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GRACE DEATH NOTES READ THE WEATHER Fair tonight and tomorrow. Tem peratures: 8 a. m.» 79 degrees; 10 a. m., 84 degrees; 12 noon, 87 de grees; 2 p. m., 85 degrees. VOL. X. NO. 263. HOW GRACE LISTENS TO TESTIMONY IN COURT— P .a. AS HE LOOKS BORED. EUGENE GRACE WORRIED. HIS SMILING FACE. ■‘ -1 w® 4 w wJßsiw : . *WiisßSs s&tW ■. ; ■■■ tl® ■' ’■ . ■ 1k.%&: • - Mv ■■ . - ■■'■•; «'T’j Xw® wfe.. JfflHr b - % ■■■■ ■« .Jf : -Mk -..gate- - •• ■* i --'/•• ■&?«#.. ■ '. ffiwWT* : .--■ ■ . . .'- »x inSKfL • ..i •*raMnfew< i * v ■,• ■■■ '• * TvslL a 'W. j^T : -*-r'l. aH* : ‘ --libWfflß” C* ’“ ■ Sii*4<r •■ t ’•?’!' 381 '-.‘ A ’* i v V •'-T .’ v ‘ ’ <h ls> V - u ’• ' "** .*>?'* Wxtl- t,' -■ >o W-® ' V 'v®tfeteL - zwfl 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. IBWWfWIww •••’■ml 8L... - 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 I HOHL I EDITION 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE Y RB Na 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