The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, June 06, 1924, Image 6
MODERN THIEVES
HAVE NEW TRICKS
Growth of Banking Habit
Drives Crooks to Holdups -
? -Try Many Schemes*
New York - *H'hlVve?. willi tow ex
ception.*. prefer hurd, cohi cnsh to ftu>
tilin. else, illl'1 I'illltM" molicy, slltCO it
i* i.iuht mill easy t<> curry,' is j ?r<* 2\*r
ubie to, silver coin, \\ bleb, It theivi*
much ojf Hi is hetvy mid UOWll'llly,
'ii.i<\? > nl^iivs like Uj get cash It'
Villi* - The> < ?n u^nuJ!) fj? t riii of u
without trouble.. Next to i iinviir)
t hey prefer Jewelry. especially tpins
of (|Ullllty' <?
They tike Jewelry bec;Wse n 'h'ii.? tf
1 inonot uty vu lu?', iiihI like paper
money It is easy t ? > handle, , A small
none yvorth $f>,(MX) or more takes up
little space in ii vest pocket. Hut Jew
elry is not ax easily disposed of as
money, even if ?ohl to a "fence." The
purchaser, as a rule, will, not jjl.ve the
seller anything like what he should
receive for the hauble, ami, then the
fence Jh liable to he taken in by the
police ami "squeal'' on his customer,
The ordinary burglar steals Jewelry
purciy for mercenary retisons. He
(toes not know much about precious
stone*, but tie t*-n poor burtfl.Tr tf he
cannot tell the difference between ?
paste diamond and a real one; and he
kuows that a real tfom has a ready
market. Experience also lias taught
him that the average apartment-house
dweller no longer keeps hlHtnoneyln
a tuick or taddnd the family clock on
I lie parlor mantel. He knowa the licnd
of i lie family carries a check book ijnd
puts his cash In the bank every week,
and does not leave loose change for
snooping Intruders to pick up.
Hunts for Jewelry.
So the thief often Is disappointed
in h i ^ visits to apart inents ill not tiiul
1 1 ik the coveted cash and turns to
other tilings *?r value., If people have
beeonie more <?;? i*t* I'ti I in handling
money, they have not greatly im
proved in protecting otlter valuables.
And If the thler depa rt s with little
rush ho visually ciiii pU'U up ;i few ar
t of Jewelry; n whiHi or two. a
few rin^s ii 1 1 d stickpins.
A pair of apart inent dwellers re
t timing from the t hoiit iM" or a late su|>
per or dance are usually tlrod ; lien- e
iM their tired and sleepy condition
t hoy do not take the pains to pluee.
their valuables in a family trunk or
vault, hut leave them rurelessly "ii
bureau or laid", or in a ^?ai tl> dosed
dresser drawer. And when tin* buriipir
pays the couple a vidt lit* knows just
whero to Mud the nrtielos ho is after.
II is tho opinion of an old time de
tective that tin- ii l holdup man. un
known in t ! >4* -met ropolis" until a tew
v i>ars ago, is ,1 product -of tho recent
school of criminals, .who believe in
?taking tho cash iiid lotting l ho orodit
;;o." Most' of these virions oriiniuals
nil- Out purely I'1" the cash Notice
tlieir visits |o cij-.u' stores, small
shops, j 1 nd .similar places; and tin*
practice of a ?bolder t>pe to j;<> at'ler
pay rolls, largo and small.
Follow Victims Home,
Not infrequently these thieves In de
scending on a drug store or shop have
robbed the rash regisl or. ami golU'
through t he pocket ^ of proprietors and
elerks, without making an otVort to
take articles ..f Jewelry from- these
persons. In a recent store holdup the
thieves took what irtieles of Jewelry
they believed were valuable from
tlieir victims Mild "passed up" article*
that they considered of small or doubt
fill value 1 me of the clerks in tldn
establishment wore a small diamond
v t U'k pin Tlie holdup man examined
If ami l lien shook his head doubtfully,
?iv mi; Ii as to s.i,. "It s l ? ? ? I worth
much."
Kecen 1 1 > holdup men have turned
their attention to new schemes which
have given the pop. e no little con
ceril It Is ctia radons! ic ot thieves to
think up new and original methods of
procedure ? ?to* of tlieir recent opera
tioi.s !* to lo'ow vv elldros.sed men
mid ,.em hedei kc ! women to their
holm's and ' f 1 ? ? 1 1 tiol-i t hem up
A few months itfo two men and two
women, aflei vi.-.liiii?? m cabaret down
town. dropped in a* in iM n*cht lunch
room for >1 1 1 -_r 1 1 1 emisi before il'.'ltlg
home It h.tppi'oed .hat thieve* Were
dinine In the same Pmciiroom Tfiey
..|i?M't'Vi'd tie' t"!'l> 'he vvo|n??n were
w earing and the w ? dtess.-d prosper
? mjs a 1 ?peji ra tico of j!n*ir es< >rt ?* When
)|,e f?tlir b'f in a ' t\ 'he thieves
1 1 ; I i 1 c 1 1 Tl. ?' I ' 1 X i .-nd them
fii t ' ie . ? p 1 1 * Me "tl ! I o'|sc I 1 1 two
, ..lii.,, . II I. I no sooner . 111. red the
'ofe y n' the 'toils.* t loin ill'1 Jioliii:,
1 1 ? r ? ?*pl ?'< t th?Mii. b-H thevt i:p
v!::; pe?l them ' monev ,i- ! v* 11
? ! ] I -
StorirU -epfr la Trcksd
I ; v . 1,,.ii'.'k.-|'iT 'ti ? Mf Hon
, ;?> . | \.*ii\ * i f ? J ? s'rie' v as i;lniie
? , |, \ v ? . j , '..1 ? 1 ."it e:: cri'i 1 and
. ,r, | .. ?. J ? . ie > ? ?.(?!' -? lift.!
rffi w n >evc! ii < o. n*. nio-t hi them
"f'< nines, took !h.? . ides uti'l departed
Tlu> *!orekee| e. -uintln^ up the
chnti^r ? found that ? customer had
ma yi\en loin er?o ;'i fJutodn^ from
? hp store he inter ..pt^d h:rn in the
tfre?t "!tey s >n " siii! Ut<? store
keeper. "\<?n arc '.1 ''tils sliorf. The
looked mii i'() 1 scd lid d'l^ down
in h.s pocket for ! lie I ><? 1 a nee In do
I t\g he di oj?j?e I several pennie-s oj?
the sidewalk, whirli rolled out of
>< ij/h t . "I haven i tn ?re change."
I ?' Mpoh^i/e'l "Here are your razor
blades." He hurried nvvny. and when
the nt<irekee(.er re* utiv?d to Ma ?hop
ht* thmnivrni^ tt?nt f??l>te >?ne had M?
?fVv' H" rtbagorj* and h.nl "?oiiched"
tW ea*i, register for
TRANSFUSE OWN BLOOD TO 2
Eastern Physician* 3ave the Uvea of
Two Patlerte by Nov?il
( Oper, tloni^ 0
Lives of two patients who would
otherwise have succumbed from luterr
nul hvmorrhage wore saved by drain*
hig off their own blood and reinject*
Jng It: lit m rure operation, made at
the New llu von hospital, according to
? dispatch to tlit> Now York World.
Ono of the remarkable transfusion
oi>ei'?i t IciiH wan performed on a wom
an by thektaff In obstetric*. The other
wan hy the surgical staff, upon a man
apparently mortally Injured In an au
tomobile accident.
The woman, according to the an
nouncement, suffered from a severe
abdominal hemorrhage from which
patients rarely recover. Quick work
was required by t h<$ obstetrical staff.
The hospital blood expert was sum
moned the blood drawn from the ab
dominal cavity, the wounded vessels
tied and the blood almost Immediately
Altered and reinjected Into the dying
woman's veins. The effect was almost
instantaneous.
An hour afterward the male vic
tim of the automobile accident was
brought to the hospital in aft ambu
lance with a punctured liver, result
ing In abdominal hemorrhage. An op
eration was decided upon. The wound
In the liver, was mended by the use of
rubber, a familiar operation.
The blood was then drawn from the
abdominal cavity and reinjected to the
man's veins after flltratjfon. In both
-cases the citrate method was used,
that is, citrate was added to the blood
to prevent coagulation. ;?
DISEASE TERRORS" PASSING
Theory Advanced That Germ Species
May Die Out as Did Mammoths
and Dinosaurs.
Is it not likely, speaking as a lay
man and without medical erudition,
that germ species originate, grow to
maturity, then pass on to Benillty and
die out, like so many families of crea
tures have done on this earth? The
last Methuselahs of certain diseases
may now be moving on to oblivion. Did
riot the mammoths and the dinosaurs
rise, flourish and disappear? Then why
not the microscopic terrors thnt men
ace mankind?
Yell/Jw fever Is passing beyond the
horizon. It Is waving Its last saffron
farewell to uk. Soon It will be history
only, Its battles with humanity, its mas
sacres, as remote as those of Semlram
Is or the llnhylonlnn kings. .Finding no
place to lay Its fatal linger, It will give
up the ghost.
Typhoid, dislodged from its last
country well and village drains, has be
come a flight Ive, pursued by health
boards who bombard it with serums
and germicides. It is In full llight. It
cannot pause anywhere to- organize
the smallest epidemic. The seed of it
will perish from the earth.
Why Worry.
"Serenity of mind IS the most val
uable asset of the present ago," de
clanM! Senator Lodge of Massachu
setts recently, "it Is the only way to
keep young, the only way to preserve
health and, while we laugh at the
maid Sarah, we really should envy
her.
"Sarah harl Just resigned hor posi
tion to got married and when Ivor
mistress- learned that she was shortly
to go to Canada and mak'e her home
there, she nsflted :
"'Hut. Sarah, aren't you rather
nervous about going Into a strange
country like that?"
"'No, tnadam. ' " answered the girl.
'That's my husband's lookout. I be
long to him, and If anything happens
to me It'll be his loss, not mine.'"
Radio Wave Fourteen Mile6 Long.
I.ong wave lengths are used to cover
great distance, sueh ?s transatlantic
communication, chiefly because, absorp
tion of energy is much less on long
wave lengths than on short ones.
The big station near Bordeaux. France,
sets a wave of ether In vibration that
Is meters in length, or approxl1
mat fly fourteen miles from cro*t to
crest. When Uroadcant Central on
Long Island flashes a message -1,000
miles across the sea to flermany, the
wave length used Is about twelve miles
long Station NSS at Annapolis, broad- !
casting time signals from 3 :fS.*> to 4 a.
m. dally, hns h ward length equiva
lent to nbout ten and a half miles. 1
I'oz, Nauen, (Jermany, radiates a wave
approximately eight miles long.
Save His Money.
An Irishman boarded a car the other
! day, but alter a word with the con
; ductor made for the door again.
An inspector w ho happened to be
on t h- car said to him: "Surely rou
don't want to got otY again so soon, ?
aiiil besidos, you haven t paid your !
fare "
"< d want to go to Southern street,":
.said the Irishman, "an' the conductor!
says there ain't no su.'h plate."
"Well, there i.^n t," answered the In j
spector.
"Then, faith, an' pwhat's the good
of going there, then?*'
One More Look.
On our return to the lorker room a j
young woman with one shoe and stock- !
Ing on was distractedly going from
looker to locker and finally appealed
to u?.
"Has any one an extra storking In
her lo<-1cer?"
"Not In mine,** we anawered after
searching our lock em In turn.
Imagine m/ embarrassment when I
found the missing stocking in my bag
?Chicago l'ribur.p
MARS BLUFF BKUXiK
Toll Bridge I'ayin* Propoaition For
Florence and Marlon.
(Ftom the Marion Star)
Mars Muff Bridge' was opened for
traffic by Florence and Marion Coun
ties 7 a.m., May 16, 1923. At th?j
close of buaines* 0 a.m., May 10,
11)21, many interesting thing* are
seen in the yearly report of the Sec
retary;'
Total vehicles passed: 80,201, '??
which 781 or less than 1 per cent
were horse drawn vehicles; 2,00ft, or
about 2 1-2 per cent, wore trucks an I
77,475 or 96 1-2 per cent were auto
mobiles.
Total gross icvciiuc for the first
year was $40,179.75, or slightl^' less
than one-fourth the .total cost of the
bridge, approaches, rights of .way,
toll keeper's residence and real estate,
toll station and overhead expenses.
To get ,an idea of the increase in
traffic*^ Receipts for first half-month
after opening was $1,065, o? at the
rate of $25,536. per annum. Receipts
for last half-month of the year were
$2,164., or at the rate of $51,936.,
showing that traffic had , about
doubled in one year. An approximate
calculation based on the elapsed por
tion of May, 1924, the traffic is now
passing at the raty of $55,000., per
annum. /
The greatest number of passages
during the frrst~yeaT^were 538, which
occurred one Sunday last summer,
when sen-shore travel was at its
heighth. This number has already
been exceeded during the first half
month of the second year; 544 passed
on May 20, 1924.
During the construction of the
Mars Bluff Bridge, which was com
pleted in 15 months under adverse
conditions ( much criticism was heard
as to low^vater and high water types
of construction. The bridge has been
open a year arid traffic has not been
stopped for any cause whatsoever.
Water has not approached the road
surface at any point.
The owners of the bridge (Florence
and Marion Counties) should remem
ber, when considering the income
from tolls that bridges of this sort
cost money and necessarily have to
be paid for from taxes levied on their
citizens only, or from taxes levied on
the users of the bridge, regardless of
their place of residence and that the
only difference between tolls ami
taxes is that the former is a tax
levied on the person deceiving the
service, while the latter is a tax
levied on everyone regardless of
whi'thcr or' not lu- receives a service.
Much discussion was had also as
to Federal Aid when this bridge was
under consideration. With Federal
Aid, Florence and Marion Counties
would have made the same invest
ment for construction, as their share
of the total cost. They would have
been required to defray all expenses
of maintenance. All of which ex
penditures would have had to be met
through additional taxes. As built
they have invested the same amount
of money. The tolls maintain the
road, pay all expenses and intez'est
and will repay the investment in
about four and one half year, and
Florence and Marion Counties will
not levy one cent of additional taxes.
On the other hand the revenue from
the bridge will enable them to levy
a lower rate of taxes. The two coun
ties at no cost to themselves have
added to their property a value of
over $1,000,000., as the bridge is, at
this time, paying 5 per cent on that
sum of money.
There should be, to appreciate the
benefits accruing to the counties, a
comparison to the benefits accruing
from Federal Aid. y In the five yeav
period last passed, Marion County
has been allotted from Federal Aid,
/ETNA-1ZE
$60,000.00 DAMAGES
were awarded Rpse Cattani
when both hapds were
crushed in an automobile ac
cident.
Is your Auto Liability Pol
icy Big Enough to take care
of a loss like this?
For very small additional
cost w,e can supply you with
a policy that adequately
protects you.
CAMDEN LOAN & REALTY CO.
AETNA-IZERS
Phone 62 Camden, S. C.
i '/ v. J . ?: ; ?
we are informed, approximately
$15,500., or $3,100., per year. Marion
County received, net during the last
year from Mars Bluff Bridge $23,
?102., or $10,362., more than she has
recoivod from Federal Aid for the
year. For five years, at the low
rnte of the first year, she would
have received $77,310, as compared
to. $13,462., from Federal Aid. This
shows for five years in favor of Mars
Bluff as a source of income compared
to Federal Aid $63,848. The above
comparison is from the first year's
receipts. The revenue is rapidly im
creasing and later comparisons show
even more flattering results for Mars
Bluff Bridge.
Ransom J. Williams_ was elected
mayor of Mullins over Joe Kirby
Tuesday by a vote of 333 to 305.
Nine of New York city's leading
cabarets and restaurants were pad'
locked last Thursday by prohibition
officers for persistent violations of
the Volstead law. The places will be "
kept cloned for a year. More than"
3000 employes are affected by the
closing, '
In a mock national convention held
at Washington and Lee University^
Lexington, Va.f last week, John W.
Davis, was nominated as the Demo
cratic presidential nominee after
twenty-three ballots. .
Leah Ellenberger, 19, and Harry
Ganat^r, 20, high school pupils, were
found dead on the road near Maryt
ville, Pa. early Saturday morning
They had gone riding the night be
fore in an automobile. -They had been
murdered. '
Such popularity must be deserved
OLD rccords to break, new
ones to make! Grilling tests
of speed, stamina, power! And
for the winner ? f>ot>ttlarity, hard'
won and deserved.
So with everything else. To
win popularity even a cigarette
must deserve it. Chesterfield, for
example, has Ion*; been winning
an average of over 1000 smokers
a day.
One thing alone ? Chesterfield's
better taste ? can account for
such popularity.
Chesterfield
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