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ASHEVILLE, N. 0., SUNDAY 3I0KNTKG, JULY 23, 1911
VOL. XXVIL, NO. 276
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P UBLIC FEELING IS
RUNNING HIGH IN
' BEATTIE MURDER
CPoroner's Jury Returns
Verdict Fastening Crime
On Younr Husband
Police Reserves Called
XICHffltOND, V., July 12. Accus
ed by the coroner's Jury of murder
i In his ' wife, yoiung Henry CJhy
iBesAUe, Jr., tonight Is In the Henriico
-county jail la this city, sUU smoking
fcigasmttee. He oelmly Insists upon
'tn truth of the story he told la
Tuesday night, when be drove hia au
i tomobile Into Richmond ' from the
Midlothian turnpike ' boldlng the
bloodstained body of 'his deed, wife
In his arm. Seventeen-year-old
rJ8ea.ulah Blnford. the pretty Uttle. girl
Whose relations who. BeatUe ero be
lieved to have y led to the ". tragedy
"and Paul D. Beattte, ;cousln of the
accused, who testified vat the coro
ner's Inquest today- 4bt he bought
for Henry Clay Beattle, Jr., the shotr
gain with which the killing was done,
are held In Jail as witnesses, the
police -refusing- to release them ex
ept under heavy bonds.
Public Foeting; Aroused.
' Publle feeling has been so uroused
y the developments In the tragedy
that the authorities were afraid to
koan Ron ta in the Chesterfield
county Jail after the coroner's Jury
this afternoon returned Its' verdict,
l.lacinng the. crime upon htm. .
Be-arrestlng the young man on
the charge of murder, the police
hurried him through the great crowd
which had gathered outside Coro
ner Loving's home during the In
quest and carried him Into Richmond.
Before Magistrate' Jacob bo had
waived the preliminary examination,
and he was committed to Jail to
await the action of the grand Jury.
In other cells In the same- prison
Paul Beattle and, Beulah Blnford,
both almost prostrated by their situ
ation, were looked up. neither being
able to furnish the ; ball bonds re-
Quireo. -
TT i. riwritaMw -Out
The .lnoueat proceedings this af
Mtemooas were sensational Jn the , ex
Wm., Tlii hearlna- 'yesterday af-
"-erfreon eulrnlnautig la ihevarregt. ;of
Beattle on the charge ihe public,
had i been expecting- -the police'1 to
make for Hwco .days., excited popular
feeling to such a pitch that the po
lice reserves were ordered but to
" maintain order today. The crowd
urged about and muttered, but there
was no attempt to harm the prison or
or Interfere with the proceeding
SYRIAN FIRES INTO CAR
F
WDlNJNJUiGOIHEfiv
Became Infuriated at Motor
man and Probably Went
Suddenly Insane
REFUSED TO TALK
NORTH ADAMS. Mass.. July IB.
Infuriated at the command of the
anotopman to get beck from the run
ning board and remain In his sent un
til the car stopped, radio Mallak, a
Syrian, tl years old, suddenly drew
am automatlo revolver and fired ten
hots into a crowded car on the
Cheshler street railway today, ln
atanly killing the motorman, Oeorge
1. Hort of Plttsfleld and Miss Mar
ina Hater, aged 21, of Adams, wound
ing two women probably fatally and
severely Injuring several other wo
.men. MrB- Stephen L. A. Hall of
'Adams, shot In the right shoulder,
and Mrs. Alioe Bryant, wounded In
the neolc, are tho two dangerously
shots', Mallak was seized by J. J
Mooney of Plttsfleld, who took away
the revolver. Drawing a knife, the
Syrian Jumped from the. running
board down an embankment where
he was captured by other passengers.
There were about 60 people on the
car when Mallak who sat directly be-
lnd the motorman, slgnallod the
onductsr to gwt Off. He stood oa
the running .board as the car slowed
up. The motorman cautioned him
boot getting off while tbe oar was in
notion telling him to get back to
ftils seat.
Just as the car stopped, Mallak
(Killed out a 18 calibre, ten shot auto
matic revolver and began firing. He
aimed the first bullet directly at the
fcaok of the motorman and then
turned upon the women passengers
fn ' the seats behind him and fired
point blank until his revolver was
emptied.
; MeUsk refused to talk after his
sYrest. The police believe he went
ajoddenly insane.;
THREE ARB DROWNED.
, ... -:,..?APID8, Mich.. July tt.
Ches. Dixon, of Kansas City, his son.
Aged U, and a daughter, aged 14,
'were drowned by the upsetting of a
eanoe in Lake Michigan at M sca
ts wa Park late today. Oqs- son, aged
II. was reseued a time to To eel
PaiU Beattle, exhausted from the
convulsions which seised him When
arrested, was the ohtef witness be
fore the Inquest today. While till
ing how, at Henry Beattle'a request,
and with money furnished by the.
tattor, he bought the gun with which
Mrs. Louise Beattle was killed, the
witness fainted. Physicians were
summoned and he was revived after
it minutes. The oousln's testimony,
forming the missing link 'of the chain
of circumstantial evidence forged by
the detectives, satisnaa tne jury.
Verdict Against Husband.
The following verdict was returned
at S:JJ this afternoon:. "We, the
gentlemen of the Jury, selected by the
coroner , on July lf.-lsll, edn duly
sworn on view of the body of Mr
Louise Owen Beattle. to Inquire when,
where and by what means the said
Louise Owen Beattle' oame to .her
death, do on our oath, find that the
said Louise Owen Beattle, oame to
her death on the night of July 1.
1911, between 10:S and It o'clock
an tho Midlothian furnplke at , a
point about three miles west of Rlch
mand and. one-fourth, of a. mile .west
'of the colored church as a result of
a gunshot wound, the same being
tired by her husband, Henry Clay
Beattle, Jr.
"Olven under our hand this J 2nd
day of July 19111
(Signed) "J. O. LOVING. Coroner.
"J. O. ROBERTSON, F.
. "J. T. COUSINS,
"W. A. JACOBS.
"JOHN A. MORTON.
"CLAYTON TERBT,
"H. C. TERBT, JR."
btorjTuf the ,Gan.
The Chesterneld county grand Jury
will meet August 14. Paul Beattle
at the' inquest todajsald- helad-been'
quite sick and In a hosppftal since
yestgrday, and was still to bad -shape.
He haA't. be helped to- the utand.
Counsel Wiwdenburg. for the com
monwealth, picked up the gun from
the coroner's; table. ' . " .
"Wliei-p-dld jthat cosnjB -from? he
'asked. .... " ' .;
"It looks like the, one I bought.
answered Beattle in a low voice.
"I bought It last Baturday erfter-
(Contlpped on Pago Few)
PROBABLE THUT TEXAS
WILL 0 DBY DESPITE
EARLY (WHY. NEWS
Drys Have it so Far, With
Over 100,000 Votes Still
. - to be Reported
RURAL VOTE NOT IN
DALLAS, Tex., July 13. Returns
received by the Dallas News up to
midnight account for SSI, T78-votes
In the prohibition election held la
Texas today. Of these votes the
News' totals stow 171, 17 prohibi
tion and 188.188 antl-prohibltlon
votes, a majority of 3,4(1 for prohi
bition.
The News' estimate of the total
vote oast is 460,000. If this esti
mate Is approximately correct, the
News' returns leave only a little more
than 100.000 votes to be heard from.
It Is evident from the closeness of
the vote that well nigh Complete re
turns will be necessary to determine
the result certainly though such as
are in hand indicate rather strongly
that ths prohibitionists have sarrtncl
the stats. From the cities' vote Is
Is nearly complete, ss it is also from
the larger towns, leaving- that which
Is yet to be heard from to come
from the smaller towns and rural pre
clnots. This Is a vote which, as the
returns already show, will mostly go
to tbe prohibitionists
Of the vote accounted for 1T1.H7
corn e from north Texas and ltl,l$6
from south Texas considering roughly
a line drawn through Wac to be
the division. Tbe figures show, there
fore thai the returns are relatively
a larger percentage of 'the south
Texas than of the nonth Texas vote
and of this relatively larger unre
ported vote . the prohibitionists will
get'- the greater part The prohibi
tionists, as was expected, received
heavy majorities In the black land
counties of north Texas In a trian
gle extending northeast and north
west of Dallas they seem to have car
ried every county, with the exception
perns pa of not more than three or
four sections, The Pan Handle and
wts Texas gave ever larger majori
ties. - ,
The antl-prohlbltlonlsts got ther
majorities almost exclusively In south
Texas counties and In some of them
they, were smaller than had been ex
pected and smaller than the submis
sion vote last -. year foreshadowed.
GOVERNOR KITCHIN MAKES
CRITICS OF HIS ANTI-TRUST RECORD
Dealing With News And Observer's Charges, Combined With Others, Governor
Seeks To Show That The Fates. Were Against Him In Legislative
Matters Issues Statment which Is Three Columns In Length
RALEIGH, N. C, July J2, Govern
or Kltehln Issued today a reply, to
Editor Joseph us Daniels, of the Ral
eigh morning paper, M. L. Mlsenhel
mer, of Rockingham county, and J. A,
Lockhart, of Anson, who attaoked his
anti-trust record in last Sunday's Is
sue of the Raleigh morning paper.
Governor Kltchln's reply follows:
Editor News and Observer:
t have this A.o say In reply to tbe
Joint attack of yourself and Messrs.
Lockhart and Mlsenhelmer, which Is
In accord with other unfair attacks
on your" part: " ' ' , '
Whan, the legislators of met,
I was hopeful at a thorough anti
trust bin would pass. After, learning
the sentiment of the senate. I be
came thoroughly satisfied that It was
Impossible to get any trust measure
through the senate beyond the re
quirements of the platform. On the
night of February 1, 110. one of the
best Informed gentlemen of the- sen
ate said to me that when tbe Lock
hart bill came from the committee,
after his speech, a motion to lay the
bill on the table would be made and
carried, sn4 that that would end the
trust legislation for that " session. A
senator present shared that opinion.
I promptly replied that that would
never do and read the platform to
E
E
Raiders Appeared at Aged
Homesteader's, Destroy
ing Much Property
DENVER, Col., iuly 2S. Charging
oppression. Intimidation, vfolencs and
wanton destruction of. property by
raiding the .ranch of J. II. Boott, an
aged homesteader of Sterling, Col.,
warrants Were today placed in the
hands of the United States Marshal
for the arrest of nine citizens of Col
orado, some of them rated at being
worth half a million dollars.
The warrants were sworn to by M.
D. McEnlery, chief of the field divis
ion of the federal land office. In be
half of Scott. The men named In
the warrants ars:
Eugene Buchanan, or Sterling, bank
director and wealthy cattleman.
Irving Monette. Peets. Col., weelthy
cattleman end a number of neighbor
lng homesteaders, cowboys and ranch
hands.
The complaint charges that the
object of the raiders was to drive
Scott aft his homesURd, near the
Nebraska line because it Included a
'water Tiole," used by the cattle of
Buchanan. Monette and others for
more than a quarter of a century
that when Scott refused to sell or
move off a conspiracy was formed to
wreck his place and drive him out
of the country.
Armed with rifles, the complaint
continues, the raiders appeared at the
Scott homestead at daybreak, destroy
ed bouses, barna, fences snd growing
orops and carted off movable spoils
In large wagons. The damage Is
placed at 11.000.
"BIJXD TIGERS" TO GO TO JAIL
Durham, N. C, July SS Jndge
Allen today sentenced all convicted
blind tigers. Including Leando Rc
chelle, father ef Mra Brodle L. Duke,
who received six months In Jail, and
costs. He moved for a long trial,' was
denied ard appealed to theiduprerae
court. -.,
' Judge Alfen scared the Jury for Its
acquittal of one whom he denomi
nated "the gultleet of them all."
Steven Chandled, brother of a po
liceman on tho local force, who Is be
lieved to have been acting for whole-
them and declared ,)ta requirements
must be performed. They both agreed
with me. The Lockhart bill bad been
some time'1 prior jtherto Introduced. A
short tims thereafteiSotiator Lock
hart upon my requertL came to see
me with Senator Nltnas.s to talk
over ths situation 4be only confer
ence I evor had witlt those two gen
tlemen, our otmforene',ias full,
frank, and unreserved, all of us agree
ing on what ought to bv done and all
doubtful whether Anything eould be
done, 1 have a cepyf a tettor writ
ten on April , mstywithliv thirty
aays alter tnat-Jewsisture TWJwraa,
which Coiftoelled.hie thety to e8flhad
that conference, -and . V remember
much of It. , .. : s
OIuumcs of Silt ' ,
I asked Senator Loekhart what
were the chances of his. bill passing
the senate, -He replied that counting
all- the doubtful men, he could mus
ter only twenty-two senators In Its
support. I stated that from my talk
with various senuturs, I had also con
eluded' We would not secure the pas
sage of his bill. I distinctly remem
ber repeating to them . the conver
sation which occurred In my office
on the night of February 1st above
mentioned. After Senator Lockhart,
Senator Nlmocks end myself had can-
WUyiGHT AND DAY
GOHDmONSJflEALLMET
Contractors Complete Lay
ing of Raila for the W., B.
& S. Railway
WILMINOTON. N. C, July 22
Ploughing with h steam shovel night
and day throuli a hitherto undevel
oped fastness nf sesoost country . In
order to moet conditions of a bond
Issue of the town toward the com
pletion of the line, contractors this
midnight completed the laying f
rafhi for the Wilmington, Brunswick
and Southern railroad t Deep water
at Southport, N. "-. a distance of 3t
miles from Wilmington, the last
spike being driven by President Z.
W. Whitehead thls city, In the
presence of a large assemblage.
The road kopn iliroughxa fine sec
tion of country and provides rallroiul
accommodations !n connection with
the Seaboard Air' Line and Atlantic
Coast Line to deep land locked
hargor, almost immediately upon the
Atlantic
ORDER AO A INST ABJI8
JUAREZ. Met . Julr 2 J A ,nr.i
orde ragalnst the entrance of any
srrnii of war Into Mexico was receiv
ed this afternoon by the collector of
this city. The name measure wai
forced at beginning of the revolu
tionary trouble by the . federal gov
ernment and may indicate that soma
further disturbances are expected.
WASHINGTON. July' II rar.ir
North Carolina: probably flr Hun.
day and Monday; light variable
REPLY TO
vassed the situation, my clua' recol-
lortlon Is that It was our uutsilmous
opinion that a compromise bill
could not pass. I stated that tt the
legislature did not emwt the f cub
stance Of our state patform that the
party would probably be defeated In
the next cumpalgn. To this thsy as-
santed. It was finally understood that
Senator Lochhart would ' eliminate
from his bill its parts which were al
ready the law, . he having . substantt
ally copied the original Held-Justice
bill, and that we Would all strive at
any east to have the platform declar
ation enacted. I then stated that I
o em
dHee
neinsjfrfBtrlir eti'dlng
special message- ttii the legislature eh
the subject and asked Senator Lock
hurt 1 he made the elimination men
tioned,, would he deem a special mes
sage necessary. He replied, 'Yes. and
as hot as you can make it, for It
would ' be hard, to put the ten com
mandments through the senate."
Against Trusts.
As I stated above the oonfarlnce
was for the purpose of accomplishing
something against trusts', I recall no
difference In sentiment bstween Sen
ator Lockhart, 'Senator Nlmocks and
myself, the question, bslng whether we
(OowUnoed on Psge Mi)
NINETEEN STARTERS
FLIGHT AROUND ENGLAND
American Representative C.
0. Wrenn, in Newport
Monoplane Starts Bad
BROOKLANDS. Eng., July SI. In
beautiful weather for spectators but
vary trying for the air men, the start
was made this afternoon for the 150,
000 offered by tho Dally Mall for the
1,110 miles flight around England,
ed the first section of 10 miles to
llprndon. Three, however, failed to
get outside of the aerodrome here.
Lieutenant John O. Porte, of the
British nay' fell from a height of 10
fmt. wrecking his machine but sus
taining only a few scratches. An
other Englishman. T. O, Jennings,
had a similar fall but escaped unin
jured, while a third Bngllah
m(in, F. O. Gordon-England
wiih unable to get his ma
chine to rise. The others got away
well. A. Hcaumont (Lieutenant D.
Conniau) and the otHer Frenchmen
making brilliant starts. C. O. Wrenn,
the American representative In a
Newport aeroplane had bad luck. Af
ter what looked to be a favorable
start, a bulkk engine forced htm to
return but he soon got away again.
Sixteen avlatora covered the first leg.
The three who failed to reach Hen
den may fly again tomorrow or Mon
day. SOLDIKRS HK-IXTEliRKD
'"
ALEXANDRIA. Va.. July 21. The
"bodies of 3,001 Federal soldiers re-
centy disinterred from the abandoned
national cemetery at Bronwsvllle,
Texas, arrived here today and will be
relnterred in the national cemetery
at PlnevMe. across the river from
Alexandria Of the total 1,117 bo
dies are of unknown soldiers who will
be burled In one trench and a monu
ment erected over them.
1 WONT COXPTJIM ELECTIO.V
MEXICO CITT, July 22-rAUeged
vclertcal Interference In the alder
anlc election In Zapottan of this
state has been followed by a refusal
of the election Judges to confirm the
elartlnn. Tbe CatholIcX nartv's can
didates received six times as many
votes as the liberals wbo declared
the priests had unduly Influenced the
RECIPROCITY PACT
PASSES SENATE BY
HE A VY MAJORITY
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Canadian Agreement Now
Only Needs President's
Signature To Become
Law Of The Land .
WASHINGTON, July JS.-The reci
procal trade agreement between the
United States and Canada embodied
In the reciprocity bill that proved a
storm center In two sots teas of con
gress passed the senate without
amendment today by a vote of It to
S7. A majority of repirWIcana voted
against 1t. Of 63 votoa cast for It, It
were democratlo and It republican;
of the 17 atgalnst. 14 were republi
cans and I (Jernocrata. This action
settled the whole Canadian reciproc
ity question so far as congress Is con
cerned and save for executive' ap
proval and the Canadian parliament's
ratlfloalilan, made the pact the taw
of the land.
Congressional practice will delay
the affixing of the president's sig
nature until next Wednesday, whan
the house la again In session. The
reciprocity bill, having originated In
the house, must be returned there for
engrossment and for ths signature of
Speaker Clark while (he house Is Sit-ting.,-
The Canadian parliament has net
yet anted upon tho sjjrsement. With
one exception the provision ,, of the
bill as passed by oongress will not
become effective until, the president
lisUes a proclamation that Caa4a,
has ratified the neat. Th r'n.
Ltldn to this prooeedure It ths paper
nu puip section or the till watah
it Is announced will become Immed
iately effective when the president
signs tho law. m , . "
How Vote Stood -The
vole on the bill was as fol
lows: :-
Republicans aa-alnst the hill; Ttnrah
hand Heyburn, Idaho; Bourne, Oregon;
wnsiow , ana Curtis, Kansas; Burn
ham, New Hampshire; Clapp and
Nelson.. Minnesota. Clerk, and War.
ren, Wyoming; Crawford and GamMe,
qoutn uagota; cummins and Kenyon,
Iowa; Plion, , Montana; Gronna and
MoC'umber, North' Dakota! Lafollst'e,
Wlseowslw; Llppltt, Rhode Island;
L
SUAH"TRUSr;PflOBE
F
J GLAUS SPREGKELS
Describes Many Vidasi
tudes of an Independent
Sugar Refiner
'WANTED AGREEMENT'
NEW TOUX, July tlr-Claug Au
gustus Sprockets, son of the lets
Claus Bpreokles, of California, and
principal owner of the Federal
Sugar Refining company at Tonkers,
N. Y., tollay gave the most sensational
testimony that has developed before
the congressional committee Invest! 7
gating the sugar trust during; the
hearings here.
Besides giving a most Important
sidelight on the conference between
John Arbuokle and the late R. O.
Ilavemeyer, which Is believed to have
ended the great sugar war, he de
scribed under oath, the vicissitudes
of an independent sugar reflnlner.
He said that his plant In Philadel
phia, before It was controlled, by the
trust, had been put out of oomsnls
slon several times by persons who
threw sand In the machinery bear
ings and Otherwise wrecked the plant.
He swore that at the Tonkers re
finery after tie had turned down trust
overtures, dead rats were placed In
barrels of sugar ready for shlpmeBt,
and tnat wnme vats or liquid sugar
had been dartned off 1 nthe night Into
sewers. The nuisance of dead rata
con tl need until private detectives
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Cut out and bring or Send to The Citizen.
ljrlmer, Illinois; Oliver, Pennsyl
vania; Page, Vermont; Smith, Mlchl,
gan; Bmoot "Utah. " ;
Democrats against:,: Ballsy, Texas;
Clarke, Arkansas; ' Simmon' North
Carolina, ' , , ,
, Republicans for the' bill; Bradley,
Kentucky; Brandegee and Molean,
Connecticut; Brlggs. New Jersey;
Brown. Nebraska; Burton, a Ohio;
Crane and Lodge. Massachusetts;
Cullotn. Illinois; Qurgsnhelm, Colo-'
rado; Jones and Folndexter, Wash
Ington; Nlxou, Nevadal Penrose,
Pennsylvania; Parkins and ' Wnrlta.
.California; v Richardson, leware
oot, New York; t Stephenson, Wis.
ConsliJ! Townsend, Michigan; Wt
more, nhode Island.
Overman, lor It
DerdorraU fori Baoon, Oeorgla;
Bankhead and - Johnson. Alabama;
Bryan and rietoher, Florida) Cham,
berlaln, Oregon; Chilton and Watson,
West Virginia; Culberson. Texas;
Davis, ' Arkanaasi ; JMsiar, Loullana;
Oors and Owen, . Oklahoma; Hitch
cook,, Nebraska; Johnson, Maine,
Kern and Shiveley, Indiana; Martin
and Bwanson, Virginia; Martins, New
Jersey; : Myers, Montana; Newlanus,
Nevada; O'Oorraan, New York; Ov
erman, North CaroHnai Paynter, Ken
tucky; Ponvrene, Ohio; Itsed and
Blone, MAasourl; BmUh, Maryland;
Smith. South Carolina; Taylor, Ten
nessee, Williams, Mississippi.
TAFT PM5AKE0
WAflHINOTON, July ll.'l ,m
much gratified that the till Is pass
ed.M said President Taft. "In Indi
cates the increase of mutually benefll
slal relations between Canada and
this country," - ' " . ' .
' Ths president rcelvsd many eongra-',
tulatlons before leaving fpr Beverly at
.IB, to spend the week end. lis wi.i
be back In Washington Tnssflnv.
' . "11 was easy,4 said Senator I
' (rontrtuipd mi i-- i
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ii uiDiniui
AT - HEIGHT V0F, EEVELR
Three Armed.Thieyes Break
Into Jewelry Store, 'fill ;
, Clerk and Escape;
SIJIUTHS ON TEAII ,
NBW' YORK, July ' ll.-Three
armed thlevss invaded ths heart of
ths tenderloin at its gayest hour to
night, smashed a Sixth avenue, Jew
eler's 'show window, snot his clerk
dead, seised l,000 worth of diamond
rings and got away in a red touring
oar, pursued by scores : of persons
who had witnessed th murder and,
robbery,
A woman, who, the police believe.
was a confederate, entered the store
of Jacob Jaooby a few minutes prior
to the shooting and asked Mr. Ja-
eoby to test her eyes for glasses.
While she engaged him ths window
glass .was smashed and Adolph
Stern elerk, rushed te the street. A
Undsrsixed man with a revolver -blocked
him at the door. Stent tried
to brush past hint to get at a man
who had poked his hand through the,
broken window and grasped a tray of'
diamond rings. The underslsed man
shot twice and Stern felL "My Ood
I'm shot" be cried. A moment later '
he was dead. - "V. ' r
Passersby saw the man at ths wtiw
dow withdraw" ths' tro 'of rings, tuck
It under his coat and dart across ths
street He disappeared . through ths
open door of red touring ear. The
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