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VOL. XL NO. 68.
VETS’ NURSE
HYPNOTIZED
ASSERTS
WINN
Soldiers Home Trustee Replies
to Charges of Impropriety
Brought by Woman.
OLD SOLDIER ACCUSED
OF SINISTER INFLUENCE
‘•Fatherly Advice” to Mrs.
Clare Aroused Her Resent
ment, Says Reply.
Major Thomas E. Winn, of Greens
boro, chairman of the Investigating
committee of the Soldiers home of
Georgia, today replied to the chargee
filed with Governor Brown against him
by Mrs. Mackie Clare, head nurse of
the institution.
Mrs. Clare had asserted that Major
Winn got drunk and made improper ad
vances. The major denies the charges
in a lengthy statement.
Major Winn’s reply is extremely in
teresting and readable. He asserts that
Mrs. Clare was hypnotized by Colonel
H. H. Colquitt, one of the inmates of
the home.
He asserts Mrs. Clare took offense at
a "quiet warning” he gave her, and
that her charges followed his sugges
tion that Colquitt be dismissed from
the home.
He admits frankly that he is no saint,
but remarks incidentally that he doesn’t
believe Mrs. Clare is an angel.
Major Winn adds that he has filed
charges against Mrs. Clare for allowing
a soldier from Fort McPherson to visit
the home in the “dead of night.” He
also explains that he drinks whisky be
cause he has the asthma —but never to
excess.
Incurred Enmity of
Colquitt, He Says.
Here is his statement, in part:
"In view of the fact that Mrs. Clare,
the hospital nurse at the Soldiers homo
of Georgia, has made some serious
charges against me, and the same have
been circulated through the press of
the state, I ask the press to print this
statement of the facts in my vindica
tion. • * » i am the trustee represent
ing the Eighth district, and have served
for about seven years, excepting a short
interval.
I have been a member of the com
mittee since my connection with the in
stitution. and since the death of Colonel
' nilllps I have been its chairman.
The Confederate Soldiers home is a
veritable benediction to those old vet
s rans who are poor and have no home
or family to care for them, and they
nave the sincere sympathy of every
m-mber of the board, who are at all
' mes ready to hear their complaints
and correct them as far as possible.
"In the performance of my official
duties it so happens that I have in
curred the animosity of H. H. Colquitt,
an Inmate, who is a habitual drunkard,
nas been and is now under sentence
f or as many as a half dozen drunks and
“ !s of insubordination within the past
four months.
He appears to think he ought to
extra privileges over the rest of
inmates on account of the honor
name he bears, but which he con
tinually disgraces. In the performance
my official duties, frequent visits to
the home are necessary. There was
much talk among the old men, in a
Tdet way, connecting Mrs. Clare's
r ‘ a ’" e with that of Colquitt, and I took
asion to give her a fatherly wani
ng. telling her what was being said,
* >i< h, I thought, I could do without of
’ on account of my age and the
position I held, without her suspecting
" 1 " of being actuated by any motives
ipt for her good. I am in my sev
enty-fourth year of age
' I made a mistake when 1 told her
I should favor the dismissal of
"utt, and to prevent this she pro
ced to do what she could to destroy
'■vemplifying the saying of Byron
Hell hath no furies greater than
1 hatred of a woman scorned.’
Colquitt Hypnotized
tter, He Declares.
•>he is unquestionably acting under
hypnotic influence of Colquitt.
Her charges I utterly deny and say
’ y are false from beginning to end,
1 use no stronger terms about a wom-
1 have preferred charges against
!ts Clare for allowing visits by a
tilted States soldier from McPherson
"racks to the hospital after night on
'nous occasions in violation of the
filiations of the Confederate Soldiers
"tne of Georgia. It is rather remark
■ ' that this soldier would come from
Pherson barracks, six miles west of
5,1 city, to the Soldiers home, tour
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS —Use For Results.
Man and Woman Fight
To the Death With One
Knife in Crowded Case
Fifty Women Go Into Hysterics
Over Double Early Morning
Tragedy in St. Louis.
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 22. —In the crowded
Falstaff case, in the heart of the down
town district, a man and a woman
fought to the death early today. The
couple were unknown for several hours,
but were finally identified by Miss Eliz
abeth Leigh, a friend, as Mrs. Annie
O’Donnell and Leonida Morreale, a jeal
ous suitor.
The woman was seated in the case
with two men and a woman when her
assailant entered. He went quiet
ly to a table, called the woman,
and she. with little apparent concern,
left the party and seated herself at an
other table with the newcomer.
There was a cry. The man stood
above the woman and plunged a knife
into her body. She screamed, and they
struggled into the center of the room,
where she wrested the knife from the
man and stabbed him in the throat. He
fell dead and she fell across his body.
Scones of women fainted and men
fled. The woman died on the way to
the hospital, without speaking.
The tragedy occurred without the
slightest warning. Within five minutes
the street above the Falstaff was mass
ed with people, and more than fifty
hysterical women were being cared for.
SCHOOL GIRL RAISES
SUFFRAGE ISSUE IN
ALABAMA NORMAL
BIRMINGHAM, ALA., Oct. 22.—The
first equal suffrage issue in the South
has been raised in Birmingham. Miss
Amelia Worthington, a pupil in the
norma! training class, has been sus
pended from exercises on account 61
suffrage activity at the state fair on
suffrage day.
The Equal Suffrage association is
awaiting the return of Superintendent
of Schools J. H. Phillips, who is also
vice president of the National Educa
tional association, for a ruling on the
case. Socialist and labor circles threat
en to take up the fight for equal suf
frage unless Miss Worthington is vin
dicated.
ROGER BRESNAHAN
IS DISCHARGED BY
ST. LOUIS OWNERS
ST. LOUIS. Oct. 22.—Roger P.
Bresnahan will not be manager of the
Cardinals next year. He was called
before the owner, president and attor
ney of the club and discharged, in so far
as those in authority could discharge
him. He holds a four-year contract
with the club, one year of which he has
served. He was told that his services
were no longer wanted.
A man close to those in control of
the team declared Bresnahan would
make a fight in the courts to compel
the club to respect his contract, which
calls for a salary of SIO,OOO a year and
ten per cent of the net profits.
PROBE OF CAMPAIGN
CONTRIBUTIONS MAY
SUSPEND TOMORROW
WASHINGTON, Oct. 22.—The sen
ate committee investigating campaign
contributions of the last eight years,
announced, when it met today, that ow
ing to the non-appearance of witnesses
summoned for today’s proposed hearing
that there would be no session of the
committee until tomorrow.
It is believed tomorrow’s session will
be almost the last before election day,
as the members of the committee are
desirous of returning to their respec
tive homes to participate in the politi
cal events.
DIAMONDS” MID OTHER
PRECIOUS STONES UP
LONDON, Oct. 22. —Diamond prices
have advanced another five per cent.
All other precious stones took a sym
pathetic rise.
ROBERT BARR. NOVELIST, DIES.
LONDON. Oct. 22.—Robert Barr, the
famous Scotch novelist, died here today.
He had lived in England for a number
of years. Mr. Ban began writing while
■working for The Detroit, Mich.. Free
Press, for which publication he wrote
under the pen name of “Luke Sharp.”
miles east of the city, in the dead hours
of the night.
“I make no comment nor try to ac
count for these nightly visits, except to
say that Mrs. Clare is culpable for dis
regard of the regulations of the hos
pital of which she has full charge.
"I am not a saint and make no claims
as such, but I do assert that I am a
decent man, but I don’t believe Sirs.
Clare is an angel. I am satisfied she
would not have made her present esca
pade had she been from under the hyp
notic influence of H. H. Colquitt.
"Unfortunately, I have asthma and
at times I can not lie down and get my
breath. 1 took a long treatment for
the disease and thought 1 was cured,
I but after a while the disease returned.
I found that whisky would relieve me
wfien I had symptoms of the return and
so on account of this I use the stimu
lant when necessary, but never to ex
cess —-and, of course, it can be detected
on my breath, which I do not attempt
to conceal."
CANOLEHII6
FORTEBMOF
WOODWIND
ASSURED
Acting Mayor Declares He Will
Fight Any Move for Com
mission Plan Now.
MAYOR-ELECT SHOULD
RECEIVE CITY’S SUPPORT
Members of Council Move to
Rush Paving Work in Torn
Up Peachtree.
While acting mayor today John S.
Candler, who will continue to serve as
aiderman under the Woodward admin
istration. said that he would support
James G. Woodward as mayor and op
pose any movement for commission
government at this time.
"I believe in government by the peo
ple,” said Aiderman Candler, “and the
people have selected Mr. Woodward as
their mayor. All the presumptions as
to the success of next year’s adminis
tration favor Mr. Woodward, and I will
support him unless he does something
I am convinced is wrong. This is no
time for any agitation for commission
government. It would not be a square
deal to Mr. Woodward nor the people.”
Aiderman Candler said the same rea
sons prompted his support of Chief of
Construction R. M. Clayton at the
meeting of council yesterday, when an
effort was made to employ an outside
engineer to superintend the construc
tion of the -new crematory. A resolu
tion was finally adopted placing the
supervision of the coqstructiaa--At-UK»>
cremator}’ in the hands of Captain
Clayton. The work is to begin soon.
Woodward To Shun
Commission Move.
James G. Woodward, nominee for '
mayor, said today that he would con
sistently refuse to take any part in a .
commission government or any other
agitation until after the general elec
tion.
“I have been nominated for mayor
and any’ row before my formal election
in December would be absurd,” he said.
"There are barrels of work to be done
next year and I am prepared to launch
into it. But lam not seeking any rows.
Until I am elected mayor it would be
senseless for me to enter into any
movement for reforms of any kind.”
A majority of the city councilmen
and Other officials are agreed, how
ever, to begin a thorough investiga
tion of the construction department at
a meeting of a special committee of ten.
of which C. W. Smith .is chairman, this
afternoon.
This investigation was begun as the
result of The Georgian’s campaign for
better streets before the primary. It
is being resumed at the first opportu
nity.
Repairing Work
Begins Tomorrow.
The city officials are pushing the nu
merous construction work at present.
The county will begin the work of re
paving Peachtree street tomorrow' with
about 75 convicts.
Acting Mayor Candler had a confer
ence in his office this morning with
Captain Clayton and W. Z. Smith, gen
eral manager of waterworks, in regard
to the progress of the work on Mariet
ta street. At this conference it was ar
ranged to have the sewer and water
pipes laid on this street as rapidly as
possible without conflict, that the pav
ing might proceed uninterrupted.
NO FROST IN SIGHT
BEFORE NOVEMBER 1
IN ATLANTA REGION
Frost is furthest from the weather
man's mind, according to what he said
today, and the published report that
hoary rines would cover green leaves
and budding honeysuckles today, to
morrow or next day are not based upon
fact, especially as no frost can come
w’hile clouds are hovering low.
It will rain tonight, tomorrow and
probably Thursday. Then it will be
somewhat colder, and soon it will rain
some more, but still the visiting card of
Jack Frost will not be presented. It
is probable now that no frost will ar
rive before November 1.
The rainfall, though annoying, is not
expected to be heavy, and the present
clouds will soon be vanished. But after
the streak of fair weather which is now
Visiting in the central states passes
over Atlanta there is another section of
wet weather moving eastward from
Montana which should arrive in Atlan
ta about Saturday.
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1912.
BECKER CASE
NEAR END ;
DEFENSE
RESTS
Testimony for Policeman Is
Finished, With the Heaviest
Blow at Prosecution.
ACCUSED ESCAPES GRILL
OF CROSS-EXAMINATION
Lawyers Overrule Determina
tion of Official to Take the
Stand Himself.
NEW YORK, Oct. 22.—William Sha
piro, chauffeur of the auto used by the
assassins of Herman Rosenthal, was
called to the stand by the prosecution
in the trial of Police Lieutenant Becker
this afternoon. Before he began to tes
tify Assistant District Attorney Moss
stated: "Shapiro has confessed.”
NEW YORK, Oct. 22.—The defense
in the trial of Police Lieutenant Chas.
Becker brought its attempt to prove his
innocence of the murder of Herman
Rosenthal to an end at 12:03 o’clock
this afternoon, after making a final ef
fort to prove a conspiracy to perjure
the policeman’s life away on the part of
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Mrs. -I. G. Hays, of Montezuma, Ga., slate treasurer of the
State Federation of Women's Clubs.
Jack Rose. ‘"Bridgie” Webber, Harry I
Vallon and Sam Schepps.
The defense ended its ease with its
sturdiest blow in behalf of the accused
police official. Charles Reich, a brother
of Jack Sullivan, whose real name is
I Jacob Reich, came to the witness stand
and testified he had visited Jack Rose
in the West Side prison and had there
talked with Rose and Webber and his
brother. He declared that the two
gamblers had tried to persuade Jack
Sullivan to corroborate their story of
the shooting and its alleged motives.
Reich asserted that Rose offered to
secure immunity for Sullivan and added
that Rose said he did what he did to
save himself.
"Rose said," according to the witness,
"that lie had told the district attorney
that Sullivan saw Lieutenant Becker in
Forty-second street after the murder
and that Jack ought to go through with
it to make it stick.”
Gamblers Tried to
Get Corroboration.
Reich added that Webber had ap
, pealed to him to see if he couldn’t do
■ something with his brotht" and "get
him to corroborate us.” He declared
that Webber urged Sullivan to make
Continued on Page Two.
Clubwomen of the State Here for Convention]
GREET APOSTLE OF PEACE
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I HEIR TO THRONE OF
RUSSIA SERIOUSLY
WOUNDED IN HUNT
ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 22.—Grand
Duke Alexis, the eight-year-old czare
witch, is dangerously ill at the Im
perial Huntington Lodge at Spala, Rus
sian Poland, as a result of a wound in
his groin sustained while hunting a
week ago.
The young heir to the Russian throne
Is under care of several phwsicians,
who are not concealing their alarm.
The accident caused no anxiety until
Sunday, then the czarewltch was taken
to his bed with a high fever. His tem
perature. rose to 103.6 yesterday and
last night was at 102.9.
FLAMES RAGING IN COAL
MINE AT BLOCKTON, ALA.
BLOCKTON, ALA.. Oct. 22. -F lames
are raging in mine No. 2 of the Ten
nessee Coal and Iron Company. James
Stuart, superintendent of the mine, and
Hober Winston, a miner, and Hardy
Lawrence, an employee, were overcome
by white damp and are *Tn seriou
condltion. Several miners wore injured
by fire damp. A calamity was narrow
ly averted.
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Mrs. Logan Pitts, of Calhoun,
Ga.. who will report on Civics at
the big convention.
Baroness Von Suttner Arrives
Today—Great Gathering at
Auditorium Tonight.
Baroness Von Suttner, noted world
worker in the cause of peace and win
ner of the Nobel prize, arrives in At
lanta today to tell the club women of
Georgia something of her interesting
struggle for good win between all na
tions.
The baroness was due In town from
Chicago shortly before noon, but
her train was late and wai to
be met by Mrs. John M. Slaton, wife of
the next governor. She will speak to
night at the Auditorium and a brilliant
gathering Is expected to hear her.
The executive board of the State
Federation of Women’s Clubs meets to
day at the Georgian Terrace and has
announced plans for the delegates and
her visitors. The first regular session
will be held tomorrow morning.
Delegates by the score began to ar
rive early today from all parts of the
state and the convention promised to be
the biggest ever held by Georgia club
women.
Discuss Plans For
A Greater Atlanta.
J. Hoaree McFarland, president of
the American Civic association, will de
liver an address before the clubwomen
on Thursday night at the Auditorium.
It is expected that he will take up mat
ters relative to Atlanta Individually,
and perhaps plan for an "At
lanta Beautiful." He will also deliver
arf address before a private conference
of Chamber of Commerce city plan
committee, when it is expected he will
give some plain impressions of the city
which might not please the public.
Exhibits including work of clubwom
en in the Georgia federation have beer,
placed in the Auditorium and will be
on view throughout the convention.
One of the most striking and inter
esting exhibits is the comparative
showing of pure and adulterated food
products, prepared by Food • Expert
Methvin, ol the stat* agricultural de
partment. Mr. Methvin went to great
trouble to get up this display, and it is
relatively complete. It shows the pure
and the adulterated products side by
side, and tells how the one may be dlf
• ferentlated from the other.
HOML
IDITION
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE P^ R N E °
T, R. AT HOME
HAPPY AND
FEELING
'BULLY'
Colonel Reaches Oyster Bay
and Takes Up Quarters in
Favorite Room.
WAVES HAT TO CROWD OF
WELCOMING NEIGHBORS
Journey From Chicago Fatigu
ing, But Condition Improves,
Says Physician., /
OYSTER BAY, N. Y„ Oot.
Swinging his hat in the air, Crdonel
Roosevelt came home today. The ex
president was still carrying the bullet
that was fired into his body last Mon
day night, but arrived in good condi
tion and is now installed in his favor
ite room on the second floor of the
Roosevelt home at Oyster Bay.
The last stage of the journey, from
New York to Sagamore Hill. was«trav
eled by. special train and automobile.
The special train over the Long Island
railroad was made up of the colonel’s
private car carrying himself and fam
ily and the car carrying the newspaper
correspondents who accompanied the
party from Chicago. The plan had
originally been for Colonel Roosevelt
to leave his car at. Oyster Bay, but this
was changed w’hen Mrs. Roosevelt
heard that a large crowd had gathered
there to welcome the colonel.
She asked the Long Island railroad
officials to stop the train at Syosset, L.
1., which is the same distance as Oyster
Bay from Sagamore Hili. This request
was granted and word was sent ahead
to have the automobile which had gone
to the Oyster Bay station proceed to
Syosset. The train arrived there at
9:30 o'clock.
News of the change of plan had pre
ceded the train and about 50 persons
had gathered. Colonel Roosevelt walked
down the steps of his car unassisted
and exclaimed:
"I feel bully, glad to get home."
Waves to Crowd /
Answered by Cheer.
Still unassisted, he walked the few
steps to the automobile with Mrs.
Roosevelt, his daughter Ethel and Dr.
Alexander Lambert close behind.
As he enterd the automobile he took
off his hat and waved it to the small
crow d that had refrained from cheering
until this time. Then their enthusiasm
broke loose and they made up for "toet
time.
Dr. Scurry L. Terrell and Theodore
Roosevelt, Jr., followed the rest of the
party.
A second later another automobile
drove up. Colonel Roosevelt and his
two physicians entered the one which
had first arrived, while Mrs. Roosevelt
and her children took the second. The
party started for Sagamore Hill. There
arrangements had already been made
for their coming. The room which the
colonel has always considered his own
private property is one on the second
floor, which commands a sweeping view
of the surrounding hills and valleys of
Long Island. In this had been placed
a roomy Mo rris chair as comfortable as
a bed, and in this the colonel will spend
the next few days convalescing from Ms
wound, w’hen not kept in hie bed by his
physicians.
School Children Send
Wreath to Colonel.
At the Pennsylvania station in New
York cltv. the Roosevelt party was
joined by Dr. Joseph A. Blake, head of
the Roosevelt hospital in New York,
and Dr. George C. Brewer, one of the
most eminent surgeons In the East.
These two doctors made the trip to
Sagamore Hill, holding a consultation
meantime with Drs. Terrell and lam
bert.
The colonel wore his heavy army
overcoat in the machine and said he
felt no chill, although the air was raw
and a stiff breeze was blowing. Al
Sagamore Hill a surprise awaited the
colonel. Scores of school children had
chipped in their pennies and bought a
big wreath of flowers to be placed in
the colonel's room. The Oyster Bay
children all know and like Colonel
Roosevelt, and while a few of them
"played hookey” from school so that
they could be on hand when their
friend arrived, they lurked about Oys
ter Bay station until an hour after
train time, wondering why the special
did not get in.
The Oyster Bay children were not th«
only ones who sent flowers to the colo
nel. The home contained flowers of al
kinds. The homecoming was a gal:
event here. A number of storekeeper
• closed up shop, so they could give tfe