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VOLUME XIII.
ATLANTA. GA. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1913.
NO. 3.
PROPOSED TAX ON
COTTON FUTURES IS
SLIPPITO DEATH
Death Knell Will Come When
Senate Agrees to Conference
Report, as Senate Is Sure
to Do
Vill Question Constitutionality
of Impeachment Articles and
Ask Definition of Larceny
Prom Court
BY RALPH SMITH.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.—The cotton
futures tax is all but dead. Its obit
uary will be sounded when the senate
finally agrees to the conference report
on the tariff bill, as the senate is abso
lutely sure to do. . The death knell of
cotton futures was tolled in the sen
ate .caucus yesterday afternoon, when
it decided to strike from the tariff bill
all reference to the Clarke amendment.
This caucus action, when ratified by
the senate, will automatically cut the
legs from under the Smith-Lever prop
osition, as agreed to by the house, and
the tariff bill will go to the president
probably Saturday for his approval. Mr.
Wilson will sign the bill and it will be
come a law, and the cotton exchanges
will continue the even tenor of their
way, undisturbed for the present.
Speaker Clark and parliamentarians
of the house were perplexed for a time
today over the parliamentary status of
cotton futures. Congressman Hard
wick, of Georgia, however, clarified the
matter by pointing to a precedent es
tablished by Speaker Reed. It was the
belief of some house members that, in
asmuch as the house had concurred in
the Clarke amendment by a substitute,
it would be necessary for the house to
recede from its position before the bill
could become a law.
“Whe.i you cut the legs from under a
bench, the bench falls,” argued Mr.
Hardwick.
“That is what the senate has agreed
to do with cotton futures. It has de
cided to kill the Clarke amendment, and
when that falls the substitute resting
upon it falls.”
The force of logic in Mr. Hardwick’s
statement, supported by the decision of
a former speaker of the house, appeal
ed to the perplexed statesmen, and the
question was dismissed as settled for
the present.
WILL FORCE CHANGES.
It }s a foregone conclusion, however,
that the cotton exchange and probably
the produce exchanges will be forced
by congress to amend their methods,
or '-quit business. Legislation at the
next session to compel reforms in the
„ exchanges is foreshadowed beyond a
doubt.
Congressman Lever, of South Carolina,
chairman of the committee on agricul
ture, stated today that his committee
would draft a bill to meet the demands
of the Situation. “And,” he added, “con
gress will pass it at the next session.
The Democratic party is committed
against gambling in farm products, and
this platform declaration will be re
deemed. I think the Smtih-Lever sub
stitute was calculated to accomplish this
purpose, but there is serious doubt as
to the ecnomic wisdom of using the
taxing power of the nation to bring
about a reform such as this.”
GEORGIA COTTON ILLS
ME DOINC WELL NOW
Recently Purchased and Re-
juvenated-Record Business
* Is Being Done
(By Associated Press.)
ALBANY, N. Y*, Oct. 2.—Final plan?
of the Sulzer attorneys in the governor s
impeachment trial were drawn in a Jong
conference with the executive early to
day. Although they made no state
ments, it was believed that their first
step would be to ask for a ruling from
the court on two things—the constitu
tionality of articles one, two and six,
and whether the application to private
uses of funds given without restriction
constituted larceny. If the court ruled
favorably to the defense on the first of
these questions it was generally admit
ted the case practically would be at an
end.
Most of' the board of managers’ case
was built on these three articles. The
question of larceny also was a big one,
for, with a few exceptions, contributors
whose gifts were not accounted for in
the governor’s campaign statement tes
tified that they had not specified what
use the governor should make of the
money they gave him.
The sudden closing of the case of the
board of managers yesterday came as
a surprise to the defense and found
them unprepared for opening their case.
Senator Harvey D. Hinman, who had
been selected to open the case for the
governor, had not completed his opeing
statement this morning and he did not
know when he would be able to finish
it. Doubt was expressed whether the
governor’s side of the case would get
under way until next week. At all
events, it was planned to ask today for
an adjournment until Monday.
WANTS EXPLANATION
Grand Jury in Poughkeepsie
Takes No Action in Thaw
Case
OF RB BRIDGE
Alleged Pal of McNamaras
Accused of Blowing Up New
Haven Railroad Bridge Over
Two Years Ago
(By Associated Press.)
NEW YORK, Oct. 2.—George E. Da
vis, alias George O’Donnell, was ar
rested by a United States marshal here
today on a charge of blowing up with
dynamite a New Haven railroad bridge
at Mount Vernon, N. Y.,' September 3,
1911.
Davis is also charged with having
conspired with the McNamara brothers,
Frank M. Ryan and other officers of
the International Bridge and Structural
Iron Workers’ union, to wreck the
Mount Vernon and other bridges.
The marshal says that Davis has
confessed.
Davis was arraigned before a United
States commissioner, waived examina
tion and consented to go to Indianapolis
where he is under indictment for trans
porting explosives. In his confession it
is alleged Davis implicated union of
ficials in the Mount Vernon, N. Y., ex
plosion and other explosions.
Davis was arrested upon the com-
olaint of Robert J Poster, a private
detective of Louisville. Foster charged
that a conspiracy of Ryan, the McNam
ara brothers and fifty other iron work
ers to transport dynamite to be used
in wrecking property of the American
Bridge company still wan in existence.
The formal charge against Davis,
who is an iron worker, is that he vio
lated the federal law against the
transportation of high explosives on
passenger trains engaged in interstate
commerce.
The complaint asserts that Davis ard
his fellow conspirators on Januarfy 22.
1911, transported forty-five pounds of
dynamite from Bellefontaine, Ohio, to
Indianapolis, over the Cleveland di
vision of the Big Four railroad. On
September 3, 1911, it is a-*eged, Davis
carried thirty pounds of the explosive
from New York to Mount Vernon, a
suburb, and there blew up part of the
railroad bridge.
Foster said that Davis gave him a
written confession.
Bail for Davis was fixed at $10,000.
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.—Solicitor
Folk, of the state department, received
in his mail today the protest which Har
ry Thaw sent through Senator Oliver
to the state department against Thaw’s
importation from Canada on September
10. Mr. Folk declined to say what ac
tion he would take respecting Thaw’s
request that the state department ask
for an explanation from the British em
bassy of the action of the Canadian au
thorities in forcing him out of the do
minion.
Grand Jury Takes
No Action on Thaw
POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., Oct. 2.—The
grand jury that has been considering
charges in connection with Harry
Thaw’s escape from Matteawan will be
discharged next Monday. The jury took
a recess last week until October 6, and
it is understood that '■ no indictments
were found against Thaw or any one
else who might have been charged with
helping him to escape.
District Attorney Conger said today
that after a conference with William
T. Jerome it had been decided to leave
the Thaw case in the hands of the at
torney general.
Society Girl Runs
Down Snatch-Thief
After Mile s Chase
(By Associate* Press.)
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Oct. 2.—Miss
Helen Shepard, p young society woman,
yesterday gave chase when a man
snatched her handbag and after a race
of nearly a mile captured Ernest Quim-
by, whom she charges with the theft.
Witnesses to the robbeiy also identified
the man.
Quimby once escaped from Miss Shep
ard, but in -the next block she met him
and again gave chase, catching him after
a run of two blocks. She held him until
the police arrived.
COLUMBUS FIRE LOSS
ESTIMATES AT $100,000
Over 100 Fine Horses and
Mules Perish—Five Firemen
in Hospital
Georgia’s prosperity Is reflected in
the affairs of the Georgia Cotton mills,
which are three in number and are own
ed by the company of that name in At
lanta. The mills were purchased at a
bankrupt sale a little more than a year
ago. They were overhauled completely
and equipped with considerable new ma
chinery. The report on affairs shows for
the past twelve months they have been
operated very profitably. The auditor's
report, just made public, shows a sub
stantial gain during the period in which
the new owners have operated the mills,
and the outlook for further progress Is
promising, it says. The mills employ
more than 600 people.
Recently a contract for over $100,000
worth of the product of one of the mills
was booked with one of the largest Job
bing dry goods houses in the world.
That is said to be the largest contract
that ever has been placed by one house
with one mill for this particular line of
cotton goods.
On September 25 the annual meeting
of the stockholders was held, resulting
in the election of directors who in turn
elected the following officers for another
year: Clyde L. King, president; Bolling
H. Jones, vice president; R. P. Shep
ard, secretary, and J. C. Brooks, treas
urer.
TEXAS SUFFERS DAMAGE
FROM FLOOD RAVAGES
Loss Estimated at Nearly a
Million as Result of Exces
sive Rainfall
IE SMITH’S MEASURE
ON EDUGATION TO PASS
. (By Associated Press.)
DALLAS, Tex., Oct. 2.—'While accu
rate figures could not be obtained to
day, reports from several cities in south
east and southwest Texas indicate that
damage from floods incident to almost
unprecedented rainfall In those sections
w ill reach high figures, probably more
than $1,000,000. The loss has fallen
heavily on railroads, many bridges hav
ing been washed away, while rice and
other farm crops have suffered heavily
and the lumbering industry in south
east Texas and southwest Louisiana has
been practically suspended.
At San Antonio the San Antonio river
is the highest in many yeaTs and dam
age there is estimated at several hun
dred thousand dollars.
Houston reports a total rainfall oC
18.13 inches in twenty-five days, the
precipitation there has been more than
five inches since Tuesday night. Other
points report as great precipitation and
it is still rainng.
Railroad traffic has been practically
annulled over a large part of the flood
ed district. «
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
COLUMBUS, Ga., Oct. 2.—A revised
estimate of the losses from last night’s
fire which completely destroyed, the
Palace Stave company, two-story build
ing on First avenpe, places the loss at
$100,000.
Of the 150 fine horses and mules con
fined in the stables, only about 50 have
been accounted for up to noon and it
is believed that at least 100 were cre
mated in the flames, which at one time
seriously threatened to sweep away the
entire business section of the city.
Of the nine persons hurt by falling
walls while fighting and watching the
flames, none is thought to be seriously
injured. Only five are confined to the
hospital today. Tom Davis, Joe Hagan,
Sam Autrey and -Captain Munn, all of
the fire department, were under the fall
ing wall and all had a close escape
from instant death. They are in the
city hospital today.
One horse jumped out a second-story
window and was savgd.
A majority of the horses were con
fined in the second story of the building,
which fact was responsible for the
heavy loss. The water pressure was
good and the fire fighters at their best,
which fact probably, prevented the de
struction of property valued at over one
million dollars.
The losses were covered by insurance,
with some few exceptions.
/ill Have Commission Ap
pointed to Study Plan for
Vocational Education
BY RALPH SKITH.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.—Senator
Hoke Smith’s resolution providing for
the appointment by the president of a
commission of nine members to study
and report a plan for vocational edu
cation, was called up in the house to
day by Congressman Hughes, of Geor
gia, chairman of the education commit
tee. No agreement as to debate was
reached, and the resolution may be un
der consideration for the balance of the
day, if a quorum can be maintained.
Its passage is eventually assured, as
there is little opposition.
Congressman Hughes explained the
purpose of the resolution in a speech
of half an hour.
IMMIGRANT GOES TO r
WRONG TOWN IN U. S.
(By Associated Press.)
LINCOLN, Neb., Oct. 2.—After trav
eling from New York to this city, Stat-
an Colseink, a Russian immigrant,
learned today that his steerage ticket
was marked Lincoln, N. H. An error
in the marking of his transfer ticket
had sent him half-way across the con
tinent. The police, through an inter
preter, learned of his plight. An effort
is being made to get the steamship
company to pay his expenses back to
New Hampshire.
FEDERAL REFUGEES TRY
TO TAKE REBEL CAPITAL
(By Associated Press.)
PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Mexico, Oct. 2.—
A filibustering expedition, composed of
federal refugees, attempted to capture
Piedras Negras from the American side
of the Rio Grande early today. They
were repulsed by the border patrol and
the neutral guards which were placed
In charge of the city yesterday, follow
ing the constitutional evacuation. It is
said the expedition was acting for Fed
eral Consul Bravo, stationed in Eagle
Pass.
Drowned by Fish
(By Associated Praia.)
LAKE MILLS, Wis., Oct. 2.—Hennan
Berlin, a Milwaukee banker, was drown
ed yesterday in an effort to land a
large fish. While tugging with the fish,
Berlin stood erect in the boat, which
was overturned.
BRIDE-ELECT DIES IN
EFFORT TO REMOVE MOLE
BALTIMORE, Oct. 2.—Less than a
week from the time she was to be wed,
Ida Leibowitz, twenty years old, died
at a local hospital, two days after an
operation in which an effort was made
to remove a mole from her face. Blood
poisoning set in. The mother and
fiance of the young woman are ill in
consequence of her death.
Dorsey Has Dropped All Other;
Business and Will Devote
His Time Exclusively to New
Trial Fight dj!
THE “MEXICAN A THLETE ’
GIRL CHARGES STABBING
TO YOUNG MILLIONAIRE
Mother of Young Herman Oel-
richs Comes to His Rescue
With Bond
(By Associated Press.)
NEW YORK, Oct. 2.—Hermann Oel
richs, the young millionaire whom L»-
cile Singleton charges with having
stabbed her Jn an automobile Tuesday
night, was arraigned in police court to
day and held in $1,000 bail for a hear
ing on Tuesday next. The case was
postponed because of the absence of the
complainant. She still was in bed to
day. .
Mrs. Oelrichs early today saved her
son from spending the entire night in
a police station cell, by going his
bond for $5,000, giving her $100,000
residence as security.
Young Oelrichs, a student in the Co
lumbia Law school, was arrested late
last night on a charge of felonious as
sault after Lucille Singleton, who says
she is the nineteen-year-old daugh
ter of a Texas mine owner. had
told her story of a mysterious automo
bile attack on Broadway Tuesday night.
The girl alleged that Oelrichs, who was
then known to her as “Billy Creighton,”
had stabbed her while she was riding in
the young millionaire’s car.
Celrlciig was arrested while visiting
the apartments at which Miss Single-
ton was lying wounded. Detectives had
hidden themselves there behind por-
tiers and,' according to them, heard
“Creighton” reveal his identity. He was
arrested and locked up in the Mulberry
street police station at which the
youth’s mother appeared shortly after
ward and produced, the required bail.
Young Oelrichs was released under in
structions to be in the Jefferson Mar
ket court for arraignment. He and his
mother drove away in a taxicab.
Miss Singleton told the police that
she was riding with the man she then
knew as “Creighton” when a quarrel
arose because she admitted she had an
engagement with' another man. There
upon, she alleged, “Creighton” let go of
his steering wheel and stabbed her sev
eral times with a< sharp instrument,
which may nave been an automobile
tool.
Miss Mary Chambers, principal of the
Darlington seminary at West Chester,
Pa., where the Singleton girl says she
attended school, was quoted here today
as having said over the long distance
telephone:
“There was a Miss Lucile Singleton
here about three years ago. She was
a pupil for about a year and a half
and registered from Dallas, Tex.
“I met her father once when he came
to the seminary with his daughter. Mr.
Singleton said he was a miner. Last
year Miss Singleton returned to the
seminary, but remained only three or
four months, leaving in April or May.
“She was well thought of in the sem
inary. She was very quiet and one
of the most studious pupils we had at
the time. We do not know anything
about her family and since she left
the seminary we have not heard from
or of her. Her registered address was
care of Edwin Singleton, 1404 Wood
street, Dallas.”
MR. WILSON’S PLANS
FOR SOUTHERN TRIP
— /
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.—Unless unex
pected developments should prevent,
President Wilson, It was announced to
day, will leave here on the evening of
October 25 for Mobile, Ala., to attend
the Southern Commercial congress at
Mobile, Ala., on October 27. The presi
dent plans to return here on October
29th.
IAI. A. COVINGTON OUT FOR
ROOOENBERY’S PLAGE
Thad Adams, Close Friend of
Vereen, Who Withdrew, to
Manage Campaign
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
MOULTRIE, Ga.. Oct. 2.—It was an
nounced here today that Thad Adams,
an old newspaper man and a prominent
citizen of this community, will manage
the campaign of Judge W. A. Coving
ton. who is a candidate to congress from
the Second distiict to succeed the late
Congressman Roddenbery.
Mr. Adams is a close friend of W. C.
Vereen, of Moultrie, and the announce
ment of Adams’ campaign management
is simultaneous with that of Mr. Ve
reen that he will not be a candidate in
opposition to Judge Covington.
The Moultrie Observer carries a card
from Mr. Vereen giving his reasons for
not entering the race. It reads in part
as follows:
“I cannot see my way clear to be
come a candidate for congress. I am
truly grateful to the many kind friends
in ray good county and to those in
the othei counties of the district as well,
for their many insistent calls to me to
stand for election «o succeed the late
and lamented Judge Roddenbery.
“I have therefore since the matter
has been brought before me, given it
full consideration, and feel that I am
due my friends a statement.
“It was my first impulse to decline
to enter the race and a careful weigh
ing of the matter makes my final de
cision the same as the first impulse.
“I have not canvassed the situation
with a view to ascertaining if I could
probably be eelcted. That feature has
not entered into my consideration of
the matter, though I have had assur
ances sufficient to flatter any prospec
tive candidate. My candidacy is preclud
ed by other • and more potent reasons.
The most important of these being
the fact tha- I feel that 1 owe my
first duty tt my family and my home
life.
“I feel also that duty demands my
attention more in my home state than
away at Washington. I have been en
gaged for the past twenty-five years
in my humble way in the work of
helping to develop my home city and
county and this particular and favor
ed section of our great state. I feel
that my work here is not finished.
Just at this time it is my honor to
be associated with a number of my
fellow-citizens in the work of estab
lishing in Moultrie the first rural
packing plant, possibly in the-south.
“I am not forgetful, however, that I
owe a duty to my country and should
respond to its call, but in this case, I
feel thac duty calls elsewhere to me,
and am sure that of the many most
worthy arpirants for the high office to
be filled, any of the number can dis
charge the duties of the office more
ably and acceptably than I. while it
shall be my pleasure to continue my
work in the endeavor to be of service
In other and humbler lines.
“I want, in conclusion, to thank my
friends sincerely for their voluntary and
hearty assurance of support.”
FEAR FOR THE GANAL
WHEN EARTH QUAKES
Government Officials Cable to
Panama in Oraer to Take
All Precautions
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 2.—Major
Boggs, in charge of the Panama canal
offices in this city, today cabled to Col
onel Goethals at Panama for details of
the earth shocks on the isthmus last
night with special reference to their
possible effect upon the Panama canal.
This'action was taken as a measure of
precaution, though the officials felt that
Colonel Goethals would have advised
them very promptly had the canal sus
tained any substantial injury.
It is recalled at the commission of
fices that from time to time there have
been slight shocks of earthquake ex
perienced on the isthmus since the
Americans assumed charge of the canal
construction, but in no case has there
been any damage whatever to the en
gineering work. ^
Records which have been carefully
studied by the canal designers fail to
show the occurrence of anything more
than slight seismic disturbances in the
canal region as far back as the history
of the isthmus is known. In addition
to this reported exemption of the isth
mus proper from severe earthquakes,
army engineers base their belief upon
the safety of the canal largely upon
the enduring qualities of modern rein
forced concrete construction, which is
embodied in all of the great locks, dams
and approaches of the new canal.
Canal officials here said there was
no connection between last night’s
earthquake and the extensive earth
slides into the Culebra cut at Cucaracha,
reported yesterday* The later move
ment has been in slow, but continuous
process, and its only 111 effect, it is
said, might be to cause a postponement
for a few days or weeks of the opening
of water communication across the
isthmus, an event originally fixed for
October 10, when the famous Gamboa
dike was to have been dynamited.
Solicitor Geheral Hugh M. Dorsey hall
dropped all other business and is da-
voting his exclusive attention to th«
preparation of his answer to th« de
fense's motion for a new trial for Leo
M. Frank.
The case is set for argument before
Judge L. S. Roan on Saturday, but
there is little chance of it being heard
then. The amended motion is a volumi
nous document containing 115 different
counts upon which a new trial is asked,
and by devoting all of his time to it.
the solicitor will scarcely be able to get
his answer dn shape in less than two
weeks, and it is extremely probable
tijat he will ask a postponement until
at least the 18th of October.
If Judge L. S. Roan, of the Stona
Mountain circuit, the trial judge, actu
ally hears the argument of the motion,
and there is little doubt now that ha
will, he will be forced to delay the talc
ing of his seat on the appelate courfi
bench to which he has been appointed.’
The Frank case, accordingly, is ex
pected to again delay the routine buals
ness of the criminal division of the su
perior court, for if the hearing of tha
motion is postponed only two weeks.
Judge Ben H. Hill, who has been
named to the fourth judgeship of tha
Atlanta circuit, will probably not re
sign from the appellate bench until
Judge Roan is ready to take his seat
there.
The court docket is very congested at
present. Thursday it was learned that
Clerk J. H. Jones has docketed 18$
grand jury Indictments during tha
month of September, breaking all reo-
ords for Indictments. Last September
there were only seventy-three Indict
ments returned during the month an«
only 172 during both months of Sep
tember and October.
No regular court has been held stnoa
the May term because the Frank case
has occupied the attention of the offi
cials, and now many indictments be
sides those returned in September are
awaiting a session of the coui;t It
had been expected that court would
convene on October 13 with Judge Hill
on the bench, but it is now probable
that the Frank case will delay it
SAYS CHARGE IS FALSE.
M. Johenning. one of the two Frank
jurors who have been attacked in tha
motion of the convicted man's attor
neys for a new trial, flatly denies tha
eharge that he was prejudiced.
"The charge is absolutely falsa;" said*
Mr. Johenning, when located by a Jour
nal reporter Thursday morning. "I
have no idea who made the affidavit
charging that I was prejudiced, but
whoever it was, he lied.
“I didn’t want to serve on the Frank
Jury. I would have been only too glad
if I had been able to truthfully an
swer some of the questions so that I
would have been disqualified, but I
couldn’t, and so had to allow mysetf
to be held a prisoner, practically, fos
a month."
Mr. Johenning, who resides af 181
Jones avenue, comes to the defense of
the entire Frank Jury.
* There was not a man among us, whd
wanted to serve on that jury,” he said,
"but we simply couldn’t lie when asked
the qualifying questions, and had to
serve. There was not a man of us whe
didn't lose money by being tied up that
way for a month. It is hard to be at
tacked this way for what we wen*
through from a sense of duty.”
J. A. Henslee, a traveling salesman
was the other Juror attacked in tha
amended motion for a new trial, and ha
could not be located Thursday mornings
it being stated by neighbors that ha
has recently moved from 74 Oak' street.
V'here he formerly resided, to Barnes-
ville, Ga., the headquarters of the bug
gy company for which he works. •
Mr. Henslee was reported, immedi
ately after the Frank trial to be tha
juror who voted doubtful on the first
ballot, and thus prevented the convic
tion of Frank on the first vote.
KILLS SELF,
TWO OTHERS ESGAPE
Pound of Radium Now
Costs $52,000,000
BERLIN, Oct. 2.—The price of ra
dium has been advanced $10,000 a gram
because of an unprecedented demand for
the precious substance. Radium is now
quoted at $115,000 a gram. which
means a pound of it would-be valued at
over $52,000,000 if such a quantity
could be amassed. .
W. A. COLEMAN FOUND
GUILTY OF BOY’S DEATH
Murder Was Verdict, but
Court’s Mercy Has Been
Recommended
ABBEVILLE, Ga., Oct. 2.—The jury
in the case of W. A. Coleman, on trial
here for the killing last April of seven-
teen-year-old Leon Melvin, today found
him guilty of murder, but recommended
him to the mercy of the court. Sentence
has not yet been imposed.
PINDELL ACCEPTABLE TO
RUSSIA AS AMBASSADOR
'By Associated Pres*.)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.—The Russian
government in reply to an inquiry from
the state department has signified that
Henry M. Pindell, a Peoria, Ill., editor
will be acceptable as American ambas
sador to Russia. It is expected Mr.
Pindell’s nomination will be sent to the
senate immediately.
NEGROES ARE CHARGED
WITH STEALING COTTON
EASTMAN, Ga., Oct. 2.-—Alex Walker
and his son. Will Walker, William
Nealy and Will Wright, all negroes, are
in jail here, charged with stealing ten
bales of cotton from the seed farm of
A. P. Petway, eight miles from East
man
Lucas Takes Oath
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
SAVANNAH, Ga., Oct. 2.—Marion Lu
cas, the new postmaster, took charge
of the local office this morning. He suc
ceeds Mr. Marcus S. Baker, Jr. Mr. Lu
cas announces that everybody in the
postoffice is protected by civil service,
and he anticipates no changes being
made at all.
4
Life-Termer in Walton County
Gang Hangs Self-Blood
hounds Killed
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga., Oct. 2.—Ad
dington Dickens, a life-termer in th#
Walton county chaingang, near Logan-
ville, committed suicide by hanging
yesterday in the camp, and Dutch Ford
made his escape after he had killed tw#
fine bloodhounds.
Ford was serving a twenty-year sen
tence for safe-cracking. H e is still at
large. A negro boy sent up for burglary
committed at Monroe also escaped.
A horse and buggy was stolen last
night at Loganville and found abandon
ed here this morning. The supposition
is that the turnout was stolen by on®
of the convicts.
The Atlanta police were notified
Thursday that Andrew Ford, a white
man twenty-five years old, a convict
in the Walton county gang, had escaped
Wednesday night and had stolen an iron
gray mule and a buggy, and that he
was believed to be headed toward At
lanta. He was convicted in Chatham
county on a charge of safe-blowing.
The ordinary of Walton county offer*
a reward of seventy-five dollars for hi®
capture.
FARMER’S WIFE KILLED
BY ESCAPED CONVICT
(By Associated Press.)
TAMPA. Fla., Oct. 2.—A special t<*
the Times from Ocala says:
“Mrs. P. L. Wilson, wife of a farmer
living four miles north of here, was
shot and killed this morning by a negro
supposed to be an escaped convict.”
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