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Stales ,Works Hard To Prove Albe marie Convict Boss Was Cruel To- Convicts Albemarle.—Last week the proseciK 4ion maihihaUed-'its forces , for the most damaging attack it has yet made upon Cranford. The murder indict ments on which the former convict bogs is being tried apparently cast aside for the time being, the' State launched a tidal wave of evidence in an, effort to prove that Cranford was habituallly cruel to convicts and had been for more than seventeen years. And,, evidenntly with their eyes set* on this goal alone, counsel for the State scored one point after another with the defense unable to materially shake the stories of witnesses. W. T. Haywood, of Mt. Gilead, an engineer for the Carolina Power and Light company, and C. F. Gaddy, of I\ed Springs, ..a guard under Cran ford about seventeen years ago and later editor of a small weekly paper, were the strongest witnesses yet pro duced by the State. The former testified to taking af fidavits of five Montgomery county men in 1919, soon after they had left the Stanly county chaingang. The af- | fidavits had previously been referred i to in the testimony by two of those! who made them, Sam Thompson and Clayton Smith, and Mr. Haywood’s evidence was largely corroborative, I but it wept home. He refused to be! shaken in his statement that he had no ulterior motive in taking the affi davits of the men and said that after i getting the papers he had kept them ! at home and at one time lost them, j not knowing what use to make of the ! documents. Answering all questions in a slow! deliberate voice,, Mr. Haywood held, to his story despite the onslaught of i the defense counsel, and a few min- 1 utes later Mr. Gaddy followed him on the stand to tell of the alleged cruel treatment of prisoners by Cranford seventeen years ago when he was a guard son the.choingang, for about a month. ‘ Gaddy t^stlfiqd that Cranford most of the time used a four hhrse wagon , whip for punishment and that this had j a wire cracker on the end. He skid it was a frequent occurrence for the men to be given as many as twenty or twenty-five licks. Gaddy also, among other instances, asserted that he had seen Cranford knock a negro down \frith a. shoktLstod tWn statnpfbis face into the mud jfhen the man could not get up,and had also seen the convict boss beitd the; butt end of a heavy whip, an iron bolt covered by wrapped paper and leather over a negro’s head- * To substantiate his charges, the witness produced a copy of •an editor ial hei had written for his paper, The Red Springs Progress, in 1923. in which he had chaingang conditions in the State,, enumerated the charges he made -yesterday in court and urged the Legislature to abolish such things. J. L. Coley, a guard on the gang in 1923, described alleged cruelties about that time had brought irt instances untouched on previously, but Attorney McLendon, had him somewhat rattled when he left the stand and he had been forced to admit that he had been before the bar of justice three times himself for drinking. S. VliHWt, of Norwood, gave testi mony that apparently had little weight on the case and was dismissed without cross examination and C. C. Hgywood, a convict in 1924 again went into detail regarding practices Of Cranford in the camp. He dealttfargely with alleged con tinued beatings Cranford gave Henry Wooten, another negro, causing death later, and his testimony was import ant largely because of the trend it in dicated in the defense’s plan of at tack. One of the most damaging against Cranford is that he had 00 * en dragged behind a tractor, and, in examining Haywood, the defense in dicated that it would attempt to prove that Wooten-was sitting down sliding while being dragged and paddling IS hands, enjoying the affair. It was also evident that the defense would attempt to prove that one of the men had dropped his shackle chain ovei one connected with the “tractor an< that Cranford knew nothing about it. Poultry Car Takes Money Into Lincoln Lincoln Times. . The poultry car which was loaded here Wednesday carried away from Lincoln county -6,075 pounds of chick ens, for which was paid local fanciers a sum of about $1,600. The cars wa? operated from Lincolnton under the direction of ■ County Agent Graham Morrifion and the North Carolina di vision, of markets, an organization ot the department of agriculture. The poultry cars are now running from Lincolnton about every two weeks. .Efficient Grocer—Those show windows are a disgrace! The inside haven’t been touched! Boy—Well, sir, I cleaned the out side so people could sec in and left the .insides so the help couldn’t see o«t. I N’EW CLAIMANT OF BIG HOPKINS FORTI NE BOBS IT (Continue dfrom first puge.) to be more than 100, would then be required to appear to show cause why the order . f distribution should not be set as.de, as u step in securing the redistribution. The claimants con tend that the original order was sec ured through fraud, which, they claim, they are in position to prove. Census Records United States census bureau rec ords of the Hopkins family from 17110 on up to recent years, giving much information that Was hitherto un available, and which diverges at sev eral points from the faiViily tree, are said to have been received from Washington within the last two 01 three days. This, it is claimed, simpli fies the work and gives data sought in numbers of instances, including the lull list of brothers and sisters of Murk ilftpkins, which is -aid to have been incomplete before. The original Hopkins, so far as the records go, was Dennis, followed by Daniel and Benjamin, in the line in question. Then came Edward (Ned) Hopkins, father ot Mark Hopkins, who , is said to have been bo*n and lived for several years in Bedford, Va. He. it s claimed, married Hannah Crow Chambers, daughur of Col. Most Chambers. He moved to Randolph . county, North Carolina, and lived on Crow creek, where at least two of1 his sons, Mark and Moses Hopkins, were born, it is claimed. The government records received show that “Ned” Hopkins had a large i family of children, including Mark and Moses, James, John, Martin, An nie, Elizabeth, Joshua, who became the head of a family instead of dyiny young, as the family tree is said to show; William, Cltuza, Prudence. Phoebe, Sarah and Polly, which are said to be absent from the family tree, and does not show Rebecca, who is given on the family tree, it is stated. Go To California '~ Mark and Moses, aged about 35 and 30, respectively, left the home in Randolph county in 1840 for Califor nia in the gold rush, having previous ly worked in the old Krohn mill fori money with which to at least start' their trip. They are said to have i reached California three years later, in 1852, and were among those who struck it rich, Mark, it appears, tak ing the lead and making the money, Moses working for him, not only then but throughout the career of ihe two men. Mark went to Cacramento and es tablished a hardware store at 54 K street which, it is said,,is still owned and operated by the firm that pur chased "it from him, or his estate, later. He and three other business i men of Sacramento organized and I built the Central-Pacific railroad, now a part of the Southern Pacific, Hop kins furnishing all the tools, spikes and other hardware used in its con- j struction. The other men were Leland | Stanford, Collis.P. Huntington and Charles Crocker, the quartet having! been known as "The Big Four" of California. Hopkins, lo-is slated, Rever-murried, liut after his death a woman, Mary Frances Sherwood (Hopkins), claim ed she was his common law wife and was able to maintain her contention because, it is stated, she knew that he had relatives in Nojth Carolina, and the brother, Moses Hopkins, claimed there were no other relatives, in order that he might get the estate. But, in maintaining- there were no other rela tives, he had to recognize the woman as his brother’s common law wife. As a result, it is stated that in so my way she obtained three-fourths of the estate. Common l.aw Wife 11 is also claimed by the North Carolina relatives that one Timothy (Nolan) Hopkins, who was brought up in Mark Hopkins' home, was never legally adopted by him. finding no record to that effect, and that he was not held as an adopted son. The common law- wife claimed that he had been, it seems, the contention being that she did the adopting after Mark Hopkins died, at which time the boy was more than 21 years old. He is said #> be listed as a retired capital ist now. He will be one of the prin cipal defendants in the action that is' to he taken by the claimants in this at ate. Mark Hopkins died in 1878, and the estate was settled in 1881), ihe bulk of it going to the common law wife, Moses, it appearing, receiving ofily one-fourth. He died without blood -de- j seendants, it seems. After Mark Hop-' kins died his common law widow mar ried Edward F. Searles a few gears later, and a few years after that she. died, leaving the bulk of the holdings' to her husband and his family. Ai the'time of Mark Hopkins’( death his estate is said to have been , valued at $80,000,000, but because of : the great development of properties' Owned and great dividends paid in, stock he held, the 48 years since have .seen it increase to what is said to he . a very conservative estimate—-$300,-, 000,000. Owned Much Property Included in the estate, among other j properties and stocks, $136,000,000 in stocks and bonds, largely of the Southern Pacific railroad; $20,000,000 in property in San Francisco, $12,- , 1)00,000 in property in Sacramento, and j 75,000 acres of land in California, most of it near Sacramento. A large j stock of railroad stack js said to be owned in Kentucky, while there are) large amounts in New York and other states, it is stated. ] MISS All,KEN iWWKiMT OF I. ATTIMOHE IIAS BLKTtll)AV On Friday afternoon at the home | of her parents Mr. and Mrs. Bate i Wright of Lattintore, little Miss Ai ! leen Wright celebrated her tent'i I h.rthday by giving a most enjoyable I party. Twenty of her friends were | present and a most delightful time was hud playing vurious games, after which they were invited into the din ing room which was beautiful!^de eorated with dais'es and ferns and where the cake cutting took place. Delicious ices and cake were served by the young hostess’ mother, assist ed by her aunt Mrs. Jones, her cous in, Mrs. (iibbs and her grandmother, Mrs. Wright. Music on the Vifctroljt was furnished throughout the afiey noon. Little Miss Aileen received many pretty and useful presents. r HITS THE RIGHT SPOT— ; EVERY TIME Ice-cold, sparkling — Blue' Bird is the snappiest, ntV>atM»4 freshing drink you will find* anywhere. More delicious than grapo-jf juice—more 7est. more, pep, ■ it’s full of sparkle and tart-,| sweetness. , Get yourself a hot tie today and you’ll make a new hot weather friend of— More Delicious Than Grape Juice. Coca Cola Blue Bird Orange Squeeze ' Cascade Ginger Ale. Peaeh Whip. Cherry , Blossoms. Strawberry. Lemon-Lime Root Beer. No Work There Chef—Boss, I’se sorry to tell you. i but next Saturday night I’se quittin’. t Manager—I’m sorry, ■ Rastusi you have been very faithful. Nothing un pleasant has happened I hope ? ;Chef—No, Boss. I’ae plannin’ to go to1 'Africa to live with VnaTi’ bruthah. Why, Boss,- they tell me the sun does all their cookin’. Don't nobody use stoves. They just set the food out in the sun to cook. That’s the place for me, where I won't nevah have to stan’ oier no’ mo’ hot stoves. Shelby Coca Cdla Bottling Co. 206 W. Warren Street. ^ . ■ .■! , i——a f t T Low Cui-anay lection of Gum • Dipped B Balloon showing ntugmfied cord| untwisted into fifteen smalU'r cords, J composed of many little fibers, all I thoroughly saturated end imulatcds with rublter by Gum-Dipping. Car owners have never been able to buy tire mileage at so lew a cost per mile as they can buy Firestone Gum-Dipped Tires today. And never before have they been able to buy tires so comfortable, safe and trouble free. This is possible because of the highly skilled research engineers who have developed special; machinery and processes for manufacturing : Gum-Dipped Tires, combined with economi cal national distribution through efficient Service Dealers, many equipped with the latest Firestone methods of repairing High Pressure, Full-Sice Balloon, Bus and Truck Tires. Firestone’s long fight against the British Rubber Restriction Act has saved car owners millions of dollars. We can serve you better with these wonder- i ful tires and save you money. Come in today. MOST MILES PER DOLLAR We Also Sell OLDFIELD TIRES At These Reduced Prices 30x3 Fabric Clincher.(6.90 30x3 Vi Fabric Clincher. 7.80 30x3 Rtf. Cl. Cent... 7.70 30x3Vi dec- Cl. Cord.. .8.95 >0x3Vi ix« Size Cl. Cord .9.95 31x4 S.S. lord....; 16.75 82x4 S. a. Cerd.17.25 32x4Vi S. S. Cord.23.35 33x5 8. 8. Cord.29 50 29x4.40 BaHccn. flUO 29x4.75 Bailees..: 14.90 30 x 4.75 B»Hecn...Ife*r 29x4.95 Ballccn.. .J0.45 80x4.95 Bailee*.. 17.25 30x5.25 Bctlccn.. fO.IB 31 x5.25 Balleon... 19.05 32 x 6.09 (allien.. .22.95 33 x 6.98 BaUeen.. .2t4.fi Made in The Great Economical Firestone Factories and Carry the Standard Tire Guarantee Jordan Chevrolet Co. Shelby, N. C. AMERICANS SHOULD PRODUCE THEIR OWN RUBBER YOUTH IN TRYON MYSTERY READ CONFESSES SLAY INC (Continued from first page.) and killed Miss Braswell in a fit of [jealousy and then turned the gun upon himself was not mudo a matter of record by official charges against 1 Sonner. Another theory, that ihe girl i did all of the shootink likewise faded into speculation with the announce ment of Sonner’s death. Funeral arrangements for the j youth, who was the son of a wealthy , and influential family Of Saluda, were I not completed this morning. Miss Braswell, who was the grand- j daughter of a millionaire cotton mill owner of Charlotte, was buried fol lowing services at Charlotte a week ago. Girl Shot Sonner was brought here following a shooting on the Green River Cove road on the night of July 7 in which Miss Jean Braswell, six teen.year-old Tryon and Charlotte society girl, was killed with a bullet through her brain and Sonner received tw > pistol bullet through his left chest. At the time of the finding of Sonner on the road, he declared he had been shot by “Jim but was unable to furnish the mie, last name of the mysterious assailant. 1 Following a wide investigation by .officers, members of the sheriff's de partment were led to believe that Sonner had shot and killed Miss Bras well in a fit of jealousy and then 'turned the pistol upon himself in an attempt at suicide. Sheriff Robert McFarland, of Polk county, intimated last Saturday night that charges of murder and suicide would be prefer red against Sonner as soon as his condition improved sufficiently. Two bullets fired into Sonner’* chest penetrated positions slightly above and below the heart, both of which are said to have ranged in a downward direction. When taken to the hospital, Sonner's condition was such as to lead physicians to enter tain little hope for his recovery. How ever. he rallied during the early days of the week and was said to have* been on the road to recovery when pneumonia developed in his lung. Last Sunday an investigation of cir cumstances surrounding the shooting of Miss Braswell and Sortner was conducted by Solicitor J. Will Pless, Jr., of Marion, of the Eighteenth Jud icial district. No official statement of the findings of that investigation was given out however. Cause of His Gloom I’ve found a really wonderful den tist, a Scotchman told his frieml. Every time he extracts a tooth he gives his putient a drink to stimulate him. Then what are you so gloomy about? asked the friend. Did he run out of whiskey? No, I ran out o^ teeth. f A1NS ALL MR Lady Says She Took Canfai and Never Saw Such Improve ment—Was So Weak Couldn't Stand. Weathersby, Miss.—Mrs. James M. Hall, of this place, writes that nho was “petting weaker all tbc time” when Cardal, the woman'3 tonic, was first brought to her attention. Alter she had taken Cardui a while, she writes that she “never did sea such an improvement.” eft*;'. “I suffered all the time and had pains all over.” says Mrs. Hall. “I was so weak I could not stand. My Bkin was cold and flabby. I did not have any color. I had always been a very active woman—used to otatdher eaerciae, walking and going where I pleased,'and to get down, not able to get myself a drink, was Indeed a hardship. “Nothing eeemed to help me, till 1 began on Cardui. The first bottlo seemed to strengthen me, and I sent for five more. By the time I had taken these, I was on my feet, going around, doing my work, gained in,health and strength. “I took two more bottles, and I am well and strong. Can work my garden. 1 haven’t had any rnOre sickness.” Ask your druggist. NC-165 TRUSTEE’S SALE By virtue of the po'ver of sale in certain deeds of trusts executed on January 14th, 1924, February 6th 1924, and January 20th, 1925, re spectively. by Moses McKenzie and wife, Ida McKenzie, to me as truste?, securing an indebtedness to the Shel by Building and Loan association, and default having been made in the pay-1 ment of the indebtedness thereby sec ured,’I. as trustee, wiH sell for cash to the highest bidder at public auction tat; the court house door in the town of ShelbJ, N. C., on Monday, August 16th, 1926 the following real estate: Situated in the Southeastern part, of the town of Shelby and known as, Lot No. 1 of the Jenpings-Gantt property, as shown on the map of; said property made by George Justice, surveyor, said lot having n frontage of 50 3*10 feet With a depth of 161 \ feet, and being fully described in a deed from Poag Real.Estate company! to Moses McKenzie, said deed dated, April, 1907. and recorded in Book YY «< deeds, paere 200, of the Regis ter’s office of Cleveland county, N. C., reference to which is hereby had for a full description by metes and bounds. This July I4th. 1926 CYLDE R. HOEY. Trustee. — BILLIARDS— | Cleveland Cigar Store j Rear Postoffice, i ■■ ■■■* -— PEYTON McSWAIN | Attorney-At-Law Civil and Criminal Practice in All Courts. Office: Union Trust Co. Building. DR. A. PITT BEAM"'! DENTIST Office Phone 188. Residence I’hone 89. Shelby Bank Bunding. J.C.WEAIHERS Phone 662 SHELBY B.C. DR. H. D. WILSON Eye Specialist And Optometrist 28 Years Experience. Prices Reasonable. Office at Paul Webb's Drug Store. ' SESQUI-CENTENN1AL <’ EXPOSITION PHILADELPHIA, PA. • JUNE I—NOVEMBER 30, 1926. SPECIAL EXCURSION ! FARES VIA SOUTHERN RAILWAY t SYSTEM _ .Tickets on sale daily from all Southern Railway statiop$ up to and including Septem-' ber 30th, final return limit all, tickets fifteen days including^ date of sale. Stop- overs permitted at, Washington and Baltimore in; each direction within final limit of tickets. Fine trains, excellent sche-; du*es, pullman sleeping cars/ day coaches and dining car! service. For further information and pullman sleeping car res ervations call on any South ern Railway agent or ad dress i ! R. H. GRAHAM, D. P. A. Charlotte, N. C. HOYT C. DIXON DENTIST Office Old Masonic Building. Over Rose’s 5 & 10c Store* saesSm DR. C. M. PEELER DENTIST Office Over Woolurortks Residence I’hone 460-W. Office Phone 98-W. ELLIS STUDIO —FINE PHOTOS— —Kodak Finishing— —Pictures Framed— —PHONE 418— Vi.. .—. — in in i Mi miiiS Gastonki, N. C. Systems — Audits — In vestigations. Income Tax Specialists. Horace Kennedy Attorney-At-Law Shelby, N. C. Office !n Star Building. EXECUTOR’S NOTICE. I, the undersigned, P. P. Hamrick, having this day qualified as executor of the last will and testament of A/C. Hamrick, deceased, hereby notify ,a|I persons holding claims against the estate of the deceased to present same duly verified to me on or before July 1, 1927, or this notice will be plead ed in bar of their recovery. All per sons indebted to said estate will make immediate payment to the undersigft-i etl. This June 30, 1926. P. P. HAMRICK, Executor of.A/C. Hamrick. Lattimore, N. C., R-I, O. M. Mull, Atty. for executor. TRUSTEE’S SALE OF REAL ESTATE. Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain deed «; trust executed by J. C. Lattimore and wife, Annie Lattimore to the under signed trustee for the Shelby~apd Cleveland County Building and Loan Asociation, said deed of trust beilfj* dated June 16th, 1925 and recorded bi the office of the Register of Deeds' for Cleveland county, N. C.. in Book No. 135 at page 71 and default haring been made in the payment of the in debtedness therein secured and hpiog requested to sell said property I wUl sell at public auction to the higheit bidder at the court house door, Shel by, N. C., on Saturday August 7th, 1926, at 12 o’clock, noon or within legil hours the following described real ea tate: Situated in No. 6 township in the northeast of Shelby, N. and bound ed as follows: Beginning at an iftih slake near forks of road, in a line W t’vttn the John Lineborger land, nbV Uastr.de Cottm Mill Co, rntl J. l. s land, thence will sai.-t c&ttfhr mill line East 420 feet t» a stone: thence a new line N. 10 1-4 W* 1(15 .‘eet to a stone; thence a new line S. 60 degrees 20 mir utos . 420 feet* to ! stone in the road in line of land Si-M by J. L. Smith to W. M. 'Wellmon'; thence with said line S. 10 1-4 E. 106 feet to an Iron Stake the beginning corner, containing 1 acre, more orvkgfl ar.d being that same lot which wika Conveyed to J. C. Lattimore by R. L. Drdmon and wife. . tL ECK & STEPHENS Certified Public Accountants BIDS WANTED FOR SIDEWALK IMPROVEMENTS, SHELBY. N. C. Sealed proposals will be received by the City of Shelby, N. C., for furnish ing' materials, labor and equipment'<ox constructing sidewalk improvements in and for the City of Shelby until** p, m. July 20, 1926, at which time they will be opened and read publicly. The principal items of work are ap proximately as follows. '" 9060 cu. yards Concrete sidewalks** inches one course. 1260 cu. yards earth excavation. •< • Each bid must be accompanied by q certified check on a bank satisfactory; to the city officials, or bidder’s bond acceptable to the cuy officials for fiye (6) per cent of the amount of ewV atruction bid, drawn to the. order of the City of Shelby, North Carotin*, which, will be forfeited to the city th the event the city accepts bid *Hd bidder fails to execute contract.. a*j4 surety bond within tan days after award. Cheeks or bonds of unsuccess ful bidders will be returned to bid ders. ' ’• All bids will < be compared on the basis of the engineer's estimate-*f the quantity of work to be 'dsne. Copies of specifications may be ob tained from engineer or city clerk upon deposit of $5. which'will be re turned bona fide bidders. Plans, may be seen at the office of the engineer or at the office of the city clerk. The right is reserved to reject any -or all bids, or to award the contract to any one bidder or bidders in "part or as a whole, as considered to the best interest o fthe city. CITY OF SHELBY, NORTH CARO LINA. B. A. P. Weathers. Mayor. Mrs. Oscar M. Suttle, Clerk. P. R. S. Frazier, City Engineer
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