Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-06-05
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.

The Democratic State Convention, of
North Carolina, will meet in Raleigh, on the
25th instant.
- Hon. Henry Watterson, of Louisville,
KY, delivers the annual address at the
Chapel Hill commencement to-day.
The State Military Board of North Caro-
lima, held session at Salisbury, last week,
and adopted code of regulations for the
government of the State Guard.
The track of the Western North Carolina
Railroad has been laid on the DucktoWn
branch, ten miles beyond Waynesville, into
Jackson county.
The noted case against Ray and Ander-
son, the Mitchell county murderers, who
last February killed a man in a dispute over
the possession of mica mine, was to have
been tried at Lenoir last week, but was con-
tinued. The prisoners will remain in the
Caldwell Jail until the next term of Court.
Shelby Aarora: 1t is difficult to ascer-
tain the cost of an orange which caused in
directly fight between seven negroes and
one woman on Sunday, broke up colored
meeting, took the whole day for the trial of
seven defendants who wounded and cut
their victim with knives. Six of the
guilty ones will work on the streets under
guard at 374 cents per day for two months.
That orange has cost in lawyers fees, wit
nesses for State and defendant and two
months wages for six, over $3.50.
Charlotte Observer, Sunday: Capt. F. S.
DeWolfe, with his wife and three daughters,
will toni ght bid farewell to Charlotte and
leave for distant Oregon, in which State
their fortunes will in the future be cast.
Capt. DeWolfe will locate in the growing
little city of Portland. His departure from
Charlotte is matter Of genuine regret by
our citizens, who feel that Charlotte will be
the loser and Portland the gamer by the
move. Capt. DeWolfe was at one time
mayor of the city and his administration
was considered the best of any previous to
his time.
The Newton Enterprise: About twelve
months ago in Caldwell county, Henry Clip
pard, young man, killed another young
man by the name of Carlton. He fed the
country, but returned just before the last
term of the court and surrendered himself
to the officers of the law. He was taken
before Judge Graves on a writ of hdbeds
corpus, and it appearing to be case of JUS
tifiable homicide was admitted to bail. On
Monday he presented himself at court, was
arraigned, and special uepire summoned
to try the case Tuesday. He went home
Monday afternoon, and while on his way to
court Tuesday morning, a short distance
from Lenoir, stopped by the wayside, pull
ed off his coat, presented a pistol to the left
side of his head just back Of the ear and
fired. The bullet passed through his head
and came out on the other side. He died
about five hours after the shot.
Upon the trial of Thomas l.. Shields for
the murder of Joseph G. Sitton, in the Su-
perior Court of Mecklenburg, in 1883, which
resulted in conviction and an appeal to the
Supreme Court for new trial, the Judge
allowed the State to introduce letter writ
ten by the deceased on the night before the
homicide, addressed to the sister of the pris-
oner, Miss Mollie Shields. 1t was admitted
by the State that this letter had never been
received by Miss Shields, nor in fact had
ever been seen by her until handed to her
on the trial, but the same was found in the
trunk of the deceased, among his other ef-
fects, on the morning of the homicide. The
letter was introduced by the State, after OBJ
lection by the prisoner, for the purpose of
contradicting the testimony of both the
prisoner and Miss Mollie Shields. The Su-
preme Court says, in this there was error.
That the letter could stand on no better foot
ing than naked declaration on the part of
the deceased. That it could not be admit
ted as evidence, for the reason thatit wanted
the solemnity Of an oath and the test of a
cross-examination. And for this error, in
admitting the letter in evidence, new trial
is awarded.