The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1921-04-22
THE SAME TYPE BUT DIFFERENT

When Williams, the Georgia farmer,
had his dupes to commit those horr1-
Bile crimes for which he was after.
wards convicted, the whole south was
inpaeld by any number Of northern
critics. Indeed, very f-w
northern publications permitted the
opportunity to pass without reading
the south lecture on its barbara
methods, and ene clipping was sent
us which one writer claimed that
whipping and killing niggers in the
south was a pastime. I
Some were evil-minded enough to
say that the crime OF this nan vii
liams is typical of what is sransI9iriag
III other parts Of the south. !.
It will be well to remember that
this Georgia farmer who is far above
the average in wealth was convicted
on the evidence OF the negro who did
the killing and admitted his part in
the tragedies.
At the same time the Williams trial
was in progress and occupying the
front page of the daily newspapers, a
similar trial was in progress or had
not long ended in the civilized state
of Illinois.
One Sam CardineIla was convicted
Of crimes very similar to the Georgia
horror
The Chicago Herald and Examiner,
speaking of Cardinella and his career
in crime says that he was the owner
Of a billiard hall and the indulgent
father of six children, SO it was diff
cult to pierce his wall of respectable
ity.
There were six in mis- gang. They
came to him for orders, carried them
out to the letter, and brought their
loot to Sam for division AT first they
We're merely congederateS- Before
long they became his slaves
He drew his recruits from the
youngsters, who Ioitered about his
poolroonl, teaching them first to steal,
and later proving upon their fears
and superstitious until they were com
pletely in his power. !
Sometimes a lesson was needed.
Perhaps one of the band was weaken
ing or becoming insubordinate. He
disappeared. Santo Orlando was one
of these luckless thieves. The police
took his body from the drainage canal
one summer day two years ago. It
was riddled with bullets.
ssThese little admonitions were sue
cessful and Cardinella prospered. The
members of his band called him The
Devil and actually believed he was.
Little Nick yiana strolled into
Cardineila's poolroom one day. The
chief talked to him, liked him and en-
rolled him. Nick had been a choir
boy. He had unusual talent for mu-
sic. He became thief and presently
a murderer.
Mick replaced the slain Orlando,
and the gang did a rushing business
in crime. They operated from head
quarters piled high with all the para
phernalia of crime There were all
kinds of wigs. masks and other dis
guises. Cardinella superintendent a
small arsenal They are known to
have committed at least five murders,
zoo robberies and fifty Standings,
shootings and sluggings.
Was that Georgia horror that hap
pened on farm any worse than these
horrors that happened in a city?
Yet no southern newspaper impaled
the. commonwealth of Illinois for its
barbaric methods; the southern press
did not hold this man Cardinella as a
type of the citizenship of the state of
Abraham Lincoln
So when a shocking crime is COM
mitted in any part of the south why
is its whole citizenship impaled for it
and held up to public condemnation?
Why should the pot continue to
call the kettle black? ?"
These unfriendlv critics, we repeat,
should hang their heads in very
shame