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’ 'MURDER' CHARGES
IN POISONING PROBE
REACT ON ACCUSERS
BY ROBERT T. SMALL
(Leased Wire Service to The Journal.)
(Copyright, 1223.)
NEW YORK. Oct. 9.—The famous
** rVebb “murder” bubble is about to
Hirst. In many respects it has been
lhe most remarkable case the met
ropolitan district has ever known.
« the grand jury which has been con-
• <** iucting an investigation that has be-
tome little more than a clearing
Mouse for gossip and scandal, will not
return any indictments. For, despite
lhe hysterical assertions of her
Iriends and relatives to the contrary,
eiere no longer is any doubt that
ilrs. Charles Webb, possessed of a
fortune, which now is said to be
learer $4,000,000 than the $2,000,000
>riginally estimated, died' at the
Westchester-Biltmore Country club
»f natural causes.
By accusations,, that were all too
thinly veiled, the closer friends and
relatives of the dead woman sought
Io discredit her husband, who hqci
tfooed her for ten years only to be
tome a widower ten months after
lheir marriage. They accused him
T >f remaining out of his wife’s room
luring the last ten days of her fatal
llness. It is now admitted that the
ittending physician, who was hostile
io Webb and friendly to the other
relatives, had forbidden the husband
Io enter, although uncles and aunts
t Ind cousins were free to come
♦ tnd go.
Counter Charges Made
! The investigation now has entered
lhe phase where the counter charges
lave been entered by counsel for the
lusband, Charles Webb, alleging con
•pinacy against “certain persons.”
The district attorney of Westchester
tounty has become particularly in
erested in this aspect of the case,
kn attempt was made to force the
listrict attorney into requesting an
ndictment for murder from the
frand jury. He resisted this attempt,
tnd the subsequent eevnts have
Ihown the wisdom of his course.
An uncle of the dead woman,
William T. Hunter, of Devon, Penn.,
has openly charged that his niece
teas ‘‘murdered” by the administra
tion of a slow poison. He based his
Charge partly on the discovery of
» traces of bichloride of mercury in
the viscera. This eventually was
Ihown to have been due to the use
»f mercury as an antiseptic. The
relatives then attempted to show
that "some one” had mixed these
Solutions for Mrs. Webb in a degree
Sf strength that would be deleteri
ous to her health. Dr. William J.
Meyer, the attending physician at
the death bed, said he talked with
Mrs. Webb about this matter and
the charges were based upon what
lhe said.
The grand jury has heard in de
tail all of these stories. It has
heard the women relatives of Mrs.
Webb tell of all they said to her
Ind all she said to them during the
last month that she was ill.
Webb has had little or no chance
to tell his story, but has requested
i permission to go before the grand
a jury, waiving all immunity, before
lhe investigation is closed. He has,
laid that he wants the record cleat
io far as he is concerned.
Bequests to Charity
Under the latest will signed by
Mrs. Webb her husband of ten
f months is made the sole beneficiary
If her estate. A more elaborate
Will, prepared by his counsel, for
iter signature, was not signed. It
livided the estate and left large be
luests to charity. Webb has asked
ihat this unsigned will also be pro
bated as he intends to carry out its
provisions. The relatives have proA
tested both wills and have asked
that a will made by Mrs. Webb be
fore her marriage be accepted.
Webb’s attorneys say the marriage
Invalidated that will, and if a con
test is successful it will merely
have the same effect as if Mrs.
Webb had died without any will
whatever. Under such a provision
If the law the husband would get
>ne-half of the estate outright.
Mrs. Webb did not marry until
lhe was forty. She had been very
I blose to her relatives since her
mother died and had made a will in
their favor. Webb, an admirer of
many years, finally won his suit.
• The rnatfriage occurred last Novem
ber. The relatives never would ac
cept him. And so when Gertie
Webb died under what they claimed
Were questionable circumstances,
they blazed forth with charges
(gainst the man who had come so
tete into their relative’s life.
Through all the trials of the last
two weeks it must be admitted that
Webb has carried on with a poise
most remarkable in the circum-
Itances. He was treated as all but
tn outcast at the funeral. Some, of
his former friends shunned him.
But it seems at last that his day is
* it hand. _
f
Judge R. N. Hardeman
Tells Emanuel Jury
Os Anonymous Letter
SWAINSBORO, Ga.. Oct. 10.—In
• lis charge to the grand jury at the
* ipening of superior court here to
lay. Judge R. N. Hardeman took
iccasion to refer to the fact that he
lad received anonymous letters from
tome parties in Emanuel county
tbout conditions that existed in the
•ounty and should be looked after.
Fudge Hardeman stated that he knew
vho wrote the letter, and that the
nan was hearing him at that time.
He stated that the grand jury was
lis remedy, and if he would furnish
he information to the jury and they
ailed to act upon it that he would
lee that their names were takenf rom
he jury box, and if anyone was
nought before them who would not
five information that they had he
vould put them in jail as he had
lone in other counties until they saw
it to tell what they knew.
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THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLT JOURNAL
EX-GOVERNOR SLATON FLAYS
STATE INCOME TAX PLAN
BEFORE TAX COMMISSION
Declares Scheme Would
Drive Capital From Geor
ga—Colonel Spaldng and
Smith Give Views
Addresses by former Governor
John M. Slaton, Colonel Jack J.
Spalding, prominent attorney, and
C. T. Smith, of Concord, former
president of the Country Bankers
association, featured the hearing
before the special tax commission
at the eapitol, Tuesday morning.
Mr. Slaton spoke illuminatingly
in opposition to a state income tax,
and Mr. Spalding dwelt upon the
necessity of providing a check upon
the expenditures of the legislature,
whatever the system of taxation.
The former governor took excep
tion to the criticism of the tax
equalization law, pronouncing it a
step in the right direction, and urged
that an income tax levy would lead
inevitably to extravagances in ap
propriations.
“I may be classified as radical in
my views, but, gentlemen, the fault
of conditions in Georgia rests with
the people, and we must look to the
people to correct the fault,’’ said
Colonel Spalding.
"And the way to make the people
correct faults in our government is
to make them take an interest in
the government. They should be
made to vote, and should be pen
alized for failure to do so. The old
constitution provided a penalty, and
there should be a penalty now.”
It was the idea of Colonel Spalding
that the people themselves, by vot
ing, will check any wild extrava
gances on part of the legislature.
Census is Proposed
•'We should take a census of the
eligible voting adults in the state,
and we should assess a penalty
against every man and woman who
fails to vote in an election. In this
way you will arouse the people, and
they will take an interest in poli
tics Today, fewer than 2,0 per cent
of the people of voting age vote in
our elections, and the politicians
strive to please this 30 per cent.”
Colonel Spalding, asked if he
thought the state was being run ex
travagantly, said that he believed
the Confederate pensions were out
of bounds. He recalled having been
in the senate chamber when the first
TEXTILE WORKERS'
DMIZEBSTOGET
1. F. OF L’S HELP
PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. B.—(By
the Associated Press.) —Since the
adoption by the convention of the
American Federation of Labor here
of a resolution favoring organiza
tion of the workers in textile mills
of the delegates of the United
Textile Workers of America have
befen irt conference with national
and international officers of the fed
eration and have been assured
moral and financial support in the
work, according to T. F. McMahon,
of Providence. R. 1., who has been
leading in this movement.
“There are 400,000 Workers in.
southern textile mills, in the states
of North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama,
centering principally in the Caro
linas,” said McMahon. “We pro
pose at once to send men and
women workers into the southern
states in this move for organization.
The identity of some of them will
be concealed and they will act
largely in the role of investigators
and missionaries, learning conditions
and advising the workers of the ad
vantages to be gained from organi
zation. We aim to carry th.e mes
sage to all centers where there are
textile workers.
“The American Federation of La
bor is back of the United Textile
Workers of America, and will send
as many helpers as possible. We
propose that this campaign shall
be a continuous one.”
McMahon, in speaking on his
resolution before the convention
urged the co-operation of other
unions in the workers in.the south.
“The intent of the resolution is
to drive home, if possible, to the
many organizations, through the
representatives of their craft, trade
or calling, that they too, should get
busy as we are among the workers
of the southland. We want to bring
home to those who came from the
sunny south the fact that we need
their assistance badly today. The
northern manufacturers today are
taking the profits made from the
sweat and blood of northern opera
tives and are erecting in the south
large mills for the purpose, and that
purpose alone, of their securing la
bor in the south as cheaply as they
possibly can, particularly women
and children.
“We know the conditions there;
we know that in some of the great
terminals and in some of the other
industrial centers women and chil
dren find that there is no place for
employment and the first thing you
know our employers of the north
build up these institutions in the
southland, have our good ’ people
there working under miserable con
ditions. long hours and for low
wages/*
Voters of Camilla
To See Lively Race
For City Offices
CAMILLA, Ga., Oct. in.—The pri
mary for Camilla has been called
for October 31. A mayor, two aider
men and two members of the board
of education are to be nominated.
Mayor J. M. Spence has announced
for re-election and it is not consid
ered likely that he will have any
opposition. B. H. Jenkins has an
nounced as a candidate for aiderman
at large, J. E. Brooks being the
present incumbent. Mr. Brooks is
out of town and it could not be
learned whether he would be a can
didate to succeed himself.
F. L. Lewis and W. E. Hughes
are the other members of the board
of aidermen whose terms expire
January 1. So far they have no op
position. but it is claimed by some
of the friends of Dr. McDanile. who
is also out of the city, that he will
a■. candidate to succeed Mr.
c: Ft n..—e nnd Dr. I. A.
| pension bill was Introduced, talking
' to a senator who remarked that the
I proposition was the worst thing ever
I proposed in Georgia.
I "Yet,” said the speaker, "this same
senator trampled upon my toes to
second the measure.”
Colonel Spalding insisted that the
state should have «n air-tight budget
system, with penalties to apply
against the official who violated or
i exceeded its provisions. He agreed
' with Mr. Slaton that an income tax
lis a step toward socialism, and
’ warned the commission that they
■ could expect the fellow hit by such
a tax to get out of the way.
Discourage. Capital
Governor Slaton insisted that an
! income tax would have a tendency to
■ drive capital away from Georgia, and
cited the experiences of other states
with the income tax as disastrous.
I He declared that if the plans of pro
! ponents of the tax were successful
the legislatures of the future would
be inclined to go on wild orgies of
extravagance.
Governor Slaton stated that 150 of
the 160 counties in Georgia now get
more out of the state treasury than
they pay in, and that Georgia con
tributes more to the common schools
than any other state in the Umon.
The reference to the common
schools was questioned by several
members of the commission who
wanted it made plain that although
the state of Georgia gives more than
any other state government, this
does not mean that the schools of
Georgia are as well supported as
they are in many other states where
the counties pay a larger proportion
of the school fund.
Members of the tax commission
will attend a dinner given them by
the Atlanta Association of Credit
Men Tuesday evening.
The dinner given by the credit
men will be held at the chamber of
commerce at 6:30 o’clock Tuesday
evening and several hundred guests
are expected. Representatives of all
branches of commerce and industry
in Atlanta are numbered among the
members of the credit men’s asso
ciation, and some valuable sugges
tions on tax measures were expected.
There is no set program for the
meeting that will follow the dinner,
according to C. L. Williamson, sec
retary of the credit men’s associa
tion. Mr. Williamson stated that the
association would turn the meeting
over to Governor Walker, who may
introduce any speakers he chooses.
An open discussion of taxes and
revenue measures will follow.
GDVERM REFUSES
BEOUISITIQN«
IH BSBBETT SUIT
Declaring that “under the Georgia
law they cannot be convicted,” Gov
ernor Clifford Walker Monday after
noon denied requisitions of the gov
ernor of South Carolina for Frank
H. Barrett, Thomas Barrett, 111, and
Julius Barrett, members of the bank
rupt Augusta cotton firm of Barrett
& Co., Inc., who are wanted in that
state on charges of obtaining proper
ty under false pretense.
Governor Walker said no evidence
had been submitted by the state of
South Carolina showing that the cot
ton firm was insolvent at the time of
the alleged false representations.
He also said that of his own knowl
edge he knew Barrett & Co. had en
joyed a reputation of being success
ful in business.
According to affidavits and the
warrant read at the hearing by W.
M. Smoak, prominent attorney of
Aiken county, South Carolina, the
three Barretts are alleged to have
told C. R Lybrand, directly or indi
rectly, that Barrett & Co. was the
largest and soundest cotton firm in
the south. The representations, it
was alleged, was made between Au
gust 5, 1922, and September 2, 1922,
at which time Lybrand was not do
ing business with Barrett & Co. It
was allelged that the representations
resulted in a resumption of business
with the firm, which later resulted
in financial loss of $13,400.
Attorneys for the Augustans con
tended that their clients had made
no false representations to C. R.
Lybrand, and that they did not
know him. C. R. Lybrand, accord
ing to affidavits of each of the de
fendants. was the name under which
Jake Lybrand, of Aiken county, did
business with Barrett & Co. after he
had been adjudicated a bankrupt
in February. 1922. It was pointed
out that C. R. Lybrand is a younger
son of Jake Lybrand.
The. defense attorneys also con
tend that the affidavit on which the
warrant was based was not made
by C. R. Lybrand or Jake Lybrand,
but by J. C. Lybrand, an older son
of Jake Lybrand. They said it was
false and fraudulent.
It was also pointed out that trans
actions handled by Barrett & Co. for
“C. R. Lybrand” totalled more than
$400,000, and that Lybrand netted
$40,000 profit. It was claimed that
the only point actually in dispute
was an item of $9,60t» wnlch Barrett
& Co. claimed Jake Lybrand owed
them through failure of a nephew
to pay a note on which he was an
indorser.
Frank Barrett, in a sworn state
ment, told the governor that in Au
gust, 1922, his company was not
only solvent, but rich. He said he
had had no intimation of impending
insolvency prior to April, 1923.
Mr. Barrett and his brothers were
represented by an array of legal
talent. J. M. Hull. Jr., of Augusta,
was the leading counsel. He was
assisted by Judge Henry C. Ham
mond. of Augusta; C. Henry Cohen,
of Augusta; Judge Enoch Calloway,
of Augusta, and the Atlanta firm of
Dorsey, Brewster, Howell & Hey
man,
Quitman Man Dies
Returning From Florida
QUITMAN, Ga., Oct. 10.—Mr. Ed
win Timberlake aged sixty-five
years, and well known throughout
the county, fell dead Sunday a few
moments after he had stepped from
the South Georgia train which had
brought him frpm Shady Grove,
Fla., where he had been working, to
his home in Quitman. He was buried
Monday afternoon at Oak Hill ceme
tery. Services were conducted at
the grave by Rev. S. C. Oliff, pastor
of the Methodist church.
Bush, members of the board of edu
cation whose terms expire, likely
will have no opposition if they de
cide to ask for re-election, and it is
stated that Mr. Baggs will desire to
succeed himself, Dr. Bush not hav
ing expressed himself on the sub-
COOLIDGE TO GIVE
GOVERNORS BRIEF
CONFERENCE PERIOD
BY DAVID LAWRENCE
(Leased Wire Service to The Journal.)
(Copyright, 1923.)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9—Gov
ernors of the several states who have
been invited to confer with the fed
eral government on the subject of
law enforcement will be told what
is wanted by the Washington admin
istration and virtually no time will
pe given for the airing of the views
of the respective governors.
The announcement that the entire
bod of governors would come to the
national capital and would be here
for a few hours on the afternoon of
Saturday, October 20, occasioned
much surprise, owing to the brief
period allowed for such an impor
taut conference, but on investigation
it develops that the federal author
ities decided they wanted to do all
the talking ajid. wished particularly
to avoid a repetition of what occur
red in the first prohibition confer
ence when one or two of the gov
ernors took the limelight and carried
on a discussion of the merits or pro
hibition itself. Politically, there is
no better opportunity for a man on
either the wet or dry side of the
controversy to get publicity than at
a governors’ conference on the prohi
bition question itself.
President Coolidge has let it be
known that he wants the federal gov
ernment’s plans for co-operation with
the states to be fully explained and
that the object of the conference is
to get the fullest co-operation in law
enforcement. He has broadened the
conference from its original program
which was to have been devoted to
prohibition alone. Now Mr. Coolidge
wants all questins of law enforce
ment brought to the attention of the
governors. ,
Drys Meeting Also
As if they were not satisfied with
the amount of time and emphasis
given to prohibition, the "dry” side
will stage a citizenship conference
at Washington in the days immedi
ately preceding the governors’ visit
to Washington. Governor Pinchot,
of Pennsylvania, is to preside, and
there are enough political subtleties
in this occasion to excite already a
good deal of gossip. Mr. Pinchot is
a potential candidate for the presi
dency or vice presidency—his friends
say they are aiming for first place
only. Mr. Coolidge hasn’t taken as
pronpunced a stand on prohibition
as has Governor Pinchot. Nor has
the chief executive made himself 100
per cent dry to the satisfaction of
the Anti-Saloon league as did the
late President Harding, who at Den
ver appealed to the people of Amer
ica to cease drinking intoxicants and
even to give up stocks of liquor they
had lawfully acquired. This was
generally regarded as about the most
effective appeal that had come from
the White House since thp eighteenth
amendment and the Volstead law
were adopted.
There are those in the “dry” camp
who believe President Coolidge would
gladly have evaded the question of
a governors’ conference on prohibi
tion if he could have gracefully done
so. He found out, however, that
President Harding had pledged him
self to call such a conference. Mr.
Coolidge did consider for a time a
plan whereby the governors would
not be asked to come to Washington,
but their views solicited and the fed
eral, government’s plans explained by
an exchange of memoranda. This,
however, was abandoned and the
brief program of a few hours in
Washington substituted. Originally,
Mr. Harding planned a conference
that would have extended over sev
eral days.
Mr. Coolidge will, of course, speak
at both the citizenship conference
and the governors’ meeting. He will
have an opportunity to advocate law
enforcement in as general or in as
specific terms as he likes. So far as
the drys are concerned, he will be on
trial. Will he go as far in the ad
vocacy of prohibition as does Gov
ernor Pinchot?
This will be his opportunity to
remove all doubts, for, be it known,
Mr. Coolidge was at one time an at
torney for brewing interests in
Northampton, Mass., in the days
when the local option fight was at
its height. , Since that time his veto
message oh a beer bill passe'd by the
Massachusetts legislature won the
commendation of the Anti-Saloon
league.
Mr. Coolidge comes from a state in
which the wet and dry question is
not all one-sided, and there are those
in his own following who wish he
would simply come out for law en
forcement and let it go at that. They
do not want him to become com
mitted to a program of no modifica
tion of the existing situation r»y con
gress or the states. With most ques
tions, Mr. Coolidge can wait till the
December session of congress before
he makes known his views on pend
ing issues. On prohibition, he will
have to declare himself within the
next ten days.
Mr. James I. Estes
Dies at Age of 71
RUTLEDGE, Ga.. Oct. 10.—Mr.
James I. Estes, 71, died at his home
near Rutledge Sunday night. Mr.
Estes was one of the largest plant
ers and land (owners of the county.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Maggie Estes; one son, C. C. Estes,
of Covington, Ga.. and six daugh
ters; Mrs. Elmer Lunsford, Coving
ton. Ga.; Mrs.’ John Adams, Mans
field, Ga.; Mrs. Emmett Adams,
Mansfield; Mrs. W. I. Knight. Rut
ledge, Ga.; Mrs. C. M. Jones, Rut
ledge, Ga., and Mrs. Thomas Cook,
of Rutledge.
Train Kills Negro
QUITMAN, Ga., Oct. 10.—Jesse
Newsome, a negro in the employ of
John Duncan, about four miles
from town, was struck and instant
ly killed by passenger train No. 2
of the South Georgia railway near
Fodie.
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Florida Woman Asks
Rome Pastor to Aid
In Search for Son
ROME, Oct. 10. —Mrs. Lena Mac-
Fadden, 746 S. Ridgewood avenue,
Daytona, Fla., has called on Dr. J.
E. Sammons, pastor of First Baptist
church, Rome, to assist her in find
ing her 16-year-old son, Marshall
Fisher, who left home in a “huff”
about a month ago. Mrs. MacFad
den said in a letter to Dr. Sam
mons that she is heart-broken. “I
want my boy to come home,” she
said.
The last the mother heard of the
runaway boy was that he was going
north with his collie dog through
Griffin, Ga.
FURM PROBE Est
COMMITTEE BEGINS
TO PREPARE REPORT
After hearing Tuesday morning
from A. O. Blalock, who opposed J.
J. Brown for commissioner of agri
culture in the last election, the joint
legislative committee concluded its
investigation of the department of
agriculture Tuesday afternoon and
went into executive session to form
ulate its report.
The committee seemed anxious
that some of the witnesses who have
been summoned appear at the after
noon session, but on their failure to
show up the adjournment was voted.
Mr. Blalock was examined con
cerning the Kittrell expense account,
which testimony at a hearing several
weeks ago declared, was found in his
headquarters in the Kimball house.
He said that Governor Hardwick
was willing that he or any one
should have access to the public
records of the executive office. He
had heard of the Kittrell account,
and he asked Walter Vance, the war
rant clerk, for a copy of it.
Aimed at Kittrell
It was not his idea, Mr. Blalock
said, to use the Kittrell matter so
much against Commissioner Brown
as against Mr. Kittrpll, who was
a candidate for re-election as repre
sentative from Laurens county. He
sent his copy to Laurens county, he
said.
Mr. Blalock declined to state his
own conclusions about the manage
ment of the department of agricul
ture, because, he said, they were
inadmissable as evidence in the in
vstigation. He read to the commit
tee, however, the text of a letter he
had wfittn to Commissioner Brown
during their campaign, in which he
made several charges against the
department and the commissioner’s
management of it. He asserted that
he stands squarely behind these
charges today and believes that an
investigation will substantiate them.
Gauge Company Bought
By the Ford Company
DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 10.—The
Ford Motor company has purchased
the holdings of the Johanason
Gauge company, of Sweden, with an
American branch at Poughkeepsie,
N. Y., it was learned today at the
company’s office here. The Johana
son company manufactures precision
instruments.
Further than to confirm the pur
chase, officials refused to discuss
the matter or tell what plans the
company may have in connection
with the Johanason plants.
Skeletons in France
Date Back 15,000 Years
PARIS, Oct. 10. —Skeletons of two
men and a woman dating back 15,-
i)00 years have been discovered in
ihe south of France. The bodies
had been buried facing the east. The
men apparently were about six feet
tall.
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Gainer Adkins is the father of
Charley Adkins, the twelve-year-old
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afterwards committed suicide.
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distance into the woods.
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there was no evidence to connect the
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that his overall were clean, whereas
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and there were tracks showing
where the elder Adkins had gone
through the mud to the place where
he said he was getting out light
wood and then back to the house,
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place where he was at work to the
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The elder Adkins testified that the
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Gunshot Wound Fatal
COLUMBUS, Ga., Oct. 10.—Chester
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days ago, was buried in Pine Grove
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