The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-11-21

GRIMES John Lee, who killed ALuts
Moore. uear Hollywood Halifax count,
Ia b.en caugh 10 Texa--A Negro
named Abe L..srcuc, Killed Ejgza Brown,
I colorei ue1r O-eood. Chatham county,
"a Saturi4y, II 1 l~IarreI over a pile Of
-seet potatoes The l,stfor learns that
Lawrence fl l-- Charlotte Otsert,
| earn. that Audy EiwOvd, the irrepreesl-
| bic DO accouus, Who escaped from the
p 0 tentIary chAIu gang al X. !. Nc
Ad-u , tactery, H. Z aston. did not de II
Mexico a. ri orted. A deco csLveying
hi Neckleabu : roperty t. a Texa~ lav-
ser has been Icceive1.-A tern be
fght a, a wedding in Hyde county which
caused tvs death, ! nearly equaied By
the 9 ldsb 80 Buhetu.'s report Of q tight
a dance given bv NJ. I'd Adams. whereat
one youth got TAD 4 cut, and another &C
Iiously b-aten--Peter omull. the New
JERSEY hor~clhief, whose refusal tc take
food ha~ teen telegraphed over creation.
broke Jai; la I week, aud escaped amid a
violent storm. \ despatch says les
terday omull moved about his cell 10 a
STORED %o-ition. and appeared hardly
abe to walk. When he ran from the
prison he was a. straight "a al arrow and
appeared strong. His cell was visited tins
morning by a reporter who found every
thing In order and a lot al eatables on a
stand. A small gold cake, brought to
Smull By his mother, four weeks ago. was
found with the inside removed.
The belief among the jail authorities
that SmulI had not eaten anything for
thirty-eight days before he LETT is d SIN
cere one undoubtedly. but is very evi-
IDENTITY a mistaken one. He was not weak
and feeble a. a starving man, but was
erect, strong aud active. The daughter
| OF Sheriff Bowers, who stood In his way
was thrown aside b. him with considerable
force as he went out CT the door, and he
ran steadily aud swiftly. There must
have been a hiding place and DISCUSSES
close at hand, because every trace Of the
escaping prisoners Is lost.
How Smull managed TO procure the
food he must have eaten Is a mystery, and
a. the circumstances give weight to the
! suspicion that lie was aided in the decel-
ton he IractIced by some one in the jail.
BELvIDERE, y. j., Nov. II. -
Thursday nighs Smull purchased an over
coat at a farmhouse near Oxford, and
drank milk punch. As the farmer did not
know him. he tailed 10 noticet be uirec-
ton Smull had taken. Ii Is the prevail
ing opinion here that Miss Bowers was
ia love with Smuli and aided him to e.-
cape.
The two Charlie Warren and Murdoch
Maloy. had been playing cards at .
house IN Laurlnburg, but the game Ell
dei III a quarrel and Warren lett the
house. He made Iii. way 10 the bail
unier Back saloon where a dance was
IN progress, and shortly afterwards.
while he was cutting the pigeon wing
Murdoch Malioy entered with a butcher
knife aud without further ado walked ~
to Warren and plunged it into his breast
Warren lived but a short time. Mur
dock broke from the hail and made
good his es' ape. This little episode
broke up the dance.
From the same parties We learn of an
extraordinary attempt made by some
rascal to rob Mr., Ed Mccormack, a
planter living about nine miles IRON
Laurinburg. He had a trunk IN hi>
house in which he kept bis money to pay
off his cotton picker>. and it IS suppo cd
that some party had found this out and
determined TO get the trunk In order
10 do this 1t Wa Necessary TO yet the
people away from he mouse and he ras
cal conceived the idea Of going down IN
to a tie d aud setting fire t. Nr. NcCor
mack's fodder stacks Tie ,ruoke and
ire Of the burning stalks had the desired
effect OF drawing eveIy body hastily from
the house H. the scene. aud while thew
were all at the fire. the thief went into
the house and carried off what lie sun
posed to be the treasure trunk. He
must have b 81 considerably chaglined
on opening ine trunk, though to find
that after al HI, trouble and pains. he
had carried of the wrong trunk. Mr.. |
Mccormack was oDrrespondingly delight
co gu tudIng that the thief had made
the mistake. Two or three stacks Of
fodder we.s sacr1tilel. but the trunk
carried away by the thief contained moth
ing valuable and its loss i, not regretted.
The next time any fodder gets 10 burn
ing, Mr.. Mccormack will STAY 10 the
house with a double barreled gun, and
let the farm hands go aud look after the
tire. Charlotte OLsercer.
IAN old iady, a-ed - wears. has
been seut 10 jail at Chariot e, under a
charge preferred by one Ellers, of steal
lug a chicken.
BRASsoS's y. c. ALMANAC FOR
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