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MEXICAN REBELS RALLY BUT ARE REPULSED AGAIN
3AY FRANK GRSE
WL BE OLVE
Dan S. Lehon, general manager of
the Southern Division of W. J. Burns
Detective Agencies, visited Leo Frank
in the Tower Thursday afternoon and
had a long talk with the grisoner. Le
hon was with Burns on the occasion
of a previous conference, but this is
the first opportunity he has had to
talk alone with Frank.
Dan Lehon,” superintendent of the
Southern division of the William J.
Burns Detective Agency, who, in the
absence of Burns in New York, is in
Atlanta in charge of the investigation
into the death of Mary Phagan, de
clared Thursday that the 24 hours’
work he has done on the case has
convinced him, as it did his chief,
that the mystery will be solved be
yond the shadow of a doubt.
“l am very much encouraged over
the developments since I have been
here,” Mr. Lehon said. “The case is
even easier than I thought it would
be, and Mr. Burns had written me
that he found nothing unusuaily diffi-
cult about the mystery.”
Finde New Evidence.
Mr. Lehon added that in his work
Wednesday he discovered new evi
dence that points to the guilty man.
Burns, who is in New York with
Attorney Leonard Haas, of Frank's
counsel, is expected to return to At
lanta to take active charge of the in
vestigation within a few days. It is
probable that Lehon wilk remain in
Atlanta to assist his chief in the
final stages of the investigation. Guy
Biddinger, of New York, assistant
manager of the Burns service, also is
expected in Atlanta this week.
Detectives and attorneys connected
with Jim Conley have begun an in
vestigation of the mysterious tele
grams that have been sent to Conley
from Newark, N. J., signed “John
Black.”
See Piot on Black,
The local police believe that the
telegrams are evidence of a conspira
¢y against Detective Black, who was
a prominent figure in the early Pha
gan investigation, and who has been
attacked in new evidence unearthed
by the Frank defense.
It is understood that the local po
lice have asked the police of Newark
to assist them in the investigation,
and that strenuous efforts are being
made in_the East to locate the sender
of the telegrams.
Detective Burns, in a recent state
ment, declared that the messages were
sent to Conley by private detectives
who are trying to throw obstacles in
the way of his personal investigation
©f the case,
Striker Freed After
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. Confessing Slaying
HOUGHTON, MICH. March 28.—
The Barago County jury this after
noon found Luke Plese, a copper mine
striker, not guilty of the murder of
Deputy Sheriff Pollack. Plese was
charged with complicity in the mur
der, and made a confession when ar
yested,
This confession was admitted in
evidence with the jury instructed to
decide whether it was made under a
promise of immunity.
ENGLISH KING ALARMED.
LQNDON, March 26—The army
crisis brought about by the Ulster
situation held the attention of the
Throne, the Cabinet and Parliament
to-day. King George summoned Pre
mier Asquith to Buckingham Palace
this afternoon and their conference
lasted sgo long that the Premier was
unable to reach the House of Com
mons when the Parliamentary session
began.
Field Marshal Sir John French,
chief of the general staff of the army,
and Lieutenant Gemeral Sir J. 8.
Ewart, the adjutant general, resigned
rather than accept the mandate of
Premier Asquith that the army must
obey the Government's orders uncon
ditionally.
TWO FIREMEN KILLED.
SIOUX CITY, lOWA, March 26—
Two firemen were killed and seven
others were injured by a fire that de
stroved a quarter of a block in the
heart of the business district of the
city. The loss is estimated at $300,000.
Thousands of families are wanted to claim for
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THE GEORGIAN’S NEWS BRIEFS.
ANDREWS BACK IN N. Y.
FROM EUROPEAN TOUR
Mrs. Walter P. Andrews, who was aceorded unusual honors
at Buropean courts in company with her husband on exposition
mission.
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Walter P. Andrews and Mrs, An
drews, who have been touring Europe
for the past several months with the
Punama Exposition Commission, ot
which Mr. Andrews is the chairman,
are expected to return to their homne
in Atlanta within the next ten days.
They have arrived in New York and
will spend a week at the Hotel Knick
erbocker. From there they will go
to Washington, where Mr. Andrews
will make his final report to the Gov
ernment. From the Capital they will
come direct to Atlanta,
Mr. and Mrs. Andrews were lavish
ly entertained in the capitals of Eu
rope which he has endeavored to in
terest in the Panama Exposition at
San Francisco in 1915, They were
presented at the royal courts of all
the countries they viited, and social
circles abroad received Mrs. Andrews
with great cordality.
SINGER 1S GODMOTHER.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 26.—Oresta
Sesenna waits on the table at which
Mme. Luisa Tetrazzini sits in the Fair
mount Hotel dining room. She took oc
casion to congratulate him on his excel
len:j service. Thus encouraged, Sesenna
said:
“Ah, if madame would—if I only dared
to ask madame."”
“*Ask it,”’ said the diva.
“To be godmother to Luisa Sesenna.”
‘Surely,” said Tetrazzini, and the
baby was christened in madame’s apart
mensg in the hotel last night.
In Roumania a warm friendship
sprang up between Mrs, Andrews and
the Queen, who as Carmen Sy'va
gained note as a writer.
Mrs. Andrews was presented with a
number of autographed copies of the
Queen’s novels. They prolonged their
stay at the Roumanian Capital at the
request of the Queen, who spent sey
eral hours talking with Mrs. Andrews
about America, Upon their departure
Mr. and Mrs. Andrews were given a
military escort to the railway station,
a special mark of honor,
Mr. Andrews has written to friends
in Atlanta that the mission which
sent him and his colleagues to Ku
rope was fulfilled with great success
than had been anticipated. As a re
sult of the efforts of the Commission,
Many European countries will have
exhibits at the fair which would not
otherwise have been represented.
TO BUY GEORGIA FORESTS.
WASHINGTON, March 26.—1 n ex
tension of the Appalachian Forest
reserves the National Forest Com
mission has authorized the purchase
of 18,897 acres of land in what is
known as the Georgia area, at the
hedad of the Chattahoochee and Coosa
rivers, in Union and Fannin counties,
This adjoins lands already purchased
as part of the re#rve,
Action was postponed on pur
chases in the Biltmore or Vanderbilt
reserve in North Carolina.
BLUNDER BLAMED
DN GENERHL VLA
WASHINGTON, March 26.—
“Rebels once more routed and
repulsed at Gomez Palacio, with
heavy loss, while trying to ap
proach Torreon.” ;
This message was received at
the Mexican Embassy to-day from
Mexico City.
JUAREZ, March 26.—General Villa
has rallieé his troops, and has re
newed his aitack on the Federals,
who drove the Constitutionalists from
GGomez Palzcio, according to a brief
message received by Governor Chao
early to-day. In this Villa said that
he expected to retake Gomez Palacio
immediately, and urged that a ship
ment of hand grenades, for which he
wired yesterday, he hastened.
This message, Governor Chao said,
showed that earlier reports of Villa's
defeat had been exaggerated, and
that he expected to be fighting soon
in the streets of Torreon.
Army Cut In Twe.
Icarly reports from the field stated
that the Constitutionalist army had
been cut in two; that the left wing,
commanded by General Benavrdes,
had been left entirely unsupported in
its attack on the eastern fortifications
of Torreon, and that the Federal cav
alry under General O. Carranza was
threatening to cut to pieces Bena
vides' entire division.
Deep anxiety was shown by the
Constitutionalist leaders here to-day.
Governor Chao passed the night at
th> telegraph office waiting for the
latest news, arnd vhen he gave up his
vigil, he left two aides to hasten to
him with any information that might
come,
Carranza te Front.
This is the day set here for the
celecbration of a double victory at
Torreon and the the arrival of Pra
visional . resident Carranza to set up
his capital in Juarez. The plans for
the doubl> jubilation were forgotten,
however, in the alarm over Villa's
predicament «t Torreon, -
Uncertainty prevailed early in the
day over the plans of President Car
ranza. Late last night a courier
frem Carran:a arrived with news
that the Constitutionalist chief had
turned aside to strike the railroad to
Juarez, and would en train his corps
of 1,000 men to go to the battle front.
The message did not state whether
C‘arranza himself would proceed to
Chihuahua or come here.
The censorship over the telegraph
wires between here and Chikuahna
was maintained to-day more strictly
than ever. It was impossible even to
send a message to newspaper cor
respondents at the front. Hitherto,
although press dispatches coming
from the front have been held up or
refused altogether message for the
war correspondents were accepted
and «stensibly sent,
Credit Villa With Blunder.
Colonel Fidel Avila, the garrison
commander, explained to-day’'s tight
ening of the wire control as due to
the “pressure of military dispatches.”
His explanaticn was not generally a:-
cepted, in viev of t o fact that there
was even less activity at the tela
graph office than wase apparent dur
ing the early fighting at Torreon.
That a serious tactica. error hy
Villa himself was responsible for the
‘r(\purt(*d Federal triumph at Torraon
was the theory expressed to-day hy
a well-known Constitutiona.ist officer.
He said that Villa had left the main
battle line and gone to the rear (o
hurry up a dilatory force. During
his absence the Federals made a
sortie against the cc .- of the rebel
line and drove Villa's veternas back
in disorder beyord Gomez Palacio,
whicl Genera. Velasco’s men agaia
occupled,
Hoke Smith Leads
Cotton Bill Fight
WASHINGTON, March 26.—1 n the
Senate this afternoon the fight for
the regulation of the New York Cot
ton Exchange was begun by Senator
Hoke Smith, of Georgia, who is to
speak on the amendment which he
has introduced requiring cotton ex
changes to conform to the Govern
ment standard in all respects.
Senator Smith, of South Carolina,
accepted the amendment of Senator
Hoke Smith as a part of the general
bill.
NOT ALL FAVOR VOTE.
POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., March 26—
That only 59 per cent of the students
at Vassar are positvely in favor of wom
an suffrage, became known when a can
vass was completed.
Of the entire enrollment of students
numbering 804, it was found that 476
were converted to the cause. The vote
agalnst the cause was 154 and those
who are in doubt number 145,
Uonquered at Last.
ms Write for Proof of
Cures. Advice Frea,
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