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THE WEATHER
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VOL. XI. NO. 70.
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CLEiffIEDBY
HITHER
OFMBY
Or. Smith Says He Will Show
Up Foes of Tuberculosis
Sanitarium.
INSPECTION TRIP REVEALS
AN IDEAL INSTITUTION
Various Charges Against Su
perintendent—He Is Upheld
by Many.
Following an investigation of various
charges against Dr. S. W. Merritt, su
perintendent of the Battle Hill tubercu
inal# sanitarium, the virtual acquittal
of the superintendent by Mrs. James
Ingrain, whose child he was said to
have mistreated, and a tour of inspec
tion that showed the institution to be
in fine condition. Dr. Claude A. Smith,
city bacteriologist, today declared that
he would trace to their source the many
slanderous reports and show that the
fault was with the accusers rather thah
with the institution.
Dr. Smith and a representative of
The Georgian made a visit to the insti
tution yesterday' afternoon and investi
gated the numerous reports about mis
management.
Complete Probe
Sought by Smith.
We want a complete investigation.”
said Dr. Smith. "Some outrageous
slanders have been circulated against
the institution and we want to know
who is back of them. I promise to
bring out some very interesting and
illuminating facts before the council
commitfee.”
Dr. S. W. Merritt, superintendent,
denied the published statement that he
had smothered a tubercular child to
stop Its cries. He said he stifled the
cries of a robust but incorrigible child
with a pillow when it was disturbing
the whole institution and all gentler
methods of keeping it quiet had failed.
The child was subdued in a moment
and proceeded to eat its supper con
tentedly.
It was the little five-year-old daugh
ter of Mrs. James Ingram, the wife of a
street car motorman, who is now in the
hospital at the point of death.
”1 told the doctor to whip the child,
because she was very hard to control,”
said the frail little woman, in a weak
voice, as she lay on her cot in the hos
pital yesterday. "X heard from one of
the patients that he had smothered her.
But I guess the patient was wrong.”
All the witnesses to the affair denied
that the child was smothered.
There was a report that Dr. Merritt
had choked a woman. It reached the
ears of citv officials. It developed that
Dr Merritt had forced a woman to open
her mouth to show whether or not she
was dipping snuff, which is against the
rules of the hospital. The woman left
the Institution rather than give up the
snuff-dipping habit. She worked in
the Exposition Cotton mills, but evaded
Dr. Smith when he sought her to hear
her complaint. Treatment at the hos
pital is free, but no one is kept there
against their will.
Another report heard by the investi
gators was that Dr. Merritt and the
head nurse left the institution at the
same time for a day. The facts show
that they' went to the Georgian Terrace
> dinner as the guests of Dr. Merritt's
mother.
Investigation Sought
By Superintendent.
“I am not denying that there is some
s for all these renorts,” said Dr.
terrltt. "That’s why I want an inves
atlon to reveal the incriminating
slanders. We have fed some of our pa
welnerwurst and pork. They
'anted It and were strong enough to
' it. You can’t tell some of them are
looking at them.”
Ihe investigation of the institution
Was started at a meeting of the board
of health by Dr. R. R. Daley, head of
edical staff of the Anti-Tubercu
assoclatton.
!»' said that Dr. Smith and Dr. Mer-
1 would not co-operate with his as
a iation and that the hospital was be
lnv mismanaged.
Smith was not present at the
Ing. hut when he appeared before
board at a later meeting the board
b d its hands of the whole affair.
" ■ 1.. Gilbert, president of the
■d. said that a mistake had been
>n asking council for an Investl-
■ouncU's investigating commit
i already been appointed, and all
that It should make a thorough
‘ bon ami report on the hospital.
hospital stands on one of the
1 beautiful sights around Atlanta,
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results.
Grand Jurors Fine
Each Other to Aid
Free Kindergarten
DALTON, GA.. Oct. 24. —The Free
Kindergarten association benefited to
the extent of $6.75 by the October ses
sion of the grand jury, this being the
amount collected in fines from the
members. Three of the jurors were
fined 25 cents each because they were
not users of tobacco, the jury holding
that they had violated the law in not
having tobacco to give to their fellow
jurors. Past grand juries have used
these fines for treats for the crowd;
but the present one considered that the
kindergarten association could put it to
a better use.
FENN’S WIFE REALLY
THOUGHT HIM DEAD,
SAY INSURANCE MEN
That the wife .of Augustus J. Fenn,
who was supposed to have been
drowned two years ago. but has been
found in New Orleans, believed Fenn
to be dead when she entered suit for his
life Insurance was the assertion of
President Wilmer L. Moore, of the
Southern States Life Insurance Com
pany, today. Fenn was insured in the
Southern States for $5,000,
“We believe that neither Mrs. Fenn
nor her sons-in-law knew anything
about Fenn's disappearance, nor did
they know he was still alive,’’ said
President Moore. "But we do believe
that Fenn knew his wife would get
$15,000 in life insurance, though he
could never have obtained any of it
for himself."
Feme will not be brought back to
Georgia, as his identity has been con
clusively proved by his son-in-law and
as hie wife refuses to bring the charge
of wife desertion against him in order
to have him brought back. If he is not
brought back, no effort will be made by
the insurance company to prosecute,
and he will go unpunished.
CHAMPION, UNDER FIRE,
GOES ABOUT GUARDED;
WILL LOSE HIS SALOON
CHICAGO. Oct. 24. —Jack Johnson,
champion pugilist, never showed less
respect for an opponent in a ring than
he did today for the law of the land.
In an address before members of the
Appomattox club, an organization com
posed of members of his own race.
Johnson quoted the Bible in a brazen
attempt to justify his actions
The brewery' which owns Johnson’s
license announced today that it would
take it away from him October 31. The
effect will be to put the champion out
of business in Chicago, and several
friends said they expected Johnson
would leave the city' as the result.
The attack against Johnson by his
brother before the grand jury Wednes
day wounded the champion deeply, and
he has been morose and sullen for a
week. He keeps close to his apart
ments, going out but once a day. That
is In the evening, when he takes a
ride in his automobile, accompanied by
a strong armed guard.
ILLINOIS CENTRAL’S
PRESIDENT PREDICTS
WILSON WILL WIN
Although the political wiseacres have
been loudly proclaiming that Colonel
Roosevelt would carry Illinois November
5, President C. H. Markham, of the
Illinois Central, which contrals the Cen
tral of Georgia, declared in Atlanta that
the Jersey' governor would be an easy
winner.
Mr. Markham made this statement at
the Terminal station, asserting that Wil
son had developed remarkable and unex
pected strength. He also declared that
from observations made in several parts
of the country he is convinced that busi
ness has secured a ‘’divorce’’ from poli
tics.
John D. Little, attorney of the railroad
companies, entertained Mr. Markham and
W. A. Winburn, of Savannah and the Cen
tral, at golf on the East Lake course and
at dinner at his home in the evening,
where they were joined by Colonel A. R.
Lawton, of Savannah. Mr. Markham
came in from Macon and left at 8:50 last
night.
BUYS $4,300 FARM.
DALTON, GA., Oct. 24.—Hezekiah
Jennings, of Auburn, Ga., Wednesday
purchased the 110-acre farm of M. F.
Bolsclair. north of here, for $4,300, the
farm being considered one of the most
valuable small farms in this section.
the location’of one of the batteries with
which Sherman shelled the city. It has
101 patients at present. Twenty-five of
them are children, either slightly in
fected or the children of patients who
have no other place to go. They are
taught in an open-air school room. The
children are all happy and playful.
Less Than $40,000
Spent by Hospital.
The institution cost less than $40,000,
yet it is provided with 185 beds, more
than the Grady’ hospital. It was built
jointly by the city and county. Every
thing is clean and attractive.
"For the monev the institution has
not been duplicated In the United
States.” said Dr. Smith.
There is a negro ward in a separate
house.
"Do you have negro nurses for
them?" Dr. Merritt was asked.
"No," he replied. "We have white
nu ses. Ami we have nurses, not wom
en in uniform*.”
ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1912
LT.BECKERIS
GBSIFIOENT
JU RY WILL
FIEEM
Accused Policeman Says He
Will Be Acquitted if There
Is Justice.
FEARS FOR EFFECT OF
STRAIN ON HIS WIFE
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Disagreement Probable, Con-
•viction Possible, Is Predic
tion of Old Lawyer.
NEW YORK, Oct. 24. —Police Lieu
tenant Charles Becker today predicted
his acquittal by the jury that has heard
the evidence in the trial for the murder
of Herman Rosenthal.
"I do not believe there is a possi
bility of being convicted. If I am.
there is no such thing as justice,” he
said.
The defendant was awake early' in
the Tombs, and before Justice Goff con
vened court to charge the iury Becker:
was visited by Attorneys Mclntyre and !
Hart, who have been conducting his j
ease. He told the lawyers he had no
worry for himself, but he feared the es- i
sects of the trial’s strain upon his wife, j
Becker’s lawyers announced in ad- ■
vance of the appearance of Justice Goff
that they' had demanded instructions;
calling for a verdict for murder in the |
first degree or for acquittal.
The opinion was expressed by well
informed lawyers, however, that Jus
tice Goff is not likely to grant the de
mand. A
Judge Gets
Little Rest.
Justice Goff during the night went!
over 147 requests to charge presented
by the defense. He got little sleep, but
looked fresh when he reached the crim
inal courts building.
A large crowd gathered about the
court house and struggled with police
men to get into the court to hear
Justice Goff charge the liirv
Attorneys who have been following
the case declared that Becker ought to
know his fate before night, but admit
ted that the outcome would depend
largely upon Justjpe Goff’s instructions
to the jury. The court’s interpretation
of thq, law would have much to do
with, the conviction or acquittal of the
acused police official, they said.
Uncertainty
Os Result.
In no great murder trial of the past
has there been so much uncertainty as
to the outcome. Lawyers who have
figured in many famous murder 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 betting on the verdict.
No odds were offered, and if there had
been 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."
SOUTHERN RAILWAY TO
BUILD DEPOT AT BUFORD
The Southern Railwav Company’ will j
soon erect a handsome new passenger
station at Buford. Ga., and convert the I
present station into a freight depot, ac- |
cording to announcement made today by
H. W. Miller, assistant to the presi-1
dent. The new building will be of half I
stucco finish and tile room, with com- j
modious waiting rooms for white and j
negro passengers, ladies’ retiring room i
and modern facilities for the conve
nience of passengers. Bids on the work I
have been solicited, and it will be push- I
ed to completion as soon as contract I
has been awarded and the construction 1
material assembled.
AT 80 WOMAN CLAIMS TO
BE OLDEST SCHOOL GIRL
NEW YORK, Oct. 24.—Mrs. Mary-
Walt hew. 80, a student at the Wil
liamsburg Evening High school, lays
claim to be the oldest school girl in
America.
insane’from starving
TO BRING SISTER TO U. S.
NEW YORK. Oct. 24.—Michael Lan
akis, seventeen, has gone insane from
starvation as the result of trying to live
on 75 cents worth of food a week, so he
could bring his sister from Greece.
CHARLESTON TO SEND DELEGATES.
CHARLESTON, S. C, Oct. 24.—Dele
gates to the Atlanta Panama Canal con
ference in November will be sent from
Charleston by the Chamber of Commerce.
Men Who Masqueraded
As Women Indicted for
Tarring Pretty Girl, 18
NORWALK, OHIO, Oct. 24.—Six
prominent Clarksfield township men
have been indicted by the grand jury
for tarring pretty eighteen-year-old
Minnie Lavalley several weeks ago.
The girl was reported to have been
tarred by wives who accused the girl of
misconduct with their husbands. The
indictments were kept secret until to
day pending the arrest or tne men.
The girl excited pity as she told her
story to lhe grand jury. She said she
was walking along the road near her
home in the evening when she was
seized by the men and carried to a barn,
where a crowd awaited with a tar pot.
At first she thought some in the crowd
were women, but later decided they
were men masquerading in women’s
clothing, she told the jurors.
WIFE WANTED YOUNGER
SPOUSE, HUSBAND SAYS
ST. Lt>UiS, MO., Oct. 24. —Georg*
Schramm has tiled suit in the circuit
court to divorce Elizabeth Schramm,
alleging that she declared he was too
old for her; that she wanted a younger
man, and married him onlj’ for his
money.
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Colonel Roosevelt and Colonel Cecil Lyon, of Texas, leaving
the train at Syosset. L. 1., near Oyster Bay. on the colonel's arri
val home from Chicago, where he spent week in Mercy hospital.
ATLANTA TROOPS ARE
ORDERED TO CUMMING
TO PROTECT NEGROES
Two Atlanta companies of troops to
day were ordered to go to Cumming
tomorrow by- Governor Brown, as a re
sult of an urgent call received for pro
tection for negroes to be hanged there
tomorrow on the charge of having been
implicated in an attack on a white
woman.
The Cumming officials declared that
there would undoubtedly be a lynching
unless military protection wai granted.
Sheriff Reid is on his way here today
for the negroes, who are held In the
Fulton county jail.
Scaffold Ready for
Cumming Hangings
CUMMING, GA., Oct. 24. —Ordinary
11. V. Jones, of Forsy th county, today
telephoned Governor Joseph M. Brown,
asking that troops be sent here with
the two negroes who are to be hanged
tomorrow. He declared that feeling is
so intense officials of the county feared
attempts would be made to lynch the
negroes before they could be legally ex.
ecuted. The ordinary sent this message
at the request of Sheriff \V. W. Reid,
who is now en route to Atlanta to bring
the prisoners back to Cumming. He is
making the trip by automobile through
the country.
The Forsyth county jail being too
small to accommodate a scaffold, the
structure has been erected in a field
about one-half mile from the court
house, A fifteen-foot fejjee, inclosing a
plot of ground about 30 feet square,
has been erected around the scaffold.
The law requires that legal executions
be conducted privately, but the local
officers fear that ho fence might be
demolished and the negroes lynched
unless military protection be provided.
A large crowd is expected In Cum
ming tomorrow. There has not been a
legal execution In Forsyth county in 51
years, and the double hanging of to
morrow has created a great deal of ex
citement throughout the county.
SAMUEL LONG.
Samuel Long, aged 84 years, died at his
home, 725 East Fair street, yesterday. He
is survived by his wife and five children.
The funeral will lie held at the residence
this afternoon nt I o'clock. Interment will
be at Greenwood.
Bull Moose Chief to Make Several Speeches
ROOSEVELT OUT OF PAIN
But Colonel’s Wife Guards His
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Room and Admits Very
Few Callers.
OYSTER BAY, N. Y.. Oct. 24.-The
improvement of Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt’s condition continues and
there seems every prospect now that he
will not only be able to make his Mad
ison Square Garden speech In New
York on October .30. but several other
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addresses as w ell, if Mrs. Roosevelt will
consent.
The ex-president spent another restful
night and awoke in good spirits. He
suffered no pain from the wound made
by the bullet of John Schrank in Mil
waukee ten days ago.
The colonel is anxious to get back
into the campaign and eager to see his
co-workers in the Progressive party,
but Mrs. Roosevelt, who is nursing him,
guards the sick room and none but his
most intimate friends and associates
are admitted, and then only for an au
dience of a few moments.
JOCKEY CLUB TO SUE
OFFICERS OF INDIANA
FOR CLOSING TRACK
MINERAL SPRINGS, IND., Oct. 24.
Hearing of injunction proceedings
brought against state officials to en
join them in stopping racing at the
Mineral Springs track was to take place
today. Following a decision in the in
junction suit, promoters of the race
course will file suit against the state
of Indiana for SIOO,OOO damages. Those
to be named in the suit are Governor
Thomas R. Marshall, Mark Thistlewatt,
his secretary; Adjutant General Mc-
Coy. Brigadier General Garrard, of In
dlnapolls; Major George W. Freyer
muth and Captain Guy Kimball, of
South Bend, and Captain George Heal
ey, of Rensselaer.
TRAIN HITS STREET CAR
IN FOG;_SEVEN INJURED
CHICAGO, -Oct. 24. -Seven persons
were injured, one fatally, today when
a Pennsylvania suburban train crashed
through a street ear at 106th street and
Avenue C. The accident was the re
sult of a heavy fog, which engulfed
Chicago today and caused a number
of other minor accidents, in which
railroad trains, teams, street ears and
elevated trains figured.
“MOVIES” WANT TO SNAP
GIRL WHO KISSED WILSON
NEW YORK. Oct. 24.—Miss Mae Me.
Ellen, stenographer, who kissed Gov
ernor Wilson, may have to shut herself
up at home. At Democratic headquar
ters, where she is employed, she gets
100 telephone calls a day. "Movies" are
after her, too.
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PRESIDENT LAUDS
ATLANTA NOHEN
Georgia Among Foremost of
States in Club Work, Says
Mrs. Pennybacker.
The address of Mrs. Percy V. Pen
nybacker before the convention last
night was a discussion of the dangers
which threaten the American home, as
embraced in the Indifference of the
average father to his responsibility in
the welfare of the child and the over
anxiety of the mother. The mother’s
carelessness in falling to prepare girls
tor life’s work was stressed. Mrs. Pen
nybacker, who is president of the Gen
eral Federation of Women's clubs, is an
honor guest of the convention. She hag
traveled widely since her election. In
opening her address she declared that
no state federation Is doing more active
work than that of Georgia.
Mrs. Pennybacker paid high praise to
the work of the Georgia women.
You combine the grace and charm
which were so dominant in the woman
of the old South with the cosmopolltan
! Ism and vigor of the new South, and
that combination is the highest ideal of
American womanhood," she said. “I
believe that one factor In the success of
you federated women is that you seem
to be aided so ably by the men."
Mrs. Pennybacker did not hesitate
to criticise the American women who
send their young and Inexperienced
daughters to travel in Europe with in
capable guardians, and she deplored the
fashion in which young girls are now
permitted to dress. She urged espe
cially that girls should be given a prac
tical education and be taught the value
of money.
Tributes Paid
To Mrs. Decker.
.Mrs. Sarah Platt Decker’s memory
was paid an eloquent tribute by Mrs. A.
O. Granger, and the ex-presidents of
the state federations were presented to
the convention. Each recited briefly
the history of her administration. They
were Mrs. J. Lindsay Johnson, Mrs.
James Jackson, Mrs. A. O. Granger,
Mrs. M. A. Lipscomb and Mrs. Hugh
Willet. A telegram from Mrs. Julian
Harris, now a resident of New York,
expressed her regret at being absent
from the convention.
The convention will he addressed to
night by J. Horace McFarland, presi
dent of the American Civic associa
tion, who comes to Atlanta as the guest
of the Chamber of Commerce.
INVENTS RAILROAD SWITCH.
COLUMBUS. GA. lw Oct. 24.—A. N.
Calhoun, of this city, has invented an
automatic railroad switch and has ap
plied for a patent. The invention calls
for but three tracks at switches where
four are now used, and as the train
passes upon it it works automatically,
throwing the switch itself.
Mr. Calhoun is an old railroad man.
IXTRA
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JURY TODAY
GETS GIP
MURDER
CASE
Lawyers Begin Summing Up in
Trial of Atlanta Policeman
Accused as Slayer.
LIMIT OF THE LAW
DEMANDED BY STATE
Officer’s Attorneys Claim He
Shot in Self-Defense—Deny
Drunkenness Charge.
The case against Bicycle Policeman
Camp, charged with the murder of his
fellow officer, S. A. Belding, will in all
likelihood go to the jury- early this aft
ernoon. The summing up began this
morning, with the prosecution firing the
opening guns.
Camp Closes
His Testimony.
Asserting that Belding was- in an evil
humor over a mysterious letter he had
received on the morning of the shoot
ing, Policeman Camp closed the testi
mony In the case by a reiteration of his
plea of self-defense.
“I shot to save my life.” Camp told
the jury in concluding the evidence for
the defense late yesterday afternoon.
"Belding picked a quarrel with me aft
er I had kidded him about his old
ma’dish habits. As I laughed at him
|he jerked a chair from under me and
kicked me as I lay on the floor.
I .’’When I jumped up he threatened
me with a knife and when he saw I was
aroused and looking for my gun he
went for his pistol. Both guns were
on the bureau top. T got mine first.
That’s all there Is to ft.”
The prosecution, eager to take ad
vantage of the successes gained early
in the trial, bent all its efforts during
the closing ,hours to establish conclu
sively that Camp was in a drunken
frenzy- when the shooting occurred.
He Was Drunk,
Witnesses Say.
Several newspaper men, who had
talked with the accused officer just aft
er the affray and police officers who
arrested him, were sent to the stand by
Solicitor Dorsey. With the exception
of Chief Beavers, who was recalled, all
testified that Camp was intoxicated.
The case went to the Jury_at 9 o’clock
this morning, when Solicitor Dorsey
began the closing arguments for the
state. Dorsey summed up the evidence
submitted by the prosecution stressing
the testimony of Dr. T. D. Longino to
the effect that Camp had been treated
for delirium tremens a week or so prior
to the time the shooting occurred. Step
by step he sought to show that Camp
had been on a protracted spree which
terminated suddenly in the tragedy on
Saturday, September 21.
THREE CO-RESPONDENTS
(WOMEN) WEIGH 665 LBS.
NEW YORK. Oct. 24.—Three co-re
spondents named by Mrs, Ida Campbell
in her divorce case weighed, respec
tively, around 200, 230 and 235 pounds,
John E. Campbell, the busband, did not
appear. The suit was uncontested.
KING PETER OF SERVIA
IS BILLED AS HUMORIST
BELGRADE, Oct. 24.—King Peter's
decision to lead the Servians in the
field caused his people to laugh. It is
said he seldom rides a mile without
falling from his horse.
PRINCESS MAY NOT READ
KING EDWARD’S WRITING
LONDON, Oct. 24. —A censorship has
been established over the Royal libra
ry at Buckingham palace. The queen
surprised Princess Mary reading one of
Klug Edward’s books.
OUT OF WORK. WOULD
AUCTION HIS CHILDREN
LONDON. Oct. 24.—Unable to find
work. George Gough has petitioned the
board of guardians for permission to
sell his children at auction.
LICENSE UNDER LOCK.
WEDDING IS POSTPONEC
OMAHA, Oct. 24 —A refractory loci
on the county clerk's new vault, when
marriage license and rings were de
posited for safe-keeping, caused Arthu
Kohlsaat and Clara Brown to recall in
vilatlotis to their wedding.