The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, March 25, 1927, Image 2
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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,
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
Grade 5?Gracie Belton, DosU"
Blakeney, Alexander Boykin, Richard
Dow, Mary Dow, Elsie Stewart.
Grade 6?Beatrice McGirt, Christ-;
ine Mdodana, Amanda Lawhorn, Ned
Grant, Frances J a rates, -Carrie SWmond,
Bernie Alexander, Charlie Car;
tain, Allen Belton.
Grade 7?VioJ^a j Austin, Cornelius
Thomas, Virginia ;Deas, Leola Cook,
Elizabeth Belton.
Grade 8?-Susie Boykin, Conir
Belle Shropshire, Cora Duren, Iffjjd
garet Williams. ?
Grade 9?JBlease Cook, Miriii|)
Boykin, Lucy Carter, Selma Alexander,
Etta Duren.
Grade 10?-Alvin DuBose.
Grade 11?Ralph McGirt, AkeuUs
MoCullough, Ruth Stewart.
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