The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-01-16
More Than Twenty Five Witnesses Sub
poenOed for the State.
Boil Sides VIII Make q Hard Fight.
Other Cases Before the Superior
Court-Charters by the State-sTe-
ciaI School Tax Voted at RoseIarni.
Other Raleigh News Notes.
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, y. C., January l.

fell, sustaining nJurleS which are not
necessarily fatal. He is a young
man without family and was removed
to Rex hospital for treatment.
In the case of the State VS.. John w.
Aikens i'll Wake county Superior
court, he was tried for two cases of
assault. Upon investigation by the
grand jury, true bills were returned
against the three men who no is charg
ed with having assaulted, and they in
return will be tried for assault upon
him. Aikens pleads self-defense, the
other three men claiming no assault
was made by them. 1t is just another
Of the cases that develop by the ex-
animation of witnesses / before the
grand jury.
Governor Glenn has ordered Judge
L. S. Mcneil to hold the Columbus
county court in the absence of Judge
{. NJ. Cooke. who is detained at lis
home by illness.
Anna Moore, the young negro wo-
man who was arraigned and tried for
arson, plead guilty Of an attempt to
destroy the house in question, and
was discharged by Judge Ward after
an examination into the facts. Her
husband, William Moore was sentenc-
ed to five years hard labor on a bill
of indictment for larceny of certain
articles after the house was burned.
The woman acted under duress by
her husband, he having covered her
| person with a revolver while she ap-
piled the match.
In the Wake county superior court
Judge George W. Ward reprimanded
| Colonel T. NJ. Argo, counsel for Lillis-
ton, in the LillistOn-Clark, fair fakir
case, for the alleged murder Of
Charles G. Smith, for his hardness in
| arriving in court. He fined William
G.. Boylan $40 for the same reason.
The Reuse offered was insufficient,
but he said he would consider Il writ
ten explanation.
Z; At the adjournment Of the after
o session the judge ordered the
sheriff to keep the jury all night in
the court house. A juryman demurr-
ed on account of the condition of the
place. Judge Ward caustically COM
mented, and spoke of the county Off
GERS. Sheriff Page responded, and
called ON the county attorney who
made a statement. AS a result the
officer and jury were quartered at the
I Marlborough House.
Five witnesses were examined in
the Liliston-Clark shooting case and
there was varying testimony by the
| highest type of witnesses. 1t is sup
posed the case will consume everal
day. The possibility, circumstances
and angles with degrees is to be O n
| sidered.
Judge Ward again closed the doors
to egreSS, except the officers, wit
nesses, lawyers and newspaper men.
The shooting case is progressing
slowly.
The sensational case of Lilliston
and Clark, the two fair fakirs, charg-
ed with the shooting Of George H.
Smith here during fair week was
today. More than twenty-five wit
neses have been s~ubpoenaed for the
state. There is every indication of
close contention on the part of Oun
sci, as the two men will be tried joint
ly on the charge Of murder in the
first degree. From what can be gath
! Sltu tIltIC VIII bt al COllIllCl VI eN1-
dence, since the fakirs may or may
not have been known to each other
before the shooting. Two theories
are entertained. One being that the
murderer of Smith escaped by fleeing
to the baggage car of an outgoing
train. the other that he was shot by
Lilliston, possibly accidently while
leaping to dodge the bullets of another
assailant.
State Treasurer B. r. Lacy, while
not able to be at his Office because of
| Indictment. weather, has S o far improv-
ed that he is not even confined to his
room, and is entertaining many of his
friends and associates.
Officers, attorneys, jurors, witnesses
and general court visitors have been
much impressed with the general de-
meanor of Judge George w. Ward
| presiding in the Wake county supe-
riOr court. The judge acts with snap
and a polished courtesy, but a decision
that leaves room for no tagging among
the court attendants. The closing of
| the doors for a period Of - minutes
excited both wOnderment and COM
| ment, as it was so unusual in the court
circles of Wake county. The sen
fences imposed on the crap shooters
| pleases most tax payers, but at the
same time there are and will always
be a multitude of folk who believe the
birthright of the negro lies between
chap shooting and liberty with water
melon, while those in the higher walks
Of life. who have enjoyed educational
advantages and the environment of re-
finement, continue to play for greater
or lesser stakes ad libitum. The
! morning session of the court was ot-
| cupied with seeming unimportant
! cases, consuming enough time of jury
| men and enough funds Of Wake couT-
to to surprise into a closer study
| Of criminal conditions.
The voting of a special school tax
in so many sections of the state is
coming to be the rule more than the
exception, an election having just