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Show STATEMENT MADE BY A DYING MAN ROANOKE, Va.. March 15 In an ante-mortem statement, Stockton Heth, Jr., declared thai the shots that ted In his death here early today were fired by Prof Charles E. Vawter. Vaw-ter. professor of mathematics at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, according accord-ing to a statement made this afternoon after-noon bv his brother, Lieutenant Clement Cle-ment Heth. U. S. A. "Why did ho shoot you?" Clement Heth said he asked his brother. "He hasn't got a thing to stand on, Clem1 the dying man replied. "Do you mean he had no reason?" "Yes," replied Heth, "let me go to sleep " Heth was shot while a guest at the Vawter home early Tuesday morning. Neither Prof. Vawter nor his wife have made any statement. Prof. Vawter has been held for tho grand Jury. oo One hundred years ago women and children were tho majority of factory hands, and an employer might beat them if he chose to think they were shirking. 1 SIS iiBC "&'0$ftjG |