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■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.