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i lie kJSLmwmmmmmsm. - 1 -1 ' -: . - .. ... ' n Vol. II. No. 31. Salisbury, N. O.. Wedneday, : Wm;H.St ; I STATES VILLE AND 4REDEU COUNTY. A Fine Yield of Wheat. Sunday School Contention to be Held. StatesviH Landmark, July 17th. Emqi -tt, the 4-year-old-son of Luther Kimball, died at the heme of his father m the western part of town, Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock, of meningitis. Depity Sheriff J, M. Beaton, brought Fred Taylor, colored, here, yesterday morning and plac- ed nim in lan. Jb rea Janaea in Mooresville from Barber, and Mr Daaton thought that he might be connected with the murder near there. The prisoner had a pistol "on His nerson and was held for 4. carrying concealed weapons. Statesville firemen report that it was generally admitted that Statesville had the finest pair of horses at the firemens tourna ment at Asheville last week, A gentleman ofiered $500 for the nair and when Chief of Police . - Conner, simply to get rid of him. told him the horses were 17 years old, he said it made no differ ence; he, wanted to buythem for $500 bn the spot. E. A. Cooper, of Hickory, was brought to Long's sanatorium Friday evening for examination, and returned to his home vester-Twhite day morning, " J RpftwTav rknnwn to hi J friends as-'Demps,") of Shiloh township, who is a mighty good farmer, reports the best yield of wheat vet. On two acres he made , 80 bushels, 40 bushels to the acre, On onnt.w fifiirf nf . fivo aafaq h made an even 100 bushels, a rate of 20 bushejs per acre. 7 " ; ' . The annual fa-sol-la smgmat rroviaence cnurcu, ocotuu xiibu townshin.. Rowan county, will be on Saturday before the first Sun day in August. Singing will be gin at y:3U a, m. Everybody in vited to come and bring their books and baskets. The young people are asked to bring their books and sing a lesson. Messrs. R. B. McLaughlin, J. C. Steele, T. D. Miller tnd Judge D. M. Furches, left yesterday for Washington, where today they will present to the Secretary of the Treasury, Statesville's claims as a site for the location of the internal revenue office. The annual Sunday School pic snic will be held at Fifth Creek Presbyterian church on the last Saturday in the month, the 28th. The public is invited and visitors are asked to take contributions for the dinner table. Sentiment along the line of the proposed Statesville Air Line road is increasing in favor of the road, and the promoters receive encour agement nearly every day. Statesyille Landmark, July 20th. , Dr. Geo. W. Long, who is in a hospital in Salisbury recoyering from an attack of appendicitis, suffered a relapse a few days ago and his friends were quite un easy about him. He has since improved, however, and his con dition is how considered better than at any time since his ill ness. Judge Long spent Wednes day in Salisbury with his brother, "Mrs. J. - If. Frix has returned from Morganton, where she visit ed her parents, Rev. and jMrs. J. N. Payne. Mr. Frix, who has been in Asheville, has also return ed home.- G. W. Frix, of Salis bury, and, his sister, Miss Mary , Frix, arrived; here .yesterday to visit J. B. Frix, their brother. A Guaranteed Cure for Piles" i Itching, blind, bleeding, protrud ing piles. Druggists are authorized to ref und money if Pazo Ointment fails to cure in 6 to 14 days. 50c, THE LAW Solicitor Hammer and Other Solicitor Hammer was in Salis bury on Friday and began an ,ex amination of the witness for the State in the Lyerly case. Hon Theo. F. Kluttz and T. C. Linn were also present, they -having been Retained by the Lyerlys to assist the solicitor in the prosecu tion of the prisoners charged with the crime. . There were a number of witnesses examined, but the most important testimony came from the two sisters,. .Mary and Addie Lyerly, and' Henry Mayhew, the grandson f of f-Nease Gillespie. The stories told by these are sub- Utantially as follows; The frst witness examined this morning was Sherifl Julian. He said hsaw Dillingham who said he Tmew nothing of the tragedy. Heard a man go by his house about 11 o'clock. Said he (Dil lingham) passed Lyerly's house that morning about 11 o'clock but didn't stop, Asked him if he went up to the gate and he said no. Said he remainedin the big road and didn't go up where the. men were. When Ed: Bar- ber went oyer to Dillingham's house tneJ nad to threaten to tear the door down efore they would admit him. They said.that when woman; UP lo mr' y011? 8 next morning she was excited ana when Mr. File asked her if she had anything to do witl the murder she replied m Sft did. AiTthe'jLyerly Some saw Isaac Lyerly ou th9 floor near the bed and his son right behind him. Mrs. Lyerly was lying on her bed with one foot and part of the limb outside of the bed. Mr. Lyerly's head seemed to be mashed to pieces and the little boy's. head apDeared to be beaten into a jelly. It looked like an axe had gone into the side of the face and head. The little boy's legs were burned into a crisp and it was the most horrible sight I ever saw. Mrs. Lyerly's head was cut. Some ma- terial had been thrown on- the little boy and a bureau drawer over it to hold it down. A lamp was there with burner off and the lamp empty, sitting on floor. Miss Mary Lyerly stated that she was sleeping up stairs with her sister Addie. The latter had awakened her and told her the house was on fire and that their father and mother were both dead, Addie had pulled them off the bed, arid witness took her father and laid him back further in the room so she' could take the beds out. She threw water on the beds and threw the burning articles out of the house. Laid her hand; on her mother and found she was cold. She was on the bed with her feet out, and covered all over with blood. The room was filled with smoke She'theu took her little sister Alice out in the yard. Witness, Janier and Addie then went over Filmore Cook's, carry ing Alice. When witness first came down stairs the front door was open, but the other one was shut. The witness continued: "I saw John and Alice cutting wood late the evening before. I told Mr. Cook that mamma and papa went to becTthe evening before as soon as they finished supper. Addie and myself went to bed, about 9 o'clock. When I woke up the smoke was all over the house, I was nearly strangled by the smoke. The lamp was of porce lain, it would' hold over a pint, and was filled on Saturday. It was emptyv still burning and on the hearth. I left it on the HAS ITS CLUTCHES Counsel for the State Examine the Lyerlys Interesting and bureau when I went, to bed I could smell oil on pa's bed. The bed was on fire and the bureau drawer was, over John. Fannie (Nease's wife) came over one day and got after . papa ab ut all of them leaving. Papa toU her to see Nease. Nease came down and cursed papa, and papa ordered him to Jeave. George Crawfoid told them the next morning that Nease said he was going to kill papa. Nease"' was nurd because papa told him the boys must sow wheat or leave. Crawford lives on Hilderbrand's place. Nease was mad and he was d6wn there once or twice after that. I heard papa tell Nease at the barn about a week before the killing that he was going to thresh wheat, in reply to Nease asking papa what he was going to do with the wheat. Mamma and Delia Dil lingham had trouble about Delia using the tubs and not keeping them clean. Mamma was after her about not cleaning the tubs. After mamma went to the house, Delia said if mamma had said three more words she would have downed her. I heard papa talk ing to Jack Dillingham (Friday afternoon) just before I went to milk, papa was getting after Jack for coming to work so late. Jack said he wouldn't work for any man before 7 o'clock. Papa said, Jack had worked for , pan? . u'n'"' ek.- Tayior' hail slept at vou house every night since they had been working for , us, until the night of the killing. I don't know what money he had at home. He kept the money in a bureau drawer up stairs, except what he carried in his pocket. I did not go to Jack s or Nease's because we were afraid ot them. We went by Jack's but left the path before we got opposite his house, and slipped by as quietly ai pos sible The path was about ten eet from Jack's door, and we passed 25 or 30feetfroin the door. My sister Jauie was 10 years old June 13th, 1906. She told me when we got to Cook's house she bad heard some one talking" at Jack's as we passed. I locked the front door before I went to bed, left the key in the door, but I think papa' went out after ward becuse I locked the back door before going to bed, and when I came down I found it still ocked. Miss Addre Lyerly said : 4 Fath er was lying across the bed with his head 18 inches from the wall, his feet were on the bed, his legs drawn up and he was lying on his right side. The bed was ou fire about the middle. Johnnie was lying at the head of the bed with the fire between them. He was lying on his stomach with his feet sticking ' out of the bed. I took them off the bed and called sister. We put out the fire, then went up stairs Jbo get some clothes that we put on in the front yard. We passed Dillingham's home as we went to Cook's. We saw no light or any one moving about as we passed. I blew outv the lamp and put it on the bureau before going to bed. Mamma wasSying on the bed with the pillow- over her face and one foot on th floor. Alice was behind her. I heard John and Henry Gillespie , say to papa before Christmas that they were not going to work on his land. Papa said they would have to leave. Nease came down after Christmas and asked papa why he turned the boys off. Paiia said it ON THE LYEBLY MURDERERS. "u!" - of Witnesses in Evidence Produced. r i was beceause the boys said they would not work. Nase went off sayihg someihing I did not 'un derstand. In the forenoon be fore, I went to the spring where Mary and Jacksife were, Jack's wife said if mamma had said three more words she would have downed her, VHenry Mayhew, the 11- year- oKf grandson of Nease Gillespie, then told his story of the crime. His tale is a straight one and it "... w bears jbhe marks of truth. He said: (jrandpa left home about llecldofe-the night of the kill ing " and brother John was with him1. ' Uncle Henry and Jack met grandpa and John wat the branch toward Mr. Lyerly's. Pa and John said this after they came back. .No one was at our. house before they left except ma and them. Ma asked pa where he was going and he told her it was none of her business, that she would kuow when .he came back. Pa said when he and John came back when ma asked where they had been, " we have been to old Ike's aud him by I went down there and killed them. I told you it, I was going to d so I did. It kill them scared ma nearly to death. We were in bed; , John heard him say4 this and did not say anything. Pa said Jack was with them. Ho paid Jackand Henry and George J Jryj.dJ'ack'q wife went with mtn.",He said he didn't care who knewftin the country so they didn't tell the town people." He said Jack's wife held the lamp during the killing. I saw him take his axe out of the yard as he went off. He and John said they washed off the axe at a branch. We saw the axe in the yard the next morning. Pa said he killed Miss Gusand-Mr. Ike and that Jack killed John and Alice. It scared ma and she didn't say any thing. Pa used his axe and Jack used Mr. Ike's axe. Pa said Jack was mad about a horse kicking him on the knee and pa killed him about the wheats He Eaid they set the bed afire ..with a match. Pa burned his andJohu's overalls next morning down next to the well. Pa burned his with straw out of a bed tick, and John his with straw out of a pillow. Pa told me an ma that he was burning them because they were bloody. He burned his white shirt he had on. John said he was going to burn these things too, aad.he burned his shirt and overalls. I went to Mr. Walton's that morning and told him Pa had killed Mr. Ike. Nobody else was there. It was Jack's la.nfcp they took with ,them, a church lamp. Pa said it was. One even ing about a week before this the wife of Jack said to me and ma as we went down to Uncle Henry's that she was mad with Mr. Ike and would kill them if they made her mad. I saw the lamp over at Jack's about a week before the killing and it had a thing to hang it up by and had a reflector on it. Pa said they took the lamp over there and threw it in a briar thicket jif ter the killiog. Tsaw it afterwards when Dr. Dorsett ehowed it to me. They did not goto bed after coming home but lighted a lamp. Joseph G. Lyerly gave testi mony about to the same effect, except that he related some inci dents of the trouble between his father and Nease Gillespie. v Natt Webb was an important witness, in that he testified to Convincing Connection with the, Murder of Nease making threats against Mr." Lyerly. This p : rtion of his testi mony was about as followi: Some,, three weeks before the murder he and Nease were loading some lum ber on a wagon, and Nease told Thompson of his trouble. oyer the wheat, and added, Jbhat Mr Lyer ly might cut the ' wheat,' but he could not live to eat it or get the money for it. , The examination was. continued oii Saturday. Fannie, the wife of Nease Gillespie, was submitted to a most rigid examination. She knew nothing about any 'trouble between Mr. Lyerly and Nease, and virtually denied the above story boldly, the boy, Henry May- hew, as well as that told by Mr. File. Richard File testified to what has already been published, to the effect that Nease's wife came .to his home Saturday morning and wanted him to protect her. That she had had nothing to do with the murder, but her husband had. v John Henderson, who worked at Mr. Lyerly's at the time of the murder, said that me time ago he, Jack Dillingham and Nease had a conversation about Mr. Ly erly's alleged ill treatment of Nease, and the latter remarked, XL HO XUWIO VY1UU IX1V X W III UA him." - Sam Cook testified that he was at Mr. Lyerly's th 3 evening before the homicide, and Dillingham was there. Mr. Lyerly said to Dil lingham if he would work five days without laying off he would treat, and Mrs. Lyerly added that sue would give him something to eat. Jack was mad aud remarked "I will cuss him out." Mr. Cook also stated that the white man Taylor, stayed all night at his home on the night of the murder, and that he had slept with him. Charles Brown testified to going to Nease's house with some others and finding where some straw and clothing had been burned. R. F. Cook stated that he had heard Nease say last winter that he would either get his wheat crop or old man Lyerly. Chief of Police J. Frank Miller testified to a bloody axe under the porch, Emma Gillespie, wife of Henry Gillespie, claimed that her hus band was at 'home all of Friday night. Arthur Thompson said he had gone with Deputy Sheriff .Good man to Nease's home Saturday af ternoon. The little boy showed an axe at the end of the porch. Henry said that was the axe his father had killed Mr, Lyerly with and that his father had washed it off. There was blood on the axe. Deputy Sheriff Goodman, who was next examined said : When I went for Henry Mayhew he re fused to go with me at first. He denied his identity at first. He later admitted his name and asked where his father and mother were. I told him they wer in jail He asked if they were going to kill them and him, and I told him he was not wanted only as a witness. He said at first that Jack and his-wife committed the murders, and then that his father; brother John, George Irvin and Uncle Henry were also in" the party. He said his father-took hiB dwn axe and they used this and an axe of Mr. Lyerly's. He told me Nease had washed the blood off the axe. and threw it down in the yard. He said that (Continued on eighth page. Railroad Wreck at New London. Flames Destroy Valuable Barn. Stanly i . iipprlae, July 19th. ; A head-on collision occurred at New London Tuesday afternoon about 4 o.'clock between two ex tra freight trains. The. south bound train from Salisbury began shifting on the yards at New Lon don, and ran too far down the line, it is said, without orders. The extra from Whitney ran into it. Both, engines ere badly damaged and one or two box cars badly smashed. Engineer Sig man had one leg broken and was somewhat seriously injured from the jump he made when he saw -that the .clash was imminent. The northbound passanger from here was delayed some two hours. Norwood will entertain next week the annual conference of the Methodist church, for this, the Salisbury district, beginning on Thursday. In Rev. Mr. Stanford Norwood has not only one of the most promising young men of -the conference, but a man who has fallen naturally into the work, and whose labors are crowned with results that come not wholly from the experience of years. The ' conference will be well attended -and our neighbor can be counted upon to entertain all who attend with the greatest of ease and in the best way. The Parker-Little Furniture Company has been fully incor porated and the following officers ' elected: M. F. Little, president; M. Boger, vice president ; W. F, Snuggs, secretary and treasurer A, C. Parker, general manager. . These, with T. S. Parker, com- pose the directors. A contract has been closed with L. A. Moo dy for a brick building 50x75 feet, to be completed by December 1st. The firm is a strong one and will be quite ail addition to the busi ness of the place. Dr. V. A. Whitley's splendid barn burned last Thursday even ing. He had stored away in it :a lot of newly bundled oats, and the compressed heat is supposed to have caused spontaneous com bustion; Considerable feed 'and roughage was lost, aggregating some $500. A. F, Honeycutt, of Bridgeport, who was here with his two little sons on Tuesday, says that corn is looking as fine as he has ever seen it at this time of year, and crops generally in his section are exceedingly promisingV consider ing the many drawbacks. Glenn Mabry and Miss Belle Craton were married last Evening at the residence ot the bride's parents, Rev, R. D. Sherrill per forming the ceremony. We are informed that the Re publican convention for. the nomi nation of a county and legisla tive ticket, will be held on or -about August 11th. ' May Live (00 Years. The chancesor living a full-, century, are excellent in the case of Mrs. Jennie Duncan, of Hayne ville, Me., now 70 years old- She writes: "Electric Bitters cured me of Chronic Dyspepsia of 20 years standing, and made me feeL as well and strong as a young girl." Electric Bitters cure all Stomach and Jjiver diseases, dis orders of the Blood, General De bility and bodily weakness. Sold on a guarantee at all druggists. 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