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BRUNSWICK
Has the lowest death rate of
any city Its size In the United
States. .
VOLUME XXI. NO. 2t /.
PRELIMINARY TRIAL
OF J.E. BREWSTER ON
CHARGE OF MURDER
ALLEGED WILLIE
BLOUNT DIED AS
RESULTJF BLOW
Justices Beach and Hitch Pre
sided and Court House
Was Well Pilled.
WILL RENDER JUDGEMENT
10 O’CLOCK THIS MORNING
Many Witnesses Introduced and
the Four Attoroneys Engaged
in Case Had Many Legal
Tilts.
The prelininary hearing in the case
of the State aginst J. E. Brewster,
charged with murder was heard be
fore Justices J. L. Beach and R. T.
Hitch yesterday afternoon the spec
tacle of the two justices presiding in
the case was rather novel, but in
murder cases it is the custom.
,It should be stated that both of
tihe jusices acquitted themselves
splendidly and presided with the ease
and grace of old Presiding officers.
It will be remembered that the
charge against Mr. Brewester grows
out of an altercation between him and
Williams Blount, car inspector’s help
er, which oceured on Sunday after
noon at Thalman and as a result of
a blow delivered by Brewster, it is
claimed that Blount died on Tuesday
The contention is that Brewster
struck Blopnt, who had used profane
language to his little six year old
son and that i n falling has head
struck, an iron tail, which produced
death.
The State is represented by Powell
a nd Farr while the case of th e defehd
an is in the hands of W. R. Durden
and J. Mark Wilcox. Tli e evidence
was concluded late yesterday after
noon and the trial justices announced
that they would render an opinion at
ten o’clock this morning.
Among the interested spectators,
sat next to the defendant was his'
wife, a very comely and attractive
woman, modestly, though stylishly at
tired and who gave frequent suggest
, ions to the attorneys for her* hus
band. Special Agent H. F. Fountain
of the A. B. and A RoaWioad, was
also at the counsel table of th e de
fendant and gave them aid and as
sitance from time to time.
The first witness called was Dr.
A. T. Courson, of Camden county, a
practicing Physician for twenty
years. He Proved ho be a witness of
unusual intelligence. He testified
that Blount died from the wound he
received when his head cam e in con
tact with the steel rail and also
stated that as soon a s he examined
the injured man he knew that
death would soon follow.
The next witness was Mrs. J. E.
McManus, of Thalmann. She saw
Brewster strike Blount and notwith
standing the fact that she was put to
an almost cruel grilling by attorneys,
she did not swerve from her testi
mony ifi th e least. Her husband, J.
E. McManus was the next called anil
he also gave testimony of an inter
esting nature. He said that while
lie,did not see Brewster strike Blount,
lie heard the lick land saw the man
after he fell and whe n he was being
removed to his home, something more
than a mile from the scene of the
trouble. An effort was made by at
torneys to shotv that, ill feeling had
existed betwen, Mr. Brewster and the
witness, but she emphatically denied
this* statement.
'The next witnes s was A. M. Mc
•Laughlin, a ear inspector at Thai
. maim by the Seaboard and
undtr whom the deceased was em
ployed. This witness testified that
he was sitting o n the postoffice steps,
4 hat he saw deceased come aroiy.d
the depot and also saw th e defend yit
\sn the waiting room, and looked down
to the ground, and that his attention
attracted by a lick and looked up
and saw deceased’s head hit th e rail.
The witness testified that he went
to deceased and found him bleeding
from a wound in the back of his head
where he had hit the rail. The wit
ness further testiifed that the only
outcry he heard was from the de
fendant's wife, “Oh, Jack you have
killed him.’’ He further testified
that he heard the defendant say “a
dirty cur,’’ but did not know to whom
he addressed such a remark. The wit
ness testified that deceased, after
he had had his face washed, wanted
to knoyv who or what hit him and
upon the witness telling him 'that
THE BRUNSWICK NEWS
THE NEWS IS A MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SKY LIMOUSINE OF
GOVERNMENT WRECK
AT VALMY YESTERDAY
(By Associated Press.)
Reno, Nov. 2.—The twenty
five thousand dollar sky limou
sine of the United States air
mail service was wrecked at
Valmy, near Battle Mountain
yesterday. The plane was
forced to make a landing because
of a driving rainstorm". The
pilot and a passenger escaped
without injury.
GEORGIA SAVES ON
GOVERNMENT TAXES
REDUCTION TOTALS BIG SUM OF
$5,800.00 ACCORDING TO
COLLECTOR ROSE.
(By Associated Press. 1
Atlanta, Nov. 2.—Georgia tax
payers will be saved $5,800,000 this
year in federal taxes as a result of
reductions, according to a special sur
vey of the cancellations and de
creases i n tax rates Provided by the
revenue act of 1921 just completed
by Josiah T. Rose, internal revenue
collector for this district.
CONSULATE CONTROVERSY
HAS NOW BEEN SETTLED
( By Associated Press.)
London, Nov. 2.—The case of the
American consulate in New Castle
has been settled -in principle, it is
undersrood in diplomacie circles, but
the opinion is expressed that the
United States will desvrt an apology
in connection with the charges of
discrimination against British ship
ping.
This latter charge resulted in tlie
closing of (lie consulate.
MOTHER OF MRS. BURNSED
PASSES AWAY IN TAMPA
A telegram, was received by Mrs.
F. W. Burnsed yesterday afternoon
announcing the death of her mother,
Mrs. Mary Williams, which oceured
at her home in Tampa at 6 o’clock
after an illnessj of extending over a
long period. She will leave this
morning to attend the funeral.
Deceased had lived in Tampa for
many years and was well known and
highly esteemed. Many friends of
Mrs. Burnsed sympathized with her
in her sad bereavement,.
“they say you called his boy a scab,
a damned scab,’’ the dece'ased said,
“x have not had any trouble with
Mr. I! iows tor and have not done any
thing to him.”
O. C. Jones, the next witness for
the state, testified that lie, was in
his office and as he left and went in
tlie waiting room he met the de
fendant and defendant said to him,
“I have, knocked Will Blount cold
you bad better get him,” and that he
did not think anything about it and
went on back in his office.
Connie Harrison, then cjalled by
the state, testified that he saw de
ceased after he was hurt and helped
carry him home; that his condition
was critical. That deceased wanted to
know who hit him and upo n being
told it was because they said he call
ed defendant’s son a scab, deceased
denied.
At this stage the state rested.
J. M. Harvey, a telegraph operator
employed by the Seaboard at Thal
mann, was introduced by the defend
ant. He testified that about an hour
before the fatal fig-lit he and deceas
ed had engaged in two encounters
with deceased, getting the worst of
it. The witnes s testified that he and
deceased land one or fwo others were
sitting by the baggage room door
upon a truck ami defendant’s son
carae up and he bega n playing with
the child, who was about four or
five years old. The witness stated
that the deceased inquired lof the
child if he was a scab and the child
replied tha tlie was not. That there
upon the deceased got to teasing the
child and used some profane lan
guage. The witness stated that he
told the child to tell deceased that
“he is getting more ignorant every
day ” Here is where deceased and
the witness got in the fight. After
this the witness saw the defendant’s
wife and told her what the deceased
(Continued on page 8.)
BRITISH PUBLISHER
SAYS LLOYD GEORGE
WILL COME BACK
Sir William E. Berry.
Sir William E. Berry, one of
Britain’s foremost publishers end
a friend of former Premier Lloyd
George, declares that the llttk*
Welshman will soon retnrr to
?ower. Berry is visiting in N* v,
ork. -*
PADRIGK READY
BEGINSENTENCE
Solicitor General Anderson An
nounces Will Not Try Preach
er For Slaying Wife. Will
Go to Farm.
(By Associated Press)
Statesboro. Nov. 2. —Satisfied with
the sentence of life imprisonment for
their clieijt, attorneys of Rev. Elliott
Padriclc, convicted yesterday of the
murder of his mother-in-law announc
ed that no appeal would be made.
A. S. Anderson, solicitor general of
the Ogeechee circuit, announced to
day it was not the intention of the
state to carry the case any further.
Attorneys for tlie defense, as well
as the defendant himself, expressed
satisfaction at the verdict rendered
yesterday. It is expected the minis
ter will be carried to Milledgeville to
begin his life term, within the next
few days.
“I will not appeal, I am well sat
isfied with th e verdict..”
With a pleased expression on his
face. Elliot Padriclc, Methodist
minister, confessed slayer of his girl
wife and mother-in-law, Mrs. Mamie
Lou Dixon, made this statement after
being found guilty of murder and
sentenced to life imprisonment here
last night.
The verdict of guilty with a recom
mendation for mercy came after a
trial of two days on an indictment
charging the murder of Mrs. Dixon
and deliberation of the ejury from 9
o’clock yesterday morning to 6:30 in
the evening,. Padrick’s dramatic ser
mon to the jury, in which he de
clared he killed his wife because of
her indiscretions, was the first inci
dent of its kina jn a Georgia court.
With this exception and at the time
the jury filed into the court room
with its verdict, th e minister took no
interest in his trial.
TO ARREST COMBS
FOR ASSAULT WITH
INTENT TO MURDER
WASHINGTON, A„ SCENE OF
SENSATIONAL CASE IN THE
CITY’S HIGH LIFE CIRCLE.
Washington, Ga„ Nov. 2.—Auth
orities today had in their possession
warrants for the larrestof F. M.
Combs, charging assault with intent
to kill Dr. Saggus, her husband, fol
lowing an encounter yesterday dur
ing which Combs was shot by the
physician’s wife.
The difficulty, was said to have re
sulted from testimony offered by
Combs at a coroner’s jury investigat
ing the deaths of Dr. Saggus’ first
wife and his present wife’s husband,
Charles Wilbanks. The physician
was charged with the alleged double
murder by the jury, but at his Prelim
inary trial he was acquitted.
While en route to Tyrone, the cou
ple is said to have met Combs and
a discussion of the latter’s testimony
at th e coroner’s investigation* devel
oped. The physician accused him
of having sworn to a lie, Combs said.
During the fight that followed, he
continued, Dr. Saggus called to his
wife, who fired on Combs, wounding
him in one of his legs.
Mrs. Saggus told officials that she
had been forced to shoot Combs in
defense of herself and her husband.
Combs, who is not wounded seri
ously, was brought to a hospital here
for medical attention,
BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, NOV. 3, 1922.
COLORED SCHOOL
WILL BE READY BY
THANKSGIVING DAY
Finishing Touches Now Being
Put on Handsome and
Modern Building
SECOND FLOOR HAS BEEN
PRACTICALLY COMPLETED
One qf the Most Modern Struc
tures of Kind Anywhere and
is Credit to Any City of
Brunswick’s Population.
The colored People of Brunswick will
be pleased to learn that the hand
some new Colored Memorial school
will be completed and in use by
Thanksgiving day and in thi s teach
ers and Pupils will have one of the
handsomest and best arranged school
buildings in the entir e country and
one of which any city of the size of
Brunswick would feel justly proud.
There is no feature in construc
tion that is not the very “last ward”
and if there is anything lacking to
make it th e very best this one thing
has not been found. Contractor Bruce
Wright, notwithstanding delays in
car shortage causing difficulty in
receiving material, will complete the
building on the time contemplated at
th e begihning and he ha s done an
excellent job. W. C. Anderso, who
represents the Boar dof Education,
himself an architect and builder of
great experience, has inspected cv
ery piece of lumber, brijk and other
material that has been used and in
this connection it may be said that
all of this is of the very best and
especially is this true of the floor
ing and ceiling.
I n the rooms completed are stee’
blackboards, the very latest and most
convenient and the furniture, which
will be installed shortly, i s also mod
ern in every detail. Special care was
taken by the Board of Education in
seeing that the sanitary Part of the
plans was tlie best, with plenty of
fresh air as the predominating fea
ture and this certainly has bee n car
ried out to the very letter.
The Board of Education did not foi
get the playground feature that
should be taken into consideration
by boards everywhere and this will
be equipped with all that goes to
make health exercise perfect. Thu
fencing which formerly enclosed court
house square has been secured from
the county commissionei-s and this
will be Placed in Position within the
next few days.
TORNADO DAMAGE
REACHES A75.0i
Town of Webb City, Mo., Re
covering From Wreckage
Done by Storm With the
Death List Standing at One.
(By Associated Press)
Webb City, Mo., Nov. 2. —Work of
rehabilitation in the area leveled by
a tornado early Wednesday morning
has progressed far Thursday nibht
under the direction of the local Red
Cross and welfare organizations. The
death toll stands at one. All of the
approximately 75 persons made home
less by the teriffic storm had been
provided with warm clothing, food,
and shelter.
A cold drizzling rain added to the
suffering of the sthicken. Relief
workers placed the damage of the
storm at between $75,000 and SIOO,-
: 000. In addition to 29 dwellings de
: stroyed and badly damaged,, three
i business houses also were partly
wrecked. Telephony and telegraph
i lines were laid low through the path
of the storm,.
Mrs. Nancy Ford, 53, was carried
from, her home by ,he storm and
was picked up dead two hours later,
200 feet from her wrecked home.
Mrs,. Emma Lott is internally in
jured and her death is expected. She
was found In the wreckage of her
home with her small adopted daugh
ter, Dorothy Gibson. Dorothy is suf
fering from a broken arm.
Twelve Others sustained injuries
ranging from, and bruises to
hurts. A number of others whose
identity was not learned by relief
workers, were suffering from shock
and lesser' injuries.
MURHUI’S BODY SENT HOME.
(By Associated Press.)
Mexico City, Nov. 2.—The body of
General Murhui, rebal leader, execut
ed yesterday, was taken to Durange
'City today where burial will take
Place.
MRS. MILLS CONFIDED INFATUATION 1
FOR REV. HALL, SAYS SLAIN WOMAN’S KIN
Mra. Elsie Barahardt, left, sister of Mrs. Eleanor Mills, and (hiset>
4 Miss Barbara Tough.
That Mrs. Eleanor Mills, slain
church choir leader of New Bruns
wick, N. J., once confessed her in
fatuation for Rev. Edward W, Hall,
is the statement of Mrs. Elsi e Barn
hardt, sister of Mrs . Mills. Mrs.
Barnhardt has told officials that a
short tune before Mrs. M : lls and Hall
MRS. TANKERSLEY,
A LOVABLE WOMAN,
HAS PASSED AWAY
BREATHED HER LAST AT CITY
Hospital yesterday; fu
neral THIS AFTERNOON
After an illness of two weeks, fol
lowing an operation for appendicitis,
Mrs. J. H. Tankersley passed away
at 9 o’clock yesterday morning at
the hospital. Although her condition
had bee n serious from the day she
became ill, on account of complica
tions, her family and friends hoped
for the best, and her death, coming
suddenly, after she seemed to b e im
proving, was a great shock to her
loved ones.
Deceased, who wa s sixty-five years
of age, leaves a large family to
mourn her loss . Besides her hus
band, James 11. Tankersley, there are
the following children: Mrs. Edo
Miller, Mrs. Blain Peerson. Mrs.
Julia n Drury, Mrs. Findley Drury, of
’Brookman, Mrs. R. S. Braswell, of
Miami, Fla., Mrs. B. A. Tippins, of
Charleston, S. C.; Julius, Claud, J. 8.,
of this city, Burford. of Mobile, Ala.,
and Sigmund, of Inverness, Fla. Mrs.
Tankersley leaves thirty-eight grand
children, five sisters and a brother.
Scores of Brunswickians extend sym
pathy to her relatives. She was be
loved by all who knew her and will
leave a Place that cannot be filled.
She possessed a most cheerful and
loving disposition.
The funeral will be held this after
noon at 3 o’clock from the home,
cornei- Newcastle and I streets and
will be conducted by Rev. Thomas H.
Thomson, of the First Methodist
Church and interment will Be in Pal
metto cemetery. Her five sons and
her oldest grandson, Edward Miller,
will act as pallbearers.
PAGE FUNERAL TO BE IN
OLD FORK CHURCH TODAY
(By Associated Press.)
Richmond, Va., Nov. 2. —Within
Old Fork ; church, where lie was
christened, near his boyhood home
in Hanover county. th e funeral ser
vices tor Thomas Nelson .Page,
author and former ambassador to
Italy and lawyer, will be held at I<>
o’clock tomorrow morning.
Later in the day the body will be
carried to Washington and laid to
rest beside the body, ot his wife.
(were found murdered i:i the count y
j near New Brunswick, ‘ne slain won
!a n confided to her that she (Mrs.
1 Mills) was in h ,v e with the minister.
! Mis.'; ’Barbara Tough, the “upstairs
g’wt at the Hall home noW denies
i stories that Mrs. Hall intimated to
j her before the pastor’s , death that
h e was dead.
M’INTOSH ANNUAL
NEGRO FAIR WAS
GREAT SUCCESS
EXHIBITS OF MORE GENERAL
NATURE THAN WAS CASE
LAST YEAR.
Through the cooperation of of
ficials and citizens of Darien and
rural precincts, a very creditable ex
hibition was presented by Rubie C.
O’Neal, home demonstration agent
of Mclntosh county and James IT.
Simms, farm demonstrator of Mc-
Intosh,.
Th© opening address was made by
Mayor Barclay. Other addresses
were made by Superintendant Bran
son, Alva, Tabor, assistant state agent
and others,.
The exhibits which far excelled
those of last year, included canned
vegetables, fruits, pickles, preserves,
jellies, marmalades and relishes.
Handicraft played a conspieious
part-—box furniture, hats, shirts,
quilts and patched work.
Proof that in spite of rains re
sults can be accomplished, was
brought out in the agricultural ex
hibits, which included cane, rice,
peas, turnips and beans.
The poultry and live stock exhibits
were very interesting. Six registered
pigs were brought over from, Liber
ty county by pig club boys.
Th e most interesting phase of
poultry exhibit was the capon with
his brood of chicks.
Avery appreciative attendance of
white citizens were present, bach
rural community was represented in
large numbers. A number of out of
town visitors were present.
Miss Moore, white demonstration
agent was one of the judges.
The following agents were present:
J. H. V,. Conyers, district Alva
Tabor, assistant state agent. Minnie
Simpson, home demonstration agent.
Liberty county; M. C„ O’Neael, home
demonstration agent, Glynn county.
MRS. PHILLIPS ACCUSES
PEGGY CAFFEE OF MURDER
(By Press.)
Los Angeles, Nov. 2,. —Peggy Caf
fee wielded the hammer which beat
the life out of Mrs. Alebrta Meadows,
according to the testimony of Mrs.
Clara Phillips, who is on trial for
slaying Mrs. Meadows.
Peggy Caffee has been the prose
cutor’s star witness,.
BRUNSWICK
Has a landlocked harbor, the
best on the South Atlantic
Coast. .‘
PRICE FIVE CENTS
ABDUCTOR WILSON
DRAWS SENTENCE
THIRTY FIVE YEARS
Enticed Eleven Year Old Rosa*
lie Shanty in Car, Left
Her in Swamp.
LITTLE GIRL IS NOW IN
SERIOUS CONDITION
Feeling Ran High Against De
fendant But Promise of Quick
Disposal of Case Pacified En
raged Crowd.
(By Associated Press.)
Muskegon, Mich., Nov. 2.—Amid
cheers, hundreds of angry citizens
heard Raymond Wilson, aged forty,
confessed abductor of eleven year
old Rosalie Shanty, beautiful Mukr
gen girl, sentenced to serve from
thirty-five to forty years at Mar
quette penitentiay.
In sentencing the prisoner the court
expressed regret that a longer sen
tence could not be imposed. Heavily
guarded Wilson was taken to begin
his sentence twelve hours after ar
rest. The little girl is deliriou s and
is in a serious c< ndition both men
tally and physically.
While 11 year old Rosalie Shanty
lay near death in a farm house at
Dublin, Mich., today, Bjaymond E.
Wilson, of Grand Rapidg was being
held at the county jail here under
heavy guard, as th e ma n who kid
naped the child last Sunday, drove
with her to the Jack Pine Swamps of
Manitee county and there abandoned
her.
Wilson confessed, the sheriff’s of
fice reported, that be abducted the
child. A formal charge of kidnap
ing wa s the n lodged against him.
Word from Dublin today was that
Rosalie, Videly known here a s “the
swimming girl,’’ through her expert
exhibitions at a local beach last sum
mer, might not recover. She still was
j in a semi-conscious state and suffer
-1 ing from a high feve r as a result of
exposure fn the forests, where she
was found by a farmer, her clothing
torn to shreds and her body scratched
and bruised by the underbrush.
In his statement to the authorities
Wilson was quoted as saying he en
ticed the child into his automobile as
she was leaving a church here Sun
! day, drove about the city for a time,
1 then started for Dublin. Near that
town, the reported statement said,
Rosalie became alarmed and asked
to be let out of the car, Wilson said,
and h e left her near a farm house,
and then returned to Grand Rapids.
The prisoner said he was intoxicated
when he took the girl into his ma
chine and was unable to explain his
actions.
Feeling ran high in Muskegon
when it became known today that
Wilso n wa s being held here and nu
merous deputy sheriffs and police re
serves were called out to guard
against disorders.
Wilson is 41 years old and has
bee n married twice. Offieer s said
he had a prison record here.
ALL PARTS OF ITALY
REJOICE AT CHANGE
Rome, Nov. 2. —Reports received
from various parts of Italy tell of
enthusiastic receptions taking place
and greetings to the returning Fasis
cista from the “Conquest of Rome.”
In several places headquarters of
superservative organizations have
been attacked • and destroyed and
arms and amunition found. No cas
ualties have been reported.
VIOLENT SCENES
MARKED SESSION
TURK ASSEMBLY
RTSOLUTION PROCLAIMING A
NEW TURKEY HAD RISEN
WAS PASSED
(By Associated Press.)
Constantinople, Nov. 2.—Violent
scenes marked proceedings of the
first session of-the Angora assembly
during the discussion today of the
statuts of th e sultan.'
One resolution was offered and
wa s sponsored by seventy-six depu
ties declared that anew Turkey had
risen from the ashes of th e Ottoman
Empire and that the sultan was non
existent. MustaPha Kemal outlined
Turkish history in a two hour ad
dress Pleading for separation of the
sultahte and caliphate.
The assembly adopted a resolu
tion that a telegram be sent th e An
gora government to Tewfik Pasha,
grand vizor of th e sulta n ,was guilty
of treason and demanded punishment.
Tewfik suggested union of the two
governments,