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THE INDEPENDENT
PERCY H. VANDYKE,
Publisher and Editor.
NEWPORT, - - ARKANSAS.
ARGUMENT OPENED
IN ROBERTS CASE, j
(Continued from First Paprc.)
get his wife and children away (
from Searcy. “If he didn’t aim
to swindle the insurance people,
why didn’t he come back and of
fer to refund it to them?” asked
Mr. Andrews.
The speaker paid his respects
to Bill Ligon and his hotel regis
ter, to “Uncle Bill” Ligon and
Dr. Faust, and scored a point by
saying: “There is one thing,gen
tlemen, you are bound to admit.
Gregory named the time, April,
26, 1904, when the grave was
robbed. All will admit that, and
as soon as Lightle was tried they
wanted to locate themselves at
Armstrong Springs for supper
with Dr. Faust, ‘one of the star
and swift witnesses in this case. ’
The doctor don’t tell you that it
was not April 26, 1904, that
Gregory brought him the corpse,
and you will have to accept it as
true that the grave was robbed
on April 26. Gregory, Deener
and Neely were the three main
witnesses for the state, and from
this alone the state would ask for
a verdict at the hands of the ju
ry.
SPEECHES FOR THE DEFENSE.
Hon. Joe M. StaytonJ opened
the argument for the defense
and dwelt on the allegation that
Gregory had been in the Jhands
of the insurance detectives since
he turned state’s evidence. He
thought no witness should be
misquoted to the jury and said
the combined statements of
Deener and Neely would not con
vict or even begin to convict the
defendant.
“If Dr. Lightle didjnot appear
better on the witness stand,”
said the speaker, “than Gregory,
I want you to convictjSRoberts. ’ ’
“Now, as to the alibi,” said
the speaker. “Did anyone get
upon the stand and swear they
wouldn’t believe Conductor Dick
ey, Mrs. Scanlan, J. B. and Bill
Ligon? They bring up a lot of
witnesses here to impeach the
testimony of Dr. Faust, who says
he went with Roberts to Arm
strong Springs. Why didn’t
they impeach Ligon’andjhis son,
1 Mrs. Scanlan and Conductor
Dickey, who say they saw Dr.
Faust and John Roberts at Arm
_i__•_on
ai/iuug oyiingo;
Dr. Faust’s account book was
exhibited to the jury and the
speaker dwelt for some time up
on it. The speaker was not sur
prised that some of the Searcy
people would come on this stand
»cd swear they wouldn’t believe
Dr. Faust on oath, and no longer
than the July term of the |VVhite
county circuit court Mr. Brun
didge used Dr. Faust as a wit
ness and as a practicing physi
cian for the defense in an impor
tant case and they didn’t try to
impeach him then.
‘‘What has Dr. Faust been do
ing since he was Mr. Brundidge’s
star witness in the term of cir
cuit court? Take Dr. Faust out
of the alibi, but what are you
going to do with four other wit
hes who swear that John Rob-1
erts was at Armstrong Springs
on the night of April 226, 1904,
the night Gregory swears they
three robbed Pitts’ grave.
Dr. Faust’s testimony being
\ excluded,” said the speaker, ‘‘I
want you to take the testimony
of every witness and you cannot
afford to exclude the fact that
Roberts, beyond a reasonable
<$oubt, was at the springs, and j
the state failed to show he was
not there.”
Mr. Stayton declared that
Gregory, Neely and Deener came
on the stand as ‘‘purjured vil
lians.” After discussing their
testimony a few minutes (he
speaker closed his argument,
which was quite eloquent all the
way through.
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GUSTAVE JONES’ PLEA.
Hon. Gustave Jones was the
next speaker for the defense.
He was quite eloquent in his re
! marks. He told of the manner
j in which the people of Searcy
acted in the Lightle trial. He
said they didn’t want to even
j give the defendant in this case a
change of venue. He described
the clapping of hands in the
“high temple of justice.” Mr.
Brundidge didn’t have any ani
i mosity against defendant and if
| he was not guilty he hoped he
would be acquitted.
“Mr. Brundidge didn’t tell you
that he went off with the insur
ance people for pelf and himself,
and two insurance companies
were the only ones to go on the
bond for costs. They started in
by showing you an insurance pol
icy and the last witness was Cox,
an insurance agent.
The argument will be resumed
tomorrow and the case will prob
ably go to the jury about noon.
One of the features noticeable
in the case is that not one of the
jurors is a Mason.
GRAY HAIR AND X-RAY.
Another Sensational Claim Hade foi
tbo Hiracle Llurht—Improbability
of Its Success.
The X-ray seems destined in many
ways to pay the penalty of all sorts of
sensational reports as to its supposed
efficacy in treating intractable diseases.
As might have been expected, its claims
have been very much exaggerated, even
in cases that offered plausible excuses
tor their possible vindication.
The latest news is to the effect that
this mysterious agency is capable of re
storing gray hair to its original color.
How such an effect can be brought about
no one attempts to explain. Nor would
it be wise to offer any reason for It says
the New York Herald, in the iface of cer
tain well-known facts connected with
the physiology of hair and its anatomi
cal character.
All very well know that the color of
the hair is a part of its nutrition and is
dependent upon the secretion of a pig
ment in certain cells in its substance.
When the hair loses Its pigment vitality
grayness ensues as a natural evolution
ary process. The youthful tinge disap
pears by a common law of progressive
decay as age advances. The hair itself
becomes virtually color dead, and all
efforts to restore its former life are ad
mittedly as futile as similar efforts to
revivify other defunct processes.
Rut nnw V-rav must come In as
an alleged miracle worker and give new
hopes for the gray heads. Alas! many
of the latter are desperate enough In
their vanity to try any new thing that
may present Itself. To such It may be |
necessary to sound a note of warning. ,
Even If It should prove to be a fact
that the X-ray can do what Is claimed, '
the remedy Is certainly a dangerous one
to become popular. If ‘‘several hundred
exposures” are required, not only will
a great deal of valuable time be lost In
the sittings and many fees exacted, but
the positive damages ensuing after such
prolonged treatment are not to be light
ly considered. How to avoid the terri- ,
ble X-ray burns, which sometimes occur
even with experts is still a great prob- •
lem. Edison, In a recent Interview In
the Herald, emphasized this fact In s
manner not to be misunderstood. Thus
there may be a chance, with such as may
be determined to try the new thing, for (
the traditional ‘‘old fool” to multiply,
himself ovsr the land.
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The Klondike Clean-tp.
Seattle, Wash., April 21.—James H
Ardorn, of one of the mining com 1
panies of Dawson, has arrived here |
on his way to England. He says that
the clean-up this year in the Dawson
camp will, from a conservative esti
mate, amount to $30,000,000, making
it the biggest output in the history ot
the Klondike.
Nancy Hunks Lincoln Monument.
Richmond, Ind., April 21.—111 the
construction of the base of the mon
ument to Nancy Hanks Lincoln, at i
her grave in Spencer county, a part
of the vault In which the remains oi
Vbraham Lincoln rented in the old
monument, st Spring livid. 111., will b*
■used.
GREAT INVENTOR AT HOME. |
A. Visit to Thomas A. Edison—Hons*
and Surroundings Not a Bit
Like the Han.
To one who knows anything at
all of Edison, the first glimpse of
his house and its surroundings
comes with a shock of surprise, j
says Woman’s Home Companion.
Who would have suspected
that this most democratic of men
would have chosen for himself en* |
vironments so essentially aristo
cratic? He lives in the heart of
s splendid park, patterned after
the English idea of vigorous ex
clusiveness, its gates jealously
guarded by a lodgekeeper.
The interior of the house is in
keeping with the atmosphere of
the park without, quite unlike
Edison. The reception-room was
utterly different from what I ex
pected. The admirably draped
curtains, the tables and chairs ar
ranged wih an eye to artistic ef
fect, were not of Edison’s choos
ing. He cares too little for the
luxuries of life. This was his
wife’s work; it was all so wom
anly.
I heard quick footsteps behind
me, and Edison appeared, greet
ing me cordially and unaffectedly,
He was dressed in the queerest
of costumes—a long blouse that .
reached to his heels, evidently of •
his own pattern, serviceable and
work-worn.
“Come along into the labora
tory,” he said.
So I followed him through the
dining-room and the “den” into
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up for himself in his home.
There I found his little boy, his
shirt-sleeves rolled up, his face
and hands smeared like his
father’s. They had been making
various compounds of which lamp
black was the chief constituent.
“So you work on Sunday, too?”
Edison winked confidentially.
“You see,’Mrs. Edison is away. I
can do as I like.”
That brought back to me a story
thfttlhadonce heard from a friend
of his—a story of how he works
night after night in his labora
tory, utterly absorbed in his ex
periments. Midnight comes and
goes, the gray dawn creeps in, and
still finds him bending over his
test-tubes and retorts, until at
last Mrs. Edison appears and
fondly leads him away to sleep.
I looked around the laboratory.;
This at least was his room. There
were Bunsen burners, mortars
and pestles, glass rods, watch
crystals, bottles of chemicals
scattered about in bewildering
profusion. I watched him and his
boy wrhile they worked, the boy
listening with rapt attention to
the teachings of his father.
A FORTUNE IN A POTATO.
Tuber Raised by Scotchman and Sold
at High Price—Well-Named
the “Eldorado.”
No potato ever gained so much
notoriety as Eldorado, raised by
the famous Scottish raiser Mr. A.
Findlay, of Markinch. The very ,
mine of the variety, says the Gar
Jener’s Magazine, was a stroke of
jenius, for it is hardly possible
that the raiser, or those who had
the good fortune to secure some 1
jf the first tubers distributed,
muld have imagined that in so
short a time it would change
hands at such enormously high
prices. .
Mr. George Massey, of Spalding, .
fvas one of the very first to obtain
the stock, and from him Mr. Zach
ariah Gray, a well-known grower '
at Everton, Sandy, purchased a
atone weight for £20. This set the
ball rolling, and as Mr. Findlay
resolved not to fnrther distribute
Eldorado until the autumn of
1904, the demand for the small
itock available was doubled and
trebled, and so the prices rose.
Messrs. Dennis, the Covent Gar
den salesmen, and Messrs. I. Foad
& Sons, of York, possessed sup
plies, and the latter firm found a
purchaser of four pounds at £150
per pound. This determined them
to obtain further stock, and so at
the Smithfield club show a mem
ber of his firm found that Mr. Mas
sey had a limited stock for dispos
al and made him an offer of £1,000
for a stone. Mr. Massey refused,
as he wanted £1,500, bnt eventn
ally the bargain was struck al
£1,400, to the satisfaction of both
parties. Subsequently Mr. Mas
sey sold a relatively small quan
tity for £2,000, so that his original '
transaction brought him a verj
handsome return.
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