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GREENSBORO, N. C, MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1897.
Price Two Cents
gram.
Tenney's Peanut Brittle.
FRESHER,
PURER,
BETTER
v other Brittle on the market.
than an
Put up in air tight boxes, a
half pound box for a dime,
Special prices to the whole
sale trade. -
Sole Agent:
ANDREWS.
The Leading Confectioner.
Opposite K. of P. Buildin J
"Time Works Changes"
The truth of the above is
plain to all who are in the
habit of keeping track of our
doings.
The Time Has Come.
Many occasions arise at this
season of the year for a visit
to a first class jeweler. Wed
ding invitations call for ap
propriate gifts. Then there are
anniversary and birthday
presents to be bought.
W 6 farrar & Son
Jewelers
Established 1868.
THE ALLEN
Greensboro, N. C.
Formerly Morton Hotel,
Centrally located near court house.
Newly furnished. Hot and cold water,
gas and sewerage. Cleanliness, con
venience and comfort, special features.
Terms moderate. Special rates to
tourist? and families and commercial
men. Open at all hours, day and
night. Try it. Present rate, $1.00
per day .
W. B. ALLEN Prop.
Fqt Saturday:
Hecker's
All Pork
Sausage.
J. HENRY PHIPPS.
300 Ashboro street.
'Phone 24
Fresh
From the Country.
Eggs, Chickens, Butter, Po
tatoes, and everything in the
w ay of Produce. Don't forget
that we can fill your orders in
groceries of any kind, of the
very best quality, at the lowest
Prices. Our motto is to sell a
heap, to sell cheap, and to
keep continually at it. Come
and see us and be convinced
that we are the people to deal
with.
VUNCANON & CO.,
Reliable Grocers.
outh Elm St. 'Phone No. 2.
When Out for Your
Christmas Shopping
call and examine our
Holiday
Goods
We may aid you in
settling the Gift
Question.
Gaston V. Ward
Druggist.
TWO FOOTBALL, PLAYERS OF
Greensboro were bruised up c6n
siderably anduBed Goose Grease Lini
ment with splendid results. n-23.
SATURDAY MIGHT'S TRAGEDY
Respectable Woman Killed by a
Worthless Husband
MURDERER CAUGHT AND JAILED
The Community Shocked and Stirred
over the Red Handed Deed
of the Assassin.
The foulest, blackest deed which has
ever blotted the annals of Greensboro
history, was perpetrated in this city
on Saturday night,with the particulars
of which our citizens are more or less
familiar by this time.
Twenty-two years ago Robert S.
Ryan led to hymen's alter Eliza A.
Jennings, whom he then and there took
a solemn vow to i protect and love
through life. How well he kept that
pledge is shown by the cold-blooded
and heartless manner in which he took
her life Saturday night.
There have been numerous reports
circulated as to the facts in the case.
After the excitement has somewhat
subsided -The Telegram gives what is
as near as can be ascertained, the real
facts in the awful tragedy, avoiding
as far as possible anything that would
further inflame or excite the people to
attempt acts of violence.
Mrs. Ryan lived on Ashe street,
near the A. M. E church, where she
conducted a boarding house and took
in sewing to support herself and chil
dren, of whom there are seven. Her
husband, Roberts. Ryan,or "Sonly"
Ryan as he is nicknamed has long had
an unsavory reputation, being a
thriftless, worthless fellow, often
taking the hard earned shillings of his
industrious wife and spending the
money for drink or throwing it away
in gambling dens. Several times he
has been in jail for his rascality and
has escaped with light punishment.
He even professed reform and found
ready friends to assist him in estab
lishing a legitimate, respectable busi
ness. The effort to make a man of
him proved futile for he was soon
i
again at his old tricks.
Some months ago he left Greensboro
a fugitive from justice and spent part
of the time in New Jersey and Penn
sylvania, returning to this State in
September. It is learned that he has
bean spending the time since his return
at the residence of Jess Dillon, about
three miles from High Point. So many
were his wrongs and grievous his mis
treatment toward his wife and family,
that they had refused to live with him
any more. He had written letters to
them asking to be allowed to return,
but the brave woman firmly refused.
THE CRIME.
i
On Saturday night just after dark,
while the thick mist of rain caused the
electric lights to cast weird looking
streams of light into the inky black
ness, he returned to the home where
his sworn partner for life was strug
gling to make a respectable living for
herself and children. He returned
disguised in a woman's skirt, shawl
and hat. Mrs. Ryan was just starting
to a near-by grocery store to settle
her weekly bill, accompanied by her
little boy who was just in front of her.
"Sonly" Ryan saw and recognized
his little boy and asked him if the
boarders were in. The little fellow
recognized his father's voice and told
him that two of them were gone. This
was on the sidewalk just outside the
gate. Stepping inside the gate Sonly
met his wife and caught her in his
arms. As he did so the little boy ran
past them and into the house scream
ing, "Father is out yonder and he's
going to kill mama. " Ed. McDonald ,
a boarder, started out, followed by
Mrs. Ryan's oldest daughter. They
reached the door just as the shooting
took place. Holding his . wife in his
left arm Sonly fired three shots in
rapid succession, two of them takiDg
effect. He ran and called out, "Catch
her, she's falling."
The murdered woman was immedi
ately carried into the house, medical
help hastily summoned, but to no
avail. Her life ebbed rapidly away
and in thirty minutes she was dead.
THE CHASE.
The news spread like a prairie fire
and soon was all over town. Chief of
Police very promptly offered a reward
of one hundred dollars for the capture
of the murder, and joined in the chase
L-himself. There were conflicting ru
mors as to the route taken by Sonly.
One report had it that he had gone up
by the coal chute and men were dis
patched in that direction, and learned
that he had been seen by a negro. For
a while the trail was lost and Chief
Rees and Policeman Scott were talk
ing of 'sending a man to Jess Dillon's,
his lurking place.
But it seems the murderer contem
plated further mischief,- as he returned
and entered Frazier's hardware store
on South Elm street, presumably to
buy cartridges as his pistol was after
wards found to be empty. In the store
he ran on County Treasurer John A.
Hodgin, against whom, it is said, he
had made threats, who, seeing his pis
tol, grappled with him and succeeded
in getting hold of the pistol, which he
wrenched from his grasp. Sonly
slipped out of the scuffle, cleared the
door and made a break down the
street. At this juncture Officers Rees
and Scott were near the corner of
McAuley's bar and seeing two men
running took after one of them, but
saw their mistake and turned on the
other one who proved to be Sonly
Ryan. He. dashed around the corner
between the Southside Pharmacy and
the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley rail
road. Mr. Scott kept the track think
ing the man would attempt to escape
over the embankment, while Mr. Rees
followed close behind Sonly. While
running almost parallel iwith Ryan
Mr. Scott fired three shots at him
without effect.
Excitement ran high. Crowds of
people ran from every direction. Mr.
Scott leaped up the embankment and
joined Mr. Rees just as he nailed his
man, and together they secured him.
In his hand he held something which
the officers thought was a knife, but
which turned out to be a bottle partly
filled with laudanum.
He was carried to jail, followed by
hundreds of people, and when near the
Benbow a brother of the murdered
woman attempted to shoot the prisoner
but was prevented. Talk of lynching
were freely indulged in and late at
night a party of disguised persons
went so far as to advance on the jail
and demand admission which was
firmly refused and the crowd dispersed.
Last night again there was talk of a
lynching bee but it all fell through,
cooler heads and wiser counsel evi
dently outweighing the anger and de
termination of the men who sought to
take the law into their own hands.
IN THE MURDERER'S CELL.
A Telegram man visited Ryan last
night at the jail just twenty-four hours
after the murder. He was lying down
and when spoken to only raised to a
half sitting and half reclining posture.
He did not care to talk, but seemed in
a repentant mood. He was asked:
"Why did you shoot your wife?"
He hesitated so long the reporter
thought he had gone to sleep and re
peated the question. Another long
pause and as an audible sigh escaped
his lips, answered:
"I don't care to say anything on
that subject."
"Are yousorry you committed this
deed?" was asked him.
"I certainly am," he replied, "and
if I had not been in a manner drunk I
would not have done it."
This statement is rather hard to be
lieve when you consider that he had
previously, and at different dates ,writ
tenletters showing that the murder was
planned and premeditated.
"What will be your defense?" the
reporter asked.
"I shall not make any defense," he
replied.
"Have you secured counsel?" was
asked.
"No, I shall not employ a lawyer,"
he answered. :
We then asked him: "Are you not
afraid that a party of men will come
here, take you out and lynch you?" to
I which he replied.
"No, I am not afraid. If they want
to kill me that way, it is all right with
me." ,
"Do you think ypu deserve the pen
alty of your crime?" we asked.
"I certainly do," he replied.
He seemed to have given himself up
to his fate and was totally indifferent
as to what was going on.
FUNERAL OF MRS. RYAN.
Mrs. Ryan's funeral was held from
St. Andrew's Episcopal church at 3:30
yesterday afternoon, conducted by
Rector Miller. A large concourse of
the friends and relatives of the de
ceased were in attendance, and a num
ber followed the remains to Greene
Hill cemetery where they were laid to
rest. ''
Thus ends a tragedy which has
stirred the souls of strong men in
Greensboro aCs they have, perhaps,
never been stirred before. The Tele
gram has always been opposed to
lynch law or mob violence, and it is
gratifying to know that though the
crime was dastardly, cowardly and
cold-blooded, no additional blot has
been stamped upon the fair name of
the city by lynch law. Court is in
session now and the criminal will be
given a speedy trial.
THE CAUSE FOR THE DEED.
On this point the prisoner refuses to
talk. He charged infidelity against
his wife, in a letter addressed to the
Record, but not a single individual
has been found who believes one word
of it. The acquaintances of the dead
woman are unanimous in saying that
her character is unimpeachable and
that she was a modest and tconsistent
christian.
AN EXTENSION OF TIME
The Petrified Woman Viewed by
Many of Our Citizens
WILL REMAIN ONLY A FEW DAYS
Longer on Exhibition in Our City.
One of the Oreat Wonders of the
Nineteenth Century.
By special request the "Petrified
Woman Exhibit" will continue here
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of
this week. So far the patronage has
been good, thus warranting the exten
sion of time. It is undoubtedly the
greatest curiosity that has ever vis
ited Greensboro, if not any city in
the United States, and those who fail
to see the "Beautiful Woman Turned!
to Stone" will certainly miss a chance;
of a lifetime. Dime tickets will be
issued to school school children, thus
enabling them to see the scientific
wonder.
MOORE COUNTY GOLD.
Dr. L. W. Hunter Has Been Drinking
Water from a Oold Mine.
For some years past Dr. L. W. Hun
ter, of Sardis, has been drinking wa
ter from a gold mine, but until recent
ly he has contented himself with tak
ing it in the inner man.
A few days ago he decided that gold
was a very good thing to carry around
even in one's pockets, and decided to
develop his holdings.
Yesterday he brought five tons of
ore to the reduction works of Captain
John Wilkes, from which he hopes to
get encouraging results. This supply
is from a large vein near his home
place, and from present prospects there
is an almost unexhaustible quantity.
A number of northern prospectors have
recently inspected this property with a
view of purchasing, but Dr. Hunter
prefers to thoroughly investigate its
value before making a trade. Char
lotte Observer.
Baptist Statistics.
The Baptist State Convention will
meet in its sixty -seventh annual ses
sion December 9th, with the Church at
Oxford. Dr. A. C. Barron, of Char
lotte, will preach the sermon. Rev. J.
E. White, corresponding secretary,
gives out the following statement:
Reports now in hand show churches,
1,400; membership, 140,000; preachers,
700; baptized during the year, 8,500.
Financial statistics! Missions State,
home and foreign, $30,000; education
of ministers, $2,400; orphanage $15,000
Total for all objects, $325,000.
A TRIAL UNPRECEDENTED,
It Consumed About a Quarter of
an Hour.
MURDERER RYAN PLEADS GUILTY
To the Charge of flurder In the First
Degree Judge Adams Will
Sentence Him.
Never perhaps in the annals of crim
inal jurisprudence in this State has
there been a trial so brief and so
dramatic where a human life was in
volved. After disposing of the pre
liminaries this morning Ryan the wife
murderer was brought into court and
arraigned at 12:30 P. M. It had taken
the grand jurys only 30 minutes to re
turn a true bill. The prisoner was ar
raigned amid a breathless silece. The
court room crowded to suffocation
leaned forward in breathless expect
ancy. The prisoner was asked if he
had counsel. He replied that he did
not have and did not want any. Not
withstanding the judge appointed Col.
James T. Morehead and P. D. Satch
well to defend him. He retired to the
outroom with his counsel. In a few
moments they returned and Col. More
head speaking for counsel said that he
was placed in the peculiar position of
wishing to enter one plea while his
client wished to enter another as he
could not conscientiously enter the
plea his client wished to enter he asked
along with Mr. Satchwell to be ex
cused. He was excused.
Judge Adams then expostulated with
the prisoner telling him that learned
counsel had been appointed to defend
him and he should follow their advice.
The prisoner was not merely cool, he
was absolutely indifferent. It might
have been a man in Europe whose life
was at stake for all the concern he
showed. He stood up chewing- his to
bacco stolidly and replied: "I do not
want counsel. I have committed the
deed. It is unnecessary to consume
the time of the court and worry the
lawyers. I committed the deed. I am
willing to pay the penalty of the act
with my life. If I had a hundred lives
I should be willing to spend them all
in the same way." The Judge again
attempted to influence him to accept
counsel but he persistently refused.
His lips were closed with an expres
sion of immovable determination. He
would listen to neither Judge nor
counsel. He therefore entered the
plea of guilty to the charge of murder
in the first degree and was remanded
to jail. The entire trialhad consumed
about fifteen minutes. All that re
mains is for the criminal to be sen
tenced unless his plea is set aside.
SCUFFLE BELOW STAIRS .
As the prisoner was being taken
back to jail Ben Jennings, a brother
of the murdered woman, half drunk,
made a rush at the prisoner. Officer
Scott collared him and Henry Heath
and Henry Melvin, bystanders threw
him down and sat upon him till his
militancy was soothed. Meantime he
brandished a bottle of whiskey which
was the only weapon he seemed to
have. He was not even arrested.
JUDGE ADAMS INTERVIEWED.
A Telegram reporter saw Judge
Adams at the McAdoo and he said it
was the first instance in his knowledge
where a man had plead guilty to a
capital felony. He said that out of a
sentiment of humamity he had insisted
on Ryan's accepting counsel and being
tried in the regular way. He found
the prisoner's conduct very puzzling.
He will probably be sentenced at the
opening of court in the morning.
State Furniture Factories.
The labor bureau has completed its
report on furniture factories. It re
ports 35 in operation. High Point
leads in number. The average wages
paid are 97i cents a day, children 07 i
cents. Approximately there are now
1,359 men and 262 children employed
in the factories. '
The new cases in the state museum,
all of quarter-sawed oak, show both
the quality of the native wood and
the excellence of the manufacture and
good artistic effects.
COURT SESSION.
One Hundred and Three Cases now
on the Docket.
The session of superior court began
this morning, Judge Spencer B.Adams
presiding.
The following grand jury was em
panelled: W A Fields, foreman; D F Hoffines,
W G Hazlewood, W W Shields, J D
Goldson, John C Self, C S Weaver,
John C Burick, W T McChristian, J
L. Lewis, C F Johnston, W G Wiley,
C C Johnston, Edwin Hodgin, A L
Bryan, H W Gray,- D C Aldridge, A
L Coble.
ADDRESS TO GRAND JURY.
Judge Adams' address to the grand
jury was clear, forcible and had the
right ring. He said:
Every good man is willing
for the law to take its course.
If a body ot men go to a jail
and take out a poor fellow
creature and lynch him they
establish a precedent the com
munity can never outlive.
No man is safe if the men
are allowed to band together
and take men from prison.
' Talked to the Lynchers.
Mayor Nelson went down to . the
meeting place of the would-be lynching
party last night and talked quietly
with them, urging them to disperse,
assuring them that Solicitor Bynum
would lose no time in bringing on the
trial of Ryan.
Policemen Whittington and Pearce
also talked to some of them along the
same lines. They believed it and dis
persed, and they were not deceived, as
the report of the trial, published else
where, will show.
AudltorAyer's Oab.
The Raleigh correspondent of the
Charlotte Observer interviewed Audit
or" Ayer with the following result:
Auditor Ay er said today: "It looks
like we will have to lick the democrats
again, and if so, the ease with which
it can be done is the only contempti
ble thing about it." Auditor Ayer
was asked what . he meant by "we,"
and replied, "The folks." Then he
was asked if he did not think the white
people would get together, and replied,
"The white folks will rule this State
as long as they are here. It seems
from the experience of the next two
years that the right kind of white peo
ple will rule it. . You can draw your
own conclusions."
Shot Stonewall Jackson.
Col. Olds writes: A man named
Waddell, at the soldiers' home in Ral
eigh, is one of the five North Caroli
nians who were guarding the road in
wilderness and shot and mortally
wounded Stonewall Jackson.
Waddell tells the story interestingly
General Jackson had ordered them to
keep the road clear and. to shoot with
out warning or halting anybody. Half
an hour later he evidently forgot his
instructions and rode along tha road.
After the shooting Waddell saw him
and asked: "What will they do with
us?" "xou aid only your auty and
obeyed orders," replied General Jack
son, "and I will mention that in my
letter to General Lee."
Reduced Rates.
Agents, of the C. F. & Y. V. are
authorized to sell round trip tickets to
Oxford, N. C, on the 7th, 8th and 9th,
final limit Dec. 15th, 1897, good for
continuous passage in each direction,
at reduced rates.
The following rates apply: Fayette
ville via Sanford, $6.75; Maxton.via
Fayetteville or Sanford, $7.65; Wil
mington via Fayetteville or Sanford,
$9.10; Mt. Airy via Greensboro $7.70.
For intermediate station rates caU on
local agents.
Card of Thanks.
We desire to express through your
columns'1 our deep gratitude to the
many friends who were so kind to us
in many ways during our sore afflic
tion in the sudden death of our son.
We are deeply thankful to God for the
sympathies and prayers of these friends.
B. N. Smith and Family.
Notice.
The orchestra will practice on
Thursday and Saturday nights until
we hold our carnival. Full attendance
desired.
Chas. J. Brockmann, Director.
Attending a Thanksgiving dinner, -
or any social function, a man should be pro
vided with a dress suit of the latest cut and
fashion. Order now, and we will hare it ready
for you on time, and will guarantee that in
perfection of fit, distingue style and beauty of
fabric no one will look more "swell" than
man who wears one of our dress suits. - Clean
in?, repairing and dyeing done at short notice.
B. L RUBEN, Merchant Tailor,
. 116 South T3m Street Benbow Building.
Gtiirins Chap Lotion,
Antiseptic, 35c.
Perfumed Witch Hazel Jelly,
In Tubes, 10 and 35c.
Take your choice both perfect prep
arations for Healing chaps and abra
sions of the skin and keeping, it in
healthy, smooth condition.
Not sticky or greasy.
4sT Beautiful Xmas stock opening up.
Richardson & Fariss.
Prescriptionists.
Hot and Cold Drinks, Fine Candies.
Facts Worth Studying.
If the Southern Stock-Mutual pays
no larger dividends than the 20 per
cent, now paid, and the business in
creases during the next seven years in
the same ratio it has increased during
the last three years, the actual saving
for the ten years to policy-holders in
North and South Carolina will be
$194,822.00, and to the policy-holders
in Greensboro alone, $26,237.00. Be
sides this the Company's assets (rein
surance reserve and surplus) repre
sented by still larger figures will be
kept at home and invested in the state.
What better investment can the public
make than by upholding an institu- '
tion tike this?
WHARTON & McALISTER.
AGENTS.
New Quarters.
I have at last gotten into my new
office in the elegant
M. P. Publishing House,
302 i-a S. Elm St.,
where I shall be glad to all who
are needing my services for the cor
rection of the various errors of refrac
tion. Many - are be being relieved
who had given up in despair because
of repeated failures by good oculists.
J. T. JOHNSON.
Examination Free.
OFFICE HOURS: 8:30 a m to 12:30
m.; 2:00 to 5:30 p. m. '
Almond
Cream
Will Cure chapped Hands,
Face and Lips.
Every bottle guaranteed,
FOR SALE BY 1
Howard Gardner,
Druggist. .
Corner Opposite dst Office.
Holiday Goods.
I have just opened a pretty
line of holiday goods please
call.
Nothing better for chapped hands
than Marshmallbw Lotion.
Ilolton's Drug Store.
McAdoo House Building.
Ty ANTED An energetic boy of
" good address and neat appear
ance, age about 15, to help in store.
Address , Lock Box 96, stating axT-J-enee.
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