V U j Elkin.N. C, Thursday, Jan. 30, 1019 ii. I No. 40 WITNESSES IDEN TIFY WISEMAN AS SLAYER Morganton, Jan. 2". Two k state's witnesses at the prelimi nary hearing licld here this af 4ei'Iloon positively identified Jaron Wiseman as the man they saw kill Dr. K. A. llennessee at (Men Alpine on January 31, 1!)1S. The unexpected and sensa tional feature of the heat in? was the introduction as a witness for the state of Fred V. Amos, of Pock Hill, S. C, whose evidence the solicitor threw a-; a veritable Wmb into the case. The fact that he would !e introduced wa . known only to the prosecution and the witness. Amos could not lie shaken in his te-timony, cross-examination seeming only to make him more positive in hii statements that he knew the man who had killed Dr. Iletiiie fce.to le none oilier than Aaron Wiseman, whom lie had known I for many years and whom he could identify positively as the ' man he had seen from the train window on the night of the kill ing shooting with two pistols. He described his dress and gen eral appearance and stated a number of times that there was no question in his mind a to the identity of Wiseman. On cross-examination the do vfense a-ked why he had not let Jds fact he known at the former ' trial when the Pitt Wys were tried for murder. Ili explana tion was that he had seen from the train that there weir other people on the scene; that he thought they had seen a much as he and could testify to the , Minie, and that since he was pre paring to l.-ave the State to ac cept work and had not Wen um moned as a witness he ! ! not fed it his duty to tender his . er vices as a witness. J. M. K.imsey San Shooting. Substantiating the story of Amos was the evidence given by J. M. Kam-ey a pasctiger on the same train. whose testimony at -y.he time of the other trial was Vithotit doubt one of the pnn i f a factors entering into the ;vf luittal of the Pitts Wys. Pam soy al o identified Wiseman as to height, weight and movement as the same he had seen sheet ing on the night of the C,.-n Al tiie tragedy, and whom lie mi & Ynatically dc-niWd when Ai ron and C.arf.cld Pitts weie Ui.'d last Match, lie lo!. how lie ws dressed and that he shot With two pistol-:, Otie a bllle steel and the other ni WI plated With only thc-c two w itne . it i.s llio t pob.,he the !..?e luuld have had W i -i ,n c;;. ir.it ted b jail witi.ojt Wnd. a M d"ee, but fuith.ee rvid- nee :e1 intlodiired jtl.d t!,i' gener al Ol'lllio't ( nl'K - I." tli.it the i,i O j.gain-t W'i em.iii I an ex ceptionally stiong one. Amos and Ramsey made as giHd wit ,yw ever appeal ed on the i utand in the P.uiKe county rouit 1 !. 1 he tawvrls for the !. -, weie a' olutrlv unable to shake them from their oiigm.d stories. Their au-weis weie cleaily and unhesitatingly given. The healing tod.iv of Aaion Wiseman, who has been in jail since Thui sday of Lot week on a Wnrh warrant rhaiging him with the murder of Dr. Ihnnes. see wrote another chapter of the now famous story of the Pitts J litmcsi'i" liHeeilies t (lien Al pine. It w a Wgun pmiiiptlv at t o'clock, Judge P.. I. Wrg. of Statcsvillo, presiding, the war rant of last week having Wen made returnable Wloro him. Solicitor K. I.. Huffman, who has Won w oi king on the rase per sistently since the P.tt Wys were cleared last spring in an cf- fort to spot the murderer, railed his witnesses and announced hi readiness to proceed. The soli citor was as.-i,4ed in the prose cution by W. A. Self, of Hickory. J. W. piess, of the Marion bar. i and S. J. Ervin. of Morganton. appeared for the defendant, Vj oman. After ratling three Vset they announced their fr; ,(ess to proceed. The first w itness called by the slate was M. N. llennessee, of filon Alpine, brother of the mur- pr.ysician. ne lemnen liONAU PAW SAVES TIMK BY rsiNCTiii; airplane London, Dec. .")!. An exam ple of the commercial uses to which the airplane might bo de voted has been given by the chancellor of the exchequer, An drew lion a r Law, by tw ice flying from his home in Imdon to Scotland to make speches in the parliamentary campaign now ended. The chancellor was the first statesman in England to avail himself of air transport for everyday purposes, liy travel ing by airplane, he crowded into six hours a journey w hich would have con-umed 21 hours by train. Mr. lionar Law is not a young man nor does he regard Hying a; an adventure. He is a prac tical inan of business, with an eye to the saving of time, and traveled by air merely as a mat ter of economy. It is suggested here that bankers and railway oflieials who have to fill engage ments in different parts of the country and whose time is valu able may be expected to follow his example. His exploit has increased the speculation on the future of fly ing as a commercial business. Hundreds of military fiying men would like to continue their air work. To what extent peace conditions will offer opportunity to them is an interesting ques tion. Thus far no definite pro iicts for passenger or mail ser vice have been started, although there is mueh talk of a daily air serie.- for passengers between Iiiidon and Paris, weather per mitted. Suggestion has been made that one of the large machines of a type which recently carried II passengers over lmdon mak ing a two-hour flight at a speed of more than 1mi miles an hour might be Used in the Indon and Paris service. The largest number of persons previously canied by an .-'ii-plane in Eng land was "J". that Dr. llennessee had in dis tinct bullet wounds all entering from the hark. He stated that he In-ml Aaron W iseman make the statement in the solicitor's ffH e u hen inquiry was leing ng i i.ide to p-t evidence that on the d.iv of the killing he had come iioin his home at Spruce Pine to (Hen Alpine to see W. D. Pitts on imjwiitant business that he wen to the Pitts store near the (Hen Alpine station where he found Aaron Pitts who in foimcd It 1 1 ii that his father was a! his ho ne jiM a mile away. Purthei the witness told that Wi-em. n saiil that he did Hot r.. to .e T.ud" (W. IU P.tt- '"it kek Imme on train No. "Jl. In the same com ei at ion in Solicitor Hunian'.s t.:!ice a few da s ,,;t, r the ki!!;ng Wi i man staled that the Pits Imys walked with him to the tia:n and that neither ot them hail on an ovei coat or iamco.it but that he had on a long tan cloth mat that came i low his knees, lhewit- 'ie.s was que tioin particular ly in this piint a later wit- hesses v.eic to be Used to identi fy i eniau as the wearer of t ti.it long tan coat id-out which so mm h w as heard in the foi mi l trial. The roat came be'ow his knees and he had on a light broad hummed hat. Mr. Ilcnnes. i e said that Wiseman .said. The hat was mashed in at the lop. The witness stated that Wi e- man was recognized k a witness fiom the state to appear at the Maiih term of cotnt. I lis. I'm . titer when the time set for the tua! came Wiseman failed to ap pear and that there is no certi ficate as to his sickness at thai time; that a capias was issued, the trial po-tponed ami two of ficer, sent to Avery county to bring him to court to testify. Amos Ih Iniioduced. It wat at this point that the star witness Fred W. Amos was introduced. Amos was for two or three years editor of the liakersville paper, was at one time reporter on the News and Observer reporting for that pa per pioceedmgs of one session of the state senate. He is now of the Herald force at Pock Hill. S. ('. He ha.s recently Wen in the sen ice, holding the t ank of lieu tenant and discharged only n few weeks ago. Ho is a man of (ColllilHlrJ oil gf) r A-.., . s J 1--.Vi:.T-.!in i ''!'t..' Hi : "" - '' - ! ' ' ' l': l: " v "' KVKKY O.NR IITNCHY IN liKULIN. SAYS TIHPUUY. P.erlin, Dec. X. I am hungry eternally hungary. here in Iier lin! Everybody is hungry. Living is unpleasant, even in the finest hotels, where the best food obtainable in (ieimany may be had. r The food is not nutrious be cause it is lacking in fats. I have bought a pound of goose grease for "0 mark- bet ter than $7 for my own Use as a substitute for butter. It is ex pensive, but it is the only way I can get nutrition. In the streets crowds of peo ple may be seen nightly munch ing apples and starir ' the shop windows at the extraor dinary display of "erzat" sub stitute fid. Deer isof inferior quality, but it is the only drink obtainable. Despite the high cost of living ot e can buy theater seat only by applying days in advance. I attended a production of "Cat niv d Fairy," a musical com edy which has Wen running for four months at the Melropole theatre. It was witnessed by a packed house. All P.eilin is humming the .song of its popu lar star, Fritzi Massary. a Hun garian actress. Evidences of the foinn r popu. I.uity of the (ienuan kaiser are Wing removed and covered up throughout '.lie city. In Freid lichstrasso a huge cafe sign lead "Kaiserkelier." Th fu st half of the name has Won blotted ollt A lifesirc statue of William !! lunollcni over the doorway i; now caliv ass-eovered. At III. d destitution among the (email people i.s obseivable on ly under the surface. I have learned by making a tour of (he iHMrer districts. On the Alexar.dertilatz and Jacobstrasso tlH tores, large nall, are but scantily stenked. The windows are f.llcd with high priced, shoddy god,s. but inside the shelves and counters are nearly empty. Nevertheless the rrowds aie preparing to do their Chiistmas buving. And heie are some of the prices they will have to pay to slock their Christmas trees and to make their Christmas dinner. The prices are given in maiks. A mark is just under 21 cents. Toys, two marks. Candy. Pt mark a pound. Chicken, to marks a pound. Colfee. marks (obtained by stealth.) Cotton handkerchiefs, four ma i ks. Collars. . marks. Cotton .ocks, three marks. Cotton underwear, 100 marks. A man't hat, .Y"i marks. Woman's felt hat. GO marks. The working classes which Use the subways in the morning show plainly their impoverish ment. For most of them break ., fast consists of acron coffee, a slice of sour broad. It is impossible to obtain soap, except such as is rendered from fish Wnes. 1 saw a hoie fall on I'nter-den-Linden and its teg was broken. Its throat was imme diately rut by the authorities and it was conveyed to the r-- ' P- mm ii - f..: I.M.I.-., ri-jr In l !;!n? on Ttemfc-Hnj '( 'I v li .iisiy ....-ii.'i,.-t,! .. r. i t.. Ii,- 1 1,., ini.i.rtlni! wo,.!l.i.;-s iin KALEKill liOY IS HACK: WKAKS TIIKKE M PDA I.S. New York. Jan. 2D. The transport Caronia and the nav al supply ship Melville arrived here today, bringing l,P.)" of ficers and men of the army and navy from overseas. On the Caronia were the :i:ilst infantry regiment of the x:,id (depot) division. Col. II. A. Ilan nigaii. commanding; three cas ual companies. ti wounded, .2 casual ollicer.s and five Il 'd Cross nurses. The ::1 .t. which is composed of selective service troops from Ohio and westtun Pennsylvania, was stationed at Le.Mans and Cast res, France, when the armistice was signed. The Melville's contingent con sisted of 217 liaval officers add enlisted nun who proceeded at once to the navy yard. The land troops wi le taken to Camp Mills. There was one casualty on Ward the Caionia dining the trip. Private Joseph Craig, of the riotst infamy, whose home was said to have Wen in Ala bama, Urninc suddenly ill and died as the Caronia steamed into the harbor. One of the Caronia's casuals. Lieut. Thomas U. Harden, for meily a Washington rorivsMin dent for the St. Wilis C,!oW Democrat, brought bark three medals, the rioix de guerre, and the m"dal of King AlWrt of Iielgium. and the "Hindeiiburg" medal, e penally struck otf by the P.ritish to commemorate the breaking of the Hindenbutg line. Lieutenant Harden. whoM1 home is in Paleigh. N. C. fought with the HiHish fiom PapKiime to the lielgian Wi ilei . He was gassed twice an t was slightly j wounded by shrapnel fiom a "Itooby trap" set b the C.cr-mans- a hand grenad lixisl to explode with the p e- sing down of the baiind wiie to which it was attached. P.efoie going to W.vhingtoii as a newspaper con e -pindent. Lieutenant I ai il. il w as emplov ed on newspapees at Newpoit. News, 'n. s Lieut. Henry Clay Kinsley, of Peteisbuig. Va a tank coip-. officer, saw active serxice at St. Mihiel and on other fronts. He was wounded twice by shrapnel. slaughter house to W prepared for fKxl. 'lasoline is .scare and there are only t.i taxieabs in all P.erlin. Most of the autos aie without rubWr tires. As substitute they Use a four huh iron band with spiral springs between it and the wheel. There is plenty of brass and other mclals. Machine gun bullets have marked the royal stables. Put ha only disquieting factor is , ) grow ing jwvver of the -l.floo soldier deseitcrs who are hold ing meetings of discontent. I have Wen surprised at the efficient operation of the ma chinery for displacing the wom en in the factories with soldiers as rapidly as they are demobi lized snd finding other woik for women. ' 1 .1 , r i n ', !.-;,( M-r.tns f , :..., ,., ,. ,.;, .ii;., f ,,,. I i, ,. v-',...- ..,i,., In (MY HAKIM AN CAPTAIN IN CNNED STATES A It MY (iuy Hartnian, son of ('. A. llartman, of Farmington, Davie county, is captain of a military company, now on guard duty and stationed at Triste near Cob lenz, (iermany. The Kansas City Star give.; this interesting story of Ilartman's record lie fore and since he enlisted his ei v iee in the I', s. Army : (iuy llartman is beating back, whiping out on the field of bat t!" the stain on his name. In I'.M't. known as the "king of the moonsliini i s" and as the man who f'ei to Mexi.o afier juiiq ing a .'il.onii bond in the local federal court. llartman has i list been made a captain in the f.th Infantiy for gallantry in ac tion. The man against whom several indictments were placed in the Ciiitel States District Court at Fort Smith. Aik.. as the brains of one of the biggest whisky frauds ever perpetrated, al-o has been recommended for th Congressional Medal of Honor -the highest military award within the em of the country -and for the distinguished sei v ice loss, anoi iliii'f to a I'oit Smith dispatch to Arkansas (iactte. Ilartman's career has been a checkered one. His alleged moon shine operations in Arkansas are said to have cost tl;. government millions of dollars in revenue, lie was arrested May. P.M". in connection with the frauds at Fort Smith, but escaped I lie ar resting officer by jumping through the w indow of his hotel. Later lie was nriostcd in Kan sas City and placed under ,2o,. iioi Wnd furnished by J. II. Wl.s'e of Kansas City, then ow ti er of the Hotel White. Halt man fled to Mexico and was re lMirted to have Well killed there bv bandits. The Wild was for feited. Later when Pershing's army was s, nt as a punitive expedi tion into .Mexico, a (iuy Johnson, known as an Ameiican i anger at Madeio, did Valuable woik a.s a stout. He. was rccogniod a (iuy ll.ntn,..n and when he le tilllied to the I'nited States with the ainiy was ane-ted. Whn his woik a a scout was revealed he vv.m released on a smalt Wnd and Wfoie the rae came to a healing he enlisted in the Amer ican Expeditie"" oice. He soon was nf .oned and out of the fifth .Hal offr ei s of the (th infan ..' he is one of the four thai survive.. He was en gaged in every battle and every march o' that infantry since il left the I'nited States. ILDi'ATSrN()rAP.Li: sna:ss. Chayanoga. Tt no.. Jan. 2". The Thirtieth division, composed of Tennessee, North and South Caiolina rational guardsmen, who left home known as the 'Old Hickory' division, ' onor of Andrew Jackson, cam, be call ed also the " 'ild Cat' w.frision Wrause the Pnlish, with whom Hie fighters of the thirtieth broke the Hindenburg line term ed the Americans "wild cats" and "hell cats" according to Cap tain David I. Lilian.!, of Etawah, Tcnn. The 8 1st division composed of national army men from the HAP!) TO ESTIMATE THE DAMAliE DONE 15Y HENS liiussels, Dec. 13. Thus far il has been impossible to esti mate the extent of damage caus ed in Iielgium by the (iermans or to lix, even approximately the amount of indemnity which Iiel gium, will demand from (ier many. In the majority of the factor ies which the lielgians were al lowed to operate during (ierman occupation, the plant remains, but every where all stocks of raw material have been entire ly removed. In the other factories, which the lielgians were not allowed to operate, there was a systematic removal of all the machinery which was dismantled and sent to (iermany. The names of the (Ierman manufacturers to whom the machinery was shipped have been i!scei tained. lielgian industrial circles seem to bo div ided w hether to attempt to recover the stolen machinery from (iermany, now necessarily worn, or to buy new machines aboard and to make the (ier mans pay for it. The lielgian coal fields in the regions of Mons, Charleroi and Wigo were operated by the (ier mans who used lielgian coal as currency to obtain from Holland provisions, cattle and horses. Thus, while the lielgian popula tion Milfeivd from cold, eo d rose in price to loo or ."00 francs a ton and lielgians witnessed the -pe' tacle of women weakened by piivations forced to drag heavy carts loaded with coat, taking the place of the horses vvhioli the (ierman i had stolen. Tin industrial region of Chaileroi suffered severely at the hands of the (iermans, who destroyed the machines which they did not take away and re moved all material of which they could not make use. A great amount of work will be neces sary to clear up the wreckage and even if the stolen machinery or its equivalent is obtained it w ill be impossible to resume pro duction In-fore the middle of next year. Nothing' now remains of the establishment of Thy-lo-f hateatl which annua'iy turned out aWut 2on ii in tons of steel. Sixfy coke furnaces, four blast furnaces, four 2o-ton converters of six sets of flattening; machines have been destroyed or sent beyond the Khine. Some of the steam engines weie blown up and blast furna ces w.le destroyed by cutting down the supporting columns. The damage there amounts to several millions of francs. It would In easier to enumer ate what the (iermans have left than to desciiU' the ruin they have ran ed. same states ,i the .".nth those "Wild Cat" as it, unofficial title after the famous "Wild Cat" load from Columbus to Camp Jackson, S. ('.. where the 81st trained and some confusion has ari-en among admirers of the div isions. The war department records however, show the tliir lath unofficially listed as both "Old Hickory" and "Wild Cat." Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig gavelhe thirtieth much of the cred'l for smashing the sup posedly invincible Hindctiburg line and the division was men tioned several time in the lirit ish official statements for its da h and bravery. The Tom mies termed their American comrades "Hell Cats" mid "Wild Cats" said Captain Lilian! who is at general hospital No. 1 1 Chiokamauga Park recovering fiom a shrapnel wound received on the St. (Juentin front. lie was was commanding officer of L company 117th infantry of the .".Oth division. 'And we were pretty wild over there," said Captain Lillard w ith a smile, lie lay plopped up in bed when lie was asked aWut the change in nicknames. The r.Oth, which trained at Camp Sevier, (Irecnville, S. C, wears a chevron which gives re cognition to the Old Hickory title. It is oval in shape formed by the tetter "0" with the tet ter "II" inside while within the "It" is "XXX" denoting the di vision's number. The tetters arc blue in a field of red. PLANS HADE FOR LEAGUE rni IM Paris, Jan. 2. A scries of resolutions dealing with the creation of a league of nation:-., inquiring into responsibility for the war and violating of inter national law and other Ionics U'ern in e.vitiiitu'., f,i. ni,. .. s . iti hhmiiii..i H'l oi v. ' j I lion to the peace conference ses sion today. The preliminary draft for the creation of a lea gue was given out officially jis follows: "The conference, having con sidered the proposals for the creation of a league of nations, resolved that: "It i.s essential to the mainten ance of the world settlement which the associated nations are now met to establish that a league of nations be created to promote international obliga tions and to provide safeguards against war. This league should be created as an integral part of the general treaty of peace and should be open to every civilied nation which can be relied on to promote its object... "The members of the league should periodically meet in in ternational conference and should have a permanent organi zation and secretaries to carry on the business of the league in the intervals between the con ferences. "The conference therefore ai point a comnu'tto representa tive of the a.:.siK iated govern ments to work out the details of the constitution and the fun ctions of the league. The draft of resolutions in regard to breaches of the laws of war for presentation to the peace con ference reads: "That a committee comjM)s( J of two representatives a pieeo from the five groat ivvers and live representatives to be elect ed by the other powers be ni pointed to inquire and t ( Ht1 up on the billowing: "First, the resjon.sibiIit of the authors of tie? war; second, the facts as to breaches of the laws and customs of war com mitted by the forces of the (ier man empire and their allies on land, on sea and in the air dur ing the present war; third, the degree of responsibility foj these offenses attaching to par ticular members of the enemy' forces, including members of the general staffs ami other individ uals, however highly pl.ned; forth, the Constitution and pio rednre of a tnWntal offenses; Isflh nue iilkni- tMt to.-- ..--.. or ancillary to the aWve which may aiise in the iotu.se of the iujuiiy and which the tomii.is sion finds its useful mid reveletit to take into consideration." PIUSONKICS LIFE IN (.HUMAN CAMP. Imdon, Friday, Jan. 21 The f establishment of "escape com mittees" among the liriti h pris oners in (iennan ramps and the ingenious schemes devised by captives to get away are doscriW ed by articles in the Evening News by an officer who lias just returned after twenty-two months of captivity. "If you wanted to escape." said the officer, "yon had t state your case before the con mittee, giving u fullest det-'ils of your scheme. If your plan intei feted with the chances of another officer, the committee 'would sit on it." "In this way obviously imno; slide schemes were biought to light and vetoed. W.th in the in terest of the officer contemplat ing flight and his comrade te maining in prison. 'One officer told the commit tee he had constructed an im provised parachute out of a bi umbrella and wanted to jmnp with it from the roof of the the scheme. "One of the big escape inven tions was a chute made of a long dinner table with Mipporv pot ihod top. This was let' down from a window and officers weie-' able to slide into the road outside." OF NATIONS

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