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FARIES CONVICTED; GETS ELECTRIC CHAIR j (Continue*! from page one) is an old man, 60 years old, and ms I hair is pray. He has killed, and 1 j do not deny it. I am not asking- that ! you .turn him loose. 1 am cc ning % to you to a<k for his life and his lite alone. Justice we want, but justice tempered with mercy." Mr. Rlease's argument was bottomed upon like grounds. "I am satisfied that he killed." .Mr. Blease said, "I know he was wrong. . bad wrong, as Benedict Arnold, whom I consider the greatest military genius America* has ever produced, was nagged into .treason. Not one of these little acts, perhaps, furnished sufficient provocation to lead Faries; in to killing these children, hut it | was the long series of insults that drove him into his^c razed action. John G. Carpenter, solicitor-elect of Gaston and Mecklenburg counties. N. C., opened for the state. "This is no time." Mr. Carpenter said, "to show mercy to a man who has so wrecked and crucified a home j as this man has. The defense has of- I ferer no excuse for this rampage j of rage and anger save that it grew i out of a children's quarrel. And ior this children's quarrel four people, fwo of1 those children, are dead." Solicitor Spears divided his address between a refutation of the plea 01 insanity and an argument that the death penalty was needed in the defense of lav and order in the state. "Why did not counsel for the defense place alienists on the stand to testify as to Faries' mental condition?" he asked. "They were too honorable; they would not advance a specious plea." Mr. McDow in his argument had mentioned the fact that no white man had ever been sent to the electric chair from York county, and this, the solicitor argued, was the reason that York county today boast- : ed a larger number of homicides per capita than any other county in the state. "They have asked you for mercy." Mr. Spears said. "And the only reason for giving mercy they have advanced is the fact that he committed an atrocious acy John R. Hart, of York, closed for the state with a calm, dispassionate recounting of the admitted and uncontested facts concerning the awesome tragedy. "It is a crime," he said, "the equal of which has never before been seen in York county. Days beforehand Faries purchased his buckshot, loaded shells and then, according to his own admission, awaited his time to use them." " T looked for it (trouble) all the time, and staved at home over' a j week expecting it.' He stayed at home over a week," Mr. Hart said. "He seized the opportunity and four people lie dead as a result. If this is not murder, then I have never heard of raurder. He asked for mercy, and I ask where was the mercy when he shot down this unarmed little boy; where was the mercy when he killed the little girl; where was the mer;y then?" Mr. Hart concluded at 12:55 o'clock, and after a short recess Judge Peuri-1 foy began his charge to the jury. At 1?37 o'clock the charge, covering ' the law on murder, self-defense, insanity, defense of persons near an'd dear, was concluded. A minute later j the jury retired. The courtroom a^ain was filled to ' vap^-vuiij. _ For 14 minutes Judge Peurifoy talked, and for 14 minutes Faries, having admitted that he had nothing further to say that had not already been said, stood watching the judge and waiting for the inevitable solemn ending, "and may God have , mercy upon your soul." As the minuter wore on his gaze wandered, and 1 all the time he showed no sign of emotion other than the constant twirling of his big, black hat. The strain, however, had begun to 1 tell, and it required conscious effort on his part to reply under the coaching of his attorney, to the judge's query as to whether he had anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him. He stam- 1 mered, choken, then caught himself and answered, "Nothing, except what ? ooi/1 VtA-f/WO " my tuuiiaci nao ?uu uvtwv. No members of Faries' family were in the court room when the jury returned, but James M. Taylor, father of three of the slayer's victims, had crowded in with the hundreds of others that came back after dinner to hear the verdict, and as the lone word "Guilty," was read tears welled up in his eyes. Mrs. Taylor, who was with her husband, also sobbed. Several of Faries 16 children were in the room, however, when sentence was pronounced and there were tears in the eyes of more than one of them. Some, however, were too young to understand it all, and when brought inside the rail to see their father after adjournment, clustered around him, silent, ill at ease in the strange surroundings and thn crowd but showing no sorrow. At 6 o'clock Faries was taken to GERMANY AGAIN PREPARING WAR, SAYS FRENCH TIGER (Continued from pa^e one) portant matter. I also heard that 1 was not desirefl. Hut I dare say one to tell me that I have a personal end in trin from Fiance to America and that 1 pursue any design, political, personal or of any kind. I simply came to speak to you and that is what I am going to do tonight. 1 do not know whether you will like it. but I am very glad of it. "When a man with his own nature tries to aim as high as he can, it is encouraging to hear the raging shrieks from below. So, thus provided I came. Of course, as the boat came on and I began to think that that was not quite so rosy, and there were some hours I wanted to say to the captain, 'Now please, let us go home.' Hut was so much encouraged that at last 1 came, ar.d now my thought in this: "These two countries. America and France, have had a great deal in 1Af i fri-no t w'i ItUllIIlVII III .^VIIIC VI VI1V ^ivuvvt v events that have ever been seen in the world. They had the good fortune to open a new era, not only in the human thought but to open the time, the era, when maybe justice, hope, good will and righteousness would be realized on earth. The beauty of this was that there was a romance between America and France. I do not know two other peoples among which there is such a stretch of imagination. That is the thought that brought me here. "After all, I am an old man although you may not think so. Hut I am a very, very old man, and after I am gone I don't know in what measure I will be interested in some of the questions that have been most interesting in my life. "That is the romance Gen. Pershing could tell you when he came to France. The first thing he said something. He went to Lafayette's tomb and said: 'Lafayette, we are here.' And here you were, and there you stood during the worst days. I saw the man and I saw the chief, very often, he may have thought, but / _ _ i i? l was comiorieu uy uicu m^iu. "I wanted to speak with them, and I sometimes had quarrels with Gen. Pershing, beautiful quarrels. I said, 'I don't know what is your power to say yes, but I 'know what is your power to say no.' A bad quarrel between us was that as soon as the American soldiers came I wanted them to go to the front and he wanted them to go to the front too, but, of course, he couldn't send them as they were. "\J?e are not looking for trouble, we are merely seeking to put ourselves in a position where we can be assured that we will not be forced into another such terrible war as that we have just been through. I think that we are entitled to that. "Safety, we have had a very bad frontier since the time of the Romans. Since all time, it has taken the thread of the Germans to invade us. Well, look at our frontier. But now there is something better. Now, this new Europe we speak of, and fortunately I cannot dwell upon it now, this new of them, I do not think there is one of them, if you ask them whom do you depend upon to help you in case of danger, would not answer, upon America, would not say, upon France^. "And if I were to meet you this afternoon I would say upon America. These new powers in Europe?there are new powers, and they have your thought and feelings when you live upon European feelings. And if you really think you can live among yourselves, get your own produce safe from the rest of the world and do just as you please, that is not what you said in 1776. In that time there was?no?I do not want to speak baldly of the Monroe Doctrine. It did good. It did good. But you are wrong, and the policy of an old man is not the policy of a child. "Now, my friends, I must come to a conclusion, begging your pardon that I have spoken so long. I do not blame you. Let the past remain the past. We may see what the situation in Europe is today. The war of four years that brought the greatest damages known in Europe at any time, even in the time of the wildest barbarism, is over. The treaty which is to establish the new order of things is not executed. "What is to be done? You see where Germany is now. Germany began by not executing the conditions of the treaty. I am sorry to say that the powers under the pressure of England accepted it, and we gave up all that we had gained by the treaty the York county jail, where he was visited by members of his family. Either Monday or Tuesday he will be carried to Columbia to await electrocution or a new trial. The filing- of notice of intention to appeal automatically stays the execution of the death* sentence, which, if carried out, will set a new precedent, for York county, not once since the substitution of the electricing noose, has a York county white man paid the supreme penality of the law. / $50.00 ?* T1 f DuBose-Stewart. On Wednesday, November 22, Miss Ruth DuBose and Mr. Chollis Stewart were quietly married at the Baptist parsonage by the Rev. J. Belton Baker. The bride is a daughter of* .Mr. and Mrs. B. L. DuBose of New Zion and one of the most attractive young ladies of the community. The groom is a promising young farmer and a son of Magistrate Stewart of Bethel. The young couple have the best wishes and hearty congratulations of their friends. "Aunt" Tina Dinkins, an old colored woman, age 90, was burned to . death in a fire that destroyed her little cabin home in lower Richland county last week. The old woman was highly respected by white and colored. She served as laundry woman for a number of families in he. community. o Dead Number 84. The number of dead, as a result of the coal mine explosion at Birmingham, Ala., last week totals 84 persons. The explosion was declared by mining experts to have been a freak, and so far as local records show or ly the third of its kind ever to have occurred in this countrv. Dolomite No. 3 is a slope mine opened in 1882. and heretofore operated without a serious accident, o Mrs. W. D. Fulton Dead. Mrs. Lilly Adams Fulton, aged about forty years, wife of W. Darbey Fulton of Mouzon died about midnight Saturday after a brief illness from pneumonia superinduced by an attack of influenza. The deceased was a daughter of the late Elliott Adams and was a woman of exemplary character and was beloved by a large circle of friends and neighbors. She is survived by her husband and four small children. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at four o'clock, conducted by the Rev. John W. Davis of the Presbyterian church. Interment followed in the McEIveen burying ground at Mouzon. 666 cores Malarial Fever. ?most of it?and is it very extraordinary that Germany took advantage of that ? That was the beginning, and the rest came, and we were told, 'You must use the mentality of victory,' and Mr. Schroeder, the Finance Minister said, 'We are going to strike out the line reparations.' "Do you know that they are manufacturing cannon by the hundreds, that they are making machinery' everywhere? The German taxpayer pays, I think, $13; let's say $14?the French $43. There is a line in the treaty that says Germany will have to pay as high as the Allies and all the rest. And what are they preparing? "I tell you plainly, as I told Lloyd George before the war, they are preparing war again. Don't you see what is going on? Don't you read the papers? Why, haven't you heard of the treaty between the Turks and the Germans and the Russians ? Look at all this manufacturing that is going on in Germany. 'Now I say that Gen. Ludenorff and Hindenburg are preparing war? civil war?to crush the German democracy, if they can. Have you forgotten what the Prussians did after Jena? How with 50,000 men they brought Napoleon down? Now it is the same game. It is written, nobody can deny it. "And now I must tell you what I want I don't want to bring any friction between your country and my country. I don*t want you to do something that would put the civilization in danger, in circumstances that must "be worse than before. We have been guaranteed a good frontier. England promised it. We haven't received it. "LJoyd George said that America made the same promise and had also not kept it, so he wasn't to blame exclusively. I respectively ask leave to tell him he is grossly mistaken. The facts are these: "One day I told Mr. Lloyd George I wanted the Rhine, and I gave him a paper that described all my reasons. After the next day or two he told me 'If you leave the Rhine I will bring you other guarantees, and I promise you to do my best?with Mr. Wilson to obtain the same thing f<om him.' 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