The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, November 23, 1922, Page 3, Image 3
' 'Old Da
Columbia, Nov. 17.?Dan Murphy,
aged prisoner of the penitentiary, who
created considerable surprise early
this year when he announced that he
would not accept a pardon if Gov-|
ernor Cooper should see fit to grant (
executive clemency to him, but whol
? * T ~ * r\ rrro nt 1
later asked Governor narvej iu fei
him a pardon because life at the
prison had become "too rough," died
yesterday morning in his cell shortly
after 3 o'clock from heart trouble.
"Old Dan," as he was known at
the prison ,was perhaps the oldest
man in the penitentiary from t)he
point of service, having been placed
there in 1895. With his passing the
. prison lost a unique figure. His death
was sudden, coming before medical
attention could be summoned. He was
over 65 years of age.
Early in the morning he 'had been
let out of his cell to get a drink of
water and again a 3 o'clock he was
let out. He complained to his cellmate,
James Faulkner, of a "terrible
< burning in his heart," but Faulkner
did not suspect anything serious. A
few moments later Faulkner told Dan
his feet were cold and Dan replied
i that "he felt peculiar," a feeling that
he had never experienced before.
With a sigh Dan turned over and said,
"God bless you, my boy," and passed
to the other world.
Dr. R. T. Jennings, penitentiary
physician, examined the body and
pronounced death due to apoplexy.
Coroner Scott was notified, but after i
a consultaion decided bhat an inquest
was not necessary.
Dan had served nearly a quarter of
a century in the penitentiary and until
the riot there some months agOj
had been happy. He ran a little store\
in the prison yard and had accumula-|
ted a good deal of money from ;his -!
sales of soft drinks, tobacco and;
other articles. After the riot at the!
prison some of the "hard boiled" j
prisoners thought Dan had taken the!
side of the authorities, and. according;
to his story, were "after him." He ex-|
pressed a desire to leave because the j
men were getting "too rough" for j
him.
Colonel Was His Friend.
Col. A. K. Sanders, superintendent
of the penitentiary, has always be-j
friended Dan and the aged prisoner j
almost worshiped tihe colonel. He
often said he would never leave as
long as Colonel Sanders remained superintendent
and when the pardon
board recommended that the governor
grant him full executive clemency
he announced that toe would not
leave. Governor Cooper never offered
the pardon, but the pardon board
favored clemency for Dan.
It was only last year that Dan was
brought up the street to a moving)
picture show, the first toe had ever
seen. Colonel Sanders brought the
old man up town and gave him the
treat of his life by riding him around
the streets, carrying .him to a show
and riding him on an elevator. It
was Dan's first "joy trip," the first
time he had ever ridden in an automobile
and an elevator and he was
delighted at the sights on Main street,
It was like a new world to Dan.
When Dan was thinking of the pos
^oibility of a pardon being offered him
he said he was "away behind the
times." having been behind the grim
walls for many years. He did not
think -he could get out in the world
again and keep progress with business.
He was content to remain with
his friend, Colonel Sanders.
Dan was convicted of killing Robert
Copes, treasurer of Orangeburg
county. The evidence against him was
exceptionally strong, but there were
no eyewitnesses. Dan always said he
was innocent. Last year he expressed
deep regret that he had not taken the
stand during he trial and told his
story, but it was too late.
Evidence Against Dan.
Treasurer Copes was making the
rounds of the county collecting taxes
when he was slain. Evidence at the
trial showed that tJhe gun used belonged
to Dan and it was also brought
out that the tracks around the scene
of the killing were made by shoes
worn by Dan, certain tacks in the heel
pointing conclusively to this. The
killing occurred on May 6, 1895.
Dan was convicted of murder and
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senieiicea IU ue uaugcu ^?
1897. Governor Ellerbe granted him
a respite until March 26, 1897, and
on March 25 commuted the sentence
to life imprisonment. On March 26,
1897, Dan entered the penitentiary to
begin his life sentence.
On September 20, 1900, Dan escaped
and went to the Philippine islands,
where he joined the cavalry.
He returned to the United States and,
-vtfhile working in Georgia, became involved
with his landlord. He was sentenced
to a term on the Georgia
chaingang and while at work on the
?ang was discovered by the auditor
of Orangeburg county, a close friend
of the slain treasurer. He was
hrougiht back to the penitenlary on
n" Dead
| December IS, 1905, and there re|
mained until he died yesterday morn;
ing.
Dan has a son in Georgia, and prisi
on authorities notified him yesterday
morning of his father's death. Dan's
wife also lives in Georgia and tihe
body will likely be taken there to be
! laid to rest, the son notifying the
authorities that be would come for it.
Dan had accumulated considerable
money, but he left no will so far as
Colonel Sanders knew yesterday.
TYPO ERRORS.
Many Grotesque a^d Ludicrous Often
Found in Newspapers.
Fred G. Xeuman in Paducah, Kentucky,
Evening Sun.
Grotesque and laugh provoking?
what is funnier than typographical
errors in a newspaper? Some of the
finest jokes extant come through the
fact that the printer's finger slips.
Usually, these mistakes or "breaks"
are funny a long, long time afterward
?never at the time. For instance,
several years ago a newspaper was
threatened with suit because an article
was printed about a prima donna
being engaged as a screen star to act
in the movies. A typographical error
made the heading read, "Scream Star
Was Once Singer." To be 9ure, there
was considerable excitement in the
editor's sanctum before the vocalist '
could be pacified. And yet, no one
detests the sight of an error more
than the editor himself. If some one
could invent or suggest a way for
forever doing away with mistakes?
could make infallible the columns of
a newspaper the public itself would
probably feel constrained to give that ^
individual a loving cup and every ^
community would feel like naming
streets in his honor. .
Suppose your name is Haskle.
Would you not feel a bit peeved ,
should you find in a local paper that
an "R" had inadvertently placed it- ,
self where an "H" ought to be? You .
would certainly not be able to ex- '
tract as much amusement from such
an incident as your neighbors, but
your position would be no more
embarrassing than that of an .
American who had been for
'
a tour around the world
and found himself much annoyed
with a reporter who had written "His
numerous friends are surprised that 1
he is unhanged!" He sped to the J
newspaper office and in his fury could
have grabbed the ulotrichous editor
by his woolly hair, but learned that 1
the offender was the compositor, who,
in setting up the report had ommited
the letter "c" thus substituting the
word "unhanged" for "unchanged,"
which the reporter had written. Only
recently a somewhat elaborated per- :
sonal telling of a young lady's visit
and departure said "she made many
fiends while here." the fact that an
"r" failed in the personal noun, gives
the sentence an entirely different
meaning than the intended.
A Buffalo paper, in describing the
scene when Roosevelt took the oath :
of office as president, said it was a 1
spectacle never to be forgotten when
*
Roosevelt before the chief justice of
the supreme court and a few witness,
took his simple bath?meaning
oath, of course. But perhaps the
most unfortunate error appearing recently
protruded itself from the columns
of a Bridgeport, Connecticut,
newspaper last August, in the description
of a wedding. It read "The
bride carried an arm bouquet of
punk roses." "Pink" wras the word
intended, but it seems the god9 are
powerless in the hands of the printer.
Else, how can one account for a dis- 1
play line in an advertisement reading,
"We shot the entire family," when
"shoe" is more profitable and healthful?
Less tragic, but nearly as embarrassing
was the experience of a reporter
who had been assigned to
"cover" the outdoor end of a fashionable
church wedding. He described
the throng of uninvited guests that
had clustered about the awning in
hope of gaining a glimpse of the brid- :
al pair as they emerged from the
church to enter a waiting automobile, :
and he recorded the result in the fol- :
lowing words: "The comely bride was 1
quickly swept from sight by the eager <
groom." But the pitiless type set it '
forth thus: "The homely bride was '
quickly swept from 9ight by the eag- 1
er groom." One's sympathy for the '
reporter is lessened, however, by the <
fact that he applied to a liewly-mar- '
ried man a term that should be con- 1
fined to a maid. ]
Only those who have gone through '
an operation which is fresh in the 1
memory can appreciate the gravity? 1
and humor?of a "break" in an Oklahoma
daily. "Mr. Blank, who was
operated on for appendicitis," read an
item in the western paper, "is rapidly
recovering. His many friends hope 1
to see him cut again soon." The same 1
paper shortly afterward intended to i
state that the windows on a certain 1
street in the town needed washing :
and the "n" was omitted in the "windows;"
but the widows did not have
nearly as much of a grievance against
the printers as the clergyman in the
eastern part of Kentucky who preached
on the subject, "The Cup in ;
Joseph's Sack." The town weekly's 1
linotype operator made the reverend
gentleman talk about "The Cup in \
Joseph's Sock." If the widows and
this clergyman have cause for protest j
so has the Louisville pastor who took i
his text "The Broken Net." Imagine (
his chagrin upon seeing the an
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uuuucemeui in a. ua.ii,> mat lie ^vuuiu
preach about "The Broken Neck!"
Indeed, it became necessary on one
occasion for a minister to make ex- .
planation of an error appearing on
tickets for an entertainment, with
which he was charged with having <
printed. "I wish it to be thoroughly
understood," said the preacher to his
congregation on Sunday, "that the
pulpit is not responsible for the
printer's error which occurs on t'he
tickets for the Sunday school children's
entertainment. The affair is
for the entertainment of the arch
fund?not t'he arch fiend!"
More than one Paducahan remembers
the write-up of a social event
which occurred at Wallace Park several
years ago. It was proven in this
/ ?Qock tViat fha orrnr woe t-Vi a fault
tliu U LliV V_/1 A V* UU (>UV 4 V* IA * V v an
excited reporter. Of course, the
operator followed copy. In detail the
reporter told of the evening's pleasure,
but marred the whole society
lead when -he wrote that "a suspicious
gathering was present." Every one
knew "auspicious" was the word intended,
and laughed at the "break"
knowing that even the good Homer
sometimes nods. ^
The story is told of the mixing up j
of two news items in a Washington .
paper many years ago. The announce- !
ment that a minister was to be presented
with a token of appreciation (
by his congregation was printed. A ;
write-up of a newly patented pig-kill- ]
ing machine which had been demon- i
strated appeared in the same issue,
rhis was the rather amusing result 1
of the two stories being "pied up," as ;
the printers say: "Several of the Rev.
D. K. Mudge's friends called upon
him yesterday and after a conversation
the unsuspecting pig was seized
by the legs and slid along the beam j
until he reached the hot-water tank."
rt took considerable explaining to set
the editor right that day, though he 1
was innocent of the mixup. 3
John Locke, the Irish poet, was j
mown as "The Southern Gael." When 1
he died an obituary appeared in one "
of the Irish-American journals and
referred to him as "The Southern
Gale." This was a breezy transposition,
to be sure, and changing the <
meaning considerably. The editor did 1
not get "in bad" because the two let- J
ters were transposed, though a pro- j
minent pelitician did "howl" when he i
saw intelligence of his resignation <
from public office printed under the 1
heading of "Public Improvements." r
But the most startling ridiculous f
transposition on record is probably ?
that appearing on the first page of a J
Chicago daily, for "breaks" are cer- j
tain to be displayed in the most con- t
spicuous places. rirst tnere was j
an article with this caption, the dash ,
c
separating the first line of a three- \
line heading: "The Condor of the <
Andes?Albert Seaton Berry, of Kentucky
Bears That Distinction." In
another column, on the same page of
the paper in question, was this announcement:
"Tallest Man in Congress?Soars
Far Above the Eagle
and Reaches a Height of Six Miles."
The insertion, omission or substitution
of a single letter in a printed
word, or transposition of letters and
even whole lines of type as shown
above, is then, the cause of much
merriment and laughter?years afterward.
"Our delicious canned meats
from the best houses," was the way
the advertiser wrote the line. "From
the best horses" was the way it appeared
in the paper, and complaint
was justified in becoming" infuriated.
"Thousands of our patrons are wearing
trousers of our make," and the
tailors w*ho so advertised had reason
to be angry when the printer made
the fourth word of their announcement
read "matrons." An English 1
railway company advertised request- !
ing owners of unclaimed goods to re- j
move same. "Come forward and pay ^
the awful charges on your merchandise."
were the final words of the ad- ]
vertisement. One "1" was missing in 1
'lawful" and thus the announcement i
became a typographical curiosity. A i
writer, in commending the ability of ^
a lady principal of o girls' school, T
U9ed this expression: "The reputation ^
for which she bears." But that horrid
[inotype operator omitted the word
'Which" and the error created mere (
than a gig?le. A theatrical mm not
long since contemplated writing an
irticle on "Greenwood Cemetery's
Dramatic Shrines." A Brooklyn paper \
announced his intention, and left the *
'r" out of "shrines." Few people j
know that Ada Rehan's real name r
was Crehan. Early in her career her J
same appeared oh a program without b
v
:ke "C ?a typographical error? and
she was known ever after as Kebau.
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Both remedies are packed in one carton and the
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Will pay you an "Income" if you live
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T. W. rentz, jr., District Manager,
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Colds Cause Grip and Influenza
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ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Bamberg, S. C.
Offices in Herald Building
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N OTICE OF FILING AND PROVING
CLAIMS.
Pursuant to an order issued in the
:ase of MacMurphy Fertilizer Company,
et al., Plaintiff, vs. J. M. Kirkand,
in the Court of Common Pleas
:or Bamberg County, notice is here>y
given to all persons interested
hat all rreditors having claims
igainst the said J. M. Kirkland are
-equired to file the same, duly itemized
and verified, with the undersigned
Master for Bamberg County on or before
the first day of December, 1922,
ind all persons failing to file claims
)n or before said date with the unlersigned
will be debarred from
jarticipating in the distribution of 1
he assets in said cause; provided,
;hat all creditors who have here beore
filed their claims, duly itemized
md verified, with the receivers in
:he cause, will not be required to file
;he same again with the Master.
J. J. BRABHAM, JR., (
Acting Master for Bamberg County. '
November 4, 1922. 11-30
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All children troubled with Worms have an on*
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IROVE'S TASTELESS CHILL TONIC given reguarly
for two or three weeks will enrich the blood,
mprove the digestion, and act as a general Strengthming
Tonic to the whole system. Nature will then '
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Bamberg - - - South Carolina