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ll day at m Mm HIM W K. J, LAND HWTW H. K. LAND H I. CRUMPLIR fcIDlTOa R. B BLRDSOB . stBScaimoN bates. OmW 1 00 BiMwAi i M TV JOURNAL arm eompkte nprti tarnished byahe Catror Now of A rift Pre AsotoiUo u4 addition to this, fully etp ea SaetWn North (VuIIm by speci eorreepondet. Catered at th post office in Ne wbera N. C.econd-class mail niatt FRIDAY JULY U. 115 Now Harry Thaw is going to sue Evelyn, the charming petite lit 1 1 cause of all hi woes, for a divorce Seems to us that if we were in Thaw's place we would stay just as far away from a court house as it was possi ble to get. Can't one of the Wilmington pap ers work up a story similar to that sent out from New Orleans a few days ago relative to the placing of bombs on board of a ship botfcid to Europe Seems to us that the New Hanover capital would be a pretty good place for such a "mystery." We have heard of all sorts of sales, clean sweep sales, clearance gales, bankrupt sales, fire sales and score of others but it remained for a merchant at LaGrange to find some thing new in the "Daddy Rabbitt Sale. We make haste to inquire of the LaGrange Sentinel as to wh such a title for this great money sav ing event? Seems as if the city is not going to be able to keep a light at the foot of Pollook street. A few weeks ago some person who had some dark deed to commit, put this light ou of commission and this was done again on Sunday night. The dock at that point is for the use of the publio and the general public does not need the cover of darkness for their promenades up and down th said dock. Therefore if the party who persists in cutting out the light will desist he will be doing both the public and the electric light people a favor. The newspapers of New Bern have given much space to the relig ious campaigns which have been con ducted here this summer and they have been heartily praised for their work. The Journal has before ac knowledged this praise but this pap er's object in covering these meetings is not to secure the few kind words but to give our readers who are interested in religious matters an opportunity of reading the accounts of these great sermons. The New Bern papers have given more publicity to revival meetings this summer than the pap ers in any other city and in one city not so far away where a revival was in progress a few weeks ago we noted that the daily paper there carried not a line in regard to the affair. Not so here, a careful estimate of the actual amount of space carried on the union revival meeting held a few weeks ago, and the pres ent revival shows that this totals more than one hundred and twenty five columns or in the neighborhood of three entire issues of the Journal. The Journal is glad that it has had the opportunity of assisting in this work and awaits the next opportun ty. It is a mighty hard matter for the government to get evidence against blind tigers and makprs of illicit whiskey and that is the paramount reason the fact that there have been so few arrests made by revenue offi cers in this section during the past few weeks. A well known government official told us a few days ago that his men had received reports that a certain man in New Bern was gelling liquor every day in t lie week and that he was a white man, too, but that they had been unable to land a single witness who would swear that they had made purchases from him and hence they oould do nothing . The man whose testimony is of any value in court mutt ' be a man of some standing, some character and be able to prove that he it not a bum or hobo. Such men who buy whiskey are not going to tell on the man who sells it to them for they do not want to be haled into the courts as a wit ness. ConseqiH ntly the officials are unable to do anything and for every whiskey seller or maker who is caught and convicted there are ten who are doing business at the samoold stan d and who are getting by with it. There it no doubt but that the internal revenue law is being vio lated fat Craven oounty but there also is no doubt but that they are far less than a year ago and, though it may take years, such unlawful business is going to be broken up or at least minimised to its lowest de gree of volume. Between William J. Bryan and Harry K. Thaw, its a hard matter to tell which one is giving out tha largest umber of interview on subjects of ceftecqmcnoc whatsoever. LEO M. FRANK HAS BUT SMALL CHANCE TO UVE FROM HIS ATTACK SAT. Jagged Wound In His Throat Causes Him To Become Delirious and Fever Rises. His Family Physician Rushes Back To His Bedside. MUledgeville. Ga.. July MV Dr. H. J. Rosenberg and another physician was summoned hack to the State prison this afternoon because of the critical condition of Leo M. Frank whose throat cut late Saturday night by a fellow life prisoner named Bill Green. Dr. Hove nberg, who la Frank's family physician, had returned to Atlanta after seeinrf Frank and reaching the conclus Ion that his condition warranted him leaving. B. E. Davidson and K. L. Balney of the Prison Commission, are to beoin an investigation to find out whether Green's act was com mitted on the initiative or drew out of the aversion the prisoners have displayed toward Frank since the death sentence for the mur der of Mary Phagan was commut ed to life imprisonment or was the result of outside Influence Frank's neck Is badly swollen and the efforts of the physician attending him are devoted to an attempt to prevent blood pois onlnd. In the course of the nitfh Frank's temperature went up and he became delirious at Intervals If Frank recovers he will owe his life to two convict physicians who heard his cry as Gr el stab bed him in the throat. They are Dr. J. YV. McNauiihton Swainsboro, convicted of mur- f der and Dr. L. M. Harrison of Columbus who is serving a lonj; term. Creen, who was sent up for life from Muscogee county, is said to have slain eight men all told. He has been looked upon by prison at taches as a desperate criminal. This, however, is the first time he has given serious trouble during his confine ment here. Convicts Locked Together Frank, Creen, McNaughton, Har rison and a large number of other life and long term convicts Saturday- night at 6 o'clock, following supper, were locked in the main cell room as usual. Frank's eot was the third from one end, while Creen occupied one at the opposite end of the room. About 11 o'clock Creen arose and asked permission of a guard on duty to go to the lavatory adjoining the bunkroom. This was granted. Creen, instead, slipped over to Frank's cot and slashed him in the back of the the neck as Frank lay asleep with his back to his assailant. His screams. as he was awakened by the stab, attracted the attention of the guards and other convicts. The guards made a hasty investigation, summon ed Drs. McNaughton and Harris on to aid Frank, notified Warden Smith and placed Creen in irons. The cellroom and entire pirson were stirred with the excitement, but the discipline of the place kept down any possible outbreak or other serious demonstration. Creen, though it is evident that he had planned the assault, concealed his plans carefully, Guards say that he gave absolutely no imitation oj feeling against his fellow prisoner. Hogs were killed on the State farm Saturday. Creen was among the butchers. He worked at this task all day, and it is believed man aged to hide the knife he was using in his clothes and thus smuggled it into his cell. Creen waited until he was sure that the vast prison had settled down to sleep. Convicts have their supper at 6 o'clock. They are usually in their bunks and sleeping a few minutes after. "It was about 11 o'clock, however, before Creen decided that the time was ripe for his deed. Then he went about his work in a manner to insure carrying out his deadly purpose He is a stronger man physically than Frank, but he took no chances on r sistance, Frank being cut as he slipt. The first slash wasn't fatal and Frank had an opportunity to give the alarm. The guards were taken completely by surprise, but when they entered Creen made no attempt at resistance and made no effort to conceal his crime. He surrendered the knife and calm ly awaited the arrival of the war den. No Plot Discovered Warden Smith was on the scene a a few minutes and immediately interrogated Creen. As far as he oould find out, there had been con certed plot against Frank on the part of the prisoners. It was Creen alone who planned the deed and he had planned to do it himself and by him self. He would make no other ex planation except that be thought he had done the right thing. Creen has been ia prison for a little more than two yean. An examination of Frank's wounds at the hospital showed that while the jugular vein was cut neither the spinal cord not the windpipe was injured and tha harts are tare fore not necessarily fatal. Frank physical condition is against him. Never robust of build. the terrible nervous strain he suffered' through the weeks he waited in the shadow of the gallows told on him. The suddea snap in the tension, caused by Governor Slaton'i eleventh- hour order of commutation and the midnight ride through the country to the farm from the Atlanta Tower have all tended to make Frank a ner vous wreck. His work here has been of a char acter to which he is utterly unused. His whole manhood having been spent in office work, the sudden transition to hard farm labor with coarse prison fare has not been conducive to any quick recovery. .Frank has been given absolutely no favors by the prison authorities. Like all other prisoners, he is allowed to have visitors at certain fixed hours each week, and it was to take advan tage of this opportunity that Mrs. Frank left Atlanta Friday night that she might see her husband on Sat urday, the regularly appointed day for vistors. PRESBYTERIANS OF THIS CITY RECEIVE MONEY FROM GOVT. Get Pav for Damage Done by Union Soldiers During Civil War $2,650JE SUM Check Received Yesterday and Deposited in Loc al Bank The Presbyterian church has re ceived a check from the United States Government for twenty-six hundred and fifty dollars, which is in payment for the use of the property during the Civil War and for damage done to the same. The churches were used as hospitals and tents were erected on the lawns and it was said that considerable damage was done to the property of the church. The total amount paid by the Gov eminent was thirty-three hundred dollars but fifteen per cent went to the attorney who secured it. The agreement with this attorney was that ho should have one third of the amount secured, but Congress pass ed a law that prohibited an attorney collecting more than fifteen per cent Although this law docs not prohibit the churches from voluntarily pay ing one third, and it is understood that the church will forward a check to the attorney for the remainder of the commission which was agreed on. The money was deposited in a local bank yesterday. SEC. DANIELS TO MOREHEAD CITY Expected to Arrive There Some. Time This Week Hon. Josephus Daniels, secretary of the U. S. Navy, is expected to ar rive at Morehead City in a few days and spend a week or more at the At lantic Hotel. Secretary Daniels was the guest of the city on July 4th and since that time Mrs. Daniels and two sons have been visiting there await ing the return of the Secretary who was forced to go to Washington to attend to official business. R. P. Foster, manager of the hotel is making arrangements to entertain the Nobles of Oasis Temple of the Mystic Shrine who will make a pil grimage there on August 12th for a stay of three days. The Nobles will lease the hotel for that period and will be the guests of honor. Be tween four and five hundred of them are expected to be in attendance For the past few weeks the hotels and boarding houses at Morehead City have been filled to their capacity but on last Sunday the record was broken when there were more than five hundred visitors on hand and no excursion, except the regular sea shore train from this city, were op erated there either. The cuisine at the Atlantic hotel is now better than ever before. Among those registered at the Atlantic Hotel on Sunday were Com missioner C. B. Hill, W. A. Mcin tosh, Or. R. N. Duffy, D. L. Ward, Mr. and Mrs. J. 8. Palmer of New Bern, L. P. Tapp, Kinston; Mrs. J. D. Hardin, Ooldsboro, Mrs. Hill Parham, Henderson, W. M. Allen and M. H. Allen, Kinston; H. Traeey Odum, Raleigh; Ex-Judge and Mrs. 0. H. Onion, Mrs. M. M. Marks, Mist Esther Marks, Albert Marks, Miss Mao Baxter, C. A. Daniels, New Ben; Mr. and Mrs. B. Cald well, Miss Gray, R. 1 Taylor, Miss I Tapp, C. F. Hardy, Mrs. E. I. Lewis. Mrs. A. Parrott, Mint Charlotte Par. rott. Miss Majorle Lewis, Kinston; Judge Charles Brand and family. Athens, Oa.; W. J. Peebles aad wife, J J Winaaa. W, C. Jordan Ataems.0. B. U Gibba, Uneaial, B S. Thill Mrs- Ca- Mlm Mlinah. J. J Moore, J. . 8tark. T P. WU- soa, Atlanta, - i vi be msiqiiarait ball gives at urn hotel a the nght of July 31st and this expected to he of tha mast WiUiaat evenu of of persons will A bail win alas he night and this attended, saaaj from this eity USED REVOLVER AS A PERSUADER Evangelist in New Bern Adopt a New Method Using a thirt-4wo calibre revol ver as a persuader t repent ana step aside from the path to perdi turn, is not vary often done by the modern revivalist or preacher but hat is just what Rev. Caudle, one of Rev. John W. Ham a evangelistic party, did a few nights ago when he caught a young man prowling around inside of the tent which Rev. Ham is using. The tent was not being used oa the night in ques tion and darkness resigned supreme within, at least auch was the case until Rev. Caudle, who sleeps in the tent, arrived and switched on the electric lights. In the bright glare of the lamps the preacher saw a young man make a break for one of the exits. He called to him to stop and at the same time picked up a revolver from beneath the pillow on his cot and "eovercd" the marau der. Having succeeded in putting a stop to the visitor Rev. Caudle in vited him to be seated and for half an hour preached a personal sermon to the erring one and he is of the op ion that this had a good effect, on the young man. When told of the incident Rev. Ham remarked that he had heard of all sorts of methods being used to convert sinners but that this was the first time he had known of a "shooting iron ' being brought into service. ONE OF SPRUNTS KILLED James Sprunt's Nephew Meets Tragic Death Wilmington, July 10 In a recent issue of the London Times appears the fol losing announcement of the doath on the field of battle of Mr. Edward Lawrence Sprunt, nephew of Mr. James Sprunt, of Wilmington: "SPRUNT On the 16th of June, in Belgium, Private Edward Lawrence Sprunt; 1st Battalion Honorable Ar tillery Company, stretcher bearer sec tion. Exhibitioner of Jesus College, Oxford, the third and very dearly- loved son of J. D. and Jane Naismith Sprunt, of Montgomerie, Berkham- stead, aged 22." This i g the second son of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Sprunt to meet death on the battlefield during the present Eu ropean war. They nY) inree otner sons who have enlisted for service, one being in the home guard on ac count of illness and two of the younger sons being members of the reserve corps. The death of Mr. Edward Lawrence Sprunt was peculiarly sad. He had been in Belgium since the beginning of the war and tir ng of life in the trenches had asked for ft transfer to the navy. His commission had al ready been secured and he was to en roll in this service. He was to have left in a short time for his new serv ice. "NOT AFRAID TO DIE" FRANK 'I Hope the Man Will Be Fox dlven" Milledgcville. July 19" lam not afraid to die," Leo Frank told the physicians who were dressing his wound. "Nothing stands between me and God. 1 hope that the man who attacked me will be forgiven." The prompt work of two physicians serving as con vie ts, saved Frank's life. Dr. J. W. McNauguton, a life prisoner, took charge immediately and stopped the flow of blood, being assisted by Dr. L. M. Harrison, an other convict. It was thirty minutes before Dr. Coropton, the prison, sur geon could reach Farnk. Mrs. Frank, wile of the wounded prisoner, was a guest at the home of Superintendent Smith on the pri on farm. She fainted when she learn ed of the attack, bat later rallied and was taken to the hospital room wbare Frank's wounds were being dressed. Mrs. Charles Caraway, who re sides with her husband at number thirty-one Burn street, was ia very nervous condition Sunday be tween twelve and oa o'clock when Captain A. L. Bryan carried her four yean old son home. The child was found near the corner of Broad and Metoalf streets by Clyde Eby, aad after being unable to learn the ohild's name or it's parents names, Mr, Eby carried it to Jones' stables, aad notfied Captain Bryan. Ail that the child seemed to know about him self was that his name was "Buster and that hf father' name was "Dad dy." Captain Bryan took the child ia a hull furnished by J. A. Jeans . . - . ana eventually iouna its paswme. It was stated that tha child strayed away from it mother at Sunday obooL be m attendance. giren next Saturday will also be hjaajj probably going down LAWN PARTY AT ERNUL SATURDAY Ladies' Aid Society to Give It The Public is Invited Era. I, July lf-The Ladies Aid Society will have a lawn party at ml Saturday night. July Mth. Iveryoae is invited to com. Mrs. C. L I peek, of New Bern spent the week-end here wish his parents. Mrs. Chart Pugh of Bridget. spent Ban day here with relatives. Mrs. George Bland and Misses Neva Warren Cleave and May Hol lo way of Vanceboro, were at this place Saturday afternoon Messrs. Charlie Franks and Rhem Ballengnr went to New Bern Satur day night on business. Mrs. (ales, of Bridge ton, spent Sunday with her daughter, Mrs. Sam. Lancaster, near here. Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins, of Dover returned Friday afternoon after spend ing several days with Mrs. Hawkins parents. . Marion Stewart, of Clark, is visit ing his cousins, Master Paul Avery and Nolen Ipock. Messrs. J. T. and R. D. Ipock spent Sundav afternoon at Askin Mrs. D. W. Franks and children spent Sunday with Mrs. Fred White. We are sorry to learn that Mrs. Jim Chase is very ill. Miss Ross Willis spent Saturday nieht and Sundav with Miss Ida Cayton. Messrs. Louis and Herman Basden of Richlands are visiting their brothor Mr. M. L. Baseen. Mr. Clyde Warren of Vanceboro was at this place Satureay afternoon Quite a crowd of our boys and girls have been attending the revival meeting at Kitt Swamp the past week Among those who went Sunday night were Misses Ida Cayton, Vellie Ipock Poss Willis, Ludie Ipock, Myrtle Price and Sinie Ipock; Messrs. Jldie and Roland Ipock, Charlie Fran.s Make Simpkins, Jim and George Ipock Herbert Cayton, and Louis Basden THE WAR IN BRIEF The Italian armored cruls- er cruiser Gutseppe Garibaldi has been torpedoed and sunk In the Adriatic by an Aus- Irian submarine, it Is offic- tally reported from Vienna. The warship, 7,234 tons, had i complement of 550 tons. The announcement does not say whether any were saved. ' News dispatches from Ath- ena report hard fighting on the Oallipolle peninsula with the allies attaching alond the the whole front. The attacks are said to have been success- ful. but there is no definite news as to the extent of the ground gained. Related dispatches from the Russian front tell of the re- cent concentration of great Austro-German forces on the 100-mile line between the Vistula and. the Bug It la l,.r that severe nreasure now la belnd exerted by Field Marshal Mackenaen In the great Teutonic offensive all alond the front from the Ral- tic provinces to Resaaradia. Russia') army opposing Mac- hensen la declared to he one of the best she ever put into the field. President Wilson has re- turned to Washington for conferences on the American reply to Germany. - CHECKS ORIENTAL BANK RETURNED Paper" Judging from the large number of checks drawn on the bank of Ori ental and which have been coming book to local citizens during the past few days there must have been at least several thousand dollars worth of them in circulation in this eity when the bank of Oriental was closed after the cashier had committed suicide. One citizen yesterday told a story in regard to one of these checks that had the ear marks of the iron of fate attaoned to it. mis man naa an account against a man in Pamlic oounty which was several years ol and had at last succeeded in getting a check for it. This was sent in to the bank and arrived on the day that Miller shot himself. Yesterday it came back to the payee. There re other similar ease. Th deposi tors in the bank are worried ovey the possible outcome of the affair but they have been assured that every attempt will be made to pay them in full. One of th street oars that was ia service during the storm Tuesday night wa put out of commission by a bolt of lightning and traffic was bbjshad for about an hour. Th car was at th corner of Grave aad Ring street whan it was struck. All tha onahoa were burned oat aad it had to bo carried to tha ban by another oar. Damage was also done to the power plant and this aud th cars to he idle for some CMS. BECKER WANTS PARDON New York, July 21. Governor 'and Whitman te hand Rx-Ueu- Chartes n i inn's land etoa to sav kit from th eleo- trie chatr Governor Whitman has alt aloag refused to ten a hand in d it is believed that he will to give Becker m chance for life. He wti make known deehnon probably tomorrow: The following ate extracts from Charles Beaker's statement, prepared by him in the death house at Sing Sing Prison, telling the story he says he would have told oa the witness stand had his lawyer permitted him to testify at hi two trials for the murder of Herman Rosea thai "I have never had my day in court. "The Sunday night before the shooting of Herman Rosenthal went with my wife to Brighton Beach and did not get home until midnight. A I started to go to bed the tele phone bell began ringing and my wife told me that Harry Appelbaum, Big Tim Sullivan's secretary, was at the phone. He wanted to speak to me. v 1 'Come down,' he told me. 'The-1 Big Fellow wants to see you. It's very important." "He wouldn't tell roe where he was and where he wanted me to come and I told him that it was late and that 'Big Tim' Sullivan would have to wait until the next day to see me. " 'No,' Appelbaum shouted. 'You have got to see him tonight! I'll come up there and get you. You have got to come!' "In a little while he did come up to my house and brought with him Jack Rose. They were in an automo bile and I went with them to the Columbia Theatre Building at Forty- seventh Street and Seventh Avenue Says Sullivan was Frightened "There we found 'Big Tim' Sullivan and another man whom I did not know r.nd do not now know. " 'What does this mean?' Big Tii Sullivan asked me, seemingly badly frightened. "'Herman Rosenthal is going to go before the Grand Jury and he is go ing to implicate me,1 the Big Fellow said. " 'That's all right," I told him. Don't worry about him. He can't get corroboration,' Turning to Jack Rose, I said: " 'We have all the witnesses fixed, haven't we Jack?' I have seen all the witness and they'll throw Rosenthal down,' Jack Rose answered. " 'But I am afraid. I don't want my name connected with this thing,' Big Tim said. "I told Big Tim that he could be frightened, but that I was not; that Rosenthal had already been to see the Mayor and Commissioner Waldo, but that neither of them would listen to him. Then Big Tim said that he'd rather fix it up, and that he knew Rosenthal would keep his mouth shut if he aided him enough. "I answered that Rosenthal would not get any of my money and that, I wasn't afraid of him or anything that he oould do. "Roge then said that he had been talking with Kauffman, Rosenthal's partner and that Kauffman said Rosenthal would get out of the coun try for $6,000 " 'Big Tim' said he would raise the money, and he told Rose and Appel baum to go somewhere and get the, $6,000. "They went, and Rose told me that they got the money and 'Big Tim' auinonzea mm to gei noseniuai i ! .y i r a. j r J" j.1 i away. I didn't wait to see what they did that night. I told them to do as , they pleased, and I went back home. I Knew Not of Kidnapping Plan There is where the murder came in, I knew nothing about their plan t.A Iridnun Rosenthal and I had no idea that anything would happen to him. I thought that, paid, he would quietly leave the State and give no more trouble. I didn't fear him for institute workers who will be engag myself that's the reason I didn't of- ed with Director T. B. Parker in fer to put up any money. "Jack Rose determined to keep most of that 56,000 for himself, and lo he went around to the four gunmen and told them that Rosenthal had been the man who 'framed' Big Jack Zelig, the gang leader, and had caused his arrest on a charge of having violated the Sullivan law. " Rose pointed out to them that they could obtain revenge and earn $1,000 at the same time by helping him to kidnap Herman Rosenthal. They agreed. ."Jack Rose arranged with Rosen thal to meet him at the Metropole H. tel for the payment of the $6,000' Bit what he had planned to do was to pay the gunmen $1,000 for kidnap ping Rosenthal, frighten him badly and ship him to another State. Rote intended to keep the $6,000 for him self. "Rose said that th gunmen met at Weber's place on the night of the shooting and began drinlrinw. Weber ent out, came Lack and reported thai Rosenthal was at tha Metropole. Th gunmen, Weber and Rose got htto an automobile and went to th hotel, stopping across th street. Row sent a man into the restaurant to get Rosenthal out of the place aad th gambler came to the sidewalk. ValUn, Drunk. Regan to Shoot "Then Vailon, futt of drink and SnfftTllI because he beUevd Bnftbal 'framed ' hia partner, putted bis fan to shoot. Some of the ia and Herman Rosea thai died. What follows d the shooting is west known, except that Roe met the gun- in Harlem and paid them th $1,000, keeping the $5,000 tar himself. Long before the ahooting Big Tim Sullivan seat for me and told me that he was going to stake ftntiathal aad let him run a gambling house up town. 'I told Big Tim he couldn't do it, and because of the Big Fellow' threats I Anally had to let Herman Rosenthal open hia house. It was running along fine when Bridgie Web er got jealous and wrote a letter to Police Commissioner Waldo under the name of Harry Williams, telling him all about the house. "Waldo came to me and told me to investigate the facte of the letter. I at once went to Big Tim Sullivan and told him about the Commissioner's 'order. " '111 fix it up with Waldo. You let the house keep going,' Big Tim said to mer "I thought that he was telling the truth and that he had used his pull to make Waldo come around, but he was fooling me. A second and a third letter came to Waldo and he turned them over to me for investigation. After the third letter I again spoke to Big Tim. Iv'e got to raid,' I told the. 'Big Fellow,' and he said to go ahead and he would 'make it right downtown. Raid Led To The Murder "Waldo, I thought was ordering the raid for effect and I thought the ar rests wouldn't amount to anything. "As instructed, I raided and ar rested two of Hosent hal's kinsmen as operators of the house. That started all the trouble that ended in Herman Rosenthal's death. "Under 'Big Tim' Sullivan's orders I advised the two men to plead guilty, "hey did so, Rosenthal got mad and oegan to visit everybody who would listen to him." Hope It May Get Him a New Trial The statement which Becker and his attorneys believe -may be used for an application to the Supreme Court for a new trial on grounds of newly discovered evidence, was given out today by Father James B. Curry, rector of St. James' Roman Catholic church, spiritual advisor to the for mer Lieutenant, and Jospeh Shay, Becker's attorney at his first trial. Before Becker delivered the state ment to his attorneys he went over it with Denutv Warden Charles H. Johnson of Sing MngPnio," w5b is charged with the preparations for his electrocution. Mr. Johnson said that extracts read to him formed part of the story he saw in the death house several weeks ago. W. Bourke 'Cockran, chief of Beck er's counsel, declined to discuss the statement. Immediately after it was published in the late editions of evening newspapers, members of Mr. Cockran's office staff became greatly excited. Mr. Cockran had ordered every one connected with the case to observe the strictest secrecy, and it was understood that the attorneys expected the story would act as 'a last hour sensation to cast doubt on Becker's guilt." FARM WORKERS ARE SHOWN HOW . - , TX7 txmi !l "u w Conduct Institute Giv en Instructions itaieign, .. c, July zi. ' Md hore mi yertOT- day a special institute or conference for the large company of farmers the holding of the series of institutes to be held under the auspices of the State Department of Agriculture the next two months, beginning July 21 with three parties in the field. The conferences were held in the Raleigh High School auditorium and the heads of the divisions of the De- partment of Agriculture took a spe- cial part. Every phase of farm work and management was considered by specialists and tho institute work- en are prepared for most effective work in presenting to the farmer in the series of institute all the phases of farm life in the light of the best of handling them. At the tame time there were held special conferences for those ladies who arc to accompany the farmers' in stitute worker and hold special insti tute for wives and daughter of farmer on household enonoraios and general management of farm home. There were more tha ft half hundred people here for the confer ence, number of them being desig nated to take part ia institute pro grams ia their own immediate Mo tions only in carrying out the idea of retrenchment in expense of the in stitute division through reducing the cost of providing instructors and eliminating a big part of th eost In th way of traveling xpa. W. P. Allen, of Ha esterday In taw eity. ook, spent -T
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