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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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, 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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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_
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ginning the coming July.
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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.
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Kangaroo grass is the most esteemed
fodder grass in Australia and
is much relished by cattle.