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VOLUME XVIII.
SIXTEEN AMERICANS AND MANY MEXICANS SLAIN
VILLA REPULSED IN INVASION
Shot Pannell to
Save Girl, Says
Woman in Jail
Mrs. Pannell Claims She Killed
to Defend Daughter, Who
Refuses to Leave Mother’s
Side
Mrs Ho!ii< Arleva Pannell is jailed in the matrons room at police
elation charred with the murder of her husband, Jdward Pannell, the man
she married at the age of fifteen, later divorced, married again and finally
killed Wednesday morning in the dining room of their home, 47 Chastine
street.
With her k their fifteen-year-old daughter. Elva, who has been with
her tor a day and night since the shooting and declares she will not leave
her. even if Mrs. Pannell is transferred to the Fulton county tower, which
will be the case if relatives carry out their announced Intention of swearing
ont a municipal court warrant against her.
“I loved him, and I killed him to save my own daughter’s honor," Mrs.
Pannell told The Journal Thursday in the first coherent account she has
given of the shcoting.
‘She shot him in the back deliberately while he was peacefully eating
his ’ charges Mrs. C. C. Holt, sister of the dead man.
TWO WOMEN AGAINST T»vO.
Mrs. Holt and Mrs. Annie Farmer. Pannell's mother, are expected to
lead the prosecution against Mrs. Pannell —two women, mother and daugh
ter, arraigned against two other women, also mother and daughter, be
cause of the death ot the man whose bod?' now lies at Greenberg &
Bond's undertaking establishment until his kin make funeral arrange
ments. •
Mrs. Pannell has aksed to attend the services, and Chief of Police
Mayo has said that he will give his permission unless the case is trans
ferred to the jurisdiction of the county should the court warrant be
issued. In that event there will be no preliminary trial in recorder’s
court, but in the municipal court instead.
At the trial Attorney John A. Boykin, counsel for Mrs. Pannell, is
expected to make the defense that the woman, goaded by a life of pov
erty, shot the man to save, her daughter from disgrace.
*7 Loved Ed When I Shot
Him” Sobs Mrs. Pannell
has been hell for Kiva and me
r-i killed hike jithough I loved him
and tore him now—but—the honor of
1;' child was at stake!**
This is the first explanation given
tn Mts. Hol lie Arieva Pannell for the
murder of her husband. She made the
statement in *he presence of a Journal
reporter and her own little daughter.
Elva. Thursday morning in the matron’s
room at police headquarters.
The little gH ciung to her mother s
band and gazed at the reporter with
•ride, brown eyes, never deigning to
sneak, refusing to cry; while Mrs. Pan
nell clutched her daughters shoulder
■onvulsively and smoothed the girl's
brow n hair -and let the tears spatter
town her oa n face unchecked.
Mother and daughter have been to
gether at the station since Mrs. Pannell
was arrested Wednesday morning. "I ant
going, too,” said Elva when they took
her mother away, she went, slept be
side her through the long night and
rot once has left her side. She lust
alts in a rocking chair beside heF moth
er's chair and holds her mother’s hand
end tries to read
LITTLE GDIL REFUSES
TO BUAX HER PROMISE
’’A fairy story.” she called her book.
“Let me alone, please. J am tired of
new* reporters.
‘‘What's your name!" the leportct
a sited her.
•’Puddin' an’ tain.” said Elva and stuck
cut her tongue at him.
’’Why did your mother shoot your
father?”’
"Please—l can’t tell you anything my
mother doesn’t want me to. I never dis
obeyed her yet. You don’t want me to
now. do you?”
She raised the big brown eyes to the
reporter. She smoothed down her white
middy blouse.
*’T had bad dreams all night Irotan
thinking about it.” she added pathetical
ly. Even then there was not a tear in her
ryes nor a quiver to her lip.
Mrs. Pannell, on the contrary, wept
at every question. She has been trying
to read to take her mind off the tragedy.
A magazine lay in her lap. turned up
to the picture of a race horse, as she
><nally launched into the story of her
T.fe with Ed Pannell, aroused at last
to give her first statement by the re
questions the reporter shot at
j-he is a pretty woman, her hair a
JU’it golden color, and she was neatly
messed in a brown skirt and a white
waist trimmed with a dainty frill of
• esc around the neck. As she talked she
• lucked sometimes at the scarf and
Kinked ihe tears down past her nose
glasses.
••We were married on Orme street in
/llenta.” she said, ’ when* 1 was only
ifteen years old and Ed was seventeen.!
That was sixteen years ago. We lived
’ogether for a while ar.d then we sepa- ’
lated. But the family—both sides —
I nally got ua together again e’ en after
we were divoroed. We were remarried |
in Texas.
"My husband traveled a great dea’ 1 1
have, been to Memphis and Clarksdale .
-r.d Lena. Ark.. Waynesboro. N. C., I
Houston. Grafton. W. Va.. San Antonio. |
Tex. When he left me in these towns, !
Sister Charges Pannell
Was Brutally Murdered
•\jv brother murdered: Shot • L-eon Edwaid Eanneil, who was killed by
. * . . , « h.i 1 h»s wife Wednesday morning.
m «m back. , Ir - "There «as no .<ason for it and no
'aung hit breakfast. occ<ared Mrs. |
Charles Holt. T.ttckie street, sister of | (Continued on Page Two. Col. Three)
he always took another woman with
him.
”Ed made fifteen dollars a week, but
he always spent It, every cent. Then
he lost his job in Greensboro, N. C., so
we came to Atlanta three weeks ago.
I haven’t slept a single night since then,
for we were poor hungry and miser
able
*M> life has been hideous! He
whippet! me and he whipped Elva. He
made life a hell for both of us.”
WHAT HAPPENED
WEFNESDAT MORNING.
She broke off and cried passionately.
■'That other woman!” she rambled on.
“Me told me he wanted to get a divorce
so lie could be with her always. Once
he took her to Hot Springs, Ark.
“Elva has been my stand-by all the
time. She is a jewel—a perfect jewel!
When I couldn’t get work and we were
almost starving, she got a jab in a tele
phone exchange, but she couldn't stand
the strain. She worked two days, then
she got sick. She was in bed three
tiayu.
"Yesterday morning she crawled out
trembling and shivering with a head
ache ami insisted she was going to work.
Then this thing happened—!”
She broke off suddenly.
"What nappened?” insisted the re
porter.
"The honor of my child —the honor of
».iy child.” moaned Mrs. Pannell, shaking
her head back and forth. She would
not say any more.
"Do ycu still love this man, Mrs. Pan
nell?” the reported asked.
”Lcie him!” she cried. "I adored him
and I do now and my children do! I
would have given my life for him even
when I killed him!"
RELATIVES OF WOMAN
CONFIRM CIVELTT STORY.
A sister and a brother of Mrs. Pan
nell confirmed the woman’s story that
her busband had been unkind, even
brutal toward her and Elva.
Mrs. C. B. Bell, 218 Crew street, the
sister, said that Elva told her she was
running from her father just before he
was shot, that her was "trying to mis
treat her” and that when she resisted
him. he got down the razor strop.
"Then my sister shot him, said Mrs.
Beil. "What I think is that my sister
shot her husband to save her daughter
from mistreatment."
I. L Westbrook, of Birmingham, a
brother of Mrs. Pannell, is here visiting
another sister, Mrs. C. O. Pylant, at 20
Hendrix avenue.
He told The Journal that he •‘knows
for a fact” Pannell has always been
unkind to his wife and child.
Attorney John A. Boykin is authority
for the statement that Mrs. Pannell told
him h»r husband led her a dog’s life and
menaced his own daughter, Elva.
He paralyzed Elva’s right leg by beat
ing her in Greensboro constantly, Mrs.
I Pannell told me,’’ said Attorney Boy
kin. "He tried to make monej- out of
both of them and he was a danger to
I his own daughter.”
Attorncy’Boykin stated that only Elva
was in the room when Mrs. Pannell shot
I Ed P» nnell.
“The other two little children were
asleep it. another room., said Attorney
Hoykin
GERMANY DECLARES
WAR ON PORTUGAL
50 GERMAN WARSHIPS
: NOW REPORTED OUT
British Correspondents in Hol
land Send All Available
' Details of Fleet
(By Associated Press.f
( LONDON, March 9.—The morning
I newspapers publish from their corre
i spondents in Holland such details as
are available there regarding the recent
i activity of the German fleet in the
| North sea.
According to these accounts the fleet
included about fifty craft of all descrip
tions from the most modern dread
naughts down to old-fashion torpeck
boats.
Hie fleet was escorted by two Zeppe
lins which served as scouts to prevent
a surprise attack by hostile vessels.
Orje trawler sighted this fleet 165 miles
■ due west of the mouth of the Elbe. An
• other saw it 35 miles northwest of
Vmuiden. All the German ships w-ere
painted a war-gray and were invisible
at a short distance. Heavy clouds of
smoke frequently bid them completely.
One captain of a Dutch trawler is
quoted as having «pa»le the following re
! port:
j "During the recent air raid on Eng-
I land a Zeppelin was seen scouting in
advance of three cruisers and a fleet of
destroyers and submarines which were
believed to have the intentio nos making
a dash for English waters. The Zeppe
lin, however, made certain discoveries
regarding the watchfulness of the Brit
ish fleet and the German squadron
hastily withdrew.’.’
Austrian Dreadnaughts to
Attempt to Run Blockade
ROME. .March 9. — IVia Paris.) —Two
of the most powerful Austrian dread
inoughts are ijchtg "prepared in a Dalma
'tian port, the Tribuna says, with the
Intention of repeating the exploit of the
former German vessels Goeben and Bres
lau. and forcing the allies’ blockade of
, the Adriatic, in order to reach the Darda
nelles and bring assistance to Turkey in
the Black sea, as the situation of the
latter is growing desperate owing to
Russian naval supremacy in those
. waters.
i For this reason, the newspaper adds,
i the floating mines which obstructed the
Dardanelles have been swept up by
the Turks and the Germans in order to
Hear the way for the Austrian battle
sb ips.
LOHS ffIISON TERM FOR
COLBERT BANK CASHIER
Ga., March 9.—The
, regular March term of the superior court
of Madison county is in session, with
Judge J. N. Worley presiding.
.1.1,. Rehiliart, cashier of the defunct
, bank of Colbert. Ga.. charged with em
bezzlement. entered a plea of guilty and
was sentenced to seven years and six
months in the penitentiary.
Earl Moon was convicted of killing
Knox Moon, both negroes, and was sen
tenced to hang April 25 next.
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'German Official Statement To-
• I ay Claims’ the Capture of
Village and Fort Vaux and
t Many Other Positions
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(By Associated Press.)
BERLIN, March 9.—(By Wireless to
Sayville.)—Germany declared, war on
Portugal at 3:30 o’clock yesterday after
noon and handed his passports to the
Portuguese minister.
(By Associated B'«aa.)
BERLIN, March 9.—(Via Loudon.)—
i The village and arniored fort of Vaux,
■ northeast of Verdun has been captured
by the Germans, the war office an
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The announcement says numerous ad
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I Enemy troops in villages w’est and south
iof Verdun were heavily bombarded.
“By the attack of a French oeroplane
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i "Eastern (heater: Russian advances
against our advanced positions were un-
. successful everywhere.
i “Reports have been received that rail
way establishments on the line to Misok,
as well as enemy troops in Mir, were
attacked by one of cur airships on the
■ night of the Sth.
“Balkan theater: The situation is un
changed.”
CALHOUN PREACHER IS
I ■ UQUITTED OF MUnOEH
II Rev. W. W. Putnam Contend
i ed Homer Taylor Wronged
20-Year-old Daughter
(Special Dispatch to The-Journal.)
I CALHOUN, Ga., March 9. —The jury
after being out four hours here last
I night returned a verdict of not guilty
in th e trial of Rev. W. W. Putnam for
the killing of Homer Taylor in June of
last year.
The trial, which lasted for two days,
has been one of the most sensational had
here in years. The defendant is a Bap
' list minister and sixty-two years of age,
i while Taylor was thirty-seven years old,
having a wife and five children.
The defense contended that the de
ceased had wronged the twenty-year-old
daughter of Rev. MT. Putnam.
\Memphis Official
Takes Own Life
MEMPHIS, Tenn.. March 9.—'John J.
Raggio, city treasurer, killed himself at
his home this morning with an auto
matic revolver. Relatives claim his
> de'ath was an accident.
Raggio had been city treasurer since
the shake-up in city officials here as the
result of ouster proceedings against
Mayor Crump and others.
BEACH BURNING STEAMER
AND SAVE PASSENGERS
1 (By Associated Brett.)
LONDON, March 9.—A Lloyds dis-
I patch from Malta says that the Penin
i sula and Oriental steamship Nellore,
. with fire aboard, was beached, that the
fire has been extinguished, and that
passengers and mails have been re
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i .
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i Gieenock and is of 6.853 gross tons and
. 450 feet long. She was last reported
hi shipping records as having sailed
( from Penang on February 12.
OFFICIALS ARE MYSTIFIED
BY CUTTING OF YOUTH
MACON, March 9.—Confined in the
city hospital with a deep knife wound in
his groin, a boy giving his name as
Robert Smith and claiming Atlanta as
his home, mystifies deputy sheriffs by
refusing to tell who cut him, or the cir
cumstances under which he was at
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ago on a farm of Ben Williamson, sev
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tacked while members of the household
were away. Smith is about fifteen years
old.
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TO ENTER HIS NAME
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Roosevelt, who is now at Trinidad,
British West Indies, in a statement giv
en out today through the Evening Mail,
emphatically declines to be a candidate
in the primaries of Massachusetts or of
any other state.
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American Troops
Already Across
The Border Line
■ 1
Washington Stirred by Massac
ere of Men and Women byl
Villa and His Band at Co->
lumbus, New Mexico »
———————— I
TBy Associated Press.)
COLUMBUS, N. M., March 9, —Pablo Lopez, second in command
to Villa, was killed.
Major Lindsley, stationed at Gibson ranch, sent three troops of j
cavalry across the border to reinforce Major Tompkins who went in :
pursuit of the raiders. f
WASHINGTON, March 9.—Francisco Villa and about 500 of hig •
bandits crossed the border on to American soil before daylight today and
under the cover of darkness fired the town of Columbus, New Mexico, \
and put to death a number of civilians, men and women.
At present it is known that sixteen Americans were slain, six of i
them United States soldiers who gave battle to the bandit gang and re
pulsed the Villa band. Some reports say that United States troops ’
crossed into Mexico in pursuit of the retreating bandit general and his
men.
The number of Mexicans killed has not been estimated yet, but
it is known that their losses were far in excess of the American casual
ties. Many of the Mexican dead were left on the streets of Columbus k
and many others were killed by a flank fire poured into them as they re
treated. ' *
Washington is stirred by the latest turn of events on the border
and some officials believe that the American army may be authorized to
invade Mexican soil to hunt down the bandits responsible for today’s out-
' rage.
President Wilson was in conference with the new secretary of war,
Newton D. Baker, when the news reached Washington and he imme
diately issued Mr. Baker s commission and the new secretary went to his
office to study the situation. " ' ' .
Later it was said at the White House that vigorous steps would
taken to punish the bandits and the president directed Secretary Baker •
to do everything possible th protect Americans. . ,
The raid started a new agitation in congress where those who have
opposed the administration’s Mexican policy openly charged that the at
tack "was proof of their repeated declarations that the Carranza govern
ment was impotent to deal with the situation and a fulfillment of their
predictions that another outrage like the recent Cusi massacre in which
sixteen or more Americans were killed by Villa bandits when they held
up a train, was only a question of time. *
“That means intervention.” declared Senator Robinson, of Ar
kansas, a Democrat. “I don’t see what else can be done. ’ ;
Senator Tillman declared: “There never has been a president who .
tried so hard to keep out of war as President Wilson, but if this, is true,
it looks as if General Funston would have to get busy at once.’
Details of Raid and
Battle That Followed
COLUMBUS, New Mexico, March 9.
Five hundred Mexican bandits believed
to have been led by Francisco Villa,
crossed the international border under
cover of darkness early today and at
tacked this town, killing sixteen or more
American men and women, including
at least six United States soldiers.
When the bandits fled toward Mexico
some hours later they were pursued by
I United States troops, who are said to
j nave crossed the border.
A large number of Mexican dead were
left lying in the streets of Columbus,
and at the border the Mexicans were
subjected to a flank attack by American
troops and eighteen more of their num
ber killed.
Several American citizens in Colum
ibus declared they personally saw Villa
directing his men and a portmanteau
j discovered by a trooper contained Villa’s
personal papers.
The attack was a surprise. Villa was
supposed to have been forty-four miles
away, having last night caused a tele
gram to be sent indicating his presence
at an Nogales ranch.
SIXTEEN AMERICANS SLAIN.
The number of slain American sol
idiers was placed at six. Eight men,
I citizens of Columbus, and two women
are known to have been killed. Three
other men and a woman are listed among
the known wounded.
Prior to the attack the Villa bandits
hanged three Americans whom they
had held as prisoners for some days,
according to information received here.
Tneir bodies were burned, the report
said.
'lhe Villa men were said to have been
joined bv Carranza soldiers after they
crossed the border. A deep ditch paral
lels the United States army camp, the
customs house and tne railroad station.
Through this gully the bandits made a
concealed approach.
After posting snipers at advantageous
points, the bandits set fire to buildings,
including the depot and hotels. As peo
ple rushed from their homes they were
snot down by the snipers.
Civilians armed themselves and to
gether with United States soldiers
fought a battle of several hours with
the banflits.
Colonel Slocum’s revolver was shot
from his hand as he left his quarters. (
Some of the bandits by speaking
English lured house folk to the streets
and then shot them. From burning ho
tels and other structures persons who
sought to escape were killed or wound
ed.
VILLA ESCAPES.
When dawn came the retreat of the
Villa men was under way. Villa him
self apparently had left earlier.
It. the streets lay the bodies of a num
ber of Mexican dead: a number of Mex
ican wounded were removed to the post
hospital. During the fighting many
families barricaded themselves within
tl.elr home?.
Information that Francisco Villa and I
OF U. S.
his chief lieutenant, Pablo Lopez, wertr
in personally command was given Col-*
onel,Slocum by a Mexican rancher, whew
escaped during the fighting. He told of*
the hanging of the American ranchers
McKinney,’ Corbett and O’Neil, and de-'
clared that a fourth American, name un
known. had also been hanged. The Mex
ican said Villa attacked with from 800
to 1,000 men and a machine gun platoon.,
The Mexican told Colonel Slocum that
Villa left the Bosques Grandes ranch
Tuesday, made a leisurely journey north
and about 4 yesterday left a point on’
the Pocas Grande and started for the»
border.
"Traveling north they crossed th®
boundary west of Columbus,” said th®
Mexican, "and entered town by a ditch
running past the cavalry camp Villa
was in personal charge and declared h®
was going to kill every American be~
cause the American government did not.
treat him right. Villa declared Car
ranza could not bring peace in Mexico.
With Villa were Pablo Lopez, Martin
Lopez, Colonel Candelario Seventes, Col
onel Cruz Chavez, General Jose Fernan
dez and General Beltran.’’
The Mexican confirmed a report that
while in the Santa Ana district in west
ern Chihuahua, Villa had freely stated’
that he intended to force in ter ration by
raiding American territory and killing
civilians and soldiers.
Lieutenant Clyde Ely with twenty
men of the New Mexican national guard,’
arrived from Deming today and joined
the federal troops.
LIST OB' DEAD. * .
American soldiers killed:
FRANK . KENDVALL, horr.e*hoer.
Troop K. •
SERGEANT MARG A. DOBBS, ma
chine gun troop.
CORPORAL PAUL SIMON. X
SERGEANT JOHN NIEVERGELT,
band.
CORPORAL HARRY WISWALL,
Troop G.
FRED A. GRIFFEN, private. Troop K.
The wounded:
Jesse P. Taylor, Troop F.
Thomas Butler, Troop B'.
Theodore Kalzerkc, Troop L.
.Michael Barmazel. machine gun troop.
John Yarbrough. Troop K.
James Venner, Troop trt.
John Keogh. Troop G.
Lieutenant C. C. Benson, Troop G.
I The known civilian dead: ,
A. L. RITCHIE, hotel proprietor.
WALTER WALKER, United State®
customs rider!
MILTON JAMES
MRS. MILTON JAMES
J. S. DEAN.
C. C. MILLER, druggist.
W. R. WALKER, guest Central hotel.
UNIDENTIFIED CHAUFFEUR.
J. J. MOORE, merchant.
Thomas Butler, private of troop F.
later died of his wounds, making total
i dead American soldiers seven.
VILLA’S ADDRESS.
A Mexican said that Villa addressed
(Continued on Page 3, Column S.) ,
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