The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-06-25
SHE WAITS IN JAIL
Annie Paine Committed
for Perjury.
Woman at Whose Instance Frank
shaw Was Arrtsted, has hearing
and Is Sent on I'd Superior
Court.

Court.
Three persons have been aTres7eo'
two OF hem being now In JAN ana
one held on personal ~recosnlz-
ance for hi. appearance in Superior
court. in connection with the alleged
! larceny Of money from the store CT d
S~-ian in this city on February z1Ih.
Old man Charles Hunter was the hFss
arrested and tried on the cnaTse VI
the larceny, and ne Is held TOT couht
on personal recognizance- FRANK
sba. uaa next arrested and tred and
Is now in jail in default or sloo pono.
Then came the arrest THURSDAY altei-
noon OF Annie Paine on a charge OF
perjury in her testimony IN Inc case
against Shaw.
Annie Paine, the negro woman upon
whose statements volunteered to capt
NJ. Of the Police Depart
nent on Monday. Frank Shaw was
arrested. tried and sent TO jail 10
await Superior court, was yesterday
sent on" 10 the Superior court ana
in default Of $3.50 bond. was com
mi,ted 10 Jail. this after 8 hearing in
the police Justices court on a charge
Of purjuH as set forth in the warrant
thusiy:
j. H. Mullins. chief Of Police OF
the city of Raleigh, being duly sworn
says that he IS informed and believe
IndI, on OF dDOuA tIit ~Olli o"s
1907. in the city Of Raleigh. and in
Raleigh township, Wake county. An
ME Paine, did unlawfully, willfully and
fe~loniously commit perjury upon the
trial of an action in the police justice :
court of the city Of Raleigh, wake
county, wherein the State was plalntl1f
and Frank Shaw was defendant, by
falsely asserting on oath, that on the
night Of MAY "a, 1907, as she was
sitting in a carriage together with
one MaIcus Sage, in front or FRANK
Shaw's restaurant on Martin street,
that Frank Shaw came down the steps
leading from his room on the sec
ond floor to the side walk and that
the said Frank Shaw, at said time ola
not come from the direction of the
door or entrance to the store OF one
Abdalla Mansour; that the said Annie
Paine, did not there and then remark
to said LaIcus Page. What is he do
ing coming out of there! that she salo
Annie paine. did not on said night,
or at any other time. see any drawer
with money in 1t III the possession
of Frank Shaw. that said
Frank Shaw did not in her
presence burn any drayer or box in a
stove. nor did she see him have any
money whatsoever on said night; nor
did he give her n none to change
for him nor ask her to change any
money for him: that she did not tell
M. Thompson on last Mon
day, or at any other time that she
did see said drawer burned by Frank
Snaw IN d store in his restaurant On
said night and hat she saw some
gold money in Frank Shaw's posses
sion at said time and place, and that
Frank Shaw thereafter told her he had
put the gold money in a mp-cO
trary to the form of the statute in
such cases made and provided. and
against the peace and dignity of the
State"
The defendant was represented by
Col. J.. c. L. Harris and Mr.. w. c.
Douglas, as attorneys, and the prose-
cution was represented by City AttOr-
ney Snow, with no assistance. The
witnesses in the case were Capt. III.
Thompson and Malcus Page, the color
on his carriage to Shaw's place be-
tween nine and ten o'clock on the
night of the alleged larceny.
The point upon which she was held
for court was her testimony as to
what occurred while she was sitting
in Pages carriage in front of Shaw's
place. Page swore that the first sight
he had of Shaw on that occasion was
when the latter came from the direc-
ton of Mansour's door ond from un-
der the shelter in front of his store.
He swore that she remarked to him,
W iioI 10 Nv L III oul VI
there?" She e that Shaw came
down the stairway leading to the
street from his bedroom and that her
remark to Page was, Wonder what he
is doing coming down from there?"
1t is not believed now that she can
be convicted Of perjury. While some
who are familiar with the situation
are firm in the opinion that she
sWore falsely in testifying as
stated above and in swearing to
the opposite of the story she
told Captain Thompson and upon
which Shaw was arrested, yet it will
be lard to produce competent evil
dence TO convict her of perjury ac-
cording to law.
In connection with the larceny of
S425. including five English sover-
eigns. from the store of Abdalla Man
sour on the oath of February last,
three persons have been arrested on
separate warrants; three persons have
been tfied in the police Justices
court; the same three persons have
been sent to Jail in default of bond
to await the Superior Court. and for
the three persons writs of abeas cor
pus ave been issued. One of the
persons, Charles Hunter, has been re-
leased from bond and held on his
personal recOgniZance for court. Ha-
beas corpus proceedings have not been
concluded in the cases of the other
two, Frank Shaw and Annie Paine, the
first being the negro who was arrested
last Monday and tried Wednesday on
a charge of the larceny mentioned
above and the other being the negro
woman who was arrested THURSDAY
and tried on Friday for perjury in her
testimony in the case against Frank
Shaw.
Messrs. w. c. Douglass and J.. C. L.
Harris. attorneys for the defendants
Shaw and Annie Paine. Yesterday
morning applied to Chief Justice Wal
ter Clark for a writ of habeaS corpus
and the same was granted. The hear
ing was set for fou o'clock yesterday
afternoon but when the hour arrived
Solicitor Armistead Jones for the
State asked that on account of the
absence of one Of the States witnesses.
Malcus Page, the colored hack driver.
hearing be postponed. Upon the
agreement of the attorneys for the
defense, the hearing was then set for
four o'clock Monday afternoon.
HOME COMPANIES HELP MICH.
State Insurance Commissioner Young
Guest of Honor in South Carolina.