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CRIMINALS HAV KE Now Employ Scientific A ' Knowledge of Cher for Them to Obt While the world has been moving forward in other directions, it should not be forgotten that the criminal has been standing still, says the Kansas City Star. All of the progress has not been confined to worthy lines of human endeavor. Take the burglar, the yeggman, for example, me uuiglar of to-day must be a more scientific man by far than the burgiar of thirty-five or forty years ago. It * might be said in his case that brains have taken the place of brawn. The yeggman of long ago used to go about with a kit of shelf and heavy hard ware that it took an athlete to carry about. It was full of plain and fancy steel drills and intricate tools of all sorts. Such an outfit couldn't be carried in an ordinary suitcase, but had to be carried in a heavy box, bound with strips of iron. % The burglar of to-day can slip a small vial of nitroglycerin and a bit of soap for building a dam on a safe door into his vest pocket and proceed jauntily to the business in hand. And the burglar of to-day must have a knowledge of chemistry, too. It is not possible for nondescripts to go >; about buying nitroglycerin promiscously. A man to buy nitroglycerin must be a man of identity. So the burglar's knowledge of chemistry stands him in good stead. With this knowledge he buys the ingredients that compose nitroglycerin, each at a different town. Then he proceeds to r use his chemical knowledge in combining the ingredients, each in their ' proper proportion, and thus obtains the explosive with which he does business. The opening of the safe is the work of only a few moments if he is not disturbed. Formerly it was the work of hours, and involved great labor in drilling holes in the hard steel doors. Dressed as Preacher. I remember even as late as 1893, when I was chief of police of Chicago, I had brought before me one of those old-fashioned burglars who went about wiih a heavy kit of tools, which he often sent shipped as baggage. This fellow, by the way, was one of the first offenders caught by means of the Bertillon system of measurements. He went about Chicago dressed as an Episcopal clergyman, and one night, so dressed, he was caught trying to effect an entrance to an empty house on one of the boulevards. He protested hi6 innocence so vehemently, and seemed so outraged that a clergyman should be treated in such a humiliating man ner, that he was finally brought before me at my office. He had a large ? bunch of skeleton keys and 1 told him that he must explain the presence of those keys in his possession before we could proceed. He could not do it, and so we measured him by the Bertillion system, and this developed the fact that he had been discharged from San Quentin Prison a , few months before and was wanted for burglary in California. He was one of those thousands of prisoners who were about to be discharged from prison's all over the country during the years preceding the World's Fair. We had them all measured and had S,000 measurements In our Chicago gallery when the fair opened. When confronted with the duplicate measurements he broke down and confessed. He seemed to take a liking to me, and before he m. "i A v.eat awii\ ue gave me a cuech a. piece of baggage which was in a Chicago depot. "This piece of baggage is my burglar's kit," he told me. "For my crime in California I will get at least 20 years. My tools have cost me be> tween $300 and $400, but by the time I get out of jail in California they won't be worth 40 cents, because the methods of my business will have made such advances that a first-class burglar would laugh at these tools." Xot Worth 30 Cents Now He was right, I got the kit from the Chicago depot, and I have them today as a souvenir. No burglar of today would pay me 30 cents for the entire outfit, which cost between $300 and $400. The advent of the motor car has multiplied the crime of theft, show ing that as we step forward we step backward, too. The motor car itself provides a new prize for the thief. More motor cars are stolen in these days than horses. And the penalty is greater, because the value of a motor car is so much greater than the value of a horse. Many of the old horse thieves have taken up the business of stealing motor cars. And the motor car contributes to crime as a m^ans of getting the thieves far E TO EP UP TO DATE. Methods in Blowing Safes, nistry Makes it Easy KT*. 1 _ :ain nitroglycerin. , from the scene of their offences with the greatest possible speed. Bank robbers and others find them an ally. They are being used extensively in the prostitutions of the white slave | traffic. On the other hand the motor ; car has its disadvantage as an object of theft. The shining surface of the ' tonneau takes a finger print easily, and many a motor car thief owes his capture to the fact that he has left his finger photograph on the car. And the harvest is being reaped in the form of prisoners who are getting into the penitentiaries as an indirect result of the motor car. Weak men living beyond their incomes steal, embezzle, to get motor cars. We have a ,! banker from Texas in the Federal Prison now who has been sentenced to a long term of years for violating , the National Bank Act. He blames his trouble to the motor car. He was driven to it, in an effort to maintain two motor cars. His wife demon/lofl <- n ovtro nay a n H ho mnrffflP HlC4Xi.\aV^VX C U ^AViU VVfcA U4*u ed his home to get it, and he went from bad to worse and involved the bank and broke it up?all on account j of a motor car. And there are many others. Bertillion System. With the advent of the Bertillon and finger print systems the business ; of apprehending criminals has largely become a matter of bookkeeping. But it has been a. long step forward. During the 16 years I was warden of the penitentiary at Joliet, 111., where cn an average we cared for about the same number of prisoners as we have at Fort Leavenworth, we lost and failed to recover on an average of between 10 and 12 prisoners each year. Here at Fort Leavenworth, under the new system, we will frequently go j for three to four years and not lose a | man. I have been here 14 years. Our ; largest loss was in 1901, when 26 j prisoners got away, but we recovered 23 of them. I should say that under ! the present system we lose and fail to recover on an average of not more than one prisoner each year. Here in the identification bureau located at this prison we now have about 50,000 sets of finger prints of | criminals. These sets are classified and indexed with the utmost care. For example, finger prints are divided into four classes, the whirl or circular type; the arch type, the loop type and the composite type. All of ; these types are classified separately as a means for ready reference. But !jwe go further than that. When the prints of a criminal's fingers are { taken we obtain prints of the entire ten digits. This system is followed now because we have on one or two occasions found two thumb prints ; that were exactly similar. It might i happen that two fingers or three fin: gers on the same set of hands would : be duplicated out of 80,000,000 of persons, but it is certain that no ten can be duplicated. There is not the remotest chance; it is beyond the realm of possibility that a combination of ten finger prints would be ; duplicated by another set of ten finj ger prints. Result of Experiments. Exhaustive experiments were made i in China, where the authorities took j the imprints of the fingers of whole provinces, ana wnne now ana men 11 was found that the thumb prints i would be duplicated, in no case was it found that the ten digits of one j person would be duplicated by the '; ten digits of another person, nor that j any considerable number of digits of one combination would be duplicated by any considerable number * of ; another combination. Now, in the presence of such a sys: tern of identification, it has been but : natural that there should be a de' crease in crimes of violence, for which the penalty is most terrible. ; And so it happens that ther? has been a very great decrease in the profes! sion of murder. I refer to the men ! who kill for hire. There used to be f a great deal of that sort of thing, but I there is little of it any more. Men seldom, almost never, kill for pay. It has become a poor-paying busij ness. The murderer is almost always : chased to earth. There are so many ways, but the finger print system j has been a big factor. The prints of a finger left on a candle, a bottle, a ' i glass, a window pane, a casement, an iron bed?these in scores of cases i ] have resulted in placing the criminals where they belong. And the de, | tective systems are more scientific? jour detectives have greater skill. 11 All our big agencies?the Burns agency, che Pinkerton agency?are | working with greater skill. The dic! taphone and similar contrivances are adding daily to the danger of the KILLED AT IXITL1TI0X. Two Candidates Shocked to Deatl While Taking Moose Degree. Birmingham, July 25.?Donald A Kenney, a chauffeur, and Christophei , Gustin, an iron moulder, were killec last night by an electrical shock a' the local hall of the Loyal Order o Moose. An initiation ceremony was - J tliot on oloo. in progress a.nu iw ia sa>u uu. wv.~ trie shock is a part of the ritual. Ir some way not yet explained the mer received too much current. It was at first thought they hac only fainted and were hurried to the hospital, but both died shortly afterward. Lodge officials have not yet made a statement regarding the occurrence PAID $17,000,000 TOO MUCH. Missouri Bureau Calls attention t< Railroad Overcharges. The decision of the United States Supreme Court upholding the contention of the State of Missouri that th< 2 cent passenger fare and maximun freight rate acts are constitutiona and not confiscatory, means that the people of the State have unjustl: paid, approximately, $17,233,931 tc twelve railroad systems since the en forcement of the laws was preventec by Federal injunction, says a Jeffer son City special. The figures given were compiled bj the Missouri bureau of labor statis tics and given out in bulletin forn by Commissioner John T. Fitzpatrick The deductions and estimations are based on the briefs filed and the ar guments of the State before the Unit ed States Supreme Court, and the re turns, admissions, and evidence sub mitted by the 18 railroads whicl were originally involved. The object of the bureau of labo: statistics bulletin is to call wide at tention to tlie fact that a serious em bargo to the advancement of Missour has been removed through the State being placed on the same level witl Illinois, Kansas and other surround ing commonwealths which have en joyed low passenger rates and simila: railroad regulations for years. Farm ers can now flock into Missouri, take up the vacant lands, and ship thei] products to the chief State market! without being handicapped by unfaii railroad freight charges. The manu facturers of the State are placed 01 an equal basis for State business witl those of Illinois, and even more dis tant States, which formerly had the advantage of a lower freight rate t< many Missouri points. The $17,233,931 in overcharge: due to the people of Missouri, if turn ed over to that State, would complete the free bridge at St. Louis, build the new State capitol at Jefferson City purchase Hahatonka in Camden coun ty for a State park, and give the Stat< a network of good roads unequallec anywhere. It is suggested by advo cates of State improvenment tha Missouri be given power, through j constitutional amendment, to collec the overcharges from the railroad! owing them, and use the money foi the purposes mentioned. The con vict labor problem would then b< solved by employing the prisoner: to construct State highways and de fraying the cost of the work out o the recovered railroad overcharges. PHILIPPINES FLOURISHING. Trade of Islands More Than Doublet Since Establishment of Free Trade. Washington, July 25.?Free trad* between the United States and th< Philippines except in the case of i few commodities has resulted in ai enormous increase of the trade o the islands and particularly their for 1 eign commerce, according to a state ment by the bureau of insular affairs Receipts from the tax, 1-3 of 1 pe: ; cent of gross business done by mer chants and manufacturers in the is lands, which disclosed the volume o this business to be S190.000.000 th< year before free trade became opera tive, ending June 30, 1909, has nov increased more than 75 per cent, to tailing $333,000,000 this year. The foreign trade of the island: lias more than doubled in the sam< period, the estimated returns for th< fiscal year just ended being $156, 000,000. Jentle Jabs. Some men are honest?just a; some women are silent. The height of a girl's ambition i! seldom less than five feet six. Peanut politicians should not com plain if they get well roasted. There is always a big demand for < thing that cannot be had. It's not consistent to speak ill of i man if you know him well. Even light wine has been known t( produce a dark brown taste. criminal. So that science and pro gress, while appearing to contribute to crime and provide a cause foi crime on one hand, are vehicles foi its detection and obstacles to it: prosecution on the other. So that ir the end it apears to be about an offset. Kaiser & Walke 1 Plumbing, Heating, Roofing Modern and Sanitary Plumbing. r Private Water Systems Installed. * Sanitary Septic Tanks Installed. t t' Bamberg Parties Inquire 5 at The Herald Office. i AIKEN, S. C. i No. Six-Sixty-Si: This ii a prescription prepared eipecia - for MAI ASIA or r.Ull I C A FFUF Five or six doses will break any case, a > if taken then as a tonic the Fever will i return. 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Relieves nervous depre action and purifies the blood. A T] - ? . i t_ - Strengthener. Guaranteed dy your ;M ON E Y ; I have Ten Thousand D( first mortgages of re^ J. D. COF BAMBI For Weakness and Loss of Appetite ,T The Old Standard general strengthening tonic SROVE'S TASTELESS chill TONIC, drives on Malaria and build* up the system. A true toni< md sure Appetizer. For adults and children. 50c Cures Old Sores, Other Remedies Won't Cure. The worst cases, no matter of how long standing, ire cured by the wonderful, old reliable Dr. Porter's Antiseptic Healing Oil. It relieves Pain and Heals at the same time. 25c, 50c, $1.00 FOR SALE. BARGAIN'S IN REAL ESTATE. 1 118 acres fine land partly in town of Ehrhardt. S 38 fine building lots in town of Ehr? I hardt. X16 choice building lots in town or Bamberg. 1 store house and lot next to post "7 office on Main street, Ehrhardt. R; 295 acres fine farm lands two miles in<* west of Ehrhardt. 30t Apply to JOHX F. FOLK, 5? Bamberg, S. C. FIRST-CLASS REPAIR WORK PROMPT SERVICE Patrick's Garage BAMBERG, S. C. Wrightsville Beach, N.C. Wilmington, N. C. Thursday?June 5th to ember 11th, 1913, limitlark, returning, prior to second Monday following ;es north and east -'ormation Address J. B. LILES, 'J Ticket Agent. ved Child's Life 5xi fell into a water tank on fas rescued unconscious and tie frantic mother rushed to d the doctor six miles away. - ? i do and started at once, out rhild was out of danger, women and children is only ss of the telephone on the > service at small cost. See phone Manager or send a klet. VE DEPARTMENT TELEPHONE [ COMPANY ATLANTA, GA. Mil 1IC, rioirirop pl:ii thiiip iho i moo uiiiii luniu *al Tonic, Drives out Malaria, Builds up the Whole System, )PLE AND CHILDREN, md IRON in a tasteless form that wonderstem to withstand the depressing effect of XESS chill TONIC has no equal for Malaria, iebility and loss of appetite. Gives life and ickly Children. Removes Biliousness withission and low spirits. Arouses the liver to rue Tonic and Sure Appetizer. A Complete ^ ? TT7^ CH /%Dnto UXllgglSl. WC Uicau xl. sj\j v.,, TO LOAN )llars ($10,000.00) to loan on il estate. 5ee me quick. ^ELAIND, JR., SRO, S. C. LODGE MEETING. Bamberg, Lodge, No. 38, Knights of Pythias meets first and fourth Monday nights at 7:30 p. m. Visiting brethren cordially invited. GEO. F. HAIR, Chancellor Commander. A. M. DENBOW, Keeper of Records and Seal. | J. FfTarter'^^^BrD/^rtw'l CARTER & CARTER Attorneys-at-Law BAMBERG, S. C. Special attention given to settlement of estates and investigation of land titles. FRANCIS F. CARROLL Attorney-at-Law Office in Hoffman Building GENERAL PRACTICE. BAMBERG, S. C. PI PORTABLE AND STATIONARY ENGINES AND BOILERS | Saw, Lath and Shingle Mills, Injectors, Pumps and Fittings, Wood Saws, Splitters, Shafts, Pulleys, Belting, Gasoline Engines LAROESTOCK LOMBARD Foundry, Machine, Boiler Works, Supply Store. AUGUSTA, GA. GRAHAM & BLACK Attorneys-at-Law 'S Will practice in the United States and State Courts in any County in the State. BAMBERG, S. C. FIRE INSURANCE Old Line Companies * J. F. FOLK, Agt. BAMBERG, S. C. UFE, FIRE, LIVESTOCK HEALTH and ACCIDENT INSURANCE Agent for Superior Monument Co. Can Save you Money on Tombstones. A W. MAX WALKER EHRHARDT, S. C. S. G. MAYFIELD. W. E. FREE. MAYFIELD & FREE Attomeys-at-Law BAMBERG, S. C. Practice in all the Courts, both State and Federal. Corporation practice and the winding up of estates a specialty. Business entrustted to us will be promptly attended to. | RILEY & COPELAND I a Successors to W. P. Riley. i | Fire, Life | 5 Accident J INSURANCE I Office in J. D. Copeland's Store I BAMBERG, S. C. | ************** J , "LOMBARD" i improved Saw Mills. VARIABLE FRIGTION FEED, Best material and workmanship, lighti ninnincr. reauires little power; simple^ easy to Landle. 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