secretary of the National Conservation congress, In which the Information Is given that the executive committee of the con gress at Its last meeting decided to hold the 1912 meeting of the congress In Indianapolis. This action, It is explained, was taken on account of the extra convenience of that city from a geographical standpoint. The local board of trade has been putting forth strenuous efforts for some time to gel the congress to name this city as the meeting place for this year and it. was thought that possibly a H -islon might be' made In favor of Asheville. This letter, however, kills all hope for the present In this direc tion. Tin re may be some hope cherished for tho future, however. Mr. Rhlpp fated. In his letter that tho commltteo looked favorably upon the mountain metropolis as a meeting place and ar predated to the fullest tho Invltati in lo come here and that It is quite likely the congress may come hero at some subsequent meeting. MURDERER OF POLICE CHIEF ELECTROCUTED Raleigh, May 17. Brad Bradley, a negro, waa electrocuted today for murdering Chief of Police W. ft White at Wllllumstnn last August. He mumbled his guilt as the current shot through his body. Gov. Mann nt Mount Vernon. Washington, May 17. Governor ila and his staff were : George Washington's It Vernon, Va. They sd by regents of tho DARROW BRIBERY men must Olt IN CHAIR Governor Foss Declines to Sub mit Petition for Commu tation to the Exe cutive Council. SLAYER ACCOUNTABLE, DECLARE ALIENISTS But They Also Declare Him a a Neurotic, Nerasthenic and Victim of Emo tional Insanity. Boston, May 17. ills minister have lolil Kirh attorney and heson his fate. He received the news calmly, and ex pressed disappoint men i There was no indication of physical collapse. Morse and .Johnson remained with Kiclicson until afternoon. Morse an nounced that lie could do nothing more to save his client's life. It Is believed Illchewonfwill not be Hcetro cuted before midnight Monday. Boston, May It. Clarence V. T. Uicheson, Avis UnneU's slayer, slept quietly In his celljjn the death house in Charlestown prison last night, to tally ignorant that the governor had refused commutation of his sentence. The announcement of the alienists' decision that he was sane and that the governor would not urge clemency was left to be made to the prisoner today. Rlcheson's execution probably will occur early next week. There is a prevalent sentiment against a Mon day morning execution as occurring too close after Sunday. The time of execution within the week of May 1!) is entirely in the warden's discretion. Only legal witnesses will know before hand at what time the execution will occur. Boston, May 17. Clureneo V. T. Rlcheson's last hope' of escaping the death chair next s for the murdur of Avis I,inneM of Hvannis, expired last night, when Gov. Foss announced that he would not refer Kicheson's petition for commutation of sentence to the executive council. The statement from the governor followed closel.s the filing of the re ports of the special insanity committee which declared tho condemned man sane although subject to lits of hys terical insanity. The commission found that Riche- son was sane at the time of the mur der and that he is sane at present. In the death chamber at Charles- town the prisoner has borne himself calmly since he was transferred from the Charles street jail Tuesday. It was apparent that he still hoped that clemency would be extended to him. ind it was believed yesterday this alone was keeping up his spirits. The statement issued by Governor Foss shows that the alienists found that Rlcheson's family was afflicted very generally with Insanity and that the condemned man himself Is a neu rotic, an 1 a neurasthsiUc, and subject to hysterical Insanity. The statement follows: "Executive clemency will not be ex tended In the case of Clarence V. T. Richeson. The prisoner was sentenced upon his own confession and without trial for a crime which It appears Im possible that any normal man could commit. "After his confession and sentence a plea of Insanity Was set up by his counsel und strongly supported by af (Idavlts extending over his life. The character of these affidavits left no other course for the governor than to submit these, and the prisoner himself toi an examination by our leading alienists, In order to protect the com monweakn from tne charges that the man was actually insane when th deed was committed as well as at the present time. "The evidence shows that Rlche son's family Is heavily afflic ted with insanity; that he himself is a neurotic, a 3omnamhullst and a neurasthenic: that he Is subject to express emotional disturbances marked by loss of mem orv, which two alienists have disug- nosed as hysterical Insanity, one phy sician adding the alternative term of hysterical delirium and the majority opinion Indicating that these attac ks are hysterical attac ks marked by emo tional disturbances of brief duration. with loss of memory during the at tack and for a varying period follow ing It. Responsible for His Crime. "The evidence, however, while learly revealing these attacks indi cates that his crime was not commit ted by him during such an attack. Tberelore, while there Is some diverg ence of opinion among the alienists as to whether these attacks Indicate ac tual Insanity, there is enough ground for the conclusion that ho Is account able for his crime, and that the ex ercise of .executive clemency In this Instance would he contrary to the pub lic good. "The affidavit and medical evi dence as to Rlcheaon'a unfavorable heredity, his lapses of consciousness and hla att ks of delirium, are too voluminous to Include In thla state ment and are not suited to publica tion. "The alienists referred to are: Or Kdwurd B. lne and Dr. Isldor H. Corlat. acting for the defense: Dr. U Vernon Briggs. acting at the personal request of the govegnor; and Ura Henry R, Stedman, George T. Tuttle and Henry P. Frost, acting as a com- Continued on page two. ONLY A TEMPORARY DELAY RESULT OF MASON TRAGEDY H Editor of The Gawrtte-N'ews: K Kindly permit me to say to those who are anxious, many of H whom are writing to me, about tlie effect Ihut the almost irreparable s and -ad loss III tile death of Mr. Victor I,. Mason, by monoplane aecl f dent In Uuidon. on May 13. will have on the' going; forward of the K construction or the South Atlantic Transcontinental railroad: The It press dispatches, us usual, have gotten things mixed. Mr. Mason K was the president of the Transcontinental Construction company. and not the railroad coniimny. und hud closed the sale for It the lirst Installment of the bond- of the railroad coin It iiaiiy. the negotiations Imvehi'j; progressed sulliciently for his H death not to interfere, other than In temporary delays, with the H progress of the work. A truer ami more upright, correct man of It business Integrity, and a man of higher morals in his relalion to the ?. business world has seldom become interested in enterprises of the It nuigiiitudc of th's work. All who know him will join with us in om it grief and regrcit at the loss of a man in the prime of life, who would It hnve been a great factor in the future development of North faro el lina. S. A. JONF.S. It Waynesville. X. C, May 15. '12. It H" The Colonel is in error, the press dispatches do not usually get It things mixed, nor did they in this particular. CLAIMS 0 VOTES AND NOMINATION Roosevelt Declares the Figures Given Out by Taft Are Misleading,-. Toledo, Q May 17. "Of the del egates already elected 1 have 601," said Colonel lioosevelt yesterday. He stood by his statement that he had more than 600 delegates and was ecn tident that be would be nominated on the lirst ballot at the Chicago conven tion. The third day of Colonel Roose velt's Ohio campaign took him from Toledo to Springfield. In Toledo he addressed a throng whic h was pack ed into the terminal convention hall. Colonel Roosevelt was told that President Tuft would dispute his claim as to delegates and directed the preparation cd' ligures to re-inforce what he had said. The Roosevelt column of the list touts up 501. Under the beading "for some other candidate" are placed 345 delegates. while 84 are listed as unlnstrueted and 38 us contested. "1 hajve- gone over this table in minute detail," said Colonel Roose velt, "and 1 consider It a guarded un derestimate of our strength." Tho former president asserted that the list of delegates which have been given out by the Taft managers were so misleading as to give little idea of the line up and that it was his purpose to show just what was the situation. In his speech here, Colonel Roose velt replied to the statement that al though he had been attacking political bosslsm, Walter Brown, his Ohio manager, was in the class of bosses. He declared that the talk about Mr. Brown being a boss was n nsense. Quotes Grossc up to Sustain Mini. In defense of his proposal for the recall of Judicial decisions Colonel Roosevelt read extracts from a let ter written last winter by former Federal Judge Peter Grosscup, of Chlcugo, to the effect that the colo nel's contention was a sound one. Colonel Roosevelt denied the charge made by President Taft that he was preaching class hatred. When Colonel Roosevelt learned of the outeomo of the republican state convention in the slate of Washing ton, as a result of which two sets of delegates are to be sent in the national convention, he denounced the Continued on page six. Ill SELECTING HIIEBS Remainder of Board to Settle Engineers' Wage Dispute Not Chosen. Now York, May 17. Daniel Wll- lard, president of the Baltimore & Ohio, and P. H. Morrlssey, president of the Railway Kmployes and In vestors society, two members of the arbitration board to settle the de mands of locomotive engineers In eastern territory, have been unable to agree on the other live members of the arbitration board. Unless they ,..o so by next Tuesday, Chief Justin White, Judge Kanapp and Onmmis sloner Nelll will select the other five members of the! board In accordance with tho agreement between the en gineers and the railroads. Accidentally Killed hy Brother. Atlanta. May 17. H. H. Gibson, aged 16, was shot and instantly killed hero yesterday afternoon by his broth er, W. E. Gibson, 19, In what Is said to have beeh a friendly tussle for the possession of a rifle. The bullet en tered at tho tip of the nose of the de ceased and ranged upward. The elder Glheon waa arrested out subaequently released after It w learned by the coroner that there were eye witnesses to the shooting. I, Pieman In KlocUiH'Utnl. Norfolk. Va., May 17 Robert Fin ley, icgeci 33, was electrocuted while wiring for ajs electrical concern. Four hundred and forty volts passed through his body. SURVEY OF STATE FROM MPIM Insurance Commissioner Issues Statement Regarding Con solidation of Companies. Gazette-News Bureau, The Hotel Raleigh, Raleigh, May 17. The department of education yes terday received notice that a special tax election had carried in Alamance county by a vote of 30 to 0. J. B. Robertson Is county superintendent. The people of Townsville township, Vance county, have voted a tax to establish a high school, the voto be ing 57 for and 17 against. Hon. J. R. Young, insurance com missioner, issued a statement yester day regarding the strength and secu rity to policyholders under a consoli dation of the Jefferson Standard' and Greensboro Life Insurance companies, in which he says that each' company must carry to the consolidated com pany the reserve required by law and adjudged Hulhciont to mature the poli cies according to their terms,',-besides whatever capital and surplus rauv be agreed on. The combined assets cif the two companies. Commissioner Young says, will approximate $2,000,000, and the merger will not only protect the policy-holders, but will enable the company to give them better profits with proper mat.agement, and must necessarily considerably reduce Ihe running expenses. The combined In surance in force in both companies is found to be about $23,000,000, which would put the company on Buch a basis as to enable it to expand Its business each year and yet protect Its policy-holders in all of their rights. With this $23,000,000 insurance there s an income at $800,000. "It is true," Commissioner Young says, "that there is no merger law In North Carolina, and consolidation must be made by reassurance, taking one of the com panies as a basis." Commissioner Young says there is no occasion for any policy-holder to be uneasy as to the safety of his policy. "For myself, 1 had rather have a policy In the consolidated com pany than in either of the old com panies," he said. Governor Kitchln yesterday granted a conditional pardon to Robert Roper, onvicted In Robeson county in 1910 and sentenced to two years on the roads for an assault with Intent to commit a criminal offense. The pris- c ner. who has served over 20 months of his sentence, is in such bad health that It is doubtful, the county phy- sican thinks whether he could live to complete the sentence and for this reason he is parcioned. The five-year sentence of J. A. How ctt who was convicted in Brunswick c ounty last October of an attempt to commit ii c riminal assault, was com muted to a fine of $500 and the pay ment of the costs in the action. This action was urged by Judge, solicitor, attorneys and many prominent peo ple. DEAD BOOIES HUE FOUND OF LONG-MISSING LIDS Country-wide Search for Rob ert and Urban Nichols of Cleveland Ends. Cincinnati, O., May 17. The eoun try-wide search for Robert and Urban Nic hols, brothers, six and four years old, respectively, who mysteriously disappeared on April 29, ended when the bodies were found In a stable near their home today. PoIIct Heat Strlki Rioters. Baltimore, May 17. Kleven men were Injured two of them seriously, In a clash last night between o00 strikers from the copper works at, Canton, Bal timore county, and four policemen. The strikers became Incensed being driven from the approaches to the works, where they were waiting for employes on their way home and attacked by a policeman. In a hand to hand tight many of the attacking party wero clubbed. TAFT Mir QUIT RACE fS RUMOR President Declines to Discuss Report That He Will Withdraw if Ohio Is Lost. ADMITS FIGHT HINGES ON OHIO PRIMARIES Men Close to Him Believe He Will Never Retire in Favor of Colonel Roosevelt. Cleveland, May 17. Refreshed after a quiet day yesterday. President Taft this morning resumed his speech making tour of the state. Although jTaft declined to discuss reports pub lished tnat he might abandon the light for renominatlon If he loses in the Ohio primaries, men close to him place no credence in the report. Be cause of the bitter resentment Taft has shown toward Roosevelt few of the president's friends believe he would ever "withdraw in favor of his predecessor. Advisers with him on the Ohio tour says he will stick In the fight to the end. Contradicts Roosevelt Claims. Cleveland, O., May 17. Replying to the claim of Theodore Roosevelt that he had over 500 delegates to the re publican national convention. Presi dent Taft yesterday in a public state ment pointed cut that Roosevelt had only 309 delegates and for the tlrsc time admitted that the result of the primaries in Ohio will settle the ques tion of the republican nomination. The statement follows: "Only 1S8 delegates to the Chicago convention remain to be chosen. If Theodore Roosevelt were to get all of them yet ho coulu not be nominated. Carefully prepared ligures show that only :100 delegates thus far are in structed for or pledged to him, and the talk of real and genuine contests agiinst delegates who are instructed for me, is as unsustainocl by the facts as many of the misleading issues which have been injected into this campaign. "The number of Taft delegates thus far chosen, not counting the eight from Montana, and a number from Tex is and Arkansas which will be elected today, is 520 and the vote in Ohio, my home state, much to my gratification, will be the decision ore and will settle the question of tho nomination. "The Chicago convention will he organized by the friends of constltu- lonal government and the success of that great cause now seems assured." Says Trust Magnates Support Roosevelt. Bellevue, O., Muy It. President Taft In a speech here today declared that much support being given Roose- vel Is coming from men indicted by the Taft administration. "Mr. Perkins, director of the steel and harvester trusts, was influential enough in the last administration to prevent suits against them," said the president. "He is not influential enough now. He is a contributor to Roosevelt's political funds." SUBMARINE AGROUND The Tuna Still Fast and AwalthiR tlie Arrival of a Reve nue Cutter. Atlantic City, May 17. The subma rine boat Tuna, which went aground yesterday off Great Kgg Har' ,r life saving station is still held fast this morning. Five members of the crew who remained aboard during the night watched anxiously for a revenu cutter's arrival. Tho Tuna lies easy on a sandbar three miles out. Four boats of the life saving service arc standing by ready to lend assistance. When a r iy- enue cutter arrives from Norfolk it is believed no difficulty will be encoun tered In pulling the submarine Into deep water. The submarine was on her way from Newport News, Va., 10 Bridgeport when she ran aground. CAPT. S. E. LINTON Man Who Introduced Illuminating Gas In Many Southern Towns Dies at Raleigh. Gazette-News Bureau. The Hotel Raleigh, Raleigh, May 17. Capt. Samuel K. Linton, who Intro duced Illuminating gas In Salisbury, charlotte, Columbia and Jacksonville, and who placed gas in the state capl tol at Raleigh, died here today ai the age of 76. Although horn In Phila delphia hla sympathies were with tr -south and he was granted exemptloi from military service by the confed erate ftovernment. The funeral wl'l be conducted In charlotte Sunday. ,. , . . I Frederick's IWidy ai CoH'iihiigcn. Copenhagen, May 1". fThs lian royal yacht Pititnbrog. bringing body of th" In! King Frederick), rived here at noon today. The co waa borne ashore by twelve offlc and placed in a hearse. A uroi cm The I in t Th. 'fin ..
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