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ESTABLISHED 17 RALEIGH, N. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 1909. PSICE f CENTS UT. SUTTON KILLED BYfflS OWN PISTOL WHILE BEING Sevan Says Sutton Took His Own Life While Held on the Ground LIEUT. SEVAN'S STORY Mother of Lieutenant Sutton Says That After Listening to the Evi lend? She is More Convinced Than Ever That Her Son Was Murdered Relieves flail Was Fired Into His Head After it Was Known That He Was Dead Lieutenant Ativan's Vereln of the Tragedy Widely at Variance With Testimony of Adams and Osterman. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Annapolis, Md., Jujy 21 Before Lieutenant Willinm F. Bevnn was re called to the stand today to complete his story of the death of Lieutenant. James N. Sutton, counsel for the rel atives of the dead marine officer vequested the hoard of Inquiry to hold a session at the -scene of the tragedy and have it re-enacted by the witnesses. ' Commander Hood and his two as sociates took the request under con sideration. "If the plan is approved of Mrs. Sutton and her daughter will be present," Lawyer Van Dyke said for the Suttons. "All those who have knowledge of the facts will be di rected to attend." Mrs. Sutton and her daughter were j early in court. Mrs. Parker changed her position so that she might have a better opportunity to study the wit ness. Lieutenant Beyan is quite popular in the society circles of the academy, and the fact that he was on the stand brought out a larger attendance of women friends of the officers than be fore. "Could any of the officers you saw when you reached the scene of the fight have carried a revolver, with out It being noticed?" was the first question put by Major Leonard. "Yes, sir; almost any one of them might have had a revolver, either in his shirt or othewise concealed," Bevan declared. This was a direct contradiction of the testimony of other witnesses. After a wrangle among counsel Lieutenant Bevan was allowed to answer the question whether he knew of his own personal knowledge that Sutton had "shot up" the camp or had threatened the life of any officer. Said the witness: "Mr. Sutton never threatened the life of any one as lT as 1 know." "A few weeks before the tragedy I aw Sutton fire seven shots over the head of Lieutenant Roelker. Major Fuller took the pistol from Sutton," continued the witness. Q. Did Sutton fire the fatal shot before or after the remark was made, "Roelker has been killed"? A. They occurred almost simultan eously. Q. Was Sutton killed by the bullet fired by himself? A. I am absolutely certain that the bullet that ended Mr. Sutton's life came from the revolver which he drew from under his body while I held down his shoulders. "Sutton said to me between two snd six weeks before the tragedy that he had no Interest in life; that it had no attraction for him and that some day he would end it all with a bul let," Bevan declared, in answer to a question. Mrs. Sutton and Mrs. Parker shook their heads at this evidence. Reading from Lieutenant Bevan's testimony at the first hearing Mr. Davis showed that the witness had declared he discussed the Osterman Sutton combat with Lieutenant Utley before the tragedy occurred. During Ibis proceeding Bevan had sworn that he did not see Utley until It was sill over. Damaging conflict between Bevan's story and the testimony of his pre decessors was developed when Mr. Davis caused the witness to admit that at least six shots were fired before he ran to the scene and saw Sutton discharge the last bullet. Both Adams and Osterrnan swore five were fired, Including the fatal one. Bevan's declaration, Mrs. Parker safd to a reporter, was proof that one of her brother's antagonists was also armed, for only five shots in all had been discharged from the two weap ons Sutton carried. Bevan admitted that ha had to pass the body of the fallen Roelker in order to get to Sut ton. He explained that he didn't . (Continued on Page Five.) 2 Witnesses in Sutton Investigation. ITS-' ' ifxfw- llfi PtSilf If Here are two principal witnesses in the investigation as to the cause of death of lit utciiniit Sutton, of tlioMarim- Corps. On the right in Lieut. Kolieit Adams and on the left Sergeant James l)e Hart. They were taken by a staff photographer of The Hearst Xews Service at tlV. Tinted States Rifle Hangout Sen (Jilt, Xew Jersey. 44 My Poor Boy To Death" Says HisMotherl (By Leased Wire to The Times) Annapolis, Mr., July 21 "My poor boy was beaten to death and then shot," today declared Mrs. James N. Sutton, mother of Lieutenant. James N. Sutton, of the marine corps, who was killed in a struggle following an automobile ride. am now certain that Jimmy was killed by blows struck by his com panions in the marine service. ..The bullet was fired into his head after it was seen that he was dead. This was done to bolster up the allegation that Jummy committed suicide which my self and daughter have all along de clared to be false. "After listening to the testimony of three men in the government ser vice, men who should have been my son's comrades, I am certain that a great crime was committed. Person ally I will be satisfied when r huvi proved that my boy did not take his own life, Hut what will the govern ment do? is it not die fact that most grave cliarges against some one must follow an overturning of the origi nal report of the first board? That is the real reason the marine corps is making such a fight in this second inquiry." This outbreak on the part of Mrs. Sutton followed the sensational test imony of Lieutenant William F. Bevan, whose version of -the tragedy SPAIN FACES TROUBLE Rioting and Disorder Because of War Vast Crowds, Including Gather About the War Women, Ministry and Prottvst Against Sending More Troops to Morocco. (By Cable to The Times.) Madrid, July 21 Spain today faces a more serious situation than has confronted her since the war with America. Public sentiment is flatly against the Moroccan war and rioting and other street demonstrations here and elsewhere are making the gov ernment aware that unless the cam paign is concluded briefly and suc cessfully it may have to deal with revolution at home. Vast crowds, including many wo men, surrounded the war ministry to day and vociferously condemned the dispatch of more troops to Morocco. Rioting was general throughout the City and in this, too, the women took prominent part. So general was the disorder that the police were power less. The crowds swept them aside like chaff when they attempted to in terfere in their course. No serious damage has been done as yet but the (Continued on Page Five.) HELD DOWN Was Beaten is so widely at variance with the tes timony of Lieutenants Adams and OstVrfflan that it left the impressian that Lieutenant Sutton, while self slain, did not commit suicide, as stat ed by the other two young officers. The young lieutenant graphically described how the fallen lieutenant, with three men on his prostrate body, divw his right arm from under him, and, while trying to fight the others off, fired the shot that ended his life. Despite this description and the other features of Lieutenant Bevan's story, the mother and sister of the slain young officer say they will push the inquiry with the same vigor that lias characterized I heir' ef forts heretofore in trying to remove the stigma from the family name, be ing confident that the wound that caused death was not self-inflicted. That Lieuteiiaiit"Bevan's story will be corroborated is believed today, which will make the weight of evi dence in favor of the theory that Lieutenant Sutton killed himself and in all probability accidentally. If the members of the court of inquiry believe this to be true, the verdict will be that the young lieutenant came to his death from a self-inflicted wound, differing from that of the first court of inquiry which investi gated the tragedy in that it was not a case of suicide. THE CABINET MEETS And Discusses the Tariff Deadlock Much Secrecy About the Meeting of the Cabinet Held to Consider Dead lock in Conference on the Tariff President Has Many Callrrs. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Washington, July 21 The special cabinet meeting called by President Taft today to consider tariff matters met at 11 o'clock at the white house. All the members were present except Secretary of the Interior Ballinger, who is on a western trip. Until the cabinet, members arrived at the white house there was much secrecy attending the purpose of the meeting. A few minutes before Sec retary Nagel, who was first to arrive, reached the white house, Private Sec retary Carpenter informed members of the press that he was unaware there was to be a special cabinet meeting. A few minutes later when told the cabinet was assembling he said they would hold a continuation of yesterday's meeting to consider departmental estimates. It was also stated by several members of the cab inet that these estimates would be (Continued on Page Five.) GRAVEFEARSA8E FELT FOR SAFETY OF GALVESTON Communication Cut Off But Believed That City is Completely Flooded WATERPOURSOVER WALL Liisl Reports From Galveston Said Water Was Sweeping Over Great Sea Wall and That Lower Part- of City Was Already Under Water Since Then Telegraphic Communi cation Has Been Interrupted, Ittif Unless Some Way Was Found to Check the Inrush of Water the City Must Be Inundated Gradual Rising of Water Would Give Peo ple Time to Gel (tut, But Property Loss Would Be Cnonnoiis. (By Leased Wife to The Times) New Orleans,. .Inly - I - Crave fear is felt lien- that Galveston, Tex., has suffered a repetition of l he. disaster of September S, 1II0IJ, when a mon ster tidal wave almost wiped the city out of existence. Advices from there earlier in the day said that the wa ter was sweeping over the great sea wall in a perfect deluge and that the lower streets then were from seven to ten feet under water. Die gulf lashed by a terrific wind storm is steadily rising," the message continued, "and the in-rush of wa ter over the wall is steadily growing in volume." Since then telegraphic communica tion with the city has been lost. A fifty-mile gale has been raging through the gulf .region all day and epora say thst lf is gfgfintle In viol ence. Unless the now ot water over Galveston's sea wall has been checked since the last word was had from there this morning the entire city must be inundated. Lying fiat along the shore of the gulf its only protection from high water was in the wall, which was built to prevent a recurrence of the 1900 disaster in which thousands lost their lives. The manner of the inundation with the water rising by degrees and grad ually encroaching upon the business houses and homes would preclude the possibility of loss of life such as came in the wake of the tidal wave, but the material damage, it is feared here, must be enormous. Many of the city's great, business institutions art! right on the water front in the path of the coming wri ter. Several thousand persons perished in the storm of 1000, when the wa ters of the bay that, flanks the city on one side joined the flood from the gulf in front, meeting in the streets of the doomed city. Survivors said that no other tale of horror ever ri valled their experience on that night of September S, as their homes crashed down and the shrieks of the dying mingled with the road of the wind and the crash of the collapsing buildings. The waters started to crawl through the streets ou. noon of September S and did not begin to re cede until the following midnight. The location of Galveston and the conformation of the sand strip on which it is located make its situa tion one of perpetual peril. It Is built on the eastern end of a long narrow island, two miles distant, from the mainland. Broadway, the thoro ughfare that traverses the highest part of the city is only 8 or 9 feet i above sea level. Its sole protection ' from the waters that encompass it upon both sides is in the jetties and the sea wall built after the 1900 flood. ' Cyclone Struck City. ( By Leased Wire to The Times) Houston, Tex., July 21 Murdoch's bathing pavilion and the Turf bath ing pavilion at Galveston have been swept away. Railroad communica tion has been interrupted, by the cut ting off of the railroad bridge that connects with the mainland. It is reported that a cyclone struck the city and the big jetties of the sea wall were wrecked by its force, al lowing the sea to sweep on tho city. The city is isolated and it is feared that it is in terrible danger. Wires All Down. (By teased Wire to The Times) Dallas, Tejt., July 21 A terrible storm is reported raging about Gal veston and along the gulf coast. All the wires to the affected territory are down. Part of the railway trestle leading to Galveston island has been (Continued on Page Five.) MRS MM THAW ISSUES BOOKLET ON URDERCASE Makes an Attack on Jerome and Criticises the in sanity Experts REVEALS SOME EACTS Says Her Son Has Been Pursued With V'indictiveiiess Before the Trial and Since the Acquittal Cowardly Combination of Disappointed Blackmailers, Perjurers and Oth ers, Working in the interest of the Itich Companions of Stanford White to 1'iVvent Trial Because They Ken red Exposure Criticises Jerome for Going Out of His Dis I rid to Keep Thaw in Asylum. White Plains, N. Y., July 21 Mrs. Mary Copley Thaw, mother of Harry Thaw ,now confined in the White Plains jail awaiting the continuation of the trial of the um'slion of his present sanity now pending before Supreme Court Justice Mills today is sued a little booklet in which she gives a resume of the different pro ceedings in court in which her son has been involved. She makes an at tack on District Attorney William Travel's Jerome and criticises insan ity experts. The booklet is six by e:ght inches and is printed on heavy white paper. On the first page are these words: 'The secret unveiled, a pamphlet by Mary Copley Thaw, copy wrighted by Mary C. Thaw, July, 1909." Following are some of the interest ing extracts from the document: "The secret unveiled. 1 shall re veal certain facts that will in a pleas ure explain vindictiveness shoWn my son before and since his trial and ac quittal. When I returned from Eu rope in July. 190fi, I found a cow ardly combination made up of men ot proiossional standing, together with disappointed blackmailers, per jurers and others, all working in the interests of th- very rich companions of Stanford White to prevent a trial which they feared would result in exposure. They set to work to black en the reputation of my son, an aver age young man with a chivalrous na ture as shown by his attempt to break up disreputable places. Then something never before known in any trial, the entire family, living and dead, was attacked by slanderous falsehoods. "The influence at that time was tremendously strong. They pretend ed that my son had delusions regard ing those three infamous dens used by Stanford White and his compan ions and their disgusting orgies and by White himself for secret assaults on innocent little girls whose bodies and souls he ruined with the selfish ness of the foul fiends. "Young girls were lured by their oriental magnificence into these dens by the persons whom Jerome terms those miserable degenerates.' White searched for victims untouched by viciousness and heinousness of his crimes was that a pure girl or child whose confidence he had won under the pretext of parental interest was, as a rule, hopelessly lost. By vio lence, if necessary, they were doomed to Infamy in this life and to eternal perdition." Mrs. Thaw has two pages of intro duction in her pamphlet in which she says: "Doubtless I will be criticised by my friends and others for descending into the arena to thus openly combat the malevolent 'personality who has dominated my son's cast since before his acquittal by the jury and the commitment by Judge Dowling. But exceptional conditions demand exceptional treatment and the fact that District Attorney Jerome has on lour occasions left the quite suffi cient responsibilities of his own dis trict to pursue this case into a diB tr.ict within which, as he hnnselt acknowledges with his own signature, he has no jurisdiction, compels this unusual procedure on my part." Texas Town Burned Out. Houston, Tex., July 21 Almost the entire town of Brondell is In ruins as the result of a fire laVt night. Two hundred are homeless. Among the losses was that of the Kirby Lum ber Company plant, valued at $175, 000, and $100,000 worth of lumber. Tulune Professor Drops Dead. Covington, La., July 21 J. H. Deiler, formerly professor of German at Tulane University, and long pres ident of the American Saengerbund, dropped dead today. STRONACH FIRES GUN AGAINST RED LIGHT DISTRICT Warfare Begun Against the Deep East and First Gun Fired by Judge Sfronach MADGE EARLE GUILTY She Takes An Appeal lo the Superior Court Madge Held Cnder a Bond of $200 Which She Failed to Give. AH Witnesses Are Held Under Bonds of Knch Printers Send a Delegation to Visit Judge Stron ach Matter Satisfactorily Ad justed Earle Woman Was Given Thirty Bays in .fail Hut Appealed and Had to go to fail Anyway. The first case called in the city po lice court was Stale vs. Madge Earl, vagrancy under the bawdy house act. Kllen Moore was the lirsl witness ex amined ci ml she told of men coming in and out of th Earl house. She came to Raleigh Friday to work in a mill and was sent for by Madge Earl to come to her house and stay and she Went, not knowing what kind of house it was. Beauty Brown's testimony was not worth much to the state and John Carpenter's testimony served to cor roborate the testimony of Ellen Moore. No witnesses were put on for the defense and Madge Earle was adjudged guilty of keeping a bawdy house and was sentenced to thirty days in the work house. Her attor ney, Charles U. Harris, gave notice of appeal and there was some nagg ing over, the appeal. Uoud, City Attor ney Walter Clark, Jr., contending for a bond of 250. It was finally fixed at $200. Madge Earle could not give the bond and she is confined awaiting action in the superior court. Beauty Brown, Ellen Moore and Jno. Carpenter, witnesses, were also held under bond, a bond of $50 each being required. Judgment was reserved in the tiger case against Madge. Delegation of Printers. Shortly after court convened there appeared in the court room a delega tion of printers, headed by Mr. L. F Aiford, the purpose of the delegation being to inquire into and learn the reason for the following, which ap peared in yesterday's paper: "Judge Stronach, in passing sen tence, expressed sympathy for Med lin, but said that he had become a frequent customer of the city court and that, it is not a far cry from drinking whiskey to selling it. He said there seemed to be a mania in this city for selling whiskey. In a mad rush for gain, painters, printers, and men with trades are buying cheap whiskey and selling it for high prices." The printers were very angry about the remarks above given and wanted to know "how come." Judge Stron ach, learning of the presence of the printers in court, forestalled their complaint with a positive disclaimer of any intention of reflecting on the printers, painters, brick-layers or any mechanics or tradesmen of any kind. The remark was made because of the statement made in open court that. Medlin was a printer of ability and earned as high as $25 per week and was, therefore, no ordinary va grant. Judge Stronach did not know that Medlin was not a printer, and if the printers had been in court when he was talking, they would have caught the connection and would not have taken offense. (Right here it would not be amiss for the reporter to say that in his copy as originally turned in, the "context" to which Judge Stronach referred was given. The reporter took the statement that Medlin was a printer, as true and so put it. down in his story. The Times' Linotype men, knowing that Medlin was not a printer, caught the error and that part of the story referring to Medlin as a printer, etc., was stricken from the proof, leaving the copy standing as above printed.) Judge Stronach's statement seem ed to be entirely satisfactory to the printers and the incident was closed. The delegation included represen tatives from every printing establish ment in town and was composed of the following: L. F. Aiford, chair man; W. C. Hufham, E. B. Nelson, C. E. Mitchell, H. G. Harrington, E. O. Smith and Mr. McHeath. Other Cases Tried. P. S. Hanney, a white youth, an entire stranger in the city, pleaded guilty of being drunk on the streets and was fined $3.00 and costs. ' THE PRESIDENT I VMS -f HOPES TO EXTEND! OLIVE BRANCH Will Try to Get the Warring Factious of the House and Senate Together A NEAR FIST FIGHT Tariff Conferees Are Expected to Do Nothing Definite Until After the Peace Dinner Tonight- Senators Are Returning to Washington and General Round-up of Absentees is in Progress Rumors of Trouble in the Meetings of the Conferees. Now Between Payne and Aldrich. Payne Leaves the Room. 1 ( By Leased Wire to The Times) Washington, July 21 The tariff conferees are expected to do nothing definite until after the Taft "peace dinner' tonight, when the president hopes to .extend the olive branch to the warring factions of the senate and house. A meeting of the con ferees was scheduled for 1 o'clock ; this afternoon, but the developments of tonight, wiien reports will be pre sented to the president and the con ferees, are expected to forecast the fate of the tariff bill. Senators are returning to Wash- ington "very 'ay under' the "round- 1 up", wh. h has been eotimenced. Saturday is the day fixed 'na when the last of th 1 'gislntors tiut ar- lve. The lining ip in both tm n'- at' ana nouse is Rpidly being complished. Rumors of trot dt. ,n nv ,t of the conferees cropped' and one more- 8'..,"',rtuV'.'4 ., rest told of a near t ' athf.' Senator Aldricl: ai'd Chairmt u Vwr15; over the lumber scii aural. -Aecdf &3 to this interesting report- the august body was saved the humiliation o a fist fight by adjournment, but before the adjournment Chairman Payne clasped his hat upon his head and bolted through the door, declaring en route that, if the conferees thought they could get along with out him, all right. They could go ahead. The trouble came about through the haste o Representative Fordney of Michigan in proposing a vote on the lumber schedule. Chairman Payne arose and sought to impress upon Mr. Fordney the weighty task before them and cried down all undue celerity. Advocates of free lumber quoted the president today as being in favor of the house rate of $1 per thousand feet on lumber. The pro tectionists claim the president does not maintain that attitude at all. President Taft called a special cab-' inet meeting for today to consider the departmental estimates. Cabinet meetings are always held on Tues days and Fridays and Mr. Taft's de parture caused some comment. It will be remembered that one of the national campaign issues of the re publicans was economy and Mr. Taft desires to have the heads of his vari ous departments show him in their reports how they are carrying out the curtailment policy. The total of the government estimates will be more than $30,000,000 less than the total appropriations made for the cur rent fiscal year. Secretary Meyer, of the navy has succeeded in reducing the expenditures proposed for the fis cal year of 1910-1911, $10,QOO,000 below the appropriation made last year. CLARK ON THE REPUBLICAN 0i)t7 (By Leased Wire to The times.) Washington, July 21. Representative Champ Clark, of Missouri) the minority leader and a member of the. tariff con- ' "' ferees, when asked today what .he ' thought of yesterday's row' among the republican conferees. , merely ... smiled. He said that If the majprlty,. members " of the conference had accepted bis tag. V; gestlon that the democrats b allowed to take part in the. conference, W agreement would probably have been" reached by this time, for when It came ' to voting for lower duties, Mr, Payne. -would have 'won out' and- the demo- V crats would have been with him and ' the president's plan could, have been carried out almost to the letter. 1 ' "Its a pretty kettle of nh, said Mr. Clark. "The republicans Wilt have M settle the trouble among themselves," i ' m i m i ?
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