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SLEUTHS TRAIL 3
SZABO ‘MOTHERS’
Trio of Women Who Posed as
Parent of Dead Countess
Shadowed.
NEW YORK, Sept. 19.—Three wom
en each of whom Is under suspicion
of being the women who posed as the
niother of the Countess Rosa Menschik
9zabo in order that Burton W. Gibson
m |ght obtain control of the estate of
the countess, are today being shadowed
bv detectives in the employ of the Aus
tro-Hungarian consulate. One of these
vomen, who is particularly watched, is
suspected of having worn a gray wig
W hen she appeared to sign the waiver
of citation by which Gibson unlocked
the bank accounts of the dead woman.
Tno of the three women are under the
closest watch. One of them is under
stood to have come from Chicago, and
is charged that she is now at the
Waldorf-Astoria hotel. The officials
mho are making the search for the
women refuse to give her name, and a
woman who answered the description
given indicates today that she was the
woman sought.
Th? woman from Chicago, according
to evidence in the hands of the con
sulate officials, was a friend to Gibson
in 1906. when he was involved in the
affairs of the late Mrs. Louise StAton,
whose estate he handled and for the
■murder of whose daughter. Mrs. Alice
C. Kinnan, he was held until released
(by a writ of habeas corpus. This wom
en is supposed to have aided Gibson in
that crisis, and she is said to have come
to New York at the present time to
again give him support.
Wife Defends Gibson.
Mrs. Burton W. Gibson, at her home
in Rutherford. N. Y„ today broke her
rilence for the first time and defended
her husband, who is In jail at Goshen.
N. Y., charged with the murder of
Countess Rosa Menschik Szabo for her
fortune.
■ I know my husband is innocent of
the terrible charges brought against
him.” she declared. "I know' him to be
one of the best and most honorable
men in the world. I have perfect faith
in him and I am going to stand by
hfm as long as there is breath left in
my body.”
Mrs. Gibson had just returned home
from Goshen, where she conferred with
her husband in his cell over the con
duct of his case.
'lt there are unfortunate circum
stances just at present,” she contin
ued, "that seem to other people to be
suspicious or to look bad for him, that
is just because, through no fault of
Ms own, he is the victim of some un
lucky coincidence, some malign acci
dent, that has thrown for the moment
the wrong light upon his actions.
"We have been married for 14 years
now, and we have always been very
happy together. We have just grown
up together and that is what makes ft
eo hard on both of us.”
“DONE WITH MEN,” SAYS
WIFE OF EX-CONVICT
ST. LOUIS. Sept- 19.—"1 am done
•with men forever and particularly with
pillars of the church,” asserted Mrs.
Olga Mayer Siebold, wife No. 1 of
Frank Siebold, former convict and al
leged bigamist. Mrs. Siebold wept as
she told how Siebold had wooed her
from behind prison bars, had married
her February B,’ after having been re
leased from the penitentiary at Jeffer
son City, January 14. then deserted her,
it is said, to marry Miss Mary Malone,
a Callaway county school teacher. Au
gust 27.
"He fooled me all the way through,”
she declared. "I married him to give
him a new start, and the only fault he
had with me was that I would not sell
my property and give him the money.”
declares law can not
COMBAT THE SOCIAL EVIL
DENVER, Sept. 19.—“ The scarlet
" oman never can be redeemed, and the
problem of the social evil never can
he solved by the enforcement of law.”
1 his statement by Rev. Robert F. Coyle.
” famous Presbyterian pastor, has cre
ated considerable discussion here to
hay. Some of the other things the
minister said follow’:
But if force is no remedy, if it can
neither restore the woman to society
nor remove the social evil, segregation
' not do so. This latter is not only
I "hugnant to the moral sense of right
’hinking persons, but at best is nothing
more than a poor palliative.”
WOMAN LURED REPORTER
TO DEATH, IS THE BELIEF
GUTHRIE, OKLA.. Sept. 19.—The
' ry that Frank Merrick, circulation
manager and reporter on The Daily
I«• drier, who was killed from ambush,
"■is shot by a negro has been aban
doned. City and county authorities
now believe there was a woman in the
' ’-e. and that Merrick was lured to the
"l ot where he was killed.
Herrick was in The Daily Leader of
about 30 minutes before being
( I d. He left immediately after an
‘ "ring a telephone call. Four men
" under surveillance, but no arrests
have been made.
THREE court officials
WEIGH HALF-TON PLUS
'JI 1 SBI’RG, Sept. 19.—Moro than a
ton of humanity dispense* justice
"• Soho district. A'derman Kal
■iuser weighs KI 5 pounds <'on
ih!.. Bigkely tips the beam al 260, and
deputy conalabltt al 236,
Will Get $25,000,000-—His Full Fortune---on Oct. 20
ALFRED VANDERBILT RICHER
Mrs. A. G. Vanderbilt, formerly Mrs. Smith Hollins McKiin.
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above, his latest photograph.
WEDDING, SHAVING
TRADE BOOMS FOR
PREACHER - BARBER
BIRMINGHAM, ALA.. Sept. 19.
George A. Sharits, a barber of Bir
mingham, who is also a minister, has
performed eighteen marriage ceremo
nies this year, three of which he per
formed Monday night of this week. He
says that on Monday he cut three
men's hair and shaved ten men. He
was then asked to perform a double
wedding at the Colonial hotel. When
he went to his home he found a couple
waiting to be married and he accom
modated them.
He says that he expects to marry at
least seven more couples before the end
of the year so as to make the number
25 for the year, his average.
Mr. Sharits 23 years ago worked for
a liquor dealer, but remained in the
business a short while, taking up his
profession, and also preaching.
MISSISSIPPI BROTHERS
KILL MAN GIRL ACCUSED
JACKSON. MISS., Sept. 19.—Percy
and Louis Dennis, brothers, were ar
rested for the murder of Mannie Wat
son, whom they say they killed because
he wronged their sister.
Louis has a record of killing five men.
He recently was pardoned while serv
ing a life sentence. ,
GIRL, 12, GIVES SAVINGS
TO MAKE MOTHER’S BOND
COLUMBUS OHIO, Hept. 19.—Con
tents of 12-yeur-old Flurenci 1 Thomp
son's ravings bank, •(mounting to $2 65.
were aec< pled by oflh iai.- us bond for
her mother, under arrest for disorderly
cuuduct.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 19, 1912.
FINGER PRINTS OF|
BABIES PUNNED
Police Expert Proposes Way to
Prevent Any One “Los
ing Identity.”
NEW YORK. Sept. 19.—1 t will be
come a practical impossibility for any
man or baby in the United States
“lose his identity" if a plan proposed by
Captain Joseph A. Faurot. of the identi
fication bureau of the New York police,
and favorably discussed by members of
the American Medical association is
adopted.
The plan is to record the finger prints
of every baby born in America. Copies
of these prints would be kept in the coun
ty seat of the county in which the child
was born, and also in a national identi
fication bureau at Washington.
It is declared that with such a system
properly developed there would be no such
thing as burying “unidentified” people;
that no citizen could conceal his real Iden
tity unless by the heroic method of cut
ting off the tips of his fingers.
Prints from baby fingers, says The
Journal of the American Medical Asso
ciation, "w ill absolutely identify the in- I
dividual from the cradle to the grave. |
The print of the baby and its mother
differ unmistakably. The measurement
will be enlarged with growth, but other
wise they never change."
"Among the many advantages of such
a plan," says The Journal, "would be the
possibility that the numberless unfortu
nates found dead might be identified.
This system might solve those puzzles
which aphasia and insanity are constantly
presenting cases continually increasing
in number by reason of the great strain
of our present-day civilization. The crime
of desertion might be prevented were
the mother’s and her infant’s finger tips
printed on the same card. The finger |
printing of policy-holders would prevent
fraudulent death claims."
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Hlnlng <’ar I oi rub inforin.itlon call on
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strtivi, Atlauia. undvl.j
Second Half of His Enormous
Inheritance Soon To Be
His Absolutely.
NEW YORK. Sept. 19.—Alfred
Gwynne Vanderbilt, suzerain of the
j much-moneyed house by virtue of his
father's will, which nullified the usual
operation of primogeniture, is keenly
awaiting two events. The first, one
that will bind him more closely to his
charming bride, who was Mrs. Smith
Hollins McKim, is expected almost mo
■ mentarily. Mr. anad Mrs. Vanderbilt
■are quartered in their houseboat on
the Thames awaiting the birth of the
expected heir.
As soon after the birth of the child
as the young mother’s condition per
mits, Mr. and Mrs. Vanderbilt will take
passage for America, where on Octo-
I ber 20 the former will celebrate his
' thirty-fifth birthday. On that day the
I young man will takV rank with the real
financial giants of America, for he will
then automatically come into possas
sion of a sum estimated tit $25,000,000.
Thus the young man, at the age of
35 years, becomes one of the financial
powers of the country. In the course
i of his brief career he has been twice
I married. His first wife was Elsie
I'Tonch Vanderbilt, by whom he had
one child. His marriage to Mrs. Mc-
Kim took place last year.
Provisions of the Will.
This sum which he will get on Octo
ber 20 represents the half of Vander-
I bilt’s patrimony willed to him by his
i father, Cornelius Vanderbilt. The sev
enteenth provision of the remarkable
document, in which the then head of
the powerful family of American mil
lionaires cut off his eldest son, Cor
nelius, Jr., with a "paltry” $1,500,000,
read as follows:
Seventeenth—All the rest, rest- .
due and remainder of the estate,
including all lapsed legacies and
the principal of annuities, is given
to the executors in trust, t» hold
and invest and reinvest and collect
rents, incomes and profits for the
use of his son, Alfred G., and to
pay to him the net income as re
ceived until he becomes 30, when
he is to come into possession of
one-half of said estate, the in
come of the balance to be paid to
him as before until he becomes 35,
when he is to come into full pos
session thereof.
On October 20, 1907, A. G. Vander
bilt came into possession of $25,000,000,
the firqt half of his patrimony. He will,
therefore,’on October 20 next be com
plete and outright master of $50,000,000,
together with his surplus income, which
is estimated at several millions more.
Thus this smooth-faced, young Amer
ican will possess a fortune approxi
mating that of the Phippses, the
I Moores, the Reids, the Goulds and the
I Archbolds, whose fortunes range from
■ $50,000,000 to $150,0011,000.
Not in the First Rank.
Mr. Vanderbilt's fortune, however,
can hardly be placed in tile “stupen
dous" class. According to figures re
cently complied by Boston economics,
the leading nine fortunes In America
rank as follows:
John D. Rockefeller $1,000,000,000
Andrew Carnegie 500,000,000
J. P. Morgan 500.000.000
William Rockefeller .. .. 250,000,000
George F. Baker 250,000,000
James B. Duke 200,000,000
James Stillman 2110,000.000
Henry brick .. 160.000.000
i W K Vanderbilt 150,000,000
The estate <if “Cornelius Vanderbilt,
deceased” has been In the hands of
Mrs. Vanderbilt, as executrix, and Al
fred H Vanderbilt, william K. V.mdi r
bllt, I’haum • > Depew, v. W. Rossiter
and Hcttluaid .Vuiidgrbllk
FIKE DEFENDS
ALLEN GUN CHIEF
“Every Man Has to Draw His
Gun.” Says Pretty Sunday
School Teacher.
ROANOKE. VA., Sept. 19.—She
teaches Sunday school in the little
Dunkard church over the Carolina line
from Hillsville, Va., and the children
adore her. She's pretty with the whole
some prettiness of the mountain coun
try. and gentle with the gentleness of
the educated mountain woman. But
she stands today as the sole defender
of "Wes" Edwards, accused as the most
desperate gunman of the "Allens,” ar
rested in lowa as one of the slayers in
the Hillsville court house tragedy, and
believed by many to be on a swift way
to the prison death house.
She alone defends him—Maude Irola
who was engaged to marry him before
he lied with his clansmen on that dan
gerous night after Judge Thornton
Massie had been shot to death on the
bench and Sheriff Webb and Common
wealth Attorney Foster killed.
She Believes in "Gun Rights.”
Site defends him, not as a Northet n
woman would do—not saying that he
is innocent, and that, because he is
tender toward her, he could not do so
terrible a deed. She says merely this:
"Do 1 think he was guilty? Why. 1
I don't see how that can make any dif
ference. On6e in a w hile every man
who thinks anything of himself has to
draw his gun. and you can't always
fell who’s right and who’s wrong.
"Anyhow." she adds, "whether ’Wes'
was right or w rong, I belonged to him,
and. right or wrong. I'll stick to him.”
It Is not one of the dull, half-clois
tered mountain girls who speaks: It is
one of those who have gone out of the
mountains, have gained independence,
ven a certain culture. But the blood
of the mountain clans will always tell.
She would teach her Sunday schoo'
pupils the law of the outer world; but
she would tell her sweetheart, it seems,
to kill whomsoever offends his honor.
Didn’t Betray Them.
They brought Maude Iroler back from
Dos Moines with Wesley Edwards and
Sidna Allen, who were arrested in the
lowa city after being hunted by Bald
win detectives for three months.
The girl—she is only nineteen—de
nied. almost threateningly, that she
I had bestrayed the fugitives. Site had
| merely gone to Des Moines to wed Ed
wards and show that her faith in him
was supreme. Nobody doubts that this
is true.
"I didn't tell a soul where 1 was go
ing." she said in explaining iter flight
from Hillsville. "My‘mother thought I
was going over to Mount Airy to see
Aunt Jane. I couldn’t have any way
of knowing I was followed, could 1? I
allow it iust had to be. I don't think
I d be a witness, because 1 don't know
any thing about that .shooting.”
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PHYSICIAN IS DEAD
NEWNAN, GA.. Sept. 19.—Dr. J. H.
Jordan, a highly respected colored phy
sician of this city, is dead from burns
received when his clothing caught fire
while he was filling the gasoline tank
of his automobile Sunday.
While making a call. Dr. Jordan's au
tomobile ran out of gasoline. Procur
ing a supply, he was pouring it in the
car when a passerby struck a match,
which caused the gasoline to explode.
The clothing of Dr. Jordan was satu
rated and instantaneously he was
ablaze. His torture caused him to run
like mad. When the flames were ex
tinguished he was found horribly burn
ed and died last 'night.
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