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UP TO SOUTH MOVE TO WIN SIIGREEN OPPOSES FURTHERFARMER IS MURDERED)?GIRLSF#’ut-liv-irn-. R.and I in.ofLng?*hoon-*oneIV sX of themm ms IKILLERFeared Kidnapped, .They Are Discovered Tired And Repentent1 itnto hes intro n xse-'ess rls-and Pir-an-)al-theIonaentocu-gesbarrndcutelduorformi-sixonDa-todmvo-redsaltighantiif-lot,.eelse-(By The Associated Press INORFOLK, Va.. Nov. 16.—Tired and renentent, Isabel Bennett, 15, a second cousin of the late President Harding and a girl friend, Sarah Cohen, seventeen years old, who had been missing from the r New York homes since Friday, while the police of the nation were searching for them, who were thought to have been kidnapped, today were safe in Norfolk under the care of the Travellers' Aid Society.Miss Bennett left home Friday, announcing that she was going to the movies. When she did not return her mother and her stepfather. John B. Bent, told the pol ce of New York City that they feared the girl had been kidnapped.The two girls were found last night in the Roehambeau apartments by Miss Harriet Stokes, a Travellers* Aid Society worker, who lives there. Miss Bennett said that when she and her friend left New York that she had $20 with which sum both girls made their way to-Wash'ngton.' 'There, ‘in the shadow of thVcapital, where her distinguished cous7 in ruled, the girls found themselves without money and hungry and afraid to appeal for help.From Washington they hiked, the girls sa cl to Richmond, and accepted an automobile ride to Norfolk.The Travellers' Aid Society hasnformed the parents of Miss Bennett that she is in Norfolk. . o-CBjr The A«*ocin.tefl Pre««)Twenty years ago Miss Kate Pace suffered painful injuries in a fall on Mount Vernon church steps. A few days ago an account of the incident was contained in the “Twenty Years Ago” column of tre Bee. Since that publication the Pace telephone has been ringing by numerous friends solicitous for her welfare and asking her how she is sett’ng along. Flowers*-] waiters and one or two personal calls have also been forthcoming on the part of well wishers who failed to note the'per od and thought it p'ertained to the present day.Although sales on the local tobacco market were abnormally heavy for a Monday morning the ; belief persisted late this morn hg I that the buyers would finish their j rounds and that the offerings ' would be disposed of. Some 100,- f 000 pounds was carried over from j last week hut by tonight the market will be better prepared for the usual heavv sale of. Tuesday, than it was last week. Colder weather is expected to check the deliveries this week appreciably. o-Mrs. Mollie Hill is recoveringfrom severe injuries sustained last Friday afternoon when she was struck by an automobile almost at the gate of her home on North Main extension just this side of Hilltop sanatorium, m addition to a broken arm, she has other bruises and contusions. According to the police the driver of the car paused momentarily, a woman put her head through the curtain and addressed a remark to the woman lying half stunned in the road, then with the noise of an accelerated engine, the machine sped away. A man following not far behind, stopped his car, seeing Mrs. Hill trying* to rise at the side of the road and ui cried her intoher dwelling where a doctor wascalled. The identity of the driver of the car which hit Mrs. Hill is unknown. o-FISHOT DEADI.D. M’KINNEKilling Following Row Over Method of Marketing Tobacco, Creates Sensation.Fearing that her eeven-year-old daughter Mary would be forced to l.ve a life of poverty and want, Mrs. Mary Keller, 4?,. has confessed to poisoning the girl and leaving her 1 feless body in a swamp near Sandusky, O. She herself drank the rest of the poson, she said, but it failed to affect her and shg returned to her home. She went back to the swamp to gaze on her daughter's dead body twice more before it was discovered. Now; she faces 'a'charge of murder. NEW YORK, Nov. 16.—Police today Ijegan their third day of searching for Isabella Bennett, 15, who is a second cousin of the late President Harding and whose mother and step-father fear has been kidnaped.John D. Bennett, automobile salesman of Cleveland, her father, is a first cousin of the late Warren G. Harding. He and his wife were ' divorced in June and she was married shortly’ afterward - to Frank j Bent. who is connected with the ! Federal Reserve Bank.Eighty-five hunting licenses, G7 of them for the county, were issued by the clerk of the Corporation court on Saturday. It was the largest number issued in any one day this year. The open season begins today and several hunting parties are out.-o--1-WEATHER FORECAST■o-ofme.of ike atI**} C*Virginia; Fair and slightly cooler tonight; Tuesday, fair, fresh west and northwest 'winds.North Carolina: Fair tonight slightly cooler in west portion; Tuesday, fresh northwest winds.o----uva(Special to The Bee,).HALIFAX, ; Va., Nov. 18.—R. Carter Hancock, a prominent and wealthy Halifax county farmer, was shot through the heart and Instanty killed, ten miles from Seottsburg, yesterday afternoon at \ about three. o’clock by Walter D. McKinney, at McKinney's home/ following what the authorities say-was an argument over Hancock's, method of disposing of his to-bacco.McKinney is in jail being remanded there without bond following the inquest by a coroner's jury held today. The preliminary hearing has been set for Thursday morning at Halifax when evidence will be heard. The shooting was discussed everywhere today arid has created little short of a sensation.Information secured from McKinney at the time he was taken into custody by Deputy Sheriff J. W. Hatcher, is to the effect that Hancock yesterday went to McKinney’s home on a visit and while there the two men became engaged in an argument over co-operative marketing this finally lead-i.n« , to an alleged cciisation by Hancock that McKinney had reported him to co-operative officials for marketing liis tobacco at auction. From this developed the argument which became it is said highly personal and which it jqDnv$5,0Auto Victim Had Broken Neck—F. J. Meeks Has Close Callo-George I/ndsey Nance. 32. Injured, Saturday even’ng when hiscar turned over between Reidsvillesaid caused McKinney to order Hancock away from his home. Further angry words were passed and then McKinney is said to have secured a shot gun and to have shot Hancock through the heart at close, range. Hancock's ten-year-old son was seated in a chair near the two men. .His father’s dead body fell across his knees and knocked him to the floor.Word of the fatal shooting was quickly communicate^ to the sheriff ^ here and Hatcher went .to the scene where he' found McKinney and placed him under arrest. Dr. Haygood who examined the wound said that Hancock must have been dead before he struck the floor as his .heart was literally blown away.Danville GravsFere: at Rei Wed-net nary h highwa when.struck -Essex c contain Mr. an Maglstr side. 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Danville Bee
Danville, Virginia, US
Mon, Nov 16, 1925
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