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Atlanta Georgian and News
VOL. V. NO. 185.
ATLANTA; GA., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5,1907*.
THAW’S FAMILY PHYSICIAN The Name Atlanta News
SAYS HARRY WAS INSANE
Women Expected to
Testify Early in
Trial.
HE LOOKS TO THEM
TO SAVE HIS LIFE
Attorney Gleason, in Speech
to Jury, States Line
of Defense.
New • York. Feb. 6.—Having an
nounced tie Intention to ^".mulratt
to the jury that Harry K. Thaw woe
Inaane when he killed Stanford White
on Madlaon Square Roof Garden last
nummer, the defense today called wit-
naeses to make good Its declaration.
It le very'apparent that the accused
man depends to a large extent Upon the
testimony of bis wife to clear him. It
Is Intimated that the story she will tell
will be of a aensatlonai nature.
It Is stated Mrs. William Thaw <s
anxious to glee her testimony as to
. hereditary Insanity. Strong Influences
have been brought to bear to keep her
from allowing this line of defense to be
followed, but ehe has dtflnltely decided
Edward Thaw, the prisoner's full
Thaw,
brother, and Joslah Thaw, his half
brother, were the only members of the
Thaur family allowed in court today.
Both sat near Thaw.
Net the Seme Thaw.
The Harry Thaw of the daye of the
Jury choosing Is no mure. Thin he was
alert and even half the time he was
smiling. Now his face shows queer
florid patches He leans forward al
ways, with his hands clasped In front
of him at the table, and he no longer
has occasional chau with lawyer Pea
body, who sits next to him.
Dr. C. C. Wiley, of Pittsburg, the
lyslclan, who Is connect
Thaw family ph:
Dismount Insane Asylum,
ed with the
wae the first witness called to the
eland. He was questioned by Attorney
Gleason, of counsel for the prisoner.
Had Studied Insanity.
Dr. WTley said he had devoted years
• of hla Ilfs to tHy study of Insanity and
witness detollod an Inc Id sat which oc
curred In the summer of 1106. He said
Thaw entered a street car In Pittsburg
and acted to a very irrational manner.
Mr. Wesson propounded a hypothet
ical question In which he outlined
Thaw’s act of shooting White. Than he
asksd Dr. WUey If he could express tin
opinion on such an action com milled by
the man he mw In the car In PHU-
burg.
The wltneee anewered In the affirma
tive, and started to say It waa his be
lief. when District Attorney Jerome In
terrupted with a statement that the
witness could only express an oplnlo-i.
"Then," replied Dr. Wiley, “my opin
ion Is that the man who committed the
act described was suffering from In
sanity."
As te Hereditary Insanity. j
Q. Is the question of heredity an Ini- I
portent factor? A. Yes. sir.
Q. In referring to the question of
hereditary Insanity would you regard |
the Insanity of relatives of the defend-1
ent. who traced their origin to a com-'
mnn source, as Important? A. I would.
Mr. Jerome objected. "Hereditary In
fluences have nothing to do with the
question." he Mid.
■ Cross-examined by blr. Jerome:
Q. You call hereditary Insanity a leg
acy—ore you acquainted with the form
of mental aberration which the laws
of-this state allow aa an excuse for
crime? A. I am not fully acquainted
with It. .
Net Allowed te Explain.
for legal
hav
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and business reasons. Some of our friends
who Save not felt kindly toward The News in the
past have complained to us because of the change in
name. We wish to assure you all that though The
News exists as a part of The Georgian and News,
there will be no change in our policies, and we hope
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has complained about the change.
* F. L. SEELY, Publisher.
foreimip
OLD SUIT IS DUG UP
AGAINST W. J. OLIVER;
EFFORT TO QUEER HIM?
Saloon Licenses Are
Granted in Formida
ble Number.
OWNER REFUSED;
BARTENDER WINS
Council Grants Licence on
Applications Formerly _
Turned Down.
Evidence Taken in
Dargan Receiver-
Is the city council of 1M7 going to
undo everything that was dona by the
council of IMt In the way of restrict
ing saloons? ”U '
From Ihe way tba new council has
started. It appMfs so to quits a num
ber of those who have watched the
pragma of srents for the last f*w
weeks. 7
It will take only a short time, at th.
rale It has been going, for Atlanta to
have just as many saloons .as there
wars before the riot. At the first met
ship Case.
Alleged expense accounts for J. T.
srgan’s trip to Europe were placed In
evidence,Tuesday morning by tha at
torneys for the petitioners seeking Mr.
Dugan's removal as co-receiver of the
Atlanta-Birmingham Firs Insurance
Company.
The second day's hearing of evidence
by Special Commissioner Henderson,
thiltofl EtotM
hearing for’, the first time Tuesday
morning. He was kbaeht Mohday bs-
•sxamtnatlon Attorney
rating Receiver Dargan.
y. Your opinion le bssed on the hy-
oth<
pothetlcnl question put to you. Is It not.’
A. That Is alt a man can base an opin
ion on I must explain—
"You need not explain." Mid Jerome
"Simply anxwer yes or no."
Q. And you, an expert, a man call
ing yourself an expert—
"Beg pardon." aald the witness. "1
do not call myself an expert."
Q. Don't you call yourself an expert?
W# don't know you and you muat know
whether you are one? Your opinion
was based entirely upon what you. on*
night, observed In a car In Pittsburg
nnd upon the facta aa presented In the
hypothetical question Just propounded
|o you by the defendant's counsel? A.
Yes.
Q. Does the profession consider you
an expert? A. Yes.
Q. As an export, do you believe th«
defendant was Ituwnt when be killed
Stand ford Whlti? A. Yes.
Hare tha ra-dlract examination waa
taken up by Lawyer QlMSon.
Q. In vour expert opinion the defend
ant at the time he committed thta act
knew It waa wrong? A. 1 don t think
he did
Didn't Knek it Was Wrono.
"I object.” shouted Mr. Jerome. "An
swer yes or not."
"Nov” answered Ur. Wllev.
Questioned by Mr. Jerome:
Q. Now. I ask you. If when you said
the defendant may baye not known the
Act wu wrong—
Objection by Mr. Oleeson on tbs
ground that the witness bad not testi
fied to such fact. The objection waa
overruled.
Q. A men may know perfectly aril
Ihe nature of bis ecu yet may be sweet
away by tba morbid Influence or etnar
tlon—1s that your belief? A. Yes.
that 1s right
Jealousy Prompts Killings.
•}. I want you to tell If a man pass-
ng down the aisle of the roof garden
r-hera he had gone with Ms wife,
wheeled and Aicd three shots at a man
without any words and, with the pistol
above nla head, calmly submitted to ar.
net end as he went down tha elevator
New York in Grasp
of Great Snow-
Storm.
New York. Feb. 5.—For more then
twenty-four hours New York has been
fast In the grip of a snow storm. Ton
Inches of snow fell In tuenty-fuur
hours.
Blinding Snow Storm.
f'hutham. Mass. Fob. 5.—Bllndlnx
snow driven by a gale 6ft to 60 miles an
hour, made this morning one of the
wildest-of the winter on this roast.
Terrible Snow Storm.
Highland Light. Mass.. Feb. 5.—The
worst snow storm "f the winter pre
vailed w ith a gale of 60 miles an hour,
thick snow tying up :rattle on land and
sea. The waves arc running high and
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O GET YOUR BLANKETS! O
O MIGHTY COLD TONIGHT. O
O Jupc piure has sklddooAl for O
O keeps, ditto prospects for the o
O "w hite and fleecy." Mercury clip- O
made an explanation regarding a check
for SMI ptacsO In the earo of Hutadfc
Lee as agent. It developed that Mr.
Dargan md not ant tha use of the
money at any time; lhai Ibis money
wan held In readiness for securing three
shares of Prudential stock In order that
all of the stock might be sold If neces
sary, but this necessity did not arise
and Ihe money was not used.
The rrosa-examlnntlon also showed
that Mr. Bergen's December salary, us
well as all the other employees, Includ
ing the office boy, were paid In advance.
The 12.000 Item was paid to Prealdent
Dargan because of his construction nf
the provisions of hla contract with the
company that he would hare six
I months' notlre of termination and that
' the <2,000 and the two expense ac
counts came within «5 of hla six
months advance salary'. This waa post
ed under the head of "advance agency
contract.”
Mr. Lee testified that It was Cuato-
one license waa granted, and the hall
having been set a-rolllng. at the next
^Hlon. that of Monday, three naw li
cense* were granted, one transftired
and one changed from whit* .to col
ored.
Bom* of thta* llctntM were among
thoM revoked by the council of. 100*.
When the application for renewal was
made they wen turned down by the
special police committee, which thor
oughly Investigated tha matter, and
later by council also. > ..
Earn Kline’s Saloon?
The first, that or Sam Kilns, at the
comer of Central avenue and Oveatur
tbs com-
&
A. &'Pitts, lit
tor white i
razol A
tor oolorod .
W. >(. Mitchell, It
WILLIAM J. OLIVER. , V.
* Filed Lowest Bid to Dig th* Panama Canal far Ih* Oovsrnmtnt—Old
s v Suit Is Dug Up Agairtkt Him.
O ped down as low aa 1< Tuesday O
O morning early, and the outlook O
0 seems promising for It to go as O
O low ns 26 Tuesday night
O Weather man say.:
"Fair Tuesday night and Wed- O
0 nesdny. Folder Tuesday night."
I'cloek a. m..
O s o’clock a. ni..
0 k o'clock a. m..
O to o'clock a. in. i
O 11 o'clock a. m..
O 12 o'clock noon..
O . 1'o'clock p. m..
0 2 o'clock p. m If degrees, o
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.2* degress
. .11. degrees.
..<4 degrees.
..« degrees.
..« degress.
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there Is considerable anxiety for ship
ping.
Billiard in Philadelphia.
Philadelphia. Pa.. Feb. S.—The snow
storm has developed Into A bliss*rd.
Ihe worst since February, lilt. M <re
than twelve Inches of snow has fallen
and the Jilgii wind haa drift td It In
placea to a depth of four leet.
Was Sued by Woman
Who Claimed To
Be Wife.
mary for President Dargan'a expenses I AW VERS SEARCH
to bo paid by the company while he)"* 1 ” 1
COURT RECORDS
was away on trips In the Interest t.t\
the company. The defense showed
that Mr. Darfan'n trip to Europe wm
to confer with the prealdent of a Phils- ■■ ■■ ■ ■
delphta company concerning the re-1 ; ‘
Insurance or the Atlanta-Birmingham! Bidder for Canal Contract
(Company's business. Other trips were
taken to different placee on business,
Including Memphis and (California.
President Dargan want to San Fran
cisco after the earthquake to ascertain
the true condition of affairs.
FIVE PERSONS KILLED
BY A BAD EXPLOSION
DURING BOAT RACE
1 Chattanooga. Tann., Fob. B.—Bulletin.—In a rae* with th# steamer Rat
tan on th* Tennessee river, th* steamer Parker exploded and burned to tho
water's edge at 11:20 o'clock this morning.
Fiv* porson* worn killod.
Northern Pacific ! Marlborough to
May Lose Charter Get $100,000
Continued on Page Seven*
Washington. Feb 5.—M**. Heyhurn
offered a resolution Ih the senate t«Hla>
calling for the appointment of a com
mittee of member* to Investigat -
the reorgHtilr-rttlon of the NorthemPa-
clfl ( railroad with u view to having
congress rv|**«I its chartoi. it want b
th^ cvuindft** on Pa^lft* railroads
laondon. Feb. 5.—The ducheaa • of
Marlborough, formerly Miss Consueln
Vanderbilt* ’and * her two children, left
with W. K. Vanderbilt. Jr., today for
lieaulleu. It Is said tha children will
spend six months yearly with each pa
rent. Under the naw arrangement the
duchess' father will allow her and the
duke each fiot.too a year.
NCREASE GRANTED
TO MEN IN SHOPS
BY GEORGIA ROAD
Striki*™’ Claim Was Given
to Prevent Sympathetic
Walk-Out.
Figured in Suit for
Heavy Damages.
Special to Tbs Georgian-
Augusta. Oa.. Feb. 6.—Thera are
prospects In sight for the settlement of
the car workers' strike.
Notices were posted In the Georgia
railroad machine, blacksmith and boil
ermakers' shops today announcing that
the pay of all the man In these depart,
menta have been Increased. Eight |»rr
cent Is the amount of the Increase, utul
It will muse the salary of most every
man to be Increased 38 cents per dny.
The Increase In pay will affect about
eighty men and was granted without
any demands being made by the unions
of which the men are members
A prominent machinist in the Geor
gia railroad shops says that the In
crease was very much of a surprise, as
only a few machinists askad for It. The
striking car workers allege that tha
railroad raised the wages of the Iron
workers In order to prevent a sympa
thetic strike.
An old suit In which \V. J Oliver,
the lowest bidder for the Pane inn ca
nal contract, figured several years ago
In Atlanta Is now being dragged from
the dusty flies of the FGlton county
court house.
Admissions made by Oliver In answer
to u sensational suit by h woman al-
leglng to be his wife have been careful
ly noted by Atlanta lawyers and copies
of this suit and Oliver's answer to it
have be«n prepared to send. It is said,
to other lawyers In Washington. D. f
And further. It Is declared by those
In a position to know, that nil this re
viving of an old scandal which, like
the ghost of !)an<tuo, will not down. Is
solely for ths^m^ose of preventing id-
Iver from oocT^; the contract with
the government to build the canal.
This suit was filed In Atlanta on May
It. If05. by Konnle Oliver, who alleged
that she was Oliver's wife, claiming de
sertion and asking for $161,000. It was
first tiled In Knox county, Tennessee,
hut was thrown out of court there for
the reason that the plaintiff was said
to be a resident of Oeorgla.
Was Net Wife.
It dragged along In the Fulton county
court nnd Anally Oliver won. It was
decided the woman was rot his wife
and had no claim upon him.
In her petition the woman alleged
she was married to Oliver on March 25.
1903, and suld that before that time her
name was Nonnle Cross. Her esse was
handled by Westmoreland llros. and
the defendant** Inters sis were looked
after by Jack J. Bpatdtng.
It Is known that the original suit nnd
the answer thereto have been secured
from ths office of the Fulton county
clerk and that copies of these two pa-
pars were mods. It Is known, too, that
particular Interest wu n»»«ched by Um
__ r UtOJ.
before he married ihe* second time.
Who Wants Information?
Just who the lawyers In Washington
are who desire this Information.' the
Atlanta lawyer* engaged In securing It
declined to state. Cut It waa filmed
Hint these lawyers were acting for In-
teir*t* which desired to prevent Oliver
from bossing the digging of ths ditch.
There was an Intimation. %too. t int
|M»sslbly Ihe government wanted to turn
down the contract with Oliver In order
to do Its cwn bossing und canal dig
ging.
The plaintiff In the suit Is said to be
now living In Atlanta with her mother,
and to have been employed some time
ago In an Atluniu restaurant as a wait.
riennle -Minor* 224
allowed to rtiangf from- whits to. ool
fflM v ...1:
W. W. McXInch * Co~ 171 Marietta
street, allowed to tranafar license to
W. L*. Brldwell.
toms Put Mistsry. ’• L
To glvo an Idea of how council l**ok«
upon the work of 1908 In restricting
amf regulating saloon*, tha following
facts about on* of these licenses may
be of Intarent:
In tha city directory of IMt, opposite
ths name of W. J. Brown, appears the
Information that it# operates a saloon
at II North 8road street. Mr. Brown's
application for the ranswo! of *-•-♦**
lowing the riot, was turned down by
special police committee and by coun
cil.
In the same directory, oppoalta ths
[name of W. H. Mitchell, appears this
Information: "Bar tendei 18 North
[Broad arreat."
■ Council has adopted an ordinance,
saving that the person who obtains m
license must own or hav* a lease on
t;»r property. The application of the
rest.
Ho far us bring the husband of the
plaintiff was concerned. Oliver was ful
ly vindicated by the termination of the
litigation In his favor. But It Is sold
that the admissions he made In Ills
answer nre what the Washington at*
torneys are seeking.
SUBPENAS ISSUED •
UY FEDERAL COURT
IN TURPENTINE CASE
tli. bar tender to that
th* Herns. In hla nam* In HO? kn>1 at
■hr rants pise, that th* owner had for
merly applied for.
1m CouMil's Hurried Astlsn. —
■Whether Mitchell realty awns th.
idorw. ur-ti the medium through which
Brown gets a renewal of IteonM, Is Im
material. but tho very fact that coun-
Icll would not pnotpono action until ihi.
could be Investigated, but granted th.
license on the spot, la stxnlflctnt
Alderman Key. who was a member
of the special police commutes of ltos.
stated on the floor that ht thought tha:
Mitchell bar. beet a bar tinder for
llrowt- whOM application had been re
fused. He. therefore, wanted octlou
I could he mad*. Council grant
'lernse without ihe Investigation. ' -
T'ic members of th# police commute-
iiave no other course open to them but
to report favorably on alt application,
against which no objection! can be rais
ed. ps lh-re la no law under which they
can operate differently, and the com
mittee. as far as can b* learned, did
not know It'S drcumstancM tbout thl.
S|h*. hi to The flforgtna.
Havantmh. (Ja.. Feb. 5.—In the (‘lilted
Htatr* court tnlflhy war* Is
surd fur inuny J naval store* <i|K*rator*
nnd fat lories Ip connection with tho In
vesllgutton of the nlloged turpontlno
trust.
Among those summoned was Pra*l
dent Nash, or the American Naval
Stores Company.
The grand Jury will be sumtitoned
this week by Judge Emnr> Hpeer.
Briggs to Get
Dry dens Toga
Trenton. N. J., Fell. 6.—Frank o.
lingo- haa been nominated to succeed
Hcoatnr Drydcu as senator from Now
Jersey.
Council did hava the statement of a
member that bis recollection wu that
Mitchell had been a bar tender for a
saloon proprietor whose application had
been turned down, but took favorable
and Immediate action without further
Investigation.
Incidentally, MMchtlL after Brown
had been turned down, applied for a
which, upon recoaal derail
es me meeting, was taken away.
Japs Consider
U. S. Telegram
Tafcio, Fob.; 5—Prlncs Ito, who ax.
summoned from Seoul, presided today
at the meetingpf the council Consider
ing a lengthy telegram from tbs United
fttutrs government.
It Is reporte^-^hc message concern*
it
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