Atlanta Georgian. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, September 23, 1912, EXTRA, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextTHE WEATHER Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia: Ram today: clearing tomorrow. VOL. XL BELDING’SKIN TOFIGHTFOR CONVICTION OF SLAYER Son of Policeman Shot by Brother Officer Has Attor- ney to Aid Prosecution. BULLET WOUND FOUND IN BACK OF THE VICTIM Complete Chain of Evidence Will Be Presented to the Grand Jury. A vigorous fight to convict Policeman j \V. Camp for the slaying of his brother officer, S. A. Belding, with whom he had roomed for five years, will be made by the family of the dead man. according to an announcement today. E. S. Belding, one of the sons of the victim, came to Atlanta from Augusta yesterday with Attorney D. B. Mc t'owan. who will look after the prose cution of the slayer. They asked Chief of Police Beavers to keep them posted in developments and probably will be in hand when the grand jury takes up the ease. Belding's body was taken back to Augusta after the second inquest, at whl, 1 a b'-wlet hole was found In the victim's back near the fifth rib. Large burns were found around this '.•itind and on the dead man’s shirt. Chief Beavers declared today' that a thorough investigation of the killing •voiild b>. made and that three detec tives. Hollingsworth. Hewel! and Camp " I. had been assigned to get all the facts. He said the case w-ould be i ::eat<d exactly as though the two men involved were not policemen and that a tit-u uigii and complete chain of evi b iiv.' would be presented to Ihe grand lu.y. Autopsy Shows Bullet Was Fired From Behind. Camp today is in the Tower, held without bond. The second inquest was held at the trd- of Coroner Paul Donehoo and its •uhs will be submitted to the grand l iij That the wound revealed by the • ■■ eond autopsy was inflicted by a bullet Hied from behind is the opinion of ''ouuty Physician Green, who also be ' ieved it was the first of the bullets fired. "The powder burns around the 'round." he said, "indicated clearly tha’ < pistol was fired at a distance not !r, i than four feet, and probably less. Hi' ball entered beneath the right .-linuiiler blade and in the vicinity of E the fifth rib. It ranged upward and ■ P'ni trated through the breast. This K ''Pint of exit, upon the first examina- ■ '"’ll. v.as believed to have been the spot r entrance until the discovery by un- ■ delta Kelts." K “mt' today stood by his first story iiie shooting was in self-defense, K declared that Belding had tbreat- ■ "'d lo shoot him and had rushed to l’ r bureau to get his gun. Camp Tells Cf the Shooting. E 11 aught him and pushed him back ■ "in the bureau." said Camp. "He ■ '’ r d me aside and jumped for It B dtain. but I was too quick for him and K 1 mine fi st. We were standing a short distance apart, probably K f‘et. I fired once. He wheeled E '’Till trying to get the pistol. I ■ again as he, wheeled to fall. I B rucht him anil tried tn support, his ■ I pushed him over toward the K ’rying to get him to lie down, so B ’’ ' could call a doctor. He pushed E , away and rushed Into the hall. T E ""C'l him and when he fell at the ■ °f the steps I hurried to a phone ■ notified the ambulance and police :, aiion. B Belding was old and childish. We E , numerous spats and difficulties this, but never until this time E 1 weapon of any sort figured in B Mharrels. There was no quarrel B il,le - There was not even a dis- B 1 was getting ready to move from B ooms, and leave Belding to him- B the At st of October I would K ' been in different quaiters. But B " “ ,n K didn’t know this. K ' oe old man and 1 were the best of E. there wasn’t a thing on earth ■ 111,1 t have done for him, and I be- B ' he would have done as much for B bad lived together for six B H" was the best friend 1 ever , ' " ,l * I killed him to save mv own B T 1 had to do it." K police yesterday escorted Beld- ■| r't- t" the Union station from B r ., "u undertaking establishment. (j, , ”■>' r-il will take place in Augusta H " afternoon. XO. 43. PROTEST AGAINST U.S. TROOPS IN NICARAGUA TO BE DISREGARDED W ASHINGTON. Sept. 23.—Protest of 400 Costa Ricans against the maintain ing of a force of American marines in Nicaragua to put down the Menista re volt will have no effect upon thv policy of the state department. This was announced here today fol lowing a complete study of the docu ment by government officials and con ferences with the Costa Rican lega tion concerning the personality of the signers of the protest. It was discovered that Juan Irias, the principal power behind the note, has been intimately associated with every revolution of note, in Central America within the last quarter of a century and is known as "the worst bad man in La tin-America." Rudolfo Espinoza Alceo Mazera amd the other signers of the ultimatum, which threatens a Central American outbreak against United States aggres sion. are reported to be of like caliber. Even if this note came directly from the government of Costa Rica, said state department officials today, the United States could not possibly com ply with it as long as American and foreign citizens are in danger in Nica ragua, and United States marines will be kept in that country until the last vestige of the revolt has disappeared, and probably ntil after the next elec tions. PASTOR ILLUSTRATES SERMON ON “VICE” BY PICTURES ON SCREEN CHICAGO, Sept. 23.—There is expect ancy among the members of the Grace Methodist Episcopal church, following an illustrated sermon on vice in Chicago. Rev. E. L. William). who preached the sermon and who told what he had found in language that could not be misunder stood. closed with the statement that he had more disclosures to make. They will come in later sermons. Rev. Mr. Williams has been personally investigating vice conditions on the north side. With lantern slides he discussed what he had found. One slide showed a "private’ register of a North Clark street hotel. “The hotel has eighteen roms,” said Rev. Mr. Williams. “On this side you see the amounts of mon& each room earned each night. I have found in six months room No. 10 earned $162. The room was rented on an average of seven times a night." Photographs of the proprietor of the hotel and of the owner of the real estate talking together were also shown. 43 PRESBYTERIAN PASTORS MEET IN FALL PRESBYTERY The Atlanta presbytery will open its fall session tomorrow night at the Col lege Park Presbyterian church, with Rev. Fritz Rauschenburg as host to the visit ors. Twenty-two counties and sixty-four churches, with about 7,000 members, are included in the presbytery. Forty-three ministers will be in attendance. The meeting will open by a sermon by Rev. J. E. Hanah. of Newnan, and wel come addresses by Elder J. C. Woodtvard, Rev. H. C. Christian and Baynard Wil lingham, mayor pro tern of College Park. On Wednesday the first business session will be held and these will continue through Friday turkey Refuses to RATIFY PEACETERMS; WILL CONTINUE WAR VIENNA, Sept. 23.—After the Tarkish council of ministers had ratified the draft of the peace treaty drawn up by the Turco-Italian commissioners in Geneva. Switzerland, the government decided to reject the protocl's terms, and is so pre paring to notify the powers, according to a telegram from Constantinople. It is said that the change in attitude was brought about by young Turks, who are in favor of continuing the war. RECORD LUMBER SALE CLOSED BY GOVERNMENT WASHINGTON. Sept. 23.—Negotia tions for the sale of 800.000,000 feet of timber in the Sierra national forest to a California lumber company were an nounced today by Chief Forester Graves. He is en route to California to close the deal—the largest ever made by the Federal forestry service. The company was high bidder for the tim ber, for which prices will be changed every five years until all is cut For ester Graves says the national forests contain 600,000.000,000 feet of mer chantable timber. but that most of it is 100 isolated for The Atlanta Georgian Rearf For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results. Will Fourteenth St. Be Paved Like Hades? I o the Editor of The Georgian : I have read and enjoyed your editorial entitled “If Job Lived in Fourteenth Street.’’ This morning a city official said to me. “You know I sym pathize with you in regard to the condition of Fourteenth street.” I knew hell was paved with good intentions, and it would now seem that Fourteenth street will be paved (?) with ‘‘sympathy.” i Yours in disgust. “JOB. JR.” POLICE JOBS GIVEN TO 3/ NEW YORK CROOKS Perjurers With Criminal Rec ords Receive Places From Commissioner Waldo. TO LAY BARE SECRETS BEHIND APPOINTMENTS Aldermanic Graft Investigating Committee Strikes a New Trail as It Proceeds. NEW YORK Sept. 23.—Secrets’back of the appointment to the police force of 37 alleged perjurers, some of them with criminal records, are to be laid bare by the aldermanic police graft in vestigating committee. Two of the witnesses subpenaed to testify today were James Creelman. president of the municipal civil service commission, which placed alleged per jurers on the eligible lists, and District Attorney James U. Cropsey. of Kings county. Richard Welling and Alex Keogh, two membets of the civil service com mission, will also be examined by the aldermanic probers. Mr. Cropsev will be asked to tell why he quit the police department. Commissioner Waldo appointed to the force practically al) the candidates that Commissioner Cropeey had passed over because of reports of previous un lawful conduct or other personal fail ings. VANDERBILT HEIR IS BORN IN HOUSEBOAT ON THAMES RIVER LONDON, Sept. 23 Friends of Al fred G. Vanderbilt in this city were notified today that his son and heir, born in a houseboat on the Thames, was thriving finely and that the mother was doing well. The child is heir to a fortune estimated at more than $60,- 000,000.* The boy was born yesterday. The Vanderbilts have been spending the last* three weeks in their house boat near Tetchworth, Surrey. formefFatlantan’dies. LEAVING ESTATE LA GRANGE, GA., Sept. 23.—The body of W. B. Meetze. aged about 55 years, who died at his home at Gab bettville. Troup county, Saturday after noon. has been sent to Lexington. S. C., for burial. Mr. Meetze was among the most prominent business men of his section of the county. He left an es tate estimated at about SIOO,OOO. He owned a ginnery, mercantile business and mill, in addition to farm property around Gabbettville. He was a South Carolinan by birth. He moved to At lanta about nine years ago and about five years ago went to Gabbettville. He is survived by his wife, one daughter, Mrs. Annie Daniel, and two sons, W. H. and Earl Meetze. NEW PUBLIC BUILDINGS GOING UP IN CARROLLTON CARROLLTON. GA., Sept. 23.—Car rollton’s new $30,000 hotel, just com pleted by L. C. Mandevillie, will be opened to the public on October 1. It is on the site of the old Southland hotel. The United States government has let the contract and dirt has been broken for a $75,000 Federal building opposite the Carroll county court house. The city council of Carrollton is con structing a city hall which will cost $25,000. It is to have a very large au ditorium. The city is erecting a second school house at a cost of $15,000 in the western part of the city. MACON WELLS UNDER BAN. MACON. GA.. Sept. 33.—Coincident with the extension of water mains to all parts of Macon, including the recently annexed suburbs, the board of health has decreed that all wells must be abandoned and filled The step was taken as a san itary measure, and it is belleevd that as j a result there will be less germ-caused I diseases here In the future. SENATORIAL COMMITTEE NAMED. LAGRANGE, GA., Spt. 23.—At the Thirty-seventh district senatorial conven tion, held in Franklin, the following exec utive committee was appointed; Carroll, A. T. Cobb, 8. Holderness, R. T. Wil liams, J. W Barrow; Heard. P. T. Mc- Cutcheon. I' B. Whitaker: Troup, C. T. Hightower. 8. H. Dunson, E. T. Moon, J. T. Johnson. TWO PRINCES HURT IN WRECK. VIENNA, Sept. 23.—Prince Rene of Parma was fatally injured this after noon and Prince Felix of Parma had a narrow escape, when an auto in which Cney were riding collided with a car riage at Wiener Neustadt ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 23, 1912 Big Parade Will Mark Victories for “Votes for Women" SUFFRAGISTS TO CELEBRATE ’ Li .Ax’* ZaMir Miss Inez Milhollanil, one of ,1 lie prime movers behind the big suffrage de planned for New York on November 9. Woman, Long Convict For Another's Crime, To Demand Damages Mrs. Epps Imprisoned for Poison ing Husband—The Deathbed Confession of Half Brother. HUNTINGTON. IND.. Sept. 23. Mrs. Charlotte Epps, who served 23 years for the murder of her husband. John Epps, today plans to bring legal action to clear Ijer name, and to seek damages from the state for false ar rest and imprisonment. The action is based on the death bed confession of Ed Meis, half-brother of Epps, wiio, according to the woman, gave Epps poison. Mrs. Epps was convicted and sent to prison in 1883. In 1905 she was re leased on parole. Her conviction was on circumstantial -vidence only and she has always stoutly maintained her innocence. With the confession of Meis, of w’hich she has absolute proof, she plans now to reopen the case. Meis lived with Mr. and Mrs. Epps. He endeavored to secure some of Epps’ property. ’Epps died suddenly and mysteriously and his viscera showed traces of poison. Mrs. Epps was con victed on the theory that she had tried to secure control of her husband's property. MAYOR’S" COURT ~F IN E S PAY ALL EXPENSES OF RUNNING GEORGIA CITY LA GRANGE, GA., Sept. 23.—A re markable record in municipal adminis tration has been disclosed in this city through the records of City Clerk T. J. Harwell, who has been bolding that po sition fbr nearly a .quarter of a century. The records show that during the six yeats Chief of Police F. T. Reid has held office every' expense of city ad ministration, including payment of the police force city clerk, city council mayor, street department and health department, lias been earned by the police department through fines and col lections made in the mayor's court. This record has been made in the face of the fact that very few cases in the police court are of a serious char acter. Last year nearly SII,OOO was collected through the agency of the mayor's court and the police depart ment. TROUP COUNTY TO HAVE FAIR. LA GRANGE, GA.. Sept. 23.—The La- Grange Chamber of Comerce, the Troup County Poultry association, and L. C. Dl vis. government farm land demonstrator, will jointly give a big fair this year. Rep resentatives of these interests met today to formulate plans for the annual Troup county fair, which will be held some time In- November COLUMBUS VOTERS REGISTER. COLUMBUS, GA., Sept. 23.—The registration books for the city election the second Saturday in December have been opened. Eight aldermen are to be elected. Several of the present aide men will not stand for re-election. ’ FRENCH PRINCE DIES. PARIS. Sept. 23.—Prince Louis Na polean Murat, a grandson of the French Marshal Mural, w hom Napoleon fit :-t rcated king of Napier anfi H peph'w '< f > x-Empt-r?- Eugenie, died h»re to day, aged bl. New York Fall Pageant Will Eclipse Demonstration of Last May. NEVS YORK, Sept. 23. —To demon strate their enthusiasm over the prog ress of the cause, a monster suffrage parade will be held Saturday evening. November 9, in which delegation- of suffragettes from practically every state In the Union are expected to take part. Leaders of the movement in New York are confident that the coming event will eclipse the annual parade held last May, which was in every way a record-breaker. Several thousand torches will be given to the men who take part and 10,000 small transparen cies of fanciful and unique design have been ordered from Paris for the use of the women. I'Toats, emblematic of the victories achieved by the movement during the past five years, will form one division of the procession. In many respects the event will be in the nature of a carnival, as permis sion has been asked for the police de partment for the use of fireworks, col ored streamers and the other effects which are usually to be seen at the an. nual Coney Island festival of fun. The women marchers will dress in white and there will be a distinctive attire for the men which is yet to be select ed. A prominent place will be given to the delegation from Barnard college, and the place of honor will fall to the delegations which are expected to par ticipate from California. Colorado, Utah, Idaho. Wyoming. Washington, Kansas. Ohio, Missouri, Oregon, Ari zona and Wisconsin, where women have already been granted the ballot, or soon will be. From New York city 5,000 women have already signified their intention to inarch in the parade by signing the. enrollment blanks. These have been in circulation only a few days and by the end of the week it Is expected that 10.000 will have signed. Among the prominent suffrage work, era who will participate are Miss Inez Milholland, Mrs. August Belmont, Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw. Mrs. Beatrice Forbes Robertson-Hale. Mis Mary C. Haag, Mrs. Marlon ('handler Aldrich, Mrs. Thomas B. Wells, Mrs. Martha Wentworth Suffern, Miss Leonora O'Reilly, Mrs. E. Jean Nelson P< nfield and Mrs. Carrie chapman Catt. Practically every organization in the city identified with the movement will be in line. Among these will be the Men's Suffrage association, the various college organizations and the state and national delegations, the Political Equality league, the Wage Earners Suffrage league, the Trade Union league and the People's Franchise as sociation. WOMAN IS KNOCKED DOWN BY STREET CAR Mrs. M E. Henry was knocked down by a street car yesterday afternoon as she was crossing Broad and Alabama streets. She was bruised severely. Mrs Henry, who is s middle-aged woman, was picked up by pedestrians and taken Into a drug store. When It wa- .-een that her injuries were not r- lou’ 'be oas taken to her home, 111 Fortune .street ★ Monkeys RefuseToße 'Goats' for Doctors in Pellagra Experiments Simians, After Two Months of Spoiled Corn Diet, Show No Signs of Disease. SAVANNAH. GA. Sept 23.—The ef fort of the government to find the cause and a cure so pellagra through experimentation on monkeys is about to fail, because the Simians refuse ab solutely to contract the disease. I'wo months ago nineteen monkeys from the Washington zoological gar dens were sent to the Marine hospital in Savannah as subjects for pellagra experiments. Two of the nineteen monkeys are being fed on spoiled corn, which is believed to be a cause of thu disease. They not only have shown none of the symptoms of the disease, but appear to be as healthy as their companions, which aie fed a healthier diet. Anothei monkey has been inoc ulated with germs without effect. UNWRITTEN LAW FREES SLAYER; GRAND JURORS REFUSE TO INDICT HIM GREENVILLE. ILL.. Sept. 23.—His plea of “the unwritten law” gave free dom to Arthur Miles. o f this city, slayer of W illiam ("< ’appy": Jones. The grand jury declined to indict him for murder. When Miles killed Jones at the door of his home last July a score of the most prominent citizens of Bond county contended to sign his bond. Nine men attached their names to the bond, and others desired to do the same, but there was no room for any more signatures on the document. Jones formerly was a boarder at the Miles home, and Miles’ wife had com plained to her husband of Jones’ atten tion-; to her. Miles had warned Jones to stay away from his home, and Jones was shot when he attempted to break into the house and attacked Miles with a club. MOTHER TOO ILL TO GET HIS BREAKFAST, YOUTH FIRES HOUSE CHICAGO. Sept. 23.—Elmer Fella kog. aged fourteen, is under arrest to day charged with haying set fire to hl» mother’s home in North LaSalle ave nue. The lad was recently released from the juvenile home. Mrs. Feilskog says he set fire to the house when told that she was too sick to.get up and get breakfast for him. "I smelled smoke." she said, "and could see flumes reflected in the mir ror. 1 got up. The carpel was blazing and one end of the piano was on fire. I finally managed to put out the blaze. -My son stood by laughing and refused to help me.” FEATHERS ON LILLIAN’S HAT CAUSE OF $lO FINE NEW YORK, Sept. 23. — Phea-ant feathers, long and fashionable, on Miss Lillian Gray's hat tickled the .neck of Rudolph Shane, aboard a crowded sub wa? expre Ht swore, was arrested and fined $lO. [XTRAi 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE ■is an on SHOWS; W FOJ GIRLS Theatrical Manager Held After Father Recovers Fourieen- Year-Old “Actress.” t MATRON BRANDS CHEAP COS. WORST OF PERILS White Slave Charges Will Be Probed—Girl Tells How She Was Lured Away. I’ve got enough of being a chorus girl. I m going home now. or else to the Home of the Good Shepherd, in Cincinnati,” said Vessie Bostwick to day. Vessie. who won’t be fifteen until I next May. was inside the barred ward lof the matron at the police station, where she had spent the night. A dream of music and bright lights was responsible for V being* there. Vessie is being held as a witness against W. F. Swearingen, manager ol the American theater in Whitehall street, near Mitchell, one of those place? where so-called vaudeville is produced by a dozen young girls in cheap cos tumes. Swarlngen was arrested yes terday and held under S2OO bond on the technical charge of operating a theat rical employment agency without a li cense, but the police intend looking closely into the conduct of his theater and to investigate his and other al leged violations of the ordinance pro hibiting the appearance of girls under 18 years of age on the stage. Father Alarmed Notified Police. I he Empire Comedy Company" was the reputed organization for which Swaringen wanted chorus girls, and an advertisement in the Atlanta papers brought them to him tn number, it is said. Among these was Vessie Bost wick. of 101 Davis street, who report ed at the theater Saturday and was en gaged ato nee. Vessie had never beer on the stage before, had never sung, knew nothing of dancing. But she i» young and pretty and full of animation and she must have suited Swaringen’s purposes t 0 a dot . He gave her * jp _ hearsal and told her to report again Sunday afternoon at the theater. \ essle didn’t come home Saturday night and Sunday her father greatlv worried, went to look for her. Detec tives Hamby and Vickery took up the search and found that she had been en gaged at the American theater. They ound Manager Swaringen at the Gate < ity hotel and he agreed to find the girl for them. He went to his theater, met the girl there and took her back to the hotel, where the detectives took charge of her. Swaringen was released on bond and th girl held as a. witness for the hearing before the recorder thia afternoon. Matron Tells of “Theatrical” Perils. ’Fake theatrical companies are ons of the worst evils in the country” « a id Matron Bohmfeld at the police'station after giving Vessie Bostwick a brief lecture on the dangers she had escaped ’Most of them aren’t really theatri cal companies at all. They ar- white slave companies. They don’t intend to do theatricals. They just take a bunch of girls to the next big city, break up there and leave the girls stranded and broke. Then there is but one life open to them, and most of them land in the underworld. "Sometimes these companies are or ganized in other cities and break up in Atlanta. The girls, some of whom are barely in their teens, go to the worst districts in the city. Whether the managers are paid for delivering this human merchandise 1 can not say. I couldn’t prove it. Z'lt was only a week or two ago that I saw from the police station the face of a young girl at the window of a re sort across the street. She was so young that 1 went and reported it to the chief. He sent for the girl, found that she was a, victim of a so-called the atrical agency, had been left stranded in Atlanta, and a woman who seemed to have been informed of the girl’s be ing ther ecame and took her to this re sort. The girl was sent back to her parents." DALTON PREPAR~ING FOR FAIR. DALTON, GA., Sept. 23.—The Whit field county fair grounds present a busy scene this week, for workmen are pre paring for the opening of the eleventh annual, fair on October 7. New pad docks and concrete pens for hogs are being built. The main building has been overhauled and the womans building is being Improved. t carni val tompany ha« l.ocn recured to fur nish amusement features.