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VOL. V. NO. 188.
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1907.
EVELYN THAW SAYS WHITE
TRIED TO MEET HER AFTER
SHE HAD BECOME A BRIDE
Lawyer Hummel \BROTHER AGAINST SISTER
Wanted Her to Sue
Thaw.
A HCHITECT PLOTTED -
AGAINST THAW
She Refused to Wed Pitts-
Imrger Because She
Feared to Humiliate
• Him.
New York. Feb. I.—Evelyn N'enblt
Then- nguln took the (tend when court
..pened today and continued her dra
matic narration of her aaaoclatlon with
Stanford White and the wrong which
finally rauaed Harry K. Than- to alay
the architect.
considering the terrible ordeal
through which aha paased yesterday,
.-he was cool. She did not appear to be
nervous. Her cheeks were. no| ashen,
tor a long ntght'a rest had refreshed
her. and when she entered court she
arreted her husband with a smile. He
ret opted It with a bow.
Fight at Court Room.
Just before court opened there was a
rough and tumble fight at the door of
the Thaw trial room. A little chap,
tt ho afterwards proved to be Assem
blyman Mark M. Goldberg, presented
his card and demanded admittance,
court officer Owen refused him.
Goldberg then told Owen he wanted
to see Senator Fltspatrlck. Owen told
it tin ho could send a message, but
, .mid not go In. Goldberg attempted to
rush Owen, and for about three min
utes a first-class fist fight was In prog
ress between the two.
officers separated the men. and
Goldberg was led outside of the bund
ing to cool off.
District Attorney Jerome will endeav-
' nr today te breakdown the remarkable
story or Evelyn Thaw.
Tha prosecutor will atari what prom-
lies to be the moet grueling ea well es
sensational cross-examination ever
conducted In a court room. He baa
summoned half a doien of the young
chorus bekuty'e former companion! to
testify. Through these women, all ac
tresses, he hopes to refute her pitiful
narrative nf certain Incidents of her
career when the was but a mere slip of
a child.
Brother Against Htr.
He will try to break down her dra
matic tale of the events that took place
In the architect's studio prior to and
after the time abe drank the drugged
wine.
Pitted against her will be her own
ilesh and blood. For young Howard
Ncsbll la to carry out his threat t»
tnke the Hand and protect the memory
"f Ids benefactor. He has sworn that
he would refute any attack upon the
< intruder of the dead Stanford White,
ills task will be heavy, too, for he has
been painted as the most Inhuman
senundre! ever heard of In a New York
nurl.
Hmne of the others upon whom the
ih-'rlct attorney dapendt to offset the
uitl’s story are Masts Follette. Battle
I'msythe, Edna Chase, Paula Desmond
and Anna Crane.
Deteelivee After Women.
P was easy to be seen that Evelyn
Nesblt Thaw’s plain but horrible story
h.ui touched the Jurors. It wea then
mat Mr. Jerome set about to tear It to
i n ccs He had to make hla prepare-
""ns before hand and he selected as
11- weapons those of the chorus, young
> "men who have known the young
w .man from the day she came from
i i t poverty-stricken home and become
a flower girl In Florodora.
Ten detectives were sent nut last
•deht with Instructions to find the
women.
Thaw was noticeably nervous as he
tr. pared himself for a continuation of
> ‘c terrible ordeal and ate an uneat-
pfiiomry breakfast. The only sentence
•it passed from his Ups was "I wish
" Ba« all over."
Oslmss Questions Hsr.
..Stanley Delmaa questioned Mrs
1 tw A letter wen read by Jerome
*'■D'lniaa through a magnifying
* The Jury then had an oppor-
t n -• to see the letter through the
r e- Thta letter was written by Har-
r K Thaw to Attorney Longfellow,
instruetlona that It be sent by
' hitter to Evelyn Neeblt. Here fol-
V. ,h " letter:
"e never lied. From the first time
•yi saw you ha wanted to do th"
”" r yu. He wanted to send How-
■' 1 and you to school. Yesterday he
that you believed everything false
"* hud told you about him. As
, "ere absolutely honest he would
' anything fur you.
o n now you must get stronger
"" *'lm. You said you would live
" r '' he w Inhed so he could chap-
' > ou
He Was Not Daeaivsd.
tiuske you sure, I'll explain Aft-
Mu ’he poor, Ill-advised angel. 1
*■ ’ ""cty. she meant to do right
right, as she only kept the
■' 'hinge from polluted, lying,
•minded, deceitful, money-grasp-
"'th-iongued, hard-hearted, but
peaking, professions! deceivers."
*“■* another letter that was
!;"ngfellow—Thank you for
"* , 11 Neeblt 110 and HO for
•■ ••grams. If. you hear anything
it. i think It was a de-
' was not deceived, being hoe-
r “r as planning for years or
upjothems.se:
SA YS GOV:J. M. TWRTtELL
When uovernor Terrell was shown . the .telegram from Washington,
raising the question as to whether or not he could legally appoint Sena
tor A. o. llacnn for the Interim from March S. to June 22. he said:
"In am Inclined to the Idea that If any question should be raised aa
to Senator Bacon's legal light to the Interim appointment, that techni
cally the Washington vlaw nf the matter la correct. But the matter will
he up to the I'nlted States senate. As I have stated before, I will name
him for the Intervening time, and If the Issue comes,up with an extra
session, why the senate must settle It.
"I ant In holies that no question will be raised that will deprive
Georgia nf one.of her senators for even that brief time. But It la an In
teresting .situation."
DIE BACON
FORfflf
Washington Hears
That it Can’t be
Done.
EXTRA SESSION
MAY BE CALLED
Some Say That Georgia
Will Be Without One Sen
ator Four Months.
Washington, Feb. That Senator
Bacon, of Georgia, can. by no transla
tion of the law, hold hla place as a
United States senator In tha time from
March 4 next, the expiration of hla
present term, to the time when he ahall
be elected by the Georgia legislature
next June, Is the claim advanced here
today by prominent men familiar with
tha situation.
Senator Bacon and hla friends have
thought all along that they had the slt-
uallnn wall In hand when they secured
STATE'S 1906 INCOME $4,503,409,
AND EXPENDITURES'$4,714,509
Georgia's Income from all sources In taxes for 1404 was 44,401,444.74,
ami expenditures, $4,714,404.04.
Figure* were compiled Friday morning In the office.of the state treas
urer Among the large expenditures was 41,714,000 for public schools;
for pension*. JsnMOO, which Included 411.400 loaned by Colonel Jim
Hmlth; for public debt, 1420,411.'which Includes Interest and retiring
1100 000 111 bonds: for state sanitarium. $140,000: salaries. Including capl-
tol officials, Judges and solicitors, $157,442; for the legislative pay roll,
444.444.
200 SCHOOL CHILDREN
ARE DRIVEN OUT BY FIRE
Special to The iwordaii.
Mo Alfl . Kelt. ' The .-Ool lies tied new
of the tearlier* olid the profleleuey of the
pupils In the Ore drill averted a serious
panic tlurlinr
iviilrb badly ilnmugfd
tlir Wlin. <4. Clark* reboot bar* at noon.
Two hundred reboot children marched from
the plac* while a roaring Are waa rapidly
rotiauiulng th* cellar.
An overheated furnace Ignited the wood
Heard Firing
At Roll Call
hingtnn, Feb. « —Sergeant George
Jackson, of Louisville, company B,
-fifth Infantry, was the princi
pal In tlte Brownsville case be.
senate military affairs commit
tee todiiv. He had the keys to the gun
ink- Hr believed none of B fom-
am did the Brownsville shooting and
one of tit - —
|Ht I
tr -w
Jai-kf"
fountl
The
abot
In* firm*.
ViocJt at night when
opt to tied, lie said. Before
l„. took a check roll and
I te-ent or accounted for.
went to Ids room It was
hen lie awojte. hear-
Contmusd an Page Five.
...nfuslon. when he awoke
hi inched for the keys, which were
h i .■ ills niii.iw, where he nlwnya kept
u i nd . J hin in . harge of quarter*.
described the call to
the gun racks were un
call to arms, the men
i orderly fashion. The
ertnaV,,- still going on when the first
firing culling the roll. Ac-
coijfing "' Sergeant Jackson, after the
i ultima . «in the porch
;;; , ;vr,tXv^mp.fiv. when.»..
arms .
Iiwked
taking
see eny one Join the comp
none Join. The roll call
present or accounted for.
the promise of Governor Terrell to ap
point Bacon as,a senator to fill out th*
Interim which came as a result of the
change of tha legislature's time of
meeting from November to Juno. Now
the claim Is mads that under tba law
the governor has no right to make tha
appointment unless the vacancy be
caused by the resignation or death of
the holder of the Job. Investigation
seems to uphold the statement, and If
tha point ware pressed there would be
no difficulty In showing that Bacon
would have no right to the salary or
the name bf United States senator from
March 4 until next June.
Some amusement has been caused oy
the situation because of.the possibility
of tbs president calling an extra ses
sion Of the senate to make a aswJSp*-
tse treaty. If there la ons thing on
filch Bacon taksa hla stand It Is tha
lenco nf making treatise, the art nf
setng commas In such documents, the
ouad with bis ability to patch up a
per of thle sort that win bo blading
as steel and lasting as adamant.
Rhould Governor Terrell refuse
make tha appointment which II !e
thought would be unlawful. Bacon
would have to retire to his Georgia
home" or elV Idly “by - in Washington
while Lodge and tha other.treaty lumi
naries held ttistr rare feast of commas
and binding clauses. The treaty would
no doubt be finished before the Georgia
legislature mat In June and be beyond
recall or remaking.
SIK ALMOST DEAD.
FROM ESCAPED GAS
EVELYN THAW A VICTIM
OF WOLVES OF SOCIETY
WHO PREY UPON GIRLS
Women and Children Leave
Gas Turned on in
Hoarding House.
IlperlMl to Thf OworgtMa.
ttnrtotte. N. C., K*»». 8-Mra. W IV
McCartner. Irho rtmr h*r* tail night tram
Hurrry county, In the mountains, with licr
d«Hfbtsr sad ssrtrtl grandchildren, had a
narrow escape from death by asphyxiation
last night In a lodging hone* here.
The gag was allowed to escape during
th* entire night, a ad when the room wan
entered thin morning the entire party of six
liarely allvr
Dorothy Dix Draws
Graphic Pen Picture
of Her on Stand.
■y DOROTHY DIX.
New York, Feb. 4.—A bruised and
broken child, lying prone before the
feet of Justice.
That waa the Impression that Evelyn
Neeblt Thaw left upon my mind as sht
told yesterday on the witness stand one
of tha most pathatlo stories that any
one over hoard.
It was a story of the slaughter of thO
Innocents; of vlct preying upon virtue;
of sophistication pitted against guile-
leasness; of wealth tempting povertyt
of ignorance stumbling blindly into the
pit that had been dug for It. Ko'mat
ter what also may be provan at this
trial, no matter bow much It la shown
what other wrongs Evelyn Neeblt may
have dons after that first Involuntary
wrong Into which she was betrayed by
the hand abe truited. all in tba court
room - grave Judge, cynical prosecution,
worldly newspapermen, weeping wom
en—who heard the history of her life,
knew that they were gating upon one
of the darkest sides of New Toni life.
They were looking upon the pictures of
helpless girls pursued by tha wolves of
society.
She Looks Only 16.
And there wsa not a man In the room
with a daughter or a slater that did not
thank God that ha was alive to protect
hla own from the men who prey upon
girt children.
The opening of court brought Evely.i
Neeblt Thaw to the witness stand. She
i dressed as simply as a school girl.
In a plain dark blue frock, with a white
linen turn-over collar, tied with a Mg
bow of blue ribbon, and aha had on a
little hat of black valval, plaited around
the brim In a soft ruffle, and trimmed
with a single bunch of violets at the
side. She did not look a day over 14.
Her hands were bars and rlnglesa, save
for her tiny golden wedding ring.
For the first lima since the beginning
of the trial, aha waa unveiled and one
DOROTHY DIX.
had an opportunity to see the beauty
that artists have delighted to paint, tha
beauty that has been undying and that
has sent one manto hla grave and
another In Jeopardy of hla life,
beauty consists In something aa vague
and Intangible aa that of a Illy or any
other frail and delicate thing.
Juat a Child’s Face.
It la not an Intelligent face or
•trong face. It la Juat a child's face.
The men who have lovad bar must have
loved her as they would a child. -She la
very llttla.' Her face la small, with tba
tenderest little pointed chin. Her col
oring la perfect, whlto akin and blue
eyes with black laahes. Her nose la
very straight. Her mouth rather large.
exquisitely pencil!
to throat U beautiful.
She held herself uader wonderful
control, and told her story In a level,
monotonous tons, sadder than any tears
could have been. Only once-or twice
did her voice tremble. That waa whin
she reached the climax of her story.
Then aha spoke slowly, with long
breaks between the words, as If It
scorched bar tongue to utter them.
BUTTS IN ON HOKE SMITH;
CARRY TALKS TEMPERANCE,
CLUBS AND OTHER THINGS
Pleasant Chat For
Nearly an Hour
- - Friday.
Hon. Hoke Smith, governor-elect of
Georgia, and Mrs Carry A. Nation
have met.
Mrs. Nation butted In on thb gover
nor-elect at hla office Friday morning
and when abe left fifty-five minutes
later, she had discussed the liquor
question with him to a finish.
Mr. Smith told Mrs. Nation how
the whisky element fought him In hla
race, but ht.dtya't express himself on
the dutlMl •WXBrXW.’ Katlon.
Neither dNTkM 1IU "It 'because Mr.
Hmlth liaed tobacco.
She was glad, though, whan tbs next
governor told her he bad-no use tor
whisky but aha was 4naappniwta« be
muse he didn't take aa strong a stand
Mr. Smith told Mrs. Nation she waa
mistaken when she thought she would
find him In the Caffital City Club and
he said ha bad seldom been there In
the last two years. He further told
Mrs. Nation that only about twenty
per cent of the clnh members voted
for him.
But the governors dpotknA-that In
spite of the oppoaltlMtMMM whisky
element he won •wb-Aak- aad forty
thousand votea to spare “ All of which
seemed to please the famous saloon
smasher.
JERSEY’S NEW SENATOR
ONCE LIVED IN A TLANTA;
WON HIS BRIDE HERE
Lieutenant Briggs Was
Stationed Here After
the War.
Frank O. Brlffgt, tha nawly elected
were barely aiita. I Frtn k o. Brlfft. tha nawly elected
An opening In the Util* room penulttnl , . _
■onm* of ih* gaa to eerape, thereby aavlng aenator from New Jerae), *a* once
the litre of the women and ehtldreu. J » n Atlantan. He married here and waa
ANTI-LOBBY BILL
PASSED BY HOUSE
l well known In eoclat circles In former
day
Mr. Briggs waa elsctsd last Tuesday
to succeed John F. Dryden In the
I'nlted States senate. He received 41
Special lo The <l<*>r*las. |„f the 7$ votes cast In the Joint eee-
Montgomery. Ala . Feb. The houar „f ,he legislature,
passed the John aptl-lobby trill t hi - The new senator wad born In New
afternoon. | Hampshire In 1440. was a student at
If Two Papers
—have been left at your house
this week, it has been because we have failed to
get all the routes of the 80 odd Atlanta News
carriers who are now: delivering The Georgian
straightened out. *■ vvi *orily wish old Atlanta
News subscribers to pay the hoy for The Georgian
and News beginning with last Saturday, which
will be 10 cents tomorrow (Saturday). Collec
tions from regular GeQrgian subscribers will be
made as usual.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
Assassin Uses Poison
ed Bullets to Kill
Officer.
-— 1
THREE POLICEMEN’ '
ARE ALSO SHOT
Slayer Sends Ballet Into His
Own Body—Dies at
Hospital lM ,-
Pansa. Russia, Fab. Ic-As be WM
tearing tho theater text night, a A.
Alaxandrovlaky, governor of PwuMhwas
shot and killed. Potsonsd Mtata wots
I. Tba assassin, whoseIdmtttjrisg
mystery, Is supposed to bare boa* am
of tha circle of anarchists that ha*
wagad warfare by-bullet or bomb ou
Russian military and ctvfl nffinsra.
Three policeman who attempted ti
arrest the assassin were abet down
ons dying Instantly. Tba terrorist thas
sent a bullet through hla earn heart.
Governor Alexandrovteky was com
missioner to the Bt. Louis ICxpoatHua
and latar head of tba Red Cram servtes
In the field In the war between Burnt,
and Jafnn. Ha was an official at tbs
finance ministry of Russia. , .
In 1404 be waa replaced by Tllao,
VassUltchkotr.at the head of tha Rad
Cross In the field, hte removal, tt waa
understood at tha time, being due lo
scandals which bad arisen In oonaao- -
lion with tha Red Cross ssrrioa.
M. Alexandrovteky had Just slapped
out of the door of tho theater when a
youth pushed hte way through tba
crowd and shot him In the nock. H<
fall dead an tbe spot.
The saatetant chief of -police, win
was standing npar the door of tbt
theater, triad to draw bis revolver, ka
waa shot dead by the terrorist baton
he was able to do so.
Pelleematt la Killed.
Seeing that it waa Imposslbte to gw
through tha crowds outside the build
ing, the murderer dashed Into the ihe-
flrtng wildly. The manager at-
tempted to grapple with the
who fired at him. but missed
cloak- loam and -I
him.
The murderer was found uncopadaui
from a bullet wound, from which tu
died In the hospital.
Adamson Worlds
For Cheap Rates
eaiootf
I’hllltp* Kx.trr and afterward, at IVcal
Faint, where he wu* graduated In 1472.
lie served a* second lieutenant until
1477. when he resigned tn enier the
mplov of the John 'A. Koebllng Com
pany. in Trenton. N. J.. n* engineer
Lleittenoni Jtikaa. stationed In
Atlanta In tho early 7o’«. and during
the r*cnnstauc|lon period, and waa
quartered itt the "old barrack*" when
General Meade wo* department com
mander. Ho wu* held in high esteem
by those with whom lie cams In con
tact.
Married ffiiee Allison.
14 waa .In Atlanta that he met and
married Mlrs Kmlly Allison, a daugh
ter nf Senator Allison, of New Jersey.
Henutor Brlxx* 1s .-. bmther-ln-lnw of
George Roebllnx. president of one of
the lergeat wire nqie manitfeoturine
plants In the country, r.i Trenton. N.
and of which he has bean secretary—
Washington. Feb. Representstlvt
Adamson, of Georgia. Is trying to on
ganlpe among senators and represents,
lives an aaaoclatlon whose metuben
will pledge themselves to pay Juat at
much and no more for board, for houet
rank for mid-day luncbsa, and for aft*
er-theater dinner*.
In a word, be proposes an assooia*
lion which shall fix a maximum prict
for every necessary of life for a con.
greesman during hla stay at th* na
tional capital. .
Posse Pursues
Firebug Banc
Smlthfletd. W. V*.. Fab. $.—Annet
men. sworn to met* out summary ven-
ge.nnee upon tnslr quarry, are scour
ing the hills In this section of the stat
In search of a band of Inotndlarlea w h
4hot down Grover Hllderbrand, a cltl
sen who gave them battle tn their at
tempt tn fire the town last Frida
night. The story of the predatory act
nf this band nf marauders reads Ilk
a chapter from tho history of th*
Balkans, and the killing of Hlldebrani
anl .he burning of one houee In th
town tire evidence of their crlmlna
depredations. '
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODOOOOO«H»<
I "* -MPMSSSqams.j
0 Atlantic CUy. N. J, Fab. $.— <
O John Tinder Dean, a wealthy re- C
0 tired Philadelphia merchant, com- t
treasurer since Mi ffitfTHJ.. 9* tMJll—3
a brother-in-law of A. K. Hmlth, t
medical director, who was also at* i
Honed at th* "old barracks."
A men of frankness and candor an*
winsome personality, he wsa welcome
Into the highest society, and then ar
many of Atlanta's older rltlsena wh
remember him a* Lieutenant
“If the congressional body wore mad.
- of men of hla caliber," said *•
Atlantan who knew him wen, "no coun
try In the world would have a mor t
representative body of —“ *
respect to the man he defeated.
Jersey could not be batter represent*
than ov Senator Hi lass."
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