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THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1916.
ROAN CHARGES JURY THEY
ARE SOLE JUDGES OF
WITNESSES’ CREDIBILITY
(Continued Prom Page 1.)
people who knew him prior to the
time of the death of Mary Phagan.
Therefore, when the witnesses by
\ which a defendant seeks to prove his
good character are put upon the
. stand, and testify that his charac-
' ter is good, the effect of the testi
mony is to say that the people who
knew him spoke well of him, and
that his general reputation was oth-
- erwise good. When a defendant has
put his character in issue, the state
is allowed to attack it by proving
that his general reputation is not
good, or by showing that the wit
nesses who have stated that his
character is good, have untruly re
ported it.
Hence, the solicitor general has
been allowed to cross-examine the
witnesses for the defense who were
introduced to testify to his good
character. In the cross-examination
of these witnesses, he was allowed
to ask them if they had not heard
of various acts of misconduct on
the defendant’s part. The solicitor
general had the right to ask any
question along this line he pleased,
in order thoroughly to sift the wit
nesses, and to see if anything de-
. rogatory to the defendant’s reputa
tion could be proved by them.
NOT TO BELIEVE UNSPOKEN
WORDS.
The court now wishes to say to
you that, although the solicitor gen
eral was allowed to ask the de
fendant’s character witnesses these
questions as to their having heard of
various acts of alleged misconduct
on the defendant’s part the jury is
not to consider this as evidence that
the defendant has been guilty of
any such misconduct as may have
been indicated in the questions of
the solicitor general, or any of them,
unless the alleged witnesses testify
to it. Furthermore, where a man’s
character is. put in evidence, and
in the course of the investigation
any specific kct of misconduct is
shown, this does not go before the
■ jury for the purpose of showing af-
- firmatively that his character is bad
or that he is guilty of the offense
with which he stands charged, but
is to be considered by the jury only
in determining the credibility and
the degree of information possessed
by those witnesses who have testi
fied to his good character.
FOR THE JURY TO SAY.
When the defendant has put his
character in issue, the state is al
lowed to bring witnesses to prove
that his general character is bad,
v and thereby to disprove the testi
mony of those who have stated that
it is good. The jury is allowed to
take this testimony, and have tlie
right to consider it along with all
the other evidence introduced on the
subject of the general character of
the defendant, and it is for the jury
finally to determine from all the evi
dence whether his character was
good or bad. But a defendant is
not to be convicted of the crime
with which he stands charged, even
though, upon a .consideration of all
the evidence, as to his character the
jury believes tsat his character is
bad unless from all the other testi
mony in the case they believe that
he is guilty beyond a reasonable
doubt.
AGAIN SAYS FOR JURY TO SAY.
You will, therefore, observe that
this is the rule you will be guided
by in determining the effect to be
given to the evidence on the subject
of the defendant’s character. If,
"after considering all the evidence
pro and con, on the subject of the
•defendant’s character, you believe
* that prior to the time of Mary Pha-
“ k gan’s death he bore a good reputa-
~tion among those who knew him,
, that his general character was good,
e"you will consider that as one of the
.'facts in the case, and it may be
sufficient to create a reasonable
doubt of the defendant’s guilt, if it
so impress your minds and con
sciences, after considering it along
with all the other evidence in the
case; and if it does you should give
the defendant the benefit of the
doubt and acquit him. However,
2 though you should believe his gen-
; eral character was good, still if,
I after giving due weight to it as one
^of the facts in the case, you believe
from the evidence as a whole that
he is guilty beyond a reasonable
-><ioubt, you would be authorized to
* convict him.
" JURY» CAN RECOMMEND LIFE
SENTENCE.
If you believe beyond a reason
able doubt from the evidence in this
case that this defendant is guilty of
murder, then you would be author-
„ ized in that event to say, “We, the
‘' jury, find the defendant guilty.’*
* Should you go no further, gentle-
* men, and say nothing else in your
•T verdict, the court would have to
“'sentence the defendant to the ex
treme penalty for murder, to-wit:
to be hanged by the neck until he
is dead. But should you see fit to
do so, in the event you arrive at the
conclusion and belief beyond a rea
sonable doubt from the evidence
that this defendant is guilty, then,
gentlemen, you would be authorized
in that event, if you saw fit to do
so, to say: We, the jury, find the
defendant guilty, and we recommend
that he be imprisoned in the peni
tentiary for life.’* In the event you
should make such a verdict as that,
then the court, under the law, would
have to sentence the defendant to
the penitentiary for life.
DO YOUR HONEST DUTY.
You have heard the . defendant
. make his statement. He had the
right to make it under the law. It
is not made under oath and he is
not subject to examination or cross-
- examination. It is with you as to
how much of it you will believe, or
how little of it. You may go to the
extent, if you see fit, of believing it
in preference to the sworn testimony
in the case.
In the event, gentlemen, you have
a reasonable doubt from the evi
dence, or the evidence and the state-
; ment together, or either, as to the
defendant’s guilt as charged, then
give the prisoner the benefit of that
doubt and acquit him; and in the
event you do acquit him the form
of your verdict would be: “We, the
jury, find the defendant not guilty.’*
As honest jurors do your utmost to
reach the truth from the evidence
and statement as you have heard it
here, then let your verdict speak it.
GIRL IN SUICIDE PACT
DIES AS SHE PRAYED
(By Associated Press.)
YONKERS, N. Y., Aug. 22.—Ruth
Hamilton died today in answer to her
prayers. Brief periods of lucidness dur
ing the night were spent by the seven-
jteen-year-old Boston girl in praying that
the might join her boy lover, Charles
Rich, who shot and killed himself after
tnortally wounding her Wednesday
night. They had been sweethearts a few
months and had agreed to die together.
' “Oh, why don’t I die; why didn’t he
shoot me right? I want to be buried
With him,” she moaned continually, un
heeding the tears of her mother and sis
ter at her bedside.
* *
I
6LEASE AND TREASURER
IN HOT ROW OVER LOAN
South Carolina “Broke” for
First Time Since Hampton's
Election in 1876
COLUMBIA, S. C., Aug. 22.—Governor
Blease and State Treasurer Carter were
the principals in a stormy meeting of
the sinking fund commission endeavor
ing to straighten out the tangle in the
matter of the state loan.
Treasurer Carter returned the six
notes to the governor with his name
erased and Blease stated he was going
to send the loan controversy to the leg
islature in a special message and “give
Carter the devil.”
The state is “broke” and the treasury
absolutely depleted for the first time
since the Democrats redeemed the state
under General Hampton in 1876.
VICTIM POINTS TO NEGRO
AS GUILTY ASSAILANT
Woman Identifies Him Among
Four Other Blacks Brought
Before Her
COLUMBIA, S. C., Aug. 23.—The ne
gro. William Farr, held in the peniten
tiary here for safekeping charged with
criminal assault on a white woman of
Spartanburg county, was positively
identified by his alleged victim here to
day. She picked him out of a bunch
of five negroes who were dressed ex
actly alike in citizens’ clothes at the
penitentiary. Walking up in front of
Farr she said, “This is the negro.”
The Spartanburg woman, accompanied
by her husband and father-in-law, had
come to Columbia this morning with
Solicitor Hill and Sheriff White, of
Spartanburg, for the purpose of identi
fying the negro.
Solicitor Hill and Sheriff White ar
ranged with the penitentiary officials
that four other negroes and Will Farr
should be dressed in citizens’ clothes ex
actly alike, even to their hats. They
were placed in chairs down one side of
a room in the, penitentiary and told to
keep their mouths shut, Captain Sond-
ley, of the penitentiary guard, standing
by to see that this injunction was carried
out. The victim, in company with her
husband, father-in-law, Sheriff White
and Solicitor Hill, walked into the room
and Sheriff White asked her to point
out Farr. She told the negroes all to
stand up. She then commanded them
to turn their backs which was promptly
done. Ordering them to face about the
lady then raised her finger, pointed di
rectly at William Farr, and said, “There
is the negro who assaulted me.” Sheriff
White asked her to step closer and be
certain. . Never once did she waver in
her identification.
The negro when brought here for
safekeeping by Chief Hayes, of Spartan
burg, after Sheriff White had beaten off
a mob which stormed the jail in an
effort to lynch the negro, denied, his
guilt.
While the stage was being set for the
identification the negroes were closely
watched and during the whole time there
were several of the penitentiary guards
in the room.
Solicitor Albert E. Hill announced this
afternoon before returning to Spartan
burg that the special term of the Spar
tanburg criminal court called to try this
negro had been postponed until the third
Monday in September, the 15th, this be
ing necessary to get in the twenty days
required to draw a jury which is re
quired by law. Mr. Hill said the negro,
William Farr, would certainly be tried
at that term of court. He said the court
would last for one wek.
Asked to Be Arrested
To Prevent Him Trom
Stealing to Get Food
SAVANNAH. Ga., Aug. 23.—John E.
Schwarz, recorder of the city of Sa
vannah, ha* had his faith in humanity
shaken again. A few days ago a man
who gave his name as Manuel Noah, met
a policeman on the street and asked
him to place him' under arrest and send
him to the barracks.
“I am hungry," said Noah, “aiM out
of work, and if you do not arrest me I
fear I will steal something to sell to
buy something to eat with." The offi
cer put Noah under arrest and sent him
to the barracks. When the recorder
heard the story he took pity on the pris
oner and said he deserved help. He had
him sent back to the prison, but asked
in the newspaper that someone give the
man work. Morris Lepinsky, a well
known citizen of Savannah, volunteered
to employ the man and set him to work
on Thursday morning. Noah worked one
day and quit. Yesterday morning on
Habersham street it is alleged he yield
ed to temptation. He ran up behind
Mrs. E. D. Rogers as she walked on the
street and snatched her purse that con
tained $35. Then he did a hot-foot,
but was so closely pressed that he drop
ped the purse in the street. He was
finally caught and faced the recorder
again this morning. His honor did not
try to find work for him this time out
side the chaingang forces of Chatham
county. He held Noah for trial in the
city court. \Noah complained that he
could not live on the wages paid him by
Mr. Lepinsky. He had been given sev
enty-five cents for his day’s work.
ACIDITY OF CORN WILL
DETERMINE GRADING
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.—In connec
tion with the announcement by the de
partment of agriculture of the tentative
adoption of seven definite grades for
commercial corn, the bureau of plant
industry’s standardization office de
clares that its investigation in formu
lating these grades have shown that the
“degree of acidity” is a most important
factor in determining the soundness of
corn and likewise its safety for stor
age and for shipment.
While these investigations indicate
that acidity tests affords a means of
accurately measuring the quality or de
gree of soundness, it has not been in
cluded in the grade requirements, be
cause .neither the grain inspection de
partments nor boards of appeal are fa
miliar with or equipped for making such
determination next week in commercial
grading. I
The results likewise indicate that
sound corn of good quality does not
exceed 22 cubic centimeters in acidity;
that corn with an acidity in excess of
26 cubic centimeters already has under
gone partial deterioration and is unsafe
for storage; while corn showing an
acidity of 3 cubic centimeters or over
is distinctly of inferior quality, such
as would in almost every instance be
classed as sample grade under the pres
ent system of grading.
The degree of acidity as herein ex
pressed, represents the number of cu
bic centimeters of tenth normal alkali
solution required to neutralize the acid
in 100 grams of corn.
Hit
HOW FRANK IS REGARDED BY HIS
OWN AND THE STATE’S ATTORNEYS;
EXCERPTS FROM FOUR SPEECHES
Attorney Luther Z. Rosser:
Y OU heard him on the stand.
You can take a counterteit
dollar of the right size and
the right weight, one that would
fool the secretary of the treasury,
and drop it—and it will not have
the ring of the genuine.
Arnold or I could have told his
story but it would not have had
the ring of truth to it. I have
proof that I never wrote his
statement. I couldn’t have done
it! He has morfe brain's than
either of us.
You heard his story. It had the
ring of truth to it, unmistakable,
unrefutable.
This man is a victim of sus
picious circumstances.
It was an awful crime, the kill
ing of that litti’e girl. But it is a
far worse crime to accuse this
young man of her murder. X hope
I never see this trial duplicated in
a courtroom.
Attorney Reuben R. Arnold:
W E are not claiming perfec
tion for this defendant,
gentlemen, any more than
we claim it for ourselves, or you
claim it for yourselves, or Solici
tor Dorsey and his associates
claim for themselves. But he is
a moral gentleman.
The greatest injustice in this
case has been the whispered, un
speakable things, the very sus
picion of which is damning.
The state has built its case on
Conley’s testimony and it stands
or fails with it. As that negro
lay in his cell at police station,
he conjured up the story he has
told. And it was monstrous. If
we hang a man on a story like
that we are no better than grub
worms.
I am glad to espouse this man
and f.ght for his cause. I know
the public eventually will com
mend me for it. Ar_. I know my
own conscience will commend me.
Attorney Frank A. Hooper:
HIS defendant, like Dr. Jekyl,
when the shades of night
came, threw asid'e his mask
of respectability, and was trans
formed into a Mr. Hyde. Amj then
he did not seek the companions
of Dr Jekyl, but, like Hyde, went
to a lower stratum where he pick
ed up Dalton and his kind. And
h'e went with them instead of the
men who have come here to give
him a good character.
The factory was a great place
for a man with lust and without
conscience. No doubt the situa
tion under which this man worked
was a great temptation—too great
for him.
We say a crime was pr’emed- •
itated, that as far hack as March
Frank had his lustful eyes on this
little girl. He knew that Gantt,
this long-legged mountaineer was
the only man in the factory who
would raise his hand to protect
her. So he discharged him.
Solicitor Hugh M. Dorsey:
I BELIEVE these poor, unpro
tected working girls who say
he is of bad character. Some
times a man of bad character
uses charitable and religious or
ganizations to mask his real self.
Many a man has walked in high
society, and appeared without as
a whited sbpulcher, while he was
rotten to the core within.
Oscar Wilde, brilliant, whose
literary w rks will go down
through the ages, had a good rep
utation, but he didn’t have the
character.
This man has a reputation—
and that is all. He has no char
acter.
.... As sure as you are horn
that man is not like other men.
Othbrs without Mary Pha-
gan’s stamina and character
yielded to his lust. But she did
not. And he strangled her to save
his reputation. His hands are red
with her blood. * *
FRENCH AVIATOR OTF
ON LENGTHY FLIERT
Leaves Paris in Hope of
Breaking Record for Trans-
European Journey
(By Associated Press.)
PARIS, Aug. 23.—Maurice Guillaux, a
French aviator, left Biarritz in the
southwestern corper of France at 4:55
o’clock this morning, on a long flight
across northern Europe. He will at
tempt to beat the record made last
June when Marcel G. Brindejonc des
Moulinais flew from Paris to St. Peters
burg.
Guillaux landed at 10:35 at Villacou-
blay, a suburb of Paris, having made
the fight of 425 miles in 340 minutes,
an average of 75 miles an hour. After
filling fuel tanks he resumed his flight
at 11:03.
STANDING
SOUTHERN LEAGUE
Clubs.
Won.
Lost.
Pet.
Mobile ...
.. 75
50
.600
Atlanta ..
.. 68
55
.553
Montgomery
.. 65
45
.542
Rirminghaui ... .
, .
.. 66
59
.528
Chattanooga .. ..
.. 61
59
.508
Memphis
.. 61
62
.400
Nashville
.. 52
72
.419
New Orleans ....
.. 40
76
.345
NATIONAL
AMERICAN
Clubs.
W. L.
Pet.
Clubs.
W. L.
Pet.
N. York
80 35
.696
Ptaila.
78 39
.667
Phlla.
65 44
.596
Cleveland
70 49
.587
Pittsburg
62 53
.539
Wash’ton
66 50
.569
Chicago
62 55
.530
Chicago
64 58
.525
Brooklyn
51 61
.455
Boston
57 58
.487
Boston
49 64
.434
Detroit
51 70
.421
Cincin’ati
4S 73
.395
St. Louis
44 75
.370
St. Louis
43 75
.364
N. York
39 74
.345
SOUTH
ATLANTIC
EMPIRE STATE
Clubs.
W. L.
Pet.
Clubs.
W. L.
Pet.
Savannah
31 22
.585
Thomasv.
29 16
.641
Coin mb us
28 23
.549
Valdosta ^
25 23
.521
Jacksonv.
27 25
.519
Bruns w’k
23 24
.480
Albany
24 28
.462
Amerlcus
22 25
.468
Charleston
22 28
.440
Way cross
22 26
.458
Macon
22 28
.440
Cerdele
20 27
.426
Baseball Scores
RESULTS THURSDAY
Southern
Atlanta 8-3, Montgomery 3-6.
Birmingham 3-3, New Orleans 1-0.
Mobile 4, Nashville 3.
South Atlantic
Columbus 12, Macon 4.
Savannah 3. Charleston 1.
Albany 2, Jacksonville 1.
National
Pittsburg 9, Philadelphia 6.
Cincinnati 6, Brooklyn 4.
New York 8, Chicago 2.
Boston 7, St. Louis 6.
American
Washington 2, St. Louis 0.
Philadelphia 7, Chicago 1.
Boston 3, Cleveland 2.
RESULTS FRIDAY
Southern
Atlanta 8, Montgomery 0.
Mobile 4, Nashville 2.
Other games off; rain.
South Atlantio
Charleston 1, Savannah 0.
Macon 3, Columbus 2.
Albany 4, Jacksonville 2.
National
New York 8, Chicago 1.
Philadelphia 3, Pittsburg 3 (twelve innings;
darkness).
Cincinnati 7, Brooklyn 2.
Boston 9, St. Louis 1.
American
Detroit 7-7, New York 4-12.
Boston 2, Cleveland 1.
St. Louis 3, Washington 0.
Philadelphia 2, Chicago 1.
RESULTS SATURDAY
Southern
Alanta 8, Montgomery 1.
Birmingham 12-6, New Orleans 0-5.
Memphis 7-0, Chattanooga 3-10.
Mobile 8, Nashville 6.
National
New York 3, Chicago 2.
Boston 8, St. Louis 4.
Brooklyn 5, Cincinnati 2.
Pittsburg 10-13, Philadelphia 5-8.
American
Deroit 8-2, New York 1-4.
Washington 4, St. Louis 2.
Boston 4. Cleveland 3.
Chicago 7, Philadelphia 4.
South Atlantio
Columbus 5, Macon 1.
Savannah 2, Charleston 1.
Jacksonville 5, Albany 1.
RAWLINGS SEEKS PARDON
FOR HIS DYING BROTHER
Youngest of Brothers in Fa
mous Murder Case Says
Milton Can’t Live in Gang
VALDOSTA, Ga., Aug. 22.—Jesse
Rawlings, -one of the three brothers who
were sentenced to life imprisonment for
killing the two Carter children seven
years ago, was in Valdosta this week
for the first time since he started to
serve his sentence. He was pardoned
by Governor Hoke Smith two years ago
and he came here this week to try and
get help in securing a pardon for his
older brother, Milton^who is still on the
chain gang.
Jesse was the youngest of the three
boys and was sentenced to hang with
Milton. Leonard, the third boy who was
sent up for life, has also been pardoned.
Governor Terrell commuted the sentence
of both Jesse and Milton to life im
prisonment.
Jesse says that Milton is in bad
health,- having had an attack of appendi
citis, and he does not tliink he can live
long on the chain gang.
Cures Old Sores, Other Remedies Won’t Cure
The worst cases, no matter of how long stand
ing, arfe cured by the wonderful, old reliable
Dr. Porter’s Antiseptic Healing Oil. Relieves
pain and heals at the same time. 25c, 50c, $1.00
MAN AND WOMAN DIE
IN_A_SUICIDE PACT
INDIANAPOLIS, Inffi, Aug. 22.—
Fearing discovery of their clandestine
love by the woman’s husband, after
two weeks of secret meetings, Mrs. Ha
zel Stewart, twenty-eight, and Leroy
Gross, twenty-two, divided six ounces
of poison .between them and then lay
down to die in one another’s arms in
Gross’ room at the home of Earl
Pritchard at midnight last night.
Fumes of the acid awakened Pritch
ard and he forced an entrance to the
room, where he found Gross already
dead and Mrs. Stewart unconscious.
Sne was rushed to the city hospital,
where she died two hours later, then
unidentified, and the mystery of the
suicide pact was not unravelled until
late this morning.
Gross came here from Franklin, Ind.,
four years ago, but he did not meet
Mrs. Stewart until two weeks ago. Her
husband, James Stewart, knew nothing
j even of the acquaintanceship of the
! pair. ^
Mrs. Stewart was a beautiful young
woman and had had a happy married
life, it was said by her mother and
friends. She was away from her home
for a short visit, supposedly among
friends until* a few days ago, and it is
now supposed she took this means of
j being with Gross for a week.
FARMERS’ UNION PICNIC
BRINGS IN NEW MEMBERS
Moultrie, Ga., Aug. 22.
Several hundred farmers attended a
rally of the Farmers’ union held to
day at Riverside, a suburb of Moultrie.
The wives and daughters were also in
attendance and a big basket dinner
was a feature. The rally resulted in
an increased membership of the or
ganization in this county and a re
newed effort to organize the county
in every school district. President G.
W. Newton, of the Colquitt county un
ion, was master of ceremonies, and ad
dresses were made by State Organizer
R. F. Duckworth, J. P. Campbell, state
superintendent of the boys’ corn club
work; J. G. Oliver, superintendent ot
the boys’ corn club work in the second
district, and Miss Lillie Forrest, one
of the directors of the girls’ canning
club organizations. In the afternoon
there was a business session when co
operative plans were discussed and
outlined.
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I CANADA WILL DEPORT
THAW TO VERMONT IF
FUGITIVE 50 WISHES
Immigration Authorities Say
They Will Do This If Thaw
Is Agreeable and Then
“Wash Their Hands” of Case
I SHERBROOKE. Quebec., Aug. 23.—
Out of the tangle of red tape sur
rounding the case of Harry K. Thaw,
detained in the Sherbrooke jail as a fu
gitive from Matteawan, there issued
this afternoon whaft was understood to
be an ultimatum from the immigration
authorities.
It was that Thaw, if he so elected,
would be deported to Newport, Vt., as
an undesirable, after his arraignment
in court here on Wednesday, and that
then tho Canadian authorities would
wash their hands of the affair.
If he chooses to submit to
deportation, he will be held here under
the present commitment of being a
fugitive and will not have a hearing
(should he drop his habeas corpus pro
ceedings) until the October term of
court.
IT’s L ! P TO THAW.
This put the next step in the case
squarely up to the prisoner himself,
a situation said to be very pleasing to
him.
His lawyers conferred with him all
forenoon, but with what result was not
made known. Roger O’Mara, of Pitts
burgh, reported to be on his way here
to “sit on the lid” for the Thaaw fam
ily, had not arrived this afternoon and
Thaw was still the dominant head of
the proceedings.
The uncertain status of his lawyers
has not precipitated an open break, hut
it is understood that in the absence
of any definite advice from the Thaws
except “to do their best,” they were
marking time and listening patiently to
Thaw’s rambling advice.
“GENTLEMAN ROGER” SILENT.
After his admission that he was the
chauffeur that drove Thaw from Mattea
wan, “Gentleman Roger” Thompson kept
his mouth closed today. Thaw, how
ever, promptly issued a statement that
he had retained counstel to defend
Thompson and that he regarded the
chauffeur as “a British subject”—a vic
tim of false arrest. Thompson is said to
be the son of a Toronto policeman. For
years, however, he has lived in New
York.
New York officials concerned in get
ting Thaw back to Matteawan are wait
ing developments, meantime exerting
pressure on the Vermont authorities in
anticipation of extraditing proceedings
in that state.
Thaw was very petulent today, par
ticularly oyer Roger Thompson’s declar
ation that he had been “framed” into
the Matteawan plot.*
Letters and telegrams of encourage
ment are pouring in upon the prisoner.
Without personal funds, his credit ap
pears to be pretty good, because import
ed cigars, candy, fruits, and other lux
uries are piled on his table.
GREENE AND GAYNOR.
If Thaw were to decline to submit to
deportation and elect to face trial on
the defective charge on which he was
committed by the Coaticook judge,
months and perhaps years of litigation
could follow in possible appeals. His
lawyers believe that during the life of
such litigation Thaw could remain in
Canada and they cite the case of Greene
and Gaynor, who fought extradition to
the United States for years.
RESCUE RUMORS.
Rumors of a possible attempt to “res
cue” Harry Thaw from the prison here so
alarmed the provincial authorities to
day that Sir Lomer Gouin, premier of
the province, telegraphed to Sheriff
Aylmer asking that official to give his
opinion as to whether the ordinary staff
at the prison was protection enough
against a “raid.”
The sheriff telegraphed the premier
that he had no fears on this score al
though he thought an armed guard
would be useful to escort the prisoner
to court.
The sheriff pointed out that the dis
play of unusual precautions against res
cue might only serve to suggest such
an attempt to the prisoner or his friends
or even to irresponsible persons in
search of adventure or eager to get
some of the Thaw money which has
been prominent in Canadian accounts
of the case. The sheriff was emphatic
in his assertion that no more guards
were needed at the jail.
Harry K. Thaw’s group ot Canadian
lawyers, nearly all of whom were* re
tained by telegraph, found themselves
today confronting three questions.
First: WJio was in charge of his case?
Second: From whom were they to re
ceive their fees? Third: With whom
were they to consult pending Thaw’s
arraignment in the superior court on
Wednesday next on a writ of habeas
corpus?
When Mr. and Mrs. George Lauder
arrived here Wednesday night after
Thaw’s arrest at Coaticook as a fugitive
from Matteawan, it was understood that
they would take charge of his case and
that from them cousnel would receive
instructions as to the desires of the
Thaw family. Thaw at that time had
been warned by relatives in lengthy
messages not to insist on personal in
structions to counsel and it was under
stood that his lawyers were to ignore
him in their efforts to thwart his de
portation to the state of New York.
But when Mr. and Mrs. Carnegie left
Sherbrooke Thaw resumed his old tac
tics and his eight lawyers were in a
..quandary today as to who was chief
counsel.
HUSBAND KILLS WIFE AS
SHE PLEADS ON KNEES
TAMPA, Fla., Aug. 22.—While on her
knees pleading pitifully for her life, Mrs.
Ethel Denson, of Key West, was shot
to death on the street here last night by
her husband, Benny Denson. T\yo ne
groes were eye-witnesses to the trage
dy, but were afraid to interfere.
Denson, who followed' his wife from
Key*West here several weeks ago, dis
covered her working in a restaurant on
Franklin street. He threatened to kill
her if she did not return with him.
When Mrs. Denson started home her
husband was waiting just outside the
door, and started after her. She out
ran him three blocks, but fell on her
knees exhausted. Denson rushed up
and without a word fired two shots,
either of which would have been fatal,
physicians say.
Denson has not been captured.
wireless”from u. s. to
SOUTH AMERICA SOON
LONDON. Aug. 22.—Wireless telegra
phy soon will be fully established be
tween the United States and South
American states, according to a state
ment made today by William Marconi
at the annual meeting of the Marconi
company. He announced that a fifty-
year concession had been granted by
Brazil, which would enable the company
to inaugurate a wireless service between
that country and New York.
JOBS UNDER UNCLE TRIPLE TIGUT FDR
Civil Service Commission Calls
on Citizens to Take Ex
aminations for Places
Gaynor Runs as Independent
Against Tammany and Fu-
sionist Candidates
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.-—Jobs under
the government are going begging and
the civil commission today issued an
nouncements upon examinations to be
held for a. number of positions, almost
every announcement bearing this sig
nificant statement in blackfaced letters:
“As the commission has experienced
considerable trouble in securing a suf
ficient number oi eligibles for this po
sition, qualified persons are urged to
enter this examination.”
Among the positions which the com
mission seeks to fill through competi
tive examinations is that of preparator
in the bureau of entomology of the de
partment of agriculture. The position,
according to the announcement, will
pay the . successful candidate $60 a
month. The examination consists only
of passing in spelling, arithmetic, letter
writing, penmanship, copying and dem
onstrating general aptitude for the job
through “practical tests in preparing,
mounting and labeling entomogical spec
imens, both pinned and microscope.”
Another place the commission thus far
ha*s failed to fill and for which an ap
peal is made is that of teacher of metal
working and * . *hanical drawing in the
Indian servic,- The job also will pay
$60 a month. In addition to being
both aai arithmetician and an artist, the
applicant, according to the specifica
tions, might well have “a knowledge of
wood turning.”
However, the commission adds this
knowledge “is desirable but not essen
tial.”
The real prize position open to that
citizen of the United States who can
qualify and demonstrate his superiority
over his fellows pays $4,500 a year. It
is the position of professor of pharma
cology in the public health service.
“The specific position mentioned.”
,says the commission’s anouncement, “is
one of much responsibility and it is
desired to secure the services of a
man who has had broad training ^and^
extensive, practical experience in vari-1
ous branches of pharmacology, physiol
ogical and pharmaceutical chemistry,
chemotherapy, etc., as they relate to
medicine and the public health.”
Those seeking to pluck this plum,
however, the commission insists must
have had ten years experience along the
lines laid down and likewise must have
had training that would qualify them
for the degree of Ph. D., if they
haven’t already acquired that distinc
tion.
Wild ManCaught Who
Roamed Hills Around
San Francisco Bay
(By Associated Press.)
SAN FKaNCISCO. Aug. 23.—A wild
man was caught today in Marin county
across the bay from San Francisco by
Sheriff Keating and a deputy, and will
be held pending an inquiry to determine
whether he is sane. Efforts to converse
with him have been successful.
For nearly two years complaints have
been made by residents of Camp Taylor
of a wild man that frightened women
and children and pilfered articles of
food. Until yesterday Sheriff Keating
had been unable to track him to his lair.
The officers stumbled upon his camp by
accident and had no difficulty in arrest
ing him.
SHOT THROUGH HEART AS
HE STOOPS TO KISS BABY
Prominent Chattanooga Man
Accidentally Killed in Bid
ding Child Goodby
(By Associated Press.)
NEW YORK, Aug. 23.—Mayor Gay-
nor’s determination to run for re-elec
tion as an independent guarantees one
of the liveliest municipal campaigns
New York has seen in several years.
There will be three tickets in the field,
Democratic, fusion and Gaynor.
The Democratic designation committee
meets to name its mayoralty candidate,
Edward A. McCall, recently a supreme
court justice and now chairman of tho
public service commission. The fusion-
ists, who include Republicans, Progress-*
ivetj, Independence Leaguers and some
Independent Democrats, have selected
John Purroy Mitchell. Mayor Gaynor
will run as the candidate of the “Gay-
tf6r league” with a full Gaynor ticket
behind him.
• The mayor will make his appeal to
anti-Tammany sentiment in all parties,
but his chief backers now are anti-Tam-
many Democrats. The organization Dem
ocrats maintained that he would not
touch the Tammany vote but would take
from the fusion ticket many Independent
Democrats who would not vote for Gay
nor as a Tammany candidate, but would
support him as an independent.
Neither the Tammany men nor the
fusionists would admit today that the
nomination of Gaynor would weaken
their strength. Republicans and fushion
leaders said they expected Mayor Gaynor
would draw from the regular Demo
cratic ticket many voters who sided
with Governor Sulzer in his fight against
Tammany hall.
District Attorney Whitman, it was ex
pected, would be indorsed by the Demo
cratic committee today as a candidate
for re-election, despite the fact that
he is already the fusion candidate.
Hale and Hearty at
107, Drinks Liquor,
Smokes and Chewf
LINTON, Ind.. Aug. 23.—Joseph Fish
er, aaid to be 3 07 years old, and claim
ing to have cast his first vote for An
drew Jackson for president, passed
through here late yesterday in a one-
horse wagon on his way to .Bedford
Ind., to make his future home.
He was accompanied by his daughter,
seventy-nine, and his son, sixty-four.
Fisher says he was born in Washington
county, Indiana, in 1806, uses tobacco
in every form, drinks liquor, and nevei
was sick.
Spaniard Fatally
Shot Crawls Half
a M He For Succor
(By Associated Press.)
TAMPA, Fla., Aug. 25.—Shot behind
the ear at 1 o’clock this afternoon, fa
tally wounded and left for dead. ’Jose
Valles, an eighteen-year-old Spanish
cigarmaker, regained consciousness af
ter dark and crawled a half mile
through dense woods to a house and
asked for medical attention. Valles
was alive at midnight but physicians
state that he will die before day.
Valles joined a Spaniard and a Cu
ban or a flsl. iig trip, leaving the city
at noon. At 1 o’clock, according to his
disconected story, the party reached a
byroad and the car was turned down
this. Asking wher they were going, the
other two told him that It made no
difference. Velles atempted to leave the
car when without warning, the Span
iard shot him with a revolver. He re
fuses to give the names of the other
parties.
SHIP OF CUBAN WAR
IS PLACED ON SALE
(By Associated Press.)
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Aug. 22.—
Wells Boyd, member of a prominent
family, was accidentally shot and killed
here this morning in a peculiar yet tragi
cally sad manner. He was preparing
to leave his home for his office, and as
he leaned down to kiss his baby good-by
a pistol which he carried in a bolster
fell to the floor and was discharged, the
bullet passing through his heart, pro
ducing instant death.
Mr. Boyd was a son of Dr. A. W.
Boyd and loca*i agent for a motorcycle
company. He was an amateur motor
cycle racer and prominent*in business
circles.
KILLED HER HUSBAND AND
CHILDREN, THEN HERSELF
(By Associated Press.)
DUBUQUE, Iowa, Aug. 23.—It was
positively determined today that tho
body found in the burned barn at the
Sternweis home was that of Mrs.
Sternweis. This was determined when
gold and other false teeth were dis
covered in the ruins. The authorities
take this as proof that; Mrs. Sternweis
murdered her husband and three chil
dren, burned the farm buildings and*
then committed suicide. The funeral
for the five dead was held today.
The question of which died first,
husband, wife or children, is expected
to occupy the attention of the courts,
as the etsate is believed to be worth
fully $100,000. %
RECORDS SHOW HUNDREDS
VISITED PANAMA .CANAL
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON,* Aug. 23.—A record
number of tourists visited the Panama
Canal zone during the first six months
of the present year and reports receiv
ed at the Isthmian Steamship offices in
dicate tnat the number of visitors dur
ing the coming dry season will establish
still another record.
From January until July, 18.972 visi
tors inspected the great work which is
nearly as many as the entire number of
sightseers viewing the canal in 1912
In the past four years 68.024 tourist.*
have landed in Colon on the Atlantic
side while only a few hundred arrive*.)
in Panama City at the Pacific entrance
WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.—The collier
Alexander, one of the many merchant
ships purchased at the outbreak of the
Spanish-American war, has been
stricken from the naval list and Is for
sale. The vessel was built In England
in 1891 is a steel schooner of 1,181
tons displacement, 343 feet long and 42
beam and is fitted out with 1,000 horse
power verticle triple engines.
RES1N0L STOPS
SKIN TORMENTS
How This Wonderful Oint
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Heals Skin Eruptions.
The soothing, healing medication in
Resinol Ointment and Resinol Soap
penetrates every tiny pore of the skin,
clears* it of all impurities and stops
itching instantly. Resinol positively
speedily heals eczema* rashes, ring
worm, and other eruptions, and clears
away disfiguring pimples and black
heads, when other treatments prove
worse than useless.
Resinol is not an experiment. It is
a doctor’s prescription which proved so
wonderfully successful for skin trou
bles that it has been used by other doc
tors all over the country for eighteen
years. No other treatment for the skin
now before the public can show such a
record of professional approval. Every
druggist sells Resinol Ointment (50c
and $1). and Resinol Soap (25c), or
they will be sent by parcel post on re
ceipt of price. Dept. F, Resinol, Balti
more, Md.—(Advt.
m Get $60 Weekly
SAN DOMINGO OFFICIALS
GUESTS OF WASHINGT0IV
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.—Althoug'
avowedly on an unofficial visit. Sene
Ramone Lovaton. secretary of state o
San Domingo and Senor Fedreico Hen
liquez Y Caivajal, chief justice of th«
little republic, who arrived here toda>
will be the recipients of much attentior
during their stay in the capital of the
United States.
Dr. Poynade, the Dominican ministei
here, leads off with a dinner tonight
in th^ir honor, to which have been in
vited Secretary Bryan, Senator Bacon
chairman of the foreign relations com
mittee, and other prominent officials.
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