The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, July 11, 1930, Image 6
Old Jesse Pomeroy
Tries to Escape
Bridgeweter, jltM*,. June 28.-JA
collection of kaivek,4Wl and aaws
was discovered in the possession of
Jesse Pomeroy, now confined to the
state hospital here for the criminal
insane, it became known today, the
implements presumably intended for
use in an attempt to eucape. Pomeroy
is probably the most widely known
"lifer" in the United States, having
served f>4 years of hi? life behind
prison bars, a considerable portion of
the period in solitary confinement.
Pomeroy wan given a life sentence
at the age of 17, following the particularly
heinous murtier* of several
Boston children. He is now a doddering
old man, of 71, and 'institution officials
said he was physically incapable
of making an escape or of even
attempting to escape.
The knives and tools were discovered
about three weeks ago,* but no
news of the discovery leaked out until
today. Pomeroy has since been in se.
elusion", it was said, which was interpreted
as confinement separating
him from the other inmates.
ttujrerintendent "tttrann said he regarded
Pomeroy's possession of the
implements' as a bid for publicity, of
which he said the "lifer" had long
been fond.
Inquest Soon Into
Swansea Killing
Swansea, July 7.?An inquest probably
will )h* held here tomorrow night
info the death of Joseph H. Jerman,
Washington, I). C., youth, killed Sunday
by (1. H. Priester, filling station
ope into rv who said he was trying to
break into au oil tank.
Meanwhile PricsU-r is being held
in the Lexington county jail.
Young Jerman's parents were on
their way to Columbia tonight from
Washington to claim their son's body.
Why Walter Raleigh
Was Put To Death
Moat of us feel that we know quite
a bit about Sir Walter Raleigh, still;
not one person out of 10 could give,
a correct answer to the question, Why
was Sir Walter Raleigh executed?
Technically Sir Walter Raleigh was
executed for treason. Actually he
was executed for shedding Spanish
blood after engaging not to do so.
King James I and Raleigh disliked
oach other very much. The former
favored a policy of peace, the latter
wanted war with Spain. Raleigh
criticized the king severely after he
was deprived of many of his titles
and offices. He asserted on one occasion.
it was imported, that a war*
with Spain would have been preferable
to James's ascension to the
throne.
He that as it may, Raleigh was
charged with being implicated in a'
series of conspiracies during the first !
few months of the king's reign and
was committed to Ixmdon Tower July
19, 11503. His trial, held at Winchester,
was conducted with brutality and
manifest unfairness on the part of
the attorney general, Sir Edward
Coke. Although Raleigh may have
had some knowledge of the conspiracies,
no evidence of his guilt was
produced. Nevertheless he was convicted
and sentenced to death.
The execution however, did not
then take place. Instead Raleigh was
confined to the Tower, where he remained
until 101f>. He finally ob- |
tamed his release by promising the
king that he could find a gold mine
on the northern coast of South America
without encroaching on any of the
possessions of Spain. The Spanish
miha--a<h>r informed t lie king that
Ra!eigh"> promise was impossible of
! n.fi 11 ir.i M, Ihs'uuso the Spanish nl.
a ;v i ;< ! adtlcrm nts on the coast,
laasi - told the ambassador that jf
U:iV..'h tolled to keep his pomisc
ho w .'<i have him executed on his
. old M-n?envo of treason. Accordingly
the prisoner was releaser! without
a pardon, which left him at the king's
mercy.
The expedition sailed from England
in March, 1617, and reached the
mouth of the Orinoco in the following
December. Raleigh himself became
ill with fever and remained at Trinidad
while five ?mall vessels were
sent up the river to locate the alleged
goM mine. On the way the
English found a Spanish settlement
and a skirmish took place in which
Raleigh's son Walter and several
Spaniards were slainAn
was expected, the expeditior
failed and was compelled to roturr
to England with the commander's
, promise broken. Bfcleiflrb was ar
rested, confined in th* Tower, and
October 89, 1618. was executed or
the sentence paeeed more than ftf
teen years before.?The Pathfinder
Nobody's Business
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Written for The Cbnonicle by Gee
IfcGee, Copyright, 1028.
Why NotT
There is a movement on foot to
change the name of Bunday to "Golfday",
but another faction has sprung
up that insists that "Ride-day" would
be far appropriate.
Deacon Brown made a birdie last
Sunday while a layman was taking
up the collection in his place. He
saya that lie believes in a broad religion:
the kind that leaves him free
to exercise his own prerogative. He
inherited his prerogative from his
daddy who diddn't believe in any religion
at all if it interfered with his
drinking.
Klder Smith had a wreck up in the
mountains last Sunday while his
preacher was leading the choir for
him back home. He thinks that Sunday
was made for man and not man
for Sunday, Before he got his present
installment plan, it made him
mad to see a fellow drive by the
church and not atop. No, it's not a
Ford. (Hospitals appreciate Sundays.)
t,
Sunday is a big help to most people.
Many lawns would not be mowed,
not hedges trimmer!, nor gardens
worked were- it not for a Sunday
school to stay away from. Just about
the time ma and the younguns get
dolled up ready to ride, pa grabs his
hat and hurries out into the back
yard to fix something, or turns over
in IhmI and says: "Oh, Mb, My, Mo,
Mum. I am so tired and worn out
till I can scarcely speak above a
whisper?I'll go next Sunday."
The only way to tell in some big
cities when it is Sunday is either to
f |
tk somebody who known or watch
the crowd with th? bathing suits on.
Tho Pilgrim fathers, as well as the
Pilgrim mothers, would not let their
off-spring- giggle much less laugh
out loud, but the descendants from
that accumulation of piety don't
atop at laughing out loud: Some of
them actually chew chewing gum and
ride bicycles and crochet.
The Worst things we ever did on
Sunday when I was a boy were?
we had yn occasional all-day singing
or a frequent water-melon eating, and
possibly slipped off somewhere and
went in a-washing, and on one or
two occasions, we hunted bee trees
nnd picked sweet-gum, A few grammaws
selected the prettiest Sundays
to iook long-faced on, and taik about
their ancestors who had- gone on before
to the beautiful beyond where no
pain dr sorrow or sickness or sadness
are known. I can almost hear
old Aunt Dinah Sprawls mumble amidst
her bountiful tears how good
Uncle Jerry Mire Was until lightning
struck him betwixt the barn and the
smoke-house, t
in Skimmings
The world is full of useless things.
A useless thing is either a nuisance
or an unnecessary expense. Among
the things that we could easily do
without are these:
1. An appendix.
2. Investigating committees.
3. Warts.
4. Government farm relief.
5. Whiskers.
6. Federal bureaus.
7. Flies.
K. Speed cops.
9. Wisdom teeth.
10. Deadibeats.
11. Straw votes.
12. Grafters.
,13. Spinach.
14. Ansoforth.
Cotton Letter '
New York, July 8.?-September
short* hedged when November declined
5 points below Bombay spots,
but the weather map showed probable
showers for Texas and vicinity, and
1 point was regained near the close.
Mr. Lexge will soon introduce a bill
through his home Senator making it
a misdemeanor and a crime to poison,
slay, kill, choke, step on, or otherwise
destroy or attempt to destroy
any of the following agricultural assets,
vizzly: Boll weevils, corn borers,
army worms, the wheat fly, and
their off-springs. He will also ask
congress to forbid any rain-makers
to operate in the United States unless
the drought has run not less
than 2 years and not over 5 years,
then the said rain must not be made
on the big 3: cotton, corn and wheat.
There being no further speculating
before the exchange, it closed at 2 ,
p. m., daylight savings time, hence?
we advise forsaking your crops.
Fooled Again
Some of the reports coming from
the boys who bet on Sharkey at the
fight a few days ago are Sehmelling.
rather bad. It seems that they think |
that possibly Shnrko^ did tap the
German below the belt accidentally,
but that cramp qolic he had after the
mishap was due to a fowl he ate
for supper, and not one that his opponent
passed to him. It does seem
to me, as the old woman said when
she swallowed her specks, that a
fight is not a fight if it has to end
every time somebody hits somebody
else in the wrong spot. I ain't much
fi>r prize-fights, but if they must be,
why, let the fellows fight till one
or the other hollers calf-rope, or
lets it l>e known that he's too weak
to do so. Folks are tired paying
their 10 dollar bills to see a farce
or a burlesque. That SharkeySchmelling
bout reminded me of 2
babies trying to nurse from the same
nipple.
^egro Died From Heat
Laurens, July 7.?For six hours the
body of Richard Downey, 70-year-old
negro lay in the blistering sun yesterday
at the edge of a by-path noar
the town of Waterloo where he had
died from overQipat and exhaustion
according to the post mortem given
today before the coroner's jury. iJowney
had undertaken to chastise a
negro girl who had been his ward
but had left home. As she was passing
by Downey's house yesterday
Downey tried to stop her. She broke
away and Downey gave chase. At
8 o'clock last night his body was
found by the roadside.
Striking employees of the Fisher
Body company at Flint, Mich., have
formed their own union and announced
that they will have no connections
or dealings with Communist
agitators.
Fifteen youthful explorers whoie
ages average 23 years, sailed from
Iyondon Sunday for the Arctic regions
for a year's explorations.
Over a Billion Deadly Germs
in a Single Drop of Water
Germs are so small that there may
be as many as one billion, seven hundred
million of them in a drop of
water. AnflF just a few of these tiny
germs, if they get'into your blood
through a cut in your skin,- may make
you so sick you will be in bed for 4
weeks?may cause the loss of a limb
through bloojl poisoning?may even
iyifeet you with that most dreadful
and fatal of diseases, lockjaw.
Just because you can see no dirt !'
in a cut does not mean that it ii
clean. You cannot see germs. The";,
only safe and sane thing to do, li
to thoroughly wash every cut, no
matter how small, with Liquid Borozone,
to kill the germs, and then
dust it with Borozone Powder, to
hasten the healing. Liquid Borozone j
costs 30 cents, 60 cents, $1.20 and
$1.50; Borozone Powder, 30 cents and
60 cents, and can be had at DeKalb
Pharmacy, Camden, S. C.
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