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Kow Evidence Said to Point
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atrongly to Guilt of Frank’s
Chief Accuser.
NEW YORK, March 24 I.eonard
Aaas, of counsel for Leo Frank, who
f under sentence of death in At-
Anta, (ia., a 9 the murderer of Mary
hnagan, declared in this city to-day
Chat the defense has evidence thart
®ill cornvict Jim Conley, the negro,
whose testimeny furnished the foun
@ tion for the prosecution's case,
Mr. Haas, who is in this city imn
Q@unnection with the Frank case, said
that he has secured valuable new evi
dence and that upon his return to
Atlanta the motion for a new trial
®ill be filed
“in my own mind, there is po doubt
&bout Conley’s guilt,” said Mr. Haas.
®*We have evidence which, I think,
wiil uphold this charge in court. 1
am sure that IFrank will get a new
&@4:a] and that he will go free.”
BURNS’' BEST MEN ON CASE.
Two of the most capable men in
¢he service of William J. Burns will
mrrive in Atlanta soon to take charge
of the investigation into the death of
Mary Phagan, in the absence of their
chief in New York, They are Dan
Lehon, of New Orleans, superintend
ent of the Southern division of the
Burns agency, and Guy Biddinger, of
New York, assistant manager of the
Burns system.
Burng' action in calling in Lehon
and Biddinger, who ork with their
chief only on cases of the greatest
importance, indicates that the detec
tive has got the threads of the mys
tery in tangible shape and is prepar
ing to gather them up and weave
them into a solution of the crime.
Lehon will be in charge of the in
vestigation while Burns and Attorney
I.eonard Haas are in New York work
ing on certain phases of the mys
tery, and he and Biddinger together
are expected to work out various an
gles of the case that Burns has un
earthed.
GRAND ASSAULT ON TORREON.
JUAREZ, MEXICO, March 19.—
Sunday is the date for the grand as
fault upon the city of Torreon by
General Villa. In the preliminary
fighting north of Torreon the Consti
tutionalists have been victorious.
This is the information conveyed in
a message sent by General Villa to
day from Chihuahua to be delivered
to Provisional President Carranza.
The substance of the message wa9
as follows:
“We expect to be in Torreer bv
Sunday aftermoon. Everything going
well. Enemy being driven in on all
sides.”
Another to the Constitutionalist
manager in Juarez said that the Car
ranza brigade, headed by Generalk
Benavides, had fought its way south
to Yermo and would enter Berme
jillo in a few hours.
CHARGED WITH FRAUD.
NEW YORK, March 24 —The Ap
pellate Division has declared Henry
H. Rogers, Jr, son of the late head of
the Standard Oil Company, guilty of
a fraud aga‘nst the Messiah Home
for Crippled Children, reversing Jus
tivce Guinlan's decision that the home
in suing Rogers had no case, Rogers’
“fraud” was in claiming to hold a
morteage for $600,000 against the
heme, which was given by the late
Mr. and Mrs. H H Rogers to the
Church of the Messiah. ‘The matter
will now go to trial
DR. SHAW TAUNTS U. S.
NEW YORK, March 24.—“1f men
&re so brave and superior, why don't
they go down to Mexico and recever
the mutilated blies desecrated by
the Mexicans?” asked Dr. Anna H.
Shaw in a suffrage meeting at Eras
mus Hall High School, Flatbnush,
Brooklyn,
Dr., Shaw put her query after say
fng one of the main arguments
against woman suffrage was that
women lacked fighting intellect.
MRS. ASTOR LACKS 50 CENTS.
NEW YORK, March 24—Mrs
Johrn Ja. b Astor had to confess her
inability to pay an admission fee of
H 0 cents to witness the women's Jawn
tennis championship matches in the
Seventh Regiment Armory, She
promised to send the money later,
ond was admitted.
SEVEN-YEAR FUGITIVE JAILED.
DUBLIN, March 24—Dan Lewis,
alins Will Thomas, a negro, is in jail
here after having been a fugitive
from Laurens County for seven years.
He has been wanted for Kkilling an
other negre, Perry Hill, on the plan
tation of B. F. Fugua. He was ar
rested in Estell, S, O,
COLLEGE CHAMP CATCHES NAG.
EVANSTON, ILL, March 24.—
Howard Osbhorne, of the Northwest
ern University track team, who won
the “Big Nine" half-mile champion
ship last week, saved Mrs. M. P. Nel
son by chasing and overtaking her
horse, which was running away.
WOMAN SMOKERS' CLINIC.
CHICAGO, Mareh 13.--A clinie for
women smokers has been established by
the Anti-Cigaretie league, which has
been successful in breaking of the ciga
rette habit bogs who have appeared in
the Juvenile Court. Many women have
beert treated. o
FHE GEOBGEAN'S YEWS BRIEEFS
“JIM” CONLEY WILL BE CONVICTED
" TANGOING CASTLES
.~ SHOWN IN '‘MOVIES'
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Ex-Newsgirl Sues
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Millionaire Husband
TAUNTON, MASS, Marehr 24—
Mrs. Nan Carrigan Bates, former
newsgirl at the Hotel Astor, New
York, now the wife of the millionaire
jewelry manufacturer, IF'rank Morton
Bates of Attleboro, has sued fer di
vorce, alleging cruelty, gross. and
confirmed intoxication from qpium
and other drugs, and wanton neg
lect, 1 :
When in Besten on her honeymoon
Mrs. Bates declared wealth without
love was emptly and that she! had
married for love,
SINCLAIRS QUIT ARDEN.
WILMINGTON, DEL., March 24—
Upton Sinclair, Socialist author, and
his second wife have leflt Arden Sin
gle Tax C(olony because of pointed
snubs they received. The Sinclairs
will remain in Bermunda, where con
ditions are more congenial., This was
lenrned when the author wrote from
Bermuda requesting that his bunga
low in Arlden be sold for the reason
that I do not want to return there.”
The notoriety Sinclair brought on
the place when he went to jail for
playving bascball on Sunday resulted
in cool treatment from the trustees,
JAPAN NOW WITHOUT DIET.
TOKIO, March 24.—-The gravity of
the Javanese political situasion was
intensified to-day by the resignation
of the C(Cabinet, headed by Premier
Count Yamamoto® The country is
without Parliament or Ministry, the
Premier having prorogued the Diet
vesterday. The budget has not been
passed, -and a flnancial crisis is
threatened,
WELCOMED IN AFRICA.
CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA,
March 24 —Tom Mann, English labor
leader, who will rehabilitate the
tradesunion forces in South Africa,
shattered in the recent railroad strike,
arrived here to-day and was enthu
siastically welcomed by members of
the TLador party © @"% ¢ *
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Sea Fighter Named
By Indian Princess
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CAMDEN, N. J, Mareh 84— An
other great fighting machine was
added to the United States Navy
Monday when the battleship Okla
homa was launched in the yards of
the New York Shipbuilding Compa
ny. The Oklahoma is the biggest
ship ever launched on the Delaware
River,
The Okiahoma will carry ten four
teen-inch guns of breech-loading
type.
The batileship was christened by
Misa Lorena Cruce, daughter of Gov
ernor Cruce of Oklahoma, Miss
Cruce is really an Indian Princess, as
her ancestors on her mother's side
were high in the councils of the
;(‘"nirkus:nv and Choctaw tribes.
~ EGG ALARM TRAPS INVENTOR.
NEW YORK, March 24 —Sure,
Willis O'Dell, of Tarrytown, Is an in
ventor. He invented an electric sig
ral from a trap nest that rings every
time a hen lays an egg. It rang so
continually that Mrs. O'Dell decided
all the hens had laid at once and the
O'Dells were worth a fortune, She
investigated, and found that O'Dell's
ratent jock had worked too well when
he had entered the coop. He was a
prisoner. O'De!l had been playing at
‘chicken laying an egg” in order to
ring the bell to get someone to re
lease him,
CARNEGIE HUNTS LOST DIME.
NEW YORK, March 24 —Andrew
(‘arnegie dropped a dime while at
tending a National Civic Federation
luncheon at the Hotel Astor.
Mr, Carnegic searched for the coin
and found it, together with another
nickel,
T. R. TO GET REVOLVER.
MILWAUKEE, March 24--When
C'olonel Roosevelt returns from South
America, he will be presented wtin
the revolver which John Schrank used
in his attempt to assassinate the fur
mer President. . G
91,750,000 WILL
FIGHT ON RING
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lWoman Battles in Kentucky Court
to Win Estate on ‘Common
l Law’' Marriage.
! LOUISVILLE, KY., March 24—A
| woman's fight for $1,750,000, which
| depends on a common law marriage
land a “pledge ring,” is on in Judge
| Fields' ceurt in the suit of Ellen Gold
ien Ewald against the estate of Louis
| P. Ewald.
| Louis P. Ewald, an eccentric mil
| lionaire ironmaster of St. Louis and
| Louisville, died three years ago, }aav
| ing an estate valued at about $4,000,-
| 000. His will bequeathed the bulk of
| the property to the three children of
Ellen Golden, with whom he had livel
l for years. His brothers and sisters in
| St. Louis were left $15,000 each. Thay
| also are contesting the will.
' Ellen Golden filed suit, claiming that
zsho and Ewald in 1890 entered into a
common law marriage in St Louis,
| where he had met her in the under
wolrd, but he gave her a ring as a
pledge when he took her away from
that life, and that they lived together
ever after, three children being born
to them. Fhe claimed a wife's share
tof the estate,
.
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‘President Eager to
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' Hurry Canal Repeal
| e
i WASHINGTON, March 24.—Presi
| dent Wilson told his callers to-day
| that he was extremely anxious (9
[ bring the repeal of the coastwise ex
lemmi(m clause of the Panama Canal
{u(-t to a vote in the House as soon as
| possible. He denied, however, that ne
| had tried to foree Congress into mov.
in - cooner than it desires.
The bill iz expected to be taken up
| Thursday for debate.
Fels Wills $50,000
To His Secretary
PHILADELPHIA, March 24.—The
entire estate of the late Joseph Fels,
single tax advocate, is left to his
widow, with the exception of $30,000
willed to Walter Coates, of Middle
borough, Yoerkshire, England, “as a
token eof appreciation of faithfulness
to me and as a man.”
He was Mr. I'els’ secretary.
Dog Locates Trees
. .
Filled With Honey
LENOX, MASS, March 24—Ed
ward FKitzgibbons' Scotch collie, Bess,
has located more than 1,000 pounds
«f honey in old trees,
When she spots a tree filled with
honey, she stands by and barks un.dl
l her master takes notice.
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}Woma,n, 64, Carries
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Husband From Fire
CHICAGO, March 24—Mrs. Anna
Leibich, aged 64, saved the life of her
husband, Jaccb Liebich, aged 78. by
]t'ur'l',\ ing him out of their home when
fire attacked it and the aged man was
1 overcome by smoke.
| AWAKENED TO GO TO DEATH.
| BOSTON, March 24.—After sieep
| ing soundly all night up to fifteen
minutes before his execution, when
he was awakened, Willlam A. Derr
was clectrocuted in the Charlestown
State Prison early to-day for the
murder of George k. Marsh, a wealthy
Lynn (Mass.) manuiacturer, in April,
1912,
As he was heing strapped in the
chair Daorr issued a warning to the
youth of America to abs.ain from
l wrongdoing.
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determined —
to do ten times more business in the famons
Reliable Made-to-Ovder Clothing than ever be
fore in our history. So we are going to seleet
one live man io help us in each community and
cquip him with a Ford automobile abso'utely free.
You may be that man i you act at ence.
We do tlis beeauss we know that a representetive
eun cover ten or twenty times a 8 much conntry in an &' wmo
bils- make friende by the hundred —see more peopie~is hap
pier and healt!ier -and mai e ton thues as much mensy both
for hunself and va. & %
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$lO a Day as Our Tailoring Agent
Even if vou use just vour spare time yon ean easily
earn from $lO a day vpward, and in the ploasantest, eas est
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earn a high income—drive your own automobile acd live like
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