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VOLUME XIII.
ATLANTA, GA... TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1913. -
NO. 4.
I
Three Declare That A, H, Hens-
lee Made Statements of
Conviction in Frank's Guilt
Long Before Trial
Additional depositions, charging that
before the trial of Leo M. Frank, Juror
A. H. Henslee showed prejudice and
strong feeling against the defendant,
have been received by Deputy Clerk
John H. Jones.
The new depositions are signed by
J. J. Nunnally and Virgil Harris, deal
ers in buggies, of Monroe, Ga., and Dr.
W. L. Rickert, a dentist of the same
place.
The three citizens of Walker county
corroborate the five other men, who
swear that Henslee before he took his
juror’s oath expressed his firm convic
tion of the guilt of the hian upon whom
he was to pass judgment.
All three of the ilonroe citizens de
clared that not only did Henslee express
his belief that Frank was guilty, but
that he vehemently and bitterly de
nounced the man charged with Mary
Phagan’s murder.
Mr. Nunnally quotes Henslee as say
ing, “They are gojng to break that
; Jew’s neck,”
One of. the makers of the depositions
• declares that he heard Henslee discus
sing the Phagan murder with a number
of other traveling men before the trial.
Several of them denounced Frank, the
maker of the deposition swears, and
Henslee was the most bitter of them
all against the defendant.
In one of the depositions it is charged
that for twenty minutes Henslee dis
cussed his reasons-for believing in the
guilt of the accused, and was still de
nouncing him when the affiant left the
group of men who were discussing the
case. »
It is said that still more depositions
attacking Juror Henslee are expected
by the defense.
ROAN TO HEAR MOTION.
Monday all doubt that Judge L. S.
Roan will hear the argument of the
motion for. a new trial for Frank was
dispelled when court attaches cancelled
arrangements to hold a session of the
criminal division of the superior on
Monday, October 13. It had been ex-
peted that Judge Ben H. Hill would re-
sigrn from the court of appeals and take
his seat on the superior court bench in
time to hold court next Monday, but
now it is definitely known that he will
remain on tyie appelate" bench until
Judge L. S. Roan can dispose of the
b rank motion.
The motion is set for next Saturday,
but there is little probability that it
can be disposed of in a day or even
several days, and therefore Judge Roan
as he will be hearing it as a superior
court nudge, cannot resign until the ar-
gument has been concluded.
The cancelled arrangements for court
week mean more delay before the crim-
nal division can hold a session to al
leviate the congested condition of the
county jail, where more than 100 l'el-
ony prisoners are awaiting trial.
DORSEY WORKING.
Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey is
ften ? S hi entIr ® time to the Preoara-
t on of his answer to th e defense s mo
tion for a new trial for Leo M Frank
and very likely he will be ready wheT
jXZfr 6 L s T alled for argument before
Judge L. S. Roan next Saturday.
?r C T 3 u 8eS ■ against A ‘ H " Henslee
and M. Johenning did not come as a
surprise to the state, although th e so-
1 ma° r L neW nothin S of several of the
affidavits. Reports of some of the af
fidavits. however, had reached the solici
tor before the motion t^s served on
him, end his men have been busy in an
effort to sustain the two jurors
Mr Dorsey, is going to devote the
greater part of his time to a study of
the law on the questions involved In
the 115 counts upon which the defense
asks the new trial, while the work of
sustaining the two jurors will be han
dled largely by his assistants.
OPEN LETTER.
The Sparta citizens, whose statements
in depositions form probably the de
fense’s strongest evidence against Hens
lee, have addressed a sensational open
letter to the juror, following the publi
cation of his statement that the charges
that he had expressed an opinion as to
Frank's guilt wer s lies.
Their letter follows;
“You must recall in Mr. Holmes’ of
fice, on the day stated, and in the pres
ence of the undersigned, we all discuss
ed the Prank case and practically tried
him, as it were, and that, in the discus
sion, you not only said that Frank was
as guilty as but you had much to
say about Frank’s being a moral degen
erate—your exact language we cannot
use—and further stated that you were
drawn as a juror.
"We hav e no disposition to injure
you or to make public your statement
as two of the witnesses, Gray and
Holmes, have known you and your fam
ily for many years and we do not know
how tho attorneys were acquainted with
the fact of this conversation, but your
remark was common talk in the town
where there are a number of people
who could have given the information
to the attorneys.
“We declined to make a voluntary af
fidavit in the matter and said nothing
until forced to by the court, but let us
assure you that the reluctance to testi
fy in no way changes the fact and you
shall not be permitted to make state
ments in the public press denouncing
us as liars in order to protect yourself
from the criticism you have justly de
served.
“We await your answer.
(Signed) “J. M. HOLMES,
“S. M. JOHNSON.
“SHI GRAY.”
Chicago Girl Art Student
Mysteriously Strangled
Sunday With Silken Cord
YUAN SHI Kill AGAIN
Telephone Call Lured Her to
Prairie Outside City, Where
Her Mutilated Body Was
Found-Death Ended Long
and Vain Struggle to Suc
ceed in World of Art
(By Associated Press.)
CHICAGO, Oct. 6.—The murder of
Miss Ida G. Leegson, an art student,
who was lured by a telephone call to
the prairie southwest of the city Sun
day and strangled with a silken cord,
still was unexplained today. Little has
been found to indicate a motive for the
crime.
Hurried investigation has shown only
that she led an exemplary life, had no
men callers at any of the places where
she is known to have resided and she
was not thought to have possessed any
large amount of money.
Miss Leegson was a graduate of the
University of Chicago, a sculpture pupil
of Lorado Taft and a student at the
Art institute. Her murder marked the
end of a long, pitiful struggle to make
her way as a sculptor. Her studies at
the University of Chicago were to fit her
for work by which she could earn
enough to complete her art education.
For several winters she taught school,
returning to the city to resume work
at the Art institute.
READY FOR KITCHEN WORK.
Only a few hours before she was
lured to her death she answered an ad
vertisement for a servant, saying she
had to have funds to enable her to
continue her studies and was not too
proud to do kitchen work.
Late Saturday afternoon a man who
gave the name of Wilson telephoned
the residence where Miss Leegson lived
and asked her to take a position as
nurse in a maternity case. She was
directed to go to Seventy-first street and
■Western avenue and walk to an address
four miles west. The body was found
three miles west of the street inter
section in a clump of bushes. The ad
dress to which she had been directed
does not exist.
Game wardens followed a trail of torn
clothing to the spot where her half nude
form was lying. On her neck were
finger marks and encircling it was a
slim bowline which was made by a
piece of cord found nearby.
Three Ballots Necessary to
Choose President of Chi
nese Republic
Customs' Officer
Can Grab Plumes
In Women's Hats
WASHINGTON, Oct. 6.—A woman en
tering the United States wearing an
egrette hat violates the new tariff law
just as much as a man with a pound
of opium in his pocket.
That is the v unofficial view of officials
here who have asked the New York
customs house for details of seizure of
plumes from hats from trans-Atlantic
passengers there Saturday.
(By Associated Vress.)
PEKING, Oct. 6.—Yuan Shi Kai was
today edlected president of the Chinese
republic for a term of five years.
He received the necessary two-thirds
vote of the united house of parliament
on the third ballot.
The vote on the first ballot was:
Yuan Shi Kai, 471; Li Yuan Heng, 153.
The remainder of the 759 ballots
were scattered among twenty other can
didates.
The second ballot resulted in a vote
of 497 for Yuan Shi Kai and 162 for
Li Yuen Heng. A third ballot was nec
essary, 506 votes being required for
election. Li Yuen Heng, who is the
provisional vice president, delared that
he would not ac'ept a nomination for
the presidency.
Yuan Shi Kai, first president of the
Chinese republic, is fiftj'-four years old.
He was born in the province of Ho Nan
in 1859. During most of his adult life
be has been in official life. At the age
of twenty-three he was sent with a
Chinese detachment to Korea and three
years afterwards became Chinese im
perial resident at Seoul. He remained
there twenty-one years, until he was
expelled during the Chinese-Japanese
war.
On''his return to China he occupied
various provincial posts until 1902, when
he became consulting minister to the
government.
Yuan Shi Kai took a prominent part
in the reorganization of the Chinese
army on modern lines and in the closing
years of the empire became its influ
ential and powerful statesman. He was
always thoroughly practical in his
methods of administration and by this
means worked his way up to the pre
miership in 1911. Early in 1912 it was
he who was given full powers to- ar
range the terms of abdication of the
throne and to organize a republican
government in conference with the re
publican leaders. Shortly afterward,
in February, he was elected provisional
president of the republic by the na
tional council at Nanking and took the
oath bf office on March 10.
Of the 850 members of the house of
representatives and senate, 759 were in
attendance. On the final ballot Yuan
Shi Kai received 507 votes, only one
more than the necessary two-thirds. Li
Yuen Heng, provincial vice president,
received 179 votes. The other ballots
were scattered among twenty minor
candidates.
Tumulty in Rubber
Neck Car Heard His
Own Virtues Lauded
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 6.—Secretary
Tumulty was chuckling today over his
experience in a sightseeing automobile.
So busily engaged has the secretary
to President Wilson been since the in
auguration that he has not had an op
portunity to see the historic sights of
the national capital. He climbed into
one of the big touring cars yesterday
with two friends and nearly succeeded
in an incognito. Soon the automobile
passed the White House.
“There are the offices of the presi
dent,” megaphoned the guide, “and there
are the offices of his secretary, a genial
young man of good looks and rare
ability.”
Secretary Tumulty blushed uneasily,
but fortunately the guide turned to de
scribing the White House grounGs.
When the machine stopped at one of
the public buildings, some one told the
guide that he had among his passen
gers the president’s secretary.
“Quit your kidding,” said the mega
phone man, but he began to wonder
later if it were not true.
“You’ll pardon me,” he said, to Mr.
Tumulty presently with caution in his
voice, “but haven’t many folks told you
how much you resemble Mr. Tumulty,
the president’s secretary?”
“Oh, yes,” said the secretary, "lots
of them have—but what did you say
that building was?” and the guide
breathed easy. On the return journey
Mr. Tumulty stopped at the White
House, where an astonished sightseeing
party saw him slip merrily up the
steps.
AMERICAN POET GETS 21
DAYS IN BRiTiSH GANG
' (By Associated Press.)
SOUTHAMPTON, England, Oct. 6.—A
sentence of twenty-one days at hard la
bor was pronounced today on Harry
Kemp, an American verse writer, who
was charged with stowing himself away
on board the steamship Oceanic on her
last voyage from New York.
The magistrate recommended that
Kemp be deported after he had served
his term.
Schooner Lost in
Collision With
City of Atlanta
MAY NOMINATE M’COMBS
AMBASSADOR TO FRANCE
(By Associated Prase.'
WASHINGTON, Oct. 6.—President
Wilson expects to send to the senate
this week the nomination of H. M. Pin-
dell, a newspaper editor of Peoria, Ill.,
a to be ambassador to Russia, and that of
Mayor Brand Whitlock, of Toledo, Ohio,
to be minister to Belgium.
There is still a possibility that Wi)-
liam F. McCombs, Democratic national
chairman, will be nominated for am
bassador to France.
(3y Associated Press.)
BOSTON, Oct. 6.—The loss of the
Boston schooner Frank B. Witherbee,
after a collision with the steamer City
of Atlanta off Cape Hatteras on Friday
night, was announced in a radiogram
fro mthe steamer today. Captain Ellis
and the crew of seven men on the
Witherbee were saved.
Necktie and Corn Cobb
Letter's Only Address;
Tyrus Raymond Got It
SYRACUSE, N. Y., Oct. 6.—Postal
clerks from here to Detroit solved the
rebus of a letter bearing as its address
nothing more than a rough sketch of a
necktie and a com pob. A local news
paper artist made the odd test, dropping
the letter into a street mail box without
the slightest hint other than the pic
tures as to whom it should be addressed.
Word has been received that the let
ter was promptly delivered as intended,
into the hands of none other than Tyrus
Raymond Cobb, the popular idol of base
ball fans.
YELLOW MEN IMPRISON
AMERICAN MISSIONARIES
(B£r Associated Press.)
PEKING, China, Oct. 6.—A message
dated October 3 was received today at
Siang Yang-Fu, in the province of Hu
Peh, from Rev. Christian Stokstad and
Rev. Mr. Johnson, the two American
missionaries trying to negotiate with
the Chinese bandits for the release of
the American and Norwegian mission
aries held in captivity by the bandits at
Tsao Yang.
It says that three white women and
two children are at the bandits’ head
quarters and have not been harmed,
while the men are believed to be living.
This message seems to disprove the
report that the little son of Rev. Mr.
Fausk has been killed.
Rev. C. Stokstad and Rev. Mr. John
son express hope that troops around
Tsaoyang will be able to hold the ban
dits until reinforcements arrive. The
bandits number about 1,000, of whom
half are mounted.
COMMERCE MAN TAKES HIS
OWN LIFE WITH SHOTGUN
COMMERCE, Ga., Oct. 6.—Calvin
Hopkins, aged twenty-two, shot him
self through the left breast with a dou
ble barreled shot gun at his home near
Barnett’s gin, about two and one-half
miles east of Nicholson, on Friday
night. Mr. Hopkins had been in a de
spondent condition for the past several
days. Mr. Hopkins was a bachelor and
lived alone.
BEATEN TO DEATH IN
WHIRLING COTTON GIN
FORSYTH, Ga., Oct. 6.—Caught in
the shafting of his gin, Will Stokes, of
Brent, in this county, was literally
beaten to death early Saturday morn
ing.
While seeking to adjust an elevator
belt connected with his kin his coat be
came entangled in a set screw on the
shafting and he was lifted off his feet
and whirled at great speed and with
terrific force against a sill behind the
shafting.
POOR INFANT
Rumored That Loans , Are
Pending for Half-Million for
Arms and Ammunition
(By Associated Press.)
EL PASO, Tex., Oct- 6.—A dispatch
from Washington to the Morning Times
says that American bankers, according
to constitutionalist agents in Washing
ton, have agreed to lend $500,000 to the
Sonora state rebels, the loan to be se
cured by a lien on the customs receipts
collected by the Sonora rebel govern
ment. The money is to be, expended on
arms and ammunition.
Francisco Escudro, through whom the
announcement was first made public, is
said to be on his way to meet General
Carranza at I-Iermosillo.
Rebel Junta Admits
Proposals Are Pending
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 6—Officers of
the constitutionalist junta here declare
no lo&n has been negotiated by Gover
nor Carranza, their chief, but say four
proposals are pending.
Their version af a report that Car
ranza has proclaimed a provisional gov
ernment at Hermosillo, is that a semi
provisional government has been formed
to administer the affairs of the states
in revolution. Such a government, they
declare, is identical with • that formed
by Madero, when he was leading the
revolt against Porflrio Diaz.
MASKED BANDITS GET
Cashier of American Velvet
Company Robbed Driving
From Bank to Mill
(By Associated Press.)
STONINGTON, Conn., Oct. 6.—Carl A.
Koelb, cashier of the American Velvet
company, was held up and robbed of
$16,000 this forenoon by two masked
men.
He was driving with the money from
the First National bank to the mill. The
robbers escaped.. Posses have started in
pursuit. (
The money was later found hidden in
a stone wall a short distance from
where the hold up occurred.
The robbers covered the cashier and
the driver, Charles Ryan, with their re
volvers. The highwaymen Jumped over
a fence and started through the lots,
with Koelb running after them. The rob
bers fired two shots. A trolley car pass
ed and crew and passengers gave chase,
but abandoned it when there seemed no
chance to overtake the fleeing men.
Later the valise with the money in
tact was found in a stone wall near
the sceen of the hold up.
BRIDGEPORT MAN SHOOTS
0PP0NENTJN CARD GAME
(By Associated Press.)
CHATTANOOGA, Term., Oct. 6.—Hen
ry Hutchins, of Bridgeport, Ala., was
shot and almost Jnstantly killed at that
place Sunday afternoon by John Green,
according to telephonic advices receiv
ed here today. '
The two engaged in a dispute over a
card game, it is said, and Green shot
Hutchins above the left temple. Green
was afterwards arrested and was com
mitted to the county jail at Scottsboro,
Ala., this morning. Both men are well-
known in this section.
Dead Body Fished
From Fountain in
Capitol Grounds
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 6.—Tragedy
stalked .abroad in the White House
grounds last night, and employes today
are speculating whether the body they
fished from the basin of one of the
fountains was that of a suicide or an
unfortunate drowned accidentally under
cover of darkness.
William Strauss, of the White House
force, discovered the corpse. It was
that of a great horned owl, and its
claws were entangled in the water
lilies that fill the basin with a thicl>
mat. The marauder evidently had de
signs on the goldfish, when it suddenly
found itself a prisoner. Mr. Strauss
today set about mounting his find, and
will present it to the president.
ONE KILLED WHEN
TROLLEY OVERTURNS
CHICAPEE, Mass., Oct. 6.—One man
was killed, another probably fatally
hurt and fifteen others were injured,
two seriously, when an electric car of
the Holyoke street railway company
overturned in AldenvUle tonight.
n
“GOVERNOR’S DAY” AT
QUITMAN COUNTY FAIR
FA TONI’ON, Ga-, Oct. 6.—Announce
ment has just been made by Putnam’s
county fair directors that Governor and
Mrs. Slaton have accepted an invitation
to the annual county fair here in No
vember, and plans for a “Governor’s
day” at the fair will undoubtedly make
it the red letter event of Putnam's 1913
fair.
Entombed Eight Days,
. Rescued Miner Says He
Is Feeling “Bully” Now
(By Associated Press.)
CENTRALIA, Pa., Get. 6.—Thomas
Toshesky, prisoner since Friday of last
week in an abandoned chamber of the
Continental mine of the Lehigh Valley
Coal company, walked into the open air,
a fre e and comparatively well man, at
22 minutes before 8 o’clock this morn
ing. He was taken to his home in Cen-
tralia, three miles away from his under
ground prison, and at once put to bed,
apparently none the worse for his re
markable experience.
Toshesky came to the surface with
a gray blanket wrapped about his shoul
ders. Back of him was a miner with
hands upraised ready to assist if he
should be needed, but Toshesky walk
ed with astonishing agility considering
his long imprisonment.
When he stepped on to the wooden
platform, just outside of the mouth of
the narrow tunnel and was first able
to stand upright he paused for an in-
Iot
stant and looked upward aus if In greet
ing to the world or scanning the steep
and muddy zig-zag path which led to
the opening of the mine breach. His
miner’s cap was on his head when he
crawled through the opening of the tun
nel and greeted his rescuers. His lamp
was in place upon his cap and burn
ing.
The most noticeable thing about him
was a pallor which showed through the
grime on his face, contrasting strangely
with the other blackened miners, whose
ruddy color showed even through the
coat of dust. Toshesky climbed the
path to the rim of the pit, almost un
aided. A stretcher had been taken to
the foot and there were plenty of will
ing hands to carry * him, but he would
have none of it.
Toshesky wore the broadest smile of
any person in the vicinity when he
was brought out.
“Hello,” lie greeted everybody who
spoke to him. Hi* one reply to ques
tion* as to how h* felt wam "bully,”
URGENT GALL SENT
OUT TO DEMOCRATS
Telegrams Call Congressmen
to Washington to Make
Up Quoram
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 6.—Demo
cratic house leaders, apprehensive at the
absence of a quorum of members in
Washington, were sending out urgent
recall telegrams today. Tuesday the
urgent deficiency bill, carrying provi
sions abolishing the commerce court and
removing all deputy revenue collectors
and deputy United States marshals
from civil service, is scheduled, to come
back from the senate for action on
amendments, and Republicans are pre
paring for a bitter fight.
If caught without a quorum, Demo
crats will be helpless and the measure
carrying $1,000,000 worth of patronage
and some pork barrel features will be
delayed in passage and probably jeopar
dized.
ALASKAN SNAWS BLACK
WITH VOLCANO ASHES
(By Associated Press.)
SEATTLE, Wash., Oct. 6.—The brigan
tine Harriet G. t Captain J. A. Mclnnis,
which arrived here today after a sum
mer spent in Bering sea, brought word
that volcanoes of the Aleutian range
are in violent eruption. Ashes from the
peaks covered everything and decks, car
peted the ground of the Alaskan penin
sula and spread a great smoky pall over
the waters throughout the summer,
members of the crew said. Mount
Kaymai also has sent forth volcanic
cinders.
“During the summer we were anchor
ed in Port Holden, some 200 miles from
Uflimak,” said. Captain Mclnnis. “The
grass on shore was covered with ashes
and the sky was always overcast with
heavy soke. Although Unimak island
usually is covered with snow, we were
surprised on the way down to find the
snow covered with ashes. For forty
miles don the coast we traveled under
the smoke cloud.”
GOVERNOR GENERAL IS
WELCOMED IN MANILA
(By Associated Prass.)
MANILA, Oct. 6.—Francis Burton
Harison, of New York, newly appointed
governor general of the Philippines,
who arived here today, was greeted by
several thousand people, many of whom
had come from the provinces. Several
of the welcoming delegates jvere ac
companied by bands.
Governor General Harrison’s address
embodied instructions received from
President Wilson, stating broadly the
administration’s policy toward the
Philippines.
The instructions declared that every
step would be taken with a view to the
ultimate independence of the islarfds.
Also it was announced that the first
step to be taken at once would be to
give native citizens the majority in
the appointive commission and thus a
majority in both houses of the Philip
pine legislature.
THAW’S RIGHTS NOT
VIOLATED, IS RULED
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 6.—None of Har
ry K. Thaw’s treaty rights as an
American citizen were violated when
Canadian immigration authorities forci
bly deported him a few weeks ago. That
was the ruling of Solicitor Joseph W.
Folk, of the stats department.
When Arrested for Murder at
Tango Teacher, Spencer
Tells How He Killed Twenty
in Greed for Gold ;^i
CHICAGO, Oct. 6.—Police began thj*f
grewsome investigation of the confes
sion of Henry Spencer that he had slats
twenty persons. Posesslng evidence
to support Spencer's admission that ha
killed Mrs. Mildred Allison Bexroat, a
dancing instructor, on September 25, thtt
authorities are convinced that they soon
will confirm the man as guilty of many,
if not all the crimes of his confessions.
THE VICTIMS.
Spencer admitted to Chief of Detea*
tives Halpin that “you've got the good*
on me; I know I’ll swing for this.”
Then he began his extraordinary recital
of the murders he had committed, the
list growing longer as the questioning
continued. This morning Spencer had
asserted that he had sent the folloxa-
ln* to their graves and told repeatedly
the manner of their going:
One of two farmers shot near ZloB
City, Ill., in the spring of 1903. Pete*
Nledermeier, one of the car barn ban*
dlts. who afterwards was hanged, kill*
ed the other, he said. Obtained $560.
Policeman Timothy Devine and
Charles Pennell, shot in August, 1909,
when they surprised Spencer and a man
named Murphy breaking into a house,
Murphy now dead.
Fannie Thompson, body found Jan*'
pary 1, 1908, gagged and bound in bed
in a Michigan avenue rooming house,|
Robbed of diamonds worth $1.20.0.
TWO FORMER WIVES.
Former wife at Walkorvllle, Ontario*
Beaten to death and body burled. <
Former New York widow, name forgot
ten.
Former wife near Fort Montgomery, >
N. Y. Beaten to death In woods. Rob- j
bed of $300 and diamonds woi*th $800.
Former maid to Helen Gould.
Aged man in Washington park last
spring. Shot and body thrown in la- j
goon. Got $200.
Two girls at Delavan Hake, Wis., in
June. Killed with hammer an4 bodies
thrown in lake.
Woman in house near county hos
pital. Used hammer -nd burned clothes;
Got $140 and rings.
Woman in house at Fulton and Hal*
stead streets about eight months ago.
Used hammer and burned clothing.
Robbed house.
Saloonkeeper on Van Buren street,
near Aberdeen. Shot man and wound
ed wife while robbing saloon.
Man shot and killed in alley under
south side elevated railroad about al
year ago.
Mrs. Mildred Allison-Kexroat, shot
shot near Wayne, September 25, and
body placed on railroad tracks.
Ida Oliver, killed with hammer No
vember 9, 1912. Body thrown into drain
age canal and recovered May 29.
Unknown man and wife, killed at Fox
Lake, Ill., in September, 1911., and
bodies thrown in lake.
Unknown man who brushed against
him at Forty-second street and Indiana
avenue last spring. Shot, body dragged
into alley and robbed.
Saloonkeeper in Park Row, killed
about two months ago and robbed.
Mrs. Connors, killed at St. Joseph,
Mich., and robbed of Jewelry.
DOESN’T KNOW OWN NAMk.
The man who claims this grewsome
record is of the Chicago product. He
does not know his real name and the
first he remembers he was in the home
for the friendless. He has spent half
of his thirty-two years in the state
penitentiary at Joliet. He was sen
tenced twice for wholesale robberies
and was returned twice after violation
of paroles.
He is short, weighs about 145 pounds,
wears glasses and has the appearance
of a clerk whose life has known little
excitement. He has been a devout wor
shipper at prayer meetings of the Im
manuel Baptist church and attended the
wedding of its pastor’s daughter three
nights before he killed Mrs. Rexroat.
Details as to names of his victims
and dates of their killing he could not
always supply, but as to whether he
“beat ’em in the head with a hamYner**
or “shot ’em to death” his memory was
better. He also remembered approxi
mately how much money or Jewelry he
got.
OPIUM SMOKER.
He said he did not drink nor smoke—<
except opium.
He asserted that he had not "touched
a pill” for two days and a physician
declared Spencer was not under the in
fluence of the drug.
“My head is clear,” Spencer said.
“You have got m e ‘dead to rights’ on
the Rexroat murder, and I know that
I shall be hanged in a couple of months*
That is why I want to tell everything. !
“I have been in and ‘out of prisons
since I was a boy. I have been hunted
and hounded all my life. I am sore on
the world. My own life doesn’t amount
to much and nobody’s life has meant
much to me.”
The proceeds of Spencer’s crimes
hav e amounted to more than $10,000 in
the last year He has spent the money;
on women.
“I killed Mrs. Rexroat because she
was trying t omake a sucker out of
me,” Spencer said. “Sh e told me I was
responsible for her condition and how;
badly she needed $300. I didn’t murder
her for the ring. I took it just be
cause it was there.”
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Young Woman Will
Graft Her Finger
For Her New Nose
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 6.—Her nose lost
as the result of an accident, Miss Nellie
Radigan, of Sairlt Elma, Va., is in a lo
cal hospital growing a new one, but at
the acriflce of the index finger of her
left hand. Surgeons today believed
that one of the most difficult operations
ever performed here will be entirely *ucr
cessful.
Miss Radigan’s finger was split and
the flesh sewed into place over the
nasal passages, the finger bone forming
the bridge of the nose. At the expira
tion of two weeks, when the surgeons
believe the skin grafting will ba
completed, they will amputate the flngef
and from it form a new nose.
In the meantime, Miss Radigan is se*
curely bound in plaster casts to pre
vent any interferenoe with the healing