■ —'W'-I IR .illilii I Jliim 11 Ii,fl IJ- II IIIJIIIII ! IIIPI.J . .1 Kill — >WKMI I | | ■ H min , 111 1 L THE WANTS ARE READY TO SERVE YOU AND AT SLIGHT EXPENSE-SEE PAGE EIGHT t Edition THE CHARLO'FTE Latest Edition 3. NO. 7C00 CHAhLOTFE. N. C.. WEDNESDAV EVENING, APRIL 12. 1911 pxj Y/^tr (In Chariott’. ’ Cfn^ = r i'• T ■*■ ( Outaide JlKirlotta, ■) Cents a copy Daily and Sunday Sal r V \ Bar G . .izsweewcMhiiMV" V -O. in ftr Hutchison, Sr. es Hisjife Today Alf-^Vi}>ta, Va. liv'twceii l.ynohbur^- and Danville. This lulll is now ill construction. A niun- bor of local business men were asso- ciatel with Mr. Hutchison. The under- taiiinfi uas a biji one, requiring much outiav ot inonev and iihysical energy. , Mr. Huicl)ison spent the greater part , o\ his time at Aha Vista. For several I montlis his tariiily :nul intimate friends , realized that Mr. Hutchison was giv ing way under the strain, and they frit ripi)i*'h.'usivo alu). t him. '! hat tlif break down would result in sMcli a iragedy was not to be tiiought oi. j Mv. Hmcliison wa ■. prominently ji'Ciiowu ill mill affaiis through the j South.. -Mr. Hutchison was universally es- I u I tiled in ('liatiott(>. He was a tnati at ’ 1 of reco^uiziHi integrity, of high ideals A’Ui ^ Isia Qf earnost pui pose to attain unto The jury.riiem, iii«r fi'Miid j xvjis hones! and upright, devoting his liie to In': wife and children, mak iri>^ e\ery sacriiice tor their ideasure ai'.d ailvaucfmeu: ia life. He gave him self units>.-‘rvi dl> to them, and their't; indeed was a 'nappy iiome. He was a member of the Second Prcsbyinian church and was for years oecretary in ihe Sunday schooi. He v at: h.'ld in atTei tionate esteem' b> ihe cov.gr^ g:.''ion ol the Sccond -hiirch. Mr. M.utchistni was married October I'Th. 1.''>■'! To Miss .\nnie Kislier. nie( e of the la'e Mr. John W. Wadsworth, Mrs. Hutchison and four -hildren— Mr. A. C . .jr.. Mi-. .lohn. Miss Annie IX’ isc Htnf .Mr. .lames Hutchison - sur- vi^■^^ Hes’ce tliese .Mr. Hutchison is survived by his aged mother. Mrs. M. Flutchison. who lives in Green- \ille. S. one sister. Mrs. Chas. El- iis. of Greenville, and two brothers, Mr. Kgbert HuK'h'son, of Mt, Holly, unu Mr. John Hutcb.ison. of \orfolk. Mr. Egbert iluicluson. ana Mr. T. \\'. Di.xon. a devoted friend of Mr. Hutch ison. will go to Alta Vista this evening. i{is i^ead And -hot While SeU ' \'sk in Bis Oj- ista. s Reached Here ^■ock Financial Mill Caused !k>:owr. Mr. A, r. Einost soi..n ..f- 'ast and '.'und jnst ;r.g a i.ew :'2 call- d .^niiroiy .r.£T a vail was ’' > n d- nurk. nf ■ had the 'on Mill y SilTlGLES TO B£ PLAGE DON TIE FREE LISI ■ t ;i a letter -.t^e !-'und a fu' mpted Milfssed “My ;.!• ,write you rause is • V ng known i.nunion stock i The building siior- lime. ■ ■ been infor- \ew- York* .0 dr-ei. I iicoasion Is I ; ro Aforneyl ■7CT ?') bluoj urain liimsclf. j i -ison. sr.. onej .- men of the "saMy popular. .■,'.g at 1 I an'v The •s 1o'clock •■■r .\i ■. A. 1.’. : .1 The :-;wiv, d tho^ d'- 'rc'>i''g I ,f i that; e Xo par- ; 'UPi; .>'i'iou ; iiub.if • : ?r>d a ^ ..l^aihy . );;d •ni d John Winthrow Doomed. By .\s.sociated Prt ss. .Atlant.a, (!a., April 12,—John With row, The yottng Fai'.nin county wife murderer, must hang unless the gov- ovnor iuU r( odes in his l>ehalf. The i-ui’remc court ihis morning: affirmed tii'' decision of the superior c'urt C'f I'atinin county, where he was con- VK red and .given the death sentence. Wi.hrow was one of five prisoners w'.tn some time ago escaped from Ihe her ! and was caught in DeKalb I. Tiiity. a '!1, ;;-c-.'t'- •, ' hc' Nor- ONE Killed in wreck OF FRIGHT TRAIN. By Associated Press. Waycross, (Ja.. Ajtril 12.—One man was killed and another seriously hurt about S o'clock tl'iis morning wlien a frciiiht train on the .\tlantic C’oast Lin“ crashed into the rear of another, whici; '.v:i • on -i sitiin'i near iiere (,'on- (• iH tO! III t ies Vn'. Hi lidrick. of Hrun.s- (ia., was l%i!l.’d and Fireman .iiiii I’rowii. C(doi'ed was injured. ixdidr h 1; was in Mie caljoose of his !:"i i, '.v'Mcli wa from Brunswick, '.vjMU i!;e ;'hei. f.on; S:*va!ir.ah. ;'ow- ed it' ''Va, thuMiiih. Fl:ii;m:in S. H. I-M. :iricl(l wiio W...S wiUi iiini. w;is not 1 :-:nuiiUM'r A. P. Dnu^ie. cf the r-'var.ti.ib ' p.in. iunii'fd and w:is no’ i i V’i’vi.. Hi' rnc’v.an. FVi'own. remair.efi It! tie (-(h. The e’\.-j;ine was lieralled nv.ii t.::;|ly drvr.a.ged. Six cars of the i’.rr,ns\vi! freight were demolished. r?;",!lr>on Sighted. !'-. ,i:f lilted Pr'ess. ii(i- S,.i!!igs .\i>ril 12.—A balloon 1 ; ,c(l ut iiavf' been the one manue.i 1 H. K. Honey.vell and J. W. Toiland, W].‘; h s»ari';'d ironi San Antonio .Mon- rl.t' niglit, in an effort to break the wo'i r-- record for long distance flight, J. W. BPYAN ANO GOV, HARMAN Snapshot, taken in Washington of J. Bryan and Governor Harmon of Ohio. The fir,st session of the new democratic congress has brought thousands of .prominent democrats to the capitol from ail over the coun try. One of the main topics of conversat'on that can be heard discussed by the parties of Jubilant democrats i?; who will be the democratic presidential nominee for 1912; and Gov. Harmon appears to be one of the most probable candidjites. R. M. Miller Ji. One Of SpeakeisAt Big Boston Meeting National Associatwn of Cotton Manujactuiers Holds Annual Convention in Boston-'Many Mill Men in Attendance— Charlotte Man Speaks, 'Misery Loves Company” Says.^"^'- President Hobbs And Pro ceeds to Show How Mills m England Share in General Depression, the American prodtiction could be doubled if ))roper methods were used, and it is along such lines that our friends in the South must work to fce- cure The best results for themselves and the spinners.” Following President Hobbs’ address, Richard C. McLaurin, of the Institute of 'I'echnology. and Theodore H, Pi ice, o^' Xe-'V York, spoke to the^ delegates, who wei c mueli interested in a ’(ieni- onstration of cotton picking by niachiu- ivt'ii hv a Xew York man. B.v Associated Press. Washington, April 12.—Tw-o of the tariff measures which the democratic house expects to pass in advance of any general legislation were introduc ed today by C’hairman Fnderwood of the committee ou wa.\ s and means. They are Canadian reciprocity, fol lowing the identical lines of the McCall bill passed last session, except for a clause authorizing the President to continue negothitions for reciprocity with Canadian articles not covered b} the pending agreement, and a bill to put on the free list about 100 articles now dutiable under the general tariff. Both acts will receive early consideia- tion. The free list bill is designated to pljicate farmers for agricultural losses which they will sustain imder the Can adian agreement, but it contains also i ome foodstuffs and boots and shoes. The list is as follows: Plows, harrows, headers, harvesters, reapers, agricultural drills and plant ers, mowers, horse rakes, cultivat ors, threshing machines, cotton gins, farm wagons, farm carts, and all other agricultural imi)lenients, including re pair i)arts. Bagging for cotton, gunny cloth and fabrics suitable for baling cotfon; bur laps and bags for sacking agricultural l)roducts; hooper hand iron or steel j for hailing cotton, wire for bailing hay, straw and other agricultural products, (irain leather, buff, split, rougl^ or sole leather, bend or belting leather, 1)001 s and shoes, harness, saddles, and saddlery, and leather for manufactnred articles. Barbed fence wire, wire rods, wire strands or wire rope, wire w’oven or mantifaci iired for wire fencing. I:5eef, veal, mutton, lamb, pork, and meats of all kinds, fresh, salted, pick- led, dried, smoked, dressed or un dressed, preiiared or preserved in any manner; bacon, hams, shoulders, lard, lard compounds and lard substitutes and sausage. Buckwheat tlour, corn meal, wheat and rye tlour, bran, middlings and oth er offals ot grain, oat^ meal and rolled oats, and all prepared cereal foods, i)iscuits, bread, wafers and similar ar ticles not sweetened. Timbers, hemn, sided or squared, round limber nsfd for sjiars or in building wharves, siiingles. laihs, fenc ing liosts, sawed boards, planks, deals, aiid other lumbei, rough or dressed, except ebony, mahogany, rosewood and al! other 'c-auinet woods. Sewing machines and salt com pletes the free list, j ‘AVe expect to call up the reciproc ity FridaV,” said Chairman I'nder-svood. •‘i;nd will seek to pass it as soon as possible. Then will come the free list lill and following that the bill provid ing for statehood for Xe\v Mexico and Ai’izona. Re« Pi’>>intiiieiu will come huer." What Will the Senate Do? Washington, D. C,, April 12.— Cncer- Testimony Against Ed. C. Caton Is Being Oj^ered Now Shannonhouse Repre sents Sharon Township Peo ple Who Petitioned For Re vocation of Conditional Par don. ^ I ♦ i ♦ I ♦ ♦ ♦ Fd, Caton, placed on the ♦ stand by his attorney, became ♦ confused when pressed by ques- ♦ tions from Mr, Shannonhouse ♦ and so palpably told incorrectly ► of thin?:s that hajtpened at his ♦ home on the Sabbath of the ♦ chicken light, that cross exami- ♦ nation ceased in a little while, ♦ At,2:;:ii o’clock the investi- ♦ gation was ended and witnesses ^ who had testilied were told to ♦ come back Friday and sign their statements, stenographi- ♦ cally taken by .Mr, C, O. Mc- ♦ Millan. Mr, Smith, acting as he does as commissioner or ref- ♦ eree, wiii forward the report of ♦ the testimony to the governor. ♦ and Attorney Shannonhouse will ^ give a resume of it in his own way. as will also .Mr. Adams, ♦ who represents Caton, The most iniiiortant feature of the inve."ligation came after two o'clock in th.e afternoon wiien C, A, Xi\. n and Fd Caton went !> on tlie si:uui. The former has only lecently been employed by >• ChIoii and was in former .veats convicted in the recorder’s court ^ upon a charge of selling whis- ^ ke.\', ,\Ir, Shannonhouse was the recorder. On the stand the vviiness said he only sold ‘ Hop Ale," and that the conviction ♦ should not have been, ♦ "God being your helper, can ♦ you give the name of one man who will say (’aton’s reputa- #>■ tion is good?” aslced Mr. Shan- ♦ nonhouse of .\iven, ♦ "1 heard a ttian say some of the i)eople who wanted his i>ar- ♦ don revoked were almost as ♦ mean as Im' was,” was the eva- ♦ sive answer. ♦ ('aton's answers were a denial ♦ of the-ntore s«'iious chari;es. ♦ but a substantiation of the ♦ chargt' that he knew of the chicken fighting on the Sab- bath. By Associated Press. liosuui. April J 2.—"Miser.v likes couuvan.'.' saiii I'resiilent Franklin \\ . SEiTENCE MILLEH Tfl-Oliy EXTENT OF 13 By Associated Press. Xew ^ ork, April 12,—Three Involun tary petitions in bankruptcy aggre- tainty exists as to what course j gat ing .$1 :i,.")00,000 were filed here to- 1 in the senate with.jdav aeainst three officers of the fail- traveling in a northerly di a'-s* d ' : \esierda ■ have rcetion. .a* i'he balloon was moving at a rai)id t> to-' rat'. Only one nu;n was seen in i the basket. thrai-, for I Bad Fire in Alabama. Bv .\ssf)ciated Press By A.ssociated Press. Aberdeen. Miss., Ai>ril 12,—Jtidge Xiles, of the United Siaies district Hohb^'. in his address to the Xational (.(jjjv-i ]>as not yet pronounced sen- .Ksscria'ion of Cot ton ?*Ianulac’.urers, j^nc-e on J, H. Miller, T. C. Steele in this iity today, in referring to th.e],gj;,} (] Clide, members of the fact thai t'le Laucashite cotton 'nilis, cotton firm of Steele, Mill- had l»eeu havin.g ’ hard sleduing as'^ ^ _ who yesterdav acce'P^cd in- wel: as tiu;se in tiie I nited States, ihe structed .it'f.v verdict.s of .guilty on con .-euiion hi Huntingau! liiiil, Mas>a-1 conspiracy to defraud chtisetts Institute of i'echnolog.\, v, IIP (j-jj ough the misuse of .the mails. The court Avill reconvene late to day and it is exi)ected that sentence v.iii then l,>e i)assed. It is possible Judge Xiles may de fer semenc('s umil the ad.journment of the district court the latter part of the week. this city at M:4r> o'clock | a.lso be in session tomorrow. The dele- i,-i.>wn ni intimate' a loui mm.' a cot-' ■ .rtiou !lt t silent and ':.n^'nitud-' of . ill}; a large .'i Mr. Hutch-; 'ical ability., ' ;iired. He i ■ u.- Mro.=ttra-; Charlotte I H>'t Sitrings. j intensified I 1’ is thought' ;i 'umstancps' rrt'ssing, ap-j ■ ’ hi.si.n w'as Holly. X. C. • ■ ^^'On. one I ’'in county. I. ■ came to : ' -ition ill ! ,1-iin W. ' w.1- i,iiick- 'OT'ii. :.i.d .Mr. one of iiis fa- witli .Mr. ti:-. ont- of the ■■■ ine: s |i|eu Birmingham. Ala,, April 12, Fire this mottling destroyed almost the en tire business section of Leeds, .\la., a cfMiient manufacturing town, eight: miles east of Birminghatn. Whitmire gates v.ere welcomed by Governor Fos^'., R. ,M,'.Miller, jr.. of Charlotte, X. C., repl.\iii«,. 'I'he associi'.t ion medal for i;i10 was awariled to Chailss i’. Miin, ol Boston, in recognition of his contributions to textile publications. In his annual address President Hobbs said; "Lnst September I remarked that the coiKm manufacturing industry had been in troublotis times since we met in .\pril last and I regret to be cimu- &■ Sons general merchandise dealers, j ppiied to state that the troui)ious were the heaviest losers. The total [times have been continued. The cot- damage amounts to $27,500 with less j ton crop has been a disappointment. TO- v.ill be pursued in the reference to the Canadian reciprocity bill wiien it reaci'ea the ut>l'(-"i' house, possibly next week. Senator Penrose, who will become tiie new chairman of the committee on finance is friendly to the bill and will uige favorable action. Senator Bailey will make an efi'ort to have it amended. Senator Ctnnmins, who probably will have one of the pdaces to be assigned the insurgents on the committee also will seek to have the measure amended, but he will approach the subject from a firendly point of view. With the bill once before the sen ate a fairly long contest is expected. It is believed that in the end it will pass. Wanted To Sell Iheir Blood Mr. W, M, Smith Appointed by Governor Kitchin to Hold Investigation, to Submit Stenog r a phi c Report of Evidence. l’'d, C. Catoii, a Sharcm township man, against whom allegations of im morality were made by his neighbors, who prayed a revocation of a condi tional pardon granted him by the gov ernor, is on trial today before Mr. W. ■M, Smith, who was especially api)oiitt- ed by (iovernor ivitchen to take testi mony in the special investigation. Attorney Frank M. Shannonhouse is conducting the i)rosecution of the I people's petition, while Mr. Theo. I Adams is rejjresenting the del'endant. I i'he lu'aiing is being he id in the office ! (if Mr. Adams and a crowd of more jthati 50 has been assembled all the ; forenoon. I A stenographic report of the testi- I mony will be forw arded to Governor [Kitchin along with such recommenda tions as Mr. •Smith, who virtually is the court of inquiry, may see fit to made. Cjion this lestimony rests the freedom or liberty of Caton for the next 14 or 1,'> months, he having only served a short time of the 18 months' sentence imposed upon him wiien the conditional i»ardon was granted. Witnesses tiiis morning looked across the table at Ed. Caton, who sat; behind his lawyer and declared une quivocally that his reputation in the communily In which lie lived was bad. They grai)hically described the great (hi(iien ftgiit 'hat took plae on the man's land ou a Sabbath and which was in reality the straw that broke Ihe camel’s back, to use a figure of speetii. Insiiiriations were made that offens es much worse than cock fighting had been committed by (!aton. By clev er questioning of witnesses Mr. Shan- nonhouse deveh)]jed tesrimony that l']lla Brewer, the woman in the case hen f'atou was sentenced to the roads, iiad remained ai Caton’s home since his conditional pardon by the governor. Iiiiii recently she was there alone, but witiiin the last montii other l)eo])le v.ho claim to be her relativeb, are there. ,\s st(ncal as an Indian sat Caton tlirou.gh tile tukiiig of testimony. T Ife tieigiibors who testified against him knew him j+ersonally aiiu one or two spoke to him as the.v took the wit ness stand. And yet these neighbors ed Cartiegie i'ri'st ('omi'atiy, now 'n (lie hands of the states uperintendent of banks. The respcmdents are William. J. C’ummins, jiresident of the trust coni- ])any; (’haiies Arihur Moore, Jr.. and j said his reputation was bad and b.y Mav(in .1. (’ondon. directors. Thfiritiieir evidence asked a revocation of financial slams is given in the poti-jthe conditional pardon. ,A.ttorney .‘\d- lion as; lams cori'estcd everp oint. He object- (.’ummins, liabilities $5,000,000 and : to any qaesllon as to the rei)utation By Associated Press. Xew' York. Ainil 12.—Two hundred men called at Alount Aloriah hospital here yesterday in answer to an adver tisement offering ^25 for a quart of human blood. Most of them were pen niless and all declared that the mone tary reward was their sole consider ation in applying- c;. J. Alfen, a stiapping sailor was selected and for half an hour last night 1 on f .^n,i blood flowed from his arteries into the over th.- prenpice by he fai uie and A,Ire Pn=,'o Rpisler Allen indictment of Jo.se).h G, Robin, pies- asf.ets :f}i(t,('00, Moore, liabilities of $2,000,0u0, and as.sets of $100,0(i0, Condon, liabilities $fi,r>00,000, and assets .$.‘i0t),00n. Payson ^!errill was named receiver for all three under bonds of $100,000, Only three petitioning creditors are nametl, wiiiii is ail the law' requires, but their law^yers said that many moi’e are associated with them. The creditors who appear art : Hermann C. Brewsier, $HO,JO>; Her bert Hatfield .S9,fi4I, and James S. Watson $80,00(1, all for money lent. They allege against Cummins in their jietition that jireferential i)ayments liave been made since he became in solvent ami that there has been trair - fer and concealm'etif of considerable prc-perty with intent to hinder aiul defraud creditors. The actions were not brought agaist the respondents as directors in the Carnegie Trust Conii)any, but as indivi(i ials. The Carne'^ie Triisr Company, long the ed.ge of failure, was thrust than $10,o00 insurance. Tf.fi HEELS NOT curtailment has continued and a mosi unsatisfactory condition has restilted. Buving is on a hand-to-mou^h l.asis. (BY H. E. Washington, News Bureau, Congress Hall. C. BRYANT.) /\pril 12.—Three By Associated Press. Des Moines, Iowa, Aj)ril 12,—The Iowa legislature v.ill adjourn sine die Added to peri)lexing business condiiion j at 2 o'clock this afternoon, probably has been the upset political situation j ^vithout having elected a successor to and the uncertainty due to expected | (late United States Senator Dolli- decisions of the supreme court w hich j 7],^ usual ballot will be taken will have far reaching effects, W ith ■ j. expected that opi)ohents of these two factors removed, we | .judge Kenyon, leading republican can- know w here we stand and be prei>ared ; didate for the toga will fight a mo- to go forward. I tion to continue ballotting. The house "Misery likes company, and it H^ay j in the senate adjournment interest you to know that for the .'ear, morning. ending November 30, 1910, seventy-j three concerns in Lancashire with a to tal paid up capital stock of $12,>'00,000 and an added loan capital of $5,400,000, showed a loss of $1.-’IS,000 after pa,\ ing interest on loans and allowing for de- jireciation. These figures are the worst for 25 years. Conductoj Bell Shot by Hoboes It is undougtedly true that the con this ! sumption of cotton is steadily increas-j By Associated Press. Greensboro, X. C., April 12.—R. C. = «i-:anized ■ii tary and ••Resolved, is IS W Itixon ov- ' iwnre Coiii- II 'eTeta; y ■ ral year^ h' '-•.iine ■ hell M :', hi,-;on or- • rM-tion ( f u ' Va.— North C’arolinian, W'ebb, Gudger and nought on. will not be bound by the caucus action on recir>rociay, 1 iiiLiit Webb introduced ^ Mnp- pacli vear anu il 1 ■ , ^ ^ io,. 10,. „.,s inceaso in consu„^aio„ | a-.o. was^sho ''‘■■mTinc7eases of .machinery whioli I temilted to put o# his train. The shooi- h-,vo een made, it is .'Vident that Ihe oco.irml between this place an', fonsnmiiiiun of the tuiils ofthe wotld High Point about midnight and as o7full lime would be not less than soon as the news %vas received iiosses twenty million bales. ••Then querry thus arises; will the additional amount of cotton needed for the -world and its increasing nomilation come from? . , -4- • • I think I ani too optimistic to be-j one in each leg, though it is . lieve that Irom the present acreage, believed iiis wounds -vs ill prove fatai. I'hat this caudts that a n^w section to be Xo 2 should be added to the Cana dian rcciptoeit.v treat y, placing on the free lisT the following articles. .\|l agiicultu’-al implements, in- jilows. harrows, harvesters. M'eciai I f apers and mo vers; also boots, a big -i-,()«s, saddles, saddlery, wire fenc ing. barbed Avire, hay baling wire, for cotton, ties for cotton, sac.\S. lipriap, flour, dressefi meats of kinds aud salt.” VI/.; ciuding all left from this city and High Point Where ior the scene. Bell was carried to High Point and there .given medical attention. He has two bullets in his abdomen and not veins of Mrs. Rosie Reisler. Allen wanted to depart when the operations was concluded, but surgeons detained him until he recovers his strength. Mrs. Reisler, who had lost blood through an internal hemorrhage, is on the road to recovery. Wants Play Giound Over Hts G 7 a v e By Associated Press. Cleveland. O,. April 12,—“When I die, 1 hope the people will make a playground over my body, I would raiiier have the children romping over my grave than a hundred nKniuments.” This was the statement made by former Mayor Tom L, Johnson, who died Monday night, to his friends wiien men in public life died and mon uments to their menujry were being planned. A mass meeting will be held today or tomorrow to raise funds for a mon ument to Mr. Johnson, The body of the former mayor will be sent to Xew York this afternoon to be buried in Greenwood cemetery, the pall bearers named for the funeral in Brooklyn w’hich will be held ptob- ablv Thursday afternoon are William J Brvan, C, M. Bates, Ben T, Cable, Lincoln Steffens. A, J. IVIaxham, Hen ry George. August Lewis and Phillip A. Brennen. ident Bank. of the Washington Savings Noted Counterfeiter Taken. By Associated Press. Washington, 1). C.. 12.—.\fter a search of two years secret service men arersted Harry Porter in Denver last night and chaiged rim with making the best counterfeit silver dollars ever circulated in this countr.\. KENYON ELECTED F mill j[] _ By Associated Press. Des Moines. Iowa, .-^pril 12,—Judge William S, Kenyon, republican, was elected I'nited States senatcjr to suc ceed the late Senator Jonathan P. Dolliver. on the sixty-seventh ballot in the Iowa legislature this afternoon The victory came with the second ballot of today’s session and following a stormy session. He received TX votes, just emnt^h to elect, against 2fi for sui)reme court justice. Horace E, Deemer, his republican oj)poiient. of the man and when his objections were overruled he noted an ex'ception in each Instance. Commissioner Smith allow;d a lit tle freedom to the witness(‘s and they told of the circumstances leading up to the chicken tight tm the Sabbath. Catcm was cau.ght with a 'uag in hl3 hand and In the bag were tw'o dead game cocks. (,)ne's head hau been pull ed off and the other showed the signs of Ihe g.xffs in his neck. DciJUty Sheriff l"(jrt-r pictures(iuely told of going to Catoii's home and find ing the chicken fighters in session, lu compaii,>' with Mr, X, W. Wallace, jr,, he went to the i>lace Sunday some '.V'-eks ago between i2 and 1 f)’ch)ck in tiiL- vehicles were fouml in front of tlu; home and no man was around. After waiting a little while, so said the witness, Caton was seen coming across a field with a bag in iiis hand. Mr. Porter asked “What does this mean Catonw hereupon Caton hanfi- ed over the bag with the two dead chickens and remarked, “Sec for your self.' Leputizing Mr. Wallace to re main \vith Caton and the vehicles, Dep- 11 tv P(jner followed a freshly ma.de path t(j the woods not far distant from Caton,'s home and there found 40 or 50 people huddled around a pit. I. pou either side of the ))it men were fixing gaffs on the legs of the fighting chick ens, (Jommandin^!; all to consider them selves under arrest the deputy sheiiff proceeded to gather 11 () the parapher nalia, WIiijc he v. as getting this pat a- phernalia all save three of tlie great liirong ran. He took about a. dozen chickens and the gaffs to the house with him and waited ontil each man (•ame to get his vehicle. As they ar rived he would summon them to court, i h*-‘\' were tried -il of them before Squire (!obb the next day and were fined $5. Caton was one of the number, and a record of this convic- lion is a I’art f)f the testimony against him the governor will consider in rea(iiing a conciusion as to the final disposition of the man. i'estimony that Caton had sold li- fpior is not sjrtmg against him, btit \he cireumstar'ices connecting him wi^h immoral relations witn Klia Liewei are verv incriminating, .^ir. i', B. Brown, who lives le.-^s th-^iU a mile from Ca- ton's home ler-tified that he was dis turbed early in the morning of the ,Mai'(ii Sabbath by vehicles passing I Ills place en route to Caton’s home, i He learned there v. as a Mg chicken ^Couiin'ued on Page Eight.) ; > I I' I ■I 'I I

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