The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, June 21, 1929, Image 3
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Gastonia Group
N'?w York, Jun? 17.?The Anwican
rivil Liberties Union recently announced
that it will participate in
{he defense of the striking textile
worker* srrested as a reault of the
killing of Chief of Folic? 0. F.
| ytderhoh of Gdstonia.
The announcement was made following
the union'# receipt of a report
from Attorney Taw P. JimraiJon
of Gastonia, N. C,, alleging that
police under Aderholdt "Illegally enured
the premises of the atrikerg after
having previously broken up their
picket lines by the usual methods of
police brutality.' 'Hie union said,
however, that it will defend only
those cases where civil liberty issues
ve involved.
Charlotte offtcea of the International
Labor Defense were opened in
the Court Arcade on East Trade
street, across from the courthouse,
under the direction of Juliet Stuart
Poyntz, executive secretary. The
openirg of the offices is said to be
the initial steps in preparing to
make Mecklenburg and Uaston county
courts and scene of the national
fight ftr freedom of persons held in
connection with labor troubles, in
this section in the past several
months, it is said.
The latest outrage of Chicago
gangsters Is to take hn unidentified
man to the woods in northern Wisconsin
and burn him at the stake.
The victim was first shot and tortured
and then burned in Apache Indian
style.
general news notes
vntirlnt'r""" 3l ,Bn<wk> pr?f???0r of
v?t?^n?ry medicino gf Ohio *tat?
h?lin* kUlid m!4 ?u?J>Won of
UU co-d whh' 7?*?ra 0hi*
Ifl-m,.^JTa f M?rion
JwJii ,tftu<lent? ia also hold by the
police under suspicion. V *
?,;;7r Nicholas Bromroenshekel
n <J6? whoso home at Wlu
??lnn., the priest boarded w*h
SSI!!!!! * ??* and that he
~^5?5 him8?1f In the leg
'.o#? him *? *>
&[ ?tud*nt? <
H^fchK^i t!l* h,*h school of
whwl on?FHH ul "PI**"*1 at
i'riday without stockings,
a^eS^I ?? 8ch<>ol gave them
!t?i * 4uW immo<le8ty in dress,"
and sent them home.
^hurr, Memphis, Tenn.,
nrU h'oker, has bee A sentenced to
0f f0Ur year8' following his
SStt?nl?n t0nif char*e ot Wiog and
^ 5 J- Ramsey Beauehamp in
misapplication of nearly $600,000 of
Dank funds. ?
afDPh^tHri0i.Pu!,lic S'fety Schofleld
of Philadelphia, is quoted si laying
??. t a. information that
Scarface A1 Capoue, noted Chicago
gangster, now serving a year in a
Pennsylvania prison for carrying con- I
C#a?MTrt ^ss offered the sum
of (50,000 in cash to any lawyer or
group of lawyers who may secure his
release from jail before his year's
time is up.
Calvin H Newman, president of the
Griswold First State bank of Detroit
has been arrested charged with misapplying
(200,000 of the bank's funds
Louis Morris, electrical lineman of
Tarreytowu, N. Y., recently had the
| experience of having 14,000 volts of
electricity to pass through his body,
when his spurs came in contact with
a live wire. He was apparently dead
but was revived.
Prime Minister MacDonald of Eng- '
land, has refused permission to Leon
l rot sky, former Russian war chief
asylum in England.
I homas J. Haskins, Federal district
attorney for the western district of
jNprth Carolina, has declined to accept
appointment as special assistant to
the United States attorney general,
the position made vacant by the resignation
of Mrs. Willebrandt.
William Fitzhugh Buckner, one of
the last survivors of ?the Mexican war,
died at his home at Paris, Mo., Sunday,
aged 101 years. Owen Thomas
Edgar of Washington, D. C., is now
tW sole survivor of the Mexican war
of 1845-46. He is 98.
; 'Secretary of War James W. Good
w)d the members of the graduating
class at West Poiut Military academy
ypsterday that one of their greatest
Opportunitiei for service will be the
voluntary observance of the laws in
which they live and "of the nation
Whose laws you will take an oatih to
obey."
Bandits kidnaped W. B. Kinne,
lieutenant governor of Idaho on Wednesday.
Later when two other men
attempted to rescue Kinne, they too
were carried off by the bandits, into
the mountains. Robbery and theft
of Kinne's car . were apparently
the motive for the kidnaping Kinne
was later found tied to a tree.
Two hundred and eleven graduates-i
received their diplomas at the 124th
commencement of the University of
South Carolina.
Entrance was made into the postoffice
at Irmo Monday night or Tuesday
morning and cash approximating
$13 and stamps, whose value had not
been determined late Tuesday were
stolen, according to Postmaster I. S.
Youngineiv About a year or more
ago robbers entered the Irmo postoffice,
according to information.
The wedding of Prince Luis De
Bourbon of Spain, and Mrs. Mebelle
Oilman 'Corey, divorced wife of a
Pittsburgh steel magnate, has been
indefinitely postponed. The prince is
said to be dissatisfied with the settlement
Mrs. Corey had agreed to make
upon hiip. ?
Nine automobile wrecks occurred
Saturday night on roads leading out
of Rock HiU, Rural Policeman John
Davison said Tuesday. Two of
the wrecks $vere on the Ebeneser
road, four op the Saluda road. No
fatalities occurred as a result of the
wrecks, but several persons were hurt
and some of tlje cars yiamaged.
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Texas To Raise Fund *
To Prosecute Judge
AmariUo, Texas, June 5.?Shorn of
ths |M>w?r ho hold while occupying* ft
bench on the Texas supreme court'*
commission of appeals. K. H. Hamilton,
prominent Texts attorney who
on May 4 shot and killed hU youthful
son-in-law, Tom7 Walton, Jr..
| face* trial for murder in less than
two weeks. Thirty-two year* ago,
Hamilton, a student at Baylor, held
spectators at bay with a six-shooter
while fellow students horse-Whipped
the famous W. C. Brann, "the Icono|
claat.~ ; , ;?:?-?.??
On the morning of May 4, Walton
prompted by his mother, Mrs. Grace
Walton, local hotel operator, went
I to the office of Judge Hamilton to
i tell the attorney of his secret marriage
with Hamilton's daughter,
(Theresa, nineteen, a co-ed at Texas
university. Austin. The marriage
occurred on February 10, it was latter
learned, while the young people
were students Jn the university
Fog eeverafl days Walton had been
trying to communicate with the attorney,
intending to "tell him everything"
as his mother had advised.
Mrs. Walton now claims that Judge
Hamilton had obpected to the young
people marrying, declaring that he
would not allow his daughter to
marry beneath him, and Walton was
j without money oy social prominence.
I Still the mother had confidence and
advised her son j- "Tell the judge everything;
I know he will be sensible."
"I may get shot, but I'm going to
do my mother's bidding," Walton remarked
to friends on tne morning of
the shooting. Before going to Hamilton's
office he stepped across the
hall arid chatted a moment with a
stenographer of his - acquaintance.
too, knew of his secret marriage,
j "I am going in to see Judge Hamilton,"
Walton said. "If you hear
any shooting, you will know that I
am shot," v he continued.
With such premonition, he opened
the door of the office and was greeted
with three slugs from his fathqriri-law's
revolver.
News of the shooting spread rapidly.
Threats of mob violence followed
throughout the day and Hamilton
was kept in hiding after his release
from jail on $20,000 bond.
Three days later he was indicted by
the Grand Jury and rearrested.
Sheriff Bill Thompson placed guard
about the jail until feeling subsided.
The sheriff is a pioneer who came to
the Panhandle when the cowboys enforced
the law with theiF Tfx-guns.
The prominence of Hamilton and
his family; the popularity of Walton
and his bride among the younger set(
here and at the university; their'
romance on the campus, culminating
in their secret marriage; the collapse
of the grief-stricken mother
when she realised, that her son died
obeying her own injunction: the refusal
of the family to ahow the
young widow the privilege df attending
her husbaud's funeral; the statement
of Hamilton that he shot todefend
his family, and the later
amendment of his statement by defense
counsel who injected the plea
of self-defense created widespread
interest. *
Sentiments of the public, whose
feelings had been agitated by the nature
of the slaying, were still further
aroused by the fact that?although
she accompanied the remains to McAlester,
Oka.?the mother was unconscious
at the time of the burial,
while the youth's widow was bedfast
at Austin, where she recently had undergone
a major operation.
Following Hamilton's indictment'
District Attorney E. W. Thomerson
announced that the case was not
bailable. Under the Texas law a
judge can grant bond unless he has
reason to believe that the defendant
will receive the death penalty.
Hamilton will go on trial on June
13 unless attorneys start a fight for
continuance or a change of venue.
One of the biggest fights in the history
of Texas looms.
The day following the shpoting
Hamilton announced the employment
of three of Amarillo's leading law
firms. Friends and sympathizers of
the slain youth and his grief-stricken
mother immediately began raising
a public fund for the retention
of special prosecutors to aid District
Attorney Thomerson and his associates.
Two prominent prosecutors
have been employed through funds
raised by business men of the city.
Some idea of the widespread interest
in the case may be obtained
from the statement of the district attorney
that contributions to the
special fund had been received from'
almoS every state in the union. His
Tnair Is flobdecT with letter's from per*
sons who have been aroused over the
slaying, and from points as far away
as New York City.
Judge Hamilton's chances for
freedom depend considerably upon
the testimony of his daughter, it is
believed, and it is not known to
what extent she will come to the aid
of her father who made her a widow.
Theresa, who only recently withdrew
from the university, is still fn
Austin, as far as can be ascertained.
?he has never been reached for a
Statement, reporters being barred
from her apartment. Mrs. Hamilton,
who was with her daughter in
Austin until after the slaying came
to Amarilk) a few days ago, leaving
- the young widow in the care of an
older sister. '
The district attorney's office will
make a strong fight for the death
penalty, which means .the electric
chair in Texas. Many person, however,
believe that aMe attorneys will
keep Hamilton away from the chair,
and perhaps the pehitnatiary.
Hamilton first came into prominence
in Texaa in 1897, when he assisted
in horse-whipping W. C. Brann
fditor of "The -Iconoclast," which had
carried a stinging article on im:
morality at JJfeeraity. :
He graduated from the university
in 1899 and wa* serving as'county
judge of Port Lavaca tomftty, Texas,
when Gov. Pat Neff, appointed him
to the position of assistant attorney
general. The governor later elevated
him to the appeals commission of
the Supreme Court.
Although both of the young people
claimed Amarillo as their home it
is understood that their romance
really developed on Texas University
Campus. They slipped away to
Georgetown, Tex., on February 10 secured
a license and later were married
by a Justice of the_ Peace at
Austin. Even the girl's sorority sisters?she
was a member of Gamma
Phi Beta?did not know her secret.
Soon after the marriage, Walton
left the university and returned to
Amarillo to aid his mother in earning
a livelihood. He was working
as night cleifc in a local hotel, other
than the one operated by his mother
at the time of his death.
Walton was recognized on the
campus as a "one-girl" man, and
very much in love with his blode
sweetheart. Both were popular in
Amarillo.
Determined To Die
Lebannon, Pa., June 16.?David
Fiddler, 43, wanted to die.
Four weeks ago neighbors found
him unconscious, hanging to the
rffters in a barn. They cut the rope
and hurried for a physician. When
they returried Fiddler was gone.
Later he was found in a woods a
half mile away with bullet wounds in
his abdomen and head. He recovered.
Ferdinand Schultz and Bruno
Kaiser, Germany's best known glider
fliers, were killed at Stuhm, Prussia,
Sunday, when the glider they were
flying crashed to the ground.
L1 1 ' .... . i
Charles F. Brush &0, inventor of tho
arc light, philanthropist &pd hyimamtarian,
died at his horoe in Cleveland,
Ohio, Saturday night.
R.E. CHEWNING
j Contractor and General'
Builder
I 30 Years Experience
Let me figure on your next
! building job.
Floor dressing machine.
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Springs & Shannon, hc. I
Camden, S. C. I
Wants^?For Sale I
FOR SALE?Several wire-haired Fox
(Terrier puppies. 4bout six weeks
old. Apply to Mrs.. W. J. Dunn, DeKalb
street, Camden, S. C. 13sb
lADIO BARGAIN?(Have just traded
in a model 37, all electric lamp
socket model Atwater Kent radio
set. Wiir take $50 for this outfit,
dieh includes everything. Only
ml about one year and in good
'condition. If interested see W. O.
Hay, local Atwater Kent dealer,
Camden, S. C. I3sb.
ANTED?Young married man desires
position as salesman .or truck
driver. Can furnish references.
Write to "Salesman, "care of the
Camden Chronicle. 13-14pd.
[)R SALE?160 acre farm; 2 dwellings;
many outbuildings; farm all
fenced; good sandy loam soil; 1-2
million feet timber; located near
National Highway about 8 miles
southeast of Camden; a genuine
bargain to settle estate; only $5,500;
liberal terms. For further information
write H. Sisemore, 607
Montgomery Road, Cincinnati, Ohio.
FOR SALE?tFive bull pups, solid
white. Apply E. E. Leo, At. 8.
Camden, S. C. 13mi
WANTS A POSITION?-(High school
graduate with a commercial certi-t
Sat* w 8he6 PO?ttioTt. Address
M UJ3S,M^rgaJret L*n?y? 206 DeKalb
. MJnet, Camden, S.. C. 18i>d
piAUT)R SA LE?iSubject to prior
H ttkoffer limited quantity of sound,
H 2 *"? bu> eVen woiSht
,73 $4-?l? Per bu. f.o.b. Sumter.
,m. ?ttP w?^6 while P?as are availB
rile. H. VV. Harby, Sumter, S. C.
FOR SALE?Number one and numI
. W0, ,pme shinRle8 for sale. Ap
plyto McCaskill & Lollis, Camden,
I FCo.intENTTT^? farms in Kershaw
I L !?'' oPp.*y to L. A. WittI
nm/J? Camtlen? S. C. 40 tf
I ME GENERAL ELECTRIC Re
fngerator requires no oiling. Even
I hut?"# PMft j"un8 in a permanen
- a.h of oil. Camden Furniture Co|PASTURAGE_C.ttl?
will be2a"
I Farm ? at G?i?>>?rd
I p Excellent river pastures.
I RLrflteS,appTy to W. P. McGirt,
I "anger, phone 148, Camden, S. C.
FOR RENT?Six room house fufnishI
f0VnJrst clasa condition. Large
I cS? l0to Apply to N. C. Arnett;
1 tamden, S. C. q .k
I cAa8hTEnD~'N0, \!lnt *?* Highest
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KL ?,umt?r Pining Mill* and
I Cs0-cAtt.Ml.B4!. 8. Booth
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tor u ?* *ood *n a refrigera
I the p0rked. engineers to build
I cLa %&] ?lectric Refrigerator.
Furniture Co. 2 tf
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I kefn i r 18 ^?sy to-ctean and^T
I ro !i ,('sn; Rutimlwl lufttfrg lmg
I c J?TJor -dust 0r dirt to lodge'
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!L ?ce t0 a? for all kinds
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I toakim* 5j *cre*ningt cabinet
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SPECIAL EXCURSION
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? CHARLESTON, S. C. :
Friday, JiSiV2IIt, 1929?
Round Trip Fares From:
?Camd?n ... $3.00,
Ha good 3.00
Heath Springs 3.76
Lancaster 4.Q0
Tickets good all regular trails'
date of sale, except Crescent
Limited, trains 37 and 38.
Good returning all regy'iar
trains except Crescent Limited,
trains 37 and 38 to reach original
starting point by midnight "jSjes;
day, June 25th.
For further information <y>nsult
ticket agents, >
SOUTHERN RAILWAY
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Man So Nervous Feels
r .?= His Stomachf Jump
?" i }
"I got so nervous.my. stomach felt
like it was jumping. Vinol entirely
relieved the trouble.. I feel better
than in years."?J. C. Duke,
i ? Vinol is a compound of irbti, phosphates,
cod liver peptone, etc. The
, very FIRST bottle makes you sleep
better and have a BIG appetite.
Nervous, easily tired people are surprised
how QUICK the iron, phosi
phates, etc., give new life and pep.
vinol* testes delicious. ~W. Robin
Zemp, Druggist. - ^
There are Very Few Who Cannot Save
- There ate persons whose earning capacity is no greater than '
their daily needs, especially in the slums of the great cities, but we
are certain there are very few in this prosperous community who can
trpthfnlly* aajr that they can't save anything,
The First National Bank
Of Camden* South Carolina
ONLY NATIONAL BANK J7V KERSHAW COUNTY