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Elkin.N. C, Thursday, Jan. 30, 1019
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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)
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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
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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.
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(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