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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.” J 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