The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1914-09-03

i he would kill him. and requesting
THAT he wait until he went into
/ the house as he never got much
Enoney from Dixon's pockets A
few seconds after Ross heard Mrs.
Dixon say Lord have mercy don't
/ do that" and soon afterwards every
thisg was still. He returned to
Ress and refused to give him any
money saying he would divide with
him later. Ross says that there
iaeas another person in the party but
she don't know who it was.
Nc. Jerry Queen who SO eraphi-
fcalIy told as Of it all. lives with his
wife and three children in the house
where the crime was committed and
sleeps in the very room. He is
every inch a man, afraid of nothing
Ind speaks plainly of his feelings
ever the horrible affair and its sub.
heQuent deplorable ending. We
INV the bed where the wife and
mother was murdered, the double
window from which she beckoned
help Id her pitiable condition, only
Ed be mangled more by the devil
John Ross who was afraid she might
live and tell something We saw
Hhe iron stake which marks the
place where Mr.. Dixon's head lay
alter being knocked in the head
{ EWlth an axe. the places where Ross
I'D GLADDEN. stood. Mrs. Queen is
a4earless woman also and says that
Sue hasn't long to live anyway
add il one wants to do her harm that
she won't be cheated out of many
days. She stays alone when her
husband is away and everv noise
M Queen hears around the place
hee forth to find out what it is.
itWas late Friday evening when
we were there and as the shadows
fof night crept on and the narrowing
tale was told cold chills crept up
! our spinal column and we felt like
fit would be more pleasant to jour-
ney back to town.
1 Frank GLADDEN. was acquitted af-
tier two trials. owing it is said to
1.-THE testimony of Ross who told two
tales hnt who almost on the eve
Ibis electrocution was to take place
1said what be had stated about the
3pad he and 43ladden had taken 10
! the murder was trne Id. every sense
/ And most of the people thereabouts
believe :Gladden thoroughly guilty
i GLADDEN. has since moved to South
Carolina. Ross was finally sen.
fenced to life term in the peniten'
tiary and later escaped. thus the
murderers of these two well known
and beloved people 80 unpunishee
by law.
1 Only short time before near thi.
scene Sidd Kriges killed Ella Viii
liams because the young lady hat
lspurned his love. Kriggs filled VI
on mean liquor and shot her doWr
as she passed the road.
! Near this scene is the Famous
. Piedmont Schools, know all ovel
the country. 1t is a beautiful place
aad fine sulphur springs are located
on the, grounds.
SACRED SPOTS.
Last week we visited a spot s
dear to our meoOry. the old Good
night place where my father flrs
lived and where he took his brid
nearly fifty years ago Here my tw
: Oldest sisters were born, and the on
!, ly brother I ever had, who died il
,, infancy and is buried at Palm Ire
.. near by. Here my father beea
This ministry, and made his frs
farm. He sold out when leayin
to Mr.. Goodnight who has live
there ever since. An old clock
? over fifty years old in possession
l Mr.. ohnLeonard, was purchased o
+ him at the sale when my father LEI
q that country. It made one feel sa
e to dwell upon and contemplate II
s many changes since. )
q The old Capt Wyont place We
4 visited also where my mother WI
's born land where up to four yea
u seo it was still occupied Today
D. Is empty, nothing left but an O
e loom in an outhouse, no grandfath'
T. to meet his relatives at the big ga
e and bid hearty welcome, no mo
ID family reunions, no more waite
9. melons cooled by, the icy water fro
le the spring as it flows from the spo
y iato the long trough today. Ihe
II are thousands of memories sad al
pleasant wrapped up in this Q
IL home. How time changes all thlnt
Z. But such is life.
- Mrs Henry White and MaS1