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IS PUBLIC TASTE LESS MORBID?!the contr
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' 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
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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
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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
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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.
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'FORMER ABBEVILLE MAN
rd IN NORTH CAROLINA
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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
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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.
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e- let all your chances ? by, but
place your order n+w' before
ii- they are^all gone.
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n- Agent.
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