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Morning Fob nn r1 Vol. VIII RALEIG-H, XT. C. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 27, 1901 No. 94: -LME AYRES HA Attorney Gardiner Tells How He Protected Mrs. Bonine's Secret Washington. Nov. 26. When the Borr.ie mnrder trial was resumed thte m. -mine. William Schoeuberger, th (Ti-'ri't iiurgue keeper, was called to ill ' stand. He testified to having taken. rge of Ayres' body at the Kemnore JJ..:1 and removing it to the morgue ,11 the morning of May lo, last, under i lie 5ir-cti.n of the coroner. He had I o n present at the autopsy and had ;:.ki-'.i photographs, showing the location ... the wounds on the body. The films tt. re introduced, as evidence, and ex i: l ito'l.to the jury. Mrs. Bonine gave i.ue haty look at the pictures as 'they v. -re held by one of the attorneys, but s!if o.uiekly turned her head and gave them no further attention. The wit ress said there were powder marks on the breast and arm wotrads, but none on I tie nreast auu ai m Muiruus, uuc m I! the rmglii wound. Under the a i'uiv was aVirn. Describing the e arm eon- iiiion of the corpse when he found it, Mr. Sshoenberger saM the arms were .irawn un in front of the face. "In order that the stenographer may "1-scribe the posture," said Mr. Gould, "I suppose there will be no objection to l.is noting that the attitude was one of :-:T-nf." " We do object most decidedly," re ponded Mr. Douglas-s. The court screed tint the description would bo" im proper, mid i; was decided thai he should, say that the arms were I'iaced as if . shielding the face. On cross examination the witness -rid that when he entered the .room where Ayres' body was found he saw 'several empty cartridge shells in the lu: sin and several shells and some cart iid:res on th trunk and oa the wash-.-t.usil. Following the morgue master came ;n the stand Mr. George B. Ganli i f r. an attorney for the interior depart-iii'-rit. who resided at the Kenmore IIo-t- ' rt the time of the shooting. He i - tilled that on the day following the ilH-sg Mne. Bonine wrnt to his room .i T t i ! . . is I " I. :: i ue uuivi iiuii'uu uiiu iuiu nun sa- rally what she said to Decective Horn, : nd -District Attorney Gould in her .!!ege;l confession, asking advice of the witness ks to whether she should make statement to the public setting forth e" connection with the affair. '"Mrs. Bonine," the witnessed declar- -if, "came to my room and told me how Ayres was killed. Her story was straight forward, and exactly as she toldit later. This was on the day following the tragedy.- . ' "I advised her not to say a word to ary one. I told her to let the theory of v'lifide stand, and make no confes sion." . Mr. Gardiner proved decidedly the ii n -t interesting and important witness - who has testified educe the trial began. Tail, smooth-face and stately with strong features and glossy black hair, tha witness caused something of a sen- ilion as he" told of his part in the concealment of facts regarding the trag edy. Coolly and intelligently he de ft uded hi? position, and described in de tail the scene in the hotel, as with guests -horrified, and the tragedy the one topic of conversation, a woman whom he had always respected came to him and in her grief unbosomed herself of her terrible secret. As a man and not as a lawyer, he had ndwsed her to shield bore-elf, and - through the long days which elapsed before the "confession" ame had remained dumb, knowing all .et outwardly being ignorant as to the key to the mystery. "She sa'id that it was only the know ledse of her innocence that enabled her to hear op under the ordeal," the wit ness declared. On cross-examination Mr. Gardiner tes 1 1 Red that he could not exactly say Mrs. R-nine was excited. She was .hurried Tixl her manner was tense. She had asked his advice as to the advisability '? making a public statement, and he Hdvised her to remain quiet until it. was determined whether the suicide theory would hold good. When the witness left the stand on he way to his -eat he passed the de fendant and bowed to her. The salute was returned with a smile. The next witness was James Burns, who is an employe in the folding room of the Government Printing Office. Burns had a room in the Kenmore next to Mrs. Bonine. He testified that he and Ayres were from the same State, .Michigan, and were very close friends. Ayres, he said, was six feet in height was ath letic and could spar. He saw him on the night before the tragedy. Ayres was in the dancing paiilor of the hotel. Burns .said he next saw him at 10:30 r o'clock that night. He sent trpo Ayres' " room and the latter came down. There was a crowd of young fellows at the door of the hotel and the party went b round to a saloon for a drink. The party went to a saloon in New .T rsey avenue and , had four orj&ve ilrinks.. Ayres took one beer aiJoVtwo j--igars.. The crowd then went back to lie Kenmore about 11:40 o'clock. They 'hatted in the lobby of the hotel for a time and then went around for another . . mi r i. . .1 ; i . . i. nnnK. ine wuuess uiu uui iriuraioer what Ayres had to drink, lhe party. re turned to the hotel and joked until 12:30. . The witness said he went to Ayres' room and talked with the latter for a time. Ayres was very happy and cheerful A JOULY NIGHT at the time.. He gave the witness his old trunk as a present. . "What was Ayres' condition when you left him at tlie door of his room?" Dis trict Attorney G'ouSd asked the witness. ' "He was perfectly sober," was the posi- "Did you hear Ayres speak of owning a revolver?" "No, sir; I never dud." "Difl Ayres and Mrs. Bonine have any falling out prior" to the tragedy?" "Just for a short time. Mrs. Bonine reproved him for drinking and he took offense at it." I The witness told of the last time he had seen Ayres and Mrs. Bonine to gether. ' Mrs. Bonine came out of the hotel with two lirtle "white flowers." he said. j "She came to where he and I were sit ting on -a. bench." Ayres jumped up and went into the hotel. He treated her with contempt and placed her in an em barrassing position." Under cross-examination the witness said that Mrs. Ranine hail tsnchr. him to 'dance the two-stejp and frequently danced ; witlrhhn to helr him out. Attorney Douglass questioned the witness at length and forced an admis- sion that he had been "sight-seeing" on j the nightof the tragedy and had taken I a number of IrinL-ii Tho ivitriws .snnld not remember how many drinks he had taken. He told of going to Ayres room when : the latter refused to go out again. TJn j'aer cross examination , he, said that he ! left the Kenmore on the day following 'the tragedy, because, as he said, "Mrs. I Bonine might have thought that Ayres j had told me enough to convict her, and i uid not want to take any' chances." He admitted having said in a saloon that if his friends knew what he knew they would not blame him. Burns resumed the witness' stand when, after adjournment for lunch, the court reconvened at 1:15 o'clock this afternoon. He was asked if he had ever heard that Avres had a Distol. The I witness replied that he had. He was ! questioned as to whether Ayres had one j on the night before the tragedy, taken t the pistol out of his trunk and laid it on his dresser. The onestion was objected to and the objection was sustained.' . '"Did you not" write to a friend in Michigan on May 20, 'lf01. telling him j.that Ayres had taken a. pistol out of his trunk and loaded it on the night before I the tragedy occurred?" was asked. j The question' was objected to and th-? quesiton; was later, withdrawn after j some debate. District Attorney Gould .then objected to the form in which the i question was put. j The witness replied that he wrote a letter, but had qualified his statement with regard to the weapon. He said ; that he had stated in the letter that he j helieved ihat Mrs. Bonine entered AvraA room, and mat the struggle en sued. in the room oefore the snooting. Mr. . could persisted in objecting to questions. "I don't want the District Attorney to keen on lecturing our side," Mr. Douglass finaly said. "We ask no fa vors here nothing but justice and we d?m't want any more law lectures from this attorney. We are tired of it. ml we state right now that we don't ap preciate it.- We are able to take care of ourselves." The witness admitted that Mrs. Bo r.ine had asked him to try to get Ayres to resume his attendance at the djnees in the hotel. The witness was thea ex cused. Michael Hogan, or "Judge" Hogai, a$ he was called at the Kenmore, was he next witness. He was formerly a po lice justice in iew York. He told of seeing Ayres around the hotel on the night before the tragedy. Hogan said that he was asked to de liver a farewell speech that night, as Ayres was about to leave the hot'd. When the speech had been delivered the crowd went out for a drink, he added. A later trip was made for a drink, Ayres accompanying the party both times. He said that when Ayres went up stairs to go to bed the latter was perfectly sober. He was very happy and jolly oversaving passed his examination in a dental college, the wit ness declared. Referring to the census clerk on cross examination the witness told of the crowd gathered around the front of the Kenmore' on the night be fore the shooting. He said the gath ering was a jolly one after returning from the saloon. Joseph C. McCabe was the next wit ness. He resided at the Kenmore at the time of the tragedy and was in the crowd which went out for a drink. Other witnesses who testified were Messrs. Arthur E. McCubin, John L. Downs, of the Congressional Library, and Jas. K. Ford. Their evidence con veyed nothing material?, new. At 3:10 p.n. the court, adjourned until tomorrow morning. , ' . Royal Gossip Berlin, Nov. 26. The Lakalanizeiger declares that the report of estrangement between Wilhelmina and her husband are circulated by. Dutch enemies of the mar riage, . It says that Prince Henry is financially quite independent of his queen, and that recently he ught an estate in-MecklenbuTg-Schwerm. for half a million of marks out of his private income. , ' - Snow Storms in New York Matone, X. Y., Nov. 2G. A severe snowstorm has been raging throughout northern New York for the last fifteen u fTTn oll nf annxv has bpfn rnn- heavy. Trains are late and the country I roads are blocked. ' I GATTIS UNDER SEVERE V CROSS-EXAMINATION Much of the Evidence Re- . 1 ward the plaintiff Gattis, and that it sisted on the Ground of IrrolovanrM llnrlor 1 1 I CIC VallLjr UllUcI tho rionicinn UlC UcWolUII Oxford, X. C, Nov. 26. Special. The second day of the trial of the Gattis Kllgo damage suit developed consider able progress, notable features being the presentation of issues by contending counsel, resulting in the submission ' of practically the same issues on which the previous hearing was based, the condi tional admission as evidence of the fa mous pamphlet published by Trinity Co'lege"" trustees, and a long, tedious, direct and rather spicy, and at times sharp, cross-examination of the plaintiff. Rev. T. J. Gattis. One new issue was presented by the defense. It appears as No. 3 "Did de fendants, or either of them, if so, which, know or have a good reason to believe the charges eomiplained of were false?" When court took a recess at 6 o'clock until 9:15 tomorrow, the plaintiff, Gat tis, was on the stand and had been for nearly six hours, barring the noon re cess. It is understood that it. will take two or three hours yet to finish with him. However, his evidence and the line of examination differs very little from that of the former trial. In fact, it differs in scarcely any material point. The truth is, as the matter now stands, there is a possibility that the judge may role out a large portion of this and other testimony proposed to be presented on account of the rutings of the Su preme Court on the former trial as ap pealed. As it is contended by counsel for the defense that the Supreme Court ruled out all evidence as incompetent which purports to prove malice against Gattis on the part of defendant Kilgo in his speech before the trustees of Trinity, or his manner of conducting the cross-ex a minafi on of Gattis before the trustees prior to making the speech, all this being privileged in that Dr. Kilgo acted as his own counsel, so to ex press it. Much of the evidence taken today was excepted to by counsel for defense on this ground, and was admitted by the judge with the understanding that he will let the jtrry hear it. and then he. the judge, will decide whether the jury can consider it in making up their ver dict, or if it is in any way competent. When court convened this morning the following witnesses were sworn: Rev. T. T. G-attis,. plaintiff: Judge George A. Shuford,. Asheville; Col. J. R. Webster, Reidsville; Editor R. M. Furman, Ra leigh Post: V. Ballard. Durham; Rev. A. D. Betts and Charles W. Johnson of Orange county. None of these have been regularly on the stand except Gattis. Two character witnesses, Rev. A. D. Bett.-; and Col. C. W. Johnson, were allowed to go on the stand l-ight after dinner and testify as to plaintiff's good character prior to the Gttis-Kilgo in vestigation before Trinity trustees. This was a result of a request of the judge that any witnesses who could be thus examined in advance and be dismissed be examined. During the direct testimony of Gattis he reviewed his evidence presented at the former trial regarding the extent of damage done his business and the mental and physical suffering he endur ed by reason of the alleged libel by de fendants. Soon after he began a sharp fight arose over the onestion of going inro the K.ilgo-Clark controversy. The defense, through Judge Winston and Mr. Hicks, objected strenuously to going into that matter as the ruling of the Supreme Court made it irrelevant and the time of the court would be wasted by it: in fact that it would require two or three days to thrash it out and then nothing would be attained, as nobody but Dr. Kilgo and Judge Clark would be before the court. The plaintiff's counsel said, they would show by ieviewing it that Dr. Kilgo and other defendants had malice to- Bombardment of Colon Delayed for the Present Non-Combatants to Have Op portunity to Get Away. Important Engage- ment at Barba- coas Washington, Nov. 26. The Navy De partment has received a cablegram from Lieutenant Commander McQrea, of the gunboat Machias, confirming the reoorr ed postponement of the bombardment of Colon. Commander McCrea's dispatch came to the department at an early hour this morning. It is reported that the gunboat General Pinzon had disappeax ed to the east and the officials under stood that the vessel has gone to Porto Bello. The State Department has been ad vised that the commander of the Gen eral Pinzon had agreed to postpone; the landing of his troops, and at the.-! re quest of the foreign representatives ha 1 determined not to bOuibaid - the -hy until all non-combatants had beta given sufficient time to get out of. the way. This is in line with the instructions sent yesterday to Commander McCrea. and in his cablegram received this morumg cl?ed. ut ir?"2 h5 hearing -ine juuge Jieiu 'lUi oe wuum miuw the prosecution to go into the Kilgo- Clark master, and then later he would pass upon it as to-its competency for consideration bv-the iurv. Following this ruling there was a long restatement as it were, of former evi dence along this line. In directing this, ex-Judge Graham, as leading counsel for plaintiff, followed closely the printed evidence as certified" to the" Supreme Court from the former Superior Court trial, practically all of it being except ed to by counsel for the defense. Re garding the damage Gattis claimed to have sustained by "injury to his standing and usefulness as a minister, he amend ed his former evidence by a statement that ho frequently preached sermons in all parts of North Carolina. On cross examination he said that he never' re--ceived any remuneration for his minis try for ten years prior to the Kilgo Clark trouble. Ex-Judge Winston, in conducting the cross-examination, plied Gatus with questions as to th? circumstances of his statements detrimental to Dr. Kilgo. whispered into Judge Clark's ear. He asked Gattis if he didn't know much harm might come out of it. He replied he believed good would ultimately cona of it. -' : 4 Ex-Judge Winston asked him if he hadn't gossipped about Dr. Kilgo. He replied no. "Is not whispering in the ear of an enemy with a charge not to repeat fit gossipping?" asked Judge Winston. "I have not, investigated the definition of gossip," replied Mr. Gattis. He was asked if he hadn't gossipped about Rev. B. R. Hall, presiding elder of Fayetteville4 district, and about Dr. Yates, by saying that Hall was un popular and Dr. Yates a good preacher, but powerful lazy. He admitted the probability of such a reference to Rev. Hall, but didn't remember as to Dr. Yates. 'Didn't you slander all the members of the conference by saying that you couldn't get justice if your difficulty with Dr. -Kilgo was brought before them?" "This is my judgment,' said Mr. Gat tis, "but I don't consider -that slander ing the conference. - Mr. Gattis was asked about the money he draws as a superannuated minister, and if it didn't burn his soocket after en tertaining such an opinion as to the conference not giving him justice. 4. He replied that he had labored in the ministry thirty-five years and was enti tled toit. -Besides, it didn't come from the conference", but from the laymen. "To you mean to-;say yon wouudn't take it from conference?" asked Judge Winston. "No," Mr. Gattis replied. The cross-examination dwelt at length on Gattis' financial condition and state of his business up to the time of the Kilgo-Clark controversy, bringing about the same showing made in the first trial, and questions were asked "to draw out evidence of malice' toward Kilgo on the part of Gattis, especially as indicated in certain questions and answers by Gattis to cross-examination by Dr. Kilgo before the Trinity trustees. The difficulty be tween Barbee and Smith, the publishers from whom Gattis got book supplies, and the Method'ist Conference was brought out. with a view to showing that the falling off of Gattis' business was duo to this rather than to the effect of any action of defendant. Mr. Gattis admitted that Dr. Kilgo had commended him to the South Caro lina Conference and had done all he could to have his, Gattis', books used generally in both Sates. -Favors by B. N. Duke to Gattis were also brought out, especially the doan of $1,500 with out security, while others, notably J. S. Carr, had takqn a mortgage on Gattis' property to secure loans. Very little interest is manifested in the trial by Oxford people. There were scarcely a dozen spectators other than witnesses in the court room at any time during the dny. Authorities differ as to how long it w'i.Tl require to dispose of the case. . Some think the jury' -will get it Friday afternoon or Saturday. Others say the trial may run into next week. he acknowledges receipt of these in structions. Colon, Nov. 26. An important engage ment is going on at Barbacoas. Trains, including one in transit with passengers from the steamship Orizaba, which sailed from New York last Tuesday, cannot pass the scene of the fight. The Colombian gunboat General Pinzun bombarded PortoBello and landed part of its force. Her commander afterwards returned here. Colon, Nov. 26. An armored train ar rived here at 4 o'clock this afternoon. The Liberals retreated to Frijoles. The government forces are now at Saban'illa. The losses of the latter have been heavy. No fighting will be permitted in Colon. General Lugo, of the Liberal forces, is expected at Barbacoas. Traffic Moving Unmoletel Washington, Nov. 26. Such informa tion as came to the State and Navy de partments today from their official rep resentatives on the Isthmus of Panama was meagre and uninteresting. The only important dispatch was sent by Consul General Gudger at Panama, who said onCy that "traffic 'is moving unmolested." The onestion of free transit across the isthmus is the one that concerns the; United States more than any other mat ter, as under its treaty obligation the American government must prevent an termnrion of traffic, between Panama and Qolon. The action of Captain Perry, j of the battleship Iowa, in posting ma rines -and blue jackets from that shfip along the line of the Trans-Isthmian Railroad is believed to be responsible for the .resumption of train service. Captain Perry, who started1 from Pan ama yesterday with the intention of run ning a train through to the Atlantic wide of the " isthmus, has arrived at Colon, the destination for which he started. . After the clfcse of office hours this eve riing Secretary Long received a message from him that the Colombian gunboat Pinzon has returned to Colon. No in formation concerning her actions since leaving that place yesterday was con tained in the message. The government 'is reassured over the situation on the isthmus. With free transit restored the danger of a clash between the American forces and the warring Colombian factions has been reduced to a minimum. It is confidently believed here that the Pinzon's command er will not carry out his threat to bomb ard Colon. His fa'ilure to do so after the lapse of the twenty-four hours of grace given for the removal of non mbatants is attributed to the know ledge that danger by the bombardment to foreign iproperty Would probably brirT a storm of protest and demands for re dress from Washington and some of the European capitals. ; CONCESSION TO THE MINORITY Democrats to Have a Confer ence Room and a Clerk in the Capitol . Washington, Nov. 20. Special. A much needed innovation will be made in the House of Represetatives this con gress. - For the first time in the memory of the oldest employee of the capitol the minority in the House of Represen tatives will have a room where its mem bers can gather and discuss and agree o a course or policy to be pursued on e lery matter of legislation -that comes up for consideration in the House.The con ference room is in the third floor in that part of the. capitol formerly occupied by the congressional library. The fact that the minority was able to obtain this concession from the majority is due to the efforts of Representative James D. Richardson, of Tennessee, the minority leader in the closing days of the last .jession of congress. Representative Richardson had a long conference with Speaker Henderson and Representative Cannon, chairman of the Committee on Appropriations. He pointed out to the speaker the fact that the minority had no room where it could meet for con ference during the consideration of the tariff; bill. Mr. Richardson said the mi nority members of the Wavs and 5Iean Committee had no use of that room until the majority " had completed the biW, and then the minority was invHted in and informed of what had been done. The justice of the suggestion struck Speaker Henderson with great force, and an order was issued setting apart one of the large new committee rooms in the congressional library part of the building for the use of the minority. The next movement was to secure authority for the appointment of a clerk to keep the nrinutes of the minority con ferences, and in this the member from Tennessee was also successful: Gapt. J. Ii. Pearcy, who was assistant secre tary to the Democratic Congressional Committee, was appointed to the posi tion. When the Democrats secure con trol of the House of Representatives the minority room will then be turned ever to the Republicans. A new postoffice has been established at Stacy, Carteret county, AHouzo Lewis, postmaster. James Rideout, at Highlands, Macon county, has been appointed postmaster, vice G. W. .Matney, resigned; W. E. Benjamin at Wilmot, Jackson county, vice Lizzie Jones, resigned. ENGLISHMAN DEPORTED Suspected of Favoring Fili pino Insurgents Refused to Take Oath Manila, Nov. 26. The authorities have issued an order for the deporta tion of Mr. Patterson, an Englishman, who is acting as secretary to Sixto Lo pex, the Filipino agitator. He landed surreptitiously from -a steamer from Hong Korig." Collector Schtiester de tained his baggage and when he called for it demanded that he subscribe to the oath provided ftr in the cases of those suspected o' favoring the insur gents. Patterson refused to take this oath and his deportation was ordered. The Britfsh consul here has given guar antees for his good conduct pending the sailing of the next steamer for Hong Kong, and he has been given the liberty of the city until that time. - . - - Time of Court's Departure Pekin, Nov. - 26. Edicts announcing the date of the court's departure from Kai Feng Fn were expected yesterday, but have not arrived yet. It is understood, however, December 3, is the day fixed. The acting head of the foreign office says that 18 days will be occupied in the journey to the capital. The preparation of a cart road from Manchapu, the old terminus of the rail way, to Peking a distance of about four miles, - which is being laid with yellow earth is about finished. Tompkins Succeeded by Hiss Charlotte, N. Q.. Nov. 26. Special. At the meeting of the board of governors of the Southern tUotton Spinners here to day the resignation of Hon. D. A. Tomp kins as chairman of , that board was tendered and accepted. George B. Hiss, ex-secretary of the Cotton' Spinners' As sociation, was elected to succeed Tomp kins. Mr. Tompkins has been chairman of the board ever since the organisation of the spinner?' association. FIFTY PERISH. ' . IN. A MOMENT " Boiler Explosion Wrecks Building in the Twink ling of an Eye Prop erty Loss $150,000 Detroit. Not 26. A boiler exploded m the new engine room of the . Penberley TniaTAn PnmnaTiv or Q rrlr t-Yiia mHTTl- ( ing. The addition to the plant at Abbott street and Brooklyn avenue, recently erected, was wrecked in the twinkling of an eye, and many of the one hundred employes in the building were burned In the blazing debris. Fifty persons are believed to have periishcd. The ruined building was separated from the other portion of the factory by an alley-way. A portion of the wall of the second building was Mown in. but none of the inmates were seriously hurt. Samuel Riley, the engineer, was taken from the ruins an hour after the explo sion. He had been pinned . under a heavy shaft and beam, Ms face was cooked by the flames and he was .badly injured. He was, however. stl alive this afternoon, but unable, of course, to give any light on the cause of the. dis Girl Spirited Awav iit the Dismal Swamp Believed to Have Been Done " ' . . - tion that there has been foul plaj i bv NeffrOeS - Hired bv steadily but surely settling down upon y a large part of the community. It is loslnnc Qltitnr Whn thought by many that a chrewd, WelK JCdlUUd OUIIUI I1MIU devised, devilish plan, bred in the brains , So llnrlor Arroct of an infernal scoundrel, has. been sue- lb Uliuei nilCbl cessfully carried out. Excitement in . : hourly rowing more intense. ' The lacta New York, Nov. 26. Andrew G. Crop sey, the Chambers street lawyer whose niece, Ella Maud Cropsey, has disap peared from her home in Elizabeth City,' N. C, received another telegram "from the stricken family today. 'telling -- him tlurt no trace ot the girl "bad been found and asking him to find , out what it would cost to engage a New York detec tive in the. search. , As the-eearch, which has now been going on for a week, has been made in the Dismal- Swamp, Mr. Cropsey thinks that the employment of a New York detective in that region would be a waste of time and money. Men of three counties who know every inch of the territory have' been hunting for the girl with dogs," he said, "and If they can do nothing a stranger could not do anything." The missins? girl, who was a pupil in one of the Bath Beach schools until her family moved to North Carolina four years ago, has many friends and rela tives in. Brooklyn and several of them called at her uncle's office at 3 Cham bers street today to get the latest news. The only additional particulars were relative to the girl's disappearance a week ago tonight. There was a party that night at thi? Cropsey plantation. The guests left for home at 11 p. in. James Wilcox was one of them. Ella went out on the porch with him to say good night. That was the last seen of her by any member o the family. A few minutes later the other members of the household heard a scream out side. They reported it to William H. Cropsey, the missing girl's fathers- He ran out of the house with his gun but found nobody. Tt was not until half an hour after he had returned that the family missed Ella. The search began then and there. It is said the circum stances of Ella'e going to the door to say good night to Wilcox were repeated and the searchers went to Wilcox's house and put him under arrest. They found Wilcox in bed. That was two hours and a half after the screams were heard. Wilcox Is a young son of an ex-aeriff of Pasquotank county, N. C. He is said to havt! madelove to Ella Cropsey without any success. He was angry because of a plan she had to come north to visit her uncle Andrew and had urged her -not to make the trip. It' was be cause of these circumstances that Wil cox was arrested on suspicion of knowr ing of the girl's whereabouts. Hounds procured from Norfolk traced - the girl from the plantation to the Pasquotank river at a point where the Dismal Swamp Canal empties into it. Lawyer CrOpsey's daughter, Carrie, is a visitor at the Elizabeth City home, referring to the arrest of Wilcox in one of her letters she wrote, "he said he knew something about Ella, but h? woufil not tell." The theory of the girl's relatives here and in North Carolina is that she has been abducted and hidden in the Dismal Swamp by negroes hired for the job and that the motive for the deed was jealousy. The Last Seen fNollIe Elizabeth City, N. C, Nov. 25. Spe cial. Elizabeth City is stirred from center to circumference in consequence of the sudden and mycterious disap pearance of Miss Nellie Cropsey. No light has yet been shed upon the terrible event, notwithstanding the diligent and untiring efforts of the police force -and the citizenship . of the town, aided by the keen-scented blood hounds of Alr. Hurricane Branch V" - The river has "been repeatedly dragged, cannon have been fired and every effort has been put forth to pierce the dark veil of mysterv. The con vie- aster. For hours strings of ambulance irorn tmsT carrving away the victims. r, f A number of public ivorks employe worked -at removing tne noi, ueuw rapidly as possible, ana a greac of spectators was roped back from the of Abbott and Seventh streets. Many of the injured) were hurried to a hospital four block distant. ' ' - - Hugh Guy, city boiler inspector, says that his office force inspected the boilers in the Penberley plant on July 5 and 17, last.' There were four boilers in the. plant, two horizontal and two uprights.f They' were, in use on alternate days andj supposedly were well cared for. WM1 the number of missing has narrowed somewhat this afternoon, it is eertainj that several bodies are still undiscoy-j ered. v ' r . t , .President J onnson or me jrenoeriey company is making a systematic search fm. V10 omnlnTAa Tvv sendinsr messensrer boys to their homes to locate . them. Mr.1 Johnson said to a reporter mat mere were two small testing boilers in the plant, . also one . lX5-horsepower , upright fiTrl rv-riQ KVl-lmrtMViirpr -iihlilai- ' - the latter which exploded. The boilers', were tested regularly, and it , was only,, a week ago that the boiler tester com-', plimented us on our careful engineer."- The property loss amounts to $199,000iX insurance, $70,000. . . se far revealed, are as folows: ,7 , Last Wednesday evening. Mr. Jamos ' Wilcox and Mr. Roy Crawford callwD on the Cropsey girls. They whiled awuyi the time pleasantly al in .. the eain.O room until 11 o'clock. Mr. Wilcox then left. In doing, so he asked Miss .NeiHaj . to go in the hall with him. Since -that v time nothing has ever been sean orj f heard of the missing girl. ,Mr. Wilcoxh states that there had been some lovn af-( fair between them and he had Tetnmeil! -- -letters, a picture, etc., and left the girl' crying. Further than this he stoutly; refuses to give any particulars. ; The- other parties in the room duiicjc the evening state that Nellie had been unusually cheerful in consequence of 'nl' prospective trip . to New York t-j visit -some of her'relatives. ; About twenty minutes after ' the de- parture of Mr. Wilcox Mr. Crawforl! took his leave, one of the young ladieuj accompanying him, to the door..-Not! . seeing anything of , Nellie she thought! that Nellie and Mr. WHocx had goto, into the parlor to have a little private! chat. So she retired to bed and fsoon , fell asleep. ' V. . ' About 12 o'clock some of the family, were awakened by. an unusual souul and soon aroused the whole family; Jt was then discovered that Nellie was nowhere to be found. Mr. W. H. Crop-, sey ,the father, at once, went to Mr. Wilcox's home to inquire if he knev anything of the whereabouts of hia v daughter. He said he did not' snfl treated the matter very lightly". . 1 - A jAlie Clm Exploited. Norfolk, Ya., Nov. 26. That . they were about to discover the whereabout! of Nellie Cropsey, the 5 young woman " who oisappeared from her home in Eliza- beth City last Wednesday, the police of,"-" that place believed this afternoon. They f"" -believed that she was concealed in some house in the town, but; after searching about one hundred houses failed to find her Then Cnief of Police Dawson said' he had concluded that she was murdered- and her body was in the river, probably. . some distance below the Cropsey. hom ; Suspicion, which first pointed toward v James Wilcox, tne girl's lovers, appears to have been lifted from him, as he free and no longer under espionage. Relatives of Miss Cropsey,, who- were? expected from New, York today, failed to arrive. - -r- PALMA FOR PRESIDENT- Gen. Maximo Gomez Issues Letter in His Interest: !.. Havana, ' Nov. 26. Gen. Maxima " Gomez has Dublisheda letter in. T.., j Mumlo recommending Thomas Estrada ii for the Presidency. He say in ; if the Cuban people, a io tnanr) ;t'.is. do not recognize and do not .n : devstana now good a President Senorf Palma would make, owing to his proved ability, as well as the number of year he has served his country, then he (Gomez) frankly declared that-ho is1 not disposed to go to all quarters cfl the island to recommend his can lidature. 1 He adds that he has much faith ia th good sense of the Cuban people to solve their own problems, and thiriks 'that they will not fail to recogniz- that th. present honesty of . Senor Palmv is guarantee for the country a ad that fc " will.be raised to the Presidency,. by ihW unanimous vote of the -people. GenN Gomez declares that the last service heT can render the Cubans is "to aid them. in the grand work of establishing a re- ' public and for this reason he reconn" mends Senor Palma for the PresideneyjV c
The Morning Post (Raleigh, N.C.)
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