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£bc Atlanta Sri-Wcckly Souvnal
VOL. XXV. NO. 179
WAS HELD CAPTIVE
BY CHATTANODGANS.
CHICAGOAN SAYS
Tennesseans Deny Kidnap
ing—Accuse Distributor of
Breaking Contract That
Meant Business Failure
CHICAGO. Nov. 22.—Everett
Leonard, 55-year-old Chattanooga
manufacturer, and I -s son, Willard.
21, alleged to have made Robert
Naylor, a Chicago distributor, a
prisoner, through the persuasion of
handcuffs and revolvers, and held
him a prisoner for 26 days in their
Chattanooga home in an effort to
collect a debt of $9,000, today were
charged formally with assault with
intent to commit murder, carrying
concealed weapons and kidnaping.
They were arrested yesterday out
side the building where Naylor has
an office, and, according to the po
lice, w’ere armed with three revolv
ers, plenty of cartridges and the
handcuffs. They had come, the po
lice say’ they admitted, to “get the
money or get Naylor.”
The elder Leonard, in his cell at
the detective bureau, denied Naylor
had been kidnaped.
Kidnaping Denied
“It was nothing of the kind,” he
said “I don’t wish to be discour
teous. sir, but I’d rather not discuss
the affair until I see my attorneys.
Naylor called the police yester
day and said he had received a tele
gram that the Leonards were
coming to get the money or take
him back to Chattanooga Across
the street, he said, the two men
were waiting. The detectives went
out and arrested them.
“One false move and youie
through,” Naylor declared they
greeted him with on the previous
visit in October, and pointed revolv
ers at him. He said he told them
he couldn’t pay them.
“There we sat through the morn
ing and afternoon.’’ he said. it
anyone came into the outer office he
was told that I was out. finally I
was given the choice between a bul
£t and a trip to Chattanooga It
didn’t take me long to make up my
mind ‘ Was Brought South
"I was released from the handcuffs
and given a chance to call my busi
ness acquaintances and friends and
tell them that I'd be out of town on
business indefinitely. My telegram
to my wife in Indiana were censored
as to the desination. Then we went
to the train.”
In Chattanooga Naylor declared ne
was held .a prisoner for twenty-six
days in Leonard's home. He said
he was not mistreated in any way,
but was kept under surveillance. All
communications he sent out were
censored, he asserted.
He said he was taken on numer
ous visits to bankers and loan sharks
In a xain effort to obtain funds to
satisfy the accounts the Leonards
wanted settled. If the money was
not paid, he said, the Leonards told
him their company would be “broke,”
and explained that it would be un
pleasant for the man who should
cause that condition.
Signed Anything
“I was held a prisons until I
signed a sheaf of agreements prom
ising to pay Leonard specified sums
at specified periods. Both of us
knew it would be impossible to meet
the payments. But I’d had enough
of Chattanooga and I’d have signed
anything to get away.”
Naylor said he had been back in
Chicago about six days when one
of the payments fell due. Then came
a telegram that they were coming for
the money or for him, he asserted.
Leonard and his son will be ar
raigned tomorrow in the South Clark
street branch of the municipal court.
The elder Leonard says he has
many acquaintances among Chicago
business men. In his home town he
said he "was authorized to carry
weapons.
CHICAGOAN BROKE CONTRACT,
CHATTANODGANS DECLARE
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Nov. 22.
Friends of Everett and Willard
Leonard, of Chattanooga, under ar
rest at Chicago for threatening to
kill Roger Naylor, president of the
Santex company, admitted last night
that Naylor had been kidnaped and
kept prisoner in the Leonard home
here for three weeks.
It is stated the elder Leonard and
Naylor had an agreement in which
products of the sanitary pad plant,
operated here by the Leonards,
should be shipped to the Santex
company and that part of the pro
ceeds should be sent back to Leon
ard. It is contended that Naylor
breached his agreement and was at
tempting to defraud the Leonards,
who went to Chicago and forced
him to return here, where he was
compelled to sign a contract. It is
contended also that Naylor failed
to stand by the contract and it was
the intention of the Leonards to
kidnap him again and bring him to
Chattanooga with the view of com
pelling him to pay money alleged
to be due. ■
Man Falls 4 Stories,
‘Felt Just Little Shaken
Up,’ but Dies Later
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21.—Falling
four stories Albert Karlson, fifty
one, suffered no broken bones and
told doctors he “felt just a little
shaken up.” The shock killed him
four hours later.
The Weather
Virginia: Clearing; no change in
temperature.
North Carolina, South Carolina
and Georgia; Fair, no change in
temperature.
Florida: Generally fair; no change
in temperature.
Extreme Northwest Florida, Ala
bama, Mississippi: Fair and cooler.
Tennessee and Kentucky: Fair
and colder.
West Virginia: Fair and colder.
Louisiana: Generally afir.
Arkansas: Generally fair.
Oklahoma, East and West Texas;
Generally fans, . .
Published Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
NEWS OF THE WORLD
TOLD IN BRIEF
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C.—For
mer Congressman Richard N. Hack
ett, fifty-seven, dibs at Statesville.
SHANGHAI. —E. W. Sctimalzreid,
American missionary attached to re
formed church at Shenchow-Fu, is
kidnaped by bandits.
NEW YORK. —Prohibition agents
seized SIOO,OOO worth of liquor in
raid on warehouse of . Baird &
Daniels company
FORT WORTH, Tex.—Dr. Fred
erick A. Cook, former Polar explorer,
is sentenced to fourteen years and
nine months’ imprisonment for us
ing mails to defraud in oil scheme.
NEW YORK. —Methodist Episco
pal church will devote its resources
to development of Methodist college
overlooking the Vatican in Rome,
bishops announce.
LONDON.—Lady Astor silences
taunts of hecklers when she carries
campaign into Socialist hotbed at
Plymouth. Because of great crowds
she has to enter and leave hall
through
BERLIN. —Socialist caucus adopts
resolution, to be moved in reichstag,
expressing lack of confidence in
Stresemann government because of
that government’s attitude in Saxon
and Bavarian situation.
LOS ANGELES.—Joseph W. En
gel, senior vice president of Metro
Pictures corporation, is arrested in
connection with consignment of
liquor valued at $30,000, alleged to
have been shipped to him from New
York. .
DETROIT.—Mrs. Chase S. Osborn,
wife of Michigan’s former governor,
denies she is a social butterly and
declares that she has taken no court
action and never will to effect a
separation from her husband.
PHILADELPHIA.—Orders closing
all shops of Pennsylvania railroad
system doing general repair and new
work, until December 3, are sent
out from general offices of com
pany. About 70,000 men are af
fected.
NEW YORK.—The"World declares
that it has learned from unrevealed
diplomatic source that a formal
threat by Great Britain to end the
entente compelled Poincare to drop
plans for further actions against
Germany.
MARIETTA, Ga. —Six men are in
dicted in connection with alleged
flogging of woman by masked band,
near Smyrna, Ga. Among the ac
cused is Kellar Hasty, pitcher of
Philadelphia Athletics, and his two
farmer brothers.
PARIS. —Allies agree on text of
two notes to Germany: warn Berlin
government to give adequate pro
tection to military control commis
sion; allies declare that crown
prince is safe as long as he keeps
promise to renounce throne of Prus
sia. but that return to Germany of
former kaiser will not be allow’ed.
SKILLED.ISINJURED
3 UNACCOUNTED FOB
IN LOUISIANA BLAST
NEW IBERIA, La., Nov. 22.
Search continued today for addition
al bodies in the ruins of the Vida
sugar refinery at Loreauville, ten
miles east of here, which was razed
late Wednesday by a terrific boiler
explosion, killing at least nine per
sons and injuring 15 others, five of
them probably fatally.
A check-up of the refinery’s pay
roll disclosed that three employes
were unaccounted -for and it was
feared they had been buried under
the debris of the plant which was
completely wrecked, causing an es
timated loss of SIOO,OOO.
Nine bodies had been taken from
the ruins. Os the injured who were
brought to local hospitals, seven
were white and eight negroes. Two
of the former and three of the lat
ter were reported in a critical con
dition..
The blast came without warning
when one of the five boilers which
had just been steamed up to start
the sugar grinding season let go.
A negro standing 1,500 feet away
was beheaded when struck by a
piece of the boiler, and a mule a
quarter of a mile distant was killed
in the same manner.
The refinery which was owned by-
Henry N. Pharr, John O. Bonin,
Cyrus Leßlanc, John E. Schwing
and Antoin Gonsoulin, employed
100 persons.
It was announced an investiga
tion into the explosion would be
conducted immediately.
40,000 Gallons of Cider
Seized; Farmers Arrested
BURLINGTON, Conn., Nov. 22.
Prohibition agents yesterday seized
40,000 gallons of cider on the farm
of Elliott Aiderman and ’ arrested
Aiderman and his two sons, who
are charged with violating the state
prohibition law. The cider is de
scribed by the agents as “hard.”
They left 20,000 gallons of sweet
cider. It is the largest seizure of
the kind on record In the state.
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SPRINGFIELD. Ill.—Bishop Gran
ville H. Sherwood, forty-five, of the
Episcopal diocese of Springfield, dies
suddenly of heart disease at home
here,
PARIS.—Mrs. William Ellis Co
rey, former Maybelle Gilman, fa
mous musical comedy actress, is
granted divorce from steel manu
facturer.
WASHINGTON.—War-time ship
building plant of Skinner & Eddy
Co., at eSattle, is sold to city of
Seattle for .$600,000 by shipping
board.
PHILADELPHIA. Women
■preachers soon will fill most pulpits
in the rural sections, Rev. David D.
Forsyth, Methodist church official,
declares.
ATLANTIC* CITY. —Commissioners
approve ordinance forbidding use of
that city’s highways by Ku Klux
Klan or other hooded orders for pa
rade purposes.
NEW YORK.—Ur Brander Mat
thews, noted literary authority, is
reported seriously ill and his return
to Columbia as a professor is declar
ed unlikely.
LONDON.—Lady Astor, in her elec r
tion campaign, says she will avoid
going on speaking platform if she
must have human hyenas howling' at
her evfery time she speaks.
FORT WORTH, Texas.—Dr. Fred
erick A. Cook, convicted of oil
frauds, asserted he has no money,
denying charges of judge and prose
cuting officials that his dollars are
safely put away.
WASHINGTON.—Secretary Hoov
er says that the government is los
ing much money because American
women have changed fashions in furs
and are showing less interest in seal
skins.
BRUSSELS. —Belgian government
notifies German government that if
indemnity for assassination of Lieu
tenant Graff near Dusseldorf last
year is not paid by Sunday, Bel
gium will secure payment in occu
pied sections.
INDIANAPOLIS.—Senator James
E. Watson, denying reports that he
might enter Indiana presidential
preference primary to capture In
diana delegation for President Cool
idge, says that should he enter
race it will be on his own account.
WASHINGTON. Representative
Graham, of Illinois, declares after
talk with president, that he received
the. impression that the president
would follow a hands-off policy in his
contest with Rrep’resentative Long
worth for Republican leader of the
house.
OKLAHOMA < TTY. Oklahoma
senate begins discussion of the anti-
Ku Klux Klan rqeasures and Senator
Freye predicts civil war in Oklahoma
if klan is not unmasked; declares he
has been told that southeastern Okla
homans are already organizing, wait
ing to see what this legislature will
do.
WILSON PLANNING
PART IN CAMPAIGN,
LETTER INDICATES
NEW YORK, Nov. 22.—Active
participation of Woodrow Wilson in
the next_. presidential campaign,
Brooklyn Democrats believe, is fore
shadowed by a letter which the for
mer president sent the secretary of
the regular Democratic club. Twelfth
assembly district, Kings county,
acknowledging resolutions commend
ing him for the principles enunciat
ed in his Armistice day radio ad- I
dress.
Mr. Wilson said:
“I am deeply gratified by the
generous preamble and resolutions
of the regular Democratic club and
beg that you will express to the
members of the club my great satis
faction in the thought that we shall
be comrades in the great work
which lies immediately ahead of the
Democratic party, work which will,
in my opinion, lead to permanent
triumphs in the great cause of jus
-1 tice and humanity.”
Tear Gas Proposed
To Make Insects Cry
Themselves to Death
SAN FRANCISCOS Nov. 22.
Bats, gophers, weevils and all sorts
of pets may soon be crying them
selves to death.
The intelligence section of army
headquarters here today announced
that the chemical warfare service
had developed a new “tear gas,”
which not only will be valuable as a
weapon of war, but as an extermi
nator of pests.
In one-eighth the strength neces
sary when in war, it stated, the new
gas is harmless to humans, but
quickly overcomes rodents and in
sect pests.
Ghost Is Laid
MELKSHAM, Eng.—Villagers de
termined to end the terror caused by
a ghost and captured a masquerad
ing farmhand who w-as badly beaten.
METHODISTS ASKEO
TO DONATE 5400.080
FDR AGED PASTORS
Two speakers told the fifty-sev
enth annual gathering of the North
Georgia conference of the Methodist
Episcopal church, south, now in ses
sion at the Wesley Memorial church,
Thursday, of the needs of superan
nuated ministers in southern Meth
odism, and urged the conference to
accept its quota of the $10,000,000
fund being raised for their relief.
Under the plan, as outlined by Dr.
Luther E. Todd, of St. Louis, in
charge of the fund, the North Geor
gia conference is asked to pay over
a five-year period, a sum equivalent
to the assessments for pastoral sup
port in the conference during 1923.
This is approximately $400,000.
Dr. Todd said that twenty confer
ences in southern Methodism already
have accepted their quotas, and he
urged the North Georgians to come
to the support of the fund which
will mean much to aged ministers
and their widows when no other
means of support is in sight.
Dr. W. A. Lambeth, of the West
ern North Carolina conference, and
one of the most effective speakers
in Methodism, followed Dr. Todd
with a glowing inspirational address
in which he told how the ministers
now too old for service, and who
have given their lives to the work
of the church, have no means of
support and must experience priva
tions unless aided by the conference.
His address was met with rousing en
thusiasm.
Aged Pastors Present
An effective setting was made
when the fifty superannuates in the
North Georgia conference were call
ed to stand and answer to their
names. There were many moist
eyes in the congregation which taxed
the Wesley Memorial auditorium as
these sturdy warriors of the right
rose feebly to answer “Here!”
Bishop U. V. W. Darlington, pre
siding over the conference, also made
an appeal for aid for the superan
nuates and augmented the effective
ness of the other speakers by the
feeling manner in which he told of
the valiant service and silent heroism
of ministers.
The tenor of the conference was
to accept the quota though n® offi
cial action was taken at the session
Thursday. There were many bursts
of applause which punctuated the |
remarks of the speakers, and the en
tire gathering appeared to feel the
utmost sympathy for the veterans in
the ministry.
Among the most attentive listen
ers in the auditorium was the Rev.
W. W. Brinsfleld, agent for the
superannuates’ homes in the North
Georgia conference, who has done
a most effective work in this con
nection. The Rev. Mr. Brinsfield is
75 years ol dand has been super
annuated twice, yet he continues ac
tively in the work of the confer
ence.
Attorney Attending
Senate Sessions Here,
Rogers Trial Put Off
DOUGLAS, Ga., Nov. 22—On mo
tion of defense attorneys, the trial
of John S. Rogers, charged with
killing his brother, Love Rogers, at
his home near here, about a year
ago, was postponed today in Coffee
superior court until the second Mon
day in March. Trial of Mrs. Love
Rogers on the same charge also
was postponed on motion of Solici
tor A. B. Spence.
The man and woman were jointly
indicted, and Solicitor Spence an- i
nounced ready when the case was
called for trial this morning, but
counsel for Mrs. Rogers asked for
a separation of the cases, and the
solicitor elected to try the man first.
Attorney J. A. Roberts then sub-
I mitted in writing a motion for con
continuance on the ground that his
partner, E. L. Grantham, being sena
tor from the Forty-sixth district, is
attending the special session of the
legislature in Atlanta. Solicitor
Spence resisted this motion, but he
was overruled by Judge Summerall,
who sustained the motion of Mr.
Roberts.
There was not even standing room
in the courtroom when the case was j
called, the killing being one of the
most sensational in the history of
the county. Love Rogers was shot,
according to the confession of his
brother ,as he slept, and his body
was buried in a field near his home,
John reporting that Love had dis
appeared. Several months later,
John Rogers and his brother’s widow
went to Florida, where, the woman
says, they were married. They were
arrested in Avon Park, Fla., after
the body of Love Rogers had been
found by Coffee county authorities.
" ■
Elmer McCann, Trusty,
Escapes State Farm
By a Clever Ruse
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga.. Nov. 23.
Elmer McCann, one of the widest
known men serving a sentence at the
state prison farm, escaped last Fri
day it was learned here Thursday.
McCann was under sentence for forg
ery and his sentence would have ex
pired in April.
McCann’s operations were wide
and there were several charges stand
ing against him outside of the one
ihe was serving sentence for. He is
known to have been a very intelligent
man, having written several plays
and stories which have been put on
the stage and screen.
McCann was a trusty at the farm
and made his departure following an
escape of a negro at the farm. He
left under the pretense of stopping
i the escaped negro. He had craftily
hidden his civilian clothes under his
convict garb. Nothing has been
heard of him since his escape. Since
his sentence would have ended in
April, the motive for his escape is
thought to be the other charges
against him.
Judge Dunaway, who is superin
j tendent at the farm, was in Florida
I at the time of the escape, to return
I oliigr- convicts who ha 4 sot a-wajf.
INCOME TAX VOTE
ISSETFORTUESDAY
IN GEORGIA HOUSE
Hope that the extra session of the
Georgia legislature would adjourn
before Thanksgiving went glimmer
ing Thursday afternoon when the
rules committee of the house set
next Tuesday at 11 o'clock as the
hour for beginning the vote on the
Lankford income tax bill with its
four substitutes.
The action of the committee fol
lowed two heated sessions Thursday
in which the supporters of the Lank
ford measure and advocates of hte
Bussey substitute -locked horns.
Governor Walker appeared at the
first meeting of the committee and
suggested, that 4 o’clock Thursday
afternoon be set as the hour for be
ginning the vote, as there had al
ready been sufficient delay and con
sideration of the income tax issue.
Charles S. Barrett
Heads Farmers’ Union
For Nineteenth Term
OMAHA, Neb., Nov. 22.—For the
nineteenth consecutive year, Charles
S. Barrett, Union City, Ga., and A.
C. Davis, Gravette, Ark., were elect
ed president and secretary, respec
tively, of the national body of the
Farmers’ Educational and Co-opera
tive union at the close of the second
day of the annual meeting here Wed
nesday.
E. L. Harrison, of Lexington, Ky.,
was re-elected vice president, while
the entire board of directors was re
tutrned.
Mr. Barrett’s advocacy of “club
methods” made in his annual mes
sage to the convention included a
statement that he had “seen enough
in Washington to make a whole
army of farmers turn Bolshevik.”
And another that “99 percent of the
people knew nothing of what is go
ing on there.” The farmers, he said,
must know how to make their influ
ence count and “what methods to
use to oust the crowd in power when
they need ousting.”
The Farmers’ union, he asserted,
through co-operation has discovered
the means of obtaining benefits in
legislation and is applying them.
“We are more than justified for our
faith that better times are ahead for
the American farmer, because of the
fact that the Farmers’ union through
experience, has been at least success
ful in driving home the principle
upon which better times must be
founded,” he declared, in t'ouching
on co-operation in distribution of
products and purchase of his sup
plies.
Baby 19 Days Old
Weighs Just a Pound;
Mother 15 Years Old
HOUSTON, Texas, Nov. 22
Marie Rogers, 19 days old and weigh
ing just one pound, fought bravely
for her life today.
The tiny infant is normal in every
way but. size and subsists cn one
ounce of milk a day.
Six drops of whisky in her bath
and three drops in her milk is keep
ing the spark of life aglow, accord
ing to attending physicians.
Marie’s mother, M’S. G. W. Rog
ers, is 15 years old. She was married
in Shreveport, La., when she was
thirteen.
So tiny is the tot that a ring
which fits an ordinary man’s little
finger, will slip snugly over its
chubby fist like a bracelet.
Physicians who arc watching the
case say that continual life of the
"doll baby” is one of the strangest
cases in medical history.
Sell-Forgetfulness
Killed Harding, His
Physician Declares
WASHINGTON, Nov. 22. —Scien
tific and sociological phases of the
physician’s work were considered
further today by delegates attending
the annual convention of the South
ern Homeopathic Medical association.
President Harding’s death was at
tributed in an address last night
by Lieutenant Commander Joel T.
Boone, one of the physicians who
attended him during his last illness,
to his “thoughtfulness of others and
his forgetfulness of self.” He had no
chance on the Alaskan trip, said
Commander Boone, to recuperate
from the strenuous preparation just
before his departure.
Christmas Savings
Total $211,606,800,
Showing Huge Gain
NEW YORK. Nov. 21.—Distribu
toin of Christmas savings in the
United States this year will total
$211,606,800. an increase of $30,000
000 over 1922, Herbert F. Rawll.
president of the Christmas club cor
poration, announced today. Within
the next two weeks, banks will mail
more than five million holly-bordered
| checks to depositors, who through
' out the year have anticipated their
; Christmas needs, and banked from
i 25 cents to S2O a week.
New York state led in the saving
, With $36,824.430.
$10,000,000 Asked
For Enforcing Dry
And Narcotics Laws
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21.—An ap
i propria tion of more than $10,000,000
| for the enforcement of the prohibi
! tion and narcotic laws during the
: next fiscal year was said by prohibi
i tion officials today to have been in
i eluded in treasury estimates sub
; mitted to the director of the budget.
I The estimates include $1,250,000,
an increase of $500,000 over this
year’s allotment, for enforcement of
the narcotic act.
Goodyear Raincoat Free
Goodyear Mfg. Co., 6029-R Goodyear Building,
Kansaa City. Mo., Is making an offer to send
i -andsome raincoat free to ons person tn each
locality who will nhow and recommend It to
frienda. If yon want one, write today.
U4rertl*eaantJ
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Atlanta, Ga., Saturday, November 24, 1923
MAYOR OF BEAUFORT, S. C.,
PRISON SENTENCE COMMUTED,
GOES HOME TO TAKE REINS
R, V. Bray Wins Freedom
After Serving Five Months
for Physical Attack on
U. S. Tax Agent
■
BY ERNEST ROGERS
Out of the gray, grim shadows of
the federal penitentiary -Wednesday,
R. V. Bray, mayor of Beaufort, S. C.,
stepped into the fading winter after
noon to hurry home, where his fel
low townsmen awaited him Thurs
day to accord him a welcome wor
thy of the town’s chief executive.
For five gray months the South
Carolina mayor had toiled at the
penitentiary while his townsmen
kept their faith in him sustained and
patiently held the reins of office
ready for his hands when he arrived.
His sentence of a year and a day
imposed by a federal court in South
Carolina was cut to a little more
than five months by a commutation
from President Coolidge.
Mr. Bray found the road to free
dom was by no means easy. During
the last days of the administration
of President Harding, an appeal for
commutation was carried through its
various channels to the highest ex
ecutive in the land. The appeal went
from congressmen and senators to
the late president himself but Mr.
Harding said he couldn’t see his way
clear to interfere with the law. How
ever, when a similar appeal reached
President Coolidge, he deemed it wise
to release the South Carolina mayoi
and signed the papers terminating
the sentence.
Jurors Regret Conviction
Mr. Bray says he has in his pos
session letters from each of the
twelve jurors who convicted him, ex
pressing regret that they had to im
pose the penalty but declaring the
judge, in his charge, was so specific
concerning the law. that they could
not do otherwise.
From the shadows of the “city of
silent men” the chief executive of
Beaufort came out as a citizen more
firmly entrenched in loyalty to his
country and the flag which floats
over the prison. No animus; no bit
terness; just the firm determination
of a good citizen to perform with
diligence the duties of the office to
which his home people elected him.
His physical appearance was not
impaired by his confinement and he
says it is with a renewal of vigor
that he will sit at the mayor’s desk
in Beaufort and direct the city's af
fairs for the remaining three years
of his term.
Convicted of making a physical at
tack on a federal inheritance tax col
lector who, he says, doubted his ve
racity in certain returns on property,
Ms- accepted his sentence but
told his townsmen if they would have
faith in him he would oome back.
Home Fires Kept Burning
The citizens kept the faith- fre
quent letters from Beaufort ‘kept
his solitude from becoming unbear
able; and now he is returning to
keep his pledge.
‘ Back to the wife and children,”
Mr. Bray said shortly after his re
lease. “That has been the big thing
1 ve missed since I’ve been away.
I have never looked forward to a
moment like I do the reunion with
my wife and two children. Not :t
flay has passed that I have not
heard from my wife. Not a day has
passed that I have not written to
her. And now I’m going back—
back.”
As he spoke he took from an in
ner pocket a letter postmarked
“Beaufort, S. C., and said he re
ceived the missive as he was leav
ing the penitentiary.
He was elected mayor while under
conviction and appealing the case.
Citizens of Beaufort had chosen him
as their chief executive, they said,
and they could run things until he
came back.
During his five months’ confine
ment Mr. Bray was chosen to ride
the mail truck between the peni
tentiary and Atlanta. He made the
trip every day with the exception
of three days he was too ill to at
tend to his duties.
“There are some fine men in the
prison,” he declared. “Some of my
buddies at the federal institution
have every refinement and there are
many I am genuinely glad to have
met. Os course, there are some of
the lowest crooks in the country
there. ”
Mrs. Stokes Granted
Separation; Terms of
Settlement Given
NEW YORK, Nov. 22. Justice
Wasservogel, in the supreme court,
today on motion of Samuel Unter
myer, counsel for Helen Elw r ood
Stokes, dismissed the suit of her hus
band, W. E. D. Stokes, for divorce,
granted her a separation and pro
vided that Stokes should have access
at all times to his children, who are
to remain in the custody of their
mother, where they were placed by
a Denver court.
It was learned that under terms
of the agreement Stokes set aside a
trust of SBOO,OOO, the income from
which is to go to the support of the
children during the lifetime of the
mother. At her death the principal
goes in equal parts to the children.
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R. V. BRAY, mayor of Beau
fort, S. C., who was released
from the federal penitentiary
Wednesday following commu
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FOIJNDIWDEREO:
SLAYER ESCAPES
SAVANNAH, Ga., Nov. 22.—“ Br
utal murder at the hands of unknown
parties,” was the verdict rendered
by a coroner’s jury here Thursday
afternoon following the discovery
Wednesday of the bodies of Mrs. Ag
nes M. Mudie and her 2-year-old
daughter, Doris, when her husband
and son returned from the city to
their home located seven miles out
from Savannah on the Isle of Hope
road.
The coroner’s jury decided that
both victims met death when struck
across the head with a hatchet. A
razor used in slashing the woman’s
throat, was found broken off in her
neck. The hatchet was used by the
murderer to complete his crime. The
child was killed by a blow over the
head.
The county police are holding one
suspect, but have clues in hand which
they expect will lead them to another
early arrest.
Beside the body of the .mother,
with her toys strewn all about, was
the body of the baby daughter,
Doris, who had been struck dead
by a blow front a hatchet.
'Mr. Mudie and his 14-year-old
son, Lester, left home Wednesday
morning shortly after 6 o'clock for
Savannah. They returned about 7
o’clock last night, and, finding no
lights burning in their home imme
diately made an investigation.
The body of Mrs. Mudie was
found in the kitchen. Blood was spat
tered all about the room. By the
body was a broken razor. The
hatchet of the household was miss
ing, and from the wounds on the
woman’s body it was evident that
the slayer resorted to the hatchet
when the razor was broken.
As soon as the alarm was given,
county police with trail hounds
went to the scene. The coroner was
called and it. was found that both
the mother and baby had been dead
from six to eight hours. The trail
hounds failed to pick up a scent
and early today the county police
declared they had no semblance of
a clue to the slayer. Just behind the
home is a dense swamp, and it is
thought, inasmuch as he was un
doubtedly bespattered with blood, he
made for this hiding place.
Mrs. Mudie had been in the habit
of making bread daily. A bowl of
dough, placed in front of the fire
w;is found. She usually began mak
ing bread around 9 o’clock; hence it
is believed the crime was committed
between 9 and 10 o’clock yesterday
morning. The only clue, with the
exception ot' the razor, in the hands
of the police, is a window curtain
which the slayer touched, leaving a
blood stain.
$2,500 Is Awarded
To Woman by Jury
For Pint of Blood
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 22.—A
jury Wednesday awarded Miss Le
ona P. Standiford $2,500 for a pint
of blood she gave in an unsuccessful
effort to save the life of Mrs. G. H.
Hilliard, of Santa Rosa, Cal.
Although the patient promised she
would be well paid, Miss Standiford
said, Mr. Hilliard had given her only
$5. The blood’ she lost made her ill
and she spent SSOO for medical treat
ment, Miss Standiford testified.
5 CENTS A COPY,
$1 A YEAR.
WOMAN FLOGGED
ON HER BARED BACK
Bl MASKED GANG
Mrs. Holcombe Asserts She
Is Positive Six Indicted
Were Involved Hasty
Brothers Claim Alibis
More than a dozen men were In
the group which last Friday night is
alleged t o have flogged Mrs. Bertha
Holcombe, 22-year-pld widiow, and her
escort, S. H. Morton, a (traveling
man, almost to the point of insensi
bility, according to the statement
Thursday of the woman victim as
she prepared to leave her home at
Smyrna, about twelve miles from
here, and take up her residence in
Atlanta.
Meanwhile, the other victim of th®
flogging was held at police head
quarters in Atlanta under SIOO bond
on a charge of violating the statfe
prohibition law, having been ar
rested Wednesday night on charges
of being drunk and possessing
whisky, while the six men under in
dictment at Marietta in connection
with the flogging prepared to de
mand an early trial and tight their
cases vigorously.
Kellar Hasty, pitcher for the
Philadelphia American league base
ball club, and one of the six men
indicted, asserted that he and his
brothers. Frank and Arthur Hasty,
would be able to prove an alibi
which would show conclusively that
their indictment grew out of mis
taken identity. Tom Black, employe
o’s the Atlanta Gas works, also under
indictment, was quoted as declaring
that he also could prove an alibi,
while the other two accused men,
P. C. Cook, an automobile mechanic
residing in Smyrna, and Joe Bram
lett, who lives near Smyrna, both
denied any connection with the flog
ging or any acquaintnaccj with the
woman.
Woman Tells of Flogging
“There were more than a dozen
men in the group that seized Mr.
Morton- and myself soon after we
stepped off the Marietta trolley at
Smyrna last Friday night about
10:45 o’clock,” asserted Mrs. Hol
combe, who is an employe of the
Southern Bell Telephone and Teip
graph company, in Atlanta.
"After carrying us out into the
country, the men got careless and
let their masks slip down. I recog
nized Tom Black and Joe Bramlett.
Black did all the talking and qfice
when somebody interrupted him, he
told them to shut up, that he ‘was
doing all the talking.’ That man re
plied, ‘You have already talked too
much.’
“After both Mr. Morton and my
self had been v’hipped until we were
almost ipiconscious, I was brought
back to Smyrna and placed on the
front porch of the Hasty home.
While I was standing there—it was
about 12:30 o’clock, Arthur and
Frank Hasty came into the front
yard carrying a flashlight. I went
out a..d spoke to them and they
asked: ‘Where is he?’ I didn’t reply
and they asked me if I wanted to
go home. They carried me to my
home.
Later, Mr. Morton came there about
4 o’clock in the morning, stating
that he had walked to Marietta and
caught a taxicab back to my house.
He spent the remainder of the night
there and then left. I have known
him about seven months and had
been going with him for the last two
weeks, since he camo back from Den
ver. I gave the solicitor only the
names of those I positively identi
fied.”
Morton Declines to Talk
Held at police headquarters, Mor
ton refused to discuss the flogging
beyond admitting that l.e was the
victim. He said he had been warned
by Solicitor General John Wood, of
the Blue Ridge circuit, not to dis
miss the case. The solicitor, like
wise, was disinclined to discuss the
affair Thursday morning beyond
stating- that the cases probably
would he placed on trial next week.
“Cobb county is confronted by a
very serious situation,” declared the
solicitor, “a situation that is as In
sidious, if not more so, than any
now prevalent anywhere in the
country. I intend to prosecute this
flogging case to the full extent of
the law, regardless of the affiliation
of any of the parties concerned.”
R. E. Butler, the father-in-law of
Pitcher Hasty, asserted Thursday
that both Mr. and Mrs. Hasty were
at his home on the night of the al
leged flogging, and that they talked
until 11 o’clock that night about
plans to make a trip to Macon the
next morning. The couple then re
tired, he said, while he sat up and
wrote a letter. The trip to Macon
came off as planned, he stated.
All Declare Innocence
The other Hasty brothers declare
they were at a picture show in Ma
rietta on the evening of November
16 until about 11 o'clock, and that
after the show they escorted the
young ladies to their home in
Smyrna, reaching there about 11:30
o’clock.
Black and Bramlett were In con
sultation Thursday morning with
Attorney Lindley W. Camp, at Ma
rietta. These two men deny any
connection with the affair, declaring
that they know nothing of the flog
ging and that they are not acquaint
ed vyith the woman victim.
Indictments Create Stir
The gi;and jury action in return
ing the indictments against the six
men was' the first news made public
of the flogging and the disclosure
created a sensation both in Marietta
and in Smyrna, which is eight milea
from the Cobb county seat. The in
dicted men made bond within an
hour after their arrest. Cook was
taken in custody in Atlanta and
turned over to Sheriff Swanson, of
Cobb county.
Keller Hasty is the son-in-law of
R. E. Butler, a well-known Cobb
county farmer and business man,
having married Miss Wilmer Butler
last spring while his baseball team
was in Atlanta for an exhibition
game. Mr. and Mrs. Hasty reside
with the Butlers during the off sea
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