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VOL. X. NO. 258.
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SLAYERS
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William Shapiro Turns State’s;
Evidence in Rosenthal Slay
ing in New York.
WILL NAME MEN WHO
DID ACTUAL KILLING
Police of Gotham Are Publicly
Accused of Shielding Men
Known Guilty.
NEW YORK, July 25.—Deputy Po
lice Commissioner Dougherty an
nounced today that William Shapiro,
the chauffeur who drove the automo
bile which carried the assassins to and
from the Hotel Metropole for the mur- J
of Herman Rosenthal, had turned I
smite's evidence and would make a full I
confession this afternoon, in which he '
w .uld name every man who rode in the I
car and tell every fact that he knew
connection with the killing.
tefore this announcement was made I
John Reissh-r. alias "John the Barber,” !
who is under arrest under a perjury '
charge, furnished District Attorney
Whitman with an affidavit, in which
ho swore that he saw Louis (“Bridgie”)
Webber running away from the Hotel I
Metropole just after Rosenthal was
killed. Harry Vallon was also taken
Into Coroner Feinberg’s court, but the
I erring of ail four men went an
t : Monday at 10 a. m., upoi»'sjjjph>t
<' I'istriet Attornay. .. Wli.fjtnan, wh'o
asked for the postponement on the
ground that new evidence and new wit- |
r r -ssas are being uncovered so fast that i
1 has been unable so far to give prop- ■
< attention to the cases against the |
four mon.
Sam Paul, the gang leader, accused
of participating in the murder of Ro
senthal, today abandoned his efforts to
secure his liberty under habeas corpus
proceedings'.
Police Shielding
Real Assassins.
That the police are shielding-the real
murderers of Herman Rosenthal, the
g imbler shot down after he had ac
the police of levying blackmail,
> tic charge openly made Ijy the
r . yep rs of this city today. They.
: t that three of the five men whom
t • p li. , profess to be "anxious to
f ar- appearing dally in their
v ..units without any attempt at
< raiment.
'm- n-wspaper today heads its story
v" this declaration in black type:
"Nine days have elapsed since Her
man Rosenthal was assassinated be
s ( an assembalge of half a hun
flr- : persons in front of the Metropole
hotel and the men who committed the
crime are still at large.”
District Attorney Whitman was told
that two of the men he. wants were at
Forty-eighth street and Sixth avenue
bight before last. Harry Horrowitz,
known as "(Jib the Blood,” has writ
t friend that he will attend a
of the Sam Paul association
Gin"' Afraid of
f'.' dgie Webber.
The man who got the letter is a
personal friend of Lieutenant
'na'hs A. Becker. "Gib the Blood”
tut"S he may be expected to ride
yle to police headquarters at any
lime and give himself up as others
" done. One extract from his let
" You know they can’t get any
li'.ng <>n me . All I’m afraid of is some
' hop heads will blow on me be-
Ivv got things squared. Are they
ng on Bridgie?”
inferred he has been having
■ getting his alibi in shape. The
attorney is working today on
mn that Bridgie Webber took
■ gunman and gangster to the
•owrey hotel at Bath Beach the
day before the murder and
' him to New York Saturday,
mrnan can not be found.
■" police officials and district at
are picking holes in several
offered by the prisoners, but
seems to be the object of their
They have strong hopes of
-ng him to talk freely and it is
1 the others involved seem to
■'orse than any that Webber will
pqueal."
r R S D FOR insubordination.
, N . ISTf,x - ALA., July 25.—For in-
>" o, , Mt i° n Com Pany I. Alabama
Guard, of Oxford, has been
i out of service. Captain John
■ui, accused of drunkenness, has
under guard several days. Other
r " ire involved.
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DRUG-CRAZED MAN
CAUSES NEAR-PANIC
IN OFFICE BUILDING
Crazed from cocaine, Andrew Fitz
gibbons, a young white man with a long j
police record, nearly scared tenants of ,
the Atlanta National Bank building into i
panic early today when he wildly i
rushed through the halls and sought a
hiding place. Several of the tenants
left the building by the nearest exit.
Fitzgibbons escaped from Deputy
Sheriff Haygood at the Union passen
ger station, where the two were await
ing a train to take them to Milledge
ville and the state sanitarium. He
rushed across the railroad tracks and
was soon lost in the bank building. The
officer followed and took a post at. the
corner of Whitehall and Alabama,
where he could watch both entrances.
Then he summoned Chief Deputy
John Owen and a fellow officer, John |
Suttles. Thirty minutes later the es- i
caped prisoner was found in an office ’
on the top floor that had been left un
locked by the occupants.
DAMAGE TO GEORGIA
ROADS FROM RAINS
MORE-THAN $1,000,000
Returning from a tour of inspection i
of flap roads in Georgia. Professor John I
of the engineering department .
of the stat'd university, said more 'than
a million dollars damage had been done i
to highways by rain.
“The roads in many parts of the state ’
are s> badly washed out they virtually 1
must be rebuilt,” said Professor Koch. !
In Stewart county the grades have I
been reduced from a ten per cent maxi- I
mum to two per cent in the effort to
make repairs to the washed out high
ways more permanent.
Professor Koch says that in every
county he visited citizens and county
officials are co-operating in a splendid
campaign for permanent road improve
ment.
6 GRANDSONS BEAR
PIONEER ATLANTA
WOMAN TO GRAVE
Six grandsons will bear the body of
Mrs. H. C. Fischer, a widely known At
lanta woman, to the funeral services to
be held at he residence, 140 Windsor
street, late today. They are Dr. Crosby
Swanson, Isaac Edge, William Edge,
Jr., William Swanson, Dr. Paul Jean
Peniston and Dr. Joseph Peniston. In
terment will be in Westvlewr
Mrs. Fischer, 77 years old. was for 24
years actively connyted with work of
the First Baptist church. She is sur
vived by seven children —Carl H. Fisch
er. H. R. Fischer, Dr. L. C. Fischer, of
Atlanta: Mrs. T. B. Swanson, of Fair
burn: Mrs. P. E. Peniston. of Newnan;
Mrs. Bertie Travis, of Senoia, and Mrs.
J. M. Diffee, of Bainbridge, Ga.
JOE HILL HALL PAYS
FEE OF S2OO TO MAKE
RACE FOR GOVERNOR
Joe Hill Hall, of Bibb county, paid his
S2OO assessment today to the state exec
utive committee and thus formally as
serted that he was in the gubernatorial
race to stay to the finish.
John M. Slaton, president of the senate
and candidate for governor, paid his as
sessment several days ago. A. I-. Castle
berry. the Socialist candidate, lias not yet
paid his fee. but is expected to do so
within the time limit.
YOUNG HUSBAND WHO
WOULDN’T CARE FOR
BABY IS SUED BY WIFE
Because Grover Head, a young Atlan
tan, refused to mind the baby while his
wife went to market, Mrs. Pearl J. Head
has sued him for divorce.
"He said. ‘I am no darned nurse,' when
I asked him to attend to our little child
for me." asserts Mrs. Head in the peti
tion tiled in superior court today. "I
had to go to purchase groceries and was
forced to leave the child alone."
11l feeling growing from the incident
lead to numerous quarrels between the
two and suit for divorce resulted.
THIEF ELUDES VICTIM:
STEALS A COAT AND $55
Discovered early today in the bod
room of E L. Wilson, 22 East Ellis
street, a burglar leaped headlong
through the window, taking with him
Wilson's coat and $55.
■Wilson made a lunge for the in
truder. grabbing a pistol at the same
time, but the thief disappeared through
the window with such speed that Wil
son didn't have a chance.
ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1912.
FAfIM CROPS
PAY Nfl TAX
BY THIS
BILL
I
House Passes farmers’ Free
List, Exempting Cotton and
Other Products.
TAX INCREASE MEASURE
IS KILLED BY TABLING
It Would Have Paid Teachers
Salaries and Helped State
Meet Obligations.
The house of representatives broke
even on today’s legislative session by
passing one piece of important legisla
tion and killing another.
It passed, by a vote of 134 to 15, the
‘‘farmers free list" bill of Mr. Johnson,
of Bartow, and it killed, by laying on
the table, the bill of Mr. Ashley, of
Lowndes, which sought to amend the
constitution in such wise as to provide
for a one year's raise in the limit of
taxation from 5 to 6 mills.
Both bills were debated at great
length by leaders of the house, and
both required a two-thirds vote to pass.
The "farmers free list” bill provides
for exemption from taxation for a
period of not more than one year after
production, in the wisdom of the legis
lature, of certain farm products, spe
cifically including baled cotton.
Would Help Farmers
Hold Their Cotton.
The bill is intended frankly to aid
the fiiwitts of Georgia in their efforts
to "bull" the cotton market from time
to time, by withholding cotton from
the market.
It is in effect the same provision that
now exists in the constitutions of
Toxas and Alabama, and thousands all
over the state petitioned the members
of the house, individually and through
their organizations, to pass the bill.
It was fought with considerable bit
terness by Mr. Harrall, of Stewart, who
characterized it as class legislation.
Mr Johnson, of Bartow, ably and vic
toriously championed it on the floor.
The bill of Mr. Ashley, of Lowndes,
which sought to provide for a tempo
rary raise in the constitutional limit of
taxation from 5 to 6 mills, was lost on
a motion to table, which prevailed by a
vote of 87 to 45.
This proposal was a decided legisla
tive Innovation and novelty in Georgia
and tire house was evidently shy of it.
Tax Bill Would
Have Paid Teachers.
It was designed to provide away
whereby the paying of the school teach
ers might b p more satisfactorily ad
justed, and, in the event of Its passage
and ratification, would have been in ef
fect but one year, 1913.
It was vehemently advocated by Mr.
Ashley, its author, and several other
members, but it never was in sight of
passage.
Its author figured that under its oper
ation a sum sufficient to pay up the
school teachers might be raised, and
that once the state got the teachers on
a cash basis again it would be easy to
keep them there.
Those who opposed the bill seemed
to feel that it would be dangerous to
let down the gap in the matter of high
er taxation for any purpose, and for
that reason the bill should not pass.
! It will not be taken from the table
I again this session, which is the last of
I the present legislature.
BRYAN IS RECALLED
FROM SPEAKING IN
CHAMP CLARK TOWN
MEXICO, MO., July 25.—The Van
dalia, Mo., Chautauqua has received
word from the Chautauqua system say
ing that Colonel William J. Bryan's
date, at Vandalia, a town in Speaker
Champ Clark’s congressional district,
has been “reluctantly cancelled."
The Chautauqua people took a v> ,f ‘
on the matter, sending cards to Van
dalia citizens who had guaranteed the
advance ticket sale.
The result was practically a unan
imous demand that Bryan’s engage
ment be dropped.
POSTOFFICE OFFICIAL SOF
ALABAMA TOWN INDICTED
MONTGOMERY. ALA., July 25.—The
igrand jury of the Federal court re
turned indictments hero today against
I Postmaster Cyrus R. O'Neal, Assistant
| Postmaster Clarence E. Dillard and
Clerk Edgar A. Carr, of the Andalusia
postoffice, accusing them of using post
office stamps in payment for the pui
chase of merchandise for the purpose
of increasing the emoluments of the
office.
3 Society Horsewomen,
Riding to Toxaway, Are
Seeing Tallulah Falls
Atlanta Equestriennes Wire The
Georgian That They Are Hav
ing £ Fine Trip.
The three Atlanta society horse
women who left the Piedmont Driving
club last Saturday at dawn for a sad
dle journey to Lake Toxaway reached
Tallulah Falls today, and this is the
telegram they sent The Georgian:
TALLULAH FALLS. GA.. July
25. —Having fine trip. Weather
perfect. Roads in good condition.
Horses standing trip splendidly.
Enthusiasm so high we are tempted
to cross the country and dip our
horses' noseg in the Pacific. The i
one man in the crowd still Is able
to sit up and take notice. We make
Dillard tonight. Lingered here
overtime to take a last look at the
falls.
THE SIX HORSE MARINES.
The three mounted members of the
aforesaid "Horse Marines” are Mrs.
John S. Hill. Miss Helen Jones and Miss
Aurejla Speer. They are under the
convoy of Air. Adam Jones
and Miss Margaret Northen. who pre
ferred an automobile to the saddle.
The equestriennes had expected to
reach Toxaway today, but ft is evident
that they lingered on their journey, for
they have covered only 100 miles of the
280-ifiile route.
Say, You Sinner, How's
This for a Call-Down
Right Out the Pulpit?
It May Sound Like an Extract
From a G. 0. P. Speech,
but It Is Not.
WORCESTER, July 25.- "You folks
that have been saying hard things
about modern political methods, listen
to this: You' heard how Taft and
Roosevelt discussed the issues of the
campaign, and how ‘honeyfulger’ and
'man of straw’ were shot back and
forth. Does this sound familiar?
"You poos. moss-backed sinners, you
rum-soaked, a smpke-inhnlipg. whelps,
why you poor old broken-down sin
covered transgressors, if some one took
you and cleaned you up and stood you
up before a mirror, you’d surprise
yourselves.”
Political speech? No. that’s the
way the Rev. B. S. (Cyclone) Taylor
addressed an audience of 900 persons
in a sermon at the Douglas camp
ground yesterday afternoon.
POLICE STATION MAY
FLOAT AWAY; SPRING
FLOODING BASEMENT
Unless something is done Atlanta
may lose her police station—it may
float away.
The entire basement of the big pris
on is covered with water to a depth of
about three feet, and is still rising. The
water comes from a spring in the base
ment.
Chief Beavers today said that he in
tended taking up the matter at once
with the city construction department
with the view of relieving the situa
tion. The chief believes it will be nec
essary to fill the whole basement with
dirt to stop the flow. The water has
been pumped out several different
times, but always comes back.
“GENTLEMAN FROM
HANCOCK” DRAWS A
LAUGHINTHE HOUSE
speaker Holder created genuine dismay
and consternation in the house today
when he said, "The gentleman from
Hancock moves that today's session of
this house be extended thirty days."
Instantly the gentleman from Hancock
was on his feet, his face the picture of
complete bewilderment.
“Mr. Speaker," he faltered, “if I did
move that, I-really meant—”
By this time the house was in a tit
ter, the speaker recovered himself, struck
out “days” and inserted in lieu there
of "minutes,” so that the gentleman from
Hancock's motion when amended read
"that today's session of this house be
extended thirty minutes."
And then the gentleman from Hancock
sat down, visibly relieved, and with the
evident weight of a great anxiety oft his
mind.
BOY FLAGS CROWDED
TROLLEY CAR TO GET
DOLLAR BILL “BROKE”
A six-year-old boy flagged down a 1
crowded incoming trolley car on the >
East Point line today at Plowboy just '
outside East Point. The conductor, on
the platform, yelled “all aboard.”
“Say, mister, gimme change for a |
dollar," said the boy, who made no !
move to get on.
The conductor pulled the bell cord,
leaned over and laid up trouble for the
next man.
“Sorry," he said. "Haven't got time.
Flag the next car.”
WILSON MAN CHAIRMAN.
DES MOINES, IOWA, July 25- Nich
olas Reed was deposed as chairman of the
state Democratic committee today and
Henry Reigleman, a Wilson supporter,
elected to succeed him.
PRIVATE TRIAL PLANNED
FOR MRS. DAISY GRACE
MRS, GRACE SPENDING
MUCH TIME OUTDOORS
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Mrs. Daisy Grace, Unusually fond of pets, found a new friend
in the big green parrot at Kimballville farm, which she visited
with her companion. Mrs. Louise Wilson. Mrs. Grace is spending
most of her time in the fresh air and is much stronger than when
she left her cell in the Tower after making bond.
GARBAGE PLANT DEAL
IS FINALLY CLOSED;
WORK TO BEGIN SOON
Mayor Winn today signed the con
tract of the New York Destructor Com
pany to build a $276,000 garbage dis
posal plant. The company gave an ex
ecuted bond for $376,000, providing that
the mayor and council can build a
SIOO,OOO electric power plant in con
junction with the incinerator as soon
as the city is able to pay cash for it
or on terms of credit when the garbage
plant is completed.
The city is to pay the company $50,-
000 cash and the remainder in $75,000
annual Installments.
Work will begin on the plant at once.’
ANTI-GAMBLING CRUSADE
LAUNCHED IN MONTGOMERY
I MONTGOMERY, ALA., July 25.
! Pursuant to Judge Brown’s special
charge to the ebunty grand jury yes
terday afternoon to Investigate'report
ed collusion between members of the
I sheriff’s staff and gambling houses.
Sheriff Horace Hood today declined to
give out a statement, but said that he
| Invited a full probe, feeling sure that
the grand jury will vindicate him.
This is one chapter in the crusade
launched against gambling in Mont
gomery at the instance of Governor
O’Neal. The police department is un
der rigid scrutiny and it has been inti
mated that Police Chief W. H. Taylor
I may be removed. It is reported that
' members of the police force have been
tipping off gamblers previous to raids.
COUNCILMAN TO ASK
REASON FOR CHANGE
IN SEWER PROGRAM
At the next meeting of council, Coun
cilman Clamh' Mason will introduce a
resolution asking the sewer committee
and the construction department to ex
plain why the regular program for sewer
work was recently changed. The orig
inal plan was to extend the Highland
avenue sewer in order to give fleliet to
many houses along its route. But eighty
convicts have been put on work near
Piedmont park, where there are scarcely
any houses, and they are working back
toward the thickly populated section.
Tlie county convicts are doing the work,
but under the direction of the city au
thorities. The sewer committee, ft is
learned, changed its program recently,
when several members were out of tlie
eltj, at the request of the chief of the
construction department.
CENTRAL ADDS A BIT
TO ITS TAX VALUATION
The Central of Georgia Railroad Com
pany todky filed corrected tax returns
with Comptroller General Wright increas
Ing that road's taxable valuations by
$700,465. The increase was made on sls,
414,607, the figures first submitted, bring
ing the Central s taxable propertv for
1912 up to $16,115,072.
The comptroller refused to accept the
first returns and sent the reports bad;
for correction. An agreement was reached
through arbitration. The increases were
made on a frozen or so lines, a large in
crease being made on the Atlanta to Sa
vannah division.
N. Y. CONVENTION PLANNED.
NEW YORK. July 25.—The New
York Democratic state committee to
day decided to hold the state conven
tion at Syracuse on October 1.
HOMI
EDITION
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE £ A o v RE NO
Smallness of Courtroom
Makes Rental of the
Auditorium the Only
Alternative-—W if e
Says “Gene and I
KnowWhoShot Him.”
Declares She Has No
Hate in Her Heart for
Husband Who Ac
cuses Her of Trying
to Kill Him.
Officials of the superior court are de.
bating today the dilemma which faces
them in preparing for the trial of Mrs.
Daisy Grace next Monday. They must
either hire the Auditorium, which seats
6,000 persons, or exclude the public en
tirely from the regular court room,
which will hold barely 100. It now is
considered probable that the latter
course will be adopted, and that no
persons will be admitted to the trial
except jurymen, witnesses, newspaper
reporters and the attaches and officials
of the court.
The Fulton county criminal court,
Judge Roan’s tribunal, now occupies the
fourth floor of the Thrower building at
Pryor And Mitchell streets, one of the
two buildings leased by the county
while the new court house is under*
construction. The room barely suffices
for the crowd which attends an or
dinary criminal case, and it woul<? be
totally inadequate for the throngs
which would certainly try to force en
trance to the hearing of Mrs. Grace.
It is reached only by a small elevator
and a narrow winding stairway, and
the admittance of the general public
to the trial would undoubtedly jam the
building and result in accidents or
panic.
Tull C. Waters, chairman. oL~+he
county co)mlssion, at first favored
leasing the great Auditorium and ad
mitting every one who desired to at
tend the trial. He believed that some
method might be devised of charging an
admittance fee or taking up a collec
tion to defray expenses, the surplus to
be devoted to charity;’ but when he
found there was no legal way In which
to charge a fee he abandoned this idea.
Dorsey Presumes It
Would Be Lawful,
Hugh M. Dorsey, solicitor general,
was hardly willing to discuss the pos
sibility of the use of the Auditorium.
He said:
"I have not investigated the question,
but I presume that it would be lawful
for the county commissioners to desig
nate any place within the limits of
Fulton county as the court house, and .
in that event all cases would have to
be heard at such designated place.
I suppose that by consent of ' the
court and counsel for the state and the
defense the case could be heard at a
place agreed upon, but I am not now
willing to say whether I would make
such an agreement or not. I have not
yet considered it.”
Judge Roan was inclined to bar the
public from the triai, only sending out
cards of invitation to certain citizens,
but he decided later that no legal means
of selecting such favored ones could be
found, and believed it better to exclude
the public entirely. The matter may
be settled tomorr and a public an*
nouncement made.
It is believed by court officials that
the jury will be drawn within a short
time ami the case finished by Tuesday
night or Wednesday morning. The
state wjll be represented by Solicitor
General Dorsey. Eugene Grace has
retained Lamar Hill to assist the pros
ecution. John W. Moore, James A.
Branch and Luther Z. Rosser will de
fend Mrs. Grace.
It had been reported that Mrs.
Grace's blind little son, Webster Opie,
Jr., would come to Atlanta with his
grandmother, Mrs. Martha Ulrich, for
the trial of his mother. In a telegram
from Philadelphia today Mrs. Ulrich
says she has no intention of bringing
the child, who is in school and igno
rant of his mother’s troubles.
Has No Bitterness
For Husband, She Says
When site goes to trial on
Monday morning charged with having
attempted to kill her husband, Mrs.
Gt ace will have no bitterness in
her heart for him. Despite the fact
that lie lias been quoted often and at
length as saying that lie believed her
guilty, she still cares fox- him and is
insistent in tlie belief that he was not
responsible for the newspaper inter
views.
The basis of her defense will con
sist, no doubt, in the attempt to show
that she could not have possibly shot
Eugene. While In Philadelphia Mrs,
Grace stated that her husband knew
who shot him; that she knew, and that
in a three-minute statement she could
clear herself before any jury. She had
nothing to add to this statement today
nor to take from it.
The stag" is being set rapidly for
the trial. The prosecution will call
together its witnesses Saturday for
a final word. The defense, in addition
