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VOL. XXV. NO. 307
MIH HARDING
SUICIDE, MEDICAL
EXAMINER REPORT
Former Federal Reserve
Bank Head Refuses to
' Make Statement on Mys-
terious Death of Daughter
BOSTON, Jan. 28.—A finding of
suicide was reported by Acting Med
ical Examiner William J. Brickley
today In the case of Miss 'Margaret
Eliot Harding, daughter of W. P. G.
Harding, governor of the Federal
Reserve Bank of Boston. Miss Har
ding died at the Harding home on
Beacon street last Saturday. 11l
health was the probable cause of
the suicide, Dr. Brickley said.
All that Dr. Brickley would add to
his statement was that a hemorrhage
was the direct cause of death, and
that no other person was involved in
the girl's act. It was reported that
Miss Harding had suffered a nervous
breakdown due to a too strenuous
round of social activities during a
recent visit to Washington.
Members of the family declined
to chscuss the matter. The young
woman died at the Harding home,
cn Beacon street. Plans were made
for funeral services this afternoon
at. the chapel of the Massachusetts
Cremation society, in the Forest
Hills district.
Miss Harding was born in Bir
ningtum, Ala., twenty •three years
ago, and before coming to this city
had been prominent in society circles
Li Washington and the south. When
her father, who was formerly gover
nor of the federal reserve board, as
-1 Burned his position here a year ago,
jibe came with him and since had
presided over his home. Her moth
e - died in 1910. Her two sisters are
Mrs. 11. T. Pell, of New York, and
Mrs. Eugene V. R. Thayer, wife ol
the former president of lhe Chase
National bank, of New York.
BIRMINGHAM FRIENDS
SHOCKED BY TRAGEDY
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Jan. 28
Suicide of Miss Margaret Harding
in Boston yesterday came as a se
vere shock to then friends here
where she had been a frequent visi
tor and had many relatives. The
tragedy was aggravated for her Bir
mingham relations by the fact that
her mother killed herself under,
tragic circumstances fifteen years
ago. She shot herself without leav
ing any explanation.
15 Killed in Cottage
As Break in Gas Pipe
Is Sought With Match
PAWTUCKET, R. 1., Jan. 28.—Fif
teen persons were killed when escap
ing gas flooded a two family cottage
at Cumberland Hills, Manville, early
today and an explosion and fire
which followed wrecked the building.
• The victims were Michael Conway,
who lived in one side of the house;
Adelard Hamel, his wife, six sons
and five daughters, and Miss Apol-
Jine Dancour, a boarder with the
Hamel family.
Examiner Marshall attrib-
most of the deaths to asphyxia
r Sro i. Conway was found wedged in
the debris after the explosion. His
two sons tried to rescue him but he
ordered them to get their mother
and sister out of the house first and
while + hey were doing so he fell into
the cellar which was a mass of
flames. Conway was formally a
Cumberland police officer.
So far as the authorities could
learn, the C >nway boys, after smell
ing escaping gas, opened the cellar
door and a light in the hallway ig
nited the gas. The explosion which
followed is believed to have detonated
pome dynamite which Hamel, who
was a wood chopper, had stored in
the cellar. Hundreds of window*
within a radius of half an mile were
vhatte.ed by the combined gas and
dynamite explosion and the detona
tion was heard twenty miles away.
Miss Danuour had came to the
■ Hamel home as a boarder only last
night. Hamel children ranged in
age from two to 21 years.
Firemen Pour Water
On Troubled Oils in
Grand Theater Alley
The fire department was called
out early Monday afternoon to elim
inate fire danger by washing oft the
600 gallons of oil which has escaped
.from a Texas Oil company truck,
overturned in the alley running be
tween Peachtree and Ivy streets, aft
er taking “French leave’’ of its
- driver, who had entered the Grand
theater building.
A battery of hose was played on
the oil until most of it was forced
into sewers. Firemen declared that
a lighted match thrown by a passing
pedestrian or motorist would have
turned the alley into a holocaust of
flames. T. N. Kidd, of 24 Ransom
street, the driver of the truck, de
clared that the brakes failed to hold
► after he had left it parked.
X-Ray at Hospital
Shows Key to Clock
In Boy s Stomach
Grady hospital surgeons Monday
were considering the best and most
approved methods of removing the
•> winding key of a clock from tha
stomach of Robert Burcher, a smalt
toy residing on Virginia avenue in
College Park.
The boy was taken to the hospital
Sunday by his parents. Surgeons lo
cated the key with an X-ray, con
cluded the lad was in no Immediate
danger and sent him home with In
uctior.g to returp sq? treatment.
Published Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
NEWS OF THE WORLD
TOLD IN BRIEF
I NEW YORK. —William Worthen
Appleton, veteran publisher, dies.
WASHINGTON? - —Samuel Gom
pers, president of American Federa
tion of Labor, 74 years old.
MOSCOW.—Body of Nikolai Len
ine is entombed at Moscow; Trotzky,
reported ill in the Caucasus, did not
attend the services.
WILKES-BARRE, Pa.—American
Legion members break up meeting
of communists at Wilkes-Barre, Pa.,
! called in honor of Lenine.
PARIS. —Harry F. Sinclair, Ameri
can oil promoter, has moved to Ver
sailles, where he is reported ill with
a severe '■•old.
WASHINGTON.—Senator James
A. Reed, of Missouri, formally an
nounces His candidacy for Demo
cratic presidential nomination.
EL PASO.—Five men are executed
by a firing squad in the Juaez cem
etery after discovery of plot to
turn Juarez over to Mexican revolu
tionary chiefs.
HAMMOND, Ind.—Robert Ptter
son, of Moline; Mrs. Beatrice Doner
and two children, of Hammond, are
killed and three others injured when
train hits automobile.
BOSTON. William C. Hoag,
prominent resident of Peoria, 111.,
reported missing for two weeks,
found in hospital suffering from ap
parent loss of memory.
WASHINGTON. Japanese em
bassy has insquired at state depart
ment nature of proposed a.ction to
tighten immigration sections dealing
with Japanese entry.
WASHINGTON. Federal trade
commission charges that monopoly
exists in manufacture and distribu
tion of radio equipment; eight big
companies are named in complaint.
WASHINGTON. —Representatives
of the agriculture department just
returned from Germany report that
county’s food situation gives pros
pect of only slight improvement dur
ing year.
NEW YORK.—Steamers America
and Rotterdam arrive after being de
layed and buffeted by worst storms
their skippers ever experienced.
Waves broke over Rotterdam’s bride,
72 feet above water line.
WASHINGTON. White House
makes public telegram from Attor
ney General Daugherty urging selec
tion of two eminent lawyers in oil
lease proceedings Mr. Daugherty as
serts he does not wish to evade re-
and will co-operate in
the work, if Mr. Coolidge wishes.
NEW YORK. George Henry
Payne, eastern campaign manager
for Senator Hiram W. Johnson, is
sues statement declaring Teapot
Dome scandal has made Calvin
Coolidge an impossibility as a
Republican candidate. Senator
Johnson at Washington says he
knew nothing about Mr. Payne’s
statement.
WASHINGTON.—Senator Walsh,
Montana, announces that senate
committee on Saturday afternoon
reached confidential agreement to
employ special counsel and proceed
for cancellation of Teapot Dome oil
lease; Mr. Walsh delcares word oi
this agreement “obviously” reached
the White House before Mr.
Coolidge’s statement was given out
at midnight Saturday.
Merchant Kills Self
After Fire in Store
Takes Seven Lives
LYDONVILLE, Vt., Jan. 26.—Al
bert Stern, in whose building a fire
started last Monday night, causing
a loss of seven lives and $500,000
property damage, committed suicide
today by slashing his throat.
Stern, who conducted a clothing
store in'the building had been called
as a witness at an inquest into the
fire set for next Monday. A pre
liminary investigation developed the
fact that Stern was in his store ten
minutes before the flames were dis
covered.
Sidney Lanier’s Niece,*
To Wed B. B. Coiner,
Noted Alabamian
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Jan. 27.--
Announcement of the engagement
and approaching marriage of B. B
Comer, of this city, and Miss Mary
Carr Gibson, of Verbena, Ala., wa'i
made Saturday. The ceremony will
take place February 7 at the home
of Miss Gibson’s brother and sister,
Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Lanier Gibson
at Verbena. Mr. Comer is a for
mer governor and United States
senatoi- from Alabama.
Miss Gibson is a niece of Sidney
Lanier, famous southern poet.
lowa Physician Makes
Startling Offer to
Catarrh Sufferers
Found Treatment Which Heal
ed His Own Catarrh and
Now Offers to Send It
Free to Sufferers
Anywhere
Davenpoit, lowa. Dr. W. O.
Coffee, Suite 784, St. James Hotel
Zldg., this city, one of the most
widely known physicians and sur
geons in the central west, announces
that he found a treatment which
completely healed him of catarrh in
the head and nose, deafness and
head noises after many years of
suffering. He then gave the treat
ment to a number of other sufferers
and they state that they also were
completely healed. The doctor is so
proud of his achievement and so
confident that his treatment will
bring other sufferers the same free
dom It gave him. that he is offering
to send a 10 days’ supply absolutely
free to reader of this paper who
writes him. Dr. Coffee has special
ized on eye, ear, nose and throat
diseases for more than thirty-five
years, and is honored and respected
by countless thousands. If you suf
fer from nose, head or throat ca
tarrh, catarrhal deafness or head
noises, send him your nan-e and ad
dress todw.—XAiivsrtjseinent.)
ATLANTA. John E. Murphy,
capitalist, dies here of heart trou
ble at age of sixty-three.
JOHNSON CITY, HL —Thirty men
are known to be dead in mine dis
aster. .
AMERICUS. Ga— Dick Jester,
notorious convict, again escapes
from chaingang, this time in Sum
ter county.
PHILADELPHIA.—Director of
Public Safety Butler orders further
drastic changes in police department
affecting 400 men.
WASHINGTON. —Senator Borah
says that recognition of Russia by
Great Britain points a new moral
and spiritual regime.
PLYMOUTH, Eng—Lady Astor,
speaking before Rotary meeting,
asks them not to be frightened by
new socialist government.
MANCHESTER, Eng.—Manufac
turers of American cotton approve
plan for appointment of board of
control for cotton industry.
NOGALES. Sonoro. President
Obregon predicted that within a
week all principal bodies of revolu
tionaries will be destroyed.
NEW YORK. —Sir Auckland
Geddes, retiring British ambassa
dor, sailing for England, bids good
bye to United States at formal din
ner here.
LUXOR, Egypt.—Three mummies
have been discovered by Dr. Robert
Mond, English Egyptologist, while
removing rubble for extended exca
vation of tomb of Ramose.
ATLANTA.—PoIice Chief Beavers
again wins against efforts of politi
opponents seeking to remove
him from office. Superior Court
Judge Ellis throws case out of court.
KANSAS ClTY.—Legislation to
reduce federal taxation and output
of tax exempt securities recommend
ed by the Southwestern Lumber
men’s association in convention.
NEW YORK—Police Commis
sioner Enright practically reorgan
izes city’s police foree and creates
a special service division to enforce
laws against bootleggers, gamblers
and other contributors to vice.
WASHINGTON. —President Cool
idge will take every action to pro
tect the public interest and punish
all who are proved guilty of wrong
doing in naval oil lease situation,
official White jHouse advices say.
MOSCOW. Favorable vote on
speech of M. Zinovieff at Communist
conference taken to indicate that
party has decided to stand firm
against yielding further to foreign
nations or individual concession
hunters.
NEW ORLEANS.—GeneraI Octa
vio Sierra, former Mexican army
division, commander and Antonio
Escudero, former paymaster on
Mexican gunboat Bravo, arrested
on charges of desertion ten days
ago, are released.
NEW YORK.—Printed charges
that Presbyterian missionaries in
the Far East have become disloyal
to the church are declared untrue
by Dr. Herbert Gibbons, of Prince
ton, N. J., in message to Dr. Charles
F. Wishart, moderator of the Pres
byterian general assembly.
Lawyer, Who Criticized
Court, Wins Appeal in
Fight on Disbarment
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 26.
Holding that W. H. Hickey, Morris
town attorney was not in contempt
of court because of the publication
of a criticism of the circuit court of
that district, and declaring that while
the attorney was not justified by the
facts in the case to publish his criti
cism, his conduct was not such as
would render him unfit to be an at
torney. the supreme court, of Ten
nessee Saturday reversed in toto the
decree of contempt passed upon
Hickey by Judge J. L. Drinnon,
upon which was based a court order
for Hickey’s disbarment for a period
of thirty days and a sentence to pay
a nominal fine of ten dollars.
Hickey contended that he did not
attack the integrity of the court,
and that the criticism was within his
constitutional rights cS a citizen.
The case was dismissed by the high
court.
The supreme court affirmed a judg
ment foi* $13,500 in favor of Mrs.
Estella Ausbrooks, administratrix,
against the Western Union Tele
-1 graph company, for the death of her
son, who was a messenger boy in the
employ of the telegraph company.
The court held that the boy was un
lawfully employed in respect to his
age in reference to the time of his
daily labors, having been killed after
7 p. ni. The telegraph company
sought to have the provisions of the
workman's compensation law apply.
The court also held that a search
warrant issued bv the clerk of the
city court was void.
The court affirmed the decision of
the court of appeals in awarding a
judgment of $3,000 to the Nashville
Baseball association against Clyde
Shropshire, its former president, the
judgment having been based upon
an accounting at the time Shropshire
resigned ae head of the association.
The Weather
FORECAST FOR TUESDAY
Virginia: Tuesday partly clouds’
and warmer.
North Carolina: South Carolina
and Georgia: Fair and warmer; mod
erate easterly winds.
Florida: Fair except rain in ex
treme south portion, warmer in
north portion; moderate northeast
and east winds.
Extreme Northwest Florida: Ala
bama and Mississippi: Unsettled;
mild temperature; moderate east and
southeast winds.
Tennessee: Kentucky: Cloudy
with moderate temperature.
Louisiana: Rain.
Arkansas: Rain; colder in north
west portion.
Oklahoma: Partly cloudy to cloudy,
probably rain in east portion, colder.
East Texas: Partly cloudy, colder
In northwest portion.
West Texas: Partly cloudy, corder.
BE PUBLICANS FACE
TEST OF STRATEGY
IN TAXATION FIGHT
Action at Present Stage of
Proceedings Likely to De
termine Fate of Revision
Measure, Says Lawrence
BY DAVID LAWRENCE
(Leased Wire Service to The Journal.)
(Copyright, 1924.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.—After a
week of cajoling the Republicans
have not yet succeeded in convincing
their Democratic brethren that tax
revision should be non-partisan.
It goes against the grain for the
Democrats to yield to the importuni
ties of the Republicans, for they re
member how the Republicans turned
a cold shoulder to the recommenda
tions of a Democratic president sub
sequent to 1918, when the control of
both houses of congress passed from
his hands
The Democrats also feel that this
is their year. They want to do noth
ing that will help the Republican ad
ministration stay in power. In other
words if they do support a tax bill
they want it to be so obviously a
Democratic measure that the credit
will come to them rather than to
their opponents.
At the present moment, however,
the proposals emanating from the
Democratic side, if put into opera
tion, -would hardly keep the issue out
of the campaign, for the critics of
the Democratic bill insist that in
many respects it doesn’t change the
effect of the present law at all, and
that there would still be a clamor
for revision if it were passed.
The whole fight really centers
around the surtax rates. The
changes already agreed to in the
house ways and. means committee
have not been bones of contention.
Both parties have wanted to get rid
of the so-called “nuisance” taxes on
theater admissions, telegraph and
telephone messages, etc. Indeed, it is
not unlikely that there will be
further agreement on other parts of
the bill, so that the surtax rates will
be left to the last.
The Democratic proposal of 44 per
cent maximum on surtax rates is be
ing tenaciously supported by them
because of a belief that the insur
gent Republicans will not consent to
a reduction. So long as the Demo
crats play ball with the insurgent
Republicans, the combination can
control the house. The talk of com
promise emanating from the Repub
lican leaders is largely an anticipa
tion of what the coalition could and
would do. But the compromise thus
early in the game is a weakness on
the part of any leadership, whether
it be Republican or Democratic. The
usual course is to fight to the last
ditch and finally permit the house
to vote its will. The senate may
thin change the whole bill, in fact
the last tax measure was rewritten
almost entirely when it reached the
senate and virtually all of the provi
sions inserted by the senate were ul
timately accepted by the house when
the bill came back to that body for
action after it had been approved
by the conference committee appoint
ed by both houses to iron out dif
ferences between the upper and
lower branches of the national legis
lature.
The tax 'bill now under considera
tion will be a much different meas
ure when jt finally comes out of con
ference-. Yet on the strategy of the
Republican leaders at this stage of
the proceedings rests their eventual
strength in getting the house to ap
prove an amended senate bill. The
administration leaders have already
made many mistake. They have
gone on the assumption that they
must compromise because their op
ponents appear to have the votes.
Tney have not dared to make the
fight for lower surtax rates because
they are afraid they will be accused
of protecting the wealthy. As a mat
ter of fact very few on the Repub
lican side have the courage to stand
by the president and secretary of
the treasury, who declare that the
burden will be borne by the poor
man if the surtax rates do not be
come more productive of revenue.
The test of Republican leadership
is at hand, but even the most ardent
champions of the Coolidge adminis
tration are inclined to admit that the
house leaders have already fumbled
the ball and will lose it altogether
if they do not pull themselves to
gether and make an effort at least
to gather in a favorable public opin
ion on the surtax question. The pro
ponents of a high surtax are strong
because the question has not been
understood by the general public.
The Republican leaders in the house
have not strengthened the situation
by their readiness to compromise.
And the Democrats, observing the
weakness in the Republican camp,
are prepared to drive still further
till they put through, if possible, a
tax bill alt their own.
Two to Face Court
In Slaying of Young
Marshal of Ludowici
LUDOWICI, Ga., Jan. 28.—The
remains of Mr. J. M. McDaniel, aged
23. marshal of the town of Ludowici
who was killed here Friday night
were taken to Meansville, Ga., where
funeral services were held Monday.
Marshal McDaniel was killed Fri
day night while on duty, and C. A.
Sallette and D. P. Sallette. brothers, I
both of Ludowici, are in jail at
Hinesville, in Liberty county, pend
ing a preliminary hearing.
It is alleged that the officer at
tempted to quiet a disturbance in |
the Chapman Mercantile company ■
store, here in which the two men I
were engaged. Afterward, .when
McDaniel stepped out of the back
door of the store into a dimly light
ed alley, he was attacked and killed
instantly.
D. P. Sallette, one of the men be
ing held, was shot once in the arm.
Mr. McDaniel had been in
Ludowici a little over two weeks,
having come here from Savannah
when he was elected marshal of
Ludowici. He had lived in Savan
nah for the past five years.
His wife and baby, who survr ?
him. came tn Ludowici a few days
ago. ■
ADMINISTRA TION ASSAILED
FOR INACTION ON SCANDALS
BARED BY INVESTIGATION
PRESIDENT TO PUSH
FULL INVESTIGATION
OF ALL OIL LEASES
Former Secretary of Interior)
Albert Fall, to Be Question
ed on Loans Alleged Made
to Him
Coolidge to Take
Scandal to Courts
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—(8y
the Associated Press.) —President
Coolidge has decided to employ
special counsel to proceed with
court action as a result of evi
dence adduced at the senate com
mittee hearings on the leasing of
naval oil leases.
In a statement issued last
night, the president declared that
“counsel will be instructed to
prosecute these cases in the
courts so that if there is any
guilt it will be punished; if there
is any civil liability it will be en
forced; if there is any fraud it
will'be revealed, and if there are
any contracts which are illegal
they will be cancelled.”
White House officials in making
public the statement, said that
the special counsel would be ap
pointed just as soon as selections
could be made.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—With
President Coolidge personally urg
ing it on, to whatever bitter end it
may reach, the Teapot Dome scan
dil investigation Saturday night
reached the brink oi definite action
which, within a short time, may put
ii into the criminal or civil courts
Ox both.
Executive and legislative branches
of the government concentrated Sat
urday as they have not done since
the days of the famous Ballinger-
Pinchot controversy for a two-fold
object. ........
1 — To get all the facts.
2To right whatever wrong has
been done, and punish any who are
guilty.
Unless later testimony, amply sup
ported by convincing proof, shall
change the situation, it is practical
ly certain that congress will go on
recor 1 emphatically for abrogation
of the leases of the naval oil reserves
which Albert B. Fall, former secre
tary of the interior, gave to E. L.
Doheny, and Harry F. Sinclair.
Doheny holds leases on two reserves
in California and Sinclair holds Tea
pot Dome.
Cancellation Offered
The senate public lands committee
after an executive session decided
to report to the senate Monday an
offer by E. L. Doheny to cancel his
leases upon a request from congress,
on the sole condition that the gov
ernment reimburse him for money
actually spent on construction and
development work.
Doheny made this offer to the
committee through his counsel,
amending a previous offer to cancel
the leases if a committee of experts
appointed by the president, recom
mend that.
The senate committee will report
Doheny’s offer without comment or
recommendation, for the senate to
act on as it sees fit. It is believed
certain to be accepted bv the senate.
The long awaited climax of the
case, the testimony of Fall himself,
concerning the $135,000 which wit
nesses have testified he got from
Doheny and from J- W. Zevely,
Sinclair’s men, was deferred until
Tuesday at the earliest, when Fall’s
physical condition was reported to
make it impossible for him to
testify Monday, as scheduled before
the senate public lands committee.
The committee, notified that Fall
was very weak as the result of an
attack of bronchitis, which had af
fected his heart, postponed his ap
pearance until Tuesday. Fall is at
Zevely’s home here.
Fall early Saturday night was re
ported to be resting comfortably,
and to be “about the same” as he
was this morning, when Dr. John
Wharton, his physician, reported
Fall's condition ‘‘worse than Fri
day.”
Saturday’s developments almost
tumbled over each other, so that it
was difficult for the deeply inter
ested government officials and mem
bers of congress tn keep track of
them.
Washington Is Dazed
So fast have disclosures of false
hood come that official Washington
is dazed.
Cabinet members are dejected over
the blight which the scandal has put
upon what was hitherto an un
blemished American page.
The determination of the adminis
tration to rid itself, if possible, of
the stigma of scandal attaching to
the leases and to Fall’s receipt of
large sums from the men to whom
he gave leases was evidenced when
President Coolidge let it be known
early today that he had ordered
Secretary of the Interior Work to
find out immediately whether the
leases on the naval reserves are
legal.
If they are not, Mr. Coolidge said,
they will be annulled at once. Sec
retary Work immediately instruct- ■
ed the department’s solicitor to ex
amine the leases.
The house swung into action on
the case, when Representative Gar
rett, the Democratic leader, intro
duced two resolutions, directing
President Coolidge to take im
mediate legal action to cancel the
Teapot Dome and Doheny leases.
Garrett’s resolutions, introduced
after a conference with Senator I
Walsh. Montana, leader in the sen- j
ate'g investigation, specifically ex- I
I
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Atlanta, Ga., Tuesday, January 29, 1924
WIFE SLAYER COLLAPSES
AS HEADS OF HIS VICTIMS
ARE DISCLOSED IN DEBRIS
Lincoln Calmly Directs
Search but Collapses
When Gruesome Find Is
Made by Illinois Police
AURORA, 111., Jan. 26.—(8y the
Associated Press.) —Sealed in a con
crete block on the city dumping
grounds, the police today found the
heads of Mrs. Lina Lincoln and her
brother, Byron Shoup, missing for
nearly a year and for whose murder
the woman's husband, Warren J.
Lincoln, eccentic lawyer and horti
culturist, is in jail here.
A new confession by Lincoln that
he killed both—although he previous
ly had said he killed his wife in self
defense after she had shot and killed
her brother —led the way to clearing
up much of the long mystery that
has interested this county and has
made the Lincoln mystery one of in
terest in many states.
After days of contradictory state
ments only to end in Lincoln return
ing to his original confession, that
he killed his wife when he saw her
kill her brother and expected her to
attack him, the wracked mind of the
man tore out his story of the double
murder and disclosed what he had
done with the bodies.
Lincoln Collapses
Just as he told of dismembering
the bodies an sealing up the heads
in a concrete block, the police rush
ed to the dumping ground and found
the block, a chunk of concrete about
24 inches long, 18 inches wide and
12 inches thick. When the police
chipped off the hardened plaster, the
heads of the two victims were bared.
Lincoln calmly directed the search,
but fainted as the heads were re
vealed.
In the finding of the heads the
authorities at last had the evidence
of the killings which they have
sought for months.
The Lincoln mystery had its be
ginning in the disappearance of the
lawyer-horticulturist from his little
home and greenhouses on the In
dian trail near here last year, under
circumstances designed to make it
appear that he had been murdered
or kidnapped. Bloodstains, which he
afterward admitted he had made aft
er killing chickens, first pointed to
a theory that Lincoln had been mur
dered or at least seriously maltreat
ed and his body, dead or alive, hid
den and carried away.
Lincoln’s wife and her brother
could not be found and it wa.j upon
those two that Lincoln, according
to the authorities, sought to throw
suspicion for his disappearance. A
few months later Lincoln turned up
alive and the mystery was regarded
by many as a hoax.
Lincoln again later last year
dropped out of sight. Letters signed
with his wife’s name were received
by her relatives in Mount Pulaski,
Ills., and elsewhere, asking for
money. Through these letters the
suspicion rose that Lincoln was hid
ing in Chicago as the letters were
mailed from Evanston, a suburb.
In that manner Lincoln was
traced and arrested and taken to
Aurora where he made his first con
fession that his wife had shot and
killed her brother and believing that
she was about to turn on him he
killed her with a poker and burned
both bodies in the furnaces of his
greenhouse.
But neither the bodies nor trace of
them could be found.
Admits Killing Both
The double killing occurred on
January 10, 1923, according to Lin
coln’s new confession in which the
police say he admitted that he shot
and killed both.
Prosecution of the murder charges
against him were admittedly weak
prior to today, in the absence of
proof that murder had been done
and the mystery surrounding dis
posal of the bodies. Lincoln him
self had rather slyly declared that
he was a lawyer and knew how to
take care of himself and that his
first confession made a clear case
of self-defense.
The question of a motive for which
the authorities had sought wajs an
other mystery although there were
evidences that Lincoln held hatred
against his wife and her brothe”
He had declared they often had beat
him and had wanted to get rid of
him.
Mrs. Lincoln Is said to have owned
land near Roosevelt, Okla., valued at
$20,000 and this property was held
by some investigators to have been
a sufficient motive.
Lincoln himself directed the hunt
for the rude sarcophagus containing
the heads of his wife and brotheir
in-law. Dressed in his best clothes
and smoking a cigarette he stood at
the top of the dump and from time
to time told the searchers when they
were getting "warm.” When the
find finally was made, however, he
fainted.
Used Block as Pillar
The block which Lincoln moulded
about the heads he used as a sup
port for the front porch of his house
for same months after the slaying.
He did not take the block to the
dump until after he had reappeared
in June, following the disappearance
April 30. when he framed the set
ting to indicate lie had been mur
dered.
Lincoln said he hid the bodies
under a coal pile in his cellar and
later dismembered them. He buried
all the remains, except the heads. He
has not yet revealed the location of
the graves.
Were it not for Lincoln’s confes
sion it would be difficult to identify
the heads found today. The face of
Mrs. Lincoln was practically beyond
recognition. Shoun could be recog
nized from the shape of the skull
and his red hair.
MR. AND MRS. WARREN J.
LINCOLN, principals In the fa
mous murder mystery at
Aurora, 111., which was solved
Saturday when Lincoln reveal
•ed the heads of his wife and
her brother, whom he admit
ted slaying.
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REINSTATED BY
BAPTISTPASTORS
In view of a statement last Mon
day by Dr. Caleb A. Ridley before
the Atlanta Baptist Ministers’ con
ference that he had severed all con
nection with secret organizations
and wished again to consecrate his
life to the ministry, the former pas
tor of the Central Baptist church
was readmitted to membership in
the body at its weekly meeting in
the First Baptist church after con
siderable debate.
Dr. Ridley, a former official of
the Ku Klux Klan, appeared before
the Baptist ministers and reiterated
his statement of a week ago that all
he sought was the fellowship of the
conference and did not wish to be as
signed to any church. He stated,
however, that due to the fact that
membership had been taken from
his some months ago, he was not
able, conscientiously, to accept a
number of offers he had had to con
duct revival services.
A committee, composed of Dr. W.
H. Faust, pastor of the Gordon
Street Baptist church; the Rev. J.
W. Heymore, pastor of the First
Baptist church of Decatur, and the
Rev. W. L. Hambrick, pastor of the
Central Baptist church, reported
that they had investigated Dr. Rid
ley’s change of heart and recom
mended that he be restored to fek
lowship in* the conference. They re
ported that Dr. Ridley had promised
“to devote much of his time in the
future to helping men who have
wandered from the old paths by the
habit of strong drink which was the
principal cause leading to his trou
ble in recent months.’’
Dr. Major Intervenes
When the report of the committee
was read, Dr. J. W. Ham, pastor of
the Baptist Tabernacle, immediate
ly moved its adoption but before the
question could be put Dr. W. H.
Major, pastor of the Capitol Avenue
Baptist church, took the floor and
stated that he doubted if the confer
ence had been given the benefit of
sufficient time to determine if Dr.
Ridley’s reformation was perma
nent. \
“A man who does what Dr. Ridley
has done has • x himself and the
denomination,” Dr. Major said. “We
have two questions to -answer; To
forgive Dr. Ridley and to restore
him to the pastorate. I forgive
him freely. He is my persona’
friend. But I doubt the advisability
of putting our stamp of approval on
him u""' he has proved himself
worthy for a period of time.”
In discussing the recommendation
of the committee Dr. Charles W.
Daniel, pastor of the First Baptist
church, also took the position that
he doubted if Dr. Ridley’s change of
heart had been tested sufficiently.
“I forgive him freely,’’ Tri
said, "as I know everybody else here
does. But I would hesitate to give
him the indorsement of the confer
ence at this time. I doubt if Dr.
Ridlev hns had time to know bis
own mind.”
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GOVERNMENT RISES
WITH DISCLOSURES
Chairman of Democratic
Committee Cites Examples
Ending With Teapot Dome
Oil Lease Irregularities
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—Cha’r
man Cordell Hull of tfie Democratic
national committee issued a state*
ment last night declaring thq oil re
•serve disclosures are another evi
dence that the government is dom
inated by a “crowd of ruthless re
actionaries.”
“The multiplication of scandals
under the Republican national ad- g
ministration which came into power
on March 4, 1921,” he said, "with the
Teapot Dome naval oil scandal stand- I
ing out as the greatest political
scandal of this or any other genera-
■ don, has created an additional politi-
I cal issue for the 1924 campaign, I
which, without lessening the impor
tance of many other sharply drawn
vital issues is of paramount impor
tance to every voter and to every
citizen regardless of political affilia
tions. The issue bluntly stated is:
“Shall the United States have cor
i rupt government or clean govern
ment?
“When this administration came
into power on March 4, 1921, it was
dominated by the most reactionary
e’ement ever known in the history
of a political party, which was in
league with the most selfish and. J
predacious financial and industrial
special interests ever grouped to
gether for public plunder and na
tional exploitation. The Republican
reactionary leaders construed the
huge majority of 1920 as a license to
use the government for their own
selfish and party ends.
“The predatory special interests,
which own and financially support
the reactionary element in th«
Republican party, levied trlbpte,
upon the masses of the people “*
the bandit Tarif and his followers In
Spain in the Eighth century, and
have looted the government of prop
erty and resources.
Nation Is Weakened
"Administration officials have
been turned over to private Interests
the oil reserves upon which our oil- *
burning navy and merchant mariAe
would have to rely, in time of war.
They have immeasurably weakened» ;
if not vitally weakened their own
nation’s ability to defend itself
against foreign aggression.
“This administration came in.
under the shade of the Newberry/ '
scandal and the Daugherty scandaL
Others followed in quick succession, : '-
including the bureau of engraving
scandal, the Goldsteiq scandal, the
ship subsidy and ship sales scandab
the veterans’ bureau scandal, th«»
sugar profiteering scandal, the naval
oil reserve scandal (including Teapot
Dome), the reclamation service scan
dal, the income tax bureau scandal,
the packers and stockyards scandal,
the Tolbert scandaJ, the Slemp
scandal, and a long list of others
less known, with one now brewing
in the tariff commission where three
commissioners are or ought to be
disqualified from acting by reason
of present or past affiliation with
interests affected by their decision.
“There is scarcelv a department
of the government/ under this ad
ministration that is not discredited
by its record, and many bureaus not
already scandalized are under sus
picion.
"Since this crowd of reactionaries
have been in control of the govern
ment, federal officials at Washing
ton have been so subservient to
them that Senator Caraway declared
so long as Attorney General Daugh
erty sits at the helm of the depart
ment of justice, they may sell the
White House and be immune from
any prosecution in the federal
courts.
“None of the multiplicity of scan
dals has been exposed by reaction
ary Republicans. Not a detail of
the infamous Teapot Dome scandal
would ever have been known except
for the expose made by Democrats,
in the face of reactionary Repub
lican obstruction, culminating in the
startling and shameful recent reve
lation developed through the per
sistent efforts of the great Demo
cratic senator from Montana, Mr.
Walsh.
No One Punished ,
"No one connected with adminis
tration scandals has been punished
by the administration. The depart
ment of justice, which a United
States senator alleges to be under
wide suspicion, has made no move
to protect or defend the public in
terests, so far as they were threat
ened or affected by these scandals.
"During most of this administra
tion Mr. Coolidge was vice president
of the United States and sat as an
unofficial member of the president's
cabinet. For nearly six months he
has been president of the United
States, and during all this time he
has uttered no w'ord of condemna- «
tion of any of these scandals, nor ‘a. ■
word of warning against those Im- ■
pending nor against the policy pur
sued by the Republican reactionaries
who dominate the administration. U
“It was not until yesterday, when.
the testimony concerning the ah |
leegd loans to Fall was made public, f
that he was aroused from his leth- I
argy to make any statement con- |
cerning the Teapot Dome scandal, I
and then only to say that i-e is re- I
luctant to believe that any one has /
been guilty of criminal intent, but f
that if evidence of criminality is /
action to punish the guilty and to ;
bring about the annulment of ths ’
lease, which, of course, would be a
mere matter of routine. Until ths
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