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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 Continued on Page 2. Mrs, Tiffs Eloquence Sweeps Georgia Clubwomen WINS FUND IN TREASURY General Fund Forgotten in Mountain School Movement Enthusiasm. A Georgia woman’s eloquence coaxed $505 from the treasuries of the various clubs in the Georgia federation at the convention this afternoon, after the na tional president. Mrs. Percy V. Penny backer, had shown the great need of funds In the national treasury. It was I Mrs. 11. H. Tift, of Tifton. Ga.. who (swept the audience into contributing to | the nations' cause. j Mrs. Pennybacker, a guest of the I -I \ /- : / i JbKC. I t z-/ ZaHi y ■ / N ■■ wl < > W? J W 1 lss R,lth n " l! - ;l P rett y wait - .-a / rt Ss t *’ <> <><,nven l'°n. ~ airs, •lames 11. Burton, of La- vouia one of the delegates. ; convention, had just completed an ad- I | dress in wliieh she shoved '.but the general federation suffered from laelc Lq' funds to piy for th"' lours of its of lic rs and dt’.'.er heavy expenses. She | ’ Ihc proyored memorial to i ; Sarah f’la.l Ikite pr< sident of I li:e org i i.aition. which is to take the | form of a .$ 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- Contmued on Page 2. ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1912. »HMk\ ' ■ *■ ” : x U \ w-aMBRx OCT |BARNES INDICTED FOR STABBING ON PRETTY TYPIST S TESTIMONY I , <>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- Continued on Page 2.