The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, April 18, 1930, Image 9
KEPT COPS BUSY
LAST_M YEARS,
Secret Service Agents Capture
Cobbler and Now
He's in Again*
New York.?Four secret service
agents opened the door of a room in a
Times Square hotel recently apd
(dipped Inside to arrest a man who has
been giving all kinds of trouble to ail
kinds of police off and ou for 23 years.
The man, apprehended, a weighty
but agile Htyd convincing resldeut ef'
Vermont? Is ?uld to have been collecting
guns, (ear bombs and hardware
suitable for penetrating to the heart
of one of his native bauks, while his
presence is also desired in the jail
house at St. Johns, Newfoundland,
from which he made a discreet and
romantic exit down the side of a wall
last December.
Joseph A, Palroa, head of the secret
service for this district, and Agents
Kuban?, Goody and Uodney have undertaken
to deliver hitn to Chief Inspector
Philips of the royal Northwest
mounted police.
8tarted as Cobbler.
The man arrested described himself
as Francis M. Polrler, forty-nine years
old, married, of Burlington, Vt Twenty-three
years ago, according to his
own story, he was a dull but honest
shoemaker, unaware of the peculiar
talents which since have stirred up so
much admiration, envy and apprehension.
In the year 1006 he was framed,
he says, by a group of crooks, who
handed him ov?r to the police untruthfully
as a "fence," or receiver of stolen
property.
So Poirei1 spent 18 months in the
Rutland Jail maturing the plans for
his future. On his release he and another
ex-resident by the name of
Hooper, went Into business. They set
up the Hooper Detective agency and
proceeded to take th^ shrewd Yankee
officials of Vermont ior a long and
painful sleigh excursion.
Builds Big Business.
The state of Vermont paid these two
ex-convicts $10 a day each to investigate
the records of criminals under arrest.
The method of investigation, as
Poirier explains, was for himself or
Usoper to shake down the man under
arrest for every cent he had and th?n
announce to the trusting police that
the prisoner was innocent. In this
way the enterprising firm built up a
business amounting to $40,000 or $50,000,
when Hooper fell ill.
On his deathbed he confessed all
and Poirier was sentenced to serve six
years In the penitentiary. At this
point soipe federal agents gathered
around Polrler to charge he had been
buying stolen postage stnmps. They
took him to Leavenworth for two
years, and at the expiration of the
term a couple of sheriffs from Vermont
went down to escort him back to
tboir own Jail.
On the way back home the sharpwitted
Vermont constables became
overcome with sleep, due to the effects
of some of the high-powered liquor
they used to sell In those days, so
Poirier left them snoozing on the pullman
and departed. Hands were laid
on him some time later and he served
out his term.
Passed Bogus Money.
History next records that Poirier
was stealing mileage books in Salem,
N. Y., for which he served a two and
a half year term in Dannemora prison.
Refusing to be downhearted he appeared
In New York city last year
with $4,000 worth of counterfeit money
and took the boat for St. Johns, Newfoundland.
In pne hour he and three confederates
passed $3,500 worth. Bloated
with success, one of the confederates
returned to pas? another bill at a
store where he already had done famously.
The proprietor got susptf
clous, called a policeman. In came
Poirier, saw the cop and dashed out
straight Into the local canal, where
he tried to empty his pockets of guns
and money.
But when the dripping figure was
hauled out and searched, these was
stm a phony hill in his pocket, which
resulted in his confinement on a sixyear
term.
Takss Frtnoh Leave.
Lust December, when this term was
only a few months old, Polrler and a
tellow prisoner got tired of the prison's
Christmas fare and departed, via a
vlndow from which they removed the
hars. They made a makeshift rope,
which broke as the first man swung
35 feet above the ground, but "When
I'olrier'8 turn came to depart, no such
catastrophe occurred.
The other, injured, was left on the
ground and the Vermont grnduute
Shoemaker stepped out in the world,
with ull kinds of police Just one Jump
in back of him ever since. Now they
have caught up.
He wlil go back to finish out his
term, which will be added to because
of hi* flight. -Then be will* return
here to answer the charges of posses
sing burglars' tools, guns and such.
An up and coming fellow, tide
Poirier, a chap with a rent future.
80-Foot Towers to Aid
Fighting Forest Fires
Hoqulnm, Wash,?Lightning proof
standard observation steel towers, rising
80 feet, are being Installed in
many sections of the Northwest forested
areas, equipped and available
t?r during next fire season.
*-nough spare at the top of the towJ*
>8 provided for an observer to sit.
rei'Ul*. ?*t and sleep.
Tifr? <'.V^
Soybeans Fatten
Hogs Cheaply
Clemson College, AprlJ, 14.?.Soybeans
solve the question of what to
plant for green grazing for hogs during
the hot summer months, declares
J. R. Hawkins, extension animal
husbandryman, who says that
beans planted ctirly^(| narrow rows
and close in the drill will be ready
to graze when about 18 inches high.
Soybeans planted in good soil about
April.! will ordinarily reach this
height early in June.
"A heavy rate of seeding is ad-,
visable so that a good stand will be
secured," States Mr. Hawkins. "Apparently
n greater number of plants
per acre gives more forage and thus
furnishes more feed on a given are*.
Rows as close as 24 inches with
plants two inches apart in the drill
have been used to good advantage.
Next to alfalfa, soybeans have given
the best results of any forage for
hogs during the mid-summer months
in South Carolina. This crop is
adapted to all soil types in the state
and stands excess wet weather and
droughj better than most crops. It
produces a relatively large quantity
of excellent forage which is tender,
succulent, rich in protein and ash,
and very palatable to hogs.
"Three years experimental work at
CI em* on College show that hogs make
remarkably cheap gains when fed a
lirpited ration of corn and grazed on
soybeans. Pigs weighing 40 pounds
and more, receiving a pound of corn
for each 40 pounds of weight have
made gains ranging from one-half to
three-fourths of a pound per head
per; day at a feed cost of less than
,five cents per pound. Green beans
when grazed by,bogs made a saving
of feed ranging from $30.46 to $46.03
per acre as compared with dry-lot
feeding. Greater saving of feed resulted
where the hogs were full fed
on corn and tankage than when the
grain ration was limited. On the
other hand, the feed cost per 100
pounds of gain was least when a limited
ration of grain was provided
while the hogs had access to abundant
forage. Results have not indicated
any great advantage from adding
tankage to corn for fled growing
shoats running on green soybeans.
"Besides reducing the cost of gains
soybeans keep hogs growing during
hot summer months, keeps them -irt
the fields where they are less "
jeCt to parasites, are more.contented
and less likely to try to break out ibf
their lot. The grain required to keep
them thriving is greatly reduced and
they are able to gather much of their
bwn feed."
Sad Ending of Fool Joke
Someone in Chicago thought it
would be lots of fun to see the fire
engines brought out although it was
not April 1. He turned in. a false
alarm. The great fire trucks shrieked
through the streets.
At the intersection the fire truck
on which Connick was riding sideswiped
the automobile in which the
person who had turned in the alarm
was driving away. - .
Connick's skull was fractured and
he was injured internally. Doctors
said he hadn't a chance to live.
Out at Mount Olivet Cemetery lies
a baby son born to the Oonnicks
Friday. The little casket was taken
there Saturday by the father. At
St. Anne's Hosptial, critically ill, lies
Mrs. Connick. She doesn't^ kno^her
husband is dying. ' *
Suicide On Train
Columbia, April 4.?-H. M, Rossof
Washington, committed suicide by
shooting himself through the head
on a southbound Southern Railway
train last night en route from Washington
to Columbia. The body was
taken from the train here this morning.
A note was left'which stated that
"for some reason not known to me I
was put on wrong train. Furthermore
I am not feeling well as I have
offended so many people unintentionally,
which ultimate object was for
betterpient." The ' note requested
that the body be cremated.
W. Frank Hipp, Greenville business
man-has' contributed $25,000 to the
Newberry College endowment campaign
fund.
ADVERTISING CHAIN STORES
(Walterboro Press and Standard)
The present attitude on the part of
many who seek to condemn the chain
stores, js the best advertisement these
stores can have. The more one talks
about such, the more they become
known arid the more business is driven
their way. "Every knock is "a
boost" said soiAeone, and this is tru#
as to chain or other stores. As long
as'Chain stores sell'cheaper, or advertise
more, than other stores do4
they will continue to draw a goodly
portion of the patronage,, and this
ib the economic side of the question. I
No amount of knocking will make
over human natury to the extent of '
causing the averse buyer to pat- ]
ionize any store when they believe
they can get better goods, or save i
money by buying at other stores. |
Walterboro and Colleton county do ,
not know the real chain stores, t
While we have several stores here i
which are aimilar to the chain stores, j
they are locally owned 'and operated ]
and cannot be classed as obnoxious. ,
The chain store which hurts the local j
merchant is in the citiee near to Wal- 1
terboro and in the trade zone of the 1
town. And the chain stores in these j
cities are no more injurious to the t
merchants of Walterboro and Colle- ,
ton county than are other stores
which are patronized by yte buyers j
here.
The Press and Standard has been i
a consistent advocate of buying at |
home, and we have practiced it. We ?
believe in it. But, if this is to be (
enforced at all, there must be the ^
ability to secure the same kind of ,
goods at the same or better prices ,
than are offered elsewhere. Mer- 1
chants must clean up their shelves ]
and display their goods in the same
attractive manner as other stores display
theirs. They must advertise
what they have and give enough
thought to their advertisements to
make them selling arguments?in
other words they'must meet competition.
The day of the "store-keeper"
is passed?he must be a real
merchant, and know the game, and
go after the business aggressively.
The automobile and good roads have
revolutionized business, und the merchant
must expect the same treatment
which he himself gives. This
is brought home to The Press and
Standard when we see ' stationery
printed out of Walterboro?when
mail order houses are given preference
over the home concern which
maintains a plant and pays employees
who are buyers from these same
merchants who order printing from
out-of-town concerns. Let us keep
our money at home hut let us have
a square deal from the home merchant
and business so that there shall
he no need to shop elsewhere.
The merchants and business men of
Walterboro who are planning a chain*
Imto of commerce are doing well,
rhcre should be a strong organization
of our businesses in order that
there can be united effort against the
ommon foe?the mail order and dis.ant
chain stores. We trust that
there shall be a great organisation
perfected here, Hnd that there shall
t.e real booster spirit behind the
movement. Let there be plans for
making.the stores and businesses
>etter places and more helpful in
their attitude and above all more
progressive and better boosters of
their businesses. The Marion Stat
?ays:
"Home merchants now have an opportunity
to build up their trade.
They cannot do it by pointing to unfair
tactics used by chain stores, nor
standing on the street corner
'beefing" about folk who trade in
Charieston, Cloumbia, Florence or
Now York. They must clean up theif
stocks, move merchandise for cash
and stay everlastingly on the job.
They must offer merchandise that is
new, fresh and desirable, at prices
the public \vill pay. While they are
not expected to meet chain prices, in
ell cases, they are expected to give
such values to their customers us will
justify the loyalty of their friends.
Merchandising has been revolutionized
in recent years, and the merchant
who expects to sit still and
wait fgr the ravens to feed him may
as well go out of business now, before
he is forced out. If his stock
does not contain the things his customers
wish to buy, he cannot hope
t.o hold their trade and if his prices
are so badly out of line that to pay
them would entail loss to his friends,
there is no agency in the world which
will keep him going. The people of
Marion are aroused on the question
pf supporting the home.? merchant,
and they will be loyal just as long
as they can, but in order to justify
this loyalty our merchants must be
up and doing and make it easy for
the public to remain loyal. We publish
this article, because it would be
unfair to the merchants themselves
i to lead them to believe that this paI
per is foolish enough bo contemplate
ai;y such manifestation of patriotism
on the part of the general public as
would allow merchants to thrive
while attempting to do a cross-roads,
business, which methods went of stylo
in 1881."
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