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THE WEATHER
Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia:
R a ,n Wednesday and probably Thurs
day.
VOL. XL NO. 33.
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Moonshiners Saw Through the
Iron Bars and Make Way
Down Long Rope.
ONE SAT ON WINDOW
LEDGE FOR AN HOUR
Both Recaptured After Turnkey
and Guard Cover Them With
Guns in Yard.
James Bailey and Oscar Forrest,
moonshiners, serving one-year terms
in the Atlanta Tower, are locked in
side their cells today after n daring
attempt to break jail Instead of hav
ing the freedom of the kitchen. If
Night Jailer Gilliland had not hap
pened to look out of his window last
night the two moonshiners would be
half way back to the north Georgia
mountains and the wildcat stills today.
They were on the brink of liberty when
discovered.
Through a window on the fifth floor
of the south wing, squeezing out of a
narrow opening made by the cutting of
on® bar. the two men climbed down a
slender cord to the court yard below.
They were ready to scale the wall sur
rounding the yard when Gilliland, mak
ing his rounds, happened to look out
of the window. '
He saw Forrest in the court yard,
seized his pistol and ran down the
stairs. When he called on the moon
shiner to surrender, he showed fight for
a moment, but the sight of the jailer’s
revolver made him take a second
thought and sullenly went back to his
eell.
Bat on Window
Ledge for Hour.
Up on the third floor, sitting on the
ledge of a window. Jailer Suttles, who
had run to Gilliland's aid, spied Bailey,
dismayed at the capture of his part
ner.
I ye a good mind to take a shot at
'ou. he remarked, pointing his gun up
at the now trembling prisoner.
Oh. Lordy, don’t do that.” cried Bai
ley.
So they let him sit there for an hour
and finally pulled him in and back to
his cell.
Bailey and Forrest, held in the county
.'ail as boarders at Uncle Sam’s ex
pense. were awaiting trial set for Oc
tober. if their sentences had been
more than a year, they would have been
at the Federal prison. Soon aft
er entering the Tower they were given
l,lr ' envied places of cooks and had the
B redont of the kitchen on the fifth floor
" the end of the south wing.
Cut Through Bar
With Meat Saw.
l-i-t nighs the two men prevailed on
t'i' prisoner-turnkey on their floor to
r t them go to the kitchen after hours.
■'king the plea that they wanted to
l're|.are for breakfast. They locked
'“ ves in, took the meat saw used
n the kitchen and sawed through a bar
" 'h* small window. Then tlir-.v took
” ' place of concealment a big coil
nder rope, a bed cord used in the
fnd which tiny bad stolen some
in the past month. Down this
"her cord Forrest slid, past the win
on the floors below, and .reached
L", -'"und in safety, with his pal close
behind. ’i
| . lliHi only a wall to scale ana
" ' would have been easy. Within a
. ■' ll’ r °w of the jail lay the railroad
and open freight cars, offering
kni' I- 'ransportation from the city. But
jw -r plans were frustrated by discov
and they went back to imprison
men,.
■' the Tower at the time of the at
’ ‘ Pt to escape were the live negroes
fought from the .Marietta jail last
. **’ " avoid a possible attempt at
king by thy same mob which slew
1 ’ ’Sio at Cumming yesterday after
-I’lle men Were sent to Marietta
1 '-keeping lust Saturday, but the
"t yesterday's moll made the
. • fear an attempt to storm
f ’ °unt\ Jail. 'l’he prisoners
u '’Ught to Atlanta by automobile
o< k< d tai Tow
TRAIN kills three
’l’lXf'K. r: I. Sep! II -Three
K k "err kilhd hy ihc Hostnn
* ' '"’•'huni-t limited tram «»n tlie*
railroad rar | 5 at Hike
Ihf biulir h< r< f,»i»f|p»| ah'Hr
’ s about 200 feet apart.
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results.
\ UNCLE TRUSTY! I
’ Copyright, 1912, by International News Service
Candidate I Iro !
PRES iDENtY I M '
AGAIN. “ po amp will stamp by '/ 'w
- L \ —t Ta ) 3 it. The only iNpivipuALl, z/ZJfi
THEODORE KooStvtUT; Zv/E CAMhJOT GET ON vJITH IS ' tW'jWOw. \7 ft'fgk
• es-r cS I //: ffii
ArfPr’ 2 HIS Principles ARK AMP J
U'S V , < (Tl4£N EXPLAINSTMAT THOSE Wz KVm Jk W/ 'III
Zz, / LARK NOT REALLY MEANT WO /Jxz V/i
his
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“Theodore. 1 don't think I ever heard a more perfectly corking and bully speech than the one you're
making, but lor heaven's sake look around and see what that bill poster is pulling up on the wall behind
you! Evidently he has been hired to do it by some low mollycoddle! I\no<;k him over the ropes, Theodore!
Eat him alive! Poor William has the gout! That boy is certainly the Hard Luck Kit]! This is the open
season for small game, and I'm having lots of fun hunting the (toggle-eyed Rabbit, the Bonehead Squirrel,
the Chuckle-headed Raccoon and the Wabble-brained Quail!"
11. 5. MILLION®
HELD BL REBELS
Walter Douglas. Manager of
Mine. Seized— Women Reach
I
Safety Under Guard.
1
DOUGLAS, ARIZ, Sept. 11.— Walter
Douglas, millionaire, general manager
of the Phelps-Dodge mining interests,
is a prisoner of Mexican rebels south of
here today, according to advices re
ceived this morning. Douglas, accord
ing to the reports, was seized by rebels
while he was traveling between Agua
Prleta and Nacozari. Wires were cut
and definite news of his fate has not
been received here.
The news of the capture has caused
. great excitement here. It has increased
■ the‘feeling of indignation of the people
here against the rebels and it is feared
that reprisals may be attempted.
A party of twenty American women
refugees from theJTigre mine have ar
rived at Isabel station under escort of
t 135 armed Kickapoo Indians.
Three hundred rifles and a large
| amount of ammunition have passed
into Sonora from the United States to
the use of Americans in Nacozari in
’ defendin gthemselves if needed.
Mexican Troops
Permitted in U. S.
Washington, sept, ii.--The state
department, by direction of President
Taft, has authorized the Mexican gov
-1 eminent to send troops through Ameri
' can territory It is planned to send
‘ 1,800 men byway of El Paso, Texas.
' and Douglas. Ariz... into Sonora. These
Mexlcans will not cany their arms
while In the United States, but the
arms will follow the men on special
trains
JUDGE GRUBB TO SIT
FOR JUDGE SPEER IN
TRIAL OF COL. HUFF
MACON. GA Sept. 11.—Judge W. 1.
Grubb, of Birminghum, has been des
' igmited by Judge Don A. Pardee to
1 pre-lde over the fall term of the United
' Stales court in Macon, in pi ti c of
Judge Eihoix Speer who will be m No
v:i Septi < at that time.
The trial of <'olonel W A Huff on
' the ehaige of , onteinpt of <<>un tfoi
sending a tie!) lettct Io Jlldgt Spoe.
etenflf will take plate und'l .llldgt
~<;nilib. 1 .Iti'iU' Spiel ha- deelai.d
i I Pal Io w 111 not pit -I'P OV< r the <a. •
ATLANTA. GA.. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 11. 1912.
Girls Say Their False
Testimony Sent Man
To Pen; Get Him Freed
Conscience Stricken Young Wom
en Tell Governor They Per
jured Themselves.
MONTGOMERY, ALA.. Sept 11.—Two
conscience stricken young girls have
caused J. M. Holford, a Butler county
white man. to regain his liberty, after
being In the penitentiary since the spring
of 1907. He was sent to serve twenty
years for second degree murder and his
conviction was based largely on the testi
mony of the girls who now admit they
perjured themselves on the stand because
of fear.
The girls filed affidavits with the gov
ernor declaring their evidence at the
trial false and wishing now to correct it
Governor O'Neal at once issued -a parole
for Holford. Clemency was recommended
by the trial judge and the solicitor.
.No action will be taken against the girls.
CITY COUNCIL AFRAID
SEWAGE CONTRACTOR
WILL GET RICH QUICK
Councilman S. A. Wardlaw is strug
gling with the problem of how much
profit a contractor should make on a
$25,000 city contract.
Because it appeared that Contractor
Wilson would make too much money
on an electrolytic sewage disposal plant
for Druid Hills, the sewer committee of
council turned down his bid yesterday
and referred the whole matter to the
councilman for investigation
For three years Mr. Wilson has per
sistently endeavored to sell the city one
of the patent plants. The Druid Hills
Company has turned over to the city
$25,000 for a sewage disposal plant.
The sewer committee decided some time
ago to give Mr. Wilson a chance if he
properly would safeguard the city with
a bond.
Chief of Construction Clayton esti
mated lhat the cost of the plant would
be SIB,OOO. Mr. Wilson's estimate is
that it would be $22,500. It was esti
mated by the committee that Mr. Wil
son's profit would be about $6,500. and
it was decided that that would be too
much
12.000 BALES OF COTTON
RAISED IN UPSON COUNTY
THoAI ASTON. GA . Sent 11 The first
week of ihe cotton season brought 30
bales to Thomaston The first bale was
brought in by .1 !•’ Grav and was sob! to
the Thomaston Cotori mills for 14 cents a
pound. The farmers are busy pic king and
more than ««i0 hales are expected lids
week The crop in this county though
<iver tw<« weeks late, is much belter than
in some »»f the bordering counties. It l*»
a safe estimate to pre<|jet 12.000 bale-* for
ihp' count' Last year (lie crop was
1.'..G0n bales
I ' ‘ ' > \ ' •• -•<■< |»|l.< • I.ifi .
fax ..i »„•.'» nn ...Hi.ti buyei* and it i* a
free-for-all ramble..
BEE OE CURTIS
IB LOWE TO HIM
Beautiful Young Bride Stands
by Former Atlantan Who
Killed for Slur.
With Dr. A. Lee Curtis, of Atlanta,
by his side, W. H Curtis, of Jackson.
Miss., is preparing his defense against
the char ge of murder hanging over him
there, and his young wife, the cause of
the fatality, is sticking loyally to her
husband in his trouble, according to
dispatches from Jackson today. The
former Atlantan will enter a plea of
self-defense, and it is probable that he
will show that J. H. Helton, the man
slain by Curtis' bullets, had made re
marks reflecting on the character of
Mrs. Curtis.
The wife, who was only 17 when she
married Curtis a year ago. is describ
ed as one of the most beautiful young
women in Mississippi. Her position in
tire tragedy and her loyalty to her hus
band have made the case one of the
most notable in the history of the Mis
sissippi capital.
Curtis, who was well known in At
lanta until he left this city to travel
for a St. Louis chemical company, with
headquarters in Jackson, is a fine spec
imen of young manhood. He is a broth
er of A. L Curtis, of Atlanta, the for
mer a councilman several years ago. '
Curtis married the daughter of V. L.
Skat'-s, who lived tt'-ai Jackson, about a
year ago.
It developed today that the shooting
was the direct outcome of a suit for 1
SIO,OOO filed by Helton against Curtis
and his father-in-law, as the result of a 1
severe belting given Hi lum by the two
min last Marell Helton was the pro
prietor nf .i small news stand in Jack
r
son News leached Curtis that Hel
ton liiid made defamatory remarks 1
about Mis Curtis, and. with his father- 1
ill-law and brother - in-law , be went to
the news stand, called Helton out and
beat him terribly. Helton sued for
damages. < 'in tis It is said, went to him
afterward and asked that tin- suit lie
withdrawn, but Helton refused. On
Sunday morning, while Helton was
seated in a physician's office, Curtis
entered and opened fire on him. send
ing seven bullets from an automatic
pistol into hi, body ami killing him
Instantly. When Helton found
ib ad Ins left hand clasped a involve!
which hod mil h'-'n tii'-d I'urli- < |
' ■■cit'd lb il lie fired after . elnu H'ltori
I'linw his W' lpon 'll'l lief'.ll tin pew
multi could pull th* trigger.
Popular Song Reveals
Pact of Couple to Die:
Shoots Girl and Self
‘ Let’s Forget We Ever Met,”
Said Ballad—Woman Dead;
Man Dying.
BOSTON. Sept. 11.—A death pact is
believed by the police to be behind the
killing of Miss Mabel Clayton at the
Preble house early today by Erank E.
Ogilvie, of Melrose, who afterward shot
himself in the right temple.
The young woman died at the relief
hospital within half an hour from a
bullet wound in the head Ogilvie died
before noon today.
Some sheet music, containing the
song. "Let's Forget We Ever Met."
which was found in the hotel room,
strengthens the theory the couple had
resolved to die together. The song was
open at the last verse, where a line
reads: "( ntil we say good-bye."
Two seats tor a Boston theater were
found. Apparently the two had resolved
to spend their last hours on earth as
happily as possible. From the theater,
it is believed, they went to the hotel,
where Ogilvie registered shortly after
midnight.
MISSISSIPPI LAD, 11,
RAISES 200 BUSHELS
OF CORN PER ACRE
JACKSON. MISS.. Sept. 11.—Mis
sissippi's champion juvenile corn grow
er this year, according to reports thus
far received, is Grafton Pickle, of Mon
roe county, aged eleven years.
This youngster has tilled one acre of
corn on his father's farm about seven
miles from Aberdeen, and, according to
information received at the state de
partment of agriculture, his crop on
that one acre, according to good esti
mators. will be about 200 bushels.
When only nine years of age this boy
raised fill bushels of corn on one acre. I
Last year his crop showed a yield of
128 bushels, per acre.
Noli" of the reports thus far received I
from the boys coin clubs are official,'
bill when the e.-niiied reports come In!
it it Is believed that 6,000 boys in Mis-'
sissippi will have, made records far ex- .
'■ceding those' of last year, both as to I
yield ap<l quality'.
FIRST ARTESIAN WELL
IN SOUTHERN GEORGIA
VALDOSTA. GA.. Sept 11. Geolo
gists have claimed that it was Impos
sible to obtain a flowing well in this
section of th,, stun until this week,
whet, i>, H. Hightower, living a mile
.'iid a half Tom the city, struck a free
i flow ing stream of sulphur water <1 a
I'bT'b "f I"" f" I. No other flowing
| Tl'rl.'n ".ell I klio.'li mis when m
I IDS ft» «. Hull of the 9tdiz
BUJODHOUNDSONTRAIL
OF GUHIKG FIREBOG;
RACE WM IDB EAT ENS
Destruction of Store of White Man by
| Incendiary, Following Lynching of
Black, Keeps Temper of Citizens of
Forsyth County at Danger Heat.
V; f,
lurch Believed to Have Been Applied by Negro
tor Revenge—-Guilty Person May Be Given
Short Shrift if Caught—Five Prisoners Are
Rushed From Marietta Jail to Atlanta Tower.
< I AIMING, G \.. Kept. 11.—Bloodhounds are on the trail of the
men. believed to be negroes, who burned the store of AV. .1, Duice at
an early hour today, and the clouds of race war which have hung over
| I orsyth county lor the past ten days threaten to break, into a storm
ol bloodshed today.
I he,burning ol the store was plainly the work of incendiaries. The
place was in the Big (’reek district, five miles south of Cumming, and
close to the scene ol last week s crimes, the beginning of the reign
of unrest among the white people of the countryside. It is believed
to be a bit of retaliation by the negroes for the lynching of Ed Collins
in the Cumming square yesterday afternoon.
Soon after the fire was discov
ered a posse of citizens, with
a pack of bloodhounds brought
from the nearby town of Bu
ford. took the trail of the fire
bugs. They have not returned.
If they overtake their prey it is
hardl\ likelx that the sheriff
will have an opportunity to act.
Cumming Still
Filled With Hillmen.
Cumming is far from quiet today.
The men of the mountains are still in
town, armed and sullen. They are not
satisfied with having dragged Ed Col
, lins. slayer of a young girl, from the
jail and hanged him to a telephone
post The burning of the store has led
, them to believe that the negroes are
In sympathy with the assailants of
women. It will take but a little more
to fan their fury into an attack on the
blacks, which will mean a race war.
There is no love lost between the
1 mountaineer and the negro at the best,
and their hatred has grown even more
violent in the past week.
Ed <'oilins, confessed accomplice of
the slayer of an 18-year-old girl last
Sunday, was the only victim tiie mob
was able to reach, all other prisoners
arrested in the recent troubles having
been sent to Jail in Atlanta or Mariet
ta. Collins was brought to the Cum
ming Jail yesterday afternoon and lock
ed in a cell
An hour later a mob of 1,000 men. in
broad daylight and without effort to
ward concealment, marched on the Jail,
battered down th" door with sledge
hammers and crowbars, tore the negro
out of his cell and hanged him to a
telephone post before the courthouse
door. His, body swung there until it
was cut down by the county authorities
a few' hours later. It is said that the
negro was 'dead from the rain of but
lets poured Int" Ills cell before his body
was hung frQm the pole as a lesson to
other negroes.
All the men accused of crimes against
wiiite wointn are now in the Atlanta
Tower, a building too strong and too
well guarded by city police for its
jailer to fear Hie attack of a country
mol>. Five negroes who had been held
in the Marietta Jail for safe keeping
i were brought to Atlanta in automobiles
i last night and placed in the Tower, for
the Cobb county authorities feared an
assault by the same determined men
who had stormed the Forsyth county
jail so successfully. The five negroes
are Tony Howell. Fate Chester. Isaiah
Perkle. Johnny Bates anil Joe Rog
ers. They were arrested after an as-
I sault on a.farmer's w ife near Cumming
i last Saturday.
| Grant Smith, a negro preacher who
| was horsewhipped in Cumming last
! Saturday for his alleged remarks re
! fleeting on the character of white wom
; I'ti, was released from tile Marietta j iil,
' as there was no warrant against him.
IHe was being held f"l' safe keeping. Il
is not likely that lie will return to
< 'ummiiig
20 MUTINEERS ARRESTED:
CAPTAIN TRIES SUICIDE
S#*pi II Twentv inure «r
1 irMts wore ißado Dwla.' of niutiio »rs in
th* Black s» a rte«-f at Sobastop .1 \
’number of -aiboiiiii officer* are in
i voßco s<n< e tb»- attempt of I’aptain
.ion tn - oioihH suit iilr a cb>*o watch
I* brmu kept over rhe r»ri-‘oner«. <<( h»»m
•thrr* ai< n> w ne«rl' .»<!<• Mo-.t »»f thonr
i ’ "’«* "J ’ waibhipb Ivan.
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IXTRA'
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE p
CANAL MW MWE
MORSETEST HIGH
J. P. Morgan Opposes Par
doned Financier in Steam
ship Line Project.
I
NEW YORK, Sept. 11.—It would be
» a strange turn of Fortune’s wheel if
I * hatles \\ . Morse, who was deprived
of his liberty by the operation of a
Federal statute, should regain control
of ids former marine interests by the
1 operation of another Federal law—the
Panama canal act.
Ml Morse, an able, daring financier,
made s3o.oll'l.Don out of lcp ste,. Mnshi , 3
and Other enterprises. He lost almost
every cent, he declared at one time.
But when congress passed the Panama
canal hill Mr. Morse opened an office in
Wall street.
President Taft signed the bill. This
means that, like other railroads own
ing boats, the New York. New Haven
and Hartford railroad must cease to be
amphibious; must sell all its steamship
lines in two years' time. And the New
York. New Haven and Hartford has
vast interests in steamship lines which
Morse controlled formerly.
May Buy New Haven’s Boats.
It is said that Morse is trying to
establish a steamship line between
New York and Boston But financiers,
who know Morse's ability as a steam
ship man. are asking:
"Is Morse seeking, or has he ob
tained. barking to make the New York.
New Haven and Hartford an offer for
any or all of Its steamship [ines?"
Tiie financial collapse of Mr. Morse
enabled the New Haven road practi
cally to get control of Boston's steam
coasting trade.
Some financiers doubt If the New'
Haven interests will sell steamship
lines to Mt. Morse if they can find an
other purchaser.
His enterprise has made him many
enemies, and among them are said to
be the J. P. Morgan interests.
CHICAGOANS PLAN
PASSENGER SUBWAY
TO COST $131,000,000
''HIK'AGO, Sept. 11.—A municipal
passenger subway uniting the three
sections of Chicago, tile north, south
and west sides, and estimated to cost
$131,01)0,DOO, is recommended in a r«-
pori by tiie harbor and subways com
mission of tiie local transportatlon com
mittee of the city council. The system
as planned touches the most thickly
populated centers of the city and is
designed to permit the operation of
trains through from one section to the
utlie "One city, one fare” Is the
motto of the commission, and according
io the plan submitted one fare is to be
charged frotn any point on the subway
lines to any other point.
Th" plan considers tile most modern
methods in ti'ackage and equipment.
Trat k.s for both incal and express lines
I), to be Included in every h'anch.
UNIONISTS GAIN ONE.
l,i >N| >< >x. Sept ii. The Unionists have
made a mdn nt one member in narllameiv
liiroiißh io l.ye-ek "lion m Mldli.tloan
'•) •" Mapir Hi.pc elected over
Tilts Liberal "ptroiiem.
