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TUESDAY AFTERNOON. JULY 29, 1924 ’
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MSI BENHETS
Prominent Rome Couple Still
Held Under Technical Arrest
at Chattanooga
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appearance and the fact that a
check made out to Miss Hoffman
by the receivers of a Knoxville
bank, which had failed, was cashed
in Chattanooga a year after she had
been reported missing. It is said
that the indorsement on the check
was an apparent forgery
While the Bennetts are only tech
nically under arrest, they have
made no effort to secure their lib
ftry through habeas corpus pro
ceedings and have been warned by
authorities that should they make
n move of this kind warrants charg
ing them with murder will be serv
ed.
The skeleton of the woman was
found by workmen who were repair
ing a floor under the basement of
the house, their atttention first be
ing attracted by a stockinged leg
sticking out of the ground. Several
portions of clothing, a part of a
pair of eye glasses and a plate of
false teeth were also found in the.
shallow grave. Indications were
that the body had been buried in
quick lime and acids. It was wrap
ped in a rubber coat usually Worn
by men and a slit in the ride of the
garment led the police to believe
that the woman bad been stabbed.
The couple maintain their in
nocence but are unable to account
for the disappearance of Miss Hoff,
man, a kinswoman.
Nerves of Slayers
Shaken by Evidence
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Jr., and Richard A. Loeb having
records of “abnormalities since
childhood,” the state went method
ically ahead Monday in the court
room of Justice John R. Caverly
building ever higher the mountain
of evidence upon which it hopes to
send the young collegians to the
scaffold for the murder of little
Bobby Franks.
In a dramatic prelude to the in
troduction of the confessions of
Leopold and Loeb to the murder of
Robert Franks, nineyear-old John
Levinson, the boy whom the two
murderers had originally picked as
their victim, took the stand to add
his little voice to the chorus of con
demning evidence against the “in
tellectual killers.”
When Levinson, a fine looking
frank-faced lad, with brown wavy
hair and dark brown eyes, took the
stand. Justice Caverly questioned
him to make sure that he under
stood the nature of the proceedings
and the meaning of an oath. They
boy then was sworn.
In their confessions, Loeb and
Leopold said they had driven their
rented automobile to the club just
outside the lot where the Harvard
school pupils were playing ball. The
arrangement was that Loeb should
ask young Levinson to take a ride
with them. They intended to kill
him hide the body and write l.is
family a letter demanding ransom.
The presence of Seass, the in
structor, frightened Loeb and Leo
pold and they refrained from carrv
ing out the plan. And that was ail
that saved the life of young Levin
son. The two killers then drove
around the block and returned.
They saw ‘Bobby” Franks and then
they put their scheme into opera
tion. Less than 20 minutes later
the Franks boy had been lured in
to their automobile and rendered
unconscious with a blow from a
chisel.
It was only a twist of fate which
led John to take a walk with an in
structor during the afternoon when
Loeb and Leopold were looking for
a victim to lure into their rented
death car. Otherwise the lad who
so smilingly and intelligently ans
wered questions Monday would
have been kidnaped and murdered.
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Disappointed, the two slayers kid
naped the next boy who became
available for the purpose.
Froscutor Crowe had hoped to
put another young boy, a Harvard
school student, on the stand during
the day, but Irving Hartman, 11
years old, failed to put >n an ap
pearance. Hartman, his parent
sent world from Maine, was spend
ing the summer with them and they
did not care to send him back to
Chicago to appear in the Franks
case.
The Hartman boy had been asked
by Loeb and Leopold to accompany
them after they had failed te
carry out their scheme to get young
Levinson. He said he did not want
to go for a ride and the last Loeb
saw of him he was crawling under
a fence in pursuit of another lad.
Sergeant James J. Gortland was
recalled to the stand in the Monday
session and Crowe questioned him
concerning stenographic notes he
lhad taken of conversations with
Leopold, after his arrest. Darrow,
who entered the courtroom late
again cross-examined Gortland in
an endeavor to shake his story that
Leopold his family would get his
case before “a friendly judge” if
they did not wish him to hang.
Gortland stuck to his original story.
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Local Cramery
Oen Today
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ranged for thejeasion, and every
detail of its option was minutely
explained to alallers. The care
ful sanitary petitions and mod
ern arrangent of the entire
plant was thejbject of favorable
comment throiout the day.
“We are gily pleased with the
growth of tlbusiness since the
plant “began dation a week ago ”
said Manage/ilson today. “We
have doubledtr cream receipts,
and more tha hundred farmers’
names now fear upon our pay
roll. Our fiday’s butter produc
tion totalledst 360 pounds, but
Monday whurned over 500
pounds of tfinest and best but
ter ever duced in Georgia.
Cream fronhich this butter was
made was tght in by more than
a hundred tiers, and a gratify
ing feature cream receipts is
found in tkrea embraced within
the AmericJream territory.
“We re«d cream this week
from farm living in five coun
ties, and tis just a beginning.
One point want the farmers to
understamoroughly is that we
have facil to handle all the
cream thefing in And the de
mand formter-Maid buttter is
equal to (Supply. We have had
no troubl4posing of every pound
of butterhed out to date, with
orders fialready sufficient to
absorb e pound we will pro
duce in 4iext run. Within a
year, we?e to put butter made
from Surcotinty cream into mar
kets thafer heard of Americus
and Suncounty, and in this way
to provii’steady cash market for
every pd of cream the county is
capable producing.”
A by-uct of the creamery that
is alreah great demand accord
ing tofiager Wilson, is the
butternihat remains after the
butter |been churned and is
ready f made into commercial
prints, Is is extremely valuable
as a chicken feed, and one
large land chicken farmer has
alread<ght to secure the entir?
outputhis material. The cream
ery is receiving cream suffi
cient isure operation approxt
matelye days each week, during
short I, but capacity exists to
operatt full capacity at least ,
eight h every day within the j
next tionths or as soon as the
creamdy increases sufficient! I
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became is a one-way street.
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PETITION DEAD
LANSING, Mich., Ji.’y 29.—Af
ter more than 100,000 persons had
, signed a petition to place on the
November election ballots a consti
tutional amendment which would
modify Michigan’s strict prolnbi
• tion laws so as to conform with
Federal statutes, Attorney-General
! Andrew' B. Daugherty tos'ay ruled
that the petition cannot he voted
. on.
The ruling is based upon omis
sion from the amendment, of the
amendment of the full text of the
Federal dry laws.
DEAN OF AMERICAN
CATHOLICS IS DEAD
CHARLOTTE, July 29.—Rev.
Leo Said, bishop of North 'Carolina
and dean of the Catholic clergy of
America, was buried in Belmont
abbey, near here today.
Public services were held with nil ’
the pomp and ceremony of the i
burial of Roman dathotic prelate.
A pontifical requiem maps was sung
*and five absolutions given before
the body was removed (to lie ip a
modest grave among th* ten mem
bers of the order of Safest Benedict
buried in the abbey cemetery. A
simple slab of marble calved with a
Latin inscription will m<(rk the not
ed churchman’s last resting place.
FAIR EDNA NOT TO
WED COURTLAND DINES
DENVER, Colo-, July 29.—Edna
Purviance and Courtland Dines are
not going to be married. They?
both declared do in unison here as
Edna w r as leaving town for a desti
nation she declined to divulge.
Edna, former leading lady for
Charlie Chaplin and one of the sil
ver screen stars, came to Denver
for a short r|st, she said And,
“except for the annoyance of an
army of reporters,” she has enjoyed
her visit.
With Dines, Denver clubmen and
playmate of Edna in Los Angeles,
as her escort, the movie actress
Saturday indulged in a “hot dog
hunt” on Lookoirft Mountain, and
was the dinner iguest of Dines
f rowned upon a third matrimonial
Dines reiterated Ithat his father
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MEMBEBSHIP CROWING
Half of Crop Produced in Ter
ritory This Season Sold Thru
Organization
MMOUL-TRIE, July 29.—The
Southwest Georgia Watermelon
Growers Association was organized
as the result of a bad year of wa-l
termelon selling in 1921 with a total
of 179 members, and has advanced
until today the association number}
more than two thousand members,
J.' B. White, sales manager of the
association, with headquarters at
Adel, Georgia, told a gathering
hej-e recently in giving a history of
the association and its activities.
• Aside from bein organized as
the result of a bad season for the
selling of watermelons, the associe
! tion also was an outgrowth of the
[Southwest Georgia Development as
sociation, which maintained head
quarters in Moultrie. The first
meeting of the present association
was held in this city. Even with
the small beginning of tne associa
tion, Mr. White related that its mel
ons were sold the first year at a
figure three times higher than the
average price the year before.
With its present membership of
over 2,000, the association during
1924 has handled half of the water
melon crop in this territory accord
ing to Mr. White, who further stat
ed that the service the association
is rendering has been seriously
hampered to a large extent “by un
organized growers who ship at
random and glut markets with in
ferior product. l ”
TUCKER FAILS IN
PLEA FOR DIVORCE
MOULTRIE, July 29—W. Tuck
er, 50year-old Colquitt county farm
er, was introduced to Mrs. Minnie
Bell Smith, at 3 o’clock on the after
noon of December 1, last, and three
hours later they drove to Moultrie
and married. Now Rucker craves
a divorce, but his allegations fallen
to convince a jury in Superior Court
here and the first decree was de
nied. -
He charged Mrs. Tucker with
misconduct a short time prior to
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her marriage to him and asserted
that he was duped into going
through the ceremony. Mrs.
.Tucker, who contested the ituty.
I from the witness stand the
charges and the jury, -.iftei brief
deliberation, found against tne
plaintiff.
The name of the man that, in
troduced Tucker to the then Mrs.
Smith figured in the testimony-
Tucker was a widower at the
time of the marriage.
SENATOR LODGE’S
CONDITION BETTER
CAMBRIDGE, Mass, July 29.-
Senator Henry‘Cabot Lodge is pro
gressing well today, physicians an
nounce.
NEGRO REVIVAL AT
BETHESDA CHURCH
The revival now in progress at
the Bethesda negro Baptist church
on Forest street is showing signs of
genuine interest, and promisos
splendid results, accjordmgto Rev.
M. W. Reddick, the pastor. The
services last night were unusually
good and served as a source of great
inspiration to the workers the pas
tor says. One convert was taken in
for baptism and the spirit is high
for a great meeting tonight. Strong
workers from Big Bethel Baptist
church have already joined the
Bethesda forces and before the
close of the week workers from ev
ery negro church in the city are ex
pected to be in line, it is stated.
Rev. A. G. Davis of Augusta is
delivering powerful gosped mes
sages says those who have heard
him. His seremons while simple in
language, are forceful and bristl.s
With beautiful illustrations and
pathetic appeals, they sav.
The public is earnestly urged by
the pastor to attend, these meetings,
with assurance of benefit there
from. Preaching begins at eight
o’clock.
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CULLEN FAMILY ALL
DROWNED AT MEMPHIS
MEMPHIS, Tenn., July 29.—J.
Wynn Culled, superintendent of the
Memphis municipal zoo, his wife
and young son and his brother, wei’o
drowned ioday in the Mississippi
River 25 miles from Memphis.
The Cullen family had gone up
the river to Island Forty for an out.
ing with a number of other people.
The party went in bathing and Mr.
Cullen, with his son, John, aged 6,
on his shoulder, accidentally step
ped into deep water. Many in the
party, including Mrs. Cullen and
Hugh, the brother, jumped to ths
rescue.
Mr. Cullen and his son were
swept down the rive to their death
and Mrs. Sullen’s body was found
floating on the surface. All four
bodies were recovered.
J. Wynn Cullen was well known
in zoological circles throughout the
country and had developed in
Memphis one of the largest free
zoos in America.
A small boy tells us he can’t see
why they call it heaven when tha
big fire is elsewhere.
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years with pre-payment option given
Money secured promptly. We have
now outstanding over $1,100,000 on
farms in Sumter county alone, with
plenty more to lend.
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