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Georgian and News
VOL. V. NO. 189.
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9,1907.
PRICE: ,°A‘
FUND RAISED BY WHITE’S FRIENDS
TO CLEAR NAME OF ARCHITECT
FROM ACCUSATIONS OF MRS.THAW
c a mous Diplomat in
Charge of the Pro
ceedings.
detectives aiding
DISTRICT ATTORNEY
V.mni' Mrs. Thaw Calls oil
Husband ip Prison For
Conference.
Spb Vnrk. Feb. 2.—A'great fund has
b.iu collected to erase the atmln placed
on III' name of Stanford White by the
startling confeulona of Evelyn Neeblt
Thaw.
This fund la In the hand* of one of
th. newt prominent Xlrina uf attorneys
In Kiln rily.
I. h illiilomat of International fame.
These lawyers are obtaining transcripts
of the testimony at the trial of Harry
Thaw nml are working In harmony
with the district attorney.
Can Get a New Trial.
Detectives employed by theee attor
ney. were today building evidence
which mil be at tha disposal of tbs
-jT.wutor when he—srses s:
yeung Mrs. Thaw. Thsy were also
obtaining other witnesses who, It was
Mid. would be prepared to refute all of
the allegations made by Evelyn Neeblt
Than against Whits. | #
Three Justices of the supreme court,
sow cluing here, whoop names are
withheld for obvious reasons, say that
Than, If convicted can get a new trial
sa a result of tha leaning forward of
Evelyn Thaw In the witness chair and
whispering to tha district attorney
sames of men and ’women whom she
knew In the company of Btanford
White. This was a breach of an-agree-
nnt between proaecutlon and defense.
Wife Calle on Thaw.
' Thaw was hr a comparatively good
need when awakened today. He spent
cm of the most paaosful nights since
hU incarceration In the Tombs prison.
Hi ulil he was pleased with the way
his trial Is proceeding. His wife visited
him. slid they talked for two hours,
lawyers Gleason and Peabody were
railed into the conference.
THAW TELLS IN HI8 WILL
HE FEARED ASSASSINATION.
New v.irk, Feb. 8.—The strange and
-smastwg llluf ysarwy If. TThsw, the
•layer uf Stanford White, to which ref-
* rente was made at the trial of Thaw
yesterday, was obtained today by the
Hearst News Service.
Counsel for Thaw expact this ton
FRAR OF ASSASSINA7ION
TOLD OF IN THA IT’S WILL
New Tork, Feb. 'That Thaw feared he would be assassinated le
shown In his will, which was made shortly after hla marriage to Evelyn
NeabIL and which Delphln llelmas, ehlsf counsel for the slayer of White,
••trying to get before the Jury as evidence. Thaw does not say In this
will that he expected Btanford White to be the medium of hla death, but
In e codicil annexed It Is clearly established that White was tha man
Thaw feared would kill him. Clauae « of the will reeds aa follows:
I hereby direct the trustees In this my last will and testament, to
set aside a fund of 110.00(1 for the purpose of prosecuting the person who
Is responsible for my death, providing that It ehall notbe clearly astab-
Hshed that I dJedYrom natural
THAW’S LOVE FOR EVELYN
WAS AS PUNE AS A LILY,
DECLARES DOROTHY DIX
By DOROTHY DIX.
New York, Feb. When Evelyn
Nesblt Thaw went tuick upon the wlt-
neis aland yesterday Jirr testimony.
The Arm's senior member “ d '" ou * h a " d hUc * t en i ou F'> "
'lacked something of polgnuncy of the
day. before. But If on the drat day
she drew the outlines of the picture,
yesterday she Ailed In the details and
showed how Btanford While, not con
tent with haring robbed her of her
good name, schemed to separate her
from the only man who had ever of
fered her an honest love In all her toy
life, and planned to make her the low-
I created things—a woman
blackmailer.
Two Aguree stood out prominently In
the picture, one of Btanford White, al
ways seeking to drag the girl down,
the other Harry Thaw, always trying
to save her, to protect her and to try
to lift her up As the trial progresses,
one strange thing becomes mare and
more apparent, and that la that out of
the mire In which all the personages
concerned In this case were sunk, there
bloomed one white flower of purity and
goodneee. as a lily might spring from a
muck heap, end that was Harry Thaw's
lavs for Evelyn Nesblt.
His Levy Was Honorable.
No matter what he may have been,
ao matter It he was a waster, spend-
iinir document to do much to p^ove
|R« defendant of uneound mind, pro
vided they succeed In having It received
•r evldt nee.
The will, partly typewrittan, partly
In Thaw's own hand writttng. coven
•Ivty odd pages. These pages vary from
three Inches to thirty-six Inches.
Appended Is a partial Hat of the be-
w«s made by Thaw Ip this unuauul
document:
Fears Violsnt Death.
T., Evelyn Nesblt Thaw, my be
ared wife, i give and bequeath the en-
Ur. "um of my Income, with the excep-
| l“h» of the bequeeta hereinafter pro-
'«bd for, the same to revert upon her
to the William Thaw estate.
I hereby direct the trustees In this,
"d Is-t will and testament, to set aside
* ,u ‘"> "f 150,000 for the purpose 'f
••tiling the person who Is rcapon-
my death, providing that It
lible
•hail nnt lie clearly established that t
“ ''I from natural causes."
111 !' hot stated In this part of the
sill, which Is designated as clause I,
Ynaw expected that Stanford
'"mid be I ho medium of his
. “in. hut it Is clearly aslabllshed In
; t";:)!" 1 "nnexed thereto, that 8tan-
Ull hlm'i'* 111 lh ' man ****** wou,<1
Beuus.t for Howard Nesblt
, ," r ""Ward Nesblt brother of my
* direct that s fund be set
" by my trustees and to tSmuIn In
■ Ionite, sufllclent for hla educa-
Uhn
■up
Anoth
Mr. ,' h
"'•lie
M>l
" 'ilnienance until he becomes
' I'rovtslon^ln the will mnk-*
j. Holman a beneficiary.
"( i he fact that thta will wae
.-,.,1,1 1 ' " ( uteri In the Thaw house-
' ’"'t '' « tth the present clrcum-
, ■ on. erntng the attitude of his
ihu " h>w and brother-in-law, In
- most , ritical period, are looked
T : .. '."'"hms.
M„: " ln 'l'«* codicil. to quote the
Uttwi,, , '"fhage of which would be
of auw "f the numerous names
Thentio,. r.'l"?!' ,,f prominence not yet
hin t . r'«»e, provides that a
i..lv .. ;,V ,” he set aside In the cps-
th ;t,„. . ' 11 "stees for the cure, pro-
"'“hitenance of the young
»ho ... , " "ernes era mentioned,
•tar..' •.. , his belief nnd under-
f"M v .. V 1 wronged by Stan-
dr*,,,.., , 111 ‘he same manner as io
n.. "■ the narrative on
Th,, " *'«nd by Evelyft Neeblt
, hitt.,. Told ef Wishes,
m itjV " ,,h 'he facts as set forth
mi.,i i ■ Th *"'« wllL attention Is
th, i„r\. '" U " M| for the defense to
!.ii„. ’/ 'A'/hci, contained In the
hi, l t . K Thaw had written to
11 ' "hgfellow, of the jitrm
thrtfjr debeuche. as be ta aold to k«ve ri.TlofHrely*7 say* tAgUsbgWW Mt» -
been, he loved this wontsn with all
that was good and honorable and chiv
alrous. Somewhere his affection for
her stuck down Its roots In his heart
until It cams to where the eternal
fountains flow, and he gives to her a
love that baptises and redeems them
both, lt Is a love so vast that It rovers
her past with a mantle of forgiveness,
so protecting that It seeks to shield
her even from neraelf, ao tender and
comprehending that ti might he -tha
love of n mother brooding over her
babe.
No better nronf of this Is needed than
the itteket of letters, some addressed to
Evelyn by Thaw, some addressed to his
lawyer. Mr. Longfellow, that were read
at the opening of court. They were not
good letters trom a critical, aplstolatory
standpoint. They were bungling, frag
mentary, disjointed, but they were the
letters of a man not accustom'd to
much writing, and who was helpless
In the grasp of emotion which he did
not know hotv to express on futper.
Above all. though, they were moving
and convincing human documents,
breathing In every line of passionate
devotion a high delicacy of feeling, and
a reverence and pity for the woman hs
loved, that knew no bounds.
Wants Her To Be Happy.
In one of these letters to Longfellow
DOROTHY DIX.
be i
anywhere and with me, so,I would have
the exclusive honor at her friendship,
but I am willing to give up everything
for her."
In others he speaks of his Joy In giv
ing her pretty things, ai.d he wants
her always to have pretty things. Hs
wants her always to have everyt
And In another he tells her that I
hard up and has to stay at horn*, - In
Pittsburg, to economise, but that If she
.la In trouble he enn get “floods of
7nunvr. JI -and over end over again hs -
assures her of his respect and rever
ence and begs her to be good for her
own sake and hla.
Mr. Delmaa—the foxy Delmaa—got
these letters Introduced to show that
Harry Thaw waa of unsound mind, and
wrote rambling love letters. Perhaps
lovers are all-insane, hut It would be
a mighty hard thing to get a verdict
brought In to that effect.
And the foxy Ivlinas did more,
kept Thaw's girl wife telling over and
over aseln-. the .details of .her. life, so
that when adjournment of court' waa
taken until Monday this pitiful story
wee ell that the Jurors had to,think
about for two whols days—Saturday
and Bunday. for the court does not alt
on Saturdays. Mr. Jerotpe will have a
difficult teak In tryb
the effect of Evelyn
the Jury.
FIGURE IN THAW TRIAL
IT ELL KNOWN IN MACON
Special to The Georgies
Macon. Gn., Feb. S.—'Thomas McCa-
bel. who Is figuring In the Thaw trial,
to which the eyes of the whole country
are now directed, aa the man who es
corted Evelyn Nesblt Thaw away front
the Madison Square Garden on the
evening when Thaw* killed Stanfo-d
White, Is well known by several people
In Macon.
Mr. McCabe! la well known by Rob
ert Curd, of thte city, the two haring
been classmates earns years ago at
Washington nnd Lee College In Vir
ginia.
Mr. McCabel le aleo known by Mr.
Ben Willingham, who attended the
same college with him. The part he ta
playing In the sensational trial le be
ing followed with Interest by those
with whom he Is acquainted In Macou.
MRS. THAW SENDS LETTER
10 SLAYER OF A RIVAL
Freeland Pa.. Feb. b—William Ml-
iV.ltv.M Meadows, indicted for
bis wife's admirer, an-
noun?Xmla, tiiat Mrs Evelyn Thaw-
had written him a letter of sjmpalhy.
In her letter Mrs. Thaw said her hue
hand was Indicted for an offenss vary
Similar to Ptton'a and then declared
that the “unwritten law" would be hie
defense.
lC=et,
""•d on page three.)
STRING TIED TO GIFT
MADE Ry ROCKEFELLER
tk. Feb.
was learntil today that before he made tha gift
„„ ihe veneral board of education. John D. Rockefeller had
„t lll.ooo.O'tn "; k >h*_*^ ™ ld n* trebled by the method of disposing of It
revealed ny Frederick T. Oates, who represents
onditltmal upon the raising
■dirge making the application foi*
calculated that this sun^ ^ ^
« tSr In philanthropic "tatters.
Mr I ' m gift made I'V »»>* board , 1 l L. c
Alm'iHl ■ .. ik„ aoluuil «»r riilloitf
«cr aim by the school or
Boni Appeals
From Decision
Purls
IL.nl -I*
of Ai na
from tl’*
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•t»uni*H
.Hums
i.nIhv ttlnl
i.,a ‘.*f !»»*•
fount
ItiiMband
? appeal
1,000 Operators
May Walk Out
'hirago. Feb. ».■
rupheia In the ent
Union Telegraph t
strike IwrauM *
eml of their
, foi i
urt granting , mg—
one. Union.
recently
Telegraphers'
Consumption-
Home for Incurables
The Georgian’s movement against tuberculosis ia not in any way local in character.
It hag, however, opened up a local condition to which too little attention haa been given.
The only plaoe where hopeleas caaea of consumption can be taken in Atlanta ia the
Home for Incurable*.
Our story printed on this page, and our editorial* have spoken of the needs and impor
tance of this institution. •
It is the "bird in the hand”— «
Twenty-five women are struggling to keep it alive.
A. G. Bhodea gave the beautiful block, worth $20,000 to $25,000, on which it ia located.
The womqn. built the $13,000 building— ,
The city gives it $1,500 a year, about enough to light uud heat the home. The county
pays 13 cents a day for each of its patients.
Just now there is $14 in the treasury.
There are 20 patients to be cared‘for and fed—five of them have consumption—some
have canoer. There ia one child with heart trouble. There are paralytics and other*.
Only two day and two night nuraea—a negro janitor, a cook and a helper—to do all
the work.
■ No reaident physician, aud nothing with which to pay oqf. There were 29 conaumptivea
taken care of last year, and Mrs. Jackson says that had it not been for the few pay patients,
they would have had to elose up the home.
There ia room to handle 40 patients, but they cannot make brioka without straw—
Are there 100 people in Atlanta who will pledge $5.00 a month indefinitely to support
this, the moat pitiful plea in our cityt
We-believe there are, and wo believe this call will reach the hearts of our people.
A collector will call for the money each month, ~~ '
The Georgian and Newa give* $5.00 a month.
Joseph Rhode* gives $5.00 a mont
John E. Murphy gives $5 a mouth, h. m
Mrs. H. 8. Jackson gives’$5.00 a month.
John J. Woodside gives $5.00 a month.
L. Newclt gives $5.0Q a month.
SENATOR CUT
Says United States
Must Get Rid of
Islands.
; IN THEIR HEARTS
THOUGH TREASURY IS EMPTY
Aged Invalids Are Still
Bright and
Happy.
HOME IN NEED-
OF LARGE FUND
Present Income Not Suffi
cient to Supply Needs
of Institution.
If there be a man In Atlanta with a
heart of .tone, let him visit the Inmates
of the Home for liwurable*.
Le; him talk with th« twenty pa
tients In that Institution and see them
In their affliction.
There are old men and old women
and young men and young women,
helpleeB, Ctrl<-ken with maladies that
are beyond the reach of science, with
out money and dependant on the care
ful nursing provided for them by the
good ladle, of Atlanta, but they are not
I one would suppose.
With hardly anything to hope for In
this world, with every reason to
only the dark aide of life, they are
cheerful—the strongest advocates In
the world of the phlloaophy of Mrs.
Wlgge of the Cabbage Patch.
Not a word of complaint do they ut<
ter. In fact, their Cheery words and
pleasant ami lea afe enough to remove
the want grouch of the grouchlest and
after easing them 1 and talking with
them one feel, like turning hli pocl
Inside out. »i
In Need ef Aid.
And If a goodly, number of Atlanta
men charitably Inclined would see thee,
thing., tho home would not be In the
nnanclal .train It now I*. The good
ladle, would have eoal to supply the
heater In the basement, so that the pa
tlenta could llu In warmth, and they
would know w here to add to the pitiful
<14 In the treasury at present.
That le ell the money they have
and It le a fact that their coal. Is at-
most gone and they do not know where
ty more I. coming from.
Through the generosity of Mr. A. G
Rhodes, two or more yean ago, the
ladle, who made this home a reality
received a five-acre lot on the corner
of Woodward avenue and tha Boule
vard. (hat fe now worth 120.000. Other.,
charitably Inclined, contributed enough
to put up a hospital building that coat
112.000.'
Hut It Is to keep things going and to
provide for the twenty suffering In
mates that the ladles have a harl
struggle. There I. room at tha home
for forty patients, but they can not
take any more because they heven'l
tha fund, to really take care of those
they have.
A Brave Struggle.
Bo It I. a brave struggle Mm. A. J
hapman, the matron, ta making to do
will; the little the good ladles in chart;'
of the home can provide. The only
fixed Income they have la lilt'a month
from the city and 14 a month for each
patient sent there by the county. The
balance has to be raked and scraped
together by these good ladles. The
home I. under the management of the
aaeuclatlnn which built It. and the work
of maintaining It le dune by a board of
THE HOME FOR INCURABLES.
BURIED UNDER ENGINE
FIREMAN DIES IN MUD;
FAST TRAIN IS WRECKED
Centimted en Fags Three.
Four Cars Roll Down
Sixty Foot Em
bankment.
Xpecl.l to The GtorfUm.
Birmingham. Ala.. Feb. I.—The Mem
phis feel mall carrying a through sleep,
er. doe In Atlanta over the Seaboard
t 11:20 o'clock this morning, was
recked at an aarly hour today seven
mile, east of Birmingham.
Four can rolled down a M-foot em
barkment, totally demolishing (hem.
The engine turned completely over-
twlce and llaa half buried In a sea of
mud.
Fireman G. McElmurray I. burled
under his engine.
Engineer Norman Brooks waa res
cued. lie’ la Buffering with serious In
temal Injuries.
The baggage master, name unknown,
was Instantly killed
The express messenger and two mail
clerks were rescued after two hour.'
work with axes. All are severely
brula-d.
It I. considered a miracle that no
passengers were killed.
The train waa running at a rale of 10
miles an hour when the accident oc
curred
Engineer Brooke eaye the wreck waa
due to a broken rail.
The wrecked train was the limited
paseenger train No. >02 of the Ban
Francisco road, due here at 5:20 o'clock
this morning, one of the fastest trains
on the road. The wreck occurred two
miles west of Pratt (Tty this morning
about 5 20 o'clock, and with the ex
ception of (he laal sleeper, the entire
train an. wrecked.
Two men are deed, live dangerously
Injured and a doten or more slightly
hurl.
The deed are: *
BAGGAGEMAN WHITE: making
hi. flrid trip.
M. M'F.LMURRAL. flramar. burled
under engine.
The derlpusly Injured are:
Norman Brooks, engineer of Blrm-
Inghafl', scolded and bruised about the
buck.
M. U. Mpence, of Memphis, express
ootboooooooooooooooooooooo
o “JACK" BARRYMORE
O IN A SANITARIUM. O
o o
O Boston, Mase., Feb. I.—“Jack" O
O Barrymore, the actor, who asked O
O Evelyn Neeblt to marry him, has O
O gone to a sanitarium, according tu O
O a statement from the Hotel Belle- O
O vue. where the Berry morse have o
O been putting up while In this city. O
O He ta reported III with the grip O
o He may not be a Thaw trial wit- O
O neee, O
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ankles sprained.
B ''it. Outset!, of Memphis, mall
agent, hurt about the body.
/ID. M. Stubbs, flagman, hurt about
the body.
The slightly hurt are:
R. H Cameron, of New Albany, Miss,
mall messenger, body bruised.
William Bchlrk. of Antory, Miss., an
employee of the Frisco, Injured about
the ribs.
The Ollier passengers were cut wlllt
glass nnd otherwise bruised.
The trail uud baggage care are lotat
wrecks. The naasenger coaches may
he repaired uml two glee tarn were not
badly dumuged. Phytgifana from Blrm
Ingham were rushed lo the scene on a
siwclal train nnd t> wrecking train wes
sent from lure.
Jap Question.
To Be Settled
THEY ARE COSTING
NATION BIG SUM
All War Talk Grows Out of
Our Advent in the —
Pacific. i
Washington, Feb. f.—Senator Clay,
of Georgia, is thrastanhig to couae
the Philippines. It la bis belief that we
should get rid of them and hand them
over to some other power that la bet
ter able to taka care of them. Dis
cussing the question as to- what should
be dune with them, ne said today:
“I think the American public la gut
ting sick and tired of the Phlllpptnds.
They have been only a source uf an
noyance to the' country, and now timy
TV talk about war with Japan': is
baaed on the likelihood of a clash of
Interests In the eastern Pacific, due to
our possessions there. This country Is
not suited by any consideration to hold
and manage tha Philippines.
“I expect to show that 40 per cent
of the present oeet pf the navy i> <iu«
to Urn necemlty for maintaining and
protecting the Philippines. A very
large per cent of. the total cost of the
Army mag be traced to the same cause.
There Is entirely too much extrava
gance In running the government any
way, ours is the meet exptwalew gav
ernm.ni In the wortd. We will span*
upward of ft,000.000,OM In the pNbdRk
I r ' ' . J I 'Z-
“Since I came to congress, ten years
ago, the coat of Federal management
baa gone up by leaps and bounds. The
cost of the postal service has advanced
In that period from 127,000,000 to
000,000. Tile army appropriations have
Jumped to a’ large amount and the ex
penses of Urn navy have doubled.
"It ia too much to expect that
nation can continue to shoulder, theee
enunuou* expenses, God hsa p^nvtdad
us with a prosperity such aa no other
nation has aver enjoyed. A slump will
come sooner or later, and wa must
prepare for It This b one of the rea
sons why I am advocating getting rid
of the Philip “
Wsshlngti n, Feb. t.—Mayor Hchmlts,
of San Francisco, accompanied by
Representatives Kntm end Hayes, of
Californio, called at the white house
early today and made arrangements
for a general conference with the presi
dent this afternoon In which all vbllors
togethi r with Iho sci retnry of stata and
secretary of the navy, as well ns the
California einntnrr and representatives
will ptrilclpnir. Aftirwnrns the mayor
had it lonxxtalk with Svcrelur> Root
messenger, hurt about the head and at the state department.
Italian Judge
Bomb Victim
•
Paterson. N. J.. Feb. 2.—Robert Cor
tex. Justfc* or the peace and one of the
best-known Italians of thb city, waa
frightfully Injurad last night at hb of
fice. II Passaio street, by an Infernal
machine, and died shortly before mid
night at St. Josephs hospital. Hb
arms and legs wars broken and lacer
ated and there were long gsehee In hb
back. His face and head were torn In
many places. Hb ante-mortem state
ment waa taken. The office waa badly
wrecked. The package canto by sx—
press and was handed to Cories by hb
12-year-old son.
Swayne Roasted
By Mr. Lamar
Washington, Feb. I.—Incident to hb
speech In the house on the ralljoad
rate bill, Mr.* Lamar, of..Florida, re
viewed the recent Impeachment trial
of Judge Charles Swayne by the senate,
and said that notwithstanding hb ac
quittal. ^Tre have nevertheless a rascal
ly judge In Florida."
Somerville May !
Lose to Montague
Richmond, Va., Feb. I.—It It report
ed from Washington that President
Roosevelt has determined to offer to
former Governor Montague a IT,00*
position on the board of general ap
praisers In the customs ufflee uf New
Tork.
The rumor eaye Montague Is to suc
ceed Henderson H. Somerville, who le
also a native of Virginia, hut who war
uppolnted from Alabama.
S. C. DISPENSARY
T0.BE ABOLISHED
Columbia, 8. C„ Feb b—Tha
eery In South
Ished es seen a
bill which paei
temoen.
S. C„ Feb b—Tha dtepaa-
th Carellna will ha ahet-
i as the governor atene She
as sod the senate title M-
