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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-21
Affidavit of Outraged Wo-
man Denying Writing.
PAPER FROM SHERIFF
indications Are That Bogus Letter in
Interest OF Rapist Partridge Was
Written Either BY Himself or
Friends at His In
stigation.

As had been anticipated, it has beer
now fully developed that the alleged
letter from Mrs. Hales, who was the
victim of an assault near Fayetteville
on February 1st, at the hands of a
negro boy by the name of Partridge,
in which it was stated that the testi-
mony given by the prosecutrix during
the trial was a perjury, was false and
forgery in every particular.
Ms was stated on Sunday, the letter
was sent by the Governor to the sheriff
of Cumberland county, with the re-
quest that he procure from Mrs. Hales
either denial or a confirmation Of
the contents of the letter
Yesterday the Governor was visited
by Attorney Hall, of Fayetteville, who
had with him an affidavit from Mrs.
Hales Yin which she stated that she had
not written the letter received, and
that everything to which she testified
on the trial of Partridge was the
truth.
A further examination of the letter,
which was evidently written by a very
ignorant person, shows that the paper
was identical with that in use in the
sheriff's office at Fayetteville, and that
at the top, where there is the name
and address of the sheriff the paper
had been torn. so as only to elave one
or two letters of the Fayetteville on
the paper.
Mr. Hall states that Sheriff Marsh
says that a few days ago Partridge
asked FOR an obtained several sheets
of writing paper from his office. so
that the inference is that the forger
of the letter from his victim was either
the work of the negro himself, or one
of his friends.
The last play of Partridge stupid
as it was, has in the light OF the GER
tainty of his death which it implies
a quality of pathos. The man will
now, almost aSsuredly, be hanged on
April 9Th, the day set for his execu-
ton.
Mrs. Hales' affidavit was rs fol-
lows:
North Notwithstanding County.
Mrs. Lille Ida Hales, being duly
sworn, says, that she is of lawful age
and q resident of said county, North
Carolina; that she was prosecuting
witness i'm the care of State VS.. Wal
ter Partridge, tried at the February
term. 1905. Of Cumberland Superior
court, giving direct evidence in said
case touching a criminal assault made
upon ieG by said Partridge; that said
evidence was and is q full and true ac-
count of said assault; that she has
heard of the letter sent the Governor
purporting to be signed by this affiant,
which Letter states that she swore
falsely and that said Partridge is not
guilty of the crime whereof he stands
convicted: that this afhant never
wrote said letter or any other letter
to the Governor and never authorized
or procured any person or persons to
write said letter; that the affiant never
knew of the existence of said Letter un-
til informed that the Governor had
received the same and said letter is
a fraud and forgery and the contents
thereof are untrue.
(Signed) LILLE IDA HALES.
Sworn and subscribed to before me,
this 10th day of Marcn. 1905.
(Signed) JOHN w. BOLTON,
Notary Public
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-21

plication was to be made at an early
date for a pardon for Ed. Utley, the
young man who, about two years ago,
shot and killed night clerk Hollings-
worth at the Hotel Lafayette, in Fay
ettevilie.
An effort was made to gccure this
pardon during the administration Of
Governor Aycock, but failed. There
there strong grounds on which to
base the argument that Utley acted
technically in self-defense at the time
he fired the fatal shot, as there was
testimony to show that Hollingsworth
had a pistol in his hand which he was
pointing at Utley, but that ii was Of
the safety variety and having Dor
rowed 1t, he did not understand the
mechanism so as to discharge it at
will
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-21
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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-21
AT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
Interesting Sunday School Exercises
Addresses by Governor Glenn
and DR.. Snliah.

The annual exercises of the Presby-
terrain Sunday school under the aus
pices of the Busy Bee band, were held
on Sunday morning and proved the
greatest success in the twenty-five
years history of the organization. The
exercises wecc under the direction of
Miss Bette Penick and Mrs. A. p.
Baumann, and were carried out with
out hitch before a large audience.
The event of the morning was the
address by Governor Glenn to the
school, which was thoughtful, en-
couraging and inspiring. He took as
his subject and the line of his thought
that children and men should be busy
in the service of the Almighty. From
that text the Governor spoke for some
little time with the greatest force and
eloquence and his address was greatly
enjoyed both by the pupils of the
school and the large number Of the
membership of the church which was
in attendance.
The aim of the Presbyterian Sunday
school is to enlist the membership as
we'll as the children of the church, and
in this it has been successful to a
marked degree. Not only practically
all the children of the church but a.
large proportion of the members are
regular attendants of the Sunday
school, the fundamental idea Of the
church being that the Sabbath school
is Its right arm.
At the exercises Sunday, the col
lection of $50, which is the sum aimed
at for the annual meeting by the Busy
Bee band was exceeded to a marked
extent, being the largest collection ever
taken up on a similar occasion.
DIR. Smi&h at Night.
At the evening service, DR.. Smith,
of Davidson College, delivered an adj
dress to the membership of the
church. taking as his theme the idea
that the best and most practical gifts
towards religion and a better develop
ment of peace and righteousness on
earth could be obtained by giving to
the cause of higher education. The
suffering at the doors should be of
course relieved. said he, but charity
could not hope to be lastingly effective
if it was given with the notion Of help
ing those alone who could not help
themselves. The best giving was not
that which made poverty and misery
little more tolerable, but that which
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-21
BOY PATRICIDE
GETS RELEASE
Pardon For Youth Who
Slew Brutal Parent.
STORY OF THE CRIME
Governor Glenn Grants One and Re-
fuses Two Pardon Applications.
The UtIey Case viii Be Brought
Forward Again in Appeal
For CIemenCy.

Governor Glenn yesterday granted
one and denied two applications for
pardon of the many that are on his
table for consideration. The man par
doned was Roby Warren, a BOY OF
twenty. who was sent to the peniten-
tiary two years ago for the killing of
his father who had grossly abused
both the boy himself and his mother.
The pardon was granted upon the
earnest recommendation and request
81 both the judge and the solicitor,
the former, Judge Long, stating that
after thinking over the case he would
not have made the sentence longer
than two years; that he considered the
punishment had been sufficient in view
Of the DroVocation suffered by the boy
and that time having elapsed, he
would heartily make the request for
executive clemency even if he had
not been asked to do so.
The crime of which Warren was
convicted was one that was full of
tragedy and sounded the deeps of hu-
man suffering. His father from the
evidence adduced at the trial and
from current reports in Watauga coun-
~, was wcll-nigh a brute. He took
an almost fiendish pleasure in beating
and humiiiating both his wife and his
eighteen year old son. He attacked
them in accordance with drunken
and capriciOus passion that did not
wait for provOcation, often not for q
word. On enc occasion, he caught his
son in conversation with young girl
who was his sweetheart and crushed
him TO the ground, beating him until
he could not stand. On the night of
the murder the drunken father had
first beaten the boy almost to insensi-
bility and had then attacked his moth
or. beating her also to the floor with
brutal delight in his power to wound.
The boy, bruised and bleeding had
before the rage OF his father when
she latter, spurning the form of his
wife with his foot. rushed towards the
bed with an oath as though to renew
she attack on the son.
But the string had snapped, and
humiliation had given way to a deeper
passion. The boy rose in the bed
clothes, there was a flash of smoke
and flame and the drunken father fell
dead across the bed.
And these are the facts on which
after two years of imprisonment a
pardon is granted by the Governor Of
the State.
PaTdons Refused.
Inc TWO cases IN which pardOnS were
refused were those of Alfred Pritch-
ard of Mitchell county, who is serv-
ing 2 term for murder in the second
degree. and w, p. Patterson, of Hay
wood, who was convicted and sem
fenced for clipping with another mans
wife, under the statute passed by the
of 1903
TO Open the Utlcy Case.
that he had been informed that an ap-
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-21
Sale Of LIE and other Property.
Especial 70 News and observer.)

Especial to News and Observer)
Wilmington, N. c.. March 2O.-The
extensive tug boat interest and other
property of the Cape Fear Towing
and Transportation Company was sold
today to the Southport and Little
River Transportation Company in
which NJ. J. Corbett. r. r. Stone and
others are interested.
The Cape Fear Company which sells
out is largely composed Of piolts. The
consideration is said to be upwards
CT so. 600
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-21
RIount. Apost!e Of sunshlne.
Especial to News and Observer.

Especial to News and Observer
Weldon n. c., March 20.-TIenry
Blount, of Wilson, gave by far the
most delightful entertainment of the
season in Emery Hall last night Mr.
Blount was at his best, and handled
his subject, Rip Van Wrinkle and Scion
Single with the skill of a master.
Those who heard him are delighted
There is but one Henry Blount and
he is truly an apostle of sunshine.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-21
Mrs. Rachel wallace Dead.

Especial to News and Observer)
Charlotte, n. c., March 20.-Mrs.
Rachel Wallace, wife of Sheriff N. w.
Wallace, of this county, one of the
most prominent women in this Sec
ton, died of rheumatism of the heart
yesterday evening. The funeral took
place from the residence this evening
and was attended va large concourse
of riends and relativefs
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-21
obsesver Goes to Lacrosse, wisconsin.
-lsnecial 10 49, 40 ohseruerl

Especial to News and Observer,)
Charlotte N. c., March 20.-George
r. Oberholzer, local observer Of the
weather Office here, has been ordered
by the officials at washington to leave
for Lacrosse, Wisconsin, where he is
to take charge of the station in that
city
1t is understood here that Walter
]. Bennett, of Washington, will be
named as Mr.. Oberholzer's successor.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-21

During the
Spring months
n o h o m q
should ever BE-
without a bot
tie of the Bit
ters. Past ex
perience has
proven that q
dose in time
has 8 a V G 9
many a long
sick spell.
1t cures
Spring Fever,
General Debili-
ty, Indigestion,
Dyspepsia,
Nausea, Colds
or La Grippe.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-21

would enable the people in the world
who lacked the advantages of wealth
or training to get the latter and attain
the former along with the capacity to
see the good and to follow it in their
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-26
GoULDs' WABASH HOLDINGS.
Are One-third of All Securities and
Ramsey Has a Show.

New York, Sept. 26.-Reports are cur
rent that the holdings of Wabash Sc
curities, including stock and bonds own
ed or directly controlled by the Gould
interests, according to a canvass made
by a former director of the Wabash
railroad, amount to about thirty-three
and a third per cent of the voting Sc
curities OF the road. This is consider
ably less than the Goulds have been
credited with holding.
That Joseph Ramsey, Jr., in his fight
for control of the wabash will have
strong support seems sure from the
declarations of bankers who are in a
fair position to judge of the situation.
If it should be true that the Goulds in
fact control but one-third of the votes
in the Wabash railroad, Mr.. Ramseys
chances of success are much better than
they were supposed to bewhen, he issued
his statement the other day calling for
proxies.
Among those who will give strong sup
to Mr.. Ramsey is Cyrus ]. Lawrence,
who resigned as a, director of the, com
pany at the beginning of the year. ow-
ing to his disapproyal of the manner in
which the eastern extensions Of the
Wabash were financed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-26

watch Company Finds There Is No
Economy in Employing Females.

Chicago, Sept. 26.-The Elgin
Watch company, after many years
trial, has decided that women cannot
work as well as men, and there is no
economy in employing them at lower
wages. AS result they are now sup
planting some 5000 women with men.
Chicago club women are agitated
over this policy. Mrs. Charles Hen
rotin said:
''I have no doubt that those Elgin
girls are earning every cent they get.
When they place men side by side
with those women and find they are
doing more satisfactory work they
overlook the fact that the men are
paid much better wages. The del
icacy and accuracy required in watch
making puts it in the list of occupa-
tons at which women excel, according
to my way of thinking It appears
that the company took a long time to
find that men are best
The club women fear this may be
the forerunner of a general movement
to GUST women workers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-26
SUES FOR EXCESS TAXES.
Santa Fe Claims to Have Paid Them
in Summer County.

HI NOuAAtys
Suit has been filed by the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe in the district
court at WeTington, Kas., against the
board of county commissioners, G. B.
Macdonald, as county clerk, and T. A.
Hubbard, as county treasurer. In this
suit the Santa .Fe. seeks to recover
December 20, 1908, and also $311.10,
with per cent. interest, from De-
cember 20, 1904. It claims to have
paid these amounts in excess of what
it should have been charged for taxes
the years mentioned.
The petition alleges that the valu-
alton on the Santa Fe property in
Sumner county for 1903 was fixed by
the board of railroad assessors at
$3.50, 100, and that the rate of taxa
ton levied on railroad property in
the state for that year was GA mills.
1t is further alleged that the state
board of equalization raised the value
of all property in the county except
railroad property 10 per cent. in 1908.
The charge is then made that the
county clerk raised the rate of the
levy for state taxes on all property,
mills to n mills, and that this raise
in the rate of the tax levy caused the
Santa Fe to pay $472.50 more taxes
than it otherwise would have been re-
quired to, and that it made this pay
ment under protest in order to pre-
vent the issuance of a tax warrant.
Similar allegations are made for
the year 1904, showing the excess
amount of taxes to have been $311.10.
And it is these two amounts that the
Santa Fe wants back with interest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-26
coboRED PASTORS ASSIGNED.
Close of the Western Conference at
Kansas City, Kansas.

Kansas City Kan, Sept. 26.-The west
ern conference of the A. M e. church
closed its thirtieth session last night at
the First A. NJ. church. The Rev. Abb
raham Grant, the presiding bishop, an
nounced the appointments for the COM
ing year as follows:
Omaha District. w. Braxton, pre-
siding elder; Omaha, ]. W. Wilson;
Atchison, A. C. Terrell; Lincoln, w. T.
Riggers; Hiawatha, P. D. Davis: Troy,
A. ]. King; Tonganoxie, A. Simms /;
Beatrice, H. NJ. Rivers: Holton. Will
lam Solly; Nebraska City, A Gamble;
Fremont, W. NJ. Moore: North Topeka,
w. H. Housley; Oskaloosa, ]. W. H.
Morris; Highland, F. L. George; South
Omaha, c. a. Woods; Bonner Springs,
Prince Williams; Quindaro, to be sup
piled; Falls City, S. Suggs.
Topeka. Distriet-G. A. Griffith. pre-
siding elder; Topeka, j. f. c. Fay
lor; I4eavenworth, c. H. Hall: Law
renee, ], NJ. Pope; Argentine, y. w.
Williams; Manhattan, c. L Holly: To-
peka CBrown,s chapel, n. F. Gamble;
ottawa, w. P. Green; Emporia, W. B.
Johnson; North Lawrence, F. w.
Walthall; Junction City, E. D. Abbott;
Usage City, G. A. Morgan; Olathe, Jas.
Holmes; Lake View, S. N. Barker;
Holiday, j. M Mitchell; Grant Mis-
sion, Kansas City, to be supplied.
Wichita District-A. H. Brooks, pre-
siding elder; Wichita, H. W. King;
Hutchinson ]. P. Howard: Nicodemus,
Garden City, L. NJ. Mccormick; Min
neapolis, s. Norris; Arkansas City, B.
r. Guy; Winfield. r. c. Lee; St. John,
j. r. Ramsey; Newton, S. S. Washing
aon; Great Bend, K. F. Bond; Ellis
worth, S. w. Alexander; Speed, d. G.
Cole; Dodge City, Ell Dorado. Anthony,
Larned and Mcpherson, to be supplied
Fort Scott District-J. R. Ransom,
presiding elder; Kansas City, Kan,
First A M e. church, A NJ. Ward;
Fort Scott NJ Wooten; Parsons, j. +.
Sage; Garrett. H. D. Harris: lola. l..
o. Newly; Pleasanton, 7. W. Kidd;
Paola, ]. J.. Pleasant; Baxter Springs,
H. H. Jones; Independence, b. t.
Bates; Girard, w. H. H. Jones; Galena,
Louis Parks; Yale, R. F. Green; Os-
wego, A. H. Daniels; Bassitt, j. S.
Bass; Chanute, ]. E. Fletcher; Cherry
vale, J. J. Watson; Wier City, ]. A.
Allen; Coffeyville, H. Sheppard; Min
eral City, James Banks: St. Paul mis-
sion, H. Frazier.
Transferred to Missouri Conference
G. H. Smith.
The next session of the conference
will be held at Hutchinson, Kan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-26
WIRELESS ON GERMAN ROADS.
This Sort of Communications Proves
Successful on State Railways.

This Sort of Communication Proves
Successful on State Railways.
United States Consul Harris, station
ed at Chemnitz, reports that recent dis
astrous railway accidents in Germany
will probably lead to the general intro
duction and use of wireless telegraphy
on all the state railways. Two years
ago exhaustive and practical expert
ments were commenced and continued
until recently on~the military railway
leading from Berlin to Zossen. The
telegraph stations on the route were
each fitted I'D with a transmitter and
receiver, while the trains were equipped
with the same apparatus. The. ordinary
telegraph wires along the track were
also used to facilitate the work. The
experiments proved conclusively that
the different stations could at any time
communicate with train running at
full speed and warn it of pending dam
ger. The use of wireless telegraphy in
this connection would especially safe
guard trains on one-track railways
from danger. 1t is not expected that the
expense of supplying stations and pas
senger trains with the necessary ap-
paratus will be much beyond the
budget allowed each year for the pur-
pose of repairing old signals and intro
ducing new appliances and inventions
which have for their aim the protection
of lie and limb in railway travel
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-26
KAILRUAD NEWS.
Ripley May Let Western Pacific
Use China Basin Terminal.
Millions Have Been Spent by
Santa Fe Improving It.
MEANS MUCHTo GOULD
Hartman Trying to Keep Him
From San francisco Bay.
Gossip and Matters OF Interest
in Railroad Circles.

Considerable talk is being INDUCED
in among railroad men over the pos
sibility of E. P. Ripley, president OF
the Atchison, Topeka & santa Fe, and
George j. Gould, head of the Western
Pacific. entering into an agreement
by which the two railroad corpora
tions are to share the China Basin
as joint terminal point on the San
Francisco side of San Francisco bay.
1t has been known for some time that
the Western Pacific company was
meeting with many obstacles in trying
to get adequate terminal facilities in
San Francisco and it has been charged
openly that President Hartman of the
Southern Pacific company and John
D. Rockefeller were endeavoring in
every way to block the plans of the
Gould roads.
It has become known that Mr..
Gould and Mr.. Ripley have had sew
eral conferences in New York recently
regarding the China Basin, and re-
ports are current to the effect that the
proposition to make the Santa Fee
property at ChinaSBasin joint termi-
nal for the two roads is meeting with
favor on the part of the Santa Fe Off
Gals.
The filing in of China Basin and the
construction of docks and switching
facilities has cost the Santa Fe COM
pany many millions of dollars. Alto
gether the company owns thirty-five
acres of land. which is commonly
designated as China Basin. The prop
erty has a valuable water frontage,
along which the company has built
one HUNDRED and r%wenty-fiye feet of
sea wall which will afford excellent
facilities for the transfer of freight
from the ships to cars. In fact, it is
admitted that the bay frontage at this
! point is far more advantageous than
| the frontage acquired in many years
| by the Southern Pacific Behind the
sea wall is a planked surface seventy
five feet in depth, and west of this is
the ground which the Santa Fe pro-
| poses to use as a freight yard.
The proposition now being consider
| ed by Mr.. Gould and Mr.. Ripley is to
| divide this space. The Western Pa
cific will take the southern half of the
| property and will connect it with its
| trains on the Oakland side of the bay
by building around the bay shore. AL
| though the officials of the Santa. Fee in
| this city are unwilling to discuss the
matter to any great extent, they. admit
that part of China Basin may be
ultimately used as a terminal for the
new Gould line. Back of the basin is
| property of ample size to- meet any re-
| quirements of the Western Pacific and
| the Santa F'e and it, is reported that a
large part of this property has already
4 been bonded by the : agents of the
GoII7dS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-26
RAILROAD NOTES.

Fred Gahagan, well known in Topeka,
and a travelling freight agent for the
Santa ,F'e with headquarters at. Pueblo,
is in town on business connected with
the general freight agents department.
c. f. Cloydes Formerly in charge of
the invoice department of the Santa. Fe
store department.. has been promoted to
the position Of general foreman in that
department to fill the vacancy caused
by the promotion of K. r. Stewart to
general, foreman of the storehouse at
Albuquerque.
Walter C.-Gilchrist has been appoint
ed to a position in the freight auditing
department. OF the Santa Fe.
F.sSJ. Mckee. chief clerk to the gen.
eraI superintendent of, the Santa Fe,
arrived home today after a short trip to
Chillicothe, Mo.
A c: Burrows, travelign passenger
agent for the Lake Shore railroad,
with offices at kansas City, was a Wis
itor at the local Rock Island offices
yesterday.
K. G, Morley superintendent of the
Valley division Of the Iron Mountain
railroad. with headquarters at Little
Rock, Ark, has resigned on account OF
i'll health.