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Robert Chambers, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Edgar Chambers. 306
West Peachtree.
GIRL TELLS TALE
OF WHITE SLAVE
PLOTINM
Young Nurse Accuses Theat
rical Company Heads and
Demands Punishment.
Alluring promises' held out to stage
stiuek girls by theat.i-al agents and
managers and the shocking reality that
follows Wil! be told of on the witness
- and -in recorder’s court this afternoon
•■hen Genevieve Gbodwin, a pretty
• Ig'.iteen-year-old trained nurse of Cln
c j’.inaii, appears against Atlanta stage
people, whom she accuses in an alleged
■‘white slave" plot.
Four members.of the .Metropolitan
Musical Comedy Company, to' join
which the girl deserted her post in a
1 Cincinnati hospital, are held in police
aarracks to answer hi charges. They
deciare that they are legitimate theal
: leu! people and their arrest is due to
the fact that the Goodwin girl was dis
charged from the company as an in
competent.
In the meantime other members of
the company have deseited the board
ing house at 34 Garnett street, where
they had been rehearsing lor weeks,
■ til trace of them lias been lust. Board
-1 is at the place declare that the stage
people said the;, were departing for
Lithonia, where their show opens to
night.
She’ll Fight o the End.
Miss Goc'uwin, ■:■ id by the police as a
material witness, expressed her deter
mination today not to rest until the
men and women the, says have tried
to degrade her are punished ami the
agent, who she declares fooled her, is
made to pay for her humiliation.
Aly father is a professional man of
nigh standing,” she declared this morn
ing. "tit course i will not toll his
name, but 1 din going to telegraph him
today to come to Atlanta and help me
Hi lighting this case.
"I guess 1 was foolish to listen to
tii‘ -e people,” she continued. "1 know
‘I now, but ever since 1 was a little
=irl I have been anxious to go on the
• lage, and I have studied and prac
•' d for years. Several months ago 1
’■polled to the International Theatrical
■ ncy, <>f Cincinnati, for employment.
Heard They Needed Soubrette.
•Several weeks ago, 1 was told that
a uigh-class musical comedy organiza
tion was being formed in Atlanta, and
they needed a soubrette of my type
1 he agency manager told me all sort
'd things of how my life would be dif
ferent frcigi that of a chorus girl, how
Pleasant a time I would have and what
opportunities this offer held out for
rufessional advancement. 1 leaped ai
i: ’“ opportunity.
"Thursday- I reached Atlanta and, ac
cording to directions, found the com
pany being formed at 34 Garnett street.
Aly first sight of the company shat
tered by illusion-, ’ but 1 was deter
mined to make the best of it.
The entire company was assembled,
and -they were all smoking cigarettes
,l d drinking beer. Airs. Emma X’aullnc
Eleneor Meiinniiiger, daugher of Rev. and Mrs. W. W. Mem
niinger. 15 West North avenue.
• MAKING MAN DRUNKARD J
J COSTS BIG BREWER $500:
• CHICAGO, Nov. 23.—The Pabst •
• Brewing Company and Philip •
• Kriesheimer, saloon keeper, were •
• ordered by a jury to pay Mrs. •
• Emma Housinger and her five •
• children SSOO for making her bus- •
• band a hopeless drunkard. •
• •
PRETTY WOMEN
BEST POLICEMEN,
JUDGE DECLARES
CHICAGO. Nov. 23. —Pretty- women
juvenile offiic rs will be seen in Chi
cago if the suggestion of Municipal
Court Judge Newcomer is carried out.
Judge Newcomer maintains that a
pretty face is? more valuable at times
•han sheer physical force.
The judge’s observations followed a
case in which Patrick Gorman, a
switehmgn weighing more than 200
pounds and standing six feet in height,
was brought into his court by Alias
Carolyn Grimsby, a demure juvenile
court attache.
"Did you arrest tiiis man?” asked the
judge.
"He consented to come with me,” re
fill; d Miss Grimsby. "He said he would
tight before he would go in a patrol
wagon."
"It appears that pretty juvenile offi
cers have more influence with delin
quent husbands than do husky police
men.” said Judge Newcomer. “It might
be well to have more."
Hudson urged me to join the drinkers,
but I refused, protesting tiiat I was suf
fering from a headache after my long
ride ou the trains. She then offered me
a cigarette and I tbok it and smoked
it, fearing that if I did not I would of
fend all the rest of the people who were
smoking.
“When the time came to talk busi
nes 1 was told by .Manager Ponder I
was expected to be a chorus girl.
Will Sue For $50,000.
"He said my salary’ would be $lO a
week. Still I decided to stick it out un
til something better offered. Eater,
though, I was taken aside by Mrs. Hud
son and Miss Hazel Barrington and
told that members of the chorus were
expected to select some man of the
company witli whom to live as husband
and wife, because it saved expenses on
the road. They told me there were two
‘odd’ men in the company and I could
take my pick.
“I refused and left the house, going
to a hotel. Later two men called on me
the e. I understand they were the ‘odd’
men. I then decided to appeal to the
police.
“I am now determined to see tnls
ease through, and not only that, but to
sue the agent for $50,000 for the humil
iation I have suffered.”
Assistant .Manage
Robert Grier, .Mrs. Hudson and the
Barrington girl, all held to answer to
the Goo-’.win girl’s charges, declared
their arrest was simply due to spite.
“We applied to the agency for «
high-class soubrette,” said Mrs. Hud
son. "They sent us this girl. She had
no stage experience and could not even
fit in the chorus. We told her so, and
offered he. return fare to Cincinnati.
"The manager was to have furnished
her the money today, but before he
could do so she brought these trumped
up charges. She was a trouble-maker
from the tim she arrived and if she
goes on the stand and telle any of the e
things she has told the reporters ! arg
going to swear out a warrant against
her for perjury.
xHE ATLANTA GEXnailAlN AIW NEWS.SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 23. 1911.
DIVORCE COLONY
m IS SHOT
Man Who Stole for Her,
Spurned. Fires on Her,
Then Ends Life.
RENO, NEV., Nov. 22.-Physicians
attending Airs. Estelle Baggott, of Los
Angeles and New York, who wa shot
yesterday’ by Harry S. Weems, of Bal
timore, who afterward killed himself,
today held out no hope for her recovery.
Weems, whose meteoric * career in
matrimony included four unhpppy mar.
riages, left a note addressed to Police
Chief Hilhouse, explaining his act, part
of which follows:
"I am awfully sorry to resort to such
a measure, but when a woman runs
away after making a man go to ex
tremes to get money for iter and then
refuses to come to h.s aid, it’s time to
quit. And yet I idolize her. Now that
she has another, she leaves me to face
the penitentiary. Kindly’ notify my
brother in Baltimore. This woman, Es
telle Baggot. has ruined my’ life. She
has already’ ruined one life, her hus
band whom she comes here to get rid
of. This is my second attempt and I
hope it will be the last.”
The authorities said that Weems’
family had claimed his remains and
that they would be shipped to Balti
more.
Weems had planned the shooting In
advance and he left several letters tell
ing of his intentions. One was ad
dressed to Los Angeles admitting that
he had embezzled. He also told of his
past marriages. His first wife was
from Charlotte, Va.; his second was
Ada Crosby, of Richmond, Va.; his
third was Iva Moore, of Washington,
and his fourth was Catherine Aloore, of
Buffalo, N. Y.
Mrs. Baggot, who was a member of
the divorce colony, was shot while in
the dressing room of a bath house at
Aioana Springs. The bullets entered
her abdomen, causing mortal wounds.
STOLEN RIDE CAUSES MAN
TO FACE KILLING CHARGE
WAYCROSS, GA., Nov. 23.—A ride on
an engine pilot landed Morris Middle
. ton in jail to answer charges of mur
der and assault with Intent to mur
, der. He was arrested here by spe
, cia] officers on a charge of stealing a
ride.
Investigation developed the fact that
, a man answering Middleton’s descrip
tion was wanted in Charlton county for
murder and for an attempted murder.
Middleton’s brother came here and paid
the tine assessed In city court, not
knowing that more serious charges
i were held against him.
AL AB AMA M AYOR GIVES
UPTO GEORGIA SHERIFF
i
i COLUMBUS, GA., Nov. 23.—C. B.
1 Gullatt, mayor of Phenix City, Ala.,
jointly indicted with Dr. W. F. White-
' head, Tom Pace and Will Jenkins, in
s Aiuscogee county, Georgia, charged
• with assault with intent to murder, has
’ surrendered to Sheriff Beard, of Alus
‘ cogee, and has been placed under $4,000
: bond. GuUatt did not give up until aft
i er it had been announced that there
: would be no further criminal business
trice at this term of court.
Enriy Davis, daughter of Mr. .and Alls. R. W. Davis, on left
and Tom Hinman, son of Dr. anti Mis. T. I’. ll’.i: nt.
SEARCHING SIDELIGHTS
ON GEORGIA POLITICS
Governor Joseph Al. Bro.n’s objec
tions to the elimination of Adam and
Eve from the Bible, by reason of a re
vision of Qie fa- t -p
mous old King
James version, as S:J
outlined in The
Georgian of yes- * .
terday. attracted a \
great deal of at- fir -'W
tention and much |L WgS
commendation.
A great many’
people share with x
the governor BMp
decided disincli- |Bm sjiu
nation to part, for jw. jg&O
any reason what
soever, with such ' ■ JBIM
youthful friends jffi J
and acquaintances
as Adam and
Eve, and they
join witli him in
hoping that away may be found to
work such revision as may be deemed
necessary and yet diuiurb not at ail the
first man and the first woman as an
ciently designated by name.
It is rather a significant circum
stance in connection with the govern
or’s remarks on the subject of the pro
posed change in the text of the King
James Bible that he is the possessor
of one of the few original copies of that
book extant.
The governor owns a copy, printed
directly from the original type, that
actually belonged to the king himself,
and is decorated accordingly with the
English royal coat-of-arms. Attached
to the inside cover of the book is a
certificate of its genuineness.
This Bible was presented to t#e gov
ernor by his brother, the late Julius
L. Brown, as a token of his love and
abiding affection. Between the gov
ernor and his brother Julius a most
tender and loyal attachment existed.
Julius L. Brown was a famous book
collector—one of the most famous in
the nation. His library was filled to
overflowing with the quaint, the rare
and the beautiful in books. It was, in
deed. a token of genuine love and
affection, when he parted with one of
the most priceless books in his posses
sion—the King James Bible—even to
one so near and so dear as “Brother
Joe.”
However, he did give the book to the
governor—and there is nothing in the
governor’s possession he values more.
The book, though somewhat faded
with age and printed more or less
queerly, as things go nowadays, still is
in a most excellent state of preserva
tion. The governor keeps this partic
ular book in his private office at the
capitol, and frequently, when wishing
to use a Biblical quotation, refers di
rectly to it, rather than to the more
modern and less ornate edition near by.
The war department of th. United
States government has on hand four
cannon set aside by specific act of
congress to the use of “the city of At
lanta" for the purpose of “decorating
the state capitol grounds,” and the
department would be glad if it might
dispose of them to the parties autnor
ized to accept and place them where
they belong.
ilnder ' le so mi what cmiom resalu■
tion awarding them to Atlanta, how
ever, it is difficult for the city authori-
ty JAMES B. NEVKi
ties to know what to do with the can
non. Th' city can not accept them and
p’ace tii.' u (.n the capitol lawn, unless
the legislature agrees; and the legisla
ture will not be in session for a good
many months to come. The state au
thorities, on the other hand, can not
accept the cannon, for the act of con
vicss /specifically gives them to “the
city of Atlanta.”
Jus: exactly how the tangle is to
be straightened out nobody at present
knows, but both city and state authori
ties are anxious to find away whereby
the government’s gracious gift may be
accepted, and at the same time not get
either the city or the state into a legal
snarl.
Governor Lee Luce, of Oklahoma, has
written’ to the executive department
of 'he slate o> Georgia inquiring what,
If any, authority the governor 1 has In
the matter of suspending or discharg
ing sheiiffs and constables found dere
lict in their
Governor Luce has been answered
that the governor of Georgia has no
authority whatever in the direction in
dicated.
A Georgia sheriff can not be removed
from office otherwise than by trial by
jury.
No matter what a sheriff may do, and
no matter what charge may be brought
against him, the law vouchsafes him a
trial by jury before he may be removed
or suspended from office. A solicitor
general, like a judge, may be impeached
—but a sheriff can be disciplined in one
way, and one way only.
Captain Goodloe Yancey, of the Geor
gia prison commission, somewhat ex
citedly remarked in the capitol today
that somebody had tendered "Bob”
Gardener 1 , of the same office, a couple
of free tickets to something or other,
and that “Bob” had turned them down.
The unlikely story was referred to
Commissioners Patterson and Davison,
who- happened to be present, and both
expressed grave doubts as to the ac
curacy of the allegation.
As Commissioner Williams was ab
sent, however, the commission's unani
mous incredulity could not he recorded
as an absolutely certain thing.
T. C. Robertson, of Macon, Is an ap
plicant for the office of internal reve
nue collector for Georgia..
His friends have organized a cam
paign committee and more than 800
personal letters have been sent hrough
out the state in his behalf. He also
has friends of influence in touch with
Senators Smith and Bacon.
Mr. Robertson is an insurance man
of the Central City.
The Jackson Argus, without guaran
teeing anything, picks out the follow
ing probable postmasters-to-be in
Georgia:
Atlanta —J. R Smith.
Macon —Thomas J. Simmons,
Savannah—B. P. Axson.
Rome —John D. McCartney.
Athens—Harvey SP-wall.
Dalton-—T. S. Shope.
There are 2,359 candidates, real and
m ar, for these same jobs, however, who
will demur, both emphatically and vo
ciferously. to these predictions, of
course.
G. (dually, the suggestion of primary
• elections lor nominating postmasters Is
Frances Holmes, daughter of Air. and Mrs. C. F. Holmes, 300
West Pt aehtree.
TOWER PRISONERS
TO EAT ROAST PIG
THANKSGIVING DAY
Pig and potatoes is to be the Thanks
giving day menu at the Tower, accord
ing to the announcement made by Sher
iff C. W. Mangum today. The sheriff
said that, after years of experience in
feeding prisoners, lie hoe come to the
conclusion that frills don’t make a hit.
“I've tried chicken,” he said, “and 1
I’ve given them fruit, candy, cranber
ries and various other things that go
with a holiday bill of fare, and they al
ways kick because they don’t get roast
Pig. X
“Nine out of every ten prisoners in
the Tower think the best dinner in the
world is roast jM>rk and gravy, with
browned potatoes. That is what they
want, and I am going to give it to
them.”
TWO MORE STUDENTS
TO SECURE FUNDS FOR
COURSE AT GA. TECH
Two Tech scholarships were made
possible today by donations to the mu
tual scholarship fund, founded at the
school by Professor Gardner, the reg
istrar, to aid worthy young men in re
ceiving a technical education. The
money was given by two Atlanta wom
en, whose names are withheld.
Professor Gardner declared that he
has a number of applications for schol
arships from would-be students, finan
cially unable to attend school.
Two of these will be granted imme
diately. With the pair of scholarships
today five have now been furnished
since tiie fund was started.
MACON SLEUTHS REGULAR
FINGER-PRINT_SHERLOCKS
MACON, GA.. Nov. 23.—Macon police
have worked out a real Sherlock
Holmes case, arresting a negro who
burglarized the office of a local lumber
company with only the blood finger
prints on a dusty desk as a clew. The
finger prints indicated that a man’s
right hand had been cut, and as the
window was smashed in order to effect
an entrance it was guessed that the
burglar wounded himself in that way.
After three days of watching, the po
lice arrested a negro who had three cuts
on his right hand. Witnesses were
found who swear that they saw the ne
gro near the plant on the night of the
robbery. Ho was formerly employed at
the place, and was familiar with the
premises. He has been bound over to
the superior court for trial.
spreading throughout the state, and the
idea is winning a large measure of fav
or as it spreads, moreover.
The Savannah News, commenting
upon the suggestion, gave it a meas
ure of indorsement several days ago,
and now The Augusta Chronicle thinks
It might be a safe and sane way to set
tle the postmastership controversies In
congressional districts of Democratic
persuasion.
it never was Intended, of course, tha'
the postmastership primary idea
should prevail in districts having Re
publican congressmen, for. of course,
the postmasters appointed throughout
the nation under a Democratic admin
istration will l>e Democrats.
Here in Georgia, however, the post
mastership primary would serve a fine
purpose—it would enable a congress
man to solve the puzzle of postoffice
patronage fairly and without favor in
his district.
DB.DUBOSLFOII
AWJ PULPIT
Dr. Wiggins to Succeed Late
Dr. Troutman at Athens,
Says Rumor.
CARROLLTON, GA., Nov. 23.—Per
sistent rumors today are that Dr. H. M.
Dußose, of St. Johns Methodist church
in Augusta, will be stationed at the
First Methodist church, Atlanta, while
Dr. S. P. Wiggins will pVobably go to
the First church. Athens, succeeding
the late Dr. M. L. Troutman. Dr. C. C.
Jarrell is spoken of for St. Johns, Au
gusta. He has been abroad for a year
on a leave of absence. The appoint
ments of the North Georgia Methodist
conference will be announced by Bish
op James H. McCoy on Monday.
Progress in Atlanta.
Atlanta ministers told of the mark
ed advancement of Atlanta Methodist
churches during the past year, when
Bishop McCoy today called for in
dividual reports of more than 100 pas
tors of he Norli Georgia conference.
Dr. S. P. Wiggin, of the First Method
ist church, reported 125 accessions to
that congregation and $30,000 raised
for all purposes. Dr. S. R. Belk, of Park
Street church, reported 225 new acces
sions and $25,000 contributed. Rev. B,
F. Frazer, of St. Paul church, reported
250 new members. Striking features
of the report of Dr. J. B. Robins, of
Trinity, and Rev. W. M. Walraven, of
St. Lukes, were that they had respec
tively married 45 and 37 couples.
Eight local ministers were elected to
deacons orders, and will receive ordi
nation tomorrow morning. Also two
young men were elected local elders.
Sunday Services.
Conference preachers will occupy
Carrollton pulpits tomorrow, as an
nounced in the following schedule:
First Methodist—morning. Bishop J.
M. McCoy; afternoon, memorial serv
ices; evening. Dr. James Cannon.
First Baptist—Morning. Dr. J. E.
Dickey; afternoon, Dr. Walker Lewis;
ev.-ning. Dr. J. W. Quillian.
First Presbyterian—Morning, Dr. H.
M. Dußose; evening, Rev. Luke G
Johnson.
Protestant Methodist—Morning, Dr.
C. E. Dowman; evening, Rev. Nath
Thompson.
Christian Church—Morning. Rev.
John S. Jenkins; evening. Rev. C. C.
Jarrell.
Central Baptist—Morning, Rev. A. M.
Pierce; evening, Rev. J. K. Hawkins
$50,000 For Superannuates.
In considering the work of special
ellef for superannuates, John D Walk
er. of Sparta, and B. F. Lloyd, of Villa
Rica, announced gifts of SSOO each to
ward raising the capital fund to $50,000.
Loud applause and hearty "amens”
greeted the statement of Dr. G. W.
Young, superintendent of the Georgia
Anti-Saloon league, that never again in
the state of Georgia will the license
system for saloons b(> recognized. By a
rising vote the conference unanimously
voted an indorsement of Dr Young’s
address and sympathy with the work
In which he is engaged.
Bishop McCoy delivered an Episco
pal address to a class of sixteen young
preachers who were admitted into full
connection in the conference, after a
trial of two years.
At the education board anniversary
tonight Dr. C. R. Jenkins, president of
Wesleyan college, will make the prin
cipal address.
The conference Is holding its first
afternoon session today.