Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1915-12-22
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| Coasting downhill with out
lights burning, an automobile
driven by Brown Helms dashed
hsadlong into q freight train
across a street on the outskirts of
Monroe Friday night, wrecking
the machine and injuring Miss
Bessie Love 20 badly that she died
Saturday morning. Her sister.
| Miss pora Love, was seriously in.
jured and sev5Al times it was
|thought she would die. Misses
Rittie and Lsthia Davis and Annie
Fnnderburk, other passengers,
were moro or less seriously injured.
John Bauoom had his shoulder
broken and Green Paxton was
painfully out on the head. Brown
Helms, the driver of the car, es-
capped without q scratch. The
machine was operated as jitney.
Sheriff D. R. Moreland of Lse
County. Georgia. died Sunday
from Wounds received Saturday
night in a pitched battle which,
eccording to reports, hs and six
other white men fought with Ne.
groes IN Worth County across the
line from Lsesburg. The Negroes
soaped. Posses have been
searching for the Negroes and an
un,onfirmed report said two Ne.
gross had beers lynohed. Sheriff
Moreland, it was said, was trying
to arrest Jim Keith a Negro, ao.
cused of theft. After Q few shots
were fred in which Ksith's wife
was eighty wounded, it was said
the Negro fed into Worth County
whore the battle took place when
q number Of other Negroes came
TO Keith's AID.
In . fl of melancholia brought
on by his enfesbled condition re-
sulting from pellagra with which
he had suffered f r more than a
year, aays the Observer. W. l..
Fessns!i, 80 years old. oommitted,
suicide Sunday morning at hi.
homo in Charlotte by shooting
himsalf through the brain wish =
rifs. Mrs. Fenn.ll was in anotE +
room at the time getting break
fast and she rushed into the bed.
room - soon as she heard tie re.
port. Her husband was |, ing it,
b,d, with the smokii g % caliber
magsSine rife on the floor where
it had fallen imm .diately after
the shot. MIR. Fenuell had got
ten the rifle, placed the muzzle
above his right ear aid thsn pull.
ad the trigger with his sbumo
His eeatb followed within a few
moments.
A. ihs result Of an altercssion
which took place al the N.:rth
Fork Baptlst Church, abou. 20
miles from Ashevills. Sunday al.
ternoon, Martin Burnett is dead,
shot through the heart, William
Burnett is in custody, with
slight wound on his head and
Ulaud McAfee, the man who used
the pistol, is in a local hospital
in preoRrious condition az the
result of knife wounds inf ,cted
by William Burnett. According
to accounts Of the tronble received
here, all three of the young men,
who are all prosperous farmers in
the North Fork section, had at
tended Sunday sohoool at the
North Fork Baptist church. Sun
day school was dismissed about
$3.50 O'Clock and while the people
of the neighborhood were holding
the usual Sunday afternoon in
formal meeting in the churohya.d
the trouble started. The first in.
timation came with the crack o.
McAfee's pistol and the crowd
turned in time to see Martin Bur
nett fall to the ground. shot
through the heart. A second shot
struck William Burnett a glano
ing blow on the forehead, stunn-
Ing him momentarily, bat failing
to stop his rush. He attacked
McAfee with a knife, it is stated,
and cut him se7erly. William
Burnett then escaped.