The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-09

low who helped to run the court 1t
was all SO funny, this official couldn'
help from telling it as a good joke TO
the District Attorney. Holton never
sees a joke when he's on a still hunt,
and before John knew it, a subpoena
was served on him and he was march
ing before the grand jury himself, be-
fore he had time to relieve himself
of his fast becoming torments, the
drafted shoes en- stockins" That rus
tic group was hanging nightly IN
telling of Johns predicament but the
thing they had the most fun over was
Johns greenness. They said John
bein' used to spittin out everything
he knowed round home, wuz too green
to burn round Judge Boyd's secrit
cote" When John reads this IL ne
reads at ALL he can retort to his skill
ed critics, you durn gumps, vile yuse
showerin sass on me in yo smart crowd
what knowed so much bout town
don's and gwines on, and secrit cotes,
you was porting honey down the thote
of dad blame noospaper fellow watts
a site worser bout gittin holt er things
than Bob Deal ever was, and yer did
MT know there was SIGH a thing as
a noospaper man sides Bob Deal, /
bet: leastwise bout his bein' able to
git holt one Of de secrets of de cote"
The Old Man Boo hOoed.
An occurrence combining the ludi-
crous, the pathetic and the serious,
took place yesterday. An old man
suddenly began numbering and boo
hooing and hystericking to such an ex-
tent after having come from the grand
Jury room it took three of his strong
est and staunchest friends to. lead him
away and restore his equanimity. 1t
is an actual fact that this old gentle
man had been warned that If he tes-
titled to certain things he would GER
tainly lose his land in consequence of
some secretly supposed flaw in the
title After having crossed the rubi-
con of full and honest statement be
fore the grand jury of "all he know'd,"
his untutored mind was oppressed
with fear of the threatened consequent
ceS and he broke down. But his
breaking down may prove his upris-
ing in the majesty Of redeemed man.
hood, for he meekly told the cause
of his un-masculine tears and woman
ly weeps, revealing to even dad
blame noospaper Teller a story of in
timidation, in addition to conscious
crime on the part of his tOrmentors,
when temptation had failed over ig-
norance and cupidity combined. But
it is strictly a secret court and the
Lord only knows how many secrets
that grand jury has captured, and how
many more the District Atty has got
up his sleeve The news industrially
sent out from Washington two week.
ago that it was not anything but a lit
tie furry to blow over at Greensboro
will have to be revised by the in
spired up there.
Tonight when the grand jury adj
journed there We're many witnesses
unexamined who desired to be dis
charged. so there will be another SEES
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All bills being closely kept .
Don't Know It's City.
Frequent accidents from horses or
bicycles on the streets recently tend
to show that people here are slow toI
learn that Greensboro is last Decom-
ing metropolitan.
A horse hitched to q telephone wa
gon late yesterday afternoon became
frightened on ASHORE street and run
ming away collided - front of Judge
Douglass residence with a trap driven
by Mrs. II. b. Marley. her daughter,
Mrs. George p. Crutchfield and son,
Harry. They were violently thrown
on the macadam street, and sustained
painful injuries. They We're taken
into a near by residence. Drs Brooks,
REEVES and Beall were Immediately
summoned They found the ladies
suffering greatly from shock and very
painfully bruised. 1t was thought
that Mrs. Marley had sustained
fraction of an ankle, but later it was
found that it was only a sprain. From
location of other serious pain it is
feared there may be some internal in
jury Later they We're taken to their
home and this morning are reported
to be resting comfortably In the
collision not only the vehicle, but the
horse the ladies We're driving was
turned completely over.
Burton Newell tried to cross the
car line ahead of a moving street
car yesterday on his bicycle He es-
capped with his life but the wheel was
smashed.
Mr. A. c. Forsythe, who had leg
broken by being thrown from his
buggy by a runaway horse Tuesday is
getting on we'll at the Greensboro
hospital, where he is laid up for re-
pairs.
Mr.. Paul Lindley, who was brought
home here several days ago badly
hurt by a collision with his automobile
with a street car in Winston, was able
to ride out a little this morning. His
splendid new machine is reported to
be complete wreck. but he was for
tunate to save his body from destruc-
ton.
Mr. Lee III. Battle, who was so Sc
riously injured by having Wis horse
jump in front of a street car two weeks
ago, has recovered sufficiently to
leave for Jackson Springs. Architect
Weston, who had his collar bone bro
ken in the same collision, is out again.
Burglars Burgle.
While the city policemen are devot-
ing the bulk of their time and practi-
cally all their thoughts to trying to
catch or outwit people who try to
sell or drink whiskey here, (when not
climbing telephone poles, peeping into
third story windows at card players).
the burglars are burgling private resi-
dences or foot pads are robbing the
unwary on the sidewalks. This morn
ing about one o'clock, Arthur Long,
of the Greensboro Furniture Company,
was held up by two men on West
Lee street and at the point of pis-
tol held by one of the men, was
searched and robbed of fifteen dollars,
being then permitted to go after hav-
ing had a rude shaking up in conse-
quences of his assertions that he had
no money. While this was going on,
policemen two blocks away, on Cedar
street, were investigating a burglary
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