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©be Atlanta ©ri'WccMy Stournul VOL. XXIII. NO. 27. PHYSICIAN SAYS HE KNOWS FULL STORY HF SHMD CASE Hearing on Applications for Bail Set for December 7. Garrett Does Not Now Ex pect Further Arrests BY ED H. BRADLEY (Staff Correspondent of The Journal.) MACON, Ga., Nov. 30. —"Os course, I believe that Fred Shepard was poi soned. Not for one minute would 1 doubt the word of those two At lanta experts. But 'my wife over there in that jail is absolutely uncon nected with the plot, for I know the full story.’’ The foregoing statement by Dr. F., Eugene Elmer, husband of Mrs. Pau line Elmer, held in the Bil?b jail on a charge of murder in connection with the death of Mr. Fred Shepard, Fort Valley "peach king,” has pro vided the latest sensation in a sen sational case. The Jacksonville physician, who came here Monday in order to assist in the fight for the' freedom of his wife, also stated in the brief interview as he lay in his bed last night at a local hotel “that ■when the truth is known everybody Will be utterly astounded. Develop ments will come within a week that Will shock all because of their dia bolical nature.” The third husband of the principal Woman figure in the Shepard case Is a picturesque character.of splen did physique and handsome features, »ot at all spoiled by his iron gray Stair. ' His manner decidedly Latin, he gesticulates emphatically as he talks of the Shepard case and of his exciting life in Mexico, where he became a partisan of the Diaz regime through attending Madame Diaz when she became ill on the street one day in Mexico City, where he was practicing medicine, later be coming her personal physician. After that he fought and lived with the revolutionists, he says. Once he came near getting an appointment as gov ernor of a Mexican state. "Today, i merely live to get back to” Mexico,” ha declared fervently. He predicted that the Obregom regime will not last, inasmuch as Obregon is anti-Cath olic. His mother, the doctor said, was from Holland, his father from Madrid, and he himself was born in Lima, Peru. Dr. Elmer Sees Wife . Dr. Elmer conferred Monday with Charles M. Durrance, Jacksonville at torney for Mrs. Elmer.and spent one hour Monday afternoon, 2 to 3 o’clock, at the jail with Mrs. Elmer. Following his arrival. General Wai ’ ter A. Harris was employed as as sociate attorney for Mrs. Elmer. Although important developments are expected in the case today. So licitor Charles H. Garrett refuses to discuss the developments, and at torneys for the four persons under arrest have little to say. Application for bail has been made for all, with the exception of Mrs. Eldridge Cutts, wife of a prominent Fitzgerald law yer. who was taken into custody at Fitzerald Monday by Sheriff Dormi ney, of Ben Hill county, and brought to a cell in the Bibb jail last night at 10 o’clock Application for hail for her likely will be made before the day is over. Just why Mrs. Cutts is held au thorities refuse to say. but she is known to be an intimate friend of Mrs. Elmer, and it is understood that she was present at the family gath ering in Abbeville May 17. when John S. Hopson was shot. It is also stated that she had some connection with the so-called annoymous will by which Mrs. Elmer was left only $lO,- 600 of the Shepard estate and a $12,- *■ 000 annuity. It was J. A. Turner, overseer of the Cutts estate near Abbeville, who shot John S. Hop son, May 17, and it is expected that he and Mrs. Turner, together with Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Peterson, tenants will on the Cutts plantation, and Miss Alice Player, who resides with the Cutts, prove star witnesses for the prosecution. Solicitor General Garrett stated today that information which hd® has in hand does not involve crim inally any other person, and at present he does not expect any ad ditional arrest in the case. Women Held Incommunicado Attorney Eldridge Cutts went to the jail this morning to see his wife, but was refused permission by the jailor, who said that he was acting on instructions. Finally, Mr. Cutts succeeded in getting an order from the solicitor general, countersigned by the sheriff, which gained him ad mission to the jail. Mr. Cutts, it r Is understood, will employ local ' counsel some time today, and appli cation for bail on behalf of his wife then will be made. It » expected that December 7 will be set for the hearing in common with the action taken in the case of the other tnree prisoners. Both Mrs. Elmer and Mrs. Cutts are held incommunicado, except to persons given special permission to see them. The first showdown on the evi dence in the case is expected De cember 7, when the hearings on ap plications for bail on behalf of the four prisoners will take place. At torney Cutts claims that his wife is being held on insufficient grounds, as do attorneys for Mrs. Elmer, Mrs. Henry and Ernest Hopson. General Walter A. 'Harris, retained as associate counsel for Mrs. Elmer, and Charles M. Durrance, the El mers’ Jacksonville lawyer, held a long conference this morning, when, It is understood, the case was dis cussed from all angles. Attorney Durrance has stated that he will not take part with the counsel in the de- (Contlnned on Page 7, Column 6) Beats Gas or Electricity New Lamp Has No Wick. No Chim ney. No Odor. Most Brilliant Light Known. A new lamp which experts agree gives the most powerful home light in the world, js the latest achievement of W. H. 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I.—A for mal proposal from Secretary Colby that commissioners be appointed by the United States and Mexico to draft a treaty upon which can be based resumption of full diplomatic relations between the two govern ments has been taken to Mexico City by Roberto V. Pesqueira, Mex ican confidential agent in Washing ton. This was disclosed last night when the state department made public Mr. Colby’s answer to Mr. Pasquei ra’s recent letter urging recognition by the United States of the new gov ernment of Mexico. It was handed to the Mexican agent before his de parture Thanksgiving day to attend the inauguration of President-elect Obregon, of Mexico, December 1. Referring to his conversations with Mr. Pesqueira, Secretary Colby in his letter said that they served to leave no reasonable doubt "of the high and enlightened purposes that actuate the present government of Mexico.” As to Article XXVII of the Mexi can constitution, long a stumbling block to complete understanding be tween the two governments, Mr. Col by said the statement in Mr. Pes queira’s letter that it is not and must not be interpreted as retroac tive or violative of valid property rights” should “allay the fears of those who have acquired valid ti tles” in Mexico, adding: “I can conceive of nothing better calculated to correct thi£ misunder standing.” "It only remains,” Mr. Colby con tinued, “to give these understand ings a form which is usual in deal ings between friendly states, and I have the honor to suggest that commissioners be promptly des ignated by both Mexico and the United States to formulate a treaty, embodying the agreements which have been reached as the result of your successful mission.” Mississippi Senator Urges Quick Relief For U. S. Farmers WASHINGTON, Dec. I.—Senator Harrison, Democrat, Mississippi, de clared in a statement today that the situation among the agricultural classes was "desperate” and some nfeasures affording immediate relief must be enacted by congress. Senators from the cotton-growing states,__he said, were ready to join with those of the western states in seeking relief for farmers. He de clared there were .several plans un der way in the south, one of which was the organization of export com panies under the Edge law, which, he thought, should be organized in eacff section of the country. Senator Harrison said he f.ivored reorganization of the war finance corporation and the law so amended that allotment of various sums could be loaned to agricultural interests. Under present law, he said , the war finance corporation has no discretion in loans. If this cannot be done, he said, he would favor congress passing a law "taking 51 per cent of the stock of the various corporations being or ganized to carry on export trade.” Snuff Replaces Booze At Banquet in Boston; Coolidge Takes Pinch BOSTON, Dec. 1. —The cup that cheers was replaced by the snuff that exhilirates, when the Scots’ chari table society revived an old custom at its annual banquet last night to take the place of anti-prohibition toasts. Scotch snuff from a silver mounted ram’s horn, was passed about the tables. First to take a cautious pinch was Governor Calvin Coolidge, vice presi dent-elect, who was the chief guest. From him the h.orn went down the banquet board. Sneezes followed, and handkerchiefs were quite gen erally displayed. Soon afterward Professor Charlton Black, of Boston university, related an anecdote directed to despondent victims of the eighteenth amendment. It was the warning of an old Scotch man to his son against too liberal use of snuff, with the statement that "I’ve been drunker on sneezum than I ever was on whuskey.” The guests sneezed again, and then the speakers had their say. Excessive Weight Is Fatal to Woman KENTON, Ohio, Dec. 1. —Compli- cations resulting from excessive weight caused the death of Mrs. Hat tie James, who weighed 650 pounds. Her casket was removed from the house through a window and hauled to the grave on a large truck at the funeral today. BARGAIN NO. 1! By SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT, and for a SHORT TIME ONLY, this big MONEY-SAVING chance is open to you. Read it! and then ACT! Send us TWENTY-FIVE CENTS (25c only), in pennies, stamps, silver, money order or check. We will send you The Tri-Weekly Journal from NOW until March 15.’ That’s practically THREE MONTHS! And for the trifling sum of “TWO-BITS!” Clip the Coupon! The Atlanta Tri-Weekly Journal, Atlanta, Ga.: Enclosed find 25c, send me Tri-Weekly Journal until March 15. Name P. O State R. F. D. No PARLIAMENT HOUSES OF BRITAIN GUARDED AGAINST HITS Cork City Hall Set Afire. Irish Village Burned Fol lowing Murder of Sixteen Policemen LONDON, Nov. 30.—That the Sinn Fein parliament has formally de clared a state of -war with England was the belief today of many olficials of the Irish office. The Irish office has no direct in formation that war has been declared by Dail Eireann, the Sinn Fein par liament, but evidence is accumulating to indicate that such a step has been taken. Backed by that formal declaration, Sinn Fein forces have leaped to a renewal of the attack on British forces here and in Ireland. The Dublin murders, the attacks on police patrols culminating in the slaughter of sixteen black and tans at Kilmichael, were accepted here as the work of ir.sn who regarded them selves as carrying on a legalized war. The Sinn Feiners who surrounded the two police lorries at Kilmichael killing all but one of the patrol, wore uniforms and steel helmets, accord ing to dispatches today. This was regarded as an attempt to conform to the regulations of civilized war fare. Never before in any such at tack have the Sinn Feiners appeared in uniform. Arning documents pointing to a declaration of war was a Dail Eireann decree printed in the Freeman’s Jour nal in Dublin. It instructed physi cians that British soldiers “wounded in action” should be cared for. This was supposed to be another effort to observe the rules of warfare. Sinn Feiners heretofore have spok en of their efffforts as acts of war, but it was believed here they are go ing..to greater lengths than ever be fore, supported by a document to legalize their actions. British officialdom moved today in fear of a second Guy Fawkes plot to blow up the house of parliament. While government offices functioned as usual, the work was transacted behind a screen of guards and only in the presence of persons who had proved their identity and their loy alty to the government. In the houses of parliament many plain clothesmen circulated with the crowds. They were expert marks men, ready for action. These sentries occupied every point of vantage in all government build ings but particularly the houses of parliament. They were ordered td shoot to kill if an emergency arose. Members of parliament known to lean toward the Sinn Fein were warn ed by outsiders to.remain away from the buildings. This was taken by fnany to mean that a Guy Fawkes plot was patching, its instigators de siring to save their friends. The warning was disregarded by all the Sinn Fein sympathizers. They took part in the sessions as usual and without a sign of nervousness. The Liverpool fires and the threat of incendiarism was reflected today in London by a great rush for fire in surance. Lloyd’s reported an un precedented demand of policies. Although no fires of consequence occurred last night the guard here was strengthened and additional squads went on duty in Liverpool, Southampton and at other ports. For some reason it was believed plotters were especially anxious to cripple British shipping. A strong guard was organized in Glasgow also. An incendiary bomb in the ware house district here last nifeht caus ed trifling damage. Bodies toppled from the motor trucks and were still further mutilat ed by rifle bullets as they lay in the dusk. Only one of the detach ment of seventeen escaped death. He was'missing, probably a prisoner. No deaths as a result of the re prisals were reported today. The round-up of Sinn Fein leaders con tinued uninterrupted today. Activ ity here was marked last night by raids on the newspapers as well as the Sinn Fein bank. FUNERAL OF POLICEMEN NEAR ASHES OF VILLAGE DUBLIN, Nov. 30. —Smouldering ruins in the neighborhood of Ma croom today marked the funeral rites of sixteen police murdered in ambush last Sunday night. Immediate reprisals on the popu lation resulted in the burning of cot tages, creameries and other build ings. The countryside was lighted last night by huge torches as thatch ed roofs suddenly blazed. Citizens of Kilmichael and nearby villages either remained hidden in the fields or fled to other sections. Word her was that Sir Hamar Greenwood, chief secretary for Ire land, did not propose to check the police too severely in punishing Sinn Feiners for the ambuscade that re sulted in the slaughter of two lorry loads of police. Reports of the ambush today said that from 80 to 100 men, securely hidden, poured a solid leaden tire into the lorries. The motors were halted at once and the police, firing without a tar get. had no chance. CITY HALL OF CORK SET ON FIRE TUESDAY BELFAST, Nov. 30.—The city hall at Cork was set on fire this morning, and reports from that city state the Thomas Ashe Sinn Fein club and the Charlotte quay are ablaze. Much damage has been done, it is stated. ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1'920. SOME INDORSEMENT! / GREAT I PEA, X ' / ATLANTA,- \ Z VJE’RB WITH j I . YOU STkOMGr / L \ 0/4 gw z x ■ . Handsome Man Smiles on Woman s Jury And Gets Guilty Verdict NEW YORK.—Jack Segal is a young man • who had illusions about women until yesterday afternoon at 3:26 o’clock. He lost them at that moment, when Mrs. Everett Colby, chairman of the woman jury in Orange, N. J., reported that her eleven collaborators had found the young man guilty of practicing den tistry without a license. Throughout his trial Segal, who is just twenty-one years old and pos sessed of rosy cheeks, brown eyes and curly black hair, had sus tained himself by a faith in the ten der-heartedness of women. “I am glad to have a woman jury try this case,” he said. “I believe that women will be more lenient to me than a jury of men would be.” The twelve women, however, ap parently applied their tender hearts to sympathizing with the witnesses who accused Segal of having depriv ed them of their teeth. There were eight of these wit nesses, a girl of ten, five women and two men. All testified that Jack Se gal, who is a fruit peddler by trade, had employed his time after peddling hours in pulling teeth. Edison’s Wife Zs Excused The woman jury which found him guilty after sixteen minutes’ delib eration —during which it took two ballots—was the second in the his tory of Jersey justice, but the first to hear a criminal case. Judge Daniel Dugan, presiding magistrate of the Orange district court, was so well pleased with the performance of the first woman jury in a dress maker’s pattern case last month that he summoned women again to serve in the dentistry case. Mrs. Thomas A. Edison, wife of the inventor, was the first woman sum moned, but she telephoned Judge Du gan yesterday morning that her hus band had a severe cold and that un less it was a great breach of judicial eiquette she would like to be ex cused from jury duty. Mrs. Ever ett Colby, wife of the former state senator and a prominent suffragist, took her place as forewoman of the jury. “Certainly, I believe in women on juries," she said. “We women have won the right to political power. We must be equally willing to take our share of political duties. "I should be glad to see women serving on the jury, not only in minor cases, but in the great crim inal proceedings as well. A mixed jury would be best, I think, as the A Twenty-five Cent Piece Turns the Trick! i Get on the Bandwagon! A landslide of subscriptions’ That’s the only way to describe the way Tri-Weekly Journal readers have snapped • up our GREAT “TWO-BIT” OFFER! Fall in line! Your pocketbook will never know the “quarter” Is gone! But YOU and your FAMILY will welcome the GREATEST PA PER IN THE SOUTH, three times a week, for THREE MONTHS! Remember—this is a SACRIFICE OFFER. We hope to profit SOLELY by holding our old friends and readers. In DOLLARS and CENTS, we lose on every sub scription. Time is flying. The chance can’t stand open long! Clip the Coupon! Mall it TODAY! Ponzi Pleads Guilty To Fraudulent Use of Mails; Gets Five Years BOSTON, Nov. 30.—Charles Ponzi, promoter of the “gct-rich-quick” scheme in which thousands of per sons invested, millions of dollars be fore it collapsed last .August, plead ed guilty to using the mails in a seneme to defraud, in the federal dis trict court today. Sentence of five 'years in the Ply mouth county jail was imposed by Judge Hale. The court took into consideration only the first count of one indictment of forty-three counts, in which it was charged that Ponzi had represented falsely that he was able to pay interest at the rate of 50 per'cent in forty-five days from profits made in international postal reply coupons. , point of view of both men and wom en is necessary.” The second jury of women was not able for its political connections. Most ot the pillars of Orange society were represented and there* was one present who is a pillar in her own right, Mrs. Jennie C. Van Ness, the new member from East Orange of the New Jersey assembly. The wife of the mayor of Orange, Mrs. William A. Lord, was the third member of the jury; the wife of the police commissioner was next, Mrs. Isaac Shoenthal. Behind her sat Mrp. James D. Moriarty, wife .of the post master, and next to her Mrs. Edgar E. Lethridge, wife of the former speaker of the New Jersey assembly. Mrs. Hannah Fell, another of the ju ry, is president of the First Voters’ League. The other jury women were: Mrs. Frank G. Coughtry, Mrs. Carl Hen neke, Mrs. Augusta H. Smith, Mrs. Joseph F. Gasner and Mrs. George Naulty. At the close of the trial Judge Du gan thanked the women for having performed their “disagreeable duty” so cheerfully and promised them that they should not be called upon again this year. The sergeant-at arms, John H. Gallagher, who is also the official dispenser of icewater and ringmaster for moving picture opera tors when there are women on the jury, indignahtly denied that he made the statement in connection with the first trial that “the women made an awful lot of work.” He bowed low as he handed the jurywomen little yellow enevelopes with their 75 cent fees. GIRL’S QUICK WIT PROVES DOWNFALL OF 3 HIGHWAYMEN WINONA. Miss., Dec. I.—The quick wit and prompt action of an 18-year-old girl today resulted in the capture- of the three alleged highwaymen who murdered George Reeves, Shelby county jailer, at Memphis, in a pistol fight, and afterwards made their escape. Clyde Hamilton was shot" and killed when he resisted arrest. The sheriff of Winona shot Hamil ton to death when the three band its were cornered in a freight car at Winona. The other two E. B. Kelly and A. F. Shaw, then sur rendered without resistance. The bandits were on a southbound Illinois Central railway freight train. The freight stopped at Winona, Miss., 122 miles south of Memphis. Three men got off the train and went to the home of H. T. Dodd and asked for something to eat. Miss Mary Dodd, in the house alone, recognized them from pictures of the fugitives which had appeared in a daily paper. She gave the men something to eat, then went to another room and called the sher iff’s office. Sheriff R. L. Smith and City Mar shal A. A. Glenn went to Mrs. Dodge’s home, but the bandits had left for the freight train. The sheriff and marshal came upon the armed fugitives in an box car on the freight train. Without hesitating, they climbed into the car with the murderer and his compan ions and ordered them to surrender. “Hamilton at once pulled a gun, but we beat him to it,” Sheriff Smith said. "Marshal Glenn and I fired at the same instant and Hamilton dropped dead. I don’t know which of us killed him. The other two at once surrendered.” The two men are held in Mont gomery county jail awaiting the ai rival of Tennessee officers. Plot to Overthrow German Government Fails, Report Says BERLIN, Nov. 30. —It was an nounced authoritatively yesterday that a plot to overthrow the German government had been frustrated. A number of former officers in the German army were arrested. A house-to-house search Is under way in many towns in Bavaria as a re sult of the discovery. BARGAIN NO. 2! 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The president’s acceptance is con ditioned upon the use of moral in fluence. He explained that he is without authority to employ force without the consent of congress. The invitation to mediate between the factions in Armenia was extended to the president last week through Paul Hymans, president of the league assembly. Mr. Wilson already has consented to fix the boundary lines of Armenia and he now has before him several reports on that subject. There had been no indication, however, when he will complete this work. The president’s reply follows: I have the honor to acknowl edge the receipt of your cabled message setting forth the reso lution by the assembly of the League of Nations requesting the council of the league to arrive at an understanding with the government with a view to in trusting a power with the task of taking the necessary measures to stop the hostilities in Ar menia. You offer to the United States the opportunity of undertaking the humanitarian task of using its good offices to end the pres qnd tragedy being enacted in Armenia and you assure me that your proposal involves no repe tition of the invitation to accept a mandate for Armenia. While the invitation to accept a mandate for Armenia has been rejected by the senate of the United States, this country has repeatedly declared its solici tude Tor the fate and welfare of the Armenian people in a manner and to an extent that justifies you in saying that the fate of Armenia has always been above special interest to the American people. I am without authorization to offer or employ the military forces of the United States in any project for the relief of Ar menia and any material contri butions would require the au thorization of the congress which is not now in session and whose action I could not forecast. 1 am willing, however, upon as surances of the moral and dip lomatic support of the principal powers and in a spirit of sympa thetic response to the request of the council of the League of Nations to use my good offices and to proffer my personal medi ation through a representative whom I may designate, to end the hostilities now being waged against the Armenian people and to bring peace and accord to the contending parties, relying upon the council of the League of Na tions to suggest to me the ave nues through which my proffer should be conveyed and the parties to whom it should be addressed. ARMISTICE ARRANGED BY LEAGUE BODY LONDON, Nov. 30.—The League of Nations commission of control has arranged an armistice between Lith uania and General Zellgouski, the in surgent commander at Vilna, accord ing to a Kovno dispatch which reach ed London this evening. 0. C. Fuller, Clerk of U. S. Court, Struck by Auto and Badly Hurt Olin C. Fuller, clerk of the United States court, northern district oi Georgia, was knocked down by an au tomobile in front of the Winecoff hotel at 12:30 o’clock Wednesday aft ernoon and was taken by Poole’s am bulance to St Joseph’s infirmary. The first examination revealed a possible fracture of the skull, ana the surgeons prepared to make an X-ray examination before operating, should that prove necessary. Mr. Ful ler was conscious and able to talk. Former Kaiserin Is Close to Death DOORN, Dec. I.—Physicians have abandoned hope for the recovery of the former Kaiserin Auguste Vic toria, it was announced today. The former empress continued un conscious today. She was unable to recognize members of the family, who gathered about her bedside, yes terday. The former crown prinep arrived today. Other children pre ceded him. 5 CENTS ▲ COPY. $1.50 A YEAR, ME POWERS GIVEN five years’term. ON LARCENY CHARGE First Man Convicted of In terest in Alleged “Gamb ling Syndicate,” Gets Lim it of Law The jury returned a verdict ot “guilty” against Abe Powers Wed nesday for larceny after trust and he was sentenced to five years in th® penitentiary, the maximum penalty allowed by law, Powers’ attorneys announced that they would make an appeal. A sensational development in the trial of Abe Powers, on charges of larceny after trust, came Wednes day afternoon as the case neared its end, when one of Powers’ attorneys in his argument to the Jury, frank ly admitted that Powers had been engaged in a swindling scheme, but declared that the offense of his client only amounted to simple lar ceny, and not larceny after trust. Larceny after trust is punishable by from one to five years. Simple larceny is punishable by one year or SI,OOO fine. "Gentlemen of the jury, I am un der oath like you,” said Samuel D. Hewlett, one of Powers* j,ttorneys, in his argument. "I am not trying to hide anything from you. I am not trying to tell you that this man did not commit a crjme. I am go ing to tell you the facts even If it hurts my client. This case Is pure, simple larcen'yand should not be treated as anything else. Holley was as deep in the mud as Powers was in the mire. Wade Lamar was trying to skin somebody and Powers was trying* to trim them both.” More State Witnesses Before the arguments started Wed nesday morning the state introduced several additional witnesses: H. G. Green, of the Western Union Tele graph company, and G. W. Oliver, of the Postal company, who testified that Powers neve rreceived any mon ey by telegraph from November 12 through November 16. Oliver N. Confer, clerk of the Ox ford hotel, 161 Whitehall street, testi fied that Powers stayed there from October 30, until Jjis arrest, with a woman whom he said was his wife, and who always paid the bills, and he testified further that a maid at the hotel who was to have been called as a witness left Atlanta suddenly at midnight Tuesday for Washington, D. C. Another witness was N. L. Davis, of Indiana, who testified that he saw Powers operating the tele graph wires at the West Peachtree “exchange,” where he said he was fleeced out of $5,000. In closing for the state, Solicitor Boykin introduced various parapher nalia confiscated in his raid on the ' West Peachtree place, including wrappers for money, chalk, black board, eraser, bogus money, letter heads of the turf exchange and al leged corporations and telegrams ex changed between Powers and Lamar and Holley. The defense’closed with an addi- • tional statement from Powers in which he declared that his right name was F. Powers, under which he registered at the Oxford hotei, and that the reason he took the name of Abe was because Lamar and Hol ley being religious and prominent in their home towns suggested that make names be used by all of them. Two wealthey farmers of Alkin, S. C.—Wade* Lamar and H. C. Hol ley—described to a ury in Judge John D. Humphrey’s court Tuesday how, as they claim, they were swin dled out of SII,OOO by a gang-of wir® tappers in Atlanta. Their testimony was the feature of the trial of Abe Powers, charged with being a ring leader of the gang, whe nthe trial opened Tuesday in the Fulton superior court. Lamar was on the witness stand throughout the morning session, tell ing how he and Holley were invei gled to the so-called turf exchange on West Peachtree street, where, he claims, they were fleeced out of their money by a clever scheme to bet on the races. Holley, who was the principal witness at the afternoon session, corroborated Lamar’s story. Solicitor Boykin, who is prosecut- , Ing the case, had in the courtroom an oilcloth blackboard, packages of bogus money, telegraph instruments rigged to storage batteries, and other paraphernalia of the sort confiscated in the West Peachtree raid. Power’ attorneys sought to defend him with testimony that he himself did not take the SII,OOO. They fur ther sought to show that Holley al lowed his money to be bet on the races and went so far as to go back to his home, and.return with a check for $84,000 in an effort to win more money. ® An interesting phase of Solicitor Boykin’s examination came when he brought out from Holley and Lamar the statement that they could not find the West Peachtree place wheW they went there with city detectives but that It was discovered most eas ily when they went there the next day accompanied by Mr. Boykin. . Lamar was the first witness at the trial of Powers, who was indicted for larceny after trust, the indictment being based upon the accusations of Lamar and Holley. Powers’ trial began at 9 o’clock, i It took mfire jthan an hour to se lect the jury. How He Met Powers “I am a farmer and live stock man of Aiken,” said Lamar in opening his testimony. “About two weeks ago last Saturday I was in Atlanta and met a man who called himself Tom (Continued on Page 7, Column 4) NEW LAMP Bt/fiNS 9A PER CENT AIR Beats Electric or Gas A new oil lamp that gives an amazingly brilliant, soft, white light, even better than gas or electricity, has been tested by the U. S. Govern ment and 35 leading universities and found to be superior to 10 cydlnary oil lamps. It burns without odor, smoke or noise—no pumping up, is simple, clean, safe. Burns 94 per cent air and 6 per cent common kero sene (coal oil). The inventor, E. V. Johnson, 609 W. Lake St., Chicago, 111., is offering to send a lamp on 10 days’ FREE trial, or even to give one FREE to the first user in each locality who will help him introduce It. Write him today for full particulars. 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