Friday, October 2, 1925
Elizabeth Cole Brands Former
Sweetheart Liar As She Takes •
Stand For Defense of Father
EWESSTORYOFTHE
rate COUBTSBP.
WITH BILL ORMOND
Prisoner’s Daughter Says
She Was Happier After
the Break in Her Love
Affair.
SAYS ORMOND
WOULDN’T WORK
jftd That He Had a High
j Temper. Denies Or
l mond Letter as to Im
proper Relations.
By Jonathan Daniels in the Raleigh
News and Observer.
Rockingham. Oet. I.—Miss Eliza
bet'ii Cole, calmly sat upon the wit
ae«s stand for two hours and a halts
jn the Richmond County Superior
♦ourt this afternoon as witness in de
fuse of her father. W. R. Cole, and
lad nothing good to say for AA\ W.
Ormond, ex-service man and once her
sweetheart, whom her father shot
down on t'ae main street of Rocking
ham on August loth.
Miss Cole's testimony marked thej
entry into the trial of the long
heralded letters of Ormond to her and
to her father which the defense in- 1
terprets as slander so gross that it
drove away Cole’s reason in "transi- \
tory insanity."
1 Miss Cole made an excellent wit- i
i ’ness. She was soft spoken and tin- |
1 disturbed h.v the stare of nearly two
ft thousand -pairs of curious eyes. She
Bljfaood up well under the gentle but
Ktgbietrating cross examination of J,ar
jjjjfy Moore, of the private prosecution.
State Socres.
The State scored heavily today in
1 ruling of Judge T. B. Finley that
any insanity shown at the trial must
|je a mental disease and that no
will suffice. The defense counsel an
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liminccd upon the closing of the
State's case that it proposed to pre-
Kent evidence showing st'lf-defense J
and "transitory insanity." TAio -an-1
nouncement precipitated an immedi-'
ate and bitter legal fighty Judge Fin
ley had made no formal ruling in
open court last night but he stated to
newspnpertnent what he had decided
upon.
Judge Finley staled that he would
instruct the jury that if it found Cole
not guilty, it must state whether he
was found so on the grounds of self
defense or insanity. If the jury
finds Cole insane, lie*will be sent to
the criminal insane division of the.
State Hospital for the insane under
the law of the State. /
Miss Cole to Stand, t
The defense created a sensation
early this afternoon When it called
Miss Cole to the stand after present
ing only one other witness. During
her evidence. Cole showed the first
time almost uncontrollable nervous
ness. He buried bis face in his!
hands, bit his nails and continually
twisted in his chair. The girl on i
the contrary was the calmest person
in I he. court room. She sjioke softly !
and dearly. She answered definitely j
and coolly all questions asked her by j
A. J,. Brooks, of the defense who di
' reeled the examination. Cpon cross
examination by Larry Moore, of the
private prosecution, she was still
calm but hostile.
i Today she wore a quiet dark blue
dress and a dark blue hat with I
bright ribbon trimming. She is a j
large woman and was impressive on i
the stand.
| The three witnesses for the State [
who testified this morning were |
Jeff Houlon, young mill worker and j
eye witness of the shooting; Dr. C.!
| O. Bristow, who attended Ormond nf
j ter the fotal shooting; and I. S. Lon-
I don, local newspaper man who iden
i tified a photograph made of the scene
1 of the shooting with Ormond’s Ford
located where it was when London
saw it immediately after the homi
cide.
William G. Scales, cousin of Cole
and filling station proprietor, testi
fied to finding a pistol in a pocket j
on the door of Ormond’s c*r after
the homicide. He was put on the
stand by the defense although he
was summoned before the grand
jury as a State's witness.
Mr. Brooks in the examination of
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automobile engines for twenty
years. Maybe that is why he
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counts in refining as in every
thing else.
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■ I Miss Cole brought out the essential
■ j facts of her life.
■ | She was born and raised around
j Rockingham and attended the pub
: lie schools. She went to Converse
College in South Carolina for three
i years.
Just Pals.
She declared that she and her
father werh “just pals,” and said
that she had always “confided in him
■ more than in anybody else, even more
■ than mother.”
She stated that she met Bill Or
mond in the Summer of 1920, but
' that he did not begin paying her
‘ i particular attentions until the last
I of 1921 or early in 1922. She stated
that they pfterwards became sweet
hearts and remained so until 1924,
although it was ‘.‘not until October
that we absolutely broke off.”-
Tn answer to Mr. Brooks’ question
she stated that tier falher had shdwn
her a letter which Ormond wrote
him in February, 1924. She stated,
| however, that she had destroyed the
letter. Mr. Brooks asked what it
contained. The State objected. The
jury was sent out during the argu
j ment. Mr. Brooks declared that a
plea of insanity opened the gates
|to ail testimony which showed an
effect on the mind of the defendant,
i He charged that Ormond made “the
| greatest slander against this Jfoung
• woman.” And tlint “he went around
| and slandered her virtue.” Judge |
J Finley admitted the testimony.
Before the jury was called back,
i W. C. Douglass, of the private prose
m cution, rose to warn the defense.
Accepts Responsibility',
j “If this testimony is admitted,”
I I Mr. Douglass said very solemnly,
j “the defense must accept the respon
sibility for it.”
“,\Ve accept the responsibility for
it.” declared Mr. Brooks, “and present
a virgin to this court.”
Miss Cole then testified that Or
mond wrote her father that Cole was
breaking her heart and ruining her
life by not letting her marry Ormond.
“I said that it was not. true. 1
was happier than I jiad been in
months without Bill Ormond around
' worrying me,” she stated. “I asked
Daddy to let pie answer the letter
and told him what I vfas going to
write,
) Wouldn't Work.
“Bill was the one that disappoint
ed me,” she said. “He wouldn't
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work. He never liked any job he
Aiad while I knew him."
The defense then presented in evi
dence the letter Ormond wrote in re
ply. In it Ormond accused her of
tellihg her father onk thing and him
another. He wrote her that she did
no: care “a snap for my feedings or
anything else."
“I can say sincerely that I do not
love you either,’ iun glad I found
you out before if was too late." the
dead man wrote in ending bis let
ter.
■ Miss Cole then staled that Febru
ary 14, 19&5, was the twenty-fifth
wedding anniversary of her father
and mother. She had started for a
horse-back ride when her father
phoned her he wanted to see her ’
right away. She declared that when
she met him "Daddy was very pale
and crying so that I couldn't under
stand wjiat he said.” She stated that
she drove about ten miles out of town
and stopped the car. Then lie showed
her a letter from Ormond.
Man and Wife.
“I am only pleading lor her sake,”
declared Ormond in the letter, in
which he again asked Cole to let him
marry his daughter. “What. would
she feel like marrying some one after
we have had relations as man and
wife for over a year? She would be
miserable all her life, as she is now.
“There is no hatred or malice at
| all oil.my part,” Ormond wrote, “to
| ward you or any of the family, but
when I see Libbut's future and your
heme at stake, it does not make me
mad when you all treat me with con
tempt, but I have a feeling of pity,
knowing what might happen if the
facts were uncovered. It is for your
family I am writing this.”
Elizabeth Cole said yesterday: “I
told daddy ‘this is absolutely un
true.’ Daddy said 'finish it. If it
is true you ought to go ahead and
marry him. I’ll take eare of you.’
“I said ‘it is not true. I wouldn't
marry him if he was the last man
on earth.’ I told daddy when we
got baek that I’d be willing to be
examined, but 'he said I’uat he be
lieved me.
“Have you ever had anything to
do with him?” Mr. Brooks asked.
“.Absolutely not,” she answered.
“Since the homicide, hnve you been
examined by three doctors?” Inked
Mr. Brooks.
The State • objected, but the girl
answered in the affirmative too soon
for them to cut off her reply.
Acting Queerly.
The defense then brought out from
her testimony the fact that ever since
Cole received the letter, his daughter
thinks he has been acting queer. She
stated that he became very quiet,
wouldn’t pay any attention to any
thing or anybody, and would not eat
or sleep. She said that she came
upon him on Tiis knees praying. She
said that after he went to Raleigh to
see Ormond and try to settle it, he
seemed better but that between the
first of May and the time of the homi
cide Ormond began to trouble her
father again.
She declared that he came to Rock
ingham and passed by their home
several times blowing a strange
whistling horn which he had on his
car- Once she said her father stayed
at home to keep from seeing Ormond
and that once, they went out of town.
Identifies Pistol.
She testified that Ormond always
carried a pistol in a bag which he
had tacked lo the left side of his
ear. The pistol was given to her
and she identified it as Ormond’s.
She related an incident when Ormond
had drawn a pistol on a drunken man
who attempted to pick a fight with
him on the road.
The defense closed its examination
with a question as to whether Miss
Cole had ever had illicit relations
with any man. The State objected
and Judge Finley sustained the ob
jection. The defense took its first
exception of the trial.
Cross Examination.
On cross examination. Mr. Moore
asked her if she had had correspond
ence with Ormond. She stated that
she had. He asked her if he was
not the only boy / she was going with
before he left Rockingham. She de
clared that he was not.
“You frequently rode-with Ormond
in his car in the evening, afternoon
and night,” he asked her.
“On the public roads, yes,” she
answered. Then the State went into
her father’s objections to her mar
riage to Ormond.
“I never asked Daddy if he ob
jected,” she declared. "I could have
had his consent if I had wanted it.
I told Bill so.”
She admitted that she has given
all the money which she has received
from her trust estate from her grand
father to her father.
Mr. Moore asked her about the sale
by her father Os a purt of his interest
in a cotton mill in October, 1924, and
asked her if that might not have
caused the worry which her father
showed. She said she knew nothing
about the sale of her father’s stock.
She said that she knew what caused
her father to worry, because he told
her. /
‘‘Didn’t you have considerable cor
respondence with Bill Ormond after
October, 1924?” asked Mr. Moore.
Miss Cole’s Letters.
“Not much,’ bhe answered. '“I’ll
say about five letters.
Mr. Moore presented about 25 let
ters from Miss Cole to Ormond. He
asked her to Identify the handwrit
ing. She identified them as her own.
They were not introduced yester
day but rumor here is rife as to what !
they contained.
Acknowledged Gift.
Miss Cole admitted that Ormond
sent het a present at Christmas, 1924,
and a card on her birthday on Jan
uary 5, 1925.
She admitted acknowledging them.
Miss Cole admitted on Mr. Moore's
frosri examination that |ber father
carried a pistol with him in his auto
mobile when on a trip. She said"
that the pistol was usually kept on
the top shelf of a closet at home.
She admitted that she never knew of
her father carrying a pistol up town
in his pocket except on the day of
the homicide.
She also admitted that her father
was feeling all rig',it when she saw
him at 4 o’clock on the afternoon of
the homicide. She said he was
.“laughing and chatting with his
friends" in his office.
Rest For Miss Cole.
J. A. Lockhart, of the defense coun
sel, gained a rest for Miss (’ole in
t'iic midst of the cross examination
by calling attention to the crowds
which jammed the windows of the
court room and” Were even crowding
up_around the bench. Judge Fin
ley called a short recess.
The State has the backing of the
huge Crowds which pack I’iic court
house. Today, Judge Finley had to
stop applause with threats of arrest
for contempt. The heartiest round of
app’ause followed one of the fre
quent crashes between attorneys for
•the State and defense in which the
State scored ’heavily.
Leary AA\ Adams, in his report in
AA’ednesday's Winston-Salem Journal
has the following:
Mr. Cole appeared very composed
and almost relaxed, as lie stood; ills
•count cun nee was almost impassive.
During the day he sat with his fam
ily, part of the time he sat between
his wife and Elizabeth. Mrs’. Cole
fanned him for a long period, and
rested her arm on the back of his
chair through part of the morning ses
sion when tile jury was being select
ed. At tile luncheon recess his young
er daughter, Katherine, put her arms
affectionately around her father and
kissed him repeatedly. Because she
was so small he stooped very low to
greet her when she came to him. Eliz
abeth also caressed him. In the af
ternoon Elizabeth anil her brother
Robert sat together a great deal. Cole
sat with his wife until the first wit
ness was called, and then took his
place among liis lawyers. When lie
came into court this morning lie ea
ressisl each member of his family.
Just before entering tiie courthouse,
lie paused to oblige newspapermen
who'wanted to photograph him. Half
a dozen cameras clicked. There was
none of the soreen'ng by attorneys
as on Monday.
In court Cole wore glasses, a white
shirt with blue stripe, a blue anil black
four-in-hand tie, and a steel gray
suit. He was cleanly shaven, anil his
red blonde complexion was almost
translucent. None of the haggard ap
pearance of Monday was noticeable
in his eountenanee.
There was a touch of pathos about
him once, just after taking his seat.
He wrung his fingers but soon this
nervousness seemed to wear off, and
he took heart.
Mrs. Cole wore practically the
same costume of white, in which she
was attired on Monday. Elizabeth,
however, had abandoned her sport
suit for a dark blue canton crepe dress
anil pencil blue felt hat. She wore
tan hose and blaek suede shoes.
Katherine was attired in a dress of
blue and gray crepe. She wore a
sport hat of blue and red. Robert
wore a dark blue suit.
SELF DEFENSE PLEA IS
SUGGESTED FIRST TIME
tlefense Calls Upon State to Produce
Any Weapons It Has.—Overruled
For Time Being.
Richmond County Court House,
Rockingham, Oet. I.—Self defense
as a contention in the defense of AV.
B. Cole, wealthy cotton manufactur
er, who last August 15 shot anil
Killed W. AA r . Ormond, on the
streets of Rockingham, was sug
gested for the' first time today.
After Dr- C. O. Bristow testified
for the state as to conditions of
Ormond’s body when he examined it,
and had described three bullet
wounds in the body, the defense
called upon the state to produce any
tvcaions connected with the case.
Solicitor Philips refused. The sug
gestion of the defense that Ormond
possessed a'weapon is denied by the
state.
"The state of Norm Carolina will
eonduct this case as the prosecution
sees fit and not as the defense dic
tates.” Solicitor Phillips declared.
Vigorous applause broke from the
galleries and drew sharp caution from
the court.
The, court ruled that the defense
request was inappropriate at this
stage of the trial.
DECLARES BILL ORMOND
WAS EEMPLARY SOLDIER
Lockhart’s Statement That He Never
Saw the FYomt Line Trench Re
futed By Cheshire.
lialeigh, Oet. I.—Publication of a
declaration attributed to James A.
Loekart, member of the defense coun
sel in the Cole trial, that young
“Bill” Ormond was never within 25
miles of the front during the world
war, and was discharged as complete
and able-bodied,, brought, a spirited
reply today from Godfrey Cheshire,
of Raleigh, who was an officer in
Ormond's company.
Making bis statement “In the in
terest of accuracy and to protect one
who cannot protect, himself,” Che
shire declared that his company was
in active service at the front and
that members were subjected to. gas,
50 per cent of the personnel of the
organization, including Ormond, be
ing in the hospital at one time.”
“Bill Ormond was a good man in
the service and a good soldier,” Che
shire stated.
“Father, do your big fiidies eat sar
dines?”
“Yes, my son!”
"How do they get them out of the
cans?’*
. “Oh, what good Is percentage?”
growled little Tommy,
t “Now, Tommy,” asked his teacher,
reproachfuly, “don’t you want to learn
how to work out batting averages?”
TRANSITORY INSANITY
PLEA BARRED BV JUDGE
Great Stress Expected Ncjr to Be
Laid on Self-Defease.
Rockingham. < lot. 1. —The State
rested its ease this morning at. 11 :20
o'clock. Mr. Brooks predicted a long
drawn out debate when he. announced
that the defense would put up a dual
defense, self-defense and transitory in
sanity. Clyde Hoey argued for 20
minutes, basing his opposition on the
fact that the State does not recognize
emotional insanity for the simple rea
son that any person who desires to
get revenge could get tiis gun. kill
his enemy and [dead before the courts
that he was temporarily insane.
Mr. Rrooks spent an hour and a
half arguing for his duality. He said
the Supreme Court in this state had
twice approved transitory insanity.
“We do not wish." he said, "to blaze
new paths to the temple of justice,
nor do we wish to announce any law:
we are sticking to the written law."
He argued that self-defense and tran
sitory insanity are not inconsistent,
and quoted from a case handed down
in Missouri to substantiate.
Judge Finley, following adjourn
ment of court, said he would direct
the jury to deliberate on self-defense
or straight insanity. The jury will
be instructed to specify as to which
of the two it acts upon. If it takes
up the insanity phase the court will
want to know in order to know how
to proceed. If self-defense is para
mount then that ends it. The two
(defenses are closely allied in this
case.
Judge Finley's announcement leaves
Mr. Cole in this position: He may
be acquitted by reason of self-defense;
or he may be adjudged insane and go
to the criminal insane asylum. And.
of course, as the State contends, he
may be guilty of first degree murder,
or cf murder of a lesser degree.
THREE PERSONS KILLED
IN WRECK ON SOUTHERN
Engineer Baber and Fireman Conley
Pinned Vnder Engine Near Rutli
erfcrdton.
Rutherfordton. Oct. I.—One of the
worst railroad wrecks in the history
of Rutherford county occurred on the
Southern’s Marion-Rock Hill divi
sion at Hollands Creek, one mile
north of here, at 3:40 o'clock this af
ternoon. Henry C. Ilaber, engineer
and a native of this county; Fireman
.7. G. Conley, of Rock Hill, and W.
F. Wise, foreman of t'iie work crew,
of Thermal City, are all dead. Baber
and Conley were buried under tile
engine and killed instantly while
Wise died soon after. Wise was in
the cab. He was rushed to the Ruth
erford Hospital but died before lie
reached there.
USE PENNY COLUMN—IT PAYS
SALE OF AUTOMOBILE UNDER
MECHANIC’S LIEN.
By virtue of authority vested in
the Barringer Motor Co., by a me
chanic’s lien for work done on a cer
tain automobile belonging to S. W.
Dubose, of the City of Washington in
the District of Columbia, and charged
for making said repairs the sum of
Eighteen Dollarsfi ($18.00) which
amount the said S. W. Dubose has
failed to pay in the time allowed by
law, and having retained_possession
of the said automobile in order to pre
serve my lien upon it:
Now, therefore, in accordance witli
Chapter 49, Seettion 2435, Consoli
dated Statutes of North Carolina, I
will on the 17th day of October, 1925,
at 2:00 o'clock P. M., sell at public
auction in the Town of Mount Pleas
ant, N. C., one Commonwealth Tour
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highest bidder for cash.
This the 2nd day of October, 1925
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Who Stole
First Offender, In Penitentiary, Blames Parents For
Not Punishing Early Wrong-Doings
"T’M facing a year in the peni-
A tentiary,” a youth says byway
of introduction to an amazing dis
dosure in October Good Housekeep
ing. “My crime warranted a much
heavier sentence, but on account of
my youth, and of its being my first
offense, the Judge gave me a light
sentence, while my mother sobbed
and the other ladies in the court
room wept in sympathy.
“These women who loved me all
tried to do their best for me. They
had for me the kind of affection
that endures, suffers, forgives and
hopes in the face of everything.
Their one comfort now will be to
feel that they never failed me when
t was in trouble. I don’t begrudge
them that comfort. But for the
sake qf the generation of kids who
lire starting now just as I started,
I’m going to write a few words to
women.
1 “I am twenty-one years old. I
have been a thief for seventeen
(’ears. And today I got a light sen
tence for a first offense!
“I don’t mean one childish theft
and then today. I mean that for
seventeen years I have been a
habitual thief. I mean that all my
life I have done things that made
ne a legitimate subject for the chil
dren’s court and the reform school.
And they let me g t away with it.
“I mban that in the last few
years I have repeatedly committed
serious crimes, offenses which are
justly punishable by stiff sentences..
They covered it up and let me get
away with it.
“When I was five years old, an
old man next door had a reading
glass through which I loved to look
at pictures. One day he fell asleep
in his chair when I was in the
room. The glass was on the table
i beside him. I thought how won
derful it would be if the glass were
mine and I could look through it
1 whenever I wanted to. I tip-toed
1 up to the table, slipped the glass
inside my little blouse, went home
; and up to my playroom, and began
, to scan Cock Robin’s adventures
. through my new treasure. I was
i absorbed in the delight when my
• mother came in the room suddenly,
i Startled, I let the glass fall, and
it broke into pieces.
| “Mother questioned me, and I
admitted that I had taken the glass
without the old man’s permission.
I didn’t call it borrowing or steal
- ing. I didn’t call it anything. But
> in my childish heart I knew that I
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Man For Man.
I Statesville Daily.
; A South Carolina wife kicked the
‘ dog around because her old man re-
I fused to kiss her. whereupon the man
complained to a ‘squire of the ill
. treatment accorded the dumb brute,
which had suffered a broken leg. The
■ lady cited her grievance and admitted
that she took her disappointment out
: on the dqg to get even with the hus
band. The latter said his wife was
i not kissable because she used snuff.
Then the ‘squire dismissed the action
i by suggesting that the lady give up
snuff and treat the dog with more
s tolerance. That is, the wife must
r make all the sacrifice, give up the
“dust of consolation” and be consid
PAGE THREE
had meant to keep it always.
Mother called it “borrowing with
out permission.” She wept as she
explained how wrong it was and
how the entire family would be
disgraced if any one knew that I
had done such a naughty thing. I
was an affectionate, easily-moved
child, and my tears flowed freely ,
with hers. Mother explained that
she would buy another glass ex
actly like that one and replace it.
She and I would keep the dark se-
and I would never, never, do
such a naughty• thing again.
“No wholesome humiliation for
me; no stiffening of my moral fiber
through having to face the stern
old man myself and give him the
new glass. Some penitent tears
and promises, and it was all over.
I had got away with my first theft.
“I don’t know just how long
after that it was when Mother dis- *
covered a red rubber ball in my
pocket. Questioned about it, I said
I had traded my i op for it, which
might have done very well had not
the top inopportunely dropped from
another pocket. I hastily framed
another story, but I was not hard
ened in the ways of sin, and my
scarlet face gave me away. I ad
mitted that I had taken Eddie Mi
nard’s ball from a bench in his back
yard. Again mother explained the
naughtiness of borrowing without
permission, and how no one would
love me if they knew I was snch a
naughty boy. Again we both wept.
When I had repented for a half
hour, I went over to Eddie’s house,
put the ball down exactly on the
spot from which I had taken it, and
heat a hasty retreat. Again I had
got away with it.
“No, I don’t think my fault
should necessarily have been bla
zoned all over the neighborhood to
people whom it in no wise con
cerned. _ But I do know that if I
had been made to face the wronged
ones and feel their contempt, it
would have made me realize the
truth of that homely old saying
“Murder will out.” Ido know that
the lesson poor mother all unwit
tingly impressed on me was that it
would be a terrible disgrace if peo
ple knew that I had taken some
thing that was not mine, and that
sin could be covered up and for
gotten.” i
Recalling his full career of thiev
ery in October Good Housekeeping,
this young man drives home a les
son every parent will take to heart.
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crate of the dog. The old man’s
lips could be smeared with tobacco
juice, or his breath reek with tobacco
smoke or fumes of bootleg. The
wife must endure that, and the dog,
and be denied the consolation of a
dip of snuff. If the women of that
South Carolina district have any «ex
loyalty, any consideration for the
rights of the down-trodden women,
and real conception of justice, they~-',k
will rise in their might and smash the
’squire officially, if not otherwise.
Wyoming is now the onljr State in , l
which Labor Day has not been made i
a legal holiday.
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