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VOIiUMK FIVE—NUMBER 143
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WHITTEMORE WAS HANGED AT 12:16 HUS MONK
NOOSE SNIPS
LIFE THREAD OF
l YOUNG BANDIT
‘That’s AU Right’’ He
Said When Told of
the Failure of Last
Effort to Save Life
HIS LAST REQUEST
AN ITALIAN DINNER
Maryland Penitentiary. Baltimore.
>l4 . Aug. IS. AH\^ Richard. Rooae
Whittamora. head at a bow ahattarad
"million dollar crime trust” was hang
rd at 13:It this morning forth# mur
der It months ago of Robert H. Holt
man. a Maryland Penitentiary guard.
Whittemore was coo etc tod of first
degree Murder on May SI aad sen
tepced to death after a*ring escaped
conviction by a Jury disagreement
tn Buffalo. N. T. where he waa tried
for murder la connection with the
killing of a bank meairnger daring
a W.3uo hold-ay.
An hour before midnight a crowd
waa gathering In knots near the pris
on entrance. It was for the most
pet t shirt-al«ev*d one and good-net -
need and police were having «U> dif
ficulty In controlling It. Mothers
with children la their arms abd cling
•r.g to th*lr v skirts'.were scattered
about
There waa no chance for the won’.U
be spectators to ohaarve anything, the
death chamber being located wait la
aide the penitentiary walls out of
eight end hearing. 4 police datdll al
lowed no one officiale. wit
nesses. and' newspapermen to ap
proach the prison entrance. The
crowds ware orderly.
Mra Margaret Whlttemore, the con
demnnl man’s wlfa. bade him sere
well early In the evening, entering
»*«# penitentiary through the hospl
*tl door from which Whlttemore es
taped on February 30. 1925 after fat
ally beating H. Holtman. tbs
guard.
Mre. Whlttemore was not allowed
to kiss her husband. A heavy fine
meabe screen separated them.
Rawlings V. Whlttemore. the slay
er’s. father, feccbfhpanled hla daugh
ler-ln-law to the death cell lor the
last visit. He waa not to b> allowed
* by Warden to witaesa the death of
hla son.
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The Case la Review
Baltimore, Aug. —Although
at outs with the law Trom the age of
short trousers. Richard Reese Whitts
more’s criminal career left him cast
in a petty rote until, at the age of
kS aud with a noose dangling above
l>la head, he crowded Into the apace
of a few months moat'of the hlglu
lights of a fiction bandit’s \ W"WUff|Wimd|^|toem*mßmmamss**samawwm
LOCATED AT NO. HO SOUTH JAMES STREET IN THE HEART OF THE BUSINESS ''
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MACK TELLS WHY SOME PEOPLE InTnOToAIBR
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MISS GOATS
DIED YESTERDAY
DmU ai 11 OVlnck Yeatcrday
Foliowing Illncmi mud
Major Operation
Mias Rath Lee OosU. eeventeen
year-old daughter of ftw and Mrs.
\y. R. Coats, of west Walnut street,
bled at 10:44 yesterday morning fol
lowing an lllneas of six weeks. Hhc
was removed lo n local hospital sev
eral dayc ago and a major operation
performed but ak« did not poeeema aat
flclent strength to rally from the
shock.
Rev. and Mrs. Costa moved to
I Goldsboro from Hmitbfteld several
I months ago. and hava been operating
I the RufTln’a hotel. The deceased girl
1 waa a beautiful and attractive young
I woman end a member of the Free
Will Baptist church.
1 At I o’clock today the body will
rm taken lo St. Mary’s Grove cbiKH
'a Johnston county and here the fu
neral service* will be held aod in
terment mad* under the direction of
1 Rev. 8. H. Styron of Pine Level.
Miss Coats is survived by h*r falh
und mother, one brother and three
eister*. The brother Is Hhufbrd
Coale of Denson, and the sisters are
Mrs. W. IWtoodell. of Lumborton; and ,
Mrs. W 3. Beasley, of Garner.
Young Negro
Confesses Crime
Arrested last night at 1(l o’clock and
charged with robbing the borne of
Marvin Sherrard. of Ksat Walnut
filrSet, during the lasi week H» July
Waddell Dortch. 15. years old. colored
’-onf eased to the crime. It waa as Id
bv officers. »
The capture waa made by police
men Nick Gwaltuey and Joe Howell,
and Deputy "Chink” Rhodes. Dortch
, waa taken at hia hetu at Sprues and s
Denmark streets. Webbtown.
About 127 waa taken from the Bher
ranl borne-two SlO bills, n>s bill,
n |l-bill and some change. ,
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Wholesale Dynamite
Plot Discovered
Miami. Aug 12 —(/P)— A wholesale
dynamite plot In which THTbom* of
H. A Hamp. president of.the Hialeah
chamber of commerce and the office
of the Hialeah Herald ware to be
blown up wee revealed this aUwnoon
In a confession of W. A. WWe and
the arrest of Hampton Green, director
"f the Hlleah Independence Day pag
eant on a charge of conspiring In the
plotting.
It was charged by Mr. Hamp that
on June' 1 Green conspired with a
number of unnamed persons to de
stroy hla property
Think 500 Will Attend
Sunday School Convention
Five hundred member* of the Wayne
County Sunday School Association
»rq expected to be In attendanca for
the annual convention of the Associa
tion at Orantham's blah achool, Au.
trust 2* und 29. accordlnc to Mia*
spr* •
Mt Mm ‘_A»autiAliOn i
The Sunday achool Aaabclallon num.
her* members In every aectlon of
Wayne county and a food percent
age of the memberahlp la expected to
attend the two-day convention.
I j The principal addreaa la acheduled
■ to be delivered by Dr. A.,J. Smith,
paator of the First Baptist church
j hare and now In Franklin as manager
' of the Truett McConnell meeting be
ing held In the mountain city. Sun
day achool lender* look with Interest
to the addreaa by Dr. Smith. .
Other local paator who will appear
■on the program are Rev. R. R. Pitt.
man, r of Mount Oltve: W M Howell,
ot Goldsboro, and N. Q. Dnncnn, of
Failing Croak. D. J. Mm, U
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GOLDSBORO, N. C. FBI PAY MORNING, AUGUST 13, 1»W
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BRING AUTO
VICTIM HERE
Funeral at York Home on Her
man Street at 4 O’clock
Thio Afternoon -
The body ol Mrs. W. A. Weet
brook. of GrSebvilla, who was killed
la an automobile accident at KaJlhu
Creek, seven miles west of Kinetoo
Wednesday afternoon, waa on yaater.
day afternoon brought to the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert York at 7M
Norik Herman street. “
Funeral services for Mre. West
brook will be conductyd from the home
of Mr. end Mrs York at 4 o'clock
this afternoon by Her. C. V. Brooks
pastor of the Second Baptist church
Interment will be In Willow Dale
cemetery.
Mr* Westbrook was before her mar
riage Mias Madia Dusall. daughter of
Mr. and Mre. 6. !,. Duvall, of wbUe
vtlle, and her parents, husband and
oae and four staters survive. She
was twenty-five years old end n mem
ber of the Christian church.
Acting ppllbearer* at the funeral
this afternoon will be. the (allowing:
J. H. Kirk man. John Motingo, E L
Womack. L. L Wlgglna and W. F
Ttutoa.
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Give AttenLioii To
fluxion rromems
Waahtagfon. Aug. 12 —<#)—Thro de
valopmenta turned (ha attention of th*
Stale Department toward Mexico as
Secretary tCellog was preparing to
laav# for White Pine Camp to talk
uver u dvßarUnenlal problems with
Frealdenf ‘ CooUdg .
Ambassador Sheffield reported that
he had intercede i with the Mexican
Foreign office on I rbalf of another Im
prisoned AAerlcj). H. J. Grand, ol
Los Angeles, who was arrested a week
ago and bald wl bout hearing on an
unspecified ohari>.
Whfl* official* vere aaaeising the
possible conscquacra of that Incident
gfr. Kallog made an appoint for to
morrow Which f >1 give the American
government ttn rat official contact 1
with the coniro' tray In Mexico. «He
arranged to seel. Flaherty. Hupreme
Knight of the Inlghte of Columbus,
and receive froh him e resolution
adopted at therecentaconventluMlM
the order oißl i king Alt the United
States laterven to protect Catholic
clergymen from President < alien reg
ulations.
BI BT PIONKR PAPER MAKER
Jefferson, fli, Aug. 12. -(A*)— How
ard l-and. 24. he first manufacturer
of paper In thcßoutb, was burled lata
today near bli home at Austell, Oa.
charge of th J Kuiiday School Aaeocla
tlon .work toj tbe entire state la ached
uled to glvWthe delegates some prac
tical Informllon concerning tbe ao.
lutlon of pbblemn which every Sun
day sctwnlU uallad H.***
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. program ah endeavoring to schedule
numbers fj>m which those In attend
ance may lain Ideaa and Inspiration
that they may take back and apply
In their <1 n Sunday schools.
, i. D. 1 tea, of Orantham's, la pres
ident of t i Association
inn u*n romuM chii ftri r
« ampo Tallf., Aug 11—The body of
Don Mel ae. former chauffeur of tha
family « Jackie Coogsn, child film
afar, am who was aought In connec
tion wilt the shooting' of a watchman
at the f pgan home In Los Angeles
Tuesday was found shot through the
head at le Coogaa ranch near here
today b Loa Angeles police detec
um.
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[will Outwit
Wiley Bootlegger
Washington. Aug. 12. -
W ieurteO aO
warranto rhargiag tteee wNk Ike
ward Wheeler HaR aad Mrs,
Uaaaar BUI*, chair elager. Beik
murder la lMf *f (ka Bev Id.
plaadod set golttf M ’
Tk* warranto were (apued this aft
ernoon by Judge PrapgjfteTy M com
plain) a Captain jjg Lgnih
atato pottos, ImmVW
the home of hie sMer tn Now Bruns
wick and Carpenter accompanied by
Timothy Pelffar, New York attorney*
aurrended tn the state police here. In
addition to the two arrested today
Mrs. Hall to at llbdrty in «1M<»0 ball
on' the asms charge. All the arrests
were made following the Investlga
lions recently ordered by slate authorl
tie*.
Carpenter end Stevens, after being
questioned, were taken to the office of
Judge Cleary, their .entrance was prea-J
aged by the *»ploaiun r of numerous
camera flashlight* Carpenter ot>-
>vlou*ly nervous entered Aral He stor
ed uncertainly about him and then
lock a seat. Ha waq followed by
Steven# who dabbed excitedly at hla
Up* with a handkerchief.
"I notice that Mr. Carpenter to rharg
ed with the murder of Mrs: Hall,” said
Attorney Felffer In examining the
warrant. ‘‘l also notice that Mr. Ste
ven* is charged only with the mur n
der of Rev. Mr. Hall.”
Judge Cleary explained that while
•wo complaints charging Steven* and
Carpenter with both murdrrs were
mad* by Captgln Laitib. warrant* had
only been' Issued on one of the two
samßlalnt* against each
to their feet and entered
pleas of not guilty,
(■ raven In ‘Ahead
In Alabama Race
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Birmingham, Aug. 12.—(A*>— Bibb
OraVes. wht lie
the tall of the Tammany Tiger.** waa
leading hla nearest opponent, f'harlec
K. McDowell. Jr., by 3.377 va*e. to
night. A count of second choice
rote* will be necessary by McDowell's
friend* concede that Oruve** second
choice vote* Will exceed McDowell's..
First and second choice vote are
tyr wvrh of Uj«t two higher
h«"*> '
man fall* to receive a clear .majority
of all vote* caat.’ ,
- Grave*' campaign was featured by
an attack upon tbe larger newspapers
cf the state which he said were seed
ing to dominate not only elate poli
tics but also supported Hal Smith for
president. Hs waa believed to have
received the vote of the Ku Klux Klun
i ottor mri RK*
New York. Aug It.—Cotton futures
closed steady at a net decline of 17
to 29 points October .16:21; Decem
ber 18:13; January 18:18; March
111:31; May 18 M
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SsaMngt— ceuldnt bni did
h. nm nmttm fttUasr *•*
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SERVICES FOR MR.
PEARSALL 3 P. M.
Herman Struct Iferdpt DM
Suddenly Early Tknradny
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Funeral aervloeg for D. ft. paanalL
ffiar alght ywars ajd.' of Og Aah
street, will be be I* from the Bus
Will Baptist chutak oa Sluuaoag
•tract this afternoon at I oc)oek by
Bev. k. P. Parka. Mr "nrmll M
suddenly Thursday morning at *:*•. ,
He retired night In
mraai health, so tor aa Is known.
About 3:10 bto wlfa wy* awakened by
groans, called tk her husband and gut
no reply. InvesUgating-pke Pound bar
huabaod dead.
Mr. Pearsall bad tor a number of
year* operated a grocery store on Her
men aubec waa a member of the I*.
aat Junior Order and Mine* and f*n
trlotic Boas of America and nf the
Free Will Baptist church.
tto to survived bp hto wife, three
brothers and one eister Th# broth
ers are Mbert and 1. Pearsall, of
Richmond Tha sister to Mrs. K. J.
Britt, of Rlchcaood
Members of the Jeelor Order will
be to charge of feg services at d|
grave this afternoon, and laternMK
wui bo m willow Dnle oometerr, Tito
following members, of Um Junior Or-
W H Hlnee, J. M.'uoutherlkodrad
.• Pearce. .... ....
Htotor Died In Lfte Mnaner
1-ee* than n minfh egw ibi
Betty Pearsall, aged «, a stator
es lb* mu who died yeetorday
meralng. waa feead dead to bad
aadar rfnrnmetaacaa math shat
tor to those at the death es Mr
brother. Mb# retired feel lag well.
A beat two e’etoch she sailed Hto
neighbor la whoa# home she into
L * pending the night nnd mid Mto
wa* 111. Later she safii sM weald
be nil right The meralng
she was feead dead when called to
breakfast.
TRIBKNMEN MAC HTRAIN
Constantinople. Aug. 12.—(IP)—Man.
sages received her* ff<>9l Aleppo say
that ‘ Druses bavy ijuUrrd a train he
tween Aldppo and Dnmaacus, kill
ing all the Armenian passengers, In
cluding a former chief of police o? the
latter City*.
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“ HRIIHJE FAI.LHi m dead
Tokyo. Aug. 12—UP)—A bridge oa
the NoJlromachl* oae of the male
thoroughfare* of Akita, In Ngo pro.
vine*, collapsed lale yesterday Thlr-.
tees bodies have been recovotod and I
nrty person* still are m|a*iog.
: Expects That Neely Will
Give Bond Early Today
H. J. Neelj. 83, of ftammattaw.
Teen.. will probably glm hewd
, *wjr t*mr lee NMMtiM with
*»»«* nulomehlle wreck la which
l»«*«l«> |*. Trayler mu killed la*l
Hu»a«r Ithrhh That Nealy will
earl? !•<•; wan ladl
• Skit# Wr 'lfr*-* *•*
■VM hr hat* N«e»y and Hamid
(Ira4r. held Ja the earn*'arridewt,
ha* been redwert la HJMI The
•.hrlaal to aaalat Naaly.
j When iha two Ralalgh man left
, (iwldab >ro y eater day afternoon they
••M thar +ouM |o as toon aa peaal-j
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'A4f • £ * fcfSg ]Jm- J /v* ■
At l:M toot evening a aatoemor
i drove hi* Ford coupe up to Mto ItoMg
> "»**■« •* ototor-iM m
i Btroeto aad ardarai the tank fMlod
fervioe gtoa fall to thetr took aad Dig
waa tomnrtod la toa teak.,
toaaad th* flaming match out th* epoa
, wladahltod. There was n sharp “pair
. as th* famoo arteiag from IM gaan
lias took fire, and the gag was lara-
I tog merrily.
Almost at Ih# emag instant the lire
. xlnrm was inroad la aad to reomd
ime th* firemen were oa hand with
i their cheadcal apparatus. Bdtii ana
•toe had leaped u> cut off the Hew
Under the «fttoaal work «f the flre
! the fleams apoattag from the
t '«nk of the coupe were aoog ax-
I tlagulehed, hat the supply of choml-
I la round the fllliag task had bom #a-
OMAMEETAL lUitPKBDRBfI I
imadok. Aug. 11—Oraemaatal aus
peodere ere the latest lanevaUoaa of
Ue beau brummel* of . Bond stroet.
The saw fad takes tha form at atag
rtld or wovoa pictures oa tha shoul
der straps of the braces aad already
ha* become popular. Boats moa'e
braces carry pictures of beating
oceans Others have bone's heads.
Rv«m cricket aad amatoe are repr*
•Anted.
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WATTS GUI Will
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Aehevtllt. Any 12 -HP)—mutts
Ouna. of Atlanta, Oa., walker cop
teem member today eliminated Marry
Eble. yoaag Asheville golfer, eae up
at the Ifth hoklla the championship
flight of the IwVAatioa geM- iearaa
meal ai tha BUtmore ltoreat coaairy
club. Failure to sink a short put coot
Ehle hla match agalaat tk* Oeorgia.
“G. M.» (Hf» MUM
New York, Aug. If —<«V-ptreetero
of the General Motors corporation to
day declare* a Mock dividend of M
per cent In addition to ih* rogalar
payment of 11.76 _ oa the common
I otock. regular quarterly dlvtdeat to
leloe payable on tk* new atari.
[hla to tha rlark of ronrt of Wake conn.
,ty and arrnapa far thy U.eoo hoad
nereaaary to let young Naaly so free
l until tha maatlag of the grand Jury
on Auguat 88.
3 W Ixiwthrop. of Durham, wag
OH hehaft of FVt I*
Mr. Uwthrop faal. that aa apon ,-e
bu.lnaaa will permit, hla eod. (or
whom Naaly worka, will come to hia
aid. f
| *( will certainly ha glad u» ( -t
out of here- .aid Naaly yaeterday.
‘’for I want to tall the people of
i Ooldaboro how 1 appreciate tha ktn.U |
j neaaaa which they hare done for at.
Couple ham haaa tending me cigar- ,
ette. and tha Ilka and calling to aeo I
Nyaly aaJd that ha would not return |
|to Ttaneaaee la eaaa bond waa ar- i
t mngfd thla morning, hut would re- 1
main in Wayne county pending the ac
i tkn of tha grand Jury lor which ha \
1U held.
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TimMbir altfl^fE^
**Aa4 Qm Um* o« .w.
'"* «U«i at; tart M oatotoM^H^
mrhk!* *** ."
I««t. in ■ pit* at tta toafei of
IM "**" Pft»r* —I m -*jp,
air Mrrlo*. Tboaa pMMtofftoga. OTtol
tors and cultured TUfUirtltoai. tos£
-d on Patti aa a >l»», fk«a3
I thr otter n 4 y-— nnin 1# tTrf
• iroat foaadaMoa KMW Os tttotoMMdlrS''
a SOM bmvm ngl» -nf to ~r ‘rj-Titr
) eat that %t goto to Wm mj' "Hf
la not opttoaak JaoM, tltot'MM tow
of tta toflaltotria aM> walk* ft*
l»tt Os humaa Mo oald. “Moo* y<
r.M«t y ahall UhMf* poUM." W*
Kttuw to a ia«r T-rriir siW
In tta haart of a stottll pmmi #*.
World and Writ of Qod. «£%
rroa a aoaaa of Ma ala as tttttwfn
Gw M«
hto ova aaal aad froto aa nunrta
*>*• of tto NPrejr of Ood to Chri*. hd
«ltt «Hos. aad MUM Os afl Mo
kaowa aiaa. taraa « m» ttoai to M
as bia Sarlor aad Lot*. la «tt*
hSiIJi 7— r * «*«•*-■;
ofOod. h’tottT! S'U ttTftoJ 4 ‘
Th. word ‘WyaTta tto tost toMa
jjjj* "*■*
wroas habits; aad wto^MiaMtolh*
character gives aa a wrong dtotlajf
Omnipotence la not HU only lllrtilln
and Hlnai la aot Rjg eat? toaatttoto>
“oo Now whoa wo haws tto daot
wattad o«t of tor ep*g wtth wa.ee
ttat make* glad tto ottf of Ood. aM
look Ur* Qod*a trltampt at tto loa4
•lala and let . riatoa of Mo lorotol
mercy, tola brings a oaaaoiaatMM
that i is a otaaor. aad aa a toagH
of this coaocloaaaega ttat I atoll
r'nnar. contrition la theaeat atop,
' ►'or o«dlr Tnrbilb repeal-. -<
anca lo aalvaltoa MM to bo rtoOMtol
"I but (hr Borrow pf tto warldl
Uh and fonakott ttoai
mrrer ” bad thto briaga toraaklag of
•in “Lot tto wlcbod toraako hto Wax. ■VI
and thp unrtgktoaaa OMM kla
Lkooghto; aad retarg Mto Uw
Jantlr pardaa." to g rtagiMr*«