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2 At Times Jeff Shows Some Intellect at That •• ;; :: ;; :: By “Bud” Fisher fLISTEN f WHAT I f "[ - I 1 00 TC FetAR THtM N6T»\ TH6Y CAN'T , T EXCUSE ME.SK.A LL , VgE LL, ) V «.?> . REM&ER. VtfMM* J. ALL ABOUT- I BLUFF Mg. FLU, 'i N ! I BklT YOU’RE FFiCWO ('Y6S | WIH AT DO YOU I ** I Xv! « SeN ' rHAI - TH.*, &R-AFY fN TH t DO MY DUTY Ai A j?| 1 T HE DISTRICT I ? L_’j 'but * P ;C'Ttu N A NV?u [* - ; OF F Ks, | I ' ~r " ( NOT*'] WHITMAN ALL Aftouti - YOU NOT SIR. , SU ‘ -A 'STRICT attorney 1 RoLtce GPAFT I ’ J ” I THING’* I all / k J r~ ’ WK V > C,— 'Ah xjg C__ ' A* A. " stfV ’*j®S IMI 'S’- ® AIA wr O-r Ki** iMallr wJi! J* H-'j A: l WMtt liw ’wwlr tttl - Evrif MP - " z sii/i Bw a\W WM iwl 4 -~o , 1 ’ —. I ~~~~ | '■ C.t.ArvrzsV-T -TO/g fnree WAR DECLARED ON HOTEL DIVES BE ATUNTA Recorder Broyles Says They Are Greatest Menace in At lanta to Young Girls. Recorder Broyles lodav severely ■cored whai he termed “dives mas querading as <heap hotels," declaring them a menace to young girls, ami urging that they he wiped out Following the denunciation, the ii cordei bound over to the state courts T R Bush, p-oprietor of a hotel in South Forsyth street, fixing bis bond it SI,OOO. Bush was accused of conduct ing a disorderly house He was ar rested as the result of a raid by detec tives All of the cheap hotels of the city, of course, do not come in this class," said the court, "hut we have many such hotels tha> are nothing more nor less than dives dives of the most per nicious sort. These hotels form one of the greatest dangers that beset young girls today, and everything possible should be done to close their doors and put them out of business The tints has come when we must safeguard the girls at every point, and we must hang out the danger signal on these infa mous hotel-dive=. These places lin’d outstretched arms to Innocent country girls and girls from country towns wno go there thinking them to be decer.' and all right " In remanding Bush to the hlghet courts. Judge Broyles instructed Po liceman Ed Arthur, special officer sot police court and the vice commission, to appea before the slate courts and push the prosecution of the hotel man YOUTH CONFESSES TO ROBBING HIS BROTHER AND SLEEPING FRIEND THOMASVILLE. GA Aug 13 Arrest ed on charges of robbing I W 1, Yates of a SI.OOO diamond ting and Harry Wyche of a ring valued at $176 and sl2 in money. M B Yates, a younger brother of J \V 1.. Yatea. has confessed Young Yates was arrested as the result of evidence col lected by Detective McWarth. of Atlanta The robbery took place a few nights ago while Mr Wyche was spending lite night with Mr. Yates. They were drugged while asleep and the rings were taken from their fingers Mr Yates offered a reward of SSOO for the recovery of the rings The night of the robbery, so young Yates stated, be put a drug'in the drinks Fhfeh his brother and Wyche took When they were fully under the effects of it he entered the room and robbed them The rings were found in bls room. and. when arrested a bottle that had contained "knock out drops was found in his p< icket It is said that neither Yates nor Wyche will prosecute the ease INDICTED POLITICIAN IS HELD AS FUGITIVE AFTER TRIP ABROAD SEATTLE. WASH Aug 13 Frank M Jane, undei indictment at Atlantic City. N .1, for briber' and altering election lists, was arrested here early today by a deputy t'nited States mar shai after being a fugitive from Justice for eighteen months in the meantime Mt Jane had trav eed tn Europe and Canada, bis ex penses being borne by a group of At lantic City politicians, he sai JONESES OF ATLANTA TO HAVE PICNIC AUGUST 30 All (lie Joneses and their relatives hate been asked to meet sot their eighth annual reunion at Grant park on August 30 A picnic dinner, good speakers and good music will make the day pleasant. The call for the Jones family re union is signed by J .1 h,n<« chai man of the committee, ami P l me- Three hundred Joneses are to > HEWN NAMES HEMS DE GRIFT Police Official. Lawyer, and Hotel Man Control ’System,’ Grand Jury Hears. | NEU YORK Aug 13 When the I grand Jury, which is investigalitig the murder of Gambler Herman Rosenthal and graft in the police department re sumed its labors ,today, District At torney Whitman was ready to present the evidence to sustain allegations that j high police official in the department, a prominent lawyer and a hotel keep er are in control of the "system" which has extorted millions in blackmail from I gamblers and other lawbreakers. Detective W .1 But its, v> Ito his been investigating polite conditions in New York some lime for the district attor ney's office :s leported Io have fttr nishtu Mr. Whitman with names of th< three men who are charged wftli being at i lie head of the graft, syndicate Iley lopments of lite utmost Irnput - tarn, are expected to result from the session of Hu grand jury beginning to day This was the session designed to reveal the identity of the "mru higher up.” who for 'ears have been talked about vaguely a.s beneficiaries of the New York police graft system hut who hate eluded exposure. It was predicted that seven indict ments would be teturned, one of these .(gainst Sam Schepps, the "murder pay master." yvho was caught in Hot Springs, Ark. A superseding indictment against Pollc< I ,i(>ul en'uii Charles A Becker, one of the principal figures In Hie scandal yy us also looked for Becker Has Safety Vault. Attaches (>f the district attorney’s of fice admitted that evidence has been piling up at a swift rate that Becker lias maintained a safe deposit box in a down-town vault since last Decem ber Mr Whitman claimed not to know the contents of the box. but there yvas every indication that lie believes it Is stuffed with currency which came to Bei ket in the form of tribute from the underworld The box is under guard constantly, and no one can get into it without the district attorney's knowl edge As the present session of the grand Juiy is expected to last until Thursday or Friday without a break. Sehepps will in all probability be back in New York in time to testify if lie will consent to go before that body. On the other hand, it the "paymaster" makes a confession he probably will not he tailed upon to testify. In his stead men connected with the police underworld alliance whose names he could furnish will lie summoned by Mr. Whitman Among tile witnesses subpenaed to appear before the grand Jury today were "Bald Jack" Rose. "Bridgey" Webber and Harry Vallon who caused Lieutenant Becker's arrest for murder. TROUP’S GRAND JURY AGAINST FEE SYSTEM FOR COUNTY OFFICES LA GRANGE. GA. Aug 13. Troup county s August grand jury thinks well of the salary system for county offi cials. having recommended the aboli tion of the fee system It recommends that merchants take more care in the sale of firearms and report such sales to county officials West Point gambb rs . ame in foi at tentiou. indictments being brought I against eight prominent y oung men of ■that town A West Point tmtihanl waa indicted sot selling intoxicating j Illinois, yy bile John Carley John Wright I .uid Otheis of this city were indicted on lithe same chgrge Several negro eggaa ot this character yveie also rounded up by tlie grand Jim, and all will be tried " ut this term of the superior court, now ■ sitting i Ind ■ led for killing Hotaie Black, a m-gro on May 2 James Ir Daniel has been arrested and placed in jail to await trial this week. Daniel has al- • Jy teen onvicied and sentenced on a ' n. rg. ..f i' egally selling intoxicants jin >• rve twelve months and |a' a fine | of $750. THE A ILA NT A GEORGIAN AM) NEWS. TUESDAY. AUGUST 13. VJii, JACK ROSE, GAMBLER, WRITES HIS CONFESSION FOR GEORGIAN (Copyright. 1912. by Star Company. All righls 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 rvrite for The AHanta Georgian on "Gambling" and life in the so-called "underworld.” It is something to think over. I am a man 37 years of age. tyith a devoted wifi', iwo handsome boya and of par entage that I .an 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 ■ hie 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 cr.ucad by one thing, “The curse of gambling.” I gambled away everything, first my own money, then the money I could borrow from my friends; ihen my credit; then my word of honor. When noihing remaiped wherewith to gamble I let myself become a tool in the plot ting of h man s life. If resulted iti my self and three of tny dearest friends facing the charge of being accessories to the murder of Herman Rosenthal Wants to Start Over Again. I don't know how it is ail going to end. but if evei I again set my feet on ihe pavements as a fiee man I want to take tn'- wife and boys to some place where in some way 1 can start life over again. With gambling I 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 has been worth rvhile. As a young man I drifted into the state of Connecticut. In the city of Hanford I 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 one in Waterbury I also acquired a baseball franchise in the Connecticut State league. All these ventures brought me in close contact with spotting men. Soon I took to gambling Known as a Good Fellow. My gambling in Connecticut was confined to friendly games of poker, as the state of Connecticut does not pos sess any public gambling houses My business as matchmaker and manager of the athletic clubs called for frequent trips to New York to meet boxers and their managers I attended boxing exhibitions and stopped at a Broadway case or restaurant, all of which usually led to a visit to sonu gambling house uptown. The game I mostly p ayed was fat i bank Like all gamblers. I had friends when my run of luck was phenomenal, and then mi winnings ran into thou sands I always traveled with a crowd with whom I enjoyed the reputation of be inji a good fellow." one who would be' his money and would also spend II I had a reputation to sustain; first, the good fellow" end of it. which meant when I won I divided my win nings oi spent them; anothe: part of my reputation was that I would bet th. limu against the "bank." If I had rea'- ly bet what I ought to. in keeping witlt my means. I would still have been playing in the friendly "penny ante" poker game up in Connecticut. on my return to Connecticut after my ttips to New York the poker game had lost its attraction for me. I began making excuses to my asso ' fates to get down to New York again The gambling frier was on me. and life in Connecticut was getting -iowei all the time. I was nuking money in Connecticut, besides enjoying ilie confidence and re. spect of man.' of its most prominent citizens On any one of my trips to New York I lost mote titan my thiee boxing i tubs could earn for me in ■wetal nights. Soon 1 began borrowing right and left from my friends in Connect nut hoping against hope that some one night I would "bust" the "faro bank" und pay every body That nevet came Soon my asso ciates began questioning the cause of my frequent trips to New York, my constantly increasing demands sot money and my failure to pay my debts after a division of profits from the boxing < lubs All tin- rej|i,neii explanations, as my associates were all men of standing and high honor. I remember one day. when I owed my partners personally considerable money and when the day after an un usually successful show at one of our clubs we were settling up. 1 asked them if they would please favor me by let ting me have my share in full and per mit my indebtedness io them to stand until the next show. I gave as an excuse that a matter of great importance down in New York required my immediate attention. I needed, I said, just about the amount of my' share to straighten it out. They readily agreed, and one of my partners, a prominent hotel man, said; "Why. Jack, if when you get down to New York you find that you need more, don't hesitate to draw on me” i got my share, about $l,o()0, rushed and got the 5 o'clock train out of Bridgeport. Seven o'clock that night found me oc cupying a front seat at the "faro bank." Twelve o'clock that night I walked out of there penniless, with the colored attendant helping me on with my over coat. mumbling away at me about "Have a cigar?” and all the other things they keep saying to a loser. I was all in a daze, as my affairs were coming to a crisis. I equid not go on much longer; my good friends in Connecticut would soon begin to sus pect the truth. Begins Hunt For Money. I 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 my friend who that very day had told me not to hesitate to draw on him if 1 needed money, but that wouldn't be good until tomorrow So I went into the hotel, got on the long distance telephone apd got him out of bed. told him something terrible hud happened and couldn't lie suggest some way that he could get SSOO to me at once. He said. "Go over to so-and-so." naming a prominept hotel keeper, "and ask him to get me on the phone." This I did. The result of the talk was that the hotel keeper handed me five SIOO bills, and I was back at the "faro hank" and "broke" again before 3 a. m. I got up from the table and again had to pass tlti'ougli 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 bad luck." Couldn't Bear to Face Friends. I walked out on the street like a drunken man I realized then that to go back to Connecticut was out of the question. I couldn't bear to face my friends and creditors there. My in debtedness then In Connecticut repre sented several thou.-and dollats. all lost in gambling, as well as the large sums I had made in my many sporting ven tures I sat down in the hotel and wrote several letters to my partners and others in Connecticut, making a clean breast of every thing That ended my cateet in Connecticut, a golden oppor tunity thrown away "to lie a man among men-" and all through my love for "gambling." I remained in New Yotk 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 1 was accumu lating was a reputation that "gam bling" had taken such a hold on tm. that mine was a "hopeless ease." and I could soon see that their attitude to ward me had changed Becomes Gamblers' Associate. Then I became the associate of gam biers 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 chances of winning a large sum was the bait, 1 made for them. At times I made large winnings, and with the exception of paying a few pressing things, always kept the bal ance intact, and would make my ap pearance promptly at opening time and play Almost invariably 1 finished broke When these periods of. as we term them, "bad luck." come along. I would be ov ei i ome with a feeling of ■ emorse and regret and begin to p.an ami figui; I to break away from "gambling" and my gambling associates. I It was about this time that two life ■ long friends of mine who were in the theatrical business showed a disposi tion to help me if I would quit gam i bling. 1 promised 1 would, and they were kindness itself I began to acquire a knowledge of the theatrical business and looked forward to an opportunity to get in business for myself. He Is Idle; Drifts Back. About this time an unfortunate thing happened. My two friends dissolved partnership, and the one I remained with for the time being couldn’t assist me to realize my ambition. 1 helped him along in his business part of eaeli day. Affairs went in such a state that with too much idle time I drifted back to my old ways and associates. 1 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 the , way I hoped he would. He supplied me with all-the money I wanted to keen at "gambling." On many occasions he paid my gambling debts, and when tny run of hard luck was unusually long and I felt ashamed to go to him. I re sorted to methods that caused him con- I 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. Was Rosenthal's Chum. Then 1 drifted back down town and became indifferent to ev> rything and anything but "gambling." Most of my time was spent in the company of Her man Rosenthal. Right here 1 want to say. without violating a promise made to District Attorney Whitman, that for years Her man and i w ere the best of ehums. We often had our differences, but never of a serious nature. They were Hie quarrels that come to men who have given up their lives to the "hell of hells" —gam- bling. When things went w rong 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 qll 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 1 had been or the outs for quite a while over a mis understanding we had as to w hat should have been the proper division of some money I had won playing "faro bank." Gamblers have certain laws of their 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 up tow n to gamble. On our way 1 said to Heiman. "Whatever 1 win half is y ours.' I started playing and soon won $,1,000. cashed in and quit, handing Her man SSOO as his par, ot the winning's, as per agreement. We left the place and returned down town. We sat around the Hesper club a while, when some 1 one else in the club said they were going up town to play ihe "bank." He Beats “Bank” Again. I said 1 would go. too. On my way out I stopped to ask Herman if he would come along. He said he had enough for that, night. 1 went alone, played again, and won SSOO. The fol lowing day I met Herman, who had al ready heard the result of my second play He gteeted me with "I can just use that $250. Jack." "1 said. "What s2so'.' "Why, my part of that ssoo you won.' ' Why." 1 said, "you are joking." "No." he said. "The last thing I said as you left the club was 1 am in which, if I had heard him say", or if it had been said in the presence of a third party, entitled him to his share. But I had not heard him. nor could he produce any one who heard him say it. So I refused him his half. It result ed in a quarrel and we were not on speaking ti fms until one night some time after he met me on Fourteenth street, in fiont 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 "hi h ended its i ide in the murder of Herman Rosenthal, and all through gambling. JACK ROSE REBELS, BEATEN. MHSSICBE2BO ' Zapatists, Defeated by Feder ate, Slay Garrison of 100 and 100 Townsmen. MEXICO CITY. Aug. 13.—Two hun dred persons were killed, one hundred of them townspeople, following an at tack oh the town of Ixtapa, in the state of Mexico, by Genevevo De 1-a Or's band of Zapatists. Today the soldiers have withdrawn from the town and are marching toward Toluca, the capital of the state, which is only fifteen miles distant. The fight and massacre at Ixtapa oc curred late yesterday after the rebels had been repulsed by a garrison of 600 federate at Tenancinp, a town in the vicinity of Ixtapa. A garrison of 100 rurales guarded the latter place. The rebels charged and drove the rurales back into the narrow streets of the vil lage. There they began a murderous tire, and hardly one of the rurales es caped. then the rebels marched through the streets, shooting and stabbing any one they met. Among the dead, it is said, are a few women and children. Two hundred bodies lay in the streets, ac cording to reports today, after the reb els had withdrawn. Rebels in the vicinity and at Toluca are in a state of panic because of the rebel activity. There is only a small force of federate at Toluca, and it Is believed they can not withstand the rebel attack. Many persons have tied from the city. Only One Killed In Attack on Capital SAN JI'AN DEI. SI R, NICARAGUA. Aug. 13.—One person was killed, sev eral women and children were wounded and a dozen or more buildings were riddled by shells in the bombardment of the capital city of Managua by rebel artillery Sunday, according to a dis patch received here today. It was stated, however, that no foreign prop erty had been damaged. The rebel ar tillerymen apparently took pains to prevent firing into the consulate build ings. When the message was sent the rebel batteries of General Luis Mena and General Zeledon were still planted be fore the city, while the defending bat teries were kept shotted on Loma hill for a renewal of hostilities. The casu alties were caused by the bursting of shrapnel shells. During the firing the United States bluejackets from the gunboat Annapo lis were kept near the United States consulate out of the path of the shells. | DEATHS AND FUNERALS | Miss Edith Ai'ten. The funeral of Miss Edith Auten. sixteen years old, who died late yes terday. will be held at the Hemphill Avenue Methodist church tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock. Miss Auten, who was the daughter of W. J. Auten. 334 Hemphill avenue, died at a private san. ilarium after a long illness. Mrs. W. H. Reagin. Mrs W. H. Reagin. 59 years old. who died ai r.er residence in East Vtlanta. was buried in the church yard of Stamps chapel toiia-.. following funeral services ai Poole's chapel. She is survived bv her husband and three children Mrs. Ophelia Beck. Tlie funeral of Mrs. Ophelia Beck. 34 years old. who died at No. 54 Stewart avenue yesterday, was held ai thr- resi dence this afternoon Interment was in West view cemetery. Mrs. Beck was a member of Hie Daughters of America She is survived by her husband. H M Heck; her father. C I, Stanley, and two children Matilda Roberson. Matilda Roberson, little daughter of J 1. Roberson, died at the residence. t 8 Flora avenue, today. The remains were < arried to Poole's chapel awaitins the funeral tomorrow morning at it! o'clock. Interment will be in Decatur Ga ■ • COURT OF APPEALS OF GEORGIA Mangham vs. State (two cases); i om Spalding superior court —Judge R. T. Daniel Judgments affirmed R R Arnold. Frank Flynt. C. G. .Mills. W A Fuller. Dodd A- Dodd, for plaintiff in! erf. ■ I. W Wig.-, solicitor general \V I H Reck T E Patterson, contra. GIRLLUREDBYAD ELOPES IND IS DESERTED Lured by an advertisement offering to share $40,000 with the country girl who would become his wife, wooed and won and deserted after eloping, Mary McEachin, nineteen-year-olc daughter of J. P. McEachin. a re tired farmer of Denton. Ga.. appeared at police station today and asked Chief Beavers to begin a hunt for her dash ing husband of a few days. Miss McEachin told the chief a story that had all the elements of romance ir It. Some weeks ago she read in a daily newspaper an advertisement in whici the writer announced that he wanted a country girl for a wife and had s4h.oof. to share with her. She answered and was delighted to get a quick response. A Dashing Wooer Was Hutcheson. Her correspondent, who gave his name as Conway Hutcheson, of Bat tenberg, Va„ proved a lightning wooer. He announced that he'd run down to Denton at once and before Miss Mc- Eachin could draw a long breath he was on his way. He arrived July 31. Although Hutch eson had said he was from Battenberg, he had all the dash country girls usual ly associate with the big cities, and Miss McEachin lost her heart in less time than it takes to shuck corn When her parents got an inkling of the romance they put in strenuous objec- I tions and the pair pretended to be re signed to their verdict. The actual wooing, the parental ob jection and the pretended resignation all came in one day. Hutcheson said he'd be on his way home, heartbroken and discouraged. Miss McEachin said she'd see him off. and went to the sta tion with him. while her parents flat tered themselves on her implicit obe dience They Elope and Are Mamed Here. But instead of seeing her advertis ing sweetheart off. she got on the train with him and they came to Atlanta. On August 1 they were married by Jus tice of the Peace Orr, and spent the first days of their honeymoon at a ho tel in this city. Then they decided to go back to Denton and brave the pa rental wrath. They got there Sunday morning, and Hutcheson announced that he had a pressing business engagement many, many miles away. He left S2O with his bride, and a score of kisses, and de parted. On August 8 the young bride, dream- I ing of the far away husband, got a letter—a letter that sent her romance crashing. It was full of assumed trag edy. It ran wet with tears. "You don't love me any more." the dazed bride read. "Therefore 1 am going away. You will see me no more I can not beat the thought of your love having turned cold. God forgive me for leaving you like this, but I could not look upon you again in the realiza tion that you 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 law. Mrs. Herman McEachin. of 97 Lovejoy street, Atlanta, wife of e Southern railway conductor. Chief Beavers premised her to start a search for the vanished husband, but the pros pects of locating him are none 100 brigh t. STRENGTHEN THE NERVES Take Horsford's Acid Phosphate A teaspoonful in a glass of cold water makes an invigorating, refreshing bever age. eee Distribution of the 45- piece Dinner Set commences Wednesday, August 14. Subscribers who desire back numbers of the coupons can get them at Premium Room. ATLANTA GEORGIAN.