The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-01-10
MURDERER BYNUM IN JAIL
SENT TO PRISON By MAYOR POW
ELL WITHOUT BAIL.
The Trial VIII not Occur Unit. Spring.
Condition OF n. c. National Guard.
Death Sentence of George Daniel
Commuted-Cotton Situation in tile
Stakeholder News Notes.
Messenger Bureau.


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Raleigh, N. c., January ).
Governor Aycock commutes to life
imprisonment the death sentence of
George w. Daniel, OF Duplin county,
who murdered Maxwell another white
man about a a ago, and who was
twice tried and sentenced TO be hang
ed. The Governor says he commutes|
the sentence on the ground that the
mind OF Daniels is SO weak as to be
inconsistent with premeditation and de-
liberation. The Communication was re-
quested by a great number of the best
citizens of Duplin. Ex-Judge Robin
son Of Goldsboro, appeared before the
Governor and presented the petition.
Daniels will be brought to the peniten-
tiary here at once
Ajutant General Register was inter-
viewed today regarding the North Carr
slina National guard. He said it's present
strength was 2,115 gain over a year ago.
The entire force was encamped or in the
maneuvers during the year. One COM
pany guarded the oxford Jail and an
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lynching at Wilmington. The Brigadier
General n the three colonies all report
Improvement in the personnel, equip
ment and drill of the troops. The
equipment is better than ever before,
only a complete supply of overcoats and
campaign shoes is needed. The First
regiment was provided last summer
with kaki shirts and acquisitions are in
the hands Of the war department for
the second and for the Third regiments,
n also for an additional supply of
blankets. Adjutant Genera Register
will recommend in his report that the
~long-needed arsenal be built here and
he will also recommend that the appro-l
priation by the State to the guard be so
increased as to allow each company
commander one hundred dollars a year
as pay. The responsibility of compa-
ny commanders, in every way, both to-
the general government and to the
State is very great, and in this way only
can good men be secured and held.
This morning at 4 O'Clock r. D. By
mum, the murderer of James Fl. Afford,
was placed in Jail here, to the great sat-
isfaction of Sheriff Page who sat up all
night waiting for the m~uch-desiredI
prisoner. Despite the hour and the
bitter cold there was a large crowd at
the Union station to see the prisoner,
but there was no demonstration or at
tack against him. The sheriff said the
physical condition of Bynum was such
that no body tried to talk to him.
Sheriff regards his condition as very
bad. Bynum was brought here by Sher-I
if Riddick, of Gates. There is 4 re-
| ward of three hundred dollars for the
ma and the question is whether his
captor is an officer or not. Bynum was
disguised and tried to escape. The au-
thorities here very much regret that
he got out of Raleigh as he did. With
in half a block of him as he came cut
Of the door of the printing house where
he shot Afford were a deputy sheriff
n a policeman. The deputy seems to-
have done nothing and the policeman
made the gross mistake of going to he
station house after a warrant, the may
or then telling him ne warrant was
necessary. The officer then did not go
by himself after the murderer, but ook
another policeman with him, so that in
every way valuable time was lost.
Murderer Bynum was given a hearing
before Mayor Powell this afternoon and
sent back to jail without bail. He has
employed Pou and Fuller and Argo and
Shaffer as attorneys. The case will
not be tried until spring.
| Governor Aycock was last week on
the floor of a New Orleans cotton ex-
| change when the cotton ginners report
came in and saw the spectators "go
wild" as he put it. The Governor was
taken on the floor by Mr.. Hester, who
is so widely known and stood beside
Brown the noted operator, The latter
was buying cotton while it vas going
| down and a~fterward, holding up the
prices. The Governor says: THE re-
port of ginners is the only way to get at
| the truth as to the crop. The truth Is
| what people want to know. Who wants
| to know a lie?"
Assistant Weather observer Weisner
left here last night for his new sta
ton, Palestine, Texas. His health was
not good here. He came to Raleigh
from oregon, but where the climate is
vastly different.
A letter from DR.. S. Westray Battle
Of Asheville says the prospects are ex-
cellent for the establishment of a Unit
ed states Naval Sanitarium in the
North Carolina mountains at some point
near Asheville. He is working very,
earnestly for this sanitarium to be To-
Gated in that fine section.
President John S. Cunningham of the
North Carolina cotton Grower Asso-
citation was especially interviewed to-
day regarding the cotton situation: Il
will issue ar address, urging every
grower to cut the acreage at least TWEEN
ty-five per cent and to stand together,
and solidly as the tobacco growers did
last year, also to faithfully keep their
pledges. I would advise them not to
rush their cotton on the market. Of
course a number will have necessarily
to sell some cotton, because they faile1I