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The Second Vilcoi Trial. [Continued from 1st page.] seat, saying: "I must go hems; my mother will be uneasy about ma if 1 stay out after this hour." This was aaid it a jocular way. Centinuing, Wilcox aaid: "Miss JNellie, 1 would like to see you in the hall." He railed a oigarette and want out, followed by the girl. After that moment Nellie Cropsey was ne?er seen again by anyone sare Wilcox. Her doad body was found floating, just be*, neath the surface of the water o 1 rasquotanK river, on the morning of the 27th day ?f December. Thirty minutes after Wilcox and Nellie left the room Miss i Ollie bade Crawford good night, saw him to the deor and went upstairs to her room, thinking that her sister had gone ahead of her; but net finding her there she concluded that she and Wilcox, who had been having lovers' quarrels, had made up, crossed the hall into the parlor for a quiet talk, and were still there. However, after having taken a short nap, and waking up, she heard the clock strike 12, missed her sister and gave the alarm. Soon the whnlfl f ri i i I 17 ai u nn on/1 .? _w?w ( J ?? MU up U i J vi OVA1 VU? ing everywhere for the lost girl. Bat their efforts were in v lin. No trace of the girl could be found. About 1 o'clock Mr. Cropsey went acroaa town to the Wilcox home and told Mrs. Wilcox, mother of the defendant, that Nellie had disappeared and asked to ee James. Mrs. Wilcox went alone to James' room and soon returned to say that he declared that ho knew nothing of the girl, that he had roturned to her an umbrella and a picture she had given him, and left her leaning against one of the posts to the front porch, of her homo, crying. Wilcox did not get out of bed, and seemed indifferent. At the trial bafore the major of the town he aaid that he turned over aftar his mother left the room and was asleep in two minutes. After visiting the VVilcex home Mr. Cropsey reported the case to the pelice department. Chief Dawson went to Wilcox's room during the early hours of the merniag and asked him to accompany him to the Cropsey residence. Wilcox crawled out of bed, put on his working clothes and went. His room was never searched until the dead body of the girl was found, 37 days later. It is not known whether his visiting suit was wet or not. At r' ? * ' iud \yiuy?uj uouie lo ueclured that be knew nothing of Nellie's whereabouts. In order to understand tho ev. idence that will be given in tho trial one must fix the location of the Cropsey bouse, relativo to the town and the Pasquotank river, in his mind. It is a prosperous little city of 8,000 inhabitants, situated en the banks of the Pasquotank river. If you will turn your back to the court house of the county, cross Tiber and Harrington cieeks and go out Riverview avenue, along the river, toward the southern boundary of the county, yeu will pass the Cropsey homo. As tho crow flies it is about a half-mile from the court house, but as the road winds it is more than a mile. Tho house faces the road and tho river, and to get to the river from the front steps you must cross the road, which is about 20 yards from the house. A littlfi thn rir?Kf ? ui IUU Cropsey hou?e, and 135 yards from the steps, and about 50 yards from the water, the holy of th6 girl was found, it was oot in the main channel of the rirer, but in a sidepocket of water. The counsel for the {State in tbo cttso contend that Wilcox struck Nellie Cropsey on tho head j with some hlut instrument, car- 1 rled her to the place where her body was found and dropped her into tho water in an unconscious condition. The defence held that the State did not prove that the girl was killed at all. James Wilcox is a small, wellbuilt man, about 30 years of age. n ? a ... lie 11 not a preposiossing looking man. His record baa not been that of a model young man, but no one had charged him with any criminal act up to the time of the death of Mips Cropiey. The people who know him and have kuown him since his childhood believe that he is guilty. Four out of very five persons believe him to bo guilty. Ilis old schoolmates, his associates in the city fire department and bin h Ann pumnon. I ? ions frankly admit that he is capable of committing such a crime as he is accused of They say that he was always cruel and selfish. But none of these things wore proven on the wituess stand, lie did not testify in his own behalf. The people far removed from Elizabeth City and the scene of the tragedy are intoreste l in the case. 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To this prevailing opinion of the , country the President may woll bow and promptly repair the mistake by accepting the resignation of Mrs. Cox, opening the Indian* ola office with a postmaster ac- 1 ceptable to its citizens, and with drawing the obnoxious nomination from the Senate to avert a ] sectional discussion to be depre- < cated by the entiro nation. I One of the results of the Span- ' ish war hailed with keen satisfaction by the American people was , the welding of Northern and < Southern feeling in patriotic uni? t ty. It was a theme that President ( McKinley loved to dwell on, and 1 is one on which President Roosevelt himself has repeatedly spoken with enthusiasm. But if the agitation now menaced should be fomented it would not only undo the good then done, bat weuld set the mnntrv n ?J ? ?? u ^UUClBtlUU 1U ( color prejudice and sectional { strife. The sentiment against color in 1 the South may be unfortunate and to be deplored, but the vital fact \ is that it exists, is universal and ' rooted in the growth of centuries. 1 It may wear out, but canuot be ( cut out. Mr. Roosevelt may i buck against it, but neither he nor any other President, neither Congress nor the Republican par- j ty, can overcome it. He can no ' more inforce political equality of 1 the races in the matter of office- ' holding, which is not a constitu- 1 tional right of any citizen, black and white, than he can enforce social equality. Any strenous attempt to do so will simply intensify prejudice against color, o?n~ bitter race feeling and cause sectional strife, in all of which the negro will inevitably he the greatest sufferer. Apart from this view there is a cont rol Iinor 1: ' ? .. wuot\<vittiiun ui JJUII"* cy. it is a rocognized interna 1 tional principle and established usage that a diplomatic represen- 1 tative must be, irrespective of merit or worth, persona grata to , the Government and people to , which he is credited. For this reason President Roosevelt recalled the first consul he sent to Ha- < ana. Now 4he same principle should apply to such prominent Federal officials as collectors and postmasters, who at e brought into i close touch with the people. Like ( a diplomatic representative, their usefulness depends in a large measure on'their acceptability. It matters not what the personal objection may be; if it is shared by the community and the ap~ pointment is obnoxious to the citizens that is enough to render it unfit and impolitic, especially in view of the fact that there are plenty of other men as well qualified and personally unobjection-> able. Would President Roosevelt think of forcing upon New York, Boston, Philadelphia or San Francisco a collector or post- g master against the unanimous prolout, nf hliainaaa ?"An -!l! ? . ??? vu??*iuoo iiiv>ii uuu L'lllZOQB f Why is not a leading Southern t dty entitled to equal considers* ^ lion? He recalled Consul Bragg from Havana because he waa not acceptable to tbo Cuban people. \Thy not recall the nomination of Dr. Crum trom the Senate be cause it is ohnoxions to the citizens of Charleston ? It is an issue of more than lbcal concern and of tar reaching con sequence. The Charleston appoint ment and the Indianola affair nave Btirred Southern feeling us it has not been stirred for years. 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