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popnlaHon ESSfe::: ii in;:!n- <' U»Hwl The Atlanta Georgian. VOL. 1 NO. 175. ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY. NOVEMBER, 16. 1906. TJOfpr/. on Trtltifl FiVti CENT* 1 KIU«. U Atlanta TWO UINTa. MS. CAMP’S OUTBURST IN COURT MAKES DEFENSE ASK NEW TRIAL; CONVICTION OF GLENN NOT CERTAIN EXPLORER PEAR Y AND HIS MEN ARE REP OR I ED SAP E AND WELL r Lawyers Say They Know Glenn Is Not Guilty. dramatic scene TN ASSAULT CASE Conviction of Negro Believ ed To Be Matter of Doubt. NEGRO JUST ARRESTED FITS DESCRIPTION OF ASSAILANT; GLENN TRIAL IS SUSPENDED A negro named Will Johnson was captured in West End Friday afternoon by county officers and la being brought to the court house to face Mrs. Camp. He fits exactly the description of the assailant of Mrs. Camp and had with him several articles of women's cloth ing. The trial of Joe Glenn has been sus pended until Mrs. Camp can see the negro just arrested. . A It hough In an Impassioned und dra matic statement, Mrs. Annie Camp be fore Judge Roan and a Jury of sub stantial men, for the second time posi tively Identified Joe Glenn as the negro Who assaulted her last Tuesday morn ing. when she took the stand Friday, an element of doubt has been Injected Into the case which makes the verdict of the jury uncertain If the opinions of others who have heard the testimony ran be taken as a criterion. The testimony of Mrs. Catnp was tilled with dramatic statements, which I showed that she was convinced that the negro who assaulted her was on trial, but It cannot be denied that this method of testifying helped more than hindered her case. It took the court nearly two hours to get down to‘business, for many Jurors’ names were eliminated for cause or at the challenge of the attorneys ap pointed by the court to defend the ne gro. Finally these twelve men were selected to pass on the guilt or Inno cence of the negro: ' Mike Shuman, J. K. Collier, T. W. Johnson, A. B. Steele, G. H. Tanner, K. Atkins, J. M. Alexander, A. H. Ksterley, Gordon P. Kiser, Will T. Henley, C. Frank Malone and B. Da vidson. «. A Strong Defense. Charles Hopkins, Luther Itosscr and J. K. McClelland, the lawyers appointed to ttoe that the negro receives a fair trial, announced to the Jury through Mr. Hopkins that they had fully Inves tigated the case and had come to the honeat conclusion that tho negro was hoi, uiul could not. have been guilty. When both sides were ready for the introduction of evidence Judge Kuan ordered everyone except r .-prcaentatlves Of the press, members of the bar und officers of tho court to leave the room. I’rlor to that time tho lloor of Iho room «as packed with whlto spectators und probably two dozen negroes were In the gallery. ■Mrs. Camp was the llrst witness to | iakc the stand. Hite was brought In In a chair und wus very nervous. Her mrves were unstrung und Iter testi mony was frequently Interrupted vvilli '■veiled remarks. I <un feel the awful IiIowh now." That black face will ulwuys be slur- iag at me." DEATH OF ENGINEER 10 BE INVESTIGATED BY ROAD DETECTIVES J. B. Pace .Failed to Survive From Blow on Head. OOO0O0O00O00OO0OOOOOO00000 O O ENGINEER'S BODY HELD O O UNTIL WIDOW RECOVERS, O 0 0 Without regaining conscious- 0 STORY OF ACCIDENT TOLD BY FIREMAN Will Keep Body Until Wid ow Recovers'From Illness. Olflcluls of the Southern raflway have instituted a thorough Investigation of the accident which killed Engineer Pace and will use all possible efforts to ascertain what hit him. It was an nounced Friday morning at the office of the superintendent that the cause of tho accident Is still vsUadJn mystery and that they bave been unable to ob tain any clew that would tend to shed any light on It. Fireman H. K. , Norwood, of 163 Kirkwood avenue, who discovered En gineer Pace unconscious In the cab of' Ills cnglno Wednesday *ulglit about three miles beyond Powder Springs, has made an offlclul report to the superin tendent, In which ho says he bus no Idea us to the cause of the accident. As a result of the Injury to Engineer Pare, Ills engine, us It thundered along the rails with tho engineer lying un conscious In the cab und with no. hand' inunlpuliite It, burnt out und wus un able to proceed further on the Journi uni The disabled engine wus picked up ul Hlruni Thursday morning by un Incoming freight train and brought to Atlanta, It being ac companied liy Fireman Norwood. The iKindcrous locomotive failed Just alsiut the tlino the body of tho engineer wus discovered by Ills ffremnn and tho train had lo be pushed from that point Into lliu siding at lllrum by tho second O ness or speaking. Engineer J. B. O 0 Pace, of 147 West Baker street 0 0 who was mysteriously Injured on 0 0 his engine Wednesday night about 0 0 thtee miles beyond Powder O 0 Springs, died Friday morning at 0 0 7:46 o'clock nt the Grady hos- O O pltal. 0 0 Mrs. Pace, wife of the dead en- 0 0 glneer, who Is III at her home, was O O Informed of the death Friday 0 0 morning by Dr. L. C. Brewer, her 0 0 family physician. It Is announced 0 0 that under the circumstances she 0 O stood the shock well, although 0 0 she Is In a very nervous condl- 0 0 tlon. 0 0 Mrs. Paco requested that ghe 0 0 be allowed to see the body before 0 0 if Is burled and this request will 0 0 be granted. The body was or- 0 0 dered embalmed and held until 0 O she Is able to view It. Dr. Brower 0 0 says this will probably be about 0 0 two weeks. . o 0 O 00000000000000000000000000 section of the train, which was follow ing cl'.se liciiinil. A nmi-ml . ..Ulslon vvaa prevented by Fireman Norwood, who quickly notified tin; conductor and had a flagman sent bock to warn the second section of the danger ahead. FIREMAN NORWOOD TELLS STORY OF FATAL NIGHT. The detailed statement of Fireman Norwood in regard to-the accident Is os follows:' ‘ "I left Atlanta'on a freight Wednes day afternoon about 6:60 o'clock. En gineer Pace being at the throttle. When we arrived nt Austell wo stopped for orders. Engineer Paco left .the engine und obtained his orders, after which he canto back and shook my grate for me. As we left Austell tire were given 'white' and started off at it rapid dip. Ill 11 FIGHT II Robbers Start Battle ii San Francisco Bar. ONTO THIEF KILLED; THE OTHER HELD The Roosevelt With Party on Board Is Headed For Sidney. Two Men Are iu Hospital and They Are Expected To Die. Halifax, N. S.. Nov. 16.—The Arctic ship RoosovelL with Commander Rob ert Peary on board, arrived at Chateau bay, Labrador, according to a dispatch received here. The Roosevelt had been delayed by heavy weather, but expects to sail at onco for Sydney. lil 00000000000000000000000000 O 0 O 8H0UTIN0 IN CHURCH 0 O OPPOSED BY PASTOR. 0 O 0 O Richmond, Va., Nov. 16.—In the O O Baptist General Association con- 0 O ventlon this morning Rev. Dr. C. 0 0 T. Taylor, one of the ablest work- O This picture shows the ship Roosevelt, In which Lieutenant Robert L. try. U. S. N„ went In search of the North Pole. Peary eaaehed latl- e 87 dogrees and 4 minutes, bringing to the United Sttaes the honor Ban Francisco, Cab, Nov. 16.--Tw men nre dead, two others are dying un another Is seriously Injured na the re suit of,a pistol battle In Uieatlemi.tr. hold-up of tho saloon of George O'Cou noil, at Sixth and Brnnnan streets. All'compiled with the oi.i-t i up their hands except George O'Con- nell, a retired policeman, who shot nt one robber. Botli thieves then began firing. When the smoke of the buttle Cleared away four nten were lying on the floor of the saloon—O’Connell with two bullets In hts chest; Stephen Iiyneh. shot twice In the abdomen. Louis DeLutour, with hlx Jaw turn away by n bullet, and Michael Ken nedy, ahot In the ear. on the sidewall oppoalte the saloon the body of one of tho robbers was found und idontliini os that of Frank Burke, on cx-con- vlct. O'Connell died auon after being taken to a hospital, where It is said 1 of having penetrated "farthest north" In the history Of Arctic exploration. - * i pole, or 34 miles higher than the point He was within 206 miles of the pwi<=, —* s... reached by the Duke d'Abrusal’s party. The diagram mop or the Areuc region shewing Lieutenant Peary's course, with a photograph of the com- tnander ut the left. The below cut shows Lieutenant Peary, Mrs. I eury uhd their daughter. •That wan the last time I saw Mr. Paco until 1 disco' ivered him uncon scious In tho cab at u point about three miles beyond Powder. Springs. We didn’t stop nt this station. Shortly utter passing there, the engine com menced to exhaust as though In back motion and I at once realised something whh wrong. The boiler of the engine ADMITS XHA THIS WIEE WAS FOUND IN HOUSE WITH SENA TOR PLA TT O ora In southwest Virginia, salil ho _ 0 saw no use In shouting and the 0 „ _ „ „ , O habit of "wallowing before tho O vnd DeLutour cannot recove pulpit or crawling around on the O | John Byrne was arrested hands and kneea. o | the roblier who esenped. A Sot>0O00O000O0C00O0O00oo0 O S; 25MK beT 1 ' cnr, ' l,lB " v late Continued on Pago Three. * HlK fac«! Oh, that fare!** Facet tha Negro. Nut It was when tho negro. who luol I'Hor lo that time been in tho deten- »*"n room attached to tho court, whh l, rou ffht out that aho k«vo ven^to her frHingn in tho moat dramatic way. i h* re won no doubt that who at leant Mleved that tdie wan confronting the who had unsuulted her. " h* n Glenn wus flnt pointed out • Htet] hat lean behind the attorney*, \ ne ho wuh not the negro. Then , ,e demanded that ho walk out before '° r . nnd1 on he did ao she burst into a Bade of abuaa. ’Yes, that ts him! You low down ‘lack scamp! You're the one who rcaled me so badly! 1 can see them "it eyes. Oh! Oh! oh!" Then she caned back In her chair, almost faint- as her husband came over amt aiothed her. Hie negro took ull this calmly, and 'ii' ii she was through walked back to o', sf at without a word. in« Jury was ordered to leave the “bd tho attorneys defending the "* r 'i asked that a. new trial be granted icc.iuHc Mrs. Camp's outburst. Asktd Nsw Trial. Messrs. Hopkins, Rosser and McClel- m. l all protested against proceeding arther with the trial after such an 'ilburst, but Judge Roan overruled h,M ol > the grounds that the Identlff- a,lon would not have been any less .sitlve had It been more calm. •Mr. Rosser was especially earnest In “'testing against a Jury which had card such a statement having to °5 the guilt or innocence of the . 'T»ed. .This Is a case In which I would not ‘He part had I not ■been appointed by }? oourt. said he, "but now that X am ** 1 Intend to see that so far as tn ,,e * this negro has a fair trial, iirough an Investigation which should "t be placed before the Jury we have convinced that this negro Is not “lily. If that testimony Is ullowed ’ go In I tell you that as for the bal- 1 CB , 0 / * hta tr *al You had Just us well inil It out by machinery—this negro owlet have no more chance than a oa- vy bird tn a basket of cats. We are , llHr * simply to go through the form 'ending this negro to the gallows. * ar " here to give him a fair trial. .So >' -t* I am concerned I believe that “ rest of this trial. If that evidence admitted, will be a mockery nnd u “'"sty. The result I* * foregone con- u*lon" Officers Till Story. t-’-ainly i-jlictmcn iioblm-on ami WITH HER DRESS ABLAZE TINY BERNIE TELAFAIR RAN OUT INTO STREET Hcreuiniiig ill agony and with her dress a sheet of iiaine, little llemlo Tclafalr, of 40 Rhinchart street, rushed Into the street early Friday morning. A woman neighbor who saw tho lit tle girl dashed a bucket full of water on the flames and extinguished them. Tho child was sent ’to Grady hospital In an ambulance and Is not expected to recover. She Is horribly burned about the body. The little girl Is eight years old. Her mother. Mrs. Liiiulo Telafalr, Is a widow and Is employed In a cot ton factory some distance from their* home. Friday morning the moth er went to her work, leaving the little Bernlc In charge of a six-year-old sis ter. While the children were standing be fore the Are the dress of the elder child became Ignited and she rushed Into the street, where the wind fanned the flames Into sven fiercer blase. The passing of a neighbor suveil her life for a short time at least. By Broken Rail; Fifteen Injured Buffalo, N. Y., Nov. 16.—A broken rail caused a wreck on the Grand Trunk'Just Inside the city limits of Woodstock, Ont., today. Fifteen per. Dunbar told, respectively, of how they Tn^iw hud captured the negro and taken him E ■ Mill W* I SVRCII before Mrs. Camp, In practically the same terms as stated In The Georgian on the day of the crime. E A. Pinion, one of the men who cut tho piece of belt-lacing from around the woman’s neck, said that he had carefully examined the tracks made hy a negro whom he had seen running from the Camp barn when he came up. hut that the shoes which the negro wore In court—the same he wore on the day of tils capture two hours after the crime could not have made them. The attorneys for the defense are training their evidence to prove that the crime lay at the door of a tall, black negro from the railroad camps who tits almost exactly the description furnish ed by Mrs. Camp. The trial will consume practically all of Friday and may run over until Sat urday. SENATOR THOMAS C.‘PLATT. Republicans are likely to ask that he resign from the senate at result of recent marital troubles. will dl The train, due at 4:16 a. m„ was late and running fast to make up time when the accident happened. The engine and tender got across the break, but the baggage and express cars and the three coaches left the rails. One of the coaches rolled down an embankment, while the others werg torn from their trucks and thrown across the tracks. The Injured were re moved to the general hospital. KILLS FORMER WIFE THEN SHOOTS SELF Kneel,il to Tlie Ueorglsn. Dsllsi. T"X.. Nor. 1C.-Charles Alim, o funnel living near Jndwtioro. rode up to (he pisei; where Ills wife, from whom he wus separatist, wss living, bsljs from !■ ’ RESPITE FOR KENNY STAYS EXECUTION Hpecliil to Tl«e Georgian. Charlinton. K. *.\, Not. I*;.—George Ken ny. sentenced to hnnir here today. trill not tile. UwtttWf 2% l» III** day fixed for the I hriti two \ execution. lie ■JEST«irfMtoT through her bead. | The rase may go to the supreme court . f h !’ ill* horse die! nele 14 III* fcnrjrert got the execution etsyed. ll £h f S V !hot tlirotigb hi* Kcmy vru* convicted for the warder of hemT Uvhw InTT.Ml.! * Btiel.a.ie de-nl f.lello lB Angi,,L Busby, However, Says She Didn’t Know He Was There ’Till Raid Was Made-- Sen ator May Be Asked to Resign. New York, Nov. 16.—Mrs. Winslow K. Busby, of Highland Mills, Is the handsome young woman who wus In Mrs. La Munle’s house at 214 West Thirty-eighth street, at the time Mrs. Platt, her coahman, J. K. Hedges, and private datectlves smashed their way through a door and found U. H. Sen ator Thomas C. Platt In a handsomely furnished rear apartment. This Information Is given by Mrs. Busby’s husband, who declares thut his wife’s visit to the house was perfectly Innocent, and that It merely wus a co CONDEMNED NEGRO, FIGHTING OFFICERS, PROLONGS HIS LIFE The Hanging Is De layed More Than Two Hours. Mpeclsl to Tin* iteiirgluii, Milledgevillo, G«., Nov. 16.—At 2:5} o’cloek Mims Devererux. the condemn ed negro who had defied the officers for more than two houre, wse taken from hie cell and led to the scaffold. He had defended him,elf v/lth a pieee of iron and tome beer bottloe, one of which he broke and triad to commit •uicido by cutting hie throat. Tha at tempt to commit suicide, however, was unsuccessful, though the man scarred himielf considerably. ! tho condemned men to the scaffold. When they reached tho cell and un locked tho door the negro squared himself in one corner of the cage and j wiftl a piece of a bar defied the men. He raved and pitched like a mrd- jr.-an and at 2i10 o'clock had not been I taken from the cell. Other deputies had been called in, but they could lend no aeeietanc- in diearming him. ' About 100 people were waiting out* side of the jail to lie-r of the execution and did not know of the fight for life Lie negro wat making for tome time, when it became whiipcred around that the execution had not yet occurred. Refused to Commute Sentence. HpecloJ til Tilt; tlmjrtflau. Milledgevillo, Ga„ Nev. 10.—Awaken ing to a realization of tha faot thr.t thara waa no meant of escape from the gallows, Mima Davereaux, tha con demned negro, prolonged (via life for more than two Jiourt by a fight with Sheriff C, Q. Croster and hiz deputies* The negro hid exhibited an indiffer ence during the forenoon and up till the time for the execution . (12 o'clock) arrived. At that hour 8hcriff Croeser and one deputy went to the cell to'lcac,' then took them away for evidence In her divorce case. Is a diabolical lie. My wife snw Mrs. Platt in the recep tion room, where she was talking about her trip-with Mis. La Monte. If Mm. Platt had any suspicion that niy wife) had been In the senator's room, she I did not make that accusation there. I “I understand that Mrs. Platt picked priato thing for him to get out of the senate for the credit of the jiarty and the slate and thut now Is the time to do It, us both branches of the legis lature are Republican and tile election of a Republican us his successor Is as sured. What Husband Sayz. Mr. Busby silld: "My wife and Mrs. La Monte have been friends for six spent much time In puny and once went to the springs at | for Highland"MlUe, ahe had'her shoes West Builen together. They content-! on. and I will swear to It. It’s awful to pluted taking another trip to West Ha-1 tell^such outrageous lies about peo- Kyr the second time the prls. ii mission declined to commute the tones of Alims Davereaux, the Hoi county negro who killed another i over a crap game dispute. Thursday afternoon tho cotnmi; refused to Interfere and the gow approved this decree. Devcreuux respited thirty days ago, after the t mission had dcltned to, Interfeme. showing was tirade before the ic-v. that newly discovered evidence hail veloped, nnd the respite tvns iihmi permit Devercnux's friends opporti to present these facts, • e This evidence was not sufficient. I ever, In the opinion of the cum lilon, to Interfere with the exreu of tho negro. site senator's room from the reception room I also understood from Mrs. Ira Monte vom-a Thev h,iv. ! * h “t the shoes belonged -to one of her i rr.,ilv. „ I colored servants. When my wife met i eaih other’s com- me mat afternoon at the ferry en routo den this winter and were It not for all! pl *’ „ . «. .. .. I Coachman Greets Mre. Platt. incidence that Senator Platt was In the house at the same time. this trouble they would be there Want Platt to Resign. "Aly wife does not deny being at the ,. , ...... ■■ l. | „ I1W that us a result of t house ut the time and slm has author- ! 1-odgc with her daughter. Mrs. O It la asserteil now that us u tesiiii oi lz( | me |g ^ ‘ niody, after a day In the city, they w "Airs. Busby wus not then* to moot * “ ] •— —— the senate!. .She did not know he Was In the house until after Airs. Platt and her coachman and the detectives forced nn entrance Into the senator's rooms. Naturally, she Inquired what, the com motion was all about, and then, for the llrst time, she learned that the sena tor was in the house.' Were Not Wile's Shoes. ’Thul story that Mrs. Platt found my j to be Imorrlewod the raid on the Thirty-eighth street house, from which wus triumphantly carried a pair of woman’s shoes as evi dence, Mrs. Platt, In addition to the agreement of separation, has obtained 61,040,000 from the senator. As an out come of the sensational happenings In the Platt faintly, Republican leaders are now looking to Platt to resign from the United States senate. They are considering presenting to When Aim. Platt returned lo Tlogu Far- . . ere met at the railroad station by t'oacli- man J. K. lledgts. Hedges, Who was driving the Platt carriage, sliouud a greeting to them und holding the reins tn one hand, warmly shook hands witli Mrs. Platt. When Mrs. Platt and her daughter had climbed Into the back seat, he tucked the robes nround them. Mrs. Platt talked rapidly to him and all three seemed Jubilant. Mrs. Platt re- ‘ nd the three him ey aro I'otuilueiinK iirwnunn m • ,l,u r * "■ j rumu lo d© mi«rviewcu un their vlcnx that it In an ai>nr#>. wife** «h*>c8 in ihe venator’a rpopi and «]rov» ntr (or Tl«>ga Lodge. RIOGWAY'S DROPS TEI CITIES FROM LIST OF FOURTEEN After this week RMg printed In only four, las teen, cities, as has been the publication began. In the foreword to the week, which will M on i this Important announcer It la not stated what ft be thus honored, but the i that Atlanta and New o omitted. It ts propoaetl the purely local feature and concentrate on two crusade*. Hffort* to see J«*npph tj nt the Atlnnta Kitlguay's, cessful Friday. f..r this u turd ay, s made. rttlvK vtlt umptlon is n« will be leave out the future, three big