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THE WANTS ARE OF SERVICE IN INNUMERABLE WAYS - SEE IF THEY CAN’T SERVE YOU. 20 Pages NE SECTION. THE CHARLOTTE NEWS 2G Pages ONE SECTION. OL 2. NO. 30 CHARLOT I E. N. C.. SUNDAY MORNING. AUGUST 27, 1911 PRICE 5 CENTS Richmond Sleuth Further Implicates Henry Clay Beattie 7 hrows Back at Young His Admissions of Love Efulah Bin/ord And his radicting Statements— x Deep Impression, '?;/ During Day Broke . .^y For Prosecution ’ Beattie*s Chance Ap- J Decidedly Slimmer ^ ^Saturdays Session, •' H., \’a.. Aug. 26.— Beattie's own words— .. of h:s love for Beulai to cor.riiidiciions of his nUhf hi.: young wii3 ■ .me back upon him to- •ne might judge fr:>m uies of the Virginia fiia? is trying him, lt;3- • ;rther his already slim ! life. - '.-'iiher L. Scherer, who : Hattie from the moment iii- doclared a highway* wile, and who oaus- • af a time when other li to do so, spent th’s ’.'n repeating the do- ;age and telling of his .'in- after his wife's . *n the morning, th-,' : r.nmental jurors had nousl upon ^ the blood- ‘lobi’io with which B^ai- ’ riding on the nirht •, and brought her back. vere deeply imprt^s.sed. ’ morning, a groi.n ot bny.-; from Ricliniona '.;at ihev saw a car—a K-’ Beattie’s—conta’ping A oman ’•esfmbling hii'i • , ~o far as they toulii darkness of that nignt the very spot whor? s;*o vn the young Iji’id*-" 'hp prate more than over il'p roi! has beeu ut tne boj dofendaii'. . herer, a squ«r»rjaw;cc, . - vnn of 40. is not an :\e He is claim lei oervice chief for •V Ohio Ue r)bou« M ‘ anct.luM' and. indeed, hnb be the most cap- vPi^tipator. ot on the Mulio- ,,’rp a I'loofl^icii.i • of the killin:.’ ■ i trm ks [ea(.tii:g ,.arks. of Beitiies in at the aid" ot .!■ : .tgain (T’i3 , went to tt •» ' Kun, hidden lUeiG !v>r hiR wife > - ,vi’ h me -t 1 h'- ; Irove theie iJi. .! few ho’11'3 i't- i.-k-^d him to ai- as I' had bc-en r. ,n api)eared. Hr- I* side of t’le ' road. H " lud .Mi.d marks were : - l.'ad hangii'*; th*" :r.achine. to him that tr.is I iiiin.^r'lf was iH- ^ ' and. or drivor s i( ill;- -tory. Hio cr \Na.'>. Therelore • !r [)(»(>[ of blood 1 T! It-' present poai- i jv\ ju. ' w hat to 'inie hacked up ;* forward to the ■ "lood pool, saying: ■ n ft’,is wav.'" ii»rer t^aid that i > ^;rief and no in- ( -fieanon. He did .. -llg^^^■tion as *o .-itf-rious highway- First he said gone into the :i' h' had rtin down i not know whether . ;tp or hlack—mere- I t r^mendoubly pow- H«* i^ad wre;-tled in;l taken the gun Srherer declared :nrl. t!,en," he detective he. a slfRhtiy built p wres^ted the gun ‘!. replied. 1 guess ex- r;v' given me extra ■! ( 11 I asked why, with riid nn» overpower the an.^wered: ‘My fii’st ■ !.iy '"ife.' ■■ j .rymen i^eemed to fee ' doubtful of the de- n- they heard this, iinirred why he could 1 M- . (.lor of the alleged I lie wore close enough ! , iiiir. in the light of ri r 'old how he made 'i;.:.'!'inii a!)Oiit the gay ^ ii.ond and learned of Nation for Beulah ■ i:.-rnv fix d that they i.' i I lit- ni?-;ht before the flay ot -Mrs. Beattie’s ' I.i'll il;(' bo> a^:ide and ■‘■'i: Boulah. ' ■ II her for a lung time,’ ■ i. ai (iirdiuK to the wit- •'lii r; r surprised him . 'iis U ( (>n, movements i! aiI If I hfn asked him ' Bfulah ' is she under ■ eror wouldn’t tell him. The ' I' k*’ duwn and admilled that he had spent many recent nights with the pretty demi-mondaine, and that he and another well-known youth named Sampson (a single man) had been in Norfolk with Beulah and Heu- I'etta Pittman, who yet i& to testify at the uial, and is another good looking girl of the same class. "He told me then the whole story of his affair with Beulah Binford," went on the witness. "How he met her when she was 13 years old, how he uas the father of her child when she was 15 (giving her a large sum of mon ey and later paying for the baby’s burial when It died), and how his wife knew of all this." 'I'he manner in w-hich young Mrs. Beattie learned of Henry's recent un- taithfulness was asked of Scherer and he began to explain; but Judge Wat son decided that this must be told by physicians. Their testimony will es tablish completely the motive for the killing. Court adjourned at this point until -Monday, when Scherer will be cross- examined. When that is over Beulah Binford will most likely tell her life story, after which the state will wind up its case with a jury-impressing sen sation in the way of Paul Beattie’s nar- ration of how he purchased the gun in question at his cousin’s Instance. Springfield, Mass., Aug. 26.—Last week’s disastrous hail and rain storm is believed to have damaged the grow ing tobacco crop to the txtent of $7»0,- 000. The dam^e amounts to a ca lamity in the districts affected in that, with some few exceptions, the loss falls almost entirely upon small grow ers;, many of whom will be obliged to inort:^ge their faiT>s in order to plant next season's crop. Fifteen hundred acres of tobacco were moved down so thoroughly that not a leaf of mechantable tobacco re mains, and more than 1,000 acres w'ere dwn,$i5Cd to a lesser degree. More than 10 per Cent of the entire New Eng land tobacco crop was destroyed. JUDGE IN BEATTIE CASE Judge Walter Watson, who is presiding at the trial In Richmond of Henry Clay Beattie on the charge of murdering his young wife, and (on the right) the defendant. The trial began Aug 21. i speed Mania Claims Two Lives at Elgm Cup Race Saturday Buck And His Mechanician Killed as Car 7urned Turtle on Bad Turn Going 80 Miles an Hour—Grand Stand Col lapsed, FLAGS TRAIN TO SAVE LIFE. New Castle, DeU Aug. 26.—Prompt action on the part of Flagman James McGrath at the Eighth and Delaware streets crossing of the Delaware Rail road saved the life of Steward Ham mond, w'ho has charge of the cooking for the repairmen now at work at the bridges and crossings here. The stew- Len Zenael Drwinn Nnfinnnll^^^ moving along at a £,tngci, urivwg naiionai | p^ce a short distance from the Wnn 7*Jnin Trnhhu crossing. McGrath could not leave the fv UII £^iyui J. fupny Af .U crossing and could not make the man ThoitSOTldss fit Ptitp he&i when a train approached, so he inousanasoj uoiiars Money—He Averaged 66,45 Miles Per Hour on hack, Elgin, 111., Aug. 26.—The death of a Twenty Eight People Lose Lives In Motion Picture Show Following Explosion of Film Bruised and Ciushed Bodies Of Dead Which Choked The Entiance Taken to Moigue X OT Two More Victims Have Died Swelling the List of Known Dead to 28—Ten More so Badly Hurt Little Chance is Held Out For Them. SNAPPER FIGHTS THREE MEN, TIIFI BLOCKS Washington. Aug. 26.—Because President Taft has failed to act on the court martial recommendation for the dismissal o& first Lieutenant Robert G. Rutherford, twenty-fourth infantry, IfsT officers of the army are prevented from being promoted and receiving in creased pay. Friends of Lieut. Ruth- e:foid, headeid by Senator Stone of Missouri, have succeeded in holding uj) the President’s approval of the verdict. In the meantime sixty-one first lieutenants and 126 second lieu tenants are deprived of higher rank and more jiay which they would have received had Rutherford Ijeen dis missed. mm OILS Durham, N. C., Aug. 26.—After a hard fight for his life, William A. Sal mon. of the Salmon Brothers firm of -ontiactors. died today. He was 40 years of age and leaves a wife and two children, two sisters and five brothers. He underwent an operation early in the year that again put him on his feet, but hihs last ten weeks h^d been marked by hopelessness. His firm was doing the Trinity build ing and he died without seeing his favorite finished. The funeral will be tomorrow from the Second Baptist church of which hewa'fe a member. TENNIS TEAM COMING. — ^ London, Aug. 26.—The British ten nis team which is to compete with the Americans in the preliminary games for the Davis cup, left for New York on the Arlatic. Port Penn., Del., Anug. 26.—A mon- driver and his mechanician when their snapper, caught in a haul seine, Kio- * J * • * gave John Pustill, Aaron Willis and big racing car turned turtle going at p^ank White, of New Castle, a hard 60 miles an hour, and the injury of a ^ battle. While seining for trout and score of spectators when a section of cattish the men saw a iS^pWnimotion the grandstand collapsed, marked the going fo it they ^ ^ ^ ’ • found the snapper. An effort was second day of s\>eed madness and rec- ^ made to lasso it, but it caught the ord smashing at the great Elgin na- stout braid line in it’s mouth and bit tional road races todav. One hundred two. Finally, by the us6 of an oar, , 1 » * ^ J it stunned and landed. It tipped thousand people treated death as a ^t 65 pounds. spectacular incident and the sport ! continued until the finish of the races, ' FEAT IN CITY ROCK SURGERY. when Len Zengel, driving a National „ 7 , ° ^ Allentow-n, Pa., Aug. 26.—Taylor car, winner of the Elgm national tro- ^ Roth performed an extraordinary feat phy and the the thousands of dollars last night, successfully blasting away prize money. Zengel covered the 305 ^ ^edge of 20,000 tons of rock within miles at ir avera-P nf KK ^iniits, along Cedar Creek, miles at an a^erage speea of b6.4o miles an hour. | gj,,. j^oies six inches in diameter, It was on one of the closing laps ; with a depth of 60 to 65 feet, were of the race that Dave Buck and his me- ^^e blast. About 12,000 sticks ... o T u J •• • lof dynamite were used, chanician, Sam Jacobs, driving m the | g„ carefully was the job handled Pope-Hartford car, attempted to nego- that not an iota of outside destruction tiate the northern turn at terrific ' resulted. Thousands watched the blast. speed. Buck struck a rut and the car threw a front tire. The huge machine turned a complete somersault. Jacobs w'as killed instantly. Buck was picked up with a broken hip and was rushed Roth’s daughter, Dorothy, touched the button. EDITORS LAND IN JAIL. Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 26.—Accus- to the hospital, where he died this eve-using the mails to forward an ning. I indecent and obscene article in La The collapse of the grandstand oc- newspaper. Rev. curred during the first lap of the race .Saividore Florena and 'T. Lucida, shortly after the start of the races. ' names appear at the head of As Harry Grant, lading the field, came ^ county jail in default of $500 bail each by United States Commissioner Morgan in Camden. Commissioner Morgan said the ar ticle fv’as not an attack on any in dividual, but was very obscene in its entirety. The complaint was made by Postal Inspector W'ardle. down the home stretch. 1,500 specta tors. rising to cheer him, were sent into a tangle of s-creaming humani-1 ty as four sections of the grandstand went down Jike a row of dominoes. | Instantly a panic seized the crowd.' The soldiers guarding the course were hurriedly ordered to the scene and i by heroic efforts in calling the frighten-'♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦ ed throng probably averted the fall ^ ‘ ^ of the entire grandstand with its 7,--'^ Oo, people. Ambulances and automo- ^ biles were rushed to the stands with ^ physicians and nurses. The race was ^ stopped temporarily. Among the injur- THE WEATHER. ed was Mrs. Ralph Graham, of Chicago, daughter of Senator Lorimer. She was unconsccius for an hour after the fall. Thirty minutes after the accident all of the injured had been remoA’^ed and the crowd Was howling for a continuation of the races. Washington. Aug. 26.—Fore cast for Sunday and Monday: North Carolina, local show ers Sunday and Monday. South Carolina, local show ers Sunday and Monday. Railroad Officials May Feel Wiath of Interstate Commerce Comm is si on TRIED SUICIDE IN JAIL. Durham, N. C., Aug. 26.— Horace Gentry, in jail for stab bing Walter Stanbury a week ago, cut his throat in his cell tonight, but is not very badly hurt. He has made no statement as to whether it was suicidal or not, but it ai)pears to have been a poor attempt according to offi cers. Washington, Aug. 26.—Railroad offi-1 ' cials are likely to feel the wrath of | 1 the interstate commerce commission. I I { j The recent wreck on the Lehigh Valley , , Railroad and the New York New Ha- i ! ven & Hartford Railroad has made I [the members of the commission deter-j j mined to take drastic action to fix; responsiblity for the appalling loss of life. Responsibility for the wreck of the Federal express at Bridgeport was due to the engineer running his train ^ at too fast a speed. The wreck at Man-; Chester was due to the spreading of rails. 1 The commission does not want to let the matter rest on these facts and is determined to fully investigate the latest tragedy. With this purpose in mind. Chairman Clemgnts has detail ed additional inspectors to go to Man chester and investigate all circumstan ces surrounding the cause o/ the wreck. Chairman Clements determined that fines are not sufficient to force the railroads to observe necessary care in handling their trains, and jt is probable the commission will Qpder certain railroad officials prosecute^ if the investigation warrants such act^on- Fifteenoj Dead Are Women Inquest Set For Monday-— Wieck Was Caused by De- jective Rail—Revised List oj the Dead, Manchester, N. Y., Aug. 26.—Twen ty-six bodies have been removed from the train wreck of yesterday and the ruins are being searched for more. Two more victims of the disaster died today, swelling the list of known dead to 28 and fully ten more of the in jured are so frightfully mained recov ery is thought to be impossible. WTien the final tally is made the list of dead may reach thirty-five. Of the twenty-six bodies taken from the two cars on the Lehigh Valley train that went over the embankment at Canandagua outlet ten are still un identified. Twenty-four bodies are in the Shortsville morkue and others are at widely separated undertaking establishments. In the Shortsville jnorgue are the bodies of six women and one man still unidentified. Of the killed fifteen were women and the others members of the, G. A. R. returning from the annual encamp ment which closed at Rochester Thursday. The inquest has been set for Monday by Coroner Eiseline at Shortsville. In addition, the interstate commerce commission os to institute an investi gation at once. Commissioner Clem ents is quoted as saying: “We will stop some of these disasters when we jail a few important railway offi cials.” A detective rail, it is officially admit ted, was the cause of the Manchester wreck. A revised list of the dead follows: In Rochester morgue: Hill, Mrs. Emily, died - Hahnemann hospital. p,undle, W. P., mail clerk, Easton, Pa. Baker, Harry, trainman, Waverly, N. Y. Bell, E. M., veteran, Los Angeles, Cal. In Shortsville morgue: Seubeck, Mrs. A., Buffalo. Madden, T. C., Trenton, N. J. Johnson, Mrs. C. F., Cleveland, Ohio. Hicks, Charles, Newark, N. J. Uncle, Mrs. I. S., Smithfield, N. J. Hicker, Joseph, Philadelphia. Brownell, Ellen E. Tonewa, Pa. Anderson. Edgar B., 62 years old, Brooklyn. Johnston, C. P., Philadelphia. Hunsicker, A. M., Vineland, Ont. Paugburn, E., Brooklyn. Pownall, Helen E., address unknown. Woman, unidentified, about 55 years of age. Wrinkler, Mrs. Fredent, 55 years old, Philadelphia. Woman, unidentified, 30; blond hair, blue eyes, blue serge suit. Woman, unidentified; initials “E. H.’’ on clothing. Woman, unidentified, 30, initials “E. H.” on stick pin. Woman, unidentified, initials “E. T. P.” on clothing. , Woman, unidentified, gold band ring, engraved “Minnie, i.ovember 28, ’83.” Man, unidentified, about 80, gray chin whiskers. Danehlitt, Rebecca, 55, Niagara Falls. Woman, unidentified, dark hair weight about 175 pounds. | Woman, unidentified, 40, dark hair. Boy, unidentified, about 12 years of age. ! PBBI mis T Ithaca, N. Y., Aug, 26.—Bruised and fa.igued by his experience in the La- high Valley wreck at Manchester, the' Rev. William H. Harrington, rector of a local Catholic church, who, in spite of his own hurts, speht hours praying and ministering to the dying and in jured in the wreck, arrived in this city today. “It was more horrible than the hum an tongue can express,” declared the priest. “Monsignor Hendrick, of Ovid, and I had just started lunch in the din ing car. I noticed a cup of tea in the monsignor’s hand spill and was warn ing him when there was a crash and We were both thrown to the other side as the car went down the bank. “Climbing through a broken win dow, Monsignor Hendrick and. I im mediately went among the dyinfi. “We forgot our own hurts. It was the most terrible sight imaginable. The water under the trestle literally ran with blood. Few Homes in Village Escaped Some Affection as Numbers ^ere Seriously Injured— House Had a Seating Capa city Of About 1000. House Crowded And Many Standing in Rear—Cry oj **Fire** Caused Stampede And Many Were Stomped to to Death in Rm>h. Canonsburg, Aug. 26.—In a panic following the explosion of a film in a moving picture show here tonight twenty-eight people lost their Uvea and many were injured. The bruis* ed and crushed bodies of the dead, which choked the main entrance to the theatre, were gathered up and carried to the morgue, while scores of injured were taken to the Canons* burg hospital or to their homes. The disaster came with a sudden- ijess that stunned the people of Canonsburg and scores walked the streets in a dazed condition, seem ingly helpless in their terror and grief, for few homes had escaped some affliction. The Morgan opera house is located in the center of the town and on the main streeti It is as large structure and has two galleries with which “In the Pullman the dead were piled the main floor affords seating ca- up high. There was a woman whose pacity for 1,000 persons, son is a priest in Baltimore. She The moving picture cage was lo- made a practice to never'start out on^jated on the second gallerv floor and a journey without first receiving com-^it was from this that the explosion munion. She and her daughter had took .place. It made a loud noise called on their priest yesterday morn- and showed a flash of flame and this ing, but he was not in and they came aw'ay without communion. I administer ed the last rites and closed the dying woman’s eyes. “In the creek bed a woman lay on FARMER LAD TURNS BANDIT New York, Aug. 26.—Two detectives dragged a well-dressed young man in to police headquarters on,whom were found a revolver, a black mask made out of a sack, and a peaked cap. “Yes,” he said, “I will admit that I had been, driven to attempt to make money dishonestly. I am Leon Gup- pel, 28. Until a few years ago I was a farmer boy in Deering, Me. Then I went to Boston and got a job in a grocery. Three weeks ago I came to New York, but 1 couldn’t even get a job. Then I decided to get money by fair means or foul, and four times I started out on hold-up missions, but lost my nerve when the time came.” Inspector Hughes recently learned from underground sources that Guppel was planning a hold-up and set detec tives to watch iiim. Night and day since ttien Guppel has been shadowed. her.. The man asked me who was be side him. having haerd her voice. She spoke her name and he grasped her hand and held it. They w’ere man and wife. I was with them when both died. “A young boy lay on the bank near me. From the back of his ear to his forehead his scalp was lifted off. Oth er people had their features distorted and one woman lost her nose com pletely. We went about among all who were brought out and did what we could to make their last minutes com fortable. It was the most terrible ex perience I’ve ever been through. The earthquakes I have been in do not com pare.” caused a shout of “fire” from the crow^ds. The spectator*? on the main floor and the first gallery heard the ^ cry and, all rose en masse and started the bank moaning, with a max| bestde* “fffr ‘ the exits. The stairways leading II L TO THE y. S. Washington, D. C., Aug. 26.—A pow erful addition to the navy was made to day when the new battleship Utah w'as turned over to the government at Philadelphia and ordered to proceed to Hampton Roads for duty. This great sea fighter is of the super dreadnaught class, bears enormous batteries of 10, 12 and 13-inch guns. She will carry 1,100 officers and men. Captain W. S. Benson will command her. The Utah is equipped with oil burn: ers, to be used when coal runs out, or when advantageous und^r battle conditions to avoid smoke. High Living Cost Affects London London, August 26.—The marked increase in the cost of living in Lon don has leh to the establishment of a firm of house bills specialists who un dertake to check and pay tradesmen’s accounts in large households. Society women who are usually in debt and have no time for the scrutiny of house hold bills have begun to feel the alarming growth of the domestic bud get. The new firm’s very first customer was an American peeress, the Coun tess of Essex, whose experience dur ing her entertaining campaign this sea son gave her a startling insight into the methods of West End tradesmen. The next customer was the Countess of Chesterfield, one of the famous Wil son beauties she is noted for her ex-' travagance. The company receives two and one-half per cent on the amounts saved and they are already doing a lucrative business. from the second gallery brought thd spectators there to the first balcony and then a second stairway led to the main entrance. The rush of both galleries to the stairway caused the exit to become choked instantly. Some of the others, maddened with fear, sought the first escapes and reached the street in safety. But those that had made for the main entrance tound not only their own number filling the entrance but they were stopped in their progress by a crov/d of eager people trying to force their way into the theatre at the same time. These latter saw the crowd com ing out and were trying to get in for the second performance which was to begin in a few~moments. Both the performances draw big crowds on Saturday night and this account ed for the confusion at the main doors. Screains and cries and shouts from the confused and struggling mass of people were heard for a considerable distance from the opera house. The cry of fire caused an alarm to be turned in and the fire men came, but they were almost helpless in their efforts to get at the tangled mass of humanity. Gradually it was seen that there was no fire in the building but the stampede had done its aw'ful work. The film booth was fire proof and the fire went no further than its ori gin. Calls for volunteers for rescue work brought an army of frenzied workers to the scene. They found bodies most’ ly in the doorways at the foot of the stair;w'ays and all were victims of crushing and trampling behind them. The most pitiable sight was the number of children who were dead. These w-ere taken out almost unrecog nizable and hurried to McNary’s un dertaking rooms. The injured came later from the building which was still lighted and as soon as the struggling ceased it be came easy to enter the auditorium. But in the excitement over the acci dent it W'as found that many of the injured had been hurried to their homes. Physicians were called for those carried out. Three were taken to the Canonsburg hospital at ^he out set and that the bodies of the dead began to be carried out. Finally these were cleared and the rescuers began looking out for the injured. Many of the lesser injured people had been lifted from fire escapes and hurried to their homes where physi cians were called to attend them. Others were unable to move and had to be carried out. In the excitement no record was kept of them and physicians were obliged to make a house to house canvas to learn the whereabouts of the injured. C. L. McCorkle, a druggist, who v.'as in the theatre at the time the explo sion occurred said; “I saw th people In the audience rise to their feet and being near the door, made a rush for the entrance. I met other trying to get in the place and as w'e went out I saw a panic which was inevitable. I don’t know' who started the shouting except that it was some one in the top gallery.”