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bbaxlett enters
PLEA OF INSANITY
Defense Offers Evidence Along This
line During First Day of TrlftL
Greenville, Sept. 2.—In the first day
of the trial of Hugh T. Bramlett, build
ing contractor of Greenville, charged
with the Twnrdflr nf hta nnntW.iii..ln».
Mrs. L. C. McHugh, the defense of
fered testimony which in effect was to
substantiate the defendant’s plea of
Insanity which was entered at the be
ginning of the trial this morning. The
State rested its case this afternoon
after the examination of a number of
witnesses, the principal of whom was
Miss Peopla McHugh, who was also
shot and seriously wounded by Bram
lett at the time her mother was mor
tally wounded at their home on Pen
dleton Street. About an hour was con
sumed in empaneling the jury which
is composed largely of middle aged,
farmers. ^ The evidence probably will
•be closed tomorrow afternoon.
The defense produced affidavits
from two witnesses who were ill and
thiit 3 ^sanity“mns in the family of H.
T. Bramlett. It was also stated that
the defendant’s father committed sui
cide and that Bramlett himself had
been sent to Morganton for treatment.
Miss Peopla McHugh testified that
she and her mother and another wo
man were sitting on the porch, that
Bramlett drove by in g closet! car and
came back. He got out and bounded
up the steps, cursing, and saying,
“Stop, I got you. I’ll kill you this
time.’’ She said he fired and a bullet
struck her, and that he went down the
BtePS and Started to Agfltn
hit her mother. She said he had been
drinking heavily.
She testified as to. various domestic
troubles and said that before and after
drinking Bramlett had violent spells.
G. R. Hurgiss, 'a farmer, testified
that on the afternoon of the killing,
Bramlett came out to see him and
tried to get him to find out if Mrs.
McHugh and children were at Martin
McHugh’s home. He said Bramlett
took a drink of some* dark substance
and after taking It remarked that he
didn’t hope to live until daylight. Re
ferring to his mother-in-law Bramlett
was quoted as saying, “If that old
lady’s on the porch as I go back I
mean to kill her.”
Chief of Police Noe, testifying as to
unable to appear in court to the effect iBsamlettUir arrest ssW 'tfiat "Sheriff
Rector shot him, and that Bramlett
threatened to shoot the officers. After
he was overpowered, it developed that
his gUn was unloaded. He testified as
to past trouble the police department
had had with Bramlett and said that
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IN COST OF LIVING
Prices of Necessaries Continue to Soar
in Japan. %
Tokyo, July 2Y.—Soaring prices for
lood and clothing as well as house
rents show no diminution in Japan
The cost of living, according to The
Yorodzu, has increased tenfold since
1887 while wages have advanced only
fourfold. As against 36 yen a koku,
for iivuanee durng the rice riots of
August, last year, the price of rice
has now risen to 56 yen a koku (five
bushels) and a grave food crisis has
resulted. '
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and with rice costing about $28 for
every five bushels the head of a fam
ily has to do some hard thinking.
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gar, which Japanese use considerably,
have risen in proportion to rice. It is
the great middle class of Japan,-the
people working on Small salaries,
which is raising the greatest cry.
Although wealth has increased as )a
result of the war the real wealth of
the masses has decreased and the peo
ple of Japan are relatively poor. At
the same time national tastes have
changed and the Spartan simplicity of
olden times is no longer endured.
Low salaries in public services have
so depleted the personnel that govern
ment institutions like the postofflee,
telegraphs, police force and schools,
are all undermanned.—Industrial com
panies, however,, are paying dividends
of from V)0 4©-100 per cent, and dis
tributing big bonuses, lands and rents
are rising: |p vaiu^-and the farmer ls~
hoarding his rice until he has pushed
the market to its highest notch;
The distress of today is chiefly felt
by the law abiding class of the nation.
No riots have occurred like last year.
.The press generally blames'the gov
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Kogumin. “Some people are about to
famish. The continued advance In
prices has developed a kind of reign
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must devise means of increasing in
comes. ' Otherwise peace and order in
society can npt be maintained and the
very foundation of the nation will be
endangered.”
it was necessary one time for Ser
geant Smith to beat him over the hqad.
The court room was full to overflow
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turned away.
Much interest centers the trial
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