The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-09-01
GOVERNOR WOULD
SHARE THE BURDEN.
Subjected to Annoyance and Dis
trcss. BY Pleas for
Pardon
LYNCHlNG OF JOHN MOORE
The Case Develops That Magis-
trates Are in Collision With
Lawyers.
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RALEIGH, N. c., August Sl.--Govcrnor
Glenn Will ask the next Legislature to
take Some steps towards relieving him
Of tho terrible strain Of having to pass
entirely alone upon the petition for COM
mutation Of men sentenced to be hanged.
The Governor finds that after Juries have
passed upon these cases, and brought
In q verdict or guilty, and after the
judges have informed the prisoners that
there was not the least hope of any
lessenlng whatever Of punishment, some
judges turn around and under the pres
sure of petitioners, ask The Governor
to commute In one case this matter e9Is
SO pronounced as to astonlsh the Gov
crnor. The Judge in this particular case
told the prisoner, a wife murderer, that
his crime was one Of the worst on re-
cord, deliberate, the premeditated, and
that he must never entertain the least
hope of escaping the gallows, and yet
attorneys for their prisoner came here
and produced recommendation for
mercy, signed by the judge.
In this case the man shot his wife
down because she would not live with
him on account Of his cruelty, and his
threats of death. and as she was dying
OK pressed his regret that he had not
killed her instantly, saying 1t was his
purpose to have shot her through the
heart.
He inquired again about her, and when
he found she still fingered, repeated what
he had said with the most awful oaths
md protestatlons that his only regret was
tina! he had not brought about the I'm.
mediate death he planned for her. Toe
woman thus shot down, had her child
In her arms. and the husband had In
duced her to come to him by sending
policeman after her.
There Is no board of parcons in this
State. and the strainAupon me Governor,
he says he finds to be more severe than
& the entire&lst Of his official duties. He
Is asked to commute the death sentence
of a negro. whose victim was very
small coored girl Of his own race. He
has Informed the authorities that only
upon a certificate sworn to by three ex-
pert physicians of the county that the
negro does not know right from wrong,
will he show any clemency.
LYNCIIING& OF MOORE.
No occurrence this year has caused
more comment in the State than the
lynching of the negro Moore at New
berne. 1t is deliberately stated that the
&lynching was because the; magistrate who
first took, ups the srcasenthxed the bond
Tor Moore at only $500. 4 The man John
Moore went to the store OF a white
man, where the wife was looking after
the business. and was alone, demanded
all the moneytiin the place and then at
tackled her with an axe, cutting lGr on
The head and disfiguring her for life
The lynching has been almost univer-s
sally condemned, though a few persons
have spoken harshly about Governor
i Glenn for instructing the State solicitor
to hasten to Newberne and get all tho
information possible regarding the
lynchers, with q view to prosecution.
One thing which this case has developed
is the rottenness OF number of mags-
trates in this State and their crhHsion
with certain lawyers, who are known US
.'sharps." There is an after-result of
the Newberne case in the arrest OF
Thomas J. York, colored who is charged
with cursing, abusing the police and using
language tending to excite riot by de-
nouncing on the streets the lynching of
Moore, which occurred last Sunday morn
ing.
II is said that York made threats
against certain persons, and that his
language was calculated to cause race
trouble, from which Newberne has SUI
fered in the past. He has given bond In
$500 for his appearance at the next term
of the Superior Court.
FARMERS CONVENTION.
The Farmers State Convention of North
| Carolina is in session here, E. L. Daught-
! ridge, of Edgecombe county, presiding
| Addresses Of welcome were made by
| Governor Glenn, on behalf of the state,
and BY President Winston, on behalf OF
the Agricultural and Mechanical Collese,
I where the session was held The annual
address OF the president, Mr.. Daught-
ridge. was very plain statement OF
North Cardinals agricultural situation,
and needs, He dwelt upon the desirable
I5ity. not only OF more labor, but of more
denendable labor and said that never
hefore was the demand for labor on the
farms so great as at present. It IS. III
fact, ono Of the great needs OF the time
The North Carolina Cotton Association
is also in session at the same place,
President Dnughtrdge was interviewed
regarding crop conditions, and said he
/ thought the cotton crop was something
like onc-third short, and that 1t was
I. certainly so. rs far as his section. which
| q ono of the most important Is con-
| cerncd The corn crop Is a fair one, and
the peanut crop is quite good.
president John S. Cunningham, Of the
! North Carolina Cotton Growers and
| BUSINESS Mems Association, which Is
one OF the two largest tobacco growers
| in this state, says tobacco is curing
| bright. and that the crop y fair one
| WITH prices starting off at q very salts
factory figure, He says the tobacco
growers showed two years ago that they
could curtall acreage and hold their to-
bacco, and that this Year the cotton
growers have conclusively proved their
ability to take the same steps and that
these two things have given the growers
OF both products more confidence in them
selves and In cooperation than they
have ever had before, and arc hence of
inestimable benefit, not only to North
Carolina, but TO the whole South, ana,
indeed, for the entire country, since 1t is
proved now that the farmers can merely,
by being united, control prlces to a very
remarkable degree. President Cu1lng-
ham says that he is glad to see peace
between JaDan and Russia, but that yet