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Cljc Sj’Mlkdfto So ur nal VOL. XXIII. NO. 34. DETECTIVE CHIEF .CHARGES'BIGIffIr .TBE'UFTEBJEWEBS Declares Any Man Who Re flects on His Honesty Is a "Liar and a Coward." Praises Beavers Exoneration for the Atlanta police force was expected in the report be ing prepared Friday by the council manic committee investigating al leged Inefficiency in the department. Following a sensational sitting Thursday, the committee went into 4»xecutlve session Friday. Chief of Detectives Lamor Poole created the most dramatic scene that yet has occurred before the council manic committee investigating the » police, when, testifying before the committee Thursday, he suddenly * broke his calm composure and with tears streaming down his cheeks and with his hand pounding the table, de nounced the accusers of the police, declared any man who reflects on his own honesty Is a liar and a coward, and charged that some of the big gest men in Atlanta have been trying to "get” Chief Beavers, "the flnlest man who ever breathed the breath of life.” Chief Poole’s denunciation came like a bombshell. He had been testi fying calmly, introducing a mass of documentary evidence designed to > show that the police have been ef ficient, active and honest. Then Chairman Harvey Hatcher began to question him in a personal way. Mr. Hatcher explained afterwards that > he was merely doing this in justice to Chief Poole. Objects to Questions He asked Chief Poole where he llv- > ed, if he owned his home, how much he paid down on It, and how much he was paying on it monthly. He asked him if he inherited some prop erty from his father. "Have you any cash in the bank?” he asked. "No,” said the chief. "Any Liberty bonds?” "No.” “Any stock in any corporation?” "No.” “Any jewelry?” “Yes; a watch and two or three * rings.” “Anybody owe you anything?” “Not a cent.” While these questions were being put, it was evident that Chief Poole was controlling his emotions with . great difficulty. Finally he said, his voice trembling somewhat: "I ob ject to this; my personal affairs are no business of the committees. I ob ject particularly to the question about , what my father left me.” •Suddenly he stood up and struck .he table with his hand. “My father left me a few hundred dollars,” he said. "My father was an honest man, iad any man who says he was not is a liar. 1 have worked hard for every dollar I ever had. and 1 have anade it honestly. Any man who says * Otherwise is a liar and a coward. I have worked hard for the city of At lanta, and 1 never received a word of i hanks for it, except from the chief of poltee.” 9 Praises Beavers Tears were streaming down Chief Poole's face, his voice echoed through ihe room, and his uplifted arm was shaking as he continued: “I defy any man, woman or child to say 1 have not been an honest, fearless and upright man in the .* eight of God. 1 defy them to say I ever did a single man out of a nickel. 1 want the public to know how 1 feel about this. 1 have tried to put men in the department above reproach. The good people will bear me out that I have tried to do my duty.” Shaking his hand towards Chief Beavers, who was seated across the table. Chief Poole cried: . ”1 have known Chief Beavers all my life, and a more honorable man sever breathed the breath of life. 1 have stood by him when he has been slandered. I am his friend and 1 {still stand by him. I have fought for him. There is not a man living today I would do more for than for James L. Beavers. If this city stands a million years, it will never know a better man than he is.” "My Life an Open Book” "Men have come to me—your friends” —shaking his fist at a mem ber of the committee —“your friends' —turning tp another member, “and your friends’; they have made every . proposition on earth to me to ‘get’ Chief Beavers. I won’t call their names, but you know them. I could have had his job by saying ‘yes,’ but I would not be a hypocrite, and I’ll not be one now. Put me out if you want to, but I’ll be damned if I’ll ever see a man treated that way. They tried everything on God’s green earth to ‘get’ this man, but as God is my helper, I will stick by him. “My private life and public life is 'V I open book. I am forty-seven years old, born and raised in At lanta, and I have not done a single act of which lam ashamed. Ask me > anything you want to.” Before Chief Poole exoloded his sensational declaration, he gave the interesting data on the w.-ork of the police. Among this was the record of 500 cases made in the last six months for gaming or dis order where gaming was doubtful. Os these, ninety-six were bound over and 469 resulted in fines and for feitures of $8,218. Another record was that in 1918, state convictions and chaingang sen * tehees totaled 610 years. That in —Chief Poole’s first year—these entences totaled 1,673 years, and in he first eleven months of 1920 2,144 •ears. <- Presents Record Chief Poole presented the following ecord of stolen property recovered y the police; \ 1918—586,159,63; 1919—5186,01 trst eleven months of 1920—5438,- 81.41. . Much of this was stolen automo biles, he said, answering the corp | laints of people who say the police o not recover stolen cars. In the first eleven months of 920. he said, the city has received 5191,900.40 from cash fines in re corder’s court. During this period the total arrests made by the po ice have been 28.843, or about one eighth of the population of Atlan ta, he said. The total sum from fines and for 'eitures in the state courts this year, Ihief Poole' said, has been $89,441, jf which the city did not get a y - cent “Where does it go?” he was asked. He replied that the,county offi cers got about sixty per cent of it —the solicitor the greater part. Os the cases from which they derived •his revenue, he said. 85 per cent were made by the city police and detectives. He said the city officers la not get a penny from this source Z W that 75 per cent of them have o spend their off-time in court. Cites Murder Cases . He cited twenty-eight murder cases the police have had bound over, (Continued on Fags 6, Column 6) BANKERS OF SOUTH MEET TO PERFECT . EMMKEB Banks Are Called on For Pay ment of Fourth of Sub scriptions to Stock in In ternational Concern BY RALPH SMITH * (Staff Correspondent of The Journal) NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 17.—Bank ers from all over the south assem bled here today to perfect the organ ization of the Federal International Banking company, the capital stock of which has been subscribed by state and national banks and trust companies located in e.very common wealth in the cotton belt. Georgia, Louisiana and Texas head the list. Robert F. Maddox, John K. Ottley, Hollins Randolph and Haynes Mc- Fadden are here for the meeting. Mr. Randolph wrote the charter and by-laws of the bank, which were adopted. A call for the payment of 25 per cent of the stock subscriptions, which exceed $6,000,000, was among the Important steps taken by the meeting today, with a view to plac ing the International bank on a func tioning basis as speedily as possible. The payment of 25 per cent of the stock subscriptions will provide im mediately over $1,250,000 with which business may be begun, and it is the hope and expectation here that the institution will be in operation by the first of the year. \ The export bank, which will oper ate under a charter from the United States government, bearing the ap proval of the federal reserve board, at Washington, was conceived in Washington in October, at the annual convention of the American ■ Bankers’ association, and its birth here today, under the most.favorable and auspi cious circumstances, presages for it a period of long life and usefulness that will be reflected in the commer cial activity of the south. Under its charter from the federal reserve board, the International Banking company will utilize and improve every privilege authorized by the provisions of the congression al legislation known as the Edge act. which was passed a couple of years ago to encourage and broaden the sphere of American banking activi ties and influences.’ These activities will include the establishment of branch banks in foreign countries, especially in the war devastated sec tions of Europe, which require the raw products of the south, but un fortunately have no adequate bank ing facilities for securing them. / Gov. Catts Threatens To Go After Publisher With His Shotgun TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Dec. 17.—1 n an open letter, given out today, Gov ernor Sidney J. Cfatts, of Florida, threatens to go to West Palm Beach, Fla., with his “double-barrel shotgun loaded with buckshot,” and have a “final settlement” with Joe L. Ear man, president of the state board of health and publisher of the Palm Beach Post, a dally newspaper. The chief executive states in his letter that he does not want “any trouble” with Mr. Earman, but that he is tired of his “tyranny, arro gance and big stick bossing.” and that “this is the last warning.” The letter from Governor Catts follows publication by Mr. Earman in his paper of an article which the chief executive characterizes as “a page and a half of vituperations and bitterness” against him “on account of reinstating Edgar Thompson,” state’s attorney, at West Palm Beach. Governor Catts writes that he is “not mad” with Mr. Earman and that he is "not going to remove” him from office, but states: “I am not going to let you rule and boss me at your whim and pleasure. lam a man and stand in a man’s place, and I do not run away from any West .Palm Beachers when they hang me in ef figy, as you did when they hung you.” p.n conclusion, he says: “If you publish one more page in your paper like this last one, or bother me or my business or my children aijy more, I will go to West Palm Beach, Fla., with my double-barrel shotgun load ed with buckshot and have a final settlement with you.’ K Wonderful Twenty-Five-Cent Offer Still Stands Open Tri-Weekly Journal readers by hundreds are still taking advantage of our WONDER FUL TWEN fY-FIVE-CEN F OFFER —the biggest, timeliest and mDst successful SUB- * SCRIPTION BARGAIN ever offered in the south. 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The Atlanta Tri-Weekly Journal, Atlanta, Ga.: Enclosed find sl.’ Send The Tri-Weekly CLIP THE COUPON! Journal until February 15 to the following four addresses. Also extend my subscription to The Atlanta Tri-Weekly Journal, Atlanta, Ga.: Enclosed find 25c. Send me Tri-Weekly March 15, MP?' l our °ff cr - Postoffice RF D Journal until* March 15. \ " Name P. O. State % R. F. D. No p u t your own name and address here. whlim WAS ABSENT WHEN KILLED Americus Man’s Attorneys Produce Affidavits Saying That Woman Named Billie Brown Was the Slayer Attorneys for Dr. C. K. Chapman, a former prominent Americus man, who is serving a life sentence in connection with the murder of Wal ter Wade in 1916, Thursday morning contended before the Georgia prison commission that Dr. Chapman was not even present at the time of the killing. They .ntroduced affidavits from four persons who claimed to be eye witnesses to the killing of Wade in 1916 in the house of Lois Reeves in Americus, all declaring that they saw Wade killed by a woman inmate of the house named Billie Brown; saw the body removed from the house; also that Dr. Chapman was not pres ent at the time of the killing. The attorneys further declared that F. F. Sims, a detective appoint ed to guard Mrs. Yeartie Howell, the principal witness against Dr. Chap man, had tdld Attorney W. P. Wal lace and others, just prior to the third trial, that Mrs. Howell would change her testimony in favor of Dr. Chapman for the sum of $5,000. Applies to Johnson, Too The same testimony in favor of Dr. Chapman will, according to attorneys, apply in the case of W. I. Johnson, who was jointly indicted with Dr. Chapman and also is now serving a life sentence in connection with the Wade murder. The prison commis sion took up Johnson’s plea for clem ency along with that of Dr. Chapman Thursday morning. Wade was killed in 1916 in Ameri cus In the house of Lois Reeves. In dictments against Dr. Chapman and six or seven others followed. The first two trials of Dr. Chapman re sulted in mistrials. He was convict ed on the third trial, sentenced to life inyjrisonment and already has served several years. Dr. Chapman was convicted large-| ly on the testimony of Mrs. Yeartie Howell. It was just before the third trial, according to Attorney W. P. I .Wallace, that Sims, the detective assigned to guard Mrs. Howell, ap proached him and others with the statement that the witness would change her testimony for $5,000. It also was claimed that improper pic tures of Mrs. Howell were offered for sale. Mr. Wallace said that he was un able to ger the/alleged offer of Mrs. Howell before the court at the third trial, and consequently had been un able to present its until this time. | Affidavits Produced Affidavits to the effect that Wade I was killed by Billie Brown and that I Dr. Chapman was not present were introduced from Thelma Strickland Ike Flasher and two negroes, Andrew Dudley and Shellman Johnson, all of whom claimed to have been eye-wit nesses. The Strickland/ woman is said to have made her statement just before she underwent an opera tion and at a time she believed her condition to be critical. There were dramatic scenes at the conclusion of the Thursday morning hearing when Mrs. Emma Chapman, a sister of Dr. Chapman, cried that all charges against her brother were false. She and Dr. Chapman’s moth er, Mrs. J. P. Chapman, were pres ent. The clemency plea of Dr. Chap man and Johnson was opposed by Judge J. A. Hickson, of Americus le was presented by Attorneys Frank Hooper, B. J. Fowler and W. P. Wal lace. Two Women Elected to Office in Fort Games’ FORT GAINES. Ga„ Dec. 17.—The city election here Tuesday passed off quietly with the re-election of Judge B. M. Turnipseed for mayor for the next two years. He defeated J. L. Hurst by eight votes in a spirited race. W. A. McAllister and M. L. Fowler were elected as aidermen, and two women, Mrs. B. C. Brown and Mrs. W. J. Tatum, were elected as trustees of the Fort Gaines High school for a period of six years, as was also W. A. McAllister. These are the first women to hold office in the town and county, and in view of the fact that the women of the city did not vote, shows tftat the women are very strong in the city. ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1920. SEVERAL SUNS BEGINNING TO SHINE! ’ —•--- r —~~t 'i‘\3 l 1 / I , / ■ ' > s' — z ' Z / \ \ // I War \ \ y \' ■ z , - I FINANCE „ I \ / / Z \ "X \ corporation j - \ 11 // / / I TRADE I - X Z \ ——' / s'" I Finance . I x X. \ v ' * \ CORPORATION / / y / X X. y , / / { \\ \ / federal \ Z I International | • ' / : / f \ ] \ \ ~ \ Banking S /I 1 ' \ '/'V // / \ \ / / / ’I \ '/ ~ „ '~~ V ' H \ V— ZJZ / - / I \ That ou<sht V ’ / / i Z 'ZZ / ) To mak£ ' / Z- Zl s° Mt - Z- i z URY TO PROBE MILLS’ SHOOTING TWO YEARS AGO Two physicians who attended Ed Mills, the alleged gambler, who was shot and killed by Floyd Woodward, said to be the “brains" of the gam bling syndicate, in a local hotel two years ago, have been summoned to appear before the grand jury. Ef forts are being made to locate Frank V. Demandel, house officer employed at the hotel at the time of the shoot ing. The grand jury resumed its session again Thursday morning and will continue the investigation of alleged gambling, fake horse racing and swindling. Indications were that the investigators will continue their work regardless of the Christmas holi lays. In view of the fact that a num ber of witnesses have been ailed relative to the slaying of Mills it is understood that an indictment may be returned against Woodward At the time of the killing Wooc ward was exonerated by a coroner’s jury and he* never was brought to trial in the courts. It is believed that the coroner’s jury based its action on the testimony of Demandel. Further information to the effect that Mills knew the “gang” was go ing to get him and had called atten tion of a hotel man to the fact that a knife had been “planted” in his pocket to make it appear whoever killed him acted in self-defense, has been presented to the grand jury, it is said. It is believed by the solicitor gen eral that Mills was killed as a re sult of a quarrel over the division of $25,000, said to have been fleeced from a Pennsylvania man in a gam bling swindle. Woodward is now under indict ment for operating alleged gaming houses at 49 1-2 Central avenue, 35 1-2 .South Broad street and 59 1-2 Cone street, wjiich places were raid ed recently oy the solicitor general and his aids. Woodward left the city before a warrant could be served on him and he is now being sought by the solicitor general. $2,000,000 BLAZE SWEEPS DRY DOCKS AT NEW ORLEANS NEW ORLEANS. Dec. 17.—Heroic efforts of the local fire department, aided by river fire fighting apparatus of every description, probably saved the Jahncke Dry Dock and Shipbuild ing company from total destruction by a fire which swept 1,200 feet of the Jahncke wharf and damaged one steel and one wooden dry dock late yesterday. Three steamships—the Dillwyn, under charter of the Stand ard Oil company, the Bavington and Dade County, owned by the United States shipping board —were also damaged before firemen brought the blaze under control. After a careful check of the fire swept area officials of the Jahncke company estimated the total losses, including damage to ships n dry docks, and to those anchored nearby, at between $1,500,000 and $2,300,000. No lives were lost and only one mansuffered severe injury, being taken to the hospital suffering from a broken leg. Scores of workmen, caught on the wharf with the flames blocking their escape to the levee, were compelled to leap into the river to escape be ing burned. At first it was feared sev ral of these had been drowned, but a careful check failed to reveal any missing. Boy Fatally Burned Falling Into Kettle Os Boiling Syrup DONALSONVILLE. Ga.. Dec. 16. Joseph Petty, sixteerf-y ear-old son of Rev. and Mrs. M. E Petty who live near Donalsonville, fell into a kettle of boiling syrun Wednesday ■fternoon. He was rushed to a hos pital at once and all possible aid -endered. but he was burned so se verely, medical aid failed to do much good. He died about twelve o’clock last night. FAY, GERMAN SPY IN PEN HERE, IS SEEN BY OFFICIAL Peter B. Olney, Jr., assistant Unit fl States attorney for the southern listrict of New York, came to At i lanta Thursday and went immediate ly to the federal penitentiary, where he interviewed Robert Fay, the fa ‘ mous German spy, whose activities in this country during the early stages -of the war created a sensation hroughout the world. I Fay was convicted under the es pionage act, and is now serving his sentence in the Atlanta prison. He escaped from the prison a few months after his imprisonment and made an extensive tour of the United States, finally going to Spain before he was retaken. Government officials regard him as probably the most in telligent and successful agent of the lerman government who operated in he United States. District Attorney Olney said, Friday he visited Fay to secure information to aid the government in investiga tions now under way. He declared the interview had no significance in so far as Fay’s own case is concern ed, and added that his visit was not made with any view toward executive clemency for the prisoner. It was the opinion of Atlanta<fed eral officials that Mr. Olney came to Atlanta to obtain information from the famous spy which may aid the government in the prosecution of other cases now in the courts. Fay’s activities against the United States in 1917 included a gigantic 'conspiracy to sink all American ships transporting troops and war supplies to France and England. Gov ernment agents at once recognized that Fay was the master mind be hind the conspiracy, and it was only by the effective work of a large squad of department of justice agents that his efforts were unsuc cessful. Among the department of justice agents who worked for many weeks on Fay's case was Colonel A. J. Wismer, now associated with the Atlanta offices ol the department. FOUR NEW MONS GIVEN MEMBERSHIP IN Wo> LEAGUE Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Fin land and Luxembourg Ad mitted — China Takes Place of Greece in Council GENEVA, Dec. 16. (By the Asso ciated Press.) —Four new nations were made members of the League of Nations by the assembly of the league here today. They were Bul garia, Costa Rica. Finland and Lux embourg. France and Australia ab stained from voting-when the d mission of Bulgaria was before the assembly for decision. Rene Viviani, the head of the French delegation, declared it had no objection to Bulgaria as a member, but preferred not to vote in view of the Incompleteness of the informa tion given in regard to Bulgaria’s fit ness. Thirty-five states voted affirmative ly when the balloting took place and Australia joined France in not record ing her vote. The question of admitting Costa Rica was the next on the day’s agen da. Dr. Nansen, of Norway, explain ed that the only doubt in his mind was whether Costa Rica was not too small a country, but in view of the membership of its neighbor, Panama, 4ie decided Costa Rica could not be excluded on that score. Costa Bica Vote Antonio Honeus, of Chile, and Sen or Restrepo, of Colombia, asked that the assembly vote unanimously in admitting Costa Rica. It was stated before the voting took place that France had no ob jection to Bulgaria in particular, but would not vote because there was some analogy between ttie eases of Bulgaria and Germany. It was as serted the delegation desired to main tain a consistent attitude on ques tions relative to qualifications of ap plicants for admission. Debate was expected when the re port relative to the admission of Bal tic and Caucasian states was to be ada, gave notice to the committee that Canada, as a Pacific ocean power, took a special interest in the Russin question. He declared that question had been raised in its entirety by the proposed relations between the league and the states considere... N. W. Rowell, of Can carved out of the former Russian empire. Although the Baltic states had the full sympathy of Canada, he assert ed, the situation in Russia might change, and the league might find itself faced by n w government claiming access to the sea, in which eventual] the league would incur grave responsibility. At the opening of today’s session President Hymans announced that the request for consideration of the Tacna-Arica case at this session of the assembly had been withdrawn with the request that it be put on the agenda of the next assembly, to meet in September. League Budget It was planned, If the assembly finished the election of new members soon enough to take up the league budget and pass appropriations for the coming year, which have been somewhat criticised at committee meetings with regard to salaries of men connected with the secretariat. The committee reported unfavora bly on the applications of Armenia, Esthonia. Lithuania, Letvia and Georgia. It failed to recommend the admission of Armenia because au thority over the entire territory of that nation was not being exercised by the government. The hope was expressed that Armenia might be admitted at an early date. WAR FINANCE BOARD REVIVAL MEETS FAVOR WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—The sen ate resolution directing revival of the war finance corporation and exten sion by the federal reserve system of more liberal credits for exportation of farm and other products was or dered favorably reported Thursday night by the house banking and cur rency committee. Prompt consider ation of the measure by the house also was recommemndeix 5 CENTS A COPY. $1.50 A YEAR. SHEPARD’S SISTER ' ® MBS. GOTTS TOLOmF PLOT Declares Mrs. Cutts In formed Her Shepard Was Poisoned by "Paula and • Her Gang" BY ED H. BRADLEY (Staff Correspondent of The Journal) MACON, Ga„ Dec. 16. —The first piece of general evidence in support of the state’s charge that there was a conspiracy to kill Fred D. Shepard, the wealthy Fort Valley peach grow er, was given this afternoon by Mrs. Alice Crandall, sister of the dead man, testifying at the preliminary hearing of the four defendants, Mrs. F. E. Elmer, former wife of Shep ard; Mrs. loma Henty, her sister; Ernest Hopson, her son, and Mrs. Annie Cutts. On Friday the prosecution recalled , Mrs. Crandall to the stand and used other witnesses to strengthen the charge that Shepard was the victim of a poison plot. Mrs. Crandall declared on oath that Mrs. Cutts, after Shepard’e death, revealed to her the details of an alleged plot by Mrs. Elmer, Henry Hopson and Dr. Elmer to kllLr-' Shepard to secure his property, say ing Shepafd was poisoned by “Paula and her gang.” As Mrs. Crandall took th© stand, her testimony held the strictest at tention of th© crowd of spectators. She told of being summoned to Perry from Los Angeles, Cal., on ac count of Shepard’s death, and of th© part taken by his wife, the present Mrs. Elmer, in the handling of th© Shepard estate as ' administratrix. Mrs. Crandall declared that on July 17 she went to Abbeville to see Mrs. Annie Cutts, at the latter’s invita tion transmitted through Mrs. Cran dall’s attorney, L. L. Brown, of Fort Valley. She did not see Mrs. Cutts that day. “Paula and Her Gang” In relating an alleged conversa tion July 13 between hei‘ and Mrs. Cutts, Mrs. Crandall testified that Shepard’s widow, now Mrs. E. F. Elmer, was the “Paula” referred to and that Mrs. Cutts told her that “Paula's gang” were Mrs. lone Henry Ernest Hopson and Dr. Elmer. Mrs. Henry, Hopson, Mrs. Elmer and Mrs. Cutts are the four defend ants in the case, but it was the first time there had been reference to Dr. Elmer’s name. Mrs. Crandall went into other details without an effort being made to clear up this feature. After lengthy argument, the court held that the testimony regarding Mrs. Cutts’ alleged state ment should apply only to her case, and was not applicable to the other three defendants, all of whose cases are being heard together. “I asked her whyl Fred v?as pal-- soned,’ added Mrs. Crandall, “and ‘ she replied for his money, of course,’ ’ Prec< g Mrs. Crandall, a number of other witnesses told of the last week of Shepard's life. OOn cross examination of L. L. Brown. of Fort Valley, attorney for the Shep ard family, the defense' sought tc bring out that Shepard was a chronic sufferer from a complication of dis eases and was a “heavy drinker.” Mr. Brown mentioned seven affile- 1 tions, of which he said Shepard had complained, including throat trouble, dyspepsia, varicose veins and appen dicitis. He also said Shepard drank “frequently.” Dr. G. D. Nelson, of Marshallville, described a severe attack of nau sea Shepard suffered while visiting Marshallville four days before his death. He said he did not sus pect mercuric poisoning then, but ad mitted the symptoms were similar to those following poison. When* Mrs. Crandall saw Mrs. Cutts. -she had with her her son Fred Crandall, her son-in-law, David Hume, and her friend, J. W. McMil- At this point counsel for Mrs. El mer, Mrs. Henry and Ernest Hopson interposed objection to the admis sion of testimony as to conversa tions between Mrs. Cutts and Mrs. Crandall-’ffisofar as it might affect those/'three defendants. After argu ments by both sides Judge Mathews ruled in support of the contentions of Mrs. Elmer, Mrs. Henry and Ernest Hopson. Story of Alleged Revelation Mrs. Crandall went on to tell of her private conversation with Mrs. Cutts, saying that it lasted three hours. “She took me Into a bedroom," said Mrs. Crandall, “laid her hand on mine and said: “‘I was my father’s favorite daughter and in the presence of his spiifit and in the presence of God and his hosts, I swear I am tellng the truth when I tell /you that your brother. Fred Shepard, was poisoned. “I was terribly shocked and asked her what she meant. Sho replied that my brother was poisoned by Paul and her gank, explaining that Mrs. Henry. Ernest Hopson, Mrs. Elmer and . Dr. Elmer consti tuted the gang. “Mrs. Cutts said the gang had planned to kill my brother, talking about putting potash in whisky, and about other poisons. When I asked her why anybody should want to poi son my brother, she said it was ‘for his money, of course.’ ” Fairy Tale,” Says Defense While counsel for the defense characterized Mrs. Crandall’s story as a “fairy tale” and made sarcstio references in making objections to certain questions by Solicitor Gar rett. the four defendants appeared highly in’erested in th" witness’ re cital. Mrs. Elmer’s face remained impassive, while Mrs. Henry was moved to visible indignation at soma of the statements made by M»s. Crandall Ernest Honson wore an In credulous, ionic smile at intervals during' *he testimony of Mrs Cran dall. while Mrs. Cutts herself shook* her head, laughed and showed’ other evidences of derision as Mrs. Cran dall told her story. Judge Mathews’ ruling that al leged statements of Mrs. Cutts wo”ld not be taken as affecting the other three defendants, w-s regarded by the defense as a distinct point in their favor. “Mrs. Cutts told mo something of her life.” said Mrs. Crandall, “say ing that she was a poor woman and that she hoped to get some money to pay off the debts on her farm at Ab beville. Her husband, she said, spent his money on Paula and did not pro vide for her adequately.” Says Shepards Quarreled Mrs. Crandall then went on to tel! how Mrs. Cutts described the last time Shepard was at the Cutts farm on May 20. According to her testi mony, Mrs. Cutts’ story was to th© following effect: That Shepard came out of the house, his face scratched badly, and said that he had had a disagreement with Mrs. Shepard, de claring he was through forever and was going to California. Mrs. Henry, who was present, remarked to Ernest Hopson, who was preparing to take Shepard back to Fort Valley, that “if anything is going to be done, now_js the time to do it." Mrs. Henry then (Continued on Fag© 6, Column 4)