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VOL. XL NO. 41.
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RACEWITH
SLEUTHS
Captured After Three Months !
Pursuit by Pinkertons, They
Obtain Freedom.
CHARGED WITH $1,500
JEWEL THEFT HERE
Trailed to White Plains. N. Y.,
Magistrate There Unexpect
edly Releases Them.
Captured after a three months chase
trough a half dozen states, marked
by a spectacular automobile escape,
and frustrated time and again by the
cleverness of the quarry, two women,
Loraine Belmont and Alice Smith, ac
cused of the theft of diamonds worth
jt.500 from the Durham Brothers Jew
elry Company at 20 Edgewood avenue,
succeeded in eluding the Pinkertons
again today by convincing the magis
trate at White Plains, N. Y„ that there
was net sufficient evidence against
them.
This unexpected turn, coming just as
Deputy Sheriff George Broadnax and
Detective Sam Webb were starting for
the prisoners, astounded the Pinkerton
office here, which has been manipulat,-
ing the chase, and a telegram Instruct
ing rearrest of the women was dis
patched immediately.
Hew the Swindle
Hers Was Worked.
Tin? detectives declared that Broadnax
• weeks ago secured the-necessary
nd, with Governor Brown’s sig
nature attached to them, took them to
Xew York, whore Governor Dix had
the arrest of the two women.
They were astonished that the women
should hate been freed before the At
lanta. man arrived to give evidence.
Th- swindling of the Durham com
pany took place on June 20, when, ac
e.-.r iing to the detectives, the two wom
en disappeared with $1,500 worth of
jewels which they had secured on the
payment of $135 In cash after securing
the recommendation of a prominent
Atlantan.
The women were accompanied by
two brothers, Sam and Jack Herman,
who posed as their husbands. The
Pinkertons got on the trail at once and
through baggage checks traced the
quartet to Greenville, N. C., thence to
Richmond and Norfolk. There the four
had evidently taken the boat to New
York and the detectives hurried to
Manhattan, where the quarry was final
ly located in a boarding house run by
Frank Herman, a brother of Sam and
Tack Herman. They remained in hid
ing about New York until dbout two
weeks ago, when they were discovered,
1n the Herman rooming house.
A squad of detectives surrounded
the Herman place the night the cap
ture was to be made, but the pursued
■lashed into a waiting automobile just
• before the Pinks got to the house and
■ made their escape after a wild ride
through the. streets of New York.
Through one of the underworld in the
lenderloin of New York the detectives
. finally learned that the two women and
I the mon had gone to White Plains and
ast night all four were arrested. The
Pin'ertons here were notified to have
I the officers call and Broadnax and
Webb were all ready to start this
morning.
Then this surprising telegram ar
rived:
"Don’t send officers; White Plains
" cl Tate released prisoners, declar
ing evidence insufficient."
T m local Pinkerton office expects the
carrest of the women before night.
: er the women fled from White
Pam immediately after their release
t known, as rpo details of the pro
ngs there have been Received. It
'-nrded as practically certain, how
‘Vfi. that they are still under surveil
"■■'•■■ as the Pinkertons are deter
■d to prevent their escape.
two women came to Atlanta sev
>nths ago. it is said, in company
two Herman brothers, reniain
’ -e just long enough to make a
up” on the diamond game. They
d to be known on the Pacific
in Texas cities, New Orleans,
I ati and other places.
EVELYN THAW SUED:
FAILED TO PAY RENT
• ' YORK, Sept. 20.-r-Evelyn
’■'ife of Harry K. Thaw, was
defendant today in a supreme
udginent for $219.
Judgment was granted to Ed-
1 ngolies for a claim due for
■utlis rental of a studio. Mrs.
' uilege.d to have failed to pay
II of this studio for December,
und January, 1912.
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results.
Lays Fatal Accident
To Clothing Catching
On Nail; Asks $40,000
Alleging that a protruding nail
caught in the clothing of his brother.
Vi. C. Gordon, a brakeman on the
Colorado. Gulf and Santa Fe railroad,
and caused him to be thrown under the
tiain and killed. E. M. Gordon today
filed suit for $40,000 against that rail
road in the Federal court.
Sybil Gordon, four years old. is named
as the only heir of the deceased and
the suit is brought in her behalf.
The petition shows that W. C. Gor
don was killed last April at Heiden
heimer, Texas, while employed by the
railroad.
$25,000 BANK LOOT,
READY FOR POLICE
“SPLIT,” RECOVERED
CHICAGO. Sept. 20.—Tvfenty-five I
thousand dollars of the $272,000 stolen]
from the branch bank of Montreal ai •
New Westminster..B. C.. was recovered
by Chicago police today. The story or i
the recovery of the loot was kepi se
cret. It was found through clews that !
were given the police when they first
learned that two of the five robbers
were hiding in Chicago.
With the recovery of the loot. Chief
McWeeny began the investigation of a i
sensational report that, certain police I
officers were involved in a gigantic
[graft plot to exchange the Canadian
money for American cash, and were to
receive a big slice of the. loot. It is
said that the robbers, who had fre
quented the saloon of James Sidias in
South Waba.-h avenue, negotiated with
a gambler who was intimately ae- ■
quainted with certain of the police. The I
lobbers. it is said, offered a coinmis- I
sion large enough to split several ways. I
■The negotiations for the exchange of |
the cash and the Canadian securities I
had progressed so far that it would
have been completed in a few days, ac
cording to the report.
TAFT TO ROOT FOR
BOSTON’S RED SOX
IN WORLD’S SERIES
BEVERLY’. MASS.. Sept. 20. In the
coming world’s series games in Boston
one of the leading "rooters” for the
Boston players, who today were as
sured of the American league pennant
when Philadelphia lost one game in
Chicago, will be President Taft.
Da ,t by day the president has watched I
the Boston men keep up their strides I
toward the pennant and tonight an- 1
nouncement was made at the executive ,
offices that the president would he i
"down among the fans” when the firs!
game of the world’s series is played in
Boston.
The president had hoped when he
came to Beverly that the Washington
American league team might win the
pennant and expected to see at least
one game on the Washington grounds
In which his favorite figured.
KONG LEE. OWNER OF
“YEE GUN,” HAS COURT |
HANGING ONTO ROPES
Judge Andrew Calhoun came down
off his chair in criminal court. Solicitor
Lowry Arnold showed real distress, and
the jurymen gaped as Kong I.ee, who
runs a “yee gun” at 158 Decatur street,
recited his story on the witness stand
today. An interpreter, Haijry Loo. a
Yale student, who was called in, said
that "yee gun" meant laundry.
Not only did he tell the jury the
meaning of that expression, but he
translated the entire testimony given
by his countryman.
Kong Lee was prosecutor in a case
against a negro girl charged with steal
ing $3 from the Chinese several weeks
ago. He could speak no word of Eng
lish.
RAIN POSTPONES
VANDERBILT CUP
OPENING EVENTS
MILWAUKEE, Sept. 20.—The Wis
consin cup and P;#>st trophy races,
scheduled to open the Vanderbilt cup
meet, will be run next Tuesday.
After a vain effort to send the thir
teen cars away today, the officials of
the meet postponed the race half an
hour before time to start. A first post
ponement had changed starting time
from noon to 2 o'clock. Rain falling
after 1 o’clock made another postpone
ment imperative, and the races were
announced for 1 o’clock Tuesday.
The Vanderbilt cup race will be run
tomorrow. It starts a.t 11 o'clock.
LETTER CARRIERS FINED
S2OO FOR DRINKING SODA
CLEVELAND, OHIO, Sept. 20. —Two
Cleveland letter carriers were_fined S2OO
each for stopping on their rounds to
have an ice cream soda. Eight other
carriers have been given equally severe
fines for trivial infractions of the pos-"
tai rules.
Letter carriers here assert they are
being persecuted. Backed by the Na
tional Letter Carriers association, they
wtll employ attorneys and fight the de-
I partment at Washington.
Political revenge by the Taft adrnins
hstration is back of the department’s
activities, they charge. Several of
I those who have been fined for practi
• caliy no reason at all are Bull Mousers.
WOULD PUT
JOHN D. IN
PRISON
Attorney Calls Oil Magnates ini
Contempt for Disobeying the
Dissolution Order.
NEW YORK. Sept. 20. —The arrest
of John D. Rockefeller and his asso
ciates in the old Standard Oil Compiiny .
for contempt of court and the appoint-1
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At dop. Miss Henrietta Massehng
telling her little friends an In
dian story. The children are.
left to right. Isabelle Breitep
bucher. Lucille Breitenbueher and
Thelma Miller.
memos a Federal receiver for each of
the former Standard subsidiaries may
follow the disclosures being brought out
in the hearing of the Standard Oil-
Watera-Pierce suit, now going on be
fore Commissioner A. L. Jacobs.
This course of procedure was threat
ened today by one of counsel for the
Waters-Pierce Company, which is being
sued because it refused to recognize
the election as directors of men whom
it charges represented the old Standard
crowd, seeking by this method to re
gain control of the company.
"It is astonishing that the govern
ment officials could be so easily taken
in a* to believe there ever was such a
thing as a dissolution." said this at
torney. "Every bit of evidence so far
produced has shown that in every one
of the old subsidiaries of the Standard
Rockefeller and his associates still own
a controlling interest, and that not one
of the subsidiaries has tried in any
way to increase the scgpe of its busi
ness, contenting itself with doing busi
ness in the same territory in which it
worked before the dissolution order
came from the supreme court.
Dissolution Only
Change of Names.
"The only change that the dissolution
order brought about was the resigna
tion of some of the old directors of
the subsidiaries and the immediate
filling of their places by men chosen
by Rockefeller and his associates.
“Not only has the Standard evaded
the court ruling as regards dissolution,
but it began evading just as soon as
the federal action was begun. The
state of Texas began action against tlie
Security and Corsicana Oil Companies,
operating in that state. When the
courts finally ordered that the concerns
be dissolved, it was found these com
panies no longer existed—that almost
immediately upon the filing of the. suit
the name was changed to John C.
Seely & Co. and later to the Magnolia
Petroleum Company.
"Before we have finished examining
witnesses in this case, we intend to
show, through the testimony of wit
nesses and the records of the different
subsidiary companies, that the dissolu
tion order was never carried out. With
these facts in our possession, we will
present them to the court and ask, as
the facts warrant, for the jailing for
contempt of Rockefeller and his asso
ciates and the appointment of a re
ceiver, so that the independent oil deal
ers may be assured of a square deal,”
ATLANTA, GA.. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1912.
Nat Goodwin Doomed
To Be a Life Cripple;
May Never Act Again
LOS ANGELES. ’Sept. 20.—Nat C.
Goodw In. comedian, who has delighted j
thousands of audiences, probably will
never again appear before the foot
lights. Physicians declare he will be a
I cripple for life as the result of'the frac
i ture of his pelvic bona, which happened
i August 15 while Goodwin was boating
j in the Faeifie.
To»earry out a whim of Miss More
[ land, an actress to whom lie was re- |
I ported engaged, lie ventured’into dun-|
, gerous waters in a small craft. A huge
j breaker upset -the skiff and dashed
, Goodwill against the rocks. J
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Deeply interested in a legend of the red men. is little
Isabelle Breitenbueher listenin g to a favorite store.
YAWN DISLOCATES JAW
OF WOMAN TWICE IN DAY
BARTLESVILLE, OKLA.. Sept. 20.
When Mrs. John Palmer, of Dewey,
“yawned" today she dislocated her jaw.
A physician was called and reduced the
fracture.
Mrs. Palmer said she feit better and
the physician departed. He had not
gone more than 100 yards from till
house when Mrs. Palmer yawned a sec
ond time.
The physician was hailed, and. upon
returning, found the woman’s jaw dis
located again. It was reset, and, fear
ing the woman would yawn again, the
physician remained in the house.
U. S. to Look Into
Standard Dissolution
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20. — A report
based on apparently authentic Infor
mation was current here today that the
department of justice will reopen the
entire Standard Oil ease and make a
complete investigation of the charge
that the oil trust has violated the man
date of the United States supreme court
ordering its dissolution.
Wondrous Tales Carry Kiddies to Land of Myth
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2.000 ARE VACCINATED:
PITTSBURG FRIGHTENED
PITTSBURG. PA. Sept. 20. —More
than 2,000 persons have been vacci
nated at the public safety building
within the last 24 hours. The majority
were children. One man died today of
smallpox, three new cases were report
ed and ten suspected ease- were put
under quarantine. The city council has
decided that Health IMreetor E. R.
Walters must stand trial on the charge
of malfeasance. He is in the pest
house, a victim of smallpox, and there
has been some public sympathy that
threatened to vindicate him without
trial.
BAD HABITS PART OF
SUCCESS, SAYS EXPERT
CHAMPAIGN, ILL., Sept. 20.—“ Men
who are here only to study had better
go elsewhere. The lack of bad habits
is a negligence. 1 never knew a man
in my life tiiat amounted to anything
who had no bad habits,” said Presi
dent Edmund J. James, of the Uni
versity of Illinois at a convocation ad
dle s lo 2.000 students this afternoon.
He ascribed many failures in eojlegv
to the use of liquor and tobacco, and
urged students to take as their motto,
"Touch not, taste not, handle not."
Indian Legends Enthrall Tiny
Youngsters While Older Ones
Hear of Chaucer.
Atlanta children have turned their
minds ami thoughts to the land of
myth wit!) the return of the enjoyable
stcry-telling hour at the Carnegie li
brary. < m Wednesday afternoons Miss
Henriette Masselling, the story-teller,
amuses and instructs young Atlanta at
th<‘ Anne Wallace branch of the libra
ry on Luckie street; on Friday after
noons at tlie main library on Carnegie
way.
For the little boys ami girls who
cluster around her chair to the number
if several score and listen, wide-eyed,
and with childish terror sometimes, she
tells stories of the American Indians.
Seme of them are stories of actual fig
ures among the red men’ and again of
the heroes of their mythology.
Older children are told the familial
"Canterbury Tales,” but Miss Massell
ing says she does not try to pro
nounce the words in the way in which
Chaucer spelled them.
The American Indian stories will re
count at first much of the mythology
told long ago by medicine men of wan
dering tribes to the young warriors.
Mcny of the original legends which
American poets have made famous in
prose and poetry will be told. Then ■
tales of the first American settlers will
be recounted and the little children,
who go to bed every night confident in
the thought that their home is safe
guarded against almost any possible
harm, will learne of the children of the
original settlers who often were
snatched from a blazing cabip and
rushed into the stockade fort, to pre
vent their being scalped. Indian war
riors and heroes will be introduced in
these stories. Most of tlie Indian war
riors told of are those who fought
against the New England settlers and
tlie Dutch who first settled where New
York city now stands.
England's first national poet will be
appreciated by young Atlanta before
they reach the high school age, for the
stories for the older children dealing
with Chaucer's tales are to be made
simple enough for the children to un
derstand, and yet will not be told so as
to cause a loss of interest.
At the second story-telling today
at the main library several score
of children attended each aec
tion, and as the cool days come on and
less of summer’s pleasures can be en-'
Joyed, the attendance is expected to
become larger than ever before. The
story hour for tlie little children begins
at 3:30 o'clock, and the tales for tho
older children at 4 o’clock.
HOME.
EDITION
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE
SMDKEBOARD
DECLAHES
min on
EVIL
Chairman Says It Will Proceed
Against Violators of City
Ordinance.
“UP TO COUNCIL IF THE
MANUFACTURERS KICK”
Chamber of Commerce Urges
Action. But Asks Suspension
of Judgment.
The yity snnoke commission declared
nar against sinoite today through ite
chairman. R. M. Harwell. The many
offenders who have been under proba
tion will be required to comply with
the city ordinance at once or they will
be summoned to appear before the re
corder,
Forced by public sentiment, tho
smoke commission will not only re
scind its action in amending tho city*
ordinance, but it will change its atti
tude from a diplomatic corps to a mili
tant body.
"We have been sincere in our ef
forts," said Chairman Harwell today,
"but we did not understand that the
council and the public intended that
we should begin prosecutions so early
We thought we could gain the desired
results through co-operation with the
owners of smoke producers.
Will Enforce
City Ordinance.
"If the manufacturers kick about our
going too strong now, it will be up to
council to answer them. We are going
to enforce the law. The law permits
black smoke to be emitted from a stack
only twelve minutes to the hour”
Mr. Harwell said the commission
had not met yet, but that he had con
vened with most of the members. He
said they would meet as soon as Smoke
Inspector McMichael, who had been
called out of town on account of the
illness of his mother, returned.
Fie said the commission did not in
tend to inflict any undue hardship on
the manufacturers. Where there is
reasonable cause, time will be given all
to comply with the law. But experts
and city officials assert that 50 per cenc
of the smoke nuisance can be elimi
nated in 30 days.
J. M. VanHarlingen, chairman of the
smoke committee of the Chamber of
Cdhimerce and a new appointment on.
the smoke commission, said that half
of the smoke comes from small plants
and that it could easily be prevented.
He said that President Wickersham, oC
the Atlanta and West Point railroad,
had prevented smoke in the Terminal
station and that it could be prevented
from railroad engines all over the city/
One of the principal reasons for
smoke is lack of intelligent firing of
furnaces, it was pointed out.
The smoke committee of the Cham
ber of Commerce, at its meeting yes
terday afternoon, adopted a resolution
calling upon the smoke qommission to
enforce the law.
If the smoke board will not enforce
the law, we will not hesitate to recom
mend that it be abolished," said Wilmer
L. Moore, president of the Chamber of
Commerce.
Smith Not To Move
For Abolishing Board,
Councilman Charles W. Smith said
he would refrain from introducing an
ordinance to abolish the smoke com
mission if the commission showed it
intended to carry but the law. He said
he intended to urge more stringent
laws against smoke as soon as it would
not be too great a burden on the man
ufacturers.
Both Mr. Smith and Mr. Moore said
that Oscar Elsas, a wealthy manufac
turer and one of the members of the
smoke commission, who urged extreme
conservatism, had jdaced himself in a
delicate position by accepting a place
on the commission. Mr. Moore said he
believed Mr. Elsas’ membership was one
of the causes of the public criticism
against the board.
"Mr. Elsas io a fine citizen," said Mr.
Smith, "but on account of his business
connections Mayor Winn should not
have appointed him on the commis
sion.”
Mr. Moore said that Mr. Elsas was
complying with the law in his own fac
tory and that lie was the best informed
man on smoke on the commission.
The resolution formally calls on the
commission to enforce the smoke law,
expresses confidence In the integrity
of its members and urges all to sus
pend judgment of the commission until
it lias had a reasonable time to demon
strate its ability to abate the smoke
nuisance.
The resolution asserts that if the
commission falls in its duty, tile Cham,
her of Commerce will not hesitate to
use its influence to get council
strengthen the present ordinance.