VOL. XXVII.
YADKINVILLE, YADKIN CO., N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1921
NO. 22
SK3LERS MET
RR MtLDOM
iANat^^ng Mecca for Siippery
Gang of Crooks, Starts
a C!eanup.
MUROER !S PART OF GAME
jankers and Business Men Among the
{ Victims Lured From Many States
—Raid Reveais Bogus Broker
age Offices—Po!ice Accused.
Atlanta, Qa.-^Kalt a dupe is bom
)ry minute and that no scheme is so
taatic that it does not And some
ard headed business tman in
cases—to fall for it, has been
wed to** the satisfaction of every
in Atlanta through revelations
de during the hearing by a council
tttee of the activities here of a
ion dollar bunco gang, who oper
it is charged, either with the
nivanee or through the colossal ig
of the police department.
! The hearing also has proved that no
section or locality iB exempt from its
wop of dupes. Men with money to
contribute to the support of the gang
t operated in Atlanta have come to
ts city to be fleeced from Reading
id Philadelphia, from Maryland,
fississippi, Georgia, Tennessee, Louis
na, Florida, Ohio, Indiana and Tex
Indeed, Texas was very good to
Atjanta seekers for easy money.
}ly was one W. R. Manning, a
PP<^ young man of Dallas, Tex.,
tMndly disposed to the con men.
{ And it has been shown that when
[money is at stake even murder is not
!too high a price to pay in order to
[heap it and retain liberty. Here is
The death roil of Atlanta's bunco
Hang:
Doctor Blanchard, son of a former
[governor of Louisiana, who committed
wuicide in Memphis after losing Ms
troll.
W. C. Dukes, banker of Milan, Ga.,
Who came to Atlanta to confer with
*ihe gang on an easy money proposal
XBd mysteriously disappeared.
Ed Mills, member of the gang,
roommate of Floyd P. Woodward, al
leged leader, who was shot and killed
thy Woodward because, it Is alleged,
Hills was tipping the police off to
the operations of the gang.
(Carles Dorsey, taxicab driver, who,
bt is said, knew too much about ^the
[Hills killing.
Ruth Gobel, another witness, was
TMsposed of when Woodward married
Her.
Left Their Rosy Hopes Behind.
Here is a partial list of the men
who came to Atlanta with roseatn
Hopes and who left—If th y were
Able to get away—heartbrolica and
pockets empty:
W. D. * Hill, an aged Confederate
[Veteran, former ordinary of his conn
tty at Clarkesvllle, Ga., who lost about
$2,000.
^J. A. Nations of Asworth. Ga.. who
^ost ^3,SQ0 at the Cecil hotel here in a
Hame that was framed by Mark Tii
iwry, recently captured hi Tones,
[brought back to Atlanta and tnrnod
lo* co Solicitor Jc* '
^ery was reputed boss of the iocnl
[game at one time.
i W, R. planning, frrm Dallas Tex.,
tost $7,000. ^
; George W. Wiley of Whitehall, Vn.,
tost $10,000.
D. R. and W. M. B'and of Drew,
Hiss., who contributed $10,000 tactile
!jgame.
.money oilmen, a. W.,iOS!;
$11,000 and would have lout more had
he been able to got checks cashed. bat
)B. banker friend t'upeil' him of? iust
In time to keep him horn losing $10,
b00 more. This was a stock deal, in
Which bis supposed winnings laul run*
Bp in the hundred thousands.
C. T. Madeira of Heading Pa., who
lost $27,000, at one time had a big
Apparent winning, but i t the end ihc
paper profit dlsnupt-nred attd he v.'.-nt
&ack to Pen-sylvarda^ad lcr but may
be wiser. In this c ..done of Atlan
ta's hest-kn n citinens aided :.!;e op
erating ^hng.
, One C(frr"arnt:i b old mail ernae',.'
Atlanta fr ;m Imliana. iost ids r.rouey
andissti'lknia. Pi.'. :dorywn:;('iM'
pf the m ny a!ready told d!.r.*i!rg. ihe.
four weeks, of investigation cf -the
easy ipouey syndicate of Atlanta.
! That) walpan hldo itanlmr who
'tcame^)^his city, fell in with snrooih
talke^y^rrd attempted to get checks
cashed for approximate'^ hut
$1! t^Hbang got him fc- was $2,000
"Chicago Man In oived.
Tl:er*e is the case f Albert H.
Thompson of Chicago. Thompson is
being sought on a law y charge and
At is thought that he! in Cuba. So
licitor John Hoykiu refuses to di
vulge for the present the details.
: Thompson's indictment was a sur
prise, for his wife was known to he
we.dthy. The Thompsons have a Sue
^hmuc-iiiAshevilie. _ '
The raids started as a result of the
fleecing of Holley of Alikin out of $11,,
(KM). He and a co&ipanion made a noise
that ali Atlanta heard. OHlcers were
sent to see him, and lie ahd his com
panion laid a trap for Abe Powers, the
alleged steerer in the game. The detec
tives told them to go on out and meet
Powers and they would follow. That
was about the last they heard of the
detectives, but they met Powers by
agreement and seized bint. A passing
policeman was bailed finally and
Powers went to jail.
Then started a search for the head
quarters of the gang. The detectives
the next day were piloted to the build
ing in a downtown locality, where the
South Carolinians said they had been
roTbed. &ut se^rci) g.s gtey might, the
ofhcers could not Rnd the rooEff
Pajd Reveals Broker's Office.
The next day they appealed to the
Solicitor and he led a personal raid of
the building. The room was found at
once and he seized all the parapher
nalia. The place was fitted up with all
the elaborateness of a stock broker's
ofBee in New York. There were black
boards, fake telegraph instruments,
take money, and everything e!se
needed. It looked like there was aii
the money in the worid there, but in
vestigation revealed that only the
cover bibs were good. The rest was
green paper.
That was the beginning. Within! the
next few days the solicitor raided three
places operated by the gang, in one
case using axes to break in. In this
place were found all the instruments
needed for marking cards, crooking
dice; fake money, several hundred doi
lars of real money in the safe; crap
tables; and before the night was out
many visitors, who had been taken
into custody had to tell what they
knew or go to jail.
The raids were followed by many
prosecutions. The gang bad seen that
the jig was up and most of them had
disappeared. Gradually they are being
rounded up and brought back to Atlan
ta. Abe Powers and eight of his con
freres have been sent to the penitenti
ary, but carelessnessattheprisonfarm
was utilized by Abe Powers and he is
at large again. Many others are under
arrest and some have given bond.
Among those indicted and soon to stand
trial will be Ira Fort, who was mixed
up, It Is said in th& Madeira swindle.
A feature of this prosecution is found
in the fact that the solicitor himself
has offered bier rewards for the cap
ture oir^fne various "con" men, and
paid some of them.
* The search continues the country
over for Floyd P. Woodward. He is
held up gs the "Master Mind" of the
t gang. Since his escape he has written
a letter hack to Atlanta in which he
charges that he had paid out $2,000
as a bribe at one time to Solicitor
Boykin; had paid large sums at other
times, a cut in of his receipts to
Joseph Ewing, a lawyer formerly con
nected with Boykin's office before be
became solicitor, and who. according
Woodward was the go-between for
Boykin.
To "so charges by Woodward, the bail
folio'.", who was friendly with every
body in town, went bunting*with Chief
Poole, rave diamond rings and phono
gram hs to councllmen and dispensed
: o' o/ wkh a liberal band, have given
'ho p-:Hce a club to lot Boykin. So
they "k:u..o that Boykin knew as much
of C.e i' :! \tions of the gang as they
did. or mma.
(hie f ' k **e of the Investigation has
two *oo Ewing,
lawyer, Ik " C. uncilmnn A! Martin a^d
'loyd 1'. Woodward ran one if the
"dens" .together; Martin for whiskey
and Wood '-"rd for gaming: and that
ai ibif- place hundreds of gallons of
liquor bad been delivered by a young
man now In Birmingham. Another
allegation wa;i that Aldlne Chambers,
who ied the campaign in Georgia for
Palmer when be wasseeking<the presi
dential nomination, had worked to re
cruit Hie gang by getting men out of
the fedora! penitentiary for this
purpose.
TexsG Victim Gets Angry.
Them is t!.e case of young Mr. Man
ning of Texas, vho started out in his
testimony! afore the committee very
ey, wiited toward Mm end
uu.! r a r; = J lire cross-examination.
Claiming !).T told his story. He had
nr-- lira: Chief of Detectives
.^i.uui.ar V* :)] atu! Lieut. Shaw had
! iiaiie operators to escape
r.f-,'-r' la 1-d finished information
t!:at : a - : ? ve r suited in their cap
I h .;en !.e v cmfrc ited suddenly
with a letter sygnei \V. R. Manning,
! in v'.'eh tu\, or as made to drop
} a!! p) s :cu ; fa the swindlers con
cerned {A-oyitted h t they would re
! i!u-).i tnouey. 'iie vehementiy 'de
nied that he had written it, branding
it a forgery.
'Daring l-'s "i-oss-cxamiifatioa he re
peatediy e<u)tr:uh:-te(! himself; lost aii
ids sang-froid, iteceme angry and
o'iTercd to make it a persotiai matter
witii cue of the lawyers for the
defense.
He told thoomnmittee that he missed j
itistraiainAfian'aandtimtaihis
wife was visiting ix-r peopie and there
was no ;oom for him timre he decided
he might as v.ei! remain* in Atlanta.
- He declared he had been picked tip at
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Financia) Report of tilts
Toylm of JonesviHe, N. C.
Disbursements, 1919
5 5 Bivins & McDaniels for stone $131.98
Sol Wagoner street work 2.00
5 15 Bivins & McDaniels cement 531.20
5 17 M W Evans locust posts 5.40
R L Lovelace commissioner 4.30
5 31 " on bonus 25.00
Bivins & McDapiels work and stone 302.23
6 21 " " 250.00
7 5 R E Brown street work 5.75
R L Lovelace comm, . , 3.31
7 7 " . " L44
7 12 Bivins & McDaniels street work " 100.00
W E Elliot rebate on poll tax 1.50
7 14 R L Hemric work and lumber 9.63
K M Thompson local register 12 00
7 15 R L Lovelace cement walk estimation 6.00
7 16 M W Evans street work 7.25
9 9 R L Lovelace ont bonus 15.00
9 29 Ed McDaniels bridge 12.00
10 15 WWCall fine returned 7.20
11 S Thomas Williams j street work 8.70
Disbursements, 1920
1 5 J A Clampet error tax 1919 ^ 1.69
Elkin National Bank on note ^ 300.00
R L Lovelace making out tax books 20,00
1 7 Sol Wagoner street work 7.50
1 17 Wesley Bullard " 1.80
R L Hemric commissioner 1.76
2 2 KM Thompson local register, : ^ 10.00
R L Hemric com. 3.84
3 11 RL Lovelace report to State Tax Commissioner 5.00
4 3 R L Hemric com. : . 3.02
5 5 Elkin National Bank interest 7.14
5 8 R L Hemric Sam Warren fine 5.00
5 22 A L Triplett st work 12.65
R L Hemric on bonus 35.00
7 13 Elkin National Bank interest 13.50
7 17 A D Stout st. work 17.00
7 30 W M Swaim tiling 7.50
K M Thompson local register 2.75
8 2 R L Hemric com. 3.45
R L Lovelace salary 7 00
8 2 G C Messick office rent, etc. 48.00
8 10 Elk Printing Co. tax books 9.25
9 16 WillSbugart top soil 12.50
A D Stout st. work 57.35
Sol Wagoner " 14.00
11 18 AD Stout " 3.25
11 20 R L Hemric " 6.20
State Tax Commission 4 20
11 21 WC Triplett street work 3.00
1 5 R L Lovelace making out tax books 20.00
1 24 Elkin National Bank on note 100.00
1 8 S M Vestal pistol for town 16.00
A D Stout st. work 54 75
1 13 Elk Printing Co. tax books 4.75
1 15 R M Osborn st. work 12 50
WC Lewis jail fees 1.55
Telegram to Raleigh 1.00
1 26 Carolina Cross Arms Co. 6 80
^ 8 R L Lovelace expense to Raleigh 23.66
2 15 ElkP**' .i Co. staliot . 4."**'
11 8 Rufus Dowell st. work 4.20
11 12 * " " 1.00
11 28 Enoch Cockerham street work 5 Oo
11 13 AD Stout bridge at Wolfe's 3.50
11 14 Rufus Dowell hauling sawdust 100
12 13 RLRemnj com. 11.90
12 13 Jonesville Supply Co. street work 4.05
Elkin Livery Co. street work 43.50
R L Lovelace com. 5.25
R L Hemric " 2.93
12 24
12 29
7 5 Bivins & McDaniels on J W Mathis
7 17 " check in full
3 17 Elkin National Bank on note
3 18 J F Hendren fees
10 21 Poby Bates town ordinance
7 18 R L Hemric com.
7 19
12 10
9 6 " bonus com.
12 18 " com.
12 29
10.50
6.80
10.80,
84.47
131.74
10.00
10.00
18.00
.60
1.00
18.13
7.13
715
Disbursements, 1921
1 15 " " 3.50
2 17 " " 292
Elkin Light Comuanv, from May 5,1919, to March 1,1921, 431.25
Total 3,147.08
8
9
9
11
11
Receipts, 1920
2 Received of ^ D Stout, mayor, fin^ money
16 " " " *
^ H M ** **
21 "
26
H M
tt M
50.00
50.00
30.00]
22.00j
10.00}
Great Hoods in
. Parts of West
Sections of Colotado were vis
ited by a disastrous flood last
Saturday.
The flood was caused „ by
cloudbursts throughout the east
ern half of the state end there
was great loss of life and the
damage will run into millions.
Pueblo suffered great loss in
life and property. Many houses
were \vashed away and the
streets in the business section
of the city were covered with
mud two feet deep when the wa
ters subsided. Damage to prop
erty is estimated at four million
dollars. The Colorado State
Rangers took charge of the city
to prevent looting and the Red
Cross is rendering aid to the
homeless.
Many buildings were fired by
lightning and the loss from fire
was hea^/y.
Many other sections of Colo
rado and Kansas were flooded
with great loss of life and prop
erty and doctors and nurses
have been rushed to the stricken
districts.
OeptoraMe Accident
At Winston-Saiem
Messrs. E. A. and W Jb. Tesh,
brothers, and Shirley Summers,
colored, were instantly killed,
and Thomas Tesh, brother of the
deceased white men, was proba
bly fatally injured when an au
tomobile in which the men were
ridicgwasstiuck by an N. & W.
train at a crossing in Winston
Salem last Friday afternoon.
The accident happened at a
grade crossing in the northern
part of the city. The men were
on their way to their home in
the country from their work in
the city. The colored man had
just entered the car, the white
men having offered him a "lift"
oh their way home.
The double funeral of Messrs.
Tesli was hel l at Marvin church
Sunday morning and burial was
at Ziglar's graveyard.
Riots in Oklahoma
Tulsa, Oklahoma, was the
set of at: ^ W
^inesday, auout iiM persons
being killed.
1 he trouble started from the
as a of a negro charged with
stacking a white girl, and sub
sequent attempts of negroes to
rescue the arrested man.
Dacia David Hohsoa
Ceiebrates Birthday
Sunday, May 29th, marked the
eightieth anniversary of Unde
David Hobson's birthday, of
YadkinviHe, Route 2, in honor
of which his friends gave a birth
day dinner on the lawn of hi
home.
At nine o'clock in the morn
ing people began to arrive from
Winston-Salem, Clem m o n s,
YadkinviHe, East Bend and the
immediate community, and by
12 o'clock forty cars and nine
wagons and buggies were park
ed on the grounds. A table 108
feet long was erected in the
shade of the beautiful oaks,
which was filled to overflowing
with the very fat of the land.
After some introductory re
marks by Rev. S. F. Morton, of
Winston Salem, John H. Eaton
spoke of the life and influence
of Uncle David in the communi
ty and offered a prayer thanks
for the bountiful spread, such as
the good women and pretty
girls of Yadkin county can pre
pare, Mrs. Frances Hoois Dink
ins, of Winston-Salem, madp
some photographs of the scence,
after which some four hundred
people ate to their hearts con
tent.
Uncle David has in his imme
diate family, living, five chil
dren, fifteen grandchildren and
three great grandchildren.
As the day faded into night,
reiuctlantly one by one left for
their homes, wishing their geni
al host many happy returns of
the day.
Mail Clark
Steals From Mails
A. O. Mitchell, clerk in the
Greensboro postoffice, was ar
rested, tried and bound over to
Federal court under a $1,000
bond last Friday, for rifling the
mails in the office. He admit
ted his guilt.
Foiybout a year special de
livery letters, containing money
had been stolen from the Greens
boro office, and up until Thurs
day all efiorts to locate the rifler
___ . ^ Thursuay the
postoffice inspectors set a trap
by posting some special delivery
letters containing marked mon
ey. The inspectors then hid
themselves and watched Mitch
el pocket the packages.
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12 2S "
lj )$ "
12 29
2.17.
r 3
^ !3 cement walk tax from owners
? 19
3 2
!2 10
n 13
31.00
138.00
147.00 -
67.33
58 50
5.00
110.17
208.18
50.00
12.00
9.00
6.00
233.11
58.73
[2 21 " " 209.80
[2 29 " " * 136.00
i 37 " " 35.26
5 2 " " 76.80
1 S ", " 60.56
i 2 " " 44,00
1 S Mayberry, cement tax 25.00
^Jorth Carolina, Yadkin county;
1, R. L. Lovelace, Clerk and Treasurer of the Town of Jones
vile, hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct state
ment of all the receipts and disbursements of funds for Lhe Town
if loncsville from May 5th, 1919, to May 5th, 1921.
rbi3 May 26th, 1921.