The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, January 05, 1934, Page PAGE EIGHT, Image 8
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Pen Prisoner
Kills Another
As Charles McCormick, 25, white
convict from Horry county, was en- j
torihk the furniture factory at about j
8 o'clock Thursday morning in* the!
state penitentiary, his throat was cut !
from one ear to the middle of his >
throat, severing the jugular vein. by |
a fellow convict, Hubert Mctlaha, 21,
white, from Pjckehs county. The
stabbing was done 'with a'large knife j
made very sharp. !
McCormick was assisted towards1
the hospital by two convicts, hut J
brokeway from them and ran to the '
hospital alone. There he received at- j
tcniion from two' physicians, hastily
summoned, but he <lied in 25 minutes .
from the cutting.
His last words were, "Tell the cap-1
tain (Kestcr) to send my body to my
mother." -This Captain Kestcr will
do this morning. *
Mctlaha was seized by Corporal j
Haynes and others and is now in
close confinement . awaiting the in-,
a quest, which will be held at 5:20 this \
afternoon, the hour.set by Coroner*
Sargean-t,1
It. seems that Mctlaha had been of
fended the <lay before because Mc-.
Cormick asked him for some money!
which it is .-aid had been loaned Mc- !
tlaha. Then1 were some words, be- j
tweon the two but nothing came of
il" C
McCormick was sent up from Horry
county by .Judge Kamago in March.
1and given three years for grand .
larceny.
Mctlaha was sent from Pickcr.s
county in June. r.<."'?2, when fie was
20 y?ars old, and given five years, being
convicted of an attempt to commit
lV!,?ny. He wa- the prisoner who
hid liim?elf recently in the furniture .
factory and put a dummy in his cell i
to c'uuvai his di-appearance. Yesr
terday morning when he a Nibbed McCormi.
k lie was wearing shackies,
indicating that he was under punishment
for violation of prison rule?.
In the offer of the penitentiary 1
there is now a letter from a Miss
Jones, of Pickens, evidently a good i
Christian woman, who also sent a
Christmas card to Mctlaha. She had i
writt( n the prison authorities that
she had become interested in Mctlaha
and two other young w^iite men while i
they weie prisoner.; i't Pickens jail, <
and .-she u^.kc.i the privilege ^f writing i
TV.iun act a-.' i rtlTy .n the hope tha. J
r.ir loiters would do them gmod. This
privilege was driven her and she has
written several letters of cheer and
n couratfement.
MoCormick was the only son of his
mother, and was popular in the penitentiary.
The prisoners yesterday afternoon
raise<l iimung themselves a
purse of $20.52 to send to his mother.
It was all that some of fhem had.
One man gave two cents, all he had;
triers gave five, ten and a few as
much a* a quarter dollar, and one
gave :i half dollar.
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Death List In Train
Wreck Now At 200
v? ' ;v ' ? vPar)?,
l>oc. 20.?The death list in
the Legny railroad catastrophe reached
2t>0 today a.s all hut two bodj'os
were identified. One child on the ill-1
fated Nancy express disappeared completely.
j
"Two fa mi lids disputed for posses- !
-ion of the body of an eight-year-old
hoy, too mangled to be recognized!
Police after studying marks on the ;
clothing gave it to one family, while!
the other parent--, overwhelmed by;
grief, sought vainly for their missingson.
ci.
Only dU of those injured in the
wreck,' which occurred on Saturday
night when the Strasbourg flier ran j
into the rear of the express, remained j
in hospitals. A day of national J
mourning will bo held tomorrow, when
the victims are t,o be buried.
A fight to place responsibility for
the action will go to the chamber of
deputies. Deputy Louis Rollin, defender
of the engineer and fireman
Ui* the flier held in prison on charges
of homicide by imprudence, said he
would demand that safety measures
of the railroad company be investigated.
Presbyterian Church Services
Services at Hethesda Presbyterian {
rhurch Sunday! January 7. are aniu>u::te.l
by A Douglas McArn, pasto:.
as follows: Church school 10
i. nr.; morning worship -11:15; The
I.<>nP>. Supper, will be celebrated at
this service. lnte! mediate ("iub Friday
evening a; six. Junior Club Satin.lay
morning at ten o'clock. Young
People'- Society Sunday evening at
-ix. Midweek .-crviee Wednesday
er.;ng at .-even-thirty studying Kzra
haptens 7-10. The public is cordially
invittd to the service-, of this church.
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Many Monuments
In South Carolina
? fii'i "i'*V
By Frank A. Dickson, Jr., in Anderson
Independent.
The only statue ever erected as u
memorial .to our first mother?Eve
raises its simple gruy shaft of
granite oh one side of the home of
Robert Quillen, the man xof short
payings, in the village of hountain
Inn, South Carolina.
Many celebrated names appear upon
monuments throughout tho United
States, tho names of those men and
women whose deeds are chronicled in
histories. The most familiar, of
course, is tho character to which
Robert Qui Hen has marked his respects
in stone. On the monument,
before which Will Rogers stood and
admired the fino thought, Is carved
an apple an^ this inscription: "In
Memory of Eve?the First Woman."
Besides this statue dedicated to
Eve, South Carolina has the first and
only monument in the world addressed
to the slaves of the Old South. It
was unveiled in 18^0, at Fort Mill. In
York county. This sculpture is a i
marble shaft 15 feet high and bears '
the following message: "1860?The I
faithful slaves who, loyal to a sacred
trust, toiled for the support of the
army with matchless devotion, and
with sterling fidelity guarded our defenseless
homes, women and children
during the struggle for the principles ?
of our Confederate States of America
? 1865." Opposite the State House J
in Boston, on the wall of the Boston I
Common, is a bronze mural tablet of ,
large dimensions, commemorating a j
Mass achusetts negro regiment. But I
that monument represents the sentiment
of the abolition, not the personality
of the slave. The one in
Massachusetts is there as a memorial
to an idea, while the other, in South
Carolina, though not so beautiful as j
a work of art, exemplifies the actual
slave as a beloved personality.
Too, the little town of Fort Mill
is known all over this country, and
even across the Atlantic, for its
monuments; erected to the Confederate
women of the South, to the
Confederate soldier, and one to the
Catawba Indian, "always the friend
of the white man."
South Carolina has in a statue, at
Camden, the ,first and one of the few
; monuments ever founded to an In dian.
Surmounting the turret of the
! town's opera house is gilded iron
| likeness of "King Haigler." It was
! executed in 1826 by a hrenchman,
jj. B. Marthieu, who of it achieved a
! masterpiece of art; the statue was put
' on the summit of the old market
| house steeple, whence it was removed
ju*t in time to escape destruction
from the market fire, to its present
t
position.
j South Carolina is the first state
j in the Union to honor by a nionu|
ment the virtue, courage and.patI
rlotism of her womanhood. The
erected stone stands on the grounds
'of the .state capitol in Columbia,
j The state also is the only one in
America that has in a public park a
statue set up to the respect of a member
of the British Parliament when
the ohm m on wealths were British col'onies.
There in Marion Square in
! Charleston a statue of William Pitt,
I
! erected in 1770.
j In addition to these "firsts,' the
j Pa Inn t\y State has led the nation in
i many things. I" or instance, the first
j },.:n',i. ,;h ary in Amenta was es'
tabii-kod in < a: during 1608.
I \ t .h- tir-; ?diti o in this country
liuii'i for '.he -ole u-.e of a library was
. li : i'v <>f Sou h Carolina.
[ It ua- erected in 1M0. thuv of Ilar|
.a I .-.:y m 1M1. and that oi
j j?. i:i 1>7>>, Whiie the lib.-i'v
o '* the University f)f \irgm:a has
I .
. , ui iy.i it - present quarters since
1- the p'.a. < i- the hall i>: tr.e r?j
tu: da a-.i .- not a separate and <1 i s tin.ct
building, nor wa- it constructed
j . . (. ; j. :: j).)-e of a library,
j lie au-e the building at the Univeri
. y <>:' South ( aolina during the last
,, , f the ( i! War wa" converted
! a hospital, it .-scaped Sherman'.*
j ,,,, v, f, i <.>i,i\ iorr.o very
.,r.. va.uable books.
I j .. . ho >. in tin- South
I ,,r:e ? f the emim. t r. Air- rien
!-.va- f ur.dol in < har! -;or.. during
I- ( r.a-.e-ten wa- < stab"e'i
,r.mh-d ;r ibis
! . .. ir.t ry. p'-rh.aps .r. tho world. Ir
Re, Ab \an<it r (In-don. Teci
? f > . Pr?i!lip'- cnuich. a :verti?t c
i . .. sf..j ~ ca-nii-.a C.azotte thai
! ;h<- lir.gh-h -ocir-y fn- the ]> -paga
(io-pe! had. about 1."
1 ?>f ,rr. h r'-d two promising
: rven i had educated then
j a : % of having th'm tend
' nt gro and Indian child-en. Mr. Car
:, i. >ia:.-.; ii,ht "they will he read:
r the ir wo k in a few months more,'
and requ? -tt'l ?ub-. r:p: ion- for thi
e :ion of a school building on thi
rhur h property, where the childrei
would receive instruction free. Th'
TnstTtution existed 22 years, and ex
aanded under the direction of^Mr
r.artlen and his successors untiTjth
demise of "Andrew," a teacher. *
m-jkrifon 1 - A'. . ifaa
Midget Automobile
| Is Being Developed
> prom little Czechoslovakia, noted
for its industrial enterprise, comes
j word of two new developments m motorao.n~?
midget, automobile to r?!
tail under *100 and the use of wood
iga" aa a motor fuel in truoka and
. bUMI- ' ' '
The motor of the midget car is o
the front drive, twoAjy Under, twoeyoU
typo, developing tB horaepower
and is placed acrpss the frame of the
chassis. Body types will be two and
four-passenger cabriolets w t
wheel base of 103 inches and not
weighing more than 1,400 pounds.
TherniO-syphon cooling system, solex
carburetor, independently sprung
reaf axle, dynamo and starWr forming
a combined unit fixed directly to
the .crankshaft are some of the features
of the tiny car.
One of the largest Czech iron works
recently had a three-ton truck equip*
ped with a generator for wood gas for
test purposes. How the generator
produces the gas is not made pu it.
ltut chemists here say the process is
probably distillation of the wood, a
method which might produce gas at
less cost than the high price of European
gasoline.
Beechwood was used in the truck
generator. A speed ranging from 32
to 37 miles an hour wail attained.
The use of wood as a fuel, it was reported,
would result in a saving o
from 40 to fiO per cent as compared
with the price of gasoline in Czechoslovakia.
Wood gas as fuel is reported to be
especially suitable for trucks and
possibly for auto buses.. However,
the time taken to heat the generator
with wood gas makes this kind of
fuel unsuitable for passenger cars.
SlowDeathTrom
Radium Poisoning
Latest victim of radium poisoning
which had its beginning in a watch
and clock factory of East Orange,
N. J., 19 years ago, is Grace h ryer,
She has known for years she was
doomed t,p die but lingered on longer
j than most of the others who were
I stricken. , ,
| Grace Fryer, with other girls and
I women, was employed to paint the
I numerals on luminous watch and
I clock dials', using a paint containing
I radium. The small brushes were kept
pointed by putting 'them between
their lips and in this way the poisonous
radium was taken into the
'system. ,.
j Of the girls and women doing tnis
work 15 are known to have died. The
I infection may have proved fatal to
more who did not know what thenailment
was. The plant was closed
when the terrible effect of this slow
poison was discovered.
In 1928 five of the workers shown
to be infected on the examination of
physicians brought suit against the
factory owners and obtained a settlement
out of court which gave each of
the victims $10,000 and $600 annuity
together with all hospital and medical
expenses the rest of their hvesGrace
Fryer, one of the five, offeied
herself to be experimented upon by
doctors in an effort to save the others.
Even at that time she had to weai a
i brace from hips to neck to stiffen her
! .pine, which had been affected. This
J insidious affliction attacks the bones
! also destroys white corpuscles of
| the blood. H works quite siowiy.
! none of the Victims knowing tho
i were infected until two to foul yeal
1 after working with the radium paint.
Buzzard Flies Into
Speeding Airplane
Louisville. Ky.. Jan. l.-A turkey
buzzard swerved suddenly m.o a
speeding mail plane in midair near
I here today and came near wrecking
I it
! The collision between the bird
' weighing some eight or ten pounds
iand the plane. Hyjng l-<> miles ar
hour, sent the buzzard's body crash!
ir.g through the windshield to strike
a glancing blow against Pilot Mu
! sick's cheek.
'[ Although he required first au
i treatment for scratches from th<
'buzzard's claw*, Mu-iek managed t<
i 1 r ght his plane ami land safe.y a
Bowman held here. Dan Beard, ro
i plot, and C. H. Otterman of Tucson
! ! Arizona, the only passenger aboard
OS aped injury.
? , The plane, American Airways, ei
r i route from Cincinnati to Nasnville
II was delayed a short time for deodor
Nation ami repairs to the windshieh
-'and for the pilot to borrow anothe
" 1 suit of clothes.
ei The funeral was held on Saturda
e afternoon of Richard Wilkes, a life
n I long resident, and until recently
c j prominent merchant, of Chester, wh
- died following a stroke of paralysil
aged 71 years. He leaves a wido>
e and two daughters in Chester, and
sister there, j
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BANNER SEASON IN
AIKEN AND CAMDEN
(Continued from page one)
horses are available. This form of
racing is popular in England.
The beautiful course at Koslyn was
made up of two rating strips, brush
and hurdles, and when the hurdle
racing wus completed the obstacle#
were quickly token away and the
course left open for flat racing. The
idea may haveJbaon taken from Camden,
for when the Hunts Association
first raced at the Murray place last
spring, many remarked that the
course reminded them of the historic
racing ground at Camden, a short distance
north of Aiken.
When Messrs. Kirkover and Woodward
built the Camden layout they
did it in three sections?that is, to
say, they built a timber course and
around that they -constructed a brush
course. Inside of the two jumping
courses they laid out a flat course,
carpeted with Bermuda grass. When
the job was finished the two sportsmen
had the satisfaction of knowing
they had built the finest race course
of its type on the Atlantic Coast, and
perhaps in the country.
Atfythis point, one not familiar with
Aiken and Camden might well v ask: j
"But why such fine race courses so
far from New York or other centers
of population ?"
The answer to that is that Aiken
and -Camden in the ivinter are New
York, if you get the point. At Cam- j
den one finds most of the hunt !
devotees from the Genesee Valley, a!
famous sporting spot for crosa-eoun- '
try horses. Two hours away by motor
one comes to Aiken, and were it ;
not for the scrub palm oni; might well ;
think he was on Long Island.
Aiken in the winter is populated
largely by Long Islanders. Mr. and ,
Mrs. Hitchcock discovered the spot
some fifteen years ago, and they immediately
came to the conclusion that
it would be a splendid place to winter
horses. Mr. Hitchcock conducted
experiments with cattle and the soil,
possibly in co-operation with the
state, and presently a hunt was formed.
Mrs, Hitchcock still is master of
that hunt, and credit is given to her
for developing some of the leading
riders on th<^ Aiken drag line. Mr.
George H. (Pete) Bostwick is only
one of the horsemen that Mrs, Hitchcock
helped to develop.
News of the place that Mr. and
Mrs. Hitchcock had discovered spread j
rapidly, and others started to go >
there. They wanted to hunt, and j
they found that they could do so all I
winter. Some wanted to play polo j
and Aiken also was suitable for that.
Now if one goes to Aiken he sees j
Mr. F. Skiddy von Stade, Mr. Henry |
W. Bull, Mrs. James C. Austin and |
I her children, Mr. Henry W. Sag**|
Mr. 1). Stewart Iglehart, whose boy* I
developed into crack polo players %\ I
Aiken; Mr. Bayard Warren, Mr.W
Bayard Tuckermnn, Mr, J. F. Byer*, 1
from Pittsburgh; Mr. Algernon Cr?v'aB
en, Mr. Augustus F. Goodwin, ' Mr. 1
Kigan McKinney, Mr. and Mr*,j
Francis P. Garvan and Mr. and Mjr? I
Vadim Makaroff.
Up Camden way, where the Camden a
Hounda run, Mrs. Dwight Paitridg* I
is master, and among those who fol- I
low her lead across country are Mr.
Kirkover, Mr. Ernest L. Woodward,
Mr. Oscar F. Soule, Mr. Watson I
Pomeroy, Mr. Henry V. Colt and Mr*. 1
Lucy Deans.
If one happened to go to Camden I
now he would find many horses well
known on the hunt racing circuit, m j
well as a group of hunters that will 9
start their activities when hunting I
begins on Christmas Day. Mr, Carroll
K.' Bassett, one of the best known I
amateur riders and trainers, wag
down to Camden a few days ago and I
ordered four additional box stalls to
care for the string of eight horses he '
will winter there this year. He will I
have Mr. W, D. Cleland's mare, Pas- >
sive, one of the outstanding brush
horses of the season, in this string.
Mr. Ernest L. Woodward took ten i
horses to Camden, four for hunting j
and six for racing. . Mr. Alvin Unter- !
myer also has made arrangements for
stabling and the four horses that he
now has in Camden will be joined by 9
others later. Miss Harriet Jackson is
shipping four horses. .9
Others who will be in Camden this /
winter are Miss Frances Thord-Gray, i
of Greenwich, Conn., who is bringing I
two hunters; Mr. Ward Belcher, of *1
Lakeville, Conn., who has sent fiv$ *
horses; Mr. Douglas W. Mabee, of !
Saratoga, who will have a string of a jfl
half dozen, four for hunting and two j
for racing; Mr. North Fletcher and j
Mr. Thomas Waller, of Warrenton, fl
who will open their stable some time 9
this week. Theirs will be an exten- j
sive string of about twenty horses,
many of them racing prospects.
Miss Thord-Gray has taken a cob- J
tage, as have Mr. Algernon Craven,
former master of the Albemarle Hunt 9
and at present steward of the Nation- >
al Steeplechase and Hunt Association i
in the South, and Mrs. T. H. Somer- j
ville, who has leased the Proctor
place. ,9
As the winter tightens its grip on 1
the North and more people depart for " J,
their places iri Aiken and Camden !
more news will be heard on plans for
hunting and the race meetings. But
even at this early date it looks as ,
though these two sporting resorts are- I
in for banner seasons- with a winter 9
of uninterrupted hunting and enter- 9
tainments that will culminate in the. I
race meetings. - _-C_
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I Men's Suits, (Pressed only) 30c
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We also render a cash and carry family Laundry
Service at practically washer-woman prices, so why
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