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Maybe in a ' saving account. maybe in a wise investments We can help you in either. . - , . , , - -' T".E Bu'K 1 J ii a, wJliS .Yilil 13 LAST BREATH Columbus County Man Whom W. B. Keziah Said Was Guilty Electrocuted TWO WOMEN WITNESSES AND MANY MEN PRESENT Protesting his innocence with his last conscious breath, and protesting against the current with his physical body, Daniel Milton Nobles died in the execution chamber of the state prison Tuesday morning,' says the Raleigh News & Observer. He was in the grip of the current three imp utes ana 40 seconds. . ' So intense and prolonged was the voltaire required to kill the shrink ing, scared little figure that crouched within the straps, that livid flames broke out from the electrode strapped on his leg, and xan around the knee, lapping at the ripped) open trouser lee. and another leaped out from un der the chin strap and curled up over the ears. The warden hastily chees ed the current and the flame died. 82 Witness Death -Eighty men and two women .stu dents from the State College Sum mer School looked 'on within the lit tle chamber. Outside a. crowd of more than a hundred people unable to train entrance into the house, of death,' waited and watched eagerly at the windows. Some of them climb ed the wall's and peered down, through the windows over the heads of those, who stood in a dense semi-circle around the chair where Nobles was struggling unconsciously , against death.:-'' 'y;-L .'.," Mercifully consciousness was snap ped out of the man before' the attend ants stepped back? from strapping him in the chair, and the deadly bolt was shot home. His muttered scrip tures died on his lips, and his body slumped against ' the straps. . His breathing was imperceptible. The at' tendnig physician remarked in an un dertone that he had lost conscious ness as he turned away from the chair and gave the signal for death. ; Smile Vanishes The eickiv smile that played un certainly over his face as he came through the door vanished as he sat down in the chair. His, fingers sought the end of the arm of the chair and felt their way back. He glanced down with a faint show of interest as the electrode was ' strapped against his leg. . There was a-moment's. de lay as the attendants reached for the helmet and the breast straps. , ; "You can say whatever you want to say now you haven't much time," Rev. S. J. Betts reminded him. ' "Well, I hope I'll meet you all up yonder," he began uncertainly. "I have made peace with the good.hless ed Lord, and I know my time has come.. I am; innocent" his voice trailed off into' a long drawn sigh. Still the chin-straps Cwere not in place.. There was a little delay with the tuckles that fasten the leather across the breast. "I am ready to go and I have made peace with the good blessed Lord," re repeated andf was silent." '.' ':.''"'-"' . ':; '..-..:;; -,":. Mr." Betta Protests i:: TheSheavy leather that fits across the thin was put in place and the buckles fastened., His lips were tight ly compressed between them, and his face almost entirely hidden, except his nose, which was left' free for the few final inhalations and exhalations IT MEANS FREEDOM,; A OF POVERTY. , OF Ui HON of brath. Nobles breathed fainf'y through the lips, an with percept, lie eifort. " ; "You are making it too tight," in terposed Rev. Mr. Betts. In the trim silence of the room the words tame almost with a shock of a pucol tbot, sounding perhaps louderj than they were. Sensation vibrated through the densely packed semi-circle, and stood over, the chair looking directly into the face of the preacher, and pointing to a spot a little- distance away. , Busbee's ' Retort "Will you stand over there please," he said quietly. Mr. Betts moved over and said nothing more. The helmet was placed, and the wires attached. Water ran down out of the helmet. covering the face of the shrinking, motionless ngure. The . water was iced, but he gave ' no sign of con sciousness when it touched him, The warden examined : all trappings and stepped back into , the antechamber and took hold of the switch. Lntil that point the crowd had di vided its interest ' between the two young women over beside the door, ana the ngure in the chair. There Was a subdued speculation as to whether the two women would be able to stand the scene. Commotion ensued when a soldier wearing a ser geant's stripes, who had accompanied tne party of young women, asRea to be let out.- A third, woman who had cone in with him, also wante 1 to got out. ; '. ; . Vtmen Unconcerned , The names of the women were not disclosed. ' Both looked very young and not at all within the statu tory age limits invoked by Warden Busbee before he . closed the doors. He told everyone under 21 to get out. One of the women had bobbed hair and appeared not more than 17 years of age. The other," somewhat older, and hard-visaged. The younger turn ed away and did not watch the spec tacle of death, but the older chewed her gum, smiled, and talked with her companion. Both are teachers in the public schools of the state, V Packed into the . little room so densely that it was impossible to raise the arms out 'of the mass, thfc throng generated a terrific heat. The windows were raised, but little air could enter the place. Numbers of the throng there was straining but nobody collapsed. At the back of the throng there was straining and pushing among the, spectators whose vision was entirely cut off from the penter of the room where Nobles had already drifted to the unconscious threshhold of death. , : V Bolt Shot Home Suddenly the body was jerked taut and erect. The muscles in "the neck, chest, and the bare legs were knotted. Tbe veins were- swelled until it seem" ed that they would burst. The flesh leddened under the intense heat of the high' voltage raging through the body, but whitening where the knot ted muscles were stretched against the skin. The heat crackled in the helmet, and a mist rose above the cbahv :. - -. 'Or ; Seventy-one seconds the - power moved through him and slacked off, but only for a brief interval while the body slumped down again deep into the straps. Then it jerked erect again, the knots came back in the muscles, the veins stood out livid against the lighter glow of the flesh for twenty seconds. The hum of the current grew fainter, and the body slowly sank back into the chair. The stethoscope found the heart still fluttering against the breast, and after pouring a quart of water over the helmet and the leg elctrode, the warden acain shot the current home. Again the body rose up against the straps, and as the hand on the bolt moved it back and lorth gently, in creasing and diminishing the power, the body swayed with -it, rising up and settling back as though the man were living and struggling to be freed of the fettering leather bixty seconds more of that ' and still the stethescope found life in the heart that ' was dying unwillingly. Again the the body was jerked up ward against the leathers and the full power of the current poured into it. The helmet crackled like a hick ory fire. Smoke arose from the chin strap, and an instant later , a little tongue oi name licked out and up ward toward the ears. . Flesh Blazes Up ' For a few seconds the current was slacked and the flame was withdrawn under the straps. The current roar ed again, and this time the flame, with a nauseous odor of burning flesh came out from under, the (.traps around the calf of the leg. The smoke shot up toward the ceiling, with the name following it until ity almost caught the cloth of the trousers ley folded back above the knees. The warden saw and shut off the -current This time the stethscope found no lite. Daniel Milton Nobles was dead. Instantly an attendant had opened the door. The warden directed the crowd to disperse, but they went slowly. They were packed in too tight to be moved quickly, and many wanted to see, the body unstrapped from the chair. The burns- on the leg were more severe than the marks left on his shaven skull. Jle was burned slightly about the face, but on the whole he looked little deadlier than when he leaned back in the chair five minutes before. The body waa turning a dull blue and had become quite cold. ,; ,". Wowen Giggle The two women school teachers were the first to get out of the cham ber. . They giggled over 'something that somebody said to them as they passed through the door, and were gone from the enclosure before the most of the crowd had made its way into the open air again. -The hearse had backed up jto the door, and two nien were waiting with a long basket to remove the body. Ten minutes later the grounds were quiet again after the killing of the convicted man was waiting before the death house to cart away the same freight that it carried yesterday, but 31 minutes before his appointed hour Nobles was given a respite at the hands of the Governor until he nr'ght look more fully into the circumstances of the case. Having looked, the Gov ernor declined to 'interfere further and Nobles died with the same story in his mouth that had moved the Governor two months ago. j Death has claimed , many manlier victims than it had for its own yes terday, but none who stuck 'more closely to their story than did, No bles when he came down the corri dor that at last had no turning. Many expected him to break down at the last minute and cry cut for mercy. There was an expectant hush when his spiritual adviser prompted him to some last "utterance yesterday morning as he waited to be harness ed to the chair. , But j over and ofrer again was his same old story, his same old plea of innocence, played against the odds of overwhelming evidence that.it was his hand that struck down Henry No bles, his first cousin, last September. Circumstanttal and direct evidence that he did the killing, enough of it to convince a judge and jury and the' Governor himself that he was guilty was in the scales beside h:s claim of innocence. ' i-.Few,. have believed him. - ' Against him is a loner court record, with road sentences for having cruelly assault ed his wife anij children, carrying a concealed weapon, . an assault with a deadly weapon, and finally the mur der of his cousin, who was the chief prosecuting witness on the charge of assault with a deadly weapon. Be sides three formal convictions, the community in which he has lived has convicted him of many other minor crimes. - 4 ' ' But yesterday he was taken back to the remote towrtshifl in Columbus ' Annnli. f h . k.i k.1Hi'nJ 4.1.n I """""-J wvj w uuj icu. aiiiuug llltt yeu- pie who turned their backs upon him in his last , extremity, and there will oe nonet to weep above his grave but his faithful wifer who has suffered much at his hands; and the five chil dren who are orphaned by the penal ty tne state required of their father.' Re-Admitted, to Church Two months ago. on the eve of the day set for his execution, Nobles was informd irt a letter from te board of deacons of the church from which he had been expelled years before, that the congregation had refused to re instate him in membership,' and bluntly told him that unless he con fessed the crime for which he was ' convicted, that they ;could: dp noth ing but pray foihim. - Kespite came to save him from im mediate death, and in the interim the congregation relented, and yesterday ne died in the lull fellowship of the church, and by sundown today he will be buried under the scrubby oaks in the churchyard not far from the spot where his cousin, whom he was Convicted of killing, was buried ten n.onths ago.-' O.j.Y 'v.; i.'. C- .V , Too Much for Soldier ' , " The experience of the brawny young soldier was ."in keeping' with others wno have been through all the horror tnat war can Dour over a man. and then quail before the spectacle 01 a man strapped inn 0 by nmo into a wo ten chair and the1 life burned out of nim. The young soldier vs 2 ; n 1 nt'ns ovprspna with t.ho 'Nin-h Im'amry o the second division, and tnore is irtie 01 the war that he does -lot know. .. : . :-. ,. ' On one day he saw his brother blasted to bits by a ( rrman V.icll.' On many days he saw his rriniei.'t cut to pieces under, the .most de as gether its initial strength. ; The day after his brother was killed he him self t was smashed by machine gun fire. He ought to be inured to hor ror,, but the thing that was done in the death chamber was tao much for him ' His unwillingness to witness death as it was done in the death chamber yesterday puzzled many, amused some, and deeply impressed others who know of his .record as a soldier. In deep contrast was the attitude of the two young women, "one of them in particular who smiled and chewed her ; gum and giggled occasionally.. : PUBLIC HAULING I operate three tracks, nne nf them the largest in the county. Will haul nnvtViinir stivwIipVo Can 4tnnA at Freight -Depot, Phone 34. . , ( FRANK BLAKENEY. -" Residence Phon 814-J. Monroe, N. C. ' If ft yoReSe? FO.t l W.J EY A.C.S:iALL, WIN GATE, N. C. . 1 ' , ' ! We solicit the trade of people who are particular about the . quality of their groceries. - We expect our business to stand on merit only. IN BUYING WE SELECT ONLY PURE, WHOLESOME FOODS. We invite your trade on the basis of "complete satisfaction or your money returned." QUALITY ECONOMY f 1 c r: 1 CV & 1 MAIN sr. THE ( QUALITY GROCERS FREE. FREE TO ALL PICNICKERS THE USE OF THE GROUNDS , . PLENTY OP BATHING SUITS OPEN ALL SUMMER A GOOD INVESTMENT AND A CON STRUCTIVE FORCE Swing in line with progress and good business and join the Building and Loan. '.. . : ( Thirty-Second Series of the People's Building and Loan Association open Saturday, May 5th. ,.. . A great agency in the upbuilding of Monroe that has never lost a penny in its twelve years of operation, v Over 2,500 Shares now in force with $3,500 of undi vided profits to be distributed to its stockholders. Endorsed by all the banks of Monroe and by the State Department of Insurance. You are cordially invited to take some shares as it good sound interest' paying investment and your money will be loaned to build houses in Monroe, . ' , Books open at Lathan PEOPLES BUILDING AND LOAN ' ASSOCIATION - J S. E IIAIGLER, Secretary and Treasurer. Directors W. B. Brown, President; W; A. Lane, Jl. II. Ilar a gett, R. W. Ler-r.ond, C. D. Roberts, W. Z. - . raull.ner? II, Bowles. ; . SERVtCF STAPLE GHQCt H I I MONROE, N. C. ( FREE HELMS POND T 3 a 3 & Haigler's Store. ' a a ' B n a a a a s a a a a n a a n n ti ft ti n K 11 ti ti ?) n 1 ; killer, Sixty days ago the same hearse I?rTTT tSTT. 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