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Simon Lovejoy Killed Annie
; Martin in Raleigh at
Noon Today
FID LOUD INTO HER
HEAD AT CLOSE' RANGE
Hotly Pursued by Score of Colored
Men Lovejoy, who is Half-Witted,
Attempted to Drown Himself in
' Water ; at Rock Quarry Son of
' Woman Would Kill Murderer, But
Prevented ' by Captors Jealousy
Cause of Horrible Deed Prelim-
. inary Hearing Set For Tomorrow
at 12 O'clock. ' -
Standing in a yard on Lane street
at 12 o'clock today, Simon Lovejoy, a
J half-witted negro, took a single-bar
relled army 'musket and shot Annie
Martin's head nearly off, killing her
Instantly. The negro, who had
previously quarreled with the w
man, then fled and was pursued by
twenty other negroes of the neigh
borhood and captured just as he was
attempting to drown himself. The
preliminary hearing has been set for
tomorrow at 12 o'clock, before Justice
of the Peace H. H. Roberts.
The greatest excitement followed
the shooting. Three negro men,
headed by George L. Lane, at once
gave pursuit, leaving the body of the
woman bleeding in her doorway.
Lovejoy still carried his gun, an old-
fashioned Winchester army, musket.
He ran down East Davie street,' hotly
pursued,- and hid In the rock quarry,
near the city. .'
His captors say he was attempting
to drown himself. Alex. Atwater,
Arnest Redlc and Jos Bridgers, three
young colored men, made the arrest.
Geo. L. Lane called on the man to
come from his concealment.
In company with his captors, Love
joy was marched to the courthouse,
where he was committed to jail by
Justice of the Peace H. H. Roberts
on the charge of murder.
A son of the murdered woman,
frenzied at the horrible crime, would
have killed the murderer instantly
but for the coolness of Lane and his
companions. They and their twenty
followers, who had chased the fellow
for a mile through the rain, pre
vailed on him by entreaty and threats
to forego any violerfce.
The killing followed a quarrel. A
reporter of the Evening Times talked
with Lovejoy at the jail.
"I had been going with her for
nine years," he said, "and here of
late she had gone back on me."
He was simply Jealous of another
negro who had been paying the wo
man attentions: He is a rather tall
negro, very black, with peaked face,
and weak 'expression. His captors
say he is half-witted. He does not
deny the crime. Though of unbal
anced mind, Lovejoy is said to be a
hard-working negro.
MRS. VANDERBILT IS
OVERWHELMED AT DEATH.
(By Cable to The Times.)
Paris, July- SO. Mrs. William K.
Vanderbllt, mother of -G.- WInthrop
Sands, who was killed in an auto
mobile accident yesterday near
Polssy, is prostrated -with grief at
the untimely death of her young ton.
Both she and her husband were at
the chateau St Louis towards which
Mr. Sands was journeying when the
accident took place and the mangled
and charred body was carried there
from the scene.
The funeral of the late Mr. Sands
will take place in Paris on Saturday.
As a result of the tragedy Mr. Van
derbllt Has withdrawn all his horses
from his racing engagements.
i Tftft Arrives at Hot Springs.
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)'
Hot8prlnga, Va., July 80. Judge
William H. Taft arrived here this
tnornlng shortly before 11 o'clock
accompanied by General and Mrs.
Henry C. Corbln. Senator Nathan
Bay Scott, of West Virginia, was
Watching for the train and boarded
jit for an extended and serious talk
, with the presidential nominee on na
tional committee matters. The trip
from Cincinnati wal made without
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b&eeisssiivening time
KNIGHTRIDbRaSlN
KENTUCKY STATE
Railroad Officials Appeal to
Governor Willson
WANT TROOPS REMOVED
Say Lawless Mobs Have Threatened
to Derail Trains If Troops Are Not,
Taken Off Property Governor
Won't Comply and Serious Trouble
is Feared.
' (By Leased Wire to The Times.)
Louisville, Ky., July7 30. The
situation in western Kentucky be
tween 'the state troops .and night
riders is growing critical. There may
be a clash between the two at any
moment.
The Illinois Central Railroad of
ficials received a warning signed
with crossed bones and skull that
the troops must be removed at once
from their property under penalty
that their trains would be derailed
and property destroyed.
The railroad appealed to Governor
Willson, stating the threats of the
night riders and asking the governor
to have the militia vacate their prop
erty. The governor replied in a long
letter staging that the soldiers must
camp on the best - suited site and
that no' stone would be left unturned
to.arrest any and fill law-breakers.
The "substance of 'Governor Will
son's reply is to the effect that the
soldiers must eat and sleep some
where and if the railroad property is
best suited then they have the power
and right to camp on the railroad
property or any other property, pay
ing reasonable compensation for the
occupancy.
"There has been an attempt," the
governor says, "to prevent the com
monwealth's forces from performing
their duties by refusing them a place
to stay and by making others afraid
to let them stay on their premises
or to buy provisions. Service of 'the
commonwealth- is above private
rights and they can take a place-to
rest and camp without consent after
previously tendering compensation
so that if your right of way Is the
mast suitable place to have a camp it
will be the officers' duty to locate
there.:
"There will ,be no relaxation In
the determination to restore law and
order and to protect the-people."
Johnson on Bryan's Staff.
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
Minneapolis, Minn., July 30 Gov.
John A. Johnson has accepted the In
vitation of William J. Bryan to act'
as a member of the candidate's "per
sonal advisory committee." The com-'
mlttee includes fifteen prominent!
democrats who wilt act as Mr. I
Bryan's political cabinet throughout
the campaign.
JOHT TPMPT-E GRAVES
John Temple Grave, who was
nominated yeteraay xor vicetresi
dent on the Independence ticket.
of North Carolina
RALEIGH, N C, THURSDAY, JULY SO, 1908
Hon. Thomas Lsfupgen, Head of The
Independence 'Party Ticket.
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Hon. Tliomas R. Hisgen, of Massachusetts, who ran a remarkable race
for Governor of that state on the Independence ticket, and who was
chosen for President at the Chicago convention.
Tangle y is
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
New York, July 30. The Gould
Railroad tangle affecting the vast
railroad system of the Mississippi
river has been unwoven to a practi
cal extent by a conference which was
participated in by. E. H. Harriman,
George Gould and counsel represent
ing both conferees.
A syndicate headed by Kuhn, Loeb
& Company and Blair & Company
will finance the $8,000,000 worth of
Wheeling and Lake Erie notes which
fall due on Saturday. It is said in
Wall street today that this kills
Gould's plan to form a competitive
trans-continental line consisting of
the Western Pacific, Denver & Rio
Grande, Missouri Pacific, Wabash,
Wheeling & Lake Erie, Wabash
Pittsburg Terminal and the Western
Maryland system.
It is quite likely, Wall street fur
ther states, that Mr. Harriman will
be a factor in the Wabash, the Wabash-Pittsburg
Terminal and the
Western Maryland system, in the fu
ture while Mr. Gould will be able to
maintain his western lines independ
ently. ' . ,-
To Dooble-Track Roads.
So Interwoven and ramifying are
the bigger railroad interests and the
bigger Industrial Interests that finan
ciers are already speculating on re
sults. It is known that the above
arrangements means the double
tracking of ;. the Wheeling & Lake
A Furious Storm Lashes
Eastern
(Special to The Times.)
Wilmington, N. C. July 30. A
northeast storm that had been mov
ing up the coast from Florida cen
tered at Wilmington and Wrlghta
ville Beach last night and did much
damage, causing great excitement at
the latter place. -Wind, with a ve
locity of sixty miles an hour and
powerful furloui waves, lashed the
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Erie system and the consequent de
velopment of the Lorain Steel prop
erties at Lorain, O., owned by the
United States Steel Corporation. It
also means a traffic alliance by the
Erie with other roads . . as the Erie
thus acquires an entrance into Pitts
burg. ..
Pennsylvania Rond Willing.
It is shown by the fact that Kuhn,
Loeb & Company, the Pennsylvania
and Harriman bankers, financed the
deal that the sanction of the great
Pennsylvania system was received to
the plan. A statement will likely be
forthcoming in a day or so from
probably Mr. Gould, Mr. Harriman
or Jacob Schiff, who is also inter
ested. It is learned today on authority
that on the occasion of J. P. Mor
gan's recent brief visit to the city
from Europe ho had a long confer
ence with Mr. Harriman at which
many matters , of importance were
settled. '
While associates of Mr. Harriman
and Mr. Morgan, who were approach
ed declined to discuss the facts of
this case, they united, in insisting
that too much importance must not
be placed upon it, this will hardly
suit Wall street, which knows too
well the wide differences of opinion
existing between the railroad leader
and the banker for many years; in
fact ever since the Northern Pacific
corner and its train of consequences.
Carolina Coast
beach - and spread consternation
among the hundreds of people there.
To add to the confusion the trolley
and electric lines went down about
midnight, leaving the seashorewith
but car service and plunging the
place into blackness.
Steam trains were rushed from the
city and hauled the people away at
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Service and Full
AUTOMOBILE
INTO BRIDGE- DEATH
SLENDER CLUES
OF THE POLICE
New York Officials Trying to
Identify Body
TWO MEN ARE ARRESTED
Father and Son Held for Murder of
Young Woman . Found Disfigured
in Lonely Lot, Brooklyn Fire
and Acid Put on Face The Clues.
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
New York, July 30. In the most
baffling of mysteries an embroidered
scapular of Our Lady of Mount Car
mel, a bit of checkered gingham, a
section of embroidered silk, a bunch
of keys and a Duckhorn handled
knife are the slender clues which the
police of Manhattan and Brooklyn
today have in their possession in
their search for the identification of
the charred body of a young woman
found in a lonely r lot in Williams
burg. They are seeking two men,
seen in a wagon near the spot short
ly before the discovery of the body.
Fire and acid were used to destroy
the face of the victim and a portion
of the body, but sufficient was re
vealed to the coroner and police to
establish that the woman was about
30 years old, Her hair -was jet black
and her skin of olive tinU-r She was
five" feet -five inches "fair, and such
bits of clothing as remained uncon
sumed indicated that she had been
well dressed.
There was no evidence of violence
save a knife wound in the throat. It
was this wound that caused her
death. The police believe that the
woman was an, Italian, married and
In comfortable circumstances. ,
The police are working on the
story of Mrs. Matthew Murray, of
No. 2328 Green Point avenue, who
says she heard a wagon drive up to
the spot and later driving in the di
rection of the ferry.
Mrs. Murray said she was awak
ened in her room by the sound of
wheels turning rapidly.-? The noise
was unusual so she got up and went
to the front window. A horse hitch
ed to a covered wagon was crossing
the lot from the direction of the
creek bank at a gallop, , urged on by
some one unseen who sat under the
sheltering hood plying the whip. The
horse took the curbing at one jump
whirled lnto the roadway and dis
appeared, going toward the Green
Point ferry. Mrs. Murray said there
were twomen In the wagon and one
of them wore a white hat.
Because he told three separate
stories, and all of them conflicting,
the authorities at Brooklyn head
quarters locked up the man, who
gave the first alarm Joseph Rud?
dick, a private watchman.
Later, as a result of the older
man's latest story, they took his son,
Joseph Ruddlck, Jr., a young ped
dler. Into custody as a suspicious
person. :
FUQUAY'S WAREHOUSE
READY BY AUGUST 10
The large tobacco warehouse at
Fuquay Springs Is nearlng comple
tion and will be opened for business
in about ten days. This warehouse,
which Is one of the largest in the
county, is being built by the Fuquay
Tobacco Warehouse Company. It is
76 x 140 feet.
Mr. Beale Johnson, of Fuquay, is
in the city on business. He reports
that boarding houses are full of sum
mer visitors and that the only thing
that keeps Fuquay back is the lack
of hotel accommodations. Trading
In valuable Fuquay lots has been very
profitable since the big sale a few
daya ago. ;
Commercial Bar Silver.
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
New xYork, July SO Commercial
bar silver, 5 J ; decline a; Mex
ican dollars, 45. .,
Press Dispatchzs
ALL THE 1IARKET3
PRICE 5 CENTS.
CRASHES
Alfred 1 Laoterbach Meets
Tragic Fate in New York
Early This Morning
SIXTY MILES AN HOUR
Big Sixty Horse-Power Berlin Tour
ing Car Strikes Lower String Piece
of Temporary Bridge, Fore Right
Wheel Brakes and Beam Pene
trates Left Side, Crushing Body
From Side to Knee Other Mem
bers of Party Have Marvelous Es
capes Lauterbach Was Upholder
of Fast Speeding and Father Is
Lawyer of International Promi
nence. (By Leased Wire to The Times.)
New York, July 30. Alfred L.
Lauterbach, son of Kdward Lauter
bach, a lawyer of international prom
inence, was instantly killed early to
day in an automobile accident not
far from the town of Westchester
and his two companions, William
Cahn, a broker of No. 204 West
Fifty-fifth street, and Edwin Good
man, a real estate broker of No. 2469
Broadway, had narrow escapes from
death. . " '
The young men had dined late and
were returning from a long spin
through Westchester county. Lau
terbach, who, with his father, has
been a defender of fast motoring and
whose car has been halted on numer
ous occasions for hard running, was
at the w heel.- Hflthose- -Tonga
stretch of road to shortcut into the
city as the party had been out many
hours and his friends were anxious
to return home. The car was going,
according to the police of Westches
ter, at sixty miles an hour when the
party approached the Williams
bridge road.
At the approach to a new bridge
which is being erected over the New . .
York, New Haven & Hartford Rail
road tracks, a temporary structure
spans the railroad. On each side is
a heavy wooden guard rail which
narrows the approach to the tempo
rary bridge to fifteen feet. The in
cline is at an angle of nearly forty
five degrees.
In speeding, south and coming close
to this rail, the big sixty horse-power
Berlin touring car -struck a lower
string piece. The fore right wheel
broke, sending the car with terrific
force against the six-inch top guard
rail. A long section of the heavy
beam cut the mudguard, crushed the
steering wheel and struck young
Lauterbach on the left side. It
crushed his body from rib to knee
and carried the crushed mass
through the back of the seat into the
lonneau.
The big beam stopped within a
few Inches of Goodman's chest. A
second beam was driven with great
force across the top of left side of
the tonneau where Cahn sat. He
dodged and missed it by an inch.
The beam carried away his hat and
so great was its force that the hat
was found nearly 100 feet away
after the, accident.
MM EGROES LIST
POLLS THIS YEAR
Messrs. Charles Separk and M. R.
Haynes, who are making up the Ral
eigh township tax bdoks, say that the
books will be finished about August
10th. The property around Raleigh
has greatly Improved and the valua
tion increased. The list of polls is
larger than has been since the pas
sage of the disfranchisement in 1800, ,
there being more colored names on
the list this year than in former
years. Several negroes were indicted
last year for not listing their polls
and this year all that could list did
o to escape prosecution.
y Bacon Salle For Europe.
(By Leased Wire to The Times) -New
York, July 30 Among the
passengers who sailed today on the
steamship Prlnz Frledrlch Wllhelm
for Bremen via Plymouth and Chert
bourg was Hon. A. O. Bacon, United
States senator from Georgia, :,
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