The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, May 16, 1924, Image 6
Sick
Headache
"1 have uaed Black-Draught
when ueedud for the past 25
years," a a y h Mrs. Kmma
Grimes, of Forbes, Mo. "1 ,
began taking it for a bad case 1
of constipation. I would get 1
constipated and fee! just mis- i
crable- -sluggish, tired, a bad
taste in my mouth, . . . and
soon my head would begin
hurting and 1 would have a
severe sick headache. I don't
knew just who started me to i
taking j
Thedford's
BLACK-DRAUGHT
but it did the work. It just
seemed to cleanse the liver.
Very soon I felt like new.
When I found Black-Draught
so easy to take and easy
acting, I began to use it in
time and would not have sick
headaches."
Constipation cause* the
Byiitem to re-absorb poisons
that may cause great pain
and much danger to youi
health. Take Thedford's
Black-Draught. It will stimu
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only one cent a dose. _
P-1A1
MWDOO WAS FAVORITK
With Conventions Hold at Various
County SeatH of State.
(From Tuesday's State)
With 13 counties giving direct in
structions to its delegates to t lie state
Democratic convention to vote for
delegates to the national convention
who would support William Ciibbs
McAdoo as long as there was any
chance for his nomination, IS indors
ing him without instructions, one giv
ing a half way indorsement in the
form of instructions to vote for Mc
Adoo in case the issue were between
him and Smith, and ll taking no defi
nite action on the subject, the 46
counties of South Carolina expressed
their preference in their Democratic
conventions. None instructed for or
indorsed any other candidate.
With instructions and indorsements
combined,' McAdoo carried 31 counties
as opposed to the M which expressed
no preference.
Saluda was the one county which
expressed the preference for McAdoo
only over Alfred Smith, while New
berry indorsed McAdoo, Underwood,
(?lass, Ralston and Davis as being up
to the standards of the Democratic
party, without expressing preference
to any, A1 Smith being the only 041c
left out in the cold.
Numbers of Women were elected as
delegates, some with^iialf votes and
sonic with full votes. In some cases
the women were given full votes and
men half votes and in others it was
vice versa. Some counties doubled
the delegations giving all half votes.
The counties which sent their dele
gations instructed for McAdoo were:
Aiken, Bamberg, Calhoun, Chester,
Colleton, Dillon, Kdgefield, Horry,
Jasper, Lancaster, Lee. Marion and
Richland.
Those which merely indorsed Mc
Adoo were: Allendale, Barnwell,
Heaufort, Chesterfield, Clarendon,
Darlington. Fairfield. Florence,
Greenwood, Kershaw. Laurens, Mc
Cormick, Newberry (with all others
hut Smith), Oconee, Orangeburg.
Saluda (if at issue with Smith).
Spartanburg, Union and Williams
burg. These make the total It'.
The following sent uninstructed
delegations: Abbeville, Anderson,
Berkeley. Charleston, Cherokee, I 'or
? hester Georgetown, Greenville,
Hampton Lexington, Marlboro. Pick
cn?;, Sumter and Y01 k.
Jenkins Sentenced.
Lexington, N. C., May !?>. I < '
Jenkins, former chief of police 01"
Thomasville, N. this afternoon
was found guilty of mui'!< t ;n the
cecond degree in connection with *.!.<
death at Thomasville late in .March >\
Mrs. Elizabeth Jones of Appalachia,
Va. Ho was immediately sentenced
to from 2.r> to 30 years in state prison
.it hard labor. Counsel gave notice of
appeal.
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COLUMBIA, S. C.
HANGING IS AN AKT
Louisiana Kxecutioner Telia Huh It !
Feel* to Kill Six at u Time.
New Orleans, May 10. Hang
ing convicted criminals in a good job
with plenty of money in it if there
are enough of them providing the
man who shoots his victims into
eternity has sufficient nerve and skill,
and holds no compunction over taking
a human life.
So spoke the mysterious hangman
who yesterday afternoon dropped six
Italians through the gallows at
Amite, La., and then boastfully
characterized his day's work as ''per
fect."
In an exclusive interview with In
ternational News Service, the little
man, aged, gray and Hlightly stooping
(under the weight of 61 year# gave an
account of experience^ he encounter
ed during the execution of his grue
sorhe work. Not until he was assured
that his identity would be concealed*
however, would he be approached.
"If the law requires hanging," ho
said, "someone must do it. I have
$300 in my pockets from yesterday's!
work and $50 a head is pretty fair
money, considering the speedy
fashion in which I get it over with.
"Then it takes skill to hang in the
right way, Kasiest thing in the
world to bungle a job and let your
man strangle to death. That's some
thing I can't stand.
"And nerve? well', it takes a lot
of it. 1 almost lost mine yesterday
for the first time when 1 hanged
Andrea Lamantia after he had
stabbed himself. When they brought
his unconscious form up the gallows
stairs, I felt like running away; and
1 almost did it,
"Hut when 1 thought to myself, the
sooner I get that poor devil out of
his misery, the better off he'll be, so
I rushed the job up; and I did it well,
too didn't I ? I broke his neck and
he felt nothing."
The hangman never looks at his
victim after they have taken their
death plunge. Although he reluct
antly admitted that he has taken the
lives of some sixteen men, he has
never seen one dangling at the end
of the rope which he has so carefully
prepared.
His first act after releasing the
death trap is to run for seclusion
and there he remains hidden away
until the doomed man has been pro
nounced dead and his body .taken
away.
At the yxecution yesterday a
special room was set aside in the
jnil for his benefit, and he darted
into this immediately after killing
the men. After springing the trap
for the 'third time, spelling death for
the last pair of doomed men, he ran
into his secluded nook and sat there,
trembling for more than an hour. .
"The worst job I've ever done," he
said. "And if I bungled, it wasn't
my fault. Did you see the way some
of tin* witnesses stared at me while
I was working and tried to see
enough of my face under my mask to
find out \vhomI really was? That was
a\Vful. Couldn't keep my mind on
my work. They ought not to do it.
They ought to be satisfied that 1 hang
them without trying to find out who
1 am."
The hangman scorned to take the
greatest pride in doing his jobs with'
out' bungling 'em and confessed thu?
"hanging is an art."
"But now I'll tell vou why 1 really
/?
hang these devils," he added, volun
tarily, "I have a little home here in
New Orleans and in that home I have
a wife and daughter. I'm trying to
give that daughter an education in
music. 1 .want her to be cultured, re
fined and to have an education.
"In my regular profession as a ear
penter, 1 don't make enough money
to give her tlu'.xe things, .no when
the authorities ask me to don my
Mark mask anil <io some more of
their work 1 iaunot iefuse.
"Do you leally blame me; and am
.1 so bad, after all ?
"If they e\'e! found out. !' Wou'd
kill me. I i ouldn't ?tand it. And
I've got t?i In- i ai < fu!, too, for if
there are many mole jobs like that
one yesterday I'm afraid they will
t! Denver the truth.
Besides l.amant.a. ? he ? ! h e i live
who died on t h ?? t'.illow.s yesterday
were: Ro> l.eona. .Joseph (Jiglio,
.Joseph Him; Natale Deamore and
.Joseph Boeehio. All were convicted
and sentenced to death for the mur
der of Dallas ( almes, during an
attempt to rol> a hank at Ir.depin
dence, I. a., three \eaf- ago.
i
Dry agent< i r. New VoiV !a-t j'"* j
day, posing a* we.vhy' t igai dealers
from Philadelphia, after dickering I
with nr. Italian firm < f cigar dealers
' and gaining their -confidence, vaided ?
their place of business and >eized 1
$20,000 worth of liquor
On its 1 ns*t trip to Kng.ar.d from1
New York, the ? stv*nm = h.!p Majestic ;
bad to mako a wide detour in order ?
to avoid floating iceberg*, of which
warnings had been sent out by the
guarding" ships in the ire fields.
LUXURIOUS YACHT 8AIL8
Built in Germany But Given Finish
ing TouehfH at Jacksonville.
Jacksonville* FU4 May 10. ? With
her owner, designer and some thirty
two expert shipmen aboard, the
Vanadis, said to be the thin! costliest
yacht in the world, sailed out of Jack
sonville this week for a trial trip to
the West Indies. The Vanadis was
constructed in Kiel, Germany, at a
cost of nearly a million dollars. Be
cause of a dock workers strike there,
the vessel was brought across the
sea to Jacksonville where it has re
ceived the finishing touches.
This beautiful little pleasure boat
is $0 property of C. K. G. Killings,
retired capitalist and internationally
known sportsman. It is equipped
with two 1,000. horsepower Diesel
engines and auxiliaries and has a
cruising radius of 12,000 miles. It. U
said to be one of the two yachts that
possess a gyroscope, which is a stab
ilizing device for the purpose of
dimishing the motion of the vessel
at sea.
, The boat is decorated like a palace
on the inside. Its feature decoration
is a coastal chart of the world show
ing the most important discoveries
and navigations from 1,600 B. C., to
the end of the eighteenth century.
A New York artist, Mr. Billings said,
spent eighteen months making this
chart. The boat itself, was designed
by Irving Cox, well known naval
architect.
Following his return to Jackson
ville in a few days, Mr. Billings plans
to set sail immediately for New York
city. He. maintains homes in New
York, Chicago and California.
General News Notes
The sudden death of Charles- F.
Murphy, Tammany boss, in New
York, Friday, is said to have loosened
the grip of Tammany on the Demo
cratic party, and lessened the chances
of Governor Smith of New York to
get the Democratic, presidential nomi
nation, who had the backing of Mur
phy.
JBandits robbed the assistant
cashier of the Granite City National
Bank, Granite City, 111., of payrolls
totaling $63,000 on Friday. The
money had just been received from
the St. Louis reserve bank through
the post office.
Policeman Phillip Ryan, 27, killed
a bandit in New York early Saturday
morning as the bandit attempted to
pull a gun on him after requesting .*?
cigarette. The dead bandit proved
to be the policeman's brother-in-law,
aged 17 year**.
Mrs. N. E. Smythe, worried over
financial affairs, on Friday night shot
hej' daughter, aged 30, and herself,
aged AO, to death in a Phoenix, Ari
zona rooming house.
J. Pierpont Morgan , New York
financier, is in Paris discussing with
French authorities the matter of an
international loan to Germany. Four
of the governments at interest have
agreed to the adoption of the Dawes
reparations report.
Governor Pinehot of Pennsylvania,
has called a conference of forty-one
mayors of Pennsylvania cities of the
first, second and third class, to meet
in Harrisburg on May 7 to start a
law enforcement campaign against
crime of all kinds but especially boot
leggers.
Police Sergeant Daniel B. (Big
Dan) Ahearn, known as the tallest
policeman in the world, has retire.!
from the police force of Hartford,
Conn., on a pension, on account of ill
health. He is six feet, seven and a
half inches tall.
Miss Elizabeth Howe, of Fulton,
N. V., has been awarded the ''?Sunny
Jim" prize as the most "outstanding
young woman" of Bryn Mawr college.
Philadelphia. The winner must pos
sess such qualities as courage, cheer
fulness. fairmindedness, and gooil
sportsmanship.
The Republican delegates from
Tennessee to the National Republican
convention at Cleveland, Ohio, next
month, will l>< for President Cool id go
foi the presidential nomination.
; There are J7^ votes for Tennessee.
Frank I rbain. Altoona, Pa. man.
last Frida\ withdrew $1,400 from a
bank in t unvni y. changed silver into
bills i 1 1| it ? t rtl $?;oo more in bills and
vet tne pile on fire and after being,
sun it was gone beyond recovery,
drank a pint of furniture polish and
j ate a can of wall cleaner. He died n
j few hours later. He was 65. His
I wife i.r lathei his widow, was unable
i to . xplain t he act.
l'hc home of Francis Marion, fa
mous Revolutionary leader which is
located in Williamsburg county is re
j*?r:ed falling into decay. The owners
the property have declined over
Iw I ft to SP II it to the state.
Thr general Methodist conference
in session at Springfield, Mass., is be
ing urged to investigate the large mi
gration of negroes from the South to
North, on the ground that it is hurt
ful to the negroes.
Makes your property safe and
will provide you promptly with
ready money with which to re
build or replace the damage
done to your buildings.
The cost is insignificant compared with
the tremendous risk to run.
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General Ihsurance Agents
Phone 43
Two Little Victims Huried.
The " refrains of two little child
dren, victims of the storm that Swept
over portions of South Carolina on
last Wednesday, were brought to
Westville on last Friday to be taken
to the home of their grandparents for
burial. They were the children of
Mr. and Mrs. James E. Gaskin, of
Lykesland, whosfc home was utterly
destroyed, the parents being both in
the hospital now, the father with a
broken leg, the mother with a broken
arm and other injuries, and the older
brother injured while the other two
children who were in the Horrell Hill
school which was completely wrecked,
escaped without injury. The two
little children, who were killed, were
blown some distance from the home.
The younger, IS months jidd, landed
in a puddle of water and was almost
dead from drowning while the other,
five years old, was imbedded in the
sand and already dead when found.
Efforts to resuscitate the young child
proved futile and it died in a short
time after being found.
The children were buried in the
Gaskin graveyard in the Flat Rock
section, near the home of Mr. and
Mrs. John E. Gaskin, their grand
parents. The funeral services were
conducted by Rev. W. F. Estridge
and Rev. J. M. Neal.
Prof, and Mrs. G. C. Gaskin, ol
Greenville, and Dr. L. R. Gaskin of
Mt. C'roghan, were here to attend the
funeral.
An appeal for help for the parents
of the children i.?^ being published
in the Era today and a liberal re
sponse will no doubt come from the
friends of the family. ? Kershaw Era.
Dr. Turner Gets Hand Injured.
Dr. W. B. Turner had his left hand
badly lacerated last Thursday morn- 1
ing. He was leading his cow by n,
chain when she made a lunge for
ward and ran, dragging the chain
rapidly through his - hand, and the
hook at the end of the chain caught
in the flesh of the palm and tore a
long gash in the doctor's hand ns it
jerked through. The hand was
dressed by Dr. Blackmon and it re
quired many stitches and a consider
able length of time to unite the edges
?of the torn place. ? Kershaw Era.
Hyman Sverdlow of Philadelphia,
has been awarded damages of $750
for being arrested by Reading rail
road detectives when they found the
man kissing his wife in the Reading
terminal in that city last January.
The railroad police suspected the man
of being a masher who was playing
his game. Instead he was merely
kissing his wife goodbye as he was
about to take the train for a new
job. The arrest caused him to miss
his train and the job.
Police have arrested four men who
are eharged with the killing of Ernest
^Whitman, a bond salesman, when six
bandits held up the First National
bank at Bellmore, N. Y., April 4 and
got away with $6,000. The police
claim positive identifications of the
men under arrest.
AN ORDINANCE
To- Approve Assessment Roll for
Street Improvements.
State of South Carolina,
County of Kershaw.
City of Camden.
Be it ordained by the Mayor and
Aldermen of the City of Camden, and
by the authority of same:
Section 1. That the Assessment
Roll on abutting property for street
improvements on Fourteenth Street
Chestnut, extending from Sixth Ave
nue-Broad on the east to the traclu
of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad )
on Gordon Street on the West, and
for sidewalks on Fourth Avenue
Lyttleton street extending from
Tenth street-Rutledge on the South to
Fourteenth street- Laurens on the
north, and on Tenth street-Rutledge
Avenue, extending from Fourth
Avenue Lyttleton on the east to
Seventh Avenue-Church street on the
West, as prepared by Carolina Engi
neering- Company, Wilmington, North
Carolina, of date "April 28th, 1924,
be and the same is hereby approved .
and adopted subject to such correc
tion by said Carolina Engineering
Company of any errors that may ap
pear on said Assessment Roll, and
with ? the exception that all churcfe
property contained in said Roll shall
be exempt from said assessments.
Section II. That said assessments
contained ill said Roll shall constitute
and be a Hen upon said abutting prop
erty as provided for in an Ordinance
ratified in Council assembled this 28th
day of April, 1924.
? Ratified in Council assembled this
28th day of April, 1924.
H. G. CARRISON, Jr. ;
Mayor of the City of Camden.
Attest:
H. C. SINGLETON,
City Clerk.
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