The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-10-03
To ASK FOR PARDON OF MURRAY
Petition in Durham Case to be Present.
ed to the Governor.
Further Hearing Given the Attorney
for Peter Smith-Sealed Bids for u
Permanent Camp Site. Called for.
State to be Represented i'm Hearing
Of Case Against Hospital Attendants.
Messenger Buerau.
Raleigh, n. c., September q.

4Ac supreme COuII q OIopObC0 ol
the case of Murray of Durham, VINO
was convicted of killing his uncle in
an affray. Today attorneys for Muir
ray appeared before Governor Glenn
and asked him to suspend the carry
ing out of the sentence of four year
in jail, until an application for pardon
could be prepared and presented 70
the governor. The governor said he
would notify attorneys for the prosecu-
ton of this petition and would glye
the matter a hearing next Saturda.y
morning. He told the attorneys that
his ruling heretofore that no matter
of pardon would be considered unless
the petitioner were actually in custo1y.
He said he had repeatedly refused to
consider such cases otherwise, and that
he saw no reason why there should
be an exception unless there were ex-
tremely strong evidence.
The governor was today considering
the petition by the attorney, Mr.. Eo0s,
for communication of the death sentence
of Peter Smith, who outraged a girl IN
Madison county, this petition being
pressed very warmly, and the COVER
nor having respited Smith until OaIo-
Der 2, and having directed the judge
to take the evidence of the girl as to
whether she had said she had been
forced by her father to swear what she
did on the trial. The girl informed
the Judge that she adhered to what she
had said at the trial, namely that
Smith had lured her into the NOUN
tains. and there committed the assault.
The governor thinks the man guilty.
Ebbs has sought to make it appear that
the hearing of the girls statement by
the judge was a re-trial of the case.
and that he was not present. The
governor said it was no re-trlal at 3ll.
1t looks like Smith will go to the gal
lows.
The governor has named Thomas B.
Womack to represent the state at the
trial tomorrow in the superior courI
here of the four men charged with
killing Thomas Nail at the Central
Hospital for the insane.
Secretary Thomas B. Parker. of the
State Farmers Alliance, and the North
Carolina Cotton Growers Association,
expresses the confident belief that cot
ton will soon go to twelve and a nalf
cents.
The health officer OF Raleigh says
that the city's healthfulness is marked:
During the summer there were about
q dozen cases of typhoid fever.
The city authorities are paving New
Bern avenue in order to give a per-
go - 4h~ Co11fnpr hoo ~
which place has in bad weather been
almost inaccessible.
The Citizens Bank of this city re-
ceived many congratulations today,
having passed the million dollar mark
as to their deposits.
State Auditor Dixon, who is MAX
ing up the corrected roster of North
Carolina Confederate troops o the
United States war department, finds
that the Roll Of Honor is lot regarded
as an original record by the depart
ment. The returns upon which it was
made were either lost when Governor
Vance moved the records from Raleigh
to Greensboro in 1865, or were captured
by the United States. At all events
they are not here. The roll of honor
has always been considered in a broad
as an original record.
The public printer is printing $4,000
copies of the new school law, and also
the August bulletin of the agricultural
department. There is much delay
about printing the new code, and no
one knows now when it will appear.
Sealed bids for a camp site for the
National Guard of North Carolina are
now being published in Charlotte, VIII
mington, Asheville and Raleigh papers.
The place which makes the best offer
will be the winner. At the encampment
there will be a rifle range and many
other things. The national guard is
now full with the exception of the 3rd-
regiment. which is short n COM
pany.
Representative e. M. Koonce, of Ocs-
low county, is here, on his way hoNe
from Greensboro and High Point,
which he says are the driest places III
the world except Jacksonville, his own
town. At High Point he says the peo-
pie are very public spirited and d.
vide up everything, even the blind IL
gers, and that they will not let any
one man do all the blind tiger bust
ness. He says he yet believes his bill
to make pistol carrying a felony will
become a law. He declares that North
Carolina cannot spare so many of her
good men as revolver victims.
The Assistant Labor Commissioner IS
out, getting statistics from cotton
mills. He a only get these as a
tesy, since there is no law compelling
the mills to furnish them.
The state board of public buildings
and grounds met today to consider a
request from the city to allow a slice
of the park in front of the Union Rail-
way station to be taken for use as a
carriage stand, the street railway put
ting some of the carriages out of :he
place there. The fact is the station
ought to have been ct back further
from street, and a hood built out IN
front to cover the carriages. The
treasurer and attorney general were
requested to inspect the place and
make a report.
The bankruptcy ase of c. Fl. Owens.
of Tarboro, was dismissed by Judge
Purnel1 today.
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