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MOUtfl AIRY, WORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 18, 1913. WO. 12
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REFUSED TO EAT HOG
MEAT; WAS WHIPPED.
Eoad Suprevisor Did Not Think
Jew Convict Had Religion.
Raleigh. Sent. 13. The trial of
J. N. Ni'pevr and Jim J. Johnson,
Wake County road guards charg-, T. II. Walls. constable at Apex,
il with assaulting convicts, will toldj the court Hi at lie was a
in.t be concluded until Monday '. frequent visitor to the camp and
;i.'ght or Tuesday, court adjourn- wan aware of the insu1ordina
ing tonight with, a number of tion. IT., stave I at the camp
witnesses yet to be called and , ojie night. Mr. Nipper consult
all speeches of attorneys to be j ed him on the situation. Dozens
made. Then? were no unusual I of character witnesses were put
sensations im the. case today, the on by the defence and gave Mes
chief point the State bringing out i srs Nipper and Johnson good
Wing that Radfrey Jeffrey, a! cliarneterN Henry Bledsoe, a guan
Hebrew, was whlirped on one who was used as a State's wit
occasion because he would not
eat hog meat. He was made to
swallow six rations and after he
got thk' taste of hwine vowed he
loved it, former Sueprvisor Nip
per said.
As if the burdens of the road
authorities were not heavy
enough, the grard jury brought
an true bills against W. L. Wigcs
general rad snpervifior and S. L.
Iee, a discharged camp smervis
or, charging them jointly with
not providing proper quarters for
prisoners at camp No. 3 and
agawust Lee separately for cruel
ty to animals. This indictment
Mais the result of a special re
port by a visiting committee of
the grand jury to the camp ear
lier in the week.
Sentiment Divided.
Sentiment is about equally di
vided here between the road au
thorities and the convicts. It i.s
recognized that if the guards
have no jwwer to correct prisou
er, road work with wnvicta will
le a failure and that the prison
ers had as well be turned loose
for all the good they will do.
On the other hand, many of the
persona following tho trial ex
press indignation at the stories
thie convicts glibly relate.
ah? 5iaod irAtaiavvL.also.ear
quired about the pay allowed
convicts working out costs. The
county allows 20 cents a day,
claiming that the upkeep of the
camjs, the food for the prisoners
nnd the excuse of extra guards
makes the comity jay twice as
much for convict labor as it
would have to pay fior free la
bor. The County Commissioners!
however, said they would inves
tigate this matter. Jmlge C.
M. Cooke, wliio is presiding over
the court, dismissetl the grand
jury until the CMoJer term with
"God be with you till we meet
. .again."
In his testimony today Mr.
Niitper, who recently was elected
supreitnemdent of roatb in Greene
County, stated that there had
been no trouble at the camp un
til Dan Gallagher nad Henry
Crawford, two white men, had
been brought out. With their
coming ensued a lot of trouble,
including a conspiracy to seize
Guard Ilolloway's gun, shoot
Guard Johnson and cause a gen
eral delivery. " :t! 'fl
Mr. Nipper told the same story
a.s related by Mr. Johnson Fri
day a,s to the number of blows
and prisoners struck, and the
rest of his testimony coincided
with that otf the other guard. He
.statel positively mat the wimo-
ping given Dan (.aiiuglier on the! y. F. MeCaulev. the president
morning of August 20. l!U2. "as (lf -tllt avilnnah jj.nk wm! Tn,st
m no wise responsnble tor liwrpain. (.(Knfiniie,l the h of
death late that afternoon. He;i, i ifn) It J.ii,.....! ..nt
said five or six blows were ad
1
ministered and that there wen
no scratches or bruits on th
flanks.
Dip Strip in Water.
On cross-examination Solicitor ;
-N orris nsked il it wen- not a
taet that the guar Is frequently
dip the ltatlor straji in
lay it flat on the sandy
watt r,
iloor
ajid straighten it out by pull'i.g
il illiil'T 1 ! : ' r si ne.s ill ortler t"
n
C the bbi .stillg the III" re
i');e witii' i
,i hnitt ing, !
p Wa.l Si '
water and j'
d part of t'.i
. . '. . ! , ti. ;! the
t'll;..s 1 ; "j -1 " I -!l
i ! until r f"t t f"r
ti a;irhte:i'u. t it
Mie purpose if .
out. That was n
one !! I.'e
ntoriilng in que.ti' n, he insisted.
The golieiter a. qU"StinesI
him ibout Radfrey Jeffrey, a II -brcw,
who did not want to eat
hog meat because of religious
scruples Mr. Nipper did not
Unoiw that the prisoner vu any
religii, and said he was told that
Jeffrey was an Irishman. He
suspected that Jeffrey was a He
brew. Jeffrey refused to eat
for three days ami the supervisor
gave hiin a modification of the
Lomlogit police treatment in tin?
vane of suffragettes and the pris
oner, after eating nix rations of
! jirk, swore he loved it.
ness, was also given a god char
acter. Child Without a Brain.
Berlin, Sept. 15. The German
medical press records the re
markiible case of a child which
lived for nearly fouir years with
out nf trace of a forebrain.
Neuron gists ex tain hut the
oast demonstrates tho absolute
dependence of human being on
the fore or sentiment brain, and
shows that a human cannot car
ry on the ordinary" provessis noc
esary for his preservation with
out it. The fish or frog with
out the forebrain has greater cap
ability than had the child in
question. This child revealed no
trace 'whatever of this vital
brain sevtiou, so its nervous sys
tem was absolutely similar to
that f a fish, thiwigh the bitter
is capaJble of performing all the
vital functions neesesary for nu
trition and self-defense.
The case of the child is e.spee
ially noteworthy lMvausc of the
long duration of life. In other
cases the- brainless life la-sted
cnlv for a few davs, and the
movements of the child did m
differ in any respect i,'in those
of a nonnal fluid",
l&ihe case under di'ussron
child Uvh1 i yt&n, -ppuU-
mittmg numerous extensive ob
servations of its state. The child
remained, in a condition of con
tiniuai sleep. Ib arms were
flexed and rigid. It wai unable
to gra.sp or hold anything 'with
its ha mis. From the second
year onward the child cried in
cessantly, though this Could in
stantly be stopped by mere
pressure, especially on the head.
It was impossible to note, any
physical action, to awaken any
feelings or to teach the child
an v thing. 4
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Big Sura of Money Stolen
Transit
in
Savannah, Ga., Sept. 11. Cur
rency amounting to $71,'JO0, in
transit irm the Chaso National
Bank of New York to the Savaiir
mih Bank and Trust Company
and to Brunsw'rvck and Valdosta,
Crii., was stolen from a portable
safo on the Atlantic Civist Lino
train No. 8'J, between Jersey City
and Savftjinah. It should have
arrived here yesteiilay morning.
Its loss bcxrawe kncvn today.
Fifty thousand of the amount
was consign d to the ftavaunah
lJWk aiwl Tru.st Comivmy here.
The money was shipped by the
Southern Kxnress Co
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f New ork on Monday on train
.Nil Mi, ot the. Atlantic I oast l.m
Railway. "When the steel trunk
in which it was supposed to have
been shipped was opened it was
found tli.it. the money had dis-
nupeared.
(i,at j .no;v aiMll),
t.
Prescient. MeCaulev.
is that
to 1 i.S
it
ul nionev was st.irted
from New York and that
i p reached here."
T:i Southern Fx press
p:ipv li as hurried it- b.
4- St-, ai.nah to uH'.b'rlaV
i ' e. i i y of 'I t ni"i-e. ef
e i' il: tl s.
Com-no-ii
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Th ' i :iU on '.
. Ut.s'.le f f t''e
(Vtl Ti.it shov
ii t e'r. i "! d
tl ill
h.-
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h:o1 ;
wih. but the ea' 1 . uvbtps i
wl.i'li tie iii'ncy wa cont.iine 1
wlin it left N'rw rv.c were si'i
rpni
The shipu'tnt wn 'ent out ,r
N' w Y-rk in Vo dams Ev-I
pr'.s C'Tnpinv a'd o iivered
the Southern Express Cmnpany i
t at Washington, D. C. j
Big Fight at Church.
4alihbury, Spt. 13. One. of
the longest, if not the longest,
sessions of the Rowan County
Court since its institution was
that today, which began at the
UMi-al hour, 1 o'clock, and ksted
until after ." this afternoon. There
were the usual nirmbt r of minor
eases, but the one f chief con
cern wai that of the particip
ants in a big row at Emm Iaj
tist Church, in Franklin Town
ship l,Lt 'Saturday. It appears
that souii" misunderstanding has
existed between certain factions
of the congregation and that the
pastor, Kev. J. L. Carriek, sum
moned those interested to a
Church trial last Saturday and
everything was progressing finc
ly before the Church jury when
all at once there arose suine
question w.hih could not be
peacefully adju.stcd anl s-ver;U
iiwludsn' .some of the members of
the jury, left the church aud a
general row .started outside.
In this saline came out with
bruised faees, wie with a lacerat
ed jaw and still another with one
finger bitten lnioft off. In the
melee the juiMor attempted to
make peace but was powerless.
In this, as in the Civil War,
brother was arraved against
brother, there being five Myer
brothers in the difficulty, abnust
equally divided.
The hearing here today w;w at
tended by alniut lK) people f n m
the neigUlHrhiwl, and while Sol
icitor Craig.' appeared against
all of the defendants, Messrs.
Haydea (dement, Walt r Wood
sort, and' Whitehead Klutz re
present d what :.s known, in the
c cmrniavitv as tlie "Hig Seven.")
while Mchsik. K. Lee Wri-ht. T. Ci
I. inn and Stable Li rim represented j
tli' other fi'ftjuw. At the
e!usi..'t of the evidence ami
con-j
ar-
gti-memt of attornevs Judge Klutz
found all guit.lv.
The were I). W., J. L., A. E.,
C. II., and II V Myers, 0. L- Hen
dricks, R. Ii.- Pcrryroan, I C:
WotnT, R. A. Shuping, and I). W.
Wtxnl, aiI all were taxed with a
fine of . and costs, except C.
U. Myer and P. C. Wood, these
two paying $10 and easts to the
county school fund. Among the
defendants were a number of of
ficers of the Church, which is
one of the leading Baptist con
gregations in the county.
First Good Road.
Y-ulkinville, Scipt. loth. The
'.i.-t mile f good rods tliat
Vadkin County has ever possess
ed has just been completed near
Jonesville. This road is schedul
ed to run from tlie Yadkin River
ut Klkjn thnmgh Jonesville auid
through the TmvnshipH of Buck
fsluxals and Knobs to J. P. How
ards store near Jennings, Iredell
County, a distance of 12 miles,
At Howards Store the Yadkin
road will connect with the Ire
dell County sajl-eby road, giv
ing KlHn, Jonesville ami that
part tf Yadkin a splendid nwd
direct to Ouiroltte way of
Statesville and Mooresville.
Tho road is being built by
lriate subsicrition, which move
is headed by ex-Sheriff G. T.
Wliite and others. The road was
surveyed! by competent engineers
a.'ul when gnoltsl will be sand
clayed. Did Gypsies Kidnap this Lad?
Durham, Sept. 111. A band of
gypsies with a small boy that
was evidently an American child
here Thursday caused a greaj
deal of excitement. A local iren
tbinan offered the .-.inall child a
silver dollar and he inunediatey
refused stating that should he
take the money the gypsies
would take it from him. thus giv
ing proof that he was not of
g.'pV I I 1. The boy cried piti
fully and asked to be taken
1 i ' . j i i - . He was tjuest ioiif-d a.s 1o
where his home was and as to his
name
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not ri-niembor eith-
er. Con.tahel
staittd to take
so as to m.ikt'
Rm mond Hall
the Inly in liand.
iutiuiries alxnit
him, but before he had time to
nialce the arrangements the )and
of gypsies had vacated the city, j
It is thought here by those who 4 lunoe women are
ww the .small bov that he hndithe Unittsl States.
been kidnapped fronu some city j
by the baid of gyjisies while on
their travel. j
Unusually Big Crop.
Yadkinville, Sept. 13. Th to
!acm crsvp in Yadkin this year
is omothing enormous. From all
indications at jresejit the crop
is the largest that IhLs county has
had in many years. The fanners
were not only encouraged to put
out larger crops by the good
prices last year, but the season
was such in the Spring that
plants were available for all who
wanted to put out the weed. It
veins too that the grade of the
tcibaeeo this year will far eX
feed thiit of the pa.st few years,
this, it is ssiid, is due to the fact
th-at no Very hard rains have
eume during the growing season
to wash the "ginu" fnrn the leaf,
and consequently the h-jtf will
le heavier as well as of a better
grade.
The season for cutting tobacco
is nw at its height, and the
euttirg and curing will occupy
several days yet. As another
evidence cf a larger crop Mum
usual the flue shop of J. II.
Mackiie & Sons at thw place has
tunnsl. out twire tlu' amtrutrt of
flues as in, any year .since, the
firm began business here. The
working force lu.s beiMi doubled
and working over time. Over 50,
MK) poinxlrt of flue iron h ive been
m.ide into flues and .!d at five
cents a pound, which means that
Yadikfin farmers luive invested
tmore than $2,."K) in flues this
yar.
The fanners are still more en
courag'l at the rate the prices
are starting off this yestr. as they
are evn higher than hut vear.
12,000-Mile Trip to Make His
Chinese Bride American.
Philadelphia, September, l"th.
Through a 12,000-nnlo jountey
to Hwi' Kong, Chins, ana 're-
i'rn, Joseph" Ite, the Chinese- in
terpreter Hfwhed to the Phil
adelphia Immigration Service,
hopes to circumvent the United
States immigration, laws ' which
prevented his intendeii bride from
landing in this e country a year
iigo. Lee iAiua to marrj' his
swei theart, Miss Ah Fong, daugh
ter of a wealthy Hong Kong
Merchant, and bring her to A
meriea. By th'm arrangement he
luelieves that the Uirriers which
prevent tl the aifenissioit of ML
Ah Fong into the United States a
year ago will be removed.
Itst Sejrtember Miss Ah Fong
arrived at Seattle from Hong
Kong, a vessel of tho Great
Northern Steamship Company.
Lee, who luul made the oCH0-mik
journey across the continent to
greet his sweetheart, was bitter
ly disappointed wheat the immi
gration inspectors refused her
pt-r mission to land. The deject
ed lover appealed ttuo decision
to the Department of Commerce
and Labor, but that department
sustained the immigration in
spectors. Miss Ah Fong wa.s .sent
back to China and Lee returned
to Philadelphia to study the im
migration laws to discover some
loophole whieh would permit the
admission of his sweet heart into
America.
After a year of studying and
planning, the mysterious working
of the Oriental mind at last de
vLsetl n way. The (liine.se Ex
clusion Act, under which Mush
Ah Fong was barred from this
country on her previous attempt
to enter, Lee suys ht. has dis
covered, applied only to the collie
e.btrss of Chinese. By marrying
his sweetheart in China and then
bringing l,.r to this country he
believes that her admission will
be -made Ns:ble. An lit w Lee
thought the plan worth a trial
and did not hesitate over a lit', e
matter of a 12.(KM mile journey.
la " was granttd a ear's leave
of a'1-" i:,e I'l-ai the Immigration
. II - left Philadelphia yes
l"!- ilui-- l"l:.'r. L'":.'IU' bv
teld
tile
w h ii
"1 :i JS hraiiei.
o, i:. : I
l,
t !ee
..t
!.C leM Wet k. Lee, who as-
. i. a n itiVe of 'a! l'"!'!1
be. ;i e. .1. hee! ell iS ; ! il ! i;e 1 ill-
m"e
He
ti,.
elu.
wh,
at...!i
Sel' lee f r .x tMii".
o.'j! ! co:i ei-a'.t with
clan- s cf the C!iinee V.x-
.ien Act and beltcX'.s that
u he ntun.s wit!i his bride
will have sufficient grounds
a test case. Although f-w
he
for
admitted to
wealths uier-
chants have occasionally found it
pev.il !e to gain ad;iilion for
their w ives.
rortunes Made in Priscn.
Fnnn Tit-BiU.
i aiinougn moni crianinia ma
jth time of their imprisonment
i tliat convicts have made such
goml iif,e of the hours sjH-nt in
jail that they have earned large
sums of money to help them with
, their sentences while an inmate
.of Ohio- penitcnt'ary, studied e!ee
I trie it y an electrical street- sweep
i ing machine ami other useful ap
.'pliaiK'eM that will prolably bring
, him a large siuu.
Another American convict inadi
III big fortune sonic years ago by
i inventing a new cellar button
'while he was serving his entenc.
! The ilea wa.s taken ir. by a big
!finn in Pittsburg and was very
j NlXI'CV-ful.
J A man" serving sentence in an
Arizona prison invented a new
(device for absorbing electricity
jfrom the air, and the prison au
thorities were so struck with
the. iossi'bilities of his invention
ihat they liberated him long
enough to go to Washington to
file an application for a patent.
It is not only by invent ing. how
; ever, that prisoners make money,
i A criminal, who was sentenced
j to prison for complicity in a
I murder in Italy recently, had foti
of his plays accepted by a firm
j of publishers in Rome. All the
j pki'ys were written within the
tour walls of a gloomy cell. An
other Italian convict a brigand
who was sentenced to thirty years
imprisonment for his evil deeds
wrote many clever stories whie
he was in jail whieh were ac
cepted and well paid for by the
editors of several newspapers.
A Hungarian woman prisoner
who was sent to jail for having
begged on her lover to commit a
murder wrote a "charming waltz
whiUs she was in prison. The
t -?. was published ami became
so ipidar that its composer
made a small trtune out of the
sales. '
Probably! the largest staaever
made l)y" anyone" while serving V
sentence for crime was the a
mount earned by a convict who
was confined in the State prison
at Waltham, Mass. Finding the
time hang very heavily on his
hands ho determined to set to
wcrk to invent something that
would not only prove useful to
his fellow men, but that would
vjarn him enough to keep hinn
when he had regained his liberty.
After much thought he was lucky
enough to hit upon a device
which abolished the necessity of
a bobbin in the sewing machine.
This may sound a simple invrn
t:ci to the uninitiated, but it
wa., thought so well of By experts
th.it its imprisoned sum of $100,
000 for it by a cnpany in New
York. Needless to say, he ac
cepted the offer.
Money from Huerta.
New Orleans, Sept. 13. Twentj
one Americans, refugees from
Mexico, arrived here late today
on the steamer Tamaulip&3 from
Tampico. All said they had ac
cept,, d money from the Huerta
Government (o help pay for first
class passage.
Almost all of the refugees
were froan the southern part of
the Republic ami their storie.s of
the revolution were far different
f n in those told by others (who
have arrived here. They said
conditions are not as kid in the
Southern States as had been de
picted, and that while adherents
ot Zapta had raided raw-lies and
taken vme property, Americans
in that section had not suffered
indignities such as reported fnin
I'htr parts of the Republic.
Agents of the State Department
tonight started tlie refugees U
th "ir homes, widely scat?erel over
ili. United States."
Ering Them "Something.''
Kii.si,.n, S, p, 13. Two tobac
co .III :t . IS uee. -T.d 1 V ,i K gl'o
in tli" i inity of a silts ware
be Lsi- here yesterday readily cm--s
:.tcil t pay .-,1..V if lie would
bring them "Vomething." He
brought th.-m "something." It
Mas vinegar. They looked ex
ceedingly hour.
'Hie ktims apalod to Chief
of Police Mosley, but he was!
powerl- ss, f -r the black had only
guaranteed to bring them 'Vume-'
thu.tr." and he had fulfilled h'J
contract. A
Wcman Given Life Sentence.
Millne, Ga., rVpt. 13th. Jin.
Edna Perkins Godbee today whj
find guilty of the murder of
Mrs. Florence Golbee, wife of
htr divorced husband, and seri
ttnecti to life imprisonment. At
torneys for the defense annouiK.--
'l that they would make, ajplica
tio.i for a new trial.
Mrs. Florence Godhcc and her
htbanl, Judge W. S. Gixlbee,
were shot to death by the con
viettil woman on Augu.-t 1. The
tragedy oeenirred in the jobbv of
I the Milieu post office. M:s. (b-I-jbee
was arrotid imm liately,
jand later indicted for b tli mur
jders. She was p'aeed on trial
iThurvlay for killing Mr. Goilbee.'
, Few witnesses wer" ex.unined,
j their testimony dealing chiefly
'with th details of the shooting.
! The case has excited tlie keen-
' .ui vii TV lltl'llii'l.l. til rt.lt:
Mrs. (bxUiee claimesl as a defense
that she had long been mistreat
ed by her husband before and
since his divorce ami that he
implied a vile epithet to her as
he entered the potoffee on the
fatal morning. Her excuse for
killing the judge's wife was that.
after she began shooting siie waj
so excited she dd not knoov
wliat she did. The d-ad wuman
was from Williamsport, Pa.
Tlie verdict was retunu I at
!):10 this morning after the jury
had been out 13 hours.
'II wo minutes after the jury re
turned its verd:t Judge Ham
mord sentenced Mrs. (anlbee to
remain in the penitentiary the
"rest of her natural life." She
stood while sentence was pro
nounced. Her daughter Sarah'
hnflce down and wept audibly,
but she was as calm arxl stoic &a
she had been through the trial.
Prchititicn in Germany.
Charlotte OWserver.
When it was announced a fenv
weeks ago that the Kmperor of
Gerra?Eiy J?itl ...'lupcsw . n aibr.
stainer, The Olxserver thought it
detected behind the ih-ws the
cc-ming of sciiH'thinT of still more
eiin-ourag'ment to the caiuse of
emierance the world over. It is
at hand in a cable from lierlin to
The Now York Sun to the effect
that the Kaiser has officially
started a "dry" crusade through
out all the States of Cn-rmany.
H'w imtnK'tions are revolutionary
in the historj- of Germany and
have created somewhat of a feel
big of consternation. The Em
peror has ordered his Secretary
of the Interior to take the pre
liminary stem's toward the etii
actment of a law regulating the
sale of wines ami lipiors through
out the Empire. This is break
ing all German traditions, but
the Emperor is in earnest and
gives the soundest of reasons for
his actions. He says the race for
the future greatness and domi
nance in tlie world will be won
by the Nation "which is mental
ly the clearest ami physically the
strongest." Tlie proposed plac
ing of Genu airy under prohibition
the most advanced move in the
cause tlutt has ever been taken.
Beer and wine are the common
tl rinks in Germany ami that coun
try has been always held up to
the world as an example of so
briety although a drinking coun
try. The prohibitionizing of the
land of the Rhine is a movement
that will bring the cause into
treiiieiuhuw publicity. It is the
greatest stride prohibition has
over made.
Saws Out of New Jail.
Taylorsville, Sej.t. ll Taylors
ville has a new jail just comlet
eJ and eonsklensl to be one of
the best in the Sta'e, hence thero
was surprise when it was dis
covered this aftermxin about 3
o'clock that Robert Anderson,
one ef the first prisoner con
fined then in, bad by the aid of
two old case-knives- sawed his
way out and mad his tape An-d-rson
w as ut tl. r a bond t
i'ppear lit each t.'-nn of court for
trine year ami prove that lie
had been a p. .-.!, sober C;t:eU;
but a short whiU ngi he "tank
ed up" and pr.veded to disturb
a religious gathenttg, arid for th's
mls.lt -me a n or was awaiting trial
at court here rwxt week.
love a!on has the pwer to
sthkk Uift chord of self that t
shall jiass in music mit of th
harp of life Jaaio MacDonakl.
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