About The Athens daily herald. (Athens, Ga.) 1912-1923 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 30, 1922)
■HHHfei MHBlHB .THOUGHT WEATHER: • T ' : i CLOUDY WITH SHOWERS. COTTON: MIDDLING .. 24 l-4c PREVIOUS CLOSE .. — 24 l-8c Single Copies 2 Cents Daily. S Cents Sunday. Committee Demands Suspension of Atty. Daugherty r - +•+ •fr*+ b'-b +4 •b*-b •b*-b 1 •*•••§• 4> , 4 *•* *•* *•* PREACHER TRIED FOR UllllG WIFE, MOTHER BE PREACHER’S PLEft 10 KILLED TWO Mile. Frea’s Beauty Pleases Two Monarchs. *•* ■5*«* +•* *•* *•* *•+ *4 **+ +•+ *•* +4 *1 CIIHTY” Will Beauty Dazzles Royal Pmom Fascisti Takel0ver Italian Government Uev. Padrick Goes on Trial in Statesboro For Slaying Mother-in-Law and Wife. HE GOES TO SLEEP IN COURT ROOM First Thought Insanity Will Be Ground For De fense, But Change Is Made. STATESBORO, Ga.—Clad in subdued clothing, and with Bible in hand. Rev. Elliott Padrick, youthful Method.st minister, was brought into the Superior court room he reMonday to stand tr**l for the killing of his wife. Willie Mae Padrick. and his mother-in- law. Mrs. M. B. Nixon, on the night of June 1», between Dover und Clito. .Vhplly unconcerned us f tdttacr trial. Padrick walked directly tc» th e Cable where his attorneys were scuted, adjusted his chair to 1 a comfortable position, sat 1 down [ and srent to sleep. At noon he was Still sleeping, despite the fact that his attor neys wer© wrangling over the selection of a jury. , At 12:35 o’clock the following Jurors had been selected to decide tho case: i\ a. Wnrnock. teacher and farmer; C. C. Daugherty, form* «<t and merchant; W. M. Higdon, farmer; L. O. Rushing, farmer; C. B. Burch, farmer; J. F. Oliff. druggist; J. L*.Branan, farmer; T. H. Nevils, farmer; R. L. Lhnier, farmer; John A. Lanier, furmer; it. O. Riggs, merchant; A. E. Taylor, farmer. The attorneys for the defense 1 - According to ^history, royalty has a keen and discerning: eye in n*atl ters of feminine beauty. This is Mile. Frea, Parisian actress, wnQM beauty- won the approval of the King of Spain and the Shah Of Persi^ when these two monarchs were recently in the Franck csnitah , . - ASKS PRESIDENT TO f| HAVE AT Hopkins, Committee Chairman, Wants Attor ney Suspended Pending Impeachment. DEMANDS LETTER FROM HARDING Last Letter Asking His Removal Was Given to Daugherty — Another Disliked Act. * $50,000 Structure Not Quite Completed Is De ter emeu Monday morning to en-. m0 ]i s hed. Labor Disputes - " simple plea of “not guilty.” It was pointed out that, should the jury find for tho defendant upo nn pica of Insanity as at first considered Padrick could hp sent to the state asylum and if he ever recovered ho could be brought back to trial. The youthful minister is on triVi| for the murder of his moth er-in-law. this being the flr8tcase selected by the state. If he is ac quitted on this chaise, he will then l»e tried for the slaying of his wife. Padrick stated Monday mom- ink that he intended to preach a sermon to the jury as his defense statement. His selected text will '•c that section of the Bible for bidding the conveting of “thy neighlKTr’s wife” and the seventh commandment. Reported. Tho solicitor general stated _ Monday morning that the case | of Education, should l»e ended by Tuesday ^ J * *" morning. He said he would take less than an hour for the state to present its case. Padrick’s family was seated in various parts of the court room, <»ut none were at the table with him. CLEVELAND, Ohio.—The ^lay- field township graded school, un der construction in South Euclid, east of here -wus demolished by two explosions Sunday night. Houses in the vicinity were shaken and the blasts were heard within a radius of several miles. There were two explosions at intervals of two minutes. One charge had evi dently been placed in the boiler re cently installed, while the other was in the northeast corner of the building. . . The building, a two-story brick structure, was being erected by the Harbaugh Construction company of Akron r.t a cost of $50,000.. According to Harry Adelson, president of the South Euclid Board of Education, there were several labor disputes during the course of construction because the Rom any employed both union and non union men. Work had been halted since last Monday when employes working on the bulldog struck. ATHENIANS 6DT0 Nix, Dorsey and Bullock Attend 136th Communi cation Beginning in Ma con Tuesday. NEW YORK.—J. A. H. Hopkins, chairman <Jf the committee of forty- eight Sunday night made public , a letter to President Hording asking a personal reply from the executive to the committee’s demand that’ Attorney General Daugherty be sUs-« pended from office pending a hear*-', ing of the impeachment charges brought by Representative Kell/ of Minnesota. The letter follow! receipt by Mri Hopkins of an advice from the attorney general’s office that a previous communication to President Harding voicing the com mittee demands had been turned over to Mr. Daugherty and “would receive serious consideration.” “In calling your attention to the gross impropriety of referring a demand for Mr. Daugherty’s sus pension* to Mr. Daugherty him self,” Mr. Hopkins’ letter to the President said, “we simply wish to I'C’nt out that the seriousness of the situation which led to this de mand and the necessity for drastic action relative thereto has merely been enhanced by the action you have taken.” The .Athens delegation of Ma sons to the one hundred and thirty-sixth grand communica tion which meets Tuesday in Macon left Monday afternoon for the Central City and will on hand Tuesday morning When the first session is called td order by Grand Master Joe P. Bowdoin of Atlanta. Abit Nix. grand master of the local lodge; W.. F. Dorsey, past grand master, and Jim Bulloch are fn attendance from Athens. faced with TWO QUESTIONS 1 Dead, Other May Die From Eating Poison Cake l'H ILADELPHIA. — Authorities •'tonday were >tlll seeking a ilue to the sender of the poisoned '■Ik. Which killed W. W. Sterreit "f Devon, an accountant, and re- tu ”t the Ufeiof Mi». Sterrett. '»st the life o fMrs. Sterrett Dr. Herbert A. Bostwick, coro ner's physician of Montgomery 'aunty who conducted a- post mortem examination ' of Mrs •sterrett declared. 1U S belief that two poisons cleverly mixed by expert, were placed in the icing *ke cake sent to the Sterretts. “Blue Monday” - At Police Court After being good most- of the week, to tho extent that but few arrets -were msde. despite cfamlvals. |fatrs and circuses, Athens’ usual run of drunk and disorderly conduct habitues show ed up at police court Monday morning- However, the number was no larger than Is usually found on the blotter for Monday morning and the police state that the week past was the most re markable tn the history of the depslrtment for-the few arrests that were made when there were so many different attractions in the city.. Daniel Cohen. 22, and bride of a mouth', found dead In bathroom at Yonkers, N. Y., and coroner sus pects double murder. Two.-matters stand out &b be- injr of special Interest to the Mo-* sons of the state. One is the election of a new superintendent Probe Death of |2 Found Dead In Bathroom pY;* YORK/—Coibnerl Freder- towden Monday ordered un •pay in jtn effort to determine Daniel Cohen. und Cohen,* his btide of a ith, met death. The bod.es. fere found in tha din of .their apartment in Inkers unday night. Cohen lay ce down on the floor with one t«id the side of itae bath tub. hr- ohen's body wu) under ater In the tub. Neither body >re signs of violence. “It looks like murder.” Snow- said, “but we w.ll not know e 'exact cause of death until an ‘topsy as been performed, mre' are Indications that the •man was killed under the iter by some one. 1 !EB HALF MILLION BUILDING DONE IE THIS YEAH DENIES DAUGHTER’ KILLED RECTOR AND IT Mother of Slain Woman Employs Counsel to Aid in Proving Offspring's Innocence. CORONER CALLS HER DOUBLE MURDERER Well Known Bishop and Church Woman Found Dead Together. Infatu ation Known. Figures Issued By City •Engineer Indicate -Re- • markable Year Consid ering Things. HAVRE, IHwWIUt Mrs. Margaret Carleton deliberate ly -attempted to win the R«v. Leonard _J. Chrjgr,rector of y . of th : s city from his wife and that failing, she shot the minister and thfep hersfrif* is tho beffBf of Bishop Fred erick Faber, Head of ’the Dio cese of Montana, according to a statement made by him Mon day. Arrests Made In Disappearance MOSCOW.—(By the Associated Press.)—Two arrests have been made in connection with the dis appearance two weeks ago Philip J. Shield, American relief worker at Simbirsk, according to a telegram received here from Col. William N. Haskell, head of the field forces of the American Be lief Administration, Until Saturday night last the .authorities were inclined to be lieve the Telief worker whose honyj is in Richmond, Va„ had committed suicide, but early yes terday certain developments not MANY HOMES ARE BUILT IN ATHENS Figures Represent Im provements Both in Bus iness and Residence Sec tions. Building permits in Athens for the current year will run over the half million mark as indicated, by the figures in Captain Barnett’s office at the city hall. Already nearly three hundred thousand dollars in permits have been is sued and it is believed that the next two months will see enough applied for to run the total near the half million dollar mark for the year. THOUGHT REMARKABLE FOR CONDITIONS Considering the financial condi. tions of the country just now. es pecially in this section, this is thought by City Engineer Barnett to be a splendid showring for the ’year and will compare favorably with other cities the size of Ath ens in the state. One interesting feature about the permits is the large number of medium priced homes that have of the Masonic Home at Macon. ye t made public, led them to be- J een built during the year. But Peter V. Rice having resigned a \jeve that Shield may have been * ew . large structures have gone up murdered. Detailed information * x ' tm * s xU concerning the arrests was not received here. Investigating authorities arc still dragging the Volga in the belief that they will find the body in the river, since Shield's hat was found on the bank above Simbirsk several days ago. pionth ago. The care of the 130 orphans in-the home hrs been In charge of J. B. Clements, of Ir- winvflle in tho . interim. The other is whether to establish a home, for aged. Masons or *Q in crease compensation for the in firm members of the order. A special attraction of the communication will be the visit of degree team from Fort Ogle- thorpq* Ga., commanded by Maj or J. M.'Troutt, of the fort A special dispensation has been made by the grand master to al low the team to put' on a degree at the City Hall auditorium to which all Masons -Will be admit ted. \ * ; . A pencil-holder of gold, with & picture of Charles L. Bass, of At lanta, past grand piaster, will be the .official badge -of this commun ication-' Each delegate will be given one when be registers at the 'Grand Lodge hall Tuesday morning. ’ Officers of the Grand Lodge are •Too P. Bowdoin. of Adeirsville, (Turn to Page Four.) Atlanta Churches Celebrate Today ATLANTA.—Celebration of the seventy-fifth anniversary at St. Phillips Cathedral ot» the Protest ant Episcopal church continued here Monday, with a musical fes tival at night the principal event of the day. Four Bishops in at tendance are Bishop Thomas W. Gailor of the diocese of .'Tennes see. and presiding bishop of the Episcopal church;. Albion W. Knight, New Jersey; F. F. Reese, Georgia, and T. W. Beck with. Alabama^- A sermon by Bishop Gailor on Wednesday night will mark the close of the fourday jubilee. during this time but on the other hand many small business places and residences have been built. The • permit issued to William J. Miller for the erection of the new Michael -home on Milledge avenue is the largest residence permit of the year, ^it calls for an expendi ture of $28,000. A number of homes costing around ten and twelve thousand dollars have been built. ' ’ • . MANY BUSINESS IMPROVEMENTS HAVRE, Montana.—While Mrs. Clyirler today was on the east- hound train accompanying the body of her slain husband. Rev. Leon ard J. Chrlsler, rector of St. Marks, Episcopal church and known as the “Bishop o$ all outdoors.” Mrs. Jo seph Pyle, mother of Mrs. Marga ret Carlton, whose body was found h°8id« that of Chrlsler. is attempt ing to provq that her daughter did not commit murder and sui cide. A* coroner’s jury brought in a verdict Sunday stating that Mrs. Carleton killed the Rev. Chrlsler and then shot herself. The tragedy occurred early Friday morning. Mrs. Chrlsler left with the body bor husband for Waterloo, N. Y., Sunday morning. In spite of the coroner’s verdict Mrs. Pyle has employed an attor ney and is endeavoring to find evi dence that will prove her daughter did not commit the crime. “I do not believe Margaret did it,” said Mrs. Pyle shortly after her arrival in Havre from her home in Butte. “I shall not be satisfied until 1 find who owned the gun.” Her reference .was to a .38 cali bre revelover in the hand of Mrs. Carleton when the bodies were dis covered. A small .22 calibre revol ver she customarily carried was found in Mrs. Carleton’s handbag. Mrs. Pyle is now engaged 4n piec ing together bits of torn letters found in the wastebasket in her daughter's room which she declares .is in Mr. Chrisler’s handwriting. That Mrs. Carleton had an infatu tion for the minister is admitted by Mrs. Pyle. ^ A letter said to be from Frank E. Carleton, dated in California, August 25; says: Permits of consequence for busi ness houses.include large additions and improvements at the Athens “Dear Margaret! I have been thinking a great deal lately that it is not fair that you should have *nv legal restraint upon you. We have been apart over a year and th*>re *s absolutely no chance for your happiness as my wife. No thought of it and t0 ° P road *«* mention- No matter storage plant for the-Atlantic Ice and Coal Corporation, the remod eling of the building occupied by the Commercial Bank. Percy JohnsonVpool room, the Lips- comb-Boley building on Broad street, several filling stations and echool building, and in connection with the latter a permit for at least $30,000 will shortly be issued for the erection of a new school building on the Chase street lot while another is to to be built in (Turn to Page Four) yog are a clever, good looking wo man and tbere are lots of good, successful men who would make you happy. Probably you have met — ft,),.'; if this is so. I am mighty happy and will do all I can •c fi. tbines so that you can be free to marry.” /ttnebml to this letter was one said to be in the handwriting of the Rev. chrlsler. It says In part: “Am amazed at JYank’s attitude. Why he honest with ourselves (Turn to Page Four.) Edison NEW MINISTRY W PLACE THE FALLEN FACTA GOVERNMENT 6Att HKMy Bn 7 MV BOTMCOrtT ^0 4-9 An- a: U90MTOW m i2:tO 1 PM AT LABORATORY 2-5 pm sets vii-mrw WHILE em DINNER. &30PM AT YJOPK P 4 bemtAM' i; U2 1Y MAY NOT GET Thousands of Black Shift ed Followers Ready to Triumphantly March Through City. SERIOUS RIOTING ) IN ROME, ITALY Communists Attack Fas cisti With Result That One Is Killed and An other Hurt. ROME. (By the Associated Press)—Benito Mussonllnl, the . leader of the Fascist!, called by King Victor Emmanuel to form a 'cabinet, arrived in morning. Crowds thronging the neighborhood of the railway ter minals, gave him an enthusiastic welcome. Outside the city thousands of 1 Mussolini’s black-shirted follow- - «rs await the command that will send them marching with proud . step of a victorious army through the gates of Rome already gay,. with flags and bunting to cele brate their entry. 1*7 • Communication 'iineu leading to the Italian capital are reported" In- control of the Fascisti. ; Little ; news of their activities has come from Italy since Sunday night when Mussolini boarded a special train at Milan to go to Roeqc. JJji had just notified the fallen pre* ■ mler, Facta, that he had no In- r. tention of entering ' any cabinet.' formed by any politician. • LONDON.—He declared “the • Fusciuti- must go into power without alliances with any other party -but granting some port folios outside the Fascisti party.- Much Confidence Placed in Mrs. Gibson’s Story of Tragedy, Who Says She Saw It. . , NEW BRUNSWICK. N. J.—Pos- sibillty that the Hall-Mills murder case would be presented to the grand jury seemed remote Monday morning. Information from Somer ville, county seat, was*to the ef fect that notices had not been for warded to members of the grand jury and that it would require at least 24 hours for the inqusitors to assemble after receiving notices. Special Deputy Attorney General Wilbur A. Mott Monday reiterated his confidence in the story told by Mrs. Jane Gibson, woman farmer, that she witnessed the Vnurders. Two w’tfieeses. Mr. and Mrs. Nor- tnon R Tir.p-1-*. who live diagonally across from the Phillips farm, have corroborated Mrs. Gibson’s story n so far mk the h«sur nf the murder is concerned. The Tingles heard sounds which they think may have been Hstni shots about 10 p. Sept. 14, the night the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall and his choir leader, Mra. Eleanor Reinhardt Mills were shot prott feels that the Tigers have a corking good team, and a great chance to win. That, of-course, is the one big reason he la so pleased with the trade. He right ly rates Bhie as a wonder first, says Rigney is the coming -br'rtRt.o" of the American League, figures Jones as good as any third sacker in the league and hopes to roupd out the infield by perform ing capably at second. The revolt against “the poll* ticians” lone ago begun by the Fascisti, many of them vigorous, young veterans of the world war& was crowned with success _wheu King Emmanuel, greatly moved, , Sunday embraced Deputy Di Vec- - chi, one of the supreme military authorities of the Fascist;, tpflll him that he would give it un^ government most suited to the spirit pervading the country. then entrusted Mussolini^ .-.wlfiL. the task of forming a ministjyrr.7 In forming a new cabinet-'Mus solini said he would retain tqTjfnr . self the port folios of the inte(2^£ - and iti3 aftairs and appointT~Gft&4 eral Diaz, minister of war; Ad-*- mlral Thaon Di Reval, minister oC. finance, and include in the gov<fi erning body the Catholic Deputju Cavazzoni, and the Liberal Sfin-* &tor Lusignoli, now prefect , bj*: Milan, conferring the other-rpodfczj folios upon Fascisti. The lmlr.uting gesturd Mussolini in asserting his deter mination to ; have the' FascistUtiF & absolute control was made Sun- ’ duy when Former Premier ft dra wus asked to form a cabinet. L| Upon hearing of this the Fascisti leader told Former Premier Fa’ffli ’ j he would not enter a cabjnqfc. - with Salandra or any other*J tlclan. Salandra then declined to- % form a cabinet The offices ot. the newspapwjB Secolo at Milan"'have been raided and ransacked fby a force of 10ft nationalists, says, a dispatch of the Stefani agenty.' The raiders destroyed the newspaper machin ery. Previous dispatches told of the Fascist! occupation, of news paper plants In Rome, including that of the pro-socialist II Paese and the Azione. Serious rioting broke out her^' Monday night. Parties of Facistl (Turn to Pag* Four.)
