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Man Sought In Murder Takes Child Cripple With Him In Flight
STRANGE LOVE OF
"BAD mr FOR
CHILD IS
BAFFLING
BY ERNEST L. LYNN
CLEVELAND—TiII* is tho story
of a little girl—with a six-pound
Iron brace on her crippled lee —who
ran away with a man wanted for a
policeman's murder.
Criminologists will shako their
heads over this, seeking an explan
ation.
They will not wonder so much
at the part the little girl played,
for Leota Horton Is only 7.
But they will wonder nt the
strange love of Albert "Ited" Holt
for tills little girl and her mother—
an emotion so strong that, although
k fugitive charged with murder, he
took Leota and her mother with
him on his mad flight and thus
brought nbotft his own capture.
"Red” Holt was wanted for the
murder of l’olicemnn Michael
Hahnel, who was shot down Oct.
17 while arresting two men for u
traffic violation in Shaker Heights,
a suburb.
He was captured nine days Inter
In Wheeling, W. Va., his money
gone, spent on Mrs. Margaret Hor
ton and her little crippled daugh
ter. He refused to desert them.
Alone, be could have escaped—ls
not for good, nt least for a long
time. But he made his choice, and
elected to take with him the two
he loved best In the world.
t/COta still prattles about the
speed of "Red's car.
"We passed all the cars on the
road," she boasts, "police and
everybody.”
LEAVES FAMILY
FOR THEM
It was a sordid love affair at bost,
this affection between ''Red'' Holt
and Margaret Horton. For Holt
alreadv lias a wife and two child
ren. and Mrs. Horton has not yet
been divorced from her own hus
band.
But the love of "Red" Holt for
the crippled Leota was real.
And Mrs. Horton explains her
own devotion for Holt thus:
"You can't know what it means
to have someone bring sunlight Into
the life of a little girl—your own
flesh and blood—a little girl that
you sen carried off to school every
morning In a wagon full of other
children with cruel Iron braces on
their bodies.
■'Her own father never abused
her. but neither he nor anyone
else paid much attention to her
either. And she was so little and
pitiful.
"But 'lted' adored her. If Leota
wanted to go any place with us,
'Red' took her. Thero was alwnys
something In his pockets for her.
Ho took her to movies. Hho loved
him.
"And no 1 loved him 1 loV* him
now I'd go through It all again.
"He is so tendor and kind with
women. He knew Just what *
j.rtdcl In life. I shall never fall
him He loves me and I trust him."
" \nd what of 'Red's' wife mid
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LEFT—LEOTA HORTON IN T HE ARMS OF DETECTIVE LIF,U
-TKNANT EMMETT POTTS. U PPER RIGHT ALBERT HOLT,
WHO Till.t en FLEEING POLICE TOOK THE LITTLE CRIP
PLED GIRL AND HE HMOTIIE H ALONO WITH HIM. LOWER
RIGHT -LEOTA'B MOTHER, MRB MARGARET HORTON.
children?” they ask Mrs. Horton.
"That make* a difference," sho
replies. “ 'Red' did not lovo them.
It la Just mo und little Leota.”
Police charge that 'Red' Holt nnd
nconvpanlon, each with a previ
ous prison record, shot a police
man who was riding with them to
the station.
Shot him, they say, heenuse, al
though they were arrested for
speeding, they feared nrrest for a
holdup they had Just committed.
Jlolt protests his Innocence.
r-ii icty'H finger is turned against
him. His wife Is obtaining a di
vorce, because of his Infatuation for
't he other woman."
No one sides with him hut a
woman nnd n girl.
The woman who says sho loves
him in spite of everything.
And the little seven-year-old
girl with the cruel Iron brace who
adores him because he was kind to
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S. C. TEXTILE MILLS
Turned Out $217,133,632
Products In Fiscal Year
COLUMBIA. 8. C—Products
valued nt $217,132,632 were turned
out by the textile mills of South
Carolina (luring the fiscal year*
ending July 31, 1924. according to
figures given out Thursday by B.
Harris, commissioner of agriculture,
commerce and lndsutrles. This fig
ure represents nn Increase of more
than $50,000 over that of two years
ago. It was stated.
Although Increases wer# shown in
the number of the oaplta stock,
capital Invested In plant* and num
ber of splndlea, a slight decrease
In the number of hales of cotton
consumed wiu reported. The report
atnted that 1,009.241 hales were
used In 1923 compared to 1,003,376
In 1924
There were 5.372.481 spindle* In
the state on August Ist., according
to the report.
(Jresnvllla county hends the Hat
In the value of products turned out
during the year. It was shown, fol
owed closely by Spartanburg coun
ty, Greenville county mtlla manu
factured goods to the value of $31.-
766.619 during the year, compared
to $30,442,839 for Spartanburg, the
report stated.
However, Greenville county trails
Spartanburg In the total number of
spindles. Spartanburg eadlng by
noary 200,000, according to the re
port.
Anderson county ranked third In
the value of products turned out.
Mills of that county turned out
products to the value of $22,617,-
617 during the past fiscal ycat,
while the value of Richland coun
ty's textile produeta was given as
$10,132,198.
CAROLINA KIWANIANS
Elect Officers—Meet Next
at Pinehurst
SPARTANBURG, S. C.—With the
election of Pinehurst, N. C„ as the
next convention city and the elec
tion of officers the fifth annual
meeting of the Carollnaa dlstrlst
Klwatila Club* was closed with a
bamiuet at the state Institute for
the deaf and blind nt Cedar Spring*
Officers for the coming year
are:
Ulstrlct governor, IC. W. Sykes,
of Hartsville. succeeding Harry T.
Adams, of ltaletgh; lieutenant
governors. A, W Honeycutt, Hen
dersonville; J. W. Flstchsr, Salis
bury ; M. A. Briggs, Durham; O. T.
Pressley, Columbia; and A, Foster
McKissick. of Greenville. The new
lieutenant-governors succeed John
It. Duffle. Sumter; Richard T.
Few el. Rock Hill; William A.
French, Wilmington;, C. Felix Hnr
voy, Jr., Kinston; and B. Scott
ltlanton. Charlotte.
Roderick H. McDonald of Colum
bia. succeeded himself as district
secretary and treasurer
MIKE McTIGUE
To Apply For License In N.
’ Y. Friday
NEW YORK Mike McTIjfUC.
light heavyweight champion of the
world, is scheduled to appear be
fore the state athletto commission
license eommittes Friday to apply
for a license If refused. «a Indi
cated by action of the commission
Inst week, he will sue the body for
000. the champion said.
McTlgue nsver hns been a lloens.
od hoxrr In New Y'ork. The eom
tHls'-loner announced last week that
no license would he granted to him
for one year because of Ms re
fusal to give Cene Tunney. Ameri
can Itcht heavvwetcht chsmnlon.
first chance at his crown MoTtgua
w lshcs to meet Paul Perlenbacli
first.
THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA. GA.
WM. E. OWENS
Died Friday After Three
Months’ Illness
i
William Eugene Owens died Fri
day morning at 7 o'clock at the
University Hospital. The end came
quietly and peacefully following an
Illness of more than three months.
He was at the hospital eleven
weeks.
Mr. Owens was born August 15,
1849, at Barnwell, S. C., and was
the son of William Aiken Owens.
He was 75 years old to the day
when carried to the hospital here.
For many years he made his home
at Pelzer, S. 0., being treasurer of
the Pelzer Manufacturing Com
pany. There he married Miss
Minnie Hard who died In Augusta
three years ago. Rome years ago
Mr. Owens moved to Ornnltevllle,
H. C„ and was employed In tho
clerk of court’s office at Aiken.
He moved to Augusta In 1917, and
had, with the exception of a short
period, been a member of the edi
torial staff of the Herald since
coming here.
Although not widely known, Mr.
Owens probably possessed more
real friends than any man In Au
gusta. Being of a kind, gentle,
lovable, unassuming, Christian
character, endeared him not only to
family and relatives, but to all
with whom he came In contact.
Words of anger or Invidious
thoughts were entirely foreign to
his nature, and his smile and gen
iality of manner made placid the
stream of life all about him. He
was a member of the First Baptist
Church and a regular attendant
there.
Mr. Owens Is survived by two
sons, W. Curtis Owens and Gene
Stewart Owens, both of Augusta:
two daughters, Miss Julie Owens
of Augusta, gnd Mrs. W. F. Pascoe,
of Detroit, Mich.; two brothers,
Clarence E. Owens, of Grover, 8.
C.. and C. B. Owens, of Augusta;
one sister, Miss Eva C. Owens, of
Union, S. C.
Funeral services will be held
from the First Baptist Church
Saturday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock,
Rev. E. L. Grace officiating nnd In
terment will be made In Westover.
Pallbearers are J. C. Douglas,
Dr. A. N. Stothart, W. B. Dunbar,
W. S. Mage, R. H. Daniel, and A.
H. Hardy.
HEALTH OFFICERS
Of South Oarolina Meet In
Columbia
COLUMBIA, E. C. —A atate-wtde
meeting of county health officers
and nurses will be held In Colum
bia Friday, according to an an
nouncement late Thursday by Dr. L.
A. Riser, head of the department
of rural sanitation and health work
of the state board of health. About
40 are expected to attend, he stated.
Meetings for an exchange of Ideas
In connection with rural health
work In Sputh Carolina, the health
officers and nurses will discuss
rural sanitation problems, said Dr.
Riser.
GOVERNOR McLEOD
To Attend Conference at
Jacksonville
COLUMBIA, S. C —Gov. Thomas
O. McLeod, of South Carolina, will
attend the governors’ conference to
be held nt Jacksonville, Fla., be
ginning November 17th, he stated
Thursday. The governor added that
the trip to the Florida city will
keep him out of his office the en
tire week, beginning November 16th.
"This Is an Important confer
ence, demanding my presence, ns n
number of matters of Importance to
the state will be discussed,” said the
chief executive.
The conference will be devoted,
largely, to round-table discussions
of taxation, conservation of natural
resource*, and other aubjccts af
fecting the welfare of common
wealths, It was said.
FORMER KEY MEN
To B« Entertained at New
Orleans Friday
NEW ORLEANS— Having trans
acted Thursday all the business
that will come before this year's
meeting, the principal feature of
which was the election of officers
and the selection of next year's
meeting plaoo delegates to the forty
second annual reunion of the old
time telegraphers and hiatorlcal as
sociation, planed Friday to carry
out a program arranged hy the
local committee for the entertain
ment of the former key men.
Richard E. Enright, police com
missioner of Ns*v York city was
elected president, auceedlng F. A.
Mohr, of Dallas, and the following
vice presidents were chosen:
Newcomb Carlton New York,
president of the Western 1 nlon
Telegraph Company. Clarence H.
Mackey, New York, president of
the Postal Telegraph Company, F.
F Fltrpatrlrk. New York, president
of the Railway Steel Spring Com
pany: General Harboard, New York
president of the Radio Corpora
tion of America, and J. L. Merrill.
New York, president of the All-
America Cables.
All til* other officers were re
elected. New York was chosen as
the next convention city.
The convention will he brought
to a close Saturday night with tho
annual banquet.
It was brought out at the meet
ing Thursday that the Old Time
Telegraphers now number 1.255
members In good standing.
Among them are some of the
most prominent men In the civic,
business and social Ufa of the
country.
WOMEN STUDENTS
At Stanford Are Using Less
Tobacco
STANFORD VNIVERSITY. Cat
Women students at Stnnfonl
University are using less tobacco
nowadays, according to Information
made available Thursday at a meet.
Ing of the Associated Women Stu
dents where resolutions were adopt
ed commending co-eds on the de
cline In smoking In their ranks hut
urging a greater abstinence from
cigarettes
Resolutions asking that drinking
among students at Stanford he
stamped out and that sources of
supply he summarily dealt with
were adopted by the women stu
dents atro.
THOMSON BOY HURT
THOMSON, Ga. —Joe Farmer, 17-
vear-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Cliff
Farmer of this place, was puinfully
hurt when thrown against a tele
phone pole from the running board
of an automobile on which he was
riding when the car made a sudden
urn near the Methodist church eer
ier. Young Farmer will be confined
n his home several days because of
he accident/
BENNETT CASE
Will Be Tried Soon at
Chattanooga
CHATTANOOGA. Tenn.—lnter, st
in the case of W. H. Bennett and
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wife, prominent residents of Rome,
Ga., accused of murder In con
nection with the systerlous disap
pearance of Miss Augusta Hoffman,
modiste, here in 1915, was revived
Thursday when it was announced
the case probably would be as
signed for hearing within a few
days. Bennett, hoding a. responsible
position with the Southern Rail
road at Rome, and his wife, are
at liberty on a Joint bond of $7,000
fixed at a preliminary hearing of
the case several weeks ago.
The case originated when work
men found a skelton of a woman
under a basement of a house for
morly occupied by the Bennetts In
this city, an investigation having
established evidence, according to
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Folowlng the reease of the Ben -
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CLERGYMAN’S SON
Confesses to Staging Big
Robbery
LOS ANGELES. — Arrested Here
last week in an alleged attempt to
rob a diamond broker’s office Al
bert L. M. Gross. 22 year old son
of a South Barre, Mass., clergy
man was quoted by police Friday
as confessing that he staged a $lO,-
000 daylight diamond robbery in
Worcester, Mas 3„ last February.
In his confession is corroborated
by Worcester authortiies he will
be sent there for trial, It was an
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31
BOW AND ARROW HUNT.
DENVER, Colo. Armed only
with a bow and arrow, E. R. Welch
will hunt mountain lions in the Co
lorado Rockies this summer. Welch
has notified Stanlty P. Young, in
charge of the Predatory Animal
Division for the V. S. Biological
Survey, of his plans.
MARRIAGE RECORD.
WICHITA. Kas.—The Rev. Wal
ter Scott Priest recently married
five cousins in five hours—which is
a record of its kind for the state
of Kansas. Incldently, the five
in-five hours record marked the
2119th ceremony at which the Rev.
erend Priest has officiated.
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