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NEW WAY OUT A Prisoner, Who Acted As His Own Lawyer, Moved to Arrest Judge WHO WAS HEARING CASE Frank Pierce, Young White Man Charged With Violating Prohihition Law in Atlanta, Astounds Judge Calhoun's Court Friday by Heading Remarkable Motions. The Atlanta Journal says Judge Andrew Calhoun's court was paralyzed wit.h astonishment Friday morning by Frank Pierce, a young whits man charged with violating the prohibition law, when be snatched the conduct of his case from l?he lawyer appointed to defend him, and read a long list of motion drawn up by himself which contained, among others, one to arrest judgment by having Sheriff Mangum take the court in custody,. ^ Attorney U. R. Shropshire, the lawyer appointed, was busy striking the jury, when Pierce arose and got the attention of the court. "If your honor please." said he, "I don't like the way that lawyer in handling my case. So I've drawn up some motions and exceptions w.hicli I want to read. 1 tried to get my lawyer to do it, but he intimated that. I was crazy." Pel nig in his usual good humor, Judge Calhoun permitted Pierce to read his motions. They were wonders. It is probable they will go down in the annals of the criminal court of Atlanta?t.his being the full entitlement, of .Judge Calhoun's division?without peer or parallel. When the court room recovered from its astonishment it sat up and began to take notice. Then it leaned back and laughed. Which not in the least perturbed the prisoner at the bar. He just kept on reading. Under motion No. 1 he submitted 1 that his trial was unconstitutional on the ground of former jeopardy I "I was tried and convicted before j Recorder Broyles?though not really guilty of selling whiskey," he read, I "and I served 3 0 days in the stock- I ade. Therefore, under the constitu- < tion of the United States 1 cannot ; lawfully be tried again for the same i alleged offense." Motion No. 2 contained the asser- I tinn Mint t.!ip n etert.i vea who arrested Pierce had intimated that Judge Cal- I houn had said he would give Pierce i the limit, if the evidence waranted i conviction. "Therefore, T submit, your honor, Unit you are incompetent to try my case," read Pierce, "same as a juror would have no rl'gjit to I serve if he had previously expressed an opinion.' Under motion No. 3 Pierce requested the court to appoint another j lawyer to defend him. "1 have tried j to get Mr. Shropshire to conduct this ^ case as I think it should he," he t read, "and he won't comply with my ^ wishes in the matter. Therefore, I ., C want Lawyer Frank Haralson to do- s fend me." I Then followed what Pierce evi- ( dentally intended to he a hill of s -executions. The wording of his concluding paragraph bore a faint re- ^ semblance to the familiar phraseol- t ogy of legal documents. He protested against the judgment of the , court, and moved the arrest thereof j by placing Judge Calhoun in custo- c dy?in order to give him time "to } institute habeas corpus proceedings s in the United States court." As Pierce finished his paper Lawyer Shropshire rose to inform the v court that if the defendant was go- , iug to handle his case ho would re- ,, tire. To which the court readily j agreed; and thereupon turned to a Pierce. , "It is evident you have a smatter- t lng knowledge of raw," said the j court. "But your method of conducting your case is somewhat mixed no. For instance, you cannot arrest judgment, because none has been i ren '.ered yet. And >\.ur idea of takin,g your case to the United States supreme court is a sort of hop, skip and jump. You can't leap that far at one bound. If you don't want Mr. j ^Shropshire to represent you, but desire Mr. Frank Haralson instead, it is perfectly agreeable to me." f*>o Mr. Haralson took charge of the case. He asked for a little time to "get together" with his client, and they retired to the nearby prisoners' cell. * I CAT GKTS MAI). Kills a Child and Ijaccrutes Face of I the Mother. \\t N^w York a big black house r cat, rendered mad through the loss of her kittens, which were drowned, attacked the three-months-old baby of Mrs, Henry Saner, pulled it from the baby carriage and threw it to 1 the floor, fracturing the baby's scull, t The cat chouched and snarled and then leaped upon Mrs. Saner, nearly i gourging out her eyes and tearing ( her face. The cat was subsequently i hot by a policeman. j ARE CUT OFF MANY MINERS AUK ENTOMBED IN AN ENGLISH MINE. Terrible Explosion Shuts Up One liuiiili-eil ujiu Thirty-Six in a Coal Shaft at White Haven, England. An explosion in the Wellington coal mine at White Haven, England, ' during Wednesday night cut off the exit from 136 miners, who were working below the surface. Rescue parties succeeded early on Thursday in saving four men who had he n working at the bottom of the shafts, but were prevented by the gas from penetrating to a point where the other men are imprisoned. Every indication was that inner workings of th mine were afire. Distracted crowds of relatives surrounded t.ho pit head. The colliery is owned by the Earl of Longsdale and its workings extend four or five miles beneath the sea. ' Th-e spot where the 85 hewers and | some fifty-odd shiftmen still imprisoned were working at the time of t.he explosion is about three miles from the shaft exit. TRYING TO CHEAT JUSTICE. Scheme Being Hatched to Keep Jones Out of Prison. Attorneys for W. T. Jones, convicted for the murder of his wife and sentenced to life imprisonment on Thursday went before Judge T. S. Sease and secured an order granting a stay of the execution of the sentence. The remittitur from the State Supreme Court, which had confirmed t lie verdict and sentence of the Court of General Sessions for Union County. was received by Clerk of Court Peak? Wednesday morning. That officer proceeded to make a certified copy of tlie verdict and sentence of the Circuit Court, which would have 1 been sent to t.he Penitentiary author- ' ities Thursday, and nil oflicer would ' have been sent from the Penitentiary ' to convey Jones to that institution. This is the regular and orderly pro- * sedure in such cases. The order of Judge Seas? stays J this, however, until Saturday next, it least, at whicdi time the attorneys [ will appear before the Judge for a 1 hearing. The affidavits upon which the order is based have not been fil- * ?d, and their nature or by whom they 1 ire made is not known. The order recites, however, that affidavits have . been submitted to the effect that 1 there was misconduct on the part of jurors who tried the case, and fur- " ther, that claim is made that there 1 is after discovered evidence, which ( nay offset the merits of the case. _ c GEORGIA STRUCK IJY STORM. S c [lain, Wind and Hail Kiiin Crops 1 of That State. A special to th? Augusta Chronicle "roin Culverton, Ga., says a very ' leavy wind and hail storm there rhursday afternoon was the worst hat has ever visited that section. ,Vhile there were no lives lost, so far is can be ascertained, there wore 'j everal houses blown from their pilars and the steeple of the Metho- * list Church was blown down and \ everal houses were unroofed. 0 One of the K. K. L>. carriers, wno t ins just come in. reports that cot- r on and corn along his route are ^ onipletely ruined and that there is p lot enough left to tell what wan dan ted in the fields. The peach j] rop from the section will bo a com- (j ilete failure, as the main part of the j, torin passed directly through the ^ ieac.li centre. f, Several thousand dollars' damage e vas done in Atlanta Thursday after- t 10011 by one of the worst hail and ain storms in its history. The max- r muni wind velocity was sixty miles j in hour, rain of one-half inch was t ecorded within t.hirtv minutes, and lie ground was almost covered with lail stones. 1 lvI LI.Ill) mtOTHUH'S SLAYKK. ?. )ne .Man WIio Had Killed Another Is Sliot Dead. j At Hirniingham, Ala., Abe Tdddon, < proprietor of the Seminole hotel, who ' last week shot and killed Thomas 1 A f/\ 1 1 /?ur{ II rr a /I 11 a rrol SJlltl ? ^ f\K'A(lllut;i MMiun iii^ a v. , uu-i lay nt^t his death at the hands of ' Ids victim's brother, Robert H. Alex- ' snder. Liddon was shot down by ' Alexander on a prominent street 1 corner, one bullet penetrating his 1 temple and another his left side, ! death resulting within one hour. "You are the ? ? that klllou ' my brother," were the brief words 1 nf warn!nig which fell from the lips ' of Alexander, as he approached Liddon, according to eye-witnesses. Sev"li "t.i iii nntAlf aiKifiouiiimi fnl~ Ul (I I OllUl.l 111 ?{141V/I% PUVVVMV?\/ia ? V . I lowed his words. Alexander is held l without bail. * < ( Robbers Cuptured. I The two bandits, wno .held up the < Phoenix and Maricopa passenger ( rain Thursday night near Phoenix, \riz., were captured Friday night by i posse, headed by Sheriff Carl Haylen and Immigration Inspector Cron- ? n, in the desert beyond Casa Grande, r Iriz. <3 DENOUNCE THE TARIFF SPELLS RUIN FOlt THE UEPUBLICAN PARTY AS IT IS. Senator Dolliver and Cummins, Insurgent Republicans, Berate the IjAW and Those Who Made It. Ringing denunciations of the tariff bill and the men who passed it i characterized the speeches made on Wednesday night by Senator Jonathan P. Doliver and Albert B. Cummins, at Des Moines, in opening the progressive campaign in Iowa. The Collisenin wsa crowded by 10,0 00 progressives. The meeting followed district conferences throughout the day, at whic.h steps were taken to reconstruct the old Cummins organization and to organize tho state by counties and precincts. Even President Taft did not escape the aspersions of the Senators, wiiiie Senator Aid rich was named as tho leader of corporate greed and avarice. Senator Dollivver referred to the President as the "titular leader" of the Republican party, which meant, ho said, "a good man surrounded by people who knew exactly what they wanted." Roth Senators declared that if t.he Republican party continues the policy advocated by tho "reactionary" leaders it would spell ruin to the party. Among these leaders Senator Aldrich was frequently mentioned as tlio man "allied wun me LriiggenheiniB and the Ryane and Paul Morton in a mammoth trust, incorporated as a rubber company which is allowed by the aricles of incorporation to participate in any kind of business anywhere on t.ho face of the earth, and which is one of tho holding companies in the Guggenheim syndicate for the control of the 1 wealth of Alaska." ' These are the men who woro re- ' sponsible for the tariff during the ( extraordinary session," declared Son- ( ator Dolliver. "The bill is only a c scheme to rob the people, and to 1 increase the holding of such gigantic r syndicates as I have mentioned. "The troubles in tho Republican c >arty have come not because of what c las been said, but of what has been I 'one. It has been said that the tar- 1 ff bill is a good law. In fact, we ; lave on high authority, that it is 1 ho best tariff bill ever passed. But r lot only do I denounce such tariff e egislation, but I am not particular- r y enamored of those who passed v t." The cotton manfacturers' schedule ^ Senator Dolliver stamped as one of 1 he most daring iniqultious features s >f the new tariff, in which the rates 1 vere either advanced or unchanged H ?n or? iVIoc. of pnim u ill t i vp vnlnp nf 0 5600,000,000 touching (particularly a otton clothes for women's and chil- a iron's summer wear." ? ^ , t MOKE QUAKES. {i 1) v riiousands of People Lc-uve Sail Jose iu Alarm. d Heavy earthquakes were felt at r lan .lose, Costa Rica, Wednesday, d 'housands of persons are leaving the itv in alarm. A series of severe hocks was experienced Wednesday. 51 Vliile fear has seized a great part d f the populace, the authorities con- c inue resolutely to work among the 1 uins at Cartago. Many living per- a one have been released from the de- 11 ris, and some of these will survive. ^ In most instances identification is mpossble. It is reported that the ead include two Americans. The ted Cross organization, the police, "| he military and members of the oreign colonies are actively engagd in the relief work. As faBt as Ivy are discovered, the injured ones re removed to this city, where thoy 8 eceive medical attention. The pub- t ic schools have been converted into b einporary hospitals. t i TAKES FATAL LEAP. \ r auly Patient Jumps from Hoof of t i Charlotte Sanitarium. c Mrs. Virginia P. McDairmid, f>r> ? c ,-ears old, of L?umberto.i, N. C., Tues- J lay afternoon cast herself from the t toof of the Charlotte Sanitarium, where she had been a patient for six weeks, to the pavement sixty foot >elow, meeting instant death. With 3ther patients and nurses Mrs. MoDairmid was on the roof garden of the hospital and, while Uie nurses' attention was directed elsewhere, she climbed a railing and threw her- i self to the pavement below. She was 1 to have left Uve hospital the next ( morning for her home, her son being \ In Charlotte to accompany her. ( Fell Into laikc. ( More than thirty persons, two of t Lhcm women, were precipitated into i rireat Salt Lake Friday night, when t he stairway leading to the Salt Air t Hippodromo gave way. TJiey fell a l iistance of twelve feet into live feet )f briny water. Five Killed. a Five German sailors wore killed I md two injured while laying mines g enr Wilhelshnveu in a practice a trill. , v MEETS DEATH In Sinking Steamer On the Mississippi River on Last Thursday THIRTEEN ARE DROWNED The City of Saitillo Strikes Hidden Itoek and Flounders Near Shore. She Had on Hoard Twenty-Seven Passengers and a Crew of Thirty Men. Eleven persons are missing and two women passengers are drowned as a result of the packet City of Saltillo striking a rock and foundering in reach of shore at Glen Park, on the Mississippi River, 24 miles south of St. Louis Thursday night. The dead: (Miss Anna Rhea, Nashville, Tenn. Mrs. Isaac T. Jthea, Nashville, Tenn., (body recovered.) Missing and believed dead: S. C. Banker, first clerk of the steamer. Mrs. Joe Harris, Nashville, Tenn. Mrs. Archie Patterson, Chester, 111. Archie, Patterson, Jr., two years old. W. J. Pickett, salesman, St. Louis. Fowler Post, third clerk. Miss Lena Wall, Nashville, Tenn. Head porter, name unknown. Cabin hoy, name unknown. Two roustabouts, names unknown. Captain Harry Crane, in command of the boat, and one of the survivors announced Thursday morning after checking up the passenger list that it was almost certain those reported missing were dead. T.he boat carried 2 7 passengers, IIHJSL U1 WiiUlll n^ie vv 1/ ii 111 anu v^niilren, and a crew of thirty. She left at. Louis at 7 o'clock with a heavy ?argo including a number of catle and livestock and the voyage was ;onsidered precarious because of the imount of driftwood floating in the iver due to the annual spring rise. The known dead were the wife and laughter of Isaac T. Rhea, president >f the St. Louis and Tennessee river >acket company, owners of the bo~c. drs. Rhea was dragged from the vater alive but died within an hour. The body of Miss Anna Rhea was not ecovered. 'Miss Louise Rhea, anothr daughter escaped. They were enoute to their home in Nashville after isiting friends in St. Louis. i Glen Park, the scene of the acci- I lent is a river landing, the chief uiildings of which are a general fore, a boarding house and a cement ilant. T.he place is almost inacces- ' ible to telegraph lines and the news f the disaster came to St. Louis in roundabout way f mm Kimmswick nd Sulphur Springs. Shortly before reaching Glen Park ho Saltillo encountered a shoreward raw, which was fougnt frantically y the pilots. The engines were reersed, but efforts to prevent the ollision were unavailing. As the big If-., . I. - t ItfnKn... Oil L S Willi 5 1 1'U 111 LUU UUIICJUL iii^iiui c espite the reversed engines and the udder thrown hard over, she was riven with increasing speed toward 1 uul and turned completely around. j With the noise of rending timbers J nd the shrieks of women and chil- * ?ren passengers, the cries of the [ rew and the bellowing of t he carle, the vossel struck a hidden rock nd sank almost in reach of land r t a point where the water was thirty * eet deep. r t t t t OITOSIXS Til 10 KING I'LAN. f Imusnnds of Democrats in Tonnes- ? c see Talk Out. j A dispatch from Nashville, Tenn., ? ays more than ten thousand signa- 1 i ures from iifty-fouv counties have . ieen received at the headquarters of ! ho independent judicial candidates r n behalf of the mass meeting on 1 Vednesday. Itefore the convention j neets it Is likely that 15,000 signaures will have been secured of rep- esentative citizens from all over the ^ Hate. The meeting will he held to < irotest against the action of the j State Democratic executive commir- < ee and Gov. Patterson in regard to < he so-called blanket primary plan. < A YOUNG FIKN1). < \ Ten-Year-Old Negress Poisons Two < Small Children. < At Demo-polis, Ala., because her i notner refused to allow her to go to i Birmingham, a 10-year-old negress < employed by Davis Collins, a wealthy 1 >lanter, as a nurse for his two small 1 children, gave dog poison to them. , rhe youngest, aged three months, . lied in agony and her sister's condiion is serious. The negress was ar? and senilis unconcerned over he matter. Indignation in the conn- * y is intense and the negro child is ( >eing closely guarded. i i llungcd in Georgia. At Americus, Ga., Henry Patteron, colored, admitting t-ho killing, nit pleading justification, was hangd Friday for the atrocious murder , year ago of Capt W. F. McRae, a irominent planter. DO YOU FEEL LET DOWN # DR. 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