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Weather. emu Washington, April 16 Forecast for North Carolina for tonight and Saturday: Fair tonight and Satur day; warmer in central portion. ESTABLISHED 1871. RALEIGH, N. 0., FRIDAY, APRIL 1G, 1909. PRICE i CENTO SECOND EDITION BLOODY SHIRT AT FOUND WOMAN'S HOI Damaging Evidence Against Woman Accused of Enter ing Mr. Dughi's Home BUNCH UF KEYS FOUND Strong Case He inn Forged About Wo man Accused of Entering Mr, Dughi's Home nnd Assaulting Mrs. Croswe)l--Bloody Shirtwaist, Koiinil liy the Police in Milking: a Search of the House The Shirtwaist Was Worn by Himiia Harris the Day the Crime Was Committed Bunch 'of Keys Also Found'. in Woman's Vs session. Tlio case against' Hannah Harris, the negro awaiting trial for attempt ing thr life of Mrs. Croswell, the housekeeper of Mr. A. Dnghl, grows .wronger. Yesterday the house of lliinnah Harris,: back of St. Paul's church (colored), was searched, and some damaging evidence found. A shirtwaist worn by Hannah the day the crime was committed was found to have several blood-stains on it. A bunch of keys were found, tome of which fitted the lock in Mr. Dughi's iront door. Mr. Dughi, when seen by- The Times man today, said that the fact that the keys found in the woman's house fitted his lock was not, of as much importance as it might seem to he, for the keys fitted only the lower part of the lock, which was never used. The "night latch" was the only part of the lock in use and none of he keys found in the woman's house would fit it. The waist, with blood-stains on each sleeve and on the front, Is by far the most damaging piece of evi dence in the hands of the police; Mrs. Croswell, who is now in Hex Hospital, is Improving and Will be nhl- to appear at. the preliminary hcarini;, which is to '.take place at as early a date as possible. Mrs. Croswell did not at any time see her assailant. She did recognize the voice which she heard to be a "woman's. It Is also asserted that she recognized the voice to be that of Hannah Harris. That the burg lar's purpose was to murder Mrs. Croswell is apparent from the decla ration made us Mrs, Croswell tried to scream: ' "Don't open your month. I've come to kill you and I'm going to do it." .."' The police department is still at work and it seems that each new de velopment make It look darker for Hannah Harris. No other person can )e found in the city who had .aught against Mrs. Croswell. a quiet. In offensive, hard-working woman. GHOSTS BOTHER MIXERS. Refuse to Work in Mine Where 181) Men Lost Their Lives. (Ry Leased Wire to The Times) Pittsburg, Pa., April 16 Hard- wiPi., 20 miles above Pittsburg, where 1S9 minors lost their lives in one mine Accident several years ago, Is In a state of terror. The Montene grin miners, who have been brought here to work In the mines claim that the ghosts of the dead Interfere with their work, nnd neither extra money nor throats can make them continue their labor. Americans nlone will go Into the mine and but 50 of the 350 men wanted have been at work. Constables have been evicting the miners who refuse to enter the mine from houses owned by the coal com pany, The evicted miners were very troublesome and some of them as serted that they had dynamite and would use it at the earliest opportun ity. It Is feared the town will be blown up. II KK FORTUNE GONE, Mrs. Mngness Has Spent All Her Money to Free Husband. (Rr Leased Wire to The times) WnshlnEton, April 16 Her for tune declared to have been exhausted in an effort to free her husband, C.-J. Mfirness. who deserted from the united States navy, and who Is now In prison, Mrs. Magness, daughtor of the late Arthur Pue Gorman, united states senator from Maryland, ar rircd in Washington from Louisville pud is stopping with, her brother. New V. S. Submarine Boat. . $$U. ..... , . f J ..'Victim of the new V. S. Submarine Stinglay, which with her sister- ships Tarpon and Xnnvahl, were receudy launched at the Fore Hiver Ship building Company yards, Qiiincy, Mass. She is 105 feet long and when' completed will be one of the 'finest su SENATE BILL IS A ( By Leased Wire to The Tillies) .Washington April 111- itopresen ativc Livingston, of Georgia,', in speaking today of the Pn ne bill. aid: "The bill Is not as good as when it passed the house. It is a fraud on ho country. An examiifcitio.i of the Amendments made by the senate shows that the average rate in the 1)111 places it with the .Dingley act. Instead of being a revision downward is promised the people it is a revis ion upward." He asserted that the bill would prove a failure as a rev- nuo measure and lliat it. Is impos sible to say where the money will ome from for the expenses of the government, unless It is the purpose of the administration to use part of the $25(1,000,000.3 per cent, cerlifi- ates of indebtedness. : PREACHER GETS $:(',0(lO. Hut FmlK'.zied From an Estale of Which He Was Executor. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Trenton, X. J., April 16 John Sykes, one of the best known lawyers of this vicinity, is being sought by de tectives on the charge of embezzling funds amounting to $:i(l, 000. Sykes !s a lay preacher of the Methodist hurch and lias been for many years i specialist in real estate law. The specific allegations tinder which Sykes arrest is sought are that Sykes on demand for the production of the estate of James it. Cook, of which he was executor, turned over $15,000, but failed to render account jf some $30,000 in cash. Cook's lawyers declare that Sykes confessed to them 'that he had appropriated to his own use the rest of the estate and .ould not return It. KILLED IN AUTO ACODEXT. One Man Killed and One Mortally Wounded New York, April 16 Ono man was killed, another mortally Injured and two other seriously hurt today when an automobile which was being used in ai"joy ride" crashed Into a tree in Central Purk near Columbus Or cle and was wrecked. An explosion followed the crash, Matthew Kant, also ,known an "Jack" Moon, the chauffeur, In charge of the car was the man killed RANK FRAUD hiiinrines In the world. THE NAME OF DAVIS Being Cut On Cabin John Bridge . 15. Home, of Mississippi, Cult inn .(lie Name Hack on (he Bridge as Work of Love Is u Prosperous Bridge Contractor. ( By Leased Wire to The Times) Washington, April 10 L. B Home, of Wilson county, Miss., who s cutting the name of Jefferson Davis again into the granite slab on Cabin John Bridge, is doing the work as a labor of love a personal--tribute, to the memory of the former president of the Confederacy. Jefferson Davis and Air. Home were reared in the ime county in Mississippi. Cabin John Bridge was built while Jefferson Davis was secretary of war of the United States. . His name was engraved on it, with that of Franklin Pierce, president. When Mr. Davis assumed the head of the Confederacy War Secretary Stanton ordered the name of Davis cut from the slab, President Roosevelt ordered it re stored.: Mr. Home saw the news report and it once came to Washington. He had been a stone cutter, but for 12 years had not used the mallet and chisel, having become a prosperous bridge contractor. On his arrival he found the contract to restore the nnmo had been given to a local firm Ho went to the head of this firm and asked to be allowed to do the work fhe request was granted. When Mr Homo has completed the Work he will again lay down the chisel and return to superintending the build ing of bridges. FRESHETS IX NEW ENGLAND. Heavy Bains Melting Know Do Much Damage. Boston, Mass., April 16 Swollen by the heavy rains and by the melt lug of the lingering remnant of snow on the hillsides, all the streams of New England assumed freshet pro portions today and some of them caused much damage. Railroad tracks were flooded, roadbeds washed out, culverts carried away, trains held tip and factories forced by high water to shut down In various parts of northern New England. The worst conditions are reported in Vermont and Now Hampshire around the head waters of the Connecticut, Merriniac and Androscoggin rivers. ST. LOUIS BOY IS THE VICTIM OF KIDNAPPERS Carried Away From His Home in That City by a Woman NO RANSOK DEMANDED i sat ion Created in SI, Louis by the Kidnapping of James Cabamie, Sou ol Wealthy St. Louis People. No Demand For u Kaiisom Has Been Made At Least One of the Child's Abductors Was a Woman. Cahniincs and His - Wife. Do Not Live Together He is Slicing For a Divorce. Rv Leased Wire 'to The Times) Si. Louis, Mo'.. April K -iJamon Shepherd Cabanne, Jr., the seven- veaiwiki son of 'J bines Shephard Ca- lanne, and the youngest of the heirs o the wealth" and the old, honored i name ol the (anions Cabanne. tamlly, i has been kidnapped from his home ere and today is being searched for hv the police Of St. Louis, Louisville, ind Memphis. ' .''.- The case has created a sensation iinong (Hi! people (it wealt n and social position in St, Louis. ; it. rivals tlio earlier developments in the recent Wlutla kidnapping case, for at least one of the Cabanne child's abductors is a woman. .While no demand for a ransom for the child's return has as yet been made n was expected by the police to day that, it would be forthcoming ivlthin the next 24 hours. The only clue the police ha ie points to Louis ville as the probable hi'dng place of Hie kidnappers. The police, eonfi- denly expect that the demand for the ransom will come from that city. There are several mysterious c'ir liinstances connected, with the actual induction of t lie child.. He. was .playing in front of the home of his .grandmother,' Mrs'.' Julia C. Cabanne, at Xo 5365 Cabanne av- nue, a thoroughfare named after the family-and: in the most, fashionable section of the city. II. was there that" Hie woman who had the leading fig ure in the kidnapping, Inst 'ap proached the child.- ... The woman was not observed by anyone in (he Cabanne house or by any of the neighbors of. the Cabiiunes as she approached Hie child, and that he was lured from in front of his home Is evidenced by the fact that he made no outcry. llloy's Parents Separated. James Shephard Cabanne, aged 7, was kidnapped from his grandmother's-mansion in the aristocratic Ca baune avenue section and Is now sup posed to be in Louisville, Ky. Behind the disappearance is the "skeleton in the closet" story of one of St. Louis' oldest families. The father is suing for divorce. The mother claims she obtained a di vorce in British Honduras and is now married to Broughton Brandenburg, who is involved in the Cleveland let ter scandal in New York. The boy's parents have been sepa rated for several years. Two months ago the father sued for divorce, alleg ing desertion, but the courts have given no decision as yet. According to Mrs. James Shephard Cabanne. she already had been di vorced from Mr. Cabanne when she left St. Louis In company with Brouehton Brandenburg. She now stylos herself Mrs. Brandenburg and signs her name that way in corre spondence to St. Louis friends. For a time she and Brandenburg are said to have lived at 2 West Ninth street. New York. There they made their home until the Branbenburg- Cleveland letter scandal, when Bran denburg disappeared. MrB. Brandenburg explained her husband's action by saying he disap peared because he had no money, This statement in a New York paper brought out a controversy between Mrs. Brandenburg and a Mrs. Valine Brandenburg, who was loud in her claim as the only legitimate wife of Broughton Brandenburg. While this was being shouted back and forth, James Shephard Cabanne quietly pursued his duties as travel Ing salesman, James Shephard Ca banne, Jr., living with his grand mother at the Cabanne avenue ad dress. Fire At Money Volnt. , Norfolk, Va., April 16 The plant of the Imperial Fertilizer Company at Money Point was destroyed by fire today. The loss is $100,000. Shaft to Hudson ' ) This is the Memorial Monument to Henry. Hudson, the discoverer of the Hudson Hiver, which is to lH ected by a popular subscription on the north- side of Spiiyten-Duyvil reek, and which will he dedicated during the Hudson-Fulton Celebra- ion, Sepleinlier 25 to October Dill, as a part of (he olhcial program. MAKEAN ATTACK :. (By Cable to The Times) : Salonica, April 1 After a fren zied meeting Here To denounce ine new TufKisli cabinet, tlie young Turks committee determined to at tack Constantinople with the third irmy corps, ol whicli twenty nauai- ions have been moboUzed. The railroad company has been or dered to 'prepare every available car to transport the troops to the capi tal. 'azie Bey is expected here with 10,000 Volunteers. All business is at a standstill throughout the 'city. Alliens. Greece, April 1 ('Accord ing to a report "wiitcn. reaciieu nere today from Constantinople, brand Vizier Tewfik Pasha resigned his of fice upon being informed of the ad vance against the city by t lie third army .corps of Salonica. ALEX KING ILL (By Leased Wire to The Tiniesl San Francisco. Ca!.. April 16 Alex C. King, one time law partner of Patrick Calhoun and reputed one of the most eloquent pleaders of the south, nrlved In San Francisco from Atlanta, Ga., simultaneously with the completion of the jury to try the charge against the trolley magnate in Judge Lawler's court. It is rumored that King will assume charge of the .trial with the commencement of the evidence taking. The thirteenth juror, or "alter nate," has been selected in the per son of Michael Murphy, an insurance solicitor, and all Is in readiness today for the calling of witnesses. Next Mexican Ambassador. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Washington, April 16 The next American ambassador to Mexico will ha Harvoy W. Scott, editor of the Portland Oregojiian. He will succee 1 David E. Thompson,: of Nebraska, who will retire from the diplomatic corps, YOiGTlKSTO DEFEND CALHOUi) THE DEFENSE OF CAPTAIN HAINS TO BE INSANITY Trial Begins Monday and the Defense is Practically All Prepared DR. PLATT A WITNESS Defense Will Make n Big Effort to Put In Evidence Diagnosis of Dr. Piatt. 'Who Examined Captain Hnins for the Prosecution Shortly After the Killing of Annis At That Time Hains Attacked tiie Doc tor When He Told Him That Annis Was Dead Army Surgeons Will Also Testify in the Case for the Defense. ( By Leased Wire to The Times) New York, April 16 The defense jf Captain Peter C. Hains, who goes on trial in the-.-'supreme court at lushing on Monday, for the murder ol William E. Annis Is practically all prepared according to Eugene Young, who has been assisting William Mc- ntyre in getting ready for the trial. "We are going to make a big effort to put in evidence the diagnosis of Captain Hains' condition made by Dr. Charles M. Piatt for District Attor ney Darrin, the day after the killing of Annis," said Mr. Young . today. Dr. Piatt is going to be one of our witnesses. We will show that when Dr. Piatt visited the captain in his cell and asked hint how he had slept the captain replied: 'I slept well af ter Annis left.' When the doctor asked him if he did not know that Annis was dead, the captain sprang at his throat and tried to choke him to death." Mr. Youns also announced that. Dr. Charles H. Roberts and Major Wi.son, army surgeons, would testify for the captain. Major General Hum phreys will also be a witness, as will Major Keller, a quartermaster at Chi cago. - ,; Mr. Young says the captain's fel- ow officers will prove that his love for his wife was strong and pure. He brought back $2,000 worth of presents for her from the Philippines and was always talking of her. There will also be a third servant from the Fort Hamilton home of the captain who will tell of Mrs. Hains' actions during the absence of her husband. LAWSOX IX THE FIGHT. Has Begun a Fight to Smash the Cor- ner in Wheat. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Boston, Mass., April 16 Thomas W. Lawson has begun a fight to smash the wheat corner. In a tele gram he has sent to public men throughout the country, he says: "Owing to a dastardly conspiracy by reckless gamblers, the price of wheat has been manipulated to arti ficially high prices. "If bread advance continues most disastrous results will follow, in large American cities riots, bloodshed and worse may result. "Something must be done at once to break .this conspiracy. I have been importuned to organize a movement to break this conspiracy and to that end I am ready to call two public meetings, one In Madison Square aGr den, New. York, and the other at the Auditorium in Chicago, if I am assur ed of sufficient support like yours." FOVR MF.X DllOWXKD. j Sailboat I'psets In Squall nnd Men Go Down. By Cable to The Times) Glace Bay, X. S., April 16 By the upsetting of a sailboat in a squall at Dominion No. 6, near Fort Morien to day, four men lost their lives by drowning and another had a narrow escape. The dead are: Michael Driver, 32, leaves widow and eight children; George Hancock, 30, un married; Harry Gardner, 20, unmar ried; William McLeod, 32, leaves a widow and two children. WlllGHT MAKES FLIGHTS. Wilbur Wright Made Three Flights in His-Aeroplune Today. (Special to The Times) Borne, April 16 Wilbur Wright made three flights in his aeroplane today. The first and third were of six minutes duration each and the second of five minutes. They were made at a speed of from sixty to sixty-eight kilometres an hour. The passengers on the three trips were re spectively Lieutenants Savoja and Calderara and Captain Castaguetis. PATTEN CARRIES A BODY Has Received a Number of Letters of a Threat ening Kind THE BREAD SITUATION Large Negro Follows the Wheat, King About at All Times, Also Two De tectives When He Goes Automobil ing The Bread Situation The Size of the Loaf Must Be Cut or Price Go Vp Jinny Shops Already Forced to the Wall Putten Says He Has Received a Number of Threatening Letters. (By Leased Wire to The Times) unicago, April id mat James a. Patten has been disturbed by the public agitation resulting from his operations in wheat was indicated when a large negro, employed as a body-guard, followed him about. The man was behind him every time he moved, and when Mr. Patten came to a standstill he stood within easy reaching distance. Whether Mr. Pat ten has received any threatening let ters he has not stated, but it is plain he is taking no chances of physical violence. In addition to the negro guard, two detectives are Mr. patten's constant companions in his automobile. Annnvmnnn letters thrantAnlncr htm for his operations in wheat have been received in the past few days by Mr. Patten. Some of them are of an an archistic one. One even went so far as to demand money that the writer might ride in an automobile like Mr. Patten does. - - . . - "I have Just received dozens of let' ters," said Mr. Patten today as he jumped into his automobile id Evan" . ton preparatory to going to work. "I would not exactly call them threaten ing or anarchistic, but they certainly do criticise me severely. I am not worried about them. . These people believe I have a corner on wheat and it makes them sore and they write the letters." Another whirl of excitement fol lowed today when it developed that the State of Illinois is to make an ef fort to put an end forever to corners in wheat and dealings In ' futures which it has been so widely charged caused the present high prices of wheat. The matter has been placed before officials of the attorney gen eral's office in this state. Then It may be before the same officials of other states. This action followed word from Washington that Attorney General Wickersham had failed to discover any law by which he could take ac tion or anything to indicate that an investigation under the Sherman act would lie. The situation. today became acute. There was a decidedly uneasy senti ment manifest upon the board of trade. Wheat has gone to $1.29' and may go higher. Flour has gone up in price and in many parts of the country the price of bread has al ready increased. The price of flour and bread in Chicago has not yet in creased, but the size of the loaves has been decreased, which really amounts to the same thing as an increase of price. The .millers and bakers say they will wait and see what indica tions there are of a decrease in prices. If none conies the price of bread must increase. Short Supply of Wheat. Chicago, April 16 Flour, which to now quoted at $7 a barrel, will go still higher, possibly to $9 $10 a barrel, according to Chicago milling men, as a result of the wheat short age. They declare that this shortage is the result solely of small supply and not of a corner. 1 "There is a wheat shortage In this country but we have an abundance as compared to foreign wheat grow ing nations," said C. w. Milworth, Chfcago member of the Washburn Crosby Company today. "If wheat goes any higher, the price .of flour will have to go up, too. Flour is now (Continued on Page Three.) MECKLEXBl'RG HOTEL IS BURNING DOwJT. rRv Lenspd wire to The Times) Richpiond, Va., April 16 Th Mecklenburg Hotel at Chase City, Va.. a nonular resort. Is On tin nd!. there is no hope of saving the rail abla structure. ' GUARD FOR PROTECTION 1
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