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The Weather! Atlanta nnd Vicinity filr tonlcM nnd fcnft tonight; \Vedne»day. probably light Atlanta Georgian (and news) Spot Cotton: Liverpool. stoadr; enpi. Atliinra. stfiul.v; 10 ll-HW. New York, ll.\ VOL. Y. NO. 239. ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 1907. PRICE: DECLARES THAW WAS DRIVEN INSANE by SAD STORY OF HIS WIFE’S WRONGS; DELMAS DENOUNCES DIST. ATTORNEY Concludes Speech on Tuesday Afternoon. Court Adjourns. ELOQUENT SPEECH AFFECTS VISITORS FROM WEST ATLANTA PARK CAME MISS KING'S PUPILS TO VISIT THE GEORGIAN Ho Brands Abe Hummell as the Scheming 'Servant of White. New York, April 9.—The biggest and most unruly crowd that has yet sough: uimlsslon to the Thaw trial room fairly besieged the court room corridors at the opening of the afternoon session. Hundreds surged against the massive doors which had not been opened and slmost battered them down. Howard Nesblt, brother of Mrs. Har ry K. Thaw, was not only among those excluded from the court room, but he ilso was put out of the police lines. The police heard that the young man had been saying things about Mr. Delmas because of the lawyer's severe ar raignment of Mrs. Hollman, Howard's mother. He tried every means and va rious influences to get In, but did not succeed. The scene Inside the court room for almost an hour before the be ginning of the afternoon session was one of almost complete disorder. The women members of tho Thaw family found the same seats they had occupied during the morning session. The Jury was brought In at 2 p. m. Mr. Delmas resumed his summing up ad dress at 2:05 p. m. He said: Delmas Concludes. "Gentlemen, nothing now remains for me to do but to call your attention to the events of the night of the tragedy.” .Mr. Delmas recalled the night of the trugedy In detail: the appearance of Stanford White suddenly when all four were seated at a table. He described minutely the move(nents of White and the effect they hfld on Evelyn. The "blackguard” note was mentioned and the Impressive effect the sudden sight of White had upon Thaw's mind. In finishing the attorney grew more elo quent. dosing his address shortly be fore 2:20 o’clock. Justice Fitzgerald then adjourned court until 11:30 o’clock Tuesday mom. Ing. New York, April 9.—Delphln M. Del mas today resumed his address to the Jury In behalf of Harry K. Thaw In the supreme effort to save him from Punishment at the hands of the law for the killing of Stanford White. Following up the sledge hammer blows he struck when he scathingly arraigned White, the mother of Evelyn Nesblt Thaw and Abraham Hummel, Delmas today turned hta attention to the testimony of James Clinch Smith, the brother-in-law of Stanford White, ami to the main legal point of the case—the mental condition of Thaw at the lime of the shooting of White. An even .greater crowd had gathered before the opening of court in thp hope of hearing at least part of the address of the famous California lawyer, and when the doors we*e opened the court room within a few minutes was crowd ed to Its capacity. As to Insanity Issue. Dolmas awung into'hls address with skillful ease, taking up the question of Thaw's sanity at tho time he shot While and tho testimony of Smith, which had an Important bearing on the feaiure of the case. Smith had not been called to testify until the prosecution's case In rebuttal was on, the district attorney having as. -sorted that he could not get Smith In court before th<}t time, as he had been In Kurope. It was expected that when Delmas had ilnlshed court would be adjourned until tomorrow, when District Attorney Jerome would begin his address to the Jury. Delmss Thanks Jury. .Mr. Delmas resumed his summing up [>y first thanking the Jury for tjjelr kind attention. He said: , "I will relieve the long suspense which has been occasioned by your la bors by announcing that I will shortly leave the fate of this defendant In your hands. I have endeavored to lay before your eyes the picture of the fate of these two young people. I had tried •*> show the unfortunate occurrence which befell her when she narrated to him In the summer of 1903 her awful story of what had happened. "Four acts of this drama I tried to portray. The fifth act of this dramatic life Is yet to be depicted. The curtain I" yet to rise upon that fifth act and In i he name of humanity may we all Pray that the curtain may never rise upon that act. "May my eyes never behold the chief executive of law of this city standing np"n this spot where a year ago he asked the court to Inflict upon a con doled felon the fullest penalty of the law. , . ' • • - Couldn't Stand Scrutiny/ 'May I never see him standing upon lh • selfsame spot In this selfsame room "tier seeing the witness perjure him self on the stand with the written proof "I Ills perjury lying open on/ the table i“ fore his eyes. May I never see him lls k them to have his gray-halred mother see him be sent to a dishon ored grave. "You know that no actor was ever ’•> gifted that in a court room and be- 7re an assemblage such as this she 'huld have stood the test of the genral if' rutlny If she had not been telling the • ruth. I shall assume that that story " as (old as she swears It was and I shall proceed to depict the effect which the "fling of that story had upon the mind or Harry K. Thaw. "Gentlemen, I shall prove It to your satisfaction from a number of sources Children of E. W. Groove School Are Shown Over Modern Newspaper Plant. THE E. W. GROVE SCHOOL. Passengers on the river trolUy line look up with surprise In passing through West Atlanta Park, with Its carved stone gateways and Its macad am drives, but no one feature of the park causes more Interest than the handsome school on the hill, a stone building worthy of any city. “Old Glory" waves over the building In sun ny weather and the well kept grounds reflect every evidence of care. "That Is the E. W. Grove School,” the conductor tells the passengers who Inquire. "Miss Lula King teaches It.” The Drove School came to visit The Georgian plant Tuesday upon an espe cial invitation. Miss King has about seventy pupils enrolled, though this Is the first year of the school's existence, but s))e brought only the elder pupils on their visit to The Georgian'. They were shown the modern machinery, told how nows was gathered and how type was set, shown the stereotyping plant and the big press, and given a thorough Insight Into the making of a great dally. THE GEORGIAN’S GUESTS Miss Lula King, the principal, and the following children of the school, were Invited to visit Tbs Georgian: E. W. Grove Georgia Ferrell, I.ow Henson, Euls May Leathers, Lanra McMillan, Lola ilpedon, Charles Itrlar. Wesley Elliott, Warren Hbultx, J. C. McMillan. Koxle Shnttleworth, Grace Henderson, Ruby Elliott. Nellie Elliott, Elite Alexander, Edd Argo, ' Joseph ElUott, Willie Benedict, Msry Bell Duncun, Fannie Eliott. Katie McMillan, Cleo Elliott. SEABOARD TO SPEND $12,000,000 ON ROAD Special to Tho Georgian. Raleigh, N. C„ April 9.—A conference was held here today between several of the higher oftlclals.of the Seaboard Air Line, Including Proaldent Garrett and the state corporation commission. Af fairs of the road were In general dls» cussed. President Qarrett stated that contracts had been closed for Improve ments amounting to 112.000,000. Tho corporation commission recently mode a very Important order requiring the Seaboard to put a branch line In this state 110 miles long, In good condi tion by putting down heavy rails and making other Improvements. The pres ident stated that work would bo started this month, and furthermore that 1250,- 000 was to be expended on terminal fa cilities at Wilmington and IJS.OOO at Charlotte. The Seaboard officials are expecting the business on the line known as the Carolina Central to Increase enormous ly when the South and Western, from the coal fields, makes connection at Rutherfordton, N. C. O000OO0OO00O0OO00O0000000O O 0 0 FROST FORECASTED 0 0 FOR TUESDAY NIGHT. O O 0 o Rather rude of April to cut loose 0 0 March weather after March be- 0 O haved In such a gentlemanly man- 0 O ner about It. 0 0 Wind raw as November day O O Tuesday. Prognostication says 0 0 light frost la due Tuesday night. O O but whether or not It will be O 0 heavy enough to harm fruit re- 0 0 mains to be seen. Everybody O O hoping for the best. Forecast: O O "Fair Tuesday night and Wed- O O nesday; probably light frost Tues- 0 O day night; wanner Wednesday." 0 O Tuesday temperatures: 0 0 7 u 9* degrees O 0 *' a. , .40 degrees 0 0 9 a. 42 degrees 0 0 10 a. 44 degrees O 0 11 a. « degrees O 0 12 noon 47 degrees 0 0 1 p. <» degrees 0 0 2 p.m. 50 degreea O 00O0000000000O0000OOO0OOOO T IS ILL BIER Alderman Key Thinks ,He Won Point After All. WATER BONDS IN DANGER; YOUR VOTE WILL SAVE THEM Come out and vote for the water bonds! Every vote is needed. The polls close at 6 p. m. If you are registered and stay away from the polls it is the same as if you had voted against the bonds, because they must be carried by a two-thirds vote of those registered. Up to 3 p. m. only 1150 of the registered votes had been polled. The bonds are in danger. Your vote can save them. The bonds are absolutely necessary to give the city adequate fire pro tection and water for home consumption. IS FEELING FIT LICIT PLANT Council Committee to Take Up City Ownership. ,-Tb* municipal ownership committee of council meet* at 3 o’clock Tuesday after noon to consider tho reports of tho Electrical engineers on the feasibility of the city own ing Ita own electric and gaa lighting plants. Trenton Arkwright, prenldent of the Geor- gln Railway und Electric Company, and F. J. Catcblnga, secretary of the North Geor gia Electric Company, nnd other officials of the two companies probably will be in attendance. I« certain that an attempt wll) be i to -discredit the reports of the en gineers, which show conclusively that the city could save money and reduce (he pries of lights to consumers by owning Its own plant The report shows that tbe # city, by fur* nlsblng Its own arc lights, could pay for a plant for that pnrposc In ala years with the money sated by not having to pay a company n high price during this time. It shows thnt by furnishing Its own lights and lights and power to consumers the plant would pay for Itself In between three and four and India . tlmi and operations. The report on the gas plant shows that the city could furnish gas at a cheapened rate and could pay for the plant In ten years. Alderman Key Is chairman of the com* rolttcc. Great interest Is manifested In the meeting, and there are aure to be some lively tilts between representatives of the lighting companies and Alderman Key and other advocates of municipal ownership. BRED IN OLD KENTUCKY WAS MRS. LESLIE CARTER WHO ARRIVED TUESDAY Sid Smith, However. Reports a Few Aches. SWEENYISREADY TO TAKE ms PLACE Crisp, Cool Weather With Some Sunshine Promised For Initial Game.* When the report Is In at tho host council meeting the resnlntlon will come up f favorable or silrerae action, and tho llne-i Orion 8. Kunnally has Instructed James L. Key. his attorney, to with draw the suit Against the board ot po lice commissioners. This marks the Anal chapter In tho famous police board broil and all now sereqo In police circles, In the courts and out of the courts. The suit Nunnalty consisted of a bill of exceptions to the ruling of Judge Pendleton, of the superior court, and an appeal to the supreme court for an order restraining the police board from discharging any of the men for merly elected by the old hoard, after the famous riot call coup d’etat Alderman Key saysjie will do as In structed. Thus ends II all. The police situation has been as Interesting as It was unique, nnd full of surprises and counter-surprises.' "The old board,” eald Alderman Key. elected Chief Jennlngi. The new board re-elected him and allowed him to pick the entire force. Do you think for one moment the board Intended do ing this originally? Wo haven’t lost out so badly after all.” Continued on Page Five. GE1 THE GREEN EXTRA FOR FULLSTOR Y OF GA ME The Georgian’s GREEN EXTRA Tuesday afternoon will contain s complete and graphic story of the Atlanta-BIrmlngham game, which opens . the Southern League baseball season. The account will be accompanied by an accurate Nix score, recording every .play that counts. The GRF.KX EXTRA will be on the streets Immediately after the IIAal 'play. Buy It Take It home. Nothing but live news In It. WANTS PRESIDENT TO SELECT EXPERTS MRS. IDA VON CLAU88EN. Washington. April 9.—Mrs. Ida M. Von Clausen, the woman having a grievance against Minister and Mrs. Graves because they refused to present her to the court of King Oscar of Swe den. called at the white house today to lay her ease before Ihe president. Secretary Lneb refused to see her, explaining that It was impossible for the president to receive her. Mrs. Von Clausen left a letter to the president, explaining that she was In receipt the president’s refusal to see her, and redress the insult offered. She begs the president to appoint a committee of experts to wake sura that she is of MRS. LESLIE CARTER, Who will make her first appcaranco in Atlanta Monday night in "Du Bar ry” at the Grand Opera House. Mrs. Leslie Carter arrived Monday afternoon from Macon. Great Emotional Actress Who Appears in “Du Barry” Refuses To Be Interviewed. Though bom In the South—Ken tucky—Mrs. Leslle-Carter, ons of the foremost emotional actreeeee on the stage. Is now on her first tour of the South since fame came to her on tho stage. Mrs. Carter arrived from Macon on her private car Tuesday, and the ear was parked under the Terminal shed. When a reporter for The Georgian called he was met by Mrs. Carter’s son, Dudley Carter, who Is traveling with his mother. 'Mother Is very busy with her pri vate correspondence and affairs,” he said with a pleasant smile, "and I am sure she will not be disturbed now. 1 know she avoids newspaper Interviews, so I'm sure It would be useless to at tempt to see her.” Dudley Carter Is a big athletic-look ing chop and seemed very proud of his distinguished mother. He Is not an actor, but .Is traveling with her In the Southern tour. Mrs. Cartsr Is playing only "Du- Barry" on the Southern trip. She has In hand three new play* from which she will select one for presentation next fall. The Atlanta engagement opens Tues day evsning, and will close with a mat inee Wednesday afternoon and evening performance Wednesday, r VERT LIGHT VOTE IN Need 2,134 Votes For Bonds to Carry the Election. registered voter* to leave their work. The urgent heed* of the waterwork* havo been brought before the voter*, and It I* hardly probable that many will *tay away without good cause. Tha total registration is 3,201. The necessary two-thirds Is 2,134. For every man who registered and doea not vote. a vote against bonds J* counted. By PERCY H. WHITING. Sporting Editor of The Georgian. Birmingham. Ala.. April 9.—Slightly die* figured by a rough trip, hut still very much In the arena, the Atlanta tonni pulled into Birmingham about 1 o'clock thin morning, ready for the opening game of the Honthern league season. It was cold as congealed thunder when the players hit the asphalt for the Colonial hotel, through the dark streets, nnd It was several degrees colder when they roll ed out of the straw this morning. But, fortunately. It Is clear as crystal, nnd the prospects are fair for a little additions! warmth before, the parade starts for the ball park this afternoon. Here’s Probable Line*Up. Before we go any further, here's earns: Atlanta— Winters, cf , Blrmlnghnn nruKiT, n r»inun, rr H. Smith, v .* Gardner, if Dyer, 3b Montgomery. 31* Jordan, 2b Aleork. fa Vox. lb .... Meek. ll» I’askert, If Garvin, r Unstro, sh Walters. 21* Hcbopp, p itngnn, p Sid Smith Feels III. The Atlanta team Is all right and In tip top condition, with the solo exception of Sid Smith, who had some grlppy symptoms last night, and who Is feeling slightly store- up this morning. The rest of tho tonni Is as fit os could he expected after half n night on the rr.nl nnd the o’hfT half nt hotel. If Kid does not come around, Sweeney will catch. Except for Gardner, the innn from tlie Cotton States Longue, the Blrmlnghnm team is practically the snrno ns the one which wou the Southern Longue pennnnt last year. To do honor to this tonm nnd the rng It wou. there will be a large cele bration here this afternoon. It begins with n parade which Is due to form before the city hall about 1 o’clock. There will be car riage* for visiting guests, longue nnd club officials, newspnpor Ben, the members of both teams nnd some police—especially the pallet Kavanaugh Arrives. William M. Kavflunugb, president of the Southern League, arrived this morning from Little Rock. The president hns appointed Kadderbsm, a veteran of Inst year's staff, nnd Illnn, a new innn, to offlolnte today, nnd these men accompany Ail.mm homo and officiate there the opeulng day. Jndg* Knvnnnugh 1*. os always, rnthuslasUe ovei the prosper!* of the longue und, moreover, believes thnt Little Bock ho* n The dope here Is thnt Atlanta bn* a shed* better chance than Birmingham to win the ime. This In odd. boeauAc the dopa In tlnnta whs Just the other way Billy Smith will be on the coaching Hue .jr Atlanta. He wns ran off Inst sen- son by President Kavanaugh. but that tvm IteratHe It was claimed that hi* pro- n* •* there made the team exceed tie* player limit. Thnt limit does not go Into effect for thirty days, nnd Smith will In* right there with the megaphone voice. B6O00OOO000O00OO00OOOOOOOO o 0 O WHERE TO VOTE 0 FOR THE WATER BONDS. C First Ward—37 West Mitchell C 0 street. Second Ward—City hall. c Third Ward—Southeast comer C 0 of Fraser and Fair street.-. C O Fourth Ward—Northwest corner C 0 of Auburn uvenue and Jackson 0 0 street. c Fifth Ward—248 Marietta street. C Sixth Ward—78 North Broad C O street. c Seventh Ward—208 Lee street. C 0 Eighth Ward—824 Peachtree C O street. 5 O the poll* wl*l open at 7 a. m. C 0 and cloee at ( p. m. c O c D0O000OU0O0000O0OOOO0OOOOO Voting In the election for I3S0.000 of bonds for the Improvement of the waterworks bax been very light. , At the time The Georgian goeit toj press the outcome ot tho election np-‘" pears very doubtful, with the Indica tion! unfavorable, unlees tho registered voters come to the rescue In large num bers before the polls close at # o’clock. Very few votes were cast against bonds In the morning, but considerable trouble was experienced in persuading sound mind before she proceeds further for "she well kn»»* tha: when the president Is cornered he haa the habit of appointing such a committee to help him out of his dlfllculty. have been grossly Insulted by Min ister and Mrs. Graves and I have come to see If the president will not redraw my wrongs," she said. Growth and Progress of the New South The Georgian record* here each day soma BY JOSEPH B. LIVELY. the In- Wall street may control the finance* of the North and Bast, but It does not rule those of the South. The bulls nnd. bears thay have their conflicts and the national government feel called on to relieve the situa tion such conflicts produce, but the South goes on Its way undismayed by either bull or bear victory. When John P. Morgan feel* called on to rush to Washington City to plead with the president to do something to relieve the anxiety of finan cier*. and leading Northern Journals are predicting an Impending finan cial crisis, the South pursues the even tenor of its way and bacomi - In deed a mere "looker-on In Venice” at the situation as It citsts elsewhere. Never before In the history of >hls country was the South so com pletely the master of it* own business affair* and so free fron llueni es of financial panics and business depressions elsewhere a this time. The Investments that tire truly Southern, I. e., Mich t to residents of the South, are In »uch channel* it* render them t tlvely free from ull outside Influence*, and their natural rep enough to keep them from possible losses, anil so we llnd that conditions In this section at this time are exceedingly promising: I* not a rift In the cloud of prosperity anywhere on tho South) son. There was never a time when money was more plentiful th the South, due to the splendid return* that have been I fo years In succession from our agricultural and manufacturing There Is no enrthly reason why Ihe South should n it cumin porous for many year* to come.—The Tradesman, Chattanooga belong nTm/ 'Hiffhout I>ros-