Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 226, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1914 — Tampered With Town Clook. [ARTICLE]

Tampered With Town Clook.

Marcellus McGowan, the keeper,* has solved the town clock mystery at Kinston, N. C. McGowen alleges malice, but whatever the motive, it is certain that when he clambered into the tower of the court house to learn what T»as causing his big, bright pet with the gilded hands to strike the hours on the half hours and sometimes strike several hours at once, he found-part of the mechanism apparently purposely clogged. Certain roosters in the hearing of the bell’s melodious tones had the habit of giving their reveille with its chimes in the early hours, but it is said the perplexed chanticlers became as erratic as the clock. At the time McGowen was away at a militia camp, where he didn’t have to bother about the time of day at all. Marcellus McGowen made the following public statement, rather brief, but to the point: “To whom it may concern: Some ott climbed over the partition and pjft some timber under one of the weights, and stopped it. M. L. McGowan, court house clock.” By the finale of the proclamation It would seem that McGowen and the clock are one in person, as they really are in spirit. Now he would like to whaY possessed the malefactor to put the timber - under the weight to stop the clock.