The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-27
THE BOY IN PETTICOATs.
Leslie Wilmouth Again Figures in
Headlines. Mysterious Death Of
CarsWell

Especial to News and Observer
Greensboro. n. c., Sept. 26.-Leslie
Wilmouth, the young boy who ran
away from his fathers here some time
ago and landed in Charlotte i'm girls
clothes with an awful story of having
been whipped numerically by mis-
father, is in trouble again. Mr. VIII
mouth had found il next to impossi-
BILE to keep the boy off the streets ana
out of criminal mischief, and after q
severe whipping had put q dress OF
him, thinking this would keep him a
home. But Leslie simply broke out
and rode the blind baggage to Char
lotte where he got big head lines ir
the local papers as injured innocence
Yesterday a lady 'phoned the police
station that strange person was ly-
ing asleep or dead in her piazza ham
mock and she was afraid to fool wit,
him. The officer went out post haste
and upon investigation found it was
only Leslie sound asleep. Later in the
afternoon he borrowed a bicycle OF
preacher to take g. little ride on
and must be riding yet, as neither tho
boy nor the wheel has come back
where they belong.
There is much talk by paries com
ing here from Wilkesboro over the
mysterious death of q man name q
James Carswell, aged so. All that is
known about him is that he came to
North Wilkesboro from the North &c
get out a special edition of the jour
nal. the paper owned by John Is
Crouch, private secretary to Congress-
man Blackburn, on an agreement
made with Frank Greer, lessee of the
Journal. Thursday night Carswell and
Greer were drinking at Smiths board
ing house in North Wilkesboro Fri
day morning Carswell was found OF
the ground below the caves of a broad
piazza from the roof of which he is
supposed to have rolled. He died Sat
urday night.
There was an element of mystery
in the affair as the distance that the
man felony eight or ten feet--was
not sufficiently great to have caused
his death except under unusual cir =
cumstances. SO a jury was empan-
nelled and an inquest was held on
Sunday, the verdict being that Cars
we'll came to his death by some cause
unknown.
The boys, Morphis and Grady, WHO
are charged with wrecking No. 29 on
June 20, of this year, and whose case
on account of their tender age was mol
pressed in the Superior court last
week, have been indicted by Detective
Ahern of the Southern, in the Federal
court. The Federal law the violation
of which is charged is injuring the
mails.
Mr.. Guy Furgerson has been select
ed by the Bradstreet Company as SUI
perintendent of the agency in Green's
boro to succeed j. A. Gorham, who
resigned to go into life insurance
work.
Mr.. n. J. O'Brien. formerly division
superintendent of the Southern and
a great favorite with Greensboro peo-
pie, has been made general manager
with headquarters at Sweetwatoi
Texas.
Wills book store is being moved to-
day INTO new quarters in the Guilford
Hotel building.
The Kress five and ten cent stock is
being moved to enlarge and improv
quarters one door south of their pres
ent building.
Hubert Bishop, aged 10, the exem-
plary son of Mr.. and Mrs. j. C. Bisll-
OPP, died last night at s o'clock of
meningitis after an illness of four
days. The funeral will take place at
ten o'clock Wednesday. The deceased
was a popular and genial lad and of
fine business promise, and his death
will be deeply deplored by ALL For
the past two years he has been a stu
dent at a Danville military academy.
Mrs. James Oakly, aged eighty
eight, was reported to be dying at
o'clock