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ASSOCIATED PRESS dispatches VOLUME XXV More Friends And Relatives Os Cole Say They Detected Big Change In Appearance INSANITY PLEA IS BEING PLAYED UP Porter Denies He Was Jealous of Ormond For Love of Mtss Cole.—War Record Is DOCTORS WOULD GIVE EVIDENCE Concerning Miss Cole But State Raises Objection on Ground per Virtue Is Not Real Issue. Richmond County Court House, Oct. (i.—(A>)—The defense of W. B. Cole rested its ease at 11:05 o'clock today and the prosecution called its remaining witnesses to rebut the con tention that the wealthy cotton tnan - ufacturer did not deliberately kill W. IV. Ormond last August 15th. Two physicians, Dr. H. H. Dodson, and Dr. J. T. J. Battle, both of Greensboro, testified to a physical ex amination of Miss Elizabeth Cole they j-onducted September Oth. They were the last witness* for the de fense. The physicians testified Hiat from their examination of Miss # Cole it was their opinion “she is as pure as a new born baby." This testimony will not be admit ted unless the State takes the posi tion that Ormond's charge of “man and wife relations" with Miss Cole were true. The State served notice that the letters identified by Miss Elizabeth Cole as having been written to Or mond would be introduced as an im peachment of her testimony. She testified j}he broke off with Ormond of her own accord, and not as suit of hrr fathers objections. Cole does not know the contents of the letters the State holds. Richmond County Court House, Rockingham. Oct 6. —(**)—John W. Porter, president of the cotton mill' once owned by W. B. Cole, and friend of Miss Elizabeth Cole, took the stand for the defense at the opening of the %venth day of the wealthy cotton manufacturer's trial. The state contends that Cole ob jected to Ormond’s suit for his daugh ter's hand because he had no money, and favored Porter because of his po sition. “Are you engaged to Miss Elizabeth Cole or have you ever been engaged to her?" James Lockhart asked. "No, 1 think she is a fine girl, but I am hot engaged to her." Porter said he is 33 years old. He was in conference with Cole a few minutes before the shooting at the Manufacturer's building, but did not see the homicide. The witness bought a controlling interest in Steele’s mill in 1I)H). “Did Mr. Cole say anything to you nbout arranging his business in the event he was killed?" The state objected and was over ruled. "Mr. Odle asked me if I would use my influence to get his Superintend ent J. W. Jenkins, his job as manager. He also asked me to look after his fanrly as much as I could." Larry Moore conducted the cross examination. x,, "Is the fact that you are not en gaged to Miss Cole your fault or hers?" j \ The court sustained an objection from the defense. MiSs Cole smiled. Mr. Moore dwelt on Porter’s con nection with Cole and then brought in the war records of Ormond and himself. "Were you in the war?" Porter said he had not been in the war. Hi* mother was dependent on him, he said, and he was turned down by physicians when called in the draft. Ouring the war he was connected with his mill. “You went with Miss Cole while Ormond was in the war?” “Yes.” "You didn't like it much when he came back with an honorable war rec ord, and started going with her, did you? You were jealous, weren’t you?" “No.” The witness said he was not of a jealous nature. Porter described the conference with Cole a few moments before the shoot ing. He said Cole wgs seated about five feet from the Window, and had he looked out he would hare looked away from the position of Ormond’s car. Porter himself was seated near the window\ and his outlook was in the direction of dead man's car. He said he didn’t see the car. Cole has testified that he was seat ed next to the window, and that he looked down the street straight to the front, and saw Ormond's car turn in to the curb from the street. \ On direct examination Porter said he had observed Mr. Cole during the month preceding the killing, that he had formed an opinion as to his men tal condition. The state objected to his giving the opinion, but to preceding questions he bad said Cole was not in his. right The Concord Daily Tribune ♦ mind. Five witnesses next were called by the defense to corroborate previous testimony, and four of them, friends I of the Cole family, said Cole's repu tation was good. Mrs. M. B. Leath, wife of tile as sistant treasurer of the Hannah P'ek ett Mill, and a neighbor of th> Coles, 1 corroborated Mrs. Cole’s testimony , late yesterday that she had said to her "1 believe dad is crazy.” ■ Two physician* who examined Miss Elizabeth Cole were called by the de fense and the State objected, on the grounds that the character of .Miss Cole is not an issue. 1 THE COTON MARKET ; Opened Steady Today at an Advance of 0 to tt Points.— December up to 1 23.04. | New York, Oet. fi.— (/P) —The cot ton market opened steady today at an advance of <1 to 1) points in response to a relatively steady showing of early Liverpool rabies, apprehensions of a cold wave following showers, or rains, in the southwest. Offerings were comparatively light, and after some initial selling for lo cal or Southern accounts had been ab sorbed. prices worked up to 23.04 for December, or about 10 to 17 points net higher on trade buying or covering. Two more private eroi> reports were published, one pointing to a yield xgf 14,156.000 bales, while the other es timated the condition'at 54.4 and the indicated yield at 14,000.000. Cotton futures Opened steadV. Oct 22.30: Dec. 22.95: Jan. 22.23- MnrKi 22.52; May 22.73. Patton to Resign as Head of Exposi tion. Charlotte, Oct; 4.—Joe Patton, sec retary and manager of the Made-in- Carolinas Exposition, will offer bis resignation tq the board of directors Monday at the first meeting of that body after the fifth annual show and retire from connection with the expo sition. Mr. Patton will give liis entire time in future to the industrial section of T'he Charlotte Observer. The idea of an exposition to exploit the, industries of the Carolina* was bom in Mr. Patton's mind, more than five years ago and he is credited with having Iliads the exposition a suc cess. New Buildings Por Asheville. Asheville, Oct. s.—Plans for the construction of a fifty-room hotel on Hhywood road, in' French Broad ter race, for a twenty-five room hotel and apartment building on Merrimon Avenue and a thirty-room apartment hotel on Biltmore Avenue have’ just been announced by the Yarrow Con struction Company, 315 Legal build ing. Steamer Asks for Help. Seattle, Wash.. Oct. 6-—The navy radio reports a steamship Hermosa sending out distress signals. Her location was given at. 344 degrees from Port Stevens anil 170 degrees from Pachena Point. The nature of the trouble was not-announeed. The coast guard cutter Bear is going to the rescue. * Appointment of Steeg Approved. Paris, Oct. 6, —< A *)—The French cabinet today ratified the appoint ment of Jules Steeg, minister of jus ; tice, as resident general of French Morocco, to succeed Marshal Lynutey. resigned. N Italian Debt Mission Coming This Month. Rome, Oct, 0. —(4>)—Count Volpl, the finance minister, and the other members of the Italian debt funding mission to America, have definitely decided to sail from Nables October 22 aboard the steamer Dtiilio. • Walter L. Meeks Dead. Salisbury, Oct. s.—Salisbury rela tives of Walter L. Meeks which oc curred at Newark, N. J.. Saturday. Mr. Meeks’ wife was formerly Miss Lois Stewart, of this city, a daughter of Mrs. Clara Stewart. Spaniards and French Effect Union. Fez, French Morocco, Oct. C. —OP) —The French and Spanish officers and aviation units have effected a junction at Eynan, northeast of Kifane. Steamer Dowdoin Arrived at North Sidney. North Sidney, N. S., Oct. 6.—{/?) The steamer Bowdoin, flagship of the MacMillan Arctic expedition, arrived here today. 10 Per Cent. Discbunt For Cash ] ON ORDERS FOR Engraved Christmas Cards \ On all orders received for Christmas Cards before De- : :ember Ist, we will allow 10 per cent, discount for cash | from .our already low prices. We have in stock a beattti- 1 ful line of. these cards, and can furnish them on a few t hours’ ’notice. Call and see samples. Tribune-Times Office ■nmmmwMWMM ■■■ ■■■■■■ NORTHERN METHODIST •' CONFERENCES IN STATE 5 -- j 1 .Arc Expected to Vote for Unification if the Two Churches. Nashville. N. O-t. Some 20 annual conferences of the - Methodist Episcopal Church will , vote on unification with the Meth odist Eptsci pal Church. South, dur > ing the next four months, .in the Southern States. i Os this number, two conferences J will be held in North Carolina, one i • at King. Mountain on October 2!). 1 ■ and one at Raleigh October 28. It is considered probable thnt both the white and negro conferences of the Northern church will vote heavily for unification; ihe uni , float ions say that the outcome is I certain to be for unification. There are two negro bishop* in' . the Northern Church. Bishop R. E. i Jones, of New Orleans, and Bishop . M. W. Clair, of Covington. Ky.. who will preside over some of the ppgro ! conferences while the white bishops will preside over the while confer ences and some of the negro confer ences. Bishop Clair will preside over the negro North Carolina conference in West Raleigh, on October 28H.1. Rishop* Clair and Jones will pre side over several of the negro con ferences in the United States, and Bishop Clair will also go to Africa, , to conduct the Liberia conference, at New Georgia, January 0.. The annual conferences will re ceive reports from each of the churches in their districts and have the ehurch causes presented to them. They will also admit young ministers qualified to enter the ministry, and announced appointment of ministers. The meeting at King Mountain nil October 29 is the Blue Ridge At lantic conference of 'the church. Ijisbop Richardson will preside. F. BARNES, SALISBURY. JAILED IN AUTO CRASH Held at Islington Pending Condi tion of Half-Brother. Lexington, Oet. s.—Charles F. Barnes, 50, Salisbury, remained in Jail here today, pending the out come of injuries sustained yesterday ofternpon by Cade Barnes, bis half brother, when a car driven by the former overturned about 10 miles southwest of Lexington. Sheriff Talbert was informed late today that Cade Barnes, who is in a Salisbury hospital, had not yet re gained consciousness. He lost much blood from n severe cut on one leg and was injured about the hend and otherwise. Charles Barnes, who is said to bear a good reputation and who is a son of a. well-known farmer of Churchland, this county, is reported by the sheriff to have apparently been drinking and a bottle is said to have been fouud at the scene. Friends of Mr. Barnes informed the sheriff they are ready to furnish bond in any sum required, but the officer is awaiting a turn in the con dition of the injured man before fix ing the amount. Six-Year-Old Girl Dies From In ries. Charlotte, Oct. s.—Margaret Strick land. six-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. N. Strickland, died on the way to the Charlotte Saiuftorium Monday as the result of injuries re ceived when she was struck by an Au tomobile driven by A. T. Smith. Mr. Smith was on Kis way back to the city after going to his home on Lawyers road. The child is said to have run aaross the street’ near her home. Mr., Smith picked her up and rush ed her to the Sanatorium, death re sulting before arrival. Gets Jail Sentence on Narcotic Charge. Charlotte, Oet. s.—The final chap ter in the sensational dope selling plot, bared in Federal Court last April by Miss Lillian K. Tenant, woman sleuth, was written here Mon day, when Dr. T. A. Smith, of Char lotte, convicted at last term of court on two counts, was given a sentence of four months in jail by Judge E. Yates Webb, presiding. Dr. Smith had been out on bond. Commitment papers were ordered issued. Allied and German Statesmen Confer. Locarno. Switzerland, Oet. S.—OP) —The conference of allied am] Ger man statesmen called to consider Hie conclusion of a security pact, was opened here today. The sessions are being held in the Cantonal court room on the second floor of the I’alaee of Justice. North Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily CONCORD, N. C„ TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1925 But Then It’s a Woman’s Right ' —— In a very dramatic fashion Miss Minnie Beaty recently exercised a woman's prerogative of changing her mind, she left her Nevada home for Los Angeles where she was to meet and marry her sweetheart. Th« young man happened to be out of town, so his chum met the young iady. They were married the next day. PRESIDENT MS TO IIGMK Arrives In Omaha to At tend Legion Convention. —Address Was Deliver ed During Morning. Omaha, Nebr., Oct. o.—(lP)—Pres ident Cqplldge, coming into a world war atmosphere was in Omaha toda.V to address the American Legion con vention and review Hie annual pa rade of Legionnaires. Arriving at 8:30 a. m., after a L -300 miles journey from Washington, the President found the city swarm ing with forfner service men, anil the weather wafi disagreeable a>. it fre quently was in Fiance. A cold driving rain, reckoned to put a damper on the day's activities, as the sky was so overcast that there was slight prospect of a letup in the downpour. PALMER REMOVED Elmer Crowley Named President of .Emergency Fleet Corporation. Washington; Oct. o.— UP) —Leigh C. Palmer was removed today as pres ident of the Emergency Fleet Corpor-, atiou, and Elmer Crowley, of Boston, was named to succeed him. The action was taken by the ship ping board, and marked another stpp in the tangle which government agen cies have been enmeshed in the recent months. Mr. Palmer's resignation had been on file since he was made head of the corporal ion with wide powers, at the instance of President Coolidge, Today the board, which cancelled these pow ers several days ago, merely voted to accept the resignation. It then ap pointed Mr. Palmer as vice president of the Fleet Corporation in charge of European operations. New Car Sales Shows Drop. Greensboro, N. C.. Oft. 6.—(/Pi- New ear sales in North Carolina during August showed a drop of 1.- 010 from the 0.002 total for August, 1924, according to figures made pub lic today by the North Carolina Automotive Trade Association. There were 4,992 new ears titled in North Carolina in August, 1925. BBuncombe, with 290, led in new car sales, followed by Mecklenburg, with 203; Guilford, with 260; and Wake, with 229. Truck sales were 425. Viuiee county, with 35 sales, tops the list, while Wake, with 23, is second. Last year's truck sales figures are not aVhilab'e, officials of the associa tion said. Another Records Is Equalled by Ty Cobb. New York, Oet. s.—Finishing the 1925 baseball season with a mark of 380, Ty Cobb, manager of the De troit Tigers, equalled one of the few. major league batting records that he had not previously held or shared. The Georgian's mark this year made the 20th season in which he has bat ted better titan .300, the only other player in the major leagues to, have accomplished that being the late Adrien C. Anson. James B. Duke Has Been 111 at His Home For Ten Weeks. New York, Oet. s.—James B. Duke, thbaeoo magnate, has been confined to his bed for 10 weeks at his home on East 78th street, with a general ner vous break-down, it was learned to day. It was said at his home that lus illnes* was not critical and reports that it followed a treatment for weight l reduction were denied. TAIL OF FORMER PREMIER IS OFF Former Premier Papanasts of Greece, Will Not Be Trid.—No Reason For Action Is Giveir. Athens, Oet. (s.— VP) —The trial of ' former Premier Papanasts. set for to day, has been cancelled. No explana tion is given. An Athens dispatch on Saturday said M. Papanasts will be brought to trial in connectioil with his issuance of a proclamation to the Greek na tion making serious charges of bad faith against the government of Pre mier Pangalos. Special dispatches through London and Paris today said Premier Pan gaios had proclaimed a state of seige throughout the country. His pur pose. one correspondent said, was to establih a censors’ll ip to prevent po litical leaders from using the news- j papers to disturb public opinion. j NOL PROS ENTERED IN CASE OF MURRAY BROOKS His Father. Bonnie Brooks, Will Go on Trial in Hendersonville on Fri day. Hendersonville. Oct. (i.— (/P) —A nol pros in the case of Murray Brooks, jointly indicted with his father, Bon nie Brooks, on a charge of murder ing former Mayor Sam Y. Bryson, of this city, today was entered by Solicitor Pleas. The trial of the elder Brooks was set for Friday, and a special venire of 230 men will be summoned to ap pear then. The defense sought a continuance untiF November, Bryson was killed on one of the main streets of the city August Cth There is a difference of opinion as to whether Brooks or Bryson fired the first/shot, but witnesses said the latter had emptied his revolver and surrendered it to an officer before the fatal shot was fired. Trouble between the two men de veloped last December when Brooks returned to his home earlier than ex pected, and found Bryson, then may or, in company of Mrs. Brooks. «Brooks, a barber, entered suit for $50,000 against the mayor, charging him with disrupting ids home. Bryson resigned as mayor and the suit was settled when lie agreed to leave tjie city and remain away at least two years. Three weeks prior to the shooting, however, Bryson re turned. Murray Brooks, 11! years old, was! with his father at the time of the shooting. Fails to Complete Trial Flight. Pulham, England, Oct, (I.— (A I ) —The dirigible R-S8 returned to her moor ing here this morning without com pleting her test flight, having devel oped engine trouble. The flight was the first since the R-33's spectacular 'adventure of last April when she was torn from her mooring mast in a high gale and was blown across the North Sea to the Dutch coast. Warned Against Jay Walking. Charlotte, N. C., Oct. (1. —C/P)— Pedestrians here are being warned by the police against “jay walking.” This follows a recent count made by the Carolina Motor Company, wnen 20,41.1 persons were observed walk ing "against" the traffic signal lights at •independence Square in one day. The saving in time, for both pedestrians ahd motorists, ns well as safety for pedestrians, is being pointed out by the police. Only Two More Weeks Left Os The First and Biggest Vote Period In Our C?.™ 8 "*" I ; ♦ NEW YORK MUST HIT TRAIL OR FACE REFORMERS' BOYCOTT 1 Groups in Washington to Strike the “Wicked Foreign City” by Use of Economic Pressure. Washington. D. (\. Oct. C.—New : York City will be boycotted by or ganized reformers if she does not j mend her ways. | It is unnderstood here that the Methodist Hoard r.f Temperance an<| j similar groups are preparing to urge J tlie "good people" of the United j States to turn to other communities for their merchandise. Charging that I ir is li menace to prohibition, morality I and Christian religion they will aim j a blow at New York poeketbooks. Leaders of reform organizations are j now preaching that New York is "a | foreign city, and out of sympathy with I o’.d-time American, ideals and ways." j This doctrine, once planted in the i minds of their supporters, they ex- I pect to use the boycott to enforce I their program. An effort will be made to bring be- I fore Congress Hie conditions in New | York complained of by the Methodist I Temperance Board, in two recent j statements. New York's "wieked j ness"-is to be brought into (tie lints j light, and then kicked about. GOVERNOR WINANT TO SPEAK IN ASHEVILLE Addresses Delegates at Playground and Recreational Association of Ameri ca Conventiton. Asheville, Oet. (i.— UP) —Special sec tional meetings 'followed by a general 1 session at 11 o'clock when John J. Winant. Governor of New Hampshire, is on the program for an address, were the features of this morning's activi ties of the Playground and Reerea i tional Association of America in an- I nual convention ia this city, j The subjects of the section ineet j ings started at 9:30 tiiis morning, in- I eluded Institute Methods, Recreation Life for Girls. Camping Problems, and | other topics. With Our Advertisers. , See condensed statement of the Ca barrus Savings Bank at close of bus iness September 28th. S. W. Preslar's watches will help ' you to be on , hue at school. Sehloss Bros, suits aud topcoats from #25 to S4O at Hoover's. S.vd Chaplin in “Charley's A lint." at Warner's Concord Theatre Wed , nesday and Thursday. The Gibson Drug Store cordially * invites the public to attend the play-, [ by-play radio reports of the world's series baseball games. Roberts-Wicks suits and top coats from $25 to S4O at Browns-Cannou Co. Knox hats too. 11. It. Wilkinson wants you to in stall a Cole's down draft heater. Last showing today of "Coming of • Amos" with Rod La Roeque. This j is said to be a wonderful picture. | The Pearl Drug Store has installed a radio to gel the world’s series play by play. Winston-Salem Garages loscd «n Sundays. Winston Salem, N. C., Oct. 6.— UP) —Winston-Salem gasoline dealers have followed the example set in Charlotte, and have adopted the six day-week plan, closing om Sunday. Many station in Winston-Salem were closed last Sunday, and more are expected to be closed tomorrow. The plan tvas first inaugurated here last Sunday. Emergency gasoline may be obtained at storage garages, which remain open by necessity, although these places are said not to be push ing sales of gasoline and oil. Reports from Charlotte are to the effect that gasoline dealers there are selling more gasoline on Saturday than they formerly did on Saturday and Sunday combined. i 1 Gold Shipment Due Tomorrow. New York, Oct. (i. — i/P) —The first shipment of gold from England to the United States since the lifting Os the ban on gold exports last Spring, is scheduled to arrive tomorrow on the Homeric for the Seaboard National Bank, of New York. The consign ment amounts to 215.000 pounds Sterling. I NOW OPEN ~1 T . . :: j c The sGth series in this old reliable building and loan j js and savings association w‘ll open on October 3rd, 1925. j I ■ti The Officers and Stockholders invite each and every I * ; person in Concord to take some shares in this series. ’ •) . | Running shares cost 25 cents ,per share per week. J: Prepaid shares cost $12.25 per share. | Each share is worth SIOO.OO at maturity. || We have been maturing our stock in 328 weeks. I | Tax return day is coming. “JUST REMEMBER THAT ALE STOCK WITH | j START NOW . CABARRUS COUNTY BUILDING LOAN AND S SAVINGS ASSOCIATION « ; I | l Office in the Concord National Bank i 1m i J _ . Candidates Who Are tin-; tered Should Make the Best of the Few Days That Yet Remain. OCTOBER 19TH IS THE CLIMAX DATE A Single Five Year Sub scription During This Period Will Count 250,- 000 Votes For You. With only two more weeks left of I the first and biggest vote period ill I The Tribune and Times campaign, [ candidates who are entered should j make the best of tiiese few days for | they are apt to mean the difference j between success and failure in big j prizes. And,those who have the half; determination to take advantage of i tlie -low start of the contest should start now and find themselves in a commanding position by the time mid night of October lilth rolls around. That, is the climax date of this great gift distribution offer. It will be the ones who have done something by that time who win the automobiles. Just a few long time subscriptions are the most valuable vote getting mediums in the world in this cam-1 paign. Perhaps eac-h candidate has an idea of where he or she might get one or two of that kind and now | is the time to make them county. A I single five year subscription in this j period will count 250.000 and if new | it would amount to 350,000. In ad-1 dition to this would be Cue club vote I value of 100,000 for each $lB. In tile second period that same subscrip- \ lion would county 200.000 and if new \ 250.000. Appreciate what this dif ference might mean at the end of the ■ campaign. It might be the difference ! between an automobile and a cash j prize. Be one of those who Will look j hack at the first period after it is j gone with the satisfaction of know- j ing that you have done all that you • possibly could to wi na big prize in- i stead of feeling that if you had giytni your best efforts you might have stood | a chance. YVe know for a fact {hat there are} many people who right now are say- J ing that if they had only realized j ybat (hey had 'it chance to do in this campaign they would have en-1 tered. Thorp is only one thing we. I wish to say to those people. This is j that with a few days’ effort on their! I part that right now they can place] i themselves in contending positions for I I any of the prizes offered. Especial- j ly is tins true of districts two and | i three. Now if those people continue ) to regret that they are not in this j campaign and put it off another week j or so, they are not the. kind' who will j ever take advantage of an opportun- i it.v when it is presented to them, j On tlie other hand they will be among those who are forever wishing and never doing, people who wonder how j someone else ever did it anil really j deep down begrudge the reward of ambition and genuine live wires. If! you doubt that there is real oppor-! trinity in this campaign, just call at tlie campaign offices and do yourself j the justice of finding out about the | details of this campaign plan. There j is room for YOU. Y'ou can win. J Room 209 Cabarrus Savings Bankj buildings is the place to enter or ad dress Box 431, Concord. Phone 579. Parker Will Resign Committee Place. 1 Charlotte, Oct. s.—John J. Parker, appointed. Saturday by President Coolidge to the Circuit Court of Ap peals bench, will resign his position as Republican national committeeman at once, lie announced Monday morn ing. | YV. G. Brown, county highway en gineer, has moved a number of road machines to the road leading from the city to the fair grounds and tins road will be repaired so as to be in good shape for the opening of the fair here next Tuesday. It has been practi cally impossible to do any work on the road this summer due to the drought, hut Mr. Brown hopes to be able to get it in good shape during the week. THE TRIBUNE | PRINTS I TODAY’S NEWS TODAY J NO. 2391 NEGRO SLAIN HERE’I BY OFFICER AFTEH ’ HE IKES THREATS R. C. Thompson Fatall?l Wounded In Fight Durfl ing Night With Officenfl Sloop and Faggart. Eg OFFICER FREED 9 AFTER INQUESM Jury Finds That He Shofl While Performing Higfl Duties and After NegroH Had Threatened Him. Ip R. C. Thompson, local negro. ] killed in a tight with Patrolmen | ert Faggart and C. C. Sloop about : o’clock this morning on a vacant near Tournament street. A jury this morning exonerated nitm Sloop who testified that he tie- negro when ihe latter to “get” him. H| The verdict of th’e jury, composed of Joe Andrews. Brad giss, Tom Hendrix, William Sterling Ilrown and ClarenCe soy. reads: ‘ We. the undnersigned jury, have investigated tlie death otH K. C. Thompson (colored) and ,ii|H onr opinion death was caused by «■ j.pistol bullet fired b'y Patrolman Os | S'.oop and in our opinion said SloopH i was justified in killing Thompson)® : while in pursuance of liis duties and® j in self-defense." ®| ! Evidence given at the coroner's in-® j quest, which was held this morning at® I 9 o'clock in the Bell & Harris Tinder taking Parlors was: ® Patrolmen Sloop, Faggart. | son and Hopkins were called to a | negro dance hall several times I the night to restore order. On last trip Sloop and Faggart j cd the dance hall from one direction'll j anti the other officers from aiioijierfl| direction. When Sloop and Faggart;® | g«< near the hall they saw Thompson, ® | who was drunk. Sloop placed him under arrest, turned him over to gart and went inside a case to aecl® j what was going on. fi| j When he returned. Sloop said, he ® j ami Faggart got the negro as far as® the ear when he bolted, jumped from i Faggart’s grip and started to run,® Faggart jumped on ‘his back and lUteyj® I scuffled for a lniifute. The ! lan again, said the officer, with Fag-® j gart again stopping him. For the® I second time the negro and officer ® j fought on the ground. ® The negro freed himself again and I : ran about 75 feet before Faggart I caught him again. Again he escaped ® 1 and started around behind a church,® I building. Sloop went one way and ® i Faggart tlie other, the latter and the negro fighting again at the 9 bottom of a hill behind tlie ohi!riti. j At this point the couple fell into I ! a flitch, the negro failing on top. He® 1 kicked Faggart. the officer said, at® a vital spot, and then Faggartl® I called : ® "Gome on. Charlie, lie’s got me.” Sloop ran up then and also fell I [ into the ditch. J-ust then. Sloop l titled. Thompson said, "Yes, and G—® ! I*—you. I’ll get you too.” H It was then that he fired. Sloop 9 ! sa,< i. as the negro pointed his hand at I i him as though he held something in 9 I j Faggart told the jury that he was 9 unconscious after being kicked and I I Patrolman Robinson, who reached the I I scene of the tragedy just after Sloop 9 fired, said Faggart could not get up-tlßr Sloop sai:l lie fired twice. Only’l one bullet was found on the dead I man’s body. Coroner Hartsell told the* jury, the bullet entering the mun‘lc| body near his neck and just to the 9 right of tile middle line of the boy, j 9 Chief Ta'.birt was railed before the® jury to give the ]ioliee record of the 9 dead negro. He read that tile negro 9 'vas arrested in March, 1924. for he-’9 ing intoxicated and for driving a eaf'i® "'bile intoxicated, and again in May,!® 19-5. for carrying a concealed weans® on and for being intoxicated. ® Although the negro had been I searched near the dance hall, 00(99 Sloop said, ’lie did not know hut what 9 his assailant had picked up a rock 9 while falling down tlie hill. He did 9 not know whether Faggart had been 9 struck with a rock or otherwise hurt, 9 Patrolman Robinson said lie thought 9 when he first saw Faggart that Urn® latter was dead. | Patrolman Sloop said was right at him when he final, and 9 Coroner Hartsell testified tiiat there);® were powder burns on the dead man,:® It is not easy to be very tactful I ! when one is ver yexcited. I - =====» I 1 SAT’S BEAR SAYS: 1 I | > . vhH® il Increasing cloudiness tonight, po*-*J j sibly showers in extreme weot por-9 i lions: slightly warmer except on tiM® ; northeast coast tonight; : cloudy, probably showers in interiM® ; Moderate northeast, shifting to wfl i winds. 9