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HORSEWHIPS HER FOE IN BATTLE FDR DIVORCE Mrs. Petitt Uses Cowhide on Man Who Testified Against Her in Court. u ,.<. Lillian Petitt. of 42 Doane . tre »f. is today under bond of SIOO be she cowhided C. B. Reeves before , score of spectators in broad daylight ~ ,he corner of Marietta and Spring streets. Reeves had testified against her in a divorce suit won by her husband, A. P. Petitt manager of the Joel C. Roper Cigar Company of Ivy street. Her brother -in-law. Edward Hurst, who held Reeves’ bands behind him while th,, infuriated woman literally wore out a whip across his head and shoulders, has thus far eluded the police, but a £n end Vernon Hines, who stood by and applauded the thrashing, is also uniiei $l n 9 bond in Justice D. K. John ston's court. Evidence Helped Husband. ! \ week ago Petitt won his first ver- dict in the divorce suit before a jury in th » superior court. His principal wit ne9 < ind the one who gave the most damaging testimony against Mrs. Petitt ■1.,. Reeves, an employee of Petitt’s In nt. cigar factory. lust after the verdict Mrs. Petitt wa . informed that it was Reeves’ evi ls dHwe that had won her husband the suit, and she set out promptly from her Doane street home to get revenge. Hurst and Hines joined her and, after , ;>ing the city a day, she spied Reeves entering the store of Steve near the corner of Marietta and Spring. \|.'=. Petitt did not follow him at oner. She stepped to the curbing, ~ here a negro's dray was standing. ' -nd borrowed his long, heavy whip. At the ?anv moment Reeves, all unsuspi cious <>f his danger, emerged from the shoi, door and started leisurely up the street. Pinned Him For Whipping. Hui.-I rushed at him.* according to his account, and pinioned his two hands I behind his back. Then he faced the man toward the enraged woman. The crowd at the corner looked on wonder ingly. .You'll li° about me. will you?” cried Mrs. Petitt. raising the heavy whip ! above her hem.:. “Well, take that for it. yen cowaril ” Tht whip dr«■ ■■■ndeil again and again upon the hriii of the helpless Reeves. Grea' '.< ;■< roc- where the thong struck hiti Mrs. Petit! rushed around him plying the whip with all the strength of he arrtis, while Hurst still held him In .1 .icelike grip, so that he could r,: , ■ run nor resist. Ymidst the swirl of s' woman’s blows the horsewhipped m.< crie. to the spectators for help, bu: iie got no aid. Hines stood by, it is lev..: .«!, either expressing his approval or advising Mrs. Petitt how to reach a particularly tender spot. Mrs. Petitt had given the agonized Reeves a severe lashing when the whip, worn out by the strenuous thonging, snapped near the butt. Rut “ne was not yet satisfied. Hurl ing the useless whip end into the street, she ran at Reeves and slapped him sav agely mi his cheeks and swollen jaws. When she was finished she gave, a sign to her male companions and they Walked calmly up the street, unmolest- Reeves consulted a doctor first and then a lawyer, and warrants charging assault and battery for Mrs. Petitt and her two relatives brought her and Hines to Justice Johnston's court. Hurst could not be found. tn court yesterday Mrs. Petitt told the justice that she was proud to admit even detial of the whipipng and would do again. Reeves said he had been ■ owhided for simply telling the truth upon the divorce trial. Mrs. Petitt and Hines gave bond for appearance in the ■riminal court on respective charges of assault and battery and abetting as sault. Reeves, evho is making the complaint, wn rep esented by Attorney Waller Sim." as prosecutor, and Mrs. Petitt a"'! Hines by Attorney Thomas B. Brow n. WURTS BOWIE, HEAD OF CHEROKEE LIFE CO., DIES OF APPENDICITIS R'I.ME. GA., July 12. —Stricken in ' anta with appendicitis. Wurts W. ■ president of the Cherokee Life 1 ince Company, was brought home ■on die.| shortly after an operation at ntry home, near Rome. Ihe ise of Mr. Bowie in the busi ' m id has been phenomenal. When ' °ly out of his teens lie became ■v'zer of a large clothing store here, shortly after the organization of ''herokee Life Insurance Company its president. He was 32 years 'nd leaves a wife and child, father ''other and two brothers. CONTEMPT BILL PASSES. " A-SHIXGTON. July 12.—Th: house passed the Clayton contempt ' vote of 233 to IS. The Repub ubstitute offered for the Demo btll was defeated on a viva voce Close of Proverb Contest has been postponed. All so-' •utions must either be re-; c eived at this office or bear postmark to show mailing t ' n ’ e p r j or noon Tuesday, July 23. 1 SEARCHING SIDELIGHTS " ON GEORGIA POLITICS By JAMES B. NEVIN. Curses be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented the custom of permitting legis i lators. on an aye and nay roll call, to i explain their votes! | Os all legislative time killers from which nothing whatever comes particular ly worth while, the vote explaining busi ness easily,ranks as Exhibit A. The honorable gentleman from /imph gets up, and assures the speaker and the. house that be could not possibly be happy unless he, right then and there, let loose upon a helpless world his rea sons for doing that which everybody in the range of his voice knows he is going to do. and why. He doesn't think the house understands the gravity of the crisis upon the state, and he is quite sure he does. "He there upon proceeds to unwind a large and classy lot of talk for back home consump tion. if by any measure of good luck it gets back home, after which he takes GREAT pleas-ure. Mr. Speaker, in voting "No!!" 1 he speaker, allowing only a, construc tive recess to intervene between the gen tleman's "no!" and his own customary ejaculation, exclaims hastily. "Thegentle manwillberecordedasvotingno!” Rang! goes the gavel, the name of the gentleman from Humph is then called, and unless the Lord Is very good that day. another vote explanation immediately en sues! Surely, the vote explaining business is the legislative maximum of effort for a minimum of return In these piping times of Tippins bills, the fight for the' perpetuation . of a Peachtree street fountain is emi nently in order, of course. Only, as a matter of fact, nobody ever thought of moving the fountain. Representative B. M. Turnipseed, of Clay, was the man behind one of the best and most effective speeches deliv ered Tuesday in favor of the Tippins bill. ' Mr. Turnipseed was Intensely serious— even dramatically so—in parts of his ora tion. and held the close attention of the house throughout all of ft. He got a good laugh, however. In which he heartily joined, when he exclaimed at one point, “Why, gentlemen, this bill will make the prohibition law so plain that even a judge on the bench can under stand it!" The Columbus Enquirer-Sun thinks the state Democratic executive com mittee was presumptuous in assuming the right to instruct the Georgia leg islature. As a matter of fact, how ever. what difference does it make? —— •I’he notion that it is. sowehow, a finer thing to be a United States sen ator than a governor Is somewhat rudely jarred when one thinks of the fate of Governor Wilson and Governor * Marshall! Joe Hill Hall, of Bibb, objected to the bill which sought to provide a pension for the widows of the late Governor Can dler and the late Governor Gordon, when it came before the house Thursday for consideration, upon a motion to disagree to the adverse report of the committee. Mr. Hall believes that the bil) is plain ly and unmistakably- unconstitutional, and that to vote to pass it. in those circum stances, not only would have been an unrighteous thing to do. under his oath as a legislator, but a poor compliment to Mrs. Candler and Mrs «Ekfrdon, if not an absolute insult. "If it be proposed to amend the consti- There was an old woman—indeed 'tis no dream— Who lived upon little but Toasties and cream; And if you would know her delight in such diet, Just purchase a box at the grocer's and try it. Written by ALBERT FITCH. Central City, Nebr. One of the 50 Jingles for which the Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich., paid SIOOO.OO in May. Down Go the Prices MEN'S SUITS, WOMEN’S SUITS, DRESSES, MILLINERY, ETC. This Great Housecleaning is Your Opportunity Orders from headquarters ALL read: “Carry NEW summer no goods over styles the season. ARE red uced / Never mind 30 to 50 CENTS profits, never ON THE IK 1 mind cost— dollar will just slash!” WM 7 TJ Believe us, F we are “slash- the beauty Ak II / in £-” We are of SI / slaughtering. THIS sale ’ gi i 1 All new, is that seasonable YOU do nt i Nothing, too. need cash. a rt/ Gctsornethin £ ALL BILLS ri nice for vacation PAYABLE ‘ at th* B sale ‘ BY Charge everything. THE WEEK V Pay by the week. 71 1-2 Whitehall Street ATLANTA. GA. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN A XT) NEWS. FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1912. tution in such wise that this thing may be done legally. I will gladly vote for that, and will bend my every effort to help pass it through the house. 1 want to see the thing done that this bill con templates in its intent. Let’s put the matter in legal shape, ft would be wrong to pass it in any other form. ", said the gentleman from Bibb. So far as "dry” laws are concerned in Georgia, it never rains but it pours, apparently. William H. Burwell, of Hancock. Is be ing warmly congratulated upon his re markable performance with respect to the so-called "material man’s lien bill," which he succeeded in bringing to life Thursday after it had apparently passed unmistaka bly .and unrecallably to that undiscov ered country from whose bourne no trav eler is alleged ever to return. How that bill, with an adverse report of the committee attached, ever got on the calendar and subsequently up for a sec ond reading nobody save Mr. Burwell knows. Not only that, but, being up with that adverse report, how Mr. Bur well succeeded in getting the house to dis agree to the report of the committee by the overwhelming vote of 107 to 58. is another thing its opponents can not fig ure out. Nevertheless, those very things hap pened. and now the bill is happy on its way to a,third reading and its passage. And that is why one of the members of the house has applied for letters patent on a new- verb. "To burwell." He says it shall mean "to get things up and through the "legislature, in spite of hades and high water?' MILITIAMEN KILLED BY LIGHTNING TO GET MILITARY FUNERALS ANNISTON. ALA., July 12.—The bodies of Charles Kirby and Herbert Rape, of Birmingham, who were killed when a bolt of lightning struck the Second Alabama regiment mess hall at Camp Pettus last night, were removed to the Kidd undertaking parlors here, where funeral services were held this afternoon. Both will be taken to Bir mingham for burial, accompanied by a military escort. Field Jefferson, who has made his home within recent years at Selma, Mobile and Birmingham, and Charles J*-kson, of Birmingham, are still crit ically ill. according to repprts from the camp hospital today. Jackson has been delirious since the shock. It was necessary to strap him to his cot in the hospital last night. Captain C. H. Seals, who was knock ed down while shaving, is fully- recov ered. The others injured are: M. C. Sullivan, E. V. Lockhart, Herbert Moore, H. I. Leonard, James Jameson, W. T. Evans. Leopold Speigler. Sam uel Walters. R. R. Parsons. Earl Hol comb, Travis Downing, J. R. Robison and two negro cooks. All will-recover, their injuries being slight. Colonel C. R. Bricken, in command of the Second Alabama regiment, stated that he was heartbroken over the dis aster. A gloom has been cast over the entire camp. The Alabama boys have been partially excused from maneuvers today. None attended the grand ball given the camp officers last night. ORYSADDSII.OOO TO BUTTLE FOND Convention Delegates Boost the Amount for Campaign to $42,000. ATLANTIC CITY. N. J.. July 12. The first session today of the National Pro hibition convention ended with the choice of the party for presidential and vice presidential candidate yet unmade. This delay was due to the enthusiasm of the delegates in responding to the pleas for campaign funds to which the early hours were largely given over. More than SII,OOO was subscribed in amounts ranging from SI to SI,OOO. This brings the prohibition campaign fund up to $42,000. The national committee hopes to increase this to $150,000 before No. vember. During the opening session the presi dential situation showed little change, though there was a trend of insurgent favor toward F. W. Emerson, of Califor nia, a close personal friend of Virgil G’ Hinshaw, who was elected national chair man by- 'he insurgents last night. TAYLOR’S Saturday Sale Men’s Suits Fine all-wool blue serge Suits; $12.50 values, forslo.oo Another lot of all-wool gray worsted Suits f0r57.50 Worsted Pants, all woo!.. ..$3.00 ■ Latest style Fur Hats . .$2.00 Fine Percale Dress Shirts. . . ,50e Underwear at2sc and 50c Real Silk Socks2sc Ladies Shoes All of our $3.50 and s4.no Pumps. Straps and Colonials. In black, white or tan, now $2.95 Another lot of fine low-cut Shoes, in white or black: $2.50 values, f'>rs2.oo Misses' white Shoes. $1 and $1.50 Misses’ Slippers.. ..$1 and $1.50 Fine Gauze Hose2s c Real Silk Hosesoc Neckwear2sc and 500 Wash Dresses Ladies’ and Misses’ Dresses In many pretty new styles, from 98c t 053.00 Another shipment of those white Pique Skirts so much In demand now. at9Bc Childs’ white Dresses. Boys' Wash Sults. * Boys' Cowboy Suits. Misses’ white Dresses. For Boys Blue Serge. Suitss3.9B Blue Serge Pants. . ,50c and 98c Blouses and Shirts 50c Large size Hoselsc Straw Hata and Serge Caps. 25c Open Saturday Night Till 10 o'Clock Specials Men's real Silk Socks ,25c Ladies' long Silk Gloves . . 98c Misses’ and Ladies’ Gauze Hose2sc Ladies’ Neckwearloc Sale of Dresses at9Bc Sale of Waists atsoc Sale of Millinery at .. Half Price Monday Sales Real Ramie Linens 25c Remnants of 27-In. Silks . 15c Imitation Ramie Linens .12 1-2 c Mill Ends Ginghamsßc Dress Goods sale at2sc TAYLOR’S 240 Marietta Street BASS I BASS r BAS'S ' BASS| BASS BASS. BASS BASS|BASs ; BASS BASS" BASS' ! Saturday Sale at Bass' J CQ . GO $ Store Open Saturday Night Until 10 o’Clock. g cc I Extra Special Bargains on Sale From IP. M. Until 10 P. M. $ 3 Another Great Scoop of 500 New | I Summer Dresses at y 3 Value I . co $ Our New York buyer has just shipped us another a great lot of new Summer Dresses which he secured $ from overstocked makers at about one-third regular > S wholesale prices. These will go on sale tomorrow Zn at three prices, as noted below: §5 1 Lot No. 1 Lot No. 2 Lot No. 31 < GT “ New Linene, Rep and Very stylish new 'E Fancy Madras Dresses Dresses of excellent Dresses Voile Dr A es S < in many pretty styles, quality linene, in white, rmb roiderpd Linen lace-trimmed and em- tan, blue and pink—all utoJ C 0 broidered—made to re- new models, made to re- H k Dresses . value , > tail at $5.00 and $6.00 toil at from $5.00 to ™ne Dresses values cj Sin this sale at $8.00; take choice for $ ’fe ! $1.95 $2.95 $4.75 I J Suits and Waists Great Skirt Sale g v 4 . ... Sample Skirts of all-wool serges, Panamas Z? < New Norfolk Lo»t Suit, of .x W |knl q »d.ty ,nd voile.; made to sell np CO QE “ whtte rep; real ♦6.511 values; COQE to W. 50; tomorrow $2.39 0 rr. in this sale at, onlv w&aavv ~,, . „ , New White Rep ana Pique Skirts, very styl -1,000 sample Waists, including all-over em- ish models; to CQ broidered lingerie effects, lace-trimmed sheer sell at, only vOS lawns, plain white linens, etc.; values up White Linene Skirts, well made and worth (/) to $2.50; choice of CQ* fully $1.00; the lor UwC at, onIv WWW on OQ « Other Bargains in Ready-to-Wear g Ladles’ Black Mercerized Petti- Ladies’, Misses’ and Children's Ladies’ House Dresses of good. CQ coats; worth $1.00; in Ready-to-wear and Untrfmmed durable wash fabrics; ftO* > ' this sale, only wWW Hats; up to $3.00 tn sa ' e <)ne lot of Children's Parasols values . . Children’s Dresses; sizes forages’ W (/) Will be closed out tomor- INew1 New white uid combination Ra- 2to 6 years; extra !A 3* row at, choice IVU tine Hats; the real 98© special at, only IWC? SO Parasols in new and one’ll Suits; Children’s Wash Dresses; sizes fi |O’ , .u nn" ? : p 98c mohairs and serges; Cl QO year ;UP t 0 9&C to $3.00 values of( value< values Q 3 (/) Ladles’ Corset Covers of fine Ladies’ Rain Coats In good stvles; Children's Rompers, well made of nainsook, lace and em- 1Q a real $4.00 values. QQ S<»od wash materials; «Q_ C/) ffy broidery-trimmed . in this sale iplsWO this sale (/) Gowns. Petticoats. Combination Ladies' Swiss-ribbed Lisle Vests One lot of Ladies’ Short Kimonos Suits and Princess Slips: OQa with silk-taped neck 7 to c ' oße out - a t> 1 CO CO up to $3.00 values . ... an( j arm holes < V choice IVv < . « From 3to 5 o’Clock Saturday g Full double bed size Bleached I6=button length Silk Gloves in S Hemmed Sheets, 75c p black and good cob p A ~ < value, on sale Satur= ors; on sale Satur=l%||ft > “ day, from 3to 5 day from 3 to 5 JMIj o’clock only, at, each o’clock only, at pair g CQ ? Ladies’ and Men’s Furnishings CQ One lot of Ladles' Silk Hose, in i UMBRELLAS AT 980. I Men’s Negligee Shirts, samples I black and colors; . r ... °f regular SI.OO and A C/5 the 50c grade s ■wV One lot of Ladies and Men s Lm- $1.50 grades, choice Ladles’ Silk Hose, extra fine and"s3 0" grades' *" 'AO Men's Elastic Seam Drawers, the < $1.50 quality; in this X , 98© 50c and 75c grades; pSft 03 rQ sale at, only r , this sale, only -rj, Toadies’ Wlii t e Hemstitched Ladies' Patent Leather Belts, Men's Balbriggan, Lisle and Handkerchiefs; in this sale 1 re ®l 50c values, in OC* Porous Knit Underwear; at, only t ll * B sale at - on, y WV -q c g ra( j e; per garment fcOC ”2 Children’s and Babies' White and Lot of Ladies' Hat Pins that were Men’s Night Shirts, well mazie of „ Fancy Top Socks; K Q* 50c; to close out at, lA a lightweight cambric; fiQ 25c kind ww choice IW SI.OO vaJue - New style Hair Switches of real Ladies’ Hand Bags in various Men’s White Hemstitched Hand- human hair, black, Clßf> styles: worth up to kerchiefs, worth 10c; C/5 brown, blond wOU $1.00; choice, tomorrow. j n this sale at OO ■ % Specials in Linens, Wash Goods, etc. 4 % <Z) > C/i 68-lnch rutached Table Damask. Big table of new Batistes. Lawns 18-lnch Bleached Table Napkins, er worth sl.Wt; In this 30C and Organdies In the prettiest hemmed ready for use. sale, per yard ww mtterns of the season also new per dozen ' Stylish Dress Linens in whit- VVhite Goods, up to Extra fine 18-lnch Double Satin > and all colors; real -JA- 25c values: per vard OO Faced Napkins, worth 7Q q CC *2 50c value; pei yard $1.50. at. per dozen * 20 pieces of yard-wide t’urtain 40 pieces of new Linen Voiles In fine lot of White Jap Silk. worth CQ Swiss to sell at. ’ P |ain colors and striped ,0 se ' l tomorrow IQfl ~ .. p ( . r yard patterns; per yard IVV at, per yard• wV Saturday Bargains in Furniture Department S Fancy Cpnter Table, as Tomorrow only, we will ® illustrated. Golden Oak T :rjg-_ sell regular 50-rent co 2 or Early English: 18 quality Linen Window inches tall, 12-inch top; £ f f V Shades, on best spring extra special, at B rollers, at. onlv 139 c Ta 19c i > We Give Si 18 West % “ Green SUF Mitchell, “ Trading M W jnflL Z/j® Near S 2 Stamps OloF m w Whitehall BASS I BASS BASS | BASS |BASS BASS BASS BASSIBASSTBASS BASS BASS 3