The evening world. Newspaper, January 30, 1913, Page 8

eS I | | ‘a HIS PROTEST | AT MOVE TO FREE ,_ SLAYER OF SISTER: ‘William bibiey Sr Jr. Commits Suicide When Petition to Liberate Wilcox Grows. (Srectsl to The Evening World.) LIZABETH CITY, N. C., Jan, 9.— im H. Cropeey jr, who has been ting for months a movement to ob- & pardon or parole for James Wil- , the alleged slayer of his sister, ENell Cropesy, has made tls final pro- lest. Fearing Wilcox would go fr Ficropsey committed euicide last nigh! rnd to-day the eympathy that had been qAroused on Wiicox's behalf is v ba Bitzabeth City, which turned out en nese, thirteen years ago, to lynch ilcox, and was only deterred by the sence of hastily-assembied State foopa, had a shorter memory than the of Nell Cropsey. Petitions iberation of Wil P¥d anquotank County, jengthened by hundreds of signatures— fimany thone of men who marched in the enraged mob toward the ilttle local jail fig 1901, vowing to “‘etring Wilcox up.” @ In the wn morose. He saw towing, despite his passion- te pleas that Wilcox be allowed to at least the thirty-year sentence on him at the end of his pecond trial. gHAD THREATENED THERE WAS ft “ONLY ONE THING TO DO.” “There seems only one thing left ‘for * Cropsey told « friend yes- "To-morrow * you shall know » Word epread through the own that Cropeey would make a personal appeal to the Governor, but a different sig- ficance was put to his promise when s body was discovered. Before the fate of Nell Cropsey was @ Geseription of her had been flashed around the work. The police of every important city in America and “ warope and a horde of amateur detec- the lookout for her and ‘treoht, I. I. Nell's father, Judge iam Cropeey, came into possession ® plantation near Blizabeth City, re- tired from the bench and went to live in the South, Two years after Nell Cropssy, then ‘xteen, met James Wilcox. He was & Brandsome, dark-haired youth, who had yinade hie mark on the athletic field ai "college, but he was of a morose diepos!- “Yion and held himesif aloof from the *Atlizabeth City people. NGIRL DISAPPEARED MY6TERI- OUSLY AFTER RECEPTION, » Wilcox had the reputation of havin; violent temper; often he had born His admiration for iM Cropa jorried the girl's mother, who was Ware that her daughter did not return Viloox's affection. f§ o PERFECT in ight in 1901 there was @ reception at the Cropsey real- dence. Wilcox was present, The party broke up toward midnight, but Wile Fomained until all the others hind He called Nell to the front door tr a moment their voices were as they stood on the porch, Wile oe tee to be pleading, the girl plead- too. "Nell did not come back. red ax muddeniy anc mystertously as it she had been whisked away by @ geni. Yor more than a month the eltizena Blizabeth City sought her, Bloodhou tracked throug! the awamp north of the town, while her parte of the ¢ try uniformed policemen were on the lookout Rewards aggregating more than $2,000 were offered, and still there was no «ign of the « Wilcox stayed in town, although public sentiment against him was aroused to fever heat by the report of a committees of five prominent residents, who recused h almost directly of having killed girl or epirited her away to a wor f She disal Wilcox was put in jail for his own protection and the Grand Jury thi considered the evidence of the com- mittee returned an indictment against him, At his first trial, feeling fan so high that there was a serious demon- stration in, the courtroom, It served only to win him « new trial. In neither of the trials—the second of which resulted in the thirty-year een- tence—did Wilcox put in a defense. He | maintained the State had fatied to prove its case and left the issue to hang on this verdict. I alty should tion of the various departments of the State ready for aubminsion to the Leg- islature on March 1, so the legislative annual appropriatfion and supply bil! The committee also expecta to con- clude ite public "hearings in three weeks. Dr, J. J, O'Connell, Health OMcer of the Port of New York, to-day sub- mitted to the committee his achedule for increasing the State fees for tn- @pecting and fumigating vessels, by which, he says, the administration of the port can be carried on without, ex- pense to the State, The present law prescribes an arbitrary maximum fee, applicable to all vessels, Dr, O'Con- nell’s recommendation includes a slid- in scale method by which large ves- wouN be forced to pay propor- Mlonateiy larger toon 8 POSLAM’S RARE HEALING POWER FELT AT ONCE Poslam works quickly. An overnight ation will clear s red nose or an med complexion. 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