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Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-10-02
NEGRO Boz DIES FROM
ATTACK OF hYOR0P0BlA
Holmes, Ford Succumbs to Dread
Disease Eleven Weeks After Be-
ing Bitten by Dog.

Holmes Ford, the ten-year negro
boy who developed hydrophobia
Thursday morning, died in horrible
agony at o'clock yesterday afternoon
at his home 1850 Thirtieth street The
end came sooner than the attending
physician had expected.
The little boy was bitten by mad
dog on Chestnut avenue near Thir-
tieth street on the morning of July s.
He was not treated at Pasteur In
stitute, but the wounds were cauteriz-
ed by a physician
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-10-02
LITERARY SOCIETY
HOLDS FIRST MEETING
Officers Elected Last Session Are In
stsIled-superintend jenkins
Makes Address.

At its first meeting Of the present
school session yesterday afternoon IN
the High school assembly hall. the
literary society of the local High
school installed the officers who were
elected at the close of the last sem Oh
term. Eugene PAYNE is the president;
Miss Irms MeanIey is the secretary.
and Miss Flora Lash is the treasurer
Nelson Overton resigned as the
literary critic and Miss Anne Conway
was elected to succeed him. Duval
Hudson resigned as the sporting edi-
tor of the High School Student 'or
the reason that he plays football ana
cannot watch the~games so as 10 re-
pert them in the Student. Hoge WIKI
inson was elected to I'LL that position
on the Student staff.
All of the officers Of the STUDENT
also were installed Yesterday and
preparations will be made at once
for issuing the Student early in No
vember.
Superintendent Of Schools Willis A.
jenkins made an interesting talk be-
fore the society. discussing the re'a-
ton between the teachers and the
pupils His speech was in a bali
humorous vein
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-10-02
JURY QUICKLY ACCOUNTS
CORNELIUS STEWART
evidences Shows That Charles john
son Provoked Shooting BY Re-
peatc5 Attacks on Accused

After being out about ten minutes.
the jury IN the Corporation Court
yesterday afternoon returned YER
dict Of mot guilty IN the case Of
Cornelius Stewart. = negro 1ongshore-
man. Of Baltimore. charged with ma
liciousiv shooting Charles Johnson.
rncthcr negro IonTshorcman- IN a
house or West avenue near Twenty
third street in July. stewart was xiv.
IN his liberty Immediately after the
jury. reported
johnson vas brought into the court
room from tho hospital department on
stretchcr and vas the first Wit.
ness heard. re told o. the shooting
aud the causes leading up 10 y. He
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-10-02
PLAY DECIDING GAME
OF SERIES HERE T0D0i
SmithfieId Nine VIII Meet Picked
Team on Casino Diamond This
Afternoon.

With each team credited with one
victory. the Smithfeld nine and the
picked team of the North Enders ana
the Athletics will play the deciding
match of the championship series On
the Casino diamond this afternoon al
3:45 O'Clock. The setes has created
much interest among local fans ana
no doubt a record breaking crowd will
turn out this afternoon.
The local team will go INTO the
game for blood as they are not at ali
pleased with the treatment accorded
them at Smithfield Thursday when
they forfeited the game in the seventh
inning after the umpire had called
Eddie Land out at first when the
local slugger had walloped out two
Dagger. Land had changed his rcsi-
ton at the bat. but the umpire mad
said that he was not out. However,
the local players claim, when
he banged cut a nit. the jumps
changed his decision. The score was
4 10 3 in Smithfield's favor.
Tom Reynolds will pitch for the To-
rals this afternoon and Butch" Eb-
bingcr. the Smithfeld star. probably
will oppose him. Reynolds held the
Smitbfeld boys to four bits in the
first game here and the local fans ex-
pect him to duplicate the performance
today.
The following will be the batting
order Of the locals: Wolf. SIS: Roaten.
C: Land. CD: Hill. %: Read, r.;
Patton h.: Hautz. IT,; Nexsen. cf-;
REYNOLDS. D.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-10-02
LOCAL PHYSICIANS
sRE GOING TO ROANOKE
Several Doctors on Peninsula Are II
Play Prominent Part in Meeting
of state Society.

Many of the physicians in this city,
Hampton and Phoebus will go to Roa-
noke next week to attend the annual
meeting of the Medical Society OF
Virginia and several of them are TO
play important parts in the sessions.
DIR. Clarence Porter Jones. of this
city. is the councillor from the FIRST
congressional district. having been
elected by the First district medical
convention al Hampton last January.
The council is the legislative and
business BODY of the society and u
nominates all officers and puts all
the business in shape for action by
the society
DIR. George ]. Williams of this
city. is member of the judiciary
committee. which acts as a court 10
TRY all offenders against the ethics
of the profession. DR.. Williams is
now studying in Europe and someone
will be named to act in his place at
the coming convention.
Important papers will be read be-
fcre the society by DR.. Walter A.
Picker, of Hampton, and DIR. George
TX. Vanderslice. of Phoebus- the
former will discuss Pneumonia and
will lead a general discussion OF the
subject, and the latter will discuss
-Phlegmasio and Phlebitis." DR.. j.
Wilton Hope. Of Hampton. is mem
her of the legislative committee OF the
society.
One OF the most important business
matters to come before the society IS
the election Of the entire State medi-
cal examinsining board. The terms OF
all of the present members expire
on January I. 1909. There Is one
member from each congressional dis
trict anG three from the State ~
large.
In view of the fact that TT. W y.
Robinson. Of Tappahannock- shc -
cumbeIt in the First district; Ia
the Office for twelve years -
ether OF the members hove -' g
ONCE a long time. there - s-n-i-ren,
sfcct to infuse some new blood On
the board. Among the possible as
piran;s are n. ]. ". RorEcy. Of Fred
ericksburg. Dr. Charlie W Webb. NJ
Bowling Green: IT. Ccreland p.
Moore OF Cape Charles and several
local physicians
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-10-02
SHIPPING REPORT
Friday, October I, 1909.
Arrived.

AfftNcus
Steamer Amsteldyk (Dtch) DeKroe
Rotterdam and Baltimore-to Hol
land America Line with merchan'
disc.
Steamer Kassala tBr) Morgan, st
Ulcia-to Smokeless Fuel Company IN
ballast
Steamer Penarth OBJ Rees, Gal
veston--to Chesapeake 4 OHIO Goa
Agency Company for bunker coal.
Steamer Serrana (Br.) Hunter. Be
lize-to Berwind White Coal Com
pany for bunker coal.
Steamer llmenan (Ger) Heuuei
Port Arthur-to Chesapeake & Ohio
Coal & Coke Company for bunker
coal.
Steamers Everett, Abbott. Boston
TO New River Consolidated Coal Com
pany in ballast.
Barge I.uzon from Boston-to Ches-
apeake "a Ohio Coal & Coke Com
pany in ballast.
Cleared.
Steamer Penarth tBr) Rees. Bre'
men-Chesapeake & Ohio Coal Agen'
cy Company.
Steamer Serrana (Br.) Hunter. HUI
-Berwind- White Coal Company.
Steamer Ilmenau (Ger) Heuuel
acknowledgements & Ohio Goa
& Coke Company.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-10-02
CHILD ATE CUTICURk
Spread Whole Box Of Il on Crackers
Not the Least Injury Resulted.
THUS PROVEN PURE AND SWEET

Anew York friend q Cuticura writes;
NV thru wear Old son and nrtr-
sitter beng put 10 bod on a trIp scross
tho stl~nfsc. investigated the state
room and locafrd a box ~ graham
cr1rkers and q box n Cuficura ONT
rnenf. Wh~n a searcn vas made Tor
The Dor. u vas found empty and the
hid admitted that ~ had eaten the
contents n tbe e1fi-r bor spread on the
e-.rkr-r. II rsfrrd him u n bad cold
and I don't know what else
ID n<,fr crr-iusiv~ r-,d-n-> could
hr o4errd that every INGREDIENT q C.iti-
c.Ira Ointment " shsoiufely pr. s~eet
and harrnlcss. 1fif nnav r. safelv eaten
Nv q young child. none bot The most
beneariai results can - erpected - at
tr~d 80 suoiirafi1n - even the TENDER
81 skin o. youngest infant
Poser pru = "a c5rp- So FFops- Bo<,on
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-10-02
Sunday Outing 20 Richmond
Laa Of tire Season.

Tho last Sunday outing from oid
Point and Newport News q Rich.
rlond and return for The season VII
BE- operated on Sunday. October 1rd.
rate old Point and Ne~porf News n
Richmond and ~eiurn fi25. tickets
sold for trains leaving Old Point a
5.zo a ~. and 2. - q m. and NeUpori
News 500 q. m and 1905 =. n. o..
iobcr ard. leaving Richmond return.
inz IT 7.fQ p m. same date
After thai date. train leaving New
port Ncus A. SIS .. m. for RichmoSd
and train arriving Newport Nevs 81
S.4s D. m. VIII be operated daily ca
cept SUNDAY instead Of daily.
$50. oct L.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-10-02
|Lester Lane Declares JuroPsGambled
| TO Decide His Sentence.
CHARGE NOT suBsTlNT|ATtQ
Foreman Of Jury That Tried Case
Called to Court Room and Denies
story-Another Prisoner Told
Lane That Juror Made Statement.

When Judge Barham asked Lester
a Lane in the Corporation Court yes
terday morning If he had anything 10
say why sentence of four years IN
passed upon him for maliciousiy
| wounding James knight, the prisoner
startled those In the court room by
charging that he had not received a
fair trial in that the jurors flipped
coin to decide whether he should
three years.
In explanation of the charge Lane
told the court that II. +. Sawyer. VINO
is now being held in Jail here for the
Danville authorities. and who was
arrested after Lane was tried, had
told him that he heard a member OF
the jury which convicted the prisoner
declare that the jurors had decided
the length CT the sentence by nlpping
penny. II seems that two members
of the jury were al DEADLOCK. one
holding out for four years and the
other for three years and the coin
was tossed to decide wh<ch sentence
should be imposed, according to the
story
Foreman of Jury Summoned.
Judge Barham summoned the fore
man of the jury that tried Lane ana
the charge was repeated to him. He
declared tha> there was absolutely no
truth in the charge, but state tha'
there had been a deadlock between
two of the Jurors as to whether the
prisoner should be given three years
or four years. but it was broken by
the surrendering of the lone juror VINO
held out for the low sentence.
After hearing this EXPLANATION
Judge Barham passed sentence upon
Lane and he was locked up in the
CITY iail to await the arrival o. a
guard from the State penitentiary-
Lane struck James Knight. farmer
of Isle of Wight county. over the
head with a beer bottle last month
on the Twenty fifth street bridge.
Knight was seriously injured and was
unable to attend the trial.
Edward Undertake Sentenced.
Judge Barham also passed sentence
on Edward Timberlake. the negro
who was given five years in the pen'-
Tertiary for breaking into and rob5ing
In l.. Phelps store house at Washing
ton avenue and Thirtieth street In
July.
Captain Berkeley entered a nolie
PROSE- in the case CT Harvey Bur
nett. who was indicted jointly with
Timberlake and Prior Epps. Epps
wa; tried in the police court several
DAYS ago for petit larceny and SEN
.erced to three months in Jail.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-10-02
I..r. ., o.Io. CRY % rolspo. L.

tI.rr or osIo. CRY o. Totspo. -
rrsnkI cbrner mskes oeth tnet ~ y - ior
-.-<-~- ~ the frra n y J. chrurT 4 CO dofr .
k-rf-rs< N ne rfss ~ Toledo. Comfy ard -tsfe
rfn-~.-lf e~f ffsf e-ir SIN ~iii rav fhe 1T
~ Owr UrvDpFD DOLLARS ~ e.rh ard
rrr-r re- ~ ~sfsrrh Inst crunnf - cured ~
nv - ~ FRaxE ! rHryEY.
a~r~- - b.frfr ne and siIh~rrinrd n ~
~ gTrseoN
fc... Notsrv rrhiir
psfr csfsrrh cur. !. sst~n intsrrsifv. snd
go dfr-~slv uror he ei-o9 sr1 u7r--s -
49,. ~ - srs-~rn So 80 fssfInnrrtsis re-
- CNENEf A co. Toledo. o
grFd ~ frurrtsts. -
Tsfs Hal1s fsmiiT Pifr for oorsurafior.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-10-02
Monroe in Dock.

The Old Dominion steamer Monroe
was hanled out in dry dock NO 3, a,
the shipyard. yesterday morning 10
have her hull below the waterilne
cleaned and painted. Some repairs
will be made to the vessel before she
leaves the yard.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-10-02
Prominent Citizen a Suicide
fRv Assoctafed Press1.

WINSTON SALEM. y. C.. Oct. l.
Albert c. Wharton. one OF the promi-
y n. citizens of this section commit
feS suicide today BY shooting himself
- Ugh the head. He had been suffer
ins from mclanchola for several
weeks.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-10-02
Coal for Manila.

The British steamship Kassala ar
rived here yesterday from st. Lucia
to load a full cargo of coal for the
United States naval coaling station al
Manila.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-10-02
Imnorts From Rotterdam.

Bringing quantity of import
freight to discharge here. the Dutch
steamship Amsteldyk. of the Holland
America Line. arrived in port yester
DAY from Rotterdam via Baltimore
She will load exports for Rotterdam
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-10-02
coNvIcTs SEE PARADE.
Prisoners at Sing Sing Allowed to
Quit Work for Event.

OSSTNc. y. Y, Oct The con-
vic:s in the state prison here we're
allowed b SEE the Hudscn-Fulton
parade as IL passed I'd the river TO-
day.
Just before the first ship reached
a point OF Sing Sing prison. Warden
Fros; and Chief Keeper Connoughion
stopped vork in the prison shops and
forming the men in squads marched
them into the prison yard ana lined
them M where they could get = good
view Of the parade.
They we're not permitted to make
any Demonstration.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-10-02
FNtIeth W. Va. Anniversary.

CHARLESTON. W VA. Oct l.
Governor classcock today appointed =
committee 70 devise plans for the
celebration IN 1918 Of the Fiftieth an
riverssrv Of the state.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-10-02

The American coal collier Everett
arrived in port yesterday to load
cargo Of about 1900 tons of coal fol
Everett. Mass.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-10-02
Sailed.

Schooners Lydia NJ. Deering
Carnage, Jacksonville; Mary w
Bowen, Chase. Providence.
Barges John A. Briggs for Port
land; Harvard for Boston; Wash
Iington for Providence; Felix FOL
Providence; E. B. Sutton for Provi'
dence
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-10-02

Three steamers arrived yesterday
to load fuel coal here. They will pro-
coed today.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-10-02
CHANCE IN SCHEDULE
Last Boat Leaves This City for Nor
folk at sos o. m

Announcement was made Yesterday
NJ the Norfolk and Portsmouth Term
inaI Company o. a chsnge in the
schedule Of Sewalrs Point route
Hereafter the last boat leaving this
CITY for Norfolk daily VII be at sos
y m. while boat viii leave here TOT
sevaHrs Point Sunday cnIy ct s.ee p.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-10-02
loLD DOMINION LIN {

Daily Service
~ FOR NEW YORK
sGfSH From "ompany's Wharf
SSQh Norfolk. foot OF Church
street every week dsS
at 700 p. NJ.
FARE-First-class one way. $500.
Round trip. limit thirty days. sl4.oo---
meals and berth in stateroom IN
cluded.
stecrage. without subsistence. $500
TICKETS On sale at G. & o RAN
way Ticket Once.
NIGHT LINE BETWEEN NEWPORT
NEWS AND RicKMoNr. VA.
Steamers Brauabn and Berkeley
leave Pier "A" $3.50 every evening"
passengers only.
VIRGINIA NAVIGATION COM
pANY, James River Day Line fos
Richmond and all James River land
lngs. Steamer Pocahontas leaves
Newport News, Tuesdays. Thursdays
and Saturdays as S:15 q. IN. leave
Newport News Monday. Wednesda:
and Friday at D. m. for Norfolk ana
Old Point.
Steamer Hampton will leave Pier
"A" daily except Sunday at 300 q. M
going TO Norfolk. and at 4:5O p
m. going to sm,thheld. Steamer 40
comac" will leave Pier "A" daily CT
cept Sunday at n. m, going ia
Smithfield and o. m. going to Nor
| folk.
All business between New YORK
and Newport News transacted at p'er
No. 6
All business between Newpors
News. Norfolk. Smithteld and Local
points transacted nj Pier "A" loot Oh
| twenty eth ct. W. n. LANooss
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-10-02
TRANSPORTATION eJIog.
TRANSPORTATION GUIDE
CLYDE LINE
PHILADELPHIA

Steamers ir-ve Mondays a. N,
Thursdays and Saturdays
Leave Philadelphia Tuesdays.
Thursdays and SsfuTs>ss
FREIGHT received and delivered daily
&C 40. PIER 6. OEce. River Road
CLYDE STEAMSHIP COMPANY,
James ". McCaTick.
5sb-->1 aoutk~~z 49,
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-10-02
The Norfolk & washing
ton Steamboat Co.

(schedule Effective Nov. 1. 1soS)
TIE New and Powerful Iron Paiaca
Ste: ners NEWPORT NEWS. WASH
INGrON and NORFOLK win iesss
daily a. follows.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-12-27

prisoners charged with burglary who
had been heavily handcuffed, kept in
separate cells, and repeatedly inter-
rogated and piled with questions by
their keepers, separate and apart from
each other, with direct reference to the
charges preferred against them, COUP
led with the injunction that II were
better for them that they should tell
the truth" One of the defendants
had also been taken to the scene of
the supposed burglary.
AS in earlier times, physical torture,
so in later days The Third Degree
has been resorted to on occs slons as a
mere matter Of convenience-to save
the trouble Of hunting up evidence
elsewhere. Thus. in an article on The
Judicial Use Of Torture, Professor Low
ell says, Sir James Stephen tells us
that during the preparation of the In
dian Code of Criminal Procedure. in
1872, some discussion took place about
the reason which occasionally led ma
tive police officers to torture prisoners,
when an experienced civil officer OBJ
served, There is great deal of la
illness in it. 1t is far more pleasant
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-12-27

New York City. Dec. 27.-The present
strike of the shirtwaist makers has
brought to the front a young lady
scarcely out of her teens of whom
the world Is bound TO hear more I'm the
future. Broadly educated, possessed of
strong magnetism and a determination
TO succeed In whatever she undertakes
and backed by wealth, Inez Mulholland
stands today the champion of woman's
rights. whether they are political or
social It win be remembered that this
fall she tried to enter Harvard law
school, but was refused admittance on
the ground that the school was not
open to women
C.ne Of the first to come TO the aid of
the striking shirtwaist makers was this
young girl, who only last June was
graduated from Vassar college. Like
Roosevelt. who organized the rough
riders to fight Spain she organized her
classmates to fight for the shirtwaist
makers. During the early part Of the
strike she and her faithful band Of
Vassar girls were on constant picket
duty along with those whom they were
endeavoring to assist.
Up in Poughkeepsie they still laugh
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-12-27

confessions thus extorted were for
centuries freely admitted as legal ev-
licences. Professor Wigmore cites in
stances of torture as late as 1890, in
Scotland, and on the continent he
claims it was pract'ced until a much
more recent period. Torture was also
made use of in America during the
early colonial days.
The Third Degree shows a savage
survival. There is little difference be-
tween 1t and the methods employed
in the dim past.
For example, in a Texas case in
1906, the defendants confession of guilt
to charge OF burglary was obtained
after a rope had been placed around
his neck, and drawn up sufficiently
tight to choke him. This confession
was admitted in evidence at the trial
but the Texas court of criminal ap-
peals reversed the conviction, saying:
THE cruelty manifested on the part
of the part of the officers toward de-
PENDANT has not been surpassed since
the days of the Spanish Inquisition
Any officer engaged 1. or permitting
such barbarity, should be impeached
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-12-27

to sit comfortably in the shade rubbing
red-pepper into a poor devils eyes
than to go about in the sun hunting up
evidences"
Professor Lowell, after advocating
a radical departure from criminal pro-
cedure as TO require the accused to
testify on the trial, goes on to say
that any examination of the accused,
however conducted, offers, i'm the ma
ture Of things, a great temptation to
oppressive and cruel treatment, and to
prosecutions on insufficient ground,
while it tends to lessen the incentive
to an independent and laborious search
for evidence, and hence to a thorough
investigation Of the facts.
In Charles Klein's play, The Third
Degree, the suspect, young boy, is
subjected to a grueling cross examina-
tiOn which lasts seven consecutive
hours Of course, this is fguratively
speaking, for the scene itself wherein
the youth suffers the process is not to
exceed twelve minutes duration, though
in that brief period one gets pretty
vivid idea of the torture a suspect must
have suffered in other days.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-12-27

In Mississippi, not long ago, a con-
Vlction was reversed because what was
referred to as sweat confess
sion had been admitted in evidence.
The "sweat-box" IL was made to ap-
pear, was compartment about FIVE
or six feet by eight, entirely dark,
with all cracks Carefully blanketed"
to shut out light and air. The prisoner
was allowed no communication with the
outside world and from time to time
the officer who had put him in this
dungeon Intercepted him about the
crime with which he was charged, al
though holding out no inducements
and making no threats of the kind
which commonly vitiate confessions.
Commenting on this practice, the
court said: Such proceedings as the
record discloses cannot be too strongly
denounced. They violate every princi-
pal Of law, reason, humanity and per-
sonal right. They restore the barbarity
of ancient American methods. They
obstruct, instead of advance, the proper
ascertainment of truth"
In a Louisiana ase, however, the
lcourt rejected statements made by
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-12-27

at one incident, which shows the de-
termination of this youthful fighter.
Miss Hulholland was even then q
strong advocate of woman suffrage and
had been instrumental in securing one
of the leading English suffragists to
address the students of Vassar. A cold
damper, however. was thrown upon her
plans when the authorities refused to
grant the suffragist the privilege OF
lecturing In the stately halls of vassar
college. Nothing dannted, an enthusi-
astic band OF students, aroused to a
high pitch Of excitement. followed Ms
Muiholland to the village cemetery adj
Joining the campus. where. surrounded
by the grim memorials to the dead.
they received an impressive lecture on
woman suffrage.
Miss Mulholland's mother was an act
ress and she herself possesses unusual
ability as an amateur. During her four
years In college she was the leading
factor in all theatrical productions
among the students. She possesses q
striking appearance and led In all COLI
lege sports. Altogether she presents
one of the most interesting figures lii
the fight for woman's rights.