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POLICE RAID JUDGE GOBER’S OFFICE
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VOL. XL NO. 1.
SEMS EEJUND
IISIFE OF
LAWYER'S
OFFICE
Chief Lanford Leads Search
ers for Stolen Jewels With
Possessory Warrant.
DECLARE JEWELS ARE
PART OF LOOT SOUGHT
Sensational Denouement in the
Famous Diamond Mystery
That Stirred Police.
Newport Lanford, chief of de
stives, with several other officers, made
a raid on the law office of Gober, Jack
son & Smith in the Third National bank
building, this afternoon and found a
quantity of diamonds which they say
are part of the loot which was taken in
the noted "diamond trunk robbery.’
which so excited Atlanta police circles
several months ago.
Judge George F. Gober, for many
years a superior court judge in Ma
rietta and that circuit, and now an At
lanta attorney, was counsel for George
’Vrenn, one of the alleged diamond
thieves, and met his client in Birming
ham before hie arrest there.
The detectives believed, after the
Capture of the three thieves, that some
of the jewels were still missing.
Jewels Found in
Law Finn’s Safe.
Chief Lanford this afternoon swore
out a possessory warrant before Jus
tice Ridley, and with his associates vis
ited the office of Judge Gober. It was
reported that he had difficulty in en
forcing his warrant, but finally made a
search and found a number of jewels
in the safe used by the law firm.
The robbery was one of the most dar
ing ever in the annals of the Atlanta
police. A wagon bearing a trunk filled
with jewelry, owned by Solomon Gilsey,
a Cincinnati salesman, was taken away
from the negro driver through a trick,
driven to another point in the city, the
trunk carried into a boarding house,
and the gems removed. The police
found the trail a few days later, and
succeeded in arresting George Wrenn,
Carl Roddy’ and a man named Kaul, re
covering thousands of dollars worth of
the jewels. The whole loot was valued
at $20,000.
Judge Gober
Indignant at Raid.
Judge Gober this afternoon express
ed indignation at the action of the
detectives, who. he understood, were
Pinkerton men.
He declared that he had been re
tained by the Protective Jewelry Com
pany, the Jewelers’ organization, and
by Wrenn. He said that he gave the
police information as to just where
the jewels were and where they would
find the men involved. As a result
the arrests were made and the gems
recovered. The information came
from Wrenn, who was to get a lighter
sentence as a reward.
The Protective Jewelry Company, the
judge declares, had promised to pay
him S3OO for his services and this
money had never been paid. Jewelry
worth about S3OO was therefore se
creted in a safe in the office and the
law firm considered it had absolute
right to the property.
Judge flober asserted the jewels
seized today were not worth more than
S3OO or S4OO. He declared they were
taken by detectives armed with a pos
sessory warrant while he was away
fi om his office. The judge added that
he would fight the seizure to a finish
and denounced the detectives.
TWENTY-THREE INJURED
IN WRECK ON CENTRAL
MACON. GA.. Aug. s.—Twenty-three
persons were injured when a Central of
Georgia passenger train ran off the
tracks at a washout east of Monte
zuma last night.
The white passengers who were
slightly hurt are Mrs. M. C. While,
Americus; Frank White. Washington;
C. T. Joiner. Camilla; C. B Clark, Mon
tezuma; J. D. Bradley. Americus; J. H.
Carroll, Conyers, and W. R. Gooden,
Macon. Sixteen negroes were hurt.
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results
ALEXANDER
HITSCDURTS
IN FIRST
SPEECH •
Also Attacks State’s Railway
Legislation in Opening Cam
paign at Ringgold.
WRIGHT AND CANDIDATE
SPEAK HERE THURSDAY
Promises Abolition of Liquor
Traffic and Licensed Vice
and Other Reforms.
The gubernatorial canvass of Hoop
er Alexander was put into full swing
today with a speech by Mr. Alexander
denouncing the state’s railroad legis
lation; the announcement that Sea
born Wright, the famous stump orator
of Rome, and the candidate will speak
Thursday night at the Lyric theater
and the issuance of a statejnent at
tacking John M. Slaton as a reaction
ary.
In his speech at Ringgold, Catoosa
county, Mr. Alexander "called on God
to witness the covenant I make this
day with the people of Georgia;
"Mercenary crime shall not stand
unchallenged in the market place. The
pestilence shall not walk at noonday
unrebuked. The prostitution of young
girls shall not go longer unwhipped of
justice. The covenant with death shall
be disannulled and the agreement with
hell shall not stand. The rich and pow
erful- shall no longer set up their re
spectable crime as a pattern for the
vicious and the ignorant.
“The odds against me are heavy,”
added the speaker, "but 1 accept the
terms.
‘‘State Must Either
Be Wet or Dry.”
Os the liquor issue. Mr. Alexander
said:
"No further progress can be made in
any reform in Georgia until the com
mon people destroy the lawless liquor
law, whip the politicians back to de
cency and give the privileged classes to
understand that their time comes next.
The contest is one where no quarter is
possible. The state will have to be
come either wet or dry. Every judge
in Atlanta knows of lawless liquor
places within his jurisdiction. And yet
not a finger is lifted to stop them.
Neither the executive nor the judicial
departments are performing their func
tions in this respect. When I found
that the legislature would not pass the
Tippins bill over the governor's veto I
drew out the S2OO that the state pays
me Tor 50 days of service and told the
Democratic committee to put my name
down among those who would be can
didates for governor. 'I will appeal
this to the people,’ I said.
“The people of Georgia are waiting
for a leader," declared Mr. Alexander.
"With God's help, I will undertake the
task."
Sees Hope for Drys
In Party Split.
In the statement issued by' campaign
headquarters today, John M. Slaton is
so much the conservative that he could
not belong to the Democratic party in
many states. The statement declares
that the Slaton forces have made a
concerted attack upon “progressive
ness,” but that, notwithstanding, the
candidacy of Mr. Alexander will draw
so many votes from both Slaton and
oJe Hill Hall that the prohibition man
will win through the split.
Alexander’s campaign, in charge of
Charles D. McKinney, of Decatur. Is
being conducted so far from the can
didate's law offices in the Atlanta Na
tional Bank building.
McKinney announces that Alexander
himself will not do much speechmak
ing, but will confine his time to the
formation of an organization, when he
isn't busy in the legislature. Judge
W. A. Covington of Moultrie; W. W.
Lambden. of Waycross; Wright, of
Rome, and L. J. Steele are. the other
active managers of the' Alexander can
vass.
It is said that Mr. Alexander's
friends are busily engaged in raising a
campaign fund in his behalf and that
several have themselves pledged very
respectable amounts,
• Californians Need •
: Governor at Home •
• CHICAGO, Aug. s.—The Cali- •
• fornians adopted this resolution: •
• "Resolved, That we need Gov- •
• ernor Johnson on the Pacific coast •
• more than they need him in Wash- •
• ington.” •
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Storekeepers See h'lade-in-Atlanta Show at Armory
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A bevy of pretty Georgia girls on the biggest ehair in the world, on exhibition at the made-in-Atlanta show at the Auditorium.
1 he young women on the extreme right and extreme left of the picture are seated on the arms of the chair.
Visitors to Spend Three Days
“Taking in” Best Wholesale
Market in the South.
Clerks and wives are running the
country stores of Georgia today and will
draw molasses and wrap up calico for
the next three days, for the merchants
themselves have packed their grip
sacks and taken the train to Atlanta.
Some of them arrived this morning,
and others will be in tonight. The sec
ond annual convention of the Southern
Merchants association opens tomorrow
morning, and 3.000 storekeepers are
coming.
There isn’t much business on the pro.
gram for the week. The merchants
have been invited to come to town, visit
the big Made-ineAtlanta show at the
Auditorium, take in the theaters and
the baseball game, surround a barbecue
and have just as good a time as pos
sible. Their attention has been espe
cially called to the fact that the Tip
pins bill did NOT pass, and that cards
to the clubs may be had for the ask
ing.
The visitors represent almost every
town in Georgia and several in adjoin
ing states. They range from little fel
lowi from the crossroads to department
store magnets of sister cities. The
reason for bringing them here is to
prove that Atlanta offers them the best
wholesale market in their territory.
They will attend the Forsyth Ifteater
tonight, the baseball game tomorrow
afternoon, a reception at. the Piedmont
Driving club on Wednesday and a bar
becue Thursday. They will have a spe
cial night at the Made-in-Atlanta show
Wednesday and are expected to spend
ail the rest of their spare time there.
ATHENS JOINS NATIONAL BODY.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.- The Cham
ber of Commerce of Athens, Ga„ wftli
100 members, has been elected to mem.
bership in the Chamber of Commerce of
the United Stales of America. v
ATLANTA, GA.. MONDAY. AUGUST 5. 1912.
BULL MOOSE THRONG YELLS
AS NEW PARTY IS BORN
, Boy Killed by Lift as
Mother Phones to Ask
When He Will Be Home
Pupil of Vacation Bible School at
Wesley Memorial Church
Crushed to Death.
Mrs. J. Faustman. 178 Ivy street, call
ed up the superintendent of the Vaca
tion Bible school at the Wesley Memo
rial church today to ask if her boy,
Leo, wopld be home for lunch soon.
"He is dead.” said the superintendent.
A few minutes before the lad. twelve
years old. had started to descend in an
elevator in the church, working the lift
himself. Then he lost his nerve and at
tempted to leap out.
He was caught between the grating
of the car and the floor and killed out
right. His neck was broken and his
body crushed. Other lads attending the
Bible school, which was inaugurated by
the Men and Religion Forward Move
ment, found the crushed body after
hearing the boy’s last cry.
JUDGE BROYLES FINES
CITY OF ATLANTA $1;
SET A BAD EXAMPLE
The city of Atlanta fined itself $1 for
violating one of its own ordinances
t< >day.
Buster Holder was driving a trash
wagon blithely along the left-hand side
of Gordon street (east bound) when a
punctilious citizen espied him and made
a policeman arrest him then and there
with.
Buster Holder admitted in Judge
Broyles' court this morning that he
was employed by the city and was
driving a city wagon on the wrong side
of the street.
"The city sets a bad example by vio
lating its own road laws,” said Judge
Broyles. "I flue it one dollar.”
The city paid the fine.
PEOPLE KIND TO
■ HIM, SHOOTS SELF
W. T. Beasley, Treated Harshly
Elsewhere. Attempts Suicide
at Newnan.
NEWNAN, GA., Aug. s.—Because
■ kindnesses had been shown him here
i while elsewhere the world had turned
against him. as he said in two letters,
. W. T. Beasley. 50 years old, twice shot
, himself today in the Union depot here
before a crowd waiting for a train.
5 Beasley was restrained from sending
■ a third bullet into his body. At the
hospital it was said he had no chance
L to live.
Beasley had apparently planned his
suicide long ago. In a letter dated July
4 he gave details as to what should be
done with his body "if anything hap
. pened to him.”
‘ Beasley paced the smoking room of
. the station evidently in great agitation
! for several hours this morning before
he pulled the revolver from his pocket
1 and fired. The revolver was wrested
from him after the second shot. ’ln one
■ of the three letters found his daughter
and a son at Temple, Ga., were men
tioned, and lie asked that his body be
, buried in Newnan, because here alone
had any kindnesses been shown to him.
■ The letter stated that in the last two
y ears he had lost $2,500; that the world
, had turned against him. and that sui
cide was the quickest and best way
ou'
IrToo Radical to Burn
Negroes/Conservatives
Say, So They Lynch'Em
Two Mississippi Blacks Strung Up
By Mob After Killing
L White Man.
MERIDIAN. MISS., Aug. a.—Follow
ing the murder of a white man named
Tutt, two negroes were lynched at Halls
Station this morning. The leaders of
- the mob wanted to burn the blacks, but
? the conservative element prevented
1 such action.
The two negroes were taught by the
1 frenzied mob of w'hite men shortly after
’ the commission of their crime, and im
mediately preparations were begun for
1 the torture of the two victims by burn
‘ ing them at the stake. Before the oil
. and wood could be obtained, how'ever,
the cooler heads in the mob, by argu
. ment, persuaded the others to refrain.
Whereupon they immediately strung up
the two negroes to tree limbs and shot
their bodies full of holes.
TURKISH DEPUTIES
CHAMBER DISSOLVED;
WAR CAUSES UNREST
CONSTANTINOPLE. Aug. 5.-A decree
dissolving the chamber of deputies was
published here today. General elections
are expected to follow within three
months. The decree w r as issued aftei- the
chamber had adjourned sine die.
The dissolution of the chamber had
' been expected as a result of dissensions
which had broken out between factions
, of the dominant party of Young Turks.
. The entire trouble has been brought on
by the conduct of the Turkish military
operations against Italy. Just before dis
solving, the chamber passed a resolution
expressing "mistrust of the cabinet.”
HOMLI
EDITION
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE Y RE NO
Great Enthusiasm
as Col. Roosevelt’s
Convention Is
Called to Order.
Ex-Senator Beveridge
Sounds Keynote—-Wo
men Eor First Time in
Nation’s History Play
an Important Part.
CONVENTION HALL. CHI
CAGO, Aug. o.— Ihe Progres
sive party was formally launched
as a national political organiza
tion at 12:47 o’clock this after
noon. At that hour the national
convention which will nominate
Theodore Roosevelt for the presi
dency was called to order.
The delay of 47 minutes in opening
the proceedings was due to an extended
conference which the Progressive lead
ers held with Colonel Roosevelt at his
hotel. Upon their arrival proceedings
began.
Senator Joseph M. Dixon, of Mon
tana, called the convention to order
and a new political party was ushered
into being. Amid the usual delay
while clerks shouted orders to clear the
aisles, Dixon stood waiting hi e chance
to say the word that Would set the con
vention in motion. It was some min
utes before he was able to speak.
"Ladles and gentlemen,” he saJd. "the
convention will now come to order
Twenty-eight days ago in the city of
New York It was decided that there
should be a new political alignment In
these United States. They then and
there issued a call for a convention to
take up the subject and try to ac
compiiah an alignment.
New Milestone in i
Political History.
“In the past 28 days the nation ha<
seen evolution in its democracy, a new
alignment, in political parties. Now, in
four weeks the nation has seen a po
litical convention of a new party send
ing the largest number of delegates
ever seen at a political convention in
this country. It has passed the aca
demic discussion point and before the
sun sets this afternoon a new milestone
will have been erected in the political
history of this country—a new party
will have been bom that will know no
North, no South, no East, nor West,
no sectional lines of any kind."
While Dixon was speaking some one
shouted “Hurrah for Teddy!” and for
two or three minutes delegates Indulged
In a shouting bee.
Finally Dixon resumed an Introduced
O. K. Davis, who read the call for the
convention.
The reading of the call twice occa
sioned cheers—once when it was an
nounced that the new party believed in
the right of the people to rule and again
when the words were shouted: “Thou
shalt not steal.”
The reading o$ the names that were
appended to the call was also a signal
for cheers. Hiram W. Johnson, of Cal
ifornia, and Ben Lindsay were both
loudly cheered.
When the name of Dixon, of Mon
tana. was reached the delegates had
the occasion to give the provisional
chairman a small ovation.
Timothy L. Woodruff and Oscar
Straus, of New York, were cheered and
James R. Garfield's name was greeted
with a round of cheers.
Chaplain Prays for •
‘‘Another Joshua.”
Senator Dixon resumed the stand
after the call had been read.
He called on Rev. T. F. Dornblaser,
pastor of the Grace English Lutheran
church of Chicago, to pronounce the in
vocation. The delegates and visitors
rose while the prayer was offered.
In the prayer Dr. Dornblaser quoted
the prayer of King David as most ap
propriate for the occasion and uttered a
plea for divine inspiration that the del
egates might do their duty in displac
ing parties that have no higher ambi
tion than to serve self.
"Thou God of infinite resources,” he
said, “give us anotherJJoshua man
who can lead us to speedy and ultimate
victory.”
The invocation concluded with the
Lord's prayer, recited in unison.
As the prayer concluded the band
swung into “America,” and hundreds of
flags that had been draped against the
celling beams were unloosed. As they
fluttered down the crowd joined with
the band. As the song swelled out the
vast audience rose to its feet.
When the singing ceased Sefiutot
