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ESTABLISHED 1876 LINCOLNTON, N. C. THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 4. 102. 5 Cents Per Copy, $2.00 Per Year. SOLICITOR HUFFMAN His Duty To Investigate Killing, That's All He la Doing Did Not ' Make Many of Statements Attribut ed To Him In Press. The Lincoln County News: Statements have been attributed to me through the press concerning the Baxter case that I am not respon sible for,, and if the good people of Lincoln County deem a denial in or- 'der this is my denial of many of them, except I did state to representatives cf the press, and now reiterate such statements, the substance of which re that information came to me that a citizen of North Carolina had been shot in the back of the head and killed , while traveling one of the highways of the state, and that possibly Mr. Baxter and his possemen had shot at the car in which deceased was riding, and upon such information there was only one thing for me to do under my oath and the law of the land, and that was to have the party accused arrest ed and have a full, open and free in vestigation, and that is all the State .and the Allison family want. If after such ' investigation a judicial officer finds that Mr. Baxter is and was with in the law and is released, then the State and the Allison family. are sat isfied. If such officer finds that a jury should pass upon the facts then the entire matter can be thoroughly investigated by a jury of twelve good men and all the facts with respect to the matter presented. I don't know who killed Fred Allison and God knows tha only thing I am trying to do is to find out something about the facts Respectfully yours, R. L. Huffman, Solicitor. ONE WOMAN DEAD AND FIVE ARE IN HOSPITALS Wounds Accideirtly Inflicted Duriug Celebration; North Carolina Man Richmond, ,Va Jan. 1. One wo man is dead and five persons are jn hospitals today suffering from bullet wounds accidentally inflicted during the celebration of . the ad vent of the New Year. V Mrs. Peter Trafiereri,' wife I. of, a merchant, was struck by a stray bul let when she put her head out of a window of her home to witness the celebration of a crowd in the street belowi; She died in a hospital a few hours later.'.', Richard Gregory and Norman Jordan were struck in the foot by stray bullets while walking near their homo. i Oliver Pollard is suffering from a wound in the hand ',a!so inflicted by stray bullet. Julian Blunt, of Reidsville, N. C: had a wound in the hand and Harry Greenbery, one in the shoulder. Both were self-in flicted, Blunt, while handling a shot-; ; gun and Greenberg's while- he was examining an automatic pistol. : The condition of none of the in jured js serious. Also, the police are trying to find an explanation for a bullet falling within a few inches of where W. R. Wood sat in an upper room of his home. The bullet came through the room from the outside directly above where Mr. Wood sat reading and was imbedded in the floor. The au thorities.' believe his life was saved by a piece of plastering deflecting its course. FATHER RUNS OVER HIS OWN DAUGHTER Lumberton, Jan. 1. A horrible ac cident occurred at - McDonald, Robeson county, Sunday afternoon when Grace Greyard, three-year-old daughter of T. S. Greyard, was run over and killed by a Buick automobile driven by her father. The child was in the front seat of the car with her father' He was backing the car when the door came open and the child fe.ll out The front wheel of the car paned over her body before it could b stopped. She only lived a short time. The funeral was conducted this afternoon. ' KICKED WOMEN CUSTOMERS ' WHO KICKS ON 'WEIGHT Chicago, Dec. 28. Within a Week James Horn ,a butcher, has been fined twice for kicking women customers who "kicked" on weight. t "All these women think I am cheat ing them in weight," said Horn, who added that he did not remember hav ing kicked Mrs. Augusta Whealan. He was fined $20 and costs, ' . Beekeeping offers good returns for the mony. Some owners are getting from $600 to $750 from fifty to sixty celonies in modern hives and only, prend from 5 to (J days each year. DAWSON NAMED AS . SPEAKER OF HOUSE Miss Rosa Mund Gets House Clerk Job Over Mr.-Shell of Harnett New Speaker Too Sick to Attend The Initial Caucus. Raleigh, Jan. 2. While Speaker John G. Dawson lay ill tonight in the Yarborough hotel, his conferrees in the lower ; house-unanimously chose his presiding officer of the 1923 body and Grand Old Man Rufe Doughton, who fought his way to the speak ship through six thrilling ballots, read the speech of acceptance which Mr. Daws"on was too sick to make. It took a good portion of the gen eral assembly to hold the young man to his couch. Few times in state his tory has the dominant party thought so highly of any man that somebody else in the 100 counties did not rise up to seek this greatest of honors in the general assembly. It took persusa sion to- pull from Speaker Dawson a dictated speech which would embody what he- seeks as leader of the house. The message wasn't radical, but it holds to what the. state has and adds what a growing commonwealth will, need. : -:' . The first caucus presented only one fight which had any unusual in terest in it, The senate Democrats ended their battle last night when Major Cecil Broughton concluded that Judge Phil Cocke, of Asheville, had him faded !for senate f eading clerk. Judge Cocke will do the reading and Mr. Broughton will be generalissimo of senate clerks. . Miss Rosa Mund, of Cabarrus and Otis P. Shell, of Harnett, contested for house engrossing clerk. This was a battle royal. Congressman Homer Lyon, ex-Congressman H. L. Godwin, Alf M. McLean and Nat Townsend pat in terrific licks for Mr. Shell. Major Walter Murphy, Ambassador Bill Neal, Lindsay C. Warren, GranJ Old Man Rufe Doughton and, John B. Shorrill led the fight for Miss Mund. Most of the bitterenders in sufferage days were for Miss Mund and many of the liberals . of those . unhappy irmerSReiriartrsansr5 Miss Mund defeated Shell by the overwhelming vote of 65 to 29 and Representative Nat Townsend rose to make the count unanimous In the first big cheering of the first ses sion. : ; - ' ' The house causus was called at 8 o'clock and the nomination of Daw son was offered by Hunt Parker, of Halifax, a youngster who seems to have all sorts of ability, W. N. Ew erett, of Richmond,' was first second and when, it became known that Mr. Dawnson could not personally speak, Governor Doughton read the accep tance speech, i NORTH CAROLINA WINS VICTORY OVER RAILS IN REVALUATION TAX CASE United States Supreme Court Hands Down Final Dcsicion. Washington, Jan. 2. The su preme - court today upheld North Carolina's revaluation tax law, whkh means that the rate of one tenth of one per cent on the 200 million dollar value of the railroads may be imposed for the years 1920 to 1923, inclusive. The state's in come from this source thus would be around $800,000. Mr. Justice Brandeis. read' the courts opinion. .. The Southern Seaboard, Atlantic Coast Line, Norfolk Southern and the Atlantic and Yadkin were the roads which protested. The roads claimed that in addition to paying ad valorem taxes in the various counties and cities in which the roads held property, the state, by the revaluation act of 1920, imposed these additional franchise , levies, which were attacked on the follow- That they violated the ,ng grou..u. equal protection clause, the due pro- cess clause ana me aimuinv Vi-. , - .H,. PoHprnl constitution, as well VI WW ' -. as the uniformity caluse of the state constitution, and that, in addition, the assessments were illegally made The roads asked for an injunction aeainst A. D. Watts, commissioner Uf revenue for North Crolina, and when this injunction was denied m the lower court the case was ap pealed to the supreme court, with Attorney General Manning, Assist ant Attorney General Frank Nash fend anumber .of other attorneys opposing the injunction plea of the carriers. . 1 , "Raleigh, Jan, 1. "North Carolina holds -her hieh position in the total value of field crops for 1922. With a ranK or lourin at ui the value of the 22 most important crops of the United States and fifth, in rank of all crops valued at $342, 637,000, North Carolina, with a cul tivated area of less than 25 others, . mm 1 1 i mnnn (UIJ AAA I surpasses crops." 42 states in the "Value ' of : . . JUDGE JAMES L. WEBB . TAKES OATH OF OFFICE Shelby , Jan. 1. Judge James L, Webb today took the oath of of fice beginning his last term as a public official. He was sworn in as a judge of the superior court be fore T. C Eskridge, a local magis trate and goes to Concord , next week to hold his first term beginning his last term. Judge Webb has served in public office for thirty years without opposition within the ranks of his own party and today he was jubilant as a youth, de claring mat wnue ne may reacn i the age at which superior, court judges may be used as "substitutes," he will not go on the socalled pen sion list. For twelve years Judge Webb was solicitor in this district and was appointed to the bench un der Governor Aycock's administra tion, to fill out an unexpired term LW? XSST9- Since then hewas electccf for two terms' ofeignit years each which he has completed and now he begins his third and last term. " WANT BENCH WARRANT FOR LINCOLN DEPUTY Charlotte, Jan. 1 A bench war rant will be issued by Judge W. F, Harding, at the request of Solicitor R, L. Huffman, compelling Deputy Baxter, of Lincoln county, to appe'ar before him in a preliminary hearing in which he will be charged with the murder of Fred Allison, young Char lotte mechanic. Solicitor Huffman announced that a bencn warrent would supersede the warrant issued at his instance Satur day returnable before a Lincoln county magistrate and will be issued as a result of Information which So licitor Huffman secured after reach ing Charlotte from Ed Owens and Jim Craig, Allison's companions on the night of the shooting. , . ; Solicitor Huffmon declared that he did not expect to prosecute Owens and Craig on the charge of transport ing liquor by reason .; of whatever testimony they would make tending to throw light on exactly what, hap pened when the car in which they end Fred A".ison were riding., was stopped by Deputies Baxter and Scott Miller. The two Charlotte men have not made any authorized statements and Solicitor Huffman said that what ever they told him would be reduced to affidavit; form for use in the prosecution of Baxter, against whom a warrant has already been Issued. , There was heard strong whisper ing reflecting upon conduct of of ficial actions of Deputy Baxter especially, in his relations with rum runners, Solicitor Huffman admitted I , hig hooms at a local hotel this " ' . SON BORN TO MR. AND MRS. G. . W. HILL- Mr. and Mrs. George Washington Hill are being congratulated upon the birth of a son in their home, 570 Park Avenue, New York, City, on Sunday December 17., 1922. The child will be christened Percival Smith Hill the 2nd, after his grandfather, Mr.. Per cival S, Hill, President of the Ameri can Tobacco Company, of which the boy's father, Mr. George W. Hill, is Vice- President. TVi American dollar droDDed ba:k tn nsr in the Amsterdam Bourse the othr dv for the first time in more t than three years. The majority of ( Americarts are hoping that their dol- lar will eventually climb back to par In the United States. St. Louis Post Dispatch. A Chrintniaa holiday Shopping throng in Lincolnton on Dec. 23, 1022, Saturday before , Christmas. East Main street view with courthouse in the back groun, Showing the importance of Lincolnton as a trade center of this section of w. "stern North Carolina, j ' With poison pie insurance . and governor and his daughter, Miss An overcoat insurance, it is now tolerably gelia, was an informal affair, but one safe to go out to lunch. Philadelphia I Record. V - - . ,T 24 ARE INJURED IN TRAIN VRECK . j Woman Dreams of Wreck; Is Dressed ' . ..r ... . ..rl .. I ana waiting in car wnen it occurs Macon, Ga., Jan. 2.-A broken Kfiam f Via f- A r r n at) -f maim Ann f Mv" ""rrvr . derailment of the northbound Dixie Flyer, .. fast JacksonWlle-Chicago train, at 6:43 o'clock tjiis morning, causing injury, to n parsons, tnree ioi tnem seriouwy, occwaing 10 a statement irom central -,oi Georgia railroad officials. . i une ot tne rails was stjippea irom ; the road bed for a distance of a tnousana teet, ana . lay along tne 15 foot embankment, in (he form . of a double "S", and on . the bottom of the ravine lay ; evd Pullman sleepers, a tuning caj aiay, coacn was intact tn an nut one place,: near the locomotive. But for the. fact that the equip- V - 14 - "' a 4 - . i . 1 . r " - ment was ot steel tnere wouia nave,who says she had been marrje() she been a heavy loss of life, railroad, omciais say. - In next to the last car of the wrecked train sat Miss Jane Cassi- dy, ot Bheibyvuie, , K.r., tuny oressea and waiting for the wreck. "I awoke from a dream at B o'clock," she told passengers, "a dream that the train was being wrecked. I awoke my two compan ians, Miss Marion Williams of Bush- ness, Uls., ana Miss Alary aamueis,. of Boswell, Ind., 'There's going to be a wreck, you had better get up and dress,' , They told me to go back sleep, but I dressed and waited." The locomotive did not leave . rails. to the. THE RENDEZVOUS WITH DEATH (Charlotte News 27th) " The unfortunate death of the young Charlotte man in a raid made by Lin coin county officers upon his automo bile Sunday niglrt may require some time for sufficient unravelling as do- finitely, to fix the burden of blame, but before this is done or before it is necessary that it should be done, it may be reasonably asserted that those. who continue to deal in violation of the laws ot the htate are maKing ior We do not belwve that a Killing is justified because a man happens to e hauling liquor, but when alleged rum - running cars are equipped to defy the officers ana even to slay tnem, ana when Oecupants actually fire upon these, guardians of the law, it is in evitable that the officers should re turn the volley. They would be stupid if they did not, and whether the boy i who met his death in an adjoining j county under such conditions was actually killed by officers or accident tally in the exchange of shots from his own companions, the conclusions are not materially changed. 'Handling liquor is in open and re solute def inance of the laws of the people of North Carolina nd of the land. It is not punished by death ac cording to technical ' legal prescrip tions, but it is a form of inviting death, nevertheless, in just such, com plications and confusions as seem to have surrounded the slaying of young Allison. Lumberton, Jan. 1. Approximate ly 500 people, rcprsenting all parts of . the county, called at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. McLean here this aft .ernoon between the hours oi a na - ,6 o clock, to meet i,overnor Morrison. The New Year reception given by ! Mr. and Mrs. McLean in honor of the of the most elaborate ever given in Lumberton. 4 MARTIN ..ARRESTED FOR KANSAS CITY ROBBERY oman Companion Confession Im plicates Him In Dovers' Holdup. Denver, Colo., Jan. 1. -Martin Rvan. alias James Martin, arrested ?lere Saturday nieht in comtmnv with ' , , a woman giving the name ot iwar plicate(i in the robbery of the Dovers National bank in Kansas city 0n December 12, in a confession made and signed bv the woman ac cnrin t.n tVie Denver nnl re. Rvan irefused to admit the truthfulness of the statements in the confession. Kansas City authorities will send 0frlc.ers for the -pair. Police said an inve8tiiratioh showed that the iCoupie had no connection with the ;bandit. .an-which on December 18 "obtained 200,000 in federal, reserve bank truck at the door othe govern Police found more than $8,000 hid den in a coat in a trunk belonging sito the couple. According to the girl had been employed in a restaurant (Kansas City for about five months priol. to meeting Rvan. She met Ryan about two weeks pviot to the robberVi she said. On the day of. the robbery, she dc clared - in h'er confession, according to the pulice, Ryan came home in the evening with a bundle wrapped in a newspaper. She ' declared he told her that he got the $10,000 in bill it contained from the Denver National bank. She continued in her confession that coming to Denver De cembar 22 she and Rhyne went to Chi cago. Rhyne and Miss Yard were arrest ed at the depot Saturday night as they prepared to leave for San Fran cisco. Miss Yard declared, the police 'said, that the only comment Rhyne I made concerning the robbery was that "there was on awful mob of peo- cufsi(3 an(j that "there was a guy .:,: in . nr outside for them." He yiv ill wit: piaie aiiu naibiuy vuuu aJg0 tM accordinK to bcr state. ment( that the car had bee stceni ghe to( the j)olice that'the gang rode jn tho car for few blocks Hnd then entered a smaller car." Miss Y . rniinnspd nf tpr making her (statement. Her collapse was brought n 8ne declared by threats made by Rhyne that he would kill her if she 1 tod the police she deciared Ryne tod her that if he coud not get ht1... ...... of the robbel. band would Names of the other members of the gang now at large as given by Miss Yard have been sent to Kansas City police, local officials said. . NC-TICE FOR FILING INCOME TAX RETURNS The following must file returns be fore March 15, 1923: Every person with net income of $1000, if single. Every person with net income of $2000, if married.ywr,Tr'' Every person with a cross income of $5000. Every incorporated company, with out exception. " ' '. Every partnership, without any ex ception. .. Every employer must report all sal aries of $1000, or more, and to whom paid. ' Returns must be filed on time even . if no t.x ig due Fil, r Teturn 0w and take no - 1 (nce 0 a penalty i Address all returns and mail to: ..y g Collector Internal Revenue Gilliam Grissom, Raleigh, North Carolina, It's a fact, though, that if the Turk stirs up holy war it will be an un godly affair. ALLISON KILLING TO BE INVESTIGATED JAN. 19 Solicitor Huffman will Investigate Charge of Murder Against Baxter Two Men In Liquor Car With Allison, Make Statement To Solici tor In Charlotte They Claim They j Had No Pistol and Didn"t Know! Allison Was Armed. I The preliminary, trial of Deputy Baxter, charged with the death of Fred Allison of Charlotte, killed in an encounter with Deputy Sheriff Miller and Baxter at a point near ' Leather man's store in North Brook township Christmas eve, has been postponed to January lSth. The hearing will be before 1). H. Shields, Justice of the Peace, at Lincolnton. , t ; The witnesses thus far known to the public in this case are five Lin coln men eye witnesses, who were at the Leatherman Store when the liquor car passed and who appeared at the coroner's inquest held in Lincolnton Christmas Day. The testimony of . these five men has already been published. From their evidence the coroenr's jury re turned a verdict in substance that Allison came to his death at the hands of his companions in the liquor car, who were, then unknown, Since the coroner's inquest the com panions of the dead man have made a statement Iq Solicitor Huffman, on his visit to Charlotte' in' which they hargo Deputy Baxter of Lincoln, with firing on the liquor car. Whether Craig and Owen will be produced as witnesses at the preliminary hearing at Lincolnton is not stated, and whether they are also to be arrested in connection with the killing of their companion, or are to be charged with violation of the prohibition law by be ing in the car containing 50 gallons of whiskey is not. kuiwn here. THE TWO CHARLOTTE MEN IN CAR WITH ALLISON TALK TO SOLICITOR HUFFMAN While Solicitor Hultman was in Charlotte Monday, looking into the killing of Allison, Craig and Owens, Allison, maae a statement to aouci tor Huffman in regard to the killing, their statement being rather differ ent from-the evidence introduced at the coroner's inquest by the five men who were eye witnesses to the shoot ing in North Brook. The witnesses at the coroner's inquest, in substance testified that the men in the car began the shooting and that a fusilade of shots were exchanged between Deputi es Baxter and Miller and the occu pants of the liquor car, the officers" shooting following the attack made) on them V y the passing car. The evi dence given solicitor Huffman in Charlotte and published in-.tha Obser ver Tuesday was as follows, tho state ment being made by the men -Craig and Owens: Craig and Owens Talk About The Killing to Solicitor. The story of the killing of Fred Allison, of Charlotte, was related to Solicitor R. L. Huffman, of Mor t'j.uton, here yesterday by James Craig and Ed Owens of this city, v- ho. admittuJ f the -sclio to.' that i t,; were in the' whhkisy' laden -i.'.sur that was halted by deputy sheriffs near Lincolnton Christmas eve night when Allison was slain ia -' :tn en counter with Deputy Sheriffs Bax ter and Miller, of Lincoln county. Craig and Owens were definitely given to understand by the solicitor that he did not intend to prosecute them for rum running or for any other law violation as a result of the cvidtn.-e disclosed in their story of the shooting. Mr. Huffman made his' attitude plain to a .representative of The Ob server when he stated that he con sidered that there were more serious things concerned in the investiga tion he was making of Allison's death than rum running. The in discriminate shooting of citizens : on public highways by officers of the law without warrants, and the al leged ' connivance of law enforce ment officers with .um runners, the solicitor said. were, matters that unless prompt and vigorous . action was taken to prevent them would result in anarchy, contempt of law, and mob rule in this state. Baxter Blocks Road, Craig and Owens, the solicitor said yesterday, told of how .they drove up to a point beyond Leath erman's store, which is situated about 18 miles northwest of Lin colnton, on the Sunday afternoon and procured 50 gallons of liquor which was stored in the car. They did not buy this liquor, they stated, the purchase price being made- up by a ring in Charlotte, who sent them and Allison to bring it to this city. They reached the Leather- man store on the return trip about 9:30 o'clock at night, and noticed two cars in the road, one on each side, almost Mocking the ' road, SHORT NEWS ITEMS Lexington, Jan. 2. Mrs. Oliver H. Garrett, aged about 70, was burned to death when fire destroyed her home near Churchland, 10 miles west of here, at 9 o'clock this morning. The body was discovered after the roof had fallen in by neighbors attracted by the flames. The husband was away and Mrs. Garrett is said to have been alone in the home. The fire was dis covered shortly after she returned home from calling at a neighbor's house. There is no suspicion of foul play. Mrs. Garrett is said to have been a-native of Franoe.- Shelby, Jan. 2. Not often is a pas tor "retired" in the manner "and form which fell to the lot of Rev. J. C Gill espie during the holidays. While at one of his rural churches, in a car on which the tires were pretty well worn, the members of his congregation jacked up the wheels and put on a complete set of new tires. : After it was "retired" the car was filled with good things to eat. Maltimore, Md., Jan. 1. John T- Maurer, said by police to have been the driver of an automobile which crashed into a telephone pole here early yesterday, resulting in the death of four men, was arrested to day , charged with manslaughter. Maurer was slightly injured as a re sult of the accident, and will be dis charged from the hospital in time to be friven a preliminary hearing on the charge tomorrow. ; Raleigh, Jan. L Community seed improvement work has been the major field crop extension p oject of the past year, according to the an- nual report of the division of agron omy to B. W. Kilgore, director of the farm extension service, made public tonight. . Washington, Jan 1. Possibility of a shift in the international movement of gold resulting sometime this year in the gold exports from the United States exceeding imports is being dis cussed here on the basis of statistics on gold transfers for the 11 months Ending November 30, last, these fig- urs.r.nWe, public todayy- sh.qW that-' , gold imports by the Xlnited States for " the 11 months aggregated only $249, 000,000, a decrease of $411,000,000 or 62 per cent from the figures for the corresponding period of 1921. There seems to be little hope for those who get drunk. The Fascisti in Itlay dose them with castor oil and the police of Des Moins take their photographs and put them on exhibit ion. Such "cruel and" unusual" pen alties make "the punishment fit the crime." News and Observer. There was, they said, barely room for a car to pass between them. Allison almost stopped the Essex he : was driving, as the glare of lights from one of the stationary cars made driving hazardous. Then the men in Allison's car noticed a man who resembled Baxter stand ing near one of the cars. Allison, Craig and Owens, said, was told by thefn to go into second gear in or der to get by the cars. As he did so and the Essex passed Baxter, or the (man they beleived to be Bax ter, he opened fire with a pistol. Craig and Owens stated that the were in the front seat of the Essax the liquor having been placed on the floor in the rear of the car. Craig, Owens said, fell over on his t ii,,. . ... iap; ana Allison arove steadily on not saying a word. They both main tain that about eight shots were fired from their rear and left, when Allison fell over on the wheel and the car ran off the road into the mud and came to a stop , in a ditch. Allison, the men say, exclaimed th he had been shot. , Craig and Owens got out of the car and headed across a field away from the scene. Later they en countered a man in an automobile who drove them to Gastonia, and (hey returned to Charlotte on tho Piedmont and Northern railway. Did Not Start Fight. Both Craig . and Owens stoutly assert that they did not fire a shot from the car, and that they were not armed. Allison, they say they " afterward learned, had a pistol in his pocket, but that they did not know it at the time of the shoot ing. They were at a loss' to ex plain .whose ; pistol the deputy sheriffs alleged they found uhder the right running board of the Essex, near the front wheels, said ' to have been a 38 calibre and with magazine of empty shells. Baxter,;. Craig and. Owens' totd Solicitor Huffman, fired at the car in which they were riding ' without warning to halt. There were, they said, about eight or 10 men " and boys standing around in front of , Leathci man's store when the car i passed, and all appeared to have been drinking, or celebrating ' in soma manner.
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