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VOL. XVIII. CHAPEL K^ ORANGE COUNTY, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1912 , NO. 36
Sidney Alien, Wesley
Edwards Captured.
Were in Des Moines, la. Sweetheart
of Wesley Proved Their Undoing.
They Were Going to Marry. The
Girl is From Mt. Airy, N. C., and
Was Followed to Iowa by Detec
tives Who Landed Their Men.
Des Moines, la., Sent. 14.—
Detectives from Roanoke, Va.,
today claimed to have captured
in this city Sinda Allen, leader of
the Hillsville, Va., Allen gang,
and Wesley Edwards, a member
of the same clan.
Sidna Allen was captured in a
house at Eleventh and Locust
streets, the officials assert, and
Edwards was arrested while
working with a paving gang.
The Hillsville court house, Va.,
shooting affair was one of the
m ost sensational of modern tim es.
It took place on March 14. Im
mediately following conviction on
a minor charge and sentencing of
Floyd Allen by Judge Thornton
B. Massey, the judge was killed,
also Sheriff L. F. Webb, Com
monwealth’s Attorney Foster
and two members of the jury,
Clerk Dexter Goade was shot
through the head and Floyd Al
len himself was seriously wound
ed.
The arrest of Sidna Allen and
Wesley Edwards was comfirmed
tonight.
Miss Maude Iroler, who was
the innocent cause of the arrest
of her lover and her uncle, took
the matter calmly and declared
her belief that her fiancee would
get a short sentence at the worst.
“I live in Mt. Airy, N. C., she
said. “I have known Wesley
Edwasds along time. He came
home some time ago and gave me
the money to come here to be
married. I had no idea that any
one was follownig me here or
when I came to this house. Wes
ley Edwards was really not in the
trouble.”
Sidna Allen agd Wesley Ed
wards came to the Cameron home
where detectives traced the girl
about May 1.
Detectives had watched the
girl at Mt. Airy and closely
scrutinized all mail that she re
ceived. Edwards dropped her a
letter from Des Moines.
Before he was taken to the city
jail after being removed from the
Cameron home, Sidna Allen was
photographed and .measured.
Later Wesley Edwards was
brought in and he was taken
through the same program.
The Des Moines police had no
information from the Roanoke
officials that they were coming
here or were to make the arrest.
The arrests were made about
11 o’clock at the Cameron home
when Miss Iroler, whom the de
tectives had followed, walked in
to the house. Miss Iroler had
asked for Wesley Edwards who
was going under the name of
Joseph Jackson.
The Home Town.
The home town’s the best town,
whatever town it is,
The fair town, the spare town,
for any kind of biz—
To live in, to give in, to work in,
to play,
To dwell in, to sell in, to buy day
by day.
The home town’s the best town,
ever it may be—
To dream for. to scheme for, to
bring prosperity,
To shout for, to spout for, and
not to run it down—
For it’s your town and my town
and everybody’s town!
—American Lumberman.
Dr. Venable’s
Report of Hazing
Reviews Rand's Death Before Ex
ecutive Committee of Board of
Trustees in the Governor’s Of
fice.
President F. P. Venable made
a statement of the death of Mr.
Isaac William Rand to the Exec
utive Committee of the Univer
sity in special session in the ex
ecutive office of Governor Kitchin
Monday afternoon.
The report treated the whole
scope of the hazing tragedy at
considerable length. It showed
that Dr. Venable was aroused be
tween 1:30 and 2 o’clock a. m.,
on the morning of the 13th inst.,
and found young Rand already
dead. From the description
given of one of the hazers by
Freshman Wellons, Dr. Venable
wok young Merrimon into cus
tody and then called in the civil
authorities, who later arrested
Hatch, Styron and Oldham.
The President procured the
presence of Solicitor S. M. Gattis
at the inquest. His report to the
executive committee treated espe
cially the testimony of young
Wellons, Rand’s room-mate, who
was also hazed, as showing that
the hazers called Rand and Wel
lons at their room door, and that
the two freshmen realized that
they were to be hazed.
They went with the hazers to
the athletic field, where Wellons
was ordered to mount the barrel
and was made to make a speech
on “The Whichness of Thus.”
He insisted that he could not
handle this subject, and was or
dered to sing “How Green I Am. ”
He knew the tune for this, he
said, and sang. Then he was or
dered to dance, and did so. He
was taken down and Rand was
made to mount the barrel.
He was ordered to make a
speech and then to sing. He in
sisted that he could not sing and
was directed to dance, which he
began to do. Wellons was stand
ing near the barrel and saw it
rock over and fall without any
one pushing it. Young Rand did
not get up immediately and three
of the hazers went to him and
found that he was hurt.
Further examination showed
that he was bleeding freely from
the cut on the broken bottle.
The party started with Rand
toward the gymnasium building
and carried him about 180 yards,
when they found that his condi
tion was desperate. They left
Rand with Wellons, giving the
latter the light, and Wellons be
gan calling for help, which soon
came. Other details of the Wel
lons statement were very much
as generally published hereto
fore.
The report of President Ven
able also reviewed the giving of
bonds by Merrimon, Hatch and
Oldham, and stated that a bond
for young Styron, who is a minis
terial student from Wilmington,
was made up at Wilmington Sun
day night and forwarded to
Chapel Hill.
Acting on Dr. Venable’s re
port, the executive committee
adopted resolutions as follows:
“Resolved, That the executive
committee of the board of trus
tees ot the University, having re
ceived the official report—made
by President Venable, and which
will be published—of the death
of Isaac William Rand, at the
University, on Friday morning,
September 13, expresses its deep
sympathy with the father and
family of young Isaac William
Rand and over his untimely
death. We deeply deplore, not
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only the death of the young man,
but the manner of his taking off.
“Under a resolution of the
board of trustees, passed some
years ago, any and all students
engaged in hazing in any form,
when convicted, shall be expelled*
The council of the student body
has and is co-operating with the
President and faculty of the Uni
versity in effort to suppress
hazing, and all boys who have
been detected in the past three
years have been expelled. The
students who engaged in the
hazing that resulted in the death
of young Rand have been com
mitted to the Superior Court of
Orange county to answer to the
charge of homicide.
“The Solicitor of the district,
Hon. S. M. Gattis, was present
at the request of the President of
the University, and conducted
the examination of the witnesses
on the part of the State at the
coroner’s inquest. The young
men engaged in the hazing must
answer to the laws of the State.
It is gratifying to us to know
that only four out of 800 students
engaged in this hazing. And the
awful results or the hazing of
young Rand will, we believe, ef
fectually end this brutal form of
amusement and degeneration.”
Stoves. Ranges, Pots
Pans, Dishes, and all
sorts of vessels for
Kitchen and Dining
Room are seasonable
goods now.
We have just re
ceived a new lot of
Aluminnm ware.
Furniture! Furniture!
Just received a solid car load of fresh stock
Oak Suits, Dressers, Chiffonirs, Wash Stands; Tables
Springs,Mattress, &c. &c.
SEE ME AND SAVE MONEY.
R. L. STROWD.
W E HAVE just opened up a nice lot of Men’s Shirts, Col-
T lars, Underwear, Neckwear, Ladies’ and Men’s Hosiery,
Dry Goods and Notions of all kinds, also our Spring Stock of
Shoes from the Brown Shoe Co. We keep a fresh supply of
Staple and Fancy Groceries of all kinds. Stoves, Ranges Farm
ing Utensils and all of Hardware, Wagons, &c. Call and see
me before you buy ..........
H. H. PATTERSON.
We Are Looking^
For You. T^
As the leaves begin to fall, people turn their minds to Cloth
ing, Shoes and Furnishings. We are now receiving our Fall
stock, which will from time to time be replenished with the
newest fabrics and creations. This week we are cleaning up
all Summer lines. Cost cuts no figure. Just see the goods if
you want them. They are yours.
New Coat Suits.
A few Suits have arrived in Gray, Blue and Brown mixture, $12.50, $15.00 and $17.50.
Compare our prices. Blazer Coats in red are the rage. We have them Norfolk Styles,
price $5.
Ready to Wear Skirts.
We are showing an elegant line in Corduroys, Suitings, Serges and Meltons, prices
$2.48 to $7.00.
Notions and Notion
Novelties.
The latest fads ic Dress Trimmings,
Swisses, Readings, Frogs, everything to
beautify dresses, and goods to make ’em.
We lead on Shoes. Walk-Over,
Longwear, Elkin, Godman and Dorothy
Dodd. None better made. We want
your trade. One price to all. Polite
attention and a SQUARE DEAL’ Sell only
HOSIERY
cash or barter. NO TIME BUSINESS.
Andrews Cash Store Company.
A Complete Exhibit.
Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt will
place one of the most complete
exhibitions of the State’s roads
and bridges at the Good Roads
Congress, which will be held at
Atlantic City, N. J., September
30th to October Sth. It is ex
pected that this Congress will be
the largest attended of any yet
held in the interest of the good
roads movement.
Durham county’s exhibit has
been prepared and shipped, to be
forwarded with the other exhibits
from this State. ,
Rural Telephones.
There is nothing that adds
more to the comforts and pleas
ure of living in the country than
a telephone. It brings to the
home assurances of safety from
many evils that come to the
country home. The telephone
places the home in instant con
nection with medical aid; it com
mands instant assistance in case
of accident, fire or other calamity,
and in ease of business it is of
very great importance.
The farmer who has a tele
phone in his home saves his
horses and teams many needless
trips. He can know when to go
to market by phoning and finding
out the price of products on the
day he expects to go to market.
If the prices are low he can wait
until next day, or next week.
In fact the advantages of the
telephone in the country home
are so numerous that it is im
possible to mention them in de
tail. We are glad to know that
our farmers are waking up to
their value, and we predict that
as a few live, progressive farm
ers install these conveniences
that others will follow.—Durham
Sun.
♦
The test farm committee of the
State Board of Agriculture de
cides to purchase the Granville
county home proprrty, near Ox
ford, to be used as a tobacco test
farm for the bright tobacco belt
of North Carolina.
A broom factory has been
erected in Davie county, near
Mocksville. It is the property
of H. C. Jones, J. W. Green and
Sam Jones. Several farmers in
that section raised fine crops of
broom corn this year.