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VOL. XXIII. NO. 26.
Liverpool Fires
Follow Trail of
Sinn-Fein Torch
Irish War Is Carried to Eng
lish Industrial Center and
Many Buildings Are in
MACROOM, County Cork, Ireland.
Nov. 29.—(8y the Associated Press.)
Fifteen auxiliary police cadets were
killed and one cadet mortally wound
ed as the result of an ambush by be
tween 70 and 100 nien hear Kil
michael, southwest of ftere. last
evening. Another of the 7 cadets is
missing.
DUBLIN. Nov. 29. —British offi
cers at Londonderry in anonymous
letters today were threatened with
assassination if they do not leave
Ireland at once. A repetition of the
killings in Dublin was promised if
they remain.
Irish office officials declared gun
men from America had arrived in
Dublin to co-operate with Sinn
Feiners,.
Coincidentally with incendiary
outbreaks ’ n England came reports
today of renewed Sinn Fein activi
ties in Ireland.
Determined attacks were made on
police and military patrols; threats
were sent to "‘British army officers,
end mail cars were robbed.
Irish office authorities declared j
mail pouches had been rifled fre
quently in the. last week. The
theory was that Sinn Fein leaders
were making an attempt to obtain
information to aid them in future
attacks. Several post offices were
ransacked. The Irish office de
nied anything of value had been
missed in these mail Jobberies.
Week-end attacks in Ireland in
cluded the shooting of Constable
Quirk 4t Waterford by three Sinn
Feiners. At Bradford, Mortimer
Duggan was shot dead when he
ignored a sentrys challenge. A riot
broke , out in Mullingar when uni
formed men bombed the town. Win
dows were broken and other prop
erty damage done. A small boy was
wounded before a military patrol
arrived to arrest the police of
fenders.
Comment on the "outbreaks in
Liverpool and London was with
held by the Irish office here.
The attention of authorities was
Concentrated on reports of the ar-'
rival of foreign gun men in Dub
lin. It was believed arrests would
be made shortly.
Meanwhile the prison camps built
here and at New Castle for Sinn
Fein suspects were approaching
completion. Temporary cell rooms
here crowded, but patrols continued
bringing in prisoners. I
SINN FEIN CHARGED WITH
LIVERPOOL DOCK FIRES
LONDON, Nov. 29.—Edward Shortt,
the home secretary, declared in the
house of commons this afternoon, in
reply to questions regarding Satur
day night’s incedniary dock fires in
Liverpool, that there seerrfed no doubt
that the fires were the result of an
organized conspiracy in which mem
bers of the Sinn Fein party were en
gaged.
Damage done in Sinn Fein’s fiery
attack on English property was fig
ured in millions of dollars today.
Extra troops were assigned to Liv
erpool where dock fires still smoul
dered. Police and soldiers mounted
guard here following the almost, ac- I
cidental breaking up of an arson plot j
in a secluded lumber yard.
Police, expecting some such attack, I
Were surprised when so many fires
• broke out at once. Gangs of four j
and five men, armed with their
house-breaking tools, crept along the
darkened ■wharves Saturday night.
Gaining entrance to the buildings,
they ignited paraftin-soaked sacks,
which they tossed in among the 'in
flammable goods stored there.
Within a few moments flames
were bursting through the long shed
buildings. The water of the harbor
was lighted by the red glare.
Jhe gangs, dodging and twisting |
k through the dancing shadow’s cast j
by the flames, w r ere no easy prey for j
the police. Instead they “winged”
some of the officers. Several police- |
men today exhibited holes in their .
clothing, indications of their narrow I
escapes in pursuing the men. Only
three participants were known to |
have been captured. ‘
In Bootle there were seven ware- I
house fires in that district through- !
out the night, but no injuries or
deaths were reported.
One man was killed in Liverpool. ’
He was Daniel _W ard > a nineteen- ■
year-old boy who assisted police in
’ surprising one of the incendiary
bands.
In London an arson plot was be
lieved disrupted yhen a policeman
stumbled across six men loitering in
the neighborhood of the Red Lion
i market. Upon being questioned the
men fled, leaving behind rags soaked
'with paraffin, revolvers and quanti
ties of waste paper.
One of the men was arrested later
and Sunday he was questioned by
police who declared there was no
doubt a Sinn Fein plot had been
frustrated.
The market is in the center of
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1920 STATE TAXES
NOT AFFECTED BY
COURT DECISION
I -
The mistaken impression seems to
be abroad throughout the state, ac
cording to Comptroller - General
Wright, that the recent decision of
the United States supreme court in
validating one section of the Geor
gia tax equalization law had the
effect of relieving all property own
ers from the payment of state and
county taxes. *
“Tax collectors in many counties
have informed me,” said Comptrol
ler Wright, “that property owners
are serving notice upon them of
their intention not to pay taxes, up
on the ground that the United
States supreme court decision in
validates the tax equalization law.
The tax collectors have asked for
instructions as to the course they
should pursue.
“My reply to all inquiries has been
the same—that no property owner
is relieved of the payment of his
taxes, or of any part of his taxes,
by the supreme court decision. Fur
ther. I have directed the tax col
lectors to issue fi-fas against all
property owners whose taxes have
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Savannahians’ Yacht
Found Tied to Buoy*
NEWBERN, N. C., Nov. 29. —The
yach Endeavorer, Philadelphia to
Savannah, was found tied to a sea
buoy off Bogue I.ilet. N. C.. coast
late Sunday afternoon. A small boat,
supposed to have contained the crew
who are believed to have lost their
bearings And who were probably at
tempting to take soundings, was
found overturned some distance
away from the yacht.
Life-savers believe the small boat
was overturned in a rough sea and
that the crew was lost. No trace
of the missing men has been found.
The owners, according to the En
deavorers’ papers, are N. A. Scar
corna and Frank Sinanica, of Savan
nah, Ga. The yacht was about 40
feet in length and completely out
fitted for sea-going purposes. The
papers indicate that the Endeavorer
was formerly owned by an Atlantic
City man and that She was just re
cently transferred to the new own
ers at Philadelphia.
Cotton Exports Nearly
Double Those of Last
October, Figures Show
WASHINGTON, \Nov. 29.—Cotton
exports last month were nearly dou
ble those of October, 1919, the total
last month being 583,725 bales, val
ued at $91,307,498, as compared with
352,231 bales, valued at $60,732,867,
in October, 1919, it was announced
today at the department of commerce.
Subchaser Men Patrol
Cable Laying Scene
MIAMI, Fla., Nov. *27.—Armed
jackies from a subchaser patrolled
the beach all night to prevent any
attempt on the part of the Western
Union Telegraph company from land
ing its South American-Barbadoes
cable ot this port. The men. were
from another subchaser which' arriv
ed from Key West late in the after
noon, making three subchasers now
on duty here. »
$60,000 in Jewels Is
Taken From Messenger
) NEW YORK, Nov. 27.—David Say
lor, messenger for a jewelry flrm,
from whom four men, in a hold-up
this morning took diamonds valued
at $60,000, was arrested tonight
charged with being a party to the
plot.
The messenger was leaving the
Pacific bank. Seventh avenue, at For
ty-ninth street, when attacked. He
carried the diamonds in two tin
boxes. His assailants escaped.
North Carolina Woman
To Be Deputy Sheriff
ASHEVILLE. N. C„ Nov. 29.—A
woman will be deputy sheriff of
Buncombe county when the newly
elected officers assume their duties
on December 6. / according to an
nouncement made here by J. A. Ly
erly, sheriff-elect of the county. Mrs.
O. R. Keith, a widow with five small
children, will be given the posi
tion. Mr. Lyerly states.
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FOffIEOMIIM
WINS OUT IN DUEL
WITHKEEN RAZOBS
I Dr. John McElroy and Ralph
Burkhart Wage' Twenty-
Minute Affair in New
York Hotel
NEW YORK, Nov. 27. —After a des
perate battle with a razor, lasting
twenty minutes over an affront said
to have been directed at a nurse, two
men are under arrest today charged
with felonious assault.
One of the men. Ralph Burkhardt,
is in a serious condition in St. Vin
cent’s hospital. He has a deep stab
wound in the neck and may die.
Detectives are investigating the
story of the fight which occurred
last night in room 651 of the Hotel
Albert, 42 East Eleventh street,
which has bet*n occupied for three
months by Dr. John McElroy, of At
lanta, Ga., now on the staff of the
Post Graduate hospital.
Dr. McElroy was released under
$2,500 bond.
The stories told by the two men
conflict on several points. The tele
phone operator at the hotel, Miss
Mary Hannigan, discovered that there
was a fight in progress upon receipt
of a signal from the telephone in
room 651. Making a connection with
the room, Miss Hannigan listened on
the wire but no voice sounded.
After waiting a few minutes the
operator went in on the wire again
and Then heard sounds of a desperate
struggle. Voices of two men were
shrieking and their yells were broken
occasionally by the crashing of furni
ture and glass. Summoning the man
ager, E. D. Fowler, Miss Hannigan
informpd him that she heard two
men threatening to kill each other.
The manager hurried,, to the room,
accompanied by two negro bell boys
and Dr. Thum, the house physician.
Upon entering the room Manager
Fowler, according to his story to the
police, found Dr. McElroy bleeding
from wounds and with his clothing
covered with blood standing in the
center of the room. Sprawled on the
bed was Burkhardt, who was bleed
ing freely from a deep cut in his
neck.
Admits Cutting
Mr. Fowler said he asked: “Did
you do this, doctor?”
“I’m here to tell the world I did,”
he quotes the physician as answer
ing. “I would have shot him if I
had had a gun; it was his life or
mine.”
The story attributed to Dr. McEl
roy by the police was that he was
using the telephone when his room
door opened and Burkhardt entered.
The physician denied, the police say.
ever seeing Burkhardt before, but
said that thp apartment house super
intendent announced that he “would
get” the doctor. The police say that
Dr. McElroy charged Burkhardt drew
the razor, the physician struck him
and then the fight started.
Burkhardt's serious condition has
prevented him from saying very
much about the struggle, but his
story told to the police at the hos
pital disagrees with Dr. McElroy’s
explanation of ttye fight. The in
jured man told the police he went to
see the doctor because the latter had
twice insulted a girl friend of his. a
trained nurse. Warning the physi
cian to let the girl alone, Burkhardt
says Dr. McElroy took the razor and
attacked him. Dr. McElroy, who is
a member of a prominent Georgia
family, told the police he served with
the British army at the start of the
war, enlisting in the Gordon High
landers. When this country entered
the war he was transferred to the
American army aqd rose from a lieu
tenant to a major.
Big Black Opossum
Is Captured in Trap
Set to Catch Rats
Determined to rid himself of a
plague of rats at his home at SO
Bedford place, C. A. Kitchens in
vested in a trap guaranteed to hold
the biggest rat that ever dragged a
tail. Mr. Kitchens set the trap in
his basement Sunday night.
On Monday morning he found that
the trap had sustained its reputa
tion and had captured a five-pound
black opossum which had in some
way gained access to the house. Mr.
Kitchens is arranging a gustatorial
function at which the opossum w’ill
be the guest of honor and the piece
de resistance.
War Veterans Form
International Body
PARIS, Nov. 29. — (By the Asso
ciated Press.)—An international
council binding together the war
veteran's associations of the allied
countries was organized here yes
terday by the delegations represent
ing the United States. France. Great
Britain, Italy, Belgium, Greece. Jugo
slavia afid Czecho-Slovakia, and was
joined later by Portugal. Poland and
Rumania. ,
The council will be composed of
one mem W*r from each country and
will probably meet in Paris as often
as necessary. The organization con
templates membership of all nation
al veterans’ associations.
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1920.
Police Are Investigating
Shooting of A. B. Smith
Sunday, by Citizen Officer
Investigation of the killing of A.
B. Smith, of 13 Corput street, by M.
V. Ragsdale twenty-two years offl,
of 208 Payne street, member of the
citizen police, at Corput and Mariet
ta streets Sunday afternoon, was
continued by the police Monday.
Ragsdale claims he shot in self-de
fense when Smith attempted to es
cape arrest and turned on him in
the attitude of drawing a pistol.
Ragsdale will be given a hearing in
the recorder’s court Wednesday
morning. In the meantime he is be
ing held at the police station with
out bond.
W. B. Smith, a brother of the
dead man, has engaged the services
of Attorney Hamilton Lee to assist
in the prosecution of Ragsdale.
Ragsdale went to the police sta
tion shortly after the shooting and
surrendered to the chief. Written
statements were obtained from both
Ragsdale and Hutcheson and a num
ber of witnesses , were interviewed.
Patrolman Hutcheson’s statement
corroborated that of Ragsdale in ev
ery way.
Mrs. Smith, wife of the dead man,
was not at home at the time of the
shooting. When she returned a short
time later she was met at the car
by a number of neighbors who in
formed her of the tragedy. She was
so overcome she had to be carried
into the house.
Mrs. G. C. Moon, who is said to
have requested the investigation, suf
fered a nervous shock following the
shooting and had to be taken to het
home, 91 Plum street.
Smith j survived by his wife, two
children, Reuben Smith, twelve
years old, and Travis Smith, ten
years old; two brothers, E. L. Smith
and W. B. Smith, his father and
mother, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Smith,
and two sisters, Mrs. W. B. Wilson
and Mrs. Alma Hutcheson.
Ragsdale’s Statement
Ragsdale’s statement to the chief
of police is as follows:
“About 3 o’clock Sunday afternoon
I was in the Moon service filling sta
tion. Mrs. Moon wanted a case
made against a drunken man. She
told me about it. In a few minutes
Mr. Hutcheson came in and we walk
ed out on the sidewalk. Smith came
out of a house on the corner of Cor
put and Marietta streets. He had
an ax in his hand. Some ■ lady on
the porch and a girl wrestled with
him and took the axe from him. He
came down on the steps and across
the street to Mandy Pannell’s store.
He hung over there and she told
him she was fixing to close up in
order to get rid of him. Then he
went back home. We went over to
his house an<j told him he was un
der arrest for being drunk and dis
orderly. He wanted to know if we
wanted to look for any liquor. Mr.
Hutcheson told him yes. We found
some in a grape juice bottle, about
a teacup full. I found a tin can
with a small amount in it, and a
gallon jug with about a tablespoon
ful in it.”
Jerked Loose
“We went with him to his closet
to get his coat, then came back
through the house to the front and
when he got in front he jerked loose
and ran back into the house, slam
ming the front door, and ran into the
front room and out to the back yard
in between the houses. I ran in the
front to the side of the house and
hollored to him to stop. In place
of him stopping he drew his hand
back toward his hip underneath his
coat and started toward me. I then
hollered to him to stop and slipped
just about the time I shot. I did
not know where I hit him.
“He ran back between the houses
on Marietta street, then back toward
me on Marietta street. I still did
not know I had hit him. He fell at
the corner of Marietta and Corput
streets. I guess he lived for about
five or six minutes. He never spoke
after he fell. After he fell I un
fastened his shirt and looked all over
his chest and body for a wound, but
could not find any. I did not know
where I hit him. Mr. Hutcheson
went to call for a wagon and a big
crowd gathered around. I did not
search for any weapon. I brought
a cupful of the whisky in a grape
juice bottle down here that I got
out of his safe drawer.”
Ragsdale was formerly a bailiff
in the justice of peace’s court
in Cook’s district. On April 3 he
shot and killed a negro on a street
car on Marietta street. He claimed
self-defense, stating that the negro
advanced- upon him with a knife,
and the case was nol prossed in the
superior court.
$2,000 Pearl Found
In a Mussel Shell
MEMPHIS, Tenn.. Nov. 27.—A
pearl weighing forty grains and val
ued at $2,000 was found today in a
mucket shell, a variety of fresh wa
ter mussel, in the Tennessee river,
at Savannah, Tenn.
The gem was found by a worker
of the Blumenfeld company, Memphis
dealer in mussel shells. x
KELLOY DENIED
NEW TRIAL; HIS
LAWYER APPEALS
GRIFFIN, Ga., Nov. 27.—Judge W.
E. H. Searcy, Jr., today denied the
motion for a new trial filed by Attor
ney H. A. Allen, of Atlanta, on be
half of Jack Kelloy, convicted last
September of the murder of Leroy
Trexler, .an Atlanta taxicab driver.
Following the denial of the mo
tion, Attorney Allen gave notice that
he would file an appeal with the su
preme court.
Kelloy was convicted at a special
term of court, and sentenced to
hang on October 29. The sentence
was suspended, however, for the
hearing of his motion for a new trial.
The second trial was originally set
for October 26, but the court reporter
of the Flint circuit was kept so busy
handling current cases that he had
no opportunity to prepare the brief
of evidence until this time.
The case has attracted wide atten
tion, and a lumber of spectators
thronged the court room here Satur
day morning when .the hearing be
gan. Attorney Allen, counsel for
Kelloy, contended that the defendant
is not guilty of murder, and should
not hang.
John Henry Hardin
Refused New Trial for
Attempted Bribery
John Henry Hardin, formerly a
leading farmer, merchant and capi
talist of Cherokee county, who was
found guilty of attempted bribery
in the United States court last month
and given two years in the peniten
tiary, was refused a new trial by
Judge Samuel H. Sibley Saturday.
Herbert Clay, attorney for Hardin,
announced that he would take the
case to the United States court of
appeals.
The trial of Hardin was sensa
tional. Evidence was introduced by
the government to show that the de
fendant offered to buy protection
from raids on large stills in the
mountains of north Georgia, and that
he actually paid SSOO to Federal Pro
hibition Ageist E. E. Dixon. A care
fully laid trap in the Wilmot hotel
enabled prohibition officers to arrest
Hardin while he was in the act of
paying the money over to Officer
Dixon. A dictograph, which had
been planted ip the room, enabled
the officers to hear the entire con
versation between Hardin and Officer
Dixqn.
Officer Dixon and other govern
ment agents worked on Hardin’s case
for several months before they finally
were able to obtain positive evidence
against him.
Woman, 15-Year-Old
Boy, and Blind Man
Are Caught at Still
KNOXVILLE. Tenn., Nov. 27. —A
woman was captured at an illicit still
in Greene county early this morning
by reveniie raiders just as she was
starting the furnace fire. A fifteen
year-old boy and a blind man also
were captured at this plant by the
raiders.
Deaths Result From
Powder Explosions
MILAN, Nov. 27.—Twenty persons
were reported to be dead or missing
as a result of the powder explosions
in the village of Vergiate, which be
gan yesterday and were continuing
today.
The dead were said to include five
soldiers, members of the relief par
ty. The violence of the explosions
caused a panic in nearby towns.
The explosions were reported to
have started while workmen were
unloading airp-fane bombs.
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BRIBERY CHANGED
IN GAMBLING PROBE;
POWERS’WIFEHELD
Solicitor Boykin Says Men
“Higher Up” Made Offer to
State’s Witness —Woman
Claims Innocence
When the case of Abe Powers,
charged with vagrancy and larceny
after trust, was called in the superior
court Monday morning, two sensa
tional developments came in the
probe of gambling and swindling in
Atlanta being conducted by Solicitor
John A. Boykin:
First, the arrest of Powers’ wife
and her declaration that her husband,
instead of being a ring-leader in the
“wire-tapping syndicate,” was a vic
tim of the syndicate and himself was
fleeced out of thousands of dollars;
Second, the assertion of Solicitor
Boykin that Powers’ friends, men
“higher up” in the gambling world,
are trying to crush the case against
him and have gone so far as to offer
to H. C Holley, principal witness
against Powers, a bribe of SII,OOO,
the amount of money Holley claim!?
Powers and his associates swindled
from him.
Powers’ trial was postponed un
til Tuesdayi, His attorneys argued
they hadn’t ihad time to prepare. It
was in the course of his objections
to the postponement that Solicitor
Boykin made his charge of attempt
ed bribery. Judge Humphries in
formed the solicitor that if he can
show the grand jury the bribes were
offered in Fulton county, indictments
would be returned against the “high
er ups.” Though granting the post
ponement till Tuesday, Judge
Humphries declared the case would
be the first on the calendar and
no further continuance could be per
mitted.
Mrs. Powers Arrested
Mrs. Powers had come to the
courthouse to attend the trial. She
was arrested by City Detectives
Jones and Whatley, who acted on
orders of Chief Poole, who in turn
acted on the request of Solicitor Boy
kin. She was taken to police sta
tion, with the blanket charge of
“suspicion” against her.
"I have no evidence yet to connect
the woman with the gambling syn
dicate,” said Solicitor Boykin. “I am
simply having her held so I can
question her.” .
The detectives, according to Chief
Poole, located Mrs. Powers at a
downtown hotel several days ago, in
formed Solicitor Boykin of their dis
covery and, at his request, arrested
her. , , .
Mrs. Powers, a good-looking bru
nette of twenty-nine, with dark hair,
gray eyes and slightly acquilme
nose, told her story to newspaper
men in the matron’s ward at the po
lice station . She, had been crying,
she said, but after accepting a ci
garette from a reporter and taking
several puffs, she announced she felt
better.
Her dress was blue silk, her hat
was blue silk, she wore a stylish
tan coat, tan slippers and woolen
stockings in the mode. No jewelry
adorned her save a plain gold wed
ding ring, but she carried a silk
umbrella of deepest crimson with a
horn handle also of crimson.
“I have been married to Mr. Pow
ers about a year,” she said. “He was
in the stocks and bonds business in
New York, but a few weeks ago he
decided to sell out and move to
Houston, Tex., his native home. He
left New York with a big sum of
money—l don’t know how jpuch, for
I don’t mix with his'businesk affairs,
but some thousands of dollars. 1
was to join him in Atlanta, where
he stopped off on his way to Texas.
“Well, I got here a few days later
and what did I find?—Abe in jail
charged with swindling and his
name all over the papers. I talked
to him over the telephone and I
wrote to him, and he wrote back
telling me all about it.
Left Him Only 92
“He hadn’t swindled anybody—.but
they sure had trimmed him. He al
ways was something of a gambler,
liked to play poker and all that. This
gang of wire-tappers took every cent
he had except $2 they found on him
when he was arrested.
“So I didn’t know what to do. I
tried to get a room in two or three
hotels, but as soon as they saw the
name Abe Powers, they wouldn’t let
me stay there. Finally 1/ i-egistered
at the Wilmot as Miss P. J- Monette.
That’s my maiden name. I was a
Canadian girl.”
Mrs. Powers refused to give the
name of her' father and mother, who
she said were living in Canada, or
their address. She declared they’d
get the Atlanta papers and she
wasn’t going to cause them any sor
row.
“I didn’t have any money,” she
continued. “I pawned a diamond ring
I had —it was my engagement ring.
And I tried to get work. But I
never did work in my life and I
couldn’t find a job anywhere.
“That’s all, I guess. No, you
can’t take my picture—l’m not go
ing to have my father and mother
find me on the front page for being
in jail.”
While Mrs. Powers was telling her
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Three Are Held
On Murder Charge
In Shepard Case
MRS. F. EUGENE ELMER,
who was taken to the Bibb
county jail at Macon on a
charge of murder, following
the verdict of a Houston coun
ty coroner’s jury that her for
mer husband, Fred D. Shep
ard, died of bichloride of
mercury poisoning.
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MILLS B. LANE ■
TAKES $135,000
OF BANK’S STOCK
In a letter to Robbert F. Maddox,,
campaign chairman for the state/
Mills B. Lane, president of the Citi
zens’ and Southern bank, has sub
scribed for $135,000 of the capital
stock of the Federal International
Banking company. The subscription
represents 3 per cent of the capital
and surplus of the Citizens’ and
Southern, which operates large bank
ing houses in Atlanta, Savannah, Ma
con and Augusta.
Mr. Lane’s letter follows:
“I am in receipt of yours of the
26th Instant, and in reply beg to
say that the Citizens’ and Southern
bank will subscribe 3 per cent of
its capital and surplus to the Fed
eral International Banking company.
It is the writer’s desire to do every
thing he possibly can in aiding you
and others in the organization of
the company, with the hope that it
will be of great value to this section
in the marketing of the various crops
we produce.”
Mr. Lane was in New York at
the time of the state bankers’ meet
ing at Macon, otherwise the subscrip
tion of the Citizens’ and Southern
bank would have been formally an
nounced along with others at Macon.
At the convention, however, W. W.
Banks, vice president of the Citizens’
and Southern, stated that the bank
would subscribe its quota, and the
action of Mr. Lane confirms the pre
diction of Mr. Banks.
Other subscriptions announced
Monday included the following: Citi
zens’ bank, of Shady Dale; Realty
Savings and Trust company, of Sa
vannah; Farmers’ and Merchants’
bank, of Fayetteville.
Aviator Is Held
For Complicity m
$3,500,000 Theft
MUSKOGEE, Okla., Nov. 29.—Keith
Collins, aviator, wanted in connec
tion with the $3,500,000 mail train
robbery at Council Bluffs, la., sev
eral weeks ago, was under arrest at
Westville, Okla., today. Collins was
arrested at the home of his uncle
after a struggle with postoffice in
spectors.
Authorities said Collins made away
with the loot from the train in an
automobile. Six men are already un
der arrest in Council Bluffs. They
are said to have confessed.
Counterfeiters Taken
In Act of Producing
Spuriotis Bank Notes
CINCINNATI, Nov. 29.—Following
information given by a woman, three
policemen entered a room here yes
today and arrested two men who
were drying the ink on more than
$3,000 worth of $lO Dank notes which
had been printed from copper plates.
The counterfeiting outfit was seiz
ed and police say it is one of the
most complete which has ever been
found in Cincinnati. The prisoners
were registered as Martin Hamman,
47, Cincinnati, and Charles Schwibbe,
25 years old, Vincennes, Ind.
5 CENTS A COPY.
$1.50 A YBAR.
Widow, Stepson and Sistei
in-Law Are Arrested Afteit|
Verdict of Death byl
Poison 1
MACON, Ga., Nov. 29.— The sheriff
at Fitzgerald is on his way to Abbe
ville with a warrant charging mur
der for the arrest of Mrs. Annie
Cutts, wife- of Attorney Eldridge
Cutts. The warrant was sworn out
in connection with the death of Mr.
Fred D. Shepard, wealthy peach
grower, of Fort Valley, whose death
was caused from bichloride of mer
cury poison, according to the verdict
of a coroner’s jury at Fort Valley
Saturday night, and for which Mrs;
F. Eugene Elmer, wife of Dr. Elmer,
of Jacksonville, and Mrs. lone Henry
and Ernest Hopson, sister and son.
respectively of Mrs. Elmer, are held
by authorities on the charge of mur
der.
FORT VALLEY. Ga.. Nov. 2$ - \
Following the verdict of a coroner’s \
jury here Saturday afternoon decli..--
ing that Mr. Fred D„ Shepa-’’d
wealthy fruit grower of this cPv.
came to his death from bichlori'v
poisoning, three persons were placKu
under arrest charged with his mus- •
der. They are Mrs. F. E. Elmer, of
Jacksonville. Fla., his former wife:
Mrs. lone Henry, of Perry, Ga.. sister
of Mrs. Elmer, and Ernest Hopson,
son of Mrs. Elmer by a former hus
band. All three arrests were made ar
the instance of Solicitor Genera;
Charles H. Garrett, of the Bibb cir
cuit of the superior court, who, for
several weeks has been conducting an
investigation of the circumstarice.-
surrounding the death of Mr. Shep
ard on June 1. after an illness of
four days.
Crandall Poisoned, He Says
Fred R. Crandall, nephew of Mr. /
Fred D. Shepard, who filed bail trover
proceedings against Mrs. Elmer Sat- 1
urday afternoon, has made a state
ment in the presence of other peo
ple, including Solicitor General Gar
rett and Dr. M. S. Brown, Fort Val
ley physician of the Shepard family,
that he believes he was poisoned by
a drink of liquor which he took out
of a bottle which was taken from
the automobile in which Shepard
was brought to a hospital here May
31 last when he was suffering from
his fatal illness.
Crandall says that when he arrived
in Macon, he asked Ernest Hopson
for a drink, and that Hopson went to
Mr. Shepard’s automobile and
brought back a quart bottle which
was half full of liquor. He says that
he took a drink and soon afterwards
experienced peculiar sensations
which continued until the next day
when he went to bed with dysentery
and acute abdominal pains. “I am
convinced that I was poisoned by the
liquor,” Crandall is quoted as say
ing.
Solicitor General Garrett, declined
to discuss-the statement, although it
was said at his office that the mat
ter was being investigated.
Mrs. Elmer, who had come from
Jacksonville to attend the coroner’s
inquest, was arrested as she was
about to board a train for Macon,
She had just given bond in the sum
of $120,000 in a bail trover proceed
ing taken out by Frederick Crandall,
nephew of the dead man and a bene
ficiary under the terms of a will
discovered some time after Mr. Shep
ard’s death. It vfras at first thought
that Mr. Shepard had died instate
and Mrs. Elmer nad taken charge ot
his estate.
Mrs. Henry and Ernest Hopson
were taken into custody at their
home in Perry. The death of Mr
Shepard occured at the Henry home.
Mrs Elmer has been taken to Macon
for incarceration in the Bihb countv
jail, as the Houston county jail at
r erry is not equipped to accommo
date women prisoners. Mrs. Hem-'
was allowed to remain at home unde
guard: while Hopson was taken to
the Bibb county jail.
Mrs. Elmer’s Statement
Counsel for Mrs. F. E. . Elmer, of
Jacksonville, arrested lat 6 today at
Fort Valley and charged with the
murder of her former husband, Fred
D. Shepard, wealthy peach grower,
made public on arrival here tonight
a formal statement by Mrs. Elmer,
which she made at Fort Valley short
ly after her arrest. Mrs. Elmer's at
torney preceeded her here.
’“I am heartbroken becouse of
this terrible affair,” Mrs. Elmer’s
statement said. “Heartbroken be
cause of the insinuations againut me
and the terrible things that they
have done.
"The sad part of it is that my own
family should attempt to sell their
mother and sister for pieces of sil
ver. Mothers can understand how I
feel. The stakes were too high for
them. Thousands of dollars have
been spent to discredit me in the
eyes of my friends..
“If they were allowed to take *ll
that was rightfully mine In the way
of wealth, it could nevnr hurt me
like the awful things which they
have said and done. They have
bought the natural lov< and affection
of my family; they have gone all
over this country with a great num
ber of detectives trying to find all
kinds of things about my life, and
when they could find nothing, they
came back and dug up my degd hus
band and now I am accused of this
awful crime.
"I sometimes wonder if death
would be any relief from this night
mare.’ ’
Only Three Witnesses
The coroner’s inquest Saturday af
ternoon came as the climax of a
serie of sensational developments
that have stirred this section to in
tense interest and excitement. The
hearing had been postponed one week
to allow experts to make chemical,
pathological and physiological analy
sis of the viscera, taken from the
body of Mr. Shepard on the second
exhumation of the remains on No
vember 17.
Only three witnesses testified at
the hearing. Dr. John Funke, a path
ological expert of Atlanta; Dr. Edga»
Everhardt. chemist for the state
board of health, but in this case
working in his private capacity, and
Dr. M. S. Brown, a practising physi
cian of this city, who attended Mr.
Shepard in his last illness.
Dr. Funke testified that upon mak
ing an exhaustive analysis and ex
amination of the viscera, he founa
the tissue of the alimentary canai
badly inflamed throughout its entire
length, although there were no per
foration of the intenstines or other
evidence of disease. This inflamen
condition, he said, evidently was
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