ML PftACOCK LOCATED IN
FLORIDA.
I rt«l«ii<. rU.. Jul It.—CM i»
a** show that Dr. J. V. hwifc,
wha HMjii last yaar from tha crim
taally inaane department of the North
ChraUna ititt penitentiary, wa» da
•M sane at Arcadia, Florida, laat
Thursday hafora Jodge Csncgs W.
^Thltehorst after an sxaminatioa by
Or. H. M. Richards and Dr. R R. Sol-,
Hraa of 1 ihllM
Dr. Peacock waa stopping hara at
tfc* hma of hi. riater, Mn. K. R.
Laffay. hot Ml laat nigtot fat ft
Pateiabun, whara it waa aald ha in
teada to practka medicine.
According to Information rocehred
hara, ha waa f xamined to frustrate
any attempt to ntnOte him to
North Carolina.
Thoaaaardla, Jan. IS.—A letter from
Dr. J. W. Peacock, from T skebad,
FTa., telling of hia having baan cat
fraa by a Judge in Florida and by
siienists who pronoancad him tana,
waa received hara today by his wifa,
Mrs. J. W. Paacock. also an ordar for
Ma office and madieal fixtures to be
sant to him eama in the same fatter
with the information ha was intend
hf to boffin the practice of medicine
at some point in Florida.
Dr. Peacock la spending today aad
probably tomorrow at St. Petersburg,
Fla., according to information, with a
viear to deciding on a location for the
practice of hit profession.
The question is already Mine ski- I
tate4 here as to the profer course |
to pursue in regard to bringing the'
doctor bfcrk to North Carolina, from
whoae criminal insane department he
escaped sometime last summer. For
mer Solicitor Bower, it is learned,
states that he can be brought back.
Solicitor Bower was prosecutor in the
(Ml /or the sUte during hi* trial for.
murder in Davidson county last stun-.
mer a year ago. i
Dr. Peacock was tried in Lexington
to Jane, 1921, on a charge of murder
ing James E. Taylor, chief of police
•f Thomasville. After one of the most
•ensational trials in the annals of the
state, a jury from Rowan county re
turned a verdict of not iruilty on the
ground that the physician had slain
Chief Taylor while in an irresponsible
mental state.
Judge T. R. Finley, presiding, under
the laws of the state, ordered Pea
eock held for investigation. A hear
tng was held in Greensboro the latter
part of June, 1921, which resulted in
Peacock going to the state's criminal
Insane asylum.
Last summer Peacock made his es-j
cape from the insane asylum and the
information from Florida today was
the first heard of him since, his sen
sational escape.
ruwvin un npru 10, i»i,
Chief Twlor on the streets of Thom
asvillr He iin-d with • shot {run from
hit office window upon the chief,
wound in fr Taylor severely. Peacock
then rushed from hi* office and
emptied several shots from his auto
matic pistol into the head of the help
leas officer. The killing: of Taylor
was said to be one of the moat brutal
*ver recorded in Davidson county.
The trial of Peacock was one that
held the attention of Nqrth Carolina
for over a week. Both sides, the
state and defense, were represented
by some of the ablest leiral'talent in
the state. The defense fought the case
an the ground of Inaanity, contend
ing that the defendant was suffering
(Ms paranoia. Several ^bl« alienists
toatiflsd that Peacock was a par
aaoiac and that while he appeared
rational most of the time the dis
•aae would probably take bold of bim
at any time.
The killing of Taylor followed the
banting 'of Peacock's barn. However,
the defense never contended that
Chief Taylor waa in any way raapon-1
■ke ftr the destruction of the barn.
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Womsii Not Roady for Public
Oftco.
f New York, Jan. 18.—"There are
/ very few women who by training and
gpfwliltj have become fitted for
an)- public office," Miss Alice Robert
son. of Oklahoma, member of Oon
greea, declared in a lactate at Town
Hall last night. There is none who
ts qualified to be governor of a state
er msashsi of the cabinet I don't be
When they are fitted for such reapoa
MASTER MIND Of BIO
HOLDUP IS DCAD
Body Fooad h Gam* I* U»>
liMAilklofJ. C
Slmmm, WyiM».
Dtwir, Col*., Jan. 16.—tki alaln
mint bandit, whoa* froaao body was
found last night seated in aa auto
mobile in a private garage, and re
garded by polio* aa tka maater mind
of a deeper*** gaag nf rrlmlnali waa
identified today aa J. C. Sloan, of
Casper, Wyoming Run WUIiaaa,
chief of Dewrrr police, aald ha waa
mmt of tha bm the <*>ikx haw aoniM
•Incr Dacambar I* hurt, wi^n robbers
mada away with 1200,000 In currency
from a federal nwrta bonk truck
In front of tha mint, killing CharWa
T. Linton, a guard.
Sloan it waa, polk* say, arfta off*rod
himself aa a target, standing apaa
tha running b*ard of th* bandit ear
I* It apad away and desperately Br
ine at mint guarda. ,
Sloan's body waa found with a bul
let in tha heart, and police declare
be waa inataatly killed by a bullat
from tha revolver of Pete Kaidiag*r,
a guard employed at th* mint
Folic* bailee* that after placing
Sloan's body la tha automobile, tha
rest of th* gang drove to tha garag*,
near 17th and Gilpin straeta, locked
the automobile inaide and eeeaped.
None of tha loot waa found in tha
bandits' ear.
The identification of Sloan, accord
ing to Chl*f Williams, la the forerun
ner of tha aarly capture of tha rest
of tha gang.
Sloan, according to th* polic*, waa
the leader of one of th* moat daring
ifangs of desperadoes in the country.
This Rang went out Only for "big
money," said the ofllcera. and one
jearily marksmanship with either a
revolver, rifle or shotgun. The reck
less daring of Sloan's gunmen wax
lemonstrated in the mint robbery,
when Sloan, pumping a hail of buck
ihot at the main door of the mint,
offered himself aa a target for the
Millets of the townwwt guard*,
while his pais transferred the 9200,
>00 in currency to their stolen auto
mobile.
Keidinger declared today he had
|K>sitively identified the bandit's body
>s that of the man who'tAok part in
[hi- robbery of December 18 and stood
i- ith a pump shotgun and fired at the
government guards until he fell and
was dragged into the robber car.
Edgar Welch Manager Mount
Airy Branch of Motor Club.
0. Edgar Welch, of this city, ha*
Seen appointed manager of the Mt.
Airy branch of the Carolina Motor
Hub. with headquarters at Greena
k>ro, N. C.
The Carolina Motor Club is an or
ganisation of motor car owners not
•arried on for profit, and devoting its
•ntire efforts to bettering the condi
tions for motorists in the Carolinas.
It was founded by Carolina business
men at t>reeniDoro, Septemner 10.
In addition to benefits derived from
Initiative and good road* work, mem
hers receive definite service* includ
ing:
Free road maps^antj information.
Free legal assistance.
Membership in American Automo
bile Association.
Membership card which serves as
t>ond up to >60.
Radiator emblem carrying reward
af $60 in event of stolen ear.
Mr. Welch adVises that three or
four official garage* will be named to
render free emergency road services
to members of the Carolina Motor
Club, at well as • legal representa
tive.
The advantage of the Carolina
Motor Clah over many small local
dobs is the fact that tM Carolina
Motor Club farniahea fro* emergency
road services and legal assistance to
its members at many points In the
Carolines, and that the police official*
in Carolina towns have signed an
agreement to honor membership carde
of the Carolina Motor Club as ap
parent bond up to 960 in event of ar
rest for traffic violations.
Am soon aa the membership in Mt
Airy has developed to fifty or mora,
a Veal Advisory Committee will be
elected to determine and cooperate
with the Carolina Motor Qub officials
oq the local activities.
Trirhinnoeia, a diaeaes caused by
eating tei perfectly cooked pork in
which the trichina parasite la lodged,
may ho pii»>nt*d if the pock is
NO OPPOSinON EX- ,
PECTED TO ROAD
BOND ISSUE.
wmj Mm An Wtatkf Law
(Uqoiri»« All AmIbmoMI—
I* Slop tt Railroad Croaa
U)l|k, Jan. It.—Moon, of Mar
tin, of the commutes on public
roads and turnplkss, has cast lata
tha Hmh the 915,000,000 bond bill
carrying with it tha l eant gaaoHns
Us and sinking fund Machinery, tha
first to ha applied by Us State.
Tkia is Us administration and state
highway iifliilan bill wfckh will
go into naalttii with loss opposi
tion than any measurs of lka charac
ter yst offered It ia aat believed
than will ha any lobby iplwi any
aapact of tha meaaara. Quite a law
legislator* would like to sea a msas
urs which dsaa not lay all tha rev
enue on auteasabUe owners; but tha
gasoline tax is Us only tribute which
tha State can got fro* interstate
tourista and Us Moore bill haa aa
many talking points that It will not
bo opposed seriously.
Ths farmers' Union advocates of
retrenchment are here and are op
poaing any bonds, hot they And nrf
way to stop ths road rush. It is
expected that the Moore measure will
be quickly ratified and from tha ear
liest possible hour tha people will bo
gin paying the extra gas tax.
Which tax Commissioner Frank
Page, chairman of tha organisation,
doea not bellsvs will raias tha price
of ^ejoline st sll. He cites Virginia,
the roadie** state, to show that tha
tax means nothing. That stats has
no tax st all snd gasoline is higher
there than in Nagth Carolina.
President R. W. H. Stone, of the
Farmer*' Union, Js here and a lobby
of railroad employees ia buay. Mr.
Stone ia seeking to atop thia thine
of new registration* for fvery bond
•lection. He said he had to regis
ter four times laat year to cast as
many rotes against hood iastm. ne1
would make all borxj proposals to
depend on regular registrations. He
is against them all.
The railroad men are here in their
own interest. They tell the members
of the general assembly that reck
less driving of automobiles is get
ting on the nerves of engineers and
conductors and the rail men would
cause all machines to stop at cross
ings before trying to go over. This
would give the engineers the cer
tainty that tliey do not now have.
They never know when they are go
ing to dash itnn machines.
Tar Heeli May Pay About
$130,000,000 to U. S.
Raleigh, Jan. IS.—North Carolin
inns are paying taxes into the federal
treasury through the office of Qilliam
Grissom, collector of internal revenue,
at a rate which indicates a total for
mo nsrai year 01 approximeieiy »»,
000,000, it was announced today.
The office ia receiving daily an
amount in excess of $400,000, Mr.
Grisaom (aid, despite the fact that
the present is not the period in which
the balk of the quarterly remittances
is paid.
"Although North Carolina pays a
total to the national government
which makes it about the eighth
state," said Mr. Grissom, "a large
part of the amount ia paid ultimately
by people outaide the state.
"This results from a overwhelm
ing proportion of the tax being levied
on manufactured tobacco made in thia
state and told over the world. Ap
proximately four-flfths of the federal
revenue from the collector's office ia
from the tax on tobacco," he said.
J. B. Horton is Dttd at His
F-llrk. Hems.
Elkin, Jan. II.—The death of i. B.
Horton, prominent citisen of ^his
place, which occurred yesterday aeora
ing at (o'clock, st his basse en Owys
svenue, came sa s shock Is his
friends, none of whom realised that
his condition was so serious. Be hsd
been in declining health for s num
ber of years, and for 'several months
had been confined to his home, but
hope fer an improvement in his con
dition was held by his family end
friends. Mr. Horton was U years of
age, a member of the Baptist church,
having for a number of yean has*
S member sf the board of dsssona.
Mid until kfti death omum lipilrtd
was ever a worker' ia every cause of
the church. He Is survived by Ms
wife sad mewl Imkm sad sMsn. j
KLAN MAINTAINS
RALEIGH LOBBY 7
BUI l» AMiik Capital Pwhfc
■Ml 9mm I* Haw Uttfe
ClMUM* for PlHUfc
Kil*i|k, Jan. IS.—tautor Charles
U. Harris, of Raleigh. tonight an
nouncad that tha arrata committee on
wator com marc* ttt moat at 8 v' '*vk
next Thursday afternoon to Jan
ata chamber to heor tha rb«i of am
parta on tha governor's praps asd • hip
ping measuiy, and b> generally con
sider tha legislation into tha upper
branch of tha general aaaeaably last
Wedneadny.
With tha general aaaeaably adjourn -
od until Monday night and a general
exodus ovsr tha wask-and of ai in
bars, legislative rtaws today was re
duced to hotal lobby diacusaioo of
aaasurss that havs baan introduced.
That an active Ku Klux Klan lobby
exists hars, directing Ita energise
against legislation to unmask tha
klan, ia claimed by Senator J. R. Bag
gatt, whoaa bill will coma bafors tha
senate from tha committee hearing,
which will he held January IS. Some
reprsaentativea of the klan working
hare are known to him. Senator Bag
gett states.
Members of both houaea of the gen
eral assembly express themselveo
freely in regard to the governor's
ship lies bill, which temporarily ob
scures other important recommenda
tions which were incorporated in the
biennial message of Governor Mor
rison. T^ese expressions are easily
as numerous for the bill as against it,
while a still greater number are de
sirous of further discuaaion of tha
measure before they vote.
Activity In behalf of local meas
ures eras expected to be put under
control as far as immediste passage
of theae bills was concerned as the
result of Representative Lindsay,
Warren, of Beaufort, and Representa
tive Burtrwyn. of the rule# commit
tee, coming to the front for strict
enforcement of the new rules, which
have been laid down In the house.
Because Representative Owen, of!
SlampM*) count* .who presented the i
act to abolish capital punishment, did j
not get a committee hearing before
e hill was reported out as favorable,
judiciary committee number one will
probably hear Mr. Owen on Monday
night or some time Tuesday, although
frte expression from house members
indicate* that the bill has little or nol
chance to get past the house, even
though reported out of the committee
after the Owen hearing as favorable.
Secretary of State J. Bryan
Grime* Dead.
Raleigh, Jan. 12.—J. Bryan Grime*,
secretary of state since January, 1901,
died at 8:30 o'clock last night at hi*
home on Rant Lane street after an
illness of two weeks with pneumonia
and influenza.
The disease that left him a mark
for complication* had run it* course]
without giving special alarm. But1
laiiurc to inow any improvement lor
days and particularly yesterday left j
no doubt that this reserve had all!
gone. He passed the crisis in both
diseases without ability tq rally.
The news of hit death struck the
city • staggering blow. He had never'
relinquished his Pitt county resi- j
dence, hut he held all but his farming,
interests and his voting here. Sine*
taking the oath of office he had held
the distinction of beiijfr the strong
man in the state's cabinet. It will i
be written of him that an abler sec
retery of state has not served the
state.
Colonel Grimes was the son of Gen
eral Bryan Grime* of Confederate
fame and was born In Pitt county 64
yeata ago.
War on' Moonshiner* Will Bo
Profreitivs.
Winston-Salem, Jan. It.—While the
officers who participated in the big
raid made on moonshiners Thursday
declined to give out any details,
farther than that they captured eight
■till*. 10,000 gallon* of beer and ar
retyd on* man, it was learned from
another source today that the raid
was made in the wilda of Wilkes
county, and plan* ar* being formu
lated for Inother big "Mr*" on
Mrekadors in other section* of PMr!
■oat Carolina during the next week
or two. Hie officer* confess that there
ar* asny whiskey still* in operation,
especially in the mountain eountiea of
thi* state and Virginia, hot, accord
lag to weU founded report*, Chief
Prohibition Officer Baa**, who ha* hi*
headquarter* hi High Point, will ta
rresai hi* raiding force so that war
ee Booaahtoora may he bweaeai.
DEPUTY'S WIFE
WIELDS WEAPON
Comae to HwkwTi AM la •
T— U with Rm Immt.
Unco In too, Jm. It^-Anotherj
hunch of hovtlafgera cum to grief
la Lincoln county Into yeetorday aft
•moon at Henry, about II miles
north«Mt of Uncolnton. A Lin
coln county woman vanquished tha
doughty laadar of the gang by
smashing him over tha head with a
quart Jar of hla own booaa, whila tha
othar two gallant namwn baat it
for tha tall timber*.
Daputy Sheriff M. L Leonard, who
lkea at Henry, waa cutting *t~vo
wood in hla jru^ whan hia ittanll—
waa'attractad by • ear whUk ballad
right la front of hla houaa. Daputy
Laonard want oat to lnveetigate and
mdn aid. if poeafele, awl found tha
ear foil of corn whlakey of a vary
racant vintage. Exhibiting hia hadga
of ofltea, tha daputy pro ended to
put^he hootch-peddlers undar arraat.
At tha light of tha officer's hadga tha
drivar of tha joy wagon mad* a laap
for llbarty and took to tha toil ttaa
hara. Daputy Lahnard marched tha
two remaining knights of tha hootch
can Into hia yard and procaadad to
■aarch tham for flraarma. Whila go
ing ovar ona for tha purpoaa of aacer
talnlng if ha waa abiding by the tarma
of tha diaarmamant conference tha
othar fellow grabbed Leonard from
behind, pinioning hia arma behind
him, and making an effort to seise tha
officer's piatol, which waa in a •cab
hard on his right hip. Seeing hia
chance to make a quick get-away, and
with the cool courag# anj gallant chiv
alry which characterise! the high
toned bootlegger, the man who was
being searched also beat it, making a
beeline for tha nearest woods. The
k'nmr nooun-runnvr, wno nvia iavii
ard in his vise-Ilka grip, was (lowly
getting the best of 9" struggle and
was fteadily hearing |hi- officer to the
ifround. It began to look (rood for
the boose artiat. But wait! Hist!
What is that peculiar sound approach
ing?
The valiant bootlegger turned his
head slightly and beheld an irftte wo
man hearing down upon him. • The
sound he had heard was the swish of
her skirts as she hastened to the res
cue of her husband, for she Was the
plucky wife of Deputy Leonard, who
had heard the commotion and quickly
Mzed up the situation.' Mrs. I/eonard
fashed to the Itooie car. seised a nice,
hrand new fruit jar full of the newly
made corn juice, and approaching the
struggling men, brought a resounding
wallop with the whiskey jar across
the noble, intellectual forehead ot
/lr. Bootlegger. The jar broke into
smithereens when it came in contact
with that bone-head, his own whiskey
filled his eyes instead of hit mouth,
and particle* of broken Klaus lacerat
ed the manly face and spoiled the in
nocent countenance of thia valiant
rum-runner. Blood and whiskey and
broken glsss obscured the vision of
the poor brotlegger, and his hands
also were cut and bleeding from the
wanton attack of this plucky woman.
With one master stroke she had com
pelled the powerful joy-dispenser to
relinquish his strangle hold on her
husband and aaved the day for the
Volstead act.
Deputy Leonard recovered his com-;
posure and marched the now contrite,
repentant bootlegger into hit house,
where his wounds were attended to.,
A neighbor who had been attracted
by the row waa told to watch the vio
lator of the law whito {he deputy
phoned a report of "the incident to
Sheriff Abernethy down in Lincoln
tan. But no sooner was the officer's
back turned on tho prisoner than ho
made a dash for the rear of the dwell
ing and made good hia escape.
So quick was the action, and such
the commotion aroused, that Deputy
Leonard failed to identify the men
implicated in thia affair other than to
hear one man say hia name was
Beam. One of the party, tfho ee
capod first, was a cripple. *
A search of tho boose ear revealed
tO nice new fruit jars, well filled with
corn whiskey, and carefully pocked
In nice fresh cartons Just from tho
wholesaler. Then was also a nice,
shiny new five gallon can also loaded
to the (ills with tho fcettve corn juice.
The entire outfit was token ta chart*
by Sheriff Abernethy and is now To
posing quietly and nuiwntljr m
H tnson's garage at Lincolntoa.
Chinamen are engaged ta captur
ing largo sea turtles which abound
on the western coast of Mexico. The
meat of theee turtles Is Mad Mil
shipped to China where II flail i|
HIGH POINT BUS!MOB
MAN SEVERELY BEATER
Jan. It—Flea
their MHIIj Willi by
night, at tha pohK of a
rM ft. ft. Tim ma
to track teltr at High
the yard at the koaa of Mf«. B. Q
Strsyhorn, on mm, ib
town, to a vacant tot to Jha rami at
the hotaao, when
him with >Mftl
hU Hair vtry cloao to tf»
toi to
ttokMiMri
ha waa marched to
tha town, what* ha waa toft aNk a
warning that ha aaeat agate vtotl *■
Strayhora hnn or the team at
ThoaMM villa.
busineaa to thia ctty, Mitoa at tkk
home af Mra Strayhqrn at tha tkto
Since moving to High Paint ha tow
boaa a frequent vtoHar at tha beM
Tonight abort)? before 7:t0 a'clack ha
drove hi* ear tot* tha rear ymrd at
tha houaa. After stopping hia ear, ha
saya, ha noticed by tha light at tfca
auto lampa a man standing to a shad
in tha raar yard. Taking tha a«h
crank with hia, ha wast to tnveato
gate. Whoa ha reached tha shad tha
man covered him with a pistol ahasa
upon ha screamed. Tha scream
brought Mrs Strayhorn, who wm
alone in the house with bar two
daughters, to tha door. Thare aha
saw Mr. Zimmerman surrounded by
five men all wearing masks and
heard them as they ordered him to
the direction of the vacant lot.
Hair CVoaeiy Sheared
Arriving at the lot, some distanee
from the house, Mr. Zimnwrm i says
he was first severely beaten with a
club, and then held by the other
member* of the party while his hair
wait cut as cloee as possible with
scissors. His clothes vere baaly ton
in his straggly to free I'imsel' froas
his er.|.tora.
After the beating he was hurried
to the outer edge of the town and toli
to leave at once, being specifically
qrdered not to return to the Stray
horn home for his car.. A member at
the local police department volunteer
ed to get the cer, and Mr. Ziramermaa
later left for High Poir.t.
Mr Zimmerman's Thoinasville con
cem failed some time rgo, and it ia
said that a number of people lock
money at the time. He reports that
while being beatei toAght mrmbm
of the masked mob mentioned that
fact, although he refused to amplify
his statement in any detail
Mr*. Strayhorn it prominently
idenified with the civic and club life
of the town. She wu naturally very
nervous after the happening tonight,
hut asserted that in the event the
officers of the law took no stepa look
ing towards the arrest of the gull;/
parties, she would have a thorough
investigation made, declaring that
she would not cease until she knows
who the guilty ones are.
Three of the masked men won
white masks, while two wore black
hoods that completely covered their
faces.
The chief of police had not besa
located at a late hour tonight, there
fore it is not known what stepa are -
being taken, or will be taken,
bring about the arrest of the uln -
inals.
Pilot Momtan R~te 2 Notw.
Suggested and ad .pted by dm
school "Ridge View" i stead of Cook*
school aa a name for 1 4 public schoet
located on the Pilot 1 'nuntain ridge *
road, flee mOee north o Pilot Mn»
tain, N. C. The original name af the
school house was Cook1*. A few
years ajy the name was changed t»
Pine Ridge, there being a Ptae Ridge
school hooee in Stewart Creak tows
ship has caoaed several ssisusdss
standings to aoear, thsrsfsis the
name haa been changed to Udp Vlar
school boose which la aa appropriate
name from several stsiidpoints.
Re*. John 8. Cook, of Spray. vWM
his parenta, Mr. and Mrs. 8. T. Cook
this route last seek.
There was quite aa eld time kh
folk reunion at the heme S. T. Osok
last Sunday C. P. Cain's famQy, &
P. Cook, Dr. M»h«w and assay
others pafltcipated hi the eostel a«
fair.—Cec tribwtad.