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THE WEATHER t Forecast: Local thunder showers today and tomorrow. Temperatures: 8 a. m„ 76 degrees: 10 a. m., 82 de grees; 12 m., 84 degrees; 2 p. m., 86 degrees. XI. XO. 29. POSINGASKIN OF HIGH MIN VANISHES IN ' MYSTERY j Augusta-Atlanta Broker Re-, ported to Have Died Here, i No Record of Demise. i LOCAL CAPITALIST DENIES KINSHIP TO MISSING MAN: Land Dealer Asserted He Was Nephew of J. T. Holleman, of This City. Augusta folk—as well as many At-1 lantans —are wondering today what has j become of one C. E. Holleman, real | estate dealer, who said he was a [ nephew of J. T. Holleman. Atlanta cap- ] Italist, but wasn't; who came to Atlan ta two weeks ago. was supposed to have died of blood poison from an in growing toenail and whos" body never was handled by an undertaker. His partner. S. G Bluer. - ays he is par ticularly anxious to know Hoile- j ■nan came to A a n :■ < |o c a big | 'ar.ii deal, am m;..' "reived a| i te sum of mom . Th< most inte e-iing of the m- ’ ous affair to Atlantans is that otjng Augusta reel state mat ■ was a nephew f .1. 'l'. Holle . - .lent of the Southern Mort •_ • utnuanj. and a prominent mem .,i t hamlxi of Commerce. Mi. el >. . ..'.nt said today that he had no . i\ •- of his own name in Georgia: io ire- had a nephew named Holleman: h : his only brothei died a bachelor, ■cut .■ never heard of th.e ydung Au su.ian un'il a local newspaper man spoke of having closed an advertising ■ untract with rhe new firm. The news caper man said the man said he was a nephew of .1. T. Holleman, the At lanta capitalist. Augusta Heai'd Holleman Died For several weeks the advertisements of Bruce & Holleman, real estate and fa 1 m loans, have been appearing in Au gusta and Atlanta papers. The farm ’oan business is the same the Atlanta Holleman is engaged in. and he be lieve,s his name may have been used to induce belief that he was interested In the Augusta concern. A dispatch from Augusta today says: AUGUSTA, GA., Sept. 6.—Mys tery surrounds the disappearance of C. E. Holleman, of Bruce & Hol leman, real estate dealers, of this city. Two weeks ago Holleman went to Atlanta to close a big land deal in Coffee county. At the time he was suffering from a>n in growing nail on his great toe. His partner, S. G. Bruce, received a let ter from him from the Imperial hotel, written on August 30. saying that he was suffering great pain with his toe. On Monday morning » young man friend of Holleman s here named Davis received the fol lowing night lettergram: "Holleman died this p. m. of blood poison. Notify Bruce and friends. Funeral at Raymer. Wil kinson county, Monday p. m (Signed) HENDERSON. Neither Bruce nor Davis knows who Henderson is and since that time nothing has been heard of him. Holleman had an uncle, .1. T. Holleman, in Atlanta, and he has been asked by wire about his nephew, but has not been heard from. Holleman has two married sisters in Dublin. Ga No Record of Death in Atlanta. Health Officer Kennedy, of At lanta, wired Bruce that he has no record of Holleman's death. His partner is loath to believe that he closed a trade and fled with the money, but he can not solve the •iddle. Both Holleman and Bruce came here two months ago from Atlanta. At the Imperial hotel the register failed to show the name of C. E. Hol leman, nor did the oterks remember any such guest. At. the city hall the records of burial permits revealed no such name. At the Southern Mort gage Company Mr. Holleman was em phatic tn disclaiming any connection or acousintance with his supposed nephsw, The directory does not con hairt th»'®arn» of either Bruce or Hol- XVttriUier the Augusta Holleman ] r-kwed sh» deal he came to close, whether he received the money. and "here he went when he was reported lead is g jnyeterv. There are persons '■i.i— would lik" tn nice if The Atlanta Georgian Housewife, Too, Is Bad Insurance Risk: Hours Long, Worry Endless Habits Are Sedentary and She Is Exposed to Disease, Says Expert. I | CHICAGO, Sept. 6.—That the house s wife is one of the worst hazards in the life insurance business is the opin- I ion of P. D. Gold. Jr., president of the I insurance convention here. j He says their hours are worse than a policeman's, their habits are seden- I tary, they are exposed to diseases of I' all sorts and their worries ate endless. "I know of only two classes of women I who arc worse risks," said President Gold. "They are servants and chorus girls." According to E. J. Spratling. of At > lanta. the official statistician of the I convention, religion plays an itnpor-] I tant part in the estimating of the de- | I grees of risk on insurance policies. 'The Jew is the best risk in this coun- | I try, " added D. Spratling. "There is I I less of fervor and excitement in his re- j I ligion. and it is more conducive to nat- ; ural living than any other religion, i This is particularly true of their worn- j en. They live naturally, have fewer] worries and less illness." Dr. Spratling is of the opinon that the best risk among women are the i milliners. "They have good hours," he i said, "pleasant surroundings and live i I well. There is just enough art in their ! [work tu keep them in the right fra me | of mind. ' CHAS. G. DAWES'SON DROWNS SWIMMING AS RESULT OF HEAT CHICAGO. Sept. The body of! Rufus Keating Dawes, son of Charles' G. Dawes, ex-treasurer of the United Stales and president of the Central j Trust Company of Illinois, drowned ir. i Lake Geneva late yesterday, w ill be I j taken to Chicago today. Young Dawes was a senioi at Princeton, an athlete j smd an expert swimmer. He sank while swimming in the lake. I .News of the accident was telegraph- ■ ed to Chicago, and a special train bear- ] ing the young mans father, physicians and a,, pulomotor was rushed to Lake Geneva Efforts to resuscitate Dawes proved futile. Physicians al Lake Ge neva were on hand twenty minutes aft er the body was taken from the water. .'II heart action had ceased, and the doctors say they believe he died of heart fallur . .-superinduced bv the heat. I : , | GIRL 19. PRISONER IM STOCKADE. IS PENITENT Katie May Burdett, the 19-year-old Chattanooga girl, who defied several policemen yesterday and refused to get in the stockade transfer wagon, today began serving her term of thirty days After spending a time in solitary confinement in a cell, following her escapade, the girl changed her view of things in general, became penitent, and promised io hr good. \yhen she again was escorted to the stockade wagon late in the afternoon, she en tered the vehicle without a word and rode peacefully out to the stockade. ARTIST’S WIFE TO STAY IN RENO FOR A DECREE RENO, NEV., Sept. 6.—Following the refusal of Judge French to grant Mrs. Henry Hutt the wife of the artist, a divorce, Mrs. Hutt immediately stocked up her home with provisions and pre pared to remain in Reno until she ob tains her decree, if it takes the rest of her natural life. She is sending to New York to get depositions to substantiate her testimony. JOHN M.SLATON TO TALK TO TEACHERS OF BURKE John M. Slaton Democratic, nominee for governor of Georgia, has accepted an invitation to address the* teachers' institute in Waynesboro, Burke county, on October 15. Mr. Slaton will address the gather ing along educational lines. “TEACHER WHO DOESN'T USE SLANG WORTHLESS” SCRANTON. Sept. 6.—“1 wouldn’t give two cents for a teacher who does not use slang." was a statement made here by Prof. J. C. Stone, principal of the normal school at Montclair, N. J. jacksoTcityattorney MARRIED TO HIS NURSE JACKSON, MISS.. Sept. 6.—Louis C. Hallman, city attorney, was married to Miss Hattie Bell Wilkinson, a trained nurse, who attended him recently when he underwent an operation. POLITICsTs BARRED TO SAVE BIG G. 0. P. CLUB CHICAGO. Sept. 6. —For the first time in its history the Hamilton club, the largest Republican club in the West, has barred the discussion of pol itics for fear the club would be dis rupted. BIGAMIST WEDS SISTERS: CAN NOT NAME HIS CHOICE i WAYNESBORO. MISS. Sept. f. II L. Clark" aIT -ted I" -■ r ■ I'ha g iel bigamy. -,.y -ii n't lino - wliiv’i of I his two wive- he love.- better. Thel Read For Profit —GEORGIAN WANT ADS —Use For Results. ATLANTA, GA., FRIDA Y. SI£PTEMBEL’ 6, 1912. BUTS DEATH IK MCE Hl fflE ra HANGMAN After Frenzied Efforts. Gov ernor's Secretary Gets Word , Through Just in Time. -GALLOWS READY AS SHORT RESPITE CAME I i Telephone Failing. Telegraph Relays Get Notice to Sheriff to Halt Execution. Private Secretary tu the Governor Jesse Pi rry. after a nerve-racking and ' thrilling race againlst time and the : hangman of Early county, saved the I life today of Johnson Webb, condemned [io hang for murder in Blakely, between , I the hours of 11 a. m. and 2 p. m. Webb, a negro, was condemned to j I death several months ago. and. although i I his sentence was recommended to the | governor for life commutation by the state prison commission, the governor | declin' d to interfere, and seemingly , there was nothing to prevent the exe cution today. When the governor arrived at his of fice this morning, however, he found a mass of telegrams awaiting him from officials and citizens of Blakely, among them one of the prosecuting attorneys in the Webb case, informing him that new and highly important evidence had been discovered in Webb's favor, and that his attorneys desired to pre sent them to the governoi for atten-. t lon. Ninety Minutes to Save a Life. I The governor called Secretary Perry into his room at 10:55 and informed him that he had decided to respite Webb for two weeks, and that it was squarely up to rhe secretary to get the notice of respite through to, the sheriff of Early county in time to stop the execution today. Perry ha<l five minutes margin be fore the earliest time limit within which the execution might be performed. and three hours anti five minutes margin to the final time limit. Figuring that the sheriff would not hurry the man to the scaffold Imme diately upon the stroke of eleven, nor yet wait until the last minute. Perry thought I hat be had about one hout and a half within which to save Webb's life. He first got busy with the long dis tance telephone. After considerable ef fort. he was informed that the wires were down to Blakely, and that the telephone company could help him none in his effort to get at the sheriff. By this time Perry's limit of one hout and a half had been clipped down by a good many minutes. He then undertook to get at the sheriff byway of the Western Union wire. But Blakely is a small and rela tively unimportant place, and, despite the urgency of the appeal, the mes sage of life to Webb could not b< landed immediately in the sheriff's hands. Time still was slipping away, and Webb's execution a certainty unless Perry’s message could land. And Then Coloney Perry Had Lunch The secretary, in something of a frenzy by’ this time, got hold of General Manager Peebles of the local Western Union office and explained things to him. Peeble responded at once. He went at Blakely from two differ ent directions—via Jacksonville, Fla., and Montgomery. Ala. The governor’s message of respite was relayed both ways, with a rush or der behind it. Finally, Montgomery got Dothan. Ala., and Dothan got Blakely, and the sheriff was handed the precious mes sage at 12:32. A few minutes later. Perry was in formed that the execution had been headed off, and then he went to lunch— but not with much appetite for it. The hanging had been planned fol 11:30. but the sheriff had been inform ed that efforts to reach the governor were under way . and he had 'determined to postpone the execution until the last minute. 2 o'clock, if necessary . Had the. message from the governor been delayed a 'minute later than 2 the sheriff, under the law. would hate been compelled to execute the pris oner HOSTLER TO PRESIDENT POLK. AGED 111. WEDS HI-11.10 A. \RK . Sept. fi. Sanrlx Alex ander H’ years old. limb r to President | Polk, was married here to Susie McGhee. Girl Calmly Finishes Letter as Flames Destroy Big Plant HEROINE TOO BUSY TO FLEE • ■ ft. .i-fc- .. vsy*- T *• j! I \\ " •7 / \ .■ /' \\w / / ft - t Ln I ''' /; z +-■ Ruins <>f lit 1 Binder Frame Maiiiiiacltiriuu (‘oiii|>au\ s plant at Whitehall slreel and tlf Irolliy iiuclerpass. and Miss ('arric Lehman. slen(>orapliei r ~ior the company, who proved the coolest person in the building when the fire was discovered. ODD COMPLICATION ARISES IN THE CITY ELECTRICIAN RACE With the rave for ■ ity eleetrii inn be tween R. C. Turned the incumbent, and Fred Miles, former city el< ett b inn. il ready a rather exciting control. <i i 'im plication was dis. 10.. (I todav w hirl) 1 adds Intelest to it. Dan Bowie, the as-i-tatit to Turin ). : is to run on the ticlo rof Mih s When he got ready to re -ign on September 1 Turner ofe:rre>d to a conttir : b tween ' then) and refused to releas. Botvi'. Bowie says th»- eontiaet reflects un Turnci and tliat it does not hold him to ■ the job. The- contract is that Turn, r I will pay Boevie SIOO of his JI soo sal ary, in addition to the SI,OOO the city 1 pays him It was made just aftei the I primary of two yeais ago. when Bowii and Tui'ner. as the candidates recoiv- H ing the Highest number of vote-, wen I about to have to run in i ,-eeond pri mary. Rathei than do tliih. Turne; agreed to mak” their salaries • i en. but Turner was to have tin title of city i electrician. ( MULAI ’HAFID HAS SPENT i $15,000 IN ONE GAY WEEK PARIS, Sept. fi. Ex-Sultan Mnlai ' Hafld, of Morocco, continue- spending his JfiO.OiiO annual allowance from the French government at tie rate of $15.- 000 a week. Today he bought $2,000 y< orth of papier maehe animals, also six live animals, to wit. lout Great Danes so SBOO and two cows for $250. He then went to the vi age of the Freni Guiana natir S and gave tin i ;owd <4 dancing gi ; s a handful of gold an,, un.-uecessfuily attempted to buy two of the -iroftlest girls. HARDWICK TO PETITION GOVERNMENT TO BUILD AUGUSTA FLOOD LEVEE '• Ii; IST \. i;.\ Sept 6. I 'ong> ''ss- i. .it) Thoma - W. Hal'd w ick has made the announcement tiiat he will endcaror to secure an appropriation of $1,000.- oon from tile national government lo build Augusta’s levee. This city has ali'aily i issed a $1,000.1)00 bond issue to bail I :he levee, but if the govern ment pays for the work the city’s mon ey will be used so: sorrr- other pu. - post . Mi. Hardwick says that congress at its last session apptopriated $6,000,000 i'"i I, ~ . < al' ng th, Mississippi lit er, and that lie sees no reason why the Savannah river should not be treated in tl. same manner. GOVERNOR BLEASE GOES TO BIG RED MEN'S CONVENTION CHARLESTON. S. (*.. Sept. Tht ■-Hpital of South Carolina is now at the Isii* of Palms for ten days. Gov ernor Cole L. Birase having arrived last night to take part in the national convention of the Improved Order of Red Mm. llp is great representative from South Carolina. He meets the frieat Incohonee in e tomorrow’ night. SUBMARINE DIVES 283 FEET. TO NEW RECORD SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 6. Twenty four ofYicors and sailors of the submarine F’-l. 'ommanded by Lieutenant James It Howrli. in a six-bour dive here, lon rred all Known records for depth. The i ' 1 descent ed to a dopt h of 253 ft e( Th< oixf was made in San Krancisco I’.4\ Tr,< h.rrnei record was hold by the Seal made <>ff Nantucket light, when a depth of “".r» feet wis attained Stenographer Coolest Person in Burning Plant- Calls Fire men and Finishes Work. That a woman, at least nne woman, can be as biave as man in times o f danger and keep just as cool a head on her shoulders is a ii i't iinty to those who witnessed the S 15.00(1 fin- last night in the factory of th" Binder Frame Manufacturing Company on Whitehall street at the trolley under pass. Miss Uatrie Lehman. 374 Central avenue, the preiiy young sietnigrapher pf the firm. wa~ wilting tin final let ter of the day when someone rushed into the office and y iiied. 'The place's afire!" Nobody noticed Miss Lohman: the men rushed het o and there trying to find out where the fi:e was and to get in a call to fire headquarters. Tiie stenographer who is hardly more than a girl, called th" nearest fire house from over the office tele phone and then, instead of rushing out side, calmlv sat down to her type writer and finished the letter which iiad been interrupted. Modest About Hsr Coolness. Oh, 1 just didn't know how serious the tiro was.' was her modest reply today to congratulations on her cool ness. "You know if 1 had known all • hat fire was hack there. I'd have beat every body out of here." "Hot if that hail la on a mouse com ting .in here instld of flic you'd a got away from here in a hurry." piped up the office boy. But. howi-ve, mm h Miss Lehman may depreciate hoi- own ne: ve, the fact that me flames were roaring in the factory back of th" office and that smoke poured into tin place as she finished the day T work. Damage to th" factory is estimated by officials of the company at about $15,000. the greater part of which is covered by insurance. What started tlie flic, which broke out shortly after 6 o'clock, lias not been learned. The factory, wiii'-h i directly back of the [office on Whitehall street, is built, ot corrugated iror. and it is hardly prob able tliat a spark from a passing en gine could have started the tire. Car Lines Are Blocaed. Firemen battled with th" blaze for nearly two hours before it was con quered. V\ hiie tlie fight raged between men and flames a of several thou sand persons lined the streets and watched with the battle. Many of them were residents of East Point, College Park and Hapeville— commuters who. found it necessary to wait a long time before they could get car serivce to their suburban homes. Many of them spent considerable time explaining to wifey how it happened that they were so late. The underpass is, right next to the factory building and all cars going to the three above mentioned suburbs and I those to West End were blocked. After some delay the incoming cars were rerouted am! camo in through the Ashby street llms by means of the newly laid tracks connecting this line with the Whitehall street lines at Park and Lee streets. Work on the short length of track was only finished yes . terday afternoon, and the track which was built for just such an emergency ax this proved its value at once. | ENTIRE STATE MILITIA ON MINE STRIKE DUTY CHARLESTON W VA, Sept. 6. Every militia company in thi> slate i was ordered on duty today by Gov -1 ernor Glas-seoek. They w ill begin sei > vice at once in th" mining fields and the zone of martia’ law declared last . week will be extended at once. The . situation is rapidly becoming more se rious. HOME EDITION 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE Rt ° DEATH THUS! EXPOSED; SCOfIES SLAIN Woman, Held in West Ham mond Vice Crusade, Tells of Wholesale Killings. “MAN WITH NEEDLE” AND DEATH BOTTLE DID WORK Girls Disposed of to Save Ex penses “System” Buried Chicago Thugs' Victims. -/ CHICAGO. Sept. 6.—With detectivraw guarding her today after threats of death had been made against her, Vir ginia Brooks. West Hammond "Joan of Ari." today assisted the Cook county authorities in a further investigation ot .conditions in the hamlet she is endeav oring to cleanse. That more than twen ty persons had been murdered in West Hammond resorts was the startling allegation in the confession of Fraxikie Ford, former inmate of the dive kept by Henry Foss, which furnished the ground for today’s activities. Accord ing to the girl, whose story has taken the form of an elgfity-page written confession, many of these victims, buried in the private burying grounds at West Hammond of the Chicago vice trust, were girls whoso usefulness tn the trust was ended, and who wer° killed, like old horses, because their keep cost was more than they coul 1 earn. It was a day of startling develop m-nts. Through the disclosures of Frankie Ford the authorities believe they will disclose the most atrocious chain of deliberate. money-impelled murders that has over been discovered. Men armed with spades and shovels wi!’ soon he put to woHc in the ground back of th? Foss dive searching for bodies. These bodies will, for the most part, be those of women. There will, if the girl’s story is true, also be found the bodies of a number of men. Vice Triiit Angry At Disclosures. Arrests today were expected In the West Hammond resorts. Warrants have been prepared for some of the dive keepers an,] some of th? hangers-, on. Some of the arrests will be made by the Fedora! government on cha'-g°B as yet not disclosed. During the morning the Ford girl,, whose real name is Ethel Parker, was! served with a warrant charging hert w ith complicity tn the murder of John Messmaker wealthy West Hammoni* contractor. whose alleged murdew brought about the real disclosures in tlie case. Tito warrant was served at the Bridewell where the girl is held.., Site was too weak an<l nervous to ho t taken to court. The vice trust Is worried, and ft is' angry. A threat against Miss Brook«a| was not unexpected. It came In th»J form of an anonymous letter, which-; was turned over to postoffice inspectors.,. The men who do the bidding of thgj trust have already endeavored tn kid-, nap the Ford girl. That Is one reason, par: of the arrests are to be made by' the Federal government. Those push-./ ing the crusade want the prisoners held where the vice ring can have n<w influence. Bodies of Vice Trust Victims Disposed of. The story told by the Ford girl has startled the county authorities. Her confession indicates that the West Hammond resorts are an adjunct of the Chicago vice trust. It Is here that bodies of those killed in Chicago are sent to be disposed of. Women of the underworld have been among the vic tims. When their "earning power" was gone they were killed and carried through the tunnel to the vice trust’s burial ground. Officers who have read the Ford girl’s confession say these murders were common. And among the bodies also are those of men. victims of drugs, victims of sluggers. Hold-up men who killed men in Chicago put them in automobiles, .., hurried them to West Hammond, gave them over to the vice trust represen tatives who disposed of them for the payment of a paltry sum. others who strayed into the resorts on the quest of pleasure, and who had money, we: ■ killed without scruple, and their cash taken from tnem. if the story of the girl, who says that she Iciew and talked with the "man with lite needle." is to be believed. '! ho death bott ; e-' is also a part o het story Many of the girls, she said had seen it. Many of them had taslet its drugs and never tasted again. Man;