The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-19
MUT|LATED BODY
FOUND IN WOODS
Presence of Vultures Leads to
Discovery OF Old Mans
Corpse.
MISSING SEVERAL DAYS
Police Still Looking for Accom-
plices Of Alleged Safe
- Robber.
MISSING SEVERAL DAYS
Especial to The Times-Dispatch.1

Ra SRissh'alN t. Che e. 5 TEsi III
Roman Catholic Orphanage woods be-
yond Pullen Park, was FOUND this
morning the decayed and mutuated
body OF Robert Woods, a well-known
wood sawyer, seventy-fve years old.
who had been missing from home for
a week. The circling OF numerous vul-
lures about that part OF the woods
caused John Blake, at the Unitea
states experiment farm close by. TO
investigate. The body had been badly
eaten by the vultures. The old man
was very feeble and his mind much i'm
paired by old age. Captain J. j.
Thomas. prominent banker, had taxi
en- much interest in efforts for some
days past to find the missing man.
A charter has been issued for the
Grissom-Sykes Drug Company. Green's
boro. capital $4,000. by w. l. Girls
som. r. j. Sykes and others. Another
charter is for the Means Drug Com
pany. Concord. capital $4,000. by Az
ton Means and others.
Governor k!tchin was in his Office
again to-day after spending severai
days at the bedside of his mother ir.
Scotland Neck He left his mother
very much improved in spite of the fact
that physicians despaired OF her re-
coyery, and thought that she had only
Few hours at most to live when the
Governor was summoned to her bed
pide.
Claiming that it was dropped down
through the grating from the sidewalk
into his eel! by some unknown party,
Garland Rogers handed to the police
to-day note saying that the $4,000
OF unindorsed checks stolen from the
safe of the National Cash Register Of
fee here were hidden between rocks
under the Lenolr Stree, culvert. The
checks were found as indicated. The
police are confident Rogers wrote the
note himself. He produced 1t after
being in the city prison as a suspect
day and night.
Looking In vain.
The police are still looking In vain
Ior two suspected accomplices OF Gar
land c. Rogers. in the robbery of the
safe in the district agency of the Ma.
uonal Cash Register Company here.
Garland Rogers was arrested Sunday
and insists that he had nothing to do
with the robbery, which was discoy.
cred Sunday morning, but Is believeo
to have been done Saturday afternoon
before the closing hour, since the office
had not been broken open or the SAFE
cracked. None OF the $500 in checks
Or $500 IN cash have been found None
or the checks was i1dorsed, SO they
cannot be used. Rogers is twenty
years old, and has wife. He is a
machinist by trade. His father is
%ell-knoWn blacksmith, who runs an
extensive shop on Martin Street.
Movement of Troops.
The movement of the troops of the
Second Regiment. North Carolina Ma
tional Guard. to Camp Glenn begins
Tomorrow afternoon, and the camp
opens Wednesday. When it breaks on
July 26. the regiment will stop in
Newbern for two hours to take part
IN the big street parade for this BIZ
centennial celebration,
It is an interesting fact that the
hookworm division of the State Board
of Health has perfected ARRANGEMENTS
Tor much more thorough eXamina-
ton of the Second Regiment men as
to Infection by hookworm than was
made for the Third Regiment last
week. Very many of the Third Reri-
ment men were not examined at all.
It Is stated by DR.. j. A. Ferrall, sec.
rotary IN charge OF the crusade
against hookworm in this State tina,
1ully one-fourth of the men examined
In the Third We're infected. An espe.
cially bad case was found in men,
Der OF the regimental band here in
Raleigh The men of the First Reei-
ment are also being examined at
.Chickamauga. The companies COM
posing the Second Regiment are: Tar
boro. Kinston, Rocky Mount. Colds
boro two companies), Fayetteville.
Washington, Clinton, Edenton, wilson.
Lumber Bridge. Wadesboro; also band
from Kinston and the hospital corps
from Kinston. This encampment win
be the last until August 5. when the
Coast Artillery will be modified at
Fort Caswell for coast defense prac-
tice with the regulars there
The grand jury of Wake Superior
Court made it's report to Judge Cooke.
Insisting that the Wake Courthouse
should be enlarged and remodeled at
once in accordance with plans already
prepared that add rooms for the Judge,
for lawyers to consult clients for the |
use of the juries and other purposes,
as we'll as giving enlarged quarters
for the sheriff and other officers down
stairs. The grand jury aLzo called at
tention to the fact that a. former jury
had recommended that school commit
teemen addicted to drink be removed,
and stated that this had not been |
done. This jury reiterates the recon- |
with emphasis.
The Jury reported having visited and |
closely Inspected the condition and
of the county home de,
claring that 1t was in fine condition
and we'll managed, This comes in
sharp contrast to the Democratic pri- |
mary criticisms on the county hor.- y