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crashing. It was full of assumed trag
edy. It ran wet with teats.
The Letter That
Opened Her Eyes.
' "You don’t love me any more.” the
dazed bride read "Therefore I am
going away. Von will see me no more.
I can not bear the thought of your love
'having turned cold. God forgive me
for leaving you like this, but I conic
not look upon you again in the realiza
tinn that yoti love me no more”
That was the gist of it. Today the
sadder and wiser little bride appeared
'at the police station with her sister-in
daw. Mrs He man McEachin. of 97
Lovejoy street. Atlanta, wife of h
Southern railwa\ conductor. chief
Beavers pr mi-cd-her to start n search
•for the vanished husband, but the pros -
■pects of locating him are none too
bright.
TROUP’S GRAND JURY
AGAINST FEE SYSTEM
FOR COUNTY OFFICES
LA GRANGE. GA . Aug. 13. Troup
county’s August yr,and jury thinks well
of the alary system for county offi
cials, having recommended the aboli
tion of the fee system it recommends
that merchants take more <•<>••» in the
sale of tirearms and report spell sales
to count} officials.
West Point gamblers came in for at
tention. indictments being brought
against eight prominent young men of
that town. A West Point mvchant
was Indicted for selling intoxicating
liquors, while John Carley, John Wright
and others of this city were indicted on
the same charge Several negro cases
bf this character wi re also rounded up
by the grand jury, and all will be tried
at this term of the superior court, now
sitting.
Indicted for killing Horace Black, a
negfo, on May 2. James D. Daniel has
been arrested and placed in jail to
await trial this week. Daniel has al
ready been convicted and sentenced on
a charge of illegal!} selling intoxicants,
to serve twelve months and pay a fine
of s7.jo.'
JONESES OF ATLANTA TO
HAVE PICNIC AUGUST 30
All the Joneses and their relatives
have been asked to meet for their
eighth annual reunion at Grant parit
on August 30, picnic dinner, good
speakers and good music will make the
day pleasant.
The call for the Jones family re
union i.s signed by J. J. Jones, chair
man of the committee, and W P. Jones,
secretary Three hundred Joneses are
expected to attend.
BESSIE McCOY'S MOTHER
IS SOME SNAKE SLAYER
new Rochelle, n. y„ Aug 13.
Mrs. M Mel’oy. mother of Bessie Mc-
Coy, the. actress who recently married
Richard ■ Harding Davis, claims the
snake killing n cord. She has slaugh
tered thirty reptiles this year near her
horn e.
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TO IMPROVE WATERWORKS.
COLI’MBI S. GA . Aug. 13. —Since the
tb feat of the $3..<>,000 water bond is- I
sue at the election of Saturday, the
t olumbus Waterworks Company is
taking steps to improv• ■ its system to
the extent of sl:’a>.ooo. Enough pipe
has bee.n ordered to lay a six-inch main
more than one milt.
ALABAMANS TO HELP WILSON
Montgomery. ala., Aug. 13 .1_
John 1 1 . MeN, <■]. Governor O’Neal's sec
retary, will take part in the Wilson
campaign at national headquarters. He
leaves September 1 for New York to
start in. General Bibb Graves, of
Montgomery, has also been given a
ptominept plic e on the campaign com
mittee and has gone to the metropolis
BANK EXAMINER NAMED.
MONTGOMERY, ALA. Aug. 13.
Stat. Superintendent of Banks A E. '
Walker announces the appointment of I
J. \Y. Matthews, ..f Huntsville, as state I
L> <i . examil I P. Hoe- I
mer. who has resigned, effective Sep
tember 1. to take a position as national
bank examim r.
COURT OF APPEALS OF GEORGIA.
Mangham v- State (two eases);
from Spalding superior <■ urt- Judge R
T. Daniel, Judgments affirmed. R R.
Arnold, Frank l-'lyni. Mills \V A.
Fuller. Dodd A Dodd, for plaintiff in
error J. M . . r ■ per il: \V,
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JACK ROSE, GAMBLER,
WRITES HIS CONFESSION
FOR GEORGIAN READERS
(Copyright, 1912. by Star Company.
All rights reserved. Any infringe
ment will be vigorously prosecuted.)
By JACK ROSE.
The gambler who declares that Lieu
tenant Becker forced him into the
plot to slay Herman Rosenthal.
NEW YORK, August 13.—1 have
been asked to write for The
Atlanta Georgian on "Gambling" and
life In the so-called "underworld.” It
Is something to think over. 1 am a
man 37 years of age. with a devoted
wife, two handsome boys and of par
entage that I can boast of. My early
life was In an environment that should
have Influenced me to a useful life.
At one time I had friends who would
have helped me to acquire a station in
life that was worth while. All are now
a memory of the past. As I sit in my
cell I look back with a heart filled with
sorrow and regret, and all caused by
one thing, “The curse of gambling."
1 gambled away everything, first my
own money, then the money I could
borrow from my friends; then my
credit , then my word of honor. When
nothing remained wherewith to gamble
1 let myself become a tool in the plot
ting of a man’s life. It resulted in my
self and three of my dearest friends
facing the charge of being accessories
to the murder of Herman Rosenthal.
Wants to Start Over Again.
1 don’t know how it is all going to
end. but if ever 1 again set my feet on
the pavements as a free man I want to
take my wife and boys to some place
where in some way I can start life over
again.
With gambling 1 am through. if
some young man starting on the road I
have traveled will read this and turn
back I will feel that some of my suffer
ing Ims been worth while
As a young man I drifted into the
state of Connecticut. In the city of
Hartford 1 launched the Charter Oak
A. C. It was a boxing club, at which
we gave monthly exhibitions.
I added to this another club in
Bridgeport, and on> in Waterbury I
also acquired a baseball franchise tn
the t'onneeticut State league.
All these ventures brought mo in
close , ontact with sporting men. Soon
I took to gambling.
Known as a Good Fellow.
Mt gambling in Connecticut was
onflned to fri'-ndly game, of poker, as
tie state of Connecticut does not pos
-iss any public gambling houses.
! M} business as matehmake- and
I manager of the athletic < lubs called
; for ftequent trips to Nov York to meet
boxers and their managers I attended
j boxing < xhtbitlons and stopped at
111- ..dv.iy case or restaurant, all of
;v h usutt’l}’zb»d to a visit to soni<
; gambling house uptown.
The game I most!} played was faro
■ bank Like all gamblers. I had ffltrids
Iw’ten m> tun of luck was phenomena
rnd then my winnings ran Into thou
l sands.
I always traveled with a crowd wit 1 )
i whom I enjoyed the reputation of be
ing a "good follow." ono who would bet
I his money and would also spend It
| 1 had a reputation to sustain, first,
TH hi Al LANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. TUESDAY. AUGUST 13, 1912.
THE SYSTEM IN NEW YORK
the "good fellow” end of it, which
meant tv/ien 1 won I divided my win
nings or spent them; another part of
my reputation was that I would bet the
limit against the "bank.” If I had r< il
ly bet what I ought to. in keeping wi;h
my means, 1 would still have been
playing in the friendly "penny ante”
poker game up in Connecticut.
On my return to Connecticut after
my trips to New York the poker game
had lost its attraction for me.
I began making excuses to my asso
ciates to get down to New York again.
The gambling fever was oh me. and
life in Connecticut was getting slowei
all the time.
I was making money in Connecticut,
besides enjoying the confidence and re
spect of many of its most prominent
citizens.
Loses All and Starts To Borrow.
On any one of my trips to New York
I lost mon than my three boxing clubs
could earn for m<- in several nights.
Soon 1 began borrowing right and
left from my friends in Connecticut
hoping against hope that some one
night 1 would "bust" the "faro bank”
and pay everybody.
That never e ime. Soon my asso
ciates began questioning the cause of
my frequent trips to New York, my
constantly increasing demands for
money, and my failure to pay my d< bis
after a division of profits from' the
boxing clubs.
AU this required explanations, as my
associates were all men of standing and
high honor.
1 remember one day, w hen I owed
my partners personally considerablt
money and when the day after an un
usually successful show at one of out
clubs we were settling up. 1 asked them
it they would please favor me by let
ting me have my share in full and per
mit my indebtedness to them to stand
until the next show.
1 gave as an excuse tiiat a matter of
great importance down in New York
required my immediate attention, I
needed, I said, just about tin amount of
my share to straighten it out. They
readily agreed, and one ~f mv partners,
a prominent hotel man. said:
"Why, Jack, if when you get down to
New York you tin.! that you need more,
don t hesitate to draw on me." I got
my share, about sl. .i'a, rushed and got
the 5 o’clock ttain out of Bridgeport.
Seven o'clock that night found me oc
cupying a front seat at t".e "faro bank."
Twelve o'clock that night 1 walked
out of there penniless, with the colored
attendant helping me on with my over
coat, mumbling away a' me about
| Have a cigar'.'" and all the other
things they ke< p saying to a loser.
I was all in a daze. ,i. s my affairs
were eomittg to a crisis I could not go
on much longer; my good friends in
Connecticut would soon begin to sus
pect the truth
Begins Hunt For Money,
1 walked out into the street and im
mediately began thinking where 1 could
get more money to play the "bank"
with
I would have sold my soul for mon
ey to continue playing. I thought of m>
friend who that very day had told me
not to hesitate to draw on. him if I
needed money, but that wouldn’t be
good until tomorrow.
So I went into the hotel, got on the
long distance telephone and got him
out of bed, told him something terrible
had happened and couldn’t he suggest
some way that he could get SSOO to me
at once.
He said, "Gos over to so-and-so.”
naming a prominent hotel keeper, "and
ask him to get me on the phone." This
1 did.
The result of the talk was that the
hotel Ift'cper handed me five SIOO bills,
and I was back at the “faro bank" and
"broke" again before 3 a. nt.
I got up from the table and again
had t<> pass through the torture of lis
tening to all the trained attendant had
to say to me about “how they will run
against a man when he has a streak of
had luck.”
Couldn’t Bear to Face Friends.
I walked out on the street, like a
t.runken man. I realized then that to
go back to Connecticut was out of the
<|ttestion. I couldn’t boar to face mv
fiiends and creditors there. My in
<i ‘btednoss then In Connecticut repre
sented several thousand dollars, all lost
in gambling, as well as the large sums
1 had made in my many sporting ven
tures.
I sat down in the hotel and wrote
several letters to m\ partners and
others in Connecticut, making a clean
breast of everything. That ended my
career in Connecticut, a golden oppor
tunity thrown away "to be a man
among men.” and all through my love
for “gambling.”
1 remained in New York and gave
myself to a life of "gambling.” Dur
ing the racing season I played the
races. At other times I frequented
"gambling houses.” All I was accumu
lating was a reputation that “gam
bling had taken such a hold on me
that mine was a "hopeless ease," and I
L’ould soon see that their attitude to
ward me had changed.
Becomes Gamblers’ Associate.
Then I became the associate of gam-
Id. rs exclusively, and made my head
quarters downtown, where gambling
went on in a smaller way. But just as
soon as I accumulated a sufficient sum
to entitle me to gamble in the more
pretentious houses uptown, where the
■hanccs of winning a large sum was
the bait, 1 made for them.
At times 1 made large winnings, an ’
with the exception of paying a few
Dressing things, always kept the bai
tnee intact, ami would make my ap
pearance promptly at opening time and
play. Almost invariably I finished
oroke.
When these periods of. ns we term
hem, "bad luck.” come along. 1 would
>e overcome with a feeling of iemorse
tnd regret and begin to plan and iigur.
:o break away from “gambling" and
ny gambling associates.
It was about this' tint, that two life
ong f . Sends of mine who were in the
hi.itr: al business showed a disposi
:i >n to help me if 1 would quit gam
bling.
I promised I would, and they we e
indness itself. 1 began to acquire a
tnowb-dgi of the theatrical busines.-
tnd looked forward to an oi>portunity
:o get in business for myself.
He Is Idle: Drifts Back.
About this time an unfortunate thing
mppen-’d. Mx two fri.-nds dissolved
■artnership. and the one 1 remained
>'ith forth" t’.me being couldn't assis’
n< to realize my ambition. I helped
tim along in his business part of each
lav. Affairs went in such u state that
with too much idle time T drifted back
to my old ways and associates. I was
soon at it again hammer and tongs
'■gambling" hard as ever.
I had then joined the Hesper club
and spent most of my time there. My
friend in the theatrical business began
to meet with great success, and I was
looking forward to the chance that had
been promised me.
All this time my friend helped me in
every conceivable 'way. excepting th.
way 1 hoped he would. He supplied
me with all the money [ wanted to keen
at “gambling." On many occasions he
paid my gambling debts, and when my
'un of hard luck was unusually long
and I felt ashamed to go to him, I re
sorted to methods that caused him con
siderable embarrassment, such as bor
rowing from his partners or making
promises when negotiating a loan that
my friend would pay for me.
He spoke of my methods on many
occasions, and eventually they led to
an open quarrel.
Wa s Rosenthal’s Chum.
Then I drifted back down tpwn and
became indifferent to everything and
anything but "gambling." Most of my
time Was spent in the company of Her
man Resentl.
Right hero I want fp say. without
violating a promise made to District
Attorney Whitman, that for years Her
man and I were the best of chums. We
often had our differences, but never of a
serious nature. They were the quarrels
that come to men who have given up
their lives to the "hell of hells’’—gam
bling.
When things went wrong we blamed
each other. Each thought the other
should have done the other thing—“bet
on the other horse, or to have played
the opposite system at the bank”—but
soon we would patch it up and then
everything was all right again. We
continued on trying to get rich over
night.
Dispute Over Winnings.
I am just thinking of a strange freak
•of fate. Herman and I had been or.
the outs for quite a while over a mis
understanding we had as to what should
have been the proper division of some
money I had won playing "faro bank."
Gamblers have certain laws of their
I own. and our dispute involved the
; question of a gambler's point of law.
( I had at Herman's suggestion made a
loan of S2OO from a friend. We went
jup town to gamble. On our way I said
i to lb rman, "Whatever I win ha|f is
j yours." I started playing and soon won
SI,OOO. cashed in arrd quit, handing Her
: man SSOO as his part of the winnings,
l as per agreement. We left the place
and returned down town. We sat around
the Hesper club a while, when some
one else in the club said they were
going up town to play the "bank."
He Beats "Bank” Again.
I said I would go. too. On my’ way
out I stopped to ask Hetman if he
would come along. He .-aid he had
enough for that night. I went alone,
played again, and won SSOO. The fol
lowing day I met Horman, who had al
ready hoard the result of my second
play. He greeted me with "I can just
use that $250. Jack."
"I said. "What $250 .”'
"Why, my part of that SSOO you won."
"Why," I said, "you are joking."
"No," he said. “The' last thing 1
said as you left the club was '1 am in.' '
which, if I had heard him say, or if it I
had been said in the presence of a third I
party, entitled him to his share.
Hut 1 had not Heard him. nor could I
he produce any one who heard him
say’ it.
So 1 refused him his half. It result
ed in a quarrel and we were not on
speaking terms until one night some
time after lie met me on Fourteenth
street, in front of Tom Sharkey’s case.
He asked me in to have a drink and
we patched it up.
from this same case; about four
years later, started the gray automo
bile which ended its ride in the murder
of Horman Rosenthal, and all through
gambling. JACK ROSE.
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SWIM TO SAVE GIRL
PARACHUTIST IN TREE
LONDON. Aug. 13.—A girl para
chutist who dropped from a balloon at
Brecon. Wales, was swept out of her.
course by the wind arid landed in a
tree on an islet in the I'sk river. She
hung in a dangerous position •for three
hours before she was rescued-by’ some
men whose attention she attracted by
her cries. The men had to swim the
liver, which is wide and swift, and use
a rope in rescuing the woman. She
was completely exhausted when landed
on the shore.
MEN'S PANTS
And a big range from which to
select at One Third Off former
prices- —
$4 00 Pants are now $2.70
$5.00 Pants are now .$3.35
$6.00 Pants are now $4.00
$6.50 Pants are now $4.35
$7.00 Pants are now $4.70
$7.50 Pants are now $5.00
One lot Light Cheviots and Home
spuns some slightly soiled around
waistband and crease, to close at
HALF PRICE.
$4.00 ‘ ‘Specials Light stripes $2.00
$5.00 Specials Light stripes $2.50
$6.00 “Specials Light stripes $5.00
Odds and ends in Mens and Youths' Fancy
Suits to close AT HALF PRICE.
Others in Blues, Blacks or fancy colors at Onr
Third Off.
Panama Hats Half Price
Eiseman Bros., Inc.
11-13-15-17 Whitehall St.
PffFOR INJURED
WORM URGED
American Bar Association Also
Advocates a Special Court to
Rule on Patents.
MILWAUKEE. WIS., Aug. 13.—Many
reforms, designed in the main to facili
tate court procedure, are advocated in
the reports of the various committees
of the American Bar association, now
in annual convention in this city.
The question of compensation for in
dustrial accidents is dealt with by the
committee appointed in 1910 to co-op
erate with the National Civic federa
tion. The committee finds much yet
to be desired and recommends the en
actment of uniform laws by all the
states and by the United States, based
on the following principles:
It should be compulsory and ex
clusive of other remedies for in
juries sustained in course of indus
trial employment.
It should apply to all industrial
operations or at least to all indus
trial organizations above a certain
limit of size.
Regardless of Fault.
It should apply to all accidents
occurring in the course of indus
trial operations, regardless of the
fault of any one, self-inflicted in
juries not being counted as acci
dents.
The compensation should be ad
judicated by a prompt, simple and
inexpensive procedure.
The compensation should be paid
in regular installments, continuing
during the disability, or in case of
death during dependent period of
beneficiaries.
The compensation should be
properly proportioned to the wages
received before injury.
The compensation should be paid
with a near absolute certainty as
possible, in the most convenient
manner, and there should be ade
quate security for deferred pay
ments.
The Committee on patent, trade
mark and copyright law severely’ con
demned the proposal of President Taft
that the question of providing a single
court of last resort in patent cases be
solved by adding the proposed duties
and powers of such a court to the func
tions of the commerce court. It is
pointed out that judges who at some
time or other specialized in patent law,
and yet possess a broad understanding
of general law, are needed. To this
end it is proposed that the court be
formed of five Federal judges, the pre
siding judge to be appointed by the
president and to hold his term for life,
and the others to be designated by the
chief justice of the supreme court, each
to serve six years. A bill introduced in
the present session of congress by’ the
Hon. 'William A. Sulzer, of New York,
providing for such a court, is indorsed.
HE MAKES CANARIES OUT
OF SPARROWS; IS FINED
CINCINNATI, OHIO, Aug. 13.—With
out doubt Theodore Benny, aged 60,
no home, has the strangest way of
making a living ever heard of in police
court. When haled before Judge Fricke
on a charge of vagrancy, Benny told
that official that he had made quite a
bit of money by catching sparrows,
bleaching them with peroxide of hydro
gen and selling them as canaries. He
was fined SSO.