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The U eather Mostly cloudy tonight and Tues day; local ahowers Tuesday, gen tle winds mostly southeast. VOL. XVIL FINAL EDITION. ELIZABETH CITY. NORTH CAROLINA. MONDAY EVENING, JULY 25, 1927. SIX PAGES. NO. 175. HELD IN JAIL AS PROSE MADE OF WIFE'SCMARGES BuiicoiiiIm' County Bus Driver Arretted When Wife Writes Letters to Of ficers About 1926 Murder SAYS "SPITE WORK" Accused Man Declares He Never Did Get Along Very Well With Wife; Says was Tricked Into Marriage Ashcvllle. July 25.? (AP) ? A far-reaching Investigation of cir cumstanced surrounding the mys terious murder of Mrs. Annie Mae Burgess, pretty young widow, the night of January 20. 1926. was ordered Monday mornlnK by Soli citor Robert M. Wells to ascertain if Wllsey Hensley, Buncombe County bus driver, liejd In connec tion with the killing on statements by his wife, was actually impli cated. or If her charges were made out of spite as Hensley claims. The case will be given the most thorough Investigation a Bun combe County mystery has ever received the solicitor said. Speelal Investigator Tllden Dillingham will lead the probe. The 18 months' old murder case was re-opened Sunday when Hens ley was arrested at Democrat. His arrest came as a result of letter from his wife, now In Jail on three larceny charges, to Klsle Brown of the Big Ivy section which said Mrs. Hensley could "tell a lot on Wllsey Henaley and could even tell how he killed Annie Mae Bur gess." Hensley told the Times today1 the accusations of his wife were made out of her sheer spite. "She was sore at me for a long | time. We never did get along very , well," he declared. "She tricked | me Into marrying her In the first , place." Some weeks ago, Hensley de-1 clared. he had fallen out with his I wife over her Intimacies with oth-, er men. At that time she left the J Hensley home at Dillingham where ' she had been living with Hensley and his mother and father and other members of his family. A short time after she left Hensley said, his car was stolen and he reported the theft to offi cers. The car was found In the possession of Mrs. Hensley and she was arrested and placed in the Buncombe County jail. It was this! incident. Hensley said, that he be lieves led her to accuse him of killing Mrs. Burgess. Mrs. Hens-' ley Is held now In the Jail on charges of stealing Hensley's car, | on a liquor charge, on a charge of stealing a car In Charlotte and on charges of stealing blankets and phonograph records. "I never had anything to do with Mrs. Burgess." Hensley said. "I don't even know Caleb Ingram or Bonnie Ledford who rtiy wife says were in the party the night she claims I did the killing. I never had murder in my heart and I haven't got It now. I'm not wor ried and don't care what they do about this thing for rny conscience i is clear. I haven't any lawyer yet for I don't think I need one. I can't remember where I was the night Mrs. Burgess was killed but ! I'm not worried about proving I didn't have anything to do with that killing for I'm Innocent. Those charges my wlfo made are Just pure spite and they would oe laughable if It weren't such a se rious matter." A complicated and Involved story of the killing of Mrs. Bur gess by her husband, his enforce ment of her silence on the subject after he had told her about It and of threats against her life If she "squealed" by members of the Hensley family were told by Hens leys' wife. Gertrude. Boasting Bandit Hollers For Help Benton. III., July 26?(AP) ? Charlea Blrger, loader of a formid able band of southern Illinois gangster* who once boantcd that no law wan strong enough to hold him looked today to the atate Ruprome Court to nave him from the noose of the hangman. Convicted yesterday, along with two of hla former henchmen, for the murder of mayor Joe Adams of West City last December. Blrger psred hla cell In the county Jsll, the strain of 15 days of trial show ing plainly on his haggard coun tenance. PLANS CKI.KBHATION FOR I08TH BIHTHDAY Afthcvllle, July IS.?(AP) ? "Granny," Rachel Riddle will celebrate her one hunder and eighth birthday at the home of her aon In law. W. M. Foi. of Bar nardavllle. on Tuesday. Her fam ily In making preparation to Make the occasion a memorable one for tha woman, said to be the oldest woman In Western North Carolina. The Rev. R. J. Bate man. pastor of the First Baptist Church of Ashevllle, will apesk and a musical program Is being arranged as #?1I as a birthday dinner. SAN FRANCISCO'S NEW AIRPORT _ d/.v5 OAKI ?r?* a rRANClSCO JEpAfcL AKp pA'5 ?c ^r'v'-V t/A WA//A\ SAN l&t-ANUS OlECiO ??<a ?4' H0UOLUL1 Top?Hangar and depot at San Francisco's municipal air port, which will bo christened by planet* which start from there In tho Dole air race for Honolulu. Hlxht?One of th? combination spread* flood and arc lights on either side of starting line. Left?Making a night-time test take off under ray* of flood lights on new air field. Unusual Corn Case Ends ht Release Of Defendant A matter of fifty roasting ears, gathered surreptitiously Sunday morning in a cornfield cultivated by J. P. Belanga near the Lowry farm, just outsldo ht Is city In the Corinth community, prompted the appearance of John Barnett, col ored In recorder's court Monday moning. John lives In Elisabeth City, and is fairly well known to police. Belanga testified he had occa sion to be In the field Sunday morning, and upon hearing a sus picious rustling noise in the corn* field, went to Investigate. A col ored Individual departed hurried ly a? he approached, he said, and disappeared In a car headed to ward Elizabeth City, driven at reckless speed by another negro, decidedly lighter. The witness declined to Identi fy Barnett as the one fleeing Trom .the field. Two other witnesses, | Dave and Beatrice Johnson, col ored, also were obscure on the point. They live near the Belanga farm, and saw the car pass, they said, hut were uncertain as to the identity of Its occupants. The corn Is valued at 60 to 75 cents at cur-1 rent wholesale prices here. The defendant was released under a nol pros with leave by C. E. Bailey, acting trial Justice In the absence of P. G. Sawyer. It was Mr. Bailey's first appearance >on the bench since his appoint ment at the beginning or Trial i Justice Sawyer's second term. I There wan also a question of I proprietorship of a home made bed quilt for the court's adjudica tion Monday morning. Aunt Sarah Jacocks, colored, the complaln , ant, alleged that one Haltle Anp ! Barues, also colored, had appro priated a quilt made of bed tick ing by Aunt 8arah's daughter. | now deceased. Bsrnes woman denied the accu sation vehemently. In the absence of testimony to corroborate Aunt Sarah's tale, the acting trial Jus tice found the defendant not guilty. A case In which Orady Felton. colored. Is charged with aiding and abetting In Immorality was continued to Wednesday morning upon representation by Prosecut ing Attorney J. Henry l>ltoy. Jr., that one of the State's principal witnesses?the woman In the case ?was 111 In bed. In contrast to the general run of Monday morning courts, the session was entirely free from cases Involving too largs a cele bration of the week end. PHIMATE OF HUNGARY DIES AT BUDAPEST Budapest, Hungary, July 26.? (AP)?Cardinal fsernoch. Prl mate of Hungary died here today aged 75, after an Illness of six months. Crowds At Opening Of Murder Trial In Louisiana Franklin, La., July 25.? (AIM ?With the time for the opening of the trial for the three alleged murderers oi James J. Lebouef. Morgan City power plant superin tendent, advanced an hour and the town thronged, today with visitors, tho small courtroom of St. Mary parish was expected to bo crowded at every session of the trial. Aside from court attaches, at torneys and nowspapermun the court seats only 250. Tho state has asked the death penalty for Mrs. Ada Nonner Lebouef, widow of the slain man. Dr. Thomas E. Dreher, Morgan City physician. Jeamcs Beadle, fisherman and trapper. Tho slaying is alleged to have taken place July 1 while Lebouef and his wife wore out riding In two small boats. Judge James D. Simon has Is sued Insrtuctions that every one be excluded from the court room after all the seats have been filled. Pythians From All Tidewater Section Here Tuesday Night Every Pythian lodge In North eastern North Carolina and Tide water Virginia has been Invited to send representatives to a Py thian rally to be held In the local Pythlifti hall, corner Road and Fearing streets, Tuesday night, and a large delegation from Nor folk, Portsmouth. Virginia Peach and Rocky Mount Is expected. | / Features of the program will ibe addresses by R. T. Fountain of Rocky Mount. H. W. Furlow, I grand master of the grand lodge lof Virginia; J. C. D. Ehrlnghaus. j former solicitor of this district and now prominently mentioned as candidate for Governor In 1932; R. C. Job, secretary of the Elisa beth City Chamber of Commerce; W. O. Saunders, editor of the In dependent, and J. A. Jones, super intendent-elect of the city schools. One hundred and fifty Pythians and Kuests are expected to he present. Refreshments will he served In the course of the pro ? '' ? *, - ? Guns On Levee To Salute Mr. Dawes Greenville, Miss., July 26 (AP)?Vice-President Dawes will receive a salute of 19 gunn when his Iraln passes over the famous protection levee and enters Green ville Thursday when Mr. Dswos Is to addresa the state convention of the American I^eglon. Artillery guns will be mounted on the pro tection levee and drop their iheela Into th? Mississippi river. Negroes Safe From Mob After Murder, And Robbery Macon, Gu., July 25?(AP) ? Identified by Mrs. W. T. Andrews, 20, as the negro wlio killed her husband, robbed tile body then at tacked her and ahott her through the mouth early yesterday near Milau, Wiliuer Galiowuy was In liibb County jail here today. Gal loway and two other negroes were brought here last night from Mc Itae where a mob of 1,000 had prepared to atorm the Tel lair County Jail. .Mrs. AndreWH was In an Kaslmau, Grorgia, hospital In a critical condition. The three* negroes were arrest ed in a shack about a mile from the scene shortly afler word ol tlie crime wak received by authori ties. One of the negroes had smeared hi? hands and feet with I tar which Sheriff C. N. Mullis Ha id was indicative that the ni*;ro was preparing for (light as the tar smearing method often wax used by fugitlvea to throw bloodhounds off the scent. Mr. and Mrs. Andrews, prom Innient young residents of Alamo, Georgia, were en route to I'errjr, Florida, where Mrs. Andrews' father was reported dylni*. Neaf Milan they stopped at a roadside filling station for wator. Two ne groes approached and asked for a ! ride Jo their "shanty" Just a ["short piece up tin- road." With out awaiting premisslon, Mrs. An jdrews told authorities one of the nugroee got Into the hack seat of the car and the other stood on the running board. | When the shanty was reached the negroes refuned to get out and one with a pistol In his hand whom Mrs. Andrews identified later as Galloway, reached over and shot [Mr. Andrews through the head. As her husband's body rolled try* the ground. the same negro after removing $150 from Mr. Andrews' pockets, forced Mrs. Andrews from the car, threw her to the ground and a few moments later as she 'struggled to arise, shot her 'through the mouth. Mrs. Andrews f< 11 unconscious and the negroes fled, apparently believing she too 1 was d?>ad. vlvlng after prohahly an hour Mrs. Andrews mad" h?*r way to a nearby houne hut was re fused admission when she tried to 'tell her story. Further on she sained the home of ft. L. Klnch ens, a farmer. Here first aid was I given her. word of the crime tele phoned to Police Chief E. W. Dowdy of Milan and a party start Jed back to the automobile where 'the body of Mr. Andrews was found. The negroes after capture first wer?? taken to Mcttae hut as word passed groups heuan to form on corners and soon a thousand per sons were milling around the none loo stable county Jail. The negroes then were quietly removed and brought here fn an automobile. I " ? * 1 -???-. I > A style expert la a person who] gets women to pay more for fewer < clothe*. ODD WEDDING TO BE SOLEMNIZED IN NORTH WOODS Four Priests to Officiate ut Stillman - Wilson Affuir; Society and Lumberjacks to Attend IN RUSTIC SETTING Marriage Will Take I'lace Outdoors in Forest Camp; Guests W ill Dance Old Fashioned Square Dance New York. July 26.? (AP)? Klaborate preparations for the wedding tomorrow of James "llud" Still ma 11 and hm north woods sweetheart Lena Wilson are described In dispatches to New York newspapers today from (.?rand Anso. Quebec. Four priests of the Catholic church will officiate at the mar riage of the 18 year old French Canadian girl to the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jamw A. Stillman. prominent and wealthy members of the New York society. The marriage will tako place outdoors In a rustic setting at the forest camp of the Stlllmans. Lumber Jacks and natives of tho district will attend as guests to gether with some of the most prominent society members of the States and the Dominion. A broad wooden platform has been erected where residents of the three rivers will dance the old fashioned square dances to the music of accordions and violins. Yesterday young Fowler Mc Cormick. son of Harold F. McCor mlck of Chicago and prospective best man at the wedding in over alls wjm swinging an axe and ham mering with the other laborers In completing final touches for the ceremony. The last opposition to the mar riage on the pert of the Wllsona Is Said t? have been ovorcome wKh the signing of "lJud" of an agree ment whereby any children of their union would be reared In the Catholic faith. Father Lamy revealed that lm *C4or thw otremunr tbe young couple plan to spend three months in England. Franco and Italy. At Rome he nald they will try to obtain an audience with the pope. Snake Bite Victim Showing Little Improvement Little or no Improvement was I reported Monday in the condition of Paul Pritchard, under treat ment In a Norfolk hospital as a result of having been bitten by a poplar leaf snake at his home on the ('reek Head, near this city, late Friday night. It was stated at the hospital that the swelling in Pritchard'n arm had moved upward Into his shoulder, and was paining him considerably, but that he spent * fairly comfortable night. Mrs. V. H. Pritchard. his sister-in-law, quoted an attending physician as having declured he probably would recover, alnce he had survived the snake's bite this long. Pritchard was bitten on the knuckles of the right hand. Ac cording to Mrs. Pritchard, who i visited him Sunday with her hus band. the urm is swollen to three times Its normal slie. The poplar leaf snake Is regard ed as one of the most poisonous apecles encountered In this part of the country. It la scarce in Pas quotank County, being rarely en countered except In remote, heav ily wooded regions, but Is said to be exceedingly plentiful In the swamp wilderness of Tyrrell and I>ar? Counties, on the south side of Albemarle Bound. WILMINGTON MAN IS FATALLY HURT AT CHA PEL IIILL Chapol Hill, July 26 ? <AP> ? D. C. Page. Wilmington, for the past two years a resident of Cliapel Hill, wan fatally Injurwed here this morning when struck by a car driven by J. K. Mansess. Dur ham. The man, taken Immediate ly to a hospital, died without re gaining consciousness. Page was crossing a street when Mansess. who witnesses say was driving at * moderate rate of ?peed, swerved his car to avoid hit ting him. Page It Is said, aee Ing the car bearing down In hi* direction atepped directly into Its path. A coroner's Inquest Is being held. Page, a construction foreman. Is survived by a wife and child, who live In Chapel Hill, and a bro ther. J. A. Page, also of Chapel Hill. The body was taken to Wllmlpgton this afternoon for burial. I>H. WII/MA.MN It \< K Dr. C. B. Williams returned Monday after spending *the week end at Virginia Beach with hla family. Getting Along Nicely, Tiianl. Yen Shirley OHui U her nam* and (nil; la bar face, ee ahe ibotll let alone In the movie*, dost yon think? At any rale, ehe la Shirley reoenUr wee alined to be Adolphe Menjou'e leading lady ta hie next Name For Tag's Pony Is To Be Chosen Soon And To^Appear In "Freckles" Everybody loves Tagaloiig, It seems. And everybody reads the couilc strip, "Freckles and His Friends." Not many days ago tUero ap peared in this comic strip an in conspicuous notice, "IJoys and girls, here's your chaucs. Tagalong wants a name for ills brand new pon>. What would you suKSWt? Send the namo you think best to this paper. Don't forget to write your name and address plainly. Let's ko." The Advance staff was no butty looking after Chowan llrldgc, Kill Devil Hill, Lindbergh. Commander Ilyrd, automobile acrid' nth. po lice court, society, weddings, base ball, Dempsey and Sharkey, that poor little Tagalorig might have been neglected had It not been for bis little friend* who read about him every dsy In The Daily Ad vance. But they wore right on the Job. I*ettera kept coming faster than they could be kept up with. The Advance started out to public!) th?*m and whn swamped with the bin pile of letters. The editor appealed to NKA. that wide, awake feature service which sup pllW tliln newspaper with "Freckle*," "Out Our Way." "Mom 'n' Pop," and "The I'enny Princess," h* well ax with cartoons and news picture*.?and ha* Just received this reply: "In Freckles *trlp In tin- next tw? week* Taualong will tell about all the letters he Is receiv ing from all over the country, and the name xucucstcd by the mo*t children will be chowen s* the name for the pony. Rush your letter* and toll the children to read The Advance every day and watch for Tsgalonic to name hi* pony." So hurry them In, children, a* fast as you can. We shall not be able to publish them all, but each and every one shsll be *<>nt promptly to TsKalonK's hesd<|Uiir ters, NKA. Cleveland, Ohio, and the nam? for the pony will be se lected st an early date. I^et's have ? hand In naming Tag's i*ony. Send your letter* to The Dally Advance, snd this newnpaper will see that they reach Taa. PRINCE OF WALES' ON ELECTIUC HORSE l^ondon, July 25.? (AP)?The Prince of Wnls* who Is bound for Cannda on the Hteam*hlp Kmpres* of Australia visited the ship's gymnasium soon ofter the steam er left Southampton. Wales mounting the electric horse ssld: "Thin Is what I *hall enjoy first. It won't throw me." While crossing the channel ?aya the dally express correspon dent In s dlspstch from Cher bourg the Prince of Wale* went Into the steerage of the liner and talked with emigrants on their way to Canada, he asked a num ber of them fer what places they were bound. "I've ?e?n that msn In the mo vies." pald.onc hoy to his com panions a^the Prince left. Mayor Wiggins And Associates Are Praised I(i*mo1u(Ioii recognising the "splendid and unselfish work done by M a\oi J. I.. Wiuiii- and all hlM associates In staging the Cho wan Hrldge celebration rt liden ton last Wednesday" have b?*en sdopted hy the Chowan County Chamber of Commerce and sent out to the newspaper* In this sec tion. Thi" resolution! as Signed hy W. H. 1'rivott, president or the Chowan County Chamber of Com* merce. follow: "Whereas, the Chowan Bridge celebration In rfow history and wan a gigantic undertaking entrusted J to the various committees made ! iip of numbers from all parts of the Albemarle section; and "Whereas, the celebration has |received tkl approbation and praise of the great host of people I that were present on that occa sion : and "Whereas, the Chowan County |Chamber of Commerce recognize* the splendid and unselfish work done by Hon. J. L. Wiggins, gen eral chairman, and all of his asso ciate* In this great enterprise, and I the success of the undertaking; "Resolved, that the Chowan 'County Chamber of Commerce do I felicitate the various committees on the Chowsn ftrldge celebration [on the success they made of the rbridge celebration nnd we rejoice | with them In their accompllsh |ment snd bespeak for them the jeverlastlng gratitude of all the | people throughout Northeastern North Carolina. "Reuolved further, that a copy !nf this resolution be sent to all the 'newspapers published In the Albe marle-section of North Carolina." Discharged In Trial |For Death O'Higgins Dul In, I round. July 26.? (API ?<?eorgo Plunkett. son of Count Phinkott. snd the nine men ar i rested with him on a charge of as 'sasslnatlon of Vlca-Proaldent Kevin O'Higgins on July 10. were | discharged this morning, no evi dence being offered against them. FOUND FATALLY SHOT IN BALTIMORE HOMK Baltimore. July 21.? (AP)? Howard' K. Miller, 49, president snd treasurer of tbe Internatlonsl Hyndlcate. a newspaper feature ser vice with offices here was found i fatally shot In his home last night, with InillrntIons pointing to sol clde. He died befors a doctor could reach hm Mr. Miller had been In 111 health members of his family told po lice. JOHN EARLY IS NOT REGARDED AS DANGEROUS Far-lamcil Lep?*r Now Eo rani|M-<l Near Homo Folks in Polk I xiunty Lrat Men ace Than Many Sick DISEASE PEAKED Itarity of the Malady Alao Kxcilcn Attention, While Many Fatal Diseases Yakc Toll I'nnoticcd RalolKh. July J5.?(AP>?J Hungry (or his native Wcslert North Carolina mountains. John Karly, who escaped from the Car vllle, I/ouliiiana, Federal Leproao rium recently, and remains en ramped near his home folkg la Polk County. State health an thorltlea here were advised today. The more than 60 year old rle tlmo of leprosy. In a mild stage at preaent. wltn hia gloves which he wears on his escapes concealing the only remaining marks of the' dread disease on his person, will submit to Fodera l^uthorlties soon ?in about two or three weeks*1 authorities believe. For Karly has a J ISO a month Spanish-American war pension and to obtain It. he must establish # residence and he connot do this If he romalns on paper in the sta tus of an escaped leper, . So Karly will rot urn when the weather cools to fill out several years he has to serve In Carvlle. Meanwhile Thomas J. Ilarklas, Ashevllle, Federal district attor ney. telegraphed Hugh Cumni I DM. United States surgeon general, at Washington, that Early could located If he inquired or Sheriff MacFarland of Polk County and the head of the United States Pub lic Health Service wired Dr. Charles O. 11. LaughinghMMtj State health officer, the subsUMl of the message. The State health authorities acknowledged the ad vice and reminded the Federal authorities to go ahead, If they de sired. At the same time It was polat*i "d out here that In the last IS years, there has been 30 des In the State from hydrophobia* many deaths from other dtseai but that John Karly'a case la the only one known to the Stat* health authorltlos of leprosy. Barly's esse, however. Is not dan gerous but the fear of the disease* as old an the Bible, and Its rarity combines to exclto public notice. "Thore are at loust 100 men In any city of the State more dan* geroui to the public health," one State health official said. Meanwhile Karly enoys this summer airing. Arranging Match For Championship Chicago, July *15.?<AP)?Ar rangements for the hoary weight championship match between Geo* Tunncy and Jack Dempsey In Sol dier Field Stadium hero probably will be concluded thin week. Tex Klckard arrived Thursday (or a conference with Chicago official*. Mayor Thompaon, the Stato Athletic Commlaalon and George F. (Jets, minister head of the mayor's civic activity commltt will meet wilh the New York pro*, motor and lay plana for handling a crowd of approximately 160,000 and gate reoelpta of more than 92,000.000. Since boxing waa legalised In Illinois, 14 montha ago tho largest gate has been about |80,000 al though championship matches have been hold In fcach of tho ma* Jor league baaeball parka but none In (he stadium. Kdward J. Kolly, president of the South Park box which bttir and controls the huge horseshoe In Grant I'ark. returned rroin the Dempsey-Sharkoy fight, with re newed hope that the I>empsey Tunney match would bo landed by Chicago. He said he'd welcome It. Rodeos track meets, many ex hlbltlons and all sorts of ? tacle* have been staged in stadium, which seated! comfort ably 100,000 persons at the Arm; Navy football game last fall. The big floor, approximately ftO yards wide and 16 long will Im filled with seats for around SO, 000, park offlclalH estimated. The state boxing law provides that promoters must bo residents of five year* duration lu the state before ih^y ran !??? granted llcsn sea tun Mr. Cleta said ho woltt solve that problem by applyli for the license himself with Hick ard as his "advisor." MR. PARMOfeft Ill-mum Much improvement In the dltlon of O. W. ('arsons, known Kllsabeth City busine man. who suffered a flight sin of paralysis Saturday at Oo View, waa reported by relatl Monday morning. W. lien Oc win, son-in-law of Mr. Parsons, i turned home from Ocean Vk Monday, brlnslng the nefrs Ml Parsons waa deeldWIy Mrs. Goodwin Is remaining wltU ' him.
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