The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, April 16, 1926, Image 7
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Bootlegger Escapes
Saturday afternoon a bootlegger
driving a Lincoln touring car finally
escaped from Officer Dollard after a
25-mile chase that led almost to Camden.
Mn, Dollard drove alongside the
c*r on North Main street and ordered
the driver to halt. Instead of stopping
the man put ,his foot on the accelerator
und moved away, Dollard
phased him on his motorcycle to I)alecII
where he changed to nn automobile
and continued the chase until a
tire went out and he had to stop.
.The bootlegger put out a smoke
screen' from his muffler during the
chase that helped to prevent the offircr
from catching him. The newness
of Mr. Dollrird's motorcycle also
prevented him from chasing the boot,
logger down.?Monday's Sumter Item
7'Tho Swedish girl gives her fiartce
a plain gold band ring-upon her engagement
to him, while she in turn
receives a similar token from him.
April Fool's Day originated. in an
ancient pagan festival, such as the
iluli Festival of^ the Hindus, or the
Feast of, Fools, celebrated by the
Itomans on February 17.
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UOIJ) FROM THB BRA
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Twenty-five Millions Wrought Up
From Torpedoed La u rent ic
Nearly $25,000,000 in gold ha* been
salvaged from the White Star liner
Laurentie, torpedoed and sunk off th#
west COftSt of Ireland by a (it i man
submarine in 1017.
Although the work of recovery was
carried on at intervals over a period
of seven years, the cost, as stated recently
in parliament by J. C. O, Davidson,
financial secretary to the admiralty,
was only 138,000 pounds,
or roughly about $000,000.
The first full report of the work of
salvaging this gold is given by Lieut.
Commander Damant, R. N., of the
Racer, who superintended the recovery
in the following interview with
a reporter for the London Daily Jdail:
* "Diving at 12Q;feet is always difficult,
and the wreck lay two miles
from land in a very exposed spot iu
the Atlantic. It was only possible to
work for six months in the year.
"When we first started to work,
immediately after it was sunk, the
Laurentie lay on its side at an angle
of 60 degrees from the vertical. Using
explosives we blew in a door in
the side of the ship at an angle of
00 degrees from tht vertical. Using
explosives we bl$w. in a door in the
side of the ship near the strong room.
"The foreman diver, Warrant Shipwright
Miller, went down, a transverse
pass'agc, and eventually reached
the strong room in the middle of the
ship. He unscrewed some nuts ?from?
the hinges an$. had the strong room
open in a few minutes. Most of the
gold then lay before him in boxes.
"It was very difficult to remove
these boxes of g/ld. The diver had
to crawl up a steeply sloping passage
in pitch darkness, pushing a heavy
box before him, and occasionally lifting
.it over obstacles. - ?
"On the first day we removed one
box and on the following day three
more.
"Then a gale Sew up from the
north and lasted a week, during which
pieces of decking and other debris
were washed on shore showing that
something had happened to the Laurentie.
_
"When the sea subsided and it was
possible to send a diver down he found
that the whole ship had collapsed like
a pack of cards, driving the decks
out sideways.- This had been caused
by the enormous pressure exercised
4>y the aot4on- of the- waves deep below
-the surface.
"There no hollow spacb in I
which men might crawl about, and we
had to cut" a way right into the
crumpled ship with explosives.
"Although since the beginning of
the operations, we have removed
3,000 tons of ....material. In the remaining
part of 1017 we recovered
about 1,000,000 pounds worth of gold.
"In 1919 the work was resumed and
-Some gold was recovered. In 1920
and 1921 we were very unlucky.
"When the ship collapsed the gold
was divided into two sections. The
first lot was comparatively easy to
recover. The second consignment,
however, was buried beneath about
ten feet of sand and debris, consisting
of broken up fragments of the
ship and its fittings, including such
things as berths, baths, wash basins
and tables.
"The divers worked in a ^ja^ged
crater in (the middle of the ship, and
to remove the sand they had to scoop
it into sacks vyith their hands. The
sand was made quite hard by the action
of tfye waves, and the divers
loosened it with a fire-hose pipe let
down from the Racer.
"The divers squirted the jet of water
into the sand, thereby loosening
it, and as he did this he pushed his
hand into the loosened sand, to feel
for the gold.
"The men crouched or lay down on
the sand, scooping it into sacks and
feeling for the gold. Sometimes at
the end of several days of tfork thejr
would have' their fingernails worn
down almost to the quick, and the
tips of their fingers soft like sponges.
They would not wear gloves. _
"In 1922, 1923 and 1924 we made
good progress, and at the end of that
year there was less than 1 per cent,
of the gold in the wreck. The sand
was then gaining fast on the divers
and the work had to be abandoned.
"Throughout there was not one accident,
but there was a queer mishap.
To prevent the airpipe from dragging
on their helmets the divers tied the
pipe to a part of the wrecks allowing
themselves to a certain amount of
slack.
"One day a man was working head
downward when .the trousers of his]
suit became filled with air and ho'
started to rise to the surface upside
down. When he had risen some distance
he was stopped by the lashing
of the pipe below, and so hurig upside
down halfway between the surface
and the bottom, like a mine.
; "We heard a muffled voice on the
telephone saying: 'There's some water
coming into my helmet. Only a
little but be as quick as you can.'
"We sent another man down at
once, and he cut the pipe loose while
he was standing astride dt. Immediately
the other map rose and the pipe
dragged the second man to, the surface
with him. Fortunately neither
of them struck the bottom of the
Racer.
"Owing to the high compression a
diver could only work at the bottom
about one-half hour at a time. It
took him about half an hour to come
to the surface so that the pressure
in his suit might be reduced by
stages. ' ?
^'During the operations we had a
number of cases of high-compression
sickness. These were treated by putting
the affected men~at once into the
recompression chamber on board. He
was there put under a high pressure
again, and very soon felt better. * .
"Some of the bars of gold recovered
were bent right round into a' "U"
shape, while others had pdhbles driven
hard into them?and also half
crowns.
"One of the queerest finds was T
shiall siIverfcoin of the reign of Edward
II or Edward IV. I do not know
how it got there unless it belonged to
somebody on the boat."
^ May Face Heavy Damages
Sumter, April 7.?The coroner's
jury investigating the death of J. W.
Griffin, middle aged painter who was
found dead in the city guarf) house
Sunday night, returned the following
verdict at the inquest held Monday
afternoon: "That J. W. Griffin came
to his death by asphyxiation (suffocation)
in the guard room of the city
of Sufnter, during the afternoon on
April 4, 1926* -Griffin
was* placed in the guard
room Sunday afternoon in a drunken
condition, and when an officer carried
his supper to the cell that night found
the man with his, face down on his
cot dead. *
It was brought out at the inquest
that Griffin had been taken from the
front steps of his home by Officers
Cariigan and Dollard who were summoned
by some of Griffin's neighbors.
It is said that the dead man's
wife was not at home when he was
taken up.
Attorney L. I). Jennings represented
Mrs. Griffin at the inquest Monafternoon,
and it was reported
Tuesday morning that a suit will be
filrd against the city for $100,000 for
the death of the man, charging the
city with neglect in caring for him;
It cannot be established definitely
whether there will bc a spit against
the city or in the event that there ia,
whether the amount wUI be to large
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LA8T YEARS' MURDERS
Hilhwt Rt^rd in Country's History,
Insurance Check-up Shows
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The United Status reached the
highest murder record of its history
in 11)25, a rise of from 1.8 per cent. I
to U.l per cent, per 100,000, accord-j
j ing to preliminary statistics for seventy-seven
American cities compiled
by Frederick L. Hoffman, consulting
statistician of the Prudential Life Insurance
Company of America. They
appear in an article in the current
issue of the Spectator, an insurance
(journal.
The rate increased in thirty-five
cities and decreased in forty others,
while in two it remained unchanged.
New York City, the statistician
aays, was one of the two cities in
which the rate remained unchanged,
even though his figures show that
there wdre thirteen fewer homicides
in this city in 1925 than in 1924, A
decrease in population, it is asserted,
accounts for the unchanged rate.
Chicago had the greatest number
of homicides during 1925, Mr. Hoffman's
tables show. The Illinois city
had 503 homicides last year to 509
in 1924. New York had the next
I highest pumber of homicides 374, a
j decrease fropi 387 in 1924. Detroit
| had 243 homicides in 1925, thg third j
highest number. Mr. Hoffman esti- j
j mates that there were not fewer than
| 12,000 deaths due to murder in this'
country during the course 4o( the
year. He declared that the economic
loss to the nation was very serious.
Finds Big Fortune
Albany, Ga., April 5.?Cleve. Riley,
negro farmer of Lee county, today
was auxiou.<Uy awaiting reports from
Washington as to the value^of three
bars of supposed gold bulllon^'which
he uncovered while plowing last
week. Each of the bars were stamped
$50,000 and dated 1784. Riley believes
he has found a fortune valued
at .$150,000, but has sent the metal
to Washington to -have it assayed.
The negro said the gold went ujinoticed
for three days chiefly because
the discovery took place o:i
April 1; However, Jini Varher, white
contractor of $asser, who had been
supplying the negro with supplies for
the crop, confirmed the story and
the postmaster at Bronwood Vouched
for the shipment of the metal to the
treasury at Washington.
'According to Riley's story, while
plowing last Thursday he struck a
buried object. Expecting to find a
root he began digging. His efforts
*brought forth a rusty metal pot.
Further investigation revealed three
bars of gold. The date 1784 and
amount, $50,000, were clearly discernable.
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Was Flim Flam Game.
Albany,/Ga., April 8.?The discovery
of^hree bars of "gold" by the use
of "divining instruments" cost Cleve
Riley, Lee county negro farmer $100
and a mule and buggy.
Riley, who sought gold with the
assistance of another negro, whose
flame he said was "Green" unearthed
three bars, each stamped $50,000 and
dated 1784.
Green told Riley after the discovery
that it would cost $200 t^o send the
gold to Washington to have it assayed
and offered to share the expense.
Riluy gave him a money order for
$100.
Yesterday Green borrowed Riley's
mule and buggy. He failed to return
it. Riley started an investigation to
day and tried to stop payment on
the money order, buj; learned it had
been cashed in Mscoti.
Riley flrat^aaid he had ploughed up
the three bars whH^at-work on-thtr
farm. He admitted however today
that they had been discovered by himself
and Green with the "assistance"
of the dividing instruments," and expressed
the belief that the bars had
been previously placed in the field by
Green.
Gypsies Get Their Own Dose
Miami, April 12.?Mote than 120
Gypsies in the midst of an open council
at their camp near here, today
were held up and robbed of money
and goods valued at $3,196 by eight
unidentified and unmasked men.l , In
the midst of a conference at whieh
representatives of ten separate bands
of Gypsies war# discussing summer
plans four men appeared and 'informed
the leaders' that a jewel theft1
had been perpetrated In Miami and
that they were officers seeking the
robbers. Asked to produce evidence
of their authority or warrants, the
intruders pointed to aft automobile
parked on the highway containing
four other men dressed in,sheets with
c^ude red crosses painted on their
backs. Four of the men held the
camp at bay with pistols while their
companions robbed the wagons bf
Spanish, French and American gold.
To shame co-eds in their pidilic use
of powder puffs, lipsttckiL and rouge,
men students at the University of
California shawd in class.
Mrs. Annie L. Kuck was fatally
injured Sunday night in Charleston
by being struck by un automobile
driven by Adolph Buse, who is being
held by the coroner pending the inquest.
MASTER'S SALE
State of South Carolina,
County of Kershaw.
(Court of Common Pleas)
fc 4 <
J. C. Cook, Plaintiff,
against
Mrs. M. A. Shaw, ct al., Defendants.
Under an,, order of Court herein
dated March 8, 1926, I will sell to
the highest bidder at public auction,
for cash, before the Kershaw County
Court House door, in Camden, in said
Stfcte, during the legal hours of sale
on the first Monday, being the third
day of May, 1926, the following described
real estate:
"All that certain piece, parcel or
tract of land lying, being and situate"
in the County of Kershaw, state
aforesaid, containing two acres, more
or less, and bounded north by Lockhart
Road, south by W. A. Shaw,
east by lands of J. R. Catoe and west
by Loekhart Ro&d and being almost;
triangular in shape and form." Also,
"All that certain piece, parcel or tract
of land lying, being and situate in
the County of Kershaw, state aforesaid,
containing three hundred and
twelve (312) acres, more or less, and
bounded north by lands of R. L*
Sowell, south .by lands of J'no. (.
Bowers land, the mine road being the
dividing line between this and the
J[po. I. Bowers land, east by lands
n6w or formerly owned * by D. L.
Catoe, formbHy William Catoe, and
west by lands of Jack Sullivan."
Anyone desiring to bid at said sale
shall first deposit with the Master
the sum of two hundred ($200) dollars
in ,cash or a check for that
amount to be approved by the Master
before the sale, as evidence of good
faith.
R. H, HILTON,
Master for Kershaw County.
April 13, 1926.
Tapped in their berths as they
slept, twenty-five members of the
crew of the oil tanker, Gulf of Venezuela,
lost their lives when the vesseL
burned at the dock at Port Arthur^
Texas, early Sunday morning as the
result of a gasoline explosion. Eleven
others received burns and injuries,
and two seamen are missing.
~ ANNOUNCEMENT.
Fdr County Auditor rl
I hereby announce myself as a
candidate for re-election for the
office of County Auditor for Kershaw
County, subject to the rules of the
Democratic primary.
B. E. SPARROW.
Announcement For Sheriff
To the Voters of Kershaw County:
Having served as deputy in the office
of Sheriff for the past six years and
being thoroughly familiar with the
duties of the office, I hereby announce
myself as a candidate for the
office of Sheriff of Kershaw County
and will appreciate the support of
the voters. J. HENRY McLEOD.
FOR MAGISTRATE
I hereby announce myself as a candidate
, for Magistrate for DeKalb
Township, subject to the rules of the
. PpiflQt;i;atie-primary. ?.??:?
W, L. DePASS, Jr.
FORT TREASURER
I hereby announce myself as a candidate
for the office of Treasurer of
Kershaw County in the coming primary,,
subject to the rules and regulations
of the Democratic party. 1
S. W. HOfiUE.
Far Judge of Prabate
I hereby announce myself as candidate
for the office af Judge of
Probate for Kershaw County, subject
to the rules of Democratic primary.
SAMUEL NLsNICHOIiSON.
For Re-Election as Probate Judge
I hereby announce'as a candidate
for re-election, to the office of Judge
of Probate in the approaching countyprimary
subject to regulations of the
Democratic party and with assurances
that continued endorsement can but
accentuate the honest endeavor that
has been mine throughout former
years. W. L. McDOWELL.
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