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MRS. SNEAD, LOVE
GONE, TO SEEK
DIVORCE
Wife of Banker-Slayer Pre
pares to Sue—Father Turns
Against Her.
AMARILLO, TEXAS, Sept. 24 —Tak
ing with her the memories of a love
that already has cost the lives of two
men and landed a third to whom it
rightfully belonged in a prison cell un
(trr a charge of murder, Mrs. Lena
Snead, wife of John B. Snead, wealthy
San Antonio banker, has gone into se
clusion at Calvert. Texas, preparatory
t 0 filing suit for divorce.
Mrs. Snead went there immediately
Rfter her husband shot and killed A. G.
Boyce, wealthy Amarillo cattleman.be
rau«e. he alleges, he had found evi
dence that Boyce and his wife were
about to elope for a second time.
The first elopement, which shocked
and surprised Southwestern society,
nhere both principals were -well
known, occurred last December and
culminated in the shooting of Boyce’s
father. Colonel A. G. Boyce, Sr., by
Snead, when the elder Boyce took steps
to secure his son’s release from jail,
where he had been placed on charges
preferred by Snead. Snead was ac
quitted for the shooting on the ground
nf self-defense.
Father Turns Against Her.
Mr= Snead was accompanied by her
mother. Her father, J. L. Snyder, is
reported to have turned against her
and to be doing his utmost to secure
Snead's acquittal on the charge of mur
der he now faces.
Since going there she has exchanged
correspondence with the attorneys fo'
thP Royces as well as the attorneys for
her husband as to what course she
should pursue.
That Boyce pleaded with Snead not
to shoot him again when Boyce fell on
the street here September 14, riddled
with buckshot, and that Snead, firing
ngaln. remarked: "I guess you are
dead," was brought out by Karl Jack
son. of Amarillo, a witness, yesterday
in the hearing of Snead’s plea for a
writ of habeas corpus through which
he seeks to be released from jail on
bond.
Sheriff W. M. Burwell, another'wit
ness, testified that Snead’s garb and
heat v beard' rendered it difficult for
acquaintances to recognize Snead on
the day of the tragedy. The state en
deavored. through testimony of the
sheriff, to strengthen its contention
that the killing was premeditated.
A number of witnesses were exam
ined in relation to the intimacy -of the
Snead and Boyce families.
Evidence Barred Concerning Elopement
An attempt to introduce the Boyce-
Snead elopement of last fall in the ex
amination of witnesses was objected to
by the state, because no predicate had
been laid at this hearing to justify I*.
The defense waived the matter, re
serving the right to get it properly be
fore the court. State’s attorneys sav
the attempt to introduce the elopement
feature indicated that Snead’s defense
on the charge of murder would be the
unwritten law.
Many sections of the Northwest are
represented among the crowds by well
known cattlemen who are each friends
v relatives of the Sneads or the
Boyces.
A new phase of the Snead case is
suggested in the subpena issued by the
state for Terry Thompson, brother-in
law of Snead. This process instructs
>i to bring with him a “certain breast
l>Ate used for the protection of human
body It is said Snead had taken this
additional measure to prevent injury
himself in the encounter he is gen
erally conceded to have planned with
Al Royce.
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GEORGIA IS SECOND IN
NUMBER OF CASES OF
RABIES, SAYS EXPERT
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Sept. 24.
That rabies is a disease that car. 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 the National Congress of Hygiene
and Demography by Professor Henry
Albert, of the University of lowa, an
expert on hydrophobia. He said that il
a system of handling dogs were care
fully cairied out, the last vestige of
rabies would be driven from the conti
nent.
"The Chicago stock yards is a gray
neighborhood,” declared Dr. Caroline
Hedger, of Chicago, in her address.
Speaking of the children of the stock
X.ards 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 round-shouldered, thin and
rather pale. They have not the spirit
and 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 industrial neighborhoods
like this?"
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
healthy carriers; that is, healthy peo
ple who harbor the infecting agent in
their noses and throats. These healthy
carriers are in constant danger, since
they may at any time develop menin
gitis. They are also a menace to their
neighbors.”
“There are a few diseases that can
be a* 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
ready 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
the human kind and the animal kind.”
Professor Albert would insist that all
dogs be licensed, and t,hat all dogs not
provided with a collar and license tag
should be destroyed. He would further
require that when rabies is present in a
given place, all dogs permitted to run
645 COUNTS AGAINST
TEACHER EX-CONVICT
FOR DEFALCATIONS
PEORIA, ILL., Sept. 24.—Newton C.
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 tn 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.
NEGRO CHURCH HAS
SCHOOL AND HOME
FOR WORKING GIRLS
The First Congregational church, col
ored, Rev. H. H. Proctor, pastor, is add
ing to Its Institutional facilities "a home
for homeless working girls.” In this in
stitution the negro servant girl will re
ceive industrial and moral training Cook
ing. sewing, laundering and ottier domes
tic arts will be taught. An employment
bureau will be operated in connection
with the home, so that well trained and
reliable servants may be secured here. A
limited number can be accommodated in
the sleeping quarters of the home. Stran
gers coming to the city for employment
will be cared for here until located in
work.
A house has been purchased for the
purpose, and is now being prepared for
occupancy, and will be ready about Octo
ber 1.
“SHIN PLASTERS” STILL
OUT TOTAL $15,232,093
WASHINGTON, Sept. 24.—There are
millions of dollars of currency out
standing, lost, destroyed or being pre
served as souvenirs, which the Federal
government never Willi be called upon to
redeem, according to a compilation of
figures by the register of the treasury.
This indicates that the government
makes a big profit on its issues of pa
per money.
At present $15,232,093 is outstanding
of the issue of fractional currency notes
during the Civil war. known as "shin
plastets." The total issue of these notes
was nearly $369,000,000.
ACCEPTS GEORGIA CALL.
BALTIMORE, MD. Sept 24.—Rev
H W. Robinson has resigned the rec
torship of Shrewsbury prison. Ken
nedyville, Md.. In order to become tec
tor of Grace Episcopal church, San
dersville, Ga. He will enter upon his
duties there November 1.
■fiirj ATLANTA GEQ K GIAN AND NEWS. TUESDAY. SEPTEMBET? ?4. 4912.
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
3.385 persons bitten by rabid dogs, and
nearly all these cases 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
by mad dogs or animals presumed to'be
mad. Georgia was second with 486,
Ohio third with 410. and South Caro
line fourth with 350.
Addresses on "Occupational Neuro
sis” and "The Public School as a Pos
sible Factor in Preventing Infant and
Child Mortality” were delivered by Thos.
A. Williams, of Washington, and Dr.
Henry' L. Celt, of Newark. N. J.
Dr. Williams said that “neurosis Is
a misnomer, for those of occupation are
strictly psycho-dynamic Inhibitions of
disorders in the habitual series of co
ordinated associations gained by educa
tion in some art. A want of harmony
in the controlling of the mechanism is
the fault, and the disharmony' is always
psychological.” Dr. Williams is a spe
cialist in nervous diseases who has been
honored by membership In several
French societies.
He showed the necessity' of address
ing the treatment to the psyche or the
mind of the patient. “It is not an inca
pacity' of muscle and nerves to perform
their functions.” he said, “for this is
intact except for performing the par
ticular professional acts which fail."
Four of the cases described by Dr.
Williams were those of writers’ cramp,
the commonest occunation "neurosis.”
Checking Infant Mortality.
Dr. Ceit proposed, as a comprehen
sive plan to check sickness and death
among infants and young children, that
to the Manchester plan for "little moth
ers” shall be added the French plan,
and that the “consultation for moth
ers” shall be conducted within the pub
lic school and finally become a part of
its system.
"The best means of preventing sick
ness and death,” he said, "would be to
raise the living power of the individ
ual to what is called Immunity. If we
could apply this principle to infancy and
childhood, through educational and pro
phylactic measures, we would bring
about the greatest possible physical ef
ficiency in manhood and womanhood.
“While physicians have led in this
crusade against infant mortality, it is
strictly a problem in preventive medi
cine and. therefore, clearly- to be solved
by educational methods which should
be applied by the people (the state) at
the expense of the people and for the
people.”
VANITY BOXES FOR POLICE
TO AID BEAUTY IN DISTRESS
VENICE. CAL., Sept. 24.—T0 lend
first aid to a beauty in distress, Chief
of Police Lingo has asked the city
trustees to appropriate a sufficient sum
to equip a member of the police depart
ment with a "beauty box,” together
with such homely adjuncts as thread
and needles and button hooks, so that
when any woman's attire gets rumpled
in the crowds which visit Venice she
may be set to rights by the nearest
policeman.
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BONITA HAS ALWAYS
BEEN A HIGH-CLASS,
MORAL PLAYHOUSE
In speaking of the general condemna
tion of the small theaters in Atlanta bv
the newspapers yesterday, Manager
Glenn, of The Bonita, said: “They cer
tainly are not talking about The Bo
nita. I his house has been under my
management continuously since it was
first opened, and during all that time
I have employed only' the best and
most capable people obtainable, and
there lias never been an indecent act
or a rough joke offered. I secure my
attractions through the Greenwood
Theatrical Agency, a high-class book
ing office of long standing, and have
yet to have the least sign of trouble In
any respect.”
Manager Glenn is one of Atlanta's
best known business men, and has
lived here for nearly forty years, en
joying the confidence and respect of all
who know him. (Advt.)
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JORDAN DIES IN
CHAIR CALMLY
“Hope My Death Will Do the
World Some Good,” Says
Wife Slayer.
BOSTON, Sept. 24.—Chester S. Jor
dan. brother-in-law of Jesse L. Liver
more. the Wall Street cotton broker,
was executed at 12:09:13 this morning
in the electric chair at the state prison
in Charlestown for the murder of his
actress wife, Honora Jordan, at their
home in Somerville on September 1,
1908. He went to the chair after more
than $1,000,000 had been expended in a
vain attempt to save his life.
He walked to the chair unaided and
unmoved.
G. Leonard McNeil, a Christian Sci
ence reader, who acted as his spiritual
adviser, acompanied him.
An hour before his death he sent
for Sheriff John R. Fairbairn, of the
East Cambridge jail, in whose keeping
he had been for four years. To Sher
iff Fairbairn, Jordan said:
“Sheriff, I am ready to die. I hope
that I have done some good in this
world and that my death will do the
world some good. Thank you. Good
bye."
Jordan’s aged mother, who ,1s fast
losing her sight, is prostrated at her
home in Somerville and is being at
tended by a physician.
Jordan's body may be cremated. The
remains will be buried in the family
lot at Crown Hill cemetery, Indianap
olis, Ind., where his family resided for
many years before coming to Somer
ville.
A touching scene was enacted after
the body of Jordan had been lifted from
the chair to the post mortem table by
the guards. Mr. McNeil took the flow
ers that Jordan’s mother had brought
him, first folded Jordan’s arms and then
placed the flowers on his breast. This
he followed with a prayer for the dead,
while the guards and newspaper men
stood about with bared heads.
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WIFE DESERTION PRICE
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husbands in Baltimore must pay to
wives whom they have deserted. Jus
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