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THE ASHEVILLE CITIZEN. THE WEATHER: RAIN. Associated Press Leased Wire Reports. ASHEVILLE, N. C, WEDNESDAY MOHNINO, NOVEMBER 10, 1909. VOL. XXVI. NO. 21. Pit ICE FIVE CENTS. El BY GEHING AWAY WITH Tl MILLION Big Four Treasurer's Defalca tions May Become Star Performance SHORTAGE GROWS WITH EVERY NEW STATEMEN T Railroad Officials Believe he Was Blackmailed But Can Prosecute no One But Him CINCINNATI, U., Nov. 9. Appar ently well founded reports tonight sus guest that the shor'ag of Charles 1.. Warrlner, formerly local treasurer of the Big Pour railroad company who Is now accused of embezzling 1643, 000, may exceed $1, 000, 000 and may possibly reach $2,000,000. These re ports are supported ty the fact that the railroad officers caused Warri ner's arrest on a chaise of embezzling 154,500, and later admitted that the amount would be at least $100,000. When that sum was raised to more than half a million dollar, rumors began to circulate that the total em bezzlement might reach a figure which would set a new record In such cases. Whatever may be the culpability of persons alleged by Warrlner to have 'blackmailed him for part of the loot, It appears that as far as the railroad officers are concerned, they have no Intention of proceeding against others than the defaulting treasurer. Believe Blackmail (Story. General Counsel Hackney today de clared that he possessed no facts that would authorize prosecution of any save Warrlner. "I believe Mr. Warriner's state ment," said Hackney, "that he was blackmailed, but we have only his word for it, and we cannot act on that. That Is for the state authori ties to do If they choose.' The facts In the case have been placed In the hands of County Pros ecutor Hunt, who will place them be ToraX"ir,ami Jur next Voek. Accord ing to Mr. Hunt tnere Is a perfect case against both Warrlner and the man whom Warrlner charges as chi.-f participant In the embezzlement. As far as the two women that have been mentioned are concerned, both Mr. Hackney and Mr. Hunt insisted that they had no evidence against them. Details of Warriner's confession are still unknown to the public. Asked how one inanv could Juggle (Continued on page four.) ID COUNCIL ELECTS OEICERS AND ENJOYS HOSPITALITY Of CITY High Mason Complete Their Work and (live Place to Lower Degree. HINDU RECORD OK AND C1IAPTEK NEXTIMIMT AT NEW ORLEANS SAVANNAH, (III.. Nov. 0. New of ficers were chosen bv the general grand council of Royal and Select Masons, here today as follows: OralT M. Acklln, Toledo. ()., general grand master; John Albert Uliike, Boston, general grand deputy master: Edward W. Wellington. Kllsworth, Kansas, general grand principal con ductor; Thomas K. Shears. Denver. Colo., general grand treasurer: Hen ry V. Morhurst. Fort Wavne. "lnd , general grand recorder: George A. Jewell. Medina. X. V., general grand captain of guards; Fay Hempstead, Little Rock, Ark., general grand mar. shal; Joseph C. Greenfield, Atlanta, Ga.. general grand steward. Charters were granted to the fol lowing councils: Black Hills council. Leadv-llle. South Dakota: Tyrean council. Missoiiola. Montana; Adiro mian council. Washington. D. C. Northern delegate eagerly accepted a unique souvenir of the council con vention. Cotton bolls from stalks of freshly cut cotton plants were distrib uted arid proved an interesting feat ure of the day. More than a half hundred of the wives and daughters of the masons were guests of the South Carolina grand chapter in an automobile ride which circuited the grand prlie automobile race course and iMte-d other places of interest. A fish dinner complimentary to the grand secretaries, given at Thunder bolt this afternoon, and an informal reception to the visiting ladies with the Arkansas grand chapter as hosts this evening, were delightful affairs. Tomorrow the general gran 1 ehap tfT of rovaP- arch masons will begin the sessions of Its thirty-fourth trien nial convention. Addresses of welcome will he de livered by General W. P. Meldrim for the state and Hon. S. E. Wilson for the city. An unusually large attend ance 1 promised. A trolley ride to Thunderbolt will follow the business disc us I oh while at night the South Carolina visitors will be hosts at a re ception dance. OLD NORTH STATE OPENS ITS DOORS TO GENIAL Tat Heels Not to be Outdone by People of Sister States in Warm th of Their Greeting to Nation 's Executive. WILMINGTON, N. C, Nov. !). Hla 1 3.000-mlle journey through thirty- three states and territories all but concluded, President Taft is speeding tonight toward Richmond where he will stop tomorrow until late after noon, leaving then for Washington to spend the night at home in the white house. The president has had a wonderfully good time on his long trip, has enjoyed meeting the thous ands upon thousands of people of the Kast, the North, the West and the South, would probably not take worlds for his experience, but Is pretty well fagged out at last and is glad that his travels so soon are to be over. Mr. Taft has given up all Idea of visiting the Isthmus of Panama this winter and will make no more, long trips of any sort until next summer when he hopes to visit Alaska. He will upend the Christmas holidays In the white house with his family gath ered around him. The president is specially glad In getting home to know that Mrs. Taft Is so much better. During his fifty-six days on the road Mr. Taft has not let the setting of a sun go by without sending Mrs. Taft a telegram. He has liberally Interspersed the daily messages by wire with long letters detailing most of the minute happenings of his event fill trip, thus having written a com plete history of his Journeys. !Tr Ucels Wclconw Mini c president's day in Wilmington called out a great display of enthus iasm on the part of the residents of the old North State- who came from all sections of the commonwealth to participate In his welcome. In many ways the celebration of the president's visit here was one of the most signifi cant of his trips. The welcome, the efforts to make his stay a pleasant memory, and the -painstaking care with which ths city was decorated with bunting and young trees of ths long leaf pine districts, bespeke the spirit of the day. Governor W. W. Kitchin extended tin formal welcome of the slate in an address which bristled with the pat riotism of the South, and which em bodied one oT the most glowing trib utes has received at the hands or thirly-tbree governors who have vied one with the other on eloquence of compliment. Arriving here early this morning the president was escorted to the heaotl- TIKE RISK OE HANDLING ROCKEFELLERS MONEY Commend His (lift to Eight Pellagra in South in Spite of Bishop Candler. N'KW ORLEANS, Nov. !. In his address before the Southern Medical ! association here today Dr. John A. Witherspoon of Nashville, chairman of the surgery section of the associa tion, made a strong files for the elim ination of politics Trom state medical boards. Dr. Witttcrspnon also urged that the young men of the South desiring to study medicine be required, to have a belter general education than is now demanded by the majority of tbc medical colleges. One or the most important subjects which will claim' the attention of the convention will be that of pellagr.i. The hookworm disease will also be extensively discussed. Dr. Giles C. Savage, president of the association declared that pellagra Is hot due to the eating of musty corn, but is purely a disease of the nervous centers produced from some unknown cause. He expressed the belief that the disease is closely akin to leprosy. Ir connection with the fight belg waged on It an dthe hookworm dis ease', he said: "I hope that the association will ex press its cordial endorsement of the Keneroslty of Messrs. Carnegie and Rockefeller and Mrs. Russell Sage for their gifts in the suppression of the diseases of consumption, the hook worm and pellagra. I bfliev-c that it ij a noble work and I think the people of the South should rejoice that such generosity should be displayed. "I have no patience with those per sons who are objecting to the accept ance of the money on the ground that Northern people are meddling In Southern affairs." ..Tonight the visiting physicians were entertained at a smoker at the Klks club. PRESIDENT ful old colonial home of James Sprunt, one of the greatest exporters of cotton In all the -South, where a southern home breakfast was served. George Washington nd Daniel Web ster had known the hospitality of the same splendid old munslon. This breakfast was served in the conserv atory which had been made Into a grupfe harbor. An Honorary Tur I"ecl. At the end of the meal Mayor Miu crue, of Wilmington, voiced the welr come to the city und created Mr. Taft "an honorary tar heel' for life. From the Sprunt home the presi dent motored in review of 1.500 school children of the city arranged: In a living flag. In another section of the city, he reviewed the colored children und made them a little aeT dress. On tile revenue cutter Seminole thl. president this morning was taken for a sail of twenty-five miles diAvn tho'f waterway and re turn. Wilmington is desirous of deepening her channel to the sea from twenty-four to thirty feet and the ride was to give the pres ident an object lessor, as to the need of the improvement. The river trip ended, President Taft was taken for u carriage' ride thought Wilmington. It was at his own request that the route was made as long. us possible. The parade end-, ed at the city hull where the president spoke. Tonight he attended a supper at the masonic temple, and lelft the city at x p. m. Gov. Kitchin' Address. , Governor Kitchin. In introducing the president this afternoon declared that he wuntcd Mr. Taft to know thatpl the South was "his country as the North is our country." "A little more than a generation ago. "said Governor Kitchin, "this section of the country thought U. could along without the rest of the roifntry. But the North knew it could not get along without the South, which In the hiKh court of.' uiiifh; went against us. V though the successful litigants acted bad fori a time but it is all forgotten now and we cherish it no more." Governor Kill bin said that while the South was asking no favors but onljt Justice and a ralr chance, there waSj no one In the entire country more determined that this fair chance. (Continued on pngn nve.i T T ',' UNTIL DEATH S1VE0 IT li Believed That Negroes Tried, to Drag Her to House for Dastardly Purpose. EIVE AKKESTS MADE. t'AIUo. Iil.c. Nov. . Evidences that Miss Annie Policy, a Cairo shop girl, fought terrifically before suc cumbing to brutal assailants Inst night were discovered today by the police in trvlng to solve her murder. Hits or torn clothing strcweif the alley in UI1I1 Ii the children today found her disfigured corpse. These mute evi dences of Hi,, girl's love for life and ptiril show.., that she fought aeainsi her murderers Tor a city Mock or more. H r flifht was destined to be a losing one. Tor the slaver had can-rullv pre pare a ffcg and heavy cloth bonds with which her cries were stilled and her ftn ngth overcome. Miss I'clley was a country uirl of ratlit-r iinu.oial strength in, I the police believe that more than one person attacked her. . The victim of the crime, wan twep-tv-four years old. She came here a few months as;,, from Anna, His., and was living with a married sister, li-. cause of her frequent habit of spend ing the niKht with girl friends, no ear was felt by her relatives when Mixs Pellf'v failed to return home last rilsiit. She vvii.s on her way to take a car for home from work In a dry goods store when last seen by friends and il Is thought that the crime oc curred early in the evening. Proba bly twelve hours before the body was found. Her parasol was found bent and the handle w-as missing. The bon,J used by the assailants resembles a slip noose and may have been thrown about the girl s nck like a laiso. The gag had been carefully prepared from a towel Four negroes, one a woman, were arrested tonight and placed in Jail. Different bloodhounds followed a trail to the woman's home on eight suc cessive trials. Mayor George Parson tonight of fered a reward of f 1.000 for ronvic' tinn or the slaver, and a fund is sub scribing by citizens. How Splendidly it linns V 'V .1 And How it "Acts Up" i' 1 ). ))). (RECORDS MADE AND BROKEN EVERY I , MLlJMUlMrlM ATJLAISTA MUTUKKACES sMMHsasWiraMMBBaiaHiMsB ;j Chevrolet in Buick Burns oevemy-iwo mnes an jtiour.. Strang's maramotn Machine , , S f k- Atlanta. G11.. Nv. 9. I,ouls ClU'Vrolet. the sturdy Swiss pilot of ul(1c cars, who has leaped into racing jiHtynlnence during the last year, an Btiited another hard-earned victory hotp, today when lie captured the 1100- lo stock chassis race, averaging am tfa ftt seventy-two miles an hour. 'tjlie'vrolet's Uctory came as the cti- i to the record-breaking contosts VHft'1 which Atlanta's new two-mile tp1way was opened. t"Vo of Harnei Oldileld's records Metal lowered, one of them by Uiuls pg, who re, lo. ed (lidfleld's one nfUtmark or 4:1.1 by more than live foBd. . To do ii Strung used the bsTi42U0-horsi! po.ver Mat wnicti " UUHIud u woiM record of 2H sec- ilinil,, over the S'.. mile track at ! ifKlands. IMicnuoi. last summer, ild took tin limit out f Ills ! Jhy-to unbeatable llenz. and took Uy three sec , mi on 111s own pre-; ujtjchumploutdnp record. 1 '. ' ' ,fuKU'Ht t "r 1,1 Wo"1'1- Wrung has He- fastest car In llio World at present." Oldflold declared ifjJtyTtlU' race. ' 1 Xwo cars of eieaier power than are K,itil 10 be In course of Construction ubi I. one in Italy, tho other in OerniMi The second ' 'Idliebl's records to vanish occurred in Ihn len mile hand- 1 ! .- THM HCEJIER SHAME IieH Letters lni' Mot Imt and an .dmirT in Wliidi She ( 'onfessi-s Herself. GKi: KNSIP HI' , ' - . Nov. !l The h Maggie Pug, about 1 -id. was found this VV'feng, near lie , f ound iihoot si There was con- nrroiiding ihe ease - h was later clear t being identified by 1 , who is a well to .- ler rity The girl lie to her mother. . ng man w ith whom , ;dng company, the r ciplent irom all The suicide was I ' 1 1 er to be because and shume which u a short time. dead body of M 1 twtrtltv -three V,. afternoon at Giillford battle mllv" trom tin l4lerabe mystei fof some time, v t(K Op by the I.,, frUipds of her I., do' farmer near ef,t, two letter h other to a shei had been f. exonerating its 3lme for her ., ecbired in her df, fear of publi, must result will ! v . . WASHINGTON. Nov, s.Koreeast (or North Carolina: iocal rains Wed nesday; Thursday fair; moderate to ast winds, . 1 . . Have You Ever Noticed? Out in tin Country, With I T SAT SS J7 SJ 1 I I in Town When You arc Trying to Show Off. the Wind for Two Hundred Miles at Average Speed : of Fastest in the World.' leap when John Aiken, in a National 'sixty.", starting from scratch, forged ahead to third position In the field of eight ears In 08:02.0. Oldlleld, who made the distance at Indianap olis In 0N:l!.ft nlso started from scratch In this contest, but tiroke a steering knuckle In the first tan and was compelled to withdraw. George Xobertson. who was tn hnvo appeared In two event with tils flat "sixty," broke an oil pipe before com- (ng to the mark and was out of the game ull day. In practice berure the races he made tlio two mile lap 'n . 3', a showing which would have mnile him u competitor in the big 1 ur ruces. . Thrilling Hare. Chevrolet's winning of the big race of WO hundred miles In 2:4:4K was u, brilliant exploit, lowering liurman's record of 3:24:U.4 mad e In a Hulck at Indianapolis. The hlir ollot ston- j pel put once in the one hundred laps jand that time when his engine caught iire. The Iliilck driver assumed tho lead In the flrM lap and Increased It nlowly but steadily for seventy-two miles. Thi' two Chalmers-Detroit ears took bis exhaust at distances which seemed to increase only by Inches, bul in tin1 first ten laps thoc Inches had multiplied into almost a mile. As the sturdy Swiss flashed past ho T T Dr. Stilus and Dr. Joyner in Conference for Purpose of Selecting IP'aduarterH. It.M.KIGII. N ", Nov. it. While no ollieial statement has le-en obtain ed from en her Dr. Hllb-s or State Suiicrintcrnleiit Jo ner. wh i are In loiifercnee lore, It Is und'-rsiood that I here is a strong probability Hint Kal clgh will be made headquarters for the il'reitloii ol the campaign of the en tire South against the hookworm, and In the Interest of general Improved sanitary ami health environments. Dr. Joyner says he has no Idea of sever ing his connection with the stale de partment of education as state super intendent, but that It was his deter mined effort to form a strong alli um:'- between the educational. civil and medical Interests of stale, nl Oat hearty co-operation with the board in Its effort in administering Hie Cockefeller fund in this stale, be believes, will be a great thing f"i .North Carolina In reaping the great st possible benefit. The hoard's vvoik is to be under way within two VV eei-;. IIOIHI: ItrX'OVKKKI. ' I J .K I'.i-l HA It I! i:. Penn., Nov. 9 Seven vietirris have been recovered and it Is believed the list of dead will reach twelve as the result of a tire in the AiichlncloSH shaft of the IXIuware l-a kawaana and W estern Coal com pany at Nantlcoko. An explosion of gas late this afternoon set fire to the timbers of the mine. No One to Soo It. t ' t v.. trained eye of Hurdfng, the Apperson driver, who us" in ths press stand, delected what escaped tho lay obsenr. er. Ignoring the thunder of chssrs which drowned all other sounds, Harding cried In his excitement: , "You're on fire! You're on flr, Louis." Regained Ills PlmT). Chevrolet apparently wu Ignorant of the fact at the time, but ho had gone about a mile when the amok belched Into his face. Thon he expe rienced his only delay. During the row minutes that It required to xtln. gulsh the blase, Dlngley regalnsd ths lost laps and took thn lead by thirty yaxdi. His triumph, was short-lived, for the Hulck man took after him and passed him during the next lap. H ewas never again in danger. No serious accident marred the day's sport. The nearest, approach to such an accident occurred In . the elghty-tifth lap when Harry Htlllmnn, whoso Munnon had not experienced a single delay, ran Into the Inner gutter of the track. Neither ho nor his as mlstant were hurt beyond a few bruises. The accident occurred on the back stretch when an overstrained rear tire softened and sent the car Into the ditch. Throe wheels flew off, 1 Continued rin Mte four.) FARMERS ELECTS OFFICERS Ambassador Bryee is Made an Honorary Member of ( )rganization. KAI.KHill. .V C . Nov. 9--.IoshiJU Strang of Indiana was elected pres ident of Ho Partners' National con gnus at til- closing session of the meeting here today. The other officers chosen were as follows: Charles Saiiford of Ohio, first vice president; . I' J'-wetl of Kansas, second vice president; W. I-. Amos, of Wisconsin, treasurer; George Whlt taktr of Massachusetts, secretary; John Kimball of Maryland, It M. Surbs of Nebraska and 0 D. Hull of West Virginia, assistant secretaries. A. C. Puller of Iowa tin retiring member of the executive committee was re-elected. J M Utah I of Chica go was chosen legislative agent. Two addresses were made ut th" closing session, Rlate Horticulturist Mutt of North Carolina discussed the advantages of the moufiTaln regions of the South for the growing of fruits Prof. C. I. Newmnn of the Agricultural and Me- hanlcal college of .North Carolina spoke on the subject, Kegumes as Conservators of Wealth." James Hryce, British ambassador to the United States, was elected an hon orary member of the congress. IMPOHT.WT IU-MXtJ. A I'BTIN, Tex., Nov. . Bulls for damages because of personal Injuries under the employers' liability act must be filed in the district where tho defendant, has Its headquarters, ac cording to a decision of Judge Maxey In the United States Circuit court here today. IT SENT TO JML SUBJECT 5TIUJTMNCE Iflnoranl Use of Hypnotic Pow er Led to His Arrest For Murder COMPELLED TO CALL AID TO WAKE VICTIM ( Scene as Uncanny as Any Poo Ever Dreamt of Took Place . In The city Morgue HYPNOTrE 80MRRVlI.Ua, K J. Nov. I. While Arthur , Everton, self-styled "professor", and traveling's hypnotist, sobbed In til eel!, threa calm mdlcol mn witnessed a wslrd performance lit the morgue at the Somerset hospital late this afternoon. , There William B. Davenport, sooretary to the mayor of Nawark, and a student of hypno-v tlsm, vainly tried to bring back, signs . of life In Tha rigid body of Hobert Simpson a former street car co.nduc- ( tor of Newark, who : apparently died last night after having been put Into a hypnotic trance by. Everton, before .'. a large audience at the, fomervlUo theatre. . .; , t, , Davenport (failed, filmpson WM de-V olared officially dead, and an autopsy waa held tonight. Meanwhile, charg ed with manslaughter, unnerved and , shaken, Everton remains In prison where ho must await the.fcqtlon of the grand Jury as a sequel to a stag . trick familiar throughout this coun-. try and abroad,- wtw: v; ,'yis r"t It was at the piteous tnnlstenre of Everton while In Jail after hht Ineffec. tual attempts to revive Wmpson, that Davenport, friend of Kverton cants. Into the case today. Notwithstanding -the . declaratldns of physician that Hlmpson waa dead,, Rverton asked that, Davenport be allowed to try to grouse him.. Accordingly, the autopsy, first arranged '. tat tw o'clock this after- - noon, was postponed, end tho student of hypnotism was, summoned,'. ' Hlmpson's body, tovored with -a liluck: etoth.j lay. In ih .ntorgoe at' tlie'iiwpltai when'i)aviipuit arrived, He came in silently and .in the pres-,, ence of Dr. W. K. tong, county phy sician, Dr. Charles H. Kalrtetd, snd Dr. Francla HcConaughty, Immediate. unfortunate man. First he felt of the body to detect any possible, hesrt beat: falling In this he placed hie e"; on the vlctir's chest. r. .r i -lwwer f Huggtlon.'. . ' . ' Then, invoking the power ' of .sug gestion, he "poke in the drad man's , ears ? . ' ; , ' e j "Bob," he said, "Bob, your heart , ac tion your heart action your heart ! action Is beginning." filowlv. and dra- ' matlesllv fiavnnbort trenealiid this In ha Mr. thMti .rhsnfflnir hla jone bf voice to an Imperious command, he cried sharply: ' ' , . "Hob! Bob! Can't you1 hear me? Tour heart la beginning to beat. Tour ! heart is beginning to beat," Again and again he repeated "thls'asurance to the inanimate form whlle-the med b ul men looked grimly on. Not a muscle of the body stlrred and there was absolutely no lgn of animation. ', While this woi going on, brllllsnt 1 A ...... nn. thmt '1 1 ' ,0l I fl I n glare In thn dead man's faoe, but the eye llils did not flutter, and the phys icians contended he was beyond aid. v Hlmpson, th victim, wag thlrtv-flve years old. and wss accustomed. It l; said, to drinking heuvlly. It Is gen- , (Contliiiied on page four.) : TRAFFICKED I1M DESIRE OF Five Wives aud, Two Fiancees All Tell How He (lot Money From Them. 1 CtKVRI.AND, )., Nov. 9. The cv.. Idence of live wives and two fiancee whs produced by governmnt officers today In tbc trial ot Luclun. Pickett, in trial In the United Hiatus court here on the speclllc charge of procur ing under false pretense $1,000 from Miss Allie Greusley. a crippled wo man ol .Hprillgda le, f. One aftr unothtr the women took the witness stand and told, In tears, how Pickett bud promised to nrnrry. them, how they had given him con siderable sums of money, and how, fi nally, he had gone away, usually after, but sometimes brfimj tho wed ding. Miss Ad lie Leonard, a Chicago school teacher said she had gives Pickett $750 on bis promise to marry her. The marriage did not take place. . but postoffl, e Inspectors produced v- " Idence to shew that Pickett had ah ; ready leen mrrried four times. Miss Allle Greoslcy, nearly h:p less from a spinar affliction, testified, that Pickett wss the only man who had ever wooed her. and that she gave T him $1,000 to establish him in bus iness. A marriage license wns Issued -but the wedding did not take plane, v Others who testified were Mrs. deark gle E. Pickett of CenaPa., Mr KUen . E. Pickett (rf Albany, N. Y. Mrs. kulu Emileh Pickett Hoblnson of New York, who has procured a "divorce from the man,- and Mrs. Alma Miller of Mucon. 111. . '
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