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1 3 1 12 THE CHARLOTTE NEWS, CHARLOTTE, N. ft THURSDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 22, 1921- JUDGE LAZARUS HEARS EVIDENCE Preliminary Hearing of Ar buckle on Charge of Mur der Late Today. San Francisco, Sept. 22. The pre liminary hearing of Roscoe ("Fatty") Arbuckle on a charge of murder in connection with the death of Miss Virginia Rappe, before Police Judge Sylvain Lazarus, occupied the atten tion of all connected with the case todav. Men were excluded from tne hearing under an order issued las, night, the authorities ruling that, as Judge Lazarus' court is a woman s -xeent witnesses, court officials and newspaper reporters ho nrtmittpd. The prosecution will endeavor to prove at the hearing. District attorney TTotv.rir p.raHv h-As announced, the contention that Arbuckle attacked Hiss -Darvno n Vila cnitp of rooms in the Spntpmber 5 ana caused injuries which resulted in her death four days later. The complaint -harging murder and under which Ar buckle has been held in jail without bail, was sworn to by Mrs. B. M. Delmont, friend of Miss Rappe. and one of those who attended the film comedian's party. Brady said he believed the prelimi ild occudv at least three days. "Tho prosecution will take a little over a day to put in its testi many and I expect the defense to take about as long," he said. WITNESSES SUBPOENAED. The witnesses subpoenaed for to day's hearing are as follows: Dr. Shelby Strange, acting autopsy surgeon, who performed the autopsy on the body of Miss Rappe. t-- -reriiiinYvi nhrmls. who Terformea an autopsy in company with ur. William Rumwell, Miss Rappe & physl- BABY BORN DN PEACE DAY After Mother Had Been Re stored to Health by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable . Compound Salisbury, Mass.-"For seven years t i j -poia trmibie and such bearing- 1 lia.u a. xiiio-iv- . t. IH hardly do my house- worK. ine auci-ur oaiH 'Tf vou can have another DaDy i it micrht be the best thing for you but I am atraia you can not.' I began tak ing Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound and my baby was born on 'Pflace Dav If n.T nrmilH nnlv take vour Vegetable nuuicu " v- j - w Compound they would have better health. I always recommend your Veg etable Compound to the neighbors. Mrs. Tracy Patten, 2 Lincoln Ave., Salisbury, Massachusetts. m The experience of maternity should not be approached without careful phy sical reparation, as it is impossible for a weak sickly wife to bring healthy children into the world. m Therefore if a woman is suffering from a displacement, backache, inflam mation, ulceration, bearmg-down pains, headaches, nervousness or "the blues she should profit by Mrs. Patten's ex- : ol-o T.vHin F! . Pinkham's pel lenwc, -""-- , v Vegetable Compound and be restored to heaitn. cian. Mrs-. B. M. Delmont, compiammg witness? aeainst the comedian and friend of the dead girl. Miss Alice Blake, one of those who attended the Arbuckle party. Miss Zeh Prevost, former moving picture actress and one of those who attended the party as Arbuckle's guest. Miss Grace Halston, nurse, wnu in tended Miss Rappe up to the time of her death. The preliminary hearing will be on a charge of murder, but it is the discre tion of Judge Lazarus to fix the de gree of crime he believes Arbuckle a v.. truiltv of under the evidence. Arrangements were made to open the hearing at 1 p. m. (4 p. m. unarioue time.) STARTLING ADMISSIONS. T.na .Aneeles, Sept. 22. Admissions, brod in have been made by Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle, that he had used a foreign substance in an attacK upon -was Virginia Ranne during a party at the Hotel St. Francis in San Francisco were described by Al Sem nacher, a friend of Arbuckle, Wednes day before the Los Angeles county ccording: to W. C Doran, ! chief deputy district attorney. Arbuckle I is held at San Francisco, charged with murdering Miss Rappe. Doran said ! Semnacher swore Arbcukle had tpld of ice. to riortions of Miss " I J f ' " - - Panne's hndv. nnrati outlined the testimony in con firming reports that Semiiacher had made identical statements to him at an earlier time and then had declared that hi; had not. even at the San Francisco Inquiry, told of the alleged facts. Semnacher testified mat, on ine morning following the party, Arbuckle told him m the presence of Jowen Sherman, actor; Fred Fisjhback, direc tor, and Harry McCulloufh, chauffeur, that he had taken Miss Kappe into a room with him and had committed certain acts in connection with the alleged crime. These acts, according to Chief Deputy Doran, were of a character likely to have caused the in jury from which Miss Rappe's death resulted. INSANITY IS NOT DIVORCE GROUND Separation Caused by Mis fortune Does Not void Obligations. Has- m lip RoioirrT, Rent. 22. The Supreme r,,r-4- is nnininns vesterday anil in one of them upheld the lower court in the position that separation Deiwe-n husband and- wile caused Dy tne cimi mitment of the wife to the State Hos pital for the Insane does not constitute a ground for divorce. Chief Justice alter Clark wrote the, opinion in the divorce case which came to the court on appeal under the title of Lee vs. Lee it being the action of A. R. Lee vs. Saphrony Lee froTi Johnston county. They were married, it appears, in 1896 lived together until 1910, during which time five children were born. Li 1910, the wife was committed to the State Hospital, where she has been an inmate sines. Action for -divorce wad started by the husband alleging that the , absence of the wife constituted a ; legal ground for divorce. "While it is in the power of the leg islature," said Justice Clark, "to make the misfortune of either party a 'ground for divorce, it has not done so and the court cannot by judicial construction extend the ground for divorce beyond the statute. With us, the law-making nnwpr has adhered to the ohlie'atirm or tne marriage vow inai tne parties talre pa eh other for het ter nr fnr worse to live together in sickness or in health, till death do them part, with thp fvrntinn rml v wn prp thf frmrln.-'f of the parties and not their misfortunes are made by our statute to justify the divorce. "Instead of insanity being a ground for divorce," the court continues, "the wifp is still entitled tn snnnnrt nf husband and to her dower as a support should she outlive him and to other Hclifq nf which art innocent and faith ful wife would be deprived should tna mistortune 01 insanity De lmpuieu w the wife as a ground for divorce. The same is true wnere the nusDana ia m-s in an no nartv." In the same batch of opinions, the court found error in judgment of the lower court in the case of Proctor et al vs. Commissioners of Nash count v, a case involving the validity of $20,000 school improvement bonds in Oak Level School District, Nash county. By its decision in the case, the court held that the bond issue approved by the voters April 7, 1919, is invalid for the reason that the total amount of v which mav hi lo-tripd and collected in the township under Chapter 55, Pub lic Laws of 1915 as amended by Chap- tor- 84 Section 3 "Pnhlic Laws of 1913. - t ova inenfficient nav tVip interest and ..O provide a sinking fund for the retire ment or tne oonds. Opinions filed by the court yesterday follow: Tyrrel County vs. Holloway, Tyrrell, no error. Midgett vs. N. S. R. Co., Dare, no trror. Jones vs. Bland, Beaufort, new trial. Mfg. Co. vs. Power & Mfg. uo., Pas quotank, affirmed. Tn Re Hamilton "Rea.ufort. affirmed. Whitley vs. Kafir et al., Beaufort, no error. In Re Foutain, Edgecomhe, no error. Newton vs. Newton, Edgecombe, no error. Proctor et al., vs. Commrs., Nasn, error. State vs. Prince. Chatham, reversal. Lee vs. Petty, Chatham, affirmed. Boyet vs. A. C. L. K. R. Co., John ston, affirmed. TEGUCIGALPA Railroadless National Capital RAIN IX 8ALISBVRG nlishnrv. Sent. 5' A rairi which fell for two hours in SalisuUrv and vicinity Tue-sdav evening was the larg et that nan visited this section since th bis -hail storm Vst AnrU 2'V.- Ac- .-.orriiner to i. M. Smith, local weather rep orter, 3.25 in;;es well in the two hcurs. T'.ns is mora than the rainlall lure for tuj past four months. Washington, Sept. 22. "If the United States, according fo criticisms in 1791 selected a site for its capitol far from the beaten path, the newly formed Federation of Central America has se lected one that is even more remote and inaccessible," says a bulletin issued by the National Gee graphis Society. Tegucigalpa (a name which when properly pronouncel brings to mind the 'goosey-goosey-gander. of nursery rhyra es is now canltal of Honduras, one of the members of the new union", the bulletin continues. "It might be term ed the 'Lhasa of the West,' but not because it is a forbidden city by tho edict of man. Its citizens have then share of the hospitality for which t i 9 nrttori- hut Nature has placed rough country between the city and the two oceans mai uv. -shores of Honduras, and man has cone nvsrKnmc the. handicap, it la the only capital on the North American continent that has never ecnucu more or less musical blast of a railroad locomotive, and one of the few railroad- lessi capitals- in the western phere.. Nor may one yet travel to the new national capital Dy duwu--' "Tegucigalpa is some 80 miles inland from its Pacific port, San Lorenzo, on highlands more than 3,000 feet above iQ,roi a road which is more than oca v - a trail but less than a highway con nects the two points, 'ine mosi bitious name that it can lay claim to is 'cart road.' Travelers 'do the 80 miles in three days by mule back, and if they are traveling light may take i j i i oinno- hv ra.elc mule. Trunks must follow even more slowly by ox cart. In the interior of tne country, 'with its flanks in the air as a military man might describe it, is a : T Tin eood condition fifty mile highway in and the extending between Tegucigalpa f Hon second most impui"- road auto- duras.Comayagua. O1 mobiles operate regulariy. miles "Tegucigalpa is -1U1 AT" he Carib from the Atlantic-or rather - tto , coq- Kut Americans ct .... Dean o. , -from the Atia.Jinv, capital more quickly from thue than rrora me " fVm New Orleans fast steamer service f New j irxMia Tnrto cortex " . ana iviuunc. raiiroaa e- shore port. From frd the tends for a short disnnilt head the interior, and from the r alj? " cigaipa nv hv mule back to J-ss occupies live or -. - "The capital i& Tr 4icate Its upies five or six t a place as The capital is as f.nf 2 Je Its 0ihiiitv would indicate. us iiiavv-vu . ,,1,r pstimatea at population is variously gs on nnn to x.uuu. a"- . jt, are of one story with walls or aa- - masonry and roots ira ai. "Though it is iso.at ""--BO and pa does not mean to remain, s perhaps its cnoice tion is an Sew Central American Federation government or " a-gen- ambitious ran f ruin over- eration ago, dul j-"-""- t years a 4.i, ontpmrise. In recent , SSbSr of raiWds have been from tne nortn - rar6 being companies, and some of these are he 5 slowly extended xow "The li'ederaiiuii w , -, caiva, ca, consistingof Guatemala, near f u dor, and nona . -rr - - Rica ture to enroll ricarct5 - among its mempei..- wiU center of tne new tory." PERSHING TO SEE MILLERAND. Paris, Sept. 22.-(By the Asociat 1 TJclliTlC Will VlSlt Press) uenerai lunnrand at the Elysee Pa. ace tomorrow. M. Barthou he French War Minister, conferred witn u eral this morning. HAMPTON RICH HERE ON HIGHWAY MISSION j Hampton Rich, of Winston-Sal manager of the Boone Trail Highway Association, IS spenum n, tne city in the interest of that organic tion. . . . 'This is a wgnway. inch, . . i vviit on sentiment and win. aSual dirt moving operations. Tho actual ii. is to connpnt Sesand counties" all the way to uj West carrying this transcontmeny road to the Pacific. Seventy-tv.0 markers nave '""'-t'li "one the road as far as Kansas City. is careful to emnhas;?. Ef.tSn character of the old pionc tne steri.no - wiiornc t..:, who blazed out That is Why tnesc tv.n-s Tnat..18, Jhool children. unveiiea rjj ----- . vision of er patnous, nf these pioneers tuun. trv before there was a flag." try cewi mhPr- of rnemhec There are " ji the Boone Trail Highway Association in Charlotte. This road gives a ne route into the Blowing Rock country, mssing througu RETIREMENT OF GEN. WOOD IS tuuri&ifci) fn Rent. 22. The amlim. tion of Major General Leonard v03j for retirement from active service, ef. fective October 5, supplemented by fec. iecuvo . General's a Sen "as Governor General of ft pointment v , fS3S Harding Wednc.day by Ickmg Congressional authority for army officers to hold civil posts, th ortmpnt plans to make General wood's Appointment in the usual Way wWch requires his retirement fro TcTive service. It was pointed out thai GhSSalWood was eligible in any served 30 years in the army. FATTY TENDED TO CELLAR. Los Aneeles. Calif.. SeDt. 22. On'.y Roscoe C. ("Fatty") Arbuckle himself had the key to the cellar or nis resi dence here, according to Miss leather ing Fitzeerald. housekeener for Ar buckle, in testimony given to Ralph Pamariiio assistant district attorney. Miss Fitzgerald said, according to Camarillo, that she knew Arbuckle's cellar was "generously stocked"- with liquors: that he alone entered it; that she did not know whether he had tak en any with him when ne started for San FVancisco on the trin which result ed in his arrest for the alleged murder -f "rioc Virginia Ranne. film actress: and that, while' she arranged for the payment of other household expenses, she never had seen a bill for liquor among them. Camarillo stated Miss a ltzgeraio. a statements checked with evidence ai veariv in the. nossession of Federal of ficers who were investigating the source of the liquor arunic at tne atducuo party in San Francisco. LOWELL SHERMAN LOCATED. New York. sent. 22. ine district at torney's office announced today it had located Lowell Sherman, movie actor, and served him with a request sud poena for questioning in connect! n with the Arbuckle case. , ! hi r-m n4X vi nra y III L.I Li t I w ilti I U II 11 ! 11 "11-11 1 1 II t, II II U 1 1 Ef I 1 I I I I 1 J J V X I II II If It li II LA L i II I J v W I I if H I JLS I I XI I C X hi iuih i i ! a i i y i i i tii an ntiti i z v x h i nn i t mi i i a r- RTr? ?v T " W TTv rt 1 7T7 IF . F II i tr 1 I I I IV I II 11 A LV 111 I li f li li i I ill. li I. i I 1 li if ni III II I v iii eiiritiii iiitiriiiT v j v y rf- vi l a a, j i li MANY NEW LAWS IN CENTRAL WEST Fifteen States HaveJ Total of Over Five Thousand New Acts. Time to throw away your old Straw Hat. Buy A Chicago, Sept. 22. This was legisla ture year in the Central West. The grand total of new laws enacted by reg ular sessions of legislatures in 15 Cen tral States was 5,368. This number was 229 less than the bills passed by these legislatures, vetoes by the Gov- amnira or fnilnrfi to act on bills AC- counting for -this number. The total vetoes were 190. iri-atisaa was the State enaction ) the lai-cpst nnmher nf new laws, with 690 effective, out or V03 passed, isortn Dakota added the smallest number with 145 out of 148 passed. Oklahoma was the only state in wnicn tne veto pow er was not exercised. In that Stale the regular session enacted 182 laws out of 1,001 bills and joint resolutions hofor the legislature. The lareest number of vetoes was xn Wisconsin, with 50. The list of each of the 15 States fol lows: a Bills State Passed New laws' Indiana .. 301 280 Missouri 323 282 Arkansas 703 ' 690 Oklahoma 182 182 Iowa 410 409 South Dakota 436 42a Nebraska ........ 315 309 Texas 241 223 Michigan 458 447 Illinois 361 307 The Governor of Illinois filed, in addi tion to the 307 bills signed, 12 others with objections, and there is doubt when this dozen will become laws. Kansas 307 - . 305 Ohio 243 241 North Dakota .148 145 Wisconsin .... .. 640 591 Minnesota ... ....... 529 527 I ..Total .. ,.a,D3 o,oo& BODY OF YOUNG BRIDE DISCOVERED IN LAKE ..5,597 5,368 You will find all the new shades in Browns and Greys here. $5 upwards Union, Conn., Sept. 22. The body of Mrs. Norah Johnson Kettelle, who, as a bride of a few days, disappeared from a camp at Lake Mashapaug, where she was on her honeymoon, on September 13, was found in the lake today. It was not removed from the water pend ing examination, by the coroner and State police. Mrs. K.etteiie, Z3 years or age, a graduate of Radcliffe College, disap peared while her husband, John Dun- ster Kettelle, of Cambridge, Mass., was absent from the camp. When he re turned, he found her gone, most of her clothing left behind, and the boat be longing to the cottage, together with her' bathing suit, missing. The boat was found near the opposite shore in the search wnicn Ketteiie made m a canoe for his missing bride. MR. HUNT TO GREET FRIENDS IN COUNTRY 34 S. Tryori Charles W. Hunt will entertain sev eral score of his friends at a barbecue and Brunswick stew at his home place on the Statesville road Monday at 1:30 o'clock. Handsomely printed invitations have been forwarded to many of Mr. Hunt's friends in the city and county who are told, in the announcement, that the occasion is in celebration of the 62nd anniversary of the birth cf j the host. Mr. Hunt formerly lived 'n tne city, Dut several years ago moved to this countryside home, whera .he has taken the name of an "agricultural- 1st." We are now prepared to lend to the farmers of Mecklenburg County a liberal percentage of the market value of their cotton. The notes to be secured by bonded warehouse receipts stating the grade and weight. i l i STATEMENT OF CONDITION (CONDENSED), SEPTEMBER 6, 1921 Resources . Loans and Discounts ...... $1,978,153.54 Overdrafts .... 793-04 United States Bonds 331,277.31 War Saving Stamps (owned) Stock in Federal Reserve Bank Other Stocks Banking House and Fixtures Special Building Account : . 13,439.83 Cash and due from Banks and U. S. Treasurer 400,290.13 846.00 15.000.00 3,525.85 30836.96 $2,774,162.66 Liabilities Capital :....$ 200,000.00 Surplus and Profits .... 410,700.41 Accrued Interest Reserved .... 8,999.78 Circulation 195,800.00 Bills Payable , : None Rediscounts .. ,. None Deposits .'. ...... s . 1,958,662.47 $2,774,162.66 . - ........ , We invite your attention to the strong position of this Bank as reflected by the above state ment and solicit your business on the basis of liberal treatment and conservative management. So a W. C. WILKINSON, President. Jno. B. Ross, Vice President, W. F. Dowd, Vice President, J. H. McAden, Vice President, J. C. Booker, Asst. Cashier J. M. Long, Asst. Cashier, J. J. McAden, Asst. Cashier J. A. Stokes, x Cashier.