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A RANDOLPH COUNTY PAPER FOR RANDOLPH COUNTY PEOPLE. .
VOL.6. NO, 20. ASHEBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1910. ONE DOLLAR A YEAR
Little Girl Murdered, i
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for Evidence.
, Asbury Park, N. J., Nov. 14
The brutal murder of little 9
year-old Marie Smith, whose
mutilated body was found on the
shore of Dead .Lake yesterday,
may ultimately cause two deaths.
Mrs. Peter Smith, the girl's
mother, is on the verge of insan
ity and attending physicians de
clared today that she may not
survive the shock.
An armed guard protected all
night the lock-up where Thomas
Williams, colored, and another
negro named Wynn, with whom
Williams lived, are under arrest.
The guard was lessened today,
but effective precautions are be
ing taken to prevent any out
break. The crime is the most brutal
in the history of New Jersey.
The little girl had been mistreat
ed and had been strangled with
her hair ribbon. Her clothing
was nearly torn from her body.
Her tiny fists were clinched above
her head as though she had
thrown up her hands to protect
herself. There was a long, deep
gash in the skull.
The chief of police hopes to
get evidence against Williams
today to charge him with the
crime. The negro, a big bulking
fellow, known as "Black Dia-
mond", is somewhat famous lo
cally as a prize fighter.
He was employed at the home
of Mrs. Delia Jackson, an aunt
of the little girl, and last Wed
nesday, when Marie disappeared
he was chopping down trees up
on Mrs. Jackson's estate. The
police believe that the gash on
the girl's head was made by Wil
liams axe. i
Both prisoners were put
through thei third degree today
in the hop of wringing a con
fession from them. Williams
was stolid' and stubborn, but
Wynn said that he knew noth
ing about the crime until the
finding of the body yesterday
and told a tolerably straight
story, although the lynch threats
which had been made against
the pair had frightened him un
til he was scarcely able to talk.
The assailant of the girl had
tried to remove the traces of his
crime by ' setting the woods on
fire. The body was covered by
leaves and brush, but had not
burned.
A stained towel and silk hand
kerchief were found in Wynn's
cabin by the police. These were
microscopically examined today
by medical authorities. Coroner
Robert W. Purdy had a physi
cian examine the remains of the
little victim today in order to
build up further the case against
the negro.
There were nicks in the blade
oi the axe which Williams was
using last Wednesday, and the
police declared that if they could
show by signs of blood that the
same weapon had been used in
striking the girl upon the head
the case against the negro would
be secure. The body was dis
covered by W. S. Benson, a
florist, who had searched the
woods about Asbury Park every
day since the child disappeared.
The suspicions of the police at
once turned against Williams.
He had two revolvers in his
possession when found. The po
lice compelled him to strip him
self of all his clothing. Marks
- looking like bloody finger prints
were detected upon his clothes.
A microscopic examination of
T9MForNe
A special from High Point to
Monday's Charlotte Observer
says:.
A delegation composed of
Messrs. W. J. Armfield, J. El
wood Cox, W. H. Ragan, F. N.
Tate, J. J. Farris and W. T.
Parker went over to Thomasville
yesterday afternoon to confer
with some of the business men
of that place in regard to the
proposed new county. The gen
tlemen from here were highly
pleased with the interest the
Thomasville people are taking
in the matter and everybody
here feels that the neighbor city
will do all it can to induce the
Legislature that meets in Jan
uary to create the new county.
A committtee of about twenty
was named yesterday, composed
of men representing all the sec
tions included in ' the territory
for the new county. Maj; Frank
S. Lambert of Thomasville was
elected chairman and Mr. J. L.
Armfield of Thomasville and Mr.
J. J. Farriss of High Point, sec
retaries. The members of this
committee will begin at once to
make an aggressive campaign
among the rural districts to as
certain the concensus of opion
ion in all the sections, and at the
same time explain to the people
the advantages of the new coun
ty. Saturday, November 26, a
general meeting of all interested
will be held at the school audi
torium in this city, at which
time the committee appointed
will make a report of the pro
gress that has been made. With
the interest that is now being
taken in the project and consider-
ing tne men wno are DacKing
the move, it begins to now look
like a sure go.
It is reported here that the
Ahseboro people will raise no ob
jection to giving up the section
of Randolph county that is in
cluded, because it is situated
from 25 to 30 miles from the
present county seat, making it
very inconvenient for these peo
ple to transact their legal busi
ness, Mr. J. E. Kirkman. one
of the newly elected Representa
tives from Guilford, is a resi
dent of this city and can be
counted upon for his hearty sup
port in the matter, and a num
ber of people here are of the
opinion that the State Senator
and other Representative, who
both live in Greensboro, will not
make a strong fight against the
move. Just what attitude Lex
ington people will take is not yet
known, but it seems hardly pro
bable that they will fight it since
Thomasville has expressed a
willingness to join the new coun
ty. All over the State fairmind
ed men readily see the need of
it and do not hesitate to say that
High Point should be the county
seat of a new county.
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door to Bank of Randolph.
these was made today to see if
they tallied with the prints of
the dead girl s fingers.
Further mystery was added
to the case today by the repor
that Mrs Jackson, the girl's aun
had been missing for two days.
The police were completely at
sea over this added mystery
element in the case.
A BLESSING IN DISGUISE.
Y
The Democratic Press in the
main, seems to think that the
Republican party is down and
out in this State for all the time,
on jaccount of the recent Demo
cratic landslide, but in this, they
will find themselves mistaken,
as they have been in most other
prophecies. While it is a little
hard for Republicans to see, in
the present defeat a blessing for
the future of the party, yet the
defeat is beyond question a bless
ing in disguise.
For the last few years we have
had too many factions in the par
ty for effective work.
The present defeat has taught
these factions that they must
get together and use their amu
nition on the enemy and not on
each other. It will not surprise
us to see a great Republican vic
tory follow this defeat in. 1912.
The Charlotte Chronicle has al
ready seen the handwriting- on
the wall and has the following
to say in a recent issue on this
line:
If there are those who think
that the Republican party in
this State will give up and quit,
they would do well to undeceive
themselves. There will be a new
alignment and a reorganization
of the forces for the presidential
year and the fight will be even
more vigerous than it was in the
recent campaign. It is not pro
bable, either, that the party will
have the handicap it labored un
der this year. The old scores
have been evened up, bloody
laees will oe wasned and tne
next campaign will see the Re
publicans united and out for busi
ness. The probabilities are, too,
that the Democrats will be forti
fied by too much confidence.
The licking of the Republicans
n this State will only do them
good and put them in a more
roublesome mood for the next
fight. Shelby Aurora.
A BOLD HOUSE ROBBERY.
There was a bold robbery just
outside the corporate limits of
Wadesbord Wednesday night
about 2 o'clock. Some one en
tered the home of Mr. Ed. S.
Marsh who lives on the Chester
field road and walked through
several rooms in which members
of the family were sleeping.
Entrance to the home was made
through a parlor window and it
is supposed that the burglar first
entered the room in which Mr.
Marsh and his sons sleep. Mr.
Otho Marsh found his pockets
had been robbed of about $2.50
in cash. The clothes of a young-
er son, t,a, were aiso searched
and among other things a New
Testament was stolen. Failing
to find Mr. Marsh's pants, the
burglar left this room and went
through others. While he was
in Mrs. Marsh's room, she heard
some noise and called to her hus
band. This alarmed the intru
der and he ran against a door
trying to escape. Finally he
found the window through which
he entered and got away before
Mr. Marsh reached the room.
There is no clue to the robbery.
Wadesboro Ansonian.
Only Once.
The fool must be answered
according to his foily. Says a
writer in the Kansas City Jour
nal: "How often does your road kill
a man?" asked a facetious travel
ing salesman of a Central Branch
conductor the other day.
"Just ouce," replied the conductor.
UNJON COUNTY MURDERER TO BE
ELECTROCUTED.
The Supreme Court has affirm- i
ed the conviction of Charles B.
Plyler, who was tried at Monroe
early in August last for the mur
der of Carter Parks,1 his brother-in-law.
Plyler was tried with
two negroes, George Mayhew
and John McManus, and the jury
returned a verdict of guilty of
murder in the first degree against
Plyler and Mayhew, and not
guilty as to McManus. Plyler
was sentenced to death in the
electric chair on September 15,
but sentence was not passed up
on Mayhew. Justice Allen tak
ing under consideration a mo
tion to set aside the verdict
against him. Plyler got a stay
of execution pending his appeal,
and now the Governor will set
the day of execution upon re
ceiving a copy of the Supreme
Court's certification to the Union
county superior court of the af
firmance of the sentence.
Plyler and Mayhew were taken
to the Lee county jail immediate
ly after their conviction, their
counsel having made a motion to
that effect on the ground that
they would not be safe in the
Union county jail because of the
alleged strong feeling against
them in this county, and the mo
tion was granted. The sheriff
of Lee county has just reported
that Plyler tried to kill himself
when he got the news that his
sentence had been, affirmed.
Democratic Majorities In Randolph.
The county canvassing board
met in Asheboro last Thursday
and went through the form of
canvassing the election returns.
Below is given the majorities as
reported, but their correctness
is not vouched for by the Bulle
tin: ,
Auditor, Col. W. P. Wood, 125.
Hon. Robert. N. Page, Con
gress, 127.
Clerk of Court-W. C. Ham
mond, 188.
Sheriff-J. W. Birkhead, 198;
Coroner Dr. Thomas I. Fox,
256.
Treasurer J. P. Phillips, 258.
Surveyor-J. D. Welch, 271.
For House-O. R. Cox, 273; H.
B. Carte, 286.
Register of Deeds G. T. Mur
dock, 325.
For Senator Charles A. Arm
strong, 261. '
Col. R. L. Leinster Succeed
Gen.
Armfield,
Governor W. W. Kitchin has
issued a commission to Col. R L
Leinster as Adjutant General of
the North Carolina national
guard, to succeed the late Gen.
J. F. Armfield. Colonel Lein
ster was for 15 years closely as
sociated with General Armfield
in military service and was in
charge of guard headquarters
at Statesville since the death of
his life long friend and superior
officer, whom he now succeeds.
Asheboro Rt. 3.
The ground is getting too hard
to plow in this section.
Miss Angie Spencer spent the
past week at home.
Chester Bulla spent Sunday at
Mrs. Spencer's.
Mrs. A. E. Tillman who has
been ill for several days does not
improve much.
Misses Ida and Ethel Lowe,
and Emma Ridge visited at Mrs.
Jeff Vuncannon s Sunday.
Mrs Henry Osborne and dano-h-
ter are visiting at J. W Yeargin's
I this week.
THANKSGIVING DAY-ORPHANS'
DAY.
The work of the orphanages of
North Carolina appeals most
strongly to reason and to sym
pathy. These institutions are
worthy of the heartiest support
of our people and they have a
large place in their interest and
gifts and efforts.
At the Thanksgiving season
minds and hearts turn especially
toward our orphanages and
many are the practical expres
sions of gratitude made to this
cause by a people richly blessed.
These love-prompted gifts to
carry on this blessed work with
these little ones surely must be
acceptable to God, the Father of
the fatherless.
It seems that, here in North
Carolina, Thanksgiving Day has
been specially set apart as "Or
phans' Day" and we rejoice that
this is true. The contributions
made at this season help very
much indeed in the support of
our various orphanages.
We trust that even larger of
ferings will be made at this
Thanksgiving season than ever
before to the end that these insti
tutions may be the better able to
perform their service. They
need funds for maintenance, for
improvement and for the exten
sion of the work.
THE REV.
IRL R. HICKS
ALMANAC.
1911
The Rev. Irl R. Hicks Alama
nac for 1911, that guardian An
gel in a hundred thousand homes
1 B.
is no.v ready. iNot many are
now willing to be without it and
the Rev. Irl R. Hicks Magazine
Word and Works. The two are
only One Dollar a year. The
Alamanac is 25c prepaid. No
home or office should fail to send
for them, to Word and Works
Publishing. Co., St. Louis, Mo.
PREVENTIVE TREATMENT FOR
OAT AND WHEAT SMUT.
Bulletin 212 of the North Caro
lina Agricultural Experiment
Station by Dr. F. . L. Stevens
which has just appeared from
the press gives full directions
for preventing the various smuts
of oats and wheat. These are
due to little living parasitic
plants which grow within the
wheat and oat plants. They
cause large loss, cutting down
the yield of grain often as much
as 20 percent or even 30 percent,
while the stinking smut of wheat
does much greater damage by
injuring te, milling quality of
the grain. The formalin treat
ment which is thoroughly effect
tive and costs almost nothing, is
described and recommended for
oat smut. The same treatment
is even more effective than the
ordinary blue-stone treatment
for the stinking smut in wheat.
The loose smut of wheat can be
prevented by a modified hot wat
er treatment coupled with separ
ate growth of seed in a protected
seed plat. Director C. B. Wil
liams, West Raleigh, N. C.
states that those diseases cause
thousands upon thousands of
dollars of loss every year to the
oat and wheat crops of the State
and that this bulletin was pro
pared especially to give farmer?
at this time the latest and most
effective means of combating
these diseases. He states that a
j i i n i . Hi
copy or tnis 1 ouneun may ua se
cured by any resident of North
Carolina free of cost upon appli
cation to him.
POLITICAL CORRUPTION REBUKED.
We haven't any tear? for Sena
tor Bob Taylor, who was defeat
ed for governor in Tennessee
Tuesday by the fusion candidate,
nominated by the Republicans.
We believe in the Democratic
party and what it stands for as
a party and we also believe firm
ly in the principle of party gov
ernment, but when the people,
who compose a party in any Sec
tion of the country, do that for
which they should be punished,
we are not opposed to seeing
them get their medicine. No,
sir, we are not for our party,
"right or wrong." Taylor sac
rificed himself trying to save
the Patterson element of the
party from defeat and there was
a lot of talk about the "saving
the party at any cost". The
party, or rather the crowd who
called themselves "the party",
didn't deserve being saved after
disregarding the moral side of
about every question that faced
it and standing for the lowest
order of politics. If such men
dominated the party all over the
country and it stood everywhere
else as it has done there; we
would change our politics. Nei
ther friendship, gratitude nor
party allegiance demands that
we do that which is wrong for
the sake of favoring any person
or party. Wadesboro Ansonian.
The Tennessee spirit would
put the ringsters.out of business
in Randolph. But at present
Randolph county people would
rather submit than resist. Some
Randolph people seem to enoy
corruption and bossism.
THE PESSIMIST.
There are some people who
are always "looking for trouble".
If it rains they, are sure the
crops will be drowned out before
itstops,'and if it is dry, they
are sure that everything will be
burned up before it rains. Their
discouraging outlook is like that
of an old lady who watched the
first trial of a new trolley line in
her town.
A crowd had gathered to see
the first car make its initial trip.
A great deal of preparatory work
seemed to be required by the
motor-man, and as the people
stood and watched every move
ment, this old lady, to whom the
idea of a car being able to move
without any visible propelling
power was incomprehensible,
kept remarking, ''It'll never go.
It'll never go."
Finally everything was adjust
ed to the motor-man's satisfac
tion. He turned the switch, and
the car sped away down the
track
The old lady's eyes opened
wide. She watched the car for
a moment, and then with amaze
ment still written upon her fea
tures, but with firm conviction
in her voice, she turned once
more to the crowd and said, 'It'll
never stop!"
Ramseur.
Mr and Mrs J. H. Yow of
Greensboro but formerly of
Ramseur visited at B. S. Scott's
Sunday and Monday.
W. H. Watkins recently pur
chased two beautiful cornan
pigeons, the first ever seen here.
A. L. Jones is displaying a
beautiful line of vases, bowls,
dashes and numerous Xmas goods
Jesse Brown and Mrs Benja
min Cheek two of our most high
ly esteemed colored citizens were
joined together in holy bonds of
wedlock Nov. 13, the interesting
ceremony being performed by
Rev. D. J. Emerson of Sanford