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ESTABLISHED SEPTEMBER 19, 1878, Murder At Ore Hill Win. Fogleman Slain by Negro Rob ber —Shortage of Cartridges Stives Allen Cheek.—A Des perate Straggle hunt lasts night and day Fear Mitchell Surrenders Sunday Eve ning, Admitting Crime—Lodged In Jail Here. Ore Hill was the scene Saturday night of a desperate battle, in which Mr. William Fogleman, aged sixty, was slain and Allen Cheek, a mere youth, was raked twice with pistol shots and badlyv bitten by a negro robber. Saturday night and Sunday was a period of unusual excitement in west ern Chatham. Sheriff Blair, a full force of deputies and a horde of de termined citizens searched night and day for the negro who killed Wm. Fogleman in M. V. Cheek’s store at Ore Hill early Saturday night. The search was unavailing, though blood nounds were brought to the scene of ' the crime, and followed a trail south ward to the vicinity of Bear Creek, 1 where it was lost, though it was j probably not the trail of the murder- J er at ail, as he surrendered Sunday j evening in Siler City, and professed not to have gone in the direction of Bear Creek at all. , A Series of Robberies Time and again Mr. Cheek had missed goods from his store, but could t find no clue as to how the thief had got in. All doors and windows were found on each occasion closed as they had been left. But the rascal was too bold and undertook the stunt Tuesday night of last week when the snow covered the ground. The next morning tracks appeared at a rear window, and examination revealed his process of getting in.* He would prize open the shutter which had a drop latch cn it, and when he retired would puli the shutter closed, thus automatically latching it again. A watch was set, but nothing hap pened till Saturday night. That night Mr. William Fogleman, a farm er of :he community, and Allen Cheek, young son of the merchant, were cn watch. They had lain down upon their improvised bed. about 8 o’clock, it is stated, and had been there only about half an hour when the rogue came. They let him come in and begin his search of the shelves for articles to his liking. He had lighted a lamp, and the watchers, Fogleman armed with a tlouble-bar relod :i a. and young Cheek with a pistol. . d a fair chance to shoot him down if res stance had been offered, but when vhoy ordered the intruder to hoi: his hands, he did so, and the whit. men approached with no ex pectatio” of resistance. But the negro ' nipped out a pistol and shot Foghman through the head, killing hi; instantly. Turning his gun on Cheek, he fired twice, glazing him on the temple and on the side. Cheek fired once out missed, and the pistol jamming, he attacked the man with his hands. Fortunately, the desper ado had no other bullet in his pistol, and it was a tooth and nail struggle between them. The r ro badly lacerated two finger- r the youth. Cheek himself bit too. The struggle, according to Cheeks notion, lasted fifteen or twenty minutes, when he volunteered to let the negro go if he would quit. But the negro still declared that he would kill the young man. However, during the struggle they approached the door and Cheek opened it and shoved the black out. The latter then ran, pursued by Cheek, but no help coming the murderer escaped. The community was aroused. The coroner was notified, along with the sheriff. But Coroner Brooks decided an inqtiest was unnecessary, and gave the matter over to the Sheriff. • The roads and woods soon swarmed with volunteer searchers. The blood hounds led the posse on the wrong trail, but still the search was not given over, though fruitless. The first elue found was when the pistol lost by the desperado was iden tified by Mr. W. A. Headen as be longing to Harry Burnett, who had trie to pawn the gun to him Satur day. "rnett admitted that it was his gunk said he had loaned it to Pearl M ant i that Mitchell had been L t'vtfr Saturday night and said he had m v a fight at Cheek’s store, and that tL , nning away he had thrown his ’ W at a bridge near the Ore Hill Tc . The coat was found, confirm- I ing Burnett’s story. Mitchell had made his way *to the ► home of an uncle, Dick DeGraffenreid, a respected colored man of Siler City. DeGraffenreid advised him to sur render, but it was not till late Sun day evening'that he consented for the officers to be notified. The arrest was duly made and Mitchell was brought to Pittsboro and lodged in jail. As court is in session this week, it is possible that his case may be tried in short order.. The funeral and burial of Mr. Fogleman took place Monday. Young Cheek has two badly mangled fingers, but his only danger is the development of Mood poison. tThe yCung fellow is considered quite hero, and his lone struggle in the imly lighted room with a desperate iminal will be long cited as proof Later information than written arly in the week is that Mitchell had wounds dressed here, which con ned of a displaced shoulder, due to &ril when escaping from the Cheek and severe bites on the face The Chatham Record • t JUDGE.W. C. HARRIS who is presiding over Superior Court here this week. Harris suc ceeds Judge Calvert as judge of the Raleigh district. This is his second term, his first being at Lillington last week. Court In Session Criminal term of court is in ses sion with Judge W. C. Harris on the bench and Solicitor Williams prose cuting. Miss Spaight is present as stenographer. Judge Harris’s charge was compar atively brief, but to the point. He stressed auto driving by children un der legal age limit. The following are the grand jury: S. W. Willett, foreman, A. C. Scott, R. J. Tihnan, IT. J. W T omble, J. W. Smith, W. 0. White, C. H. Brady, D. E. Stinson, W. F. Fuquay, C. V. Morgan, S. A. Petty, J. W. Womble, B. D. Overton, R. S. Gates, Geo. W. May, C. J. Andrews, Erie Clark, A. J. Seagroves. , Cases Disposed Os Peter Buckner, not guilty; Arvie Buckner, guilty, costs. Case .against Claud Hicks, nol pres. Robert "Wilson submits to liquor charge, six months, not to be enforced if good behavior. Bond of S2OO. Luke Spruill, whiskey and c.c.w., $25 and costs. Case against J. A. Stephens, nol pros. Ernest Brown, nol pros. Marvin A. Conklin, nol pros. How ard Stackhouse, nol pros. “ J. W. Allrod, pleads guilty, costs. David, bond of *sso for good be havior or roads 6 months. Arthur Sumner and Mark Brewer, liquor. Brewer called but failed. Sumner SIOO and costs. James Thomas, negro, 12 months on roads for carrying concealed weapon. Emmett Holland, liquor, roads or SSO bond for good hehavior. Clarence Sueies, driving car while drunk, SSO bond for good behavior or 6 months on road. . Jake Oldham submits to charge of larceny—sent to Jackson Training School, Concord. Off Gunter, liquor, S2OO bond for good behavior or roads fiwo years. W T ade Mills, liquor, S2OO bond for good behavior, and costs, or roads. Driver Campbell and Mark Moody, liquor, $25 each and costs. George Rives, driving 'car drunk, SSO fine and costs, forbidden to drive car for 1 year. June Taylor, c.c.w. costs and bond for good behavior, or roads. Hubert Erooks, J. D. Cameron, Rid dick Carter. Csfter transferred to juvenile court, Cameron and Brooks 6 months on roads. Walker Rogers, liquor, costs and bond for good behavior, or roads 1 year. Como Goode, larceny, roads 6 mos. The case against Wes Carroll and wife for resistance to officers, whis key making and other charges is on trial as this is written Wednesday. That is one of the most interesting cases. Mitchell and MartihdHe have been arraigned and both plead not guilty in their respective cases for murder. * t Representative Bell and Senator Horton were home for the first day or wto of court. Mrs. Bell remained in Raleigh. given him by young Cheek in the tooth and nail struggle. He was taken direct from here to the Durham jail, for safer keeping," and to discourage any possible move to wreak vengeance upon him. . f. He was returned here Tuesday eve ning with his attorneys. Fie admits the crime and says he must have lost his senses when he shot Mr. Fogle man. . The burial services of Mr. Fogle man took place at Pleasant Hill Christian church in, Alamance county Monday. He was 57 years old, in stead of sixty as first reported. His father is still living, at Liberty, his wife, formerly a Miss Siler, and three sons, Ross of Silk Hope, June and Clifton of Moncure, also -three daugh ters, nohe of whom lives in this coun- Three Others m Jail Three other arrests have been made in connection with the Ore Hill crime. Harry Burnett and Robert Burnett, the one who knew atfout the overcoat and had loaned the pistol and the oth er who had come to Ore Hill with Mitchell and waited at a negro home while Mitchell perpetrated the rob- 1 bery. Eugene Harley is also held be-1 cause of his part in carrying Mitchell j away from the Ore Hill community. ! PITTSBORO, N. U., CHATHAM COUNT’S, THURSDAY, JAN’Y. 20, 1927 THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY WIIAT THE LEGISLATURE HAS DONE THE PAST WEEK The revenue bill was introduced Wednesday .of last week, thus giving die legislators the last of the three great bills of the session, the others being the appropriation bill for the operation of departments and institu tions, and the bill making appropria tions for permanent improvements. The news from Raleigh the first of the week was ,to the effect that the 2ommittees having these. bills in charge were simply, after | discussion, inding it wise to approve item after tem as presented in the bills pre pared by the budget committee under the direction of Governor McLean. ‘Big business” and unearned incomes, t is reported, will bear the brunt of tax increases. Judge Winston, in the house, has introduced a bill looking to a con stitutional convention in 1928. The objection to the constant patching of the constitution by amendments is becoming vigorous, and Judge Win ston, along with others, feel that a convention to rewrite the constitu tion is advisable. Representative Poole has announced that he has prepared a bill forbid ding the teaching of evolution in the tax-supported schools of the state, and another fight along this line will probably be staged later in the ses-. sion, though the prognostications are that his bill will not succeed any- more than that of the last session. A bill has been provid ing for a cut in the working hours in the state from sixty a week to 55. Rev. Oscar Haywood, representative from Montgomery county, proposes a bill to remit pensions in four, instead of two, vouchers a year. J. F. Spain hour, of Burke, offers a bill to make considerable changes in certification of teachers, but with little hope of carrying it through. One bill after another has been introduced looking to the provision of extra judges to relieve the dock ets of many of the counties of the state. Two years ago the effort re sulted in the bill providing for the appointment of emergency ’ judges, which has worked well apparently, and under which our Mr. W. D. Siler has been appointed to hold quite a number of courts. Two bills pertaining to lights on vehicles are in the hopper and have merit. Senators Rivers Johnson is pushing a bill to require vehicles.. to. cafcrxAail-lights --at mtg-nV TAnother bill would require auto man ufacturers to have lamps meet legal requirements of the state before they are shipped into North Carolina. The educational investigation com mittee appointed under an act of the last session to review the educational situation and make a report to this • session, made its report Monday, and disappointed the school folk by fail ing to recommend an immediate move to inaugurate an eight-months school term. The vote of the committee was seven to five against an immediate step to that end. The five were two school men and three ladies; the sev en were business men who have a comprehensive view of the financial situation of the state, t• •' Monday also saw a bill introduced to give a right of way through east- I ern state lands for the inland -water way which has recently been provid*- ed for from Beaufort to Wilmington by an act of congress: A bill was also offered to give the state highway commission authority to run the state roads" according to their judgment. The Newton and Lumberton cases in which the Su preme Court has decided that the commission must go exactly as the original map of the highway system indicated, has caused delay arid liti-, gation, and loss of money if the com mission must make the entries into these towns as indicated by the map. However, theye 'is likely to be strong opposition to 1 giving the commission such dictatorial powers. Bills to increase pensions, to place , widows of Confederates who - were married before 1915 upon the pen sion roll have been offered. A bill offered Monday would heavily penal ize users of smoke screens on auto mobiles. > Thus far the work is largely con fined to the committees and few bills are coming to a vote, and those most ly local measures.. Tuesday saw a move made to reim burse former treasurer Worth for money stolen during the fusion admin istration by his clerk. Mr. Worth de clined to receive pay, even if it were offered by the fusionists. He .is now 88 years of age. ' The statement js made that the money was repaid tlie state by the bonding company and it is thought? that even the present eco nomical legislature will make an ap propriation for the payment of the worthy old gentleman's loss. The seriate passed eight bills Tues day and new- ones were thfotyn into both the house and senate hoppers. Pittsboro has three of. the mem bers of the two bodies here the first of the week, Lieutenant Governor Elmer Long, who presides over the .seriate, and Senator Horton and Representa tive Bell. All had important business Representative Bell is serving on! the following a house committees: I Military, of which he is chairman; public roads, courts' and judicial districts, trustees of the University, ’ enrolled bills, garrie, judiciary No. 2, [mines and mining, penal institutions, • -.nd finance. A really creditable num ber of assignments. An Orgy of Shooting Four Shootings in County in a Week * —'Three Dead—Two Killings Clyde Glover, a sixteen-year old negro -.youth of Hickory Mountain township, was accidentally shot by Tom Dorsett, another negro,' yhile hunting rabbits Wednesday of ' last week. The boy died instantly, but his body was allowed to lie where it fell till midnight, while they were try ing to locate his father, Jim Glover. Coroner Brooks, notified, considered that no inquest was necessary, as the father of the boy and others believed the shooting accidental. This is one of three deaths by gunshot wounds in the county in a week, the first being that of Lewis Tillman, who is alleged to have been shot by young Martin dale while Tillman was riding along the road near Carbonton in a wagon, lying in the body by the side of a brother ovef whom the shot came to reach the side, of its victim. Martindale claims that he shot to ward the road but did not see any one, or know that any one was hurt tflLdie was arrested for the shooting. Young Tillman died in the hospital at Sanford after an unsuccessful op eration. The third was the tragic killing of William Fogleman, a full account of which occurs in this paper. In addition, Policeman Lacey Johm son of Pittsboro, shot and right ser iously wounded Walker Alston, col ored, Saturday evening. The officer had arrested Henry Alston on a charge of bastardy and had taken him to the office of a magistrate. Henry broka loose and ran. The policeman chased him and caught him again. While he was taking him back, two brothers of the prisoner, Walker and Will Alston, came up. Walker seized his brother and be gan to try to pull him from the offi cer, while Will laid hold of the officer. Mr. Johnson ordered Walker to turn his prisoner loose, but Walker told him to turn him loose and made a§ if to reach for his hip pocket. The officer shot him, and turned to shoot the other, but that one had run.. The ball hit Alston in the side just over the hip and glancing went down into the hip. \ The wounded man was taken to a Sanford hospital. Early Monday the ball had not been located, but the wound is not considered necessarily . Moncure News Letter Miss Elizabeth Farrell, the young est daughter of Mrs. Queen Farrell, has secured a position at the Bank of the Page Trust Co., Aberdeen. She spent last Sunday with her moth er here. Miss Rachel Black of Marshville is visiting her sister Mrs. Roy E. Cole this week. Mr. C. W. Womble is spending this week with his sister Mrs. Mary Bar ringer. We are sorry to state that James E. Cathell, the youngest son of Dr. James E. Cathell, was taken sudden ly last Friday night with appendi citis. He. was rushed to the Cen tral Carolina Hospital, Sanford! where he was operated- on. We hope ‘‘Jimmie” will soon i. recover, and be back at home and school with his many friends here. Mr. W. A. Burke, who died almost suddenly atfhis home, Haywopd, last Saturday ago, was burled at his old churchy Hririk’k Chapel last Tuesday in the'’ presence of friends and relatives. M# Burke moved his family here several years ago. He worked for the firm Walden & Thom as many years. - Thqugh weak phys , ically, he made a good and honest cit izen. He leaves a wife 4 rind several children, Mrs. Olinger of Florida, and Messrs Cary .and J.. W. Burke. The Epy^orth, League Held an, in teresting meeting at the M. E. church last Sunday evening at seven o’clock. Miss Ruth Womble,t one of the vice presidents in* .the* chair. MiSri Amey Womble was leader for evening,’ who made an interesting I 'talk on “God’s Part anti Our Part.” Then W. W. Stedman commented interest ingly on the “Results of Our Part nership with God.” Many of the citizens of Moncure attended Court at pittsboro today, Monday. Mrs. Dr. Budd* Durham, was bur ied at Haywood Presbyterian* church Monday afternoon at three o’clock. Mrs. Budd was a mehiber of the jnost prominent'families* of this state',, who before marriage was -a- Bryan. Her husband, who practiced at Lockville many years, was— a successful and highly esteemed physician. She leaves two sons, Walter P.~ Budd of the Budd-Piper Roofing co,, Durham, and Phil Budd of Moricure, and also a daughter, Mrs. Chamberlain of Lin colnton where she spent her last days. Mrs. Dr. Budd was a remarkable woman, who was pert and active to her last days and lived to a ripe old age of 80 years. The funeral ser vices were conducted by Rev. Jonas Barclay, J. Altofi' Mclver,, who used to be very much interested s in Hay-» wood church, and her local ipinister. Mrs. Budd was a good woman and highly esteemed wherever she was known. She was laid to rest under 1 masses of lovely floral designs. Dr. Dewey Dorsett, who has been i engaged in the banking business at ’ Siler City since he resigned as Uerk of the court has been made business manager of the Oval Oak Manufac turing Co., of Siler City, succeeding Mr. J. C. Lane. Glancing at the News News Rife from Pittsboro to Hankow and Brazil—A Glancing Review of Events. News is so rife and abundant this week, from Pittsboro to Hankow, that a littie paper would be swamped if it ; ried co cover it adequately. Here in ( C hatham have occurred four homicides ; within a week. Court is in session ; and important cases on the docket. : The legislature is in session and mo mentous questions of policy before it. Congress also is in session with the perplexing foreign questions largely absorbing the minds of members. In. China the lives o_ are threatened injnany provinces and tne jiations are takiug the utmost pre caution to protect their subjects. In Texas the trial of Rev. Dr. Nor ris for the murder of Chipps in the preacher’s office last summer is in progress. In this state the recur rence of mob law has held the atten tion of the courts and the public. Twelve Tiger Kiansmen of Craven county have been tried for undertak ing to whip young Mciiilwame and have received real penalties at the hands of Judge Cranmer. In Wake indictments are out for a dozen men for whipping a merchant of the county. In Durham, much criticism is being rendered because of the in activities of the officers of town and I county in trying to discover the iden tity of the hooded hoodlums who whip ped young roythress, a Chapel Hill mail carrier, taking him from a car in which he was riding with a young woman who has since been divorced by her husband on the admission/of both man and woman that they jiaa been criminally intimate. In Toonhbs, i county, Georgia, also, a trial of hriod , ed whippers has been in progress. The county has been largely demoral , ized by mobs and the last whipping was that of a lawyer who had prose ■ cuted men accused of murder. Even • in Virginia a belated move has been made to investigate the kiL.ng of a prisoner at Wytheviiic oy a moo. The stress in Mexico between that i country and America seems to have ! become less severe,. From doAvn in ' Brazil has coffie a scolding of the ; United States for its attitude. In Washington the irrepressible Senator Borah is leading those who! are pro testing the action of the ailmmistra . tiori in the Nicaraguan matter. Sec , retary Kellogg has addressed the sen ■ ate committee on fqftaignt * pi'bfG r "have Bol shevistic influences at work in Mex ico. His excuses for the attitude of the administration with respect to Mexico and the closely allied Nicar aguan imbroglio have been laughed 1 at as fictions of the imagination. TJie latest news is favorable for arbitra tion of the Mexico trouble. \ At Washington recommendations 1 ! have been made that new post offices be built at Greensboro and Asheville, and the old Durham post office is of fered for sale for the sum of $300,000, looking to the erection of a new building. Smith Richardson, president of the Vick Chemical Company, who after the removal of the bulk of the Vick business to another state, revealed the tax burdens upon such corporations as his in this state, in a speech at Charlotte has attacked the Greensboro News and the News and Observer, ac cusing them of trying to break up Governor McLean’s budget, system; The tax question in the state and leg islature is one of the matters of mo ment. FORMER CHATHAM WOMAN DIES Mrs. Anna C. Budd .Passes in Her 80th Year-r-Sister of J. E. : - Bryan, of Moncure : ■/ ■ ■ ' ‘ * - From Sunday's issue iof..the Dur ham Herald is clipped the followutg account of the life and death of Mrs. Anna C. Budd, relict of Dr. Budd of this county: • 1 Mrs. Anna Catherine Budd, widow of the late Dr. A. V. W; Budd,. Chat ham county, died yesterday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Frank H. Chamberlain, in Lincolnton. k. She was born October 15, 1847, in Haywood, N. C., the daughter of Cap tain Elias Bryan and Catherine Mc T Kay Bryan, and was an alumnae pf Saint Mary’s School, at Raleigh. She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Rose Budd Chamberlain, Lincolton; two sons, Phillip Van Wyck Budd, of Moncure, and Walter P. Budd, of Durham; one sister, Mrs. E. J. Par rish, of Durham; and three brothers, E. L. Bryan, of Durham, N. M. Bry an, Buie’s Creek, and J. E. Bryan, of Moncure. * ’• For the past several years she made her home with her sister, Mrs. E. <J, . Parrish, at Franklin Court apart ment in this city,. but it was while visiting hpr daughter in Lincolnton that her. fatal illness occurred.. She was a.■’member of the Haywood Presbyterian- church, near Moncure, where she recently attended a “home coming” as ' the only living charter \ member. She was a great favorite with children, and many of her lit tle friends will miss the loving kind ness of “Granny” Budd. The funeral v/ill be held Monday afternoon at 3 o’clock at the Haywood Presbyterian church, and she will be buried by the side of her husband and her son, E. Bryan Budd. Pall bearers will be A. H. Carr, S. C. Chambers, W. P. Whitaker, L. A. Tomlinson, T. F. Southgate, V. J. Harward, W. F. Carr, S. F. Darnell, and C. M. Carr. . fOL. 4*, Johnson Exonerated • Coroner’s Jury Declares Shooting of vValker Alston by Pittsboro Policeman Justified. To the surprise of the attending physician here who probed the wound and to the whole town, the shooting of Walker Alston, colored, by Police man Lacey Johnson Saturday evening proved fatal, Alston dying at a dan ford hospital Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Accordingly, Coroner Brooks em panelled a jury and held an inquest into the matter Tuesday night, or evening. t The jurors were W. L. Langley, J. T. B. and uscar retty, John orooawin, Cecil Lindley, and A. J. Bocme. The gist oi tne evidence was that Officer Johnson had arrested Henry Alston, coioied, under a warrant for oastaidy, and had carried him up to Attorney D. L. Beil’s office to meet the complainant with a view to ar ranging if possible a compromise. AH con ran irom Bell’s office, down the stairs and into the street follow ed by the officer. As they raced north ward, Waiker Alston, a orotrier of Henry, fell in behind Officer Johnson, chasing him as persistently as he the aiiegea culprit. Turning the corner at Womble’s store and passing tne store, the trio went behind the Womble store, where the policeman fired a shot to frighten the men. Walker' stopped near the store to talk to some other negroes, while the policeman approached Hen ry and started to rearrest him. Re sistance being made, Johnson knocked nis man down with his billet, started niin back toward the street, passing Walker and the bunch of negroes at the corner of the store. Walker fol lowed again, supposedly accompanied by the men with him, as the evidence was that there were eight or ten crowding about the officer when the fatal shooting took place. , Several times, according to the evi dence, Walker demanded with an oath that the officer loose his brother, say ing that he had done nothing. Sev eral times Johnson orderecl the men noc to crowd him. When they were approaching the Farrell builaing in which Mr. office is located, the men became so rowdy and pressed so closely that the officer backed up a gainst one of the littie wooden build ings on the west side of Main street, and told the men to stand off, that he had asked them the ihst time to quit pressing him. _ It this stage Atlas "'FmtreTl cranking his car rioticed the situation and left the car to approach the officer, whom he con sidered in a close place. Mr. Far rell testifies that the man who is dead apparently was reaching over - the snoulder of the man under arrest, trying to get hold of the officer or to cut him. Officer Johnson states, and his testimony was corroborated by other witnesses, that about this \tirne Walker reached toward his pock fit, or as one witness stated drew his hymd from his pocket. Will Alston, arfother brother, according, to Mr. Farrell, was pressing in front of the officer and other negroes crowding ab(j<ut. Again Walker with an oath demanded the release of his brother, and at this point Officer-Johnson ask ed them for the last time to stand off, ” and followed the demartd .with a shot. The bunch .(Scattered, leaving 'the alone. The wounded "Than ac* '* companied by his brother Will walked' ? •over to D.r. W. Chapin’s bffihej* ‘ where his wound was dressed. •“ ;V > Dr; Chapin not being able tdHocate ' the bullet directed ; that her be ri S3s!'eri to;a hospital. \ The doctor had hri id&a-'' that the shot Uvas fatal, it havffig JiiF. the hip and ranged, as well as r he j could determine, downward, m oti o.tr least not ' having taken a Straight ’ course into the body. • .. Witnesses testifying at the inquests ware Misses Mary Sue Poe and Cri*: milla Powel, who saw the..chase.prer7 ceding the rearrest and-saw the offi- * cer knock down • Henry / Alston, .als£ heard the pistol shot behind gtorOrt Atlas Farrell; and’three, men who were at or near the fell Case, Messrs. J. L. riier Mclntyre, and Jarhes Thomas. V* It yas late dusk when the jsbpot-v --ing occurred, this fact accounting for the lack of clearness with which s.Ome . of the/incidents were seen. • - V,* The. Alston boys have frequently been in court in recent years for makv ing or b selling whiskey. . s . - MRS. MARTHA CRUTCHFIELD > " PASSES AT AGE OF' 72 Mrs. Martha Crutchfield, one of the. most highly esteemed ladies of she county, died last Friday at the home of her daughter Mrs. Charles Wil-,. liams at Bynum, at the age of seven-! - ty-two. . ... ’, The burial took place at New Sa- , lem Baptist church Saturday after- - noon, Rev. R. R. Gordon, conducting the funeral services. Many beautiful floral tributes indi- *. cated the esteem in which this good lady was held.' Mrs. Crutchfield’s maiden name was Hicks, and she was a niece of Col. Wm. J. Hicks, fer many years war den of the state penitentiary. She was married twice, her first husband being a Mr. Pope, by whorii she had three children, Mr. Julian Pope, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Mesdames Charles Williams and John Abernethy of .Bynum. Mr. Pope was here for the burial. Mr. B. M. Dickens in the office Tuesday states that Sunday school at Christian Chapel will meet at 2 p. m. after this instead of ten o’clock, and hopes everybody will note #ie change and come out next Sunday.