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Weather. SECOND. MM EDITION Washington, April 9 Forecast for North CarolLna for tonight and Sat urday: Fair, cooler-' tonight with frost. Saturday- fair. ESTABLISHED, 1871. RALEIGH, N. C, FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1909. PRICE i CENTS SAMPSONPASET TO GOiTO JflRYJ BEFORE NIGHT Court Refuses to Instruct Jury to Bring in Verdict of Acquittal LITTLE WIDOW WEEPS "Oh, If They ' Would Only tot Me Take the Stand 1 Would Tell Them How Harry Died," Sobbed the Fe male Defendants Prosecution' at 1:'M A. M. Closed Despite Mrs. Sampson's Hysterical Pleadings to he Allowed to Give Her Version of the Affair, Her Attorneys Would Not Let Her Testify. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Lyons, N. Y., April 9 The air. of Hie court room where Georgia Samp son is on trial for her life, accuses vof the slaying of her husband, Harry, was surcharged with expectancy ana excitement this afternoon when the lawyers announced their readiness to commence summing up. District Attorney Gilbert : made elaborate preparations for the open ing speech, placing the blood on the shirt Harry Sampson had worn and the box of cartridges in plain sight of the Jury on the counsel table', then suddenly relinquished his right to speak first and x allowed Lawyer Ma mm, of counsel for the defense, to begin. The court room was thronged with spectators, three-fourths of whom -were women. " The aisles were filled and ever window cluttered with the eagerly carious; ' Attorney ;Hamh) plunged Into his address -without de lay, taking up each bit of evidence in Its turn. - 1 ' " As Mr. Hamm described the trag edy in a simple fashion and without gesticulations, Mrs. Sampson again gave way to her emotions. She strug gled bravely to hold back the sobs and tears but could not and soon her widow's veil sparkled with tears, Lyons, N. Y., April 9 All the evi dence for both sides Is in in the case of Mrs. Georgia Allyn SampBon, charged with the murder of her hus band, Harry. As the time for the noon adjournment came counsel for the defense announced that their case was closed. This afternoon the argu ments will be made and tonight the Jury will take the case in its hand. An acquittal is expected. Lyons, N. Y., April 9 The court refused to Instruct the jury in the trial of leorgia Allyn Sampson, ac cused of the murder of her husbnd, Harry, a nephew of the late Admiral Sampson, to bring in a verdict of ac quittal. This demand was made by counsel for the accused woman after she had begged with tears In her eyes to be allowed to go upon the witness stand and give her version of the shooting of Sampson. "Just one or two facts will be pre sented," said Lawyer Tinklepaugh, after the state had rested Its case and the court had refused to Instruct the Jury. " ' - This means that the case will likely go to the jury before night with chances of a verdict before to morrow morning. , "Oh, if they would only let me take the stand. I would tell how Harry died." Sobbing piteously Mrs. Sampson threw herself across tho bed In her little room In Sheriff Collins' jail early today and gave free vent to the days of pont-up grief. The little widow hysterically begged her attor ney to permit her to testify. "Please, Mr. Hamm, let me de feud myself. Oh, let me explain it all." Then she cried: "I loved Harry. ' He was good to me. Why should I kill him? Oh, they will always believe I shot him." The kindly sheriff, who has gal lantly defended her, even from the day of her arrest, tried to console her with the thought of hor acquittal In a few hours. Dut she would nof be soothed. Tears streamed down her cheeks. ' The marvelous calm of the court room was gone. "To think that Sampson's son would swear that Harry made a will last summer when It was six month before and Insinuated that 1 shot him before that." . .' v It was the first burst of indigna tion shown by Mrs. Sampson since the -trial began, t ;,' ;0 V:. i . But her' lawyers were obstinate. Tbey would not let her testify. Th court convened at 9 o'clock, the early hour being chosen by Justice Rich in the hope of having the case given to the jurj before night. Dr. Albert H. Hamilton, the ex pert for the prosecution resumed the stand at the opening of court and the lawyers for the defense announced that they would not' cross-examine him. District-Attorney Gilbert then put him through a re-direct examina tion, but without material results. At-9:20 the prosecution closed. Mr. Hamm moved that the court instruct the jury to bring a verdict of acquittal on the ground that the prosecution has failed tox prove that a crime had been committed and that It had failed to connect the defend ant with the death of Harry Sampson and because the prosecution had also failed to prove the corpus delicti. Ho was overruled. . PASSED HANK GUARANTY. HILL. Texas Passes Law Requiring the Guarantee of Bank Deposits. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Austin, Texas, April 9. The house passed finally the senate statu bank deposit guaranty bili after amending it by substituting the main 'features of the Cureton bill, which had previously been favorably acted upon by the house.. The senate bill requires that such banks shall give bond for the guaranty of Its own depositors. The Cureton bill creates a general fund from the banks as a kind of Insurance against loss by failure. The senate is strongly committed to the single bunk guaranty feature and is not likely to accept the house amendment. . Hanging in Virginia. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Lynchburg, Va., April 9 Joseph Payne was hanged today at Bedford City for the '.murder of Reed Swuin, his son-in-law. Payne's hanging was the last exe cution of the death penalty by this method in Virginia. The new law making electrocution the method of punishing capital offenses has gone Into effect since Payne's conviction. Knl'le (Joes to liurope. (By Leased Wire to The Tlmes Now York, : April 9 Ferdinand Piunoy Earle, of affinity fame, is en route for Europe today, having sailed on the, liner, Lorraine. The Enrle family has retained an attorney to represent-htm n his ponding dlvodee litigation. WOMEN STORM CAPITOL Twenty Thousand Mill Work ers in Party Want the Duty on Hosiery Increased as Provided for in the Payne Bill and Say the Women Who Are Pro testing Are Misguided. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Philadelphia, April 9 Twenty thousand women . mill workers re cruited from the 120 mills in the vi cinity where about 150,000 women are employed will make a trip to Washington to convince congress of the importance of adopting the in crease in the duty on hosiery as pro posed in thePayne tariff bill follow ing the report of the bill to the sen ate, which it Is expected, will be early next week. '.'.'. The women will be divided Into 15 regiments, each more than 1,000 strong, and will go to Washington by special trains, where they will inarch down Pennsylvania avenue to the cap- itol. At the head of each division there will march a brass band, and at Intervals along the Hue banners will be displayed with mottoes on them to denote the attitude of the mill-workers and show their needs now from the operation of the Ding ley tariff, to show that the proposed advance In duty will not affect the jrlce to the consumer, and that the women's clubs, organized to help the women workers -by opposing the in crease suggested, are really doing them harm. BOY GIVES IHS LIFE FOR PARENTS (By Leased Wire to The Times) (ffew York, April 9. William W. Will lama, Beven years old, an; altar boy of the Church of Our Lady of An gelsi gave hla life early today in a needless attempt to guide his parents and. , two. younger brothers from a burning building at-2013 Third avenue. The ot-hor member of the family had escaped, from the building before the Uttle fellow readied the street, but not seeing them, be rushed back through the flames. When he trlnd to go down the stairway- again he ' was overcome by amoke and flames and was rescued and senti to Harlem hospital, hut he died a short time after being received. STANDARD GIL COMPANY GIVEN A HEAVY KNOCK Petroleum Products Placed on tiie Free List at Payne's Suggestion DEBATE ABOUT OVER The House of Representatives Met : Today At Noon and Took Up the Tiriff Bill for Further Considera ; tion Under the Rule. Bill May be Voted on at 3 O'clock' Petroleum Products Placed on the Free List at the Instance of Chairman Payne. Mr. Payne Says He Offered, the Amendment in Response to the Sentiment of the House. (By Leaned Wire to The Times) Washington, April 9 The house met at noon, and resumed considera tion of the tariff bill. Under the rule it will be voted on today at 3 o'clock. Representative Payne -'offered a committee amendment, which was adopted without objection, taking from the maximum schedule petrol eum and Its products. The effect of the amendment is to place petroleum and its products on the free list, thus wiping out the one percent ad va lorem, which was agreed to Wednes day. The adoption of this amend ment Is a body blow to tho Standard Oil Company. Representative Payne said he offered the amendment in re sponse to the sense of the house. The ways and means -committee this morning directed Chairman Payne to offer an amendment In creasing the duty on barley from15 to 24 cents per bushel, and on barley rnJt from 25 to 40 cents per bushel. These amendments were offered In the house last Wednesday but were then voted down. The action of the committee this morning is regarded as significant, showing that the west ern republicans demanded this in crease and obtained it. The barley paragraph in the same bill was a bone of contention, and not until it was agreed that these amendments could be offered were enough votes secured to adopt the rule under which the vote on the bill will be taken today. Representative Payne, when the barley amendments were offered last Wednesday, made a fight against them. He was charged with bad faith by the western republicans and they threatened to do all kind of things to the bill unless he receded and gave the demanded increase on barley. . .Just after the prayer in the house this morning. Representative Foss, oi Illinois, asked unanimous consent to present a petition signed by the wo men of Illinois against Increased duty on leather goods and cotton hos iery. Mr. Foos said he would like to read the petition and make a brief statement. Representative Moore said unless he could have unanimous consent to make a statement for the manufacturers who favored the in creased duties he would object. , The whole proceeding was cut short by Representative Mann objecting. The petition occupied the table in front of the speaker's rostrum. It filled 450 large books. The petition is as fol lows: ' ' i: - "We, the undersigned, emphatical ly protest agalust the duties to be as sessed under the new tariff bill, H. R. 1,431, known as the Paynebill, upon articles of wearing apparel, particu larly leather, gloves and cotton hos iery. The burdens these Increases will place upon the women of the country, especially those who can least afford to bear them, are unjust and unwise.' We therefore petition yon to enact, by amendment, rates at least not Higher than those now pre vailing under the Dlngley bill." The petition was referred to the committee on ways and means. Representative-Cushman offered, the committee amendment Increasing the duty on barley from 15 cents to 24 cents per bushel; He explained, the necessity for the Increase by saying members Interested had made It clear to the committee that the protection asked for should be granted. Representatives Perkins and Alexander bitterly oppos ed the amendment, saying that when the matter was before the house re cently the increase naked for was vot ed down, and they could not under stand now why members of the sen ate committee should change front on this question. It was Intimated that the Increased duty was the result of a deal between the barley men and the free lumber men whereby . should re main aa provided' for In the bill. Rep resentative Mann aald he did not be-j (Continued on Pag Two.) ' I ETHAN ALLEN HITCHCOCK DIED THIS MORNING Unconscious Several Days Proceeding Death, Caused by Various Complications RELATIVES AT BEDSIDE Had Been Failing for a 1,oiig Time, But His Condition Was Not Re garded as Serious I lit il Seven Weeks Ao Was Secretary of the Interior Under MeKiiilcy From 18IM Until 107, Serving; Also Un der Roosevelt Body Will he Taken to St. Louis 'Tomorrow for Inter ment Itorn in Mobile; ( By Leased Wire to The Time.':) Washington, April 9 Former Sec retary of the Interior Department Ethan Allen Hitchcock died this morning about 11 : 15. Mr. Hitchcock died a few minutes after eleven o'clock this -'morning. At his bedside were Airs. Hitchcock, his eldest daughter, Mrs. William M. Sims and her husband. Commander W. S: Sims, IT. .8. N.; Miss Margaret Hitchcock, another daughter. Mr. George C. Hitchcoci Mr. -and Mrs. J. N. , a nephew, aim Shepley, of St. Louis.- . - Mr. Hitchcock had been uncon scious for several days preceding his death and never regained conscious ness. Death was due to various com plications. While he has been fail ing for a long time, it was not until seven weeks ago, while in St.. Louis', this his condition was regarded as serious vHe'''&3 brought to Wash ington two, jiso at his request and taken directly to the home of Commander and Mrs. Sims, at No. 1228 Seventeenth street. Northwest, The body will be taken to St.- Louis tomorrow evening, where the inter ment will take place. Mr. Hitchcock was born at Mobile, Ala., in 1835. He was minister to Russia and later was raised to the rank of ambassador, being the first official from this country to occupy that position at the Russian court. He was appointed secretary of the in terior by President McKinley in 1S99 and held that office until 1907, serv ing also under President Roosevelt, being succeeded by James R. Gar field. MR. COPPEDGE INJURED 2,300 Volts of Electricity Pass Through His Body Mr. Coppedge Was Replacing Carbons in Arc Light on North. Person Street Knocked Twenty Feet by Current and Hands Hurned. Mr. Greenberry Coppedge, an em ploye of the Carolina Light & Power Company, familiarly known as the "arc light man," was seriously in jured in north Raleigh this morning. He was putting new carbons in an arc light on north Person street when in some way he got the wires mixed and twenty-three, hundred volts of Buckhorn electricity passed through his body. Mr. Coppedge was knocked about twenty , feet by the powerful current and his hands were budly burned. He was able to walk to the car line after a few minutes and was taken to his home on north Bloodworth street, it will be some time before Mr. Cop pedge will be able to resume hit; duties. E WERE BLOWN HP New York, April 9. A series of ex plosions in the Wayne, N. J., works of tho DuiHMit Powder Company today killed one man, Injured three, wrecked a hundred cottages in Wayne and shook the country like an earthquake In a radius of flftt'm miles. Nine of of the Hcure of buildings at works, blew up, one after another, with terrific ex plosions. Jerome T. Marsh, who was in the middle of the building that ftt blew up, wa killed. He alone could know what caused the dlater. NN BUILDINGS BRUTALCRIMEOF AT 0FW.R. COLLINS Mrs. Collins Shot by Negro Who Demanded Money or Life HAD BABY IN HER ARMS While Mi. W. it. Collins Lay in Red Last Night She Was Awakened by Xeo.ro' Who Demanded Money. She Clasped Ner Haby in Her Anns and Sought to F.scape, Rut Was Shot Down by the lirute Neigh bors Were Aroused and Rush to the Aid of 'I lie Woman Mrs.'-Collins is Kcsliii;; Very Well Today, and is Not Seriously Hurt. Last night, a little after nine o'clock,: Mrs. W, R. Collins was awakened by an unusual noise in her room and a cold wet wind blowing full upon her. The lamp -was burn ing in her room and its rays shone lull .'upon a short,-spare-built negro, over whose eyes was drawn a big black slouch hat,-' 'standing'-by her bed. "Give iv.e .that money," lie demand ed "Give me I hat money quick, and don't you open your month, or I'll blow your damned head off!" - And he threw full in her face a pistol. Mis. Collins scrt.ained, seized her six-weeks-old baby ami jumped from the bed. The fiend shot at her twice in -.quick succession. The fust ball took effect in the side of the house, striking a strip of plank that, runs around the room about four feet from the floor. The second shot struck the window casing. . Mis. Collins begged the negro not to kill her baby and told him she would give him the money if he would let her call the colored servant who was asleep on a cot in the dining room. Tho negro cursed her and shot at her again, the powder burning her night dress across the breast. This ball took effect in the plastering about three feet from the window and live feet from the floor. Crying and screaming the poor woman started for the dining room, carrying her baby. The negro still cursing got between her and the door. She w-ent back to the bed and laid her little baby down and covered it up. Next she said she found her self in the window, which opens on the porch and has no 'recollection of how she got there. She said that her first though was to get out and run, but it. was raining hard and she knew lhal.lt would mean her death to rush out into the rain. And she thought of her baby and knew, she' couldn't leave it. The negro was still demanding her money. : He got her purse, but there waa only two cents in that and he threw it away. She had $20 in a trunk, but she said she was determ ined not to give it up. It looked to her like he was going to kill her anyway, and she decided not lo give it up. ' As she was sitting in the window screaming, the negro fired the fourth time, this time striking her in the small of tho back and making a Ilesh wound. Ry this time the neighbors were aroused. Little Miss Jackson, who lives next door, a young girl about 15 years of age, raised her window. She saw the negro In Mrs. Collins' room and could hear him cursing. He was visible to her from his shoulders down, and she could see the gun In his hand. Her brother, Lawrence Jackson, had gone lo bed. He was u roused by the) screams of Mrs. Collins and the shooting and be gan a search for his shot-gun. Miss Jackson says that there were two of the men and that one of them was on the outside, standing by the gate. When the man on the inside fired the fourth shot, the only one Miss Jackson saw him fire, ho rushed for the window, roughly shoved Mrs. Collins to one side and stepped out on the porch. He did not seem to be in any hurry about leaving. Mr. Lawrence Jackson opened his front door and stuck his head out. The negro fired at him at close range, then leisurely walked down the steps and out at the gate and joined his companion. The two then went west down Morgai street. The negro turned and fired again, the ball striking a post on the porch. Mr. Jack sou finally found .some shells and fired on the negro, but he and his confederate made good their escape. They went towards Cameron NEGRO HOME field. The searchers were able to track them for some distance. Mrs. Collins' description of the negro is very meager. She was weak, sick and very nervous and it is not strange that she should not remember every detail of the negro's appear ance. She said that, he was wearing an overcoat which came to his knees, a black slouch hat and had a short. close-cropped mustache. She Baid he was very black, a sort of greasy sooty black. He seemed to have plenty of nerve. He took his time in the com mission of iti-.! crime, being in her room at, least 15 minutes, Mrs. Col lins thinks, 'cursing' incessantly and demanding money. Mr. W. R. Collins, her husband, is an employe of the North Carolina Cotton Heed Oil Company.- A little after S o'clock lie asked his wife for some money lo go out to Grady's store,-. on the corner, and get some .turpentine. He got her purse and look from it a nickel, leaving two pennies in it. After his departure Mrs. Collins disrobed and went to bed. The negro servant also went to hor cot in. the dining-room. Mrs. Col lins says she had been up the night before with hot hab;. until after one o'clock and she was worn out. She went to sleep almost immediately. The negro must have been watch ins at the window. Tracks were found this morning beneath the win dow at. the end of the house. After Mrs. Collins-wan -asleep he entered the front door (which was not locked as Mrs. Collins expected her husband to return early) and was in her room with the window on the right side of the bed raised before she awoke. He evidently raised the win dow in order to make a quick get away if it. was necessary. Not; Caught in Durham, it was rumored that the negro was seen to board a 'westbound freight near I lie 'penitentiary, and a message was sent to the Durham authorities to be on (he watch for him. Later in the 'night it was said that the Dur ham authorities had caught the ne gro, but. this was found to be a mis take. No arrests have been made and the authorities have not the slightest clue to the identity of the criminal. ; Need of Protection. When seen by The Times man to day a number' of the citizens of that part of town were earnest in their protests against the conditions that (Continued on Pace Two.) THEIR ROMANCE BRIEF Comes lo Smash After Brief Romance Had Its Trial Among the Haunts of Rroadway Dramatic Scene in Court When Wife Seizes Husband and Shakes Him. (By Leased Wire to The Times) New York, April 9 The story of a brief romance that had its start among the haunts of Broadway and canie t.o smash after a short trial of wedded life was punctuated in the Yorkville court by a dramatic scene in which the wife seized the husband by the throat and shook him when he cast aspersions upon her character. Otto Weltlaufer, Jr., son of a weal thy ribbon manufacturer, had $9,000 with which to start himself In busi ness, according to bis statement, and he began by attenniptlng to acquire a knowledge of "life". "Just for a lark we got married," was the .comprehensive account given by the young man. Mrs. Wettlau fer's explanation carried the matter a little further. "I was a manicure lady," she said, "and I met him when I was down seeing the sights. I loved him at sight. He was good to me at first after we were married." Then ho advanced an excuse for his abandonment that fired the woman's temper. ' She caught him by the throat with both hands and swung him from side to side, screaming that he was a liar. It took two police men to make her release her hold. CIPRIANO CASTRO mi (Hy Cable to The Times.) Fort IV France, April 9. It is be lieved here that Cipriano Castro, the dictator, and former president of Ven ezuela, Is on his deathbed. The wound left by the operation performed upon him In Berlin has re-opened. It Is feared that exertion and excitement attending his deportation from Mar tinique would mean his death. 1 Castro Is unable to leave his bed, and the venting of his Impotent rage against the French government has not tended o Improve the condition of his health. His wife and her entour age will land today at LaGuayra. CONFINED TO BED VOTE ON PAYNE TARIFF MEASURE THIS EVENING Unless There is Decided Break Bill Will Pass by Good Majority COMMITFEE WILL WIN The Indications Are That With tho Exception of the Duty on Oil the Committee Will Win Out Senti ment in the House Is Strong Against the Standard OH Company and the Norrls Amendment Will Probably be Adopted by Big Vote Rough Lumber May be Placed on the Free List. (By Leased Wire to The Times ) Washington, D. C, April 9 Un less there Is a decided break In the ranks of the regulars the Payne tar iff bill which has been before the house -since March 17, will pass that body this evening, substantially as reported from the waya and means: committee by a safe majority. The final vote on the passage of the bill is not expected before six o'clock at least, because of the separate votes on lumber, hides, oil, barley, steel wire and the motion to be made by Minority Leader Champ Clark to re commit the bill! with instructions. - The indications are that with the exception of the vote on oil, the ways and means committee will win out, The committee, it will be recalled, was defeated In the oil amendment, and the sentiment in the house Us so Hiiong ugaiusi ine Dtanaarcr uil Company that It is believed thi Nor ris amendment making the duty on oil one percent ad valorem will be adopted by a big vote. An amend ment to place rough lumber on the free list has many advocates and there is a small chance that it may be adopted. All the committee amendments of fered yesterday were carried and the substitute for section three the maximum and minimum tariff and the drawback provision which were presented in the houses-last evening will probably be adopted. These two amendments simply make clear the language contained In the sec tions as originally reported. The new drawback provision limits the l(nie for the urawback to one year instead of three years and virtually removed the drawback on grain. A MYSTERIOUS DEATH. C. J. Kane Left at Hospital by Un known Parties, Where He Died. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Pittsburg, Pa., April 9 Mystery surrounds the death of Cornelius Jay Kane, formerly of the Binjamin Steel company of Buffalo, a rich iron dealer of Pittsburg and one of the best known writers In the country on iron and steel. He was driven up to ' the door of Mercy Hospital a few minutes after midnight in a dying condition. Two or three persons who were with him, called for a stretcher and in eeml-darkness carried him into the hospital entrance. They then slipped away and the police and coroner's office have been trying In vain to find them since. Kane had been thought to be in Philadelphia when the news came that he was dead at the Mercy Hospital.' Hla family has urged the authorities to spare no effort to learn the facts con neced wih his dealt. SMOULDERING EMBERS. Blown Into a Bright Fire After Sev eral Years. - f (By Leased Wire to The Times) Stockbrldge, Mass., April 9 Mrs. Emily M. Clark, widow of William Clark, became a bride for the fourth time when she was married; to Dr. Joseph Jones, of Stockbrldge. Both are sixty-eight years of age. Mr. 'and Mrs. Jones were sweethearts years ago. The doctor married, once, Mrs. Jones three times before today's cere mony brought them together again. . Each of her former husbands 'left Mrs. Jones a fortune and she1 is now- one of the wealthiest women in Stockbrldge, Steamer Ashore, ., (By Leased Wire to The Times ', Dover, Del., April 9. A largw ateam- er, thought to be a trans-Atlanttd lin er, went ashore last night in the fog off Qoodwlnlands. Through the 'night her Blren could be ' heard ' booming-, warning other craft from hr perilous position". Assistance was sent, from Dover at dawn today, . - - ' . 7
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