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VOL. XXXV, No. 80 t— ' ■ -- 8 PAGES TODAY per year On advance) $2.50 Carfrcr, per year (In advance) $3.<Ki SIIELBY, N. C. WEDNESDAY, JULY 4, 1928 Published Monday, Wednesday, and Friday Afternoons . Late News Clear and Hot. Today's North Carolina wrath tr rrport: Fair tonight and Thurv day. Little change in temperature. : Fourth Karra On. The Fourth of July auto races are on this afternoon at the coun ty fair grounds, beginning at I k o'clock. Quite a crowd attended the colored baseball game In the morn ing and by early afternoon people from the surrounding sections were assembling for the auto races and for the stock car parade. The event was the onlr formal Fourth celebra tion hooked for Shelby and section. DISTRICT MEET OF P, 0. S. A. HERE About Three Hundred Members Of Order To Assemble Here Saturday Night. Approximately 3CO members of the Patriotic Order Sons of Amer ica arc expected to attend ti big district rally at ‘the court house in Shelby Saturday evening, begin ning at 7:30 o'clock The meeting will be attended by representatives of all tire orders in the Cleveland county association, which embraces five counties Burke. Rutherford.. Gaston. Mc v Dowell, and Cleveland, President Coming. Attorney Hugh G. Mitchell, ot Statesville, state president, will be among the notables of the order to attend, according to Mr. G. C. Smith, local representative. The address of welcome will be made by Mayor W. N. Dorsey and the response by Mr. Mitchell. Among the other speakers on the program are Hon Clyde R Ho<v and Attorney J. Clint Newton , Following' the regular session re freshments will be served. Colored Couples Not ‘So Hot’ For Bridal Month Here Not a Single Dusty Pair Gets Hitch rd in June. Only Seven H’Wtc 0»plc.“.: June, "the month of brides." doc , not mean a thing to the colored citizens about Shelby or the dusky folks out on the cotton plantations in the county. Not a single colored couple sear. - « a' marriage license at the court house here during June, a survey of the marriage books discloses But that isn't all. Only seven while couples were officially hitch cd in this county during the montn , just closed. Insofar as the maraage benk discloses it has been man years since the county witnessed . such a small number of marriages in June. Register Andy Newton continues to blame the marriage mart slack to the nearness of South Carolina ■ Gretna Greens. As he figures it. quite a number of Cleveland county > couples were married in June, and .since only seven were married in this county, South Carolina must have benofitted Supt. Erwin Attends Funeral Of Mother Mrs. Erwin, mother of W. J. Er k win, superintendent of the EJla mill of Shelby, died Monday morn ing in Charlotte at the home of her daughter, Mrs, Phillips with whom she made her home. The fu neral took place there and inter ment was in the Pineville Persby tcrian church cemetery. Presbyter ian and Methodist ministers offici ated. Mrs. Erwin is survived by two ' sons.tW.'J. Erwin superintendent of the Ella Mill hero and Bob Erwin, superintendent of a textile plant at Laurens, S. C.. and tw’o daughter.. ' Attending from Shelby were Mrs. Ceph Blanton, Mr and Mrs: Arthur Benoy. Rev. T. B. Johnson, mem bers of the LaFayette Street Sundav school class of which Mr. Erwin is a member, several other friends and mill officials. C. L. Hayes Is Dead At Age 62 Colonel Lee Hayes, age 62, died Tuesday evening at 7:10 'o’clock of' heart trouble after an illness of about a year. He lived with his son at the Eastside Mill, coming here from Boiling Springs about five months ago. He was married to Barbara Pardon about 40 years ago and is survived by her, five daugh ters and two sons: Mrs. Chas. Hay es, Mrs. Herbert Boone, Mrs. Oscar Boone. Mrs, Walker Davis, Mrs. Geo. Revis. Johnnie and Tommie Hayes. He was a member of the Baptist church and interment was at Zoar church this afternoon at 4 o’clock, funeral services being con ducted by Rev. G. P. Abernethy. HANGARS AND SIX PLANES AT VIRGINIA FIELD BURN Washington. July 3.—Fire today destroyed the hangars and six air planes at Hoover Field, Virginia across the Potomac river from Washington The plant as operated by Henry A Berliner, who placed his loss at $60,000.' “ . ____ Bride Of Six Months Fatally Shot In Drunken Brawl Sunday At Grover "TTT InrrraM! Will bo Held to Minimum However, anil May be Cut Down Some More. The new school budget to cover the expenses of the Cleve land county schools for the com ing year was submitted to the county commissioners Monday by the board of education and accepted subject to change in lowering costs where possible. The budget as finally tendered at the oflicial board meeting indicates la school property tax increase o’ about seven cents. This figure, how ever, may be lowered as officials working with Chairman- A. E. Cline seek some method of cutting down some of the cost. , Is a Big Problem. The\ budget has been under the consideration of the education board and tile commissioners for some time. Some weeks back the prelim inary budget called for even more i money than does the budget accept ed yesterdav. Meantime however,' Mr. Cline and the commissioners ! working with the school heads found one or two places where the budget I could be cut down That there is . some hope of still another cut is: evidenced in the manner in vvhicn I the commissioners okeyed the bud get yesterday—the acceptance beui;! made under the condition's that ttic'j commissioners revise it down with agreement on the part of the edu- .* cation board. According to the commissioners it > seems now as if the budget has al- j ready been whittled down as far a., j possible without handicapping edu- j rational facilities of the county, I which already have a very low- rank- > mg. Attracts Attention. Numerous citizens were present at i the meeting oi the two boards yes terday, and several petitions were filed protesting against an increase in the school tax In which connec tion it might be said that there is some hope of lowering the general : county tax slightly to make up lor the added school tax. This to date I is not a certainty. “As long as the citizens ask this! and that for their schools— more I equipment, teachers and such—Just 1 so long will the cost continue to1 mount. We re whittling it down every j where we can. but everything costs i money these days," declared Com- ] mission Chairman Cline. Lowering Teachers. One solution offered by citizens ! before the two boards yesterday w a s | that teachers' salaries should b; lowered, if such was done, accord ing to County Superintendent J. H. Grigg, the county instead of being benefitted would be injured. “Not only would we have a lower class of teachers for our children | but we wpuld not save a cent of tax i money 'ami on the other hand would ; have less money spent in the county I as most of the teachers spent their ' money in the county," Mr. Grigg i declared. How it Works Cleveland county during the com- 1 ing school year will receive $‘17,741 j from the state equalization fund. ' Each year this money comes to the county to make up the difference in teachers salaries and the .-moneys raised under the 40-cent levy, in other words the 40-cent levy here this year will lack approximately $47,000 of paying the salary of all county teachers and the state equal! zation fund pays the difference. If the salaries of teacheys are cut it will only mean that the county will , .recaUo- .'esc money. from .the state ' and in the loifg run the county wid | not be one cent better off Further - more it was explained that in ad dition to not saving any tax money, less money would be in circulation in the county—as the $47,000 sent here annually by the state to help pay the teachers is spent in the county. Why the Increase. The increase in the school budget coines under the current expense head, which means new teachers, building and equipment demanded by increasing enrollment and a growing county. There is no in crease in the budget under the capi tal outlay ahead. No District Increase. \ All the district school tax levies will remain the same, according to Supenntehderft Grigg. With some hope of still revising the school budget and with the hope that the general tax rate may be slightly lowered it is possible that the final county tax will be very lit tle higher, “Lady Lindy” in Wales ’I, - picture of Miss Amelia Karharf, first won- t-, fly the Atl, iiti.1 her pilot. Captain Wilbur Stull*-, was take:-. ; i.. ;yrli the «1 r>«r «>! tlie i a bin ut their plane Frioml-hip at linns Point, South l •• i <11 »• the v took oft lor Soul ham p!on, J'uulaml. In this rinse up as in others, Mi - Fai’hart's res-mlilm; *• t« Linuuueu is marked. CopjrlljM, .MJA-Lontlou 'l imes. | From The Sidewalks To | ,. # e | Governor--President?? j iEditors Note:This is one of a se ries of Presidential Campangn Por traits written for The Cleveland Star and NEA service by Robert Talley, is the first of four article on Governor Al Smith of New York. The second article on Governor Smith will appear Friday.) Albany N. Y—This year the American public is going to be in troduced to "the new Al Smith" — the man who has outgrown the en vironment of New York's East side, where he ,once clerked in a fish market,, and who has now "discard ed the brown derby'for the tuxedo in dress, speech and habit," with a consequent addition of dignity and refinement that w^ould befit a. presi dent. Three main obstacles stand be tween A1 Smith and the presidency, according to his friends. One is his religion, one is his anti-prohibition stand and the third is a sort of gen eral impression that the former East Sidcr is an uncultured and un refined social creature who wound not know how to act in the White House if lie got there. For ins religion, Governor Smith his no apologies to make. The pro hibition issue can be met from the platform. But'already the campaign is under way to show Smith's social metamorphosis from the cocoon of the Bowery to butterfly chrysalis of the refined drawing room and thus prove his cultural eligibility for Che White House. In personal appearance, Smith's jailors have made him everything that could be asked in sartorial ele fance, compatible with good tast \ In his speeches, this self-made man who left school before he was 15 carefully guard?‘ his grammar. In his official appearances, he has nev er been guilty of any act that would reflect discredit on the dignity or decorum of his state. Always in his public appearances, Smith is on guard. But what sort of a human being is A1 Smith under the skin? In his luxurious private office at the capltol here, I met the man who has been acclaimed—and doubt less is—"the best governor that New York ever had.” At any rate, he has been elected to that office four times "Hello!” he boomed in a voice that was almost a shout, as he grasped my hand with a grip like a lemon squeezer. "Sit down!" he shouted. I faced a man 55 years old, wear ing horn-rinuned glasses, with gray ing hair parted in the middle, and a real smile. He Wore a faultlessly tailored brown suit, a bow tie of gleaming brown silk, an.ordinary1 collar, a stiff-bosomed shirt with pear studs, a gold signet ring on his right hand, one with a cloudy gray stone on his left hand and a pan of high brown shoes that, odd>y enough, had enormously thick soles. One of the telephones on Gover nor Smith's desk rang and he jerk cd off the receiver. ' Hello, hello, hello!" he yelled in a voice that must have" carried throughout the capitol, £ind he carried on his con versation in the same tone. While he was talking, I survey ed the governor's, big, Hat-topped desk, bearing a collection of articles not unlike a museum. It is neces sarily a big desk, for here’s what it bore: A statuette of a boy scout, a miniature bronze lion, a bronze bear, a small silver bull, three ink stands with flashily-colored pens protruding, a glass ot iee water on a blotter, a bronze cast of a big peanut with two legs, a silver-rim med picture of his wife and one of his sens. a. 12-inch replica of the first- railroad train in New York, several dozen unopened letters (Gov ernor Smith opens his personal mail himself i, a small marble elephant, several scribbled notations, two tel ephones, a desk lamp with pink silk shade, and tvvo bronze book-ends between, which were these volumes' "Care and Treatment of the Di seases of Animals,'' "The World Al manac." "Papers of Thomas Jef ferson," "Speeches ol Bourke. Coch ran.", and New York legislative pro ceedings for several years. On the walls were two American flags, pictures of Smith iii a fire man's uniform, pictures of Smit'i with his baby grandson, pictures of Smith with Boy Scouts, framed ear loons and autographed photograph:, of the great Governor Smith talked—loudlv, volubly and breezily. He laughed and joked in a big, booming voice and some of his similes fairly smoked. If he wanted to use a cuss word oc casionally he did it. Despite the care with which lie guards his public speeches. Gover nor Smith’s grammar lapses in or dinary conversation. He used the word "ain't” at least a dozen times, and lie frequently re ferred to “them fellows.” But A1 Smith at ease and A1 F.mi.th officially are. two different: persons. An amateur actor in his youth, he is a good imitator and a close student. In all his public ap pearances he has never breached the dignity of the position he hold; as governor In that he has been very careful. During his first term as governor he used to toss his prepared speech es to the newspaper reporters and say: “Here., take the first market language out of this stuff for me, will you?" The reporters got togeth er and made rhetorical and gram matical improvements thereon. By experience, contact and close observation the former East Sider has acquired polish. Today, he can use almost perfect English in his his conversation lapse. Between Governor Smith and the old Dutch families that comprise the aristocracy of Albany there has been a social feud for many years. No trace in this feud ever will be reach ed, although more than one wealthy (Continue^ on page eight.) Commissioners Name Venire For Coming Term Of Court Late In Monti). At the meeting of the county commissioners this wt;ek tlie fol lowing jurors were selected for the July term of superior court. First Week. Gilbert Jones. C. S. Hamrick, E B. Lovelace, Jasper Hamrick. R. fa Randle, C. B. Blanton, jr., Joe C. Hardin, J. L. Loden, C. S. Bennett. J D. Smith, W. A. Seism. Leon Ware, J. L. Mitchcm, Charlie Grigs, Tom Camp, O Paxton Elliott, A. B Suttle, R C Evans 7fb C Mauney. A. F. Champion, Holly Eskridge. Ford Hendrick, W. P. Biggerstaff, J F. Moore. J. F. Jenkins, Cliff-'Van dyke, G. W. Powell, Guy Peeler. 8. H. Gold, Z. A. Floyd, H. M. Gant:, Guy Warlick. Quincy Hartman. H. M. Smith, Carl Smith, R L. Car penter. . . j Second Week. A. W. Green, C. B. Hamrick. D. j B Lowrv, J. W. Cornwell, W. K j Mauney, Joseph Kendrick. Marcus ! C. Beam, A. D. Callahan. C. 1). j Hicks, A. D. Gilmore, W. T. Greer., j J "tLJ^ee, P. S. Gettys. A. E. Crow- \ der. Romeo Dayberry. K. Williams, J. M. Carpenter, R. C. Fortenberry. bik president SUFFERS STROKE C. M. Young Elected President One Day, Has Stroke Of Paralysis Next. Mr. C. M. Y’oung, elected presi dent of the Farmers Bank and Trust company at Forest City on Monday, suffered a stroke of paraly sis on Tuesday. Information from Forest City, however, is that his stroke is not serious and friends ex pect him to be able to attend his new duties in a few weeks. Mr. J. H. Thomas, president of the Fanners Bank and Trust Co. for many years resigned as presi dent on Saturday. Mr. Young, a native of Forest City comes from Alabama where it is said he has been quite a successful lumberman. It is understood that Mr. Thomas will devote his attention to the re financing of the Chimney Rock company which developed Lake Lure. Tire change in presidents of the bank was the only change in the personnel of the organization, it is understood. Governor Richards Hits Talk Of Bolt Palmetto Governor Says Convention Acceptable And Rebels Will Be Discountenanced. Columbia, July 3— Assurance of South Carolina's adherence to the Democratic candidates for-- the presidency and vice-presidency and her acceptance of the choice of the Houston convention was expressed by Governor John G. Richards'on ins return to his office today. The governor, who arrived home from Houston late yesterday, said that any attempted bolt “will be discountenanced by the people 't the state, as it should be." "The result of the national Demo cratic convention at Houston was the expression of the Democratic party to the nation.” said Governor Richards, "and South Caroliti» true >,o her Democratic pfiiu.yL will of course remain regular. I feel sure that there will be no ef-. fort to bolt the regular nomination but should there be any such move ment, that it will be discounted anced by the people of the state, t it should be.” The governor expressed hmiM as being delighted with the ent,"’ tainment given the South Carolina delegation by the citizens of Hous ton. Milis Close Down For Rest Of Week Local textile and manufacturing plants closed down yesterday for the Fourth today and for the mast part will remain closed during the remainder of the week, it is stated by plant officials. The holiday for the Fourth was extended to give the employes a hal£ week of summer vacation. 74-Year-Old GOP | Of Shelby For A1 S - ( When the democrat*; uomLn- tl ite a man from the masses j like Al Smith a lot of repub- | llcan'i are going to vote the 5! democratic ticket—so says Bill »| Williams, veteran Shelby car- (j penter and champion bike (j rider. Williams, who has already 3 celebrated his 74th birthday, <j says: "In all my 74 years I'm ( going to vote my first demo- ( | cratic ticket this fall—a vote j J for Al Smith." f ? t Official Figures Give Allen A Lead Of 507 In County Star's Unofficial Tabulation Only Four Votes Off From Official Count. That The Star renders accuraie election news service is shown by the official tabulation of the •‘run off" for the sheriff's nomination. Saturday night The Star informed hundreds of citizens that Irvin M. Allen had defeated Frank L. Hoyle for sheriff by 503 votes, and yester day the official tabulation changed the figures only four votes—Allen’s lead was 507 votes. The official figures by precincts are as follows: Precinct Allen Hoyle Shelby No. 1 ___219 Shelby No. 2_... Shelby No. 3_... Shelby No. 4 ..._ West -JCmas Mte...... .. 181 . 118 : 202 ... 751 East Kings Mtn. ...._618 Youngs . ..90 Boiling Springs . ....... 121 Patterson Springs ... .. 82 Holly Springs __49 Waco . ....._ i_127 Queens __ 125 Mooresboro . _...._ 49 Lattimore . .. 92 Lawndale . ..._...... 106 Fallstom . __..... 168 Double Shoals . _ 59 106 103 Mulls . .... Casar . _—_ Delight .. 12 Polkville . .... 151 Sharon . ..........._ 78 Grover . . 178 Double Springs . _ 64 South Shelby . .. 194 308 341 249 48a .2.4 6-1 49 81 98 83 100 54 67 152 175 103 56 105 115 58 220 23 13 81 382 Total . Allen's lead—507. ---.-.4109 3602 Scott Return* From Big Rotary Session Mr. E. E. Scott, manager ot Penney's with Mrs. Scott, came home Monday night from a three weeks' vacation jaunt to Minneapo lis and intermediate points. Mr. Scott went to the northwest repre senting the local Rotary club, of which he is,president, and told The Star that 12,000 Rotarians from 44 countries were in attendance. The popular merchant returns home confident that business throughout the country is sound. Everywhere he said he found men talking politices, siding with and against A1 Smith. Robert Gidiiey drove the Scott car carrying the Scott children as far as Washing ton, where Mr. and Mrs. Scott were met. So they returned from the cap ital by auto. One In Jail, One In Hospital; Fight Everett White of No. 11 township is in jail and Carlos Wright Js in the Shelby hosiptal with knife wounds about his body, one cut ui the side said to be serious from the fact that it goes through the hnin; of hi' bod'. Wright and White en gaged in a tight a tew dais ago in which tne gnife »** used rath* r severely White t* bruis held tor <% t«e»- •• u.t fa 04*04 *tw outturn *«: w ♦ Bury Slam Girl At Grover Today Funeral -service* of J4r> Berths Evelyn Lippard, * ho died of a gun shot wound in the hospital herd Monday, were held this afternoon at Grover at 2 o'clock The services were in the Presby terian church there and interment in the Grover cemetery. i Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Beason. Rev. and Mrs. J. A. Lee and guests. Mrs. Ida L. Andrews and two sons of Mt Gilead, enjoyed a picnic at Lake Lure, Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. H O. Champion are spending a week’s vacation with relatives in South Carolina. Young Grover Woman Dies In Hospital Here-Forgives Husband; 3 Men Are Held Coroner’s Jury Says Mrs. Lipp^rd Came To Death From Shot Fired By One Of Three Gastonia Men. They Claim She Suicided. Dying Woman Asks That No One Be Pun ished. Evelyn Lipparcl, 19 years old and a bride of only six months, lay dying in the Shelby hospital Monday afternoon, and as her breath faltered she said to those about her: “I don’t know who shot me. I don’t want to make any trouble for Ralph—and I forgive him everything.” A fewr minutes later she was dead, and yesterday even ing a coroner’s jury, working under Coroner T. C. Esicridge, turned in a verdict declaring that she was shot either by her ~6-yjear-old husband or one of his two companions. Ami down at the county jail three nervous young men await a pieliminaiy hearing Thursday, w'hile down in the lower sec tion of the county the remains of the young girl are being in terred. The entire story borders on ths sordid—and now it's tragic: a young girl dead, a husband wracked with thoughts, two others torn with conflicting emotion, and a broken hearted mother. How It Happened. The ^oung matron, who had been making her home in Gastonia, was in Grover with her mother, Mrs, Lizzie Cook, Sunday afternoon. The young husband, Ralph Lippard— with whom she had had trouble— came down to see her and accom panying him were two of his friends. S H Wallace and Claude Heavener. Lippard is employed by a dry cleaning firm in Gastonia. The party started drinking. or continued drinking—there was no evidence that the girl was drinking. As the kick of the booze became stronger an argument developed. The girl's step-father, Madison Cook, ordered them to leave and telephoned Deputy Sheriff Charlie Shephard. Just before the deputy sheriff arrived a pistol cracked. The young wife, in the yard between her husband's car and her mother's home, clutched her breast andS*el ed to the porch. On her dress just over her heart a red stain appeared faintly, then became redder as her life's blood ebbed out Rushed To H>>*pilal. One of the thre* . ,en. Wallac-v rushed for a doctor Meantime De j puty Sheriff Shephard arrived, | loaded the fatally shot girl In his 'car and sent her to the hospital jlierc, while he rounded up the two ] others—the young husband, Lip | pard, and Heavener. Through the night she lingered, and on through^ Monday morning. Then the shadows of death began to play over her face. She called for her husband, and Sheriff Logan started with him from the jail, but ! before the trembling husband ar rived his wife had died. Forgives Him. Before dying she told her mother | and also Officer Shephard, reports I have it, that she had forgiven | Ralph for everything. | “Who shot you?" some of those i by the bedside asked. “Did you j shoot yourself?'' “Oh! I don't know who shot me. i I don't want to make trouble for I Ralph.v a snort time later the hysterical mother saw the shaken son-in-law. I "Evelyn said to tell you that she had forgiven you for everything, and that she loved you and for me ?c kiss you for her. I'm teling you (that, but I'm not going to kiss you -a dog!” i Who Shot Her? Who fired the fatal shot? Did the young matron after an 1 argument with her husband shoot herself? Or did her husband shoct her. or did the gun go off in a • cnfflc and it was all an accident? Coroner Eskridge s jury—made up of C. C. McBrayer, Nelson Latti more. J. B. Eskridge, Lander Me Brayer, J. P. Smith and D. C. Put nam—did not decide definitely. Their verdict read: ‘‘The deceased came to her death from a gun shot wound fired by S. H. Wallace, | Claude Heavener, or Ralph Lip ' pard.” A Story Behind. Behind the jury's verdict was an | unusual story—a story leading up j to death As it happened no one | witnessed the fatal shooting except ' the three men—all admittedly too I drunk to know' exactly what hap | pened—and the woman, w ho is | dead,, and was so loyal before dying that she would not place the blame. Patching up the evidence related before the coroner, the story is something like this: About six months ago Lippard married the ■ ID-year-old girl. Just a week or so' back, according to his story, he j found out for the first time that t she had been married before, at thn age of 13, and was never divorced. (The girl’s step-father claimed that Lippard knew of the previous mar riage all the time). A row develop ed in the Gastonia home and the young wife returned or was sent to her mother, who lives in the heatt ot Grover. Sunday afternoon some time—no one seemed to know for sure—Lip pard and his two friends, Wallace and Heavener, drove over. They came, according to Lippard. to see his wife—“I loved her,” he said. They came to get the gun she had -whic-’v fee.loaoAd. to. one of them nc-. cording to the others. Anyway, the same gun ended her life. All Were Drinking. The men were drinking when they arrived, and had purchased a pint of whiskey en route, according to the evidence of one. As time passed they became drunker and did not seem able to agree on anything, al though it was said that Wallace tried to get the others in the car and get started. Finally they started to leave and the young matron was in the sear with her husband. According to one witness he shoved her out and there was something said about "get my gun for me.” .During this last argument the mother had been milking. Just as she was returning to the house she saw her daughter leave, presumably with the .32 calibre gun. The mother was wor ried. Already she had called for a the officers to stop the disturbance. But before she had time to look out again she heard a shot and then her daughter reeled to the porch, shot in the left chest. The bullet entered right over the heart, ranged downward and came out her back. The mother then looked out in the yard. The young husband and Heavener were going towards the spring, it was said, and Wal lace had started downtown for a doctor. Then the officers arrived. See Drink Taken. Deputy Sheriff Shephard de clared that coming up he had pick ed up Flay and Warren Hicks to bring with them. Just as they ar rived on the sconce they say Lip pard and Heavener with a bottle and Lipard taking a drink. Shep hard said. After taking a drink the bottle was dropped by a log. Within a short time the deputy sheriff had sent the girl to a hos pital in his ear and with the aid of his friends had rounded up the three men and brought them to jail. Story Is Jumbled. Just what actually happened in the„fatal melee in the Grover yard may never be known. Several dif ferent stories were relatd by the three men—one of them admitting that he was too drunk to remember Clearly just what did hapen. but all p seeming to agree in one form or another that Mrs. Lippard shot her self. or was shot in a scuffle. Perhaps as their nerves settle after the brawl they may be able to relate a clearer story. The sorrow ing mother does not say out-and out that any certain one shot her daughter, but she told the son-in law that he and the family troubla was to blame and behind it. Thursday some time the affair will likely come up before County Judge John P. Mull for a prelimin ary hearing. Whether or not he will find sufficient evidence to hold all or any of the trio to a higher court remains to be seen. The coro ner's jury had a puzzle to solve, no doubt about it. And with varying stories and no actual, reliable wit ness to bank on the puzzle became harder the longer they worked. Perhaps some of them had opin ions as to what happened in the yard, but it was evidence they "I
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