The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-10-08
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nesota Man.
PATHETIC APPEAL TIC. GOVERNOR.
Mother Of Edmund Long Here Seeking Par
don for Her Sou, Who Killed
Man While Ia
toxlcated.

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Man While ID
toxlcated.
Alettcr has been received by DR.. J. w.
Southall, superintendent OF Public In
struction, from q gentleman residing IN
Minneapolis complaining that the people
in the rural districts of the State are be-
ing faxed by certain persons selling
school charts. The letter is as follows:
Minneapolis, Mimi. Oct 4, 1901.
State SUPERINTENDENT of Public Instruc-
ton, Richmond, Va:
Dear Sir,-In your State to-day there is
a clever scheme being worked by ex-
perts in selling charts to the rural dis
tricts. The chart costs less than Sd to
manufacture, including stand Notwith-
standing they are highly polished and
contain much color, they are not worth
$40 to any school.
The plan is to visit rural districts only.
ana sell for $50 to $50. The selling price
depends on the cost of bribins the major
it; OF the board The agents have te-
qualify, before they operate and they are
"past-masters in finding out susceptible
members of the Board. The bride is
anywhere from S. to SO per member. AS
soon as the county is worked, all time
paper is sold to local banks at 10 to %
per cent discount. An expert agent is
worth to his firm $1,000 asyear. In some
cases county superintendent write rec
concentrations for price, but if they
condemn the thing the agents ostensib1y
leave the county; then their leader calls
his men from other parts of the State
and they rush the county to a finish, Of
tentimeS before the superintendent is
aware of it.
The agents do not call themselves
chart agents. but mask as general
school supply men. The only thing they
dread is notices in local papers, sucn
papers as country people read. thus keep
ing it before the public now and then.
Yours truly.
NJ. F. BURDETTE.
Care L., box No. 517.
The members of the Board had heard
something of the sale of these charts and
had sent out letters of warning to the
school pee pie. One of the charts referred
to is in the possession Of the Board Of
Education.
MRS. LONGS APPEAL.
Mrs Matte Long. of Washington
county, is in the city to present to the
Governor a petition for a pardon for Ed
mund Long. her son, who was convicted
sentenced to thirteen Years in the peni-
Tertiary. The woman is a widow. Since
her sons conviction she has tramped over
the country from her home to Richmond
and has secured thousands of signatures
to the petition. The Governor has the
matter Under consideration and is giving
it his most careful consideration. Long
was man OF good reputation. quiet and
industrious and well behaved except when
n ,,,,,l- wi, a tI1rt he
shot Brcils.
The story as related to the Governor
differs somewhat from the accounts
printed at the time. On the day of the
shooting Long had been drinking several
kinds Of brandy. Finally, he sent for n
bottle of whskey, and it was brought to
him in a grocery st re. In setting the
hottie upon the counter it broke and the
liquor began to run out. Someone in the.
crowd that looked upon the spectacle
suggested that Long should drink the
whiskey that would otherwise all be lost.
iSntfing 10th. he seized the bottle and
drained it of its contents.
THE SHOOTING.
The men in the store then picked him
up and Put him upon a horse and started
it down the street with its helpless bur-
den The horse wandered on fer some
distance and at night time turned into a
field iIs front of n farm house. The dogs
u>on the place hayed the stranger and
reused the inmates of the house. Long
drew a. revolver that he had put IN his
pocket to shoot 4 dog that lad barl1ed at
him the day before. and shot twice. Orc
Of the bu!lats found i+ss billet in the heart
OF vo;1rg William Rrole. Later on some
men found Lene still sitting on his horse
in a corner OF the lot fast asleep. When
reused he sail! he he'd bAen riding round
ard round trying to find his way out. He
asked g. man to break his revolver say
ing he had tried to do so, but failed.
When the gun was broken the spent
cartridges were shown. and proved to be S
conclusive evidence against him. He was
not SUSPECTED AT that time for the people
liz the hone had been too much distracted
hv their dead to start uron the search for
his murderer. and Long found refuge for
the rest OF the NIGHT in a friends house.
He was arrested the next morning. pro-
testing vainlv>that he was innocent. that
he never shot anyone or anything. ana
III the most utter Ignorance of every in
c'dent Of the dar and night before he was
ro"sea rom his drunken stupor and car
,'ied to jail.
CAPITOL, NOTES.
The Capitol building was thronged with
visitors Yesterday. Arnnn1 the callers at
tho state T.i'ora.v bul1i,,~ We're w N
Jones commissioners of the revenue Of
New Kent: John ". Clay. clerk Of Camp
bell County Court: Hon. w. G VIM OF
Lunen',urr. Former Treasurer B. F. Rich
.-d son cf LOUIS: Judge s. II. Letcher. OF
-: and Hon. E. C. Jordan. Of
Frederick.
v l>oiner the Commissioner Of
to~iculture. viii attend the convention
IF tho agriculture C~r,o,iesioners OF the
South 10 ha held ~ Hot Strings Arka,1-s
Sos r--.t "Wednesday Tie will take along
viii, 'oi'>r many fine Virginia apples to be
exhibited.
A stray carrier 0i~oo' scar'e to the home
oc M w L. Hail. Of Ashland several
weeks ago. and is whiting an owner. IT
;c m ,l al on tho right leg with :, hand