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I I SUMMER NECESSITIES Everything Needed For Summer You Will Find Here* Mosquito Netting French Lawns Mosquito Netting, all colors. Extra values for 15c, 20c, 25c, 30c, 40c and 50c. Fans Persian Lawns Fans of all kinds at bargain ' prices from 5c up to $1.50. Special values for 1 5c, 20c, 25c, 30c and 35c. Parasols India Linens Parasols in white and colors Bestvaluesfor 10c, 12 1-2c, to match your suit at prices 15c, 20c, 25c, 30c and to surprise you. 35c. Sheer White Goods Cause Hosiery Our stock of White Goods Special values for 25c and is always complete and you 5c. can get just what is needed Cause Vests for this warm weather from Extra values for 10c, 15c us. and 25c. Dimifies Muslin Underwear All patterns for 1 Oc, 1 2 1 -2c, For women. Good goods 15c, 20c, 25c, 30c and 40c. at old prices. MILLS CONVICTED OF MURDER. (Continued from page two.) towards the center of mill i Oxfords and Ties for Men and Women. De layed shipments just arrived. 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This offer is made for a limited time only as a means of advertising and in troducing our goods. Send today before the opportunity is forgotten. T. C. MOSELEY 32 East 23rd Straat, New York City. Make application TODAY, only the best risks. TOMORROW may be too late, as we take W. C. MoARTHUR, General Manager. To women for collecting names and selling our novelties, we give big premiums. Send your name today for our new plan of big profits with little work. Write today. Address T. C. MOSELEY, Premium De. partment, 32 E 23rd St., New York City- June 18 iaw-tf worked, down the mill. Next to the partition in the where the doors run together? 1 don't know whether there was partition there or not. In that portion of the building? Yes sir. You passed some parties working on the carders? There were some people working over there around the speeders or something? Didn't you see anybody working on this side over here? Around the carders? Was anybody working there? Deal. Other than Deal? The little boy you had up here yes-1 terday wag doing something around there, looked like he was a boy. Did you see anybody else? No. Had you ever see n Deal before that time? I don't know whether I ever did or not. How long did you stay at the branch? Somewhere about five or ten minu- long. You talked coolly and dispassion ately about the matter? Yes sir; down there I did. You never got excited? Down at the branch—no. What did you kill Deal about? Because he mined my home. Was that the reason? No; because he kept following me up. I just want to know the reason you killed him? He kept following me and said he would kill me. I'p to the time you struck D^al he was standing still with bis arms this way? No. How was he standing? He had his hand in his pocket: his left hand. A right handed boy was he not? I don’t know. You saw him filing his nails with bis right hand? That was down at the branch. He kept his hands in his socket all the time after leaving the branch up to the time that he got killed? He kept his left hand in his pocket, kept both hands in there sometimes. Sometimes in and sometimes out? Yes sir; he mostly kept his hands in his pocket. Was it a very large knife he had? It didn’t look so very large to me. Did you ever tell anybody he came on you with a large knife. I can't hardly remember now. But he closed it up when pul, it ia his pocket? I suppose h e did. Were you not watching it? I saw him when he pat his knife in bis pocket. Don't you know he closed that knife? No sir; 1 don’t know it. Wliil you swear lie didn’t close it? No sir. Did he have on overalls? Which pocket did he put it in? I>“ft hand pocket. Overalls pocket? I don’t remember which pocket he put it in. whether it was his over alls pocket or pants pocket. Which pocket did he put it in? Left hand pocket. Breeches or overalls pocket—did you see him button up his overalls afte r he put it in his pocket? No sir. At the time you struck him he was doing absolutely nothing to you was he? He was telling me about my wife. Is that all he was telling you about? He said he would kill me. You said you struck him when he called you a liar? No; I didn’t. Did he curse you? No sir. Never did curse vou for a »— of,a b—? No sir. Did you ever tell anybody he cursed you for a s— of a b— AflC put the rest on top of it and you could not stand it? No sir. You said that Deal told you that it was a mistake that he said he could run away with your wife? Yeg sir. He said that it was a mistake? Yes sir. And you called him a liar and struck him? Yes sir. That is the way, you called him a Mar and then you struck him? Yes sir; when he said he would kill me. (We are compelled to leave out several pages of the testimony at point for lack of space to print it all.) You know you shot the poor boy in the face? No sir. You know when you slapped him i n the breast? No sir. You know every time you shot him he wag standing up, was he not? Yes sir. Every time, and you say he was as tall as you are? No; I don't say that, I said he was somewhere in the neighborhood of that. How much taller were you? I don’t know. I nev^r measured it. In size hojv did he compare with this Mr. Deal? Hh is a fleshier man than Mr. Deal there. Wa 3 he taller? I don’t know that he was. Bvery time you shot poor Deal he was advancing on you with his fao* towards you, was he not? Yes sir. Standing up coming on you with a knife in one hand and the other hand grabbing at you? Yes sir. When Deal fell on you didn’t Lis arms just fall on either side of him? Fell on my throat You had him In the throAt? I had him in the breast pushing him back. It is a mistake when Mr. Jacquenin tells you to turn him loose if you didn’t he would hit you with that iron? Yes sir. Here Mr. Butler offered the affi davit made at the time application for bail for Mills w r as made. He then proceeded to cross examine Mills as to certain statements made to Junius Parrott and to Chief of Police J. C. Duncn while they were on their way to Gaffney from Blacksburg on the day of the shooting, after which Mr. Wilson conducted the re-direct ex amination and Mr. Butler followed with the re-cross examination. During the cross examination the witness admitted that he had been in a number of difficulties: bad shot his first father-in-law and had cut two other me n with a knife. I M. G. Stone said: “I am general superintendent of Pacolet Manufact uring Company and Gainesville cot ton mills. Have known Mills for five years. He has always been peace able. Did not know him intimately during this time, only when he was with us.” J. E. Shea said: I have known Mills since 1888. While he lived about Clifton from 1888 to 1902.” A. M. Deal testified to the age of his , brother; also that he was right-hand-1 od. No cross examination. Junius Parrotn testified as ito j statements made to him by the pris^ n-' er on the day of the homicide. No : cross examination. Chiof of Police Ducan. of Blacks burg. testified to statement made to him by the defendant on the day of the killing. No cross examination. This closed the testimony and the \ court took a recess until ?, o’clock. Mr. Osltorne, who opened for the State, made a strong plea for con viction of murder, taking the position that the killing was the result of malice and premeditation. Mr. Otts, for the defense, made a strong argument on behalf of his client, claiming that the defense had made out a clear case of self-defense and pleading the “unwritten law” in justification. Court then took a recess until Sat- urdy morning. Saturday morning Mr. Butler opened for the prosecution. Mr. But ler argued that Mills went to the cot ton mill with the deliberate purpose of killing Frank Deal or extorting money from him. and argued that Mills found out from Williams and others that Deal was well fixed financially. Col. Butler spoke with his characteristic force and vigor. Col. Butler was followed by Mr. Wilson for the defense. Mr. Wilson spoke for on ( . hour and three quarters and made one of the most magnificent speeches ever heard in Cherokee’s temple of justice. Tiie solicitor’s speech was an aide one. His arraingment of Mills was especially severe. He spoke for more than an hour and his words were followed with breathless inter est by the jury. Mrs. Mills was in the court room | during the argument sitting by her j husband, at times seemed much i A Cordial Invitation b extended ALL SOUTHERNERS to visit The JELL-0 Booth at the Jamestown Exposition Located in Food Products Building at em- trance to Horticultural Court. We have provided a spacious Rest Roo* especially for your convenience, where jrm may meet friends, write letters, read your favorite magazine, etc., etc. Our demonstrators will be glad to serve you with JELL-O, the dainty de**-rt, and IceCream made from Jell-0 ICE CREAM Powder, free, and explain how easily they ean be prepared for the table. Tha Genesee Pura Food Co., Le Roy, N. Y. POR SALE. FOR SALE—A thoroughbred Jersey hull calf. D. L. Littlejohn. July 2. 5. 9*pd. FOR SALE—Old newspapers at this Tice H»c a hundred. rOR SALE Appiv at -First class babbit Ledger office. met- FOR RENT. i ^ FOR RENT—Store room now 00- cupied by F. B. Gaffney. Possesion Sept. 1st. 1907. Store room now occupied by Boyd , Sarratt as barber shop. Possession Sept. 1st, 1907. Office room fronting on Limestone street Possession now. A. N. Wood. FOR RENT—House in rear of Smith Hardware Co.’s store. Apply to W. H. Smith. tf. TO RENT—Office rooms over The Ledger. Apply 10 hid. H. DeCamp. Nov. 2-lf. LOST. LOST—Small black- enambled pen with gold aldbalance, between first Baptist church and J. H. Turner’s. Person finding same will please re turn to this office. IE NOTICE—Hats of ail kind cleaned and blacked. Clathes cleaned and pressed. Satisfaction guaranteed. Office over R. A. Jones’ store. Brown & Smith. July 1, It. Fire Insurance! We represent some o' the largest anti mostsubstant’at companies and would like to write your buslnes. 5-14-tf. Smith & Lipariomb, Agenta dose recess of the solicitor’s was taken tin til 3 affected. At the speech a o'clock. Mrs. Mills stated that the reason , that she fiifj not come to court Thurs day morning was because W. R. Col lins. told her that court had not con vened. and that Collins knew that court hafi convened. Judge Purdy in a clean clear cut and logical charge said to the jury in part: after giving them the definition of murder and ntanslaughter. he told them to give the defendant the bene fit of any reasonable doubt, that the highest law has no effect on the court and should have none on the jury, that this case is to be determin ed to thft statue law of the State, and to remember that the pardoning powers only rests with the governor. A large crowd listened to the judge’s charge, and the case was given to the jury at 3:40 p. m. In less than one hour a rap was heard on the door of the jury room. Sheriff Thomas responded and asked if they had reached an agreement. Foreman Wilkes Brown answered they had. The jury filed into their seats. The foreman handed the in dictment to the sheriff who passed It to the clerk who read: “Gully, with the recommendation to the niercy of the court.” There was a death-like stillness in the court room. The prisoner’s countenance changed and there was a twitching about the corners of the mouth whi?h indicated dire disap- F»ointment. Mr. Otts spoke cheering- i ly to him and at once gave notice of ! motion for new trial on the ground that the judge erred in his charge and that the verdict was not sup- ported by the evidence. Mills was brought Into court yes- • terday morning and sentenced to life time in the penitentiary. His I ; lawyers did not press for a new trial | but it is understood that they will take an appeal to th** supreme court. Mills was visiblv affected. Compaaies’'. ' at Jones J. Darbj Agency Court of Common Pleas, The Court of Common Fleas convened ! yesterday morning at 10 o'clock and the following cases were disposed of: Driscoll vs. Southern Railway; non suit. Kizer vs. South*-rn Railwa; ; non suit These were the only two casts that came up yesterday. THE MUTUAL BENEFIT LIFE IN SURANCE CO. The leading annual dividend com pany of the world. 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Breathed through the neat pocket Inhaler that cornea with every outfit the aromatic healing of Hyo me! penetrates to the moat remote parts of the note, throat and Ituuca. heeling all Inflammation and killing catarrhal germs wherever present 80 successful baa Hyomei been la the cure of catarrh, that tha Gaffney Drag Co. sell It under a guarantee that It will coat nothing unless It does all that la claimed for 1L The com plete Hyomei outfit Mils for 11-00, making It a moat economical of DR. W. K. GUNTER, L» E Ni T I ** 'r Office in Star Theatre Building. Phonk No. 20. Grown and bridge work a specialty DR. J. P. BARRETT, DENTIST. Moved to new 0*0# ever Free*'** Street. Front of the Batteo ’Phone ia OMee end R Mid#** 4