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VOLUME XII.
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1913.
NO. 70.
OF
AGAINST FELDER AND LATTER'S
CHARGES AGAINST POLICE ASKED
# ‘l Shall Lay Evidence Gathered by the Detectives and Col,
Felder's Charges of Graft .and Corruption All Before the
Grand Jury,” Says the Chief, “Asking That a Searching
Investigation Be Made So That the Whole Truth Shall
Come Out”
iht
Co!onel Thomas B. Felder, Police Chief James L. Beavers Monday morn
ing announced that he would at once go before the Fulton county grand
jury and insist upon a thorough investigation by that body of the
charges which have been made against Colonel Felder, Mayor Wood
ward. E. O. Miles and C. C. Jones.
Chief Beavers declared that he would also urge the grand jury to
make a searching inquiry into Colonel Felder’s charges that graft and
corruption exists in the police and detective departments and would
ask that the grand jury thoroughly investigate Colonel Felder’s allega
tions that bpth he (Chief Beaver's) and Chief Lanford are guilty of
acts involving moral turpitude.
“I want the official limelight turned on this entire affair,” said the
chief of police. ”1 shall request the grand jury to hew to the line and
let the chips fall wherever they may.”
Chief Beavers will carry the matter to the grand Jury in person.
He will lay before that body all of the affidavits in his possession as
well as the records of the dictograph w’hfch are sworn to, and will
also invite the grand jury’s attention to Colonel Felder’s charges against
himself, Chief Lanford and the department in general.
“I do not propose for these charges to go unchallenged,” stated
the chief “If Mr. Felder has the facts to substantiate his declarations
the grand jury should give him an opportunity to produce them.”
This announcement by Chief Beavers has created another sensa- /
tion and a grand jury probe will be awaited with great interest by the
public in the hope that the surcharged atmosphere may be clarified.
POLICE BOARD MAY INVESTIGATE.
It was rumored Monday that friends of Colonel Felder would seek
to have the board of police commissioners investigate Colonel Felder s
charges of corruption in the police department.
"I have nothing to say for publication today,” said Colonel Fel
der, when he had read The Journal containing Police Chief Beavers’
latest statement. “I will seasonably and appropriately reply to the
attacks of Beavers, Lanford and others.”
Colonel Felder would not indicate what his plans are, but it is
believed that he is gathering material for another statement and that
he will give one out within the next few days.
Colonel Felder declared that he was receiving hundreds of letters,
telegrams, telephone messages and personal calls in which he was be
ing assured of the confidence and esteem of the public. He indi
cated that the situation would very shortly take a decisive turn.
Mayor Woodward has issud a statement in reply to Chief Beavers
which is published below.
CHIEF BEAVERS’ STATEMENT.
Chief of Police James L. Beavers issued the following statement
Monday morning:
“As for Colyar, I never heard of him until this thing came up. He
may be a crook. As far as I know, it seems that Mr. Felder has known
him for a long time, but it is no uncommon thing for one crook to turn up
another to the police, or turn state’s evidence.
“When I heard of this deal that Mr. Felder was trying to make in the
Fhagan case, I told Chief Lanford to advise with Solicitor Dorsey and
get his advice in the matter,. He.did this. I did not want anything done
that would not be perfectly lefmmSte.
"G. C. Febuary, who is a trusted man in the detective department,,
was instructed to carry out the deal with him. Now it apnears that Mr.
Felder has been closely associated with Colyar for a long time and cer
tainly should have known what manner of man he is.
“If he knew him to be a crook, why did he enter into a deal like this
with him if he wanted to do the straight thing? I say that I never heard
of this man Colyar, but I would have listened to any report or rumor In
hunting for the g^lty party in a case like that of the Phagan murder'.
“It seems that Mr. Felder in his ramifications through the press tries
to get eloquent and undertakes to tell about the government of Scotland
and the conditions in Ireland, as if that had anything to do with this
’case he’s trying to distract attention from.
“What he has done and as far as his evidence he claims to have about
my moral turpitude as chief of police or as a citizen, I defy him to show
anything wrong. If he is a good loyal citizen, which he claims to be, why
did he not go to the police commission and lay the evidence before them?
HIRED BY THE GANG.
"Now Mr. Felder knows well enough
that if he had anything that,would have
been- damaging against the police depart
ment he would have hurried to bring
it to the proper authorities.
"That is what you are hired to do by
, a gang .you are very close to.
"I would say that Some one has been
misled by Mr. Felder, or no doubt he
would be in South Carolina today where
he belongs.
"So much for Mr. Felder.
■ REPLIES TO MAYOR.
"I see that Mr. Woodward says he has
nothing against me personally. Now I
don’t quite understand his connection
-with the Felder-Colyar affair. He knew
that G. C. Febuary was a trusted em
ploye of the police department and if
Febuary knew of crookedness or graft
in the department he would have forced
him to divulge it or seen that he was
turned out of the department.
"If Febuary had known anything
the kind and not made it known
•■would have been equally guilty.
"Mr. Woodward knows that in the fre
quent talks with me since he has been
mayor there has hardly been a time that
he did not bring up the question of the
red light .district, and he gave me to un
derstand in his first talk with me that
these women should be allowed to go
hack.to Manhattan avenue where they
had previously plied their nefarious
trade.
"No longer than last Saturday a. jveek
ago he asked me “ " *
JAP EMPRESS GROWS ILL
AS EMPEROR IMPROVES
Empress Sadake Falls III From
Cold Contracted During Vigil
at Husband’s Bedside
of
he
,,c „„„„„ if I was willing for
Eva Clark and her mother to move into
a house on Armstrong street In front
of the Grady hospital, where they had
previously lived.
"I told him I would answer him as 1
did Alderman McClelland; that it was
none of my business as long as she did
not violate the law, but that if she
did she would have to take the conse-
alienees.
“Mr. Woodward also told me the first
of the year that if my vice policy was
continued the police department would
be reeking with graft like the New York
department.
GRAFT ON OUTSIDE.
“I told him that no graft had ever
existed and I was satisfied there would
never be any.
"I told him that from what I had
heard someone outside the police de
partment had been receiving money
from .the vice traffic that virtually
amounted to graft and extortion.
"I am ready and willing to compare
my past record both as a citizen and as
an official with Mr. Woodward as to
which is in the right and which Is in the
wrong.”
MILI\!ER TO INSPECT
TURKISH REFORMS
(By Associated Press.)
• BERLIN, May 26.—Viscount Milner,
formerly high commissioner for South
^Africa, is to be appointed general in
spector in charge cf the Turkish re
forms, according to the Frankfort Ga
zette. He will take over his new duties
as soon as the British foreign office has
•relieved. Jilm.
(By Assoodated Press.)
TOKIO, May 26.—Emperor Yoshihite
is better, but the Empress Sadako is
fallen ill from a cold contracted dur
ing her long vigil at her husband/s
bedside.
Her illness is not critical, but she is
confined to her apartments and on the
advice of physicians will not attend to
morrow’s meeting of the Red Cross So
ciety of Japan.
Shoots Man to Death
After His Acquittal
Of Killing Father
(By Associated Press.)
HARTFORD, Ga., May 26.—Davis
Walker, a farmer, was shot and killed
by Jerry Perdue here at 3 o’clock
this morning. Perdue was shot through
the thigh and W. H. Davis, a bystand
er, was shot in the neck, neither being
wounded seriously. The killing is said
to be the outcome of ill feeling caused
by the killing of Walker’s father sev
eral months ago, for which Perdue was
tried and acquitted.
Perdue went to Hawklnsville and sur
rendered. Walker is survived by a wid
ow and four children.
BABE CRUSHED UNDER
HEAVY MOTORCYCLE
(By Associated Press.)
DETROIT. Mich., May 26.—Narrowly
escaping death three times in one after
noon, two-year-old Ursula Mayotte lost
her life last night because there was
no one near to rescue her when danger
threatened for the fourth time.
First the child turned the jets on a
gas stove, and when found was almost
unconscious from the fumes. Then she
pulled from a table a pan of scalding
water and was snatched aside just in
time to save her from injury. A short
time afterward she ran in the path of
a speeding automobile and was pulled
out of the way, the car grazing her
as it sped by.
After a short period of quiet she went
out on the street again. Five minutes
later her dead body was found under a
heavy motorcycle. The machine had been
left standing at the curb and the little
girl evidently had manag^ to tip it
over on herself. Her skull was crushed.
A WORD TO THE WISE
WIL50I WARNS IRE BOLL WEEVIL INVASION
COUNTRY OF OIANT
TIFFJILL LOBBY
President Declares That Lob
byists Are So Thick in Capi
tal That a Stick Thrown in
Any Direction Would Hit One
BY BALPB SMITH.
WASHINGTON, May 26.—President
Wilson took personal and public cogni
zance today of the enormous lobby per
vading Washington in the attempt to de
feat the pending tariff legislation. As
The Journal has stated, this lobby is the
biggest that ever invaded the national
capital for such a purpose.
To Illustrate how numerous he thought
the lobbyists to be, the president said
you could not throw a brick in any direc
tion in Washington without hitting a
lobbyist. In order that the entire coun
try might be informed of the army that
is plotting the defeat of the administra
tion’s tariff legislation, the president is
sued a statement on the subject.
The subject was brought up voluntarily
by the president during his regular Mon
day morning interview with the Washing
ton correspondents. Having given his
opinion as to what would happen In re
lation to throwing a brick, he gave the
correspondents a gently sarcastic reply
referring to them as being so fond of
throwing bricks, and yet of having
missed this opportunity.
It was the openly expressed opinion of
the president that the people of the
United States are entitled to know all
about the efforts centering in Washington
to win the few votes required to defeat
the tariff bill. His statement for publi
cation was as follows:
WILSON’S STATEMENT.
"I think that the public ought to
know the extraordinary exertions being
made by the lobby in Washington to
gain recognition for certain alterations
of the tariff bill. Washington has sel
dom seen so numerous, so industrious,
or so insidious a lobby. The newspa
pers are being filled with paid adver
tisements calculated to mislead the
Judgment of ppublic men not only, but
also the public opinion of the country
itself.
“There i6 every evidence that money
without limit is being spelu to sustain
this lobby and to create an appearance
of a pressure of public opinion antag
onistic of some of the chief items of
the tariff bill.
“It is o fserious interest to the coun
try that the people at large should have
no lobby and be voiceless in these mat
ters. while great bodies of astute men
seek to create an artificial opinion and
to overcome the interests of the public
for their private profit. It is thor
oughly worth the while of the people
of this country to take knowledge of
this matter. Only public opinion can
check and destroy it.
“The government in all its branches
ought to be relieved from this intolera
ble burden and this constant interuption
to the calm progress of debate. I know
that In this I am speaking for the mem
bers of the two houses, who would re
joice as much as I would, to be re
leased from this* unbearable situation.’’
President Wilson made it plain in his
oral comments on the subject that he
does not find fault with the presence in
Washington^ of citizens whosfe interests
are affected by legislation pending. But,
he said the lobby now here is different,
as of course, everybody here knows.
OF GEORGIA IN AUGUST
Arch Enemy of Cotton Expect
ed in Southwest Part of
Stale Soon
That the invasion of Georgia by the
boll weevil is only a matter of two
months is the assertion made Monday
morning by State Entomologist E. Lee
Worsham.
The march of King Cotton’s arch en
emy eastward has progressed more
rapidly than ordinarily in consequence
of the unusually mild weather, and the
pest is expected to reach the south
west part of Georgia during the early
part of August, according to Mr. Wor
sham.
Unless all signs fail, the first coun
ties to be reached will be Clay, Early,
Decatur and Miller. It is possible that
even more progress into the state may
be made, and already the farmers in
that section have leagued together to
fight the pest.
“The weevil/’ said Mr. Worsham,
“will reach that part of the state in
ample time to do great damage, and
probably will destroy from a third to a
half of this season’s crop of cotton.
The advance Into other parts of Geor
gia will, of course, be gradual, but
eventually the entire cotton belt will
become infected.
“In addition to the boll weevil, the
farmers in southwest Georgia have or
ganized to fight it, and, if they perse
vere, can keep down the damage ma
terially. They have been urged to
plant cotton that matures early, so that
the bolls will have formed before the
insect comes out from its winter quar
ters.
“It is a fact that it can be fought
successfully, but ideal farming is es
sential to that success.
"The cotton caterpillar is also on its
way here, but its dangers and ravages
are checked infinitely more easily than
those of the boll weevil. It is the lat
ter that the farmers of Georgia must
guard against, and to be successful it
is absolutely necessary to carry out in
structions to the letter.”
Faithful Old Horse
Returns Home With
Dead Body of Owner
(By Associated Press.)
COLLINfeVILLE, Conn., May-26.—Wil
liam Myers, of this , town, met death in
a peculiar manner during the night.
While out driving in a covered car
riage he fell asleep, his head dropped
between the ribs of the cover and he
choked to death. The body was discov
ered in the carriage this morning under
the wagon shed at the Myers home, to
which the horse had returned.
EVIDENCES OF RACE
EARLIER THAN INDIANS
MANKATO, Minn., May 26.—The
Minnesota Historical society is to make
investigations next month in the town
ship of Cambria, where have been
found evidences of habitations which
are believed to date back earlier than
the Indians.
Preliminary excavations have brought
to light many implements for domes
tic use and for warfare, and much pot
tery.
Blakely Shop Burns
BLAKELY, Ga.. May 26.—The milli
nery store of Miss Beulah Mashburn
was Saturday damaged by fire. The
loss on stock was total, the store build
ing was badly damaged on the interior.
The building was owned by T. R. Mc
Donald. The stock of the Barham Jew-
erly company next door was damaged.
WILSON ASKED TO CLOSE
PART OF MISSOURI PACIFIC
WASHINGTON, May 26.—Representa
tive Neely, of Kansas, asked President
Wilson today to direct Attorney Gen
eral McKeynolds to foreclose a mort
gage on a 100-mile strip of railroad
owned by the Missouri Pacific between
Atchison and Watersville, Kan., to re
cover $4,500,000 aMeged to he due the
government from aid by bonds issued
in 1862.
Mr. Neely has a resolution in con
gress to the same effect. Mr. yWllson
promised to study: the question.
FDR REUNION WHERE
ICE THJ»TIl£D
Thin Line of Gray Arrives in
Chattanooga for Annual Re
union of United Confederate
Veterans Tuesday
(By Associated Press.)
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., May 26
Mobilization of United Confederate vet
erans here for their twenty-third an
nual reunion continued rapidly through
out the night and today.
Large crowds of civilians thronged
the two railroad terminal stations and
watched the vetearns detrain. More
than a thousand veterans spent the
night at Camp Stewart and this num
ber was greatly augmented today.
General Bennett H. Young, of Louis
ville, Ky., commander-in-chief of the
United Confederate Veterans, is already
In the city. After a careful inspection
of the arrangements made for the ac
commodation of the veterans he pro
nounced them equal, if not superior, to
those at any previous reunion.
General Young has been in close
communication with railroad officials
and predicts that mor.e than 100,000
visitors and veterans will be in the city
when the annual reunion is formally
opened tomorrow at the auditorium.
The assignment committee kept its
headquarters open throughout the
night. Civilians and soldiers were di
rected to homes and to Camp Stewart
Immediately upon their arirval. The
capacity of the hotels already is taxed
to the utmost, many of the reservations
having been made months ago.
The first business meeting of reunion
week is scheduled for this atfernoon.
Members of the Confederate States
Memorial association and organization
of the Women of the Confederacy will
hold a welcome gathering at which
addresses will be delivered by Mrs.
M. T. Armstrong, president of the local
association; General Bennett H. Young,
in behalf of the veterans; General John
B. Hickman, for the Tennessee divis
ion U. C. V.; Mrs. Alexander B. White,
in behalf of the Daughters of the Con
federacy, and others.
Tonight the opening sessions of the
Sons of Confederate Veterans will ,be
convened. J. P. Norfleet, of Memphis,
Tenn., commander-in-chie'f of the organ
ization, will preside at all, business ses
sions of this department.
An interesting feature of the meeting
tonight will be the presentation of spon
sors.
Woman Shouts for
Five Minutes, Then
Falls to Floor Dead
(By Associated Press.)
GREENVILLE, S. C., May 26.—After
shouting for five minutes during serv
ices at an “Holiness’’ church hear Par
is Mountain, Mrs. Millson Bryant, a
white woman about thirty-five years of
age, fell to the floor in a swoon and
died.
MEETS TRAGIC DEATH ON
RY. HE SERVED 45 YEARS
(By Associated Press.)
SANTA FE, N. M., May 26.—R. M.
Berry, for forty-five years an employe
of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
railway and for the last twenty years
conductor on the Santa Fe Laifly
branch, was killed yesterday at La my
junction by being crushed between two
cars.
While attempting to couple the cars,
one of the drawheads dropped to the
ground and, as Berry stooped to pick it
up, the cars came together, catching his
head. He left an estate valued at
3200,000.
LEO. M, FRANK IS INDICTED BY
DEATH; NEGRO, NEWT LEE HELD
True Bill Against Pencil Factory Superintendent Returned
Less Than Ten Minutes After Evidence Was Closed, at
Noon, Saturday - Authority Quoted That He Will Be Tried
During Third Week in June-Negro to Stay in Jail
Leo M. Frank, superintendent of the National Pencil factory in the
basement of which the slain body of Mary Phagan was found In the
early morning of Sunday, April 27, stands formally charged with her
death.
A grand jury Indictment, a true bill charging that he killed Mary
Phagan, was returned by the Fulton county grand jurors at 12:23 Sat
urday afternoon.
Less than ten minutes earlier the jury had gone Into executive
session and Solicitor Dorsey, who had been conducting the examination
of witnesses, had left the room. In the Interval the Jury reached its
verdict and each of the jurors signed his name to the formal docu
ment upon which Frank will be arraigned on the charge of murder.
NO ACTION AGAINST NEWT LEE.
No action was taken with regard to the negro night watchman,-
Newt Lee, held by the coroner on a "suspicion" warrant for the grand
jury.
Mr. Dorsey stated afterward that he had not asked the grand Jury
to take action with regard to Lee. It Is probable, seemingly, that the
grand jury will not return a “true” or "no” bill in Lee’s case until
after the trial of Superintendent Frank.
Lee, therefore, will remain In jail meanwhile, with the charge hold
ing him there as a suspect.
It is assumed with the best of authority that the Indicted man, Leo M.
Frank, will be put on trial during the third week in June, less than a
month hence.
It is known that several witnesses whom the state has secured to
substantiate its charge, were not introduced before the grand jury by Soli
citor Dorsey. • •
The jury’s true bill charges formally, in legal phrase, that “Leo M.
Frank 'did murder, in that in the county aforesaid (Fulton), state of
Georgia, on the 26th day of April, In the year of our Lord 1913, with force
of arms he did unlawfully and with malice aforethought kill and murder
one Mary Phagan by then and there choking her, said Mary Phagan, with
a cord that he placed around her neck.”
Neither the negro nor Frank appeared before the grand jury. Both
remained In. the Tower, where .they have been confined since the coroner’s
Inquest ordered them to be held.
Saturday morning James Connally, the negro sweeper formerly em
ployed in the pencil factory where Mary Phagan was killed, and who
was arrested on suspicion and has been held in jail since as a material
witness for the state, sent for a city detective and declared that he
wanted to tell the truth.
“Boss, I wrote those notes," said he, referring to the mysterious
notes found beside the dead body of Mary Phagan.
He declared that he could not identify them positively, Inasmuch
as he had never seed the originals, but that as they were read to him
out of the papers he believed they were the ones he wrote.
On Friday, the day before the murder, said he to the detectives, (ac
cording to report that reached a Journal representative), Leo M. Frank
called him Into his (Frank’s) office at the factory and said he wanted
to get some samples of his handwriting, and dictated for him to write—
dictating, said the negro, what he remembered as substantially the notes
that afterward were read to him out of the newspapers.
The negro was t.akeh"immediately to the courthouse, to be sho#n the
original notes themselves and answer whether or not they were the ones
he wrote.
Connally was arrested during the coroner’s Inquest, when some one saw
him washing a shirt at the factory. His defense was that It was his sole
and only shirt, and that he was washing it so that he would appear dean at
the inquest, whither he had been summoned as a possible witness.
Oil
-
N. T. LIFE INSURANCE
HEAR FIGHTS INCOME TAX
Darwin Kingsley Appears Be
fore Subcommittee of Sen
ate Finance Committee
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, May 26.—Darwin
Kingsley, president of the New York
Life , Insurance company, appeared to
day before the senate finance subcom
mittee working on the income tax sec
tion of the Underwood, tariff bill to dis
cuss provision relating to insurance
companies. Other subcommittees had a
long list of manufacturers waiting to be
heard before the close of the tariff hear
ings tomorrow night.
Beginning Wednesday morning, the
subcommittee will take up the Sched
ules for revision and plan their reports
to the full committee. That task, it
is estimated, will take at least a week.
Washington Society
Plays a Ball Game
For Sweet Charity
(By Associated Pr»»a.)
WASHINGTON, May 26.—Arrayed
like Falstaff’s army, society leaders,
army officers, financial magnates and
other men prominent in social and po
litical ciroles, appeared today at the
American league baseball park to battle
on the diamond for the honor of the
exclusive Metropolitan club and the
Chevy Chase club, and for the benefit of
a local hosital.
It was the annual game for charity
and society was out in force.
A box had been reserved for the use
of President Yv ilsoti and members of his
family, and among the other box nold,-
ers were? Chief Justice and Mrs. White,
Joseph Letter, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Goe-
let Gerry and Mrs. Philip Sheridan. The
marine band was on hand to furnish the
music.
The two teams had been practicing
faithfully for more than a week. The
Metropolitan players were captained by
Henri De Sidour, while the Chevy Chase
^team was led on the field by James
Archibald. The players wore their old
college baseball suits and in some in
stances uniforms requisitioned from the
lockers of the Washington team’s club-
holise.
AND KILLED BY TRAIN
Four Other Workmen Injured
by B, & 0. Passenger Train -
in West Virginia
(By Associated Press.)
MARTINSBURG,. W. Va„ May 26.—
Nine workmen were killed and four
hurt when they were struck by a pas
senger train on the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad near Doe Gully today.
DISASTER AVERTED ABOARD
DESTROYER “PAUL JONES”
(By Associated Press.)
SAN DIEGO, Cal., May 26.—The lives
of fifty sailors on the torpedo boat de
stroyer Paul Jones were endangered
Friday at the same hour of the ex
plosion on the destroyer Stewart, ac
cording to information which leaked
out today. The Paul Jones was mak
ing a speed tes£, when a fireman no
ticed steam escaping from a crack in
the tube of one of the boilers. He
shut down the boiler and averted, what
might have proved a disaster.
The Paul Jones boilers have been
condemned and the ship will be sent
at once to Mare Iqjgffid yard for re
pairs.
FRANCE TRIES TO CRUSH
ANTI-MILITARY FIGHT
Energetic Action Taken by
Government Against Cam
paign Started in France
PARIS, May 26.—Energetic action
was takerf by the French government
against the anti-mflitary campaign in
I-’rance today. More than eighty of
fices of the general confederation of.
labor exchanges in Paris and provincial
cities were occupied by the police.
All documents found in the bureaus
were seized by order of the government,
which intends to prosecute on charges
of sedition the organizers of recent
demonstrations among the soldiers
against the newly introduced three-
year term of service in the active
army.
The arrangements of the police were
carefully made and the seizures were
carried out simultaneously everywhere.
It was asserted that much incriminat
ing material ’was found.
HIGHWAYMAN HOLDS UP
AND SHOOTS SWEETHEART
(By Awocl&ted Frew.)
TOLEDO, Ohio, May 26.—Driving a
mile and a half over a dark road eight
miles in the country, with her dead
lover by # her side and with a bullet In
her own body, was the experience Sun
day midnight of Julia Probert, sixteen,
daughter of George Probert, a farmer.
The girl was driving with George
Steele, nineteen, when they were held up
by a foreigner who demanded money.
Four shots were fired, two of which
took effect in the breast of Steele, kill
ing him almost instantly. The robber
escaped.
HERD OF DEER WILL
ROAM IN C0HUTTAS
DALTON, Ga., May 261—According to
a statement made by /Game Warden
Walter Kenner, of Murray county, forty
deer, secured from the government, will
be» brought to this section about July, 1,
and turned loose in the Cohutta moun
tains a few miles east of here. Up to
a few years ago, there were many deer I
in the mountains east of Dalton; but
these have practically all been killed.
It is believed that the ones to be
received will be closely protected to
insure against their slaughter, and the I
mountains will be wall-stooked within A
a few years, r r*