The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, May 20, 1927, Image 8
Two Arrested in Robbery ('um>
Florence, May 1T?Thad Smith ami
C*rl howler, young men who were
arrested yesterday on charges of having
robbed the Farmers and Mer
chants Hank of Coward of to
day were release*! from the Floreiu e
county jail on bond of $1,000 each.
Smith was urjested in North Carolina
by W A Newman, a detective
who had been working on the case,
while Fowler was taken at his home
at d oYlo< k this morning Both ar.
well known young men of the New
Hope se< tion of the county.
The hank r obbery look place at
mid day May '>. The men who com
mitted the rubbery had their face,
(minted and were otherwise disguised.
lJ|>on entering the bank they forced
It. H. Smith, the cashier, to throw uo
his hands, and after taking the pack
ages of money pushed him into the i
vault and locked the- doors. It was
not until the- return of Assistant
Cashier Troy C. Lynch that the robbery
was discovered and the imprisoned
bank cashier it leased. The men
eneaped in an automobile.
Clotted To Kill Kditor
< anion, Ohio, May II.-?T he story
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of a plot that began with a suggestion
that lion k. Mellett, editor of The
Canton Daily News he ""lugged and
run nut of town" because the trouble
the editor was making for S. A. I .en
gel, f ormir Canton police chief, and
ending with the murder of Mellett,
was told from the, witness stand here
today by Louis Mazer, indicted for
the murder. Mazer appeared in the
first degree muider trial of Floyd
Streitenberger, former city detective,"
charged with complicity 111 .Mellett's
assassination. Patrick McDermott is
now serving a second degree murder
sentence for the killing, Mazer is yet
to be tried. Mazer testified that the
plan to kill Mellett was hatched hv
Streitenlx-rgvr In-cause of Mellett's
attack on members of the Canton
police. He also testified that before
July 1 a, the c|ate of Mellett's asvassination,
St reitenherger knew that the
editor was to he killed rather than
"slugged" a- c.riginally planned
Mazer admitte'l he furnished tlx- gun
used by MeDermott t?? kill Mellett.
Sanger Height Steel, well known
bond broker of New York, committed
suicide last Thursday, by jumping
from a window on tlx- luen'y -eventh'
floor "f the McAlpin hole! in New:
York.
Captain ? 'herb - Lu.de. J>e. gh la -1
Thursday tn .t .'< a fligh' f m St.
Lcrlll.s, Mo., to New ^1 or k III - Ve|i;
and a half h- u"s. Hi- :e '.ual fly. ng
t inx* a i . i . n ,,in Sat
Fran i . w.t- .ii?'u: 1 w c.- i !y 'wo
hours.
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ha\ e he ' ribu'ed " ku ;n.
Mrs. I.aura MrCartkill I>ir?
Mru. Laura McCaskiJI, 8d, died at
St. Margaret's home in Charleston,
Monday. Mr*. John T. Green, her
mere, wan with her when the end
came. The body wait taken to Sumter
Tuesday morning.
The funeral services were conducted
by her pastor, the Rev. I). M. MeIver,
of the hirst Pre?byterian church
of Ihshopviiie, assisted by the Rev.
W |, Paiker of Spring Hill Metho-'
list church at Hepsiah Presbyterian
.church at Manville. Interment was
made in the church cemetery.
Mrs. McCaskill was born ami rearmi
m the Salem community and spent
practically all her life in Lee county.
1 She had made her home for a number
of yeais with her niece, Mrs. John T.
Green, of Spring Hill, but a month
ago she moved to Charleston, where
she died Mrs. McCaskill had been
in failing health for some time and
the end was not unexpected. She is
survived hy one son, who resides near
Sumter and a niece, Mrs. Green.
Bishops ille Messenger.
Stole Hive of Bees
A young negro who lives just north
of the city stole a hive of bees from
the pie mist's o f a white farmer Satuxla>
night and carried them to see
his home and hid them in his barn
loft. Officers found the hive one day
thin week and made him return the
bet s to their owner, who lived about
one lmle distant from the home of the
thief. The negro is considered an imbecile,
having been struck a severe
blow on the head about a year ago,
rendering him unconscious for several
clays, following which he was
placed in the state hospital and had
been discharged from the institution
only a few days ag<>. Asked how
he managed to keep the bees from
stinging him. the negro said he
stuffed a pocket handkerchief into the
hole where they entered and mad"
their exit, the gum being of the patent
design. The youth also stole a yearling
one clay last week and sold it to
a local meat market. He said he
kept it hid in a mas- of honeysuckle
\ines until he* had a chance to sell it.
I a master NT vvs.
italics Ford of Monongahela, Pa.,
;a- been in jail for five months bei
au.-e of his refusal to pay an alleged
deb* of seventy cents. His sentence
ha- > os! th< i*. t \ foity dollar- in jail
i barges.
Three pir-'n- were killed and a
full: th >ci inu> 1 \ mjuied near Buffalo,
N 'i . Fn?.a\ when an au' >m<>b:!e
i,',tog'* I tv *i an emba'-kmen and
a 1 i nt-o a * rec.
> : \ t \ - *. wo c I iiiik - . " jg s, i-.tb'gllc
-. >'c.. MIVC bet ' T"i? I ?i t" b'UV"
i , ag i ;.': i -'a\ awac. if'or having
beer ru- :?-d up by *r.f It e ?.f *hc
\.
K i <':?- i ut: Ihui - for ' he
M -s --i|>;>: \ a11 \ f'o id -offerers. <? ait.:
m>rL : .vp.ooo.oiMi Sunday
. ill I' i- stated that the >10,000.iioii
w ; ! a* in ai'.v meet recpii i otppn' f-?r
ndeyuae iclief.
GENERAL NEWS NOTES
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Out' man wan killed and fifty or1
more were injured when a wtction of
the flooring of a Philadelphia ba??baII
park grandstand tollapaed <?n
Saturday.
Red Cross headquarter? in Wa-h
r ington on Saturday reported thai the
fund for Mississippi flood r? lief
totaled $11,478,565.
Paul Smith, aged 57, son "f tinfounder
of Paul Smith's noted Mini 1
mer resort at J'aul Smith's New York, '
is dead at Richmond, Va,
Canadian officials have made \ast
sums of money by "holding up .iquor .
runners for tribute, charges James
Cooper of Windsor, Canada, who is'
alleged to be worth $10,1)00,000, made
from liquor running. Cooper named
two prominent officials as benefitingfrom
the graft.
One hundred and fifty business men
of kittle Rock, Ark., have asked the
grand jury to closely investigate the
charge s that city officials left the
town .ast week to give the lynchers
?l John Carter, negro, free rein, and
it evidence sustains the charge the
buf iness men ask the ousting of city of
ficials.
New York City has gone well over
ittf double quota, $1,260,000, for the
Mississippi valley flood sufferer*.
The medical department of the University
of Georgia at Athens, was
damaged several thousand dollars bv
fire Saturday morning.
A rain storm of such violent e \ isit- i
ed Kansas City, Mo., early Saturday ;
morning that some streets were soon
flooded with rushing water three feet I
deep. One life was lost. Toe lain
fell so hard at times that re< <<nling
instruments at the weather bureau
were unable to record it.
Ty Cobb, stormy petrel of baseball,
ha.- been indefinitely suspended from !
further playing because of a run-in
with the umpire in a recent game at
Philadelphia. A1 Simmons, another
Philadelphia player, has been suspended
a* the result of the same row
A violent outbreak of anthrax has
been discovered among the OUO .
head of cattle and livestock saved (
from the flooded areas of northern ,
Louisiana.
The week of June S to 14 ha- In-en ! .
fixed as flag week, under the auspices | ;
of lhe I nited States Flag ass?? ia'.i<?n. > ,
' hristian Penico, of Cokesbu g, Pa.,,,
shot John Land is tu <leath at Wash-!
ingtun. Pa.. Sunday because the latter |,
was making so much n-.d.-e that lYttic-C
could not sleep.
Sunday blue law-. ' advocates arpreparing
to carry a campaign to
'ongrt.-- to prohibit all radio limad-'
casting except religious matter- on;
S u inlays.
I lie London police and Scotland i
*i detective- try iug to unravel 1
;i mysteiy murder i use. The dismembeted
body "j a woman was recent 1\
loirn in ;i 'intik that had been stored
in < -".a1 ing t loss railroad station fot
s<-\ii,i. day*. When opening the bodv
appeared to have been that of a
woman who must have beet, dead a *
lea*', a month.
Att ocean-wide search has- la-en
-tatted in the south Atlantic for Cap
tain Roman and Commander .Mounyetes,
I-tench aviators attempting a
flight from the west coast of Africa'
'.o brazil, who nave been missing fo->e..-n!
days past.
A pas-engt-r-carrymg airplane
' ' ?' be established be twee i
I.o- \-o--is, Cal., and Fort Worth,
I v- -n ab.-ut June 1. ?
riie wii.M , wheat crop of this yea ?*
rsfimat< ! by the agricultural de
me: merit ar PlO.OOti bushels, acontpared
with ,>2'ki>2,.MMMi bushels ii.
1 tlL'tk
1 he Raid Head ( lub of America
nu-t m annual session at Greenwich
t etiti., on Monday niglrt.
The United States had 750 case*
I smallpox last year with hut
(baths from that disease.
Leonard Husar, former United ,
States district attorney in China, has
boon sentenced to two years imprisonment
on McNeil's Island on charges of
embezzlement and despoilation of
government property. His alleged accomplice,
named Heath, was given a
prison sentence of eighteen months.
A. h. Humphrey, who rose from a
backwoods school teacher to make an.i
lose millions in lumber and then 1h-canie
a millionaire again in oil, aeci
dentally shot himself to death last
Sunday at lh . e . ( ol.. while packing
gur.s p; epa.iaioi y to going on a fishing
trip.
The lepr osorium at Carville. La.,
where J0U leprosy victims are kept, i<
in danger of inundation on account of
the flood waters near Baton Rouge
If the levees near Baton Rouge break
then the plant, at Carville is doomed.
A plot to free several hundred prisoners
from Joliet state prison of
Illinois, was frustrated Wednesday,
upon the arrest of a man who appeared
at the prison gate dressed m
he garb of a priest. Search of the
man's clothing disclosed severs
bottle* of nitro-g.yvenne concealed in
his clothing. Several ,,-her men in
an automobile accompanying he
priest, made their escape when he
was arrested. (
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Oldest Prisoner C?lebr?ten Birthday
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Juliet, III., May 12.?"Old Charlie"
Lindwall, the oldest prisoner in Juliet
penitentiary and possibly the ujdest
in the country, yesterday observed his
bhth birthday as he has observed
every milestone since 1000 and as he
probably Will observe every anniver*ar>
until In- receives the pardoft of
death.
Linlwnll, sentenced to the peipten
tiai> for life in ItilMJ for murder
whieii lie always denied committing,
refused a pardon a few years ago,
maintaining he was too old to face
the wot Id. At the time he was sentenced
the court told him that his age
alone had saved him from the gal
lows. Since then tin* judges and most
of the jurors have died, hut "Old
Charles" half blind, fee|de and bowed
with his years, has clung tenaciously
to life, serving his penalty with borrowed
time over the allotted three
sco 1*4- and ten Today he puttered
around the prison yard with no guard
molesting him, no prisoner intruding
upon his dreaming.
Heavy Fire Damage in Sumter
An estimated loss of $116,200 was
caused by the fire which gutted the
Monoghan block on South Main street
in the heart of Sumter's business district
early Thursday morning. The
fire was discovered shortly before one
o'clock in ttye rear of Crane's Dry
Cood store and at this time had already
gained considerable headway.
From this store it spread to liearop's
Pharmacy then to the Cash Dry Goods
store and the Star Barber shop, the
heavy wall between this last named
place and Miinnaugh's Dry Goods
store being the only thing that prevented
its further spread. On the
South side of the building the First
National Bank acted as a barrier in
that direction]
Racial Feeling Fanned Again
Little Rock, Ark., May 16.?Antiracial
feeling was fanned anew today
when a whRe woman was attacked by
a negro in her kitchen in the suburbs
>f Little Rock. A large force of officers
set out to seek the negro and the
woman was brought to the hospital in
:i highly nervous condition. Today's
attack followed a brief period of
juu-t after two occurrences which
stirred up mob action toe re. The first
lynching in I'ula.ski county in 28 years
occurred two weeks ago with a negro,
named ( arter, attacked two white
women. He wio lynched and his body
burned in ore of the main city streets.
A few days taller the public had
been aroused b\ diseovery of the
brutal murder 12-year-old F'oella
McDonald, a white girl, by a young
negto who i- now awaiting trial.
Suicides in Niagara
Niagara Falls, N. Y., May 12.?An
unidentified man committed suicide
here this afternoon by going over the
American falls. He waded out into
the stream about 100 feet above the
brink and was swept down by the
swift current. As he passed over the
crest he was under water and barely
visible to the hundreds of tourists at
the point.
The home of Robert K. Shannon,
located on the Columbia-Chester
highway near Blackstock, was completely
destroyed by fire Wednesdav
night, the loss being estimated at
about $7,000 or $8,000. The building
was a large structure and was said
to have been furnished splendidly.
A few pieces of furniture in the two
front rooms was saved. The origin
of the fire is not known.
I he state of
postponed the date of opegH
bids for furnishing text hi
South Carolina schools froniH
to June Hi, because of tUmiS
families of members af the
was announc ed in Cdimbii Iutm
urday. 1
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A marriage of much intnfl
their many friends was that ?
Rena Braunon and Mr. 1/rH
Young, Jr., both of near Cfl
which was sojemnized by RetH
Neal at his home in KershnrW
day evening, May Y?, in the jA
of a few intimate friends. I
Mrs. Young is the altraetWtH
ter of Mr. and Mrs. W. M &A
and was a teacher in the ffl
school the past session. Mr. A
is a popular young farmer._A
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