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2 Mutt Has the Fright of His Life :: -:: ;; :: :: :: :: By “Bud” Fisher - — ____ ; T ° ; nev* 1 ( vou say ft nsvj A ■ ' _ > SMfJOT.Nfel* WUXTRA 1 EF 1 &HOOT/NG? 7 ; WAS on THE / r HC 'y / \ SECOND PAGE. / 7 ?-• A B CAN THAT Y ’ I'LL LOOK J ‘ ’ y\\V / ' chattel A / f ACTUAL MURO6R6K ’ ND <OM * ' | seowtH.'. fTvW! - jL -.'WjL.rr JO -a wnr > _ 4- JV 1,11 jw O ■ .«Rx\ W i H .W ■£ — ,V — .•.‘■./•U' ufF;— z Ha > •I |h 11. ~ _ . KgK : 5rV S S »p - . I ' —f i .. 11 '"""" ■■ ll ' ■ GRIDE HERE NOW TO GO UNDER MEE Surgeons to Operate for Re moval of Bullet From Spine Today or Tuesday. Continued From Page One. 11 o'clock, as Mrs. Grace had de clared Solicitor General Dorsey resided on the same street and just across from the Graces In Atlanta "1 don’t care what Mr. Dorsey said.” Mrs. Grace answered "So far as 1 am concerned, 1 w ish never t<> discuss my trial again. It Is something that is in the past. So long as 1 think of it 1 always must think how Mr. Grace endeavored to harm me. and that Is something I wish to forget For the present I shall devote tny life to my baby Webster ' Her friends were not backward In asking about all the details of her trial, but to all she gave the same answer: "1 want to forget It Just once she showed her temper when one of her men friends made an uncomplimentary remark about Grace. "You will kindly stop talking in that manner," said Mrs. Grace "Please remember that he Is rny husband and he is a cripple at present, but I hope to see him well before a great while." Philadelphia Papers Have Different Story. On the other hand, statements pub lished in Philadelphia papers make no reference to the reconciliation story and quolf Mrs Grace 3? follow g: "No; I am not going to take im* mediate steps to get a divorce. I have not given it a thought What will happen later I can not say. First. I must consult with my friends and attorney Rut before that lam going to take a rest It has been a trying ordeal for me. and 1 am going to take tny boy to my home and devote my whole iife to his care and upbringing." Mrs Grate was told that there was a report in Atlanta that shq. had sent a postcard to her Injured husband. Flugene Grace, congratu lating him on his thirtieth birthday, and saying "1 will be with you on 'our next, if you sav so." "That is positively ridiculous." she declared emphatically I never sent any such postcard The whole story is absolutely false." Her attention was then < ailed to the dispatches from Atlanta quot ing Solicitor General Hugh M. Dor sey. When Mrs Grace read the dis patches containing this news she sat for some time thinking Then she seemed to hesitate and finally she flushed in anger “I was acquitted by a jury, which heard the w hole testimony," she de clared. 'I do not know whether it was more unethical for this man to suppress supposed evidence during the trial or to make it public after ward However. I was acquitted and that's all there is to it 1 will not discuss the matter further." CANDIDATE IN WHEELER QUITS MONTGOMERY RACE —“ ——- VIDALIA. GA.. Aug. 12. The Mont- I gomery county list of • tndldates wi! be lessened in the August election b\ ; the passage of the bill to iTeate the; new count' of Wheeler from t .> west half of Montgomery. D Adams.' who was a candidate for 'ounty com missioner. has issued a signed card de. I dining tn run in Montgomery county and giving as his reason that he will he a citizen of Wheeler presently and does not believe that a citizen of one count' should hold office In another Al] can didate« who live west of tne river wi probably retire from the races for j Montgomery county offices. 'HOUSE GUTS BEE $175,000 DOG TO Consumes $576.75 of Precious Legislative Time Doing It. SIO,OOO for Deaf School. The house of representatives, with three days of the session only remain ing. began today's sitting by undoing something it did Saturday, after which it consumed an hour and a half consid ering the repeal of the slate dog tax. The first thing the house did today was to reconsider its refusal on Satur day to appropriate *IO,OOO to the Geor gia 'School for the Deaf, asked by the trustees for the purpose of'erecting an absolutely necessary heating plant. This bill failed to receive a constitu tional majority when it came up Sat - urday. tmt todav it came to life again, and was passed by a vote of 119 to 6. After the school appropriation had been disposed of the house took up the bill to make dogs personal property, returnable foi .taxation This bill. In effect, repeals th<‘ present law. under which dogs are taxed so much per head, ami undertakes instead io tax dogs on an ad valorem basis. It property owners think their dogs worth anything they will return them for taxation; if not. they will not return t hem. The eonsideration of this bill brought on a long debate, In which Georgia's dog laws were kicked around unmerci fully. and during which much good time went to waste So numerous were the proposed amendments that before the hill was finally disposed of three aye and tiav toll r ails had been taken and the sub*- Jert of dogs had been thrashed out almut $576.75 worth, reckoning the ex pense of the legislature nt $S per min ute i-inally the bill was passed by a vote of 102 to 4S. and the enactment of the law cuts off something like $175,000 per annum from the state’s income. Having fixer! the dogs of Geoigia just as it wanted them fixed, the house then took up a bill to raise the salaries of the prison commissioners from $2,000 per annum to $3,000. Notwithstanding the fact that this bill was ailvocated by some of the strongest members of the house. It was ruthlessly slaughtered under an aye and nay roll call by a vote of 66 to 90. A voluminous hill amending and re vising the present game law was passed by tb house at the morning session. FIRST TEST OF RECALL IN ILLINOIS PROVES FAILURE ROCK ISLAND. ILL., Aug 12. -Aft er four days of attack by attorneys for the defendants in the circuit court, pe titioners for the recall of Mayor Harry M. Schriver and Commissioner Archie M Hart today confessed the insufti ciency of their petitions, and withdrew proceedings. This was the first tost of the recall under commission form of government in Illinois. Grace Is Here For Operation Kugene H Grace, who Was shot mys- ' furiously last Maivh, is again in At lanta thia time f<>r the purpose of un dergoing an operation at the Georgian sanitarium Dr K S Moore and Dr. .1, |S < ‘liftord w ill probe Grace's spine for the bullet Giace stir is cheerful and optindatic. I he litter hearing the wounded man I was brought to the cit\ from Newnan morning at 10. B<i o’clock b\ S. I. Hill. Mr. Grates condition is the same as lit was when he was here before." said IDr B s Moore "He is strong enough I to undergo the operation, and 1 believe { his i lianc*-.- for recovery will be greater I once the bullet imbedded in his back I is removed." Grace and hi« family are confident ' that once the bullet Is removed life will ' return to his deadened limbs The latest X-rax photographs of the | wound show that the bullet is half im bedded In the spinal canal. InK TLA XT A GEORGIAN AND NEWS- MONDAY. AVGUST 12. 1012. ROOM SEWED, SOES PIEDMONT Woman Says She Was Humil iated When Hotel Sleuths Invaded Her Apartment. Humiliated by a midnight search of her room while she was the guest of the Piedmont hotel, Mrs. G. Laura Walker ‘today filed a suit for SIO,OOO in the superior court against the hotel. In her bill of complaint she declares that she was shadowed around the ho tel by detectives, that the privacy of her loom was invaded by their peering through the transom of her apartment, and that sue was compelled to permit the midnight search while she was in delicate health Through her counsel, F. Ft. Alston. Mrs. Walker declares that her feelings were wounded and her character and reputation suffered as a result of the hotel’s Action. Says She Saw Man Peering Over Transom. She recites that she was a guest of the hotel July 29 and occupied an apartment with a woman companion, whom she had to keep with her on ac count of her physical Infirmities. According to het story, throughout her stay in the hotel she was shadowed Iby house detectives. On the night of July 29 she saw a man peering through the transom from a stepladder and im mediately there was a hammering on her door, accompanied by a command that she dress Immediately and must go to the police station. She refused to open the door and de manded the causes of the intrusion. "There’s a man tn your room." she was told. "You've both got to get out." She dented the charge, but says she was forced to submit to a search of her apartment by the hotel men. No one was found save her woman com panion. Her suit resulted. Taylor Says There Was Cause. Assistant Manager Taylor of the Piedmont -this afternoon gave the fol lowing statement to The Georgian con cerning the suit: "When this case comes to trial we’ll be able to *fchdw to the satisfaction of the court and all concerned that this woman has absolutely no grounds for a suit for damages. The hotel detective did enter her room —we make no denial of that fact—but we ll show that he had ample and perfectly good grounds for his action, and we'll further show that Mrs. Walker wasn’t humiliated, either. The detective didn't fotve an entrance to the room. He rapped on the door and was admitted by Mrs. Walker. We feel perfectly safe in what has been done, and have no fear whatever of the outcome of the suit." AT THETHEATERS BILL AT THE BIJOU LOOKS PROMISING I The management of the Rtjou an nounces for this week four clever acts of vaudeville containing splendid nov elties. The program wi I upen with the Prosit Duo. comedy ac-obats. Introduc ing a very clever sketch entitled "In * lown Alley 1 here yvill be Spencer and Williams one of the best dancing acts in vaudeville today; Clinton and Nolan, in a blai-kfa.-e comedy sketch, and Dixon and Dixon will furnish th. music in their musical t amp net. The motion pictures will have special cart and the very best will be put on as an opening and to * ose each performance. Matinees will be given daily at 3 o'clock, except on Saturday, when the matinees will be given at 2:30 and 4 ‘ Night sh->wi at 7 and 9 I Crittsnton Home Meeting. A regular meeting of the board of the Xtlanta Florence Crittenton Home will be held Carnegie library tomorrow, Tues day morning, at 10:30 o'clock The ex ecutive board meets at 10 a m Pastor Offers to Aid Bashful Wife-Seekers And Marry 'Em Free Rev. G. L. Merrill Tells Girls to Throw Pepper Into the Eyes of Mashers. M INN FIA POLIS. MINN.. Aug. 12. Rashful swains desiring to meet young women —. object matrimony should communicate with Rev. G. L. Merrill, of Minneapolis. Rev. Mr. Merrill has con. stituted himself the friend of the bash ful. In a public statement, he has agreed to see that me young men who ate too tiinid to get acquainted with attractive girls get proper introduc tion. and if they succeed tn winning the hearts and hands of the said girls, the pastor will further help the youths by going with them to obtain marriage licenses, and then he'll marry them free. Incidentally. Mr. Merrill advises young yvomen to hit "mashers” over the head with their hand bags, throw red pepper tn their eyes and then run. DINNER STEALS M IO MW South Carolina Financier and Georgia Girl Principals in Surprise Wedding. 1.. A. Edwards, banker and capital ist iif Seneca. S. C., and Alias Heppie Farmer, of Toccoa. Ga.. came to Atlan- | ta today with a party of friends. They | left on the afternoon train for New York as Mr and Mrs. Edwards. News of the wedding will be a sur prise to their many friends in Georgia and South Carolina, who. although they knew the couple were engaged, had no knowledge that the trip io Atlanta was anything more than a day's outing. "We didn't want a great big wed ding," said the bridegroom in explana tion. "and, as yve are related to half the people around Toccoa, we would have had to 'have one had we been married there." On reaching Atlanta today Mr. Ed wards walked into Essig Brothers' store anil asked for Chris Essig. Wed at Friend's House. "Where can I get married?" was the first word that ho said after shaking hands with hts friend. Mr. Essig has long been a friend of the bridegroom's, and he was greatly astonished, but he was equal to the occasion. “Come right out to my house and have the ceremony performed there.” he answered, and. calling up his wife, he informed her of the wedding which was soon to take place. Rev. H. M. Quillian pastor of Walk er Street Methodist church, performed I the ceremony . Mrs. Edwards, who is a charming young woman, numbering her friends by the score, is the daughter of Mr. Sim Farmer, of Toccoa. Bridegroom Is Financier. The love affair bf-gan several years ago when Mr Edwards, who is presi dent of the Toccoa Banking Company, first went there to opert the bank. After that his trips to the little Georgia town were more frequent than official visits to one of Ills banks made necessary. Mr Edwards Is connected with the bank at Seneca and al.-o is president of the Banking and Loan Company of Westminster, S C He Is regarded as ont us the most Infill-ntbii and capable men In his proL s.-ion in South Caro lina. Among tlie friends who witnessed lhe quiet wedding at Mi. Essig s home, 478 Spring street, were Mr. and Mrs. Essig, " C. Edwards, of Toccoa, a brother lof the bridegroom. Mrs. H. .1. Rusha land Mrs. .1, E. Tabor, of Toccoa. BOURNE POST PLAN ACCEPTED. WASHINGTON. Aug. 12—The sen ate today agreed to substitute the Bourne plan for a parcels post, based on a system of eight zones, fir the house parcels post provision. PASTOR CATCHES NEGRO BORGLAR . Rev. Henry M. Quillian. Un armed. Overcomes Burly Negro Thug. Unarmed and half clad. Rev. Henry M. Quillian, pastor of the Walker Street Methodist church, attacked a negro burglar attempting to enter his bouse early today and, after a struggle for a pistol, overpowered him. When the police reached the scene they found the victorious minister seated astride his prisoner’s back. i Perfect coolness on the part of Miss Anna Quillian. datlghfl>r of the preach er, made the* capture possible. About 3 o’clock this morning she was aroused by sounds of some one endeavoring to enter her window in the parsonage. 19 Walker street. She didn't scream. In stead she got out of bed as quietly as possible, tiptoed to her father's room and.aroused him. Minister and Son Hunt Burglar. She then awakened lie: brother. John W. Quillian, captain of t,he Fulton Fu slleers. Preacher and soldier circuited the house in opposite directions. The younger Quillian carried a revolver. His father was unarmed. The-minister was first to see the bur. glar. He was crouching behind a box under the window of his daughter's chamber He didn't hesitate, but threw himself on the negro with all his force, grasping him about the throat as they fell. The burglar showed fight. Over and over the pair rolled until Captain Quil lian came up. He placed his pistol | against the, negro's head and pulled the J trigger. There was no shot. The ham met was on an empty chamber. Daughter Calls Police to Scene. In a second the negro had grasped I the weapon and prevented the young man from again pulling the trigged. The struggle for the weapop became t hfpp- hn ndpfl rni pe-nanaed. Finally the negro was subdued, but both minister and militiaman bore signs of the struggle. Miss Quillian, in the meantime, had telephoned for police. A detail, under Captain Mayo, responded, and when they arrived they found the victorious divine seated on the back of his pris oner. The burglar was arraigned in police court today. He gave the name of George Wright, of Gastonia. N. C. He admitted attempting to enter the house, but declared he was simply after some thing to cat. He was bound over on charges of attempted burglary and as sault and battery. Quillian, father, and Quillian, son, were in court to prosecute. ALEXANDER AGAIN ATTACKS SLATON IN CARD TO THE PUBLIC Hooper Alexander. candidate for governor, gave out for publication to day a long statement attacking John M Slaton, his so-called "bureau of infor mation and publicity department." ana charging that all the hig interests art backing the Atlanta tntjn. Mr. Alrxande- complains that the press of the state as a practical unit either is ignoring hint or failing to give him a square deal, in that only one newspaper attempts to print approxi mately al! that he sends out for public consumption every now and then. THREE ACCUSED STABBERS SAY FOURTH MAN IS GUILTY tIAiWKX. ALA. Aug. 12. -Walter Brou n. Lester Moore, Henry Carter and Herman Turner, all white, are under arrest here charged with assault with intent io kill and highway robbery. Their alleged victim Is J. R. Brown, as sistant to Chief Clerk Thompson of the Southern Iron and Steel Company, who was found Saturday night with font dirk stabs in his body. Three of the men have confessed that they saw Moore strike Brown with a rock and then stab him with a knife and leave him fm dead. He has a chance to re cover. BATTLESHIP FUN TO mN IN HOUSE Democratic Leaders Say Sen ate Plan for One Dreadnought Will Be Approved. WASHINGTON. Aug. 12.—That the Democrats have been brought together on the question of a battleship program was the announcement of the party leaders today following the assurance on all sides that the caucus called for Wednesday evening will be attended by the different factions and the commit tee compromise plan of one battleship will be adopted. Majority* Leader Underwood. Speaker Clark and chairman Padgett of the naval affairs committee have prepared the resolution urging the house to eon. cur xvitli the senate in an appropriation for one war vessel of the super-dread nought type. ARGUMENTS BEGUN IN DARROW’S TRIAL; END OF CASE NEAR LOS ANGELES. Aug. 12.—The be ginning of the end of lhe trial of Clar ence Darrow for bribery came today. Aiguments in the case, which has been under way since May, were opened with the convening of court and were ex pected lo last until Friday. Deputy District Attorney W. .1. Ford had the first place on the list of those who were to address the jury. Ford probably yvill occupy the entire day in an argument on evidence. The question of seating the people who will throng the court room during the arguments has been arranged. Mem bers of the jurors’ families had seats reserved for them, as did members of the families of attorneys for the prose cution and the defense. Visiting at torneys also were given preference within the court room. The seating ca pacity practically was all covered by ticket. ANDERSON FOR SAVANNAH COMMISSION FORM BILL SAVANNAH. GA., Aug. 12 —Framers of lhe Savannah charter bill are en couraged by the receipt of a telegram from Representative J. Randolph An derson announcing that the measure has passed the lower house of the gen eral assembly. Major W W. William son, chairman of the general commis sion form of government committee, received a letter f:om Mr. Anderson, m w'hlch be pledges his support of the measure. DEBATE AT BAXLEY. BAXLEY, GA„ Aug. 12.—Judge T. A. Parker, of Waycross, and J. Randall Walker, of Valdosta, had a joint debate here today. The court house tvas packed to hear the congressional can didates. There were no personalities. Sentiment was in favor of Parker, Ap pling being Parker’s old home county. [ DEATHS AND FUNERALS j C. Hinkle Thomas. The funeral of C. Hinkle Thomas, a native of Wales, for years a resi dent of Atlanta, who died yesterday morning, will be held at the residence. 640 Chestnut street, this afternoon. In tern).nt will be in Caseys cemetery. Mr. Thomas was 69 years old. He is sur vived by his widow, five sons and three daughters. Dorothy Singleton. The body of Dorothy Singleton, little daughter of .1. H. Singleton. 120 Logan street, who died yesterday, was taken to Clarkston, (la., today for funeral and interment. Wayne Jacobs. The funeral of Wayne Jacobs, little son of J. A. Jacobs, who died yes terday, was held at the residence. 19 Welborn street, at 10 o'clock today. In terment was at Red Oak cemetery. Margaret Lucile Butler. Margaret Lucile Butler the infant daughter of Mr and Mis. c. W Ruder, died at the residence of her parents, 704 South Boulevard today. The funeral will take place from Greenberg & Ronds chapel at in a. m. tomorrow Interment at West End. N.Y.GR«FTPROBE TO SEEMED to mm Citizens Union Behind Investi gation Webber Names High Officials. NEW YORK, Aug. 12.—Drastic ac tion in the graft hunt which has fol lower! the murder of Herman Rosenthal is being planned by the citizens union. Secretary O. A. Hammil announced today that the union will make a thor ough investigation not only of graft charges, but of the administration of Mayor William J Gaynor. Bridgey” Webber, one of the sus pects in the Rosenthal mu'der case has made a complete confession according to reports around the criminal courts building this afternoon. In it Webber is said to have named a high police official as having accepted graft from gamblers and other law-breakers. Star For Schepps. Assistant District Attorney Rubin and County Detective Robert Stewart, of District Attorney Whitmans staff left today for Hot Springs to bring back to New ork Sam Scnepps, rhe "murder paymaster" in the Rosenthal case, who was ar>ested there Saturday. Attorney Bernhard N. Sanders, rep resenting Schepps. sent the following telegram to the prisoner today: "Do not talk to any person until you are in Nev. York and see Whitman with whom satisfactory arrangements " have been made in your favor " This reply came from Schepps: "Telegram received. Will obey in strOctions from Whitman** man.” Confessions Not True, Says Schepps HOT SPRINGS. ARK.. Aug. 12. That the confessions made by Jack Rose. "Bridgey" Webbet and Harry Mallon in the Rosenthal-gambling graft case in New York are untrue, and that he will tell the straight of things was the assertion made by Sam Schepps. who is under arrest, here for alleged complicity in the slaying of Rosen thal. rhe authorities announced today that Schepps. the man who is alleged to have served as paymaster of the gang that killed Rosenthal, would he sur rendered only to officers representing District Attorney’ Whitman, of New Aork city. This decision was reached as a result of a request which came directly from Mr. Whitman and of a declaration by Schepps that he fears to go back to New York in the custody of any member of the police department. Schepps wa« overjoyed when he heard that only Whitman’s men could take him. He immediately recovered his nerve and declared that’the confes sions made by Jack Rose. “Bridgey" Webber and Harry Mallon concerning tho tMl’rn’oi' rtf 1 , tnc murder of Rosenthal were untrue | He said he was willing to return to I New York and tell District Attorney Whitman everything he knows con cerning the tragedy. JERSEY POLICE CHIEF THINKS ATLANTA IS “THE WHOLE SOUTH” ■The people of Atlanta certainly ought to be proud of the citv. It's one of the greatest towns 1 have ever seen. Vou feel like you are In New York as you pass through these streets here.” Chief of Police R. J. McKay, of Edge water. N. J. -only a few minutes from Broadway—thus expressed his opinion of Atlanta today as he was being whizzed through the streets by Chief Beavers in the chiefs handsome new touring car. <’hief .McKay | g on his vacation. He started out to make a tour of the South, but when hr struck Atlanta several days ago. decided to spend the whole time here And he’s been here ever since. H e returns to Jersey tonight. I guess I've seen the whole South | right here tn Atlanta." he remarked