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VOL. XL NO. 34
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Inspector McMichael Reports
Lives Menaced by Probabil
ity of Big Explosion.
FINDS CONDITIONS HERE
MENACE TO HUNDREDS
Board to Urge Council to Take
Immediate Action—No In
spection Now.
Hur.' reds of lives are menaced daily
. .t• l> boiler explosions, accord-
c to i report prepared today fbr the
. . mmission by Smoke Inspector
p Mi Michael. The inspector de
nial th-re are many old. rust
, I i om-out boilers in use in
•I) n that it is a risk of life tp be
McMieiiai 1 has further discov-
■ tin city has no law for the
. >n of boilers, and the only in-
• .. . hat have ever been made
,u • ■ by insurance companies.
city of boilers are un
■r- . have never been inspeet-
,a. owners are not aware of
n;;< from them.
Flan Immediate
Action On Peril.
Mi'.nixrs of the smoke commission
, been informed of the report
: ,!.. IV that a meeting of the
.- : ..n would be. held Friday aft
: : :hat legislation to regulate
boilers wohld be recomtriend-
< • email Monday.
ito the observations of In
ti . • ' hael. a boiler disaster,
at any time, would have
: n to startling conditions
iat • alarmed the whole
,i"ke commission will urge
'•n by council to elimi-
Also To Blame
For Smoke Nuisance.
..1 cMiehael said that old
. 'instructed boilers and fur
ilso one of the principal
-• of the smoke nuisance. It was
nnection with his campaign
•m 'ke that he discovered the
-■ Hous danger.
n of tile smoke commission
ve <'•uneir* pass an ordinance
(Hug them and then add the
-of boiler inspector to the smoke
MERCHANT IS KILLED
BY LAD IN QUARREL
AFTER CHURCH ROW
’N US VILLE, GA., Sept. 12.—.T0e
I 35. a merchant doing business
Lumpkin and Hall county lines,
' and killed yesterday by Emmett
a young man about 21 years of
h<id been dismissed from the
•lurch, and Josiah Stargel, father
‘ i Stargel, and a deacon of
• urcb. had withdrawn from the
•41 account of troubles recently
■me young men who wanted to be
-fied as preachers.
' r trouble had been had over
• i •ms at a protracted meeting.
•* trouble originated from the
. and when Jones and Stargel
'terday, they began a quarrel.
"*• <1 young Stargel away from
’ i. stargel, stepping hack a pace,
revolver, kilhng Joe Jones In-
! URINES PREDICTS
L>o MILE AIR SPEED
AS HE GOES HOAIE
' Y "UK, Sept. 12.—Jules Ve
"f France, world’s champion of
who on Monday won the James
"ii Bennett cup race in the inter
|| aviation tournament at Chi
i ri dieted a speed of 150 miles
for aeroplanes as he sailed to
i"i Havre.
• bhiii a few months I predict a
’ making 150 miles an hour,”
famous air pilot. “However,
day aeroplanes may be making
’• m 200 miles an hour." /
' ll' - expressed surprise at the
'idriees of the United States in
T $3,000. BUT LOST
HIS RACE FOR CONGRESS
'VI'ROSS, GA, Sept 12. —Three
"■■l twenty dollars and twelve
• what it cost Judge T. A. Park-
unsueces ful campaign for
in the Eleventh district. His
• account . ov> •• that half of
I 1 1.1 fol ~'.t« .'' i ig. l’i l< nd
■"U slightly ovei |l,oou to the
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The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit— GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results.
Jim Crow Law Held
To Govern Whites as
Strictly as Negroes
Judge Ellis Says Refusal to Move
to Front of Street Car at Con
ductor’s Order Is Crime.
The ‘.Tim Crow” street car law was
today held to apply just as strictly to
white persons as to negroes by Judge
AA D. Ellis, in the trial of a suit for
SIO,OOO bi ought by William Hprnsby, a
youth of College Park, against the
Georgia Railway and Power Company.
Hornshy sued for damages as the re
sult of a dispute with a conductor over
a seat and the court ruled that if a
white person refuses to obey a con
ductor’s order and move up in front
to make way for colored passengers he
is guilty of a crime.
It is the duty of a street car con
ductor to see that white people are not
allowed to take seats in the part of
cars properly reserved for colored peo
ple, just as it is that he prevent the
reverse,” said Judge Ellis.
The rules of the company, based on
laws of the state, provide that white
people must sit in the front of the car
and colored people in the rear part.”
The case is in the hands of the jury.
2 PEACH PIE THIEVES
ASK PARDON IN ORDER
TO VOTE FOR WILSON
MONTGOMERY, ALA.. Sept. 12.
Two votes for Woodrow Wilson may
be gained in Alabama if Governor
O’Neal convinces himself that the theft
of a peach pie is not crime sufficient
to warrant a man's franchise being
taken from him.
Two young men in south Alabama
were convicted recently and their po
litical rights taken away from them
because they took a pie from the buggy
of a farmer at a picnic. The young
men have presented a petition to the
governor, signed by hundreds of lead
ing citizens, asking the restoration of
their civil rights so that they can vote
for \\ i’son. They tell the governor
that they only took the pie for fun. and
really didn't mean to steal it.
T;ie governor is considering the ap-
■ plication. If he should grant the peti
j lion, he will do so in time for the young
I men to register and vote in th.- No-
I umber election.
HOPE IS ABANDONED
! FOR CHESTER JORDAN;
NO RESPITE EXPECTED
| BOSTON, Sept. 12. -Chester R. Jor
|dan, sentenced to die '.bo begin
l ning September 22. may he removed to
a death cell at Charlestown from the
East Cambridge jail today. It is
thought in any case that he will be
taken to the state prison before the
week is out. Hope that the governor
will act in his case practically has been
abandoned.
His sister. Mrs. Jesse Livermore, has
paid what may be her last visit to
Jordan in the office of Sheriff Eair
burn. With her were Mr. and Mrs.
Fred C. Kendall, of Somerville. the
prisoner's youngest sister and brother
in-la w.
The executive coucil has one more
regular meeting before the day set for
Jordan's execution, hut it is declared at
the state house'that the governor will
not intervene.
TWO MORE INDICTED
FOR VOTE-SELLING IN
MORGAN COUNTY, GA.
MADISON. GA., Sept. 12 -The Morgan
county grand jury, winding up the busi
ness of this session yesterday afternoon,
returned two true bills for vote-selling
against Edgar Askew and Charles Dennis.
In general presentments the grand jury
regretted the erroneous statements made
in one of the Atlanta afternoon dailies,
especially the statement that Judge K. S.
Anderson had confessed that he bought
votes in the May primary. Judge Andee
son denied emphatically before the grand
jury that he bought a single vote, and
stated that he requested his friends to
| l>e strict to regard the law in handling his
■ campaign funds.
A recommendation was banded down to
j the next grand jury to see that law- here
’ after is enforced in Morgan county against
both vote buyers and sellers.
I JIM CONN YEARNS TO
BE A BAREFOOT BOY;
THERE’S A REASON
Jim Conn of Conn & Fitzpatrick,
civil engineers, is back at his office to
day, greatly tanned and limping pain-
I fully.
“I can't get used to wearing shoes.”
|Vaid Mr. Conn to a sympathetic .friend.
I "I’ve been going barefoot for a week.
And, say, I'm half ready to discard the
leather altogether."
No, Mr Conn hasn't been taking the
barefoot cure He has just returned
from a fishing trip off the coast near
Brunswick With a party of Atlanta
I friends he spent a week in the launch
Annie, in search of trout and sheeps
i head. And th'ey gnt both, in plenty.
EARTHQUAKE TREMORS
ALARM SAN FRANCISCO
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 12.-Two
I earthquake shocks w ere felt hero to-
I day. They lasted 47 seconds Al
though there was inirh excitement,
particularly in the office buildings and
I depa it men t stores', no damage has bff'-n
i' , |„,rted. The tremor wm of autti
vient violence to stop clock*.
ATLANTA, GA„ THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 12, 1912.
JTTORNEYIS
ARHESTEDAS
COUNTESS'
SIM
Burton W. Gibson Surrenders
Voluntarily When He Hears
of Existence of Warrant.
MOB JEERS ACCUSED
THROUGH STREETS
Unperturbed by Charges. Law
yer Appeals to Police for
Bodily Protection.
i
NEW YORK, Sept. 12.—Attorney
Burton W. Gibson came voluntarily to
New York today and submitted to arres:
under a warrant charging him with tha
murder of Countess Rosa Szabo. He
arrived at his office at 9:20 o'clock this
morning.
It had been expected that the war
rant issued by County Judge Royce at
Middletown yesterday would be served
upon him immediately, but Deputy
Sheriff W. C. DeGraw, to whom the
warrant had been given, was not at the
office when Attorney Gibson arrived.
I.ater. however, DeGraw arrived and
took charge of Gibson.
After Gibson bad been arrested ho
made the first extended statement he
has yet given concerning his arrest. He
"I have never from the outset been
worried about this matter. I was a lit
tle '<r: anxious about the outcome of
the autopsy and I will now tell you why.
"As a law yer I Knew that mistakes
■ >i v.-. b-on nw do when bodies hav" boor
exhumed, autopsies held and poisors
found af'er the body had been em
balm'd. I thought that perhaps the.
might find an iiritant or even poison
and then some one who had performed
Hie autopsy might have jumped to the
conclusion that poison had been ad
ministered through the mouth or in
some way and had not been used in the
embalming T went through the law
very carefully and found that there had
recently been enacted a statute which
did away with the old order of things
and that they are no longer allowed in
the state of New York to use an active
or irritant poison in embalming a body.
I ceased to worry after that.
No Struggle in
Water, He Says.
“As to the other and more vital
phase of the report that Mrs. Szabo
died of strangulation, I am not pre
pared to believe that the result will
finally show that she died of strangu
lation.
“Certainly there was no struggle in
the water between her and myself
which should have brought about
strangulation. It i,s a fact that I made
every i-ffort to save the dead woman,
but 1 never clutched her around the
neck and she never hit the boat in
coming up in such a manner as to
<ause strangulation."
Gibson w.is taken shortly after noon
in an automobile from his office to the
Grand Central station, where he board
ed a train with Deputy Sheriff DeGraw.
The accused attorney was stoically
calm as he took up work connected with
his law business this morning before
his airest. He showed no traces
of fear. He met the officers half way
by coming to New York instead of re
maining in Rutherford, N. J., where ex
tradition papers could have been de
manded by him. He said:
"My only information concerning this
warrant is from the newspapers. I do
not know from any other source that I
am wanted in Orange county. I will go
right along without making the slight
est trouble.”
Closely Followed
By Jeering Throng.
Besides the detectives with Gibson,
he was accompanied by a full cpmpany
of reporters and photographers, the lat
ter of whom snapped their shutters
with metallic monotony as the proces
sion to the station progressed. The
townspeople gave vidence of unusual
interest in the case. Some of them
jeered the lawyer. Others retained a
kindly feeling for him, and some of
them gave him assurance of their con
fidence in his ultimate vindication.
When the party arrived at the Hud
son terminal in New York city there
was a large crowd waiting to watch
proceedings, and fully 2,000 persons fol
lowod Gibson until he reached the
building in wffiich his office is located at
55 Liberty street.
Th' crowd Jostled anl ••moved him
until he appealed for protection
• I am an American citizen," he said,
and I have some rights. 1 have tried
to do all I could to make this matter
i-sst for the officials, ind 1 demand pro
tection I' an not stand this mob, and
I must nut be assaulted”
Here’s Cheering News---Cost of Living Lower---at Zoo
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WALDO DUE FDD
WAHN GRILLING
New York Aidermen, Angry at
Evasion of Gaynor, to Go
After Commissioner.
NEW YORK, Sept. 12. —When Police
Commissioner Waldo appears as a wit
ness tomorrow before the aldermanic
graft investigating committee he will
be subjected to the most grilling ex
amination to which a head of a police
department in New York has ever been
submitted.
Members of the committee are angry
at their inability to get certain in
formation from Mayor Gaynor while he
was on the stand and they intend to
secure this from the police commis
sioner. One of the principal points the
committee wants cleared up is how far
the mayor’s authority extends in the
regulation of police department and
whether or not he gave any orders for
the regulation of disorderly houses and
gambling establishments.
The stay until October 7 granted by
Justice Bischoff in the case of Lieuten
ant Charles A. Becker, under indict
ment for the murder of Rosenthal, was
today upheld by Justice Goff, presiding
over the supreme court.
Justice Bischoff today appointerl
Floyd C. Huff, a Hot Springs, Ark., at.
torney, the commissioner to conduct the
examination of three witnesses in that
city regarding Sam Schepps’ alleged
Interviews, in which he is reported to
have said he could clear Becker if he
chose.
The grand Jury resumed its investi
gations of the Becker case today. Lau
ra Davis, a vaudeville singer, who from
the Hotel Cadillac heard the assassins'
shots and saw them flee, came here
from Middletown. Conn., to testify
BREAKS LEG AND COMES
NEAR DROWNING IN CANAL
WAYCROSS, GA., Sept. 12— When he
slipped on a canal bridge lawl night, 1
I< Fields, Inspector of Hidewalks for
WaycroßH, broke hia right thigh and came
near drowning In the canal In which
plunged when he fell Because of the
high hanks he was compelled to crawl
down the canal 100 f»*et before he could
get nut of the walor. IDs condition la
serious.
Chef Boyd Says Fifteen-Pound
Dinner of Beef Is Cheaper
Now Than Ever.
The high cost of living isn't affecting
Babe the big tiger in the Grant park
zoo Though Babe’s daily meal costs
him 90 cents, which is more than the
average business man pays for his
luncheon, it is cheaper now than at any
time in the memory of Keeper Boyd,
who is chef and steward for Hotel
Fauna.
"Babe eats a light dinner of fifteen
pounds of raw beef every day," said
the keeper. "That looks like a good
deal, but remember that Babe gets only
one meal a day. The beef, a fore
quarter, costs us six cents a pound
That's cheaper than at any time in the
past tsvo years.
"Yes, it's good beef. We can’t afford
to feed the animals on bad meat.”
The daily dinner of the animals at
the zoo draws a crowd of visitors. The
dinner hour Is 3 o’clock, and all the kirls
living near the paik who are out of
school flock to the cages to see the ani
mals fed and hear the growls. There is
a wide variety on the menu, for there
are many types of animals there. But
all the members of the cat family, of
which Babe is the head, are on a diet
of raw meat and nothing else.
LOUISVILLE SOCIETY-
GIRL ELOPES WITH
AN ACCUSED FORGER
LOUISVILLE. KY , Sept. 12. Climax
to sensational escapades of O J. Hodg
son, alias C. J. Barnes, of Hartford city,
Ind., hunted by the police of several cit
ies, came when the ramlly of Miss
Hattie Bainbridge, a society leader, learn
ed late last night that, their daughter had
eloped with the alleged forger and had
married him at Covington, ;<>
Hodgson, who is only 19 years old. fig
ured In an arrest here Monday, after a
ehase through the city streets soon after
he attempted to cash what Is alleged to
be a worthless certificate of deposit. This
came as a shock to his newly-made
friends here, who z had shown him many
social favors on strength of his statement
that he was a son of a millionaire Wall
street broker and was touring the coun
try by automobile in search of market in
formation
Shortly before hln arrest Hodgson pur
chased an automobile Within a few
minutes after he was placed In jail a
firm of lawyers obtained his release upon
ball of S3OO and accepted the automobile
as security for their fee Hodgson, who
has many aliases, left, and the lawyers
are an automobile ahead* Rewards ag
gregatlng $1,125 are outstanding fur his
arrest and conviction.
BRDTHERSHDTIN
DEFENSE-GURTIS
Atlanta Druggist Returns From
Jackson, Miss.. Confident
Slayer Will Be Freed.
Dr A. L. Curtis. Atlnnt^ druggist and
former councilman, whose brother, W.
H. Curtis, is held in Jackson, Miss., for
the shooting of J. H. Helton, last Sun
day, is back in Atlanta today more than
hopeful that the grand jury which con
venes tomorrow will free his brother
on the strength of evidence indicating
self-defense.
"I am confident that the grand jury
will find the self-defense evidence so
strong for my brother that they will
fail to return a true bill against him,”
said Dr. Curtis this morning.
"No formal charge haa been made
against my brother. After'the shoot
ing he went to the hotel and later gave
himself up to the police. He has re
mained in jail pending the action of the
grand jury. He has never faced a pre
liminary court, but the facts are «o
well known that it is clear that he shot
in self-defense." *
Dr. Curtis said that he would return
to Jackson at once in case his brother
was indicted. Court is in session tn
Jackson and in case of an indictment
trial will result speedily.
"The Atlanta papers have published
the facts so fully that I can hardly add
anything," said Dr. Curtis. "However,
my brother Is not In the contracting
business, but a traveling salesman for
a drug manufacturing concern In St.
Louis He makes Jackson his head
quarters"
While Dr Curtis would not discuss
the features of the case leading up to
the shooting of Helton, he admitted
that the latter had brought a damage
suit against his brother following trou
ble over remarks Helton is alleged to
have made to Mrs. Qurtis. Dr. Curtis
said his brother had written him of the
suit and the trouble he and his father
in-law, L V. Skates, had had with Hel
ton, but Intimated that he did not an
ti, iputv any further quarrel.
HOHL
tPITION
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE
QUIET UEHS
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II TOWER
Town Quiets Down After’AF
Black Suspects Are Rushed
Out of Mob’s Reach.
SHERIFF REID’S GRAPHIC
STORY OF TERROR REIGN
Forsyth Official Describes the
Lynching and Exciting Inci
dents That Followed.
With every negro known to have
been implicated in the attacks on white
women locked safely In the Atlanta
Tower, the little town of Cumming, In
Forsyth county, is quiet today for the
first time since the. discovery of a hor
rible crime last Saturday.
The mountaineers who have filled the
streets for several days past have gone
to their homes, the negroes who had
been hiding In their homes for several
days have recovered from their terror,
and the town Is resuming its every
day work. The mob w hich might have
stormed the jails at Gainesville or Ma
rietta realize that the Fulton Toweri
wltp a city police force to defend it, is
impregnable.
Sheriff Tells of
Reign of Terror.
“The people of Cumming have been
sleeping with one eye open. The fall
of night has brought fear and dread to
the town and surrounding country, for
;ihere was no telling what migtt hap
pen It s the dread of treachery, the
torch, and the knife stab in the back.
We could easily handle any emergency
in the day time. The white people are
aimed and- would promptly crush any
uprising on the part of the blacks. Ex
citement has been high, and an uneasy
feeling pervaded the community.”
In this way W. W. Reid, the pic
turesque sheriff of Forsyth county,
summed up the situation in Cumming
on his hurried visit here from the little
Georgia town that has undergone a,
reign of terror tor several days past.
The sheriff was seen at the Tower yes
terday afternoon just after he had
saved three negroes, one of them a
woman, from lynching by rushing them
to Atlanta in an automobile and placing
them in the local jail. A mob was al
ready forming and giving vent to its
feelings when the big sheriff, one of
his deputies and four deputized citizens
spirited away the, trio of blacks. Tha
town was in a reign of terror when
Reid was talking. .
Whites Meant
Business, He Says.
"W'e are doing our best to cope with
the situation and prevent any further ' '
trouble,” said the sheriff. “The murder
of the young girl and other crimes of
the past few days, however, have in- *
flamed the people, and the feeling
throughout the community is tense.
Anj show of resentment by the blacks
would no doubt bring serious results.
For the white people are armed, and
they mean business.
Sheriff Reid gave a vivid description
of the lynching Tuesday afternoon of
Rob Edwards by a mob of 1,000 men.
"I was at my home at the tim,” he
said. "When the mob began to form ,
and feeling against thehegro burst forth
in all its ,fury, 1 realized it was too late
to attempt to get the prisoner out of
the jail and spirit him away. There
was but one thing to hid the jail
keys. 1 did this as I knew that 'even ‘
though I should be overpowered, the v
mob would still be handicapped by the
missing keys.
Crowd Demands
Keys From Sheriff.
"It was but a few minutes afterward
that a crowd of fully 100 men called
at my home and demanded the keys.
I told*them they could not get the keys
and begged them not to attempt vio
lence. But they were determined. 1
might as well have talked to a rock
wall.
"Finally, one old fellow said:
" 'So you won't give us the keys, eh?
"I informed him 1 would not
"Then, at a signal, the crowd march
ed away from my home Joined by hun
dreds of others, the mob at once went
to the jail. There is no Jailer on duty
there, as I have to look, after the jail
and care of the prisoners myself.
Sledge hammers and a crowbar were
brought into service and the mob be
gan battering dow-n the jail door.
"Only a few moments was required
to complete their work.”
