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ii 11 time Associated Press Service m Associate Press Service He 1 1 Vol. LXX. No.36. The Weather-SHOWERS. "RALEIGH, ,N. C, MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1911. LAST EDITION PRICE FIVE CENT8 Double the Number of Paid Subscribers in Raleigh of any Other Newspaper WHERE IS PISTOL THAT KILLED MAN? This Was One Missing Link! In Strong Circumstantial Chain In Murder Case THREE PERSONS HELD I.. J. N'nriis Hold as Principal in As Missination Saturday Mght of J. It. Bissett Ada Verity and Haywood Penny Also in Custody Weapon Which Norris Turned Over to Of ficers Saturday Night Was iWi Cali bre Pistol, Hut Bissett Was Shot With 3J Calibre Pistol New De velopments in Case. OOOOOOOOOOOOO O The bullet which killed .1. B. O Bissett was fired Iroin a 32 cali O bre pistol The pistol that L. O O v .1. Nonis turned over to the of ficers Is a ;iS calibre Harrington & Richardson. What the officers O O must do now to make out their O o. o o case against Norns Is to .find t the pistol from which the bullet O was fired that killed Hissett, O oooooooooooooo With all the circumstances except one pointing to L. J. Norris as the assassin of .1. H. Bissett, Chief of Police Stell;- Coroner Separk an dthe entire machinery of the police de partment were endeavoring today to find the pistol with which J. B. Bis sett was killed late Saturday night in the Catling woods, beyond the Soldiers' Home. Kvery link in any possible chain was pieced together yesterday and today Willi the ex ception of the pistol with which Uis Hcti was shot. Although every straw points to Norris as the assassin and there is little doubt in the minds of the of ficers as to his guilt, yet the finding or the 'pistol from wnich the bullet was lired devolves upon them. His sett was killed Saturday night while "lie was ill the company of Ada Yerby, wile of Will Yerby. Norris had got out or the hack in which tills pan was driving to the scene of the trage dy, besides Norris and the woman, Havwood Inuy, the colored hack . man. I' held as a witness. Will Yerby, arrested Saturday night, was released yesterday alternoou, it be ing clear to all that he had nothing to do witli the affair. V immediately after the killing, Coroner Separk got on the Job. Nor ris reported the affair to Chief ot Police Stell and at the same lime handed over a pistol. This weapon was flung in the automobile and no more was thought about it until the woman had been arrested. One of the chambers was empty and an im pression had been made on another or the cartridges, as if the hammer STRIKE FEVER IN London, Aug. 14 The strike fever has become epidemic In Great Brit tain. Prom one nd of the country to the other men either have struck of are threatening to do so, with the women and girls in smaller factor ies demanding better labor conditions- London strets are commenc ing to resume normal appearance. Railroad men throughout the coun ' try .have assumed a threatening at titude and a complete tie-up of the railroad systems is feared. The lo comotive engineers have adopted a resolution in favor of a national, strike. Quiet lias been restored at Liverpool following yesterday's riot ing when a policeman was Ttilled and 200 officers and civilians -were wounded. Police reinforcements were brought here. Glasgow, where the street railway men are on strike, Is also quieter. Germans are being crowded out Of the Chinese market. had twice struck It. The pistol was taken to a locksmith and opened. Probing for Bullet. In the presence of the coroner and his jury, Dr. R. H. Freeman and Dr. John McKee, performed au autopsy on the body of Bissett. They traced the bullet rrom where it entered the left breast near the collar bone, pene trated the left lung, severed the aorta of the heart and lodged In the elRhth rib. The man bled to death. A Pathetic Picture. H. H. Bissett,' father of the slain man, remained about the undertaking establishment all the time the body was there for the post mortem., lie fore the knife was placed to the ttesn, the aged lather went up to the third Moor and looked at his son. 'J lien as the physicians made ready to per form their work, the old man des cended tlie stairs and took a position in a corner of the building, wuere he remained throughout the whole pro ceeding. No sound escaped his Hps; in dumb silence he bore his grief, wiiile a throng of curious persons crowded around and talked. He seem ed no more oblivious of their pres ence than they of his. Karly this morning the awed father carried Ills son s remains to Nash County, where the body was buried, it was in Nash County that the hoy grew up, and it was in Nash County that the man, 8 2 years old, is resting today. S e itnesses. Among the witnesses who will be summoned for the coroner s inquest will be Ada Yerby. the woman; Hay wood . Penny, the hackrnan; Dorsey Pool, or Garner, relative of Ada Yerby; Drs. R. H. Freeman and John McKee, wdio erfot med the autopsy ; Frank Wilson, who is said to have heard threats of Norris; Mrs. Gl(l, where Norris boarded, and Will Yerby, husband of the woman. Coroner Separk will probably have his jury meet Wednesday or Thurs day to hear the evidence. The jury Is composed of Logan Terrell, N. G. Jones, C. Hatchings, W. A. Baker and Melvin Andrews. Private Investigation Chief or Police Stell, Police Justice Watson and Solicitor Norris today subjected Ada Yerby and Haywood Penny to a rigid examination. The woman, who was first examined, de clined to shed anv new information on the subject, and the colored hack man could tell little more than lie disclosed yesterday. Only One Pistol. It was reported from several quar ters that two pistols had been round, hut a statement from the officers set at rest this report. Only the 3S calibre pistol is In posession of the authorities, an dit was a 32 calibre pistol from which the bullet was fired Humors. Reports or bad blood between Bis sett and Norris will be investlgat J by the coroner. It has been stated bv numerous persons that Norris had said that he was going "to get him a man" with a pistol, which lie dangled around his finger, but these re ports have yet to be verified. The Hackman's Story. Haywood Penny had. no scruples against telling everything he knew about the affair. He drove the three toward the place of the lulling. Al ter some words, Norris got out, but promised to go to the place if he could secure the company of another person. He was not seen again until after the tragedy. Penny heard the pistol fire, and saw Ada Yerby rush to the carriage and without much urging struck a pace back to the city, returning in a different way from that which he went out. Awaiting Developments. iThe officers profess to know little about the affair other than any one could find out by Investigating for himself. No disposition has been made to keep the news from the pub lic and as soon as new developments are sprung, the facts will be given out. 1 In the meantime, the officers are natuarally wary as to the course they will pursue in their efforts to matte out the case. Tope Making Improvement. Rome, Aug. 14 Physicians found Pope Pius" condition little changed, Slow, gradual Improvement is per ceptlble. Cooler weather had an un favorable effect upon the patient. .' . - I . Henry Clay Frick, one of the eight or ten richest men in this country, who lias resigned trom (he 'di rectorate and executive committee of tile I njou P. cifie Hinlroud, his resignation fitting birth to the re port that he is to retire permanently from .11. active business life. This lias lieeu mil rlly denied, how ever, but many men prominent in Wail street declare they believe lie will soon cense nil aclmties despite the partial denial. Mr. Frick, now only sixty-two years old, is a power in sleel and iron alluirs and prominent in the councils ol ninny ol I lie country's lllggit corporations. DIVORCE AGITATES F Washington, 'August 14 Agitation aniong'the members' of congress look ing to a Federal law regulating mar riage and divorce is the result of the storm of protests over the -approaching marriage of John Jacob Afltor, and Miss Madeline Force. Sen ator Curtis, of Kansas, is among tile advocates of such a -measure, He savs it Is a matter vitally affecting the social interests of specific, crime, should be permited to marry again. Both marriage and divorce should lie more dilflccult. Representative Shep pard, of Texas, thinks an organiza tion might nilliieiiee the various states to join in a plan tor unilorm divorce laws. MANY LIVKS LOST. More Than.. ."500 Heaths V n Ty phoon Much Property llamage. Victoria B. C, August 1 -I . - .More than 500 lives lost, and great de vastation ashore and afloat, resulted I runt a tvphoon and tidal wave thai swept over Japan July 2titli, accord ing to advices bv the steamer Kin press ot Japan. At Tokio the tidal wave Bwept awav many homes. A torpedo boat was swept .ashore- at Tokio ami several steamers lounder ed, while the big liners dragged t lien anchors. The loss at Tokio was 000,000. The tvphoon broke, 'the corner In the rice market, the firm that had cornered is losing hundreds of thousands of bushels. Togo at. liiiiiclieon. New York, Aug. 14 Admiral Togo was entertained at a luncheon given by the Japanese Society and Peace Society of New Y'ork. Six hundred were present. L CONFERENCE SUBMITTED TO HOUSE Washington, D..C, Aug. 14 The wool bill conference report, a com plete agreement between the two houses of congress was submitted to the house today by Representative Underwood. Republican Lender Mann made the point of order the re port could not be considered because the conferees exceeded their author ity by fixing the tariff rates on cer tain manufacturers of wool higher than the same rates were made in either the house or senate bill. Pennsylvania Flyer M recked. Fort Wayne, Ind., Aug. 4 A re vised list of the dead and injured as result-of the Eastbound eighteen hour Pennsylvania Flyer, Chicago to New York, leaving the track one mile west of here last night, shows two dead, two missing and thirty in jured. It Is practically certain the two missing men, the fireman and engineer, .are dead. ::. . i Airs, ".luck" (iei-mlitv. the former .lului .Steele I'rencli, lelittive of the iiiulei hills, who, Willi hei cliiiiitl'eiir husluiml, ullh wlioiu sin- eloped, loiled rel atives si-arcliiiig l lit- New I'.nghiiiil loiiiitiysnle lor tliem liy fje(titif miii'i ied at ( enter illume, t onii., Alter their elopement Iroin Newport in nil autoin". bile, they drove straight to ( enter fTTajje, mill alter the marifial knot was tied, sped to Springfield. Mass., where Ihev esUihlished a temporary abode in (lie home or Joseph II. Harris, a relative ol "handsome .lack" Gel-uglily, wliere thev were round tin- next nioriiing by the frustrated lelalives ol Mrs. deranlily. Pennsylvania Mob Burns Wounded Negro Murderer Negro Had killed a Policeman Af ter BeUiti Cuuglit He Tried to Kill Himself and W as Sent to a Hospit al Moli Went to the Hospital lor Him Much Indignation Impress ed. '"' Coatsville, 'Pa.,' Aug. 1 4 A tren zied mob's work last night In drag ging Kzeklal Walker, a wounded negro from the hospital and burn ing hi m to death lor killing I'olice u.an Kdgar Rice,. Saturday - -night, lias aroused indignation'. Kverythmg is being done to identify the mobs ring leaders. This quiet, Quaker community is deeply stirred. 1 hous ands of persons journeyed to the scene ol the burning today. Nothing is left ol Walker but his ashes. All the linbiirned portions ol the hos pital cot," which- formed a part ol his pvre, having been gathered up bv souvenir hunters. Soon alter being captured, Walker tried to coiiinmt suicide by shooting himself.' 'I lie negro contessed the crime. Coatsville streets are usually tilled with people Saturday night. Following the negro's capture and removal to the hospital hundreds gathered about the hospital. As the crowd 'increased talk of lynching spread. A masked man finally mounted the hospital steps, shouting "Men ol Coatsville will you let a drunken negro do up such a white man as it ice.' ' The crowd was transformed into a vicious mob. An attack was made on (he -hospital.. - The frightened negro being tied to the cot and re moved to Newland farm. The mob did its work quickly after placing the negro In the middle of a pile of wood and brush and applying match es. . KXSHiN YOl'XG BF.FORR HOARD. His Case Sent Before the Naval Fa aiiiing Hoard. Norfolk, Aug. 14 Ensign Robert M. Young, V. S. N., ot Concord, N. C, who : mysteriously disappeared from the United States destroyer Perkins, at Brooklyn, some time ago, having left the Charlotte N. C, san otarliim, was sent before the naval medical examining board which will report to Washington. London Has Radium Institute. London, August. 14. The new Ra dium Institute, In the establishment of which King Edward VII., took an active Interest during the latter years of his life, was formally opened today for the treatment of patients. The institute Is conveniently located in Riding House street, near Portland place. It is to be conducted on the jlinea of the Radium Institute in Paris, and both curative and research work will be carried on. Agriculture employs 43 -per cent, of all the inhabitants of France. hv . 1 Diira'nt: 'Oklahoma; Aug. I I - Al t hough little condeninat ion ivns 61 l'ered for i he moli which on yestov dav burned to ashes the body ol the negro who assaulted Mrs. I.. I!. Campbell, county officials "said eviry eft'orf. was io he niiule to apprehend the.. leaders. . .Mrs. Cainpbt'll, : who was shot bv a lien ro alter he attack ed her, is in a serious condition. "'-All negroes have -been warned -to leave Durum. . Most of them lelt today. Serious race trouble is feared lit Cad do, twelve miles north, lioui which place -.'the b'irried negi-o,. Ii is said, came here. The attack on Mrs. Campbell lollowed. a series ef wild crimes which led to the 'belief tlu1 negro was demented. A posse found the negro twelve miles southwest of here when u running fight ensued The "posse .'.numbered fifteen- men." It was estimated 15u shots were fired at the negro bet ore Ins body was picked, up.-'." The corpse was brought here and a mob ol ."'JO persons met the posse al the outskirts The body was taken i'rniii the officers inid car ried to ---Mrs-. Campbell s home. She identified it- The bodv was then taken to a vacant lot near the city s center anil burned on a pvre ol dry goods boxes. Aged Woman Bealen and Robbed. Washington, August 1 4 Mrs. J no. Mctiinlock, aged . sfi, was brutally 'choked and beaten bv two .-negroes in her home near Aiinacosta. and i on taken, she was attacked as she slept beside here bed ridden hus band. 'I he negroes took 1 lie-money bell, from about here waist. Olilceis are searching for the negroes. ENGINEERS HOLD Norfolk, August II. Several hun dred delegates as the advance 'guard to the annual convention ot the southeastern division. Brotherhood of .. Locomotive Engineers, convenes tomorrow. Grand Chief Warren S Stone, will preside. The southern division 'embraces all the territory south of the Ohio an east ol the Mis sissippi river. Mad Man Partially Wounds Three, New York, August 14. Three are dying In a hospital as the result of John Vecr.i. a mad tailor going to the home ot his neighbors, John Ar- liiinia and wife. A nil in la was asleep in an apartment in Brooklyn when Veccl burst In with his knire and pistol. He stabbed the womun re peotedlv, saot. her husband and emp tied the revolver In his own body. The Germans are making a nh stttute for celluloid, calling It cellon, io be mmu,: liiiil'jou, 1. C. A ill". II' All iii -conned ion i:n Hie recent eliiirj'es of Alaskan Delegate W ie kershaui iieainsl Attor ot y (leiieial Wickd'sham were, asked tor from . liie deparl iiieiit of Justice ill a resolution adopted bi the house The re: oi nt ion u'an offered j- iif-ijre-i-;eht.ative Clayton, ol' Alabama., liaii iiian ol tin' judiciary eoiuiuitli-e, . ' ,'.'-:..... ( ilt.l K T III ROPK FACTOR V. I ('li J. alior o Plan ol the ! ai iiieis' I iimn. H o list on, . -Texas,'' A ug.. 1 4 - - A dilfi eult situation has arisen . within tlie ranks of I lie Faruiers' I ' ii i tii of Texas ' wiieu I lmw found organized: labor of the nation, was again their plan of tiring convict-operated rope iac toiies ill Texas to.- increase .the con'- . siiinpt ion; of cotton. This scheme,, has long, been .cher ished bv tlie Fanners I nioii to pro mote, tlie, use of Texas cotton, which they "hoped'- would, cause, an .increase in - price.' Ii . was .proposed to place the factory near Houston in place ot the .dismantled . convict . iron plant it Rusk.. I lie matter had gotten- so far as tlie legislature when organizuu labor- stepped in and placed '-thumbs down on the project. : At a recent, meeting at Fort Worth, II isner. ot New ork, presidelil of (lie United. GaMlient workers -or America, voiced the pro test, of. organized labor against the proposed ' veiil Ore, apprising the tanners I nioii ot an ethical over sight. ; In1 coiiseuiience, if . a rope factory , be established near Houston it will be '.-man tied by union labor and not by convicts. SI BTFRRANF.AN SKA. (,1'ologisls Itelieve Its Source is in the Jtuckv. Mountains I' nul is in Iwo ( (iiinl ics. San Antonio, Texas, Aug. 1 f -The disi-overv ot a siiliterrauean sea in Hall and l.uliboek cou ni ies confirms (he recent geological investigations tending to show tha'. there is an tin ier flow from tlie Rocky .Mountains sweeping across ' .New - Mexico, -ini' Panhanille" and .sou t Invest erh por tions of Texas. For a nunilier. of years' it has been a theory of geologists that there. is a siibteiraneirn st ream from the ttocky Mountains: . sweeping souihwestwai d to the gulf. Ti is contended, that this stream is the source :of niany sprinus such as those which forms the head waters ot the .-'Guadalupe-; river .near New liraiinfers.. Texas, , the famous San Pedro-: Springs in lliis cily. (lie .Car fiy,o springs, in:, li'iininii county, the various flows at Sutherland .''springs, in. Williamson count l aud a. series ol spriiii:s fiu niiiig I he headwaters of the NueiM's. and I hose w lii.ii pour couslaiil streams into t he . I (evil . and I'eCos . -rivers, DO( TOR ANIl PA IiFN A W Fl New Wile Said lo Have Been an Intonate Friend ol Her Predeces- soi', i'liiladeliliia. Augusi II. Dr. C. Kllwood .'Mevers ol No. 170 Green hue. ie", tutu. low n. w as .. inairied to Mrs: l.illia .: Lang Jones, of Hoxlior otigll on ,litl L'iitli, at Cailldei), Me, Dr. Mevers w as divorced Iroin .us first wile on..'.!uii.-;'.rd, of ! his year. Since, the gi anting : of t he divorce Mrs. ..Mevers lias been living with a friend at W ild w ood,- but ' she is ex pected to return lo No. 170 Ureeii lane., lite 'house . having been turned over . t,i iter lor life by Dr.. Myers. She. is .-.ai.l to have been un. 'intimate 'friend of tlie second Mrs. Myers. - i'lte ..physician's .bride is also a di vorcee. Il was her physician . on a trii: .abroad, i'his trip started the love-uiiiliiiig,'. . Her lirst husband. Horace .tones, is remarried ami living with, li is wile anil children in New York. S'lie' is the daughter of the late John l.ang. a piiper niainifac'tur er,' ami-has a son. Uiingdoii Jones, a Harvard undergraduate. BRYAN TO IIF.COM F. MIMSTFR. Nehraskiin, Says Report. Will Retire Permanently ! rom Politics. Centrallia, ill . Aug. 14 William Jennings Brvon. it Is reported is soon to enter the ministry and give up politics altogether. Mr llrvnn is scheduled to deliver a sermon next Sunday evening from the pulpit of the Methodist Episco pal church at Salem, 111., his birth place. Church services are to be dispensed with in other parts of that city, and all will unite in the one ser vice. The subect of Mr. Bryan's sermon will be "Old Time Religion' and will bo a criticism of the condi tions of modern worship. BEAM CASE I Grand Jury Took Up the Charge of Murder Against Young Richmond Man DATE FOR THE TRIAL But Four Witnesses to be Heard by flie Grand Jury -And an Indict ment Was F.xpected Karly Beattie Left in Richmond Jail During To day's Proceedings Paul Beattie, Beulali Binford and TJiomas Owen, Airs. Realties' I'ncle, the Principal Witnesses Before the Grand Jury. Chesterfield Court House, Va., Aug. 14 The grand jury met this morning to consider the case of Henrv Clav Beattie, Jr., twenty-BlX year old son of a Richmond merch ant, charged by the coroner's jury with murdering his young wife July IS. The indictment, charging mur der in the first degree, was In the clerks hands when the grand Jurors arrived. With but four witnesses to be heard, tlie spectators prepared : lor only a brief wait before the docu ment would be handed down formally and tlie date for trial fixed. Tile sherln announced that Beattie would be kept in the Richmond Jail during today s proceedings. Paul Beattie, Henry's cousin and Ueulah Binfordi the vivacious seven teen year old girl for love of whom the prosecution charges Beattie kill ed his wife, reached the court house early in the officer's custody. Other witnesses heard by the grand jury included Thomas E. Owen, Mrs. Beat.tie'8 uncle, to whose home Beattie brought the body with his tale of a mysterious man firing into his automobile from the roadway- The indictment charging Beattie Willi murder is the usual document, bristling with legal verbiage. It describes tlie commission of the crime and concludes solemnly that the nirors "upon their oath do say liie stud Henrv Clay Beattie, Jr., leloitiouslv, '.wilfully and of malice ilorethoiigiil, did kill and murder and against the peace and dignity of the commonwealth of .Virginia,"' his twenty-three year old wife, Louise W elllord Owen Beattie. I pott this Indictment the state will try to iend the prisoner to tlie elec tric c!i: r. True Bill Returned. Chesterfield Court House, Aug. 14 A true bill, charging murder In the first degree, was returned bv the and iurv.nl' "Chesterfield. Circuit Conn against ' Henrv- Clav Beattie, Ii1.-ni Kichinond. He will be tried lor Ins life us tlie alleged murderer ot Ins voting wile, the victim ot the Midlothian turnpike tragedy of July 1 sth. last. Alter the grand jurv brought in tlie indictments' the court adjourned until this afternoon when the date ol the trial is expected to be set. Neither Beulali Binford, nor Paul Beattie were called before the Jury as a witness, ilotli remained in tne mte-room while tlie jury was In ses sion, f ile indictment covers oroaa- lv all the degrees of homicide from murder in the first degree to man slaughter. Washington, D .C, Aug. 14 Re strictions placed upon the bureau of chemistry, officials bv Solicitor Mc Cain' on their talking witli United States district attorneys has greatly hampered work in the district labo ratories, where attorneys prosecuting the pure tood cases often seek ex pert advice, according to Dr. W. D. Bigelow, the bureau's assistant chief, who agiiiu appeared as a witness be fore the house committee investigat ing tlie charges against Dr. Harvey W. . Wiley. Bigelow made It clear to the bureau officials that they were not to talk with the district attor neys without his express consent. Lockout of Dock Men. Liverpool, Aug. 14 The threaten ed lockout by ship owners became ef fective today. Thirty thousand dock men were refused employment until they decide to abide by the terms ot their recent agreement. HEARD 0
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