The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, May 16, 1924, Image 2
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"My baby a<i croaa and fretful
before I idrtitl *ivlnf Mm Teethtna
th?<t I couldn't look after my houne
work, t>ut be I* now ?o different
you'd hardly know htm." writes Mra.
j. M. Wurbinirton, 513 6un?et Ay#..
Atlanta, ?>.?.
"lie was rotlcky and constipated
n ri ?l whs cORVUillttf cryin* M if
pain, i gave him a doae of Teetfclna
. v.tv ni .'it md ht? now Uu^hi,
crawl# around and plays all tb? time/
( rifvcr kn?w when h? w?h cutting
b?i r.utli 1 1 II they w -re through"
Colic U? often the result of ov?r?
loading baby's stomach with tod
much rood, Teethlna relieves this
? . . .d? tion and tnduo** re?t And qul*t?
n?Bj? at might. *
Teethlna ta cold by all druarjr'jt*.
or send .10c to the- Moffat Labora
tories, ColuniTiua, Oa.. for a parkajfe
and a free booklet about b.ibl^a.
HAD \)\\ I- OK i>A<;ORS
I'trst Time in H?*t?ry Where Hi* Men
Hunt For Mtrder of One Man.
Amite. Ln., May SV Si.\ men, whose
attempt three .years ftgo to rob a
hank, resulted ?n the murder of a
man, went to the.ir .deaths at the eful
of the hangman' i noose today in the
Tanifipiihau parish jail.
They Were executed in pairs, the
aged cowled hangman runi)iuK fi'om
t h?* improvised platform immediately
itftff i'a< h |tal! hitd (liojjj)fd the ten
fee t to etein'ty", only to return after
their bodies hhd been cut down to
prepare the nooses for those next. ?
.Mix casket* wt re in the morgue at
Hammond tonight awaiting the trains
?hat would take ? them to their final
resting places.
The bodies Andrea L.'jmftntia,
Joseph (?i^li;> an.d Hoy l.cona Will be
.sent. to Brooklyn, N. V. Joseph kini'i
hotly will Im* taken t? Chicago by his
father.
Natnle UcaiwVie will timl rest in
(*he cemetery at his home in New
Orleans. Joseph i'octhio, the friend
Jess boy. who hud a liking lor liter
ature and music will escape . the
potters' grave through a welfare ?> r -
ganixalion wh'<h vsill finance his
burial in \'?*v/ Orleans. Bocchio's
former home was*/ hicago..
Teethina Made
My Little Boy
So Different
PIANO TUNING
Lewis L. Moore
242- W PHONE or 46
CAMDEN, S. C.
T. R. BRUCE
Veterinarian
l.vllliton St.. I'huoc Ml.
CAMDEN, 3. C.
Hayes Bus Line
CAMDEN
TO
Columbia, Sumtor,
Biahopville, Hartsville,
Kershaw, Lancaster,
Charlotte.
For in for million
Phone 181, Camden Hotel
A. R. COLLINS
Undertaker and Embalmer
AMBULANCE SKKVICK
Camden, S. C.
Telephone ? Dajr 41; Nl*ht 989
I hitjt ?>f t h ?? nu n wen- - 1 years
of .?g* when the crime whs i;om.
miiiiti. K?>U! left widow* and chil
dren. Two had served in the World
waf with the Kmerican force*. ,
1 hr? ? urn' Italian nationals and
th ??' remainder of Italian parentage.
The Italian ambassador at Washing
ton pleaded with Governor Parker for
the Ii.es of hi. -s countrymen but his
pleas a* well a a. those of thouaamwi
of Italian Americans went unheeded.
The men were hanged on the double
falit.w- at 30 minute intervals with
locklike regularity, four dying calm
ly and the oth*r two, one as a result
of it i attempt at .suicide and the other
rot nervous 'collapse, realized little of
what was in progress. The executions
began at noon.
l.amantia, while boona and > Oea
more, the first pair to hang, were
swaying from the gallows and Kini
and (liglio were waiting in the
corridor to begin their walk to the
?uaffold, took advantage of an instant
when thv turnkey had faced another
direction, obtained a small pocket
r
knife he had secreted and stabbed
and gashed himself in the chest
several times. All of the prisoners
were searched last night for weapons
and where l.amantia had concealed
the knife no official could learn. He
had thick hair on his head and sotac
believe it probably had been hidden
there. Kini and Ciiglio were returned
t(? their .cells and Lamantia was taken
into the corridor frtr an examination
by physicians. They pronounced the
! wtninds superficial and those in
Charge of the executions sent Laman
tia and Bocchio to the scaffold.
I'occhio because of his collapse as
a result of failure to obtain a last
minute reprieve, had to be carried up
the scaffold. When, placed on the
trap h?- could hardly stand and a
priest put his arm about his shoulder,
keeping if there.- untit*he fell with the
trap,
l.amantia with his shirt stained
with blood from the self-inflicted
wounds could or would not stand and
he was seated 'in a chair on the trap
and went to his death it) that manner.
Five ofc-the men went to instant
death, the drop breaking their necks
but Giglio, one of the last pair to die,
strangled. Giglio turned his head
just as the trap was sprung, slipping
the knot from the vital spot, swayed
and as the rope straightened with the
fall his body writhed.
The authorities had expected
trouble with I.eona and Deamorc,
both . of whom had shown' indications
of lunacy during the; last two weeks,
but they went to their deaths with,
tirm step and were perfectly rational.
A few minutes -before the prisoner.*?
left New Orleans Wednesday for
Amite. I.eona stabbed himself in the
chest Ave times with a dirk.
Kini and Ciiglio talked before the
I1 death masks* wore adjusted. "This is
butchery and ought to be stopped.
Four are dead already and now you
are killing two more. I hope you
devils are satisfied," Kini said bit
terly.
(iiglio vehemently denounced Gov
ernor Parker.
They were asked who the seventh
man in the hank robbery conspiracy
vva> hut declined to answer. A
seventh man is believed to have
switched out the lights in the hank
simultaneously with the arrival of the
robber car in Independence*.
Rini and (Iiglio Embraced and
ki.-sed before they died.
? '1 am going to heaven," Deamore
said, as he was led from his cellar ?s
the mask wa.H adjusted, he cried:,
"They hang-a me. They hang-a me."
I.eona kissed a New Orleans deputy
.sheriff before hi- was led to the gnl
low
Officials here said this was the first
time six men had been hanged in the
United States for the murder of one
man.
Amite was ? rowd-ed with visitors
from all p;irts of the parish but they
we 1 not permits! to go on the large
squase occupied by the court house
and jail. Companies of national
guai d.smer. were stationed about the
stjiuiie and orl> those with permits
fr >m Sheriff Hovvden or Adjutant
(icmr.tl Toombs, personally in charge
of tin- soldiers, were permitted to go
through the lines. No disordt t of
ai ; k i fid was reported.
(liilv o:i!' . *' the sextette did the ac
tual shooting The other* were in ?
parked automobile several' block*
away at the time. The band was bent
on robbing the vau't of the bank it
Independence, which wa.? tilled uithi
mo/iey for the strawberry grower*.
According to his confession, I.eona
came from Brooklyn to New Orleans
to make whiskey. In the home of a
friend in New Orleans was hatched
the bank robbery plot and h^ invited
the other five to participate.
They secured revolvers and dyna
mite and set out for Independence.
In the fastness of the night th* bit?
automobile stopped near the bank.
Leona alighted and went to recon
noiter, in preparation for the bank
blasting thst would follow. He wax
heard by Dallma Calmes, restaurant
teur, who sdept next to the bank.
Revolver in hand, Crimea rah out into
the night only to be shot down and
the robber band fled. All were found
guilty of firat degvue murder and the
death penalty invoked. ^
Ww Yolk, May ThlHy*lU
hours before he was hanged at Amite,
I.a., with five companion* for a mur
der committed three years* ago, Hoy
I . .M i his wife, Vera, that he
was innocent of the crime but that
he hat! attempted . t? shoulder the en
tire blame for it, in an effoit to save
the men condemned to die with him.
"I knew I had not very much longer
to live, an my lung* could not last
much longer, at beat," hi* wroto hia
wife. *So I told the police that I
alone was .to blame ?fthftt 1 had done
the killing. But it did no good.. They
will hang. the others toot i am inno
cent."
' Mrs. I.eona who divides her days
and nights between a ten hour day in
a factory and in caring for several
small children in a Brooklyn tene
ment, received the letter a short time
hefort' her husband was hanged to
day. Her husband, a sufferer from
tuberculosis had gone to California
four years ago, later moving *o
Louisiana, seeking health.
Negro GHh New Trial.
Columbia, May 9. ? Appeal of Car
roll Orr, rtfty-five-year-old negro,
under sentence of death aft?V con
viction of murder in the circuit court
of Charleston for killing J. Madison
Heape an aged Confederate veteran,
a few miles above Charleston, was
granted today by the supreme court
of South Carolina. A new trial was
ordered.
Small Tornado Causes Damage.
Mayesville, May 11.- ? A small fun
nel shaped tornado passed within one
mile of Mayesville this evening at
7: IT), destroyed all outbuildings, barn
and stables, gin house and one tenant
house on the H<, C. DesChamps farm.
The storm followed Black River,
destroying one house on the \V," D.
Rhodes farm.
Trees and everything in its path,
which was 1 0p fe<?t wide, were torn
up. It would rise and fall, which
saved spots in its path. Messrs.
Mayes, Tiller and Greer just happen
ed to get out of its path and ran
from their car to an embankment and
watched the cone shaped wind carry
ing high in the air articles it picket!
up. No one was reported injured.
The suit of Miss Helen Jesraer,
former Follies girl, against Philip
Morgan Plant in a New York court
for $500,000 damages, for alleged in
juries received while riding in a car
belonging to Plant and driven by him,
has been settled out of court. Report
is that Miss .Jesmer has been paid
$100,000.
" i.UmiP'."' III"" ' ' .
APTBR THIRTY-FOl'R YKARS
Sumter County Lady Kind* Her Kn
gagement King in KieM.
Sumter, May H. ? "Truth is .strung- 1
er than fiction." It is an old saying
but its truth demonstrates itself
every once in a while in a very in
teresting manner. All of which
brings' up the point in question.
Thirty-four years ago, next Septem
ber, Mrs. T. B. Brunson, then Miss
DuKant, for it was before her
marriage lost her engagement ring.
The other day it turned up in per
fectly good condition, ready for her
to wear, except that her finger had
become more ample in the thirty-four j
years which have passed and the ring j
was too small and had to be enlarged, j
The ring was found on A^>ril 17 j
bj/ Mrs. Brunson's son who was plow- j
ing in\a field near her house.' He saw j
a bit of something shiny and curiosity !
made him stop his plow and go back j
to see what it was. He scratched in j
the soft dirt and uncovered a ring j
with a diamond solitaire. At home \
his mother recognized her engage- j
ment ring which she had lost in Sep
tember, 1890. Mrs. Brunson, in
speaking of the matter today, stated
that she remembered the loss of the
ring because it was on her birthday.
She thought at the time that it haJ
been stolen but now that it has been
found, she remembers that in that
year the garden was in the vicinity
of the place where the ring was found
and she had been in the garden to
gather vegetables. What makes the
recovery of the ring more wonderful
is that it was in perfect state of
preservation, not even being tar
! nished. The initials "T. B. to L. D.,"!
were just as plain, after the ring had '
been cleaned, as they were the day it ;
was given her. In the years since
j the ring was lost, many things have
happened in the Brunson family.
The vicissitudes of time have brought
about many changes, a family has
grown up and gone out to care for
themselves. Mr. Brunson has passed
away, but the ring remained hidden
while no telling how many plows
turned it up or how many feet passed
over it.
Held for Issuing Bad Checks.
Deputy Sheriff P. H. Hudson went
to Florence Monday afternoon and
brought back J. L. Castleberry white
man, who was held by the Florence
police. Castleberry is alleged to have
given the J. R. Turner Company and
other business houses crt Bennettsvilio
checks on a bank in Camden without
having funds in the bank to pay them.
He was lodged in the county jail.
Magistrate Gibson has allowed him
ten days in which to communicate '
with his people, who, he says live in
Sampson county, North Carolina, be
fore holding the preliminary trial. ?
Bennettsville Advocate.
Four hotel men of Cape May
county, N. J. . have been put under
bail on charge* of selling a party of
seven Philadelphia youths liquor, pne
of whom died last week.
FINAL DISCHARGE
Notiee is hereby given that one
month from this date on Wednesday,
May 21st, 1021, I will make to the
Probate Court of Kershaw County my
final return as Guardian of the estate
of Edgar A, Hlackwell, he having at
tained his majority, and on the same
date I will apply to the said Court
for a Final Discharge from my trust
as said Guardian.
NANNIE J. BLACKWBLt.
Camden, S. ( April 10, 1 92 I.
NOTICE OF ELECTION
State of,. So.uth Carolina, ?
County of Kershaw.
We, the undersigned Trustees of
Crescent School District No. 39 of
Kershaw County, S. C., having be
fore us a petition signed by more
than one third of the resident electofs
and resident free holders over the age
of twenty-one ye^s, petitioning us
to order and hold an election, to sub
mit to the qualified electors of the
said school district, as provided for
in See. 2606 of Code of 1022, Vol. 3,
the question of issuing bonds of the
said school district to the amount
of Three Thousand ($3,000.00) Dol
lars for the purpose of erecting a
new school building in the said school
district, and for equipping it.
After receiving said petition we
have had a surveyor make a plat of
the said school district and have or
dered the same filed in the office of
Clerk of Court for Kershaw County,
S. C.
Now, therefore, by virtue of the
authority vested in us we do hereby
order an election to be held at Cres
cent Schoolhouse in School District
No. 39, Kershaw County, S. C., on
the 20th day of May, 1924, to submit
to the qualified electors the proposi
tion of issuing bonds of the said
district to the amount of $3,000 for
the purpose of building a new school
building in the said district and for
the purpose of equipping it.
The following citizens: J. M.
Porter, George Aldrich and G. W.
Miles, are designated as managers,
the polls to open at 8 a.m., and close
at 1 p.m., at Crescent Schoolhouse.
GEORGE ALDRICH,
Chairman,
J. M. PORTER, Clerk,
G. W. MILES.
April 3.0, 1924.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
A1 parties indebted to the estate
of Columbus Stokes, deceased, are
hereby notified to make payment to
the undersigned, and all parties, if |
any, having claims against the said !
estate will present them duly attested !
within the time prescribed by law. ;
E. C. STOKES,*
Qualified Administrator Estate '
of Columbus Stokes.
Camden, S. C., May 2, 1924.
ANNOUNCEMENT.
For Clerk of Court.
I hereby announce myself as a can
didate for re-election to the office of
Clerk of Court for Kershaw County,
subject to the rules and regulations
ft, ?-oCr.tiCjprir.cTvBuRN
For SvperinUndent of Education
I hereby announce myself as a can
didate for re-election to the office ot
County Superintendent of Education
for Kershaw County, subject tp th?>
rules and regulations of the Dent
ocratic primary. * ,
ALLEN B. MURCHISQN.
I wish to thank my friends for an
nouncing me for County Superin
tendent of Education for Keraha*
County. After considering the mat
ter I will mAke the race and wiH
appreciate the support of the people
I have disposed of my buainesa
interests and therefore I am in post
tion to duvote my time to the Super
intendent's work, which I will do fc'
elected. I need no introduction t?
the people of Kershaw County; njy
work and record is known.
I. J. McKENZIE.
FOR ROAI) SUPERINTENDENT
I hereby announce myself a candi
date for Road Superintendent of Ker
shaw County, at the approaching
primary election, and pledge myself 5
elected to raithful and efficient ser
vice. G. W. TURNER.
At the solicitation of my many
friends throughout the county, I here
by announce myself as a candidate
for the office of Road Superintendent
of Kershaw County, subject to the
rules and regulations of the Demo
cratic primary.
D T. yarbrough:
' FOR CORONER ~
I hereby announce myself as a can
didate for the office of Coroner for
Kershaw County, subject to the rul#*
of the Democratic primary.
W. F. RUSSELL.
FOR MAGISTRATE .
I hereby announce myself a caiwt^
date for re-nomination for the office
of Magistrate for DeKalb Township,
Kershaw County, South Caroling,
subject to the rules of the Demo
era tic., primary.
SAMUEL N. NICHOLSON.
At the solicitation of . my many
friends in and around Bethune,
hereby announce myself as a candi
date for re-election to the office of
Magistrate, subject to the rules an!
regulations of the Democratic Pri
mary. J. E. COPELAND.
FOR COUNTY DIRECTOR
I hereby announce myself as a can
didate for County Board of Director
for DeKalb Township, subject to the
rules and regulations of the primary.
J. N. McLEOD.
I hereby announce myself as a caa
didate for the office of County Direc
tor from West Wateree Township,
subject to the rules of the Demo
cratic primary. J. L. HINSON.
FOR CONGRESS
I hereby announce that I am a can
didate in the Democratic primaries
South Carolina, for the nomination of
Representative of the 5th Congres
sional District for the 69th Congress
and I take this opportunity to thank
the people of the District for their
loyal support in the past and to sajf
that I shall endeavor to deserve their
support and confidence in the futui*.
W. F. STEVENSON.
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