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    BOOTH 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.
He also gave the necessary testimony to
show that the bank accepted the state-
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ments of 1968 in good faith and made the
loan because it believed it to be true.
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.”
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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.
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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.
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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. March L—Investigation
will be made, it is said, into the death of
Frederick Kopp, Jr., a young Brooklyn
machinist, who died of pneumonia after
having.been taken from a sick bed to at
tend the annual inspection of company B,
47th regiment of New York National
Guard.
The boy’s parents are indignant and as
sert that their son’s death was the result
of exposure exertion. He died on
February 13 ahd the inspection was held
on the 10th. A physician who accompa-
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GORDON BAILEY TO
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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.
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