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2 Shifting of Old Method of Handling Gamblers From Ward Leaders to* Strong Arm Squad’ Perfected* System- HOW BECKER, LOW POLICE OFFICER, GOT HIS GREAT POWER Sw ilte Oil HHB E <> / Aop itAWfmk < bl Tj O| ag ■sgaMf ill, • y ■ *—-*■• •*»’ •A'v* .. f* - -** w 4 -- 1 '. ■*■''f WW, a '- * *jM =r'r— Jlk= ’ ■ -l-^........ ■•-”•—— 1 . - 7 ’. - : . _-* «—U U—l U— X.,- L_jj At h t't, residence of Herman Rosenthal at 104 West E'orthy-fifth street. New York, from which he was lured to , the Hotel Metropole, P’orty-third ami Broadway: at right, where he was slain; center, the murder car. with William ME i'ERGIET 0N THE THIRD BALLOT -irst Vote Showed One Juror Stood for Conviction and Two Were Undecided. Continued From Page One. I 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 The Atlanta Georgian—Premium Coupon This coupon will be accepted at our Premium Parlor, 20 East Alabama st., as partial payment ter any of the beautiful premium goods displayed there. See Premiun Parlor Announcement on Another Page I • 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. CRUST COVERED 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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