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; 1 Frisby .'Found In Home ' '
FATHER DENIES SHOOTING SON
' , The community of Marshall wan
tfreatly shocked Sunday when nWs of
terrible tragedy, which occurred
at the home of Er'na Frisby, at Red
mon, Saturday night, became known.
Sunday a coroner's jury held John
Frisby, 69 years of age, father of the
murdered man, on a charge of mur
dering his son, Erna, and the father
is now lodged in the Madison County
jail. He was arrested early Sunday
morning as. he lay in a heavy sleep
near a pathway leading to his son's
home. A revolver of .45 calibre was
found in a shoulder holster when the
Questioned by' the coroner he' de
nied that M;d' his so, hag Any ang
ry words at any time, adding: "Eras
was my, favorite son.". He told the
jiiry that Hie did not know anything
about the killing and for several hours
Sunday after the shooting was una
ware of his son's death.
"I don't think I did it," he declar
ed. "When I left them Mary and the
little boy were in the room and Erna
was sitting in a chair."
Six jurors, George L. McKinney,
Jack Ramsey, Mack Sprinkles, Charlie
Miller, J. M. Robinson, and E. N. Hol
combe, two physicians," Dr, Harry Dit
more and Dr. Frank Roberts; Sheriff
R. R. Ramsey, and two deputies, E. M.
! Randall and Charles H. Ramsey, to-
j- i u :u ,
airesL was niaue, which icvuivci wh- xt.,
tained several.empty shells and two her with Glenn W. Naves who
cartridges that had not been fired.
Another empty shell, said to corres
pond with those in the gun, was pick
ed up by the officers near the dead
man's home.
Examination by physicians reveal
ed that Erna Frisby had died almost
instantly, one of the bullets from a
gun of large calibre having entered
his right arm and torn through his
body, piercing the heart and lungs.
After deliberating several hours,
took notes, were present tor the in
quest.
The deceased was an employe of
the Marshall Sand Company, operat
ing on the French Broad river near
Redmon. Up until about 12 months
ago, he had been employed by the
Carolina Power and Light Company
at their plant on the river at Redmon.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Erna Frisby, and two sons, Paul and
Arthur: his father, three brothers,
The funeral and interment was
three persons were able to held Sunday afternoon.
Ihe jury brought in a verdict that Er- """""", rLZlT"
8a Frisby came to his death at the , r"J--;;
hands of his father, John Frisby. mxS. xv. .v-.
There being no witnesses to the slay-lector, Mrs. Seldon C. Burnett Mrs.
ing, the officers investigating the case J- Owens, formerly of Libarty, N C,
had to reconstruct the scene from cir- all of Redmon, and Mrs. M.ude Ross,
cumstantial evidence to a large1 de- "urnam, . y.
gree.
Only
shed light on the afTair. They were
Mary Frisby, wife of the dead man,
Paul Frisby, Erna's son, and John
Frisby, the father.
Following are the three versions of
the affair as reported by the above
named: . .. .
Mrs. Frisby's story was like this:
"TVico woo nnhmlv flt. - home exceDt
Grandpa, iny husband and our little ! all Baptist church to hear the Deal
l... n j u Aar oi family sinir August 15. The entire
, t in thP living room Dlavine the evening will be a praise
phonograph. Daddy and
wAva rlicnnaeino thp nrnhihition dues-
tion. After a while Arthur went to that they have recorded with the Co
bed upstairs. I decided to go to bed. lumbia Phonograph Company:
I left Grandpa and Daddy talking. "I'm A-Rolling." "Everybdoy Will Be
DIAL FAMILY TO
SING HERE
' AUG. 15
Everybody is invited to the Marsh
and song
Grandna service
1 Here are some ot the productions
Wonder
The Utile Elves of Wonder
Went bounding through my heart,
Rolling hoops of laughter
When life was new to me ;
Now that the years have harnessed me :
Unto a dollar-cart,
I see them dimly when the moon
Is swinging in a tree.
I hear them fain tly and afar
As echoes In the night,
When sometimes from a Winter dream
I waken with a start ,
To gaze on crystal snow and star.
And then to my delight
The little Elvei of Wonder
Go trampling through my heart.
ii.
Rev. James L. Hyde, of Wal
nut. Wh9yj pending some time
abroadwtites the following
letter,, jjiist , for publication, but
as it is of such interest We have
obtained permission to use it:
VMin.
j.0 Vnttni Nrappr Union, Ittl
NEW SEWER LINE
FOR MARSHALL
LIGHTNING TEARS
CLOTHES OFF WO
MAN; SHE LIVES
fifir1r hv licrhtnitio while talkincr
mile m length and costing an approx- Jover telephone Sunday afternoon
.mate consideration of $2,000, with 0,c,ocki Mm j-rank L. Fitz-
actual constrnctipn work to begin at, ..JXvj at HandeMomrUto.
an early date. The installation of the iJ. nno f lha M,t niL
line nas neen approvea Dy tne toara
of Aldermen here.
Mayor Grover C. Redmon announc
ed Sunday the plans for the con
st: uction of a new sewer line, one
of Marshall and follows the Frisby
Branch along State Highway No. 20
for quite a distance.
An extension to the water supply
system will also be installed, Mayor
RfHmnn snM nlnrw fnr a linA nnnrtY.
Grandpa was sitting in a chair at the Happy Over There, 'Working And imately one.haif miie in length, hav-
. . , , , x.Jt 'Binino." "Rp A nHnifil." "He's Com-1... .. .
1 window ana uaaay was sianuiug mrr "m'" ' ing Deen peneciea
n.- u: t .o tv, nc Acain." "Beauirui nome some-
r h hn I hard a shot fired in the where," "A Wonderful Time, Joy
room. Then I heard Erna say to his Among ine Angeis, ..u
father: "Daddy, don't shoot me any are of special interest. Come with
more!" After that several shots were i request, for any that you have
T inmnpH off th north and ran ! heard. They will be glad to sing
nent families in the county, was in
the Patton-Memorial hospital at
Hfindprsonvillp Monday. Dainfullv
ent system at a point in the west end burned Her condition howeveI.( wa3
The line is an addition to the pres-
Everybody is welcome.
under the floor and I heard sounds .anything you aesire
like somebody was struggling and
somebody was walking.
"After a while I crawled out and
went up to the room. There was no
body in there but Daddy and he was
lying on the floor. I called to him
and shook him but he did not answer
me. Be was dead. Grandpa was
HIGHWAY COMMISSION TO CON
SIDER ROUTE IN COUNTY
John A. Hendricks, of Marshall,
County attorney, has received a re
cent letter from Chairman Frank
gone and I went upstairs and got Ar-'. that body proposes
thur out and we left all the flights consideration at its next
Duraing ana me aoors open na w.v lmeetin the matter of takinK over the
over the mountain to Seldon Burnett s ar8haU Freeman GapSandy Muah
to get help. . . . Jhiirhway route. Mr. Hendricks
The next story was iow oy ru. . ht matter to the attention of
Frisby, 25, son of the dead man. He ! . . aome t. aeo; and
said that he had been to Marshall and
was on the way home. Passing the
home of his father, Erna Frisby he
looked Up the hill and saw the lights
burning. Because lie did sot unde
fttand why they were ' up with the
Rights burning at that hour, hefwentl
- tithtu house. Inside the sitting room
he says, he found his father lying on
the floor dead and bo one at home.
There were signs of a terrible strug
gle. r
The third one to relate what had
happened was John Frisby, the fath
T r, who stoutly maintains that lie did
not take his son's life. His story is'
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"I was going down the road about i-
dusk last night,", be stated in reply to
questions by the ' coroner, ."and when
- I reached the point where the path te
' Erns's-house comes to the railroad,
tils utue Doy, Arxnur, came aowa nu
?' told me that Erna wanted to see me.
;T. stayed about two hoars and I had
Liny sun with me but when I got there
- "I Uid h on the porch shelf, taking it
out oi ray hih iwcuv. .-. , i
- nr. .1 .J 4.V. l.-n..Kk
' while and all of as drank some elder.
There was nobody here except my son,
- bis wife, Mary,, and their little boy,
Arthur. Mrs.. Frisby drsrk some, and
danced while the phoasgraph was
!
vast dows the pathway ana went w .ootir u tnTitea to attena-
the commission some time ago,' and
has been working in the interest of
this road as well as a number of other
essential .highway routes 'traversing
various sections of Madison county.
B. Y. P. U. At Walnut
Creek
The French Broad Associational B.
Y. P. U. will hold its annual meeting
with the Walnut Creek Baptist church
August 19, 1928. Several prominent
speakers will be presnt on the pro
gram, among whom will be
Clarence Patrick, leader in Bun
combe Association, and some other
speaker in the morning,
In the afternoon, the principal ad
dress will be delivered by Rev. I, L.
Yearby, of Tarboro, N. C.
not thought to be serious.
The bolt of lightning was believed
to have come in over the telephone
wire. The telephone was torn to bits
and Mrs. Fitzsimmons' clothing was
ripped off her body, even her shoes
having been cut to shreds.
The wife of a leading dairyman,
Mrs. Fitzsimmons is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Georee Kershaw, of
Hendersonville.
Asheville Times.
ABOUT TAXES
COUNTY GOVERNMENT AD
VISORY COMMISSION
Raleigh, N. C.
July 31, 1928
To County Accountants:
It has been brought to our attention
that in some counties, a flat penalty
Ail tne cnurcnes in tne rrencn of 2n. of the total amount of the
Broad Association are expected to be tax sale8 certificates is beine imposed
represented. unon taxDavers at the time thev re-
Dinner will be served on the deem their Dronertv which has been
ground by members of the Walnut 'jj for Hence, we are send-
Creek Baptist church.
REV. I. L. YEARBY. .
who will lead in revival at the
Marshall Baptist church, begin
After a while 1 left and;nin Aug. 19, 1I3., Lrery
APPALACHIAN
DISTRICT FAIR
ing out this circular letter to correct
such misapprehension of the law.
Section 8037, Chapter 221, Public
Laws of 1927, requires that "the cer
tificate .of sale shall bear, interest at
the rate ot twenty per centum per an
num on the entire amount of taxes
and sheriff's cost for a period of
Lucerne, Switzerland, 15 July, 1928
Did 1 .tbjflk that 1 was traveling a-1
broad when I was in England, Scot-j
land and Ireland? Well, I know that!
I am in a foreign land now. It is eight
days since I entered Germany and I i
nave neftpu very little English in all
that time. Here in Switzerland it is
the same. Many speak both French
and German but I have heard mostly
German. I am staying now in a pri
vate house with a lady who cannot
speak a word of English. In Cologne,
(the people who live in Germany call
it "Koln").I stayed in what we would
call the Young Men's Christian Asso
ciation (J.M.C.A.) but which they call
call "Christlicher Verein fur Junger
Manner.'M bad a very comfortable
bed, but fife unly cover I had was a
feather bed. Not just like an ordinary
feather hed. More like a great big pil
low loosely filled with feathers, or
down. There was no upper sheet, but
the feather tick was covered with a
slip like a big pillow slip that can be
taken off and washed. There is the
same thing on the bed here in Lucerne
and it was the same in a private
house I stayed in one night in Ko!n
and in a hotel in Mainz (Mayence).
I suppose that it is the general cus
tom. I like it so well that I may try
to persuade the folks at home to get
me a feather bed for a cover. I had
often slept on a feather bed, but
never under one before.
Oijce, the woman and the girls who
cook, and wait on the table asked if I
.wouldhave Something "brodchen"
perhaps,", '.Hirid . schinken." J', .didn't
know what ''schinken" was," and dTfl"
not understand their German well e
nough for them to explain it, so I
was afraid to risk it. You know they
eat some things that we do not care
so much about, I might as well have
taken it however, for "schinken" is
just boiled ham, and a ham sandwich
is good to eat in any language.
I had a.m.ost wonderful trip up the
Rhine from Cologne to Mayence, a
distance ', of 120 miles. Fine, large,
passenger steamers are plying up and
down the river all the time, and for
tunately, I rejected the advice of the
Tourist Agency and insisted on a
ticket, for a steamer that stopped at
all the points along the river instead
of going by an express boat. It was a
long journey against the strong , cur
rent, from 7:15 to 22 o'clock. You
know' they have twenty-four hours in
a day over here. 22:00 o'clock is 10:00
o'clock at night.
The Germans fove the Rhine, and ft
is a great, place for holiday makers.
At every , stop merry parties would
be coming on and going off.
One of the chief ways to take a
vacation, especially for boys and
young men, is to "wandeln." "Wan
deln," means something like our word
"wander" but as well as I could
could gather from my conversations
w(th,ie boys, it has a slightly di:ejr-
an signincance. u is more nite going
on a walking trip, we would can
thefn "hikers." They are dressed like
hikers, usually with "shorts" as the
Boy Scouts would call them that is
short pants that end several inches
man people, and I had a delightful
day among them. There is an air of
freedom and gaity on the Rhine..
Most people are out for a holiday
trip and they enjoy it to the full.
Many were the expressions of de-
ight over the beautiful scenery. Part
of the way the Rhine flows through
a rich farming country, but the loveli
est part the part that everyone
wants to see is where there are moun
tains on both sides. I was struck with
the similarity of this mountain scen
ery, famous all over the world, to our
scenery in Western North Carolina.
In fact we have finer scenerv than
that along the Rhine except in two
very important respects.
The first in which the Rhine scen
ery has a great advantage in charm ,
over ours is the great number of
old castles, some of them in ruins
so many of the hills. Many of these
castles are famous and have much
them. The other advantage is that
even the steep mountain sides are not
neglected but are carefully tended.
A mountain side too steep to cultivate
in any other way will be terraced
by having great numbers of stone
walls built across its face&not in
regular rows but zigzagging every
way each wall retaining enough
earth to support a few grape vines,
so that the whole mountain side will
be a vineyard.
I wonder if you will find this all
very dry and uninteresting. You
wouldn't if you were here yourself.
I had thought thlt that all day
journey on the steamer would be a
good time to get some letters writ
ten this one included. But there was
so much of interest all the time that
I simply could not sit and write. On
the railroad journeys there is less to
see, but the train jiggles so that I
cannot write.
I am finishing this in Rome. I stay
ed in Lucerne over Sunday attend
ing the American Episcopal Church
in the morning and Monday morn
ing I had another wonderful steamer
ride of two hours on the lake from
Lucerne to Fluellen where I again
tqpjc - the train. The lake winds in ,
and out among the mountains and the
water is the bluest I have ever seen
and we could see great patches of
snow and ice on the higher peaks
with an occasional glimpse of some
completely snow capped.
Then a wonderful train ride wind
ing up and up, through many tunnels,
to St. Gotthards Pass, then through
a tunnel so long that it took the train
fifteen minutes to pass through it and
out on the southern slope into Italian
down, toward Italy.
I thiuk of you and wish I could
have a good crowd of you along.
4000 CHILDREN EN
ROLL IN MADISON
ntnk. 1 IT IB nJ 1Q !,.
been definitely selected as the dates twelve "K""8 from the date of sale, above tte knee ; bare legs, socks and
fr th. w nn,,l Annl-ohiM nd thereafter shall bear interest at hiking snoes. They carry all their be-
trict Fair, which will be held at Key- the rate of ten per centum per annum
stone Field. Johnson Citv. under the until paid or until final judgment of
auspices f the Appalachian District confirmation is rendered, but every
Fair Associmtion. oromoted and back- nolaer ceruncaie omer
Aft 4 Via .Tnltnann rsf : county. . municipal corporation, oi
A district fair for Johnson City and other Pnttcai suDaivisien, snan, m
this district comprises another step case saa ct,on 18 not nuiea wun
in the agricultural development' pro- in eifrhtee, months from the date of
gram Which is being put on bf the the first eertificate of sale, only re
Farm , Department of the' Chronicle. eive the expiration of eighteen
This' fair will be next in importance months, on all amounts expended on
to the East Tennessee Division Fair or in connection with said purchase,
at Knoxville and both Western North at. tne rate u p per cent
Carolina and Southwest Virginia sec- Per anna-"
tionsare expected to participate,' as Th w PW. therefore, that it
well as all of Upper East Tennessee. te not latendefl tnat jsu ox tne a-
-: - i I,.. ' mount oi tne cenincaw oe coiiectea
REWARD 1 ' will Mr a' libenl re- from the taxpayer if Be pays the tax;
ward to anyone furnishing me infor- es and. cost three months front th
mation that will lead to the recovery date of the . certificate. ' Only -'on.
of a small brown Jersey heifer about ' fourth of, twenty per pent ofthat cert!
mos. old, which has disappeared ncate-can be collected;. three months
from my pasture. ' s j being, one-fourth part; of,: twelve
J.N.WHITE months.1
tf. MsrskalL N. C CHARLES M, JOHNSON, Ex, Sec'y.
longings, in pack on their back. But
instead' of, having a definite object
ive such as we-have when we go on a
certificate other than jhike,"they just stay out for days or
even weeKS at a time ana irnvei
a
round; to see their country; traveling
oartlv on foot and partly by short
rjdes.dh steamboat or train; spending
yarj little money, (for they have Ht
tla" to spend) ; sleeping outdoors when
thei.weawf f . permits,, and eating very
frugaV,,el tlhey; may go singly or
by twos or larger groups, I saw some
ghls'' ging the same "way. , Besides
these gravel-worn hikers, one sees,
very many men and women, boys and
girls,' dressed fop Jfrith packs on their
backs, also seemingly or walking
V- There V ' '.practically - no tourists'
go'iy 'the, express boats that "make
very' few, stops. Bat-? I didn't come
over here So seaiAaaericana, . I can.
sea plenty of them at homeJ came to
see the real Germany and ret) Go
Approximately 4,000 school chil
dren in Madison County entered the
grammar schools of the county Mon
day, according to the estimate of Co.
Superintendent Blankenship.
All the county grammar schools o-
pened Monday. The high schools will
not begin the year's work until Sep
tember.
The county has two new school
buildings this year, one at Grandview
and one at Little Pine Creek. Work
is to be started at once on additions
to the buildings at Mars Hill and Hot
Springs, according to Blankenship.
FIVE GENERATIONS OF DE
BRUHLS TO ATTEND
REUNION
Five generations of the DeBruhl
family will hold a reunion at the home
of Z,V. DeBruhl at Alexander Sun
day, Aug. 12, . it was announced
Thursday. 'More than 200 members
are expected to attend. The reunion
festivities will occupy the entire day.
Mrs.' Rebeca DeBruhl, 85 years old,
is the oldest member of the family.
TWO SCHOOLS, AT LEICES-
, . TER BEGIN
Two schools at Leicester began
their ;-year's work Monday, Piney
Grove, and Newfound. The faculty
at Piney Grove is made up of Garland
M. Reeves, . principal. Miss4 Grover,
Miss Dovie Martin and Mrs. D. Worth
Browne Mrs. Eugene H. . Brown, is
principal at Newfound and is assisted.
by.Miss Mildred Brown.
Fanners of Terra Ceia in Beaufort
County shipped their first car of snap
beans cooperatively last week. -