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8 (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.” " £ . 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. " . 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 . 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. / ; . . 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. | R ) \ . 9 } Pair of Thieves Slay . 1 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 . 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, . . . 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