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mm THE WANTS ARE OF SERVICE IN INNUMEkaBLE WAYS — SEE IF THEY CAN’T SERVE YOU, i- t "““THE CHARLOTTE NEWS Latest Edition 45. NO. 8018 CHARLOTTE N. C.. MONDAY tVENING, AUGUST 28, 191 1 Charlotte 2 Cents a Copy aOHy-6 Cents Sunday. f Outside Charlotte 5 Cents a Copy Pally and 5unrtaT. iher Of Muideied iVife Put On Stand "Caused Sensation Visibly Aj^ected by 'ony -Eer Arrival was .c-She Took Stand ...iic’s Bloody Clothes .. .mght into Court. ■iory Quieily-Prose 'Eposes to Show that ieuUie*s Actions on hi Mrs. Owen Sus- im of Muidtr. .’'•f 'S. 'urt Mouse, Va.. Aug. ; vv.rnout r',. faintest . • durlriC: he trial, da’ confronted Hen- jr wiili Mrs. R. V. ot 'he ■womaji lie is • r. rdered. ' y Arrival. 0 arrival vra^ timed ■'h the moment '-i m the court room 0 Beattie on the rd r Mr». Owen came U. presence in this i::: a ''Oll-kept secret I y on Stand. t the usual per- . ii.- .dent to the in- wi'zness, Prosecu- . itioned the worn- ■lee o: the domes- - V - and brought ii ' fif'd as relevant j • "r> of the murder, ; • ' • > i'ivsical condi-. — nation had caused to ::is wife. 1 Caut'cned Wife. i ‘ 'd '.--ir 'he nieht' : r-ad Mtioned Mrs.; b out alone with her i Prove Cause. I •- r ' I \ for today ap-| n pr >vp t‘'.at Bea '^ie j . • ; is fi-ar *; at j n! 0 •ndiiit'u i r 'n. ‘ friniily. ne Surprised. j O’, en took ' •* cro'vd in . •• and i'a- -L ' d a recer^ on i>..'h 1 i*=.’ o dit'cuss i tet.ti’r.ony along, ! ad come from ; •' : >-'r h'lsbar.i. • !' t • the court, ■1 T o cou’’f rocrn and' * i i'V>o !T a word ' ■’nai' nnnounce- = ’ the 'heriff being • ' ious plan of the ' H H e r. ’ is head in; Hp woman and’ ”rf-r he endeav-; *r 1 rection. but; •! r, he found ic ■ • nf uroje( ting ; 'o li- ar her testi-! i i ervous. ' >ered to Law-: im Ask her to i H'5ir ” ! ■= « been her i believed; *’ ;ea”ie 9 relations "a-y’s Birth. , O .on told how ’lra-t;e hri qe on ' ; the Beat*:ie : T ■inted at the . .^htorcaused by i’h 'he Binford .'■t'- Calm. 1, in the witness :.r rr-d husband ;i r "Jivy black, a i a I'artial glimpse a’arcs, comeiy, ' ^har. -■‘‘si .'-he still re- ' ^air. ■ii»ct Beattie? ’ tl;;> prosecution j . • . fiiy on di-| .•r. •- . r- at irni;i 1 ; ■ I vcuuh' hi ■ -u. “led him I . . Afloat. j ■ !i ;t was rumor- j • . ’ a: k€d Bea'tie | ■n iuiring if he . fl The conference as to the admissa- bility of Mrs. Owen’s testimony was between onl ythe opposing counsel. Judge Watson and the prisoner. All returned to the court room at 1:20 o’clock and the examination of Mrs. Owon was resumed. She testified at length indicating that there was no doubht of young Mrs. Beattie having knowledge of the physical conditon of her husband. The testimony brought out that the condition of young Beat tie became known to his wife on “Thursday before she was killed.” • You were present on several oc casions when the prisoner called at the residence of Tom Owen; who in vited you?” “Mr. Owen.” ■'On the fatald night who invite you?” "Xo one.” “On the night of the murder,” said Mrs. Owen, “I asked Beattie who could have been bo cruel as to kill an Innocent girl. He gave no explanation but said ‘Take me out of the room.' He gave no explanation.” No Tears. “Did you notice any ears on the prisoner’s face then?” “Xo.” Cross-Examination. Cross-examination then began by Mr. Carter for the defense. The attor ney drew from Mrs. Owen the admis sion that her knowledge of Beattie’s condition was based purely on what her daughter had told her. Mr. Car ter moved to strike out the evidence. Judge Watson reserved decision. "You spoke of your daughter having crying spells,” suggested Hill Carter, “that wasn’t unusual was it?” “Yes, unusual to me. I never knew her to be hysterical before,” replied Mrs. Owen. The court at this point announced that it had decided to overrule the motion of counsel for the defense to strike out the testimony of Mrs. Owen regarding Beattie’s condition. Mrs. Owen was then excused and left the room with her veil dropped ov. r her face. Court immediately adjourned for luncheon at 1:40 p. m. Dr. Franklin on Stand. Court reconvened at 2:45 o’clock when Dr. A. G. Franklin was called :o thf> Stand. Chesterfield. C. H., Va., Aug. 2S.— The most vital broadside of testiniony thus far aimed against Henry 0 Beat tie. J'‘ indicted for wife murder, was planred by the prosecution for today’s srssion of court here. The story of thj motive carefully had been assembled by the con'mr.n- wealth for emission through a strng of witnesses. Besides arranging to have witnesses on the stand who would testify concerning Beattie’s al leged relations with Beulah Binford as indi'^ative of his alleged desire to elim inate hi.=; wife so that companionship wi*h the Binford girl might continue unobstructed, the commonwealth was prepared to pour into the record the testimony of physicians and others who would tell of Beattie’s alleged ph. sif’al ills, in an effort to show that the prisoner feared his wife might in form his father of them and that the laner then might disown him. From Richmond's underworld, the pi'osecution had secured witnesses to tcstifv as to Beattie’s visits to certain resorts, and as to his being seen at such placcs with the Binford girl. The prosecution intended to make a single effort to Impress the jury with the testimony regarding the motive and it was considered not at all impossible that if by the end of the day the ?ip- parcnt effect on the jury had been suf ficiently strong the state would not re vert again in the trial to this line of argument. Such a contingency would mean. It is admitted, the possible elim ination from the stand of Beulah Bin ford. the girl in J:he case, from whom the public, but neither the prosecution nor defense has looked forward for dramatic testimony. It is pointed out that the Binford girl has made many statements and given many inter views, their tenor so diversified as to make it risky to hazard her as a wit- neiis. It is feared that by possible inconsis tent statements on the stand the ef fect of her testimony would be nulli fied. The prosecution is interested in the girl only in so far as she miglit ha'-e furnished the motive, and nnmer- ;,u>' v.itnesses other than tlie girl are available to aid the commonwealth on this i)0int. Should the state today complete :ts fight on the motive, it hopes next to have Paul Beattie on the stand to iiegin its direct evidence concerning the jnirchase of the gun by Par.l for Kenrv. Pfiul Beattie was expected to he brought again to the court house from Richmond today but the chances of hi.-, taking the witness chair were considered slim. Continued on Page Two. SCMDAU R)!?. THE P2EAL GRAtNS Of RRO^RfS- SlVE i.EGJ5“ LATIOM. all CHAFF AND SCREENINGS. Valley Line Tram Purposely Wiecked Says Investigator fi M ill n I! fii p r T u L nmlullllUL I ML vision oj New York, New Haven and Hartford Rail- load Says the Train was DC' SERIIL FlIGII By Associated Press. Washington, Aug. 28.—Word reached the navy department today that two seamen, William A. Creech and Wilson D. Mickey, both of South Carolina, had been killed on board the battleship Ohio as the result of an accident to the anchor gear. The Ohio is in Tan gier Sound, Chesapeake Bay, prepara tory to participating in the target practice of the Atlantic fleet. The official report gave no other de tails of the accident. Creech was a native of Barnwell, S. C., was 26 years old and had been in thenaval service a little more than four years. His father. Richard R. Creech, is a resident of Kline, S. C. Mickey, the other victim, was from Mileroy, Pa., not South Carolina, was 29 years old and had been connected with the navy eight years. His father, H. B. Mickey, lives in Pittsburg. Found a Badly Mutilated Body By Associated I-ress. Knoxville, Tenn., Aug. 28.—The vi cinity of Etowah is greatly excited over the discovery of the mutilated body of J. L. Miller, aged 65, a well-to- do farmer who resided within two miles of that place. Miller’s son, Ros- coe, Thomas Senter and G. W. Rose and w'ife, the last two tenants on one of Miller s farms, are under arrest, charged with the murder and have been spirited away to the jail at Ath ens on account of the high feeling against them at Etowah. Officers claim that one of the quartette has confess ed. Acording to the confession Ros- coe is said to have planned the murder, revenge being his motive, the elder M*ller having prosecuted him a short time ago on the charge of stealing corn. Miller had been to Etowah and on Friday it was believed was killed while returning home that night. I Instead of Banquet Chicago Motoi Club s elebiation of Elgin Races with the score of drivers who par- f I , ticipated in the meet as guests of rai in- ^^e only occasion which '“’n titute the members now are asked to fr%anie of lake part in is an automobile fun- V ,. er'nl from Grace Episcopal church. ' ■ ' fleliiation j It is expected that the longest line ■'1 ;led and'of automobiles ever seen in a funer al o' e” al procession will follow the body, ho: e life ' The body of Samuel Jacobs, Buck's ' . - >n national I mechanician, who also was killed, .r.lay, will be sent to his sister in Cincin- d a banquet 1 natl. By Associated Press. Madrid, Aug. 28.—Dispatches re ceived here today from Las Palmas, Canary Islands, say that 500 Spanish soldiers are making preparations to embark tomorrow on the transport Al- mirante Lobo to occupy Gaainte Croix La I'lineuro, on the Moroccan coast to the south of Agadiri where the arrival last July of the German v.arship Panther stirred up the present inter national dispute over ^Morocco. The news reporting the moverjcut of a Spanish force to Southern Mor occo has not j-et been elucidated, ..nt should it be confirmed it is expected further to complicate the Moroccan problems, over which negotiations are in progress between Jules Cambon, the i^'rench ambassador at Berlin, and Herr Von Kiderelin-Watchter, the CJerman foreign secretary. Charleston Cut Ofi Fiom World by Storm -Savannah is Safe By Associated Press. St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 28.—Plans for an aeroplane fiight of at least 1,500 miles down the Mississippi river in September to eclipseN the world’s rec ord ju&t established by Harry N. At- w'ood, are well under way, it was an nounced tonight. Two courses are un der consideration. One is from St. Paul to Vicksburg, Miss., 1,511 miles. The other is from Dubuque, Iowa, to Xew Orleans, La., 1,555 miles. The purpose of the flight is to focus attention on the Mississippi on the eve 01 the deep waterway convention at Chicago and to promote aviation inter est in the middle West, as well as to establish a new world’s record for dis tance. Albert Bond Lambert, president of the Aero Cluu of St. Louis, smarter of three international balloon races, is chairman of the temporary organiza tion of the trans-Mississippi Flight As sociation. He declares that the flight is practicable. The flyer selected for the flight will drive a hydroplane which will enable him to follow the cour&e of the river v.ith impunity, landing on the river surface when the fair grounds are not available. Storm Located Over South west Corner of South Caro lina Tears Down Wires and Stops Trains—Reports Say Charleston is Being Flooded. No Trains Expected From Charleston For Six or Seven Hours—Three Feet of Water Reported in the Union Depot at That Place. The severe storm which struck Charleston and Savannah last night seems to be centering in the same locality today. Indications are t^at it is moving northward. Both cities were completely cut off from commu nication with the outside world today and it^is therefore impossible to as certain the extent of the damage the storm had wrought. A message this afternoon from Branchville, 70 miles from Charleston, states that there is three feet of wa ter in the Charleston union station, partially confirming earlier reports that Charleston was menaced by flood. The message also says that no trains have left Charleston since 8 o’clock last night. TOLD OF COLLISION. New York, Aug. 28.—The crew of the British steamer Hellenes told to day of a collision with the schooner Jane Palmer, Norfolk for Boston, off Nobska Pint, Mass., yesterday. The schooner’s forward gear was car ried away and the after-deck gear of the Hellenes for a distance of 80 feet was stripped. X’either ship was in dan ger of sinking and both proceeded to port. Columbia, S. C.. Aug. 28.—At 11 o’clock Southern Railway officials here were advised over a wire that was secured for a few minutes that a man who had reached Summerville, 20 miles north of Charleston, reported water to have flooded the Charleston union station. The Southern Railway passenger train, due to leave Charles ton at 3:20 a. m. and scheduled to arrive here at 6:55, had not left Char leston. The Atlantic Coast Line has not telegraphic communication with Charleston, but does not expect a train from there before 5 or 6 hours at the earliest. It is honed to have communi cation restored within a few hours. At 11:30 o’clock Director Geren said that upon his observations, considered along with reports from elsewhere, in cluding Jacksonville but not Charles ton or Savannah, he had located the storm at the extreme southwestern corner of South Carolina. He thought it likely that the storm was moving northwestwardly and hence was In vading the interior, although the Wash ington office believed the storm wos moving nortlaeasterly up the coast. The wind at Columbia, now from the east, is expected to remain high during the day and probably through the night and will likely haul around to south and sou*^^hwest. At 12:20 p. m. a message from Branchivile. said it was reported there that there was three feet of water in the Charleston union station and the building 'nad been partially unroofed by the gale. All wires within nine mles of Charleston were down. No train had left there since 8 o’clock last night. Several trains were tied up between Charleston and Summerville. At 11 o’clock the Atlantic Coast Line had a message via Florence from Mount Holly. 18 miles north of Char leston. advising that Coast Line train Xo. 52, Charleston to Greenville, via Columbia, was approaching Mount Hol ly, running six hours late. On receipt of this news the Coast Line annulled No. 52 and announced that its first train out of Columbia for Greenville would be No. 54, which will leave on its schedule time, at 5 p. m. The Coast Line train from Greenville, Xo. 53, due to leave here for Charles ton at 5 c 05 p. m., is en route to Colum bia and is expected to proceed to Charleston on schedule time. Can’t Get Savannah. Macon, Ga., Aug., 28.—Central Rail way officials here have been trying all morning to reach Savannah but have ! failed so far. The nearest point to which the wires are working is Millen, eighty miles from Savannah. A train from Savannah is due in Macon at 1 p. m. and the railroad people are hop ing for definite information if the train gets through. Neither of the telegraph companies can raise Savan nah. ' News of Savannah. Macon, Ga., Aug. 28.—The Central of Georgia has just received the fol lowing from Savannah: Wind about 60 miles an hour, win dows blown in, signs and awnings torn down, trees stripped or blown down, telephone and telegraph wires badly tangled, shipping apparently safe. Charleston is believed to have got ten the worst of the storm. One of Baltimore ships due last night could not come in but would probably reach here today. Summer tourists, and residents of Tybee came in on late trains last night. People arriving from Tybee on last Tybee train last night report ev- terything apparently all right at Tybee at that time. No reports from there since. News of ^-harleston. Augusta, Ga., Aug. 28,—A telephone message from Ridgeville, 31 miles from Charleston, at 11 o’clock, says the wind in Charleston at that hour was blowing between sixty and seventy miles an hour and considerable dam age had been done along the water front, but people who returned from Charleston this morning, leaving there during the night, reported no loss of life. A later message from St. George is to the effect that the union passenger station in Charleston is under water. Everybody on the Isle of Palms and Sullivan’s Island were warned in time yesterday afternoon to get to the pe ninsula on Mount Pleasant, though some of them were not able to get over to the city on the boats, but were forced to go back inland toward Mc- Clellandville. Along the water front in Charleston the water is the high est knovvn there since the tidal wave of 1886. Railway traffic in and out of Charles ton has been blocked since last night on account of inundation of tracks be tween Magnolia and Aseley Junction, and information in Augusta shortly af ter midday is that a train will make an effort to ford the water in that place and get out of the Charleston territory immediately. A special train sent out over the C. & W. C. road from Augusta late last night will meet the train from Charleston and return to Augusta, probably arriving here be tween 4 and 5 o’clock this afternoon. ♦ ♦ ♦ THE WEATHER 4> ♦ By Associated Press. ♦ ♦ Washington, Aug. 28.—Fore- ^ cast: ♦. ♦ North Carolina—Rain to- ♦ -► night; Tuesday showers and ♦ cooler, brisk, probably high shifting winds. 10 Run Fancy Cattle Ranch By Associated Press. Greely, Col., Aug. 28.—Thomas TV. Lawson, the Boston financier, is ne gotiating for the purchase of 80,000 acres of ranch land forty-five miles northeast of Greely. Mr. Lawson in tends to devote the entire ranch to the breeding and raising of fancy cattle and horses for exhibition and racing purposes. W'hile the deal is not formally clon ed, a local real estate company de clares that it is "only a matter of a fev days until the transfer of the proije.^cy will be completed. PiSHT TO VISIT TWEKTr liSIITES By Associated Press. Beverly, Mass., Aug. 23.—Twenty- four of the United States will be visit ed by President Taft on the swing aroimd the circle, according to a par tially completed schedule announc . today. The president will start on Sept. 15, and with the exception of five states and Arizona and New Mex ico, he will pass through every Com- monwelath west of the Mississippi Included in the 24 are Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania. Ohio, Michi gan, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska. Colorado, Wyom ing, Utah, Nevada, California, Oregon, TN'ashington, Idaho, Montana, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Maryland. Ariiong the big towns and cities that the president will visit are Syracuse, Erie, Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, Omaha, Kansas, Denver, Cheyenne, Salt Lake City, Los Angeles, San Fran cisco, Sacramento, Portland, Oregon. Tacoma, Seattle, Spokane, W’’allace, Wallace, Idaho; Butte and Billings, Mont.; Deadwood, Aberdeen and Pier re, S. D.; St. Paul and Minneapolis, Milwaukee and Pittsburg. Says all Spikes in One Rail Were Pulled Out Which Pre cluded Possibility oj Thi Awful J^reck Being an Ac cident, By Associated Press. Middletown, Conn., Aug. 28.—Of the sixty or more passengers who were hurt in the wreck of the even ing train over the Valley Line of tlie New Haven and Hartford Railroad last night one is reported as being near death and he is Abram Brown, of Hartford, who suffered an injury to his spine. The hoopitais report that the other patients are doin? well. The cause of the wreck is beinij looked into. Early this morning Su perintendent Woodward, of the Shore Line division, who went to the scene of the disaster at Maronams, notified the police that he found upon close inspection that the train had beea purposely wrecked. He says: “All the spikes of one rail—that nearest the river—were pulled out and were lying around tha track. They were not damaged a bit by tha wreck which would have^been the na/ tural result if they had been in their proper place at the time of the accident. Not one vras twisted cr bent. The spikes were pulled u? from the rail nearest the bank cl the river and on both sides of that length of the rail. My conclusion ia that it was an attempt to wreck tha train. I cannot tell whether tl*-6 spikes of more than one rail's lengtli had been torn up, as the others were covered with mud and debris.” P^^t Summer was Good foi Yeggs By Associated Press. Xew York, Aug. 28.—The past sum mer has been the most profitable for burglars and sneak thieves in* the his tory of the New York post office de partment and it is estimated that th3 total of plunder since June, including burglaries in suburban towns, is mor« than $500,000. The police list of stolen property for the last two months ebox^ more than 4,200 items of which recov eries have been m*ade in only twenty instances. The list includes 780 watches and $200,000 worth of dia monds and jewelry. By Associated Press Canonsburg, Pa., Aug. '28.—Em blems of mourning fiuttered from more than a score of houses in this thriving village today .indicating where the full force of the blow fol lowing Saturday night’s panic In the Canonsburg opera house had been felt. For the most part they were white ribbons, showing that children made up in large part the victims of the- terrible happening. « All the bodies had been taken from the improvised mortuaries to their former homes, and preparations were made for the funerals, many of which will be held today and tomor row. Little white hearses were call ed into action, and 26 caskets arriv ed from Pittsburg. It was rumored early in the day that an arrest would be made by Coroner James T. Heffran, but the name of the person under suspicion as the cause of the panic was not made public. Deputy Factory Inspector James R. Patterson today began the investiga tion ordered by the state and will has ten the work in order that his report may be ready for the coroner’s inquest to be held Thursday, or Friday, next. Persons acquainted v/ith the situation declare the opera house was unfit for public exhibitions and say it has been known foV some time it was unsafe. It is expected these facts will devel op as the inspector progresses in his work. Measurements of the exit and door were taken yesterday by mem bers of the coroner’s jury. Of the injured Mrs. Vvilbur Lane, who was taken from the bottom of the pile of dead in the doprway, after her children had been killed, will also re cover. She collapsed when told of their deaths. m ehiiie By Associated Press. Jeffersonville, Ind. Aug. 28.—Wil liam Lee, confessed murderer of his father, mother and brother at Boone- ville, Ind., is in solitary confinement in the Indiana reformatory now. He reached the prison yesterday from Princeton, where officers took him fol lowing the publis-hing of his confession at Evansville. He made a supplemen tary confession last night. This is a reiteration of details of that given out at Evansville. In addition, however, he said he killed his parents because he believed they had planned to kill him. “I thought I would beat the old man to it,” was the way he concluded his third acknowledgment of the butchery of his father, Richard Lee, his gray- haired mother, and his younger brother Clarence. The prisoner maintains a cheerful demeanor. On the journey from Prince ton to Jeifersonville, he was even light hearted and annoyed the officers in his efforts to engage them in small talk. WILL CHEAT GALLOWS BY STARVING SELF TO DEATH. By Associated Press. Grand Rapids, Mich., Aug. 28.—De termined, he says, to cheat a term of imprisonment, Charles Hopper, of Chicago, who on Saturday night mur dered Daisy Watts, better knoFU as Grace Lyons, of Chicago, by throwing her off a steamer in Lake Michigan, has absolutely refused to touch food or drink offered to him in his cell in the county jail at Grand Haven. The tragedy is one of the fev/ murders committed on government in land waters in several years and the charge of murder will be placed against Hopper in the Grand Rapids federal court. It v>'ill be the first case of its kind started here. —Mr. E. T. Cansler’s many friends regret to hear that he is confined to his home on Eost avenue, with a Blight attack of fever.