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n Hr' ' f PUZZLE TO POLICE I A DOCTOR IS ACCUSED OF STEALING AUTOMOBILES | IN A NUMBER OF CITIES ? B Dr. Alien F. Gentry, o /Philadelphia, Believed to Dave Made Eighty 4' Thousand Dollars by Changing the Appearance of Stolen Cars and 1 Soiling Them at Low Itatc. A dispatch from Philadepliia says ever since the pubication of tho news of the arrest of Dr. Allen F. Gentry, t a graduate of tho University of Pennsylvania, on a charge of stealing automobiles, thore has been a steady stream of motor car owners to detective headquarters at tho City Hall, each caller anxious to get trace of a misBlng machine. The extraordinary charge against Gentry is that he stole automobiles and spirited them off to a workshop of his own at 'Morristown, N. J., where he transformed them into different looking cars and then sold them to buyers of secondhand cars. Gentry, who iB the son of a former prosperous West Philadelphia physician, is a prisoner at City Hall, where he will be detained several days while detectives are completing their investigation. Aready he stands indicted for tho theft of a White Steamer car, the property of F. K. Mears of Oak Lane. Mears has identified and recovered his automobile. The police say the man has stolen n/ktrnnnl tin/\rno fl II t n m nhl 1 oa In ll i 1 _ OC V CI Ul OtV/l CD Vi UUlViilVk/iiVO 4U JL 4.x 14" adelphla and elsewhere. Tho police say that Gentry, whom Jthey call a "motor maniac," has conducted n business that has brought him heavy returns for more than a year and a half. In New York, Philadelphia, Trenton, Albany, Baltimore, Washington and other cities, It la said, he has been carrying on his risky but lucrative business. His method, the detectives declare, was to first seek prospective buyers and learn what kind of a car they wanted. Then he would start through the streets of the city and when he had found the car he wanted he would insert a switch plug, crank the motor and spin away. In front of offices, residences and clubs ho displayed the same nerve with such success that the police could not get even a description of the man. It was an accident that led to his downfall. Just a month ago, while "joy riding" with a young woman? said to be a Mrs. Mary Hoffman?at Newark, Dr. Gentry ran his car into a telegraph pole. He and the young woman were thrown out. She was severely injured and is still a patient in the Newark Hospital and In a precarious condition, suffering from a fractured skull. Gentry was locked up and refused to say whero he got tne automobile. Philadelphia detectives heard of tho case and went to Newark. They identified tho car as the property of Mears, the Oak Lane man. It had been stolen on tho night of March 14. Gentry has maintained absolute silence since his arrest, but tho peculiarity of his case attracted tho attention of criminologists. They do not know whether to ascribe his criminal acts to tho use of drugs or plain mental depression brought about by domestic troubles. That ho Is an able surgeon and a man of extraordinary ability they know. Why ho should resort to crime puzzles them. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania Gentry located in West Philadelphia, where he made a fortuno practising his profession. Wliilo ho was achieving success his first wifo died. Several years lat er married again, nut had marital troubles which ended lu a divorce. An only child was left in the custody of the mother. One day when the detectives went to the houso where Mrs. Gentry lived they found funeral carriages in the street and learner) that the son, about three years old had (lied. When tho detectives told Gentry h< collapsed. He had loved the child and his loss weighed so heavily upor his mind, tho detectives say, ho re sorted to tho use of drugs. As an illustration of the man's cap abilities as a surgeon tho story is tolc of a remarkable operation under ex traordinary and discouraging circum stances. In July, 1911, the stor; goes, Gentry headed a party o sportsmen from Morlrstown on i hunting expedition into tho Maim woods. They obtained a guide a Ellsworth Falls named Dunham. Th scout had a son of fourteen years who accompanied the party into th woods. One night, In camp, tho hoy wa taken seriously ill. Dr. Gentry foum the child was suffering from "pleura adhesions" of the chest. The ad hesions had formed between tin lungs and the heart in such manne that tho heart was pulled far ovo toward the right sidO'Of the chost. The case called fowjlipmodiato at tentlon. Tho to i ecalpe possessed ttOTfbtrj- was i hunting knife, aw* iuy m fcavo ether A hospital waa pn pro vised under th< yia**. the operation waa performed V - ? ?- ?"" ???"?? ?"! ? ? I CURBSTONE CHAT SOME CRUDE THOUGHTS FROM AN ODD EDITOR'S DRAIN. + Who Gives His Ideas for the Benefit of the Many Readers of The Times and Democrat. If all the members of a family a -1 4- ^ were us euuru;uu? ?iiu muu lu cav.u other as they are to strangers, what a difference it would make in the home atmosphere. All the elegance in the world will not make a home, and a spoonful of love exceeds whole snip loads of furniture and all the gorgeousness the world can gather. Many women are martyrs, and yet they do do not know it. They shut the sunshine out of their houses and their hearts, they wear veils, they carry parasols, they do all possible to keep off the subtlest and yet most potent influence which is Intended to give them strength, beauty and cheerfulness. * No matter how your mothers may speak, their hearts are in the right place; if their attire is old-fashioned and their manners not up to the frills of the tweniteth century standard, they have had experience of more valuo than all the schooling and extra accomplishments that you may think of shining excellence. Heed your mother?you will never regret it It is the mother of a household whose life is chiefly threatened by .mnntnmr Otin otoi'll fl f ntll O Slid ill Ull L/IUUJ UUO RWtVJfcJ IV 1/ AAVUIVI w is always in. the house seeing the same things, hearing the same voices, doing the same work day after day, with endless regularity. The demands upon her time and strength and love and patience are increasing, and the wonder is that she does not break down more frequently than is actually thy caso.* ? ? Girls, listen to your mothers; they are your wisest teachers, your best counselors. E'en though you have received a college education, and the dear one who in all probability has denied herself to give it to you has never gone beyond the third reader, you can rest assured that it is not book learning that will keep your feet away from many pitfalls that she can warn you from in tender, loving fashion that you will do well to heed. ? Wo never knew a man who was faithful to his early and adopted homo who was given over at the same time to any gross forms of wickedness. If you find more enjoyment in the club-room, in the literary society, in the art saloon, than you do in these unpretending home pleasures, you are on the road to ruin. * One reason why a^me men do not get along better in this world is because they have not the proper stimulant in their homes. Their homes lack those little touches of refinement which bring the best out of them. Neatness and taste are possible in the poorest homes. Let a woman make tho atmosphere as dainty as her means allow, qnd she will raise her husband to the same standard. And as she elevates him the effort is felt upon herself, her children, her home, and her future. ? When you want to get your grandest idea of a queen, you do not think of Catherine of Russia, or of Annie of England, or Mario Therosa of Germany, but when you want to get your grandest idea of a queen you think of the plain woman who sat opposite! your father at tho table qi , walked with him arm in arm down life's pathway; sometimes to the | Thanksgiving banquet sometimes t< ^ the grave but alwhys together? soothing your petty griefs, correcting I your childish waywardness, Joininj I in your infantile sports, listening ti your evening prayers, toiling for yoi ' with needle or at the spinning whee } and on cold nights wrapping you ui snug and warm. "Mother! Mother!' ' Ah, she was a queen! ? ATM NINETEEN TEASPOONS. 1 A Patient Makes Way With the lies I>ital Rilvor. Y A surgical operation lias Just beoi * found necessary to recover a lot o toaspons which disappeared one a t a tlrao from a ward of the Earter 0 When the mystery was solved by th discovery that 0110 of tlio patient ^ was swallowing the missing articles l)rs. W. C. Mason and E. 11. Range recovered from tho man's stomac r'l 19 teaspoon8. Seventeen of ther 1 belonged to tho hospital and two ha prosumbly been swallowed boforo th man was committed. r and tho boy Is allvo and well today. r Tho detect!ves bellovo that Oentr; has cleaned up about $80,000 In th? " past two yearn oil tho salo of stole] i automobiles. The expense of your house will b( > large or small, as you are a good oi I bad housekeeper, 1 *< FLOOD AT ITS WORST the stricken district is very Large in area. Tlie Problem of Providing for the Living and Preventing Pestilence Demands Great Deal of Attention. The need for roliof work in the Mississippi valley increaso daily as the crest of the tlood moves oceanward. Already upwards of 80,000 noonle are being fed by the United States army in the district between Hickman, Ky., and Natchez, Miss. Secretary of War Stimson made an estimate this week that the Government will have to keep up this work for 4 2 days, or until the ilood sufferers are ablo to establish their homes and begin to cultivate their lands. To carry on this work ho has asked for a total appropriation of $420,000. While the quartermasters aro feeding and sheltering the afflicted ones from Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi, and tho engineer are strengthening and repairing the levees, tho medical department of the Red Cross is already planning for cleaning up the Hooded areas to prevent the spread of disease. Tho Hood has reached its worst stages in the delta region and it is declared the loss of life will reach several hundreds. More are dying from starvation, disease and exposure than from drowning in the? high water. Delegates from six states are in Washington, D. C., this week to invite the House Rivers and Harbors committee to be their guests on a cruise from Cairo, 111., to New Orleans, La., while the Mississippi river is still raging. Reports have reached Jackson, Miss., that over 100 were drowned in Bolivar county when the dike broke at Beulah. Tlis county was never before known to be covered. It s under water from three to twenty feet deep. The chief concern of the entire district now is the problem of providing for the living. Supplies are wholly inadequate. Clothing, bedding, and food are lacking. Rations are being distributed by the United States army, but they are unable to reach hundreds in their places of refuge. Gov. Earl Brewer, of Mississippi, ordered immediate aid sent this week to a camp of 6,000 refuges in Cleveland, 'Miss. They had rations that would last about 24 hours. Three thousand negroes took refuge in box cars at Benoit and Beulah with no sort of comforts or provisions. Two train loads of provisions and skiffs were sent out to rescue them. Undoubtedly the heaviest loss of life in tho delta region was at Greenville. There many died of exposure. At Roosevelt, Miss., few persons were drowned. In North Louisiana, this week, a family of five was rescued after spending three days on a house roof. They were unharmed. Nearby a man was rescued from the n ^ #4 nf/v??ir nf nrn n Ho HfCUUU f>lV/l J U1 11 io uuiut/1 nu uv> came insane when placed on the raft. That more levees will break and cause still greater damage is not doubted by the army experts who are doing their utmost to prevent further loss along the course of the river. Itain weakened the caving dikes and they cannot hold, it is feared. Most of the water in the delta territory will have to go back into the river, and with this water eating at tho breast of the dikes and water washing along the back of the same dikes there appears to be no hope of preventing greater losses as tho force of the great flood spends its energy in its mighty rush toward the Gulf of Mexico. I Til 11KB D1K IN ONK FAMILY. Strange Disease Hob Home of All [ Its Children. * A dispatch from Anderson says the three children of Mr. and 'Mrs. T. S. McConnell who live on Hleckloy I street, have died within a week. Sev' oral physicains of tho city were called in to treat the little ones, but 1 j none were able to tell just what the trouble was, though everything pos, glide was clone for them. Tho llrst child, aged four and a half years, died Sunday; tho second, aged two and a half years, died Wednesday and the third, aged 7 years, died Sunday 1 aaf ? KlliliKl) WIIKV TIRB BURST. a His Skull Was Crushed When Hit f r Auto Turned Over. 11 Hindale Parsons, aged 4 8, ol 0 Schenectady, N. Y., vice president and general manager of tho General 5? Hleetrlc company, was instantly killr ed Monday at Clinton Heights, three 11 mlies cast of Albany, when one ol 11 tho roar tires of his automobile blowod out, causing tho car to swerve 0 aud turn over. Tho car landed on Mr. Parsons' head, crushing his skull and causing Instant death. The Chauffeur, T. J. Nicholson, was ser0 lously Injured, and IJenJ. II. Wels3 brod, Mr. Parsons' secretary, oecaped uninjured. j Scolding and nagging never mendr ed anything. They have ruined the 'peace of unnumbered famJJlee. i \ AUTO BANDITS SHOT THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE SEE THE FIERCE BATTLE A THRILLING ENCOUNTER Two Desperadoes Charged With Numerous Crimes, Surrounded in Cnrage, Held at Day for Hours by Police and Soldiers and is Finally Dislodged With Dynamite. " Bonnot. the leader of an organiz ed gang of automobile bandits, who have been terrorizing Paris and the surrounding district for months past, and Dubois, a notorious Anarchist, were shot to death in the most thrilling encounter in the annals of French crime. A garage at Choisy-Le-Roi, six miles south of Paris, in which the bandits had taken refuge, was blown up by dynamite after these two men had kept at bay for hours a largo part of the police force of Paris, a contingent of gendarmes, two companies of Republican Guards and a company of engineers. lionnot and Dubois, after wounding two policemen, took refuge in the garage. They were trapped in the building, which was at once surrounded. Reinforcements were dispatched to assist the police, consisting of gendarmes% and engineers. A battery of artillery was on the way from Versailles, when a small attachment of soldiers succeeded in placing dynamite against the structure and blowing out the front wall. The battle was witnessed by ten thousand people from points of vantage. Ronnot was captured alive. He was riddled with bullets and died on the way to a hospital. The great crowd that had gathered, with cries of "Death to Bonnot!" almost tore the bandit from the soldiers, several of whom were injured. Parisians, particularly automobilists, have been in a state of terror because of the reckless crimes of the automobile bandits, which reached a climax in the murder of Assistant Superintendent Jouin, of the dtective department, and the wounding of Chief Inspector Colmar by Bonnot on the morning of April 24. The Government then ordered all the available police to hunt the assassins day and night. M. Guichard, superintendent of detectives, tracked Bonnot to the isolated garage at Choisy-Re-Roi. As Guichard and his men approached, a bandit, who proved to be Dubois, was preparing to mount a motorcycle. Ho answered the summons to surrender by opening fire, while ho retreated to the garage. At the same moment there was a hail of bullets from a window and two detectives fell, one I with two bullets in his abdomen. It ,was Bonnot shooting from the first floor. The detectives retired and a goner! al alarm was sent out. Police, gendarmes and all classes of people came quickly. They were armed with muskets and revolvers, and directed hundreds of bullets at the garage, from which came a steady rain of lead in reply. M. Repine, prefect of Paris, was immediately notified and ho telephoned instructions to the police to do nothing until ho arrived. "Wo will blow them up with dynamite," he said. Meanwhile the Republican Guard and engineer corps arrived, while thousands of persons flocked to the sci'ne. They became so numerous that the soldiers were forced to drive them back, as they were interfering with the progress of the siege. M. Repine, 'Mr. Guichard and the commanding olflcial of the Republican Guards held a council of wai and decided to use dynamite. Hundreds of gendarmes, armed with carbines, then began to encircle the building to prevent tho escape of the bandits. A cart was rigged up witt thick mattresses as a barricade anc th0 attacking party backed slowl: toward the garage. When tho cart readied tho wal Riout. Forleau emerged and cooll: placed two huge sticks of dynamite against the building and igniged the fuse. But no explosion followed This operation was repeated twice Then came a terifie report and a col unm of smoke and debris shot sky ward. All the while the bandits wero vol s leying steadily, hut no one was hit As tho front wall collapsed with j crash, tho police and Republicai 1 Guards rushed up. On tho groune - floor they found Dubois dead. The; [ mounted a narrow stairway and oh . served a man streaming with blood , his left arm in a sling, crouched be 1 bind a mattros3. i Blood was pouring from wound > in his head and chest. "Curse you Curse you!" as ho pulled tho trigge of his empty revolver. He roache< i for poison in his belt, but before In could tako it ho was overpowere< 1 1 I,, nn niit nninhllA If W fl mi(l jjinuoii in ?n ?un/.nvU..v. -v then tho crowd changed into a wil< crowd, howling for the death of th bandit. Tho soldiers protected bin with the butts of their carbines, bu many blows fell on Bonnot befor the automobile started off, lite rail; ] BA iN K. Of t Conwa Has largest capital and surplus of i than the combined capital and surf CAPITAL STOCK. . .. SURPLUS LIABILITIES OF STOOf SECURITY OF D0POSI1 DIRE( 3Vert B. Sosuboramgh, . L. Buck, ieorgo J. Holiday, Wek offer our customers every acc will justify, and we tOBBBT B. BCABIOBOCGH, ? PBJESIDBBT. We continue to pay 5 pe i JLH.'J !L!J - ? - J?!?t COTTON CROP RY COUNTIES. South Carolina Output for the Liust Two Years. The total number of bales of cotton ginned, counting round bales as half-bales, and excluding llnters, for tho crops of 1910 to 1911, Inclusive, for South Carolina counties Is as follows: County. 1911. 1910 Abbeville 42,162 32,804 Aiken 51,361 36,160 Anderson 80,382 63,175 Bamberg 28,019 16,572 Barnwell 67,601 42,958 Beaufort 7,040 9,904 Berkeley 17,118 12,465 Calhoun 31,730 21,441 Charleston.. .. 11,586 14,169 Cherokee 16,542 14,793 Chester 36,012 28,384 Chesterfield.. .. 36,418 29,878 Clarendon 54,222 36,060 Colleton 21,916 15,571 Darlington 57,700 40,369 Dillon 50,576 40,376 Dorchester 19,295 14,188 Edgefield 40,356 26,430 Fairfield 33,486 25,682 Florence 58,902 33,916 Georgetown. . .. 5,935 3,464 Grenville 54,442 37,369 Greenwood 45,546 29,744 Hampton 25,797 16,642 Horry 16,164 18,486 Kershaw 36,193 23,063 Lancaster 31,137 24,556 Laurens 54,686 42,312 Lee 47,713 28,459 Lexington 34,011 24,177 Marion 29,436 17,810 Marlboro 75,942 66,413 Newberry 46,426 33,826 Oconee 22,824 15,1 96 Orangeburg. . . . 87,976 56,596 Pickens 22,520 15,163 Richland 22,613 15,249 Saluda 30,470 1 9,437 Spartanburg. . .. 78,145 59,711 Sumter 50,61 3 33,535 Union 23,029 18,167 Williamsburg.. . 38,701 24,790 York 49,403 41,508 Total 1,692,146 1,210,968 Orangeburg County loads, with Anderson and .Spartanburg coming second and third. The State last year was 481,178 bales more than It was the year before, and 553,764 more bales than it was the year before that. crashing down a score of people In clearing a pathway, and speeded to Paris. n AH nrvt nroo tinAnncAlAlia on rl nvnl r_ i-j U U 11 v_7 I, T> u U U Vy V A A A VS U M iVIA VA V M A * ed on his way to the hospital. The doctors found twelve wounds. There , were two bullets in his head and two , in bis abdomen. Dubois had three i wounds. On Bonnot was found a j statement consisting of an Anarchis; tic confession of faith and concluding with the words believed to have . been feverishly scribbled at the last . moment: "I dio, Jules Bonnot." lie was armed with four revolvers and . cd special editions hourly throughout . the day, give prominence to the fact > a carbine. The Paris newspapers, which issui that tho garage retreat of the ban1 <1 its, from which they coruluoted the / series of automobilo crimes, was owned by Alfred Fromontin, known 1 as "tho millionaire Anarchist." / Fromontin, was a friend of Francisco 3 Ferrer, founder of the Modern School 3 in Spain, whom ho frequently visited . at Barcelona. Fromontin founded at Choisy-Le Hoi a number of small villas, which - he called "the Red Nest." They were occupied almost exclusively by per sons of Anarchistic belief. Bonnol . was about thirty years of ago and n a, native of Lyons. IIo formerly served w in the engineer corps of tho army 1 Ho was an expert chaueffour, the real y brains of tho band. About thirtj - members of the band havo now boor 1, arrested or aro out ot tne way. jsav idcnco In tbo possession of the police show that thoy pursued their career 8 by a marvellous systom, having t agents In all parts of Europe. r v j Young Man Kills Himself. 0 Leaving a certified chock to pa> a his board and funeral expenses, Jona athan Hawkins, twenty-five years old 1 and unmarried, of Andrews, S. C.( o killed himself at Waycross, Ga.f Fria day. Ho Is a brothor of E. A. Hawt kins, of Raleigh, N. C. The decease ed left a note requesting that ngne r of hie relatives be notified, / i* HORRY, y. S, C. my bank in Horry county. More* Jus of all other banks in the county.^ $ca,?oo . . . 12.500 ^HOLDERS .. .. 59.000 ?ORS ..112.600 jiors ARDSON,, A w % W. a. Johnson, Will A. Freeman. ommodation which their accounts solicit your business. >. V. Richardson, will a. fkxsmab Vies PlKHIDKJNT. .CaBHIX* r cent, on yearly deposits. PiOntMIlOWAIi (JAKDS. 1 i i i i i i?? Bl. h. woodward Attorney and Oounoeiar At Uli (X)NWAY, 0. 0. ft. B. BC'AJMUtOCGH CONWAY, S. C? Attorney at Law. U. H. BURHOUGHB PbjtlciMi and Bargeoi. CONWAY, S. 0. B. WOFFORD WAIT. L . ' . AttoriMi tU Lav/, Bank of Horry Building. CONWAY, 0. O. KEN K HAVEN EL land Surveying and Drainage Splvey Building Conway, S. C. RE WORLDS GREATEST SEWIN6 MACMHf ue.'sri ncyygi tfVuu want el ther a Vibrating Bhnttlek Rotatf Mhaltle or a Hingie Thread (Ch(tin JSttUcJ^| / Sowing Machine write to 'j m mm home sewing machine Orange, Maws* ttMWetwfoff aaachlnva are made to Bet! re?*rdtoa>aif> WlUfcbet the )f ear If om? It otado to vwa Ottf guaranty never runs out. > MM Mthorizcd deal a? dMpof ) v mom smm ft y J fimioitniiLiu *>. <uii.t.ruM m u u wv/1.; n ? l?niwny, M. C. VIVE MEN Itl'ItXHI) To DEATH. ? ? Rurning Oil on River iRiiites Rig Gasoline Tank. Fivo men, all employees of the , Great. Lakes Towing Company, were i burned to death ami damage estimated at $45 0,000 done to noats and 1 gasoline on the docks when a Stand, ard Oil barge exploded at Cleveland, I Ohio, on Wednesday. The Par go, ; which was at the Jeilerson avenue docks, on the Cuyahoga River, was. . being filled with gasoline rrom a tonl thousand-gallon tank on the bank. } Leaking oil on the surface or the rlv. or was ignited and set firo to th3 ; bargo. A terrific explosion immedlL ately followed, which caused a huge [ firo, which raged for several hams. * .... . ' Wave Sweeps Over Town. ( Tho steamship Marama brought ! news from Australia of a tidal wave 18 foot high which swept over tho . Fijian town of Funa Point, wiping, 1 /\ nt f)?n v i 11 o crA r\f CO hAiianu narlv f Ullb Jliu 1 IllUflU Ul UU UUIIUbU, VlUk ' last mouth. Tho population was nearly wiped out, and tho few aur- j vivora bavo nothing to eat. Millions Asked in Titanic Suits. I damage suits Involving millions ot I , dollars will be filed against tho White j - Star lino by thoso who lost relatives In the Titanic disaster. Other dam> age suits will be filed to secure com- / ) pensatlon tor the personal loss of J those whq were saved. 1