The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, June 23, 1910, Page 7, Image 7
DESIRE TO BE GRATIFIED.
Ernest Worth, Wife-Murder, to Pay
Penalty of His Crime.
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San Quentin, Cal., June 16.?The
\ desire of Ernest Worth, the Los Angeles
wife murderer, to die on the
gallows, will be gratified to-morrow,
unless there is eleven hour respite.
All arrangements for the execution
have been completed at the peniten*
tiary here. .
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The prisoner has been anxious to .
die ever since he murdered his wife
at Los Angeles June 22 of last year.
His wife had begun a suit for divorce.
They met in a room at a hotel to discuss
a money settlement. A quarrel
arose, and Worth, who was a bar*
tender, struck her on the jaw with nxs .
^ fist and when she fell crushed her
face and skull with his heels. After '
\ his arrest and arraignment he asked .
that he be permitted to plead guilty
and that his sentence be death on the .
gallows. His desire to be sentenced
to death was gratified by Judge Wilbur,
the trial judge. While awaiting
trial Worth made five attempts to
commit suicide. After arriving at the
. r penitentiary here, weary of waiting
for the time set for his execution, the ;
murderer wove a rope from strips of
his pillowcase and attempted to hang
himself from a cleverly contrived
> scaffold in his cell. The toppling of a (
chair upon his sleeping cell-mate was (
all thai' prevented his plan from being
a success.
Taking a Rosy View of It.
?.
Miss Jane Adams, head of Hull '
House, and an ardent advocate of woman
suffrage, says that women still ''
have much to fight for.
Our battle will be long and diffi- ;
cult," she says, "and we must frankly 1
admit it. There is nothing to be
^ gained by such rose colored schemes {
as William White employed.
y t "William White's brother had killed
a man in cold blood. i
" 'Well, William, how about your
brother?' a visitor to the town asked
him one day after the trial.
" 'Well,' said William, 'they've put ]
him in jail for a month.' (
" 'That's rather a light sentence (
f for a cold-blooded murder,' said the (
gentleman. r
? -?" 'Yes, sir,' William admitted, ?
'but at the month's end they're going '
to han(f him.' j
Circus Animals at Large.
> Ebensburg, Pa., June 16.?A fifteen-car
circus train of the Frank A.
Robbins Shows, was wrecked one
^ mile from here early to-day on the
Cambria and Cresson branch of the
Pennsylvania railroad.
1 Two lions, -an elephant, one leopard,
one hyena, one jaguar and an
* ibex are reported to be at large.
Several circus employees were injured.
* In the darkness of the early morning
the confusion following the derrailment
of the menagerie cars was
terrifying. The howls of the wild
? animals, which fled in every direction,
mingled with^ cries of injured men
pinned under the wreckage.
An Aid to Digestion.
The Blanks had invited a guest to
p. dinner. As the last course was reached
little Willie, who had been closely
watching the guest almost continually
during the meal, looked over at
him once more and said:
^ "You haven't changed a bit since
you started eating, have you Mr.
; Curtis?"
"Why no," laughed the visitor.
"Why do you ask that question?"
- * "Because," blurted out Willie, confused
by the pairs of eyes focused on
him?"because I heard pa say you'd
make a big hog of yourself as soon as
I . you got your eyes on this feed."
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The Brake on Tight.
1
Out of the Grand Central station, t
% in New York, the other day came a x
couple evidently from Up-State re- j
gions. The old man grasped his car- c
petbag and bulging green umbrella j
f firmly and looked up and down the ?
r street, his mouth agape. t
"There's a heap o' sights in New e
York, I guess, Maria," he said. "I mis- ^
i j doubt if we see them all." t
The old lady's mouth set grimly. x
"Waal, Silas," she replied, and her c
manner was more than significant, g
"bein's as I'm with you, there's some, t
| ? I expect, that you ain't goin' to see!" x
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^ One of our progressive county ex- f
I changes calls the attention of its
readers to the posibilities of the gaso- j
. v line engine for breaking land, and r
I contrasts methods in the South with
those in the West'. This is all very
well, but we shall not jump from
the one-horse plow to the traction en
gine. Few farms are in condition to t
permit the most profitable use of the <
/ big tractors; but there are few farms
x where a good two and three-horse
( plow would not help to greater prosperity.
Let us make the threehorse
- plow the rule, and then the traction
engine will come as the lands are prepared
for its profitable use.?Pro- i
; f gressive Farmer. t
THIXK THEY HAVE RIGHT MAN
Detective Cave Arrests Man who H
Thinks is Wanted in Kentucky.
Hampton, June 16.?Detective T
L. Cave brought a man, who he think
is Joseph Wendling, wanted for mur
der in Louisville, Ky., here this morn
ing and lodged him in jail, awaitini
identification. The man gave hi
uame as Charles Painter and was em
ployed at a saw mill at Fechtig 01
the Charleston & Western Carolim
Railway.
It is stated that Painter answer
every description of Joseph Wendling
who killed Alma Kelner, an 8-year
3ld child, in Louisville, Ky., last De
cember.
Tl^e handwriting of this Charle
Painter is said to be exactly that o
Joseph Wendling, and when told t
write Joseph Wendling it seemed t
be genuine.
The authorities have been wired a
Louisville* Ky., to send some one t
identify him at once.
A reward of $6,000 has been of
fered for Joseph Wendling.
BAIL GRANTED TO ODOMS.
Barnwell Men Charged with Murde
of 'Jim Hi.v.
. Columbia, June 16.?William J
Odom and his son, Alvin Odom, hot]
>f Barnwell county, were granted bail
in the sum of $5,000 each, to-day, b;
Associate Justice Gary, at chambers
rhey were charged with murder o
Jim Hix, in Barnwell county, on Jum
3.
The father and son had rented lam
\
?dj(ining the farm of the negro Hix
rhe trouble arose over a hedge row
it is alleged that the negro, in turn
ing his mule at the end of each row
would trample down the crop of Mr
jaom.
PRINCE AND REPORTERS.
I. Story of Edward VII. and Tw<
Newspaper Man.
When King Edward VII. wai
Prince of Wales, and visiting this
country in charge of Duke of New
jastle, his movements were ver:
closely watched by the newspape:
nen of the day. Among those as
iigned to this duty were Mortimei
Thomson (Q. K. Philander Doesticks;
or the New York Tribune, anc
George F. Williams for The Nev
fork Times.
One one occasion, while writing ur
he royal party in their apartments ai
he Fifth Avenue hotel, the duke o:
Newcastle was called away for a shori
ime, and these two newspaper mer
vere left alone with the prince. H<
expressed himself as decidedly borec
>y all the official receptions that were
>eing given him and at meeting the
listinguished persons that called, anc
laid that he wished that he could g<
nto the streets and see the city bj
limself. "Doesticks" suggested tha
his was a good time to do it, anc
;hat they could slip out a back wa:
tnd have a good time. The prince
oyfully welcomed the suggestion anc
le accompanied by Thomson anc
Villiams, went out a back way anc
ook a run through the streets arounc
Jnion square and adjoining places
^mong other places of interest he
vfls introduced to the Dromineni
:afes of the time, where he was re
jaled with a mint julep?the firsi
ime that a concoction of this kind
lad ever been presented to him. He
vas so delighted with it that he wanted
to duplicate, but the "boys
bought it was time to be getting
jack to the hotel before the prince's
ibsence was noticed.
They reached the prince's recep;ion
room all right, but found thai
he duke of Newcastle had alreadj
iiscovered his absence, and there was
t terrific commotion going forward
n consequence. The duke was exxemely
angry with the newspapei
nen and he threatened to have then;
urned out, and refused facilities foi
eporting the royal party. The rejorters
said they did not object, be:ause
the Story of the prince's escajade
would make good reading, and
imply atone for any disappointment
hey might suffer by not being allow;d
to accompany the party further
rhey also informed the duke that il
he story was printed and elaborated
ipon as they felt inclined to do, the
Luke himself would be in disgrace ?ts
i "negligent chaperon" in allowing
he prince to be kidnapped. Thereipon
the duke was appeased, friendlj
elations were re-established, anc
Thomson and Williams accom)anied
the royal party in its progress
hrough the country.?New Yort
rimes.
Boys Charged with Murder.
Samson, Ala., June 11.?For th*
leath of Ollie Purvis, 14 years old
it Wo r-i"iHo loct tvhqI.* tu-rt ParlcPl
brothers, aged 14 and 16 years, wen
)laced in the county jail at Genevs
o-day. At the preliminary hearing
t was testified that the Parker boys
lad whetted the knife with whicl
Purvis was stabbed. The younger boj
vept bitterly as he was being taker
;o prison.
'. GREAT SUCCESS OF SYSTEM.
e Ticket Collectors Earn Salaries on
the Southern Railway.
Charleston to Atlanta, first as ass
sistant general passenger agent of the
- Southern Railway, and then to be
come superintendent of ticket colg
lections, has made a success of the
s system installed in 1908, and it is
- predicted that the present number
a of seventy-five collectors will be
a doubled in the near future to cover
the entire system,
s It has been the idea of Col. Hunt,
in introducing this system and build
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- IJLlg At Up, tU CUUKllC LUC WUUU^IV/IO
and the public alike to the fact that
the ticket collector is by no means
s a spy and a check upon the honesty
f of the conductor, but in reality a
o help t% the man in charge of a train,
o One of the chief duties of the collector
is to balk efforts on the part
t of the passengers to cheat the railo
road, a work that the conductor has
no time to perform effectively.
What Hunt Has Done.
In the Jacksonville Metropolis,
the following 'Story of the ticket collector
work of Col. Hunt is told:
In the near future there will be
r a ticket collector on every train of
the Southern railroad.
While this announcement does not
come direct from the head officials
^ of the system, it is based on good
authority.
y A little more than a month ago
the number of ticket collectors was
f increased to seventy-five.
e Eventually it will be increased to
150 or more?at least, enough to
* cover the entire system. J
It is not stated when this increase
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" all probability it will not be long.
Even should the increase be made
' gradually, by adding ten or fifteen
collectors every few months, it
would not take long to run the number
up to enough to cover the entire
3 system.
There is an impression that a big
auditing company of 'New York has
a contract to take up tickets on the
3 Southern railroad, guaranteeing the
foad an increase of 10 per cent, net
7 revenue on the average and taking
r the balance over that as compensation.
This impression is erroneous.
r The system of ticket collection
I now in vogue on, the Southern was
^ organized by the company, made a
7 separate and distinct department
from the start, and has been rnainj
tained as such ever since. As such it
y will continue to be maintained. The
f head of this department is R. W.
t Hunt, and his headquarters are in
l Atlanta, offices in the Austell build?
ing.
j The System was put in operation
? on May 1, 1908, beginning with
> thirty collectors. It was a success
j from the first. The revenues of-the
^ Southern on passenger business in
T creased astonishingly. This increase
has kept up steadily ever since, it
t is said. The department is proba7
bly now a fixture. The system is be}
ing adopted all over the country,
I even some of the big trans-contipentj
al lines putting it on.,
j Ticket collectors have increased
, the revenue of the Southern railroad
l r /
chiefly by correcting irregularities
4 and picking up loose ends. This is
(. emphasized by the officials.
When the system was inaugurated
t most people construed it as a re^
flection on the conductors. The con;
ductors sal it in that light, too. Now
this idea is changing. People are be>
ginning to realize that it was not the
P ductors saw it in that light, too. Now
, Southern, but the passengers. All
sorts of schemes have been devised
to evade payment of railroad fare.
t Many were nipped in the bud by alert
r conductors, but most were missed.
5 It is pointed out by the officials
I that before the ticket collection system
went into effect a conductor had
, three different duties to perform.
That is. the handline of his train, the
. taking up of tickets and the auditing
of collections. If it come to a
choice between looking out for the
safe and prompt transportation of his
I train, or "laying" for a dishonest pash
senger, he looked out for his train,
which was what the company expected
him to do.
f As a natural consequence, say the
[ officials, the company missed much
, revenue they should have got, sim5
ply because with so many things to
, look after, the conductors could not
>
. make a clean sweep. But the ticket
r collectors with only that one thing
I to do, are sweeping mighty clean.
. And by the same token, say the of,
ficials, the conductors, relieved of
. the collections, are making things
hum when it comes to keeping
schedules and handling trains safely.
Xegro Sent Up for Life.
Lexington, June 16.?Henry Lyles,
* a negro, 20 years old, was tried in the
i sessions court to-day for the murder
i of his wife, Sila Lyles, on the night
> of January 26. The jury rendered a
> verdict of guilty, with recommendai
tion to?mercy, and Judge Gary immer
diately ^sentenced the negro to the
i State penitentiary for the remainder
of his life.
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