North Carolina Newspapers

WILLIAM H. BBBHABD Xdito u4 Proprietor. v FbIDAY, - - FZBBUABY 5, 1904. THE DAKOTA VICTORY. Concerning the decision of the United States Supreme Court at Washington on Monday, by which the State of South Dakota won in the- bond suit against North Caro lina, yesterday's Raleigh Post says : , As well as can be stated now, there ' are (about) 250 of the bonds, of $1,000 each face value, issued urder the act of the Legislature of 1866-67, still out standing end unfunded as provided ror by the act of Assembly or 1879. South Dakota owns ten of these bonds, as has just beea established by the de clslonof the Supreme Court, Messrs. Bchaefer. of Mew York, own 234. and ad the remainder are owned, so far at known, by Mr. Katbchlld and Mr. 8'ter; of New York. Under the compromise act as Jus tice Brewer terms It, "an act in the nature of an offer to compromise" of 1879, it would require 163,600 in caih or 4 per cent, bonds to payoff the total of the above yet outstanding. The "offer to compromise" at this rate was. fortunately for the State, accepted by the holders of . all the other bands of IbU class, but the parties holdiogthe atmve 2S0 bonds refused to accept the ""offer" of the State and have held on until the present, knowing that each bond of $1,000 constituted a second mortgage npon ten shares of stock owned by the State In the North Caro lina Railroad, and that, should the stock In the latter road become worth more than the first mortgsge thereon these second mortgsge bonds would bs worth something, nissibly more than the 25 per cent. face value offered by the State. The decision of the Supreme Court handed down Monday justifies their faith, though they have waited more than thirty veers to realize it. This decision fixes the present value - - . . I . I I J 1 . . LI.L or m 8 ibu oonos lueu oa anu iar wuicu j idgment is rendered at at $27,400 $1,000 face value, $1,749 Interest to date eachor $27,400 altogether. To secure these ten bonds 100 shares of the State's stock are pledgea and nothing more. The court, therefore. decrees that upon the failure of the Stale within a time fixed between now and the first of January, 1905 to pay to the Btate of South Dakota $27.' 400 In full payment of said ten bands and Interest, 100 shares of the State's stock shall be sold but no more. The stock of the North Carolina Rtilroad Is now worth $190 per share, making the market value of the 100 hares $19,000. It will therefore be seen that the aale of 100 shares at the above figures would fall abort of par ing the judgment $9,400. Uther than the 100 shares of stock the plaintiff or suing State can have no recourse or further relief under this decision, TqIs presents an Interesting, we may aay an embarrassing situation to the authorities of this State. No oce wishes any of the State's stock sold. and, unless South Dakota should coasent to a compromise, the stock will have to be aold or this 8 .ate pay the other State $8,400 more than the stock is worth at the present high market value. The State now receives $700 Income on the 100 . snares of stock involved. To psy the $37,400 in 4 per cent, bonds would be to pay out tn annual interest on these bonds $1,096. This is the situstion this Slate mnat face with respect to the boads on which judgment has been given. But will South Dakota compromise unlets the private owsers of the other bonds are included In the settlement t May be, or may not be. Or course we do not know. The holders of the other 240 bonds have no relief under this decision only as they can receite it by co-operating with or selling out to South Dakota or some other 8tste willing to become a partner in such -business, and South Dakota shows In about fifteen years the first mort- Jage, for $3,000,000, will be due. Un er this decision just rendered the second mortgage would become effect ive: upon the payment of this first mortgsge, provided the State's stock is worth more than the $3,000,000. At the present value the State's stock ia worth $5,700,000, not only enough to pay the first mortgage (Interest on which is being met promptly), but the million or more the present outstand ing (340) second mortgage bonds will be then worth. Bo, if the individual bondholders should fall to make terms with South Dakota to aid them tn collecting or comprising their claim entire, they can just wait fifteen years longer and collect all their bonds call for, face value and interest. According to the decision of Mon day the present value of the outstand ing binds Is $685,000. A proposition waa submitted to the State authorities In 1901 during the sitting of the Legislature of that year contemplat ing compromise of all then outstand ing for $250,000 In 4 per cent, bonds, though it was said that $300,000 would have been accepted in full payment. The proposition was not entertained. Then followed the flank movement, through South Dakota, and the decis ion of Monday is the result. This ia the situation which our State must accept and meet- That it will be met we have no doubt, and without the sale of any portion of the State's stock. But that it will cost the State more now than it would to nave ac cepted the offer made in 1901 there can be no doubt. DAMNABLE IF TRUE. Raleigh News and Observer: Dur ing the administration of Governor Russell, after he had become the vas sel of the Southern Railway, an at torney of that corporation, acting for Bchaefer, discussed the matter with Russell who recommended that the Legislature take action looking to a settlement of the Bchaefer bonds. A bill looking to that end was intro duced In the Legislature. That body very properly refused to re-open a settlement that the wisest men In the Bute had made. While Russell was till Governor, and sworn to protect the interests of the 8tate, a B arty in New York sent to the tate Treasurer certain of these bonds to be refunded. The Governor of the Btate ordered an employe in the State Treasurer's office to hold up the refunding of the bonds. A little later the party wrote the 8tate Treasurer not to refund the bonds, but to return them to him. He, Id them to 8cbaefer. Here we have the Governor of the Btate, sworn to be its trustee, prevent ing the refunding of these bonds at twenty-five cents on the dollar, and as Boon as his term nf nffi u . v. vmww vayuni, wy C Sf.ittw".?"W tottaK SUlt --"" ? UJB iao very bonds which he, while Governor, had pre vented the State Treasurer's refunding. i were a cars. , n:tCe of conduct on the pari f , w.-.'ia official, it has never coui . ;., ... And on the Tery tday he weii ..t 0f offlce Hanaiug in M ,01, this dis honorable Governo; u the State be had disgraced, was planning to openly r,"V.' "V."'"" ,u oaa par- umuj m3o wuii uovernor, and in Dnruicf.h nf whfoh . the 6' tte Treasurer to cancel the bonds upuTi wuica ne na now sued for South asst. ine. r.n- n.v r Come when thsp!ecp of inttvr will be for- ffiilen I I But, though Russell had planned to do this wicaea act woue ne was uov ornor. Le had to have a fellow con splrator in order to help get a standing In the courts. Bchaefer & Co., ' had been trying to gel the matter in the I courts, but the I'onsUtu-Uoo forbids an Individual to sue a State. One of the schemes to nske Rusiell Chie Justice was to get. the North Caro Una Sunreoio Court to decree that the bonds should be paid and to let the case go to the Federal Supreme Court with a decision in favor of the bond holders. When that rape of the Notth Carolina judiciary failed, Rusaell and his associates looked about for a way of nracticing a fraud upon the jurisdic tion of the 8upreme Court of the United States. He waa found tn the person of Msrion Butler, then United States Senator from North uarollna. He, too, like Russell, was In every honorable way a trustee of the Btate, bound In honor to stand for her Inter ests, but he was ready to join in the conspiracy against the mate mat in i snaam or a spree, forgot itself and ele vated blm to blm omce. ue consulted with his associate 8enator. Petti grew, of Boutn uasois, ana msae an agreement with the Attor ney General of that Btate that Scbafer & Co., would give $10,000 worth of the bodds to the University of South Dakota if that State would maintain the auit in the Federal Su preme Caurt that is to say, if South Dakota would practice a fraud on the jurisdiction, Scbafer & Co. would pay the mate university ct,uuu lor ine wrongful act toward a fellow sover eign State. The desire to feel the "jingle of the' guinea" stifled 'She hurt which honor feels," and the trade was made aa damnable a trade as J a das drove with the sinners twenty centuries ago. Butler may get some money aye, biz money for his part in the transaction, but his name, with Russell'r. will be forever pilloried in North Carolina with the names of Lit tlefield and the othei knaves who pre ceded them in villainy thirty and more years sgo 'during the relgu of Kecoa- struction. DOES LOOK A LITTLE "COM MERCIAL." The Colombians are mad because there is a proposition to pay her some hush money abont the Panama secession. They consider it an insnlt to think. Yankee gold conld buy them off. Colombia's Democratic friends np here are trying to do that much for her and she ought to lay low till she finds out what is coming to her. It might really be worth consider log, but, really, while the Demo crats in Congress mean to do the right thing, doesn't this proposi tion to appease Colombia with filthy lucre look just a little too "commer clal" for azure tinted Democrats to think of? The Daughters of Faith is an anti-divorce society which some Catholio ladies of New York have recently organized in New York city. Pope Pins X has expressed his heartiest approval of the organ ization and says he hopes it will spread thronghont the United States. It requires lots of faith to undertake the work ahead of the Daughters, but they have begun business in tho right place. The work ought to be spread to Chicago also without a moment's delay. The Associated Press dispatches describe the situation in Columbia as being one of "conversational ex citement." Uncle Sam don't care how much the Colombians sneak around the corner and call him a long legged, blue-nosed what-you- may-call 'em, bnt they must not draw their razors. The mayor of Severance, Kansas. has issued a proclamation that "no man must refuse the marriage offers of girls" this year. In view of the experience of Senator Smoot, the Mormon, the mayor has no busi ness to force more than one girl on a man. He will spoil the fellow's ehances for a seat in the United States Senate. Senator Clarke, Arkansas' new Senator, made a strong sneech on Tuesday, in support of the Pana ma canai treaty. Walt till the bel ligerent Governor Jeff Davis gets him home and he'll pay another fine just to let Clarke know he is still in the ring. If Uncle Sam pays Columbia any thing to reconcile her over her loss of Panama, it would look like an ac knowledgement that he feels as if he had been just a little dirty in that deal. Why not stand on his dismitv and slip the money into Panama's uauuo 1.0 oe paia oy ner to Colombia f - "What will Japan do with Rus sia's last note?" inauirea an ex. change. She may let it go to nro- test, as it isaaid Russia hasn't got anything to "soak" for war money. Probably if lawyers who get into Congress don't know the difference between graft and a lawyer's fee, Congress might Bass an act bo thnv can know what to stand for.; Now that Congressman John Wes ley Gaines has frightened us abont the myriads of microbes on a naner dollar bill, can't he tellns what's ailing SilverDollar Bill. In South Carolina a man named Horse married a Miss Oats. That is one horse that knows & onnA th?n when he sees it. $100 Reward, $1.00. TtiJk M.Aam . ... . . . 7 tht there Is at least one dreaded disease j l . . utscu note 10 cure in an ita ataires ? thatA! CaUUTl- "all's Catarrah Cure Is the only positive core now known to the medical fra ternity. Cat an h beta a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment U all's Catarrh ,1".,!ten internally, actinjr directly npon the blood and mncons suifaoes of the system, thereby iffiSl lD"..tnt omnUtton of the disease, and glv ISBnJ?1?" "tPKtb. by building np the m Thli.nawL8tl,,8 nwMwln doing Its work. PVJ. k!6 o ach Wo in Its curative r - " ,7:, .7 ."?!. ""cr one nunarta uonars lor any Rniit nJZ'J.t.cXXr & CO., Toledo, O. ' Hall's tamlTPiii; i. w CHEERLESS OUTLOOK How the future was bright ened for a well known Wilmington man. With an aching back that makes the daily toil a torture, and that robs sleep of its restful properties, the fntnre holds out little promise to a man, no matter now successful he may be in bneinessf To such a sufferer relief comes like the dawn of tho Arctic day. A Wilmington business man who found relief of this sort tells his story of his case. A. V. Horrell, proprietor of restaurant at 504 Sonth Fourth street, says: "I used Doan's Kidney Pills and they did me a lot of good. I have been a great suf ferer with backache, which 1 sup posed to be rheumatism, and nsed all the rheumatic cures I could get hold of. I was completely laid np with it ana coma scarcely get around, to do any work was simply out of the question. My sister, reading abont Doan's Kidney Pills and knowing how I Buffered, went to Bellamy's drng store and got me a box. They acted like a charm. My backache or rheumatism, what ever it was, has entirely left me. and I give all the credit to the nse of Doan's Kidney Fills." For sale by all dealers. . Price 50 cents. Foster-Milbnrn Co., Buffalo. N. C, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name Doan's and take no substitute. THE NEWS FROM RALEIGH. Aycock DIscssses Dskota Bond Decision. i. C L, Hesrlof Before Corpors ration Commissloa. Special Star Telegram. Raleigh, N. O., Feb. 21. Gov ernor Ajcock said to-dy regarding the result of the South Dskots bond case that until he reeeives the opiaion and dissenting opiaion of the United States Supreme Court he csnnot de termine what course this State will take. Ia the meantime he does not think it time to discuss the probabili ties of compromise with Schafer for other outstanding bonds. The course tnat will eventuallv bs taken will ba based on a csreful study of the entire situation. He says the opinion of the court was a great surprise to him and he thinks to the legal profession generally. Junius mvii ana J. u. rou as counsel, W. N. Rorall. general super intendent, and u. M. Emerson, gen eral traffic manager of the Atlantlo Coast Line, were before the Corpora tion uommisslon to-day; the counsel arguing in support of the exceptions filed by the company to the order of tbe Commission In the matter of the Selma connections with the Southern. Messrs. Boyall and Emerson were ex amined as to conditions, the argument and evidence being to the effect that it is impossible to make the connection and the Commission has no authority to forcefthe company to put on an extra passenger train. The Commission has tbe matter under advisement. The "Anti-jut law" case of State vs. Patterson, from Durham, testing the right to ship liquor into any prohibi tion or dispensary territory in tbe State, is set for argument in the Su preme Uourt at tbe end of the calendar next week. Tbe Raleigh dlspensarv durine Jan uary sold ii,550 worth oflntoxlcaBts, surpassing an expectations. SUPREME COURT IS SESSION. Law Cisss Exsmloed Reflstet's Appeal Heard -Other Raleigh News, Special Star Telegram. Rajjeigh, N. 0.. Feb. l.-Tha North Carolina Supreme Court con vened this morning for the February term, all justices except Douglas on the bench. TTa wb talw . Greensboro and will airi tn. morrow. To day was devoted to an examination or applicant! ror license to practice law. The clan numbers 48, there being 14 from the Btate University and 15 from Wake Forest sTI.1 B mi n uuiicge. xaere are nve negro appli cants. Governor Avenek tfila heard the appeal for a commutation ui toe ubiiii sentence or Jabel Reg ister to me imprisonment, and re served his decision. Ro!t i un der sentence to be hanged in Colum- ous county ror tne murder or Jessie Soles and Jim 8taley. The Governor will hear the prosecution against com- muuHoa next xuesaay. xae preliminary hearing of J. B. Powell and J. FT Rrnnfa-s tn-m h. . of the malls for fraudulent purposes iu uujjug goods on tne commercial rating of the well know firm of Jones a Powell hers. manltPil In an oneration nf Rmnii .mL Powell to jail in default of $1,000 uuuu. REV. FRED D. HALE CALLED. Well Koows PiBtofEvBSftlist Asked to Serve First Baptist Cfaorch. At a Isrgely attended conference of tbe members of the First Banliat church last night, a unanimous call was extended to Rev. Fred. D. Hale, D. D., of Hot Springs. Ark., to fill the vacant pastorate of the church. Dr. Hale recently visited the church and after looking over the field, ex pressed himself as be! ner lmnressed with the opportunity that would be be fore him here. The call was wired to Dr. Hale last night and he was re a nested to wire bis decision as aoon as possi ble. Onslow Consty Osse. Judge Ferguson yesterday made known to counsel that he would dli. solve the In junction recently granted by Judge Oliver H. Allen, closinc the saloons of Jacksonville. N. C. where & prohibition election was carried under the Watts law after the saloons had been granted license to retail liauor for another term of alx months. With out passing upon many technical points involved, he gave judgment for the defendants and let the, plaintiffs go to the Supreme Court, where it will be heard tbe last of February. In the meaotiDce the saloons ratnato cpeo. To Cut a Cold ia One Day T.ks LaxatlT O Ml- Oilnlnn Thlnt. ah flrngjtlata t. u d the who irt ''! to "enra. 40 OASTORIA. Bears th Tla Kind You Harc Always Bought SUICIDE IN A Hill Terry, on Trial for to His Onhappy Existence. Slashed His Throat Deeply and from Two Main Arteries Unfortunate Ending of Noted Mur der Trial Letter Left Giving Sad Story of a Blighted Life. By his own hand 8 Hill Terry has paid the death penalty for the killing of his son-in-law, George Tate Bland, at the letter's home on North Fourth street, this city, last October. Terry committed suicide in his cell in the county jail shortly after 1 o'clock yes terday afternoon by slashing his throat completely through the jugular vein with an ordinary case knife which hsd evidently been given him with his breakfast yesterday morning or which he had obtained from some other source unknown to the jailor or prisoners In the Immediate vicinity.' The deed was discovered a few minutes after it was committed, but all tbe phy sicians in Christendom could not have saved his life. By cne or more strokes. upon which point the physicians differ, Terry had slashed a loog, deep gaah about two Inches below the right ear and extending four inches downward toward the wind pipe, completely severing the jug ular vein and the carotid artery, In depth the wound was to the bone and blood had flowed in rivulets upon tbe cot where tbe unfortunate man lay, the knife clutched in a death grasp and still buried in the wound, as if for another stroke to make the deed more certain. Death ensued in fifteen minutes after the commission of the act and five minutes after phy siclsns arrived on the scene. DISOOVKRID BY PRI30SERS. That Terry had made an attempt to end his unhappy existence was first discovered by two fellow prisoners, Jim Judge, sentenced last week to i term of ten years in the State peniten tiary, and William Willson, the white vagrant against whom the grand jury last week returned a true bill for burg lary in that he entered the residence of Mrs. Kelly during the holidays aid stole an overcoat and other articles. They occupy the cell adjoining that of Terry, on the second floor, and with Terry had the liberty of the cage into which both cells open. The door of Terry's apartment waa open and Judge and Willson had been walk ing up and down inside the cage, Terry had been complaining of feel ing unwell all the morning and had spent most of the time lying on the cot inside the cell, which is very dark. Willson had started Into Terry's cell, as he bad been often Invited to do, to get a chew of tobacco out of the pockets of Terry's coat. He heard a gasping on the cot, saw blood, and quickly told Judge that Terry had hurt himself. Judge called to young Rob Cappt, who was giving some quinine to colored prisoners on the first floor of the csge, and upon the information that something was wrong with Terry, rushed out in search of his father, Jailor R. M. Capps. Capt. Capps had gone down town for a few minutes and had got ten almost to the jail upon his re turn, when his son excitedly told him what Judge had said. Jailor Capps lost not a minute in reaching the house, bounded up the steps and strik ing a match he entered Terry's celL The already dying man was lying across the cot, his clothes on, and the knife still In the wound, as if to make one more stroke.' Jailor Uspps exclaimed, "Hill, what have you done?" and Immediately wrested the knife which was arrested from Terry with some difficulty. The dy lng man said something to the jailor, but Capt. Capps couldn't understand what it was. PHXSIOIANS HASTILY SUMMONED. Seeing that he could accomplish nothing more. Jailor Capps imme dlately rushed out for physicians. Dr. O. T. Hsrper, who was in the City Uall, was first to reach the scene and later Drs. L. H. Love and E. J. Wood came. They saw at once Terry was dying and nothing could be done to save blm. Iu a few minutes he was pronounced dead and thus closed the last sad incident in the hiatorv of a double tragedy In which two human lives were sacrificed at the shrine of domestie infelicity. SCENES ABOUT THE JAIL. The news that Terry had made an attempt to kill himself, for no one sus pected anything graver at the time. spread quickly over tbe city and a crowd began to gather at tbe jail to learn particulars. No otfe was per mitted to enter, however, except nhv- siclane, members of Terry's coun sel, officers of the law and repre sentatives of the press who reached the cell a few minutes before life was extinct. Sheriff Stedman was among the first of those present and assisted Jailor Capps in summoning medical attention for the dying man. Counsel for Terry expressed great regret that their client should have committed the rash act, declaring that they be lieved he could have been convicted of no crime higher than manslaughter. Mr. W. R. Terry, son of the suicide, did not reach the jail until some time after the deed was committed. Chair man McEachern, of tbe Board of County Commissioners, was among the first arrivals at the jail and very soon Dr. O. D. Bell, the coroner. came. THE COBOUEB'S INQUEST. Chairman McEachern at once au;hor:z?d the coroner to hold an In- qu-st over thf body cf the deceased and the following j jry was at once caipaoelled- T. W. Wood, fforemairt 'V P. Kl n f fsfwrAlarii n..... TT. v j ueu.go uaar, F. P. Limb, W. F. Benton and P. A. Harrist. Tbo jurv ai ouce viewed the body as It lay upon ihe cot iu the cell and proceeded to take the lesiimony of the It wo prisoners who had first FELON'S CELL His Life, Put an End Died Weltering in Gush of Blood knowledge of the deed. An official report of tbe evidence follows: James Judge, being amy sworn testified: "I was walking up and down the corridor in front of Terry's cell when Wm. Willson called to me that there was something wrong in Terry's cell, I looked in and saw there was something wrong and told Mr. upps' son to summons nis rather or the sheriff. When they all came in I found that his throat had been cut." James M. Judge. William Willson being sworn, test! fled : "I started in Terry's cell to get some tobacco, he having told me where to look for it if I wanted some. As soon as I got in the ceil I saw Terry lying on the bed and called to bim and he made no answer. I thought there was something wroug and called to Jim Judge. We then told Mr. Capps' son that Terry bad hurt himself and he had better get his father or the sheriff. When Mr.- Capps came we found that his throat had been cut." William Willson. jaiior is. u. uapps being sworn, said that bis son met bim coming from down town and told him to hurry to the jail; that Mr. Terry had hurt him self. "I went immediately to Terry's cell and found bim lying on the bed with a case-knife elutebed in his right naad and his throat cut I had quite a tusiel with him to get the knife away from him. He said something, what it was, I do not know. I at once noil' fled the sheriff and when I got back to the jail, the sheriff and Dr. O. T. Harper were there. Terry died a abort while afterwards." R. M. Capps. VKEDICT Or THE JURY. The Inquest was held in the jail office and all the evidence bavlng.been submitted a verdict was reached after a few minutes deliberation as follows "Wilmington, N. O., Feb. 3rd. "we, the Coroner's Jury, having been duly summoned and sworn by Dr. C. D. Bell, coroner of New Han over county, to inquire what caused the death of 8. H. Terry, do hereby report that from the investigation and evidence of witnesses that the said S. H. Terry came to his death by a knife wound inflicted by his own hand." The verdict was officially signed and sealed by all members of the jury lo the presence of Dr. Bell, and a per mit was granted to Undertaker James F. Woolvin to.remove the body to the home of the deceased on North Fourth street. .Undertaker Woolvin arrived a little later and prepared the remains for burial, placing theai In a neat cas ket and transferring it at once to the Terry home. The crowd around the jsilwas atlll dense and it was with difficulty that the hearse was backed up to the side entrance to receive the remains. A LETTER LEFT BEHIND, There were few people in all the crowd around the jail who could not ascribe a motive for the deed, but nevertheless the inquiry most fre quently made was "Did be leave any note or message as to why he Kiiieu nimseiii" at nrst there was III. J I . A . M . no trace of any form of parting mess age, but as the remains were taken out of the cell Jim Judge, in the ad joining cell, called Will Terry, son of the deceased, and told him the dead man had left a note. Tbe son told Judge to tell Deputy Sheriff William Sheehan. Judge said to Mr. Shee- ban that some four weeks ago Terry bad dictated to him a "synopsis of his life," and at Terry's request he had written it. Judge told the officer to look at the foot of the dead man's cot and there it was, neatly written on all four sides of ordinary letter paper, the language being that of Judge, who is an Intelligent printer and was regularly employed on one of tho city papers before he began his downward course three or four years ago. Terry himself cannot read or write, but the facts were given Judge, written up by him and read to and approved by Terry. The letter is as follows: Synopsis of the life of 8. Hill Terry, ..f u "Wilmington, N. O. "I was born March 17th. 1843. Mv mother and father died when I . an inrant, and therefore I do not re member the face of either. I wa reared wunout an education nf an description. At the age of twentv years I enlisted In the Third Nnth Carolina Regiment, Company D, bet ter known as the "First Bsrimi.1 My last cantain waa John Cowan, nf vviimuurion. J. was at in inrnnidn or uen. ttoDt. a. L.ee at Appomattox. waiaea irom there home In Wil. mlngton. In the vear of '88 1 mar. ried Miss Francis Baldwin, of Oolum- ous county, and as a result of that nappy union six children were born to cheer our cozy little home. At this writing only two are living, William R. and Mamie Francis, who waa thn wife of George Tate Bland, the man wnom a snoi. 'Mamie married Bland while T waa superintendent of the New Hanover county nome. The two lived with me lor over nve years. I did not charge them one cent for board, fur- I.L.J 1 1 m ... oiaoeu mem wiin wooa and other necessary fuel without expense. I did an in my power to aid him (Bland) in making a living. I really did more ior mm mat l oia lor my own son. Alter retiring irom tbe management oi tne uounty Home i received em ployment with tbe Armour Packing Co. as a driver of one of their delivery wagons. Bland was at this time a clerk in the department store of a & a. Solomon. Bland's health began to lau ana in oraer mat be could e-etout. door exercise and fresh air, I gave him my jio oi wors-, which he gladly ac- p:ed at tbe salarv of tl8 ner w.ir Shortly after this a horse trader from Jersey City made his appearance In this city. He had nine head of horses and mules and a road cart with bim. so I bought the whole outfit, cart, mules and horses, and gave them lo Bland to start in business T did bold aay animosity toward Bland attd as for that mattrr towards any of my .fellow men. I always took a pride In aiding him to make an honest living ana advised blm to .win the re spect and admiration of tbe public fa general. . - "On the morning of the fatal shoot ing, I did not have any , malice to ward Bland and only wanted t apeak to bim solely about domestic affairs. Aal approached Bland, he drew his pistol and fired at me and as a matter of fsct, I was compelled to defend my self, which I did, the result of which the public is too familiar.- I have al ways been been a staunch supporter, of tbe law and always believed In the suppression of crime in any phase and I have always been a man to uphold tbe good order of the community in which I was a resident. I havn al ways been a loving-and dutiful bus band and father; have always pro vided amply for my family. When I started in the race of life to battle with the world I did not have In my posses sion $5 with which to start life on. but thanks be to a kind Providence and carrying mjself in an honest and up right way and treating my fellow man with the courtesy and consldt ration due them, I have been successful enough to accumulate a happy home and a small bank account for my dis tressedjamiiy to live on for some time to come. It is not my desire to Introduce here any politics, but I will state here that I have always been a true Democrat and have voted for the principles of the Democratic party tua during the trying times of the last campaign, vo ted and stood by the Democratic nomi nee and true standard bearer. Hon. Chas B. Aycock. "As to my wife I would like to sav. I always looked upon ber as a pure, virtuous woman. Before I married her, I knew her to be a lady of the first type and since tbe day I led ber to the hymeneal altar. I have found her to be the pure, sweet, loving and honest guiding star of my future des tiny and welfare until this first and last unpleasant episode happened to mar the peace and happiness of my future career. Mv wife has alwava been the sweet helpmeet that she was in her girlhood days kind, loving and affectionate. If I aim to be parted from her from now henceforth, I trust that my darling's every effort mav be crowned with unbounded success and that ber last and parting mav be those of peace, happiness and comfort and when leaving this cruel world. may meet ber Maker and Saviour to receive tbe reward she has so justly and nobly won. May trod bless and protect her is the prayer of her devot ed, condemned husband. "And now I bid you all adieu and wish each and every one or my fellow men .a nappy ana a prosperous career in ine. xnanklng all of mv friends who have aided me In this trouble and thanking them for their generous support and trusting to meet :tnem m a far more dls distant and golden clime where tbere is no weeping and trouble to molest tbe weak-minded category of this world. "Again bidding you all farewell, I am your, eio. o. HILL TERRY, "of Wilmington, N. a' WHAT INSPIRED THE LETTER. What inspired tbe letter no one can say. Some are of the opinion that at tbe time It was written the prisoner had already determinedupon suicide, but the fact that he employs tbe word 'condemned" in referring to himself, is construed by some that he had given up hope of getting even a verdict of murder in the second degree and that it was not bis purpose to make the letter public until his execution. The authorities are disposed to criticise Judge for not informing them of tbe writing of such a letter. The original of the communication was plsctd by Sheriff Stedman in the hands of Soli citor Duffy as soon as members of the press were permitted to secure a copy of it yesterday afternoon. Many are disposed not lo credit tbe story that it was written four weeks ago. Judge was jailed during the holidays and he had only a limited acquaintance with Terry at that time. ABRUPT ENDING OF CASE. a . m m. a.s reaaers oi ine city papers are aware, only one juror to pass upon the life or death of the defendant remain ed for selection Tuesday evening and court had taken a recess until S o'clock yesterday afternoon, when a special venire of 75 had been ordered from which to select the 13th juror. Not withstanding the suicide, court was convened at tbe appointed time and 8heriff Stedman returned 55 of the 75 ordered summoned. Tbe remain- a - mg eieven members of the jury aN ready selected were given seats in the box, and after making a few unim portant orders preliminary to ending the continued term of court. Judge Jrerguson said: "Mr. Solicitor, I un derstand that the prisoner, a H. Ter ry, in the capital case has committed suicide in the jail." He then asked Sheriff Stedman about the venire, and addressing the jury he said : un . a ... -uenuemen of tbe jury, the prisoner in the caae which vou have been selected to try has taken bis own me auring tne recess of the court. It will not be necessary to keen you anv longer. You are discharged. The venire summoned for the day are also discharged." xne two-weeks term of the court appointed to follow immediately after the nrst term of one week having been continued until next Monday, no fur ther buainess could be transacted un til that time and a recess was accord ingly taken. Formal orders to that effect were ordered entered upon the clerk's docket. WHENCE GAME THE KNIFE. The weapon used by the unhappy man, Jailor Capps asye, was brought to him in his breakfast from home yes terday morning. One meal a day had been sent to the man ever since he had been confined and th prisoner had always been given the favor of having both a knife and fork to eat his meals with. 8ome time ago, however, the sheriff thought best to deny the prisoner in that respect, but lately be had been receiving a knife and fork as usual, no one dreaming that he would attempt suicide. Mr. W. R. Terry, son of the deceased, yester day, however, said that he could not recognixe the knife and waa of the opinion that none wai aent him vn. terday morning. It is an ordinary table knife, giving little signs of use, but the blade of it Is gapped badlv. aa if some one bsd made a crude attempt to convert it into a saw. Whether that was done by the prisoner on the steel bars of the cell to make the wound more certain, whether it became so gapped by ordinary usage or had been put in tbst condition by some prisoner ss a possible means of sawing cut of the steel cell, is not known. It would serve exeel'ently eiihr of the two ulterior purposes named. Tn knife was clotted with blood and bits of flesh were In the teeth' of the Instru ment when taken from tbe prisoner yesterday. - AS TO TERRY'S CONDITION. It was remarked in the proceedings of the trial ia this paper yesterday that on Tuesday the prisoner showed bis -first signs of weakening. He bad to be helped from his ceil the morning bffore and slept little tbe night pre ceding. Hewss suffering with rheu matism in bit shoulder all day Tues day and again yesterday morning he co 3i plained of feeling unwell. His feiiow prisoners sdvlsed him to send for. a physician, but he said it was not necessary. Mr. Will Terry said tb.t Tuesday was the first time bis father ahowed signs of despair. Hi appeared in a stupor and oice while in ' the 'court room during the day, young Mr. Terry said be punched his father and asked him w t was the matter. The son said he pi d no particular attention to the re marks at the time, little dreaming that b' father contemplated auleide, but during court that day, his father re in rked in a melancholy way, "Sod, tin y are never going to get a jury without they move the osse to another county. I'm white, and I'll tell you they'll never bang me or send me to tbe penitentiary for a long term of years." He then' asked his son to take charge of an old gun and a watch at borne for which he had a peculiar fondness. Later he looked at his fin ger nails and remarked to his son that they needed trimming and he wished that his son would send him a little knife at home to trim them with. He aakea that the little blade of the knife be sharpened, but .that there was no nse to sharpen the large blade. Young Mr. Terry told his father he would bring him any thing he needed, but said he of ourse, knew that the knife would not be permitted and did not attempt to bring it. Later the father complained of great pain with his rheumatism and asked his son to bring blm ten cents worth of opium. The son said be frankly told his father he couldn't bring the opium and there tbe matter was dismissed. Mr. Will Terry has remained by his father nobly until the end and he was commended for It In his hour of sorrow yesterday. BEFORE THE SUICIDE. Terry awoke aa usual yesterday and according to an order left the day be fore, a barber from the Bonitz House shaved him in the office of tbe jail about 9 o'clock. By prescription of the county superintendent of health, two drinks of gin were allowed the prisoner with bis meals. He drank them as usual and some time after breakfast he retired to his cell and remained there until the deed was committed. THEORIES OF THE TRAGEDY. What was the chief agency which led to the suicide, no one will perhaps ever know. The three dsys ofedious work in selecting a jury and the hear ing of one after another of his fellow men say under oath that they bad formed and expressed an opinion that he was guilty, perhaps led to a de spondency which he could undergo no longer. The strain must have been severe and he collapsed under it at tbe last moment. It is also evident that he saw conviction staring him in the face and thought to eud it all without further mental and physical suffer ing. The effect of the suicide upon he community, it la believed, will have even a greater weight than had it fallen to tbe lot of the unfortunate man to have been legally executed. Hia hours of mental and physical suf fering must have been of an Intensity beyond description. LIFE OF THE DECEASED. Few men in Wilmington were bet ter known than the deceaaed. He would have been 63 years of age next month and had held various minor official positions. He was doorkeeper of tbe 8tate 8enate in 1901, had been a policeman, keeper of the county home. janitor at the Custom House and aeputy sheriff, tie leaves only two children, his son, Mr. W. R Terry, of Katelgh; his daughter, Mrs George late Bland, wife of the victim of the deceased. Mrs. Bland has two little children who are grandchildren of the deceaaed. The news was broken to tbe wife and daughter as gently as possible yesterday and Ibey were bott. much affected. Neither of them via ited the jil after the suicide yester day. FUNERAL THIS AFTERNOON. A large number of friends viewed tbe recoalc-s of the dead man at the family home. No. 815 North Fourth street, last night. The funeral will be conducted from the late residence at 3 o'clock this afternoon by the Rv. Dr. A. D. McClure, psstorof St. Andrew's Presbyterian church, aiid the Rov. J. L. Vipperman. pastor of Brooklvn Baptist church, to which Mrs. Terry belonged. The interment will ba in tbe family lot in Oakdale cemetery. THE JURY DISCHARGED. It was with a feeling of great relief that the eleven men already selected to serve on the jury ia the Terry case arose from tbe box yesterday afternoon. Upon seven of them the strain bad lasted for six days and nights ai.d thev natural! felt good to be free to speak to the outside world ac-ain. Mr. Barnaul Northrop was especially relieved, for srv it jv Corn most have a sufficientsupply of Potash in order to develop into a crop. No amount of Phosphoric Acid or Nitrogen can compen sate for a lack of potash in fertilizers for grain and all other crops. We shall be glad to send free lo any tanner our little book which contains valu able information Jy about soil culture. GERT1AN KALI WORKS, XW Vrk-tS Naaaaa Street, mr AU tm, .-Safe Be. Be 4 BS. on next Sunday he had anticipated with much pleaaure tbe celebration at home of an important birthday in a long and.'honorable career. Contrary to the popular supposition often ex pressed after he was drawn on the case, Mr. Northrop is not opposed to capital punishment a fact learned for certain soon after hia dischsrge yes terday. All the jurors regretted thn tragedy which interrupted the cat but naturally they were glad to be re lieved of tbe painful duty which ser vice on any capital ease entails. COUNSEL ALSO RELIVED. Others who regretted tbe tngedy, but were nevertheless sensible of real relief, were the attorneys and wit nesses in the caae. The attorneys on both sides conducted their caae vigor oualy and along lines they conclvrd to be their duty. The State, especial Iy, had an up-hill fight in the selec tion of jurors and the securiog of wi nesses. Men do not like to appear in any matter involving life and deatt, and for that reason the path of th prosecution was beset with msny dif ficulties. Solicitor Duffy will lfv to-day to stay until Baiuidav at his home at Catherine Lake. Mers. Lewis and Schulken will go borne to day. THREATENED SUICIDE BEFORE. It came to light yesterday ihaisev eral court terms ago when It was z pecled the Terry trial would cbme up, the prisoner got Raymond Jose n. write a letter in which be aaid tbst he was tired of It all and had secured some glass which be had pouodtd up and was going to swallow. lhlettrr came to the attention of Jailor Capi s through Jose, who bad written it, atd it was shown to counsel for tee de fence, who thought little of H. No trace of anything tending to abow that Terry had arranged lo carry out the threat, however, was found. Jnte was In jail for having attempted to ab duct a little girl and carry her i ff with tbe csrnival train last Fall. Terry was highly Incensed at him when Jose bad accepted his confidence and then violated it. COST OF THE TRIAL. Ii is eatimated that the trial of tbe prisoner, even in its incipient atage, has already coat tbe- county over a tbouaacd dollars. 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