?^ | Watch Label on Your Paper ? / 4 I 1% g4 l I w^4>4 The Date on the Label is the SJr's"b*cr""io" ItflUiin ssii""P"pepWl" "* ESTABLISHED 1894 THE DILLON HERALD, DILLON SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 17, 1921. VOL. 27. NO. 23. % =?===== .? A FEARFUL RECORD. Griffith, Alias Mays, Wanted in W. . Va.?A Nortorious Criminal. W. H. Griffith, alias O. B. Mays, who was arrested in Greenwood last week on the charge of robbing stores and the postoffice at Silver Street proves to be a much wanted criminal. Mention wag made of the robberies and the arrest of Griffith in a recent issue of The Newberry Herald and News. On Monday night January 24, the stores of H. C. Lake, J. C. Berry, J. P. Blair and company and the depot at Silver Street were entered and robbed. The postofflce was in the store of J. C. Berry. About 11,000 pennies and some silver coin and a box of Joe Green cigar8 were about all that was missed, amounting to about $15 in all. The robber walked up to Repp's crossing some eight miles and boarded the Southern train the next morning and got off the train at Greenwood. The baggage master on the train thought the passenger a rather suspiciou8 looking fellow and notified the police at Greenwood that such a person had gotton off at that place. He was located by Policeman C. T. Nelson in a small store and Nelson covered him- with his gun and searched him. After relieving him of three pistols hi8 pris'/ oner drew from his pocket another | and handed it to the policeman. As -? i ne rooDeries were in Newberry county, and thinking this was all Sheriff Blease was notified and went to Greenwood and brought the prisoner to th e Newberry jail. It is said that in searching the prisoner some papers were found in his possession which caused Policeman Nelson to write to Moundville, W. Va., to make inquiry about one O. B. Mays. There being another prisoner in the penitentiary by that name and he and Griffith having been somewhat chummy it was thought that possibly Griffith had been located and his picture and a description were sent to Mr N*?inr?n Mr. Nelson came to Newberry with the picture and then Griffith admitted that his name was Griffith and that he had been in the penitentiary at Moundsville, but he denied the charge that he had killed a fellow prisoner on making his escape from the penitentiary. It has developed that Griffith is rather a notorious criminal and as soon as it was found out in West Virginia that he had been captured the daily newspapers at Wheeling began sending telegrams to Newberry for the details of the capture. Captain Athey, of the penitentiary guard, came to Newberry on Wednesday for the prisoner. Cantain Ath*?v told of the many crimes of which Griffith ha8 been guilty. He was serving a life sentence for murder at the time of his escape and when faced by Captain Athey Wednesday afternoon admitted that he had killed a fellow prisoner in making his get-away this last time. He only escaped from the penitentiary about the first of JT.' January of this year. It is said that in making his escape he undertook to stop the machinery which runs the electric lights of the prison so that he might have the darkness and avoid detection and that in so doing he aroused the man who was attending to the machinery and that he failed to get the place dark, and when he saw that he aroused the watchman and when he saw that he was caught, he cut the throat of the guard who was ? prisoner and also cut the fingers cii .mother who was attracted to the place, and finally stopped the big engine by cutting a big hole in the 12 inch belt which drove the machine, and made his escape over the walls of the prison. He claims that he had observed the watchmen on the towers and he selected a place between two whom he sized up as men who would not shoot him, though he made his get-away with only one seeing him and this one claims he thought it was an officer. Griffith had started a fire before making his ! attempt to escape so as to attract attention. It was reported he burned one of the buildings but the fire" was a very small affair. He was from the mountain section of West Virginia and was a terror to all the people of his neighborhood, in fact wag a sort of czar in the community, and not only that, but was considered a really dangerous and reckless m an. Captain Athey says when he gets Griffith Ho/?lr ??? luuuuuvuie prison ne will have made his last get-away. He made an effort to break jail a4 Newberry, but was foiled by Sherin Blease, and it is Baid that he asked one of the guards to get him a piece of iron and they both could make their escape, but he would have a very difficult task in srettinc nut r.f the Newberry jail. Sheriff Blease has had him closely watched and guarded since he found out what sort of character he is, and it would I ^ *be difficult to get out from the sec^ ond story of the Jail any way. Mr. D. L. Lawson who had been to Columbia on the Monday of the robberle8 at Silver-Street picked Griffith up Just this side of Columbia at Camp Fornance and drove him in hitcar to Newberry. Griffith got out Just Qn the outskirts of the city, and had something to eat he came through at the Greelc restaurant and then went on toward Silver street Monday afternoon. Mr. Lawson says that Griffith regretted all the way up that he wat was going to Florida, and that he was intending to go to Jackson JACK McDUFFIE WRITES OF AIRPLANE ACCIDENT Mulling Enterprise. Last week we carried a news item of the wreck of an automobile which came near causing the death of the pilot. Jack McDuffie, a Marion county boy. It is gratifying to know that this daring young avitor, escaped with his life, .and his injuries were only slight. In a letter to his father, Mr. Emerson McDuffie, he writes the following and gives a very interesting description of the wreck on Lansrlev Field. Vn "I'm inclosing a picture or two of my wreck down in Georgia. They are not very good, however, and I'm going to make some more if I ever get time. At present I'm busy taking over the organization again and studying courts-martial. They issued a new book of 680 pages on it last weefc and we have an examination on it tomorrow. The wreck wasn't as bad as it looks, nor as bad oil pipe burst about 20 miles from Macon when we were on our way to Savannah (en route to Charles 1 T v tt uuiuisiun ami L.angiey) ana caused me to have to land In a very soft sandy field. I landed about as slow as I could?40 miles an hour? but the wheels and tail-skid dug into the ground and we wenl ^ver on oui backs, breaking one "Wing, the center section struts, propeller, ruddei and one wheel. After it turned ovei the oil which was spread all ovei everything caught on fire, but wc soon put it out. We had a twelve volt battery lying loose in the bottom of the ship and as we went ovei it came up and cut my upper lip, but that's all well now. We had tc ship the plane to a repair depot and came on by train. JACK. o OFFICERS CAPTURE STILL. Near Lake View Saturday night Deputy Sheriff Charles Lester and Rural Policeman Jno. McCracken captured a small still and about 35 gallons of mash. The mash was aboul ready to be converted into whiskey. The still was of the lard can variety but was so ingeniously constructed that it was capable of turning out a fluid of superior quality. The still vaa being operated by Dave Harrelsen, a young white man, who waf caught '"with the goods." Harrelson is in jail awaiting the February term of court. The still whs located on the Temple place near the Mill pond. o MILLIONAIRE BANKER SLEEPING PEACEFULLY New York, Feb. 9?After remaining in a comatose state for more than three weeks at Atlantic City suffering with sleeping sickness George T, ; Lippincott, millionaire banker, showed no change in his condition to[night. He apparently is sleeDins I peacefully, breathing and otherwise functioning normally. At regular intervals a nurse arouses the victim and feeds him. During these periods of intermittent con'sciouaness Mr. Lippincott shows absolutely no signs of recognizing his surroundings. Those about his bedside j however, are convinced that he is able {to hear and that a peculiar paralysis of certain brain cells controlliirg other normal functions makes it impos! sible for him to respond to questions ior to distinguish who the questioners ' are. o The Coast Line's new train knowr, as the "Havanna Special" which pass | ea Dillon about 9 o'clock in the morn 1 ing, derailed two coaches near Petersburg, Va., Monday morning. Ne passengers were hurt. The train has a fust schedule and makes no stops for passengers between Richmont and Savannah. ville. Possibly making his way tc Mexico or Cuba. Captain Athey says that so^- af ter the escape of Griffith in . uarj a mysterious murder was committee on the Ohio River and he is sure now : that it is the work of Griffith. Some |one came along and offered a mar .$1,000 cash for a little yacht he had 'and the man sold it, and then, the | purchaser asked if he would not lei his son run down the river with hin to teach him how to operate the beat, and he did. Several days af |ter that the boat was found deywn the river and the body of the boy was dragged out of the river and it was | in the direction which it is supposec ; that Griffith went when he left the prison. So there may be besides the two forgery cases and the murdei i! cases for which he is charged anoth i'er case of murder lodged against , jhim. It is a dreadful story of hor ' rible crimes and to think that th< 11 man is only 29 years old and begai 1 his career of crime when quite ? : I young man. 1 The reward of $1,000 has alread] " been paid Policeman Nelson. Griffith was arrested in Green 1 wood by Policeman Nelson Januar] ' 25, t^e policeman believing him t< " be connected with robberies at Sil verstreet the night before. This the 1 ory turned out to be correct. Griffith who was arrested under the nann "O. B. Mays" admitting the thefts y Griffith is said to have killed a fel low convict and to have been impli - cated in the burning of part of th< West Virginia state prison, when h< made his escape the early part o i January. He was serving a life sen > tence for killing the chief of polic< of Braxton, W. Va. MARION GETS LATCH. * . Given to Town Bearing General's Name. i Marion. Feb. 10?A window latch i front the manor house, "Belle Isle", the home of Gen. Francos Marion, 'was recently presented to the town ; of Marion, which bears his name, i i Frank Hampton Haskel, grandson of i Gen. Wade Hampton, originally of i Columbia, now living in Charleston, i was the donor. i The latch will be kept at the Mar- i ion public library. It has been view- t ed by many of the citizens of the i ' town and will be carefully and lov- I ingflly preserved as a memoir of the Ifamous Revolutionary general often ; called the "Swamp Fox" who not r only frequented this vicinity and gave i , Marion it8 name but did much to ward securing the independence of the American people. The latch was first proffered Col. ; J. Monroe Johnson of thiB place who , suggested that the relic be given the town instead. Mr. Haskel secured it from the plantation in Berkeley coun. ty. The house in which Gen. Fran1 cis Marion lived and from which the latch came is still standing and ini good condition. It is occupied by de. scendants of one of the general's ('brothers. He, himself, was never! married. | The town of Marion for a long time! has desired a monument to General j Marion and effort from time to time j has been made toward that end. The > body of the general, however, lies at1 ? ; "Belle Isle" in Berkeley county. Ma. rionite8 have often wished that it ! could be moved here. , j o >| \| I.'l..-.. I- lf?. 4fuo? jl' ivi i? I'j. niMUI. It was with sorrowful hearts that i I the friends and neighbors of Mrs. Flora Watson learned on the morning of Thursday, February 3rd, that . she had passed away during the night. L While the end was not unexpected, - her illness having extended over ten - days, yet the losa was not less bitter ^ to her devoted family and friends who so untiringly watched beside her , to the end. I For sixteen years she had been an i invalid confined to her bed and chair, I and while the world to her was en closed within the four walls of her J home yet the influence of her bright t and uncomplaining spirit radiated out i to a large circle of friends and aci quaintances who felt that from her life they derived an inspiration that could not be measured. Gifted with a sparkling wit and a humorous mode or expression, it was a privilege as ' j well as a pleasure to spend an hour by her bedside or chair. During (| tne8e long years of suffering and ln. Ivalidism death visited her home and j robbed her of a beloved daughter and ' son both in the full flower of woman| hood and manhood and three years j previous to her own death, her hus1 band and faithful companion for al| most forty-five years was taken from , her. It was with an unfaltering faith ,'and christian fortitude that these be[ reavements were sustained. From the beginning of her losti illness she was surrounded by all of! : hei children and all that tenderest I love and care could compass was lav' I ishfid iinnn hor At fho loot t?.o._o J ? X ? WUV 1UOL llici U W CIS I .(no dark valley, nothing but a quick I .|passing shadow which we call death.! j'The Master lifted her across where it; ! was narrowest and shallowest and i "She was not for God took her." "There is no death to those whose lives are hid with Christ in God.j i They pass from earth scenes to rest; 'In his own blest abode." '( The funeral services were held on j " Thursday afternoon at four o'clock ' and were conducted by her pastor, 5 Rev. W. C. Allen, assisted by Rev. ! S. J. Bethea. The interment was I made at the cemetery and her grave covered with the beautiful floral tri;! butes of sorrowing loved ones and j1 friends. Flora Ellen Lane Watson, the J daughter of Bryant Lane and Henarietta Lane, .was born near Bethesl da Methodist church, November 12th,I r | 1849. She attended the community, j i schools during her girlhood and her ( education was completed at the Spar(j tanburg Female college and Metho-i I dist Denominational College. In 1874; t'she was united in marriage to Jas. i|R. Watson by the Rev. Joel I. Alj1 len. Of this union seven children were .'jborn three of whom preceded her to j her grave. The surviving children are 3;Rev. Jas. F. Watson, of Atlanta; J. i Frank Watson, of Winnsboro; A. B. I Watson of Rowland, N. C., and Mrs. 5 Flora Lipscomb of Dillon. j o r JUSTICE GAGE IS DEAD. t Chester, Feb. 13?Associate Jus-| " tice George W. Gage of the South 3 i Carolina Supreme Court, died at his II home here at 6 o'clock this afternoon 1 after a long illness. Justice Gage is iro second associate justice of the! / South Carolina Supreme Court to die | in less than one month, Associate, . Justice Daniel E. Hydrick having / t'ied January 15. >' Justice Gage had been ill for four -! Weeks With nnoiimnnla VIft moo n 1 . - ty-five years old. He studied law at , Vauderbilt University after complet5 ing his academic course at Wafford . College, Spartanburg, S. C. Before - his promotion to the circuit bench he - served in the lower house of the Gent eral Assembly of South Carolina. He b was elected to the supreme bench f seven years ago. He is survived by - four sons and one daughter. The funft eral wil*. be held in Chester Tuesday i morning at 11 o'clock. ROBBERS BREAK INTO POSTOFFICE Attempt to Blow Open Safe at Marion. Loot Very Small. Marion, Feb. 10?The new postoffice building here was entered last night and an attempt was made to open the big vault, where the stock of stamps and other valuables are usually stored. The back door of the building was shattered with a hammer and several cash drawers were robbed, about fifty dollars in cash being taken. No small change was accepted by the rob. bers, who took only the big money. A. goodly amount of stamps was left in a drawer at the general delivery window, from which some money was stolen. In the main office, which contains a big outside safe and a big vault, a great deal of damage was done. Upon entering the office this morning clerks found that not only had the back door been shattered and various cash drawers forced open, but that the vault had been damaged. Upon the floor was a sledge hammer, which was found to be the property of W. W. McEachern, blacksmith, whose shop was entered during the night, a medicine dropper, with which the nitro-glycerine was poured into the crevices of the vault; a green wood stopper and the hinge butts and com-J bination knobs to the vault was also found. The robbers had broken the butts from the two big hinges with the sledge, and had used the same tool to break off the combination. Little damage to the safe was done. So crude were the instruments used that people belive it to be the work of amateurs, as it is not believed that a regular "yegg" would have failed to have opened the vault at first. On the other hand, there seems to be evidence of the work of a "spot itrr in mis case, as no less man three attempts were made to steal high-powered automobiles during the night. The garage of Henry Buck was forced open. Mr. Buck had locked the switch of his car and it could not be moved. An attempt was made to enter the garage of E. T. Hughes but thi8 attempt failed for some unknown reason. At the home of H. L. Tilghman, however, the garage was broken into, a big Packard six started up and out into the street where the driver in his haste choked the engine. So patient was he, however, that he ran the batteries down in attempting to start the engine again. He had simply mistaken the spark lever for the gasoline lever and kept the engine flooded with gasoline. The car was found in the street before the Tilghman home, a few blocks from the postoffice, early today. Postmaster J. R. Montgomery promptly reported the matter to government authorities. o 1>KA1N ALCOHOL OFF THK WCKr/RTk KVlKRt! Tuscaloosa, Ala., Feb. 9?Thieves: drained the alcohol off all the pick-j led snakes in the Museum of Natural; History at the University of Ala-j biima today. Since there were several shelves! containing jars of snokes the robbers! secured enough alcohol to carry on a good sized liquor business. Chances are that business will nev-1 er be profitable, though, for news of the theft has caused "hooch hounds" i In Insn thpir ihirat - ? ? Use Fertilizers Intelligently. Clemson College, February 16 ?| "I found one farmer recently who has been, using 6 percent potash on his cron, and this on red clay land." says J. R. Clark, Richland county agricultural agent. "He had used last year about 600 pounds per acre of a mixed fertilizer containing 6 percent potash and had put most of it under the corn at planting time. I think I have convinced him that this does not pay. I am advising all of my farmers (1) against the use of fertilizer without first determining what they need, and what amount will be best, and (2) not to spend money for high-priced ingredients from which they will not get adequate returns." o W. H. McXAIRY SUCCEEDS PROF. ROBERTS. W. H. McNairy, of Chester has been elected superintendent of the Dillon schools to succeed Supt. W. D. Roberts, who was recently elected superintendent of the Epworth Orphanage at Columbia. Mr. McNairy was elected on his record as a school man. He has had twenty-two years of experience, having taught first for four year8 in the Chester schools, five years as superintendent of the Marion schools and 13 years as superintendent of the Chester schools; the last time at Chester he succeeded W. H. Hand, the well known educator of this state. Mr. McNairy is a graduate of the University of North Carolina. Mrs. McNairy, before marriage, was a Miss Glenn, daughter of Hon. J. L. Glenn, of Chester. ? o N. B. HARGROVE APPOINTED TRUSTEE. At a meeting of the creditors of W. C Parham held at Dillon last Thursday, N. B. Hargrove, Esq., was appointed trustee of the bankrupt estate. Mr. Hargrove qualified immediately and has taken charge of the assets of the business. R. J. Kirk, Esq., referee in bankruptcy, came over from Florence and attended the meeting. MEDICAL MEN PUZZLED OVER STRANGE CASE. _____ < Chicago, Feb. 9.?What is death? Medical men here were frankly puzzled today over the strange case of Charles McMahon, who to all in- 1 dications was dead yesterday, but 1 who today is alive and, as he ex- ' pressed it, "better than 40 dead men." If one is "dead" when the heart | ceases to beat, the lungs apparently cease to respond to all known tests j and the body grows cold, then Mc- . Mahon "died" on an operating table, ] where an operation had been per- , formed for a complication of organ- ! ic disorders. A mirror held to the mouth show-l ed not the slightest moisture. The'j described symptoms of dissolution ; appeared one by one. Oxygen was ad-', ministered many times without ap- , parent effect and then suddenly Mc-|j Mahon heaved a sigh. Continued work brought McMahon completely out of the anaesthetic and ; today he was resting easily in his rotten, 1 will bring my books into hospital room. o IX FAR AWAY BRAZIL. Itev. \V. B. Sherwood Writes Interestingly of His Travels in Smith America. Itev. W. B. Sherwood, of Little Itock, who has been working for the past two years as a missionary in Brazil, writes the following interesting letter to The Herald: Nearly two years ago when I left, there were lots of folks scattered over Dillon county that I loved to think of as friends. Before leaving I had nnnrorfnl frnnH intontinnu f n urito I was just going to write about nearly everything. Since getting here it has often come to mind, but only to be put off to some better time. I have actually written a little two or three times, but it didn't look right or sound right. The truth is 1 don't know how to write for a paper. 1 didn't do it when I was there, and I discover that travelling two weeks on the Atlantic Ocean and getting sick as a dog, even if you do land in beautiful Brazil, doesn't make a writer of a fellow. There is one thing that a sea voyage did for me. It made me appreciate Christopher Columbus, those Pilgrim fathers, the early missionaries and anybody that made a long voyage not for the love of travelling but to do good. Maybe they liked it. I didn't, and don't yet. I'm now aboard a boat on my way from Rio de ! Janeiro to Bahia and it doesn't get much better. You don't want anything to eat and don't want what you have got. You don't love anybody and nobody loves you. Nobody is very nice. I would hardly be writing this if we had not stopped here (Ilbeos) to unload dried meat and take on chocolate beans. In Rev. : 21:1 it says "And the sea is no more." I I used to wonder what that means, i 11 now believe it means just what it says and think what a,great blessing is in store for us. I'm, not joking about this. Setting here looking out at the hills reminds me to tell you something about this country that I had to unlearn. I used to think of South America as a low, flat, gwampy country with mosquitoes and fever everywhere and heavy forests with \ines running up the trees so thick you | couldn't get through. Yes, and an abundance of snakes and other "var- i ments" everywhere. I don't know ; how I got hold of this idea unless it ] was because I lived in South Carolina 1 and when 1 went north f found mountains and so got the idea that ; I South meant flat. Anyway if you have any such idea ol* South America you need to throw it away. It's wrong. I'm- travelled up and down the coast. ard from Sao Paulo nearly clear across Brazil, within 8 miles of the Bolivian border. That's a trip ot five days by train and one on a river. In this I found very little low, marshy e couldn't possibly stay married to the wife of his bosom 1b now dragging his feet into court asking for an alimony reduction. The business man whose big profits led him away from his own hearthside and into membership of the alimony club is now trying to make the judge realize that this is the period of readjustment?or normalcy. Chicago judges are turning a wary ? ar to these complaints, their scores of them, and liave been for months. Judge Harry A. Lewis was just winding up thirty divorce cases that had been on his docket. "Some bf the cases deserve reductions, but some of them come in with the pleas that times are awful and never will be better," he said 'These applications are a part of the readjustment period. We have to watch them closely, because while some men are hard hit by conditions we cannot grant applications that will work hardships on the wives and children." o Fork. MiSs Sallie Rogers of Free States is visiting her sister, Mrs. L. K. Be| ihea. Mrs. Ruby Fort Carmichael and little Boyd Fort spent a few days in Latta and Rowland, N. C. last week. Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Rogers of Dillon spent Sunday here with relatives. Mrs. N. B. Calhoun and Miss Katie Calhoun returned Sunday from a vis! it to Hemingway. Miss Mellie Edwards is spending some time in Latta with relatives. Protracted services started at the Presbyterian church last Sunday. Dr. Andrew Smith of Statesville, N. C. is assisting the pastor, Rev. J. S. Garner. o Eclipsed. "Oh, yes!" said Captain Kidd. I "Many wicked thingg I did, as I sailed. I murdered William Moore, and left him in his gore, full many miles from the shore, as I sailed. But he didn't starve to death and with last expiring breath beg for food. I shot him twice instead and whacked him on the head, and left him lying dead, which was crude. I was a buccaneer, without mercy, without fear, but I failed. I thought my record high, little recked that by and by the woild would at nie cry?this he wailed?'Bah! You a buccaneer? People meet my ghost and jeer; "You should see a profiteer!" Aye, I failed!" o I'll TV MILLIONS FOR FERTILIZER IN lOiSO. Records of the South Carolina board of fertilizer control show tags were sold last year for 1.253,890 tons of fertilizer, according to H. M. Stackhouse, secretary of the board. Estimating that all grades Including nitrate of soda, blood, acid phosphate, potash, etc., were sold at an average cost to the buyers of at least 50 per cent pot- ton. Mr. Staokhouse figures that South Carolina invested well over #50,000,000 in fertilizer in 1920. Civil Service Examinations. A competitive examination for clerk carrier will bp held at thp Dillon postoffjee on March 5, 19 2i, commencing at 9 o'clock a. m. Applications for the examination must be held on the prescribed form which may bp obtained at the postoffice. All persons wishing to take this examination should sectire blanks and file their applications with the Sec retary, 5th Civil Service District gy\llanta, Go. o More Warrants for McI.au?io. Two more warrants have been issued for Thos. B. Mcl^ourin, the defaulting president of the Mutual Savings bank. One was sw.--rn out by J. J>. Hamer and anothei by J. A. Spears; both charging misappropriation of ti ist funds Mr. McLaurin .lias waived preliminary, and gave $5,000 bond in the llamer case and $1,000 in the Spears case, for his appearance at March court. Ho is now at Dr. Babcock's sar.it;> i .no in Columbia.?Pee Dee Advoceta?.. C. E. Iiracey of Purvis, N. C., sprnt Sunday in town. ?the doing of little things that you can't see after you have done them. I have been gone from home?Behia? for near,a month and a half. * I hope to get there tomorrow when I'll again set up house keeping? alone in the loft of a big old barn of a house with a negro family In the basement and from henceforth east my vote against single men coming as missionaries. W. B. SHERWOOD. January 18, 1921. ft . jB