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11 J I ? SPEECH FROM GALLOWS ftirger Gangster. Noose on Nerk, Denounces State's I'ruMrutur Marion, HI., Oct. 21.? Kado Millit-h, n friendless, penniless Montenegrin, the "goal" of the Birger gangsters, made a dramatic entrance into the unknown today. Reading from a puper, which he had dictated and with difficulty held in his pinioned hands, he denounced State'# Attorney Arlie Hum well for ^prosecuting an innocent man" for conspiracy witii the Birger gang, nixl a# "an accessory to fhurder." At the climax of his periods his head swum and he slumped off the trap. He was pushed hack hy Philip Hanria, an imported expert Hangman. The trap was sprung hy Sheriff Coleman, while Millich, half conscious, tried to keep his feet. Looking at Bos well at the foot of the gall ows, Millich had been overcome1 when in broken English he said: "That man down there brought witnesses to my trial that swore falsely against me. Yes, 1 did kill Ward Jones, but it was done in self defense and Mr. Boswcll knows it. You people will know the truth later as J tell it now on the brink of death. 1 want no preachers to console me. Two prcacheri were on the jury that convicted me. Then ihey came around and talked brotherly love and the gospel trying to ease me into Heaven. 1 don't want any of it. I never* went to school and I have no friends." While delivering his words the noose was about his neck. As the death cap was hurriedly pulled over his head, Millich's strength ebbed and collapse was imminent. Mill ich was abandoned by his j attorney when Governor Small refused to reprieve him. This case j did not go to the Supreme Court because he was penniless. The only hand stretched out to save him was that of the Serbian consul in Chicago who asked the Governor for a reprieve. Millich had served a term foi\ robbery and on his release from prison was taken under the wing of Charlie Birger. He was the bartender at the Shady Rest resort of the gang leader. Just a year ago there was a fight among the gangsters. Millich and Ward J ones were principals. Jones, so the evidence showed, ran toward the house and appeared with a machine gun which he pointed toward Millich. The latter had seized a gun and as Jones appeared, fired - - and killed June*. The body was ear-! riwl off ami tossed in a creek new' Shawnee Town. It was found Oct-' Jober 2d. He was convicted on the evidence of two gangster*, Harry j 1 Thompson, serving life sentence and Art Newman also serving life for murder of Mayor Joe Adam* of West City. They swore that Jones did not intend to shoot Mlllich. This is the first Birger gangster to hang. As Millich said v" the { gallows, "Birger *is here yet, but . he has money."' The gang leader's ' casd is in the Supreme Court. Millich had worked as h miner. Birger did not testify at the trial. A crowd of 200 witnessed the execution. Foi^r more Birger gangsters are to be tried for mur! der. Orangeburg Has a New One Orangeburg, Oct. 19.? Attended by hundreds of county ami town people the formal opening of the Kutaw, the city's new $275,000 community hotel was held Tuesday evening. The doors of the hostelry were formally thrown open to the public at H o'clock and for several hours a throng passed in and out of the building on a tour of inspection. NOTICE OF HALE NOTICE OF SALE OF THIRTYFIVE THOUSAND ($35,000.00) DOLLARS STREET' IMTROVEMENT BONDS OF THE CITY OF CAMDEN, S. C. The City Council of Camden South Carolina will offer for sale on Wednesday, November 2nd, 1 {*27, at the office of the City Clerk Thirty-Five I Thousand Dollars ($35,000.00) coupon street improvement bonds, in the denomination of One Thousand Dollars each, with "Iffterest ut five per pent, payable semi-annually, in uny legal tender of the United States, forty (10) years after date, with the privilege of redemption twenty (20) years after date. Said bonds to be j issued for paving streets of the city i of Camden. Sealed bids will be re| ceived by the City Clerk of the City j of Camden, S. C., up until seven p. m. j November 2nd, 1927. All bids must be accompanied by a certified check made payable to the City of Camden, 'South Carolina, in the sum of One Thousand Dollars to guarantee the performance of the contract to purchase said bonds. The City Council reserves the right to reject any and ull bids. Attest: C. J'. DuBOSE. City Clerk. Mayor W. H. HAII.E. aged body found ???i Sumter Negro Believed Bobbed w\dr Murdered in Woods / _ ?? ' The body of Jim Hrunson, tuyear-old negro, was found early j Saturday morning by a Mr. Walts | as he was hunting foxes in a woods four miles from here on the Sum-1 merton road. The negro's pockets j had been turned out indicating thut i he had been robbed. His head wgs badly decomposed, but identification ' was established by means of his, ! clothing. Urunson bud been buying cross ties for Mr. G. E. Bruner, Jr., and dis- j appeared Thursday morning. On that mprning he was last seen by Mr. Bruner negotiating with Eva Pugh, negro man, for , the purchase of 25 ties, which Pugh said, he, had in the woods where Brunson's * body was later found. Mr. Bruner gave Brunson $22 with which to buy the ties and he and Pugh walked down in Die woods together. Pugh had an fce ! on his shoulder, Mr. Bruner said. When Brunson failed to return ! Mr. Burner reported the mutter to rural officers and search was begun for. him. The woods which he was j seen entering were thoroughly combed without result. Friday morning Rural Officers Dollar, Boykin and Norris arrested Pugh and placed him in the county jail to wait further developments. When Pugh Was informed of the "discovery of Brunson's body Saturday morning he disclaimed all knowledge of the murder. Pugh is about 22 years old has a police record, having been arrested several times previously on i charges of housebreaking.?Satur day's Sumter Item. master's sale ?jrtj State of South Carolina, County of Kershaw. (Court of Common Pleas) J. E. Cousar, Plaintiff, against J. V. Arrarits, Defendant. Under and by virtue of an order of the ( ourt of Common Pleas made in the above entitled case and dated October 18, 1927. I will sell to the highest bidder at public auction before the Kershaw County Court House door, Camden, S. C., during the legal hours of sale, on the first Monday, being the seventh day of November, 1927, the following described real estate, to wit: All that tract of land containing thirty-nine (39) acres, more or less, and bounded as follows. Northeast by public road from Bishopville to Camden; Southeast by other land of grantor; Southwest by land of F. K* Sparrow or run of Beaver Creek Dam Swamp; and Northwest by land formerly of I,, p. -Arrants, now ownid by mortgagor. "Also, all that tract of land containing twenty five (25) acres ancf bounded as follows: Northeast by road from Bishopville to Camden; Southeast by tract above described; Southwest by land of W. A. Stuckey; and Northwest by land of .J. r' Arrants. This being the tract of land conveyed to mortgagor by L. P A rrants." ' R. H. HILTON Master Kershaw Count v. October 19, 1927. t ?* . MASTER'S SALE State of South Carolina County of Kershaw (Court of Common Pleas) Henry Belton, et. al., Plaintiffs ; : against Nora Miller, et. al., Defendants. Under and by virtue of a Decree made in the above entitled case and dated October 8. 1927, I will se)l to the highest bidder at public auction, foi cash, before the Kershaw County ( ourt House door, Camden, S. O. during the legal hours of sale, on the' first Monday, being the 7th dav of November, 1927, the following ' described real estate, to wit: I ract No. 1. All that piece, parcel or ti act of land situated in the county of Kershaw, state of South Carolina, contahiing 109.87 acres more or les3 Bounded on the north by lands of Laura Smith; East by lands of Mrs Sidney Trantham; South by lands of Hoyd, and by tract No. 2 of said Bolton lan<H and West by CamdenLiberty Hill road, as designated on plat of A. B. Boykin, surveyor, of date February 1926, on file with the record of the case herein. Tract No. 2. All that piece, parcel or tract of land situated* in the County of Kershaw, state of South . Carolina, . containing 88.15 acres , ro?re'or less, bounded north by tract i _No- 1 said Belton lands and bv ; lands of Floyd; East by a branch which separates said lands from lands of Floyd, and by Granny's 1 Quarter Creek-' South by tract No 3 of said Belton '.ands; and West by ( amdec-Liberty Hill road, as desig' nated on plat of A. B. Boykin. surveyor of date February 1926, on file with the record of the case herein. I Tract No. 3. All that piece, parcel or tract of land situated in the counJy of Kershaw, state of South Carot ma, containing 88.35 acres, more or less.. Bounded nqfth by tract NoT 2 of said Belton lands; Southeast by Granny a quarter Creek, and & West j by Camden-IJberty Hill road as oesignaieu oy piai of A. B. Boykin. surveyor, of date February 1926 on file with the record of the ease herein. ' , -Anyone bidding on any of the <Uid (Si00.00) in- cash or certified cheek I as evidence of good faith. r. h. hilton October . *}&: Kfr,h*w mm ? TT f J ? SCHOLLAKSHIP HO>'OR ROLL * r MHI.J1.. T-" For Mrst Month, Jackson Graded ,r School Grade IB.- Alma Gaskin, Florie Wright, Ktta Johnson, Irene Alexander, Simoon Dixon, JajUM Tucker, Cleo Salmond, Chas. Hoach, Law rence Salmon, Vernease Duren, Julius Cantey, Robert Brown, Suaie Mae Barnes and Charlotte Kelley. Grade 1A. -Carrie Reynolds, Margaret Maxwell, Thelma Reddish, Luella Canty, John Smith, Howard Alexander, James Hayes and Robert Carlos. -v Grade 3.?Catherine Cook, Caroline Bradley, Daisy Belton, Anna Belle Boykin, Kloise Cook, Charlie Belle Smith, Bessie Mdodana, Margaret Shield, Mary Doby, Hattie DuBose, William Bracey, Irving Johnson, L. J. Pickett, Claude Salmond, James Rainey. Grade 4,?Carrie Salmond, Escamead Mdodana, James English, George Payton, Charlie Belton. Grade 5.?ilerlean Stradford, Jessie Mae McCray, Robert Lee Duren, Dorothy Smith, William Fletcher, Robert Jones, James Gamble. Grade 0.?Mary Dow, Mamie Duren, Ida Belle Whitaker, Dosia Blakeney, Graeie Belton, John Blunt, Alexander Boykin, Isaiah Waddy, Willie Carolina, Lindsay Brad.ey. Grade 7.?Beatrice McGirt, Christine Mdodana, Henrietta Williams. Grade 8.?Louise James, Maggie Thompson, Surah Howard. Grade 9.? Hattie Powell. Grade 10.? Miriam Boykin, Klsie ('ooke. Grade 11.?Ruth Whitaker. Arrested in Tennessee Mull ins, Oct. 21.?Sheriff John V. Rowell of Marion county was notified late today that a Negro giving the name of Liston Davis had been arrested in Chattanooga, Tenn., and would be returned to South Carolina without requisition papers to face | trial on charges of shooting Officers S. L. Davis of Mullins and Solon B. I A-wis of Marion in February. The officers were shot when they attempted to arrest on a charge of inciting riot, the Negro, who was barricaded in the house. I^ewis was severely wounded and was confined to a hospital for several months. Rewards of $50 and $100 respectively were offered by the governor and Sheriff Rowell for the Negro's i arrest. i Whose Watch? Agent: "Don't you want your of' fice furnishings insured against theft?" Manager: "Yes, all except the clock. Kverybody watdncs that."?De Laval Monthly." No Appetite For Preachers San Antonio, Tex. Oct. 21.?Cannibals of the Belgian Congo have just about lost their appetite for missionaries, the Rev. W. R. Holder, missionary 'for the Christian church in Africa, reports. ^Mr. Holder spoke at a district convention of the Christian church here. The last recorded Cannibal feast he could recall was about a year ago. j On that occasion, he said, a native was the piece d'resistence. It has been about 12 years since a white man went into the pot and he was a trader who had been harsh with the natives, the missionary declared. Circus Day in Camden is Drawing Near ? * Its the approaching visit' of the Walter L. Main Circus that is the question of hour in Camden at least for the small boys of six, and for that matter, many of the "boys" of sixty. The billboards, barns and fences laden with pictoral displays of the many attractions of the circus, have for several day.s^ been the point of focus of all eyes. The kiddies are restlessly awaiting the day when they will experience their annual big holiday event, acknowledged to be better than Christmas and the Fourth of July put together. About the time the milk man is making his rounds on the morning of Monday November 7 the big palatial special train of the Walter 1.. Main circus will be pulling slowly into the railroad yards. -Scores of the kiddies will be surprising their parent* by jumping out of bed without even being; called. They will he seen runrrng towards the tracks and there will later be found watching intently the wonderful ' spectacle of the unloading of,a mammoth circus train. The"Old WoVld has been sacked for feature* for the Walter L. Main cir !cus this year. The question of salary was not considered and booking agents spent many months watching | the performances of famous circuses j abroad ami in the Orient in the hope of securing new talent for the WalteT L. Main circus program. There are hundreds of performer? ' who take part in the big show program. Kvery artist was selected because of some especial merit. NTew ; acts and faces will tend to eliminate the fallacy of thinking that "all circuses are alike." Among the noted features ate the DeLong Sisters of i acrobats from the Royal Circus i Brussells; Mille Utbras who loop* 'the loop on a bicycle; the De Martin family from the Ixrndon Hippodrome*; j Miss Lillian HcOarnette sncietv j equestrienne, and countless others. The immense menagerie, eontainHng lions, tigers, leopards, polar J bears, zebras, and hundreds of other 1 wild beasts of the jungles, will be . thrown open for Inspection one bou? btfoie the big show begpna?<- Performances will start at 2 and 8 p.m., and doors will be opened at 1 and 1 p. m. The Straet pageant will be 11 a. m. WHEN BETTER AUTOMOBILES A** BUJNLT. BUICKWuj^!!!!^B There's I no "time ou fiox Buicki The referee's whistle shrills . . . "time . out!" . . . 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