■rrABUSHCD 1880
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28th. 1922.
11.1.0 PER TEAR Of
ESCAPE WITH ABOUT
(200 000
f«W|WV
Anmad With Sawwd-Off Gmm
Duh« Daylight Robfc art
Tab* Mmr Ptmi Step* Of
Dmw, Col*., Dm. 18.—Maaked
MKt, mwd with M wad-off chot
|M and wjthayt rtgwd for Iww
HCe. today fatally wounds CWtoa
LI*ton, guard of tha P—»i branch
wt th* Kan m< City fadaral hmm*
bank, itola 8800,000 la currency of
18 denomination at tha dooratep o'.' th*
g****M*«nt what, and aaeapod. Th*
T*bb*ry otcuptod l*a* than a mlnate'a
ttaa*. Tonight every highway In tha
■lata I* guarded, and pollc* and fadar
al aothorltiaa hava dispatched ana
ad squads In purauit of an automo
bile oecuplod by ntm man, who
w*r* aaan *pa*ding northward ahort
ly after th* robbery. On* of th* oc
cupant* waa bltading profuaaly, ac
cording to th* report.
II* robbary occorrad whila tha
money waa b*lng transferred from
tha mint to a federal teaeree delivery
track. Fifty package* of currency
of 84,000 each were seised by th*
robbers. Witnesses differ aa to the
number of men participating in the
hold-op.
Denver police unheaitatingly de
clared the hold-op waa the largeet
and moat sensational ever executed
in Colorado.
With la wed-off shotguns, two of
the bandit* bombarded the front door
of the mint at they leaped from their
automobile.
Lead Car Uader Fir*.
Fifty government employes, tum
Moiwd by an alarm ball. seised shot
fnm and rushed to the doors or win
dow* of the mint, * hooting at the
hold-up mpn, who returned the fire
and at the aame time calmly pro
ceeded to load the fifty packages of
currency into their own car.
The four members of the federal
reserve bank employed in the trans
fer of the funds had just left the
entrance of the mint and were wsIk
ing toward their machine near the
curbing whan another ear containing
the bandits Throve up alongside of the
wire-enclosed truck.
According to witnesses, two or
three men carrying guns leaped from
the car and with a shout of "Hands
up," opened fire on the reserve bank
employes.
Guards of the mint, and other in
side employes then rushed out upon
the steps of the government building
to shoot at the robbers.
Linton, according to the police, at
tempted to throw the money into the
grilled back compartment of the re
serve truck at the hold-up's command
and he was shot by the leader of the
bandits. Linton was later removed
to the county hospital where he died
without regaining Consciousness.
Employes and government guards
employed at the mint were afraid to
shoot freely at the ftandits for fear
they might kill members of the re
serve bank crew.
Their work of transferring the cur
rency which they had taken from
the guards to their own car complet
ed the bandits re-entered their* auto
mobile amid a rain of bullets from
guards in the second story of the
mint and sped toward the civic cen
ter
Our Bandit WniM
A* the car ftithcnd impetus the
leader ot the highwaymen, standing
on the running board, tr. «d toward
the government building as though
to fin a final volley at the guards.
Ai he did no, Peter Kiedinger, a
(Wrd who was on duty at the main
entrance, fired with a rifle at the
bandit, who was seen to crumple up
4m the running hoard and was
pulled inside the car by the driver.
Xledlnger is positive he wounded the
' jThe money was the property of the
V jover federal leseive bank, the
*Ant merely being a depository for
'It dve to the lack of snffieient vaults
1* the bank building. Manager
Borkhardt of the reserve bank later
'issued a statement saying the entM
fniint was covered by insurance.
Director Grant also announced that
the nambers of every MM bt the con
signment ems on record.
So terrific was the gun fire daring
the rtashoe that 40 bullet holea can
he eaontod in the traneoau above the
main entrance to the mint and in the
«UM of the second story of the
MMhf. The granite walls of the
arremnent building likewiea are
chipped where the buUets struck.
IjJMIiUs across ths street, likewise
...4 '■
•nd apartment Hay— over Um etwee
wen riddled end many narrow es
capee fwm bullets on the part of the
aejunaea — J a A auhiUMl
iwmfn wtr* rvpuiwi w pvii^
"I had Juet come out of the mint
with a each full of currency when
the biniti' euto drove op bietdi oor
truck," said William Haveaer, driver
of the federal reeem truck. I
th*n there wae ihooting. I dived
under ay ear to eeeape the rata of
bulleta. They oould hare ehot me
eaall> enough. It wae all erer ae
quickly, -^though it mmid a long
time. Thex automobile drove away
and I came oat from under my track
and got in it, I wae afraid the mint
guarde would ehoot me as they were
(hooting in my direction at the band
Its."
J. E. Olson, cashier of the Denver
branch in charge of the gusrds, who
were transferring the money from
the mint to the truck, probably bad
the most precarioue poeition of any
one participating.
"We had just gotten the money
from the mint when a car drove up!
and I heard eomeone say *hand» up,'
t started to rush into the mint fori
help. The guards inside the mint j
started to shoot at me.
"I never held up my hands. After |
one of the mint gusrds hsd shot st ■
me, f screamed for him not to shoot)
me but to ihoot at the bandits. 'Who'
srv you?' he asked. I told him, and
then be directed his fire In.the direc
tion of the bandits."
Mr. Olson collapsed shortly after
the robbery and had to be removed
to kit home.
Judge Lyon, Veteran Jurat, U
Oppo**d To The Death
Penalty
Raleigh, Dm. 13.—"After 16 years
on the beach, during which 1 sen
tenced the first nan to die in North
Carolina'■ electric chair end have
passed the death sentence en ffve
other* who were executed, I un more
than ever opposed to capital punish
ment.
Judge C. C. Lyon, now in Raleigh
presiding over his last term of Su
perior court, today made this stat
ment to the Associated Press while
discussing his experience and the im
pressions he had gained while serv
ing as a jurist.
"I would be more active in my op
position to capital punishment", he
said, "if it were not for the fact that
a majority of persons convicted of
crimes carrying long terms of im
prisonment either escape or are
grsnted clemency within a few years.
Very few of them ever serve their
complete sentences.
"Still, I 'believe capital punistunent
has failed of its purpose and is not
humane." %
Although 72 years of age. Judge
Lyon is very active. His face and
figure give hici an appearance typical
of a jurist. His hair and mustache
are whits, but the h|ue-grey eyes that
peer at one from behind shell-rimmed
glassed are clear and steady.
"Sixteen years is long enough for
a man to spend on one job,^ he smil
ingly replied when asked why he
was retiring.
"When I became judge of the So-,
perior court, I reached the height of
my ambition. A* • youngster. I used
to irire into Ellrabethtown and there,
I invariably would my way to the
courthouse, where I listened to the i
trial of ease*. I resolved than that
my goal in life was to become a Su
perior court Judge."
Judge Lyons early education was
interrupted by the war between the
states and the resulting conditions,
but later he attended the MaysviUe
high school ii| Bladen county and then
studied law in the offices of his older
brother, the late Robert R. Lyon, at
Elizabethtown. He eras admitted to
the bar in 1873.
In 1900, he was appointed soMcHor
general of his circuit by Governor
Ayeock, and a year later he was
elected fee a term.. .Be was elected
Judge of the eeveath Judicial circuit
la INC.* aad re elected, eight
"Atterneye of the preeent day," eaid
Judge Lyoa to replying to a i
"a* a «Mi are Mt at
oratorical as thaw of
. "There, alae. haa .been, another
I years ago, lawyers wave
all the eaoea that came
to dec to mahs a Hviag. !
■psifallitog h Mm
MrfmC tMHa'
t
In my laat communication I
my fiifaw to rate la qm
of Surry County'* tragediee far tha
purpoae of helping soma to have a
imtef rseireaua far tha Bible and
tha majeety of tka law. Aa I nmr
made my homo ia Barry County un
til tamty years aftar tha
rafarred to, and aa I have no
record af tha matter, and aa I hava |
navar diirwaaad tha mattar at
with any ona except tha ana
of tha erima, I moat ba excuaed fori
any tnfceuraoiaa which may ha oh
sant wtth tha Uatory
Tha
Thara
ha
to hia own fan
had aotna mo nay which waa not leapt
ia tha bank. Ha averred to ma that
ha had reminded bar of tha danger,
or aafcad bar if iha »u not afraid of
robbery.
Apparantly Maya waa not of
vicioua tomparamant. Ha had learn-1
ed to road, waa rathar religiously]
inclined, believed that ha
pariancad a change of heart, had been
baptised and received into tha church,
and waa accorded the honor of being
made tha dark of hia chureh (the Pri
mitive Baptist.) But hq allowed
covetouaneaa to prove hia beaetting
sin.
On the night of the tragedy in ISM
white hi* brother-in-law waa in hte
home he absented himaelf, went to
the woman's home, got her money
and burned her and her houae to
gether, presumably killing her first.
He then made an effort to hare a
colored man involved, hot without
succeea. Though not detected in the
cri0e, Mays waa not shrewd enough
to keep' himaelf out of trouble. As
he expreaaed It to me, he talked too
much. He said that he told hia
brother-in-law that whoever killed
the woman failed to get <her money,
for he had it himaelf burked in hte
hlackamith shop. And he said that
hte brother-in-law fait that ha aould
not afford to withhold this faet or
teatimony. So that Maya was airsatod
and lodged for safe keeping in the
Forsyth County jail. At that tiasa
I waa pastor of one of the churchaa
in Winston-Salem and frequently
visited the jail to hold service or to
converse with the prisoners. While
a college student at Westminster,
Maryland, I waa a member of the jail
committee of the Young Men's Christ
ian Association part of the time,
and learned that it was a good place
to get a hearing. Once while my
landlady waa sick I. took my meals
with Mrs. Millard t. Masten, the
jailer's wife, a noble woman who
recently went to her eternal reward.
Often I went in with the boy who car
ried food to the prisoners.
I found Mr. Mays communicative,
but wkrrad by his dilemma. I pvi
him a copy of the New Testament
which he read. Later I found him
with a copy of the complete Bible
which he waa eagerly reading. How
aad that he had not put flrat thing*
first! "Remember also thy Creator
in the days of thy youth, before the
evil day* come, and the yean draw
nigh, when thou (halt say, I have no
pleasure in them" ia written in the
good Book; but John Jack Maya did
not ponder it in the good innocent
childhood daya, probably becauae no
Sunday school teacher led him Jo
search and understand - the Scrip
tures. • "Thou shalt not covet" ia in
the Ten Commandments, but poaaibly
his meat and drink consisted of a few
New Testament paaaagea to prove hia
cheriahed teneta. Achan who aaw,
coveted and took th} wedge of gold
and the Baby lap iah/garment to the
demoralisation of Israel's warriors
before Ai, buried hia ill-gotten gaina
in hia tent, while John Jack Maya
buried the woman's money in hia shop
to be unearthed by the oSeers to hia
confusion and undoing. How pa
thetic for htm to wait to read this
story ia Jail after hia die waa cast and
hia doom soon to be declared)
Maya told me that he had aboet, at
completely, paid for hia . farm, aad
waa Jnat getting things In shape far
an eaaier life. He diacueaed with aae
the matter of mortgaging hia farm to
secure eaore funds to aid in hia de
fence in court. With the probability
ot being bung, be questioned the pro
priety of depriving hia family at a
horns by mortgaging it Whether
he carried oat this idea, and whether
Mr. Lawolly waa adequately peid tor
hia senilis, I have never learned.
Whether Maya teak the stand hi Ma
earn Irfimi or not 1 beve novel
learned. He never fully taJliiil
the i ilme M me; kit eMaaed that ha
oii*d tfc®
ip wMI* Mfklni in tt» Wilt
Sat hia talk M wtt ketteve
• doubt that ha mi gaOty. I
•ant whan ha waa lad (Mi the
Forayth county Jail and pi*"* h tha
vehicle which took hiM to Dohaoa far
tha trial. Mjr parting word to Mm
waa to tall tha troth. 1 laft kteo
Immediately for Japan, and amrl
laarnad tha particular* of tha trial, j
I afterward raad that ha waa aa
fenced to daath, and that ha had pro-1
pa rod a confeaalon. Bat aome ana]
haa tinea told Ma that ha Mad* I
I aM not writing thla to
tha ralativaa and frianda of Mr. Mara.
To thaM tha verdiet of tha jury and
tha aantanca of tha Jndga aaay have
aiiMad atarn and cruel. Bat juatica,
tha Majeaty of tha law, tha protection
of aociaty^ and tha goad, nama of
Sarry county required that ha who
had takan llfa ahauld forfait hla Ufa.
In thia tragedy two Uvea wora aacri
flced on account of covetouaneaa. a
part of John Jack Maya' religion waa
to pay kia debta, which ha probably
acri. ,-ulooaly carried oat; hut in ao
doing the lore of money gnawed at hia
aoul Ua a cankerwortn; and tha foun
dation of hia character had not haan
buttreaaed with granite. Inataad of
Bible atudy whan a child hay
atubble had gotten into the founda
tion. After the evil days had come
he tried to uae gold and ailver and
precioua atonea on tha foundation al
ready laid without early piety and
early Bible training. There
othera with imperfect foundation and
with tha love of money dominant in
their llvea. Let them beware. Give
rovetdbaneaa tha reina and reap de
struction. Row to blockading and
reap criminala. Sow to the Word of
God through Sunday aehoola and.
churchaa and reap exalted cltiaenahip
and progroaaive chirchee.
The truly gTeat of earth have ever
been actuated by an upward impulaa
created by a knowledge of tha truth
aa It ia in Chriat Jeaua, usually rooted
and grounded in the aoul during the
plaatic period of childhood.
Leat thia letter beeoMO too lengthy |
I reserve aome other reflection for|
another iaaue.
Uwajima, Ehime Ken, Nov. 1922.
J. W. FRANK.
Recover Remain* Of A
Murdered Officer
Mount Sterling. Ky.. Dae. 10.—
Federal prohibition agents and poBat
men laat night recovered the body
of Agent Robert C. Duff. 60, kilted
Saturday in a skirmish with moon
shiners who were barricaded in a
cave in the hills of Menifee county,
east of here. Members of the band
had fled further into the hills when
the officials and poasemenr arrived.
Duff was killed while leading a*
raiding party into the cave, where
officers believed a still waa in opera
tion. The occupants of the cave
opened fire when the officers ap
proached. In the subsequent ex
change of shots the fire of the de
fenders became so heavy the raiding
party was forced to retire without
Duffs body.
Bringing word of the battle here,
Duffs companions obtained rein
forcements and returned to the scene
of the fight Entering the deserted
cave they found evidences of aoor<
*hining, but the plant proper had
been removed. The dead agent had
been qtrtpped of his arms and am
munition.' '
Groom Lutm Bride And
Tokos Hor Coah
Hickory, Dm. 12.—Local polk*, it
was learned today, wvuld like vsry
much to ret infonuton aa to the
whereabouts of a man going by the
namt of W. H. Hunt, aged about 86
yaara, who came here about ten days
ago,induced an elderly woman to wed
him after a abort courtship, carried
WOO of hor money for safety and
abandoned bar in Salisbury. Miss
Fannie Speegie waa the victim.
Hunt first wrote to her from Char
lotto, H is said, and followed this op
by coming in parson. A courtship
of a few days waa followed by mar
endeavored to diaanado her fiom draw4
iag $900 of the saving of stany years,
but her husband explained to her that
it weold be better. Wbao Hunt de
serted Us bride at Salisbury a weak
ago, be told bar thet bp waa going to
Ceaoord or Kaaaapoiis for Ma bag
gags. Officers bare have no Mao
Mlaa Tatar. -Meal elaasa at
i:45 aa the tssibsss sea cateb the
teeta."
Lettie J.: -Well, I bepe they afl
cateb It"
THE JACKSON TRAINING
SCHOOL
As Iwtihitiw IWrt la Ac
unwplUhfag A Wwdkrfel
Work In lUcUlndmg
Boy. WIm Worn
Started Wrong
By C. W. HUNT.
It mat haw bm sway back a boot
the fall, of lMt, whan Mr. J. P.
Cook, chairman of th hoard for tha
Jaahaon Training aahool at OlaDiad
invited tha writer to aoaa over oa a
carta la day and attand tha esartiaea
dedicating or tha opening of tha In
duatrlal building, tha gift, by chance
of Mr. art Mrs. G. T. Roth, of Elkin,
tha ahoo shofc art tha Woodworking
plant a* that institution. That waa
a long'ttea ago, art I am not awn
If thara wara rther bulldinga thara
than than tha Klnga Daaghtara cot
taga art ona othor. Since than tha
aong of tha haa art tha paap of
chicka hava occupied tha tlmo, art
for aoma yaara T almoat forgot thara
waa such a place, bat with tha return
of tha publication of Tha Uplift, I
hava kept track of moat that waa go
ing on thara, but waa not praparad
to aaa what I did aaa whan wa (Mra.
H. and I) made a special trip thara
Wedneaday last, spending tha day.
Cottar* after cottage hm con* op
•a Rifts of count in until there art
18, houaing 80 boy* to a home, not
to mention the administration build
ing, the bakery, laundry, ice plant
and other*. Pity there la not room
to go back and tell how a retired
newspaper man saw a vision of bat
ter thing* for boy* with no or with
m proper training; how that man has
set to work to interest other* with
him, and how the Jackson Training
school came out of that vision; but
most of my reader* know tow hing
of it, fs well aa how it has grown;
long past the experiment ptage, and
is now where it is entitled to any
support asked for. About the fir*t
King* Daughter*, who erected one of
the very first, and from that day on
the cottage plan has prevailed, and
all the others have followed closely
the architecture of that building.
Mr. Cook confsssrs that he inspired
the plan to have a separate home for
each of thirty boy*, where they live
with a matron and other* to give
the proper care and attention. Here
they eat and sleep and play, each
cottage having a living room, a play
room, a dining hall and dormitory.1
where SO clean iron beds, with good
covering are placed in one large
room, not at all crowded, kept per
fectly dean, and made up by the
boy* themselves. ,
Wednesday wsa visitors' day, on
which preparation i* made to can for
the friend* of the institution and
others that come to Me the boys. It
ia also the bu«y day at the. printing
office where The Uplift is made
ready for its weekly appearance, but
Mrs. J. C. Fisher and Miss Goodman
the executive secretary were dele
gated with the duty of showing the
writer all, "everything are have," aa
Mr. Cook pat It, and the two succeed
ed admirably. The school building
with auditorium, dining halls, dormi
tories, bakery, laundry, ice plant,
shoe shop, horse barn, new dairy
barn, hog houses, hens and tM busiest
of all hog killing. There wefe seven
260 to 300 pounders being ecaldad
and cleaned, and the inforsaatfcn
was that there were more than 40 of
that sise to slaughter this seaapn.
The new dairy ban is a model, the
very latest with stanchions for about
SO cows, and as dean as goad manage
■Mart can make it.
Mr. Chaa. E. B»i»r to Um h*n
thra hitd of tha plaea, ud is • mu
who handlea boy* mighty well, ud
thfcro la u attire au te charge of
•II the Jlffw—t fcHlUlllltl dtMCt
ly under him, and iwi j om who hu
to do with tho hamfllnr of tfaaao boya
ia tuppoaad to bo capable of teaching
than In tha different tinea, while
their education ia nhdar tha dteae
tion of Mm boat taarhaw to ha ob
,modal off naatnaaa. and Um matter at
pllmant to both tho boy* and tha
teoahora. Tho printing office ia
fortanata la baring Mr. J. C Ptaber.
who bognn with tha beginning. and
who ia atfll ea U» job, Wnh( oot
good wot* and food nhrtMa and
llnotypera. It ia a Httla abort of n
wonder bow gatek n mall boy, with
mad* do Dm bhIbwi, whan a
coating 118.000 to 930,000 mal
homo for* S0| not counting the m
and the halp. With such a ipM
up there will in tfan* bo a good
town of MttagNi unless tho
training »hould ins pro and
n«ed for »uch institution* d*cn
Half study in school mornings, I
other half, afternoons; whan otto
in school tha othar half is at wo
Thara art boys for tha dairy, ha
for tha horsa barn, hoys for tha to
and ehickana, hoys for tha baka
printing office, kitchen halp, Um al
shop and all othar place*. Ihm i
larga hoys and small hoy*, but I i
not saa a had faca or on* that f
not cheerful and dutiful. Tha ■
est sat I saw wars tha hog kili
with all tha halp on* could ask |
and every hoy trying to saa wh
could do tha most handling th
Ultra hogs. Tt>ara ara restraints
course, but it is largoiy a matter
'>onor here, and the honor roll In 1
Uplift each weak is growing- Hi
boy* go a who)* week with aefa
•ingle mark ami an bela^^M
One of the main potato 1 made laH
• write up of thi» hchool ta UM.B;
wan fS» need of lb cultivation of V
tho (arm that iprrada out ao in\ rt- ■
in* from tho riaw fiom the hfkttl
ground. But that earn* naturallyfl,
with development, awl mar1). wrBl
much of tho food for man ami beaatJH
cornea out of the ground. There ImH
noed 1pr mora land. The matter eflfl
yetting a water supply on the noulderR
filled ridge gsrc much concern hrB
a long time. The man with a peachJ
tree limb waa consulted, and ■■
located what he guaranteed waa flHj
fine vein of water, hat the place
not >uit the idea in mind for a wa^HJ
plant. A goologiat waa sent for,
waa free to eonfeaa that the formt*»
Ition on that ridge did not todkHtafa
water. A drill waa aet to work n(|l
down and down K went aa dry m » | j
powder horn, and waa finally
doned. With nothing hotter ta light, II
and water "had to bo had." the fog P
waa aet on the place indicated by 1 ]
the peach tree limb, and the maaS 1
claim waa verified ta a abort <tta- 1
tanre under ground; and each a 1
stream of water! Ifehaa never dnwa I
anjr aigna of failure. In fact it ban
never been pumped dry, with the r
power attached. There acience "gat
a whack."
The writer has ramblad mock this
year, baa aeon many wonderful
thinge ta the business and irinh.