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VOL. XXV. NO. 139
J. W. MINTER TELLS
NEWNAN POLICE HE
KILLED SON-IN-LAW
Alleged Mistreatment of
Daughter “Preyed on
Mind” -- Brothers-in-Law
and Others Implicated
NEWNAN, Ga.. Aug. 21.—(8y the
Associated Press.) —How six mem
bers ot a family were, called
upon to witness the execution
of their brother-in-law was revealed
to the police here by John W.
Minter, who confessed, the police
said, to having shot to death Mil
lard Trouton near here a forknight
ago, and then having thrown his
body into a shallow creek.
Minter, head of a large family of
boys and girls, and four sons-in
law, one of whom was Trouton, the
police said early today, related to
them last night that to avenge
alleged mistreatment administered
to his daughter, the wife of Trouton,
and to prevent him from making
further overtures to her to come
back to live with him, he decided
’’to get “rid of him.”
“It preyed on my mind; I could
not forget it.” Minter is quoted as
having told the police in his con
fession. He was referring, they
said, to a whipping which Trouton
was alleged to have given his wife,
causing her ,'to separate from him
and make her home with her par
ent!. Mrs. Trouton also told her
father, brothers and brothers-ia
law of other alleged Brutalities.
Trouton Asked Reconciliation
Then came a note to her from
Trouton, Minter said, asking her
to be reconciled with him. The
father is said to have called hi 3
sons, John Jeff, Benjamin and
it was then decided by him to pre
vent any chance of Mrs. Trouton
leaving the Minter home again to
live with her husband, to kidnap
him and; get him out of the why.
The father takes all the blame
for the killing, the police said. His
sons, John. Jeff, Benjamin and
Grady, and his sons-in-law, L. L.
Goodrum, B. F. Weldom and Claude
Washington, and a friend, W. M.
Feltman, are implicated in the plot.
Ben Freeman, also being held, was
not implicated in the confession.
The police announced early to
day they would not give out in de
tail the confession of Minter unt‘l
later during the day. They said
other members of the family have
' confessed and they still are expect
ing more to tell ot the shooting.
After having enlisted the aid of
Feltman to' get Trouton to “take a
walk with him,’’ the Minters form
ed a kidnaping party, the police
were told, near Trouton’s home.
Feitman, on the way to the house,
was joined by Freeman and, after
persuading Trouton to take the
walk, they proceeded for about ore
hundred yards from Trouton’s
home. There Trouton was seized,
thrown into an automobile and
taken to a nearby woods.
The police are still withholding
what took place in the woods as re
lated to them by the elder Minter,
other than to say Minter admitted
having fired five shots into Trout
on’s body. Trouton was being held
at the time by his relatives, it was
said.
Skull Also Crushed
After the alleged execution,
Trouton’s arms and legs were tied
and his body thrown into the creek.
It was found four days later in
the shallow waters of the stream,
the skull, the police said, being
crushed.
Feftman and Freeman were the
first to be detained by the police.
They were the last seen with Trout
on. They admitted, the police said,
to having been with him, and as
they were walking along a street
some “strange” men abducted
Trouton and carried him off.
Later, Minter, his sons, and then
his sons-in-law were apprehended.
On Sunday, the police said, they lo
rated the automobile used in the
kidnaping. The machine, they said,
■was the property of John Jeff
* Minter.
Trouton served a short jail sen
tence a short time ago after h.s
father-in-law swore out a warrant
charging wife-beating. Following his
release it was said his wife went
back to live with him. Domestic
difficulties were renewed an<j she
again left him. Mrs. Trouton is
said to have related to her father
the alleged brutalities, resulting in
the formulation of the plot.
World’s Largest Blimp
Ready for Trial Flight
LAKEHURST, N. J., Aug. 21.
The navy , ZR-1, largest rigid
dirigible in the world, will rise in
a trial flight about September 1. It
was successfully launched here late
yesterday.
After eight of the twctity tons of
water ballast had been released, the
big ship, which has been under con
struction for 18 months, rose and
was guided 150 feet across a gigantic
shed •where various tests will be
made.
The Weather
Virginia: Thursday fair.
North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia: Probably thundershowers
Thursday; cooler.
Florida, Extreme Northwest
Florida: Local thundershowers
Thursday.
Alabama, Mississippi: Thursday,
fair, .cooler, except probably thun
dershowers near the coast.
Tennessee: Thursday, fair.
Kentucky: Thursday, fair.
Louis-ana: Thursday, probably
showers; cooler in the interior.
Arkansas: Thursday, probably
fair.
Oklahoma: Thursday, fair; warm
er in northwest portion.
I East Texas: Thursday, partly
cloudy.
West Texas: Thursday, generally
fair; warmer in the panhandle.
Published Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
World News
Told In
Brief
TOKlO.—Newest Japanese subma
rine sinks at Kobe, with loss of
about eighty lives.
MADRID. —Orders are issued for
a cruiser squadron to sail immedi
ately for Morocco.
WASHINGTON. — President and
Mrs. Coolidge are quietly installed
in the white house.
SAN FRANCISCO.—Lassen Peak,
near. Redding, Cal., is reported in
eruption once more.
WASHINGTON.—U. S. S. Gopher,
gunboat, is sunk in the Gulf of St.
Lawrence, without loss of life. •>
BERLIN. —President Ebert nleets
with cabinet in extraordinary session
to discuss Germany’s internal prob
lems.
MILWAUKEE. —Roman Catholic
Central society, in convention, de
plores French occupation of the
Ruhr.
BERLIN. —News Agency dispatch
declares Rurolf Havenstein. presi
dent of the Reichsbank, has re
signed.
AMSTERDAM. Holland troops
increase guard along German-Dutch
frontier to protect towns from Ger
tnan food raids.
BROOKLYN.—Dance hall roof
and pftrt of wall cave in during fire,
leaving two dead firemen and froty
two persons injured.
LOS ANGELES.—Gasoline sold us
low was ten cents a gallon at inde
pendent oil stations in some parts o£
Los Angeles county.
NEW YORK. —Richard Fiilton
Russell, 77, for many years leading
figure of American stage where he
appeared in Shakespearean roles,
dies.
ATLANTIC CITY. Anthracite
mine operators and union officials
are apparently widely divided on the
question of wages in conference
hgre.
OKLAHOMA CITY.’ Missouri,
Kansas and Texas railroad passen
ger train is held up by bandits who
escaped with twnety packages of
registered mail.
PARIS. —Five Americans, includ
ing Rev. H. G. Person and Mrs.
Person, of Newton, Mass., are killed
when tourist sightseeing bus plunges
into a ravine in the Alps.
.CAMP BRAGG, N. C.—Alfred De
nisquita, of Brooklyn, N. Y., and
Durham, N. C., publisher, and
geant Edrnunt Reese, of New York
city, are killed when airplane falls
with them.
WASHINGTON.—FaiIure of an
thracite operators and miners to
agree at Atlantic City will not be
allowed to impose a fuel shortage
on the consumer, white house ad
vice declare.
BANGOR, Me. —Flying armada of
sixteen great Martin bombers makes
the approximately 800-mile airway
distance from Hampton, Va., to
Bangor, Me., in eight and a half
actual flying hours.
WASHINGTON.—GeraId B. Win
ston, of Chicago, now assistant sec
retary of treasury, will be made
under secretary upon retirement
shortly of S. Parker Gilbert, Jr.,
Secretary Mellon announces.
GRAFTON, Vt. —John Barrett an
nounces that about 150,000 former
residents of Vermont, scattered in
47 other states, are supporting a na
tional movement to organize clubs
boosting Coolidge for president in
1924.
WASHINGTON—Secretary Wal
lace declares that thousands of
American farmers will go bankrupt
with wheat selling at considerably
less than cost of production, and
thousands of other will be able to
hold on only by most grinding
economy.
Savannah Woman Killed
In Effort to Frighten
Friend at Midnight
SAVANNAH, Ga., Aug. 22.—Mrs.
Ada Stokes, nee Miss Vivian Sanders,
19 years of age, was instantly killed
last night when she was shot twice
by a pistol in the hands of Frank
C. Butler, at the latter’s home and
store on the Augusta road near Dun
dee Bridge. The tragedy was the re
sult of an attempt to frighten But
ler, according to evidence submitted
during the hearing before Judge
Schwarz this morning in recorder’s
court. Butler has- been released on
bond of .SI,OOO on a charge of invol
untary manslaughter.
It developed this morning during
the hearing that the young woman
with W. F. Williams and W. R.
Wise had visited Mr. Butler’s home
about 10 o’clock last night where
they danced. At 11 o’clock, accord
ing to the testimony, Butler inform
ed the party that they would have to
leave as he must retire. The two
young men and Miss Sanders left for
the city and after riding around for
about an hour decided to again ride
out the Augusta road.
Upon arriving near the home of
Butler, Wise and Williams testified.
Miss Sanders suggested that the
young men stop as "she wanted to
frighten Butler and have some fun."
Leaving the car, Miss Sanders
went to the front door of Butler’s
home and shaking the door, demand
ed entrance. Butler arose from his
bed, according to the testimony and
asked who was at the door. The
young woman failing to answer, But
ler shot through the door, inflict
ing two wounds from which the
woman died in a few moments.
CURZON'S PROPOSAL
TURNED DOW BUT
CONFMWITEO
Hint That Britain Might Ask
France to Pay Up Fails to
Shake Poincare's Ruhr
Policy
PARIS, Aug. 22. —(By the Asso
ciated Press). —Germany can obtain
evacuation of the Ruhr only by pay
ing reparations, she can assure at
tenuation of the rigors of the oc
cupation by ceasing passive resist
ance and siie can win no reduction
in the amount she owes France un
less the allied creditors of France
see fit to give France credit for
equal amounts on her war debts.
These are the conclusions of Pre
mier Poincare’s reply to Marquis
Curzon’s reparation note of recent
date. The French government also
expresses its belief that the allies
can agree on methods , of bringing
about the execution of the treaty by
continuing courteous negotiations.
The British proposals for a re
estimate of Germany’s capacity for
payment, and Lord Curzon’s sug
gestion that the question of the
legality of the occupation of the
Ruhr be referred to The Hague are
rejected, and the French position is
reaffirmed as unchanged.
France holds that a settlement of
the question of inter-allied war debts
should wait upon final payment by
Germany of fifty billion gold marks
in reparations comprised in the A
and B bonds. Official opinion of
the reply, as set forth in the sum
mary in English given out today at
the foreign office, is that the note
contains the elements of a prac
tical solution of the reparations prob
lem, but a careful reading of the
communication shows that, in the
opinion of M. Poincare, the only
practical solution is for Great Brit
ain to accept the French thesis in
every detail.
French Position Unchanged
The French position remains un
changed, according to the official
summary of the reply issued in
English at the foreign office prior
to publication of the complete text.
Premier Poincare stresses the
priority of reparations over other
war costs as represented by the in
ter-allied debts.
"France never repudiated the
debts she contracted during the war,
either to England or to America, in
the interest of the common victory,”
the sote asserts.
France also is the creditor of the
other allies for five or six billion
gold marks, the summary continues,
but “there can be no doubt but
that in the minds of those.who draft
ed the treaty, damages to persons
and property were to be granted pri
or, ty over war costs.” Therefore,
asks the note, is it t-o be supposed
that "such war costs, which the
allies agreed should rank after rep
utations, after pensions and after
the damages stipulated in the freaty,
and which, they do not claim from
Germany, are now to be claimed by
the allies from each other before
Germany has even begun to pay
up?”
Hofei ring specifically to the Brit
ish demand for the payment of four
teen and one-fifth billion gold marks,
the summary continues:
“We do not suppose that England
-n’.ends to claim the sums owing
her by the alhes before reparations
are actually settled. She wil'. cer
tainly be the first to real-ze that
in erder' to pay what she owes
France much previously have re
covered her contributive power, have
repaired her grievous loss, and must
be in a position to meet German
competition with equal weapons.
Selfish Policy Denied
“It is, no doubt, to England’s in
terest that Gemany shall recover. It
certainly cannot be to her irterest
that France should be dim.nished.”
The summary begins by describing
the note as “a general anl sympa
thetic statemei t of the posit'on taken
by France,” containing “the ele
ments of a practical solution."
The synopsis asserts that France
“netei dreamed of pursuing a selfish
pol’cv in the question of reparations
—a question that cannot ”te solved
without due regard to the whole Eu
ropean interests involved.”
Furthermore she always took into
consideration Great Britain’s "la
mentable and persistent urn rr-ploy
nier.t.”
The occupation of the Ruhr was
made obligatory, in Premier Poin
care’s opinion, by what he calls the
deliberate debasement of Germany’s
finances with the avowed intention
of escaping payment of reparations.
Mr. S. A. Belcher,
Miami Capitalist,
Dies of Injuries
ROME, Ga., Aug. 22.—Mr. S. A.
Belcher, Dixie highway director and
prominent capitalist of Miami, died
at 3:30 o’clock this morning as the
result of injuries received in an au
tomobile accident two miles from
Summerville Tuesday.
He and his family were spend
ing the summer at Cloudland and
were on their way to spend the day
in Rome when Mr. Belcher at
tempted to pass a small, slow-mo.*-
ipg car on the road. The car was
not moving more than 20 miles an
hour, witnesses said. Just as it
started to return to the road, it
rolled completely over, crushing Mr.
Belcher, and came to a halt in its
natural position.
Others in the car at the time were
his wife, his daughter-in-law, Mrs
E. V. Belcher, of Miami, and her
three small children. None was
hurt beyond scratches and bruises.
Mr. Belcher, who was president
of the Belcher Asphalt Paving com
pany and vice president of ‘.ne
Bank of the Bay of Blscayne, was
one of the best-known millionaires
I of Florida, '
TRANSCONTINENTAL AIR MAIL SERVICE IS STARTED;
GREAT POSTAL PLANES LEAVE NEW YORK AND FRISCO
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Top picture shows the chariot of the “Night Rider of the Sky”—the special plane to be used in night flights by ajr mail pilots. The
ship was designed and constructed by the Glenn L. Martin company, of Cleveland, 0., and has a minimum speed of 32 miles per hour—
allowing it to land safely in a short field. This plane has all controls, etc., encased, and is built with many features making for stability
which promise to be incorporated in commercial planete of the future. Below, route of the 30-hour transcontinental mail flyers with
divisions of daylight and night flying schedules marked by the dotted line.
mm WALKER
KILLSSCHODLBDOK
COmiCTMME
Governor Walker has vetoed the
resolution passed by the recent gen
eral assembly requiring the state
board of education to enter into a
two-year contract for school books,
and also the bill requiring the elec
tion of the solicitor of the Baldwin
county court by the voters of that
county, it was announced Wednes
day.
The governor, previously had ve
toed a resolution affecting the Bald
win county solicitorship, making
five measures in all that have met
with executive disapproval. The
other two bills affected the city of
Savannah.
Governor Walker stated that he
vetoed the school book resolution
because of the language in which
the measure -was couched. He de
clared that the resolution required
that the school board buy books at
the same price they are offered to
the schools of other states, although
most of the books used in the Geor
gia schools are special Georgia edi
tions and of no use to other states.
The governor pointed out that the
resolution would have given book
publishers the opportunity to go
into other states and offer Georgia
books at exorbitant prices; then de
mand the same excessive prices in
Georgia, and under the resolution
the school board would be required
by law to make contracts with them.
The resolution was introduced by
Senator Beaucamp, of the Twenty
second district.
The governor declared that the
veto of this resolution does not af
fect the right of the state board to
enter into a one or two-year con
tract for school books, if it so de
sires, although it has been the poli
cy in the £ast to make five-year con
tracts.
Governor Walker stated that he
vetoed the Baldwin county bill be
cause of affidavits filed with him
showing that the required notice that
the bill would be introduced had not
been posted at the courthouse or
printed in any county newspaper. He
stated that the attorney general has
ruled that a governor can not law
fully approve a bill, when his atten
tion has been called to such an over
sight.
There was statewide interest in the
Baldwin county bill, because of a
controversy between the governor
and Representative Howard Ennis,
of Baldiwn county. Mr. Ennis got
through both houses a resolution ex
tending the term of the solicitor of
the Baldwin county court for two
years, but Governor Walker vetoed
this resolution, on the grounds that
it was an attempt to continue in of
fice an appointee of Governor Hard
wick.
Representative Ennis made an ef
fort to override the veto of the gov
ernor on the floor of the house, but
failed in his attempt. He then se
cured the passage of another bill
providing that the solicitor be elected
by the people instead of appointed
by the governor, and it is this meas
ure the governor vetoed Tuesday.
Overcoats and Sun
Popular at Detrot;
Mercury Down to 45
DETROIT. Mich., Aug. 22.
Overcoats and the sunny side of the
street w’ere popular in Detroit this
morning, with the temperature the
lowest on record for this time of
year.
Minimum temperature last night
was 45 degrees, according to the
i local weather bureau. i
CHICAGO, Aug-. 22.—(8y the As
|. soc.'ated Press.)—Five mail planes
were in the air today, the second
day of the five-day test of transcon
tinental aerial mail, with a success
ful night flying record between Chi
cago and Cheyenne. Indications
were that western mail which left
Cheyenne, Wyo., at 8:35, mountain
time, last night, would reach New
York before nightfall.
Due to storms and fogs in Wyom
ing, the mail which left San Fran
cisco at 5:5,9 a. m., Pacific time, yes
terday, was delayed last night in
reaching Cheyenne, and just before
noon, central standard time, today,
en route to Omaha on the eastward
flight.
Except for the interference of the
elements which held Pilot H. A. Col
lison at Laramie overnight, in spite
of three starts, the San Francisco
mail in all probability would have
I reached New York within the 28-hour
schedule.
Pilot F. M. Allison left Cheyenne
at 6:53 a. m., mountain time, for
Omaha with Collison's mail cargo.
i Two other trans-continental flights
I —those scheduled for the second day,
I had left their respective terminals
! at New York and San Francisco.
Pilot Shirley J. Short left Curtiss
field, Hempstead, N. Y., at 11:01, the
same time at which Pilot C. Eugene
Johnson, although ill of bronchial
trouble, had started from the east
yesterday. At 5:26 a. m.. Pacific
time, Pilot C. A. Vance had started
from San Francisco. R. L. Wagner,
who picked up mail from Cheyenne,
at Chicago was nearing Cleveland at
midday, and Pilot H. G. Boonstra
had left. Cheyenne, Wyo., at 8:24 a.
m„ mountain time, for the final
dashes across Wyoming, Nevada
and California with the mail John
son took out of New York yeterday.
WEST-BOUND AIRPLANE
RETURNS TO CHEYENNE
CHEYENNE, Wyo., Aug. 22.—Pi
lot H. G. Boonstra, carrying the
west-bound mail in the maiden trip
of the 28-hour trans-ccyitinental air
service, returned to Cheyenne early
this morning after leaving at 5
o’clock and getting out six miles.
With the skies clearing and the
sun making an effort to break
through the fog that has hung like
■a pall over Sherman Hill since early
last, evening, Pilot Boonstra left
again at 8:42 a. m. (mountain time)
today. At Rock 'Springs, Wyo., he
was relieved by another) pilot who
will continue the westward trip.
Meanwhile the chain again had
been broken, after having first been
cut off last night, when Hal Collison
was unable to come over Sherman
Hill, the highest point on the route.
Collison left Laramie soon after
dawn today and reached Cheyenne
at 6 o’clock. E. M. Allison thereupon
took up the relay race and started
for Omaha with the day mail.
SECOND MAIL SHIPMENT
LEAVES ATLANTIC COAST
HEMPSTEAD, N. Y., Aug. 22.
The second /westward air mail plane
of the five-day test flights left Cur
tis field today at 11:01 a. m. eastern
standard time, bound for San
Francisco.
EAST BOUND BAGS ARE
RELAYED AT CLEVELAND
CLEVELAND, 0., Aug. 22.—Pilot
Wagner, in the east bound mail
plane from Chicago, landed at the
air mail field here at 12:59 p. m.
Pilot C. Eugene Johnson took the
five bags of mail from Wagner’s
plane and left for New York at
1:02 p. m.
Douglasville Child
Falls With Open Knife;
Throat Wound Fatal
DOUGLASILLE, Ga„ Aug. 2.1
Running with an open knife in his
■ hand, Hoke Nix, 10-year-old son of
! F. M. Nix, stumbled, fell and cut his
j throat, the woung proving fatal a
i few hours later. The boy was play
ing in a grove near his home when
the accident occurred Sunday after
noon.
A physician succeeded in stopping
the flow of blood, and it was thought
1 that the child would recover. He
i developed a coughing spell Sunday
• night, however, and this resulted in
i his death. The funeral was held
I here this morning.
Atlanta, Ga., Thursday, August 23, 1923
SUITE LOSES MINE
TO CHANGE WE
111 GARRETT TRIAL
CUMBERLAND COURTHOUSE,
Va., Aug. 21. (By the Associated
Press.) —The state lost again today
its fight for a change of venue in the
Garrett-Pierce murder case, and the
trial of R. O. Garrett will be held in
Cumberland county.
However, a change of venire was
granted, and the jury to try the case
will come from Amherst county.
Judge White said he would ask the
judge of the circuit court of Am
herst county to summon the venire
and have them report here Thurs
day morning. The defene protested,
however, that they wished more*
time as they would want to “look
up” the prospective jurors. A re
cess was declared to permit the
attorneys to get together on a time
for resumption of the trial.
Barrett & Company’s
Total Liabilities Are
Given as $2,730,887
AUGUSTA, Ga., Aug. 22.—Liabili
ties of Barrett & Co., defunct cotton
factors of this city, total $2,730,-
887.38, according to a schedule filed
with Joseph Ganahl, referee in
bankruptcy of the United States
court here, and made public here.
No assets are given, the referee
permitting the liabilities and assets
to be filed separately because of the
vast amount of W’ork incident to
preparing the schedules. The
referee said the schedule of assets
of the bankrupt company would be
filed with him Wednesday.
The schedule of liabilities shows
a total of 651 creditors, the ma
jority of whom are said to be
farmers, giving their addresses as
small towns in this vicinity.
The bankruptcy of the cotton
firm involves the greatest sum of
any one bankrupt ever filed with
the referee here.
No intimation could be had as
to the amount of assets, although it
was reliably stated when the com
pany first entered bankruptcy that
the assets would exceed the liabili
ties by SIOO,OOO.
Taxes due by the defunct con
cern total $47,669.40 for the local
office, and $2,074.33 for the branch
office at Athens, Ga. This includes
federal, state, county and municipal
taxes.
Creditors’ notices were being pre
pared and mailed out by the referee
today, announcing that a meeting
of creditors would be held here Sep
tember 4.
Blue Skinned Man
Dies; Vital Organs
Found Same Color
NEW YORK, Aug. 21.—Fred Wal
ters, whose bright blue skin had
made him a good living for many
years in sideshows, died in Bellevue
hospital from heart disease.
Physicians at the institution made
a careful examination of Walters’
body, and discovered to their amaze
ment that not only his skin, but
all his organs and tissues, includ
ing brain, heart and muscles, were
of the same brilliant color.
“The coloring,” the doctors an
nounced, "was due to ‘argyria,’ and
chronic silver poisoning. Some 40
years ago Walters is said to have
worked in a mine in Australia. If
this report is correct, it is probable
that while in the mine Walters
breathed into his body nitrate of sil
ver which turned him blue.”
MOTORHOff. AUTOS.
fflISKf ffl MEN
TAKEN IK DOT BUD
Plans of bootleggers to bring corn
w;hisky to Atlanta down the Chatta
hoochee river from the north Geor
gia mountains were revealed Mon
day night when Prohibition Agent
Kiinsey, operating near Gainesville,
captured a motor boat, three auto
mobiles, 211 gallons of whisky' and
two men.
News of the capture reached the
office of Fred D. Dismuke, prohibi
tion director in the state, Tuesday
morning. He described the captures
as the first intimation reaching his
office that bootleggers had begun
hauling the contraband over the
water route in this section.
Agent Kimsey reported that he
had received a tip several days ago
that whisky consigned to Atlanta
bootleggers was being loaded on
boats 'near Gainesville. Monday
night he and his chauffeur secreted
themselves in a swamp about nine
miles from Gainesville at a landing.
About 9:30 o’clock, he said, three au
tomobiles drove up, and a few min
utes later a motor boat, bearing no
lights, tied up at the landing. Agent
Kimsey said there were six men in
the automobiles and the motorboat,
and that after they began .transfer
ing the whisky from the automobiles
to the boat he and his companion re
vealed themselves. Four of the men
escaped, two by leaping into the
river, he reported.
The men ■captured, he c,aid, gave
their names as Ford Gober and
Grady Tatum.
1,500,000 Pounds
Os Tobacco Marketed
In Georgia in Week
Leaf tobacco sales in Georgia
during th© week ending August 18
totaled more than 1,500,000 pounds,
according to an estimate by Peter
V. Rice, statistician of the state de
partment of agriculture. Mr. Rice
has compiled the reports of seven
warehouses that show sales of 1,-
325,557 pounds, and there are two
or three warehouses to be heard
from.
The reports sent by Mr. Rice to
Commissioner J. J. Brown are as
Morgan’s warehouse, Blackshear,
332,756 pounds sold at an average
price of 30.01 cents.
Planters warehouse, Hazlehurst,
89,826 pounds sold at average price
of 24.58 cents.
Banner warehouse, Tifton, 213,505
pounds sold at average price of
22.35 cents.
Planters warehouse, Nashville.
218,994 pounds sold at average price
of 23.84 cents.
Farmers warehouse, Nashvile,
211,732 pounds sold at average price
of 22.31 cents.
Hutchings warehouse, Vidalia,
145,316/pounds sold at average price
of 23.82 cents.
The Big Tobacco warehouse,
Douglas, 113,428 pounds sold at
average price, of 25.09 cents.
Atlanta Spot Cotton
Marked Up 25 Points;
Reaches 25-Cent Level
Following an advance in New
York cotton futures from 21 to 27
points and an advance in New Orleans
cotton futures from 20 to 25 points
Atlanta spot cotton was marked up
25 points Tuesday. The local quo
tation at that time was 25 cents.
Increased demand and bullish pri
vate crop reports were factors con
tributing to the advance.
New York spot cotton also ad- I
vanced, and was quoted Tuesday at :
25.75, an advance of 25 points.
5 CENTS A COPY,
SI A YEAR.
MURDER CHARGED ■
AGAINST STIGALL
Bl GRAND Mil
Shooting of Hames by Polled
Officer Brings Indictment.
Also Charged Wit Attempt
ed Murder of Two Others
After a two-hour investigation, thd
Fulton county grand jury, Tuesday
afternoon, indicted Policeman E. Ct
Stigall on a charge of murder in con<
nection with his slaying of W. H.
Hames, private detective, last Friday
evening at Courtland and Housrcti
streets.
Two other indictments, chargin.it
assault with intent to murder in con- ;
ncction with the policeman’s shoot*
ing of J. H. Kirk and Ernest Stan,
ton, companions of Hames, also were
voted by the grand jury.
Aiderman Jesse Armistead, chair*
man of the police committee of city
council, was a witness Tuesday after
noon before the Fulton county grand
jury.
Chairman Armistead had not bee.»
subpoenaed as a witness, but hd
went into the grand jury room aftef
Solicitor General John A. Boykin ap»
peared at the door and inquired if hd
wished to make a statement. After
leaving the room, Mr. Armistead tolj
reporters he appeared in defense oj
Stigqll.
Kirk was the first witness, follow*
ed by Stanton. Other witnesses wer<
Dr. O. B. Bush, who attended Hames
at the Grady hospital before hit
death last Friday night; J. T. Wil
kerson, of 101 Peachtree building
and Mrs. H. H. Ivey and Mrs. M. T
Roberts, of 166 Courtland street.
Ernest Stanton, one of the two
men wounded by Stigall, was in the
witness room, wearing a bandagd
on his forehead, while J. H. KirL
the other wounded man, wal
brought from Grady hospital. T1 i
blood-stained clothes taken froi|
Hames’ body were brought to tl I
solicitor’s office by the victim I
brothers, L. C. Hames and J. P,
Hames. They declined to .discuss tl |
case. Kirk was the first witne: I
called.
Attorney W. S. Coburn appearct
at the courthouse and announced 14
newspaper men that he was asso
ciated in the prosecution.
Witnesses Called
Among the group of witnesses wh(j '
were subpoenaed in the investigatial
were F. O. Harris, of 55 Mill avenue)
J. T. Wilkerson, of 101 Peachtre<
building: A. C. McLain, of 270 High
land avenue; Mrs. Sarah Glazier, cj
81 Houston street, and J. H. Frencfy
of 180 Courtland street.
The testimony of J. T. Wallacej
the automobile salesman who was a
companion of Stigall when he shot
the three men, was expected to plaV
a prominent part in the evidence t<
be sought from a large group o|
witnesses, but he was not called.
Summoned to police headquarter!
Monday afternoon for questioning
Mr. Wallace admitted that he wai
standing close enough to Stigall
to receive powder burns from tli4
policeman’s gun.
Statement Withheld
Captain T. O. Sturdivant, head ol
the plain clothes squad, withheld
Wallace’s statement until it waj
presented for grand jury considera
tion, but gave a few details to re*
porters.
According to Captain Sturdivant*
Wallace declared that after thq
shooting, Stigall got in the sales
man’s car and rode off, leaving
Hames lying on the ground. Wal
lace also stated, according to Cap
tain Sturdivant, that one of thd
men grabbed at Stigall just before
the shooting and that after thii
shooting, he thought he saw a pis*
tol in th# left hand of Kirk, ’ona
of the three men shot.
Captain Sturdivant pointed, how*
ever, to the fact that Kirk’s left
arm was broken in two places by
the bullets from Stigall’-s pistoi,
stating that under such circum*
stances, manifestly, it would hav4
been impossible for the woundtif
man to have held a gun.
As the grand jury investigatimj
opened, it was learned that detec
tives are working on the theory
that the meeting between Stigal
and Hames was pre-arranged, and
they are seeking to establish some!
thing definite concerning this pha»J
of the case.
Stigall Still Held
Stigall has been held in the Ful
ton county tower since his arrest
Saturday on a murder warrant
sworn out in municipal court b.tf
L. C. Hames, brother of the dead
man. He has not been suspended
from the police force, but is being
marked up "absent,” ■ and Chief
Beavers states that no action will
be taken pending the grand jury
investigation.
It has developed that the woman
sought as a third passenger in Mr,
Wallace's car just before the shooU
ing was not in that automobile, but
passed the scene of the
about 5 o’clock Friday afternoon*
riding in her coupe. Mr. Wallaci
and Officer Stigall were riding to
gether when the policeman got ou|,
t oaccost Hames and his companions
according to the police investigal
tion. The automobile salesman ha)
picked the officer up at Five Point 1 *
Officers assigned to the case an
continuing to question every avail
able person named as a witness t<
the shooting and their investigation
is expected to continue for severa)
days.
COUNCIL REFUSES TO
BACK POLICE COMMITTED
A resolution declaring "The ini
vestigatior. and exoneration of Po
liceman E. C. Stigall by the poli<n
committee as recently reported b.t
the newspapers does not express th<
sentiment of this council,” w'i|
adopted Monday afternoon by citt
council, voting 22 to 5, in an aye an-l
nay vote, after one of the bitteresl
debates In months.
The resolution was a substitut-i
introduced by Councilmen Couc’i
and York for a resolution 1
by Alderman Carpenter, whict. A
roundly condemned the action of thl ||
committee and asked council to gi fl
on record as disapproving the coir- ■
mittee’s actions. The alderman) «
resolution did not come to a vote. ’
More than half the members o)
council participated in the debate,
and warm rejoinders were made by
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