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the weather Fo-eca»t for Georgia: Local show ers Monday: Tuesday probably fair. VOL. XL NO. 37. FEUD FEJFIED ASRESULT OFSNEED IILLK Relatives of Banker-Slayer and Boyce. Victim, Flocking to Amarillo, Texas. SHOOTING ADDS TO LONG TRAGEDY LIST Man Who Eloped With Texan’s Wife Is Shot Down in Street by the Husband. VMARTLLO. TEXAS, Sept. 16—City and county officers today have estab lished a strict surveillance to prevent any outbreak of the Sneed-Boyce feud here, since the gathering of the mem bers of both families following the kill ing late Saturday of Al Boyce by John Real Sneed. Fears that the family dif ficulty may break out into an open battle between the members of the two families are entertained by the authori ties The three brothers of Al Boyce, Linn. Will and Henry, are here. To day they wired for other relatives and staunch friends to hasten so Amarillo. Joseph Sneed. John's brother, and J. H, Sneed, an uncle, arrived late yes terday. J. T. Snyder, father of Mrs. tz'na Sneed, whose elopement with Boyce started the trouble that ended in the killing of two men. is expected to arrive today from Roswell, N. M. Sny der, during the trial of his son-in-law for the killing of elder Boyce, sided with Sneed, and declared he believed bls daughter insane. J. H. Bowman, Sneed’s brother-in »w, of Plano. Texas, was also expected oday The members of the two Cand ies are said to be armed. John Sneed, in his cell in the Potter county jail, showed indifference to the tragedy of Saturday. He held a num ber of conferences with his attorneys, ite three hearty meals yesterday and smoked a number of cigarettes. Armed deputies sre constantly at his side. Slew Eloper In Front of Church. Sneed, slayer of Captain A. S. Boyce and principal in the Boyce-Sneed feud, late Saturday shot and instantly killed Al Royce, who eloped with Sneed's wife last January. The killing took place in front of the Methodist church here. Sneed, disguised as a hunter, wearing overalls and a false beard, lay in wait for Royce behind a corner of the church. He carried his gun In a long covered box. He fired one charge at dose range. Royce died a few moments later and officers easily captured Sneed and com mitted him to jail. Sneed for a week had rented a small shanty near the church. Mrs. Royce, mother of the victim, is prostrated and may die. Only a few weeks ago Mrs. Lena Sneed and her husband had become reconciled and were supposed to be liv ing peaceably in Georgetown. Texas. It "as not known that he was in the city. So completely was he disguised that Royce, who had returned a week ago from the ranch he was running In 'vestem Canada, did not recognize him. Add to Long List of Tragedies. Ihe killing of Boyce is the latest ’rage incident in a long list of trage dies which began last January when Mrs. Lena Sneed ran away w ijth Boyce mm a sanitarium in Fort Worth, where ’•he had been placed by her husband for nervous troubles. Boyce carried with him 1100,000. The • uple went to St. Louis and New York s ”'l were arrested in Winnipeg. Can ada. ■Sneed met t h e y OUn g man's father in f'ort Worth and killed him in a quarrel f " f r the elopement. At Sneed's trial here last winter a ■ng jury resulted, and his second trial “ this crime had been set for No ' ember 11 following closely on the trial came , ” ,Ip "s of the tragic death of Sneed s her, who was murdered by an insane -'ant in the postoffice at Georgetown, demented farmer, who was pos -1'•-»d of the idea that Mr. Sneed had ,”n P him an injustice regarding his ci' and, then committed suicide. the trial the movements of ths • ■ in the case have been kept a re ' to avoid notoriety. WAN- 60. SEEKS EDUCATION: R EADS LATIN BIBLE DAILY ' H \ VEN. M<> . Sept L G **niann, 60 xears old. pioneer mer this place, has decided tn get an ... v tuo\ing Isatin and even Hay epter from ■ Latin > d winter he had a tutor in astron >n<i other sciences The Atlanta Georgian Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Resu’ts. MOREOEITHS LllHffllf ATTORNEY GIBSON End of Count Szabo and Man Countess Kept House for Now Being Probed. NEW WITNESS SAW TRAGEDY ON LAKE Woman Fell Into Water After Struggle. Then the Lawyer Rowed to Shore. NEW YORK, Sept. 16.—An impor tant witness has been discovered by the officials in charge of the prosecu tion of Burton W. Gibson, the lawyer in jail at Goshen, N. Y„ charged with the murder of Countess Rosa Menschik Szabo. An investigation was started today of two more deaths which have at tached themselves to an overhauling of the career of Gibson. The first is that of Count Szabo, hus band of the countess, who died in 1904, and rhe second is that of William Schumenn, for whom the countess was housekeeper following the death of her husband. Both deaths were supposedly from pneumonia. The new witness is Tom Garrison, a guide, who brought the body of Countess Szabo to the surface of Greenwood lake and turned It over to the coroner. Much of what he knows has been put in affidavit form by De tective Moore, of Orange county, but there is still more that he refuses to divulge, except upon the witness stand or to District Attorney Rogers. Sensation Promised In New Evidence. So carefully is he guarding this evi dence that he will not even intimate its nature, except to say that it will take Gibson by surprise and is sensational. Garrison was willing to talk of what he had seen on a previous trip which Gibson and the countess paid to Green wood lake. The guide said that he and another man were fishing near the shore of an island when the boat con taining the accused lawyer and his companion approached. When about 10(1 feet away Gibson arose in the boat, not seeing the fishermen. At the same time the woman stood up. As he started to step forward. Gibson lurched and fell over the gunwale, knocking the woman into the bottom. Garrison said his companion called to Gibson and rebuked him for endan gering the woman's life. Gibson did not reply, but picking up the oars rowed silently away. Garrison did not see the woman again until he fished her body out of the lake. Gibson Hero of Goshen Women GOSHEN. N. Y.. Sept. 16.—Attorney Burton W. Gibson, accused of the mur der of the Countess Rosa Menschik Szabo, is. becoming the hero of this town. Women lead the brigade of hero wor shippers. Despite the fact that Gibson is a married mat,, they are showering the stolid prisoner with flowers, choice fruits and other dainty gifts. Today an enormous bunch of flowers was waiting for Gibson when he finished his breakfast. They were sent by Mrs. Adelaide Sourts, proprietress of a ho tel. GEN. GORDON’S WIDOW BENEFICIARY OF WILL: ESTATE WORTH $750,000 » SAVANNAH. GA„ Sept. 16. —General William W. Gordon left an estate val ued at approximately $750,000. The will has been admitted to probate in common form in the court of the ordi nary of Chatham county. .Mrs. Nellie K. Gordon, the widow, and Major W. W Gordon. Jr., and Colonel H. Arthur Gordon have qualified as executors and < xecutress, respectively. General Gordon bequeathed his estate to Mrs. Gordon during her lifetime. At her death the five children are to be come tenants of the estate and share alike. N<> inventory or appraisement of the estate was filed with the will. The estate consists largely of real es tate Most of this is In and around Savannah.- The general owned exten sive farming Interests in Jefferson county however. UNCLE TRUSTY! Copyright, 1912, by International News Service | A /jc jix/ A au/ay'L. ) fawW r Wj7H~TT wWrat’ r that gAu»Ltip A i? ' f jrsSrF' dw yO tag I cSSQ Z - Z “Theodore, you’re making a great mistake to turn down the king proposition! You would make a fine king if you could get a crown big enough to fit you. Your calm, majestic dignity would just suit the job, too, and an enjoyable time would be had by all. Von would be King Kazooks and I would be King Doiigh- Dough! Poor William’s gout seems to be getting worse! Listen to that noise he’s making! Elihu, if you don’t stop letting my robe drag on the ground I know some one about your size who is going to have some money deducted from his next pay envelope!” 6 HUH IN WK ON SOUTHERN 01. Freight Trains Crash and Six teen Cars Are Scattered Over Tracks—One Man Dying. DOUGLASVILLE. GA., Sept 16.—Six trainmen, one of whom is expected to die. were injured when two ft eight trains met in a head-on collision on the Southern railroad two miles from heie shortly after 5 o'clock this morn ing. Passenger traffic on the toad be tween Birmingham and Atlanta was tied up for several hours No, 26 had to be switched back and transferred by way of Rome. J. R, Huskey, a fireman, was the most seriously hurt. Both his legs were crushed and he is not expected to live. An Odd Fellows card In his pocket showed that he at one time lived in Boy nton, Ga. Conductor Fobb, of Atlanta, was also badly hurt and with Huskey and four others rushed in a relief train to At lanta. The crash scattered sixteen freigtU cars along the tracks and smashed the locomotives, officials of the road blame the night operator at Douglasville, who, they say. got his orders to second No. 75, the eastbound train in 'the wreck, confused. The westbound train was No. 773. Conductor Sam Cahoon, of the east bound train, was among those bruised and two of the trainmen were said to have been badly scalded by escaping stea m. HOUNDS TRAfL~RURAL MAIL MAN’S SLAYER WHO GOT $575 ROLL ADDISON, PA.. Sept. 16 Sheriff Charles F. Hochard. of Somerset, and posse, together with police all over this section, are engaged today in a hunt for John \V. Mause in connection with the murder of Harrison Brown, a rural mail carrier, who was shot down and robbed of $575 payroll money on Saturday near Beachley, Pa Bloodhounds yesterdax led officers to the home of Charles F. Awlex, in Harnedsville. and to a house formerly occupied by Mause. a boarder The offi cers found blood-stained clothes and a ,38- caliber revolver with one cartridge ex ploded Mause uas missing The flogs again took up the trail, which led a wax tow ard the Baltimore and Ohio railroad's eastbound freight loop, which passes through Harnedsville. where it xx as lost. Mause has not returned and efforts to locate him were unsuccessful. The sheriff is certain he Is on the trail of Brown’s ala yet The mail carrier was killed with a sin gle shot from a ,38-caliher revolver It is known that Mause frequently told Miss (trace Awley. daughter of his landlord, that he intended tn become a highway man, ano knew where he "could get some easy money.” ATLANTA. GA* MONDAY. SEPTEMBER IG. 1912. Boy Thief, 8, Baffles Police; Outwits Them In *Third Degree* Test Youngster Refuses to “Squeal” On His Associates in Long Series of Robberies. LOS ANGELES, Sept. 16.—Eight year-old John Hail, a recent arrival from Indianapolis. Ind., went through an hour’s “third degree" at the police station here with an unconcern that made the officers gasp. The child said he had stolen "more than enough to fill that big book over there." but stead fastly refused to give the name of the "Fagin” who had taught him thievery. He would not give the names of his as. sociates. Johnny Hall was arrested late last night in company with three other boys who were in a stolen buggy. They were trying to sell a 25-pound box of horseshoe nails they had stolen. "They is 50 boys in our gang," said the youthful prisoner. "They steal lots, but they is a worse gang back in Indianapolis where I come from. "I stole ten or eleven bicycles here," said the lad; "but 1 broke into two stores, one on Fremont street and the other out near West Lake." The boy said he had nine brothers and three sisters. “Only five of us came to Los Ange les -with my mother." he explained. “My father couldn't come because he did not have enough money. We had saved our money.” ASSASSIN SHOOTS WOMAN DEAD AS SHE SINGS CHILD TO SLEEP CHICAGO, Sept. 16.—Police today are searching for an Italian assaasin who shot and killed Mrs. Anna Nuccio while she was singing lullabies to tw r oof her seven children last night. The shot was fired through a window and the woman pitched forward on the bed. waking another child who had fallen asleep. The father and four other chil dren. out on an excursion, arrived at their home shortly after a patrol wagon and a number of police reached the scene . of the shooting GIRLS DISFIGURED FOR LIFE BY PRANK OF A PLAYMATE ST. LOUIS. Sept. 16.—Two children will be disfigured for life as the re sult of the childish prank of six-year old John Duboski, who threw carbolic acid on them. The injured playmates are Tesly Przystop and Tesly Marcym kiewltz. both 4 years old. Their par ents believe the boy was told by an older person to throw the acid. The Przystop girl was burned about the head and face, and the other child has burns on Iter loft shoulder and neck None of the acid got in the eyes of either child, although Dr .1 F Nou roekl pronounced their condition se rious The Duboski boy has slight burns on his hands. POST MASCOT IS IN GUARDHOUSE “Fiddler” Has Been Perfectly Good Dog. But Surgeon Fears Pet May Have Rabies. It's lonesome on the reservation at Fort McPherson these days. The reg iment is all there, and there's plenty of baseball, but Fiddler and his friends are all in close confinement Fiddler is the regimental mascot and has been for twelve years. He is a brown dog with a tail that never stops wagging, and he Is the best chum of every man and child on the reserva tion. He Is really the property of Ser geant Miller, an old Indian fighter, who picked Fiddler up In Cuba years ago. Rut every man at the post is his friend. No; it isn't Fiddler's fault that he is locked up like a refractory private. It’s because a certain mongrel pup went mad and chewed the fingers of ten soldiers a few weeks ago and the sur geon thinks perhaps the pup bit all the other dogs before his head was ampu tated. So Fiddler and all the rest of the four-legged pets of the post are held to see what will happen. They don't like it. as the chorus of doleful howls informs every one within ear- I shot of the post. There are lots of dogs, company mascots and private pets, at the post, but Fiddler is the favorite He en listed in Cuba, has been to the Philip pines. the Texas border, back to Cuba and to Washington and home again. In fact, wherever the Seventeenth goes there goes Fiddler. He is getting ad vanced in age. but he isn't too old to mascot successfully. And when Fid dler answers the last roll call there'll be a funeral at the post which even a colonel might envy. FOUR KILLED. 40 HURT WHEN TORNADO HITS TOWN: LOSS IS $500,000 SYRACUSE. N Y Sept 16. Four persons are known to have been killed, two are missing, and at least 4(1 in jured by a tornado that swept the town of Salina, adjoining this city, late yes terday. The property loss, roughly es timated at this time, is fixed at close to a half million dollars. The known dead are: R. H. Ein. of Collamer; G. W. 1 >opp, of Fulton: Charles Chapman, of Cic ero, and William Madison, of Silina Mr and Mrs. c. H. Mattison, of Syra cuse, who were cayioolng on Seneca river yesterday afteinoon. Itav, not yet been found. It is feared that they were caught in the storm. Highwaymen Foiled In Effort to Search “Ticklish” Woman She Just Couldn’t Make Her Arms Stay Up and Robbers Fled. KANSAS CITY. Sept. 16. Being ticklish saved Mrs Frances Justine last night from losing her purse to robbers, and a meeting that might have been terrifying turning into an amusing af fair. Site was on her way home when two armed men commanded her to walk back with them to the shadow of a wa rehouse. "We want money, that is all." they said. "So throw up your hands.” She obeyed and informed them that her purse was tucked in the top of Iler corset, under her arm. One of the men tore open Iter waist and thrust in a hand. It came out in a hurry to clap over the woman's mouth as she scream ed: "Don't." "I didn't mean to cry out that way," she laughed, as the hand dropped and gave her a chance to speak, "hut I am awfully ticklish and 1 just can't stand it." 'I he continued efforts of the men to find the purse, while Mrs. Justine’s protecting arm wouldn't stay up. threw her into fits of laughter, which so dis turbed the robbers that, as she sank to the pavement, they ran. The police man who came up as she rose and brushed her dress found he r very glee ful over her experience. MOTHER OF ENGLISH SAILOR BOY KILLED AT SAVANNAH SUES SAVANNAH, GA.. Sept. 16.—Mrs. Ada Mary Ann Isherwood, of London. England, mother of Herbert Isherwood, the sixteen-year-old sailor on the steamer Westhampton, who was fatally injured in the Central'of Georgia rail way freight yards in Savannah on June 24. has filed suit in the city court for $15,000 damages. The mother, who professes to have been In a large measure dependent upon the lad for support, charges the agents of the Central with such neglect as makes them liable for the death of the sailor boy, who wa- hurt while re turning to his ship at Mallhaven docks BROTHER ACCIDENTALLY SLAYS BOY AT BAXLEY BAXLEY GA. Sept. 16.—The 12- year-old son of Mm can Simmons, a farmer living near Baxley, shot his 9- year-old brother to death with an old rusty shotgun, which no one thought was loaded. The parents of the hoys were away front home and In play Ing about the plat e the i hildHen got the gun It was disi barged accidentally, the entire load taking effect in the abdomen of the vounger boy. IXTRt 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE p *^ fe ° shui) FDRGERTD RESCIND ACTION Backs Down in Its Attempt tc Modify Regulations of the City Council. OPEN WAR TO COMPEL ABOLITION OF NUISANCE Still Considering Move to Wipe Out Commission—Fight to Go to Council. Forced to hack down by widespread criticism of its attempt to modify council's smoke legulations. Chairman R M. Harwell, of the smoke commis sion. has called a meeting of the rules committee of the commission to rescind its action. The vommittee at the same time wt), frame a new set of regulations for the guidance of the commission itself, which will be submitted to the board The board's action In modifying the already light regulations of council governing the emission of smoke ot varying density was denounced as a usurpation of authority by manv coun ci men and by City Attorney Mayson (Abolition of the smoke board which was declared to be standing in Ihe way of reform, was seriously U cged War to Enforce Smoke Ordinance. ''ounellnian Charles W. Smith, fath ar of the smoke ordinance, said todav hat While he had not decided whethet tie would introduce an ordinance tn • i )<> ish the smoke commission at the me.tmg of council this afternoon he [would begin his fight to see that the . original smoke ordinance is enforced. | < 'han man Harwell declared that I'ouncilman Smith was too hasty In I'l'ticislng the smoke commission. He . 'Uhl that he was opposed to the action of the commission in amending the citv smoke ordinance and that he informed ho other members that such action was '. , 8 ,L H " adde < l 'hat the commission <itd not want to hinder the movement <» abate the smoke nuisance. We came into office inexperienced" te said. "We are dealing with a com . ' l-'-'-hlem. We must proceed de- liberately at first." Councilman Spiith held a conference «ith < tty Attorney Mayson today to deternune the exact legal status of the law. The commission has changed radi tally the law of council. City Attor ney .Mayson has ruled that Its action was illegal. Council Smith intends to get council to talje a definite stand on the matter this afternoon. PAY FOR SOLDIERS IS LONG OVERDUE; ARAIY FLAT BROKE If regular soldiers had a vote the ner son or persons responsible for adjourning congress before the army pa y appropr a tion was signed and sealed would fee the wrath of t nele Sam's defenders from Seattle to Key West. For the soldiers have not received their pay for some time broke. " aS <lUe ’ and ‘ he army ls flaL ’ There isn't enough coin in the Sev enteenth to start a penny erap game. ’ protested one private from the post today We got a erackerjack basehall team too. hut what's the use of baseball when you VC got nothin' to hes We got one satisfaction. The next game’s with the team out at the Federal pen and them guys are worse broke than us." Business firms catering to the especial demands of the soldiery are feeling the lack of government coin. too. But they are consoling themselves with the hope that when the pay dbes come it will ar rive in a bunch. And the night after the paymaster shows up will be SOME night. GOVERNMENT BEGINS PROBE OF POSTOFFICE CHIEFS AT SAVANNAH SAVANNAH, GA., Sept. 16.—T0 thoroughly sift charges which have been made against Postmaster Marcus S. Baker. Jr.. Assistant Postmaster W, ('. Greene and Postoffice Inspector A. J J. Knight. Inspector L. A. Johnson, of Washington D. C„ has started an of ficial Investigation. The investigation is not open to the public. Johnson explains that unless the proof develops acts of a criminal nature which will call for the inter vention of a Federal grand jury, ht will conduct the probe quietly. Postmaster Baker Is away on his va cation. He has lieen recalled, however, by a telegram. Th' Investigation probably will lest ten days or two weeks.