The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-11-26
RECORD OF CHIMES
Synopsis from the Forthcoming Report Of
the Attorney General rs To the Crimes
Commit, ed ia the state aud sentences I'm
posed in the Last Year

the Attorney General rs To the Crimes
ed la the state aud Sentences I'm
posed in the Last Year
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, y. c., November 10.
The code requires all clerks Of courts
to make to the attorney general at the
end Of each term a report Is to h
trials for crimes, and it is from these
that the annual reports OF criminal
statistics are made up. Almost all the
returns for 1897 are in hand, as only
eleven days more Of the fiscal year re-
main. The reports are in hand up to
October Goth. Your correspondent has
looked at them all, with q view to get
ting facts as to the number Of trials
for capital crimes in which there was
either a conviction for that crime in
the first degree or in the second. Each
county is given. In the list are also
included crime which are odd or in
which the sentence or finding is out
Of the common. The notes made by the
clerks are used:
AIamance, challenge to fight duel;
Judgment suspended; number Of per-
sons tried for opening a grave,
among them q lawyer, merchant and
lumber dealer, fined $50 and costs each.
Mitchell, dynamiting; fled the state.
Stokes, murder; guilty I'd degree. 20
years in penitentiary.
Chatham, rape; guilty Of attempt; S
years.
Lenoir, large number tried for riot.
Rowan, two for burglary; 5 years.
Cumberland. selling cigarettes to
miners, s25 and costs.
Yadkin, injuring spring.
Washington, murder, 20 years.
Edgecombe, murder, to be hanged,
appealed.
Hyde, corruption in office; one mur-
der, 20 years.
Union, two burglaries, 10 years.
Caldwell, two murders, one 10 years.,
the other to be hanged, appealed.
GuilfOrd, two rapes, 10 and 10 years.
Richmond, tramp, for car breaking.
Iredell, murder, 13 years.
Pasqutank, burglary, 5 years.
Swain, murder, 10 years.
Buncombe, murder, 20 years.
Beaufort, two murders, 80 years each;
rape, to be hanged.
Watauga, rape, Is years.
Wake, two murders, 20 years, Gap
peal in l case); burglary, 10 years.
Columbus, three murders, one 80 years
2 to be hanged, 1 appealed.
Guilford, rape, 5 years, and 2 arsons,
6 years each.
Person, rape, 5 years.
Yancey, murder. to be hanged.
Cabarrus, ramp, telling fortunes;
murder, 20 years.
Harnet, burglary, 10 years; murder,
hanged.
Berthe, murder, 10 years; 3 ~burglaries,
10 years each. (Six prisoners escaped
from jail.)
Wilkes, murder, IL years.
Wayne, burglary, life; injury TO rail-
way bed, Az years.
Craven, 2 burglaries; 1 judgment sus-
pended on payment of costs; the other
3 years.
HEREFORD, attempt to poison.
Clay, killing dog; costs.
Lincoln, attempt to intimidate voter.
New Hanover, rape; to be Hanged.
(Sentence committed to imprisonment
Orange, wife beating; costs.
Caswell, breach Of promise; paid
costs and $50 to woman's father; five
men tried for attempting to burn Jail.
Surry, murder, 7 years.
Cleveland, burglary, but convicted OF
assault with intent to commit rape; s
years.
Halifax, murder, so years; selling
secondhand clothing, plea nOlo conten-
dere.
Haywood, Rindy Bighorn, Ga white
woma aged 60), a "house-wife;" SIAN
der; retraXit signed; costs.
Moore, selling liquor in two miles of
church.; eleven cases against two men;
one of them J. NJ. Monger, sentenced
to 6 months on roads, but fled the state.
Davidson, burglary, Z years.
Wilson, "attenlpt to steal" = months;
2 murders, so and Is years; burglary,
7 years.
CASTOR, rape Is years; murder, 80
years.
Madison, killing dog; prosecutor tax
ed with costs.
Robson, burglary, 3 years; 2 arsons,
one a doctor; two murders, 80 years
each.
Durham, murder, Q4-year-old negro
girD, 5 years.
Vance, rape, to be hanged.
Infanticide appears to be a very rare
crime, from these returns. There were
about twenty-five trials for SANDER,
but very few convictions. For horse
stealing 5 years appears to be thought
the proper punishment. There were a
good many trials for disturbing reli-
be the most common crime: certainly
the one which gets by TAR the most
sentences. Carrying concealed weapons
is also very frequent. Only n lynch
ing is reported, the one in Buncombe
In the list of the four capital crimes,
murder leads, as twenty-seven persons
were tried for it: while for burglary
seventeen were tried; mir for rape
and four for arson.
F. A. OLDS.