M! .ajfl, "T?—^ ?1 1 1 ^teto Jjitjrary \ ■- ^ its, Hun- sons .95 .45 .00 .85 .00 .85 nts at ts One i iizes LS. 29. Is & Shirts * V r' # les wiii W lertajn' w with- is the mow- :areto You A PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING OF AMERICAN HOMES AND AMERICAN INDUSTRIES: BURLINGTON, N. C, JULY 30, 1913, NOJB ilh MfP ■|i 11 (5’^ iwaits iers ^ arrangements of Carder)]o'' F. Coffiing'. the f ari" King vv’ill for v-«u*Tt«t' ■^•iiami'iiirn— ; probably not • be completed ii,r ■'Xx'ix' I' s'^ ■ V ^VS N V. X>. S ^ > S''# t X N .*' "Ai >'\- VrfyvV s.. V " )^'C N S term of from 10 to 14 years January, 1906 and beg’ari serve his sentence in the Prison at. Charleston. In September, 1911, he became serioupiv'ill and was removed toi tomorrow atternoon or even-; the State Farm here. - 1orothers fromj A native of North Carolina, ipehmoed, Va,and Dpville, who! Carderiio Flavius King began his i been notrtied of his ^ death financial operations in Boston in j at the home of Mrs. 1904 Through extensive and i .unique advertising, he attracted' ^was reiTiOvea to Bos- raany investors to his office and I tf'* State I'arm at also did a big business bv mail, ithi.s_ evening and .„.,MHif. COUNH KEEPMlill EVE , Tr,™„n||,£ .j lt|£|ijjjp|) CARDENIO F. KING, From One of His Latest Photographs. mki ATTACH WITH HIM EN AT im AT STATE FARM, L[! CABEE CONVICT Eupon she bej j |cl began to cr,/| K coupied vvu^’ litarealso^ fontributea iir>t. Her Iff and she per |ranan‘iC>t.' Lrtman, bd Foif^oninjr -fi-! r>‘i(i renJt! ;u;Ai.iNO , '-I'd Bridgewater, July 2h—A spec . tacuiar career was ended arkJer pathetic circumstances today when Cardenio P. King, once vvideiy known as a financier and newspaper publisher of. Bos- ■on, died a convict at the State Farm here in the very hour 'that his friends, aware of the approach of death, were making. M'crate efforts to obtain a par-' -i(n for. hiin. Only ,. legal tecknicaiity stood 'che v/ay of making Kii^g’s |ast h')urs those of & free man, i‘’3fd that .King’s condition w^as hopeiess Vv'as sent to Gov. Foss Boston this morning' and soon aii*a'',¥ards Mrs, King and their ■ on;-, who were at the bedside of dying man, received the Jie'tcome 2nissage that the Execu- 'i've would intervene, A few hours later a telephone 'S'j -from the Stat« House rsepor- ■'id that the Governor had ■can vassed the members of his Goun- by telephone and ihat seven the eight had consented to -‘•nnediate clemency. , Kmg, who kne ,v of the efforts [■‘.pis behalf, brightenedpercep- ?J, the news. He was not io;(j of fhe word that followed ■ij-’ickly. Atty, Gen. Swift hav- ‘‘g been consulted by the Gover- gave the opinion that apar- not be leg^ally granted phone. Still later,* a tele- brought the assurance that ^J'^nion would be given at 10 tomorrow morning when ■'-ouri^eil was called to convene. Emerson of the State ,hurried to the hospital ;*'! the news. When he had ';,^'^‘-!rn(;d,to his office King was , death was expected from JTi. v/hen Dr. E. B. Emer- the medical director, was r^‘ ,*\^'"?ed his bedside. Late 1^,; there appeared to be I;. f’^testinal obstruction. Dr. says: uon! a deplorable complica- -'hernia, of the character which Mr. King was * with It was a condi- ^'^:ch was inoperaible for Or. years back.'’ Dr. Emerson, assisted by Dr. B, B. Kasson of the prison side, administered to the patient’s comfort and immediately commu nicated with his wife, Mrs. Mollie King of 124 Winthrop st, Winthropu She arri ved at 8 o’clock accom panied by iher sons, Henry CL, Ralph M. and Frank D. of Win throp Another son, G. F. Jr. of Springfield arrived «arly this afternoon just before his father’s death. Friends of the famly^ Dr. and Mrs. G. Stedman of Bridgewater, were also present when the end came. Before 7. a. m. Dr. lineoln Davis and Dr. E. H. Risley of the Massachusetts General Hos pital arrived, an after a consul tation on the case declared it in advisable to operate. They ag reed with the diagnosis of this very unique and serious hernia case, made by the late Dr. Maw rice H. Eichardson, w^ho stated the treatment Dr. Emerson had given was the best possible. King it is stated, was opposed to an operation, and his wife and sons were willing te leave the settlement of the matter to the physiieians^ jtidgement. When th« family arrived they went immediately to the large Conner room in the prison hospital where he was receiving treatment. Supt. Biaekstone commanicated as soon as possible with the State House, urging immediate action, that King might die as a pardon ed or even as a paroled man. During the day there was a flood of telephonic inquiries for King’s condition. Friends of the former broker in many parts of the State phoned the State Farm, and one of the sons passed much of the day in the telephone booth answering these inquiries. Death came almost sudden tJy at 3:55. Arrangements were made to have the body cared for by a local undertaker a»^d it was tak en to Boston on the 6:18 train. The family accompanied the body on the train. King was know'n as a patient sufferer and bore up nobly, despite his terrible physical affliction as well as the anguish of being confined. The late Dr. Richardson pre dicted that just such a condition as came today might suddenly end his life. King realized it, too. In an interview last winter. King spoke of the chances of a sudden death under circumstan ces similar to tho^ of today. ^ King was convicted of obtain ing $^2,000 lender false pretences from 'perstjhs who had en trusted him with funds for inves- ment. He was sentenced to a liabi- as Later he opened even more lavish offices in New York, and early in 1907 he began -publica tion cf the Boston Daily Tribune. The New York offices proved I unprofitable, and the paper was ! discontinued after it had been i run for several months at a loss. Early in 1908, King’s custom.- ers began to corriplain that listed stocks for which they had sent him money had not been deliver ed. A little later it was annou- necd that King had placed all his property and affairs in the hands of two trustees. A meeting of creditors follow- e \ King was declared a bankrupt, and an investigation bv ihe trus tee in Barkraptcy showed lities of nearly $300,000 and sets less than $14,000. i A y/arrent for Kings arrest was issued, but the financier had disappeared. He was traced to Nevv’’ York, London, Paris and finally to Colombo, Ceylon. He returned to Boston and surrend ered himself at Police Headquar ters, June 12, 1908. His trial be gan Dec. 14, and on Dec 29 he was convlctcd in 57 of 31 courts charging larceny and embezzle ment. Two weeks after his conviction King was sentenced by Judge Schofield to hard labor in the State Prison. The sentence fol lowed a most dramatic recital, in which King reviewed his life, hie flight from Boston and his trav els in Europe and Asia. He declared that he was inno cent of any wrong intent in any of his acts. Later he made re peated attempts to obtain a pardon,. v.'id be or row. taken to Winthrop tom- Pictoresqae Career. ^ The rise and fall of Cardenio F. King, the financial agent and broker, occared daring’ a com paratively short span of years. His activities in business life really ended Jan 13, 1909, when, after a trial on a larceny charge in the Superior Cii.Tiinal Couit in his city, he was convicted in 27 ■ courts and sentenced to State Prison for a term of not more than 14 year.s nor less than 10 years, the first 24 hours being in soiitary confinement. Las| year a determined attem pt to secure a pardon for King was made. He was reported as being in very bad condition ! TH IHE BASIS IF FIBEM OF THE AFTER THIS PUT ANB GIVE TER- W«iild Extend Pardon, The members of the Executive Go,u.iJcii were communicated with by telephone and telegraph yes- teruaj/ by Gov, Foss for the pur pose of^ranting an immediate pardon to Cardenio F. King. Six of .the eight members, with Lieut. Gov. Walch, were reached and they were unanimous in ex tending clemency. The two who could not be loca ted were Councilors McGregor and Frothingham, but as Mr. Mr. McGregor on Feb. 18 last voted with Lieut, Gov. Walch and Councilors Ham and Goect- ing for a pardon, it was taken for granted that he was now favorable. Councilor Frothing ham, although opposed to the previous petition, was under stood to have been in favor yes terday. After the papers had been pre paired however, and Gov. Foss stood ready to affix his signa ture'; expressed his opinion that the pardon secured by telephone poll was unconstitutional; that the constitution required the assets of individual members. Executive Sec. Hamlin there upon notified the councilors that a special meeting would be held at ten Monday morning for the purpose of formally pardoning King, but when the news of his death was received he immedia tely notified them that there would be no meeting today. Sunday night Gov, Foss recei- ed Vxcord from Supt. Hollis M. Blaekstone of the State Farm that the prisoner was very near deaths door. Early yesterday at the Governor’s earnest requ est, Drs, Edward Hammond Risloy of the Massachusetts Gen eral Hospital went to the State Farm and with Dr. Emerson of the institutiou made an examin ation. Thefound that owing to King’s weight no operation was possible with gny degree of safety, as he weighed about 270 pounds. Dr. Davis immediately returned to the State House and reported to Gk>v. Foss that it would be impossible to operate ^nd that King could not last much longer, probably not 24 hours. physically, and was removed from the prison to the State Hos pital. The Govei’nor’s council, however refused to grant a par don. For a number of years up to February, 1907, King was widely known in financial circles and to the public generally as a finan cial agent and broker. He had large suites of offices in Boston and New York. He advertised extensively tha stocks of various corporations and for a number of years did a large business. At one time it was said King could write his check for $500,000 in cold a s'l and his unen u nt»« ered realty holding represented as much more. There were two costly automobiles in his garage and a large retinue of servants at the family residence, 60 Powel st, Brookline. In his library were many rare and costly editions. Suddently came financial diffi culties and King left Boston for four months, during which time he traveled morethanSO OJOmi e s. He returned to this city to surren der to the police. King was born upon a farm in Rockingham County, North Car olina, in 1867. His people were not rich, andthere were nine ch il- dren, two younger and six older than Cardenio. He was 7 years old when his father died, and the reduced circumstances of tne family were reduced still further by rascally executor, who robbed the poor estate and fled, Carden io lived with his grandfather un til he was 12 years old, meantime attending a country school. Then he became a book agent and wan dered over the State selling the “Lifeof Christ,” “Shaksphere” and “The World”s Wonders.” At the age of 15 he was employed by the Southern Methodist Pub lishing Comrany of Nashville to sell its pubiications. He continued in this employe until he was 17, when he be came associated with a newspapef’ published at Charlotte, N. C. Later he became a general news paper correspondent, represent ing a long string of papers in the South, East and West and then was connected for five years with the Atlanta Journal. The next three years he spent on the staff of the St. Louis Re public, coming from there in 1897 to join a Boston evening news paper. Two years later he became im patient at being on the pay rolls of other men and resolved to start a pay roll of his own. He thereupon formed the Grand Eas tern Newspaper League, and ad vertising agency. The prosecution of the work of this agency would take him over a large part of the country, especially the West, so on the threshold of the enterprise he secured a sumptuous private car, taking along from six to ten assis tants. The project proved to be an un exampled success, in his private car, King and his staff covered 26, OOO miles in nine months. He returned to Boston with money in his pocket, and sold car at a price which reduced his nine months traveling expenses toab- People of Alamance County did you know that the Bell Telephone Co. has gone into the Telegraph business and they own practicallf the Western Union Telegraph Co, and they combine by the use of the phones and the telegraph to try to put such Companies as the Pos- tal-Telegraph Cable. Co. out of business because this Company of fers them the Bell Company and the Western Union honest Com- v petition. ' . - : We have been offered by the Bell people great relief from (xm.- present poor service if we will give therh eighteen months in whic%; 10 install an up-to-date system such as we should have had in op-- eration in this county at least five years ago, but they do not t^l you that during these eighteen months that they have for instaUing the new system that they propose to give you just the same pooE- service that they have been giving. During the days that Mr. McAdoo owned our system and for if, year or two j^fter the Bell Telephone Co. took over our County tem of phone we the people of Alamancei County could point witfe pride to our most excellent telephone service. Now people did yoai konw that the present equipments is at least 50 per cent better than it was in those days, but if you complain now of the very poor service that we are having, you will at once get the answrjr that the poor service is due to the present poor equipment. People did you know that the only excuse for poorer service ntv^ than we had in the da^s referred to above is due to the fact that the system has about twice as many phones now as then but why should this effect the service when they have enough extra help make up for this. . , ; . We tell you people that there is no reason why the phone serviee of our county should be as poor as it is, and it would not be if yijrjj would be active and take your complaints to the Corporation'Com mission if they do not gi ve you good service deduct for poor serwce from > our invoice at the end of the month and have proof ^hat dedajS- tion is reasonable on account of poor service and the peojile the courts will sustain you in getting what is^ justly due you. The Bell Telephone Co. in their ^contract states that they wil ow Nonly raise thie rate on the busiiiegs 'phone 50c as tfiey hawe only something over 500 ’phones but as soon as they get 750 ’phone® they will have to raise the rate on the individual ^phon^is as now you see people they claim that an increaise in their output ssM increase their expenses and cause you to have to pay higher rates tEight do to tell people from the FREE STATE but it will not do to tell this to people of intelligence and expect them to believe it Let every man woman and childin Alamance County keep on the alert and see that the Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co. give theRS the proper service during the next eighteen months especially and after the new system comes in let see that we get the very pest of. service. out $500. In February, 1901, King wound up the affairs of the Great East ern Newspaper League arid lookr ed for other field to con quer. It occurred to him that since hehadmade a success of ad vertising others he-might make a success of advertising himself. The opportunity presented it self fourth with for it was while in this mood that the propertis which afterward became the bas is of the King-Crother Corpora tion came to his attention. In the autumn of 1901he organ ized the corporation. The pro perties were supposed to consist of oil lands,. 100 square miles in all, located in Southwestern Texas. Other properties in other sections of the country areclianr.ed to have been added as the years went on, until in the early part of 1907 the advertisements about King-Crowther read like tales from the “Arabian Nights, ” The stock sold like hot cakes. The price mounted by leaps and bounds until it reached $100 a share and more. If King’s cla ims could be believed. At all events, his office was filled with customers every day, and thous ands upon thousands of dollars were taken in exchange for stock in the company. Then came the reckoning. The people of Texas chased the corpor ration out of their State and the stock fell to $2 a share. King re organized the conrpany and pro ceeded to sell more stock to his old customers. The customers had some more money and they gave H to King in exchange for more King-Crowther; A report given publicity by men who examined his books stated that from June 1.1905, to Feb 29; 1908, Kinghad'sold tHrough ; )ais office $2,798,787 in securities, on which his commissions had amou nted to $597,370, and that during three years, his income had be«!5 more than $200, 00. a year. For a number of years before called King, had issued a paper he Called King^s Financial Bullett® in which he gave his views of the financial and investment situat ion, expressed opinions of certaiu men and measures and advocated the purchase of su6h stocks as .he was interested in. On Jan 1, 1907, he started the Boston Dai if Tribune, announcing that it wft« to be devoted to financial matt ers principally. The Tribune was discontinraeii on Oct 25, 1997, after having been in existence 297 days. It was stated afterward that the loss on the newspaper was one of the immediate causes of Kingsi suspension of business on Feb 1908, when he signed documents naming Henry D, Yeaton .arsd! Stephen A, Hopkins as trustees of his property. Kingth’n weVif ^o New Yo*b for a shot.‘i time, rhp.n Niii' .'.i - Southampton, wen t 1 L., ra ■ > where he remained a wi.w?.. rii ,wv proceeded to Paris. Later iis came back^to London and teak another ship^ vfhieh carried him to Naples, Port Said and finally t^ Colombo, Geylon. King returned to Boston on the mprnihgof June 12,1908, drivinic from the South Station to Police Headquarters surrendered him» self und.er the indictment charg ing larceny which had been found against him during his ab sence: King was locked .up in Charleston j£ul for several hour* that evening, but secured bonds- men for $^,000 and was rel^s^ Upon his return from Ceylo© Mr. King gave to the ne wspa^pesse a long statement in which« §»s asserted that he never had Ingly done a wrong to any/ on€ and th^t the only reason ^ teJit the country was because jfie wa# (Continued to pagf 8.) 2;.C. ' B'

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