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W E/U:\1 , Iimium.j. - SI | BUT | We belie | terested in y | you. Come I We invito templatmg a tions or estal sign of this \ of the comm I, dividual dep' WE SOLI COUN G. A. Ne jj STRONG IS PUBLIC TASTE LESS MORBID?!the contr . jed one lo ' Although the presiding judge has jng an ai been forced to protest against the how jt ^ ' presence in the court room of a large wh0 fjg^ number of school girls, the trial of eray?s f01 Harry New, Jr., in Los Angeles, is most not( oH-nu'tinp as much attention as jn the his the um.sual character of the murder squeami?l might have led students of the pub- wen knov lie mind to anticipate. In compari- always n< son with the Thaw or Beattie trials, take plac the proceedings against New are promised given negligible space in the press could att reports. wyn mad This may be due in part to the observe t fact that the reading public has been on a no taught since 1914 to take interest in such evi news of real importance?has been workman] blessed, in short, with better per- execution spective. But it is not too much to wyn in th 4 hope that the public taste is being not himsi weaned from that love of the morbid Selwyn, which was for generations a dis- poor ams graceful peculiarity of the race. Un- was behe til public executions were abolished sist the t ?i ] _ i TNrK ?.? * .Tarnhit.P lii .cjiigiauu, a nau^iij^ vti i juum - Hill was the occasion of a general his fri holiday in London. When Jack Shep- >n the ci pard the ?oted highwayman, was put thing to to death in 1724, some 300,000 peo-|that to a pie fought for points of vantage near;3 brave ] the gallows. Still earlier, as Sam- to the u uel Pepys records the execution of Lovat's h one Turner was a matter of such in- terment. terest that half London journeyed to The da k the place of death. Pepys himself are not i paid a shilling to stand on a cart- disposed wheel and bitterly complained that Richmom had to wait, an hour anrl n half death." a while Turner delivered an intermin- counts of i able oration. It was considered no crowds u I "? disgrace for a man of culture or of to the pi k prominence to attend a hanging, on three Spr I ' SHOW INI ve in co-operati< our success. V in and "talk it ( ; the considerati change in their Wishing new acc >ank is to meet wnity as well as ositor. ICIT YOUR TY SAVING \uffer, Pres. R. SAFE IRllHlliilillliillMOUIllHQOIIIIIIIllilll i ary, the courtier who miss- ford were hanged st the opportunity of draw- piracy on the higl idience later to hear just dressed in purple appened. George Selwyn, about their necks res prominently in Thack- the Henrico jail, nr Georges, was perhaps the coffins m an open >rious lover of the morbid driven up Main st tory of an age by no means reared near Beh i. aeiwyn s tastes were so streets, in rear ol m that friends on the bench The ropes about t jtified him of executions to 0f the men broke e on their circuits and sary a second hai him a "good seat" if he were allowed to s end. On one occasion Sel- and when cut dov e a special trip to Paris to the state armor: ;he tortures to be inflicted men experimented torious criminal and took current to see of t ident satisfaction in the x-esuscitated. The like methods of the French were watched b er that a man next to Sel- formed a topic of ie crowd asked if he were generation. Much elf a headsman. "No," said happened, though with a sigh, "I am only a lar detail, when iteur." When Lord Lovat killed his sister-in aded, Selwyn could not re- Monroe streets v emptation to see the old death. For thirty taken off. And when some women used to tel iends protested, that it was from his coffin on rcumstaqces, an unseemly up the steps to tht do, Selwyn at once replied minutes he was le void doing any dishonor to who would might man, he had promptly gone present again ran mdertaker's and had seen May, 29, 1867, t ead sewn back on for in- negro named A | courteously staged ys of such wretched taste |Of the almshouse is distant as some may be jested persons mi to think. Even here in!selves in sight. W 1, hangings?"carnivals of [finally arrived, af s the lurid newspaper ac-! through the city, i : the day styled them?drew]were in the valley ntil executions were closed ! Perhaps there ar iblic. On August 17, 1827, jmond today who iniards from the brig Craw-1 rambling speech t ? . "EREST 3n. We are 111Uf> wanf tn hpln T V/ T VAX A V w JL JL Dver" with us. on of those conBanking Rela:ounts. The detne reouirements to serve the lftBUSINESS S BANK E. Cox, Cashier CONSERVATIVE lillllMilllllllBlllllllllCllllllllllllllllllllllillilllllllllllilMlllliBIl 7 ' in Richmond for as he stood on the side 1 seas. They were spiritual adviser, John Jas gowns, with ropes was the last public executioi , were taken from mond. On July 22, 1870, wl seated on tneir .Phillips was sent to nis ae wagon and were gallows on which Turner h reet, to a gallows hanged were erected agai 'idere and Canal jail yard. There was much the penintentiary. tion at the time, on the part he necks of two tain element, that so not and made neces- case should have ended wit] iging. The bodies cution that only those whc wing for an hour housetops could see. m, were carried to This reads very strange 7 where medical when the suggestion of a pi with an elecaric cution would arouse thoi 'J - I -J T>?* ne Victims COUia ue uuua^cu piuicau ?jul tnuac whole proceedings a photograph of the lym y thousands and Omaha on September 29 ma; conversation for a her that in the very front the same thing the mob stood a well-dress< with less spectacu- man, smiling at the torture one W. D. Totty, on a burning wretch. Ve -law at Grace and beast slumbers in the heart vas condemned to lions! How easily it is arc years men and rage! 1 how Totty sprang Richmond News-Leader, the wagon and ran ! gallows. For 20 BANK ROBBERS ESCAPE ft hanging that all WITH $15,000 CASH see. The number FROM COLUMBUS into thousands. On ;he hanging of a Columbus, Ga., Jan. ] lbert Taylor was highway men at 1 o'clock, t I in the valley back noon held up President C. . so that all inter- and four employes of the ght range them- Girard bank, of GirarcJ, A hen the procession departed with $15,000 ir. < ter a lone march They are bound toward Mor learly 5,000 people with a posse of Columbus po or on the hills, others in pursuit. e people in Rich- Miss Maude Booth, emplo; remember the long ed off a blow of a pistol a; he negro delivered down on President Mullni's PIIH receivefl sli*ht bruisesjjgj The gang left out the Crawfo fiH road in the direction of Montgome SE : at a high rate of speed, in a Chi jg mers car. Not only did they ta! 3^ the automobile of a depositor w HI! was at the bank, but all of his d 3; posit before he had gotten it in j the bank. City and county autho: HI j ties were at once notified and ' |||j | large posse in cars was on the tr; Hjf in about thirty minutes after t . ||j highwaymen got away. H Telephone messages ahead locat ?H the car passing a store five mil H out, it being estimated it was runnii U forty miles an hour. Hope of the < HI ficers lies in some accident happenii ^ to the car, the roads being bad H that section. U PREMIER LOSES BY CLOSE VOl ?j| Paris, Jan. 16.?-Premier Georg j?| Clemenceau went down to defeat . U the hands of the countrymen todi ' g.in a caucus of the senate and chai = IIio* <~>-f ^oniifioQ fn />Vinr>sp a pani Sj | date for the presidency of the i p'public. M. Clemenceau thereupon a Wi nounced his withdrawal and his su gijiport of President Poincare. Senato 1?B and deputies, after the caucus Jl which Paul Deschanel, president * ?B the chamber, led the premier by IB votes, generally expressed the opi f= ion that the vote means the elimin Sj tion from public life of "the fath ' of victory," Premier Clemenceau b HI ing neither a senator nor a depul U M. Clemenceau's friends are i ?H ready searching for 'mother cant s date as President Poincare is i ?B ported to have refused to accede Hi the demand of a deputation of se =| ators and deputies that he become ) 11 andidate for reelection. He is sa to Viavp rpnpwpfl pmnntliirnllv o gi pression of his determinatio not , S be a candidate. K Farm Surreys I WILLIAM |j | CIVIL 0 Member of the American 1 Farmers and Merch I jj I GREENWOOD, S( =g Jg Landscape Surreys 55 oHBMHHnmmmHn 1 - | I?[Cher U IjLJESSE 1??? i ^ ^ J ^ ? rordson per. This i in Rich- ????????? len Peter T been Parf* t\ in in the _____________, indignaof a cerorious a _ ::ird We||have t Iwiclxe: men to install isands in .:-lsaZ ina for the na at ? -W mm W? ? y rememrank of "J f 1 ^ young the factory, tl inflicted rily the * g, of mil. for a man to, 1 >used to ' 1 I get the servic< i SUBURB 1 when you ne .7.?Four 11 his after- j j time and late < L. Mullin! _ , | rnoemx-|B la., andjfl currency, g n 11 A I rsj Sadler Auto < ye, ward- j ?) ? SADj 5 it came a and 'FORMER ABBEVILLE MAN rd IN NORTH CAROLINA ! ry. jjJ A clipping from a Gr???rille, N. ^g1 C., paper tells of the b?si???s translJ actions of a former Ahh*Tfflt man. [eJ T. T. Hollingsworth, wke w?6 also a to'student at Erskine and Jkr a while a ri_'resident of Due West. B? kas many a friends in the county wko wiH be injjl' terested in the followi**: he' Greenville, N. C., Jai. 10.?No j business deal of wider i?teiest kas ta-. v -y^ ecj' ken place in Greenville tkis year than es i that by which J. 0. and W. 1. ProsItor of Grimesland, patred with the llg' \ Prostor Hotel to E. C. yh??a^an, of ' \ ng!this city. The deal inr?ht?d about n $100,000. It is the annowced purpose of Mr. Flanagan t? add at ?nce 40 new rooms in the hotel. T. T. Hoirwtn lingsworth is in charge *f txiC Proctor Hotel and there is not a *#re popu j lar hotel man along the Norfolki Southern than he. ' The . Princeton es! owned by Mr. Hollingsw*rtk is also f I at under his control. It b used for > ay roomers only. :n" It is imperative that tlie kotel fa*1_ cilities of th& city he increased. Adde" ing 40 rooms will help, b?t even then n" all the folks who want Hue to P~ Greenville can't find lodgmg places. in ailftSlfiHBMMMMH! BUICK CARS J| gr It does not pay t* wait and e- let all your chances ? by, but place your order n+w' before ii- they are^all gone. ^ E. H. Longskcre, n- Agent. w to Engraved Cards and Invltaions? The Press and Banner Co rM . Real Estate Surveys I L. HEMPHILL | ENGINEER if, Association of Engineers. ants Bank Building. !J )UTH CAROLINA, H $ Subdivisions H " - - ,'7jS M?- j ~ I Tractors 1 " nd Service ( J he parts and the j them. No waitrts to come from len another wait Dut them in. You I 5 on the Fordson I :ed it. No lost I :rops waiting. I and Tractor Co. | LER, Manager |jj fc