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^ The Wilkes Patriot. ^ The Patriot Has a Larger Circulation and is Read by More People than any Local Newspaper in this Section of the State VOL. XIV. IVO. 9. WILKESBORO, N. C. Thursday, June 28, 1919. Price 1 yr. $1; 6 mo. 50c COLUMBUS LONG Haynes-Jones. CROWN PRINCE HAS ESCAPED. WILLIAM CHATHAM MURDERED. 4th o* July Preparations. BOTTOM KILLED Found Lying in His Enggy With Head Crushed and Unconscious.—Mnr- dered by Unknown Person, Columbus Longbottom, whose homa was in Somers Township between the homes of Dr. L. P. Somers and Mr. S. A. Mitchell, was found by two of Mr. Hackett Nichols’ cons, last Fri-' •day afternoon, lying across the foot of his buggy in an unconscious con- •dition. his head crushed in two places, and on Sunday o’clock he died consciousness. about 40 years married. ond wife He is and children by the morning about four without regaining The deceased was old and was twice survided by his sec- eight children—six first marriage and two by the second—and he was their sole dependence for support. No word was received by the au thorities here of the tragedy until the the message of his death came and immediately thereafter Coroner C. P. Crysel, Sheriff Woodruff and County Physician J. M. Turner, accompanied by Messrs. G. A. Crysel, W. S. Pear son and D. S. Lane, went to the home of the deceased where he was taken Characterized by its simple dignity' was the marriage on yesterday after noon at 2 o’clock at the home of Rev. and Mrs. J. 8. Hiatt, 1017 N. Liberty street when their sister Miss Lillian Glady s Jones- of West Bend, N. C., be came, the bride of Mr. Janies F. Hay nes, of Ronda, N. C., in the presence of only the relatives and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Stith. Rev. J. S. Hiatt officiated’ the im pressive ring ceremony being used. The bride- an unusually attractive young woman looked charming in a suit of mid-night blue taffeta silk with accessories to match. Immediately after the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Haynes left for West Bend where last evening a beautiful wedding reception was tendered them by the bride’s parents. Mrs. flayn.es. ^aer accomplished daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Jones, of West Bend, for a number of years taught music in West Bend, but when the war called for women to take men’s positions she entered the mer cantile business with her brother. We all remember Mr. Haynes as being one of the “lucky .13” of the famous Co. E- 119 Infantry 30th di vision. He was one of the thirteen left out of a company of two hun dred and fifty after the battle at auses Some Concern In Paris.—Has Assaulted Tuesday by Talmage Bil- Cambrai. He several times Returned t» Germany.—Kaiser May Try to Escape. lings.—Died Yesterday.—Billings Evading Arrest and Defiant The rainy weather has interfered with the farmers quite a bit, but it hasn’t put a bit of damper on the GERMANS WILL plans for the fourth of July. celebration of the All the committees SIGN TREATY Paris, June Hohenzollern, crown prince, 26.—Frederick William the former German has escaped from Hol- land and made his way into Germany, News of the escape of the ex-crown prince caused a considerable stir in peace conference circles. While it is not felt he is a figure around which the reactionaries and monarchists would gather enthusiastically, never theless his escape is regarded as an event of considerable significance in view of other German recalcitrancy. Joe Easter, Colored, Is Killed In Yad kin. before he died. Dr. Turner by Dr. L. P. Somers, aided Crysel in making the post examination and as a result examination they found that assisted Coroner mortem of their the de- ceased had received two severe blows on the head, one on the right side and the other on top of the head, and that there was a crack in the skull wounded, spent sometime in the hos pital at Bath, England, and landed in New York December 23. Prior to the war Mr. Haynes was principal of the schools at West Bend but will now engage in the mercantile busi ness in that place.—Twin-City Sen tinel, June 18. Elkin, June 24.—Monday morning on the farm of Mr. J. G. Ray, four miles south of Jonesville, Yadkin county, Luther Starnes, a white man, 18 years old, shot and instantly killed Joe Easter, a negro tenant on Ray’s farm. Starnes is foreman of a squad of road hands ^ith their camp on Ray’s farm. Sunday the white man and negro had some trouble and it is alleged the negro slapped the white man in the face'. Mr. Ray interferred and thought the trouble was settled. Monday morning the trouble was re newed and negro attacked the white boy with a club and in his effort to defend himself Starnes used his gun, putting three bullets into 1 the negro’s body and on thru his arm. Two of William Chatham, whose home was in Reddies River Township, was assaulted Tuesday afternoon by Tal mage Billings, a neighbor of the de ceased, and died Wednesday after noon. The assault was made at W. T. Nichols’ store at Goshen, in this coun ty, and the weapon used by Billings was a large oak hammer handle. The Patriot has not heard Billings’ side of the tragedy but from facts learned from a reliable source the circumstances leading up to and sur rounding the horrible affair are about as follows: Billings, who is a mar ried man, is alleged to have taken one of Chatham’s daughters to the home of a woman of ill fame in that section and kept her with him there over night and when the girl returned to her home her father whipped her. Billings heard of the girl being whip ped by her father and when the lat ter appeared at Mr. Wiley T. Nich ols’ store at Goshen last Tuesday af ternoon he asked him if he had whip- ped the girl on his ham replied that he Billings picked up a mer handle that was account. Chat- did, whereupon large oak ham- in the store and on the right side about fiv; inches panying the boys to the scene of the long and another crack on top of his skull about two inches long. The doctors’expFeSsvtTvx-^ ...,/•>•.•.-•,-•■«.■.•».-. - ; w©unds were inflicted by a blunt in strument and that the person who dealt the blows was behind his vic tim and struck from the rear. The coroner’s jury, which was composed of Messrs G. A. Crysel, D. S. Lane, W. S. Pearson, L. W. Lonsford, C. R. Goforth and another man whose name we have failed to learn, tendered ^ ^verd/ct which in sub-: tragedy and Mr. gy and took the (Loh'oyOttOin’s) was called and Bell got in the bug- wounded man to his home: |, Dr. Somers advised that he be taken immediately to Statesville. stance, said the deceased his death by two severe blunt instrument in the some person unknown to had erne to blows by a hands of the jury. It is thought however that the guilty flirty will be apprehended, though there were not any eye witnesses to the tragedy and the evidence will be purely circumstantial. The facts concerning Longbottom’s movements on the day he was as saulted on the lonely road in the for est where he was found, his trusty mule- having stopped when its mas ter’s voice ceased to urge it on. as related to The Patriot, are about as follows: Leaving home Friday morn ing about 11 o’clock the deceased told his wife that he was going up in the Windy Gap section, which is a dis tance of three or four miles from his home, and that he had just had a “hot report” on a blockade distillery. Whether this was said in jest or in earnest Mrs. Longbottom is not quite sure, but she says that her deceased husband had been in the habit of re porting blockade distilleries and had been aiding the officers that came up from Statesville in locating and de stroying illicit liquor plants. The next time he was seen was when he reached the home of Mr. Reece John son, where he called for a drink of liquor. He was told that there was not any liquor there and was invited to eat dinner with the family, but declined the invitation and went on his way. From that time on until between two and three o’clock in the afternoon, when he passed the home of Mr. A. P. Coffey on his way back home, no trace of his whereabouts has been found. As he passed the Coffey home he and Mr. Coffey spoke to each other and he continued on his jour ney, still going in the direction of 15s home, and this is the last time he was seen until after he had been assaulted and was found in the road between Mr. Coffey’s home and the home of Mr. F. H. Nichols, a short distance away. After finding the in jured man lying prostrate across the foot of his buggy, the two Nichols boys who were returning to their home from the mill, hurried home and told their father what they had found. Mr. Nichols and his neighbor, Mr. hospital where it was hoped his life* might be saved. Mr. S. A. Mitchell volunteered his services and took the man to that city in his car, but after seeing the condition of his wounds the physicians there pronounced his case beyond recovery and he was tak en back to his home Saturday after noon where he died early the follow ing morning. This seems to have been a cold- blooded, premeditated murder of the very worst type and it is the hope of all good citizens that the beast in human form that committed the hell ish act will be apprehended and, if proven guilty, be made to pay the penalty with his life. There was no evidence of a scuffle or struggle, no dirt on the wounded man’s clothes and everything around the buggy where he was found indicated that he had been struck on the back or side of the head while he was driving along the road and probably without any warning or knowledge before hand of the impending assault. was driving along the road and pro bably without any warning or know ledge beforehand of the impending assault. Since murder learned the foregoing account of the was put in type it has been here that Mont Parks, a citi- zen of the New Hope section of Ire dell County, has been arrested and was placed in Statesville jail Tues day, charged with the murder of Columbus Longbottom. From evi dence secured at the coroner’s in quest it developed that Mont Parks passed th© home of Mr. A. P. Coffey shortly after Columbus Longbottom passed there on the afternoon of the day he was killed and that Parks was just a short distance behind the deceased. Longbottom never reach ed the next house on the road, which is the home of Mr. Hackett Nichols, but Parks passed there and was driv ing very rapidly, it is said. He drove along the same road that Longbottom was traveling and it is said he was bound to have passed Longbottom on the road. It will at least give him a chance to explain whether or not he saw Longbottom and what condi tion lie was in when he saw him. Parks will be brought to Wilkes an^ tried here, the cirime having been committed in this county. At the inquest a witness stated that Parks told someone at the Coffey home as he passed that he did not want to overtake Longbottom, as he was afraid of him, and drove slowly until he was nearly out of sight when he began to drive faster and went out Leonard Bell, lost no time in accom-'of sight driving rapidly. the balls entered the heart, causing instant death. The sheriff and coroner from Yad kin arrived on the scene of the mur der last evening and Starnes is being held to await the verdict of the coron- struck Chatham three licks, knock ing him heels over head back into the store and making two ugly wounds on his head ,one over each eye. The first lick was warded off by Chatham with his arm, but the other two blows have gone right ahead with their tasks. The registration committee is ar ranging for medals to be given to each of the veterans of the World War who registers on that date. These medals are of a very handsome design, intended to be kept and worn by the men as tokens of the esteem in which they are held by their home folks. An interesting athletic program is being arranged in which the men will compete. A first class base ball game will be one of the chief at tractions. The Red Cross is arranging to fur nish ice-cold lemonade for the men throughout the day, free of charge. Arrangements will be made for stands at convenient places where they can quench their thirst when ever they feel like it. The North Wilkesboro basket com mittee states that their will be no personal solicitation for baskets in North Wilkesboro, but all who can furnish one for the occasion are ask ed to notify Mrs. C. F. Lineberry or Mrs. Donald Coffey at once. Reports from the country indicate that there will be the largest crowd that has ever been in town for any occasion. Wilkes county is proud of her soldiers and she is planning to Tomorrow or pect the Signed Saturday the Allies Ex- Peace Treaty to be and War to End. Friday afternoon probably will wit ness at Versailles the signing by Ger many of the peace treaty of the al lied and associated powers. The German plenipotentiaries, arm ed with authority to affix their sig nature to the document which is, in a measure, to rehabitate Germany in the eyes of the greater part of the world as no longer an enemy power, are due to arrive in Versailles Fri day morning. Herr Mueller, foreign minister in the new cabinet of Herr Bauer, is ex pected to be the chief German pleni potentiary, Dr. Haniel von Haimhau- sen, who was to have signed the treaty for Germany, having resigned from the peace delegation, not desir ing to have the onus of sealing the compact to the terms of which he and other high members of the German government object, fall on his shoul ders. Even the new premier in Germany, continues to express indignation er’s jury. landed squarely on his head and either one of them perhaps would have proven fatal. Not content with knocking the man a double somer- Isault with the large hammer handle. He made no effort to gd lit * said, Billings made an effort to 'strike him a fourth blow while he was bTiig’ prose* Lvo Vil AVe r U^r ^^V. wry prevented from doing so by Messrs. W. T. and Tom Nichols, who were eye witnesses to the affair. The examina tion made by the doctor showed^fhat Chatham’s skull was burst and that some blood vessels had been broken. ^TV^but' quietly wiited for ithe -ar rival of the sheriff. The-negro’s body was broucht here last evening and embalmed by Undertaker P. C. Reich. It will be shipped today to his old home at Middleboro, Ky. Wilkes Commercial Club Notes. Did you attend the Wilkes Commer cial Club Social last Friday night, June 20th? If you did not, you miss ed a good time and a whole lot of fun. About 55 club members, their wives and lady friends were on deck, when Jim Reins announced that the en tertainment would begin and an nounced that Mrs. Kate Fletcher Absher and Miss Fannie Cranor, our star reciters and starr entertainers in any community would furnish the open ing features of the evening.. Their •recitations were worth the money alone and furnished enough amuse ment and laughter to last the whole evening. The celebrated African Trio, from somewhere then pranced in upon the arena and startled the audience with melodies that are only heard upon the stage of the theaters of our larger cities. All the entertainers were en cored to the limit and the club feels greatly indebted to them for a class of entertainment that made everybody good fellows and everybody feel at home. Jim then separated the audience in to two groups, one of which surround ed the long table in a game of “up- jinks” and the other group attempted to pin the sheep’s tail on the sheep while playing blind man’s bluff in at tempting it. Some came very close while others missed it by several yards. The up-jinks table gave evi dence by peals of laughter that ran around the vals. After the ciently late table at frequent inter- hour had r>ecome suffi- splendid ice cream, cake, cigars and cigarettes were passed. The club members and visitors feel much indebted to Mrs. Absher, Miss Cranor and the celebrated African Trio, who we understand were. Joa Parkin, Bill Bram© and Ralph Miller, for their part in the efficient enter tainment. The next 3rd Friday will feature an entirely new program that will in terest everybody. Every social is guaranteed to furnish an entirely new and startling program. The club is getting in new mem bers weekly who are interested in the town and county progress and the only way to do this is to get acquaint ed. JOIN. See Mr. Eshelman, Jim Reins and Dick Norris and they will tell you how. WILKES COOMMERCIAL CLUB. By Secretary. give day. them a royal good time on that over Germany being compelled to meet the allied terms. In his latest address before the national assembly at Weimar, Bauer is quoted as hav- J. D. C. WILSON. Publicity Chairman. ing said: “Let us sign, but it that to the last breath Mr, S. G. Stout Dead. against our honor may against its authoTS.” is our hope this attempt one day coil The suffering man, who never gained consciousness, was taken to home where he died the following ternoon. re- his af- The deceased was a quiet, peaceable. law-abiding, sober citizen and a ber was and and of Pilgrim Baptist church. mem- He 55 years old and leaves a wife five children. Besides his wife children he is survived by three brothers, namely, Emory Chatham of Reddies River Township, Emmet Chatham of Union Township and Pet er Chatham of Lovelace Township. He was related to the Chathams Brushy Mountain Township. of Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock, Mr. S. G. Stout, a highly honored and respected cHizer., died, at his home near ‘.Moravian’Faris, aTer „ saorU'')- ness, at the advanced age of 76 years. The cause of his death was stomach trouble. He is survived by ten child ren: Messrs. A. D. of Jonesville, Christie, of DeLand, Fla., Elmore, of San Francisco,. Calif., E. J., of Noimal, Ky., Lester, of San Jois, Calif., and J. B., of Foidland, Mo., and Mesdames J. W. Nichols of North Wilkesboro, Mrs. Neta Scott, of Okla., Mrs. Edgar Parlier, of Chase City, Va., and Miss Lucy Stout. All of his daughters and one son, A. D., were here for the funeral which was held Monday af ternoon and the body laid to rest in Moravian Falls cemetery, Rev. W. F. Staley conducting the service. Mr. Stout was a confederate veter an and a man of high character and will be missed in his community and home. . Talmage Billings is a son of the late Jasper Billings and has a wife and several children. He has figur ed more or less in the courts for sev eral years and has given his family and community much trouble. He is still at large and is said to be deter mined not be arrested. As the doc tor was leaving the home of his vic tim it is reported that Billings was seen sitting by the side of the road with his gun in his hands and that he inquired if Chatham was dead and if the sheriff had come up there and threatened to shoot any man who would attempt to arrest him. Sheriff Woodruff was not notified of the murder until Wednesday after noon. He and J. B. Nichols, constable for Reddies River Township, went im mediately to the neighbourhood in which Billings lives, but after making thorough search failed to find him. Sheriff Woodruff summoned a posse of fifty men and went to Red- dies River Township in search Billings. Miss Maud Nance Dead. of Miss Maude Nance, age about 22 years, died, Saturday, at her home at Gilreath, of paralysis, and was buried Sunday, in the Anderson graveyard. Rev. J. B. Ray conduct ed the funeral service. She was a daughter ’of Mrs. Nettie Nance, and the late Will Nance, who was killed about three years ago, in a railroad wreck in the West. Card of Thanks. We wish to thank our friends who have so kindly helped us in our time of bereavement in the sudden death of wife and mother. J. I. MYERS & FAMILY. Death of Mrs. H. M. Hamby. Mrs. H. M. Hamby of Champion, N. C., who was formerly Hane Mc Gee died at her home on June 20, 1919. She was and everything her, but could death. “Aunt knew her, was sick about two weeks possible was done for not stay the hand of Hane” as everyone a most industrious woman, and had been living alone since the death of her husband. Mr. H. M. Tamby who died about three years ago. She had been a member of ML Pleasant church for a number of years, at which place she was laid The new Italian delegation to the peace conference, made necessary by the resignation of the cabinet of Sig nor Orlando, also is expected ti headed by Signor Tittoni, 7or^n minister. The sinking of the German fleet in the Scapa Flow by the skeleton crews of Germans aboard them is to be in vestigated by order of the council of three, composed by Premiers Clemen ceau, avid Lloyd George and Presi dent Wilson. The idea of the inves tigation is to ascertain if the armis tice terms were violated by the Ger mans. The French minister of ma rine says France will require com plete reparation from Germany. The council has resumed its work on the provisions of the Austrian treaty which were not included in that part of the document recently handed the Austrian delegation at St. Germain. It is expected that the treaty now will be speedily conclud ed. ^ The Turkish delegation has sent to the council of 10 a detailed memo randum of the requests recently made orally in behalf of Turkey. Turkey’s willingness to recognize the indepen dence of Armenia and a suggestion to grant a sort of autoomous govern ment to Palestine and Arabia un der Turkish governors were made known in the memorandum. Belgium is to have priority in repa rations to be paid by Germany to the extent of 2,500,000,000 francs. For mal approval, has been given this 'de cision.—Washington dispatch. to rest June 22. A sorrowing friends “Aunt Hane” was a and a friend to all greatly missed. large were good and crowd of present, neighbor will be The deceased was 76 years. months and 1 day old. —REPORTED. 6 Destructive Hail Storm. Elkin, June 24.—A destructive hail storm passed over a narrow section of country three miles southwest of here last Friday afternoon, doing heavy damage to gardens, growing crops and fruit. The Highland Or- chard Company’s farm on the Brushy Mountains, owned by Messrs. Click, Hubbard and Gray, of this place, was directly in the path of the storm and they were perhaps the heaviest los ers. They had several thousand young peach and apple trees that were in their third and fourth year bearing. These treese were completely strip ped of leaves and fruit and many of them of the bark. The heavy pour- down of rain that accompanied the hail washed all the soil from the land, leaving it practically worthless. It is believed their loss will reach eight or ten thousand dollars. Paris, June 24.—Premier Clemen ceau has expressed his intention to resign from office as soon as the treaty is promulgated, feeling that he has accomplished the task for which he assumed the premiership, says Marcel Hutin in the Echo de Paris. It is expected that parliament would ratify the treaty late in July. Paris, Monday, June 23.—“We have waited 49 years for this moment,” ex claimed Premier Clemenceau as he opened the fateful dispatch announc ing that Germany would sign the treaty at the meeting of the council of three this afternoon, “For 49 years,” he continued, “the mailed fist of the reitre (German trooper) who has governed Germany has menaced the world. Whether the man’s name was Bismarck or Wil liam II, it was still the same reitre of the middle ages, surrounded by soldiery and drunk with pride. “Be careful; keep your powder dry. Be careful. Remind the world that it is living on a barrel of that powder. “This reitre’s dogma was that might is right, that a state’s only ob ligation is its own interest, that (Continued on Page Eight.)
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