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VOL. XI. NO. 94.
SEO COUPLE
WE 11
HILES to
FREESEIN
Mountaineer and Wife Reward
ed When Prison Board Gives
Youthful Robber Parole.
JIM BRUCE NOW CAN EAT !
TURKEY WITH ‘THE FOLKS'
Old Father and Mother Rejoice
as They Start Jauntily for
Distant Home.
Bru, ■ anil his good wife, Sally,
f 69 snd 64, respectively, walked all
in from their home in Pickens
■ ountv, near Ball Ground, to ask Gov-
Brown for a pardon for their
in ino Georgia penitentiary
rubbery, and got ft.
That is. they got a parole-for the
man and that means a par-
(i.in ventually.
< couple made a good ease before
Georgia prison commission, and
Wednesday afternoon that body
..amended the young man to the
5 ,,, for clemency. The eomniis
,i o-.miri there were mitigating cir-
- i nces in connection with the rob
i barged against Jim Bruce. Be
lie old man had been to see the
commission twice before con
. ic the mailer— walking down from
i .mtaiu tai* every time, and
igii.g his rations along with him,
j,> in a flaming bandana .and
icross his broad shoulder at the
; . ~f a short stick.
Brings '‘Old Woman"
To Aid Him in Plea.
\V n the old man came tile last
u . and brought, the ‘‘old woman’’ with
him, the combination was too much for
•:> n.ison commission's already wab
htj.'c -solution, and it capitulated.
Tiie governor, looking into the rec
i < i . fully, as is his custom, know
- about the loyal old father and
i . , onsidering their, long trump
■,;iy up in tile mountains of
' Georgia—a good seventy miles—
that the prison commission was
T i. and that Jim Bruce should be
on his good behavior for a year,
the prospect of . a full pardon
11 Man Bruce and his wife left At-
■ arly this morning for their home
'I- mountains. Jim Bruce will be
■ d from the state farm today, and
join the folks at home —just about
i i -for Thanksgiving dinner.
Every One Is Happy
As Parole Is Drawn.
Everybody connected with the af
■v;is happy over it today—the gov
i - the prison commission, the
' Sr . and the secretary charged
uh preparing the official documents
' the prisoner’s release.
The Bruces. Sr., expect to reach home
" row night. They say they will
hie, by keeping steadily on the
J" ! '. to make 35 miles each day, unless
In “sets in.” in which event it
‘‘dn take until Saturday noon to walk
WOMAN PICKPOCKET
ROBS UNDERSHERIFF
ON A CROWDED CAR
'•min Bob Devers, deputy sheriff,
t hing for a well dressed, comely
m with an assertive air who deftly
his pockets for $8 on a South
' ’-I ' car last night.
■- boarded a crowded car at
' hall and Mitchell streets at 5:30
ami managed to wedge himself
' aisle. Just as he got straight
away a well dressed woman bus
' into the car.
; me get ahead of you,” she de
manded.
'•■vers complied gallantly and even
1 his hat. The woman said that
"as glad he thought that way about
she was going by him or know
reason why. When the deputy
led for his fare he discovered that
"as short about SB.
DYNAMITE maniac plans
TO BUILD ‘PERFECT’ BOMB
"IS ANGELES, Nov. 21. “The next
"b I make will explode. I have
mned a new machine which will be
't. was the defiance hurled at the
'< today by Dynamiter Carl Reidel
i>. alias Warr.
physicians express grave con
ove Reidelbach’s condition, but
alter is confident both of his re
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The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results.
CHINS HESDY
TOSTRIKEAT
HUSSU FOE)
MONGOLIA
Republic Party, Nation’s Lib
erator, Opens Public Cam
paign for War Funds.
I
jSIXTY THOUSAND TROOPS
' ARE ALREADY MOBILIZED
I
Hero of Revolution Appointed'.
Leader of Movement—U. S. :
Chinese Raise Money.
SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 21.- —China-
town is in a ferment over the receipt of
cablegrams that Chung Hwa republic is '
preparing for a war with Russia for the
possession of the province of Mongolia. :
The big secret societies which fostered .
the revoiutlona.ry movement and led
the campaign for funds through their
headquarters here have for the last
week been interchanging cablegrams
with Presidept Yuan Shi Kai and Gov
ernor Wit Hon Man. of Quang Tung
province-, <on -erning the situation in
Mongolia. The climax was reached
last night, when the Young China as
sociation. the society organized by Dr.
Sun Yat Sen, China’s liberator. opened
a public campaign so“ funds to sustain
a war with Russia.
Lecturers were sen' through China
town today bet.ring placards announc
ing “Chinese-Russian war lectures.” At
street corners they explained to the
Chinese the situation, saying that wa;
was Immipept ..md were nc -
essary to aid China.
The situation parallels the action list' 1
September, when the Young China as
sociation publicly opened the campaign
for funds for rhe Chinese revolutionary j
movement.
Dispatches have been received by
Gook Har, secretary to Fung Chi You
secretary of state of Yuan Shi Kai’s
cabinet, to the effect that an :>:iny of
60,000 has been mobilized in Pekin aud
that General Wong Hing, hero of the
revolution, has been appointed it
leader.
Atlanta Chinese
Have War Fund
Lum Joe, head of the Gee Gong tong
of Georgia and one of the inhabitants
of a Chinese boarding house on East
Hunter street, was greatly exercised
this morning over tile report that
China had prepared to engage Russia
in war. Lum long since lost his queue,
by order of ex-President Sun Yat Sen,
but he waved his arms excitedly in
explaining that the local tong would be
hit some $1,600 worth in such a contin
gency, and that he (Lum Joe) would
not be able to get back to China for
many years to see his wife and married
son. The $1,600, said Lum, would go
forth by foreign money order next week,
direct to the coffers of the president of
the young republic. Yuan Shi Kai. Each
Chinaman in the local tong, composed
of 72 members,.had formerly given $4 a
month, but now the dues had risen to
I $lO.
ARGUMENTS ON IN
PROBE OF GEORGIA
RAILROAD STRIKE
Vice President Murdock, of the Orde
of Railway Conductors, began conclud
ing arguments today before the board
: of arbitration of the Georgia, railway
i strike with a denunciation of Super
; intendent Brand, of the road.
' On account of Judge W. L. Cham
bers. the third arbitrator, ar.lvlng in
.Atlanta on a belated train from Wash
ington, the arguments did not begin
until 11:30 o'clock. It was expected
i that Brand would follow Murdock and
would speak until the session closed.
: No verdict was expected before to
morrow.
• In his denunciation of Brand, Mur
: dock declared that if Conductor Pas
chal violated the 16-hour law, it was
done under the instructions of the su
perintendent. He declared that Pas
chal was not discharged because of any
! failure to perform his duties, but be
cause he had been active in endeavor
ing to better the condition of his fel-
> low workmen.
■ Brand, he declared, had forced the
! strike. When he first reached Atlanta
to effect a settlement, he found It Im
possible to put liis case before the
. president of the road, on account of
Brand’s activity, and found the super
intendent alreadv in conference with
strikebreakers'.
ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1912.
Clay, Doomed Slayer,
Speaks for First Time
Since Tragedy, May 12
I Breaks Long Silence by Com
plaining of Cold Coffee, Then
Becomes Mum Again.
Robert L. Clay, condemned wife slay
er and alleged maniac, today, for the
first time, broke the long silence he has
maintained since the tragedy of May 12.
He spoke five words plainly and intel
ligently, then lapsed again into abso
lute silence.
One of the trusties carried Clay’s
■ morning meal to the slayer’s cell. Clay,
I who has always manifested a sub
i stantial appetite, looked over the break
fast and then picked up the cup of cof
fee. Poking his finger Into the coffee, a
momentary expression of disgust cross
ed his features, and he exclaimed:
“This coffee is not hot.”
The startled trusty was so taken by
surprise that he could hardly speak.
“What’s that you say?” he finally
I gasped. ,
But not another word came from the
' doomed slayer.
Ii is thi' remarkable silence that led
Ito the plea by the defense that Clay is
! crazy.
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NATION-WIDE RAID ON
QUACKS EXPECTED TO
STOP MALPRACTICE
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21. Postoffice de- ,
partment officials today expressed the be
lief that the nation-wide raids of yester- |
day on "quack’' medical concerns charged
with misuse of the mails and in connec
tion with which the department has work
ed for two years, will shatter the crimi
nal practices against which cities have
been powerless in the past.
It* was announced that in the two years
' during which postoffice inspectors have
been investigating these individuals and
concerns, more than 1.800 arrests have
been made and 900 convictions secured
and that concerns have been closed up
which, by fraud, obtained from the people
over $100,0000,000.
Warrants were issued in 173 cases and
390 inspectors under the direction of
Chief Inspector Robert S. Sharpe, were
engaed in preparing the evidence which
resulted in the wholesale arrests. With
the raids completed and the Indictments
effective the work of the inspectors is
completed. The results of the crusade
' are still being received in telegrams from
! various division headquarters. The raids
I yesterday w. re the larest single "haul”
, in the history of the postoffice depart
i merit and probably establishes a record
' i for any department of this government.
The postoffice department, prior to its
! activity against medical frauds, received
1 hundreds of letters from women in al!
I parts of the country complaining against
I the freedom allowed persons engaged in
criminal medical practices.
M’NAMARA, ON SPREE.
CELEBRATING BIG JOB,
TOLD ALL TO SLEUTHS
i
l INDIANA POMS. Nov. 21.—As they sat
on a log over the body of a dead porcu
pine in the heart of the Wisconsin woods,
toward evening of December 11, 1910,
J. B. McNamara told Ortle McManlgal
how the eyes of every one he met seemed
to rivet and burn into his brain as he
sped toward Salt Lake after killing 21
human beings in The Times explosion.
“A few’ days after that J. B. went down
to Conover to get the mail. He didn’t
come back, so I went down to Conover
and found nirn in a boarding house sur
rounded by dozens of empty bottles. He
was drunk as a lord.
“J. B. told me he had such good news
5 of everything being quiet on the coast
( that he had to celebrate. That night we
went out to a saloon and met a hunch of
fellows, one of them saying he was an
engineer. J. B got awful drunk and told
. everything he knew.
1 "W> afterwards found out that those
- men we talked to were Burns detectives.
The Burns detectives had us in their
hands right there, six months before Ibex
did arrest us ”
Girls Tell How They Knelt in Prayer in Burning Convent I
PRIEST RISKS LIFE FOR RELICS'
——
Miss Leta Bricken welcomed by her mother, Mrs. W. M. ,
v - V Bricken, on lhe girl's arrival, after the school tire.
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( •■vile. Mc( tirliiy, one of the school girls rescued in the St.
Josephs academy tire, greeting her mother. The pictures are from
flashlight photographs made at the station. Miss McCarthy and
Miss Bricken (in the picture above had to borrow clothes to get
home, all their belongings being burned.
NO CABINET POSITION
OFFER MADE HIM BY
WILSON, SAYS BRYAN
WAYCROSS. GA., Nov. 21.—After
delivering a short address* to the Bunn
Bell acamedy students today, W. J.
Bryan left for Savannph, .chore lie will
speak tonight. H, was given an en
thusiastic welcome in Waycross and
Hundreds froth the country surrounding
wer< litre to meet the distinguished
visitor.
Discussing tin report from Bermuda,
to the effect that lie would become sec
reary of state, .'vfr. Bryan denied that
there were any offers pending, and that
,he had yet to confer with Mr. Wilson
regarding any office or any man for any
office. He said Mr. Wilson had gone to
Bermuda to rest and not to select hi-:
cabinet, and that all reports were mere
guesses of imaginative newspaper cor
respondents.
SEEKS ELOPERS WHO
LEFT HIM TO CARE
FOR SEVEN CHILDREN
CHATTANOOGA, TENN.. Nov. 21.
\V. C. Elrod, of Murray county, Georgia,
appealed In Chattanooga today and re
quested tile officials and the police to
aid him to find his wife who he asserted
had disappeared with G. J. Dixon, of
Murray county, a saw mill operator, on
! November 8.
Mrs. Elrod left three children behind,
while Dixon, who is a widower, left
, four. Al! seven ate now on Elrod's
hands for support, so he states. A
warrant has been is.-;,ed for Dixon in
Georgia. :o elding ■ ■ 1 i sta> nient.
I LEAPS UPON HOOD OF
AUTO BEARING DOWN
ON HIM; IS UNINJURED
A. A. DeLoaeh, the manufacturer,
took a thrilling rid, today’ at noon on
the police auto while several hundred
excited persons at Pryor and Decatur
streets looked on.
It was an involuntary ride on the part
of Mr. DeLoach, although he was not
under arr< st by any means It was a
ride for lift .
Air. DeLoach started across Decatur
street at Pryor and Jiad to pass close
behind a traffic jam. As he emerged,
the police auto came along, and Mr.
DeLoach found himself directly In Its
path. The big car was so close on him
that he didn’t have time to get out of
the w’ay there was but one thing for
him to do, and he did it.
"ith a tigerlike leap, he went high in
the air. the ear shooting under him. He
alighted with an energetic bump on the
hood of the ear and reposed there. The
auto was brought to a stop several feet
away and Mr. DeLoach alighted, un
harmed.
In referring later to the speed of the
auto, Mr# DeLoach said he thought it
was moving .too swiftly through the
crowded streets, but that he was glad
to be able to demonstrate successfully a
new method of escape for pedestrians
trapped in the streets by autos.
WOUNDED, HE FAINTS AND
DROWNS: BATHING WOUND
BLOOMINGTON. ILL.. Noy. 21.—1
Shot In the head while hunting, II nryi
Graff, of Minie . II!., walked io the
shore of a -mail pond to bathe his
wound. H< faint'd and fell into tile
write; ||, wa« a,. ml when found today.
Mothers Give Frantic Greeting
to Pupils. Home in Bor
rowed Clothes.
T’.«: shattered nerves restored by a
night <>f rest in their own homes, the
Atlanta girls who barely escaped death
iin th- b- tnlng St. Josephs academy »t
I Washingion, (la, knelt today at early
j mas.- oi Sacred Heart and other
I churches of their faith and devoutly
i render ii thanks to the Virgin for their
deliverance. Worn from a day of ex
citement and a long railroad journey,
they h id arrived in Atlanta last night,
clothed in borrowed and ill fitting gar
ments, to be received at the station in
th" arm of mothers and friends who
could not feel the girls were actually
safe from the flames until they had
seen for themselves. But every one was
accounted for. * Not a soul of the hun
dred was Injured in the slightest,
hough none had saved a garment or a
keep-ake from lhe smoke-filled dormi
tory.
The story of the fire in the dark
ness before the dawn, the quiet awak
ening. the unfaltering heroism of the
.sisters of St. Joseph and the prayer In
the little chapel while (lames raged
overhead was told graphically today by
Miss Leta Bricken, the 17-year-old
daughter of Mr, and Mrs. W. M. Brick
en, of 33 Bedford place, who led the
march down the stairs in the dark
ness and who was first to gain the
fresh air of the campus. She told of
the bravery of Father McMahan, chap
lain of St. Josephs, who risked his life
to save the sacred chalices from the
altar: of the kindliness of the good peo
ple of the town of Washington. Catho
lic, and Protestant alike, who took the
shivering, hysterical girls into their
homes and clothed them, and of the
sadness of the good sisters who stood
In their black robes In the chill dawn
and watched the destruction of the
school which had been their home for
so many years.
No Alarm Bell;
No Cries of Fear.
“We slept in the big dormitory on
the third floor, each girl with a little
room of her own. and the sisters In
their apartments at one end of the hall,”
said Ml.-s Bricken. “The electric lights
had been turned off. and only one big
lamp was left to light the dormitory
dimly. This had been choked out by tlf
smoke when one of the girls awoke and
aroused the sisters.
“There was no alarm bell, no shrieks
•if terror. Sister Cecilia, Sister Ra
phael. Sister Vita and Mother Gabriel,
who was in charge in the absence of
Mother Superior Alovsius, arose quiet-
I ly. opened the windows to let in the
; fresh air, ami ran through the dormi
tory, touching each girl on the shoul
der and waking her.
“ ’Get up quickly and quietly,' they
said. Tiie building is on tire, but there I
is no danger. Don’t stop to save any- ,
thing.’
“When we were ail awake and stand
ing in the smoke-filled room, one of the
sisters led the march down the two
(lights of stairs, through absolute dark
ness, but with step as steady and un
hurried as in the every-day march to
studies. Down through the darkness
marched the girls, on to tlie main floor
and into the chapel, which was at the
end of the building farthest from the
(ire. and safe for a time, at least. The
candles were burning on the altar, but
there was no other light.
And (here, while the flames were
bin sting through the roof at the end of
jibe building, we knelt and prayed that
I St, Josephs might be saved, and ren-
Continued on Pjge Two.
HOME
IPITION
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE
WOODWARD
FOR LETTING
VOTERS END
SQOABBLE
Declares He Will Bear Cost oC !
Submitting Crematory Issue
to the People. t
OLD PLANT NEED NOT BE
RAZED. ASSERTS CLAYTOM
Final Clash on oday Before the*
Aldermanic Board—Mayor-
Elect Argues. /
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James G. Woodward declared twdayt
that the question of tearing down th®:
old crematory and the erection of a new
$378,000 electric power and garbage dis-< ’
posal plant should be submitted to the
people at the general election on De
cember 4. He said he would urge tho
aldennanlc board to take this course
this afternoon, and that he would agree
to accept the decision of the people.
“The election on the crematory will
I cost the city nothing,” he eaid. “for t
1 will pay the cost of the tickets.”
R. M. Clayton, chief of city construc
tion. said today it would be practical to
build almost half of the ttew plant
without Interfering with the operation
of the old one. He said, Gwugh, it
would be impossible to bulldthe new
plant on the city’s lot without destroy
ing the old one.
His opinion supports Mr. Woodward’s
contention that there should not bo
such haste to raze the old plant. He
will explain his views to the aldermanic
board.
The board of health insists that the
crematory must come down at once.
The plant has been closed for ten day «
and a steam shovel is at wofk excavat
ing around it in preparation for the
building of the new plant.
Woodward Has But
Three of Ten Votes.
Mr. Woodward and Dr. W L. Gil
bert. president of the hoard of health,
will be the leading spokesmen for the
opposing propositions this afternoon. It
will take a unanimous consent, of the
members of the board for them to
speak. It is expected that this will be
granted.
There are ten members of the board.;
Mr. Woodward only has three certain?
votes. It will take six votes for him t®<
carry his point. He said he believed he!
would get the needed number.
Dr. Gilbert gave out this written
statement today:
Two years ago the board of
health, realizing that the present
crematory was Inadequate, appoint
ed a committee for the purpose of
Investigating and reporting on the
best modern method of garbage dis
posal for the city of Atlanta. The
committee visited many cities of the
North and East.
Declares Old Plant
Must Come Down.
Specifications were issued, blds
invited, and, upon the recommen
dation of Dr. Rudolph Herring,
whom the city had employed to
advise It, and after a full discus
sion by the board of health, the
city council, the board of aidermen
and by the bond commission, with
the approval of the mayor and city
attorney, the present contract with
the Instructor Company, of New
York, was made.
The entire question of installing
the new crematory rests on tearing
down the old plant. It is absolute
ly a physical impossibility to build
the new plant on the city’s proper
ty while the present furnace is in
operation.
There is no real objection to
tearing down the old plant. It is
worn out, and the expenditure of
$3,000 reported necessary for re
pairs would only put It In service
able condition temporarily.
Refuse Dumped
Near Orphanage
While the council and the health au
thorities are at war over the destrue-
I tion of the present crematory and the
1 construction of a new disposal plant,
I garbage is being dumped in the heart of
| one of the principal residence section®
of the city, according to R. C. Massen
gale, of the Massengale Advertising
i Agency.
Mr. Massengale contends that tire
j Ilves of numbers of children sheltered
by the Hebrew Orphans home are be
ing endangered by this practice, while
the entire neighborhood is being put to
the greatest inconvenience. Mr. Mas
sengal- live» in Capitol avenue, be-