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■ls' SLAYER
TD ■ JUNE 1
In Nine Hours Ben Green Is
Convicted of Killing White
l Woman’s Protector.
K Ben Green. the negro slayer of Aaron
will go to his death on the gal
■ftows in the Tower on June 7. Fol-
a verdict of first degree murder
the criminal division of superior
Judge L. S. Roan today gave
his death sentence.
The jury, which pronounced Green
■ Juilty without a recommendation for
■ullomency, deliberated but a short time.
trial consummated but eight hours,
and the jury was closeted a little more
than an hour.
Mrs. Coh n Main Witness.
< Green was convicted largely on the
* testimony of Mrs. Cohen, the woman to
I whose aid Morris rushed when the ne-
* gro gave him the knife wound that
' caused his death. Lon Teasely, a ne
gro introduced by the state, testified
that Green had told him the whole
, story.
The defense submitted evidence to
show that Green, who is "known to the
police as “Cocaine Ben,” was in the
house of a negro woman at the time
the killing occurred. Two witnesses at
tempted to establish this alibi for the
condemned negro, but failed.
Aaron Morrjs was stabbed to death
by a negro at the corner of Courtland
and Gilmer streets on the night of
March 21. The negro had accosted Mrs.
Cohen a neighbor woman, and Morris
hrhad responded to her screams.
Green was arrested shortly after the
and held on the story that Lon
told the police.
left a wife and two children
dependent, but a benefit fund
M s raised (hr -ugh newspaper sub-
riptions.
800 ATLANTA NEGROES
■p go to a. m. e. meeting
Fully 600 negroes will leave Atlanta
F today on a special train for Kansas
City, where, they go to attend the an
nua! conference of the African Meth
, odist Episcopal church. The train will
reach Nashville tomorrow morning.
Leaving Nashville tomorrow afternoon,
the delegation will arrive in Kansas
</,tV on Sunday.
The 600 are not going as representa
tives from Atlanta alone, but from
Georgia. Florida, North and South Car
olina. They have been coming into At
lanta, their meeting point, for several
days to catch this special train.
I SELLING ~1
| ONE THOUSAND AND ONE
TOWN LOTS
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GULFPORT, MISSISSIPPI I
I John R. Scott, Owner, Authorizes the Sale of 1,001 Town Lots in Gulfport I
WORTH FROM $25.00 TO $2,500
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ARMY ORDERS
WASHINGTON", May 3.—The follow
ing orders have been Issued:
Army Orders.
First Lieutenant W. D. Hosbert, med
ical reserve corps, to Fort Jayne, New
York.
First Lieutenant J. M. Cummins,
Eighteenth infantry, detailed to Clem
son Agricultural College, South Caro
lina.
First Lieutenant S. C. Ramsay,
Fourth infantry, detailed in ordnance
department.
First Lieutenant A. D. Budd, Twen
ty-fifth Infantry, to Rock Island
arsenal, Illinois.
Second Lieutenant B. A. Lewis. First
field artillery, to Rock Island arsenal.
Lleu'enant D. K. Shurtleff,
Seventh cavalry, to Springfield armory,
Massachusetts.
Second Lieutenant F. H. Miles. Jr.,
coast artillery corps, to Benya arsenal,
California.
Second Lieutenant L. B. Curtis, coast
artillery corps, to Watervliet arsenal.
Watervliet, N. Y.
Second Lieutenant F. C. Wallace,
Third field artillery, to Plcatlnny
arsenal, Dover. N. J.
Second Lieutenant C. E. Partridge.
Twenty-sixth Infantry, to Watertown
arsenal.
Second Lieutenants C. M. Steez, coast
artillery corps; H. T. Pillais, coast
artillery corps, and T. H Bane. Fif
teenth cavalry, to Sandy Hook proving
grounds. New Jersey.
First Lieutenant J. H. W. Heisslnger,
Jr., from Twenty-seventh to Thirteenth
infantry.
First Lieutenant G. F. Waugh, from
Thirteenth to Twenty-seventh cavalry.
Captain G. V. Henry, cavalry, unas
slgned, to Thirteenth cavalry.
First Lieutenant H. I. Lawrence,
Ninth infantry, to Oklahoma City, re
lievlng First Lieutenant E. M. Offley,
first cavalry, who will join his regi
ment.
Captain M. Cunningham, relieved
from general recruiting service at Salt
Lake City, Utah, relieving First Lieu
tenant M. P. Rogers, Jr., coast artil
lery corps.
Bowels are Basis
of Child Health
The ca-eful mother, who watches
closely the physical peculiarities of her
children, will soon discover that the
most important thing in connection
with a child's constant good health Is
to keep the bowels regularly open.
Sluggish bowels will be followed by
loss of papetfte, restlessness during
sleep, irritability and a dozen and one
similar evidences of physical disorder.
At the first sign of such disorder give
the child a teaspoonful of Dr. Cald
well’s Syrup Pepsin at nteht on retir
ing and repeat the dose the following
night If necessary—more than that will
scarcely be needed. Yem will find that
the child will recover Its accustomed
good spirits at once and will eat and
sleep normally.
This remedy is a vast Improvement
over salts, cathartics, laxative waters
>nd similar thing., which are alto-
i HE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS: FRIDAY. MAY 3. 1912.
ATLANTA’S P, fl,
LEADING SOOTH
Receipts of Local Office for
Month of April Amount to
$111,686.31.
Atlanta’s postoffice receipts for the
month of April were the heaviest In the
history of the South, being $111,686.31,
received by the McKee administration.
During the month of April, 1911, the
receipts at the Atlanta postoffice were
$93,131.46, just $18,554.85 less than for
the same month this year. April, 1910,
showed Atlanta’s postoffice receipts to
be $86,505.13, or $25,181.18 less than the
corresponding month of the current
year. April 19, 1911, exceeded April,
1910, by $6,626.23.
Seven years ago, 1905, the receipts for
April were $52,635.81, or just a little
more than one-half of what the receipts
were for the corresponding month of
1912.
During .April of this year there were
4.338.000 cancellations at the Atlanta
postoffice, while for the same month of
the previous year the. cancellating ma
chine accommodated 3,782,400 pieces,
showing an increase for the current
year of 555,600 pieces.
HOUSE LIFEBOAT BILL
FAVORABLY REPORTED
WASHINGTON. May 3.—The house
committee on merchant marine and fish
eries has favorably reported a bill re
quiring all passenger vessels to keep
wireless operators on duty .24 hours per
day and lifeboat equipment sufficient to
carry al! passengers and crew.
gether too powerful for a child. The
homes of Mrs. Vallie Utley, Keyser, N.
C.. and Mrs. E. L. Hair, Dalton, Ga.,
are always supplied with Dr. Caldwell’s
Syrup Pepsin, and with them, as with
thousands of others, there Is no sub
stitute for this grand laxative. It Is
really more than a laxative, for it con
tains superior tonlo propertie. which
help to tone and strengthen the stom
ach, liver and bowels so that after a
brief use of It all laxatives can be dis
pensed with and nature will do Its own
work.
Any one wishing to make a trial of
this remedy before buying it In ths
regular way of a druggist at fifty cents
or one dollar a large bottle (family size)
can have a sample bottle sent to ths
home free of charge by simply address
ing Dr. W. B. Caldwell, 405 Washing
ton St., Monticello, 111. Your name and
address on a postal card will do.
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