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LEAKSVtLLE NO.', I ti ’CAROLINA ,Y JANUARY 16, 1923, VOLUME I XL NO. 1 2 CENTS PER COP/—$5. YEAR DR J. W. PEACOCK IS SANE LETTER HE WRITE HOME SAYS Alleged examnation by ex perts before Florida de clare1 him sane MADE ESCAPE FROM PRISON INSANE WARD LAKELAND, Fla* Jan. 15.— Court records show that Dr. J. W. Peacock, who escaped last year from the criminally insane department of the North Carolina state peniten tiary, was declared sane at Arcadia, Florida, last 'Thursday before Judge George W. Whitehurst after an. ex amination by Dr. H. M. Richards and Dr. R. R. Sullivan of Lakeland. Dr. Peacock was stopping here at the home of his sister, Mrs. R. E. Luffey but left last night for St. Petersburg, where it was said he intends to practice medicine. According to information receiv ed here, he was examined to frus trate any attempt to extradite him to North Carolina. Thomasville, Jan. 15.—A letter from Dr. J. W. Peacock, from Lake land, Fla., telling of his having been set free by a judge in Florida and by alienists who pronounced him sane, was received here today by his wife, Mrs. J. W. Peacock, also an order for his office and medical fix tures to be sent to him came in the same letter with the information he was intending to begin the practice of medicine at some point in Florida. Dr. Peacock is spending today and probably tomorrow at St Petersburg, Fla., according to information, with a yiew to deciding on a location for the practice of his profession. The question is already being agi tated here as to the proper coutse to pursue in regard to. bringing the doctor back to North Caroling from whose criminal insane department he escaped sometime last summer. Former Solicitor Bower, it is learn ed, states that he can be brought back. Solicitor Bower was prosecu tor in the case for the state during his trial for murder in Davidson county last summer a year ago. Tried in June, 1921. Dr. Peacock was tried in' Lexing ton in June, 1921, on a charge of murderine James E. Taylor, chief of lomasville. After one of most sensational trials in the an nals of the state, a jury from Row an county retrned a verdict of not guilty on the ground that the phy sician had slain Chief Taylor in an irresponsible mental state. Judge T, B. Finley, presiding un der the laws of the state ordered Peacock held for investigation. A hearing was held In Greensboro the latter part of June, 1921,'which re sulted in Peacock going to the state’s criminal insane asylum. Last summer Peacock made his escape from the insane asylum and the information from Florida today was the first heard of him since his sensational escape. % Peacock on April 16, 1921, killed 'Chief Taylor on the streets of Thom asville. He fired with a shot gun from his office window upon the - chief, wounding Taylor severly. Peacock then rushed from his office and emptied several shots from his automatic pistol into the head of the helpless officer. The killing of Tay lor was said to be one of the most brutal ever recorded in Davidson county. Pet up Ies.ee Plea. me trial of Peacock was one that held the attention of North Carolina for over a week. Both side®, the state and defense, were represented by some of the ablest legal talent in the state. The defense fought the ©n the ground of insanity, eon tending that the defendant' was suff e«»i* from paranonia. Several able alienitsts testified that Peacock was. a paranoiac and that while he ap rational rilost of the time » would probably take iiT, AUtHORITY ON INDIANS Dr. William Beancbamp of Syracuse, N. Y., Is the greatest living authority on Iroquois Indians. He is ninety three years old, but remarkably active. KNITTING MILL NEWEST REIDSVILLE ENTERPRISE )A new stock company with a paid in capital of 9150,000 is being or ganized to establish a large knitting mill In Rei^fttiUe. W. L. Pannill, for several years one of the officers of the P. H. Han es Knitting Hill Company it Wins ton-Salem^ has resigned his position with that company and will devote his entire time to the organization and management a| the new com pany. He has associated with him Robert Graham, also of Winston Salem, who is an experienced tex tile man. Hr. Panhill was bom ana raised- in Reidsvillp. For many years he, was- nenweotmi-wf*Vhd»e.May«jffair mills in this county'hnd for the past eight or ten years ha ha? been with the Hanes Company, in Winston Salem . He is an efficient executive and is thoroughly conservative with every detail of knit*.: ,1 » mills He will move hi? familv her.- in a short time.—Reidsville Review. Prayer meeting of the First Bap tist church of Leakaville, will meet Wednesday evening with Mr and Mrs. T. L. Millner, on Monroe St. MR. SHERRILL, CHARLOTTE VISITOR ENJOYS VISIT HERE Mr. H. C. Sherrill of Charlotte spent the week end with his parents Rev. and Mrs. Sherrill at the Me thodist Parsonage. Mr. Sherrill was shown about our three towns and expressed himself as surprised and gratified with the many industrial plants and other enterprises. Mr. Sherrill is Manager of the Morris Plan Bank of Charlotte, and is also in the Real estate and Insurance business. This was his first visit and one he enjoyed greatTy. BAPTIST MID-WEEK SERVICE Prayer meeting at 7:30, Wednes day evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Mjllner on Monroe St. with the following program: Subject—-Love. Hymn—liove Lifted Me. Hymn—Love Divine. > ■Prayer, Pastor. Song—Little Caroline Wilson. Talk, by the Paster, Dr. Aberna thy. Poem, Miss Laura .Darlington. Hymn—More Love To Thee Reading, Mrs. H. P, Foard Prayer, Mr. J. B. Taylor. Hymn—Pleat Be The Tie. Benediction. burning pf Peacock1* barn, How ever, the defense never contended that Chief Taylpr was in any w^y responsible for the —*’ Of the barn. D ii ring jpfrjfrltd it was brought out that Peacock's mother was Re siding in. Florida. His sister and Hpr husband, of Florida, were present at the trial. FRENCH CONTROL EVERY OUTLET FROM THE RUHR DUESSELDORF, Jan. 16.—The French now control every outlet from the Ruhr into Germany wheth er by rail or water. Liie,< extended through Dortmund to Luenen on Lippe river and Donee to Witten FRENCH SOLDIERS CLASH WITH DEMONSTRATORS Berlin, Jan. 15.-^A clash between German demonstrators and French troops occurred at the railway sta tion at Bochum this evening. The French fired, killing one person and wounding several . The incident followed political demonstrations on a big scale. Sev eral thousand persons collected in front of the town hall, where the French general had his quarters, and cheered the German republic, then marched through tke streets. A num ber of young communists made a counter-demonstration, cheering the third internationale arid the French communists league. The police were unable to handle the crowds and towards evening the French troops had to intervene. It was about 8 o’clock in the e-ening when they opened fire near the rail way station. TOBACCO FARMERS SHOULD HAVE SEED RECLEANED In my opinion the tobacco farm ers should try and mprove the quali ty of their tobacco. For better qual ity means better prices and . more money per acre. This applies to all tobacco farmers—whether you are grading and selling your tobacco through the Co-operative Marketing Associations or whether you s grading and selling on the aucti floors, because quality counts und either method. One Of the best wa to improve any crop is bv Jnd pfoper s»ed 'selection. And the case of tobacco the saving seed is a very vital and jmporta matter. After the seed plant has been selected, proper care should be given the plant and all small faulty pods should be kept trimmed off thru the growing season and only good plump pods should be left to mature After seed have matured and been thrashed out they should then be recleaned, so that all small light or chaffy seed should be taken out, leaving sound plump seed of a uni form size. The North Carolina De partment of Agriculture—Raleigh, N. C. has a machine to reclean tobac co seed and will .reclean seed for any tobacco farmer free. The only cost to the farmer. is the postage both ways, which is a very small item. We realize that one of the first and fun damental principles in growing a crop of tobacco is to havs plenty of good strong healthy plants. Then if we can plant our fields with healthy uniform plants we naturally expect the crop to grow almost uniform and continue a uniform crop through the season, enabling the farmer to top approximately every plant at one topping. Then it would be natural for the crop to mature together or at about the same time, enabling us to harvest a more uniform crop. What might sometimes seem to be small insignificant maters really mean more' than we think and that true in the case of saving tobacco zeed. A little more time and trouble given to. the proper saving and hand ling of our seed perhaps would mean many dollars in our next crop of tobacco'. I wohld be glad if as many farmers as can would take advantage • of this chance of having their tobacco seed recleaned. This office will'b e glad to assist anyone in this matter. F. S. Walker - , County Agent METHODIST PRAYER MEETING The Midweek Prayer Service at the Ldaksville Methodist Church Wednesday will be conducted by several laymen, with special musical ; attractions, Friends are cordially invited. ' .*• "'^1 4 • CITIZEN'S COMMITTEE ROUND UP TRAIN WRECKERS Bridges Hare Been Burned And | Train Service Stopped HARRISON, Ark., Jan. 16.—A Citizen's committee questioned the twenty five alleged strikers on the Missouri and North Arkansas, rail road (rounded up yesterday from po$ttS along the road by several hundred men wfto came here an nouncing they would resort to arm ed action unless depredations on the lind ceased. A number of alleged strikers were driven from town oth ers, fled on the approach of citizens. Periodically bridges on the road have been burned and service com pletely tied up. The body of E. p. Cregor of Miss ourl and North Arkansas striker was found hanging from a bridge near the railroad yards at Harrison, ac cording to th ecorrespondent of the Arkansas Democrat. This is the week of Prayer, for the members of the Fjrst Baptist church ■ ahd today they met with Mrs. D. F. King on Bridge Street. PARIS, Jan. 16.—Battling Siki was matched conditionallly against Harry Greb according to tie Jour nal. JUSTICE COMES TO AID STARVING WIFE AND CHILD. I By Associated Press) New York, Jan. 16.—‘Wheels of justice twirled as wheels of for tune today for Sam Wjlner, tailor, whe n he unfolded a tale of pov erty and starving wife and chil dren for whom he had passed a worthless $26 check on the butcher shop. Magistrate Goodman, of Essex Market court, ordered an immedi • ote- iwveirtifedtion dHhe tailor's story and found it true. He asked the butcher if he would drop the charge if he got his money. The butcher said he would. The magistrate extarcted a $20 bill from his pocket. Others in The court added to this amount and the butcher was paid th e re mainder while $16 was given to Wilner. fBv A"?->ciatpd rr»ss> THE AMERICAN BOND A Civic Fellowship DETROIT, Mich,. Jan. 16.—There was officially launched in this city yesterday in a number of the larg est churches The American Bond— the name indicating the tie of loy ality firmly binding all true patriots —a Civic Fellowship—a nation-wide movement to promote Americanism and loyality to the laws of the Unit ed States. Sebastian S. Kresge, nationally known merchant; Henry M. Leland, the auto manufacturer; Joseph Boy er, of the Burroughs Adding Mach ine Co., .are among those actively in terested in this movement, which has for its Executive Secretary, Howard Hyde Russell, founder of the Anti-Salloon (Iieague, and the Lincoln-Lee Legion. The enfollment obligation of The American Bond which everyone is Invited to take is; “To promote loyalty to Flag and Law I hereby enroll in The Ameri can Bond. I promise to obey all laws ! of Nation and iState and to insist | upon like obedience by all others in the spirit of the American Creed as follows: “I believe in the United States of America *as a government of the people, by the people, for the people whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed; a Dem ocracy in a Republic; a soverign Nation of many soverign States; a perfect union, one and inseparable; established upon those principles of Freedom, Equity, Justice and Hu manity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes I there fore believe it is my duty to my country to love it, to support its Constitution, to obey its laws, to respect its flag, and to defend it against all enemies". SPECIAL OFFICER HAD NO KNOWLEDGE OF KIDNAPPING PLANNED Other testifying that (Clans men went to Hardware to arm themselves OFFICER STEVENSON ADMITS MEMBERSHIP (By Associated Press) BASTROP, Jan. 16.—Smith Stev enson, special policeman on the day of the barbecu which preceded the kidnapping of Watt Daniel and Thomas Richard, testified at the open hearing into masked band de predations, denied he saw any one point out two men prior to kidnap ping. Stevenson said he was Klahs man and was at Thomas Hardware store when news of the kidnapping' was received. Other witnesses testi fied that Klansmen assembled at tin store to arm themselves in the event people of Mer Rouge charged klans men with the kidnapping and that they might attempt reprisals. BORCHUM ORDER RESTORED (By Associated Press) PARIS. Jan. 16.—Order was res tored tat Q'orchum where a clash occurred between German demon strators and French troops last night is officially announced. FIDELL-1S ELECT NEW OFFICERS AT ANNUAL MEET At the Annual Business meeting of the Fidellis Class of the Leaks ville Baptist Sunday School the fol lowing officers were elected: Teacher, Mrs. S .J. Beeker. President, Miss Elizabeth Wade Vice president, Mrs. W. 0. Jenk ins. Secretary, Miss EtheUones Assistant Secretary, Mrs. Robert Carroll. A Tregwpvr, Mi^s -Betti# Haye» Librarian, Miss Annie Osborne. A very good report was given for the past year by Miss Bettie Hayes, but we hope to see a great improve ment in the work for this year. SMALL FLURY OF SNOW A strong wind, shower of rain followed by a flury of snow about nine o’clock Monday night consttut ed the strongest evidence of winter this year, along wjth a few pretty cold nights. FRENCH THREAT CAUSES PANIC IN BERLIN (By Associated Press) LONDON, Jan. 16.—The French threat to arrest German coal direc tors in the Ruhr caused a panii in Berlin, says a Central News Dispat ch. KINSTON NEGRO CONFESS TO MURDER IN BALTIMORE BALTIMORE, Jan, 15—Confess ing, according to the police, the mur der of John 'Sutton, a farmer, of Kinston, N. C., James Miller, alias James Smith, a negro farm hand, is locked up in a police station here awaiting action by the North Car olina authorities. The negro, who was arrested last Wednesday as a suspicious charac ter made his confession after four days’ insistent grilling by the police He said that one night last Sept ember, while driving a wagon on a lonely road, he was halted by Sut ton and another white man known to him only as “Cy” who were in an autqmobile. Sutton accused him of stealing corn and ordered “Cy” to summon the police. The farmer then seized the negro, who drew a revol ver and fired several shots into Sut ton’s body. The negro the police said, admit ted the theft of the corn, and stat ed that when accosted by Sutton he had 18 gallons of whiskey hidden under hay in his wagon. Governor Morrison on October 4, offered a reward of $400 for the ar rest and conviction of the person oi persons responsible for the killina of John Sutton. ASSEMBLY SETTLES TO BUSY WEEK WILL BOND BILL UP W. N. Evertt sworn in as Sec retary of Slate at 10 ^ o’clock today WILL TR Y TO MAKE LAW LIKE VOLSTEAD i _ (By Associated tress) RALEIGH, Jan. 16.—With the fifteen million bond issue bill to con tinue good roads and t.’ie Neale bill calling for an inquiry into charges regarding the state printing up for debate the assembly swung into ac tion with prospects of a-busy week. Prohibition promised to come to the front also, with the convening here of the state anti-Saloon league which is considreing a bill to make state laws conform with the Vol stead act. W. N. Evertt was swoi i n as secretary of state at ten o’ clock today. Speaker Dawson announced last night the resignation of Mr. Ev | erett from the house. The place is immediately vacant. Governor Mor rison has indicated to former Sen ator Walter Parsons, of Richmond, • desire to have him stand for elec tion and come here to fill out the last 25 days. Mr Evertt’s resigna tion removes him from the chairman ship of the appropriations committee and takes him off the budget com mittee just as it finished its work. Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Heiner and daughter, Gertrude have returned from Baltimore and New York, where they spent several days. GERMANY DECLARED WILFUL DEFAULTER IN PAYMENTS PARIS, Jan. 16.—The Repara tions commission has decided Ger many had wilfully defaulted in de liveries in kjnd^ for 1923. France, Belgium, and Italy toting affirma tive and British delegates abastain ing from voting. I DEC. COTTON CONSUMPTION (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan, 16.—Cotton consumed during December amount ed to 527,945 bales o f lint and 49,078 linters the census bureau an nounced today. MRS. DAVID J. HILL DIES FROM INJURIES (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—Mrs. David Jayne Hill, wife of former ambassador Germany died of injur ies sustained yesterday when struck by an automobile. A negro delivery wagon driver is held by police. ■ PERSON WHO FLOGGED MRS. HARRISON KNOWN (By Associated Press) HOUSTON. Jan. 16—The masked persons who flogged Mrs. R. H. Har rison thirty years old widow and R. A. Armand oil field worker, are known and swift justice will be met ed out, Sheriff Binford declared as the grand jury' prepared to renew , their investigation into attacks at Goose Creek. Armand is still in a serious condition as a result of his injuries. I-' DAILY GAZETTE NOW ON ITS FIFTH YEAR. Four years ago yesterday the Tri City Daily Gazette made its appear ance as a Daily paper. Today we started on the fifth year with this issue of the Gazette, a number of changes have taken place sjnc£ ' that time, some of which affected 1 our income: First the starting of another print shop and then later a weekly prayer, both of which eat heavily into our source of revenue. However, when business improves there may be enough for all, provid ing our business men desist sending their job printing out of town. There are a number of paen who profess to favor the towns growth, but, they are absorbed with “vill&ge ideas” which will not work. '• " -i .•«*.»
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