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THE BRUNSWICII
VOLUME XXXII. NO. 33.
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"Buddy" Picket! Declares Youth
Died Almost An Hour After
Having Been Placed in “Sweat
Box"
TFSTIMONY THE SAME
AS OTHER PRISONERS’
County Detective Testifies Re=
garding Investigation Which
'• Followed Strange Death of
Inmate.
, Jasksonville, Pla., Oct. 8. (/P)—Ar
l+u!]' Maillefert died in a sweat box
about an hour aftei being: placed in
the cell of punishment, “Buddy”
Pickett, convict, related today at the
1 rial of two former prison guards for
the youth’s death.
Pickett told virtually the same
story as other convicts witnesses as
to events leading up to the confine
ment of Maillefert in the box, with
a chain around his neck and stocks on
/his feet.
“How long did they keep him in
the box?” asked Charles M. Dur
ranee, state’s attorney.
“About an hour altogether—thirty
minutes while the box was locked.”
‘He was dead when they took him
out ?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Can you say who fastened him up
in the box?” queried Durrance.
“No, sir, I couldn’t say positively.”
“Did you see who put the chain on
him ?”
“Yes, Captain Courson.”
George W. Courson, acting captain
of Sunbeam prison camp when Maile
fert died, and Solomon Higginboth¬
am are charged with first degree
murder for the youth’s death.
On cross examination by doing C. A.
Avriett, Pickett said he was 25
years for attempted robbery and as¬
sault. He was sentenced from this
county and said he previous ly had
been convicted in Georgia.
His answers about when and where
he saw Maillefert before and after
death adhered to his direct testimony.
Averiett asked if the witness be¬
longed to a clique out at the camp to
which Drew, Roberts and Travis all
belonged (they are all gun convicts).
“Not especially,” Pickett replied.
“A few of you prisoners were tak¬
en to Raiford (where the state pris¬
on farm is located) from Sunbeam
weren’t you?”
“Yes sir.”
“All long termers?”
“No sir, not all of us.”
“And you were removed from that
camp ? ”
“Yes sir, because we wouldn’t sign
a petition.”
“Who said that was the reason?”
“Captain Baker.” The witness did
not identify Captain Baker, nor was
he asked details about what the peti¬
tion contained. Captain .lohn F. Ba¬
ker was the regular captain at Sun¬
beam camp, but was on leave during
Captain Courson’s tenure.
The witness was asked if it were
not true that there was some dissen
tion among the prisoners and he re¬
plied he didn’t know.
“Didn’t they take Dawson out of
the stockade and put him in the sweat
box over night because some of you
fellows would have beat him up if he
had remained in the barracks that
night because he had made some re¬
ports?”
“I don’t know, sir.”
"They put him (Dawson) in the
sweat box because that was the only
safe place to keep him, wasn’t it?”
“I don’t know anything about it.”
Avriett asked the witness to re¬
peat Courson’s exact words when ask¬
ed by a convict how long he was go¬
ing to keep Maillefert in the sweat
box with the stocks and chain.
“He said ‘until Christmas, or until
he dies, or gets his mind right,’ or
words to that effect.”
"Then Captain Courson’s only idea
was to get Maillefert’s mind right,
wasn’t it?”
“I’m sure I don’t know what Cap¬
tain Courson’s idea was,” Pickett re¬
plied.
Court was recessed after Pickett’s
testimony until Monday morning at
10 o’clock.
County Detective W. H. Casque
testified today that he was informed
on his arrival at the camp to make
an investigation that the convict had
hanged himself with a chain.
Gasque said Captain Courson re¬
lated that Maillefert committed sui¬
cide.
Gasque also said he learned that
“Boh Blake, a gunman,” cut t he
straps of a heavy barrel in which
Maillefert ' had been placed so that
the prisoner could escape.
It was after this escape that Mail
lefert was placed in the sweat box
where he died with stocks on his feet
and a chain around his neck.
Maillefert Previously a convict, serving with
at the time, had told the
jury that the youth gnawed out of
the barrel.
Gasque was testifying under cross
examination.
C. A, Avriett counsel for Courson,
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Released On Bond
Martin Insull, former utilities mag¬
who was arrested in Canada and
held lor Chicago authorities on charg¬
of larceny and embezzlement, yes¬
terday was granted bail. pending
hearing of extradition papers. Ilis
was set at $50,000.
HURLEY APPEAL S
From Little Porch of House
Known as Birthplace of Re=
publican Party He Speaks
For Herbert Hoover.
Ripon, Wis., Oct. 8. CP)—From the
porch of a little school house known
as the birthplace of the Republican
party, Secretary of War Patrick J.
Hurley in a political address today
called for support for President Hoov¬
er as the “strong man” of Republi¬
canism—“the one great hope of get¬
ting us out of the morass.”
To Wisconsin and the northwest,
Hurley told of what he described as
the administration’s waterways pro¬
jects and criticized Governor Frank¬
lin D. Roosevelt, the Democratic, nom¬
inee for president, as being “for and
against” waterway proposals.
Hurley’s trip to Wisconsin was re¬
garded by local politicians as signi¬
ficant. The state, long under domi¬
nance of the anti-administration La
follette progressive Republicans, at a
recent primary repudiated Lafollette
leadership. In the primary, however,
leaders said, issues were mainly lo¬
cal and there was little opportunity
for the voter to register his position
on the national administartion.
“Wisconsin has long dreamed of
an outlet to the sea through the St.
Lawrence river,” Hurley said. “A
treaty has been made by the Hoover
administration under which that can
be accomplished. Every Wisconsin
lake port will become an ocean port.
The seaway has long been the dream
of Herbert Hoover.” /■
“The Democratic platform ignored
the seaway entirely; And what of
Gov. Roosevelt? As usual he has been
both in favor of it and against it.
Gov. Roosevelt faces the east and says
that the Democratic platform
not endorse the seaway and then
faces the west and says that the plat¬
form does endorse the seaway.”
He accused the Democratic nomi
ness of merely offering a panacea of
words and of taking conflicting posi¬
tions on issues in his quest for votes.
“The Republican party,” Hurley
said, “does not dodge issues. Presi¬
dent Hoove)' has stated in clear, con¬
cise terms every issue.”
“This is not a time for the experi¬
mentalist. The one great hope of
getting out of the Morass is to trust
he Republican leadership of Presi¬
dent Hoover. The carrying out of his
policies and non-partisan reconstruc¬
tion program are steadily and firmly
winning the battle over economic
chaos.”
“The Democratic party offers the
American people a candidate without
real program, an attractive, schol
arly gentleman who meets practical
problems with words and ‘patent med
ent medicines.’ He offers nothing
ing practical. On all the vital issues
of the day, Governor Roosevelt turns
his face in every direction but pro¬
ceeds in none.”
“The birth of the Republican party
in this school house,” Hurley said,
“^narked the beginning of a romance
of political righteousness, whose
every succeeding chapter has taken
in new and enduring luster of real
achievement until it now represents
the very life of American hope and
purpose.”
NAMED “MISS CHARMING
Macon, Ga., Oct. 8. (/P)—For the sec
ond consecutive year Miss Mary Lyles
Aiken, a pretty South Carolina girl,
has been elected “Miss Charming”
of Wesleyan College here. Miss Aik
en’s election followed daily discussions
before the student assembly of charm,
manners, personality and attractive
ness. And when it was all over, the
students voted that they made no mis
take last year in electing Miss Aiken
as the most charming girl in thecol
lege. Her home is in Florence, S. C.
BRUNSWICK, GA.,
Former Public Utilities Magnate
Under Indictment at Chicago
Released Under $50,001) Bail
By Court.
EXTRADITION BEING
SOUGHT BY OFFICERS
Has Been Held Since Thursday
While Authorities Try to Lo¬
cate Brother Who Is on Italian
Soil.
Barrie, Ont., Oct. 8. (/P)—Martin J.
Insull, former public utilities mag¬
nate who is under indictment in Chi¬
cago liberated for embezzlement in $50,000 and bail larceny, today j
was
pending a bearing of extradition pro¬
ceedings.
The bond was posted by an Amer¬
ican surety company.
Mr. Insull was represented by J. C.
McRuer, Toronto attorney, whose
motion was opposed by Edward Bay
ly, assistant attorney general of On¬
tario, acting as special counsel 'for
the state of Illinois.
Mr. McRuer presented medical af¬
fidavits to the effect that further in¬
carceration would be detrimental to
his client’s health. Mr. Insull has
been in jail here since Thursday.
Mr. Bayly told Justice Dudley
Holmes, senior judge of Simcoe coun¬
ty he believed the court had exceed¬
ed its jurisdiction in granting bail,
and he refused to have any part in
fixing the amount of the bail.
During this interchange and the
argument which followed over a date
for the next hearing, Mr. Insull sat
calmly near his counsel. The hearing
was fixed for November 4.
Justice Holmes addressing Insull
directly, explaining that if he did not
appear on November 4 or at any other
time the court might designate, the
bond of $50,000 would be forfeited.
Mr. Insull rose, his shoulders sag¬
ging, and pointed a finger at the
judge.
“You mean I am to be here on the
fourth day of November?” he ask¬
ed.
“Yes,” replied the judge, “lire you
content?”
“Yes,” said Mr. Insull, and turned
to confer with Mr. McRuer.
Brother Sought
Chicago, Oct. 8. (/P)—States’s At¬
torney John A. Swanson moved to¬
day to learn the exact whereabouts in
Europe of Samuel Insull, former util¬
ities head who is wanted here on
charges of larceny and embezzle¬
ment.
The prosectf.or had given instruc¬
tions to his assistant, Charles A; Bel¬
lows, to get court orders directing
telegraph and cable companies to pro¬
duce before a grand jury copies of any
cablegrams addressed to Insull at
Turin, Italy. Reports that an uni¬
dentified Chicagoan had sent a cable
to Insull at Turin prompted this de¬
cision.
At the same time Swanson told
bellows to be prepared to leave on
short notice for any European eoun
try where Insull might be found. Re¬
ports received here indicated that In
sull and his son, Samuel Insull, Jr.,
had been seen at Turin on their way
to Florence, Italy.
Acting Governor Fred E. Sterling
at Springfield, acting on fa request
from the prosecutor, asked the state
department at Washington to help
bring Insull’s arrest and extradition
to the United States.
Smith To Stump
For Roosevelt;
Plans Campaign
New York, Oct 8. (A*)—News that
Alfred E. Smith is going on the stump
in the interest of Democratic victory
in November made a stir in political
circles tdoay.
The 1928 Democratic standard
bearer, it was learned definitely,
plans at present to speak in Massa¬
chusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island
and New York. Whether there will
be visits to other states, such as New
Jersey, was not indicated.
The news followed hard upon the
dramatic handshake between the for¬
mer governor and Governor Franklin
D. Roosevelt when they met on the
platform at the Democratic state con¬
vention in Albany Tuesday. The
handshake followed their common
victory in the fight to nominate their
friend, Herbert H. Lehman, for gov¬
ernor over the opposition led by Tarn
many Chief John F. Curry.
REUNION AT QUITMAN
Savannah, Ga., Oct. 8. Quitman’s
invitation that the 1922 state reunion
of Confederate veterans be held there
November 1 and 2, has been accepted,
It was announced this morning by
General William Harden, commander
of the Georgia veterans
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and featured dancer in a New York nui
sical revue, announced her engage¬
ment to Lieut. George‘K. Fletcher,
former Army football player.
Bandit Might Have
Bluffed Group But
They Will Wonder
By DALE HARRISON
New York, Oct. 8. t/P)—The Gris
tede brothers’ warehouse was robbed
of $1,000 early today by four men.
They held up ten employes, looted the
safe, and escaped by motorcar.
But more than that . . .
Henry Breden, warehouse mana¬
ger, stood among the boxes of fruits
and vegetables watching his nine
men at work. He glanced at his
watch. One o'clock. They’d have to
snap into it. That stuff had to get
out to the company’s several stores.
It was Saturday. Housewives would
be shopping for their Sunday din¬
ner.
Four men walked in. One of them
spoke:
“Stick ’em up, all of you. Quick!”
Breden turned, and his employes
slowly straightened from their work
and swung about, facing the speaker.
They saw four men closely grouped.
The right hand of each was thrust
suggestively into his coat pocket.
Slowly the workers raised their
hands. They could see no weapons.
Still—.
All but Breden were forced into a
small room., The door was locked
and one of the robbers stood guard.
His only power over the men was the
fear inspired in them by his hand
his,shooting hand—in his right; coat
pocket. While the other thieves were
compelling Breden to open the office
safe and give them $1,000, the men in
the locked room spoke among them¬
selves.
“He ain’t, got a gun," muttered one.
“It’s a bluff.”
“We’re nine to one,” whispered an¬
other. “He ain’t got a gun.”
“If he had a weapon, he’d have it
out where we could see it,” put in a
third. “He ain’t got a gun.”
But none was sure. They were
nine to one in a lonely ware house at
night, prisoners of a man with his
hand in his pocket. Naw, he didn’t
have a gun. Still—.
Now the robbers were gone. The
workers, released, began talking all
at once: “They got away with it—
big bluff—I could have whipped ’em
by Bui myself—they didn’t have a gun.”
always there will be a tingle of
drama in the minds of the ten victims.
Always they will wonder
—“Did them guys have guns?
dunno. I dunno.”
“MA” FERGUSON IS
VICTOR IN FIGHT
AS PARTY NOMINEE
Austin, Tex., Oct. 8. t/P)—The
name of Mrs. Miriam A. (Ma)
Ferguson was ordered printed on
the November 8 general election
ballot today as the Democratic
nominee for governor of Texas
after the state supreme court rul¬
ed against Governor R. S. Ster¬
ling in his election contest
against the woman,candidate.
Sterling who lost to Mrs. Fer¬
guson by nearly 4,000 votes in the
August runoff primary, charged
fraud in the voting. His oppon¬
ent countered with allegations of
Sterling.
Shortly after the court grant¬
ed irregulatrities which favored
an order instructing Mrs.
Jane Y. McCallum, secretary of
state, to certify Mrs. Ferguson
as the nominee, Mrs. McCallum
telegraphed all county clerks to
place Mrs. Feign-on'-, name on
the ballot.
Former Governor James. E.
Ferguson, husband and campaign
manager of the nominee, paid the
telegraph toils
juied in a frustrated holdup of
mond merchant which culminat
a wild downtown gun battle.
Townsend was shot as the elin7
of a '70-mile an hour race down Euclil
avenue with police guns roaring at the
automobile he bad commandeered, lie
died an hour later.
The others shot were:
Herbert Quinlan, jeweler, reported
near death from a bullet wound in the
j abdomen. Patrolman Fred Blazier, shot in the
light side, condition critical.
Detective Roy Heisley, wounded in
t he neck.
The injured:
Mrs. Florence Martin, .‘15.
Beverly Martin, 14, her daughter,
reported dying.
Edmond S. Quinlan, father of Her¬
bert Quinlan.
Quinlan was shot in the side by one
of the two robbers when his father,
Edmond S. Quinlan, diamond broker,
jumped at the holdup men shouting:
“You dirty dogs.” The elder Quin¬
lan was struck over the head with the
butt of a gun and the robbers fled.
A desperate gun fight with police
when the robbers, fleeing from the
scene, commandeered an automobile
in which Mrs. Martin and her daugh¬
ter were seated.
Patrolman Blazier was shot as he
attempted to stop the bandits from
commandeering the car, which was at
a parking lot.
Detectives Roy Heisley and Thom¬
as Osborne, who had been called to
the scene, gave chase in another ma¬
chine. The two curs raced and zig¬
zagged through traffic on Euclid ave
nue, the robbers shooting all the
time. The detectives returned the
fire and the cars roared down the
street, with pedestrians ducking for
shelter.
At East 7.‘!rd street, Mrs. Marlin,
who apparently hail been driving with
one of the bandit’s guns pressed
against her head, was wounded and
her car careened against the curb,
throwing her daughter into the street.
The capture of the bandits follow¬
ed.
Heisley did not realize he was
wounded until he helped take the wo¬
men to a hospital. He was not ser¬
iously hurt.
Rocking Chairs
Supplant Pews
In New Church
Haines City, Fla., Oct. 8, (Ah- The
congregation of Bryan memorial
church here listens to religious ser¬
vices from the comfortable embrace
of hickory rocking chairs, instead of
from the straight hacked uncomfort¬
able church liews of Puritan days.
Three hundred especially built rock¬
ing chairs fill the auditorium of the
tiny house of worship, located a mile
from the center of Haines Gity.
Here is the story of the church and
.1 peculiar, but. none the less com¬
fortable feature:
Eugene Bryan, former mayor of
Haines city, was approached by a re¬
tired evangelist with a proposal to
erect a church in one of Bryan’s real
estate sub divisions.
“I’ve never yet been comfortable
in church,” Bryan objected. “If I
could take a locking chair with me,
it would be different.”
The idea was born from the
mark.
When the church was opened to
public worship, it was non denomina¬
tional, Since, however, it lias been
used by a Presbyterian congregation.
At first the structure was known
only as “the rocking chair church,”
but since Bryan’s death, shortly after
its completion, it has been known as
the Bryan Memorial church.
BANK PAYS OFF
Washington, Ga., Oct. 8. DP)—A
payment of 12 percent to depositors
of the National Bank of Wilkes which
closed in 19110 was being distributed
today by W. King Howard, liquidator.
Previously payments of 10 arid 5 per¬
cent bad been made, the new distribu¬
tion giving depositors 27 percent of
their- money. The bank still has much
valuable property to be turned into
cash, the liquidator said
Washington,
Hoover and (lovl
been requested hjn
non, Jr., and four
(heir specific plans
return of the saloon’
ing dry states it exisi
laws are revised.
Letters to the preside! InH
dates were made public
Bishop Gannon. Both
were quoted as being oppose
turn of the saloon and then a.J
“When the federal brand of
nal is removed from the beverage^
quor traffic and that traffic is ugil phfl
legalized, what definite specific prevent
do you intend to propose to
the return of the infamous intoler¬
able saloon system which admittedly
was smashed by the adoption of the
eighteenth amendment ? . . .
“What definite specific method do
you intend to purpose ‘to protect the
dry states?”’
Each nominee also was asked
whether they will “stand for the re¬
tention of the eighteenth amendment
. . al'er very careful consideration
you find yourself unable to oppose
any definite plan which will effect¬
ively prevent the ret urn of the sa¬
loon or its equivalent and will effect¬
ively protect the dry states.”
Another question directed at each
candidate was whether pending any
change in the present, prohibition re¬
gime, he, us president, would “call
upon congress to supply adequate
funds for as effective enforcement of
the eighteenth amendment as of other
federal laws.”
President Hoover was asked if he
would recommend any modification in
the Volstead act, and whether he
would sign or veto any such modifi¬
cation passed by congress on its own
initiative.
Governor Roosevelt was asked if
the modification in the Volstead act
demanded by the Democratic plat¬
form would not “inevitably greatly
increase the difficulties of effective
prohibition enforcement which the
president of the United States must
swear to uphold . . . and moreover ut¬
terly fail to satisfy those clamoring
for modification of the law
ANOTHER HIGHWAY
CONTRACT LETTING
IS PLANNED SOON
Atlanta, Oct. 8. UP) Another state
highway contract letting has been set
for October 21, it was learned today.
The highway board awarded contracts
Octibcr 6 amounting to about $1,600,
000 .
Advertisements already have been
authorized for bids on paving six
miles of the Sylvester-Gordele road
in Worth and Grisp counties. The work
will be in two projects, one of three
miles extending north from .Sylves¬
ter, and the other south from Weno
ria.
The letting is expected to bring the
total up to the $2,000,000 total orig¬
inally planned for this week.
YOUTH IS KILLED
IN AUTO MISHAP
Lawrenceville, Ga., Oct. 8. UP)~
Theister Gunter, of Buford, Ga., was
killed and his brother, Cullis Gunter,
seriously injured when a truck driven
by a man who gave his name as R.
Koon, Charlotte, N. C., collided with
Gunter’s wagon near Buford.
Theister Gunter was thrown be¬
neath the truck. A wheel passed over
his body.
Koori and a companion who gave
his name as E. R. Walker of Clarks¬
ville, Ga., were arrested.
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The breaking point"
came 50 months ago.
bed in a hospital with his 111
ed right leg in a cast, swul
with weights and pulleys.
For a minute his nurse stepped
of the room. In that moment, assus^
sins slipped down the corridor to his
door, let loose a furious fusillade in
the quietness of the hospital. Three
bullets entered the body of the pros¬
trate gangster. Amid the screams of
patients he reached for the pistol un¬
der his pillow and sent his attackers
fleeing with bullets fired wildly into
walls and ceiling. Unexpectedly, he
lived.
In later months, he returned to
live with Marion Miller, the common
law wife, who some said, had fired
the bullet, that put him in the hospi¬
tal, instead of gang enemies. He
became more and more the dissolute,
drunken gunman with the reputation
of madman.
Just a year ago today, Marion Mil¬
ler was found dead in her ear. Four
bullets had ended her life. Bullets
fired at crazy angles had punctured
cushions, walls, windows and doors of
the automobile. Nearby lay two dogs,
dead too of bullet wounds that could
not have been inflicted accidentally.
Everything pointed to MrErlane, the
mad killer, the police said.
He surrendered, but the police said
they lacked evidence to convict him
and let him go.
COTTON FORECAST
ISSUED BY BUREAU
Washington, Oct. 8. DP)—This
year’s cotton crop was forecast today
by the department of agriculture at
11.426.000 bales of 500 pounds gross
weight, compared with 11,310,000
holes forecast at month ago and 17,
090.000 hales ginned last vear.
The forecast was based on condi¬
tions existing October 1 which showed
the crop to be 54.2 per cent of a nor¬
mal, compared with 56.6 ner cent on
September 1 this year, 09.3 on Octo¬
ber 1 average.
The condition indicated a yield of
149.3 pounds per acre, as compared
with 147.8 pounds a month ago, and
201.2 pounds produced last year.
TREASURY RECEIPTS
Washington, October Oct. 8. 6 (/P)—Treasury $9,671
receipts for were ■»
.017.66; expenditures $21,242,9671474
balance $825,339,996.51. Customs du*
ties for six days' of October were $4,4
428,766.05. ...