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THE WEATHER
Clear and warmer tonight and to
morrow. Temperatures: 8 a. m., 42
degrees: 10 a. m., 50 degrees: 12 noon,
58 degrees: 2 p. m., 60 degrees.
VOL. XI. NO. 70.
BUTTLE FOB
BMP'S UFE
BIBBS 111
UOUHT
Attorneys Argue for Five Hours
hi Fight for Conviction of
Atlanta Policeman.
JURY WILL GET CASE
LATE IN AFTERNOON
Counsel for Defense Charged
With Trying to Influence the
Jurors With Exhibit.
Vo fully five hours today opposing
wir.sp’ in the ease of Bicycle Police
,.i(p Camp, on trial tor the slaying of
<,■ f-How officer, S. A. Belding, tore
. . to bits before the jury. Th *
ut’on strove to show that Camp
vas in a drunken frenzy when he tired
, P ins former room mate and the dr
to establish that he shot in self-
Icf, use. Camp’s fate will be placed in
he hands of the jury late this afte -
loon.
solicitor Dorsey, closing for the pros
ecution. denied the self-defense theory,
manning his arguments on the testi
pony of Dr. T. D. Longino, which, he
maintained. proved conclusively th.it
jamp was on a protracted spree and
ihot Belding as a maniac would shoot.
Arnold Impassioned
n Closing Speech.
Tn an impassioned defense to the jury
ieiiben Arnold, attorney for Camp, rid
culed the theory of the state. He em
phasized Camp’s action just after the
hooting—when the officer walked to a
opplione, called up police headquarters
ind told Chief Beavers of the shooting:
low he gave his pistol to J. T. McCul
ough. the liveryman, and even told a
tenographer in a room adjoining the
icene of the killing to close the door
treatise there was a dead man in the
tall.
“Are these the actions of a maniac?''
isked Arnold. “Could a victim of de
i-lu n tremens, who had murderously
ii:d wantonly slain his best friend, sud
leniy become a sane man and proceed
is any sane man would have after he
ia<l killed In self-defense?”
B. B. McCowan, assisting Solicitor
lorsey, opened for the state, stressing
he preponderance of evidence submit
pd to show that Camp was drunk on
he day of the killing. He accused the
Irfense of attempting to influence the
r by keeping a knife before the
urymen’s gaze which had not been
bund In the room where the shooting
tccurred.
Knife Kept.
In Jurors’ View.
’’They say it is a knife similar to the
'"e Attorney James Branch found in
■■ room on the day after the shooting.
I hey do not claim it is the knife at all.
Still they keep it here for you men to
!ep It is rather odd that none of the
letectives and policemen, who searched
room right after the killing, didn't
list over this knife that Branch vs he
onnd. but never produced.”
The entire day was taken up witli
Ite arguments of the lawyers and Judge
loan will not begin his charge until
'her 8 o’clock.
son oFesgking“of
SULU LAND GOES TO
PEN FOR BURGLARY
NEV., Oct. 24.—Kirk Kane,
of the king of the land of Sulu,
li (orbing to his own statement, today
’fgan a four years term in the state
~" n for buaglary. Kane made the
X o, mg statement after his convie
i"n.
•'■l.v father was tribal eltfef of Sulu.
" ”ne is Elala Pilapa Namalaupa.
■i;is educated in Liverpool. About
nine the Spanish war broke out,
”'iber of Sulu islanders, myself and
j: 1 among them, were captured and
11 to Kingston, Jamaica, as slaves,
aped finally and made my way to
I had been here six days
■'on arrested.
killing I frostlikely
POR ATLANTA REGION
SATURDAY OR SUNDAY
i, lother slight frost tomorrow and
' 'ibly a heavy, killing frost on Sat-
! H, y or Sunday is the prediction of
l eather man today, though ho says
t should be slightly warmer to
”row. The mercury went to 37 this
' ning. which is the coldest mark
last March.
,p average time for the first killing
is November, so if one should
' by Saturday it would be incon
uently ahead of time. Many late
• would be badly damaged, and the
1 "i"rs generally would suffer.
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results.
BECKER JUH'f
OUT; BIS
IEIDICT
cm
Judge Completes Long Charge.
Then Surrenders Policeman's
Fate to Twelve Men.
INSTRUCTIONS SEEM TO
LEAN TO PROSECUTION
Finding Must Be Either First
Degree Murder or Acquittal,
According to Ruling.
NEW YORK, Oct. 24.—The fate of
Police Lieutenant Charles Becker now
rests witii the jury that is to determine
whether he is guilty or innocent of the
murder of Herman Rosenthal.
Justice Goff charged the jury in an
address lasting two hours and forty
minutes. In it he brought out impor
tant noir. > for the defense, but in gen
eral ii was regarded as more favorable
to the prosecution than to Becker. Mc-
Intyre moved that the indictment be
quashed. He was overruled. Several
motions to strike out certain sections
of the court's charge to th" jury fol
lowed. T' se were Jl overruled. The
jury retired at 1:51 o'clock.
The judge's instructions wore regard
ed as very favorable to the state when
he said, near the close:
"I have decided that there is evidence
which tends to connect •' ' defendant
with the crime, and thr: ■ vidence
in corrobor tion of one < .11 of the
accompli'" s. I instruct you that even
if Rose. Webber and other persons were
hostile to Rosenthal and even If that
hostility was so intense as to engender
expressions of hatred, that condition or
situation would not excuse Becker for
availing himself of such hatred for his
own uses and purposes.”
Becker Calm as
Suspense Begins.
Becker listened to the judge's in
structions. and when the jurors retired
he calmly began the suspense of wait
ing for the verdict.
Immediately after the jury retired
they prost nted a reouest to the court
through their foreman, Harold B. Skin
ner. that they be allowed to eat lunch
before beginning their deliberations.
Justice Goff granted their request and
ordered that the criminal court building
be cleared of the crowd that surround
ed it so that he jurors might be taken
out for luncheon without interference.
A big touring car was called to carry
the jurors from the criminal courts
building to the Murray Hill hotel, ami
Police Captain Lynch was appointed,
with seven detectives, to keep watch
over them.
Considerable delay was met v. it: l i;i
getting started for the hotel because of
the fact that the crowd of at least 1.000
persons refused to leave the corridors
of the criminal courts building.
Uncertainty
Os Result.
Attorney:- who have been ii. •
the case declared that Becker ought to
know his fate before night but admit
ted that the outcome would depend
largely upon Justice Goff s Instructions
to the jury. The court's interpretation
of the law would have much to no
with the conviction or acquittal of the
acused police official, they -aid.
In no great murder trial of the past
has there been so much uncertainty as
to the outcome. Lawyers have
figured In many famous irfurder trials
shook their heads when asked as to the
probable verdict in the Becker case, and
frankly confessed that thev could find
nothing on which to venture a predic
tion.
There was no belting on the verdict.
No odds were offered, and if there had
bePn it is not likely that any takers
would have been found. One prominent
attorney, experienced in murder trials,
said:
“A disagreement is probable, convic
tion possible, acquittal improbable."
Wife of Accused
Smiles Hopefully.
The most perfectly poised person tn
the court room was Mrs. Becker, wife
of the accused. She smiled hopefully at
her husband as she paused on her way
to her seat to -hake bands with Lieu
tenant John Becker, a brother of the
defendant.
Becker was more carefully dressed
than at any time since the trial lagan
as he was brought into court He
looked nonchalantly around the room
and smiled into his wife’s eyes.
The jury had been in their seats
nearly 30 minutes before Justice Goff,
accompanied by his body guard. Police
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Mrs, Tiffs Eloquence Sweeps Georgia Clubwomen
WINS FUND IN TREASURY
General Fund Forgotten in
Mountain School Movement
Enthusiasm.
A Georgia woman’s eloquence coaxed
$505 from the treasuries of the various
clubs in the Georgia federation at the
convention this afternoon, after the na
tional president. Mrs. Percy V. Penny
backer, had shown the great need of
funds In the national treasury. It was
I Mrs. 11. H. Tift, of Tifton. Ga.. who
(swept the audience into contributing to
| the nations' cause.
j Mrs. Pennybacker, a guest of the
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.-a / rt Ss t *’ <> <><,nven l'°n.
~ airs, •lames 11. Burton, of La-
vouia one of the delegates.
; convention, had just completed an ad- I
| dress in wliieh she shoved '.but the
general federation suffered from laelc
Lq' funds to piy for th"' lours of its of
lic rs and dt’.'.er heavy expenses. She |
’ Ihc proyored memorial to i
; Sarah f’la.l Ikite pr< sident of I
li:e org i i.aition. which is to take the
| form of a .$ 1 •><!,<» :<> erdov. meal fund. ■ f
iv. i'ich th< inter, s; is to bo devoted to
I t ■!' expersos <f tl nation:.! president,
land she xTuiXod t'-at G crvD’s rhare
io: ard .his fund had been pkteed at I
i 82.000.
Mrs. Tift Takes Floor.
As Mi -. Penny haci.. ■ took nt r s«at a I
1 vumanXii u<l k tailored suit and a hat |
; of subdued tom- rose and ask' d throe 1
, minutes to address the convention. She
I was Mrs. Bessie Willingham Tift, wife
' of Captain H. H. Tift, one of the great
est lumber operators in south Georgia.
Mrs. Tift is famous all over the state
for her philanthropy. There Is hardly
a needy institution which has not had a
. gift from her.
| Reaching the platform, she spoke of
I the reverence in which all Georgia
| women hold the memory of Mrs. Deck
i or and announced that she would head
.the state’s gift with SIOO. Then she
began a plea for liberality, and her fer-
1 vent exhortations brought responses
I from all parts of the house. Represen-
I tatives of various clubs rose and
pledged from $5 to $lO from their or
ganizations. The Atlanta Woman's club
gave SIOO, and soon the total reached
, $505.
The subscriptions to the general
fund, while perhaps greatly needed,
did not meet with hearty enthusiasm
from a number of delegates, who are
especially interested in the work of the
mountain schools and other institu
tions supported by the Georgia federa
tion.
I “These women all have the hallelu
jah spirit working on them now,” re
marked one. “They'll give away all
the money in their club treasuries and
Ulteie won’t be anything left for our
school work.”
And then she rose to Iter feet sud-
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ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1912.
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|BARNES INDICTED FOR
STABBING ON PRETTY
TYPIST S TESTIMONY
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, <>n ’< c 'ti' ny given by Miss Emily
Ncipo-i, a .-tanning little typist, who I
admi'fei 1 that she was behind the piano]
powder' >g her nose when the tight be- |
ga.i, Oscar Barnes, a typewriter sales
man, who knifed .1. S. Dunaway, in the
office: the Be< ht Piano Company,
I T‘ :mt 'out t builoing, a week ago, was
|indi<ted on the charge of assault with
intent to murder today.
I Miss Nelson said that Barnes called
I Dunaway a short, ugly word and Dun
'awtiy, nonplussed by the procedure,
asked Eames three times if he really
meant it. When Baines hat! made his
meaning perfectly clear, the two
clashed, and as J. K. Boeht was sep
arating them Barnes slashed Dunaway
over Becht’s shoulder. Dunawav is in
the hospital recovering. ,
ATLANTAN SHOOTS
WOMAN IN AUGUSTA,
PROBABLY FATALLY
AI'GL’HTA. GA.. Oct. 24 After
snapping his revolver three times and
saying, "Damn you 1 am going to shoot
you." J. R. McClure, of Atlanta, shot
Lucile Harrison, a woman of the re
stricted distt let, w hen he pulled the
trigger the fourth time, here today. H
is believed that the woman will die.
The shooting took place at 1221 Mar
ket street, in the house conducted by
Pannle Young. McClure was arrested
by the police. He was in an intoxicated
condition and was unable iu talk intel
ligently about himself.
LONG ISLAND MOTHERS
HORSEWHIP SPOONERS
NEW’ YORK. Oct 24. Mother!*, armed
with horsewhlpe, created a great stir in
Lovers I-ane, Linden park. Corona,
Island, this week
The two mothers, residents of Corona,
had been puzzled for some weeks by the
failure of their ttfteen-year-old daugh
ters to return borne prompt! \ after
school. They found two boys sitting on
a fence. The girls were near by. Be
fore the boys could run away they uerei
horsewhipped b\ the angry mothers and ■
the sobbing girls were taken home ami
locked ud.
EXPERT SCORES
ATLIimS POLES
Head of American Civic Asso
ciation Tells of the Need of
“City Beautiful.”
«
J. Horace McFarland, president of
the American Civic association, and a
j resident of Harrisburg, Pa., is looking
over Atlanta today with the view of
collecting data on civic conditions to
I use in his speech tonight before the
Georgia Federation of Women’s Clubs,
in Taft hall, at the Auditorium-Armory.
Mr. McFarland was the guest of Wil
mer L. Moore, president of the Cham
ber of Commerce, at luncheon at the
Capital City club, and this afternoon at
4 o’clock he is addressing the Chamber
of Commerce in the Empire building.
His speech. "The Crusade Against I'g
liness,” starts at 8 o’clock at Taft hall,
Mr. McFarland was whisked about
the city' with Mr. Moore and H. G.
Hastings, a long-time friend.
"Why don’t you do away with these
wooden poles?" he asked as the cur
sped along Wost Mitchell street toward
Whitehall from the Terminal station.
"In Harrisburg we have put our llghtr
ing poles of steel and our telephone
poles together, thus making one pole
glow where two grew before."
Mr. McFarland next asked who paid
for the "White Way" posts that he saw.
and was told that the property owners
paid for the poles and the city for the
current. He received the reply that At
lanta’s wires were underground in the
business section, and he declared that
they ought to be in the residential sec
tions also.
“Very congested.” he said, as White
hall and Alabama was reached. "You
must clear out this some day."
The American Civic association, of
which Mr. McFarland is president, is
engaged largely in beautifying national
liaiks, but its work also extends to the
cities Mr. McFarland’s town. Harris
burg. his been brought under the in
fluence of the association to such an
extent that it has an acre of parks for
every 82 citizens, and five miles of
beautiful parkway along the Susque
hanna river. Told that Atlanta had
1 about 800 acres in parks and 150,000
I pie. Mr Mc Farland said, "That's a
good showing.”
CANDLER OES ALL
LOCKER«PERMITS
AS VIOLATION OF Lffl
Charging Discrimination in Granting
of Licenses, Acting Mayor Sends All
Petitions Back to Council—Exclusive
Organizations Are Imperilled.
Capital City, University, Transportation and
Other Important Social Bodies Held Liable to
Answer to Charges of Permitting Sunday
Tipplingin Message—Closing Order Enjoined.
Acting Mayor Candler sent a message to council this afternoon
vetoing the permits of all locker clubs approved by council Monday.
He approved the adverse action of council on four locker clubs. He
virtually brands all locker clubs illegal.
His action rejects the applications of the Capital City, the Trans
portation, the Atlanta, the University, the Owls, the Metropolitan, the
Theatrical, the Turn Verein and the T. M. A. chibs. His approval of
council’s adverse action turns down completely the permits of. the
Georgia Athletic, the Southern, the Knights of the Mystic Ark and
the Bees clubs.
The M. & M.. the Piedmont Driv
ing Club, the Atlanta Athletic, the
Standard, the Moose, the Beavers,
the Central and Press clubs have
not been reported on by the police
committee of council and are un
affected by the action of the
mayor.
Asks For Sweeping
Probe of Clubs.
Acting Mayor Candler gave as his
reason for vetoing the permits of the
clubs that members of council had de
clared that no club In Atlanta was
obeying the state law. He said that
some of the councilmen fighting for
some of the clubs outlawed by council
were making a fight on all clubs in the
hope of getting permits for all.
He calls for an Investigation of ail
clubs and says that permits should be
granted to none which do not comply
with the state locker chib law.
The message, the most sensational
that any mayor of Atlanta has issued in
years, means a. complete readjustment
of the locker club situation.
Candler Returns
Petitions to Council.
"Atlanta, Ga„ Oct. 24, 1912,
"To the General Council.
"City of Atlanta:
“Gentlemen —I herewith respectfully
return to you without inv approval the
following petitions acted upon favorably
by you at your session on Monday, Oc
tober 21.
“Each of these petitions asks the
privilege and permission of the mayor
and general council to run a locker
club in the city of Atlanta for the last
quarter of the year 1912. While these
petitions were pending before the gen
eral council, it was stated on the floor
of said general council by at least two
of the members of said general council,
that they knew that there was not now
a locker club in the city of Atlanta that
was operating in conformity with and
in accordance with the requirements of
the law' of the state of Georgia, provid
ing for ami legalizing locker clubs.
“The general assembly of the state of
Georgia, by and with the approval of
the executive of this state, has made it
legal for a number of citizens to asso
ciate themselves together and to have
rooms at which intoxicating liquors
may be stored by any member of such
association, and where such intoxicat
ing liquors may be served to the owner
thereof by’ a servant or employee of
the club. The intoxicating liquor or li
quors of each member of such associa
tion desiring to have and keep the same
at such room or rooms of such associa
tion must be segregated from the in
toxicating liquors of every other mem
ber of such association. It can not. be
sold at such places to other memlj-rs of
tlie association nor to visitors at the
rooms, nor- to visitors or guests at, or of,
such association.
Law Violations
Openly Charged.
“Tlie amendment to tile charter of
the city of Atlanta, approved August
19, 1912. vests with authority and power
the mayor and general council of the
city of Atlanta to require all social
locker or other clubs in which lookers
or similar arrangements are maintain
ed, w herein intoxicants of any kind are
kept for use of members, to secure a
permit for the operation of such club
from tlie mayor and general council be
fore beginning to operate, or maintain,
or to conduct, or to operate and main
tain Hie same if now operated. And,
furthermore, said mayor and general
council are authorized and empowered
ito impose a license fee or charge against
such clubs of not exceeding SSOO per
HOHL
EDITION
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE P M
annum, payable in such manner as may
bep rovided by’ ordinance.
"I am satisfied that It was not the
purpose of the general assembly of the
state of Georgia to authorize or permit,
the mayor and general council of this
city to grant permits or authority to
any such association to do otherwise
than run such locker club as has been
legalized by the law’s of the state of
Georgia.
"It has been charged upon the floor of
the general council, by reputable mem
bers thereof, that each one of the clubs
to whom permits have been granted on
the petitions herewith returned to you
is dally violating the law’s of this state.
"A report of the chief of police of
the city of Atlanta, accompanying the
report of the police committee of the
general council, shows that several of
the clubs whose petitions were ap
proved by the general council are vio
lating the penal la\>s of the state of
Georgia. My attention has this morn
ing been called by one of the best citi
zens of this city to the fact that, on
last Sunday, while sitting in the club
rooms of one of the most respectable
and high-class clubs of the city, and in
the rooms of one of the clubs whose pe
tition you have favorably granted, he
saw intoxicating liquors served to two
of the best known men of this city.
Club Subject
To Indictment. '
"That particular liquor, so served,
was served illegally and contrary to the
general liquor law of the state, to one
or the other of the gentlemen In ques
tion. Not only that, that particular
club, being a place In which intoxicat
ing liquors are served during the week,
is subject to Indictment for violating
the law against the keeping open of a
tippling house on the Sabbath day.
"The charge has been made, whlla
these various petitions were under con
sideration. that the police committee
of the general council have not inves
tigated the conditions and the manner
of running of many of the clubs whose
petitions have been favorably acted up
on. The charge has been made like
wise that, without such investigation,
said committee has reported favorably
on some petitions and unfavorably upon
others. As acting mayor, Ido not de
sire In any way to approve this state
ment, nor do I in any wav w’lsh to cast
any reflection upon the police commit
tee of the general council as a whole,
or upon any Individual member of it.
I expressly wish to express my high ap
preciation of the character of each
member of this committee and my ab
solute confidence in the committee, both
as individuals and as a committee.
Discrimination in
Investigation Charged.
“But, in view’ of these charges and
in view' of tlie statements that have
been made to me by gentlemen whom I
know to be entirely reliable citizens of
Atlanta, I believe that the interest of
the public will be best served by re
turning to the general council, without
my approval, each and every one of the
petitions favorably acted upon by you.
and to recommend to the general coun
cil that each and every one of these pe
titions be re-committed to the police
committee, and that said committee ba
directed by the general council to in
vestigate each and every one of these
clubs claiming to operate under the
locker club laws of the state of Georgia.
"That, in every case, whether a big
club or a little one. a rich one or a poor
one, if said club is a legal association
of citizens who are associated together
under the laws of the state, and who
are careful in their handling of intox
icating liquor, complying strictly with
the laws of the state, to grant the per
mit authorized by the charter am. md-
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