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THE WEATHER Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia: I F a ir today and tomorrow. VOL. XI. NO. 70. U. KMT 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 i i I 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. /z ■ rjSMSII I wfWWiB BiiO i Hill mmwz BBT HMM fl I MK| BEMEBgy/ ** qEwRSr-* > WBOA ' ■ W \ v ' • ■ ■ ' ' W I \ \ 'W ? / X k ? / J' 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 * 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 JWMvW* n fee li 1 V imßy - JI ill WWW WO \_lMIMg. j IWIMB jWi 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. «ar MRiJr 1 U ISHBLj/ j- I 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 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE P M A O Y R £° 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.