THE CHARLOTTE NEWS, CHARLOTTE, N. C, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 11, 1921.
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BARRINGER AND
i PEELERSERVED
jThcy Are Technically Un
I dcr Arrest on Wake Mag
istrate s Warrants.
Osmond Barringer and Dr. C. X. Peel-
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I cv U't llntu'i iiut-M. icv;iiiiii;a.liy, Air.
J i;,v. ringt'i- says, but Sheriff Cochrai
,f rrd warrants on the two in regular
l charging them with exceeding
.,v.- speed limit of Wake county.
The famous Raleigh magistrate,
' squire Owens, is at the bottom of tne
( w!-;."'e business. He sent the warrant s
Sheriff Cochran, properly filled out
No Living
Dr. Hadley
Witness Against
"WifeMurderer"
By LEE LEWIS.
Staff t orrrspopdent of The vb.
Copyright, 1921, by Sewn Publishing Co.
Richmond, Va., Sept. 10. Once more
the old adage murder will out.
It is a long trail from the frozen
waters of the historic James river,
in the hard Winter of 1918, to the
sunbaked desert of New Mexico, in the
Summer of 1921, and yet the desert
nas given up its strange bearded man
to come back to Richmond to ex
plain, if h- can, the finding of the ict-
l" everything. Sheriff Cochran hel-l ! e?crust?d body of nis wife a stone
ttuuui ntr necK, tnree weary years
ago.
It is the Hadley case and about it
is woven a web of mysterv which,
for a time, baffled the best criminal
minds of the country. The county
uathorities claim to have the signed
confession of the "man in the case"
but there is no living witness against
him. The only person who could have
connected him directly with a motive
for the crime is a woman whose lips
have been closed by death. There is
but a slender chain of circumstantial
evidence against the man. and vet
the prosecutor believes it strong enough
'.iimarily go to Raleigh. It is not to cast the ghastly shadow of the death
i- i 1 rri -i .
: - '-. m a iew uaj a timi inursuay ne
i i them in the presence of Mr. Bar
). rincer and Dr. Feeler.
$ ; ; Squire Owens wants them, it will
w necessary for him to send for them.
S M;t i :tf Cochran served the papers and
' vr.te the magistrate to that effect. It
i .1 cost railroad fare both ways for
i and one way for two if the Raleish
..stice of the peace carries out iis
I previously announced determination to
! L-i "! his defendants into his court.
I EITHER WILL GO.
Mr. Barringer, speaking for himself
" ;k1 nr. Peeler, says that neither will
;:;- to snerin uoenran to take then
,rr there. Consequently, the next
--re is up to the squire. The sheritf
i .(u:red no cash bond from' the autc
: . .bile dealer or the physician but ho
-.structed both to remain in town, and
v.nder arrest, until noon Monday.
Siiiqire Owens is supposed to send
word by then whether he wants them
1 .id enough to send railroad fare ro
It was pointed out Saturday that it
up to the State to get a man on
- horn a warrant has been served in
T-r- town in which he is to be tried.
Prisoners" are not generally supposed
be willing to defray their own ok
v ;.?es to a court to answer a charge.
Therefore, the responsibility of defray
travelling expenses -will fall upcn
the State as represented by Magistrate
Owens.
WERE NOT IN WAKE.
Both Mr. Barringer and Dr. Peeler
rave sworn personally and ia writing
:nat. not only did they not speed ii
Wake county but that they have not
, fen near the county in several
nths. Magistrate Owens' warm at
.aims they did speed in that county
,.;:ri the magistrate has publicly stated
hat he proposes seeing that they conte
-. hi court and face trial on th-e
i ra rge.
It Mr. Barringer and Dr. Peeler cn
prove that they did not violate the
Wake speed laws they cannot be fined
(- charged with the cost. It will then
; t- up to somebody else to pay their
;ai!road fare from Charlotte to Ral
eich. Whether any one is willing to
r iti the risk of having to pay a dep
: sheriff or constable's railway far.-?
i"th ways, and that of the two defen
dants one way, when it isn't absolute-
v certain that the trial will nviko
possible the collection of any monoy
from these men, was the point under
discussion in connection with the ca.'e
Saturday.
The magistrate has issued warrants
ajrainst a half-dozen other Charlotte
people charging them with speeding in
Wake. Sheriff Cochran has not serv
M these warrants yet. These potential
iefendants all claim they did not' so
r.uch as visit Wake county on or about
the dates specified in the warrant, not
; mention Violating the county's speed
laws.
The cause of waves is the wind,
v. hich press unequally on the surface
r f the sea and depress one part more
than another. Each depression causes
a corresponding elevation and the u.v
I illations are the1 waves.
chair over the dark and dingy cell in
the Henrico county jail where tonight
Dri Wilmarth Amos Hadley paces
restlessly to and fro, a broken man
at the age of 39.
For nearly three years Dr. Hadley.
who frved here and at Camp Lee,
near Petersburg, as a captain in the
medical corps of the army during the
war, has lived on a ranch near Farm
ington, N. M., under the name of
Arthur Leonard. He explained his
presence in New Mexico as due to a
fight against tuberculosis and the
haunted look forever in his eye lent
its tell-tale corroboration to his story.
But it was the furtive look of the
fugitive from justice, and the strain
of an always possible detective took
its daily toll of the stamina and vital
ity of the man until at last the falter
ing figure which returned to Richmond
a few days ago. manacled and thrice
guarded, was little more than a wraith
of the stalwart officer that Richmond
and Petersburg knew so well in the
closing days of world hostilities.
SIGNED CONFESSION.
The police say that Hadley, after his
arrest in Xew Mexico and a quick
transfer to a Denver jail, confessed
that he poisoned his wife in this city
in November, 1918, wrapped the body
in a raincoat, weighted it with a
heavy stone and threw it into the
James river, five miles above the city.
A farmer on December 30th found
the body in the icy waters and the
cold had proved sufficient to preserve
it to such an extent that identifica
tion was possible by the woman with
whom Captain Hadley and his wife
had lived. This woman told of strange
conversations between the couple. She
made affidavits to that effect, and the
prosecutor has these statements, but
the woman, Mrs. E. G. Clark, is dead.
There, was no water in the lungs
of Mrs. Hadley when her ice-covered
body was dragged from the James and
doctors say this is conclusive evidence
that she was dead before the river
claimed her as its own. The heavy
rock also told its mute but eloquent
story of foul play.
Mrs. Hadley wTas a pianist and a
soprano, with a coloratura voice, which
had given promise of a career upon
the stage. As Sue Tinsley, she took a
music course at Oberlin, Ohio, having
been born in Cincinnati. Dr. Hadley
was graduated from the medical school
of the University of Texas in 1914
hut local officials do not know what
he did between that time and his
arrival here toward the end of the
war. His records have been stolen
from the files of the War Department
at Washington and; cannot be found.
It was nearly a month after the
body was found in the James before a
correct identification was made. Mean
time, there were many pitiful scenes
at the morgue. Men and women came
to Richmond from various parts of
the country seeking lost relatives, but
each one lokoed in vain until at last
Mrs. Clark was attracted by the case
and made the identification. By this
time, however, . Dr. Hadley had gone.
He had . disappeared as completely as
if the earth had opened up and swal
lowed him. Eventually, however, a
man turned up who had seen him
leaving the city in a high-powered
automobile. k
MADE NO RESISTANCE.
The case was placed in the hands
of private detectives and then a pa
tient and systematic search of the
country was begun. The stranger with
the black beard at Farmington had
in some manner aroused suspicion.
Detectives quickly, were on the trail,
and, when at last they confronted
Hadley, the man made no resistance
and readily consented to return
As to motives, there are said to be
several. One has to do . with an army
nurse as the third member of an
eternal triangle. Another has to do
wilh a mysterious "Dr. Griffith,"
mentioned in the alleged confession
by Hadley, in which he says he killed
"the doctor" because he was annoying
Mrs. Hadley. There is the third
treory that Dr. Hadley had been
suffering in 1918 from the effects of
an old injury which is said to have
produced periodic attacks of asphasia.
Finally there has been a repudiation
of the confession. The trial will come
next month and it promises to rank
with Ihe Beattie case of a decade ago.
FIFTY-FIVE MEN
ARE CANDIDATES
Trinity's 1921 Grid Artists
Will Don the Spangles on
, Monday Afternoon.
Durham, Sept". 10. Forty-five men
wili begin football practice at Trinity
College Monday. The grind, which w'il
be continued without let-up during- the
I three weeks before the first game, wi.l
win, . Assistant Coach Steiner arid
Captain Leach. They will arrive Sun
day. '
Ten of the men who will start gat
ting into form on Monday were mem
bers of the team which represented
Trinity in intercollegiate football lasc
season the first season in 25 years
and without a defeat. Twenty-two were
members of the squad last year and
twenty-odd are from various high and
prep schools.
Only one man, Captain Jones, will
be missed from last year's varsity.
Jones is principal of the Kinston high
school this year. McGranah, who was
a member of the senior class last year,
may return to take his M. A. degree.
The varsity men returning are: Cap
tain Leach, tackle; Crute, fullback; Mj
Nairy, half; Pennington, and Neal, end;
Hatcher, guard; Midgette, guard; Hail,
quarter. From last season's subs aro
Smith, quarter; Moore, end; and Mc
Whorter, half.
i Some honest-to-goodness football
players are promised -in the young
hopefuls. The Monroe high school
which took the championship of the
West and almost beat Chapel Hill in
the finals, will send Caldwell and Eng
lish, selected for all State teams.
Others are Garrett, of Carolina Mili
tary and Naval Academy; Albergotti,
captain of Orangebury, S. C, high, and
Wh-itaker, of Laurinburg.
Prospects look bright for the nin
game schedule which begins in Dur
ham on October 1 with a game witn
Lynchburg. At weekly intervals wiil
come William and Mary, Randolph Ma
con, Emory and Henry at Abingdon,
Va., Elon and Guilford. On Armistice
pay will come the tug-of-war with
Wake Forest in Raleigh. On Novem
ber 19 the team will meet the Univer
sity of New York in New York city n
the first intersectional game which the
metropolis has witnessed in nine
years. The Thanksgiving game witn
Wofford at Spartanburg, S. C, will end
the season.
Every Piece Folded
to Your Heart's
Desire
What's more aggravating than napery and linen
out of shape, and other flat pieces all askew?
Or what so sets off the beauty of silver, or
so enhances the table as a cloth pearly white,
with every detail of design showing clear and
embroidery standing out like "beautiful em
bossing ?
No housewife is more considerate of linen,
more exact with every fold than your laundry--giving
beauty with cleanliness has been their
one endeavor these many, many yearsyour
laundry likes to have customers become friends.
Fine finishing of flat work, however, is only
one of the many features of its service. You can
send them anything the family washing, cur
tains, pillows, rugs, blankets whatever is wash
able and save money and yourself.
There's a smiple way to assure yourself of
this send your bundle once for a trial washing.
Send if
aundni
MISS WILSON WEBS
THORNDIKE SAVILLE
Chanel Hill, Sept. 10. Miss Edith
Stedman Wilson, daughter of Dr. Kem-y
V. Wilson v professor of zoology in the
University of North Carolina since 1391,
was married here today to Thorndike
Saville, son of Mr. and Mrs. Caleb
Mills Saville, of Hartford, Conn., ass
ciate professor of hydraulic and sani
tary engineering in the University and
hydraulic engineer in the North Caro
lina Geological and Economic Survey.
The marriage took place in the
Chapel of the Cross, the Episcopal
! church of Chapel Hill. Miss Eleanora
Stansbury Wilson, sister of the bride,
was maid of honor, and Miss Eline von
Borries,v of Baltimore, Aid., was brides
maid. The groom was attended by
'Kelsey Gilmore Reed, of Lexington,
Mass., his classmate at Harvard, as
best man. The ushers were Henry
V. Wilson, Jr., Frank P. Graham, of
Charlotte, and Wesley C. George, of j
Mount Airy. tev. Aiirea &. Lawrence,
rector of the Chapel of the Cross, per
formed the ceremony.
The bride is a graduate of Bryn
Mawr College, of the class of 1916.
Professor Saville was graduated from
Harvard in 1914, and has graduate de
grees from. Harvard, Dartmouth Col
lege, and "the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology. Upon their return to
Chapel Hill, toward .he end of this
month, Professor and Mrs; Saville wiil
occupy their new residence on the Dur
ham road, at the east end of the village.
I LIQUOR WAS FOUND
IN LAKEWOOD HOME
J. F. Davis Snd two sons, J. C. and
W. F. Davis, residing on the Dam
road near Lakewood Park, were arrest
ed Saturday following the seizure of
23 gallons of corn whiskey by Con
stable Joe Emery and city policemen
at the house. Magistrate J. W. Cobb
placed them under bond of $500 for ap
pearance for trial Monday at 3:30
o'clock.
Detectives Gribble, McGraw and Fes
perman accompanied Constable Emery
in making the raid. Whiskey was found
hidden in various places in and about
inclndine- a flre-tilace. kitchen
closet and a .hay-stack. An assortment
' of cans were also taken by ths officers.
a ko- ireo- filled with a. liauid which
looked, tasted and smelled like ordinary
watcV, was also brought to the city.
I The three men were brought before
I Magistrate J. W. Cobb. Only one war
! rant was issued, including the three
' men thereon. The bond was fixed at $500
which was promptly given. The pre
liminary hearing .will bring out for pub
lic inspection the assortment of equip
ment and whiskey which the officers
1 found at the house.
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full fashioned. They formerly sold up to as high
as 5.00 per pair, offered Monday at
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A large assortment
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To Women Interested In
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We announce the arrival of McCall's
for October with all the newest ideas in
Dresses, Suits, Wraps and Children's
garments.
This will give you an idea of what will
be new and in favor so that you can plan
your sewing program.
McCalPs Magazine and McCalPs
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