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POLICE'FIXED'TO
ALLOW SLAYERS
TO ESCAPE
Rian Driving Auto From Which
Rosenthe! Was Shot Makes
Sensational Admission.
NEW YORK, July 18. —William Sha
piro, who drove the automobile in
ivhlch rode the murderers who killed
Herman Rosenthal, the gambler, in
front of the Hotel Metropole, after
Rosenthal had accused the police of
being in league with gamblers, today,
through his attorney, Aaron J. Levy,
charged that he was told by one of the
murder party that the police had been
•■fixed" and that official arrangements
had been made for the murderers to
escape.
This sensational statement followed
fast action In which these things hap
pened:
“Jack” Rose, friend to Police Lieu
tenant Charles A. Becker, whom Rosen
thal alleged to be his partner, surren
dered and was subsequently arrested
upon the charge of murder. He ad
mitted hiring the automobile used by
the assassins to escape. He will be
examined Monday.
Mayor Gaynor Enters Probe.
Mayor Gaynor summoned Lieutenant
Becker to his office for a conference
and started an investigation that is be
lieved to be the forerunner of a police
shake-up.
Policeman William J. File, who was
In the Metropole when the murder was
committed, was suspended after Com
missioner Waldo held an investigation
to which al] of the policemen w ho were
In the vicinity at the time were called.
It is rumored that Detective William
J. Burns, who worked up the McNa
mara and other famous cases, has been
retained by a private citizen to run
down the Rosenthal slayers in the in
terest of the public good.
Before the grand jury resumed its
labors today District Attorney Whit
man said:
“No single explanation of the many
that have been advanced about East
Side gambling squabbles—and several
of these explanations have come direct
ly from the police—holds water.
“This man Rosenthal has for many
years been mixed up in gang fights.
He has been seriously involved either
directly or through his friends in the
fights that brought about the deaths of
“Spanish Louis" and "Kid Twist," two
notorious gand leaders, and yet he was
not harmed at these times by rival
gangsters who perhaps might have felt
that they had cause to attack him.
No Danger From Gangs.
"And for months preceding this mur
der his relations with the gangs have
been pleasant enough for him to look
for no danger in that quarter. His
promised exposure concerned the po
lice. He had said he would tel! nothing
about other gambling houses or gam
blers.
"Just a few hours before he was to
come to my house and try to make
good his charges he was killed. Now
the charges are practically dead—they
mean little or nothing. The gain to
those accused by Rosenthal’s death is
apparent.
I repeat that my personal belief is
that behind the gang that killed Rosen
thal was a bigger motive than mere re
venge. The death was a protection to
the system because it stopped one
tongue and was a lesson to others that
might show a tendency to wag."
Trying to "Lose” Widow.
M hile funeral services were being
held for Rosenthal efforts were being
made to induce the widow of the slain
gambler to leave New York so that
she could not give further information
to the district attorney's office relative
to her husband’s affairs. One of the
overtures was made by a woman who
(ailed Mrs. Rosenthal on the telephone
and tried to make an appointment to
meet her in a hotel in the heart of the
"white light” district. Friends of the
widow tried to run down the call, but
only succeeded in learning that it had
been sent from a point near Broadway
and Forty-first street.
MASS MEETING TO VOICE
FEE SYSTEM OPPOSITION
MACON, GA., July 18.—There will be
8 public mass meeting tonight held at
the city auditorium under the auspices
of the Chamber of Commerce for the
purpose of voicing sentiment against
a * ontinuance of the fee system for
county officers In Bibb county. The
fl 'e county commisioners who began
the agitation for a change to the salary
P' ;,n wtH be present to submit facts
Igures. They claim that the abo
■ ' n of the fee system will save the
t.eetJrt J"T’ 000 a year. It is also ex
’ I ' ,t s " n,e of the county officers
tent pl ’ esent tn dta fend the fee sys-
gordon county tired
OF GOING REPUBLICAN
ALHOUN, (3A ” July IS—The Dem.
o 'ats of Gordon county are deter
-11 -ned that the presidential election in
-••■ember will find Gordon safely in the
i-son column. Four years ago Taft
L"' lert the county against Bryan, and
■ < \eit did the same thing previous
' but the Democratic voters feel that
' ' tlme there will he n landslide for
‘‘-on. Some of the leading men are
a-t‘ad.l taking steps to organize the
to insure succors,
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tv ■ ■ AH. GA July 18—Solomon
’r-'aw ? egr Z’' " ho billed his mother
v71 * ' A ,B nie hirers, and stabbed his
night of June 1, has been
•< , ncert tn hang on Fridav. August IS
,> _ ims was arrested in Jacksonville
v: isb-LU killing He had pre
s-it-eri . F C i k U wife, and was com
-ttted to jail for the offense.
FIRST TASTE OF
REAL SOLDIERING
Members of New Battalion of
Fifth Georgia Learn Ditch
Digging and Hiking.
CAMP PETTUS, aIW, July 18.—At.
lanta’s new regiment, especially the
new hatallion. got its first taste of real
soldiering yesterday afternoon and to
ri.;,. For three long hours the men
were hiked across the hills and near
mountains about the camp, attacking
and lefendlng positions, wading
streams, ploughing through brush and
undergrowth waist high and dripping
wet. and getting a glimpse of what real
campaigning is like.
"The kid glove contingent.’ as an
Atlanta, police commissioner dubbed the
new battalion, stood the strain along
with the best of the veteran companies,
and while the men of Major Hendrix's
command looked anything but the part
of “society soldiers" when they return
ed from their first hike, they were in
most excellent spirits, and to all ap
pearances had stood the test fully as
well as had either of (he other battal
ion composed of men who have par
ticipated in bikes innumerable before.
Ram Increases Work,
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time after the Georgia troops reached
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yesterday afternoon increased the work
of the men not a little, making it im
perative that many ditches and drains
be dug. As a consequence, scores of
men who have done nothing more
strenuous than hammer a typewriter
or draw a trial balance for months past
were to be seen about camp laborious
ly and clumsily wielding pick and
shovel. Rut if they were awkward, to
all appearances, they were willing and
only swore softly at the puffy blisters
which soon began to appear on their
palms.
Colonel E. E. Pomeroy, in command
of the Fifth, smilingly expresses his
sympathy for the recruits, but points
out that on this encampment the com
manders of the new companies will
have a most excellent opportunity to
judge which of their men are really
worth while. Those who “want more”
after their stay here have the makingj
of real soldiers, in the opinion of the
colonel.
Fifth Welcomed by Regulars.
Officers and men of the Georgia bri
gade. especially of the Fifth. were
given a cordial welcome by the battal
ion of the Seventeenth Infantry from
Fort McPherson, taking part In the
maneuvers. Both Colonel J. T. Van
Orsdale. who commands the entire ma
neuver camp, and Major Martin, who is
in command of the battalion of the
Seventeenth, expressed their pleasure
at seeing “the boys from home,” and
complimented the Georgia troops upon
the showing made so far.
The people of Anniston are also do
ing their best to make both the national
guard and the regular army officers en
joy their stay here. Every possible
eourte.’y has been shown them and for
tomorrow night a dance has been ar
ranged for the officers of the Georgia
brigade at the country club.
The enlisted men are waiting for no
second invitation to make themselves
at home and the Anniston swains are
having but little to do save gnaw their
finger nails and utter imprecations
upon the boys in uniform as they go
marching by with every pretty girl in
sight.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1912.
HOW FIRST AID TO INJURED IS GIVEN
TO MILITARY IN CAMP AT ANNISTON
Fifth regiment hospital corps caring for Captain Lichten
waiter, who was thrown from his horse. The lad on the army
mule is William S. Coburn. Jr., of Atlanta, mascot of Company 11.
He is the pet of the Fifth regiment, wears a regular uniform of
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FIKE TESTIMONY,
SAYS NICHOLS
Attorney Accused by Detective
Reed Testifies Before Com
mittee Today.
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ing for a convict sent up as a yegg
man; that a fortune had been left him
iof about $600,000. He said a hackman
had referred him to me as one who
would know about such a man.
"I introduced Mr. Porter to Mr.
Sims and they took up the record of
the convict who had once sent for me
at the jail. Mr. Sims said later that
Mr. Porter thought this was the man
he was after.
"When Mr. Porter came back from
Chicago he telephoned me to come to
the Finch hotel. I went to see hitn,
and we talked about getting the par
don. The dictagraph record says 1
would not take the case except as a
lawyer and unless Porter was asso
ciated with me as attorney on It. This
is about what I told him:
"1 went into, the matter of the in
terurban charter to show him our peo
ple would talk: that they said I’d been
paid for this, and that It was a lie.
"I told Governor 81-ose if the fran
chise was not signed it would hurt
the people of the Piedmont. No fee of
jin.oao was mentioned " hen the offi
cials asked me to send in a bill. 1 said
I would ask na fee except my expenses
to Columbia. I told Porter what the
dictagraph says.
I told him that it was a damned
lie about Blease taking graft. I did
pay out of my own pocket for having
Blease campaign literature circulated.
I don’t know what I told Porter about
this matter. I expect to pay for cir-
culating Blease literature this time.
"I never consciously offered to bribe
anybody for anything at Mr. Porter's
I instigation. I was drunk and don’t
know what I said. He had two quarts
of Scotch liquor at Spartanburg. I
wont' say whether 1 said what the
dictagraph says I did or not.
"Whisky affects me peculiarly. It
makes me think I am the biggest man
in the world and can whip anybody.
The dictagraph says I was drunk when
I left for Baltimore, and it told the
truth that time. I don't know that
that whisky was drugged, but I never
had any whisky to affect me that way.
"In the New Willard hotel, when Mr.
I Pasly was presented, I have rfo dis
tinct recollection of what passed. If I
said Mr. Wyche was to receive $2,500
for pardon for Mr. Green, it was liquor
talk. Gr»en was convicted before 1
was admitted to the bar, and 1 was
talking wildly when I said I represent
ed Mi. Green at his trial.
"When I got back to Spartanburg I
started with th< work of attorney of
getting the pardon for Johnson or De
ford. Mr. Sims started getting up the
petition. 1 got several telegrams from
Porter to hurry up. I went over to j
Barnwell to the campaign meeting and .
that night went to Blackville, where |
the candidates were entertained by T. !
H. Peeples.
."I went for the purpose of finding if'
Governor Blease would take up any
pardon matters until after election. I
found him so busy I didn’t mention
pardon matters to him When 1 saw
in the paper Reed said he had a tele
gram to the effect that he should come
South and pay for his pardon and get
it. I wired agant at Blacksville for a
copy of the only telegram I sent Porter.
This telegram reads;
Porter’s Telegram.
’’ Things do not look good. Gome Io
Spartanburg at once.’
“I have the original here. It is the
only telegram I sent Porter after I left
on the campaign trip. I went to Bam
berg and on Saturday was at the man
sion with the governor. tin Sunday,
the first time I knew of anything
crooked in the matter, was Sunday
morning when I saw Reed's testimony
in the paper. Mr. George Reabert
showed me the paper.
"When 1 got to Spartanburg Sunday,
my father handed me this telegram:
"‘Chicago, July 18, 1912. —Samuel J.
Nichols. Spartanburg. S. C Your wire
received today. Take it for granted pa
pers ready. Am mailing New York draft
for twenty thousand as agreed. Wire
immediately if paper Issued today.
"'Henry N Porter'
"I never sent Porter any telegram
AiILEAGE PULLING
HUDE PASSED
Senate, Without a Dissenting
Vote. Adopts Bill Bitterly Op
posed by the Railroads.
Traveling men -»f Georgia and the entire
Southeastern territory won an important
victory in the senate today when the
.Shaw hill, requiring Georgia railroads to
pull mileage on trains instead of exchang
ing mileage for a ticket, as is nnw the
vogue, passed the upper house without
a dissenting voire
The success of the Shaw measure
means that the fight now being centered
on the state railroad commission by the
Travelers’ Protective association. United
Commercial Travelers and the Georgia
Travelers’ association will he transferred
to the legislature. With the senate vic
tory achieved, great pressure will be
brought to bear on the house to approve
the measure
The railroads, it Is understood, also
will lodge their objection to the measure
with the house committee on railroads.
The advisability of ordering Georgia
railroads to pull mileage on trains is now
being considered b.v the railroad commis
sion. The travelers have asjeed the com
mission to consider a flat 2-cent passen
ger fare as an alternative.
Their petitions were opposed bitterly
by attorneys for the railroads before the
commission
The Shaw mileage bill has had a check
ered career in the senate A trick bill
which went to the upper house early last
session required railroads to install sep
arate windows and employ separate mile
age ticket agents in all cities of more
than 2,000 population, with an alterna
i tlve of pulling mileage on trains. This
bill was amended to death in commit
' tee. The present bill was introduced in
I the senate on the last day of the last ses
i sion August 17. 1911.
JEWELS WORTH $25,000
STOLEN FROM CARRIER
CHICAGO, July 18. -A suit case con
taining $25,000 In jewelry was stolen in
the view of hundreds of persons pass
ing the Silversmith building, 12 South
Wabash avenue today. The case was
the property of Jacob Lavin, a jewelry
salesman. It was taken from Patrick
McDermott, a sample carrier who had
been employed as a guard against
thieves. McDermott said the valuables
disappeared without his having seen
the robbers. He was detained by the
police.
A ease containing $.17,000 worth of
Jewelry is said to have been stolen
from McDermott at another time.
saving the governor had accepted the
bribe. I never sent any ’O. K.’ telegram
and I dare them to produce any such
message."
"I never made any agreement that I
now know of to get monev on b*half
of Governor Blease,” continued Mr.
Nichols
In getting this pardon I expected to
tell all the facts justifying the pa-don
of Johnson to Governor Blease I never
had any intention of offering Governor
Blease any money in this matter and I
am sure if I had he would not have
counternanced it a moment"
SLAYER OF GIRL
FOUND, SUICIDE
Nathan Schwartz Inhales Gas
After Writing Confession of
Fiendish Crime.
NEW YORK July 18.—Nathan
Schwartz. confessed murderer of
twelve-year-old Julia Connors, com
mitted suicide by inhaling gas at 219
Chrystie street early today. The strik
ing resemblance of the body to the de
scription of Schwartz caused the po
lice immediately to summon members
of the dead man’s family and positive
Identification was made by Philip
Schwartz, a brother.
Schwartz left three hastily scribbled
notes confessing the fiendish crime and
expressing contrition for it.
Following the discovery of the notes
and identification of the body, a fur
ther search of the room by the police
revealed a complete confession, which
evidently had been written Just before
the man turned on the gas preparatory
to taking his last sleep and cheating
Justice of her due for one of the most
shocking crimes ever committed.
One of the notes left by the suicide
was scribbled on the wall paper, an
other on his cqjlar and a third on the
margin of a new spaper. In one of these
he said that two minutes after his
fiendish act he was sorry for having
stabbed the girl to death, inflicting 41
w ounds.
. Driven Insane By Beautiful Woman.
"I was driven insane by the sight of
a beautiful woman," another note
stated.
The confession that Schwartz left
was dated yesterday. It was apparent
ly written in the idea that he would
be able to comfort his mother with his
last words. He said that he was do
ing as he had been told to do by his
father.
The confession in full was as fol
lows :
“July 17 —This is only to my dear old
mother, who I am always homesick for,
and same to the rest and pa, whose
word I am taking by doing this, which
I figure to assist me in death of my
own estimation.
“I want to say that if I was hap
pened to be revived, in order to be exe
cuted, I will take that medicine just
the same.
"My last Job was at the pocketbook
manufacturing company at No. 74
Grand street. He owes me for two
days work. Please secure [*iy and give
to my mother, for she Is very poor, and
for the truth my brother has lots of
money and doesn’t want to settle the
oid folks on a farm for simple life.
"I am very sorry to cause the trou
ble to neighbor, but all he will have to
do is to call a cop.
"Tell Mother I Am Really Guilty.”
"Tell mother again that I am really
guilty, and she shall not cry her eyes
out and break her heart. I know she
thinks I am innocent.
”1 am sorry I done it, but I got crazy
as I often do, and you can’t blame me
nor any one else for what I have done.”
The suicide hired the room in which
he died on July 8, the day after little
Julia was found dying in a vacant lot,
and told the landlord, Max Kaplan, that
he was a waist cutter out of work.
Schwartz was a waist cutter by trade.
TOM MURPHY’S FRIENDS
WANT HIM RENAMED AS!
AUGUSTA POSTMASTER
AUGUSTA, GA., July 18.—Already
there are aspirants for the postmaster
ship at Augusta in anticipation that
Woodrow Wilson will be elected presi
dent. One applicant has already
launched his campaign by criticising
Postmaster Thomas D. Murphy for be
ing a Taft man.
The present postmaster formerly was
managing editor of The Chronicle and
is a good Democrat. However, when
President-elect Taft came to Augusta
to spend the winter immediately pre
reding his inauguration Mr. Murphy
was a member of his "newspaper cabi
net” and, with the press and special
cot respondents, dally called on the
p: esldent-elect. When Mr. Taft went
to Panama he took Mr. Murphy along
and when it came time to appoint a
postmaster at Augusta he gave ft to
Murphy purely on a personal basis.
Now Murphy is gving to vote for Mr.
Taft on a purely personal basis, be
cause he appreciates what Mt. Taft
has done for him.
If Wood row Wilson is president some
of his strong Augusta friends are go
ing to unite in a request to retain the
genial, big-hearted newspaper man
who has enough sense of appreciation
to east a complimentary vote for the
man who helped him. It may be Post
master Thomas D. Murphy under Pres
ident Wilson as well as under Presi
dent Taft.
TREASURER McCULLOUGH
OF HARRIS COUNTY, DEAD
COLUMBUS, GA., July 18.—Colonel
W H McCullough, treasurer of Harris
county and 40 years Justice of the
peace of Waverly Hall district, died
today at Waverly Hall. He leaves a
wife and seven children. He was colo
nel of the Seventh Georgia regimen;
during the Civil war. The funeral will
take place tomorrow morning at In
o’clock at Waverly Hall. Colonel Mc-
Cullough was 73 years old. He was
known throughout the state.
SIXTH DISTRICT PRIMARY
PLANS TO BE FIXED SOON
MACON, GA.. July 18.—The execu
tive committee for the Sixth congres
sional district will meet in Macon Mon
day at noon to arrange for the primary.
The principal question to be decided i
is whether the county unit or the plu- |
rallty plan shall prevail. The meeting I
has been called by Chairman W M.
Howard, of Barnesville.
VETO IS ENOUGH
TO KILL TIPPINS
MEASURE
Speculation Shows It Can Not
Pass at This Session, Even
With Sufficient Votes.
Speculation on the fate of the Tip
pins-Alexander bill, should the gov
ernor veto it, leads to but one point.
With the governor’s veto the bill can
never be passed at this session, even
though the necessary two-thirds votes
can be marshaled in both houses.
At the least, the senate can be given
three days of skirmishing before the
oill is passed. With the special order
set for next Wednesday, this means
that the bill will be approved by the
upper house probably on Saturday,
July 27. According to statute, the
governor can hold the measure five
days before acting and if he sends It
back to the legislature with his disap
proval it will reach both houses about
August 2.
The legislature adjourns on Au
gust 14.
Will Lose Its Position,
Through the governor's veto the
Tippins bill will lose its position as
house bill No. 2 and be forced to take
its chances in the closing days’ scram
ble, with a horde of other important
bills.
When it is remembered that its wily
opponents in the lower house succeeded
in keeping the bill buried in committee
last year and left it there high and dry
when the session closed, it can be real
ized that the vetoed measure will stand
a slim chance of passage in the last
ten days of this session.
Opponents of the bill havs played
their best cards in the state senate and
the measure set on special order for
Wednesday of next week is assured
passage.
The strength of the senate opposi
tion is in the temperance committee,
and the eight votes marshaled yester
day afternoon to delay consideration of
th- measure a second tlmA practically
constitutes the fighting force that will
be arrayed against it next Wednesday.
Vote-Hunting Saved Measure.
Only frantic vote-hunting saved ths
adherents of the bill from facing an
other delay. Had not Senator J. H.
Felker left the committee session while
several Atlanta, business men were in
veighing against the bill and scoured
the capltol for missing committeemen,
Senator Morris would have scored an
other victory.
As it was, the Tippins bill went In
with a favorable report by the uncom
fortably close vote of 9 to 8.
Reuben R. Arnold, Forrest Adair
Captain James W. English and Ames’
Brasleton spoke to the committeemen
urging adverse action on the bill All
four spoke along the same lines. The
open barroom was deplored, but the
beer saloon held up as the solution o’
the liquor question in the big city
Reuben Arnold voiced the sentiment of
the opposition when he said:
"If you could prohibit liquor coming
into Georgia your bill would be a good
one but you can not, so your bill is- a
useless measure. There are beer sa
loons In Atlanta, bijt you can’t get a
drink of whisky in a single one of them,
f you wipe them out with this legisla
tion oO blind tigers will spring up
where there is one now.” 6 p
8 ARRESTED IN RAID ,
ON POKER GAME AT
THE ARAGON HOTEL
Eight participants in a poker game tn
room 210 of the Aragon hotel are, under
bond to face Recorder Broyles this aft
ernoon, but it is likely that none will
appear, as all gave fictitious namas
when they were taken to the police sta
tion.
The game was raided early today by
four detectives, who slipped up the back
stairway, avoiding hotel attaches and
others, and watched the players from
the transom.
Jeff Harbin, who has several times
been arrested for running gambling ta
bles, was banking the game, and it was
Harbin who put up the $50.75 collateral
required to free each of the partlc
pants.
The detectives gained entrance to the
room when the bell boy emerged with a
tray of empty glasses. They say the
room was equipped with a big table
and all the necessary paraphernalia for
poker.
CANDLER PROTESTS
INCREASE IN R. R.
RATES AT CAPITAL
WASHINGTON, July 18.—A delega
tion headed by C. M. Candler, chairman
of the railroad commission of Georgia,
held a conference with Commissioner
Clements of the interstate commerce
commission today to protest against
advances in rates proposed by railroads
operating to the Southeast.
Recently railroad traffic agents com
piled a new classification of Southern
freight, advancing rates from 15 to 40
per cent. The interstate commerce
commission is investigating the reasons
for the advances to determine whether
they are reasonable.
RELIGIOUS SERVICE TO BE
HELD AT POLICE STATION
The third of the series of public re
ligious services oeing h-'ld in i/’c court
room at ponce station win oe conffUiceu
Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock by Dr.
Hugh K Walker, pastor of the First
P'esbyterian church.
The worship last Sunday was con
ducted by Hon. Marion Jackson, and
was largely attended. The subject of
Dr. Walker’s discourse has not been
announced.
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