The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-04-19
FUNERAL SERVICE
IN RALEIGH TO-DAY.
Body Of Rcar-Adn,iral Balch
Then to Be Taken to Balti-
more for Burial.
WAS FREE WHEN PARDoNED0
Negro, With Legs Cut Off Found
to Have Escaped Before
Pardon Issued.
WAS FREE WHEN PARDoNED
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RALEIGH, N. c.. April ls.--For the
funeral of Rear-Admiral George Beall
Balch here Sunday afternoon. the pail
bearers will be General Charles A.
Woodruff, United states Army, retired:
+. II. Busbee, Hon. Il, II. Battle. Chas
Roote, Colonel Chas. T.. Johnson ana
DR.. A. w. Knox. After the service the
remains will leave FOR Annapolis. In
Grace Balch, Rev. George w. Lay, rec
tor OF st. Mary's School; Mrs. Lay,
daughter OF the admiral and his two
sons-Stephen B. Balch. Montgomery
county. Md, and Francis Dupont Balch.
New York. According to the Southern
schedule, the train Will arrive In An
napolis Monday afternoon at 1850. and
the intermcnt Will take place inme-
diately, Will! naval honors, six officers
OF the navy to be the pail bearers. Rear
Admiral Balch was superintendent OF
the Naval Academy for three years.
AK for New Trinl.
Considerable interest is attached to
a motion for new trial Just made in
the Supreme Court by Colonel p. NJ.
Pearsall in one of the wood contract
cases pending on appeal. involving big
contracts for wood for woodworking
locomotives on the Atlantic and North
"
the State to the Rowland interests and
thence by the Norfolk and Southern. 1t
IS case In which T.. G.. Overman OBJ
tanned judgment against both the At
lantic and North Carolina Railroad
Company and the Norfolk and Southern
for a large amount. AT the trial
Overman testified as to a great loss
several thousand dollars--he sustained
by the unjust canceling OF his contract
~ f,,x t,h lvrn hn n ND
appeal an affidavit by him has been
found In the volumInous evidence in
the famous McBee- Atlantic and North
Carolina receivership case, In which he
affirmed that the terms on which he
was furnishing wood for the Atlantic
and North Carolina were almost ruin
Gus, and conveying the idea that the
contract was hardly worth foollng
with. This was to refute charges made
by the McBee receiver interests that
under President Bryan there We're ex-
travagances. especially In wood con-
tracts, the contractors being allowed
exorbitant profits.
The motion by Colonel Pearsall now
Is that there be a new trial so that
the jury can have the benent Of this
affidavit In arriving at the amount, IL
any. that should be allowed In the
Judgment
Pardoned After His Escape.
peculiar sequel to remarkable
pardon case TRANSFERRED at the execu-
tive office OF Governor Glenn this morn
ing in the absence of the Governor on
his Eastern Carolina prohibition cam
paign. Ed. Hester, colored. appeared
there to report that his brother-in-Iaw.
Henry Bryant, an escaped convict, had
come to his house II Oberlin last night,
and that the officers could get him
there. Being questioned, 1t developed
that Bryant had come home with both
his feet cut off, his story being that
he was working for railroad in Roa-
noke, Va. and was run over by train.
Private Secretary Arlington had a tel
ephone conversation with the sheriff
OF the county. and they decided 1t
would be best to leave the negro alone.
On being assured that his brother-in-
law would not be molested. Hester OBJ
jected strenuously. saying that In tina
event Bryan would be left on his hands.
He insisted on the officers OF the law
taking him in hand.
A remarkable phase OF the case Is
that Bryant was granted pardon by
the Governor March 10th. and thereaf-
ter 1t developed that the negro had
escaped on March Cd, two weeks be-
fore the pardon was granted. There