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THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA.. TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1913.
Trade and Crop Re
ports from the South
—FROM BRADBTREET'8.
CHARLESTONj S. C.—Trade in gen
eral remains quiet, and considerable
complaint is noted about the slowness
of collections. Rain in some sections
has been of considerable benefit to cot
ton, but . moisture is badly needed in
other sections.
< CHATTANOOGA—Wholesale trade in
dfy goods and shoes is good. Retail
trade is very active, and collections
show a slight improvement. Recent
rains have relieved the drouth, and
farming conditions are more favorable.
The strawberry crop will average 75
per cent of normal.
MEMPHIS—Wholesale trade is fair,
but retail is a little quiet. Recent
rains helped farming greatly. Collec
tions are fair.
ATLANTA—Retail trade shows some
improvement. Mobbers report some in
crease in sales, and a more hopeful feel
ing prevails, due to good rain during the
week after a long drouth. In some in
stances replanting is necessary, but as
a rule cotton stands axe fair.
SAVANNAH—Wholesale dealers re
port that business is only fair, wtih
collections slow. Retail trade is fair
to good, but collections s'low. Scattered
rains have been of benefit to cotton.
Crop conditions are more promising in
this section than at this time last year.
BIRMINGHAM—Feeling, is optimistic
Lumber is in better demand, though the
price is off. Dealers in heavy hardware
and mining supplies have good busi
ness, and some orders have been booked
for future shipment. Groceries and pro
duce are active. Early fruits find a
ready market. Trade in dry goods is
fairly active, while dealers in hats and
caps have done better than at this time
last year, with some good future or
ders booked. Building material was
quite active until the present week. At
present there is only a fair demand, due
to strikes of carpenters, plumbers,
structural iron workers and brick ma
sons. There are two skyscrapers, a ho
tel and one twenty-story office building
under way as well, but owing to stri
w“ork has been suspended. Collections
are quiet. A slight increase in cotton
acreage is reported. The plant is in
very good condition, and present rams
will be beneficial.
MOBILE.—Continual local showers
have been beneficial to crops.V*
hardware lines jobbers report trade
fairly active. Retail trade is good.
Collections are fair.
MONTGOMERY.—A little improve
ment in farming conditions is noted, but
there is urgent need for more rain. Th
cotton acreage is about the same as
last year. Very poor stands are re
ported. Trade, wholesale and retail, is
quiet. Collections are slow. Corn and
cotton show progress.
NEW ORLEANS.—General conditions
in Louisiana seem to be fairly good,
with a favorable outlook. jod-
bers, however, report business some
what at a standstill, and re
tail dealers say business is be
low that of last year. Collections are
keeping up fairly well. Crops are do
ing well, and good results are looked
for, although It is not thought likely
that sugar planters will average much
above half .a crop. The ;water has re
ceded In most of the overflowed locali
ties and planting has been accom
plished, and farmers expect to grow a
fairly good cotton crop.
THE CROPS.
Winter wheat conditions have dete
riorated slightly from early almost
perfect prospects, the chief falling off
being in Kansas, Oklahoma and parts
of Illinois. In California the crop has
suffered also. All of this is the result
of early dry weather now being re
vealed. Still, the prospects are for a
bumper crop as a whole. In the north
west there has been plenty of cool, wet
weather, and warm growing tempera
tures are needed for spring wheat.
Wet weather delays corn planting west
of the Mississippi. Most of that east
of the Mississippi has been put in, but
in Iowa and Nebraska planting is back
ward and the area seeded is only 25 to
75 per cent of that contemplated. Oats
west of the Mississippi look well, but
cold, dry weather east of the river has
caused deterioration. Still, the season
is early enough to make a good crop,
though much below a year ago. Pas
tures generally are in good shape in
the west, and the first crop of alfalfa
is a large one.
Southern crop reports are more uni
formly favorable. The drought in the
southeast has been broken by showers,
and the* crops there and westward are
doing well. In the lower Mississippi
valley the sugar crop area is smaller
than a year ago, when the yield was
short.
Reports from the hurley tobacco dis
trict of Kentucky are that 16 to 25
pgr cent of the crop has been planted.
The 1912 crop has been virtually all
sold.
COL THDS. 6. FELDER DENIES .
DICTOGRAPH REPORT SET 01
DETECTIVES CHINE BRIBE
In Interview With G, C, Febuary, Secretary to Chief of
Detectives Newport Lanford, in Room 31 of Williams
House No, 2, Heard by Dictograph and Taken Down
Shorthand, Col, Felder Is Alleged to Have Offered Bribe
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Charging Atlanta police officials with a conspiracy to shield and
protect the murderers of Mary Phagan and styling Chief Newport Lan-
fdrd as “the Lieutenant Becker of Atlanta and controlling genius" of
the plot, Colonel Thomas B. Felder late Saturday gave out an emphatic
statement vehemently denying the attempted bribery aijd other, charges
hurled at him by the police in the now famous dictograph records.
That a dictograph was used Colonel Felder doubts, and if one was
used in the Williams house, he asserts, the record was changed by the per
sons using the record. This he tends to establish by showing that the
record quotes him now in the first person singular and again in the second
person singular. The record, he asserts, w..s “framed.”
Colonel Felder asserts that the plot was hatched with the day Leo
M. Frank was arrested and maintains that since that time the police
have done nothing else save protect the two suspects and obstruct the
work of the Burns agency and Solicitor Dorsey. .
He attacks A. S. Colyar ip a half dozen affidavits appended to his
lengthy statement. Colyar, he says, is morally and mentally irrespon
sible and merely a tool in the hands of Lanford and his agents.
He charges that the Coleman affidavit, imputed by the police to
be a repudiation of Felder’s connection with the Phagan investigation,
was obtained from J. W. Coleman under pressure.
The police plot, he charges, involves the Inkertons and was organ
ized by Chief Lanford and the Atlanta operatives for the Pinkertons
employed the day after the Phagan murder by the National Pencil com
pany.
HIS RELATIONS WITH COLYAR.
. The statement given out by Colonel Felder, as he had announced
Friday, constitutes a narrative of the events leading up to the confer
ences in Williams House No. 2, where the dictograph was operated by
Colyar and G. C. Febuary.
Colonel Felder says that he met Colyar a year or so ago during
the Blease investigation and was then convinced of the" man’s irre
sponsibility. Colyar, he says, came to his office recently and began a
discussion of the Phagan case representing that the police were sup
pressing evidence. Colyar, so the statement sets forth, claimed to have
or could get evidence showing the whole police plot and affidavits involv
ing the moral character of both Chief Lanford and Chief Beavers. These,
he said, consisted of lists of protected ‘’blind tigers” and "disorderly
houses.”
Colonel Felder denies offering Febuary any sum of money for his
information, and says that he told the pair that he was interested in
nothing hut .the Phagan matter.
He advised them he says to place tin other matters before Mayor
Woodward or any number of reputable Atlanta citizens, who he asserts,
he was sure would take up the matter for the city’s welfare.
Colonel Felder asserts that the confession held by the police from the
negro Conley, setting forth that Conley wrote the notes found in the base
ment of the plant of the National Pencil company, was forced from him
by the police and is really not the truth.
alleged distograph conversation, said to have occurred Wednesday
The Atlanta Journal has in its possession a sworn copy of an
afternoon In Room No. 31, of Williams House No. 2, 34-3* North Forsyth
street, between Colonel Thomas B. Felder, well-known Atlanta attorney;
G. C. Febuary, secretary to Chief of Detectives Newport A. Lanford, and
A. S. Colyau, a citizen.
In this record of the alleged dictographed conversation Colonel Felder
is quoted as offering a large sum of money to Secretary Febuary if he
would extract certain affidavits and papers relating to the Phagan murder
mystery from the safe of Chief Lanford ana turn them over to him.
Colonel Felder is also quoted as having promised immunity to Feb
uary if any attempt was made to prosecute him for extracting the papers,
and according to the dictograph record Colonel Felder declared to Febuary
that he controlled Mayor Woodward, Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey
and the judge of the criminal court.
It is said that Colonel Felder offered one thousand dollars to Febuary
for the papers, and that hq agreed to have the delivery of the papers and
the payment of the money occur at East Lake, although he preferred that
the transfer take place at the Transportation club.
The alleged conversation, as reported by Stenographer George M.
Gentry, nephew of Colonel W. T. Gentry, president of the Southern Bell
and Cumberland Telephone companies, who it is said by detectives was
stationed in room No. 32 with the earpiece of a dictograph instrument
strapped over his head, is given below, as fully as the language can be
quoted in this newspaper.
As one of the many outgrowths of the alleged dictographed conversa
tions of Colonel Thomas B. Felder, Mayor Woodward, Charlie C. Jones
and E. 0. Miles, in which they are quoted as seeking evidence to impeach
Police Chief James L. Beavers and Detective Chief N. A. Lanford, Chief
Beavers late Saturday afternoon gave out a red-hot statement in which he
charged that the vice gangsters were conspiring to oust him from office
because of his activity in closing up Atlanta’s restricted district.
According to Chief Beavers he has been informed that checks aggre
gating $1,500 have been deposited to be given over to any woman who
could get him into a room with her.
“The houses have been closed eight months and they will remain
closed as long as I am chief,” he says. “Those fighting me will resort to
any political trick to bring my undoing. I am fully advised as to what
they are doing and all I ask is that the decent people of this city continue
to give me their support.”
E, B. P. TIES STOCK OP
Members of National Commit
tee Consider Advisability of
Calling Convention
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, May 24.—Members of
the Republican national executive com
mittee assembled here today to take
stock of the party since the November
defeat, look over the field for the fu
ture and determine whether a meeting
of the national committee should be
called to consider the advisability of
holding a special national convention.
Charles D. Hilles, chairman of the na
tional committee, who issued the call
for the executive committee, reached
Washington early in the day and con
ferred with several Republican leaders.
“I have talked with only three or
four members of the executive commit
tee," said Mr. Hilles, “and I find that
some of them favor calling a meeting
of th*e national committee. I am not
.sure that a majority of th'em are of
that opinion."
When the committee met it had a me
morial from the conciliation committee
of*’* Republican Progressives, headed by
Senator* Cummins, appointed as a result
of the recent Chicago conference.
This formulated a request that an
early meeting of the national commit
tee he called. It included a statement
of the reforms proposed at the Chicago
conference, which would provide for par
ty recognition of the primary system of
selecting delegates to the national con
ventions and a change of basis of rep
resentation to conform to the voting
strength of the party in the various
states, a change directed against the
heavy representation from the south.
Upon the merits of proposed reforms
the executive committee does not pass.
As far as contemplated reorganization
plans are concerned, the only thing the
committee may decide is whether to call
the national committee. Many leaders
assert that a convention is not neces
sary to carry out contemplated reorgan
ization plans, that the committee can
enact them. The Progressive Republi
cans, however, insist a convention is
necessary.
APPOINTMENTS ARE
MADE BY BLEASE
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
COLUMBIA, S. C., May 24.—Governor
Blease today reappointed Messrs. Arth
ur Lynah, B. H. Rutledge, and John
Marshall as members of the Dispensary
board for Charleston county. Mr. Lynah
was recommended by the delegation, Mr.
Rutledge by the majority of the mayors
of the county, Mayor Grace having
recommended a Mr. Wilson, and Mr.
Marshall was recommended by the coun
ty board of education.
The governor today appointed Dr. E.
W. Pressly, of Clover, from the Fifth
congressional district, vice Dr. W. W.
Fennell, of Rock Hill, whos^ term ex
pired, and Dr. John Lyon/of Green
wood, from the Third congressional
district, vice Dr. P. G. Ellesor, whose
term had expired, as members of the
state board of medical examiners, they
having been nominated by the South
Carolina Medical association.
GOVERNMENT GOES AFTER
COTTON CORNER OF 1909
Re-indictment of Hayne,
Brown, Scales and Thomp
son Sought
(By Associated Press.)
NEW YORK, May 24.—The depart
ment of justice has <$kcided to seek the
reindictment of Frank Hayne and Wil
liam P. Brown, of New Orleans; Eugene
Scales, of Texas and Colonel Robert M.
Thompson, of New York, on the charge
that they conspired to corner the cot
ton crop of 1909.
This was learned today when sub-
penas were issued by United States Dis
trict Attorney Marshall for the appear
ance next week before the fedefal grand
jury of the witnesses upon whose tes
timony the indictment now standing
against them was found.
The document contains flaws, it is
understood, which the government fears
might stand in the way of conviction.
It charged that, with James A. Patten,
of Chicago, the defendants conspired to
Create a bull pool with the intention of
artificially raising the price of cotton
in order to obtain a profit of $10,000,000.
Patten pleaded guilty last February
to the sixth count of the indictment,
known as the “contract count," which
alleged that the defendants entered into
contracts to buy up all the raw cotton
porduced in 1909 and to hold it out of
the market until November, 1910. He
was fined $4,000, and under an agree
ment between his counsel and the de
partment of justice the other counts
in the indictment were nolled.
Patten announced in entering his
plea that he was “not conscious of any
moral turpitude."
Messrs. Hayne, Brown and Scales
professed to be indignant at his action
and said that they would fight the
case to the end. s Colonel Thompson re
cently sailed for Europe.
All five defendants originally pleaded
not guilty and, with the exception of
Colonel Thompson, demurred to the In
dictment. The demurrer was defeated
in the United States supreme court.
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Club Standings
SOUTHERN
SOUTH
ATLANTIC
Clubs.
W.
L.
I‘ct.
Clubs.
W.
L.
Pet.
Mobile
30
15
.667
Savannah
26
7
.781
Nashville
22
19
.537
Columbus
17
15
.531
Atlanta
21
20
.512
Macon
15
15
.500
Memphis
21
20
.512
Jack’vllle
18
16
.500
M’gomeiw
20
21
.488
Ch’rleston
i3
19
.406
Chatta.
20
21
.488
Albany
8
22
.267
Bir’ham
17
21
.447
N.Orleans
13
27
.325
NATIONAL
AMERICAN
Clubs.
W.
L.
Pet.
Clubs.
W.
L.
Pet.
Phila.
21
7
.750
Phila.
21
9
.700
Brooklyn
19
13,
.594
Cleveland
24
12
.667
St. Louis
18
16
.529
Wash’ton
18
13
.581
New York
15
14
.517
Chicago
21
16
.568
Chicago
18
17
.514
Boston
14
19
.424
Pittsburg
16
19
.457
Detroit
15
22
.405
Boston
11
17
.390
St. Louis i 16
24
.400
Cincinnati
10
25
.286
New York
9
23
.281
empihe state
GEORGIA-ALABAMA
Clubs.
W.
L.
l’ct.
Clubs.
W.
L.
Pet.
Valdosta
13
8
.619
Gadsden
11
7
.611
Cordele
12
9
.571
Newnan
11
7
.611
Tho’ville
11
10
.524
Talladega
9
8
.529
Waycross
10
11
.470
Anniston
8
9
.470
Brunswick
9
12
.429
Opelika
8
9
.470
Amencus
8
13
.381
LaG range
5
12
.294
HERE IS COLEMAN AFFIDAVIT WHICH
OFFICERS SAY COL. FELDER OFFERED
TO PURCHASE FOR THE SUM OF $1,000
1
STATE OF GEORGIA: i ’ !
FULTON COUNTY:
The affiant, J. W. Coleman and wife, citizens of Atlanta, Ga„ who
reside at* 146 Lindsay St.
The affiant is the step-father of Mary Phagan, deceased, the child
who was foully murdered by a hellish brute on April 26, 1913.
The affiant is in the employ-of the City of Atlanta in the Sanitary
Dept.
The affiant, while at the Police Station during the Coroner’s in
quest, the exact day he does not remember, was approached by a man
somewhat under the influence of liquor, and said to the affiant, "I am
working for the law firm of T. B. Felder, and I would like to have
you go to his office, as he wants to see you, and I advise you to em
ploy him.” Affiant said, "No, I won’t go to his office." The Piker
then said, "will you talk to Col. Felder if I bring him here?” where
upon the affiant agreed to see him. He went off and came back in a
few minutes with Felder. Col. Felder then said, “I want you to em
ploy me to prosecute this case, it will not cost you a cent, as certain
people have promised to pay me my fee, but I have got to have your
consent to the employment before I can get Into the Coroner’s Jury.”
The affiant told him he did not want to employ him : nd did not want
to have anything to do with him, as the affiant did not know him and
had never seen him before that day, and affiant did not employ him,
nor did the affiant’s wife employ him, and the only information the
affiant ever had that he was employed, was what he read in the news
papers.
Affiant has many good neighbors, and he appreciates their sym
pathy for him and his broken-hearted wife, but he cannot see how
they would come to employ Col. Felder without his knowledge and
consent.
A man met the affiant on the street and offered him one dollar
to go upon the fee of this astute counsel, but he declined to accept It
and told the party he had not employed Felder.
Affiant is thoroughly satisfied with the great work done by Chief
of Police Beavers, and Chief of Detectives Lanford and the able men
working under them, as he believes, as thousands of others do in At
lanta, that they have the real murderer in jail, and the affiant cannot
reconcile himself to the conduct of Col. Felder, who is posing as a
prosecuting attorney, and wanting five thousand dollars from the people
of the City as set out in the afternoon’s papers, to bring a noted detec
tive here, and according to the press of the city, large amounts have
been subscribed by people the affiant does not believe are anxious to
prosecute the men under arrest.
The affiant means no reflection on the press of the City and the
citizens of Atlanta who are in favor of Justice and fair play. Affiant
will ever appreciate the sympathy that been shown him and his
family by these good people, and he asks them if they have any money
to spend to punish the murderer of his sweet innocent child, to stand
behind the Atlanta Police Dept, and let no one mislead them.
RESULTS THURSDAY
Southern
Atlanta 7. Mobile 2.
Others postponed.
South Atlantic
Savannah 5. Jacksonville 1.
Macon 4, Albany 1.
Charleston-Columbus; rain.
National
Pittsburg 1. Broklyn 0.
Boeton-Chicngo; vain.
New York-St. Louis; rain. t
Cincinnati-I’hiladelphia; rain.
American
Philadelphia 7. Detroit 3.
(leveland 5, Washington 0.
St. Louis 7, New York 0.
Chicago 2, Boston 1.
RESULTS FRIDAY
•s Southern
Mobile 6, Atlanta 0.
Chattanooga 1. New Orleans 0.
New Orleans 6, Chattanooga 3.
Nashville 5, Montgomery 4.
Memphis 2. Birmingham 1.
Memphis 6, Birmingham 0.
South Atlantic
Macon-Albany; rain.
Jacksonville 5. Savannah 2.
Columbus 3, Charleston 1.
National
Philadelphia 4. Cincinnati
Chicago-Boston: off day.
Others postponed.
American
Philadelphia -Washington; rain.
Others not scheduled.
RESULTS SATURDAY
Southern
Mobile 5, Atlanta 1.
Chattanooga 9, New Orleans 3.
Montgomery 4. Nashville 3.
Birmingham 9, Memphis 5.
National
Philadelphia 3. Brooklyn 0.
Pittsburg 4. Chicago 3.
St. Louis 12. Cincinnati 4.
St. Louis 4, Cincinnati 3.
Boston-New York; rain.
American
Philadelphia 4. Washington 2.
Boston 3. New York 3.
Cleveland 4, Chicago 3.
Detroit 7, St. Louis 4.
South Atlantic
Savannah 3, Jacksonville 2.
Columbus 7, Charleston 3.
Columbus 4. Charleston 1.
Macon 9, Albany 9.
snfl •anted before tfw
1 .tbit ./^fc/rtrday of May, 1913
RESULTS SUNDAY
Southern
Mobile 4, New Orleans 3.
Memphis 4, Montgomery 2.
Nashville 6, Chattanooga 0.
National
Chicago 9. St. Louis
Cincinnati 1, Pittsburg 0.
SPEAKER SETTLES ONE
MILEAGE PROBLEM
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, May 24.—Speaker
Clark has settled a mileage problem,
one of three affecting the rights of
members to their traveling allowances.
He ordered a check, covering a mem
ber’s mileage account, sent to William
Baltz, of Millstadt, Ill., who was
elected to succeed William A. Roden-
berg.
Mr. Baltz came to Washington to at
tend the extra session, but because of
the floods in Illinois hurried back home
before he was able to take the oath of
office. He is now suffering from ner
vous prostration and may not be able
to attend the extra session at all.
The speaker recently ruled that Rep
resentatives Baltz, Henry George, of
New York, and Timothy D. Sullivan, of
New York, were not to be considered
on the rolls of the sixty-third congress
so far as any question of a quorum
was concerned. Mr. Sullivan is said
to be in a sanitarium in New York,
and Mr. George has been in Eufope for
his health ever since the closing weeks
of the last congress. Neither Mr. Sul
livan nor Mr. George will be entitled
to his mileage allowance until he ap
pears personally in Washington. The
three cases are the only mileage prob
lems raised so far in this congress.
American
Detroit 7, St. Louis 4.
Detroit g. St. Louis 6. . 1 *
Cleveland 8, Chicago t, ■ ■ ;I q ill ^ !‘,f i;
HUFF CREDITORS WON’T
ACCEPT COURT VERDICT
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
MACON, Ga., May 24.—Under thne
present decree of Judge Emory Speer, of
the United States district court, that
portion of the claims against the Huff
estate which have not been disputed
are being paid today, amounting to a
little ovei* $50,000. This represents
about half principal and half interest,
in some cases the interest having ac
crued during the fourteen years being
as large as the principal.
Mrs. Jennings and Edison Huff, chil
dren of Colonel Huff, have refused to
accept the $6,HO given to them by the
decree of the court because it does not
include interest for the last four years,
while all of the other amounts awardeef
do. This is the principal point on which
Colonel Huff has based his appeal.
After the money has been paid out
today there will be $33,000 left in the
registry of the court in addition to
five and a half acres of Improved prop
erty In South Macon known as the Ar
mory property. v
REPUBLICANS SORE FOR
WILSON’S INTERFERENCE
WASHINGTON. May 24.—President
Wilson was sharply criticized by Republi
can senators in executive session last
night for his reported interference in the
senatorial fight In Maryland, where Wil
liam L. Marbury is a candidate to suc
ceed Senator John Walter Smith for the
long term. Both are Democrats and the
Republicans made capital of the fact' that
a Democratic presidept apparently had
seen fit to get into a fight between mem
bers of his own party in a state other
than his own.
The criticisms were voiced during con
sideration of the nomination of Sherlock
Swann as postmaster at Baltimore.
Swann is a declared supporter of Mar
bury, but Senator Smith in a speech
asked his colleagues to vote for his con
firmation. In spite of this viva voce
vote was so close that the vice president
declared himself in doubt. On a rising
vote. Swann was confirmed.
The criticism of the president tonight
were the first made of him by senators in
executive session since he entered, the
White House.
HART BOYS SURRENDER
FOR KILLING HARNAGE
* ~
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
MOULTRIE, Ga., May 24.—James
and Jerry Hart, participants in the
Hart-Harnage fued, near Berlin, yester
day, surrendered to the sheriff today.
They will ask for a commitment trial
and endeavor to show that the killing
of Horace Harnage and the wounding
of Jasper Harnage was in self-defense
and justifiable. They have secured
counsel and hope to at least be able
to give bond. Jasper Harnage is still
In a very critical condition.
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JUSTICE HEARS CHARGE
OF EXTORTION ON SENATOR
NEW YORK, May 24.—A supreme
court justice heard in detail today the
story of how State Senator Stephen J.
Stilwell is alleged to have solicited
money to advance legislation to the sen
ate from the codes committee, of which
he was chairman.
The state’s chief witness, George H.
Kendall, president of the New York
Bank Note company, reiterated state
ments he made before the senate inves
tigating committee against Stiiwell, now
on trial charged with bribery. The sen
ate exonerated Stilwell last month.
Kendall testified Stilwell sought to
extort *3,500 In return for promised in
fluence to have reported out a bill aimed
to prohibit the New York stock ex
change from alleged discrimination
against securities not printed b desig
nated bank note companies. He told of
conversations which he declared he had
with Stilwell over the telephone between
this city and Albany. Two persons lis
tening on the wire, he said, overheard
him tell the senator that if the bill was
not reported out of committee at once
he would telegraph to Governor Sulzer
that Stllwdll had , demanded money to
expedite legislation. .
The bill was reported out In the sen
ate the next day, but not In the as
sembly and subsequently Kendall tele
graphed Governor Sulzer, telling of Stil-
well’s alleged demand for money.
Ethel C. Allen, a stenographer in Ken
dall’s office and one of the persons Ken
dall declared overheard his telephone
conversation with Stilwell, testified she
made a long distance call to Albany for
Kendall, but under cross-examintion
said she had not been allowed to listen
to the conversation.
George a. Field, vice president of
Kendall’s company, the other person
declared by Kendall to have overheard
his t^lks with Stilwell, testified he
heard Kendall threaten Stilwell. Also
he said ho overheard subsequent con
versations in which Stilwell reported
progress of the bill. Under cross-exam
ination Field admitted he did not at any
time hear Stilwell ask Kendall for
money.
Mrs. Tedder Found
Guilty of Robbing
Man of Bank Roll
MACON. Ga., May 24.—Mrs. Francel
Tedder, of Atlanta, who was founl
guilty last Thursday of robbing W. F.
Kersey of $175, was last night sentenced
to serve one year In the penitentiary,
Her attorney, John R. Cooper, immedk
ateiy’gave notice of an appeal.
George Douglas, her ‘lcother-in-law
has been placed on trial for the same
offense, as Mrs. Tedder accused him ot
the robbery. It is expected that he will
be vindicated.
Kersey stated that he formerly knew
Mrs. Tedder in Atlanta, where she wa»
tried for . murdering her husband, in
claims that he went to her home onn<
night last winter to pay her a visit ani
that she gave him a drink of whiskj
that was "doped,” and that when h«
came to himself his roll of *176 wa>
missing.
REMARKABLE MORTAR
TARGET PRACTICE
(By Associated Press.)
PORT TOWNSEND, Va., May 24.—
Announcement was made today of re
markable results of target practice yes
terday with the 12-inch mortars at Fort
Worden, one of the defense at the en
trance to Puget Sound. The mortars
were fired for the first time at fixed
and movable targets in Discovery Bay,
eight miles distant and hidden from the
fort by forest-covqred hills. The exact
score has not been computed but several
shots were marked as hits.
The importance of fortifications com
manding Discovery -Bay has long been
recognized but it was not thought that
the bay could be covered by fire from a
distant fort. Just how the shots were
directed was known only to the officers
but It probably was done from a con
cealed station on protection island.
STOPS ELOPEMENT AND
TAKES SISTER HOME
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
MACON, Ga., May 23—A message to
the effect that his sister. Miss Zadie
Dangdale, eighteen years of age, and a
freshman at Wesleyan college, was pre
paring to elope with a young man from
Council, Ga v brought H. Langdale, a
Valdosta lawyer and president of the
Valdosta baseball club, to Macon this
morning.
MIAMI MOURNS DEATH
OF HENRY M. FLAGLER
MIAMI, Fla. May 23.—All business
houses In this ctiy including the post-
office will be closed this afternoon all
flags be at half mast and public build
ings draped in mourning out of respect
to the memory of Henry M. Flagler,
late railroad and hotel magnate, who
bounded Miami. Union memorial serv
ices will be held by the churches here
simultaneously with the burial services
at St. Augustine, which are scheduled
for 3 o’clock this afternoon.
LABOR LEADERS ASK FOR
REVIEW OF SENTENCES
WASHINGTON, May 24.—Attorney)
for Samuel Gompers, John Mitchell and
Frank Morrison applied to the supremi
court today for a review of their sen
tences for violating a court inJunctioE
in the Bucks Stove and » Range casa
The court is in recess.
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