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Trade U at uniwip AT HOME Always ! Always ! BY AL FAIRBROTHER SUBSCRIPTION 91.00 A YEAR, "SINGLE COPY S CENTS SATURDAY,' MARCH 25, xgi6. ON SALE AT THE NEWS STANDS AND ON TRAINS ESTABLISHED MAY, igoa. SENTIMENT WINS was he insane man weeks tq be winner he is making good CRIMINALS MADE And Guilty Ones Go Up For Life. ND NOW the people of Wayne county, or any other county, can, in defending the law less work of the mob claim, as was recently claimed, that crimin als escape the punish ment due them under the law, and therefore mobs are justified in certain ; cases. This was made plain by the action of Governor Craig who commuted the sentence of death to life imprisonment to two of the most conscienceless and depraved creatures ever playing the part of infamy in North Caro lina. The Governor himself, in reviewing the case, calmly said: "There is no escape from the conclusion that this woman, Ida Ball Warren, is guilty of murder, deliberate and premeditated, con ceived and executed in determined wicked ness. The verdict of the jury is fully sus tained by the evidence ; the sentence of the court is fixed by the statute. And then, growing sentimental, emitted this glow of eloquence : "But as the governor of the state of North Carolina, it is not my judgment that the ma jesty of the law demands that this woman shall be put to death. I cannot contemplate with approval that this woman, unworthy and blackened by sin though she be, shall be shrouded in the cerements of death, drag ged along the fatal corridor and bound in the chair of death." But he could contemplate the wicked hussy the abandoned woman described by Judge Walter Clark, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who reviewed the case, the Lady Macbeth of the enterprise, planning the murder of her husband who had taken her as a speckled bird and undertaken to make a decent woman of her. He could con template the death scene in the home of the murdered mancontemplate seeing him poisoned and strangled and chucked into a trunk and thrown into a pond and his sen timental soul rebelled against sending . to Jth thp fiend who was. as the Governor himself said, "the dominating personality of the tragedy. ". Never in the history of North Carolina was there planned and executed a more hor rihle rrmp Never were the ones who play- ed the part of murderer and murderess more nhanrlrmpH one had left a wife the other planned to kill her husband that they might live in sin and lust and shame ana yet our Hnvpmnr rould not contemplate with ap- out the sentence of the court which he says was fully sustained by the evidence. - And after he had refused to contemplate the old bat "shrouded in the cerements of death and dragged along the fatal corrider and bound in the chair of death" say, Mike, do you get onto that play of rhetoric and do thpv were roine- to drag the lady? he comes along in the same emotional sen timentality and lets Christy go tor lire in stead of killing him not because Christy was a woman, but because a woman was his coparcener in crime. Rv iho nmp tnlfpn had "this soiled dove led a band of murderers had she been the Gypsy Queen of a hundred outlaws -and A thp whole bunch had been ap prehended and convicted of murder in the . first degree our sentimental Governor would have electrocuted no one of them be cause a woman was the leader and it wouldn't do to carry out a court's decree be fanse thp loader was a woman. Listen to the logic of the proposition. The Governor says ? "Thp narticination of Christy in this mur der makes more difficult the question pre sented to me. He, too, is guilty. He bought thp rlilnrnfnrm with wh ich she drugged her : husband. Either Christy or Stonestreet, her; son-in-law, twisted a cord tightly arouno tlio imcKinrl'c nArV tn makp sure tnat ne 1,-pn from the deadly sleep The body was placed in a trunk, Christy and Stonestreet hauled it away ana, xnrew it wplcrhtprl with irons in a deep hole in woman conceived the design and 'was the directing and dominat ing personality of this tragedy, bince ine has been spared to her, Christy, too, must escape death. Hasn't the Governor ever contemplated white men and black men who have been "shrouded in the cerements of death, dragged along the fatal corrider and bound in the chair of death" many such occurrences are recordpd in North Carolina, and there was no "shiver" throughout the State and why should bam Christy be given special privi- Iffrpt; wlipn nthpr mpn ha VP hppn SPnt tn their Horrible Deed Committed By Greensboro Citizen. TRAGEDY that gives the scien tific men something to discuss was enacted in Greensboro last Tuesday morning a tragedy which looked like insanity in cited it, but which was the re sult of an apparently well bal anced mind. D. G. Patterson went to the sleeping apart ments of his four children, aged i6, n, 9 and 7 and shot each one to death. Then he came down stairs and talked with his wife, told her the children had gone ; assured her he would not harm her; reloaded his pistol and shot himself to death. The five victims were in the home together. The wife ran to a neighbor's and perhaps escaped death by doing so. It was after wards revealed that the man had made a will; had provided for his children if any lived that he had carefully planned the af fair and did it with a clear mind. The only cause was that he was out of work; had made a bad investment in the town of Hope well, Va., where he tried to run a restaurant. He had worked for many years for the Southern railway as yard master and had lost his position and seemed to imagine that he could never get another job. It is related by Warren in his len .thou sand a vear and sueerested bv many writers J , . - . that ordinarily when a man severs the Gor- dian knot he repents and would give the world to get back. When one takes poison it appears he is anxious tor the doctor to rome and oumo him out. It seems to all who have investigated that generally such acts as Patterson committed are done in a frpti7v- tpmnorarv insanitv. But in this rasp the shooting- of the tour children did - r----j .. .... not excite him. He . deliberately proceeded T. - - I""1 i ' '."it -1 1 J on his determined plan ; taiKea caimiy anu rationally and proceeded to re-load his re- volver in order to take his own lite. To sav the citv was shocked mildly ex presses it. The News, with commendable en- terpnse issued an extra and the talk: ot tne town all morning was the ratterson case. O Opposes Child Labor Bill. The Mothers' Congress, composed of 100,- 000 mothers opposes the Keating-Owen child labor bill. The child labor bill is the creature of agitators who are for the most part professionallly engaged on a salary to wVinnn it iin Child labor is essential, lhe ViH who dopsn't work doesn't Decome a good citizen. Vocational training is the hobby of instructors, and the kid who goes out and wnrH is P-ettintr iust that. The child who works is the healthv child the child that hpws his wav in the world who does things. The llder and hot house plant is never any good. Governor savs he was guilty, too and we want to sav that had there been no Sam Christy there would have been no murder committed. Christy left his wife in Texas and came back to the home of Warren and entered it and it was at Warren's hearth stone that the black and fearful tragedy was conspired and prepared. And yet this ele gant gentleman is given his life and hell contains no blacker soul than his. Small wonder then that enraged and excited people form mobs and cry for justice and get it when we have a Governor who cannot con template the removal of such foul blots of errinsf and abandoned humanity. ; If ever, in the criminal annals of any state, there was a twain that should have been deported to another world that twain was Ida Ball Warren and Samuel P, Christy. A murderer and a murderess black of heart and stained of soul they deliberately and premeditatedly planned a murder in order that they could together live a life of lust and shame took their victim from his bed and tied weights to the box that held him and dumped him into a murky pond to make food for the reptiles and fishes and each wore a smile, and with brutal indifference passed up the bloody and ghastly act with out compunction. The papers say that Governor Craig, be cause of his responsibility in the case, had not slent. He should have slept over it and then have manfully said I will not encour age mob law by setting aside the verdict concerning v these two fiends incarnate these unspeakable and despicable wretches who imbrued their hands in their fellow's blood in order that they might dwell togeth er as adulterer and adulteress. So far as we are concerned we are unalterably opposed to Capital punishment we hope it will be abol ished in this state but so long as the law is plain and so long as it decrees judicial murder in certain cases surely this was one time that the majesty of the law should have been upheld. Let Wayne county rejoice in 1 ... . ' i I I k ...... 5 v T LOUKb now like;. benator Weeks has the call for nomination at Chicago by the G. O. P. He is a Senator from Massachu setts and he seems to be one man acceptable to all classes Bull Moose people not ex cepted. It has been said that Teddy has said he would support? a man like Weeks. John W. Weeks has played the Wall Street game. He has been successful. When he went into politics he sold all his interests in corporations. He wentin clean and has re mained clean. He is a business man from the ground up, and a statesman with it. Constructive, big, clean and liberal no doubt he would make an excellent President, and if elected we would have what we al ways should have had--A Business Man to do Business for the country. We take it that if the republicans get together there is no question whatever about their electing their man. And while they may talk of other things Tariff remains Paramount and the republican. party is for tariff. The; LikkerJ Problem. We are glad to see it stated by Mr. Davis that there will ; be no Prohibition 9 Commis sioner in North Carolina.' Virginia is to have such an office It s well that Mr. Davis say theref here in that line. Mr. Davis says, however, that there Will be legislation this winter, and one of the proposed laws is to reduce the sacred quart law and make it impossible for one person to have in his possession more than one half gallon of the sacred juice. At this writing, if a man has the price and the bot tle, he can, with impunity, control one gal lon. To cut this, in half might cause some wonder and some resentment. Better leave the law in that reerard alone. If the bill comes up it is not beyond the range of" hu man possibilities that a law might be made letting a man have, three gallons for his own use. In fact, the chances are, if the law were tested, it would be found that a good citizen, law abiding, might have five gallons of whiskey in his house. It might prove a bust all the way round if Mr. Davis and his crowd in their zeal attempt too much pressure. Tust now we have splendid laws. The people while all of them are not satisfied are willing to abide by what wre have. The pro posed legislation against clubs having lik- ker in private lockers will be another chance for aeitation and bitter feelings may be en gendered. However, the prohibition fight is going on and on. Those receiving salaries must ever have something new in order to hold the job. We feci the present law is ample. . O ; . Preparedness. Mr. Thomas Edison, expert and wizard, says to the Committee that he can build sub marines in fifteen days. If that is true, and Edison seldom talks unless he knows what he says, we could put out two submarines a month from one factory. With a hundred fac tories we could put out more submarines than we could use in thirty days. This great Na tion with its wonderful resources and its skilled labor and inventive genius can pre pare" before an invading foe could cross the ocean. And then it must not be forgotten that we have a few implements of war enough perhaps to entertain an invading force a few hours while we built a few more sup plies. The "Preparedness" dope is hysterical and we think it will never happen as planned. n Glad Of It. As we have before stated when he has been doing big things in the South, we are pleased tn knnw that Mr. T. B. Duke will build a sum- Tvit- hrm in thic cprtion TTis New Tersev 11IV1 . AAA J -. " - J hnmp i5 nnp of thp show places of this coun try. While what he proposes for his summer homp will nnt Ke nn a scale as magnificent as the New Jersey estate it will no doubt be worth seeing. And to know that tne jJUKes are determined to spend their money in de veloping North Carolina is always gooo news. . O- ' The politician who makes the voter believe that he has been called to save the country has a storage batterv of nerve that would run a string of trolley cars a mile long from here to Kalamazoo. Commissioner Osborn Is High ly Commended. T IS A fact that Colonel W. t&JV H. Osborn, Comm issioner of HUtWldl 1VCC11UC IS, clllU been on his job from the very first day. He has added mil lions to the revenues. He went after the oleomargarine people and recovered vast sums of money; fifteen million it is said he has been after all kinds of violators and brought them in. Recently he discovered that cigar makers were defrauding the Gov ernment and he got busy. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Mal- burn this week issued the following- state ment, which is a high tribute to Commission er Osborn: 'The commissioner of internal revenue, satisfied that the government was losing mil lions of dollars annually throughout the country in taxes on cheap cigars, cigarettes, and tobacco, six months ago began a quiet investigation and through his confidential agents has obtained evidence showing the government's loss in taxes on the products to be appalling. 'The proof so far obtained by Colonel Os- burn, who has had personal charge of the matter, has resulted in evidence being secur ed to date warranting the seizure of about 200 factories in New York and elsewhere, which will be accomplished at once, and the various offenders prosecuted criminally. The result of his investigation shows a far reaching and gigantic conspiracy to have existed for 10 or 15 years. Many manufac turers have been making the cigars and sell ing them without stamps to consumers and other dealers, resulting in large losses in revenue. The evidence in the possession of the revenue officers shows that these frauds on the revenue have been going on for 10 or "15 years. "In addition to these frauds, the present commissioner of internal revenue has uncov ered long standing frauds in the manufacture of oleomargarine and whiskey, whereby the government has lost many millions of dol lars. A number of factories and distilleries have been seized in different parts of the countrv. Numerous convictions have been obtained and a large amount of money col lected in fines and penalties. In one case, more than $600,000 was paid to the govern ment. 'The result of the commissioner s crusade cn this class of violators in New York and other points will without doubt result in the collection of millions of dollars heretofore evaded, and break up a rotten condition that has existed for many years. Speculating. Our friend Tones, of the Square Deal, is concerning himself just now as to whether or not there is a hereafter. He concludes, how ever that our duty to each other is here and now and perhaps that is the better way out of it. No man knows anything about the future state. We have the Bible to tell us some things seen in dreams we have the his torians who wrote in those days to assure us of life beyond the grave but the question . . - . . . j propounded by Job tne question as 01a zu history as old as life "if a man die, shall he live again?" has puzzled the brain of mil lions of generations. AnH wp will never know. Shakespeare had figured on it but as he found no traveler who had returned from that bourne he gave it up as we all give it up, in deep despair. . A When we look out and see boa in every livintr thine-- when we know of His Goodness and His greatness and His love, instinctively we conclude that beyond tnis ine Deyona this carousal of toil and sin there must be a place where the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest. But we don't know. We grope along in the dark we hope we believe aye, we think we know, that the immortal soul must again do its chore, and freed from the burden of evil it will have a better chance. And to do this there must be a hereafter. o - If It Goes Through. If that newspaper man's ticket, suggested by Coffin of the Charlotte Observer's grave yard talk goes through well, why wouldn't Ed Britton make the best Governor yet sug gested? He would, he would but the Fourth Estate never boosts its own. Improving. The Winston Journal announces an im proved and increased telegraph service. The Journal keeps walking faster and faster and Colonel Martin is making a first class paper of it. .. Everything every week. Read everywhere I by everybody. A Richmond Woman Is Modem Fagin. E WONDER at crime, and yet we should wonder why there is not a great deal more of it when we see what influences contribute to the moral delin quencies of Youth. Over in Richmond last Monday a woman named Davis was arrest ed and found guilty of teaching girls to steal. She was sent up for three months, but if really guilty of the charge she should have had at least six years. No pupil of Old Fagin, not even the Artful Dodger, was more apt than the two girls apprehended. One of the girls was but eleven years of age, the other fourteen. The Davis woman would walk through a store and any article on which she laid her hand was hers. The children would follow her and quickly note the articles indicated, and while the Davis woman would engage the saleswoman in conversation the kids would come along and steal the article. Wrhen the trunk of the Davis woman was searched it was found to be filled with goods stolen silk remnants, ribbons, toilet articles, perfumes, etc. But so well trained were these youthful offenders that it took the police an hour to break down their fabricated story that they were from the country; that they had just come to town Saturday morning. Finally, however, one of them came clean, gave her name and the name of her companion and the name of their teacher. The woman had the nerve to claim the children were her own but this was soon proven a lie. And how many little girls in a big city are thus ruined for . life., This Davis woman was not liberal no more so than Old Fagin she gave the kids only a ticket to the movies for each day's perilous work. A wo man like that is as bad as a procuress for eventually the children start rapidly on the road to hell. There is no other hope, and it does look like she should have been sent over for as many years as she received months. Such a creature is a-moral leper she sows the s'ceds of death. Carter's Case. In the race for Attorney General it is our hope that Judge Frank Carter will win for the nomination. Judge Carter was handled rough ly by his people. He was put on the rack and those who were after him cost the State a whole lot of money. Carter was guilty of nothing. The fact that he swung in a hammock on a hotel porch with a woman in daylight as other men had done the same as you or 1 was magnified and it was attempted to shat- ter his moral character, lrue it ten nat, dui is was painful and humiliating to an honest and a decent man. Carter should be fully vin dicated by the people of North Carolina. They owe him a debt they can never pay. The peo ple became a party to his persecution when the state undertook the investigation which was a fizzle. That is whv we are for Frank Carter. We never met the gentleman but once in our life. That was less than two weeks ago. Col. irank Morton introduced him to us, m his dining room at the 'Central Hotel in Charlotte. We exchanged perhaps a dozen words writh him. We have never seen his manager. We have no interest in the matter except we think Frank Carter has been outrageously treated and it is up to our people to relieve, as far as possible, that humiliation by handing him the office of Attorney General. ' o A Shocking Tragedy. That was a shocking tragedy occurring in Greensboro when a father, doubtless driven to desperation by brooding over imaginary troubles, killed his four little children and then sent a bullet through his own disorder ed brain. Such things happen as we all know. But when they happen in our own town the horror is intensified, and we stand aghast. o Looking Good To Him. Old Phi Knox, of Pennslyvania, has start ed his boom. It was a self starter we suspect that is Phi started it and didn't use a crank. The chances are very strong that no one will ask for the nomination for Congress in the Fifth district on the democratic ticket except Major Stedman. ; o A True. Bill. . More people are frightened to death than die naturally. Scribblers of high and low de gree fill folk full of dope on Doodle Bugs and they curl up and are not. r" " God by way of the electric chair? And the her full and complete vindication. J
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