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VOL. XL NO. 44.
MS. SSEIO,
10HE60NE,
HILL SEEK
WWE
Wife of Banker Who Slew
Man Who Eloped With Her
Changes Residence.
FATHER TURNS FROM HER,
MOTHER STAYS WITH HER
Defense, at Habeas Corpus
Hearing. Lays Ground for
Unwritten Law Plea.
AMARILLO. TEXAS. Sept. 24.—Tak
ing " ith her the memories of a love
that already has cost the lives of two
men md landed a third to whom it
-litfully belonged in a prison cell un
, charge of murder, Mrs. Lena
Sr,-<l. wife of John B. Snead, wealthy
S; ;i Antonio banker, has gone into se
n at Calvert, Texas, preparatory
to filing suit for divorce.
Airs Snead went there immediately
afti r her husband shot and killed A. G.
Bove-. wealthy Amarillo cattleman.be
cuise. he alleges, he had found evi
dem->- that Boyce and his wife were
about to elope for a second time.
The first elopement, which shocked
anil surprised Southwestern society,
where both principals were well
Kr tn. occurred last December and
culminated in the shooting of Boyce’s
father, Colonel A. G. Boyce, Sr., by
Stu ad. when the elder Boyce took steps
seetPe his son’s release from jail.
. he had been placed on charges
I f. red by Snead. Snead was ac
quitted for the shooting on the ground
. ■ if-defense.
Father Turns
Against Her.
.Mrs Snead was accompanied by her
m.itlu .. Her father, J. L. Snyder, is
r-ported to have turned against her
ar to be doing his utmost to secure
Stead’s acquittal on the charge of tnur
<let he now faces.
sinct going ther.e she has exchanged
co !• spnndence with the attorneys fo’
t" Boyces as well as the attorneys for
lb msband as to what course site
should pursue.
i i o Boyce pleaded with Snead not
shoot him again when Boyce fell on
* st;-, .-t here September 14. riddled
buckshot, and that Snead, firing
. remarked: "I guess you are
was brought out by Karl Jack
s' 'f Amarillo, a witness, yesterday
in hearing of Snead's plea for a
of habeas corpus through which
h> > ■ks to be released from jail on
' iff W. M. Burwell, another wit-
■>. testified that Snead’s garb and
> beard rendered it difficult for
n ; i intanees to recognize Snead on
1 _> of the tragedy. The state en
" 1. through testimony of the
'iff. to strengthen its contention
’ i the killing was premeditated.
A mi I ,uber of witnesses were exam
in relation to the intimacy of the
mfi Boyce families.
Evidence Barred
Concerning Elopement.
Ari attempt to introduce the Boyce-
I elopement of last fail in the ex
t ition of witnesses was objected to
’m state, because no predicate had
1 laid,at this hearing to justify i*.
defense waived the matter, re
• ing the right to get it properly be-
I he court. State’s attorneys sav
attempt to introduce the elopement
• indicated that Snead's defense
' charge of murder would be the
,:r W itten law.
I my sections of the Northwest are
1 l rented among the crowds by well
ti cattlemen who are each friends
I'lives of the Sneads or the
Boyces.
n "w phase of tbv Snead case is
st'-d in the subpena issued by the
so; Terry Thompson, brother-in
’ Snead. This process instructs
bring with him a "certain breast
.1 for the protection of human
I’ is said Snead had taken this
no measure to prevent injury
fin the encount' lie is gen
‘ om eded to have planned with
■’ Burwell and twenty special
followed the court's order to
fn r arms al) who went into the
" urt room.
wants guardian for
HUSBAND: ALSO DIVORCE
*•' "’IS. Sept 24.—Mrs. Ella Ro
wentj years old. has filed a di
■mt against Walbridge Romer
■King that her husband is only
’ ' years old. asked the court to
1 guardian to act as Romer's
I ‘lend tn answering the petition.
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Resists.
Deaf Mute, Mistaking
Neighbor's Door for
Own, Shot as Burglar
Unable to Hear Challenge, He
Continued Working at Lock.
Dies of Wound.
CHICAGO, Sept. 24—The body of
William Gray, a deaf mute, shot be
cause he could not,, hear a challenge
when he was mistaken for a burglar,
was sent to Lowell. Ind., today. Gray
died on a Monon train, on which he
was sent to Chicago in a vain effort to
save his life.
Gray started for his home in Lowell
after a day out of town. His home is
located between those of Mrs. Breese
Webb and Grove Lloyd. By mistake
he went to the door of the Webb home,
which is much like his own. Mrs. Webb
heard some one trying to unlock the
door. She screamed. Her screams
roused Lloyd, who went to a window
in his own house, saw the man tam
pering with the lock, thought he was a
burglar, and shouted.
Gray could not hear,» and continued
to work at the lock. Then Lloyd fired
to frighten Gray. The bullet struck the
sidewalk and glanced, entering into
Gray's skull.
FATHER AND SISTER
PLEAD IN VAIN FOR
MORPHINE SELLER
Pleadings of father and sister in po
lice court failed to save Ray W.
Klapper, of 42 Auburn avenue, who was
fined $100.75 or 30 days by Recorder
Broyles on the charge of selling mor
phine. Klapper gives his vocation as
an actor.
When his room was raided by detec
tives they found nineteen bottles of
morphine and a lot of empty "dope”
boxes. It was also shown to the court
that the officets sent a young man.
John Thoma'-, to the room and that he
bought "dope” from Klapper.
Both father and sister of Klapper
made an earnest plea that the young
man be given another chance and be
allowed to leave the city. Klapper said
he had taken treatment for the mor
phine habit, and asserted that the
“dope" found in his room was on hand
before he quit the habit. When he was
escorted back to the prisoners' room
his sister wept hysterically.
SOCIETY DEFENDER OF
“HORSE TROT’’ DANCE;
NO BAN AT NEWPORT
NEWPORT, Sept. 24. Preston Gibson
and his wife, who hold an influential
position in Washington society, have en
tered the ranks of the enethies of mod
ern fantastic dances. Mr. Gibson said
recently that he would use his influence to
ban the ‘turkey trot” and ‘horse trot”
in societj hall rooms of the capital city
this winter
Nevertheless, the Gibsons saw these two
dances at Mrs. Richard Wilson s costume
party recently, and Newport in general
does not seem inclined to oppose the mod
ern steps.
Uriel I»avis. of Washington, who origi
nated the “horse trot” and introduced it
In Newport, took vigorous exception to Mr.
Gibson’s criticism. “Why,” said he. “the
dance is a running walk, that is all.”
“We shall continue the ‘horse trot’ and
make it a feature of our winter dances,
regardless of Mr. Gibson’s views.” said a
New York society woman. “As a matter
of fact, the censors of most of these latest
dances approve the ‘horse trot’ and wel
come it as a wholesome change.”
CHILLY DRIZZLE TO
CONTINUE; WHOLE
SOUTH RAIN-SOAKED
"No relief is in sight." says the weath
er man. "The cold, misty drizzle which
has hung over the city for the past few
days is still coming and the weather
will get colder with tlie falling rain."
It is the first cold snap of the autumn
season, and while not really cold enough
to be noticed during the winter, it is
making its presence felt after the hot
days of August and early September.
All through the South the same con
ditions prevail, and more or less heavy
rains have fallen from Knoxville to Mo
bile. In the Gulf coast cities a wind
storm, which became a gale, blew for
many hours early today, but it did not
serve to drive any moisture away from
this section.
43 PRESBYTERIAN
PASTORS MEET IN
FALL PRESBYTERY
The Atlanta presbytery will open its
fall session tonight at’ the College
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. Woodward.
Rev. H <’. 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
MACON’S POLICE CHIEF
TO STICK TO HIS JOB
MACON, GA., Sept 24.—Despite the
persistent criticism leveled , at him and
the police department, the open desire of
the city administration for him to resign.
Chief W. B. Chapman declares that he
will serve out his present term of office,
which does not expire until December,
19U.
Chief Chapman was appointed by the
Moore administration nearly three years
ago, and his official career has been
stormy throughout.
GEORGIA ■
SECOND II
USES OF
RABIES
Only New York Surpasses This
State in Number of Infec
tions, Says Expert.
DECLARES MALADY CAN
BE READILY ERADICATED
Scientists of the World Discuss
Health Problems at Great
Hygiene Congress.
WASHINGTON. D. C., Sept. 24.
That rabies is a disease that can be
readily eradicated, and* that Georgia
stands second in number of cases of
rabies of all the states of the Union,
were statements made here today be
fore tin- National Congress of Hygiene
and Demography by Professor Henry
Albert, of the University of lowa, an
expert on hydrophobia. He said that it
a system of handling dogs were care
fully carried out. the last vestige of
rabies would be driven from the conti
nent.
"Tiie Chicago stock yards is a gray
neighborhood," declared Dr. Caroline
Hedger, of Chicago, in iter address.
Speaking of the children of the stock
yards district. Dr. Hedger said:
"In the region in which they live the
smoke comes down in clouds and with
it comes the smell of the fertilizer
plants. This is not conducive to deep
breathing or sound sleep and the chil
dren are ound-shouldered, thin and
rather pale. They have not the spirit
ami the nervous balance to make their
grades.
"If the child grows inactive, discon
tented. becomes idle and a criminal,
asked the doctor, "is the child to blame
or is the snug citizen who lives on the
fat returns of stocks, whose money is
made by the sweat and blood and dep
rivation of the industiial neighborhoods
like this?'
T, Kennand Thomson, vice president
of the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers of New York, addressed the
congress on the subject of the “Causes
of Caisson Disease." or the "Bends, a
dangerous malady contracted by men
who work in compressed air. Mr.
Thomson expressed the opinion that
quite as many cases of the "Bends ’
we e caused by working in foul air as
in compressed. "It would be danger
ous.” said lie, "to pump the waters from
these l ivers to put out fires, as so much
foul mud would thus be scattered over
the city to dry and spread as dust.”
Spinal Meningitis
Infection.
In an address before the congress on
cerebro spinal meningitis. Dr. Abraham
Sophian. of the department of health.
New York city, strongly indorsed the
use of vaccination as a preventive of
that dread disease.
"Epidemic meningitis,” said Dr. So
phian, "is an acutely infectious con
tagious disease that is transmitted
principally through the medium of
'.tealthy carriers; that is, healthy peo
ple wiio harbo: the infecting agent in
their noses and throats. These health!
carriers are in constant danger, since
they may at any time develop menin
gitis They are also ti menace to their
neighbors.”
"There are a few diseases that can
be as easily eradicated as rabies,” de
clared Professor Henry Albert, of the
lowa university, in an address.
He presented a system, which, if car
ried out, he thought would drive the
last vestige of hydrophobia from the
North American continent. It has al
leady been done, he declared, by Great
Britain, Norway. Sweden and Denmark,
"and,” said he, "if the example offered
by these countries were followed the
world over rabies, as a disease, soon
would lose all of its terrors for both
tile human kind and the animal kind."
Prof ssor Albe t would insist that all
dogs be licensed, and that all dogs not
provided with a collar and license tag
should be destroyed. He would further
I requite that when rabies is present in a
given place, all dogs permitted to tun
at large should be muzzled and kept
muzzled for six months at least.
He said he would also insist that all
dogs imported into this country should
be held in quarantine for at least six
months.
Georgia Second
For Rabies.
He presented statistics showing that
in the United States in 1911 there were
i 3.385 persons bitten by rabid dogs and
I nearly all these eases were confined to
! the states east of the Mississippi river.
Last year New York had more cases of
| hydrophobia than any other state It
headed the list with 699 persons bitten
I Continued on Page Two.
ATLANTA. GA., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1912.
HOKESMITH
DEFENDS
CANfiL
BILL
* !
Senator Declares There Is No
Cause for Great Britain to
Enter Complaint.
LAUDS FRAMER OF ACT,
ADAMSON, OF GEORGIA
“Opening of the Panama Willi
Be Great Step Toward U. S. ,
Merchant Marine.” i
Senator Hoke Smith declared today I
that the Panama canal bill, requiring
all vessels in foreign trade to pay tolls
for passing through the canal, does not
conflict with the treaty with Great Brit. '
ain. and lie does not see how any se- |
rious complications with other coun- |
tries can arise from the recent passage |
of the bill. The senator pays high
praise to Congressman Adamson, of
Georgia, who was one of the writers of
the canai bill.
Senator Smith gave special attention!
to the Panama bill when it was before |
the senate, as lie had been requested by
Congressman Adamson, chairman of the
commerce committee of the house, to
take charge of the bill in tile senate
and protect the valuable measures
which the house had placed in the bill
from the effort made by the senate
committee to defeat the Democratic
bill by senate amendments
Senator Smith leaves today for the
West, where he will engage in a speak
ing tour for Woodrow Wilson. In dis
cussing the Panama canal measure. he
said:
Can’t See Any Chance
For Serious Clash.
"1 do not see how any serious com
plications with Great Britain can grow
out of the Panama canal bill as it final
ly passed. The original bill as it came
from the house was largely the crea
tion of Congressman Adamson, of our
own state, and lie is entitled to great
credit for his admirable work upon this
measu re.
“Tlie bill requires all vessels engaged
in foreign trade, whether American
owned or owned by citizens of other
countries to pay tolls for passing
through the canal. It only permits
United States coastwise vessels to pass
through the canal free. Conceding that
our treaty with Great Britain and with
other countries required the same treat
ment to citizens of other countries
which is accorded to citizens of the
United States owning vessels passing
through the canal, I consider that the
bill meets the requirements of our
treaties.
"The coastwise trade of the United
State- is limited to vessels made in the
United States and owned by citizens of
the United States. In this respect the
policy of the United States does not
differ f'om that of nearly all other
countries. Coastwise trade is usually
regarded as a domestic proposition
from which citizens of foreign coun
tries owning vessels are excluded.
The supreme court of the United
States in a case known as the Gal
veston pilotage case, held that pilotage
titles extending special privileges to
coastwise vessels did not conflict with
the treaty of the United States with
Gteat Britain, which required the same
treatment extended to citizens of Great
Britain and of the United States own
ing vessels and entering American har
bors. The reason of the decision is that
such a treaty provision would not be
applicable to coastwise vessels, as citi
zens of Great Britain could not own
coastwise vessels, and. therefore, spe
cial privileges to coastwise vessels
created no discrimination against citi
zens of Great Britain.
"There are many valuable features
in the act which was passed providing
for the control of the Panama canal.
"one provision excludes any trans
continental railroad in the United
States from owning a vessel which
passes through the canal. This pro
vision will help to maintain competi
tion between water and rail routes and
should be most beneficial tn our Inter
state commerce.
"Another provision forbids any rail
road company in the United States
from owning vessels engaged in trans
portation on water competing with the
line of the railroad company.
"Another provision permits an Amer
ican citizen to buy anywhere in the
world a vessel and operate it under the
American flag in foreign commerce.
"Another admits free of duty every
thing used by United States ship build
ers for the manufacture of vessels to
be used in coastwise trade, or other
wise.
"These provisions will be a great step
forward toward the establishment of a
merchant marine floating the Stars and
Stripes.”
YOUNG GIRL FOUND IN
CHEAP SHOW CHORUS
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Vessie Bostwick, aged 14. daughter of Rev. J. L. Bostwick,
found in a cheap vaudeville theat y chorus on Whitehall
street. The manager of the theater was arrested, but discharg
ed when it developed he had not emploved her, Imt onlv prom
ised her a position.
BWS LDCKEH
GLUGS FOB FILL
To locker clubs and liquor, J. \V
Wheeler, city salesman for Emmett,
Tonej- & Co., grain merchants, 292 Ma
rietta street, brought back 11*111 Grand
Rapids, Midi., today, under a change of
embezzlement, attributes his downfail.
Wheeler, who is 30 years old and
married, admitted to police officers litis
morning that his collections for th<
grain company were S3OO short At
lanta locker clubs, he asserted, had a
lure too stiong for him to resist.
Wheeler was brought back from
Grand Rapids by W. F. Morris, secre
tary of Chief Beavers, on a warrant
sworn out by his employers in Justie,
Puckett'- court. He will lie given a
pteliminary hearing today His wife
and baby remained in Grand Rapids.
645 COUNTS AGAINST
TEACHER EX CONVICT
FOR DEFALCATIONS
PEORIA, ILL.. Sept 24. Newton <
Dougherty, former head of the Peoria
schools, was expected to arrive here to
day to give bond on fifteen indictments
containing 645 counts growing out of
his defalcations in 1883. The former
educator is now under parole after
serving six years for charges growing
out of the same defalcations. He is
living in Chicago.
The new indictments are based on
script found in the school records in an
envelope marked "1883."
Recently Dougherty began legal pro
ceedings to regain title to property in
St. Louis and in Wisconsin which had
been given over in trust to the school
board agent to cover any shortage dis
covered. No action on the part of the
board to take this property had been
made. Dougherty’s attorney asserts
the new indictments were brought to
hinder the action to recover this prop
erty.
CEDARTOWN PAVING FINISHED.
CEDARTOWN, GA. Sept. 24. The
West Construction Company, of Chat
tanooga. has completed the asphalt
paving of Main street from the city
hall to the Wright house. The Gaines
boro Telephone Company is moving its
poles front Main street, to give room
for the early installation of the whit*
way lamps. The city council has let the
contract to the Cedartown Foundry and
Machine Works for making lite posts.
iCJBSBBMNG
ONIUraUNE
AUGUSTA. GA., Sept. 24.—Not a
wheel lias turned on the city lines or
the Aiken division of the Augusta-
Aiken electric railway system since 11
o'clock yesterday morning, when con
ductors and motormen went on strike,
but it is expected that an attempt will
be made to operate cars today. Strike
breakers vill be used and a earload of
them ate said to be here this morning.
Trouble w ill likely occur when an at
tempt is made to operate the ears by
outside help. Mayor Barrett has prom
ised the company protection.
i here is absolutely no chance for
any of the Aiken cars to run; for Gov
ernor < ole L. Please w ill give no pro
tection and the line passes through a
South Carolina cotton mill district be
tween here and Aiken, where all of the
sympathy Is with the men.
Sentiment here is divided, but all
agree that it will be a duel to the finish
between the strikers and the company.
Ties Up 40 Miles of Road.
The strike lias tied up about 40 nfiles
of trolley lines. The Aiken-Augusta
road, 20 miles long, runs through North
Augusta, Bath, Langley and Granite
ville, S. ('., to Aiken. These are all
cotton mill towns. The Summerville
and' Monte Sano loop, Turpin Hill,
Lakeview and other city lines have
about 20 miles of trackage and cover
all the city and suburban territory on
the Georgia side of the river. The
street railway system employs about
400 men. including car crews, electri
cians. linemen and construction men.
The conductors and motormen have
been organized for some time in a local
union, which, they claim, is under the
domination of the management of the
company. The strike is the result of
the refusal of the company to pennit
its men to affiliate with the national
organization of street railway em
ployees.
YEGGS BLOW SAFE WITH
POLICEMAN 50 FEET AWAY
NEW YORK, Sept. 24. With a po-
1 liceman on "fixed post" less than 50
feet away, yeggmen dynamited the
safe in the Kaufman hat store.
I 2835 Third avenue, and escaped with
sl,l'oo.
Ml
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE p^ R N t °
MLLSGHEIP
THEATERS
WS'
FEEDERS
Path Leads to Resort, Says
Leader in Men and Religion
Movement.
MANAGER WHO EMPLOYED
YOUNG GIRLS GOES FREE
Mother of Two Reed Girls
Comes to Aid of Accused
Showman.
“These cheap theatrical companies
are just one of the recognized feeders
for the 'system.' The advertisements
for chorus girls, like some of the ad
vertisements for stenographers and
other girl workers, are often designed
simply to get the girls. The paths all
lead to the same end—the resort.”
That is the opinion of Marion M.
Jackson, whose work in the present
campaign of the Men and Religion For
ward Movement is attracting so much
attention. Mr. Jackson was discussing
the case of Vessie Bostwick, Estelle
Reed and "Buster" Reed, three girls
found in the employment of the Em
pire Comedy Company, a flve-cent
show in a Whitehall street motion pic
ture theater. While he had made no
investigation of these particular cases,
Mr. Jackson did not hesitate to declare
the theatrical company dodges a part
of the "game."
Recorder Forced to
Dismiss Manager.
Recorder Broyles heard the case
against W. F. Swaringen, manager of
the Empire Comedy Company, and dis
missed it, as Swaringen was merely
charged with conducting an agency
without a license. Tile manager showed
that he was operating a. company and
not conducting an agency, and upon
statements that the two Reed girls
were not under sixteen years old the
recorder was forced to dismiss the case
and set the manager and girls free.
The Reed girls were summoned as
witnesses to the charge that Swarin
gen was employing girls under sixteen.
Officer B. B. Posey, of the children’s
court, swore that the girls' mother had
asked him to look after her daughters,
and had shown him records to prove
that the girls were but fourteen and
fifteen years old. Notwithstanding this,
Mrs. Reed stated before the recorder
that the girls were aged sixteen and
seventeen. respectively, and denied
that she had ever talked with Officer
Posey.
Tlie Bostwick girl, who is only four
teen years old, was not given actual
employment, although she had been
promised a place in the chorus by
Swaringen.
Had Asked Home to
Take Her Girls.
Mrs. Reed told a reporter that her
daughters received sl2 a week each as
chorus girls and were provided an es
cort from the theater to their homes
every night. But E. H. Peacock, agent,
of tlie Harriet Hawkes Industrial Home
for Giris, not yet completed, testified
that Mrs. Reed had asked him some
time ago to take charge of her two
daughters and place them in the home.
He did not look upon the theater com
pany as a desirable substitute for the
home and regietted that the institution
was not yet open. He said Rev. J. L.
Bostwick, father of Vessie, had also
asked him to look after his daughter.
The Georgian's story yesterday of
the cheap theatrical companies and the
ends to which many of them lead at
tracted wide attention. Several per
sons stated that they had seen young
girls from these places driving away in
cabs and automobiles with young men
after the shows.
“WALKS IN” ON SUIT
TO PROVE HIS DEATH
SANDUSKY, OHIO, Sept. 24.—Chas.
Bretz, who disappeared from Middle
Bass island seventeen years ago, and
who had not been heard from in that
time, reappeared in Sandusky today
while a suit was being heard in court
to prove that he was dead.
Bretz was divorced from his wife be.
fore he left. Two sons brought suit to
recover certain valuable property which
their father once had held and which
their sisters had deeded away.
it was argued that Bretz was dead
and, therefore, the property should re
vert to his heirs. The sons did not
know Bretz. He had been in England
- „ a.
BROKER FIRM SUSPENDED,
BOSTON. Sept. 24.—The suspension
of S. R. Dow & Co., a brokerage firm,
was announced on the stock exchange
at the opening of business today.