Atlanta Georgian. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, August 05, 1912, EXTRA, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextTHE WEATHER Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia: Fair today, fair and slowly rising temperature tomorrow. VOL. XI. NO. 1. MRS. GRACE ill LEAVE ATLANTA TODAY May Never Return to "Scene of Her Greatest Sorrow.’' She Declares. DENIES SHE HAS TRIED TO SEEK RECONCILIATION “I'll Spend the Rest of My Life With My Poor Little Blind Boy.” "I am going to leave Atlanta for Philadelphia some time today with my mother, to see my blind son in Phila delphia, who is ill. I do not know when I will come back here. I may never come back to the scene of what has been the great sorrow of my life. Il iny husband sues me for divorce hen I will—l can not say what I will do. I have made no plans." That was the final statement of Mrs. Daisy Opie Grace a.s she sat in her law yers office this morning signing the papers in the Grace-Lawrence firm in junction case, which will make her free of the law’s arm and able at last to meet unfettered the little blind lad in the Northern hospital, who has never been told that his mother was even ac cused of shooting her husband. Mrs. Grace said she would have gone to Philadelphia yesterday, only she was still ill from the reaction that followed her acquittal, ana because the banks were closed, so that she could not close up her part of her husband’s company’s affairs here. She would not say how the injunction settlement had been made. Wants to Forget All About Case. "I don t warn to think of those things any more,” she said. ‘ I want to forget everything—that terrible morning, the horrible days between and the awful, heart-breaking days of the trial. I want to go hack with my mother to my son and Jive for him and with her until I die. "I am grateful to the people of At lanta for the kindness and the consid eration they have shown me. but it has been a frightful ordeal, and 1 will be glad to live the rest of my life caring tor and educating my son and ‘stand ing by' my mother, whose religious life has drawn me to her way of thinking. I mean that 1 believe, with her. that prayer had much to do with making the jury see that I was guiltless. ■'lt is untrue that I have sought to communicate with Gene Grace in New nan in the hope of bringing about a reconciliation. I have not and my law yers have not, nor any one represent ing me.” To Tell Son of Tragedy Some Time. Mrs. Grace recalled that just as she was leaving court room, less than live minutes after the verdict of ac quittal had freed her, she was met at the foot of the court house elevator by a newsboy who thrust into her hand a copy of The Georgian extra announc ing the result of the trial. "He asked me to keep it as a souve nir,” she said, "and I'm always going to. But I will never let my little blind boy hear of it until he grows up old enough to understand how his mother was falsely accused. Perhaps some day he will get back his sight, so that he can read it. Then 1 will show it to him. The next years of my life I am going to spend teaching him and try ing to find out if there is not some way to make him see again." Mrs. Grace appears wan and still very nervous. Her mother, too. though not confined to bed. is suffering from the reaction of the trial. FEAR TO DIG A GRAVE AT NIGHT: BURIAL OFF. YORK. PA.. Aug. 5. —Gravediggers who refused to work at night in the cemetery of the Valley chapel, near Hanover, caused a postponement of the burial of Cornelius Hugh, a quarry workman, who had been accidentally killed, but the funeral service was Imld beside the empty grave. At the time for burial it was found that th? hole was too short and too shallow, and when an effort was made to increase its depth rock was en countered. Night was falling, and as the diggers refused to continue their labor among surroundings so grew some, the coffin was removed temporarily to the chapel after the service. The Atlanta Georgian Read For Profit—GEORGIAN W ANT ADS—Use For Results Scab Wright to Go on Stump for Alexander; Gem Apathy in Danger Prohibition Leader Formally An nounces He Will Support Tippins Bill Champion. Seaborn Wight, of Rome, famous stump speaker, will open Hooper Alex ander's campaign for governor in At lanta this week, according to an an nouncement from the prohibition lead er's headquarters today. The entrance of Mr. Wright into the fight means undoubtedly that old Gen eral Apathy will be routed, even if Mr. Slaton isn’t. Nobody has any difficulty under f standing Seaborn Wright when he says a thing and he will likely say more than one thing when he fires the first gun for the Tippins bill champion. The Alexander headquarters, in charge of Charles D. McKenney, presi dent of the Decatur Board of Trade, is sued a statement today attacking Sla ton as a reactionary and declaring their candidate was leading a fight for pro | | gressiveness. Slaton, the statement said, was really a "stand pat Republi can." while Alexander was a progres sive Democrat. 1 HOPE OF PEACE IN CHICAGO STREET CAR SITUATION IS SLIGHT CHICAGO, Aug. s.—“lt rests with the . officials of the street car companies whether we shall have industrial peace or war in Chicago,” said W. D. Mahon, president of the Amalgamated Associa -1 tion of Street and Electric Railway ' Employees, today in reference to the 5 threatened strike of 10,000 traction em , ployees. Mahon is hopeful of peace, but insists that the companies must yield to [ the union's demand for increased wages. I A new element of danger was added to the situation today when the barn men and power house employees threat ened to strike if the other employees went out. This would completely tie up - all systems. Two conferences were scheduled for , today—one between Mahon and the , strike committee and President John M. Roach, of the Chicago Railways Com pany. and another between the union ' and President L. A. Busby, of the Chi cago City Railway Company. 'I hese meetings were to determine , whether the traction companies would agree to arbitrate the men’s wage and ’ shorter hours demands. H - COUNCIL TO HASTEN WORK OF REPAIRING PEACHTREE STREET The meeting of the council today will be devoted almost entirely to plans for street improvement. The street commit tee has prepared a report showing that , Peachtree street between Harris and I Raker streets can be widened now with no ' further delay and little expense. The work is to be done by negro convicts ami I the Improvement will affect only the Carl Witt dwelling at the corner of Peachtree I and Harris, which will lie moved back ami remodeled by Mr. Witt at a cost of . $7,500. . At the same time the council will ask , of the street committee why there has ! I been further delay in the Improvement |of Ivy street. The explanation will be . j that further conferences with the county * officials are necessary before *he work can be begun. Mayor Winn is prepared to submit the ■ ■ appointment of ten citizens at large to j act on the committee of twenty to ar- ■ I range for a street bond election. The police committee of the council has , | planned the introduction calling for an I investigation of slot machine operations I in the city. EAGLES CONVENTION | OPENS IN CLEVELAND; CITY IN GALA DRESS . . CLEVELAND, OHIO. Aug. .s.—With an illuminated arch of welcome, a hundred foot May pole, business and office build | ings bedecked with bunting and Eagle etn i blems ami the entire, city in gala attire, j the annual convention of the fraternal ! Order of Eagles was in full blast here to- I day. | Tie* grand aerie proper begins a* 8 to- I night. There will be speeches of welcome . | by Mayor Newlon I). Baker* and Governor Judson Harmon and a reception to the | grand officers will follow. TURKISH DEPUTIES CHAMBER DISSOLVED; WAR CAUSES UNREST CONSTANTINOPLE. Aug. 5. A decree I dissolving the chamber of deputies was I published here today. General elections are expected to follow within three ■ months. The decree was issued after the chamber had adjourned sine die. The dissolution of the chamber had ; been expected as a result of dissensions , wh’Ch had broken out between factions I of the dominant party of Young Turks. The entire trouble has been brought on Iby the conduct of the Turkish military ‘ operations against Italy Just before dis . solving, the chamber passed a resolution expressing "mistrust of the cabinet.” PREACHER WOULD PERMIT HOTELS TO SERVE BEER DOFGLAS, GA Aug 5 -Rev. A B. Finley, the 75 year-old preacher, who I challenged the other candidates for the j legislature from Coffee county, made his ' first speech here Saturday, in which be declared that in.- would favor permitting hotels to servi to their guests several of the well-known brands of beer ami oilier . drinks that would be more or less cheer ing He iilao declared. If elected, that he would be a candidate for speaker of the house and said that lie had strong prom ises ui suppurl for that office. ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY. AUGUST 5. 1912. |® TERROR, ISK REDOUBLED GUARDS Confessing New York Gamblers Fear They Will Be Killed on Way to Court. iSLEUTH BURNS TURNS OVER GRAFT EVIDENCE Three Cases Upon Which De tective Had Been Working Practically Complete. 1 NEW YORK. Aug. 5. -Fear of fui - ther bloodshed in the police-gambler • feud, which has grown out of the as sassination of Herman Rosenthal led today to a demand for redoubled guards ' about "Bald Jack" Rose, “Brtdgey ' Webber and Harry Vallon before they • left the Tombs to go to the court of • Coroner Feinberg to give further evi- • dence in the investigation. The trio of I prisoners professed great alarm that i they would be attacked by gun men who sympathise with Police Lieutenant ! Charles A. Becker, whom they accuse > of having ordered the murder of Rosen thal to silence the informer’s story of • police graft. • While this demapd was being made . Becker was preparing to go before Judge Mnlqueen in general sessions i court to plead to a charge of murder. It was expected that two and per haps three indictments would be re , turned against Becker in the New York 1 county grand jury, one of them charg- I ing extortion. District Attorney Whitman, who is personally handling the case of the : Rosenthal murder, arrived from Man- I Chester. Vt„. this morning. Burns Completes Graft Cases. I William J. Burns today turned over . to District Attorney Whitman three . practically complete graft cases upon : which the detective had been working I for three months. The evidence pro ’ dueed by Burns and which went to Dis- I trict Attorney Whitman immediately | upon his arrival is asserted to insure , the arrests of a number of men mtten . higher in official position than Lieuten t ant Charles Becker. Detectives and numerous local ofli- • cers were sent by Deputy Commis ’ sioner Dougherty through the Catskill mountains trying to run down "Lefty" . Louis and "Gyp the Blood,” the two gun men who are wanted in connection with the murder. ! Rose, the gambler, who was the hist 1 man arrested after the investigation started, charges that he was “double crossed” by Becker. The district at , torney's office is said to be in posses . sion of a confession from Rose, in which he alleges that Becker advised him to give himself up to the police, it i the same time intimating that a fund would be raised in his behalf and he I would soon be freed by brilliant crinii ; nai lawyers who would he retained in his interest. Becker Advised Rose to Surrender. “It was upon the night befo-.- I was . arrested that Becker advised me to 1 give myself up." Rose is alleged to have said. "The two men who owned the automobile—Shapiro and Libby— , were prisoners. 1 was In hiding at the • | home of my friend. Harry Pollock, the ■ sporting promoter. Becker telephoned to me during the night. He told me I must go down to headquarters and (give an explanation I protested and told Becker that I was sick and wor _ | ried over the affair and did not feel able to stand the grilling that I knew the police would administer. Becker t assured me there would not be any ’ thing to it. Beckei further called my 1 attention to the fact that Shapiro and ’ Libby had told the police that I hired their car on the night Rosenthal was I shot. He said: 'Now, there is nothing i to it but coming down and explaining 1 that away.' L was still leery. I told Becker I was afraid to go to headquar ' ters, because 1 had a bunch if I did that I would not get away Becker assured , me positively that it was all fixed, lie said I would not be detained." "NO BURNS MAN FOR ME.” SAYS JORDAN MASSEE I MAi'ON. GA Aug W .1 Mas ,l see. the Macon capitalist, principal In ; i the Tenn, -sei -Smith Carolina exlradi- • | tion t .isi- that has attracted so mm h , jattention in the past few days. em phatically denies a report sent out from Macon, to the effect that the has em ployed Detective William J. Burns to ascertain who is financing the prose cution against him. He declares lite report is unfounded and untrue. WIFE OF GANGSTER IN NEW YORK SLAYING J —— G'- ■ ' f jSwAA *w... — j v jsvA * - »» X * z c, ♦ 9^-It j V s -- : J » A "■* M ’ w ■ 5> / - ' i ' c —— All's. " Bridgey Webber, wife of one of the mep under arrest who has eonfessed to complicity in the slaying .of Herman Kosenthal, the New York gambling king. His confession, which involved Police Lieutenant Becker netted him a promise of immunity from prosecution. ATLANTA GIRL IN RECORD WOOING Miss l.'ilie Simmons (that was), pret ty and seventeen, of 10 Williams street, is Mrs. .1, F. Mayer today, after a light ning courtship and elopement, just be cause New Orleans’ eloquem e in affairs of the heart "has something on" At- I lanta’s. Miss Simmons—beg pardon. Mis. Mayer—says so. and she ought to know a little about it She had kept her heart intact, despite the pleadings of more than a handful of young Atlan tans, when the New Orleans wooer came along and— This is what the brides aid today: “Out marriage was quite hurried, really. Mr. Mayer just aeked me in such away Saturday that 1 simply could not refuse him. He insisted when I ac cepted him that we lie married at once, and in less than an hour it was all over—oh, no not the romance, for I made him promise that that would con tinue indefinitely. It was so exciting, but not the least bit embarrassing." Proposes in Ten Minutes. I There was not a word of parental I consultation; not a moment of prepara tion Mr. Mayer simply called on .Miss Simmon- late Saturday, made a final proposal ten minutes later, and with liter consent to marry him. hurried her tiff fm the ceremony Fifty minutes l kite), they returned to Mrs Mayer's | home and confided to lite mother. Mrs. ' M M. McGary, that they were married. ' The quick elofiem. nl resulted from 4 visit Mrs, Mayer paid relatives in Au- 23 INJURED IN GENTRJLW MACtiN. GA , Aug. 5. —Twenty-three ’ persons were injured w hen a Central of Georgia pass, ttgei train ran off the track-, at a washout east of Monte zuma last’ night. The white passengers, who were • -lightly hurt, are Mrs, M. C White, Americus: Frank White. Washington. . c T Joiner, Camilla. C. B, Clark. Mon tezuma. J. |i Bradley Americus: J II Carroll, Conyers, and W R. Gooden, Macon. Sixteen negroes were hurt. ATHENS JOINS NATIONAL BODY, i WASHINGTON. Aug. a.—The Ch im- I b.-r of Commerce of Athens. Ga.. with liio members, has been elected to mem. bership in the Chamber of Commerce of ; the Criited States of America I gtista recently, when she was Miss Sim- • mon-. She met Mi. Mayer there less than two we< ks ago-. For several days she was with him almost constantly; I tiu n she came to Atlanta. Mr. Mayer followed, stopping at the Dakota hotel. ’ From there he paid daily trips to the I Williams street lioiu- of the young girl i The mariiage wa- an entire surprise to the girl's mother. Tin young people for Mr. Mayer is ( little het senior will remain in At lanta until tomorrow night, when they expect to mak' a trip to Mi. Mayer's i home in New Orleans, and later go to Savanna*- GHCIIOWD,HWNG ■EK, FfIANTIC MEN. GREET I. fl. IK CHICAGO "Great Day for Great Deeds,” Colonel Shouts to Multitude, Amid Crashing Bands and Yells, on His Second Arrival in Convention Citv. CHICAGO. August s.—The demonstration of enthusiasm that marked the arrival of Theodore Roosevelt today was one of the great est ever seen here. I his is bully, cried the colonel as he was greeted by cheering thousands at the LaSalle street station. As he stepped from the twentieth ( entury Limited he was met by a formal reception eom i inittee ol one hundred file former president was accompanied by j his wife and his secretary. After the greeting by the reception committee the colonel was escorted to an automobile waiting in Van Buren street in front of the station for his trip to the hotel. The route, the same over which the colonel was taken when he came here for the Republican con vention. was lined with police an hour before his train was due. He arrival at o clock, exactly on time. The station was .jammed with enthusiasts and the reception com mittee in high hats and long black coats was forced to fight its way through to the station entrance. In the reception committee were Chapncey Depew, Roosevelt leader in Illinois during the former battle; Gov ernor Hiram Johnson of California, prominently mentioned as the colonel’s running mate; James Rudolph Garfield, former member of the Roosevelt tennis cabinet; Ralph C. Otis, chairman of the arrangentent committee that stages the convention where Roosevelt is to be named for president; I,avei ne W. Noyes. Oscar Hundley. United States Senator Poindexter of Washington. Me dill McCormick and William Effingham. Crowd of Suffragettes Greet the Colonel. A crowd of suffragettes, headed by Miss Katherine Dreyer, of New York, and Mrs. Isabella Blaney, of California, with a contingent from the Hull House here, was at the station to meet the colonel. They cheered in a piercing feminine shrill voice and waved yellow banners enthusiastically as the colonel forced his way toward the station en trance. The bands outside played two differ ent tunes at the same time. But the crowd didn't mind. It yelled and cheer ed and shouted, and the bands were hardly audible. “Great day, great deed!" shouted the colonel as Timothy Woodruff, of New York, stepped up and shook hands. Thl colonel was smiling, and so was Wood ruff. They held a brief whispered con versation as the crowd yelled. Woodruff and other members of the reception committee tried to clamber aboard Roosevelt’s car after the train stopped, but they were unceremoniously hustled off and away cleared for the colonel and his wife. "Speech! Speech!” yelled the crowd in the station, and the suffragettes, led by Miss Dreyer and Mrs. Mary Will marth, an Illinois suffragette leader, waved red handkerchiefs, to which the colonel responded by waving his hat and shouting. “I’m with you!” “Speech! Speech!” yelled the crowd, and then came in a growing and deaf ening cheer the old refrain of the Re publican convention. “We want Teddy, we want Teddy." ’Great Day For Great Deeds.” 1 am glad to be with you again," cried Roosevelt. "A great day for great deeds." The dense crowd in the station made very difficult the task of piloting the party to automobiles. Mrs Roosevelt was taken in charge by a committee of the women as soon as she appeared on the platform. The wife of the ex-president wore a large hat with just a dash of color in it. Colo nel Roosevelt was attired in his regu lar frock coat and silk hat. Colonel Roosevelt was surrounded by the mob for a few minutes before he could extricate himself, and then, with the assistance of Timothy Woodruff, Wallace Thayer of Buffalo, and Vir gil R. Kellogg and B. Dorr of Buffalo, he entered the motor ear for the jour ney to the Congress hotel. ’ Before leaving the station Mr. Roose velt tried to shake hands with the en gineer of thd Twentieth Century Lim ited. but was prevented by the crowd ing of spectators. “1 want to be a Bull Moose and with the Bull Moose stand," some man wttli a heavy bass began the refrain, and the crowd took it up with a whoop. The street for a block was packed with shouting men and women. A detail of mounted police, had its work cut out to clear a route for the ears which were headed by that of the colonel. .Miss Dreyer and the suffrage dolega. IXIfo 2 cENTS EVERYWHERE :* Y RE N 0 - • tion occupied several cars, waving flags and screaming their approval of ! the hat-waving Bull Moose in the car • ahead. The hand was loaded into an other car and away went the procession down Jackson boulevard to the Con- ’ gress, .band playing, crowd singing and 1 shouting, women waving their hats by the ribbons and feathers. • Chauncey Hamlin, of Buffalo, kept ’ the enthusiasm of several hundred New • York boosters at fever pitch. Colonel Roosevelt made his first ‘ speech standing on the rear seat of his ? automobile. He said: "My friends, it is a great pleasure for ■ me to be in Chicago again, and this s time at the birth of a new party and not at the death of an old party. "And, friends, let our opposition make no mistake in the fight about to be made—a fight that will be by the people for themselves and tor their r own interests. Before November comes ' the ticket nominated at Chicago six ■ weeks ago will no longer be a factor in the contest. The common people will not stand for the theft and fraud per- ’ petrated by the old party here in Chi [ Cag ,‘’' “The day of the boss and the people who are owned by the bosses' crooked financiers has passed forever. The , channels of information have been choked to prevent the people from find-' ing out the facts, but the people will find out what really are the facts and will decide accordingly.” More than 2,000 > Delegates on Hand. More than 2.000 delegates to the first national convention of the Progressive party thronged the hotel lobbies today . waiting eagerly for the opening of the 1 convention at the Coliseum at noon. In the meantime the managers of the convention put in a busy morning. The provisional national committee of the new party met at the Congress hotel to take up a compromise proposed In set tlement of the Southern delegate con tests. The compromise suggested was ' that the negroes from the South be given seats, but denied votes. Many of the negroes have already left Chicago, satisfied that they would not be seated ’ as regular delegates. -The compromise was suggested as an eleventh hour scheme to prevent negro opposition in the Southern states. Final preparations for the conven tion itself went ahead rapidly during the morning. Colonel Chauncey Dewey, sergeant-at-arms for the newest na tional gathering, and the second held in Chicago within two months, was busy superintending the final disposi tion of his assistants, who will act both as "police" and ushers during the gath ering. The police arrangements were not so elaborate as those at the Repub lican national convention. William Flinn, who was popularly credited with hawing been the cause of the elaborate precautions at the former convention, was a welcome member of the present gathering. Only enough bluecoats to help handle the monster crowd expected were sent to the Coliseum. The program for today consisted of setting the convention machinery in motion. Temporary organization, nam ing of committees and the sounding of , the keynote speech were the matters that came before the delegates. Beveridge To Be Temporary Chairman. According to the plans Medill Mc- Cormick was to handle the gavel that ushered the new party into formal ex istence. Then the gavel was to go to Senator Joseph M. Dixon. Roosevelt campaign manager, who steered the colonel’s forces through the Republi can convention and has been his prin cipal lieutenant in the formation of Hit new party. To Dixon fell the duty o presenting former Senator Albert J Beveridge, of Indiana, temporary chair man of the convention Beveridge, wh<