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V Yi 13 A RANDOLPH COUNTY PAPER FOR RANDOLPH XCUNTY F EC PI,F. VOL NO. 21. ASHE BOKO, K. C, THURSDAY, -N OVEMBER. 30, 1911.- - ONE DOLLAR A 1?EAR etfiinL Confessed His Golit Before His Execution Beattie Signed Statement, Confessing Murder J his Wife History ot tiie Crime. Richmond, Nov. 24 Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., was electrocut ed in the state prison this morn ing at 7:23. One minute after the shock he was pronounced dead. Sometime before his execution, Beattie made the following con fession: "I, Henry Clay Beattie Jr., desirous of standing right before God and man, do on this the 23rd day of November, 1911, confess my guilt of the crime charged against me. Much that was published concerning the details was not true, but the awful fact, without the harrowing circum stances remains. For this action, I am truly sorry, and, believing that I am at peace with Cod and am soon to pass into his presence, this statement is made." After the above confession was signed the attending minister gave out the following statement. "This statement was signed in the presence of the two ministers and is the only statement that can and will be made public by them. Mr. Beattie desired to thank the many friends for kind letters and expressions of interest and the public for whatever sympathy was felt or expressed. " Story of The Murder. The crime for which Henry Clay Beattie, Jr.,. was executed was one of the most sensational in the criminal history of Virginia. Interest in the murder was country-wide owning to its unusual features and the swift movement of justice. On the night of July 19, last. Beattie drove his automoble into Richmond, carrying with him the body of his wife which had a gaping shot gun wound in the head. He declared that a tall bearded man had accosted him on the Midlothian turnpike, Ave miles from Richmond and when he requested the man to make room for him in the road the stranger without warning had fired the shot which killed Mrs. Beattie. He added that he grap pled with the man but was over powered and the murderer had fled leaveing the gun behind. This story of the crime was maintained by Beattie to the end. For a brief time Beattie 's story was given some degree of credence, but within a day or two suspicion begin to point to him and he was kept under closest surveillance. Bloodhounds, taken to the scene of the crime, refus ed to leave the place, circling around the bloodspots on the road. Beattie it eventually transpired had thrown the shotgun into the tonneau of his automobile after the shooting but in passing over some railroad track not far from from the scene it had been jolted out and was picked up later by a negress. This gun, which Beattie alleged had belonged to the mystrious highwayman, proved the means of sending the young man to the electric chair. At the corner's inquested the weapon was identified by Paul Beattie, a second cousin of young Henry, as the weapon he had purchased for Henry with money furnished by the latter. Beattie was arrested immediately after the inquest. This was on July 21, and on August 19, one month after the day of the murder, the trial was begun before Judge Walter A. Watfield County Court- CTeillSll&wlrJersEs.!aJ SCHOOL TERM TCO SHORT. One hundred and one days of .schooling for the poor children of North Carolina; ten months for j the heathen children of Japan. That is the record, gentlemen of the jury; take the case. And we are not too poor to improve that record either. We give $609,000 from the treasury direct to our high schools and colleges; we give $225,000 from the treasury direct to our public schools. Those in our high schools and colleges j ire strong and stalwart boys and girls and young men and maidens, who have seen the light and who could manage somehow to make their way if the State did not fur nish them a dollar those in our public schools are the children of the highways and hedges whose only chance for light is in the little school house by the road. The next legislature ought to make a direct appropriation of not less than $500,000 to our pub lic schools. Of course those who take no interest in the children of the woods will laugh at this suggestion and call it the moun th ings of an ignoramus; but the people of North Carolina are not blind and they are not fcols. They know a thing or two themselves, and they know that our appropira tion can be doubled and that it ought to be doubled. Further more they can compel the Legis lature to double it, if they will. We do not hesitate to say that cur present educational policy is wrong and ought to be changed. We have allowed certain leaders to magnify the top rail and ignore the botjOxii. All the emphasis is . j. i 4. u.,4. ; t I I I II II I I 1 1 I ; t I T 1 I ( 1 " . 111 C 111 I importance, namely, the schcol for those already strong and no emphasis is laid, upon that other class of schools that are trying in their, poor way to save the needy and the weak! Oh for some powerful champion to arise and demand that the children of the woods be given adog's chance! The people of North Carolina would rally to such a man and crown him with their honor. They are everlastingly tired of the dapper fellows who claim that the way to reach the bottom is to begin at the top. We have been working at the top for years, and have lengthened our pubiic school term to one hundred and one days! There is a strong deep under current in favor of better public schools that only needs expression. Happy the man in our public life would hitherto suppressed and silent. Charity and Children. house, sixteen miles from here. The jury was made up almost entirely of farmers, and on this fact Beattie based his claim that he had been convicted, not for the murder of his wife, but be cause of his relations with Beulah Binford, a notorious young woman. He insisted to the last a jury composed of city men would have freed him. Beattie was defended by H. M. Smith, Jr. , and Hill Carter. The prosecution was by L. O. Wend enburg and L. M. Gregory. The trial moved swiftly, though many witnesses testified, and on September 3, after 58 minutes of consideration and prayer the jury, in chorus instead of through its foreman, declared Beattie to be guilty of tne murder of his wife. Motion for new trial was denied and November 13, the Virginia Supreme Court of-Appeals refused to grant an appeal on writ of error, and two days later Governor Mann, who had been appealed to for com mutation or reprieve, issued a statement declaring that the in terests of the: people of Virginia demanded that Bettie should die in the elecrtic chair. Eaedol! alio Present Ienoth end Proposes! Extension Bond Election Called -Oilier Information - We hope to be able to publish next week a map of the plans of the Randolph aa! Oakland Railway Company, in the mean time it may be of interest to make a brief statement of th- se plar.s. The Randolph and Cumberlnd Railroad is in operation from Cam eron, in Moore County, on the main line of the Seaboard Air Line Railway, through Carthage, the county seat of Moore County, to Hallison, on the Norfolk South ern Railway, f ormely the Durham & Charlotte railway. An exten sion of fonr miles is just being completed to the new unvu of McComnel! on the south side of Deed River. The present road is about 22 miles in length. Ac tive steps are being taken to ex tend the road from McConneil north through Randolph County to Asheboro, Greensboro and High Point. Elections have been called in six townships in Randolph County and five townships in Guilford County. The plan is to follow up Deep River passing, in a distance of about 30 miles, twelve cotton mills already in operation and at least live good undeveloped water powers. The townships which will vote December 11th on the question of subscribing to the stock of the railroad are Pleasant! Grove, Coleridge, Columbia, j Fvnj!mviilf. I?mrHmflr. and hew 2i Market in Randolph County L There is naturally great opposi 3umner, Giirner, MorebeadfwrYn some quarters to the build- J amen town and Hish- Point Guilford County. Elections have been arranged for in townships in Davidson, Forsyth and Yadkin Counties and will be arranged for in Asheboro, Cedar Grove and Concord, in Randolph Coanty, and in the townships north of Greensboro if the citizens in those places give sufficient encourage ment. It is also planned to ex tend the system southeast from Carthage to Southport, but this will not be taken up until the present purpose of giving the im portant cities and towns in Ran dolph Guilford and Forsyth Counties an immediate and direct connection to the Seaboard Air Line Railway is accomplished or assured. When the immediate plans are carried out connecting i-ftiri i nm mrTmniii n nn in ii.i mii'imiiiB i whhimi n vFTTrmr CHRISTMAS IS THE BITHDAY OF ONE WHO NEVER GIVE TO THE WORLD A DOLLAR. In the December Woman's Home Companion, Dr. Charles E. Jefferson, pastor of the Broad way Tabernacle in New York, writes a great Christmas sermon. One of the eloquent passages in it follows: "It is worth remembering that Christmas is the birthday of Jesus, the man who never gave the world a dollar. He bestowed upon mankind not a solitary material gift.. He carved no statue, painted no picture, wrote no poem, composed no song, fashioned no piece of jewelry, built no edifice, founded no city, erected no triumphal arch; but TT i t . 1 i- rie scanas m nisrory as tne gieni . . , p tuG . 0., , V, consist m the abundance ot the Giver. Sliver ana Gold he had,,. . . , .rr- none, but such as He had he gave to men, the gentle touch of a sympathetic hand, the golden glow of a genial mind, the heal ing love of a generous heart, the J . oracmg energy oi a courageous i - , i y- er-i- P-.i rill- im Cod's ! Pcopal church preached bi& sptl K. t .u i caiio xiim uoa b , lnitial serrnont. 1 0 large congrega- Unspeakable Gift.' The best i tious Sunday morning and even thimg God is able to give us Wing. The nevr pastor preached not gold or silve, or costly stones, plain, strong, practical sermons, bt iliir-'elf making a good impression on his "It is when we give of the congregation. lowland Railway. the above towns with the -Seaboard Air Linethe road wi i be something over 100 miles in length. Itisasafe statement that no 100 miles of road in the State or perhaps even in the South, will handle more business, and the important thing is that this business is now all in existence an d j ust waiti n g for this outlet The road will be solidly and well built with 72 pound rails and a maximum grade of 1 per cent. A very important part of sys tem will be the division from Central Falls to Asheboro and from Asheboro to Farmer. It is not known yet whether the New Hope people want the road ex tended into their township, but if they do and are veiling to heep in the way the Concord people are taking hold, it is understood that the Randolph and Cumberland people will consider the matter with a view to extending to New Hope and perhaps also to some point on the Wiuston-Salem Southbound Railroad, perhaps Whitney, The Randolph and Cumberlanp people have asked us to caution the citizens generally about being too ready to believe all sorts of rumors and wild stories about the plans of the company, and particularly as to the effect the proposed bond issues will nave on the taxes. mg ot any competitive railroad, and it is probably that many of the wild statements ab?ut the tax to pay the interest on the bonds are at least helped along by parties opposed to the building of any railroad. It may be of inhere t 't,io v that a statement ove 'in 1 1 .? va rious townships in Riil'.p'i County is being prepared Mr Hal M. Worth County Tax Assessor, which will be made public in the papers or in the form of circulars. . Tnis stattt . rnent will give the actual figures of the present valuation, rates, etc.. together with his estimate of the probable increase in valua tion by the time the railroad is completed. mm m.iwrn mnwir spirit that we escape fro n the ! realm oi embarrassment ana burdens. Into a spiritualized Christmas we everyone can enter the rich and the poor, the high and the low, the small and the great. "In preparing, then, our Christ mas presents, let us get ready to give some of the things which Jesus gave. Along with the many gifts which are priceless, Let us give thoughts to someone who needs it, sympathy to some one who craves it, praise to some one who deserves it but does not get it, kindness to someone whom the wot-Jd has overlooked, affec tum t- someone who is starving for it, inspiration to someone who i:i fainting because of the lack of it. One's Christmas does not things which he receives or gives away, but in the spirit of good I will which fills his heart. Rav S T Rarber. the new : ! ; castor of the AsheboroMethodist METHODIST- PROTESTANT POINTMENTS AP- Among the appointments made by the Methodist Protestent conference in annual session at Henderson last week are the following: Asheboro station, T. M. John- v 11 1 . - T T son; memand circuit, n. Whitaker; Why Not circuit, J. H. Stowe; Lincoln, L. H. Hatley; Halifax, J. E. Pritchard; Uwhar- ne, Joel Trogdon. W.E.Swain was reelected president. rn m T.,, To the tax payers of the town of Ashebro: This is to inform you that the tax books have been placed in my hands for the collection of taxes. The taxes are now due and the town is sorely in need of money for the purpose of running schools and other necessary ex penses of the town. I hope everybody will try to make arrangements to pay me as soon as possible. H. H. Kennedy, Tax Collector. THE DECEMBER WOMAN'S HOME COMPANION. The December Woman's Home Companon is a specially iliustrat- ed and beautified Christmas number. It contains, aside from the usual illustrations, a great manv oictures in color. Stories are included in greater number than usual and several of them afe extrordinary presentations of the Christmas spirit full of ac tion and the best kind of senti nent Some of the contributors .f the fiction are: Jeffery Farnol, Alary E. Wilkins Freeman, Nor v.dl Harrison, Owen Oliver and Hulbert Footer. One of the notable spcial arti jies in the number is entitled ' What Christmas Might ''Be." It it an eloquent plea by Charles E Jefferson, pastor of c'-.e Broadway Tabernacle in New- Yfork City. Other special artices worthy of particular mention are 'American Mural Decoration," 1 Plashligh t Photography, ' ' "A Christmas Fallacy," "Last-Minut-i Gits" and "The Profes sional Parent." T.ie special departments' for which the Woman's Home Com inniou is famous, are filled with good reading-such, for example, as a remarkable articie on "The Healthy Baby," by Dr. Rogor H. Dennett, a great specialist in New York, "A rsriv r.hnjtips at l linsi- 'Sam Lo el's Own Puzzle Page," and many othrr contribu tors. The fashion, household, home deenrathn an 1 remnrkaMe for th:r inter v'&t and practicality. Sav2l Many Vrorr. Death YV. I.. MOCK, Oi lucn, ill K- believes he has saved many lives in his twenty five years of ex prrience in the drug business " What I always like to do," he writes 44 is to recommend Dr. Kings New Discovery for weak soreluugs, hard colds, hoarseness obstinate coughs la grippe, croup asthma or other bronchial affec tion for I feel sure that a num ber of my neighbors are alive and weil today because they tool: mv advice to use it. I hon est! believe its the best throat anr.lung medicino that's made Easy to prove he's right. 1 fiet a -trial tottle free or a 'regular 50c or :&1.00 a bottle Guaranteed by J. .T. Underwood. MurderddTor HiS Money Chas. L. Everhart Fflund Dead Money Missing Robt. Leonard in- Jail. While out rabbit hunting near Thomasville Monday, some boys discovered the Head body oi Chas. L. Everhart, who had not been seen by his friends since Satur day. The alarm was given, and the coroner notified, who arriv ing on the scene found Everhart had been shot; through the head, . his face being terribly mutilated. Robert Leonard, cousin of the slain man was last seen with him and as suspicion pointed to Leon ard as the murderer, he has been arrested and lodged in j ail. It is known that Everhart had as much as $150. on hi person, but when found his packets had been rifled and the money was gone. MRS. JOHN W. JOLLY DEAD. Left Property to Methodist Church. Mrs. John W. Jolly died of pneumonia at her home on North Fayetteville St. at 2:30 o'clock Monday morning. The deceased was about 75 years old and had been in failing health for many years. ' Mrs. Jolly whose maiden name was Hamlet was married three times, her last husband, J. W. Jolly, preceding her to the grave just one week. A few years ago the deceased, arranged her business affairs so that at her death, all her real and personal property should pass in to the possession of the Asheboro Methodist church and the Ladies Aid society of the church. The funeral was conducted from the Methodist church Tues day morning by the pastor Rev. S. T. Barber, and the body was laid to rest in the cemetery with in a few feet of the church which she had so liberally endowed. GONE TO HER REWARD, 'Granny" Nancy Richardson slept the sleep that knows no waking on November 19th 1911. She had contracted a deep cold a few days before and rapidly grew worse until Saturday night November 19th when the, spirit took it's flight tothe world beyond . Her age was not known exactly as the record of her birth was destroyed by fire some years ago, but the older people of her ac quaintance say she was 92 or 93. Bat whatever her ae, sue left eviuei-.ee behind that she was prepared to go at the Master s call Three children survive her, Mrs. Jacob Ivey and Mr. J. P. Richardson of Miiiboro and Mr. Bud Richardson of Okla. 4 'Granny" Richardson will be missed by many people in her neighborhood where she was so well known. Her mortal body rn a ponsiarned to the tomb in the old Salem burying ground beside her late husband who was buried there forty-six years ago. Start Much Trouble Tf all neonle knew that neglect of constipation would result in severe indigestion yellow jaun dice or virulent liver trouble tney would soon take Dr. Kings New Liver Pills and end it. Its the only safe way. Best for billious- nej-s, Headache dyspepsia, emus aiid debility 25c at J. T. Under- woou. Elbert Moffitt hastgone to South Caiolina where he accepts a position in a drug store. 1 I
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