The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-03-06

In Yesterdays Messenger
ment was made of the fiendish attack.
upon Mr.. A. G.. Call by a burglar
at an early hour yesterday morning in
Mr.. Calls home, No. 1910 South Front
street, and that c.. E. Workman was
arrested about 4:3O o'clock charged
with the crime.
Yesterday a member of The Messen-
! ger staff called at the city prison and
had a conversation with Workman. He
denies in the strongest terms hat he
is guilty of the burglary.
Workman says that he first met Mr..
Call last Wednesday, when he went to
! his house to see about renting a room.
This. he said, was because Mrs. Fulch-
er, with whom he had been living, had
rented a part of the house occupied by
Mr.. Call and, she not having a room
for him in her part of the house, ne
was DESTROYS of securing n of those
occupied by Mr.. Call.
He says he went back to Mr.. Calls
house Thursday morning to raj
further about the rooms; that he clos
ed the contract and made a payment
on the rent; that he also brought from
Mrs. Fulcher a payment on the rent Of
her part of the house; that for both
! payments he received and now has re-
ceipts from Mr.. Call; that he assisted
Mrs. Fulcher in moving and arrang-
ing furniture during the day and in the
afternoon, by request of Mr.. Call, pur-
| chased two padlOcks, which he deliver
cd to Mr.. Call, together with a bill for
them, about 6 o'clock Thursday even
ing.
of money covering the cost of the locks
and that he did not see any other mon
ey that he may nave had; that when
he left Mr.. Calls house at 6 o'clock ne
went to the home of a. B. Meadows,
No. 1130 South Front street; that
Meadows and his wife work in the Will
mington cotton mill at night; that
Mary Edwards, their housekeeper, was
at home; hat about 8 o'clock he and
Mary Edwards walked up to Mr.. Calls
residence to see Mrs. Fulcher; that
they remained there until 9 o'clock;
that from there they went back to the
Meadows house. where he remained
until the police officers came and ar
rested linn. He says the woman, Mary
Edwards, will coroborate his statement
and he intends to prove an alibi with
out any u
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE CASE.
AS stated in yesterdays Messenger,
Mr.. Call says that when he paid Work
man the money for the locks Thursday
CIV Cll1lI ~ v hlllIAII {" " III
ty of money in his (Mr. CalT's) posses
sion; that after he (Mr. CalD was
awakened by the presence of the bur-
glar he recognized Workman, both by
sight and voice. Mr.. Calls daughter,
who is 10 or II years of age told the
police officers that she also recognized
the burglar as Workman. They claim
also that while at the house the even
ing before Workman made inquiry as
to whether there was a pistol in the
house, and ascertained that there was
not. Mr.. Call also says the lamp was
burning low in the room and there was
a bright Goa fire in a d stove
at the time the burglary was COM
mitted, so that there was no trouble in
recognizing Workman.
1t was by reason of Workman hav-
ing been in company with Mary Ed
wards on the evening before that he
was traced to the Edwards house by
Police Officers Davis and Williams
Captain Furlong being at the time a.
Mr., Calls house helping DR.. Mcmillan
dress the wounds of the injured man.
When the officers and one or W pri-
vate citizens knocked for admittance
at the Meadows house no response
could be obtained for some time, an(
when an answer was finally obtained
it was denied that Mary Edwards live
there n claimed that wa
not there. The officers insisted upon be
ing admitted without having mad,
themselves known and a mans voic
within called out to know who wa
there. Both Officers Williams and Da
Wis at once recognized the voice a
that of Workman, which has severa
distinguishing characteristics, and in
sisted upon the door being opened
When the arrest was made Workman
insisted that he knew nothing Of tn
burglary.
MIR CALLS INJURIES.
Mr.. Call is in a very serious condi
ton. An examination of the woun
on his forehead developed the fact tina
his skull is slightly fractured. How
ever, he is getting along fully as we
as could be expected under the circum
stances.
It will be impossible to have a pre-
liminary hearing of Workman's cas-
until Mr.. Call ecove sufficiently t
testify. He is now confined in a ce
in the city prison and in good spirit:
despite the fact hat -e stands chars
ed as outlined above with h commits
sion of an offense, his conviction G
which means a sentence of capital pun
ishment.