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VOL XXV. NO. 143
MSSWON DE
' ITALIAN OFFICIALS
STIRS ALL EUROPE
Huge Indemnity and Official
Apology Among Demands.
Rome Orders Warships in
Readiness for Emergency
ATHENS. Aug. 30.--<By the As
, sociated Press.) —It is understood
here that Greece is not disposed to
accept, the humiliating conditions
imposed by the Italian government
in its note demanding satisfaction
for the killing of the five Italian
* members of the Greco-Albanian
frontier delimitation commission.
In the event u deadlock is reached
in settling the affair, Greece, it is
further understood, will propose to
submit the question to the League
of Nations.
The Greek government is disposed
to express its profound sorrow over
the massacre and to indemnify the
families of the Italian officials who
Were murdered on Greek territory.
The Italian government’s note to
Greece demanded that the Greeks
pay an indemnity of 60,000,000 lire,
salute the Italian fleet and punish
the Greeks responsible for the as
sassinations. An answer was re
quired within 24 hour.
An Athens cablegram last night
( said Premier Gonatas had informed
the correspondents that while
Greece did not find 'all the Italian
demands acceptable, she would agree
to some of them and ask for modi
fication of the others. The Athens
government signified its intention
of replying to the note within the
time limit.
BAND OF GREEKS SLAYERS,
ALBANIA’S ENVOYS SAY
ROME, Aug. 30.—The Albanian
legation here issued a statement to
day declaring that General Tellini
and the other Italian members ot
the Greco-Albanian boundary com
mission were killed bv a band of
Greeks while on Greek territory,
twelve miles'from the Albanian fron
tier. The statement follows:
‘The Greek, Italian and Albanian
missions left Janina on Monday in
separate automobiles for the Alban
ian fr.ntier. The Albanian mission
F went first, followed by the Italian
mission, the Greek mission being
last.
•’Tne Italian mission had arrived
at the outskirts of Delovinaki, on
Greek territory when it was stop
ped by an armed band of Greeks
* who fired on General Tellini, Major
Corti, Lieutenant Bonacini and the
chauffeur. Farneti and killed them
ail. (News dispatches also included
. the interpreter, Craveri, among the
victims.) ’ »
‘ News of this crime has aroused
deepest consternation throughout
Albania where the victims are looked
upon as martyrs in the national
clause of Albania. It is an infamous
calumny to suggest that the crime
was committed by Albanians."
HOSTILITIES IMPROBABLE,
IS VIEW IN L( ND3N
LONDON, Aug. 30.—The British
government is following with close
interest the outcome of Italy’s sen
sational ultimatum to Greece de
manding redress for the massacre
of the Italian boundary delimina
l - tion mission. While the most seri
ous view is taken of the whole af
a fair in government quarters it P
not believed it will lead to any
thing like open hostilities.
British officials are represented
as of the opinion that Premier Mus
solini may have acted too precipi
tately in serving such sweeping and
humiliating terms on Greece with
out definite proof of official Greek
complicity in the slayings.
Belief is expressed that the crime
was the work of individual Greeks
or Albanians who felt aggrieved at
the boundary commission for allo
cating certain towns to their adver
saries.
For the present the matter so far
as the British are concerned, rests
with the inter-allied council of am
bassadors in Paris.
At the time ot the tragedy the
British member of the delimination
commission. Colonel Giles, and the
French member, M. Delegate, were
epgaged in duties in the interior of
- Albania or it is feared they might
have met the same fate as their
Italian colleagues.
“Europe today is suddenly con
fronted by the grave and imminent
danger of a new war,” was the way
the “London Star viewed the situa
tion.
The Daily News denounced Mus
qolmi’s action and declared that
"do self respecting state” could
submit to the Italian demands.
Horsemeat Kills Two,
53 Others Are 11l
In German Town
HANOVER, Germany, Aug. 31. —
Two persons are dead and fifty-three
are ill at Linden, near Hanover after
eating horse meat. Among the ill
are several entire families and many
are seriouSy stricken.
FIVE DEAD, TWENTY ILL
FROM EATING TOADSTOOLS
HAMBURG, Germany, Aug. 31.
Five persons are dead and at least
twenty are ill here from eating toad
* stools' Among the dead are three
children, two of whom were sent
here from the Ruhr by their parents
who couldn’t afford to, feed them.
The Weather
Virginia: Fair and mild Saturday.
North Carolina: Generally fair
Saturday, mild temperatures.
South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama,
Mississippi: Generally fair Satur
day except possibly thunder show
ers in extreme south portion.
Florida, extreme northwest Flor
Ida: Partly cloudy Saturday, loci!
thunder showers.
Tennessee, Kentucky: Saturday
cloudy and- unsettled.
West Virginia: Saturday cloudy,
r Louisiana: Saturday partly cloud;.;
local showers near the coast.
Arkansas, Oklahoma and ea.-.r
i Texas: Saturday, generally fair.
West Texas: Saturday, genera"?
fair; warmer in pan-handle.
Published Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
NEWS OF THE WORLD
TOLD IN BRIEF
LONDON—Princess Anastasia of
Greece, formerly Mrs. William B.
Leeds, of Pittsburg, dies here from
cancer.
DUBLIN.—De Valera is elected to
Free State parliament from County
Clare, heading the poll in that con
stituency.
CORUNNA. Spain.— General strike
is declared in protest against war
in Morocco and all stores closed and
tram cars halted.
ROME. —Italy demands ot Greece,
apology and fifty million lire in
demnity after killing of five Italian
Greco-Albanian boundary commis
' sinners.
CHICAGO. —Steamship service be
tween Chicago and Europe byway
ot the Great Lakes and Welland
canal, is expected to be in augurated
September 10.
PARIS. —Arrangements for with
drawal of French troops from Con
stantinople, in consequence of Tur
key’s ratification of Lausanne treaty,
are now under way, it is officially
announced.
WASHINGTON.—j-More than 20,
000 vessels carrying aggregrate of
84,000,000 tons cargo and paying tolls
of more than $76,500,000 have passed
through Panama canal in nine years
of operation ending August 14.
MARION. O.—Casket containing
President Harding’s body is put in
asphalt sarcophagus weighing 2,600
pounds and then replaced in vault
at Marion cemetery pending con
struction of permanent memorial.
WASHINGTON.—Cuba’s reported
imposition of partial cable censor
ship between United States and the
island lack official confirmation in
dispatches received bv state depart
ment.
HARRISBURG, Pa. Governor
Pinchot suggests ten per cent pav
increase for miners, eight-hour day
and full union recognition without
check-off as basis of anthracite set
tlement.
NORFOLK. —Plans for erection of
$12,500,000 tuberculosis hospital, as
memorial to war mothers and other
women who made sacrifices during
world war. are approved by Veterans
of Foreign Wars in annual encamp
ment.
NEW YORK. German marks
which made a new low record of ten
cents a million on foreign exchange,
are sold by venders on streets for
twenty cents for 10,000, making
profits as high as S2O on each ten
cent investment.
WASHINGTON. Responsibility
for high prices paid by consumer for
anthrac.te last winter is laid direct
ly to speculative jobbers and whole
salers in report issued by coal com
mission, and in some cases, it is re
portedj four wholesale purchases in
terveried between mine and retailer,
margins running as high as aggre
gate of $4.75 a ton.
N<s GREATEST
FIRST LINE FIGHTER
PUT INTO SERVICE
CAMDEN, N. J., Aug. 30. The
battleship Colorado, most powerful
sea fighter of the United States
navy, went into commission today at
a local ship yard. The ceremony for
the official passing of the ship from
her builders to the navy was a sim
ple one. Captain Reginald Rowan
Belkanp, who is to command the ves
sel, the officers and crew assembled
on the deck while the flag \fras run
up.
The Colorado was one of the few
major ships exempted from the gen
eral scrapping of first line sea fight
ers under the limitation of armament
treaty.
The vessel's length over all is 624
feet and her beam 27 feet. Her
normal displacement is 32,600 tons
and she is able to main.a speed of 21
knots.
The ship’s main battery comprises
eight 16-inch rifles which throw pro
jectiles weighing 2,100 pounds.
Boil Weevil Does
Little Harm on Acre
Set Aside for Church
AIILINGTON. Ga„ Aug. 31.—Rev.
H. *M. Melton, pastor of the Bluff
ton and Arlington Baptist churches,
stated that seven farmers who are
members of the Baptist church
staked off one acre of their crops
this year and are going to give
the proceeds of that acre to the
Lord’s work.
Rev. Melton stated that all of
the farmers are going to make good
crops this vea’r and that he believes
one of the seven farmers is going
to make a bale of cotton off the
acre that was staked off. He also
stated that this acre was not pois
oned in an attempt to combat the
boll weevil.
Snake Bite Kills Boy
MILLTOWN. Ga.. Aug. 31.—The
fourteen-year-old son of Dave Cook,
while chasing a mule yesterday, was
bitten by a rattlesnake. He died in
two hours and was buried this after
noon at Empire church cemetery.
ROME.—Three correspondents of
Greek newspapers were ordered to
quit Italy, according to the Tribuna.
PHILADELPHIA. Five work
men are reported killed in explo
sion of great still containing chem
icals.
DUSSELDORF. French seize
1,300,000,000,000 marks at Dusseldorf
printing office, which comprised big
gest haul ever made by French.
PERTH AMBOY, N. J.—Great
crowd breaks up Ku Klux Klan
meeting, mob besieges klansmen in
hall, fights police and defies tear
gas bombs.
DUSSELDORF. Colonel Alvin
Owsley, commander of American
Legion, is decorated commander of
Legion of Honor by General De
goutte, French commander.
HAVANA. —President Zayas signs
bill elevating Cuban legation in
Washington to embassy, but no men
tion is made as to who is likely to
be named ambassador.
PIERRE, S; D.—Gasoline in South
Dakota will remain at 16 cents a gal
lon for present, Governor McMaster
says after conference with officials
of Standard Oil company.
WASHINGTON. —Necessary pre
liminaries to resumption of diplo
matic relations between the Amer
ican and Mexican governments have
been successfully completed.
ATHENS. —Greece rejects Italy 3
demands for an indemnity of fifty
million lire, but accepts part of ul
timatum ordering reparation for
massacre of Italian boundary com
missioner.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.—Wage in
creases of 10 per cent will be sought
by 4,500 members of federated shop
crafts employed on Big Four rail
road, I. S. Dowming, master car
builder of road, announces.
WASHINGTON. Agricultural;
prospects are described as generally i
satisfactory and economic conditions
throughout farming areas are re
garded as hopeful by twelve presi
dents of federal land banks after
conference.
KANSAS CITY, Kan. Mrs.
Thomas W. Bickett, widow of for
mer governor of North Carolina
tells negro conference that com
mittees to stamp out mob violence
have been established in every
southern state.
JOHNSTOWN. Pa.—Two white
detectives and a negro ere shot to
death and three policemen are
fatally wounded in disturbance in
ntgro section of Johnstown, Pa.,
where coke ovens of the Bethlehem
Steel corporation are located.
HONOLULU. Pedro Guevaro,
Philippine resident commissioner, ar
rived from Manila en route to na
tional capital and declares his mis
sion to United States is to work for
Independence of Philippines and
right of Filipinos to elect own gov
ernor.
SWINE GROWERS
HEAR EXPERTS JT
CEDARTOWN MEET
CEDARTOWN, Ga., Aug. 30.—A
two days’ convention of the Georgia
Swine Growers’ association opened
here today. Several hundred vis
iting members are in the city to
hear th© addresses, discuss plans and
view the splendid array of fine hogs.
The session opened with H. B.
Ralls, Jr., of Ashburn, president, pre
siding. E. J. Trotter, secretary of
the Cedartown Chamber of Com
merce, welcomed the visitors.
Dr. A. M. Soule, president of the
State College of Agriculture, gave a
strong address, his speech striking
a keynote of optimism and urging
education. He urged that cotton be
put in its place and the farmer be
come independent of this product
; alone. He said each farm should
have at least two good brood sows
and fifty hens, but the feed must be
raised also to successful!, raise live
stock. He urged the farmers to get
on a co-operative community basis
and communities not to compete
with each other, and that the busi
ness men should and would stand
behind the farmer.
A sumptuous barbecue given by
the local business men and farmers
followed this meeting.
J. L. Jackson, general agricultural
agent of the Central of Georgia rail
road, presided Thursday afternoon
I when addresses were made by J. W.
Vaughn, of Cartersville, on “Co-op
eration of Banker and Farmer,” and
by C. A. Cobb, editor of the South
ern Ruralist.
An automobile tour of the county
was conducted later in the afternoon.
A business men’s and visitors’
meeting will be held this evening,
Col. Homer Watkins, mayor, pre
siding, when S. B. Talley, of Atlan
ta, will be heard on community
j marketing.
; Jesse M. Jones, agricultural agent
: Seaboard railway, will preside over
| Friday’s meeting when Dr. Peter
|F. Bahnsen, state vetenarian, wih
i speak on control of diseases, and
Dr. Milton P. Jarnagin, of the State
! College of Agriculture, will speak
|on the brood sow on the farm.
I An auction sale of pure-bred hogs
lof different breeds will be held fol
lowing a basket dinner.
WARRANT CHARGES
HUSBAND’S MURDER
TO MRS. W. MS
Former Policewoman Is Ac
cused in Mysterious Death
of Member of Atlanta Po
lice Department
With Mrs. Hazeline Cobb Evans
in the DeKalb county jail at De
catur, a prisoner awaiting a hear
ing on a warrant charging that
she murdered her husband, W. W.
Evans, Atlanta policeman, develop
ments were temporarily at a stand
still Friday morning in the mys
terious shooting Wednesday nignt
of Evans in the dining room ot ms
own home, 4!) South Mayson- ave
nue, Edgewood. Indications were
that nothing further would be done
until Monday, when the DeKalb
county grand jury will organize at
Decatur.
Marion and Martha Evans, the
two little daughters of Mr. and Mrs.
Evans, learned Thursday night that
their father was dead. They were in
the care of Mrs. N. E. Harris, sister
of Mrs. Evans. She had to tell
them, she
“But I told them nothing, of
course, of the circumstances,” she
said. “They think their mother is
grieving somewhere beside their
father’s bodju”
The little sisters, age five and
eight years, respectively, -were taken
to the country Friday morning by
their uncle. Lovett Cobb, brother of
Mrs. Evans. They have not
their mother since the tragedy.
First intentions were to take them
by the jail at Decatur, but this plan
was set aside, because the children
then would have suspected the
truth. Instead, they were taken by
Mr. Cobb directly to his home, which
is in the country, near Clarkston.
Wife in DeKalb Jail
Mrs. Evans was taken to the De-
Kalb county jail Thursday night
immediately after adjournment of
the coroner’s inquest, held from 6
till 8 o'clock at the Evans home,
49 South Mayson avenue, Edge
wood. The verdict of the coroner’s
jury, returned within 15 minutes
after the last witness was heard,
was that Evans met his death from
gunshot wounds, and recommended
that Mrs. Evans be held pending
further investigation. The warrant,
charging her with murder, had been
issued some hours earlier in De
catur, having been sworn out by W.
P. Evans, a brother of the de
ceased officer.
Deputy sheriffs of DeKalb county
were subpoenaing witnesses Friday
for the grand jury investigation on
Monday, while Ben W. Tye, retained
by Mrs. Evans as her attorney, was
engaged in an effort to arrange bond
for his client.
Sheriff J. A. McCurdy, of DeKalb
county, stated he would see Judge
Jdhn B. Hutchinson, of the Stcne
Mountain circuit, later in the day
and endeavor to arrange permission
for Mrs. Evans to attend her hus
band’s funeral.
The funeral will be held Sunday
morning at IJ. o’clock) with services
and interment at Wesley chapel
about 15 miles from Atlanta, on the
Covington road, in the DeKalb coun
ty neighborhood where Evans was
born and reared. Arrangements for
the funeral are in the hands of Mrs.
Evans, it w->s stated at the office of
Harry G. Poole, the under’--k r in
charge. Its postponement until Sun
day morning from the hour orig
inally announced was directed bv
her, it was stated. ‘From her cell in
the jail at Decatur, MrsA Evans
spent F’-iday mornin notifying
friends of the funeral plans, rela
tives who were there with her do
ing the telephoning at her request.
Very little that was new or of im
portance was brought out at the
coroner’s inquest. Call Officers
Howard and Fincher, who, after
neighbors, were first to arrive Wed
nesday night after the tragedy, at
tempted to reconstruct the dining
room as nearly as possible like it
was when they entered, with the
chair in -which Evans was seated,
wounded and unconscious, just where
it had stood, with wilted flowers in
a glass container on the table be
side the nearly-empty whisky bottle,
a glass with some water, and Evans’
tie, his pistol; Evans’ collar on the
f loor, and various other articles as
they remembered finding them.
, Sit in Death Chair
Each witness octjppied in turn the
chair in which Evans had been
found, the entire proceeding of the
coroner’s jury being held in the din
ing room.
Mrs. Evans arrived at her home in
charge of Chief of Police‘s Beavers
and accompanied by her sister, Mrs.
N. E. Harris. On entering she per
ceived the hat of her deceased hus
band, and picking it up, began fond
ling, it, kissing it several times, and
holding it for several minutes. She
was seated in a chair directly across
the room from the one in which
Evans had met his death. She wept
awhile, then became hysterical, and
eventually had to be escorted out of
the room and into her bedroom,
where she reclined on her bed. She
remained there through the remain
der of the inquest until she was call
ed to the stand.
As she seated herself, to testify,
in the chair where Evans had been
sitting when wounded, Mrs. Evans
was composed; but a photographer’s
flashlight exploded at that instant,
and she remonstrated with him,
saying: "I don’t think you ought to
have done that. They've done noth
ing but photograph me all day.”
Mrs. Evans Talks Calmly.
Mrs. Evans testified calmly. In
the main her story rehearsed details
she haa told The Journal earlier in
‘he day.
Dr. W. S. Ansley, coroner’s phy
sician, already had stated, after ex
amining Evans’ body, that he be
lieved either of the two bullet
wounds in the head -would have pro
duced instant paralysis, each having
cut a nerve center.
Mrs. Evans denied the testimony
of a previous witness, saying there
had been no argument or fuss be
fore the shooting, with the excep
tion of some jocular remarks re- ■
garding a picture that had been I
taken of him.
“After he was shot,- I never left
him until the ambulance came and 1
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Cotton Options Jump
$5 a Bale on Report
Os Condition of Crop
NEW YORK, Aug. 31.—Active
cotton options jumped about 100
points in the local market today im
mediately after the government crop
condition report was published,
showing a condition of 54.1 per cent
of normal on August 25 and indi
cating a yield of only 10,788,000
bales.
The government's report came as
a surprise to the traders, most of
wnom had expected a condition
around 56.
October sold at 25.15; December
and March at 25.00.
ATLANTA SPOT COTTON
, CLOSES 65 POINTS IT
On the basis of New York fu
tures, which closed 70 to 85 points
up on a .bullish market, Atlanta spot
cotton was quoted Friday afternoon
at 25.60 cents. This represented an
advance of 65 points or $3.25 over
the previous day.
New York spot cotton closes 75
points up at 26.33 points; New Or
leans spot cotton was 24.75 or 50
points up; and New Orleans fu
tures closed 85 to 96 points up.
took him away,” Mrs. Evans said,
concluding her story.
R. J. Holt, a neighbor, said he
had not retired when he heard the
shots. He said he heard three, and
hurrying toward the Evans home,
saw a man running away from
there. The police say they attach
no importance to this, being con
vinced the fugitive was a negro who
had been sleeping on the back porch
and who admits he was scared and
ran away.
As he approached the house, Holt
said, he heard Mrs. Evans scream
ing “My God, I had t,o shoot ‘him.’’
He knew it was her voice, he said,
because he had heard her on pre
vious occasions calling the children.
Quarreled, Neighbors Say.
C. J. Christian, who, with his
wife, shared the house with the
Evans family, Mrs. Christian being
a niece of Mjs. Evans, told the jury
Mr. and Mrs. Evans were quarrel
ing when all four returned to the
house after going out with Evans to
let him get some whisky.
“My wife and I stayed in the din
ing room about three or four min
utes after we got back," he said.
“They \Were quarreling. We did not
care to hear any more, and went to
our room on the other side of the
house. We had been there about
20 minutes when we heard the
shots. I would not let Mrs. Chris
tian go back, and would not enter
the room myself until neighbors
came in.
“When some of the neighbors
came in. we entered the reem and
saw Evans in the chair unconscious
and his wife was at the telephone
calling an ambulance.”
Call Officer G. C. Fincher testified
that when he and his partner, Call |
Officer I. B. Howard, arrived at the
Evans home at 12:40 o’clock Wed-;
nesday night. Mrs. Evans met them
with the exclamation “I’ve killed
Daddy.” ,
Seemed Confused
Call Officer Howard later testified
that Mrs. Evans told them she didn’t
know whether she had shot her hus- j
band or .he had shot himself In a ;
scuffle between them for the pistol
in his hand.
Officer Fincher, answering At-,
torney Tye, who represented Mrs. ;
Evans, said they arrived before the .
ambulance, and he heard Mrs. Evans ;
beg the doctor to save her husband’s
life.
Officer Howard said he did not be
lieve Evans could have fired the gun
with his own hand, even in a scuf
fle, giving as his reason the position
of the furniture and the location of;
the bullet marks in the wall and but'-;
set. Questioned by Attorney Tye. he j
admitted “a great many things might
be possible.” *
Atlanta, Ga., Saturday, September 1, 1923
THE FIRST YEAR’S “CROP”
fflTI-M BIOTING
RESUMED DESPITE
REINFORCED POLICE
PERTH AMBOY, N. .T.,|Aug. 31.
Battling between Ku Klux Klans
men and mobs was resumed on the
streets of Perth Amboy this morn
ing as members of the order tried to
escape from Odd Fellows’ hall where
they had sought refuge during an
attack on a klan meeting last night
in which more than 100 persons are
I reported to have been injured.
A hundred men armed with clubs
and stones attacked thirty klansmen
who dashed from the hall this morn
ing. The klansmen were severely
beaten.
Several injured klansmen were
treated at hospitals and later sent to
their homes.
The police said that the majority
of the klansmen who assembled to
hold the meeting were from other
New Jersey cities and towns.
Autos Are Abandoned
A group of 25 who refused to try
driving their cars homeward, after
being "sheltered for several hours at
police headquarters, returned to As
bury Park and Belmar by train.
The city settled back to normal
condition during the forenoon and
police said they anticipated no fur
ther trouble.
At noon the police announced that
the few minor outbreaks had occur
red when small groups of men mo
lested passers-by when they were sus
pected of being klansmen. Two or
three beatings administered by these
groups were reported, with no se
rious injuries.
Four men, alleged by the police to
be klansmen, were held on charges
of carrying concealed weapons.
It was impossible, early today, to
ascertain the number of persops on
both sides who had been injured in
the nigbf’s? fighting. Every physi
cian in the city had treated one or
• more cases while a considerable num
ber of the injured bad been attended
to in hospitals.
Battling started just before mid
night when a crowd estimated at
more than 5,000 men broke up a
widelv advertised klan meeting in
the Odd Fellows’ hall.
Police Overwhelmed
The entire police force of 75, with
drawn clubs and guns, and reinforc
ed by the entire fire department,
made a desperate effort to protect
the 500 klansmen whose meeting had
been surrounded by the clamoring
mob.
Tear bombs and well directed
streams from fire hose dispersed the
surging thousands after a first at
tack, but, returning with renewed
fury, they swept the force aside,
hacked the hose to pieces, and
charged into the meeting hall Klans
men withstood the onslaught until
greatly outnumbered, when many of
them fought their way to doors, win
dows and fire escapes, only to be en
gulfed in the crowds below. Those
who had not had the foresight to re
move their klan regalia received
rough treatment before they escaped
into the woods bordering the city.
Police Chief Tonneson had sum
moned a detachment of state troop
ers, whose arrival w r as greeted by re-1
newed activities of the muttering]
mob. Aided by state troopers the
police began the removal of the
imprisoned klansman.
Several of them were loaded into
three automobiles which the crowd
immediately overturned, administer
ing severe beatings to the occupants.
A patrol wagon load of rescued re
ceived similar treatment. The crowd
intercepted a number of escaping
klansmen who were being led to safe
ty over adjoining roofs. They also
were beaten.
GARRETTDN STAND
IS FINAL WITNESS
INBIGMURDERCASE
CUMBERLAND COURT HOUSE,
Va., Aug. 30. —(By the Associated
Press) —Hearing of evidence in the
trial of R. O. Garrett, charged with
the murder of Rev. E. S. Pierce,
was concluded shortly before three
o'clock Thursday afternoon.
The cast will go to the jury Fri
day.
Garrett too the stand today and
while admitting he shot the min
ister, swore he did not fire until Mr.
Pierce had shot him in rhe back
and he believed his life in danger.
He declared witnesses who had giv
en testimony that he shot first were
his bitter enemies and had been for
years.
It required an hour and twenty
five minutes for Garrett to give his
direct testimony under questioning
of 11. M. Smith of defense counsel.
His version of the Pierce tragedy
and the events leading up to it, was
essentially the same as that he gave
when he testified in Jjehalf of his
brother last July. He told of com
ing to Cumberland county as depu
ty clerk of court in 1906, of subse
quently becoming clerk; of his po
litical fights and business activi
ties; of the Chandler shooting on
the night of May 3 and finally of
the fatal fight June 5 at the Pierce
home.
He testified he and his brother
Larkin did not have any intention
of going to Mr. Pierce’s home until
they read together early on the
morning of the shooting the Chand
ler affidavit the witness had just
brought back from Richmond.
He said they went there to ask
Mr. Pierce as to his mention of Mrs.
L. C. Garrett’s name in the minis
ter’s ‘conversation with Chandler
and also as to any knowledge Pierce
had of the Chandler shooting. They
had no idea of starting trouble, the
witness averred.
He swore Pierce struck the blow
that started the fist fight between
the minister and Larkin Garrett
and that Pierce also fired first in
the shooting that followed.
“He shot me in the back after I
had taken the shotgun from him
and started from the yard,” the
witness said. He denied emphatic
ally he had fired into Pierce’s body
as it lay on the ground and equally
as emphatically denied he had
cursed or roughly handled Mrs.
Pierce.
2 Killed and 10 Hurt
As Napthaline Still
Explodes, Starting Fire
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 31. —Two
workmen were killed and ten others
injured when a large naphthaline
still exploded early today at the dye
and chemical ■works of the Bai i ett
company in the northeastern part of
the city. , , , ,
The blast rocked the neighborhood
and fire that followed destroyed the
building which housed the still. Two
of the injured may die. The victims
were working in a room adjoining
I the one containing the still when
the explosion occurred. The still
I was hurled through the roof and
1 anded in a street.
Wilson and Greb Tilt
Scales at 158 Pounds
NEW YORK, Aug. 31.—Johnny
Wilson, of Boston, middleweight
champion, and Harry Greb of Pitts
burgh, who meet tonight in a 15 I
round bout at the Polo Grounds, ■
both weighed in this afternoon at ;
158 pounds.
5 CENTS A COPY,
SI A YEAR.
REPORT CENSURING
JUDGE IS ADOPTED
WITH 5 DISSENTING
J, 0. Wood, Barred From
Addressing Association,.
Scores Action of Lawyers
After Meeting Is Adjourned
With five members protesting on
grounds of “lack of jurisdiction,”
the Atlanta Bar association Friday
upheld the action of its grievance
and executive committees in sus
taining Attorney Edgar Latham’s
charges against Judge G. H. How
ard, new judge of Fulton superior
court, and condemning the jurist’s
conduct as “illegal and corrupt.”
Attorney J. O. Wood, a non-mem
her of the association, enlivened the
session by demanding recognition to
make a statement for Judge How,
ard. Ruled out of order by Presi
dent James A. Branch, he called on
all non-members to assemble with
him in an adjoining room atrid hear
his statement. Only a few retired
but later he adrressed an audience
of thirty or forty persons, who
passed resolutions denouncing the
association’s action and indorsing
Judge Howard.
Judge Howard, in a statement is
sued shortly, after the association
acted, >said he intended to conduct
his office in away that would gain
the confidence of all the people oi
the state. He reiterated that he
would present his side of the case
to “any tribunal having proper au
thority.”
Several Hundred Attend
A crowd of several hundred per
sons packed the courtroom, and
heard the vigorous speeches which
were delivered before the associa
tion took action.
Attorneys J. K. Jordan and Frank
A. Hooper, Sr., defended Jydge
Howard and questioned the jurisdic
tion of the association. Mr. Jordan
said the dignity of the judiciary was
at stake, and that only the senate
of Georgia should go into the
charges, after impeachment pro
ceedings had been properly insti
tuted. Mr. Hooper warned that the
association was “setting a most
dangerous precedent.”
Mr. Arnold defended the associa- #
tion’s right to take action, and de
clared that politics should not be
allowed to creep into the appoint
ment of judges.
“Too much politics is the curse of
this state,” he said, “and if politics
is to control judgeship appoint
ments, sooner or later politics will
be controling decisions in the
courts.” i |
The five members of the associa
tion voting against the commit
tee’s reports were John P. Haunson,
J. K. Jordan, Frank Hooper. Sr.,
Claude Rowe and Colonel P- ll-
Brewster. The latter declared, in
explaining his vote, that the bar as
sociation had no jurisdiction and
should not take up the controversy.
He suggested that the association
adjourn and name a committee of
lawyers to carry the fight to Its
proper conclusion.
Colonel Brewster previously had
declined an invitation to speak while
debate on the committee’s report was
in progress, but made his statement
immediately after the vote was taken
byway of explanation of his vote
against the adoption of the report.
Court Room Crowded
In calling the meeting to order.
President James A. Branch announc
ed that it was the semi-annual busi
ness meeting of the association. Sev
eral other matters, including the in
duction of a dozen new members,
were first disposed of. Th© court
room was crowded, many non-mem
bers of the association being pres
ent.
Attorney Hal Lindsey moved that
some arrangement be made to sepa
rate the association members from
the non-members, in order that
there might be no confusion in vot
ln“I don’t anticipate,” President
Branch replied, "that any one in
the courtroom who is not a member
of the association will attempt to
vote.”
Grover C. Middlebrooks, chairman
of the executive committee, then
submitted the report of findings
which condemned Judge Howard’s al
leged conduct as “illegal, corrupt,
and contrary to public policy.” He
proposed that the report be adopted
as the attitude of the entire bar as
sociation. Attorney Reuben Arnold
took the floor to second Mr. Middle
brooks’ motion, but was interrupte.i
by J. O. Wood, editor of the Search
light, and one of Fulton county’s
representatives in the legislature,
who demanded to be recognized.
Wood Is Ruled Out
“You are out of order,” declared
President Branch. “You are not a
member of this association and non
members have no right to speak
here. It is only by courtesy of the ’
association that you are allowed in
side the room.”
Mr. Wood protested, declaring he
wanted to' make an explanation.
President Branch was firm and ask
ed Mr. Wood to “please show proper
respect to the association.” He told
Mr. Wood that a full hearing had
been held before a committee, and
that persons desiring to be heard
should have appeared at that time.
“Very well, then,” shouted £fr.
Wood indignantly. Then turning* to
the audience, he said:
“I ask all non-members to meet
me immediately in Judge Ellis’ court
room. There I will have something
to say.”
About ten or fifteen persons then
retired from the court room and
quiet was restored in a few min
utes.
Moves to Curb Speeches
Attorney J. K. Jordan, one of
Judge Howard’s representatives,
proposed that six speeches be made
on each side of the case before ac
tion was taken. Attorney Arnold
replied that two speeches to a side
would be enough. He said h© saw
no use in turning the meeting into
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