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SPEER REPLIESTO
HOPE'S CHARGES
WITHTEARS
Federal Judge Refuses to Pre
side Over Trial of Contempt
Case He Instituted.
MACON, GA.. July 31.—Judge Emory
Speer today refused to preside over the
hearing of the contempt case against
W. A. Huff, the 81-year-old ex-mayor
of Macon. After overruling the demur
rer to dismiss the charge, he defended
himself eloquently in reply to the se
rious accusations of official corruption
and perfidy brought against him by
Colonel Huff. With sobs in his voice
and tears in his eyes, he said he would
not preside further over the ease, but
would allow another judge to try it.
It is probable that Judge Shepard of
Florida, will be asked to serve He
made this decision at 1:40 o'clock this
afternoon.
Huff Files Demurrer.
When Colonel Huff was arraigned in
court his counsel filed and argued a
demurrer, pleading the lack of Juris
diction of Judge Speer, demanding an
indictment by grand jury and trial by
jury. The demurrer was overruled. The
defendant then filed his answer to the
charge of contempt, denying the con
tempt, but admitting that he sent the
letter.
At this juncture Judge Speer said he
desired to make a statement, and then
for 30 minutes he addressed an audi
ence that packed the court room, speak
ing with his old-time eloquence and
unusual fervor, and denying and ex
plaining Colonel Huff’s charges in de
tail.
Judge Speer's Defense.
Judge Speer denied that he had gone
to Eagle River, Alaska, at the expense
of Huff's receiver. He said he paid
his own way. going and coming, and
that the bearskin that was sent to him
came with 'charges collect. Ho said he
owned stock in a mine at Eagle River,
lawfully acquired. He denied the charge
of showing favoritism to a so-called
"family bank," of which his brother
in-law is vice president.
Judge Speer said that it appeared
there was a conspiracy to traduce his
character by publishing Colonel Huff’s
letter and sending it broadcast through
out the country. He said it was not
customary for money on deposit in the
possession of the court to draw inter
est. He declared that the Huff estate
had Increased 101) per cent in value
during its thirteen years in the custody
of the court. All other charges brought
by Colonel Huff were bitterly and
sweepingly denied.
When We Say SALE, the Whole Town Takes Notice!!!
The popularity of our Summer Sales is due to the unqualified and absolutely known values a normal scale of prices provide, , but l
reduced liberally as we have done for our August discounts, the invitation to come in and participate in the avantages offered, is positive
ly irresistible. The sale includes, with but extremely few exceptions, our entire stock of men’s wear. Contract goods over which we have
no jurisdiction in the matter of discounts, are not included. However these few exceptions have so little apparent effect in the great ensem
ble of wearables at a discount, as to be scarcely worth while mentioning
We cordially invite you to call. Call early. While stocks are abundant, variety most pleasing, and styles sufficient to conserve your individual taste. Yet discounts
will begin to show their havoc without much delay, and the suggestion to make early selections is well advised. Sale begins tomorrow morning at 7 o’clock sharp !!
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1 B DANIEL BROS.
Deacons Enjoin Singer
From Warbling Hymns
In Church Choir Loft
Row in Albertville, Ala., Baptist
Congregation Is Carried Into
Court.
GADSDEN. ALA., July 31.—J. P.
Emmett, a vocalist, has been restrained
by injunction from singing in the First
Baptist 'church of Albertville. The in
junction is made returnable before
Chancellor Simpson, of Decatur, and
was issued upon the prayer of the dea
cons of the church.
Emmett was prominent in the circles
of the 'church, but had a misunder
standing with some of the officers, and
it is alleged that they objected to him
taking part in the services, and secured
the injunction* to restrain him from
joining in the song service.
VETERAN, 101, WALKS
ACROSS 3 STATES TO
HOME;DISAPPOINTED,
KANSAS CITY, July 31.—Joseph
Meyer, a Confederate war veteran, who
says he is 101 years old, and walked
from Fort Worth, Texas, to Kansas
City, found yesterday that his journey
had been in vain. He came to Missouri
expecting to enter the home for ex-
Confederate soldiers at Higginsville.
Judge John B. Stone told him he wgs
not eligible, because he has not been a
resident of Missouri two years.
'■Well, I will go to Arkansas then,”
Meyer said. “I know a man in the
Confederate Home at Little Rock. 1
think he can get me in.”
And the old man hobbled off, stooped
and feeble, feeling bls way along with
a cane, for he is almost blind. He will
walk to Little Rock.
Meyer says he lost his wife, three
children and property worth $35,000 in
the Galveston flood. Since then he has
been a wanderer, He says he walked
from the Pacific coast to the Atlantic
two years ago, and last year walked
from New Orleans to Buffalo and back.
NEGRO TAKEN AS THIEF
AS HE PAWNS SUITCASE
When detectives saw Russ.ell Rich, a
20-year-old negro, trying to pawn a
suitcase in Decatur street, they ar
rested him. Among the things found
in the grip was a gold medal inscribed
with the words "Effie Boykin, present
ed for general excellence in the junior
class.” A gold watch and heavy chain,
a bunch of keys, several pocketbooks,
four suits of clothing and four extra
coats also were recovered.
The watch and bunch of keys have
been claimed by H. Cristopulos. 25
Washington street, who says his house
was entered recently.
THE’ ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1912.
“THIRD DEGREE"
DILL IS FAVORED
Police Aroused by Probability
That the Measure Will Be
Passed by House.
By reporting favorably the bill of Mr.
Upshaw of 'Douglas, prohibiting the
use of the so-called "third degree"
methods of police departments in the
state, the house penitentiary committee
has stirred up a hornets’ nest at the
local police station.
"Those people simply don't know
what they are doing.” declared Acting
Chief of Detectives J. B. Hewell. "They
are standing in their own light. There
is not now and never has been any
'third degree' work here. All that we
do is to question prisoners in order to
gather evidence, and we don’t attempt
to impose on anybody or go beyond the
present law. The statutes cover the
situation thoroughly. Forced confes
sions are not admissible under the pres
ent arrangement.”
Chief of Police Beavers said that
questioning of defendants and wit
nesses was all that was ever attempted,
and this was no more than lawyers did
in bringing forth evidence. "This is
the ‘third degree.’" asserted the chief,
"and people don't know what it means
when they say ’third degree.’ They
think it consists of hanging criminals
up by their thumbs to force confes
sions. If the house committee wants
to come down here and have police
methods explained, we have the ’evi
dence.’ Let them come."
When asked what he thought of the
local situation. Judge Nash Broyles
said: “There is no ’third degree’ in
Atlanta. Officers elsewhere might try
to force confessions in the hope of large
rewards, but I don’t believe there are
any such officers in the local depart
ment.”
Detectives who joined in the discus
sion were of the opinion that the au
thor of the bill and the supporters of it
were lacking in information. The gen
eral impression was that if the bill
should pass it would cripple the ef
fectiveness of police work in bringing
criminals to justice and in recovering
stolen property.
“This wouldn’t hurt the police force."
explained one detective, "but it would
hurt the public.”
Aileen Gunn.
Aileen Gunn, little daughter of Mr.
and Mis. S. D. Gunn, died at a sanita
rium in Atlanta early today. The re
mains were removed to Bloomfield &
Go’s chapel, awaiting being carried to
McDonough', Ga„ for funeral and inter
ment.
SCHEME TO IMPEACH
ARCHBALD WITHOUT
HEARING ABANDONED
WASHINGTON. July 31.—A sensa
tional move by which it was planned to
impeach Judge Robert W. Archbald
without taking of his testimony was
abandoned today by the seven man
agers of the case agairTkt the com
merce court justice at a meeting of the
house judiciary committee.
Some of the prosecutors and mem
bers of the committee have urged
Judge Archbald’s conviction should be
demanded of the senate because his
reply to the impeachment charges ad
mits all of the facts contained in the
articles.
After a lengthy debate, the commit
tee voted to file a formal reply to Judge
Archbald's statement presenting the
case for trial.
HEARSE HORSES RUN
CAUSE PANIC
ERIE, PA.. July 31 Lives were en
dangered in the Erie cemetery, when
hor«es attached to a hearse containing
the body of otto Moyn ran away and
were not stopped until they had over
turned the hearse, knocked down a dozen
tombstones, injured several mourners and
dumped the coffin containing the body
into a grass plot along the main drive
way.
The jar did not loosen the coffin top
and the funeral services were brought
to a hasty conclusion.
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STATE STILL HAS
TALLULAH LAND
S. G. McLendon Declares Grant
Given by Governor Is Invalid
Under Georgia Laws.
S. G. McLendon, former state rail
road commissioner, in a statement is
sued today declares that the state of
Georgia owns the grand chasm at Tal
lulah Falls and land lot No. 11 in Ra
bun county, adjoining the falls.
He expressed the opinion in a letter
to Mrs. Helen D Longstreet, president
of the Tallulah Falls Conservation as
sociation. stating that he had exam
ined tile surveys and copies of the
grants which bear upon the land title
situation at the falls, where the Geor
gia Railway and Power Fonipant is
building a big dam.
Under the state laws, his letter states,
the governor has no right to make title
or issue a grant to such property and
it can only be disposed of through a
public sale by the county ordinary. He
says there is no record of any such title
and that the state still owns valuable
property at the falls. He declines in
his letter to suggest what action the
legislature should take.
NEW “RIP VAN WINKLE:”
HE’LL HAVE TO BE SHOWN
LIBERTY. MO., July 31. The mod
ern Rip Van Winkle lives in Liberty.
His name is Gus Bishop.
In 41 years he never has been out
side the city. He never has seen a tel
egraph instrument, never has seen an
aeroplane, never has seen a moving
picture show, never z saw a passenger
“leva I or, never saw an electric street
car. never was inside a theater, never
saw a horse race. There are scores of
buildings in the little town that Gus
Bishop never nas seen.
Bishop is a graduate of Liberty’s
William Jewell college, class ,of 1869.
The college buildings are only three
blocks from the public square, but Gus
Bishop has never been inside one of
them since the day he graduated.
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EXTRAVAGANCE is one of those insidious habits that
creep upon us and takes away our money, wastes our time, and
ROBS US of a comfortable old age. Those small sums that we
fritter away from week to week, would look very handsome a few
i years from now in the bank. After you have started a bank ac
' count, you will find that it is no sacrifice to deny yourself many
of the useless pleasures that really take so vast an amount of
money.
4 Per Cent on Savings Deposits
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UNEARTH OLD PANTRY
I OF ROGER WILLIAMS
PROVIDENCE, K 1., July 31 The
pantry of the home of Roger Williams,
founder of the state of Rhode Island, is
believed to have been uncovered by work
men in excavating near the place where
a big fireplace, which authorities have
marked as belonging to the Williams
home, was discovered five years ago
! Dishes and crockery of various sizes and
styles, with bones believed to be human,
; were unearthed by diggers, who broke
many of the articles before they realized
the possible importance of their find.
PAINLESS BULLET IS
OFFERED U. S. ARMY
WASHINGTON. July 31.—Alexander F.
Humphrey, of Pittsburg, is endeavoring
to impress the war department with the
desirability of equipping the United
States army with his new sleep produc
ing bullet.
t The bullet is coated with a preparation
i of morphine which renders it painless
after it has entered the body and puts
the wounded man to sleep.
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