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MARSHALL, N. 0., FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1909.
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RENDERS VERDICT OF GUILTY
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Nashville, Tenn., Special Guilty
of murder in the second degree pun
ishment 20 years' imprisonment this
was the unexpected verdict rendered
, by the ury against CoL .Duncan B.
-Cooper and Robin J.. Cooper when tha
eourt opened Saturday. The jnry Fri
day aoquitted John- D. Sharp, indicted
. with the. Coopers for the slaying of
'former U 8. Sehator Edward W. Car
mack. . ' , ,. :
Rush to Sign Bond.
Although Judge Hart fixed the bond
at $25,000 there was a rush to sign
it on the part of wealthy edtiiene of
Nashville which fairly swamped the
olerk of the criminal court.
The first to arrive was John J.
Greener, who signed for $10,00 on
each bond. Several others had been
.sent for and telephoned that they
would eome as quickly as automobiles
would bring them. In a few moments
Walter O. Parmer arrived and signed
for the balance. "I wiH sign for
million for these men," he remarked.
In vain the clerk protested Over and
over again that more than enough
sureties had signed but the invariable
answer was "We want to put onr
name on that bond too." It seemed
as though every friend of the Coopers
considered it incumbent upon him to
sign the bond. When there was no
more room for names at the foot of
the document the new bondsment en
dorsed across the face until it was
difficult to decipher the signatures.
When filed the bond totaled nearly a
million and a half.
The Jury's Verdict
At 9:25 the 12 men entered the
room and ' took the same seats they
had occupied for nearly 9 weeks.
"Have you agreed upon a verdict,
gentlementT" said Judge Hart.
"We have," replied Foreman E
If. Burke hoarsely.
"Advance, Mr: Foreman, and read
" the-verdict." '' ' " '"
"We, the jury, findlhe defendants
Duncan B. Cooper and Robin J.
Cooper guilty of murder in the second
degree and assess their pnnishment at
confinement in the State penitentiary
ror a period ef twenty years."
"So say you all, gentlementt"
"So say we all," in chorus.
I thank you, gentlement," said
the court, "for your patience and de-
votiton to tlie state, and dismiss yon
to your homes and to your personal
vocations.
The jurors were tired-looking and
disheveled, but with the conclusion
of this remark the entire 12 sprang
from their seats as one man and hur
riedly left the conrt room.
Decision Against the Two Coopers for
Killing of Sen. Carmack 20 Years
In the Penitentiary the Penalty.
UNITED STATES CENSUS REPORT ON THE COTTON CROP
Washington, Special. Running
bales of cotton numbering 13,408,841,
of average gross weight of 505
ppnnds, all equivalent to 13,563,942
500-pound bales, with 27,587 ginner
ies operating, was the final report of
the eensus bureau Saturday qn the
cotton crop grown in 190Sl
The report included 344,970 linters
and counts round as half bales. " The
final 1907 crop report was 11,325,882
bales, equivalent to 11375,461 500
pound bales with 27,597 ginneries
operating, . .. .
Included in ths 1908 figures are 93,
085 bates, trfiich the ginuers' estimate
ed they would turn out after the time
of the March canvass, '
Round bales in the report are 340,-
LYNCHED AT ELKINS, W. VA., fOR ASSAULTING OFflCER
Elkins, W. . Va.;- Special Joseph
Brown, said to have, been an ex-convict,
who Thursday evening shot and
seriously wounded Chief of Police
Scott White, at WJiitmere, near here,
was taken from jail by a crowd of
men at 1:30 Friday morning and
lynched. Brown was hanged upon a
telegraph pole. - Thursday evening
White, who is a son of Wayor Wash
ington White, of Whitemere, remon
DECLARE ALCOHOL
Washington, Specials - Alcohol
practicality has no therapeutic uses,
judging from the discussion at the
semi-annual meeting here Thursday
Of the American Society for the
Stndy of Alcohol and Other Drug
'Narcotics. Some of the medical
scientists contended that alcohol has
no therapeutic uses; others that on
the whe) it has few such uses, while
another - declared that alcohol, grad
ually is being eliminated as a drug.
Papers were read by Drs. Henry , O.
Marey, of Boston, honoarary presi
dent of the society, entitled, "A
Verdict a Surprise.
The verdict, coming as. it did upon
the heels .of - Foreman Burke's dec
laration Friday that "we are hope
lessly tied up as to the Coopers," waa
a decided surprise. The defendantl
took it colly almost without emotion.
In a second after Judge Hart ceased
dismissing the jurors, Judge . Ander-.
son, of the defense, was on his,' zee!
exdaitnihg: "Your honor, we moV
that the case be declared a mistrial
because of the verdict Friday we eon
tend that Friday 's verdict was the
only one, and that it acquitted John
Sham but declared a disagreement on
the other defendants. We also ask
that the. defendants he admitted to
bond at once." .
A Bailable Case.
"The verdict of the jury makes it
a bailable case," was the court's re
tort. 'Hence I will fix the bond of
eaeh defendant at $25,000 unless
there be some objection. In that
event I will hear arguments." "It
is satisfactory to us," said Attorney
General McCnrn. "And to us," re
torted Judge Anderson. "There
seems nothing left but for the court
to pass sentence," added Judge Hart.
"I do not think that necessary,
said Judge Anderson. We move that
judgment be suspended and that we
be given a new trial. We Will be pre
pared to argue the motion later
probably next week."
"All right, judge," remarked the
court. "I know you will not delay
unnecessarily and I will fake it up at
your own convenience. ' '
How the Jury Voted.
The jurors were not inclined to talk
but one of them said:
"On the first ballot we acquitted
John Sharp and disregarded the con
spiracy theory. On this same ballot
we. stood six for guilty of murder in
tha first degree with mitigating cir
cumstances, five for murder in the
second degree with 2(k years, the
maximum penalty and one for ac
quitttal. The ballots all day Wednes
day and Thursday showed the same
result. Friday the man who voted
for acquittal came over to murder in
the second degree but demanded that
only 10 years be assessed. The rest
of us did not deem ten years as any
thing like adequate, so we disagreed
again. Of course, all this refers to
the Coopers, not Sharp, whom we had
acquitted. Early Saturday morning
the man who was holding out for 10
years agreed to 20 years and the six
who were .voting for a first degree
verdict agreed to this verdict."
450 bales. Sea island bales included
are 93,848 for 1908 and 86,895 for
1907.
ine crop by btates, in running
bales, including linters, follows:
Alabama, 1,358,339 bales; Arkan
sua, 1,018,708 bales; Florida, 71,411
bates; Georgia, 2,022,828 bales; Kan
sas, Kentucky and New .Mexico (in
eluding linters, of establishments in
Hlinbis and Virginia) 5,054; Louis
iana, 481,694 bales; Missessippi, 1,
665,695 bales; Missouri, 60,609 bales
North Carolina, 699,507 bales j Okla
homa, 703,862 bales; South Carolina,
1,239,260 bales ; Tennessee, 343,582
bales; Texas, 3,719,189 bales; Vir
ginia, 13,013 bales. ,
strated with Brown for using off en
sive language. Brown drew a revol
ver and shot White and then took to
the mountains. He was followed by
a posses of citizens, captured and
placed in jaiL Early Friday it seem
ed that the whole town was aroused
and Brown was quietly taken out of
the l ail and hanged.' .Chief of Poliee
White, it is believed, will ' recover.
Brown is said to have served several
terms of imprisonment.
IS DEING ELIMINATED.
Medical Study of - the ; Temperance
Movemenfin the South;" Howard' A,
Kelly, of Baltimore, on "The Alco
holic Problem in Every-Day Life;
T. D. Crothers, of Hartford,' Conn.,
on "The Future of ' the Alcoholic
Problem;" and W. B. Parks, of At
lanta, Ga., on "The Effects of Al
cohol on Temperament -as it Relates
to Raee . and Nationality. , The
night 's session developed . much,, in
terest among the scientists as indi
cating tha necessity for laws relat
ing to the care and protection of in
ebriates.
!
CENSUS BUREAU REPORT
Amount of Cotton Stocks on Hand
February 28 Was 5,252,663 Bales
Eeport .Preliminary to. Official
Statement and is Made at Bequest
of Congress Total Supply of Cot:
ton. . .
Washington, Special. The census
bureau in a report Monday announc
ed that the amount of cotton stocks
on hand in the United States at the
close of February was 5,252,663 bales.
The indicated consumption of cot
ton is 2,521,436 bales. The report is
a preliminary one, and is in response,
to a resolution of Congress. The
stocks on hand are distributed as fol
lows: .'
Manufacturers, 1,844,992: produe?
ers, 326,377; warehouses and com
press, 2,306,786; transportation com
panies, 518,379; other folders, 255
The , total suddIv of cbtton in the
United Stales and the net imports for
the six months' period ending Febru
ary 28. last, were 14JI40,870 ana
98,000 bales respectively. The total
stock held September 1,. last, was
1,236,058 and cotton ginned since
August .31, last, aggregated 13,00V
612 running bales. - Toe total export
of cotton from September 1, 1908, to
February 28, last, inclusive, was 0,-
566,571 bales.
The approximate segregation ol
cotton stocks shown in the report re
lates to location and not to owner
ship. Cotton in warehouses owned
and operatingin conjunction with mills
is classed as in possession of manu
facturers, under independent ware
houses and compresses is shown all
cotton so stored, rearardless of its
ownership. 1 Cotton of foreign growth
included in these statistics amounts
to 55,629 bales, of which 50,561 are
Egyptian, 1359 Indian, 3,085 Portl
and 124 others. Oi tbe total
amount held 3,721,971 bales were in
the cotton-growing States and 1,530,-
692 bales jn all other States.
Feudists Shot From Ambush.
Huntington, W. Va., Special. John
and, Frank Flemming, alleged mem
bers of a feud gang that has terror
ized Harts Creek, incoln county, 40
miles sooth of this city, were shof
from ambush MIonday evening. Frank
was Killed and John was seriously
wounded1, John Flemming was re
leased Saturday from the peniten
tiary, where he served two years for
conspiracy to defraud the govern
ment. When he learned that his
young wife had secured a divorce and
had married John McCoy, a bitter
enemy of his, the Flemming brothers
started for McCoy s home. 4hey
were ambushed en route. ,
Five Persons Die in Mine Explosion.
EvansviUeJnd., Special. Five men
were killed and a score injured in an
explosion at the Sunriyside coal mine
near this city Saturday, afternoon.
The explosion was caused by a windy
shot due to an overcharge of powder
said to have heen placed by John
Petit. Petit s burned over his entire
body and will die. The dead were all
killed by sulphuric fumes which fol
lowed the shot. The mine was swept
as if by a whirlwind. Twenty-nine
were in the west shaft of the mine
when the explosion occurred.
Wild Train Hits Station.
Montreal, Special. Four persons
are dead and thirty others were more
or, less seriously inured as the result
of Ithe blowing out of a wash pipe
on the locomotive hauling the Boston
express of the Canadian Pacific Rail
way Wednesday morning, three miles
out from this city. Scalding steam
filled the cab' and the engineer and
fireman were forced to jump. The
train without a guidipg hand at the
throttle, dashed into the Windsor
street sation, through he orranite wall
Unto the woman's waiting room and
men into the rotunda.
Furniture Shippers Most Pack Their
" l: - Wares. -Mbbile,"
Ala.,' Special. The" South
ern classification committee adjourn
ed to meet in Atlantic City in July.
The committee devoted most pf its
time to correcting errors in the pack
ing of freight, with a view to decreas
ing' the number of claims for dam
ages. - It was ordered also that fibre
boxes must be made waterproof.
Shortest BUI on Record.
" Washington, . Special. Representa
tive Coudrey, of Missouri, has just
introduced .what is probably the
shortest bill so far presented during
the present session, yet if enacted in
to law it would attract more atention
than the Sherman Antitrust law.
After the enacting clause the entire
bill is as follows: ' '
" That' from and 'after ' the passage
of this act all corporations, shall pay
a license tax of 1 1-10 of 1 per cent
on their capital.
A CHILD KIDNAPPED
Willie Whitta, Aged 8, Taken
From School at Sharon, Pa
NO CLUE TO THE PERPETRATORS
Willie Whitla, g Tears Old, Taken
From His School at Sharon, Pa-
Held For $10,000 Ransom Terms
Complied With, Bat Plan Pails.
On last Friday Willie Whitla, 8
years old, was kidnapped from school
at Sharon, Pennsylvania. A well
dressed man drove up to the school
and told the janitor that Willie's
father had sent him to, .bring Willie
to his office. Not suspecting any
thing wrong the teacher fixed Willie
np and sent him on, in light -pleasan
try saying she hoped be was not be
ing kidnapped.
All too soon she found that it was
a stern reality. A letter was received
Friday in Willie's own hand which
read:
Dear Father:
Two bad men have me, and if you
don't send $10,000 they will kill me
in 10 dys. Willie Whitla.
There was nothing on the envelope
to denote where the letter had been
mailed.
Frank H. Buhl, a millionaire uncle
of Willie's took a decided interest in
the case and will freely pay the $10,
009 for his safe res'very.
It was reported from that city
that two men and a boy answering the
description of the kidnappers and
their victim have been seen there,
consequently the supposition is that
Mr. Buhl has received word which
made him believe his nephew was in
Cleveland or that vicinity. The bug
gy in which the child was taken from
school was located at Warren
Ohio, and as the Cleveland papers
were among those specified, in which
the demand of the kidnappers for a
$10,000 ransom should be answered
by a personal advertisement, all evi
dence seemed to indicate that devel
opments in the mysterious case was
centered about the Lake City.
A clue was secured Sunday, in
which little credence is placed, how-
rever, On March 1 the local posfofficel
uepurtiueui received a circular an
nouncing a reward for a ' man de
scribed as Samuel C. Leavanson, of
Canton, O., said to be wanted there
for the theft of $400. Janitor Wes
ley C. Sloss, of the school from which
Willie was taken, when shown the cir
cular bearing a portrait of the man
wanted, declared it bore a strong re
semblance to the abductor.
A Cleveland, O., special on Sunday
says: Whitla was instructed in a
letter from the kidnappers to -leave
$10,000. in Flat Iron Park Saturday
night. If no detectives were about
the kidnappers promised they would
deliver the boy safely to the father
in a hotel at Ashtabula at 3 o'clock
Sunday morning. Whitla deposited
the money as requested, but the Ash
tabula police learned of the plans to
pay the ransom and went to the Dark.
The kidnapers are supposed to have
seen them, for at 3 o'clock the money
was intact and not a man had ap-.
proached the spot.
Whitla believes that the failure to
effect a settlement with him will
frighten the kidnapers and they will
not communicate with him again.
The police of Ashtabula are unwil-
ling to .believe that the kidnapers
have left that section of the country.
The letter from the captors of Wil
lie Whitla came to the boy's parents
m onaron jrriday afternoon. .
Upon receipt of the letter Whitla
called in private dectives and asked
their advice. They were anxious t
capture the kidnapers and pleaded
with bun to permit them to place o
decoy package of bills at the desig
nated spot and let officers lie in wait
and capture the men who came aftei
the money.
Whitla would not agree to this. H
finally consented to permit the detec
tives to acompany him to this citj
and await his summons to start
search for the kidnapers.
Promptly at 10 o'clock Whitla left
the package of bills in the park, at
went tto the designated spot alone,
feeling eertain that - his compliance
with the request of the kidnapen
would prove the means of delivering
his boy back to him.
Three policemen who had been sent
out from the Ashtabula central sta
tion saw Whitla leave the money is
the park. They appraised Chief Las
key of their discovery and received
instructions to remain on duty and
capture the kidnapers should thej
appear. - ':
la the meantime Whitla returned
to the city and communicated witkJ
his detectives in Cleveland, i hey ad
vised him not to go to the hotel foi
his bov a minute before the time set
After five hours of .anxious waiting
Whitla stated after his boy. as h
was on his way. a policeman inform
ed him that three officers had been os
guard in the immediate vicinity ol
the park, and that no one had called
for the money.
Whitla was overcome when thii
news was broken to him. He went t
the park and found his package ol
money undisturbed.
A dettachment of detectives wa
sent out from Cleveland as soon at
it was learned that the Ashtabuli
police "were working on the case.
The father refuses to sleep at all
and keeps up through sheer wil
power. The mother, who will not al
low her daughter, Saline, out of hei
sight, is showing the effects of th
worry.
Whitla returned to Celevland ani
after a conference with Detectivi
Perkins the return trip to Sharon wai
made.
Hundreds of letters from all ovej
the country continue to come mltjoi
the country continue to pour in from
friends and strangers alike, tenderinn
sympathy.. But among all the corres
pondence there has been no wofi
from the abductors, nor any one wfc
seemed to be in any way ia aeucl
with them.
! WASHINGTON NOTES
For four hours the House 6f Rep3
resentatives Friday listened to the
reading of the tariff bill which was
the only business 'transacted. It was
perhaps the dreariest legislative ses
sion of any held by the body ia re
cent years.
The eonsus bill was received by the
Senate from the House and referred
to the' committee on th? eensus. After
being in session eight minutes the
Senate adjourned until Monday
That the Payne tariff bill increases
the cost of living; that it is crude, in
definite, sectional and prohibitive;
and that it is an open challenge to
a trade war with every other nation
on earth, are some of the criticisms
of that measure made by Democratic
members of the ways and means com
mittee in the minority report submit
ted to the House by Minority Leader
Champ Clark Monday.
The report is a severe arraignment
of the revision which the Payne bill
proposes. The countervailing duty
provisions for coffee and petroleum,
ihe maximum and minimum features,
the Cuban reciprocity clause, the
woolen, glass, agricultural and sugar
schedules are bitterly attacked.
There are many changes for the
most part minor changes,' says the
report, "of the Dingley rates, some
up and some down. .Most of the
changes in a downward direction are
reductions more apparent than real,
the Payne rates being as prohibitive
in their results in many cases as the
Dingley rates."
Declaring that a tariff is a tax paid
by the consumer and that the only
function of a tariff law is to raise
revenue to supply the needs of the
government, the minority members
of the committee insist that instead
of an increase in taxes of a new issue
of bonds, the correct remedy for the
growing deficiency in the revenues is
the cutting down of the expenses, or
the government.
The first gun in the tariff debate
was fired in the House of Representa
tives by Mr. Payne, of New York,
the majority leader and chairman of
the committee on ways and means.
Mr. Payne declared the country
was overwhelmingly in favor of
protective tariff. "It is an Ameri
can policy," he said, "and it seemed
to be acquiesced in by the great ma
ioritv of the American people."
Coming to the Dingley bill Mr.
Pavne declared that it had proved to
be a boon to the people of tbe United
States, in proof of which stateaent
he cited the immense collections of
revenue and expenditures under it, as
given in his recent report on the bill.
Those expenditures, be said, included
$50,000,000 for the Panama canal, for
which no bonds were issued, "bo
that," he said, "the entire surplus
over the ordinary expenditures of the
government have been about $125,
900,000 during that period."
Girls Whipped in Lien of Fines.
Atlanta, Ga., Special. Two girls,
one of whom had been married but
had left her husband, were chastised
at the local police barracks Monday
moraine in the presence of the police
matron by their mothers, following a
declaration by the city recorded that
S mother had the right to "wWp
her daughter until she "was 21 years
of age." This eourse was agreed up
on in lieu of a fine.
Items of General Interest
Small pox is said to be raging in
Guatemala and Mexico is making
rigid quarantine against it.
The latest prospects in the East are
for peace.. The Servian government
acceding to Austria's propositions.
A case was handed down from the
higher courts of Georgia recently 16
the effect that for a man to call a
Georgian a liar meant a fight and is
to be construed as an assault.
THE CHILDJSRESTORED
Required Ransom Paid Agent The
Scene of the Reunion Was Hollon
den Hotel, Cleveland, O.
Cleveland, O., Special. Little Wil
lie Whitla, who has eaused the police
of the entire country endless worry
since he was kidnapped from school
in Sharon, Pa., last Thursday, was re
turned to his father at the Hollen
den Hotel here MIonday night at 8:30
o'clock.
In compliance with an arrangement
entered into between the kidnaped
boy's father and an agent of the kid
napers here Monday the boy was
placed on a street car on the out
skirts of the city and started to tho
hotel shortly after 8 o'clock. Tw
boys recognized the lad on the ear
and taking him in charge, conducted
kim to his father, who was in wait
ing. The moment the anxious parent
beard that a strange boy was in tha
hotel he rushed across the lobby,
grasped him in his arms and smoth
ered bis face with kisses.
Willie is "in- perfect health. Ho
says that he has been well treated
and ever since his capture has been
constantly indoors. He believes he
was taken from Sharon to Warren
and thence to Newcastle, Pa. It is
hij .opinion, expressed in a happy
school-boy way, that he was in Ash
tabula on Saturday night at the time '
his father was to leave his $10,000
in Flat Iron Park.
Whitla, senior, refused to state
whether he had paid the ransom or
not. He said that he received a let
ter Monday from the kidnapers at
his home in Sharon, saying that if he
called at a confectionary store ia the
east end of Cleveland he would b
told how to secure his boy "unharmr
ed and well fed."
In Mortal Terror of Kidnapen.
Shortly after noon he left Sharon
for Ceiveland. He was unaccom
panied. His immediate family and
the private detectives he had in bis
employ he apprised of the proposed
secret meeting, but insisted that he
make the trip alone. Every one of
them was warned that he must be
allowed to go unheralded, and no at
tempt at tbe capture of the kidnapers
new be made. ' Whitla was eertain
(hat if he spoiled the plana of his
pson's captors he would never see the
lad again. His experience at Ashta
bula served as a warning.
About 2 o'clock in the afternoon
he went to a candy store in the east
end. With him he carried the $10,
000, expecting that it would be de
manded of him there. He was met
by a woman who detailed to him the
terms of the kidnapers. With all the
eagerness ol a distracted parent
Wibitla agreed to them immediately.
Willie unconscious of His Danger.
In the meantime little Willie was
being treated kindly and even at this
time does not realize what danger
he was in. Tbe woman at the candy
store had done her duty. She com
municated with the captors of the
boy and told them that the father
had made no attempt to trap them.
The boy was brought from his un
known hiding place to a car line in
the east end of the city.
Part of Willie's Story.
"When we got to 'a town that the
man called Newcastle, they took me
to a big building and turned me over
to a woman. She was good to me.
The hospital, or whatever the build-'
ing was, was a clean place. There
was s man there who I think was a
doctor. He looked like. a doctor, be
cause he had whiskers, short grey
whiskers.
"The people in the hospital told
me that I must do just what they
told me to do. If I did not obey
them, they said they would take me
to a place called the pest; house,
where folks that have smallpox have
to tro. I walked the chalk line Just
like a good boy, papa , like you've
told me to. .
"They told me I was taking a little
vacation. I was not goirig to be hurt.
they told me, so I just acted nice and
bad a good time playing around the
hospital. I knew I would get back
home all right and just supposed Mr. -Jonse
was one of my friends who was
treating me nice because you wanted
him to treat me that way, papa
dear."
Before retiring for the night, Mr.
Whitla admitted that he had paid
$10,000 to the woman in the candy
store.
Off For Africa.
New York, Special.-r-The steamer
Hamburg dropped her mooring lines
from Hoboken, N. J., pier Tuesday,
and the long-heralded East African
expedition led by Theodore Roosevelt
has begun, The former President
has intimated that he did not wish" -official
notice of his departture to be
taken by the municipal government
of Hoboken, but the occasion was
bound to attract as many, well-wishers
as the shores f the North river - -in
that vicinity and available sea ,
craft could accommodate 'and the
"send-off" was one to be remember
ed. " '
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