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The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-27
BY JOSEPH P Watkins

An unlettered and unpublished
youth from the mountains of north
ern Greenville county appeared i'll
United States district court at
Greenville. s. c., recently, to de-
fend his mother. his younger
brother. Eli. and himself on
charges of violating the national
prohibition law.
So ably did he present his cases
that speedy acquittal resulted
Wins Scholarship
Fred Pittman, %. was the lad
who matched his natural resources
against the legal training of H. X.
Osborne, of Spartanburg, assistant
district attorney, and won.
In this one display of native
talent and levelheadedness the
youth won for himself chance to
receive college education. At the
same time, he apparently reversed
the ill-fortune which for four ye.rs
has pursued and saddened h.
family.
DR. H. Kirksey, U. s. marshal.
offered to pay half the lads ex-
penses through Furman University.
Three other citizens agreed to make
up the remaining costs.
Pittman will move his family
from the mountains to the suburbs
of GreenviIle, where he will work
and prepare himself by attending
an elementary school.
The boy "lawyer' succeeded in
raising a doubt in the minds of the
jury as TO the identity of woman's
tracks leading from the Pittman
home to the hiding place of 90 gal
Ions of liquor.
Presents Alibi
He also forced government wit
nesses to admit that the still
showed evidence of having been
in operation for several weeks, al
though it was proved that the Pitt
IIIdflS Hdd IlONeu lfilO the HOu9c
only two days before officers raid
ed the place
The troubles of the Pittman
family started on January 81. 1924,
when State Constable J II.
Howard was slain at still on Hog
back mountain
Alexander Pittman and his son,
Holland, were charged with the
crime They were convicted and
sentenced to die in the electric
chair. There were several stays of
execution while appeals were pend
ing and the case taken into all the
higher courts.
The governor finally cummuted
the sentences of the two to life
Imprisonment.
Married in Jail
While awaiting final disposition
of his case. romance came into
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-27

II was scene OF quiet soitness.
of soothing domesticity; the big
honey room with it's handsome, I'M
obtrusive furnishings, the baimy
air of spring which bore in through
the wide-flung windows, a sympho-
ny of night sounds. The room
breathed gentility and safety and
softness-yet she could see that
Bob was under strain as though
he could never again fit into such
an environment.
She did not equivocate. although
her voice was rather strained.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-27
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There were some who came to
the Borden home with the idea of
asking questions. There was one
Woman-a social worker interested
in prison reform-who called one
afternoon with the idea OF discuss
ing with Bob his theories OF prison
life. He had sat in the corner star
ing at her out of his dark-rimpial
eyes, and finally he had risen and
walked from the room without a
word. The lady was duly insulted
and properly scandalized aad Went
around the city 'elling er friends
'thas Bob Terry WIS best who pe-
lOngeC in prison.
Lois knew thai The public beiiev-
e,i that Terry belonged 10 It. indi-
virtually and en- masse it offered
csa II unity syinp,tiiy when rs9lily
I'LL IL held was curiosity. Newspa.
gers tried to in srview him and at
one such attGmpt II interview y, b
remembered that he was no longer
convict and told a particularly
impertinent reporter to go to hell.
This reporter rushed back to his
office and wrote an interview which
his city editor wisely refused to
print.
"Libelous," said this man, land
damned unkind.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-27


Holland Pittman's life. Rosemary
keenan,, his mountain sweetheart,
came to him in the jail and was
married to him through the bars of
his cell.
They had one day of their
married life together The jailer
prepared room on the third floor
of the prison and here the prisoner
and his bride were allowed to spend
a day together.
After the marriage. the girl made
a vain attempt to gain the freedom
of her husband and his father by
declaring that it was she who
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-27

Some of the residents of Toms
River are discussing tie subject
of whether borough form Of
government should not be adopted.
The present form of government.
has been the same for two humid
red years. and. while almost all o.
the surrounding communities have
been incorporated under borough
form of government. Toms River
has remained township.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-27

Things" he answered vaguely.
THE same sort Of things you don't
understand either"
We'll, then-myself. | want to
help, and if | don't understand, it's
because Nou won't let me. Is that
fair, Bob? Is it fair to shut me out
as though | didn't exist?'
He faced her, a puzzled express
sion on his countenance. He closed
his eyes slowiy-and opened them
again. 1t was as though he We're
seeing her for the first time.
She took shape before his eyes
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-27
CHAPTER XIV.


Yet it was not that which wor-
ried Lois Borden, unfair as it was.
The thing that preyed upon her
mind was the fact that Bob was
not entirely out of contact with
life. Somewhere he had discovered
human interests. John Carmody,
OF course, that silken-voiced, ultra
courteous man who controlled the
city, the county and goodly part
Of'the state.
And Kathleen Shannon.
Lois didn't know Kathleen and
could not understand why she hat
ed the girl. 1t did not occur to her
that she was jealous. She thought
simply that she was afraid for Bob
because the kindly Bruce Richard
son-who never spoke i'll OF any
body-had told her sof the scandal
which people We're pleased to i'm
agine existed between the Shannon
girl and John Carmody.
That seemed to indicate, then,
that Kathleen Shannon was no fit
woman for any man to know IN
ely-particularly a person suf-
fering from mental unrest. Lois
envisioned the girl: blatant, coarse
and Indifferent to social and moral
standards, specifically clever, niece
of convicted criminal, and speak
ing the same horrid language which
Bob Terry had learned in the peni-
Tertiary 1t was Kathleen who ap-
pealed to Lois as the real menace
which Bob had to contend; and be-
cause she could think of nothing
except this other woman, she quiie
naturally lninimized the danger vi
John Ca, iaody. SO
The dooieof Bob's room opened
and h. stepped INFO the hall. Sight
of him restored Lois courage and
She moved forward quickly to his
side.
Bob" she asked, won't you stay
home tonight? | wish to talk with
YOU
His face was expressionless.
'.Why?"
Il 10. 1t is important. Won't You,
please?"
Bob had not learned to refuse.
but he asked one question. "Alone?'
''Yes-alone Oh. Bob-aren' t
you ever going to forgive Dad for
his mistaken"
And Bob Terry looked at her
with an expression which caused
her soul to shrivel. 1t was agate
aiard, and his voice was like thF
rasp of file. What he said was,
.sNo!" She shuddered-than spoke
KINDLY again.
''You will stay home"
Eyes, ma'am" He himself flush
ed at the ma am" 'I'll telep-
hone"
She could not help but overhear
his call. 1t was to Alfred Gregory
State Senator AL Gregory. Lois
knew him: a legal associate of Car
mody's, well-born, handsome in a
coarse, ford way; loud and flu
ent orator and thorough political
spellbindeT who was overly cau-
tious, utterly INSCRIPTIONS, and
who was spoken of generally as a
gubernatorial possibility. There
WdS grave QdnSCI I1OO . esooONiet-
ton with this man. 1t seemed that
the Carmody web was weaving
about him, meshing him inextrica-
bly, in it's invisible strands; Carmo-
dy himself, Todd Shannon, who
was Carmody's client; Kathleen
Shannon, his secretary; Whispering
Willie Weaver-and now State Sen
ator AL Gregory. Lois listened to
the conversation, innocuous enough
in itself, but conducted by Bob Ter
ny with freedom and lack Of le-
straint which had never been ap-
parent in his relationship with her.
1t was with feeling of desperation
that she led the way into the iiv'
ing room and seated herself on the
lounge beside the young man with
the tired eyes.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-27
Mountain Youth Acts AS Mothers Lawyer And Wins Acquta

Work of rebuilding the fire dis
trict in Ocean City is expected u
be under rapid Roadway within a
few weeks. Large contracts ar
being signed daily and many of the
structures to take the place o.,
those destroyed win be completed
by the time the next summer sea-
son opens.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-27

murdered the state constable. She
moved with her mother-in-law to
Greenville in order to be near her
husband
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-27

Marion Sims Wyeth has been
appointed architect o. the war
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-27

memorial TO De erected in the Kew
Jersey State park near Port Jervis.
The park which was turned over
to the State four or five years ag1
by Colonel Anthony r Kuser, EN-
braces 10000 acres in northerH
New Jersey, the highest land in the
state. and was used for years as.
Bird sanctuary.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-03-05

CATHERINE AMERY,
AS SHE WAS ABOUT to sail
from Boston on the steamship
Martha Washington. was caught
by the photographers. She's going
to Italy.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-03-05
ROBBERS TAKE
$500 LOOT

Alighting from a street car at
Florida Avenue and North Capitol
Street early today. Samuel Dent,
colored, Is years old, Hyattsville,
Nd, was knocked unconscious by
one or two other colored men who
alighted at the same time.
Taken to Freedman's Hospital
he was revived. only to lapse into
Inconsistencies again when he
found that he had been robbed of
$40. He was quickly revived,
however, and able to go to his
home. Descriptions of both men
were furnished to police.
Mrs. Katherine Murgia reported
to police last night that a colored
man had been seen leaving her
apartment at 922 N st. N. w.
On the strength of information
given by neighbors, she searched
her apartment and found that it
had been robbed of 1920 in bills. a
wrist watch and an automatic
pistol.
The theft of platinum, diamond
and sapphire wrist watch from the
apartment of Lietu. Comdr Thomas
Keleher, 1900 Connecticut Ave.
n. W., vas discovered last night.
Tn" watch was worth 500.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-03-05
FIRST U. S. MARINES.
LANDED IN SHANGHAI
1850 SEE n
IN|P.''ARA|[)E
BY ALFRED MEYER
international News Service

3
SHANGHAI, March s. The Amer.
lean colony in Shanghai today de.
clared a half holiday, turning out In
force to witness the United States
Marines from the u. s. s. Chau.
mont and U. s. s. Pecos parade
through the international settle.
ment, the first American troops to
be landed.
The Marines, led by Col. Charles
Hill, were warmly greeted along
their line of march. Preceded by q
Marine band. the first to fight"
men, 1850 strong, constituted an
impressive, and to the Americans,
q reassuring sight.
An important struggle. constitut.
Ing the Nationalist final real test
of strength, is developing in the
vicinity of Soochow, where the
Nationalist are making thrust
from Chekiang province in an at.
tempt to cut off Shanghai from the
main An Kuo-Chun army. The
Nationalist obviously intend to
seize the Shanghai Marking railway.
The marines were dispatched to
recover a Standard Oil launch which
had been Communicated by the
disorganized soldiers OF Sun Chuan
Fang's troops.
With their rifles unslung the
'leathernecks" boarded the com
Wandered launch and hurled the
Chinese into the very wet and I'M
pleasant. but not dangerously deep,
river and took the launch back to
its owners.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-03-05

The active agency Of this asso-
citation is the National Commit
tee for Mental Hygiene, with Of
fees at $40 Seventh Ave. New
York.
The various State committees
operate under the general direc-
ton of the national committee.
State committees have been estab-
lished and are now at work in
Alabama, California, Connecticut,
Georgia. Illinois. Indiana. Iowa,
K ansa Kentucky. Louisiana,
Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts,,
Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New
York. North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon,
Pennsylvania Rhode Island, Ten
nessee. Virginia and Wisconsin. A
committee is in process of forma-
ton in the District.
Favorable Report
There appears to be a certain
fraternal, mutual-help flavor to the
organization. DR.. Charles P. Elmer
son, president of the national com
mittee, for instance. was a mem
Der of the committee of five who
last November investigated St.
Elizabeths Hospital and reported in
effect, that the institution was a
credit to the nation. and it's few
defects could be remedied by a
generous appropriation.
DIR. George M. Kline. who served
with DR.. Emerson or the investigat.
ing committee, is head of the
Massachusetts, department of mental
diseases. A horrible condition of
suffering ane distress among the
inmates of his institution is being
brought to light. DIR. Kline is a
member of both the American
Psychiatric Association and the Ma
tional Committee for Mental Hy-
giene, as well as the Massachusetts
State committee.
Flawless Is View
Ignoring the killing of patients
by st. Elizabeth's attendants: dis.
regarding the fact that the ex-
penses of the institution had prac.
tically doubled in two years, al
though the number Of patients had
increased less than per cent; DR..
K1ina eorrohoratad The committees
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-03-05

report that the hospital was viz
tually flawless.
These men, with their close. knit,
clannish organization, expend not
far from half a billion dollars per
year, through the public institu-
tons they superintend. The skillful
handling of this money gives them
mower that is hard to comprehend.
And the basis of that power is
the taxes paid by the very people
whose lives are to be thus inter.
fered with. The influence that st.
Elizabeth's wields over the District
by virtue of the $2,600,0O6 per year
she spends is but the local influence
now being assumed by the National
Committee for Mental Hygiene, by
virtue of the millions of dollars per
year its members spend throughout
the country.
The report made to Comptroller
General McCar1 is sample of the
difficulties of those who oppose the
system
At first glance, the McCarl report
looks like a severe indictment Of
the hospital.
Report Changed
1t disclosed many things distast.
full to the institution, but it also
showed many favors to the asylum.
and numerically attacked those
who stood in its way-attacked
them so libelously that several pas
sages in the report were altered,
without record of the alterations
being kept, after the document was
certified and submitted to Congress.
The report stated that George F.
Curtis was the attorney in the
Patrick j. Grove case. This case,
the report insinuated. was a shady
affair. But the court records show
that Curtis had nothing to do with
the Grove case in any way. Investi-
cation shows, too, there was nothing
shady about the affair.
The report by innuendo conveyed
the impression that Mrs. Myrtle de
Months. treasurer of the American
Equity Association. had converted
Groves money to her own use.
The fact was that Mrs. de Months
vas handling Groves funds for him
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-03-05
Photo by international
MARGARET CUFF
Thugs Attack Three
More Girls on Street

The report of an attack by a
thug on Miss Edith Newton, 2109
Eighteenth st. N. w, was the
third to be brought to attention OF
the police within little more than
IL hours.
Miss Newton was walking on
Eighteenth Street near her home
when she was seized by a man.
She fought his attempts to embrace
her, and finally screamed so loudly
that he relinquished his hold and
ran,
Miss Nellie Cumberland, 10, 401s
Marlboro Pl. N. W., was attacked
in similar manner yesterday, and
a short time later Irene Dean.
colored. suffered q Like experience.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-03-05
ELECTION CORRUPTION
TO BE KEPT EXP 0SED.
GRILL
T0G()()N
BIZ WILLIAM K. HITcHINsON

Oy WAA41AAM As nOLOuANCUN
The national issue OF election cor
ruption will be carried to the
American people this summer and
forced into the 1928 Presidential
campaign. 1t was learned today, by
the activities Of the Reed campaign
fund committee and q Democratic
Insurgent alliance. The committee
will meet March Is.
The Sixty-ninth Congress, which
died at the end OF a fiIibusterers'
moose, bequeathed this issue to the
two major parties. The fact that
the Senate refused to settle the
problem itself only enhanced the
Importance Of the issue.
The Reed committee definitely
committed itself to a campaign of
activity by ordering the ilmpound-
ing of ballots in four additional
counties of Pennsylvania, Delaware,
Schuylkill, Luzerne and Lacka.
wanna.
Senator Reed Dl Of Missouri,
chairman. announced the step was
taken at the request Of William
B. Wilson Cd. who has con.
tested the election Of Senator viii.
liam s. Ware lR.) of Pennsylvania.
There were rumors too that the
committee would institute investi-
cations in Tennessee, Alabama and
Mississippi, three Democratic States.
Such Inquiries would revolve around
the negro suffrage question but IL
undertaken the committee naturally
II drag in the Republican patron
age scandals.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-03-05
ALIEN CALLAHAN

the acts are all withheld; and in
the case Of the doctor whose negli-
gence caused the agonized death
Of patient, the name Of the Of
Tending official does not appear in
the record.
What influence led the McCarl
investigators to pillory people dis
liked by the hospital with crimes
they did not commit, while the
actual criminals in the employ of
the institution we're protected?
We do not know what the influ-
ence was.
We do not for a moment believe
the McCarl investigators were actu-
ated by any unworthy motive. But
whatever influence st. Elizabeth 3
exerts in the District, the Committee
FOR Mental Hygiene exerts In the ma
ton at large, only more Of Il.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-03-05

Many good used cars that have been
driven but n few hundred miles can be
purchased At desirable prices worthy
OF the attention Of every prospective
automobile owner. See the timefy ligt-
ing In today's Times and Herald Classi-
fisd ssc14on.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-03-05

because the hospital had driven him
from the District.
That the hospital was $50 short
when the time came to settle with
Grove was overlooked by the Nc
Carl investigators. That the money
was paid only after long delay and
repeated calls at the institution was
also overlooked, along with the fact
that Groves personal effects were
returned to him only when the hos
pltal was threatened with repIevin
action.
When these false accusations of
mtsdoing were brought against Mrs.
de Months. Curtis and John A. Saw.
age, the report did not hesitate to
publish the names of these people.
But when the atrocious killings
OF patients is recorded, the names
OF the attsndants who committed
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-03-05

MRS. C. C. CAMPBELL
A CLOSEUP of the
sister who found Letters
m e thods satisfactory.
She is the widow of a
British soldier.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-03-05
What's Doing Today
and Tomorrow

Today
Professionalism Yacht Club
Lecture-Dean Woods American IJni-
versity, Will Wordsworth" Y. NJ. G. A.
College, 1880 D. M "
Meeting-Federation of Citizens Asso.
Citations, District Building, o. m
Dinner-Federal SchooImen's Climb
Lee House, $3.50 D. m.
Banquet-Idaho Society. Roosevelt Ho-
Dance.Government Hotels, Recreation
Dance-FilipinO Club. Hamilton Hotel
$3.50 D. m.
:, Dance-united States Patent Office.
Meridian Mansions. D. m.
Art exhibit-Phillips Memorial Galley.
2 to D. m.
concert-Soldiers' Home Band, Stanley
Hall. Soldiers Home, BIAS D. m.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-03-05
MRS. JOSEPH LETTER
Psychiatrists for Rule
of District Insane
Underwood q Underwood.
By DONALD McDoUGAL

The attempt by psychatrists here to outjockey certain
provisions of the Constitution, explained in previous
articles of this SERIES merely phase Of nationwide
move of the American Psychiatrist Association.
New Britain herald., 1927-06-03
Gift of Sentimental
 Value for Lindberph

Worcester. Mass, June 3.@R1 A gift of sentimental value only Is to be presented to Captain Charles A. Lindbergh on his visit to Wor. cester. It Is I check for two dollars bearing the signature os hts late father. Congressman Carl A. Lind bergh. It will be presented to the noted flier by Oscar G. Norseen, 27 Otsego road to whom the check was made payable IT years ago. The check was written following an an nual banquet of the Swedish nation- al federation at which the congress- man was the guest of honor and was given 10 Mr. Norseen, who at that time was secretary of the fed- eration. in payment for | sleeper ticket on the Worcester to New York train, procured by Mir. Norseen by request of Congressman Lind bergh. The honorary guest forgot to repay Mir. Norseen for the ticket during his visit hero and upon re- turning to Washington the next day sent the check to MT. Norseen. who kept 1t since that time In memory of tho occasion.
New Britain herald., 1927-06-03
City Items

Georgette Crepe Bed Lamps in all tho newest colors for S3.bo at Barry & Bamforth's. 19 Main St.-advt.
 Lieutenant Bamforth resumed his duties at police headquarters yester- day after returning from an auto- mobile trip through northern New England and Canada. Mrs. Bamforth and their daughter. Mrs. Annie L. Schrey. accompanied him.
 Dance Friday. Saturday and Sun day. Black Kittens, FArmington.- advt.
 Deputy Grand President James K. Chapman and stan will install the officers of the Capital lodge. Amer ican Order. Sons of St. George. in Hartford this evening.
 Georgette Crepe Bed Lamps in all the newest colors for $3.50 at Barry & Bamforth's. 1s Main st.-advt.
 MT. and Mrs. B. H. McElhone will leave Sunday for Atlantic City where they will attend the 5oth annual convention of the National Electric Light association, June 6 to 10. MT. McElhone Is superintendent of the local branch of the Connecticut Light and Power Co.
 John T. Crosby was operated upon for hernia at New Britain General hospital yesterday. The operation was performed by Dr. Frank Zwick.