The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-01-06
RALEIGH, N. c.
THE OLD NORTH A T
small Items of a Newsy and Per-
sonal Character.
SOFTU 7 NOVCE'
Special Dispatch to The Yirginian.

Special Dispatch to The virginiau.
RALEIGH, n. o., January Gov.
Carr to-day committed the death
sentence of Fred Floyd, of Hender.
con county, to imprisonment III the
penitentiary for twenty five years.
The statements made hero and
tbere that Marion Butler will not
be the long term Senator; that the
Republicans are planning to elect
both Senators; that there is q deep
plan to gave Butler the short term,
and that there nay be deal be.
tween Republicans and Democrats
In the Senstorship matter, need be
given no credence.
DR.. Motifs friends shy that he
commands more votes of members
of the Legislature East of Raleigh,
than any Of the other Republican
candidates for the United States
Senate.
A %cablegram received by Mrs.
Armistead Jones, of this city, the
president of the Ladies' Confederate
Monument Association. notifies her
of the shipment of the three bronze
statues and the two bronze medal
lions for the monument, from Mu.
nioh. Bavaria. 1t is said that the
statues are very fine. MIR. w. Il.
Dicks RI eX.Confederate artillery.
man, of this city, was the model. OF
che medaliions, one contains the
seal of this State, the other that of
che Confederate States.
There was q fire here last night
outside the city limits and far from
any hydrants, which destroyed the
residence of Charles II. Beine, in q
Jew yards Of the Soldiers Home,
phe loss is 81, 600 with no insurance..
The fire originated in the kitchen.
Mention was made q few days ago
Of the escape from the penitentisry
of Avery Butler, Il young white mar
who murdered his father in Samp.
son county and was in for life,
Butler had in some way made or
secured a watch,spring saw. With
this he easily cut through his cell
door and had n false key with which
he opened the door of u guard
room. Then he went out on top OF
the building least wing) through n
s~kylight, walked along the roof, went
down into the unoccupied west wing
through a skylight and thence got
into the yard. There he got a lad
der, with which he scaled the fence
or stocksde. 1t is the first escape OF
the kind made from the prison. The
prisoners, III spite of all the care Of
The officials, nuke the watch spring
saws,
The statement is quite plainly
made in q Washington, n. c., news
paper that the l%ynching of John f.
Bergeron, the murderer, near there
last week was because the
~ was tired of the laws delay and
OF the uncertainty of the punish
ment of criminals by the courts.
The Attorney General in his re-
port to the Governor declares that
the people have not yet lost con
fdence in the courts. He recon-
mends that the technicaIs which
render trials in many cases a travis
ty be removed, and that the State
DE permitted TO file counter aiiida-
Wits IN all cases where application is
made on affidavit by n defendant for
the continuance OF his cause. There
is no such d law for civil causes
The Attorney General says the in
crease of crime Is due to the hard
times. He urges that the State and
the prisoner be put on III equality
sn the right to challenge jurors.
Ihe Legislature after providing for
these things should pass more ensc
tive laws against lynchlDg. There
has only been Il trial of %lynchers.
though grand juries have frequently
investigated this crime. Proceed
!ngs against lynchers ought not to
DE brought III the county where the
crime occurred, but III any other
county In the district.