The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-08-26
NORRIS is HELD
FOR HIGHER court
Remanded to Jail Without Bail
on Charge of
Murder.
MEMORIALS FOR CAPITOL
Requisition on Governor o
Florida for lack Marks.
Charters by State.
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Raleigh. y. c., August 25.-L ]. Nor
ris this evening was remanded to jail
without bail to await trial in the Sep
TENDER term OF Wake Superior Court on
the charge of the murder OF ]. b. Bis
sett on the night OF August IL. The
hearing continued from 10 o'clock a.
NJ. to $50 o'clock in the afternoon,
when Police Justice Walter Watson.
Mt the conclusion OF n spirited argu-
ment by counsel, declared that since
Norris had offered no evidence to ooun-
teract strong ciroumstantial evidence
presented by the prosecution, he con-
sidered that there was sufficient prob
able cause shown to justify holding
the prisoner for the higher court.
Briefly stated, this evidence. as
brought out by different witnesses, was
testimony by the negro hickman, Hay
wood Penny. that. after he had driven
Bissett. Mrs. VERIFY and Norris some
time. the latter became violent drew
his revolver and threatened to kill him,
and then refused to give Bissett his
revolver; the testimony of j. B. Nor
cum, inmate of the Soldiers Home.
That he saw u large man like Norris
riding behind the hack when Bissett
and Mrs. VERIFY passed, and the testi-
mony by Mrs. VERIFY that Norris became
angry in the hack, and that after he
left them, and while II would appear
that Norris was riding on the back of
the hack, Bissett discussed Norris in
a manner that was calculated to cause
Norris to commit the murder
Furthermore. there was the testi-
mony of the negro hackman. that when
Mrs. VERIFY ran 10 the hack after the
shooting, she averred that the man
who shot Bissett was jus> Ike Norris.
The argument for the prosecution
was by Solicitor II. Z. Norris and w.
IL Pace. and for Norris by d. NJ CAT
ling and w c. Harris.
The latest addition decided upon in
the way OF memorials for the rotunda
OF the State house is a bronze tablet.
by tho Daughters of the Revoluti N.
in memory OF the Halifax resolves,
April IL. l775.
1t is learned from Secretary R. d.
W. Conner. OF the State Historical
Commission. shat good progress is
being made on the busts OF Governor
Morehead and Governor Johnston,
which are to ne unveiled some time
the coming winter in inches of the
rotunda of the State house. The lust
OF Calvin H. Wiley also is to be COM
pleted within the next few ,lon;hs.
This is to have n place in the Depart
mcnt OF Education quarters in the pro
posed State administration building.
The statue of Former Chief Justice
Thomas Rmftin, of the Supreme Court.
will be set UP in the Supreme Crurt
quarters.
Sheriff ]. r. Lanier of Harnett
county, has gone with reQuisition
from Governor Kitchin on the Cover
nor OF Florida. 20 Milton. Fla. to hripg
back TO this State Zach Marks, alia>
r Il. Gattis, wanted in Harnett for
the murder Of Charley Ellen in DC
tohcr, 1902. in Black River township.
He was arrested in Florida for
felony, in which there was failure to
convict
An exchange of courts between
Judge 9. w. Ward and Judge G.. s.
Ferguson Is approved by Governor
kitchin. so that Judge Ward will hold
Edgeconbe court beginning Septcm-
Der II, and Judge Ferguson the frs.
week of Fender County Court. begin
ming the same date. This will be the
first court Judge Ward has held since
his long illness. from which he is now
rapidly convalescing.