J#riday, January 22, 1926
IWrs. Annie Burgess Is Slain at AsheviUe and
Her Body Hidden In Woods Near Scene
V A.
I Asheville, Jan. 21. alias
■TIjH" David, employe o{ a local case,
B' fas taken into custody by the police
Bloday in connect ion with, the mys
■terious death of Mrs. Annie May
■Burgess, 23 years old. and pretty, who
fatally assaulted with nn iron
Stipe last night about 10:80 at Mont
■ord Avenue and Santee Street. Davis,
it was said this afternoon by W. R.
Messer, police chief, is being held for
investigation and at present no defi
nite charge has bpen placed against
him other than that of a suspect.
He was non-committal about the
tetion of the police in taking him in
to custody and denied any connection
with the death of the young woman,
according tQ Chief Messer. The man
has been residing in Asheville about
» year and a hnlf, but little is known
lAxiut him other than this. The po
lice state they will . hold him until
the inevstigation of the young wom
an's death is thoroughly completed
and detectives are now working on a
number of valuable clues which mny
definitely point to the party or par
lies perpetrating the act.
Several Arb Questioned.
Jim Redmond, thought by the police
o IMve had some knowledge of the
ou at woman and her death, was
to police headquarters at the
une time Davis was taken there,
tedmond was questioned by the police
nd was allowed to leave the station
vbile the officers decided, to hold
>nvis for a longer period. Several
ther probable witnesses in the case
n matters surrounding the young
roman's life and habits were also
uestioned by the police this after
oon in connection with the case.
The body of Mrs. Burgess was dis
wered in the edge of the woodsnear
lie scene of the attack early today.
Lccording to the belief of the police
he motive of the killing was criminal
Bssnult.
■ The first word to come to the po
lice as to the attack was brought in
Hist night by Caleb Ingram, an em
oye of the sanitary department of
e city. It seems Mr. Ingram es*
rted n lady to her home on Pear
n drive. Shortly after 10 o’clock
st night he epme fcack to Montford
venue to take a street car and while
aiting for the car at the corner of
intee and Montford discovered a
ece of irrti pipe about four feet
ng laying on the sidewalk by the
lie of a lady’s slipper. The pipe was
vered with blood. There were sev
al pools of blood on the Ridewalk
ar the pipe. Believing that some
e had met with foul play he came
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immediately to police headquarters
and notified them.
Found Blood Fresh.
Representatives of the police tle
partment went to the scene shortly
before 11 o’clock to Investigate. -They
declared this morning t'.ie blood when
they arrlevd at the scene was fresh.
After searching for other signs they
concluded that a fight had ensued at
the scene and the parties had driven
off fn an automobile. Mr. Ingrnm
stated to the police that when tie hnd
gotten off the street ear to take his
companion home shortly after 10
o’clock there was no blood at the
scene but when he returned just be
fore 10:30 he discoevred it, together
with the slipper.
The girl’s body was discovered
about 8 o’clock this morning by Mrs.
Bonnie Ledford, of Person drive, who
was accompanying her small son to
the street car line to send him to
school. She notified the police ith
mediately.
The body was lying in the'edge of
the woeds about 50 yards from the
corner where she was attacked. There
was a lnrge gash in her '.lead just i
over the right eye, evidently made by l
a blow from the pipe.. There were [
finger prints on her throat, showing'
that her assailant had evidently chok
ed her. I
The clothing was torn from her]
shoulder over her breast and other'
signs point to the fact that the mo
tive of the killing was criminal as
sault. TBere were no marks to show
that the body had been dragged from
the scene of the first attack to w*!iere
it was found. It was lifted clear
of the ground nnd carried to the
edge of a dirt bank, enrried down the
bank into the woods. There was a
trail of blood from the corner under
the street to this spot where anothor
pool of blood had formed.
Husband Died Bix Tears Ago.
Mrs. Burgess had been living with
Mr. and Mrs. Otis Lee, on Pearson
drive, near Santee street. They
stated Unit she left home at 7:30
o’clock last night with the avowed
intention of attending a show. She
was not seen by them and they did
not hear from her until the crowd
gathered when the body was found.
Mrs. Burgess, who was a pretty
blonde of medium height, was known
to the police, having served a sen
tence of eight months at Lindley home
a short time ago for disorderly con
duct.
Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Townsend, reside at 37 Hall street.
Mrs. Burgess' husband was a patient
, *
at Oteen in the government hospital
for seme time. He died there about
- six years ago.
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Post and Flagg's Cotton letter
i New York, Jan. 21.—Opposing in
■ fluencew seen fairly well balanced
' around this level and some fresh in
■ eentive is required to twist the mar
i ket out of the rut in which it has
i been traveling. Advances meet realiz-
I ing and a certain amount of hedge
i selling while on declines the trade
I buyers nnd speculative shorts try to
■ secure profits and so far there hns
been no development powerful
• enough to inspire confidence enough
to follow moveniets for any distaee
I in either direction.
Tlir.se friendly to tin; market fee!
i warranted in expecting, the present
i fairly active demand for goods to
< broaden even at some advances in
• price and to be reflected in a more
urgent' demand for raw material
! with the result of only a limited rc
i mainjier at the oms of the season
i which will prove no weight of the
i market. Those opposed point to the
i number of bales in the crop and the
'disposition among mills to turn more
'and more to lower grades, setting
free in that way a large quantity of
I wh)tc cotton of tenderable quality
.pvhich will seek an outlet through
• ■contract markest especially if the
. next acreage is made as large ns the
. last with the possibility of another
, lnrge crop bearing extremely adverse
, weather or unusual weevil damage.
. For the moment traders are more
. busy discussing pros and eons than
, in buying or selling and it remains
, to be seen which set of influences
l will finally kick the beam. Some of
, the shrewdest and most experienced
. members of the trade take the view
thnt consumption is overhauling pro
duction and that any acute anxiety
Over the prospective supply would
1 have ail important far reaching cf
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THE CONCORD DAILY TRIBUNE
Modern Mortician Business Man;
Dour Type of Silk-Hat Era Gone
OUTOFDATE AMDUPTODATE FUMEPAL DiEECTOBS 4
CHICAGO—What has become of
the long-faced undertaker who was
in the habit of lying awake nights
racking bis brain to plan a dismal
and solemn funeral?
His place has been taken by the
eheerfnl. optimistic mortician who
uses every conscientious effort to
render service to the living by cre
ating an atmosphere of optimism,
nope and strength, according to
Jack Matthews of Lincoln. Neb.,
president of the National Selected
Morticians, in an address here.
"Time was not long ago. when
the mortician registered a more
pained expression than the be
reaved members of the immediate
family." said Mr. Matthews. “He
presented a miserable, solemn pic
ten with his long frock coat, high
GOOD CHARACTER CLEARS
MAN OF MURDER CHARGE
A Story With a Moral Conics From
Cleveland County.
Shelby Star.
Here’s a story with n moral.
The grind of a court docket usual
ly offers more subjects for sermons
than any one thing outside of the
Book on which the faith ot sermons
is founded.
Most men are “from Missouri”
nnd must be shown. There’s no bet
ter way of illustrating than the
court room.
Over in the edge or oaston county
there is a 21-year-old young man
who owes his freedom from a second
degree murder charge almost solely
to good character—not thnt of some
body else, but his own.
The moral passed unheeded in the
current account of the case by the
press, but O. Max Gardner, who act
ed as counsel for the young man,
exemplified the value of having good
character to his Bible class at the
First Baptist church here Sunday,
and the Gaston case with which he
was familiar as attorney was used
us au example-
Men are frequently cleared of
murder charges. In fact acquittal
comes so frequently nowadays that
conviction makes a better news
story. Usually, however, nn acquittal
on n murder charge comes through
connected evidence almost positively
proving the defendant innocent, or
through some skillful move of de
, sense counsel. Neither were directly
or even indirectly, responsible for
* the acquittal of Yates Mauney last
. week in. Gastonia. That’s what his
i -attorney told a Bible class and he
i should know.
[ Naturally Mr. Gardner did not
deny that his service as counsel did
not help the young man at all—
lawyers do not advertise and conse
quently cannot belittle their nbility
; —but the big thing that kept Yates
\ Mauney from serving a sentence wns
i hia character, the reputation his
j community und neighbors gave him. I
i And come to think about it a man
i must need have the best of reputa
| tion behind him to balance it against
[ doxens of years in the prison, and
i win.
1 Two witnesses swore almost posi
\ tlvely that young defendant, who had
been a student at Wake Forest col
lege, . while at a corn shucking last
fall inflicted a cut on the throat of
Wesley Hallman thnt resulted in
Hallman’s death. Young Mauney
said that he did not. After hearing
i Mauney’s reputation and his record
| that which goes to make up cbarac
, ter, the jury freed the defendant,
i Let that sink in. Would your past
| reputation send you out of a court
i room a free man if two others swore
i you killed a man?
| Noah Webster in all his volumes
i defines character and explains repu
-1 tation, but In no place does he cover
\ comprehensively “good character.”
i And that which Webster and the
1 dictionaries cannot define no man.
not even the income tax collectors,
can place a value thereon.
Money—a thousand pardons to
| some judges anil juries—has freed
5 numerous men of murder charges.
5 Some time freedom has been pur
-1 chased at a great cost. That which
freed Yates Mauney no man can
> purchase.
hat. and white eloves. This old
timer thought it his duty to be the
chief mourner. He radiated gloom.
About all be didn’t dc at the ob
sequies was sing the funeral dirge.
“The modern mortician is an
apostle of hope. Death, he teaches,
is simply a going before, a reunion
in a happier tomorrow. He is as
greatly concerned with the living
as with the dead. All possible
comfort Is given the bereaved
family in time of their affliction by
the mortician. He not only
shoulders the responsibility of aU
arrangements and last rites, but he
makes them as cheerful as pos
sible. Bright crepe is often sub
stituted for solemn black, and deep
mourning is more or less discour
aged."
Perhaps it has been hard in .the
past for Yates Mauney to keep in
the pathway of good character and
there are no by-ways. One little
stumble and a lifetime of molding a
good character is wasted. There are
those who have wondered if after
all it’s worthwhile. Yates Mauney
might answer that perplexed query.
Such men live and die and no
credit whatsoever is given on this
globe for wlmt friends might term a
character unequalled. On the other
hand something unexpected may turn
up and a fortune, several fortunes
would be gladly- exchanged for "a
good character” testified on n life
and death stand by one who knew.
Somewhere in the unborn minutes
ahead the fact that you possess n
good character may prove of untold
value.
Y’ates Mauney knows the value of
good character. He cannot estimate
its worth in dollars and cents. Who
is it that knows just how dear life
is to him?
Maybe the endless struggle of liv
ing in molding a never completed
good character is not worthwhile,
and ngain may haps it is. Draw your
own conclusion from one case alone.
Says Street Corner Gossip About
Women Should Be Broken Up.
Kinston, Jan. 21.—Judge William
M. Bond’s admonition to scandal
mongers that “street corner gossip
about women should be broken up”
will probably be seized upon by min
isters in this section as ammunition
children are the making of the home,”
for Sunday’s sermons. “Women and
according to t'ae Chowan jurist.
‘■They must be protected.”
When Judge Bond told the I.enoir
County grand jury here recently that
“a few words will cause a woman to
lose her friends, no matter how in
nocent she mny be, and go to her
grnv without knowing the cause of
her loss,” he put the preachers to
thinking. Leading divines declare the
gossip evil is distressingly prevalent
| and that untold harm is being done
|by tongues wagin loosely in every
community in America. Not ten per
cent of all the tilings thnt are told
are true. America may be losing its
| sense of the chivalrous. Men have
become worse addicts to this devil’s
game than women themselves. These
I and other things the parsons 6ny of
the iniquity of whispering on street
. corner. “The pages of history show
, that no nation has endured which
| hns held lightly the character of its
, women,” Judge Bond warned in his
, speech.
1 Shipping Held Up by Blanket of Fog.
Norfolk, Va., Jan. 10,—Dense fog
. alone the Atlantic coast yesterday and
[ today has badly interrupted shipping.
, l’assenger vessels from New York,
Baltimore and Washington have been
, delayed many hours and in some, in
. stance* were compelled to anchor to
. await lifting of the mist. Several
< steamers bound in and out of Phila
, delphia also were reported nnchored
, off Delaware breakwater.
, No accidents had been reported to
night
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1 General J. Warren Keifer, who
. was speaker of the United* States
. House of Representatives in the 47th
i CongMaa, is soon to celebrate his 90th
i birthday anniversary at his home in
Springfield, O.
KU KLUX EXONERATED OF
FLOGGING AT FARMVILLE
Negro Physician Probably Whipped
by Members of His Own Race.
Raleigh. Jan. 21.—Dr. 8. B. J.
Collins, a negro physician of Farm
iv 1 ie. who was subjected to a severe
flogging nt Hie hands'of unknown
parties last September, was not the
victim of the Ku Klux K’.nn but of
members of his own race, inspired
probably by husbands or relatives of
white women to whom the physician
had dispensed dope, according to con
clusions reached by Solicitor Jesse
Davis nfler an investigation into the
affair.
The solicitor today filed a report
with Governor McLean for transmis
sion to the British consul at Atlanta.
Collins is a West Indian subject of
Great Britain, and the consul wrote
asking for information as to the out
come of the solicitor’s investiga
tion.,
“This man Collins,” the solicitor
wrote the governor, "wns a licensed
physician practicing medicine in the
town of Farmville, largely among his
| own race, but with a few exceptions.
• He did nt times, as I have been re
| liakiy informed, dispense dope to some
j white women who were addicts,
j “After the alleged assault upon. Col
j lins, within two days thereafter. I
proceeded to Farmville, had a eonver
| sation with him relative to the iden
tity of any parties that might be con
necter with this matter. He named
one mail whom lie thought was a mem
ber cf the party.
”1 thought this would possibly
furnish a clue and would' give me
something of a tangible nature upon
which 1 might proceed. However,
after a thorough investigation of the
matter, I ascertained beyond any
shadow of doubt that the man who
wns named as one of the parties was
not even i n the state on the night of
the alleged flogging.
“I have talked with meipbers of
his own race in whom I have con
fidence, men who are outstanding in
the colored race for truth and ve
racity, and I have reached the con
clusion from these interviews that
there was more or less jealously ex
isting against. Collins by members of
his own race by reason of his exalted
pride and dominating spirit. I am
confident that, from my investiga
tions, the supposed Ku Klux Klan had
nothing whatsoever to do with tile
alleged flogging, but was wholly in
spired nml consummated by some one
of his own race, possibly led by the
husbands or relatives of these whote
patients of his who were dope ad
dicts.
“I have done the best I could in
my investigation to ascertain the
truth about t.he mntter, and to bring
the guilty pariest to the bar of jus
tice, without regard to color or pre
vious condition of servitude.”
The Break at Lake Lanier.
Charlotte Observer.
Certainly the public is safe in as
suming thnt the promoters of Lake
Lanier and the engineers doing the
construction work, had every confi
dence in the stability of the dam
construction. They built, as other
developments of the kind have been
built, with a view to meeting any
such condition as that of the flood of
11)16, and making dnms safe against
recurrence of floods of that kind, the
dums would be made safe against
any future contingency. The weak
ness developed in the substrata of
the Lake Lure wing which gave way
wns one which could not have been
foreseen. The anchorage of the
wing was found, according to the
engineer’s report, in perfect condi
tion. That the break wns confined to
a small portion of the construction
work may be accepted as indication
of he stability of the remainder of
the structure- The break was
gradual, ns n fortunate thing, and
the resisting powers of the masonry
saved what might have developed in
to a disastrous flood for the valley
lands.
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Metal on Highway.
Kellogg, Idaho. Jan. 22.—A 36-
inch highway magnet sweeper picked
up 150 pounds of nail and scrap iron
over five miles of road near here.
Some of the metal was worn to needle
sharpness.
Another stretch of seven miles
yielded 603 pounds of metal. A half
mile of eighteen foot pavement gave
fifteen pounds of nails and other mat
ter from the gutter.
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Apples
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