Atlanta Georgian. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, November 15, 1912, EXTRA 1, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextGIRL’S DEATH MYSTERY; SEEK MAN THE WEATHER Forecast: Fair tonight and tomor cw. Temperatures: 8 a. m., 44; 10 . 49: 12 m„ 54; 2 p. m., 55. VOL. XL NO. 88. iiomm HOME; SEES SMI WASTE Back From Tour of Investiga tion. Renews Attack on the Present Crematory Pact. FEARS DISEASE PERIL IN RAZING OF OLD PLANT ion liis return today from an ex pr.ned inspection trip of garbage dis posal plants in various cities, James «. Woodward. Atlanta’s next mayor, de clared that Atlanta’s city officials were about to spend $200,000 too much on a ppw crematory and electric power plant, "I am convinced that the power plant, to cost SIOO,OOO, will be practically use less," he declared. “Without that fea ture, $276,000 is too much money for the contemplated crematory. 1 have seen all the crematory plants the Destructor Company of New York has built in the East. I am satisfied that if the plan mt iti 1 is carried out it will be a great niista-ko.” •\\ . ~light not to tear down the old crematory until the new one is com plete. he said. “It is not necessary to build t .■ n-w crematory upon the site of the old.” Air. Woodward remarked that he was .■ ■ ,i ity official and that he was iru i , citizen.' As a citizen he said • . would go before the aldermanlc i..,. ( .d low Thursday, when it meets ag ii) .insider the resolution to tii.' old crematory, and pre- ■ t ibf information *he had collected - r* ;i«on» for opposition to the ■ in • :at ins been adopted. i ll would like to have the editors >: Atlanta papers present,” he Untried Experiment, Asserts Woodward. 1 ! luring that,his motive for taking was solely business econ* .r Ai’unta. Mr. Woodward said f.. no animus toward the Destruc- - 1 - I’j.iiiiy or any one else. He said 1 idea thorough personal in on and that he wanted the of insider it from a dispassion ate viewpoint. ’Th.- plan of a combined crematory ii ii- w. r plant is wholly experjment began. "No city has any such ’ ' n successful operation. Ii or .-r to produce a force draft i.i provide the power to be used "in-l the plant, the type of plant C’"l by the city council must have r I saw such plants in Milwau mid on Staten Island. ri it comes to using this power r. the city's water or light the Way we are faced with a joke. i mkee they collect garbage from 511 ’ l l itizens. The estimated power 'Hat amount of garbage is \>oo '■ "watts per day. 'lt is absurd to figure that Atlanta’s ■-te will produce 1,200 kilowatts. ntract with the Destructor provides that for $100,00(J*a "mt will be installed in con- 1,1 'ion with tile crematory. On the that we are to have a municl- Plant, a number of city of- H< - i i' t - "v. announced their support of ’he contract. i J say that that power plant ■ !»' a failure. I'structor Company is building •••s" plant at Paterson, N. J., for I'lely .$75,000. It is a 60-ton Plant. The company has con -1 operate for one year. If It ovi- successful, they will teat 1 »<1 receive no pay. the sort oi contract Atlanta ' "Ukeo only paid $175,000 for its iiich burns 300 tons of garbage Price Fixed Too *righ. He Declares. i., 1 , 'IT-, cost of these two , $2,6,000 is too much for a 250- ' ’or Atlanta. must preserve the old erema ; ” mvh can be repaired for about It will burn more than 100 tons " e should build a new plant ' our needs, instead of spend ‘ than a quarter of a million ""l something will prove L. •filbert, president of the health, said today that Mr. "‘■d was responsible for all the ; . - lay in the building of a com- garbage disposal plant. ' . ’ u health has been inves- ' s matter for more than two ' e have made inspection trips 'ties,'’ he asserted. '"ntract that has been adopt < , ' “.st possible one we can se- The Atlanta Georgian GUNMEN SHY HILLM ■ USE SLEW GHMBLER “Gyp the Blood” Declares Stranger Aided in Killing of Herman Rosenthal. ASSERTS POLICE DIDN’T WANT REAL SLAYERS • NEW YORK, Nov. 14. —That Deputy Police Commissioner Dougherty did"not want to know the name of the actual slayer of Herman Rosepthal, the gam bler, but that he. thpugilt. lie had the goods on the four gunmen now on t'ial for the'murder and wanted to convict them, was the declaration of Harry Horowitz, "Gyp the ' Blood," under cross-examination this afternoon. De spite every effort. Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Moss was unable to shake the early testimony of the accused gunman. Horowitz swore that he and Frank Muller, or “Whitey Lewis.' went to a saloon on Second avenue about 10 o’clock on the night of July 15, and were later joined there by; “Lefty Louie.” They stayed there until mid night. Then they wi nt to Louis Web ber’s poker room at Sixth avenue and Forty-second street, where they met Frank Cirifiei, or “Dago Frank.” the fourth gunman. Sam Schepps, Harry Vallon, Webber, Jack Rose and a strange man were all there, “Gyp” said Places Guilt For Slaying- on Others. Soon Rose, Webber, Vallon, Schepps and the strange went out. but in fif teen minutes the stranger returned. “Dago Frank” then left for home, “Gyp" said, but he (the witness), Rosenberg and Mullen went with the strange man toward th£ Metropole hotel, two blocks away. Then followed Horowitz's story of the actual shooting in which he exonerated himself and his i lends. placing the guilt on others. “We stopped in front of the Metro pole. Rose, Vallon. Webber and Schflpps started to cross the.street. The strange man joined them and we started across to meet them half-way. All of a sud den, just as they were opposite the doerway of the Metropole, the strange man turned. There was a flash and a shot, and 1 saw Vallon and Webber shooting at a figure. The stranger joined in the shooting. We were freightened and ran toward the subway station. We got into an up-town train and rode to our apartment in Seventh avenue. ‘Dago Frank’ was there when we arrived. 1 never shot any one. Neither’myself nor any of my three companions carried w eapons. I did not know until half past 8 the next morn ing that any one had been killed.” Denies in Every Detail Rose’s Story. “Gyp” denied singly and collective ly every statement in the testimony of Rose as to the trip to the Garden res taurant early in July for the purpose of murdering Rosenthal when the plot was balked by the presence of a Burns detective. Horowitz said he did not know Rosenthal. “Rose never asked me to kill Rosen thal and m and my friends never said were are ready to do the job tonigh,.’ said the witness with vehemence. District Attorney Moss began cross examination bringing out first that "Gyp," as young as he is, has been con victed five times of crimes. Without a tracts of embarrassment Horowitz admitted that he had never done any work, living by thievery. The witness told the following story of his and Lefty Louie’s wjiereabouts after the murder: "We went to 2729 Seventh avenue, directly after the murder, and next day went to Yonkers. From there we went to Kingston, then to Monticello and finally to Harvard. Conn. Then we re turned to New York on July 22. We intended to give ourselves up and walk ed past police headquarters while dis cussing tills, but I objected at the last minute, saying they would stick a mur der charge on us.” Gyp and I»ule then went to Brook lyn, where tjiey remained until cap tured two months later. Frank Muller, alias “Whitey Lewis,” followed Gyp, the Blood, on the stand. He corroborated the testimony given by Gyp to the effect that Jack Rose, Harry Vallon and Bridgfe Webber were the gunmen who fired the shots into thg gambler's body. He denied that he or any of the gunmen had fired any of file shots and declared their arrests were the result of a plot hatched by Rose, Vallon. Webber and Schepps, who wanted to place the blame on them. Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results. ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1912. White Christmas for Fulton Now Certain LATEST COTTON SEASON HERE ■■ < •<;■• X. L fl ®W V, wHI s * Jr*lL ...U > * w ; -• i.i**. Al/ei \w <WiJ/ ini ’Wf MB/R; xBEPKW Hr / Vx vhKKO * at O wHBBk \\ // )) // j/sHf \ Il J F 'T r Mzp 1 ■ - .Jia /fw " \ *VI* " - i K v ' \\ J \*’ V ife'/wiw* 7 \ Bl V. -W / \ **'’ >4® Mri > • £. * ” / \ » - ‘ Z \ if' 'Ti > / \ >/ ' / • JI / ■ >. Scenes in cotton fields in Fulton county, whore the late crop will not be completely picked till after the New Year. ALDERMAN MADDOX AND DR. MANER NEAR FISTICUFF IN COURT “I’ll swear that what he says Is not true. If he doesn’t like It, he's ag big as I am, and knows what he can do," said Alderman J. W. Maddox in police court th!> afternoon, but two policemen moved between the aiderman and Dr. J. W. Maner, of 349 Luckie street, and no fight took place. Alderman Maddox was being tried for conducting a nuisance in that hls wag ons which he employs in his contract ing work were causing Luckie street to become a river of mud. Dr. Maner was the principal witness and it was hls testimony which caused Judge Broyles to fine the aiderman sls. "He said that I was from the coun try and accustomed to traveling ove’ dirt roads,” the physician told the re corder, and pointed to Maddox Fleecy Staple Will Be Unpicked Till New Year, According to Many Planters. Atlanta will have a white Christmas. That’s not a weather piediction. It’s a fact. The white won’t be snow, but it will be just as unusual, for it will be the fleecy staple, which for the first time in many years Is still blooming in the fields around the city and which, according to farmers hereabouts, will not al! be picked until after the preA-nt year has been tolled to its death. The late summer, heavy rains and other weather conditions have delayed the cotton .opening to an unprecedented extent and negro laborers are busy in the fields these days, shivering in the unaccustomed cold. ALLEGED BALLOT BOX STUFFER TO BE TRIED BY GEORGIA SENIORS —l_. ATHENS, GA., Now. 14. Following charges of ballot box stuffing in the recent election held at. lite University of Georgia by the members of the three senior classes —academic, law and pharmacy for the editor-in-chief and twy associate editor- of The Pandora, the annual publication of the univer sity. the three classes met in joint ses sion late yesterday afternoon and heard tiie report of a committee that had been appointed to make an investiga tion. Resolutions were adopted (ailing for a trial of the alleged offender, and next Tuesday tdght was set for the hearing. Something never before heard of in local college circles will take place then when a regular, well ordered trial, with a jury, judge, sheriff mid other court otliceis, will probe the matter. The senior classes are taking the charges in a serious matter and in order this trial they seem to be taking a step that is prompted by anything but folly. HORSEBACK RIDING AND CYCLING FOR WILSON ON OUTING PRINCETON, N. J., Nov. 14.—Bicy cling and horseback riding will be th«* chief recreations of President-eject Woodrow Wilson upon his vacation, which begins Saturday. The president elect has a bicycle here, but he will not take it to Bermuda with him. He said lie would get a new wheel when he reached his destination. The newspaper correspondents who will accompany the governor have gone into training, for they, too, will adopt cycling and horseback riding Several of them already are suffering from sad dle boils and are working on a new fashioned saddle, containing a layer of pillows upon the seat. O’BRIEN, SECRETARY OF GIANTS, RESIGNS; M’CUTCHEON NAMED NEW YORK, Nov. 14.—J. W. Mc- Cutcheon, a director of the New York National league baseball club, was to day named secretary, replacing Joseph D. O’Brien, of Milwaukee, former head of the American association. The an nouncement was made following a meeting of the board of directors. The board also appointed Mr. Mempstead, son-in-law of John T. Bush, as vice president of the Giants' club The name of a successor for O’Brien cam - as a surprise in baseball circles. It was said, however, that tile strain of steering a championship club like tile Giants thiough a hard season, and es pecially a championship series had proved too great for him. He Is now in the West. LARZ ANDERSON MADE AMBASSADOR TO JAPAN WASHINGTON, Nov. 14. Larz An derson. United States minister to Bel gium, was today appointed ambassador to Japan to succeed Charles P. Bryan. HUNT WIN JS OM OF HANCEE IS PROBED: POISONJHEORYISHELD Miss Minnie Marchman Dies in Ashburn in Convulsions—Coroner Has War rant Sworn Out for Tan Cleghorn, Her Friend, Who Has Vanished. ASHBURN, GA.. Nov. 14.—The body of Miss Minnie March man, a beautiful young tfirl, lies unburied while Atlanta experts are waiting to examine the contents of her stomach. A warrant has been issued against Tan (’leghorn, a young farmer, charging him with hav ing caused the death of Minnie Marchman, and officers are search ing for him. <'leghorn has been missing for four days. Preparations had been made for the burial of the young woman, who lived with her widowed mother six miles from Ashburn, when the family physician and friends of the family became suspicious and or dered the funeral stopped. It is reported here that (’leghorn and Miss Marchinan were sweethearts, and visited Ashburn together some days ago. While there, it is said, (’leghorn purchased fruit and candies which he gave to Miss Marchman, and after eating these she was attacked with convulsions and died in agony. At the coroner's inquest today the mother of the dead girl tes tified that she died after eight convulsions, foaming at the mouth and with every indication that she had been poisoned. The mother had not seen her -laughter take any medicine, and there was no trace of poison in the house. Girl Dies Four Days After Man Vanishes. Friends of the dead girl say Cleg horne l*ncl promised to marry her and their visit to Ashburn was ostensibly with the purpose of securing a mar riage license, hut Cleghorne made some excuse and the pair agreed to postpone the wedding for a few days. The girl went back to her home In the country and Cleghorne disappeared. It was four days after his disappearance that Min nie Marchman died. ' Doctors Dixon and Thompson, of the village of Rebecca, were called to the Inquest. They removed the stomach from the body of Miss Marchman and forwarded it to the state chemist at Atlanta for a close examination. It ts expected that the analysis will reveal just what poison, if any, killed the girl. Friends Looked For Their Marriage. The little town of Ashburn, county! seat of Turner county, is stirred as It | was never stirred before. Minnie! Marchman wds known as one of the prettiest girls of the lumber country anfi "ne of the most popular. She and young Cleghorne had beefl “going together,” as young folk say. for many months, and their marriage was looked upon as a certainty. But for some time Miss Marchman had b» et: avoiding her friends and living almost as a recluse, seeing only Cleghorne. Stomach Examined For Poison Here, Miss Marchman's stomach was re ceived in Atlanta Monday afternoon by Dr. John Funke, director of the Carne gie laboratory of pathology and bac teriology, a department of the Atlanta College of Physicians and Surgeons on North Butler stieet, from Dr. J. W. Dickson of Rebecca, near Ashburn, Ga. Dr. Funke has handled many poison cases, having up to two years ago been in the pathological department of Jes- Dr. Funke started examining the ferson Medical colßge. Philadelphia, stomach Tuesday morning. The ex amination had not proceeded far enogh, he said, to give out anything definite to show poison had been used, made," declared Dr. Funke. “The first "There are two examinations to be and the second is ‘microscopic, of the la chemical, of the gastric secretions, membranes tn the lining of the stom ach Hydrochloric, nitric sulphuric and other acids are used tn analyzing the gastric juices, and a high-powered microscope in determining whether the membranes have been affected by poi son. Makes Two Tests to Determine Death Cause. "I have started botli examinations, that of the juices first, and while that is on I have started the other, so that the analysis of the case Is progressive. About three or four days are required to tell anything definitely. Owing to the fact that my present conclusions might be erroneous, I won’t say what progress has been made thus far. “In cases of sudden death the man- EXIRA 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE p^ R N e ° ner of dying tells much to those who are interested in the examination. It might be a case of death from brain or heart or ftmg or stomach trouble and in performing an autopsy the phy sician would want to know how the person acted before dying.” Dr. Funk was Interested to learn that the dispatches from Ashburn stated that Miss .Marchman died after two hours of suffering. Then he con tinued : an autopsy, the thing to do in poison "If nothing definite is determined by cases is to tie up the stomach at both ends so that the juices will remain Intact, and have examination made un der chemicals and microscope. Strych nine can be taken into the stomach and absorbed either in the stomach walls or the walls of the intestines and leave no apparent sign behind. Only expert examination brings out be yond question the cause of death.” MADDOX SEABOARD DIRECTOR: HARAHAN TO SUCCEED HIMSELF PETERSBURG, VA„ Nov. 14.—The stockholders of the Seaboard Air Line met here at noon today in annual ses sion and elected the directors 4 of the road for the coming fiscal year. The directors will meet Tuesday, Novem ber 26, in Baltimore for organization and election of officers. It is conceded that W. J. Harahan, of Norfolk, will succeed himself as president. The di rectors named today are: Milton B. Alles, of Washington. Jas. A. Blair, New York; Franklin O. Brown. New York; Charles R. Capps, Norfolk; James C. Colgate, New York; Samuel L. Fuller, New York; W. J. Harahan, Norfolk; Wilson S. Kinear, New York; Lili B. Lane, Savannah: Maddox, Atlanta; N. S. Meldrum, New L. F. Loree, New York; Robert F. York; J. William Middendorf, Balti more; Norman B. Ream, Chicago; Fet. gus Reid, Norfolk; W. T. Rosen, Nev. York; Charles H. Sabin. New York; Townsend Scott, Baltimore; Benjamin Strong. Jr., New York; A. P. Talia ferro. Jacksonville; Frank A. Vander lip, New York; S. Davies Warfield, Baltimore; George W. Watts, Durham, N. (*.; A. H. Wiggin, New York; A. H. Woodyvard, Birmingham; B. F. Yoa kum, New York. M’MANIGAL DECLARES M’NAMARA PRAISED TIMES DYNAMITERS INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 14.—Ortie MeManlgal, testifying this afternoon at the dynamite trial, told the jurors that when he took J. J. McNamara a copy of a newspaper telling of the Los An geles Times explosion and pointed out that many people had been killed, J. J. said: "Yes, that's pretty bad, but I sent J. B. out there to give those Los An geles people a good cleaning up, and i guess he has gone and got in with those state federation of labor people and they have sent him down after those printers. I guess that will teach them a thing or two out there.” NEGRO SLAYER LYNCHED BY MOB AT OCALA, FLA. JACKSONVILLE, FLA,, Nov. 14. French Neils, a negro, who killed an aged white man and his daughter at Mclntosh. Fla., was lynched by a mob in the Ocala, Fla., jail this afternoon