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Newspaper Page TextBOOTH AHO ROBBINS ARE BOTH INDICTED STATEMENTS MADE DY BOOTH TO BANKS ARE SAID TO BE (2,000,000 FROM THE TRUTH. STORY OF INDICTMENT. CHICAGO. Feb. 27.—W. Vernon Booth and Frederick S. Robbtns will be arrest ed Monday pending their release on bail, the amount fixed in an indict ment found against them today charging afelbnfous conspiracy by which S3M.OOt was gotten from the Continental Nation al bank of Chicago by false pretense. The penalty as fixed by law for the of fense charged against Booth, who ( pres ident of A. Booth A Co., the wrecked fish trust, and Robbins, who was assistant general manager, is twenty years in the penitentiary and $2,000 fine or both, as a maximum. The Indictment carries three counts. The charge is conspiracy to com mit an unlawful act. the unlawful act being what in the criminal code is de fined as the confidence game. The con spiracy statute section 46 of the revised criminal code, however, covers the case specifically as well as both in the men tion of the act of obtaining money by false pretenses and in providing the crim inal responsibility as individuals of cor poration officers. Basis of Charge The basig of the charge is the false statement of last year signed bjr Robbins, and according to the evidence before the grand jury ordered by Booth, whereby banks were induced to lend millions to the involved trust on representations that its assets were many times greater than they really were and the liabilities corresponding^ - less. The official charge is based upon the transaction of July 19, 1908, when the Continental National lent to the company $300,000 in 1 checks of SIOO,OOO each. Issued to take up three drafts of the same amount signed by W. Vernon Booth as president of the corpor ation. The returning of the indictments was attended with a dramatic scene. Through an error the original true bill was voted against Booth and Walker G. Robbins. The latter name is that of the father of Frederick R Robbins. He was the treas urer of the company. The indictment was later changed to read **F. R.” Robbina Sensational Testimony The witnesses whose names appear in the back of the indictments are Ira M. Smith, the former vice president of the company, end J. M. Robertson, vice pres ident of the Continental bank; W. J. Chalmers, the receiver for the corpora tion, and N. J. Ford, representing the Corn Exchange National bank. The tes timony of Smith was the wind-up of the hearing and is said to be sensational. . Smith came in with his personal coun sel. Jesse A. Baldwin. He is the man who is believed to have more definite knowledge than any other individual of the actions of the corporation and he was led over the whole ground. Robertson testified to the transfer of the money and supplied the drafts and checks which made up the transaction. 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Receiver Chalmers brought in the books of the corporation and completed the case by showing that the reports were false. Ford supplied some books and records and his testimony was not of his own personal knowledge. State's Attorney Wayman sated that the inquiry against those who aided in the frauds in New York and Chicago banks on behalf of the defunct corpora tion to the extent of about $3,000,000 by no means ended in the one indictment, representing but a single transaction with a single bank. “I cannot say whether there will be more indictments or whether we have ev idence involving others in the frauds,” he said, "but I can say that this indict ment does not represent all the frauds which have been presented to me in this case. "This is one of the grossest, most fla grant and most comprehensive eases of crooked finance I have ever heard of. It is a case in which certain men trafficked upon their social standing and their appa rent financial soundness to swindle some of our shrewdest bankers out of millions on representations which were absolutely false, which were maue with no intention except to defraud and which constitute on a high scale a confidence game in eve ry conception of the law.” EUREKA FISH NETS Eureka Fish Nets are a new patented article made of galvanised steel wire, and will last from twelve to eighteen months. They catch all varieties of fish that in habit our rivers, creeks and ponds. The fish go into them at times until they are tn a perfect jam. They are the finest things in the world for eels, and will soon clear a stream of that menace to gill-net fishermen, the musk rat. They only require being baited with a few pieces of corn bread and dropped into the water. Full printed directions are sent with each net for the benefit of per sons who have no experience in this way •f fishing. They tell where to fish for certain kinds of fish, where to put the nets. etc. They are very easily handled, only weighing three or four pounds, and can be used by anyone and without a boat. CONGRESS MAY BUY FARM OF GEN. GRANT WASHINGTON. Feb. 27.—Inspired by the widespread honors conferred upon President Lincoln. Representative Coud rey, of Missouri, has introduced a bill providing for the purchase by the gov ernment of the farm on which General Grant lived in St. Louis county, Missouri, just before entering the army. The farm lies on the Missouri Pacific railway, and contains about 436 acres. Mr. Coudrey proposes that the farm shall be transformed into a national park, and his bill carries an appropriation of $400,000 for its purchase. tennesseelvoman KILLS HER HUSBAND NASHVILLE, Tenn.. Feb. 27.—Ben R. Hurt, a farmer residing near the Her mitage, about 13 miles from here, was killed by his wife tiffs afternoon. Hurt and his step son, known as xxarvey Hurt, engaged in a personal dif ficulty. While they were fighting in the yard. Mrs. xiurt rushed from the house and struck her husband a blow witn an axe, killing him almost in stantly. The killing was witnessed by several friends who were waiting for Hurt at the gate. THK ATLANTA BEMFWEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MARCH 2, SURGEON GLASGOW TELLS OF AUTOPSY ON DEAD SENATOR| Continued from page One house overlooking the scene of the kill ing. heard the shots. Two came together and were loud, he said. Then there was an Interval and three shots came very rapidly. Charles P. Hayden was then called. He went to Attorney James Bradford’s of fice the afternoon of the tragedy, about 3 o'clock. He saw Mr. Bradford and j General Tully Brown leave the office and j was there when the news of the killing j reached the office. He said he noteo | nothing unusual about either Mr. Brad- j ford or General Brown. R. H. Wright, a mine promoter and owner, identified the automatic gun that Robin Cooper used to Senator Carmack. He said he carried it when at the mines, and loaned it to Robin’s uncle, Robin Jones, who borrowed it for the boy. He said he had fired It several times. He I was cross-examined as to where he got It and when, and if he identified it by number or merely by general appearance. He said by general appearance. The state still contends that this gun is the property of ex-Sherift John D. Sharp. Experimented With Revolvers Dr. L. L. Carpenter testified that on Saturday he took two revolvers—the au- | tomatic and one similar to the one Car mack is said to have used, and experi mented as to the loudness of the reports j they made w’hen discharged. "At 50 feet, the difference in the sound j was apparent, but not marked. The lar- | ger revolver made more noise, while the j automatic was not so loud but more of . a sharp crack. | "At 100 feet the detection •of the dis- i ference in the sound was easier. The j further I got away from the revolvers, the easier it was to extinguish between the reports up to 128 feet, which was as far as I stood.” Cross-examined, he said he did not know whether smokeless powder would sound louder than black powder. He also said he was not an expert on firearms. "I w’lßh to say,” said Judge Anderson, "that I wanted to use the pistols in the case, but it was deemed best not to shoot what is known as the Carmack pistol again. We got one like It and used the pistol Robin carried as well as another 32- caliber automatic.” Henry Chadwell, steward of the county asylum, corroborated Dr. Carpenter s tes timony. Testifies About Phone I. T. Rhea, a grain dealer, t estlfied that Attorney James Bradford was ac customed to answer the phone himself. Miss Lee had testified that Bradford nev er did this until the afternoon of the tragedy, thus implying that a telephone message was expected. The state objected to the testimony, and an argument ensued as to what Miss Lee really said. The record sustained the defense and the court permitted the question. Rhea said he had known Bradford for years and knew that he often answered the phone himself. Cross-examined, Rhea could not say how often he visited Brad ford’s office or how often he heard Brad ford answer the phone. Paul Davis, secretary of a land com pany of which Bradford is president, and whose offices are next to the latter s, tes tified to the same effect. No Threats To Kill "Didn't Miss Lee ask you if something unusual was not going on?” inquired At torney General Garner, "and did you no* reply: ‘Colonel Cooper is going to kill somebody if they do not look out’?” “No. sir.” "Nor words to that effect?" "No, sir. Not that I can recall.” “But she may have said something like that?” “I do not remember that she did.” “Didn’t you tell Miss Lee. when getting the jury, that you would swear to a He to get on?” “I did not.” At this point court adjourned until 2 p. m. TOM HUDSON WILL RUN FOB U. S. CONGRESS By Ralph Smith WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 27.—Thom as G. Hudson, commissioner of agricul ture, here on business, today declared that he would be a candidate for congress from the Third district two years hence. He has no desire to precipl'A.te an early campaign, and wifi not make his formal announcement for some time. Mr. Hud son’s declaration tends to clarify some what the political atmosphere of Georgia. He has been prominently mentioned as a possible candidate for governor two years hence, but his announced purpose to stand for congress dissipates this rumor. While here Mr. Hudson induced the ag ricultural department to order a soil sur vey of Sumter and other counties of Georgia, in which district agricultural colleges are located. The survey will en able the farmers of those immediate lo calities, and the students of the several colleges to better understand the soil of Georgia, afid enable them to arrive at de finite and intelligent information as to the class of fertiliser to use in cultivating various crops. CHINA WILL KILL”” ALL CONSPIRATORS WASHINGTON. Feb. 26—" If any of the miscreants are arrested, let them be tried and executed without delay,” says a Chinese imperial edict directing all of ficials to exercise the utmost vigilance to prevent revolutionists entering the em pire. The edict, which is a precautionary measure, but is a timely one in the opin ion of American Minister Rockhill, has reache 1 the state department here. The edict J.ays: w "There are some miscreants, who cir culate iumors to disturb the peace, who are exciting the stupid. Especially along the seacoast there are bands of evil doers, who are scheming to enter the in terior and stir up trouble." The board of interior, the military com manders, the governor of Pekin and the vleroys Ynd governors of all the prov inces are ordered to instruct the civil and military officials under them to send out many detectives and police and to offer heavy rewards for the detection and arrest of these people. Let no negli gence be displayed. youthful" hunter KILLS HIMSELF MONTGOMERY, Ala., Feb. 27,-Near Columbus. Ga., early today, Griggs Sykes, a lad of 15 years, was killed while hunting. He pulled up a laprobe of his buggy, rolling the gun over in such a way as to cause it to explode, sending the load Into his heart. FORMER TREASURER GETS YEAR IN THE PEN JACKSON, Ky , Feb. 27.-Walter R. Day, formerly state treasurer under Gov ernor Taylor, was sentenced to one year in the penitentiary here today on a charge of forging the name of his uncle, Floyd Day, to a note for $4,000. Day will appeal. LOCAL OPTIONISTS SCORE POINT IN BIG FIGHT COLUMBIA, 8. C.. Feb. 27.—8 y • vote of 4o 1o 41 the house this morning ncepted the sen ate compromise on the statewide prohibition bill which means the fight is over, local option winning to this extent. Statewide prohibition will »ast only two weeks from the first Tues day in August. On third Tuesday “wet” counties may vote dis pc uni ries back in and “dry” counties may go wet as now provided. CHICAGO NEU SHOT; POLICE PUZZLED WELL KNOWN LABOR LEADERS ARE KILLED IN SHOOTING AF FRAY—OFFICERS HAVE NO CLEW TO ASSAILANT. CHICAGO, March I.—The shooting of Richard J. H. Fink, who was killed while | he was a half block from home early I Sunday, has developed into a double mys tery. The police discovered that another man, after being shot at the same place and at the same time, also died early In the day. Morris Fitzgerld, a walking delegate for the Bartenders’ union, staggered in his I residence shortly after midnight and with in a few minutes of the time of the shoot ing. He was shot in the abdomen. He died six hours later at a hospital. That the two men were shot in the same affray is regarded by the police as practically certain. Which was the ag gressor. what was the cause, who an al leged third participant, are questions that have not been answered. both men are widely known in labor circles. That there was a third person implicat ed Is shown by the testimony of a boy who saw the shooting from about a block away. He was unable to tell anything ex cept that one man met two others and the shooting followed. NEGRO CONFESSES TO BRUTAL MURDER ALBIA. la., Feb. 28.—Shortly after mid night John Junken, the negro confined in the jail here charged with the mur der of Clara Rosen, the choir singer and church worker, confessed that he | killed the young woman at Ottumwa three weeks ago. He stated that he was alone when the crime was committed and that he had no accomplices. The confession was made to Sheriff Griffin. The sheriff was called from his bed to listen to the negro who was in a high state of excitement cried that he wanted to telt all about the crime which haunted him. Junken said he had trailed Miss Rosgn to the home of her sister the night of the murder where he watched her till she emerged an hoi|r later and then sneaked up behind her and struck her a fearful blow with his fist knocking her to the sidewalk. X He then crushed her head with a stone which he picked up. The negro declares he then robbed her of her purse and diamond. Junken was not taken to Fort Madison as at first stated by the police for the purpose of preventing a possible lynching. Junken told of where the stolen jewelry could be found and search in the home of Frank Weaver at Ottumwa revealed I Clara Rosen’s purse and gold backed mirror and other stolen jewels in the at tic reached through a trap door in the celling. Junken will be taken to Des Moines early today for safe keeping. Junken declares Weaver was not a par ty to the murder. NEGRO SOLDIERS WIN LONG FIGHT WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—The long fight of the discharged negro soldiers of the Twenty-fifth infantry, for an op portunity to prove their innocence in connection with the “tehotoing up” of Brownsville, Texas, on the night of Au gust 13. 1906, was won today, when the house, by a vote of 210 to 101, passed the senate bill, to that end. Violent opposi tion was encountered from members of the Texas delegation and others, but, as the vote shows, their efforts were un availing. The general deficiency bill was taken up and passed, the aggregate amount carried by it being over $17,500,000. A number of miscellaneous bills and conference reports were also disposed of. After many years of discussion of the subject, hitherto without result, a joint resolution was adopted, approving plans reducing the size of the house chamber. The rivers and harbors appropriation bill was sent to conference, whereupon the house at 6:53 p. m., recessed until 11 a. m., Monday. NEW YORK MAGISTRATE HOLDS COURT IN STREET NEW YORK. March I.—City Magistrate Cane held court in the heart of the East Side on the street yesterday afternoon, surrounded by a crowd of the curious, many of whom were nevertheless so im presed, however, that they removed tnelr hats when they saw the magistrate raise his hand for silence and heard a police man and the prisoner, who was a woman, take the oath. The woman, who weepingly declared that she was a widow with three chil dren, bemoaned her fate with such pathos that the magistrate discharged her with a Reprimand. She had been arrested for selling tomatoes without a license. WITH MEXICAN RIOT/RS ST. JOSEQH, Mo., March I.—Three Americans were dangerously wounded and eight Mexicans more or less serious ly injured when more than a score <af Mexican packing house laborers engaged in a pitched battle with a few American laborers in South St. Joseph yesterday. All of the participants in the fight were arrested. According to the Mexicans, the Ameri cans attacked them in their camp with bricks and after geveral of their number had been injured two Mexicans began shooting. SON OF ALABAMA MAN KILLED BY TRAIN WEST POINT, Ga., Feb. 27. —D. Wat kins, 16-year-old son of a prominent cit izen of Lanett, Ala., just across the state line, was run down and fatally injured by a freight train today. Both legs had to be amputated and it is said he will die. HUSBAND BEATS WIFE WITH DINING TABLE LEG CLEVELAND. 0.. March I.—Because his wife refused to set out of bed and get some thing to eat. Michael McManamon. 35 years old. last night assaulted her with a table leg. It is charged, and fatally iniured the woman. McManamon returned home at 10 p. m. am. became enraged when he found his wife had retired. Whiskey Free How to get a whole gallon free by express prepaid. Learn to make Liquors, Beers, "Whiskeys, Cordials. Soda Water for 1c a bottle. Beer about 1c a quart. No experience required. Everything guaranteed. Recommended by thous ands. Don’t be dry when I open thd way for you to always have something on hand. Write for free particulars today. Send stamp. A. C. Liepe, 789 Green Bay Ave., Milwaukee, Wis. PLANS PERFECTED FOR INAUGURAL OF TAFT AND SHERMAN Continued from Page One captured the spy. He proved to be an Englishman who had served in the Amer ican navy and plans of the defense of Fort Monroe, New York harbor and oth er points, were found in his possession, as well as considerable correspondence with agents of the Spanish government. He was confined to the guardhouse the Washington barracks and heavily ironed, but in some mysterious manner the spy managed to commit suicide be fore he could be brought to trial. It is contended that he received help from the outside. There will be marked, too, on the spot where John Wilkes Booth’s fellow con spirators in the assassination of Presi dent Lincoln were executed, and on the homes of John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay and Daniel Webter; on the house in which the French patriot, Lafayette, stopped while in Washington on Wis last visit to this country and the building in which Abraham Lincoln lived before his first inauguration. Other Interesting Places Other interesting locations that can be viewed by visitors during the lulls In the Inaugural ceremorfies will be the site of the camp of the Washington ar tillery of Pottsville, Pennsylvania, and the Allen rifles of Allentown, Pa., part of the first detachment of volunteers to reach Washington when war was de clared in 1861. Also apartments in the United States cepitol, where the Fifth and Eighth Massachusetts regiments, the Twenty-fifth wew York and Ellsworth’s New York fire zouaves, were quartered. An interesting place is the Kenmore, on North capitol street, where George Washington began to build a residence for himself, but never completed the house. The committee has marked off some of the battlefields in the vicinity of the cap ital. They include Fort otevens, where General Early, with his graycoated Con federates made their famous advance on Washington, and where the fight oc curred July 11 and 12, 1864. On a time worn parapet of Fort Stevens, which will be designated by one of the official mark ers, is the spot where President Lin coln was under fire for the first and last time during the cilvl war. Another place of Interest on this bat tlefield is a ravine in which the Sixth corps formed before the charge which compelled the Confederates to retire from in front of Washington. In the engage ment that followed the commanding of feer of every union regiment taking part was either killed or wounded. Nearby will be marked a Confederate outpost, where the men in gray made their near est approach to the nation’s capital dur ing the war, and which has been desig nated as the “high-tide” mark of the on-to-Washington movement. During Early’s attack on Fort Stevens the men of this outpost annoyed the gunners by their "sniping.” The Confederates at this outpost were Mississippi riflemen, famed as dead shots, and some of them were armed with the long-barrelled squir rel rifles, such as, in a somewhat more ancient form, Davy Crockett and other prominent pioneers carried. Inaugurations Have Changed A vast change has taken place in the Inauguration plans since Washington was inducted into office. Undoubtedly the least ostentatious ceremony of this kind was when Jefferson on March 4th. moun ted a horse and rode up to the white house, where he hitched his animal to the fence and walked in to receive the oath of office. His only escort was , a small group of cavalrymen. In 1817, President Monroe was satisfied with an escort of citizens on horseback and the performance was repeated at his second inauguration. But when An drew Jackson was inaugurated, in 1829. Washington had its first glimpse of the popular enthusiasm, the patriotism, the sympathy and the hospitality that woula be the occasion for great great Pennsyl vania avenue pageants in the future. O1 Jackson’s inauguration, Daniel Webster said: "Never has such a crowd been seen here before. There must have been fully 8,000 people along the line of march. Persons came 500 miles to see the presi dent inaugurated.” Van Buren, in 1837, had a "splendid es cort” for those days and 20,000 spectators stood along the line of march. And the carriage in which the president rode at tracted almost as much attention as he did himself, for it was made out of wood taken from the old hull of the victorious American frigate, Constitution—Old Iron sides—and built at the expense of the New York democracy for presentation to the president. Tne Parade of 1841 The parade on March 4, 1841, was prob ably the most interesting up to that time. General Harrison, the president-elect, rode on horseback to the capitol and came back In a coach presented to him by the Whigs of Baltimore. Hundreds of long cabin flats were displayed In the parade and among his escort were members of the Harrison convention and veteran sol diers who had fought under the president at Tippecanoe. Seventy-five thousand spectators attended to do General Harri son honor. President Polk was rather fond of dis play and his tastes not particularly mili tary, consequently his inaugural escort was more mixed than any other up to that time. It Included a number of mili tary organizations, veterans of the Revo lutionary war, members of his cabniet, the clergy of the District of Columbia and the professors and students of Georgetown college. His carriage, both to and from the capitol, was flanked by the Fairfax cavalry, a kid glove Virginia regiment, recruited from among the gentlemen planters of the Old Dominion. In 1849, March 4 fell on Sunday, and so General Zachary Taylor was inaugurated at 9 o’clock Monday morning. That old fighter liked to do things in style and the carriage in which he rode to the capi tol was drawn by four prancing grays, and his escort, almost exclusively mili tary, was particularly large and Imposing for those days. There was nothing of the holiday spirit in evidence when President Lincoln was Inaugurated on March 4, 1861. It was true that he had a large escort, but It was ex clusively military and every soldier of the many that marched before and behind and beside his carriage had his musket loaded and cocked and ready for instant use. Many spectators lined the side walks. too, but nine-tenths of them were soldiers as well, some in their regimentals and others in citizen dress, but all armed and on the watch for the ever present danger that threatened the chief execu tive. The housetops and windows along the way were crowded with spectators, but nine-tenths of these were soldiers also, and they paid more attention to the civilian spectators on the pavements be low and in the windows and on the housetops opposite than they did to the inaugural procession Itself. There was no cheering, and, in fact, no demonstra tion of any kind, for even the most en thusiastic and optimistic of patriots felt anything but hopeful in those dark days. On the occasion of Lincoln’s second in auguration in 1865 the escort was larger and even more exclusively military, and the watch that was kept along the line of march was even more vigilant than be fore. But enthusiasm and patriotism were given free reign and the president and his escort were cheered to the echo. "BLACK HORSE” TROOP WILL BE TAFT’S ESCORT CLEVELAND, 0.. March I.—Troop A, known as the "Black Horse” troop, the city’s representative in the cavalry branch of the Ohio National Guard, will serve as personal escort to President Taft in his inaugral parade Thursday morning. Seventy-six strong, it will ride with the carriage which contains the retiring pres ident and the newly sworn in president from the capitol to the white house, as it has done at every previous inauguration of an Ohio born president. The troop was organized in 1877. The late John Hay, secretary of state, was a member. RUNAWAY SENATORS STILL IN HIDING! NASHVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 27.—N0 quo rum. No business. Thirteen absentees. Waiting for future developments. Many rumors concerning the where abouts of the absent thirteen, but no re port of the arrest -of any more of the ab sentees. This, in a nutshell, was the situation in; the state senate of Tennessee this morn ing when that body met. Last night the senate sergeant-at-arms and his assist ants were hard at work endeavoring to locate the quorum-breakers. There was a surprise in store for those who were not on the inside, for the sen ate was notified by the clerk of the house that the latter were ready to receive the senate in joint convention, as provided for by resolution, for the purpose of electing the state election boards, stats comptroller and state treasurer. Fruitless opposition was made to any such pro cedure by Senator Cox on the ground that the senate could not, a quorum be ing absent, take any action but adjourn from day to day. This objection was promptly overruled, however, by the speaker, and the senate at 10 o’clock, the hour set, proceeded in a body to the hall of the house of representatives, where the joint convention was held, ac cording to pre-arranged program. The statewide Democrats are standing firm, and express a fixed determination to remain on deck until the end of the life of the present general assembly, if that be necessary. They evince a deter mination to stand by their guns, and as a consequence there seems no chance to reach either a recess or an adjournment until the provisions of the election laws ars carried out, and no adjournment un til the other necessary business of the legislative term has been disposed of. The joint convention took no final action this morning, taking a recess until 3 p. m., and the senators were absent from the chamber only 15 minutes on that account. Senator Cox was asked today concern ing reports that he had in his posses sion the resignations of the absent sena tors. He said he had not. He was' then asked if resignations had been prepared. "I refuse to answer,” he replied. EX-CONVICT NO. WILL INVITE MAYOR CHICAGO, March I.—Mayor Busse has been asked to speak at the next meeting of the Chicago association of the unem ployed. In the meantime he will receive a visit from a commitee appointed at the first meeting by Chairman J. Eads Howe, of St. Louis, known as the "hobo’a friend.” A man present at the session arosp and began a harangue which was in the nature of an attack upon indi viduals. "Hold on there,” said Chairman Howe, on his feet in an instant "So long as I am chairman of this meeting there will be no attacks upon persons. It is not eti quette.” The speaker yielded the floor and moved back to his seat. “But you are a good talker. I want you on the committee that is to go to the city hall, said the chairman. "What is your name?" “I was No. 66 in the penitentiary. I havenu’t had any name since, was the answer. He was later placed on the com mittee. POSTOFFICE SAFE IS LOOTED AT CUTHBERT CUTHBERT, Ga., March I.—The safe in the Cuthbert postoffice was blown open by cracksmen at an early hour Sunday morning and a two thousand dollar haul made. The robbers secured $1,400 worth of stamps, $450 of postal funds and S3OO be longing to the postmaster and four regis tered letters. The chief postoffice inspec tor in Atlanta was notified by wire and already secret service men are at work on the case. There is no clue as to the identity of the robbers, but the work was evidently done by a professional, as the entire safe door was blown off and the inside vault broken open so quickly and quietly as not to attract the attention of the telephone operator in the next building. The yeggmen broke into a blacksmith shop and secured tools to enter the office. These tools were left on the floor. The safe was wrapped in mail sacks to muf flie the sound of the explosion. The rob bery was not discovered till Assistant Postmaster Small opened the office at 7 o’clock Sunday morning. gomper¥turns down ANTI-LOCAL OPTION NEW YORK. March I.—Samuel Comp ere, president of the American Federation of Labor, has taken a stand against the plan adopted by unions in this city, which sent circulars to various central labor bodies urging them to pass resolutions against local option. The following re ply was received from Mr. Gompers yes terday: "I beg to advise you that the executive council has given the subject matter of this circular careful attention, but it Is the opinion of the council that the in dorsement you request will not be prac ticable or advisable at this time. The ex ecutive council is of the opinion that it would not represent the general sentiment of organized labor to indorse the propo sition now.” BOY, ILL WITH PNEUMONIA, TAKEN TO ARMORY BY FORCE NEW YORK. 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GORDON BAILEY TO RECEIVLPARDON YOUNG MAN WHO SOLD WHISKY TO AID HIS DYING BROTHER WILL BE ALLOWED TO GO FREE, IT IS BELIEVED. That Gordon Bailey, of Macon, wh(, sold whisky to buy sustenance for his dying brother, will receive executive clem ency, is regarded as practically certain by rumors that go around the capitol. The prison commission Is waiting for the re turn of Commissioner Evans before tak ing action on the case. Its recommenda tion will probably be forwarded to the governor Tuesday; and the recommenda tion, it is said, will be for lenient ac tion Gordon Bailey is the young man who was arrested with his twin brother on the outskirts of Macon, and charged with selling whisky—running a blind tiger. The case against his brother, Hardeman, was nol pressed, on the showing that Harde man is in the last stages of consump tion. Gordon pleaded guilty, was convict ed, and sentenced to a heavy fine or 12 months in the chaingang. The prison board has his application for pardon be fore it now, signed not only by the court officials, but by a number of prohibi tionists of Macon as well. He, too, has consumption, and It is feared that he would die if the service of his sentence is exacted. It was Gordon Bailey’s mother, Mrs- S. A. Bailey, who pleaded the cause of her son so effectively before the prison commission last Friday. Hardeman, said the mother, is dying. There is no hope for him. Gordon, she said, may live years. He has a wife and child. She will arrange to send him out west in search of relief, if the law will turn him loose. The only particular in the case which has caused even the slightest hesitancy on the part of the board is the fact, certified to by the trial judge, that it developed during the hearing that the of ficers had found in a local railway depot at Macon two barrels of whisky address ed to C. T. Bailey, a brother of the two boys, who lives in Mississippi. This, how ever, it is believed will not be allowed to operate against the petition of Gordon Bailey. Governor Smtlh Issued orders some days ago to hold Gordon Bailey off the county works for a certain number of days, te allow the prison board to act on his application. The time has been extended, and Bailey is still in the Bibb county Jail. It is believed that the prison board will recommend a sentence of probably thirty days in the case of Gordon Bailey. Tho young man has already served twenty In the jail at Macon. This time would be allowed to count, and with a week more the consumtpive prisoner would complete his whole term and would go free. This, it Is said, will be about the compromise that the commission will make with its own prejudice against establishing any precedent of complete pardon in convicted cases of this nature. GOYERNOR SMITH LAUDS SALVATION ARMY At the Central Congregational church Sunday afternoon the twenty-ninth an niversary of the advent of the Salvation Army in the United States was celebra ted. Governor Hoke Smith presided and made an address of unusual interest. Among others who spoke were Mrs. Brigadier Stanyon, of New York city, who is in fcharge of the army’s work among slums, and Colonel Richard Er nest Holz, of Philadelphia, commander of the Atlantic coast province. Captain George Cook, of Philadelphia, and Ad jutant Core, of Washington, rendered vo cal selections. Music was also furnish ed by the orchestra of the First Pres byterian church. This anniversary service marked the end of the seventh annual council of the southern division of the Atlantic coast province which has been in session here for the past four days. Seated on the platform were Governor Smith. Colonel Holz, Major Berrlman, of Baltimore: Brigadier Stanyon, of Cincinnati; and Major White. of At lanta. Governor Smith stirred the large con gregation with his eloquent tribute to the work of th earmy. He said in discussing its influence: "Within a single year the Salvation Army has cared for 10,000 men within the walls of its industrial homes, and statistics show that 65 per cent of this number are saved to God, after they had reached the very bottom, with all hopes forever gone, and have been re claimed as men, like their Maker in tended. Is that not following the teach ings of our Master? I say that It is "Within a year’s time 2,000 women have been cared for in the rescue homes and 85 per cent of the number perma nently restored. This is glorious work, and I repeat, true Christians will not criticise the methods, and on the other hand, will lend a helping hand to the Salvation Army. L for one, am ready to ask for God's blessing upon this noble band of men and women.” nled the company is inclined to view the matter as do the parents, but Captain J. M. Clamer, who is alleged to have sent a detail of guardsmen to the young man’s fcouse .the night he was taken from bed. says that the facts of the case have been greatly exaggerated. He refutes the statement of the parents that Kopp was not dressed at the time and that he was wrapped in blankets and thus carried to the armory in an automobile. He said, further, that no force was used. 3