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THE WEATHER.
Fair Tuesday night and Wednesday.
Temperatures Tuesday (taken at A. K.
Hawkes Co’s store): 8 a. m., 40; 10
a, m. 46; 12 noon, 49; 2 p. m., 52.
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HOM E (4TH) EDITION
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1911/
HOM E (4TH) EDITION
PRICE:
Some of our friends, who are trying -to break into
the governorship, tell us that the attitude of the next'
governor ran’t help or hurt the cause of prohibition
with the legislature as it is.
Is there a man in Georgia old enough to vote who
can be fooled by such talk?
A governor can veto anything he desires to.
IfEBWIMS SHOUT MUST.
HIM MICH
Biggest Meeting in Years at
Griffin Monday—At Ameri-
cus on Wednesday.
HAPEVILLE CLUB FORMED
List of Vice Presidents for the
Fulton County Pope Brown
Club Is Announced.
HURLS FRAUD CHARGE
AT MINERS’ CONVENTION
Convention Opens at Rome
With Large Representation
From Georgia Churches.
Former Senator Speaks to the
American Bankers Associa
tion at New Orleans.
HE DISCUSSES HIS PLAN
Pope Brown and Dupont Ouerry are
at Cordelf. on Tuesday, speaking in
the Interest ot Mr. Brown's guberna
torial candidacy, and the continuance
of statewide prohibition in Georgia.
They spoke In Griffin on Monday to
what is said to have been the biggest
political meeting that city, has seen In
years. On Wednesday they'speak at
A inert cut, where a* Pope Brown club
has been organised, and which has
Planned a big demonstration for the
candidate. This will conclude Mr.
Brown’s speechmaking for the present
Club st Hspevllle.
A Pope Brown club was organised at
Hapsvllle In the council chamber Mon
day night. Mayor Joseph W. Humphries
called the meeting to order and Judge J.
R. Sasnett was elected chairman. The
following officers were elected) H. C.
Adams, president: Judge J. R.'Sasnett,
vice president, and Dr. W1 Frank Wells,
secretary.
Charles J. Haden. of Atlanta* spoke in
fietmlf of the candidacy of Pope Brown
for governor. Mr. Haden said that he had
known Pope Brown for many years, and
that In all his past life both as a private
cltisen and public official there was not
a blemish on hIs character.
After Mr. Haden had concluded, short
talks were made by Professor T. A. K.
Means, S. T. Lasseter, Sr.. Her. John F.
Jones, Rev. E. H. Wood. Professor D- E.
Green. W. T. Akin, O. X,. Carmloal and
J. L. Sims.
The Hapevllle elub conelata of about
to members, with the pro,pacts of dou
bling that number. The cltlsens of Hape-
vllle arc' outspoken In the belief that the
Hapevllle district will give Pope Brown
s large'majorlty.
Pulton County Club.
The Fulton County Pope Brown club, of
which W. P. Anderson is president and E.
D Thomas secretary and treasurer, has
named "the following vice presidents:
.lames I,. Mayson. F. A. Quinlan, W.
Woods White, R. J. Guinn, B. M. New
man, W. H. Featherstone, Bolling H.
Jones, R. A. McMurray, Charlea I. Bran-
an. A. P. Herrington. Professor T. A. E.
Means, Frank Wllby, Guy W. Hime-
haugh, W. 8. tVelr. E. T. Beacham, Dr.
T. D. Longtno. C. M. Tucker. Edgar
Watkins, Bernard Buttler and J. J. Greer,
Atlanta; R. E. U Carroll. Adamavllle dis
trict; J. fV. Harper, Battle HID district;
Claude C. Mason, Blackball district;
George P. Donaldson, Ruckhead district:
T. p. Klnnerty and D. P. Baker. Bryants
district: E. V. Adams. College Park dis
trict; R. B. Seagravos, Collins district;
Oscar Mills and \V. H. Johnson. Cooks
district; R. F. Thompson and j. W. Hum
phries, East Point district; M. E. Til
ley, Edgewood district: J. D. Humphries
and N. C. Adams, Hapevllle district: B.
F. Burden, Oak Grove district; Howell
C. Cloud, Peachtree district; P. B. Hop
kins and G. W. McWilliams, South Bend
district. * /'I
I BROWN TOM
AT RALLYATTHE GRAND
Public Meeting Tuesday Night
to Mark Ex-Governor’s First
Political AddVess Here.
National Reserve Association
Scheme Is the Most Vital
Question Before Them.
New Orleane, La„ Nov. 21?—A hot
shot was taken at Wall .Street todr.y
by Nelson W. Aldrich, former United
States senator from Rhode Island,
when In his address before the American
Bankers association, explair.lnglng his
plan for a great central bank, he said:
“Every means has been taken to pre
vent control of the organization by any
corporation or combination, or corpor
ations or Individuals in Wall Street,
or elsewhere, for selfish or •sinister
purposes.”
Jn summarizing his plan ho said:
“The failure of our monetary system
ran be largely attributed to the Ina
bility of banka to co-operate in times
of stress, and to the defective, inelastic
and unscientific .system of note issue.
“The Central Bank association is to
be an organization of local banking
associations organized with distinctive
functions and local self-government
“The features of the plan of organi
zation are:
RAISE MILLION IN YEAR
All Old Officers Are Re-elected.
Mercer Removal Matter to
Come Up Thursday.
Rome, Ga* Nov. 21*—With 600 minis
ters in attendance, the nineteenth ses
sion of the Georgia Baptist convention
convened this morning at 9 o'clock with
Dr. S. T. Jameson in the chair.
After the organisation was perfected.
committees were appointed, and the
convention will enter next into the
election of officers. The convention
sermon will be preached by Rev. W. A.
Hogan, of Athens.
The principal business ot the after
noon will be the debate over the re
moval of Mercer between Macon citi
zens and Atlanta supporters. Macon
has a large delegation here with an of
fer of fifteen acres adjoining the pres
ent campus, and indications are that
the offer will be accepted and Mercer
allowed to remain In Macon.
The delegates will visit Shorter col
lege this afternoon.
Preliminary to the convention were
meetings of the boards of trustees of
Bessie Tift college and Mercer last
night. 4
At the opening session the order ot
business was ohanged and the discus
sion of Mercer’s removal set for Thurs
day evening instead of this afternoon.
The report of the board of education
will bo given this afternoon in place of
it The afternoon session was changed
from tho First Baptist church to the
auditorium of Shorter college.
In response to an address of welcom
this morning, Dr. John E. White, of
Atlanta, caused great enthusiasm when
STRIPLING, CHIEF-CONVICT,
WILL SEE HIS DYING BABY
Noted Prisoner Given Liberty t o Go, Under Guard, to Visit His
Child 1n Columbus—Was the Center of a Widespread
Movement for Pardon.
JOHN MITCHELL.
MITCHQilHARGES
El '
Says Convention Which Adopt
ed Civic Federation Resolu
tion Was Illegally Packed.
“1. To maintain the Integrity and ho said that In the past year the Bap-
independence of existing banks, state tists of Georgia had raised more than
and national. The new organization will
In no sense bo a competitor of existing
banks. It is to bo outsldo of the su
perimposed existing system.
“2. Equality of privilege for
banks.
3. Equality In rates of discount
rediscount to all banks, and these rates
to be uniform throughout the country.
“4. Organization to be of a charac
ter to effectually prevent control t>y
local or national political Influences.
1 “6. Every means has been token to
prevent the organization’s control by
any corporation or combination of cor
porations. Individuals In Wall Street,
or elsewhere, for selfish or sinister
purposes.
“6. The dominating principle U CO
operation' and not centralization. The
central, banks of Europe will not servo
in the United States.
“It Is further planned to remedy de
fects and cure existing evils; to in
sure an adequate reserve; prepared'
ness to respond to N any demand with*
out undue expansion or inflation; to
provide for concentration' of the cash
reserves of all banks to be used for
the assistance and support of any. un
dor assured decentralization <-f control,
scattered reserves having been found
useless In times of pressure; deposit
balances in the reserve association are
to be counted as legal reesrves; to au
thoxize the association to rediscount,
thru its branches, under local control,
commercial paper of a definite charac
ter for influential banks, to be used in
replenishing their reserves, to give to
individual banks the facilities for an
Increase of’their reserve.-* and loaning
power.
“To grant the power for further note
issues to this co-operative association
of all tho banks, an authority Is now
Invested in national banks, scattered
throughout the country, and by requir
ing the association to forward its notes
to any subscribing member at once
upon application and without charge
for the transportation. Prompt
Continued on Last Pago.
Use Georgian Want Ads
For the first time f« his political ca
reer, former Governor Joseph M. Brown,
present candidate for gubernatorial
honors In the primary of December 7,
wifi address a public political gather
ing at the Grand Tuesday night.
The ex-governor's speech, while not
the moat eloquent, because he makes no
Pretenses as a rostrum artist, will be
the feature of the first Fulton county
'‘ally of the Joe Brown forces and will
doubtless play an important part Jn the
Action here.
Practically all the plana for the meet
ing have been completed. The program
*ill be virtually the same as announced
•1 ready. A good band has been en
gaged to furnish the music for the oc-
r azlon and a largo crowd Is expected to
attend.
James L. Anderson will preside at the
feting. Judge John P. Ross, of Ma-
jon, with Governor John M. Slaton, will
the principal speaker. Albert How-
Jr., will speak and possibly Walter
P- Andrews. Fondren Mitchell, of
1 rnisvllle, will also be on the pro-
#ram.
The Brown rally will be the third of
big political meetings held In the
1‘ty during the gubernatorial campaign.
r'*th of the other candidates, Colonel J.
Pope Brovyn and Judge R. B. Russell,
been heard In Atlanta.
HAVE, VOU.
AKT.
BI.E.RHAK’T?
'0N VoUR.
HANDS
Have you* ah “elephant on your
hands” or something which seemingly
no one demands? If so, it's a fact
that you never can tell just where or
to whom you are likely to sell. The
wise thing to do Is to first advertise
what you wish to sell and the price
and the size, and our little Want Ad-
tets are clone at your cal! to bring you
the buyers for large things or small.
$1,000,000 in cash and pledges for the
purposes of education and missions,
All officers, were re-elected by the
convention. For president, the Incum
bent, Dr. 8. T. Jameson, was renomi
nated, and Dr. John D. Moll of Ath
ens was nominated. The ballot resulted
In tho re-election of Dr. Jameson. Th<
four vice presidents, elected by accla
mation, were: A. W. Evans, of Sanders -
vllle; Jesse Mercer Dodd, of Carroll
ton: J. C. Solomon, of Atlanta,
(’. H. K. Jackson, of Forsyth, president
of Bessie Tift college.
Dr. B. D. Rog.sda.lo. was re-elected
unanimously as secretary, and appoint
ed Rev. A. M. Bennett, of Norman Park,
as his assistant. Addresses of wel
come were mado by Dr. A. W. Van-
I loose, president of Shorter college, and
Dr. R. B. Headden, pastor of the First
Baptist church, and responded to by
Dr. John E. White, of Atlanta.
RUSSELL TO SPEAK
IN SOUTH GEORGIA
Judge H, B. Russell leaves Atlanta
Tuesday night, after sitting with the
court of appeals Monday and Tuesday,
to resume his gubernatorial campaign
speaking tour. He speaks Wednesday
in Bainbridge, and then goes by auto
mobile to Valdosta, which place he will
reach at noon on Saturday. Ho will
speak >it many places in the country
between tho two cities Thursday and
Friday. Ho speaks at Valdosta Satur
day aftempon and goes to Waycross,
where he speaks Saturday night. Way-
cross Is the home of Volney Williams,
Pope Brown’s campaign manager. Mr.
Brown spoke there early Iri tho cam
paign.
Prison Orchestra to Pfsy.
At the Federal prison Wednesday
morning at 9:30 o’clock the prison or
chestra will give a concert for the
Woman’s auxiliary ot tho Typographi
cal union, which will visit and Inspect
the big penitentiary.
HE WILL SUBMIT PROOFS
Federation of Labor Center of
Wordy War Tuesday—No
Action on Question Yet.
That the United Mine Worker* con
vention at Columbus, Ohio, In January
last was packed with delegates wh<
held fraudulent credentials and whos<
votes sent the resolution to the Ameri
can Federation of Labor that labor otfi
dais resign from the National Civic
federation, wan the startling statement
made on the floor of the convention at
noon by John Mitchell, the Idol of the
Dr working miners of .the country.
^ More 'than that, Mr. Mitchell said he
had hail'the proof that there were'dele
gation;, at that convention wh
seated on fraudulent credentials and
voted for this resolution.
That John Mitchell has succeeded In
defeating the attempt to force labor of
ficials to resign from the National Civic
federation, and that It will be outvoted
at the Tuesday afternoon session, is the
consensus of opinion of those who heard
his remarkable speech and witnessed
the ovation paid him upon its conclu
sion.
At the end Duncan McDonald, who
Introduced the resolution upon Instruc
tions from the miners convention
asked Mr. Mitchell If he would furnish
the proof of the frauds to the next
miners convention.
“I will gladly do so,” replied Mr.
Mitchell.
From one miners district alone, Mr.
Mitchell soJd, there were 50 fraudulent
votes.
Mitchell was the .picture of manly
sacrifice when, at the conclusion of his
speech showing up the fraudulent au
thority of the resolution, he said that
he himself must obey the instructions
of his convention and vote for It, be
cause he was a true union man.
As he came to the end of his speech
he recounted how in his eight years as
president of the miners the organization
had grown by an increase of 270,000
members, and had not grown a mem
ber since he was forced out of tho Na
tional Civic Federation. Then he said:
‘How does this resolution come here?
Is It the expression of tho delegates
elected to tho last miners' convention?
On a bed in Columbus is a little child
whose life is slowly ebolng away. For
days the little one’s mother has sat be
side the couch, tenderly ministering to
her offspring and hoping against hope
that the child might yet conquer In the
battle with death.
In this new sorrow the m'other has
not had the tender sympathy and help
ful assistance of a devoted husband, tho
she Is married. The strong arm of the
law has come between them and has
kept the husband and father away from
the sorrowing wife and dying child.
But now It is different. The father is
speeding to Columbus as fast as a train
will carry him and by night should be
in the little cottage home to bid a last
farewell to his loved one. The law,
guided by justice, but tempered with
mercy, has relented in the face of death.
Thomas Edgar Stripling is this fa
ther. It is his little child that is dying
down at Columbus. Stripling Is tho
man who a few months ago was brought
back to Georgia from Danville, Va., to
serve out a sentence for murder imposed
on him years ago. Stripling Is a con
vict at the state prison farm near Mll-
ledgeville.
Late Monday afternoon Governor
John M. Slaton received a telegram
from Stripling’s lawyer In Columbus,
telling him that the child was dying
and asking that the father be permitted
to come home. The governor conferred
with Chairman R. E. Davison, of the
state prison commission. They agreed
It would be but human to grant such a
request. Accordingly Governor Slaton
ordered a leave of absence for . Strip
ling and Chairman Davison telephoned
the warden at the state farm to send
Stripling to Columbus under guard, but
In citizens’ clothes. Guard, and pris
oner started on the first train.
WHITEWASH HATH
Statement Given Out by Com
mittee Member Indicates
Another Vindication.
INVESTIGATION NEAR END
“ We Have Had No Evidence to
Show Reason for Bribery,”
Says Statement.
Chicago, Nov. 21*—'"We have heard
lots of evidence of apparent corruption
in Illinois politics, but so far we have
had no evidence to show any necessity
or good reason for the bribery of Dem
ocrats in order to Induce them to elect
William Lorimer to the United States
senate.”
This statement made today by a
member of the United States senate
rbmmlTre* ^figsged In fnrestlgatlnf
Alleged Slayer of Miss Black-
stone Creates Sensation at
Trial In Massachusetts.
THIRTEENTH VICTIM
Woman’s Remains, Slashed
and Mutilated, Found on
West Point Belt. '
WERE BURIED IN A GULLY
Fiend Who Had Slain Twelve
Women Before Grows More
Horrible in His Work.
her
HE CALLS ALIENIST A LIAR
Requires Four Officers to Sub
due the Prisoner as His San
ity Is Inquired Into.
8pringfield f N©v. 21.—Bertram
Spencer, the Jekyll-Hyde slayer, today
created another scene In the court room
where he Is on trial for the murder of
Miss Martha B. Blackston©. Screaming
with all the force of his lungs, he lump
ed up In his cage, waving his hands and
denouncing the alienists who were testi
fying as to Ms, sanity. He was quickly
overpowered end the court took a tem
porary adjournment
Spencer's dwnonatration was the most
charges of 'corruption surrounding the, startling that has taken place since the
election of Lorlmer is most significant, beginning of the remarkable trial. He
In view of the fact that the InvestIga- leaped to his feet, hla face distorted
tion 1h nearing an end. Tho commit-I with rage, and In spite of the efforts of
tee expects to adjourn its Chicago | Turnkey Wade, he made a bitter speech
KILLS 4-YEAR-0L0 GIRL
Little Agnes Brown 'Knocks
Down Weapon and Load En
ters Her Breast.'
Agnes Brown, tho four-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Brown,
was Instantly killed Monday afternoon
by the accidental discharge of a shot
gun. The little girl and two other
small children were by themselves In
the house at the time, and according
to her six-year-old brother, little Agnes
attempted to close the front door,
she did so the gun, which was behind
the door, was knocked over and ex
ploded. The charge of shot entered
her breast and she was dead when a
neighbor came.
The accident occurred about 4 o’clock
In the afternoon and as his mother was
away the little boy ran to the neigh
boring home of Dr. C. D. Conley. Mrs.
Conley went with him to the house and
found the child was dead.
It was stated Tuesday morning that
the gun had been used to shoot a hawk
Sunday and had been left loaded be
hind the front door, where It could be
easily reached In case the hawk, which
had been stealing chickens on the farm,
should appear again.
Mr. Brown was away at his work at
the time and the mother wan in town
and knew nothing of the affair until
some hours later.
His Charge of Fraud,
T say it is not, and can prove It. I
have the proof that a largo number of
men who sat in that convention and
cast votes to send this resolution here
wero seated on .fraudulent credentials.
From one district alone there were as
many as 60 such fraudulent delegates.'*
How ho was crucified by that conven
tion and forced out of the National
Civic Federation, without being given
notice^ or asked to cornsto th* meeting
that bo might be heard, was related by
him. He dramatically said hlajenemles
had waited* until his hands were tied
behind hYs back, had waited until the
government had put Its clutches on him,
before they struck. And this resolution
was passed by the votes of men who
had no rlght*to sit In tho convention.
Ho said'he did not make , the speech
to censure the miners, who were as
good men as lived anywhere on earth.
They had been good to Mm'ud lie owed
them much.
Altho the miners Instructed to vote
for the resolution have 2,5(10 votes and
some others friendly to their cause as
a nucleus, it Is predicted the-resolutlons
committee’s report to non-concur In the
miners resolution will pass.
Praises Mr. Carnegie.
Mr. Mitchell spoke kindly of Andrew
Carnegie, and said if Carnegie were
present he would state that he was not
responsible for the Homestead rloL He
Continued on Last Page,
hearing either late this afternoon or to
morrow, and it Is believed that only a
few witnesses will be offered in LoriJ
meFs defense, which will be heard’at
Washington. The statement is more
significant as It comes from a "United
States senator who voted against Lorl-
mer retaining his seat in the United
States senate when tho “blond boss” of
Illinois was saved the indignity of
forcible loss of his toga by a very nar
row margin.
The statement may be a good Indi
cation of how the Loriraer committee
will act on tho inquiry, as the senator
who made the declaration standi par
ticularly high with some of the more
progressive and Democratic senators,
who make up the larger part of the
membership of the present * “
committee.
This statement and remarks made cause
n denunciation of Dr. Alfred Eliot, su
perlntendent ot thq Bridgewater asylum
for the Insane, In which he called him
liar and a murderer.
Wade and three other officers had to
literally pile on top of the Infuriated
prisoner before they were able to sub
duo him. Then he was carried from th'
court room a quivering bundle
nerves. Court was adjourned for
time.
Dr. Eliot was In court as an alienl
for the state. Tho defense wanted i
ask him some questions about Hpen
cer, who was kopt at Bridgewater sev
oral months under observation. At first
the doctor said on the witness stun
Spencer was placed In an ordinary ob
servation cell. “After a month Spencer
Lorlmer j was removed to the northeast portion
jot the building,” the doctor said, “be-
by other members ot the senate
committee led close observers of the
Lorlmer inquiry to believe that the
committee will recommend once more
that Lorlmer be retained in tho senate.
Accountants who have been engaged
for weeks in examining the books of
Edward Hines, millionaire lumberman,
who has been charged with collecting
$100,000 as a fund to “put Lorlmer
over,” were on the stand this morning.
These accountants will be followed by
others, who have searched the books of
Edward Tllden, president of tbs Na
tional Packing Company, which, the
I suspected that Spencer was
planning to escape. A month later ha
was removed to another part of the
building.”
“Why was that done 7“ tho doctor was
asked.
"Because Spencer said ho wanted to
get Into tho yard—”
That was as far as the witness got.
when he was Interrupted by a violent
denial by Spencer, who stood in his cell,
his eyes blazing. •
“You lie.'’’ shouted Spencer.
Turnkey Wart© grabbed the prisoner
and pulled him down. Mrs. Spencer,
the wife of the prisoner, reached thru
the cage-and tried to quiet her husband.
uunai XifCKiUK wihwi. uie
government investigators declare, is the *.***»«.iiu w
heart of tho "beet trust” According to,but her efforts were vain
Clarence S. Funk, general manager of
the International Harvester Company,
who testified before the committee,
Hines named Tllden as treasurer of the
Lorlmer fund when he urged the har
vester company* to contribute to the
campaign fund.
Accountants have also investigated
the account of former State Senator
D. W. Holstlaw, who confessed to hav
ing been paid $2,600 for voting for
Lorlmer.
MAY COMHO MIA
Central Georgia Company Asks
City to Approve Material for
Proposed Line.
BUT TWO DAYS REMAIN
TO BEATTIE ON EARTH
Convicted Wife Murderer Prays
Daily in His Cell—Has Yet
Made No Confession.
Business bays
Before
27
CHRISTMAS
Shop Early and
Avoid the Crush
The Georgia Railway and .Power
Company, the $27,000,000 corporation
that has merged the majority of the
electric power plants around Atlanta, Is
to have competition.
Charles F. Howe, assistant chief en
gineer of the Centra] Georgia Power
Company, of Jackson, called on City
Electrician R. C. Turner Tuesday morn
ing and asked that & meeting of the
council committee on electrical affairs
be called to approve the material of
which the Jackson company will con
struct a lln« to Atlanta. Council has
already granted the company a fran
chise.
Mr. Howe stated to Mr. Turner that
hfs company would construct a line to
Atlanta at once.
This company furnishes power to
Macon now. It has a *6,0Q0-borsepowcr
plant at Jackson, the largest In the;
state at present.
Richmond, Va„ Nov. 21.—tienry Ciay
Beattie, Jr., the young wife murderer,
who will die In tho electric chair on
Friday unless unexpected Intervention
comes, has at last broken thru the stole
veil of hts indifference and Is seeking
the consolation of religion.
Young Beattie, who has been pic
tured since his arrest as & hard-hearted
and cynical criminal who would go to
his death with a sneer on his lips, now
prays dally—not once, but several
times—in the solitude of his cell in
murderers’ row. according to Rev. Ben
jamin Dennis, Presbyterian minister.
Rev. Dr. Dennis visited Beattie in his
cell today, as he has done dally for a
week or more.
"The young man has given himself up
to prayer,” said the clergyman to those
who questioned Beattie's sincerity.
“The boy prays many times dally. It
Is not right to picture him as Indiffer
ent'to his fate. I can reveal nothing
more, tor what has passed between us
is sacred.”
Reports have become current that
Beattie has confessed to Rev. Dr. Den
nis, not in order to gain the respite
promised by Governor Mann, but to
clear his conscience. The clergyman
refuses to answer questions on this
subject, reiterating that his relations
with Beattie are those of spiritual ad-*
vlser and sacred confessor.
Her throat- cut from
heart cut out ami lying by her side, and
otherwise terribly mutilated, the re.
mains of an unknown negro woman
wero found Tuesday morning burled In
the side of an embankment on the West
Point belt line, 100 yards to th*» right of
Stewart-ave.—tho thirteenth victim of
the mysterious and elusive Jack tho
Ripper—the second within a w'eek.
This latest victim was more horribly
mutilated than any of the others In tho
ripper’s long list of .unsolved and bloody
crimes. Not only did the murderer cUt
the woman’s head almost off and re*
move her heart, but he knocked nut her
teeth and dlsembpweled her. This was
done with two long slashes with his
knife or razor. One gush extended
downward, the full length of tho trunk,
from tho throat down over the abdo
men. Tho other gash extended across
the abdomen, from side to side—the
two gashes being at right Jingles
Completing his fiendish act. the mur
derer dragged the remains down the
embankment, about midway, where ho
dumped them Into a gully and hurled
them. First covering the remains with
several old Hour sacks, he then pulled
soft earth into tho gully with his hands.
Children Make Discovery.
Tho murder was discovered by two
negro children, who, while picking up
coal along the railroad embankment-
found the murdered woman’s comb an<|
a trail of blood. Running to thei^
home, the children Informed their moth*
er of their find, and she at once visited
the scene, discovering the improvised
grave. The police were then immedi
ately notified, and Captain Mayo, of the
morning watch, with several detectives,
detailed by Acting Chief Starnes, wero
quickly on hand. Chief Beavers also
later visited the scene.
When the remains were removed
from the embankment they were still
warm. Indicating that the murder had
been committed but a short, time be
fore. The murderer had carefully
placed the woman’s heart by her side
before covering the remains.
Dogs Loss the Trail.
The police at once obtained County
Policeman Shockley’s bloodhounds and
took them to the grave in the embank
ment. The dogs quickly struck a scent
and trailed it a distance of 200 yards to
the Stewart-ave. trolley line. There
the trail was lost. This fact
the police that the murder*
an Incoming Stewart-ave. cai
the first car on the morning
Is the only clew to the murder
unearthed.
News that Jack the Rlpp
claimed another victim spread like
wild fire In that section and created
Intense excitement among the negroes.
It was but a short time until an excited
crowd of curious spectators were on
the scene.
His Twelfth Victim.
The twelfth victim was found a week
ago In the lowlands Just off Connolly*
at. and but a short distance south of
Georgia-ave. This woman’s throat was
cut from ear to ear, her head was
crushed In and tho Index finger on her
right hand was severed at the middle
Joint. That crime was similar to sev
eral of the others, In thpt the victim's
shoes were removed and carried away.
In tho murder of Tuesday morning tlm
Oman’s shoes were not molested.
Several theories are advanced by tho
police ns to tho fiendish murderei
the prevailing opinion 1h that lie
fanatic of some kind, or the age
somo organized society. The polk
lleve that Jf he is ever captured h
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PRETTY SCHOOL TEACHER
TARRED AND FEATHERED
Miss Mary Chamberlain, the pretty
Lincoln Center, Kans., school teacher
who was tarred and feathered on Au
gust 7, and Is appearing as a witness
against twelve men who are under ar
rest for peretratlng the outrage on the
young woman. She was decoyed out to
a wood while out driving, and there
surrounded by a mob of men, who pro
ceeded to strip the young woman -end
tar and feather her. Jealousy and re
sentment of her Jolly manner and pop
ularity are thought to have been at the
bottom of the unnatural crime.