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DOLLAR DAY IN SALISBURY SEPTEMBER THE TWENTIETH WEATHER FORECAST Probably rain tonight in t lie cast (Sunday fair and cooler. aHtairy EvemSinig Posit MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ONE EDITION 2 CPNTS VOL. 13. NO. 216. SALISBURY. NOKTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY. SF.PTK.. 15. 1917. PK1CK TWO CENTS DEMAND ON MEANS CERTAIN DOCUMENTS Solicitor Clement Secures Order From Judge Cline. Now Hold ing Court in Salisbury. MEANS REFUSES TO GIVE UP PAPERS DEMANDED Papers and Documents in Posses sion of N. Y. District Attor ney to Be Sent to Salisbury Hayden Clement, Esq., solictior of this judicial district, who on Monday, September 24th is to re-open the King killing cast; at Concord, made affidavit in due form for possession of certain papers and documents be lieved to be in the possession of (las- ton B. Means and Mrs. Melvin, sister of Hrs. Maude A. King, and who is now in Concord. This affidavit was presented to Judge E. B. Cline. whi is now presiding oer the Rowan Su perior court in Salisbury. Judge Cline then issued an order on fchc Sheriff Caldwell, of Cabarrus county, instructing jthat official to deniand , of Gaston Means and Mrs. Melvin the papers and documents enumerated in the affidavit of Solicitor Clement. These papers were served on the above parties by officers acting for the sheriff of Cabarrus Friday after noon and word to Solicitor Clement last night was to the effect that Gas ton B. Means had refused to surren der the papers demanded. Solicitor Clement was unable to sav last night what the next step would be. Judge Cline had retired for the night am no further action was outlined al that time. The affidavit of Solicitor Clement, sworn to before a notary public, and presented to Judge Cline, and the lat ter's order on Sheriff Caldwell, of Ca barrus county, follow: REBELLIOUS LEADERS IN RUSSIA ARRESTED ! DIE NOVEMBER 9 BAXTER CAIN TO MADAM II AY F. iOI JOINED A COM MI'MTV kl'K'IIKN Generals Korniloil, Lokomsky Romanovsky Now in .Charge of Provisional Government. Slayer of Abell Harris Sentenced to Die in the Electric Chair at Raleign on Friday. ULTIMATE FATE OF THREE ! JUDGE CLINE SPEAKS OF MEN CAUSING DISCUSSION ! STRONG CHAIN OF EVIDENCE 4 Tie. t Rebellion Is Now Definitely at an End Actual Military Revolu tionist Commits Suicide. Condemned Man Will Be Taken ' to the Penitentiary to Await ! the Dayof Execution. j North Carolina, Rowan county. In the matter of the Heath of Mrs. Maude A. King. To Honorable E. B. Cline, Judge presiding and holding the Court of the Fifteenth Judiscial District: Hayden Clement, being duly sworn, says: That he is the Solicitor of the Fifteenth Judicial District, and that lie is nov investigating the facts and circumstances relative to the death of Mrs. Maude A. King in Concord, N. C, on August, 29th, 1917; that he has reason to believe, does believe, that Gaston B. Means and Mrs. Mel vin are now in Concord and that they have in their possession certain pa pers, cancelled checks, letters, tele grams, bank books and other docu mentary evidence, including a pur portad Will of the husband of Mrs. Maude King, and that said papers will have an important bearing upon said investigation now pending and that in his opinion there is grave dan ger that said 'papers, cancelled checks, letters, tlegrams, bank books and other documentary evidence now in the possession of Gaston B. Means and Mrs. Maizie Melvin will either be destroyed of removed from the ju risdiction of this Court. This affiant is also advised by Hon. Edward Swann, district attor ney of New York, that he has in hir. possession certain documentary ev idence which will be of great assist ance in the investigation of this mat ter; that in the opinion of this affiant it is absolutely necessary that all of the afore mentioned documents.be im pounded and preserved in a safe place awaiting further developments. Wherefore, affiant prays: That this Court serve an order on Gaston B. Means and Mrs. 'Mazie" Melvin to immediately turn over and deliver to the Sheriff of aj)arrus county all papers, cancelled checks, letters, telegrams and other documentary ev idence bearing upon or in anywise connected with their transactions with Mrs. Maude A. King, together with the purported Will of the late husband of Mrs. Maude A. King, and that the same, tigether with the doc umentary evidence now in the poss ession of Hon. Edward Swann be impounded to await further devel opment Dated this, the 13th day of Septem ber, 1917. HAYDEN CLEMENT. (By Associated Press.) Perograd, Sept. 15. General Korn iloff, leader of th recent rebellion against the provisional government, and General I.okonsky, the commend t of the Northern front, who refus ed to take command of the Russian armies after General Korniloff was deposed, have been arrested. News of the arrest of General Korniloff was first conveyed in a tel egram received by Kerensky from Alexiff , the chief jf staff. So far on ly the following details have been re ceived : "At 10 o'clock last night Kqrniloff and Lokomsky and Romanovsky were arrested." General Korniloff's rebellion hai come definitely to an end with his arrest and that of General Lokomsky commander on the Russian northerr front who joined the commander-in chief in the revolt. The actual mili tary leader in the rebellious move ment Kaymoff, is dead from self-inflicted wounds. The ult.rnate fate of the arrested "auers is causing wiutr uisiuwiuu i Russia. The Russian army on the Riga front continues to display a fighting spirit and has scored new advances Three additional towns have been oc cupied by the Russians, one of these occupations following the defeat o Germans o nthe road to Pskoff. The heavy attacks by the Germans north of Courieres wood on the Ver dun front yesterday netted little ad vantaee. Paris reports .they wer. ejected last night from the greater part or tne trencnes occupiea. Two surprise attacks were launched by the troops of the Crown Prince in the Champagne but were wepulsed. On the Flander front the British last nieht advanced their lines slight ly by attacks east of Westhoek. They held the irround gained during the day near St. Jullien in the fact of a German counter blow. North Carolina,: Rowan county. In the matter of the Death of Mrs. Maude A. King. To the Sheriff of Cabarrus county. Greeting: It appearing from the affidavit of Hayden Clement, hereto attached that Gaston B. Means and Mrs. Mazie Mel vinvin are now in Concord, Cabarrus county, and that they have in their possession certain papers, cancelled checks, letters, telegrams, bank books and other documentary evidence some of the same belonging to Mrs. Maude A. King, deceased, and the others bearing upon nd connected with their transactions with Mrs. Maude A. King, deceased, and that they also have in their possession a purported Will of the late husband of Mrs. Maude A. King, and ihat the said papers, etc., have an important bearing upon an investigation now pending relative to the death ot Mrs. Maude A. King, und that there is grave danger that the said papers, cancelled checks, letters, etc., will be lost or destroyed; Now, therefore, you are hereby commanded to fortwith make demand upon and receive from Gaston B. Means and Mrs. Mazie Melvin all papers, cancelled checks, letters, tel egrams, bank books and other docu mentary evidence belonging to Mrs. Maude A. King, or in any manner related or connected with their al leged transactions with Mrs. Maude A. King, together with the purported Will of the late husband of Mrs. Maude A. King, and that you forth with deliver the same to J. F. McCub bins, clerk of the Superior court of Rowan county. It is further ordered, that the said J. F. McCubbins immediately impound and safely keep it his safe or vaults all of the said documents herein re ferred to. It is further ordered, that all the documentary evidence now in the pos session of Hon. Edward Swann be sent to the said J. F. McCubbins and by hi malso impounded and safely keep in his safe or vaults awaiting fur ther developments in the matter of the death of Mrs. Maude A. King. It is further ordered, that the Clerk of the Superior Court immediately mail a certified copy of this order to Hon. Edward Swann, District Attor ney of New York. Dated this, the 13th day of Septem bed, 1917. E. B. CLINE, Judge presiding. Solicitor Has Nothing New. SolL-itor Clement was seen this morning and stated that there wag nothing new in the case and nothing further could be given out for pub lication at that time. Again at noon Mr. Clement was seen and asked if any new developments -had transpir ed and stated that so far as he knew there was nothing. - When asked as to what the next move would be, es pecially In the matter f Gaston B. (Continued on Paga 3.) The last duty performed by Judge E. B. Cline in disposing of the crimi nal docket of Rowan Superior court. September term today was the pass ing of the death sentence on Baxter i Cain, colored, convicted rtf first de gree murder for the killing of Abell Harris, also colored, at the car bains of the street railway company in this city on the night of August 2-lth. The prisoner was brought into court and Solicitor Clement prayed the judgment of the court. Attorney Pric then made a few remarks and stated that the agent for the artifi cial limb company of which Cain had purchased a leg and for which h paid $50 the morning after the kill ing, had arrived in Salisbury after all of the evidence- was in and bad stated that Cain was not being press ed for the balance due on the leg. He found no fault with the jury and spoke of the great duty the court wa? called upon to peiform. Judge Cline before passing sen tence, made a few remarks in which he touched on some phases of the case. He was deeply moved by the solemn duty which he was about to perform, pronouncing the death sen tence on a human being, but it was k duty from which' no one should shirk. He said it was not the first time he had been called upon to per form a like duty and that when such confronted him he felt that "this cup might pass from me." Judge Cline was very much affected an'd said after the perormance of such a sad and solemn duty one always felt as though something had gone out of his life. ' In touching on the case Judge Cline indicated the belief of the court that the jury could not have done other wise than returned the verdict it did. He said the state had wound about the prisoner a chain of circumstan tial evidence that was almost unswer able, and that it left no room to con nect any other person with the crime. He said the torn one dollar bill paid by the prisoner to Mr. Denny at t tie hotel the next morning and of a like bill having been taken in by a car conductor and deposited in the safe was in his opinion the strongest link in the unbroken chain of evidence This Coupled with the fact that $27.20 in small change was ffcund in the prisoners barn and this money to gether with the amount paid for the leg being identically the amount shown to have been deposited in thi robbed safeon the night of the mur der made a chain of evidence con clusive to him. The other evidence was touched upon. Judge Cline in his remarks pre- ceeding the pronouncing of the death sentence said the murder of Abell Harris was one of the foulest ever coming under his recollection. Judge Cline referred to the unus ual and unforseen incident occurring after a jury had been selected and the prisoner arraigned, in which one ju ror stated that he had conscientious scruples against imposing the death penalty on circumstantial evidence, and of making a mistrial of the case, drawing another jury and proceed ing. He said he hoped the prisoner would not place too much reliance on securing another hearing on this point. His. Honor said he could only point him to One who was able to give help and urged the condemened "man to place his hope in Him. The judgment of the court was then pro nounced, the prisoner standing, and it was to effect that he be taken by the sheriff of the county to the state prison in Raleigh and there confined until Friday, November 9th, on which day he should be put to death in the electric chair. At the close of this solemn cere- money Baxter l.ar.i was lea nacK to jail by three deputies o remain until he is taken to tht penitentiary to await the execution of the court's judgment, or until his case is disposed of by the Supreme court, it being un derstood that his case will be carried before that tribunal. The codemned man stood up during Judge Cline's talk and showed not a quiver, although the half-way smile that had been on his face during the coroner's investigation and afterward, disappeared and he had a far away loo. He walked back to lis seat and then was taken in charge by officers, not murmuring a word the whole time. h - .-lisivtiS row St.; ' t- 1 L ULAALLISONFQuND NOT GUILTY MURDER i rxmx mm l) ' 'turn -V" imm i . f t Jkmmm m ill mni limn Heie i.s a community kitchen, which J which occupies tliiuy acres of the old some well-known women have estab- golf links of the Woodinere Club. A lished at Woodmere, L. I., to show tertnin amount, of acreage has been cooks how to preserve surplus fiuit.s givttn over to the raising of perisr and vegetables against a possible ' able vegetables, which will be sold scarcity this winter. to the members of the community, The kitchen it; being run in con- as they are or put up in the canning junction with the Community Farm, j kitchen. The kitchen serves the rich land poor alike. Both are taught to preserve their vegetable and fruit surplus, which to a laifee extent in I'oimer years has gone to waste. 'I he ph.)to show.i members of the Community Kitchen blunching vege tables and '.terlliring Jars, showing also the specially (iFtdgned gas stove, which give free access to the boilein. GERMAN U BOAT IS SEEN OFF COAST S. 0. S. Calls Sent Out by an Un known Ship Said to Have Been Shelled by Submarine. INCIDENT OCCURRED OFF EASTERN COAST OF U. S. ECKHARDT DENIES USING CRNH British Ships Report They Were Cautioned to Look Out for Un desea Craft on This Side. (By Associated Press.) An Atlantic Port, Sept". 15. A Brit ish steamer arriving here today re ported that early this morning . wirelss S. O. S. call was heard stat ing that the ship from which the message came was being shelled by a German submarine, at a location fiu miles southeast of Nantucket light ship. The name of the ship attack ed did not come clear, only the wonts "addy," presumably the last half of the name, being caught. Additional information that the submarine was in the Eastern Atlan tic was brought by another British liner arriving here today from an English port. The officer of the lin er said he was instructed to watch out for U-boatf? when nearing tha American coast. The place where the ship is report ed to have been attacked is in the vicinity where a German submarine sunk five vessels on a visit to Amer ican waters in October l!lf. U, 53 under command of Lieuten ant Hans Rose appeared in Newport harbor October 7th and a?ter three hours stay put to sea. The next re port of her activity was when the American steamer Kansan, since gunk, was stopped off Nantucket but allowed to proceed after establish ing her identity. German Minister to Mexico Says That, He Barely Knows Charge and Did Not Use Him. DENIES KNOWLEDGE OF WASHINGTON CHARGES Declarer That It Is a Case of American Intrigrui to Discredit Germany and Her Diplomats PRICE ON HEAD OF AMERICAN SOLDIER German General Offers Four Hun dred Marks for First American. Dead or Alive, Brought to His Lines. (By Associated Press.) British Headquarters in France and Belgium, Sept. 15 The German general commanding the 11th reserve division recently put a price of 400 marks on the first American soldier brought, dead or alive, in his lines. RED CROSS NURSES. Workers of the American Red Cross ArrWe in France Sister of Secre tary Lansing. (By Associated Press.) Bordeaux, France, "Sept. 15. A steamship arrived today from New vork having aboard 15 American Red Cross workers, among them being three sisters of Secretary of States Robert Lansing. They were assigned to a canteen station. Miss Marie Eloise Kinard has re turned to the State Normal College at Greensboro. (By Associated Press.) Mexico City, Sept. 15. Heinrich Von Eckhardt, the German ministci to Mexico, in a statement made pub lic tonight, denied everything in con nection with the disclosures that had been made at Washington to effect that he had been employing a former Swedish Charge de Affaires, to con vey information to the Berlin office. Von Eckhardt de-dared further that he did not know personally th Charge de Affairei who was named as having been so used. He .aid that only in a formal way had he even met the man, then being introduced at a reception for foreign representatives by the personal whose duty it was to formerly piesent diplomats to each other. He said that it was only an American intrigue for the purpose of bringing discredit to Germany and her diplomatic representatives. Von Fckhardt declared further that he had not sent any communication through Folke Cfwiholm, and t that he never had suggested thst he be decorated for his services. In Which the Minister i.s Brought Into the Intrigue. Washington, Sept. 14. -The State department published today the sf ond chapter in thc history of the in trigue between Germany nncj Sweden, whereby the Stockholm foreign office allowed its diplomatic representatives in neutral countries to act as shields for the Kaiser's representatives in violation of neutrality. Today's, chapter consists of an in tercepted cablegram from Herr von Ecl.hardt, the fJerman minister at Mexico Citj urging the Chancellor to have the Kaiser decorate Folke Cron- holm, the Swedish Charge, for abus ing his diplomatic immunities by se cretly handling correspondence for Berlin. In asking that the Kaiser decorate the Sweiliah minister, von Eckhardt enjoined the Chancellor that secrecy must be preserved lest the Allies discover Cronholm's dual activities. "He Is the only diplomat through whom information rom a hostile camp can be obtained," vonEckhardt cabled to his superior in urging the claims of his Swedish friend. British Steamer bn Fire. (By Associated Press.) A South American Port, Sept. 15. A British steamer bound from a North American port for South America put in here today on fire, which threatened the lives of the pas sengers and crew. Among the first class passengers were a number of Americans. GOLDSBORO HAS NEAR CLQUDBURS T People Forced to Flee From Their Homes in Their Night Clothes to Places of Safety. GREAT DAMAGE INFLICTED TO PROPERTY AND CROPS Washout on Atlantic Coast Line Causes Train Wreck and Kill in; of One Trainman. (By Associated Press.) Goldsboro, Sept. 15. As a result of the hardest rainfall in the history of Goldsboro and Wayne county the tenement house district of the city was flooded by three feet of water this morning and two bridges, one of concrete, were washed away when a -tream known as "Big Ditch," which misses through the lower end of the dtv was flooded out of its banks No lives were lost so far as known. The ruin started .it 5 o'clock Friday afternoon and conliued until 7 o'clock his morning. The water is now rap idly receeding. The damage report ed to property and crops amounts to hous.tinh of dollars. Reports coming from the county are that crops are badly damaged if not totally destroy ed in some sections. Several large mill pond dams are reported to havo broken loose and bridges over small streams are reported to lyive been washed away. At 10 o'clock this morning many ted inns of the city are still under water and many dead animals can bo ecu in the wake of the rushing wa ters. Street railway and other -traf fic has been demoralized. Meagre reports from nearby towns report the damage heavy there. While no deaths are reported many people had narrow escapes and were forced to leave their homes early in the morning in their night clothes. !n the eastern part of the city men arriod their wives and children to safety in water up to their necks. W ashout Causes Train Wreck. Wilmington, Sept. 15. Thomas Moore, white, a brakeman is believed to have been killed when an Atlantic Coast Line freight train was derail ed near Rose Hill, 45 miles from here this morning at 2.:0 o'clock, the re-1 suit of a washout. Officials of the company said the engineer and fire man were slightly injured. Nine, cars and the engine left the track, ! which was considerably torn up. This j was the only serious accident as the j result of last night's storm. Over four inches fell doing big damage to roads, bridges and beach property. The wind attained a velocity of 40 miles an hour. Central Over North Carolina. Washington, Sept. 15. Disturbanc es in the South Atlantic were central today near the North Carolina coast and northeast (ales, accompanied by excessive rain occurred in that vicin ity. The central rain area covered the Middle and South Atlantic state. Storm warnings have been displayed from Nantucket to Charleston. Statesville Negress Wins Case, Contending Killing of Anna Cullough Was in Defense. HENRY LEWIS GETS THREE AND A HALF YEAR8 For Slaying of Harry Esterming er in East Spencer During a Gambling Game in February For the first time in a number of I yearn the first week IH Rnwan-Supe- I rior court, which is the week devoted to criminal cases, is in session on flat I unlay. Seldom ha:i the first week run I a full week, but three murder cases ! on the docket for thin term made thi. j neccss.irv. However, the criminal i docket is nearing an end, all three murder cases having been disposed of, af well as other cases. Court will i e-assemble Monday morning with .ludgu E. B. Cline on the bench and next week will be devoted to the civil docket. Of the three murder rases disposed of the first was that Henry Lewis, colored, for the killing of Harry Es terminger, also colored, in a gambling game in East Spencer last February. Lewis is the man arrested in Pitts luig, Pa., and who jumped from a car window while Leing brought back to Salisbury, this occurring just out 'of Hairlsburg, Pa. After the evi dence was all in Lewis' attorneys agreed to submit to murder in the second degiee. This was all the so licitor was contending for and the case did not go to the jury. Lewis was sentenced just Iwfore court ad journed Friday afternoon, being giv en thioe years and six months on the county roads. Judge Cline wanted to be sure he would be kept safe in Row tin, otherwise he would have sent him to the state prison.' The'other murder case was thsf of Baxter Cain charged with Hhe kill ing fit Abell Harris at the car barns in this city. He was found guilty of muider in the first degree. Sentener has not yet been pronounced. The third murder case was that in which Ljh Allison, colored, of Statesville, was placed on trial charg ed with murder in the second degrea for the killing of Anne McCol!ough, colored, in this city May 30th, at a dance hall. The prisoner contended she acted in self defense, that the deceased had been nagging at her and had knocked her across several chairs, grabbed her in the breast ami was making at her with a hat pin when she stabbed her. The jury be lieved her contention and found her not guilty. W. H. Welsh and Baxter Sheets, who were convicted of an assault wero fined $30 each and 'ach to pay half of the costs. Will Bends, a young white man, charged with transporting liquor in-, to the stite in a quantity greater than one quart, and for some one else, was found guilty. This case went up from the county court. He was fined $100 and costs. John Perkins, colored, was indicted on three counts, being charged with breaking in and entering the Grimes mill, stealing flou;- and receiving flour knowing it to have been stolen. - He was found guiltv on the last charge, although the state was getting pretty warm after him on the first and sec ond indictments. He was sentenced to five months on the roads. In the case of John W. Kerr, ad judged guilty in the county court of having liquor in his possession for the purpose of sale and carried up, the court, after hearing something of the man's past life, his age and finan cial circumstances imposed a prison sentence of ninety days, not to be enforced, however, within two years unless the defendant, (violated the pro hibition. laws during that time. Two 'cases regarding payment of special license tax were heard befor noon and this ended the criminal -docket with the exception of pro- nouncing the death sentence on Bax ter Cain, convicted of first degree murder for the killing of Abell Har ris. After this last duty had been performed, at 12:45 the criminal docket was comp'eted and court ad- , jouined until Monday morning at Jt o'clock, at which time the civil dock et will be taken up " -t Judge Cline spends Sunday at his home in Hickory, returning to Sal- . isbury on No. 36 Monday momirig to : be here for another week hearing, the trial of civil cases. '; V . ,' Tht city public schools open Moiw day morinr at 9 o'clock at the several school buildings. The pupils will at tend the schools as outlined recently by the school board and which was published in the Post
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