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VOL. XI. NO. 4.
BROTHEL HUK
BYJOHND.’S
SONTOTRAP
GRAFTERS
House Secretly Conducted Nets
Evidence Against New York
Police “System.”
SLEUTH BURNS OPERATES
3 RESORTS FOR EVIDENCE
Prosecutor Now Bending Ef
forts to Substantiate Rosen
thal Case Confessions.
NEW YORK, Aug,,B.—lt was learned
today that John D. Rockefeller, Jr., with
the assistance of Janies B. Reynolds,
assistant district attorney, for the past
year has been operating a pretended
disorderly house in the heart of the
white light district for the purpose of
securing evidence against police offi
cials, politicians, and the procurers of
young girls. Men who were dictating
its management never appeared at the
house, which is located in the West
Forties. The orders were carried out
by a manageress and her assistants.
One of the men associated with
Rockefeller is said to be Clifford E. Roe,
of Chicago, who aided in the white
slave investigation two years ago.-Later
Roe went to Chicago and assisted Fed
eral District Attorney Sims in a cam
paign against white slave traffic there.
Three Resorts
Conducted by Burns.
"I have collected evidence which will
assist District Attorney Whitman in
obtaining many indictments.”
This statement was made today by
Detective W. J. Burns, who has been
investigating police graft in thie city.
Switching from his denial of yesterday.
Burns admitted today that he had run
two disorderly houses and one gam
bling establishment in this city in order
to trap grafters.
"It is a fact,” said Burns, “that I
operated two disorderly houses and a
gambling place in older to get evi
dence. Likewise. I had detectives pos
ing as waiters in a Broadway hotel
who stood near police officers and
overheard what they said concerning
certain deals. Not only this, but T also
had a telegraphone installed in a room
where politicians played poker and we
have all of their conversation. I have
a great deal of other evidence also.”
A sensation was caused by a report
that Mr. Rockefeller has turned over
to the district attorney’s office testi
mony showing that a police Inspector
and a civilian confederate of the lead
ers of the “police system” collected
tribute.
Other evidence of police blackmail
was obtained, it is alleged.
District Attorney Whitman will make
a Herculean effort to uproot the po
lice system and drive graft out of the
police force.
First, however, he will not press this
campaign until after he has completed
the Rosenthal case.
Proving Details of
Rose’s Confession.
When the grand jury went into ses
sion today it was with the intention of
devoting its entire attention to wit
nesses whose testimony was expected
to establish the relations alleged to ex
ist between Police Lieutenant Charles
A. Becker and “Bald Jack” Rose prior
to the murder of Herman Rosenthal,
the gambler, with whose death Becker
is charged.
It was the plan of District Attorney
Whitman to begin today to establish
the truth of charges made in Rose’s
expose of the alliance existing between
certain members of the police and the
under world, by which police officials
and politicians grew rich through graft.
Detectives from the district, attor
ney’s office had served summons on a
number of persons mentioned by Rose
in his statement, and they were in
structed to appear before the grand
jury.
With Mr. Whitman practically direct,
ing the situation, aided by two assist
ants and a corps of detectives, evidence
is piling up rapidly.
Sullivan Now
Called a Slayer.
The district attorney is said to have
found a reliable w itness who is willing
to testify that Jacob A. Reich, better
known as Jack Sullivan, the friend of
Lieutenant Becker, the mtn who rode
uptown with him on the morning of
the Rosenthal murder, tied with the as
sassins in Libby and Shapiro’s gray
automobile. The district attorney ex
pects the grand jury to indict Sullivan
for murder in the first degree upon ,he
strength of testimony which this wit
ness will give.
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN W ANT ADS—Use For Result}
Grand Jury's Expense
Bill—Drinks, Etc,
$421--Will Be Probed
Sleuth in Locker Club Inquiry
Said to Have Incurred Items
Getting Evidence.
The bill of expenses for the March
term 6f the Grand jury, which included
$421.95 for drinks, cigars and other
things bought in investigating locker
clubs in Atlanta, may be refused pay
ment by the county commissioners.
The bill, totaling $539.10, was before
them today for an order that it be
paid, but was sent to the finance com
mittee for investigation.
The bill, made by the J. K. Glenn,
grand jury, was formally recommended
by Foreman Glenn and Judge Pendle
ton. of superior court.
The $421.95 for locker club investiga
tions was for the expenses and salary
of a detective for 43 days. Among the
incidentals mentioned were cigars,
drinks, theater tickets and carfare, said
to have been used to obtain convicting
Information against some of the club
operators.
MOTOR BOAT MAKES
TRANS ATLANTIC TRIP:
‘ VOYAGE TOOK 24 DAYS
QUEENSTOWN, Aug. 8. —Having
weathered a succession of terrific gales
and breasted high scms, the 35-foot
motor boat Detroit, Captain Thomas
Fleming Day. of New York, has ar
rived here safely from New Rochelle,
N. Y. The journey occupied nearly 24
days, and constituted the second leg of
the contemplated trip from Detroit,
Mich., to St. Petersburg.
Great crowds, including officials, wel.
corned the boat. Captain Day said he
had proved the feasibility of a motor
boat race across the Atlantic. The
crew stood the trip well, though
cramped space resulted in stiff limbs.
The Detroit arrived with 200 gallons
of gasoline left from 1,200 aboard when
she started. The fluid caught fire in
the engine room once and was extin
guished with difficulty. The fresh wa
ter turned foul and thirst was one of
the crew’s trials.
The Detroit will remain here for a
few days.
BARBECUE, “ALL FREE,”
SPELLS SURE DEATH
FOR BILLS IN SENATE
State senators are today bemoaning
the fact that the barbecue to be ten
dered the legislature by the founders
of the new county of Bleckley, in Coch
ran. on Saturday, means certain death
for a slew of senate bills now before
the house.
The house has granted leave of ab
sence to all members desiring to at
tend the barbecue. And as everything,
even the train trip to Cochran, is free,
the no quorum sign will go up on Sat
urday morning.
What the senate Will do with the bar
becue invitation is a matter of conjec
ture, but certain members of the upper
house are willing to attend. Members
of the house with pet bills now before
the senate also will be putting up the
same wail as soon as the facts are
known.
JOE HILL HALL PLANS
HUNDRED SPEECHES IN
WEEK ON AUTO TOUR
MACON. GA., Aug. B.—Representa
tive Joe Hill Hall, Bibb county candi
date for governor, has arranged for an
automobile speaking tour through fif
teen counties next week, when he in
tends to make 100 speeches. He will
leave Macon Monday morning and mo
tor through the counties of Bibb,
Jones, Jasper, Putnam, Baldwin, Han
cock, Jefferson, Washington, Emanuel,
Toombs. Jeff Davis, Pulaski. Wilkin
son. Dooly and Houston, speaking
wherever he can obtain an audience.
Mr. Hall has signified his willingness
to meet Hooper Alexander on the stump
and it is possible that they will have a
verbal combat in Macon a few days be
fore the primary.
DRIP FROM ICE BOX
OF OWLS CLUB SOILS
COUNTY’S RECORDS
\\ hen M. L. I hrower, who owns the
building being used as a county court
house, applies to the county commis
sioners for last month’s rent the bill
will not be paid.
The commissioners decided today to
hold up the $490 due him for July until
he has fixed a small leak in the office
of the county surveyor.
The decision was made following
complaint of Surveyor Roberts that an
ice box in the Owls club above him
leaks water on valuable papers in his
office. The repairs will cost about $lO.
W. GOULD BROKAW'S WIFE
SUES HIM FOR DIVORCE
HAMPSTEAD, N. Y„ Aug. B.—Mary
Blair Brokaw, wife of W. Gould Bro
kaw, the New York millionaire, from
whom she is legally separated, filed
suit for divorce here today on statu
tory grounds. She named three co
respondents and mentioned other un
named.
She charges Estelle Pern, Madame
Susan Petty and Mabel Weeks of un
due intimacy with Brokaw.
T.R.TOWAGE
HOT BATTLE
FOR VOTES
IN DIXIE
Plans Early Whirlwind Cam-
' paign to Break the “Solid
South.”
JOHNSON. RUNNING MATE,
TO TAKE STUMP IN EAST
Strenuous One Also Will Take
Care of the West—Big
Fight Is On.
CHICAGO, Aug. 8. —Theodore Roose,
velt will invade the South and West.
Hiram W. Johnson will swing through
the East. Every state in the Union is
to be visited, some of them by both
candidates.
This Is the tentative plan of cam
paign of the Progressive party as out
lined today by the candidates them
selves, the national committee and the
leaders of the movement in a series of
conferences that began when the first
national convention closed last night
and that were continued throughout
this morning.
The convention adjourned last night
after naming Roosevelt and Johnson,
governor of California, to head the
ticket, and adopting the most radical
platform ever approved by a national
political convention.
The campaign is to start at once. The
work of organization will begin as soon
as the work can be undertaken. Offices
will be opened in New York and Chi
cago for the general direction of af
fairs, and other headquarters will be
established where they may seem most
needed.
Headquarters for
South To Be Opened.
At the very outset it is expected that
such haedquarters will be established
in one of the cities of the Southern
states. For the first time in years an
actual contest over the presidential
election is to be waged below the Ma
son and Dixon line, and a hot and
strenuous campaign begun to break the
“Solid South.”
Plans as now outlined will catapult
the colonel himself into the Southern
territory at the very outset of the cam.
paign. It was determined on for two
reasons —first, because the Progressive
leaders believe there is a chance to get
a part of the Southern electoral vote,
and, second, because they believe that
dirctlng a fight into the very heart of
the Democratic stronghold will start
affairs with a rush that will give them
an advantage throughout the campaign,
putting the Wilson follow’ers more or
less on the defensive.
All this was discussed today by Colo
nel Roosevelt, Governor Johnson, Jo
seph M. Dixon, head of the new Pro
gressive national commimttee that
came into being yesterday, and the
other men who will conduct the fight of
the Progressive party.
Campaign Needs of
Sections Discussed
Meetings of delegates and leaders of
the various sections of the country—
the South, the West, the East and the
I New England states —were held today
before the national committee resumed
its sesslsons at 11 o’clock. The section
al meetings were to determine the
needs of the party there in the way of
a campaign and to make a recommen
dation to the committee. The final
plans for the campaign will be based
largely on these reports.
The first meeting of the committee
was held last night with both Roose
velt and Johnson present. Senator
Dixon was elected chairman. ex-Gov
emor Franklin Fort, of New Jersey,
was named vice chairman, and Oscar
K. Davis, of New York, secretary.
It was before the committee in the
Florentine room of the Congress hotel
shortly after midnight this morning
that the first campaign speeches were
delivered by the new candidates. The
colonel’s remarks were very brief.
“We do not promise more than tte
can give,” he said. “We promise to
give every man and woman a chance
to live their lives and get the best of
such a life.”
Johnson spoke very briefly also. He
said he had read carefully the address
lof Woodrow Wilson in accepting the
1 Democratic nomination and found it
lacking in the annunciation of human
principles.
“There is nothing to be feared from
either Taft or Wilson," he said.
•Johnson and Roosevelt went from
Continued on Page Two.
ATLANTA. GA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1912.
HLEXANOEfI
HIIS CLUBS
ASRUIHOF
GIRLS
Declares Children of Fifteen
Are Being Made Intoxicated.
Raps Rich Men.
JUDGES BELONGING TO
CLUBS ARE CALLED UNFIT
Dry Candidate Attacks Slaton
as “Still Hunter” and Hall as
“Too Economic.”
Reiterating the doctrines given ut
terance in his Ringgold speech, but
dealing baldly with the prohibition is
sue as the "one subject that over
shadows them all.” Hooper Alexander,
gubernatorial aspirant, today an
nounced the platform upon which he
proposes to wage his fourteen days
campaign for the highest office in
Georgia.
Alexander handled the prohibition
issue with no gloved hands, declaring
that the question was no longer for or
against prohibition, but for or against
anarchy. Anarchism in its most hid
eous form, he asserted, stalked in the
cities of Georgia, and the challenge Is
before the people whether the cities
shall defy the law’ of the state.
The Tippins bill, he declared, was not
a prohibition bill, but an effort to aid
the governor and the courts in the en
forcement of the law.
Judges Attacked in
Defense of Tippins Bill.
In his defense of the Tippins bill and
its explanation Atlanta locker clubs arc
attacked and supreme and superior
court judges, who are members of such
clubs, are pronounced unfit to sit in
judgment on cases involving violations
of the prohibition law. Along this line
Mr. Alexander says:
“They can not disguise that issue.
The rich clubs are violating the law.
They refuse to obey it. They are will
ing, and many of them say so, to indict
and prosecute the common criminals
who follow their example and take
shelter under it. But they demand and
enjoy immunity for themselves, and it
Is utterly hopeless to expect the law to
be enforced against the common crimi
nals, when the judges are members of
lawless associations, some of them ac
tually buying liquor at pleasure from
these law defying concerns.
"Where the judges belong to a club
they have clearly disqualified them
selves to pass judgment, and anarchy
is in the community because the in
strumentalities for vindicating the law
are paralyzed.
"Under the shelter of these clubs that
call themselves respectable there have
been formed dozens of purely lawless
liquor selling speculating associations,
in which debauchery has proceeded to
such a stage that women—even young
girls of fourteen or fifteen years of age
—habitually frequent some of them,
and hardened gamblers traveling here
have turned away in disgust from the
sight of young girls drunk."
That the standpatters in Georgia pol
itics fear his candidacy more than they
are willing to admit, Mr. Alexander as
serts in his closing paragraphs.
"You don’t see their newspapers at
tacking Joe Hall,” he says. "Why 9
They are not afraid of him. He is an
honest man and has been a valuable
man-in the legislature and would make
a good governor if he wasn’t so an
tagonistic to economic progress.”
As a reiteration of utterances made
at Ringgold, John M. Slaton is attacked
for what is termed his "still-hunt”
methods and the vast expenditures of
money in favor of his candidacy.
Urges Extension of
W. & A. to the Sea.
In dealing with general state issues,
Mr. Alexander advocates the following:
The extension of the Western
and Atlantic railroad to the sea as
the solution of the high freight rate
problem now engrossing the people
of Georgia.
The publication of all campaign
expenditures and the prohibition
of the expenditure of more than
$2,500 by a gubernatorial candidate
in a single campaign.
The repeal of all laws granting
the condemnation of water power
sites to private capital and the de
velopment of water powers by the
state.
A permanent registration law.
Frohibition of the publication of
paid matter of a political nature in
any newspaper unless plainly
marked as paid for and by whom.
The scaling of appropriation of
public money.
The passage of a tax levy law as
' a remedy for the present financial
situation. Such a law would re
quire the legislature to vote the tax
when voting the appropriation.
$1,000,000 Building Will Chase Rats
HEALY IS READY TO BUILD
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William T. Healy. Atlanta millionaire, snapped by the cam
era man as lie was superintending work at the enormous hole
which is soon to be replaced by a giant skyscraper if he car
ries out, his plans. Mr. Healy wouldn’t pose, and this is believed
to he the first time a picture of the man known to virtually every
Atlantan, by sight or reputation, has appeared in print.
Will Erect Monumental Build
ing With Own Cash—Tells
Some Graphic Rat Stories.
William T. Healy. Atlanta multi
millionaire. told a Georgian reporter
today that he was ready to begin work
on a giant skyscraper on his lot bound
ed by Forsyth, Poplar, Broad and Wal
ton streets. It is to be the largest of
fice building in Atlanta, covering an
entire block, sixteen stories high and
costing more than $1,000.(100 when
finally completed.
But its size and cost will not be its
most individual features. The reasons
it is to be built and the methods of its
construction will always mark it as
distinct from other structures when It
is surrounded by loftier buildings.
Mr. Healy, who through the years
has diligently saved the income from
his vast properties until it has reached
a great sum, is tired—not literally, of
course—of his money. The gold ac
quired through economy and self-denial
has failed to satisfy. He is going to
spend it for a monumental building.
And it is said that he will finance the
building of this great structure with
out borrowing a penny—a feat which
has hardly been equaled before in this
country.
Began With One Mule.
The methods of construction are en
tirely original—Mr. Healy's own. He
began excavations for the foundations
three years ago with one negro and a
mule. As the hole grew deeper people
began to ask what it was for. But Mr.
Healy kept his counsel and the curious
wondered more and more from day to
day.
The original hole, on the Forsyth
street, side of the lot, was made deep
and round and narrow at first. It looked
like a giant well. But the negro and
the mule kept at work for many days
until the hole finally took the shape of
an execavation for a building. Then
Mr. Healy announced that ho was go
ing to erect an office building, some
day.
Then he quickened his pace. More
negroes and more mules were put to
work. Excavations for half of the
block have been completed. Archi
tects Morgan & Dillon have finished
the plans.
He Sees the Fine Points.
Mr. Healy has outlined his ideas. He
will begin work on one-half of the
building at once. When the leases on
the Broad street side buildings have
expired he will tear them down and
build another half of the skyscraper.
The upper floors will he for offices and
store rooms will front on all four
streets.
Mr. Healy has personally supervised
the tearing down of all the old build
ings and tin- excavations. Every day
he can be found watching the work
with a keen eye. His methods are odd
and original: but he sees tine points
that many another would miss.
A negro laborer was pitching down
loose bricks from one of the low build-
ings which is being demolished. An
other negro stood on the ground and
stacked them up.
“Be careful, Williford," shouted Mr.
Healy. “Don’t hit those brick against
one another. You’ll break them.”
And Williford was more careful.
A Tale of a Rat Battle.
The hole is large and empty, except
for plies of brick bats and old cobble
stones In the quiet hours of the day
tremendous rats can be seen to steal
out to find food where the mules have
been fed. Several days ago a number
of them were noticed divided into two;
droves. Opposing leaders were in the
vanguard. Suddenly the leaders
clashed in battle while the others stood
by. One was victorious. He took pos
session of the food with his band while
the vanquished leader with his band
withdrew.
Mr. Healy told a group this story the
other day. He said it was true, because
his foreman had told him, and the fore
man was a truthful man.
“A number of rats were eating where
the horses had fed," he related. "The
foreman looked, up and saw a sparrow
hawk on the weather vane of the city
hall. Suddenly the foreman saw the
hawk shoot, toward the rats like an
arrow. He came from his perch, a
block and a half away, as straight as
a shot, and grabbed a rat from the
ground without an instant’s pause.
“The hawk flew up for a height of
about 30 feet, but stopped suddenly in
the air and screamed. The rat W’as
dropped. It had bitten Its freedom
from the hawk —had vanquished the
mighty bird.
“The rat fell heavily to the ground
and rolled over. Then it crawled slow
ly away. The foreman was merciful,
after witnessing such a game fight, and
he let it escape,”
But this playground for rats will
soon be no more. Mr. Healy said prac
tically all the details for beginning
work on the new building were com
plete. It will not be long before the
old buildings on Broad street will be
torn down. Then one of the most mag
nificent developments in Atlanta will
be a reality.
And it is safe to say that Mr. Healy
will be present every day to watch with
his keen eye the progress of the work.
He is worth millions and could spend
his time in Europe or touring unknown
seas in a private yacht. But his de
sires are different and he lives deter
minedly his own way.
big navigatTonliam
BUILT BY U. S. GIVES
WAY: LOSS IS $300,000
GALLIPOLIS. OHIO, Aug. B.—Dam
age estimated at $300,000 was done
when Ohio river dam No. 26. near here,
gave way today. The structure, which
cost more than a million dollars, had
just been completed by the Federal
government. It was one of the numr
ous dams being constructed to aid nav
igation between Pittsburg and Cairo
The concrete in the foundation
washed away and with it came tumb
ling down a great part of the structure
At least one year will be required to
rebuild the dam.
I'HOME.I
IPITION
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE XV °
DORSEUT
DAYBREAK,
HEARD
GRACE
He Did Not Refute
Statement of Time of Trag
edy for Ethical Reasons.
WOUNDED HUSBAND IS IN
ATLANTA FOR OPERATION
Demands Remove Bullet From
Spine—Paralyzed Limbs Are
Showing Returning Life.
An amazing aftermath of the Grace
case came today when Solicitor Gen
eral Hugh M. Dorsey, who led the pros
ecution of Mrs. Daisy E. Grace, de
clared that while lying abed In his
apartments across the street from the
Grace home at No. 29 West Eleventh
street he heard a shot fired—the shot,
very probably, which wounded Eugene
Grace—and that ft wu.s fired between
5 and 6 o’clock In the morning.
Daisy Grace and the defense declared
that Grace was not shot until after 11
o’clock on the morning of March 5.
Upon this plea the whole defense was
built.
Solicitor Dorsey declares he would
have gone upon the witness stand to
give this vital evidence which might
have changed the whole trend of the
trial but eminent lawyers and judges
advised him that since he was prose
cuting Mrs. Grace such a dramatic
coup, though perfectly legal, would
have been unwise.
Hears Crack of
PLtol Distinctly.
At the time that Grace was shot
a his bed room on the morning of
March 5 Mr. and Mrs. Dorsey were in
bed in their rooms on the second floor
of the Goldsmith apartment house,
across the street.
"I had gone to bed at the tfsual hour
on the night of March 4.” said the so
licitor, "but I tossed restlessly all night
and I was still lying in bed w’ide awako
just as the sky began to lighten and
the first gray streaks of daybreak came
through the half-opened -window of our
apartment. My wife was sleeping
soundly.
"Suddenly I heard the crack of a pis
tol shot and from where I lay 1 could
tell that it came from the direction of
the Grace house across the street.
When Kiser had lived there neighbors
had told of his firing shots often to
scare away cats or dogs at night, and
so .1 did not arise from my bed at the
clear sound of the pistol, but lay stiil
waiting and listening for more shots.
None came. Everything was instantly
quiet again and I lay on my bed sleep
lessly for half an hour more, when I
heard the milk man come to the house
and place the bottles in the doorway.
That is how I fix the time so definitely.
It could not have been after 6 o’clock
that morning when I heard the pistol
report. It was somewhere between half
past 5 and 6 o’clock.
Knew He Could
Have Broken Defense.
“Curiously enough,” said Mr. Dor
sey, "I thought no more of the shot I
had heard until two days afterward
when officers consulted me about the
case and gave into my possession the
two ‘alibi letters’ they had found in the
Grace house and seized. Then it dawned
suddenly upon me that the report I had
heard in the early morning was the
shot of the pistol that had wounded
Grace. I knew in my own heart that
Grace had not been shot after 10
o’clock, as the defense even was then
claiming. Upon my own responsibility
I felt safe and sure in ordering the re
arrest of Mrs. Grace.
“Then, of course, came the prepara
tion for the trial. I was, through my
office, chief prosecutor of Mrs. Grace.
My evidence, my testimony- as to the
hearing of that shot and the time 1
heard it in the morning I knew would
be vital—would go far toward disprov
ing if it did not absolutely disprove
the whole contention of the defense
and the woman's own statement tha*
her husband had not been shot until
after 11 o'clock. But that very fact of
being prosecutor placed me in a re
markable i>osition. Besides. I could not
absolutely swear that it was on the
morning of Marclt 5 that the shot I
heard rang out. In my own heart I