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Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia:
Fair today and tomorrow.
VOL. XL NO. 90.
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Roy B. Clark Shot by War
Veteran at Midnight When
Asks to See “Wife.”
j; c'lr.ik aged 22, of 139 lx>gan
~( i, . shot dean just after mid
.l. S. Copeland, an aged vet-|
onducts u cheap lodging!
... 191 Whitehall street. Clark
i< i (•. gai;; ent•••ance to the house
•o. i ~i know 'i theie tis .Mrs. B.
.. ii ■ | that shi ■•■. as his
ni'ilhi;'. to Cop- iand. v. uo called
ind :a ve 111: :self up. Clark’s
... s. , in- a ; s not married. Mrs.
i r ; l .i.i’ue women in
, . i.-, .a .'lot tt;.' Webb, was
■ in t 1 .louse '.'la n Cl? k called, and
. • turned touay. Police are
s tor her. Copeland was held
rg< of murder.
- b‘ ey was not iueiitified until
.■■ley. v. n- .1 officers calling at the
of the Greenberg-Bond Com
•gitized ii as that of Boy Clark,
.. p .spur street drug clerk. He
■ ...a o> ur. and Mrs. Thomas
J. t ; o.i leaves several sisters and
besides his pa ants. They
>. replug and hysterical from the
i... when a 1 eporter called today.
Youth Unmarried, *
Says His Sister.
K‘>y w; s not married to that -woman,
.. anybody else,” said one of hl» sls
"1 never heard of her before."
i. A. Kinnebrew. housekeeper
t b-oging house. ’.'■.•is taken into
<- '■■ ■ with Copeland and held as a
witness.
' "? bm.i called up the police station]
.’-.st inter the shouting and asked that
rtker- be sent out.
"I eave just shot a man, and I be-
-■ he is dying. ’’ he said. When Offl
\V"o<i responded, the boy was dy
ing. bls head lying at the edge of the
v-randa, close by the Whitehall street
aidi-walk. Be lived only a moment or
t" and never regained consciousness.
Copeland Tells
Os the Killing.
I 'opeland told his story calmly.
"I wa.- awakened by a knock at the
he said. “When 1 answered, a
'?■ ■ "utside said, 'I want to see Mrs.
k. on.’ 1 refused to admit the man.
then he said Mrs. Jackson was his
and it was absolutely necessary
t lie see bet. I then told him if this
'he case, we had better get a po
e"man and see about the relationship
between them.
“The young man then grew angry,
■■'ii'l threatened to give me a beating if I
wviilil come out on the porch. 1 got my
' and went out, and he attacked
1 didn't intend to shoot him. I
icii't -ven have my finger on the trig-
1 tried to punch him with the
r. el, and the pistol went off and shot
the I -ad. I’d do it again if a
tie intruding in my house.
1 non't know of any such woman as
v Jackson at all. That’s all I know
J "ii the matter.”
‘■l ' and is 65 years old. and a Civil
! veteran.
' o'dlng to other women in the
Mrs. Jackson paid for a room on
ond floor, and came there to
'is her clothing, and sometimes
there, but frequently spent the
“ > r-lsewhere. They were not cer-
1 as to the woman’s veal name.
dead boy's clothing was found
'"ipt from a clothing < stablishment,
ting that he had paid $3 on ac
fi r n Mrs. Jackson.
■M inquest wit! be held later in the
WEALTHY BACHELOR,
WORRYING OVER ILL
HEALTH, KILLS SELF
!,il AGO, Nov. 16.—Found dead with
'H“t in hfs rltfht temple, a coroner’s
Was to decide today how Myron W.
' n . bachelor, wealthy in his own
and heir to still greater riches,
his death in the family home on
" Shore drive.
Amanda Farlin, mother ot the dead
was sitting in a room below when
"on died. She did not hear the shot
'.id not know of the tragedy until
■ a ’ hours later. Farlin had been
n valid for several years, and the
■ declare he committed suicide while
dig over his illnera.
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For ResuHs.
M'NHUGHTON
Ml SETS
RESPITE
Governor Stays Execution of-
Emanuel County Physician
Until Last of February.
Determined that Dr. W. J. McNaugn- j
I ton shall not hang until Mrs. i'-.-t '
i Inlanders. accused as ills accomplice in '
the poisoning of Tier husband three
years ago. is tried, Gover Brown
today stayed the execution of the
Emm i. county plr sii ian until the I
I last day of February.
Failure of the snpeti> court of I
I Elmciu?- to ■:. A!; -, '’l-ir. le:? at tile j
| last term, despite th. governor's re I
| peated declaration that he would not I
i permit Al<’N;<v.g’jton io u<> o tiiv ga
.lows until tin whole* truth in tnls Geor-
-. an
Pom-nek lias hail Few
superiors in the South
in his time. lie is a
powerful man physi
eally ami uses his head
as well as his strength.
gia inystevj- Is known made the o r
tor respite necessary.
Say Trial Will
Clear McNaughton.
Erlends of tin physician hate con
stantly declared that the trial of Al.?.
Flanders will mean no. on > vat '!•
Naughton will es-.c,.. tl gallow
that his nam. will be entirely cleared. I
It is said that the governor had ii:
formation that Judge Rr. ? ihigs. o’ : r.
Emanuel court, would force the trial of
the woman at tli • next stttine in
Swainsboro, which is scheduled duiina .
the January term.
I In the meantime McNaughton re
mains in the Chatham county jail. I
where he has been witli the excepti> n ;
of the time of his tri:.’, duee the da.'
when he was apprehend d a fugit'.v I
when the body of his farmer friend Irei I
been exhumed and traces of poisov hud.
been found In his stomach by experts.
Maintains Innocence
Os Mrs. Flanders.
The physician has maintained con
stantly, in face of the adverse deci- I
sions of the Georgia supreme court ami '
tile supreme court of the United States, 1
that he would never hang. He lias just i
as firmly maintained the innocence of ■
the woman, for whose love he is cbarg- '
ed with having'poisoned her husband. I
while they were both guests in her
home.
Influence of the Flanders family in
tile politics of Emanuel county is said
to have kept Mrs. Flanders from trial I
up to this time, but it is believed that l
with both governor and presiding judg?
demanding immediate trial that the fa
mous case will be brought to an erm ■
wljen Judge Rawlings next holds court
in Swainsboro.
CAR REPAIRER HURT
AS CABOOSE IS HIT
IN GEORGIA YARDS
Caught between a caboose platform
and the box car- end when a freight
train collided with a string of empty
cars in tiie yards of the Geo-gia rail
road near Grant street at 1 o’clock this
morning. James Head, a car repairer,
was severely injured, sustaining a com
pound fracture of the right leg and
numerous cuts and bruises.
Unaware that a switcli engine had
transferred a string of empties to a
siding, the conductor of a freight back
ed the train into the track. The ca
boose upon which Head was riding w is
reduced to splinters, but the next ear,
a stock coach, loaded with horses, w?s
not damaged.
The Injured man was removed to the
Baptist Tabernacle infirmary, where it
was announced today that his injuries
were severe.
EX-GOVERNOR TERRELL
SLOWLY NEARING DEATH
Former Governor and United Stales
Senator Joseph M. Terrel) was report
ed to be slowly nearing death at his
home this morning.
His brother, Dr. Terrell, who is in
charge of the case, said the distin
guished Georgian’s condition w.-<- not
decidedly changed, but that h" ■ -
probably slightly weaker. Inath. ■
said, might come at any moment.
ATLANTA. GA.. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1912.
Atlanta Surrenders to Hosts From Georgia and Tech
ALL SET FOR CLASSIC FRAY
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fe ’klvß' Captain Pea
cock has played
three years
WRIT against Tech,
l|j|g£| and has played
• ' a prora i n e n t
lIKw part in two vic-
ilpfc
tories against
■EmT'- the Jackets.
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GA. RAILWAY BID
FAVORED DESPITE
TURNER’S PROTEST
Bespit- r—ummi nd.-ition of City
Electrician It. U. Turner that the bid of
th' Georgia Railwai and Power Com
pany for tin- citi’s siri i i lighting Is too
high, th- electric lights committe- of
council hn- ri compT.-nded its accept
ance.
At tiie meeting yesterday afternoon
Counciliitpt) t’laudi- U. Mason intitnateil
that lie would light the contract on the
grounds that the suspended are lights
in the White Was- district should be
cut out until I.’ o’clock at night. These
lights cost SSO each per y-ar.
The bld is for;; five-year contract.
HOTEL MEN OF GEORGIA
TO ATTEND CONVENTION
NEW ORLEANS, LA-, Nov. 16.
Probably 50 hotel men from Georgia,
principally Atlanta, will come to New
Orhans next Saturday for a two days
meeting with several hundred hotel
owners and tn.ma gers to attend the
convention of th<- Southern Hotel Ab n's
association.
Arkan- is. A!issi---ippi, Alabama,
G-orgip, I'ioii la. Louisiana and Texas
will b.- r< vi-' -i-nt< ■'. Btimillets and trips
to sugar plantations, oyster beds, or-
• a<- proves, ~tc., i ■■ imi't of tli.- pro
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Il HERE’S THE LINE-UP J
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• Georgia. Tech. • I
i • Conklin, leHutton, le. •
• Henderson, ItLeuherman, It. •
I • Lucas, IgMontague. Ig. •
I • Covington, cLoeb, c. •
| • Peacock, ngMeans, rg. •
• Malone, rtColley, rt. •
• Hitchcock, reMoore, re. e
• Paddock, q . McDonald, q. e
» Powden. IhbCook Ihb. •
» McWhorter, rhb. .. Fielder, rhb. e
• Thompson, fbThomason, fb. •
•eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Peacock will do a
good part of the kiek
iug fol' his team. He
n " «’d this t'ea
‘"re ot fo"tball.
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f 'l’j,,- siriking pho-
■HHEMBHr I loraph shows Cap
tain "Eniji’ - I’ea
tin- Georgia
football team, just
\LAy’ getting off a boom
ing punt. Peacock
> ' ’ s fl of the
Georgia team, and is
one of the best line
men in the South. Tie has
MV been favorably mentioned
for All-Southern guard the
past two seasons, but all the
K vlory he has won in the past
will be as nothing Io him
if he doesn’t lead the Red
and Black to victory over
Tech this afternoon.
TOHKEI REFUSES
ill TERMS;
iH GOES ON
Negotiations Broken Off for
Armistice—Cholera Raging
Around Capital.
LONDON, Nov. 16.—Ail negotiations
. between Turkey and the alkan league
; have been broken off, according to a
| dispatch received from Constantinople
I today by a prominent member of the
diplomatic corps in this eity. It gives
no details, but intimates that Turkey
rejected the conditions set forth by
Bulgaria and her allies as the prelimi
nary to the end of hostilities.
50,000 Fall at
Constantinople
I CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 16. —
There ar< at least 10,000 eases of chol
era in and around Constantinople to
day. The pestilence is scourging the
iirmy and the refugees who continue to
tloek into the cit? from the war-rav
aged -vetion north of the eity.
; Although fears of an anti-Christian
' outlireak have died out considerably
j sine.- tiie Mohammedans failed to re
i
>| spond to tiie exhortations of tiie fanaL
i ie- and priests, the governments have
I taken stepe to protect foreigners by al
, lotting machine guns for use around tiie
! embassies and consulates.
Tht mosques, including historic St.
Sofia, ha'. •; been turned into hospitals
and hotels to;- the refugees. Small
spaces are reserved for religious cere
monies.
In tiie northern suburbs tiie sound of
booming cannon can be heard all day
and night., telling of the fierce battle
| which is going on at the city’s threshold.
50,000 Fall in Battle at Capital.
Fifty thousand Turks and Bulgarians
have been killed or wounded in the
fighting along the Ghatalja lines out
side <>f Constantinople, according to
advices received here today, and the
battle still Is raging.
General Savoff’s Bulgarians are said
to be within twelve miles of tiie eity
proper. The Turks have fallen back to
t) ■ first Hue, leaving redoubts,
i ti-'JK'hes and forts filled with dead and
i wounded.
Both cholera and smallpox bate bro
[ io-n o'.it in th" Bnlu.-.'.-'ai) .-aiiip. it B re
| ported. \
I Great Crowd in Gay Equipages
I Start Early Pilgrimage to
Ponce DeLeon.
By Fuzzy Woodruff.
Georgia's football supremacy tyill be
battled for today on Ponce DeLeon
field.
Tiie teams are ready to trot on the
field; the coaches, resigned in the
knowledge that they have done all that
they know how to do, await the blast
of tiie referee’s wnis- x*
tie tiiat will send line a
agiiins. Im., ma. &
against matt, in thi
annua! struggli.
v ii' h m-ai.s wbi ft- Jv
to twelvemonth the Yellow
•nd White banner of Georgia
School of Technology or: the Red
and Bllick battle flag of the
University of Geotgfa diall wave
ti imnphant.
Five thousand throats, loyal to tiie
Yellow Jacket swarm, silenced in last
year's desperate struggle, are eagerly
ready to rip the high heavens with their
shouts of victory. Five thousand voices
that a year ago < xhausted themselves
as the Georgia line batt' red down the
Tech defense ar- just as rilling to bo
split again in tli- same cause.
All Classes
Ready for Fray.
For it’s more than a football game
that is to be fought this afternoon.
Business men. who could not tell a
football from a pumpkin, are preparing
to hustle to Ponce DeLeon and yelp like
sophomores. Prominent political per
sons for the once are ready to cast
aside the cloth of dignity and shout like
human beings. The faif-est of Georgia,
radiant in the colors of either college,
have for weeks made t.h-mselves r.ailj
to throw all tiie s-jiirlt into the game
that will mark the work of the dlrt
, crus’ted athletes who will struggle on
. the grfrtfron. .~.-
I Every man who had a son, a brother
lor a cousin who ever wore the Yellow
and White or the Red and Black, every
woman who ever had a husband, a
brother or a sweetheart in the battle
front of either college'will have her
heart In the struggle. The thousands
of alumni, the hundreds of students,
will all join to make the scene today
one long to be remembered.
Fifteen Years of
Bitter Rivalry.
Fifteen years of bitter football ri
valry is back of the battle. Seven
times Georgia has reaped the victor's
laurels. Seven times Tech has tri
umphed. Once the teams fought to a
scoreless tie. Today will break the
deadlock.
The coaches each concluded their
work Thursday. Each recognizes that
this one game will tell whether or not
his season shall be written as a suc
cess. At Athens. Coach Cunningham
decided not to bring his men to the
stage of the affraj- until the last possi
ble moment. They were given the light
est sort of signal work Thursday aft
ernoon. while Friday they enjoyed ab
solute rest until moved to Atlanta Fri
day night. This morning the entire
Red and .Black student body, headed
by a band, formed on the Athens cam
pus and took train for Atlanta.
They arrived about 10 o’clock and
marched in an enthusiastic parade
through Whitehall and Peachtree
streets, greeted by a demonstration ac
corded them by alumni and supporters.
As far as physical condition is con-’
cerned, Georgia seemed primed. Tiie
schedule of tile Red and Black had
been wisely arranged. There were no
hard battles immediately preceding tiie
struggle for the state title.
Walkaway Spirit
Is Now Missing.
But If thefi was overconfidence In
their ranks it was not shown. The
wonderful showing the light Tech team
made In fairly outplaying Sewanee,
who came so near defeating Georgia;
tiie crushing defeat of Alabama by the
Yellow Jackets .and Georgia’s subse
quent desperate battle wltii that team,
the stories of the myriad tricks and
passes that Tech lias perfected have all
served to lessen the walkaway spirit
I with which the Athenians viewed the
| Tech game several weeks ago.
Though the Georgia rooters yelled
lustily, th.nigh the band played blatant
ly, though the colors were raised aloft
defiantly, the university crowd showed
plainly that they knew they were in for
a battle—a battle to the death.
The Tech team spent the last two
days quietly and restfully. Th- mem
bers were together practically all of
- their waking hours and listened to lec
ture after lecture by their wizard
' conch. Heisman. As usual, ho had
brought his team to the Georgia game
In practically perfect physical condi
tion.
Little Joy
For Jackets.
The Yellow Jackets supporters, too,
had little joy In the battle. To their
minds, nothing but a mlravb could
bring tin ? -. trlm.-ii.- . But like the
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raCUMN GIRL HELD
UNGER SPELL BI FIANCE,
DECLARESHERSISTER
Relatives of Amboy Belle Search for
Love Letters From Cleghorn, While
Atlanta Chemist Continues to Hunt
for Poison—Body Will Be Exhumed.
ASHBI RN. GA., Nov. 16.—That Tan Cleghorn, missing
fiancee of Miss Minnie Marchman, who lies dead while an At
lanta chemist probes for poison, exerted a powerful hypnotic
like influence over the girl and held her helpless under this spell,
was the declaration made today by Mrs. W. J. Cochran, her
eldest sister.
"I’m sure Cleghorn influenced Minnie to do this to save
himself.” she said significantly. Mrs. Cochran says she tried
hard to break up the affair between her younger sister and the
neighbor planter, but that Minnie was infatuated with Tan and
ignored her plea.
She says the girl seemed determined to marry Cleghorn, and
appeared happy and joyful until she was taken strangely ill fol
lowing her visit to Ashburn with Cleghorn the day of the sup
posed marriage.
Search has been begun by Cochran and authorities to find
any possible love letters that may have passed between the girl
and Cleghorn. These are wanted as important evidence to
throw additional light on a possible motive for poisoning. Mr.
and Mrs. A. I). Marchman, aged father and mother of the dead
girl, say they have been unable to find any love letters, and
that if any were written they were destroyed. ,
Cochran believes that poison was given his sister-in-law,
but that its purpose was not murder. Whether murder was
planned or whether the poison was intended for other purposes.
Cochran today announced his purpose of having the girl’s body
exhumed to find exact truth.
No further move, however, is expected until the nehiilt of the
analysis of the girl’s stomach in Atlanta is known. Should
poison be found, rapid developments are expected.
Sheriff J. A. King, of Turner
county, says he is ready to insti
tute vigorous search for Cleg
horn the moment the analysis
shows anything criminal. A cor
oner's jury recommended that
Cleghorn be held for investiga
tion, and issuance of a formal
warrant by Justice of Peace Pate
will come if a crime is shown.
Mystery in Time of
Youth s Disappearance.
The sheriff is certain Cleghorn can
be arrested. So far, he has not been
sought out of Turner county. If he is
still here, as is believed by some, he is
keeping closely hidden. Statements to
The Georgian by the Marchman and
Cleghorn families as to the time Cleg
horn disappeared are contradictory.
Cochran and his wife declare the plant
er left Ashburn the Monday following
the Thursday he and Miss Marchman
drove here from the country home.
Marion Cleghorn, a brother, asserts
that Tan went away fully a month be
fore the girl became ill. Cochran says
the Ashburn visit was but six days be
fore the girl died in convulsions.
Miss Marchman, in addition to Mrs.
Cochran, has a twin sister, Mrs. W. M.
Conley, in Rhyne, Ga., and also three
brothers. J. B. Marehman, of Amboy
district, L. D. Marchman. of Sylvester,
Ga.. and J. R. Marehman, of Telfair
county.
Dr. Funke Works
Late on Tests
Dr. John Funke, the expert chemist
to whom the girl’s stomach was sent
for examination, continued his analysis
until 1 o’clock this morning and re
newed hl» investigation early today.
He said he was making progress, but
declined to give any statement relative
to what he had found in the stomach.
An examination for poison requires
several days of experiments, and it is
not likely anything positive can be
shown until Monday at the earliest.
Case Shows Perils to
Girls in Country
By’EVELYN WREN.
Minnie Marchman taught a lesson
with her last breath. It wasn’t a pret
ty lesson and Minnie .Marchman prob
ably did not know that in the valley of
the shadow she had been transformed
from a simple little country girl, with
more dimples than mind, to a teacher
of some great and awful truths.
But no one can read those last words,
"I never want to lay my eyes mi Tan
Cleghorn again; lie has wrecked my
lif< am! 1 .runt l.lm to reap Ids- just
Continued on Page Two.
EXTRA
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE
BATTLE HILL'GUE
FOR COUNGILMEN
Sanitarium Committee Wants
Officials to See Needs of the
Institution.
With the investigating committee of
the city council agreed on a report ex
onerating Dr S. W. Merritt, superin
tendent of the Battle Hill tuberculosis
sanitarium, of the charges of misman
agement. Dr. Claude A. Smith, Dr. J.
P. Kennedy and Aiderman F. J. Sprat
ling. the committee in charge of the
institution, planned today to give a
barbecue to the officers of the Anti-
Tuberculosis sanitarium and the mem
bers of the. eity council on the sani
tarium grounds. They have many fine
chickens, I'at hogs and other farm prod
ucts out there and they want all the
officials in the work to be
thoroughly familiar with what is being
done.
With the conclusions of the criticisms'
ot outsiders, the officials in charge have
begun to criticise their own Institution
They say there are many features that
should be improved, and they want all
the members of council ouj at one tiniv
to impress upon them the things that
should be provided Co in next year’s
budget.
The investigating committee wi!
make its eport to the council Monday
It will recommend a closer co-opera
tion between the institution officials
ami the Anti-Tuberculosis association
After that the heads of the institu
tion will announce the date of the bar
becue.
GOVERNOR OF IDAHO
TO RESIGN FOR TOGA
BOISE, IDAHO, Nov. 16.—Governor
James H. Hawley has announced that
lie would resign today to accept the ap
pointment of United States senator to
succeed the late Senator William Hey
burn. Lieutenant Governor Sweetser,
who is a Republican, is said to have
promised Governor Hawley the toga.
Governor Hawley is a Democrat.
OLYMPIC ATHLETE IS
SUICIDE IN TAMPA
TAMPA, FI.,L. Nov. 16.—Lieutenant
I *■' iiann,rfelt, of tin Royal Hussars
of Sweden and a member of tiie last
Swedish Olympic team, committed sui
cide here last night. He was the sou
of Major Iteunnerfvlt, a tm-mber of the
p. Hornil staff of King o.senr. No ctMUie
for the suicide ie known.