The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, April 24, 1913, Page 4, Image 4
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Thursday, April 24,1913.
If judges would put fines of $1,00C
and $2,000 on blind tigers, like Judge
Memminger did in Spartanburg, the
traffic would not continue very long
Some people may not agree en
tirely with the article of Mr. W. C
Patrick, published in this issue, but
all no doubt will agree that it is a
timely discusson of an interesting
situation. We would be glad to hear
from others on the same line.
The Colleton and Dorchester papers
condemn in strong terms the
conduct of the congressional primary
in those counties last week. It appears
that money was openly and
shamelessly used to purchase votes,
and it seems reasonably sure that
the same conditions existed all over
the district. The State executive
committee should make a rigid investigation
of the election.
,This newspaper can hardly be accused
of any great amout of love for
corporations, but it seems to us that
it is high time some drastic action
was being taken against the damage
suit industry in this State. The railroads
and other corporations are cer
tainly having a hard time of h, for
damage suits and large verdicts
against them are the rule, not the
exception. At one time in South
Carolina it was said that the negro
was the o-nly one who received "justice"
in the courts. Now it 6eems to
he the corporations who get it all.
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Congressman Wyatt Aiken, of this
State, has introduced a bill in congress
reducing the letter p <ge rate
from two cents to one cent, this rate
to also include drop letters. We
have very little idea that the bill will
pass, and it certainly ought not to.
Two cents is cheap enough anyway,
and those who would derive most
benefit from a one cent letter rate
are well able to pay the present rate.
Thei^too, from our knowledge of
postal affairs, we feel <sure there
would be a large deficit should the
letter rate be reduced, because of
the very large appropriations for
rural free delivery service as well as
so much second and third class mat^
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ter uciug uanuicu cn, a. n_?oo.
TWO YEARS IX REFORMATORY.
Lad Arrested at Starr for Breaking
Into Postoffice.
Hezekiah Elgin, the lad arrested at
Starr several weeks ago on a charge
of having broken into the postoffice
there and stolen letters, has been sentenced
by Judge Smith in the United
States court at Greenville to serve two
years in the National Training school
at Washington. The following account
of the case is given in a special
from Greenville:
Hezekiah Elgin, a 13-year-old lad
of good appearance, this afternoon
stood before Judge Smith in the federal
court and in trembling tones
pleaded guilty to the charge of taking
letters from a United States mail
box. The boy said that a negro had
persuaded him to do the act. The
boy's aunt, an elderly lady, appeared
also before Judge Smith and made a
tearful plea that the lad be returned
to her home where he had been reared.
The bov had had very little schooling,
his aunt stated. He was now in
the third grade, according to his own
statement. After questioning the boy
nirvcoiv Turlp-ex Smith wave an order
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that the lad be sent to the National
Training school for boys at Washington
for two years.
The district attorney stated that efforts
had been made to capture the
negro, but that they had been unsuccessful.?Anderson
Mail.
IGKAXI) JURY FINDS "NO BILL."
i
. i Akerman Failed to Secure Evidence j in
Cotton Seed Oil Trust.
J Augusta, April 19.?After an investigation
extending over the larger
11 part of two weeks, and examination i
"of a large number of witnesses from
' | several States, the grand jury in the
c! United States Court today reported j
l|"no bill" as a result of its investiga-1:
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^ i tions into the case presented to mem
i by District Attorney Akerman, charg- i
- ing that there is a cotton seed oil i
trust.
District Attorney Akerman reportj
ed to- the Court that he had not been
as successful as he had hoped in se*
curing evidence showing that there i
. was a cotton seed oil trust. The
7 grand jury investigated the American
* Cotton Oil Company, Proctor and
j Gamble and other large concerns, and
. it was stated at the outset by the 11
I
? district attorney that he expected to
* show that there was a trust.
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. | What's the Matter With Bamberg?
Columbia, S. C., April 17, 1913. ;
[ i The Bamberg Herald, Bamberg, S. C. j
Dear Herald: Viewed from a dis-'
sjtance, there seems to be something!
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* radically wrong in tsamoerg. 1 nave;;
been much interested in the nomina.
tions for your councilmen and noticed
r them, one after another?men who!
I are the very blood and sinew of your
1 town?decline to serve. There must
be a cause. What is it? Knowing
: the men whose names have been
brought forward as I do I can not believe
their reluctance is due in any
, measure to selfishness, nor is it due
; to the lack of patriotism. In the .
past these same men have given of I
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their time and services unselfishly, |
but now that the town needs them j
more that at any period within my -!
i memory their reluctance to seTve \\
l amounts almost to indifference. 11.
> wonder if it has occurred to you that j
' fhp situation is a serious one and \
| whether you have formed an opinion | (
j as to its cause. j!
j If one who first saw the light with- .
' I in the confines of your town and who j
still feels an interest in its welfare j j
^ might be so bold as to hazard a sur- .
mise, this would be the burden of it: '
' the lack of individual interest among J !
[ the citizenship of your town who nev- ^
er offer for public office. You must
have team work if you expect your ^
town to progress along any line and !
particularly in its municipal affairs,
and unless every officer has the hear- '
ty co-operation of every law-abiding i.
; citizen you need never expect a con- j
. tinued sacrifice on the part of those j'
! who have in times past shouldered !.
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the burden of your city's government. ^
You have seen it, so have I, when a
man permits himself to be placed in a ^
; position to serve his town, no sooner J
i has he taken the oath of office than
l every visible support is withdrawn ^
i and he is left alone to fight his battle ^
singlehanded, and when he fails in
> the accomplishment of miracles in his
administration he receives the jeers
instead of the plaudits of the people.
There are in your town many good <
people who earnestly desire the put:
ting down of crime, particularly in the j
1 forms of illicit sale of intoxicating j
! liquors and pistol toting?the two t
of which run neck and neck in their *
race for supremacy there and the ^
two things most responsible for the ^
' numerous homicides of the past?
who would sooner suffer the loss of
a right arm than openly participate
in either crime, yet the crime they ]
: commit in standing quietly by and :
| withholding their support which ;
properly belongs to those in charge
of the administration of the laws of ;
your town is no less than that of the
booze seller or the gun man.
This, my dear sir, is one cause of
the indifference displayed by the men
of your town in public affairs. Can ,
' any man of Bamberg afford to do his
duty fully, conscientiously? That
question confronts every man who ,
offers for the public's service, and he (
need go no further back than the
present to get his answer. No. His ,
daily bread in many instances de
pends upon the good will of his neighbors.
Can he afford to offend them
by meting out justice to offenders? ]
Here is an illustration: John Smith 1
is in the service of Mr. Moneybags, (
his services are valuable because he 1
produces money for his employer, <
he violates the law and is taken into i
; the toils and is punished. Does Mr. ,
Moneybags uphold the officer and i
commend him for his vigilance? It 1
is safe to say no. He is rather criti- 1
cised for over-zealousness and the ]
just punishment imposed upon the
offender is but a persecution, in the 1
eyes of Mr. Moneybags. It is not <
right; nor is it just. Justice is that r
which we wish for our felltfw'Tnen i
but we will have none of it ourselves, I
! otherwise more of us would be in the
i toils. These are the things which t
j confront your people and it is no 1
' wonder that they hesitate before (
! entering the lists. If you would
have a town to be proud of let every 1
man who believes in the right become i
an integral part of the machine as- 1
sembled for the purpose of stamping 1
out lawlessness and all pull together. ]
WILLIAM C. PATRICK. h
H. HYMAX "COMES TO LIFE." |
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Murder Mystery in Lancaster County j
Probably Never Solved.
Lancaster, April 19.?Sheriff John
P. Hunter, who has been working dil-'
igently after some clue to the perpetrators
of the murder of the unknown
man whose body was found on the
hanks of Twelve Mile Creek about a
month ago, and who was thought to
be Harry Hyman, a Jewish peddler
of Bishopville, to-day received another
letter from Mr. L. Schlesinger, of
Bishopville, reading as follows:
"Sheriff John P. Hunter, Lancaster,
S. C.?Dear Sir: Harry Hyman
came 'to life' last night about 9
o'clock when the A. C. L. came in. He
remarked that he had been in that
part of Lancaster County at about
the time, but left there, going in the
direction of Columbia and the other
side of it. So, the body is not that of
H. Hyman, of course, it must be some
one else as we can readily see now. I
wish to express to you my sincere
thanks for your many kind efforts
and your favors, which I assure you
is very greatly appreciated. Yours
truly." "L. Schlesinger." , |
No further clue has been obtained
as to the slayer or the identity of the
victim and it looks now as if it will be
passed as one of the unsolved mysteries.
Negro Attacks Woman and Boy.
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.Florence, /vpin l\j..? xnc mic ui a.
prominent Florence citizen and her
son, a boy of about 12 years, were
murderously assaulted by a negro,
Herman Kelly, about 10:30 o'clock
last night. Kelly applied at the home
of his victim to buy a pint of milk
for a restaurant accustomed to buy
from her. She delivered the milk in
her own pitcher, none having been
brought. In a few minutes Kelly returned
the pitcher, paying for the
milk, and as the lady reached for it,
he caught her by the left arm, and
swung ^long handled wrench, used
by car inspectors, striking her on the
head. He forced her into the room,
striking her several times with the
heavy wrench, she screaming aloud.
Her son attempted to dash from the
room for assistance and Kelly caught
him, dealing him a fearful blow on
the head with the wrench and following
him to the yard, striking him
again. He then dashed toward the
back fence, as the lady's cries were
attracting persons from all around,
for the home is near the old Jacobi
hotel on Front street. In trying to
get over the back fence his feet slipped
and his arms were skinned, but
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* 6 got away oeiore me nuwu ica^uw
him. He was captured at the restaurant
next door several hours later,
and with every evidence of being the
right negro, even to blood stains and
freshly washed cuffs and skinned
arms. He is now in jail. Both the
lady and her son are in a serious
condition. The victim is the wife of
a well known yard conductor, of the
Atlantic Coast Line.
Kelly is the same negro who was
sent to the chain gang for three years
some time ago, being caught under a
bed in a private house in the city. He
has worked recently at the industrial
school. He was a good worker when
3n the chaingang, but the police have
aeen watching him since he was released.
A Necessity.
The temperance reformer was justly
proud of having converted the biggest
drunkard in a little Scotch town
and induced him?he was the local
grave-digger?to get o-n the platform
and spout his experience.
"My friends," he said, "I never,
thoc'nt to stand upon this platform
with the provost on one side of
me and the town clerk on th' ither
side of me. I never thocht to tell ye
that for a whole month I haven't
touched a drap of anything. I've saved
enough to buy me a braw oak
coffin wi' brass handles and brass
nails?and if I'm a teetotaler for
anither month I shall be wantin' it."
Blease Grants Requisition. N
Columbia, April 19.?Governor
Blease today suddenly adjourned the
learing on the requisition from Gov?rnor
Sulzer of New York for the aleged
wire tappers, arrested in
Charleston and wanted in New York,
vhen a writ of habeas corpus from
Judge Devore, directing the sheriff to
-eturn the prisoners to Charleston at
the conclusion of the hearing was
landed to him by counsel for the
prisoners.
The governor announced that he
ivould grant the requisition for two
I
>f tv?om A A Carter and Frank i
rarbeaux and they were turned over
to the Xew York detectives and will
je taken there tonight.
James a. Dowling, the other of the
:rio, was released, the Xew York of- I
ic-ers having stated that they had no
charges against him.
Governor Blease said Judge Devore
had no right to interfere in the mat
ter before he passed on tne requisition
and had no right to issue instructions
to him as governor. He had the
papers from Governor Sulzer and they
ivere made out legally and proper.
| FATHER FINDS STOLEN CHILI).
Searched Throughout Mississippi for
Many Months.
Columbia, .Miss., April 21.?Robert
Dunbar, the eight-year-old child who
was kidnapped at the home of its
parents near Opelousas, La., last August,
has been found and identified
by Mr. Dunbar, the father, according
to a statement made at the sheriff's
office here.
A man giving his name as W. C.
Walters, has been placed in jail here,
charged with kidnapping the child.
Mr. Dunbar has the child in his
possession, and while he is positive
in his identification, he has telegraphed
Mrs. Dunbar to come here and see
the child. Mr. Dunbar stated that
his identification was made by means
of certain scars and marks on the
child's body.
Walters, who travels about the
country in a wagon repairing clocks
and stoves, stated ""hat a widow in
North Carolina gave him the child
more than a year ago.
He was questioned closely by Mr.
Dunbar about his movements since
last August, and it is claimed made
several contradictory statements.
Walters was arrested here two
weeks ago, but told what appeared
to be a reasonable story about the
child and was released. Mr. Dunbar
was notified, however, and came
here to make a personal investigation.
He found the child had been
left with a man named Wallace in
West Columbia. After identifying
the child, he and several deputies set
out in search of Walters, whom they
located near Morgantown, about 12
miles north of Columbia.
The Dunbars and their friends have
spent several thousand dollars in
search of the missing child, and several
months ago offered a large reward
for its recovery. Numerous
tramps and other migratory individuals
have been arrested in this and
other States suspected of being implicated
in the'kidnapping, because in
each case they were accompanied by a
child.
FINES AND PRISON TERMS.
Sentences Imposed on Two Alleged
Blind Tigers at Spartanburg.
Spartanburg, April 19.?Unusually
heavy sentences were imposed by
Judge R. W. Memminger on William
Bowen and J. H. Brown, proprietors
of so-called social clubs, who were
convicted in tne circuit uouri m violating
the dispensary laws. Powen
was sentenced to pay a fine of $1,000
or serve one year, and Brown was
sentenced to pay a fine of $2,000 or
! serve two years. Brown has been
repeatedly convicted before. Judge
Memminger was severe in his denunciation
of the men and their witnesses.
Bowen and Brown, through their
attorneys, served the customary notice
of appeal to the Supreme Court.
Judge Memminger warned them that
he would make it a point himself to
see that the thirty-day limit in which
to perfect the appeal was not disre- i
garded.
WIFE CHARGED WITH DEED.
Georgia Merchant Refuses to Tell
Who Shot Him.
Columbus, Ga., April 20.?George
Radcliffe, a merchant of this city,
lies in the city hospital with a pistol
bullet in his spine and in a paralyzed
condition from the waist down. The
police have arrested his wife, Mrs.
May Radcliffe, charging her with assault
with intent to murder. Radcliffe
is in a desperate condition and
may die. The woman denies the
charge against her, and says thai
she had no part in the affair. The
wounded man refused absolutely to
discuss the shooting and would not
talk of it before lapsing into unconsciousness.
A revolver was found by the police
in a cupboard in the house, two
of the shells being empty.
A charge of shooting at a man
named Martin is pending against Mrs.
Radcliffe, according to the police.
Two Want Divorces.
A special from Atlanta says: The
unique sight of a mother and daughter
arraigned side by side as defendants
in the divorce court will be wit
nGSSGQ in .PUiton supenui cuun, ucin
this week. Two sGparatG suits have
filed against Mrs. Fanny Garrison
and Mrs. Lillian Garrison Hicks,
mother and daughter respectively.
Both husbands claim that they are
hen-pecked. C. H. Garrison says that
his wife forced him for a long period
of the time to turn over all of his
weekly salary to her, and that she allowed
him only ten cents a day for
car fare and spending money. The remainder
of his money he says she
spent in extravagance, in addition to
running up bills which he was unable
to pay. R. C. Hicks says that his
wife, who is the daughter, forced him
into marrying her and has ruled him
with an iron hand ever since. Threats
of violence, he says, are a common
thing in the household.
BARTER OF HUMAN FLESH. y
Mothers Contract for Disposal of Infants
Before Birth.
Chicago, April IS.?Inhuman conditions
at "baby farms" in Chicago ,
were revealed to-day in the Illinois
House committee's investigation of {
maternity home and other institu- .
tions where children are kept. They
were such as to bring from Chairman
Thomas Curran the assertion that the
barter of flesh has not ceased and
tnat dealing in DaDies is me most
dastardly business existing."
The representatives were told that
mothers contracted for the disposal
of their infants before birth, signing
an agreement which ends: "I promise
and declare I will never see said
child, but do release and abandon it
forever."
They were informed that babies ?
were shipped out of the State when
only a few hours old and their moth- J
ers were hired out to nurse ihe infants
o-f the wealthy. j
Superintendents of maternity
homes admitted thev keDt no records, 1
I
that once a child was sent away there
was nothing by which it could be j
traced.
IT COSTS TO RUX A CIRCUS. I
Many Tons of Foodstuff Required to
Feed Men and Animals.
Has any one ever figured out what
a mint of money it costs to operate
the biggest present-day circus? Wintering
the Barnum & Bailey circus
alone consumes $140,000, independent
of repairs and building new
equipage. But it's when, the circus
gets on the road that the financial
strain is felt. Each day requires an
expenditure of at least $7,500. Figure
it out for yourself for a season
of eight months and see how much *
money is put into circulation each
year.
Salaries of the performers range
from $30 to $500 a week. May ]
Wirth, the young Australian equestrienne
sensation, gets a season's sum (
that would keep the average workingman
on a vacation for the rest of <
his life. It costs a barrel of money
to get the animals which comprise
a great popular feature of the circus.
The mother of the baby giraffe cost
$14,000. Tom, its father, cost $12,- ]
000.
The equipment for this season's
show represents an outlay of $3,500,000,
of which $1,000,000 was spent i
for the parade paraphernalia. The
railroad equipment is valued at more
than $200,000. The horses and their
decorations are worth $340,000. The .
menagerie is estimated to have cost
$720,000, and to be worth more than j
that amount by reason of tricks drill- I
ed into the animals by trainers.
A tabulated list of the items needed
for the daily sustenance of the cosmopolitan
host will stagger you. For
the animals the daily consumption of
food is 7 tons of hay, 200 bushels of ^
oats, 150 bushels of corn, 50 bushels i
1 1-9 /io mo cciic n f hoef for
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the lions and tigers, and 700 pounds
of vegetables for the other animals.
Then there are needed 6 tons of straw
for bedding.
What about the foodstuffs for the
1,500 men and women who comprise
the human personnel of the circus?
Here is an itemized list for a day,
taken from the statement of the chef:
Three hundred pounds of beef, 150
I pounds of mutton, 200 pounds of
pork, 550 chickens, 800 loaves of
bread, half a barrel of syrup, 72 cases
of eggs,- 440 gallons of milk, 1,200
pounds of butter, 1,400 pounds of
fish. 25 bushels of apples, alternating
with California oranges, peacnes, and
pears and other fruits in season.
Condiments and canned goods are
bought in cases by the gross. Sixty
dining room attendants serve this
Kin nf fare and the hiah-sal
aried chef has a corps of eight assist- {
ants. The pastry cook has six assist- *
ants.
WIRE GAVE CLUE TO OFFICERS.
Four Men Arrested Charged with
Robbing Cigar Stores.
New York, April 18.?A piece of
picture wire to-day led to the arrest
of four men charged with holding up
and robbing a dozen or more stores
of the United Cigar Stores Company,
in New York and vicinity. Wire was
used to bind the cigar store clerks.
Detectives found where it was purchased
and lay in wait until to-day
when three men called for a supply.
The suspects were followed and 1
captured at the points of revolvers in J
a trolley car in New Rochelle. The
fourth was arrested at a hotel and
a young woman who accompanied
him was held as a material witness.
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The prisoners are Charles Truax,
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clll C.\-Cinp:u>cc ui uig i. uiwu ?
Stores Company; John .McDonald,
who, the police say, has a long record
as a postofFice burglar; Frederick
H. Clark and Joseph S. David.
Truax was held in Court in $5,000
bail o?n three charges. Duval and
Clark in similar bail on one charge
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for lack of evidence. McDonald, how- I
ever, was immediately rearrested on '
another charge of robbery.
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The Goods Sell
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