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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-17
HARVEST DAY FOR
MONDAY MEETING

The WOman's Missionary society,
together with the Hortense TinsIey
Missionary society, will observe Har-
vest Day Monday afternoon in the
First Methodist church, which is an
tannual affair at which the two socie-
ties combine. All the ladies of the
congregation are invited to partici-
pate in, the program Monday after
noon at o'clock.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-17
GAS METER EXPLOSION
KILLS ATLANTA WORKER

! ATLANTA, Dec. 17.-W. B. Beth
es, an employe of the Atlanta Gas
Light company, was killed today in
. gas meter explosion in "The House
That Jack Built" a landmark in the
business district.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-17
| American
.Legiol1

A special called meeting of the
American Legion will be held Monday
night at 1880 o'clock in the Carne-
gle Library, at which time matters of
Importance to every members will be
presented. It is urged that full at
tendance be present at the hour
named.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-17
CHRISTMAS CANTATA
BEING PREPARED

A Christmas cantata will be given
Sunday evening, December Is, in the
First Baptist church, which is being
anticipated with keen pleasure by the
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-17

the members of her choir, and if l.
expected the last rehearsals durinc
the coming week viii bring the u,
duction to perfection.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-17

Mrs. Lavert Smith and Miss Ruby
Minnick will attend the Gardner
Barnes wedding at DeSoto tomorrow
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-17

Backbone and Spareribs. Matthew'S
- "o"e - 1876
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-17
w E ATHE r .

Generally fair and much colder,
win trosts probable, except in Flor
ida' is the weather prediction for
the coming week.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-17
localities

Arnold McGillis, of Detroit, is
spending Christmas with his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. e. H. MeGillis,
at their home here.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-17

Rev. H. 7, Brookshire has recover
ed from his recent illness and will
fill his pulpits in Central Baptist
church at both services Sunday, US
ing for his subjects the same as was
announced for last Sunday, "Unoc-
eupied Possessions and "a Vision of
Unseen Forces"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-17

Mrs. Fern Wood, who has been
the guest of Mrs. ]. A. Pinkston, at
her home on Church street for
some time, left this week for Mont
gomers, Ala, to visit relatives be-
fore returning to her home in New
York City.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-17

FOR Sals-childs. large play house
SiV'.- Csti Hightowef's Book Store
lT-ll
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-17

One of the biggest shopping PUSHES
in a long time was seen at the Ali
SON Furniture conlpany's store at 10
o'clock this morning when one
hour sale of aluminium at attractive
prices was put on Several hundred
shoppers jammed the store and in a
few minutes the supply had been
snapped up. 1t took nearly the whole
hour to wrap the goods for the
crowd.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-17

Rev. and Mrs. Frank Anderson
will spend the holiday season in
Greenville, S. c., with the parents of
of Mr.. Anderson, and will also DE
he guests of other relatives during
their trief visit. ~
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-17

James Dudley came hopA from
Riverside Academy to fpshd the
Christmas season with Ills parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Win Dudley, and Will
liam Dudley will arrive tonight to
join the family.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-17

Mr.. and Mrs. billiard Alcott and
little son, Fred, have left their
home in Great Darlington, Mas S.,
by automobile, from which place they
will go to New York for visit of
several days before proceeding
southwark. They will be the guests
Of Dr.. Aleott in New York, an UNI
Gle of billiard Alcott. Reaching
South Carolina, they will stop for
visit to Mrs. Alcott's sister, Mrs. E.
B. Clements, hoping to reach
Americas Immediately after Christ
mas. Mrs. Alcott is pleasantly re-
membered here as~Miss Jimmie JOS
sey before her marriage, and many
friends are preparing cordial well
come upon her arrival.
Miss Florence Kirkpatrick, of Kan
sas City, arrived last night for an
extended visit with her brother, W.
S. Kirkpatrick, and family. Miss Kirk
patrick is registered nurse connect
sd with the Research hospital, one
of the largest in Kansas City.
Mrs. Howell Winchester, of Daw-
son, who has been the guest for the
past week of Mrs. G. r. Winchester
at her home on College street, re-
turned today to her home in Dawson.
Mrs. Winchester was former resi-
dent of this community, living here
with her husband, who was promi-
nent physician throughout Sumter
county. 1t was her first visit to AM
ericus in 25 years, and her friends
welcomed her cordially on the oc-
casion Of her return. Mrs. B. B.
Perry, also of Dawson, and Mrs. How
ell Winchester and baby, of Atlanta,
composed other members of Mrs.
Winchester's house party for the
week.
Christmas seals will be sold all of
this week by the ladies of the Child
Welfare department of the Womaus
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-17

Backbone and Spareribs. Mathews
e. Co. Phone "a. 16-3t
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Christmas seals will be sold all of
this week by the ladies of the Child
Welfare department of the Womans
club, according to statement by
the chairman of the sales commit
tee. -
The New York herald., 1921-09-25

slipped the revolver from the guard's
holster.
Now you can both put your hands up"
he said and covered the guards with the
revolver.
Their hands went up as though they
were on springs and Tom Wing reached
over and took the handcuff and leg iron
keys from the pocket of one of the guards
He removed the irons from himself and
Gardner, who then helped himself to the
second guards gun. He directed Tom
Wing while the Chinese handcuffed the
officers to the second Chinese and chained
the leg irons to the heating pipes.
Gardner then robbed the second Chinese
of $20-why they did not include this
prisoner in their escape never was ex-
plained-and left the stateroom, locking
the door behind them. They walked
through the train, taking their time, and
hoped off the train as it slowed down
to enter East Portland station. The
guards shouted for help and finally were
released to direct hunt for Gardner.
A search up and down the Pacific coast
failed to uncover any trace of the bandit
until officers who had been watching his
home near Napa Cal, and had tapped the
telephone wire leading to the ranch house
where his wife was living heard Gardner
talking to her.
"Oh, Roy, why did you break away when
you know they will catch you and it will
only be harder for us all?" the woman
walled over the wire.
well, if it will make you feel any
easier I'll surrender, but first | must see
you and the baby" the bandit replied good
naturedly.
'You must not try 1.-THE officers are
hot after you and they will kill you If
they get you,' Mrs. Gardner said. You
had better surrender right away"
II guess they must want a fight" said
the bandit musingly. IF that Is what they
want / will give 1t to them. The only way
they can catch me is for me to give up.
can stay out as long as | want to-
The officers traced the telephone call
When they reached the point from which
Gardner had called he had vanished
A posse armed with shotguns was hur
riedly called. Every foot of territory was
beaten over, and finally on OKell's ranch,
about eight miles away, they saw Gardner
The New York herald., 1921-09-25
Choked Railway Mail Clerk
And Looted Registered Pouche

The watch was still being kept for
Gardner when he showed up near New
castle on the night of May 10. The South
ern Pacific Filler had slowed down and
The mail clerk, Ralph Decker, who had left
at his mail sacks.
Decker heard slight sound behind him
and started to swing around. As he turned
Gardner leaped on him like a panther,
choking him into semi-consciousness. Then
he looked over the mail pouches, selected
one containing registered mail and leaped
from the train.
AS soon as Decker could get his breath
he gave the alarm and a new hunt started
for Gardner. Decker had recognized the
bandit from a circular with his picture
doubled energy Federal officers, State and
local officials, as well as hundreds of volun-
teers. took part in the search.
officers found Gardner's trail near Lin
coin. They gradually worked him down
into canyon, where it would be easy.
they thought, to cut him off from escape
and starve him out. There were $50 men
in the hunting party, every one OF them
heavily armed. Once more they worked
down to the centre of their circle, just as
the posse had done at Napa. When they
met at the centre they found a mail sack
ripped open and the coverings of the
parcels il had contained strewn over the
ground, Gardner apparently had taken his
time to make a careful selection of the
loot and then had decamped as myster-
The New York herald., 1921-09-25

iously as he had on the former occasion.
After eluding his pursuers for some time
word reached the officers that a man had
been gambling wildly near Roseville. They
closed in on the gambling house and
entered to find Gardner sitting at table
with cards in his hands. There was no
chance to get away this time or to reach
any weapons. Gardner did not as much
as flicker an eyelash.
Come in, officers" he said cordially.
Il am waiting for you"
Gardner willingly admitted his identity,
but Indignantly denied that he had com
mitted the second robbery. He declared
Deckers identification was a mistake.
The New York herald., 1921-09-25

to cotton to the young man who gets there
regularly on time. who keeps his appoint
ments faithfully, a man upon whom he
can rely.
For some years, now, have been trying
to get myself under perfect self control SO
that / wouldn't be surprised or startled by
anything. and especially so that / wouldn't
be surprised into saying something that |
would wish hadn't said. No end OF things
turn up, at home and abroad, on which we
are instinctively prompted to comment. but
on which comment would be better spared,
hard feelings being saved thereby These
things might be of no real importance what
ever. except as we might make them 50 by
opposition; people cling to and magnify
ideas that are opposed.
The trouble about all these things is that
they pop up so Unexpectedly: the strangest
and most unlocked for things happen; and
you have to get the habit OF being on guard
II you would avoid involuntary comment
that you would regret. But exercising your
self-control is great fun. In this exercise /
have advanced somewhat / do slip a cog
occasionally, i will admit. and when do IL
takes me day or two to recover my
serenity But on the other hand l have
been as much as three weeks without failing
down; and | fully expect To do better and
better all the time.
Try exercising your self-control You will
find 1t most refreshing and strengthening:
and incidentally you will find yourself con
tributing to the happiness of everybody
around you.
The New York herald., 1921-09-25
Held Up the Prison Guards
With Weapon of One of The

Gardner was put into stateroom on
the solid Pullman running from San Fran.
cisco to Tacoma. Two Federal officers
were in the room to guard him. Two
Chinese prisoners going north were taken
along, and Gardner was loaded with leg
irons and was handcuffed to the Chinese
One OF these was named Tom Wing, and
he frequently broke into lamentations in
his singsong language.
He must think that scenery looks like
China" said Gardner with a grin, and the
officer turned and glanced out of the
window.
AS he turned Gardner reached over and
The New York herald., 1921-09-25
Bits of Mr.. Goslington's Philosophy

N ONT decide anything when you are
feeling down; at such a time your
one thought is to get the thing
settled; you are ready to yield everything
like that is to wait a bit stave the thing
of for a while until you are feeling better,
as you surely will. There never was a storm
yet but 1t cleared off bringing bright skies
and CHEEKY weather. II will be just the
same with your little period Of depression:
1t will pass, too. and restore to you sense
OF confidence and courage.
This Is the frame of mind in which you
want to attack the problem: don't decide
anything when you are feeling down.
My friend Mr., Wingleby tells me that he
read the other day about a man paying
$4,000 for a dog. Mr.. Wingleby says that
IL he had $4,000 he wouldn't buy a dog
with it.
Politeness is about as helpful a trait as
man could have, and don't know but what
| would put right with 1t, as being equally
helpful. punctuality Everybody likes to be
treated politely, and, as surely. everybody
likes the punctual man. the man who keeps
his appointments, whatever they may be, on
time. / not in the business Of giving
advice to young men. but II were should
tell them that there is nothing that can
profit them more than a habit OF punctuality.
The boss has little fancy for the young man
who hurries and scurries in one or two or
four or five minutes late; but he soon learns
The New York herald., 1921-09-25

run into a heavily wooded tract The
posse was spread out and surrounded the
wood. Then they began to close in on
him. Finally the members of the posse
met in the centre of the woods, bewildered
to learn that Gardner had escaped. They
even looked into the treetops on the chance
that he had taken to the branches to get
away.
The New York herald., 1921-09-25
Wife Pleaded for Confession
And He Obliged Once More

Once more Mrs. Gardner was urged to
ask her husband to tell the truth. 1t was
better for Gardner to make a clean breast
of his crime than to go through with
trial. He had twenty-five years waiting
for him anyhow, they told him, and If any
chance for clemency ever should develop
it would be better if he confessed than to
stand trial and face certain conviction.
Once again Mrs. Gardner pleaded with
her husband At length he grinned.
Il was going to tell them in the end,
but l wanted to have some fun with them
first" he said. IF it will please you any
| will own up now robbed Decker
Gardner went before Federal Judge Will
lam G. Van Fleet. He was sentenced to
another twenty-five years on McNeil's
Island, making fifty years in all. As Mar
shal James B. Holohan beckoned to Gard
ner to follow him the bandit said:
1T is my duty to warn you, Mr.. Mar
shall, that 4 am not going to McNeil's
Island. I'll get away again"
Gardner was taken to the San Francisco
county jail until he was again started
north. When the time came to take him
Deputy Marshal Thomas f. Mulhall, an
experienced guard, and a prohibition
agent, David w. Rinckel, were assigned to
guard him.
I'm glad they picked me-" said Mul
hail. II like the job. IL that bird can
get out of my net he's a good one. He is
just as good as in McNeil's now because
do not intend to take my eyes off him
once"
Gardner was submitted to minute
search. Not so much as a pin was found
on him as Mulhall started to take him out
of the jail. There was a slight delay
owing to unexpected orders to take Gard
ner north by another route than the one
planned, so that another prisoner could be
picked up. Gardner was put back into his
cell for a short time and then was taken
out and to the train. He was not searched
again.
Gardner joked with the officers when he
first boarded the train and told them he
had changed his mind about escaping and
had decided to go along until the time
came to leave the Jail and then had
changed his mind again and decided he
did not care to go to McNeil's Island.
Then he became quiet and to Mulhall's
watchful eyes appeared rather detected
At Portland Norris II. Pyron was taken on
board. He was a counterfeiter going up
for long term.
Il - 4.
The New York herald., 1921-09-25
Extra Guards on the Train.
Fearing an ATTEMPTED Resct

There were extra guards scattered
through the train to watch for any pos
sible eonfederates who might plan to
help Gardner escape. He often had said
that others were concerned in the San
Diego holdup, and although no evidence of
The New York herald., 1921-09-25

this ever had been found it was thought
.,ossible that he might get some outside
help.
The time came for the prisoners to go
to bed. Mulhall announced that he would
sit up and watch for any attempt by Gard
ner to escape.
Pyron was hoisted into an upper berth,
still with leg irons on. Gardner, too, was
wearing Oregon boots" and was hand
cuffed. He asked permission to tcke his
coat off and one of his hands was released
from the handouts.
So swiftly that the officers had no
chance to guard themselves Gardner drew
a revolver and pointed it at Mulhall. He
had carried the gun In an fmprovised
holster attached to his undershirt and the
revolver was strapped tight to his body by
a narrow leather belt. MulhalPs hands
went up, but Rickel, who was at one side,
started to leap for Gardner. The bandit
swiftly plucked Mulhalls revolver from its
holster and turned it on Rinckel
You are likely to be dead long time"
the bandit reminded him.
RinckePs hands went up and Gardner
called to Pyron to come down. Pyron
clambered down, took the keys from Null
hall as Tom Wing had done with the guard
on the first occasion Gardner escaped, and
took off the handouts and leg irons. With
these he shackled Mulhall and Rinckel,
locking them fast to pipes, and Gardner
walked out of the compartment through
the car and stepped off the train.
The New York herald., 1921-09-25
Break for Liberty Rouses
Other Convicts to q Dash

The next instant three other men were
:unning--running toward the fence for life
end liberty. Gardner was in the lead. He
whipped out a pair of wire cutters and
snapped through the strands of the barbed
wire AS he leaped through the gap the
guards in the towers began shooting Bull
lets were whistling around the three fugi
tives. Two of them faltered for a frac-
tion OF second. A fraction of second is
long time when man is lodging bullets.
They went down; one dead, the other
wounded. Gardner kept on going. He
ran so fast, the disgusted guards said
afterward, that II seemed impossible that
bullet could catch up with him.
Everett Impyn and Lowardus Bogart,
Two former soldiers serving life sentences
Tor vicious crimes committed while in the
army were the men who made the dash
with Gardner and who fell
The break by Gardner and the sight of
the gap in the barbed wire fence turned
the $50 convicts in the prison yard into
wild animals frantic for liberty. There
was howl from $50 throats and the con-
victs started for the fence. Guards sprang
into their path, menacing them with rifles.
The convicts sullenly drew together and
The New York herald., 1921-09-25
Quiet for First Six Weeks,
But Watch Is Maintained

Gardner had been in prison for six
weeks. He had settled down to the routine.
He wrote letters to his wife and told her
he was being treated fine" He spoke
pathetically of the day, fifty years distant,
when he would be released to rejoin her
and their little girl, Jean. The prison
officials were almost convinced, but they
kept a close watch on Gardner just the
same.
Close as their watch was, it was not half
20 close as Gardner's watch on the guards.
He waited for them to relax their vigi-
lance for just an instant. An instant was
all that Gardner ever asked. He made
no secret Of it.
On Labor Day the prisoners turned out
% watch a baseball game between two
scratch teams from the prison. They
we're in the prison yard, cut off from lib
ertX by high barbed wire fence with
towers at the corners, in which sat watch
lul men with loaded rifles and orders to
shoot to kill. The game went on and the
guards became interested in the play.
Suddenly a shout went up. One of the
convicts had struck the ball terrific wal
Top and was doing Babe Ruth" run
ming for dear life. There was a yell from
the "bleachers' and for a moment every
eye was turned on the runner.
The New York herald., 1921-09-25
DoLLIE GARDNER

ME great siren on McNeils Island
cut loose with a strdent scream.
- There was crackle of rifle fire
from the guards in the towers OF the
grimmest prison fortress in the United
States. There were the signals to the out
side world that Roy Gardner was "out
again"
Gardner was known to the prison Off
cials as the most slippery prisoner they
ever had put handouts on. He boasted
that no leg irons had been invented that
could hold him. that no prison could keep
him.
had escaped from the shrewdest men the
Government could set to guard him on
the way to his prison. Twice he joked
with the man hunters on whom he turned
the tables and made prisoners in his place.
And twice he laughed when he was re-
captured. He thought his escapes were
good jokes on the officials. He thought his
captures were good jokes on him.
So Gardner came to be the most closely
watched prisoner in Uncle Sans most
closely guarded jail-guarded not by stone
walls and steel bars and armed guards
alone, but by the very conspiracy of
natural forces. Set on a desolate isle in
Puget Sound with wide stretch Of
water running at mill race speed be-
tween island and mainland, it is a prison
which makes the escape of Monte Cristo
from the island fortress of Chateau DIFF
sound likes esrecreation to pass away lazy
afternoon.