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' •’ ‘ - : ■*r vOU'ME XII 1 ATLANTA, GA.. FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1913. NO. 93. mil IS SEEN BY WITNESSES IE 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. 5 j40ULt> V/ORWt'- TO THE. Woods, Mountains S^a Shore ETC. AU REVUIR 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. ■m