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WEEKLY' VOL 3 NO- 39- GREENVILLE, J t?-, OCTOBER 1, 1S07. j u , . . ..' C5 C3 A "i "ilAI THE WEEKLY -IS THE. ONLY 5-COLUMN 8-PAGE WEEKLY NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. FOR 25 Cts. A YEAR. JOTTINGS. Brnnami,the king of Benina, Africa, has been banished from b country and sent to a Brit isli colony by the latter go vern unt. Wouldn't it be retribu tive justice i the old queen could be made to take a small dose of her favorite remedy 1 A Greensboro man, hunting doubtful plans for a drink, found fire the building in $ich he was hunting being on fire. H was just a little too cool fjr snakes. Governor Pingree, of Mich igan, is in Venezuela, seeking important railway concessions from that goyernment. The Governor -Mayor likes good things.- . A Pratt county, Kan., farmer lost a $300 diamond ring while working in his wheat fields. That's' better than losing a wheat field in a diamond ring. The eleventh baby in a fam ily in Greensboro has been named 4 'Finis.1 ' Can't make us believe there's anything in that name. A negro boy. has been hazed at Anaemia Conn;, jast because he was a negro. How-unfortu nate to be who you are some times. : xue little ixerman emperor takes the pains to always tell his subjects about the divine rights of kings and that he rules by such rights, but his subjects doubt his authority and a plot to overthrow his authority has been discovered in the South German States. The little em peror's authority has more ap pearanoe of might than any thing else. New York city politics are just now attracting the atten tion of the country. As usual, lots of men can be found willing to be Q reater JNew York' a firs t mayor, and a big muddy mud die may be expected. The city will cast over 500,000 votes and the spoils will be corresponding ly many times greater, so pol itics will hum in the city for a while. . ..' The fact that the government sees fit to rub up its navy a lit and get in modern trim gives rise to the rumor that prepara tions are being made for war. There is no immediate prospect ot such a state of affairs, but the government would show wisdom in preparing a little in these times of uncertain peace. olo contendere has found it way into our coutts- What w&conie next to shield theguil tyi Down with nolo contendere. j THE IGNORANCE, SUPERSTITION AND DEBAUCHERY OF WILD AFRICANS ECLIPSED IN ; CIVILIZED NEW ENGLAND. DE8EBYI5JQ LYCHISO, THE BRUTE WILL SOJOURN IX THE PEXITEXTI AKT A LITTLE WHILE. The Brattleboro, Vt. Reformer of the 24th inst, gives the following account of a case invalving, ignor ance, supersiition, debachery, crime brutality and duplicity. The trial at the county court in Newfane of Seaman L. Weathrell of Grafton for rape upon the person of Mabel L. Walker now of Providence R. I., was not concluded until 4 p. m. Tuesday, but the jury at 8 p. m. brought in a verdict of guilty. Then he was put on trial'for adultery with Nettie L. Walker, the girl's mother, and both inmates of his family, but after the state had put in its' evi dence, the defence threw up its hands and offered nothing and the case went to the jury without ar gument after the Judge's charge at 3 Wednesday afternoon and at 9 '-11 1 !.. o ciock me jury orougni m a ver- ; diet of guilty. There was no dis agreement in either case, . but the jury took time to read over the let ters which formed ,the decisive evi dence in the case. Sentence has not yet been imposed. - The max- imum,is 20 years for rape and 5 fori FETICHISM A11D CRIME. adultery. " he spelled it in letters admittedly his, Lawer C S. Chase, who has The story is in brief that Weath- TOadc a stud' of hand and erellfor months lived in adultrv i C C Fittis als9- aftcr examination with the woman in his own house, ! under magnifying glasses, testified with the knowledge and connivance to ihc idcntit' of thc hand-writing, of his wife, that the woman bore nef the lctters contained an ad him a child that is still there, and .mission of Weatherclls parcentage that then he followed Cais . with J of Walker's dlM Veiling the criminal relations with the woman's ! adery charga The letters are 13 year old daughter, also in the fuU thc osscst 'ndency, inter same house: but to' the credit of j spersod with religious exclamations human nature this latter was with- 1. r the mother and when she was sat isfied that it was going on she her self started the proceedings that have resulted in the . whoJe expos- j ure incoming cyen ner own crime. . . 1 Iliat one spark of right feeling, , struck from the sense of motherhood is the only redeeming feature in the ca;. ctr.. ,nH at the same time , a suggestion of what might have been wrought from better conditions and better training. The case was made even more revolting from the fact that all this beastl' work was done with the aid of superstitions influences and a de graded kind of spiritualism. Weath erell pretended to be a seer and for tune teller and he carried on a vol uminous correspondence, in a cleverly disguised hand from "Mad am Jabri" in the spirit world . or some realm of mysticism, by means of which his wife and the child and Mrs. Walker to some extent were bent to his purposes. His wife, for instance, was made to believe, as indicated by a letter that she wrote f to .Mrs. Walker and which appeared in the evidence, that if the latter didn't have a child by Weatherell, he would die. Another to Mrs. Walker, couched in a jargon that must have taken a long; time to concoct, was designed to open the way for the later crime with the little girl, by telling the mother that Weatherell must be allowed to do certain things or else the girl would die because of trouble diphtheria I had left At the same time a money swind- 1 ling game was carried on by Weath- crelL In the 25 letters or there- m abouts in the case were a number from a mythical "Arthnr S. Brown" a detective in Kentucky, who was going to marry Mrs. Walker and about that time got shot in the I course of his duties and had to have money. She testified that she sent 1 - - about S200, Ml the corresnon- dence comiag and going was in . Withereii's care and all the "Brown" as well as the "TabrP letters, xrcre I positively identified as in his fcand 'writing, 'differently disguised, and of course that was where the tnon ey wed. One of the envelopes put into the case bore a postmark "Louisville, Ivy," so clumsily done by haxd right in Grafton as to be obvious to any one acqcainted with sach matters but evidently sufficient to fool the women. An other ""give aw ay" was the frequent occurrence of the word "romest" in the different letters always spelloi "promest" af it was shown I like' God bless 'ou' lhat would 1 ieadoue at a distance to believe that tasanity must be the author; but those who know Weatherell cannot be made to'believc any such thing. Weathercll's connection with Mrs. Milker bean in his seein' hr . o - - c i namc in a "marrimonial paper.' 4 She came to his honse and lived in 1 -the -spring of '95. and after staying I sometime went lack to Providence and Fall River, but returned to Weathercll's in February '96 and in November following was - delivered a child there. It was in February last according to the indictment that the rape was committed on the daughter, but according to the lat tcrs testimony it ..was repeated many times, he compelling her to sleep in the same room as he did and changing her from .a rosy cheeked, healthv child of a vear ago into a pale, thin, haggard, round-shouMercd being that was an object of pity at thc time of the ar rest He controlled her ar.d made her kep thc secret by threats of ghosts and hobgoblins, and indeed he seems to have kept the whole crowd in subjection largely by threats of what would happen to them from the other world if thev did not do as he wanted them to. RUSSELL DEFIED. I THE WILSONS SffiPENDED AS RAIL ROAD commissiomhiis rut REFUSE TO GIVE UP. THEIR SUCCESSORS APPOINTED. On the 23rd of September Gov ernor Russell sent chairmain Maj. " J Jas. W. Wilson, the following letter: "Take notice that after due in vestigation and consideration, I am convince1 that ou havc violated . w wm m v m w ine nmroau commission law m some of the particulars mentioned in mY lettcr to J'ou of August 24th, and at you have not only violated 8aid act in the specifications set out m lut that you have otherwise within its meaning, intent and words become disqualified to act. Now, therefore, in obedience to the duty imposed upon me by said act. 1 do hereby suspend you from the office of railroad commissioner, and cnairman ot said commissioners. such suspension to continue until the question of your removal or res toratton shall be deter maioctl by a v vote 01 tne j-etris;ature m joint ses sion. The fact of your suspension, together with reasons therefor and evidence, documents and informa tion connected therewith, will be reported to the next Legislature. You will further take notice that urvlcr and by virtue of thc power conferred, and duties imposed upon the chief executive, I havc appoint ed L. C. Caldwell, of Iredell, to fill the vacancy caused by your suspen sion. Inasmuch as you are under stood to deny thc power of thc ex ecutive to suspend you from office, as provided by the statute, I have requested Mr. Caldwell to make de mand on you for possession of the office, and upon your refusal to bring action therefor to thc end that the title to thc oflicc may be judi cially determinated." A letter similar to this wa cnt to Otho Wilson, informing him of his suspension and of the appoint ment of John II. IVars on, of Mor gartton. The latter is a Democrat and a member of the Legislature. At its last session he vehemently oposed thc 99-year lease of thc North Carolina. Caldwell 1$ a Hut ler Populist. Maj. Wilson replied to the Gov ernor's letter as follows : 5ir, Your favor of the. 23d, instant is hereby acknowlcd. In reply I will say that I shall disre gard your order to suspend, but will continue to do business at thc old stand until removed by a tri bunal other than a self-constituted star chamber. " Mr. Otho Wilson's reply w.i even more brief: "Sir Yours of thc iy received and noted. As neither of thc commiIicrs intends to be ousted except ! hr.r there promises !o be .t quite a -tir ti.e along thc line uat:l courts. Southland. rcu, invit;: ANoxnrr. t;ii:a;u;::.;. . iare mmir.T was r.t.a in Concord souare, Athens, Grr v c, ca the 26th, a resolution was aUj;:cU calling upou King Gcurc and the cabinet to renew the war with Turkey rather than accept hc terms of prac oCTerei by thi peace conference. Most of the adircisci v. cr bel licose, one speaker makiujj a iolenl attack upon the king and Crown Prince Constantine. Tbi police endeavored to arrest him, bit he cs- raped with the aKsLtauc jo( the crowd. . The most influential tecoa of tht press continucspca-ijnJtone. lUti&g axodic to Tun am &4mlalirmior ot tb itau ot iXttid A-. CrftnUAll, Uca.4, Ui ct Till tcontr -. j! Jioria Uroii&i, m pari. taTia cU;.2i t2ft.i&ti t'liiutt isu Ltrt by t,-t:t;2 to rr:i-t t!ira ipufcr ftjBcai wttiila melt s&cclLt Ircza tht u&tt ct th! notice, cr !l Ls r-t ia tp ot totu rccoTtry. Axl U jrtU. lactbted 10 Mid aiU tr &oti&t4to da! uaaif dlftt f"TtnGt of tt-.f . JAULd L. LOllin-rON, Admr. lria t CrU4&Il, Crc d. . . Yoar nam ! pot 4 pi:o fes s 10 x. 'lc r:iJK Bond & Fleming AlTOaXETS-AI-LAW, GrnT.n?, N. C. Irct:c In all the cacr!. Henry Slieppard; REAL HcTATn AC EST. $ llczl Iutr Hocjtt and Sold. IL nti ce- lectfd, Hemes Kca'.rJ, tc. On co next door to Lank ot Grtxnvill. Joirx II. xlu U. II. Ixj.vo Whin-ton. X C Cnc;mr,t K O SMALL and LOXG, Attorneys anj CounIor at Luw. fii:r.n.NvxLi.. .V. C Practiwid all the court. - DENTIST Onrr.N villi, X. C. Icj-OrJec off r OM Brick istote ceit door to Kxrz Home-to. J K. 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