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f.J t r -w i , I ' i i t Only Afternoon Paper Between Richmond and Atlanta With Leased Wire and Full Press Dispatches. LAST EDITION ALL THE MARKETS. THE B ALEIGH, IE VE ?IMES. VOLUME 30. RALEIGH, N. C WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 15, 1S08. PRICE 5c. MOTHER THAW A Snapshot and Sketch cfhaw Jurors and Their Names. E,C. J DUNCAN HASTENING TO CHEER HARRY Prospects of Her Appearance This Evening' Revives Prisoner's Spirits HE SITS MOROSELY III : ASHES OF HUMILIATION Strong Testimony Today Adding to tnt Adamantine Wall of Hcredl-. 'tary' Insanity In tin Family One of His Aunts On Paternal Side Inmate of a Madhou.se Testimony of tlx' Doctor ho Committed Her to the Institution Admitted Over Jerome's Stronjc Objections. Whist Club Kmploye Tells of! Queer, Crazy Conduct of Thaw a Few Days Hefore He Killed White. Old Mrs. Thaw on Way lit New York. , , (By Leased Wire to The Times.) New York, Jan. 15. Harry Ken dall Thaw went to the court room today to face the most terrible or deal of his life, cheered by the news that his mother, Mrs. William Thaw, would arrive from Pittsburg duilug the session aid and sus tain him. This he hopes will turn the battle to save him from the elec tric chair for the murder of Stanford White. - Mrs. Tliaw has been very ill but has been anxious to come to tha trial..' Despite, her critical conjjiion Bhe ' is expected to take the stand. Thaw was practically deserted on the first day of the trial by the de fence. Martin Littleton, his coun sel.vruthlessly tore the veil from Hie family, skeleton to prove hereditary Insanity. Not. a relative was there to support the prisoner. How hard they hail striven to prove thi3 was shown by . the number of witnesses they had collected. Mrs. Harry Thaw has been forced to withdraw from the Thaw row since the begin nlng of the real trial. AlkKpnep of Kvelvn Kr(m Court Ttoom ' Evelyn Thaw iiad been shut out of the court room when the taking of testimony began as she is to be a witness for the defense.: Mrs. Carnegie was the only wo man .member of the Thaw family, with the exception of Evelya Thaw, to be in court to comfort the pris oner. Therefore the absence of Thaw's sister, aroused comment in the court room. It was said at first she was ill, but finally it was learned Bhe had decided not to come because she did not care to listen to testi mony In regard Ao the taint of in sanity In' her family. Mr. Llttlqton is Introducing more witnesses to es tablish the chain of evidence show ing that Thaw was insane when he killed" White. Miss Belle Morehouse Lawrence, who taught the prisoner when lie waa but a child, told about the marked peculiarities of the prisoner, which she recorded in a diary and which proved a most interesting feature of the evidence. Thaw was insane as a child, In sane as a schoolboy and insane at Monte Carlo in 1897 according to witnesses who testified on behalf of the defense. ' Thj Testimony in Court Today,. New York, Jan, 15. Three wo; men substantiate Martin W. Little ton's contention that Harry K. Thaw waa insane at the time of the shoot ing arrived at tne criminal courts building before court opened. One of the trio was Miss Hattle Pierce, a neighbor of the Thaw fnm- II y at Pittsburg, who testified at the irst trial to the signing of Thaw's will. Miss Margaret Voorhees, an actress, ' residing at the Caledonia Hotel, was another of the witnesses. The feature of her testimony was not, made known by counsel for the defense and the witness kept under, close guard to prevent her from be ing interviewed.' Christopher Brlg gln8, steward of the whist club at 26th street and Madison avenue, an other new witness, was also present. It was at this club that Harry Thaw played whist and made the acqualnt (Contlnued on Second Page.) 1 1 i ii .in mmm n iimiiiiim TMWi 11 iiiiiii "iTi ifliriiii Hi i i mi im-n , , -, ,. I'll ' ' Jl2f ' tl RPW Mi ill? 1 IP H U&w - tnn ' This is it siiaiisliot by a Hearst -ivs Sx-cvicc stall iiliotouianhci' ol Kuppreclit and Doolittle. Skctrlics ol the other jurors are shoivn Xo. 10, ISiirch; No. .", Holhert, and 4- POLICE PUZZLED (By. ''Leaped Wire to Tin' Timos.) New York, Jan. lj. The , disappear' nnce of two witnesses In Hi- Vase of THtodore Whitmoi e. charged witt- the murder-of .his wife, Lena, Is puzzling the police of Harrison and Hudson V county, N. J. I Sadie Williams, one of the women. who lived In the house occupied by the Whltmore.i, at 230.; Adams street, .Brooklyn, left tliat place yesterday and has not been located since. An other wman who lias given- Informa tion to the police concerning the Whlt nioies previous to and subsequent to the murder of Christinas tilght. can not be found. To add to the troubles of the au thorities, several annonynious letters, most of them froin women, apparent ly, have, been received by them. Some of tltyye letters were addressed to Whltmore. one, postmarked Newark, advised film to confess or ..'the writer would tell all she knew. When the grand jury meets today Prosecutor Vickers will ask for Whit more's Indictment for the murder of his wife, whose body Was found In. the Lamp Black Swamp In Harrison the day after Christmas. THE FIRST TURBINE VESSEL IN COASTWISE TRADE A SUCCESS (By Leased Wire to The Times.) New York, Jan, 15. The steamship Creole of the Southern Pacific" Com pany, the first vessel of the turbine type to be entered In the coastwise frade. -'arrived yesterday ; from New Orleans. She is of 10,000 tons. displace ment,'' and although she encountered stiff gales and vorv high seas on her way from the Florida Straits to Cape Hatteras, she did not ship a spray and sailed so steadily that on one day only was It necessary, to havo tho. racks on the tables. ' Tho passengers, among whom Is Rear Admiral Coghlan, were enthus iastic over the. qualities pf the liner, especially the almost total absence of vibration. Wilmington Gets Firemen. (Special to Tho Evening Times.) Winston-Salem, N. C.'.Jan. 15. Wil mington will again get the firemen's convention, .the executive enmmtttee last night so deciding. Ashevllle and Salisbury were bidders, but Wilming ton had the best proposition. . -. '.,'." . - ' - -.'- '' ' IN WHITMORE tire : No. 12, lloo-ier. SAYS IT WILLi BETAFT8IE ' (By Leased Wh to The Tina Atlanta, .fin.. . Jan.: . 1.". Addressing the Atlanta .freight' bureau at its an nual baiKiMel. "Coveriior . Hoke Smith expressed tile opinion that the repub lican ' .'m.:t.y Would nominate- Secretary Ttift for the presidency -next.- year. 1 1 inferentialiy : congratulated liimsrll' tint lie had k", comrades in the paign. 'Jlr. Tal't; Vvli.i rejiiibllean. noini.ui been u leader in Hryan. who will. -evelt ami anti-i-ailri .Tart. fo.: ,id . i-ilitl- I . l0o will, lie til lias .i !; he e for president. this work'-and. in all piilia!i!it: the candidate .nominee- for president, though lie has sujTgeslcil .n,',. -possibility .-of governhU'Ut '-owuersliip ol' 'rail roads, really 'advocates-, national ami state legislation." TO SELL TAR HEEL BUILOIN Governor (ileiin ai.id. (Nil. Joseph Poguo left last" night for Washi'.igt where today they are negotiating (: the sale of the North -Carolina build - ing at the Jainesiown Kxpi.isition. Tills building is oiienf tlii- hanilsiiia- est nil. tile grounds and cost apiiroxi - mately J23.0U0.. .' As yet no purchaser has been found for It, tlimigh there Hective buyers. The governor will Friday morning. are several p' return to the city AOHI IS AGAINST JAP-MIGRATION Honolulu, Jan. 15. A local Japanese newspaper prints nil Interview . -with discount Aokl, late Japanese ainbassi dor to America, In -which lie Is quot ed as follows: . "1 don't .'approve of .'manual laboi ers going to America, They Cannot expect, after Japan's long Isolation, to establish themselves In any wes' crn country.. Destiny and opportunity are In Asia In Korea and Manchuria." Viscount Aokl Is also opposed to Japanese seeking naturalization In America ns citizenship Is only need -d by those who contemplate permanent residence. HOKE SMITH I haw iiii'oi's. MeHiifih; Xo. I'Tom lcn (i, AlTov. to l'r 111 l ( it jliiTho BoyarlcwnTiGrror-Ovf r 200 Were Lost UNIDENTIFIED VICTIMS Out of 1(17 Undies Oils It lins hi' (he litlillline Out of Hie i t'p to This ' 'MorniiiK (Inly Ten ol' Tbciu Can Hit liloiitiiieil, Xo C.iitlly Charred Are (he Remains of 'lie ictiins. 'lown ami 'J'owiisjien)le Stunned. ice tee Kol.hine 1m DontU (iretisoiiK" .Scenes. y Leased Wire (i"l"he Times.) lioyeriowii, I 'a.,., Jan. 1." -Tile . I'l'iinsylvania stiiie, police a rev on gua rd a l t ho. doors of the four niorgiies iu wliich lie t ho 'Charred bodies "of file ION victims of the Khoados Opera House Tiro in, which -identification-' of tlie Vciuaiiis lii.'san to day. lH'caiise of an effort made lo ro!) ilie (lead of jewels and tiinlicis. Coroner St l'iittss is ad mit tine; ii) I lie nioi giie only liye persons at il time and the work of 'singling.' out. tlieir relathes by the "sorrowing survivors is slow. , Karly loday aiiotlicr viclini was addiMl io tlnv long list (if dead. He was. 'Jacob Johnson, who, . though' rose n ed from the vortex of the panic had in haled the deadly ilaine. He alone, of all who perished, is at his home. The others, swathed In wlilio linen, lie in long rows In tho morgues, wlitlo" ahovti tlioin bond weeping men and woinon seeking. 'too often in vain, for , i ft i f , 4 !8' J 9 Q ft I, knowledge of their dead. my Leaved Wire to The Times.) I'oyertowtt. Pa , Jan. 15. - It Is -estl- mated today that 200 persons, two thirds of them women and children, "'perished In the lire that consumed the I lihoatlcs opera House. Already 107 bodies bnve been dugout 'of the ruins, and of thut number-only ten ore recognizable Men live still at work today seekinp; '.more. - . The exact number of 'dead is not known. II Is simply known that (Continued on Third Page.) ol the n. S, WHOLE FAMILIES EXTERMINATED ai'e (iremnicls, ; No. II,' Devote.; Carey, Xaethiii;, No. t, Howell; E TREASURY Cortelyou, It is Alleged, Cer tain to Get Out Soon. STAND NO FOOLISHNESS I'l'siilent Koosevelt llandc d (he Am bitious I nileist rapper Whom lie Created Politically a Straight ' Purgative There Now Keeins to lie Nolliin.'i for Coitclyoii to J)o P.iK to Ketire As tiracelully As He Can I'mler tilt' Circumstances. ( By Leased Wire to The. times.) -. W'asMingl on, Jan. 1 5.- A gain the story of Secretary Cortelyoit's resig nai ion from the cabinet is afloat. Tile, local .correspondent of ; a, NVw I'tirli morning paper assert?, posi tively t hat t lie secretary resigned at the close of a stormy private session with President Koosevelt, following a calii.lel .-meeting some time ago. Thy dispatch says: "Mr. Cortelyou's tenure- of ofrwo In l life cabinet was made" impossible by the quarrel wlitcii he hail Avlth rresideiit Koosevelt,'. following ro rt'sentatioii.s made, to the president of Mr. C'orlelyou's alleged interfe'' mice with the Ta ft plan of caaipaign. immediately after that Mr. Coriol you left tlie treasury department, and went; home, explaining that lie was sick of the grippe. "Since then lie has recovered from jlhe grippe but has not been near th" department,'-'; lie has attended calii O 'not. lni'Otings ami afier .each (if f!ieti: has tried to )eisua(l( Cue '-president, that lie was as niuc:i entitled to the support of the administration for the ''presidency as .Mr. Taft. In each j case ho has entirely failed. The r;V' suit of 'his- failure is his resignation, I "Cortelyou felt he had a right t,i 'lic. a futidlihite for president, and acted on that belief, ills best friend and lieutenant, Mr. Hitchcock, of the postolllce '.department', went Into the south to gather delegates and suc ceeded. ; President Koosevelt found that this activity was interfering with the Taft boom and gavo viie Ciirielyuu ambition a jolt In his .lei tor to the federal office-holders aid in his public letter reiterating that he would not accept, another term. "The jolt, was so pronounced '.lint It caused Mr. Cortelyou to break Into unaccustomed profanity. In that he said he had 'had a d rough (Continued on Second Page.) PORTFOLIO RESIGNS AS REV, COLLECTOR Appointed by Jodoe Prif chard He Resigned as Collec tor Today THIRD RECEiVER IS THE COURT'S CHOICE Judge Pi itcl.aiil. When Petitioned to .Value Additional Iteceiver, Stated He Would Select a Man Without Suggestion t'roni Any Interest. Mr, I Him an (iave Poml And Has Filtered l'Hin His Duties Ap pointment Created Sensation Here And is I'niversully Approved. Most Important Otlice (Jiven a North Caioiiiiiail in u Quarter of a Century, it is Said The Ite ceiver Will Continue to Live in Kalcigli. Last evening at fi o'clock messages were received in Raleigh announc ing that, Judge Jeter C. Pritchard yesterday in Richmond appointed Hon. Edward Carlton Dni.an third receiver for the Seaboard Air Line Railroad. Today Mr. Duncan is in Washing ton, where he will resign his present position of collector of internal rev enues for the eastern district of North Carolina. Judge Spencer B. Adams,: republican state chairman, left Greensboro last night and joins Mr. Duncan In Washington today. It. Is expected that Mr. ' Luncan will hand his resignation to the president today and his successor will be . named at the same time. The selection of Mr. Duncan as re ceiver is undoubtedly a personal choice of the court. When the Sea board Air Line went into the hands of receivers Judge Pritchard named S, Davies Warfield. of Baltimore, and It. Lancaster Williams, of Richmond, receivers. They represent, it is said, the rival Ryan and Williams Inter ests respectively. January second application was made bv bondhold ers and others for the appointment of a third receiver and Oustave Ober, a Haltimore banker, was suggested. However, Judge Pritchard continued 'the..' petition and stated that if he granted the request he would name a man who would represent the court and be t lie choice of the court. Inde pendent Of any suggestions. Hence his -.-'selection- of' Mr. .Duncan as re ceiver for this vast. 'railway system, in which ; millions are invested, stretching from Richmond to the Florida coast. The compensation for the receivers will be fixed bv tho court, and report here has it that. If the usual allowance In such cases is made the receivers will receive about $25,0(10 each per annum. Last night numerous messages were received here showing the deep interest the selection of Mr. Duncan has created. Mr. Duncan gave bond as receiver yesterday in Richmond and held li conference with the other receivers before leaving for Washing ton, Mr. John Skeiton Williams gave out ;r statement, to a Richmond paper to the effect that ho was pleased with (lie choice Judge Pritchard had made. j Mr. Duncan has lived in Raleigh i for the past ten years and will not change his residence. Thy man who I has. 'received perhaps 'the' most lucra jtive and influential appointment ever 'given a North Carolinian was born in j Carteret county 45 years ago. He jwas captain of a Bteamboat at Ueau ; fort, and still holds his license as such. In the management of the estates of both grandfathers he j mailt a reputation ns a fine business j man. President Harrison appointed Jliim collector of the port of Beaufort ; in 1 SnD and he served four years. In 1 N04 and again In 1896 he was elect ied to the legislature and is the only j republican w ho has carried Carteret 'county since the Civil War. In that llegislnture. Mr. Duncan was the : staunch friend of Judge Pritchard. j President McKlnley, on February 1, jisfts, appointed Mr. Duncan collec , tor, the position he now holds. Mr. ; Duncan has been delegate to the past three republican national conven- lions and Is now national commit j (Continued on Page Five.)
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