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the weather. Forecast: Fair tonight and tomor- Temperatures: 8 a. m., 80; 10 a rri.. 84; 12 noon, 88; 2 p. m., 90. VOL. X. NO. 258. ■FFQM EMI TELLSOF SLAYERS I 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. The Atlanta Georgian Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS —Use For Results "••••••••••••••••••••••a** • • • Seats for Bull Moose • : Conventionßrings2o; • • Beveridge Chairman* • CHICAGO, July 25.—Sale of • • seats for the progressive conven- • • tion opened here today under di- • • rection of Ralph C. Otis and La- • • verne W. Noyes, chairman and • • treasurer of the executive com- • • mittee. The seats are offered at • • S2O, sls and $lO. They cover the • • entire convention, August 5, 6 • • and 7. • • Former Senator Albert J. Rev- • • eridge will be temporary chairman • | • of the progressive national con- • | • vention. This was announced to- • . • day by Senator Joseph M. Dixon. • ’ • The former Indiana senator has • i • accepted the position and will • 1 • sound the keynote of the new • j • movement. • I •••••••••••••••••••••••••< 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 J, serf jA. B mW I- 1 \\ (wC Jr \ y' —■<'w. 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