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VOL. X. NO. 263.
HOW GRACE LISTENS TO TESTIMONY IN COURT— P .a.
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TIPPINS BILL
VETOED BY
BROWN
Friends of Measure Consider
Governor’s Rejection Death
Blow to Drys’ Move.
Governor Joseph M. Brown vetoed the
Tippins bill today.
The governor, in a lengthy and re
markably frank message to the house of
representatives, sets forth clearly his
reasons for withholding his approval of
the bill.
He holds that the bill, as passed, was
contrary to the expressed will of the
people, as evidenced in the last guber
natorial campaign; that the state’s
finances will not warrant the strain put
upon them by the withdrawal of the
near-beer taxes without provision for
their replacement; that the bill strikes
down legitimate and necessary busi
ness; that the proposed law would tend
rather to bring the present prohibition
law into ridicule and contempt than (o
make it more effective, and that the
proposed law undertakes to impose up
on the executive powers and duties
clearly intended by the framers of the
constitution for the judicial department.
The governor, In vetoing the Tippins
bill, followed a line of action generally
predicted.
His election was brought about on a
platform exactly suggesting the veto of
this very bill, in the evnt of its pas
sage.
Friends of Bill
Consider It Killed.
According to the friends of the meas
ure. the governor’s veto kills the bill,
as many of those who voted to pass it
"ill not vote to override the governor.
The veto message is in part as fol
lows:
If the people of Georgia desire
and will enforce any prohibition
law, the above (the existing stat
ute), which remained in full force
in the statute book, would surely
seem sufficient.
This bill which you have Just
sent to me J am compelled to dis
approve for the following reasons:
First. In the gubernatorial cans-
Continued on Page Fivo.
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS~Use For Results
BETRAYER OF
SLAYER IS
KILLED
Developments in New York’s
Gambling Scandal Coming
With Startling Rapidity.
NEW YORK. July 31.—While "Jack-
Rose, who claims to have been the col
lector of blackmail from New York’s
underworld for Lieutenant Charles A.
Becker, today was writing a full con
fession of the graft system which he
charges has netted the police $2,400,-
000 a year, a dragnet was out for the
assassins who shot down James Varella
the betrayer of "Dago Erank” Cirocci,
the only one of the men charged with
the actual killing of Herman Rosenthal
now in custody.
Varella, who ran the case Dante at
163 West Thirty-fourth street, a favor
ite haunt of gamblers and gun men,
was “Dago Frank’s” intimate and con
fidant. and to him the underworld
charged the arrest of the accused slay
er. Varella was killed in his case yes
terday, but it was not until early to
day that the police learned that his
death was directly due to the arrest of
Cirocci.
Four men are said to have done the
shooting. Two are under arrest —Frank
Collner. a noted gun man, and Albert
Contino, a young Italian, who was
wounded and is now in Bellevue hos
pital, The police are looking up Coli
•ner’s record, and meantime are on the
trail of two other men who they say
were In on the killing and both.of whom
are noted in the underworld as gun
fighters who can bo had for any kind
of a "job.”
Rose Writing
Confession in Detail.
The completion of Rose's confession,
containing, as ft will, a complete tabu
lation of blackmail collected by Rose
for Becker for distribution among the
men higher up, as Rose charges, is
confidently looked to by District At
torney Whitman to give him the last
weapon he needs to force an exposure
of police alliance with crime that will
Continued on Page Five.
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1912.
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KEENLY INTERESTED.
MAJOR BUTT DIED ON
RAFT FROM TITANIC,
SAYS NOTE ON BEACH
BLOCK ISLAND, R. 1.. July 31.—A
badly corroded medicaf top was found
on the beach here today containing this
note on an official wireless blank:
"April 16, 1912, Mid-Ocean.
"Help. On a raft. Titanic sinking.
No water or food.
"MAJOR A. BI TT."
On the other side of the blank was
another signature opposite a space
marked on the official blank;
"Major A. Butt.
"To officer in charge of the watch.”
The authenticity of the note has not
been established. The bottle was found
by Joseph Aiken, of North Attleboro;
A. .1. Loram, manager of the cathedral
orchestra of New York city, and \V. H.
Jones, of No. 1044 Madison avenue, Pat
erson. N. J
It has always been supposed that
Major Butt sank with the Titanic.
C. L. ADAMS IS SUED
BY WIFE; SAYS SHE
NEEDS MORE MONEY
Because C. Littlepage Adams failed
to provide for his wife as she believes
her position in life demands, she has
sued him for divorce. The petition was
filed in superior court today. Mr. Adams
is president of C. L. Adams & Bro., a
contracting firm at 319 Peters building.
His wife, Mrs. L. Magnolia Adams,
charges that he left her several years
ago, when they Jived in Birmingham,
and has not since given her a sum
sufficient to meet her social obliga
tions.
DENIES WATSON AID.
AUGUHTA, GA., July 31. -Congressman
Thomas W. Hardwick today Issued a
statement saying Thomas E. Watson did
no' help him defeat W H b'letnlng for
congress in 1902. and making clear ills
dealings with Watson during that memor
able campaign when lie won over Hom
ing. who is now seeking to defeat hint
for re-election.
Typewritten Letter
In the “Death Plot”
Here’s one of the letters in
the “death plot”—the one
written on a typewriter. It is
signed “Gene,” but the state
will try. to show Mrs.* Grace
wrote it:
My Dear Wife Daisy:
After saying good-bye to you
at the station today I ran into
an old friend fellow of mine
from Charleston, S. C. He was
down and out. My heart went
out to him. He was dead broke.
It is a pitiful story. He is out
of a job. I am going to take
him home witji me, give him a
bath and lei him sleep all night
with me. He can wear a suit
of my clothes, for he is a tall
fellow. *
I’m sorry I was delayed and
missed my train to Philadel
phia, which will throw me a
day late going and coming
back. You bring mother back
to Atlanta with you instead of
waiting for me to come to New
nan. Hope you wrote to your
mother. With all mv love,
' GENE.
A Billion Kisses in
This “Plot” Letter
This liter was written in pen
cil. The state will try to show
Mrs. Grace wrote or dictated it
in the plot to divert suspicion
from her after the shooting.
My Own Darling Wife:
After I put you on the train
I got left. 1 shall be a day late
getting back. Shall bring some
thing nice. Dear girl, my
friend is here at the house with
me now. I’ve been telling him
■ how sweet you are. lam sorry
1 for everything I said. I shall
i be as good as I know how.
With a billion kisses,
, GENE.
DORSEY READS LETTEDS
SIBNEDTEIfE'TDPRDVE
WIFE MHSHDOIING,
The strongest card of the prosecution, in the case against Mrs.,
Daisy Grace, was played today when Solicitor General Hugh M. Dor
sey began a fight to get before the jury two letters addressed to Mrs*
Eugene Grace which reached Newnan, Ga., the day of the shooting—*
March 5. These letters, according to Mr. Dorsey, will show a cold
blooded plan to kill Grace and throw the suspicion on another.
The prosecution will try to prove that the letters were written
at the direction of Mrs. Grace; that references to a down-and-out
friend of Eugene’s were put in the letter so that suspicion would be
diverted to said friend when Grace’s body was found, and that Mrs.
Grace herself mailed the letters or had them mailed.
One of the letters—a typewritten letter signed “Gene”—stated
that he (Grace) had carried a friend home because the friend looked
like he needed help. The letters would indicate that the friend was
at tjie Grace home the time of the shooting.
The prosecution will endeavor to show that the'letters reached
Newnan and fell into the hands of Mrs. Cleveland Orr, who sent them
back to Atlanta, where Mrs. Lewis Hill obtained them. Though Mrs.
Orr was subpenaed by the state, she has not yet put in an appearance.
Her whereabouts are not known. It. is thought that she is at Borden
Wheeler Springs, Ala.
Colonel Luther Rosser objected
to the letters as evidence. The
jury was excluded while the point
was argued. Il is contention was
that they were inadmissible be
cause of the fact that the defend
ant, Mrs. Grace, had not been con
nected by the evidence, either with
having written, mailed or received
the letters. On the face of it, de
clared Mr. Rosser, the letters were
written by the husband, Eugene
Grace, and directed to his wife.
What happened to the letters in
Newnan had not been shown. The
post mark was the only evidence.
It was up to the prosecution to
prove that Mrs. Grace herself
J wrote the letters or that they were
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written under her direction, be
fore they could be admitted as
competent evidence. The court
1 had not ruled on this question
when the noon recess was taken.
Letters Central
Link in State’s Case.
The letters constitute the keynote of
the prosecution. The plan of Solicitor
Dorsey and Lamar Hill is to show that
Mrs. Grace had evolved a careful plan
1 —that she had determined upon
, Grace’s death: that she had by subter
fuge gotten him to write one letter and
that the other was written on a type •
I writer; that the story of her husband's
, having carried a down-and-out friend
to their Eleventh street home was put
• in the letter—and that her design was
> to throw suspicion y of this fictitious
down-and-out friend when Grace's bodv
was founo.
S More than half an hour was spent tn