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ATLANTA, GA.. FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1913.
NO. 93.
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BUY LITTLE GIRL WAS BILLED
Solicitor Declares That Outburst of Yesterday Should Not
Be Allowed and That as There Is Further Unpleasant Tes
timony <o Be Heard, He Suggests That Frank’s Wife and
Mother Do Not Hear It—Judge Issues Caution
There were three big features in the Thursday morning session of
the trial of Leo M. Frank: ,
First,, the request of Solicitor Hugh M. Dorsey that the mother
and wife of the accused he excluded from the court room to prevent
an interruption similar to that made by Mrs. Rae Frank Wednesday
afternoon. Judge Roan did not grant the request but cautioned the la
dies that they must contain themselves.
Second, the overrulihg of a motion made by the defense to strike
from the record the sensational questions and answers reflecting on
Frank’s character elicited Wednesday afternoon during the examination
of John Ashley Jones, a character witness.
Third, a formidable presentation of evidence corroborating
Frank's story in reference to his movements on the day of the trag
edy.
Through the witnesses who testified Thursday the defense show
ed that Frank was on his way Home at 1:10 o’clock and that he
was on his way back to the factory at 2 o’clock. Previously Emil
Selig had testified that Frank reached his home at 68 East Georgia
avenue about 1:20 o’clock. The superintendent’s story of where ha
was and w'nat he did immediately before and immediately after the
tragedy has, therefore, been very strongly corroborated.
Miss Helen Curran, of 160 Ashby street, stenographer, whose
father works for Montag Bros, and who herself is employed by the
Bennett Printing company, testified that she saw Frank in front ot
Jacobs’ Alabama and Whitehall streets store at 1:20 o’clock Satur
day afternoon.
Mrs. M. G. Michael, of Athens, aunt of Mrs. Lucile Frank, saw Frank,
she testified, in front of her sister’s, Mrs. C. Wolfsheimer, home, 387
Washington street, Saturday afternoon about 2 o’clock. Frank came over
and spoke to her, she said. Jerome Michael, her* son, also saw Frank in
front of the Wolfsheimer residence. Mrs. A. B. Leavy, of 69 East Georgia
avenue, Mrs. Wolfsheimer, Julian Loeb and Miss Rebecca Carson were
other witnesses who testified to seeing Frank either o'n his way home
shortly after 1 o’clock or as he returned to the factory about 2 o’clock.
Cohen- Loeb, of 445 Washington srteet, testified that he rode to
the city on the car with Frank as he was returning to the factory
about 2 o’clock and that he sat In the same seat with him.
Si'g Montag, one of the proprietors of the factory, proved an im
portant witness. In addition to corroborating Frank’s statement in
reference to his visit to Montag Bros. Saturday morning, Mr. Mon
tag swore that prior to January 1, another concern occupied the' floor
space which included the point where Conley claimed that he was
accustomed to sit when he acted as a “lookout” for Frqank and that
the negro would hardly have been sitting there. Through Mr. Mon
tag the defense developed that it was he who employed counsel for
the defendant without any request for a lawyer haying been made
by Frank. On cross-examination the solicitor drew from Mr. Mon
tag the admission that the Pinkertons had not yet been paid for
their services, that they had made several statements, but had
made no requests for payment. Mr. Montag admitted also the find
ing of the bloody stick and a portion of the payment envelope by the
Pinkertons had been reported to him and that he notified Mr. Ros
ser, but did not notify the police.
Another witness for the defense who gave interesting testimony
was Miss Rebecca Carson, forelady at the factory, who swore that Jim
Conley said to hef on Monday after the murder that he was not at the
factory Saturday and that he was so drunk he didn’t know whtat he did
or where he was.
Among’the witnesses examined during the morning was Charley
Lee, employed as a machinist at the factory and well known to pub
lic as a prizefighter. Lee whipped “Kid” Young, the Idol of the
newsies Wednesday night, in tne fourth round of a bout at the audi
torium.
Attorneys for both the state and the defense continued to con
test every point and there were Srequent clashes during the morn
ing. Mr. Arnold and Solicitor Dorsey became particularly vigorous
in their comments upon each other’s manner of conducting the case
and at one' point a physical encounter was threatened.
(More Frank news on Page 2.)
Conscience-Stricken Wife
- Confesses Helping Slay
Husband Ten Years Ago
Woman Got in Religious Fer
vor at Holiness Camp Meet
ing-Told Where Body Was
Buried—Skeleton Found
IS ASKED
!E
. '(By Associated Press.)
BIRMINGHAM. Ala., Aug. 14.—After
getting in a religious fervor, the re
sult of' attending a holiness meeting,
Mrs. H. Ivry, to relieve her con
science, made a confession that she was
accessory to the murder of her hus
band ten years ago, and bold where the
body was buried, according to a special
from Geneva.
She said that William King, a friend,
had given her poison with which to
kill’ her husband, but that it had failed
to work. Then King shot and killed Mr.
Ivry. Later King shot and killed
Thomas Powell a.nd while in j^il at De-
Funiak Springs, Fla., died.
A search was made and the skeleton
of Ivry was found. The woman was
given a preliminary trial this week
and held to the grand jury without
bail.
NINE IN IRE KILLED
IN 3,300 FOOT DROP
Cable Pin Snaps in Mine and
Thirteen Fall Half a Mile,
Four Alive
CLIFTON, Ariz., Aug. 14.—Nine men
were killed and one probably fatally hurt
last night when a cable pin snapped at
the Coronado mine and two ore cars,
carrying twelve tons of ore and thir
teen miners dashed down a thirty-eight
flegree grade for 3,300 feet.
The cars had been lowered over the
brink of the grade—one of the longest
and, steepest in the world—when the pin
holding the cable attached to the cars
snapped, the safety chains broke and the
cars started downward.
Three men rolled off. but nine of tnose
who remained on the cars were killed,
While the other was so seriously in
jured that he was expected to die.
Among the dead were Mining JSngineer
Bhaeffer and E. M. Jones, an electrician.
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GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO
ADJOURN EARLY IN DAY
For First Time in .Many Years
No Night Session Will
Mark Close
“Old Bill” Miner Is Dying;
His Shackles Are Off Now
He's Ready for Last Escape
Prominent Women from Many
States Urge Official Recog
nition of- 4,000,000 Votes
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.—Supported
in their arguments by several congress
men, delegates to the National Coun
cil of Women Voters appeared today
before the house rules committee to
urge the creation of a woman suffrage
committee in the lower branch of con
gress. The women were led by Mrs.
femma Smith Devos, president of the
council. Representatives Raker, of
California; Keating, of Colorado, and
Falconer, of Washington, championed
| their cause.
Miss Jane Addams, of Chicago; Dr.
! Viola M. Coe, of Oregon; Dr. Cora
j Smith King, of Washington, and Mrs.
i Francis M. Bjorman, of Colorado,
were to rpake principal arguments for
; the appointment of a suffrage commit-
: tee. The fact that such a committee
bad lo^ig t-xistea in ..a,* senate, the
women believed, was sufficient reason
why one should be available to them
I in the house.
The women were received by Chair
man Henry and hisi colleagues in the
conference room in the house office
building, the largest chamber in the
structure.
If present indications are not mislead
ing, the general assembly of Georgia
will have finished its work some time
Thursday afternoon, obviating the neces
sity of a long-drawn out night session
that almost invariably runs into the
wee sma’ hours of the early morning,
though the hands of the house' and sen
ate clocks are never allowed to work
past midnight.
The matter of tax equalization 13 set
tled and it seems probable that the sen
ate will concur with the house in re
storing th& budget to the figures con
tained, in the original general appropria
tions bill. Aside from this, there is
little else to do, and apparently the leg
islature will be ready to adjourn sine
die before the setting of another sun.
The law-making machinery of the
state, sluggish at first, began to hum
at the beginning of the last, week with
the result that legislation that seemed
doomed to lie over to next summer has
been enacted in record-breaking time.
Prison reformers won and lost in the
house at the afternoon session Wednes
day. The indeterminate sentence bill
was tabled and the probation bill passed
after long and heated debase.
The measure that survived provides
that in exceptional cases the judge may,
at his discretion, place convicted per
sons on probation and allow them to
serve their sentences outside of jails,
prisons or other houses of detention. It
provides further that in the event of a
fine, the amount may be paid in install
ments.
Both of th'ese measures were intro
duced through the efforts of the Men
and Religion Forward Movement as com
panion bills to the bill to establish a
home for wayward girls under the age
of sixteen year£
The final morning session of the
house of representatives was uninter
esting and free from usual squabbling
over petty matters. Lack of general in
terest was manifest from the outset.
The general bills passed were of little
importance and those killed or tabled
only the passing interest. General disor
der and restlessness marked the session
and adjournment which is almost sure
to come during the afternoon will be
welcomed by the few who have remain
ed for the closing hours.
feOK CHARLTON IS CHEERFUL
AS HE STARTS FOR ITALY
Noted Old Oi
Live Rest y*.
at State Prison Farm Say,
“Old Bill” Man of Daring
Career
NEWTON COUNTY FAIR TO
BE HELD IN NOVEMBER
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
COVINGTON, Ga„ Aug. 14.—At a
joint meeting of the Newton County
i Corn club, Live Stock association and
j Poultry association November 13 and
f 14, were the dates set for the big
I county fair to be held this fall. There
will be only one big show this fall
instead of three as have oeen previously
held, combining the Corn club and
school exhibits, live stock and poultry
shows.
A prize list for general agriculture
has already been given out, the other
prizes to follow. Newton county Is
planning one of the largest county fairs
to be held this fall in the state.
A
WAYWARD GIRLS' HOME
Committee, However, Cuts Ap
propriation to* One-Third
Its Size
“Old Bill” Miner is about to make his
last escape. “Old Bill” is about to seek
a refuge where pursuit cannot follow.
And there, you may be sure, an ac
count will be taken of his “ten com
mandments’ 'as well as of his adven
tures with the law, his little tilts with
justice out in the western country, also
in England, Ireland and Scotland, up to
the very mouth of the Danube, in China,
in Australia, and even along the west
coast of Africa.
“Old Bill,” who sought the open road
and followed it up and down the world,
but with never a moment’s forgetful
ness of his “ten commandments”—this
old man who is a gentleman and a train
robber in one is dying at the state’s
prison farm at Milledgeville.
‘You’ll never keep me here,” said
Bill, about three years ago when he
began a twenty-year sentence. “I’m
ycung enough to get out of jail, even if
I can’t keep out.”
The truth was, Bill verged upon sev
enty years. * But that old undaunted
spirit which had set him to seeking ad
venture from country to country took no
account of years.
“I’ve still got my eye on the Paris
to Constantinople express,” observed
“Old Bill,” caressing his gray goattee
in a way that he had. I’ll be out before
you know it.”
And he was.
This old man, almost seventy, broke
jail, and was hunrted for days through
the woods near the prison farm. He
endured almost unbelievable exposure,
and showed a nerve that age hadn’t
weakened the least bit.
“Old Bill” Miner at seventy years of
age had the spirit of Young Bill Miner
at twenty.
“I'll be out again soon,” was all he
had to say when he found himself back
at the prison farm.
AND THEY FOUND “BILL” GONE.
The months passed, and one fine morn
ing came when guards found the bars
of a window sawed out, and “Bill’’
missing. This time he took to the
swamps near the prison, and for days
lived there, no food, nothing but the
brackish water to drink.
When at last “Bill” was captured, his
strength was broken. The exposure
which he had endured had suddenly
made him a feeble old man. It was
pitiful to see ‘Bill” as he tottered round
the prison yard.
For discipline’s sake, more than any
thin gelse, chains had been put upon his
ankles.
“But I’ll take them off,” agreed the
warden, “if you’ll promise not to escape
again.”
“Well, I •don’t know,” said Bill. I’ve
got sorter used to them. Guess I’d bet
ter keep them on.”
Self-Confessed Wife Slayer
Expects Acquittal at Hands
of Foreign Jury
NEW YORK, Aug. 14.—The case of
Porter Charlton, self-confessed slayer of
his wife, was removed today from
American jurisdiction when Charlton
was given over by th$ warden of the
jail at Jersey City to two Italian po
licemen in accordance with extradition
papers. He was reported to be in high
spirits in prospect of a sea * voyage,
after nearly three years’ confinement,
and confident that at the handcs of
the Italian authorities he would re
ceive an acquittal.
Before going to the steamship which
sails today for Italy, he shook hands
with all the jail officials and his fellow-
prisoners and he was also visited by his
father, Judge Paul Charlton, who will
go to Italy for the trial.
Charlton was a young bank clerk, and
was on his honeymoon with Mrs.
Neville H. Castle, daughter of Henry H.
Scott, a San Francisco coal merchant,
when the tragedy occurred at Lake
Como, Italy, near which the couple had
been living in a villa. Mrs. Charlton’s
body was found June 10, 1910, in a
trunk at the bottom of the lake.
Charlton was traced to America, where
he confessed to killing his wife. He las
bitterly fought extradition for the past
three years, but on July 8, last, he lost
his last appeal, when the United States
supreme court held that he must be
given up to the Italian authorities.
URGES DELAY
IE DANK REFORM
President Asks Democrats to
Await Report of Commis
sion Before Acting
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.—President
Wilson issued a statement before the
Democratic house caucus resumed con
sideration of the administration cur
rency bill today, announcing that he
believed it not advisable to .amend the
measure at present with provisions fo*
rural credits, but to postpone that
shape of banking reform until the De
cember session when the government
commission now studying the subject in,
Europe will have reports
The president said:
“Again and again during the discus
sion of the currency bill it has been
urged that special provision should be
made in it for the facilitation of such
credits as the farmers of the country
most stand in need of—agricultural
credit as distinguished from ordinary
commercial and industrial credits.
“Such proposals were not adopted be
cause such creits could be only imper
fectly provided for in such a meas
ure. The scope and character of the
bill, its immediate and chief purpose,
could not bem ade to reach as far as
the special interests of the farmer re
quire.
“The commission and the executive
working together will certainly afford
the needed method of relief and pros
perity to the people of the country
sides and that very soon.”
STUDY NECESSARY.
“Special machinery and a distinct
system of banking must be provided for
if rural credits are to be successfully
and adequately supplied. A government
commission is now in Europe studying
the interesting and highly successful
methods which have been employed in
several countries of the old world, and
its report will be made to congress at a
regular session next winter. It is con
fidently to be expected that the congress
will at that session act upon the rec
ommendations of that report and es
tablish a complete and adequate system
of rural credits.
There is no subject more important
to the welfare of the industrial develop
ment of the United States; there is no
reform in which I would myself feel it
a greater honor or privilege to take part
because I should feel that it was a
service to the whole country. It should
have accompanied and gone hand in
hand with the reform of our banking
and currency system if we had been
ready to act wisely and with full knowl
edge of wjiat we were about.
“There has been too little federal
legislation framed to serve the farmer
directly and with a deliberate adjust
ment to his real needs. We long ago
fell into the habit of assuming the
farmers of America enjoyed such an
immense natural advantage over the
farmers of the rest of the world, were
so Intelligent and enterprising and so
at ease upon the incomparable soils of
our great continent, that they could
feed the world and prosper no matter
what handicap they carried, no matter
what disadvantage, whether of the law
or of natural circumstances, they la
bored under.
“Wfe have not exaggerated their ca
pacity or their opportunity, but we
hav e neglected to analyze the burden
some disadvantages from which they
were suffering and have too often
failed to remove them when we did
see what they were.
RELIEF NECESSARY.
“Our farmers. must have means af
forded them of handling their financial
needs easily and inexpensively. They
should be furnished these facilities be
fore their enterprises languish, not aft
erwards.
“And -.iey will be. This is our next
great task and duty. Not only is a
government commission about to re
port, which is charged with apprising
congress of the best methods yet em
ployed in this matter, but the depart
ment of agriculture has also underta
ken a serious and systematic study of
thj whole problem.
GOV. OF NEW YORK
Machinery of State. Govern
ment Threatens to Be
Thrown Out of Gear by At
tempts of Rivals to Direct It
(By Associated Press.)
ALBANY, N. Y., Aug:. 14.—Two clai
mants to the office of governor of New
York sat In the capitol today, each at
tempting: to conduct the state's affairs
from his own chambers.
William Sulzer, Impeached governor,
sat In the executive chamber on th®
second floor of the building. He Is
going to sit there every day, according
(to friends, disregarding the Impeach
ment proceedings which he regards as
unconstitutional.
Martin H. Glynn, lieutenant governor,
laid claim to the office on the grounds
that Sulzer ceased to be governor when
the senate received the articles of Im
peachment yesterday.
The army of state employes Is de
moralized. Department heads are at
a loss to know whose Instructions to
follow.
Mrs. Sulzer, stai* witness of the Im
peached governor Is so seriously 111
with a nervous disorder that two addi
tional specialists have been summoned
to attend her. Governor Sulzer as
serted emphatically that he would not
permit her to take the stand at his
trial for Impeachment which probably,
will start September 22.
The articles of Impeachment, com
plaint and summons were served on
Governor Sulzer immediately after hts
arrival at the capltoL
“I am directed by the president of
the senate,” said the senate's clerk, "to
serve upon you & summons and com
plaint and articles of Impeachment”
Governor Sulzer took the papers,
& .nted and tossed them unopened on
his desk.
“All right," be said.
Immediately afterward hie private
secretary made the following announce
ment to newspaper men:
"The governor has been enjoined by
his counsel from making any Statement.
I will spy, however, on his behalf, that
Illness of Mrs. Sulzer is giving the
go-ernor considerable concern. Her
condition last night was very serious.
The specialist summoned from New
York last night Is here and the gover
nor today summoned two other doctors
to attend her."
-overnor Sulzer retired to his pri
vate office at 11:30 o’clock for a series
of conferences.
Mrs. Sulzer’s temperature was 102,
her pulse 110, her condition serious and
she can see no one, according to a bul-
let.ii Issued at noon.
The appropriations committee of the
senate passed favorably upon the house
bill providing for a home for wayward
girls in Georgia with the amendment
that the appropriation of $30,000 be de
creased to $10,000.
This amendment was made at the
motion of Senator Stark, who informed
the committee that he had been tolij.
by Governor Slaton that he would veto
the bill if It carried more than $10,000.
The Swltt-Slade-Wohlwender inheri
tance tax bill passed the senate by a
vote of 27 to 0.
BANK OFFICER MISSING;
SHORTAGE OF $200,000
The Examiners Close Doors of
Roseville Trust Company
of Newark, N, J„
(By Associated Press.)
NEWARK, N. J.. Aug-. 14.—Bank ex
aminers today closed the Roseville Trust
company, a state institution in Newark’s
suburbs and in so doing: confirmed a re
port that Raymond E. Smith, secretary-
treasurer of the institution is missing.
He left behind, him a shortage esti
mated at $200,000.
IN LYNCHING OF BLACKS
Two Whites Killed by Negroes,
Who Are Hung by
- Mob
‘Reckoned’ They Could
Give Wanderer a Bed;
He Was Long-Lost .Son
GLASGOW, Ky, Aug. 14.—He had
been away for twenty years seeking his
fortune in Alaska and his father and
mother, Mr. and Mrs. James Huffman,
were sitting in a room of their home
near here yesterday discussing him, and
wondering if he would ever come back.
Then there was a knock at the door,
and Mr. Huffman opened it to see a dusty
traveler who said he was tired and was
seeking lodging for the night. Mr. Huff
man thought he could do nothing rof
him, as there were visitors in the home,
and the traveler turned to go.
But Mrs. Huffman could not‘see the
man turned out into the night, so called
him and “reckoned” they could manage
somehow.
Then they led him into the hall, under
the swinging lamp, and as the light fell
on his face the aged couple recognized
him, and there was a glad reunion.
Virgil Huffman had been prospecting
in Alaska for a score of years and he
had prospered. Now he will make his
home with his parents who “reckon”
they can manage somehow to make room
for him.
ARDMORE, Okla.. Aug. 14.—Water
melons were the indirect cause of two
lynchings at Paul’s Valley, Okla., last
night. According to reports received
here today Sanders Franklin and Henry
Ralston, negrbes, were taken from of
ficers who were on their way from
Ardmore to Paul’s Valley, where they
were to be placed on trial for killing two j mnrtTrii I/'ll I rn
white persons, and hanged to nearby GAIMGoTEn IS KILLED
The two negroes had been in jail her* j BY MAN WHO ESCAPED
for safe-keeping. Franklin shot a white
man to death in a dispute over the A nn +U pr HpPlth k AHHpH In
price of a watermelon, and Ralston shot 11 vJ L11I L'Ualll lo nUUCU IU
and killed a white boy whom he found
in his melon patch
Big Firm Warns Women
Employes Not to Wear
Extreme Dress Styles
I^EW BRITAIN, Conn., Aug. 14.—Sev
eral hundred young women, stenograph
ers and clerks employed by a large man
ufacturing concern here are receiving
polite notes in their pay envelopes this
week, with warning that the slit skirt,
the hobble and diaphanous skirts are not
to be tolerated. Each girl is asked to
appear for work in .businesslike and
modest clothes.
Long List of Crimes Charg
ed to Gotham Apaches
NEW YORK, Aug. 14.—The list of gang
ster crimes was augmented today with
the murder of a man believed to be Jo
seph E. Rock, a member of the Sullivan
street gang, who was shot dead this
morning while walking on Thirty-first
street. The man dropped with a bullet
in his brain in front of an unoccupied
two-story building in the doorway of
which a revolver was afterward found. 4
Three policemen and a detective were
on the scene within two minhtes but they
caught no sight of the* escaping murdered
The victim himself clutched a loaded re
volver which he had not fired.
WILSON OPPOSES ANY
RECESS OF THE SENATE
Should Go Ahead and Pass
Tariff and Currency Bills,
He Declares
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.—President
Wilson today Informed Democratic sen
ators he was unalterably opposed to any
recess of the senate between the time (
the tariff bill is passed and currency is
taken up. He made it plain that he
believed it the duty of the Democratic
party not to hesitate in its program of
legislative reform, but to dispose of the
tariff and currency during the present
session of congress, so that the Decem
ber session may promptly take up anti
trust and other important legislation
carrying out platform pledges.
The president communicated his views
through Secretary Tumulty, who got in
touch with most of the Democratic sena
tors and concluded that a substantial
majority was in favor of immediate leg
islation and no recess. ^
Incidentally the president took a
strong position .on the question of legis
lative agreements between Democrats
and Republicans in congress. He be
lieves that the Democrats, as the domi
nant party, should proceed with deter
mination and not trade with the mi
nority.
The fact that Republican senators had
informally agreed to speed up considera
tion of the tariff bill if a recess were
assured after its passage, prompted the
president to urge that business through
out the country demanded early action
on the tariff regardless of whether any
vacation or recess was promised in re
turn.
Democratic senators were caucusing
on the recess proposal at the time Pres
ident Wilson’s views were made known.
The caucus adjourned until tonight
without getting to the question because
of an early meeting of the senate and
because of time consumed in discussion
of an unexpected resolution by Major
ity Leader Kern to open the caucus
to the public. Mr. Kern’s motion to
open was voted down, but he declared
it would come up again tonight with
the question of recess and the whole
question for a legislative program.
Senator James, of Kentucky, who
came directly from the White House to
the caucus outlined President Wilson’s
plan against recess or delay of currency
legislation.
“The president is opposed to any de
lay on currency,” said Senator James.
“I think the Democrats will give him
unanimous support.
“A few nien who do not even repre
sent the minority - party are filibuster
ing against the tariff and holding up
progress. I am in favor not only of
a continuous session, but of a cloture
rule that will shut off some of this
filibuster and hold the senate down to
business.”
An attempt by Senator Simmons,
leader of the Democratic tariff forces,
to arrange for a vote ort the tariff bill
in the senate August 25, was blocked
by Senator Gallinger, Republican
leader.
Democrats refused to say whether
they would insist upon taking up the
currency bill after the tariff was com
pleted and Republicans refused to say
whether they would filibuster against
'the ta riff until assured that the cur
rency bill, would not be pressed.
Senators Simmons and James tried to
get Senator Gallinger to tell the Re
publicans plans, but he refused.
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