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Country Perils to Girls Greater Than City’s, Says Evelyn Wren, Pointing Moral of Poison Mystery
HER FATE IS A FLAMING WARNING, SAYS VICTIM’S PASTOR
I CHIEF EAGER FOfl
SUB-STATIONS
FDR POLICE
leavers. Head of Police, De
clares Idea Can Be Put Into
Effect With Little Cost.
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Atlanta ran establish two or three
police sub-station:- in sections where
they are most needed practically with
out cost to the city, according to Chief
!J. L. Beavers, who agrees heartily with
The Georgian’s recent editorial point-
H ing out the urgent need of sub
stations. He showed today Just where
these could be located, how much they
would do to relieve the present situa
tion and how trifling would be the ex
pense.
"All we would need for a sub-station
would be a small brick building, say 20
by 30 feet, with a desk for the sergeant,
a place for a call officer to sit, a tele
phone and two or three steel cells, and
we have the cells ready now." said the
chief. "Three such stations would help
enormously tn covering Atlanta with
our present force.
Fire Stations Suggested.
"The suggestion that the city tire
houses might be used as sub-stations
is very good from our standpoint, but
| • the noise of an all-night station might
interfere with the firemen who must
sleep in their engine houses,” he con
tinued. “But there are several engine
| houses which do not covet all the land
where they are situated, and It would
■ cost but a trifle to erect small separate
buildings for the police stations. This
is true of the Seventh ward station at
Whitehall and Oak streets, where there
is a large lot. This would make a fine
site for a sub-station. It is als . true of
the engine house at DeKalb ami More
land avenues, another section where a
sub-station could be established.
"But even if these places are not
available, the city might rent small
brick buildings, vacant stores or other
structures, and fit them up as police
stations. We have a number of steel
cells left from the old exposition station
which can be used again.
"All such a sub-station needs would
be a sergeant in charge, one call officer
in the day and two at night, it would
be an Improvement, even if all these
men were taken from our regular force,
without additional expense. The pay
I. of a sergeant is only $lO a month more
than a patrolman’s.
Could Walk Prisoners.
"AU tiie patrolmen detailed to that
portion of the city would report on and
off at th'- sub-station and come to
headquarters only when they had cases
to try or for other business. Prisoners
could be held at the sub-stations over
night or until the patrol auto could call
for them and transfer them to head
quarters. The sub-stations would save
many miles of patrol wagon driving, foi
usually a policeman could 'walk' pris
oners to a nearby station without cull-
I ing the patrol.
"A prisoner arrested for some trivial
matter or under circumstances not
warranting arrest would bo assured
more fair treatment at a sub-station
than at the central station undet pres
ent congested conditions. As it is now
there is such a rush nt the window that
the officer in charge can not take the
proper time to investigate a case or to
question a prisoner closely, and it often
happens that a man is locked up when
B. he would have been released had a suf
ficient time been taken to investigate
his ease. This can not be helped with
only one station.
Many Locations Feasible.
"The best locations for such stations
would be:
"One at North avenue and Marietta
street. This would take care of all the
Fifth ward, out to the mill district, a
| large part of the Eighth ward and the
r territory clear out to Piedmont park.
"One at a point near Peters and
Whitehall str. , t. which would cover the
territory from Peters street clear out
to Oakland City, Pittsburg. Battle Hill
and over into < part of the Second
ward.
“One nvai the Georgia railroad, say
opposite the Fulton Bag and Cotton
mills, which would .over the big terri
k tory in the Ninth ward, the Inman Park
section and all that side of the city.
"With thorn thie.- stations we could
improve the st rvic, greatly w ithout ad
ditional cost to the taxpayers. Os
e, course, wt need mort men We have
always needed mon men. but I think
r we can get on with but comparatively
few more."
Figures furnished by tin police dt ■
partinent show how difficult it is tor
the force to cove the city efficiently
under the present system
Few Men Are Active.
Atlanta has an estimated population
of 175,000 persons —the new directory
even makes it 225,000. It hits an area
of 27 square miles to be covered, and
its policemen must patrol 410 miles, an
average of one officer to each two miles,
as there are only 200 on active patrol
1 duty. The total number of arrests runs
from 15,000 to 20,000 a year
The Atlanta police force looks large
from a glance at the pay roll, with Its
300 names, but there are 102 of these
who are not on activr stteet duty, (if
the 200 patrolmen, only one-third are
on duty at once.
Here are the men on the police roll
Lwho are not acitv fly engaged in patrol
Work, though they are all necessary
parts of the system:
t....|, as.-i.-tant chief, tn r< <• ■. apt.itr.
The Heart- Breaking
Story of Pretty Min
nie Marchman’s Love
and the Lesson in Her
Final Spurning of Her
Sweetheart as She Lay
I)ying--Pity Only For
Her Loyal Mother.
Continued From Page One.
reward." without the thought that per
haps the price she has paid, terrible
as it is, may serve a purpose like that
which has come down through the ages
from Mount Calvary.
The Belle of Amboy was probably
just an ordinary country lass, endowed,
it is likely, with more attractiveness
than brains, with the same thoughts,
the sarffe impulses, the same passions
of the rest of the maids of her type.
Her temptations were probably no more
alluring than those thab beset the com
mon run of rural maid and the mis
ery that followed was Just the misery
that is suffered by hundreds of poor,
weak women each year.
But there was a difference. Death
came and called attention to her case.
The scores of others similarly betrayed
have to live through a thousand deaths.
Death is a wonderful thing. It is as
wonderful as it is unknown. It has
powers unpossessed by any human en
ergy in its silent entity. Not until the
very shadow of the electric chair cast
its awful reflection in the cell of the
doomed Henry Clay Beattie did he re
volt against going to the grave with the
lie, protesting his innocence, on his lips.
Not until all hope had glimmered away
did the murderous preacher. Richeson,
once more see his God and confess his
crime.
And not until the fingers of the Grim
Reaper had preseed In clammy contact
around her heart did this little Georgia
girl find courage to denounce the man
who had ruined her, and by so doing
renounce his love.
City and Country Perils.
It was an old, old story, except for
the tragic denouement of the suspicion
of poison. Tile poisoning has little or
nothing to do with it. save that if its
trace is found It may allow the law to
avenge the girl and punish the man
whose crime Is already black.
She had loved him. She loved him
probably until the very moment when
she at last realized that earthly hope
was gone and she would have to an
swer to a Creator, Who, she had been
taught before she had known of mortal
love, was all love, all forgiving.
It's rather a shock to some that this
condition came to pass in the country,
it s hardly m keeping with the words
of moralists, who have for years
dwelled on the iniquities of the city as
against the snow-white purity of the
rural districts.
But to my mind I think our city girls
are far more safe from a fate like that
which the Amboy Belle met than her
sister of the country. In the first place,
as carefully as we can guard our girls
ol the city, they know more of the dan
gers that lurk for a maiden with pretty
face and attractive form than the ru
ral lass. She Is less likely to pay se
rious attentions to the blandishments
of men She is far better able to pro
test hersfflf.
And. then, her life where there are
varied amusements will naturally pre
vent tier from centering her entire be
ing on tills one man. A city girl can
love Just as Well, but is likely to love
mor. wisely than tin- sweetheart of tile
meadow s.
How this little Amboy Belle's being
must have been devoted to Cleghorn!
She was not without suitors. There
are always plenty of them In the coun
try for a pretty miss. There are rare
ly enough pretty girls to go around in
rural communities. But still she put
them all out of her life for tills man,
listened to his promise of marriage,
believed in him still even though he had
once disappointed her when she sup
posed the ceremony would take place.
She continued to believe in him un
til death beckoned.
But there is still a sweetness in the
story, and as long as heart beats in
response to heart, there will be tears
shed for the mother, taking in her arms
the dying girl, whispering to her those
words of comfort, forgiveness and love
that probably lighted her way into a
better World. Who knows?
CITY YOUTHS' PHYSIQUE
BEATS COUNTRY BOYS'
COLUMBIA, MO., Nov 16.—Men
from farms attending the University of
Missouri are inferior physically to the
students’from cities, according to O. F.
Field, instructor in athletics, who has
ppened a class especially planned for
tiie physical development of farmer
lads.
Field liases his conclusion on exami
nations made in tiie gymnasium. Stu
d« nts from the farms, he says, are de
veloped unevenly. Tile muscles of
arms and shoulders usually are over
d. veloped, while the grip is weak. The
city man who has had some physical
training usually lias a much better
physique.
three station sergeants, three turnkeys,
twenty-two deta. tiv.s, eight call men,
one custodian, eight retired men. three
probation officers, one chief of detec
tives, three clerks, one special officer in
chief's office, thirty supernumeraries
never on duty except to replace regular
men, ten wagon men. one humane of
ficer. four hostlers and Janitors. <>f
the active force eighteen are mounted
officer.', six are field sergeants and six I
are roundsmen. '
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1912.
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Copyright, 1912, International News Service.
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ORiS TO CLOSE
The end of the arbitration hearing
seeking to have Conductor J. T. Pas
chal and Flagman A. M. Morgan rein
stated in their former positions on th.
Georgia railroad may come today,
though the board will probably an
nounce no decision for a number'of
days to come.
During the session Friday practically
every witness for the road was intro
duced and a number of those called
upon by Superintendent Brand were
used by Vice President Murdock to
prove his point that every conductor
and engineer on t]ie Georgia road vio
lated the speed laws constantly and
with tile knowledge of the road offi
cials
Time after time Superintendent
Brand would call upon conductors and
engineers who would testify they had
never been given authority to exceed
the speed law. Then Murdock would
prove by the same witnesses that trains
upon which officials were riding had
exceeded the speed limit by many miles
per hour and had also broken the six
teen-hour law at various times.
The ambiguity of a rule pertaining to
tiie sixteen-hour law issued by Super
intendent Brand caused much discus
sion throughout the day, and if Paschal
wins his case it will be because of the
wording of th’s order for men caught
by the expiration of their sixteen hours
of work. This point was stressed many
times by Murdock during the day, and
especlaly during the afternoon when
many employees were irttroduced as
witnesses.
A number of engineers and conduc
tors testified that they could make the
run between Conyers and Lithonia in
twelve minutes, while others swore
that it was impossible to do so with a
train as large as that which was under
Paschal's charge when he made the
violation.
Train sheets for the six months pre
ceding tl;e discharge of Paschal will be
SUIT OVER NOSE WON
BY FATHER AND SON
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 16.—The suit of
Dr, J. T Pinkstaff, beauty specialist,
against Christian Brinkop. Jr., and his
father, who is president of the board
> of assessors, for tiie price of an opera
tion lie performed in removing the
"Biinkop hump" from the younger
: Brinkop's nosg. was decided in favor of
tiie Brinkops by Justice Walker.
The justice held the operation, per
formed for a minor, was un unneces
sary one.
MAN FALLS 16 STORIES
BLAZING LIKE A METEOR
PHILADELPHIA. PA.. Nov. 16
Witli his clothing ablaze from the
flames of a small charcoal furnace he
1 was carrying. Harry Leonard, an ap
prentice coppersmith, fell sixteen sto
ries through an airshaft to his death,
from tiie dome of tiie Bellevue-Strat
ford hotel. He struck against a win
dow on the ninth floor and fell on the
skylight of tiie stenographer's room,
creating a panic among the girls who
were in tiie room.
WOMAN STABS BANDIT
WITH A SHARP HATPIN
CHICAGO. Nov 16 —Mrs. E. B. Bro-|
man, 3729 Seminary avenue, attacked a i
robber with her hatpin when he stop- I
ped her at Graceland and Kenmore
avenues, and. although robbed of het
purse, site stabbed him several times
in the face. Tiie police suspect the
robber is tile same who Irtis held up
several women in that district recently.
Introduced today. Murdock hopes to
prove by tills that other employees had
constantly violated rules and had not
been discharged. He contends, how- i
ever, that Paschal is not guilty of an
infraction of the rules and should not
have been discharged.
If no more witnesses are introduced
and the road announced yesterday aft
ernoon that their quota was finished,
the hearing will come to an end this
afternoon The decision will be made
later
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ENTERTAIN FLEET
CHARLESTON, S. C„ Nov. 16.—This
city is ready to entertain thirteen bat
tleships. containing 10,000 men and 500
officers, for a week, beginning Sunday,
and to entertain 50,000 visitors to a big
fair and fashion show, with seven days
of festivity, costing many thousands of
dollars. The week's program follows:
Sunday. November 17—Arrival of
fleet, commanded by Admiral Oster
haus.
Monday—Opening of Charleston
County fair, official exchange of cour
tesies to and by fleet officers, reception
and smoker to officers, two football
games and a vaudeville show for sail
ors.
Tuesday—Agricultural day at fair,
oyster roast for 3,000 sailors and two
football games and two smokers for of
ficers.
Wednesday—Premium day at fair,
field and track meets by 200 sailors,
opening of fashion show by 200 stores,
and ball for officers at navy yard.
i Thursday—Governors day at fair,
| parade of 12,000 men of army, navy and
i militia; two football games, banquet at
| S2O per plate to Admiral Osterhaus,
smoker to warrant officers, smoker to
officers and vaudeville for sailors.
Friday—Children's day at fair, two
football games, aquatic sports and cut
ter races by fifteen crews of sailors and
local oarsmen for cups.
Saturday—Closing of fair and depar
ture of fleet.
t’harleston officially has spent $lB,-
000 for entertainment features for the
fleet. Citizens have spent $50,000 on
I the fair, fashion show and decorations
Excursion rates from four states will
be in effect.
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Plucky Tech Team Will Enter
the Fray Outweighed, But
Full of Fighting Spirit.
Georgians they faced the guns gallant
ly. Early in the forenoon they started
from the campus in a body. Cow. bells
rang, horns were blown, the yells
cracked out, the songs had spirit and
the band tooted away.
But that was all.. It was difficult to
find even the most loyal underclass
man who would predict victory.
For before them loomed the bugaboo
of McWhorter. Bob McWhorter, the
man who had twice in as many' years
by his single strength robbed them of
victory, hung over the Tech campus a
grim and ghastly nightmare.
But Then Looms
Up Bob McWhorter,
With McWhorter out of the way, the
Jackets believe they would have an
even chance with their rivals, despite
the tremendous advantage possessed by
Georgia in weight and driving power.
But it has been reasoned that no
Southern team, with the exception of
the wonderful Vanderbilt machine, has
been able to hold McWhorter. His tre
mendous running strength, his elusive
dodging prowess, his indomitable cour
age, his practical imperviousness to
hurt have made a combination that has
remained unsolved for two years. He
wili be the center of the fight today. On
him Georgia depends. It is he that
Tech fears.
Spectacular football was assured ear
ly today. The fates could not have
been fairer in furnishing the weather.
Ideal football conditions prevailed. The
sun was shining a regular holiday face.
The weather was crisp, but not too cold,
while the wind was not of a nature to
give either side any' tremendous ad
vantage in the punting duels.
Atlanta, too, had taken on a holiday
garb. Practically every show window
sported the colors of the two colleges.
Long before the streets were crowded
with gay equippages and the sun had
not reached its meridian before the pil
grimage to Ponce DeLeon began. Bet
ting was light, with Georgia a 5-4 fa
vorite, with few takers,
WOMAN TRIES TO DIE
BY CAR_AND STRING
CHICAGO, Nov. 16.—Arrested for
trying to kill herself. Mrs. Phenie Win
chester attempted to hang herself by
a shoe lace in the Fiftieth street po
lice station early. At West Fifty-third
street and Wentworth avenue she leap
ed in front of a car. Arthur Krug
dragged her off tiie track. She became
hysterical and was arrested. Mrs. Win
chester was despondent over the death
of her husband.
PLAYER SWAPS “PANTS”
FOR SOME POKER CHIPS
DETROIT. MICH.. Nov. 16—William
Verne appeared in police court attired
in a dress coat and some underwear
he had bet the trousers in a poker
game and lost.
He begged the loan of the trousers
to go home in. but the “bank” took no
risks and declined. So William started
in his dress coat and underwear. That's
how the policeman happened to grab
him.
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“She Had a Big, Affec
tionate Heart,” Says
Rev.B.F.Rainey, “and
Her Fate Should Be
a Lesson to Other
Minnie Marchmans.”
Urges Every Girl to
Really Know the Man
She Loves.
ASHBURN, GA., Nov. 16.—" The trag
ic fate of this poor, confiding girl should
point a flaming warning to all young
girls and cause them to think seriously
before putting their trust in men of
whose real character they know noth
ing.”
This lesson from the mysterious deal
of Miss Minnie Marchman, the seven
teen-year-old belle of Amboy district,
is drawn by Rev. B. F. Rainey, the dead
girl’s pastor. Mr. Rainey Is head of the
flock at Pleasant Hill Baptist, a pic
turesque little country church, where
Miss Marchman was a regular attend
ant.
The girl is said to have possessed a
modest, lovable disposition and was
held In the highest esteem by her pas
tor, to whom .she also was much at
tached. In speaking of her death, the
minister manifested much emotion.
An Affectionate Heart.
"Minnie was a good girl, with a big.
affectionate heart, and her untimely
end comes as a great shock to this
whole community," said Mr. Rainev.
"Os course, we don’t know yet that she
was poisoned, but the circumstances of
her death are such as to act as a terri
ble warning to other unsuspecting gir.s
who may be in peril. She loved and
hoped to become a good wife. But her
confidence in man—in the man she
loved and fairly worshiped—was too
strong.
“This is the history of many such
girls. They trust too much. If the
girls of today would only hesitate a
moment and profit by the sad expe
rience of some other unfortunate sister
there wouldn’t be so much suffering
among womankind.
They Must Be Sure.
"There are other Minnie Marchmans
—girls pure and sweet —who love with
all of the force of their affectionate be
ings, and now is the time for them to
guard their footsteps—before it is too
late. Now is the time to ascertain
whether the man on whom they are
bestowing their wealth of love is
worthy of so great a fortune.
“They should inquire into their own
consciences and listen to its dictates.
They should be sure they are dealing
with men—real men.
"The saddest feature to me of this
whole tragedy is the fact that this
sweet girl was taken advantage of in
such an awful way. it is a heart
breaking blow to her parents in partic
ular and to her friends. She was agb
much admired, and was a girl who va
always loyal to her friends.
“We can but hope that this violent
ending of this young life may serve to
hold the footsteps of some other tender
maiden in the right path.”
“COCAINE KING” DIES
IN POLICE COURT CELL
ST. LOUIS, MO., Nov. 16.—Robe!
Greer, aged 46, known to the police as
the “King of Cocaine Bottoms.” diel
suddenly in his cell in the Clark ave
nue police court while awaiting trial on
the charge of selling cocaine.
Greer, with eight other men suspect
ed by the police of peddling cocaine
along the levee front, was arrested. The
trial of the men was called and when
the bailiff went to bring the prisoners
into the courtroom he found Greer dead
and George Lebaine, Paul Gabriel and
Clayton Pickard in a dazed condition
The three sick men were removed t.
the city hospital.
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Tonight 8:15.
Saturday Matinee and Night
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Introducing for the First Time
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