The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, February 03, 1920, Page THREE, Image 3
RECORD OF CRIME
BROUGHT TO END
Gordon Faucett Hamby Dies in
Electric Chair?Composed to Last.
I Ossining, N. Y., Jan. 20.?Gordon
Fawcett Hamby, murderer, bank robber
and train bandit, whose crime ree
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<>ru reaaicu iium ?,v wiw^
culminated in the murder of two
Brooklyn bank employees in December,
1918, was electrocuted in Sinjji
Sing prison tonight.
Hamby maintained to the last the
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rceanor from the hour of h*s arrest m
k Tacoma, Wash., last June. He re-!
Bf fused the offer of the Protestant and
f Soman Catholic chaplains to accomI
pany him to the chair and walked to
his death unaided and with a 1:rm
L step. After he had seated himself he
f turned to Warden Lawes ard asked
permission to make a statement. In
a clear voice which betrayed no: the
slightest sympton of omor.ion he said:
"I want to say that any one who i
had the misfortune, for indeed it was
a misfortune, to come in front of Jay
B. Allan's pun had * a chance and a
ssood chance. That's all. Go ahead
boys."
From the time of his trial Hamby
^ had insisted that his rignt name was
Jay B. Allan.
F Hamby spent his last day in the
death house writing letters in his cell,!
reading newspapers and "talking" t
with the ouija board. He expressed
relief when he learned that an'
-eleventh hour effort to get Governor
Smith to give him a repreive had
failed. i
When asked what he wanted for
supper Hamby ordered lobster salad
of which he ate heartily. He then
proceeded to enjoy some of the
fcigars and candy wfcicn nis compan-i
ions in the death house had furnish-!
ed him. j
Father William E. Cashir, the Ro- j
.man Catholic chaplair, spent a half;
4iour with the condemned man this S
afternoon who did not actually refuse
spiritual consolation but requested
the priest and the Rev. A. N.
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Peterson, D. D., the Protestant cnaplain,
not to accompany him in his
walk to the chair. j
When asked by Father Cash in if
he had any message for the youth of:
the country, Hamby said:
"I don't wish to appear in the light j
of a moralist, but you can tell them
ior me never to start doing wrong, i
kOnce you get started in crime you can
never stop."
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gy Arrestee lasi juuc,
W Gordon Fawcett Hamby, the bandit
who today expiated his crimes in the
death chair, was arrested in Tacoma .
Wash., last June under the name of
*'Jay B. Allan," after killing: a man
there in a revolver fight. He was
later identified as one of the two
robbers who, on December 23, 1918,
lield up the East Brooklyn Savings
I bank and, after killing two of its
fel employees, escaped in an automobile
B with $13,000.
Extradited to New York and tried
for this crime, Hamby stood revealed
ak a self-confessed participant in the
robbery of 13 banks and two trains
and many killings. He steadily refused
to tell anything about his fam"
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ily. He said he preferred to oe Known
as "Allan" and that he was born in
1893 in Alberta, Can. He declared
?;is parents were dead and that he had
two brothers, whom he had not seen
L for five years. He said he was a college
graduate and had specialized in
psychology.
After Hambv's conviction here his
attorney, against the prisoner's
wishes, appealed his case. He obtained
the appointment of a commission
to determine the bandit's sanity,
but the higher court affirmed the ver
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''normal." He freely admitted his
crimes and said he was wanted in
Chicago, San Francisco and other
places. After the Brooklyn robbery
Hamby said he met a girl in New
York, and that they went successively
to Boston, Philadelphia. Baltimore,
k Pittsburgh, Chicago, California and
P Tacoma.
9 *4T tiros: cnrnrispd tbf> California do
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^ uce did not get me," ho said, shortly
W af?er being brought East. "Then in
I . Tacoma I *rot in that political row
with 'Bob' Davis and killed him. 'Bob'
was a game fellow and I'm sorry I
shot him. but I was afraid he was
going to pet me. After that I was all
ready to beat it to Shanghai, China,
and now here I am.
Expected Rich Haul.
"I expected to get $50,000 out of
the Brooklyn 'job/" he confided,
"and I was greatly disappointed at
rthc little we did get. This was because
my partner did not carry out
my instructions. I had ordered him
to jump over the rail the minute we
entered the place, but he was an
I amateur and wasted too much time.
I It took him about four minutes to
I pick up what money we did get,
I when it should not have taken more
I than a minute."
I "Who was your partner in the
? Brooklyn robbery?" he was asked.
I <1 don't care to say. I don't want
jL^o implicate him. fk? is married and
M I think by this time he has left the
country. I met him first in Norfolk,
Va., a short time before the Brooklyn
i'job.' "
Hamby said he had never had any
women accomplices in any of his robberies
"because they talked too
much." The day he was brought to
Sing Sing the prisoner was asked
what "interest" he had in life. He
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lighted a cigarette ana waienea ine
match burn itself down and go out before
he replied:
"The only interest I have is to see
that I spend the time from now until
I go to the electric chair in smoking,
reading and making myself comfortable.
I know there is no possible
chance of acquittal. I am guilty and
that is all there is to it." At another
time he said: "Nothing ever bothers
me at all. The sooner the end comes
the better. It's immaterial to me. I'd
sooner have it all over with than have
this fuss. This place is nice. Every
thing here is very nice. There isn't
anything I want that I haven't got
here."
Judge Fawcett of Brooklyn, who
sentenced Ham by, said he was the
"worst" criminal of 6,000 who had
come before him in his entire career
on the bench. Hamby's "philosophy
of life*' was embodied in the following
statement he made just before being
sentenced to die:
"It is nothing for me to die because
I am coming back. It may take a
few years or it may take several
thousand years, of course, but time
does not count. Being brought into
this world is like being placed in a
class of small children, with each
trying to compete with the other.
Some of us are successful and some
of us are not. As for myself, I
have 'flunked.' "
SHIP GOES DOWN
BUT CREW RESCUED
Tanker Mielero, Sinks Off Carolina
Coast?All Escape in Boats.
Wilmington, N. C., Jan. 30.?Rescue
of the crew of the Mielero, an
American tanker, belonging to the
Cuban Distilling company, which sank
Monday off the Carolina coast, was
affected yesterday afternoon by the
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sucrosa 01 me same cuiu^aii), ovwiuing
to wireless message received from
that ship tonight. The crew took to
life boats when the Mielero sank.
The messages picked up by the
wireless station here were from members
of the crew of the Mielero to
their relatives telling of their rescue.
Baltimore, Jan. 30.?Capt. Harold
D. Simmons of the lost American
tank steamer Mielero which sailed
from Baltimore for Cuba January 14,
took with him his wife as stewardess
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ana ms sun, nctiuiu^ ui., oia *va^^ ?iu
who signed playfully as cabin boy,
and Audrey Simmons, three years old.
A letter was received a few days
ago by Mrs. Herbert Cassanave, 947
Maelson avenue, a sister of Mrs.
Simmons, stating that the Mielero
, was to sail from Mantaenazas for
Philadelphia on January 22. Captain
Simmons has taken his family with
him on a number of trips and they
have visited nearly every port in the
world at various times.
| During: the time the vessel was
here she underwent annual repairs at
the Curtis Dry Dock and Iron works.
It was while at these docks that unusual
methods were employed in making
repairs to the tanker. It was
necessary to draw the tail end shaft
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and there was no aryuoc-K avauawc,
so the forward tanks were filled and
the ship was put down by the head in
order to raise the stern out of the
water.
! The officers of the crew, according
' to lists filed with shipping Commissioner
Kirwan here were: Officers,
captain, Harold C. Simmons; chief of,
ficer, L. H. Conary; second mate, C.
S. Conary; third mate, M. V. Green;
chief engineer, A. A. Holbrook; first
! assistant engineer, Charles W.
| Clark; second assistant engineer, R.
F. Allen; third assistant engineer, J.
A. Ross.
UNREST FOUND
j AMONG FARMERS
Postoffice Department Sends Out
j Questionnaires?Thought of
| Famine.
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j Washington, Jan. 30.?Indications
of a widespread spirit of unrest and
, dissatisfaction among the farmers of
j the country, so threatening as likely
j to disturb the existing economic
structure, is considered by government
officials to be revealed in more
than 40,000 replies to a questionnaire
recently sent out by the postoffice de!
partment. The replies as thus far
J digested were summarized in a report
[prepared by George L. Wood, superintendent
of the postoffice department's
division of rural mail, and
read to the senate postoffice commit!
tee today by James L. Blakeslee,
| fourth postmaster general.
| The views of the 40,000 or more
j farmers were obtained by the broadi
casting of 200,000 copies of a questionnaire
throughout the agricultural
: states asking for suggestions whereby
I the post'iiTice department aid
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i mil i Tii
in cutting down the cost of living.
Answers to the questionnaires
have been coming in since the middle
of December at the rate of 1,000 a
day, and as summarized by officials
show the major complaints of the farmers
in numerical order to be: Inabil
ity to obtain labor to work the farms,
hired help arid the farmers' children
having been lured to the city by
hij!rh wages and easier living, high
profits taken by middlemen for the
mere handling of food products and
lack of proper agencies of contact
between the farmer and the ultimate
consumer. Many of the replies, said
one of those who had looked them
over, probably as many as 50 per
cent., indicate that the writers contemplate
either leaving their farms
or curtailing their acreage, because
of the growing feeling against nonproducing
city dwellers.
Means Grave Menace.
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i Commencing tonight on the replies,
Assistant Postmaster uenerai ruaKes- j
lee said: "Such a condition at a time ?
when the predominant cry is for production,
and still more production,
can not but constitute a grave
menace."
Before the senate committee, he
j
characterized the situation as "disquieting
and portentious of disastrous
consequences." This opinion
was expressed by Mr. Blakeslee after
a member of the senate committee
tliot f lio rPTlllPS SPPTVtPfl
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to have come mostly from a bunch of
bolshevists."
Excerpts from a number of letters
taken at random from the more than
40,000 already on file at the postoffice
department showed the trend of
thought among at least a considerable
oronortion of the farmers of New j
j England, the Middle Western states
and the agricultural section. "The
time is very near," wrote a farmer at
East Chatham, N. Y., "when we farmers
will have to curtail production
and raise only what we need for our
use and let the other fellows look out
for themselves. Labor unions are
more to blame for the high prices
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tnan any one eise. rcupic <uc u^mg .
to get pay for what they don't earn." '
Writing from Palmyro, Mo., another
farmer said: "I almost fear a
famine, farm help everywhere is
flocking to the city, lured by short
hours, high wages and the promise of
>a good time. Some one, I fear, is
-?*- ia nnf
going to suiier ix tins cuuuiwu 10 ??uv
. remedied shortly."
Up to Middle Man.
Declaring that the whole cause of
the high cost of living rests with the
middle man, another Missouri producer
advocated the establishment of
municipal markets to be served by
parcel post direct. "I sell butter to
the dealer for 45 cents a pound," his
letter said, "and the same butter sells
to the consumer for 80 cents a pound. (
In the distribution we lose nearly half !
and we lose money on the butter at :
the first price. Such conditions are :
causing the farmers to leave the farm 1
by the thousands. We have reached '
a crisis. You may ask what we would 1
do with the middlemen. I will suggest
that it be arranged for them to gc to '
the farm and help produce things. I
, understand that they might not relish
j working 14 hours a day, but if we grt
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. dv ine near luture mere wxu nave iu
be some useful work clone by every
i one."
; Declaring that "great evils confront
us today," says a letter, "reduce
the cost of my foodstuffs to the con|
surner. you must first furnish me with
j first class labor at reasonable wages
! and, second, you must eliminate
i thousands of middlemen who are roD:
bing the people wholesale."
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CREDIT WILL GO
FOR FOOD RELIEF
Washington, Jan. 80.?Republican
members of the house ways and
means committee in conference late
! todav informally agreed to favor
I authorizing the treasury to extend additional
credits of ?50,000,000 to certain
European countries for food relief.
Poland, Armenia and Austria were
included in the original proposal of
Secretary Glass, since supported in a
letter from President Wilson, for
credits of $150,000,000 later reduced
to $125,000,000 by Mr. Glass.
Leading Democratic committeemen
j including Representatives Kitchen,
'North Carolina, and Garner, Texas,
who were among the first to suggest '
the $50,000,000 as a maximum au- i
thorization, are counted on by the Re- <
publican members to support the
$50,000,000 loan, which also has the <
approval of some members of the 1
Republican steering committee.
While no agreement was attempted
at either of the conferences to deter- i
mine whether the legislation shall <
specify the countries to get the loans, |1
some effort in this direction may be 1
made at the ways and means com- i
mittee meeting tomorrow. ]
Confidential information received ]
by committeemen through channels <
was understood to the effect that :
European countries including France
and England, could not be expected
to contribute a relief fund for Aus- {<
tria, their inclination being to aid (
Poland in its fight against the Rus- j
isiun IJolshevik government.
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BIDS INVITED. !
The Board of County Commissioners
for Newberry County will receive
sealed bids until February 3, 1920,
for the following supplies to be de- !
livered at Newberry, S. C., from time j
to time as called for, from February i
4, 1920, to May 4, 1920, and in il.o
aproximate amounts as shown below, i
Only bids on all items will be receiv-,
E?d. Contract for supplies to be award- j
ed to lowest responsible bidder, j
Right reserved to reject any and all i
bids. j
312 bushels feed oats.
150 bushels of feed corn.
o barrels first patent flour, in cloth. [
50 gallons good molasses.
8 pounds good coiree.
2 tons mixed feed.
10 tons Xo. 1 hay.
700 pounds fat back.
200 pounds table salt.
1 case soda.
75 bushels corn meal.
2 cases salmon.
2 cases of tripe.
100 pounds Brown Mule chewing,
tobacco. !
50 pounds sup-ar.
100 pounds ham.
15 bushels cow peas. |
1 dozen boxes pepper, 5 cents.
50 pounds compound lard. J
T r Q4MPI.P
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County Supervisor, j
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NEWBERRY THEATRE FOR
LEASE.
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The citv of Newberrv, S. C., in-!
?
ntes sealed bids for the lease of the j
theatre owned by the city for a term
of two years, beginning May 1st,
1920. The property to be leased in-j
eludes the theatre part of the opera
house building, with the dressing
rooms, box office, gallery office,
scenery, chairs, tables and other fixtures,
furnishings and appliances j
owned by the city ana cuimeuau i
with said theatre and offices. All ?
bids must be filed with J. W. Chap-1
man, Clerk and Treasurer, Newber- J
ry, S. C., not later than 5 o'clock j
p. m., February 10th, 1920. City I
L-ouncil will pass on all bids and the [
ritfht to reject any and all bids is j
reserved. Each bid must be accompanied
by certified or cashier's
check, made payable to the order of j
Clerk and Treasurer, in the sum of i
?
two hundred dollars, as a guaran
ice that the bidder whose bit 1 is ac-j
i
cet for a us<
st any m?
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cepted will comply with the terms of j:
his bid and enter into proper lease , j
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ana Dono as requueu. wicwas ui un- *
successful bidders will be returned, j t
Lease will provide for the payment I <
of rent monthly in advance; that j I
tenant will keep premises and pay j *
rent for full period of lease; that 5
upon default in payment of any T
month's rent that rent for whole <
term will become immediately due j *
and collectible; property to be used j *
only for theatre, shows and enter- -<
tainments; that tenant will pay for t
all water, lights and fuel and keep <
premises and fixtures in good condi- 1
tion, except ordinary and reasonable :
use and tear; that no fixtures or fur-;
nishings are to be removed'from the 1
building without the consent of the
city; theatre and fixtures to be let j
to Newberry college. Newberry grad-;,
tfd schools and local people, as ap- i
proved by council, for not exceeding
twelve days and likrhts in each year
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I olace vour
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a rental of not more than $5.00
)er day and night; premises or property
not to be sublet without writ;en
consent of the city; if tenant opjrates
a moving picture show he will
)e required to pay the city license
;herefor; tenant to make all necessary
repairs and improvements, but
lone to be made without'consent of
ouncil. Tenant will be required to
urnish, at his expense, bond in sure;y
company, to be approved by council,
in at least double the amount of
:otal rent for faithful performance
>f conditions of lease. Further information
will be supplied by Clerk
ind Treasurer.
"Rv order of citv council of New
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Ji'rry, S. C.
EUGENE S. BLEASE,
Mayor.
\ttest:
J. W. CHAPMAN,
Clerk and Treasurer. ,
Jan. 28th, 1920. l-30-4t