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The attor neys, relatatives and principals in the Powell case opened the deffered session this morning with the an nouncement of an aggrement to murder in second degree and Judge Ward gave the patriarchal prisoner thirty years in the penitentiary. But for a suggestion yesterday afternoon that such action might take place, this would have struck the populace with the same unpre paredness as that of March 4th when the old man shot down three of Halifax's most prominent men. It wasn't the first move to compro mise. Yesterday afternoon when Juror Hicks became ill, the sight of mis trial loomed large in the court's eyes. He went trom the courtroom groggy as the fighters have it, but came up fresh this morning, hopeful of running the race. There was no guarentee of it. Congressman Claude Kitchin yesterday told your correspondent that he didn't think compromise likely. The newspapar men appreciating the untold moral effect that publishing this item would have had, in the event of a mistrial or another postponement, kept it under their hats. It was great stuff i 1-. faith with Judge Ward. He is what Roosevelt calls a bully good fellow and nobody would betray him. It wasn't neccessary to do that, though, because we knew it anyway. The State slept upon the matter, however. It became certain that with the evidence in hand, the State had not made out premeditation entirely, nor was the defense of in sanity very potent. They had their elements of doubt, but each of these went in favor of the defense. Mr. Kitchin this morning told your correspondent that feeling that the jury could not convict absolutely. Mr. Powell is and old Confederate soldier, (now nearly seventy) the death penalty would be hard to ask for or receive, and all hands agreed to the compromise. Judge Ward liked the solution. Governor Aycock made an address of less than twenty-five words to the court. He said: "Your honor, after consulation with the attorneys and relatives, we have tendered a plea of murder in the second degree." Solicitor Kerr, arising for the State, said: "The Stal e accepts the plea and prays the court's judgment." Immediately thereafter Judge Ward said: "The court approves the course taken by the prosecution and the defense. I have no idea that the jury after hearing all of the eviden ce would take to the plea of insani ty and acquit the defendant. I have had considerble experience with criminal cases in the courthouse, six years as solicitor and six years on the bench. While there is some evidence of premeditation and deliberation, I do not believe this would be sufficient under the decis ions of our courts to sanction a ver dict of murder in first degree. I have no doubt that if the case had gone on, the jury would have reach the same verdict as is now enter ed." Governor Aycock asked that the entry of second degree murder be made and it was. In sentencing Powell Judge Ward did not use an extra word. He made no reccomendations as to the kind of labor at which the aged man is to be put, and all of that is left to the penitentiary authorities. Laying one fact upon another, Congress man Kitchin said that while the ver dict will not be entirely sanctioned in Halifax, it will be as nearly satis factory as any that could have been made. Many Scotland Neckers de clared themselves satisfied, the prisioner's sympathizers especially, while not a few of the friends of the j parties to the prosecution, showed their willingness to let the matter drop. an interview with rOWELL. As soon as was practicable Sheriff R. E. Davis, of Warren county, con signed the man to his cell and allow ed your correspondent to interview him. Immediately following the trial, Powell turned to the Joseys and kept up a running inaudible conver sation with them. He wept but slightly, and upon his most flexible face there wasn't the sign of a smile, the kind that has marked his insane sneer as detailed by his relatives. But he is communicative on prohi bition. It is his pet aversion. He believes in it with all of his heart. and after a few preliminaries he opened up. "I heard them say on the trial," he began, "that I cussed out the courts and threatened to kill Charlie Dunn. I never said a word against Charlie Dunn in my life. I know, too; that no man ever curesd Charlie Dunn without getting knocked down. He used to show me his fists and I asked him what was the mat ter with them. He told men that he bruised them up hitting a nigger. No, sir, people didn't insult him without getting hurt. Talk about me hitting him. I didn't have the strength of a ten-year-old boy. Once he said I worried him and he had a notion to slap me. But I told him alway when he saw me getting that way to lay his hand on my shoulder. I knew that would stop me. "I kept hearing my daughters talk about mo being a drinking man. tw iV.:-r r!-j,t. I didn't drink. I used to when I was a young man, but it hurt me and I quit. I never sold any whiskey, and it never made me crazy. The witnesses were wrong about that." Mr. Powell told of various things that came out in the trial. He re membered them accurately and said that while he recalled his daugh ter's story of his action the after noon of the shooting, he hadn't a memory of it. "I hope God will throw me out of the window if I ever knew that I shot those men. Why, they were my friends. I like Paul Kitchin as well as I ever did. I always voted with himand did what I could for him. I wanted to speak to him during the trial, but was afraid he was mad with me. I felt that way about lots of the witnesses who came from Halifax. I haven't anything against them. DECLARES HE LOVED POLICE CHIEF. "The man I loved best of all was Charley Dunn, and next to him I loved the dog he gave me. And5 when I found my self in jail on the charge of shooting my best friend, I never did believe it. I can't un derstand if I shot three times why I didn't shoot five. If I ever shot at Richard Kitchin or he at me, I didn't know it. "Yes, I said something about 'agri cultural trimmer,' but I didn't say it exactly like the witnesses told it to the judge. I ain't got nothing against prohibition" and the oM man smiled and laughed outright. "I prophesied that they would have trouble in Halifax, that God knows best and one of these days there would be a hail storm that I called an agricultural trimmer. It came in June. It knocked everything to pieces. The neighbors were all moaning about it. I was a cussing man then, don't cuss now. I said 'you got off damned light." And the old fellow brightened up. Sheriff Davis, a thoroughly sympa thetic,good fellow.said "Mr. Powell, what makes you so lively this morn ing? This is the first time that I have seen you laugh since you came here." And on the outside there was a big hearted colored janitor, who chimed in: "Hit shore is, Mr. Powell, I ain't seed you this way before." The old man looked up and said: "Well, you are talking sense to me. Generally when anybody comes in to talk to me he has to tell me that I am a damned liar the first thing, and it irritates me. They always make me feel bad. "Now they said I was crazy about prohibition. But I ain't. I don't care anything about it, but it hurts trade. I used to sell $1(M worth of goods from two o'clock to sunset when they had saloons, but you can't do it now. It breaks up everything T 1 1 111 1- J ITTI it nas rumea tne btate. vvnen a man wants to get a drink of liquor now, he has to buy a gallon and gets drunk. It used to be that when a man wanted a drink, he could come here, buy half a pint or a pint, take a drink or two and go about his business. Oh, it has ruined the State." Sheriff Davis took issue with him. "Prohibition didn't hurt your busi ness, Mr. Powell. You don't attend to it now as you used to. That's the reason." The old fellow was now. happy. He was talking on his favorite text. He was asked if he wasn't a Republi can, inerein ne snowed nis only feeling. He wasn't. "I wasn't a Democrat. much either," he added. "I just voted the way they wanted me to. Mr. Paul Kitchin always was on the right side and he told me how to vote. Then I looked around and saw what the people of Scotland Neck wanted and helped to get it for them. "And now I am going to the peni tentiary for thirty years. I wonder what will they make me do, sheriff?" The sheriff couldn't tell him, but said they would treat him right. He doesn't want to keep books. DAUGHTERS BREAK DOWN. Though the old gentleman re ceived his sentence without emotion without change of countenance ever, their interview a few moments was most affecting. It moved him also. They sat in the vestibule half an hour with him, the first time that they had spoken during the trial. The seventy year old father wept audibly, by 'sobs and silently. Then he listened to them. The men present were moved, Sheriff Davis declaring it hard to hold himself within the bounds that mark the stout hearted officer from the tender layman. From there he went to jail pre pared to embark upon the first Ral eigh train. It was in this place that the newspaper man had the first talk with him. Again there was op portunity when the train stopped at Warren Plains old man Banjo Rob ertson, who has picked up fame from the banjo strings all the way from New Orleans to Louisvill, play ed to Powell and he danced himself down. Sheriff Davis had to stop him. PRISONER TALKS ON WAY TO RALEIGH. On the way to Raleigh the priso ner was interviewed. He was asked about Billy Be Damned, Congress man Claude Kitchin's horse, now famous. The animal belonged to Powell but Claude Kitchin resurec ted him. "Yes, I owned Billy," the prisoner admitted. "That was long ago. He could trot it in three and a half and I could pass everybody." He told about decorating his dog. He liked to dress him up daily. He couldn't give much reason. He ad mitted also going often to the grave of his son. "I seemed to be able to see everybody's spirit but his," he explained. "I tried to get lots of the Scotland Neck people to go with me, but they didn't have the nerve I went there often at night." At one time he mused upon his sentence. "If I could get the paper from home, I wouldn't mind it. Can't you have them send it to me? I don't want to go away," and the old man cried pittifully. It didn't last a second, though and he added, "But it don't make any difference; I ain't going to live more than thirty or forty days." He had to be con soled again weeping uncontrollably. POWELL AS A WIT. Thesheriff and your correspondent didn't tarry much longeron the jail. But en ronte the old fellow, with malice towards none, entertained everybody on the train and he asked that the newspaper men thank Miss Tannehill and Mrs. Graham for their kindness to him in Warrenton. They are -all that he can remember from among the many that he received ministrations from. "I reckon I would have been dead if I had eat all that they sent me," h'e said, and he was happy over their kindness, j "I never knew what it was to get into society until I went to the pen itentiary and Warrenton jail," he laughed. "They fed me nearly to death." TVio nlrl fellow swears that he is one ex-Confederate who never sur rendered. He told the sheriff that he had fought all through Virginia, from Beersheba to Dan, from Gene sis to Revelation, using those terms, but he would still be fighting. "I fought more times than Carter had oats," he declared, "and he raised a big crop. And this is the thanks I get for it." This was his only wail. THINKS HE WILL SURVIVE SENTENCE. But the old fellow is planning for his Scotland Neck residence after he serves his time. He seems to th: k there is life in the old land yet. And thus has he been since his trial ended. It wouldn't do for men to try him in some spot un known with the advantage of having heard him talk in his garrulous un meaningness. Many people believe that he killed the deputy and shot the two distinguished men when in his insane belief that Kitchin was defending two prohibitionist, he laid hands upon the embittered old fellow. There is just no reason for guessing at it. There is no way to become enlightened. INTERESTING INCIDENT OF THE TRIAL. Warrenton, June 29. Mrs. W. T. Eure and Miss Alice Powell, daugh ters of the defendant. E. E. Powell; Aquilla Powell, his son, and the Jo seys, sat in the court room this mor ning as comforters to the prisoner and the prosecuting witnesses, chief of whom are Representative Paul Kitchin and Dr. H. 1. Clark, took their places on the other side. Three of the Dunn family are also in the enclosure, but they are attorneys, and until the opening of the court today, they have not been called as witnes ses, nor have they figured in the ex aminations or the interposition of objections. The prisoner has shown some emo tion at times. Whether recurrent sanitv, a ruse or fatherly aftection, the mention of his dead son's name brings tears to his face. It is con ceded by the few who observes it, a genuing feeling. The dead boy was his favorite. As the old man wrote messages to the spirit offices and scrawled his insensate valedictories to the loved and lost boy, so does memory of him revive the feeling and this has been the sole circum stance showing lucidity at all. Of course the old fellow looks at his lawyers and follows the examination, but the defense never has claimed that at all times the prisoner was absolutely bughouse. Members of the household do not hold it true. But all witnesses are giving it as their opinion that Powell was never long at a time capable of comprehen ding the enormity of his crime. In the dramatic aftermath to the shocting, when Miss Alice Powell was trying to quiet him, he exclaim ed as he saw the gathering and ex cited, not to say frenzied neighbors, "I am not afraid, I have faced thou sands." That might not have been well to relate, but Miss Powell did not impress one as "framing up" anything. Even in that insane ex citement, Powell showed a flash of intelligence. He did not believe the crowd would do him up and when younger Kitchin shot, he answered the shooting with one of his own. The matter of insanity having aris en in such multiafrious ways, one hardly meets a friend who doesn't begin to suspect himself. The wit nesses have given circumstances of irrationality, common to practically every man alive. One man says Powell's most shining piece of idiocy was his tendency after walking down street to turn and walk back. He was a dancer even as Herodias and Terpsichore, while he could fid dle like Nero and cuss like all the naval forces. He didn't have a sin gle monomaniac, but a regular cara vansary of bugs, each aberration seeming monstrous until its fellow absurdity came to take its place. Yet nearly all of these appeared in consequential to the layman who had to laugh at individual instances. The lying on the boy's grave appears the most aggravated element of a disordered mind. The story is told of Ben Johnson that the old lord of English litera tnre did not believe the Lisbon earth quake ever took place, that he accep ted the Cock Lane ghost story, while Andrew Jackson was a believer in the four corners and legs of the earth, and Stonewall Jackson daily believed that one of his legs was growing shorter. Nearly every man has a single truancy of mind, but the monomaniac of a smart fel low like Powell is as absurd as that of a groveling idiot. 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The plea of in srnity in this case has far more of merit in it than most of those spuri ous defenses set up where men make killing in haste and repent at lei sure. Warrenton is taking care of the people well. The Daughters of the Confederacy are spreading lunch to the visitors in the old hotel and rais ing money for a monument. The Norwood House has been jammed, but the place has cared for the extra hundreds and the town has been open. The visit here has been abundantly worth while. THAT DECORATED DOG. And now one final fling at that col laborated canine creation, Powell's decorated dog. The sacred cow of China isn't in it with him. The old gentleman admitted fixing him up a bit, but couldn't give much reason for it. This morning traditions crept out. One of the Halifax boys was talking to a paper representative. "Had you heard what made the old man bedeck his dog in all of that ribbon finery?" Of course nobody had heard, and he began: "Now when you saw him with red ribbon on, that meant that Powell had the best red eye licker going. You would find him next with yellow ribbon, andyaller corn was flush that say "Shut your mouth," ex-Solicitor Walter Daniel said to his friend. But it had already leaked out. The third color, blue, meant that brandy flowed like rivers and all the world was a duck. Mr. Powell says this isn't so. He had only the artistic in mind when he fixed his dog up. He had to laugh at the ingenuity of the idea, but said that so far from publishing his wet goods with ribbon, he didn't have any. "Billy Be Damned" and the dog will live as long as there is a memory of the trial. Immire blood runs vou down- makes you an easy victim for organ ic diseases. Burdocks Blood Bitters purifies the blood cures the cause builds you up. Howard When Dr. Incision ope rated on me he left a pair of surgi cal sissors in my anatomy. Can I sue him for damages? 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Courses in Agri culture, Horticulture, Animal Hus bandry and Dairying; in Civil, Elec trical and Mechanical Engineering; in Cotton Milling and Dyeing; in Industrial Chemistry; and in Agri cultural Teaching. Entrance examinations at each county seat on the 14th of July. D. H. HILL, President, 6-21-4t West Raleigh, N. C. New Market! Having bought out the market business of J. Wl Gardner, I am now located at his old stand on Main street, and shall keep on hand the very best beef, fresh pork, sausage, etc., and shall do my best to please the trade, giving all the time good weights and prompt attention to all orders. H. H. MOORE Scotland Neck, N. Carolina. Wanted To buy good beef cattle, country hams, eggs, chickens, etc., at the highest market price. House Painting! Furniture, etc., white-wash, kal somine. I go anywhere. Satisfac tion guaranteed. Write or call on Rev. J. H. Smith, Jr., Box No. 172, Scotland Neck, N. C. 1
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