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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1929-09-06, Page 6AKFC ? DREAD An 1Plsii1drir 7P® BLACKMAIL CON- SERVATIVE CANDIDATE To reap any credit out of a serious offense against morals might seem at first glance rather a difficult thing to do. In reality it is quite easy. The person who commits the offense need only have somebody attempt to black- mail him, then denounce the black- mailer to the police and have enco- mium4 showered upon him. This is lbeean a blackmail is one of the most detestable crimen. In the words of a judge in a recent trial in England when two actors were convicted and sentenced to imprisonment, blackmail' is "moral murder." Few cases of this kind ever find tbpir way into a Can- adian court but they are not so infre- quent in England, and the more fre- quent they become the less the crime will flourish. It is indeed one crime that severe punishment will abolish, for the blackmailer is usually without defence and has nobody's sympathy. If the intended victim appeals to the police the blackmailer is lost,for there are few rascals whom police more enjoy hunting down. The intended victim in the case in point was a Parliamentary candidate in the last general election. His name was not mentioned nor was the con- stituen,y for which he was running, though it was one of the London bor- oughs. The public were given no clue as to the man's identity. The sugges- tion had been made that he was being blackmailed at the instance of the Labor party, a charge denied from the bench. The attempt to blackmail the candidate was a most daring one, made actually on the day of the poll- ing. It was hinted that if he did not prove amenable to the suggestion that he pay over a few pounds a pamphlet, then on the press, would be run off and circulated in the constituency in time to do him a great deal of dam- age. The blackmailers were John Preston and Samuel Elwyn Leslie, whose correct name is Sidney George Goodchild. Both men are actors. Preston, aged 67, was formerly the owner of a number of touring com- panies and 25 plays, earning in all from 5,000 pounds to 10,000 pounds a year. Defence counsil suggested that his downfall was due to his in- ordinate vanity and desire to imper- sonate. Leslie, the younger man, appears to 'have been the instigator. It was he who had got hold of some story about the candidate and it was Preston whom he sent to the candidate in the guise of private inquiry agent. Pres- ton secured an interview and sent in a card which described him as a de- tective. He told the candidate that be was engaged to make inquiries about a lady named Smith, member of a London club. She was expecting be said, a little stranger, whose joyous arrival might be announced at almost any moment. 'Hie suggested that the candidate was no doubt the father of the child, but that as two men of the world they would regard the incident in a different light perhaps from that of the expectant mother, who took the ground that she had been seduced by a married man. Equally censorious might be the general public, especially when excited over the polling. How- ever, the detective said that he was not particularly interested in the case, and might squash the inquiry. If he did so, however, he thought he should bave a tip. The candidate seemed to fall in with the idea and gave Preston two pounds on account, agreeing to meet him the next clay and give him another eight pounds to settle the thing forever. But in the meantime he reported the matter to the police. When the two met at a hotel to complete the transaction detectives were present, and Preston was arrested. He im- mediately declared that he had been acting for someone else. At his house in Brixtom was found a note from Leslie: "The only extra information I have to give you is that the child is born and is a girl. If asked who you are employed by I suggest you say either the Liberal or Labor party. Work round to accept a sum for full pay- ment to suppress the report. Of course you must deduct your expenses before we divide. But I should im- agine he would readily part with fifty Hance Vancello nt hued between n her heiShuud and hie sola-irk•IM Rs 234141117. Blot them h they separated the a roa Mean did not =tidy ]Bev. for In the saxo natgisns marriage a itr es solemn as death and a Mimi deal more ines- capable than tones. So ell. sought out his wife to remonstrate with her at his son-in-law's house. They re- sumed their quarrel and Stanton struck her a terrible blow in the jaw. For this he was later arrested and sentenced to eighteen months impris- onment. At this point his two soars enter the Pict i e. They became persuaded that Sampson Landers, their brother-in- law, had been unduly active in the prosecution of tinier father and un- doubtedly the fact that the woman was his wife's mother influenced him. The word went forth that Arthur and Hubert Stanton were out to get Samp- son Landers. So Landers and his brother Arnold took counsel and there- after never walked out without a wea- pon. A week ago last Sunday all the parties to the tragedy were out driv- ing. Sampson in a small car with his wife Marie; Arnold driving a light truck filled with boys and girls from the neighborhood, and Arthur Stan- ton and !'i ubert Stanton in separate cars. W,liat precipitated the shooting is obscure, but it would appear that the aggressor was Albert King, a Stanton relative, and one of the most feared duelists of the district. He was in a car with Arthur Stanton and Stanton's twelve -year-old daught- er, Agnes. But on the narrow track revolvers suddenly flashed out. The young people in the truck fled with screams to the shelter of the trees and rocks, but little Agnes sprang out after her father who ordered her to get back to cover. "No, no, daddy; I'm a Stan- ton," she cried and ran toward him, at the moment he fell mortally wound- ed. The girl, too, received several bullet wounds. King, unarmed, was shot to death in the car. The excuse for this killing was supposed to be some remarks he made and also his ferocious reputation. Hubert Stanton escaped by pretending to be dead and rolling out of sight. The Landers brothers survived uninjured, and are now in prison awaiting their trial with a composure and even complacency that a Canadian reading the proceed- ings finds rather horrifying. pounds." In Leslie's dressing room at the theatre where he was appearing the detective found a letter from Preston in which he said: "By five o'clock to -morrow I have got to find five pounds for the de- fence. If I don't get it I shall be committed for trial at the Old Bailey. The man offered me eight pounds and asked me if that would be enough, I said yes, and the 'tees then collared me. Unfortunately I had the letter on me and you will be in it if I don't get off." The two apparently got together but were shockingly careless in leav- ing notes about for the detectives to secure. One document found in Les- lie's dressing room appeared to be an attempt on Preston's part to prepare a defence for hire and Leslie. A couple of extracts follow: " on't discuss the case with any- one. You knew of the relationship of and Marie Smith You bet me a suit of clothes he was not a fit and proper person to return to parliament. He offered me ten pounds to keep it quiet. No money asked for and no threats used. Stick to it and we will get out of it." At the trial they stuck to it for a little while, but Preston then pleaded guilty on the advice of counsel, and both departed to begin terms of penal servitude. TWO SHOT DEAD EN CAROLINA MOUNTAIN FUZED. While Kentucky is the real fuedist state of the Union, North Carolina too has her murderous quarrels con- tinued from generation to generation. Sometimes a generation will be skip- ped like a stream running for a dis- tance under ground, only to emerge in the open later on. The Mail and Empire a few days ago told the brief story of the killing of two men, back of which lies a long history of blood- shed. The people of the Southern Appalachian mountains, which con- tains the loftiest peaks east of the Rockies, are the purest Anglo-Saxon stock in the United States. They are as pious as they are ignorant. Gen- erally their morals are sound and most of them are fundamentalists. But their ideas about making liquor are extremely old - fashioned. They made their own liquor long before anyone dreamed of national prohibi- tion and had then their gory en- counters with the revenue agents. They continue to make it now, and experts say that it is the best moon- shine produced in the United States. The moutaineers also have their own firm ideas about law and courts. Those ideas are all distrustful and contemptuous. A man who would apply to the law to protect him from a bullying neighbor would be regarded as a coward and his life would be made miserable. It is the insignia of true manhood for the threatened per- son to take his rifle and lie in wait for his enemy. If he bumps him off quietly he is not condemned, and if he kills him openly with some eclat he is a hero. If he is arrested the chances are that he will not be con- victed. It will be found impossible to get witnesses to testify against him. But after the trial is over he too is likely to be found some morn- ing lying stiff and cold along a mountain trail with a bullet in his heart, to testify that the victim has not been forgotten by some friend or avenging kinsman. The trouble between the Stanton and Landers families had been of long standing and had enriched the graveyards in the district for many years but there came a long period of peace and when Sandford Sampson Landers fell in love with and married Marie Stanton, one of the most beauti- ful girls in the whole countryside, it seemed that the traditional fued was at last at an end. And it probably would have been if the girl's father had not committed the indiscretion of marrying twice. The first wife of Beverly Stanton, head of the clan, bore him two sons, but unable to let well enough alone, after her death he took another wife who in due time became the mother of Marie. The Stantons quarrelled, for Mrs. Stanton is said to have a furious temper. 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CO..r SALE PRICE SOLER Guaranteed Electric Light :Bulbs, burn longer and show a bright - light: 25 and 40 watt, 27c; 40 watt 30e; 100 watt, 48c, inside frosted. Everything in Hardware. TELEPHONE E1 OPINES 80 MILES TO GALLON WITHIN THE NEXT TEN YEARS Within ten years, automobiles will safely travel a hundred miles an hour, weigh less than a thousand pounds, sell for less than a thousand dollars and cover 80 miles on a gallon of gasoline. That is the prophecy of Charles F. Kettering, president of the General Motors Research Corporation, and in- ventor of the self-starter and many other automobile improvements. The pressure of aeroplane competition will bring this about, he asserts. "Lightness of construction is one of the things we have learned from the aeroplane," he says in an inter- view in Popular Science Monthly. "Until 1920, we used to boast of how heavy our cars were. Now a chief selling point is how light they are. Aluminum, lynite and invar all come into automobile construction by way of the aeroplane. And right now we are perfecting for commercial pur- poses a new metal 15 times stronger than ickeled steel, yet only one-third as heavy as aluminum. We figure we can allow about four pounds per horsepower in making motors of this new metal. Thus a 50 horsepower motor would weigh only 200 pounds. "Light weight and improved meth- ods of carburetion are going to dou- ble the mileage we can get on a gal- lon of gasoline. I also believe that many parts will be eliminated on the automobile of the future. The whole method of gear shifting is undergoing a series of changes right now— changes that eventually will do away with the cumbersome shifting lever. Shifting, braking and possibly steer- ing will be a part of the electrical system. "Body design is due for marked changes, also. We are only begin- ning to learn the possibilities of the streamline body in reducing wind re- sistance. Major Segrave never could have made his recent record unless he had thoroughly understood the science of streamlining. "As far as I can see—and I am taking a long look into the future— the automobile and the aeroplane will never conflict. Instead, they'll com- plement each other—and inside of an- other ten years it'll be a wise man indeed who can tell, when blindfold- ed, whether he's riding in an aero- plane or a car!" To A. wIESTC© I Jeweller and Watchmaker SPECIAL THRESHING GOGGLES SACCO AND VANZETTI ARE NOT FORGOTTEN Tlluo mpsonn's 11) o k Store SCHOOL OPENS SEPT. 3rdl. Get Your Supply Early. e Window Shades Picture Frames Made to Order Phone 181 YOUR MCCDNETS V Lsil IZ E0 Every resident of Seaforth has a right to get all he can for the money he spends. Every sensible person is careful to see that he does not get the worst of any deal and only the reckless "throw their money away." However, one must look farther than the end of one's nose to be eertain that he is getting his money's worth. People who buy outside Seaforth are disallusioned. They are not getting their money's worth, although they will perhaps tell you that they save money in doing so. Residents of Seaforth save themselves money by buying in this town. This is how they do it. It is a well established fact that in- tensive buying enables merchants to carry larger stocks and to pur- chase these stocks in larger quantities, thereby securing them at a lower pro rata price. Thus receive the same percentage profit. This is the system on which all successful chain stores are established. The person who buys an article in another city because he thinks he is getting it a few cents cheaper says that it is not his fault if the merchant in Seaforth is not making any money. Hel overlooks the fact that he would be as hard hit as anyone else if the merchant is forced out of business. The outside buyer is the one who loses. His family also loses because he is taking from the community which will be their future homes as citizens, that staff of its existence by buying outside Seaforth. Think it over. lelk EA VIS S sl°i2aJa''® I1.1AIIDII59 AIEDPAIIIL S W.. R. SP�[i.II n 'W. A. ciI Rc i Groceries, Teas and Coffees PEACIEIlES AND PLUMS Cucumbers - Spices Vinegar - Tomatoes Telephone 12 E DATE MUFFINS per dozen ..... Telephone 34 WY SBIOWIING GIl' LAMS' AND MISSES' NAV FELT IBIATS IFOE EARLY ITALIL WEAR. SPECIAL TEM WEIRSK TEM TIRED So SAPAUGIE9 Watcihnahee and Jeweller Optaomaeteiot "TELE GIFT SEOP" M. ROSS SAVAUG e Opt. D. Optuunetetat BeEtttle's China Rt Store SCHOOL OPENS SEPTEMBER 3rd Secure your supplies at EATTIE'S CHINA AND GIFT ST®1•,E J. E. IISIEATIING SPECIAL tj 32 oz. Bottle Puretest Genuine Im- ported Russian Gil $1.49. Kodak Agent Phone 28 - Seaforth FORD SALES SERVICE PROTECT THE UPHOLSTERY OF YOU CAR WITH SLIP COVERS DE.Ly's3 Gr2MgCa9 S ffen ll WALKER'S Buy your furniture now while the prices are reduced for August Sales. One beautiful slightly used piano, wonderful value, to be sold quickly. Call and look things over. IR,. H. SP OAT SCHOOL SHOES Boys' and Girls' School Shoes. Call and see our stock. "We Sell For Less" Phone 50 Two years after the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti in Massachusetts finds the discussion of their guilt or innocence hardly less lively than it was at the time of their conviction and through the long period when they sought to evade the sentence of doom pronounced on them. The case has proved a veritable Cod -send to Communists everywhere. It has help- ed make them respectable and digni- fied. The Communists, to a man, of course, declare that this "good shoe- maker and this poor fish peddler" were innocent, the victims of capital- ist greed and terrorism. We do not suppose the Communists have any more information on this point than any other class in the community, but they are lucky in that some of the most distinguished lawyers in the United States and some of the most respected social reformers and other leaders of opinion share their views. One can hardly read the Sacco -Van- zetti letters and not come to the con clusion that these two men, convict- ed murderers though they were, re- main the two noblest characters in any way involved in the celebrated case. More than once has been discussed the Sacco -Vanzetti affair, and it has been remarked that whatever facts have come to light since the exeefi- tion are favorable to the theory that the two men were into -wet. Two of these seem to us of more than usual importance. There w>ss the affidavit of Vranlc Silva, published hi The Ont - look, in which Silva admitted that he WALTER G. WTIIILILIIS BOYS' SCHOOL SHOES Box Kip Uppers, sizes 11 to 13, for $2.45; Sizes 1 to 5 for $2.95. Special prices on School Shoes for Growing Girls, Misses and Children. n IE O t So PIDNKNEY ::bead, CCzkes End Palstry. DOUGHNUTS Not only tempting but nutritious Phone 78. althllese Waite -7,1p. W. R. SMITH.—The W. R. Smith Grocery is one of the high class and best known grocery stores in the county as well as being the oldest in Seaforth. Mr. Smith is a native of Harpur- hey and gained his early grocery experience in Clinton and Win- nipeg. In 1885 he returned to Seaforth to enter the employment of the late Andrew Young, and on the death of Mr. Young in 1906, he purchased the business which he has conducted so suc- cessfully in the same store for the past 23 years. J. C LEAII$Y Groceries, Fruits, Vegetables —SPIECIAL— VALENCIIA RAISINS 2i 1�i�J6 2 pounds C Delivery Service Phone 117 WV✓ A QUALITY V ENT COAL AND COKE SERVICE - Phone 126 PREPARATION FRED W. DYIIGG coots aril Shoes A Special in I:oys' School�uge Shoes, 1 to 5, at �J U LOOK 61 Floor Varnish will dry in 4 hours. That's no blur" Te G. Sant" Telephone 62 S. SEIINAN Men's and Ladies' Ready-to-wear] Dry Goods Pure Line Tablecloths, 54"x54" at 85c yard Heavy Linen Crash at16c yard Bordered Linen Tablecloth, 2 yards wide at 85c EIIGER9S GARAGE Studebaker Sales and Service Repairs on all Makes of Cars. TIRES, J8ATTERIES, ETC. Telephone 167 SEAIFORTH CREAMERY The place to market your Cream and to receive the best service that can be given. C. A. Phone SO W. ARI: ER, Proprietor. Wo rer,?tton I 'IGhhlT Millis illus Co., LhhTMt Millers of flour that's Dependable SIILVERKIING for BREAD EYSTONE for PAST Telephone 51 A. W. DUNLOP N LOP GAIT AGE We specialize in Body and Fender work. Make your old fendera like new. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Phone 18 The RD t, ell Enn';' ne EL Thresher C©up6>my Manufacturers oft Traction (Engines. Goa Tractors, Threshers, (Power and Heating Boilers, 8awffiills. ]Etc. We offer a large stock of new. rebuilt and secondhand threshers and engines, very suitable ter Individual or custom work. Buy at horn© where you aro osa®sed of eroanpt service. GALLOP Mi cAL P'I[NIE Agents for Massey -Harris Imple- ments and Repairs. Beatty Bros. Farm Equipment Metallic Roofing Frost Fence GASOLIINE and OILS CANADA FURNITURE MANUFACTURERS, LIMITED Office Furniture Sectional Bookcases. @wwra THOMAS IIDIICCKSON Dealer in Flour - Feed - Seed Poultry and Eggs Telephone 13 was one of the gang which had stag- ed the unsuccessful Bridgewater hold- up in 1919. It will he remembered that Vanzetti was tried and convicted of being a party to this crime short- ly before he and Sacco were tried and convicted for murder. Silva swore than Vanzetti was not in the gang. If this is true it largely clears him of the other crime, or in any event shows that he was railroaded for a crime he did not commit. If he was in the attempted hold-up the probab- ility of his being involved in a simi- lar attempt which ended in murder is appreciably increased. When Silva's statement was published it was for- warded to the governor of Massa- chusetts for comment. None was forthcoming. Shortly afterwards, however, there was a statement issued from the state prison in Charlestown that San Marco, who, according to Silva, was one of the gang, denied heing present. He said that at the time he was working for a Boston concern, and that an examination of its records would prove him right. But the state- ment failed to give the name of the concern, eo that it was impossible to examine the records. Eventually the name of the firm was published but it was learned that it had long since gone out of business, and all its pay- rolls and other records destroyed. So it would seem to be impossible for San Marco's denial to be proved. More important than this was the discov- ery of the curious behavior of Presi- dent Lowell of $arvard, one of the committee appointed by GGovernor Culler to review the evidence and de- termine whether Sacco and Vanzetti had been fairly tried and properly convicted. Two of the defence witnesses, Bosco and Guadagni, had testified for Sac- co, swearing that at the time of the crime they had met him in Boston. On questioning these witnesses the committee discovered what appeared to be a contradiction in testimony. They had attempted to fix the date by means of the report of a dinner given to a Boston newspaperman which had appeared in a paper they read. President Lowell searched the files of the paper and announced that the date was inconsistent with their testimony. The witnesses were dis- missed in disgrace. Later it was learned that there had been two din- ners, and that the men had told the truth about this incident, at any rate. President Lowell then apologized to them, and said they were honest men. But he made no reference to the inci- dent in, -his report to Governor Fuller. Theirtestimony in favor of the alibi was ignored. So were protests to President Lowell calling his attention to what was deemed a glaring unfair= ness. Massachusetts has had many un- pleasant reminders of the Sacco -Van- zetti case in the past two years. "Gods of the Lightning," a play by Maxwell Anderson and 'Hlarold Hick- erson which was a great success in New York, was prohibited in Boston because it dealt with the case sym- pathetically. Upton Sinclair's novel "Boston," similarly inspired, has had a wide circulation, but much to the author's disappointment was not ban- ned';jn Massachusetts. The publica- tion of Sacco and Vanzetti's letters, a monumental volume, has been widely and sympathetically reviewed. An anthology of poems dealing with the subject has been published and Edna St. Vincent Millay and her sister, Kathleen, were inspired to lofty po- etic heights by the trial and execu- tion. As significant as anything else is the recommendation twice repeated of the judicial council of the Massa- cl'lkusetts legislature that the lave of the state should be revised so as to make in possible for the appellate jurisdiction of the supreme judicial court in murder cases to consider ev- ery judicial stet of the trial judge. ']Chis hasbeen ignored and the fact that the 1MJfassadhusetts lab] does not permit this scope $was felt to be one of the i'ea>jovis ©thy the two Italians went to the electric chair. a Here she comes Down the street Looking smart And very neat! Yes, of course—she did "Nang;_ et" her shoes this morning 1 9 •b rr� u THHiHIB "NUGGET" TIN CDPI8NS WITH A. TWIIS ',Y iC