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Chronicle WATCH THE DATE ON YOUR LABEL WATCH THE DATE ON YOUR LABEL JJJLL L.J || ^...11 X U ? . ... .J I - . ... Jt.,-1 . CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1923 -j ... -ge NUMBER 21 VOLUME XXXV aixegkd crook arrested. Man W anted Here Arrested in (Green ville, Now in Newberry Jail. The publication .of a news item in The Chronicle last week proved tho undoing of a crook who operated here Ust week, fleecing several Camdpn men out of a .sum totaling around $100 A man giving his name as Robert Boyd sold furniture and fixtures here ' and collected money in advance al leged to guarantee freight charges. Hi> left Camden and made Newberry. 1 next. He worked Newberry under the name of George Peters. Leaving Newberry, he went to Greenville, Mr. (7 P. McDaniel, formerly of Camden, but now of Newberry, read the des , rviption of the man in The Chronicle. He remembered the man answering t lie description had stopped at the National where'' Mr. McDaniel was boarding. He called Greenville and had him placed under arrest. Deputy Henry McLeod aecompanied by two Camden men, went to New berry Saturday and identified Boyd or Peters, who offered to refund the money to the Camden merchants, which they declined. Newberry of ficials would not turn him over to Camden officers, and he will be tried in Newberry. A warrant was left for his arrest here as soon as the New berry courts are through with him. The man is also wanted in Wilming ton, N. C.f and very probably other towns. The following is taken from Satur day's Greenville News: Charged with embezzlement in Camden and with obtaining money un der false pretenses in Newberry George Peters, white man about 35 years of age, was arrested yesterday afternoon on North Main street by Deputy Sheriffs W, D. Whitemire and J. L. Williams. He was at once committed to the county jail where he is being held awaiting the arrival of officers from either Newberry or Camden, where he will likely be tried on the two charges. According to a report made on the case to police ? headquarters yester day, Peters Was operating a clever "confidence" game and had succeeded in playing his game on one Mack Welling of Newberry. Officials of the department ox plained that Peters was "represent ing" a certain hotel fixture company in Philadelphia, taking orders for fix tures and collecting for them. Accord )ng-to_the police, there is no such com pany in existence. At about the same tirrte that the report was made to headquarters the sheriff's office here was notified. The two deputies were assigned to the case and went immediately to Peter's hotel. They learned that he had gone to witness the Greenville-Augusta baseball game, then in progress at the Perry avenue park. Some half an hour after the game had closed a man answering to the description of Peters' appeared and was arrested. Peters declined to talk of the affair. MAY JOIN KERSHAW. Annexation Petition Received at the Governor's Office. Annexation of approximately ten square miles of the Antioch church section of Lee County to Kershaw County is proposed in a petition re ceived yesterday at the office of Gov. Thomas Q. McLeod. A special elec tion will have to be ordered to permit the qualified electors in the territory affected to vote upon the proposal. The petition, its signers say, is signed hy two-thirds of the voters of the district. The territory which it is proposed to annex to Kershaw county, is described in the petition as bounded by a line starting at what is known as Colonel Reynold's mill up to Lightwood Knot branch and thence to the public road leading from Camden to Red Hill and down the road dividing the estates of T. L. and J. W. Davis and Huggins and thence to the A. Johnson place up the bottom to J. K. Corbett's store and thence down Horse Pen branch to the public road leading to Luck now and up the public road to Fin McCaskill's place and thence by J. D. Davis', L. T. Potes' and I. F. Hol land's property and connecting with the county line between Kershaw and Lee counties. ? Friday's State. A case of close friendship between much amusement to Barnwell people lately. A young pig luui taken a strong liking to the saddle horse 'of Sheriff C. Keys Sanders and follow* H th rough the streets of tin city. TAYLOR MAKK8 APPJBAU Man Who Killed Cason and Humeri Hih Hody Not to Die on Date Set. J). Co burn Taylor, Kershaw county man, who was sentenced t<r die in the electric chair Friday of next week for the murder of Will Cason, has j ?filed notice of intention to appeal, thus automatically staying the death sentence, according to a report rqade tt> the governor's office today by A. Fletcher Spigner, solicitor for the circuit. The notice was served upon Solicitor Spigner by M. M. Johnson of Camden, who represented Taylor at hisv trial last month. Taylor was not charged with the murdor of Cason until several months after the latter disappeared from his home in Kershaw county. W. W. Ro gers, special state constable, inves tigated the disappearance of Cason, and secured evidence upon which Tay lor was later found guilty at Camden of murder without recommendation to mercy, ' which automatically car ried the death sentence. A confession signed by Taylor told how he had shot and killed Cason when the latter threatenced to kill his own baby, the three being out in the woods at the time. Cason's body was hidden in a nearby swamp foi\a time but, according to Taylor's state ment, was dug up from the swamp by Taylor with the aid of a neighbor, Ramsey McDonald, and removed some distance and burned for fear it should be found. McDonald was tried and convicted as an accessory and was given a five year sentence. A second man, also tried as an accessory, was acquitted. Taylor, since his conviction, has been held in the Camden jail, there being 'no county funds available to pay for his transportation to the state penitentiary. ? Wednesday's State. FOX HUNTERS MET HERE Lovers of The Chase Held Pleasant Session in Camden. ( The meeting of the South Carolina Fox Hunters Association held in Cam den last Friday, August 17th, was at tended by slightly more than one hun dred members from twelve or fifteen counties. President J. H. Watson, of Monetta, presided, and vice president George T. Little, of Camden, was the hospitable host of the occasion and furnished one of "the most delightful dinners to the guests ever eaten by mortal men at Mr. Little's big farm just outside of Camden. Secretary E. I. Reardon, repre senting M^yor H. G. Carrison, Jr., of Camden, the City Council and the Camden and Kershaw County Cham ber of Commerce, in a short talk cordially welcomed the^association to Camden and Kershaw County. Mayor H. G. Carrison, Jr., and some of the members of his council were present and with local members of the association made the visitors welcome to Camden and Kershaw County. A meeting of the board of directors of the association was held with all of the members of the association pres ent today attending. It yras decided that the next meet ing and the first 1023 hunt will be at St. Matthews, S. C., with October the 8th as opening day or business ses sion, and that there will be four days of hunting ? October 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th. Mr. C. L. Prickett, of St. Matthews, was elected chairman of the entertainment committee for the St. Matthews meeting and four day hunt. Mr. J. D. W. Watts of Laurens, S. C., was elected master of hounds for the approaching October hunt, with C. L. Prickett, as assistant master of hounds. For the approaching October hunt it was decided that each member will be permitted to enter not more than two dogs in each class of the tournament. Vice President George T. Little in vited and urged association to meet and hold their hunt in Camden and Kershaw County any time they de sired to do so, apd his invitation was cordially received and noted for future consideration. Mr. L. T. Mills, of Camden, acting secretary of the as sociation addressed the meeting inter estingly regarding association affairs. This was a most enthusiastic meeting in&ed as \vell as a very pleasant one in every respect. Lieutenant Governor Cooper of North Carolina and his brother Thom f-a?- R- Coo par -ware arrested in Wil mington, Wednesday afternoon, charged with conspiracy to wreck the defunct Commercial National Barik ? ? the funds to their own HKTHUNK NKW8 NOTES Happening** of interest As Told By Our -Correspondent, llethunc, S. l\, Aug. 22. ? A union meeting of all the churches in town, lusting about a week, will begin at the Methodist church the first Sunday of September. Rev. W. II. Hoggs, church, will conduct the services, pastor of Arsenal Hill Presbyterian I)r. Boggs is pleasantly remembered as having conducted a meeting here two years ago and a warm welcome awaits him. The Billy Sunday Club of Columbia will be invited to come out and hold preparatory services. Rev. J. M. Forbis, Messrs. I). J. and D. D. Clyburn left Monday morning for the mountains of North Carolina. The Boy Scouts of McBee in charge of their Scout Master, Rev. Mr. Tucko/; camped at Big Springs last week. Miss Maxcy Beat of Hartsville, visv ited at the homes of Messrs. G. E. Parrot and B. W. Best last week. Prof. 0. R. Bell and family, who have been away for the summer, re turned to their home last week. Miss Rena McNaull has accepted a position at Bryan's Book Store, in Columbia. I)r. J, E. Severance, of Columbia, spent Sunday with his parents. Mr. Tom Bethune has returned to Auburn, Alabama. He was accom panied by Mayo Davis, who will re sume his studies in the University of that place. James Norwood, of McBee, spent several days at the home of his grand father, Mr. N. A. Bethune, last week. Miss Lillie Bradley and niece, Miss Ruby McFaddin, of Sardinia, are the guests of relatives here. Mr. and Mrs. L. S. King and aunt, Mrs. Suggs, of Hartsville, spent the week-end at the home of Mr. G. B. King. Rev and Mrs. J M. Forbis spent Friday in Columbia. Dr. and Mrs. A. W. Humphries have returned from a" visit to the latter's home in Mt. Carmel. Mrs K. T. Estridge spent last week with her daughter, Mrs. L. K. Yar brough in Sumter. - Master Neil Truesdell is spending the week at McBee with the family of his uncle, Dr. B. L. Norwood. ' Mr. 'Scegars, of Charleston, was -the week etid gue^t of his father, Mr. William Seegars. Rev. A. J. Graham and family of Rdidville aro spending some time with relatives here. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Welbourne have returned to their home in Anderson. They were accompanied home by Mrs. A. J. Smith and son, Paul, relatives of the latter. Miss Kathleen McCaekill returned i Tuesday from an extended visit to her sister, Mrs. C. O. Terry in Ray City, Georgia. Misses Fay and Margaret Hall,, of Anderson, are the guests of their cou sin, Miss Ailene McDowell. Mr. and Mrs. Dixon, of Lakeland, Florida, were the guests of Mrs. D. M. Mayes, sister of the latter, for sev- j eral days last week. Miss Sox, a trained nurse of Co lumbia, was the week-end guest of Mrs. L. O. Johnson. Mrs. M. 0. Ward and daughter, Mrs. C. H. Wall, were visitors at Ward lefet week. Dr. and Mrs. E. Z. Tuesdell, Miss Stella Bethune and Mr. W. A. Mc Dowell spent^ Tuesday in Columbia. First Bales From County. Mr. E. C. Pearce, of the Boykin section brought the first bale for this county to Camden on- Thursday last to be ginned at the Camden Oil Mill. Mr. Pearce did not sell his bale be cause of the fact that there was no market for long staple. Mr. L. H. Truesdale, of Lugoff, fol lowed Friday with a bale of short staple. It too was ginned at the Oil Mill ginnery and graded middling. It was sold to J. L. Moseley and tha price paid was 23 6-8 cents. The bale weighed 612 pounds. Her Mother Dead. Friends in Camden and throughout the county of Miss Ila Bearden, the popular teacher at Stockton School, sympathize with her in the death of her mother, Mrs. Julia Hayes Bear den, which occurred at Westminster, Saturday morning. Mrs. Bearden leaves a family of nine children. R. O. Atkinson, a well-known farm er of the Lowryville section of Ches eom>tyy wa^ alected a. ? mbtt of the house of representatives in an election held in C&ester county Tues day. The office became vacant when J. G. Glenn., Jr., ie?iyned in order to become solicitor. ? RAIDS AT SAVANNAH Caused Arrests of Men In (,iljfunt!c j Hoot lew: King. Washington, August 1(5. Depart ment of Justice officials decfaled to day that the loader* in the largest and most powerful "bootleg" ring in the United States have been taken into custody in the wholesale arrests made at Savannah, Ga., under direc tion of federal agents. Additional arrests are antieipated and it was stated that the ease might lead to some state and federal officers. William Haar, a one-time grocery elerk, is described as the principal leader of a i;ing which officials here claim operated a flotilla of craft, had its own cement line store houses i n the swamps along the Georgia and Florida coasts and supplied enormous quantities of liquor along the Atlantic seaboard as far east as' New Jersey; over the south and as far west as St. Louis, Chicago and Cleveland. Heading fow.es of less wealth and strength, according to justice officers, were William llaar, C. Graham Baughn, Richard Bailey and Sam Goldberg. These four are referred to as the "Big" Four" and it was said they were so known in "bootleg"' circles throughout the country. Haar is alleged to own a number of craft of British registry which were Used- to import intoxicants from Cuba, the Bahamas aiul other points in the West Indies. But the ring, the story goes, reached out even to Great Bri tain, France and Canada, for its sup pi ies. The craft bringing back stock from nearby ports would anchor out side the three mile limit, the claim is, and f^st motor boats would make the transfers1^ storehouses ashore. Dis tribution then would be made by automobiles and trains. ? Operations of the ring are said to ?have extended along the east coast of Florida and the Georgia coast, which, because of their numerous bayous and inlets isolated by large swamps made their operations com paratively free from detection from shore. , Finally efforts were made to break up the smuggling from the sea, but with hundreds of miles of coast line on which to operate, the rum runners usually were successful in evading capture. I was two years ago that informa tion came to the Department of Jus tice 0iat Savannah was the port for the Receipt and distribution of much of the liquor reaching the southern and eastern markets. Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, an assistant to the attorney general, who is charged with the enforcement of the prohibition law, ordered prohibi tion enforcement agents to that city in an" effort to break up the illicit trade. By this time, however, the ring from a beginning on a small basis, had become, according to officials, a large and powerful organization with an efficient ("intelligence" dejtart ment. The result was that the agents sent in were quickly "uncovered", making it necessary to replace them by others. The task of collecting evidence up on which to undertake prosecutions proved so difficult that Mrs. Wille brandt attacked the Job from another angle. She sent for the federal tax returns made by a number of the sus pected "bootleggers" and agents of the intelligence unit of the Internal Revenue Bureau and began an inves igation. Bank accounts of the men in Savan nah were examined and the trail of checks and drafts in large amounts and alleged to have been in payment for liquor were followed through banks in several cities, including New York. Meantime, the evidence thus dis closed convinced officialls here they were on the trail of the largest "bootleg" force in the country at least from a standpoint of the size of operations, and William J. Burns, di rector of the Bureau of Investigation of the Department of Justice, was askctf to take up the case. This was last May and Mr. Burns sent several agents to Savannah who worked in cooperation With the internal revenue bureau officers. Later the grand jury returned in dictments against the "big four," four or five others charging a violation of J the revenue act through failure to make proper returns. It was chafged that Haar had failed to make a return on income in excess of $1,000,000. These cases are s et for trial August 20, before Judge William J. Grubb, ?^f Birmingham, Ala., who is holding thfc current term of the Fed eral district at Savannah because Fed ermi Judge Barrett is in* ill health. ^ _T. ? ? ? ? ; FAKBR N. ACN1)' IN J Alb.' IWudo Agent For .Mythical Philadel phia House Incarcerated in Newberry. Newberry, August 1 S t h . ? A good looking man came to Newberry Wed nesday, going hence to Greenville Thursday morning1. Here he stayed at a hotel ami registered from Now York city, under the name oiHteorge Peters, While here he passed as a salesman for an alleged Philadelphia house that deals in office furniture. He sold a $200 piece of furniture to the Shamrock Tea Room, taking a chock for $40 as part payment, cash ing the check at one of the city banks. Inquiry coming lure from Camden about a fellow that had been, opera ting down there raised suspicion that this was the same person, and his ar rest was secured at Greenville and he was brought down to Newberry jail. Me owned up and -proposed' to repay the Shamrock Tea Room tin' $40. It is said he is anxious to get out of town before the Camden officers got here. He passed in that town mUler the name of Robert Boyd. A week ago those in charge of the "bootleg" investigation decided there was sufficient evidence upon which to base action. Accordingly indict ments for the "big four" and many others were drawn in the department of justice at a conference participated in by' Mrs. Willebrandt, White Miller, of Chattanooga, Tenn., a special as sistant to the the attorney general, delegated to prosecute the cases; Harold Allen, of counsel for the inter nal revenue* bureau, and Oliver Ila gan, indictment expert of the depart ment. With the stage thus set for what has proved to be the largest round-up made by the government under tho national prohibition law, 40 additional agents of tho Bureau of Investigation <Vere dispatched to Savannah. They began assisting the agents already on the ground and much additional evidence was obtained. The arrest of John J. Powers, a leading bnnker of Savannah, came as a surprise to officials here, who said they had not yet been advised as to what connection with the ring he was alleged to have had. There was taken in the round-up others whose alleged connection had not been made clear in reports to the department. One of the leaders, escaped arrest. He is described by Mr. Burns as H. H. Brown, who has a long string of aliases and who is Wanted by the po lice in a number of cities. Bureau of justice officers believe he . obtained information of the impending roundup and fled some days ago. Mrs. Willebrandt, in making public some of the details of the investiga tion, declared all of the units of the government called upon in the case had "worked together like one man." "Mr. Burns' men did most of the work in connection with the conspira cy to violate the prohibition law," she said. "While the internal Revenue Bureau men did the work on the tax cases but their tasks interlocked at many points and there was splendid co-operation." Rumors of the arrest of federal and state officers in connection with the sensational round-up of liquor in terests in Savannah added interest to the situatin'here today. The rumors, however, ? are said to have animated from an alleged threat of those placed under arrest, but if any arrests of of ficers have been made the fact has been fcept from the public. During the day, however, ten or twelve lesser lights in the alleged bootlegging constellation were taken into custody by federal officers, These arrests were said to have been made U^)on evidence obtained by government agents during their stay in Savan nah. The arrest of John J. Powers, vice president and cashier of the Exchange bank, yesterday afternoon was the chief subject of discussion during the day. He was immediately re leased on bond. Savannah has never before known an investigation of such magnitude as tlje one under way. It is said that there are 60 prohibition enforcement agents and department of justice men in Savannah. An entire floor of a ( local hotel is employed by the force. Many persons have been examined by the officials and two or more suspects it is reported, were kept under a fire of questions throughout the night. White 40 or more arrests have been announced, it Is gensratty tattrcd-that more are to follow. The rotfnd up has served to some what lessen the tale of liquor in Sa vannah. ?T- f . IWniKK AN!) SONS DROWN. Pathetic TrinKody at Old Quarry Pool Near Pacolet. ? ai " L" L ? Spartanburg, Aug, 10, Sannud \V Rogers of Pacolet, shipping clerk of the Pacolet Manufacturing Company, anil his three sons, were drowned in an abandoned rock quarry, near that place this afternoon. The tragedy was unknown until near nightfall, whoa the bodies of Mr. Rogers and his in fant son, clinging to his father's hair, were discovered floating in the pool by a negro waterboy, employed by the Pacolet quarry. Mrs. Rogers had remained nt the family residence in Pacolet mill, while Mr. Rogers,, on the first day of his vacation, took the boys for an outing. She is suffering tonight from severe shock and the attending^ physician says she had not been told of the extent of the tragedy that has befallen the family. ' The dead are: Samuel \V. Rogers, aged ?ll) years. Siimuel W. Rogers, Jr., aged 13. .John L. Rogei's, aged 11 years. .Tames Rogers, aged five years. I)i Kirkpatrick of Pacolvt, who was anions the first to reach the scene, said tonight, that assisted by those who had reached the pool a short while before he arrived, he floated the bodies of Mr. Rogers and the little boy to the shallow water, but found that there was no hope of re suscitating them, death having taken place hours before. The bodies of the older boys were found in tho bottom of the pool and only after Consider able effort were they recOvered.Thoy wore bathing suits but the little boy was dressed in rompers and Mr. Rog ers was only partially undressed. There were no eyewitnesses* and of course the circumstances surrounding the tragedy are unknown. The pool is of clear water, in a basin of solid rock and while not frequently is some times used for bathing. It is not known that Mr. Rogers or the boys were in the habit of going to the pool. Mr. Rogers, who is widely Connected in this part of the state has been with the Pacolet Manufacturing company 15 years. Mrs. Rogers, who before her marriage was Miss Emma Black mon of Hartsville., taught school at Pacolet and was married there. Mr. and Mrs. Rogers were planning to leave tomorrow morning for Harts-' Ville to visit her family. ^ DELEGATION TO FLORENCE. Farmers and Others Visited Experi ment Station Wednesday. '* Sixty representative Kershaw coun ty farmers and <Jther business men in cluding a number ?rom Camden's mercantile and banking interests went on tho got together, "see and learn" ? tip to Florence boll weevil laboratory and experimental tests and visited Sumter on the return trip to see the two Sumter creameries, cannery and L. D. Jennings Duroc hog farm and dairy farm, and they took in the Young pedigreed seed farm near Florence also. About forty-five went to Sumter. Secretary T. F. Moflfelt and County Agents J. M. Eleasor and J. F. Williams, Dr. E. S. Booth, and other Sumter Board of Trade officials welcomed the visitors. At Florence Dr. N. E. Winters, boll weevil expert and E. 6. Hall, agronomist and oth ers of the official government staff, lectured and showed the visitors over the Pee Dee Experimental farm and boll weevil tests. The delegation was composed of farmers from every section of Ker- - shaw county and Industrial Agent Mc Bride of the S. A. L. Railway com pany met the party at Florence and accompanied them to Sumter. The Standard Creamery, Sumter Creamery, Sumter Cannery, Buttercup Ice Cream factory and Jennings live stock farm proved very interesting features, as did the Florence govern ment experimental farms. J. W. Sanders, county agent and Secretary E. I. Reardon engineered the trip. Everybody was well pleased and found the lectures, farms and other plants instructive and profitable. This was one of the biggest delegations that ever visited the experimental station. As a get together between city, town and country, and "sec and learn" trip it was a great success. Camden and Kershaw County Cham ber Commerce, County Agent Sanders, and Miss Boyd, home demonstration agent, are puling off a series of get together trips and are working on the Kershaw County Fair Associa tion organization and this county Is going To~haye a~fi?ST~<eTfi&B couflty ftrtr this falL Misses Loree and Cecil# Traoadall are visiting frkiKto in Monroe, N. C. ' WMtaSfM