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VOL XXIII. NO. 22.
BRITON PLEADS FOR
BUSINESS FREEDOM
BETWEEN STATES
Huns Protest Against Estab
lishing Mandates for For
mer Teuton Colonies —Not
Bound by Treaty
GENEVA, Nov. 19. — (By the Asso
ciated Press.) —Immediate admission
of Germany and the other former
enemy states to the League of Na
tions was urged before the assembly
of the league today by George Nicoll
Barnes, of the British delegation.
Representing as he did the laboring
people of Great Britain, said Mr.
Barnes, he knew the great majority
of them demanded that all the
enemy states be admitted without
delay.
The British delegate recalled the
fact that Germany had taken part
already in the deliberations of the
international labor bureau establish
ed by the league. -j
•‘The people of Great Britain,
whom I represent here,” he said,
•‘do not forget the central empires
plunged the world into war. They
do not forget the misery and de
vastation caused. But the question
now is to rescue the world from ruin,
and the co-operation of the former
enemy states is needed.”
Inaction Criticized
Mr. Barnes in his speech, which
was deLvered in course of discus
sion on the report to the assembly
made by the executive council of
the league, spoke approvingly' of the
action of the council on some ques
tions, but criticized its inaction dur
ing the last year while Poland and
soviet Russia were engaged in hos
tilities.
He cited Article XI of the league
covenant, providing that any war or
threat of war should constitute a
matter of. concern to the whole
league and that it should take any
action deemed wise and effectual to
safeguard the peace of nations, and
k inquired why the council hajd not
taken action under that article to
preVent the Russo-Polish war.
In reinforcing his argument for
speedy membership of ex-enemy
states in the league, Mr. Barnes re
ferred to the instability of present
economic conditions and the anomo
lies in exchange.
Speaker Applauded
•‘What is needed above all,” he
said, “is greater production and the
Utmost freedom in business transac
tions between the different countries,
and this is unobtainable as long as
the world is divided into two,
camps.”
The assembly, which customarily
listens to a speaker without mani
festing its sentiments until he has
finished his remarks, broke into gen
eral applause at this point,.
"Countries kept out from associa
tion with us will form an associa
tion of their own,” the British dele
gate added, “and we shall return to
the dangerous pre-war system of al
liances.”
Mr. Barnes pointed out that the
world was dealing now in central
Europe, not with European kings but
with free peoples taking charge of
their own destinies.
Dutch Member Speaks
The Dutch minister of foreign af
fairs, H. A. Van Karnabeek, ad
dressed the assembly on the ques
tion of registration of treaties. He
called attention to the provision of
the treaty of Versailles that treaties
were not binding until they were
registered. He said there were sev
eral Intel pretations of Article XVIII
Os the covenant containing this pro
vision, and he proposed that it be
studied carefully either by the as
sembly or by a commission with a
View to its clarification.
' Giuseppe Motta, president of
Switzerland, raised the question of
the relation of the council of the
league to the assembly. He held that
the report of the council was not
presented to the assembly for the
approval of the latter body, but for
its information. He gave it as his
view that the council and the assem
bly could not be regarded as bearing
the relation to each other, for ex
. ample, of government and parlia
ment, but rather that each had its
own separate function and status.
President Motta also alluded to
the treaty registration question and
Incidentally called attention to the
fact that of nine treaties registered
with the league, five were Swiss.
“There will always be diplomacy,
I will not say secret, but discreet,”
remarked M. Motta, who pleaded,
however, for the most open diploma
cy with full publicity through the
registration of all treaties.
‘ YOUNG MAN HELD
FOR FAKE HORSE
RACING SWINDLE
(Charged with operating a wire-tap
ping scheme and staging fake horse
races. Abe Powers, a young white
man who gave the •'lice his address
as Houston, Tex., was lodged in a
cell at police headquarters Friday
about noon, following complaint by
M. E. Holley, of Aiken, S. C., that
ho had been swindled out of SII,OOO
on fake horse races.
M Holley Hold the police that
Wade Lamar, a cattle dealer of
Aiken. S. C., had made the acquain
tance of Powers in Atlanta last
week, and that Powers had promised
large returns on investments In his
“sure-tip” horse racing scheme,
wi he is said to have operated
‘ in Kansas City, Mo. Hhe said that
following Lamar’s advice he came
to Atlanta Monday and lost SII,OOO
on Powers’ Scheme.
Mr. Holley said that Powers
Claimed to have the “inside dope” on
certain horse races, and that he
had fake telegrams and all the
other pharaphernalia needed to op
erate the scheme.
Powers was taken in custody on
Luckle street, where he was seen
and recognized by Mr. Holley. He
is being held at police station
charged with suspicion. He refused
to give a statement to newspaper
men when seen in his cell. .Just
exactly where he had his beadquar
ters and how his scheme was work
ed, is uncertain, but the police ex
’ pect to have complete information
about him shortly. '
ALLEGED ROBBER OF
VIRGINIA BANK IS
KILLEDJNJATTLE
Man, Believed From Phila
delphia, Passes as Charles
Myers, of Atlanta —Geor-
gia Auto Tag in Bandit Car
ROANOKE, Va., Nov. 19.—An al
leged robber, believed to have been
James D. Rogers, 26, of Philadelphia,
was killed, and two others, William
Porter, 47,’and Charles Carter, 36,
addresses unobtainable, were captur
ed early this morning in the out
skirts of the city during a battle
with two polieerhen, in which one
of the officers, O. L. Hendricks, was
shot through the thigh.
The encounter was the result of
efforts on the part of the policemen
to halt an automobile coming into
the city following receipt of infor
mation from Glasgow, Va., that the
Bank of Glascgow had been robbed.
The authorities recovered from the
automobile aid the persons of the
captured men an army barrack bag
filled with Liberty bonds, a grip fill
ed with Liberty bonds, and consid
erable jewelry.
The loot recovered here has not
yet been and telephone mes
sages from bank officials at Glasgow
state that the have not as
certained the value of the loot taken
by the robbers.
R. G. Paxton, cashier of the bank,
says he was awakened by an explo
sion about 2 o’clock this morning,
and, fearing for the bank, hurried to
the institution, where he found It
had been robbed. He reports that
no currency was taken. The bank
is capitalized at SIO,OOO and had de
posits totaling SIOO,OOO. w
Information was sent to neighbor
ing towns, he said, to be on the
lookout for the robbers. As soon as
information was received in Roanoke
police authorities closed the three
roads leading into the city from the
north. It was on one of these roads
that the battle occurred.
The two men held in custody re
fuse to talk other than to give the
names and ages by which they are
docketed at police headquarters. The
dead man is believed to be James B.
Rodgers, of Philadelphia, because of
the finding on his person of a bill of
sale for the touring car he was driv
ing when killed. Police say, how
ever, that the name in his clothing
and letter found on his person indi
cate that he passed also under the
name of Charles Myers, of Atlanta.
In describing the battle with the
alleged robbers, Policeman Hen
dricks said that* when he saw the
automobile approaching he stepped
into the road-,, whereupon the driver
threw a flashlight upon him and be
gan shooting at him through the
windshield. Shooting became gen
eral, as (many as forty shots being
exchanged, it is said.
The car rolled down a hill, struck
a rock and turned turtle, the driver,
Rodgers, having been shot through
the neck.
Police say the three men passed
through Rcanoke yesterday going
northward in the automobile in
which they were taken last night.
Glasgow is about forty-five fhiles
northeast. An officer at that time
took down the number of one of the
four state tags on the car, and the
three men waved at him.
Jn the car was found a recent
copy of a local paper containing a
marked account of the shipment of
$500,000 worth of valuables.
The four tags on the automobile
were •
Georgia 134,117; Tennessee, 96,258;
North Carolina 121,318; Virginia 11,-
508. i
PRODUCERS STRIKE
IS CALLED AT
FARMERS’ MEET
I
KANSAS CITY, Nov. 18. —A na
tion wide producers’ strike to com
bat the falling prices of farm prod
ucts was urged in a call sent out
Thursday by the National Farm
ers' union to its local unions
throughout the country.
The call, in the form of a reso
lution adopted at the national con
vention of the organization here,
went forward to secretaries of lo
cal branches of the organization,
which represent producers o grain,
cotton, wool and livestock, said to
number 800,000.
The proposed stock was urged in
retaliation for what the Convention
considered abnormal deflation in
prices of farm products, through
which, it was asserted, "American
farmers have been robbed of one
billion dollars in reduced 'alue of
products now on hand.” All farm
ers wer urged to hold this year’s
production from the markets tin? '
“proit making levels” were restored.
The action of the National rar.u
ers’ union was in line with a “wheat
strike” called several weeks ago by
the Wheat Growers’ associa ion of
the United States. Delegates as
serted a considerable quantity of
this year’s wheat crop was being
held off the market by farmers.
Reduction of production in the fu
ture was threatened “unless the
prices of our products are fairly re
adjusted to the end that we may
obtain just returns for our labors
and investments” in another resolu
tion approved by the convention.
Officials of the organization
pointed out that members were not
under obligation to obey the terms
of the strike but expresed the be
lief that such a movement would be
effective.
A conference of representatives of
all farmers’ organizations of the
country was called to meet in St.
Louis December 16 to consider the
creation of a national farm mar
keting board.
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Mil MOTION
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 19.—Presi
dent-elect Harding came to New Or
leans yesterday from a brief stop on
his way to Panama, during’Vhich he
made two formal speeches, one "!£-
tie talk.” and was the guest of honor
at a series of non-partisan entertain
ments.
The president-elect will not stop
at a Mexican port on his voyage
to the canal zone, as he had been
urged to do by Mexican officials.
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subject was made by Mr. Harding
or those who arrived here with him
today to take ship for Cristobal, but
it is understood that the found it im
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point on the Mexican coast without
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the shipping company.
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sailed late today on the United
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Mexican point would involve the
loss of three more days, and Mr.
Harding is understood to feel that
such a change in schedule would be
a serious inconvenience to the liner’s
regular passengers.
Advocates Plain Living
Plain! living and square dealing
were invoked by President-elect
Harding, in a speech here to
day, as the nation’s strongest
reliances during the coming pe
riod of after’.'war readjustment.
“Sanity, clear thinking, common
sense, honesty and co-operation,”
were among the qualities he named as
prime necessities in meeting the de
mands of the new world order, and he
declared material interests and na
tional happiness both would bene
fit if the United States become fl
"simple living people once again.”
Whatever discouragements and re
verses there have been, he declared,
would be only temporary in charac
ter. He predicted that a "confident
America” would solve its new prob
lems on the simple basis of the old
time virtues and would come through
the reconstruction period stronger
and more dependable than ever be
fore.
Warrenton Youth
Drowned m Tank
Os Oil in Louisiana
SHREVEPORT, La., Nov. 18. —Mr.
W. A. Davenport, a young man em
ployed by the Standard Oil company,
was Irowned Sunday night about
16:30 o’clock in a tank of crude oil,
near Homer, La. There were no eye
witnesses to the tragedy, but it is
thought the young man climbed up on
the ladder of the tank with his guage
pole to measure the oil and by some
means let his instrument slip from
his hands. In climbing into the in
terior of the tank, which is roofed
over, to recover the gauge pole, the
gas fumes must have nvercome him
and caused him to fall into the
liquid.
The body was not recovered till 8
o’clock Monday morning. The re
mains were brought to the Osborn
undertaking parlors of this city and
were shipped to Warrenton, Ga., his
former home, for burial.
The young man had resigned from
the U. S. Military academy at West
Point only a month ago, believing he
had a bringhter future in civilian
’life. His brother and his wife, Mr.
and Mrs. J. R. Davenport, accompa
nied the body home.
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1920
No Diamond Dick Stuff
In Boy Bandits' Methods;
They Simply Needed Coin
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MORE LIKE SCHOOL BOYS THAN BOLD HIGHWAYMEN are
these two lads of nineteen and seventeen, who have confessed to
‘‘holding up” and robbing two Atlanta drug stores during the past
two nights. They are (left) Stuart Taylor, and (right) Eric May.—
Staff Photo by Winn.
BY O. B. KEELES
Not unnaturally, I had an idea
that the two boy bandits captured by
the Atlanta police Thursday night,
had got their idea from the movies
or from Diamond Dick, Jr., literature.
They said no.
“It was business with us.” Eric
May said. “We had S2O when we
got to Atlanta from St. Louis. We
were registered at a good hotel. We
certainly did not want to beat the
hotel. We wanted to go to Jackson
ville and get jobs there. So we just
‘stuck up’ that drug store. We got
S7O. exactly. That was not quite
enough. So we went out the next
night and stuck up’ another one. The
plan seemed to work all right—
until the cops got there.”
The police say they would have
got the boys the night beftore if they
had not been stopping at one of the
best hotels.
Sketch of Youngsters
May is 17 and Taylor 19. May says
he was born in the south of Eng
land and came with his parents to
Winnipeg, Canada, when he was 10,
soon after moving to Minneapolis,
where he was a junior in high school
He says that he and Taylor were in
grade school together, but went to
different high schools. Taylor work
ed in the summer, traveling with his
father through Wisconsin: his father
is a novelty salesman. May also had
worked in his vacations —clerking
and the like.
“Why did you decide to head
south?” they were asked.
“Oh, it was so blamed cold in the
winter in Minneapolis,” said May.
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“We decided that Jacksonville, or
maybe Palm Beach, would be about
right for us.”
“Did your folks know you were
going?”
“Sure. We had enough money to
get to Jacksonville, too, but on the
way from St Louis. Taylor lost part
of his money on the Pullman. So
we landed here Wednesday with
$20.” \
Thus we came back to the main
idea, which resulted in these two
clean, clear-ey.ed, well-spoken young
high school boys being locked up in
the Atlanta police station after con
fessing to two robberies.
Not Low-Brows
It still was hard to get. They
were not low-brows, in the common
acceptance of the world. They were
boys like the boys who go to Boys’
High school and Tech High school,
or maybe like freshmen or sopho
mores at Georgia Tech or Emory.
I tried further. ;
“But didnlt you have a plan of
any kind?”
“Not exactly.” May still was the
spokesman. “We needed the money.
We decided to get it this way. We
asked which way was the residence
district. We got on a street car
and went out there. We saw this
drug store (Parker-Branan) and
got off a block past it and walked
back. We walked past it a few
times, looking in. There seemed to
be a lot of people in there. More
were coming in. We decided to
chance it. We went across the
street to a motor car salesroom and
in front of that we put handker
chiefs over our faces, up to the
(Continusd on Page 7, Column 5)
MffIFBINCE
NOT TO BECOGNIZE
KING MSTINTINE
PARIS, Nov. 18.—Great Britain
and France will not recognize a
Greek government headed by King
Constantine, the French foreign of
fice announced Thursday. The two
countries, as guarantors of the Greek
kingdom, are entitled to determine
the character of the government, the
announcement said.
The decision followed a rapid ex
change of messages between the Brit
iesh and French foreign offices.
The main card in the hands of the
French and British is their control of
the Asia Minor situation where
Greece profited through the peace
treaty.
It was pointed out that withdrawal
of their support in these regions
might result in loss of the territory
|o Greece.
; Dispatches Thursday told of in
creasing power of the Nationalist
Movement in Asia Minor.! The Greek
Brmy there is known to be pro-Veni
®elos and in event Constantine were
Wturned to power, might insist on
t>ei ng demobilized.
Premier Sworn In
, Georghe Rhallis, the new pre
mier of Greece, with three mem
bers of his cabinet, took the oath
of . office before Admiral Coundouri
otis, the regent, at 1 o’clock Wednes
day afternoon. Those who qualified
in company with the premier were
M. Gounaris, minister of war; M.
Baldanis, minister of the interior,
and M. minister of
finance. Mr Rhallis will hold the
portfolio of minister of foreign af
fairs.
Immediately after he had qualified
for office, M. Rhallis demanded the
regent’s resignation. The other mem
bers of the new cabinet will take the
oath before Queen Mother Olga.
Former Premier Venizelos left Ath
ens Wednesday. Bands of civil
guards and men from many military
units, went through the city dur
ing the day, acclaiming former King
Constantine and firing revolvers as
a token of rejoicing.
There were motor cars and car
riages carrying large flags, and por
traits of former King Constantine
were prominently displayed. During
the demonstration, shots were oft
en fired, but no attempt was made to
maintain order.
As night settled over the city, the
streets were resounding with a pan
demonium of yells and shouts, and
pistol and rifle shots. Gangs of sol
diers walked through the city toot
ing horns and blowing whistles. The
offices of the various ministries were
illumniated. and the wild parade con
tinued until late in the evening.
Shortly after sunset, sentinels who
had been stationed at the home of
former Premier Venizelos, were re
moved and the building Was left dark
an ddeserted.
President Is Better;
Devotes His Time to
Message to Congress
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18—Presi
dent Wilson’s health was said today
by White House officials to have
shown improvement since the elec
tion. and the consequent removal of
the anxiety shown by the president
over the decision of the electorate.
Despite the cold weather, Mr. Wilson
spends some time each day on the
south portico of the White House.
He also is devoting much time to
public business and to the prepara
tion of his annual message to con
gress.
Boy Bandits Raid'
Two Atlanta Shops
And Are Nabbed
GEORGIA BANKS
GIVING AID TO
COTTON CONCERN
The banks of Georgia are respond
ing eagerly and enthusiastically to
the call of • the bankers’ association
for support of the Federal Interna
tional Banking company, recently or
ganized at New Orleans, with a cap
ital stock of $6,Qp0,000, of which
Georgia’s quota is $1,500,000. There
is reason to hope that Georgia’s
quota will be oversubscribed, if the
banks not represented at the Ma
con meeting of the association con
tinue to come forward with their
subscriptions to the capital stock of
the export bank.
Subscriptions received Friday
morning included the following:
Bank of Cedartown, $3,000; Pickens
County Bank, $800; Bank of Ellijay,
$500; Planters’ Bank of Americus, by
L. G. Council, $5,000 City
Ban kof Rome, $6,000, which exceeds
by $1,200 its quota; First National
of Sparta, $2,000; Bank of Soperton,
$500; Bank of White Plains, $500;
Bank of Pineview, $750; Bank of
Ellaville, $1,000; Bank of Sparta,
$1,000; Farmers’ Bank of Pelham,
$4,000.
In addition to the foregoing that
were received Friday morning, sub
scriptions approximatingg SIOO,OOO
were received Thursday afternoon,
in part as follows: First National
Bank, Valdosta, $7,000; Citizens’
Bank, West Point, $3,600; Farmers
and Merchants’ Bank, McDonough,
$1,500; Woolsey Bank. Woolsey, $700;
Merchants’ Bank, Mcßae, $1,800;
First National Bank, Lyons, $1,100;
Farmers’ Bank, Canon, $1,000; Peo
ples’ Bank, Richland, $1,300.
(Robert E.' Harvey, Atlanta rep
resentative of S. B. Lewis & Cp.,
of, Philadelphia, who has been
appointed by Robert F. Maddox as
field agent in handling the cam
paign in Georgia, was enthusiastic
Friday 1 morning over the progress
that is being made.
“At Macon, $1,088,000 -was Sub
scribed by the bankers attending the
extraordinary convention of the
Georgia Bankers’ association, and
plans were outlined for making an
intensive campaign throughout the
state,” Mr. Harvey explained. “We
purpose to offer to every bank, ex
porter, importer . and wholesaler in
the state an opportunity to aid in
this movement, which means so
much for the continued prosperity
of the south.
“The quota of the capital stock of
the Federal International bank al
lotted to Georgia was $1,500,000, but
we hope to far exceed this sum. The
minimum capital of the bank is $6,-
000,000, as has been announced, but
if this minimum figure is increased
substantially the institution will be
the more effective.
“Certainly there is no disposition
to shoot at the minimum mark in
Georgia, and if the banks continue
to manifest the same spirit that so
far has marked the campaign, there
is every assurance that Georgia’s
subscription will go far beyond sl,-
500,000.”
The campaign is being systema
tically directed by groups, of which
each has a chairman. Ely R. Calla
way, of LaGrange, chairmn of the
third group, which includes Atlanta;
already has completed his county
organizations, and expects his group
to set a high mark, i .
S. GLENN YOUNG
BADLY BEATEN BY
JAIL PRISONERS
SPRINGFIELD, 111., Nov. 19.—S.
Glenn Young, of East St. Louis, a
prohibition enforcement officer, was
attacked and beaten by a number of
federal prisoners in the county jail
here when he was incarcerated on an
indictment returned at Madison
county charging him with murder.
Jail attaches had put Young in the
“bull pen”- of the jail until a writ
of habeas corpus could be secured
for his release. While he was await
ing this writ a number of the pris
oners who held him responsible for
their being in jail for violation of
prohibition laws, attacked him.
They administered a severe beat
ing and were throwing hot water
upon him when jail officials came to
his rescue. Young was indicted for
the murder of Luke Vuckovic on No
vember 6 at Madison, 111., during a
raid upon the Vuckovic home in
search of whisky.
YOUNG FORMER AGENT OF
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
S. Glenn Yotxng is well known in
Atlanta, where/he came into promi
nence several 'months ago through
the capture of the Crawley boys,
charged with having murdered United
States Marshal Dixon, near Blairs
ville.
After several companies of soldiers
had spent days in scouring the
mountains for the Crawleys, the trail
was taken up by Young, then a de
partment of justice agent, with head
quarters at Asheville, N. C., who,
single-handed, captured them in the
north Georgia mountains.
Later Young left the service of the
department of justice joining trie
staff of the prohibition enforcement
officers.
While a department of justice,
'agent in North Carolina he was cred
ited with the capture of many des
perate violators of the federal laws.
However, his methods and his inde
pendent course of action frequently
brought him into conflict with his
superior officials and resulted in his
resignation from the service.
Income Tax Returns
Increase in Nation,
Annual Report Shows
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19. De
spite the loss of Seventy-four mem
bers of the country’s million-a-year
income class, the taxable income of
the United States increased in 1918
by over $2,272,000,000 as compared
with 1917, according to the income
statistics issued last night by the
bureau of internal revenue Income
reported for 1918, amounted to $15,-
9.24,639,355 against about $13,700,-
000,000 in 1917, though 141 persons
filed returns for incomes of $1,000,-
000 or over in 1917 and only sixty
seven in 1918.
Personal returns filed during
1918 numbered 4,425,114 and the tax,
both normal and surtax, amounted
to $1,127,721,835, the average tax for
each individual being $254.85, as
compared with 1917, a growth of
952,224 was shown .in the number of
returns filed. The increase in the
total tax was $436,228,881.
i E CENTS A COPYj
A YEAR.
Youthful Gunmen Use Wild
West Methods in Sensa
tional Holdups at Busy
Stores
Two well-dressed youths of nine
teen and seventeen are behind the
bars at police station, confessed
perpetrators of two of the most dar- -
ing hold-ups ever staged In Atlanta,
that of the Parker-Branan drug
store, at Peachtree street and North
avenue, Wednesday night, and that
of the Stephens it Hawk’s drug store,
at West Peachtree and Fourteenth
streets, Thursday night.
They are Stuart Taylor and Erie
May, schoolmates of Minneapolis.
Minn., who, by their own story, were
on their way to spend the winter
in Florida, lost their money on the
train, 'Stopped off in Atlanta, *and
robbed the two drug stores, tliey de
clare, in order to get enough cash
to pay their fare to Jacksonville.
They we|e caught Thursday night
a short while after the fii
Hawks robbery—Taylor at Peachtree
and Tenth streets, where he was in
another drug store, buying a choco
late milk; and May at a prominent
hotel —where the two boys were reg
istered.
There are two heroes in the drama,
both negro messenger boys. One of
is Will Rogers, fourteen yearn
old, who, by closing the safe of the
Parker-Branan company in the face
of a pointed pistol, prevented it
from being robbed. The other is
Marvin Morrison, eighteen years old,
who works for the Stevens & Hawk
store, and, who by trailing the ban- Z
dits after the robbery, brought about
their capture.
Eric May is an English lad who
says he has been In this country /
seven years and for practically all
of that time had lived in Minneapo
lis, where he went to school with
Taylor. He says the two of them
decided to go south this winter and
get jobs in Florida.
Needed Kailroad Pare
“Somebody stole our money on the
train,” he declared, “and we had ®o
get off in Atlanta. We reached her* *
at 9 o’clock Wednesday night, went
to the hotel, and then decided tc
take a walk.”
The hold-up, he says, was the re
sult of a sudden impulse. The two
young men were walking out Peach
tree, talking about finding work, he
said, when the idea occurred to them
They put ’handkerchiefs over their
faces, drew their revolvers and en
tered the Parker-Branan store by sep
arate entrances.
The store was full of people, iJyt
no one moved while the bandits rifled
the cash register. Willie, the colored
boy, swung the door of the safe shut,
though one of the robbers pumped
a bullet through the-floor at his feet.
A few minutes later they dodged out
of the store and escaped down North
avenue. t
“We were as scared as anybody.*
declared May. “If anybody had
pointed a gun at me, I would have
dug a hole and crawled in it."
May said they got S7O at th®
Parker-Branan store, and decided
this wasn’t enough. Emboldened by
the success of the first robbery, they
approached the Stevens & Hawks
store Thursday night.
Three men were-«in the store, th®
prescription -clerk, the soda dis
penser and a customer. Taylor and
May, handkerchiefs over their faces
and revolvers in their hands, appear
ed in the doorway with the com«
mand, ‘Hands up!”
They ordered two of the men to
sit down on the floor. They vfent
through the cash register. The third
man they forced to open the safe.
Altogether they got $135, proprietors
of the drug store say.
Marvin Morrison, the negro mes
senger boy of the store, was return
ing on his bicycle from a call In
Ansley Park, when he saw Taylor
and May come out of the store and
run up the street.
“There’s been a robbery,” he waa
told at the store. “Follow those
men.” \
So Morrison jumped back on his
bicycle and began to ride along"
West Peachtree street. At Twelfth
street he passed the two bandits and ”
saw one of them drop a hat in the
mud. He followed them until he
lost them temporarily Tenth
street. Here he met Officers Har
rison and McDaniels, on their way to
Fourteenth street to answer the tele
phone call sent in by the drug
store.
round in Store
Morrison told them he thought the
bandits had entered one of the drug
stores at Tenth street, and, going
in with the officers, identified Taylor
by the mud on his hat. He was cap
tured without a struggle.
May, in the meantime, had board
ed a street car for the city, unaware
of the arest of his comrade. The
police le.*/ned the hotel at which the
two wg’ i stopping and arrested May
in hit, room about thirty minutes
later. \
When the officers entered his room,\
May was busily engaged in sorting
out a sheaf of b’lls and counting a
raft of nickels, dimes, quarters and
half 'dollars, say the police. He ap
peared utterly astonished when inter
rupted in bis, work
The two boys vs.P be given a hear
ing before Reccider Johnson, prob
ably Friday afternoon.
They declared Friday morning that
they would not ask for a lawyer, btft
would plead guilty and throw 'them
selves on the mercy of the
Despite their assertion that the
Atlanta robberies were the first they
ever committed. Chief of Detectives
Lamar Poole states he will investi
gate their past on the theory that
they are “old hands” at the game.
“Both Birmingham and Chattanoo
ga have had trouble with ‘drug store
bandits,’” said Chief Poole. “And I
have asfted the police of those •cities
for information that may fasten
other crimes on Taylor and May.”
“I welcome an investigation,” said
May, when told of the purpose of the
police. “It will show we have told
nothing but the truth —that we never
robbed anybody before Wednesday
night.”
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