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THE RALEIGH DAILY TIMES: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1911. XT "1 m simo DEATH TTUcy Acdia Fires Fatal Bul let fcto Garfeld Wffians Homicide Happened Sunday Morning St Oyster Sapper Near Holly Spring Austin Shot Williams. Be cause He Had Been Called Down for Being Too Boisterous Han Fled and No Trace of Him Vet. Wake county awoke Sunday mom ins to find itself confronted with a homicide committed within its bor ders. The shooting affair took place on T. A. Council's plantation in Hol ly Springs township, about thirteen miles southwest of Raleigh, about quarter past one o'clock Sunday morning. The facts as best can be learned, are as follows: . The negroes of the neighborhood were having a big oyster supper at the home of Garfield Williams, on Mr. Council's farm, and amid the gaiety and pleasure of the occasion, Wiley Austin got a little too much of the occasion in his bones and tried to raise a rough house. Just as polite ly as possible, Garfield Williams call ed him down. It being at his home, he did not want to see the occasion turned into a rough house, and he simply went to Austin, as the host of the oyster supper attendants, and ssked that he be more calm and not be so boisterous. This angered Aus tin and he went out into the yard, where he proceeded to "raise a racket" proper. All kinds of boister ous talk and profanity were used and Garfield then, with several others, went out to him and tried to quiet him, and finding it impossible, order ed him away. This was more than he could stand, and before any one could realize what had happened, he pulled out a Smith & Wesson, 38 cal ibre, pistol and fired into Garfield, the bullet passing the heart, killing him instantly. He fled and has not been seen since. He has three broth ers, one in Norfolk, Richmond and New York, and it is supposed that he Is making his way to one of these points. Austin has long been known as a desperate negro and ran away from Wake county several years ago to escape the clutches of the law. He Is a man about five feet, seven inches high, slightly stooped; color, dark ginger-cake, weight about 155 pounds. He has a scar over one eye, possibly the right eye. Garfield Williams, the dead man, was one of the most highly respected negroes in Wake county. He has been living on Mr. Council's farm about two years and has been a val uable servant, doing the bulk of the farm work. The authorities have been notified and are making every effort to cap ture the murderer. , Revenue Act Considered Bj the House (Continued From rage One.) mary elections by political parties. William" of Buncombe: To pro hibit unlawful blowing of railway whistles in Buncombe county, Cox of Anson: To create free school district in Anson county. Taylor of Vance: To amend the charter of the citizens Bank of Hen . derson. Wilson of McDowell: To amend the road law of Marion township. Dlllard of Cherokee: To appoint a justice of the peace for the village of Tipton and authorize the exercise of police powers. Dlllard of Cherokee: To amend the law of 1905 relating to convey ances. Parham: To amend the revisal relative to the compensation of coun ty commissioners. Latham: To prohibit the fishing with certain nets in certain waters of Ueaufort county. Latham: To improve the roads of Beaufort county. . Latham: An act supplemental to the act relative to the criminal court of Beaufort county. McWilllams: To regulate fishing in Glades River in Hyde county. McWilllams: To protect the oys ter industry in Hyde county. Connor: To amend the graded school law of Toisnot. Connor: To change the boundary lines between Wilson and Nash coun ties. Tborne: To allow Ayden to issue bonds to erect school building. Williams of Swain: To protect the public while traveling over the rail roads. Wall: To protect game in Rock ingham county. ' Ramsey: To amend the road law of Madison county. Koonce': To allow Onslow to issue good road bonds to provide for work ing convicts on roads. Wood: To regulate deer hunting Jn Transylvania county. Wood: To remove the stock law fence from around Little River town-Ship.- Kay: To amend the law of 1909 relating to bonds of the, town of Franklin. . CavtaeM (by request): To estab. sV local school tax district In Wal nut Grove township, Wilson county. McPhaul: To educate the negroes in North Carolina relative to tuber culosis. McPhaul: To protect a grave yard in Robeson county. Edwards: To amend the charter of Robinsville. Rabb: To enlarge the powers of the aldermen of Hlckoiy. Williams of Swain: To amend the stock law for Swain county. Turlington: To amend the char ter of Mooresville. Tucker: To tax dogs in Ashe and Mitchell counties. Battle: To fix the salaries of Wake county officers aud to increase the road fund. Andrews: To amend the law of 1905 relative to the town of Council in Bladen county. Scarborough: To protect the hunt ing industry in Dare county. Kellum: To repeal the law ol 1909 relating to automobiles in New Hanover. Kellum: To allow New Hanover county to employ a stenographer. Kellum: To abolish the city prison of Wilmington. Kellum: To annex Northwest township of Brunswick county to New Hanover county. Kellum: To amend the clam law of 1909 relating to Brunswick and New Hanover. Kellum: To establish a free fer ry across the Cape Fear River at Wil mington. Kellum: To allow the sheriff ot New Hanover county to collect fees. Thomas: To provide legalized pri mary election In Richmond county. Thomas: To protect certain game in Richmond county. McGill: To amend the law of 1909 relating to pensions for ex-Confederates. ' Judd: To drain Walnut Creek iu Wake county. Ewart: To make it a felony for any corporation to contribute money or transportation to any party or candidate for any public office. Ewart : To amend the road law of Henderson county. McGill: To amend the law ot 1909 allowing commissioners to in crease pensions and to levy a special tax therefor. Carr of Durham: To protect the property of telegrap.i and telephone companies. Carr of Durham: To allow .the city of Durham to issue school bonds. At 12:30, on motion of Mr. Dough ton, chairman of the finance commit tee, the house resolved itself into a committee of the whole to considei the revenue bill. Mr. Ray, of Macon, was named by Speaker Pro Tern Connor to act as chairman of the committee of the whole. Mr. Doughton moved that he bill be considered by sections and .hat amendments be offered to each section. The reading of the sections then began. Committee of the Whole. The committee of t.ie whole then informally considered the various sections of the revenue act, it con taining ninety-four sections. Section one, relating to the kind of money in which taxes should be made was adopted. Sections two and three, relating to :oll tax and property tax, provoked much discussion. Amendments were offered by Mitchell, of Wayne, to in crease the school tax from 18 to 22 cents. By Koonce, of Onslow, to raise the rate for pensions from four cents to ten cents and schools from eighteen cents to twenty-fiye cents. Mr. McGill, of Cumberland, to raise the pension rate from four to Jight cents. Chairman Doughton said t lit trouble about these amendments was that if adopted it would increase the amount of state tax from forty-three and a third cents to fifty-six and a third cents, leaving only ten aud two third cents to run the counties on. Tf the counties could hardly get on now with twenty-three and two-third cents, how could they get on with ten and two-third cents? That was the whole matter at stake. Tue only way to get these much needed ap propriations for schools and pensions, was to get it out of the general fund of the slate treasury. Mr. McGill, of Cumberland, after hearing Mr. Doughton's explanation, withdrew his amendment, saying the old soldiers would trust the commit tee on appropriations. Mr. Mitchell, of Wayne, withdrew his amendment relating to raising the equation for both schools and pen sions, trusting to tha appropriations committee. Mr. Taylor, of Hertford, said al though ono of the old veterans, he was satisfied those asking pensions did not wish to cripple the counties. He thought the wisest thing to do would be to pass the revenue act just as it has been carefully agreed upon by the committee after weeks of care ful consideration. . Mr. Connor, of Wilson, offered to amend section three by reducing the general levy from twenty-one cents to twenty cents and raise the rates for school from eighteen cents to nineteen cents. He said as long as these great lump sums were taken from the state treasury for schools and for pensions, it encouraged the land assessors of some counties, the passing of special tax levy bills, and from that source came the large num ber of deficit counties. General Carr made an impassioned spsocli tor increase of the yote to be I ... allowed loi pensions. He said North Carolina was richer '-than Georgia, Tennessee or Klorula. -and was not doing over halt as much us those slates. Already by allowing widows of soldiers, married in l .vT.s. 1 . r 0 0 widows had been admitted to tae pension rolls, and t.ns amounted to a decrease in the pension now pi-unfed the old soldier, It is-..ridiculous to continue the pitiful pension ot $4."0. 000 tor North Carolina soldiers, re cognized in all the states as beins the bravest that ever drew swords in any true canse in all tile hisiory of the earth. I Great Applause.) He concluded-bv declaring tan t li Ins bill, providing for a tax commission-: to equalize taxation in all the counties of the slate, and make them list their property at even one-nminer of its value, there would be no trouble about au appropriation ot a million dollars .tor the old soldiers and lor schools and ot.ier purposes. There would be ho more 1359,00(1' treasury deficits or pauper counties, in rich, and progressive North Carolina. Mr. Home, ol Johnston, made a magnificent speech in beaalf of the old soldiers. Willi I renzieil eloquence lie recounted the deeds ol lliese men in the war and said lie had never heard a man object to.: paying the pension tax. Me, lor one. was willing to trust the appropriations commit tee to d all that could be done fur ther. He opposed upsetting t.ie pres ent revenue bills. Mr. Ross, ot Harnett, said the question of population ol counties was equally as important us that of property. It was not lair to lower the tax on property from twenty-one cents to twenty ceuts and raise the tax for schools from eighteen cents to nineteen cents, as proposed by Mr. Connor, because it did not. take into consideration tlie . -: population of school attendance. There was noth ing in the constitution to prevent the appropriation of any amount from the state treasury to public purposes, school pensions or otherwise, unless such appropriations attacked the ver foundation of the government. Mr. Gay, of Northampton, advocat ed the Connor amendment, saying he thought it would guarantee a four months school term. The legislature had no right to raid the state treas ury when their funds could be easily raised by the counties themselevs. The constitution requires the coun ties themselves to have a four months term. The benefit of the Connor amendment is that it will compel counties to assess the property of their county in all their townships at a more reasonablo value iu order to make up for this one cent tor general county purposes. It. would automat ically prevent them innumerable spe cial tax levies, the mother of the so called pauper county list. Mr. Doughton said he was afraid the Koonce amendment would hit the schools and the Connor amend ment would hit the old soldiers. Mr. Battle, of Wake,' opposed all amendments. All amendments were defeated and sections two and three were adopted without amendment. Speaker Connor presiding, Mr. Ray reported that the committee of, the whole had adopted three sections of the revenue act. The report was con curred in by the house: Out of Order. Mr. Battle, of Wake, ' introduced Mrs. .Mai joi le C. I.i've, who lias lie gun suit tor divorce, ami her -husband. Sidney O. I.ove, skyrocket il-imm-icr, cluliin.-vn anil polo player. Mrs. Love, whoyi Sir Phillip Hume Jones, the aesthetic Nnjslish artist called "the most beautiful woman in America," has tiled her suit In Mount Vernon, New Aork, the papers stating Unit she maiT'ed Mr. I.ove in 1!M)7, and that they lived together until March 17, 11)07. She hud not seen her husband since October, I MOD, and the judge i-eceiviiijr the application signed an order summoning Mr. Love by newspaper publication. On the same day Mr. Love Hied suit for di vorce in linker City, Ore., alleging that, his w ile deserted him-in Kngluml in l!OI, and lias since refused to live with him. He also desires the cus tody of their lii"-year-old child, to be given lo his mother, Mrs. Margaret Ijuvp, of Chicago. Mitt. lve's papers in the action slate that ho luis lived different times at Seattle, Wiish., Ilukrr City, Ore., and Unity, Oregon. out of order a bill to amend the char ter of Apex. On motion nl Mr. Doughton the revenue bill was made a special order for Tuesday at expiration of morning hour, displacing the dog tax bill taat had been previously set. At 2:10 the bouse took a recess until tonight at - o'clock. OPKICKK ASSAl'LTKll. Patrolman Warren Forced t Kesort to t'se of Club. Some time ago Bessie Durham and Frank Smith, both colored, were tried upon l lie charge of f. and a aud given a road sentence. The man went on ami served his time on, the roads, getiing off some week or two ago, but the woman escaped and never served her sentence. Yester day morning, between 11 aneV 12 o'clock, Patrolman Warren was in formed that she was at lior home at the corner of Davie and Haywood streets, and he wont out to arrest her. The facts as best can be learned are that when the officer entered the house and slated that he had come to arrest her, Bhe started for him with a knife, dagger, or some weapon of the kind. The officer did not care to raise any big disturbance and tried to arrest her without using any force, and made an effort to get his hands on her, but she struck at him and cut a small scratch on bis forehead About that time Smith entered the room and closed the door on the offl cer, shutting the taree up in tbe room together. At another effort to cut the officer he saw the serious position he was in and was forced to uso his club. He Btruck the woman over the head and floored her. This morning all kinds of reports were circulated, ono that the officer had killed her, but that is not true. A message to the police headquar ters stated tkat she was getting along all right; that no serious damage was done. -' It was very fortunate that the officer kept his head under the trying condition. An officer who is likely to lose his head when shut in a room with a man and woman, and both after him, wou. a In all proba bility have killed both and he would not have been censured 6t it. But lor the coolness of Officer Warren the affair terminated with only a wp- man being knocked down with his club, which is carried as a protection in such a time. It is very seldom that an officer has to regort to the use ot his club, but. when shut up in a room with a man and a woman, and both after him, no oue can censure him for what he did. : jhssk mAllomck iwkiion i:o. Coventor IvitcMn Pardons Jackson County Man Convicted of Seduc tion. Covcriior William V. Kitihln has Is- siml a pardon to Jesse Mallonee. of Jiiekxmi eoulitv. convicted at the Feb- uary term. 1H10, of the el-line ot se- iliK-tion. ami sentenced to serve two yentfs: en the : i:ohi1s. Tlie reason for tlie purtVn Is as fol lows:. "Tile Jury recommended., mercy when the verdict was rendered. Kvory member ol the Jury recommends par don. Tiie trial. Judge, owing lo facts dl.-cnveicd by lihn since the trial. i .'commends prisoner's pardon. Owing to Hie tacts disclosed before me. 1 tiiink tins a- proper case Tor, 'some clenienrv. I therefore pardon prisoner on connmon inui ne pay uie prot.- tviitrix, Doela Stilwell. within thirty diivs,. the sum of $r,0. and thai during the next eight years lie pay annually the sum nf $40 for the support of the child nl prosecutrix, said $10 annually lo be paid in $10 instalments on the llr.st dav of April, July. October and January, and to be paid to the clerk of tiie suoerior court of Jackson county for tin; benefit of such child." TODAY'S CHAHTKKS. Newspaper I'latU at Shelby is Found Among Today's Charters. Tripp-Ilnrt & Company, of Ayden, I'itt county, is chartered, to do a general mercantile business, both wholesale and retail; to buv and sell goods, wares, fertilizers, and .merch andise 'of every description. The au thorized capital stock is $50,000, but may begin business when .$ 10,1100 has been subscribed. Stockholders are J. H. Tripp. II. A. Hart. I. J. Frizelle. 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