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WELD BOONS
SIL JOO Oil
Head of Syndicate Which Suc
ceeded the Ryan Interests
Visits Atlanta.
S. Davies Warfield, president of the
Continental Trust Company of Balti
more and the man who bought control
of the Seaboard Air Line Railway Com
pany from the Thomas F. Ryan inter
ests two weeks ago’, arrived In' Atlanta
today in his private car to make the
first of the arrangements by which the
Seaboard will become wholly a South
ern railroad operated by Southern men
in the interests of the South.
With Mr. Warfield came Charles R.
Capps, vice president of the Seaboard,
in charge of all its traffic. Mr. Warfield
consulted freely with capitalists of At
lanta and wjll see financial leaders of
other Southern cities, and as a result
of these confabs it is expected that
within the week Mr. Warfield will not
only swing much Southern capital to
the Seaboard interests, but will pick a
number of men from Atlanta and other
Southern towns to' form the new di
rectorate of the line.
Railroad to Typify
Progress of South.
Mr. Warfield's splendid private car
lay near the Seaboard station. Tn a
busy few hours he met several of the
best known capitalists of the South, to
whom he confided his ambition of mak
ing the Seaboard a progressive railroad,
South owned and South operated, typi
cal of the progressiveness of the new
South.
Mr. Warfield said that he has defi
nitely’ tn mind the complete fulfillment
of the aims of the Southern Settlement
•nd Development association of Balti
more, the incorporation of w’hich pre
ceded and had a direct bearing upon
the purchase of the Seaboard control
Eight governors, eight railroad presi
dents and 40 other powerful represen
tatives of Southern interests formed
that organization in Baltimore, he said,
with the specific idea of Southern traf
fic development by Southerners.
Georgia Men To Be
The Directorate.
"The Seaboard is the first big step
we have taken along that line.” said
Mr. Warfield. "It will offer almost un
limited opportunities for the commer
cial and industrial evolution we have
in view, and we plan to make the im
petus of this Southern revival felt
throughout the country for miles in
every direction along tlie line of th ■
Seaboard’s tracks.”
When /he new board of directors is
chosen in the early fall Mr. Warfield
plans to put upon that list men of
influence and capita) to represent each
of the Virginias, the Carolinas, Geor
gia, Florida and Alabama.
Among the men Mr. Warfield visited
here was Asa G. Candler, president of
the Central Bank and Trust Corpora
tion. The new head of the Seaboard
was much impressed with the lavish
new quarters of the bank and congrat.
ulated Mr. Candler on the progressive
ness of which they are an evidence.
The two talked over conditions in gen
eral in the South.
Mrs. T. R. Rice.
Wra T. R. Rice, 5$ years old, died at a
private sanitarium today, where she had
been taken from her home at Royston.
Ga. The remains will be carried to the
family home there lata today, where fu
neral* and Interment will be held. She Is
survived by a number of relatives at
Royston.
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M. GRADUATION
INFULLSWING
Old Grads Gather For Class Re
union at Close of School
Year.
The University of Georgia is at the
close of the most prosperous session In
the history of the institution. More
than 600 students were registered dur
ing the year and the achievements of
the body as a whole have been of a
higher grade of excellence than ever
before. But the present commence
ment will go down in history as notable
for the beginning of a period of devel
opment which will end only when
"Georgia” ranks with the leading uni
versities of the East.
In the board of visitors report, which
has been rendered to the trustees of
the university, a series of nineteen rec
ommendations Is made. More than half
of these are already embodied in plans
which will begin to work out next year.
Before many more moons the law de
partment of the university will have
a building to itself which will cost
$50,000.
This movement, which is now well
formed, had its genesis with the stu
dent body. Henry Newnan, of Atlanta
together with Joe Deadwylcr and a
number of others, pointed out to the
trustees the necessity for better ar
rangement and equipment of the law
class rooms that was now provided
for in the academic building. When the
board of visitors, headed by Prof. J. A.
Mershon, of Gainesville, made its re
port this plan was heartily concurred
in. •
A students committee will go before
the state legislature this summer for
an appropriation.
For Dramatic Art School,
By far the most daring plan which
is now on foot and which stand/ a
chance of materializing is that one
which would provide a school of dra
matic art such as exists only at Har
vard and the University’ of Chicago.
Prof. R. E. Park, head of the English
department, is sponsor for this.
“It Is my idea." said Prof. Park, "to
have a school that would teach the
structure of the drama —play writing
in other words.”
The class of 1907, headed by the re
doubtable Harrison Jones and William
Brantley, both of Atlanta, hits town
this afternoon in time to take in the
prize drill and attend the junior hop
tonight. Among the prominent Atlan
tans in this class are Remsen Porter
King. Philip Weltner. the well-known
attorney. Walton Griffith. G. H. Gil
lon. Grover C. Middlebrooks, Trammel
Scott. J. G. Mays and Loring Raoul.
Class of 75 Gathers.
The most notable event in the way
of reunions, however, will be the gath
ering together of the class of 1875.
Among these are Judge John C. Hart
former attorney general of the state;
Pleasant A. Stovall, editor of The Sa
vannah Press; William H. Fleming,
former congressman; S. Guyton Mc-
Lendon. former railroad commissioner
and present candidate for the United
States senate; Boykin Wright, one of
the best known civil lawyers in the
South and former legislator ffom
Augusta; John Temple Graves, editor
of The New York American: Dr. Frank
Ridley, of LaGrange; Daniel Rountree,
legal associate of Thomas B Felder;
John L. Tye. of Atlanta; Ames A
Jackson, president Aiken & Augusta
railway, and Judge Hamilton McWhor
ter. of Athens. Judge McWhorter will
entertain the class while it is here.
The fancy dress ball and sophomore
declamations were events of Saturday
night. There were many Atlantans rep
resented. Some of those noted were
Miss Isabel Kuhrt, as a Puritan mai
den; Miss Virginia Lipscomb, as Dolly
Madison; Miss Bertha Morse, as Little
Bo Peep; Miss Amelia Smith, as a
school child; Miss Van Spalding, as
Pocahontas; Miss Callie Hoke Smith,
1s Night; Miss Florence Hansell, as
Juliet; Miss Eugenia Ivey, as Lucia de
Lammrrmoor, and many others.
List of Graduates.
The following is the list of men who
will receive diplomas:
Bachelors of Art.
W. W. Abbot, E. T. Anderson. Pane
Seabrook Blanchard, Tom Shessman
Brand. Lloyd D. Brown, I.eon H. Cov
ington, Virgie E. Durden. J. H. "Eth
eridge, R. E. Farmer, P. M. Felker. M.
B. Folsom, G. B. Goldin, Charles Joel,
R. E. Lanham, W. A. Mann, Charles, E.
Martin, W. K. Meadow,'Harold Died
rich Meyer. Bert Michael, T. I. Miller.
William Hamp Mullins, Charles H.
Newsom, W. P. Nicolson, George T.
Northen, M. B, Perry, John R Rad
ford, Joseph Hennesy Ross. Hendy Do
zier Russell. Richard B. Saxon, E. R
Stump. Benton Hair Walton, T. J.
Wooster, Jr.. Kenyon Zahner.
Bachelors of Science.
Dana Collins Belser, Cliff Brannen.
Charles T. Estes. Conway N. Hunter,
Hendy S. Langston. W. A. Reid. Augus
tus Bacon Sparks, Charles H Stone,
Benjamin F. Stovall, John R. Tibbets,
Scott Tit Shaw, James Ware, Andrew
West.
Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineer
Cameron Douglas Flanigan, Walter
Maloy Lucas, Robert Laird.
Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineer
Harold Thompson
Bachelor of Science. Agriculture.
W. G. Acree. B. L. Brinson. Jr. R.
R. Childs, M. C. Gay. R. O. Hutcheson,
Robert Fred Whitchell.
Bachelor of Science, Forestry.
Josiah Tattnall Kollock
Bachelor of Laws.
H. A Nix, W. S. Connerat, Cane F.
Crossby, Joseph L. Deadwyler. J. E.
English. Lorlck G. Fortsoru. W. P. Mc-
Leod, John M. Morrow. J. T. Murray,
H. A. Newman, F. V. Paradise, F. T.
Phillips. John N. Powell, E. Hilliard
Spalding. M. L. Troutman, R M. Tuck,
Joseph E. Varela.
Graduates in Pharmacy.
N. S. Arthur, Thomas Clark. W. c
Harner, G. M. Parkerson, A. M. Swift
John B. Woodcock.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. MONDAY, JUNE 17. 1912.
SCALDING FLOOD
AFTER FUGITIVE
Shackled Prisoner. Fugitive
Under Ground. Pursued by
10,000 Gallons Water.
John Wallace, the double-shackled
negro convict who escaped from the
stockade chaingang by escaping into
the trunk sewer manhole at South
Boulevard and Carroll street this morn
ing, was pursued by 10,000 gallons of
scalding water as he struggled blindly
through the pitch dark, filth floored
subterranean passageway in his des
perate flight to the outlet three miles
away.
Guard Manders, from whom the ne
gro criminal fled, begged this after
noon to be allowed to follow lhe man
Into the depths of the loathsome sewer.
Superintendent Tom Lanford, of the
stockade, refused to permit the guard
to descend. He told him that Wallace
was almost surely dead somewhere in
the sewer because ten minutes after he
entered it the Fulton Bag and Cotton
Company opened its sluice gates two
blocks away a,nd let loose into the sew -
era raging torrent of boiling water,
which must have caught and literally
broiled to death the fleeing negro be
fore he could have stumbled more than
200 yards upon his way Io the far off
outlet of the sewer at an East Atlanta
creek.
Lost in Tunnels He
Faces Starvation.
The superintendent declared that
even if the fugitive convict succeeded
in avoiding the flood by climbing up
the side walls of the sewer he would
still be killed by the stifling heat that
would arise from the swirling, steam
ing water beneath him. Or If he es
caped both these deaths the superin
tendent declared he could hardly keep
a straight Course in the blackness o r
the tunnel, but would surely stray off
into one of the dozens of other branch
sewers that ramify in all directions
from the trunk tunnel he entered. Lost
in the unlighted curves and mazes of
these interminable holes. the man
would have dot one chance in a million
of ever again reaching the light of day
and would starve to death amid the
slimy refuse if he were not suffocated
long before by the deadly sewer gas.
Nevertheless, armed guards are sta
tioned at every manhole throughout the
length of the long underground ditch
and they have orders to shoot the ne
gro on sight if he shows the least sign
of resistance to recapture.
No sign of the fleeing man had been
seen by any of the guards at 3 o'clock
this afternoon.
Wallace made hl» sensational escape
at the corner of South Boulevard and
Carroll street at 9 o’clock. Surely he
had never heard of the similar escapes
into the sewers of Paris so graphical!}’
related in Hugo’s “Les Miserables." But
his dash for liberty resembled perfectly
the weird flights of the French crimi
nals into the underground sewers of
the foreign city.
Cautiously Waits
Chance to Escape.
Double-shackled, because he was
bound over for trial for assault with
intent to rob, Wallace was working
with the road gang this morning When
the chance he had long been looking for
came. He was working on the road at
some little distance from the other
He noticed the open man
hole of the sewer. Slowly and cau
tiously he worked his way toward the
manhole, keeping a wary eye upon the
guard, who never suspected the pris
oner.
Suddenly when the guard turned his
back for a moment Wallace dropped
the pick he had been plying and de
spite the double shackles which fettered
him, he flung his body headforemost
Into the dark, loathsome depths of the
sewer. When he struck the bottom he
stumbled to his feet in the slime and
water and groped his way far enough
from the entrance so that none of the
guards could see him. Then, it is be
lieved, he rested only long enough to
recover a little strength before begin
ning the horrible journey through the
pitch dark depths of the loathsome
sewer to the outlet at the creek, more
than two miles away.
The negro’s escape was noticed by
the guards almost Instantly and a
search of the sewer at the manhole re
vealed the manner of his disappear
ance. Aid was. summoned from the
stockade and guards were sent quickly
to man the manholes of the sewer
throughout Its entire length.
The negro Wallace is 30 years old
and has a bad record. He was serving
30 days in the stockade before going on
trial in the state courts for the assault
and attempted robbery.
EAT PEACHES and CREAM
You can get the cream at home, but I’ll send the peaches direct from my
orchard.
I’ve made a hit with my FROM ORCHARD TO HOME Peach Proposition.
Folks seem to like the big, luscious peaches I send them, freshly picked from the
trees. The dew is hardly off of them.
SHIPMENTS MADE DAILY
I’m in the heart of the Peach Belt where the finest peaches are grown and
that’s the kind I grow.
This is what I’ll do for you:
Selected Extra Fine Peaches, six large baskets to crate, ELD
express prepaid to any point in Georgia
Fine Peaches, run of orchard, six baskets to crate, ex OfT
press prepaid to any point in Georgia W
Write for prices and terms to points outside Georgia.
J. O. BOOTON,
MARSHALLVILLE, GA.
Electric Dumb-waiter Lifts $500,000
BANK OPENS NEW HOME
With an eleotric dumbwaiter to car
ry a half million dollars at a time.—if
you happen to need that much—and
many other remarkable innovations, the
newly renovated quarters of the Cen
tral Bank and Trust Company, on the
ground floor of lhe Candler building,
were opened today.
Enough handshaking for a presiden
tial campaign marked the housewarm
ing, a steady stream of Atlanta’s lead
ing business men and city officials fil
ing in all day to congratulate Asa G.
Candler, head of the Institution, and
other officials.
The drink that built the big sky
scraper anti many other buildings—
Coca Cola—was served to the visitors,
one of the tellers’ windows being fitted
up as a soda water stand.
The big bank has many unique fea
tures —all introduced with an eye to
practicality and to make business run
as smoothly as possible. Each cage is
fitted w’ith a telephone to the cashier
and the moment that one negotiates a
loan or presents a heavy check it is
an easy matter to call that official .over
the phone and ask "How about it?”
Guarding each window is a littls
statuette of the Sphinx. The great
vaults and safes are in the basement.
Hereafter when you ask the paying
teller to please cash your check for
anything over a hundred thousand dol
lars he’ll cash it byway of the only
electric money elevator in the U. S. A.
All large movements of currency
from the money cellar to the
paying tellers window will be up a
little steel clad dumb waiter shaft that
is, scheduled. to transfer a half a mil
lion of dollars in gold and silver and
paper joy at a single press of a button
and carry more of the life of life be
tween the vaults and the outside world
than any dumb waiter ever di earned of.
Just Matter of Moment.
You brush into the renovated mar
bleized offices of the Central bank
today, say. and you sweep up to the
paying teller with your well known
careless air and say to him:
"Sorry to have to trouble you for half
of that $255,000 99 deposit right now.
but 1 might as well put up the cash for
a corner lot I’ve bought this morning.
Sate keeping books, you know."
And he'll say: "With pleasure, sir
Just study that fountain you see spurt
ing near the president's window." And
you’ll casually glance at the $1,200
piece of sculpture in marble and bronze
that the Central has imported for its
CITVSFINANGE
SHEET APPROVED
The final approval of the city finance
sheet was the most important matter
handled by the city council this after
noon, at the meeting which began at 3
o'clock.
The street committee reported bids for
the paving of Forsyth street between Ala
bama and Mitchell streets, and the park
committe'e reported against giving a por
tion of Piedmont park for a new Eighth
ward school.
The ordinance committee submitted a
favorable report on the ordinance creat
ing a "smoke commission,” an advisory
board which will investigate Atlanta's
smoke nuisance, and an inspector of
smoke and meters ala salary of $2,400 a
year.
The report of the charter revision com
mittee was submitted for consideration.
Its most important feature Is an amend
ment providing for the retirement of city
officials and employees who have served
20 years. The present pension law per
mits such veterans to retire upon their
own wish, but it is proposed to give coun
cil the right to order such retirement,
upon half pay, when it is deemed advis
able. Its passage would affect several
veteran city Wall officials and a number
of policemen and firemen
NEGRO, IN FEAR OF DEATH,
BEGS TO BE KEPT IN JAIL
MONTGOMERY. _ALA.. June 17.
George, alias "Peddler" Glover, a Lowndes
county negro, who Is a witness In the
arson case agatnst C. Walter Jones and
others, has been arrested and brought to
Montgomery on a Federal warrant charg
ing him with selling liquor without a li
cense.
Glover Is the negro who. for fear that
he would be slain, begged the sheriff of
Lowndes county recently to put him in
jail at Hayneville. On reaching here the
negro pleaded with the Federal officer not
to turn him loose here. The negro's pre
liminary has been fixed for June 26. He
Is in Jail. The offense is alleged to have
been committed on the Vandiver place,
six miles from here
lobby from Italy while the paying tell
er slides down to the cellar with an
other officer, gives the sesame to five
steel barred doors and a safe that leads
to the money chamber. He’ll lift out
the $127,500.44 1-2 you need, dump it
carefully on the electric steel clad
dumb waiter, press bone-crowned knob
and a minute afterward there’ll be
your money ready for you without a
chance for a bank robber from the
time it started up until you leave the
bank's front door.
Innovations Are Many,
The electric dumb waiter and the
Italian fountain ate only a couple of
the innovations that the Central had
prepared for its moving from the old
Dakota hotel building at Pryor and
Houston, where it has housed its of
ficers and books a year, to its reno
vated offices in the skyscraper across
the road. The bank offices now
greets its customers in quarters
all In Georgia marble with hand
carved statuettes surmounting the
grillings that cost many, many
thousands of dollars to make. The
private office of President Asa G. Can
dler might well be some conception of
Petronius when he was arbiter elegant
in Quo Vadis and all the other officers
have been shifted Into a marble flanked
cork-floored miniature rotunda In the
very center of the great room, so that
they are so accessible to the public
that you can hardly reconcile the dig
nity of cash with their accessibility.
Can’t Be Beat Anywhere.
The officers of the bank say it Is the
handsomest banking scenario anywhere
in this country, let alone New York,
end they think that when they get up
the ponderous undulating iron grills in
front of their piate glass windows there
will be nothing in the nation anywhere
that will be better appointed and hand
somer to the human eye than the Hoot
space they now occupy.
The officers of the bank are:'Asa G.
Candler, president; John S. Owens,
vice president; A. P. Coles, vice presi
dent; W. D. Owens, cashier; Henry C.
Heinz, assistant cashier; Carl H. Lewis,
assistant cashier, and Barrington J.
King, assistant cashier. The directors
are: Asa G. Candler. John S. Owens,
W. M. Nixon, George E. King, Dr. J.
S. Todd, Sam D. Jones. Norman C.
Miller, Eugene R Black, Isaac H.
Hirsch, A. Montgomery. W. H. Glenn,
Dr. IV. B. Hamby, VV. C. Harper, W. L.
Fain, Dr. Willis B. Jones and A. P.
Coles. '
HOLDEN ENTERS
CONGRESS RACE
AUGUSTA. GA.. June 17—Judge
Horace M. Holden, former Justice of
the state supreme court, announced
his candidacy for congress from the
Tenth district this afternoon. He will
give a formal statement to the press at
once, and will follow that later with a
platform announcement.
Judge Holden believes that his pros
pects of election are exceedingly bright.
He will enter at once upon an aggres
sive campaign.
So far the present congressman from
the Tenth, Thomas W. Hardwick, has
made no announcement for re-election
There has been an effort to get Mr.
Hardwick to enter the governor's race,
and Judge Holden’a announcement un
doubtedly will bring that matter to a
head.
The general impression throughout
the district is that Hardwick will run
for congress again.
HONEST, THEY DID FIND
WHISKY AND BEER IN
SEAB WRIGHT’S ROOM
ROME, GA., June 17.—1 n a room where
• negro declared Seaborn Wright, a well
known prohibition leader of the United
States, kept some plunder, officers found
two boxes of whisky. Mr. Wright is not
charged with selling whisky, however,
and a charge has been brought against
Slm Davie, a negro. The place raided Is
within the shadow of the Floyd county
court house and a stone's throw of the
police station.
Davie was taken to the room and when
he told the officers that Seaborn Wright
kept his plunder there and he had the
key to the place, the bluecoats refused
to believe the negro had hammered down
the door with an ax. They found several
jugs of whisky and bottlee of beer. Davie
escaped while the officers were looking
for the ax. He is still at large
REAGH CASE PUTS
LID ON IN AIKEN
AIKEN. S. C., June 17.—Aiken is
swept today by a tremendous reform
wave. In which even the rich social
colony is joining, to show’ the world
that the town repudiates and resents
the “Beauty Beach Scandal." The city
council has decided to instruct the
Aiken policemen to put a quick and
effective check upon all the amuse
ments in which Beach and his set in
dulged. For the next two weeks city
policemen will investigate every social
club once every 60 minutes, day and
night, and even the appearance of dis
sipation will be sternly suppressed.
Already the gambling halls have been
closed and the owners whose machines
have not been cohfiscated have shipped
the paraphernalia. The officials of
Aiken declare openly that the places
frequented by "The Beach crowd” will
be put out of business if they have to
close them at the points of guns and
the assertion is as openly made that
Beach must take such a dose of Aiken
medicine that no recurrence of such a
scandal will ever imperil the reputation
of the town.
Even the Society
Folk Are Affected.
Scores of the best known members of
the social colony have joined the resi
dents in this crusade and not least re
markable Is the. fact that the move
ment has even swept Into the revival
stage Society folk who have been
conspicuous by their absence from
Aiken churches for years have flocked
to th£ “protracted meetings," where
the ministers are denouncing the Beach
case and calling upon their congrega
tions to stamp out scandal from Aiken
forever.
Some of the more fervid of this “so
ciety clique” have gone to the point of
speaking out against the Beach case in
open meeting and have thus gone on
record as aiding the residents morally
in their repudiation crusade. Undoubt
edly this stand accounts In large part
for the tremendous Impetus of the re
vival movement now In progress in
Aiken. Evangelists are speaking at
three meetings a day in most of the
churches and the edifices have proved
too small to hold the throngs.
The preachers lose no opportunity to
hold up the Beach case as a popular
lesson, and the sentiment of their con
gregations manifestly centers about
this Issue
ONE REBEL. LEADER
IN CUBA CAPTURED,
ANOTHER IS KILLED
WASHINGTON, June 17.—Official
confirmation of the death of General
Estenoz, leader of the Cuban rebels,
and the capture of General Lacosta by
the federal forces, was received at the
state department today in a message
from Minister Beaupre. The message
gave no details as to the killing and
capture of the generals except to say
that the federals won a decisive vic
tory.
The battleship Nebraska sailed today
from Key West for Guantanamo, Cuba.
TAFT, TO SAVE JOB
FOR GENERAL WOOD,
VETOES ARMY BILL
WASHINGTON. June 17. —The presi
dent today vetoes the army appropria
tion bill. He returned the bill to con
gress with a message indicating his dis
approval of the executive provision
w’hich would oust Major General Leon
ard Wood from the office of chief of
staff, on March 4 next.
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DOF(4)STARTS
TD SEE WORLD'
Equipped with a nickel, a pair of
husky legs and a determination “to
see the world,” Edward Lafayette
Wheelis, a bright-faced, blue-eyed tot
of four years, started out today on a
tramp that was destined to be of short
duration.
The little fellow is the son of Super
intendent Wheelis, whq is in charge of
the work of construction on the new
Southern freight terminals, and lives
with his parents at 47 Trinity avenue.
Having been here but a short time, lit
tle Edward knew nothing of the city,
but that didn’t feaze him. To him At
lanta was the whole world and he
►wanted to see it.
When the father left home this morn
ing he gave little Edward a nickel,
telling him to be a good boy until
"papa comes back." Edward wanted to
be a good boy all right, but. all of this
money at one time developed the wan
derlust, and he started out to “take, in
the town," sllpipng away from homie at
an opportune moment.
Spends Nickel For Candy.
At the first store Edward spent his
nickel for candy. Eating and walking,
with no thought of passing vehicles nor
the crowded streets, tie soon found
himself downtown. After looking in
the show windows at the “prettle«r
and knlcknacks and enjoying himself
to his heart’s content, the tot decided
he had seen the whole, show. He was
tired, anyway, and wanted to go home.
He ambled along for several blocks,
and then came the realization that he,
was lost.
The little “tourist" didn’t cry. He
was too manly for that. But he was
getting mighty tired, and the pair of
robust legs began to feel wabbly.
Finally, he sighted a house that he
thought was his own home and in he
strolled. It was the homo of W. O.
Stamps, the merchant, at 315 White
hall street.
"I wants my mommer," pleaded the
little fellow as he met Mrs. Stamps in
the hallway.
“Well, who is your mamma, my little
man?" asked Mrs. Stamps.
"She’s my mommer, and I want my
mommer." was the only identification
furnished by the little “unknown." No
one in the block knew anything of the
tot, and Mr. Stamps took him to the
police station.
"I wants my mommer,” said little Ed
ward to the several policemen who
gathered about and questioned him. It
was then but a few minutes until the
mystery was solved. An excited wom
an inquired over the telephone if a lost
hoy had been found. Little Edward's
description brought a cry of joy over
the phone. The baby tourist’s tour
came to an end a few minutes later
amid great enthusiasm.
SLAYER M’NAUGHTON
MAKES A FINAL PLEA
THAT LIFE BE SPARED
Dr. W. J. McNaughton, the Emanuel
county slayer, under sentence to die for
poisoning Fred Flanders, mazie his last
plea for life through extraordinary mo
tion before the state supreme court to
day.
If the high court refuses McNaugh
ton a new trial on the new evidence the
man, whose case has already been
dragged through all the courts of
Georgia and even Into the United
States supreme court, will go to his
death
Upon the final disposition of Mc-
Naughton’s case hangs the fate of Mrs
Mattle Flanders, wife of McNaugh
ton’s victim. Mrs. Flanders was in
dicted for complicity in the crime, but
has never been tried.
McNaughton was found guilty of
administering arsenic to Flanders while
the latter and his wife were boarding in
McNaughton’s home. Upon evidence
that Mrs. Flanders did not seem moved
over her husband’s death, but appeared
eager to get his share estate of $3,000,
the wife was indicted.
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