The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, February 26, 1926, Image 7
SMWBH CONFESSES
Frank Carter Admits He in Wanted
On Many Charge* at Omaha
Onirthu, Fob. 22. ^ Frank Carter, . > f
u-k!ey, Iowa, captured at Hart lt t? ,
Iowa, and brought here today, ad
,rti;Ud that ho U, the "maniac i|Kj ? ?"
v,h> lias be0)i terrorizing Omaha f 1
;t week. Authorities said he c<?n
tossed two slaying* and one possibly
futal shooting! Ho carried a .22 cal
iber automatic pistol.
Carter said the motive for t he first
slaying, that of William McDevitr,
dairy employe on the street a week
ago last night, was robbery.
The second, that of Dr. A. I).
Scarles in His office Tuesday nighj?
NVtn for the same reason. Robbery of
?%f < Uevitt'a body was thwarted by up.
pear a nee of a pedestrian. Only u
watch was taken' from the physician.
A .22 caliber pistol was used, Carter
said, and it was easily silenced and
"effective."
The capture was made by C. C.
Bruce-, railroad section foreman, who
said he recognized the man from
newspaper descriptions, the Bartlett
marshal and two citizens. Carter also
admitted shooting Ross Johnston,
railroad detective, in Council Bluffs
vii Friday nighty saying )\ feared
aVi.'st was near.'
Authorities said Carter's confession
clears up a series of mysterious
shootings which has held this city
-fenr-bound for eight days. v 1
Scattering of windows by a 22 cal
iber pellets in the neighborhood of
McDeyitt's death was done to keep
officers searching in that district,
Carter said. He admitted firing into
a drug store window last Tuesday
night, narrowly missing a girl clerk.
Carter said he had been in Omaha
most of the time since January 1.
He said he worked on a farm only
a the summer time and never had
been able to make Enough to "tide
me over the winter. I started out to
ob in Omaha and I decided that no
men would get away from me to tell
the story. "That's why I shot to
Kill,"
Advices from Acklye, Iowa, said
Carter was not known there.
(Jeorge Dodson and Hud Jackson,
police officers of Pulaski, Tenn., were
shot to death by three white men
Monday night. The killers escaped in
a car. .
NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS'
MEETING OF CAMDEN ICE CO.
.Notice is hereby given that there
will be a special meeting of the stock
holders of the Camden Ice company,
incorporated, to be held at Twelve
o'clock on Monday, March 8th, 1926,
at the office of Messrs. Kirkland aid
Kirkland, Camden, S. C., for the pur
pose of considering resolutions of the
board of directors of the said com
pany, to increase the capital stock of
the said company to Twearty-five
thousand dollars ($26,000.00), to au
thorize the execution of a mortgage
or deed of trust;, covering property of
the company, to secure proposed issu'.:
of bonds of the said company and to
consider any other business that may
proper! v come before said meeting.
J. H. OSBORNE,
President.
JNO. M. VILLEPIGUE,
Secy, and Treasurer
Canidjwi, S. C,, Feb. 9, 1926.
SCRAPS AND FACTS
Interesting Note* Gathered From
Many Sources.
A nuinbe? of ivonh'.i in New Yovk
m. Jwv,:/b*\y- ^ujt- j? V>.
I t" l;u:m \hx; V> ,.)k ill .i-. ioaivi
I oi:- v ? \'
I i <x , ^
; ' ; . fc?J .. i I>V t)f ? u. i ty
; < u v.- )>; ?; in Washington, I). ,:0?
j - >>\ >-l 7,000 persons present. la
j fartj theatres on the same day 50,000
( persons were found.
I he United States ami Russia are
now the two foremost. Jewish eoun
tries in the world; they contain about
three-fourths of the world's Jews.
Near Alhambra, 'California,-' is a
r^sv Bush 50 years old, more than
(oyr leet jri circumference at the
bottom with vines 125 feet in length.
"Noise can be kept out of a room
jpst as well as a snow storm can,"
says l)r. Paul S. Heyl, chief of Bu
reau of Standards laboratory. "The
main difference is that to keep out
snow the stouter the wall the better,
while to ward off noise the flimsier
the wall the better."
A aprag is a piece of wood which
is ih ro wn between the spokes of a
wheel on a coal mining car to bring
it to a stop mi a grade, acting as a
brake. Over three million feet of
timber is required annually for mak
ing sprags in Pennsylv,\Miy
The last six-master on the seven
seas, the Kd,ward J. Lawrence, went to
her^death j(..?i a crackling roar of
. fla^u\ while) lying at anchor in Port
land harb.Tr, Maine.
"Cycles^ and motor-driven vehicles
must light their lamps thirty minutes
before sunset, the exact hour of whic'i
will be fixed by the mayor." So de
crees the mayor of Koege, a small
town in Denmark.
About one hundred years ago the
Presbyterian church council passed
a resolution forbidding its clergy to
appear in public when intoxicated.
Never make an important decision
or enter into a big business deal on
an empty stomach. Your mind isn't
working and you'll probably get the
worst of it, according to a professor
of the psychological department of
the University of Chicago. >
At the suggestion of C. A. Daw
son Scott, many noted writers of
different nations have formed an in
ternational club, the first in the
world. It is called the P. PL N., these
letters standing for editors, essayists,
novelets, poets and playwrights.
"I . don't like the American girls
because they wear their skirts too
short and paint too much," says *i
real sheik from Cairo. He is Sheik
Tolba Fabdalla Abdallah Kantab,
who recently spent a vacation in
Hollywood.
Erman Higdon, 22, his father and
mother, arc under arrest at Wewoka,
Okla., for investigation in connection
with the mysterious killing of Rita
May Gosa, Erman's fiancee, just two
hours before the time they were to be
married. Erman is alleged to haw
confessed the killing.
Harry Cowan, 54, totally blind, was
arraigned in a Brooklyn, N. ^ ., couit
on Tuesday, charged with having
murdered Miss Edith Burton, ? by
shooting.
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WE ARE NOT ACQUAINTED WITH THE MAN
WHO HAS
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' '?rooms, 4 acres, wonderful setting, one ol the l>esl
small hotel propositions in the South, worth $50,000,
ran. be bought on good terms for 10,000.00
^ e have close-in acreage at very attractive prices and building
lots that soon must double in prices. Let s talk it oxer before
fhe inevitable advance.
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GENERAL NEWS NOTES
Paulino Armitage, well known ami
popular actress of New ^ ork, u>m
niittol suicide on TU?J(|Hy j n > ? * i ? i > > . l\.
[jumping From a w ndow on the tout'
UvnUi floor of the 1k>ic.I* ^ei>
.5 , . My . ? Ci<> ) 1 h; ? HttOU (xllU'd over
; t-!HvV'li?;?homy .
M'is.^ Hilv:? Wills, America** tennU
! champion, was defeated by Mine.
I,onKlen, French champion, at Cannes,
France, Tuesday. The American gi<l
gave the French woman a real run
for her honors.
The Buffalo Evening Post, formerly
the Buffalo Commercial, of Buffalo,
N. Y., suspended publication Tuesday,
after having been continually pub
lished for 1M years. The first issue
of the Gazette, ptfhtfecessor of the
Commercial, appeared on October 8,
?1811.
The 12,000 workofs in the 15,000
fur vshops of New York, members of
the furriers' union, went on a strike
Tuesday.
Lieut. Leigh Wade,, one of the
United States army round-the-world
flyers, announced Tuesday night that
he would soon resign from the army
and with Lieut. H. H. Ogden, another
round-the-world flyer, who resigned
some time ago, will join a flying ex
pedition to the North pole.
Fire of undetermined origin dam
aged the building and plant ot the
Commercial Printing company of
Raleigh, N. (\, to the extent of $100,
000 Wednesday morning.
Jesse Vandyke, Chef ryviile bad
man, who killed Chief of Police I aint
ev at Cherryville, N. C., while in a
drunken frenzy a few weeks ago, will
face a charge of first degree murder
when his ease is called at C>astonia,
on March 9, according tu Solicitor
John G. Carpenter.
A McBuie, 70, and J. M. Matthews,
79, both Confederate veterans, who
enlisted in a Confederate regiment
before reaching the age of 18, died at
Fayetteville, N. C., Tuesday.
Mrs. Cleveland Dell, daughter of
the late President G rover Cleveland,
has been granted a divorce from her
husband, William Stanley Dell, by h
J
Paris court.
Harry Ferneckes, "midget bandit,"
John Flannery and Daniel McGeohe
gan, under sentence to hang i:i
Chicago for murder, were on Tues
day granted writs of supersedes by
the Illinois supreme 'court, and the
cases will be reviewed by the court.
Mrs. Elizabeth B. Tearle and six
children were burned to death in thei*"
apartment over a barbershop at Cen
tral Bridge, N. Y., Wednesday.
Roger Brannon and R. C. Davis
were sentenced to the electric qbair
at Lexington, Ky., Wednesday on
charges of murder growing out of the
killing of W. N. Fant, In December
last.
After five months and seventeen
days the hard coal miners of Penn
sylvania were to begin work again
in the mines Monday.
Mrs.. Louis K. Theirs, aged 111
years, died Wednesday at Milwaukee,
Wis.
ANNOUNCEMENT.
Subject to the rules governing the
Democratic Primary, I hereby an
nounce myself a candidate for Mayor
of the City of Camdeh in the ap
proaching election. If elected, I shall
advocate a progressive Administra
tion Consistent with good business.
C. P. DuBOSE.
FOR MAGISTRATE
I hereby announce myself as a can
didate for Magistrate for DeKalb
Township, subject to the rules of the
Democratic primary.
W. L. DePASS, .Jr.
FOR ALDERMAN
I hereby announce myself as a can
didate for alderman of the City of
Camden Jrom Ward Four, subject to
the Citv Democratic primary.
C. C. WHITAKER, SR.
For Alderman Ward Four
I hereby announce myself as a can
didate for the office of Alderman
from Ward Four for the city of Cawi
den in the coming Democratic primary
subject to the rules and regulation?
of the primarv.
LEON H. SCHLOSBURG.
FOR TREASURER
I hereby announce myself as a can
didate for the office of Treasurer of
Kershaw County in the coming prim
ary. subject to the rules and regula
tions of the Democratic party.
S. W. HOGUE.
For Judge of Probate
I hereby announce myself as can
didate for the office of Judge of
Probate for Kershaw County, subject
to the rules of Democratic primary.
SAMUEL N. NICHOLSON.
For Alderman Ward Three.
I hereby announce myself a candi
date for re-election as Alderman from
W ard .'i of City of Camden, subject
rules of Democratic primary.
.1. H. OSBORNE
FOR ALDERMAN WARD ONE
I hereby announce myself as a
candidate for re-election to tho< office
of Alderman of the City of Camden
from Ward One, subject to the rules
of the City Democratic primary.
W. L. JACKSON
FOR ALDERMAN WARI) TWO
I hereby announce myself as a can
didate from Ward Two in the ap
proaching primary subject to the
rules and regulations' of the Demo
cratic primary.
LANE C. SHAW.
Mr * ? ?_ a . ? ,
Tragedy in North State
Raleigh, N. Feb. 20. ? Tragedy
stalked across S'orth Carolina today
from the mountains to the sea and
',oi> iiV vrn' lives. Three deaths wer??
;i" .< u h of train and automobile
o ? :? - h two \v. murders, one a suU
ei<!o i^jid tin m-y< nth was a ship acci
dent. At (Vnconl. John (iooile, a tex
,i!e woiker, was killed by a Southern,
train when he stepped onto the track
and evidently failed to see the train
approaching. At. Newton, N. C., J. S.
Bolick and Colo Williams of Maiden,
N, C., wefo instantly killed when a
freight train struck and demolished a
wagon in which they were riding, At
Leesville, in Wake county, C; MLJack
son die^ as the result of what
ed to be a self-inflicted shotgun
wound, his brain being blown out. In
the same room was found the body of
his wife, hewed to death with an axe,
and his daughter, Dora, died in a Ral
eigh hospital tonight from wounds
caused by aii axe. Authorities ex
pressed the 'belief th?| Jackson had
killed his wife and wounded his
daughter and then committed suicide.
At the Coinjock bridge, over the in
land waterway, 40 miles from Eliza
beth City, a tramp freighter smashed
into the drawbridge and a member of
the crew, named (Jibb , a white man,
was Hilled in the crash.
Mas Killed Ten llawks
? - ? j
Kev. A.. K. Whitesides, popular
pastor of Pleasant. Hill A. it: P.
church, we believe, holds the recordl
for killing hawks. Within the last
several months , he has killed ten of
the chicken eaters, the last one of
which was killed Thursday. Kev.
Whitesides says he finds it a very
easy matter to shoot a hawk from
his automobile, but quite u job to
ease upon one in the woods or fields.
He and a number of friends also
killed a hooting owl Thursday that
measured four and one-half feet from
tip to tip. ? Lancaster News.
The 1925 world's hay baleing cham
pionship was won by five men from
Nebraska who baled two tons of loose
hay pi a little less than seventeen
minutes.
NbTlCE
To the Creditors of Kershaw Motor
Company:
Notice is hereby given to all cred
itors to file claims within ten days
from February 26th, duly itemized
and attested, with L. A. Wittkowsky,
Trustee, Camden, S. C. 48-sb
.. . . ".'me.' ?
The steamship President Roosevelt,
hero ship of the sea, arrived at New
York yesterday for the first time
since her gallant rescue of thp crew
of the sinking freighter Antinoe on
January 27. The ship and her crew
was given a great reception by city
and naval officials.
Two men wer p seriously injured,
one perhaps fatally, on Trade street,
in Charlotte, Saturday night by be
ing struck by a heavy automobile
which was buing driven by a drunken
driver named P, H^Alexander, a trav-.
eling salesman. 'Alexander is alleged
to have been helplessly drunk.
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