Atlanta Georgian and news. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1912, May 09, 1907, Image 1

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m BOMB ARRIVES a DA Y TOO SOON; ITS INTENDED VICTIM ESCAPES; HOUSE WRECKED BY EXPLOSION LITTLE GIRL FROM NEXT DOOR PROVED HERSELF A HEROINE IN RESCUING M’CAR THY TWINS MRS. JULIA M’CARTHY. Mrs. McCarthy opened the Inter nal machine and was seriously hurt. Her face and head, neck and arms and hands were terribly torn and bruised and her hair badly burned. Fred Bush Held in Cell at Police Station. detectives hard AT WORK ON CASE Miss McCarthy’s Mothpr Is Seriously Hurt by In fernal Machine. Fred Bush, held on suspicion as a result of the explosion of an Infernal machine at the homo of Miss Kath ryn McCarthy, 447 East Georgia ave nue, was confronted Thursday morning with a negro, messenger boy aU he received a box from a stranger In North Forsyth street Wednesday night The negro boy pointed out Bush from the six or seven men In plain clothes who stood In the room. "That looks like the man.” he said. Held Umbrella Over Head. Then Bush was given an umbrella to raise over his head, as the messen ger had said the stranger had been protected by an umbrella. The boy looked again. “That looks like the man," he re peated. Bush still Insisted that he knew nothing of the Infernal machine which **««<! the McCarthy homo and near ly killed Mrs. Julia McCarthy, shortly after 9 o clock Wednesday night. He ??,, 5 e , e " attested In his rooms at mil-. Whitehall street about midnight " e ohesday and locked tip on suspicion. Went Doolittle Released. Attorney Reuben Arnold has been re tained by c. V. Doolittle, who was locked in a cell pending an Investlga- tlon He will ask that Mr. Doolittle be uncharged, as he says there Is nothing to connect him with the case, and If this Is refused will begin habeas cor pus proceedings. Boy Calls on Bush. Hugh Jackson, a 13-year-old boy who lives at 79 West North avenue, went to me police station shortly after noon Thursday, and asked to see Bush. He had a newspaper which he said he .- tn * ,ve Bush, claiming to be a ctose friend. On Investigation the pa* found to hide a number of ob- Rf,” futures. The boy-was held by {£,f Jennings and closely questioned, out Inothing was learned from him. •"■■earthy •* how at a sanlta- num In ( row street, where she Is rest ing easily. n . Found By Dstsctives. »en.i* rey Battlnger, tho negro mes- dav K n r ' ,ound By detectives Thurs. , n ,',’. rnln g- He Is employed by "Num- I,,,.' a messenger service bureau, of cel IT u 1 * venu ®- He said that he re. in ,h - Box from a man who stood street 0 "' a 8tore Bt No ' 1 Forsyth after*;!. at ® Wsdneaday afternoon and “ST the "'ore was closed. * Car,a. was taken to the Mc- Poiire hou *5 By Ed MCGlll, the son of volleeman McGill, who la also employed me,J’ :fl "'' n * er - 11 was taken to the and ,a nii,>r , ", ervlce Bureau by the negro If th"" ,lellve " d by young McGill, strum niestenger boy had obeyed In ductions, it is probable that the ex- MI8S KATHRYN M’CARTHY. The pretty young woman who was the Intended victim of tho In fernal machine. She fvns attending the performance at the Bijou The ater at tho time of the explosion. THE M’CARTHY TWINS AND THE BRAVE LITTLE GIRL WHO RESCUED THEM. . Reading from left to right, the children are Joseph and iMary Mc Carthy, 12 years of age, and Mary Rosa Johnson, aged 13. Directly after the explosion, while the house was filled with smoke and dust, the Johnson girl smashed a rear window, climbed Into " twins. She was painfully cut on the hand. Pretty little X3-year-old Mary Rosa Johnson, daughter of Mrs. I,. W. John son. of 40 Pavilion street, proved her self a heroine by bravely rescuing the McCarthy twins, Mary and Joseph, 12 years of age, who were locked In the house by a strange freak of the explo sion. While the two McCarthy children were groping about trying to find a means of exit In the darkened room, which was filled with dust and smoke, the little Johnson girl smashed the glass from a window.. and., without; considering the danger to . herself, bravely climbed Into the-room,'seised, the frightened children and tiffed them' out onto the ground. As a result of- the daring act, the little girl.was pain, fully gashed-on the hand by the jagged glass In the window.. She didn’t seem to mind the .gashes and the pain, however, arid’ Thursday morning laughed and joked about her. injury ns’though she counted It noth- '"iiary Rosa Johnson Presides directly in the rear of the McCarthy home, her homo frontlng-on Pavilion street, and she was attracted by the explosion. Rushing Into her back yard, sho heard the frightened screamy of tho McCar thy children in the house, and, realis ing they Were In danger, proceeded, without hesitation, to break Into the house and get them ouL A peculiar prank of tho explosion caused the children to bo Imprisoned In their room. When they retired Wednesday night they left the door open and a light burning In the room. Tho concussion. frouK the explosion Instantly extinguished the- light and blew the dbor shut with such forco as to lock It. . Awakened by the explosion and the screams of their mother.,the children leaped from bed and • rushed' through wlldered children' were groping about the room and crying out- with fright, the glass In the.rear window fell out with a crash and little* Mary Rosa Johnson sprang Into the room to the rescue. GIRL PHONES FIREMEN, BUT PERISHES INFLAMES -Mls» Aurora WIttebort, the second, victim of the flames which destroyed the University building yesterday afternoon. Kansas City, Mo., May 9.- vhlc was raging and tell the firemen where she was. The efforts of the fire men to reach her were unsuccessful. The loss on the building was 1600,000. The other victim was Charles DeMare, a portrait painter. 00000000000000000000000000 OINFERNAL MACHINE 0 WAS INGENIOUSLY MADE. O Considerable ingenuity was 0 0 shown in the manufacture of the 0 0 deadly package. Insldo the box, 0 0 which was of heavy oak and ap- 0 0 peared to have been a case for a O 0 shaving outfit, was a derringer 0 0 pistol with the barrel sawed off 0 0-short. The hammer of this pis- 0 O tol was filed down to a sharp point O 0 so there would be no possibility of 0 0 the cartridge not exploding. It la 0 0 supposed that the pistol was 0 0 cocked and that when the lid of 0 0 the box was lifted the pistol was 0 0 discharged and the concussion of 0 0 thlH'discharge exploded the dyna- 0 0 mite. O 0 Thelbox was fitted with a lock 0 O and Inside of the covering over 0 0 the box was a key. An examlnn- O 0 tlon of the pistol showed that It 0 0 had received considerable filing. O 0 evidently to remove tho name or O O'lome marks on the top. The box O 0 weighed about ten pounds. 0000000000000000000000000Q DOUGLAS PLEADED GUILTY TO THEFT OF 0VERS110,000 District Attorney Will Use Him Against Dennett, the Broker, New York,»May 9.—William O. J)oog!n», the aaalstant loan clerk of the Truet Com- llty>I» Continued on Psgt Three. LOVE LETTER GOES WRONG; MINISTER IS BETRAYED Harrington, Del., May 9.—Admitting his Infatuation for a young woman member of his congregation, although he had been married thirty years to a highly respected woman and has one gon, Rev. D. M. Carpenter, aged 66, until yesterday pastor of the Holiness church here, left town, he says, for good. An error In sending o letter Intended for Miss Della Goodrich, aged 33, to the recorder of deeds at Dover, resulted In the exposure of the preacher’s ro mance. , , - Before leaving, the preacher explain ed he had learned bis wife was not his affinity Immediately after Jhe ceremony, but discovered his affinity when he met Issues of The Georgian Containing Complete Proceedings of the Masons For Ten Cents. Complete proceedings of the annual conclave of flights Templars of Georgia, as published in The Georgian, including The Georgian’s Masonic Edition, ! ss,It ‘d Wednesday, profusely illustrated and contain ing much interesting history and important data on , rp e Masonry in Georgia, may he had at the Geor- gB’tn office for JO cents (10c). ‘These papers will be mailed to any address for the price stated. Miss Goodrich.six years ago. 'Carpen ter says.lt Is.hard for people to under stand the ways of Heaven, bo he did not mention the matter to his congre gation. • > 00000000000000000000000000 0 O O GETS ONLY LICENSE 0 0 TO KEEP OUT WHISKY. 0 a o 0 Norwich, Vt„ May 9.—Because O 0 he did not want Dartmouth COI- 0 0 lege students to drink liquor In O g thts town, which sllowed licenses O this yesr. a Dartmouth professor O O applied for a license, paid the fee O O and was granted the only one al- O lowed In the tojvn. , 000000000000000000000000C D00000000000000000000OO000 o o 0 MORE RAIN IN PROSPECT( 0: 0 RESPITE 18 SHORT ONE. O' O 0' O Following a brief respite from O j O rain, more moisture It scheduled O 0 for Friday. O | O Local gardeners are complain- O; O Ing considerably of Inability to O. 0 properly cultivate their beans, and 0 O distress signals are being die- O O played. ' O Forecast: <: O "Fair Thursday night, Friday O 0 Increasing cloudiness, probably O O showers." O Thursday temperatures: O C 7 o’clock a. m *0 degrees. ’ O 0 8 o’clock a. m.v .. ..82 degrees. O O 9 o’clock a. m.. .. ..84 degrees. O O 10 o'clock a. m *7 degrees. RAGE RESULTS, By J. S. A. MacDONALD. Belmont Park, L. I., May 9.—In spite of the rain which fell practically all night and most of the day, rendering the track heavy and detracting enor mously from the pleasure of going a-racing. an enormous crowd saw the Metropolitan handicap run here this afternoon. As a result of the altered track con ditions Roseben's price has gone from 11 to 6 to 4 to I.. Over 8100,000 was wagered on Roseben’s chances In the future books promoted by the club house commissioners and the book makers. First Raea—Oraeulum, 3 to 1, won; Jack Atkin, 8 to 6, second; Athlete, 1 to 4, third. Time 1:14. VIEW OF THE PARLOR IN THE WRECKED M’CARTHY HOME. This room adjoins the Hallway where the explosion oocurred. Furniture was demolished, the door wsi _.vsy, and a lot of debris hurled into the room from the hallwt but the plate glass front of a fine bookcase wsi shattered into bits. HALLWAY WHERE THE INFERNAL MACHINE EXPLODED., This view shows whsre Mrs. McCarthy stood when she opened the deadly box. The destruction here wet complete. A great hole wee torn through the floor, the walls were ehsttered, and the woodwork torn into ■malt bite. . SHOOTS WIFE AND FRIEND, THEN COMMITS SUICIDE LABOR CHIEF L FORjffi LIFE Haywood Formally Arraigned For Mur der of Steunenberg. Special to The Georgian. Wilmington, N. C\, .May 9.—In a fit of anger Henry Hamilton, a private In the Nineteenth company. .United States Infantry, stationed at Fort Cas- well, at. the mouth of, the Cape Fear river, yesterday evening shot his wife and Corporal Watson and then, killed himself by firing a bullet Into;his left breast. Of late Hamilton had frequent ly quarrelled with his wife, It Is said, and yesterday attacked her with a mur derous Intent. After shooting her twice he turned his pistol on Watsoh, who- had Interfered. He then fired a bullet Into his own heart. Mrs. Hamilton and Corporal Watson are seriously wounded, but are alive. Hamilton was a native of Columbus, Ga., and Is said to have come from a IS KILLED AND THREE HURT IN OHJO WRECK Engineer Was Unable to See Signal Because of Fog. family of Influence and prominence In southern Georgia. • By J. S. DUNNIGAN. Bolso. Idaho, May 9.—William D. Haywood, accompanied by his Invalid wife and two daughters, appeared In tho district court tills morning to stand trial for tho murder of former Govern or Frank Bteunenberg. After many months of Imprisonment the big sturdy man appears In robust health and good spirits. Twenty-five term Jurors, a large corps of newspaper men- and a com paratively few spectators, • most of whom are men from distant points, are In attendance at 'tho opening of the trial. ’ Before proceeding to tho examination of jurors tho defense made a last effort to penetrate'the secrecy which shields the state's case. A demand that tho Idaho statute requiring the filing of tho names of tho witnesses to be called by the stato was mndo by Attorneys Dar- row and Richardson. Should' It happen that tho state is compelled to fllo the names of all tha witnesses to be colled It'will then be Continued on Page Three. O 11 o'clock a. m..... ..70 degrees. O 12 o'clock noon 71 degrees. O 1 o'clock p. m 72 degrees. O 2 o'clock p. m 73 degrees. O 01 O00000OO0O0O0000000O00O0Oa 1 Templar who addressed the con clave Wednesday night. Hamilton. Ohio. May 9.—One man waa killed nnd three Injured In a wreck ns the i‘ln,dnn*tl, llnmllieu nnd Dayton railroad dz mllea etmth of hero today. A pnaaenger train crashed Into a freight. The engineer waa uunlde to ace the stgusl on account at the f.tg- The Georgian records here each day corns economic fact In reference to tht onward march of the South. ) ’ BY JOSEPH B. LIVELY. Special to The Georgian. Newberry. S. C., May 8.—The Newberry Building and Loan Associa tion, with a capital stock of 3100,000, has been organized In Newberry. More than three-fourths of the stock has already been subscribed. The following directors have been elected: - George B.- Cromer, K. K'. Illpp, c. J. Purcell, J. D. Davenport, George Johnstone, M. L. Spearman, W. a. Houseal, H. L. Parr. F. N. Martin. ^ Rockmart, Oa„ May 8.—The Mansfield Brick' Company, capitalized at 141,000, Is now ready to begin the manufacture of brick. The output of the plant In operation Is 60,000 brick per day. Huntsville, Ala.. May 8.—The Hamilton & Sons’ Manufacturing Vo., with a capital stock of 1600,000, has been organized In Chicago under the laws of South Dakota, for the purpose of manufacturing the Hamilton cream whip egg beater, cake whlppen and Ice cream freezer. The com pany will have several factories, the main one of which will be located In Huntsville, where the head offices of the concern will also be located. C. R. Hamilton, a resident of Huntsville, Ala., IS the inventor of this won derful patent that Is wholly In a class by Itself. The Huntsville factory will have a dally capacity of from 300 to 600 dozen of the goods. Mr. Hamilton haa associated with him Coloiiel J. W. Casey, one of Chic.-,* , . wealthiest financiers. The output of several of the plants to be operated by the company have already been contracted for by Chicago houses. Mr. Hamilton will be president of the company. In a telegram to hla friends here Mr. Hamilton saya he' will save some of the stock of his company for his Huntsville friends, but the bulk of It has already been arranged for In Chicago. The Hamilton & Sons’ Manufacturing Co. Is the first to locate here since Huntsville started out on her big substantial boom. The secretary of state has received for record the charter of Incor- t poratlon of the Mississippi Cotton Harvester Co., domiciled at Greenville. Miss., and capitalized at <260.009. The Incorporators of the company are mostly citizens and cotton planters of Washington and other delta coun ties. The purpose of the company Is to manufacture and sell cotton picking machines. The models already made and tried for the plant for two years past have. It Is stated, proved successful, and It Is believed .that the labor problem has been solved as far at the big cotton farms of the South are concerned. It la always the csss that planters make more cot ton than they can harvest and great losses are annually sustained on that account. — Tie Weather: f'ldnadlDO^ proimblV Atlanta Georgian (and news) Spo* rMon: Atlanta, tfteniW; 11 9-16. Now York. quiet; ll.Hn N. Orl* .i:.s firm; 11 11 16. .Savannah, steady; 115-16, VOL. .V. NO. 265. ATLANTA/ GA., THURSDAY, f MAY 9, 1907. PRICE: