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NEW LAWS ENACTED
Summary of the Work Done
By Legislature
MANY RAILROADS CHARTERED.
jjrty Counties Allowed to Improve
yheir Roads The Important Beco
Jutios Insurance Legislation A
jfass of Miscellaneous Measures.
The important laws enacted by the
legislature are summarized by the
JUleigh correspondent of the Char
lotte Observer as follows:
Tie Important Resolutions!
The following are the most impor
tant resolutions which were adopted:
Requesting Congress to vote for
the Appalachian Forest Reserve and
asking the Governor to go to Wash
ington in the interest of that meas
ure. Endorsing the second Hague Peace
conference.
Endorsing the Jamestown Exposi
tion, appropriating $20,000 more to
it and allowing the North Carolina
building to be sold and the proceeds
Hsed by the commission.
Making a $5,000 gift to the cruiser
Xorth Carolina.
Urging Congress to improve the
upper Cape Fear river.
Also urging it to prohibit polyg
arav. To secure a change in the constitu
tion so Senators will be elected by a
direct vote of the people.
Bills were passed eliminating whis
kev from the following counties:
Burke, Lmcon, Catawba, McDowell,
Madison, Cherokee, Macon, Cabar
rus. Cleveland, Rutherford, ' North
ampton, Stanly, Scotland, Cumber
land and Mecklenburg.
Road Improvements.
Thirty counties were allowed to
improve their roads and very large
bond issues allowed to be voted on
for this purpose in- the counties of
Franklin, Forsyth, Durham, Rowan,
Wake, Granville and Buncombe,
ranging from $100,000 to $300,000.
At no session of the Legislature
have charters been granted to so
many railways; the following is the
list ; North Carolina Union, - South
port, Northern & Western, Raleigh
& Winston-Salem, Northampton &
Hertford; Western Carolina, Bladen
k Northern; Rockingham & Caswell;
Bandolph & Comberland; Graham
County, Washington & Vandemere;
Xactahala, Dover & Southbound;
Tuckaseegee, Elkin & Alleghany;
Virginia & Eastern Carolina, Virgin
ia & Carolina Southern, Deep River
& Farmers Creek, Alleghany & Pied
mont Southern. Southwestern, Greens
boro, Seaboard & Great Western,
Mattamuskeet, Kinston & Carolina,
Monroe & Southern, Franklin &
Smoky Mountain. Bills were also
passed allowing Buncombe, Hender
son and Rutherford counties to sub
scribe stock for a competing railway
between Asheville and Rutherford
ton; to allow the consolidation of the
Aberdeen & West End, the Ashe
boro & Montgomery and the Jack
son Springs railways; to allow the
conversion of the Wilkesboro & Jef
fsrson turnpike to a steam or elec
tric railway.
For Schools.
In the way of schools and school
matters, bills passed incoporating
the Stonewall Jackson Training
School or reformatory. To establish
a reformatory.
To establish a manual training
school in the mountains.
To establish a teachers
school in the East.
training
A school of Technology at Spray.
To aid the Elhannan Orphanage at
Marion.
To allow elections to be held in
townships or school districts upon
the subject of compulsory education.
To require deaf mutes to attend the
State school at Morganton and to
limit the attendance to North Caro
lina children.
To require 16 weeks attendance ft
each year of children between ages
of 8 and 14 years.
To provide a safe and adequate
water supply for all schools, public,
and private..
Creating a system of public high
schools, the number for each county
to be fixed by the State superinten
dent of public instruction to be not
less than one or more than four.
.Railway Matters.
A great deal of attention was giv
en railway matters, and the follow
ing are the important bills which
passed:
To fix the maximum passenger
rate at 2 1-2 cents per mile.
To regulate freight rates and pre
vent unjust discrimination:
To prevent public dringing in pas
senger cars.
To require railways to keep pas
senger cars clean.
To allow . conductors and station
agents to nr; est drunk, disorderly or
boisterous persons.
To all ow railways to construct
belt lines at towns.
To require one director and one in
corporator of all railways to be a cit
izen and resident of this State.
To allow the corporation commis
sion to require union depots in towns
of 2,000 persons. -
To require street railways to pro
vies separate accommodations for
negroes and whites.
To prevent stealing of goods iff
transit, and ln to prevent stealing
ot bras.-?,: ,-v.-,.t other railway proper- j
VOL. XXIX. PITTSBORQ. CHATHAM
To greatly enlarge the powers of
the corporation commission.
Miscellaneous Measures.
Other important bills of a miscel
laneous character are as follows:
To restore dentists,' to their former
dignity as doctors.
. To allow judges and magistrates to
exclude all persons exeept those con.
cerned in trials for felonious assault,
to receive, buy, hold or sell real or
personal estate.
To regulate sales of leaf tobacco
on warehouse floors and require re
ports to the agricultural department.
To prevent usury and extortion.
To extend for two years the tim
for settling the State debt.
To promote' public decency by pun
ishing people for using - rhdecent
gn, writings and pictures in public.
To allow the Governor to appoint
speeial police for water power, trans
portation and construction compan
ies. To provide for the care of the men
tally deficient by providing special
institutions for them.
To prevent the sale of adulterated
or misbranded foods, drugs, medi
cines and liquors.
To increase the number of State
challenges in all cases less than cap
ital. To allow the Governor traveling
expenses.
To allow judges to send criminal
boys under K to the reformatory or
ctitaniy home.
To extend the crime of vagrancy
so as to include keepers or inmates
of disorderly houses.
To prevent and punish trusts and
combines.
To authorize the State board of
health to provide for preventive
treatment of tuberculosis by means
of a hospital in Moore county.
To regulate the writing of prescrip
tions by physicians. -
To protect electrical power trans
mission lines.-. -
To require the penitentiary to pay
its ebt bonds of 1S99, amounting to
$110,000 and to pay $175,000 of its
earnings into the -treasury to' go to
the central fund. -
To separate tuberculosis prisoners.
To require the commissioners of
agriculture and the board of agri
culture to be practical farmers.
To require registration of trained
nurses.
To protect makers and dealers in
mineral waters.
To amend the law regarding remov
al of cloudon titles.
To protect primary elections and
conventions and punish fraud there
at. To pay half fees to officers and
witnesses where no true bill is found.
To extend time for obtainivg land
grants.
To regulate osteopathy and create
a State board of examiners.
To protect hotel and boa; ding
house keepers.
To prescribe the hours of service
for railway employes operating
trains.
To establish State board of equal
ization for the assessment of real
estate.
To regulate the hours of the labor
of children in factories.
To amend the landlord and tenant
law.
To so amend the general road law
that county commissioners can let the
working of roads by contracts by
sections.
To enable the State to make proof
of the possession of whiskey licenses,
issued by the government in prosecut
ing offenders.
To limit the poll tax to $2 in cities
and towns.
To provide for the display of the
State flag on all court houses,
schools and other public buildings.
To exclude . minors under 18 from
pool rooms, bar rooms, etc.
To prohibit corporations from pre
venting public improvements by other
corporations by preventing occupancy
of land for right-of-way.
To place all telephone lines under
the coropration commission.
To promote the oyster industry.
To punish fraud in giving worth
less checks, drafts and orders.
To create the office of fish commis
sioner. To require express companies to
pay claim for loss or damage to
property.
To secure immigration in North
Carolina ; appropriating $10,000,
half from the State, half from the
agricultural department.
To secure a statue of Zeb Vance
to, be placed in statuary hall at the
Capitol at Washington.
To fix the salaries of State officers
and to require fees to be turned into
the State Treasury.
To make general election day a
legal holiday.
To make the pension appropriation
$400,000, an increase of $125,000,
There were, bills-of course, carry
ing increased appropriations for all
the State institutions, some forty in
number.
Insurance Legislation.
A great many insurance bills were
introduced but only a small percent
age of these passed. Those which
did pass are as follows :
To amend the Revisal by allowing
companies having over $100,000 cap
ital to invest the excess in such man
ner as the insurance commissioner
approves.
To regulate the use of the reserve
of life companies by allowing it to
be used for re-insurance, to be avail
able in case of the insolvency of the
company.
To define fraternal orders.
To prohibit the application of the
iron safe claus to buildings and fix
tures. .'
To prevent the diversion of funds
in insurance companies for political
purposes.
To require fire insurance companies
to furnish blank proofs of loans in
case n they demand such proof.
To regulate the form of life in
surance contraots by requiring the
form of .. all policies under $500 to
be submitted to and approve by the
insurance commissioner before the
company oan issue said policies, this
act to be effective July 1.
To allow .the insurance commis
sioner to employ an actuary and ac
countant to calculate and check up
the books of the insurance companies
To impose a general penalty for
all provisions of the insurance law
for .which no special penalty has been
imposed. ' ; ; v
To . provide for the volunteer fire
men of the State in . case; of injury
or sickness, due to service - at fires
by levying a tax of 1-2 of 1 per cent
upon the premiums of fire insurance
companies, but in order to secure
this the town must comply with the
fire waste law. ,
To declare that the agent of a life
insurance company is the atrent ol
t,the company and not of the policy
'oiaer.
TRIAL OF JOSHUA HARRISON
Progress in Case For Kidnapping Son
of Senator Beasley.
Elizabeth City, Special. The trial -)f
Joshua Harrison for the kidnap
ping of the young son of Ex-State
Senator Beasley began here last week
md is attracting a great deal of at
tention. Mr. J. W. Poyner testified
)n Saturday. His testimony was
along the line of previous witnesses,
and dealt with the location and the 1
search by which the prosecution ; in
tends to disprove the drowning t he
Dry. The prosecution produced more tan
gible evidence when Mr. Millard Mor
risette was called. He testified that
he was on the road the day the boy
disappeared; that he met a mule and
buggy going at a rapid gait (descrip
tion of mule and buggy tallies with
Harrison's) that he saw a boy in the
buggy, light complexion, had on blue
sap (Kenneth wore blue cap) ; did not
notice man particularly. His evidence
was unshaken under cross examina
tion by E. F. Aydett.
Mr. J. L. Turner next testified that
he crossed the road on that day in
front of a mule and buggy and saw
man throw blanket around boy. Spoke
to man and called him. Mr. Turner
saw boy's legs through crack in cur
tain; had on blue stockings (Kenneth
had on blue ones.) A severe cross
examination by ex-Governor Aycock
failed to shake evidence.
Mr. Perry next testified that he saw
the mule and buggy on that dav; the
man had a storm blanket over a lump
of something; heard a soothing voice
saying, "Here, there;" believes voice
was Harrison's. The cross-examination
failed to shake his evidence.
Mr. J. J. Pierce next testified that
he lived in Norfolk at. the time; saw
boy on the street car 'with two young
men, one drunk; recognized him and
said "Hello, Kenneth," boy never
spoke; had not heard of boy's disap
pearance at the time; communicated
with boy's father. The cross-examination
failed to shake evidence.
Mr. A. L. Evans next testified that
he heard Harrison say that -Mr. Beas
ley ought to be tarred, feathered ami
tied to a stake, and that he would
like to apply the torch.
At the afternoon session of tne
trial of Joshua Harrison convening
at 2:30 p. m., the first witness was
T. L. Baum, who said he had lived
in Currituck county all his life and
that he was well acquainted with
Joshua Harrison. Witness said that
after the disappearance of Kenneth
Beasley Harrison spoke to him
about the matter several times and
would always broach the subject a'?
soon as they got together. Witness
said he cautioned Harrison about
bis rash statements, to which he re
plied: "It's catching before hang
ing," and that lie believed witness
was his. friend and would swear to a
lie to save him; that seme time after
this Avitness and a colored man went
to Hari'ison's for some wine and
Harrison asked witness if he knew
why Beasley was not going to the
Legislature. Witness replied that he
did not, whereupon Harrison said:
' ' Well, I do, I am responsible for it. '
Witness replied: "I will give you
credit for it, just like I gave you
ered.-t for the disappearance of- the
Beasley boy."
Harrison replied: "So you give
me credit for that?"
Witness replied : "I do. ' '
"I will acknowledge, then," ?aid
Harnsou. "that I am responsible for
it,"
After the prosecution rested its
easo Saturday the defense introduced
a number a witnesses among whom
were Joe Harrison, Tomas Harrison,
;ons of the accused man, and his wife.
Their evidence tends to show that
"he defense will tryto prove an alibi
"VI r. Maithias Dudley and Mr. -Mercer
testified that they had met a mule and
ouggy in the road but did not know
the man driving. Were positive it
was not Harrison.
In Shadow of the Gallows.
Gaffney, S. C, Special. The work
of erecting the gallows for Tom Har
ris, the condemned murderer, who is
binder sentence to be hanged on the
29th inst. goes on apace. The grue
some piece of mechanism already
.ears its lofty head toward the skies
n the rear of the jail. It is said that
to appoint a cimmission in lunacy'
nniTlsrrv N. 0., THURSDAY. MARCH 21., 1907.
AN ANTI TRUST LAW
Penalties Provided For Trade
Restraining Combinations
COMPETITION MUST BE OPEN
Full Text of the Measure, Embracing
Amendments, Which' Finally Paa
ed the State Legislature.
Following is the full text of the
anti-trust .bill as passed by the Legis
lature, which' has just adjourned, amd
the suplemental act, also adopted and
ratified by that 'body:
An Act prohibiting conduct within
the State of North Carolina which
intereferes with trade and com
merce. The General Assembly of North
Carolina do enact : .
Section 1. That it shall be unlaw
ful for any person or corporation to
directly or indirectly be guilty of any
of the acts and things specified in any
of the tub-sections of this section.
; (A) For any person, firm, corpora
tion or association to make a sale or
sales of any goods, wares, merchan
dise, articles or things of value, what
soever, in North Carolina, whether di
rectly or indirectly or through any
agent or employes upon the. condition
that the purchaser thereof shall . not
deal in the goods, wares, merchandise
articles or things of value, of the
competitor or rival in the business of
the person, firm, corporation or asso
ciation, making said sale.
(B) For any person, firm, corpora
tion or association-to directly or in
directly, wilfully destroy or injure
or undertake to destroy or iniure the
business of any opponent or business
rival in the State "of North Carolina,
wifh the puropse or intention of at
tempting to fix the price of anything
of value when the competition is re
uka cd. ,
(C) For any person, firm, corpora
ikn or association which directly or
indirectly buys or sells within the
State, through himself or itself or
through any agent of any kind, or as
agent or principal or together, with
or through any allied subsidiary or
dependent person, firm, corporation
or associtation, as much as 50 per
centum in quantity of any article or
thing of value which is sold or bought
in the State to injure or destroy or
undertake to injure or destroy the
business of any rival or opponenet by
lowering the price of any article or
thing of value sold, so low or by rais
ing the price of any artiele or thing
of value bought, so high as to leave
an unreasonable or inadquate profit
for a time and with the purpose of
increasing the profit on the business
when such rival or opponent is driv
en out of business, or his, their or its
business is injured. -
(D) For any person, firm, corpora
tion or association dealing in any
thing of value, within i the State, of
North Carolina to give away or sell
at a place where there is competition,
such thing of value at a price lower
than is charged by such person, firm,
corporation or association, for the
same thing at anohter place, where
there is not sufficient reason for
charging less at the one place than at
the other, with the view of injuring
the business of another.
(E) For any person, firm, corpora
tion or association engaged in buying
or selling anything of value in North
Carolina to -make or have any agree
ment or understanding, express, or
1 -AV ,1 n
a y 0t-hf pei'Tl 'I'
corporation, or association, not to buy
or sell said things of value within
certain territorial limits within the
State with intention of preventing
competition in selling or to fix the
price or prevent competition in buy
ing of said things of value with these
limits, provided nothing herein shall
be construed to prevent an agent
from representing more than one
principal. But nothing in this provi
so shall be . construed to anthorize
two or more principals to employ a
common agent for the purpose of
suppressing competition or lovrering
prices.
See. 2. That any corporation,
either as agent or principal, violating
any of the provisions of this act shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor and such
corporation shall, upon conviction, be
fined not less than $1,000 for each
and every offense, and every person
violating any of the provisions of this
act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor
and, upon conviction, shall be fined
not less than $1,000 for each and
every offense, and every person vio
lating any of the provisions vof this
act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor
and upon convictior, shall be fined
not less than $500 or imprisoned
within the discretion of the court.
Sec. 3. That any person being
either within or without the State
who encourgaes or wilfully allows or
permits any agent or associates in
business jn this State to violate any
of the provisions, of this act shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon
conviction, shall be punished as pro
vided in Section 2 hereof.
See. A. That where the things pro
hibited in section oue of this act are
continuous, then, in such event, after
the first violations hereof, each week
that the violation of such provision
shall contiDue shall be a separate of
fense. .
Sec. 5. That the provisions of this
act shall not be construed so as to
repeal or restrict tje common law
doctrine preventing unlawful combi-
aatlons m trade, which is hereby re-
enacted and . declared to be in full
force in this State' except as may be
inconsistent with the other provisions
of. this act.
Sec. 6. That if is shall be made to
appear upon affidavit to any solicitor,
the affidavit may be made upon infor
mation and belief and when made,
upon information -and belief it shall
state the ground upon which the offi
davit is made cud if reasonable in
this State that any corporation has
violated or is violating any of the
provision of this act within the judi
cial district of such solicitor, it shall
be the duty of such solicitor fa ap
ply to a judge of such judicial dis
trict or. a judge holding the courts of
such judicial district, for an order to
cause such corporation, its officers
and agents, or either of them, to ap-'
pear before such judge at a time and
place to be named by him, which
time shall not be less than 5 days
from the issuing thereof to show
cause why such corporation, its offi
cers and agents or either of them
should not produce before such judge
at a time and place to be named, all
the papers, books and records of such
corporations and if the judge shall
be satisfied that such productions
should be made,, he shall make an or
der requiring such corporations, its
officers and agents or either of them
to produce all of its papers, books
and records to be examined by such
solicitor in the presence of such
judge. If any corporation, its offi
cers, or agents, shall fail to appear
or shall fail to produce such papers,
books or records as may be required,
he or .it shall be guilty of a misde
meanor and it shall be the duty of
such solicitor to proceed to prosecute
such corporation, its officers or agents
The said solicitor in case of the con
viction of a corporation shall be paid
a fee or $200,, to be taxed against
the corporation, and in case of the
conviction of an individual a fee of
$100 to be taled against said indivi
dual. Sec. 7. This act shall be in force
from and after July 10th, one thous
and, nine hundred and seven.
In the General Assembly read three
times and ratiSed, this the eleventh
day of March, A. D., 1907.
FRANCIS D. WINSTON,
President of the Senate.
E. J. JUSTICE,
Speaker of the House of Repres
entatives. Examined and found correct.
G. L. LIVERMAN,
For committee.
Supplemental Act.
An act supplemental to a bill which
has passed the Senate and House of
Representatives to prohibit conduct
in the State of North Carolina which
interferes with trade and commerce.
Whereas, An act of the General
Assembly has passed the Senate and
House of Representatives, entitled as
shown in the caption above, and
Whereas, Provision is made in the
said act for investigation and prose
cution for the offenses therein named,
and
Whereas, Ini said act it is not pro
vided that a person subpoenaed to
testify shall be immune from prosecu
tion "for or by reason' of matters dis
closed by his or her testimony, and
Whereas, It may be difficulty, if not
impossible, to discover or punish for
crimes committeed in violation of said
act if witnesses are permitted to re
fuse io testily upon the ground that
the lesiimonj might tend to incrimi
nate the witness.
Therefore, The General Assembly
of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That no person who is
subpeonaed and required by the State
to testify under the provisions of the
I OLIO ct u LLit- uicscui, scasiuu UJ.
the General Assembly, entitled, "An
acts passed at the present session of
aet to prohiLui conduct within the.
State of North Carolina which inter
feres with trade,"" shall be prosecut
ed or convicted on account of matters
disclosed by the teltimony of such
witness, nor ' shall the testimony of
such witness be received or used iu
any court in any prosecution against
him or her.
Sec. 2. This act shall be in force
from and after its ratification.
In the General" Assembly read three
times and ratified, this the 11th day
of March, A. D., 1907.
FRANCIS D. WINSTON,
President of the Senate.
E. J. JUSTICE,
Speaker of the House of Repres
entatives. Examined and found correct. ;
WILSON,
For the committee. .
Fcr Soad Improvement.
Wilson, Special. At a recent meet
ing of the " Business Men "s Associa
tion and citizens generally the new
road for Wilsorr township was consid
ered. Under the bill this township
will vote on a $100,000 bond issue for
permanent road improvement. None
of the money, however, will be spent
in the town of Wilson. The meeting
was enthusiastic for the bond issue,
and many speeches were made in sup
port of the measure.
Wm. J. Oliver Made President of U.
S., Trust Company.
Washington, Special. William J.
Oliver of ivnoxville, Tenn., whosebid
for the construction of the Panama
canal, eccntty . was rejected, was
elected ice president of the United
States Trust Company, of this city,
v hien was recently organized with a
capital of $1,000,000. Daniel N. Mor
gan, iormei United States Treasurer, j
isi president.
EV1DENC
Hill
White's Lawyer Telfs of Affi
davit of Evelyn Nesbtt.
THE TESTIMONY GOES TO JURY
Delmas Fought District Attorney Ev
ery Inch, but White's Former At
torney Was Allowed to Give Full
Story of Affidavit Alleged to Have
Been Signed by Evelyn Thaw - in
1903, Charging Defendant With
Beating Her -When She Said Stan
ford "White Had Not. Drugged and
Ruined Her.
New York, SpeciaL With Attor
ney Delmas fighting him every inch
of the way, District Attorney Jerome
secured from Abraham Hummel his
complete story as to the affidavit,,
which it is alleged ' Evelyn , Nesbit
Thaw made in the lawyer's office, in
1903 charging Hary K. Thaw with
beating her when she had .old him
that the statement that 'Stanford
White had drugged and ruined her
was not true,- The HummeLtestimony
came during the afternoon .session of
the trial and Mr. Dedmas' first ob
jection broadly to all of Hummel 's
testimony, offered ax specific objection
to each question by the prosecutor.
Justice Fitzgerald overruled every ob
jection and Mr. Delmas had excep
tions to the rulings noted on the re
cords. ' Evelyn Nesbit Thaw was called to
the stand in the effort of the defense
to keep Hummel silent. She declared
she had called upon Hummel in ' his
'professional capacity and to seek his
advice as .a lawyer. Stanford White
had taken her to the lawyer's office
with that end in view.
Judge Fitzgerald declared that ad
mitting the proposition of counsel and
client. Mrs. Thaw had herself waiv
ed the professional privilege by taking
the stand early in the case and giving
her version of what transpired ' at
Hummel 's office. The bond of secre
cy once removed could not be re-established.
Unsuccessful in blocking Hummel 's
testimony, Attorney Delmas in cross
examining the witness brought from
his own lips the fact that he had been
convicted in December, 1905, on a
charge of conspiracy in the same
court room in which Thaw is being
tried. He further admitted that two
indictments for subordination of per
jury are pending against him and thai
one of these indictments charge him
with having caused a false affidavit
to be made.
Mr. Jerome protested against the
witness ' ' being dragged through the
humiliating details" of his trial, but
Justice Fitzgerald declined to inter
fere. Mr. Delmas asked Hummel if he
had not heard the speech made by
District Attorney Jerome when sen
tence was about to be imposed, when
Mr. Jerome urged the court to pass
the longest and heaviest sentence
within its power upon Hummel, as he
"had been "a menace to the commun
ity for 20 years." Justice Fitzger
ald finally sustained an objection to
this and Hummel was not compelled
to answer.
Mr. Delmas wanted to know if
Hummel had recent business transac
tions, with the district attorney, and
asked if Mr. Jerome was pressing the
charges against him. .
"He certainly is," said the witness
with spirit.
Hummel 's testimony was to the ef
fect that Evelyn Nesbit told him that
Thaw had beaten her when she re
fused to sign papers he had prepared
charging Stanford White with' her be-,
trayal; that he had dictated a state
ment to a stenographer in the pres
ence of Miss Nesbit and ' Stanford
White; that he gave the affidavit to
two of his clerks to take to Miss Nes
bitvand that the next day-the paper
was returned to him with Evelyn
Nesbit 's signature attached. He kept
the affidavit until Miss Nesbit called
one tlay and demanded it. He re
fused to give it to her and turned it
over to Stanford White, advising him
to have a photographic copy made.
Hummel first said he had himself ar
ranged for photographing the affidav
it and that the photographer came to
his office. A few moments later, how
ever, he completely contradicted him
self onv this point, saying he did not
make the arrangements; that tha
photographer did not come to his of
fice ; and that he had not so testified.
After Stanford "White had the copy
made he returned the original of thi
affidavit, the photographic negative
and the prints male from tl-f nega
tive, to Hiimrneij v;no swore that he
had s;.bocoueiiiy (Tc'jvered the origi
nal affidavit to Miss Nesbit and he
had not seen it since.
Quarantine Soon to be Raised.
Washington, Special. Archie
Roosevelt's condition is still improv
ing and Surgeon General Rixey an
nounced that the quarantine restric
tions imposed on account of the.boy's
illness will be raised in a few days.
Archie sat up in bed. Theo.'.Roose-
-t.xJr arrived, from Harvard and
,- i: : White House un-
after Easter.
tl)t Chatham Betorb.
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One White Man Slays Another
at Griffiths.-
HEAD CRUSHED BY BUTT OF GUN
Mr. J. E. T. Kimball Breaks His Gun
stock Over the Head of an Un
known White Man, Supposed to be
a Mr. Stevenson, Formerly of Fort
" Mill, S. C, Killing Him Instant
ly. v. A young white man by the name of
Stephenson, supposed to be M. J.
Stephenson, formerly of Fort Mill, S.
C, was killed near Griffiths, four miles
south of Charlotte, "Sunday night a
few minutes before 3 o'clock. J. T.
E. Kimball, an employe of the Queeu
City Brick Works, is said to be hi
slayer, he having admitted as much
to Mr. Oscar Hunter, his employer,
and to Sheriff N. W. Wallace, who ar
rested him. ' While nothing definite is
known5 as', to' the trouble which arose
between the-two men, Kimball's wife
is said to have figured in it.- Whe:t
placed under arrest shortly after th
homicide, Kimball . refused to talk,
saying that he would keep his mouth
shut until he had consulted with hii
attorneys. About 10 o'clock he wa.-
brought into the city and lodged iu
the county jail. In the trial which
will' follow, the unwritten law will
likely be the plea of the defense.
The killing occurred in the "big
road" near - Griffiths a few minutes
before 8 o'clock. Stephenson had
hired a horse and buggy from Wads
worth 's early in the morning and had
driven down to his old home near
Fort Mill, S. C, to visit relatives. He
called at the stable very 'early, be
tween 6 and 6:30 o'clock. ?'Mr. Sam
Ross, who was in charge,'' refused to
accommodate him until "Mr. A. N.
Deaton came up. Mr. Deaton arrived
shortly after, and knowing him, let
him, let him have the horse and buggy
Stephenson was next seen by Mr. Will
Brissie shortly after 5:30 near Pine
ville. He was then on his way home.
The killing took place about two
hours later at a point 300 yards on
this side of Kimball's house. As he
passed, it is not known whether or
not he stepped. It is hardly probable
that he did, for there were no track
to indicate it. Owing to the fact that
not one of the principals would talk
very little information of a positive
nature could be learned. -Besides
-his wife, Kimball has one
child. His mule and buggy was re
ported to have been found in the
cotton patch near the scene 'of the
killing.
3 1 is believed that bad blood had
existed between Kimball and Steph
enson ici some time. Both came
originally from York county. South
Carolina, where they probably knew
0110 another. Kimball formerly
lived iu Charlotte. Some six months
ago he moved down to Griffiths to
vork in the Luck piant there. Steph
enson moved to Charlotte about eight
months ago. Sunday night ..they prob
abi met on the road and i'"ii:v"d
their quarrel. ' Mrs. Kimball was like
ly present and witnessed the si nig
gle. It is Very probable that Mr. Os
car Hunter heard her screams when
the gun shots were fired. The cvi
'dence implicating Kimball is very
strong. 'Mr. Oscar Hunter knows
more about it than any one else and
will tell when the proper time comes.
GuiJty of Secont? Degree Mtrdsr.
Birmingham, Ala., Special. Rich
ard 'Wiay, eharged with the killing
of George Freeman two years ago,
vas found guilty of the murder in
the second degree and sentenced t(
10 years imprisonment. Freeman
was a well known artist here and
came from Boston. Wray is well
knowi- in sporting circles, having
come here fiom Nashville, Tenn.
Ranchman Assassinates Sweetheart
and Two Other Women.
San - Luis Potosi, Mex., Special
Dispaetes from Rio Verde state that
a prominent ranchman of that placa
nemed Juan Futano assassinated his
sweetheart, the landlady and her
daughter at the house where she was
living. Jealousy is ascribed as the
motive for the deed.
To Assist in Prosecution of Pconag&
Cases.
New York, Speeial. It was an
nounced. that United States Attorney
General Bonaparte has appointed
Vlarance S. Houghton, of this city as
deputy United States attorney gener
al to assist in the prosecution of tli3
Peonage cases which the government
is instituting. He will assist Mary-G.
Quackenbos, who was appointed -an
assistant district attorney some time
ago to take charge of the cases. Mr.
Houghton was formerly in charge ot
he criminal branch of the United
States District Attorney's office in
this city.
Verdict of Not Guilty.
Mille, Ga., Special. R. E. Hum
ptireys was found not guilty of tho
murder of J. B. Daniel. The trial
had consumed four days and wide in
ttiest had been manifested. When
the announcement of the verdict was
received, Humphrey shook hands with
the members of the jury and with
Judge Rawlings, also receiving thev
congratulations of many of. those who
had thronged the court room.
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