The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-05-10
A NEGRO WOMAN WHOSE HUSBAND WAS
uYNGHED PARO0NEO.
EXPELLED FROM SOLDIERS HOME
One of the mate Admits Having De-
serted-Jullan :. Mann Appointed SUI
perintendento fthe PenitentIary-The
Text % Commission are TO Keen
Secret the Sub-Commission's Report
and the Bids Until the Latter are Se-
le~cted-Truck Exhibits to be Made at
Raleigh and Charlotte.
Especial to The Messenger.)

Especial TO The Messenger)
Raleigh, May Ex-Governor Aycock
today pardoned Raney Mills. a young
negro woman Of Rutherford county,
who has a baby eight months old. Her
husband, Avery Mills, killed a white
man named Flack last year and vas
quickly Iynched. The woman narrow
ly escaped lynching.
Judge Robinson urged her pardon.
He says in a letter TO the governor,
that after her husband had been shot
and while he was being beaten on the
head with a gun, she handed him, at
his request, a pistol with which he
killed Flack. who. the judge says,
was the aggressor.
She and her husband were on their
way to Jail when he was lynched. She
was a witness before the grand jury
against the lynchers, but the gand jury
ignored the bill as to the lynchers and
found a bill against her for murder in
the first degree.
Judge Shaw thereupon issued a
bench warrant against the men she
identified as the 1ynchers. Some of
them fled and the warrants are yet
unexecuted, though at his term of
court the solicitor sent in another bill
against them which the grand jury
again ignored.
Judge Shaw removed the case against
her to Cleveland county. where Judge
Robinson tried it. The jury found her
guilty of murder in the second degree.
Judge Robinson said he woul set the
verdict aside, but decided to sentence
her to the minimum term and then
ask for her pardon. The case is a very
notable one.
Julian S. Mann, of Hyde county, one
of the Penitentiary directors, was this
afternoon unanimously elected Superin-
tendent- His name was before the board
! las Saturday, and all were ready to
5 elect him but he declined the election
until he ascertained that it would meet
with Governors Aycock's approval.
Today it was ascertained that the gov
ernor approved the choice. The salary
was fixed at 81, 500 and all expenses
necessary in attending to the duties.
Mann is a farmer and also a lawyer
but has not practiced for eight years.
He has served two terms in the legis-
lature.
1t is decided that Chairman Travis,
of the penitentiary directorate, is to re-
ceive no salary. 1t is also decided that
the warden and other employees shall
not board at the p~enitentiary. The di-
rectors go tomorrow to inspect the
great state farm on Roanoke river.
The text book commission today
opened the report of the sub-commis-
sion, but will not make it public until
the text books are adopted. The bid
were opened. There are twenty-three
bidders including one for school fur
niture. All these will be given a hear
ing Wednesday, which will occupy all
day. All the board were present today,
Tr1r1nr
The bids were also kept secret until
acted on.
Arrangements have been made by
Secretary Bruner. of the Agricultural
department, for a fine show of North
Carolina truck at Charlotte. and RAJ
leigh two days each. Only one crate
or full package is expected from each
grower. All shipments are to be made
May 10th. The East Carolina Truck
and Fruit Growers Association Will CO.
operate in the work. The purpose is
to educate the central and western
people as to eastern truck growing and
to stimulate the market.
The directors of the soldiers home
elected A. B. Andrews president, 3. f.
Dixon secretary, Alex B. S~tronach,
John a. Ramsay and B. F. Dixon ex-
ecutive committee. The election of a
superintendent of the home is placed
in the hands of the executive commit
NCCy o1o liz Id SANSA AoAA
ity to investigate charges of desertion
against two inmates of the home.
The executive committee spent the
afternoon at the home. 1t reelected
Robert H. Brooks superintendent. 1t
also investigated the charges of deser-
ton from the army made against W.
". Kelley. of the Thirty-irst regiment,
who was admitted to the home from
this county about eight years ago.
Kelley confessed his desertion and was
Immediately ~dishonorably discharged
from the home. No regular charges
of desertion were preferred against the
inmate from Rowan. but he proved his
innocence inc then attempted to
bring charges against the manag
ment. In this attempt he had no back
ign.
State Superintendent Toon, today in
spected the industrial department of
1.-THE Shaw University ~tcolored). He
says it was a complete revelation to
him. He will deliver diplomas and
confer degrees at the commencement
Thursday.
There is extremely little interest in
the municipal election here tomorrow
only one tickle (democratic) in the
field. The only contests of Importance
in the state are at Durham and Fay
ettevflle.
Governor Aycock will speak at
S~tatesville next Monday. His next
speech after that will be at New York,
Nav Goth before the North Carolina
society
Charlotte Accepts Carnegie's Offer