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ALL LOCKER CLUB PERMITS VETOED
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VOL. XI. NO. 70.
I JURY VOTES
I ON FATE OF
SLAYER
I OAMP
■ Attorneys Argue for Five Hours
in Fight tor Conviction of
Atlanta Policeman.
■ CASE GIVEN TO JURY
I AFTER T.HREE O’CLOCK
■ for Defense Charged
I With Trying the
I ■mors With Exhibit.
Ml Si.p' "’ ' Judge p «min “ruGti his
l<> the jury in the cjisr* of Bi-
P<'li<‘Pin.'t » <’ar.ip charged with
M' . order -f his f< How officer. S. A.
■ ir,2. it exactly 3:30 o’clock this aft-
The .i'i'y retired. nt 3:35
faliy five hours today opposing
in the rase tore evidence to
' :>-'foro ti-c jury* Th«* ’»»•<»«••: outiori
’<> show that (L»mn whs in a
' ffppzv when he herd on
r ■riner «o/inmate and thr de
l|p stahlish thnt he slmi ui >*'li-
'’amp’s fat'* will be placed in
;;•) f ; s of ‘he jury lotr afte -
.<-,;■ : ’or I>o;<C’'. closing for tie- pvos
: aied the ■ ' f-defm theory,
L:ioiiing Li:: arguments on the testi
-1 Dr. T*. I>. Longino. which, he
Mlhi;: "’l’d. proved conclusively that
■<!.*• on a nrotracted spree and
' .h iL . riu’nia*’ •■.• mid shoot.
■Arnold Impassioned
Closing - Speech.
■■ .: ■ -ionerl <1 es • ! h" jar."
A'■iioul. nttome;. I '■ up.
iheorvj)f t’,:q
Camb's action just ift"r
1 when the officer \:',r o a
■S' <-,i iird up poli.e '...", < s
■ Ciit-f Beavers of tin :::g
- gave’liis pistol to J. ,'.L C:t'-
- qveryman. am l eveu
-i'iifr in a room adjoining the
:he killing to "losi tin? door
■ .•■ was a dead man in Cue
HR ■ ' use ;■!•: actio’.ts f a maniac?"
V mdd. “Could a victim of de
n.-, who had murderously
•mly slain bis b": f:ien<i. snd
beemne a sane man a-nd proceed
- me man ' oald have aft» r he
BH r '■<: in self-defense?"
HE VieCov.an. ass'sting SMieito:
■f " 'med fe the s ate. s’te-sing
■B ■" •n , b" ance cf evi(lenv> subni'i.-
R& " • that Camp was drunk on
Hr the killing. He accused tin
Hf "f attempting to influence the
SB Taping a knife before the
■» gaz? which had not been
Kjf i lie room where the shooting
■Luise Kept.
Jurors’ View.
Ei •-•<> it 'S a knife similar to th
i< i .lames Branch found in
I 'n the day after ib. ■■ s
not claim it is the knife at al'.
B|| no y keep it here for y<> imm to
Mp " lather odd that non? of the
■H 'ives and policemen, w’n ■ ■••a: elmd
■M ' light after the killing, didn’t
'' r this knife that Branch says he
never produced."
iHire day was laken up with
igmnents of the lawyer:: and Judge
" !li not begin liis eiuiige until
o’clock.
■ARNES INDICTED FOR
IpfABBING ON PRETTY
I TYPIST’S TESTI
n testimony given by Miss Emily
a stunning little typist, who
■g r ’ng her nose when the flght he-
Bk Barnes, a type' riter sales-
ihl knifed .1. S. Dunaway, in the
s "f the Becht Piano Company,
Bra ' Court building, a week ago, was
'1 on the charge of assault with
H p’.i to murder today.
ss Nelson said that Barnes called
B| ‘'away a short., ugly word and Dun
nonplussed by the procedure.
1 It When Barnes had made his
‘ mim; perfectly clear. tb< two
' 'I. and as .1 K. Becht was st p-
' g them Harm's slashed Imn.ioay
Hecht', shoulder. Dunaway is in
it'spitai recovering.
JIMIO
KI ME,
ISSEIITS
HEIM
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Judge's Instructions One-Sided
and Unfair. Says Accused
Policeman.
CHARGE IMPARTIAL.
DECLARES WHITMAN
Court ConsiHiies Nearly Three
Hours in Summing Up.
Verdict Awaited.
NEW YoRK, tict. 24. Th' fate of
1 Polic' Lieutenant Charles Becker now
rests v itii the jury I hat is to determine
whether he is guilty or innocent of the
murder of Herman Rosenthal.
Justice Ca ff charged the jui.v in an
address lasting two hours and forty
minutes. In it he brought out impor-
I t in! points for the defense, but in gen
i eral it was r yarded As more favorable
to the pros' i uti'm than to Becker. Mc-
Intyre moved that the indictment be
quashed He was overruled. Several
motions to strike out certain sections
of the "oiirt’s charge to the jury fol
lowed. Tin so w ere all overruled. The
I jury retired - l:.?l o’clock.
i Th'? judge’s instructions were regard
led as very favorable to the stalo when
he said, near the close:
"1 have decided that there is evidence
which tends to connect this defendant
with tlie crimH. and there is evidence
I in corroboration of one or all of the
I accomplices, i instruct you that even
i if Rose, Webber and other persons were
I hostile It' Rosenthal and even if that
! hostility was so intense as to engender
' expressions of Hatred, that condition or
; situation would not excuse Becker foi
I availing himself of such hatred for his
| own uses and purposes."
j Becker Displeased
With Instructions.
When District Attorney Whitman
left the criminal courts building he
said:
”1 think ihe charge to the jury 'vas
eminently fair and impartial. Justice
Goff put it right up to the jury to de
cide whether Schepps was an accom
plice and whether his testimony was
worthy of credence, which in my opin
ion. is the only fairway to charge a
jury."
Becker was dissatisfied with Judge
Goff's charge and bluntly, said so.
"Justice Goff's charge to the jury was
absolutely one-sided and unfair in my
opinion," declared the accused police
official. “It was not a charge, in my
opinion, but an adroit summing up of
the people’s case. It was virtually a
direction to the jury to find me guilty
of this charge.”
When Attorney Mclntyre was asked
to comment upon the charge he re
plied:
"I can no! say anything i CAN’T.’
Uncertainty
Os Result.
Attorneys who havi been following
the case declared that Becker ought to
know his fate before night, but admit
ted that the outcome would depend
large!.' upon Justice Goff': instructions
to ’.lie jury. The court's interpretation
of the law would have much to do
with th convicti n or a quittai of the
acused police official, they said:
In no groat murder trial of the past
has there been so minii uncertainty as
to the outcome. Lawyers who have
figured in many famous murder trials
shook their leads when asked as to the
I probable verdict in the Becker case, and
frankly confessed that thev could find
nothing on which to venture a predic
tion.
There wa-- no betting on Ihe 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.”
The most perfectly poised person in
the court room was Mrs. Becker, wife
of the accused. She smiled hopefully at
her husband as sh" paused on her way
to per seat to shake hands with Lieu
tenant John Becker, a brother of the
defendant.
Becker was more carefully dressed
than at any time since the trial began
as he was brought into court. He
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Indiana Judge Hears Argu
ments and lakes Case
Under Advisement.
MICHIGAN CITY, IND:, Oct; 24.
Judge Harry B. Tuthill today heard the
petition of the officers of the Mineral
Springs Jockey club for an injunction
to nrever.t state interference with the
race track, then he took the matter un
der advisement. As a result the sol
diers were left in possession of the
track for another day at least and no
racing was held today.
After the arguments of the attorneys
for the petitioners wen* in, Judge Tut
hill said there weie some points of law
that were not clear to him and he
would nave ’ eonshter them.
The track officials forth rhe con
tention that the troopsHiad been quar
tered at the race track in tithe of peace
in violation of the rights guarantee!
under the I’nited States constitution
and the constitution of Indiana.
Th? petitionees likened Governor
Thomas R. Marshall, at whose orders
the troops were sent to the track, to
King Georg’ 11. and asserted that he
.-.as si ting utterly without power.
The petitioners asked that the court
iirilf ’lie t irons away from the track
and the petition be made permanent
against sending soldiers to the track.
Judge Tut hill set no definite date tor
his decision. He said it was an unusual
contention and he was not sure who
would haw tin right to determine
whether a state of peace existed, the
courts or the executive.
ihe petitioners further set forth that
if they weie deprived from carrying
out their racing program- thev wchlld.
suffer a financial loss of $15,000 during'
th- next nine days. Attorney G ant
<'ruinpacker and A. F. Knotts appeared
for’the association.
The hearing was transferred from
the court of Judge McMahon, in Val
paraiso. to Jn it - '' Tuthf'l. in Michigan
t'ity, late yesterday. .
LONG ISLAND MOTHERS
HORSEWHIP SPOONERS
NEW YORK. Oct. ?4. -Mothers, armed
with horsewhips, created a great stir in
Lovers Lane, Linden park, Corona, Long
Island, this week. •
The two mothers, residents'of Corona,
had been puzzled lor some weeks by the
failure of their flfteen-yeas-old daugh
.ters to return home promptly after
’school. They found two boys sitting on
a fence. The girls were near by Be
fore th" boys eoulil run away they were
horsewhipped by the angry mothers and
the sobbing girls were tal/Wn home and
locked up ’
ATLANTA, GA.', THURSD AY, OCTOBER 24. 1912.
Mrs, Tift’s Speech Sweeps CluhvJomen
WINS m II TBEISm
A Georgia woman's eloquence coaxed
$505 from the treasuries of the various
clubs in the Genrgia 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
Mrs. H. H. Tift, of Tifton. Ga„ who
swept the audience into contributing to
tiie national cause.
Mrs. Pennybacker, a guest of the
convention, had just completed an ad
dress in which she showed that the
general federation suffered from lack
of funds to pay for the tours of its of
ficers and other heavy expenses. She
explained the proposed memorial to
Sarah Platt Decker, late 'president of
ti e organization, which is to take the
form of a SIOO,OOO endowment fund, of
which the interest is to be devoted to
the expenses of the national president,
and she explained that Georgia's share
toward this ”und had been placed at
$2,000.
Mrs. Tift Takes Floor.
As Mrs. Pennybat’ker took her seal a
woman in a dark tailored suit anti a hat
of subdued tone rose and asked three
minutes to address the convention. She
was Mrs. Bessie Willingham Tift, wife
of Captain H. 11. Tift, one of the great
est lumber operators in south Georgia.
Mrs. Tift is famous all over tiie state
for her philanthropy. There is hardly
a needy institution which has not had a
gift from her. j ® *
Reaching the platform, site spoke of
the reverence In which all Georgia
women hold the memory of Mrs. Deck
er and announced that she would head
the state’s gift with SIOO. Then she
began a plea for liberality, and her fer
vent exhortations brought responses
from all parts of the house. Represen
tatives of various clubs rose and
pledged from S 5 to $lO from their or
ganizations. The Atlanta Woman's club
gave SIOO, ano soon 'he total reached
$505.
The subscriptions to th. general
fund, while pi haps greatly needed,
■did not meet with hearty enthusiasm
from a number of delegates, who are
especially Inter-e-rd in the work of the
mountain schools, and other institu
tions supported by the Gu.rgia federa
tion.
“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
there won’t be anything left for our
school work."
And then she rose to her feet sud-
denly and subscribed s’O on behalf of
her own home club.
The session today was taken up with
reports of the standing committees on
various lines of work. Mrs. Eugene B.
Heard, off the committee on home eco
nomics, read a message from Dr. Har
vey Wiley, of Good Housekeeping, con
gratulating the Georgia federation on
its efficient work for pure food.
At 1 o'clock the convention adjourned
to a luncheon served in the Audi
torium by the City Federation of Wom
en’s Clubs. Guests of honor at the
luncheon were 100 college girls, who
occupied seats at tables decorated in
college colors’ and pennants. The
schools represented were Wesleyan,
Agnes Scott, Washington seminary,
Brenau, Woodberry and Cox. and the
scores of girl students in dainty gowns
formed a picture not easily forgotten.
The convention holds its last sessions
this afternoon and tonight. There is no
election of officers scheduled for this
year, the state officials holding for two
year terms.
ATLANTAN SHOOTS
WOMAN IN AUGUSTA,
PROBABLY FATALLY
AUGUSTA, 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 tin re
stricted district, when he pulled the
trigger the fourth time, here today. It
is believed that the woman will die.
The shooting took place at 1221 Mai •
ket street, in the house conducted by
Fannie Young McClure was arrested
by the police. He was in an intoxicated
condition and was unable tv talk intel
ligently about himself.
McClure is an engineer on tiie Geor
gia railroad and has a wife and ‘wo
i-hlldren in Atlanta. In a statement
made to a reporter at police barracks
he said this afternoon that he had no
intention of killing the woman; that
he bore no malice toward her. and that
he hardly knew what he was doing
when he fired the shot. The fact that
McClure was very much under the in
fluence of whisky and was reckless in
his use of a pistol are the real causes
of the shooting.
The woman was still alive at 4
o’clock.
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.
rKIGHT]
EDITION -
CANDLER VETOES ALL
LOCKER CLUB PERM ITS
AS VIOLATION OF LAW
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Charging Discrimination in Granting
of Licenses, Acting Mayor Sends AU
Petitions Back to Council-Ordinance
Provides Absolutely Dry Sunday.
Drast’C Measure In Council .Aimed to Reform
Organizations-—Sent t® Committee With Mes
sage-—Capital City and Other Exclusive
Bodies Hit.
Acliiiff Mayor ( andler s<*iit a m< ?sajfe Io council this afternoon
vetoing' the perniits of all locker clubs approved by council Monday
He approved the adverse action of council on four locker clubs. He
viriually brands all locker chilis illegal.
The message was referred to the police committee by city Coun
cil. and al the same lime on motion of Councilman Chambers the
coinmil tee was instrig led io consider new applications from the four
clubs recently banned
A drastic resolution to "reform" the locker clubs and create
an ahsoluielv dry Sunday in Atlanta was introduced by Councilnien
(Jiasnbers. ♦Mason and Baker. It prohibits Ihe selling of liquor on
the Sabbath, makes/'unlawful private alcoves where man and women
may gather, kjioqks out tiie bell system, handy in case of a raid, and
.provides that a conviction by the recorder of any locker club will
be tantamount to a rev’oeation of its license.
The ordinance was sent to the police committee.
Evers Signs Contract
To Manage Cubs For
Ball Season of 1912
V
CHICAGO, Oct. 24. -Johnny Evers,
star second baseman of the Cubs, this
afternoon signed a contract as manager
of the Chicago National League Base
ball club for 1913.
Charles W. Murphy, owner of the
club, made a careful study of all the
available materia! on hand for a suc
cessor to Frank Chance and decided on
the fighting infielder as his man. Mur
phy thinks he has picked a second Mc-
Graw.
RACES
*
AT LATONIA.
First- Blue Jay, 8.40, first; Ancdn, 4.80;
Fiel. t 5.90. Alsu mn: King Stalwart, I >r.
Jackson. JTovato, World's Wonder. Roos
ter, Little Waif and Toy. /
Second —Anna Patricia, 3.60, first; Silk
Day, 3.40; Inqueta. 4.40. Also ran. Tro
jan Belle, Swift Sure, Mimtees, Bavell
Lutz, I>aisv Plan and Sprightly Miss.
Third—Coy Lad, 18.20. first: Sleeth. 4.40;
Merry Lad. 2.90. Also ran: Curlicue, i
Manager Mack. (’«»lson and Feather 1 Uls
ter.
Fourth —Royal Tea. 17,50. first; Three
Links, 3.30: J. F. Crowley, 6.20.. Also ran:
Florence Roberts aml Ithorpe.
AT LAURtL
First —Big Dipper, 10, first; Mary Ann
K.. 2; Federalist, 2. \lso ran La Sain
erella, Leumas. Vinto Astute, Mohawk
Boy, Falconet, Frank Hudson, Rock Hell
and Jacquin.
Second —Flying Fairy. 15, first; Ring
ling, 7-5; Sand Vale. 3-5. Xlso ran: Con
tinental, Lace and Paris Queen.
Third —Cardiff. 60. first; Toddling, o;
Magazine, 1-2. Also ran: Silas (hump,
Auto Maid. Fond Caliph. Argonaul Pat
ricks, Carroll. Babbler, Kind Sir. Heretic,
Sidon arid Galinda.
Fourth —Sir John Johnson, 11-2, first;
Republican, 3-5; Flamma. out. Also ran:
Penobscot and Ragman.
Fisth —Banorella, 7-5, first; O’Em. 6-5;
El Toro, 5. Also ran: Warner (Srisvrell,
Detect, Miss .Jonah, Long Hund, Re
sponseful. Ben Wil on. Tom Melton and
Hand Running.
TROOPS LEAVFWITH
NEGROES DOOMED TO
HANG IN CUMMING
Brotected by two provisional com
panies of the flr«t battalion. Fifth
Georgia regiment, Ernest Knox and
Oscar Daniel, the two Gumming ne
groes' convicted of the recent outrage
and murder of a white woman near that
place, this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock
were :aken to Cumming, where they
-will be lufttged tomorrow at noon.
The two companies, composed of 40
men each, are in command of Major
Catron. With the condemned negroes
handcuffed and near the head of the
column, the troops left the Tower halt’
in hour before train time, marching
through the , to tiie Terminal
station, where the Southern train for
Cumming was boarded Immediately.
The soldiers will guard the negroes
in jail tonight and during the execution
tomorrow.
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE £, a o y r E no
The acting 1 mayor’s action re
jects the applications of the Cap
ital City, the Transportation, the
Atlanta, the I adversity, the Owls,
the .Metropolitan,* the. Theatrical,
the Turn Verein and the 'l'. M. A.
clubs. His approval of council’s
adverse action turns down eom
'pletely the permits of the Geor
gia Athletic, the Southern, the
Knights as the Mystic Ark and
the Bees clubs.
The M. & M.. the Piedmont Driving
club, the Atlanta Athletic, the Stand
ard, the Moose, the Beavers, the Cen
tra! and Press clubs have not been re
ported on by the police committee of
council and are unaffected by the ac
tion 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 sta>te 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.
lie calls for an investigation of ail
clubs and says that permits should be
granted to none which do no l comply
with the state locker club law.
The message, the most sensational
that any mayor of Atlantp has issued in
years, means a complete readjustment
of the locker club situation.
Candler Returns
Petitions to Council.
"Atlanta, Ga., Oct ?4, 1913
"To the General Council,
“City of Atlanta:
“Gentlemen—l herewith respectfully
return to you without mv 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 and legalizing locker clubs.
“The genera! 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 ha', e*
rooms at which intoxicating liquors
may be stored by any member of such
association, and where such intoxicat
ing liquors may he served to the ownei
thereof by a servant or employee of
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