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V GJItp Santbmj feralb ??'????????????????? ?^??????????^???^?^??M??^1^????? $2.00 Per Year in Advance BAMBERG-, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1921. Established in 1891 BANK ROBBER IS APPREHENDED NAMES JUDGE LANDIS AS GIVING HIM THE IDEA. OF TAKING BANK'S FUNDS. All the Bonds, Except One for $500. Found in Small Leather Bag. Bloomington, 111., Feb. 2 6.?William Dalton, sixteen-year-old bank clerk, who stole $772,000 worth of liberty bonds in Chicago Tuesday, an amount which, the police say, is the largest bond theft on record, wasi caught in a pool room at Heyworth, 111., near here, today. All the bonds, except on? for $500, that he used for expenses, were recovered in a small leather bag that he had tossed into a corner while he played, as nonchalantly as if it contained old clothes. The boy said that taking the record amount of bonds was a simple matter, but that escape was not so easy. He was taken for a ride by an autoist, James Dennis, while trudging along the road to Heyworth, heading in the general direction of "the South," but with no definite plans for escape. Dalton was held tonight awaiting arrival of bank officials from the Northern Trust Company, of Chicago, , which he robbed. These officials intimated before they left Chicago that on account of the boy's extreme youth they would be inclined to forgive him and to give him another chance. Identified by Pictures. The lad tonight told how he tried to evade the officers of the law by traveling in automobiles, on foot, electric and steam trains and on "buses, but was captured largely through wide publication of the picture in Chicago newspapers which reached this dis friot He was recognized by the son of Constable Jack Draper, who made the arrest, and who prob^tfly will receive the $26,000 reward offered for the boy's arrest and recovery of the bonds. Dalton was first suspected of being the bond thief by Dennis, with whom he rode into Hevworth. Dennis reported his suspicion to Paul Draper, son of the constable. Dalton carried the bonds in a little satchel, wherein he had secreted them when he walked out of the bank on Thursday for lunch, throughout his flight until he reached Heyworth. Fondness for shooting pool and billiards caused him to seek a game with a stranger, and while the two were knocking the balls around, the satchel, with its fortune, was left in a corner, where anyone might have picked it up and walked away had he known of its contents. 1 When Constable Draper appeared and called the youth by name he admitted his identity. The lad took the bonds on the spur of the moment, and was "sore at the bank" because they had not promoted him as rapidly as he desired. "I read x how Judge Landis had said the bankers were partly to blame in the case of the Ottawa, 111., boy named Carey, who stole nearly $200,000," said Dalr ton. "The judge said they should have paid Carey more, and his case seemed to fit me. I saw the chance to take the bonds and decided on the spur of < the moment to try to get away with them. It doesn't pay, however, and I'm sorry. I'm sorry especially lor ^ my mother and sisters. I don't know what I can do now." Dalton broke down and cried when speaking of his mother, who is a widow. "I don't know what I wanted to do ..with the money," he said. "I just took a notion to go off and I had an easy chance to get some money, and I took it. I did not have any particular notion of where I was going, but wanted to go to the south, either to Louisiana or Georgia, where I thought there would be less chance of my being found." TWO JATLBREAKERS CAPTURED, j Mark O'Xeal and John Davis Again on "the Inside Looking Out." Only two of the six negroes who escaped from the Barnwell county j jail about 7:30 o'clock Wednesday evening of last week have been re- . captured. They are Mark O'Neal, of j Williston, charged with giving ai worthless check, and John Davis, of j Blackville, charged with store-break-1 . ing and larceny. The officers, how- ( ever, have not given up the chase and it is thought that the other four negroes will soon be captured.?Barn- ? well People. 1 BANK CLERK BEHIND BARS. "Willing to Take My Medicine," Says Young Dalton. Chicago, Feb. 27.?The evidence in the case of William Dalton, sixteenyear-old $65-a-month bank clerk, whc was arrested in Heyworth yesterday forty-eight hours after he had stolen $772,000 in Liberty bonds from the Northern Trust company here, where he worked, will be placed before the grand jury tomorrow, it was announced tonight. Robert Crowe, state attorney, said every effort would be made to bring about speedy punishment of the boy who found it a simple matter to carry out the biggest bond theft in history, only to fall into the hands of a village constable after he had been recognized from pictures published in newspapers. ATI ? ^ ^ ^ r? AV/iAnf ATI A f AT All U1 LilC UUUU5 CAVUp I, unu $500 which had been cashed, were recovered. Meanwhile Dalton sat in a detention home with an occasional tear running down his cheek. He was brought back from Bloomington, 111., early today. Calls for Mother. Repeatedly he asked for his mother. At noon his two sisters brought him a chicken dinner and he discussed his case with them. "I did wrong and I'm willing tc take my medicine," he said. "I don't know just why I did it, but for a week I had been handling hundreds oi thousands of dollars in bonds and it was so easy to walk out with them that I just couldn't help it." The boy again denied that the case of Francis Carey, nineteen-yearold Ottawa, 111., embezzler, who was treated leniently by Judge Landis, had influenced him. "I never thought of that case and it never occurred to me that if I were T 1 ^ fr-nator! lonipntlv Cdugm x v> uuiu 1,1 v-^ . I was nervous and excited yesterday and the reporter who quoted me on that point must have misunderstood me." Receives $26,000 Reward. Heyworth, 111., Feb. 27.?Paul Draper, world war {veteran, today was planning what he would do with the $26,000 reward he received last night for the capture of William Dalton, Chicago bank robber. Dalton was arrested by Jack Draper, the village constable, and the father of Paul Draper, after the latter had tried in vain to induce "Blev" Bolin, town marshal, to take the fleeing boy into custody. "I'll bet $100 he ain't Dalton," Bolin declared at the time, but today he sorrowfully admitted his error. MRS. HUGHES ENTERTAINS. Party of Friends Enjoy Rook in Home of Cope Lady. Cope, Feb. 2.?Mrs. W. M. Hughes entertained at her home last Friday afternoon her Sunday school class, and Miss Causley's class. There were two contests. Little Helen Cope won the prize, a box of chocolates, in the first contest, and Susie Chavis won the prize, a box of bon bons, in the -- ^-i J /-M 1- if; second. :urs. winneia ^iarK, -uiss Caiisley, and Miss Durant assisted Mrs. Hughes in entertaining her guests, and later in serving a delicious sweet course consisting of four kinds of cake and ambrosia. Miss Elizabeth Glaze spent the veek end with h%j college friend, Miss Mary Thomas., Miss Carrie Meares, of Rembert, spent the past week end with her friend, Miss Nan Martin. Mrs. Gerard Thomas entertained at rook Saturday evening in honor of Misses Glaze and Meares. There were two dozen present and the evening passed all too soon. Cake and cream were served as refreshments. Miss Lillian Tatum had Misses Atkinson and Gregg as her guests for the nast week end. and attended Mrs. Thomas's party. Mr. Douglas Ingraham, of the Carisle school, brought two of his friends Walter Baker and Eugene Hemingway, home with him to spend Washington's birthday. Miss Tallulah Ingraham will leave the first of the week to visit her friend. Mrs. Griffith, at Elloree. Mrs. J. J. Clecklev and children =ire visiting her mother-in-law, Mrs. E. R. Clecklev, near Cope. Miss Mary Clecklev and her friend, Miss Nell Bamberg will spend this week end with her uncle, S. B. Cope, at "The Pines." Waterman's Fountain Pen Tnk in ill the different size bottles at Herald Book Store. Carter Makes Ga For Associate J > Special to The Herald: i Columbia, March 2, 12:15 p. m.? ' The balloting this morning resulted 5 as follows: 31st 32nd 33rd Carter 50 53 55 Marion 35 37 35 Bonham 34 37 38 ' Shipp 23 24 26 Probably ballot again tonight, possibly not before morning. ' T> T> DPT T T\TP_PP JLl** ? . JLJ IU UUil> VJ Ulk. 1 L Although the legislature has been balloting daily, while in session, for . the past two weeks, there has yet been no election of an associate justice to succeed the late Associate Justice George W. Gage. Hon. J. F. . Carter, of Bamberg, who took the 5 lead on th? first ballot two weeks ago, still maintains a considerable f lead over his nearest opponent, though lacking sufficient votes to be elected. Last week all candidates for the . vacancy on the supreme, bench were . withdrawn from the contest excepting Mr. Carter, Gen. Bonham, Judge , Ship and Senator Marion. In the last j DR. TEAGUE DIES SUDDENLY. ? i Prominent Dentist of Aiken and Leader of the U. C. V. I Aiken, Feb. 27.?Dr. Benjanvn . Hammett Teague, for years one of .; the most prominent dentisr.s in rhe (j state, died here suddenly this afterjnoon. He was taken ill at church, but it was not known that his condition I war nrpnarimi.R the announcement of ' * his death shocking the community. - He was in his seventies. Dr. Teagu? is sthrvived by his wid[ | ow and two daughters, Mrs. Emmons S. Welch, of Charleston, and Miss Elizabeth Teague, of Aiken. Mr. and Mrs. Welch were at once notified and [ will arrive here early tomorrow mom ing. [ For more than eight years Dr. ; Teague was the commanding officer . for the South Carolina division of the United Confederate Veterans. He had . been interested in the veterans' afi fairs for many years. He had served with distinction in the southern army. Hs interest in his alma mater, the Citadel, was revealed in his gift of the Star of the West Medal, awarded each ' year to the best drilled cadet in the ' battalion. The wooden star on this medal is made from a piece of wood from the hull of the steamship Star of the West wThich the Citadel cadets compelled to turn back when it tried > to deliver supplies and provisions to the beleagured Union garrison in Fort Sumter at the beginning of the i War Between the States. The name ' of each winner is engraved on the , back, with the date of the competi! tive drills. - n mi * ? , GREENWOOD MAN IN HOLDUP. i He Refuses to Throw Up Hands and . Gets Bulled Greenwood, Feb. 24.?Refusing to i~ _i j .. ? ~ ^^r. TTrVirtn /">r\r>frrmfprl bV . auxu up in a uauuo >> ncu. - two armed men last night about 9:30 o'clock while on his way home from , his shoe repair shop, W. T. Saxon, ; about 50 years of age, was possibly fatally shot in the shadow of a church in the Greenwood mill village where > he lives. According to Chief of Police M. D. Chester, whom Saxon asked to see after being carried to a local hospital, he identified one of his as, sailants as John Burnett, a mill employee. Hack Fuller, another mill employee, is also under arrest. When accosted by the holdup men, Saxon says he recognized them and laughed, thinking they were playing a joke on him. Burnett, he claims, told him if he did not hold up his hands he would shoot. Saxon replied that he did not have the grit to shoot, it is said, and received one bullet aij close range. The bullet apparently j was an explosive bullet. It ranged I downward through the abdomen, | tearing jagged holes in the intestines, j Physicians say Saxon has no chance I of recovery. The tragedy last night was the climax of a series of robberies and holdups. Two Bailey Military institute cadets were robbed of a small amount of jewelry a few weeks ago, and two other cadets, by refusing to hold up their hands, bluffed three bandits into flight last Friday night. Read The Herald, $2.00 per year. i in in Balloting Justice Wednesday | ballot Tuesday night Mr. Carter had a lead of 11 votes over Senator Marj ion, his nearest opponent. The balloting by days is given bei low: Thursday. 19th 20th 21st ' Carter 40 49 50 | Marion 37 44 44 ; Bonham 35 36 37 Shipp 26 26 26 Former Attorney General Peeples received three votes in the 19th bal j lot. Friday. 22nd 23rd 24th | Carter 51 49 52 Marion 32 35 40 I Bonham 34 38 39 ! Shipp 33 27 26 Tuesday. 25th 26th 27th 28th 29th 30th i Carter .. ..48 49 48 49 49 51 j Marion .. ..39 36 37 41 41 40 | Bonham ..38 34 37 35 33 33 Shipp .. ..24 23 21 25 23 22 Scattering votes were given in several of the ballots to various others j but not a sufficient number so voting : as to change the relative position i of the four contestants. i [reported KILLED IX FRANCE. i I Alive, Finds His "Grave," His Wife Another's. LaFayette, Ga., Feb. 23.?With a | monument marking ' bIs gtave" in a : cemetery in this county, Fred Will; iams, a prominent young man of this j section who was reported slain in I France and whose supposed body has been returned to LaFayette and hurried, is alive and well and is coming | home to his bride who is now the legal wife of another man. Information to this effect was received here yesterday in telegrams from Williams who says he has just landed iij New York. No 1)ther information was conveyed in the telegram and the experiences of the young man are a mystery, as is his long silence. The story reads like a romance coined into prose to befit the twentieth century from Tenneson's poem of Enoch Arden. In, the fall of 1917 Fred Williams and M4ss Grace White, both of this county, were united in marriage. A month after the wedding Williams was drafted into the army and sent to Fort Oglethorpe for training. After a short stay there the young soldier was ordered to France and shortly after his arrival "Over There" was reported killed in battle; Mrs. Williams after mourning the death of her husband and several months married Joseph Robertson, her former sweetheart and bosom friend of her "dead" husband. Recently the war department returned a soldier's body as that of Fred Williams and Mrs. Robertson gave it burial with the usual honors, and erected a monument to mark the grave. The government also has paid Mrs. RobertI son the money due her on a $10,000 I l'nonronpQ nniipv pnrriftd for her on II XI OCX! UXJL W VA4VJ WW* * * W w ?. his life. Now Williams is coming home to | see the monument which marks his grave and to find his wife?not eager to welcome him with open arms? but embarrassed in the position which she occupies, the wife of two legally wedded "husbands. Denies Hearing From Husband. LaFayette, Ga., Feb. 25.?Mrs. Grace Robertson today denied reports that she had received a telegram from her first husband, Fred Williams, reported by the war department as dead saying he was alive and coming home. Williams died early in the war, according to government announcement, and his war insurance was paid and j his body returned here and buried. Mrs. Robertson, her friends says, has no reason to doubt the authenticity of the report of his death or that it was his body thatVas returned. She was recently married again and resides near here. Millions for Babies. Sydney, N. S. W.?New South Wales is pleading a state lottery to raise the $5,500,000 per annum which will be used for the endowment of mothers. Mothers of two children will be given enough money to bring the husband's salary up to $30 a week. SIGNS TAX RESOLUTION. Taxpayers Now Have Alleged "Re" lief." Columbia, Feb. 27.?Governor Cooper yesterday morning signed the joint resolution postponing the time for the payment of state and county taxes unil May 1 with the penalties of 1 per cent, for January, 2 per cent, for February, 3 per cent, for March, and 3 per cent, for April. From May 1 to May 15 the penalty will be 7 pei cent., and after May 15 executions go into the hands of the sheriffs. The resolution as signed by the governor was introduced the first week of th? session and was passed by both houses and the free conference report adopted.^With the signature of the chief executive on the resolution it becomes law and tax payers may wait until May 1 to pay / their taxes and will only have to pay an interest or penalty of 3 per cent, as a total, as the resolution provides that the penalties shall not be compounded. Strong pressure was brought to bear on the governor not to sign the resolution, but he was informed that in cas? he vetoed it the general assembly would override his action. The resolution will mean that thousands of dollars of taxes will ne neld up until the last days of April and may mean embarrassment of school and other county function. As an example of how much money on the 1920 taxes is still due it was said yesterday that in Richland county alone fully $275,000 of taxes has not yet been paid. Free Range to Go. Another act of much interest will be signed by the chief executive Tuesday, it was announced yesterday, this being the statewide stock law that forever and anon stops "free grass" in South Carolina. With the signature of the governor on the act a fight that has been in progress for years will apparently be brought to a close. This bill will make the Palmottn atcjfo a ctont' law citflfp frnm the remotest mountain corner to the farthest sand dune on the coast. It will take effect December 31, 1921, It is understood that a little ceremony is being planned for the last act in the "free grass" fight. The governor also signed a large number of local acts, bringing the total number signed so far to above 225. Representative Jackson's bill repealing Section 659,-Volume I, code of laws of 1912, relating to boards on barbed and edged wire fences was signed and now becomes law. The act by the Ricland county delegation increasing the salary of the judge of the county court to $2,000 and the court stenographer to $2,000 was among those signed. The bill allowing school district No. 4 of Richland to hold an election on the question of levying a special eight mill tax was signed. <?> ^ EARliY ARREST EXPECTED Officers Believe Some Disclosures on Death of H. Smoak Coming. A. Orangeburg, Feb. 25. ? Advices from Branchville last night were to the effect that an important arrest is expected to be made soon in connec tion with the killing ol Henry smoaK near Branchville Tuesday night. It was stated that evidence had been discovered which involved a white man as a party who might be closely connected with the affair. Officers were reluctant aDout giving full information as it was said that to do so might interfere with the process being followed to locate those who, from evidence discovered, might prove to be closely identified with the affair. Sheriff Dukes and the Branchville officers are working dilligently on the case and it is expected that some important disclosures will be made shortly. Mr. Smoak was found dead in Branchville by a negro who reported his finding to the officers of that town. His death, it was stated, was undoubtedly caused by his being struck behind the left ear with a death dealing instrument. The Legion of Honor medal, the Military medal and the War Cross were placed on the casket which held the body of "A French Soldier," repressing the French unidentified dead, during the simple ceremonies recnetly held in the tomb under the Arc de Triomphe, in Paris. ^ i?Q? ? Women artists are now allowed to compete for honors in the American academy at Rome. , Renew your subscription today. x. CALHOUN NEGRO TO DIE IN CHAIR JURY CONVICTS~OF MURDER DC FOUR MINUTES. TOOK FARMER'S LIFE. Another Implicated By Fogle In the Killing of White Farmer. ?jj St. Matthews, Feb. 28.?Richard "Feetle" Fogle, negro, who shot and killed Earl Wadford, a white farmer, at Lone" Star, Cahloun county, on thcl nih <- r>f Tannorv 1 9 nroc /?r?r?Trinf_ ed of first degree murder here today and was sentenced by Judge S. W. G. Shipp to die in the electric chair at the state penitentiary March 25. The trial lasted nearly three hoys, but a verdict of guilty was returned by the jury in less than three min- % utes. At the time Mr. Wadford was killed Fogle, who is only 17 years old, shot Corbett Zeigler, a neighbor of the Wadfords, so injuring him that one leg had to be amputated. Mr. Zeigler was fired upon while he and Mrs. Wadford were placing Mr. Wadford, who had been shot down in the door of the Wadford home, on the bed. Fogle also fired at Mrs. Wadford, * wounding her slightly, and also her small baby, which she held in her arms to protect it from the negro, > : who was firing through the window. After having been apprehended, Fogle implicated Harvey Whaley, another negro, who, Fogle claims, advised that Fogle take his gun and kill the "whole family." Whaley will be. placed on trial tomorrow. The shooting followed some trouble Mr. Wadford had with Fogle. Some meat was stolen, and Mr. Wadford found out that Fogle was connected with the stealing and made the negro bring the meat back. The court house was nacked at the trial today, but there was no sem ' blance of disorder. Members of the American Legion post here had been sworn in as special deputies to prevent any threat of violence. Solicitor A. J. Hydrick was assisted in the prosecution by J. G. Stabler and W. R. Symmes. The defense was conducted by J. A. Merritt and J. C. Hiott. ' |||| THOMAS HAMPTON AUDITOR. Governor Refuses to Name T. Ha^ ? good Gooding. ; |i , Cooper has appointed Jesse F. Thomas auditor of Hampton county, it was announced at the executive offices yesterday. Mr. Thomas having been ' recommended by a majority of the^ Hampton county delegation. The appointment of Mr. Thomas ends a long fight begun last fall when auditors going over the books of the county officers in Hampton discovered alleged irregularities and reported them i to the grand jury, i Mr. Thomas succeeds T. Hagood i Gooding, who was chargdd by the : tax commission with failure to carry out his instructions in regard to automobile taxes, assessing merchants , on stocks, collecting back taxes and other offenses which the tax commission alleered were not in keeping with the proper conduct of affairs in the county of Hampton. The grand jury of the county investigated the affairs of all county officers and besides finding the former treasurer short about $17,000, found the auditor's affairs not properly conducted, according to the presentment. On the presentment made by the grand jury and charges by the tax commission and county officials, Governor Cooper "held a hearing and had Mr. Gooding appear before him. Upon the submission of written charges and an answer by Mr. Gooding the chief executive reached a decision not to appoint Mr. Gooding and in turn named a new auditor. Mr. Gooding was elected for the term be_ . ginning the coming July. m hi ? Not So Bad. Teacher (lecturing on patriotism) ?"What banner, when passing in parade, brings a lump into the throat of every loyal American man?" Johnny (whose mother was a militant suffragette)?"Votes for Women."?Exchange. ^ ! > ^ Kangaroo grass is the most esteemed fodder grass in Australia and is much relished by cattle.