Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1922-04-07
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ing, shot her through the head.
Fred L. Trombly, who had served a
term for grand larceny, escaped from
the state reformatory of Washington,
served six months sentence for petty
larceny and sentenced to six to fifteen
years in the penitentiary for theft Of
diamonds, after having been sought
by Seattle police and detectives for
more than six months, was found on
the police force. He Is now in jail.
Tex Richard, who has been on trial
on the charge Of criminally assaulting
a 15-year-old girl, was found not guilty
by New York City jury.
1t Is announced In Lawrence Mass.
that the cotton mill strike is spread.
Ing, and the strike is assuming the
proportion Of general protest against
reduction in wages.
As fascinating as tale by Jules
Verne is the plan for aerial explora.
ton OF the roof Of the world" recent
ly sketched in New York City by Capt.
Road Adumsen, dscoverer of the
South Pole. The next expedition that
sails for the North Pole, he says, will
not be like those which have preceded
It, Its vision will not be confined
to few miles on either side of the
ship, but from the air II will be able
to take in at a glance objects 200 miles
away 1t will talk by radio with
Washington four times a day. and
when 1t returns, in three years, 1t will
know what the civilized world has
been doing during its absence.
Clyde Richey, a taxi driver of Ba.
kersfield, Calf, was attacked by two
masked and robed men, who were ap.
pretended by officers and have been
indicted by the grand jury.
In an effort to rescue a woman
trapped by fire In a rooming house
In New Orleans, Fireman Oscar Vidal.
"a, lost his life. The body was found
in bath room after the flames had
been put out. Fifteen persons in the
building escape, but one man sui.
fered broken limb and several WON.
en- were slightly burned. Property
damage was insignificant.
Oil, said to be Of an unusually high
grade. has been brought in with a nat.
ural flow Of more than 100 barrels
day, from a well located on a 1O0-hun.
dred acre tract In the heart of the
twenty-eighth ward Of Pittsburg.
After being convicted OF burglary
and sentenced in open courtroom at
Ca, Genus Cofield sprang
suddenly upon Weyman Cofield, his
nephew, whose sensational confession
had convicted him, plunging a degger
deep into his chest. Physicians de-
clare he can not recover.
The New England cotton mill strike
has taken on new phase by extend.
ing to the important cotton and wool
en- mill center of Lawrence, and set
.lement of the controversy is reported
% be not in sight.
Harry Leon Wilson, nationally
known author and playwright, and
Theodore Criley, artist. fought duel
recently, according to a story printed
IN The San Francisco Examiner.
An investigation Of the deaths of
Mrs. Josefa Black and her sister,
Rosa, known as the "Siamese twins"
vas started recently. Following a con.
erence with the doctors connected
With the case. however, the coroner
Ibandoned his plans for a post mortem
and authorized the issu.
nee OF a death certificate.
Olivia M. P. Stone, graduate nurse.
elapsed on the witness stand at her
rial on charge Of numbering Ellie
iuy Kinkead, former Cincinnati cor.
Grafton counsel, in front of his Brook.
N home recently.
Believed to have been mentally un.
alanced, Mrs. P. J. Jordan. so, wife Of
banker, Scranton, Pa, and sister Of
IT. James g. Walsh, member OF the
ordham University faculty. attempt.
d to end her life in her home in North
cranton. She shot herself and then
irned on the gas.
John Ewing, 81, son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
H. Ewing. of Chester, s. c., was
Illed recently when he was run over
Y Seaboard Air Line Railway train
Monroe, N. 9. He lived at Chester
, to short time ago but had gone
Monroe to work.