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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, - X'r J 0 BANG AUGUST 1«. 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, The rain which set in only a short time after the Georgia troops reached / 7 ' ’ a-*. • ' ji I I /f % IL? $ I ;i .•&< \\ \\ < .. '••k 1 I W»1 /Jr t ' fir their camp sites and continued until 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 olive drab, and is right on the jump from ’•evelle to taps. l(ildt>.; a —wT' ~ 4 I* tr rvyyw. \\\ wc f y/ r / ’N? 'C , /'.——■■wiiSSW jKa I W ■iß-'” t Yr- tw |Z - < X" r Lk **"**\?J»fe \/r / ■ A 7) ‘“'-Yc ' W - tr. >\ • * Ay.A XA V " -WmBTOI PC ' W was® w Jfw a-.rfj f ITjr - K lu r * Jr® ■ - / / ’ WjMi t - FIKE TESTIMONY, SAYS NICHOLS Attorney Accused by Detective Reed Testifies Before Com mittee Today. Continued From Page One. 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. 3