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The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-05-01
SCIENCE AND THE BURGLAR.
Modern Inventions Utilized by the
Learned Rafles in His Profession.

Science, while aiding mankind in
all sorts of benefcent ways, is at the
same time aiding. the cracksman to
pursue his nefarious work with much
more dispatch, than ever before. The
modern burglar now spurns the clum-
sy outfit of crowbar, jimmies,
and skeleton keys. He knows trick
worth a dozen of those. He carries a
few ounces of nitroglycerine, and a
blowpipe. With these easily concealed
tools he can force his way through
the toughest stel.
The blowpipe is the deadly enemy
which the safe manufacturer is now
trying, with the aid of science, to cir
cumvent. Under the intense heat that
it generates the stron gest steel crum-
pies UP like paper. A circle some two
feet in diameter can be cut through
the metal. even if an inch thick, in a
few minutes.
A steel plate which shell from a
As gun fails to dent will fall an easy
victim to a few cubic feet of oxygen
and acetylene gas in combination.
When the thermite process for weld
ing iron was discovered, advantage
was Immediately taken of this for the
purpose of burning through plates of
steel.
Deadly forces must be handled
with care and an exact knowledge OF
the power of which they are capable.
1t is not for the reckless or the bung-
ler to toy with the blowpipe or nitro
glycerine So Rafles sets to work to
acquire a scientific knowledge and
skill of manipulation that, if put to
some legitimate use, might open up
to him an honorable career.
Quite recently safe-breaker,
whose successful career was sudden
ly halted by the law, fairly amazed
expert scientists by the completeness
of his library, which comprised val
liable collection Of books in French
and German written by scientists for
presentation to technical societies. He
made specially of the subject of the
force of the blowpipe on metals. He
admitted that he had spent three
years in this study. A laboratory
adjoining his library was small and
compact, but for completeness OF
equipment would have done credit to
a science school. In this laboratory
he had made some improvements.
No sooner does the scientist dis
cover some tremendous force than he
must set to work to counteract that
force in the hands of the criminal. 1t
is said that recent experiments have
produced a steel that will even with
stand the blast of the blowpipe.-
Harper's Weekly.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-05-01
TOWN GOES WILD.
OpeIousas, La, Turns Out With Band
to Meet Little Bobbie" Dunbar.

Opelousas, La, April 26.-All Ope-
lousas, the home of little Robert Dun
bar, Yesterday acclaimed the child
taken from Walters, the tinker, and
alleged kidnaper, as the long lost son
of their fellow townsmen.
The town went wild with delight
when Mr.. and Mrs. C. P. Dunbar and
the boy alighted from the train from
New Orleans during this afternoon.
A half holiday had been declared,
every store in the town was locked,
the residences deserted and, despite a
drizzling rain, the entire population
of Opelousas, augmented by hundreds
from the surrounding country, turned
out to welcome Little Bobbie' back
home. Several thousand persons jam
med the station platform and the
streets leading to it. Every whistle
in town shrieked, bells were rung and
fireworks turned loose in all direc-
tions. Every building in the town
was decorated with flags and bunt-
ing and band of more than a score
of Joyous musicians blared out Home
Sweet Home" Hail, Hail, the Con-
quering Hero Comes,' "A Hot Time
in the Old Town." and other airs
which were deemed appropriate.
The Dunbars, literally weeping
with joy, fought their way through
the throngs of men and women who
were bent upon shaking their hands
and kissing the boy. Mr.. Dunbar and
Little Bobbie," with a committee
hended by Mayor Loeb, rode on a
hook and ladder wagon at the head of
a procession which passed through
the principal streets to- the Dunbar
home. Mrs. Dunbar and other rela-
tives occupied a touring car next in
line, and behind them came more
than a hundred automobiles and car
riages.
That's the kid" That's Bobbie!"
and similar expressions indicating the
general recognition of the child as
the kidnapped Dunbar boy, were heard
on all sides.
When little Alonzo Dunbar, one
year Roberts junior, was brought in
to the car, the two boys Immediately
embraced, and for some minutes re-
mained clasped in each others arms.
AS soon as the Dunbar home was
reached the little boy of so much
mystery ran to the little red rocking
chair which Santa Claus brought to
Robert Dunbar a little more than a
year ago. He seated himself and
rocked away apparently willing, if
not anxious, to forget the crowds and
the decorations and all of the excite
ment of which he has been the center
for almost a week. Half an hour later
he was asleep, and after mama" had
tucked him away in the little bed
which has been empty since last Au-
gust, the crowds began to depart,
every one apparently satisfied that
their little Robert had been restored
to them.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-05-01
WILL RECOMMEND P. H. FIKE.
Newspaper Man May Get Postmaster
ship at Spartanburg.

Spartanburg, April 23.-Congress-
man Jos. T. Johnson announced to-
day that he would recommend Pierre
H. Fike, at one time city editor of the
Spartanburg Herald,. but until re-
Gently Mr.. Johnson's secretary, for
appointment as postmaster of Spar
tanburg. The announcement which
was made after Mr.. Johnson, in his
law office, had listened patiently for
several hours to the claims of the
active candidates for the place, was
as much a surprise to Mr.. Fike as
anybody. He had not sought the
honor. The position pays thirty-one
hundred dollars a year.
Mr.. Johnson recommended w. r..
Dillingham; for appointment to the
postmastership several weeks ago, but
soon afterwards charges were made
against Mr.. Dillingham's record by
friends of w. F. Young, assistant
postmaster, rival candidate for the
postmastership. Mr.. Dillingham; re-
leased Congressman Johnson from his
promises and accordingly Senator
Tillman, before whom the charges
were laid, decided that an investiga-
ton was not warranted. Mr.. Dilling-
ham later renewed his application
for the place. The controversy has
caused much bitterness, which it is
hoped the appointment of Mr.. Fike
will abate.
Mr.. Fike is a native of Laurens
County, an alumnus of Wofford COL
lege and was engaged in newspaper
work on the Herald for ten years be-
fore becoming Mr. Johnson's secre-
tary. He returned to the Herald only
last Monday.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-05-01
Confesses to Two Murders.

Sharon, Pa, April 27.-Ernest Dye,
a negro under arrest here, in a con-
fession to the police alleges he shot
and killed Private Lightfoot, of the
United States army in the Browns
vile, Texas, riots in 1906, and that
he killed a police officer in Winston
Salem, N. c., in 1911. The negro
was arrested here when, after he
walked into the police station, he at
tempted to drink poison. The state
ments of the prisoner were not clear.
He insisted, however that several
persons, one named Green, were be-
ing held for the murder of Lightfoot
at Brownsville. The war department
and authorities of North Carolina
have been notified. ..
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-05-01
Sumter Loses Plant.

Sumter, April 29.-Fire this after
noon destroyed the saw mill plant OF
the Penn-Sumter Lumber Company
the largest lumber concern doing
business in this city, causing an estl'
mated loss of $4,000, partly covered
by insurance. The fire originated IN
the boiler room at $50 and all Of the
machinery was lost. The fire is the
most disastrous that has visited Sum
ter in several years. The Penn-Sum-
ter Lumber Company is backed BY
Philadelphia capitalists, and Messrs
Winter and Eisenberger are the locaI
managers.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-05-01
GOVERNORS CHAUFFEUR FINED
Pays Up and Appeals Case on Ground
of Illegality.

Columbia, April 2S.-Harrison
Neely, colored, the chaffeur of Gov
ernor Blease, was fined s5.75 this
morning in the recorder court on
the charge of violating the speed Or
dinance of the city. The negro paid
the fine and then gave notice of ap-
peal to the circuit court.
The grounds on which the appeal
to the circuit court are based are
that the speed ordinance is in viola
ton of the constitution of the State
and of the code of laws, because the
sentence is illegal and excessive, and,
to quote the language of the formal
appeal, Because the verdict is con-
trary to the evidence in said case and
was rendered through malice and
prejudice against the chief executive
of this State, whose driver the said
Harrison Nicely is
The negro chaffeur was driving the
automobile up Lady street and was
coming up a hill, near the jail, when
the alleged offence was committed
CITY Jailer Marion P. Kramer report
ed the case. The negro claims that
he was not exceeding the speed limit,
which is Is miles per hour. He was
alone in the car at the time and was
returning from an errand on which
he had been sent.
This morning made the third time
in the past few weeks that the Gov
ernor's chaffeur has been fined fol
violating the speed ordinances of the
city. The first time he was given a
fine of 1915, the second fine OF
s15.75, and this morning he was as
sessed s5.75. 1t will be recalled that
a sensation was sprung the first time
the negro was fined by Governor
Blease charging that it was done
through prejudice on: the part of the
city authorities to him, and he was
reported as threatening the city with
martial law. He finally said that he
intended to sue the city for assessing
the fine of 1915 against his chauf-
feur and said that it would prove the
most costly fine the city of Columbia
and county of Richland ever collect
ed. Il will show you before the end
of the year." he stated at the time
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-05-01

We object to the appointment OF r.
H. Fike, of Spartanburg, as postmas5-
er on the same ground that we did
not like to see Wilkes Knight made
postmaster at Bamberg. Good news
paper men are too scarce to permit OF
their use as postmasters. Almost any
body who can get the appointment
and make the bond, can run a post
office; but when it comes to giving
the public really valuable cervice in
the editing of a newspaper, the ma
terial is less plentiful.-Yorkville En-
quirer.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-05-01
WOODEN CANNON EFFECTIVE.
Was Used With Success in Modern
Times by West Indians.

w
Times by West Indians.
Anyone familiar with the construc-
ton of modern weapons of warfare
and the high explosives used in them
would naturally suppose cannon
made of wood would be of little or
no value as a weapon.
Wooden cannons have been used
with considerable success, neverthe-
less, in recent revolutions in Cuba,
Haiti, and in the Dominican republic.
The wood used in the construction
of these crude weapons is a very
tough variety, having twisted grain
that curls about the log in such a way
that to split the timber with the
ordinary means is almost impossible.
The best trees are selected and a
piece of the log five or six feet in
length and about one foot in diameter
is cut. After the bark has been re-
moved and the log made round, it is
swung upon a crude truss and hole
is burned into it from one end. The
log is wound with strips of rawhlde
cut from the skin of steer. When
the cannon is covered with the strips
of hide, another layer is wound on,
and this is continued until the weap-
on has increased several inches in
diameter.
After the log is covered and the
bore is finished, the weapon is treat
ed to a hot draft, which tends to con-
tract the hide binding and which be-
comes almost as strong as wire.
These crude cannon have been
used with success in numbers of in
stances and it is astonishing the num-
Der of times they may be fired before
they burst or become otherwise dis
abled.-Harper's Weekly.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-05-01
Shot By Negro Highwaymen.

Chattanooga, Tenn, April 26.-Dr.
Finis Rogers, owner of drug store at
St. Elmo, suburb, and his 14-year-
old soda water clerk, were shot by
two negro highwaymen while in the
drug store tonight. Rogers is shot
through the breast and will die. The
boy is not fatally wounded.
An angry mob is now in pursuit of
the negroes and lynching is almost
certain if they are captured.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-05-01
RUN OVER BY AN AUTOMOBILE
Young Augusta Lady Has Skull Frac-
tured and May Die.

Augusta, Ca, April 29.-Miss
Ernestine Batey, 19 years of age, lies
in a local hospital with a fractured
skull as the result of being knocked
down by an automobile at 18th and
Broad streets last night. The ply
clans say she cannot recover. The
young lady was returning home from
a visit and was pushing baby car
riage containing her baby sister when
the accident occurred.
Mrs. w. K. Hagler, wife of a
prominent brick manufacturer, was
driving a touring car containing a
number of lady friends and in the
effort to avoid running over boy on
a bicycle, ran the car into Miss Batey
and her little sister. The carriage
was demolished, but the baby, beyond
a few slight bruises, was not hurt.
Miss Batey, however, was knocked
down and run over and has been un-
conscious ever since the accident.
There was great excitement at the
time of the accident as all four OF
the ladies in the automobile tainted.
Fireman Patrick Callahan, who few
hours later met tragic death when
he fell from a fire truck, was one of
the first to reach Miss Batey and he
carried her into a drug store, where
she was cared for until the ambu-
lance could arrive The blood of the
girl was on the clothing of the fire
man when he met death.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-05-01
BODIES HIDIN CELLAR.
Woman Tells Police Why She Put
Them There.

| 1IlCHl
A queer case was brought to light
in st. Louis, Mo-, when the bodies OF
| Mrs. Ernestine kommichau and her
daughter, Selma, we're unearthed
Wednesday afternoon in the base
ment of a building at 2412 South
Broadway, Marie kommichau, anoth-
er daughter confined in the City Hos
pital with a broken leg, is under ar
rest and will be held pending an in
vestigation. The three women occu-
pied the house three months ago.
Three weeks ago, Marie said, her
sister had died and the mother had
taken the body to Illinois for burial.
Albert Stuhr, owner of the build
ing, visited the premises and reported
the peculiar odor to the authorities.
| Detectives located the newly made
grave and the bodies were found par
TALLY encased in concrete.
Before my mother died, she made
sister and me promise that we would
not take her body out of the house,
so the undertakers could get her,
said Miss Kommichau. eve had no
doctor for her-there has not been a
doctor in our house for ten years
and a good doctor could have done
mother no good.
II put her body in a showcase,
which we took from the notion store,
and poured plaster of paris around
the glass cracks to keep the air out.
We kept the showcase containing the
body upstairs in a rear room. No
one knew for none of the neighbors
had paid any attention to mother and
they did not inquire about her.
when sister died, knew that peo-
pie would ask about her, and If they
found out 1 was keeping her body
they would ask about mother, too.
So l told the neighbors that mother
had died and that Selma had taken
her to Illinois for burial.
Then I took both bodies into the
basement 1 laid them on the base
ment floor and poured plaster paris
and cement over them
Marie said that she needed help in
removing the body of her mother
from the showcase and called in a
German woman who was passing the
store and whom she never saw before.
'She was clumsy" continued
Marie, land was no help. told her
she needn't mind about staying. l
never saw her again and l don't
know whether she ever told any one. -
Marie said that one man, Adam
Allmeroth, living in the city, knows
of the deaths.
HE is a very religious man." said
Marie. He has called on us now and
then for a long while. He said pray
ers over mothers body and over SIS
ter's body. I don't think he knew the
bodies were buried in the basement,
for l don't remember of ever telling
i'm"
Marie asked the police not to allow
the bodies of her mother and sister
to be removed from the house. Mrs.
Ernestine Kommichau was 79 years
old and Selma so years. Marie is
40.
The bodies were so disintegrated
that identification was difficult.
From tne neck of each was suspend
ed a crucifx. At the feet of each
was a porcelain urn of the kind some
times used to hold holy oil. The
graves were decorated with two small
cedar trees, a wire cross and mus
sci shell. Under the corpses was a
layer of quicklime.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-05-01
PERSONAL MENTION.
People Visiting in This City and
at Other Points.

Mr.. H. n. Folk spent Sunday in
Orangeburg.
MFR. A. NJ. Brabham spent Tues
day in Charleston.
Mrs. Harry All, of Allendale, is
visiting relatives in the city.
Mr.. Charles, of Greenville, spent
a few days in the city this week.
MIR. ]. J. Simmons, of Holly
Hill, spent few days here last week
with relatives.
DIR. Robert Black, of Bamberg,
is visiting relatives in WATERFORD
Walterboro Press and Standard.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. w. D. Rowell
are at home again from a trip to
Washington, D. c., and other points.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. G. Fielder, who
have been visiting relatives here, re-
turned to Charleston last Saturday.
MIR. and Mrs. J. j. Smoak and
little son spent Sunday in Orange
burg county with Mr.. Smoak's par
entS.
Mrs. J. D. O'Hern, of Lakeland,
Fla, is in the city on visit to her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. A. Jen-
nings.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Smoak, of
Branchville, spent several days near
town last week at the home of Mr..
Griffith, near town.
The many friends Of DR.. G. B..
Kinsey, of Williams, will be glad to
know that he is some better. He
has been i'll for some time. DR..
Kinsey formerly lived in Bamberg.
Prof. J. A. Klein, of Lancaster,
spent a few days in the city last
week. 1t is possible that Prof. Klein
and family will return to Bamberg
to live, and their many friends here
will gladly welcome them.
s. G. Mayfeld, Esq, who has
been at a hospital in New York for
treatment since the March term of
court, returned home this week,
much improved in health, which will
be pleasant news to his many friends.
MIR. G. w. Rentz, Jr., who has
been in the U. S. Navy for the last
few years, arrived in Bamberg last
week, and he is glad to get back
home again. The life has agreed
with him and he is looking we'll. Dur
ing his term of enlistment, which ex-
pired only a few weeks ago, he has
visited many parts of the world. His
many friends are mighty glad to see
him again.
Mr.. NJ. o. Kinard, one of the
prominent citizens of the Ehrhardt
section and an enthusiastic Confed-
crate veteran, was in the city Thurs
day on his way home from the re-
union in Aiken. He enjoyed the oc-
casion very much. Mr.. Kinard takes
great interest in the veterans. He was
a member of Company G, from this
county, and is captain of the organiz-
alton of survivors of that historic
command.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-05-01

William Waldorf Astor's son John,
an officer of the life guards in Lon
don, will go to India to fill an ap-
pointment on the staff of Lord Har-
dinge. the Governor-General.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-05-01

If you want an automobile, see c.
F. Rizer at Olar. He has on hand
two Ford touring cars and will re-
ceive today six Ford runabouts.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-05-01
No. SiX-SiXty-SiX

This is prescription prepared especially
for MALARIA or CHILLS e. FEVER:
Five or six doses will break any case, and
if taken then as tonic the Fever will not
return. 1t acts on the liver better than
Calomel and does not gripe or sicken. Csc
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-05-01

Some men would rather run for
Office than to earn a decent living.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-05-01
Return to Spartanburg.


This morning Governor Blease had
Green and Paige brought from the
Penitentiary, where they have been
confined for eighteen years, to his
Office, and the two men were handed
their paroles in the Governors Office.
Green's aged father was present in
the office and he was moved with
emotion and gratitude on again be-
holding his son free man. The
Governor told them to go back home
and try to redeem the past and to
make good citizens.
Green and Paige returned to Spar
tanburg this afternoon. Mrs. Fannie
Carson, since her freedom, has been
living on a farm in Spartanburg
County.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-07-11
SLIPS OF THE TONGUE.
Even the oisnified English Butler Car
Go Astray at Times.


A little story which has just
found its way across the Atlantic
from an English country house tells
of the recent slip made by a new
and nervous butler in serving his
master, duke, at the luncheon ia
bic. Quiet, respectful and assidu-
Gus, he proffered dish with the In
sinuating query:
"Cold grace, your grouse"
The slip is so obviously a nat
ural one that doubtless the tale is
true. Thus far it is also unchal-
lenged as new, although probably
by the time it has made the full
round of the press somebody will
discover that in its original form
it was an Athenian chestnut" IN
the days of Socrates.
An anecdote which at least be-
longs to the same family used to be
laughed over in early Victorian
drawing rooms.
Among the royalties, great and
little, who came to London for the
young queens coronation there
was a certain small, dried up, gray
haired, bright eyed brisk little old
reigning prince of tiny principai-
ty. He was PARKWAY cousin to an
Irish duke, whose estates in Ire
land he visited before returning.
For his entertainment village eel
ebration was arranged, with games
and dances, and especially Irish jigs
and clog dances.
The gay old prince was delight
ed. He came himself of race IA
nous for its dancing. He still pos
sessed a good eye, quick ear and
a light foot. That same evening ID
the great hall of the castle, to the
whistling of his hosts son, he en-
deavored to emulate some of the
feats he had seen.
The dukes solemn English but
,ler was present, and his horror at
such unroyal antics was reflected III
his eyes. The prince perceived it
and, shooting a sudden fore6ngel
at him, demanded imperiously
"Eh! Tell me, then, what you
think of my dancingp"
! Discreet and dignifed, but fur
ried inwardly, the buffers manner
was perfect, but his tongue betray-
ed him. He answered:
"Your royal spryness is certain
ly Ugh"
There was a shout of laughter
and the duke, with assumed anger
cried sternly: what! Do you dare
to insinuats that the prince is ele
vated-that his vivacity is due t.
any other good spirits than hi'
ownw
, Before such an accusation thu
I poor buffers last remnant OF com
posture vanished, and, turning wild
: ~, with clasped hands, from hi
} highness to his grace, he protested
earnestly:
"No, l never, sir, your royal gray
, ness; no, l never, sir, your lcer-
Youths Companion.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-07-11
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