The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1913-02-27
Stute News.

Geo. Perry. of Nash County, COM
mjtted suicide . few days ago By
shooting himself
In Durham Saturday night Henry
Green. a negro. killed Dallas WEIGH.
another negro. b. stabbing him With
a knife.
The lower House OF the General
Assembly Monday passed the KEEL
lum bill providing for the issuance
of bonds for aiding counties In road
building.
J. W. Addington, cashier OF the Ma
tional Biscuit Company in Ashevilie.
charged with embezzling funds Of the
company, plead guilty and was held
in a bond of $1,000 for trial.
Harry s. Jones. of Goldsboro. -.
c., was found dead In an apartment
/ house in Philadelphia Monday night
/ The report ID the police says Jones
died from the effects of an over
! dose OF morphine. The coroner sus-
poets foul play and has ordered an
/ investigation.
/ The barn and other outhouses of
/ A. w. Wilson, of Franklin County
were burned last week and with them
/ a quantity OF feed stun, ten horses
and mules, fourteen bales of cotton,
valuable farm implements, etc. The
estimated loss is $4,000, partially
/ covered by insurance.
! Grover Bachelor, a constable of
| Nash County, who was shot by Clay
Strickland a few days ago, died in a
/ Richmond Hospital, where he was
taken for treatment The men had a
quarrel about cutting a road through
| Bachelors property which resulted
! in the shooting. Strickland made
his escape after the shooting.
Claude Goodlake, a young man of
/ Asheville, was convicted of seduction
in Buncombe Superior Court last
week, his victim being a girl under
fourteen, who committed suicide last
spring Goodlake had since married.
He was sentenced to the State prison
for eight years. The case was ap-
pealed and bond was fixed at $4,000.
Robert Lee Thomas, of Thomas
vile, who had been in Jail in Wash
ington City for a month for shoot
ing and killing Romie Stevens at
Takoma Park, Md, has been releas-
ed, the grand jury ignoring the
charge of homicide against him
Thomas was a boarder at the Stevens
home and engaged in a duel with
Stevens. Thomas plead self-defense
A Morganton dispatch Sunday
night says: German Pitts, the ED
est of the Pitts boys, who was shot
and cut and otherwise injured in the
, Pitts-Hennessee battle of Glen AL
pine several weeks ago, died here
| early Sunday morning from his
wounds. DR.. Tennessee, who is now
! charged with killing him, was
! brought here and placed in jail, and
is being held without bond to await
trial at the March court.
A dispatch to the Greensboro New!
says that German Pitts, the eldest O.
the Pitts boys, who was shot and Gu
and otherwise injured in the Pitts
= Tennessee battle at Glen Alpine sew
= eral weeks ago, died in the hospita
l at Morganton early Sunday morning
} DR.. Tennessee, who is charged will
= killing Pitts, was brought to Morgan
: ton Sunday and placed in jail, and il
= being held without bond to avail
C trial at the March court
C The Statesville Landmark says
While Babe Godbey, a Stanly coun
: ty negro, was at work and his hous
: unoccupied a strange negro entere'
f Babes domicile and hung himsel
: with a piece of wire. When Bah
t. returned home he was confronte
G by the corpse swinging from a pois
l. and he at once fled and gave tn
t. alarm. The stranger who chose tn
b home of another in which to end hi
:. earthly career proved to be Bud Tol
d bert, of Montgomery County, VIII
Il was somewhat demented.