The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-07-13
SENSATIONAL TURN
IN ROWLAND. CASE
Counsel for Prisoners Appeal TO
Judge to Protect Them from
Photographers.
HAVE TRIAL IN SEPTEMBER

Especial to The Times-Dispatch.l
RALEIGH. n. c., July 12.-There will
be no trial of the famous poisoning
case of DR.. David s. Rowland and VIE.
Mrs. Lillian Rowland. here until inc
senternber term Of court. which con-
yenes on the fourth Monday OF the
month. And the case is set for day
certain, the first Thursday OF the term.
This order was made this morning over
the vigorous protest of counse! 1or the
Rowlands on the strength OF stare
ment by Solicitor Jones that the state
could not prepare Adequately Tor the
trial at this term IN view OF the ruling
made by the court yesterday. admit
| ting the dispositions taken at Norfolk,
| Memphis and other places out of the
1 state by the defense before the case
| was really Instituted in court by the
grand jury's true bill, these deposit
! lions undertaking to set y out that
Strange was subject to and dled OF
heart disease and used as medicine
the very poison, digital1s' Which the
State alleges was most probably used
by the Rowlands in accomplishing his
| death. Counsel for the Rowlands In
sisted that the State had already had
| ample opportunity to prepare It's case,
and that the grossest injustice would
| be done the prisoners by holding them
in Jail all through the summer
4
TO the constitutional principle of "a
! speedy trial. but declared that this
seemed to be q case in which the pecu-
| liar circumstances demanded the post
ponement which should be made in
such way that the defense should
not be put to any further expense in
+. retaking the dispositions in question.
The order was SO made.
Object to Being Photographed.
In the midst OF the discussion Of the
issue the court directed that the two
!, prisoners. DR.. Rowland and wife. he
brought from the jail, as the order
could not be made without their pres
t ence. This was done. The prisoners
had scarcely more than taken seats
when a remarkable proceeding took
place w. L. Watson. OF counsel for the
prisoners, rising. addressed the court
? with the statement that he was inform
; ed that there was a. Photographic ir
the courtroom attempting to get snap
> shots of the court scenes. and especial
. ly Of the Rowlands, his clients object
:. ing seriously to any likeness Of them
! selves being published at all. He ask
q ed the court to direct the photog ra phel
and the press correspondent employing
9 him to take no such pictures. The cor
respondent at once stepped around int
y the bar facing the judge and stated
/, thta ne was pTopdpiy tle newspaper
man to whom the attorney referred
and that he did have photographer t
|. take the pictures and that In doing 81
d he was not departing at all from tn
: practice of newspapers and neWspape
S correspondents the country over. thes
9 illustrations being now recognized a
II legitimate features OF metropolis
= journalism.
e "Photogrnph Most EVIL"
II S, G. Ryan, of counsel for the Row
lands, declared that while it did seer
that this method of illustration was !
vogue in some parts of the countr,
Representatives Of the press going abot
s. to photograph all manner OF thing
h good and evil, but mostly evil. 1t wa
r. the wish of himself and those assc
s, ciated with him to keep the practic
" out OF Wake county.
II, Judge Long, addressing the CORE
IS spondent, stated that In View OF tt
n objection of Rowlands counsel. al cou
i'd officers, to the taking of the photo
at graphs, he would out OF Difference
T. them direct that they be not take
st THE correspondent expressed his desil
to conform to the wishes OF the Gou
and retired.
After the prisoners had been returnt
ri to the jail Mr.. Watson again appear'
en- before the court and stated that he w,
lis Informed that as the prisoners pass
nd across the bridge OF signs from tt
his courtroom to the jail, the same phi
os, tc grapher had taken snapshot OF Il
prisoners from an adjoining buildin
- and he desired that he and the cor
V fspondent be attached for conten