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ATLANTA
1910
The Atlanta Georgian.
ATLANTA
1910
VOL. I. NO. 72
ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1906
T>rjT/*ir' In Atlanta TWO TENTS.
riUUIi. on Trains FIVE CENTS.
In the early part of Tuesday
evening Mr. Hill says thnt both
Mr. Brown and himself, in com
pany with Mr. Ormond, spent a
very jolly time laughing and jok
ing on all sorts of subjects until
midnight, when they adjourned to
their cabin with the intention of
retiring for the night.
After Mr. Ormond had remain
ed in the cabin about nn hour he
got up and told his friend Hill
that he was going to spend the
rest of the night on the deck, the
same as he had done the night
previous, owing to it being so hot.
He left the cabin and went up on
DEATH
ATLANTAN DISAPPEARS
FROM STEAMER AT SEA
Did Judge Walter
Ormond Fall Over
board?
UYSTERY SURROUNDS
FATE OF YOUNG
Harvey Hill; Who Was With
Ormond, Starts for Home
Thursday With the
Judge’s Effects.
By Private Leased Wire.
New York, July 19.—Deep
tery surrounds the death
Judge Walter A. Ormond, of At
lanta, Or, who, it is said, fell
overboard from the steamship
Kansas City and was drowned
while on his way from Savannah,
Ga., to this city. The drowning
became known today, although no
report of it was made by the
officers of the steamship when
she touched at Quarantine.
Harvey Hill and Bowdell
Brown, both of Atlanta, Ga., and
friends of Judge Walter Ormond,
the missing man, were on the
steamer.
According to Hill very
weather was experienced on the
journey and on Monday Mr. Or
mond spent the night in a deck
chair instead of-retiring to His
cabin, which he shared with Mr.
Hill. <
In the
evening Mr.
Mr. Brown am
panv with Mr.
ed in
got
thnt
rest of the
same as he
previous, owing
He left the cabin
the deck and
seen of him.
Nothing more was thought of
the matter until yesterday
day morning, when his friends
missed him. A thorough search
of the boat failed to reveal any
trace of Mr. Ormond and it was
then realized that he had evident
ly fallen overboard during the
night And had been drowned.
According to Mr. Hill, the miss
ing man was very’ fond of sitting
on the stanchions, and it is
thought that while resting in this
position he became sleepy and fell
overboard, as both his friends say
there was nothing, so far as they
knew, to cause Mr. Ormond to
commit suicide.
It is the intention of Mr. Hill
tu return by this afternoon’s boat
to Atlanta and take with him the
effects of the missing man.
How Judge Ormond came to fall
pom the vessel ts not known, and no
information could be got from any of
<n« passengers on board the steamer
wyond that while the vessels was com-
[og up the coast they were Informed
that a man was missing. This was on
"ednesday.
' Search la Mads.
A search. It la said, was Immediately
made of the steamer from stem to
•tern, and from coat bunkers to- her
main deck, but no trace of the missing
man could be found.
Whether Ormond deliberately threw
nimeelf from the steamer's deck ts not
Known, but none of the passengers re-
mrmhers seeing him near the rail.
what is troubling the authorities of
the Savannah line, however. Is the neg
ligence of the officers of the steamer
to report the casualty at Quarantine,
»hen the vessel arrived there today.
Investigation Under Way.
No suspicious circumstances Is spe
■Tflcally reported in the case to induce
either the theory of suicide, accident
«f foul play. In the absence of In
formation It Is supposed that Mr. Or
mond fell accidentally In some un-
^“untable way.
w Ith several friends he was laat seen
on Tuesday evening. He was In good,
•plrlts and his friends scout thd Idea
of suicide.
The steamship authorities are mak
ing an Investigation.
JUDGE WALTER ORMOND.
Mystery surrounds this Atlanta man's disappearance from a steamer bound
from Savannah to New York.
Just Before Sailing Ormond Sent Card
With Picture of Cemetery to Friend Here
Quite a grewsome matter In connection with the doatb of Judge Wal
ter Ormond cornea In the nature of a queer coincidence.
Thursday morning a young lady, prominent In Atlanta society, who
waa a good friend of Judge Ormond, heard of Ills death while she was
up town. She hurried home and found on the chiffonier In her room a
picture post card which had Just arrived from Savannah.
It was a photograph of Donaventure cemetery and across the bottom
ivas written by Judge Ormond:
“Am not yet rnoidy for this, but Just thquglit I’d take a look at IL”
It waa dated Almidny. I. ns
FOR STOESSEL;
80 PERSONS KILLED;
CZAR’S AIDE SHOT
Special Cable—Copyright.
St. Petersburg, July 19. —Death for General Stoeiwcl, who
commanded at Port Arthur, and “20 years in the galleys’’ for
General Fock, his chief of staff, who recommended the surrender
of the fortress.
This is the recommendation of the commission which has
been investigating the, surrender of “the Gibraltar of tho cast,”
during the Russo-Japanese war. Tho sentences • will • probably.' be
carried out.
CZAR OF- RUSSIA
TO DEFY PEOPLE
AND COURT STRIFE
News Reaehas Atlanta.
The first news of the drowning of
Judge Walter Ormond reached Atlan-
Thursday morning through press
cl*patchsA and the family did not re-
iflv. verification until many hours
‘•ter. About 12 o'clock a measage waa
received by Hinton Hopkins, brother-
in-law of Judge Ormond, fr6m Harvey
Hill, who accompanied him on the trip
,0 .^»w Tortt. This read:
"altar's body washed overboard
Special Cable—Copyright.
St. Petersburg, July 19.—The
indications today .arc thnt the
czar will refuse the .demands
of the people,. retain the
cabinet and accept n revolution.
The widespread,plot to kill the
leaders of the reactionary party
and the outrages Committed by
peasants and workmen have ap
parently convinced the emperor
that further concessions will be
fatal to the dynasty, and that the
only possibility of preserving au
tocracy lies in repression.
An attempt was made to assas
sinate Count Todleben, aide dc
camp to the czar. The assassin
fired at Count Todleben with a re
volver, the bullet grazing his
head. He made his escape in a
boat which was awaiting him in
the Neva.
Powers to Aid Czar.
From the Interior reports of the
burning of manor houses, robberies,
murders and collisions between the
troops and peasants continue to pour
In. The center of the peasant upris
ing Is Vorenesh province, where, In
their mania for the destruction of
property, the peasants devastated the
estate of M. Komahnyl, one of the most
prominent constitutional Democrats in
the lower house. .
At the recent conference between the
emperor of Austria and the German'
emperor the two monarch, decided that
In the event of a revolution In Rus
sia both emperors will Intervene In Po
land with armed forces If the Russian
government finds it impossible to main
tain Its control of Poland.
Threatsn Commander’s Ufa.
From Sebastopol word was received
that while the trial of the men con
cerned In the Black sea mutiny was
going on a bomb wss hurled at Colo
nel Dumbads. commander of the Brest
regiment, as he was leaving the cottrt
room. The bomb did Itttle damage.
Continued on Pago Throe.
GENERAL 8TOES8EL.
the Semlnovaky guard regiment. The
soldiers > served notice on their com
mander, Colonel Minn, that they In
tended to kill him at the first opportu
nity for forcing them to murdef their
fellow-cltlgens during the Moscow re
volt. Minn, in fear of his IIfe„ fled
from the camp and Is now In hiding.
Special Cable-Copyright.
St. Petersburg, July If.—Private ad
vices received here today say that (0
people were killed by a charge of dra
goons on a meeting at Kecherovk in
the province of Tambro. Sabres and
Pistols were used freely In dispersing
the crowds.
To Exile Regiment
It was decided today to dismiss from
service and send to Siberia the men
in the Infantry regiment who refused
to arrest a cavalry regiment at tods
for refusing to obey orders, and also
the members of the latter.
Water Board to Inves
tigate Some of the
Department Books.
All books connected with the city
waterworks, both In the waterworks
office proper and also the checks' In
the city comptroller's officer will be
gone over and Indfstlgated by a special
committee appointed In secret session
of the waterworks board meeting Wed-
nesday afternoon.^'It la underatood that
rumors of serious nature have been
passing among the board members.
The regular meeting Wednesday
was clothed In mystery from beginning
to end, and by the subdued excitement
of the members of the board It was
evident that something of importance
was to be brough^ about
After much roQtlne matter was at
tended to and tho coal contract for the
year let to the Kngland Coal Company,
of Ragland, Ala., for (1.36 per ton, this
being the largest contract let by the
city annually, a special committee re
port was road. J.
On the motion f Alderman Harwell,
the meeting wenflntQ secret session.
President Rice fas asked If the Matt
Torbett resignation wss taken up, and
what was done about It. He replied
’At the present time we cannot
what has been found. We are stilt In'
vestlgatlng."
It was then Iqprned that the commit'
tec had been appointed to look Into tho
books and to trace the matter to tho
root
THAW DEFIES MOTHER;
KEEPS OWN COUNSEL
WILLBEBUILT
That a’cotton compress to cost (360,-
000 la to be erected at once on the site
of the old R. A D. Iron works, at the
corner of Irwin street and the Southern
Railway was announced Thursday af
ternoon.
The old buildings on the site are be
ing torn down and In a few days the
actual work of constrctlon of the new
buildings will be under way. It Is gen
erally believed that the Southern Rail
way Is behind the movement for the
erection of the new compress.
By the decision to build s new straw
ture on the site of the old Iron works It
Is supposed that the promoters who
were to build a similar compress on the
Belt line have abandoned the Idea.
OF
SOUTH
Will Visit Chickamauga>aml Dc
cidc on Location of
Army Post.
Special to The Georgian.
Chattanooga, Tenn., July It.—Judge
William A. Taft, secretary of war, will
be a guest of Chattanooga September
16, and the Chamber of Commerce Is
Ing to give him a royal welcome,
urpose of his trip here will be to
i on Chlrkamauga as one of the
locations for a brigade army post
Secretary Taft will be accompanied
by his chief of suit and a number of'
higher officials.
100,000 WORKMEN
LIKELY TO STRIKE
IN NEW YORK CITY
By Private T-wmwI Wire.
New York, July 19.—It in
feared that a big labor strike, in
volving over 100,000 workmen,
may be precipitated within a few
days. All the building trades un
ions'in the city are now voting
the question of a sympathetic
strike in support of the house-
smiths against the Fuller Con
struction Company and the open
ahop. The result of the ballot
ing will not be known until next
Tuesday.
TOWN IN RUSSIA
FUEL FOR FLA MES
Special Cable—Copyright.
8L Petersburg, July If.—Fire Is de
stroying the town of Sytran Slmwirsk.
The Barnes are beyond control and the
town Is doomed. The panic-stricken
people are fleeing.
CLIFFORD W. HARTRIDGE.
Former Atlanta lawyer represents Harry Thsvy
and thinks ‘‘unwritten law" will clear cliont.
Thaw Clings to the ‘ ‘ Unwritten Law;* *
Mother Says Insanity Plea Is Only Hope
The tangle Into vlihh the Harry Thaw ctae has gotten seems to he
sllhou' preredonb 'Thaw r.ud hi* tieronml mun-rl, Ctfford W. HsrtTtdge,
formerly an attorney In Atlanta. Os., want to plead the "unwritten law"
befhre a Jury. firs. William Thaw, mother of the slayer, of Stanford
White, the eminent architect, and Black, Olcott, Gruber A Bonynge— the
lawyer* whom Thaw discharged and who wars re-rrtslned by his moth
er—think that a plra of Insanity Is the only one that will save the young
man from the electric chair. Mrs. Evelyn Mabel Thaw, wife of the pris
oner. Is reported to have abandoned the "unwritten law" plea and now
agrees with her mother-in-law that Insanity should be the defense. Thaw
has defied his mother, and his attorney, Mr. Hartrldge, haa brought suit
to get hold of all the papers In the case. With the exception of his moth
er, all the wealthy members of the Thaw family have abandoned the
young Mayor do his fate. Tho elder Mrs. Thaw la furnlehlng the money
to fight for her son's life, and thinks, therefore, that she should be enti
tled to say how the defense shall he conducted.
CHILDREN ARE CREMATED
IN BURNING JORDAN HOME
SE7 ON FIRE BY LIGHTNING
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Special-th The Georgian.
Macon,'Ga., July 19.—News received
here this morning tells of a dreadful
accident near Fort' VnlIoy'*last night.
During a .thunder storm the home of
W. T. Jordan was struck by lightning
and set on lire. The house was com-’
lletely destroyed and In the,lire were
turned, alive. Annie and Robert Wlm
All the Inmates
had retired and - were oeleeplng some
time.before the Are occurred. Mr. and
Mrs. Jordan barely escaped with their
lives and the roof of the house waa
falling In as they cleared the porch.
Owing to tho noise of the storm, ft
was Impossible to awaken tho sleeping
children, who were visiting the Jor
dan-home. The vletltna of the (lames
were (he children of a prominent con
tractor of Hwannah. ,
GREEK WRESTLER SUES
STAKEHOLDERS FOR WA GER
William Demetrlal, tho Greek wrest
ler, who lost his match with Charles
Olsen'Wednesday night by using the
forbidden "strangle hold” on the Swede,
Died suit In the city court Thursday
morning-to recover the amount of His
stake money, (2,200. A list of Greek
names of an unpronounceable variety
Alls all the available space on the peti
tion.
The suit Is filed against Oeorge R.
Donovan, stakeholder for the match.
The Greek avers that he, acting for
hlmalf end ns agent-for Starros viola
tes, Nick Mntalgos Pete Brown, R.
Eflenelra, Pete MUhlamas, J’eter Har-
gauns, Jim Brown and John Kenakes,
deposited with Donovan the, sum of
12,200 In pursuance of a bet made nn
the result.of a wrestling match with
Charles Olsen, the said Oleson having
made a similar deposit.
R Is alleged that on the morning »f
July 1*. the day following the match,
Demetrlal. demanded of Donovan the
amount of the wager, which was refus
ed. He oaks Judgment against Dono
van for the amount placed In his
hands.
The suit, which was Med by Dorsey,
Rrewater, Howell A McDaniel and L
Rucker, was the <wtgrowth of a meet
ing of excited Greeks Thursday morn
ing. A dosen or morn of Demetrial’s
countrymen had bet their money on the
result at the match, backing the Oreek
against the Swede. During the match
Demetrlal secured- a 'strangle hold” on
Oleson and nearly choked him Into In
sensibility, a species of wrestling toe
tics forbidden by the rules of civilised
wrestling. The match was awarded to
Oleson and the Greeks who lost their
Money were wild with rage. The suit
1s based on the fact that the wsger
was a gambling debt and that Oleson
cannot Qegslly collect the money In the
hands of. the stakeholder.
It was stated at noon that an agree
ment had been reached whereby the
wrestling match would be opened
again In the afternoon, the result to
decide the ownership of the stakes. The
suit had not been withdrawn from the
courts at that time.
BRYAN IS INVITED
TD THE STATE FAIR
Secretary Frank Weldon of the State
Fair returned Thursday morning from
the Georgia Weekly Press convention
at Hartwell, where he addressed the
meeting yeeterday In the Interest of the
fair.
A resolution offered by Editor Mose
ley of the DanlelsvIUe Monitor, Invit
ing William Jennings Bryan to the
State Fair, Atlante, next October, was
unanimously adopted amid much ap
plause. Secretary Weldon stated that
the day on which Mr. Bryan comes will
ha press day.
GIBSON RELEASED
By Private Leased Wire.
New York, July 12.—Justice Blanch
ard, In part II, special term supreme
court, this morning granted the dis
charge of Lawyer Burton W. Gibson,
on a writ of habeas corpus. Assistant
District Attorpey Train offered no ob
jection to the technical objections
raised by Gibson's counsel.
Qlbson afterwards said he wgs going
to start Immediate proceedings against
Coroner MacDonald, charging him with
conspiracy.
WIFE OF THE PRISONER
WITH MOTHER-IN-LAW
lly Private I-csmhI Wire.
New York. July It.—Harry Ker : ill
Thaw has defied his mother, and today
Insists that Clifford Hnrtrldge Is in<
chief counsel.
Attorney Hartrldge, acting for Tli nr,
has obtained an order from Jut m .,
Blanchard In the supreme court, rile -1 -
Ing niack, Olcott, Gruber A Bonynge,
the rival law Arm, lo eliow cause to- I
morrow why Ihey should not turn our
to him the |Ht|iers .In the esse.
Mother Is Ostsrmlnsd.
Mrs. William Thaw, the prti n r'v
mother, Is Just ns determined that the
olcott Arm ahall conduct the case m l
that the Insanity plea shall pr. van.
The attorneys have convinced har that
to have Harry Thaw committed to the
Mattowan usylum was the only chant ->
of saving him from the electric cl,.dim
There Is every reason to liellevc to- I
day that Evelyn Neablt Tlulw has h. ,,
Won over to Iter mother In law’s side,
and that Harry Thaw and his personal
counsel stand alone on the “unwritten
law" defense.
Clssh Without ProcodonL
Tho clash between the lawyers and
the application to Justice Blanchard la
without precedent In the annals of tho'
hsr.
Judge Olcott will move toward tho
appointment of a commission to i\-
amlne Into Thnw'a sanity as so ,n .n
tho district attorney return- from i
Warm Springs, Ga., where be la at-
tending a meeting of tho Georgia Har
Asonclatton.
The mother, Mrs. William Thaw, nnd
Jnelah Thaw, tho brother, regard thu
as the beat step.
Court to Bo Judge.
Ths court to which the application Is
mode will be the Judge as to whether
or not Thaw's condition Justifies nn In
quiry Into his sanity.
I *i Him .lei ..me, in h n in
terview at Wiirm Springe, On, today
Indicated that he would oppose the at
tempt to send Thaw to aa as) him w
escape trial.
DORSEUliED
I SUPERIOR COURT
OR MURDER CHARGE:
.Soil of the Late Jmlgc on Trial
for. Killing of Young
Curt it Twitty.
■ k-.
Hperlsl to The Georgian.
Gainesville, Oa.. Jly It John Ti
er Dorsey, soli of ths late Judge I
tey, of this place, was arraigned in the
Hall county superior court this morn
ing charged with killing Curtis Twitty,
son of J. M. Twitty, a prominent cltl-
cen. Owing to the prominence of thu
families of the deceased and the ac
cused, the rose Is attracting w Ida at
tention.
Judge Klnsy la hsarlng the enae nn,l
ths defense Is represented by Dean \-
llobbs nnd W. A. Charter, while iho
prosecution Is. assisted hy F. M. John
son, of Gainesville, and J. E. IS. Us-
haffey, .of Jefferson.
Tho Jury! was rompletsd nt lo 3d
o'clock this morning snd the trial be
gun. It Is expected that the evl h nes
will all be In today, as there are not
great many witnesses.
Twitty wss struck by Dorsey April
29. and he lingered till May 2 when ho
dlod.
EWYORKER CHARGED
THAT HIGH "WELCHED'
Atlantan Alleged to Have Said
He Was Up Against
“Brace Game.”
J. M. High, president.of the J. M.
High Company, at Whitehall and Hun
ter streets. Is the defendant In a suit
Med Thursday morning In the superior
court, by wltlch T. T. Donovan, . f New'
York, seeks to recover 1760 on an un-
Id draft alleged to have been given
J. M. High.
It Is alleged that High gives .,s his
only excuse” that the draft was given
“for faro chips, a brace game.” This is
denied.by the petitioner.
The petition alleges that on »i about
April 17, 1M6, the petitioner, Donovan,
loaned J. M. High (760 and afterward
received from him a draft, dated at
New York and drawn mi tho J M.
High Company, for that sum. it in al
leged that High refused- payment on
the said draft, his only ■ v u-o being
that the draft ws.» given for “faro
chip* a brace game." Tin- p*Gti»n*r
avers that this Is untrua. The peti
tioner seeks Judgment for i:.,o and T
percent Interest from April 17, lKiii.
Hartridge Demands
Papers From Mrs.
Thaw’s Lawyers.
Lunacy Commission To Be
Asked as Soon as Jerome
Returns to New York
From Georgia.