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The Half-God
BY ALBERT DORRIHOTOIf.
(Continuation of Chapter X.)
There was nothing: to be dons except
notify the police. Turning in the door
way he cast a glance in the German’s
direction. The two whispered for sev
eral minutes in the passage, leaving
Bernice staring dully at Engleheart’s
quiet figure on the bed. She heard the
doctor’s footsteps pass to the street door,
and then the sound of the outer gate as
he departed.
Scholfer thrust his hot face inside the
room and made a gesture. “Dees is a
serious business for me, madame. 1
must ask you to stay ontil de bolice haf
satisfied themselves about you
you see it des very nasty!”
He. stood in the doorway, breathing
hard as one who discerned his own un
enviable position. The affair might ruin
him. He had other lodgers in the house.
They would go the moment they learn
ed of Engleheart’s mysterious death.
One could not explain the effects of
radium poisoning to them. The papers
would be full of the affair. Crowds of
people would gather round the house. It
was a melancholy business—for him.
He closed the door softly and retired
to the adjoining room to rwait the com
ing of the police. Bernice sat very still
as one pressed between two iron walls
of circumstance. Yet through her hope
less Cogitations she still saw the scarlet,
wheel-lUce rays emanating from the coat
where the doctor had let it fall.
If she wished to gain even temporary
possession of the speck of super-radium
she must move promptly and without
scruples. Fabian must have a chance!
With a hurried good night to the ob
sequious Baxter, she returned to the
house at the moment Coombes, the
city solicitor, was adjusting his hat and
gloves before the hall mirror. He
shook hands cordially with Bernice, af
fecting as he did so The paternal atti
tude of his sixty years. Drawing her
into a near ante-room he lowered his
voice to a professional whisper.
“I may say, in strict confidence, Mrs.
Kromer, that—er we have just drawn
up a very satisfactory document. Our
very dear friend, Fabian, has vast in
terests in England and America, as you
may be aware,” he went 'on placidly.
“Mr. Kromer is anxious that you should
participate largely of his fortune; the
amount mentioned in the will exceeds
a clear half million pounds, ^ together
with Holmwood and the adjoining es
tates. I think, Mrs. Kromer, you will
agree that this is a very munificent be
quest?’’
Bernice scarcely heard his confiden
tial utterances, the import of which
suggested Fabian’s demise. She was
not angry or sorry that Coombes had
statement somewhat premature. His
statemetn somewhat premature. His
bland face and white whiskers seemed
to fade in. a cloud of congratulatory
murmurs in which she detected the firm
of Coombes & Coombes pleading for
further extension of her patronage, etc.,
etc.
Author of
THE RADIUM TERRORS.”
“CHILDREN OF THE CLOVEN
HOOF,” Etc.
CALIFORNIA SPLIT OVER
ANTI-ALIEN LEGISLATION
Then a sudden wave of anger and hu
miliation swept over her. It was as
though recent events had shaken her
self-control. The loss of Imry, together
with Engleheart’s insane conduct, had
destroyed her confidence in things hu
man and spiritual.
“You must not leave here until you
have heard me!” she burst out. “I
can not bear the strain a moment long
er. I must tell some one!”
I The old lawyer took her hand and
patted it very gently. “My dear Mrs.
Kromer, we must compose ourselves.
You know that Fabian has long been
given over by his medical advisers. We
must, as Christian people, accept the in
evitable.”
She drew away with a stifled sob. “I
have no right in this house. Mr. Coombs.
An houi* ago I met my first husband,
Maurice Engleheart, near the lodge, a
man whom I thought dead five years
ago!”
“Stop! stop! My dear madame, you—
you are' really not yourself to-night!
Pray be calm! Tomorrow we may dis
cuss the matter further.” A cold, bleak
expression had come Into his shining
face; the professional bonhomie of a
moment before gave place to a frigid
aloofness. He reached for his hat and
gloves like one in haste to be gone.
Bernice was first to the door, where
she stayed, straight limbed and resolute,
to bar his going. “You will listen very
patiently to my story. Mr. Coombes.
Now that I have begun you shall hear
everything.”
“I implore you, Mrs. Kromer, to post
pone your confession in view of Fabi
an’s delicate condition!”
“There is no need to disturb Fabian.
The question I must ask you now Is
whether I have a .moral right to ac
cept Fabian’s gifts,” Bernice insisted,
“since he knows nothing of Maurice
Engleheart’s return to life.”
“Where is Engleheart?” came from
fjrm tight-tipped lawyer. “Has he been
iktfe to—to blackmail?”
“He wanted money; I gave It!” Here-
at Bernice recited the story of her un
happy marriage with Maurice Engle
heart, together with the history of the
ill-fated Manhatttan which had foun
dered with all hands in the Sea of For
mosa. Of Engleheart’s duplicity and
cowardice in leaving the vessel in the
hands of a second officer while he made
good his escape was told with clearness
and precision. Bernice did not omit to
mention the series of events which led
to her marriage with Fabian Kromer,
her meeting with Dr. Hammeraho and
Imry, as well as -the loss of the Zeu
tube.
Mr. Coombes listened in spellbound
wonderment until the conclusion. The
sharp lines on his face contrasted acute
ly with the smiling wrinkles of a mo
ment before.
“You have made a very damaging ad
mission, Mrs Kromer. It is incredible,
amazing, that Engleheart should have
kept silent so long! If what $ou
say is true concerning the Japanese
doctor,” he continued under his breath,
“1 may state frankly that you have
mixed yourself unwittingly with a gang
of criminal experts. That laboratory
case, for instance!” His hands went up
and out in a gesture of despair.
Bernice breathed sharply, but made
no answer. The old solicitor exhibited
signs of mental distress as he paced the
ante-room. “No good will be served if
Fabian is advised of these things. We
cannot strike a dying man! Tomorrow
I will talk the matter over with you.
Second thoughts are best. Mrs. Kro-
rr.er.”
•She did not bar his going. A sense
of unutterable relief had come now that
her secret was out. Another mind
cculd judge her actions. In the hall the
old solicitor paused, beckoning her
softly.
“If Fabian were in normal health I
should be constrained to advise him of
your confession, Mrs. Kromer. Let mo
beg you. therefore, to withhold your
story from Fabian. Stabbing a dying
man is senseless brutality!”
She heard his footsteps on the gravel
walk outside and then the low* throb of
his automobile as it sped from the
grounds.
Bernice was startled at breakfast by
the entry of Dr. Rochwarne, the Swiss
specialist. He had driven out from the
city to see Fabian for the last time.
Business at the Interlaken institute
compelled his speedy return, ’he explain
ed, and, as there could be no possible
change in the patient’s condition, his
prolonged stay in England would be a
mere waste of time.
Dr. Rochwarne was a tall, sharp-vis-
aged man with projecting tyrows and
studious movements. His fame as a
surgeon had survived a generation of
younger men. To him the science of
radlumtherapy appeared inherent. A
physician to roj’alty. he commanded un
heard of fees; but it had been said that
his gifts to science and his generosity
to his struggling fellow-professionals,
had left him almost a bankrupt.
Bernicle studied him keenly as he
entered her reception room, for she had
decided to make a desperate appeal to
his courage and faith.
“A man entered my grounds last
night,” she began, scarce daring to
pause lest her courage might fail, “who
held in his pocket the Zeu for which
Prof. Caleret gave his life!”
The specialist halted midway across
the room, his hand extended. Her words
took him with almost savage sudden
ness; his lips pursed, while a look of
appreciation crept into her eyes.
“That man was my poor friend Cale-
ret’s assassin!” he declared with a
marked accent in his tones. “How did
he show you the Zeu, Madame Kromer?”
“It was in his tobacco pouch. I
begged him to leave it in my care, Dr.
Rochwarne. I thought it might have
assisted you in”—
She paused, because the surgeon’s
cold gray eyes seemed to warn her not
to proceed.
His steely eyes seemed to burn be
neath * r the great brows. He turned
sharply half way across the room like a
duellist about to confront his man.
“You ask me to implicate myself in
this very strange affair. Mme. Kromer.
Why-—why.” he insisted, “do you ob
ject to police intervention?”
“Because I can only see my husband’s
life trembling in the balance. I do not
wish to shield any one, not even myself.
All I ask is that you operate on Fabian
the moment I place the Zeu in your
hands. Will you?”
“You must not presume to specify
anything, Mme. Kromer,” he objected.
“It ees so very awkward.”
Bernice was at her wits’ end. She
would not allow Rochwarne to set aside
matters of life and death out of sheer
professional pique. She must put her
question more direct.
“The man who has the Zeu was not
responsible ' for Prof. Caleret’s
death, Dr. Rochwarne. He came into
its possession almost by accident.”
“Thes why does he not offer it to the
police, Mme. Kromer?”
“Because I want you to operate on
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House and Senate Race to Get
Different Bill Through
Ahead of Each Other
(By Associated Press.)
SACRAMENTO, Cal., Apri 1 15.—A
sharp conflict between the two houses
of the legislature over the proper word
ing of the proposed anti-alien land law
is in prospect as a result of the pro
test raised in Japan against the meas
ure during the past ten days.
The senate bill, several times amend
ed and now awaiting final passage in the
upper house, was drawn with the objec
tions of the Japanese government f in
mind and is admittedly less drastic than
the measure proposed in the assembly.
It guarantees full treaty rights to ev
ery alien, and classes all foreigners
alike.
The assembly bill, which likewise has
reached the third reading, is more di
rectly aimed at the Japanese. It was
drawn up and recommended nearly two
weeks ago before the agitation in Tokio
reached its present stage, and makes no
mention of treaty rights or obligations.
By its terms an alien may hold title
to real property for one year, whereupon
the property shall escheut to the state.
The senate, bill provides that at the ex
piration o fthe year the property only
becomes “subject to escheat’,’ which
gives a longer period for the alien to
qualify for ownership or to dispose of
his holdings advantageously.
The particular clause in the assembly
bill, however, that is known to be ob
jectionable to Japan is the section relat
ing to corporations, which was designed
to protect European syndicates while
prohibiting Japanese corporations. It
reads as follows:
“Section 8. Every corporation, the ma
jority of the issued capital stock of
which is owned by aliens who are in
eligible to become citizens of the United
States under tthe naturalization laws
thereof, shall be considered an alien
within the meaning of this act.”
Japanese are regarded as ineligible to
become citizens. The senate bill, instead
of barring such “ineligible3” draws the
line upon “aliens who have not declared
their intentions to become citizens” and
prohibits even Europeans, unless they
make such declarations.
“We have drawn our bill with a view
to preserving existing treaty rights of
all foreigners” said Senator Thompson,
author of the second bill last ni&ht, “and
it affects them all alike.
That seems to be the only way to
check the Japanese without offending
the government at Tokio.
“The senate bill contains more elabor
ate provisions than the assembly meas
ure and undoubtedly will receive the ap
proval of the upper house-. If the as
sembly passes its bill, both will go to
a free conference committee in which
case I look for the senate bill to take
precedence.”
Strong influence is being brought upon
Senator Thompson and his colleagues
on the judiciary committee to offer an
amendment to exempt properties that
might come into the possession of the
European syndicate who hold mortgages
or deeds of trust in California.
my husband! I feel that ... it
is in my power to get this grain of
Zeu today. No . . . will you
promise to give Fabian a chance for his
life?” Her lips were tight set as she
watched the surgeon’s immovable fea
tures.
Something in her luminous eyes re
vealed the faith of her womanhood.
Then he remembered the old days at
the institute. His tight clenched hands
relaxed suddenly. “I shall ask no more
questions, Mme. Kromer,” he re- (
sponded. “Tomorrow” you may expect
me at this hour.” He paused in the
doorway and looked back. “I shall re
quire two nurses. Your husband shall
have the chance you desire.”
“You think that he will—?”
“I cannot say, madame. Such ques
tions are too premature. Good morn
ing!”
He was gone before she could speak,
but in the silence of the great reception
room she heard the loud beating of
Fate’s wings.
On her next venture everything de
pended. One mistake added to her re
cent indiscretions would bring irrepar
able calamity. There must be no more
failures.
She drove from the house in her
De Dion. About half a mile from the
German boarding house -where Captain
Engleheart had taken refuge she de
scended from the car and spoke a few
words to the chauffeur. If she did not
appear within an hour he was instructed
to return to Holmwood without her.
A sharp walk through Chiltonhurst
brought her to the German boarding
house indicated by the lodgekeeper.
Without glancing to right or left she
opened the iron house gate and rang the
bell.
The squat servant, whom Baxter had
mentioned, opened the door. Bernice
nodded reasurringJ.y.
“Mr. Engleheart is staying here,” she
informed the round-eyed domestic. “I
would like to see him.”
Bernice used each moment now as
though her life depended on the flying
minutes. Pushing past the slow-minded
girl, she stood in the passage, smiling
affably, yet in her heart burned a sav
age desire to be at grips with her
destiny.
The girl gaped in astonishment. “Herr
Scholfers ees nod at home,” she de
clared, “und I tink der gentlemans you
mention was ashleep.”
Bernice beamed upon her. “It really
does not matter, my child. I will wait
in one of these rooms until Mr. Engle
heart awakes. There is no hurry.”
Bernice’s reposeful manner, together
with her fashionable attire and address,
swept aside any lingering scruples that
may have existed in the servant's mind.
“I tink der new lodger vas a long
time ashleep. madame. I haf instruc
tions, from Herr Scholfer. nod to dis
turb him whatever. He ees in dot
room!”
She indicated a door to the left as
she led her visitor to an unoccupied
room almost opposite. An air of stuffi
ness, combined with a smell of brandy
and stale cigar smoke, pervaded the
house. The passage was dark and hung
with old coats and waterproofs.
Leaving Bernice staring at the shut
room occupied by Captain Engleheart,
the servant withdrew. The onjy sound
that reached her was the clatter of a
broom upstairs, where the servant con
tinued her desultory efforts to brighten
the dingy apartments overhead.
Bernice listened and waited until the
broom and pail passed into the back
regions, then swiftly, noiselessly she
stole across the passage to Engleheart’s
door. It was unlocked!
Inside she paused at the sudden
darkness until her vision adjusted itself
to the murky atmosphere. Dimly she
made out Engleheart’s unmistakable
figure sprawling on a narrow bed. Be
side him, on a table, was a long-stem
med pipe resting against a smouldering
opium lamp. His breathing was scare#
audible as she leaned over whispering
his name gently.
(Continued in Next Issue.)
Particular
.mat you need,” said the doctor, “is
an operation.”
"Very well," replied the patient,
•Which operation are you cleverest at?”
—Detroit-Frae JEroes.
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Opposition to Administration’s
Free Raw Wool Program
Make Fight Among Demo
crats for 15 Per Cent Duty
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WASHINGTON? April 16.—“Fifteen
per cent ad valoren duty on raw wool.”
was the slogan of the opposition organ
ization to the administration free wool
bill when the Democratic caucus today
resumed consideration of the new tar
iff bill.
With southern and New England Dem
ocrats still fighting the cotton rates
proposed in the new measure the anti
free wool members were planning their
attack on Schedule K which the caucus
expected to reach before the close of
the day.
At an early ^morning conference of
Democrats from Ohio, Indiana, West
Virginia and many of the western states
it was determined to stand by their
decision to fight for a 15 per cent duty
which they claipi was the original judg
ment of the ways and means commit
tee before consultation with President
Wilson.
Representative Ashbrook, of Ohio,
who has presided over the anti-wool
forces, prepared to lead the fight on
the caucus ’^loor. Though the opposi
tion claims To have the sympathy ol’
more than fifty Democratic members,
the administration leaders insist that
they cannot muster that many votes on
an amendment to change the bill as pre
sented to the caucus.
UNDERWOOD’S CONFIDENCE.
Chairman Underwood, after an early
conference with President Wilson, ex
pressed confidence that the tariff bill
would, be approved by the house caucus
without important amendment within
the next three or four days.
Mr. Underwood declared that while the
Democratic majority was sufficiently
strong to put the measure through the
house within a short time, the Demo
crats would permit the minority to be
fully heard.
“Of course there will be many amend
ments from our Republican friends,” he
said, “but the bill will pass the house
just as it is approved by the caucus, and
with only a few minor changes. You
can’t. • write a tariff bill of 4,000 items
without forgetting to cross a ‘t’ and
dot an T here and there. Inequalities
always creep in, and these have to be
adjusted.”
Mr. Underwood said he had merely ex
plained some details to the president to
day and informed him of the ‘progress
of the JDemocratic caucus.
Representative Hull, of Tennessee, au
thor of the- income tax law, declared
today that complaints of life insurance
companies against the provisions or
the law as affecting them, were ground
less. One contention o'f the companies
is that dividends which would be taxed
under the law, declared by mutual and
participating companies, are not divi
dends in the commercial sense of the
word but are simply refunds of a por
tion of an overcharge collected with
the annual premium held in trust and
at stated periods returned to the policy
holder.
The ways and means committee con
tends an exhaustive investigation of
books of insurance companies shows
that in many cases the earnings of
Companies from previous investments
and holds are nearly as large as the
amounts which are annually distrib
uted as dividends and that it does not
appear that a separation of sources of
income is made for the purpose of as
certaining the funds available for div
idends.
The committee holds that a policy
holder is not promised a refund but a
participating in the surplus of prof
its, and the plea that the dividend is
a refund of a portion of the premium,
rather than a distribution of the actual
surplus of the company derived from
all sources, is not consistent. Upon that
iasis, -it is .held the insurance compa
nies are in a position to declare divi
dends which will conform to the com
mercial definition of dividends.
Chairman Underwood declared today
that no protests against provision of
the tariff bill from foreign govern
ments had yet been forwarded to the
committee. He has heard indirectly
that such portests had been filed with
the state department.
When the caucus resumed considera
tion of the bill, Chairman Underwood,
whose physical condition evidently was
much improved, took charge and work
was begun on the cotton schedule. Sev
eral attempts to alter the proposed re
ductions of duty on collars and cuffs
were defeated.
“I wish there were some way of vo
ting at steam laundries through thy
iff,” said Speaker Clark. “They can ^fain
a perfectly good collar with the greatest
ease. There may be some combination
between them and the collar manufac
turers.”
An amendment to place cotton stock
ings on the free list and another to re
duce the proposed rate of 40 and 50 per
cent ad valorem were voted down. An
amendment to increase the duty on cot
ton gloves also was lost.
Tumulty Casts Vote
For a Commission for
Jersey City, N. J.
BY RALPH SMITH.
WAHSINGTON, April 17.—So deeply
interested is President Wilson in the
fight for a commission form of govern
ment in Jersey City that he encouraged
Secretary Tumulty to return to Jersey
City this evening to vote for commis
sion government.
Tumulty left Washington at noon. He
will cast his vote in Jersey City at 5
o’clock and return to Washington to
night.
The commission form of government
for Jersey City was submitted to the
voters under the Walsh act, which Pres
ident Wilson forced through the New
Jersey legislature. -While Tumulty is
in Jersey he will probably make ar
rangements for the president's visit to
Jersey two weeks hence, when he will
take the stump in the interest of his
jury refofm bill.
WHEAT IS SEIZED
BY U. S. OFFICERS
TAMPA, Fla.. April 17.—United
States authorities seized here this
morning 500 baks of wheat that had
been shipped to a local brokerage firm
by F. M. Frisch and company, of Bal
timore. The seizure was made at the
instance of Government Pure Food In
spector McManus, of Savannah, who
had examined the sacks while en route
to this city.
It is claimed by the government that
while the sacks are labeled ‘TOO pounds
of wheat,” the sacks contain 48.4 per
cent of rye and .3 per cent trash and
weed seed. The sacks had been dis
tributed among three concerns before
the seizure was made by the United
States marshal here.
AMBASSADOR PAGE TO
ADDRESS CONFERENCE
Conference for Education Gets
Under Full Swing in Rich
mond, Virginia
(By Associated Press.)
RICHMOND, Va., April 16.—Adjunct
bodies of tne conference for education
have been meeting here since Monday
but the formal opening session of the
conference was begun this morning
with the farmers’ conference, business
men’s conference, the conference of
Virginia preachers, the interestate con-,
ference of school superintendents and
the league of sotuhern women writers.
Tonight Walter H. Page, ambassador
to Great Britain and vice president of
the organization, will preside in place
of President Ogden who is 111 in New
York.
Governor Mann and Mayor Ainsley
•will welcome the convention and the
new ambassador will respond and read
the animal address. After this meeting
Governor and Mrs. Mann will receive
the deleagtes at the executive man
sion.
Jones County Couple Will Be
Tried for Murder of
James King
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
MACON - , Ga., April 15.—It is more
than likely that Mrs. Kate King and
J Nick Wilburn, accused of the murder
I of James King, of Jones county, will go
to trial in the Jones county superior
court next Monday morning. Attorney
j W. D. McNeil, who is to represent Mrs,
King, states that he will be ready for
trial next Monday and Attorney John
It. Cooper, who is to represent Wilburn
is also of the opinion that he will be
ready to proceed. Whether the two
defendants will be tried together is not
yet known, although it is believed that
their attorneys will demand separate
trials.
Wilburn is still in the Bibb county
jail. He has expressed his fear of being
carried back to Grays for trial without
military protection, but it is net likely
that any grave trouble will be created.
He claims that threats of taking his
life if he ever returns to Jones county
have been heard indirectly while Sheriff
'Roberts, of Jones, says that he antici
pates no trouble whatever. Within the
past week, Wilburn has changed in his
demeanor greatly, according to his fel-
low-prisoners, and seems to have a
painful dread of going to trial.
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the very finest print in your bible with the’m on, even by!
moonlight; you’ll find that you can again thread the smallest- i
eyed needle you can lay your hands on, and do the
finest kind of embroidery and crocheting with them/
on, and do it all night long,/
if you like, without any head
aches or eye-pains, and with/
as much ease and comfort as(
you ever did in your life.
WATERMELONS AND OATS
ARE HURT BY WINDS
Corn Is Also Given Backset
and Farmers Are
Despondent
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
QUITMAN, Ga.. April 16.—The high
winds from the north which struck Quit-
man and Brooks county last Saturday,
still continue with unabated withering
blast and Tuesday at noon had reached
its greatest velocity up to the present,
and although the sun is shining today
there is nothing to indicate the resump
tion of spring weather.
Farmers from various sections of the
county who have deserted their plows
and come into town to see what it all
! means are full of anxiety over the situa
tion. They bring reports indicating the
total loss of the oat crop, which will run
far into the thousands of dollars. Brooks
county annually ships away more than
two hundred cars of oats in addition to
using much more than this for home
consumption.
The loss will be very heavy this year,
because of an increased acreage. It is
believed thousands of dollars will be
lost in the blight of the watermelon crop
from the cold wind of the present week.
The plants were in their tenderest state
and the cold came at the most critical
time for them.
The leaves, which were two or three
inches high, has been beaten into frag
ments against the ground, and in many
fields the total crop is already beyond
rescue, even though the wind should
cease at once and the weather returns
to warm sunshine and favorable condi
tions.
Cotton and corn will be greatly de
layed and the farmers seriously injured.
The cotton plants are turning white un
der the blight of the wind and many
fields has been withered. The corn will
not suffer any damage further than a
backset of ten days or two weeks. The
fruit, to which little attention is given,
is a marketable value in this county has
not suffered any appreciable harm. The
pecan industry has not been injured in
the slightest yet, since it is regarded as
one of the hardiest and most certain
crops of the section.
Or, if you’re a sportsman and like to go
out hunting occasionally, just shoulder your
gun and go out into the woods some early
* morning when the haze is yet in the air, and
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when the shadows are gathering in the twilight, you’ll easily distinguish a
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weak now that you cannot even read the largest headlines in this paper.
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If you are a genuine, bona-fide spectacle-wearer (no children need
apply) and want to do me this favor, write your name, address and age
on the below four-dollar coupon at once, and this will entitle you. to a pair
of my famous “Perfect Vision” glasses absolutely free of charge as an
advertisement. - '
Write your name, address and age on the below coupon at once.
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EX-CONVICT CAN’T VOTE
BUT MUST PAY TAXES
Prison Board Secretary Makes
it Plain to Inquirer From
Jones County
Because a man has served a term
in state’s prison does not, undqr the
Georgia law, entitle him to exemption
from taxation or other obligations of
ci-izenship. Such a person is not, by
any means, entitled to the immunities
enjoyed by Confederate veterans and
others whom the state seeks to reward.
These facts are made plain in a It*
ter written Tuesday morning by Secre
tary Goodloe Yancey, of the state
prison commission, to Frank Smith, of
Haddocks, Ga., a former convict, who
is evidently laboring under the idea
that he should not be required to pay
taxes or do road duty.
Smith’s letter to the prison commis
sion follows:
“Gentlemen:—I am living in Jones
county, Ga. I was sentenced from Co
lumbus, Ga., on the charge of larceny.
I have already served out my sentence
of three years.
“I desire to know whether I am com
pelled to pay taxes. If so, please let
me know so I can get my money back.
- understand that in the rule book ot
the state it is provided that a man sen
tenced is exempted from all public du
ties.
“FRANK SMITH,
“Haddocks, Ga.”
Secretary Yancey replied as follows;
“Atlanta, Ga., April 15, 1913.
“Frank Smith, Haddocks, Ga.—
“I have yours of the 13th Inst. Yes,
you have to pay taxes and do road du
ty. There Is no law that exempts an
ex-convict from any obligation to the
state He is on the same foooting
with any self-respecting, law-abiding
citizen. Respectfully,
* ‘GOODLOE Y ANCE Y,
“Secretary.”
PUT IN DENVER JA
Chief of Police Says Denve|
Will Not Have Repetition
* of San Diego Affair
(By Associated Pr«ss.)
DENVER, April 16.—The supply
patrol wagons of the Denver police dd
partment proved inadequate to convey t|
jail all of the Industrial Workers of th|
World arrested on the outskirts of th
city last night, so Chief of Police O’Neil
impressed a passenger train to servicl
When nearly 100 industrial worker]
alighted from a freight train upon reach
ing the intersecting boundaries of Engle
wood, Petersburg and Denver they werf
met by two detachments of twenty-flv|
patrolmen.
A passenger train was flagged and th
prisoners crowded into a car froil
which the passengers were advised t|
move.
In this fashion police and prisoner]
reached the city terminal where a spa
cial street car awaited and took thei]
to the county jail.
“I intend to jail every man who eve|
looks like an Industrial Worker of .th
World in this town,” declared Chief
Police O’Neill. “These men have bee|
telling what they are going to do
the Denver police, but I will show theii
just how tight every cell in this citlj
can be packed and stuffed with the|
unwashed bodies.
“There won’t be any overflow
prisoners and all of these fellows wh
come here can expect stern treatment.
“There is pot going to be any repet J
tion of the San Diego affair here,
are in control of the situation and wi|
continue to be.”
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