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Ranted, For Sale, For Rent, Lost and Found, Board or Boarders, Rooms For Roomers-Fage Eight ATEST EDITIOiS E C LATEST EDITIO i TWELVE PAGES TWELVE PAGES A TnDTT jpm MEWS n tw 11 i "V V II VOL 45 NO. 8164 Quintuple Hanging Today of Murderer s In Chicago J a i H Men Were Put To Death Between Jen and Two O'clock Final Desperate Efforts oj Lawyers ' And Fri;nds to Save Ihem. jovj Were Executed While Counsel Were Contending Bejore The Court That The Murderers Were Insane Negro Died Last. c- Asociat'd Press. t rrioaso. Feb. 16. Five murderers ,-pr? executed in the county Jail to- rav. lour of them being hanged counsel vainly tried to oc:re a etay order on the ground :':2t the condemned men were insane, jre men were Frank Shiblawski, Fai'i Shiblawski his brother; Philip scGcerlinr, and Thos Scholtz, slayer Fr?i W. Guilzow, a truck farmer hP uas held up, robbed and murdered tsa be was returning t6 his home in ?e out skirts of the city last Octo ivr: and Thomas Jennings, a negro ccavicted on finger print evidence of item nrder of Clarence Hiller. whQse von-? 19 tried to rob in September, T'if Shiblawski brothers were the f:r to mount the scaffold and the drop had scarcely fallen when a bailiff from j-rvc McKinley of the superior court, r.?"-?n into the jail office and sum r.o" jailer Davies to court. TV command was not obeyed and j-jreai Chief Deputy Sheriff Peters telephoned to the judge that two of the had been hanged and that the rierrien would proceed unless a form s' ?:ay was presented. No w rit, was issued and Sommerling s-1 Soholtz followed their companions In crime on the gallows. Representatives of the state's attor T?v? office resisted the attempt to de- z- the executions and told Judge Jlc Key that the petition alleging insan Which under the law is a bar to :ifc;tion. was presented for the pur "is of delav. THs was hotly denied by. 4 counsel! t: ra? condeDfQed-fjii"and a wordy - past four years and especially the let ierration occupied the minutes In vter made public yesterday from Secret-rich the four were being prepared j tary Stimson to General Ainsworth, ft: ihf gallows. J formally charging him with disrespect- Judze McKinley declined to permit ' ful conduct. In view of tho limited tie petition to be filed until it had been ; accommodations at the war depart r:ead. The prosecutors insisted that ment the court probably will assem- t':e petition which was signed by Kev. ( r. Reponski was not in accord with t:e fa.-ts. Oit;pl for Thomas Jennings, color ed the fifth murderer sentenced to die v.'sr while the executions of the C:!!zow murderers were taking place , " s vr,- TTritii Statsc Dis- w disuius i-rr .Inrts-o Ann 9 inai me llKiita ui i their client had been invaded by the htrocuction of finger print evidence h seeking to convict him of the mur of Clarence Hiller, a railroad offl ol -R-hose home the negro sought to lob. Argument on the writ of habeas rcrpus was made before Judge Landis. leanings counsel declared that the Exeer print evidence was inadmissi t'e tecause Jenninga had been compell ci to give the print while he was in Priest Interceded. The petition before Judge McKln--a- citrnpH hv Rev. Francis Rep- nr saint Stanislaus Roman ! Catholic church. The priest has vlsit-e-i the Guilzow murderers in their and declared that they are or wrso-ind mind and subject to hallucl- Th court would not permit the pe-ti-ion to be filed before It was read a3 representatives of the state's attor m office asserted its only purpose as l?Iay. While arguments on the filing of petition were proceeding,, the Shiblawski brothers were hanged. Jailer Davis assisted in taking the Vcies or the two from the gallows ffnre. complying with the order to 2Par in court. E.,rP starting to the court room '?!'!? r Davis conferred with Chief t'epmy Sheriff Peters, who immedi e!v trlpphoned to Judge McKinley ;'.in? him that the Shiblawski crcthrs were handed and that the edition of Sommerling and SchultzJ follow unless a formal oraer "'2 3 issued to prevent the hanging. t Preparations for the death march the remaining two were then be- r:n. Thomas Jennings, negro, the last the five condemned men, was han?ed at 12:15 p. m. J'Jdge Landis denied the petition fied for Thomas Jennings and pre stations for the fifth hanging were Ka at the JaiL COTTON GROWING 1N TURKE STAN WILL BE ATTEMPTED B7 AsSnclated preSg. St. Petersburg, Feb. 16. The Rus jaa cabinet fca prepared for submls ;r,ri to the duma a bill calling for an ?r-0!r!atlon of $275,000 for the ex--nsion of tho growth of cotton in fcestan, and the replacing of Amer agricultural machinery by Iraplo nts made In Russia and other conn- ofI.emIer Kokstoff and the majority f 'no members of the cabinet are In t;or of cheap loans being advanced HaUon gIWer3 In order to make 8ia Independent of foreign cotton vH specially of American cotton. I . GENERAL AIDORTH FACES COURT MORTIAL By Associated Press. Washington, Feb. 16. While no or der of military arrest had been issued this morning, the status of Major Gen eral Frederick C. Ainsworth today was that of an army officer under sus pension from the exercise of his du ties as adjutant general and under or ders to remain in Washington pending the adoption of disciplinary measures by the war department. This Is well understood to mean that General Ainsworth i3 to bo tried by court martial on a military charge which, statded in plain English, is to tho effect that he is alleged , to have been guilty of disrespect to General Wood, the chief of staff, his superior in the army, and to Secretary of Wrar Stimson, his official superior. The war department officials are busy selecting the court which will try General Ainsworth and in formulat ing the charges. Necessarily a num ber of retired officers of high rank must be placed upon the court and the department is communicating with some of these officers to ascertain if they would find it acceptable to serve upon this court, which is likely to be one of the nitst notable in army his tory. It may be several days befor the Issue of the farmal order creating the court and citing General Ains worth before it. Although the Issues to be tried are exceedingly important, involving as they do all the old rancorous disputes that have been waged between the line and the staff for a quarter of a century, legal officers of the war de partment do not believe the trial itself will consume much time. It is believed that the evidence to be presented will be principally doc umentary, including the various orders and reports that have issued from tho adjutant general's office within the ble at the war college or at b ort Myer, across me roiomac. General Ainsworth maintains the at-r titude of absolute reticence he has steadfastly occupied since Secretary 0J , ! .,klU it is understood that he is now arrang- '1ny for rmnsp1 nnrl nranrinep his nwn 7 - 1 1 " - ucicuoc It is fully expected at the war de- partment that this case will figure ex tensively before congress and that perhaps the democratic house may take steps to thoroughly investigate the whole war department and espe cially the relations between the gener al staff and the adjutant general's of fice. Officials of the war department pro fess no concern at this, taking the ground that the president, as com mander in chief of the army, is the only constitutional authority author ized to deal with the issue presented in the Ainsworth case and no con gressional interference would be tol- erated. Cases Against D?ug S lores, Clubs Con- timed F01 90 Days Solicitor Parker Made State ment to The Court This Morning and Asked For a Continuance of the Cases Jor 90 Days Longer. Subpoena Issued jor Oscar L. Flow, Missing Witness, with Order That He be Placed Under $5,000 Bond ij Ap prehended Recorder Talks. Messrs. w. U Hand, of W. U Hand & Co., drugigsts; J. W. Bowen, of the Bowen Drug Co.; T. W. Blackman, of the Hornets' Nest Club; Tom Crump, of tho Clover Club, and Clem Wilson, of the Royal Club, were all present when the recorder's court was called to order this morning at 9:30 o'clock, Chief Christenbury having served th warrants m them tarly yesterday morning, eitlng them t9 appear at this morning's eourt, Aa ate4 In yester day's News there was no session ol the recorder's court yesterday fac ing, owing to the fact that Solicitor Parker had no case made out against them and would make a statement in open court this morning. Mr. Parker s CHARLOTTE N. C, Women Chaiged With Bigamy Associated Press. ilondon, Feb. 16. A remarkable se- iel has developed to the marriage etween Horace Field Parshall, of " .dilford, N. Y., the American capital ist-engineer, who is chairman of the central London Tube Railway, find Mrs Deborrah Jeffreys, wnich took place at Eltham registry office on May 8 last year. The woman was arraigned yester day at the Bow street police court on a charge of bigamy. She is a very attractive woman. and appeared be fore the magistrate in a handsome costume. In answer to the charge she said: "I am deeply sorry for what I have done. I would not have done it if my husband had not made me." In a formal statement made to the court she declared that she first met Mr. Parshall in January, 1911, when she was presented as a widow. He afterward proposed marriage to her. Her husband, Herbert H. Jeffreys, from whom. she was separated, urged her to marry Mr. Parshall for his money and threatened to kill her if she revealed to Mr. Parshall that she was a married woman. Mr. Parshall afterward received an annonymous letter in which his supposed wife confessed what she had done. The marriage was annuied by the high court. HEPHESEHTATIVE SILL IKES STRONG DENIAL By Associated Press. Washington, Feb. 16. Denial was made in the house today by Repre sentative Small, of North Carolina, that he had ever used expert lectur ers of the agricultural department in his district for political campaign purposes. Mr. Small called attention to the' statements made by Chief Engineer Wright, of the Florida drainage ser vice, that his report on the ever glades investigation had been delayed because he had been detained to lec ture in Mr. Small's district. "It is strange indeed, when a rep resentative cannot utilize one of these government departments for the betterment of Tiis people without the charge that it is being done with ulterior ' purpose." - : THE DAY IN CONGRESS By Associated Press. Washington, Feb. 16. SENATE. ov-ooii. , - m 1,T,,1 Manufacturers of steel products continue to protest before finance - ' Appeals for constitutional amend ment granting votes to women made before woman suffrage committee. HOUSE. Met at noon. Florida everglades Investigation continued. New interest added by proposed prosecution of recently dismissed ag riculture department officers. Interstate Commerce Commissioner B. H. Meyer at a hearing urging wide powers for the commission, including physical valuation of railroads and supervision of bonds. statement, as printed in yesterday's- News, was real this morning at court. Cases Continued 90 Days. Following thes ubmission of hl3 statement. Mr. Parker asked for a con tinuance of the cases for 90 days, which was granted. The recorder also ordered that a subpoena be issued for Osacr L. Flow, the main witness in the cases and the absence of who makes the trial of the cases impracti cable. Subpoena for Flow. The recorder also ordered that a s-ubpoena be Issued for Flow and that if apprehended, he be placed under a $5,000 bond until such time as the cases against the clubs and drug stores could be heard. He further ordered that If Flow was found in the county within a period of two years he should be apprehended and the cases brought for trial, two years being the limit of time during which a misdemeanor is still open to the recognizance of the law. Recorder Charges Officers. Recorder Smith made an impressive talk to the officers of the court anent the cases now pending and their du ties In regard to enforcement of the law along general lines. ."It n your duty as officers of the law," h said, "to be active and xigl lant In the enforcement of the law, be cause you are sworn to do all In your power to uphold and sustain the digni ty of law, and I urge you to calr upon the ayor, the executive board and FRIDAY EVENING, any other municipal authorities neces &ary to the ferreting out of offend ers of the law, no matter in what rank of society or business the offenders may happen to be. "It is not a question of any man's views or feelings, or sentiments, that should guide you, but it is ' simply a question of the enforcement of the law and this court will be glad to back up your efforts- by conviction when ever your evidence shows that the law has been violated. "I urge you to keep in mind always your oath of office and to reflect that as sworn officers of the law you pro ceed against all offenders of the law, regardless tif whether they are ignor ant negroes or are the wealthiest own ers of clubs and drug stores. The en forcement of the law is- a calm and or derly matter and should never be acompanied by. passion or hysteria of any kind." JUDGE HON AFTER WITNESSES -"BRING THEM M The apparent custom of witnesses in superior court paying but little at tention to summonses 'to appear at specified times, is very displeasing to Judge C. C. Lyon, who is sitting at this term of the court. In today's session of court a num ber of witnesses were called who had been summoned and who failed to appear. "I want those witnesses brought in to court," said the jurist. "It is strange haw many witnesses fail to appear in this county. It is worse here than in any other county in the state.' ' He directed the sheriff to compel all witnesses who have been summoned to appear forthwith, and to keep in at tendance upon the court until excused. Morning Grind. George Valez, a Greek merchant of this city was lined $40 in superior court this morning by Judge C. C. Lyon for failure to appear as a wit ness in a case called for trial today. When Valez was called he failed to appear. Sheriff Wallace stated to Judge Lyon that the Greek probably knew nothing of the laws of the United States an dthat this possibly ac counted for his absence. "Send after him, Mr. Sheriff, and we will teach him some American ways. He will soon become American ized, 'said the judge. Sheriff Wallace, sent a deputy to lo cate ;the Greek and bring him into court,. Rans Hall was- acquitted of the charge of assault on Irene Moore. The caeXconsumeiV tA.:tft.Jnc'?1i? negro was charged with har ing drawn a gun on the; woman. The testimony showed that Hall took food to the Moore home, and that a quarrel between Hall and the wife o fthe negro, about her alleged failure to look after him. The jury was absent for some time, but acquitted the negro. One Capital Case. The only capital case which "will be tried at this term of the superior court, will .be called this afternoon. Will Durin, a negro, is charged with the murder of A. S. Cook, a white man of Monroe, in this- city during tle past winter. The points in the case are familiar to the local public. REPRIEVED BI GOVERNOR Special to The News. Raleigh, Feb. 16. John Ross, was not electrocuted today for the murder of Mr. and Mrs. John Dixon near Shel by, Dec. 17, as scheduled. He has been reprieved by Gov. Kitchin to April 12th in the hope that he will be induced to make a full and clear statement of the murder, that will lead to the punish ment of others who officials believe were necessarily accessory to the brut al crime. Preparations for the electrocution to take ploce at 10 o'clock were going forward at 9 o'clock when the reprieve was served on Warden Sales. These who talked with Ross before the news of the reprieve was brought to him, say he presists in his statement given in the court that he met Frank Glad den in the road and that Gladden ask ed him to help kill the Dixons, and that he did kill John Dixon with an axe and that Gladden went, to the house and kill Mrs. Dixon, leaving the litle child, fourteen months old, beside her. Gladen was tried at Shelby and ac quitted a few weeks ago. There were here today for the expected electro cution Sheriff Wilkins, and Mr. Kline, father of Mrs. Dixon. FLOODS IN PORTUGAL HAVE DONE DAMAGE. By Associated Press. Lisbon, Portugal, Feb. 16. Floods thrnnerhout Portugal have wrecked entire villages. The provinces of Es- tramadura, Algarve, Alemtejo ana Minho suffered most. Wynnes and other buildings have collapsed. Among the ruins dead cat tle lie In thousands. There also have manv human victims. The peo ple have been left destitute. The fi nancial loss is estimated conserva tively . at $10,000,000. The government has sent supplies to the distressed people. FEBRUARY t 2 Lieut Fields Must Pay For Mistake By Associated Press. Washington, Feb. 16. The war de partment today decided to deal drastic ally with Lieutenant Ben W. Fields, of the 18th infantrv. wh n in rnmmanH of a squad of American soldiers made me mistake or crossing into Juarez, Mexico, from El Paso, Tex., yesterday afternoon and nearly precipitating an international clash. Fields has been placed under arrest pending further in vestigation. STUDENTS OVERCOME BY SMOKE. By Associated Press. Hopkinsville, Ky.,, Feb. 16. Smoke from a fire that broke out in the boys' dormitory of McLean College this morning overcame several of the stu dents. Before the flames reached their rooms, however, the boys were car ried out by a volunteer rescue squad. This is the second fire in McLean college buildings in a. comparatively short time. The previous blaze destroy ed the main college building. ENGE OF DYNAMITE CASE By Associated Press. Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 16. New dis closures made in the dynamite con spiracy cases through forty thousand letters and telegrams quoted in the indictments as implicating practically all the officials of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers will be the basis, it was declared today, upon which the government will seek to convict the 54 defendants who are charged with committing or abetting in almost one hundred explosions. The correspondence, contained in one of the thirty-two indictments and embracing what are termed "uncon summated acts of conspiracy" is held as showing that a vast plot, known and furthered by Prank M. Ryan, pres ident of the iron workers and mem bers of his executive board and many business agents, was carried on for six years to destroy the property of steel and iron, contractors who employed non-union labor. . It charges all the defendants with being equally; guilty as abettors, jt ate purports to "reveal evidence thai. "jobs" became the accepted term to be sent through the mail to designate some place that was to be blown up and that gradually the officials of local unions began to call on the interna tional headquarters in Indianapolis to assist by dynamite and nitro-glycer-ine in increasing the expenses of "open shop" contractors. Ortie He Manigal, Herbert S. Hockin, second vice-president, and James M. McNam ara became, it is charged, an organ ized "dynamiting crew." Letters are included to show regular fees were paid to McManigal and tha the cost of doing local "jobs" frequent ly was discussed in letters. A letter from Olaf A. Tveitmoe, of the local union in San Francisco, to J. J. McNamara in Indianapolis, after the Los Angeles Times disaster, stat ing "he hoped Santa Claus would be as kind and generous to you with sur prises" is quoted to show that the con spiracy spread from Boston to the Pacific coast. Four more indictments not yet made public supplement the principal indict ment containing the correspondence. These indictments name all the fifty four defendants as implicated in the general conspiracy and make these charges: That on thirty-four counts all the defendants are guilty as principals in illegal transportation of dynamite. That on thirty-four counts McMani gal, John J. McNamara, James 'B. Mc Namara and Hockin are guilty of il legally transporting dynamite and all the other defendants are guilty of aid ing and abetting them. That on sixteen counts all the de fendants are guilty as principals in illegal transportation of nitro-glycer-ine. That on sixteen counts McManigal, John J. McNamara, James B. McNam ara and Hockin are guilty of illegal transportation of nitro-glycerine and all the other defendants are guilty of aiding and abetting them.- The wide scope of the thirty-two. in dictments, which contain in all 128 counts is due, It is announced, to the theory of the government that the de fendants' alleged guilt is equal no matter how small an individual's per sonal activity in the conspiracy may have been. Mr. Miller ' said it has been determined to press al the counts of the indictment against each of the defendants. The indictment setting out unconsummated acts of conspiracy, extensive as it is in pre senting a mass of . alleged Incrimi nating correspondence between the defendants, said Mr. Miller, "only sub mits typical acts. If we had chosen, this indictment might have been run into many more hundred pages. Forty thousand letters were seized in the headquarters of the international workers' association and from them the investigators chose evidence that we consider much more than sufficient to prove our case offered In ennection with corroborative . evidence of wide extent and varied character. The free dom with which these men put on paper their plans, motives and the working out of their purposes is amaz ing." : Benson Arrested. Saratoga, N. Y., Feb. 16. Indicted in the dynamite conspiracy at India napolis, William K. Benson, former president of the Detroit Federation ; of Labor, was arrested in a nearby village todJU. D CO I T PRICEf Cent. aCopy Daily- Cnt. 8m Jay." ' uutslle Charlotte B Cents a Copy Dally and Sunday. Tidal Wave Of Enthusiasm Greets TheNm THE WEATHER Forecast For North Carolina: Fair tonight. Saturday, prob- ably increasing cloudiness and O warmer. Moderate variable O- winds. a. JOHN A. KELLY CONTINUES TESTIMONY. By Associated Press.- Detroit, Mich., Feb. 16. John A. Kelly, secretary-treasurer of the Iron City Sanitary Manufacturing Com pany, of Pittsburg, who created a sensation yesterday in the govern ment's criminal suit against the so called bath tub trust by testifying that an officer of the alleged combine had discussed with him the "probabil ity of going to jail" as a result of the license agreement entered Into by manufacturers, was scheduled to continue his testimony at this morn ing's session of the federal district court. The Iron City Company is one which refused to cast its fortunes with the "trust" and Mr. Kelly was expected to., give further details of the advances, which he says were made to induce it to enter into the agreement. No Confederate Gray for Convicts By Associated Press. Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 16. Chair man J. S. Beasley, of the Tennessee prison board, in response to the wide spread .comment on the proposed adoption of gray as a uniform for the first grade convicts, said last night: ' "The facts are that the board has collected samples or unirorms from about twenty prisons. Nearly all of them are some shade of gray. That of Missouri, a Southern state, is more nearly the Confederate gray than any other, he uniform that the board intendefctbv select-.is ' a " shade of gray. But this gray-: is Ta&i different from Confederate gray as it is from the federal blue. The uniform will bear no noticeable resemoiace to a Confederate uniform. It is very much darker, so much so that some call it a shade of brown." Governor Hooper, whose idea ' it was to take the stripes off the bet ter class of prisoners, had nothing to do with the selection of the color of uniform adopted, according to Mr. Beasley. Season Opens in Mobile. Mobile, Ala., Feb. 16 The Mardi Gras season for 1912 in Mobile opened today with more visitors present than ever before. The city tonight will be illuminated with an electrical display, Bienville Park, in the center of the city being turned into a garden of light of many fantastic designs. Tonight the first parade will be giv en, the subject of which is "Life of Apollo." After this parade there will be a military parade. WOODROW WILSON LEADING "The News deserves the con- gratulations of a long suffering public." These, the remarks made by a leading business man of this city yesterday when he with a friend, deposited ballots in The News' ballot box for Woodrow Wilson. He had in mind a recent campaign that was started (?) against the New Jersey governor and show- ed up by this paper in its true light. Ballots continue to come in and the interest grows. It's a free-for-all "election." If you wait to vote cut the ballot' to- day and mail or hand it in. The final result will soon be pub- lished. My Choice For President If I Could Select the Man I Would Name Name. Address. Cut this out and mail or hand in to The Charlotte News, Charlotte, N. C. Results will be published from day to day and in no case will the name of the voter be given out unless so requested. Inquiries by , Mail, Telephone1 and Person Pour Into The Contest Department Ihree Autos Offered Create Great Interest. Nomination Coupons Received in Large Numbers From En ejgetic People Get in Ihe Fight Early And Take The Lead. .CONTEST DEPARTMENT OPEN EVENINGS. O The Contest Department of THE NEWS will be open -from 9 a. m. until 9 p. m. . Those that are interested in the contest are invited , to call. Representatives ' of the Contest Department will be present to -give full information to- all those that call. The Contest -Department can also' be reach- ed by Telephone, call No. 115 and ask for the Contest De- -partment. No announcement has ever struck: a more popular chord . than did the one in yesterday's issue of ' THE NEWS, that told of this paper's ma- tured plan to give- to , the people of North and South' Carolina more than $6,000 in valuable prizes. . , Even THE NEWS, knowing Bome- thing of its own popularity and that esteem in which it -is. held, and exs pecting a heart, response, confesses ated. V T... Thousands of r readers, of, THEJ Nr Wil, all o ver both states,; oad- the i s details - of , this '"splendid g offer last! night," and it is safe .to say that this big announcement will be the princi pal topic of conversation at informal! gatherings during the day. HOW CHARLOTTE RECEIVED IT. In Charlotte the announcement was: strtling. It has been 'discussed in tho homes, in the stores, and in tho streets all day long. A large number. of nomination coupons, counting; 1,000 votes each, have already been received Irom energetic people who mean to lose no time in getting start ed in this tnendly struggle. Many have called in person and others have sent requests by mail that full par ticulars concerning the contest be sent them at once. There is always a shade of advan tage in securing an early' start in a contest of this . kind, in which the time is limited, and it pleases THbi NEWS when so many people in its territory appreciate this fact. It could not ask for a more auspicious recep- ' tion than that accorded the announce ment in yesterday's issue. It already feels that it is going to make hun dreds of new friends between now and April 17th, when the gifts will be distributed. ' The Gift List is such a magnlfi- . cent one one that the attention it has attracted is not at all surprising. . Three automobiles head the list. Anything worth as much as an auto mobile is very seldom given away but THE NEWS is giving away three of them absolutely free and every one. of them is a car of unusual mer it. Besides the automobile there are thousands of dollars of other val uable prizes to be given away by THE NEWS for which they want in return only a small portion of your spare time. Enter your name or that of a friend today. 1 (Continued on Page Seven.) "Messrs. Chase Brenizer, Heriot ' Clarkson and E. R. Preston argued for the aldermen and Mr. C. W. Tillett for the school commissioners."
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