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a??? ?1 ' 1 TIIKKK BANK WKBGKKK8 Two Mm iiui Woman Got Heavy Men tenceo in Ptder*l Court Columbia, Match 21.?Three emjitoyea whoae defalcation cauoed tht closing of the Hank of Georgetown a1 Georgetown, pleaded guilty to embezzlement and conspiracy in Federal court here today and were sentences] to prison by Judge Krnest F. Cochran, Alleged to have obtained more than $ft0,000 over a period of four years, the de-fend ants and the sen tcnces given them were: I^ouis J. Mc< 'onnell, thirty-one, senior tidier, four years and six months in tin* Atlanta penitentiary for embezzlement, and eighteen months for conspiracy. Wiliic A. MdCnnnell, twenty-six, ft sister of the teller, fifteen months in the woman's reformatory at Rutland, Vt., on the charge of embezzlement and a year and a day on the conspiracy chaige. James A. ITitlen, twenty-two, a bookkeeper, two years and seven months in the Atlanta penitentiary on the conspiracy charge, and fifteen months on the embezzlement charge. In imposing sentence Judge (>>ehian provided that they shall run concurrently. IyOUlS J. Me/ lonrvell, tin- only one of the defendants to make u statement in court, attempted to assume all the blame for his sister's shortage, which he declared, did not amount to $1,000. "Whatever she did, she did on my account," he declared. "When sh<made those overdraft**, I told her I would take cart* of them." McConnell, who said he hud been employed in the bank fourteen years, related that he first took the bank's money in the fall of 1022 to use in meeting drafts upon a printing concern he operated, thinking he would be able to raise the money to cover the amount. Failing in that, however, he took money to cover this shortage and this developed into a practice that resulted in his obtaining from $20,000 to $.'10,(XX), The government alleges that MrConnell had obtained at least $35,000, and perhaps more, but said it was unable to trace any more on account of some of the bank's records having been destroyed. 10??1 ^ UL LXJUfta Charges that the trio had been persecuted by the bank official? were made by MoConnell, who told how At one time the bond for the three was made a* high as $130,000, He declared they were arrested on five : warrant? and were threatened with ' a aeries of arrests. , In extenuation of his defalcation, the teller pleaded that the affairs of ^ the hank were very loosely managed and charged that all of the officials resorted to overdrafts or memorandum receipts for cash when they wanted money. McConnell said the Hank of Georgetown was insolvent two years before it was closed. Walter Hazard of the Georgetown bar, attorney for the defunct banK from its organization in 1886, opposed mercy for the defendants and charged that since their arrest they had been "filling the air" with "slanderous" statements about the officials of the bank and other prominent persons in the community, trying to connect them with an illicit "bootleg ring." Mayor Thomas P. Stoney of Charleston, ap{>eared as attorney for the defendants and announced they threw themselves on the mercy of the court. He gave it as his opinion that McDonnell had embezzled the money partly as a _ result of the loose conditions alleged to have prevailed in the bank and that it was true that M iss McConnell owed her present plight to her brother. Philen, Mayor Stoney said, was very immature, and had to supjiort a widowed mother and a younger brother who had been* sick quite a while. Part of the bookkeeper's defal cations, he continued, went to pay, the expenses of sending his ill brother to the Mayo clinic for treatment. The government set forth that Philen had received so far as the records showed, about $3,000, and Miss McConnell about $1,000. The total shortage was placed at in excess of $r?0,000, but it could not be itemized in full because of the absence of some of the records. The tent city of Weepah. Nev.. new mining town, was wrecked Monday by a <?0-mile gale of wind, hail and snow. Everything movable was swept down the canyon. PRINTING GOLD ffOGX Keep* I'reaaea of Weepah Buay Night ad Day < , The hilarious days of silv?r mining ( that Mark Twain passed through, in Nova/la many decades ago and mirtU? real to the world in "Roughing It > are happening again in Nevada, but thin time it is with gold, relates a dis paU'h from Weepah, Nevada. Weepah, a little town northwest of here, in running hog-wild over its discovery that its ground and rocks are almost yellow with gold. Twain wrote that friends shook hands and swapped a few shares of silver stock, certificates being passed around like cam-' paign cigars. It is happening again I ?almost. I I Printing presses are clanking twen-j ty-four houfn a day as certificates of fancy green designs with gold seals ' cannot be made fast enough to supply ' the demand. Stock of any company 1 purporting to be in reaching distance J of Weepah's gold is bought in *1 ! clamor. I Promotion is frantic, as everybody ! with a bit of ingenuity seeks to get his finger in the pie, both by digging gold from Weepah and by digging ' checks from the outside, before "big money" comes in and squelches them. Weepah was not much'' more than n , name of a town before the boom! came, and now is trying to get a few' houses to make itself visible. Build- j ing is slow, hampered by the fact | that carpenters can make more money ! by digging gold, so the procedure is to buy houses here and move them to Weepah. They are balanced on trucks and taken overland, a precarious trip on the rugged desert. *** ? * Water is $2 a barrel, ham and eggs eighty cents; poor liquor, fifty cents a drink; gasoline, fifty cents a gallon. The littfe town is beginning to hum with population as sourdoughs and prospectors hurry in. Men of experience in the greatest gold discoveries of recent decades declared they had never seen such rich ore. A reporter pulled one handful of rocky soil out of the ground, and it was panned to produce two tablespoonfuls of gold. Some rocks contain GO per cent gold. Frank Horton, owner of the principal claim, had thirteen ore sacks, each eighty pounds of ore and each worth about $1,800. Weepah produced its first heroine j today when it became known that ' Mrs. Julia Gambier, cook for the Horton company, which owns ttfe principal claims in the rich field, protected the firm recently from insolvency. Mrs. Gambier came near owning the rich Horton claim. She had worked a year without being able to col- 1 lect wages. When bankruptcy appeared inevitable she filed a $1,200 labor lien and Fred Horton, brother of Frank Horton, head of the company, filed a labor lien for $6,830. The unrecognizedly rich property was sold by the sheriff. Mrs. Gambier, ostensibly to protect the land, bid in her own interests, subject to Frank Horton's claim, and the property was sold subject to redemption within six months. That was three months ago. Had the discovery been made three months hence Mrs. Gambier and Fred Horton would have owned the biggest claim in Weepah. But Mrs. Gambier went happily about her work today, tossing flapjacks and cooking many portions of "ham and" with the speed which characterized a camp cook. She admitted she bid in the property to protect it for its rightful owner, whom she calls "the best boss on earth." Triple Crime Revealed Chicago, March 20.?The partly burned body of a 12-year-boy found yesterday in a pile of ashes along the banks of the Des Plaines River in Forest Park, a suburb, was identified today shortly after the bodies of his mother and step-father had been found in their home, dead from poisoning. Police believe that the mother and step, father killed the boy accidentally while punishing him and that they committed suicide after attempting to dispose of the boy's body. Alabama Sheriff Only 26 Marengo county, Alabama, has a 26-year-old sheriff in D. Moody Drinknrd. He is a former baseball player. The eldest ox six sons of a former chief deputy sheriff. Drinkard had little leaning toward politics but two babies arrived at his home and he decided it was "time for me to do something." He ran for sheriff, receiving a* many votes as the combined total of three opponents, and now is in the first month of his office. final discharge Notice is hereby given that one month from this date, on Monday April 25, 1927. I will make to the 1 robate ( ourt of Kershav* County my final return as Administrator of the estate of Iother Caldwell, and on the same date I will apply to the said V'urt for a discharge as said Administrator. J. p. LEWIS. Camden, S. C., March 21 1927. One 5-year-old child was killed, and a mother and another child were seriously injured when an Atlantic Coast Line train hit an automobile on a grade crossing ten miles from Ludowici, Ga., at noon on Wednesday. Jake Wells, hotel owner of Hendersonville, N. C., committeed suicide near that city Wednesday by shooting himself twice with a pistol. Honor Roll Jackson School Following is the honor roll of the Jackson High school for the sixth month: Grade 1-B?Peter Williams, Colonel Patterson, Albert Blanding, Frank Lloyd, William Baynard, Jessie Lee Tucker, Pearl Mickle, Bessie Haile, Mary Smith, Neddie Metley, Isiah Cook, Johnny Smith, Levy Strong, Mitchel Logan, June Cantey, Well Deas, Andrew Carlos, Robert Bynum, (Lewis Prince, Cornelius Ransom, Jr., Alice Kirkland, Maria Mitchell, Elizabeth Thomas, Helen Williams, Margaret Maxwell, Pauline Strong, Mil dred Armbrister, Bowilla Lawson, Jeraline Bradley, Willie Mae Johnsou and Jessie Mae Johnson. Grade 1-A?Hettie Burroughs, Ix>uise Bates, Frances Boykin, Daisy Alexander, Charlotte Stearns, John Alexander, George Bolden, Norwood Coo?k, Willie Fegurson,, John Edward Johnson. Grade 2?Susie Moore, Hattie DuBoee, Geneva Mickle, Victoria Bishop, Louise Alexander, Adam Mickle, Seymour Jackson, Woodrow Culcleasure, Sallie Howard, Geraldine Hall, Amanda Williams, Willie Alexander, Micus Yarborough, Philip Shields, Dorothy English, Hattie Roach, Rosa Bell Roach, Millie Neal, Clara Folks. Grade 3?Lottie Belle Certain, Eartha McLaughlin, Mary Williams, Georgia Lou Lykes, Marie Whitaker, Nazereth Belton, George Thompson, L. J. Pickett, James Thomas, Willie Alexander, Rosa Lee Doas, Mary Thorn, Mary Baskin, Ella Shields, Lela Jackson, Betsy Reynolds, Esca Mead Mdodana, Carrie Salmons, Francis Carlos, Catherine Certain, Earnest Truesdale, George Payton, James English. James Alexander, Berlin Waddy, Charlie Shedrick. Grade 4?Robert Jones, Bennic [ Mills, Louise Ross, Robert Lee Duren, Rosa Lee Haile, Pauline Smyrl, Juanita Graham, Willie Mae Perry, Ethel Mae Hampton, Herlean Stradford, William Fletcher, Millie Perry, Nellie Kirkland. 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