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THE RALEIGH TIMES THE WEATHER FAIR ' ' LAfJT EDITION I Vol. JJOCII. vNo. 26. RALEIGH, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 13, 1912. PRICE FIVE CENTS. . Double the Nupiber of Paid Subscribers in Raleigh of euiy Other Newspaper, S0L0R30RI SHEPARD tfl Convicted Slayer of Engineer Fred Holt Shot Down By Guard As He Makes Filth Effort to Escape From Authorities TWO HUNDRED ALDERMEN in COURT TODAY x FINAL CHAPTER IN INTERESTING CASE Negro Convict Was Sent to Penlten tiary From Durham County In . February,. 1010, for Killing Pop ular Southern Railway Engineer -Jury Found Him Guilty of Murder in Second Degree Al ways Troublesome Prisoner Shepard Made Five Attempts to Gain Freedom Reuben Barbee, Whtye, Tried for Complicity and Acquitted Story of Case. Solomon Shepard, the Durham negro sent to the penitentiary for 30 years for killing Engineer Fred Holt, made his last attempt to es cape his guards today He is dead at the convict camp near Aberdeen, a message to Warden T. P. Sale of the state's prison saying that the negro was killed. Shepard was perhaps the most desperate crimnal in some respects even sentenced to the penitentiary. He had not more than entered the prison walls before he received a wound for attempting -to get away. On February 17. 1910, he made his first attempt. Then followed in suc cession other efforts. Sent to the camp near Laurlnburg Shepard made a second try for his freedom, secured it and was caught six days later at Graham. At Garysburg he made ''the third attempt ., and . received a load , of buckshot in Bis "leg. ' 'For weeks' ho was seriously 111, but recovered, and at Tarheel some time' later made a fourth effort to oreak from his - guards. He was captured before he got out of the camp and no shot was fired. i The fifth and final effort at the camp near Aberdeen today proved his death. Capt. S. J. Busbee, in charge of the camp, briefly wired the killing to the prison authorities. Story of the Crme. Engineer Fred Holt of Spencer was killed , by a shotgun while Bit ting in his cab at the coal chute in Fast Durham on the night of De cember 3, 1908. Solomon Shepard was arrested for the crime and later Reuben Barbee, a white man, was arrested and tried. Shepard's trial was held in Granville county, the case having been removed from Dur ham, and he was found guilty on Saturday, February 12, 1910. The punishment, thirty years, was re garded as sufficient, brothers of the dead man believing that their brother was not the man the mur derer or murderers were attempting to kill. Confessed to Firing. In a confession made before the trial Shepard laid he aimed at i brakemdn, and as he had no in tention of killing the engineer, the court charged the Jury to bring in a verdict of murder in the second degree, if they believed the negro's story. The case attracted wide in terest and many persons believe that one of the principles in the cowardly murder has never been punished. Talk of Lynching, i Whilp flheDard was confined in nurhnm fall it was reuorted that 600 railroad men from Spencer were on their way to uurnam to aeai snmmsrlly with the slayer of their comrade, but there was no irum m the rumor, the railroad men allow ing the law to take its course. Wa Shepard Sane? Expert testimony was Introduce at the trial to prove mai me uog'u was .not sane, but the Jury took the .i.. .hii h was. The negro had been tn many affairs before and was well known in ponce circios. . ..wm finished today after one of the s most remarkable series of efforts to escape the annals or ins siaw " i.nihZ'Anoniit. ' Fayetteville, N. C, Aug. 13. This morning Soloman .Shephard, a negro -..i. . a rami! Of State CODVlctS who are working on the Aberdeen and Rockflsh railroad six mne wi of Fayetteville, was shot and killed, tin. utm .ViQin ( taken off before VV 11 U - -V being carried to breakfast, Shephard broke and ran. A guard fired on him at a distance of 116 yards Killing him instantly. Shepard, who was serving a life sentence, was a negro who confessed of killing a ..iim.H onrlneer in Durham, for which a white man by the name of Barbee was tried. Marrying ta like taking a flying leap; yeu never know lust bow yon ytil tdlgbt. . FOR THE CHALMERS The Raleigh Motor Car and Ma chine Company today closed a con tract with the Chalmers Motor Com pany of Detroit, for the sale of Chalmers cars la central and eastern North Carolina. The Carolina Garage and Motor Company former ly had the Chalmers line. ... Mr. Loomls McK. Goodwin, gen eral manager of the Raleigh Motor Car and Machine Company, has bean very successful with the varl ous cars that he has handled and he will no doubt make a splendid sue cess In this territory with the dial mers line. Several Chalmers dem onstrating cars of 1913 design will be shipped to Raleigh at an early date. PRAISE THIS TIMES Henderson Veterans Like the Paper Anil Adopt It as Their Ofllciul Organ. ' (Special to The Times.) Henderson, Aug. , 13. At the meeting of the Henry L. Wyatt Camp, U. C. V. on Saturday morn ing, August 3, a resolution was pass ed that the adjutant on behalf of the camp, write to The : Raleigh Times and thank the men who make it the great paper it is for all the many courtesies which have been extended to the camp, especially for the valuable space this splendid pa' per . has given the camp and given so graciously. It was moved and passed by rising vote that The Times be recorded as the official organ of the Henry L. Wyatt Camp of Henderson. The acting adjutant wishes she could tell the men on The Times just what nice things the old sol diers said of this paper and every one of them, she thinkB, was de served and to which she said "Amen" each time. The camp wishes to extend con gratulations to The Times for being sucn a success as a news gleaner, ana oeing tne paper it is. HAYS CRITICISED BY COMMITTEE REPORT Washington. Aug. 13. Assistant Secretary of Agriculture W. M. Hays is criticized in. the house com mittee report regarding the Florida everglade charges and other affairs in the department. His operations in North Carolina with J. O. Wright former department employe, are ar raigned. The report hints the lni peachnient proceedings were nar rowly missed. -' Secretary Wilson is not condemned. Loose management merely is charged against the de partment. Representative Sloan Is preparing a supplemental report, to defend the department. SCHEPPS HAS NOT CONFESSED Says He Has Nothing to Confess About Rosenthal Case. Hot Springs, Aug. 13. In the flrat Aiithm'lzari AtAtAmnnt. h de clares he has made since his arrest In pnnnBctlnn with the Rosenthal case Sain Schepps Dranded as iaise the rumors that he has confessed. Ha uvi hA has nnthlnz to confess. Police Chief Leonard said ne wouia nut turn Krhenim over to New York police agents without making a fight to hold mm tor rrosecuior wnu man s men. IN81RAXCE MEN MEET. Second Annual Convention at Old Point Welcome By Gov. Mann, niH Pnlnt Comfort. Va.. Aue. 13. Governor Mann welcomed the members of the international asso ciation of casualty and surety ua- derwrtters, here today in their sec and aunual convention. James V. nnrrv nt Nnw York, on behalf of the association, which is composed of officials and state agents ana ranani flolH men of the leading companies, responded. The conven tion will 03 In session tnree aays. i Arrested for Murder. Denver, Aug. 13. H. J. Jones, a nAvrn. ES vears old. arrested today, Is believed to be the mu.derer of Miss Eigne Carlsen, a music teacner, killed Friday night. Five KiUed by Explosion. , Auburn, N. Y., Aug. 13. Fire works stored in the cellar of a house In Barber street, exploded this morning, killing five; all Italians "I WILL ACCEPT NO CONTRIBUTION WITH A STRING ' (From Wilson's speech of acceptance.) L St. Louis, Aug. 13. The populist national convention met here today with a hundred delegates present. It is improbable that a national ticket will be named. Chief interest Is in framing a platform; It is ex pected to include a strong plank for woman suffrage. The Nebraska populists are en deavoring to obtain the endorse ment of Woodrow Wilson, but the majority of the delegates declared that neither Wilson . or Roosevelt would be endorsed. LLOYD TELLS OF Washington, Aug. 13. Represen tative James T. Lloyd, -of Missouri, chairman of the democratic congres sional committee in 1908, told the senate committee-Investigating cam patgn contributions that he had no absolute record of his committee's ,receiptB and expend,itures of that year. L,ioya sata ne was certain the receipts were $27,600 and the expenditures about one hundred dol lars less. Champ Clark and Francis Burton Harrison were the chief con tributors from the house, each giv- ing a couple of hundred dollars. Former Governor Odell, of New York, is expected to testify tomor row regarding the Harriman contri bution of 1908. BRIDE ACCUSED OF MURDER Dead a Week Afer Marringe, Poison Is Found in Husband's Body. Philadelphia, Aug. 13. Accused of murdering her husband for his money and life insurance less than a week after her marriage to him Mrs. Freda Trost, 40 years old, wan arrested tonight by detetcives, who have been investigating the case. William Trost, 44 years old, the woman's second husband, was mar ried to her on August 1. He died on August 7 and a telephone mes sage informed the coroner's office that' his death was due to a trolley accident. The coroner'B physician, however, Insisted on holding an autopsy, and 'it is alleged, founu traces of poison In the stomach. Further investigation 1b said to have disclosed that the dead man had made a will leaving his estate, valued at $8,000 to the woman now under arrest. "Big Chief" Thorpe. (Special to The Times.) Rocky Mount, Aug. 13. A dis patch in the current issue of Sport ing Life is of considerable local in terest, which states that "Big Chief Thorpe, . who played on fhe local team of 1910 and 1911, and who recently won the distinction of; be ing the best all round athlete in the world, has been assigned to tne Pirates, and will report to them within the next few 'weeks. It is not stated what part the big Indian will play In ail new assignment. WEflTHFRHERE Highest Temperature of Year Reached This After noon With the temperature the highest it has been this year, with corn in some sections literally burned uo and cotton badly damaged, the local United States weather bureau this afternoon offered little hope for gen eral relief .from the drouth. Unless rain falls within a very few days farmers in this section of the state will lose thousands of dollars. As It Is vegetation is literally buruing up. "You may size up the situation this way," said Assistant Postmaster Council upon his return from his farm in the county: ''Corn, 30 per cent; cotton 50 percent. I have never seen poorer prospects." It had not rained in the Holly Springs section In eight weeks and everything was dry. The same con ditions are evident in other parts of the county and section. Today was the hottest of the year, the mercury raising one degree higher than it has any day during th summer. At 2:30 this afternoon the thermometer registered 95 de grees. A 6 o'clock this morning the temperature was 73 degreeB. la June and July the mercury had risen as high as 94 degrees. There were good prospects this af ternoon for thunder Bhowers, but there were no indications of a gen eral rainfall. The weather people are doing their best to make It i.ii.i, and It is hoped they will succeed, MANY RATS HAVE BEEN KILLED HERE Rats are becoming scarcer iu Raleigh. Sanitary Oiricers McRaiy and Peebles yesterday received 0 1 rodents and today 30. During the other days of the campaign many rats were turned in and interest is increasing. As is well known the Associated : Charities Is offering prizes and ninny persons are doing their beet to kill the pests and at the same time win prizes. The rats should be left at the City lot at 10:30 each day. Methodist Protestant Orphan .iC (Special to The Times.) Greensboro, Aug. 13. At a joint meeting of the finance and bulldluB' commiitce of the Methodist Protes tant church orphanage held a day or so ago,-the contract for the erec tion of the central building to cost $17,600 was let. The building is the first of a group to be erected oi. a tract of land recently pur'tuttd for the establishment and locution of a church orphanage. As a result of the recent campaign' made In this state for subscriptions, enough fuuds are now In hand to complete' this building and' possibly the others within thort time. - TIED TO IT. MARINES WILL LAND IN NICARAGUA TODAY Washington, Aus. 13. American Minister Weitzel at Managua, has entire authority to take measures for-the 'protect ion- of Americans, dur ihg tho tight 'between Nicaiaguan rehelR nd thi trovernment forces' Three hundred marines hurried over from Panama, are expected to land at C.irinto from the collier ' Justin today. W.sitzel may send this torce to Mu.-iai;ua if he thinks it necessa ry. The state department expects the minister to act upon his own judgment. "HIGHER UP" RECIEVED BLACK HAIL New York, Aug. 111. Blackmail extorted . from .'gamhUnx and disor derly houses, it is said, found its way into pockets' of three men "higher up," -who are the real heads of the gruff' syndicate-that "provides police protection to the underworld for a price. - These men.' names u:i divulged, include a lawyer, promi nent politically, a hotel proprietor and a police official, . Twa police) in spectors also profited richly. Prose etitor Whitman is now convinced of the truth of .lack Rose's story that two million, four hundred thousand dollars was collected' alone from the gambling houses. 'Whit man'-'Is daily learning more about the blackmail system. The disorderly houses have been under the screws, under the perfected system of the blackmail ers. . Rorv Webber, and Vallon were taken before tho grand jury taday Blanket Indictments will be returned. ' HHJX OI'II M COX VKNTIOX, Twelve Iiitiii-Auierican Republics Accept. Hague Agivcinent. Washington, Aug. 13. At the In stance of the state department, Mex ico, Gautemala ,Paiama, Kcuador, Honduras. Cuba, Costa Rica, the Dominican' Republic, Haiti. Salvatnr Bolivia and Chile have signed the International opium convention framed at The Hague last January. It is th.i expressed belief at the state department that the remaining Lat in-American republics will shortly Indicate their adherence to the con vention. Brazil and Peru, together with the United States, were the powers of America which, In treaties with China, forbade their subjects engaging in opium trade in Chinese waters. : ' Woman' I cmor ratic League. Trenton, N. J , Aug. 13.-The wo man's Wilson and Marshall league of New Jersey will -'-bo formally launched Safurdny nt Seagirt. Mrs. Thomas P. Gore, : Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, of New York, Wilson's three daughters, And Mrs. Archi bald Alexander, will enroll the mem bers of the league in a big tent pitched on the Wilson home ground. ; Robbers raided Leavlster's phar macy Sunday night and stole about $12 worth of cigarettes, cigars and other articles," Battle With Rebels Insets of Mexican Gty--Furti& Fighting Expected Mexico City, Aug. 13. Two hun dred dead . were left lying in the streets of Ixpata after the Zapatistas band halted on its march to Toluce. The town was garrisoned by a hun dred '-rtiraleB.V - Fighting occurred around Tenancino. All the rnrales were killed. The total death list in cluded many townspeople. The rurales fought desperately, refusing to surrender. The spoils taken in cluded fourteen thousand rounds of ammunition. The town was looted. Toluca is now garrisoned by five hundred federals. The residents are panic stricken. FIGHT LAST IX SENATE. To Prevent Fust From Join iny Office Employes Secret Organiza- tions. Washington. Aug. 13. An at tempt to amend the postolfice ap propriation bill, prohibiting post office employes from joining secret organizations, outside the depart ment was defeated in the Senate to day, thiKy-one to twenty, after a sharp fight in which a strike against the government was freely discuss ed. Smith, of South Carolina, claim ed that postal employes had a right .o strike. Root opposed this view. Root said that the next step would be the strike of the military and naval forces and other government forces. Smith replied that the mili tary forces were held by enlistment contract. ATTKMIT TO PASS WOOL I5ILL OVKIt PRESIDEXT'S VETO. Washington, Aug. 13.--An at tempt will be made to pass the com promise wool bill over the presi dent's ve;o began in the house to day. Underwood arranged for two house debates, the time being equal ly divided. Hull, of Tennessee, was the first speaker. '. '' '''-'' Twenty-Six Workmen Killed. Dortmund, Germany, Aug. 13.- Twenty-six workmen were buried by a tailing slag bank at the Iron works here today. All perished. Wilson Goes to Trenton. Seagirt, Aug. 13. Governor Wil son made his weekly trip to Tren ton to any on state business. He re turns tonight. PROGRESSIVES WILL CALL STATE CONVENTION Greensboro, Aug. 13. -Col.-W. S. Pearson, following a conference with National Progressive Committee James N. Williamson at Burling ton yesterday, announced last night that a call had been Issued for the meeting of the state progressive commit lee in this city next Satur day, the object to be the selection of the time and place for holding the state progressive convention. Colonel Pearson has opened head quarters here and by a strange coin cidence the progressive campaign will be directed from the quarters occupied by : the Woodrow Wilson people when the democratic candi date was seeking the nomination. TEXAS STATE CONVENTION. Some Trouble Over Action to be Taken oil Liquor Question. Saii Antonio, Aug. 13. Prior to opening; tho Democrat 1c state con vention, delay of the proceedings was threatened by some of Governor Colquitt's supporters against the governors stand for early closing of the saloons., Colquitt favors com pulsory closing of the saloons from 9:30 p. m. to 7:30 a. m. Certain provisions to enable citizens of the town to keep saloons out the resi dence sections, may be drafted in the pla.form. Printers' Convention. Cleveland, Aug. 13. Delegates at the annual convention of the In ternational Typographical Union, made a light in an effort to defeat the plan of the most members to have the convention meet biennially instead of anually. The laws com mittee opposed the plan. One big proposition discussed was to make ihe period of apprenticeship four in stead of five years. Roosevelt Takes Long Walk, Oyster Bay, Aug. 13.-Pursuing his plan ifor rest and recreaSion, Colonel Roosevelt left Sagamore Hill, with Archie today on a twenty mile walk. Mrs. Roosevelt started later in an automobile to overtake the pedestrians. Julian MasHenCt Dead. Paris, Aug. 13. Julian Massenet, composer of "Thais" and other noted works, died today of cancer, age seventy. , They Heap Maledications isd Threats On Man Who Made the Revelations ALL CL11 INIIOCEilCE Edward Schreiter, Common Council Clerk Who Made Confessions In volving the Aldermen and the Al dermen Themselves Appear In Court Today Some of Accused Men Very Bitter Against Schreiter Aldermen Are Charged With Getting Graft Out of Franchises. Detroit, Mich, Aug. 13. Maledjc ions, mingled with threats and counter charges, were heaped upon Edward Schreiter, the deposed clerk of the common council, by the ac cused officials, when Schreiter ap peared in police court with eighteen aldermen for arraignment on bribery charges preferred In connection with the Wabash street crossing scandal. Schreiter's confession with the in vestigation of himself and the al dermen now under arrest, was the principal topic of conversation around the courtroom. "You dirty dog," said alderman Skrzychl, one of the accused men, when he noticed Schreiter's entrance to the court room. "How could you any I exchanged words wtih you regard ing the Wabash deal," Skrsycbi said. "You know its false. When you take a man'B honor away from him you may as well take his life." Schreiter made no reply. Schreiter then walked . Into the police court clerk's office. He here met Alderman O'Brien, another of the accused men. Shaking his first in Schreiter's face, O'Brien shouted; "What you lack is a Uttle more hair, then you really would be a dog." All eighteen aldermen declared Schreiter's -confession false. LIQUOR TRAFFIC 'DEPLORABLE' Senator Wooks So Says on Condi tions Here in Letter to C. K. U. Washington, Aug 13. Declaring that the liquor traffic conditons are "most deplorable," Senator John D. Works yesterday sent a letter to the District of Columbia Christian, En deavor union saying that no "right minded citizen" can oppose the Jones-Works excise bill now pending In the District of Columbia com mittee of the house of representa tives. His letter, made public by President Rexford Holmes, of union, in part is as follows: "The bill Is a fair and reasonable bill regulating the sale of intoxicat ing liquors. The pretense that It is prohibitive has no foundation in fact. It excludes the saloons from the residence districts of the city. All good citizens should desire this change. It safeguards the young as fully as possible from temptation, and so regulates the traffic as to minimize as fully as is reasonable the evil effects of the trade. "The conditions in Washington with respect to the liquor traffic la at the present time most deplorable. There are as many as eight or nine saloons on a single square In some places, and many squares havd three and four and five saloons. The neighborhoods around the publlo schools of the city and the churches are-Infested with these saloons, i do not understand hoy anw right minded citizen who believes in the making of Washington a model city can oppose this measure. "I sincerely hope that the Dis trict committee of the house ma7 take it up and give it prompt con sideration, and that it may even tually p.8E and become a law." WIFE KINDS HCBBAND DEAD. Heartt Shot and Faints When She Discovers Suicide. Philadelphia, Aug. 13. Awaken ed by the sound of a shot, Mrs. Charles Pennecke, of 2543 North Seventeenth street, rushed down stairs early yesterday morning, and found her husband dead in tho kit chin. He had placed a revolver In In his mouth and sent a bullet in his brain. Before death he wrote a' will, naming two men hom ha wanted to act as executors ot hia estate, and then penned a farewell note to his wife, telling her he want ed to be burled on Long Island. . Mrs. Pennecke fainted over the body of her husband. Neighbors found the pair lying together. Th woman was quickly revived, hut Pen necke was pronounced dead by Dr. W. L. Batoss, of 246U Uorth Seven teenth street. The police say Pen necke had been melancholy over fi nancial matters. , Prisoners Escape From Penitentiary. Columbus, O., Aug. 13. Five prisoners escaped over the hlgH wall of the Ohio penitentiary a noon today. One prisoner was shot by the guard, and another captured. anil thrna eacnnari '
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