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the weather Forecast: Local rains today and ( ..morrow. Temperatures: 8 a. m„ ' 70 . 10 a. m., 75; 12 noon, 78; 2 p. I mj 85, VOL. XL NO. 34 fillßffl IM Os BEITH 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 had withdrawn from the •41 account of troubles recently ■me young men who wanted to be -fied as preachers.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 0 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 BEST- ONLY FOR TIGER BABE Al // w \ / / < P - \ \ //Mlt r I T W ■ u f V 4 < "I ' W w HBb B z w/ / ma- a- ' r « * * L aM I / Babe, the (tress zoo tiger, eating his dinner of l.> pounds of raw meat, cheaper now than e 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 IIHMMK; pmsn 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.”