Woodland Daily Democrat (Newspaper) - September 21, 1915, Woodland, California WOODLAND CALIFORNIA TUESDAY EVENING SEPTEMBER 21 1915 ESTABLISHED LITTLE EVELYN NOYES TELLS OF FATHER'S DASTARDLY GRIME Defendant Spurns Hare and Phillips Appointed by the Schapp THE JUKY K S Farmer G M Noyes Enjoyed Life at Folsom and is Willing to Return v A so shocking revolting hardly any of it Is fit to publish was told In Superior Judge Anderson's courtroom today by a pretty little doll-faced girl year The child witness was Evelyn accused her father Hariey Noyes of Washington an Mike Slaven Farmer C Morris Fanner S Wright Farmer Jolm Farmer N M Chandler Farmer J Sharpnack Farmer T Anderson Lumberman A M Witham J M Farmer Wilbur Sims Farmer The ol This City KM Party dot Escape An incendiary was today suspected gOf destroying a barn seven tons of hay and eleven sets of harness on the j Charles Silva ranch near Vln be- tween Woodland and Sacramento Failure of the battery governing the lighting system of his light car on Monday evening No arrests have J Sunday came near having a vet Extra guards will result when Fred W Dawson and family and Adolph and the hop kilns ily of Sacramento were thrown from prompt action several head of Mrs Josephine A D ilm Mrs Josephine A D Smith died la Sunday The funeral services and Interment were held In that town ex-convict of gross misconduct Anderson to dismiss the attorneys pointed by the judge to defend him Referring tn Hare and W J Phillips Noyes I tne noticed her mand that both of these attorneys be They have changed I'll fight my own case put in jail pers on me Judge Anderson then heard a re- quest from Attorney Hare asking that he and Phillips be excused At first the requested the lawyers to re- main in the short while but he later ordered Attorney A Noyes This arrangement was Attorneys Hare arid Phillips explained out of court that had spurned assistance The 1 papers Noyes imagined had been tered they said consisted of the exact transcript of the testimony heard In Justice Barry's court last July District Attorney McDonald and At- torney Schapp then proceeded with questioning of prospective men The box was filled In less than thirty minutes Mrs M K Noyes and Charles mother and brother of the defendant and Mrs Charles Noyes were in court took much interest in the the case Mrs Hariey Noyes wife of the defendant mother ol little Evelyn was attendance being unable to get here from Sparks Nevada her present home The child Evelyn was the prosecution Although the attorneys were careful in framing their questions the little girl had to tell a most shocking tale It was only upon the question of dates that the defense was able to con- fuse her Occasionally she ed herself about dates and in this So was the little girl in telling the repellent facts to the jury that those of the case were predicting this afternoon that it wM take the jury but a few minutes to reach a r diet of guilty Bailiff Monroe had hardly called warned her afterward not to tell court to order this before I one the eccentric defendant created a X few days after this crime occurred of excitement by urging Judge the witness said she went to visit her mother at Roseville She had kept th secret of her father's abuse to self While at Roseville according to ill condition and they went to mento for treatment Before going to Roseville the father had almost cured her of the loathsome disease be had given her At Sacramento Chief bation Officer C E Wilson was told of the little girl's condition and an Investigation resulted in Noyes being taken into custody Noyes was arrested while working in a church at Washington last June 18 He was on parole from the som penitentiary for an attack upon a little girl committed in Yolo county In 1903 In 1909 in the Sacramento county superior court to a wronging a little girl He was sentenced by the J W Hughes to serve fifteen years in prison Last Christmas day was released from Folsom on parole He had been separated from his wife who lived in Nevada Noyes to Washington to live with his mother who had been given the tody of his little daughter It Is charged that the crimes began shortly after his arrival at the home of his mother Noyes former wife had occasion predicament she frequently broke down and sobbed Briefly her testimony was to the fect that two weeks after her father had been paroled from Folsom where he had been serving time for Ing another little girl he attacked her These assaults she said happened several times before specific alleged In tie district complaint on last May The offense of to of Mr I my the Thomas and grabbed On toM to to her daughter She was surprised at the condition of her child and the apparent ill-health of the tle girl could not be explained Finally the mother was able to draw from the child the caused Noyes arrest The mother appealed to the juvenile court authorities of Sacramento and an investigation was the Yolo officers Although almost incredible the story told by the child to the probation officers was given credence by her weakened ical condition When taken to the county jail Noyes made light of bis arrest although he had not been informed what charge tad been placed against him doesn't make any difference to me how long I am up he PARIS Sept a bloody fight French troops today succeeded in crossing the canal their goal for nearly a year and gained a foothold on its right bank which the Germans have ueen holding In force since they were turned back In the great battle which checked their rush on Paris If the French can hold their new sition they will seriously threaten the German lines through and thence northward to Rheims Fierce gunnery warfare is raging north of Arras and east of and Lorette UN ENGLISH NUNEATON Eng Sept 21 p hundred miners are en- tombed in colliery as the result of a fire The cage employed to bring workmen to the surface was ed by the flames Rescuers already have ten bodies Sirs Margaret Polsley who was once a resident of Winters Yolo county died at Red Bluff last day She was the mother of ex- Assemblyman Harry Polsley who has many warm friends in Woodland CARD OF THANKS Our friends are offered our tli inks because of their sympathy floral offerings and deeds at the time of the death of the late the machine and painfully bruised horses were saved from the flames while returning to Sacramento from The loss Partly covered by The party had come to Woodland to attend a dinner Returning they were delayed first by a puncture Darkness arrived before they were home and the lights were turned on After a few minutes the battery gave out and au attempt was made to drive f the car along the highway by means of the light from the moon About while running along at a rate of IS or 20 miles per hour the rear wheel skidded into a rut twisting and lag a front wheel and the machine turned on its side The occupants were tumbled out on the ground garet Dawson the LOS ANGELES Sept In a quarrel over a woman at a dance eph Schaffer son of a wealthy retired and a Qf was flve j the owner of the car was mes today James H verely not heW a bruised Others suffered to a extent Shortly afterward 3 W King of Portland Ore appeared on the scene and took the party into Sacramento Those In the auto at the time were Mr and Mrs F W Dawson and dren Margaret Eleanor and Adeline Mr and Mrs Adolph Martinelli and a sister of Mrs Martinelli of Woodland weapon According to the story told to the Schaffer is alleged to have in- a woman at the dancing hall which Dawson resented In the fight which ensued Dawson is alleged to knife as a weapon was being worsted As had a case of recover have used a pen when he saw he by his antagonist Schaffer who is 20 years old will j today This death Is of local interest be- j cause the only surviving member ct family Is Mrs Jesse Poundstone daughter of the deceased Mrs Poundstone was at the bedside of her mother when she passed away Mr Poundstone was at his in District No 108 when the summons came He was preparing for a trip to New York which was de- ferred until after the funeral Mrs Smith was about 71 years age and the widow of the late Captain F P Smith a retired United States Army officer who died In Hamilton about four years ago Their marriage was solemnized In Benida some time in the 70s while Captain Smith was stationed at the barracks Soon after Captain retirement they removed to but Mrs Smith again took up her idence In upon the death of her husband She was well known and highly teemed in Solano county and her many virtues and beautiful character endeared her to a wide circle of friends Much sympathy is expressed In this community for Mr and Mrs Poundstone and a case of empty here bottles they were bringing into town from of son returned to the scene of the wreck to get the accessories of the machine land all of which were smashed the wreck the surroundings presented but found that everything loose In- a rather scrambled appearance eluding lights cushions and batteries About 11 o'clock Sunday night been noids THE FAMILY District Attorney McDonald taking the stand himself concluded his case at o'clock this Afternoon after Dr M A Seavey the little giri H D DeBeach deputy sheriff of Sacramento county and Constable Wm Russell bad testified The district attorney stated that the defendant bad confessed to him on June 21 In Sacramento that he was If JOB send me to guilty of the offense charged I'd just M Attorney Schapp then for a been time there before recess The defense Ton bare case at o'clock The and can ud i jury expects to case early thU and they eren have data It evening The defendant attempted to prove an alibi tot failed Harold G Armstrong who founded and made such a success of the Oak Grove Dairy Farm near Woodland and who is now Considered authority on ail matters relating to the Ing and sale of the best breeds ot hogs spent the past week end in and went to the University Farm Monday to employ an expert after which he returned to J W Browning's Butte county farm via Sacramento When Browning recently acquired the Butte county farm he offered the position of manager to Armstrong on such favorable terms that he decided accept leaving the management of Oak Grove Dairy Farm to his Braden Armstrong He Is now arranging to remove his family ito Butte county to reside It was on the Butte county farm ot which he Is now the manager that the first experiments in rice culture in j California were made fourteen or years ago A dozen or more were tried Armstrong will harvest 500 acres of rice this season crop looks fine and the outlook i for good prices is favorable He is Planning to plant 2000 acres to rice j next year So much of the ranch as is not un- der cultivation affords fine pasture Mr Armstrong has ft herd of COPYRIGHT H r range cattle H is gratifying FRENCH GRENADE THROWERS WELL PROTECTED AGAINST NEL SHELL AND POISONOUS GAS dint close Thc hand grenade as a war weapon Is being used with considerable a modest cess on the firing line To protect the Grenadiers from being the gases which are such telling effect a special mask which prevents of the gases into use
