Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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(HAI'MAN found guilty L\(.fld'h Moat Noted Bandit Finally Sentenced to Death Hartford, Conn., April 4.--tit-raid | h:?j>m:tn, Bpectnc?Ij?'r mail bandit, |ail hvuaker and criminal extraordi lia!>. today was sentenced to hang in l)i,. Connecticut state prison June 35, ft,, payment for tho life of a New Britain patrolman, of whose nturdei Cst October 12, a jury had convict L| him; It ss than an hour before. I chapman, the stoic criminal whose (laming misdeeds have made him an Inter national figure, did not flinch [ /alter as his doom descended upon liim. With his arras folded across ?lis breast and hie frail body held ?stiffly erect, he listened to the judge's |i-pulchral words spell out his doom Litl) only a flushed face to mark his (motion. I Frederick J. * CJroehrl, Chapman'* Ihief counsel^ immediately filed mo lice with Judge Jennings, that he will [appeal the conviction. Charles Mur thy, also of defense counsel, previous ly had made a motion that the jury's verdict be set ajfide. [ It was denied. "I think I *have an excellent chance Lo.win an appeal on the grounds of bbvious prejudice throughout the trial hnd numerous errora of omission," Groehl said. j | It developed that the jurors took jmly one ballot. Does Flu Cause Kidney rouble or Does Kidney Trouble Cause Flu? In either case you should be very areful not to neglect your kidneys. Get a bottle of Hobo Kidney & Sludder Remedy at once, aa weaken d kidneys are liable to allow toxic >oisons to upset your blood and o jerves. Write for free story of discovery. HOBO MEDICINE CO. IJeaumont, Texas ^ The jpcftr-vigilant guards pressed closely aboot Chapman an he was load bofocto the judged high bench for VenteSCCj The prisoner, his fact* slightly flushed, folded his aims, an4 With head er^ct, stared directly ut the judtfe. To tht? customary tion about a pre-sentence statenfent, Chapman answered. in clear, level tones : ,4I have nothing to say." "The sentence of this court/' Judgo Jennings proceeded, "is that you, Gerald Chapman, forthwith be taken to the state's prison at Wethersfielcl and there conflined until June 25. 1Q25, when, before sunrise on that day, you shall be handed by the neck until you axe dead." The prisoner's gaze fell. That, with the flush that still mantled his cheeks was his only evidence of emotion. The priwoner immediately was ?shackled, hustled through the prison er's pen, into the basement, and into an automobile, which sped him back to the prison at Wethersfiold. There he was (returned to the cell 'he has occupied since the United States gov ernment "loaned" him to the state of Connecticut to go on rial for his life. Frederick J. Groehl, chief defense counsel, previously had announced tjhat ?he would file an appeal if Chap man was convicted. The verdict means | death on- the gallows for the colorful bandit, the REAL ESTATE LOANS . On F&rkn and City Property CURRENT RATES Prompt Action Jno. M. 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FARMS FOR SALE 100 acre farm two miles north of Camden, young orchard, 35 acres in cultivation,'65 acres pasture and woods, two clear water streams, large new bom and ffood servant house. If interested see us at once. The price is one vou will not ask us to reduce. BUILDING LOT Let us help you select a homesite. You may have the impression tfriat lots are high. We are fortunate to offer a few well located lots at most reasonable figures. Let us prove it. . Tell us what you want and we will try to find it We will not take up your time trying to sell you prop erty that does not suit you. C. P. DUBOSE & CO. PHONE 43 After 6 p. m? call N. C. AnwHy Untie 321 Don't forgtl na wfa? jroa see* w irtrnfaj am man who had the police of a dozen countries searching for him when the state of Connecticut sought him on the murder charge which ended In his conviction today. The Con* neeticut luw provides that a person dtvu-od guilty of first degree murder must bt- hanged. After dismissing the jury and con gratulating the jurors "on reaching this verdict, which I believe is a just verdict," Judge Jennings recessed court for half an hour, at which time he set for hearing defense counsel motion to set aside the verdict. State Prosecutor Hugh Alcorn, who prepared and presented the state's case against the mail looter,., asked Judge Jennings to immediately pro nounce sentence on Chapman, but the judge said he first would dispose of the defense motion to set aside the verdict* "Chappie, I'm sorry," Groehl said to the prisoner after the jury had been dismissed and Chapman had returned to the courthouse basement to await further developments. The attorney, toars in his eyes, reached out for the condemned man's hand. Without a break of the voice, or a wavering of the cold blue eyes, Chap man squeezed his lawyer's hand and replied: "Oh, that's all right." Chapman's frail body was erect, his striking head held high, the eyes looking straight ahead and the lips compressed as his guards manacled 'him. He took a chair in his base ment cell, asked a cigarette of one of his guards, lighted it and went into a whispered consultation with (Groehl. Gorald Chapman, often called n modern Jesse James, first gained no toriety in his daring leadership of the sensational $2,400,000 holdup of a government mail truck on lower Broadway in October, 1921. Ohapman and his band had watched the downtown postoffice for weeks. -Learning of a rich shipment of reg istered mail, they followed the se lected mail truck in an automobile .when it started to the general post office uptown just before daybreak. Drawing alongside they crowded the -truck to tho curb. With both ve hicles still moving, Chapman boarded the government van and covered the driver with a pistol. Then the rob bers turned the truck into Leonard ?street and removed its wealth of cash and securities at their leiaojce. Chapman was traced rand caught a few months later in fashionable Gramercy Park where he was found living in a luxurious apartment. During his subsequent grilling on an upper floor of the federal build ing, he suddenly disappeared through an open window while his captors' 4>acks were turned. He was corner ed after crawling along a narrow ledge, high above Broadway and op poeite the Woolworth 'building. He had nearly reached a window in an other office farther down which would likely have led to freedom. Chapman and George R. ("Dutch") Anderson, an accomplice, were sen tenced for the mail robbery in A^ gust,. 1922, both receiving 26-,year terms in the federal penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga. Both afterward escap ed, Anderson as still at large. Chapman made his own first suc cessful da?h in March, 1923. He was recaptured two days later, bleeding from various wounds, and placed in a ?hospital in Athens, Ga. Within a -?month, and still in the care of sur geons, he escaped mysteriously a sec ond time. For months he eluded a nation-wide search in which some of tho best man-trackers in the country took his trail. Various crimes and "jobs" meanwhile, which apparently could not be otherwise explained, were put down as "It's Chapman." Almost invariably, however, they proved to have been done by jwnv ,one else. L Patrolman James Skelly of New Britain, Conn., was slain when he surprised two safe blowers in a de partment store Sunday merning, Oc tober 10,* 1924. He fell under the bullets of one yegg who shot his way out. The other was caught and proved to be Walter E. Shean, son of a Springfield, Mass., hotel owner. Shean #aid- Gfcapman was the -man who got away. Three months later, January IS, last, Chapman was finally run to earth in Muncie, Ind., by postal agents who had never relaxed their two-year hunt. He was taken back to Atlanta, but was later brought to Connecticut for trial for th? Skelly killing. Jn the election for President in Germany Saturday Dr. Karl Jarres, Nationalist and Conservative Bour geois candidate, led with 10,787,000 votes, with Otto Braun, Socialist, sec ond, and the former chancellor, Dr. V/iiiLaiii m aiji, uiifu With o,5oo,000. A second election will have to be held next month to decide the winner. Mrs. Mary Ann Caldwell died at Greenwood laaVFrid**qf 93 remr?* . (3 new "Standard" Oil \vr the FORD For years we have studied the Lubrica tion of the Ford, in our laboratories i W. and in the field. We offer to Ford owners an oil that is made specially for their car and for none other. This latest addition to the "Standard'' , v Polarine family is already popular. It is refined with all the care that has made "Standard" Polarine Motor Oil the leader. You can get this new oil at your garage. Tell the men you want to try "STANDARD" Jitom MOTOR OIL _ <?{KS&h?' STANDARD OIL COMPANY (New Jersey) Lancaster Burglars Captured Sheriff Hunter, Deputy Huey Mont gomery, Policeman Joe Byrd, and R. B. Robinson, manager of the Robin son-Cloud Co., went to Charlotte Wednesday and brought back a young negro named John Witherspoon, who 'is implicated in the burglary of the Robinson-Cloud Company store' on the night of Friday, March 20, when ^suit rases, whirl's, dresses, hosiery and suits were stolen to the value of ap proximately $500. Charlotte police had arrested early this week several negroes, members of an organized bund of thieves, operating in and around Charlotte and John Wither -spoon confessed to bem.tr engaged in' the Robinson-Cloud Company robbery. He implicated two other negroes, George Harris and Pat Scott, who are being held by the Charlotte au thorities on chargcv* connected with burglaries during February and March in Charlotte, Monroe, Waynes boro, Mppresville, Davidson, N. C,, Lancaster ami possibly other cities. The Charlotte police have recovered goods of.various kinds valued <at ap proximately $1,500 belonging to mer chants in the towns named, and have also arrested a negro woman tlamcd Mary Young, charged with receiving stolen goods. None of tho goods taken from the liobinson-Cloud store ) were recovered except four suit cases valued at About $Gr>. Witherspoon is being held in jail here.?Lancaster News, April 3rd. Berry Batcman, Hook Hill man, was given a sentence of $10 or 30 days on n charge of drunkenness, and one of $20 or 30 days on a\ charge of disorderly conduct last ,week, after being arrested for creating a disturb ance at the nurses' quarters at the Fentoell Infirmary. The report to officers was that Dateman and a companion, whose identity hasn't been discovered, wore staging a '/peeping Tom" act. The chamois of the Alps are being blinded by a new plague. ?/> III X < K Taxes And Wages Are Biggest Telephone Expense m \ ORK than 60 per cent of the entire cost of your telephone service is rep resented by the two items of taxes and wages. During the year 1924 the wage and tax bill of the South ern Bell Company amounted to #10,640,819. The company's tax expense in five States amounted to ?1,675,092, while the wage bill of 7,725 employes totalled $8,965,727. In South Carolina the tax ex pense reached a total of $268, 148, or at the rate of $7.43 per telephone. In South Carolina the wage bill of 763 workers amounted to $806,949.00, or more than *1,000 per employe per year. AkJioutfh taxes form such a large part of telephone oper ating expenses, the Telephone Company has no objection to paying its just share of laxes, nnd pays cheerfully. The cost of rendering tele-, phone service, like the cost of all forms of government, has increased, but the rates for tele phone service have not increas ed in anything like the same proportion as taxes, wages and other expenses. These facts are published so that telephone users may know the details of some of the ma jor expenses which are reflect ed in the cost of their service. MORGAN B. SPKIR. CalolimiH Manager "Sell System" SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY Otm 5y?fem. Uni+trtm! Strmtcm ? ? "V ? oa,.: