Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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WHO STOLE HUGE AMOUNT ; i $80,000 HI NT FAILS TO XAB ROBBER WHO STOLE $71,900. Companies Grieve Over Failure ol' j I "Infallible System" to Guard 4 Valuables. There are all the makings of as I pretty a mystery down Savannah way | ( as ever popped from the pages of j ' Conan Doyle or Poe. To-day, more ; than a month since the theft of $71.900 was discovered by the Southern ? V* vaii <r"h it i ?,xpre:>s Luuiyttu,'. iu>vugt> ?n?v?. j ^ had been consigned to Georgia banks j not the slightest breath of a clew has j ' been found to fix any guilt. Yet every special agent and detec-j tive in the employ of the Southern j . and the Adams Express companies has entered the hunt, executive offi'eers are racking their brains and i j slighting other duties, Pinkertons and Savannah detectives everywhere between New York and Savannah have been commissioned to find the money or the thieves, and thousands of dol- ^ lars are being spelft in the investigation. Every foot of right of way of the Southern and the Adams companies between New York and Savannah P has been scoured. Every employee ' who might be in any way connected with handling or even viewing the r money has been investigated, his past ' ehd present life, his habits, his tastes, ( even his thoughts, so far as possible, have been studied. Still there is no clew. It is not the loss of the money that stings the two great express compan- 1 ies. Their officials have announced that they are prepared to spend much more than that amount to find the j robber. Their grief arises from the 2 fact that their infallible "system" has t gone awry. This system has protect- j ed valuables before this. It was ^ though impossible to disturb the con- t tents of any consignment without t sign of some sort being left that e would point to the robber. s Two express messengers are nam- jed in connection with the shipment t of the money. W. L. Schindell, of New York, came with the strong box ^ from New York as far as florence, S. \ C., where it was transferred to L. C. t Bryan, who took it into Savannah. The officials and detectives are e frank in admitting they have investi- c gated the two young men. Schindell v is said to move in the second-class t vaudeville set in New York, but he f has never been known to drink to ex- v cess or to play the white lights. Bry- v an, a country boy, lives at Florence. ^ and runs only as far as Savannah. a His habits are said to be good. c TJie $71,900 was sent by New York banks; $51,000 was going to the Sa- c vannah Bank and Trust Company and c $5,000 each to banks in Savannah, t Albany, Brunswick and Yaldosta. jThe remaining $900 was being sent e to a private commercial house. The s money was sent in bills of small de- ? nominations, none being larger than $20. They weighed 70 pounds, and c were very bulky, proving that it f would have been impossible to con- s ceal it about the person of any man. a Messenger Schindell received the e money at Jersey City, from the agent x of the Adams Express Company. It s was in a steel strong box with bills s of lading on the inside. The top of a the box was worked by a combination j known only .to the agents at each s end of the line. There was an inner j door, locked by a key, which was placed in a sealed envelope between f the inner and the outer door. j When Schindell received the box at r Jersey City he complained of the seals "looking bad." Bryan made no g complaint concerning the seals when c the shipment was placed in his hands a at Florence. t The box was delivered in Savannah , c September 10. The express agent j placed it in the hands of the super- j intendent, who opened it. j There was no irregularity. The t bills of lading called for $255 and j no more, but when the banks called t for their money the agent discovered ] that the bills of lading for the big amount had been stolen too. A telegram corroborated the announcement by the bank that the money should have been in the box. The alarm was given. In a few hours every special agent of the two express companies between New York and Savannah was at work. J. B. Hockaday, general manager of the Southern Express Company, went from Atlanta to Savannah with Superintendent Harry Scott, of the Pinkertons. The detectives are still working, although every resource at command of their ingenuity has been exhausted. The search has even included , travel along every foot of the right a of way. a look into every bush and j over every embankment. Nothing ( has been left untried, and the theft t has cost the express companies, in- ] eluding the payment of the amount to the banks, more than $100,000. Double and single entry flat open- ! ing and loose leaf ledgers at The ' Herald Book Store. s PIPES COLD AIR FROM WELL. Oklahoma House Cooled by Rush of Wind From Underground Stream. One of the most remarkable wells in Oklahoma is owned by J. C. McSpadden. at Tahlequah, Okla. This well not only furnishes an abundance of pure water, almost ice cold in the summer time, but affords a supply of chilled air which keeps the McSpadden home cooler on the hottest day than any summer resort within a thousand miles. When the well was sunk it was for a cistern. When about .">0 feet deep the bottom uroke through revealing a sort of cavern, in which there was a tremendous flow of cold water. The well was sunk years ago, and the water has remained at the same level ever since. One may open the coves of this well and his hat will be lifted from his head by a rush of air fr.om the well. Unlike most underground streams, this one changes tempera:ure in the water, getting much colder, and ice five inches thick has been known to form in the well. Mr. McSpadden sealed the top of the well with a concrete cap and placed pipes in it. Through one of these he draws his water supply, rhrough the others he draws a supply of cold air that is piped through jvery room of his six-room cottage. these pipes reduce tne lemperaiure iiany degrees even on the hottest lays.?Muskogee correspondent Kansas City Star. THE LURE OF MARRIAGE. kVomen Seek to Destroy That Which Makes Them Most Attractive. Yet it is true that peopie are no onsrer marrying with that gladsome md unsuspicious alacrity that once hey did. But it is no more than a ihase. It is not a portent. It may >e faced with that divine indifference hat is so large a lack in our naiona! life. It will pass as such phas!S have passed a hundred times, but ince it is here we may as well face he reason, for it has its place in he scheme of things. The basic reason for a male unwillingness to marry?and the fault s mainly a male one?is a destrucion of the sense of diffenence beween the sexes. It has been destroytd by a few women who have suceeded in saturating their kind with one of those specious fallacies hat are accepted in the ratio of their alsity. One day the women of the world will have a wise leader who will lead them to greater heights of >ower than they have ever known, .nd the path will be a backward one. >he vwill not be one of the Pankhurst ireed, but of the breed of women. >he will tell them that every atom >f their being is distinctly female, hat sex penetrates to the utmost leights of their nature and to its lowst depths, and that between themelves and men there is an eternal rulf. She will teach them to glory in their omplete difference from men, a diference that leaves its ineffaceabletamp upon every nerve, upon every itom of brain and mind, upon every motion, thought and aspiration. She vill tell them that sex is not mere :urface distinction; that it is incluiive. radical, primitive: and that just is they axalt their own sex, insistng upon its all-embracing differences, o must they invitably become domnant in the affairs of the world. Xow it is this sense of sex diference that has been the irresistible ure to marriage. A man wants to % narry a woman not because she is jxactly like himself, although with a ilightly different sort of body, but be ause he recognizes in her a being, is it were, from another world, to ally unlike Himself, ana witn stanairds of mental and moral value that le can admire, but probably cannot mitate. Deep within his own lature he knows, that it is not ;he feminine body that he wants, but ;he feminine mind that all the beau;iful and distinctive things of which le was in search have actually no existence at all. And women, bent jpon suicide, have not only told him :hat these things are so, but have ;ried to prove it to him by sinking ;he differences and creating and then exalting the similarities. Why should le wish to marry a woman if womanlood is only a surface something, a ?hance phenomenon, that conceals a simulacrum or duplicate of himself, ro assert that sex is a mere matter )f the body is obviously to sink marriage to the level of a bodily passion, since the body then becomes the ony factor in the matter. The moment ve recognize sex as pertaining only :o the body at the same moment ve lower marriage to the same level. A 1 o vr?i o era ic fit rvn]\* r*rM"n orl mw llini U1CU I 10 xavsv vai; uwvxiiwa jut damned. But do not let us worry >ur lirtie minds overmuch about tills ;hing. It will pass like the summer jreezes.?San Francisco Argonaut. Mr. W. P. Jones is now in the A'est buying the second car load of torses and mules for this season for lones Bros. They will arrive by next ruesday. Parties in need of stock should see this load.?adv. I "LOAX SHARK KIXG" IX JAIL Pending an Appeal, He is Put in Tombs Cell. New York, Oct. 11.?Daniel H. To man, known as "the Loan Sliar ; King." who had offices in sixty-thre Canadian and American cities, wit main offices in Xew York was cor victed yesterday before Justices Zel er, Russell and Forker, in Specie Sessions, of lending money a.t usi rious interest. Me was sentenced t serve six months in the penitential*: Frequently Tolman has been ai rested and he was convicted in ar other State, but hitherto in New Yor he has escaped conviction. He ha done so by hiding his operations b< hind women, whom he has hired t conduct his offices and be the scape goats in case of prosecution. His present conviction comes at time, when according to his ow statement, he has retired from th business. His retirement followe the warning given by Judge Gnichtc in Trenton, N. J., who last Augus fined the loan shark $1,000 follow ing a plea of guilty and placed hir on three years' probation with th warning that if in that time he loane money at an illegal rate he woul be recalled back and sent to jail. Arrested in His Office. Tolman came to New* York the nex day and as soon as he reached hi office at No. 5 6 Pine street he wa arrested in connection with th charge on which he was convicted yesterday. A few days later he mad the announcement that he had sob his business and was going to re tire. He came to court accompanied b; Allen Caruthers his counsel. He tool the stand smiling, a benevolent look ing old man with gray mustache, gra; hair and the stoutness that come from comfortable living, and explain ed that he was not in the busines of lending money, but that he was ; buyer of commercial paper. As he heard the crushing words "Six months in the penitentiary," th< color fled from his face. His conn sel announced that he would appea at once, but in the meantime Tolmai is in the Tombs. Justice Zeller, in passing sentence said: Flayed by the Court. "You are one of the most contemp tible usurers in your unspeakabl business, In the months past then have been many usurers before thi Court and it is our purpose to do al in our power to wip$, out the wronj that is being done. The poor peo pie must be protected from sucl sharks as you, and we trust tha your sentence will be notice to yoi and all your kind that the court have found a way to put a stop ti usury. "Money got in this way is blooi money. In passing sentence tin Court has only to consider the fact and the surounding circumstances o this case. A poor man earning ; salary of $10 a week needs mone, and goes to this defendant's offie' for a small loan. He gets it, bu for $10 he must pay over 200 pe I rent, interest. This is the worse cas that has been before this court fo a long time. Men of this man' type are a curse to the community It is a surprise to this Court tha such a man as this can do busines in a self-res>pecting community." PAINTER COMMITS SUICIDE. Paul Meinig, of Savannah, Take Life After Two Attempts. Savannah, Ga., Oct. 12.?Pau Meinig. a painter, to-day committer suicide by hanging after making t\V' I ineffectual attempts to win death b other methods. Meinig first severe* the artery in his right leg with ; razor. Later he severed his righ hand at the wrist. Afterward h hanged himself to a beam in an out house. His body was discovered b; his nine-year-old son. Evidence a the coroner's inquest to-day indicate* that he was temporarily deranged. LAKE UNDER PHILADELPHIA. Engineers Say Quicksand May In gulf Skyscrapers Any Time. Engineers in charge of the exca vations for the foundations of th addition to the Ritz-Carlton Hote at Broad and Walnut streets assert ed that central Philadelphia with it skyscrapers is resting on a floatin, island and may at any moment b ingulfed in quicksand. Forty-five feet below the stree level workmen poked their pick through the shell-like covering of ai underground lake, the waters o which rise and fall with the move ments of the tide The engineers as sert that far underground this "los water" is ebbing and flowing, jus like at the open seashore. How high the water rises or hov low it falls is difficult to figure, the; say, for this subterranean floo< which is surging backward and for ward beneath Philadelphia is no "free" water.?Philadelphia dispatcl to N. Y. Sun. k" liSlteW IF I ne How many, many people have rushed back into the d house for their money and lost their LIVES? Their d money had no business being in the house, it should be in the BANK. When it is in the bank it is safe. If you want to pay a bill write a check on our bank then you have a receipt. It is easier, too, because you can mail ? it in SAFETY. Make OUR bank YOUR bank d e We pay 4 per cent, interest, comd nnnndftd ouarterlv on savings deposits g I 1 J w * \ f Farmers & Merchants Bank EHRHARDT, S. C. I FARMS FOR SALE a AT LOW PRICES AND ON EASY TERM4 I have them in sizes from 35 acres to 1,000 acres, e that are adapted to all kinds of farming; for corn, i cotton, grain, trucking, and stock raising, with ! character of soils: sand loam, Norfolk, or yellow, and clay subsoils. Some with stock and all personal effects, ranging in price from $10 to $60 per acre. Your inspection is invited. An opportunity awaits you. Apply or send for full descriptive lists e e Also Some fine Values in Town Property ; J. T. O'NEAL, Real Estate Agt. BAMBERG, S. C. Li t jj ~ = i ? ? Wanted^^' D Every person who has a desire to save money to open 1 an account with us. When you deposit your money in e the bank, you will not spend it as foolishly as you will - - ? ? ? n/v/.l-nl' vfku lmra cnvpd it* 55 II II IS III juui j;ui ivn. xuu^ivivf j v/U im?v f and then jou will have a desire to have a large account, a We pay 4 per cent, interest on savings deposits. e PEOPLES BANK Bamberg, S. C. t jl ? , I : WHENEVER 1011 DEES II HHII'Mt THE HIKE'S The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic is Equally Valuable as a General Tonic because it Acts on the Liver, Drives Out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and Builds up the Whole System, For Grown People and Children, a f rt You know what you are taking when you take Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic -? n ? o as the formula is printed on every label showing that it contains tne wen Known y tonic properties of QUININE and IRON. It is as strong as the strongest bitter d tonic and is in Tasteless Form. It has no equal for Malaria, Chills and Fever, a Weakness, general debility and loss of appetite. Gives life and vigor to Nursing Mothers and Pale, Sickly Children. Removes Biliousness without purging. Relieves nervous depression and low spirits. Arouses the liver to action and e purifies the blood. A True Tonic and Sure Appetizer. A Complete Strengthener. " No family should be without it. Guaranteed by your Druggist. We mean it. 50c. 3 What Will The Harvest Be? If you are a farmer, you are doing a lot of speculating, hoping and worrying about the crops. In general, over the country, the outlook is fine. Have you ever stopped to think of what the harvest of your life's work will be. Are you storing away part of your money crop for the winters of old age and misfortune? An investigation will convince you that our bank would be an ideal place for keeping your funds safely. It's a good plan for every farmer to have a strong banking connection. You may want to bors row one of these days; we can negotiate the loan for you, on good security, at right rates and without any red tape. Drop in to see us* next time e you're in town. Make the call friendly?you don't have to do business every time you come in to say t I "hello." I REMEMBER US WHEN YOU HAVE MONEY AND " WE'LL REMEMBER YOU WHEN YOU NEED MONEY [i f Ehrhardt Banking Company Capital and Surplus $'27,000.00 Ehrhardt, S. C. j 1 Mr. W. P. Jones is now in the j For Weakness and Loss of Appetite West buying the second car load Of rhe Old Standard general strengthening toni v" horses and mules for this season for prove's tasteless chill tonic, drives 01 Malaria and builds up the system. A true ton > .Tones Bros. They will arrive by next j md sure Appetizer. Foradults and children. 50 d Tuesday. Parties in need of stock ?1 1 J thlC 1 AO H QHV m ^ -A ? 9 . snouiu see i".o i o frevenieiooa poisoning t A few pieces of hand painted china, apply at once the wonderful old reliable D1 3 at cost, at the Herald Book Store. | p?rter's antiseptic heaung oil. a su gical dressing that relieves pain and heals i Suitable for wedding presents. I the same time. Not a liniment. 25c. 50c. $1.0 FOR SALE. A fine farm for sale, 711 acres, four miles */ North of Bamberg. Apply to F. F.JOHNSON BAMBERG, S. C. r ' I WM More Time ^ ;i At Home M TO and from work?four trips a day?a wheel will save ten minutes each trip or nearly an hour extra?three hundred hours a year s 3 more at home. You'll feel better I and act better. Gets the cobwebs S out of your brain and^ honest hunger I into your stomach. The IVER JOHNSON has more strong features, - TBS) M is fetter built and finished T l?i WS 111 mns smoother than / 4 ^!j|f any wheel you ever y&zgj mounted. You needn't ^ vff buy y?u Trust the Truss. > Bicycles, Guns, and Automobile Supplies, Key Fittings, and General Repair Shop. First-Class Workmen. J. BUIST BRICKLE Bamberg, S. C. RILEY & COPELAND t 4 Successors to W. P. Riley. a | Fire, Life | . * Accident f INSURANCE J _ Office in J. D. Copeland's Store | BAMBERG, S. C. FOR SALE. BARGAINS IN REAL ESTATE. 38 fine building lots in town of Ehrhardt. 16 choice building lots in town of * Bamberg. 1 store house and lot next to post office on Main street, Ehrhardt. Apply to JOHN F. FOLK, Bamberg, S. C. S. G. MAYFIELD. W. E. FREE. MAYFIELD & FREE Attorneys-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. Malaria or Chills & Fever Prescription No. 666 is prepared especially for MALARIA or CHILLS A FEVER. w Five or six doses will break any case, and if taken then as a tonic the Fever will not return. It acts on the liver better than Calomel and does not gripe or sicken. 25c No. Six-Sixty-Six This is a prescription prepared especially , = for MALARIA or CHILLS 6. FEVER. Five'or six doses will break any case, and if taken then as a tonic the Fever will not return. It acts on the liver better tban Calomel and does not gripe or sicken! 25c ^ E. H. HENDERSON Attorney-at-Law BAMBERG. 3. C. General Practice. Loans Negotiated. J. P. OTT, JR. t CIVIL ENGINEER FARM SURVEYING A SPECIALTY Address: 1341 Main Street, COLUMBIA, S. C. | REAL ESTATE FOR SALE f J j on Wednesday, the loth day of - October, 1913, I will offer for sale 5 at public auction, to the highest Diac der, for cash, in the town of Ehr? iiai'dt, S. C., one house and lot in < said town of Ehrhardt, known as the - G. Ij. Bishop place.. House has five rooms This property to be sold for ^ x. division. Purchaser to pay for pa- ? f- pers. Sale will commence at 12 ? o'clock, noon. C. M. BISHOP. +f.