CHARLOTTE NEWS, JANUARY 20, 1903. 2 A FLDWQF MUD AfEASTOFOYSTERS Ben Franklin Luncheon Was a Most Enjoyable Affair for the Printers and Their Fortunate. Guests Charlotte Typographical Union No. 338, met last night in Typographical Hall over Fitzsimons & Co. to com memorate the birthday of Dr. Frank lin, the greatest of their fraternity. Mr. G. F. Cross, president cf the Union, presided and called the meeting to order. . A Scripture reading from, the eighth chapter of 1st Corinthians and prayer were given by Chaplain John J. Wil liams, foreman of The News. Mr. J. P. Caldwell, of the Charlotte Observer, was the orator of the occa sion. He was introduced by Mr. Syl vanus Erwin in a few well-chosen words. Mr. Caldwell was in great prepared ness and good form and acquitted him self handsomely. He traced the career of Dr. Franklin as printer, journalist, diplomatist, statesman, philosopher, scientist and inventor. Mr. Caldwell's opinion was that Franklin was in many ways the greatest man his coun try had produced. His style was the perfection of simplicity, purity and terseness. Mr. Caldwell interspersed his paper with narratives of Franklin's life and quotations from Franklin's bi ographies and from his "Autobiogra phy," which he considered one of the most charming of books. Mr. Caldwell's effort was one which, caught the spirit of the occasion and met the expecta tions of his audience, At the conclu sion of his address calls were made for Mr. W. C. Dowd, cf The News, who addressed the meeting. He urged the printers to remember Ben Franklin's maxim that "whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well" and to make themselves worthy of their craft. He congratulated the Union upon the harmonious relations existing between employes and employers in Charlotte. His remarks elicited general applause. Col. John R. Morris, one of the most charming personalities in the State, delighted those present with a charac teristically quaint and quizzical speech. He referred to Messrs. Caldwell and Dowd as respectively lyceum and stump orators and said if they kept r t q dorbt they would both eventually prove to be better orators than editors. esaiS. Bonis, Barringer, Escott, Newell, Pleasants and Gilliam made brief acknowledgements in response to repeated calls. Upon motion of Mr. Sylvanus Erwin it was agreed by a unanimous rising vote that when the meeting adjourn it do so officially in memory of the late Mr. N. G. Gonzales, of Columbia, S. C. The meeting then adjourned to the Vienna Cafe, where luncheon was served, covers being laid for sixty-one people. The committee of arrangements, composed of Messrs. J. J. Williams, G. H. Dooley and P. H. McLaughlin, de serve much credit for the enjoyable program arranged and so fittingly car ried out. 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THE TRAGEDY OF A Y OUNG GIRL'S DEATH! (Continued From First Page.) her sister were making up after a quar rel, and went to sleep. At midnight the striking of the clock waked her and she was startled when she found Ella was not in her room. She awoke her father and the ether members of the family! They quickly found the girl was not anywhere, around the house or yard and immediately began a search for her. They thought she might have eloped with Wilcox, and at 1 o'clock Mr. Crop sey" hurried across Elizabeth City to the home of the young man's parents to eee if she was there. He asked to see James, and inquired of him where Ella was. Mrs. Wilcox went alone to her son's room, soon returned and re ported that James said he did not know where the girl was; that he had leturned to her an umbrella and a pic ture she had given him and left her leaning against one of the posts of the front porch of her home, crying. Wil cox did not get out of bed, seemed in different. He said afterward that he was asleep in two minutes after his mother left the room. Then Mr. Cropsey sought the police and reported his daughter's disappear ance. The chief of police, Dawscn, went to Wilcox's room about dawn and asked the young men to go with him to the Cropsey home. He dressed in his working clothes and went with the officer to the desolate home. He was arrested, but he maintained a cool unconcern and professed to know nothing of the girl's whereabouts. He was released, but was kept under sur veillance, as it was believed he had something to do with her disappear ance. Then began the long search that after 37 days resulted in the finding of the body. The doctors explained the fact that the body did not rise sooner on account of the coldness of the water. Her cloth ing was intact, and she had every ap pearance of being dressed just as she was on the night of the tragedy, hence the theory of kidnapping was disposed of, and it wa3 apparent that she had been stricken a blow on the temple and ihrown into the river. Wilcox was rearrested on a charge ii.urder and wv.s brought to trial in March. 1902. At the trial, which lasted -'or weeks jiid was one of the most no table in the history oi' the North Caro lina courts, the State wove a chain of jiic. u.istaniial evidence around Wilcox tending to prove him the murderer. Wilcox offered no evidence, but left the State to piove'his guilt. He de clared he left the girl on the poich, pry ing at 11:05 o'clock and went straight home. At 11:50 o'clock Leonard Owens, a marine engineer, going to his home, saw someone coming down the street 800 yards from the Cropsey home, at most a 10-minute walk. He declared it was 'James Wilcox, and it was so ad mitted. Here is a serious discrepeney in time and a lapse of about 30 minutes unac counted for. Cale Parker, a farmer, coming to town passed the Cropsey gate about 11:10 and says he saw a man and woman together there, both about the same height, corresponding to the height of Wilcox and Miss Crop sey. Wilcox, when arrested that night and carried back to the Cropseys, put on a different suit of clothes from the suit he wore threre in the evening. It was also proved that Ella was tired of Wilcox and was trying to rid herself of his attentions. These were the principal points against Wilcox that resulted in hi3 conviction. All along public sentiment was bit ter against him and there were many threats of lynching. When Mr. E. F, Aydlett, leading counsel for Wilcox, was making his closing speech the crowd in the courtroom made hostile demonstrations, and a fire alarm was at last turned in to break ths force cf his speech. On account of this alleged intimida tion, when the case came up on appeal the North Carolina Supreme Court gave Wilcox a new trial. The case was removed from Pasquotank county to Camden county, where it, has been tried at Hartford, a small town sup posed to be free from influences that were so hostile to the defendant at Elizabeth City. The Cropseys are Northern peopie, who live on the edge of Elizabeth City, Mr. Cropsey conducting a truck ing plantation there. He is a brother of Judge A. G. Cropsey, of Brooklyn, and the family is well known in that city. Wilcox is about 30 years old, with a round face and curling moustache. He has never been popular in the town of Elizabeth City, but his record previous to the Cropsey affair has been straight, so far as any criminal act Is concerned. He has maintained a stolid indiffer ence throughout the year he has been in prison and on trial, and was un moved even when at the close of his first trial. March 22, 1902, Judge George A. 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Bartolomeo Cirino, a barber, 2007 Second avenue, is the only one thus far arrested charged with connection wifh the fraud, but Detective Petrosino has been searching for a man and his wife and a certain doctor. Six cases in as many different life insurance companies are now under invrsiigation bv Assistant District At torney Paul Krotel, in addition to the case cf Raphaele Tiambarulo, whose body was exhumed in St. Michael's Cemetery, Astoria,. With the excep tion of Trambarulo s case the money had been paid on the policies. Some cf the insurance companies interested expressed an intention of having further exhumations. The companies interested are the Washington Life, Provident Savings, New York Life, Metropolitan Life, Mu tual Life, the John Hancock Life In surance Company and the Union Cen tral, of Cincinnati, which has an office at 135 Broadway. It was through an application for additional insurance on the life cf Raphaele Trambarulo that the alleged conspiracy was un earthed. This was made to the Provident Life on" September 10, when it was represented that Trambarulo, who al ready had a policy for 500, wanted a thousand dollar coupon (endowment policy. The application was given to Dr. C E. Bruce, of the Provident Life, to investigate. Trambarulo's business was given as that cf a fruit dealer in the Harlem Market. The physician was unable to find Trambarulo or any one who knew him in the neighbor hood. Dr. Bruce made his report, and In spector Robert W. Nield. of the Provi dent Life, was given the case for in vestigation. He found that there was no such house as 2339 East One Hun dred and Eighty-second street and that Trambarulo was not known in the neighborhood. Representatives of the companies then conferred with one another and were pursuing their investigation when the Washington Life' Insurance Company was called upon to . pay in surance oh Raphaele Trambarulo. who was alleged to have died at 2339 East One Hundred and Eighty-second treet on December 11, 1902, and who was said to have been, buried the fol lowing dav in St. Michael's Cemetery, Astoria. The matter was then laid be fore th? District Attorney. The death certificate, filed with the Board of Health and made out by Dr. Loewith, gave the same address on East One Hnndred and Eighty-second street and the cause of death as arterial sclerosis. Trambarulo's age was given as 54 years. Dr. Loewith's name appears' in other cases now un der investigation, and in nearly every case the same undertaker was em ploved. When the body of the man buried as Trambarulo's was exhumed, the physicians said that it was that of a man probably 75 years old. One hand and a leg were missing. The person who was examined by the insurance company's physician : was . not so maimed, according to. his report. Trambarulo was represented to be the father cf Marie d'Alesio, the bene ficiary under the insurance policy. Some of the policies, now in .the hands' of Assistant District Attorney Krotel and under investigation, ar dated as far back as 1901. Some of the persons insured are dead and the com panies have paid the claims. It is claimed by the District Attorney that the alleged conspirators made their head-quarters in Bartolomeo Cirino's barber shop, at 2007 Second avenue. "The way the fraud was worked was this," Assistant District Attorney Krotel said: "A man in apparently good health was examined as the per son to be insured. Carino's barber shop was frequented by many Italians, and several insurance agents up in that locality were among his cus tomers.' 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