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THE WEATHER • • » Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia: Fair today and tomorrow. VOL. XL NO. 14. WORKERS SEE AUTO BANDIT FORCEDDOR OF STORE Robber Leisurely Motors Away When Policemen Accidentally Stroll Around Corner. STREET CLEANERS THINK THIEF IS OWNER OF SHOP West End Pharmacy Scene of Bold Attempt at Burglary. SIOO Safe in Register. While a gang of street sweepers watched him use his “jimmy" with skill, a burglar, whose only shield was an automobile in which he drove to the scene, entered the West,End Pharma cy and was only prevented from loot ing the store by the unexpected and purely accidental arrival of policemen, walking their patrol. The attempted robbery occurred early today. The street cleaners, under Sanitary Inspector Butler, were at work at Lee and Gordon streets when they saw a big car drive up to the pharmacy and stop. Its lone occupant was well dressed and entirely disregarded their presence as he approached the drug store door. He tried the front entrance but failed to get in. He then walked around the corner and tried a side en trance. It was locked. He again approached the front door, this time with a "jimmy.” The pres ence of the putting auto still protected him. The street force thought him the proprietor of the stole. He had just fotced an entrance when two patrol men strolled leisurely along. The autoinobilist saw them. With out apparent hurry, he entered the ear and drove off. Investigation proved that no one connected with the pharmacy had made this early morning call. One hundred dollars in the cash register, though, was saved. CHIMNEY JACKS GIVE FREE VAUDEVILLE ACT 200 FEET IN THE AIR SAVANNAH, GA., Aug. 20.—“ Every, body’s doin' it now.” The words of the song sounded on West Broad street, near Indian, seem ing to come from the sky. Then some one looked toward the top of the tall smokestack that is rising high above the city at the foot of West Broad street, where the new power plant of the Savannah Electric Com pany is being constructed. There on the very top of the still unfinished smokestack were a group of workmen pulling off a song and dance act, 200 feet in the air. The men continued their free vaude ville while the audience on the ground craned their necks to take It all In. AUTO ONCE OWNED BY JACK JOHNSON IS HIT BY CAR; 3 ARE BADLY HURT CHICAGO, Aug. 20.—Three persons were injured, one a woman, probably fatally, when an automobile, once the property of Jack Johnson, the colored champion, but now belonging to Mrs. Mary Moriarity, of Cedar Lake, Ind crashed into a street car today. The driver was sending the car at a terrific pace up Michigan avenue, the police say. He tried to cross Thirty-first street ahead of a car. The car struck the machine squarely in the center. Nellie Bradley, the woman th the car, probably will die. James Kelly and John Connors were severely injured. James Culver, driving the car, was un injured. He was arrested. LABOR UNIONS TO AID MEN NOW ON TRIAL FOR CARRYING DYNAMITE SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 20. —Officers of the San Francisco labor council to day began a crusade among the affil iated unions to raise a defense fund for Olaf Tveitmoe, Anton Johanson and Eugene Clancy, indicted by the gov ernment for the illegal int'istat, trans portation of dynamite and other high explosives. The men tire among those Indicted following the Federal gland Jury probe In Indianapolis. The trials will begin In Indianapolis Ortolan 1 < itlieei <of the State Federation of Labor ate con ducting a >lmilai iiinvuss tot funds throughout the late. The Atlanta Georgian Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Uss For Results CONFESSION OF SGHEPPS REPEATED TO JURY Probers in Rosenthal Slaying Begin Last Session Investi gating the Crime. BECKER INVOLVED BY HIS TESTIMONY ALSO Brokers Are Summoned to Tell of Plunging of Policeman on Wall Street. NEW YORK. Aug. 20.—With Sam Schepps, the alleged paymaster of the gunmen, as the star witness, the New York county grand jifry investigating the Rosenthal murder and the police graft resumed its sessions today. It was expected that Schepps would re peat to the grand jury the confession which he made to District Attorney Whitman en route from Albany yes terday. Schepps is said to have told Whitman that he was with Police Lieutenant Charles A, Becker at the time when Rosenthal was being shot to death, and afterward acted as messenger for Beck er when the latter wanted to communi cate with “Bald Jack" Rose, who was in hiding in the Dome of Harry Pol lock, the sporting promoter. It was said at the district attorney’s office that the present session of the grand jury would probably conclude the Rosenthal investigation so far as it con cerns directly the murder of the be traying gambler. Subsequent investi gation will delve into the police sys tem. Summonses were made out for Wall Street brokers who were wanted to tell about Becker's stock dealing transac tions. Schepps is expected to prove the state’s strongest witness when the cases are brought to trial. Among bank accounts in Becker’s name enough has been found to bring his total deposits in banks up to $60,- 615. Becker banked all this money with in ten months on an annual salary of $2,250. CITY APPROPRIATES $5,000 FOR ORDER AT POLITICAL MEETING GREENVILLE, S. C„ Aug. 20,—City council at a special meeting last night appropriated $5,000 to maintain order here on Thursday, on the occasion of the visit of the Blease-Jones campaign party. This action was taken when re ports became current here that hood lum gangs from Anderson. Spartan burg and Laurens were coming here to break up the meeting as they suc ceeded in doing at Anderson on Sat urday. This city has always been noted for its good order, and in the words of Chief Holcombe, “We are going to have peace if we have to fight for it.” The action of the aldermanic board received the support of practically ev ery business man in the city, many of whom have volunteered for duty on Thursday as special police. STATE TO ASSIST IN CHECKING SCARLET FEVER AT MOULTRIE State aid will be given Moultrie, Col quitt county, in its fight to stamp out a scarlet fever epidemic which threatens the town. Ten cases have been reported in the last few days, and citizens sent re quests for the co-operation of the state board of health that the epidemic be checked before it gains more serious proportions. It is believed systematic work can stop the advance of the epi demic in a few days. Secretary Harris announced the board is ready to act with the Colquitt au- I thorities at any time. PARENTS SEE CHILD CRUSHED TO DEATH UNDER STREET CAR MACON, GA.. Aug. 20. —While her parents were eating ice cream In a soda tountain, little Pearl Welch, a three-year-o'.d tot, wandered out and strolled on the car tracks directly in the way of a rapidly approaching Vineville cat, at Washington avenue Hjid Orange street. More than 50 per sons. including tile child’s parents, saw the little girl knocked down and run over The eliild died soon afte! wards 'at tin hospital, where the father him | self took tin broken and bleeding body in hl.- arms. Mr. Welch is a fanner, living near Macon. ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, AUGUST 20. 1912. GIDDAP! - - - -- - BY TAD ilk -tist u w I LOBE PANSIER Falls Into Creek in Death Grap ple With Negro—Saves $750 Money Bag. To keep workers at the Intrench ment brick plant of the sewerage con struction work from losing their pay, Cal King fought three robbers, put two to flight, and narrowy escaped drowning when be and the third high wayman fell in a creek in a death struggle for the money bag containing ,$750. The negroes are being hunted to day. King had been to the city to draw the payroll for Chester A. Dady. who has the contract for the work, and was nearing the Intrenchment creek plant when approached by a trio of negroes. They were all armed with revolvers. Just previously. King had picked up a club from the roadside and had it in his hand when he was accosted. The revolvers didn't worry him. He swung his club and the nearest robber was sent scurrying away with a split head. He attacked the second so fiercely that he, too, took to his heels. The third highwayman was of more determined stuff. He grappled with the paymaster and a desperate strug gle was on. So fierce was it that both men fell from the road into the creek running along its side. Still they fought, until exhausted and half drowned, the negro gave up and break ing away made his escape. King, was too weak to follow, but the money was saved. EX-GAMBLING KING, ONCE MILLIONAIRE, DIES ONLY A PAUPER CHICAGO, Aug. 20.—George V. Han kins, one-time gambling king of Chi cago. is dead. The noted plunger was stricken with paralysis last May. He died Sunday at the home of a friend here, but the news was kept secret until today. Hankins, who, with his two brothers, at one time operated “club houses” in four parts of the city and was worth more than a million dollars, spent the last months of his life an object of charity. During the height of his suc cess 68 dealers worked in the Han kins gambling houses, and during one month of his prosperity It is asserted that eighteen losers committed suicide Hankins later went Into the luu ->• rac ing game, and though the venture was immensely profit able at first, lie even tually lost hl- entire fortune. i Dixie Sleuth Fools 'Em In Gay Old New York: Sews Money in Socks Augusta, Ga., Policeman, Fearing Wicked City, Takes No Chances—But He Falls. NEW YORK, Aug. 20.—A few days ago, when Patrolman Thomas .1. Kos ter. of the Augusta. Ga.., police force, arrived here, lie fortified himself against the possible loss of his money. Rut he did not reveal the secret until ho was picked up in the street by Po liceman Schwartz and taken to the Mercer street station. “I know all about you and this wicked, wicked town," said Patrolman Foster, who admitted he was 60 years old. "I read all about this graft and high way robbery and other pastimes, but 1 am one too many for you,” Foster con fided as he swayed unsteadily. “I’ve got lots of money: I’m just full of it, but you can't find it.” Lieutenant Bauer smiled indulgently while Foster was searched. A $5 bill was found in his coat pocket and 74 cents in his trousers. “I got more'n that." laughed Foster. The search continued and a S2O bill was found sewed in the top of his right sock. “I got more'n that.” said Foster, still gleeful from the effects of ginger ale, or something. The police found an other S2O ttfil in the other sock. "I got moren' that,” said Foster again. The police removed his shoes, and then asked where the rest of his money was. "Down South!" shouted Foster. "1 guess that’s one on you.” He said the cell to which he was allotted was superior to the prison i ells in Augusta. LEGLESS LAD IS EXPERT SWIMMER AND WRESTLER PHILADELPHIA. PA.. Aug. 2".—Al though legless, Tyson Dolwer. aged 11 has become an expert swimmer and w res tier SI,OOO FUNERAL FOR DOG OWNED BY JOHN W. GATES NEW YORK. Aug 2".‘ Blondy, a small Boston bull dog, owned by th late John W. Hates, has just died hen It will be given a fun' ral costing SI,OOO T. R. SPEAKS IN MISSISSIPPI. JACKSON, MISS.. Aug 20 Dr. J. C French, of Natchez, one of th. cad ets of the Hull Moose part', in Mlssi-- sippl, Is authority forth, annouri'e ment ‘that Colonel Ro"“‘Velt 'till de liver at least one addn 111 tills stull during the presidential campaign, and the riildlss will be lit .1.0 I," It. MILEAGE BILL IS ■ KILLED Bl BROWN Governor, in Vetoing Measure, Declares It Is Contrary to Federal Constitution. Governor Brown today vetoed the bill requiring the pulling of mileage on trains, a measure for which the travel ing men of the state have been light ing for many years. At present the mileage must he exchanged at station windows. The governor brands -the act as again-t the constitution of the United States, in that it makes the state incur an. obligation to regulate a voluntary contract. He points out that mileage is purely a voluntary contract between the railroad and its patrons, fixing a rate lower than the maximum allowed by the state rail road commission. For the state to at tempt to say in what manner this vol untary contract shall he carried out would be to assume an unconstitutional obligation, he tied in s. DOORKEEPER OF ALABAMA HOUSE DIES AT ANNISTON ANNISTON. ALA.. Aug. 20.—Robert Hasson, doorkeeper of the lower house of the Alabama legislature, died at his home in this city late yesterday after noon from old age and a complication of ailments. He was a veteran of the Civil war. sustaining the loss of one of his legs in that struggle. He has held Hie position of doorkeeper of the house for probably 40 years, and was well known throughout the state. He was buried today at Middleton. IX miles northwest of this city, aftei funeral services at his home here. HERMIT LEAVES $2,000 TO MOST PERFECT GIRL CHANBERRY, FRANCE. Aug. 20 Carrot, an eccentric hermit, formerly a member of the chamber of deputies, has left a will providing for a gift, of $2,000 every year to the most perfect girl, morally and physically. JOKE WRITERS STRIKE FOR HIGHER WAGES NEW YORK, Aug. 20. Three mem b< is of th' Yiddish Joke Writer.- union on th< East Side are on a strike for higher wag's. LONE ILLUSIONS CONE, BIOL ffi JOKES OF SUIOHO ENDS LIFE Youthful Mrs. Nona Wynne Asks Em ployer if Persons Ending Own Lives Go to Heaven, Writes Last Notes While Laughing and Drinks Poison. Husband Fixes Identity and Declares if She Had Any Troubles “They Were Her Own”- Was in Gay Mood as She Planned Her End While at Work in Store. Joking of death as she planned her own, Mrs. Nona Wynne, twen ty-three-yeas-old wife of Ernest L. Wynne, a painter of 110 Walton sticet, sought advice from her employer as to the best way of eoiu niitiug suicide. Her husband determined her identity todav immedi ately after he had read how she drank poison and died last night in a soda water parlor, while a dozen pleasure-seekers sipped their cooling drinks at the tables surrounding the one where the tragedv was en acted. Disappointment in her married life is the sole explanation of her act. Iler husband, a painter and paper-hanger, protests that there was no trouble between them. “If she had any troubles, they were her own,” was his laconic answer when asked for explanation of her deed Uncanny Plans Made For Suicide. Her entire action, though, previous to the tragedy indicated that trouble had weighed heavily on her mind and that the decision to commit suicide was not the result of sudden impulse. I but had been reached after careful, al most uncanny consideration. She left a note, appealing to the husband for forgiveness. She left a request as to the future care of he! baby boy. The exact spot In the cem etery, where she wished her remains to rest, was Indicated. Prayers for her soul were pleaded for. She had con sidered he hereafter as a result of her act. She had chosen poison as her method after others had been con sidered. Her married life had not been one of ease and pleasure. Five years ago at Pell C’ity. Ala., where she was born and reared, she was united to Wynne. A boy, James T. Wynne, was born. De spit' the mother responsibilities, Mrs. Wynne wont to work to aid in the sup port of herself and her baby. Gay Questions About Suicide. Sh“ was employed as a clerk in the retail groeeiy establishment of S. Glass, 133 Marietta street. Her hours wore long. Still she was regarded as a cheerful, willing worker and was pop ular with hoi- associates in the store and its patrons. It was to the proprietor of the store that she first gave intimation that she intended to end her life, but so cheerily, were the questions in reference to sui cide asked him that he had no thought that his questioner actually Intended to profit by his advice. There was no apparent change in the girl's good humor yesterday in the store. She waited on her customers blithely and laughed and joked with her co workers. It was during an afternoon lull that she broached the subject of suicide to her employer. She Didn’t Like The Lakewood Idea. "What do you think would become of a girl who committed suicide?" she asked Tliere was a smile on her lii>s as she spoke. Her eyes twinkled. She seemed unusually merry. "I hardly think she’d go to heaven,” Mr. Glass replied. The answer did not affect her demeanor. “Well, if a girl did. what would be the best way ?" she next asked. Plainly the clerk was jesting, the employer rea soned as he returned her laugh. “Why, I think I'd ride out to Lake wood and jump in,” he said. “Oh, that wouldn’t do.” she bantered back. “Somebody might pull you out, and you would have had all your trou ble for nothing.” 'i’he conversation drifted to other subjects. Later in the afternoon Mrs. Wynne asked to be excused from duty in the store, telling tiie prescriptlonist that she purchased tile poison. She bought 25 cents worth of strychnine in a drug store, telling tit, prescription’, t thta she wished to use it in killing ruts. She then returned to the store and resumed her work. Later she wrote a letter and showed the envelope to Mr. Gia "I’m not going to show you what' in it," she said, and still she EXTRA 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE P^ R N E ° I , laughed. The grocer thinks this was the suicide note. I A letter was also written to a school . friend in New Hampshire. She had . told a teacher of the kindergarten at tended by her son that her entire mar- * ried life had been a disappointment. » Leaving the store at 7 o'clock, she joined r husband and with him went to Pink Cherry’s market. She seemed in unusually high Spirits. At the mar ket they separated, he going home and she hack to the city. Where she spent the remaining hours' f between then and the time she had e chosen for her tragic deed is pot known. Ends Her Life At Soda Fount. At 10:30 o'clock she ntered Cone's drug store, 58 Whitehall street. There p is i soda water parlor in connection, ( and to one of the tables here she went. A number of others were seated about enjoying cold drinks during the swei -1 tering evening. She was well dressed and her en trance was noticed by the other cus r tomers. She ordered a drinlj. Finish , ing this, she went to a telephone booth, where she spent some moments writ ing. Whi n she merged the paper was grasped in her hand. If she was suf fering from emotion it was not dis played on her face. She summoned a waiter and asked for a glass of water. It was brought tier. No ones aw her take the poison from her handbag, nor did they see her place it in the water. She dank. Before the last drops had been swal lowed, she fell forward. Help hurried to h< r, but she was beyond human aid. 1 Her Last Note To Husband. The note she had written in the tele phone booth was then examined. It read: "Dear Ernest: "I have 'stood this as long as I can. It is all my fault. Oh, sweetheart, how 1 bale loved you. I know I can never He happy again in this world. Ernest, don't grieve for me. All 1 ask you to do is to let Claia have my precious boy. ph, how my heart aches for him! Ah, how I have to live and just pray God to forgive me.. Tell Mrs. Way to pray for me that God may -have mercy upon my soul. NORA.” "Papa, bury me at Hollywood, on the left hand side going out.” . ___________ N FAMOUS INDIAN CHIEF TO TALK TO CATHOLIC NATIONAL MEETING LOUISVILLE. KY., Aug. 20.—Dele voltes and visitors to the national fed eration of Catholic societies marched in a body this morning to St. Boniface church, where solemn requiem mass was celebrated by Archbishop Mess mer, of Milwaukee. Following this service the business sessions were re sumed. The chief public meeting on the day’s program will be held at the armory in the evening when Archbishop James A. McFaul, of Trenton. J., will speak on "The Apostolate of the Laity.” Chief Hollow Horn Bear, the Sioux Indian, will deliver an address which will be interpreted by Father West ropp, Jesuit missionary. Hollow Horn Bear is the most picturesque delegate to th# convention. Ho is easily recog nized from his picture on the five dollar bill. He was used as a model by the government as a reward for having remained loyal during an outbreak in the early 90's. The federation sent a cablegram to Pop. Plus X exp easing the "loyalty, obedience and love" of the three million Catholics represented by the federation.