The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1911-08-15
MURDER CASE
IN RALEIGH
j. B. BISSETT SHOT NEAR SOL
DIERS HOME-.A WOMAN
In THE CASE
POLITICS and EDUCATION
By w. J. MARTIN.

Raleigh. N. c., Aug. 14.-The life
less body of ]. B. Bissett was found
about. midnight beyond the Soldiers
Home east of Raleigh, the fatal
wound being by the left collar bone,
the bullet having ranged down toward
the heart and severed a vital artery
Nearby were the mans top clothes
and the garments of a woman. Mrs.
William r. Yearly was arrested Sun
day morning as the woman in the
case and confesses that she and Bis
eett and L. j. Norris, pressman
formerly Of Richmond, were driving
in hack; that having no companion
for Norris, he left them and she and
Bissett drove to the woods one and
half miles east of the city where
Bissett's body was found. She says
some man she could not recognize
rushed upon them and fired at Bis
! sett while he was on his knees and
begging for mercy. She ran to the
hack and drove home She says she
had told Bissett and Norris that her
husband, who is a salesman in the
Globe Clothing store here, was at
home drunk The woman, her hus-
band and L. ]. Norris and the negro
hackman, Haywood Penny, are being
held awaiting developments. Yerby,
the husband of the woman, insists
that he knows nothing of the shoot
ing.
Mrs. Yerby is small brunette,
who wears mass of extra hair. She
was formerly Miss Ada Pool and mar
ried Earl Austin number of years
ago, when she was fifteen years old,
and they had two children before they
separated. Austin died over a year
ago and five months ago she married
Yerby. She insists that the man who
did the shooting was neither Norris
or her husband. She describes him
as a stout man with a black coat or
black shirt.
Bissett, the murdered man, was a
native of Nash county, and for a long
while ran a near-beer place here until
it's reputation became SO bad that the
aldermen refused to renew his license
For several months he has been run
ming q sort of eating house that has
been under the survilance of the
police Chief Of Police Stell says.
too, that Mrs. Yerby has been suspect
ed for some time of being a bad wo
man.
Tuesday there will be opened in this
city the Grand Encampment of the
independent Order of Odd Fellows for
North Carolina. Postmaster Willis
G. Rriggs, P. C. P, will deliver thu
address CT welcome and the response
will be by Grand Patriarch w. c Al
len, of -Waynesville
North Carolina Republicans politics
is coming in for considerable discus
sion just now hereabouts, the In
creased interest just now being par,
TALLY due to the fact that there are
couple or so very desirable positions
vacant in the office of the collector OF
internal revenue here and Duncan ana
anti-Duncan forces are eagerly watch
ing the political plays that involve
these places and also the manipula-
tien Republican State politics IN gen
ers.l. The most important vacancy IN
the collectors Office is that of cashier
made vacant by the death OF William
B. Duncan, who was the father OF Ma
tional Committeeman E. G. Duncan
Collector Wheeler Martin is the clos
est sort & a personal political friend
of National Committeeman Duncan
and was made collector at the IN
stance Of Mr.. Duncan. Therefore 1usf
80 far as the civil service rules VIII
permit with the most strained con.
struction It is naturally surmised shat
supporters of the Duncan interests
viii be given these places in the