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(EHON ANSWERS ATTACKS
(N BURNS AND HIS ADES
The first official reply of the Burns Detective Ageney to the
accusations and the court actions which have been heaped upon
the ageney and its operatives engaged in the Phagan investigation
came Saturday night from Dan S. Lehon, general manager for the
Southern division of Burns’ organization. *
Lehon branded the suecession of attacks on the ageney—
the revoking of its permit, the recommendation of the police
Commission that both city and State
‘cases be made against its operatives,
and the Grand Jury indictment
against himself—as a species of per
secution entirely unwarranted by the
circamstances of the case.
The detective ’P a signed statement,
speaking for himself and Burns, de
clared that no undue pressure had
been brought to bear on any of the
witnesses interviewed, and that the
declaration of Burns that Frank was
innocent and Conley guilty had been
made in good faith and sincerity, and
after a thorough investigation had
been made, 3 - .
Frank Refuses to Comment.
I'rank was seen in the Tower, NR
declined to comment on the recent
developments in the case, holding that
they were side issues not materiz' (8
the main guestion of hisg guilt or in-~
nocence. He said that in spite of Lg,:e
failure of every effort of his cmmsgi
up to this time to obtain for him an
other opportunity to prove his inno
cence, he retained the calm and con
fidence that had been with him from
the first.
The principal development o‘(.A.Sat:‘
urday in the progress of the fight for
a new trial for Frank was the sul
mission to Judge Hill of the bill ot:
exceptions for his certification. So-|
licitor Dorsey objected to the bill on
the ground that there were numerdus’
omissions of m.cg he considered im
portant to be brought to the atten
tion of the Supreme Court when It
reviews the contentions in the ex
traordinary motion for a new trial.
Judge Hili gave the Solicitor unn”
Monday to make the revisions he de
sired. Lt |
*The motion to set aside the verdict
in the Frank case will be heard next
Friday before Judge Hil! in the libra.
ry at the State Capitol.
Grand Jury Centinues Probe.
The Grand Jury, which last Friday
returned indictments against Lehon,
Arthur Thurman, ~ C. Tedder, C. 8..
Ragsdale and R. L. Barber, Tuesday
will take up the consideration of
bringing further indictments against
persons invelved in making and tak
ing aMidavits te be used in the recent
hearing on the extraordinary motion
for a new trial. ‘
Captain (. W. Burke, special agent
for Frank's lawyers, is the man
whose actions in the ecase will be
most closely scrutinized. Captain
Burke is said by his friends to be on
a fishing trip twenty miles south of
Jacksonville. Jimmy Wren, assisi
ant to BPurke, also will come in for a
thorough investigation. .
Other persons who aided Burke at
varions stages of the investigation
are said to be in danger of indict
ment at he hands of this Grand Juary,
which has been charged by Judge
Hill to make a sweeping investigation
of the eutire case. J. E. Duffy, Helen
Ferguson, Mel Arneold, J. E. Bishop,
Murie Karst, Nelile Wood, R. P. Bar.
rett, (. B. Dalton, Maggie Smith and
a half dozen others are among the
persons whose verbal testimony or a*-
fidavits will be used -as evidence
against the agents for the defense.
: Here ls the statement of Ban Le
hon:
270 the People of Atlanta: e
“In justice to myself, my family
and my friends throughout the South
efff "States, I feel that some state
ment should come from me as to the
numerous charges which are being
preferred against me and my eni
ployer, Willlam J. Buras, which are
being pubiisted broadeast throughout
the country en acecount of our con
nevtion with the investigation into
the murder of Mary Phagan.
Sought Truth, He Says.
“At th: request of Mr. Burns 1
came to Atlanta on March 25 to as
sist Lim in this investigation. We
entered upon this investigation as we
have done all of our cases with the
sole purpose im view of ascertaining
the truth, and of making public and
declaring whatever we did find to be
the truth, Mr Burns informed me
that his contract with our clients had
this express understanding.
“We began the investigation with
this end in view, and after several
weeks of thorough investigation into
the various angles of the case, weé be
came thoroughly satisfied that Leo
M. Irank was innocent of this mur
der, and we had no hesitancy in ex
pressing our conclysion in this re
spect.
“Of course, we realized at the time
it would meet greater pepular favor
had we announced that Frank was
the guilty man, and if . we were in
clined to resort to questionable
methods, as charged against us, how
easy it would have been for us to
have announced, axhfl our own
convictions, that Frank was the guil
ty man and have secured the favor
of those now turned against us, and
thus avoldiog all this unpleasant no
toriet 'fi-fl are mow subjected
to, h& by the Grand Jury
on a charge that 1 am thoroughly in
pocent of, and being brought te pe
THE GEORGIAN’S NEWS BRIEFS
lice headquarters and subjected to
othet humiliations which any Ameri
ean citizen will find extremely um
pleasant. . t | :
“As to the indiciments found
against me by the present Grand
Jury, based upon the testimony of
a confessed perjurer, I have had no
connection with any transaction
which will even smack of subornation
of perjury, hut on the contrary, 1
have used my utmost endeavors to
bring out the truth and that alone,
and 1 am willing to have my every
act in this case bear the closest
scrutiny. There is no man living
who ean truthfully state that Mr.
Burns, myself or anyone connected
with the Burns Agency requested any
one-to give testimony which was
false Gr which we believed was false.
*“As to the ca%es made aaginst. Mr.
Burns and myself by the Police Com
missioners, this is indeed surprising
in wiew of the fact that when we
firat came to this city and announced
thut” we intended to investigate the
Mary Phagan murder all of the eity
}ofi(‘ldls, including Chief Beavers and
i(‘hiei Lanford, publicly announced
that they would gladly co-operale
iwith, us dnd no objection whatse
ever was m:ade at that time, nor since
that time, to eur investigating this
case without the approval of the Po
lice Commissioners, ;
“We have committed no act of
which wa.are ashamed sinee our con
nection with this fonvestigation, and
our only o 1 ime has been possibly the
public announcement of our belief in
Leo M. Frank’s innocence, which was
only made &fter the most thorough
investization on our part
“To have announced any other con
viction would have been to stultify
our own conscience, which we are un
willing te do even fer public appro
val; and while there may be someée
who are wiliing for us to suffer any
indignity or persecuition bécause of
sur conviction in Fragh's innoecence,
| am confident that,the fair-minded
public wil: not submit ty the continu
ance of this persecution for such un-
Just reasons.” " £
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Caleb Powers Again
To Run for Congress
WASHINGTON, May 22.--Repre
sentative Caleb Power, of the Elev
enth Kentucky District, who ac
cording to his biography in the Con
gressional Record, served eight years,
three months and three days in the
jails of Kentucky, following the as
sassination of Governor William E.
(ioebel, to-day announced that he
would be a candidate for re-election.
Powers had recently announced
that he would retire from Congress
at -the end of his present term. He is
to poen his campaign for the Repub
lican nomination June 1, in appesition
to State Senator Joseph F. Bos
"wurth.
Cuyler Fights Hard
& -
To Break Divorce
SAN FRANCISCO, May 23.—Pros
pects to-day were that the fight being
made by Telemon Smith Cuyler, of
Atlanta, Ga, to have set aside the
divorce granted his wife, Mrs, Graco‘
Barton Cuyler, will be a long-druwn-‘
out legal battle. |
Cuyler won the first skirmish with
the refusal! of the eourt to increase
his wife's alimony, and then hearing
was held up temperarily so that both
parties may file additional affidavits.
The alienation suits involving Mrs.
Cuyler's mother will come up Miter,
Police Chief Shot;
olice Chief Shot;
Officer Slays Negro
ANNISTON, May 23 —Chief of Po
lice Harry Shiretski was shot and
perhaps fatally injured to-night, while
Wesiey Brooks, a negro, was Kkilled
during a rald on an alleged blind ti
ger on Cooper street,
As the Chief of Police, with Officer
Eason, approached the home of Jim
Bradfield, a negro, where it was re
ported whisky was being sold, they
were fired on by two negroes, The
police returned the fire.
.
Wall St. Plunger in
Fight for Paintings
NEW YORK, May 23.—J. Brandt
Walker, one of Wall Street's most
spectacular plungers until phthisis
laid him low in 1912, has come back,
but not to make a million a day out
of the Street. He has begun a fight
in the Supreme Court te prevent the
Wall Street firm of Ulman & Com
pany from taking from him two rare
paintings and a silk rug that he in
sists he gave to his wife long before
his account with Ulman & Company
was questioned,
Burwell Quits Race
For Governorship
Hancock Man to Run for Re-election
as House Speaker—Predicts
. Cenvention Deadlock.
Wililiam H. Burwell, Representa
tive from Hancock Coumty and
Speaker of the Georgia House of
Representatives, gave Qut an lnter-i
view in Atlanta Saturday night Ln;
which he definitely withdrew - his
name as a prospeetive candidate for
Giovernor and announced his candi
caey for re-election to the Speaker
ship in the Legisalture of 1915-16.
Mr. Burwell stated that he had re
ceived much encouragement to run
for Governor, but foreseeing a dead-
Jocked convention, and perhaps a bit
ter personal campaign ahead, he de
termined to follow the suggestiod of
a number of his colleagues in the
present House and offer . for the
Speakership again,
Mr. Burwell said:
“Though for some time I have had
the matter under consideration, 1T
have definitely decided not to become
a candidate for Governor at this
time.
“l deeply appreciate, however, the
many assurances of supporf that I
bave received from all parts of
Georgia.”
Historic Session of
Methodists Ended
\ : & »
OKLAHOMA CITY, May 23.=The
General Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal . CHurch South, has con
cluded its quadrennial session, ad
journing at 11 e'clock to-night.
Dr. H. M. Dußose, of Atlanta, has
been assigned to vreach to-mérrow
at Ardmore, OKla.
In Oklahoma City the Rev. W. P.
Lovejoy, of Atlanta, will preach at
the Maywood Christian Church; the
Rev. R. G. Smith, of Oxford, Ga., is
assigned to the Tabernacle Methodist
Episcopal Church, and the Rev. T. D.
Ellis, of Americus, to Britten, a su
burb of this city.
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Clubman Rolls 3 Miles
In Streets on Wager
BALTIMORE, May 22.—G. Howell
Parr, a social and club leader of Bal
timore, rolled from the Elkridge Ken
nels Club to Charles street extended
and University Parkway, about three
miles. 'He performed the feat on a
wager and finished in good condition.
IF'or more than fifteen hours, with
frequent . intervals -of -rest, Parr,
dressed jn a foeotball suit, turned up
hill and down, through mud and over
stones, without once rising to his feet.
MiNian DNa s
Billion Dollar’ Jaunt
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To Alaskan Wilds
SEATTLE, May 22.—The steamship
Admiral Sampson sailed for Alaska
carrying 41 business men of the Pa
cific Coast as guests of President
Alexander, of the Admiral Line.
The excursionists wil visit all the
important coast settlements in Alaska
as far porth and west as Kodiak. The
party h s been called the “Billien
Dollar Excursion,” on account of the
vast commercial interests represented
by its members. / ; .
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Gets Mail Meant for
.
Husband—Divorce
NEW' YORK, May 22.-—An envel
ope addressed in error to “Mrs” in
stead of “Mr.” caused Mrs. Lillian
Vanßuskirk to start an investigation
which resulted in her suing for di
vorce. s
She charged the envelope contained
a bill for furniture to a flat where
‘her MWusband iived with another
woman,
Sues Hushand Who
h . .
~ Thinks She Is Flirt
NBW YORK, May 21.—1 n her sult
imr divorce Mrs, Joseph N. Early al
leges her habit of staring at people
| and looking back at them caused her
rhuabar.d to suspect her of fiirting. He
[dlsuked her friends, she says, and
was cruel te her. .
Early charges his wife wore old
clothes at a social function to embar- l
rass-him. |
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Pair of Thieves Slay
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Boy Station Agent
TAPPAN, N. Y, May 21.—While
defending the propert: of ‘his em
ployvers, Eugere Houghtaling, boy
agent of the West Shore Railroad
here, was shot fo death to-day by
two robbers who escaped with §lB.
Thousands of dollars’ worth of gems
and $5OO in cash were In the safe.
TWO SLAYERS HANGED.
FRIARS POINT, MISS., May 22—
Joe Thompson and Dave Nash, ne
groes, who killed Deputy Sheriff
Frapk Mullen last winter, were
hanged here to-day. Mullen had gone
to the steamboat landing to arrest a
negro when Thompson and Nash
fired on him.
EHGLAND PLANG
TOSURPRISE AL
NATIONG AT EAIR
“l Am a Yankee Through and
Through,” She Adds, “And Shall
Do All | Can for Exposition.”
LONDON, May 23--“ So far from
Great Britain failing te participate
at the Panama-Pacific Fair in San
Francisco, her contribution to its suc
cess will be more striking, probably,
than that of any foreign power.”
So said Lady Rasmdolph Churchill,
who was Jennie Jerome, of New York,
to The American correspondent to
day. This accomplished woman’s ut
terance may be regarded certainly as
the first official announcement of
Britain's purposé. For her son, Win
ston Charchill, is ¥irst Leord eof the
Admiralty, and his is the plan and the
power to make his nation’s “contribu.
,tton to the fair's success” most “strik
ng."”
Great Fleet Assured.
“My. Asquith’'s Government has not
yet decided to spend $500,000 for the
exhibit customary at such exhibi
tions,” continued Lady Randolph, “But
it is absolutely settled that England
will dispatch thrgugh the Panama Ca
nal to San Francisco the greatest flest
of battleships she has ever arrayed in
a foreign port, except in time of war.
“Surely this purpose should dis
pose of the ridiculous idea that Eng
land@ would make reprisals and refuse
to participate officially in the expesi
tion just because of the Panama Ca
nal controversy. As long as my son is
First Lord of the Admiralty the
American people may rest assared
that tha British naval display at San
Franciseo will be stunningly carried
out.
A Real Yankee.
“Despite the fact that I have spent
so little time in the United States,”
Lady Randelph went on, “I am a Yan
kee through and through, and 1 am
keenly interested in the success of the
San Francisco Exposition. It was
only recently that I realized there was
a peossibility of Englana not partici
pating in the fair, and as soon as I
did appreciate that fact I turned to
and did my best to induce the impor
tant Cabinet Ministers to reconsider
any idea that they eould afford not to
take part in it 3
“While I can not say the outlook is
hopeful, at least the final decision has
not been made, and I have enlis‘sd
in the cause of proper official repre~
sentation at San Francisco, many in
fluential men of affairs in the present
administration. The basic difficulty
seems to be the unwillingness of Eng
lish tradesmen and manufacturers (o
spend more money for exhibition puze
poses.
Why England Hesitates. [
“They all say they have exhausted
the funds available for such purposes
in the multinlicit7 of exhibitions of
recent years and they have yet to dis
cover any profit resulting from such
expenditures.
“Fnglish statesmen pooh-pooh the
suggestion I have advanced that the
failure to participate will be construed
in America as an intentiopal slight,
They insist such suggestions aré mar
ufactured by the newspapers and do
not voice the feelings of thinking
Americans.
“Their digclaimers failed to satisfy
me, however, and I have been working
steadily for some time to perfect a
plan to prove beyond cavil that Eng
land is actuated only by monetary
reasons
“The decision to send a great bat
tteship fleet certainly seems to be the
best possible solution of the aggra
vating situafion.
Will Be There Herself. :
“Primarily, the expositon is to eel
ebrate the completion of the camal,
and Britain’'s greatest pride is her
supremaey of the sea. How, there
fore, could Britain mere fittingly pay
tribute to the greatest achievement
in history than by putting her ships
through the canal and offering to the
gaze of the exposition's visitors a
spectacle manv times more impressive
and magnificent than any mere exhi
bition building?
“I intend to be on hand at the ca
nal itseif on the day of its formal
opening,” concluded Lady Randolph,
“gand I shall continue up the coast to
San Francisco to be present at the
official opening of the fair. It will be
my first visit o San Francisco in
years, and I am looking forward to it
with the preatest pleasure.”
Depot at LaGrange
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Destroyed by Fire
LA GRANGE, May 23.—The local
M. and B, depot was destroyed by
fire to-day, the origin of which is
unknown. Much freight was burned,
besides two empty freight cars. The
total loss of $7,000 was only par
vally covered by insurance.
Target for Crockery,
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Wife Given Divorce
NEW YORK, May 21.—After testi«'
fying that her husband, while intoxi«
cated, tried to hang beefsteaks on
granted a separation and $ll a week
alimony.
the ceiling and often threw crockery
at her, Mrs. William ', Winship was