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The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1919-07-18
FARM NOTES

On August 9th to 10Th inclusive the
Farmers and Farm Womens Conven-
ton will be held at the State College
of Agriculture, West Raleigh. Eff
forts are being made to make this
more attractive and interesting con-
vention than ever before, and all who
are jpterested in learning more, of
the different phases Of farm work
should plan to attend this meeting.
All club members are urged to try
to be there as special courses will be
arranged for them. Mr.. w. F. Pate,
secretary Of the Convention, will be
quested in regard to this meeting.
Six bushels of Apples oats per acre,
sowed broadcast in your cotton fields
at laying by time will furnish consid-
cradle grazing for the stock, as web
as good hay and early in the season
This is cheap method of providing
grazing for the stock. Try it this
season. Order the seed now.
Good pastures are necessary fol
the successful growing of live stock
Grass and clover mixtures should be
sown about the middle Of September
In other countries in the state some
of these permanent pastures are val
ued at $4,000 per acre. See your
County agent and find out about put
ting in an acre or two Of grass and
clover this fall.
All seed for planting this fail .,4ould
be bought now as soon as possible a.
later it will be harder to get Glover
and bruzzi rye should be used freely
on all cotton lands as winter cover
crop, and to furnish the much needed
| vegetable matter to our soils.
By all means do not forget to SOW
an acre or SO Of rape for your hogs.
Plant this late in August or September
for winter grazing.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1919-07-18
Chamberlain's Tablets

These tablets are intended especially
for stomach troubles, biliousness and
constipation # you have any trouble
of this sort, give them a trial and
realize for yewsen what a first class
medicine Will DO for you. They only
cost quartss
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lying in a bypath about a mile from
the camp. He had been shot four
times in the back and his head had
been crushed in by some blunt in
strument Through some misunder-
standing this information had not been
sent to us until after Hand had been
buried
Finds Two Clues.
The autopsy showed that Hand had
been killed some . time around II
o'clock on the night of the cath, his
body lying there until found at 10
o'clock on the morning of the 25th,
and later that same day buried. We
were not notified of the crime until
late in the afternoon of the Goth. l
Immediately went over with two 81 my
assistants and searched the ground
very carefully. But there had been
hundreds walking all over the place,
so II there had been any clues they
had all been destroyed.
The only clues we had TO work on
were a pass found in Hands pocket
and a bullet which had been taken
from his body Investigation of the
pass disclosed that it belonged to an
otneT man III i1dHu company ana
that that man was in the guardhouse
at the time of the murder-thus prov
ing an alibi. He claimed to have lost
1t two days before and did not know
anything about IT or who had found
1t. The calibre of the bullet showed
that French revolver had been used
but a search of the entire camp did
not produce any one owning or know
ing about such a gun.
Careful investigation of the habits
and life of Hand in an endeavor to
find some motive that would guide us
to the cause of the killing did not net
US anything. We found that Hand
led clean life; he read his Bible reg
ularly; he assisted the chaplain in the
services; there was no woman mixed
UP in his life. and no ote could give
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Spanish Town in a finely furnished
apartment, and that she always hao
plenty of good clothes and plenty OF
money. A careful watch of this situa-
ton led us to believe that this woman
might know something about the muir
der
women operatives to watch this
woman, but nothing developed that
would warrant action being taken
against the men. We finally deter
mined upon bold stroke to obtain the
necessary evidence. Both Hodges and
Push were called to my Office, and with
the air Of mystery dear to a negro's
heart I said Boys. ] am up against
it, Some one over In your camp right
now killed Hand, but | cannot find out
who, There Is absolutely no evidence
against any one and we have no one
whom we suspect of the crime. ain
going to appoint you two men detec-
tives. equip you with all the authority
of a detective, give you pass that
entities you to go anywhere at any
time, allow you TO wear civilian clothes,
buying them for you, and II YOU can
turn up the guilty party or parties |
will pay you a reward OF $500.
know you want to see the guilty men
brought to justice. and as your COM
manding officer thinks so much of you
am going to rely upon you entirely
and ask you to help me-"
This TO the average person might
seem a very unwise thing for us TO do;
but I believed they knew there were
witnesses to their crime or had evi.
dence which, pieced together, would
convict them, and in order TO protect
themselves they would try to have
these witnesses arrested and convicted
o. the crime; succeeding events proved
that was right in my surmise.
Both seemed glad to assist me, and
my appeal to their vanity quieted any
fears they may nve had. A close
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Provost MarshaIs Notebook; The Murder of Private Han
SYNOPSIS.

watch was kept on them so they could
not get away. but as they felt abso-
lutely secure they did not attem 70
escape, thinking they had hoodwinked
me. For few days they reported that
they were working on the case, and I
battered them along. giving them
plenty of rope.
One day they brought in a coloreA
man whom they said they had heard
tei,ing about Hands being dead before
his body had been found. This man I
placed in irons in the guard house and
instructed my sergeant to work on him
by telling him Hodges and Pugh
claimed they saw him shoot Hand
When the sergeant reported to me that
his work was successful had the man
brought TO the office. Here told him
he would surely hang for the murder
and frightened him so he promised b
tell me the truth II would protsc4
him from Hodges.
Tells His story.
promised to send him away where
they could not md him. and then he
told me his story He said: Major. I
rever had nothing to do with the
shooting OF that boy! He was killed
by Hodges and Pugh! The night Hand
was killed I had been up to a cafe on
the hill. and as didn't have no pass I
was sneaking in the back way when
| heard some one coming down the
read, and afraid II was the guard !
scrambled over the hedge and hid. !
saw Hodges and Pugh coming down
the road, with Hand walking between
them, and l heard Hodges say. We
caught YOU at last. Mr.. Niger, and We
Is going to soak YOU good for being
, out of camp after hours. You won't
never sdueal on us now-no one win
believe YOU In less than five minutes
after they had passed me I heard four
shots from the way they had gone ana
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US any reason as to why this man
had been foully murdered. We could
not seem to connect the other mans
pass with Hand in anyway-and so
we were stumped.
Conference after conference upon
this case always brought us up
against a blank wall, and while we
felt that there was some one In the
camp who could at least tell us about
the crime we did not know who that
person was. nor had we the means OF
finding out. Our headquarters at
Tours was demanding action on this
case, and every time ] had con-
ference with the commanding general
he would be sure to make some re-
mark about the crime and ask why
we did not get the murderer-yet all
the while we were doing our utmost.
Search for Suitable sIeuth.
Inasmuch as the entire Bassens
camp, excepting the officers. was col
ored, we could not detail a white de-
tectiye to work on the case. Finally
| obtained permission to search the
entire American Expeditionary Forces
in an endeavor TO find a man who
would answer our purpose and a man
whom We could trust. Three OF our
men were sent to the central records
office with orders to search carefully
all records Of the colored troops and
pick out any man listed as having had
training in detective work.
The search simmered down to man
in one Of the fighting units then on
the front line. As this man, before
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Detectives Stevedoe Camp While
Tracing of Who MuchWomans jealousy,
fully Aroused Prompts Her Tell of Her Sweheart Part the Crime

the war, had been for FIVE years a
member of the Texas Rangers we felt
he could be trusted. Knowing that
many men in this colored regiment
correspondent with the men at the
Bassens camp, we believed 1t danger
Gus for the success of our plans TO
follow the usual procedure and have
this man transferred. Accordingly We
planned his arrest; proper charges
were drawn up and, with orders to
arrest him and take him to Bordeaux
for trial. | started out crossed
France to the front, a distance of
about 500 miles. in my automobile,
and found my man had just come out
of the fighting and was then acting as
as a support. ] presented my creden-
tials to his commanding officer, had
the company paraded, picked this man
out and arrested him. The arrest
took place before the entire company,
and. with handouts on his wrists, |
placed him I'm my car and drove off.
That night told him the truth
about my procedure and why / had
been forced TO do as ! did 1t was
hard to convince this man that he
couIu serve ms SouNty III 'he iH'ehi'
8ence Department, for he was eager
20 fight the Boche. He finally real
lied. however, that I needed him; so
lie agreed to work on the case. When
we arrived In Bordeaux he was placed
in tn, guard house for a few days
and then allowed to escape. He inn
mediately went to Bassens and Joined
enc of the colored companies there,
No one with the exception OF one Of
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my officers and myself knew who this
man was. For fear of n leak not even
the commanding officer at Bassens
was told
A weeks hard work showed that
the camp was In a demoralized condi-
ton. The guard was permanent
one ana was the most desirable de-
tail of the camp; all the colored steve
dores tried to get this assignment, for
by obtaining this they would not be
obliged to work on the docks. There
was sergeant by the name of Hodges
who was the, permanent sergeant of
the guard and working with him was
a sergeant by the name OF Pugh who
was the permanent sergeant of the
guard house. These two men, who had
served for over ten years in the Reg
ular Army. were given complete
charge of all the guard and police
work of the camp, although there was
an officer of the day who was sup
posed to have general charge OF this
work, but owing to their experience
they were given full swing and no
one questioned them or their methods.
We found that these men were sell
ing places on the guard; that they
we're charging 10 per cent of the
monthly pay of those men kept on
the force; that every gambling game
in the camp paid a fee for the right
to operate; that all passes we're turned
In at the guard house and were then
resold. the price Of an overnight pass
TO Bordeaux being 8 francs.
With 1000 men In the camp II NAV
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F the impression given in the last spasm that
Miss Prunella Pitt had given up the battle, forget
it. She had NOT. Prunela had been too long in the
ring to throw up the sponge at the first punch.
Bright and early the morning after Mortimer Mudd
had first tasted the delights of Broadway and bright
lights sister-in-law Prunella the job Rata
tata-tat went her bony fingers on Mortmers door
while that person was just coming out of beautiful
dream in which he floating to Elysium pink
cloud with purple trimmings surrounded by the chorus
of "Hinkey-Pinkey" and with sweet music sounding
In his ears
"Morty-mur Morty-mur," came the harsh sounds
that broke up the aerial maunderings.
Now having gone to bed with his dress suit on,
also for the first time in his sixty years. Mortimer had
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saw "Hinkey-Pinkey' girl passing. The past night
rose up before him and with hoarse cries he broke
away and ran for the Atlantic City train which brings
us up to the scene portrayed above.
Wasn't it Providence that the Hinkey-Pnks all
went to Atlantic City, too for Sunday outing? It
was Wasn't it Providence that Mortimer ran into the
whole bunch of them almost the minute they landed
at the hotel in which he had taken refuge? 1t was.
But how we to explain Prunella in the boat at
the left Well, she saw Mortimer take refuge in the
Atlantic City train and she got the next one, did little
old, never give up Prune. And she found out where
he was stopping and, consequently, here she is.
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Major Russell's War
Narratives

This story of THE Murder of
Private Hand is the third in a
series of TEN entitled Leaves
From a Provost MarshaPs Note
Book With the A. E. F. in
France, which will be published
in Sunday issues of THE SUN.
The author is Major c. E. Rus
sell, who draws from his expert
ences in the great war wealth
of dramatic material for his pen.
Next Sunday "The Train Rob
bers" will be pubIished, and the
other thrilling stories will appear
successfully, each based upon an
actual experience of the Majors
while serving in France as a
Provost Marshal.
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By MAJOR C. e. RUSSELL.

~ ASsENS. just across the river
Is from Bordeaux was one OF
, our largest ports in France
Here we had constructed miles OF
locks and warehouses. and to unload
The Eiany steamers continually COM
mg and going required large force.
For this work there was stationed
here several companies OF colored
ytevedores. These men were recruited
md drafted from the docks and plan
lations of the South and were OF the
owest mental type: there were over
1000 of them in this one camp.
Trouble between the different mem
,ers OF the various organizations was
common, although until July 26, 1918.
aothing serious had occurred. On this
late, however the commanding officer
1ele phoned than on the day before they
Lad found the body Of Private Hand
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to seek the habments of the morning before he
emerged upon thoughtess world 1t bitter
moment. His head didn't to fit his hair, but
eventually he got things together and able to face
Prunella across the coffee and scrambled.
"You are looking badly, Morty-mur,' said Pru
nela 81 think you had better 60 away to quiet
place where you will have rest and good food and
quiet"
Mortimer took it in silence. He was all in. He
gave way. He agreed. He said he'd go. 1t all
fixed and Prunea at last led him to the station for
the Ocean Grove train.
At this juncture something happened. Mortimer
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Does she seem to worry Mortimer? Not at the
present moment, Gentle Reader. He is beyond worry
Just now But later
Continued in Next Sundays SUM-
SYNOPSIS
Mortimer Mudd who has reached sixty years and
forty millions of dollars, upon becoming a widower
decides to spend of the former in getting rid Of
some of the latter Prunea Pitt his siser-in-law and
long his oppressor attempts to prevent him. He steps
on her. puts on his civil dress suit and starts out
to see Broadway. Visiting the Hinkey-Pinkey Com
pany show he likes it, takes the whole works to supper,
invites them all to go to Europe in flock of arpanes
and subsequently reaches his home and tumbles into
bed fully clad.
Copyright TwentS-hrst Century Press, 1919
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lected by these men amounted to
thousands of francs each month. These
two men worked together, and when
a man was caught disobeying any of
the orders of the camp II he had
money he was able to buy himself
on.
Hodges Had Killed "A Man.
Our investigation showed that about
three months previous to the killing OF
Hand Hodges had shot a man to death
in the guard house. and when the cir
cumstance was investigated had gone
clear by claiming he acted in self
defence, while Pugh had corroborated
his claim before the investigating COM
mittee. This fact was well known
throughout the camp, and no one dared
TO tell of the actual conditions for fear
of getting the same treatment. Both
Hodges and Pugh had passed the word
around that they could do anything
they wanted to and get away with it.
Among white soldiers a condition like
this could not have existed; but in this
camp We had the lowest type of col
ored men, men who were easily in
fluenced and superstitious
Our Investigations convinced US that
Sergeant Hodges and Sergeant Pugll
had either killed Hand themselves or
had been the cause Of his having been
put out OF the way; but they were tou
clever to leave any clues by which We
could get direct evidence against them
We had them both Swallowed. and
finally learned that Hodges had a
woman whom he was supporting in
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New-York tribune., 1919-07-10
FavOrites Win
Lin Net Tourney
For Club Title
Miss Wagner, P1ayi.n g
Through Champion, Easy
Victor at Pleasantville

a large, field competed in the won.
ems singles and doubles tennis cham.
p!onshlps of the Mount Pleasant Ten
ms Club ar Pleasantville; N. Y. YES.
terday afternoon: There we're few nm.
sets, most =. of the favorites comirp
through inrgood form.
MISS Marie Wagner, the 'plavine
through champion, easil v won The 'onlS
match in which she engaged. defeat,
ing Mrs. L. H. Morris at 60. o.
Mrs. Edith B. Handy, the runner-,1n
IN last years tournament. was also an
easy winner. She took two love 5aets
from Mrs Newton. 80
Two other stars who are SHOWING
up well IN the tourney are Mrs. Lynch
ana MRS. raymond. Miss Wagner will
meet Mrs. Lynch to-day.
WI, IN the doubles Miss Wagner and Mrs.
wliourn won both Of the matches in
wn!cn tney competed. In the first thew
oeleated MISS Whitley and Mrs. Dun
can at o-l and Go and in the second
Mrs; Pritchard at 6-3, 6-3. '''''
The summary:> r..
FIRST round-Miss Whitley defeated Mrs.
dented feat. Mr. Mgz Fsrsy Il WlSurnF F1nsra 4s de-
Newton, 60, 60; Mrs n Tc,vn'en Rav,,, MIS- a
igated ,9;u. IA. Miss Marjorie stralem 60 90
Ss M'ss Whitely defeated Miss Lola Hobbs
Mrs. Mrs E V. stanwicks Is, 60. eiTaeJ', 7aN5 !
Nj Miss ssn Margaret Grove defeated Mrs. 81
Yarns. w Marlng. G.-1, 81: Miss Marie Wagney
NI.eaeTd Me- 20 MRS l.. n. Morris. Go, 6-at
MIS-, MS, Eaward Lynch defeated Miss Elsie,
Ihlrd round-Mrs. Edward Raymond de,
sarIt Grove defeated Mrs Paul Martin,
Mrs. Wilburn defeated Miss Whifclv and
Mrs. Duncan. 6-1, Go. "''e'
", second round-Miss1 Grove and Mrs
Marlng defeated Miss Force and Miss
chapman, 6-l, 6-4; Miss Wagner and
MRS. MIS- Wilburn defeated Mrs. Hulnphries
anu MRS. Pritchard e-3. 6-3 Mrs Ray
mond and Mrs. Chapman defeated Miss
Della Tore and Mrs. Morris, So Ga
80; MIS- Handy and Mrs Lynch de-.
&C, &C. ~ e"'o"'
New-York tribune., 1919-07-10
Rickard to Clear
Less Than $4,000
On Titular Bout

+ TOLEDO, Ohio, July e.-Exactly
1850 persons paid their way into the
bayview Park arena on July a, to see
the heavyweight championship bout
between Jess Willard and Jack Demp-
sey. Official figures as to attendance
and receipts were announced to-day by
Frank B. Flournoy, Tex Richards as
sociate in the venture.
The receipts. after the government
tax of $41,7ss.94 had been deducted
were s41o.7a21s. The 7 per cent
charity fund for the city of Toledo was
slightly under $4,000 There were
292 policemen In the stadium, rs fre-
men, 500 ushers, 80 ticket takers. 20
ticket sellers and 454 press representa-
tives.
The principal expenses of the pro-
moters were as follows: willard.
100000; Dempsey, SGT 800; arena con, A.
charity fund $4,000; total, s307 500.
Other charges probably will make the
cost approximately S325,OO0, leaving
the promoters profits somewhat below
$4,000, Flournoy said.
The arena was constructed to seat
81 900. Flournoy announced this after
noon that it had been sold to the
American House Wrecking Company, Of
Chicago, for $4,000, being disposed Of
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Net Teams Chosen
For East VS.. West
Titular Matches

CINCINNATI. July 9.-The pairincs
for the East VS.. West tennis champion
ship, to be played on the courts Of the
Cincinnati Lawn Tennis Club to-mor-
row, Friday and Saturday, were an
nounced here to-day.
William T. Tilden, Jr., No. /; P.
Lindley Murray, No. 2; Ichiya Kuma-
gae, No. 8; Howard Voshell, No. 4;
Wallace johnson, No. S, and Vincent
Richards. No. 6, will represent the Easv
against William 7. Johnston. No. /;
Samuel Hardy, No. 2; Ralph Burdick,
No. g.; Robert Kinsey, No. d; A. l..
Green, Jr., No. 5, and Axel Craven, No.
E, representing the West. gfa.. -
Tomorrow afternoon. Kunagae will
meet Burdick and Voshell will meet
Kinsey in. the first round of the single
matches, while Tilden and Richards
will meet Johnston and Hardy in the
first of the doubles matches. On Fridav
Murray will meet Hardy and Johnson
will meet Green in the singles, while
Veshell and johnson will meet Burdicx
and Green in the doubles.
On. Saturday Tilden will meet John,
ston and Richards will meet Craven in
the singles. while Murray and Kuma
gae will play Kinsey and Craven in the
final set of doubles.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-10

favorite. This one, which was ridden
ey fy Kennedy, was very sloppy in It's
,encing. Reddest struck each of the
last five barricades. He hit the last
fence so heavily that he almost came
a cropper and sprawled all out in
landing, knocking most everything he
mad left out of himself at the same
time.
Reddest was moving up rapidly at
the time, and might, indeed, have col
Jared the pace maker but for the acci-
dent. Certain it is that Reddest ran
greatly improved race over his last
start -under Rowan, who at the time
was was 81: suspected Of putting the old geld
Harry Payne Whitney's two-year-old
H!ly HlS Afternoon a '' won the closing dash of
1t was one of the really good things
OF the afternoon, though not quite as
good as King Thrush. This Ross colt,
by the way, since his last previous
start, developed quite as sensationally
as Sir Barton developed over winter.