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' I '.'..'.''..'"..'. - . . Only Afternoon Paper Dehvoen Richmond and Atlanta With Leased Wire and Full Prcoo Diopatcheo ALL THE BASKETS. LAST EDITION. 73 THE RALEIGH EVENING TIME VOLUME 30. RALEIGH, N. C, MONDAY, JUNE 1, 1908. PRICE 5 CENTS. BEECH HARMS ON TRIAL FOR MURDER Young Man Who Sbot Father, Notorious Kentucky Mountain Feudist, Faces Judge and Jury Today in Jackson Court house to Fight for His Life. FOLLOWERS OFBREATHETTBOSSffANTCONVICTION Mother is Standing By Her Boy and Will Spend $50,000 to His Equal Sum for Best Legal TaleAt Obtainable. (By Leased Wire to The Times.) .Lexington, Ky., June j. The trial of Hcech Hargis. charged with the mur der of his father, Judge James Har gis, the famous feudist, last February, begins nt Jackson, Breathitt county, to day. Trouble is expected in securing a Jury, for there is high feeling on both rides. Judge Hargis's former followers demand Beech's conviction, while the supporters of the boy say he should he acquitted on the ground of self-de. fensc. The boy's mother says she Is prepared to spend $50,000 to free him, while he has the same amount for his own defense. The report that he tried to commit suicide Saturday is now said to b.- un true. The very best legal talent in the mountains has been employed to defend Hargis, while citizens of Jackson have made up a public subscription and em ployed Floyd Byrd to prosecute. For four years Bryd relentlessly prosecut ed Judge Hargis for various Breathitt feud murders. , Scenes About New York County Courthouse During Recount of Votes for Mayoralty BERDINE THINKS GIR L SUICIDED County Prosecutor Takes Lit tle Stock in Theory That Pret ty Librarian Was Murdered AUTO ACCIDENT KILLS TWO MEN ( By Leased Wire to The Times.) Princeton.; N. J., June 1. -Determined to satlffy himself 'whether or not pret ty Hertha Vanderbilt, the librarian yif Princeton university, whose body was found in the Uarltan cunal. had been killed, committed suliMle or perlshe.l by accident. Prosecutor George Berdine of Middlesex county, will enter on a personal examination u the scene of the possible crime. Deterred by the attitude of the dead Kill's family in Amsterdam, N.; Y., who object strongly to my further investi gation with the object of protecting her name, Prosecutor Berdine will make no further efforts to obtain the return of the body to Princeton until he has completed his own Investigation. Mean while he has notified hi.s detective, Frank Hoffman, now In Amsterdam, to return to New Jersey pending his de cision in the matter. "From information which has been given me," said Sir. Berdine when ques tioned by a reporter as to his intenr tlons in the case, "I am inclined to think Miss Vanderbilt met her death through her own act. There is a pos sibility, of course, that the death was an accident, and I have by no means dropped the other possibility that she may yet have met with foul play, but the evidence so strongly points to sui cide that I feel assured such was th case." All Night Frolic at Coney Fol lowed By Broken Car and Bad Accident I Will iwll Ik wwJi GOVERNOR GLENN MAY PITCH THE FIRST BALL KIT CHIN GAINS LITTLE ON CRAIG Than 35 In Primaries of Saturday TO KXPKDITE THK COCXTIXc;. .New, York, June I -With the ropening today of the quo warranto proceedings to oust George I! Mr Clullan from the office of mayor, it was announced that in future lour ballet bo?;es would be opened at a time instead of one or two or three, so that the work of the recount, niav be rushed to coniplol o The recount of the ballots cast in tin last mayoralty election in New York-- has begun and is Mnj? watched with keen interest all over the country .- The court shows steadv pains for William Krundolph Hears! and Mr. Hearst's friends are confident that -It. will show that he was elected minor over MrClellnn This -picture sliows the scene outside of the court-house, when the. first, of tin? ballot hoxo.s were brought, into court bv or der of Justice Lambert, sitting hi the. case. TRUELSON MAN OF MANY TALES CLEVELAND OFF F0HPPrBl PHILLIP TELLS ABI laiT onnnTiiir ti i M1IIII I Pi inn unuuii; ir JohnnoniHn Book Club. The Johnsonian Book Club will meet with Mrs. 'A. W. Knox, Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. '.(By. Leased Wire to The Times.) New York, June l. As a result of an automobile accident, two men were killed and two injured. When, on the return trip from Long Island, the automobile smashed against a tree in Ocean parkway near Prospect avenue at 3 o'clock this morning. It leaped into the air and fell, burying the six men occupants of the car un der its weight. The dead are William P. Gou beaud, 42, of 1477 Pacific street, Brooklyn, and Thomas Nolan, 45, of 242 New Y'ork avenue, Brooklyn. The injured are Victor Brandes, 43, of 1742 Atlantic avenue, Brook lyn, right arm and left thigh broken and internal Injuries, and James Mc Kenna, 43, of No. 53 Brooklyn ave nue, left shoulder broken and possi bly internal injuries. The automobilev was owned and driven by John Layon, a lawyer, of 371 Fulton Btreet, who lives at 1474 Pacific street. In the automobile with Layton, besides the two men killed and the two Injured was Ern est Egbert, 46, of 752 Pacific street. Layton and his five friends bad spent the greater part of the night at Coney Island. When they started back to their homes, Layton was making his machine go at top speed. The automobile was whirling along at a terrible pace when at Prospect avenue Layton turned the (Continued on Page Six.) Fifsi He Says Re Helped Hslifi'l ooKs Wfil! as fimJn He 8?fps 'Knew Mao4bnys Roput t: Gunness, Then Calls fc; info Auto iof Ita- : . i -' fession Lie i Boy Bandits in Knee Pants Hold Up and Rob an Express (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Great Palls, Mont., June 1. Four boy bandits in knee trousers, the leader only 15 years old, held up and robbed the' northbound passenger train on the Great Northern a mile and a half from here. One man was Bhot. The boys were captured Sunday and brought to Jail here. They are said to have confessed. They gave their names as Albert Hatch, 15, who Is said to have planned the hold up: William Randall, 17; George Cresflwcll, 16, and Harry Rbeames, 16. .- " Cresswell claims he took no part I In the robbery. Cresswell, Rheames and Randall say Hatch turned the ' switch, ordered the engineer to baqk I the train, and went through the I coaches with Conductor Jack Hayes, forcing the latter, at the point of a revolver, to rob the passengers for him. - They also allege Hatch Bhot Wil liam Dempsey, who resisted ' him, and shot through Conductor Hayes' eoatsleeve, after which the boy ban dits escaped. Then Hatch drew hU gun on Rheames, but the latter re fused to Join him in the holdup of another train. Hatch was pursuadod not to attempt Another robbery while being pursued, (Bv Leased Wire to The Times.) Vernon,, Texas. June 1 , eai iui; that with Hay I.ampheiv he acted a aid to .Mis. r.elle (tunijess. of "Laporte. lml., in her career of murder and then declaring'-the whole story a lie, Julius Or. Truelson. Jr.. of New York, is puss llns the otiloiais here. His retraction came, only -as'-Sheriff Sinutxer. of La portc, was about to leave 'with him for Indiana Truelson has been in jail here since March HI, charged with swindling- 'by represiMitlDK- hiniself to be Joshua Thaw, of Pittsburg, and passing forged checks ; ml drafts. His fat her, J. i. Truelson. a piano maiiul'a-turer of New Y'ork. has abandoned his son to his fate after futile efforts to redeem the young man. . Truelson swore he took his wife. Mae Prances O'lteilly, of Rochester, N. i'., to the Gunness farm to have her put out of the way, helped Lamphere bury her, and assisted in disposing of six other bodies In the private lemetery of the Ijiporte murderess. Mae , O'Reilly is missing, Jewelry bearing the name of May K. O'Reilly was found In the Gunness ruins. In his confession Truelson said that early in 1904 he read Mrs. Ouniiess' mat rimonial advertisement in a Danish paper published in Milwaukee, and met her In the Sherman house at Chicago. From there he accompanied her to La porte. - Truelson declares Mrs. Gunness told him she was practicing as a midwife Illegally and that many of her patients died, and it wart part of her contract to dispone of the bodies. She said she had one man, but it required two to do the work. Truelson described a horse and sur rey that fitted well the rig owned by the murderess. He then told of return. Ing to Chicago and of 'his wanderings during the next two years, Including his meeting his first wife, May Francis O'Reilly, who, ho says, was a dissolute woman, at Saratoga on August 3, 1904. and marriage on the following day In Albany by the Rev, Knapp, curato of St.' Peter's church. He said he took his bride to Rochester to the Powers hotel and deserted her in two weeks. Truelson says he arrived In Laporte on Christmas night and the same night Lamphere and he helped bury the body of a girl. He later learned from Lam phere that It was Jennie Olson. The story of the confession says Treison remained three days; on the second night, helping bury the body of a man Lamphere said was John Mee. Truelson declared that then he realised Mrs. Gunness was not practicing mid wifery but murder, and that he con fronted her and said he wanted to get (Continued on Second Page.) Dirly Figteand Ttojlil I Uilscwiiod. . N. J.; ,lun- . 1. Lonkin, 'full) as well us when, .he curie her. ; three mouths a-g". - Urovei- .-.Cleveland, ' jle.niins heaviir mi his cane. e:uiic from hH room .in the-l.akevvood bote!,. wnlU- ? led do-.vu .'stairs unaided-, entered ait an- I- - - 1 ' ' ! i toniobili- belonging' u John Hays Itai.r.- j inond. iiud left for Prim eton. j 1 Mrs. Cleveland, .who luid hurried 'back 'from Ta'iufuout h: X. II-, where she weiit Fiida- with the children, anil j i Dr. (1. Row;-' Loekwood. one of the pby Ulclans whip has' been -constantly, in at tendanee on .Mr. Cleveliiiid .and who j came from . New , York yesterday, ai'- companied the patient, as well as the 'nurse who has been -with hint since he I first came here, and Mr. Hammond. I A local '.'physician said he had at no time thought Mr. Cleveland In great I j danger. He believed Mr. Cleveland I would live at least 10 years. He ridi Iculed the theorr tliat cancer had devel joped In tile flintier president and said ' acute- indigestion and rheumatic, gout 'are his only ailments. o o o o o o o o o o o o o o Mexican Colony Will Quit : Clothes Altosi'tlier. (By leased Wire to The Times) : New York, June 1 A .-"simple. ..life-, colony," where men, women and children will go about naked and the men are never to cut. their hair or beards, will be started this fall near Yera Cruz, Xlex., by Guataf H. Ander. well-known in ' socialist Ic and anarchlsttic circles and who now lives at 232 East "6lh slreet. More than 50 persons have become his followers and have prom ised to sail for the tropics when he sails. , Mr. Antler expects by Sep tember 1 to have collected at least 500 colonists who have the same Ideals ho has. "When we get down to Mexico wo will get rid of all the clothes we can,-', Mr. An der said to a reportor. "Of course some of us will hold on to a few bits, naturally. But before long, when we have all become pure In heart, we will have no need for even fig leaves." ooo o a o a I -. 2' z .'l a o ' l a a o o 0 0 8 8 0 8 0, 8' (By .Leased V v to The Tim. s.) . Wash ine.i on , .1 a ne . 1 Gaston Phil lip. . the , wealthy, younu; clubman, cliarRcd v. iili . killing Frank MacAbay, a cabman iH umiintanee, in the Arling ton hoiel On .May IS, liidT, took the si a ad in liis own Jieha lf this--'after-, noon arid. -.'..while' the hushed audi ence thai packed: 'he courtroom eag erly drank iii-every, word of the story of l.iiiit falet'ul niornins; and ; the events hat led up lo the shooting: As .he treated tiia.l )mrtioQ of his story which ileal! with the ; meet ing' in the corridor of the hotel, the scuf fle and llie shol, Ills voice quivered slightly and his head bent'. forward. "When I walked down the hall of the hotel and rounded a bend I sud denly mel .MacAUoy,' he said. . . .''He grabbed nie by the left.. arm. and turned Hie ''.roughly ai-t.utid to.the right, my Isadi to the. baii sler. He Stood in front, of itie and asiied me where I was fudng. 1 told . him I w:is going out, and at the same time forced m self from him and back in the direct loiv of my rooivi. He grain bed me again. He said: 'You are not, going on i.' You -are too drunk to go out.' Mis grip lightened. He sb id : 'I. iim going to have that Jlfiu or I will break your head.' '' Henry K. ' Davis, bis attorney, asked Phillip to leave the witness stand and demonstrate how Mac Aboy had held him. "He struck me on the shoulder like that." said -Phillip, lulling Mr. Davis on the shoulder with his hand. "I saw that I was losing my balance. A four came over mo, I knew I was alone with him." "Did you have any other impres sion than one of danger?" "My only Impression was one of danger. His threats enme to my mind. I realized the kind of man he was. 1 felt, that I was boing down and that he would jump on me." "Then what happened?" "I had not recovered my balance when I fired." "Immediately after you fired what did you see?" "I saw nothing but a flash." 'And then?" "I saw him looking at me." "Yhnt did you do when he fell?" "I walked over to him and started to rain him from the floor. I spoke to hlra and from the manner In which (Continued on Page Five.)) Ten counties; held primaries Sat urdav. Three of the ten are in Mr. Kitc;nns district, and the others in neutral territory. Eight counties cast, a - total of 6b voles, and of these Mr. Craig received 12.12; Mr. Kitch In 4 2.34. and Mr. Home 11.5-4.. In cluding the counties of Union and Onslow, which held their primaries earlier in the week, hut have not been tabulated, the net result of the week's balloting is that. Mr. Craig still leads ill: the gubernatorial race bv 29.49 votes. The total result: of the week's vot ing, exclusive of Camden and Colum bus is: Craig 16.34; Kitchln" 49.39; and Home 14.27. : Mr: Craig's friends believe he will pet the bulk of the vote In Columbus and claim two of Camden's three voles lor him. Altogether 94 votes were cast the past week in various count v primaries, and up to date a total of 57S convention votes have been recorded. Of this grand total Mr. Craig has 253.22; Mr. Kitchin 2273 ami Mr. Home S". 05. Col. Home ran well Saturday and fully measured up. to. the expectations of W .r. ...is. .Taking in ) ciiiu-vU-i...-'" . ' '' I 'u 1 that Ui . te: ! tie- cioj.-.ijr-t, ir Mr.' K!rt bi'i';' ,!is. rit-l, ? .m tw of i.'ieiii ireidHii : .'ils ; .-..'.I' u ,(e. , ; - r.. .'.:!'" I'lll.ra'v agn (inl)le to Mr. Craig's friends. Mr. Kitchin did not carry 'either of the three in bis own district solidly and to Mr. Craig's friends that speaks volumes. " Thus far 70 counties have held primaries and conventions and 2S are yet to vote. Mr. Craig's friends are more confident thai) ever that he wi.il come to the convention with a good round plu nility. as the counties which are yet to vote are all in neu tral terrilory and the indications are that he will get a full share of the votes to be cast. . Cliiof Executive as Pitcher and Mayor Johnson as Catcher. FIRST GAME MONDAY President Washington Asked to Strike at liovemor's Curves. Coventor Robert B. Olean, wh n n of the most ardent baseball ent! us lasts in North Carolina, n'-d who ir, his vounger days wa,s setu thing if an 'athlete himself, has beer a?d t.. j.- tch the first ball at the opi in; of the Eastern Carolina League teji- jn ner next Monday. Mayor Junes f, I br.son has been asked to catch' tin fit st be!; and President Tom Wasluncrt.'n Wilson, has been ..invited to strik Governor Glenn doe not y that he will be able to strike C " Washington out or throw ti e clean through Mayor Jor .-jTi . will do these things If at the time. Mayor tcrnoon accepted tfct; catch, . After he had been In ' eriHir Gletvl formerly game. Wfs handy wltf h,!d bigte-s.in, Mayor ." ly re' lied that he- thlit the Governii: ' of ut. e:w jt km . he t i : ! 'itv s'j Vm .' V HllJi' tO I t-eiQov. c a good f i tick' and ...Me on piompt 'hfil'1 njhlng thi w. ,.1' There is nn e , ; :n th state who Mikes ba.etiali b.-cter ihfi.i Governor 'Glenn: In h's youth a i i iier of abll ',ijv U hss .-er tlr 1 C "he snort and . tier ds ab th-- f,v- ..so Haleigb that ; rie.i.:-' l.bli; 1. '. ' At 1 lie .ll'led ithe-lVwyc.'' p: vuusmn-.iHlom In trim j m.!n the v!'.' ' " f toe i Itching p.irt of die gjiie: aril Ifc .tli ;; as well The management ol lies!.; certainly hope that -v S be in the city Mondav The game will be e iiind -i the merchants of the . ty i j to .close their stores pt o . the '.clerks may have :: ov ' ! Seeing the first conte: t. V. the afternoon will 1 e t r i which will be the vav ous ', land city -officials,- a 1 and ' i J'tenms. , I Kinston will open tae J ! playing three; days. I-'roi .. locals will go to.Wl! n tt j Ing. the -new Held in - he I Kii It ' uater. . ' eigh club i nor will 4 ,10 and b asked I. so that : inn ty of : ' atare of ade, In . county he two ii hero, lie h the the WALKER CONFIDENT HE WOT BE EXTRADITED (By Leased Wire to.The Times) Han Diego. Cal., June 1 - Federal .ludge Cadena, al linsada, has .again decided against William F. Walker, t he absconding Connecticut treasurer, hi his exl radii ion proceedings. Se nor Ramirez;,' attorney for Walker, lias 'appealed' from the decision to the supreme court of Mexico. If tlie ap peal s not 'successful.- it is said Ihiit Attorney Uamiresz has several other plans of 'action. '. Walker appears confident that he will no: be returned to the I til tod States.: Mr. .lames It. Young left today for liaurinbtirg, Scotland county, to prosecute W. J.. Mills and A. B(! qnest. two alleged insurance frauds. DEATH OF MR. T.U0" 1-ltITT; VTXKHATj AT "iAP.N1 H TODAY ' Mr. Vernon Britt. i nor it Mr. and Mrs. Henry. Britt, d'd a bin home, near Garner, at 2:': t o'e!o." .. Sunday morning, death resu tins from tuber culosl '. lie was 26 yean if age.- He had been a traveling sii uuia In Missis- : sippi for six years. He returned to his home a few weeks ago and the end came Sunday morning. He leaves a father, mother, three sisters, Mrs. Edgar Ellington, of this city; Mrs. Richardson, of Portsmouth, Va,, and Miss 'Ethel Britt; also three brothers; Messrs. Hardle, Louis, and Dee Britt. He was a grand-nephew of Mr. Ashley Home, and a most highly esteemed young man. The news of his death will bring great sorrow to his many friends. A number of friends from Raleigh will attend the funeral, which will be con ducted by Dr. W. C. Tyree, at 3:30 this afternoon at Garner. ? Hew York Thinks Bry an Can 7 Get More Than613 Votes in All New York, June 1 -Democratic politicians of New York who are op posed to the -nomination" of William J. Bryan at the Denver convention have figured out that, with the dele gates already chosen as a basis, It will be impossible to block the Ne braskan in the control of the conven tion.. , The assert that In addition to the 480 delegates already Instructed for Bryan he cannot get more than 133 more, which Is 55 jess than the two-Lhirds required to nominate. They figure that If the Johnson people can control the 258 unlpstruct ed delegates already chosen and gain, as they believe they will, 125 addi tional delegates, either unlnstructed or plodged to vote for Johnson, they will have in the convention a total of 383 delegates opposed to Bryan, which will mean that he cannot be nominated on the first ballot. It Is figured by these politicians that if they can control 383 dele gates they will be able entirely "to block Bryan's nomination, and even If It Is not possible to get the votes necessary to nominate Johnson, they will be able to force the running Of a "dark horse" and eliminate Bryan from the fight.
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