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Vol. IX RALEIGH. N; C, TUESDAY, JULY 18: 1905. No. .41 SENTENCE Of YN11M 15 YEARS Slayer of J. H. Alford Gets a Long Term TENDER . APPEAL MADE Numerous Witnesses Swore That 1 the Man Appeared Deranged from Excessive Drinking Mrs. ' Ida Garden Heard the Deceased Say "I'll Beat You to Death" Raymond D. Bynum, aged 40 years, the slayer of his business partner, j-in -.. s II. Alford, senior deacon inthe Fir.-t Baptist church, on the morning1 of Thursday, - December 29th last, was . f terrlay, after the testimony of j.umi'tous witnesses to show that he v,m mentally irresponsible on account Ht" 'excessive use of whiskey and an earnest appeal from his counsel, sen tenced by Judge W. R. Allen to fifteen .ears at hard labor in the state peni tentiary. The condemned man received his "ilo.nn with stoic calmness, while his 'faithful wife, seated at his side, buried Ji. r face in her handkerchief and wept 5,1. ntly. Never once during the hear n of the evidence before Judge Allen J 1 the prisoner show any emotion. I lie excreted a wonderful self control, i lun ihe noble little woman at his side iM their tvfcp small sons, who accom- a;uc.l her, could not keep back the ..!-.; as they-sat in the court room to i- ar tne solemn, woras pronouncea U'n their fatherxand husband In this j.tal hour. Tne counsel for Bynum had previ .i.s'y waived the right of a trial by ury and submitted toYmurder in thi iOvl degree. The state had accept m! the plea and the wholeNresponsibil'.ty t sieu upon Judge Allen. le realized i:'Iy this fr.ct for the judgev when he nipi'tud upon the prisoner aNsentencet ahioh will make him a man of fifty five years when he emerges frota the piiron door?, observed that hehad r, weight upon his shoulders when v? eornmanlc'l in obedience to the nan latts of a jury, a man to die upor h,. sou ff old than in such a time as this when it was left absolutely to him, whether the defendant should spend tno or thirty years in prison. The state had little to say in prose- ...ti . . e . i. a . a ' . c 1 1 . . I lu.niii OL ine nil lui iui ii le i.iaji. r?unci tor 'Armistead Jones simply brought ojt all the evidence at his command j.s to the homicide. The defense, how ever, not only had a star witness in tne person of Mrs. Ktta. Carden, who s.vore that before the shooting she heard Mr. Alford say in a loud tone: ' T il beat you to death," but also numerous witnesses to testify that hynum was such a mental and physi- r ; 1 1 wreck from the excessive use of liquor that he was hardlj responsible for what he did. Then Col. T. M." Argo, Mr. II. B. Norri3 and Mr. J i me? II. Pou made tender speeches in behalf of Bynum. Mr. Pou closed with an urgent appeal to his honor to err on the side of mercy, if he erred at all, to give the man a chance to emerge-from prison still strong in his manhood and unshackled from the chains of the demon cf strong drink and ready to prove himself the faithful, energetic husband he had been before his illness liom typhoid fever three years ago. 1'ho counsel and the prisoner himself v e: e sadly disappointed in Judge Al len's sentence. -Tho testimony brought out . little that the public has "not already heard. Mr. Charles D. Christophers, a member of the firm, of Alford, Bynum and C'hri-rtcphern, said that the company beg-n business in May, 1898. In de scribing the incidents of the . fatal Thursday he said that when Bynum came in Mr. Alford spoke to him about coileeting-a bill from A. E. S. Lindsay. The witness turned to lock up a form and the next thing he heard was thj deceased say: "Don't you hit me, sir," and the prisoner say: "You or I "must fall." The witness thought Bynum was talking about the business affairs.' Ho turned and saw Mr. Alford and Mr. Bynum clinched and heard ' two pistol shots. He helped Mr. Alford get the defendant down on the floor and ake his pistol from him. In so doing I third shot was fired. Mr. Alford vns about seventy years old. He had Aever heard of his having any words ith Bynum, except when he reproved Bynum for neglecting business. On cross examination by Col. Argo-, ihe witness said that since Mr. Bynum had been ill from fever in Rex '"'Hospi tal h had been using whiskey as a mnuia.ru and tne namt nad steadily rrown upon him, Mr. John King, a printer in the. es tablishment, fiaid that he heard some words between the two men, but he did not pee the shooting when it took place.- He paid a tribute to Mr. Al ford and said that he observed nothing unusual about Mr. Bynum on the morningof the shooting. Ir. Etta Garden proved the most notable witness of the day. She de clared that Mr. Bynum was- flushed and seemed excited when he came into the office that morning. He lit a cigar and took a seat near- the stove. She was in the folding compartment; which adjoined the composing rcom. Present ly she heard Mr. Alford say in a loud tone: "I'll beat you to death," and Phe saw the ; two men rush together and heard shots.: Mr. Alford tried "to get Bynum' s pistol from him. Bynum shot three times before they fell to the floor. She was . so excited that she jumped over a table and ran from the building. She went home and told her mother that cither Mr. Alfcrd or Mr. Bynum was shot - dead. The witness had since told Mr. Christophers and several others what she heard Mr. Al ford say. Tom Pierce, a pressman, was in the press room at the time. He did not hear what took place between the two men. He could no say whether Mrs. Carden could have heard or not, but he did not hear it. She was a little nearer than he was and the window in the partition between her and the next, 'room was up. One of the presses at the time was running. Mr. W. S. Sherman testified as to the building and the partitions. , Dr. T. M. Jordan and Dr. R. S. MeGeachy told of the two wounds the deceased had, bath on the right side of his body. I v Witnesses for the Defense Dr. P. E. Hines testified that he treated Bynum in the hospital for a severe attack of typhoid fever in 19C2 and it left him in a weak, run down condition. He was advised to . use a small quantity of whiskey, ! but to stop it as soon as he could. Sheriff R. O. Riddick of Gates county said he saw Bynum on the first Sun day in January. He regarded Bynum as a mental and physical wreck.- By num got off the train and took a con veyance to go to the country. After Bynum left it occurred to the sheriff that the man might be Bynum. Mon- day he went to Mr. Jno. J. Gatlings, then to Bynum's mother's. When there ar- rested Bynum was hardly able to walk and the sheriff assisted him into thejw-oum immediately eieci ctDer oeie buggy. He kept -Bynum a nieht at gates who would find means to hold Sunbury, then carried him to Gates,-j Ville. He considered Bynum a crazy man. Several people who saw him re- marked that he was crazy. His eyes had the wild glare of an insane per (Continued on page 6.) WAYS THAT ARE DARK Investigating a Big Loan to the Equitable Society - . . Large Fund That Enabled Officials to Use Money Without Having the Expenditures Appear on the B flks Depew Loan to Be Repaid New York, July 17. The Equitable Life Assurance Society's loan of $6S5, 000 from, the Mercantile Trust Com pany, which was mentioned in State Superintendent of Insurance Hend rick's statement, published today, it is learned, is receiving the most earnest attention of the state superintendent, and furthemore, t being looked Into by Chairman Paul Morton of the Equitable and by Attorney General Mayer. There is a growing suspicion in a good many quarters that this standing loan ..covered expenditures by the Equitable Society, which the officers did not wish to have appear oh the society's books. It is known that an i investigation is being . carried on by at least. one of the- persons mentioned above on that assumption. By means of this loan, it was said today, the Equitable officers wquld have been able to pay money for influencing legisla- tion, or for other improper things that . have been charged against them, with-1 out the entries appearing on the so ciety's books. - This loan according to the "testimony of H. C. Deming, president of the Mercantile Trust Com pany, before Mr. Hendricks, was car ried in the names of President James W. Alexander and T, B. Jordan, comp- troller. as trustees It did not appear ! in the society's statement. It was learned today that " the loan has no w been placed in the name of the Equi able Society. - v It was learned today also that negb- tiations have been passed for the pay-, ment of the $250,000 loan, which the Depew . Improvement Company ob tained from the Equitable after Sena tor Depew had votedf. for it as a mem ber of the executive committee. Who the person is'that is stepping forward now with an offer to carry out Senator Depew's guarantee against loss at the time the loan was made the senator denies he gave, was not learn ed, but it was said that the, prospects are gocd for a repayment of the loan in a few days.. . ' . Sued Express Company Asheville, N. C., July 17. Special. Horace Graham, a foung white man of this cityr who was arrested last year charged with the embezzlement' of $500 from the Southern Express Com pany, and who at a subsequent criminal term of superior court was- acquitted of the charge, has brought . two suits against the express company in the sum o $2,000 each for malicious prose- J cutiOn and abusive use of . process. TREPOFF ORDERS SEVERE MEASURE Ail Delegates to Zemstvos Congress to Be Arrested MOST DANGEROUS MOVE The Belief Is Expressed That the Order Will Not Be Carried Out Because It Would Defeat the Pur pose for Which It Is Intended. Violence a Mistaken Policy- London, July 17. The Moscow corre spondent of the Standard says that Governor General Trepoff has sent or ders from St. Petersburg for the ar rest of all the delegates to the zemstvos congress1 before their meeting, but this will not be done for two reasons, one being that it appears that the . order was issued under the misapprehension that the congress would proclaim an ad interim government on constitu tional lines, and the other that the au thorities now recognize that the ar rest of the three hundred leading men of Russia, even if practicable, would Hot for a moment arrest the movement, as the zemstvos and murJc-jpallttes the congress elsewhere. Moreover, any mistaken act of violence agsinst the delegates would inevitably bring the present party of order nearer to , the revolutionary bodies, a .reapproaeh- ment which even the bureaucracy can hardly, desire. Delegates Arriving In Moscow Moscow, July 17. The delegates to the zemstvos and dumas congress are continually arriving. The session will open Wednesday afternoon, at -Prince Dolg6roiuki's "residence. The zemstvos are sending 172 delegates , and the dumas 112. It is not believed that the congress will be forcibly repressed, and nothing short of force will prevent its being held. . . Public Interests Discussed Moscow, July 17. Representatives of Russian trade and industry met this afternoon to discuss the political situa tion. M. Kouvalovsky, ex-assistant minister of finance, and one of M. Witte's most prominent lieutenants, presided. Strange to say, the authori ties permitted the meeting although it was summoned for exactly the same purpose as the zemstvos and ' dumas congress. , The preliminary speeches largely centered on the effect of M. Boulyguine's scheme on the labor question. The total exclusion of the labor vote would, it was declared, cer tainly disastrously affect Russian in dustry. Many of the speakers urgently insisted that constitutional reforms would alone save the country from the calaclysm to which the bureaucratic and police regime was hurrying it. They drew the gioomlest pictures of the internal condition of Russia. They said that many provinces were doomed to famine, others promised magnificent harvests, but they would probably be left to rot in the fields as the peasants everywhere were refusing to work. Rioting at Cronstadt London, July 17. Desperate rioting occurred today in Cronstadt, accordtnj to a dispatch received by a news agency here. It is stated that mutin ous sailors attacked and looted nine public buildings despite the efforts of the p'olice. Many were killed " ,anel wounded, but the exact number is un known. The police discovered fourteen' secret bomb factories in St. Petersburg yei- terday and seized 6,100 bombs and 2,000 revolvers. A Grand Duke Exiled t t tht thft.Par ha5I t, , nA tv ,o ' tinovitch, to the Caucasus, owing to his friendly relations with the . revo-. lutionists. The grand duke arrived at Stavaropot under the escort - of gen darmes, whose -commander has "been ordered to closely, watch him and -to oversee all his correspondence. - '' . Russians in Saghalien Will Surrender London, July 18. A dispatch. .to the Telegraph from Tokio says that the surrender of the Russians in the island of Saghcdien is hourly expected. They are now in a hopeless plight. r St. Petersburg1, July 17. General Linievitch reports that the Japanese were bombarding Naibuchi, ' on. the southeast coast of SagahaMen,- on the night of July 14. r ; A Husband's Heartless. Crime Birmingham, Ala., July 17. The life less' and badly mutilated body of Mrs. J Emmit Parham, aged 21 years, was found by an old negro bne mile east of Hillsborough and Indications -point to the-woman having fceen murdered and then laid on the railroad track to be mutilated." The woman's husband is being held pending: 'an investigation, and rumors ' have4t that trouble is feared. Parham and hk wife had been separated for six months, the two liv ing in different parts of the city. The two met at Trinity and "quarreled. Par ham claims that he lefFhis wife hefore she - met her death. ' There; ; was no blood where the womna; was found.' ALEX ANDER S 6ECLUSI0N-. Late President of te "Equitable at a - Private Sanitarium ' Hempstead, I I., July 17. Regard less of the efforts to keep the resting place of Jan-es Alexander, late presi dent of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, a secret, it - became known, in Babylon today that he was spending some time at the farm of Frederick R. Townsend, a- broker of Manhattan. The estate Is known as the Unkewtay farm and is located about a mile and a half north of Babylon village. Some time ago Mr. Townsend received . an offer to lease the farm as a sanitarium, and it is now used for that purpose. There are several other patients at the place besides Mr. Alexander, but all information . as- to who they are and other information Is refused at the place, and several denials have . been made by. the peopled in the neighbor hood that the late president of the Equitable is even near Babylon at all. In order to-keep:-the arrival of Mr. Alexander a secret, he and his friends who came with him to the sanitarium alighted from the Long Island Railway train -at Deer Park, on the main line of the railroad, and then drove across country to Unkeway farm, some miles away. It was stated by one of the employes of the place that,, although Mr. Alex ander is a very sick man, , he is able to walk up and down stairs. Nothing further would be admitted ; INJURED IN AN ELEVATQR Prominent Philadelphia Lawyers Hurt by a High TjurMe Philadelphia, Julyl7T . rlct At torney John C. B V Ass t City Solicitor Harry T. (rngstr?jind Wil liam Born of. CollhvWood : 3' J., were seriously 4 Injured tMjv S V? fall of an elevatoVlirt.rLatMt4'waildln, the highest buildlng-isi" the. city. 5 i j.n Mr. Bell sustained a compound frac ture of a leg, Mr. Kingston had both legs fractured and Mr. Born was in jured about the body and received lacerations of the scalp. Bell and Kingston had been in con ference in Mr. Bell's private office on the thirteenth floor of the building and were . on their way to their offices in the city hall, a block distant. The ele vator operator,;, the only other . occu pant of the car, escaped wtth slight injuries. The elevator dropped from the sixth floor, of the building to the basement. The cause of -the accident is unknown. The news of the accident to Bell and Kingston created a sensation. Bell is one of the legal, political and social leaders, of the city, and Kingston is almost equally prominent. Bell lias been prominently before the public since -the political unheaval began in this city some, weeks .ago. Recently he declined to assume the initiative in the arrest' of political leaders who were also large city contrators, and the mayor and his advisers as well as the citizens reform organization have criticised him for his attitude. Bell has repeatedly declared that he will vigorously prosecute, all persons brought, for trial, but as those already indicted for offenses against the .municipality are expected to be tried in, September, it is probable that an-' other prosecutor will have to be ap pointed by the governor. RAILROAD ACCIDENTS Official Statistics Published for First Three Months of the Year Washington, July 17. Accident bul letin No. 15, just issued by the inter state commerce commission, giving an account of railroad accidents in the United States during the months of January, February and March, 1905, shows- that during the quarter there were. 28 passengers and 204 employes killed and 1,651 passengers and 2,062 employes injured in train accidents, making in all 232 persons killed and 3,713 injured in train accidents. Other accidents to passengers and employes "not the result of collisions or derailments bring the total number of casualties up to 15,806 (909 killed and 14, 397 injured.) '"There Tas a decrease of 42 in the total number of persons killed, as com pared wjth the quarter ending Decem ber 3LM904. " The" total number of collisions and de railments was 3,108, 1,737 collisions and 1,321 derailments of which 284 collisions and 177 "derailments affected passenger trains. " China Opening Her Eyes . Pekln, July 17. An edict has been is sued f appointing four progressive Chinese officials to constitute an em bassy,' which will start . soon upon a tour of Inspection of the countries of the leading powers, for the purpose of studying economic and political ques tions. ' It is an important step. MAY BE ID OF CROP REPORTING Possible -Outcome of s Cotton Crop Scandal the LEAKS HARD TO STOP Government Officials Anxious to Find a Method That Will Leave No Possibility of Juggling With the Figures - Investigation of the j ; Department Expected Washington, July 17. The existence of the division of statistics and of the government system of crop reporting is threatened by the cotton scandal in the department of,' agriculture. The present plan of Carrying on the work is admitted by every, one who has any connection with it as having proven a failure, and every effort is being made to de vise some scheme that will prove invulnerable . against manipula tion or leaks, The speculative end of cotton would be glad to see the gov ernment go out of the crop reporting business. The growers' associations, want the government reports continued and "Secretary Wilson is so inclined, but he is also determined that if the work cannot be so. done as to inspire and hold public confidence it would be better by far to do away with it alto gether. He is now. seeking advice on the subject from' his aides and recog nized statisticians, and is 'hopeful of evolving some method which will make it impossible for officials to juggle or manipulate figures for their own selfish ends. . . ,;. As an Incident of the inquiry into the cotton scandal, Secretary Wilson is looking into charges that have been made in the press ; that, a certain em ploye of the division of statistics has been guilty some years " a g'o of giving out' . advance information relative to questions prepared .for civil service ex aminations of - experts who were de scribed as eligibles for appointment in the department. An investigation was made at : the time and the employe in question . was recommended for dis missal, but was saved by influence within the department. The case has been reopened by-Secretary Wilson, it was. said today, because of the recent publicity given the facts. All the evi dence in the case is said to be on file with the civil service commission. Tihere was a report here today that by the direct , orders ' of President Roosevelt the Keep investigating com mission would make, a general inquiry in the. department of agriculture with a view, of disclosing alleged crooked ness there. This was denied by the members of the commission. ''We have not heard a : word 'from the ' president on the subject," said one of them. "It ls our purpose to examine the business methods in the department of agricul ture and every other 'department. The commission was created for that pur pose. ' A special investigation of the statistical bureau of the department of agriculture has not Been ordered, and certainly we have received no instruc tions -from the president to make such an Inquiry;'' Morgan H". -Beach, United States at torney for this district, who has charge of one phase of the Investigation into the cotton -;crop' scandal, has gone either to -New-York-or, Boston in search of1 evidence oh which former Associate Statistician Holmes and his accom plices may be criminally prosecuted. Mr.- Beach -made -no-announcement of what he intended to do in New York or Boston, but it "is understood that while in the former city-' fie will confer with the brokers w.hd " were mentioned in Secretary Wilson's -report announcing the- dismissal- t Holmes and his.con nection'with speculators in New York It is generally - believed1 that two or three speculators-irtr New York could tell a good "deal about the leaks in the department,., but it is not known if they could be Induced to tafk freely. : FIRE IN FORTS Midnight Spectacle That Illuminat ed New York Harbor , New Yoric, ' July 17. There were twd fires in "two forts tonight. One -fire was at Fort Wads worth, the other at Fort Hamilton. The latter fire was. the lafger'and harder ,toextinguish." Both made fine , sgectacles for persons who happened to be on, the 'water at the time. ' - . "-.. - - "" "; ' ".;'- Six hundred of Uncle Sam's soldiers were turhjsd out of 'bed at 11:30 o'clock to fight a; fire, at Fort Hamilton The fire started in a stable wnere tne norses of the EHeventh battery were housed. The stables - are 300 feet Jong and two stories hfh. "Coionel Greenough, com mander of Fart. Hamilton, was notified and he . saw that the fire would need professional'- firemen to extinguish it. The first alarm was sounded from the fort at 11:35. The firemen sent In the second and the third alarms. The. two Jong wooden stables were at that time in a' blaze that lighted, up the ,loVe bay and made Port Hamilton territory lok almost as . bright : as day. The fire was -kept confined to the stables, which', burned for over an hour, and at the e: of that time - the firemen an nounced that they had the fire under control. The estimated damage is $30, 000.. ' - . , Fire broke- out about 10 o'clock to night in an abandoned stable at Fort Wads worth. It was a" small affair and was easily put out by the local" fire department. : HOT WAVE ROLLING ON The Heat Was Servere Monday With Much Severing Washington, July 17. An official tem perature of 93 degrees here today marks what, the weather bureau terms the beginning of a well marked heated terms for the Atlantic slope. The weather conditions In the far west are "such that Prof. Henry, the official fore caster, does not look for any dimintion in the hot wave f or : several day at least. The high temperatures extend from the middle west to New England, and the reports show 85 to 95 degrees were recorded all over the eastern half of the United States except in . the south. -.'.- Five cases of heat prostration, none of them fatal, were reported ' by the police, and there was considerable suf fering among horses. - New York, July 17. It was a blister ing day today, the hottest of the sum mer by five degrees, and although the breeze sometimes sent the bunting fly ing out to horizontal, there was no re lief in it. It came out of the arid west and was like a blast from a furnace. The actual temperature as measured on top of the lofty building where the signal office is was 95 degrees at 4 p. m., and- then the breeze was at top notch. ,"' "'. ' ' Philadelphia registered 96 degrees and was the holder of the' day's record for the country. At 8 o'clock tonight 'in this city the temperature registered' 90 degrees by the- official thermometer. Below Washington it was , not so warm as in the west and hereabouts. SAN JUAN HILL FIGHT New York Policemen AttacK ed by Negroes An Officer Struck With a Brick-Hfe Companions Charge the-Mob, Raid a Dance Hall, and Make a Number of Captures New York, July 17. Trouble broke out in -the San Juan Hill district at midnight tonight. As Policeman Roche and three other officers were coming through . West Si'xty-second street on their - way to report at the station hour.e, they were attacked by a crowd of negroes, who had gathered in front of Duke Foster's dance hall and sa ' loon, at 236 West Sixty-seventh street Roche was hit on the hetad by a brick and fell unconscious on the , sidewalk. His companions, Fagan; Connors and McNigh, charged the mob, driving them through the saloon into the dance hall. All the .lights were ex tinguished and there was a general fusillade as the police fought their way in. Policeman Connors followed Ar thur Moody of 38 West. Sixty-second street to the roof and arrested him. afer an exchange of shots. Moody is said to be the man who threw the brick which hit Roche? The reserves of the West Forty-seventh street sta tion were called out and patrol wagons were sent to the scene.' ' The riot spread to a dance 'hall at af 4 West Sixty-first street, from which, the po lice were attacked as they passed. . At Foster's place the. police arrested twelve men and a v. oman , and at the other dance hall four men and threa women. ' . - Policeman Roche was taken to Roosevelt Hospital and placed on the operating table. It Is feared his skull is fractured. ' , Atchison: Contempt Case . Washington, July 17. Assistant At torney General MIton D. , ; Purdy, in whose hands the government's case against the Atchison,, Topefca and Santa Fe Railroad was, placed after the retirement of Messrs. Harmon and Judson, special commissioners for the department of justice, . returned -. to Washington today. Mr. Purdy ; went to Kansas City to file in the federal court there the government's informa tion alleging contempt of court on the parfof the railroad -company in refus ing to obey the order against freight rebates. He said this afternoon that t he did not know when the case would be set for a hearingi but when , the j time comes Mr. Purdy; will represent i the government In court. Weldon Votes for Schools 1 Weldon, N. C, July 27. Special. The election here today for graded schools resulted in a vote of 117 for schools and only five against schools. " - , USED A GUN TO GUARD HIS HOME Dr. Stocfeard Emphasizes His Objection to Powell BUT MISSES HIS MARK Powell Fools With Fire After Warn ing and Has a Rnn for His Life. His Bondsmen Surrender Him and He Is Now in Jail for Alien age a Wife's Affections Goldsboro, N. C. July 17. Special. The second chapter in the Stock-ard-Powell drama was enacted today when Dr. J. R. Stockard caught Dr. Powell talking to his wife and. fired' three shots at him with a Winchester rifle. Dr. Powell's bondsmen went in and surrendered him to the authorities and came off his bond. Dr. Powell could not give another bond and he wa locked up in jail. Last Saturday, when Dr. Dan Powell was sued for $10,000 by Dr. J. R. Stock-? ferd for alienating the affections of the latter's wife, Powell gave bond in the! sum of $5,000 with J. R. Handley and J. A. Stevens as sureties, but when the shooting took place this morning the bondsmen lost no time in hunting u Powell and surrendering him to the ai. thorities. The shooting . occurred i front of Stockard's residence. About 11 o'clock Dr. Stockard, wh,o was at work in his dental, office down town, received an .unsigned note stat ing that Powell was then at the resi dence of Stockard talking to his wife. Stockard had warned Powell several! times before the climax of Saturday to stay -away from his house, and when! he received the, message this morning' he picked up his Winchester and put ' out for home. When he turned the corner near his residence he saw. Powell talking to his wife. When he got close enough he began firing, and Powell Jumped in his buggy and rode off. None of the shots struck Powell. A nephew who was in the buggy with Dr. Pov.-oH jumped out when the first shot wos " and also escaped irv jury. A if i'ng to give a new bond, Powell V;. ..kid up in jail this af. ternoon. GIRL HELD FOR MURDER Berthe Claiche Shot the Man Who " Was Cause of Her Ruin New York, July 17. Berthe Clatche, ontrial by a coroner's jury foi killingy Emll Gerdron, July 9. was today held responsible for his death and was committed to the Tombs prison with out baul. The jury rendered a split verdict, seven merely finding the girl respon sible for Gerdron's death and the r maining jurors declaring that she acted in self defense. After enticing Berthe to America from France under a false promise of marriage, Gerdron forced the girl to go ' in the streets and earn a living fo him at the sacrifice of her own good name. His excessive cruelty led the girl to have Gerdron arrested July , and then, frightened by his threaten ing attitude, she shot him while the police were in the act of making th arrest. ," The young woman was later indict ed by the grand jury today after tha coroner's jury had returned a verdict finding that Gerdron came to his" death, at her hands. The case probably will not be brought to trial before autumn. Editor Criswell Gives Bail New' York, July 17. Robert Criswell, publisher of the New Yorker, who is charged by Congressman Joseph Rhi nock with libeling him in an article pub lished on June 21, headed "An Insult to Miss Roosevelt," was arraigned in the Centre street court today befor Magistrate McAvoy. He waived exam, ination and was held in $1,000 bail fof special sessions. Bail was furnished. , 1 ' Japanese Loan Over-subscribed ',. New York. July 17. Subscribers t( the latest japanec wan ! will be notified of the share alloted tl i them Wednesday. The amount, ofterei S henv $50,000,00. was several times over (subscribed. Only small investors will ! receive their full share. The larger ! subscribers will be scaled to from 50 to 75 per cent, on the amount asKea. Dived to His Death Norfolk, Va.', July 17. Fayette Sweet, aged twenty-seven years, dived from the pier at Pine Beach, a neighboring summer resort, in three feet of water last night and fractured his skull. Ho was dead when taken from the water. He was seven feet tall. His wif is now Aylng in a Norfolk hospital. 'v
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