North Carolina Newspapers

en ' : ."JV " INDEPENDENCE IN AO-THINGS. ' v Subscription Price. SLOP Per Year in AdvnnKn ' "' ' " - - . !II BR IIVI ll mill I II B f Hnrilll ' ' : . '" '' V ' '''.-'-' Seaboard Trains Crash Together With frightful -Loss 1 46 OTHERS ARE INJURED Twenty-Three of the Wounded, Near ly of Wrom Are colored, Taiceu to Charlotte on jSpecial Train One Dies En Route and J- Another 4 on Reaching Station Nearly All Be- ing Cared for & Charlotte Serious ly Injured and Other Deaths f Ex pected Wreckage Not Yet Cleared Away and Other Victims May Be Added to the Already Large' Death List.. - ' .J' . :' " ll;ui)!'t, N. C, Special. Twenty- twi) 'are yeaa ana ., injured as tne result tT the head-on collision between al.tcal passenger and a special freight 0!i the Seaboard midway between this (,).!! and Rockingham. 19 of the ,M are negroes. The dead are: 'Kiijriiifer Frank B, Lewis, Hamlet. Bagrajramaster Byrd. Fiirnian Tom Hill, colored. Port ft- Watt Boggan. colored. Gilbert MeFadden, Colored, Ham- y.. . i 4 3 . $ ' 41, Hat tie Caple, colored. Laurinburg. Mary Hell, Rockingham. "... t Hannabal MeNair and ('hi Id, eol- Oifl. ' - Hat tie Land, colored. . . ' , hVter. Durfee, Bennettsville, S..C. , 'Jane Russell Hoffman.4 . John Harrington's baby., colored. Six unknown colored men. .' Three unknown colored women. (Jen Hinton's baby, colored. ' Lizzie Powman. TV injured are as follows: - J. I). Bowcu, white conductor, Wil-; 3iukii; ti. b. rBinnmghani. white, I RuVnioJiam; J. O. Bunday, engineer, ' H.iMiIet: GecU Cross, white, , fireman, KdeiVh ; George Morgan. Cictro ! Ti'ioraas and wife, Oscar Lee. Oscar Hnvers. Burt. Hanton, Richard Douy- ls May Douglass. Iver, Oxendine, .Tim Odell. Tonny Lee? Ret lie MrFadyen, Octavia Jackson, j ry SteAvartv Car- aels. Percy Clark. . James Stewart, Henr I'tf McXair, Sam Copi rI. hJKtlev. .Tano Ra. pv. T?;Mii-.1 liat', and three others 'unknown. Story of the Wreck, l'asseiiger train ?v. 44, .which left Uarlotte at 5 o'clock Sunday after- B'Hiii. was rr.nning late at" a , speed ejwli?r oO milerrrhonrr vvith 7.7-: dei-s tc clear for' Hamlet Uhreemiles -is KiK-inepr ".vVrnnL--- T?o7i"e Ttlla-T engine,.: around a curve and en- '.-fa a deep cut he saw a lurht within ' . "J' '" iit-j a Hh truit bore down upon hini" at ! a "jiced cqnal to his own. 1 The eol- i iiit-viiiiuie uuii ine 1WO.cn- fl. i ... .1 . .. mru ijicuiacives 10 eaeii orn :r and rolled over in the ditch. ; The .oavy cars 'behind crashed into the 'filter OnPK-'nrwl -rnJ,'n,1 "iHihiiji wood. The, nero coaeh s c,-nshetI Jike a shell and W '"fMpant was kl led or ninrel 1 Ihe impact Engineer Lewis was r"w a dozen yards from his 'en lb' never drew breath ain. 'py bare jrfst pulled the bod v of bis ,ior'd lireman. Tom TTill. fmm.i.n. uer tnr dplirivj .T n : . Ireight, and his fl 'pl -and escaped" with injuries. ne work of rescue began almost n":diately after the aeeidpnt i t, .. . .i r- i ..v.m, "'"nilll pfl nnccn.1M t.l ;j . Ai ,mi,,gc,j, jxcipeu nie sur- ur Manufacturing Industry. 'be largest. manufacturing indns- rv i" South Carolina, "next to cot- ,s the making of lumber, accord 0 a bulletin just receUedi from ; ,Mortant mannfaetnnn.indiu- fv i Ik Stafp. beiiio- in -loon Rom I and in 1905,, 72.6 per' cent, 1 1 " """'. Jumner ranks next. RttckcfeUcr Laughs at the Idea of His Arrest.! . -vel:iMd, Ohio, Special. The indl - a?,Ui,s t,n that John D. Rockefeller bcriff (.; roves, of Findlav, ' who ! Sf" ai arrant for the president of the I ,:,Jn"a'- Oil Company charsrinviJd 1 State anti-trust laws- in .Ci. ''"'I'lity, are going to clash.-' '.iC ;.!.,. i. 1. i i'. . -n . 'II.. '. , -w. ui' .it'll .r.urope,n ii, ,M 1' this country, ridiculed i hi--, companions the idea of . j J ' ! est . (J roves sa vs he is deter- ! 'f'( j i " " ' " of Human Life ' vifing members of? the strain crew to pull the dead and dying from the tangled heap of wood and. iron. Peo ple eame from Hamlet and Rocking ham to assist, and all night the work was ept up. When the first , grey morning light, came 19 dead bodies, in f hiding those of two babies, had been "L found pinued down. Several-were un conscious.1 As soon as it was possi ble a - train was brought from Mon roe; the injured were placed on this, with the bodies of most of the dead negroes. The dead were taken off at Rockingham ahd Monroe, the in jured at Charlotte. ;. TwO of the in jured died en route. .-:.. , The wreck'is supposed to.have been caused by the failure ofvthe telegraph operator at Rockingham .-.to deliver orlei-s to the passenger-train to meet" the freight train. The. passenger, it is said, had no orders to meet the freight and it is the presumption that the freight overlooked its orders. It is also stated, that a lap order caused the- catastrophe. The passenger traiji, this report states, had, orders to meet the freight at Hamlet, .while the ' freight 's orders was to.meft the passenger at' Rockinghamr- ,;' The freight was an extra fruit train . westward bound. The two trains col- lided with an awful roar and crash in a deep cut one mile from Hamlet. Engineer Lewis and his fireman was instantly killed and death came in the in the colored coach. The scene is indescribable. The wreckage is piled high on the tracks and traffic is completelv blocked. Both the second and first; class coach- es were overturned': and the colored passengers were simply ground to death. Many of t he cdead bodies are horribly mangled and some of 'those " who escaped with their lives are bruis- ed almost bewond recoirnitian. As qu'icklv as possible after the dis aster, railroad men, citizens and pas- sengers who were uninjured," to work heroically ,to recover Hit and injured, who ye re, iro prison began le dead roprisoned un der the ears. If the lamps in the coacjies had not been . extinguished the accident would have been made more horrible by fire. The engineer and fireman of the freight, train jumped and escapee with few bruises. .. The .coach for eol- ored people was torn all to pieces and everyone in it who did not meet death was .more ; or less seriously injured. Both engines were demolished and the W.ooo Qi,w . hUA in,yethr in n i,r.,Vi,ti. x iie - coioreo passengers, most ot whom wer from ' -'Lnnrinhmtr. ,. hal fr oHom Kvery seat m the car was taken, many of the crowd being women and chil dren. The cries of the children pin ioned underneath the cars, added to the horrors of-the catastrophe. . As . soon as possible after the wreck the injured were sent to Qhai -h&tt e onl a .jspeeial' train, in order to give .them hospital accommodations. There were 23 colored people and five whites in the number.. The phief dis patcher of the Seaboard at Raleigh has given instructions to the under taker at . Rockingham to furnish cof fins for all of the dead. All of the doctors from Rockingham and Ham let were, dispatched to the scene and did valiant service to the injured. It took about five hours to get the dead and injured from the wreck. N. C. Banks Designated. Wash ingt o n , Speeia 1 . -Th e n a t io nal bank of Favetteville North Carolina has been designated as a government tleTKsitorv to the amount of ,.100,- Vnl l" W iiivesboroxat--iiu,woy.'---iJotii,.,wi,e: unsuccesstul bidders 4 for the Panama, cauai oonus. -,f J v ' ! TIVE KILLED ay LIQH U'lV, nvM., V Bclt Str&es Gfatidf Stad f'f Hase-i Mhallbltae in nitcVofe,1 More Than 20, Injci-ed., ' 11 . - ' : 3Iamloo,..;,.., -Si jecialr-Fljvt persons '.were- killed and '-more -thayi a 'sVore injared Snndav aficynooii by ' ;.-' bolt.of ii-htnin-r which; struck- Uio' 7 , , ,i i - ai,,Uaii ot Hbfla. Falk Wlj"t P.pl6 had gathered to see a- ' ' i' t - '"' IN CHARLOTTE HOSPITALS Wounded Victims of Hamlet Wreck Being Cared Tor r Charlotte, N. C, Special-The special train bearing the 23 injured colored people-reached Charlotte Mon day; morning at 7. o'clock. It con sisted of three express cars, in which were placed , regular passenger coach seats for the comfort of the suffer ers. 1 he nve m.iurecl white people were taken to Rockingham for treats ment. It is thought that , they will recover. Nearly all o? the others are seriously injured. Dr. H. M. WTilder, resident physi cian for the Seaboard Air Line, with a corps of other Charlotte physieia'us hastily summoned, met the train and attended" to. the removal and treat ment of the sufferers. A number of physicians from Hamlet, Rocking ham and other towns on the Seaboard; came in on the special train. The pa tients were taken immediately to the Clood Samaritan Hospital, where they are being shown every attention... One of the injured died before the train reached Charlotte. Anothei: breathed his last before the hospital was reached. Their, names ar enot abtaihable.. Div IL 'M,. .'Wilder states that the majority -of. the 22 yet liv ing are seriously injured. A number of them will v probably not live through the night. The Good Samaritan Hospital is a scene of confusion. The hospital is surrounded by a large crowd .of -the curious who are anxious to gain ad mittance. The groans of the' suf fering ones adds to the hoiTor of the scene. .. The colored trained nurses are working1 valiantly and the doctors, 12 or 15 in number," are doing every thing in their power to relieve paim A number of white people have volun teered their services as nurses. Ir is almost impossible to get an accurate aecount of ih wreck from any of the coloi"ed people. Areport er asked two of three to state how it all happened, but they could tell noth ing about it that is different from the report sent out from Hamlet. Near ly all ' those who werel injured s were nnconscus for an hour or more after the disaster. The second clas,s car, one of the colored people states, is a mass of juins. It was turned com pletely over, crushing its occupants almost beyond recognition. This man, who received an ugly gash in the forhead, said-that he crawled out to the ground through a -hole in the ca r made by t he crash. From his statements the tragedy is indescrib able. . ' ' Capt. Lewis the dead engineer, was well known in Charlotte. He was one of the most popiilar employes of the railway company His home was at Hamlet. i. Russell Sage Meets End. New York, Special. Russell Sage died suddenly Sunday at his country home, "Cedar Croft ' at Lawrence, L. I. The immediate cause of death was heart failure resMltin? from a complication of diseases incident to old age. The veteran financier would have celebrated his 87th b.irthday on August 4. Mr. Sage had been in ex ceptionally good health since his ar rival at his summer home about six months aim . At noon Snndav lie -ivn seized with a .sinking spell 'and col-f lapsed, falling into unconsciousness about two hours before- his. death, which occurred at 4:30 o'clock. Factories Blown Up. , Berlin-j By Cable.--A despatch from Kattowitz. Prussian Silesia, announc es the Singer Sewinf Machine facto ries at Sosnowice . and Bendzin have been blown up bv bombs at about the iame time. At Sonsowice six persons were severely-Avounded and at Bend zin four badlv hurt. Reformed Church Reunion. t . .. Baltimore, Special. The. 17th an nual reunion of the Reformed chuVch in Ma rylaud, Pcnnsyl va nia, Virgin ia and West Virginia has" commenced, the attendance being very large. Rev. J. T. Hacker, of Roanoke, delivered the address. . ; -v" A Quartette of Politicians.: . ; " Oyster Bay, --Special. A quartette of Reimblican leaders went to Saga more Hill to .. ia!k o ye r the comi ug congressional ca.mpa ign with Presi dent Roosevelt. The party consisted of Speaker Cannon, Representatives Sherman, Vbr.ii man of the campaign ""lnniittoe: Loudeniaraer of New (Jen4;y, and'McKinley of Illinois, sec ret a ry a rid t rcasurer of th e con; mit lee. 4 "hhcim.n s'lid the President was not going to be the leader . of the campaign .but was going to co-operate most heartily' in every way he could. THE PRELIMINARY .TRIAL Attorneys Getting at the Truth in the Now Famous Lyerly Murder Case- : fte Witnesses. .?",-' - Public interest in the now famous Lyerly murderthat occurred at Bar-' ber's Junction now centers in the trial of he fivg negi-oes how in the Chariot jail charged with the crime The first examination of .witnesses for the Siate was held at Salisbury last Saturday-, and the proceedings are givri' in, substance as reported by Hr. H. E. C. Bryant,, a staff coiTe spondent of the Charlotte Observer. Story of Murdered Man's Son. ' The first witness to make a state ment was Mr. J. G. Lyerly, a son of the murdered man and a halff broth er of the, .children. - He said: "Jim Taylor, the ' boy ' who had been work ing for my 'father, told' me of the murder about 4 o'clock in the morn ing. Taylor bad spent -the night at Mr. R. F, Cooke's; with Sam: I went with Mr. ' Pless Barber? to the bid home. Ed. Barber, Charlie Brown and Ed Carter were there when we ar lived.: I think Hr. Matt. L; Webb was the first man on the premises after the girls loft. He was accom tompanied bv ax Mr. Watson, a cattle dealer who occasionally with mv fath er. Watson was on his way there that morning io get breakfast. , " Soon after I arrived there those who had assembled thought it best to arrest Jack Dillingham, , as" the girls had said omethtng nbout a quarrel tlla t fa tUer a nd Jack ; had had the day before. The nej;io had said some thing aboi.l tursing father. . ; ' Wlieu we entered the house we found iUn front door open,, jusl as the jrirls had left it, whei. they start; ed for-Mr. Cooke's bene. The bodied of father and John were on the floor. Dr. Chenault, and myself hunted for and found the money, about $175 that father kept in the house. Some of it was upstairs in a drawer, and remainder in the little rear room near the kitchen. . - ' The . house n which Nease Gilles pie lived is located bout a quarter o f a mile west of the Lyerly home. Jack Dillingham "lived southwest, about 300 yards; i . "When we went up to father's home wesaw a feather bed, a bureau drawer and a lamp in the front walk, where the'girls had left them. The Lyerlys were all friendly. Father and his children were on the best of terms. "Last Christmas i heard father say .that he and Nease had had some words about their contract. Father had told Nease that he would - have to work a crop, as he had promised to do, or get out of his house. Nease cursed him, an, in turn, was ordered out of the yard. Henry, old Fannie Gillepsie 's son, left and went to 3Ir. Leroy Powlass' to live. Nease con tinued to drive for Mr. Johnenning- er, a saw mill man:" Miss Mary Lyerly Makes a Statement. The next witness to take the stand was Miss Mary Lyerly, the oldest daughter, of Mr. Isaac Lyerly. . She was dressed in black. Miss Lyerly is 18 years old, has an attractive face light chestnut hair and soft, attrac tive brown, eyes. Her lips are thin and sensitive" She seems intelligent and' sprightly. After a most trying3 week she appeared fresh and composed yesterday. Her manner was of ; a quiet, modest but plucky, maiden. She is neither backward nor brazen, but willing and ready. - "1 knew nothing after I retired about 9 o 'clock, ' ' said Miss, Lyerly, "uhtilAddieJ'c fhat the house was 'on ' fire and that .papa and mamma were dead." I was nearly suffocated. The house was full of smoke. . ' " ' ;"When I went down I found Ad die at work. She had already drag ged papa and John from the bed and was fighting the fire. I caught hold of papa and v pulled him further out from the bed. ;We IhiiQW,, vater on the bed and carried out the burning things. ; 1 C'i r,i. ' v;;o ; -' :; ;- "I went over and' felt mamma's face; it . was eold.- She was lying just as she lay when she wcnt to sleep,' except that her feet "were hang ing, but. 'I saw blood all - over the pillow. I pieked Alice, who was still alive, up in my arms and carried her out into the yard, where we tried to bring her too. We could barely .hear her breathe. : Addie went back up stairs and brought - us some . clothes, wliich we put - 'on in , the yard. We then left for Mr. Cooke's, Addie lead ing Janie and I carrjdng Alice. ' Door and Window Open: : " The front ; door and the 1 vindow that opens into papa's room from the porch were open. The key was' on the inside of the door. I "always lock ed the door at night but after papa went: out and, Jon returning, forgot to turn the key. Any one culd have gotten in through the window, with out much effort. ; "Papa's axe -lay at .the 'woodpile, for I. saw it there the afternoon be fore. John and Alice had been cut ting wood. , 'When I went to bed papa was fast asleep, snoriug. Mamma was ' dozing off. That was afew minutes before 9 o'clock. Addie and I slept together. I heard no noise. "".-' "The lamp, whiehhad.a porcelain bowl, was" nearly full of oij.. It had been filled the Saturday before. I know that it was sitting 'on the bu reau and the burner .was oiC When we arose, the lamp was on the hearth. "John Gillepsie and Henry Lee, son and step-son of Nease, started a crop. ' They lived in tDe house with Nease and his wife, old Fannie. One day Fannie came dpwii home and got after papa for having Henry and his wife Ivie in with. them. .She was mad because they slept on her beds. Sat urday following, Neace came and ask ed father what was the trouble with him and the boys.. They had some conversation and Nease cursed papa, .who drove him out of the yard. Geo. Crnfrdf who. worked for us then, said that Nease declared that ! he would kill eld Ike Lyerly. Mr. Cranford . told us about it the next morning. "Nease was mad. Papa told him that he would have to sow the. wheat or leave., " Mr. Crna'ford went from here to his home at Hildebrand. v ; "Nease was down -there once or twice after that1 but I never heard any more until a few days before the. tragedy. Nease came down and ask ed papa what he was going to do with the wheat. Papa told him thrash it.' : ' ' Delia, J ack 's .wife, and mamma had trouble Friday- morning1 about the soap suds in the tub. After mam ma left I went down to the spring and heard Delia say : 'If she (mean ing mamma) had said three "jnore words I would have downed her. ' ! "Jack and papa di not get: along together. Jack had been there just about a week. He told papa that he was going to work for IlnPenninger. Papa said, Well Jack, if -ou o there and work -five da vs without laying off. I will treat.' - I "I heard Jack sav that lie would not go to work for no man before 7 o 'clock. . , "Mr. Jim Taylor; ";who had beer working tor us; and sleeping - in the house, spent last Friday night with Sam Cooke. . I was straining the milk when he left. , Sam Cooke had come over to our house to bring a grain eradle which his father had borrow ed that morning.4 Jack wrs at the lot, with Delia who helped us to milk the cows. Jim Taylor Sam Cooke arid Jack "left together., ning down the path toward the wring. That morning Jack had worked for Mr. Cooke and then he went down to Mr: Penninger and secured work.V On being questioned by the law yers Miss. Lyerly continued: "Papa kept most of his money in the bureau upstairs. Nothing in the house was disturbed. Even Alice's little pocket book, which contained 25 cents, was left on the bureau by her bed. . "We did not go by Jack Dilling ham's house, which was close to the path that leads to Mr. Cooke's, for we were afraid that Jack might hear us. We slipped by, fearing that he miirht kill us too. Sister Janie. who is 10, going on 11, said thatshe heard talking in "Jack 's house as we passed. I was. then about. 11:30 o'clock. We arrived at Mr. Cooke's at 11:55.'! - A fire was burning slowly but steadily in the middle f of the bed. The bureau drawer lay inverted upon the breast of John, who lay on his tomach. ' The drawer ; was burning. John's feet extended over the edge of the bed. "I .pulled papa and Johs to the floor and called Mary. We worked in-. the dark.1 y kit ; ' : "After we had put out the fire I run upstairs and got some clothes for us. I did not see any light or hear any talk as we passed Jack's house.' ' Miss Addie corroborated''- other statements made by her sister. On beingT interrogated she the made the following additional . declarations : "Wlien I went down mama's face was covered; with a pillow. One of her. feet was on the floor. ;IJf tie -sister I lay beside ?her on her-back, just as she had slept. - : . ' .. .. , v ; vXX - 'i " When , pa pa turned off the Gil lespie; boys, Nease came down and asked him why he had done it.-Papa told" iiratliat they '"uld not Trork the land,; and they had to get out. Nease was ordered away and as he went he muttered something but I could net understand what he said. Mr.1 Cranford told uus that Nease was saying that he would kill 'old Ike JLverlv.' 1. "Jack' wife, said that if mamma had uttered three r more words she would have downed her. , t "Delia, that is Jaek's wife, knew iiy vi c Slept, Mr. 3fatt L. Webb', an illiterate white man drove a .wagon - for, Mr. rejinmgerJ stated that he and' Nease had worked together. In part he said: "Three weeks ef ore thetrag edy, m .conversation -Jrith me, while loading. lumber at Mr. Ppwlass', Nease brought up the subject of wheat. He declared that he thought, the crop ould be pretty good this year. .1 told him yes. ' Then. be said: "Well, old man Ike Lyerly can cut mine but he - won 't eat it, or get the money tor it. I told Jones Tliompson what Is ease had said and he declared that Nease wasn 't dangerous. 9 r Little Henry Tells His Story. . After the foregoing persons had had their say a small, bright faced, curly haired boy, wjtli blue eyes; and pretty features camelin. He, carried a little white, soiled hat in his hand. His lips ; twitched nervously, and he seemed uneasy, . He .looks more like his Anglo-Saxon father, than he does ' his African mother. , When asked who t his father, ; was he called the name of a well-known -white man. fP. you like Nease Gillespie!' some one asked. r , ' - " : "No, he has been mean, to me,,r was the quick reply. Solicitor Hammer took Henry be tween his legs, pulled off his hat and patted him on the shoulders, saying: "Boy, we're hot going tohurt yon Nobody wants to harm yoW Now you must tell us all you know." "Nease Gillespie beats me., He's my grandpa He whipped me h last Friday. Pa ( meanings Nease) and . John jnet Henry Lee and Jack at the branch, this1 side of Mr. Ike's, Fri- day night.; That's what pa and John said when they came back. Pa said , that , he didn't care what they did, with him after hehad done what he wanted to do. Maw, old Fannie, ask ed . paw where he ' was going'and he -said 'It's none of your business, but you '11 know when I come back. She said .no more. Paw and John eame. back before day. I was in bed with maw. " :',".-", -'V . . .V 4 ,-" ' .: i ' When paw aarid " John came; in they set down; by the fire and r maw asked paw where he had been and he said : Pve l)eeu down to old Ike , Lyerly 's. rI went down there and kill ed them. I told you ' I was going- to ' fcall them, and so, by God, I didy' "It skeeredf maw nearly to death when paw said that. John didn't say nothing. Jack and paw done it. Paw said that Jack's wife held the lamp. All met at the branch. Paw took his axe with him. I saw him get it. He washed it off At the branch but there was some1)lood left on the pole. He and John said they washed it. We saw the axe the next morning and there was a speck of blood on, it. Paw said he killed Mr. Ike and Miss Gus sie (Mrs. Lyerly) and Jack killed John and Alice. ; ; 1 V -' ' Maw never asked no more, for she was skeered. , ; "Jack used Mr. Ike's axe. He . and. Mr. Ike fell out about a horse. I Paw and John said "they set. the bed afire:' ' : - ';:'; "Before day paw put his old over-' alls with John 's in a bed tick bf straw and burned them. He burned his shirts, too. We saw them burn ing, them. They burned them be cause' they had blood on them. Blood was all over the shirts1 and-the over alls. ' - 4 ; ... , "I left home - earlv that morning and told Mr, Mann Walton that paw had killed Mr. Ike and Miss Gussie.' "Do you know where you would go if you were to , tell a slory Hen ry V asked Solicitor Hammer. "Yes, 'sir, to the bad place," ans wered Henry. . "Who made you W : ' ' The Lord, ' ' was the ready re ' ply. - y ' "Paw said they,; threw the lamp in the brier patch. ' I saw a church lamp at Jack's house the day mafaqd me went down there." ':''':".'. The boy started when Mr. Ham mer called to some one in a loud voice and .said : ."They; are not going: to hurt me are theyt'' " : ; : y He was assured by la number of hhc country acquaintances that he would be all right if he told the truth. ' "I saw the "lamp on the moatel' piece. Paw said that they threw i in a brier thicket." . .. . . . This little negro tells dmost in teresting : story. His words are full of meaning and the' State must relyj largely; on ) what he says, r to cpnyiet , the negroes' who- are. now Iknpnsoned in the Charlotte jail, V "HenTy 4s" is possed to tell too inuch buf his, Story ,t tallies, in the main, withthe one he told the day after the murder at the1 coroner's inquest. He id smart j andj Very bright Tf. his story is true Nease Gijlespie John lIehryt'AGebrge; Ervin .and Jack and - .his twifekfwill, hang. : No half -grown, boy ever, had more responsibility Testing "upon :hnri" It is a question ""of life or death.1 Ti i I The testimony of the negro womea contradicted: that 'of. the boy. Hum ber of witnesses are -still 'in reserve . or ne State, v -: j froui Plymouth, Wis. , . : . :