THE INDEPENDENT
F'ERCY H. VANDYKE,
Publisher and Editor.
NEWPORT, - - ARKANSAS.
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A JURY FINDS
ROBERTS GUILTY.
(Continued from First Pafre.)
to show that Roberts was in
Searcy the night the grave was
robbed. He appealed to the jury
in pathetic terms to send the de
fendant back home to his aged
mother and devoted sisters, say- j
ing he had already suffered
enough and had given up his |
political fortunes and ambitions
because of this unjust charge.
brundidge’s closing appeal.
Mr. Brundidge closed the ar
gument for the prosecution in a
speech of two hours. He re
ferred to the responsibility rest
ing upon him in behalf of the
state, as White county had been
outraged and “her name made in
famous by this crime, which was
a reproach and an outrage upon
justice.
He said that he did not need a
detective to watch him in either
the private or public walks of
life and the defense could bring
on their detectives, provided
they would tell the truth. This
personal reference was bought
about by the defense asking Gre
gory on the stand if he had not
accepted money from W. A. Old
field as a detective to watch the
speaker on Jiis way to Hot
Springs to ascertain if he didn’t
ride on a pass.
The speaker said when he died
he wanted to be buried in Searcy
and prayed that no one would
delve into his grave. He paid a
high tribute to Searcy and her
people, saying they were a law
abiding people with the excep
tion of a few lawless characters.
The necessity did not exist for
Lightle to dig up a body for dis- !
secting purposes, as he could i
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by simply paying the freight.
Mr. Brundidge referred to the
defendant’s father, who had
passed to the great beyond, and
said that he had always been a
friend to the defendant since his
father’s death, but the speaker
declared he had never reached
the point in life when he would
not help uphold the law and as
in the prosecution of even an
^^Mtorney when it was necessary
. ® and when the law had been vio
N?® lated.
Mr. Brundidge also paid a high
tribute of respect to Mrs. „ Ligh-,
tie, mother of Dr. Lightle.
“If the doctor’s theory was|
right,” said the speaker, “to get
a body to dissect and to get it!
^r.om Gregory ior cmriy uunais, j
thesi the defendant is not guilty.;
■If the doctor formed a conspiracy
to defraud insurance companies
and got the body to palm off as
his own, Roberts is guilty. Some ,
jone had sworn falsely in this
matter, and the jury would be
the judges.”
The speaker dwelt for some *
time on the doctor’s theory about
‘‘brightening up on anatomy,”
and said the “lamp turned over
just in time for him to catch the
strain.”
A‘(Gregory swears it was the
understanding when the conspi
racy was formed that the keys,
watch and thermometer were to
be left on the body. Why didn’t
the doctor leave his dissecting
knife, too, instead of throwing it
in the Ohio river?”
The defense’s alibi was then
discussed from start to finish.
‘‘If you want to do justice be
tween the state and the defend
ant in this case how can you dis
believe Gregory, when Moore,
Baugh, Jones and others come
on the stand and swear they
would believe Gregory on oatn,
asked the speaker.
The trip to the cemetery by
the defendant with Mrs. Lightle,
the letter and note he wrote and
the money used to bribe Deener
and Neely was discussed. ‘ ‘I had
rather rob a bank. I had rather
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rob a store than go and rob
the grave of its dead,” said Mr.
Brundidge, in conclusion.
When he had closed manv
shook his hand and compliment
ed him on his two hours’ speech,
which was listened to by the
largest crowd ever assembled in
Judsonia.
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BIRDS OF ARGENTINA.
Mur of Beautiful Plumage and Sum
That Are W'onderful
Singers.
Among Argentina’s greatest treas
ure* are her birds, which abound there
’.a great number and variety. One pe
culiarity of the birds is their gaudy
plumage, brightest scarlet, orange,
olive, yellow, pink and green—painted
perhaps by the southern sun, says the
Montreal Family Herald.
In color they are beautiful and la
songs wonderful. Let us go to the
woods bordering the river and see hno
many we can find. Yonder bird is
called the "arm of Are” on account of
his bright color. He appears to take
great pride In showing himself. There
is the cardinal with the scarlet drest,
white breast and dove colored back,
also the yellow cardinal with yellow
body and black crest. It is so named
because it’s crest resembles the car
dinal’s hat. That beautiful pink line
that you see In the distant sky Is a
flock of pink flamingoes. They are
nearing us. Now they alight on the
■and on the margin of the river. How
pretty they are! Listen to that exquis
ite song. That is the “Bugero,” a large
black bird with white beak. From the
grassy marsh comes the discordant cry
>f the heron, and the green parrots are
jhattering Id the trees over our heads,
rhey think their scolding will fright
m us away. See that lovely golden
vren creeping up the tree, hunting
ipiders. He does not seem a particle
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than the robins of our country. Here
we find a dove’s carelessly made nest,
with two white eggs lying on the
ground. This dove is very small, not
much larger than a Canary. That mod
)st little gray bird Is the bulbul or
nightingale, which keeps his sweet
song for the night.
There Is a tree that appears to be
Rovered with balls of cotton, but In
stead of cotton It Is a flock of magpies
sunning themselves. They drop their
wings and fluff out the feathers of
the back until they resemble balls of
cotton. They are singular birds. One
will catch a frog and run around be
fore the others, apparently to tantalize
them. When they bathe they jump lnte
a pool of water, then out again and roll
In the dust., then into the water again.
They Impose on each other by several
hens laying in the same nest. * Ths
•ggs are very pretty, green and white
mingled. Hear the mournful call of
the ratnbtrd, a kind of eockoo which
Tails almost incessantly the day before
a storm while there Is no apparent
(fa nnnpneeh vot fVoV ttW'
infalling. Here comes a scissors tal!,
another peculiar bird, one of the fly
catchers. Ah! the beautiful birds! W«
hear their glad songs as they flit from
tree to tree seemingly without a sor
row, but they have their sorrows, too.
for they will go to seek food for their j
young birds and come back to find
them devoured by the snakes or some I
other marauder. But perhaps their
greatest enemy is women, for whose
adornment hundreds of thousands are
destroyed annually, especially of the
white heron, an elegant bird whose fe
male has two dainty hair-like feather*
or aigrettes, which are used for b**
trimming.
Odd LnnsnU.
Some months ago the city fathers of
Marseilles, eager to beautify their an
cient town, deliberated and concluded
that a good foundation to its “show”
street would not be amiss. In conse
quence there came men with odorous
blocks and much tar and after many
weeks the work was over. And all t*“9
citizens found it very good. Only one,
a confectioner, with rooms on the route,
is unappreciative. He has a grievance.
The tar, he says, gave its unavoidable
odor not only to his rooms, but to his
cakes, his ices and the other wonder
ful creations of the French “patissier.”
His clients first complained and then
went elsewhere and a new locality had
to be sought for the preparation of his
delicacies. It is for this reason that he
is now seeking to get damages to the
extent of $60,000 from his city and the
suit is arousing much interest on ac
count of its uni/ie nature.
A Business Maxim.
Manufacturer—You ought to be able
to sell some of those goods to Ezima.
He'd never know the difference.
Salesman—I thought I'd go and see
him to-morrow.
“Go at once. Never put off till to
morrow whom you can do to-day.’’—
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THE CATCHfNO OF CRAB!
Some Facts About the Cheaapaa
Soft-Shell and His Captors—
A Summer Industry.
The Chesapeake soft-shell en
Is a delicacy and a luxury in eve
market between the Atlantic ai
Denver; and he grows more a)
more popular as season follow
season. I
The season of the soft-shell cri
is from the early days of May I
the late days of September, al
its chief or best cultivated al
most patronized habitat is tl
shallow and warm nooks, sounl
and inlets of Chesapeake btl
Here it swarms like ants in a h i
like bees in a posy garden, 111
prairie dogs In a rodent to* I
Jersey waters produce some cral I
but the Chesapeake crabb* I
supply the market; and they ma I
money by doing it. 1
The crabbing fleet numbers p I
haps 1,500 boats — little era: I
they are, usually with a tiny cab I
manned by two or more men. h I
less than 500 of these boats s I
from the little village of CrisfU I
Md., alone. I
The crabs are caught by train j I
aldng the bottom of the shall?!I
waters, through the sea grass si I
sea weed, a light cage of iroia I
sort of skeleton and coop, call: I
by the orabbers a drag. It s *
drawn ap frequently; empty It i _
seldom. The take is from )0
crabs a day at the opening of ie
season to 1,000 crabs a day in iri
season, to each boat worked y
two men.
The crabs are graded by «»,
erated and shipped to market;
Hard-shell crabs are takento
the “crab yard,” where they re
detained imprisoned in fr&ms,
and examined daily to see if tfey
have shed their hard shells. Sch
as have are taken out and paokd
for transportation to marfet.
The captive may shed his shell (a
a day or two or he may wea:lt
for a month.
NEW USE OF PHONOGRAPH.
British Cabinet Minister Dictates to
the Machine and the “Records”
▲re Sent to His Clerks.
Since niB BtteBBiwl w
inet rank Mr. Graham Murray has
made a still greater use of the'
phonograph for the conduct of his
correspondence as secretary of
state for Scotland than he did
during the period when he acted
as lord advocate in the same de
partment, says the London
Graphic. Some five or six dozen
“records” are now constantly in
use, and to these the minister dic
tates the replies to his numerous
letters, together with a mass of
other detail work connected with
the office over whioh he presides.
These are then forwarded to Lon
don, if he happens to t>e in Scot
land, and the contents are taken
down by his secretaries in White
hall. This done, the “records” are
scraped off and the cylinders are
once more ready for use. By keep
ing a phonograph both in London
and Scotland the secretary of
state, aldne among his colleagues
in Mr. Balfour’s reconstructed
cabinet, is able to give viva-voce
instructions to his department at
a distance of some hundreds of
miles.
Queer Speculation.
The sermon of a British vicar
charging great immorality in the
pottery towns in Staffordshire has
caused discussion of life in the
potteries. A curious feature is
speculation on the lives of others.
The business of the insurance com
panies there is largely directed to
persuading people to insure the
lives of others as a speculation.
Wives are urged to insure their
husbands, and sons and daughters
to take out a policy on their
parents’ lives. For a penny a
week a girl insures her father for
£5. No medical examination is re
quired, and it is simply a gamble
on death. This was amusingly
shown by a recent case. A doctor
in one of the pottery towns was
reported to be dying of cancer.
The rumor was false, and the doc
tor, completely recovered of his
illness, was surprised to learn
that his charwoman had staked
twopence a week his death.
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