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DETECTIVE BURNS TRAILS CONLEY IN
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Says That Ambassador's Speech
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Could Give Offense,
WASHINGTON, March 16 Presi
dent Wilson to-day exonerated Am
bassador Walter Hines Page, the
United States envoy to the Court of
St. James, and held that Page's ad
dress on the Monroe doctrine was
without a single phrase at which this
Government might take offense. The
President believes that the speech
was misquoted and misrepresented.
Hie told his callers to-day that the
address, as it has now been reported
to him, was an abooiutely accurate
statement of fact and without a line
to which this Government could take
exception
As an instance, he said, of how
Mr. Page had been misquoted, the
President cited the fact that one
passage in the address was cabled as
follows:
“We will repeal the exemption
clause of the Panama act, not merely
to please England.”
What Mr. Page did say;y the Presi
dent declared, was:
“We will repeal the clause, not tc
please England, but,” etc.
The . I'resident made it clearly un-
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law said nothing to her about any of the allegations she later made against Leo Frank at the trial
She points out that Miss Nellie did not even work at the factory, but merely went after her (Mrs
Pettis’) money, and was only at the plant four times. Her affidavit, made public Sunday, was in
tended to prove the great improbability of the girl’s evidence. 1
derstood that he believed Mr. Page’
made an address with which to fault
can be found, even on diplomatic
grounds, and that he does not share
the current idea that the envoy was
indiscreet, despite the Congressional
resolutions of inquiry that have been
adopted. 1
TO PROBE KILLING.
WASHINGTON, March 16.—Imme
diate investigation of the murder of
I'rank V. Johnston, postmaster at Te
carte, ("al, by a band of Mexicans was
ordered b Secrctary of State Bryan
to-day.
While the State Department does
not consider that the murder itse!f
fs a matter for the exercise of gov
ernmental authority, as the Killing
occurred on the American side of the
border, the State Department will use
every effort to have the murderers
apprehended and punished.
Representations will be made im
mediately to the Huerta Government
to have the matter looked into, but
the actual investigation of the coa
mission of the crime will devolve upon
California authorities,
Secretary Bryan to-day received a
telegram from E. B. Johnston, broth
er of the murdered postmaster, re
questing him to investigate the mat
ter at once. This is the only inform.
tion relative to the murder which hais
reached the State Department.
REBEL ROUT AT TORREON.
MEXICO CITY, March 16.—"The
Government has won a sweeping vic
tory over the rebels in the vicinity of
Torreon. General Huerta's troops
soon will drive the so-called Consti
tutionalists from power in Mexico
and peace will be restored through
out the republic.”
This announcement was made by
an attache of the War Department
following the receipt of a mesage from
Torreon. He further stated that a
jarge force of troops would be sent
forward at once to follow up the vic
tory.
NOT DEAD; IN CANADA.
BERLIN, March 16.—The Abenq
eZitung, of Munich, to-day publishes
“under reserve’ the statement that
Dr. Rudolf Diesel, inventor of a fa
as v bk goned
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BERLIN, March 16.—Recent ‘‘war
scare'’ reports involving the expansion
of Russian armaments led Emperor Wil
liam to-day %o issue a statement to his
subjects, reassuring them on the ques
tion of Germany's military prepared
ness. It was pointed out that steps
taken to secure the national defenses
were fully as strong as those in Rus
sia.
BUTTONS OF GOLD NUGGETS.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 16.—
Wearing a jacket with buttons of
gold nuggets weighing from 15 to 20
ounces each, valued at $2,000. Mrs.
J. A, Whittman, a youang Australian
woman, accompanied by her husband,
has arrived in San Francisco on a
tour of the world.
Whittman, who is a millionaire of
"Western Australia, is one of the min
‘ers who, eighteen years ago, distov
ered the Slug Hill gold mining dis
trict of Australia, which has produced
some of the biggest nuggels ever
found, .
EXPECT WORLD’'S END.
BATTLE CREEK, MICH., March
16.—The local congregation of the
Seventh Day Adventists have sold
their church buildings to the Cham
ber of Commerce, and will rebuild on
a smaller scale, because they expect
the end of the world at any time, and
are making no plans for future tem
poral affairs.
The pastor of the church in a re
cent sermon predicted that the mil
lennium was clogse at hand, and the
sale of the church property is looked
upon locally as a sort of sail reefing
for the approaching end.
ELECTS GRAVE; FALLS DEAD.
“GROVE CITY, PA, March 16—
‘After walking to the cemetery and
telling the sexton that he’ had a
premonition that he was going to dis,
M. E, Vogan selected the site for his
grave.
He then walked 500 feet from the
cemetery and fell dead"
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SAYS MOON IS OVAL.
ROME, March 16.—The moon is
oval shaped, according to Professor
fi‘tteal._ the famous Italian astrono-
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On Floor Reduce Fat
BOSTON, March 16.——“FForswear
chairs and sit on the floor,” is Dr.
E. H. Bradford's advice to people
suffering from obesity.
OPPOSES ANOTHER FAD.
BERLIN, March 16.—The Kaiser,
who recently suppressed the tango in
army circleg, has sealed the doom of
another modern fad by causing it t»
be Known that he strongly disap
proves of women riding astride.
Officers of the crack regiments have
been notified quietly that t'.eir wives
are expected to use side saddles.
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| NEVER KISSED A GIRL.
l CAMBRIDGE, MASS. March I§.—
Sixteen Harvard College sophomores
’whn'eat at one of the Memorial Hall
tables took a ‘‘quizzing sentence” to
day with the following results:
Ten claim they have never kissed
any girl except sister or cousin,
Five admit having kissed outside
the family.
One refused to answer,
SAYS 16 IS RIGHT.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS,, March 16, —
President Lowell, of Harvard, in his
annual report, urges boys to enter
college at 16. He says:
“The opening of our freshman dor
mitories wiil go far to remove the
motives for ho!ding boys back from
college for fear of a sudden transi
tion from the protection and discipline
of home or of a boarding school.”
SIX PERSONS HURT,
RICHMOND, KY., March 16.—A rfast
Louisville and Nashville passenger train,
bound from Cincinnatli to Jacksonville,
Fla., by way of Knoxville and Atlanta,
crashed into a string of runaway freight
cars near here to-day.
Six pasaen!ers and several trainmen
were reported hurt.
JEALSUS, SLAYS HUSBAND.
BUFFALO, N, Y, March 14 —Mrs,
Robert Widrig to-day shot and killed
her husband and then tried to com
mit suicide. She will recover, Jeal
oysy was the cause.
SPARES TREE; COSTLY TO HIM.
NEW PROVIDENCE, N. J,, March 15,
—A large tree spared R:L Wililam Mey
ars on.the plea of a it girl nelThbor.
blew vdo?n “3?4 ruined a bay window
‘.vu'\“g d 4n M:xoh' home.
~ Meyérs had infended to chop it down.
Says He Expects to Make a Care
ful and Impartial In
vestigation.
Step by step over the same trail in
the Nationg! Pencil Factory that Jim
Conley led the city detectives nine
months ago, William J. Burns, master
letective, went through Monday aft
rnbon,
Conley made the dramatic trip
through the factory, meanwhile reel
ing off glibly a remarkable story ot
his part in the crime, in what he as
serted was a re-enactment of the
tragedy of last April 26.
Detective Burns, already cognizant
of every detail of the negro’s story,
went over each separate move that
Conley scid he made that day, check
ing vp to determine if he could dis
cover any discrepancies or improba
biiities in the tale which was the chief
cause of IFrank's convictlon and sen
tence to hang.
Thinks He Will Lift Mystery.
When he had finished, he had no
comment to make, except to explain
that his first move was to become
acquainted with the physical fea
tures of the factory and to pholo
graph the negro’s story in his mind.
"I am here merely to make a com
mon-sense and impartial finvestiga
tion of the crime. Ido not think that
there will be any mystery to it when
all the facts are known.
“l do not intend to hazard any
opinion as to the guilt of any person
until I have completed my investigas
tion and am ready to make my report
public. To do so would be impracti
cal and improper.,”
With Detective Burns while he was
making his tour of the pencil factory
were ¢, W. Burke, special detective
for I'rank’s counsel, and Leonard
Haas, one of the defendant's lawyers,
Burns was talen to the spot in the
rear of the metal room where Conley
told the officers he found the huddled
anl 'lifeless form of Mary Phagan
shortiy before 1 o'clock the afternpon
of April 26,
Goes Over Ground Carefully,
The inspec~tion took the three men
‘along the narrow passageway through
which Conley said he carried the body
of the slain girl to the elevator in the
front of the building.
~ The place was pointed out where
the negro related that the body had
)bpcome too heavy for him and that
Frank came, cursing, from the front
of the building to help him carry it.
Burns went to the basement and
back through the dim light to the
place where the body of the girl iay
when it was discovered by the negro
night watchman, Newt Lee, and latey
by the city police,
The detective askefl numerous
questions and made a careful inspec.
tion of Frank's office, particularly
with the idea of ascertaining what
could be seen from Frank's desk and
how easy or difficuit it would be (o
see Frank sitting at his desk when
the saf edoor in the outer office was
open and swung into the office door
way.
Invitee Frank Interviews.
Dr. B. Wildaeur and Milton Klein,
friends of Frank who were active in
getting the assistance of Burns, ap
peared at the session of the South
ern Newspaper Publishers' Associa
tion at the Hotel Ansley Monday and
extended an invitation to the publish
ers to send representatives of their
papers at any time they wished to
interview Frank in the Tower.
“Mr. Frank is easily accessible and
will converse on any phase of his
case,” was the effect of their message
to the newspaper men.
SIMMONS AT HOME.
NEWBERN, N. C., March 16.-——Sen
ator F. M. Simmons, who has suf
fered a breakdown on account of his
strenuous work in the Senate, has
arrived here for a visit of ten days or
two weeks, during which time he will
remain at his home on East Front
street, seeing no visitors and keeping
absolutely in quiet.
A message from the §immons homga
to-day was to the effect that the Sen
ator had rested well during the night
and that the attending physician was
much pleased with his condition.
SHERIFF IS SHOT.
SALISBURY, N, C.,, March 16.—While
in the act of subduing a boisterous in
sane woman in the county jail, Sherift
McKenzie's pistol fell from his pocket,
the hammer struck the cement floor,
the weapon was discharged and the .32-
caliber ball penetrated the officer's left
leg above the knee.
~ The Sheriff was taken to a sanitarium
;fr»r treatment.:
l WILL DAM THE NILE.
| WASHINGTON, March 16—Hugh
1.. Cooper, the engineer who built the
‘Keokuk power dam across the Mis
‘sissippi, has been chosen consulting
engineer for the Egyptian Govern
ment in the construction of a new
Wydro-electric dam across the Nile,
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