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VOL. X. NO. 259.
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suhof
GAMBLER,
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New York Prosecutor Is Now
Nearly at Bottom of Herman
Rosenthal Case.
ANOTHER OF ACCUSED
IS CAPTURED IN CITY
Confessing Chauffeur Further
Implicates Police in Story to
District Attorney.
NEW YORK, July 26.—With another
of the alleged assassins of Herman Ro
senthal, the gambler who gave infor
mation concerning police grafters, in
custody and sufficient evidence secured
to obtain indictments for murder
against four men, District Attorney
Whitman declared today that he had
made a long stride toward getting at
the bottom of the crime. The latest
suspect captured is “Dago Frank,” one
of the men who rode in the “murder
car" to the scene of the assassination.
The fact that he was arrested in the
city is taken as proving the truth of
the charge that nearly all of the “hunt
ed” men are still in New York.
“Dago Frank.” who has a record as
a burglar and has used many aliases,
when he was locked up said his name
was Frank Clrosici. He was arrested
at 523 tVest 134th street. He is de
clared by the police to be one of the
actual assassins.
The arrest was made by Detectives
Vpton. Cassa, McKenna and McManus,
who had been sent to look up Cirosici.
With him they arrested Rosie Harris,
also known as Regina Gordon, and
Abraham Lewis, or “Fat Abie,” as his
Intimates knew him. They were held
as material witnesses.
All three prisoners were under the
influence of opium when arrested, ac
cording to Deputy Commissioner
Dougherty, who questioned them until
early this morning before giving out
their names.
Stories of Prisoners
Fail tn Agree.
Only the Harris woman was able,
Dougherty said, to give a clear account
of her movements on the night Rosen
thal was murdered. She attempted to
establish an alibi for “Dago Frank” by
stating that she saw him about the
time Rosenthal was murdered, but the
accused man denied this and Insisted
that he was out of town.
Deputy Police Commissioner Dough
prty and Inspector Hughes later gave
out a statement, in which they said:
“Cirosici is charged with complicity
in the murder of Herman Rosenthal.
The two others are held as material
witnesses. Cirosici will be confronted
with William Shapiro and other wit
nesses of the shooting of Rosenthal
that he may be identified as the man
known as 'Dago Frank’ who is wanted
f t the murder along with Harry Horo
"itz, Lefty Louis.’ alias Louis Rosen
berg, and ‘Whitey Jack’ Lewis, alias
Frank Muller.
cirosici admits that he knows and
i s an associate of Horowitz. He denlet
that he knows anything of the murder
of Rosenthal, or where the other men
are.
Two satchels filled with clothes, as
'hough Cirosici intended to leave town
right away, were found in the flat and
brought to headquarters with the
Prisoners.
Chain of Evidence
Now Nearly Complete.
through the confession of William
■ h.ipiro. driver of the gray auto used
“ murderers in going to the Hotel
■lt’tropoie t o R O s en thal and in
making their escape, the district attor
was able to complete evidence
fg<iinst four of the murder suspects.
lieutenant Costigan said today that
gri : Ming could not go on in New York
bout the connivance of the police,
he lieutenant made a statement which
■ <’ted seriously upon several civilian
n ‘ inbers of the police department.
• hapiro’s confession has caused at
•ention to be directed to men "higher
'b who are believed to have inspired
rime. Shapiro stated that some
'* the assassins believed that in serv-
Bald Jack" Rose they were aiding
utenant Recker. Rose was consid
er* u a close confidential friend of Po-
' ’-'“"tenaat Becker.
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS —Use For Results
Wills School $30,000.
Providing It Doesn't
Accept Jno. D. Money
One Millionaire Who Fought the
Standard Always Held Rock
efeller s Wealth Tainted.
I
NEWCASTLE. PA., July 26.—Dis
tributing an estate valued at more than
$2,000,000. the will of the late Thomas
W. Phillips, of this city, independent
oil producer, has just been filed here
for probate. He made many charitable
and educational bequests, and absolute
ly specified in a $30,000 bequest to the
University of Oklahoma that this shall
become void if the said university so
licits or accepts any money from John
D. Rockefeller or from the general edu
cational fund established by him.
Other bequests to the Christian
church contain the same proviso.
Mr. Phillips had always fought the
Standard and held that “tainted mon
ey” from that source should not be
accepted by churches or educational
institutions.
MIKADO CANT LIVE
ANOTHER 24 HOURS,
PHYSICIANS AGREE
TOKIO, July 26.—The imperial minis
ters were summoned to the palace tills
evening in anticipation of the death of
Emperor Mutsuhito. The mikado's
strength was slowly ebbing and the phy
sicians held out no hope that he would
live another 24 hours.
The physicians held a conference at 9
o'clock this morning and then announced
that tho patient had been able to secure
only a little sleep during the night and
that his weakness was becoming much
more marked. There was a fluctuation in
temperature during the day. A 9 o'clock
bulletin said: "Temperature 100.7, pulse
100, respiration 32." A bulletin issued at
4 p. m. read: “Temperature 101.8, pulse
100, respiration 30.” Three hours later the
temperature had fallen to 100.5, while at
9 p. m. the following bulletin was issued:
“Temperature 100.2, pulse 100, respiration
32. Pulse irregular, though firm. Tongtie
darklv coated. Continuing as yesterday."
Immediately after this bulletin the min
isters were summoned, and the empress,
who had been snatching some sleep, was
awakened.
GIRL TRIES TO BE A
MINSTREL TO SAVE
HER BROTHER’S JOB
POWELL, OHIO, July 26. —Lucile
Martin, of Syracuse. N. Y„ masquerad
ing as her brother, Hal Martin, a sing
er, was discovered here at the Al G.
Field farm, where the minstrel com
pany had.gathered preparatory to open
ing the season.
Mrs. Field, the minstrel man’s wife,
was the only one whose suspicions
were aroused, and she forced a confes
sion from the girl.
Early this summer Hal Martin was
engaged for a tenor in the chorus.
When he received word to report here
he was convalescing from an operation
for appendicitis.
Fearing he would lose the engage
ment. his twin sister donned one of
his suits, cut her hair and came in her
brother’s stead.
AWAKES TO SEE THIEF
ARMED WITH SWORD;
ROUTS HIM WITH GUN
When S. Y. Tupper, Jr., 317 Juniper
street, awoke today he saw a stalwart
negro bearing down on him with a
sword. For a moment the insurance
man thought he was having a rarebit
dream, but he reached for a revolver
and took a shot at the vision. He
missed, and the apparition made a
jump for the window, slashed out the
screen with the sword and leaped
through.
Rubbing his eyes, Mr. Tupper took
another look. His visitor was a negro
burglar, and the weapon he bore was
Mr. Tupper's own trusty sword which
he had just brought home from the
Anniston encampment. The burglar
had evidently taken it and to use in
case there was trouble.
SAVANNAH COUNCIL TAKES
UP BRINSON ROAD PROJECT
SAVANNAH, GA., July 26.—The
plan to have Savannah appropriate
$150,000 to assure a direct extension of
the Brinson railway from Waynesboro
to Athens, has been formally presented
to citj’ council, with representatives
present from Thompson, Washington
an* Lexington, in addition to commit
tees from the Savannah Chamber of
Commerce. The matter was referred
to the committee of the whole.
FLOVILLA MAN. SWIMMING
OCMULGEE RIVER. DROWNS
JACKSON. GA., July 26.—1 n attempting
to swim from the shore to an island Luth
er Edwards, a merchant, 24 years of age,
of Flovilla, was drowned in the Ocmul
gee river at Smiths Mill yesterday after
noon. The body has not been recovered.
His wife, mother and a brother survive
him.
TWO SLAYERS HANGED AT
NASHVILLE; 1 REPRIEVED
NASHVILLE. TENN., July 26.—John
Bailey and George Shelton, convicted of
the murder of Ben Pettigrew and two chil
dren in Decatur county, were hanged at
the state penitentiary here today. Ed
ward Alexander, who was to have been
hanged at the same time, was granted a
twenty days' respite by Governor Haonw.
T.R.MENBIOT
TO GONTIIOL
MEETIIB
OFGIP.
Taft Man Adjourns Session,
But They Refuse To Be
Adjourned.
BLOCK EXITS AND
PEN CHAIRMAN IN
Colonel’s Men Then Reorganize
and Condemn President’s
Renomination.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 26.—Roose
velt men are in control of the Repub
lican county organization here today
following a riotous meeting of the com
mittee last night. For more than a
quarter of an hour the members of the
committee engaged In a fight, the ob
ject of which was to prevent Chair
man Sanborn escaping from the hall.
The chairman and fifteen members of
the committee managed to gain the
exits.
The fight started when, after a mo
tion had been put to apportion dele
gates for the county convention in Sep;
tember, Chairman Sanborn declared a
motion to adjourn carried. He desired
to ward off an attack on Taft.
Then he rushed for the door. The
Roosevelt men tried to block his prog
ress. After he had gone the Roosevelt
men, numbering about 65, reorganized
the convention and adopted resolutions
condemning the nomination of Taft in
Chicago and declaring in favor of
Roosevelt.
T. R. Convention
Plans Complete
CHICAGO, July 26.—A big force of
clerks will be put at work in the na
tional headquarters of the Progressive
party here ready for the final prepara
tions for the national convention that
will meet August 5.
Final preparations at the Coliseum,
where the convention will be held, are
already nearly complete. The seats
and stands used in the Republican na
tional convention are still in place and
they will be left in the same positions
for the coming convention. The seat
ing arrangements for delegates will he
the same as at the Republican national
convention.
The seat sale, which opened yester
day, was fairly brisk, according to those
in charge. A number of advance or
ders had already been received, it was
said.
The Progressive national committee
is preparing for a meeting preliminary
to the convention to make up a tempo
rary roll call. Some contests will be
filed with the committee.
CITY HAS POWER TO
INVESTIGATE BOOKS
OF STREET RAILWAY
Graham West, chief clerk of the city
comptroller, in preparing a pamphlet
showing the authority of his office, has
discovered that the city has been
granted authority to audit once a year
the books of the Georgia Railway and
Electric Company, the company itself
having granted the authority.
The contract made with the company
ten years ago by which the city re
ceives a two per cent tax on the gross
income provides that the mayor and
council shall appoint a committee to
see that the amount paid is correct.
The records do not show any city ad
ministration has ever done other than
to accept the statement of the officers
of the company without any investiga
tion or audit.
MADE BULL MOOSE
CHIEF AND FINED AS
‘TIGER’ IN SAME DAY
J. F. Race, who has been identified
closely with tho Atlanta end of national
Republican polities for several, years,
is worrying over two conflicting events
yesterday.
In the morning he was elected sec
retary of the Georgia Bull Moose par
ty and a delegate to the Chicago con
vention. In the afternoon he was fined
S3OO by Recorder Broyles for operating
a “blind tiger.”
Mr. Race came to Atlanta from Mich
igan, where he was active in politics.
He was the third man in the race for
Atlanta’s postmastership with Messrs.
Blodgett and McKee. Nov. he is presi
dent of the Southern club, 111 1-2 Ma
rietta street, and on the testimony of
Detectives Norris and Chewning was
judged to be guilty of violating the
prohibition law by selling drinks to
mn-membera
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1912.
Lad Hopes Democratic Donkey Will Win
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Frank Gilreath, Jr., Is Youngest
Relative of Next President
in the South.
Little Frank Gilreath, Jr., who lives
in Inman Park, ca,me home today with
a copy of this photograph in his hand
and sat down and wrote a letter to
Woodrow Wilson on the back of the
picture. This is what he said.
Mr. Woodrow Wilson: Dear Sir
—I hope the donkey the pictures in
the papers show you riding on
w’ill carry you to the white house
as easy as mine carries me to
school.
Hoping you are the same, yours,
truly.
FRANK GILREATH. JUNIOR.
Then Frank went in and put on his
other clothes, for it’s his birthday and
he’s giving a party to celebrate his be
ing eight years old.
Frank had an especial interest in
writing to the nominee, for he is
Woodrow Wilson’s youngest relative in
the South. Mrs. Frank Gilreath, his
mother, is a first cousin to Mrs. Wil
son, and the two were great girlhood
friends.
It may be that Frank, Jr., has his
eye on a government job after next
March, or maybe he thinks perhaps
President Wilson will lend him that
gold-mounted season baseball pass the
president receives every year.
Anyway, he wrote the letter and he
will wait for the postman’s whistle
every day until the answer comes.
TOT TRIES TO HELP
PURSUERS IN‘MOVIE’
CHASE TAKE BANDIT
Little Edna Pope, the 3-year-old
niece of George Sims, deputy in the
city clerk’s office, believes motion pic
tures are real, and in displaying her
belief she showed herself to be even a
more human spectator than those who
have come to hiss the viilian and cheer
the hero of the celluloid drama.
He? uncle today told this tory of
Edna’s last visit to a Peachtree
“movie.”
The play was a train robbery. The
bandits gathered up their loot, mount
ed their horses and were off. Cow
boys soon were in hot pursuit and there
was a wild chase for miles across the
plains. Then suddenly the bandits
made a sharp turn to back trail when
obscured by a wooded hill. The pur
suers rushed up, but hesitated which
way to go. The leader started in the
wrong direction.
“The other way! the other way!”
shouted Edna as she arose in her seat
and waved her hands.” When the act
ors did not heed her "tip" and the spec
tators all looked around, the little girl
hung her head and sank silently Into
her seat.
RAILROAD CHARGED WITH
WORKING GIRL OVERTIME
CHARLESTON, S. C., July 26 The
United States government proposes to
take a hand in enforcing hereabouts the
law which forbids railroads working their
emploj'ees more than nine hours a day, a
case having been filed by District Attor
ney Cochran, of Greenville, against the
, Atlantic Coast Line, in which It is al
leged that Miss Mamie Gandy, of Ben
nettsville. a stenographer, has been
worked overtime in 1.0 counts. There is a
fine of SSOO possible for each count.
Frank Gilreath, Jr., is the youngest Georgia relative of
Woodrow Wilson, and. like him, is depending on a donkey to
carry him where he wants to go. Frank is 8 years old today.
TIPPINS BILL IS
SENT TO BROWN
Speculation as to What Gov
ernor Will Do With Measure
Still Varied.
The Tippins bill, passed by both the
house and the senate by more than a
two-thirds vote, has been engrossed
and went to the governor for his con
sideration today.
Under the law, the governor has five
days in which either to reject it or
sign it, and those five days include the
day it reaches him, but do not include
Sunday. ,
It therefore must get back to the
house in which It originated not later
than Wednesday, In the event of a veto.
Unless the governor signs or vetoes
It within the prescribed five days, tho
bill will become a law automatically,
and with the governor's constructive
but not recorded approval.
Speculation as to what the governor
will do with the Tippins bill Is varied.
In the main, he is expected to veto it
outright, but there are those who be
lieve he will veto it conditionally—that
he will send It back with the sugges
tion that he will approve it if the ref
erendum clause is added. There are
still others who believe he will sign
the hill as it stands, but these are in a
decided minority.
Would Be Called at Once.
When the bill comes back to the
house vetoed, if it does so come, it will
be called up at once. It will be a priv
ileged document and entitled to im
mediate consideration.
The house may do what it pleases
with It. It may pass the bill over the
executive veto by a two-thirds vote, it
may table it, or it may dispose of it by
accepting the governor's objections as
valid and specifically sustaining them.
If the house sustains the governor,
that will be the end of the bill. If it
overrides him, the bill will then go to
the senate, where the procedure will
be the same as In the house, whatever
the result may be.
If either house sustains the governor
it will kill the law, regardless of how
the other house may vote. It takes a
concurrent two-thirds vote to override.
SLAYER GETS LIFE SENTENCE.
BUCHANAN, GA., July 26.—After a
three days session, Judge Price Ed
wards has adjourned Haralson supe
rior court until the third week In Au
gust. on account of the condition of
crops in the cpunty. Wordlaw Barker,
a negro, charged with killing Jim Wil
liams, another negro, at Bremen a few
weeks ago, was found guilty and sen-
I fenced to life Imprisonment in the peni
tentiary
iSSEE ON BOND
TILL TOpDW
Macon Man Disappears From
Spartanburg After Being Held
for Tennessee Officer.
SPARTANBURG, S. C„ July 26.—W.
J. Massee, president of the Georgia
Power Public Service Corporation, a
lighting company; president of the Bibb
Brick Company, the largest in the
United States; former president of the
Macon Railway and Light Company;
organizer and former president of the
Central Georgia Power Company, a
$4,000,000 corporation, and with numer
ous other connections with the financial
world, who was arrested here yesterday
afternoon, was released last night on
bond in the sum of SIO,OOO to appear
before Judge Thomas S. Sease tomor
row, when the case will be disposed of.
Immediately after being granted
bond, Mr. Massee disappeared from
Spartanburg and it Is presumed he
went to his home in Macon, where he
will remain until the case comes up.
FAMILIES OF MINERS
TRAPPED BY WATERS
HAUNT SHAFT TOMB
I NIONTOWN. PA., July 26—At the
flooded tomb of fifteen miners drowned In
the mine of the Superba Coal company
at Evans, grief-stricken widows and chil
dren haunt the entrance and refuse to be
comforted. It will be weeks before the
bodies of the victims of Wednesday’s
cloudburst can be recovered.
More than 30 children were rendered
fatherless and are in dire circumstances.
A movement for raising relief funds is
being started.
Some of the widows declare their hus
bands could have been saved. They de
clare they begged certain bosses to no
tify the men of the approaching water
and they pleaded in vain to have the
workers withdrawn from the mine. The
report is denied by the owners.
FELLOW TOWNSMAN‘TURNS
UP’ AN ALLEGED MURDERER
CHARLESTON, S. C., July 26.—Corne
lius Lucas, a young white man, wanted
in Linden, N. C., for killing Carson Jones,
a farmer, after a fight at a picnic on
July 13, Is under arrest here. Sheriff Mc-
Geachy has come on to take the prisoner
back. Lucas had ■secured a job In
Charleston as a motorman, coining here
a week ago. He denies the charge against
him. A fellow townsman here from Lin
den recognized Lucas and reported him
to the police. Lucas nearly collapsed
when arrested.
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CBICE TRUE
JURY LIST
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HIMES
Many of Atlanta’s Best Known
Citizens Among Those Eligi
ble for Duty.
PANEL EXPECTED IN THE
FIRST 36 NAMES DRAWN
Judge Roan Is Still Undecided
Whether the Hearing Will Be
Held in Private.
From 108 of the best known citizen*
of Atlanta will be drawn the jury of
"tvvelve good men and true” who muah
decide next week whether Mrs. Dais*
Opie Grace is guilty of shooting he
husband, Eugene H. Grace, with Intent
to murder him. The list from which
the twelve are to be drawn has been
made out by the court.
Judge L. S. Roan, who will preside
at the trial of Mrs. Grace, had not de
cided today whether the trial would be
held in private, but it seems assured
that few, it any, persons besides court
officials and newspaper men actually
engaged in reporting the case will be
admitted.
Judge Roan is visibly annoyed at the
questions insistently asked him, as he
must, of course, decline to discuss the
case in any manner. He takes the po
sition that the case of the State vs.
Mrs. Daisy Grace is merely No. 1 on the
court calendar, differing In no wise
from the rest of the routine, and he
will not be drawn into any expression
regarding it or its Importance.
Expect to Get Panel
In First 36 Names.
The twelve jurymen probably will be
drawn from the first thirty-six men tn
the list. Court attaches say they ex
pect slight trouble in getting a jury,
despite the wide publicity given the
affair. The list follows:
List of Jurors Drawn
For Grace Trial,
B. F. Bennett, Sr., George G. Burk
hardt, M. A. Cason, George Reerig,
John Cunningham, J. H. Todd, H. A.
Maier, W. H. Gunter. A. A. Flurry, G,
B. Wright, Reuben Moss, W. P. Grady,
V. E. Perryman, Thomas E. Feagin,
P. J. McCormick, W. A. H. Wilkes, H.
H| Ellis, J. R. Bryant, B. C. Troutman,
C. A. Simpson. M. W. Hubbard, R. W.
Boone, Ludo VanStavveren, J. T,
Waller, C. E. Thomas, S. J. EJder, J. E.
McCullough, E. E. Eagin, Carl J. Weis
neisser, Walker Dunson, S. J. Wilson,
W. W. Snodgrass, W. C. Powell, John
T. D°nnard, J. R. Morrfss, J. L. Eber
hart. W. C. Mansfield, W. N. Smith,
H. G. Stubbs, J. W, Corley, St. Elmo
Massengale, N. M. Cameron, E. Manley,
Joseph Balsen, J. T. Rainey, T. W.
Mitchell, H. F. Ansley, L. T. Louis, H.
S. Johnson, Sr., O. G.‘ Green, J. E. Love
lace, F. M. Swanson, R. J. Guinn, W.
A. Carmichael. E. B. Ffsher, M. Cutts,
W. B. Charlton, J. C. Flynn, J. M.
Moon, J. A. Fisher, W. O. Anderson,
Harry Woolfe, H. J. Bruce, R. W. Hol
comb, James H. Holland, W. K. Speed
man, H. E. King, J. M. Fuller, F. R.
Patman, Ford, William A. Laird,
J. D. Coney, F. T. Dickson, F. E. Moon,
C. F. Hayes, H. T. Yeargan, Walter
Smith, R. B. Cates. E. F. Morris, W. J.
Tupper, T. R. Hardwick, R. C. Stan
nard, W. M. Warnock, L. J. Fletcher,
E. E. Lacey, S. R. Hay, L. D. Sharp,
G. W. Pate, J. A. Spurlin, George E.
Heyser. Thomas E. Fill, W. R. Massen
gale, Asa G. Candler, Sr., J. W. Mc-
Griff, J, R. Collier, R. A. Spratlin, C.
N. Burgstrom, J. W. Leraux, C. J. Mar
tin. J. A. Jordan, C. S. McElroy, G. W.
Whaley, W. C. Holloman, J. B. Dickey,
George W. Roberts, L. P. Weathers,
Frank Dale.
COCA-COLA TRADE-MARK
INFRINGEMENT ALLEGED
SAVANNAH, GA., July 26—Three
soft drink manufacturers, who are al
leged to have Infringed upon the trade
mark of the Coca-Cola makers, have
been enjoined in the Chatham county
superior court.
The defendants are the Savannah
Consolidated Bottling Company, which
manufactures and bottles “Dopeola;”
the Durden Bottling Company, which
makes "Coco-Ale,” and James Rays’
Sons, makers of “Hayo-Kola.”
Judge Walter G. Charlton signed a
temporary restraining order forbidding
the defendants from buying, selling, re
filling or otherwise using bottles bear
ing the trade-mark “Coca-Cola.” The
court also Issued a show cause rule
I against the respondents.