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10 DETECTIVE BURNS TRAILS CONLEY IN 2 T! ' Says That Ambassador's Speech Contained Nothing Which ' 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- / st FoR % : [ £ A - W [ 4 :,rx;;’:e_ 3 .r‘;'; Y R e B - L \\—/ Miss Nellie Pettis, in large picture, and M rs. Liliic May Pettis, who says her young sister-in 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 was su o ve n wh while crossing the English cuu" z‘“ is not Mbmuumu' begun life a new In Canada, ~ THE GEORGLAN'S NEWS BRIEFS 2 WOMEN FIGURING IN NEW FRANK AFFIDAVIT C OSSN v 2 XN X v X~ TR S R /T Hoe sLR @&:fi&:‘g T & N S g R R R R o A ~ R g Tk e\ e S ATR e N B Eese R By L e N 6 S PR e :’s‘;: Ay M g PO R N T ¥ AN N TR b oo Lot % }k‘fl'w(;if',;,p\' gRAE R IR S PR S LR, 3 - R R I %y 3 g RO, e ol & & < 4 2 IR . R 13 e, R s By~ o e Al T g W TR P : GRS R s . 08l LV LAN T SR o W R i, S :"’»,, 5 SR B b; 3 B 5 % *f?é*a%‘”" i A Jz‘ b i BE R T, AR e e By il T _.t,w.j‘,\a" R e 5 Rog SO wss ; TR i e 2 Ll R o @R T R G '-'-’"".'-.":'.;./:' R R AR '.'a‘t'i ¥ N £ :Y S NS s 3 % ARo NG % B S R R S iR gg?gl,, e R g RR e S R N W S e, P SOR BG ‘W Sel e R TSR T s TR R S fi R <~*'az~\,s*”,«; S T S RoW iL Ty R R R e el S RSy . 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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" e SAYS MOON IS OVAL. ROME, March 16.—The moon is oval shaped, according to Professor fi‘tteal._ the famous Italian astrono- T. , 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. ‘ — .E— e e . | 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, ICURED MY DAUCHTER bkn.,u. discovery. Doglars . Will send F'TSA ¢ LETSO, Wiand sve ML WL OxEE, wis FREE