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Man Claiming To Be Sergeant
Accused of Forging Checks on
Southern State Officials.
The country-wide wanderings of an
alleged United States Army sergeant
were wound up in Atlanta Tuesday,
when John Walsh, who, it is said,
bas operated as an “army shoe tester”
in many Southern and Western cities,
was taken into custody by Special
Agent Louis Baley, of the Department
of Justice, bureau of investigation, on
a charge of impersonating an army
officer with intent to defraud.
Walsh was arrested last Saturday
at FKFort Myer, Va., after having
truveled from coast to coast as an
officer detailed by the War Depart
ment to test shoes for use in the
army. He collected, it is said, sev
eral thousand dollars from prominent
State and Government officials in the
South.
Forged Checks in Atlanta.
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quarters here, for $25, and later went
to Macon, Ga., where he again gave
a worthless check to the recruiting
officer there.
According to Government officials,
Walsh's scheme for extracting money
on the pretense of being an employee
;)t the War Department was carefully
aid.
He used a book of ledger size in
which he procured the signatures of
prominent men in each city and town
which he visited, bearing the state
ment that he had visited these va
rious localities.
Duped Many Postmasters.
The book was taken from him on
his arrest at Fort Myer and for
warded to Federal agents here. Among
the signatures he had obtained was
that of Governor W. P. Hunt, of Ari
zona.
While traveling through Florida he
called at the State Capitol in Talla
hassee and there met the Secretary
of State, from whom, it is said, he
obtained indorsement of a worthless
check for $5O.
So logical was the story told by
Walsh of his work for the War De
partment he borrowed small sums, it
is said, from probably a thousand
people, among them several hundred
posimasters in small cities through
out Georgia, Tennesses, Mississippi
Louisiana and Texas. The aggregate
total of his scattered collections is
about $2.000.
ATLANTA, GA., WEEKENDING JUNE 9, 1914.
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~ ASHEVILLE, N. C, June 9.—Al
leged discrimination on the part of
the judges of the Western (arolina
Fair Association baby show contest,
conducted here, has caused a suit to
be entered against the fair associa
_(ion which promises to be fought
through all the courts of the State.
First prize was won by Robert Bruce
Johnston, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wil
liam Johnston, Jr, and in awarding
the prize the judges are alleged to
have discriminated against Ernest
Taulby ]ngl% son of Mr. ,and Mrs. T.
P. Ingle.
Incensed over the matter, the par
ents of the Ingle baby sent the meas
urements of their baby to the Better
Babies Bureau and the child was
given better marks on his card than
any of the other babies entered in
the show here. This was repeated in
the other baby shows of the State.
The parents of the Ingle baby then
appealed to the fair agssociation for
a hearing in the case, but this was
refused.
A petition ~was thea circulated
among the citizens of the city asking
that a hearing be granted, and when
this was again refused suit was in
stituted against the fair association
to recover 3550 damages. The case
occupied two days in a magistrate’s
court, when the decision was given in
favor of the plaintiff. ‘
The defendant association imme
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Superior Court, and stated that in
case the decision is rendered in favor
of the plaintiff there the case will be
carried to the Supreme Court of
North Carolina.
Both babies are handsome little
chaps and almost perfect specimens
of babyhood. The Johnston baby is
a flaxen-haired child, with blue eyes,
while the Ingle baby is of the oppo
site type. Both are very bright and
cheerful and make friends readily.
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Heirs to $42,000 Are
NEW HAVEN, June 9 -—The Probate
Court is seeking the American heirs of
Wilhelmina Von Klahn, who died a year
ago at the Norwich Hospital for the In
sane. She left $42,000 to a brother, who
is dead.
The brother went to California in
1849 with gold seekers. He later lo
cated in Louisville, Ky., where he mar
ried and had children.
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Rides Handcar Home
CROOKSTON, MINN, June 9 —
CGovernor Eberhart and three com
panions pumped a hand car fourteen
miies in order to return here after
the BExecutive's automobile had
stranded in the mud near Granl
Forks.
Foraker's Son Elopes;
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Bride Disliked Fuss
WASHINGTON, June 9.—Just be
cause ‘“she could not bear the
thought of a big fuss and wedding,”
Miss Minnie Stone, a popular young
society girl, eloped to Baltimore with
Arthur Foraker, son of former Sena
tor Foraker.
Parental blessings followed
BOND ELECTION CALLED.
JESUP, June 9.—The Mayor of the
town of Jesup has issued a notice for
an election for $6,000 of bonds for an
addition to the Righ School building,
the election te be held July 11. |
Published Weekly Sz
THE GEORGIAN COMPANY
20 E. Alabama-stk, Atianta, Ga.
6 ' ' y
Sets Himself Against Country’s
Opinion in Canal Tolls Fight,”
Declares Sydney Brooks.
LONDON, June s.—Svdney Brooks,
the well-known writer, contributes +o
the English Review a character
sketch of President Wilson, in which,
while its general tone is eulogistiy,
recent phases of the Wilson policy are
criticised. He writes:
“What especially has altered Pres
iden* Wilson's position and clouded
his prospects is the stand taken by
him on the question of Panama tolls.
Despite all the support and applause
his action elicited in quarters thal
make up in respectability what they
lack in political influence, there can
be little question that in flghting for
the repeal of the diseriminating clause
in the Panama Canal act the Presi
der. has set himself against average
orinicn, both in Congress and in tha
country.
“Honeymoon Is Over.”
“A storm of unmeasured violenceq
hias broken upon his head, and, what
ever its issue, President Wilson's hold
apcr his party has been shaken. The
legend of his invulnerability has been
shattered, the spell is broken, the
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s W nlgo Mexican policy hecomes”
comprehensible only when a guess is
hazarded that his conscience rather
than his intellect dictated it
“It was a case where the s ruples
of an idealist revolted against a
compromise to whicii 2 statesmai
more robust or of less sensitive dis
position would have accommodated
himself withont difficulty.
“A Somber President.”
“A good sliff conscience will
sheathe a man in an ethical casing
against which all arguments wil
helplassly biunt themselves and wiil
transform the clearest of thinkers
into an obstinate, intractable doetri
naire.
“Personally, except on the ground
of conscience, T have found it impos
sible to reconcile President \Wilson's
diplomacy in Mexico either with his’
trained comprehensive intelligence or
with the decisiveness that has mark
ed nis treatment of domestic jssues.”
Struck by Lightni
ruck by Lightning,
Woman Will Recover
SALISBURY, N. C., June 9.—While
Mrs. W. J. McCorkle, wife of a farm
er, was in a field near her home to
day a bolt of lightning struck her on
the head, ran down her body, tore
one shoe off, left a black streak down
her back and splintered a hoe handle
which she held in her hands.
The doctor says Mrs. McCorkle will
recover,
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Editorial by Graves
WASHINGTON, June 9.--Represen
tative Roberts, of Nevada, in discuss
ing political conditions generally, de
clared that the pronouncements of ths
present Administration should have
a new name, and as conveying his
views on nresent issues read an edi
torial from the pen of John Temg'e
Graves on “Tolls and Mexico Work
Party Ruin.”
Dynamiter Pardons
’ WASHINGTON, June 9. Attorney
(GGeneral Mcßeynolds presented to Pres
ident Wilson his report on the appeal
for pardon for Frank M. Ryan and other
former officials of the International
Bridge and Structural Iron Workers
Union, who were convicted in the In
dianapolis dynamite conspiracy cases.
It is understood that his recommenda
tions are adverse to the convicted men,
Burglars Get 500-Ib.
Safe, but Only $lO
NEW YORK, June 9 —Burglars
carried off a 500-pound safe from a
restaurant on lower Broadway. It
contained $lO,
