The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, July 09, 1926, Image 6
FINAL DISCHARGE Noti'ie
is hereby given that one
sooth from this datou? on Monday,
July 26th, 1926, I will make to the
PrObate Judge of Kershaw County my
Anal return as Administrator of the
Estate of Horace Lot harm, deceased,
and on the same date I will apply to
the said Court fort a final discharge
AM said Administrator.
PAUL G. WALKER,
Camden, 8. C., June 24, 1926.
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FINAL DISCHARGE
Notice is hereby given that one
month from this date, on Monday,
Angust 2, 1926, I will make to the
.-Probate Court of Kershaw County my
final return as Administrator of the
estate of Edward Brooks, deceased,
and on the same date I will apply to
the said Court for a final discharge
an said Administrator.
' THOS. J. WILLIAMS.
Camden, S. C? July 2, 1926.
FINAL DISCHARGE
Notice is hereby given that one
month from this date, on Tuesday,
July 20, 1926, I will make to the Probate
Judge of Kershaw County my
final return as Administratrix of the
estate of J. F. Bateman, deceased, and
en the name date I will apply to the
said Court for a final discharge as
i said Administratrix. -c . .\ ?? ?
MRS. JANIE R. BATEMAN.
Camden, S. C., June^l?, 1928.
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( AUGHT IN H!8 OWN TRAP
In*trad of bring a Hero Baker Waa
a Firebug Says Report j
Raleigh, N. C, June 18.?Two
weeks ago B. B. Baker was hailed
as a man who gave his life in an attempt
to rescue others in a burning
boarding house. Today he is branded
not as a hero, but a fire-bug caught
in his own trap.
From the fall of inspiring heroics
comes the sordid anticlimax4 which
was gjveu today by Fire Chief Scotf?,
The report was made to the insurance
commissioners- and made public
by them. The report indicated
[that the investigation showed that
Baker fanned to kill and rob l/>uis
Oscar Engeleka, one of the victims,
just before the fire and made an attempt
in advance to place the blame
upon the brother of the man whom
he is alleged to have killed before
coming to North Carolina and that
his trips back into the house were
made to encourage the fire and push
along the flames as a motive for the
alleged crimes.
Baker admittedly had killed one
man and was alleged to have killed
others, the report says. It adds that
he had had fire losses In South Carolina
and .had collected heavy insur-,
ance. The lodging house is characterized
as haying been a "tough
jOint."
Two persons are qdoted aB Baying
that they heard shots in the vicinity
of the house at some time during the
night, and the report comments:
"Lousi 0. Engeleka was a man
known to have a good deal of money.
One of Engaleka's closest friends informed
me he had Liberty bonSls
that, he always carried in his pocket,
and this man says that he knows
Engeleka had at the time of thO"flrb
anywhere from $200 to $400 in bills
in his pocket. liTis thought by some
that Baker might have killed 'him
and rbobed him. Engeleka also had
$13,900 in the Diamond National
bank, Pittsburgh, Ph., and he had
ordered this money sent to him to
be deposited with the Page Trust
company, Hamlet. It is a known fact
i that he had told Baker he would
have this money by the first of June,
but as a matter of fact this money
was in the post office. It came
about the time the fire happened and
was in the post office at the time I
was making the investigation.
"Engeleka lived in a bask room in
the building. His body was found
direetly under the head of the steps,
where he had fallep to the ground.
His hands and feet were burned off
and they have never been able to
find his head. Baker's pistol was
found by Engcleka's body."
L In some of the affidavits attached
to the report is the statement that
Engeleka, who had made Baker's
daughter gifts of an automobile and
other things, had told her he expected
to will her all of his money.
"I find that B. B. Baker killed a
man by the name of Clarke in Cheraw,
S. C., a few years ago, and he
told different ones <in Hamlet that
he had killed two white men and
one nagro. This man Clark that was
killed has a brother by the name of
Mack Clark, who lives in Cheraw.
Mack Clark is a married man, " but
he and his wife do not live together,
and it was his wife, Mrs. Mary Clark,
who escaped from the building. She
informs me that Baker knew it, and
Mrs. Clark said that about 11 o'clock
that night Baker came to her room
and told her that he saw, Clark get
out of a S^th Carolina car near the
railroad crossing, and asked her if
she thought he would give them any
trouble that night. She informs ine
that she was not worried about the
matter and turned over and went to
sletfp. Baker saw two policemen
passing. He called them and said
that he saw Mack Clark get out of
a car near his house and that he had
killed Clark's brother; that Mrs.
Clark was in his house and he was
expecting1 trouble, but at the time
he told the officers that they need
nut remain about there, that he
could take care of the situation."
The reports say that careful investigation,
both in Hamlet and in
Cheraw, show that Clark was in
Cheraw at the time of the fire. "It
is believed that Baker expected to
pull off this fire and ho was bridging
the way to place the responsibility on
Clark.
"The firemen, in talking about this
fire, used their own language. They
said that 'this fire had somethihg
pushing it.' They saifl that they
could turn the nozzles on it and
drive the fire hack out of the hallway
and out of certain rooms, and
I when they would change the stream
of water this fire would tun back
where they had driven it away from."
In building up the chain of evidence
which led him to his conclusion
that Baker was "not a hero, but
a fire bug caught in his own trap,"
Captain Scott first shows that Baker,
Who came to Hamlat from Cheraw,
secured $1,800 insurance onnbe furniture
he had purchased for $300. This
was on April 26. A month later he
took out $750 insurance on -a player
piano and endeavored to secure further
insurance, but was discouraged
by the agent. He later moved his
aged mother and her furniture into
the house., "This, of course, made it
appeur that they had a good deal of
furniture."
Two days before the fire Haker
rented a cottage and moved his
mother and fcer furniture into it.
The day before the fire Mrs. Rachel
Baker, wife of B. B. Baker, left for
Columbia, 8. C., taking with her her
children. Before leaving she ar- j
runged at a garage to have her hus- j
band called to the telephone should i
she call from Columbia. Bhe called j
at 5:30 on the morning.of the fire.
This was a half hour before a telegram
telling her of her. husband's
death was sent from Hamlet.
"Prior to. this fire," the report
reads, "Baker was engaged in automobile
repairing. A little later
Baker complained that business was
dull and that they were not making
any mone^and suggested to Brown
that the orfly way they could make
any money out of it would be to
take out some insurance, and intimated
that they would burn it pp.
Brown cut hiin off very short on this
proposition, and Brown pulled out and
1 11 r
left his place." Brown ?u the partner
in business.
He later engaged in the similar
business with a Mr. Cassidy, and
"Cassidy informs me that Baker
came to him and told him that they
were losing money and that the only
way they could make anything out
of it would be for him, Cassidy, to
take out $3,000 insurance and, that
he Baker, would take out $3,000 and
suggested that they could burn It up
and collect the insurance. Mr.
Cassidy would not agree to it, and
remarked that ifxhe attempted anything
of that kind he would be caught.
Baker said, 'You could be at home and
I will do the balance/" '
The report tells of Baker's having
warned Tom Petroplee that he ought
I to have insurance on a stack of lum!
ber which stood near Baker's house.
Ho went back to Petroplee a second
time to learn if he had taken the
insurance, it says.
It also declares that on June 2,
two days before the fire, Baker
bought 40 gallons of kerosene and
gasoline, mixed, and carried it away
in a drum. He wanted it "for a
special purpose," he is quoted as say*
ing. Although a young man who
worked with Baker ttatpd that none
of this mixture had been used in the
garage^ business, it -was found by the
investigator to be "short 12 or 15
gallon#," ^
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Three Florida Banks Fall
Miami, Fla., July 2.?Tbrw Miami
financial institutions, the Bank of
Coooanut Grove, the Bank of Buena
Vista and the Bank of Little River
suspended operations here today. Outstanding
loans on which they could
not deliver werp given by directors
as reason# for suspension of activities.
Both the bank of Cocoanut Grove
and the Hank of Bueiya Vista failed
to open their <foors, while the Bank
of Little River opened for business
at nine o'clock but was , forced to.
close an hour later due Jto a somewhat
spectacular run. Uneasiness
was felt by residents of that community
regarding the failure of the
Buena Vista bank nearby and at the
opening hour an Increasing erowd
poured in to withdraw deposits. Two
squads of police were dispatched to
maintain order and an armored
money truck from a large down town
bank was sent with a large amount,
but directors chose to suspend operations.
-Officials of the Buena Vista and
Cocoanut Grove institutions, both of
limited capital and resources decided
to suspend' operations temporarily in
order to readjust affairs and reorganize
the bank on more extended and
stable foundations, augmented possibly
by Miami capital.
Firt Hi TWi Hill CMi?iii(y
*0. L. Catoe, $f the Thorn Hill section,
lost one of his, tarns by firc
Sunday afternoon. He had ju?t
started to Thorn Hill for attendant
upon tbtf B. Y. P. U. meeting, when
a child at the home of Lemuel
Falkenberry near by called attention
to the fact that the barn was on fire.
The fire made such rapid headway,
however, that it could not be extinguished.
A dog shut in the barn,
three sacks of nitrate of soda and
some cotton seed were in the building
and were destroyed with it. Mr.
Catoe's feedstuffs were. In another
barn some distance away. The fire
was accidental, it is supposed.?Kershaw
Era.
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iPhfe friends \>f Miss Etama Barfield,
, daughter of Mrs. L., E. Barfield, of
near Kershaw, and J. Henry Davis, of
'the Casatt section, were greatly surprised
when the announcement was
made to them that the ymijig couple
rawe married at Bennettsyille January
10 by Probate Judge J. G. McI'Hui
in. Their reason for not making
announcement of the marriage at the
time was that the mother of Mrs.
Davis was very seriously ill. Their '
I friends' wish them mfich happiness
and success.?Kershaw Era.
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