Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-05-14
Domestic

Wilson Brokaw. so, was found gull
ty of murder in the second degree in
connection with the killing of his wife
at Camp Eustis several months ago
Federal Judge Waddill presiding, de-
ferred pronouncing sentence until the
close of the Norfolk Va, court term
The federal court had jurisdiction in
the case, as the crime was committed
on government property.
Hollis Landers, convicted of the
murder of Sheriff Cliff Barber. was
hanger at the Jackson county Jail at
Jefferson Ga. At the time of the
murder Landers was under charges Of
stealing an automobile and of being a
Stacker
Mike Vukovich, an employee of the
Chicago Curled Hair company. was in
a hospital in Chicago, believed to be
the sixth victim OF anthrax. Five per-
sons have died in Chicago recently
from anthrax. II is declared that the
disease was imported from Russia and
Argentina.
Advocating law that would require
labor unions to become incorporated
and thereby made responsible for dam.
ages that might result to industrial
enterprises through strikes and other
labor disturbances, Charles + Waltz.
prominent attorney of Cincinnati, de.
liyered an interesting address at the
annual banquet held by the Atlanta
Builders Exchange
Joseph F. Rutherford, head of the
"Russelite faith, and eight of his
church officers, were freed in the fed.
eral court in Brooklyn when indict.
ments against eight of them charging
violation of the espionage act and an
indictment charging perjury against
the ninth were dismissed on motion Of
Federal District Attorney Ross.
The body of Nina Lee Delony has
been found by the searching party
in a gulch five miles north of Coyote
Wells, Texas. They were directed by
Walter Andrew Watson, her alleged
slayer who collapsed when the body
was uncovered.
An attack has been made on the
validity of the Lever act, in suit
filed in the federal court at Jackson,
Miss, by r. K. Remington, owner Of
several department stores in that city.
Complainant alleges that if the rules
are enforced he will be compelled
to quit business.
Fannie Hurst, the author, has made
public announcement of her secret
marriage five years ago to acqdes S.
Danielson, a pianist. She said that
since their marriage they made their
appointments for dinner and other
engagements in a purely formal man.
ner, meeting as per inclination and
not as duty" They will continue this
plan.
Accusation that Andrew Walker and
his wife were guilty of numbering their
daughter, Dorothy Walker, who died
May 4, one year ago, is the charge
against the parents of the little girl
who died of diphtheria in Newark, N.
j., without medical attendance other
than Christian Science practitioners.
Thn anoo hoe orouoad tho aftanf IN mt
only of jurists and medical men, but
of the Christian Science church heads
themselves, who have raised a large
defense fund, aided by contribution
from the mother church IN Boston.
Sherman Hammons, SIS years old,
wealthy farmer, shot and instantly
killed his wife, %; her sister-in-law.
Mrs. John Hammons, and then blew
out his own brains at Dawson Springs,
KY, after he had been foiled in an
attempt to kill his fouryear-old son.
His wife had instituted divorce pro
ceed.ngs against him, and the trouble
arose over the possession Of the child.
Judged by its contents, car from
a wet country was captured by Off
GERS White and Milan in Atlanta, con-
tanning ten gallons of whisky and an
alligator nearly two feet long.
Amazing details of the methods used
in marketing securities valued at mil
lions of dollars that we're alleged to
have been stolen by Wall street mes
gers for "Nicky" Arnstein and Mick"
Cohen. fugitives from justice, are re
vealed in confession by David w.
Sullivan, former member of the New
York Consolidated Stock Exchange.
The strike Of operatives in 81 New
Bedford. Mass, cotton mills as fol-
owed by the issuance Of orders to
Ill union firemen to quit work. About
fifteen thousand operatives are a.
eeted.