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" T r I I VOL. 13, NO. 18, SEM MEANS TRIAL IS NOW NFJRINr. ITS IV II tlUlMtUlU liu END AT CONCORD Wife of Defendant on Stanc Shows How Wound Might Have Been Made. GASTON MEANS TESTIFIES His Verson of Tragedy is Thai Mrs. King Picked Up Pisto from the Tree and It Was Ac ddentally Discharged. Concord, N. C., Dec. 1 '.?Evl dence in the case of Gaston D Means, charged with the murder o Mrs. Maude A. King, was almoR completed when court adjourne* Tuesday at the end of the 16th da; of the trial. The defense had rest ed its case with the right to call tw< witnesses who could not be on ham and the state had only a few mor witnesses in rebuttal. Mrs. Julie Means, wife of the de fendant, and Capt. W. A. Jones, pi? tol expert of the New York city po lice, were the principal witnesses The former appeared for the defens ^ and demonstrated to the Jury ho> she could inflict upon herself wound similar to that which cause Mrs. King's death. Captain Jone testified for the state and gave it a his opinion that it would have bee physically impossible for a person t self-inflict a wound such as kille< Mrs. King. Over vigorous protest and an e* ceptlon to the court's ruling by th defense, Captain Jones was allowe to fire in court the pistol with whic Mrs. King was shot to demonstrat to the Jury that the firing of the gu left no smoke "smdge" on the ban such as the defense claimed wa found on Mrs. King's hand. The nl fleer detailed various experiments h had conducted in firing a pistol a animal skin, hair and in a calf head. When held as close as si Inches to the calf's head, the piste discharge burned the hair and pow der strains were visihle when the rc volver was fired at a distance a great as 16 inches. Mrs. Means was entirely at eas when on the witness stand and sir swered questions directly and dis tinotly. She handled without tr< raor the pistol from which the fatr shot was fired and showed the jur how she could discharge the weapo when holding It at arms length t one side of her. Defendant's Version of Trngeily. Concord. Dec. IS.?With dellber; Hon and calmness, Oaston Dulloc Means related in descriptive deta to the Jury In Cabarrus county sv perior court Friday his version c how Mrs. Maude A. King met he death at Blackwelder spring, nea Concord, on the evening of Augue 29. last. He was testifying in hi own defense during the closin hours of the eleventh day of his tria cn charge of the murder of Mr< King. It was past 4 o'clock and h had been under direct examinatlo nearly five hours following about si hours the day before. His direct ex amlnatlon closed and cross-examln ation began within a few minutes at ter he had pictured the tragedy t the Jury. The target shooting party had ar rived at Blackwelder spring. A1 had alighted from the automobile the chauffeur had taken it "up th road out of the way." C'apt. W. S Bingham, with shotgun in hand, am Afton Moans, brother of the defend ant. with rifle in . hand, had gon some distance into the calm dus! down the road looking for rab bits. Only Gaston Moans and Mrs King wore left on the hillside tha slopes down to the spring located ii a horseshoe-shaped opening project Ing into the dense forest growth, ac cording to the evidence. He had h?' ,25-caliber automatic Colt pistol ii his hand. She had handed It to hln but a few moments before and h< had loaded It for her. They walke< toward the spring. Something wa said about getting a drink of water Sh? declined to drink because sh 4 he La -WEEKLY. NATIONAL ARMY CAMPS Iiri HAVE COST $150,000,000 uj They Range in Population From 300 H* . to 47,000?All Are Com- t ' fortably HounoI. ^ | The South Carolina Council of I)e- Stron fense has been authorized to give ^ out the following information concerning training camps: The beginning of winter finds the , work of training going on at full JJYNl blast in a hundred camps and stations. t Not far from half of the total Genei I number of men training are encamp- qv< ed in the big national army canton* ments. In these the United States has 16 new cities, each as large as dia Sacramento or New Britain, or Davenport or Macon. Ttl8 Sixteen camps, nearly as big as . heavy . the cantonments, but not built so cent c f durably, are housing the National f Guard divisions. a *e 1 of Cai j Two hundred and fifty thousand numer men have Joined the regulars since effort y the war broke out. There are 17 gajn " regular army stations and camps be The a ing'used for the training of these rei emits. Bullec to tha e Seventeen stations are engaged in Ruppr training men for the navy, and ma- e(j 0e ?- rines are being turned out in three oj * more- and ei Not all the aviation fields have on ? been finished, but in a dozen of them viOU8p 0 cool headed young men are being The B v taught to fight in the air. groum Nine camps have just lounded off the ei tl the second increment of officers for positic 8 the reserve corps. ^8 8 Five medical camps are in opera- wreck o tion, and three camps for engineers, mans (1 All of the larger camps have been ing tl built in the last six months. The and r! biggest of them, the national army lasted cantonments, were built in three the a; r months at a total cost of $150,000,- jsjot (l 000. Only a little over twice as oPrma h much was required to build the Pan- bombs r ama Canal?and that took ten years. |)0Hitic n Something between six hundred nnfj (j. '' and seven hundred millions of feet infor(.( 8 of lumber went into the national f^e ca army cantonments. The figure for o 11 O all the armv camps is about one bil? * mount lion feet. . f s ian i I in population the ramps rangeI iimom, I | from 300 to 47,000. The men in ? | tticni ,_j flying camp may know one nnotherj }_ as men know one another in a small | pj,5jn s | pollcRe. One of the larger cnnton-Ltorm , ments, on the other hand, contains J simu?(j j more men than can he crowded Into I antj w '' the Polo Graunds or Comiskey Park., SPVI,ra '"| A good average crowd for a (ll0 j( '"j world's series game is 30,000. Such j,.ljne(| *'1 a crowd Is enough to swamp a half ,i , |inear ja crowd is enough to swamp j y one of the national army canton-j Vjougi, n ments would make a crowd half oil i The again as large. j Kaled i Idving conditions in the camps' p rp may not be quite to the top of the!(wo p, high American standard. But it ran tjnnjst l" safely he said that no large army of _____ b *1K HI soldiers was ever housed so com- , ii Jit I a " fortably before. There will be no josses l" freezing thin winter. Four of the jlPavy cantonments situated farthest north 1 have steam heat. The rest have to f,on t- ? tho R put up with hot air systems. Bat it entorc an American army spent a winter s at Valley Forge once without even a "),,,ro K'hot air system. 'ft*e p il ^ er cor 1 SUBMARINE TOLL IS I01,!,! e huildii n SHOWING AN INCREASE protec x while, succes [- l**ises of Previous Week Amount* having to Slxtren l.arge and One posit It o Twp Small Ship. were i last w " London, Dec. 13.?A slight in- woe'< crease in loss of British merchant- n ! men hv mine or uiil\ma*Un I- e? of wa uu>/iuni mo III IIIO ' | pan! week 1h note*' in the admiralty RftI>' : ' statement. Fourteen vessels of more than 1.600 tons were sunk, as p well as spven under that tonnage. ,,, !c wa? The losses of ununv.wununununu man i The losses to British shipping by tMm ,t) '' I mine or submarine the previous taken week comprised 16 merchantmen of t,atant 1.600 tons or over and one under jnR to j that tonnage. liable i should Idglit Italian Irfwws. their t ? 1 Rome, Dec. 13.?Italian shipping'a civil p : losses by mine or submarine for theitilitles I week ending December 8 were one The ? steamer of more than 1.500 tons, one clared steamer of less than 1,500 tons and and a g three small sailing vessels. One in hos ? steamer damaged by a torpedo was tlon It *** Jii JICAS' LANCASTER, S. C.. FRT1) IVY SNOW HELPS FIRST I V T Tlir I VinvnA nm/vn \li i nr. AUMKU- SIU? MANS IN ITALY H< K Teuton OfTensive on Lieut. Hi Vest Front Nets Only of Am Slight Gain. G HOLDS HIS GROUND TORPEI al Allenby Has Taken Only Tw< er Control of Jerusalem and Floate i Populace Geets Him Cor- and i lly?Cuba Declares War. Were ] Germane, following their Washin artillery preparations of re- survivor's layB, have attempted to drive American ge into the British line west told by I libra!, but although they used made pub lcally superior forces, their It shows brought them only a minor and three the wrecl attack, launched between were Pick< ourt and Queant. was similar ?' exposu t adopted by Crown Prince An offh echt's troops when they plerc- tenant's neral Ilyng's front southwest "Lieut, mbral nearly two weeks ago er was pr lused a retirement of the Ilrit- holding ta the salient General Byng pre- p. m. a t y had driven toward Cambrai. innimnt rltish held tenaciously to their stationed i, except at one point, where rudder hi iemy penetrated a front line steam ah >n. the ship in their previous attempt to abreast o the Cambral salient, the Ger- This tube lost heavily, the British mow- 200 feet lem down with machine gun wrecked i ifle fire In the fighting, which down. from dawn until 1 o'clock in No fternoon. "Guns withstanding their failure, the i,ut no s ins are keeping up an intensive the vessf irdment of British and French stern. T1 >ns all along the western front abandon i illy are receiving additional re- gotten o sments in men and guns fromI boat coul istern theater. j wherry ai w is falling heavily in the escape s ains along the northern Itnl- floated cl< ront, and optimism prevails 4:20 p. i : the Italians that this will aid exploded, definitely in holding the \us stern of t rmans hack from the Italian "No sui Amid the first flurries of the boats and on Tuesday the enemy re- tor a tho his attack among Hit- hills ards said, as rewarded by the capture of the water 1 positions. 1-ater, however,t picked up alians in a counter-attack re- "The s I their lost terrian. after which .,fter the tlllery duels were resumed, hut to j)0 aj1(, less strength than had pre- j ,hree-inch y been shown. I periscopes Cossacks. under General | ?n,l Ikn .:i.i t I IIVO, <*?n? III*- UUinilCVIIM Hint's ? ported to have met in at least : ghts, with the countor-revolus the victors in both. The en tents occurred at Moheliv and "Well manovka, and the Holsheviki tH?fore th are declared to have been eral Allenby, commander of I ritish forces In Palestine, has J? d Jerusalem and taken over 1 of the Holy City. The popu- I' f' ;reeted the British commanddially. In a proclamation, he \l/l he inhabitants that all sacred v I ips and holy places would he 1*1 | ted and maintained. Meanthe Hritish army continues its b'ul operations in Palestine, good. T1 f captured several additional Mr. Kdite >ns from the Turks. somethin' nty-one Hritish merchantmen "'arts the sunk by mines or submarines take it fr< eek. as against 17 the previous l>e elected itor, and ^solution declaring that a state out o r exists between Austria-Hun- After wini md Cuba has been passed hy s'n and c than house of representatives generally 4> ularly am May lb' Kvccuted. the when ?hington, Dec. 11t Congress- every tim< Tinkham. by tiring an Italian there's al the Austrian positions, has orter he ( on the status of a non-com- a great j attacking troops, and accord- mayor, ht the rules of war, laid himself honor, lit n> ot'i uuuii ??y tnf Austrian* I remark* he by any chance fall Into erally ens lands. Under the law of war. to be ma j lan may never engage In hos- them nee* j fie cops fact that war has been de- have 'em. does not alter the situation ny American found engaging ?and 1 tillties regardless of his post- Savings S i civil life, is regarded as cle 8am i " IftjU figdj EWS $2.00 A YEAR ??. NEW ELECTION TO 77. BE HELD TUESDAY ,1"TTO SELECT MAYOR ] n Lancaster Tues- Tie-Vote Between ('has. D. Jones bout (our Inches. an(, R g Stewart Makes t began snowing ck and when the This Necessary, next morning the Ind virgin,., til VOTE ONLY FOR MAYOR, j up to ten inches, the coast. New- I]oard of Aidermen Met Yestere heaviest precipiI, according to un- day and Named Next Tuesday a 10-inch fall ac- as Day for Second Election 5 cold weather and - .. . ,, , . . for Chief Executive, illy tying up shlplpton Roads port. 1 a fall of eight Next Tuesday, December 18, has i reported ten! been decided upon by the board of pst fall in several I aldermen for the second election to i select a mayor of the town of Lanina also the snow- j caster, the election on last Tuesday near the coast, having resulted in a tie vote. The ) leven inches, while board of aldermen was In session city of Asheville yesterday to receive the returns from y four inches. the election and to order the second barely covered un-' election. mow. but in the The coming election will be constern sections of ducted under the same regulations om three to four as the regular election. The polls s reported. will open at eight o'clock and close Lern Georgia came at four. The voting booth will be at o a depth of three guard house in the fire station. The tie-vote of Tuesday between + i Charles 1). Jones, incumbent, and R. ANC ASTER ! S. Stewart, has been the subject of much comment for the past two days NE ( OMJ AN I antj friends of the candidates ] have been quite active since the tie ne News < arries was announced Tuesday night. Switchboard and ; The ordinance passed by the alit Kvchange. dermen yesterday ordering the secTelephone News. | ontj election follows: tlanta, carries a Whereas, the election for mayor, ie Lancaster Tele- heid on December 11th, 1917, reaccompanied by a i SU](ed in a tie-vote, as shown by the ?w switchboard re- rt.turns of the managers thereof, n its December is- ordained by the mayor and ncaster felephone | oidermen of the town of Lancaster er, ( .. on<* of the jn council assembled ting companies in Section 1 That a second election says the Telephone for uiayor to serve for a period of completed the in- ,wo years commencing the first day w common battery (lf ja?unr.v. 1 ! 18. shall be held at the guard house in said town on ia<l been under way Tuesday. December 1Mb. l'.'lT. The by General Man- polls to be opened at eight o clock ind bis corps of as- m. and to be closed at four nc out the details ( ".lock p. in. r.. Secction U. That \V. l>. Robinson, Jamison, of the \ J. Hoddey and l.atta Hood be and i ilt'ue. Atlanta, (la . they ar< hereby appointed managers lasson in his plans of said election and directed and ren o^the new equip- quired to conduct the same in ac> telephone system cordance with the requirements of opacity of the new law. f>!? local and sixty Done and ratified in council asne connections. A sembled this l '.th day of December, rectory is now be- lb 17. will be ready for Chas. I). Jones, n a few days. The Mayor. Installed at an out- K. C. Secrest. tely $7,500 anil J Clerk and Treasurer. jroprietor, deserves the patience and PATRONS' MEETINd TO ' whifh he has la I5K HELD AT SCHOOLS e a very expensive ?full of technical ulties. aggravated New Xgricultiirul Instructor Will Ive weather condi- ,?atl.ons ilf l ive Schools hindrances of Charlotte and Lincolnton, expert, rators, came down rations' meetings will he held :it several days, in ,ju. schools composing the group raters in handlin* ,,, have an agricultural course next ard. week The meetings will be attende Lancaster Tele (>tl t,y t)u. agricultural instructor, employs quite a \jt Kargle. by Mr. Dingle and Mr. he system is grow- j Oraeher. and will bo held ?? ides the proprietor, lows: he force consists of Heath Springs, 10 a. m.t Wedneshookkeeper and (iny> December 19. Hair, plant fore Oakhurst. 2 p. m., same day. foreman of con- Klgin, 1" a. m., Thursday, DeI bv Arthur Rlack- , ember 20. Rorie; Jim Sadler |{j<n Hill. 2 p m.. same day. The operating Antioch, 10 a. m., Friday. I>eladie Cottingham. <(.mber 21. and Misses Annie Messrs. Kargle, Dingle and llraeta Parks. Ida Can- p,., win outline the work to be taker Carnes, assistants. Up ;,n,i the patrons of the sohooli night operator. aj-e urged to attend. hboard is installed f the CotTev house, opi'OSKS tkachin'fi OF it ted up for a cen- liATIN in s. C. HPHOOIi the generating ap- Columbia. Dec. lit.?That an ex dations for the op animation on the neginnerss' Datli ? distance booths, book and the first book of Caesar re attired next May of every teacher it Telephone com- the state would put 200 of them ou m1 in 1898 and Mr of business is the assertion of W. H practically all the Hand, state high school inspector, ii installation work a statement which says that th een connected with practice of teaching Latin in th Inuously since that! crowded schools of South Carolint iths ago he became which have small teaching forces, 1 I criminal. TEE Nl AY, DEC. 14, 1917. SURVIVOR'S fNowrBo.TH 1y of tragedy Other Section. t> lufax harbor an ,h ichards Tells of Sinking The snowfall ii erican Destroyer, the da' "'f', w" probably less. 1 Jacob Jones. about eight o'cio< folk looked out *> SEEN 4:20 P. M. Nonh'caroUn,1"" snowfall ranged 0 Boats and Three Rafts being heavy near port News had th d Clear of the Wreck tatlon in 19 years \fter 17 Hours Men official accounts, . , WT companying sever* Picked Up. hlEh wlndB ?lrtuI ping at the Han gton, Dec. 13.?The first Roanoke reportet story of the sinking of the inches. Danville destroyer Jacob Jones, as Inches, the heavii ..ieut. J. K. Richards, was years. 11c by the navy department. jn North Caroli that only two small boats fajj waa heaviest life raftB floated clear of Raleigh reported i Ik. The men on the sea in the mountain ed up after seventeen hours (he depth was onl re- Columbia was I rial summary of the lieu- der an Inch of s report follows: northern and we Richards said the destroy- South Carolina fi oceedlng toward port, after Inches of snow wa irget practice, when at 4:20 *.i * - r rum nonneaRi orpedo was sighted by the report8 of snoW t The commanding officer, ,nChes. on the bridge ordered the , ird right and engines full \yjUTES UP I ead. The torpedo struck on the starboard side, TELEPHC f the torpedo tube No. 3. with torpedoes was blown Southern Telepho in air. The radio was Picture of New and the mainmast brought Story Abou The Southern Submarine Sighted. published in A > < ?. . * "write-up" of th were manned immediately! , . . , .. , , phone company, ubmarine was sighted audi d began to settle by their>'<nm 01 le captain gave the order to (int * ns,*i i .. . . . , , . sue. "The Lai *hip. What boats could be . t,. ? _I company, Dancast nt capsized. The motor ... .. , , strongest conned d not be gotten out. A ? ... , . I South Carolina," ad motor dorv managed to , , ... News, "recently afely. Three life raits . . stallation of a no iiar. riie vessel sank at ... .. , , . telephone system in. Depth charges aboard apparently blowing off the Preparations ii he ship. ^ol some months . ... ager Tliomasson <1 rvivors. except those 011 the .., r 1 e sistants in worki life ratts. were round afrough search, ldeut. lticii After seventeen hours in Sp<<i.il ,\g< nt ? chief engineer's c the men 011 the rafts were 1 t. 1.1 ?. 1 assisted Mr. TI1011 hv a Dritlsh ship. for the installatio ubmarine, which was seen ,. ment and the nev Jacob Jones sank, appeared , , , "The present e ut 150 feet in length, with ^ , ,, switchboard is J 1 guns forward and two , rural and toll lii new telephone di " ing prepared and dist ribut ion wit'fii I) BIGGS SAYS? new system was i lay of approxima T. Thomasson, 1 Mr. Editor, as I remarked great credit for ere was some terrible run- perseverance wit! nin', said Hud Higgs as bored to complef he came into our gold- and tedious task { lineil sanctum and seat- mechanical dittlc , ed himself on the mar- often by destruct blo-top desk, "and the tions and other 1 worst n f it lo llwi.r'in '.? ' "" ..... ... .. i' ,miss tirimn, 1 still runnin'. Every- Miss Rudisell, of body got elected. Mr. Ilell company ope Editor, except the can- and remained for didates for mayor and structing the opc they're runnin' the race the new switchbo over while the runnin's "Altogether th< ie first round was a draw, phone company ir. but there's goin' to be large force and t doing when the umpire ing rapidly. Besi game next Tuesday, and Mr. Thomasson. tl >m me, somebody's goin' to Walter IV Davis. This Is the life. Mr. Ed collector; Hobt 1 it's about all the fun you man; Dee Ellis, f hein' mayor, Mr Editor, struction. assisted ain' the bout it's mostly cus neon and W. E. riticism and worry. There's colored, lineman, bills to pay often and reg- force is Miss SI 1 generally there's little of chief operator, i ?withal to pay them, and Belle Carres, U<<4 ? the mayor does anything, then and Estetle ways somebody to say it Miss Irene Todd, lone some other way. It's "The new switr ob. Mr. Editor, this hein' in the basement o it it's a job with little which has been fi tie pay. no thanks, and as tta 1 office with all d before mostly and gen- paratus. accommo sin'. But somebody's got erators, two loni ror, Mr. Editor, it's one o' etc. 'ssary evils just like traf- "The Eancastet and whiskers you gotta pany was organize Thomasson did | construction and tud went out to buy a War himself and has b # ? ,v, ~ - U1 TT_ .. v?...K> ? > ? hiur inai mi- tne company cont; leeda the money to clothe time. A few mon