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Mrs. Jenkins spoke frankly and with
apparently noti.nk ~: crDreol. Sh" snil
that on two occasions was the plaintiff
, In suit against the Virginia Railway
and Power Company. She stated that
Wendenburg Of Hines counsel hal
been her representative in one suit.
While the alleged confession might
have weight in event Hines is granted
new trial on other grounds, It will
not have any material bearing on the
pending application lawyers assert.
The principle Of evidence on deathbed
confession is too we'll established, they
say this being shown in the Valley case
where the dying statement Of one Of
the victims was not permitted asey!-
tine victims was not permitted as evil
dence because the man had been told
that he was doing fine and had a
chance to recover.
The confession Of a man who is dy-
ing has no effect in law except where
the man is told he is dying and cannot
live" 1t was pointed out by one law
yer. Then If he makes q statement the
law presume that man about to en-
ter eternity will not do so with lie
on his lips. But statements made in
del1rium without the man having
knowledge that he is dying, the courts
disregard and exclude. This principle
Is we'll established.
The murder Of Patrolman Curtis
was in August last. Hines was arrested
a few days later and was placed on
trial In January. After the jury had lie
4 liberated 2 or more days a verdict of
guilty in the second degree was return
ed. Commemorative Attorney Willis
@. Pulliam was assisted by Kirk Mat
thews in the prosecution.
POLICE MAKE COMMENT
The. police were naturally intensely
Interested in bringing the slayer If
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POLICE MAKE COMMENT

The police were naturally intensely
interested in bringing the slayer If
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-06-17

you. How? The bigamy charge
! of course"
! Rae was now blazing. She might
| battle Jack. No m else could. She
would perjure her little soul put
she would fight him clear.
DO you know the conclusive
thing?" Garrick turned to DICK.
THAT postcard, about last night at
| the Radio Central told me some.
! thing. How did my alarm fall!
You know, Dick. there's a switch
| between the studio room and the
actual sending apparatus upstalEF
not that switch we saw before us,
but another. Theyuse it whenever
anyone broadcasting tries to put
over a bit of advertising or chlcan-
cry or if the singer or speaker is
rotten, swing the switch and put on
a phonograph or something. A
million explanations will do, later.
iThe point is that he learned that !
was there, found out what was
doing and choked it off-thereby
betraying himself. He has beer
under cover VI since and this IS
the first information V mad OF
him all day-althousht, let
ting Dick or anyone else know OF
nv suspicion, I had private detec'
tives and the police looking Tor
him quietly" He nodded over TO-
ward one of the Astra men with
the policeman in the crowd whom
Dick had not seen. Then to the
man, ''How long before we came
did you get these people?'
Not ten minutes, sir"
"And the 'Bacchante,' which way
did it head?"
HE must have got a m~otorboat
somewhere; put out to 1t the min
ute it hove in sight; then sent these
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out of the way, a lonely prisoner
iready to turn states evidence to
save his miserable hide Who
them Where a Ruth?
In spite of her capture, Rae look
ed happier than she had been for
days. She was holding on to Jacks
arm with the air of possession that
seemed to compensate for every.
thing. Curtis did not look so pleas
ed. He was thinking of the vanish
ing fortune and the frolics he saw
glimmering away in the past.
Suddenly Rae shook his arm.
"Dreaming Of those hussies? Jack,
you're mine-I can't let anyone
have you-even when I'm playing
the game. These damsels have
stayed in our own class. There's
good pickings in the c~abarets! Lord
knows what will happen, now.
Here's that Garrick-and Dick. l
could tear the eyes out of the
whole smart bunch especially
Ruth Walden I never trusted her
she's too smarti"
AS GarricI1 and Dick came up,
Curtis had his cue from Rae. A
clean breast was the next best
thing to 8. clean getaway.
Talk about Kidd and Morgan
and Blackboard he exclaimed in
anxious disgust. They were piker
pirates! They p~lundered their
pals. I've read. Well, so did this
heast-aud he carried off a girl,
too. a ten-million dollar prize!"
Garrick shot question after ques-
ton, why, the 'Bacchante' was a
floating treasure house - the
jewels OF the Gerard robbery, the
Parr jewels-the stuff from a score
of others. There was money, oh
I don't know how much, the profits
of the bootleg scheme of footing
wine cellars all over the Island, OF
the Inner Circle" Jack swore as
he thought Of the massed wealth
from which he had been "defraud-
ed"
why was the 'Bacchante' here?'
demanded Garrick.
ITO take him off; he came across
by car from the Radio Central, as
soon as he got me-damn him!-
with the boat into the open ocean,
safe-Professor Vario, OF course!,'
Professor sVario!" echoed Dick
in amazement.
Yes, Professor Vario, head OF
the biggest gang of bootieggers
blackmailers and ~dress-suit yegg.
men I guess you ever heard of
Yeh-Georges was the fellow pull,
ed 'em in; Brock was the rough.
neck-Rae and | were the decoys-
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Ruth, yira, Glenn and the others
were their cover. Damn his eyes,"
"But-the robberies?" queried
Dick.
Doesn't it explain the robber-
les? To amass a small fortune, of
course That guy was born honey
hungry and ~girl-crazy! know
his game. He dragged me into his
dirty work-fool that l was-then
he expected all the time to come
along at the Fight time, posing as
a hero to Ruth, resculnG1 her from
me. Then to Bermuda, the Baham
as, Martinique anywhere don't
know. Only I do know now that
Vario intended all along to marry
that girl and get ten millions!
"Explain?" echoed Garrick. st
explains a lot of things. For IN
stance, at the Binnacle, what really
happened was that YOU Jack. dou-
b~le-crossed Vario and tried to get
away with Ruth yourself and he
caught you. It Just gave MIN ms
first chance to play hero, eh?" Cur
tic nodded sullenly. And the night
of the dictagraph. With his wave
meter, Vario discovered it, found
that all his secrets were being sp1il-
ed in the air, andsjammed IN on the
dictagraph wav length
Jack listened as if it was the
| clanking Of a chair. He was afraid
of Garrick. Then that broadcast
| ed poison pen message. First Varto
had allowed you to get Ruth into
a dangerous position at the Bin
nacle from which he rescued her
and played hero. Then this elope-
ment story to compromise her. But
he had you right where he wanted
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PENNINGTON

Pennington is to have a cele-
bration July 4, IN Ii good old
fashioned manner, with balt
! games, band concerts, creased
pole, and the like; including
plenty of good things to eat. Al
present only preliminary plans
are being drawn up, but all lnol-
cations point to the largest ceie-
bration Pennington has aver held
1t has been eight years since
Pennington has had such q ceie-
bration, the last one being !
in 1914. A ball game was staged
between Warrington and Farm
lipgton, n band concert was given
by the Old Pine Grove Band, n
a special picture was shown at.the
Majestic. Another Interesting Tea
ture of this celebration was the
climbing OF the grease dpole, by
Skinny" kerns.
More complete and definite
plans for this years celebration
will be announced in the near tu-
ture. It is hoped that everyone
will cooperate in making the cele-
bration a success
The Mems Bible class of the
Warrington M. E. Sunday school
will visit the Pennington Mems
Bible class this Sunday to etu
! the visit made them last fall. The
Warrington class is a large one
and a great number of the mem
bers r expected to be present
Sunday
Less Mahaney has recently
opened a garage in the Arcure
Building on Mill street. This
property was formerly occupied
oy the Independent Garage
Will Murphy is erecting a gar
age on a piece of property owned
by him, in West Pennington.
The work on the Lynch Build
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seIt1l. be. twilight in an hour. Can
youl hurTy.sit np2"
"Au ready now. I've been all
dressed up with nowhere to go for
fifteen minntes!n called back Dick
from below. @@$sag4T1sz~-ss3as1
They swung open the doors and
ran the radioplane down the skid
way. calling back to Mckay to
drive Mrs. Walden acros the Is
land to Seaville. The r~adioplane
struck the quiet water OF the har-
Dor, the staccato whirr of the two
propellors rose to a screech. They
were off in a cloud of spray, leap
ing lightly from the surface to the
air and waving a gay goodby as Nj
| ia clasped her hand as il in prayer
and Vira drew close to Glenn.
The flight to Seaville was only a
matter Of minutes for there was NJ
time to lose before darkness.
At Seaville a hasty survey dis
! closed no sign Of the "Bacchante'
but there was a tremendous Grove
| down on a bulkhead and they could
/ e them waving and hear their
! shouts. Dick brought the radio
| plane down to the water and a
couple of small motor boats put
out
Were got that Curtis and the
Larue gtrl.t shouted a mai with
a big brass star of the local police
| force on his chest.
Dick glanced at Garrick. anchor
here. we must take the time We
| must give them the third degree
Curtis was sour; Rae nervously
| triumphant They had been desert,
! ed, put ashore, double-crossed. Was
, it possible that they, too. Were
merely tools of the man-at-the-top?
Who was it then? Georges had
been eliminated and was in jail
with his mouth sealed.% Brock was
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SO III y SIT here and sendmy lit

tsee.I%cauNsith here and#send myFlit-
EtIe DaYidsanywhers strIkeEdoWn
Goliath.
m the sunset&yario onthe1Bac.
chante. must have seen It, senseo
1t. for he knew something OF Dlcks
work. He changed his course. IN
stantly Dick pulled a lever andsfne
fradioplane changed its course oy
exactly the same degree. II was
like a conscience
They could not see Vario beside
the man at the&wheel. He had his
whether to intimidate the
man or not, could not be determin-
ed AS the hornet swooped straight
at him. however, he fired once,
twice. three times at it. Nc mark
manship OF vario's could stop that
thing. He seemed to realize 1t
For an instant he hesitated, then
quickly turned the gun on himself
and fired
! AS vario sank to the deck, Car
rick nerved himself for the explo-
| sion Of the radiopIane- To his
amazement the little thing circled
like a wasp, turned and started
{! back.
They'll stand by. now" mutter-
| ed Dick. mot a reason in the
world then to send that little trea-
sure ship to Davy Jones"
1t was late and dark when the
i"Bacchante'' limped UP and cast
! station, towing Defoe's radloplane
and it's mother flying boat.
Mia Walden had been sitting for
| hours in her car by the beach In
front of the station, her eyes CLASSY
staring over the waters. She was
shivering with fear. "Will they
never come back? Oh, Ruth. Ruth,
suddenly she saw a slim, drip
ping figure of a girl running up
the beach She winked, stared
harder. my Ruth-at last!" She
pulled the curly head down to her
and sobbed, joyously.
"And she's promised to revise
the ceremony-and put the word
obey back again-only l don't ex-
pect her to do it,"
Through her tears and hystert-
cal sobs Mia Walden saw Dick
and Garrick just behind him She
opened her arms and drew DICK
toward herself and Ruth.
7 suppose 1 may have the JOB
of detective watching the wedding
| pIeSGlllS ."' GlCo NAA1 IN .r
Really mother. Guy saved me
You might say-on wings of wire
less!"
Nita Walden spread her arms
farther, caught Garrick's coat
drew him over, as the tears trick
led down her face and planted a
kiss on his cheek
Garrick took her arm. "Nita, for
your sake as well as Ruth's come
into the station. We ought to
broadcast the truth. They'll fix up
a little bite to eat, too-maybe a
toast!"
He glanced over at Dick, as Ruth
struggled away from his lips:
MAY may broadcast our
announcement, Ruth?" pleaded
Dick.
Ruth sank back in his arms
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dress will be made by the Rev G.. r. Bartlett r5etcs q E Pa tFEe sRu S r. make ~
a talk. a 5 a representative Of the Fa a1aan M1 IN Eaei1a ban Ss0cacon'
The Rev. John s. stump of New YORK City: VINO n was st OF he anS
West Virginia state superintendent OIL home n torelgn missions aa
is now one of the secretaries OF the Baptist Board OF ro Paa NIL Mr
deliver the serno att h Sunday morning service" Inc HeSetehu NJ W..
stump is one of the biggest men in the denomination n IS a NE
long friend of the Reverend Mr.. Eddy.
On Sunday night Mrs Fannie NJ. Jennings ming OF OF s sa dagss a F n5
la paper o n the growth of the Baptist movement in West v1l[rglnla.
was moderator or the Judson Association for many years n IS nor
|oughly familiar with Baptist progress -,,.-
A history Of the local church during the Reverend N. Eoays
nastorate is beingw written by Miss Esther Keper, W.. Taylor n
=. G. Curry and will be printed in pamphlet form and .dssrlbuted at
the services. This history will also b e read at one of n services.
The committee in charge of the program II arrangements 10 OF
the week is composed If Miss Lenore Menear, J.. Floyd Cole ).
|Feaster. ~
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IUentyzFffaH AnniDersaUi
OF Pdsf0rute OF The ReU.
IN. j. Eddy TO Bee Celebrated
Numerous Events Planned by Congregation OF First Baptist
Church to Honor Local Minister--tBapts
Night to Be Held Wednesday,.

Commencing next We'd
nesday night the twenty
fifth anniversary of the
Rev. w. j. Edd:-s pastor
ate will be celebrated here
throughout the remainder
of the week by the congre-
CATION of the First Bap-
fist Church.
Wednesday night will be
Baptist Night" and all
iBaptists of the city have
been invited to attend the
service. The principal adj
dress of the evening will
be made by DR.. D. B. Pur-
inton, former president of
West Virginia University
and an ordained minister,
who is a close friend of
the Rev. Mr.. Eddy. The
service Will begin at 7:3t
o'clock.
Thursday night will be
Community Night" To
this service the ministers
Of the city and the PEG
pie of the community are
especially invited. An adj
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Yes ..Dick.. the ta
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1922-04-27
History of Catawba Lodge.

Members OF Catawba lodge No.
56, A. +. NJ, are looking forward
with much interest to the publica-
tiOn few months hence of a his
tory of the lodge, which is now
being compiled by {. $. Link. see
retary. Catawba lodge is one of
the oldest Masonic bodies in the
upper section of the State. with a
charter dated III 1856. Except for
the Civil war period, 1861 to 1868,
when the work Of the lodge was
suspended, it has an unbrOken
record of activity and usefulness
tC the community. 1t is the pur-
pose Of Mr.. Link to include in the
history the name of every mem
Der, so far as he is able to obtain
it, who has at any time been affil-
ated with the lodge, along with
much other matter which it is
thought will be of interest to the
craft. The records of the lodge
are practically. complete down to
the beginning of the Civil war and
since it's close, but little informa-
tion is Obtainable as to the work
CT the body during the war.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1922-04-27
Killed by Automobile.

Fred Hutchinson, 65 year old
farmer of the India Hook com
munity, whose home was about
ten miles from Fort Mill, was run
down by an automobilist on Elm
wood avenue IN Rock Hill, near
Winthrop college, Saturday night
while he was returning to his
home i'll his buggy and was in
stantly killed. a Ford car driven
by man was seen TO strike the
buggy, but the driver turned his
car immediately toward the city
and sped away without taking
notice of the condition of Mr..
Hutchinson, who died few mini
utes after spectators of the acci-
dent reached his side.
The coroner held an inquest
Sunday afternoon and the verdict
was that Mr.. Hutchinson came to
his death by being struck by an
automobile driven by IA party un-
known to the jury. Two negroes
saw the collision, but were some
distance away and could not rec
Oglize the driver or the number
of the car. So far efforts to To-
cate the driver Of the car have
failed. Mr.. Hutchinson's S buggy
was only slightly damaged by the
impact, one spoke in Il rear wheel
being broken. One light of the
automobile is thought to have
been broken out.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1922-04-27
PRIZES FOR BOYS.
COMMITTEE Rewards Industry In
Cleanup Campaign.

Thanks to the general cleanup
campaign maugurated fortnight
ago by the town council of Fort
Mill on the suggestion of Mayor
"A I. Lytle, several carloads of
old tin cans and other metal rub.
tlsh have been removed from the
premises of Fort Mill homes, from
the rear of Main street business
houses and from other places since
the announcement was made in
The Times two weeks ago that
cash prizes would be awarded
boys assembling the largest piles
OF such rubbish before noon Mon
day. April "a.
Immediately the word went
forth that the campaign to make
the town healthier and cleaner
was under way and that there
was the incentive of substantial
cash rewards for the bows who
showed the greatest zeal in max
ing the undertaking a success, a
small army of knee-pants lads got
OH the job in earnest and literally
combed the town for eligible rub
blSh to make their respective
piles larger than those of their
competitors.
Monday afternoon Mrs. A. O.
Jones, Mrs. j. l.. Spratt, +. NJ.
Mack and y. l.. Carothers, mem
bers OF the committee appointed
by Mayor Lytle to award the pri-
Zes. visited the various sections of
town and inspected the 6O-odd
piles of rubbish of the boys TAX
mg part i'll the campaign, with
the result that the principal prize
OF " was given to Earle Steele
and the second principal prize of
$3.50 to Edward Harris and Henry
kimbrell.
Ward prizes of $3.50 each. with
individual prizes of 81. IS cents
and 3O cents, were awarded by
the committee as follows:
Ward l. Eugene McKibben;
Nard =, Carl Gordon: Ward g.
Rochelle Patterson and James
Massey; Ward 4, Raymond ia.
cobs; 81 prizes. Faulkner Parks,
Hunter and Blair Jimmie White,
Willie HOneycutt, Earle knight;
10 cent prizes, Lee Potts, Jack
Brown. Woodrow Stroud, Virgie
Walker. Dan Broadnax. James
Wilson; 80 cent prizes. Jim Har-
ris, Elliott Potts, Harry Spinks,
>. ID. Culp, Furman Merritt,
Mamie Lee kirkley, Randolph
Robinson, Simon kimbrell james
Fees (colOred), Tom Porter. Ran.
dolph CarOthers, Harry Harkey,
owen Patterson, Garland Dyches,
James Ferguson.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1922-04-27
HIGH SCHOOL EXTENDED.
Eleventh Grade to Be Established
in Fort Mill.

.'he work of the Fort Mill high
school will inclUde an eleventh
grade for the 1922-23 session. this
decision having been reached at Il
meeting of the board of trustees
held few nights ago. in defer
ence to the wishes of patrons of
the school whose children will
complete the tenth grade this ses-
sion and who wish them to con-
tinue preparatory work for col
lege at home. A number of pu-
pills from other school districts in
this section also wish to do elev-
enth grade work L. the Fort Mill
school.
In most colleges in this section
entrance requirements have been
raised to such standard that it
is now necessary to complete the
work of the eleventh grade to en-
ter any of these colleges on certif-
icate. Graduates Of the eleventh
grade of the Fort Mill school will
receive State high school diplo-
mas which, followed by six
weeks course at summer school.
will entitfe them to an elementary
teacher $ certificate in South Car
Olina.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1922-04-27
Death for Moles.

Fort Mill people and others
who are annoyed by moles dam
aging their vegetable gardens will
find the following method effec-
tive for controlling them, since it
is known that the little animals
pass through their runways sew
eral times day: Stir unparched
peanuts in the white of an egg
and while the peanuts are still
sticky sprinkle paris green over
them. Mix well so that the poi
son surrounds all the nut. They
will dry in about 30 minutes and
can then be easily handled. Walk
over the ground through which
the mole is thought to have last
passed and with IA pointed stick
pierce the runway and drop into
il "A poisoned peanut. Then cover
the hole with earth. If the mole
again passes through the runway
it will eat the peanuts and die in
a few minutes.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1922-04-27
Veterans Pensions Cut.

According TO Il statement made
to The Times few days ago by
II r. jackson. pension clerk in
the comptroller generals Office,
Columbia. Confederate veterans
and the widows of Confederate
veterans to whom pensions will be
paid by the State this year will
each receive about IS less than
they received last year. as a re-
suit of the action of the senate in
cutting the pension appropriation
at the recent session of the Gen
eral Assembly and of the house
cOnferees on the general apprO-
priatiOn bill Messrs. Hughes,
Sapp and Blease. agreeing to the
cut, which was adopted by the
house of representatives as part
of the conference report when
only a few members were present
to protest OH the Sunday the body
adjourned.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1922-04-27
New Police Chief.

More or less surprise was ex-
pressed i'll Fort Mill Saturday
morning when it became known
that V. ID. Potts, chief of police
OF the town for the last two years,
had rendered his resignation to
Mayor Lytle the evening before
and that it had been accepted.
N. NJ. McManus was assigned to
the work temporarily. Monday
evening at meeting Of town
council he was elected to fiji the
Office permanently. Mr.McManus
is not without experience as a po-
lice officer. Freqently he has
served the town as such on Satur-
days and Sundays during the last
few years. He goes into the office
with the good will of the citizens
OF the town generally.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1922-04-27
Legion Club Elects Ofi1cers

Officers for the Fort Mill Amer
lean Legion club were elected as
follows at recent meeting: Pres
ident, Brice ID. Culp; vice presi-
dent. j. j. Adkins; secretary and
treasurer. Heath Belk; librarian
and member of house committee,
Fred Ritch. Four other members
of the house committee elected
some time ago are: w. T. Barron,
w. s. Belk. Brice ID. Culp and
f.. b. White.
The Legion club is a distinct or
ganization to the local American
Legion post and ex-service men
may be members of the post with
out joining the club. Nearly 40
members of the post have joined
the club. however. A drive for
new members of the club is on at
present and ex-service men are
being informed that if they wish
to attend the May banquet of the
club it will be necessary for
them to put in their applications
for membership at once. The club
has an attractive suite of roms in
the Stewart building on upper
Main street.