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VOLUME XXIII
(Tuesday)
WARRENTON, N. C., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1918
(Friday)
Number 87
$1.50 A YEAR
A SEMI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTER ESTS OF WARRENTON AND WARREN COUNTY
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THAYER C. KEN YON
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No trial of recent years has brought
such large crowds to the Warren
Court House as did the trial of James
A. Hale and his son Percy for the
murder of Mrs. Sallie King, of River
Township.
Picture a humble home by the way
side a building once uses as a public
school house ; picture a mother with
nine children, one an infant in arms;
picture an old used cart way running
through this old school house yard
(now the home of the Kings) down
through the woods and fields to the
home of the Hales, just a short dis
tance away, and you have the scene
of the tradegy, upon the old Tarkill
road in River Township.
Bad blood existed between the
parties; a dog had been the cause of
ill feeling; Percy Hale, had slapped
the face of one of the King children,
for impudence to Mrs. Hale. Neigh
bors had tried to smooth ove .the
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troubles; tne deceased anu uie pn
noers denied bad feeling, but the el
der Hale was "standing on his rights"
to use the path across the yard of
the Kings. Mrs. King objeets to its
use 'becausenh
ride and drive recklessly through the
yard and endangered the lives of her
l'ttle brood. Threats to stop the pati
and prevent its use by the Hales were
made, and counter threats if the path
was stopped up that the "ball would
be set a-rolling." This leads us to
the tradegy.
On Thursday vvugust 1st, Mr. T. D.
King, the Road Commissioner of
River Township was at the home of
Mr. Ham King, the husband of dis-
ceased, for the purpose of getting a
W t npri in Road work,
While there he was asked by Mr. Kim;
if he could change the path through
his yard to a location about twenty
feet away on the edge of the yard.
This permission was given. King
then made the change in the path and
cut a small black-jack down across
the old path where the new one com
menced, and placed a pole across the
entrance to the old path at the yard, j
Soon along comes Percy Hale and;
his young wife on their way to Little
ton. Finding the tree across the
path he removes it, drives through
the yard, removes the pole at the exit
of path into Tarkill road, and drives
on to Littleton. There he finds his
father ( a Painter by trade, often
working in Littleton) and informs
him that the "Kings have stopped up
the path." James Hale, the father,
immediately goes to a Hardware
store, where he had previously seen
a revolver that struck his fancy and
'thaf. ht would i
try it and if it suited him he would
keen it- hp ic ko fon r-nrtrido-es
of 32 calihrp. Thp rPvnW and car-
tridges were nlaced in a container and
wrapped and tired up. Hale Senior
and Hale Junior immediately left for
their old home, the elder Hale stand
mg on the rear axle of the buggy;
James A. Hale having placed the
Package (pistol and cartridges) in
the rear compartment of the buggy.
In the mean time Mrs. Sallie Hale
had observed the conduct of Percy j
Hale-that he had disregarded her
enort and her husband's to close the
Path through their yard; that he had
taken down the bar and removed the
tree and refused to travel the new
Path (twelve steps longer than the
oJd one) and she knew that trouble
was brewing. Sitting in her yard
wth her baby in her lap, and her lit
tle nine-year-old daughter, Sarah,
"ear her, she soon saw the Hales re
turning from Littleton. Placing her
Want in the arms of the little girl
se stepped into her home and emerg
ed with a single barrel twelve gage
ea ana tnreatened to shoott them if
they removed the pole and across her
yara. ine eider Hale advanced to the
pole at one end and started to remove
it; she again warned him. The voun-
erer Hale advanced to the othpr tnd
of the pole and she turned to threat-
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Hale sprang from the buggy, never
looking back went on the path towards
her home. While the attention of
Mrs. King was drawn to young Hale,
the elder Hale rushed in threw up the
pole, grabbed the gun and the shot
that ended the life of this mother of
nine children rang out on the evening
air, and her body crumpled and lay
face foremost in the dirt of her own
yard. The younger Hale called to
the elder "bring along the gun," and
driving off immediately left this hum
ble mother ebbing away heg life-blood
alon with God for little Sarah had
sped away to call help at the sound
of the pistol.
If the Hales looked back; if they
expressed concern at the shedding of
human blood : there was no evidence
produced at the trial of such con
cern. The doctor was phoned for, Chief
Cullom of Littleton was quickly on
the scene; but the slayers had passed
on, and the mother, too, had gone to
that bourne from which no traveller
returns in the flesh at least. Chief
Cullom approached the home of the
Hales and arrested James A. Hale,
the father, who informed him "You
Ivae- the wrong""- man I did -net -do
the killing. Percy shot her." "Where
is Percy?" "I told him to go away
until I could investigate the matter."
Chief Cullom examined the gun of
Mrs. King which the Hales took away
from the scene of the killing, and
found it loaded. His testimony being
that the shell had not been indented
by "snapping." He was. unshaken in
this testimony. The shell produced
at the trial had been indented. The
gun and both revolvers (both of the
Hales had revolvers) had been in
possession
of defendants or their
Counsel since the murder.
James Hale was brought to War-
,'renton and placed in Jail, and within
twenty-four hours Percy Hale gave
himself in custody and acknowledged
that he did the killing. So much for
the scenes and acts of that peaceful
August day.
The defendants immediately pro-
curred able counsel in the person of
Messrs. S. G. Daniel, lasKer -oik aim
T. T. Hicks, who appeared Deiore
His Honor Judge John H. Kerr and
sued out a writ of habeous corpus.
Judge Kerr denied the writ. Tuesday
the Grand Jury found a True Bill for
murder in the first degree. One hun
dred venire were summoned for Wed
nesday, the day set for trial.
" The State was ably represented by
its astute Solicitor, Mr. Garland Mid
yette, Mr. Walter Daniel, of Weldon,
and Mr. John Picot. The following
Jurors were procurred by one o'clock
and empannelled: J. E. Miles, S. W.
.Neal, Fate Weaver, L. N. Kimball,
W. T. Duke, Geo. Hester, Arthur Pe-
tar. S. T. Alston, J. D. Moss, Peter j
Powell, W. O. Hester and J. M. Milby.
The case went to the Jury after able
defense and prosecution, at about five
o'clock Thursday evening, and the
Jury returned its verdict of MURDER
IN SECOND DEGREE about eight
thirty o'clock last night, being out
about three and a half hours. Court
had adjourned for the day, but Judge
Kerr was notifi'ed, and the prisoners
were brought from tne jaii, anu
ine in the presence of the Court, and
of the Jury received the verdict. They
were remanded to Jail, after the usual
motion of Counsel for Defense made
in such cases, to await sentence.
At 12:30 p. m. today the prisoners
appeared in open Court, and after
earnest pleas by Counsel for minimum
punishment, and a request by Coun
sel for the State that justice be done,
TTi "Honor. Judcre Kerr sentenced J.
A. Hale and Percy Hale to TWENTY ,
YEARS hard labor in the State Pen- j
itentiary. Thereupon Mr. Hicks, Coun- I
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He hails from Macon, North Car
olina, but is now a Sergeant in Co. H.
across the Big Pond. He has been
up against the Hun and came thru
with his organization in a creditable
manner. Friends on this side are
many and good wishes attend him ill
his efforts to make the world safe for
the rights of the individual and the
advancement of civilization.
sel for Defense, gave notice of appeal
to the Surpreme Court. Pending said
appeal bond was fixed at Five Thous
and dollars each, and the prisoners
were remanded to the custody of the
Sheriff. Of course, this appeal is a
stay of sentence, until the matter can
be heard by the Supreme Court.
Thus ended a trial which has been
closely attend3d by a packed Gonei
worn. Many ladies were present to
hear argumen oi the Counsel. Th
defendants cannot complain of lack
of astuteness, diligence or ability on
the part . of their counsel. All that
could be done in their behalf was
done. No step was left untaken that
vould lessen punishment or procure
a verdict of "not guilty." The plea of
self-defense was ably presented, but
ah impartial juryof unusual nitelti
gence could not get from the evidence
a less degree of punishment than se
cond degree murder. The fact that
the prisoners . were armed; that they
expected trouble; that they were pre
pared for it, and that they had made
up their minds to go through the yard
of Mrs. King at all hazards, the dam
aging fact that the elder Hale bought
a pistol (or rather got the use of one
on trial) just a short time before the
killing and left immediately for the
scene of the tradegy; that he "wrung"
the gun from the hands of the deceas
ed before she received, or, at least,
just as she received the mortal wound;
the fact that young Hale had been
carrying a pistol for a long period;
the admission by Percy Hale that he
fired the shot that killed Mrs. King
and the testimony of little Sarah Jane
King, unshaken by cross examination,
that "Jim Hale grabbed the gun and
shot Mama," made a plea of self-defense
rather hard to substantiate.
The tradegy is deplored by every
one. Mr. James Hale proved to be
by the testimony of creditable wit
nesses, a hard working, peaceable man
a mano f good character as that
term is understood in the Court room.
The deed was consumated; the mother
is dead; the children have lost that
greatest earthly blessing the care
of a good mother. The Hales must
suffer for their rash deed, they must
suffer in mind, in body and in estate
Young Mrs. Percy Hale must tread
alone Life's pathway for years, and
sorrow is brought' to friends and loved
ones of both the King and Hale 'fam
ilies.
W.S.S.-
Canteen
At Norlina
The ladies of the Norlina Canteen
have served to passing Troop trains
between August 3rd and September
15th the following:
13,955 cookies, 3,785 apples, 1,660
cantaloupes, 2,120 sticks of candy, 1,
425 sticks of chewing gum, 7,725 post
cards, 10,050 cigarettes, 535 gallons
coffee, 2,642 lunches, 700 tomatoes, 10
gal ice water, 22 gallons coffee.
Any donation of any kind from any
one in the County will be appreciated.
H. C. FLEMING, ;
Vice-Chairman.
Big, healthy, strong, and of pleas
ant manner Harry Kenyon has many
friends over Warren. He, too, hails
from Macon, a brother of Thayer Ken
yori. He has been in service several
months, going to Camp Jackson thru
the -Warren County Local Board. He
will do his duty with a smile for Amer
ica and what he'll do for Germany,
oh, well, ask the Kaiser?
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Our Boys.
Raleigh, Sept 23rd "If the people
at home give our armies and our Al
lies; the backing they deserve we will
win the war in 1919," today declared
Henry A. Page, State Food Adminis
trator, upon his return from Washing
ton -where he attended a conference
of all State Food Administrators with
Mr.; Herbert Hoover and his staff.
''If the war is not won next year sev
eral years may be required, and a
dreadful sacrifice of American soldiers
vlbecalled for. , The,., ojpinion is
"iranK expressed aF Washington .that
failure to win the war during the cam
paign of 1919 will cost not less than
one million of American soldiers,
above the tens of thousands that we
must inevitably lose in next year's
fighting.
Must Strip To Bone
'There is no question about the pare
the soldiers are going to play. They
are under orders, and they are keen
for the fray. If the people at home
are to do their part, however and
give the soldiers a fair chance to win
in 1919, they must strip to the bone,
consider the war as their most im
portant business individually, and be
guided in every action by the influence
of such action upon the winning of
the war. Our people have not yet
realized what real war strain is. Be
fore we can win, we must taste jf real
sacrifice, and the quicker we reach
that point, the greater the number of
lives of pur fighting men will be pre
served. "The task of the American people
in the matter of foodstuffs is gigantic
and were it not for the magnificent ac
ci mplishment of our people, alread'-,
we would not dare hope to attain
what is expected of us. During the
present fiscal year we must export to
oi r Allies 15,000,000 tons of foodstuffs
against the 10,000,000 tons which we
exported last year; and in addition tc
this, we must lay up a reserve of
wheat and other products sufficient to
insure us against disaster which might
result from short crops next year.
Greater Economy Necessary
"Our campaign for conservation this
year will not have the spectacular fea
tures of "meatless" and "wheatless"
days and meals which were necessary
last year. Our food products are well
distributed and well balanced. What
we need, and what we must have, is
greater production and greater econ
omy in Ihe use of foodstucs. In fact,
we get right down to the point where
we must follow the Food Administra
tion's motto of 'Buy less; eat less;
waste nothing,' while the producer
must add to this 'produce more'."
W.S.S.
REV. C. N. RIGGAN CLOSES
SUCCESSFUL MEETING HERE
Rev. C. N. Riggan,of Mountain View
closed a successful series of meetings
here at the North Warrenton Baptist
church Sunday night.
Good music, forceful, earnest preach
ing resulted in twenty-five conversions
and exert much influence for the
spread of the Kingdom, r
The meeting were well attended.
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London, Sept 22nd British cavalry issued today English troops, near Ga
units operating between the Jordan vrelle, north of the river Scarpe, ad
and the Mediterranean, in Palestine, vanced on a two-mile front. East of
have advanced some sixty miles from Epehy the British captured several or
their original positions and have oc- ganized points of resistance,
cupied the Biblical renowned town of ; This morning the Germans attacked
Nazareth and Afule and Beisan, ac- the British positions northwest of La
cording to a British war office an- Bassee in Flanders. Fighting is still
noucement today. 'in progress.
General Allenby's troops have sur- Text of Statement
rounded part of the Ottoman army and j Durig the . QUr of
are collecting -the disorganized masses iEphehy (between Cambrai and St.
of men and transports ; arriving from Quentin) renewed their attack and
the south. So far 8,000 prisoners and i , . T .,
-An , , , .again made progress, capturing Little
100 guns have been counted. ti i - , . . .
10 AAA rw, , - . r Pnel farm and their organized point
18,000 Turkish Prisoners f A .
t j a a. An t i . -of resistance. A number of prisoners
London, Sept 22 British troops in u0.r uaan . i , .
. , . , , A. , fhave been taken by us in our opera
their drive north through Palestine al- t:nina 0j j , , . , . . .
ready have counted 18,000 Turkish Y and last niht m thl3
prisoners and have collected 120 guns "South of Villers-Guislain a local
and four airplanes, according to an ' ff-nl- wnAn l . i
as . . . .attack made by the enemy last even-
Gfncial statement given out this even-',- ij u v..
, ... ,& iing was rpulsed after sharp fighting,
mg by the British war office. T . , , ,
7r -1. ln the course of the night our troops
"By 9 o clock on Saturday night on ! jotw)0j . . .
. i . ,. i advanced their lines in this sector
our left wing the infantry about ihr- Lj ,.nr..A i
ujxi- i. t -ti aml raptured several prisoners.
afur had reached the line BeitJeian-i "vc. ,
c. , . J . , Yesterday afternoon the enemy
Samaria iiii.lvr shephardmg the er; w,j . tit ,
. Al T T , aain attacked at Moeuvres and was
emy on the west of the Jerusalorc Na- fl1ll)flj mr,,. , . ,
. . ... , , , , ' repulsed. There also our troops have
bums road into the arms of our cal- i .r. ... , ,
vary operating southward from Jenin
Be.'san.
"Other enemy columns, vainly at
tempted to escape into the Jordan val
ley in the direction of Jisr-Ed-Dameer
which still is held by us. These col
umns suffered severely from our air
craft which constantly harassed them
with bombs and machine gun fire from
1 at l4-i4-iufce
"In the vicinity of Lake Tiberius our
calvary detachments hold Nazareth
and the- fail and ""road " passages 'over
the J ordan at Jisr-Ed-Dameer. -
"Already 18,500 prisoners have been
captured and 120 guns collected."
Airplane Supremacy
On the British air supremacy was
sc complete that not one German
machine was able to show itself Brit
ish a viaiors harassed the enemy by a
series of bombing raids, while camps,
troops and transports were effectively
machine gunned by low flying planes.
The German airdomes at the same
time were dominated by British ma
chines which dropped bombs on any
enemy plan that attempted to rise. The
airmen also assisted the infantry to
advance by means of smoke screens
and night fliers bombed the Turkish
army headquarters effectively-
Ottoman Forces Annihilated r
This means the virtual annihilation
of the Ottoman forces in this region.
The British losses were surprisingly
slight, considering the importance of
the advance.
Serbian Advance In Macedonia
Washington, Sept 22 Serbian 1
troops pressing the Bulgarian and Ger
mans in Central Macedonia advanced
more than 20 kilometres Friday and
are now .within four miles of the Us-kub-Saloniki
railroad, the main ar
tery for the supply of the Austro-Ger-man
and Bulgarian forces opposing
the French armies on the Serbian
An official dispatch from Siberian
general headquarters at Saloniki re
ceived today by the Serbian legation
said the Serbians captured sixteen vil
lages and twelve guns and now are
several kilometres to the north of the
village of Kavadar. Fresh Bulgarian
and German troops are arriving.
Cutting of the Uskub-Saloniki rail
road it was said here officially today,
will force the retirement of the enemy
left wing, and cause a general read
justment of the enemy lines in the
entire section.
Italy Joins In Offensive
Rome, Sept 22 In conjunction with
the ereneral entente allied offensive
against the Teuton and Bulgarian for
ces in Macedonia, Italian troops yes
terday began a vigorous advance in
the bend of the river Cerna, to the
east of Monastir. The official state-
ment issued today by the Italian war j
office says that the front enemy pos- J
itions were captured.
British Smash Into German Lines
London. Sent 22 Field Marshal
Haig's troops last night smashed into
the German lines ,at four distinct
points on the battle front. According
to the British war office statement
Two IU3SI
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ken a few prisoners.
"A hostile raiding party was driven
off last night west of Acheville.
"This morning the enemy delivered
a local attack against our new posi
tions northwest of LaBassee. Fight
ing still is taking place in this locality.
W.S.S.
Iho Aided
The Red Cross work is receiving
material aid from all sections of the
Tobacco Belt this fall. The resolu
tion of the United States Tobacco As
sociation to ask every farmer to give
some tobacco from each load sold will
mean thousand of pounds of the wee 1
donated for the work of a Mother
heart.
The requests to the farmers-of-Warren
meets a . response whenever the
urgency of the need becomes appar-
ent. In this great cause of aiding
the suffering the following last week
donated tobacco:
Robert Robinson, R. E. Shearin, Em
ma Strong, W. C. Brown, Henry Als
ton, C. W. Brown, Jeon Harris, J. M.
Aycock, J. V. Shearin, Jerry Bell, Jr.,
C. T. Thornton, J. R. Shearin, Graham
Daniel, Charlie Young, Ayscue & Wil
liams, W. M. White, Edward Harper,
T. M. Aycock, G. S. Hedgepeth, G. L.
Aycock, Mc Henderson, Geo Marrow,
Ed Davis, W. A. Yancey, I. S. Ingram,
John Davis, Adam Alston, Howard
Overby, E. P. Vaughan, Plummer Wil
liams, R. S. Shaw, W. B. Williams,
W. S. Faucette, Aycock & Person, Alex
Hicks, Eddie Towns, Peter Allen, Als
ton & Jackson, Jim Perkinson, L. L.
Fuller, R. R. Radford, Charlie My
rick, W. H. Tharrington, R. L. Je.--
(migan, H. T. Kearnington, McKinley
Price, C. B. Overby, Harry Perry, C.
C. Burgess, M. E. Bolton, Ed Williams
T. A. Tackett, Branch Williams, S. T.
Thorne, King Pinnell, John Collins, G.
R. Davis, Gus Miller, Joseph Small,
H. R. Russell, T. R. Riggan, W. G.
Rodgers, S. W. Alston, Adcock &
Green, J. W. Adcock,, W. T. Green, W
H. Aycock, J. T. Lassiter, H. W. Fow
ler, Walter Da vis, A. L. Weaver,Henry
Green, James Dent, Sol' Aycock, Al
fred Boyd, Lillian Painter, C. A.
Allen, Jerry Bell, W. M. Stallings, W.
L. Felts, W. A. Myrick, J. W. Smith
wick, John Hawkins, H. P. Reams,
George Robinson, L. B. Bowden, J. S.
Spruill, G. E. Talley, William Jones,
Jim Brown, Paul Alston, Samuel
Drake, Mac Alston, June K. Alstoi,
Nannie Shaw, W. J. James, Tarwater
& Howard, Jim Williams, Williams &
Adcock, Daniel & Davis, Eugene Hud-
gins, W. E. Alston, John Edwards,
Kearney and Clements, Willie H Wal
ker, James Algood, Lucy Jones, Ernest
Kittrells, Jimmie Jiggetss, J. A. In
gram. Lists will be published in each Tu
esday's paper carrying the name of
such patriotic donors