The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-01-23
Now in the Hands of the Jury and no
Verdict Reached
Features of the Report Made by the
Grand Jury-SeveraI Charters by the
State-Murderer Respited by Gov
ernor Glenn-Case Against Hospital
Attendants Charged With the Death
of Patient Nall Postponed Until Next
Court.
Messenger Bureau,

ing fair week went to the jury at 8
O'Clock. The arguments were warm
and lucidly presented by counsel. and
closed by the solicitor. Judge George
W. Ward, for one hou charged the
jury and offered one of the clearest
and most cogent statements in the
history Of Wake county court annals.
Each phase passed under his analysis
and the public verde places Judge
Ward far beyond a normal reckoning,
which was at first ~prejudiciaI. The
jury in the Lilliston-Clark case retired
to the hotel at IL o'clock and this
makes it impossible to forecast their
verdict.
Governor Glenn at the earnest re-
quest of attorneys for Nathaniel
Mitchell of BERTHE county, having been
sentenced to be hanged Oh the Ind
for the murder of his wife and after
wards burning her body, has granted
an additional respite to February
18th. This is in order to give oppor-
tunity for the condemned mans coun-
sci to lay further testimony before the
governor. Defendants counsel pleads
with the governor that he will APP
point a committee of three experts to
look into the case, II to report as
to Mitchells sanity. Governor Glenn
said that while he feels sure the ne
gro pas possessed of sufficient intelli-
gence to know right from wrong, he
will grant this respite rather than to
take away the life of a man unad-
viSedly.
Charters were issued today to the
Scotland Neck Iron Works, incOrpor-
ated at Scotland Neck, L. Albertzette,
ST., and Junior and S. J. Stern, are in
cOrpOratOrs, capital stock is $1,000
paid i'll. The Nahunta Brick INC I'm
prOvement Company at fremont in
Swain county. The company will
handle lumber and all building mate
rails in addition to brick. l.. o.
Hayes ana others stockholders, CAPT
tai 5000. Chestnut Hill Drug Com
pany, Salisbury, $4,000 capital stock,
s. {. Peacock President, w. a. Fogle-
man, vice president and I. c. Barn
hardt, secretary and treasurer. The
Bethel Hill Institute and Business
college at Bethel Hill, Person county,
with $4,000 capitalization, $1,000 of
which is paid in, p. H. Fontaine and
others, NJ. S. Jones at Bethel Hill.
hdS DCtI paul IIoIil LIZ v
leigh pOstoffice 1888, 764.SO within the
last three months for the rural free
delivery branch of the service. The
indications are, when considered with
the number of applications for such
service and Over such routes that it is
safe to say that by the end Of the
present year such payments will have
reached the $25O,OOO mark.
TI1Aon Charles T0nl- of yNarran
county, but more recently a resident
of MuskOgee, Indian territory INK a
most successful practitioner of law in
that section is spending a few days
with old Raleigh friends.
Governor Glenn will leave tomor-
row accompanied by Miss Rebekah
Glenn for Petersburg, Va, where he
will deliver one Of his characteristic
addresses on temperance before the
Woman's Christian Temperance I'm
ion Of that city. Miss Glenn will go
to Washington where she will be
Joined by her father, after he has
paid a visit to the Governor of Vir-
ginia in Richmond. Governor Glenn
expects to be back in his office by next
Wednesday,.
The three closing speeches in the
cases of Lilliston and Clark, charged
with the murder of Charles G. Smith
of Petersburg, Va, We're made this
morning. The evidence SO far alb
duced seems to place the burden on
the defendant Li%llistOn, and nearly all
onlOokers are of the opinion that
Clark was not directly a party to the
alleged murder.
By reason of the absence of coun-
sci, occasioned by sickness. the cases
against J.. C. King, l.. r. High, Jack
Peele and w. F.. Durham. for the al
legged killing of Thomas \. Nall, an
inmate of the Hospital for the insane,
last September, has been continued
and has been placed for trial the first
week of the March term of Wake
county superior court. 1t will be re-
called that Nall had escaped from the
institution and was arrested later by
these four men, attendants at the
place, who were afterwards charged
with his murder.
4 letter received from Judge George
II. Brown, and written at his home in
Washington, is to the effect that he is
now materially improving after an ILL
neS~Fof several days
baltimore, in Cleveland county, has
just voted Il special school tax, thus
falling in line with other sections of
the state in matters educational.
When the grand jury made a report
there was some CONSERVATION Occa-
stoned by the purport of the matter
therein contained. This report en-
braces the irregularities of certain
magistrates in the county who have
been more or less irregular in the
work of their offices. The jury states
that while the majority have done
their duty, there are at the same time
some who have been guilty of viola
tons which will be heard at the next
term of court. The sensational fea-
ture of the report was in connection
with the county home. In regard to