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Newspaper Page TextBEGKER BITTERLY RAPS JUDGE GOFF Convicted Policeman Prepares for Transfer to Death Cell at Sing Sing. YORK, Oet. 28.—Lieutenant Charles Becker today bitterly attacked John W. Goff in the course of re view of his trial for the murder of Herman Rosenthal. He declared that i liet ' Goff, instead of protecting him t • presiding judge at a murder trial .mid. had leagued himself with the s , , !!!■> > -of the policeman. Becker went minutely into the his s the vents leading up to the ver j jointed-out numberless contradic among the witnesses for the pr05,,..1T;..n ~..I T; ..n and asserted that he had never n-er seen the four gunmen who did the u (! ; shooting until he viewed them in the I'ombs. , Onl.' once during the long talk did B».ker show any signs of weakness. That was whn he referred to his wife, ■r.jf.n e shook the ebars in a sort of , orient grief, declaring that Mrs. gp.-ker was expected to become a moth er about the middle of January. ( jod Knows my position is bad enough.” he said, with a break in his vn i e. but Mrs. Becker is in far worse strait-. She is to become a mother in January. God knows it is not a brig = Outlook for her. The husband and ft', ther of her child will by that time be in rite death house in Sing Sing prison, th. victim of perjury. ’ Lieutenant Becker today calmly directed the winding up of hie business sfffi t s and prepared for the short jour -I;ev which will land him in the death house at Sing Sing prison Wednesday afternoon. He will be taken to Ossining Immediately after Justice Goff sen tences him to death An examination of the statement of his financial condition giver, out by Becker shows a discrepancy of almost 120.006 in his private fortune as ex plained by himself and the official rec ord of his bank deposits. Becker says that $15,000 was given t» hie wife by an old friend, John Fin- Tiogan, a newspaper compositor. Friends of Finnegan declare Finnegan never possessed more than SIO,OOO in his life. died July 31, the night after Becker was arrested for the murder of Rosen thal. CHURCH SERVICES AID IN CAMPAIGN ON TUBERCULOSIS 'Someone dies every three minutes in ♦big country from tuberculosis, ’ was he startling' announcement read to a number of church congregations in At n.nte yesterday. “One-tenth of al! the people who die year!,' die from this '■aiise The cost in dollars and cents is more than $500,000,000, or half as much as the total expense of running J’.? United States government." Among thoee who spoke on the whit’ plague were Dee-n C. T. A. Pise, of the Unt hedral; Father Pußols. of the Sa '•red Heart church; Dr. S. P. Wiggins, rtf the First Methodist; Rev. Richard Orme Flinn, of the North Avenue Pres byterta®; Dr. C. B. Wilmer, of St. Lukes Episcopal, and Dr. Hugh K. Walker, of the First Presbyterian, and it came from the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, which fa fighting the "white plague” in :hls country and at whose request 100,000 churches in all parts of the country yesterday sounded a warning. NURSERY PROVIDED TO ALLOW MOTHERS TO ATTEND CHURCH * nursery for the children of church. Wing mothers, who are ordinarily forced to remain away from church be cause of the children, has been pro ’’ided by the Jackson Hill Baptist ohuroh at the corner of Jackson street *nd Hast avenue. Dr. Junius W. Millard is pastor of the church and Dr. H. C. Risner, pastor of 'he Broadway church of Knoxville, t'-r,. is conducting a two weeks serv '(f. Tn order to allow the mothers to come in the afternoon, Dr. Millard has prepared a room in the church for the children and has placed two ladles In charge. Dr. Risner preaches both at afternoon a "d night. He has conducted revivals a! many of the principal churches of 'he South and is well known. FATHER drops dead HOLDING TWIN BABY; CHILD ESCAPES HURT Ffth one f W | n babies in his arms. C. f’reston, of 36 Bedford place, dropped end yesterday afternoon at 5 o'clock :,|st as he was entering his home after ’ r outing with his wife and children. J eart failure was the cause of death, ha baby was uninjured. Mr. Preston had been in the genera! ''eight offices of the Southern railroad for ven teen years. He was a Virginian, and “"fore coming to Atlanta was connected *ith the old Richmond and Danville, at Tehmond. '“Besides his wife and the •Mns, who are thirteen months old, Mr “'eston is survived by two brothers and “ s 'ster. The funeral arrangements will " announced later. F- R. TAKES LONG STROLL ABOUT SAGAMORE HILL OYSTER RAY. L. 1., Oct. 28.—t'olo " Roosevelt went out walking again for the second time since liis re rii from Chicago to recuperate from bullet wound. He argued with Dr. •“sunder Lambert when th'* physician • down from New York and flnailj iiis permission to ramble about Samora Hill tot; aat hour, Artistic Dancing Still Lives Here, Despite Invasion of the Turkey Trot ATLANTA GIRLS QUICK TO LEARN CLASSIC STEPS Elks Kirmess to Teach Lasting Lesson of Grace. Declares Ballet Master. dancing is not a lost art in; Atlanta despite modern tendencies the ’nD-oduetion of the turkey trot 'and other bizarre dances. This at least is the opinion of F. M. Agostini, who is dnlhng hundreds of young women fbr t ie Llks Kirmess. “Atlanta girls are remarkably easy o teach.” said Agostini. “They pick UP the most difficult steps and figures or e.assic dances without the slightest esitation. I am delighted with the wonderful progress they are making. !nZS s ‘" take t 0 art ' StiC danCil ‘ 8 , ProteSis oi Agostini explained that ins conclusions were made from the man nei in which his charges grasped .the Intricate figures of elaborate fir mess number called -"The Last of the Vestals, which is to be the most pre tentious thing on the program. zjf iFar¥ ’ ZwiM F * AJIf 7 // / HUB - laMßavs 'a ■ ..c U ( /JF' W f w l rTWH - //y MW Kir ' Wgaaag UVmw JKH 'W 9 a wl •X 1 1 I Na, MMHmqI '' v- £ f 3® a I f IraWl < ~* l> * ' '-hi. Miss .Jtisime ILn LzNrL Q.- ileison. ami Icfi. Miss Vi Broth- ■ - " TTMfc WMmM erton. Auoiher of the pretty girls who will take part in the Kirmess. She is Miss Anita Lawson. DeLuxe Children's Books Shown at Library FIRST AID FOR SANTA A first aid to Santa Claus will be established at the Carnegie library this week and mothers and fathers and Uncle Jack and Aunt Nell will have a load taken off their minds if they’ll pay a viait to the new department. It is an exhibit of Christmas books for the little folks and is intended to give would-be gift buyers an opportunity to see the best and prettiest editions of those juvenile books which have stood the test of time. No books are offered for sale, but those who make a choice now will have ample time to order them through local dealers in advance of the holidays- Older folk, who absorbed the story of Robinson Crusoe from a brown backed volume In small type and a few wood cuts which appeared to have been carved with an ax, may give their chil dren a volume of the beloved classic in a dress worthy of its merit. It is printed in large and beautiful type, adorned with illustrations by Louis Rhead, bound in away to stand abuse and yet a* attractive without as within. There are copies of Stevenson’s verses with Illustrations by world fa mous painters, nonsense rhymes for the very little folk with water color pictures, on which a fortune must have been spent. Some of these books are expensive, but there are many, hardly less artistic, within the reach of any purse. Those who love books for the beauty of bindings and illustrations as much as for the interest of their text might spend an hour in this children's library without growing tired. “We have so many requests from mothers every fall to suggest suitable children's books for holiday gifts that we decided to prepare this exhibit,” said the librarian in charge. “We be lieve that it is just as important to give a child a book which is artistically printed and illustrated as one in which the story Is pure and wholesome. There is no reason why we should give a child a miserably printed, hideously Illus trated cop? of 'Mother Goose - or I t eas ure Island,’ wh» > t.i-* are so many; good editions ..n Hie ma Let wnich cost but little more "it is impossible foi a book eollor to ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. JW fee tMZ >£. Ml j-ssO® ’ I • take the time in the rush of the week before Christmas to help a customer choose books for children. It is equally impossible for the shopper to search through the stores for just the book desired. We believe tills exhibit will go a long way toward helping both cus tomer and dealer. The.exhibit will be open every day next week and we in vite an?- one who is interested to come and examine it. The library has pre pared also a little catalogue of books suitable for children, which will he given any applicant.” MUST FACE TRIAL. ALTHOUGH HE PAID BACK HIS THEFTS PHILADELPHIA, PA., Oct. 28.—Al though he has made restitution to the full amount of his embezzlement, Walter H. Shourds, former superintendent of the safe deposit vaults of the Merchants ' Union Trust Company, who fled last Au gust with $30,000 In cash and $1,000,000 in securities, will be prosecuted. Shourds was Indicted shortly after his disappear ance in 1911. Decision to start proceedings against j Shourds, who is a fugitive from justice i and who is believed to be in Germany, was reached by Governor Tener Prosecution will be brought under a ' law passed in I9o». which provides that I all cases of embezzlement from bunks or trust companies must be prosecuted re- ! gardless of whether restitution ha- been made or whether officers of the bank are ' satisfied to let the matter res' MRS. DAISY HOYT DEAD; PROMINENT IN CLUB WORK; Mrs. Daisy Sherman Hoyt, wife of W. R. Hoyt, an insurance man, died at her West End avenue, this morn ing at the age of 31. She had been 111 for some time. Mrs. Hoyt was s prominent member of the First Presbyterian church and was a leader in a number of women's clubs. She is survived by her husband, lier mother, Mrs. John Sherman, of Roswell, and five sisters. Mis. Rob-rt McMillan, of Clarkesville; Mrs it. < Ansted, of !>ahlonoga; M's. G i Ward, of Lavonia; \l'.- I>. T. liryman land Miss Mana She .-;an, of Atlanta. The funeral arrangements will be an- Inouneed latgw | SPRAINS AN ANKLE CHASING ELOPERS, THEN HE FORGIVES HAMMOND, IND., Oct. 28.—An elope ment which caused a chase over five states ended here when an automobile tumbled into a ditch filled with muddy water, near Huntington. The ditch also was responsible for a reconciliation be tween father and daughter and father and son. Several weeks ago Miss Randolph, age sixteen, daughter of F. M. Randolph, and Walter Piggs, age seventeen, both of Moberly, Mo., eloped. The. fathers of the boy and girl chased them over five states and a few days ago found them at Tren ton. Mich., where they had been married and the husband had obtained a job. All started back to Missouri. The young peo ple attempted to effect a reconciliation ; with their parents, but failed until their I automobile went into the ditch. The elder j Piggs suffered a sprained ankle He and I Mr. Randolph were soon in a forgiving mood, and all started for home, where the bride and birdegroom will enjoy their honeymoon. $50,000 IN CASH FOUND IN A “POOR MAN’S” HOME BLOOMINGTON, ILL., Oct. 28— .An ex; amination of the home of Benjamin Birkle, who died at the age of 70, sup | posedly a poor man, revealed $50,000 in i currency secreted in out-of-the-way ■ places. A dv<‘d showing that he owned 1.000 acres of valuable farm land in Ver i milion and Iroquois counties was also I discovered. It is estimated that the value of his es tate is $250,000. \ will made a month ; ago bequeathed all the money and prop i erty to his sister LET OUT OF JAIL JUST LONG ENOUGH TO WED WICHITA, KANS., October 28 1. .1 Chandler, a pi’isoiier in the county jail. whs released from < usiody in the county jail, was released from ousted>■ long enough to go to the offi(» of Probate Judge McCanless and many Mi l Bertha .A. Richardson Mrs Richardson heen several times married, and J. (’. “BHek ie" Towery, one of her former husbands, ; s now serving a five-year sentence for shooting at “Slim” McClure, another hus band. McClure and Chandler were ar rested together on a charge of violating the ptoiiib’too law Chandler went back I 1 to the jail after Ila* wedding, ai.d his bride went home to wait until lie is re lea ya* 4 MONDAY. OCTOBER 28. 1912. SHERMAN WORSE; GOfflDN GW UTICA, N. Y„ Oct. 28.—Vice Presi dent Janies Sherman is in an extremelj critical condition of healtti and the outcome can not be forecast. His physician, Dr. Peek, today ad mitted the gravity of the vice presi dent’s condition, but denied it was hopeless. Mr. Sherman is suffering from a complication of ailments, which have , induced a weakness in the heart action, and he experiences considerable diffi culty in breathing. Several days ago 1 the vice president, who has been in a more or less serious condition since last spring, suffered a relapse, due, it is be lieved. to overexerting himself in leav ing bis home to register. 1 His condition Saturday was perhaps more alarming than it had previously been, but yesterda?- he was easier and was able to sit up and walk about his home. Last night was nut a restful one for Mr. Sherman, but his physician stated at noon today he was resting more comfortable and he believed the crisis in his relapse had been passed. Alarming rumors have been current here today regarding Mr. Sherman’s condition, but Dr. Peek says they are largely exaggerated. However, as to the distinguished patient's illness his physician makes no attempt to mini mize its gravity. SLAYER OF GIRL IS CAPTURED IN WOODS CONDON. ORE.. Oct. 28.—80 b Mor gan, who disappeared after the killing j of Miss Virginia Hart, was captured in I the woods two miles from here. Miss Hart, who recently came here from Kentucky, was followed to this city by Morgan, who was an unfavored suitor.) I’h(* young woman was passing along I the street early in the evening when she win shot and killed. I’. 13. (’rane ! was injured by a bullet when he at- | tempted to take Morgan's gun from I him. TORTOISE TURNS OVER LAMP: CHURCH BURNS IdCNVEIt. <’<>L.. Od. 28. \ tortoise set ’it* to St. Marks EpiHcopal church here considerable damage resulted and 25 tortise’ Ilves were lost. A tortoise kicked over a lamp in a hex where he and 24 others made their home. The box was kept in the guild room of the church and ; the lamp was put n he box to the : animals warm. They were the propertv i of the Rev. Jojia 11. liougiilun. rector of St Marks, w hu"Tiad collected them from various parte us the world. Righl to left, Misses Gladys Sands. Allie llanisanr, Lorena Brot lierton, Eloise Peek, Ruth Folds, Irean Hollis. NORTH SIDE STILL LOYAL TO TRINITY New Church Edifice Is Dedi cated by Bishop Candler With Impressive Service. Hundreds of "north elders" manifest ed their loyalty to the traditions of old Trinity church yesterday by pledging their support at the dedicatory exer cises of the handsome new Trinity that has recently been erected at the corner of Trinit.v avenue and Washington street. In the earlier days of the city many people now of the north side attended Trinity ns southside residents, and crossing the railroad tracks seems to have caused few to transfer their af filiations. Hundreds of "south slflers” were also there, and the occasion was pronounced a great success. Bishop Warren A. Candler offered the dedication prayer. Judge W. R. Ham mond having first formally presented the edifice. Three programs were rendered— morning, afternoon and evening—and in all the organist, Charles A. Sheldon, i Jr., and- the choir, composed of Mrs. Sheldon, soprano; Mrs. Arthur Crevis i ton, alto; Howard Davis, tenor, and Jo seph Hubbard, basso, were heard in beautiful selections. , Dr. J. W. Lee, Dr. Elam Dempsey, of Milledgeville: Dr. T. R. Kendall, of Au gusta. a.nd Dr. Walker Lewis, of Rome, former pastors, made short addresses at the afternoon service, and letters of welcome were read from the Second Baptist and the Central Presbyterian churches. Dr. Lee preached at th' 1 night service ; on the subject of "The Mission of the Church.” He took up the question of city growth and crime In the I’nited States and declared that something > must be done "to bling this country back to sarpt? and spiritual health." TECH BOYS CHASE HIGHWAYMAN WHO SANDBAGGED MAN Robert Garrison, of <8 Spring street, is today recovering from the effects of >1 sandbag wound received at the hands of two negro highwaymen who held him up in front of the Kappa Alpha | fraternity house, 460 Spring street, and | took a small amount of mone?- from his pockets. Garrison was knocked unconscious : and a bad gash cut in the back of his I head. He was discovered by Eugene I Drummond, who sat on a front porch | across the stret playing a mandolin: | and the Tech boys at the chapter house i gave chase to the negroes, but were too late. Low Price—BUT —High-Grade Quality A combination that can’t be beat—and found only in (SA.K.IM.G POWDEg 1 lb. 20c.—X lb. 10c.—X lb. sc. All good Grocer* tell it or will get it for you. FOES DESPERATE, CLAIMS M' CD MB S Democratic Chairman Warns Party Not to Relax in Last Week’s Campaigning. CHICAGO, Oct. 28. — In a statement simultaneously issued in Chicago and New York today. Chairman William F. McCombs today declared that Woodrow Wilson would sweep the country at the coming election. McCombs predicts that President Taft will be thiid in the presidential race and Roosevelt second. Thousands of Republicans, he says, will vote for Wilson. "What in reason could bo antici pated from a Roosevelt administration except turmoil and strife.” the state ment says, tn another place it refers to Wilson as "al! that is best, most rational and attainable." The statement says: "It becomes my duty as chairman pl the Democratic national committee at the beginning of the last week of th” campaign to convey two messages to the millions of citizens who are striv ing to uphold the p inciples of popular government by electing Woodrow Wil son president of the i'nited States. "The first is of good cheer. A pains taking unprejudiced examination ot reports from all sources fully justifies the expectation of a sweeping victor on November 5. "My second message is not one of apprehension hut of warning. We must expect the desperate situation in which our antagonists now find themselves will incite them to extreme measures a-- they approach the end of their re sources. There should be no relaxa tion of effort in these last few flays at any point in the line." CHAUFFEUR HELD AS AUTO THIEF DROVE BEATTIE DEATH CAR C. H. Richardson, the young cheuf feur accused of stealing an automobtb in Jacksonville, Fla., and driving it through the country to Atlanta, for a long while was chauffeur for Henry Clay Beattie, the young Richmond wife slayer who was electrocuted several months ago. Richardson, who had driven Beattie and his wife on many of their outing 1 -- in the “death ear" in which the slayer carried the body of his Hlain wife into Richmond the night of the murder, was present at the trial as a witness, but was not called to the stand. He left Richmond five weeks before the trag edy. "Beattie was a fine, good-natured young fellow, and I could never bring myself to believe him guilty of mur dering his wife until he confessed, just before the execution.” said Richardson. EIGHT~BADLY HURT IN L. & N.-S. R. R. WRECK; DINING CAR BURNED KNOXVILLE. TENN.. Oct. 28. Louisville and Nashville passenger train, due in Atlanta at noon today, was struck by a Southern railway local train from Maryville, on a grade cross ing in this city early this morning, as it was departing for Atlanta. The Louis, vllle and Nashville dining car wa thrown down a steep embankment and was burned. The Southern locomotive was damaged. Alex Finley, L. and N. diner con ductor. of Louisville; R. N. Goodard. Southern engineer, of Knoxville: J. IV. Lyle, Southern fireman, of Maryville, and two negro cooks and three negro waiters, of Louisville, were injured, but none fatally. No passengers were in the dining ear at the time. 17 NORTHERN STATES SAFELY FOR WILSON, LEADERS ARE TOLD NEW YORK. Oct 28.—Democratic national headquarters received reports from 17 Northern states, declaring that the ticket headed by Governor Wilson would be successful in those states.. Among the callers at headquarters was Congressman William F. Murraj. of .Massachusetts, who told National Chairman William F. McCombs that 1!" is confident the Democrats will secure ix new congressmen in his state. "We are sure to re-elect the four we now have, and with the six others that we feel confident of, the Democrats will have the ten out of the state’s quota of fourteen in congress," said Mr. Murray. “KILLED MY WIFE; COME BEFORE I KILL MYSELF” SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 28.—“ I’ve just killed my wife," said a voice ove\ the telephone to police headquarters "You'd better come get me in a hurry before I kill myself." At the address given the police found Mrs. Alice Currier dead on the kitchen floor. George, her husband, told the police that his wife, in a delirium re sulting from typhoid fever, had attack ed him with a knife and a pistol and that he had shot her in self-defense. 3