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fortieth year.
JOHNSON CASE GOES TO JURY TODAY
JUKI LISTENS
TO ARGUMENTS
THIS MORNING
MESSRS. FELTON, BLALOCK AND
M’NEIL HAVE SPOKEN AND
Il DOE HIXON IS MAKING THE
CONCLUDING ADDRESS.
The jury trying Warren I. Johnson
for alleged complicity in the murder
of Walter Wade will probably retire
to its room to consider a verdict be
tween five and six o’clock this after
noon.
The arguments began this morning,
Attorney Jule Felton, of Montezuma,
one of assistant counsel for the state,
making the opening address.
L. J. Blalock, of counsel for the de
fense, was next to speak. Then Wil
liam D. McNeil, leading lawyer for
the defendant, made his argument. He
spoke for over two hours.
Mr| McNeil paid particular attention
to Mrs. Howell’s testimony, handling
it sentence by sentence. He also went
after the testimony of oter state’s wit
nesses, and treated them in a vigorous
manner.
Court adjourned for dinner at 1:30
o'clock after Mr. McNeil had conclud
ed. This afternoon, Judge Hixon be
gan the closing argument for the state.
It is believed that the case will go
to the jury before six o’clock.
After Mr. McNeil’s wonderful ar
gument, there were many predictions
that there would be an acquittal. How
ever, the general feeling is that * mis- (
trial will result, although there are
quite a few who openly express the
belief that the defendant should be
convicted.
Thursday’s late afternoon session
was featured principally by the intro
duction of Frank Hall and Ed Skin
ner, two state witnesses who swore
they saw Warren Johnson in Americus
on the night of August 17th, 1916, in
the rebuttal of this evidence by wit
nesses introduced on behalf of the
defense, and a supplemental stte
ment made by the defendant himself
v.hich marked the close of the hear
ing.
T. W. Moseley, formerly lieutenant of
.police at Macon; Lieut. Bob Griffin, of
the Macon police department, Law
Rees, P. O. Bradley, Roy Alexande,
and William Edge were witnesses who
testified for the state, and among those
sworn for the defense were Attorneys
Hollis Fort. W. P. Wallis and L. J.
Blalock, who related certain conver
sations they held with Policeman
Founcey regarding the hour he first j
saw the murder car at the Cental de-I
pot.
Ed Skinner introduced a new ele
ment into the hearing, swearing he
saw and spoke to Warren Johnson,
who was then in company with John
Etheridge, at Rylander’s garage, in
Americus, on the night of the murder
He testified he had not previously
mentioned the incident, and that he
told it only when he “had to,” ex
plaining he told| Attorney Stephen
Face of the incident some time, age.be
fore Pace became associated with the
prosecution. His testimony was posi
tive, but Attorney McNeil succeeded j
in getting him to den- certain portions I
of his testimony given at previous
hearing when Dr. C. K. Chapman
was on trial.
At the night session, Judge Thomas
insisted that the case be concluded be
fore adjournment, and opposing coun- ,
sei agreed concerning the introduc-l
tion of certain portions of the tran-!
script evidence, subject to the ap
roval of the court, the state offering |
in evidence the full testimony of the I
defendant. Warren Johnson, given at j
previous hearings during the trials of j
Dr. Chapman, it being asserted each of (
the statements was contradictory to
the other.
At 9:50 p. m.. Solicitor General John
Allen Fort announced the state’s case ■
had been completed, the defendant j
made a statement of not more than
three minutes’ duration and Judge
Thomas ruled that all the evidence was
in. Counsel then agreed upon three
hours and a half to a side for argu
ments, and court adjourned until 8:15
this morning, when arguments com
raenced.
Americus times-recorder
“LI VEST LITTLE DAILY IN GEORGIA.”
BUSINESS COUNCIL
TONIGHT ACTS ON
CLUB PROPOSITION
MEETING WILL BE HELD AT DIN
NER AT THE HOTEL WINDSOR
NEW CHAIRMAN ALSO TO BE
ELECTED.
There will be a dinner of the Busi
ness Council of the Chamber of Com
merce tonight at the Hotel Windsor.
Two matters of importance will be
acted upon. The first is the report of
the committee to consider the feasi
bility of reviving the country club
Tthe other is the election of suc
cessor to Chairman Tracy Cunning
ham, who has resigned.
It is expected that a definite and
favorable report will be submitted on
the country club, fair association and
amusement lark proposition.
ATLANTA MAN BARELY
MISSED VICTORIA CROSS
ATLANTA, Ga., March B.—One of
the most interesting stories of the war
has just reached Atlanta concerning
a young man from this city who miss
ed the Victoria Cross and a commis
sion in the British army because a
shell struck him down a few minutes
before the colonel summoned him to
receive his well earned promotions.
Writing to E. N. Upshaw, a promi
nent business man, L. R. Bailey, a
former Atlantian now in business in
I Portland, Oregon, tells the story as
he heard it from the lips of Colonel
John Leader, a British officer instruct
ing American officers near Portland.
Colonel Leader said:
“His name was David Cole, and he
said his home was at 500 Peachtree
street, Atlanta, Ga. He came to my
division with Canadian troops. I
singled him out at once. In a few
days he invented away to get smoke
out of a dugout. Later I detailed him
with 60 men to repair a railway track
behind the lines. On going to see how
they were getting along, I found Cole
alone. He said the Germans evidently
had their range, and since one man
would make a smaller target than
sixty, he had sent the others away, and
done the job all by himself. Later
I saw him in a trench in the midst
of a heavy artillery fire, and at once
1 decided to recommend him for the
Victoria Cross and a commission as
Heutenatn. I told him to report to
my quarters. He replied that he
i would as soon as he finished the job
lhe was doing. A little while later
I they brought what was left of him,
I and we buried him with a cross above
his grave on which we inscribed:
’Lieutenant David Cole, an American
gentleman.’ ”
The address given by Cole, 500
Peachtree street, was formerly a
boarding house. It is is now vacant
Relatives of Cole, if any, have not
been located since the story came from
Portland.
DEATH OF R. M. WILLIAMS
AT HOME IN ANDERSONVILLE
I Mr. R. M. Williams died at his home
near Andersonville, Ga,, Feb. 82, afte,”
an illness of many months. Mr. Wil
liams was 88 years of age and had re
sided here since his birth. He is sur
vived by one daughter, Mrs. J- A.
iGwynes. of Andersonville; three broth
: er s and four sisters. The funeral ser-
I vice was held at Andersonville, and
, the body was laid to rest in the fam-
I ilv cemetery there.
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Autos Wanted tor Patriotic Cause.
ATLANTA, Ga., March 8. —Hugh
Richardson, state director for thrift
■ and war savings stamps in Georgia,
would like to enlist one or two auto-
I mobiles from principal cities of the
I state for the big thrift tour which he
and other members of the state exe
cutive committeeare planning to make
around the state in the next few weeks.
A number of selected speakers will
go on the tour, delivering addresses
or. the subject of thrift and patriotism,
and several ladies will also be in the
party.
AMERICUS. GEORGIA. FRIDAY AFTERNOON. MARCH 8,1918
AMERICAN RED CROSS AMBULANCES AID ITALIANS
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The American Red Cross ambulances that were sent to Italy to help the Italian forces have arrived at the front.
This photograph, which has just arrived in this country, shows the ambulances crossing rhe Piazza riel Duomo in
Milan on their way to the battleground.
ANOTHER AIR RAID
IS MADE ON LONDON
LONDON, March B.—Eleven persons
were killed and forty-six wounded in
last night sairplane raid over Londan,
according to the latest police reports,
says an official announcement. It is
feared in addition six bodies are bu
ried in the ruins of one house badly
damaged by bombs.
Six or eight planes participated in
the raid, only one of them reaching
London, where it dropped bombs in
the northeast and southeast districts
o, the city.
ICE CREAM CONE
HIT BY THE WAR
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The ce cream cone is the latest to
feel the effects of the war.
Practically every drug store has
stopped selling them and only sell
ice cream in ten-eent saucers.
1 For that matter, there are few five
cent drinks any more, both lemonades
and orangeades having advanced in
price, as well as all of the cream
drinks. Even chocolate milk is now
ten cents.
WIRELESS IS SEIZED
ON PRIVATE ESTATE
NEW YORK, March 8.— Discovery
of wireless antennae on the roof of
a grist mill on the estate of A. C
Woodman, in Hotronville, Orange
county, New York, led to the seizure
yesterday by the State Constabulary
and Naval Intelligence officers of a
wireless plant kept in perfect sending
and receiving order despite the law
possed months ago requiring the dis
mantling of private apparatus.
Mr. Woodman is at Palm Beach
The outfit was found in the custody
o,° W. I. Roemer, his caretaker, when
Troopers Daniel Faber and Harry
Gunn, acting under orders of Lieut
John Walton, visited the farm to in
vestigate the meaning of the wires
they had observed on the grist mil',
roof. A second complete outfit not
set up was found in the house.
A powerful electric dynomo in the
grist mill assured the wireless a wide
range, the troopers said. Naval in
telligence officers confiscated the ap
paratus.
The Constabulary is investigating
reports of a half dozen other sets of
wireless reported in that vicinity. No
arrests have been made, and at the
Woodman farm to polict' have no evi
dence that the plant has been operat
-1 ed.
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British Casualties Decreased.
I LONDON, March 8 —For the first
i w eek in March British casualties were
, three thousand and forty-three, the
* lowest recorded during any week for
seevral months.
RUSSIANS RE-TAKE
TOWN FROM HUNS
JAMBURG IS RE-CAPTURED BY
RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONARY ARMY
—IT IS SIXTY-EIGHT MILES
FROM PETROGRAD.
LONDON March 8. —The Russian
revolutionary army has re-captured
Jamburg, sixty-eight miles from Pet
rograd, according to an official an
nouncement made at Petrograd late
'Thursday afternoon and transmitted
hire by the Petrograd correspondent
of the Exchange Telegraph bureau.
FINS ASK KAISER
TO NAME HIS SON
KING OF FINLAND
LONDON, Mauch B—The Finnish
government has asked the German
emperor to appoint Prince Oscar, his
fifth son, as king o f Finland, accord
ingto reports transmitted by the Ex
change Telegraph correspondent.
COOK 51’5 HE CM
MIKE BONO IT ONCE
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ATLANTA, Ga,, March ".—lt is now
explained by attorneys representing
.1 W. Cook, who was recently con
victed and given the limit of the law
for attempting to extort $5,00,000 from
Mayor Asa G. Candler on a blackmail
threat, that he is staying in jail, in
stead of making bond, on their ad.
vice and counsel. They claim that
I his bond has been arranged three c’
four days and is ready to file with the
I sheriff at any time they see fit to re-
I lease him from custody. Just why
I they prefer to keep him in jail, in
■ stead of allowing him the run of the
' barber shops and pool rooms, where
! has been wont to circulate in years
i gone by, they do not explain. Mrs
H. H. Hirsch, his alleged accomplice
i in the plot, who was jointly indicted
with him will be tried on March 14.
lenten services at
CALVARY CHURCH TONIGHT
Evening prayer will be said tonight
’ at half-past seven o’clock. The ad
dress will be on the Second Epistle
of Clement of Rome to the Corinthians.
After the service there will be a meet
ing of the vestry.
On Saturday afternoon at four-thirty
there will be evening prayer and an
address. This sei vice i s especially for
girls.
Chinese Will Co-Operate.
> LONDON, March 8. —Japan, accord
• i..g to a dispatch from Tien-Tsin- to
the Dally Mail, has requested Chinese
U. S. PATROL MET
HUN SKIRMISHERS
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY, In
France, March 6.—(Delayed.)—Amer-
ican patrols of five men, three nights
ago, outfought the enemy whom they
met in No-Man’s Land.
The Americans opened fire and there
was a lively skirmish lasting three
minutes, when the enemy retreated,
leaving two dead and two wounded
(Bavarians) who were made prison
ers. The American patrols returned to
, their own lines without receiving
wounds.
TAXICAB BUSINESS
HERE IS THRIVING
Americus has developed a consider
able taxicab business within recent
weeks, nearly two score now being in
service. Formerly not more than six
or seven operated here.
The increase of traffic to and from
the aviation camp at Souther Field is
largely responsible,
THESE BULLETS ARE
DEADLY TO PLANES
WASHINGTON, March 7.—The ord
inance department has developed spe
cial cartridges with bullets for ar
mor piercing, tracing and incendiary
purposes fully equal to or surpassing
similar ammunition produced by the
Allies. These cartridges are a devel
opment of the war. brought forth for
use in airplanes. As the war pro
gressed the more vital parts of air
planes were protected by light ar
mor. Consequently, it became neces
sary to produce the armor piercing
ballet.
The gasoline tanks are particularly
susceptible to incendiary explosions.
For this reason It was necessary to
procure a bullet containing an in
flammable substance, igniting upon
discharge which usually carry the
spark or flame into the gas tank after
piercing it.
In order to to enable flying men to
correct their range more readily, it
became necessary to evolve a tracer
bullet. This new destructive factor
contains a bright burning composi
tion which indicates the path oj the j
bullet by day or night. The composi
tion is set on fire when the bullet
leaves the machine gun and starts
for the enem ytarget. It flies through
the air as a bright spark, plainly vis
ible. Airplanes are within fighting
range for only a few minutes at a
time. The tracer bullet, therefore, is
of great assistance to American ane I
Allied flyers.
ico-operation in the event extreme
measures are necessary in Siberia,
China thus desiring to demonstrate
her uefulness.
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EDITION
HIGH MG HERE
STBDNGLTSCORED
81SGLMARSHALL
HE ALSO DENOUNCES GEORGIA’S
JUNIOR SEN ATOR AS BEING NO
TORIOUSLY PRO-GERMAN HE
WAS HEARD LAST NIGHT.
Sergeant Verne Marshall, of Cedar
Rapids lowa, formerly in the ambu
lance service in France, but now in
the machine gun battalion training in
New Mexico, gave an address at Car
negie Library last night in support of
the thrift stamp campaign. He was
heard by 104 persons. Franc Man
gum introduced the speaker
Sergeant Marshall gave a vivid por
trayal of conditions in France, and
made plain how there should be co
operation here in every particular. He
declared that the more saving there
ji'as at home the quicker the war would
end and the less American lives would
be lost. He thrilled his hearers from
start to finish, and at times he had a
number openly shedding tears, so
moved were they by his graphic reci
tal. |
Denouncing as pro-Germans those
I who frustrated the purposes of the
war by unfair criticism, or by seek
ing to delay the war plans, or by not
fully co-operating. He declared that
Georgia, to its shame had one of the
worst of this type in the person of its
junior senator.
He said tat he had never seen as
many fine-looking girls in one town
as in Americus, and that he was tell
ing the solemn truth when he declared
to his hearers that the women of
Paris did not dress more elegantly for
the afternoon parade than did titose
here. He also declared that Americus
had more fine automobiles than, any
town he had ever been in of its size,
and he criticized those whose auto
mobiles were even then drawn up in
front of the picture theatres. He said
there had to be an end of high-living
here, if Americus did its duty in the
war.
After hi 8 talk, Sergeant Marshall
was congratulated by a number of his
audience.
THOUSANDS IF FRENCH
FIRMS TDK RESTORED
PARIS, March B.—The damaged in
dustries and exhausted far inlands of
France, it is thought now, may be re
stored to their full productive ca
pacity within five years after the con
clusion of peace, with the exception
of denuded forests and the most gavely
wasted land in the immediate prox
imity of the line where the front has
been practically stationary for more
than three years.
Thes are some of the elements upon
which they count to make up for what
France will have lost: Continued
and developed use of female labor in
industries; entrance of youths into
active business and industry at an
earlier age; greater activity and con
sequent greater productive capacity
of all categories of workers; and an
enormous extension of the use of mod
ern labor-saving equipment i nthe fac
tory and on the farm.
The development of water power
| will contribute immensely to fill the
I void industrial facilities while five
year’s recruits of boys coming to age
for active participation in the coun-
I try’s affairs ’s expected to replace at
I least a third of the wastage in human
I material.
Ir. iFE’S CONDUCT UNPATRIOTIC’,
HUSBAND ASKS DIVORCE.
ATLANTA, Ga.. March B.—Because
!o t his wife’s alleged German sympa-
: tbies, growing out of the fact that Ger
i man blood flows in her veins, W. H.
Miller, of Hot Springs. Ark., has filed
■ I suit for divorce in this city, alleging
I that her conduct become almost un
patriotic following our entrance into
the war. He alleges that she treated
. him “ with frigid coldness and would
i hardly speak to him because he at
| tempted to defend President Wilson. ”
NUMBER 57.