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

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    GIRL’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.
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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-
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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