North Carolina Newspapers

r 4 1 4. V ; u jcn iiTNESS SAYS THAT JUDGE: K?. GARTER iKISSED A OTAN c;: ; : IN THE CITY OF WILMINGTON f .. irj ry Tuesday and Fri day at 41 rUocV -1 etrt ar r. J. LAND. rUNTIXG CO. TdrphaDcau Saaiaess O3o.... j..... t Ueekaaiaal ,.W S. XL Land...... K. L CWmplsts. & B. Blodac,.,.. .Manager ...Editor . Reporter SU&SCjLirnOlt KATES On year IUWnU.,. Three Mohs,...;... 25 ' Th Journal arrie eom plate areas wytW furnished by Central Nrwe f iMriM ftw AtwMutaon u4 in diitie to Ihia, fmBy eovers KmWtb Karat GaraBaa y speeiel eorreepead- Satered at the post offlee i Sew Beta M Oaeond-olaaa mail mtur. FRIDAY. MARCH 26. If II The eommittee who art? invetti gating the charges ot invioraI.y against Judge Frank Carter, sailed into the work yesterday morning and key made the fur fly. Evidence top of evidence wm brought out to ehow that the judge if a bclJ. tad ui and it certainly looks a- though the investigators hae gotten things pretty well lined up, when it comes down to question f showing ihe Ashevil'e man up. Accompanied Her To Home of a Friend and There Were Unusual "Doings" Also Claim That He Kicked Box Against Clinton Man Who Wanted To Sue For Damages The Investigating Commit tee Coming to New Bern THE MIGHTY COURT OF THE UNIVERSE, THE HUB OF THE ARCHITECTURAL" ; . . SCHEME AT THE PANAMA-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION Offices may come and offices cay a hut the candidate we have with ua always. I At the rate Craven county is im proving its roads it has beer figured eat that, keeping stoadily at work, it will take eighty-live yearsJto put the roads of the county in firstTclass shape. The laymen will ask: "Why m thin the case?" The reason is Iain, it is because the read tort ia never allowed to remain long at ne place and that bo far no substan tial road building material has yet keen used here. A few weeks ago the convicts were p!?ced on what is known as the Sloan road and spent several days working that section, aaing a material which would have tade that thoroughfare absolutely ae of the best in the county. This road needed repairing and needed it badly but for some reason three members of the Board, voted to take the convicts out of No. 8 Township and place them in another section f the eountv. This has been done and the Sloan road now lies in an un completed condition. Chairman Brad ham at the last meeting of the Board explained to the members that it would be tothe interest of t he county to allow the convicts to complete their work but he was over-ruled and ia consequence the convicts w moved. Voters should bear in mind the fact that a new registration is re quired for the primary election to be held here on April 6th, and unless they are registered it will not be possi for them to east a ballot at that time. The registration books are armn now and the matter should be attended to without delay. FARMERS BUSY AROUND ZORAfl Fine Weather Is of Great Benefit to Them 1 i ! t 4- V jH. ...,.,iuii ...i , j XhY a-.i irm in 11 n r niiaaifwiiia ,i amn nawiawin n . i mmmmmmmmmmmmtmmamm'immnum i niaw 7 - m 4 m mm illkwLU.l , m m X ARE STILL SELLING GOODS TO FARMERS AT FARMERS UNION PRICES A k k A G SPENGER Har. Grain Foodstuff e, Etc. Bern, W (k Wii;Tit urn 11 m -m iiianann .iai awiarnittwaai AH rlsiton to th Paaaaa-Paclfle InteroaHooiJ expoaltlon at Ban rranclaco at soma tlm flurtn their atay at the exposition maka their pilgrimage through the Court of the Universe. This ia the largest court on the ground i and la the central radiating unit of the architectural b4 ground plana. Noble acnlptared groapa embelUsa tt the two Homeric gronpa he Nations of the East and the Nations of the West surmounting the giaat airhes at ta east and west portals. By nifiht the beauty of Ua court la sahanfied by the flood lighting effaeta ZEPPELINS SWOOP DOWN ON PARIS AND ITS ENVIRONS Zorah, March 22. We are having tome fine weather now and our J far mers are busy preparing foranother erop. Rev. R F. Daugherty willtpreach at FriendshiD SaturdayTand Sun day. :tftti Mr. Guy WetheringtonV who had the misfortune of cuttingjhia . leg with an axe Bevoral weeks agojis improving slowly. We are sorry to note that Mr. Louis Toler who has been sick aeveral weeks Is no better. N Carlos, littlo son of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Wetherlngton who fell and broke his leg few weeks ago ia im "proving. Hope he will soon be all right Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Whitford have moved to their new residence. ' ; Our schools which have been pro gressing nicely under the manage ment ' of Miss Gertrude Ewell of vYaneeboro at the Friendship school -'and 'Miss LiUlan Rowe of SrnaQ at Caton sottool will soon close. ' . ". Mr. D. P. Whitford and family, ;' '-Mr.!. 'R. Whitford attd family, Miss v, ( 'Crertrade Ewell and Miss Katie Whit- ,: v' totdall of this place, attended eborcb, v.. at B3U Swamp Sunday. ' ,; ' ' Miss Ldian Rowe spent the wuek aftd "with relativaa at Braall., , ':.., 'Mr.' And MraBrinson Toler.tpent : Rondar 'it Truitt , "Mr: aad Mrs. JL P. Whitford speai , iBuhday with their daagbter, Mrs. L. M. 6ootf H Bloonts Creek; v , i , ' Mr. as d Mrs. O. A. Whitford went ' ; e Washington last fseek to.; rlsit their niece. Miss Clara Burgess, who was operated on for appendicitis. Miss Betty .Knot haa been ia feeble health for several weeks. Hope - she win soon be all right. - , Mrs. T. A. Hartley and little arm, Oswald, of .New Bern, who hav rnt seversJ weeks with her tf" rots, Mr. aul Mrs. It B. V.VW. t;, f.;rw,ii l in'n orrtrn, i hire Raleigh, March 22.- They proved that Judge Carter has cussed twice and kicked a goods box down against the shins of T. W. Crumpler; that he terro.ized a half dozen or so lawyers and waved a hankerchief at hotel people when he left in a gasoline go aart, but the effort at shewing im morality or anything bearing semb lance to immorality was what the late Colonel Thomas Un.y would have called an "animated bust.'' It was no long way to the disin terested outsider who expressed a sense of complete outrage at such triviiJities as were offered today. As evidence against the moral char acter of both Judge Cartei- and the women whose names had to be blurt ed out puDliciy and printed, notmngl Tans. Marcu 22 While no oue flimsier was ever submitted to any I was killed directly by the Zeppelin committee of inquiry. They did not! bombs which dropped in Paris and even rise to rhe dignity of neighbor-1 its environs earlv Sunday, they hood gossip. The nearest nn embar-1 resulted in one death, that of Mad- rasment to anybody was the epi-jame Charles Person. The aged wo. sode in which Judge Carter claimed I man was so frightened by the explos the "Dutch Dime," a kiss which hejon of a bomb in that street that she bestowed upon an attractive woman I died soon afterward. who happened to be related by mar- After Public Prosecutor Lescouve riage. was the wife of a cousin of I and his staff had visited all the places Judge Carter. 1 where bombs exploded and examined Moral Fall-Down several witnesses, he drew up a re- ...... i c i i- ii j inori. w men win ne annexeu m '- Allan irom me moral laii-uow u, i t.h hrina hftH incidents that the ports ot previous airship raids upon artmntif too aulrnrl manv mifistifirw I th C about and will doubtless go into as A 5 annalyst who spent the day , . .... . xi...-. j j I c.ollectino' bombs which did not ex- aeepiv as ineir seriousness ueuiaiius. i tk ',t r.t m- Plode and fragments of those which l i. t- iimn. took inem ui in ihuihbiuii ii cmng wonn exsminarion s k moral i - J,lw,tinn R the wt that haaia cnemicai analysis, rium a i.u. .-..., been shown is that the judge, along examination he touna mat mow or ith r,n, tl,.,r in Arra tnr.H t tDC mlSSieS QTOppea were mveuumi, Wl .h,'k ; r,,n h t.w. woman "Ontaining a mixiure Ul puusFuo.u, who several witnesses declare haven't tar and hpnzin( - Provided with a good reputations, albeit judges come come and judges go without warning! resolutions were read. Judge Carter who had told the Colonel if he appeal' against admittedly the best inn that! sat with Ex-Governor Kitchin a nd ed it would be from a judgment of Clinton has. The witnesses have Ernest Havwood. while Solicitor Ab- two years on the roads. The colonel I shown that Judge Carter sat in a ernethy occupied a seat by Attorney accepted the fine. aurimr with one ftnrt t.wn -women, al t TT Rnnhnjill and Mr. and Mrs. air.,'r ,nmi,rn fnr uli three i n Po-W f slma I The Moral Derelictions ana that ne too wains in tne auer- ine House oromnwe eooiposeu Colonei Kerr asked the committee noon and evening attended by one, 0f R. A. JJoughton, ri. f. unss, u t0 ftgk him direct queBtion M he wag somi times two. sometimes alone. Like H. Allred, A. R. Dunning, R. S. t w:inn .;.nMt jnHoe Curter . . , , , . - rt 1 I -. . . - ... i n. J T - R tne eeieoratect poeiess ot oiaaen Hutchinson, w. r. aiacy anu j. v . hftd been faif and jmt to him county who wrote tnat she seen pa w. Vann, sat in lTont ot tne speaner S( Hfl tM them of the moral offen come stepping nign. wnicn was oi stand, unairman uaugnron annouuc- geg ftf Jndge Carter 0nce he had lus waiK tne way, judge v aner e(l the readiness oi me cominuiw geen the judge shtiag jn a gwing at seems to have a habit of walking. proceed. In referring to the duties f h h . . . r,;t w, m. And in all fairness he has been! of the committee he said: "We are . M William. Tt tu he. making the attorneys and witnesses, not here to prosecute Judge barter, wp- o ,n(i in ftvinc1r Ain Iidmw litigants and defendants do some bat to take evidence." One of the the .udge and an unknown girl git. walking. They have brought strong! members suggested that Mr. Aberne- , . .: -.: , . . i I . i , . i ; 1 1 J " - - a evidonee rrom witnesses oi nne cnar- thy s name naa not, oeen inciuueu D, . . . , . -d acter mat judge carter ruied aiwr- ,n tne aouDie neanng. jvir. iaugu-i ..Do vou know -.nutation of n mr. Hnwn with amoll nmvfU),Hnn I .mcnrlnrl hi a ramftrV tt Unit Aftid t.hAf I ., ... - . a. : . , " j.".". . i uuu.u..uu,u..v. l tiheflA lAnlenr Mr llnnvhf.nn A.Rlru1 ana got net up at trivial imngsi Doth fioiicnor ADernemy ana .muge in his court. The cross-examination I Carter being ptesent in their own by Judge J. S. Manning has always! proper persons and being represented minimized the degree of embarrass-l by counsel," the wfcnebs would be sworn and the testimoney would be- sin. Many Witnesses Sworn lighting contrivance consisting of a wick soaked in petroleum. Airship Raid Calais (via Paris). March 22 The third Zeppelin attack on this city, at almost the precise hour of the aerial raid on Paris early Sunday, was made ineffective because the whirring of the airhip's motors gave adequate warning. The Zeppelins came from the direction of the sea, but received such a vigorous bom bardment from French artillery that they retreated before they reached the city. Constantinople, (via Berlin and London, March 22 Lieutenant Commander William F. Bricker of the United States converted yacht Scorpion and three sailors named Ford, Dowel and Leverings were drowned on the night of March 20 whi!e attempting to jeach their ves sel with a rowboat. The Scorpion was anchored in the Bosphorous off Constantinople near the Dolmabagh cnen Palace. The rowboat was swamped in a heavy sea thrown up by a south gale. Lieutenant Herbert S. Babit and ope sailor, also in the boat, were saved. Lieutenant Commander Bricker ar rived at Constantinople March 16 to succeed Lieutenant Commander Edward McCauley, Jr., in command of the Scorpion. , The Scorpion was purchased for the navy ia 1806. It has a displace ment of 850 tons and has been stat ioned at t'onstantinople for some time. Lieutenant Commander Bricker, who formerly was naval attache at the American embassy at Paris, left that city February 28 for Constantinople to assume command of the Scropion He was born January 18, 1879, in Pennsylvania, and appointed to the Naval Academy from the State in 1896. New We Have Decided te txtetd tf Grct Pirtt f tht Year fr aaerfket; IS dayi. If yot Krre net tubt, now is fh time U Mv rmy. jMt dl o4 Ttt m hew yon tht f Owd mntjrtfett A. B. SUGAR New Bera, M. C Middle St. T E l Li JOUR III I S4 PER 1 To Onr Out-ol-Town Customers Ten r cordially Invited f make our fetf quartet. when In tht city andnrhen im meeeV thlnt osuaUy carried by tint class drug stsrf xn ytttr rder wt will glvt it prampt attkntftM mall it lo you en tht first wtaoing Parcel Pest. Bradham Drug Co. ' ' Tha RSKall Stares Car. WiiU lc Pallack Car. Bread Is , f , .. ... ; i I. f to tell about the taking of the Winnie Luoas affidavit at the instance of Baggett, who was nnder indictment for the crime for which he was fined ao heavily, The justice said Baggett had asked him to go with Baggett to get this affidavit from the young girl. Jus tice Lee said he did not use any de vice to make the girl retract her for mer statement but did warn her of the seriousness of the act. He said he was "outdone" by the judges' order to stand aside. Judge Manning mere ly asked the question as to what ever the defendant took the witness over in his buggy. ment that must be his. Judge Man ning has shown that Attorney Grady, one of the best witnesses against the Judge, went to the room of Repre sentative Clark, of Bladen, author Thirty or more witnesses laid their I I 1 - tL. T:ki.. J ,UA . k ,1 . T ,L. UBU1 , i . nirciucvui woo , 1 1 , i , - in I'tiivi i words, the witnesses have not ul I been idle. Clinton Don't Like Him veteran Democrat of Sampson county, was first called. He said he ia a prac ticing attorney, knows Judge Frank Carter, had appeared in the judge's Similarly Mr. Grady showed thatleourt his recollection being that it the Clinton bar did not want the I wa8 m 1912. judge to return there and that Mr. J jje was asked if he knew of any acts Grady was unwilling to sue Judge 1 0f judge Carter that effected upon Carter for injury when he kicked the I njs moral character. "Of my own goods box down on Crumpler. Wit- knowledge I do not." he said. ness Isaac Wright told the hardest! As to his judicial oonduct. Colonel story on the judge of his dictatorial I Kerr told the famous goods box and "oppressive conduct" and Ike I rtory in Clinton court. This episode Wright heard the judge cuss once, i vi out of the victim of a witness but he looked upon that oath as rather J ,tand made of the box Judge Cartel honorable. It is manifest that the! hA ordered it taken away and whaii charges affecting the judge's judM the officer failed to get it up. Judge oial oheracter would be stronger but! Cater kioked the box down and fkiol for the connection with the moral I ned the leg of the officer. charges. j "The judge left bis seat and tu i.ni. nii Ididn t think this was the act of a , , . ' I PJnnol ICjtrr In A nt th nrtiirl Bears, or waxe cony, cnea nei htan AttAmo Jh R opening of the inquiry and CbtforttmtJ'-Lik.mlhm-M T . 11.J V. t. r, r m- , uuw iwuBuvwu uu Ml.nlMl had temner W . mi 9 W. . . i V ' rr Kcpreeenienve 4. v. i. vann, wi rru. m.a .rij. ,.-. . v. unwn eoanty, resa tne resolutions r-.i r-..,... drawing ntnf eauinf xor me invenigation 4 jne thousand dollars ia addi- caaraeHT oi juoge warier ana doiiot-i,... nn. . rjryn imnMA k, i,,A tor Abwnethy. While the several I rUwr Allen. ' There was a ehern of ' l . : . . 7 i perjury against one of the witnesses. leveral ; months ago and are doing I A magistrate, Eldridge Lee, was on the good busineo. ' : " . I witness stand and Judge Carter ask- f Miss Moore of vaneeboro also led if he knew that in taking the affl- 6rfsnisd a tomato elub here, ' I davit of a witness he was eausing .The commencement exercises of her to '"commit felony." Justice Miss. Lillian Rowe'e school will take! Lee said he did not." place Thursday, April 8, or the ex-1 Well, you bave disgraced your office eroikee of the children will be given land I don't want to hear any more Thnnday p. m. at two o'clock. I from you," the judge said. "Tony" the convict play,' will be I Mr. Dough ton brought out the fact presented by the school Saturday I that some additional evidence was nijht, April 10 at 70. Everybody offered, partly explaining the charge I i nn in ii. ,'i jui ii ip nifn ii w vj uiiv v 11 11 'I would like the committee to excuse me from answering that ques tion," Mr. Kerr said. Mr. Daughton told the colonel he would have to answer. "I think I know it " Air. Kerr said, "and I am sorry to say that it is not good." He said prior to Mrs. Williams going to Clinton there was nothing against her. Coming back to the 'Baggett case with the big fine Colonel Kerr said he was induced to accept the heavy fine because of the fear Of the two years sentence. He said lie had seen Judge Carter back in Clinton once when court was la session. He thought the judge was going to Pender county. '",-''.',' Judge Manning brought great light upon that Baggett inoident. The defendant had been convicted as a man of 35or40 of illegally living with a young girl who was related to Bag gett's wife and had lived ifl the tame bouse. He also develpoed the fact that the young girl of 12 or 14 whose first testimony was against Baggett, but who later made the statement to Mr. Eldrige that she falsified, also testified before Judge Carter that h bad been made first statement. Judge M atoning character inoident. ;Mrs. Williams) ja . sa je . uoionei is. err eaia, is oo or w years, has all grown children . and grand children,' one pf whom is almost grown.. T Irs. Fowler, the daughter, is also a widow with daughter ibont 17 yearn old, The, Colonel said U the judges and nearly all the soiiH- tors stopped at this hotel. He never had warned any of the judges not to stop at the hotel run by these ladies. He had never heard that either had been churched. Colonel Kerr was brought back to the court in the school house in which Jndge , Carter . ordered peremptorily raised. It hoisted a wild laugh add the Colonel was excused for the term. ' , Eldridie Lee Magistrate ridriJjs Las was iwera tnat sne laiamea, aiso e Judge Carter that she ade to repudiate her . ' , e-; ''.; aing also illuminated the Mrs. Levy Carter Mrs. Levy Carter, of. Bladen ooun- ty, said she knew Judge Carter welL She had seen him often, particularly at Wrightsville. She told of the judges visit to her home, A Mrs. Williams, not the same person referred to in Colonel Kerr's testimony had spent an evening in her home. Mrs. Williams had ''bet Judge Carter a Dutch Dime") about something. The Judge didn't un derstand. Mrs. Williams said. ifci was a "kiss" and the judge rose and gave it. "It surprised all of .us," v Mrs. Carter said. "I know the judge didn't expect it," she said,, .."He said no harm was meant ,it was jnat a dare,", Mrs.: Carter said, She said the. had, heard that Judge Carter married a cousin ,of Mrs. Williams. " Mrs. Carter denied that Judge Carter had ever been anything bnt -a perfect gentleman. She said D. C. Hudgins had interviewed her on the subject. Mr.. Carter gave tes timony of somewhat the same ehar acter. ; Be . knew nothing , against the judge . He said the two, Judg Carter and Mrs. Williams had .gbd reputation. No harm had Keen done; ; Senator C M.Muae -, -J i Senator C. MMuse who.had never seen Judge Carter antil , today, was introduced. . .He. could .not under- stand how lie eame to. be a witnees unless a eousin. who looked Jike hjnt and Wrote like' him had been tend ed, .f-" i '- 'i-'-'fV , - ' r'j 1 H. A.' Grady, lawyer ot Clinton, was, next tntroduoed. He knew' Mrs. Fowler and .Mrs. WiDiama. ' He re gretted to aay their character is not good. 'U','"'''":-:V'' .:';;.?.. He id . not know of any - acts of immorality bpt he . eouid tell v eir enmsUneea. 11a said the judga ate wjth Mrs. Fowler and Mrs, Williams, "something; no other guest was al lowed to do." He said his first sus picion were aroused when he went to the hotel once to aee the judge and was "shooed" , for quiet. The judge ,waa in the parlor with Mrs. Fowler. "He did not associate with the lawyers and did not seem to want to talk to the lawyer. J,r. Cra ly t-! V 1I hd een t' times one, sometines both." He had ' never seen them elsewhere than on the streets when walking. Mr. Grady thought the Ju dge's treatment of Magistrate Lee was very bad, that "Mr. Lee is a high-toned Christian gentleman and was very respectful to the court." Mr. Grady also related the box-kicking incident. The box had once been removed and put baok. "Judge Carter said, Sher iff I told you to take that d box away," the witness said, but ht. did not know whether the "damn" could be generally heard. Mr. Grady told how the Judge had ordered' him down once John E. Fowler was speaking to the jury, and as he usually does, was testifying, Mr. Grady said, "I objected and he over-ruled me. Again Mr. Fowler testified and not wishing to inter rupt him, I approached the judge and asked him .either to give me an exception or to stop the remarks of the attorney. Jt made him mad as a hornet. He ordered me to sit down and I returned to the room, I thought he treated me dirty but t have no feeling about it now." Mr, Grady said Mr. Crumpler, .who was last by 'the box which Judge Carter kicked had asked him to sue the judge, but I would have nothing to do with it." j'iif!t an t', wesMS sTn"!g,sa grsjW last ty . Judge Manning cross-examined Mr. Grady. The lawyer-witness did. not admit he had any "srouch" he had not "refused to'talk to anybody about the ease when asked." He denied that he related ' to ' . Rep. Clark another of the ; resolutions,- but said Mr. , Clark married a cousin i He is a "non-ffiating member" of the .Presbyterian church, but the habiliest are members of -the same faith. He had not, been-there in a year. He eould ay that he has some feeling ia the ease "being human' Bat .he had not ecme here to work np the case against Judge Carter. ' James D. Parker, attorney of Smith- field, ws the first witness after din ner, f 1 ' : 1 . ' J -' -j : He said Judge Carter and Miss Franoea , Dement of , Raleigh, . had stopped . at his house, he and Mrs. Parker oeeadonally entertained board' era. Judge Carter and Mis Dement had. walked out together whllo thry were boarding at ; bis home, i The stenographer did not room, at, Mr Parker' house ..but . Judge Carter did. He did not remember that they had 'Co me in later than sunset more than onee. The judge often walked out 'nlone..-v.V ; t x .,: ' He said Mis. Parker had told Miss Dement 'that in a small town like Smithfiold she might be talked about pther than this he had heard nothing nor had .he ebuerved anything im proper morally, or a a judge. Mr. Parker had never observed Judge Carter s harshness or dictatorial eon duct. : He thought the "judge a lit tle quiok in his actions," but not o p- preeaive. . Mrs, Parker testified much to the same : purpose. ttne denied ever havir told the judge and the t no- course. She merely advised care fulness to prevent talk. E. F. Young, former representative from Harnett, was the next witness. He had . represented Baggett when Judge Carter .reprimanded Mr. Lee the magistrate. Mr. Young said when he tried to explain that Mr. Lee was slow of speeoh Judge Carter or dered him to sit down. "What did you do?" Mr. Daugh: ton asked. "I sat down," Mr. Young said. Mr. Young told of another oceur- ance in whioh a jury acquitted a white man, the clerk receiving the verdict. "Judge Carter declared 'that it had become almost impossible to convict a white man 'of influence who eould employ a lawyer," Mr. Young said, " and he said from the level that a guiltier man was never tried." Mr. Young told another instance of Judge Carter's treatment of a negro who had been convicted of retailing, judgment suspended, the defendants return to court to answer as to behavior. Although the negro admitted that he had gotten whiskey by express, but denied selling. 'Mr. Young said the judge gave, him: the alternative of paying $100! pulling up a stiff bond or going to the roads. He paid the fine. J Judge Manning showed that Judge Carter tried' the negro originally and that most of the whiskey ordered had gone to the de fendant.' . '.. Here the eat-r was continued until tomorrow. - ALLIGATOR AND WILD CAT FIGHT Fierce Encounter Between Ijand Prowler and Deni-. sen of the Deep , ' .. . Edgar & Weaver, a well known eiti- sen of. Arapahoe, was in New Bern - yetterday and while here related to friends a remarkable story of an en counter between a wild cat and. an alligator which occurred in that see- tion 1 few days ago.and in whioh the 'gator eame off second best. , Accord ing to Mr. Weaver's narratives, which smacked of the reminiscence of Jules Verne, or Robert Looia Stevenson, " ; the engagement between the big eat , , and the 'gator occurred a few miles, from Arapahoe. v .The alligator ae- . cording to the story, wa sunning " ' himself on the banks ol a small itream .' when the eat, whioh was evidently ' ravenous from prolonged hunger, ar- ; rived on the aoene and began opera- " tions. Like the Germans, the gatojj v had the worst of the deal from tj , start and repeated attacks and epun ter attaaks from the enemy had a demoralizing effect upon him, ' Tht fight finally ended - in the alligator 1 ; -seeking deeper water, leaving behind him a trail of blood. The eat was ' pretty badly damaged during the engagement but when last seen was making off towards the woods at a uit ska; their fairly rapid gait, ,1 , , V '4 ' i1