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' —-, “Situation Wanted” Ads. Free In THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN The Atlanta Georgian. “Situation Wanted” Ads. Free In THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN VOL. 1. NO. 181. ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1906. PLOTTED TO POISON; EXPOSED BY LETTER LETTER OPENED BY MRS. FOOTE mdla lie* n J/lUStjfc Mu .QWV&Wl&tA tf*’ i •' JLat sfli 'tit fyr* &?*** i Imtu xU/of& 1| ^’ , 77 (L&rcwF* IP’ 1 *’ La/P *u t , w wLi 6,1 lj Witt <6** Mtih tovtJL. ilrd °- L d un* omJ lutfi ami X 4ft Wrt jfcnt o%k* tfafi cbiff yu> <x ttcM Continued on Pago Thrtt. J. J. Foote and His Family Escape Great Danger. OOOpOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOC LITTLE BOY FINDS HOME; STORY IN GEORGIAN GIVES HIM CHANCE FOR HEALTH O The following l» the address on O a the envelope containing the plot O O to. murder / the family of J. J. Cl O Finite: * o “W. A. Foots In cear Nelly Bally O servant o corner pryor et. un Bass at. O O nouth pryor o Atlanta, On," ooQOOOrtCKKHWlOOCiCHWiOOOCiCHWlO A trio of negro women are held prls • n»r» at the police elation euepected having attempt^! to poleon the family •i .1. J. Foote, the well-knotyn Ala bama street trunk ami bng itianu- fio turer, whose home In at l*Jl South ITvor etreet, corner of Bnss. 'rii»- plot to iHileon wae exposed through a letter uddreeeed to Nellie Halley, a recently dlecharged eervant from the F«»ote home, and which accidentally fell Into the hande of Mre. Foote. According t<* this letter, one attempt, hae already been made at wholeeale poisoning of th* family, but It wbm uneucceeeful. The poisoner* were figuring on another ■ i tempt at the time the plot came to light. Tiih suspected prisoners are Nellie Hailey, Fannie Smith and .Minnie • ’lurk. Detectives Starnes and f'onnal H, who are working on the case, are •till looking for a fourth suspect, a ne- kio man, who la believed to be iinpll- < uted. N>!llc Bullcy wan employed as a >"rvant In the Foote home for about two week*, but left there the latter part "f last week. The tell-tale letter was " <eived through Iho mall at the Foote >"'me on Monday. A simple mistake In the addressing this letter la responsible for the ex- l»»-'ure of the plot. Instead of addressing the letter to "Fannl* Bailey, care J. J. Foote,” the writer addressed It to "W. A. Foote. <are of Nellie Bailey.” Letter Expotee Plot. "n receiving the letter Mrs. Foote ■'"linosed It was Intended for her, and, 11 raking It open, read It. To her hor. >"i\ she discovered It contained a de liberate plan for the poisoning of her '"tire family. Mrs. Foote promptly turned this evl- nee over to the detective department, with the result that the three negro "omen were arreeted. The letter was tinned merely with the name "Fannie.” 1 annle Smith, who Is a close friend of ■Nellie Bailey, Is supposed to hove written It. Minnie Clark Is also a f' lend of these two women and the de- 1 relives believe ehe Is connected with Ibe Plot. The case of Nellie Bailey and Fannie Sl »lth was called for preliminary hear- j' X In police court Thursday afternoon, nut was postponed pending the arrest f Minnie Clark. She was taken Into ■ustody later In the afternoon. It may i hat the trial will be resumed Frl- uny afternoon. Letter to “Nellie." The following is the letter received: "Atlanta, ga november II, IMS nellle told me last night that stufT you nut In the coffee did not hurt them you "t int put a nough In you put about a R i* spoon full In and It will kill every- wlr and git that Jewelry and me and u will go where we Wae talking "'nut and you Can git them other ■Mugs and keep your mouth and dont Continued on Pas* J. Little Benny la going to have a show In the world after all. He won't have In spend tVe ret qf hi* day* within factory walls with his life constantly endangered'by having those awful epi leptic fits. , , His pitiful story, told. In The Geor gian Thursday afternoon, has had Its results. It's fresh air and life on a farm now for Henny. and tho doctor secured by Secretary Logan, of the Associated Charities, said he would get well If he had this. , Within a few days lie will leave At lanta and the poverty he has been ohly loo Intimately acquainted with all his short life of fourteen years for the fresh air of Pike county. There he will get those three square meals a day the doctor told about and there he will get a short rest after those square meals, and then enough open air work to get rid of those terrible flti.. He Is going to Bamesrltie. when* he will be given a goad home and be taken care-of by Mis* Annie Ulnlbck. And this .will be ah Ideal spot for the af flicted lad. Miss Blalock Is a success ful scientific farmer and besides being this, she has a big warm heart and wants to give such lads ns Benny a show—and. that's all he needs besides the fresh air., Miss Hlalofck believes that If- you give a lad o 'chance to make good, he will do so.- Anyway, Benny will have that chance, and he will have It on a farm that Is successful and one on which Miss Blalock has been able to retain Unit equilibrium between main tenance and expense, and which Is self, sustaining. There Is a chance for Benny yet. SHEKILLSMANIIHIEVESKILL HOTEL CLERK T L Murder and Suicide Occurs in Chicago House. Chicago, III., Nov. 23.—J. fl. Dela ney, president of the American Ship ping Company, 2»7 Broadway, New York, was shot and killed this after noon In an apartment at 480 La Salle avenue by a young woman, who then Bhot and killed herself. !f Is said the woman was hi* wife. ... ,, It Is said the woman had been liv ing there for some time, and Denaley arrived In Chicago a» few days hgo and went to live there also, and was Introduced as her husband. How the shooting occurred the police do not know. When the bodies were found the body of Delaney was cold as though he hod been dead for some time. The woman evidently had been dead only a short time. Her body was still warm. When the police broke Into the rooni the woman’s body was lying on the floor. There was a bullet hole In her ward the top of her hea In bed with a bullet through the back of his head. Both Delaney and the woman were young, apparently not more than 23 “'According to occupants of the house the. young- woman waa visited yester- day by her mother and she had two sisters, all the member* of the family being resident* of the neighborhood. A. E. Franklin. Bandits Attempted to Rob Safe Hostelry. in Arkansas City. Ark.. Nov. 23 4 —Wil liam Goff and 8. C. Hatpin were shot and killed today when two masked men entered the ofllce of the 8t. Charles hotel and attempted to rob the safe. The robbers were amateurs. Before the men could throw up their hands, the robbers shot them to death and then escaped. A posse Is searching for the bandit*. Goff was night clerk of the hotel and Halpln was a member of a theatrical company showing here. FOR! INSULT Singer Held To Be Guilty es Was Charged. HANNAH GRAHAM DDNT APPEAR Metropolitan Opera House Tenor • Subjected to Many Searching Questions. New York. Nov. 28.—Eurlclt Caruso was found guilty and lined tltt In the Yorkvllle police court today on a charge of Insulting a woman In the Central Park xoo. OO0OOOOO<3OQCO<H30<3OOOCDOOOO o o 0 8UN8HJNE FOR 8OUTH1 O 0 CLOUD* FOR CARLI8LE. O O O <3 Weather don’t matter much 0 0 when all the South la throwing 0 0 up hats In glee over the humbling 0 0 Vanderbilt gave the mighty In- 0 O dlans.- It Is so good that people 0 O have to pinch themselves every 0 O once In a while to make sure they O O haven't Just dreamed it. Fore- 0 Friday* night and Satur- 0 The funeral services of A. E. Frank lin were conducted Friday afternoon In th* chapel of Harry G. Poole Jk Co. The Interment, wns in Oak land cemetery. . 0 day. No mate .Mai change In tern- O O perature.” 0 0 Temperature* Friday: O O 7 a. 43 degrees 0 <3 s s. in 43 degrees 0 O <» a. 56 degree* 0 <3 10 a. m. .. ,. ..- . . . 40 degrees O 0 II a. rtf. «J degrees 0 0 12 noon. .. .. «5 degree* 0 O l .p.'tn; 66 degrees O C !:p. (( degrees 0 0 O ■30000000000000000000000000 New York. Nov. 23.—Intimations that startling developments would-come to day In the examination of Caruso were majle before the case went on In the Yorkvllle police court, by former Judge Dlttenhoeffer, the tenor's law- yer. Mr. Dlttenhoeffer said: "I inuy call another witness today. It detwnds upon what the prosecution does. ‘ I expect they will try to plan something new on me. In that event I shall play the strongest card I have, evidence which was kept secret up to this.” Caruso Not Chtsrcd. large crowd walled for Caruso to enter court. He was not cheereq as he was yesterday. Mrs. Hannah Graham, the missing complainant whom Caruso Is alleged to have offended In the monkey house In Central Park, was not pro duced In court today'h'y the' prosecu tion. lie Mntliot admitted that he was unable to bring the woman face tu f«'-p w ith ' 'at iisu. Woman Out of Town. Graham has been found,” said He to Magistrate Biker. “I can say that we Itkve been successful In this. She WAS found about 2 o'clock this morning In a place 40 miles from New York and outside of the jurisdiction of this court. We requested her to come here and testify against the defendant, but she refused. She said she could not stand the notoriety. So wo could not get her here.” i Caruso Wouldn't Swssr. Q.—Do you.remember being at a re- ceptlon held In a fashionable house on Fifth avenue and Thlrly*slxth street, or one or two blocks from there, on the Sunday after last Thanksgiving? A-—No. q.—Are you prepared to swear you were not there? The tenor turned toward Ills counsel and grew very' nervous. After smile hesitation he anawered, "I am not.’ Q.—Do you recnIB leaving that re ception at about 6:30 In tbe evening and being asked by a lady, one of the guests, to step In to her automobile, that she might take you to your hotel? As to an Auto Rido. Lawyer Dlttcnhoeffor’s objection to the question was sustained. Q.—Were you, while In that automo bile, on your way up Fifth avenue when In front or the Union longue Club, charged by that lady with taking cer tain liberties with her? most-strenuously object to this question,” began DlttenhoefTer. “It la done simply to get the matter Into the press. You know the court would not allow that question,” shouted Caruso's lawyer, shaking his fist at Mathot. “Do you object to the question?” asked Judge Baker. "I do,” sold Dlttenhoeffer. 8lng*r Stems Relieved. "Then it Is sustained.” said the mag istrate. Caruso appeared much relieved when he heard the magistrate's decision. "I want to make a statement In Justi fication of the request I made to have thp healing adjourned until today,” begun Commissioner Mathot. “I re ceived Information that a Mrs. Oraham, whom I believe to be the women In question, was In this city. I had every reason to believe the Information was authentic. I expected to be able to have the woman In court at this. time. I later received Information that our missing witness left the Jurisdiction of this court. She was asked to come here, but declined because of the no toriety the Case has received.” Declares Woman a Myth. ”1 don't bellevs she has left the juris diction of the court.” shouted Dltttn- hoeffer. "I .don't believe this woman exists except ns a confederate Cain.” * "The woman left the state at o'clock this morning." gold Mathot. she has returned, as you say, you must know where she Is now.” “I don't know and never did • know where she was,” anawered Dlttenhoef fer. "Wall. It WIU be news to you to hear that she was forty miles away at 2 o'clock this morning," answered Mathot. THE SCALPER SCALPED VANDERBILT 4, CARLISLE INDIAN8 0. FOUR NEW DISTRICTS PROPOSED FOR NORTH GEORGIA CONFERENCE Great Progress Made in Church Extension Work. 00000000000000000000000000 O 0 0 ONLY TEN HAVE SERVED O 0 FOUR YEARS LIMIT. 0 O There are only ten minister* In 0 O the pastorate who have served the 0 O four years limit, out of a body of 0 O 230 pastors. Thera are five pro- 0 O siding elders who have served on O O districts four years consecutively. O O The pastors are as follows: O 0 Rev. S. B. Belk. Augusta; Rev. O O W. R. Branham, Jackson: Rev. H. O O F. Branham, JefTerson; Rev. W. T. O 0 Caldwell, Bolton; Rev. F. D. Can- 0 O trell, Flovtlla; Rev. W. B. Dillard, O O Carrollton: Rev. R. A. Edmond- .0 O pon, McDonough; Rev. J. H Eng- 0 0 land. Jonesboro; Rev. 8. A. Har- 0 0 ris, Eatonton; Dr. I. S. Hopkins, 0 O Athens; Rev. J. D. Milton, Bow- 0 O man; Rev. W. M. Winn, Culloden. O 0 All these men will receive othei O O appointment*. 0 A 7LAN!A WORKING GIRLS' HOME MAY BE BUI LI By REV. W. 0. BUTLER. Mllledgevllle, Ga., Nov. 23.—Rev. Dr. Walker Lewis, Held secretary for the Crlttenton rescue work In the South, Is attending the conference. He was appointed to this work at the last session and It la very likely that he will be similarly assigned for 1907 by Bishop Ward. Dr. LewN propose* the inauguration of a work In behalf of the working girl* of Atlanta—adding to their comfort* and anlelloratlng their condition*. If there 1* a proper response on the part of Atlanta to the enterprise It will be put on foot as soon as possible. Dr, Lewis says one man will give 31,000 to that work. At the First Methodist church next Sunday-Dr. Lewis will preach In the absence of Dr. Dowman at conference.. O appointments. w 000O0OO<H30O0O<H30OO<H3<K30OOO Continusd on Psg* Fiftssn. ALDERMEN GO OVER VETO OF MAYOR A* wax confidently expected, the al- dsrmunlc board Thursday voted unau- Inously In favor of granting a fran- '' e to th* Atlanta and Carolina Con- ctlon Company, over the veto of Mayor Woodward. The company will build an Inter- urban line from Atlanta to Conyers t.nd from Attanio to West FnlnL By REV. W. 0. BUTLER. Mllledgevllle, Ga., Nov. 23.—The sub ject of homes for the womout preach ers was a prominent feature of yester day's proceeding*. Rev. J. W. Nor ton, of the North Alabama conference, was Introduced and addressed the body In behalf of the veterans. He said his conference was the first one to. pro vide homes for superanuated preach ers. Bishop Ward appointed the following ministers and laymen to start the movement In this conference: Rev. W. A. Parks. Dr. C. E. Dowman. Dr. J. W. Qullllon, J. V. Davenport. C. W. Smith, B. T. Thompson and J. O. Lester. They will report some plan and there may be an agent placed In the field In behalf of the matter. One Georgia lady has al ready offered to give a good home to one of the old preachers—g six-room house, at Demores.t. Names far New Districts. If four new districts art made It is proposed by some that they be called Thomaston and the Toccoa The Georgia Baptist convention In session at Cartersvllle telegraphed Its greeting to their Methodist brethren here by text: Ephesians, sixth chapter iintj 23d and 24th verse*. The con ference secretary was Instructed to respond to the greeting. , Rev. M. J. Cofer, assistant editor of The Wesleyan Christian Advocate, ad- Oontinued on Pan* X T FOR HIS LIFE FALLS IN FIT. T Gillette Expected tojMan Meets Peculiar Dodge Death Sen tence. Herkimer. N. Y., Nov. 23.—Woven with the warp and woof of circum stances that all point toward guilt, the strength of the state’s case against Chester K. Gillette, on trial for the murder of Grace Brown, may force the defense to Interpose a plea of guilty of murder in the second degree. Reimrt had It early today. that coun sel, for Gillette had seriously consider ed the advisability of asking that a plea for a lesser degree of'murder he ac cepted. It is doubtful If District At torney Ward would consent to accept such a plea nt this time. “Gillette Is Guilty." 'Gillette Is guilty and we have proved It,” said the district attorney today. Medical testimony will be produced to show that Grace Brown was either dead or nearly so when Ihs body was thrown Into the water. Her head was fearfully battered and bruised, which III he testified to by those who Death in Cigar Store. SpecUl to The Georgian. Dalian, Tex.. Nov. 33.—Henry A. Smith, aged 36 years* met with a pe culiar death here yesterday. While standing In a # cigar store he had an epileptic fit and 'fell In such a mann*-- that his head went through a glass cigar case. The glass broke and his throat was cut from ear to ear, Smith dying In eight minutes and before med ical aid could be summoned. brought her b'fdy to the strrfa Moose lake and the physicians performed tbe autopsy. She Was Struck. There were hemorrhages In the l and these could only have come blows administered while the girl living. District Attorney Ward tell the Jury that Grac*- Brown f Bis Continued i Page 3.