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" i . TTJIHODT OFFICIAL PAPER ' nr C OF j 7 .J - 1 .V ' tyiEWS WITHOUT CURRITUCK PREJUDICE COUNTY A 2 ' VOLIV ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2? 1914 jg .ii' wx o-oi; '. ''.. c' P" ' ?.'v. "':r Af' i,"eIa V .-f. Hi'"" ;7 ir 7mr 7 r r-i rr try ji L- 'fii n v 1 t 7 i l i ' LiT' r' 7 - I AT."-I - k V I -.7- 1: 7 ' 7 "y f i i i i - i v a i i i i J. JUDGE llflllj Cilll fiANE HER REBRBAniZEDiTQP TO BOTTOM v. 5 - ' : o-y- Says Will Strive t Send 9 4qre PrisonifcWl In Pasquotank Until AUg pfficers Are Removed "1, ;l6 .iuresfigatioa f. .j-'V tj4 Sain gang J iiMititut by JoQ Ciarter last Tuesday was L ' Jtted at the afternoon e nkion of the Superior Court on Y 'Amenta of the express compa- mrkir Norfolk Kouthein anl Hie'that point. Ppples Line were sworn and tes as to the liquor rei i vetl hewby the guarda at the eouvirt cuap Mr. 0. W. Johnson of the Sou Ihi Express Company was the firit witness sworn. lie testified .anft produced records to show -thlii'iiillring the last seventeen nwatih Mr. Cartwriglit had re dved 184 quarts of liquor at th Express office. Mr. J. H Jjjwden, freiglit agent (or the Iforfolk 'Southern testifieil that Mft ;Ci'tft'i iglit had received no hpment hy (reight during that perj9d.-: Mr. J. fl,. Snoydeo of tfcj People's line tetiwijiat uanwrignt naa rewiyeopiyqiB. through his compan. office, making a total of 251 quatt. .. gy. f uries, for eight days a guird in;' the convict oanap, was v .tlujyorn an4 exaiuaaed. Mr. ktestifled that tjje , other .-guards dnuak freely whjl he was tjke&ciij- gang andiVienn er the influence ot, liquor, abused Jtte prisoners and used them hrsfl. " tie said tkat tlie pris onlra were treated all righjt when thguprdr were not drinking ajdurmg" we eight ajs he wasenjploA-ed as a guard he did nOjt see a convict struck . (h judge then gave Mr. O. Mr8cbtt, chairman of the Coun W"CommiHioners, Mr. E. . Scott Roejd Manager, and Harris and Caj"twright, the v two convict . guards, opportunity to make any statement if thev desired to il Mr. O. M. Scott rose and stated that he was ready to an we any questions that might be a&iced him. Judge Carter repli ed- that there were no questions that he had to put to Mr. Scott, and said further that the, repri- -mand that he had administered to, Mr. Scot): in .court last Wed nesdjay shoula have been admin ihtefed, to the Road Manager .m Mr.j'E. 8 Scott also expjpes; -aed a willingness to answer any qtjiestiom that might be asked turn but he had no statement and thourt did not catechiie him listtwright' and. Harris both a yraaied themselves of their consti- -tutional privilege and declined to go on the, stand. ,' The Judge concluded the inves ligation with the following state menu . " " " "'' "' ' 'alhe' matter , under .eonsidera tidtf e, nnderimmeijiate con- jsieration, is the, solicitor's pray er -for judgment in the State vs Grant, Easoo. . SerioTW doubts having been sugjested to my mind as to wheth er could, with due regard to the dictates of the most ordinary hajnanity, send this prisoner to the Pasquotank County Chain Gang, I instituted this inquiry in "order to inform myself upon 'The Hist thing I did was fo have the entire conyict force brought into Court, and I took the men one by one in a private room, with no one present except myself and Mr. Boettcher here, who had been designated as the official stenographer of th's u vestigation, arid the person In-in presently examined. "J took this course for twol reasons. One- was the natural indisposition of a prisoner to give testimony which would be calcu lated to incur the enmity of his keej)er; and the other was that might hear thete men separate It, that no one should be able to know what any other had said, that I might the better judjie as to whether 1 was getting the truth. ',In hearing these men I stud ied them to the best of ' mv ubU A k: & ity. I found amongst them tJoiiie persons who showed eonsid able evidences of depravity: I ud othejs, and a larce uiaior ity of them, iu fact, who were cer taiuly not depraved or Janger- oufa men. Many of them were comparatively young boys, and as to more than half of them I was convinced of their candor of their simplicity and of their comparative docility. Some of tliem impressed me most favora bly, and it is impossible, and I jwuse by the way to remark, that there ane a number of men on the Pasquotank County Cluun Gang that 1 kIo believe could have been dealt wjth better in some other way. -I do not implicitly rely upon all Ue statements that were made to me; I do not ac- fcept as true any statement that was made to me on that hearing except those statements, that re ceived such corroboration in the statement of the other prisoners as to convince me of its truth. 7i not only heard these statements of these men, but I permitted 0me of them to exhibit ' to me the scars left by woundk which they claimed to have received iu brutal ' whippings upon that Cjbain Gang; and others exhibit ed to me open 1 running sores that had every appearance of hav ing' been caused by friction of their iron shackles, that were on their legs and ankles where the shackles were, and they had ev ery appearance of being sores caused by the working of the. iron; upon their limbs. :The testimony?, "ra so unan imous and o spontaneous upbu one point that there is no possi (Continued o Page Three) , i 't ,' ( l ' f it , GliDMEII ESCAPED Convict GotFull of "Liquor and Thought HeCOuld Run Chaingang illiam IfarHs, guard among a group of trusties who were camped ou the surburbs .o( the' town, was a'ssaiUted by, One prisonei's last Thursday night and very Keverely beaten up. Thettru8ties appear to have en- jayed unusual liberties. A group left camp Thursday eve ning shortly after supper with out troubling to ask permission and stopped at a house on Brick Mtre?t about two hundsed yards from the camp. There one of their number named Willia'm Reid left the rest and came into own where he proceeded to tank up on blind tiger liquor. The rest of the group at about nine o'clock returned to the camp. At about midnight , one of the convicts named Tim King was aroused bv some umuual noise and awaked to find) Oeid fumb -ling JHMHit the bedclothes of a guard named Scott who is old and one-legged. King claims that he expostulate with Reid and led him off, to bed. .Their conversation aroused flarris, wh went outside the tent. X mo ment later the nebro' Reid went out also bv another exit.. A few secondw aterthosej with in the tent heard the sound of a heavy blow and this was. fol lowed by cries fqr help. A um ber of the eonviQts going; out found Reid had assaulted Harris and was beating hint about he face with his fists. King claims, and, i corroborated by the guard himself that h'e wenttd'Harrisi' assistance and pinioned Bejd's arms to his sides but he says he was not able to pi-event Reid's kicking the gnaid ''till he got tired kicking." Having attended to Harris the half drunken negro then proceed ed without hindrance to break in to the cho-t where ,the arms were kept . He took such firearms as pleased his fancy and amused himself for awhile by point i no a gun at the guarjds and convicts an to use his own language "run ning the camp to suit himself". f-He finally left, and has not been heard of since. Reid wa convicted of murder or mamdaughter in Curiituck and the owrking of this prisoner o the pubic roads wag, a-' Viola tion of law. He should have been sent to the penitentiary at Raleigh. How he got to be a trusty has never been explained. There was strong feeling in town oil the morning after the beating up of Harris that' Judge Carter's warning) to the; (guards, in "the presence jOf the) ronyicta, notto lay the weight 'of their hands npon theip prisoners, un der penalty of the law was re Hj'onsible for the outbreak against authority among the,ftrusties. When it was learned that .only one man had assaulted Harris and that the others had made no ttttempts to ahet Reid In" hw as sault upojf' the guard, the atmos phere cleared up somewhat. IS So Thinks Gorreipondent From Kty4riawk;Who Reads Advance EDjtoit Tub .VnvAiici! i Some time ago I read in yotM columns an article in regard to the schooln of QiUTituck (loun ty, and 1 wh t(sa'y that I gi-eat ly dmii-e the way Mr. Cox, the Author of the article, rote. I was talking with a gentle man in regard to the article and he said that he thought Mr. Cox spoke of us as being too ignorant. Rut I do not think so 1 wish every parent in this county could see the importance of the school question in our county. If th -v could there would be greater ef fort toward Itetter wheols theought ut the entire county. If Mr. Cox i in earnest in what he says alsmt the schools ani :ibout better mads, I certain ly hope he will go to the legisla to iv lor I :hiuk we need to l.:v the subject changed from ducks to something of more impor tance. E DOCATII T TO RAGE i -' - Interesting Event to BftLf tbe universe around it. It Held For G&d Roads On Church's Island Waterlillj, .'.,('., Sept., U6th--The biggest boat race ever seen in Currituck .County is schedul ed for Saturday, October 3rd. The boats will start from -terlilly yier at eleven o'clock Sat urday morning, and all power boats have the opportunity to join in this race. Tn Clas I boats of from four to six horse power are admitted and the premium awarded in this race wil 1 be a beautiful sil ver cup. f In Claw II boats of from six to eight horse powqr may be en tered and the prise for the win ner is a large purse. In Class III any boats may lie entered This is the Scrub Race and the prize is a small purse. A splendid dinner will be serv edof oysters, fish, and other de liciohft sea food. The proceeds of the day will go toward the betterment of. the roads of Churches Island. The la dies of the Good Roads Society are grateful to the people of Cur rituck for their former co opera tion in tnis work and cordially invite them to come put to these races, enjoy the day's program, and by doing so help in this very worthy rinse. Three convicts were brought be fore' Judge, Turner Saturday morning upon the. charge of abet ting 'Reid in. hi "assault, but the prisoners wese dismissed. HtKt IHUKW Time Near . ' at Aprax1aiTtce Hahd For of 5 Fa mous Aggregation The 101 ilittich Ileal Wild NYlld ,'est Show which, is com ing to Elizabeth City next Thurs day Oct. 1st for two jrf orinan- tes, will give the people of this vicinity an lopptrtunity of Jee ng tne greatestwestern exhibi i bit ion ever conceived. From the standioint of botli magni tude and' merit this western aggregation is in a class by it s"lf . Three Hmg trains of dou -ble length cars are required to onvey it through the count rj and over six liuudred men, worn en and horses erticitate in the jH'rformances. In every city where this stupendous show has come its thousands of mtrons have been unainimous iu , claim ing it to be the most wonderful cxbibiton of modern tines. The show comes drect from the great 101 Ranch at Bliss Okla homa, which in the largest; Ranch in the world and from it the show derives its name. Mil ler ISrothers the owners of the Ranch are, join I twuers with Edward Arlington, iu the -show o Unlike other ho called wild west show the 101 Ranch docs not, tolerate any thing that is not purely western. , .There is uotinhl'l , apdn ww nothing from any other section iw of the west apd purely west ern, on tne morning or toe day of exhibition, a, free rtreet parade will oe given, wnicn is over a mile in length and full of new interestng features, i includ ing Indians of everv tribe not yet extinct. This parade should be seen by all whether the performances are attended or not. Two performances will fie given, an afternoon per formance at two o'clock and the evening performance at eight fifteen o clock. The doors to the Indian ' village and band concert will open one hour in advance of each jterformance. Patrons may feel safe with till;1, show, as no gambling or catch penny devices are tolerated either on the grounds or around them. The show trrie it's and knowing this, the dishon estly inclined give it a wide berth. One ticket is all that is required ,to visit every de partment of the big show. Com- Tortabte seats with back and foot rest are provided for thousand' people. ten Seat n sale, all dav at He ligs Jewel rf store. A Correction In the t'tateme.nt of the Sav ings Bank . and, Trust (Company published in last Friday's Ad vance the item Deposits Subject to Check should have been $G3, 2235,' and Time Certificates of Deposit .should have been 3,007. 22. In some way these amouts were trapsposed in tfie .atate ment. .: The total depoits of 1325,189.10, as published, were I correct. llffi ' Mani ie of Lite bUC- cumDs to itoniaine Poison Indentoa :x' ' News has been received here of . ...... - . " the dath at hi home in . .dea , ton of Mr. A. J. Ward, brother in law of Mr. C. J. Ward of ,tkt. city. l i The death occurred Friday ere' , ning at about nine o'clock and the funeral took place on tar Sunday .following. . Mr . Ward, who was 4 .Main r street grocer and market manatV Eden ton, went lown to hjs work.' Friay morning ; in bis t usual ' v health. He tx)mplained during." '.: the day and at about three v lock in the afternoon wan tak-. , en violently sick. Endeavoring to keep the news of his iUnees from his home throng. fea,T, of, , stressing hisi wite he jrenajnf. at the store unti nearly nie p'-iy, clock but the physician suaunon.. etl was not able to give him any,. Telief. Shortly before nine . . . ". .. . . ,J "V clock it was decided to remove niin to his home and he had hard If beeji placed on the bed when he expired. ' . . i ? It appear that Mr. Ward was poisonerfcy somf shhehad eaV- ' nh eaten were part of 91 shij ment-of mullets' to . .denton and .. several other families that late " them were malde ver sick, "In , all other cases, however, the phy , sicitn was able to acord relief, A , It is believed ' that" the fish i were contaminated through care less handling or Improper packi , log in their shipment. ' Mr. Ward fcT survived. by a " wife and two children. His eld- , est son, a young man of abbul v twenty four years who has Vpo-"': . -sitlon at an Edentou bank, was : also taken sick but recovered and : ' was at his father's bedside at the ' . time of his death. J AT CHRIST CHURCH Mr. Ashby has given notice "; that the Hinbop will visit Christ ' Church Sunday, November 8th , and rHiiests all who wish to join this congregation then to let him; . know as soon as jiossible. ; V " A Rible Calais for Ladies has " been organized and will meet at the rectory, every Friday after? noon at four. The Book of Job will now be studied, to e follow ' , ed by Ecclesiastes and Revela tion . y- .'.',, The delegates to the diocesan ; . Council which meets at Washy Ington October 7th to elect a, blsto ? ; op are Or J. H. . White, . 'C.' II.; Ehringhaus, F. Q. Jaoocks, and ; W (i. O.-.ttherJr.' "AH expect to , a ttei.d the Council. ' j The ennerai Convention of tW, Brotherhood of St Andrew meats in Atlanti, Ga,, 6ctober lithi to' lkh. This is oni of the largest gatherings of men in the Episco ' pal Chuch. The chapter here ". hopes to send a delegate and Mr.- ABhby also' hopes to." go. 53 Tilman P. Payne of. Mamie, X, , C. and Miss, Maudi ; Mullej -'of i Qeean View, ?werfc married VVedk nesdayafternoon "by Justic . of . th Peace, J. Wl Munden 1ft the parors of the Arlington Hotel. .'. 1Vm ' .'Ijvl 1 fc t A . I
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