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Camden Chron&le M i,ii 1 1 1 nil!. m'" 11 * ' .. ' ? LiLLJJl. IIULJ-Jf ? J..r. - - J , CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1928. NUMBER 40. i'., ?. "r- ? - ? * ' _2l CONFESSION \>r Which Two Are I Life Terms >'ec. 30? Mystery still ion of $11,000 of the i E. Wright, bandit, here today, stole of the Marine Trust rapany, New Orleans, officers stated to HRjLi. ""Ml' i 'hfCL1Cs HJandit'a body was exam t ^ ^ H'/rt was killed in a running officerK? $2,038, most - /-is, was found in a money />,7^u?thc chest. cdP'riess, manager of the |!j cjpore#Rebolu, Sr;, a direcT ;<?s wqiet of Police Malon^y of is, arrived here during the ind identified the body as man who held up clerks, institution and then killed th ?* erite iSsu, m to in. I9 also found on the body, identified by the bank officials he one taken from the building at time of the hold-jip._A notebook en from one of the pockets con ned a confession that Wright had d Thomas Griffin, in Des Moines, in November, 1923. Two men ggrvinfe life sentences in Iowa for i me "are as innocent as babies"] mfession said. ards of $7,500 offered for the re of Wright are expected to be the. men \Vho participated in the g. Thp sum of $6,500 for capture e man, dead or alive was off er^rf nnection with the New Orleans robbery and the killing of the Iceman. A reward of $1,000 was red for the slayer of Griffin. ?Detective R. G. Wilcox, Patrolman ulter Pistole and Special Agent Ties FerreV of the Louisville & htille railroad took learding parts the killing of Wright, Pistole and r. were, slightly wounded during shooting,. New Orleans, Dec. 30. ? The identic 1. Nation today of William E. Wright j * filed by Mobile police, as the bandit; ho December 24 robbed the French- j Td tfian ^treet branch of the Marine! 1 ank and Trust company of' $13,000 and killed Traffic Policeman Jacob Uhle while making his escape ended j one of the most energetic searches instituted by the police here in year?. Supt. of Police Guy Moloney rd ll'onet* policemen and plain Mr'lrten rai^roa(i stations loads leading out of the jr ^roirii&ed promotion to .... '^laHing the bandit dea 1 1 * '^he bandit entej:ev ednesday and fir hich he drew / ^ ?mStmm \%S\ % \>\^> <L iU. si ? vi ? * ^ ^ and HUNDRED KILLED And Many Injured in Accidents, in State During Year Closing . ;iv-- ?? ? > ????? ,4 % ^ ? I One hundred persons were killed on the state highways in 900 aqt cidents reported during the year be tween "December U 1923, and Decem ber 1, 1924, according to a Summary prepared by the state highway de partment. In addition to the num ber reported killed, 189 were serious ly injured and 572 received minor in juries. The report, according to Charles II. Moorefield, chief highway engin eer, js as follows: "According to reports received by. the highway department, there were nine hundred accidents oc curring on state highways in the twelve months ? December 1, 1923 to December I, 1924. One hundred persons were killed, one hundred and eighty-nine were seriously injured and five hundred and seventy-two received minor injuries. 4,There were three hundred and ten collisions between motor cars, twelve of them being parked, seven-ty one with other, vehicles and fifty four with other objects. "Two hundred and eighty-seven cars were overturned, one hun dred and sixteen ivere driven off road, six hundred and fifty-four were seriously damaged and three hun- j dred and seven were , slightly dam aged. Forty-three horsedrawrt ve- I hides were damaged, eighteen horses .or mules were killed, and eight were! injured. "There were twenty-five accidents at railway gra<le crossings, fifty-four at public road crossings, and thirty Jour on or at bridges. "Four hundred arid seventy-three of the accidents occurrcd in the day time and four hundred and twenty seVen after dark. _ Six hundred and twenty-two were on straight roads-, ' one hundred and eighty-nine on j curves, ono hundred and thirty-eight on paved roads and six hundred and sixty-four on unpaved roads. "Three hundred and fifty-six of , the accidents were reported as eaus ! ed by careless driving, one hundred I and eighty-eight by , speeding, one | hundred and fifty-three by reckless ness due to liquor, fifty-nine by daz eadlights, forty-six by ,no lights, sixty-one by car, niop by defects) 4 ^ o*. V- A ^ O- o, > o. V cy > V* v- jr v J 4> V* %Wo ft r\ s V" ^ ?f i 0 *, 2 2 > v. S&XV " v % vvV y w 'A % V H ^ \ , ' x&s V " & ?3> ?s>_ v^o V'* * -* <* X& o l '>>r, , . ?>?? rr- <v X v\e , fSA/i- A'- / ^ ?/<!* ! #fcaS -A Also - - h building ng in the city of County, South Caro* I ded as follows to wit:1 >erty of Kitty Youitg, ' on street City of Cam d west by lands now' S. M. Johnson. Levied | ae sold as the property lor taxes 1923. AH r - y th building thereOit sit- ! Lof -Camden, Kershaw I Carolina, and bounded' North by Sam' SI K ICS IIKADS CLKMSON New. President Hm Been Head of Coker College Many Yeara Newberry, Dec. 27.? Dr. E. W. Sikes, president of Qoker College, Hart*ville, was elected president of ?lemsen "college at a meeting of a subcommittee of the board of Clem son college held recently. At the meeting a committee consisting of former Governor Richard I. Manning, 3. E. Geer, and Josiah J. Evans wero appointed to confer with Dr. Sikes regarding his acceptance and Sena tor Alan Johnstone, president of the board of trustees of Clemson college, announced this morning that Dr. Sikes had signified his intention of accepting. ? / The subcommittee appointed by the board consisted . of President Alan Johnstone, former Gov. Richard I. Manning, B. B. Geer, A. F. Lever, R. M Cooper and Josiah J. Evans. At the meeting Senator Johnstone, president of the board, appointed the three men to see Dr Sikes and when they reported to Senator Johnstone he ruade^ public the announcement "here this morning. - Senator Johnstone in speaking of selecting a man to succeed Dr. Riggs, said that the trustees had given the subject much thought and considered everything and it was th?? honest be lief that they had made a wise selec tion and that the logical man had been selected. "And he was elected unanimously," Senator Johnstone said : : " . . ? 1 ' ' I Will Serve Out Year ? Hartsville, Dec. 27. ? Dr, E'. . W. Sikes, president elect of Clemson col lege, had nothing to say, when seen today,- concerning his acceptance, pre- 1 f erring that any statement come from officials' of Clemson. J. J. Lawton president of the board of trustees of Coker college, said this .afternoon that the board had not yet received a formal resignation from Dr. Sikes, though they had been in formed of his acceptance of the Clem son presidency. Dr. Sikes, Mr. Lawton added, would continue active head of Coker College throughout the pres ent school year. !rtl occurred the j Nspy? ch vgt J y [Y*c 'tcaVdenci Cotarob*a abu* <> hyobaU 1U Death of Mrs. Dowey \ Mrs. Caroline Dowey, widow of the? J { ate A. H, Dowey of Wesjt Wateree/ Fdied suddenly on Friday eveping 'De cember 26. If she had lived till next July she would have been eighty years old. e is survived by one brother, Mr. Peake of Ridgeway, and five 1 all of West Wateree ? Mrs. hisqn, Mrs. E. B. Barfield, Mrs. , Mr. W D. Dowey and pre y. She also leaves a dchildren and great TO BEAR DUKE'S NAME Trinity College To Get Six Million* By Changing Its Name Durham, N. C,# Dec. 29.? Declar ing thai the plans of James B. Duke, multi-millionaire tobacco and water power magnate of Chjurlotte and New York, for the development of Duko University were "perfectly ty line with our hopes for* the expansion" of Trinity College, trustees of the lat ter institution in executive session ?here today decided to change the ?name of Trinity to Duke University. This change will result in the insti tution receiving at once $6,000,000 for building, purposes looking to expan sion of the college into university proportions and in receiving there after annually 82 per cent of 80 per cent of the income from truist fund established recently by Mr. Puke for. education, philanthropic and religious work in North Carolina and South Carolina. JThe official statement .issued ?after the n^eeting by Joseph O, Brown, of Raleigh^ chairman o,f the trustees, asserted that the name of Trinity College would be perpetuated under the terms outlined by Mr. Duke in making the offer to Trinity -'and that the name of the college of arts and sciences of the newly created Duke University woUld be "Trinity ~Col lege." "There are four Trinity colleges in the United States, read the state ment, "and already one Trinity ijni versity. A great educational founda. I tion such as Mr. Duke is setting up [ deserves to have a distinctive name <of its own. AVe are happy to give | the university the name of a family l that has been 0 long known for its j service to education." , The change of name, it was stated, would be made as sodti as legal re quirements could be, not. Mr. Duke in treating his trust fund ! some weeks ago, announced hifc in tention of creating an institution forj higher education in North Carolina as "Duke University" at the time he stated that if Trinity College cared to change its name and become Duke] University it would receive the por tion of tht? trust f\}nd set aside for 1 the new institution ? $6,000,000 ? im mediately available for building and creative purpose and 32 per cent of 80 per cent of the annual income from the trust fund. The other 20 per cent of the income was to Ite set aside until the trust fund amobr to $80,000,000 after whicVij,V ?university would receive ^ ^ ^ ^ *he full income proposition Vfo* ? /?/? ity CoH#g?3?,/W* > ? S>r.. ./? of the The Trinity suit that ?9* .v> o V j and hia - 4V -.---an* mar Once an Oliver owner, i Come in and we will aho\ We have just the Hhamr Bros., Camden, 8. C \C.; E. B. Johnson, fi # ? asCUQ 4"' the Ma ^ ^ ^ ? /nny, was clll ;>0 ' oweatoiH S. C., d '^^y^wya^on account of th of hU fa '.<?? A <? t ' prominent t fjfr- Jfr Q W , jypimfral ai ? / ? A* * * aday, Decern! Pearce, W. 1 V F/M, Jones B^O^^NettUt, of t" Forrwrton to atte BETHUNE NEWS NOTES ; ? y \ Bethune, 8, C? jqii. K "The borne* of Mr. and Mrg. P. H. rfester wan the scene of a lovely and, impressive marriage ceremony Wednesday even ing at seven o'clock, when Miss Julia McCheney became v the wife hi Mr. Ralph E. ^pCwkill The jailor wasv firettily decorated for * the occasion n ferns and potted plants, The bride and bridegroom ontqrccl . and stood before an embankment of ferns. The. Rev. J. M. Forbis of the Presbyterian church performed the ceremony. Only members of the family and a few intimate friends were present. The bride was loyejly in her brown and tan ensemble dress with a be coming spring hat and. accessories to match. Immediately,, after the cere* mony the couple left by automobile for a honeymoon through Georgia and Florida. They will be at home after January 1 with Mr. ?Tid McCftskill with whom tttey will reside. Mrs. McCaskill is a graduate of : - Due West college find is an accom plished young lady of much charm and has greatly "tendeargd herself to the people of Bethune in the two ?nd V ohe half years she hafe spent in tiio , high school here. ^ ; The bridegrdom is the grtly son o? Mr. and Mrs. J. .A, McCaskill and iB a young jman of splendid' qualities, holding an important position, in the Bank, of Bethune and is quite a fav orite in the social circles. A pretty home wedding was sol emnized at 0:30 o'clocEV Thursday < evening at .the home of Mi\ and Mrs. B. B^ Blakely in Laurens, father of the bride. The contracting were Miss Inez Blakely. and Thomas Reese Bet^iujie -.Of Bethuno. The living room was ^decorated in white and green arid softly lighted nann M. \ >. D. BoyJc 'larkson, If. electedTtrfi* ? , Jr., seer & Shannoi by tall . candles gleaming in sUW w? Sr-t and John iu .eandlelabra. An improvised altar named o> .candlelabca. An improvised altar titf&ted. banked with white rolie# ferns, interspersed -with white to Only a' few?,near relatives and were present. "Ojhromise Me' named a? ^legate ??ncinnJ3olumbi? ?m ?p?rA^n ? ? .ntSSgMTree Tea Room, oJJr-1 "Sweetest Story' ~ Cantey, eight mUes sung by Mr*. ^rm^r?/br^?/e?tei?n, will open for its fore cer^?"f the bridegroom tofanuary 12th. This ed on the arm - march from , the scene of many ?s&? ? Bethune. ' vY^vr F?riii? ? dlw " The Rev. M win no doubt H^vmosi wapa? this season. ?ej$rd ? ?' ' -? r. ~ v rhThe'bTWe SSTwJffir Policeman if US ? " (taw w?h J-S?<W. of th? mill vil ie*?nfc near Camden, reco by 'the city council f ,/ G. F. Cooley a sr." t?" 'e Camden police force, isigned the force to be- 1 tendent of the county arid tan enserc coming sprin match. A //ream, ^ Iserv-^^ Ceremony * fruit < jrWpW, ?1111 S?4??? ? fcrt 1 Scores tor tie ??? - *?w ...**?& ?den Hotel IKK), Commercial 875, Park View Inn 980. In tourist hotels the score was: - ^'.y UpT^irt Inn 990, Hobkirk Inn 980, The? y.? Irk wood 990, Big Springs at Be , ' ///hune 960. E& fcavCj' Well Known Winter Vtoltor Dead at f(* Jfy Haverhill, Haws. */c *, P'rienda fh Camden of Mr. and ' ng "jy Mrs. Frank S. Hamlin, of Haverhill, Mass., who have been visiting Cam den f?r a number of ve?**? ? I visiting Cam 7 aen *or a number of yeara, will re r""^s.-lane- Kret 10 learn of the death of the ? meilt. latter, which ia told In the following i ' n special to the Boaton Herald, under y will date of November 10: $MT dub "Haverhill, Nov. 19.-*-Fraak S. t. There Hamlin, member of the Haverhill .f course water board for the last 11 years, r and one of the beat known insurance men of thie city, died today at hia _ home, 2 Grant street, following a ckey Mer- 'long Ulneaa. He was president of ed to hia 4he F. S. Hamlin inaurance company, luring the He was born in Harrington, Mo., 61 e serious yeara ago. After graduation from ther, Mr. the EasteVn Business College, Pough :itixen of keapaie, N. Y., he came to thia city td burial and entered the Inaurance busineaa. ber 27th. He waa a Mason, He was f. LollU -i? ? ^ * r - - fit