Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1907-11-13
S1ATEsVILLE and IREDELL COUNTY.
A Man In jail for An zAttempted Assault
Horse Runs Into a Train.
statesville Landmark. Nov. 5-s.

| SGateSV1ll6 Landmark, NOV. 6-6.
Ezekiel M. McNeeley died yester
day afternoon about 2.3O o'clocl
at his home,at Mooresville, aget
about y years He had been il
bad health for several years anl
especially for the past two years
( Mr.. McNeely was a Confederate
soldier and was desperately wound
ed in battle. the effects of his inju
ries remaining with him all hit
after life.
| Rev.V. m. Swain, of Cool Spring.
pastor of South River, Society and
possibly other Baptist churches in
that section,ss has decided tc
decline the call as assistant
pastor of the First Baptist church
of Salisbury, which was rendered
him some time ago. Mr.. Swain is
very popular with his congrega-
tions and they would not consent
to give him up.
West-bound passenger train No.
35 collided head on with runa-
way horse and buggy in deep cut
mile east of Claremont Saturday
night at II o'clock and the horse
was SO badly injured that it was
shot by passenger of the train.
There was no one in the buggy and
the horse was coming down the
railroad at full tilt when discover
ed by the engineer of the train.
Thesengineer blew his whistle and
slowed up, but. did not stop until
after striking the horse. The
owner of the horse could not be
found by the train crew. The
buggy was only slightly damaged.
J. V. Maduras, Of Mooresville,
has been placed under a$1, 900 bond
for his appearance at the Janua y
term of court on charge of at
tempting to criminally assault
Suma Anderson, an IS year-old
white girl. Application has been
made for writ of -baheas corpus
| iii an effort ta ha4ze Me shearing
Friday before Judge Justice, who
is presiding at the present term
of Iredell Superior Court. The
young Cwoman in the case is
from Alexander county and was
taken to Mooresville from States
vile last Wednesday by Maduras
to live in his home. She says
that some time after 1 O'Clock
Sunday morning Maduras came
to her room and attempted famil-
iarlty with her. She jumped up
and started to get out of bed and
Maduras told her who he was and
demanded that she keep quiet.
She says that when he made the
secoud attempt at familiarity she
ran from the house and went to
| the home of Mr., Columbus Freeze,
who lives next door, in ner night
clothes. She was taken in and
Sunday morning she asked Mr..
Freeze to take her to the home OF
a brother living near Mooresvllle.
Mr.. Freeze was i'll and unable to
be out, and while he was trying to
make some arrangements to send
her to the home of her brother.
Maduras sent a horse and buggy
from livery stable for the pur-
pose and the young woman was
driven to her brothers. Mr.. and
Mrs. Maduras claim that they
did not know the girl had left the
the house untilsthey got up Sun.
day morning. They say that they
were awakened sometime after
O'Clock by something knocking on
the house and the barking of their
dog. Maduras went to the door
and looking through the glass of
the door saw man standing in
the yard. He opened the door
and the man disappeared. He
then went to the room of the girl
and finding her awake scolded he1
for having men hanging around
her room at that hour of the
night and threatened to kick hel
out of the houee. = He said he ther
returned to bed and did not know
| whan tho pir1 loft tho houea