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WHIM,
NE PILIS
DROWNED
Train Robber and Short-Term
Convict Caught in Oconee
River Swamp.
TWO AGAIN BEHIND BARS
AT STATE PRISON FARM
Starving Fugitives Ask for Food
at Negro Cabin in Wilkinson
County—Arrests Follow.
MILI.EDGEVII.LE, GA., July 3.—01 d
Bill Miner and W. M. Wiggins have
j heen recaptured and are again behind
the bars at the state prison farm. W.
J. Widencamp. who escaped with them
from the state prison farm, near Mil
ledgeville, last Thursday night. Is dead.
At least. Old Bill says he is.
The old train robber tells a graphic
story of the escape that would make
8 good plot for a ten-cent "yellow
back." After he had been recaptured
and brought here, preliminary to being
taken back to the state farm, be asked
the officers to "let the newspapers have
the Store," as they had "always been
his friends.” Here is Old Bill’s story:
“After we got away from the farm
Thursday night we made our way to
the river—the Oconee, ain’t it? We
stole a boat before daylight and start
ed on our way. We planned to stick
to the river until we reached the coast
and then catch a ship for some for
eign country—-we didn’t care what
countrv, so long as we could get away.
We made fairly good time Friday and
Saturday, but had to he mighty care
ful about traveling in daylight.
Boat Sinks;
Widencamp Drowns.
“Things went well until early Sun-
Jay morning, when the boat struck a
■tag and sank. Widencamp. poor fel
■w. couldn't swim, so he was drowned.
Wiggins and myself managed to get to
» the bank, but it was a hard job with our
■ clothes on. Well, we got there and
■ landed In a swamp. And it looked like
f there wasn’t any getting out of that
swamp. We wandered all day Sun
day. Monday and yesterday without
finding any trace of a trail that would
lead tn open country. We fought rat
tlesnakes and lived on blackberries.
"Last night we were mighty near
starved to death when we accidentally
run tip on a negro cabin stuck back
there in the swamp somewhere. We
asked the negro that lived there to give
us something to eat. He did. and then
turned us up. He knew by our clothes
ue were convicts. After he ha< fed
us he beat it ont of the swamp and
sent word to the sheriff We beat It,
Miner Has It in
For His Betrayer.
“While. I had lots rather be in jail,
bound to a post, than In that swamp
fighting moccasins and rattlesnakes
®nd living off blackberries and being
without a drop of water for three days,
still I have got it in for that negro who
eave us away He promised us faith
fully that he would not betray us. I
hope he suffers for the remainder of
Continued on P» fle Two.
UNANIMOUSLY CHOSEN
ON THE FIRST BALLOT
Every one was in favor of
f ’ie same medium. Not a dark
horse was to be heard of, and
it was entirely ont of the ques
tion for any leader to try to
bolt, for all the people were in
favor of the same candidate.
Hie whole convention of Users
and Users of Want Ads were
for Flic Georgian to fill
all their “Wants.”
,f you want to buy. S pll or
xchange anything, want eom
"‘n’ help, desire a position,
wish to rent rooms, houses, etc.,
want boarders a Georgian
Want Ad will p„t V(111 in toilC |,
what you wish. Head and
’hem lor profit each day.
'"' ! ir- easily earned In keep
”P "i'h Georgian Want
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results
Wild West Show Girl
LassoesßichHusband
By Skill With Lariat
Rough-Riding Daughter of Colo
nel Zach Mulhall Weds Flor
ida Mine Owner's Son.
SAVANNAH. GA.. July 3.—Fulmi
nating in a romance begun nearly a
year ago. Willis E. Carmichael, son of
J. C. Carmichael, a wealthy phosphate
mln'' owner of Florida, has niarried I
Miss Mildred Mulhall, daughter of |
Colonel Zach Mulhall, owner of the I
Mulhall wild west show, which is one ;
of the attractions at Tybee for the |
summer.
The ceremony was performed in the |
chapel at Fort Screven by Rev. Father
Doran, the post chanlaln, Charles Mul
hall. brother of the bride, and Miss
Georgia Mulhall, her sister, acting as
best man and maid of honor. The I
bride was given away by her father.
This is the firs' wedding that has
occurred at the fort chapel since It
was completed.
The romance began at Ocalla. Fla.,
the home of Carmichael, when Miss
Mulhall was appearing there with her
father's show In rough riding and fan
's' lariat throwing. Carmichael first
saw her then. and. as he has since ex
pressed it, it was "love at first sight.”
Then the show came to Tybee. Car
michael followed to be near Miss Mul
hall. The wedding followed.
FORMER PASTOR OF
CHURCH IN ATLANTA
IS DYING AT ATHENS
ATHENS, GA., July s.—Dr. M. L.
Troutman, former pastor of the Park
Street Methodist church In Atlanta and
now pastor of the First Methodist
church of. Athens, is dying today of
acute appendicitis. The attending phy
sicians say his death is a question of
only a few hours. Dr. Troutman re
ceived the degrees of doctor of divini
ty’and bachelor of laws at the recent
commencement of the University of
Georgia. He is one of the best known
ministers of the North Georgia Metho
dis’ conference.
HOUSE “NAMES” NEW
SON OF REP. SPENCE
“WOODROW WILSON”
The son of Representative John R.
Spence, of Carroll county, who was ush
ered into this mundane sphere at the pre
cise moment that the Baltimore conven
tion nominated Woodrow Wilson for pres
ident, will be named in honor of the
Princetonian if the wishes of the father's
fellow members have any weight with
him.
Representative Hixon. Mr. Spence's col
league in the house, offered a resolution
today congratulating Mr. Spence upon the
arrival of a son and heir and suggesting
that the youngster he named Woodrow
Wilson. It was adopted by acclamation
and telegraphed to Mr. Spence, who was
absent, celebrating the stork's arrival
VICTIM OF SHOOTING
MYSTERY RECOVERS;
ACCUSED GIVES BAIL
R. Z. Upchurch, chief clerk of the Geor
gia Eruit exchange, who was wounded in
a mysterious pistol fight in the exchange
offices in the Walton building early yes
terday. today was declared by Grady phy
sicians to be out of danger. It is now be
lieved that he will be able to leave the
hospital within a short time. The bullet
entered his side.
Emmett Hight, the real estate dealer ac
cused of shooting Upchurch, has been re
leased from the police station on bond of
12,500. His trial will not be set until Up
church is able to attend court.
EVIDENCE, FOUND IN
AN OLD WELL, CLEARS
UP KILLING MYSTERY
GADSDEN. ALA., July 3.—A long dirk
and a suit of underclothes and a bucket
which had contained blood were found by
workmen cleaning a well at Altoona to
day. The find clears the mystery of the
death of Nicholas Shentzen. a German
miner, who was killed and robbed of
$1,500 last July. Wiley Goforth and Joe
Saulsberry are charged with the crime.
The knife has been identified as one be
longing to Goforth.
BUSINESS MEN AND
LAWYERS TO DIRECT
PENDLETON IN RACE
A committee of from 30 tn <0 business
men and attorneys of Atlanta will be ap
pointed tomorrow to he campaign man
agers of Judge J. T. Pendleton, in the
race for the superior court judgeship.
The appointments will be made by .1. D.
Kilpatrick, who was given authority to
do so by the Atlanta Bar association in a
meeting held today.
Judge Pendleton was indorsed by the
association several weeks ago.
GOOD ROADS BOOSTERS
TO PLAN FOR BIG MEETING
The county commissioners will meet
with the good roads committee of the
Chamber of Commerce Saturday at noon,
when Dr. .Joaeph Hyde Pratt, president
of the Southern Appalachian Good Roads
association, will come to perfect arrange-
I ments for the meeting of that association
in Atlanta next November Dr W. S
j McCallie. state geologist Profesaor C.
Morton Strahn. «>f Ute Ciilversity of Geor*
! gia. and others prominent tn this state
J u ill a Iso h♦ t end
' The meeting will i»e m arrange for ar*
rommodatton of the .ion delegates e> •
po<’te«l to th» convention, and a general
uuillne ”f the wort be taken up then.
NEWSTATUTE
GIVES GRACE
RIGHT TO
TESTIFY
If Passed in Time. Wounded
Man Can Take Witness
Stand Against Wife.
•
BILL IS INTRODUCED IN
HOUSE BY REP. HARRELL
Present Condition an Injustice.
He Thinks—Famous Case
Prompts Him to Act.
The Grace -case and its legal techni
calities were responsible for the -intro
duction of a bill in the Georgia house
of representatives today giving the
husband the right to testify against
the' wife in felony cases involving a
criminal offense upon the husband by
the wife, and vice versa.
It was introduced by Representative
Harrell, of Stewart county, and if it
becomes a law before the Grace case
comes up for trial Eugene Grace will
be enabled to testify against Mrs. Daisy
Grace, whom he accuses of shooting
him in their north side home several
months ago
The Grace case Is now set for July
22. and it is hardly possible that both
house and senate could pass the Har
rell bill before that time, even if no op
position should develop. But there is
always a likelihood of delay in the
court, and should the bill become a law
before the trial it would apply to the
present action.
Bill Will Apply to
Case Like Grace's.
Competent lawyers in the house were
asked today whether, in case the bill
becomes a law, it would apply to a
crime committed before its passage, but
which had not reached trial at that
time. They agreed that the law would
apply to such 'cases.
Mr. Harrell stated that he had read
the newspaper stories of the Grace case
with interest, and that he believed the
law which prevented a husband from
testifying against his wife, or a wife
against her husband, was not wise. He
said he had no interest in the Grace
case especially, but the published state
ment of the law which would prevent
Grace from testifying had called his at
tention to the defect In the law and
bad made him resolve to attempt a
remedy.
The. bill provides that the evidence of
the husband or Fife must be corrobo
rated by other evidence, and it gives
the wife the same right as the husband
to testify. Only cases in which the
charge amounts to a felony are em
braced in the bill. It was referred to
the general judiciary committee for a
report.
RECORDER BROYLES
WILL “MAKE IT HOT”
FOR PISTOL TOTERS
"The pistol-toter is a menace to society,
and we re going to make it hot for him.”
remarked* Recorder Broyles today as he
bound over William Carter to the state
courts on the charge of carrying a con
cealed pistol.
"There Is entirely too much of this
reckless shooting and consequent trag
edy in Atlanta and this country, and
practically all of it can be traced to the
pistol-toter,” the recorder said. "Human
life is regarded too cheaply. Its value
has taken a startling slump. It has come
to the, point where one man will shoot
down another at the slightest provocation.
The record of pfstol-tottng and tragedy
in the United States puts the blush of
shame on this country
"The pistol-toter need expect no leni
ency. for this court certainly will start
him on the road to chaingang by sending
him to the higher courts."
THREE MONTHS RESPITE
FOR S. CAROLINA SLAYER
COLUMBIA. S. C., Juijr 3 Samuel N.
Hyde, the Anderson slayer, sentenced to
die in the electric chair on July 0. has
been reprieved until September 5 by Gov
ernor Biease and a commission has been
appointed to examine into the sanity of
the condemned man. The commission
consists of Dr. J. W. Babcock, superin
tendent of the state hospital for the In
sane; Dr. Robert Wilson, of Charleston,
chairman of the state board of health,
and Dr. W. G Houseal, of Newberry. Dr.
Babcock says the commission will not
make Its report until September
The electric chair at the penitentiary
lias not yet been completed and .several
under sentence of electrocution have been
reprieved by the governor The chair Is
expected to be read' by September
Hyde is confined In the penitentiary HU
attorney hopes to have the sentence com
muted to Ilf* Imprisonment.
ATLANTA. GA.. WEDNESDAY.-JULY 3. 1912.
Fair Tennis Expert Wins Prize Cup
PLAYS A FINE GAME
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Miss Caroline Muse, whose playing astonished the society folk
at the Driving club tourney and won her the women’s single cup. is
shown here making a smashing play at a critical point in the match.
Miss Smith and Winship Nun
nally Wins Mixed Doubles
at Tournament.
Brilliant play characterized today’s
matches In the tourney at the Pied
mont Driving club.
In the men's doubles, Colquitt and
Draper won over Smith and Ashe, atari
Miss Caroline Muse won the women's
singles cup by defeating Miss Smith in
some of the cleverest tennis ever seen
in the South.
Not in years have the. tennis enthu
siasts been treated to such a
skillful exhibition »t> was given
by Miss Muse in lie- brilliant final with
Miss Smith. I'riends who eongratu
later! het upon her victory predict thal
she will become a dangerous < oiltend
er for women's tennis honor- in uh.it
er meets If she can be prevailed upon
to enter the championship 'ontesi in
the North and Mid lie West ,ur>',.ra'
hundred society folk saw her win the
match.
The mixed doubles went to -Mi.-s
Smith and Winship Nunnally, who de
feated Miss Hughes and Mr. McClus
key.
Dr. Varden and Draper are playing
in the cup Singles this afternoon, and
Hoyt and Dorsey also are scheduled in
the men's singles.
SELLS HOME AT FAIR
AND WALKER FOR $10,500
Mrs Julia J Eubanks, through her
agents. Turman, Black & Calhoun, has
sold to the Georgia Realty Company for
$10,500 the house and lot at the corner of
Walker and Weal Eair streets The same
I’oinern bought also from Mrs Eubanl s
lota on Walker, on Holland and on alley
near Walker and on Greensferry streets
for $355,. *175. sllO and SIOO, reapectlveiy
Turman, Black A Calhoun also atmotmt e
the -ale of th* home of the late liy G*i>rg>
•Sale on Park street to Di Medlock
SECRET MOVE MADE
TO FORCE SUFFRAGE
ISSUE BEFORE CLUBS
SAN FRANCISCO, July 3.—A reso
lutlon favoring suffrage has been pre
pared In secret and will be presented to
committee on resolutions of the
General Federation of Women's Clubs,
now meeting In convention here. The
remarkable progress of the suffrage
movement in California Is having a
strong effect on the women delegates,
and it is believed the resolutions com
mittee will report the resolution.
This afternoon Mis. Francis Squire
Potter, of Chicago, will conduct the
conference of the literature department
and at the same hour Dr. Rachel Yar
ros, also of Chicago, will lead a health
conference, where the Owen bill will
make its first fight.
Mrs. Sarah Platt Decker, a former
president of the federation, is seriously
111 in a hospital here. She was stricken
ill suddenly last night.
H. T. M’CONNELL IS
DEAD; IN BUSINESS
HERE FOR 11 YEARS
H T McConnell. head of the McConnell
Shoe and Clothing Company, for eleven
years, and one of Atlanta's prominent
merchants, died today at St, Joseph's in
firmary. Mr. McConnell had been op
erated on for gallstones last Monday H*
bad been ill less than a week before that
da >
lie was 44 years old and is survived by
Mrs. Ida McConnell, his widow; Miss May
McConnell, a daughter, and Frank Mc
< ’onnell, .1 r.. a son
The funeral will take place from the
family home, 17 Garfield place, tomorrow
at 10 o'clock.
MULTI-MILLIONAIRE GETS
DIVORCE FOR DESERTION
PITTSHI RG. .Inly 3 Xn.lrew V. Mel
ton. multi-millionaire banker, wan granted
a divorce today on grounds <>t desertion
In the original suit Mr Melton charged
liim wife with Infidelity, naming an ling
II It arm. officer as co-r< - pondenl
I a ter a new suit charging desertion «■»<
. tiled. The charge war not opposed. The
Meli<ma have lwo children
CLARK VINDICATED BY
VOTE OF TAMMANY ANO
T. F. RYAN DELEGATES
FELDER ASSURED
OF FINANCIAL AID
Leaders Think Time for His
Candidacy Ripe—Announce
ment Expected Saturday.
i
Thomas S. Felder, attorney general, is
expected-to make his announcement as
a candidate for governor by Sa'urday.
Today he returned to Atlanta from Ma
con. where he had a conference with
friends yesterday afternoon and gave
out a statement that indicates almost
certainly that he will announce. He will
re’um to Macon tonight for another
conference with friends there tomor
row, when he is expected to reach ’i
final decision, hts public statement to
follow.
"Two things have caused me to re
frain from committing myself thus ’ar,”
said Mr. Felder .oday. "1 wanted to
see if the water was warm and if I
could expect the necessary financial
support to justify me making the race
for governor. My friends at Macon
have communicated with leaders over
the state and the replies received lead
them to believe the time Is ripe for m?
to run. I have been absolutely assured
all the financial aid necessary."
The following telegram from his
Macon supporters was received by Mr.
Felder at 1 o’clock today:
Ample financial support here as
sured. Enthusiastic responses from
your friends throughout the state
are such that we think you should
enter the race at once.
The telegram was signed by Judge
A. L. Miller. R. L. McKinney. E. G. Ja
cobs. Dr. W. G. Lee, D. D. Adams and
George S. Jones.
MRS. T. L. WATERS IS
GRANTED DIVORCE
AND $5,000 ALIMONY
Mrs Nellie Waters, wife of Thomas L.
Waters, the former Broad street commis
sion merchant who was arrested In
April, 1911, In connection with his escapade
with two Atlanta girls he accompanied to
Waycross and other south Georgia towns,
was given a divorce from her husband and
$5,000 permanent alimony in superior court
today. The decision put an end to. the
marital troubles of the Waters that were
aired before Judge Broyles in the police
court several months ago.
They were married in 1897. One daugh
ter. thirteen years old, Mary L. Waters.
whs born, and is living with her mother
in Atlanta. The court directed that Mr.
Waters, besides paying his former wife
alimony, allow S2O per month for support
of the child.
Mr. Waters is at present an automobile
salesman, having retired from the com
mission business early last year. He
made no defense to the petition by Mrs.
Waters for divorce and alimony
QUARREL OF GAMBLERS
STARTS A CITY CLEAN-UP
LITTLE R'X'K. ARK . July 3. Ar
genta gamblers fell out among them
selves As a result, four of their gam
bling houses have been raided by the
sheriff's deputies and $3,000 worth of
gambling paraphernalia, including four
roulette wheels, confiscated and pub
licly binned
Following this exciting episode, the
grand jury has undertaken a thorough
investigation to clean out all the gam
blers. riot only in Argenta, which is
merely suburb, but in Little Rock as
well. There is no open gambling In
Little Rock, a- there has been in Ar
genta.
MANEUVERS BILL PASSES.
It ASHINGTON. July 3 The senat.
todai passed the Joint resolution up
I'oprlatfng $1.350.n0n for tin encamp
ment mil mam ur eis of the mgamou
militia.
HOHL
IDITION
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE £ a o y re no
Ninety New York Votes
Swing to Wil son When
They Can Secure His
Two-Thirds Majority.
Ryan Del egates,
Withheld From Clark,
Are Given to Wilson.
F a z c t s Disprove
B.r yan ’ s Charges
Against Clark.
BALTIMORE, .Inly 3.—Ths
nomination of Woodrow Wilson
has exonerated Champ Clark
from the malicious and untruth
ful charges made by W. J. Bryan.
The votes of the New York
delegation were cast for Wilson
just when they were needed to
secure the nomination for him.
Many Underwood delegates
and the Virginia delegation, con
trolled by Thomas F. Ryan,
swung into line for Wilson when
it became possible for their vntee
to nominate him.
these same votes were with
held from Clark when they would
have nominated him.
1 hese facts utterly disprove the
statement made by Ffryan on the
floor of the convention when he
brazenly attacked Clark as the
candidate of Charles F. Murphy.
Ryan and the interests, and said
he would support no man who
had been endorsed by them.
The Murphy votes were east
for Clark too late to nominate
him. The Ryan votes were ready
when Wilson needed them.
Democrats Declare
They’ll Sweep Country,
With the nomination of Woodrow
Wilson for president and Governor
Thomas R Marshall, of Indiana, for
vice president, and the adoption of a
progressive platform, the departing
Democratic hosts from Baltimore de
clare they will sweep the country next
fall. It was a noteworthy circumstance
that little or no bitterness marked the
victory of Governor Wilson, despite the
fact that the battle had been wa.ged
here in convention for over a week.
There was an optimistic feeling on the
part of the delegates as they departed
for their home. The general opinion
was that the wings of the party were
united and the South, East and West
are satisfied with the outcome.
When the convention adjourned at
1:56 o’clock this morning, after one of
the most desperate struggles in its his
tory. the delegates felt that they had
nominated the strongest ticket possi
ble under the circumstances.
The central figure of interest as the
convention broke up was William J.
Bryan, who had created more excite
ment than any other man in the con
vention. During the closing hours of
the convention Mr. Bryan took the plat
form and his last appearance before
the delegates was in some respects the
most spectacular of the incidents ac
companying the convention. Mr. Bryan
said:
"Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the
convention:
“You have been so generous with m«
in the allowance of time that I had
not expected to transgress upon you*
patience again, but the compliment
which has been paid me by the mem
ber from the District of Columbia, I
hope a word in the form of a valedic
tory will be permitted."
Mr. Bryan’s reference was to a dele
gate who had been voting persistently
for Champ Clark, but who on the last
ballot placed the name of William J
Bryan in nomination for vice president.
The commoner continued:
Bryan Says He
Bears no Hatred.
"For sixteen years I have been a
fighting man. Performing what 1 re
garded as a public duty 1 have not hesi
tated to spetik out on every public
question that was before the people of
this nation for settlement, and I have
not hesitated to raise hostility and the
enmity of individuals when I though*
It ms duty to do so in behalf of my
country.
"I have never advocated a man ex
cept with gladness and I have nevi
opposed a man except in sadness If I
have mi' enemies In this countrv,
those who are my enemies have a mo
nopoly of hatted. There Is not a Sin
gh' human being against whom I feel
hatred
Today only one formalttv remained
Th* n< ■' Democratic national 'ommit.
tee, following the time-honored cuatom
of tin p.irtv, was .- hcdui'd io (Met t
