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VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS
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PICKED IIP BT ENQUIRE! KEPOBTEBS
8torie? Concerning Folks and Thing?,
Soma of Which You Know, and
Some You Don't Know?Condensed
For Quick Heading.
The Boll Weevil Picture.
"I feci very well paid for trouble In
getting that boll weevil picture here,"
said J. H. B. Jenkins, Jr., active vice
president of the Peoples Bank and
Trust company Tuesday. "It did not
^ cost us a great deal except a little ad*
vertising and printing. Mr. Wray was
very generous about the use of his
theatre and picture machine, making
no charge; and pt course we had to
provide special tickets to prevent undue
and dangerous crowding. But the
show was well worth while, in the
* opinion of a number of farmers and
others who were kind enough to tell
us so. It gave them almost the same
information they would have got by a
trip into the regions infested by the
boll weevil and at no expense. It can
hardly be said that the picture told
anybody what not to do; but Jt showed
them very clearly what to expect."
Local Registration.
J. F. Faulkner, city supervisor of regtration
is about as accommodating a
man as is to be found anywhere; but
he can't do just anything that anybody
wants him to do. For instance he cannot
give a man or a woman a municipal
registration certificate unless they
i accompany their application with the
proper papers. ^
"In spite of all the telling and all the
advertising that is being done on the
subject," said Supervisor Faulkner to
Views and Interviews, "people just will
come in and ask for a registration certificate
with their papers at home. They
tell me that they have their papers?
their county certificate and their tax
receipts and I have no reason to doubt
them; but the law says I must see
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it is considerable trouble to come
qualified to register. Very few people
can carry their papers in their pockets.
The average man who keeps a registration
certificate has some particular
place for it He does not have occasion
to look at it, except on rare occasions.
He thinks he has plenty of
time to register and he puts it off. If
the thing happens to bob up in his
mind when he is around here, his
papers arc somewhere else. My advice
to everybody is to let them deliberately
make up their mind that this is a
matter to be attended to, then let them
get their papers and come down here
and get their certificates: I am generally
right on the spot to attend to the
matter."
He's an Old-Timer.
Had a pleasant talk with A. H. Merritt
of Fort Mill township, last Tuesday.
Mr. Merritt was over here on no
special business?just came along with
Mr. S. H. Kppes, but he took the oppor
tunity to call on The Yorkvillc Enquirer,
at which, office he Is always a welcome
visitor. Why, he has been a subscriber
to The Yorkville Enquirer since
away before any of those now connected
with the paper were born. Mr. Merrltt
has one arm, having lost the.other
in Virginia at the battle of Dranesville,
on the 20th of December, 1861.
Mr. Merritt is now 78 years of age.
He was one of the youngest members
of Company B, 6th South Carolina regiment,
and so far as he knows only
eight of his old comrades are still living,
he making the ninth. The others
are Bowman Merritt, his brother, aged
80; Will Armstrong, aged 85; J. M.
Armstrong, aged abouj 78; W. O. Collier,
James Spratt and Frank Barron.
During his visit Mr. Merritt talked
interestingly on various subjects, and
among other things about the changes
of the time. "Things are not like they
used to be," he said. "When I was
young we all lived the simple life, especially
in the country. We took plenty
of exercise, mostly in hard work;
played some, raised our own food, and
our women made our clothes out of
cloth that they made themselves. I
never knew what it was to have a
ready-made suit until I donned the uniform
they gave me when I went into
the army.'1
. Too Much Pork.
Talking to a man a few days ago who
had some wisdom to offer in connection
with the eating of fresh pork.
"No more fresh pork for mine," he
said. "Fond of it! Why I would rather
have fresh pork than any kind of meat
you can eat. It is better than partridge,
especially good sausage, and I have
eaten a site of it in my time. No, I
have not turned against it; but I have
just found out that I cannot eat fresh
pork and keep my health. I have been
mighty dull about It. Up to some ten
or twelve years ago I had not noticed
that it hurt me to eat anything I wanted.
I have not been convinced that it
hurt until the last year or two. It was
this way. Beginning back about ten
or twelve years ago, I began having a
bad. cold every fall and winter, and
sometimes it lasted till spring. The'
thing became so regular that I got to
hating to see the winter come. I knew
it meant a case of illness. For a long
time I called it flu. I wnuld have
running at the nose, hack ache nnd an
uncomfortable feeling about the
stomach. I kept going but I was never
easy. I asked my doctor about it more
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than once; but never got any satisfaction.
Finally from something I heard
somebody say or something I read, I
began to connect this trouble up with
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made up my mind to hold off fresh
pork. It was hard to do and I did not
do it entirely. I tried a little and it
did not hurt me. Then I grot down to
t it steadily and within a few weeks the
old trouble returned. I cut out pork
entirely. It was some ten days before
I began to get straight. Still I was
not certain and I fell for pork; but this
time I watched it more carefully, and
in a little while there was a return of
the symptoms. I had not gone so far
this time and checked, up again.
"'Trouble soon disappeared. I let
pork alone after that, and kept well. I
did not eat any pork at all this last fall
or winter and my health has been
better than for years. They tell me
that cured pork will not hurt you if
used in moderation; but no more fresh
pork in mine if you please."
FLORIDA BOOZE BUSINESS
Bankers Stand in With Bootleggers
for Huge Profits.
Miami, Fla., March 20.?Federal
prohibition agents acting under direction
of Col. L. L. Nutt, of the International
Revenue Department, had
made eleven raids in the city of Miami
up to noon today and at Nutt's headquarters
it was stated the officers expected
to make thirty more raids before
night. The raiding parties started
their work this morning.
Most brazen operations by bootleggers
along the Florida coast especially
at Miami, with the assistance of some
Miami bankers who hold the money
for deals in liquors were found by prohibition
agents working here under the
director of Col. L. L. Nutt, chief of
the federal prohibition commissioner
Roy A. Hayncs at Washington made
public her? today, Col. Nutt said.
"It did not take long, after one day's
investigation of conditions in Florida,
especially in Miami, to determine that
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lay in cleaning up the shore situation,
particularly in certain sections of Florida.
"I found that conveying liquor
from nearby foreign shores was a minor
transaction compared with the program
of bringing it ashore and shipping
to Northern points, terminate the
existing facilities for shipping, smash
and shore lain market, was the solution
as our trained men saw it, and
with that end in view we went
systematically to work.
"We were startled by the revelations.
We found a sort of cooperative
plan among operators. Our investigators
were directed to operators with
the same frankness that a stranger
receives directions from a corner policeman.
Operators discussed transactions
like bankers. Indeed, several
of them gave bankers as reference, and
in two instances after negotiations
were closed, had leading bankers hold
the purchase price in trust and sign
contracts to that effect.
"In substance the operators brazenly
proposed: "we will contract for all
liquor you want?Scotch, Irish or
champagne/ We will go and fetch it
in 24 hours and deliver it where you
say?at your hotel, at the courthouse,
or at the post office. We will deliver
at the railroad station, if you wish it
shipped; and will attend to placing it
in cars and will buy the necessary
grapefruit or tomatoes to cover it up.
That is all that is necessary, just pile
it into refrigerator cars, with a camouflaging
of fruit or vegetables, and
with the Cars sealed the shipment will
go wherever you wish."
"More than a dozen of our investigators,
on the first day's operation reported
propositions of the above character
and in two instances negotiations
were closed, with the aid of bankers,
all of which will be revealed shortly
in court procedure.
"Our investigators discovered that
many of the operators owned their
own smuggling ships, would make
night voyages to a point near Nassau,
Bimini, or Gunkey, meet a schooner
laden with liquor, make purchases at
the average price of $18 per case, return
the next night and receive
double the price from their purchasers
also make a snug profit on the fruit
and vegetables for packing. They
would explain that by diluting the
consignment could be doubled and
even trebled in quantity and sold 'up
north' for at least $100 a case in all a
tempting proposition.
"All of this our investigators more
than verified and continued for more
than a week to carry on negotiations
for big and little shipments without
the slightest trouble.
>o nrazeniy was me ww vioiaiea
in the city of Miami that in several
instances the principal prizes of
punchboards operated in prominent
cigar stands were bottles of liquor.
Our investigators not only made winnings
of Gordon gin, Johnny Scotch
and Bushnell rye but carried away
the punchboards as souvenirs.
"With the avenues of transportation,
distribution and marketing cut
off. especially along the coast line, the
smuggling problem will solve itself,
for the simple reason that liquor will
not be brought in if distribution is
prevented and this can and will be
done."
? Dr. F. P. Rer.tz, a prominent physician
of Bamberg, was killed Monday
when an automobile in which he was
| riding turned over.
REMAINS OF CAMP JACKSON
Once Busy Camp (Now All But
Deserted.
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Fire, Wind and Water Working Steady
Ruin?Some Property Still on the
Ground?Occasional Ex-Soldier Who
Was Quartered There Drops Out to
See What the Old Place Looks Like.
Corretpondencc The Yorkvltle Enquirer
Columbia, S. C., March 20.?If the
several hundred York county boys who
were at Camp Jackson at one time or
the other in training during the late
World War could see the place now
they would hardly recognize it. Nothing
remains there but an empty shell
of a great military cantonment which
less than three years ago was the
temporary home of 40,000 men and
probably more. Now only 175 men remain.
About half of these are men of
the quartermaster corps engaged in
packing up government supplies for
shipment to present military centers,
while the others are members of the
Sixth regiment of infantry engaged in
the very irksome task of doing guard
duty in protecting the empty shell from i
robbers and vandals.
Company 8treets Deserted.
Company streets that were once
thick with men in khaki are now en- 1
tirely deserted. Human foot often
does not travel over some of them for
weeks and weeks and months and
months. Great barracks that were
only a few years ago the living quarters
of companies apd batteries are now
falling down. Unless they are salvaged1
in the moan time every building in
the great camp will have rotted and
fallen down within another three years.
Practically all of them were built
hastily and carelessly. In those building
days carpenters worked by the day
at $8 and $10 and even more and there
were bo many carpenters on the Job
that they were really in each other's
way. The buildings were as carelessly
inspected when completed as they
were carelessly built and the faulty
workmanship is now showing up. If
a great windstorm were to strike the i
camp right now there would be little
remaining save a great pile of wreck- i
age. 4
Many Buildings Burned.
Many barracks and other buildings in
the camp have been destroyed by fire.
The origin of those fires in most cases
has never beeh determined and there
are those who think that maybe some
of the soldiers who have been stationed
at the camp from time to time since
the war came to an end have fired
them just to break the monotony of life
in the once busy camp. There are a
couple of fire companies stationed in
the camp whose business it is to see to
it that the whole thing isn't burned;
but they don't worry much over the
burning of a single building.
Roads Going to Rack.
"There's probably more than enough
asphalt and concrete road within the
limits of Camp Jackson to reach from
Yorkvllle to Rock Hill; and if York
county had the hard surface road in
the camp It would be of much more
value to the public at large than it is
in the camp, where comparatively few
people travel it. The hard surface
roads at camp Jackson like everything
else, are going to rack because of inattention.
There has been much heavy
traffic over the roads in the days gone
by and in many places they have begun
to crack, while in other places great
holes have appeared. No effort is being
made to repair them now, because they
will not be used any longer. Uncle
Sam is done with Camp Jackson for
good and there isn't a Chinaman's
chance that the camp will be used further
for military purposes of any nature,
It is said.
Uncle Sam has hundreds of thousands
of dollars worth of ordnance and
other supplies stored around Camp
Jackson yet, although the soldiers are
packing the stuff and shipping it as fast
as soldiers can do in peace times, which
isp't very fast. The 175 men at the
camp are of the opinion that they will
hardly get away before August and
probably not then. Many of them are
very anxious to go. Columbia is not
popular with soldiers any longer and
soldiers are not very popular in Columbia.
For instance, practically every
soldier in camp has a suit of civilian
clothes which ho puts on when he goes
to town. If he comes into the city
aressea as a civilian ne is a civilian or i
course, for the time being the same as i
any other civilian. But if he comes in- I
to the city as a soldier?well, there is a
difference.
Numbers of Visitors.
Every now and then some fellow living
in some part of the state who served
at Jackson during the war comes out
to camp to look around just for old 1
times' sake; but there are not a great '
many of these. The road from Columbia
to the camp, a distance of about
five miles, is hard surface all the way 1
and is a favorite with motorists of the
city who like to get out in the afternoon
for a spin. Then there are fifteen
or more miles of hard surface road in
the big camp which affords good
seeding. This it is that the old camp
is visited in the afternoon by a good
many people. There Is no objection on
the part of the guards to one's looking
around.
Big Stock of Army Wagons.
Taking' into consideration the. fact
that the number now in use in York
county is only a small portion of those
that have been bought l?.v farmers over ;
the country, one would think that the
government's supply of army wagons
had long since been taken up. But not
so. There are hundreds and hundreds
of them stored at Camp Jackson. Many
of them are brand new, never having
been operated at all. The understanding
is that they will probably be sold* at
auction, if It is possible" to sell them
that way. If not they will be taken to
some supply concentration point.
Grass is beginning to grow again on
the hard arm grounus. vveeas ana
brambles kept down for three years by
the trample of many feet appear again
here and there over the camp area. The
birds of the air that were frightened
away by the figures in khaki yesterday,
are coming back and building their
nests in the scanty trees and in the unused
buildings. Rabbits skelter here
and, there.
Spooks and ghosts looking for a desirable
habitat would do well to settle
at Camp Jackson. It is suitable for
hardly anything else.
SENATORS ARE SUSPICIOUS
Sensational Charge of Double Dealing
Provokes Rough Talk.
Charges of an unwrtften agreement
between the United States and Great
Britain to act together in any case
arising under the four-power Pacific
treatv brought on another storm of de
bate In the senAte Tuesday.
Senator Borah, Republican, Idaho,
started the fire works by reading a
statement said to have been made by
Paul D. Cravath, a New York lawyer,
saying he had "been told by every
member of the American delegation"
that an understanding for future cooperation
between the two governments
in any emergency In the Pacific had
been reached at the arms conference.
The assertion promptly was denied by
both Senators Lodge, Republican.
Massachusetts, and Underwood, Democrat,
Alabama, both of whom were
members of the delegation.
"I have never had a' conversation
with Mr. Cravath about It at all," said
Senator Lodge, "and I know of no such
agreement or understanding with Great
Britain. There's not a word of truth
In it so far as I know."
"And I certainly made no such statement,"
Senator Undertirood said, "and
I never met Mr. Ci ath so far as I
remember. I would not consider the
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been brought here to the floor of the
senate. But to have It go out from
here uncoAtradictcd xvbuld be a menace
to our government, because It
might affect relations with' great powers.
It Is dangerous and I would not
allow It to go out without an absolute
and unqualified contradiction.
"Where is your patriotism? Do you
no longer believe In and trust your
government? Can you believe that
your government would make a solemn
compact with other powers and
then before the ink was dry turn
iround and enter into a secret agreement
with a single one of those pow;rs?
It would be infamous If true. It
is absolutely untrue and I would call it
t>y a stronger name If I were not
speaking on the floor of the senate."
Senator Borah said he had only
brought in the statement because it
:ame from a "man of responsibility,"
epresenting some of the "greatest interests
in this country, interests that
n some respects are dictating the forjign
policy of this country." He added |
that he did know that before making
lis statement Mr. Cravath had conferred
with Elihu Root, another member
of the American delegation.
Debate on the treaty started despite
i previous plan to go ahead with the
lostofflce appropriation bill which had
he right of way when the senate
met and once the issues of the ratification
fight came to the surface several
senators on both sides joined in
prolonged discussion.
Senator Ashurst, Democrat, Arizona,
called attention to a newspaper statement
that he was on the doubtful list
in regard to the final vote and said
in a speech of a few sentences that
he wanted the senate to know he
would "stand always against any alliance
with a pagan, yellow power."
Senator Robinson, Democrat, Arkansas,
took advantage to the turn given
the discussion to further urge adoption
of his amendment pledging the
four powers against secret diplomacy,
rhe statement of Mr. Cravath and the
issertions of officials of the far eastern
republic of China, said Mr. Robinson,
seemed to make it "certain"
that some sort of secret understandings
had been made or were being
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Lo the treaty."
MAY RECOGNIZE MEXICO.
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Unclo Sam Is Said to Have Matter Under
Consideration.
Personal exchanges between President
Harding and President Obicgon,
looking to recognition of Mexico by
the United States are in progress, it
was disclosed this week, in administration
circles. American officials believe
early recognition is probable.
The only point of difference between
the two executives, it was declared, is
the desire of President Harding to
make the formal recognition of Mexico
coincident with the signing of a
treaty pledging the southern republic
to protect American rights within its
borders, whereas the Mexican president
would like the formal recognition
to precede the treaty.
The correspondence which has been
going on for some time is described
as having been cf a most cordial character.
JONES-SPRINGS QUARREL
Five Day Court Battle Results In a
DogtalL
BOTH SIDES HAD A* FRIEND ON JURY
State Claimed That Defendant Had
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Claimed That He Was the Victim of
a Conspiracy.
Charlotte Observer.
Lancaster, S. C., March 21.?The evidence
of the state in the case against
Charles D. Jones, president of the First
National bank of Lancaster, charged
with misappropriation of funds of the
Lancaster Mercantile company, was
completed today and two speeches were
made to the Jury, one by counsel for the
state and one by counsel for the defendant.
There will be four speeches
tomorrow morning and the Jury will
get the case early tomorrow afternoon.
The sessions today were featured by
the appearance on the stand of Col.
Leroy Springs and John T. Stevens for
the state and by the completion of the
evidence for the defense during the
morning session and the completion of
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session.
That the defense feared any statements
that might bo made by Colonel
Springs was evidenced by oft-repeated
objections raised and by the careful
guard kept over that witness by the
defendant's counsel. In spite of this
the state was able to bring out some of
the most damaging evidence of the trial
and to greatly strengthen its hand.
Colonel Springs made a fine witness for
the state during the short time he was
on the stand.
John T. Stevens was on the stand but
a very few minutes and his statements
were few in number.
Detoctives Unarmed.
Mayor J. M. Hood stated, to The
Observer representative that the two
plainclothes men mentioned were not
granted permission to bear arms, but
instead were informed that if they carried
guns they would be arrested and
fined for so doing. He stated that they
asked to be allowed to carry guns,
stating that they represented the Burns
p-.Monal detective agency and that they
w-re employed to watch the person of
Chas. D. r Jones, to protect him from
cowans and eavesdroppers, whom they
allege had been watching the movements
of the defendant. They sat behind
the defendant in the trial again
today. '
This afternoon the attorneys were divided
between beauty and loyalty, for
the entire left-hand "amen'' corner of
the courthouse was filled with girls and
young women, eager spectators of the
proceedings. To address the Jury,
therefore, the attorneys were compelled
to turn tlieir pack to the ladies and vice
versa. Most of the attorneys took the
middle course and spoke midway between
the two, and directly at Judge
Bowman.
The Morning Session.
Court opened with the defendant still
on the witness standv where he was
when the hour for closing came last
evening. Judge Mendel Smith continued
the cross-examination where he
left off and the 200-bale cotton transaction
was gone into again, when the defendant
admitted that regardless of
who the cotton was for, the Lancaster
Mercantile company put up the margins
for it.
Upon re-direct examination the witiipkb
told of his marriaire to Miss Lena
Heath of Charlotte, stating that he is
the father of four girls, aged approximately
5, 8, 13 and 20 years respectively.
He was then asked, if there was any
statement that he would like to make
to the jury, touching any point that had
not been brought out. He began a
statement outlining his position and
counsel for the state "objected to the
defendant making a speech to the
Jury." Mr. Jones then asked If there
were any questions the Jury would like
to ask him.
"Gentlemen, I have nothing to conceal,
and wilT try to answer to the best
of my ability any question you ask,"
said the witness.
There appeared to be no questions
from the jury and the witness left the
stand.
Bank Cashier Testifies.
E. M. Croxton, cashier of the First
National bank of Lancaster, was the
next witness called by the defense. Ho
was asked to imneaeh the testimonv of
Iiank Examiner Schechter, which he
did. It related to the statement alleged
to have been made by Mr. Schechter
in the office of the comptroller of the
currency in "Washington an." the substance
of which was:
"Now, Mr. Comptroller, in justice to
myself, I want to remind you that when
you sent me to Lancaster you told me
to call on Col. Lcroy Springs."
Mr. Schechter stated on the stand
that he did not remember making such
a statement, and didn't think he did.
Mr. Croxton said he did make the
statement.
He said that Mr. Schechter took the
two checks upon which the indictment
is founded without his (Croxton's)
knowledge. He impeached Mr. Schechter's
testimony when the bank examiner
said "they were present when I
took the checks and said nothing about
them." Mr. Croxton said the first he
knew of the absence of the checks was
when Pratt K- Sous (bank examiners)
discovered they were missing and ordered
Mr. Schechter to return them.
Crow- Examination.
D. W. Robertson, of dounsel for the
state, cross-examined Mr. Croxton.
He pressed Mr. Croxton to tell of the
cotton speculations of Mr. Jones, but
ho witness said he did not know of
them. He was asked if he, as cashier
of the bank, wna not bound to know
that Mr. Jones was speculating because:
"It takes lots of money to speculate
with, more than for almost any other
business, doesn't it?" the attorney
asked.
"nonanda nnnn whlrh aide vou hit!"
replied the witness and there was considerable
laughter in the courtroom.
He admitted that when G. G. Scott
and R H. Rice went to the bank to
see about the two checks in question,
while making an audit of the books of
the Lancaster Mercantile company,
that the defendant declined to show
them anything and said to them "I'll
Bupply you with information at the
proper place, the courthouse."
John A. Cook Hoard.
John A. Cook, cashier of the Lancaster
Oil company, and a director of
the First National bank of Lancaster,
was the next witness called. He testified
that Mr. Schechter did make the
statement to the comptroller that he is
alleged to have made. He said he was
at the conference and heard Mr. Schechter
make the statement.
On cross-examination he was asked
if he knew anything about the case at
bar and when he said he did not he was
excusedCounsel
for the defense retired for a
short conference and upon its return to
the courtroom announced that the defendant
would rest his case at this
time.
Cot. 8prings on 8Und.
Col. Leroy Springs was then placed
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He was asked a number of questions
as to his age, how long he had been in
Lancaster, etc.
He was then called upon to tell of
the organization, in 1899, of the Lancaster
Mercantile company and of the
taking in of the defendant at a later
time. He told of how the defendant
came in as a director and how later he
was placed in charge of the whole business.
Mr. Robinson precipitated the storm
when he asked Colonel Springs:
"When did you first learn of the
transaction of the 200 bales of cotton,
known as the Munds, Rogers & Stackpole
contract ?"
Counsel Thomas P. McDow took active
interest in events at this time and
objected. There is no question but that
Mr. McDow carried on a most successful
warfare of "objections" before the
court, for he managed to keep out of
the records almost all of the very damaging
evidence of Colonel Springs, only
later, however, by his own cross-exam
ination to stumble into several awkward
situations which left dangerous
lnuendoes at times.
Found by G. G. Scott.
The foregoing question, however, was
allowed under a modified form and Mr.
Springs said that Mr. Jones never did
mention the transaction to him at all
and that he knew nothing about it until
auditors began examining the books.
He said that G. G. Scott found the entry,
while auditing the books of the
La nearer Mercantile company. He
was finally allowed to fix the date as
April, 1921.
He was not allowed to tell what he
did after he found out about the alleged
shortage.
At this juncture Attorney Robinson
made reference to the eloquence of Attorney
McDow, who was so flattered
that he turned to Counsel Robinson
and replied in flowery language, extolling
the virtues of Mr. Robinspn. The
courtroom was laughing at the passage
at arms and the court discovered that
they were not on the case and called
for order, making a remark about both
of them. The diversion relieved a
somewhat tense situation.
The alleged erasure of the word "cotton"
and the alleged change to "mercantile,"
In which the defendant had
stated his belief that the loss on 1,000
bales of cotton should have been charged
to the Lancaster cotton mills instead
of the Lancaster Mercantile company,
brought up another storm when Colonel
Springs was called upon by Mr. Robinson
to explain the 1,000-bale transaction.
Records Barred.
Records from Colonel Springs' office
and records from the office of the New
York cotton firm which handled the
deai, were not allowed in evidence and
Colonel Springs was only allowed to
state thr he ordered the cotton bought.
The confirmation ticket was offered
in evidence and Mr. McDow objected
land the paper was handed to the court
I to wb whether or not it ought to go in- I
to the records:
"I don't understand what it's all
about now that I've grot it," said the
court. "I don't see anything; but a paper
with a lot of figures on it."
At this time several attorneys on
each side were attempting to argue on
one side or the other of the objection
and the court said:
"Gentlemen, we can't make any time
with five or ten lawyers on each side all
making speeches at the same time."
Colonel Springs was allowed to say
I that he had never ordered the account
of 1,000 bales switched from the mill's
to the mercantile company's account
after the loss appeared or at any other
time. .
He stated that he had made contracts
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ix-'. 'A *** ' ' ... ' ' / \ 1 A
LIFE OF A SAFECRACKER
Boll Burglar Broagbt lo Book at
Trenton.
flf? TELLS STOBY OF CUBE CMEE8
This Wit the Men Who Robtiiblhe
Sefe of R. A. Patrick, at White Oak.
and Burned th? Bonds Because ha
Could Not Nagotiata Them.
J. C. Moore, safe cracker and escap?
u* '"/xwi tko noAroHa nAnUpn*
CU UUI1V1CI iiuiu iiiv
tiary, was killed in Trenton, 8.
early Monday morning while attempting
to rob a safe in the store ofMathy
and Whitlock. He had prlS^TKxne
dial, stopped the hole with efcjposMb,*
lighted his fuse and gone outside to
await the explosion. Ernest 'Croud)
who had heard the noise from hla
sleeping room above, came down with
a double barrel shotgun and fired 'lit
him twice, the first 8hot taking effect
in his thigh and the second ha his
vitals. When he was shot Mdore had
a flashlight in one hand and a pMfot
in the other. v A
woman representing herself . af
Mrs. Moore went from ColunjW' and.
identified the dead safe cracker as her
husband. Mrs. Moore was afterward
arrested and commuted to Rlchlatid
jail. The following story about 'ttflfr'
appears in The Columbia State of yesterday
morning.
Mrs. Moore's Story.
A walk through a park with companions
from a girl's boarding school;
a meeting with an ardent admirer hB
a park; a quick courtship and an engagement;
unyielding objection t<T the
match by the girl's fatheri an eloiffr-.
ment through a window from
school; a hasty marriage and thenwell
then, an awkenlng to the
that her husband was a safte blower
K? nrnfmlnn Hill thflV live haDDilT
ever after? The husband, J. C. Moofe,
was shot to death at Trenton
Monday morning when he was In this
act of blowing open a safe and the
wife is a prisoner oh the third 'floor
of the Richland county Jail
Mrs. Moore, who didn't care to fiye
her maiden name when seen yeSterT
day in the coupty jail, is, a decided
blonde of sturdy type.. She eays.sfre
is 20 years old and rven after having
undergone during the past two' days,
close questioning at the luindu o? officers
who have been endeavoring to procure
information freitrlfetre&e doc* not
seem worh or exhausted. srtelfitir
incessantly, lighting bne cigarette after
the othec and inhaling deeply almost
all the smoke. There *4s no evidence
of nervousness in her behavior yesterday,
but she had been given' opportunity
to rest during the ?ay.
Talks With Pttedom. ^
Mrs. Moore makes no objection to
talking about her career with man.
who met death at Trenton while blowing
a safe. ' fy, ' >
"I thought I loved him at first," sho
said, "but I know now there can be no,
real love unless there Is respect.
"You see, I was just a kid wheislmat
him. I was attending: a boardingschpol
near Huntington, W. Va., several yeafa*
ago, and the authorities would pernjfc '
the girls to walk out through a park.
"Once when we were lu the park t
met Mr. Moore. I was just a kid and
he seemed very fond of me?he was a
prince to me. He wanted me to elope
with him, but I told him to ask my dad
and he would give me to him.
"I was the youngest In the family aridI
guess I was spoiled. Well, dadyBaariy
ran Mr. Moore off the place when he
asked for me?he was suspicion* of htya
from the first. I was taken out of ;
school and was kept at home.
"After some time I persuaded father
to let me return to school, and ,then ope
night I got out of the window.and went
away with Mr. Moore. Since that time
we have been in every state in tfce
? - '?'tiMJ'if.
Union, I suppose. For a goou, winie *did
not know what my husband did?see,
I was young and lgnoragjL
"He was a prince to me. Never spoke
a cross word to me throughout our acquaintance
and while I would tome#
times get mad all o^er and fly off, hp.
always was kind and considerate.
Wanted to Leave Hint.
"My husband was always'klndpess
Itself, but I wanted to leave him. X
tried to make him jealous?wouid let
him hear conversations over the telephone
so that he would get mad apd
leave. But he was so kind and considerate
that I could not make up my
mind Just to quit him. ,
"l really was the cause of his being1
arrested and serving time in Georgia.
One morning when we were in Colum- '-n
bus, Ga.. he came into my room and '
laid $38,000 in cash and bonds on jpy
bed.
"I took some of the bond* to Atlanta
with which to buy some clothes. I wad,
afraid to ty to cash the $1,000 bonds, so
I tried my hand on one for $500. It sold
readily. I was Ml puffed up over my
success; see, I was young apd lgnprant.
Then I tried to cash more bonds,
but these bonds had been registered
and between my visits there had been
some investigation. ^Vord had reached
the office to hold me in conversation It
I came back to cash more bondB. So
tho clerk talked to me?tried to flirt?
and when I came down in the elevator
it seemed like the whole detective force
of Atlanta was after me. I squealed
then?there didn't seem to be anything
else to do. . <v
"So my husband was sent to tbd " .
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