The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, December 14, 1917, Image 1
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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
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-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