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Wit. TH2 ASSOCIATED PRIS DISPATCH! LAST EDITION 4:00 P. ML .Weather 5orucast: I'AIi:; KItOST. .VOL. XVII., NO. 222. ASHEVILLE, N. C, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER, 24, 1912. PRICE THREE CENTS ' ' I IS DEFEATt i) Suffers Enormous Loss in At tack on Kuhmanova, Accord ing to Official Constantin ople Report. . BULGARS PRESSING ON ADRIANOPLE Severe Fighting in That Vicin ity Allies Generally Suc cesful, the Dispatches Indicate. K W, ft K It K K ttieKKKKKKK W. Umdon.'.Ocl. 24. While- the K liulkan nations and Turkey arc ? f. all gencroiLs with official state- inputs as to the progress of the t H war In other parts of KurM-aii if, it Turkey they maintain complete ft ft silence regai-iimx the great bat- ft ft tie which lias been rnfiinj; for ft ft the last two days between Ad- ft ft I'ianople and Kirk KllcMseh. for ft ft news of willed all tlip" world ft ft has been waiting. Itrilish army ft ft ofticers lean to the belief that ft. ft the' Turks have leen holding ft ft the line. . ft IT-"': ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft Constantinople, Oct. 2 4. The Serv ian army, operating near Kuhmanovu, has been defeated' by the Turks de fending that town. The Servians suf . ferod enormous losses according to of lieial dispatches from the ( Turkish commander. ' . ' ':.' London, Oct. 24. The news from the seat of war last night told of the 'continued success of the allies. The Servians have captured Novipazar and are virtual masters of Kumanova. The victories, however, have been purchas- ' cd at heavy sacrifices. . ,J he situation. In Thrace la becom ing clearer. A-great battle is being fought over a wide semi-circular front before Adriunople, upon which town the Bulgarians gradually are closing in. im me eusi tney nave occupied Vasilika and Timovo and are contlnu . ing their advance southward. On the west, the Bulgarians, accord ing to official Sofia accounts, have seiacti me jituu river, close to AQiian- ople which is being vigorously bom barded. Already the two outer forts have fallen. Some positions to the north of Adrianople are also said to have been taken after fighting. . It is significant that last night's Oonntantlnoplo dispatches had a less confident tone than previous dis patches from that capital. They admit that'll heavy struggle Is in progress in which both sides are showing the utmost bravery. information concerning the Monte negrin progress Ib meagre, but thp Turkish authorities claim that Scutari has been reinforced and is safe. A Solonlkl dispatch asserts1 that the Ma- Montenegrin commanders are pro claiming the sovereignty of King Is'lch ' olaa give a guarantee that he will evacuate Albanian territory and se cure autonomy for Albania. So fur they have received no satisfactory re ply and It is reported that they are refusing to tight further for the Mon tenegrins, whose advance has been thereby checked. " The next news of the Greek cam paign should be an important battle around the town of Servla, to which place the Turks have retreated. TURKEY MAY PROTEST. Fulled State Tryliift to Determine Whether In Coimten , nnee e'xikIuh of Greek. Washington, Oct. 24. Whether the Turks can or will protect against the exodus of Greeks and their hundreds of thousands of dollars from tins country to prosecute the war In the lialkana against Turkish .Milt is . a question that Is occupying officials here.1 No protest has yet lien made, but the attitude the United States will assume In this contingency has raised a delicate question. The question Is whether tacit permission of the 1'nlted States to u continuation of such an exodus I within the Bplrlt of International law. FINDS $3,050. Man Burning Brush on Lookout MoiiMtH4n Discover Hurled aivd Partly Hollcn Itoll. Chattanooga, Oct 24. Whili. burn lug brush on Lohkout mountain yes terday, "Babe" Btepehenson found $3,050 In hundred dollar bills. One end of the roll wins rotten showing the money had been burled, some time. Ji.hnsoii Monument I Hvcllcd. Dalton. (Ja.; Oct. 24. The first nr. ilium ut erected to the memory of General Joseph K. Johnson the con- feiernto ofllcer, was unveiled here to day by Miss Sueylla Thoma, grand daughter of the lutr General B. M. Thomas. Funds fur the monument r mbed by members of thu Thorn as Chul. tor V. D. C. i MAY TRY OFFICERS BY COURT MARTIAL Those Captured at Vera Cruz Will Likely Be Ordered Shot, While Their Men May Not Be PunishedCondi tions Becoming Normal. Vera Cruz, Oct. 24. This city which was the theater of a, brief oo.ifllct in which the government troops ousted the rebels under Felix Diaz from con trol Is regaining normal conditions. Police service was resumed today and railroads resume their operation soon. The entire government force num bered less than two thousand men, the firing was insignificant, two were willed and a few Injured. Felix Diaz and eight of his officers were cap tured. ' Desultory firing continued after the federals entered the town. Instead of a great battle everything was in a muddle. Rebels and federals encoun tered each other in the streets without E BY CABELL Never Said Anything About Impeaching Jidge Pritch ard or Judge Boyd. Sometime ago an article appeared in a dispatch to this paper in which it was 8ii id, among other things, that Royal K. Cabell, . commissioner of internal revenue, had said that he intended to have impeachment proceedings insti tuted against Judge Pritchard and Judge Boyd on account of a temporary Injunction that had been issued by Judge Pritchard, restraining the col lection of taxes, and which was made returnable before Judge Boyd, before whom the case Ih now pending. Judge Pritchard, immediately wrote Mr. Ca bell in regard to the matter, but when his letter reached Washington Mr. Ca bell was absent on a tour of inspection and he did not return until a few days ago, Judge Pritchard is now In re- ccipt of a letter from Mr. Cabell iii which, among other things, he says: , "I most emphatically have made no statement that would warrant any such statement as appears In this ar ticle or others of similar import that have been sent to me. I am told that thee statements emanate from an at torney with whom I, as commissioner, have had several disagreeable expe riences. There Is absolutely no foun dation for any statement that I have said anything that anyone could con strue as a reflection of you or Judge Boyd." TIE NEW DEFINITION OF' How it Is Expected That Com- "mittee Will Modify Hac ett Resolution. The democrats here are speculating on what will be the action of the stnte executive committee with refer ence to the reconsideration of the definition of "democratic ticket." It s known that the Hacket resolution, making a democrat one who votes the entire ticket this before he is al lowed to participate In the senatorial primary will be repealed, but It is likely that there will be a modified restriction. According to Information recelveu today members of the committee had virtually agreed that the voter should be required to vote the presidential, the congressional, the gubernatorial and the legislative tickets ueiore ne can take part In the primary and the voter may scratch hut must not vote for the otmonent of the man scratcneo. Interest 1b now centeren in geuing the voters to register. The Simmons people are especially active in this, ml the management urges that all Simmons men will do their best to get the democrats to register, regardless of their preference for senator. KILLS DOG AND SELF.' Ylcn.lH or Wisconsin Fanner Find Hying; Animal IKklng Hands of Its Dead Mauler. ... Ontario, Wis., Oct. 24. JCrnest Rev els, a young farmer, today called his dog to him, petted It and then shot it through the body. He then turned his weapon upon himself. When friends aroused 'by the shooting arrived they lound the dying dog licking the hands of Its dead master. Order Troop to Ciimmlngx. Atlanta, Ga Oct. 24. Governor Brown today Issued a proclamation declaring martial law lit Cummlngs, Oa., where the hanging of two ne groes. Oscar Daniels and Ernest Knox, will Jake place tomorrow, necessitat ing the calling out of troops to pre vent a pofslble demonstration. Ths negroes were convicted of assaulting a woman there several wee'.:? ago, re niltlna in hei tlwitii. The attic u lollowsd by serious race troubles. EM T 1 knowing which side the other was nf llliiitcd with, as uniforms of all were alike. Colonel Jimlnez Castro was shot in the leg during the first firing. Colo nel Diaz Ordaz of the twenty-first. In fantry, who Joined General Diaz with his troops in the revolution has dis appeared, but an . active search for him is being made. The rebel officers have been made prisoners. It is believed they will be ordered shot by summary court mar tial. It is announced the soldiers will not be punished. The United States cruisers Des Moines sent Lieutenant Burns and Past Assistant Surgeon Cohen ashori to attend the -wounded. DENIAL IDEFEGTSADMITTED 1 IN INDICTMENT Supreme Court Hearing Evi dence in the Famous Cotton Corner Case. Washington, Oct, 24. Admissions of defects in the Indictment of James Patten, Eugene Scales, Frank B. Hayne and. William P. Brown, on charges of conspiracy to run a J10, 000,000 corner on cotton In 1910 on the New York cotton exchange, in vio lation of the Sherman antitrust law, were made In the Supreme court of the United States yesterday by Solicitor-General Bullitt for the govern ment. The occasion was the second argument over the indictment, the court not being willing to decide last spring the correctness of the decision of the New York federal court in quashing' several vital counts in tho ind.lcint.9nt, , ,.. -'-- The. now solicitor general had nareiy Btated to the tourt that the question in the case was the decision of the lower court that the Sherman antitrust law did not prohibit the "running of a cornet:," before Chief Justice White suggested that he would be pleased to have the government at some time deline just what it meant by "corner.'.' Mr. Bullitt responded it was a com bination among dealers In a commod ity, or outalde capitalists, for the pur pose of buying up the greater portion of the commodity and holding it back from sale until the demand so far out run the limited supply as to advance the price abnormally. "Now, I want you to show how the indictment fits that definition," added the chief justice. That led tho solicitor general to an nounce that he abandoned the third count of the indictment because the lower court found there was no charge In it that the defendants were to hold back the cotton from sale. "Getting right down to brass tacks,"' declared Mr. Bullitt, "I frankly admit that the other count, the seventh, has one defect as there is no express state ment in it that the combination was created to withhold from the market the cotton bought." The solicitor general said that in dealing with this defect the govern ment advanced two arguments. One was that fhe lower court construed the count to charge the running 'of a corner and the Supreme court could do nothing now hut accept that inter pretation, notwithstanding it might have the duty to examine the interpre tation if there was a conviction and an appeal. The second argument,. Mr. Bullitt said, was that the government had used the word "corner" In the count and everybody In the world knew that a corner Included a with holding from sale. Justice Vande venter suggested that -the man who drafted the Indictment did not have that In mind, perhaps, for Immediate ly after the word "corner" he had de nned the term without Including a churge of withholding from sale. GREENSBORO NEWS.- ! Well Known Con federate Veteran Dead Southern Power Company Ijomk Duniago Suit. Gazette-News Bureau, , Daily News Building, Greensboro, Oct. 24. John A. Tate, well known In Greens boro and Guilford county, died yester day, at his home pn Bragg Btreet after an Illness of some duration. Mr. Tate was a Confederate veteran, serving throughout the four years of the war and being desperately wounded In one battle. He was a member of Bethel church In the Mclansvllle section and the funeral occurred at that place today. Surviving are a widow, four sons and three daughters. An interesting suit was settled in Superior court yesterday when J. A. FlHhel was awarded! )2600 against the Southern Power company. The suit was started before the clerk of the court by the power company who sought condemnation proceedings for the stringing of electrlo wire through the Flehel property. In the condem nation proceedings Flshel was award ed 1600 but feeling; that this was not sufficient compensation, appealed and the case went Into Superior court, Flshel demandlnK 13000' for alleged damage to his property by reason of thu wires being strung through It. WILSDTJ: DAY CELEH1 Chairman Webb Plans to Have Rallies in Every Town and Community on Novem- - ber 2. IS NOT INTERFERING IN SENATE CONTEST Wilson Authorizes Statement l 1 That He Is Taking no Part in Three Cornered Fight. Special to The Ga.ette-N'ews. Raleigh, Oct 24. The remains of Dr. Mathias Murray Marshall, who died at Morganton' Tuesday afternoon, were brought to Raleigh last evening at 7:30 o'clock in company with friends and relatives. Dr. Murray was for 33 yoars rector of Christ Episcopal church, Raleigh, and was beloved by many. He was 71 years old and was a native of Pittsboro, Chatham coun ty. He was educated at the Univer sity of North Carolina and Trinity col lege at Hartford, Conn., and entered the confederate army a chaplain, but had to return home because of ill health. Several times he was com pelled to give up his parish, and the last time, 1907, he left for the moun tains. He was made rector emeritus, Rev. M. A. Barber, his assistant, suc ceeding him here.l Dr. Marshall was married in 1866 to Miss Susan Wing field of Portsmouth, Va., who was a daughter of Dr. John H. . Wingfteld and a sister of Bishop J. H. D. Wing field of California. Of the eight child ren born to them, four survive. They are Mrs. J. W. Surtiner Butt, of Ports mouth, John Wingfield Marshall of Alabama, Mrs. ', Duncan H. Cameron of Canton, China,. 'and Miss Margaret Susan Marshall- bf Raleigh. Mrs. Marshall died several years ago. .Forty-five of th'it: applicants who stood the recent examination for cer tificates to teach in the state high schools passed, and one applicant se cured the five-year teachers' certifi cate. ' Plans for Wllwin Day. Chairman Charles A, Webb, who has returned to Raleigh from Ashe vllle, began making preparations for Wilson day, which will be observed In every town and community in the United States on Saturday, November 2. In the towns and cities the cele bration will be held at night and in the small communities at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. At each of the places a special mes sage from Woodrow Wilson will be read and enthusiasm will be stirred by democratic orators. Chairman Webb will do all in his power to make the day eventful In North Carolina. The chairman received a 'telegram yesterday from William G. McAdoo, chairman of the national democratic committee, acquainting him with the deluils of the plan. Wilson Xot Interfering. That Woodrow Wilson, democratic candidate for president, has not taken any part In the senatorial contest In North Carolina was emphasized yester day In a telegram received from J. P. Tumulty, the governor s private secre tary, by Hon. Charles A. Webb, state chairman of the democratic executive coismlttee. In a statement given out here Chairman Webb said that com plaints had reached him that the re port was being circulated about the state to the efTect that Governor Wil son was against one of the candidates, and in the Interest of the whole tick et, the chairman wrote to find out first hand. Governor Wilson said that he had made It a matter of principle not to interfere! in state contests and had not taken any stand whatever with regard to North Carolina. In his statement Chairman Webb said he wrote to the governor for the purpose of correcting an impression that was calculated to hurt the democratic presidential, candidate In the elec tion. . I Irene Francla, white, and Johnnie Bridges, a negress. were shot Tuesday night In some woods near the soldlerB' home by an unknown white man. The white woman was shot in the thigh and the negro woman In the breast. A negro hackman told the police that he drove a white man out to the place of the shooting, but that is all the Information the officers have been able to obtain. XiirnrM Get tiold Moow Pin. Chicago, Oct. 24. There are two young women in Chicago today who are wearing solid gottl bull moose plnj and think more of them than even the most enthusiastic male wearer of the new party emblem does. They are Miss Margaret Fitzgerald and Miss Blanche Wellcr. the nurses of Mercy hospital who took care of Col. Roose velt while he was there. The pins were glvon them by Medlll McCormlck under Colonel Roosevelt's dlre-tlon. Judge Gray Hurt by Auto. Wilmington. Del., Oct 24. Judge George Gray of the United States Clr cult Court ws struck yesterday by an automobile. His right hand was badly hurt. ' The Jurist had alighted from a trol Tey car when the automobile driven by u boy of is, ran, mm aown. TH!B??5 is ui y bis i u jUKYi Justice Emphasizes "Reasonable Doubt" in His Charge and Defines Different Degrees of Murder Mclntyre Sum med up for Defense and Moss for State. New York, Oct. 24. Justice Goff this morning charged the jury in the case of Police Lieutenant Becker, charged with the murder of the ''squealing gambler," Herman Rosen thal. After Instructing the Jury that the defendant must be presumed Inno cent until it is proved beyond a rea sonable doubt that he is guilty, the court defined the different degrees of murder. . . Counsel for both sides completed yesterday their summing up, and all that remained to close the case today was Justice Goff 's charge. ,. Becker sat throughout the day with almost Immobile Countenance. He heard himself characterized by John F. Mclntyre, his chief counsel, as the victim of a conspiracy plotted by Jack Probable Modification Of Hackett Resolution Special to The Gazette-News. Raleigh, Oct. 24. The state demo cratic executive committee Is expected to modify the Hackett resolution by constructing an elector as eligible to vote in the senatorial primary who shall vote the democratic presidential, congressional and legislative tickets in full and at least three-fourths of the democratic state ticket, one of TO PROSECUTE SHOURDS Theft of Over Million, Cash and Securities From Bank Confirmed. PtumdMRTiTifl- hud been current in Philadelphia for more than a year that the Union Trust company had been robbed of $1,000,000 in securities and (30,000 in cash by an employe were con firmed yesterday when Governor John K. Tener at Harrlsburg decided that so far as the state is concerned, Wal ter H. Shrouds, who Is accused of ap propriating the money and securities, will be prosecuted notwithstanding that restitution has been made to the trust company. The' company is now known as the Merchunts' Union Trust company. The securities, it is said, were taken from a safe deposit box rented by Mr. Burnham, who is connected with a big locomotive works in this city. Shrouds Is a fugitive from justice, but it is said in view of restitution having been made the company would not press the prosecution. A state law, however, demands that the common wealth prosecute all such cases and It is expected that the district at torney, If Shrouds is located, will bring him to trial, as he already has been Indicted. Shrouds who was superintendent of the safe deposit vaults of the trust company, fled the country shortly be fore his crime was discovered. It In reported that he opened communica tion for the return of the securities and the money through "personals" Inserted In New York, Philadelphia and Paris newspapers. OF ASSAULT WITH KNIFE Gets 16 Months for Cutting Daniel Pressley Other Cases in Court. Berry Hensley was convicted In Po lice court this morning of an assault with a knife on Daniel Pressley and was sentenced to serve a term of 16 months on the county roads. Ho ap pealed from the Judgment and was held to Superior court under a bond of I SCO. Cleve Rogers was1 arraigned on a similar charge but was found not guilty. Ladrilii I.lndsey was arraigned on the charge of passing a worthless check on T. L. ljince. He waived pre llmlnary examination and was hound over to Superior court under a $300 bond. The case against Charles Walker, charging him with false pre tense, was continued until tomorrow. yl Bradley was found not guilty of an assault on H. U Blankenshlp. Jesse White was before the court on a charge of vagrancy, but Judgment was not entered against him. Tho case will probably be finally disposed of tomorrow. Hons May was taxed with a penalty of 113 and the costs for disorderly conduct. Samuel Brown and William Brown were lined 1 3 and the costs, each, for being drunk In the city. There was a case against A. O. Green charging him with disorderly conduct, but he failed to answer to the charge and a capias was Issued for him. SL. Rose, "the head of the assassins," and by Assistant District tAtorney Moss as "the brains behind the gunmen, with a tremendous motive for murder." What emotions he may have felt were masked by the perfect control of his features. The defense centered its attack on the state's case almost wholly on Rose's testimony which Mr. Mclntyre denounced as unworthy of belief be cause "Jack Rose testified to save himself from the electric chair." He characterized the corroborative wit nesses as "crooks and murderers;" the state's case he summed up with a de claration that District Attorney Whit man, actuated by ambition "had fath ered a prosecution framed up by crooks." whom shall be governor, and at least three-fourths of the county and town ship tickets, provided that such elector shall not have voted for any candidate running on any ticket in opposition to the democratic nominee. The three senatorial candidates have agreed to this construction and a majority of the committeemen say It is acceptable to them. COL ROOSEVELT IS WELL TO Candidate May Soon Be Per mitted to Resume Campaign Activities. Ba J, 'Oct, ' t?,-iC-1ri?-ty velt was still in seclusion today, but was gaining strength so rapidly that It was expected he would soon be per mitted to resume his campaign, Dr. Terrell visited Roosevelt this morn ing and found the patient in excellent condition after a long night's sleep. Soon after breakfast the colonel, In a long lounging robe, walked about the house more freely than at any time since his return. QUEBEC PAPER PRAISES E Comments on eRmarkable Fact That City Had no Typhoid For Six Months. The following editorial from the Quebec Daily Telegraph of Monday evening, October 14, is of especial in terest to the people of Asheville and shows what a wide field the advertis ing of this city has covered and the good impression that this advertising has engendered: "The little city of Asheville, North Carolina, Is proud of a record that reads: 'No case of typhoid fever dur ing the six months ending June 30, 1912.' Asheville has a population of 25.000 persons and they are united on the question of public health. The record is a clean one, not 'no deaths from typhoid,' but actually 'no case." This is the result of an unusually ac tive and efficient sanitary control. The ordinances against surfuce sewerage have been rigidly enforced, as they have been agulnst the fly and against expectorating in public places. The street cleaning system has been thor oughly, as has been the house-to-house inspection. The city water supply is derived from a watershed of 10,000 acres In the Blue Ridge moun tains. This Is owned by the city and Is wholly free from human habitation or other sources of population. The success that has attended the sincere efforts of the people of Asheville to safeguard their city against typhoid fever should stimulute the members of other inland communities, where the disease la likely to appear. Public sentiment and a determined adminls tratlon honestly Interested in the pub lic welfare should prove and effec tive cc-operatlon." Gov. Marshall In Oregon. Medford, Ore., Oct Oovernor Marshall of Indiana signalized his en try into Oregon last night by making an unscheduled speech from a bag gage truck on the station platform at Ashland, where a crowd gathered to see him, and followed with a 30-mln uate open speech In. Medford. He said hie purpose in visiting Oregon was not to ask votes for himself, as he was "just the tall to the demo. cratlc kite and if you people oan send up the kite without the tall you have my permission," FBITZI SCHEFF Soon Will File Suits Against Her Husband, John Fox, jr., Friends De clare. 1 , NATURE OF TROUBLE IS NOT DISCLOSED She Divorced German Army Officer in 1908 and Soon Af terwood Married the Author. New York, Oct. 24. It Is learned from an 'authoritative source that thu report of divorce proceedings between Fritzt Scheff, the comic opera (ringer, and her husband, John Fox, Jr., the author, is founded in fact, notwith standing the refusal of Miss Scheff to discuss the matter. Friends of the couple insist that the proceedings have reached the stago where a filing of olliclal papers is only a matter of a short time. Rector K. Fox, a broker at 25 Broad street, at whose home in Mt. Kisco his brother and Miss Scheff Were married on Deceuiber 13, 1908, de clined to discuss the report yesterday, taking the position that any lnforma- . Hon on the subject should come from the parties directly interested. Samuel H, Bvins, who has liad charge of legal, matters in the past . both for Mr. Fox and Miss Scheff, also declined to tfilk about the report. Miss Scheff. whose father was a physician and whose mother was a prlniii donna at the Imperial opera hoii.se in Vienna, w as born in that city on August 30, 1S7S, and when 18 yeare old made her first appearand . in grand opera at Frankfort, Germany. Later she sang In Munich, and on No vember I', 1900, made her debut in i.A.nTcrV:a-. R'nKiwsr-"Mlf.'tta"iJq "Ja Honeme in j.o8 Angeies in a cast that Included Melba, Cremonetil, Gill bert and Campanart. Maurice Grau recognized her talent and she appeared the following month at the Metropolitan opera houso as Marcelllna in "Fldello." She sang there for three years, appearing in a variety of roles. in 1903 she entered the comic oper.i field and there atttaihed her greatest success. She sang In "Fatinltza, ' "Girofle-Glrofla" and "Hoecaccio," but with her assumption of the leading role in "Mile. Modiste" she reached the highest point in public regard. Tho "Prima Donna" and "The Duchess" followed. Both of these productions she left suddenly, declaring on oach occasion that she was through with the stage. Announcement has bocn made that she Is to appear in a new comic opera soon. The singer was formerly the wife of Freidrich Wilhelm Gustav Carl von Bardcleben. who resigned a lieutenan cy in the German army to marry her. She obtained a final decree of dlvorco from him on August 22, 1908, and three days later a report was printed that she was engaged to John Fox, jr. Mr. Fox then was much in the pub lic eye. having been a war correspond ent In Cuba and in the Japanese-Russian war and having prtnted numerous short Ktories. His novels, particularly "The Utile Shepherd of Kingdom Come," had placed him in tho rank of successful authors. There was no sign of marital differ ences until recently, when friends be gan to talk of possible divorce pro ceedings. What the nature of their differences is has not been disclosed. JOHNSON INQUIRY. Brother of Negro PiiglllHl Gi jim1 Jury lmMirtant F.vldonce AgahiHt llliu. Chicago, Oct 24. Charles Johnson, brother of Jack Johnson, negro pugi list, yesterday told the federal grand Jury all ho knew regarding tho rela tions of his brother and the white girl, Luclle Cameron, who recently was taken from the negro champion by her mother. Charles Johnson was arrested recently at the Instigation oC tho champion on a charge of theft. Johnson is said to have given tho inquisitors important Information. As he entered the Jury room tho negro was heard to declare: "It Is the hand of God. The Lord has taken this fellow in hand and Is directing Justice at him." The Cumeron girt and her mother wore not recalled before the grand Jury as had been expected. It Is said, however, that Uicilc will be one of the main witnesses on Monday when the Investigation Is resumed. Mrs. Cameron-Falconet, mother of the Cameron girl, today said there ht'l been a complete reconciliation be tween her daughter and herself and t tin t the latter now was willing to disclose her story. A development of the case wa u suit filed against Johnson by Wlllanl Davis, a mulatto, for 125. 00O for tho ulligcd alienation of his wife's sffec tlona The wife Is said to have been a singer In the champion's cafe and it Is said she is the woman who the fed eral authorities say shot Johnson in the foot several days ago while In a Jealous rage. 0
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