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the Hotel Metropole, P’orty-third ami Broadway: at right, where he was slain; center, the murder car. with William
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sngry threat to get a divorce Irom Mrs. j
Grace as soon as the law w ill permit. ,
tn spite of Grace s declaration that I
he will su< her for dlvoice as soon as,
he shall have lived in Georgia a year, i
Mrs. Grace has mode no plans to con- j
teat the expect.-il pro. • edings or to in- 1
stltute a divorce herself, tier la vyers .
•aid today th.:' he will make no such
attempt for many months at least.
She received word from Philadelphia
this morning that ’:e- little blind jjon,
who was stricken with illness there
yesterday, ie slightly improved, but she |
said that if her health permits her,
she will go with her mother to the |
Keystone city tomorrow to remain in- .
definitely.
All Inst nigh, she tossed upon her bed
at Ashby street, unable to sleep. Her
physician said that her nerves were
upon the point of giving away and she
could not keep the nightmare of the
trial and of her husband's angry
charges from her mind.
Mother and Daughter
To Live Quietly in North.
Her mother stayed by her constantly
and the medicine her nurses gave her
liberally finally brought sleep, though
she could hardly rise Jute today.
Before she goes to Philadelphia to
lease her house there and recoup in
some 9ort her funds, which have been
events leading up to it, Mrs. Grace
visited her lawyers' offices to set
tle up the injunction case that still
Company. She will go to Philadel
phia tomorrow unfettered by legal
trouble for the first time since she was
arrested, charged with shooting her
husband in the Eleventh street house
last March.
The mother and daughter will reside
there quietly. No plans for Mrs. Grace's
return to Atlant have been made, but
she will not be seen here again for
months, at least.
Goes Back to Bedside
Os Her Blind Son.
And now. her ordeal over. Daisy tipie
Grace goes back to the . itv from
whence she came, to the bedside of the
little blind son who has known nothing
of his mother's plight, who has been
spared the pitiless curiosity of the
mob, who wilt some day give thanks
that his affliction kept him awa> from
the scene of his mother's anguish.
Eor five months, less three days,
Daisy Grace has been the center of as
brilliant a spotlight as .ver cast its
glare upon an idol of the stage. Since
that hour on the afternoon of March 5
when she stepped from th. Newnan
train into the arms of waiting police
men she has had hardly a moment of
privacy. From train to hospital, from
, hospital to police station, from hotel to
Justice court, she had a pack of curious
at her heels.
Her first hearing in the justice court
brought such a mob of men and women
to the little room that the lawyers
abandoned the proceedings until an
other hour. She planned a secret trip
to Philadelphia with her lawyer, but all
their secrecy could not throw the re
porters off her trail, and they traveled
with her in the same ear, k. pt guard
over her in her hotels, stayed by he:
side at every move In the yu.akt r City
and were with her when she returned
to be met at the station by a greater
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• it'Ud than has ever greeted a president
iipon hi? visit to this city.
Finally Gains Rest
And Solitude.
Her room In the Kimball was watched
night and day; not a visitor came or
.vent without interrogation, only when
public ini. rest was slow ly ebbing away
was Hit. permitted to hide herself In
private West End home and gain rest
in solitude.
Mrs. Grace was keeping her secret
through all her ordeal, according to the
, promise »he says she made her hus
band on that fateful day. But from the
I offices of her counsel there came forth,
| day after day, a mass of accusation
I against Eugene Grace, stories of his
| college days, his wild dissipation, his
I evil associates. There came forth let
| ters to prove that he had married the i
widow of Webster Ople before the first .
| blades of grass had sprung up on
I Ople's grave. Eater there came the
story that she had not married him at
I all; that Eugene Grace had deceived
■ her by a false ceremony In New York, I
I and that it was not until the following
Mav that a real ceremony In New Or
i leans made them legally man and wife,
i 'Th. family of Eugene Grace was not
; spared in tills arraignment of the hue- |
; band. Every fact or theory which |
I would serve to turn the tide of senti- •
I ment in favor of the wife was given to
the world. And it had its effect.
Kept '’Death Watch”
On Grace, But He Lives.
'.!<•■ t of this time the wounded man ■
was lying In St. Josephs, with physl-j
rial's at his bedside, reporters waiting;
|in the corridors. The surgeons had j
given Grace but three days of life; ;
there were announcements every now
and then that the end was approach
ing; that he could hardly live an hour.
Then ho was removed to his mother's
home at Newnan, and the reporters fol
lowed. They were keeping the "death j
watch" on Eugene Grace.
And still Eugene Grace lives. He
lived to face his wife in the court room,
as he swore he would. But he failed to
make her waver under the hypnotism
of his eyes, and could only exclaim
bitterly at the end:
"It's all a damned lie."
The public's curiosity lagged at last,
for the wife had gone into seclusion
and the repotters, tired of waiting for
the end, had abandoned their watch
at the bedside of the husband New
names, new faces, covered the front
pages of the newspapers There were
weeks when the Grace case was not
given a mention. Then the date of
the trial was tlxed for July 29, and
the announcement gave the sensational
ease new life.
And Now The Public
Gets Long Desired Rest.
The story of the trial is too fresh
in the minds of' Atlantans to be re
counted here. The throngs of men and
women clawing and struggling for a
courtroom seat, the pale woman silting
at her counsel's table and studying the
faces of the witnesses, the paralytic
husband smiling cynically from his
white-draped couch beside his counsel,
the array of evidence and the impas
sioned arguments; the charge of the
jury and the verdict which closed the
case forever -these have absorbed the
mind of all Atlanta for five days.
And now. vindicated by a jury of
her peers, the woman in the ease goes
back to Philadelphia to join the sad
faced little mother who came to stand
by her daughter in distress and to de
vote the remainder of her shattered
life to the little blind son who loves
her. The spotlight is spluttering into
dimness, the theater is darkening, the
crowds passing out into the fresh air
to discuss the plot and the players.
The tinal curtain has fallen upon the
strange tragedy of West Eleventh
street and the star has gone into re
tirement.
"LIKE FATHER. LIKE SON:”
THEY MEET IN PRISON
I'HICAGO, Aug 3—S A Wiggins.
Si and his son, S. A. Wiggins. Jr.,
net in the county jail. Each was sur
pi ised to b arn the other was charged
with passing bogus checks.
THE ATLANTA GKUKGIan and NEWS. SATURDAY. AUGUST 3. 1!»12.
Accused Policeman W ielded Influence Greater in Many
W ays Than That Held by the Official Heads of
Greatest Department in America.
NEW YORK. Aug. 3. The probers
into tile assassination of Herman Ros
enthal, the gambler-squealer, and the
workings of the “system" which decreed
his death, stqod aghast today at the
marvelous power of the police strong
arm squad by which Beckdr, a mere
lieutenant, wielded an authority great
er in many respects than properly be
longs to the chiefs of the force. Slow
ly but surely the methods of the sys
' tern are being brought to light.
! The probers have shown that Becker,
i now in jail for complicity in the plot
against Rosenthal, who had "squealed”
on the strong arm’s graft levy, could
not only collect hundreds of thousands
|of dollars of graft money every year,
but summoned murderers at his bid
-1 ding as though he had been the head
of a giant organization Instead of a
'man only two degrees removed from a
I mere patrolmap on beat.
j The investigation furnishes a start
iling answer to this situation. It shoa
that with the shifting of police given
power from the old time ward leaders
and captains the head of the "strong
, arm squad” is now the man the crook
is obliged to "see." The old famed
| power of the ward man has been trans
; forced in the Waldo administration to
ithe man who had authority to raid
I gambling houses over the heads of
; captains and Inspectors.
And the whole fearsome situation is
epitomized by Becker himself in ths
statement he made to the gambler po
lice go-between. Rose, when the latter
asked him why he did not go out for
[a big job in the department;
“I'm right where I want to be." is
Becker’s quoted reply. "After I have
a couple years more of this I'll get
any old job I want.”
Why Becker Was Powerful.
The Immediate explanation of Beck
er s might in the department was the
well meant, if somewhat benighted,
attempt of the commissioner to con
trol the gambling situation, by set
ting one man to watch another, and
It is in some such way that “the Sys
tem" will eventually vanish, if that
monster is ever to be slain at all.
By this move Commissioner Waldo
did not break up the system. He did
not even seriously embarrass it. He
simply forced it to alter its methods.
It became more centralized, and, in the
last count, the forced alteration of the
machinery expedited the collection and
distribution of tribute money.
Changes such as these, even the con
viction of one, or a dozen, or a hundrt d
men will never wipe out the system.
It is imbedded in the soil of the de
partment, and it nourishes in the shade
Grace Declares He
Holds No Animosity
XhWXA.X. GA.. Aug. 3.—Eugene
Grace expects to go away front New
nan in two or three days Now that
the trial of his wife is over, his one
thought is to regain his health, and
plans are being made to send him to a
sanitarium, where he can get special
electric treatment for his paralyzed
limbs. The place has not been decided
on, but he may go to Atlanta, to North
Carolina or to New Orleans. Sanita
riums in these cities have been consid
ered, according to Grace’s stepfather,
S. L. Hill.
"I am going to give the rest of my
life to th(‘ sick,” declared Grace as he
lay on his cot in the Hill cottage. "1
never expect to pass a paralytic again
without helping him. People don’t know
what it is to be maimed until they have
been there."
Grace expressed the desire yesterday
to be able to walk for Just 24 hour*.
Asked it' he held any animosity toward
his wife, he declared emphatically that
he did not, and that the decision of the
jury settled the matter so far as he
was concerned.
SHE REFUSED HIS TREAT.
HE SHOOTS HER EAR OFF
MONTICELLO. N Y.. Aug 3—Be
j cause she refused to eat ice eream at
■his expense. Arbin Harber last night
| shot Mis. Fred Miller. The bullet
look away her left ear.
of two sturdy trees of evil fruit—the
secrecy of police records and the
twisted notion of loyalty to "the force"
among the thousands of honest police
men who make up the great mass of
the city's protectors. Hundreds of
honest policemen who would not take
a cent of graft under any circum
stances, will not bear testimony
against a known and merciless crook
because he is a member of the force.
No one believes that any one of the
half dozen or more uniformed men in
the vicinity of the Hotel Metropole
knew anything of the murder of
Rosenthal. Yet, as District Attorney
Whitman says, the efforts of the police
to run down the assassins would not
fool a child.
Secrecy of Records Helpful.
But it is the secrecy of the records
of tlte department that is the greatest
shelter of the system. It is this that
gives comfort to those whom pub
licity would quickly destroy. It is this
that at once fosters and conceals the
alliance between the lawless in the
department and the lawless outside. It
is this that permits the system to
make and unmake law, by enforcing
or not enforcing it. and to hold in
absolute bondage the denizens of the
underworld. And it is this that makes
it possible for a lieutenant of police to
command murder at will.
The last report of the police de
partment showed twenty-five hundred
arrests for felony and only six hun
dred convictions. It is in this vast
field of nineteen hundred men arrested
and never convicted that the system
works.
Practically all of the police owe their
appointments to politicians. If the
crook is "in right,” some one whom the
policeman knows is very close to the
man who is his—the policeman's—
sponsor "approaches him." He sug
gests to the policeman that while no
body wants him to do anything crook
ed or swear falsely, yet, if his memory
should prove a little hazy on these two
points, it would be pleasing to’several
important personages. And a man is
likely to forget a lot of things in three
or four months. Possibly the police
man’s superior drops a hint to the ef
fect that discretion should ever walk
hand in hand with a good memory.
He Forgets "the Details.”
And so when the policeman takes the
stand he tells a perfectly honest story,
but in the interval his memory has
dropped one or two details that he could
not be expected to hold as essential.
And the case falls down.
Now. whether the memory of the po
liceman fails or not depends entirely on
Sheriff and His Aids
Are Praised Highly
High praise was expressed today of
the way Sheriff Mangum and his offi
cers handled the immense crowds at the
Grace trial. It was a hard job. and
was well done.
At the beginning of the trial. Judge
Roan announced to the officers what
Ids wishes were. He did not have to
repeat them. Sheriff Mangum imme
diately passed the word to his depu
ties, and the rules were laid down
firmly.
Deputy Plennie .Minor headed the
score oi officeis stationed about the
doors in. the court room and at the
jury chamber. Smilingly and pleasant
ly bi directed every movement by those
under him. He was ably assisted by
Deputies Newt Garner, Drew Ladelle.
George Broadnax. Burdette and half a
score of bailiffs.
PLANS FOR EATONTON’S
LIGHT PLANT DRAWN
I lie city of Eatonton. Ga.. has employed
the Solomon-Norcross Company. consult
ing engineers, to design a municipal elec
tric light and power plant. The engi
neers now are making necessary surveys,
estimates and plans for the plant.
.G. K. Solomon, the senior member of
the firm, is at Eatonton in charge of th
work.
FOR NERVOUSNESS
Take Horsford’s Acid Phosphate
Highly recommended for relief of In
-omma, nervous headache, nausea and
impaired digestion. •••
Shftpiro, title of its owners, at the wheel, and seated in it are “Gyp the Blood,” “Dago” Frank. “Lefty Lenie” an
“Whitey Lewis," the four gun men charged with the actual slaying of Rosenthal.
the crook’s usefulness —potential or im
mediate —to "the system.” He must not
fail in his duty to the system while he
is out on bail, and even after his case
has been dismissed, he is marked as
being under obligation. It is easy to
“get” him if he rebels—and it strikes
greater terror in the underworld to
send a man to Sing Sing for something
he did not do than for something he
did.
Previous dispatches to The Georgian
referred to a quarrel of Chick Tricker
and Zelig over the affections of "Won
der” Murphy. Zelig was preying, with
out letters of marque, on the sinister
traffic of Chinatown and the East Side,
and that he was. therefore, one too
many in a district that was framed by
Jack Sirrocco, Chick Tricker and Jim
my Kelly.
Row Starts at Coney Island.
One night not long ago Zelig and
several of his henchmen went to Coney
Island and sought diversion and re
freshment at a music hall. There one
of the singers accused a henchman of
Zelig's of robbing him on a previous
occasion, and Zelig broke a glass in his
face. The party returned to New York.
This incident has no bearing on sub
sequent events save as it fanned the
war lust in Zelig’s bosom. He ordered
the auto to drive past a saloon where
Chick Tricker rested from his labors,
and he and his friends emptied their
revolvers in at the door. This was no
very knightly feat, and Zelig was ar
rested on a charge of carrying con
cealed weapons. There is no sympathy
for a gang leader who shoots and flees
like a Chinaman. He must stand and
aim. He was arrested by two of Beck
er’s aids.
Zelig faced a term of seven years in
Sing Sing, but he was released on bail.
The other leaders whose activities he
had attempted to curtail decided that
he would be better off in the grave
than in Sing Sing. He would be much
better off in the grave than loose around
Chinatown under indictment with
Becker's aids as complainants.
So one Torti was assigned to kill
him. He did his best. He waylaid
Zelig in broad daylight in front of the
Criminal Courts building, just as he
was leaving after pleading to the in
dictment, and shot him through the
head. But the bullet went an eighth
of an inch astray and the head-hard
ened gangster was merely discommod
ed for a few days. Torti is serving ten
years.
So Zelig was loose under indictment,
and this was the situation when gun
men were needed to "bump off" Ro
senthal.
Combing Catskills
For Two Slayers
NEW YORK. Aug. 3.—A cordon of
detectives of New York is combing the
Catskills within a radius of fifty miles
of Kingston. N. V.. today in a hunt for
“Lefty Louie" and Harry Horowitz, the
gun men declared by the police to have
been associated with "Dago Frank’’
Clrocci and Frank Miller, or ’"'Whitey
Lewis." as he is better known, in the
actual killing of Herman Rosenthal.
District Attorney Whitman was ab
sent from the city today. He was re
ported to be in New England following
up a Rosenthal murder clew. In his
absence Assistant District Attorney
Morse was in charge of the investiga
tion here.
Morse declared mere was absolute
evidence against the four alleged mur
derers besides the statements of Rose.
Webber and Vallon. According to re
port. the only reason the gun men’ have
not given up is that their representa
tives have not been able to arrange
terms with the district attorney, who
has said that in no case will the ac
tual slayers be shown mercy.
The police have been unable to get
any information out of “Dago Frank,”
but they planned another try at him
and also at Whitey Lewis" today.
Deputy Commissioner Dougherty to
dtty made public the fact that his de
tectives had found the revolver with
which it is believed that "Lefty Louie"
Rosenwey aided in killing Rosenthal.
■ The weapon was found in a trunk in a
. room which had been occupied by “Les.
|ty Louie." It was turned over to Lieu
tenant James Jones, tevolver expert for
1 the department, who found evidence
that it had been recently fired.
NEGRDESDOOMED
FDR BIG STEM
RDLLERTODAY
New Party Committee, Making
Up Convention Roll, Eliminate
South’s Black Men.
(’HR'AGO. Aug. 3.—The provisional
national committee of the Progressive
party went into session at noon today
to consider delegate contests from Mis
sisippi, Georgia, Florida, Texas and
A irginia. Delegates from these states
went before the committee assembled
in*the Congress hotel shortly after
noon. The work of nearing the con
tests was taken up at once.
Elimination of the Southern political
negro from the new Progressive party
was on the slate for this afternoon in
the hearing of the contests in the
Southern states. The contestants
in most cases are negroes, and
it was unofficially stated before the
newest steam roller began its work
that the negroes would go away with
out recognition. Officially, it was said
that “regularity” was to be the test by
which the delegates would find their
way into their seats. The action of
the committee, however, has already
been forecast in the case of South Car
olina, the only state that will not be
represented in the national convention
that meets Monday. In South Caro
lina a set of negro delegates were
named without the authority of the
Roosevelt manager. They have been
repudiated by the national committee.
Big Convention Roll.
The absence of the South Carolina
delegation will not be missed in the
national convention of the new party.
I-ar from it. The national committee
has more delegates than it knows what
to do with. The really big task that
confronts it before its meeting today
was the making up of the temporary
roll call of the convention. The call
provides that here shall be 534 dele
gates. As a matter of fact, the com
mittee will have to give seats to ap
proximately 1,200 delegates—posdibly
more. The final count is not in yet.
Many states have elected double
delegations. Some have elected three
times the number provided for in the
call. Connecticut, enthusiastic over the
idea of the Bull Moose party, entitled
to seven delegates as the call was sent
out, elected 49. They will be seated,
of 'course, and will be allowed one-sev
enth of a vote each.
Then there are the alternates to dis
pose of. There are not quite as many
alternates as there are delegates, but
there are more than the call asked for.
and they, too, will be given chairs on
the convention floor.
For Party Vote Rule.
It is pretty generally believed among
the delegates and leaders so far assem
bled that the negro question in the
South will be solved by the method fre
quently suggested in Republican na
tional conventions. A rule wlil be
adopted basing the representation at
the conventions on the vote cast foi
the party. This, it is pointed out,
would effectually end negro domina
tion. because the vote of the negro in
the South is negligible.
There will be a number of negro del
egates in the convention, but they will
all be from the Northern states, where
Mr. Roosevelt has made the strongest
showing at the primaries.
Fighting Californians Arrive.
During the day delegates to the na
tional convention that is to open Mon
day at the Coliseum began to roll in.
On a special train thirty-nine delegates
from California, each with a third of a
vote, arrived. In the party was Gov
ernor Hiram Johnson. Francis J. He
ney, the fighting prosecutor, of San
F tancisco. Mayor I,issuer progressive
leader in the Johnson gubernatorial
light; Congressman William Kent, for
mer Governor George C. Pardee and
Charles Wheeler. There were three
women in the party—Mrs. Charles B.
Laney. Mrs. H. Demott and Mrs. R h.
Young.
As the Californians marched to their
| hotel they sang a parody to the old
I hymn, "I Want to Be an Angel.”
"I want to be a Bull Moose
' And with the Bull Moose stand.
With antlers on my forehead
And a big stick in my hand."
“Don’t Need To Fight Now.”
"We have just as much fighting spirit
now as we had before,” said Wheeler,
"but I guess we are not going to need
it as much at this convention as we
did before. The action of the Republi
can national convention has made Cal
ifornia solidly Progressive.”
Among the other delegations that ar
| rived during the morning were those
from Utah, Nevada, Virginia, Georgia.,
Wisconsin. Delaware, Maryland and
Rhode Island.
State headquarters were opened in
the various hotels. Bunting was dis
played and the hotels took on a con
vention appearance. The delegates and
the visitors, who numbered almost as
> many as the delegates, crowded the ho
’ tel lobbies.
Miss Jane Addams, of Hull House,
I who was named as a delegate at large
s from Illinois, today formally accepted
I the place.
Georgia Mooses
Pleased With Letter
, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt's letter
. to Julian Harris, saving that the Pro
! gressive party in the South would be
, essentially a white man's party, is the
cause of much jubilation in the ranks
of the Georgia Roosevelt leaders. The
several prominent Bull Mooses who
have not yet departed f<?r the Chi
. cago convention stated today that it
, would give the new movement a de
cided impetus all over the South,
"It is. of course, gratifying to all of
us,” said Dean E. Ryman, the chairman
of the Georgia Progressive committee,
“that Colonel Roosevelt should have
come out so boldly in this, because it
is along the exact lines that the party
has been organized in Georgia. Like
Mr. Roosevelt, we feel that the negro
should receive absolute fairness in leg.
islation, but that the leaders should
and must be white men.
“This fact will really mean that the
conscientious negro will get a better
deal than before should the Progres
sive party come in power.
"Colonel Roosevelt understands the
people of the South and he knows that
any party which smacks f the negro
as does the Republican party can not
succeed in the South.”
i-- • McClure, head of the provi-
sional national committee of the Pro
gressive party, was called to Chicago
yesterday by Senator Joseph M. Dixon.
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HEW AND FACE
Pimpies Would Weep and Form
Scabs. Hair All Fell Out. Baby Was
Crossand Would Not Sleep. Cuti
cura Soap and Ointment Cured.
•—
532 Brunswick St.. Baltimore. Md.—
Mj baby s face broke out in pimples,
which after bathing would weep and form
scabs until his head
and face were com
pletely covered with a
crast and his hair all
lei’ out. It was cross
and would not sleep.
\ Each day it spread
until his entire face
and head were covered
with weeping sores. I
v
tried several prescriptions, but did not find
any relief. Then I decided to try Cuticura
Soap and Ointment. • After using them
two or three times the sores dried up and
after a half dozen applications all dis
figurement disappeared. In less than three
weeks the sores and scales were completely
gone, and baby’s skin as smooth and clear
as when he was first born. Cuticura Soap
and Ointment cured him." (Signed) Mrs.
Lottie A’. Steinwedel, Jan. 14, 1912.
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