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THE WEATHER Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia: R a ,n Wednesday and probably Thurs day. VOL. XL NO. 33. SLIDE FROM STH STORV ID FLEE WEB 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 ffltPrC • W «w i j. - _''' II 1 'Hili I I UA"?- I k ' ""j [ C., . J If 'U£j K ■ —2 _ —___ T - / “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. I Zlataoir • katrul and Mekur < 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.