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VOL. X. NO. 257.
K SME'S
MOTHS TO
IELPIEO
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“We’ll Not Only Free Her, But
Clear Her Name,” Declare
Attorneys.
TWO PLANS OF DEFENSE
EXPECTED TO DEVELOP
Woman’s Counsel May Assert
Husband Shot Himself or
Intruder Wounded Him.
Counsel for the defense in the trial
of Mrs. Daisy Opie Grace next Monday
will not be content with a mere refa
ction of the prosecution's charge. Pos
itive evidence will be introduced with
the hope of clearing Mrs. Grace not
merely before the jury of twelve, but
before all men. '
This plan was indicated today by
Moore & Branch, attorneys for the de
fense.
That her mother, Mrs. Ulrich, of Phil
adelphia, may play an important part
In this new evidence is indicated by
the fact that Mrs. Ulrich announced in
r telegram today that she would be
present at the trial of her daughter.
Meanwhile a vigorous prosecution is
being planned by Solicitor General
Hugh Dorsey and Arnold & Hill at
torneys fop Grace. A meeting of the
prosecution's witnesses has been called
'or next Saturday morning in the offices
of the solicitor general.
Want to Clear Her Name.
Should the prosecution fail to es
tablish beyond the shadow of a reason
able doubt the guilt of Mrs. Grace the
jury would he forced under the terms
of the law so set her free. Her law
yers believe, however, that her good
name should absolutely be established —
that not merely the jury but the com
munity as well should be shown her
Innocence.
“Mrs. Grab’s name must bo clean'd.”
said Attorney J. A. Branch today, "and
I think that any one who attends the
rial win j )e convinced of her inno
cence.'’
The logical conclusion is that the
lawyer;: for the defense will endeavor
to prove one of two things—that Grace
shot bhns' if or that he was shot by
sotP' on" other than Mrs. Grace.
Dr. .J. D. Cromer, of Atlanta, was
s ub'■ n:i. d a- a witness today by the
;■ o- 'ution. Dr. Cromer went to the
fl'"'' homo, it is reported, on the day
shooting, being called to at
'O’o of the servants injured in a
?’ "'THERS’ CONGRESS
IN CRUSADE AGAINST
CLOSE-FITTING SKIRT
S!' LOUIS, July 24.—A campaign
; l ‘s ■. hicli are so tight "they
■s'.." has lo ij: begun by the
! ■ - ■• f the Mat ional Mo: h-
M ■ .l.i mos M Nugent.
11 "f the Mis-outi branch, am!
a: of th. :;s , ircles ha v<
al' : i n<- to devise plans for
aign.
'll u. el■ i ately bort, c’osc
rt." said Mrs. Nugent. "It is
n:. d'os not collect dirt and is
!fl T.:■ 1 e : < l.i ss of peo
v' that carry .all such
" r We think it is time to
■ w ntivo way agajnst letting
: “ I' bi - ome a orse.”
~ , 1 of the c rusade the minis-
cl to discuss th sub
coir sermor.3.
)MEN TO SIT AS
DELEGATES IN STATE-
BULL MOOSE MEET
L , ' ,!|ll Moose party of Georgia, of
i'ltown as the Ge >rgla Roose
league, will hold a state
'"i*. U the Aragon hotel tomor-
' c: noon.
, "ttvention will bo for the pur
'nnlng a more perfect organ
'■ the party in Georgia, to ele ct
■ airman secretary and execu
■nltti'C and to name four dele-
'., arf ’° ,n national conven
-1 hlcago next month.
'lll bi present tomorrow four
T” I 'v.ates, and it is thought the
, 'Jon will send at least one of
.I delegate to Chicago.
CHARGED WITH RUNNING
MARRIAGE BUREAU
1 H’HIS, TENN., July 24.—Police and
authorities have arrested Frank
v K 'IL Glad - vs . on charges of
; States mails for fraudu-
t . '■ , '" ses - It Is alleged they ran a
■•irrnagr. bureau and victimized peo-
- Mi over the South.
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results
6-Foot Policeman, in
Divorce Plea, Accuses
Wife of Beating Him
J. F. Camp Tells Court He
Couldn’t Work Because of
Thrashings He Suffered.
The fact that his wife beat him so
often and so severely that he was un
able to work was advanced today in a
divorce suit by Policeman .1. F. Camp
as one of the reasons why he should be
freed from her forever and aye. The
papers were filed in superior court.
Officer Camp is six feet tall and
weighs about 200 pounds. His wife,
Georgia, it is said, is not half that
large.
C amp asserts that he was in perpetu
al fear of his life; that she knew no
end when she started in to clean up
with him, and that she was a genius
at both physical and spiritual cruelty.
Once, declared the plaintiff, plain
tively, Mrs. Camp went to Chief Beav
ers and tried to take away the only
job he (Camp) had, in spite" of the fact
that she couldn’t use it herself. He
alleges that such actions betoken a
spirit from which he would fain be
free in order that he may pursue life,
liberty ami happiness as guaranteed
him by the Declaration of Independ
ence.
Camp lives at 125 Julian street and is
well known in the police department.
HOUSE MEMBERS KICK
GEORGIA DOG AROUND
IN ELOQUENT DEBATE
The house today spent the greater part
of the session kicking Georgia's dog laws
around.
The bill immediately under discussion
was a senate bill of Mr. Oliver, which
sought to make dogs returnable for tax
ation in the option of owners, and at
taching a property value to them when
so returned.
The bill passed the senate, but came to
the house from the ways and means com
mitt. e with an adverse report, for a sec
ond reading.
Mr. Tarver, of Whitfield, moved to dis
agree to the report of the committee,
and his motion was carried by a vote of
85 to 72.
The eventual passage of this law, on a
third reading, will in effect repeal the
present dog tax laws of the state.
The discussion of the bill was partici
pated in by a dozen or more members,
and ranged all the way from poetry
and classic eulogy of the dog by Mr. Con
verse, of Lowndes, to hard facis, fig
ures and statistics from Joe Hill Hall, of
Bibb.
TAX INCREASLBILL IS
DEBATED IN HOUSE; IT
WOULD PAY TEACHERS
The bill of Representative Ashley, of
Lowneb s county, which seeks to raise
temporarily the constitutional limit of
taxation from five to six mills, was
under discussion in the house today at
the hour of adjournment.
This bill is sought to be passed in
order to raise such revenue as will be
necc ssar.v to catch up in paying the
school teachers’ salaries in Georgia and
to enable the slate to pay the teachers
promptly in the future.
flic state is now practically $800,(100
behind in the payment of the teachers.
Phis law would raise for the one year
of its existence $900,000. and thus put
all pa.i in. nts thereafter oji a cash basis.
It would be in force, in the event of
its ratification, for the year 1913 only.
559 GALLONS OF BAD
MILK CONDEMNED IN
A DAY BY INSPECTOR
Milk Inspector Harwell has made
a record since the real hot weather began
f*>r condemning milk. Hundreds of gal
lons have been condemned, the record
foi* one day bung 550 gallons. It is con
<l/ nmed usually at the express offices or
bt fore it has been delivered to the re
tailer.
ihe city ordinance requires that the
mi’i must be hr-low .’.5 degrees in tem
reiaiure. .Above that temperature Dr.
<Tatide Smith, says there
is danger of too much h;l< teria. So when
the milk is not up to the requirement the
milk inspector sends it back to the dairy
man. If G is too bad for the manufacture
of butter it is confiscated.
Dr. Smith says sweet milk often is suit
able for making butter when it is not
pure enough to be drunk.
CITIZENS WELCOME
SEWER BUILDERS BY
WATERMELON FEAST
Never was there such a watermelon
feast as that enjoyed by R 0 convicts, who
are working on a big sewer out near Pied
mont park, at noon today. There was a
watermelon for each one. As knives were
scarce, the negroes made no attempt to
cut the melons, but part' d the rinds with
blows of their lists, then dived into half
melons up to their ears and ate to their
hearts’ content
The melons were given by leader. 4 ! of
the Fourth Ward Improvement club’be
cause they are so pleased that work finally
has begun on the sewer which means so
much to the sanitation of that section.
David Yarborough, the originator of the
idea, said that the residents of the section
would give the convicts a feast on water
melons or peaches once or twice a week
until the work is completed.
COMPLAINS GIRL WOOED
HIM AROUND THE WORLD
NEW YORK, July 24. —Complaining
that Miss Louise Nutter, of this city,
has pursued him all around the world,
wooing him. Herman Hand, a trombone
player in Souse's band, ha* had the
yiw ■ ic, en t jj e
ATLANTA* GA., WEDNESDAY”, JULY 24, 1912.
BLOOMS
KILL PASTOR
to she
STILLS
Circuit Rider Is Shot to Death
in His Home in Tennessee
Mountains.
WOMEN WERE CONVERTED:
FEARED THEY WOULD TELL
Many New Followers of Min
ister Had Denounced Illicit
Traffic.
MIXIE, TENN., July 24.—The sequel
to a whirlwind campaign against the
illicit whisky makers of this district,
conducted by Rev. W. C. Freeman, a
circuit rider, developed today when the
preacher was found dead of bullet
wounds In his home.
The deed is laid to the moonshiners
who had been worked to a fever of bit
terness against the preacher because of
the many conversions he had made in
the families of the moonshiners.
The fiery, eloquent and persuasive
campaign of Circuit Rider Freeman was
the seven days sensation of this com
munity and district. In the heart of
the moonshiners’ camps he carried his
exordium, with the result that many
women in the families of the whisky
makers were brought to his side. Many
of them denounced in unquestionable
terms the making of Illicit whisky.
It had been reported that the moon
shiners were planning chastisement to
the preacher.
When several citizens of this place
went to Fr&eman’s home today he was
found stretched upon the floor. His
body was filled with bullets and buck
shot and it was evident that he had
been the victim of a band of several
men.
Feeling is high against the moonshin
ers.
MIKADO PASSES BAD
NIGHT; HOPE FOR HIS
RECOVERY LOW AGAIN
TOK.IO. July 24.—Emperor Mutushito
passed an unfavorable night and the
hopes of the empress and attending
physicians, which had been raised by
favorable developments yesterday, were
again at a low ebb today. An official
bulletin issued today read:
"Last night the emperor did not have
much sleep. His temperature is 99.5.
His pulse action is 88 and although ir
regular is strong. Steady general fa
tigue is noticeable. He was able to
take some nourishment.”
Dr. Miura, who has been in almost
constant attendance ar. the bedside
since the monarch’s condition became
critical, said today there would have
to be further signs of improvement in
his condition before his recovery could
be discussed.
“If the emperor can hold what
strength he now has and show other
signs of improvement there will be
some hope for him," the doctor said.
"The cooler weather that has prevailed
since Sunday has been one point in
his favor.”
LORIMER TO STUMP
ILLINOISTO“EXPOSE
FACTS” IN HIS CASE
CHICAGO, July 24.—Ex-Senator Lor
imer has announced that he will can
vass the state of Illinois from end to
end and explain to the people the facts
in the case of his election to and ex
pulsion from the senate. The announce
ment was made before a gathering of
2,500 of his friends at a meeting at Or
chestra hall.
"I will take the stump and I will tell
the people of Illinois from Cairo to
Galena the truth about the Lorimer
case,” the deposed senator asserted.
“There will be no mincing of facts. I
am going to speak the plain truth about
those who have talked about me. I owe
it to myself, my family and my
friends.”
Lorimor said he willingly would meet
any of his enemies in debate. Plans
for the state tour were under way to
day.
housFcommittee
’FAVORS BILL GIVING
$25,000.00 FOR TECH
The house committee on appropria
tions today reported favorably on the
bill providing a special appropriation
of $25,000 for the Georgia School of
Technology.
It Is believed that the bill will be
taken up and passed within a few days.
The school has shown the members of
the house that the appropriation is
necessary for the future success of the
institution.
IMIMG
BECOMESI
BIIILE IF
OOIURS
New York Underworld Raises
Defense Fund of $250,000
in Rosenthal Case.
MATCHES ITS THOUSANDS
AGAINST MILLIONAIRES
Sam Paul, One of Prisoners,
Donates SIO,OO0 —Assess-
ment Levied on Gamblers.
NEW YORK, July 24. —Spurred on
by the information that J. P. Morgan
and other millionaires of New York
had volunteered unlimited financial
support to District Attorney Whitman
in the interests of law and order to
assist him in running to earth the
slayers of Herman Rosenthal, the gam
bling king, the gambling fraternity,
gunmen and denizens of the underworld
generally have united in raising a fund
for the defense of the gamblers and
gang fighters now under arrest for the
killing or who may yet be arrested. Al
ready $250,000 has been raised.
Gamblers have been assessed from
SI,OOO to $5,000 for the fund. The as
sessments vary according to the size
of the gambling houses operated by the
men who have been asked to contribute.
While this fund is being collected by
their opponents, the police are sending
broadcast descriptions of men suspect
ed of the actual murder.
Webber Said To Be
Ready to Confess.
The police are also trying to secure a
confession from Louis Webber, owner
of the gambling den where the assas
sins met before killing Rosenthal. It
was rumored today that he was ready
to tell all he know.
Webber’s decision to inform on his
acquaintances was hastened, it is said,
by a visit made to him in the Tombs by
his young wife. She urged him to ac
cept District Attorney Whitman's of
fer of immunity for his confession. It
is believed, too, that the man’s counsel,
H. T. Marshall, urged him to accept the
offer.
Sam Paul, the gang leader now under
arrest, Is the most defiant prioner ever
taken. To show his contempt for the
detectives who are striving to get at
the bottom of the Rosenthal murder, the
gang leader subscribed SIO,OOO to the
$250,000 fund for the defense of the
men now under arrest and any others
who may be taken into custody.
The writ of habeas corpus sued out
to free Louis Webber, a suspect in the
Rosenthal case, was dismissed today by
Justice Gtegerich.
Gamblers of Nation
Called to Contribute
CHICAGO, July 24.—Sounding the cry
that the life of the nation wide gambling
trust is at stake in the battle of Dis
trict Attorney Whitman, of New York,
to convict the slayers of Herman Rosen
thal, the gambler who "squealed” to the
police, Chicago gamblers were today
called upon to contribute to a fund of
$1,000,000. This vast fund will be used
to defend the men Implicated in the
murder of Rosenthal, who was killed in
Times square, New York.
The trail of the actual slayers of Ro
senthal also led to Chicago today. Two
of the men wanted by the New York
police are believed to be hiding here.
The Chicago authorities were also asked
to aid in identifying the moneyed man of
the gambling trust, who paid the gang
sters $2,000 for killing Rosenthal.
POLICE MAKE SEARCH
FOR MISSING BUSINESS
MAN OF BYROMVILLE
The fear that E. C. Webb, a promi
nent business man of Byromville, Ga..
may have met with foul play or killed
himself while temporarily insane, has
resulted in a request made to the local
police by Webb’s family and the citi
zens of Byromville that the lakes
around Atlanta be dragged, as he was
last seen in this city July 2.
Webb was one of the foremost of the
younger business set in Byromville.
Early In July he came to Atlanta to
keep several business appointmentsand
that was the last seen of him by the
people of his home town.
Webb kept none of his business en
gagements. The police, put on ills trail,
traced him to the Terminal station, but
there al! clews ended. He was regis
tered at the Aragon hotel, but a -ood
deal, of his baggage was left behind
when he left for the last time.
Chief Beavers today instructed the
entire department to make a thorough
search for the man. He has not yet
decided whether or not he will order
the lakes around Atlanta dragged.
A tiantans Spend Novel Honeymoon
GUESTS ON BATTLESHIP
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Airs. F. V. L. Smith, formerly Miss May Belle Yarbrough,
Atlanta bride, who, with her husband, was entertained on the
Battleship Georgia in New York.
Mr. and Mrs. F. V. L. Smith En
tertained on the Georgia in
New York Harbor.
F. V. L. Smith, 48 Cherokee avenue,
and his wife, who two weeks ago was
Miss May Belle Yarbrough, returned
to Atlanta today from their honeymoon
trip, during which they were enter
tained on the battleship Georgia.
Mr. Smith and Miss Yarbrough sur
prised their friends wheqgthey sudden
ly married. Before the first volley of
congratulations cguld reach them, they
had fled the city for a trip North.
While in New York the captain of
the battleship Georgia, learning that
they hailed from the South’s Empire
Sta'te invited the Smiths aboard. They
were entertained quite extensively.
GEORGIA PLANTATION
INCORPORATED WITH
CAPITAL OF $250,000.00
Georgia farms will take their places
among the well known octopuses, or
octopf, as the case may be, If a few
other farm owners follow the lead of
H. C. Bagley, of Atlanta, and Incorpo
rate their holdings. Mr. Bagley has
just filed in Macon county a petition
for the incorporation of his 3,200-acre
plantation at Oglethorpe. He will have
$250,000 of capital stock, a set of di
rectors and everything which goes with
a real corporation. He proposes to
plant 1,000 acres in pecans and estab
lish a model stock and dairy farm.
Mr. Bagley last year sold a plantation
at Americus for $126,000. He devotes
three days of each week to being a
farmer and the rest of the time to man
aging the business of a big life insur
ance company in Atlanta. His peti
tion for Incorporation was filed by P. C.
McDuffie.
TWO DAMS BURST;
CITY IS FLOODED;
DAMAGE $1,000,000
MILWAUKEE, WIS., July 24 —The city
of Wausau, Wisconsin, 150 miles north
west of here, has been swept by a flood
that has caused a loss estimated at $1,000,-
000. First reports today say a number
of persons were drowned. This has not
been verified.
Two dams used to furnish the power
supply of the Wausau Paper mills went
out and allowed the waters In the reser
voir they formed to sweep down on the
city. The water followed the course of
the Wisconsin river.
Farm houses and factory buildings
were washed away. The gas, light and
power plants were put out of commis
sion and wire service wrecked.
Wausau is a city of 12,000 inhabi
tants. The Wausau paper mills are
said to be the largest In the world.
PLEADS IN VAIN
FONEiNCSON
Grieving Mother Twice a Week
Begs Governor to Pardon
Young Convict.
Twice a week regularly for the past
three months Mrs. C. E. Knight has
been going to the capltol to plead with
Governor Brown and Hardy Ulm, exec
utive secretary, for a pardon for her
elghteen-year-old son, Will Knight,
who is serving five years in prison for
attempted burglary.
Sometimes she has fallen upon her
knees In the executive chamber in a
prayer that the governor’s heart would
be softened so that he would send her
boy back to her before she dies. She
has become known to nearly every at
tache of the capltol, and her pitiful
story has Interested more than half a
hundred citizens of the city and state
officials, who have offered to aid her
in her plea for clemency. Apparently,
however, she has failed thus far, for
the governor has declined to grant the
pardon and young Knight still is serv
ing in the road gang.
Young Knight was convicted, in com
pany with another lad of tile same age,
Will Baskin, with whom he was found
stealing a ride upon a train between
Atlanta and Chattanooga one night in
the spring of 1911. In the possession of
the two boys the officers found some
chisels and jimmies which had been
used in an attempt a few nights before
to break open and rob a safe. Young
Knight pleaded guilty, believing that
his previous good character would in
duce the judge to let him off as a mere
misdemeanant, but he was given five
years at hard labor instead.
His mother was heartbroken by the
sentence. She Is a widow and her boy
was her only means of support. Im
mediately she began her long futile
fight to free him. Colonel E. E. Pom
eroy, of the I* ifth infantry, became in
terested and wrote a letter to the gov
ernor saying the boy had made an ex
cellent guardsman in that regiment and
that he believed he was worthy of an
other chance. Many others joined in
the letters that fairly swamped the ex
ecutive secretary’s office.
Then the mother herself went to see
the governor. She told him that her
boy had always been a good boy to her
and really meant no wrong: that he
was not guilty and that she could not
live unless he was given back to her.
Similarly she appealed to the govern
or's secretaries to use their influence in
the boy’s behalf.
Governor Brown has not definitely
refused the pardon, but he is said to
believe that the execution of the law
must be upheld, at least until a sen
tence in keeping with the crime to
which Knight pleaded guilty has been
served.
HOHL
EDITION
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE £ a o y r E no
TIPPINS BILL
PASSED BT
SENATE
35 TO 8
Measure Now Goes to Governor
Brown for His Veto or
Approval.
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ALEXANDER IS ASSAILED
FOR “PLAYING POLITICS”
President Slaton Threatens to
Jail Gallery Crowd if Disor
derly Applause Continues.
- I
Discarding five amendments submit
ted by the opponents and the near
opponents of the measure, the thirty
two prohibitionists in the state senate
rallied three more members to their
standard today and passed the Tippins-
Alexander anti-near-bear bill by a vote
of 35 to 8. It is now up to the gov
ernor.
The vote on the bill as a whole came
after two hours of rather featureless
and general debate, In which the
amendments were disposed of in jig
time, none receiving more than 13
votes.
Senator L. C. Graham's assertion that
Hooper Alexander, the prohibition lead
er in the house, had played politics
with the bill to display his hatred of
Governor Brown, and President Sla
ton s threat to arrest spectators for
disturbing the deliberations with ap
plause proved the only sensations of
the day. >
The bill passed as if by program.
Its supporters moved according to a
preconceived plan. The opposition was
as spiritless as it was futile.
These Amendments
Were Voted Down.
The amendments which were lost in
rapid succession were:
By Senator W. 8. Mann: To submit
the bill to a vote of the people.
By Senator W. D. Crawford: To
strike out the clause calling every bev
erage a ‘‘liquor.’’
By Senator J. B. Douglass: To strike
out the clause including proprietary
medicines and flavoring extracts.
By Senator Dickerson: To strike out
the clause allowing beverages contain
ing one-half of one per cent of alcohol
to be sold.
By Senator L. C. Graham: To place
the enforcement of the bill on county
sheriffs Instead of the governor.
Those senators voting for the bill
were: Aaron. Adams. Beauchamp, Bla
lock, H. C. and A. O. Bush, Copelan,
Cromartie, Culbreth, Davis, Dickerson.
Douglass, Duggan, Edwards,
Graham. Hamilton, Harris, Hill, Hul
lender, Kight, Kincaid, Marshall, May
son. Moore, Oliver, Owens, Prather,
Roberts, Shaw. Shlngler, Sheppard,
Whitehead, Williams and Worley.
Those voting against the bill were
Brown, Crawford, Ennis, Grovensteln,
King, Mann, Morris and Spenoe.
Every senator was in his seat when
the vote was taken and every one voted
but President Slaton.
Today’s action means that the bill
will go at once to Governor Brown for
his approval or veto. The chief execu
tive declined to discuss his probable
action. It is plainly evident that he
will hold the measure several days be
fore acting upon it. If he does not vets
it within five days It automatically be
comes a law.
Leaders Feared
Slightest Change.
Apparently aware that any delay
would mean the defeat of the bill.
Senator Bush, prohibition leader in the
senate, strove to keep the bill from
being amended.
“1 wouldn’t have the bill changed
even to the dotting of an whether
It be right or wrong,” he asserted when
Senator Douglass submitted an amend,
ment striking the prohibition clauses
affecting proprietary medicine.
“Let the bill pass as it is,” contin
ued Senator Bush. “If It Is amended
here It will go back to the house and
get into that rules committee there. If
it does it will be there until the end of
the session.”
Senator Crawford saw queer logic in
Bush's remarks. Ho said: “The sen
ator makes the novel proposal to ac
cept something we know to be absurd
Just to get this bill passed.”
The debate turned upon the so-called
"lemon extract Jag.” Senator Sheppard
maintaining that the extract intoxica
tion was the worst form known.
“Let us be rid of this curse,” he <
shouted.
At this spectators in the galleries
broke Into applause. President Slaton
immediately rapped for order, creating
a mild sensation by threatening to hale