The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-03-29

Michigan and Latham Taken TO Raleigh.
Important Term Of Wake Criminal Court
More Federal Prisoners for the Penf-
tentfary.
Messenger Bureau

AN@SIAe~A A~~o
Raleigh, y. c., March "a, 1898.
This morning Sheriff w. L. Stallings
and deputy sheriff J. w: Virgins, of
Edgecombe, arrived here, having in
custody James G.. Michigan, president,
and III. T. Latham, cashier, of the Citi-
charged with wrecking the bank AT
AboeviIle, Ga. The Georgia detective
who took to TarDoro the bench warrant
Of Associate Justice Walter Clark for
the arrest of Michigan and Latham.
also returned with the party. Mayor
Holton Of Abbeyille, who procured the
.ench warrant, did not go to Tarboro.
Lut TO Charleston, S. G. 1t is claimed
by him that Michigan and Latham loot
ed" the Abbeville bank and cot some
thing like s12, 900. This afternoon, at
the supreme court room, Michigan and
Latham were given a hearing before
Judge lark. 1t appears tina the re-
QUESTION by the governor OF Georgia
Will be honored, but that there will be
an application for a writ of habeas
corpus to determine whether it is a
proper case for requisition. This is
done to hold the matter up until Gov
ernOr Russell returns from Wilmington
tomorrow. The arrest caused some
surprise al Tarboro, though for some
days the sheriff and chef of police had
been receiving kilograms to have an
eye on Michigan and Latham. Abbeville
is a little town of 1000 people. 1t had
only theOne bank, a private and I'M
chartered one, which Michigan and
Latham bought February LIST. March
18th it wa closed. Messrs. Donnell
Gillian and Henry A. Gillian came
here with Michigan and Latham as
| counsel.
1t appears that Louisiana is being
sued to test the legality of the fertili-
yer tax, just as is the a $ here.
Ex-Judge Robert P: Dick has gone to
| his home at Greensboro from a Raiti-
more hospital. He is weak but much
improved.
The negroes complain tina their
white republican friends are stopping
subscriptions to negro papers.
One of the country Baptist churches
| has expelled several of it's members
I who Joined the Mormon church. Nor
mon elders say they are working in
seventy counties in this state.
H. F. Browning, who had been in
| Jail here a month, was given a hearing
yesterday on the charge of killing his
f~ather-in-law, a farmer named Strick-
land, in the eastern part of this county.
He was allowed to give bail in $500
! for his appearance. He confessed that
he had seduced a young sister of his
wife.
in the matter of d names. One just
discovered is that of Bugaboo academy
in Wilkes county.
The supreme court today finished the
| very light Seventh district docket.
c. T. Bailey, who it seems is to get
the Raleigh postoffice, is here, having
returned from Washington. He ap-
pears to be quite nervous for some
reason.
AT next weeks criminal term of
Wake superior court there will be an
unusually large number OF interesting
cases. Among these are governor Rus
sells eight suits against "A. B.. An
dresWs, of the Southern railway, for
S., 200 for refusing to answer rail-
way commission questions; suits
against the Southern and Seaboard
Air Line for giving free passes; the
trials of Young, the Petersburg and
Raleigh burglar, and LangdOn, the
young Philadelphia who forged and
SWindled here; the case of Jim Booker
colored, who three years g blew out
the brains of Mahala White, also col
ored; and the Glass divorce case.
Reports state that there is a malfg-
nent type of diptheria prevailing in
Yadkin county.
There are now in the penitentiary
204 convicts, Of whom fifty seven are
women. One of the last arrivals is
from Wilkes county, a white man who
is to serve fifteen years for murder.
Strange to say, he was one of the very
first prisoners to enter the peniten-
tiary, when it was opened in 1870 and
he served ten years.
Five federal convicts from MiSsis-
sippi arrived at the penitentiary today.
Twenty convicts We're sent to a state
farm today and a like number will he
brought back and put to work in the
shirt factory.