Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1927-07-21
SALE OF MAYHEM
NOT BE- CONFIRMED
Price of $4,000 For Resort Hotel
Not Likely to Be o. KID by Fed
eral Court; L. c. Dula Says Negro
Was Unarmed When Killed.
By RUPERT GILLETT


that Fridays sale of Mayview Manor
for $1,000 to j. A. C. Wadsworth of
Charlotte, would be confirmed by the
court. Although the receivers de-
clined to comment on the sale, it is
said by those in position to know
that the court is not likely to confirm
a sale for $4,000 when it refused to
confirm last years sale at $153,OOO.
The Manor and the surrounding
property comprise one of the most
ambitious developments in the south.
Only the vision of Carl Fisher in de-
veloping Miami Beach from an unin-
habited key compares with the vision
of w. L. Alexander in transforming
a wooded hillside into a summer re-
sort of the first class. But, whereas
Fishers efforts were attended at ev-
cry hand by success, Alexander's have
been Eeset with misfortune.
He selected the one spot on a ledge
overlooking gorge, where a hotel
could stand and command an unob-
srtucted view of a hundred miles of
mountain tops. He put $75O,OOO into
the building that was to stand there,
and S250,OO0 in the auxiliary build
ing, hiking trails, gun clubs, lake,
stables and bride paths, and miles OF
scenic driveways which surround the
hotel.
But the Alexander estate went
into receivership and carried the
Mayview Manor development with it.
Last year the hotel was sold at auc-
tion for $4,000, but the court re-
fused to accept the sale. This years
sale was attempted in an effort to
improve on that price, but all the
eloquence of the Penny Brother j,
twin auctioneers. could not bring The
bids above $4,000.
The sale, however, does not affect
the hotels business as a hotel, which
is now under lease to Donald j.
Boyden and is one of the most popu-
lar stopping places in the resort.
Dula Says Negro Was Unarmed
L C. Dula of Blowing Rock Sat-
urday added his testimony to that of
H. w. Gragg of Globe that Broadus
Miller, negro slayer of Gladys Kincaid
of Morganton, apparently offered no
resistance before he was shot by
Commodore Burleson.
st can be positively proved" Mr..
Dula said, "that Miller was shot
while he had his arms above his head.
When his arms were lowered and the
skin slipped down on his body, the
bullet hole in the skin was below the
wound in his flesh. This shows that
the skin was stretched upward when
the bullet entered his body, and a
mans skin can be stretched in that
position only by raising his arms.
81 reached the negro before he
stopped kicking. He was lying on
his back with both hands under his
head Burleson showed us shotgun
which he said the negro had fired at
him. That gun had not been fired.
OF that l am positive.
81 was in the same party with H.
w. Gragg of Lenoir. Others in our
party who can testify to this are j.
Allen Gragg, Paul j. Banner and
Claude Greene.
"We found further that the bullet
entered Miller's body just below the
left breast, but came out of his back
several inches lower. If Burleson was
shooting uphill at Miller, it is diff
cult to see how the bullet could have
taken this course"
Near Fatal Accident
Gordon Wisenant, truck driver
working on Highway No. II, just be-
low Blowing Rock, was still alive
Monday when he was pulled from un-
der a half ton of crushed rock
that fell on him when his truck went
over bluff. Moreover, word was re-
ceived at the camp here from the
Caldwell Hospital in Lenoir that
Whisenant has chance to live.
When the truck left the road, 1t
leaped thirty feet over bluff, strik-
ing the ground, then turned over end
wise and dumped the load Of rock on
Whisenant. The truck then rolled a
hundred feet farther. Both of Whis.
enant's hips and thighs were broken
as was one ankle. His chest was
crushed also.
Foremen at the construction cmar
could not explain the accident, but il
was conjectured that Whisenant usec
the low gear pedal of the Ford trucl
when he should have used reverse
Another truck went off the same
bluff when it was cranked Monday