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SUITE HEALTH Ml
STIES TEPID
FEB GASES IDE
Dr. Laughinghouse Urges Every
body to be Vaccinated and
Doctors Report Cases.
Hearing of the epidemic of ty
phoid in the Lawndale community
and a number of other cases in va
rious parts of the county, Dr. Chas.
O. H. Laughinghouse of the state
hoard of health was in the county
yesterday looking into the situa
tion and in talking to the editor
of The Star urged that everybody
be vaccinated with typhoid vaccine
in order to stop its spread. “The
physician will administer the
vaccine is like salvation—it's free”
said Dr. Laughinghouse, meaning
that the state board of health furn
ishes the vaccine and your family
three doses, ont a week for three
weeks, at a nominal charge. Dr.
Laughinghouse had not investigat
ed the source of the disease at
Lawndale fully enough to deter
mine whether it is from the milk,
meat or water supply or from the
surface toilets. It is understood that
a specimen of water from the com
munity well has been examined by
the state chemist and shows free!
from typhoid bacteria. In the mean
time Dr. Laughrighouse has sent
H. E. Miller, sanitary inspector
from the state board of health to
Lawndale to investigate the situa
tion and remedy the cause for the
disease. Mr. Miller is expected to
arrive tomorrow.
I se. Dipthena Vaccine Also.
In the .meantime. Dr. Laughing
house not only urges all the peopla
in every section of the county to
take the vaccine, but urges the ■
physicians attending typhoid cases
to make prompt report to the coun-1
ty physician, Dr. Moore, who in
turn reports it to the state board
of health. This gives information
which is valuable in combatting
the disease.
Dr. Laughinghouse further urge3
that all children take the vaccine
for diptheria. Most of the deaths
from this disease are among chil-'
dren under seven years of age. The
state furnishes vaccine for diph
theria, three doses, once a week for
three weeks, which is administer
ed by your family physician. He
says there is practically no danger
or inconvenience whatever to the pa j
tient taking either the typhoid or j
diphtheria vaccines and if every-'
body takes these precautions, the 1
death rate will be practically noth-1
ing from these causes.
Mother Of 10 At
37 Testifies To
Acts Of Daughter
Sordid Story I nfolded in Court
room Here as Mother and
Lover Accuse Daughter.
A sordid story of immorality in
volving young children, paramours,
husband and a framed story of mar
riage, was unfolded i’hursday in
the court room here when a 17-year
old Kings Mountain mill girl and
a man were charged with immor
ality.
Oddly enough the mother of the
girl took the stand and testified
against her daughters good name,
as did a little 12-year-old sister.
On the stand the mother of the j
girl stated that she was 37 years j
of age and the mother of 10 chit- j
dren. The accused girl taking the
stand made th? case more sordid by
stating that a man who sat beside
her mother in the court room had
been staying with her mother irj
her father’s absence.
The prosecuting evidence offer
ed by the mother was that the man
Clarence Hill, and her daughter
had been going together and that
she had suspicioned wrongful acts.
Recently she said the man told her
that he and her daughter were mar
ried and that her daughter had left
home and was staying at the same
boarding house as the man. The!
tragic role of telling of the act of
immorality of her sister fell to the:
little sister.
The accused girl had another side
of the story to tell. She said that
also she had had dates with Hill
there had been no wrong doing and
that her mother had “trumped up”
the marriage claims laid to Hill. She
left home she said “because I told
my mother I would if she did not
quit letting that man (and she
pointed him out in the court room I
stay with her when my father was
away.” The girl added that she
ne''er moved to the boarding house
until Hill had been locked up. Al
together the testimony was sordid.
Hill was sentenced to six months
on the road and an appeal was en
tered by his nttorney C. B. Mc
Brayer. _ a.
] Reliability Flyers Tour Coun
f'b
jzmm
Kdi and Henry Ford are shown as they watched the start o! the
For,: Kt liability tour at Detroit. The flyers are crossing the conti
nent. ieaving Detroit east, than coming back to the west coast and
returning to Detroit.( Pilot Charles Meyers, with his mascot, "Whirl
wind Jimmy,” is shown in the inset..
Attractive Boy Of 6, Found Here On
Street, Claimed By His Father
Out on the sidewalk in front of
the City hall yesterday an attrac-j
tive blond boy of six rode a tri
cycle with Fire Chief Roach’s small
son and in a manner of speaking
“had the time of his life.’’
The youngster, who within an
hour had endeared himself to the
city hall, people and passersby, was
a lost foundling so far as officers
knew. He was just a waif picked
up on the streets and his father
and mother could not be found, but
what a charming waif he was.
During the day a police officer
noticed the light-haired littie fel
low strolling the streets crying.
Asked by an officer what was
wrong the youngster said that his
father and mother had left him. At(
the city hall the alert-talking boy'
told Chief Richards that he and
his father and mother were en
route here last night from Mor
ganton. Somewhere along the road
they stopped and there he said his
mother left them. Coming on the
next day their car broke down and
he and his father, the boy said,
walked to Shelby. Along about noon
the father left the boy at an east
Shelby home, saying that he would
be back later. He didn’t return for
some time and the little fellow
came to town seeking his dad. It
was then the officers found him
After telling his story as clearly as
he could the boy was taken to a bar
ber shop, given a hair cut and
cleaned up.
Then he began to play about the
city hall under the watchful care
of the officers. Little by little he
told what he could of his identity.
His name he said was Paul Gunn.
His father was Harvey Gunn, and
his grandfather was Henry Cook,
who lived in Georgia. Apparently
his people were regular nomads—
they were here today and there
tomorrow. The boy remembered be
ing at Morganton two days, at Can
ton. at Hazelwood and elsewhere;
“Where home was" the little fel
low never could say. Perhaps he
never had a real home.
A more brilliant mind or a more
attractive disposition and better
looks are seldom found in a boy of
that age. There were those about
the city hall, charmed by his frank
little countenance who talked of
adoption. And Paul, evidently net
missing his parents, had a great
time falling off the tricycle and
laughing with the others, nibbling
at periods on popcorn a “big police
man buyed him."
Along in the afternoon a mar,
came along the street, looked at
the little fellow and queried: “What
you doing up here? Come on let’s
go’’—and thats the way the boy
left his friends. Apparently the
man was his dad, but the boy’s
mother wasnt along. The father
did not evidence any desire to he
about the officers anyway and just
as speedily as possible he led the
little fellow away, the boy peering
back over his shoulder at his new’.v
found friends. Nothing was said
about the hair cut. and they went
away walking. Where he is today
his city hall pals know’ not—may
haps just drifting from town to
town like unto the past he told of.
But for a time he made stern po.
lice officers forget their tasks as
they laughed with him at his
pranks.
Boiling Springs Alumni To Gather
Here For Talk About Junior College
Following the recent move start
ed to establish a junior college at
Boiling Springs, alumni over sev
eral counties, in the three Baptist
associations operating the school,
have shown considerable interest.
Meetings are to be held prior to
associational conventions for the
purpose of demonstrating that
alumni will support and help put
over the junior college plans. One
alumni meeting has already been
scheduled for the First Baptist
church here on Friday) July 22.
In regards to the meetings a com
munication from Rev. Rush Pad
gett and Miss Lpllian Michael, com
mittee representatives, reads:
“Group or county meetings are
being planned at central places so
that all former students, teachers
and trustees may attend at least
one of these meetings. Old school
friends and classmates may be to
gether again to talk of the hallow
ed place and some of their most
treasured experiences. Hoping that
these meetings will serve to stimu
late greater interest throughout the
three associations in saving the
school and making it possible for
it to live and be of even greater
service in the future in this ideal
location for a junior college. At
any rate the committee appointed
by the alumni association to look
into plans and suggest projects,
believes there is one thing worse
than a "quitter’”—the person
afraid to begin. And delay is the
mother of most failures.
“But the old students will he loy
al to the ideals of the dear old
school and will support in every
way possible the program for a
greater school if happily they be
called upon when the three asso
ciations to which the school be
longs vote to make it a junior col
lege. Sufficient endowment is ah
that is needed.
“There will be time for us to]
show our colors 'before these asso
ciations meet in the fall. Think!
Plan, pray and talk it, announce-]
ments will be made through this pa- ]
per.
“First meeting will be in Shel-!
by First Baptist church, Fridcv !
night July 22 at 7:30. All old stu-!
dents are urged to come.’
ClarkJTelU Club
Of Big Convention
Dave Clark, of Charlotte, district ]
governor of Rotary, was a guest
of the local club today at luncheon
and gave a review of the highlights j
of recent international Rotarv ■
convention at Ostend. Mr. Clark'
described events on the trip over,]
convention features, work of Euro-j
pean clubs, and other interesting *
happenings.
Going over he stated that the I
hundreds of American Rotarians
were instructed as to etiquette so |
as not to make blunders by contin
uously boosting this country while
there. “Fool tourists,” he said,
“have bragged so much over there,
that the English and French are >
sensitive.’
Jim Penninger Anti Brother At
Trial of Mills Moore, M ho
Received Life Term.
In a York, S. ('. courtroom Wed
nesday Jim Penninger, young
Shelby railroad man, and his eld
er brother, G. F. Penninger, lis
tened to Judge Maim sentence the
'Okivieted slayer of their father to
a life term in the state prison.
The convicted slayer \vas Mills
Moore, well known in this section.
Many years ago Moore escaped
from the convict gang here after
attacking Policeman McBride Pos
ton, who was a guard. Poston also
attended the trial at York. Com?
ing hack from the trial nine years
after their father, a Sharon po
liceman, was slain, the Penninger
sons had little comment to make.
Mrs. Penninger, widow of the
slain officer, who also lives here,
did not attend the trial.
Some Disagreement
A dispatch from York says of
the trial:
“Mills Moore, slayer of Police
man T. R. Penninger at Sharon,
nine years ago, was sentenced to
life in prison here Wednesday a
York county jury, threatening to
disregard recommendations of
Judge Mann and Solicitor J. Lyles
Glenn, deliberated for more than
art-hour in an attempt to send him
toVhe electric chair.
yThe jurist and the solicitor had
requested that the jurors return a
ve diet of murder with recom
m jdations for mercy, which auto
m tic-ally carries a life sentence.
'The action pf the jury, their
st iking reluctance to heed the re
ca nmendation of the solicitor and
th trial judge, was without a
parallel in York county court an
nals and is said to be without a
precedent in the state.
“Judge Mann advised the jury
that neither he nor the solicitor
odttid bind them to bring in the
verdict suggested but that both
could recommend this step.
“The jury seemed determined
and for a time, despite the action
of the solicitor and the court, the
death chair loomed ominously for
the slayer of the Sharon police.
Pleads Guilty
“Thomas F. McDow, of York,
counsel for Moore, then announced
that his client was willing to plead
guilty to murder with a recom
mendation to mercy, which would
mean life imprisonent.
“Solicitor Glenn, promptly an
nounced the willingness of the
state to accept this plea. He fol
lowed this by saying that he was
in the most difficult posftion of his
professional career, that there was
strong opposition to his acceptance
of the defenses proposition hut
that in so doing he was guided by
his convictions.”
Chief Gets Good
Job For Chicken
Thief As Convict i
Nabs Colored Boy Who Made Nu
merous Sales of Chickens Late ,
In the Evening.
Shelby chicken yards will be
minus one intruder for several
months as the result of a little1
sleuthing this week by Police Chief
Richards.
Miss Lillie Button had been miss-i
ing chickens from her yard for
some time and the matter was re
ported to the officers. Early in the
week three chickens were stolen!
and the chief investigating about j
the stores learned that a colored
boy had sold three chickens at one
store. An investigation revealed
that they were the stolen fowls.
Sales in Advance.
At the same time it was learned
that the boy had inquired if tne
store might want some chickens
late on the following evening and
was informed that they would be
sold. This gave the officer his ne
cessary clue and Tuesday evening
he walked in and caught tne boy :
at the chicken yard of Mr. Grover
Beam.
Just how long the chicken thiev
ery has been going on is not
known. The boy, known as Worth j
Thompson, was given a four
months term on the roads by Judge
Mull.
City Buys Truck
For Street Dept.
This week the Jordan Chevrolet j
company delivered to the city a
new Chevrolet truck bought at the j
last meeting of the board of alder- j
men for the street department, i
The new truck was put into use ,
this week. 1
No Limit To Mayor’s Salary But Board
Gets No Compensation, Opinion Rybum
Wm. N. Lovelace
Buried Thursday
Will Known Farmer Living Near
Lattimore. Had Keen Sick
For Three Years.
At Lattimore Thursday afternoon
at 2 o’clock the funeral of Mr. Win.
Noah Lovelace was held in the
presence of a large crowd of
friends, Mr. Lovelace having died
Wednesday morning at 3:30 o’clock
at his home on No. 20 highway near
Lattimore following an illness of
three years. For some time he had
been bedfast and the end was ex
pected.
Mr. Lovelace was 62 years, seven
months and 12 days old. At the age
of 18 he joined the Baptist church
and remained u consistent member
until death. He was a member at
Pleasant Ridge. At the age of 44
he was married to Miss Nancy
Bridges who survives with five chil
dren, William, Nathan and Julius
w'ho lives in the Lattimore com
munity, Roland of near Raleigh
and Fred of Kings Mountain, Mr.
Lovelace’s aged mother who made
her home with his also survives.
The funeral was conducted by
Revs. 1. I). HarrHl ancf 1>. G. Wash
burn.
Record Baptizing
At First Church
Here On Sunday
The regular baptizing at the First
Baptist church, following the recent
Scarborough revival, will be held
Sunday morning, it is announced
by Dr. Zeno Wall. The group is
one of the largest to be baptized
here in recent years, there beirg
74 to be baptized.
At the Sunday evening open-air
service the topic of Dr. Wall will
be “After Pentecost”, a subject
very fitting as the first regular
| service after the revival,
1 Dr. Wall left for Ridgecrest on
| Thursday afternoon where h« will
seek a supply pastor for the church
I during his summer vacation. He
will return today.
Eat Foods In More
Natural Condition
To lower the rapidly growing
death rate from heart troubles and
cancer, Paul.Sampson a food ex
pert addressing the Kiwanis club
last night made an appeal for the
eating of foods in their more nat
ural state in order to get the chem
ical properties nature intends for
man to have. Mr. Sampson was par-!
ticularly favorable to whole wheat!
bread, rather than the white bread
out of which most of the chemicals
have been burned in bleaching. He
would have people eat the peel of,
potatoes, apples and peaches and,
less meats and eggs. The body |
needs such natural properties as1
protein, phosphorous, calcium, io- j
dine, chlorine, etc. all of which can
be secured in proper proportions (
by eating foods that have not been1
devitalized in their preparation, j
Cherryville Takes
Game With Shelby
Playing here yesterday afternoon *
the strong Cherryville baseball1
club defeated Shelby 9 to 3. For
eight frames the game was nip-!
and-tuck. In the eighth Cherryville
scored to take the lead, 4 to 3. The|
big Cherryville rally however came
in the ninth when five more runs:
were chased across when the entire 1
local outfit weakened. Shelby fail
ed to make a ripple on the scoring
surface in their half of the last
frame.
A fair crowd witnessed the
game, but the majority of those j
enjoying a half holiday from the j
business houses were kept away by!
threatening weather.
Still Seeking For
BeeVeeDee Runner
Reports here today were that
officers were still making a search'
ir. upper South Carolina for the
scantily-clad man who was chased
over into that state from this coun-j
ty several days ago. Officers here
feel nearly certain that the fleeing
man is Louis Turner, who escaped
from the chain-gang camp here'
Sunday night. i
The last time he was seen by of ■
ficers the fellow was wearing noth- j
ing more than beeveedees, hut it isj
reported that he has encountered
a friend in South Carolina and is
no doubt better clothed.
Mr. .lohn Hudson, who is mana
ger of a chain drug store in Fred-!
erick, Md., and who has been visit- j
ing his mother Mrs, Fan Hudson!
leaves Sunday, for that city. '
Veteran Attorney Rules In Matter Of City
Officials* Pay. Mayor Dorsey States He
Did Not Seek a Raise. Subject Coming Up
Tuesday.
Under nn opinion rendered by
Attorney R. L. Ryburn on the pay
of city officials, the mayor’s sal
ary may be fixed at any sum the
board of aldermen may deem ad
visable, ,but the members of the
board may not receive any com
pensation whatever for their serv
ices. Attorney Ryburn who was
called to act as a sort of referee
when other attorneys differed,
has rendered an opinion which in
all likelihood will be acted upon
Tuesday night when there will be
a special meeting of the mayor and
board of aldermen to adopt the city
budget.
“Didn’t Aak Raise”
With the members of the board
unable to draw any compensation
for their services under the opin
ion of Mr. Ryburn, author of the!
last city charter, it remains to be
seen what the board will do with
the mayor’s salary. In securing
Mr. Kyburn’s opinion from the,
city hall yesterday, Mayor Dorsey
had this statement to make:
‘When the budget was con
sidered, setting aside $2,400
for mayor’s salary for the fis
cal year and $1,200 anually or
$300 a year for each of the
four members of the board. I
did not suggest nr ask for a
..raise. The members of the
board thought and so stated
if they received more, that
the mayor should receive more,
and one of the board members
changed the figures in the
budget to $2,400.
“I have not and am not now
asking for a raise. I have con
fidence enough in the board to
leave the matter to their judg
ment and whether they make
it more or less, there will be
no criticism whatever from me
for l expect to serve as mayor
i to the best of my ability re
gardless of what salary the
j board agrees to fix it. “I also
feel that the criticism about
holding up the town for a sal
ary increase is unjust,”
“Mr. Kyhurn’s decision is
just what I had expected aft
er having read the charter?”
Ryburn’s Ruling
The legal opinion of Mr. Ryburn ,
citing the law is addressed to the
board of aldermen of the town of
Shelby and is as follows:
"In regard to the question sub
mitted to me for an opinion, viz:
as to the right of the board of al
dermen to raise the salary of the
mayor, and also the right of the
board to fix or raise the salary of
the members of the board, I wish
to say that, as I construe the law,
the government of the town of
Shelby is controlled by Chapter
194, Private Laws of 1901, which ;
is the special charter of the town
as enlarged by the general powers
conferred upon towns under the
chapter, Municipal Corporations, of
the Consolidated Statutes and acts
amendatory thereof.
“I do not think that the provi
sions of the chapter on Municipal
Corporatoins, as found in chapter
56 of the Consolidated Statutes and
Article 19 thereof, plans A, B, C,
and D, are applicable to Shelby,
neither of said plans having been
adopted by the town of Shelby in
the manner provided in said act
and, therefore, of course, I do not
think that the regulations therein
contained, in respect to compensa
tion for the mayor and members of
the board of aldermen, apply to
the town of Shelby.
Aldermen May Fix Salary
“Now, section 26 of the afore
said special charter, chapter 194,
Private Laws of 1901, provides:
“That the mayor shall receive as
compensation ‘for his services such
salary as the aldermen may fix,
payable out of the town treasury in
such sums and as such periods as
the aldermen may prescribe.’
And section 2788 of the Con
solidated Statutes provides: ‘That
the governing body of any city
may, by ordinance, fix the salary
of the mayor of such city or heads
of departments or other officers.’
“These sections, in my opinion,
are the controlling ones in your
case and there is no conflict be
tween these two provisions. It is
my opinion, therefore, that the
board of aldermen has power to
fix the salary of the mayor at such
figure as it may deem wise and to
provide the method of payment of
same.
Board Can’t Receive Pay
“But as to the right of the board
of aldermen to fix $ compensation
for their services as members of
the board or to raise said compen
sation. I am of opinion that they
cannot do so. In the first place,
under the private charter, there is
no provision whatsoever for com
pensation for members of the
board of aldermen, so far as I
have been able to find, and such
compensation was probably not
provided in said act for the rea
son that at the time sanr^e was en
acted it was the general custom
over the state for aldermen to
sene without pay. Neither do I
think that Section 2788 of the Con
solidated Statutes, above recited,
gives the board of aldermen the
power to fix any compensation for
its members for their services, for
the reason that it has been held in
Kendall vs. Stafford, 178 N. C.,
page 461, that the words “other
officers” in said section do not ap
ply to the members of the board
themselves and for the additional
reason that the tenor of said de
cision seems to be against permit
ting the members of the board tak
ing such action. The above case is
not exactly on all-four with yours,
but under this case and the pro
visions in the charter and general
law, I am decidedly of the opinion
that the members of the board of
aldermen could not raise their
compensation and I am of the opin
ion that they cannot even allow
themselves any compensation for
their services under the law as it
now stands and the only method by
which that end could be accom
plished would be either by an act
of the legislature or by the adop
tion of the plans “A,” “B", etc.,
above referred to, under, the me
thod provided in respect to the
adoption of said plan, or by
amending charter in the manner
prescribed by Article 20, Chapter
56, Consolidated Statutes.
”1 have examined the matter
with some care and have also in
vestigated to see if there have been
any amendments adopted that
would modify the foregoing provi
sions and I have not been able to Ml
find any. ., , „■< ,
Therefore, to summarize,it is ;
my conclusion that under the law
of the ‘board of aldermen havetbe I!
right to fix the salary of the
mayor at such figure as they may '
deem advisable and provide the ■
method of payment, and that BRid • ’
board has no power to pay - its
members a salary or fix 4>>eompen
sation for their services. ; '<
“Respectfully submitted,
(Signed) R. L. RYBURN.
OENTiL WORK FOR
SCHOOLCHILDREN
PUII1D HI FILL
State Department Will Have Free
Dental Clinic for All County
School Children Then.
Dr. J. C. Johnson, of the state
board of health, was in Shelby this
week discussing with J. H. Grigg,
county superintendent, the staging
of free dental clinics in the schools
of the county this fall.
According to Dr. Johnson these
clinics will be given free by the
state board of health at state ex
pense. The teeth of all pupils from
6 to 12 years, inclusive, will be ex
amined, and a report on the exam
inations made to parents. If dental
work is deemed necessary the state
will also do this work at state ex
pense, it is said.
Along with the clinic will be an
educational feature concerning the
care of teeth and health.
Each county is entitled to free
dental clinics every three years.
McSwains Hurt In *
Wreck Improve Now
Reports from the Shelby hospital
this afternoon stated that Mr. and
Mrs. D. R. McSwain, of Shelby R-4,
and their little granddaughter, Bur
nett, all injured in a wreck Tues
day are improving.
The condition of each of th«
three is better than at last report.
The little girl, aged three, received
a fracture of the skull. A Wilming
ton physician passed though hers
today and inquired about the wreck
victims. He stated that he was en
route to Asheville Tuesday and
was close when the wreck happened,
assisting in taking the injured out.
Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Lattimore and
daughter Miss Mary Helen and
Mrs. Mary Elliott, of Texas, a guest
were amongst those who spenl|
Thursday afternoon in Cbhtldt.td,
jHE STAR’S REVIEW -
ntijcns of Shelby will be inter
hrfin the opinion of R. L. Ryburn
•Series of city officials, the
»i,ion being published in The Star
J,y along with a statement from
What’s
THE
News
We board of health officials
.here looking into the typhoid
' epidemic at Lawndale. Ty
"d vaccine for everybody in the
arty being urged.
. |„ree number of people will be
atized at the First Baptist
;rch Sunday morning.
Tree denta* work for Cleveland
(nty school children is assured
Alumni of Boiling Springs will
jd * meeting here soon to discuss
ms of putting over a junior col
p there. # , ,
Kills Moore, slayer of Policc
in Penninger of Sharon, S. C., re
ived a life sentence at York. Pen
der's family lives here.
* * * *
Reports have been published in j
e papers stating that Commodore !
Uleson killed Broadus Miller,
organ ton negro clubber, while
i negro was asleep. Burleson 'n
statement-appearing in The Star
kv denies this.
* * *
Got the news first every othe*
y jn The Star. Around Shelby
iy do not say “I read it in the
per"- they do say ‘‘I read it in
« Star.'
1ES01 SITTER
KIM OF
!H KIHIS
iver of Broadus Miller Denies !
Shooting Negro While Asleep.
Can Prove Self-Defense.
Morganton, July 11.—Commodore '
irlegon. Morganton man who shot
oadus Miller, negro outlaw, when
erviewed here today in regard
a story coming out of Lenoir in j
ikh H. W. Gragg, of Globe, Is
oted as saying that Miller was!
»d upon while asleep, maintain
that the statement is absolute
without foundation.
He challenges Gragg and any of
■ others who are mentioned to!
oduce their evidence, that the
gro did not have a gun.
He says he has been reliably in-1
rmed that the gun now in his pos- 1
ssion belongs to a man by the |
me of Dolph Clark, who lives i
i Cold mountain, near Jonas ridge, i
issues Statement.
" hen seen today. Burleson had
3 tho Lenoir story and had ai
>dv addressed the following com
'mcation to the Charlotte Ob
■ver:
"As the slayer of Broadus Miller
s'ouhl like to say a few words in
?ard to the statement made by
i " • f ras:g. I am not disput
the fact that Mr. Cragg can
°ou<e affidavits to substantiate
claim that Broadus Miller was
»ti while asleep and unarmed. All
f,iVP 's to find more
o his like. Mr. Cragg’s claim
following the negro nine days
uc thickets is very amusing.
c love jt would have taken
’ n'nety and nine days to
’e,talkcd Broadus out or to have
ui irn asleep on the highways,
(tis got his gun from the home
C,afk wh° lives on Cold
nntain about 15 miles from Ash
! M re re he was found very
’-awake and very active with
(tun.
“Commodore V. Burleson.”
j C^r,) Ration of Burleson’s
,that the negro not only had
?ionhn> ;utfirod at him-Fons
worth chairman of the Burke
road commission, who was
th. air ^lrst to reat'h the scene
snyn that here is ab
' 110 douht in his mind as to
*un and the firing.
,eaviest Reader
Of Star On Visit
:r-i!'am*..The star>s
rteH rca(er Pa*d us a visit
l^uh? a.nd incidenta»y paid
i,'rr,on w^‘ch he always
Jth due regularity. He lives
ked i Tnfal° R’2 «"d when
intv * i',ved ‘n Cleveland
; .f|^k'y replied, “I live in
Cleveland don’t grow
L?VIZl Bo»> weighs 354
had ■ Ut !e 8 a hit. Before
i v * spe 1 of typhoid fever a
dej- a^° he “tipped the
*knt AndreVjll1*^ C°rreS'
“>d t* .. 18 accus
1 Bill say,n8r. wF 398 pounds.
led Air rCa"y A‘ R Williams,
t»nA ^ Robinson Williams
■ of the high sheriffs of
toln <ounty hack in the dsv^l
« bv TS » " ln° ,la>,S
ViJ eA ln his name is for
and iiitw ’ cleric
d f0Cr°T ”f Lincoln- The R
t " R°hinson, one of the
had 'nr sheriffs Lincoln