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Spot hi Trial a# TeWece Da
m* Cm wiiin
Crnnit if ii, fab. The first
wan an Km Job" In the (tiwhIum
stock Mlllac campaign of fclWy Bro.
pasts, <w "kit" m it to called, and
"want out and sold it", lb illustrat
ad the "want mrt and aaM it" with *
llil of Ma hand.
And ha nld it. Ik told between
to Starr™ 1922, and Ma^MiSM^moimt
ad to "nomething like two kundred
thounand dollan" His tommiaaion
ha toattflad, wm tan par mt
Alexander and about H othor stork
salesmen of tka Baileys, and Tom
Tkfkr, director of tka adlac ■»
paitrn. are defendants in an act4on
brourht by the iroeernwent rhrnrip*
we of the mail* to defraud io con
nection with the sale of stork, over 1
million dollars wortk bains sold to
about one thousand persona. It Is
aaid. in piedmont North Carolina and
Virginia. Tka company went bank
rupt in 1A2S and the stock ia now
without any ralue.
oawi Seemed Pwtn
Other *»lr«men were pat op by
the defense today, but by the aide of
Alexander noma of thoae who have
testified see*I piker*. The man who
preceded him on the itand aaid h«
•* - " ■ — • - ' hi* sales
In addition to Alexander, witneeae*
In the afternoon included several of
the defendant*. Glenn MeCall, E. G.
Matthew*. Lawrence Matthew*, W.
E. Niaaen. 1. M. Wr.lt* and Frank
Goodwin. These declared they aold
the stock Hi rood faith and did not
misrepresent.
Aa character witneeae* were Rev.
T. L Clark. Burlaw; Mayor J.. B.
Davi*. Burlaw; Sheriff B. B. Mc
Crary of Forsyth; F. P. John*, of
Mount Airy; T«on Caah, of Winaton
8alrm; E. D. FarreL Winston-Salem,
Theae tratified aa to the rood char
acter of the- Bailey* and other defen
dant*.
S. F. Penry, one of the defendant*,
who waa recipient of a directed ver
dict of not guilty in the earlier part
of the week, waa called to the atand
to teatify in behalf of the defendant*.
Judge Webb announced at adjourn
ment for the day that there will not
be any court tomorrow. He expecta
to try to get the caae concluded in
another week. Two week* have al
ready been consumed in the trial.
Were Severely Grilled
district attorney
a meeting ol
Winaton-Salem and told
to get money
a banker and
Mr.
•n right and
The Bailey
It* mM bafora daa to
the hank had
ha said Thoma Maalln.
of tha Merchant* National bank and
CoL W. A. Blair, of tha People. hank
and R. H. Hum, another rjra presi
dent of tha Wartwrrla bad tnld htan tha
concern vma all right. Other* told
him an. He denied that ha had told
customer* that dMdenda on tha itort
were guaranteed or that tha Bailey
concern had $42ft.MN) in tha bank te
meet dividends or that ha laid the
concern waa not tn debt. Ha road the
nrnapartoa to boy em or thoy read It.
he laid. Ha kaaw of mo adaw «a
defraud.
Alexander testified that In No»em
bar, after he had caaaad selling in
May, D. P. Schaffner. preaident ai
'ha Merchant Bank aad Trnat com
pany, Winston-Salem, told blBi ♦ Ji!
tha stock waa worth (247 a a ha re
nar being 1100. and that on th«
strength of that anaartioti ha boagh;
for Mmaolf tdOO worth of tha atari
in tha concern. g
TWO BIC STORES ROBBED
OF CASH
Manager Handcuffed to Stair
way in Baaeewet Wkfle
Safe i* Rifled—$7,000 Tak
Ashevill*. Feb. K - Burglar* enter
«-d Denton's and Bon Marc-he. Ashe
ille's largest department (tore*
hi-re thia morning at a time when tlx
«tr*et* war* filled with churchgoer*
rifled safe* hi both store* and escap
<*l with an aggregate of (7,000.
Tn Denton's stor*, the yeggmen rov.
■■red Paul D. Denton, president man
»ger, with a pi*tot and left him hand
■■tiffed to the ataircaae in the base
ment.
Discovery »f the Bon Marehe rob.
!>ery waa not made until thia after
noon by the nwnera. Around Ifi.OW
waa secured from Bon March*, whiU
$2,000 waa atolen from Denton'*.
The two stores are acroa* the »treei
from each other. The yeggmen fort
«d their entrance into Bon March*
through the front door.
Investigation* have failed to girt
any clue* on which the police cai
work. Both Job* are believed to hart
Keen done by the aame party. N<
arrest* have been made.
Paul D. Denton, president and man
nger of the local branch of Denton'i
one of the largest department storet
in the two Carolina*, entered tb
store about 10 o'clock thia mornhii
with the day's mail.
He told the correspondent that at
he waa leaving a white man in shir
■leevee placed a pistol against hh
body and forced him to aceompanj
him to the baaMnent. Mr. Den to*
waa chained to the ha—m*nt step*.
It waa forty-five minute* w at
hour before h* waa able te attract Um
attention ef paasersby. Plaindoth*
men failed to find any definite dm
or investigation. Til* men are be
licvel to have made their escap* In ai
automobile, parked in the rear of th<
The mimii drilled a hole Unread
the door *afe, and tued a chi*d it
dreppia* the t«Mgi e*atrolllng th.
r mMnstlsn ef the safe. 1M tt wm
Um week of profeastoaals I* believe*
»M ktU. The group
hilltop nnrthwaat of tlM i
*nH prayed for CdHn. They
ami tha none MM i
where tha
dee ar
Additional
of tha
man and children aat about hi family
It waa • holiday crowd, by whom
tha imprlaoned wan IftPfaly had han
forgotten ami whoaa interest waa in
tha apeetacle brought about by r»w
efforta.
Tha Louiarflla and Naahrflle rafl
dded four cnarhea to tha *»«
in* train from Loniaeffle and aaid
about 2JM0 ntn tirhata had baan
•old. TV railroad company'* r«ti
mat i of tha total numlw of risitora
today waa 20.MM. moat of wham came
by automobile.
Recall IUkm mt Miwr m
Cm-ln
Rakrrafield, Cel.. Fob. «_Tkc
■light of Floyd CoIHm, trapped 100
'ft b«l»w the nrfara of rjM earth
n Sand Cava, near Cava Cttjr, Km
wky, recall* the noMvtiat similar
• uperVnce of Ltadaay B. Hirlu. Bak
crsville minor, caught in a cave-in
of the Editio Ediaon Company tunnel
in Kern River Canyon December 11,
190*.
Hick*, protected from Urn* of rock
and debri* by an overturned ear.
waa rcacued alive after having been
■n tombed 11 day*.
Buried with five other* 100 foet
'indergT'iumi. Hick* wa* the *oie sur
vivor. Kef'*ted tapping on a steel
pipe told frantic rescuer* that at
t*ast one of the entombed man waa
alive. A hollow (teal pip* waa driven
hrourh the debri* on the second day
and communication waa eatabiiahed
with the buriad miner.
Milk waa pa*aed through the pipe
to Kick* while reenters worked fev
rishly day and night to reach him.
The whole county watched while re
lays of miners worked their way
through 97 feet of granite, unable to
uae explosives hrcsnss of the men
ace to the imperiled men.
When the emergency tunnel was
completed shortly before midnight.
December 22, Hicks was taken out of
, hi* living tomb and rushed to a hos
pital amid a clamor of bells and whis
tle* and tba sboats at miners which
heralded the successful rescue. He
soon recovered.
Four Negroes Killed by
Sallitoy Tram
Salisbury, Feb. I.—Four negroes,
John Glfcs and three of his children,
ars dead as a rStah of a grade cross -
! ing accident here this afternoon when
Southern train No. 14, Clmriotte to
. Salisbury, struck and demolished the
automobile in which the ntfrwfl were
riding, at the Jackson cmeaing ea
Wset Innes street.
Giles and his 12-year old aon Wfl
Surn, were killed instantly and anoth
er son, Ray. aged B, and a daughter
Geneva, aged t, died tonight ttpm In
juries received In the shMmL
Two others, aged 11. and 12, war*
serionsly injured in tfcs crash.
The 12-jrser-oid boy waa driving
and when he attempted to step the
i tna track m front ef the team.
Tb.
thora wfll b»
In that Mift
boy* of tJv
fc to* bMf to in
*. Ha baa haiuU.
r«t fan of (tote bwfawaa. Ho h *».
ing l
held the affirm. Ha I
ratfowa ikwt tha lataat af than all.
A ad tha intaraata that WW Mil ait
«i Tar tad. But at that it la tha opin
ion of
win
•olirftor* if tbara la any way out of
it.
MERCHANT KILLS NEGRO
BURGLAR
Robber HoMa Up
is
Wlnatnn-flalam, Fab. 5.—"Juntifla
Wr hnmieidc" waa tha *»«rdict of the
to the kllllnr I»*t night of * negro
man by A. Cory an Assyrian mer
chant. who run* • (tor* in
partnership wttk Thorns* Hailey. an
th* cnrrwr of CifhA itmt and Rifk
land avenue.
TV negro h<d entered the itor»
■boot l:M o'clock Jut Wow it waa
loeed for tha day and had held Mr.
Cory, who was alone at tha time, at
tha point of a pistol while ha took
tha cash receipts of tha day, amount
ing to about MS.70
Than with cool calculation, a neat
trick and para nerve, Mr. Cory man
ftgad to turn tha tida of affairs and
wearing his own pistol , shot the ne
rro foar times, killing him instantly
Fnrthar investirstiona into" tha
identity of tha negro today by th
local police revealed the fact that he
was known as John Jackson. For
wine time he mas a resident of this
f-fty, bat for the past two years he has
V>een out of the dty, and informntion
fftiwd was to the effect that ha hsd
I mlv been back here for about a week.
The shoes which Jacksor wore
I bore the trademark of a shoe dealer
n Detroit, and H is believed ha has
baen in that place It la understood
! that he has relatives livine in 8< uth
| Carolina, and a colored woman who
know* him is trying to rat in touch
with his people in that state.
Haad of Virginia Swfrreuae
Court Takes Owa Ufa
Richmond. Va., Fab. 8-^Judge
Frederick Wilmer Sims, 61 years of
| are president of tha Virginia supreme
court of appeals, ended hia own Ufa
in his apartment at a local hotel thia
morning by a hooting himself in tha
head with a shotgun shortly after 10
o'clock when Mrs. Sims had iron*
down to the lobby to mail a letter.
Judge Rims has been Buffering far
several weeks from the results of a
nervous breakdown, it waa aaid. and
waa contemplating a trip to Florida
within the near future, so that the
shotgun in the apartment failed to
aroaae susypicion because ha had ex
pected to ga hunting oa his sositliei u
trip. Despondency aver the atate of
hie health was the only cause sag
rested for the shooting. Only a few
employes of the hotel knew of tha
SMkMa» the city rormar retaining a
verdict to «ht effect so that tha body
was r amoved to an undertaking aa
tablhhssent without sttracting atten
tion. Saturday night, whoa last mm
in the hotel lobby. Judge Sipa waa
Day
Watch For End of
to a
ML,
fir* at
nmfi th« world of At faithless, af
ter which they war* to begin a mai
day trip to hearea, stopping at mr
tooa pianeta aa route, for food aad
to rather others of the chosen la their
train.
Photographer* Nat Wanted
Prom Hoflywood, aad Oakland,
Calif., mate storie* of the patient vig
il of the elect. Similar stories ware
told of thair steadfaatneaa at College,
View, Neb., at Waahington, in opetate
New York, and a half doaen other
placaa. Fewer than two wore of the
hand, reaidenta of Lang I aland foams,
■waited the event, far the moat part,
in thair respactlte homes. Their
leader, Robert Raidt, and his trusting
wife and their four email children,
awaited the sign from the skies un
der the guard of skeptical cmmty po
licemen. The laadacape for half a
>il> Ikcl. llMt.
home on a hillside near East Patch- j
»tra* was cluttered with aatomoMlee
of laughing men and womm who had
motored from point* many miles away
to food their amuvH curiosity span
a sight at the simple band at their
vigil. Marine pictilrc men adventur
bi| too near the Rsidt abode were
routed with can* of boiling water.
Reidt. hi* family. Brother Willard
! Downs, a truant hairy man of 17
j yenra, a policeman and two newspa
' perinea were in the house, with the
;<W« locked. Outside a half dosen
I policemen ftied to keep the crowd in
' ' rder. while a dosen traffic officers,
i stationed at various place* along the
; nearby road* had difficulty in rout
I ing the ever-coming motor carload*
I of curious.
Reidt, who term* himself the
"apoatl* of doom," was placid, devout
and sincere, though weary. Through
out the day and the early hour* of
the night, with only an occasional ap
; prehensive glance through s window
at the mounting crowd*, be read hi*
1 Bible and led hi* family and the thick
whiskered Brother Downs in hymns
and prayrr
la occassional brief silence* the
rutteral voice of Brother Down*
boomed through his beard, uttering
i Scriptural quotations. Mrs. Reidt,
her children within sight of her
i strangely glowing eyes, said nothing.
She sat and waited.
Predicted Before
' Tonight'* predicted millennium war
first doom promised sine* l»lfl. On
December IS of that year a wide
spread belief grew that the earth was
to ha hurled Into nothingneaa, on the
utterance of Pwrfmnr Albert A. Por
ta, a San Prnnctseo meteorologist.
Although the profeseor later declar
ed hi* statements had been "greatly
exaggerated," the millennium fever
hud a rather general prevalence at
the tima. Londoner* "d*nk the old
world out" the night of Diemnh.r 15
temptattsTrf the'eateelyem.
William Millar, a native of Pitts
fWB, Mass.. who settled In Washing
ton comity In 1*18. predicted ths sec
ond coming of Jesus Cor October a,
IMS. His prediction won wMs en
Mi • hnraaaon «aat to 1M1, pwin
In* a pm* at Am*, >rl«lw»
•hipwrorka, wan. riata, '■ *' nt
•tart to Um jrwr 1M. k to to «<,
aernrdin* to tha Iwii■»»»». to 1MB
with Um battla of AiMftoh*. afta*
which Dm win ba m> fow of aa k*
and wo will all ho oo ttrad that pamm .
K. LK. RESTORE
Jeff anion. Fob. (.—Tfco town af
Woat Jafferaon and vktaltjr baa boo*
tbo aethrhiee of the Ea Khx Dm
and a romflirt botwoan tho Klan and
alloffad bootloffgora. Tho Kloa tow
boon tominf oat at aiffct, mbad,
maakad and armod and aaiaial can
bora boon bald op aari at laoat aw
rapturad. It li reported bora today
that rlrht raaaa of violatirma of tha
iiqtmr towi bar* r .me out of tha M>
t ivitkoa of tha Klan and tha town aa
' hnrttioo of Waat Jeffaraon.
Mayor A lie* of Waat iaffiraoa and
A'<Vr*aan W C. Jnimaon and Town
Tnnatabla W V. Woodia war* tmm
moned hy tho Klaa to acccwpaoy
♦ hem on one nlirht raid at leant. Om
(unpartad automobile waa (bat to a
*tan<i*till from the raar; and it to im
ported that aararal gallon* of liquor
-.howert np near where the ear waa
.tnppad.
Hi mm inrtr mim D1 nt wmp
pine poet instituted by the K1 .n mm
reported in the ridnlt* of Jefferaea,
» man nwij Turnmire. Bod Coatba,
and A. Barker The nroteeding* took
place under nwir of tHrknee* tnj
robe* ami mask*.
Public opinion here ia divided ea
the qnmtion. Much ntitmn! pre
vail* throughout thin «ection. Soma
contend that the activltie* of the Klaa
are justified by the condition* and
that the law la not being enforced.
Other* are firm in the belief that ito
effort «f the Klan ia to enforce on*
law by breaking another and predict
Moodshcd and trouble rather than mtf
improvement of condition a.
Sheriff J. W. Hampton announced
here today that he and hi* deputies
•tood ready at all time* to immedi
ately nerve anv procea* and arreet any
and all offender* upon the (WMri^f
oat of warrant* by any itiien and
that they would go anywhere witk
face* uncovered to make the imrii
and enforce the law*. He any* that
the law ha* not failed if dtiaeae jm9
•tand behind it a* citiaen*.
DIES ON WITNESS STAND
Trial » Smifior CwMt '
Brought to Abrupt Caaalp
mm by th* Death of rUhm
tiff
Dunn, Pah. I —A civil trial in Har
nett superior court Va* brought la
an abrnpt ending la UDbigton today
at noon when Wiley Goodwin, the
plaintiff in the ca*e, fell dead wWl*
bring examined by Attorney 4, 1
Badgett. eeaneri far the defense.
Mr. Goodwin, who was neariac
•eventy-third birthday, tod been an
the whneea stand far nearly aa boar,
about half of th* ttae having baas