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VOLUME XII.
ATLANTA, GA.,
FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1913.
NO. 32.
(IE-SWEPT FIRE
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Flames That Originated In
Mobile Theater Thursday
Claims 5 Dead and Injured
Firemen-Loss $100,000
(By Associated Press.)
MOBILE, Ala., Jan. 9.—Fire, which
started somewhere on the stage of the
Mobile theater shortly after 6:30 o’clock
this morning, completely destroyed the
building. Several buildings • adjoining
were damaged, principally by water.
One fireman was killed and two seri
ously injured by a falling wall, while
several were slightly bruised and
burned.
The dead:
JOSEPH CERDA, pipeman, company
No. 3.
The injured:
Captain James Stanton, company No.
3, seriously.
Herman Heckman, company No. 3,
said to be serious.
Frank Nettles, lineman, face burned
during rescue work.
Manuel Tapia, shoulder dislocated.
ALARM WAS DELAYED.
The fire started on the stage, and al
though smoke was noticed issuing from
the top of the structure by roomers in
an adjoining hotel no attention was paid
to it.
The fire had been burning half an
hour before the alarm was turned in
and when the firemen arrived the entire
interior was a mass of flames.
A high north wind was blowing and
brands were carried to other structures
in the vicinity, including the county
court house, which were saved with dif
ficulty.
At one time it was thought that the
business section of the city south of
Conti street was in danger.
The loss on the theater building and
contents is about $65,000. Other losses
will run the total to fully $100,000.
Many important bookings, including
Adelaide Thurston for tonigne, will be
cancelled, involving considerable loss
t the companies.
SOUTHERN EXPRESS CO
WON’T FICHT PARCEL POST
BANK. PAID 226 PER CENT
ON DIVIDENDS. SAYS BAKER
Aged Financier Tells Pujo
Committee of Prosperity of
the First National
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—As one of
the star witnesses in the probe of the
so-called money trust, G. F. Baker, of
the First National bank of New York,
was on today’s program of the house
money trust committee.
Mr. Baker, who with J. P. Morgan
and James Stillman, makes up, accord
ing to Samuel Untermyer, counsel for
the committee, the most powerful group
of financiers in New York, was called
to testify as to the financial relations
of these three men, the institutions
in which they are factors and the funds
they control. Mr. Baker, despite his
seventy-odd years, appeared cheerful
and hearty as he prepared to submit
himself to what promised to be a long
ordeal in the witness chair.
Before the examination of Mr. Baker
was begun an executive session of the
full banking and currency committee
was called to certify to the speaker of
the house the case of George G. Henry,
who declined on Wednesday to reveal
the names of national banks and their
officers who participated in the syndi
cate flotation of the California Petro
leum company.
Mr. Baker, as he took the stand, pre
sented by his dignified appearance and
his ruddy face and white side whiskers,
a type of the traditional old-fashioned
business man.
He testified that in 1874 the capital
of the First National was $500,000, in
creased in 1901 to $10,000,000 by a div
idend of $9,500,000. Surplus of $11,641,-
000 was left after that dividend.
He went over the yearly dividends
since then, showing they ranged from
20 to 126 per cent. In the last four
years dividends of 226 per cent have
been paid. In 1908, beside a regular div
idend of 32 per cent, an extra dividend
of 100 per cent was declared for or
ganization of the first security com
pany to do business not authorized by
the national bank act. He said the com
pany did little business in stocks.
Wells-Fargo Plans to Change
Rates, but Southern Says
It Will Not. Compete
NEW YORK RANKER CITEO
FOR CONTEMPT OF HOUSE
Following the announcement from San
Francisco that the Wells Fargo Express
company is ready to put into effect
plans that have been four years matur
ing to compete with the parcel post, and
that this competition would probably be
national ip scope, it was stated at the
Atlanta offices Thursday afternoon that
the Southern Express company will
make no changes in* service. ' ’ * ' '
The Southern Express company feels
that it is already giving the best^ possi
ble service, it was stated, and will mere
ly continue to, do so* dejiyering as quick
ly as possible. i
It was stated by an official of the
company that the parcel post rates in
many instances are higher than those
of tjie Southern Express company.
“To send a package, by the parcel
post," he said, “you have to go to the
postoffice, wait in line, use a special
kind of stamp and be delayed in other
Vays, while the express company will
send for your package, deliver it, and
pay for its loss.”
Replying to the objection that the ex
press company does not deliver beyond
certain boundaries, while the parcel
post does, it was stated that the ex
press company had made the fre e de
livery zone as large as it could reason
ably be made.
The cost of delivery was so great
that this territory could not be in
creased, it was said, and there was no
intention of doing so.
According to dispatches from San
Francisco’ the Wells . Fargo compapy
will change delivery plans, with especial
regard to perishable stuffs, and will give
cheaper rates on packages eleven pounds
or less in weight.
This movement was expected to be of
nation-wide scope and one that would
assure the public of far more expedi
tious delivery by express than by- the
parcel post.
Lik e the Southern, the American Ex
press company has announced through
its president, James C. Fargo, that its
company will not enter into competition
even if the others do.
George- L Henry, of Solomon
& Co,, Refused Information
to Money Probe
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—Because he
refused to give to the house money
trust committee the names of twenty-
four national bank officers who profited
in a syndicate formed to market stock
to the California Petroleum company,
'Ge'cr'ge G. Henry, of Solomon & Co.,
New York bankers, was certified to the
speaker of the house today for con
tempt. The full banking and currency
committee voted unanimously for that
action.
Mr. Henry testified that national
banks and national bank officers par
ticipated in a syndicate to the extent
of $1,085,000 and without putting up
any money or taking over any stock
took profits of about $50,000. He main
tained that his confidential relations
with his customers would not allow him
to furnish the names of the partici
pants, and presented a statement framed
by former Senator John C. Spooner as
counsel, justifying his refusal to an
swer.
Speaker Clark will review the case to
determine whether he will certify the
record to the district attorney of the
District of Columbia for criminal pros
ecution.
The case threatens to Involve the ulti
mate question of the money trust com
mittee’s authority to inquire into the
affairs of national banks, which prob
ably would be taken to the supreme
court. Opinions on th e subject among
the government’s legal experts in the
department of justice differ.
If the Henry case is fought to a con
clusion the committee’s inquiry into
the case in which it is related may be
blocked pending a decision.
FACTIONAL OIFPEOENCES
DIVIDE WOMEN'S LEAGUE
When Speaker Takes Platform
She Is Invited Back
to the Floor
NO LICENSE ISSUED FOB
MRS. GRACE’S MARRIAGE
THE INGLORIOUS FINISH OF THE “SPUDS”
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Alleged Wedding in New York
to George Oldham Is
Not Recorded
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
NEW YORK, Jan. 9.—The reported
marriage of Mrs. Daisy Elizabeth Ul
rich Opie Grace to George Oldham,
which is alleged to have occurred in
“The Little Church Around the Corner,"
in this city, is only a hoax, that is so
far as verification of the fact with the-
records is concerned. No license was
issued to either and no one at “The
Little Church" knows anything about
the affair.
They could have gone into New Jer
sey and there obtained a license and
married, but at the present time a mar
riage between them in that state has not
been reported.
Mrs, Grace Disappears from
Mother’s Philadelphia Home
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 9.—Mrs. Daisy
Grace, acquitted in Atlanta on the
charge of attempting to kill her hus
band, Eugene, has disappeared complete
ly from Philadelphia and all efforts to
find her followinj her reported mar
riage to George Oldham, a prominent
t: action man of Coatesville, -have failed.
Mrs. Grace has not been liberated
from her marital vows with hei invalid
husband and any wedding to Oldham or
any one else would be bigamous.
Mrs. Martht Ulrich, mother of Mrs.
Grace, declares that she does not know
tn3 whereabouts of her daughter who
left her home and rented an uptown
apartment some time ago.
Mrs, Grace Left Here
Soon After Acquita!
Immediately after being acquitted of
6hooting her husband, Mrs. Daisy Opie
Grace left Atlanta to return to Phila
delphia.
Her trial in the criminal division of
the superior court had aroused greater
interest than any court hearing in the
history of the county. The element
of mystery entered so largely into the
shooting of her husband, Eugene Grace,
that the country over turned first to the
Grace case in its newspaper reading.
He was found wounded on March
5, 1912, in their flat at 29 West Eleventh
street, and accused bis wife when she
was brought before him at the hos
pital.
She was released on bond, but later
was re-arrested and spent days in the
Fulton county tower. Doctors agreed
that Grace was doomed and he was
taken home to die. But at the trial of
his wife he was brought into the court
room, and faced her as he lay on a
stretcher.
As soon as she reached Philadelphia,
following her acquittal, Mrs. Grace en
tered suit for divorce; and as soon as
he had been a , resident of Georgia the
required length of time, ^Grace also
asked- for divorce.
But fils suit has hot been heard,‘and
Mrs. Grace’s Philadelphia lawyers say
that neither has she been granted a
divorce.
“God Pity the Man, If He
Carries Life Insurance”
(Special Dispatch io The Journal.)
NEWNAN, Ga., Jan. 9.—When seen
at his home this morning and shown a
newspaper statement of the reported
marriage of Mrs. Daisy Ulrich Opie
Grace, Eugene Grace made the follow
ing comment:
“I do not know whether Daisy Ulrich
Opie Grace has secured a divorce in the
Pennsylvania courts or not, but if the
report of her last marriage b© true,
God pity the man. If he carries no' life
insurance he may live six months; if
he does carry insurance his end may
be expected in three months at the least.
I see she »still loves ..otoriety.
“I sincerely hope that the so-called
Daisy of the Leopard Spots has caught
another victim and will never use my
name again. I hope also that before
death ends her sinful career, she will
confess the truth concerning her brutal
attempt upon my life and not go before
her Maker with a lie upon her lips.
“She has put two husbands ‘out of
business,’ and I guess this poor fellow,
her last victim, will go the same way.
He has my sympathy. Whether the re
port of her last matrimonial venture be
true or not concerns me not at all. I
hope soon to be divorced from the wom
an and that she will be taken out of my
life forever.”
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President-elect Refuses to Be
Interviewed Further Than to
Say “We Talked as All
Visitors Do”
SUFFRAGETTES SENTENCED
TO EIGHT MONTHS IN PEN
OFFICERS BOUND AND LEFT
BY BAND OF MOONSHINERS
(By Associated Press.)
TRENTON, N. J., Jan. 9.—President
elect Wilson sat for three hours In hlw
office here yesterday In conference
with Senators Hoke Smith, of Georgia,
and Thomas P. Gore, of Oklahoma.
Mr. Wilson declared last night that
besides talking over a number of cab
inet possibilities he had discussed with
the senators a program for the extra
session, including tariff and currency
legislation.
Both senators departed with their llpa
sealed. From the governor alone, they
said, could Information be obtained.
The president-elect spoke of his confer
ence only in general terms, stating that
no conclusions had been reached.
“We discussed, as do all my visitors,”
he said, “all the names for the cabinet
I could think of, just to get their
views.”
The president-elect was questioned as
to details of his conference but said
merely that he had discussed the whole
ground of an extra session program.
Reiterating that he had arrived at no
specific conclusions, be added:
“I am sincerely seeking to get the
point of view of these men. I am
not asking for conclusions, but merely
want to talk things over wtlh them.”
The president-elect was asked, in view
of the prominence of both Senators
Smith and Gore In the proposed plans
for a reorganization of senate commit
tees and the abolishing of the seniority
rules, whether that subject was dis
cussed.
”1 don’t bring that matter up unless
my callers do,” he said. "Senator Smith
simply said he thought they were In
the way of a satisfactory solution In
the senate of the difficulty. They make
a point of not Involving me In the mat
ter.”
Mr. Wilson Indicated also during the
day that he preferred not to Interpoee
his influence In the reorganization of
senate committees any more than he
cared to In connection with the talked
of abolition of the seniority rule In the
house committees.
Today Senators O'Gorman, of New
York, and Culberson, of Texas, will con
fer with Mr. Wilson.
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May Billinghurst and Louis&V
• Gay Sent to ‘London Pris
on for Outrages
(By Associated Press.)
LONDON, Jan. 9.—Long sentences
were passed today on two of the mili
tant suffragettes, many of whom In
recent months hav© engaged in a cam
paign of destruction of mails.
May Billinghurst and Louisa Gay.
<two of the first to be arrested in con
nection with these outrages, today were
condemned to eight months’ imprison
ment each.
May Billinghurst, who is a cripple and
is unable to get about except on a
tricycle, already has been infprisoned
on several occasions in connection with
the suffrage campaign.
Evidence given today showed that
letter boxes throughout the center and
the west end of London had been dam
aged, together with their contents, by
means of acids, sticky fluids of various
kinds, varnish and ink. Rags soaked
in lamp oil sometimes were placed in the
boxes. Many valuable documents had
been destroyed in this way.
It was difficult to capture the perpe
trators of the outrage in the act as in
most instances the fuid was passed into
the box in uncorked bottles contained
in ordinary envelopes.
AMUNDSEN DOESN’T WANT
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
MOUNT AIRY, N. G., Jan. 8.—The In
cident that was the direct cause of thj
larkness, seized, disarmed and the
prisoner released.
Thf two officers were then handa
iti the Blue 'ftidge mountains, twenty
miles west of here, last night, when
Turner Todd, a famous blockader, who
was wanted by the federal authorities,
was rescued from Deputy Marshal S. J.
Harkradee and T. W. Davis, sheriff of
Surry county, by a body of armed out-*
laws.
Todd was captured in a cave in the
mountains after a rifle and pistol duel
of several hours with the officers. The
officers had started with their prisoner
to jail when they were surprised in the
GARDNER’S CASE UP TO
UNCLE SAM’S OFFICERS
Captain Portman, Uncle 'of
Louisville Girl, Says so.
Will Take Her Home
DRIVE MANY FROM HOME WIRELESS OR AEROPLANE
GONZALES MUST HANG
AT NATION’S CAPITAL
(By Associated Press*)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—Andrew
Gonzales will be hanged here January
27, for the murder of his wife, despite
the report of alienists that ne shows
symptoms of insanity. President Taft,
after an exhaustive examination, de
clined today to extend clemency, hold
ing that his condition Is not such as to
exempt him from the responsibility for
murder in the first degree.
The case creates a puzzling question
of ethics for officials—the propriety or
hanging' a probably insane man, al
though he may have been sane when
the crime was committed. The murder
was a brutal one. Gonzales cutting his
wife’s throat on the street as she was
returning from an errand on which he
had sent her, while preparing to take
her life.
Rivers Flood Mills and Throw
Many Workers Out of
Work
Antarctic Explorer Says _ He
Will Use Neither on Arctic
Expedition
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—Indications
of factiofial feeling developed at the
convention of the Woman’s National
Democratic league today and furnished
at least one interesting scene.
When Mrs. Ma’tthew T. Scott, pres
ident general of the D. A. R. mounted
the platform to place in nomination for
president of the league, Mrs. Steven B.
Ayres, of New York, Mrs. John Sher-
win Crosby, the incumbent, invited Mrs.
Scott nominated Mrs. Ayres from her
nomination from the floor.
The announcement was greeted with
hissing from one part of the hall. Mrs.
Scott nominated Mrs. Ayers from her
place on the floor.
Mrs. Crosby had been nominated.
SENATOR SMITH SILENT
CONCERNING CONFERENCE
BY RALPH SMITH.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—-Senator
Hoke Smith is silent concerning his con
ference with President-elect Wilson at
Trenton on yesterday. He returned to
Washington last night and says he en
joyed the visit very much.
The senator was besieged today with
inquiries about his conference, but all
who sought information were disap
pointed.
“Any one who has a confidential con
ference with the president-elect should
regard the confidence and leave to the
president-elect to determine what should
be published,” said the senator.
(By Associated Press.)
PITTSBURG, Jan. 8.—The Mononga-
hela and Allegheny rivers rose sc$
rapidly during last night that they were
at floddi height this morning and it was
expected that when the crest of the
rise reached here tomorrow afternoon
there would be thirty-two feet of water
in the Ohio river, the most serious flood
since 1907.
Scores of families already have been
compelled to leave their homes and
many men are temporarily out of em
ployment because of the flooding of
mills.
AGED MAN INDICTED
FOR DEATH OF SON
(By Associated Press.)
DALTON, Ga., Jan. 9.—A. H. Davis,
aged seventy-three, was indicted here
today for the murder of liis son, Hew
lett Davis, by the grand jury. Young
Davis was shot and killed by the elder
Davis at -the latter’s home. The son
had been told by his father not to en
ter the latter’s home.
Ill feeling between the father and
son is said to have resulted from the
separation of A. R. Davis and his wife
two months before the killing.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—Capt. Roald
Amundsen, discoverer of the south pole,
will not Include either the aeroplane or
the wireless telegraph in the equipment
he will take on his forthcoming flve-
year trip through the northern ice. The
first, he said today, was useless; the
other would be annoying because It
might bring news of the outside world
to the prisoners in the floes. Gifts of
both had been offered the explorer by
admirers.
“I don’t want it,” he said, referring
to the wireless. “It is very much bet
ter to be without news when you can
not be where the news comes from. We
are always more contented if we get no
news.”
The explorer expects to start for the
far north as soon as his ship, the Fram,
can make the journey from Buenos
Ayres, where she now is, to Saji Fran
cisco, whence the expedition is to start.
Captain Amundsen will be the guest at
a dinner given by the Geographic socie
ty Saturday night. Admiral Robert E.
Peary, discoverer of the north pole, will
be the toastmaster.
Eyeball Is Severed
been received in this city of a peculiar
accident sustained by Alfred Ingram, a
young man of Spring Garden, north of
here, who had his eyeball completely
smashed Tuesday evening while cut
ting wood, the wedge slipping and cut
ting him in the face. About Christmas
time one of Ingram's children was se
verely burned.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE’S
EX-PRESIDENT DEAD
That the United States attorney gen
eral has yet to say whether or not the
machinery of the federal government
shall prosecute G. Holman Gardner, the
Atlanta educator, for his part in the
affair with Marie Portman, the Louis
ville girl, both of whom were arrested
in Atlanta, became known Thursay
morning after the uncle of the girl,
Captain Frank T. Portman, of the Louis
ville police, had arrived in Atlanta and
conferred with federal authorities re
garding the case.
Lewis J. Bailey, special agent of the
department of justice, with headquar
ters in Atlanta, was in conference with
Captain Portman and Assistant United
States District Attorney Howard Tate
and City Detective Hollingsworth short
ly before noon, in the district attor
ney’s office. Before seeking that con
ference, Captain Portman had spent
come time with the city police and de
tective chiefs at polic e headquarters,
immediately following his arrival in the
city, and Detective Hollingsworth had
accompanied him from the first confer
ence.
“I informed Captain Portman of what
I had done, and stated that I was still
waiting to hear from th e attorney gen
eral,” said Inspector Bailey. He ex
plained that after investigating the mat
ter Tuesday at police headquarters,
where he talked to both principals, he
sent a telegraphic report of it to the
attorney general at Washington and
asked for instructions. “The depart
ment has adopted a policy of not prose
cuting cases where the woman who is
involved was not coerced and in which
no slavery conditions were imposed,”
he said, adding that he considered the
Gardner-Portman affair to ue under that
head, -and that he wished to know
whether the attorney general desired
to make an exception and prosecute it.
Captain Portman likewise put the mat
ter up to the attorney general.
(By Associated Press.)
LONDON, Jan. 9.—W. N. Miller,
formerly president of the Christian
Science church, was found dead today
in an arm chair in a room adjoining the
church.
CHILD SIX YEARS OLD
DIES FROM STRONG DRINK
HENDERSON, Ky., Jan. 7.—Shortly
after drinking nearly a half-pint of
whisky, which was left on the table by,
hig father, Angus Johnson, six years old,
died In convulsions here yesterday.
Finally the officers succeeded In
reaching a farm house where they re
ceived medical attention. Deputy Mar
shal Harkrader’s condition is critical,
while Sheriff Davis *is seriously though
not fatally injured.
A posse of civil and revenue officers
arfl| scouring the mountains for th e out-'
laws, several of whom were identified by
the sheriff.
It is believed it will be impossible
to capture some of the th e blockaderfe
alive.
EXPERTS TELL ROW TO
MAKE ELASTIC CURRENCY
Found Dead in Squalid Room
of New York Lodging
House
Glass Committee of House
Hears Testimony on Remod
eling Monetary System
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.—More expert
advice on how to remodel the monetary
system of the United States to pro
vide an elastic currency and strong,
centralized reserves, was heard today by
the Glass committee of the house. The
principal witnesses called were Leslie
M. Shaw, former secretary of the treas
ury, and Prof. Lawrenc e Laughlin, of
Chicago.
Questions asked by the Democratic
members of the committee seem to in
dicate that the committee favors the
establishment of a system of divisional
reserve banks, operated under close gov
ernment supervision, as a substitute for
the national monetary commission’s pro
posed central bank.
(By Associated Press.)
NEW YORK, Jan. 9.—C. L. Swords,
clerk of the folding room in the house
of representatives at Washington was
found dead at midnight in a squalid
room at a Seventh avenue lodging
house under conditions which led the
police to start an Investigation today.
Swords, a middleaged man, wearing
good clothes, was found by an employe
of the house sitting upright in a chair
dead. Official papers and a ring were
means of identification. A physician
reported death as “probably due to
heart failure,” but this was not satis-*
factory to the police, who could not un
derstand how a man of Sword’s type
came to be In such a place. Probably
an autopsy will be ordered.
Man Has Been Missing
For More Than a Week
.(By Associated Tress.)
WASHINGTON. Jah. 9.—C. L.
Swords, folding clerk of the house,
found dead In a New York lodging
house last night, had been missing
since December 31.
He was forty years old and was horn
In Vicksburg, Miss. He leaves a widow. <
His body probably will be cared for by
the house.
BAIL FOR TVEITM0E
AND CLANCY ACCEPTED
(By Axiocl&tfed, Ft«m.)
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 9—Ball i
bonds In the sum of 8240,000 for the re
lease of Alaf A. Tveitmoe and Eugene!
Clancy, the convicted dynamite conspir
ators sentenced to six years In the fed-j
eral prison at Leavenworth, Kan., was,
accepted here today by the United States
district court.
CRASHES INTO TROLLEY HUSBAND BEFORE SENATE
Ben Cleveland, of Fitzgerald,
Is Painfully Injured in
Accident at Macon
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
MACON, Ga., Jan. 9.—Ben Cleveland,
a prominent citizen of Fitzgerald, still
lies in the city hospital, suffering from
lacerations of the sclap he sustained a
week ago when he accidentally collided
with a standing street car at the inter
section of Third and Mulberry streets.
It was first thought that his skull
was fractured, but it is now known that
he was only painfully hurt.
The accident occurred on Thursday
night, wfien the unfortunate man left a
drug store on the corner and chased
across the street with his head down
and collided with the oar before he could
be halted.
Dalton Man Indicted
DALTON, Ga., Jan. 9.—Ben Staten,
Joe Matthis, Pink Miller and Will Guff
were indicted here Wednesday for crim
inal assault by the local gr ind Jury in
special session. The men are charged
with invading Manlytown, Ga., a few
weeks ago in disguise and assaulting
la white woman.
Wife of Accused Jurist Ex
plains That “Free” Trip to
Europe Given Judge
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7—Managers,
foi the house of representatives were
ready for cross-examination of Judge
Robert W. Archbald, of the commerce
court, when the jurist took the stand
again today before the senate sitting
as a court of impeachment, where -he is
answering charges of misconduct in of
fice and corrupt use of his judicial in
fluence tO| attain private ends.
Judge Archbald’s testimony* yesterday
was limited to direct questioning by his
own attorneys. This took the form of
a narrative that ran through the thir
teen articles of impeachment filed
against him, and gave his own version
of th e acts charged to have been ille
gal or connected with the misuse of his
Judicial powers. While Judge Archbald
has admitted many of the circum
stances of the charges, he denied yes
terday any wrongful motives^ ooTrupt
acts or purposes.
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