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VOL XLI NO. lOl. LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1911. WHOLE NO. 2639
LEWIS WEST CAUGHT.
JNegro Deperado Who Killed
Deputy Sheriff Mumford at
Wilton Caught at Maxton -
Taken to Penitentiary at Ral
eigh. IXaiton Special. 10th. to Charlotte Obierver.
Carrying an extensive supply
of artillery, consisting of nine
brand new revolvers, the num
bers on three of which are 'denti
nal with three of those stolen in
the raid on the Dunn hardware
.store; two large new knives, one
bloody and both believed to have
also been stolen in the raid at
Dunn, and a sufficient supply of
.ammunition for a lengthy en
gagement, a negro believed to
have been implicated in the mur
derof Deputy Sheriff Mumford at
1 Wilson last Friday was arrested
here at 10 o'clock tonight and is
being closely guarded in the
town jail pending further de
velopments. The presence of
"the negro in a restaurant on the
-outskirts of the town was made
known to Chief of Police Dunlap
by a negro, who had seen him
.o in and exchange one of the
pistols for supper. Accompanied
by another officer, Chief Dunlap
.hastened to the scene and placed
the negro under arrest pefore he
.had any suspicion of his danger.
"The officer was prepared for
trouble and entered the restau
rant with his pistol drawn, or
dering the negro to throw up his
'hands. The surprise was so
great that the negro offered no
resistance whatever and allowed
the officers to lead him away to
Jan.
Upon first examination, it was
thought that the negro Was Dave
Young, who it is said was in the
house of Mary Young at the time
-of the crime and who probably
took part in the shooting, as he
answered very closely to the
description of Young sent out by
the Wilson authorities. A second
.and more minute examination,
however, gave reason to believe
that he is Lewis West, the leader
of the desperadoes. He is six
feet and two inches tall in his
stocking feet, whe,n made to
stand erect, but he is naturally
stooped and docs not look quite
that tall. He wore a black cap
the same as Lewis West and
had a wen on his neck, which is
the strongest point of identifica
tion about West. However, he
has several front teeth missing,
.as Dave Young is said to have,
rand is about the color and size of
Young. To make sure of his
identity, Chief Dunlap tele
phoned to Fayettevilie tor some
body that could identify either
Young or West to come to Max
ton and a party from that city is
now en route in an automoble.
In addition to finding about a
quart of pistol car .ridges con
cealed - about his person, the
.second examination of the negio
disclosed the fact that he has
(been painfully wounded. At
tracted by a fresh -scar on his
left breast, which was grazsd by
-a bullet, the officers searched
farther and found that the
prisoner had beenshot through
the left arm, just below the
shoulder.
The prisoner gave his name as
Branch McLean and said he was
from Nevassa, near Wilmington.
When asked where his people
lived, he replied that he had
neither father, mother, sister
nor brother, his entire family
being dead. At first he would
make no statement at all and
when he did talk he couldn't
give a straight account of his ac
tions of the past few days.
The over supply of weapons,
Rallying descriptions, wound in
his arm and his conflicting state
ments atout his actions of the
past few days form a strong
-chain of circumstances, which
lead the officers to believe they
have one of the murderers of
Deputy Mumford. Pending the
arrival of the identifying party
from Fayettevilie, the negro is
being closely guarded by twenty
five heavily armed citizens.
Should he be identified as either
West or. Young, he will be im
mediately taken to Wilson, or, if
thought necessary, he will be
taken to the penitentiary at
Raleigh for safe keeping.
The negro arrested at Maxton
proved to be Lewis West, the
outlaw who killed Deputy Sheriff
Mumford and wounded Chief of
Police Glover at Wilson a weet
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penitentiary in Raleigh Saturday.
West told, the officers that he
fwas a member of a regularly or
ganized band of thieves and gave
the names of his associates. He
claims that he does not kno w that
he shot either th( deputy sheriff
or the chief of . jlice. He says
there were five negroes in the
house at the time of the shooting,
either one of whom might have
fired the fatal shots. These were
Dave Young, Wade Williams,
Mathew Mebane, Bob Simms and
Stetson or Ed Nelson. The two
last named are now in the peni
tentiary. West is almost a giant, 6 feet
2 inches tall, a light mulatto,
with a strain of Indian blood. He
has served several terms on the
Cumberland county chain-gang
and escaped from the South
Carolina penitentiary some time
ago.
Last of Gang Captured.
Rocky Mount Special. 12th, to Charlotte Observer.
- Dave Young, last of the three
outlawed negroes wanted in con
nection with the murder of
Deputy Sheriff Mumford and
shootingof Chief of Police Glover
at Wilson, was taken by police
here this morning, and confessed
that he is the negro. He has an
intimate knowledge of the crime
that, he has recited to the police,
but emphatically denies that he
was in the house at the time of
the shooting. That it occurred
at the home of his mother he
learned late in the afternoon,
when he was informed that West
had stated that he was with him
at the time of the shooting.
Young stated that this was un
true and that he will be able to
establish an alibi. He states he
has been in this city and Wilson
since the shooting and that he
has in no wise tried to evade ar
rest. Trial of Mrs. R. M. Hayes Set
for Tuesday.
Wilminsrton Special. 10th. tJ Charlotte Observer.
The preliminary trial of Mrs
R. M. Hayes for the murder of
Mr. Robert M. Floyd at Mount
Tabor, Columbus county, last
Saturday evening, and her hus
band and his 14-year-old brother
as accessories before the fact,
has been definitely set for next
Tuesday in the court house . at
Whiteville before Justice W. C.
Graham of Mount Tabor, who
issued the warrants upon which
the trio were committed tn jail
at Whiteville last Monday. There
is intense interest in the case in
this section of the State and
upper South Carolina, all of the
parties concerned being well
known and said to be prominently
connected. Both sides are ably
represented by counsel. There
are no further developments in
in the Hayes case so far as learn
ed here.
Frank Woodell and George
Darden, prosperous farmers who
live near Fayettevilie, quarreled
in Fayettevile Saturday about a
piece of land and Woodell cut
Darden in the neck with a razor.
Darden's wounds are not consid
ered dangerous.
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TOMORROW NIGHT
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
Torrens Land Title Bill Reported
Favorably Bill to Provide
Medical Inspection of School
Children-Other Notable Bills.
Senator Cotten's bill to pro
vide the Torrens land title sys
tem was reported favorably Fri
day by the committee on agri
culture and sent to the commit
tee on judiciary.
The bill increasing the salary
of judges received a favorable
report from the committee on
salaries and fees, but action was
deferred.
Dr. Kent's House bill prohibit
ing the sale of near-beer, beerir e
and "ther like drinks was re
ported favorably when an amend
ment by the committee on propo
sitions and grievances was made
special order for tomorrow at
noon to give Senator Bassett
time to prepare an amendment
relating to the sale of cider.
Senator Boyden introduced a
bill to provide for medical in
spection of school children in
towns having a population of
4,000 or over.
Especially notable bills intro
duced in the House are by Sykes
to fix salaries of Supreme Court
Justices at $4,500; by Spainhour
to appropriate $400,000 additional
to public schools; by Privatt to
assist farmers by co-operative
field experiments; by Kent to
prevent carrying revolvers and
sale of them except to officers of
the law.
A joint resolution was passed
Friday asking Congressmen to
support a parcels post bill.
The Sykes-Boyden highway
commission bill is adopted for
favorable report by the joint
committe? on roads and turn
pikes as a substitute for the
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synes diu to encourage roaa
building in North Carolina and
the Boyden bill for highway com
mission. 'and it is to have com
bined strength of both bills in
pressing passage through both
Houses. " The substitute bill
adopted Friday provides for a
State highway commission to
have supervision of road build
ing in State, issues of State bonds
of $200,000 every six months at
4 per cent to be loaned to coun
ties at 5 per cent running forty
one years with automatic sinking
fund to retire bonds without cost
to State.
There is machinery to enable
incorporated road districts and
townships to avail themselves of
this State aid separate and apart
from couity units by elections.
The committee decided to have
the Spainhour bill for working
State convicts on roads through
district chaingangs revised by a
sub-committee and report it fa
vorably later with changes that
would leave present county chain
gang system intact.
A bill was introduced in the
House Saturday to pension all
Confederate soldiers and their
widows at $5 a month.
In the Senate Sykes of Wake
introduced a bill to increase the
county tax for schools the State
over from 18 to 25 cents bn the
HOPE I WILL BE
AS FORTUNATE
WILL TELL THE TALE
$100 valuation, estimated to in
crease the school fund under
present valuation over $400,000.
Representative McPhaul in
troduced a bill Saturday relating
to collection of taxes in Robeson.
Superior Court
The second week of the crimi
nal term of Superior Court which
began last Monday convened this
morning, Judge C. M. Cook, of
Louisburg, presiding and Solici
tor N. A. Sinclair being present
to represent the State. Besides
those mentioned elsewhere in
this paper the following cases
have been disposed of:
. Jim Oxendine, assault; plead
guilty; judgment suspended on
payment of costs.
The jury in the case of Gus
Hunt, Croatan, charged with the
murder of his wife, was selected
Thursday afternoon in order, to
relieve .the 75 special veniremen
from returning Friday, this case
havir.g been set for Thursday
afternoon but the case of State
against Dan Wallace not having)
been completed at that time, i
The jury was placed in charge
of an officer until Friday evening
at 7:30 o'clock, w hen, it appear
ing to the court that it would be
impossible to complete the trial
of Dan Wallace before Saturday
afternoon, the solicitor and all
the other counsel consenting
thereto, a juror was withdrawn
and a mistrial ordered.
The jury in the case
Wallace, colored, charged with
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place near Rowland or Decem
ber 22nd, 1907, returned a ver-
diet Satureay
evenmg of mur
degree. Wallace
was not caught
der in second
ran away and
until last July.
Wallace was sentenced this
morning to 4 years in the State's
prison at hard labor.
Henry Allen, larceny; plead
guilty; 4 montns on roads. T.
L. Johsn n was appointed by the
court to defend.
R. L. Patterson, larceny; plead
guilty; 6 months on road3
Calve White, Wm. Davis,
Ferro Jones, Otho Allison, gamb
ling; plead guilty; $1 fine each
and costs j
Frank McRae, a. d. w. and c.
c. w. ; 12 months on roadr.
Henry Richardson, colored,
who killed B- Colfax, colored,
near Raeford in December last,
plead guilty of murder in second
degree and just before court ad
journed for dinner at 1 o'clock
ue was renwnceu pen uer -
uary tor it years mr v. a ( fe connected with this cha rge,
Bri t was appointed by.the court; delivered an addres9 on Method
todetend. i3m A fuer accntjnt of thig
MePhail-Webb.
Reported for The Robesonian. .
Mr. John II. McPhail and Miss
Maude Webb, both of East Lum
berton," were married Friday
evening at 7:30 o'clock by Rev.
. M. Fleming, pastor of East
Lumberton Baptist church. Mr.
and Mrs. McPhail will continueithe postoffice appropriation bill
to live in East Lumberton, wnete adopted by, the Senate committee
they have many friends who on postoffices and po3t roads
'visn for them a long and happy
life.
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CHURCH SERVICES.
Sunday-School Teachers' Train
ing School.
The Sunday school teachers'
training school conducted here
at the First Baptist church
through Friday, Saturday and
yesterday was a great success, it
having been well attended. The
services were conducted by Mr.
E, L. Middleton, secretary of
the North Carolina Baptist State
Association, assisted by Piof. J.
H. Highsmith, of the chair of
pedagogy at Wake Forest Col
lege. Thirty-five of the churches
of tne Robeson Association were
represented. Certificates were
awarded at the service yesterday
afternoon to eight persons who
had attended twenty lectures of
this Sunday school work. The
sessions closed yesterday after
noon with the service at 3 o'clock,
which was in the nature of a
mass meeting of the Sunday
j schools
of the town, and the
church was filled to its capacity,
Annual Convention of the Chris-
tian and Missionary
Alliance.
The seventh annual conven
tion of the Christian and Mis
sionary Alliance began yester
day ac the Gospel tabernacle,
Rev. M. M. Bales, of London,
O., preaching morning and eve
ning. Unfortunately Mr. Bales,
who was the principal speaker
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his mother and had to leave for
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home this morning. Rev.
Rev. W. D Comb3, of Durham, is
expected to night and a returned
woman missionary from China
&nd Rev. R. A. Forrest, of At
lanta, Ga., are expected during
the week. Services will be held
this evening and every evening
this week at 7:30 o'clock.
Rev. W. M Fairly, of Fayette
ville, preached to the Presby
terian congregation at the old
Baptist church yesterday mrn
' ing ard evening. Mr. and Mrs
, Fairley came Saturday evening
jand were sruests at the hnrne ot
1 Mr. and Mrs. A. W. McLean
until this morning, when they
rtr.rwA tn FAVPttPvillp.
I Services were held for the
first time yesterday afternoon at
; 3:30 o'clock in the new Method
jut church, just completed, at
i St. Paul's. Rev. S . .I. McCon
! nel is pastor. Rev. E. M. Hoyle.
j pastor of the Lumberton Method-
ist church, and who has charge
with M McConneH of
mission
service and the work that is b-
! ing done at St. Paul's will
j given in Thursday's.paper.
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Magazine publishers will have
to pay a rate of four cents a
pund on the advertis'tngspciions
of periodicals carried as second
class mail if an amendment to
Thursday is accepted by both
branches of Congress.
LOCAL BRIEFS.
Mr. and Mrs. E, L. Holloway
delightfully entertained a few
friends Thursday at their home
on Kim street at a Dutch supper.
Licenses have been issued
for the marriage of Rosa L. Tuck
er and T. B. Adams: Maud Webb
and J. H. McPhail; Eliza Pitman
and A. C. Gilchrist
Mr. Frank P. Humphrey,
who underwent an operation at
the Thompson hospital about two
weeks ago, returned to his honae
at Saddle Tree Saturday.
-Mr. A. E. White spent Fri
day in Charlotte on business in
connection with the new Method
ist church, which the Lumber
ton congregation will erect on
the corner of Chestnut and Eight
streets.
An unsigned communication
from Boardman states that last
Wednesday morning, between 2
and 3 o'clock, all of Sam Cro
marty's fingers were cut off by
a rip-saw. It ia stated that he
was playing with the saw.
Master Jno. B. McLeod. son
of Mr. and Mrs. Alf. II. McLeod,
went last week to Baltimore,
Md.. to undergo treatment for a
throat trouble, accompanied by
Messrs. Sandy ani Badger Mc
Lead. They will probably return
this week.
-The Jno. T. Biggs Co. i3
advertising something new for
Lumberton a apt ing opening
and display sale of ladies' man
tailored suits, coats and skirts,
made to measure. Mrs. Eleanor
P. Sturtevant will be at this
company's store tomorrow and
Wednesday taking measures and
displaying samples.
Mr. Guy Bell, the special
representative of the Charlotte
Observer who has been giving
The Observer and The Chronicle
excellent write-ups recently of
some near-by towns, spent Fri
day and Saturday in Lumberton
land in a short while he will tell
a large number of people
through those papers what Lum
berton has.
- On Friday night of this week
at 8 o'clock, the Duropian boy9
of the Philadelphus high school
will give a minstrel show in the
school auditorium at Lumber
Bridge. The program will be
varied and interesting, including
songs, banjo and guitar music,
and old-time shuffling. Every
body come. Admission, adults
25c, students 15c.
There will be a Valentine
'party and other amuserrent3 at
the Glennwood scnool house on
Friday evening, February 17th.
at 7:30, given under the auspices
of the Woman's Betterment As
sociation. Refreshments will be
sold and the proceeds will be used
for the benefit of the school.
County Superintendent Poo'e
will be present and make a speech.
The public is cordially invited to
come out.
The floor near the fireplace
in the colored waiting room at
the Seaboard decot was damaged
slightly by fire Thursday evening
about 9 o'clock, the fir? originat
ing underneath the-ftajr and
being due t'i the fir b'rjr oo
c'ojc to the fireplace. The" floor
in the waiting room f r white
people was damaged in the same
way some time ago. The fire
alarm was given and ther vp-.
the usual excitement for a lew
minutes, but the flames were
soon extinguished.
Eight days having passed
since to Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Weinstein a man child was born,
yesterday at the home of Mr.
and Mrs, A. Weinstein a coven
ant was kept with the Lord, ac
cording to the old Mosaic law.
The ceremony was performed by
Rabbi M. B. Shocket, formerly
of Lumberton but i.ow of Flor
ence, S. C. Quite a number of
friends, both Jew3 and Gentiles,
gathered in honor of tne occasion
and enjoyed the hospitality so
lavishiy dispensed.
Phillip Mills, colore.!, conyiet--'
ed of murdering his wife in
Transylvania count: , paid the
death penalty in the electric
chair in the State's prison at
Raleigh Friday morning. The
woman was fleeing from the
negro with her infant in her
arms and her husband broke a
gun stock over her head, the in
fant receiving injuries from
which it died. Mills m?de no
statement before e!ect:)ca;k n.
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