The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-02-24
To BE EXECUTED APRIL 9Th
PARTRIDGE CONVICTED OF As
SAULT ON MRS. MAILS.
Throughout-Fayett Citizens
Law-To Create n Board OF Pub-
lie Works-Two Children Drowned
Especial to The Messenger.1

Especial to The MessengerJ
Fayetteville. n. c., February 22.-At
the called meeting of the board of al
dermen, Major J. G. HolAngsworth Of
fered the following important resolu-
| ton
Feeling absolutely assured that we
| represent the sentiments of the major
| ity Of the voters of Fayetteville in ask
ing for such law, we. the mayor and
members Of the board of aldermen of
the city of Fayetteville, the board OF
audit and finance concurring, do ask
you, in your representative capacity.
| to introduce and have enacted a law
| repeating SO much of the present pro-
| Elbition law for Cumberland county
| governing the sale of malt, vinous
and spirituous liquors, as will give to
| the city of Fayetteville the same right
and privilege now enjoyed by the
other towns and cities in the state of
North Carolina, under the Watts law.
I'm other words: We ask that we be
allowed to hold an election on the Ii
quor question in accordance with the
| terms of the watts Law as endorsed
by the Democratic state convention at
| Greensboro, and that the special act
| prohibiting such an election in Cum
| berland be repealed in so far as it con-
| ficts with such an expression Of the
voters of the city of Fayetteville on the
question.
This, as the correspondent under
| stands it, would allow the town of Fay
etteville, if the suggested partial repeal
| is made, to vote on the question of the
municipal liquor question either by sa-
| loon, dispensary or prohibition, as it
| is at present.
The board of aldermen also directed
| the city attorney to draft bill for
| submission to the Legislature, provid-
| ing for the creation Of a board of pub
| lie works, which shall have charge and
| supervision of the electric light, water
works and sewerage systems, etc.
| At 1910 o'clock today the jury iii
| the case of Walter Partridge for GRIM
| inal assault on Mrs. Hales, came into
| court, and, being polled, rendered a
| verdict of guilty. The defendant has
| had fair trial throughout. special
Venirc of 100 men was summoned for
getting in a jury, that le might have
all his rights under the law. Judge
Ferguson assigned as his counsel Colo
mel C. w. Broadfoot, dean of the bar,
and Mr.. J. w. Bolton, one of the young
| er lawyers who did their duty faithful
| ly and fearlessly by the accused. The
story of the fearful crime has already
been given in full in The Messenger.
At the afternoon session, Partridge was
| sentenced to be hung April 9Th.
Yesterday afternoon two children
Of Joanna Farmer colored washer
woman were drowned in Blount's
creek below the mills of the Lake
|! view Manufacturing Company. They
were going after bucket Of water,
when the smaller one slipped off a
board crossing, the older attempted
to- save the child, and both were
drowned. On account of the volume
of water in the creek, the bodies, up
to a late hour today, had not been
recovered. (Later--One body has
| just been found).
Today DR.. H w. Lilly, president of
the Bank of Fayetteville, and Exam
| iner Ellington appeared in court, and
asked Judge Furguson for an order
to pay back to depositors the sums
deposited on Friday, the day before
the bank closed. as they had been
kept separate. The order was grant
ed
A committee consisting of H. r.
Horne, 3. r. Huske, and J. r. Tolar
We're invited by the President and d.
rectors of the closed Bank of Fayette-
vile to make an examination of It's
condlition After the Investigation, they
authorized the public statement this
afternoon that depositors are abso. ate
| ly safe.