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,.V'A WEEKLY NEWSPAPETOEVOTED.TO THE UPBUILDIKG QF HERTFORp 'AD PERQUIMANS COUNTY
Volume II. Number 15: -.
. Hertf ordT Perquimans County, NorthtCarolina, Friday, April 12, 1935.
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Jes'Snuj'Conid
fcaugnt "in
Makes Dash For Free-
i doia Wlale Working:
With Road Gang
GUAItt? SttCJQTS
Escaped :NegrpXcd Of
ficers a Merry Chase
Before' Capture
Escaping from. his guard on Fri
day while-working -on the road near
Center Hill, James Smith, Kegro con.
vict from the WoodviHe Prison Camp
in this county, led the officers a right
merry chase until his capture late
Sunday night at the home of Henry
Parker, on Dobb Street in Hertford,
where he had sought refuge and aid
after suffering; shotgun and bullet
wounds earlier In the day. After
first aid attention fey the prison phy
sician, the wounded man was taken
to the Albemarle Hospital in Eliza
. beth City.
f Smith, wh is said to be about 19
years old, was sentenced from Wake
County to from three to five yean
" for breakbur an entering. As a re
sult of hia escape and the various
thefts from bouses into which he en-
tered while eluding the officers, he
will in all probability have a long
time added to his sentence.
Smith made a dash for freedom by
. rushing Mo the dense woods beside
- ' which he was working around 11
o'clock on Friday morning with the
gang. Tie guard fired at the fleeing
man, emptying both loads of his gun
With the guard unarmed, the convict
stopped long enough to take off his
heavy feertts in order to make letter
time.
Sometime during that afternoon
Hugh Harrell, . who lives near the
scene ef fhe escape, found that during
' the absence of the family from "home,
a suit of convict's clothes , liad been
' left in bis liouBe and that a suit 'bf
his own clothing was missing. Mean
time Perquimans v County officers,
prison guards and , others, with the
aid of Utarihounds -were searching
for the escaped convict. He was nab
bed around 9 o'clock -that niglit, as he
climbed a fence, after crossing a field
near the tame of T. W. Nixon. The
officer who made the capture fired
both loads ef His shotgun as a elgnal
, , to the searchers that the man-bunt
was ended; : and James again em
v braced the opportunity of ;ruiming
while the officer was unarmed.
Successfully eluding; his pursuers,
Smith reached Hertford and became
' lost. He took a nap in Anderson
Blanchard's fish market for a while
Saturday night. They knew him
"there bufcdid not know he was the
escapea convict. -
Seeing smoke coming from a chim
ney of the colored school building in
Hertford as he started to church Sun
day morning, J. W. Thompson, princi
pal of the school, went In to investi
gate and found a man, who told the
principal he had done no harm, only
spent the night Later it waa dis
covered he had ' carried Off three
sweat shirts and a pair. c football
shoes. Trailing him by tie cleata on
the stolen footbaU i shoes, oflicers
found he had broken, into the office
of Wlu Iasslter's mill, in.the
eountrv. and had stolen ether eloth-
inr. As the searchers -: Beared the
home of Shederach Hurdle, net far
distant, where Smith had once been
employed, .he was seen, to run out of
the house. After calling to the flee
ing man to halt, with a warning that
he would fire, the Sheriff fired , his
i reiver but to no apparent purpose.
A aeputy also fired his shot gun. The
man still1 ran, escaping in the woods.
That night, suffering from cold and
exposure and with a bullet in" his arm
' - and a buckshot in his back; the hunt
ed man sought refuge at the home of
Henry Parker, - who notified the
Sheriff '
i Citizens Urged Attend I
Mcc3 Meeting Torfci
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A mass meeting to nominate ,can.
didates for the office 'of Mayor, and
three town councilmen,, will be held
tonight at the Court House in Hert
ford at 8 o'clock. M - , '
The meeting is called by the Town
Board 'of Elections, of which Silas
M. Whedbee is chairman. ,,W. T. El
liott and B. C. Berry are the other
two members of this committee.'-- v .
. All citizens of Hertford are urged
to attend the meeting." '
The nominees will be elected at a
town election 'l-i la It eld in' May. -I
The tez'' '- 1 ' 1 w Dd Pen
from Hay 0 to 1 ;
Hertfojrd
GUILFORDIANSv
MEET SATURDAY
AT FINEY WOODS
Guilfordians of this" district will
meet in their second annual gather
ing on Saturday night of this week at
8 o'clock. The meeting will be held
at; Piney, Woods Friends Church, Bel
videre. ;v
A special program has been arrang
ed by Miss Mabel Lane, secretary of
the organization formed last year
when the Guilfordians met at the
Community House in Hertford.
Speakers will include Clarence E.
Tobias, secretary of Guilford College,
who made an address at the meeting
last year and made such a fine im
pression on his hearers, and Byron
Harworth, of Burlington, an alumnus
of Guilford College.
All former students and friends of
Guilford College are invited to at
tend.
Riot At Prison Camp
Causes Investigation
The riot which occurred at the
Woodville Prison Camp in this coun
ty on last Thursday requited in a
great deal of publicity and was the
occasion of an investigation which
may. have far-reaching results as to
the control of prisoners in North
Carolina.
Coming as it did at the time of the
official investigation of the atrocioub
treatment of two prisoners at the
Mecklenburg County Prison Camp
which resulted in the amputation of
the feet of two youthful Negro con
victs, when the people of the "State
are more or less cruelty-conscious, the
matter has created something of
sensation. " v . , , t
The investigation of the Woodville
Camp affair brought to light the fact
that, while the North Carolina public
has for some years, smce the Morri
son administration, been; under the
impression that the whipping of
prisoners is not allowed ? in North
Carolina, the custom of .whipping
prisoners has been and is pretty gen
era! throughout all of the prison
camps
A general order to every prison
camp in the State was issued this
week by Capus M. Waynick, Chair
man of the State Highway and Pub
lic Works Commission, thaf the use
of the lash on convicts is strictly for
bidden. Mew regulations for the con
trol of prisoners are to be issued this
week.
, Twelve of the prisoners at the
Woodville Prison Camp were "whip
ped by order of the Camp ,Superin
tendent, J. M. Tolar, acting under
orders of a superior officer, as a part
of their punishment for the part
they played in the revolt on Thurs
day. -
There were 179 prisoners at the
Woodville Camp, twenty-five of whoml
were involved in the trouble on
Thursday. All of these 25 were long
termers, some of them having been
convicted of murder. The twenty
five prisoners, it was reported, re
fused to work or to leave their cage
on . Thursday. They tore up cell
equipment, threatened to break out
windows, cursed the guards And pris
on officers, threatening their, lives
with bricks, : stove legs and other
pieces of iron, urging others to join
them, and pretty generally; raised a
riot. . ''V -: ,:;' !
All tear gas available waa. used in
an effort to quell t the riot Two
prisoners were shot These .two men
were afterwards taken to the hospital
at Central Prison, Raleigh. Further
investigation la being uade.rinto the
shooting of these two men. ; Keper
from the; camp were to the", effect
that the men were shot when they
advanced across a dead line, set up
f or thenr not to pass. However, it
has been said that one ofsthe men
waa shot in the back. ny v : -v: I
Officers from Perquimans. Chowan
and Pasquotank Counties were ' on
hand to assist in quieting the distur
bance. After an additional supply of
tear gas had - been, secured; which
officers threatened to use, ;the men
agreed to leave the cage from which
they had previously refused "to em
erge. Later twelve of the ringlead
ers were laid across mattresses and
flogged with a leather strap.,' Dr. W-
A. .Hoggard; . camp physUan, " in
whose presence the punishir ant . was
admmistered, is quoted as saying that
the prisoners were : whipped : moder
ately. , . ' ; '
That the rebellion at the camp
arose because of treatment of Jesse
Johnson, farm foreman, to which the
prisoners objected and because of
poor food served, s was indicated by
reports which the two prisorers who
were wo'"i and taken to Raleigh
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D. C. STOKES ELECTED
BETTER HOUSING HEAD
Canvassers Will Be Se
lected to Furnish
Report
H.' C. Stokes was elected chairman
of the Better Housing organization
for Perquimans County, at a meeting
held in the Court House on Monday
afternoon, at which J. H. McMullan,
of Edenton, who is head of the Bet
ter Housing Program for this dis
trict, presided.
Mr. McMullan explained in detail
the workings of the Better Housing
organization, and stated that every
county was supposed to have its own
organization. Seven thousand such
organizations are already function
ing, according to Mr. McMullan.
A full time secretary will be em-
played to take over the work of
taking applications, filling out
blanks, etc., for those who wish to
apply for loans through this channel.
Two canvassers will also be furnish
ed by the FERA to canvass the
county in an effort to find out those
who wish to make repairs to their
homes, or who wish to build.
Former Pastor Will
Preach Here Easter
Many old friends will be glad to
greet Rev. Mr. F. M. Shamburger
and Mrs. Shamburger, of Oxford, who
will spend next week in Hertford.
Mr. Shamburger was formerly a
pastor of the Hertford M. E. Church,
having left here about twenty years.
ago.
The Shamburgers will attend the
annual meeting of the Woman's Mis
sionary Society which will convene ih
Elizabeth City next week, but will
come to Hertford every night to be
the guests of friends here.
It is announced that Mr. Sham'
burger will preach at the HerHord
Methodist Church on Easter Sunday
morning.
Perquimans Glee Gub
Enters Music Contest
The Perquimans High School Glee
Gub, under the direction of Miss
Kate M. Blanchard, will go to Eliza
beth City on Friday to compete fai
the preliminary music contest. The
winners will go to Greensboro for the
State Contest.
The members of the Glee Club are
Maude Keaton, Dorothy Mae Hoffler,
Katherine Jessup, Mary Thad Chap
pell, Anna Penelope Tucker, Lila
Bud Stephens, Celia Blanche Dail,
Elizabeth Caddy, Mary Sumner Feild,
Dorothy Strange, Virginia Harris,
Eugenia Gregory, Margaret Brough
ton, Julia Broughton, Ellie Mae
White, Blanche Moore Berry.
The soloists include Dorothy Mae
Hdffler, alto; Maude Keaton, soprano;
Zack White, unchanged boy's voice.
Joyce Harrell is pianist.
Through Capitol Keyholes
By BESS HINTON SILVER
TOUCHY AS the length of the
General Assembly grows members
are beginning, to display evidence of
developing "nerves." Arising to
points of personal privilege to "bawl
out" some member or some news
paper editor, are becoming numerous
as they have a habit of doing in ses
sions that run into the payless period
beyond the constitutional 60 -days.
Finger-pointing and fist-shaking will
soon be the order of the' day. if the
boys dont get their troubles ironed
00$ and go back hatae.
LITTLE CHANCE A private poll
of the Legislature reveals that the
batch of bills sent down from Wash
ington by Secretary Ickes designated
to put cities and counties in the busi-
Sess. of. generating and selling power
ave little chance of passage.,; Two
measures,, drawn by the State Rural
Electrification Commission, are much
more 1 modest, and have the backintr
of the Ehringhaus administration.
However,-tt they get by t will be a
close squeeze; -ct:i
I JUQUQR There T eati M no doubt
that sentiment in favor of the Hill
liquor bill is growing among members
of the Legislature. It still appears
doomed but only a few converts are
needed to put the measure across.
Members - show a decided notion not
to cut the appropriations bill drastic
ally and if these troubles over taxes
are not settled pretty soon you are
going to see a great drive to put the
Hill bill through, .
EARLY BIRDS-John A? McRae,
of Charlotte; ' has joined . Colonel T.
D SMITH ML
ENTER STATE CONTEST
Wins Second Place In
Beaufort Livestock
Judging
Winfred Smith, of the Perquimans
High School, will represent the Per
quimans Chapter of Young Tar Heel
Farmers in the State Livestock Con
test to be held in Raleigh in June, as
a result of winning second place in
the District Livestock Judging Con
test held in Beaufort County on last
Saturday.
Russell Nixon tied with another
boy for third place.
The representatives of the Perqui
mans County Chapter made a most
excellent showing and a creditable
record,1 according to G. C. Buck, Vo
cational Agriculture Teacher of the
Perquimans High School.
Winfred Smith and Russell Nixon
were in competition with representa
tives from seventeen other schools in
Judging dairy cattle and swine. Af
ter all scores had been tabulated it
was 'found that young Smith had
made the second highest score, his
score being 171.2, and Nixon had
made a tie with another for third
place. '
The two highest scoring boys in
the contest, one of whom was Win
fred Smith, will represent Perqui
mans at the State contest in Raleigh
Petition Circulated
To Try To Save Trees
In an effort to save the trees on
Church Street, a petition, addressi
to the State Highway and Public
Works Commission and to the Mayor
and Board of Commissioners of the
Town of Hertford, is being circulated,
asking that the trees be saved.
The petition sets forth that this
street is one of the main entrances
into the town, that the destruction of
the trees would greatly mar its
beauty, and also states that the
street can be widened to a width
sufficients to accommodate the traffic
conveniently and safely without cut
ting the trees, and further suggests
that parking on this street could be
prohibited with little inconvenience to
those living on the street, as every
home has a driveway.
Mrs. J. E. White Heads
Missionary Union
Mrs. J. E. White, of Hertford, who
has long been prominent in local
missionary work, was elected Asso
ciational Superintendent of the Chow
an Association of the Wpman's Mis
sionary Union, at a meeting held al
Eureka Baptist Church in Gates
County last Thursday.
The meeting on Thursday, which
is the regular annual gathering of the
women of the Association, was at
tended by a large number of ladies of
the Hertford Baptist Church.
LeRoy Kirkpatrick, of the same city,
in announcing for Governor on the
Democratic ticket. In Raleigh va
rious stories are being told about the
intentiona of Clyde R. Hoey, Shelby
Attorney, and Congressman R. L.
Doughton regarding the Governor
ship. But make no mistake Lieu
tenant Governor A. H. Graham is go
ing to run for Governor or bust a
trace. All efforts to aret him attract-
ed by other jobs and what-not have
tailed entirely and a lot of folk be
lieve his campaign is well underway.
RAIDS The raids 'on your gaso
line tax money have gotten away to
a good start The General Assembly
has voted to spend $600,000 of it an
nually in keeping up City Streets
and it looks like $1,630,000 is going
to be diverted to the General Fund
during each of the coming years. It
also appears likely that some of the
gasoline taxes -are going into county
treasuries before long in the form of
paying the counties for roads they
built before the highway commission
had the money. -Better get your own
road in shape before the diversion
party gets any livelier.
SCHOOL BOOKS State rental of
school books by the time the boys and
girls hear the first bells next fall is
still -likely. The books companies
are said to be realising that fact and
good authority says that . the pub
lishers will , be willing , to sell . the
books to the State on credit and col
lect as the rentals come in. Such a
plan would not call for an amount of
money large enough to require a bond
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Two Homicide Cases
Held For Court Term
Gtizens Urged To
list Their Taxes
List your taxes during the month
of April and avoid being penal
ized. The list takers for the va
rious townships throughout the
county are now engaged in taking
the tax lists and are anxious to
get the work done during the time
allotted.
Mrs. P. H. Small, tax list taker
for Hertford Township, is at the
Court House every Friday and
Saturday for the purpose of list
ing taxes. During the week from
April 20 to April 27, inclusive,
Mrs. Small announces that she will
be at the Court House every day.
The hours are from 9 in the morn
ing until 5 in the afternoon.
Holy Week Services
At Holy Trinity
The following services have been
announced for next week, which is
Holy Week, at Holy Trinity Episcopal
Church in Hertford.
On Tuesday and Wednesday at 9
o'clock in the morning there will be
the celebration of the Holy Com
munion. On Thursday night at 8 o'clock
there will be the memorial service of
the Lord's Supper.
On Good Friday there will be a ser
vice from 2 to 3 o'clock, commemo
rating the last hour of our Savior on
the Cross.
There will be evening prayer on
Friday night at 8 o'clock.
On Saturday the rector, Rev. E. T.
Jillson will be at the church at 4:00
o'clock for baptism.
On Sunday, Easter Day, there will
be the celebration of Holy Commun
ion at 9 o'clock SB usual.
There will also be a celebration of
Holy Communion at 11 o'clock and a
sermon by, the rector.
13 Cases Scheduled
On Civil Calendar
Thirteen cases appear on the civil
calendar for the April Term of Su
perior Court which convenes on Mon
day. It is, of course, impossible to
say how many will actually be for
trial.
As the calendar has been arranged
the cases are set as follows:
Wednesday, Darden Bros. vs. G.
W. Butler et al; Darden Bros, vs C.
W. Gaither et al; Lydia Whedbee vs
J. F. Winslow; J. I. Perry vs Daisy
Perry et al; J. Broughton et al vt
W. G. Wright et al.
inursday, 1 nomas H. Gordon vs
Dr. W. B. Sharp; First & Citizen?
National Bank vs J. S. Trueblood; F.
C. Cuthrell vs G. W. Gregory et al;
Sallie J. Kirby vs S. P. Jessup
Admr.
Friday, Growers Peanut Co. x?
E. J. Broughton et al; Hollowell
Chevrolet Co. vs Joseph Small et al;
T. W. Perry vs Mack Harris; Annie
Small Harrell vs Richard Steward et
al.
Divorce cases are to be heard at
any time at the pleasure of the court,
and motions in any cause to be heard
at the pleasure of the court.
Cases not reached on day set will
go over and take precedence on next
day's calendar.
Stop Watch Used
To Check Speeding
In an effort to put a stop to speed
ing on the streets of Hertford, in
compliance with a recent order of
Mayor E. L. Reed; special night of
fier M. G. Owens is using a stop
watch in checking up on speeding
automobiles
One arrest has been made since
Mr. Owens received the new stop
watch. George Congleton was charged
in Recorder's Court on Tuesday with
speeding, Officer Owens testifying
that he was driving at the rate of 3E
miles an hour when arrested Sunday
night on Market Street.
This was the only case to come up
for trial at Recorder's Court on
Tuesday. The defendant plead guilty
and the case was dismissed upon the
payment of the court cbsts.
CHURCH HOURS CHANGED
The hour of evening services at
both the Baptist and Methodist
Churches has been changed from
7:30 to 8:00 o'clock.
REV. ASHBY SPEAKER
Rev. G A.' A6hby, rector of St.
Paul's, Edenton, preached at the ser
vice hold at Holy Trinity Church in
Hertford; on Wednesday evening.' ,
April Term of Superior
Court Will Convene
Monday
CRANMER JUDGE
George Glover and Rob
ert Bragg Held In Con
nection With Deaths
The April term of Perquimans
Superior Court, for the trial of both
criminal and civil cases, will convene
in Hertford next Monday, with Judge
E. H. Cranmer, of Southport, presid
ing.
Two homicide cases will iro before
the grand jury, both of which have
been heard in Recorder's Court,
where probable cause was found.
George Glover, colored, is held
without bond on the charge of mur
der, as a result of the death ol boio
man Prmn. also colored, who died
in a Suffolk, Va., hospital as a result
of being shot by Glover, ihis case
was heard in Recorder's Court last
week.
Rnhert Brace, colored, is under
bond to answer to the charge of man
slaughter as a result of the death of
Charlie Dillard, also colored, who
was instantly killed on the highway
npnr Winfall when struck by a car
driven by the defendant on March 3.
The case of O. J. Mansfield, charg
ed with selling liquor, is set for this
term. Mansfield was convicted in
Recorder's Court and sentenced to
sixty days on the road. He appeal
ed to Superior Court.
Bill Sessoms, colored, is under
bond to answer to the charge of as
sault with a deadly weapon with in
tent to kill.
Walter Wright is held in jail to
answer to the charge of larceny of
chickens. He is also one of three
defendants in another case wherein
the charge is larceny, the charge
growing out of the stealing of a
quantity of meat. The other two
defendants in the latter case are
Claude Lewis and Charlie Brown. All
are colored.
Norman Byrum, who recently com
pleted a road sentence in connection
with raising a disturbance at the
home of a neichhor whprp n wnman
lay dead in the house, will be tried on
an anneal from Recorder's Court or; -
the charge of assault with a deadly
weapon, and larceny. Byrum is
charged with stealing liquor which
was stored in a cell in the jail to be
used as evidence and with rarticinat-
ing in a disturbance in the jail where,
in one of the pr:.- iicrs is alleged to
have been struck on the head with a
stick,
Lillie Forehand, colored, who was
recently sentenced in Recorder's
Court to twelve months in jail with
leave of the sheriff and commission
ers to require her to clean county
owned property, and was fh.ed twenty
five dollars, appealed to Superior
Court, and will be tried at this term.
Aid Society Meets At
Meadow Grove Church
The Ladies Aid Society of the
Meadow Grove Christian Church met
Thursday afternoon, April 4, at 3:00
o'clock with Mrs. W. P. Chappell.
The president, Mrs. S. G. Chappell,
called the meeting to order, and
"Marching To Zion" was sung as the
opening hymn. Scripture reading by
the president was Luke 24:1-12, and
was followed by prayer by Mrs. Ida
Edwards. Each member responded
to the roll call with a text on
"Faith." The minutes of the pre
vious meeting were read, and a half
an hour devoted to Bible study with
Mrs. Joe White as teacher. A Bible
contest was enjoyed by all. . Mrs. Joe
White and Mrs. S. G. Chappell gave
appropriate Easter readings. Fol
lowing a short business session, "The
Old Rugged Cross" was sung, and
the president pronounced a benedic
tion.
The hostess served delicious re
freshments. Those nresent were: Mrs.
J. R. Chappell, Mrs. Joe White, Mrs.
Ida fcdwards, Mrs. Anna Lane, Mrs.
S. G. Chappell, Mrs. L. P. Chappell,
Mrs. Louis Winslow. Miss LiUiAn
Hendren and Mrs. W. P. Chappell.
SERVICES AT PARKVILLE
Services at Parkville M. E. Church
next Sunday as follows:
10:00 A. M. Sunday School; 7:30
P. M.. preachinir by the nastor. Rev.
A. W. Manning, of Elizabeth City-
on taster Sundajr there will be a
special Easter ,' program at 7:30
o'clock in the evening. -