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1 Vol. IX. CONCORD, N. C.i FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9V 1904 No. 12 t J- STATE WITNESSES " EXAMINED TODAY. FIRST DAY OP WHITE TRIAL TAKEN , UP WITH STATE WITNESSES. ' Testiraoay It the Same as Olven la tke ,' Preliaisuvy Heariaf Mrs. Shenilf .the Prlaclpal Witness The Jury. f' -; Salisbury, N. O, Sept, 9.-2 o'clock Court convened at 10 o'clock. . Wit- nesses for the prosecution . were called and examined as follows: Mrs. Sher rill, W. R. Clegg, J. -H. Thayer . and ort,pf Ml Pleasant, J. Clarkison and . H. E. Miller. The State hu only a . few more witnesses. "-. The evidence is substantially theVame as introduced at ', the preliminary hearing, .xvery point is being fought over by the, attorneys. . : Court adjourned , to meet" at 2-.30 v o'clock. ; ' r.y' We give below the evidence of M rs ; Sherrill (the principal witness in the - .case) given at the preliminary bearing: - Mrs. ahernll, who was - at your . house on the. morning of September 17th? I-:?--y&t;-U:&' ' Mrs. Sherrill: My sons Prince, aged 10, and Russell aged 21;' my daugh ' ter Lena aged. 15, Mr. Clegg, the school teacher who boards with us, Mr. J. H. Thayer and son, who had - . come to sharpen gin saws, and my ' self. " - - ;- ' Mr. Clement: Mrs. Sherrill, ' now - tell in your own language who visited - your home and what happened there that morning. Mrs. Sherrill: Soon after daybreak, - jusras I had gotten out of bed and be fore I had dressed, I heard a knock at ' the front door., I called out "through the blinds and stated -that! mvtdi be : ' there in a few minutes. When I opened the door I saw two' strangers - standing on the porch. They told me ' they wanted to see Mr.' Russell Sher rill. I brought them out chairs and then' went to call my son. ; He f was not up, but soon "came down.' . V ' Mr. Clement: How wu he dressed? " - Mrs. Sherrill: He had on his pants, ;s shirt and shoes, but ihe strings in his - shoes were not ikASitf'iQiji Mr. Clement: - Well,' ; what . bap- .' petted then? : - Mrs. Sherrill: The gentlemen said they wanted to see Russell ' privately. v I had gone into the hall , and . hearing this returned to the door. One of the Whites told me to go back, but I did not do so. Russell had seated himself on the bench. . Chal White walked around him so- that he was between , ' the two men. Almost immediately they both covered Russell with their revolvers and advanced toward him. Chal White said: You have ruined our niece, Annie White,' and you will die this day unless you marry "Jer. Russell said jhe did not do what they charged. I begged and . pleaded with Chal White to spare my boy for his mother's sake, - He would - noti even look at me. Then I pleaded with Tom White. v He said he was deaf and told me to speak to his brother. I again begged Chal White not to shoot, but he paid no heed- to my words. I had gone in between the two men and when they refused" to listen J moved toward the door. - Rus sell told - them he did ' not love the - young lady, and could - not marry her. Finally he said that he would go in, and started toward the door. Tom Y.'! '-e was between him and the door : J l.e pushed Russell to keep him f, oi i enterirj the house. Then the f,,'n Z trn and Russell fell backward tVnut the miJJ'e of the floor of the pcah." I fi.!l in the doorway and was soo.i up and f .!! across my son. Then the r t v t y aid I vent .i - the yaid acrca Mr. Clement: What did you scr 7 tj catch t!.s r. C.-rr.ent: I low rr.ary s TL: rtre two i quick succession and soon there was a third one. 'i, Mr; Clement:, What were the po sitions of the three persons when the firing was commenced? --v-W !Mis, Sherrilh Tora White was be tween my son and the hall, door and, Chalmers White was between Russell and the front entrance o the poarch., I Mr. Clement: Did Russell make any attempt to strike the prisoners, if not what did he do? . ' !W Mrs. Sherrill: No .he made no at tempt to strike. He wu very nervous and much excited. He once or twice held up bis hand as if to ward off the pistols when they were very ; close to him and kept moving his head trying to dodge the weapons. T'i ' Mr. Clement: How - long wu it from the time you called Russell be fore the shooting was over? Mrs. Sherrill: About three minutes. , Mr. Clement: Can you describe the wounds? ', , Mrs. Sherrill: I did not examine the wounds in the head. I saw one in the month and blood was flowing very freely. ' ..- . , Mr. Clement: What became of the prisoners, after the shooting? " , Mrs. Sherrill: They left at once. They did not drive up to the front' ot the house but tied : their horse to a post toward the rear of the building. Mr. Clement: Who fired first? Mrs. Sherrill: It. is impossible for me to. state. The two shots came simultaiieously. .. The White case was called in Salis bury yesterday and a great deal of in terest wu manifested in it here, in fact it was the topic of conversation on the street - The people u a whole sym pathize with the boys and are greatly concerned - u to their fate, THE TRIBUNE had the good luck' to have two good, representativei hejreejter day in the persons of Messrs. R. L. McConnell and J. :.L .Miller and they filled their places admirably," but by ; the . negiligence "of the Salisbury office of the Postal Telegraph. Com pany the matter they sent for publica tion did not reach Concord until after the . paper .was printed, 4 o'clock, though it was filed there at 2 o'clock. We therefore ,: secured a - message from the Salisbury Sun which we had in the paper. ' All day yesterday was spent . in securing 'a jury and - was finished last, night at . 6:30 o'clock, after 157 men had been called. . The personell of the jury is u follows:: J. U Deal, D. Y. Wise, Lovelace Eller, Lewis Peeler, W. T. Rainey.- W. Love Kirk,! D. Calvin Holshouser, Jacob Ak Cauble," Jna A. Morgan, 2 Agustus Kluttz and Ed Sifford. The friends of tbe Whites who know most of the jury are well pleased with it. ;:- Deatii Strliea 10111117, 'Though 8oat- ; :':v tared far. '-V-vJ ! Tuscaloosa, Ala., September 8. News of a most .unusual occurrance has been received here 'from Provi dence, Ala., a small town some 20 miles west of Tuscaloosa, in Pickens county : On Friday - last Jonathan Richardson, an aged Confederate vet eran of 93 years, passed away. A telegram-was immediately addressed to his brother; at Baldwin, Miss., request ing his presence at the funeral The message had hardly been received by the operator, when a message came over the wire announcing the death of Cape John M. Richardson, the brother to whom the other telegram wu ad dressed, and requesting that he, Jona than Richardson, come immediately toEJdwin." , . Within six hours after this telegram wu received three otners came," one announcing the death of the old family servant, one the death of a little niece, and the other the death of a nephew, Julian Richardson, which occurred at Pickensvule. f At sunset the next afternoon the f.v9 were hd to rest, two brothers, a a nephew and the old family s ,t. ' '-' s i: 'i t 1-1 RENT Two upper rooms - h rs.i !aw Corl and Craven L. Craven. - Oi5 CO. L RETURN MONDAY. Are Having a Good TimeWill Go to Wasbinftton Sunday Some Hard ;r ; FlgltlBg. ' f V; yrora our field Cfrespondent j, Camp Thoroughfare, Va., Sept 8 March orders promptly executed left the camp-deserted again this morning. The men went out -without baggage and with a hundred rounds of ammu nition. It is not likely that they get back to camp before tomorrow even ing, and there is a chance that the reg iment will bivouac each night unt'd the hour -of leaving. Orders are that the review takes plice at Wellington on Saturday at 11 o'clock and th? troops are trained on Sunday morning. Co. L will go to Washington Sunday morning in company with the entire regiment and spend the day. - f . The first two days were mild com pared wit,h the campaign in which the Browns are now engaging! The Blues have reinforcements at Allandale and may draw the Browns beyond Manas sas for the fight which will be the "big'' battle of the manoeuvres, . f The Browns have won the decis ions of the first two days, but with the heavy reinforcements (imaginary) the Blues have received the past 1 2 hours there is a general belief that the Blues will win a decisive victory Friday. ' In yesterday's fighting the Browns. won a splendid victory, and if the. thousands of volleys had borne lead there would have been a wrecked army of several of General Grant's brigades.' The first North Carolina has not spent much time on the firing line; they have been doing the reserve work for two days hardest sort of work,- but not the snap and action every' one wanted. Today and Friday the Caro lina boys hope and expect to bean lutintsrpirT-' It did a splendid piece of work yester day just as the armies were tailed off. The company ran -around - a detach ment of reeularf funder Capt Wise and made a fineycharge on a company of Blues, drove them from their po sition, and were entitled to a decision from the umpire, which they may get in the' general report. .The 'First N. C. is all right in every particular, and hu done some .splendid ' fiefj work, the hard, shifting action protecting the main body of the" armyilTTSe regir ment went out today in splendid con dition and in fine spirit,' ; expecting a campaign full of excitement as well as hard work. , There hu been no sick ness in camp'no accidents, and a re markably small number of nen out of line. The companies report full lines and the ' sick'' Ust is arid'hal been ex ceedingly light v The tnen want to "go for the enemy, and they want ' to get all there is to be had.' r-'i.' .'v ;" 1 Capt Harris, Sergeant Orr and Mr. W. A. Hunt, of Lexington" spent xes terday in camp, f Capt ; Harris went over the fields, between the lines and into the fighting with" the earnestness of youth. He was brim-full of en thusiasm and returned encamp as fresh as a morning glorjr.VvS '.: In his Confederate gray he walked out this morning with Sergeant Orr, who wore a. blue uniformly A. mem ber of the Massachusetts regiment ad dressed them u Lee and , Grant and proposed that they shake hands across tbe chum.' The old veterans who each followed Lee appreciated the happy incident and continued on .their way, . These old soldiers left this morning to spend two' days going over the field at Chancellorsville and other neighboring places familiar to them some forty years ago when there were no "Browns," but plenty of Grays shooting in serious ende vor to kill every Yankee in sight : The regiment has fared well in every particular. The men have received the best f care and have enjoyed the exercises. ' Only now and then do you hear a man ex press himself "as displeased. Having decided to go to Washington the regi ment will not get home until Mon day. J. F. II. Don't waste your time. You tvjJ it all Icforeyou d'.e. will WRECK ON SEABOARD. Fear Are Killed and Thhiy-Three !- iured in Wreck at Catawba Juaction. Charlotte, N. C.1 Sept 9. There was , a frightful wreck at Catawba Jtnnction, S. C, this morning about 1 0 clock when a train consisting of five day coaches, sleeping car, baggage car atid engine plunged through a trestle into the Catawba river. An engine and caboose following the train also fell in. Many lives are reported lost but all communication is cut off and fi details can be secured. The river aj the trestle is deep and it is thought tbat those in the coaches lost their lives by drowning. I Portsmouth, , Va., Sept. 9. In formation given out at the office of the president of the Seaboard Air Line hire is to the effect that two women passengers and engineer dead, and dne engineer, conductor, a fireman and eight passengers are injured in the reck at the Catawba River bridge. arksdale is the name of the engineer at wu killed. The names of the ead are not known. Cause of the iccident is not know u communication is cut off. (V Later: A report at noon indicates that four were killed . and thirty-three injured;. Officials claim that the dis covery has been made that there was malicious tampering with the track just at the trestle and that at the first train left the track before it got to the trestle plunging into it and knocking jt down.. Some joints have been found disconnected.-- BUTCHERS STRIKE OVER. After Being oat Since July 12 Men AI. y lowed to Retail to Work. ' Chicago, Sept 9. -The action of the ' executive' board of . the United Butchers Workmen last night ordering the members back to work was fol lowed this morning by the strike com mittees of the other trades involved taking similar action, thus ending the strike in which the men were beaten from the start. . Men will receive less than when they walked out, and much less than was given them in the agree ment The original strikcbegan July 12. It is believed that the strike break er? will, all leave Monday and that tbe men will get there positions back. A Little News Picked out of Our Tele graph Service of Interest to Readers. Tokio, Sept 9. According to a dispatch received today 3,000 corpses have been found by the Japanese up to Wednesday, There are niany more believed to have been taken north by the retreating army." This taken: into consideration ' the Russian losses are terrible.', "' li;:-" v--'..:--;'. . j Paris, Sept 9".-r-Pe(it Harrison hu dispatched from St Petersburg that a riimor is -current at that place that Gen." Kuroki hu succeeded in isolating force of 30,000 of Kuropatkin's rear guard and that they have surrendered. - SAME OLP TALE The Soldiers Dressed in Blue Unable to ' : Win at Ban Ran. Gainesville,' Va.,' Sept 9. The first battle of Bull Run has been re peated. ' General Bell commanding attacking Brown " force this morning won a great victory over the Blue force, which was found shortly after daybreak strongly entrenched on old Bull Run Battlefield, ; ; By 9 o'clock the battle wu won. This battle wu the most spectacular of the manouvers Gen. Bell's victory due to his su perior strategy. " v 11 ' ' ; ' t::z.czst ever : r m"Ti" -Vi-;- . 4 w Don't MaKe up Your Mind That j'ou can not have a pretty home because you haven't lots of money. You must not others charge. Don't think get the best. It isn't always necessary. It isn't at all, here, just at present. We have lots of Home-brightness for some one. Come to see us for yonr Furnitura wants. ksfa Graven bros. Hi 1U FURNITURE UNDERTAKING CO. New Neckwear of Latest Range For Early Fall FIGURED BROWN St BBOWN OUTFITTERS. Tomorrow we place on sale a lot of Cotton Ginghams, some in Stripes- arid some in very desir able Small Checks. . This . Ging hams is made; from very fine cotton, making every yard of extra quality.. The colors ar entirely new effects and perfect ly fa s t, every , col or being; thoroughly I tested and woven in the goods. This superior qual-; ity o iFine Ginghams is worth 15c per yard, but a trade chance enables us to offer them at r ' judge this store by the prices you must pay high prices to A N D F AN C Y.
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