The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-27
NORRIS CASE will
Be CALLED FRIDAY
Special Venire Summoned for
Alleged Slayer Of
Bissett.
sANDL'N APPEAL HEARD
Agent OF Unlicensed Benefit AS
ISOLATION Sentenced to
Roads.
sANDLIN APPEAL HEARD
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Raleigh. y. c., SEPTEMBER 26.-Fri-
day of this week is set by Judge
PEBBLES in wake Superior Court Tor
the trial of L. J. Norris for the murder
Of ]. q. Bissett in the woods east of
Raleigh on the night of August IL. The
grand jury has returned the true bill.
and special yenire of seventy-five
men has been summoned to appear.
from which to select the jury TO try
Norris for his life His counsel insist
that they will have no trouble in prov
ing an abb for their client. Bart
NJ. Calling is. leading counsel for the
trial. In the killing OF Bissett the
murderer slipped into the bushes whore
he was and shot him before he had
any opportunity to defend himself, SO
that first degree murder is the only
verdict that can be returned by a jury
In the event the crime is fixed upon
any one.
The building committee of the Young
Mems Christian Association held Its
first conference with Secretary Edgar
Hall to-day, he ana Mrs. Hall having
arrived in Raleigh yesterday, ready
to take up the work of the secretary
ship. No real association work is to
be taken up until the $4,000 building
Is up and ready for occupancy Then
the association will be duly organized
and opened in its splendid new home.
At the State Department OF Agricul-
tire 1t is estimated that the tobacco
crop On this State was about 10000
acres. and that the yield was around
450 pounds 10 the acre. compared with
2l5.ooo acres and 900 pounds to the
acre last year. Very dry conditions
at the planting season and continuing
far into the period OF cultivation cut
down greatly both acreage and the
yield per acre.
In the Supreme Court to-day there
was the argument on appeal of the
case of State VS.. L. NJ Sandlin, from
Wilmington. In which sandlin Is under
sentence to be electrocuted for the
murder of his wife in Wilmington, he
having gone to the boarding house his
Wife was running. after having forced
her to leave him and take her children
because OF mistreatment and cruelty.
and shot her down. There were three
wounds. either OF which was fatal He
then slightly wounded himself in the
head with his revolver.
notable State case argued to-day
In the Supreme Court was State vs.. Ed
Stewart. from Sampson county. in
which Ed Stewart, a negro school
teacher. is under fifteen years SEN
tence for killing Bishop Wright. who
was ms pupil, and whom he undertook
to punish for misconduct and claims
that he was Obliged to kill In self de
tense, as the youth, eighteen years old
and we'll grown. attacked him. ]. D.
Kett made the argument in defense
Of the teacher
State Insurance Commissioner James
r. Young was at High Point to-day
to prosecute C. C. Whitehead FOR rep.
resenting the Standard Home Company
of Birmingham, Ala. an unlicensed
benefit association that claims to be
not subject to the North Carolina IL
cense laws, and has been sending rep
.resentatives into the State without It
having been possible until now to ar
rest one OF them. Commissioner Young
secured tonight a sentence OF nine
months on the roads for Whitehead,
who was convicted in the Recorders
Court at High Point.