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GIBSON JUIS
UNABLE TO
AGREE
Division Said To Be Nine For
Conviction to Three For
Acquittal.
GOSHEN, N, Y„ Nov. 28.—The jury
trying Burton V . Gibson, for the mur
der of Countess Rosa Mensi hlk Bzabo,
on Greenwood lake, July 16, announced
Its Inability’ to agree at 11:15, when it
had been out fifteen hours and thirty
live minutes. The division was said to
be nine for conviction and three for ac
quittal. Twice before it had reported
n disagreement, but each time had been
sent back by Justice Tompkins to con
tinue Its deliberations.
Foreman J. L. Hicks, of the jury, had
announced wheti the second report was
made at 9:47 o’clock, that there was a
possibility of a verdict being reached,
so when word was sent into court that
the jury was ready to report again at
11:15 o’clock, there was a flutter of
excitement. Gibson was again taken
Into court from his cell, and, despite the
likelihood of a verdict, he was calm.
Mrs Gibson was not in court, havim.
been ordei'ed to bed an hour before by
her physician.
The news of the dfsagreemtfWt was
kept from her upon ordersSiW D>-
O'Reilly, one of the medical expyi'.J.f tor
the defense, under wlio.se cure x)>v :les -
Jury Interrogates Judge.
The first report from the jury came
at three minutes after 2 a. m., or J -
hours and twenty-four minutes after
the jurors got the ease. Justice Tomp
kins, who had gone to a neighboring
■hotel at the clone of the uay’s session of
court, was summoned, and J. T. Hicks,
foreman of th- jury, announced that th
twelve could come to ho verdict. They
were ordered back, and then the fore
man asked:
"Does the question of guilty or not
guilty hinge on whether Mrs. Ritter
(Countess Szabo) was strangled .
“It rests upon all the evidence,” re
plied the court. “If J’ou find she met
her death at the hands of tile defend
ant. then your verdict must be ren
dered in the first degree.”
"Must we consider al! the other evi
dence in its relation to murder?” asked
another juror,
“You must,” replied the court.
Attorney Robert H. Elder, counsel for
the defense, jumped to Ills feet after
the Juror had ceased questioning' Jus
tice Tompkins and sliouied:
“I move —”
Before he could go any further he
was stopped by Justice Tompkins, who
said he would not consider any mo
tions at that time.
When the jurors had gone back to
their room the judge returned to his ho
tel, leaving word that he would accept
a verdict at any time.
Both Nsar Collapse.
At 2:30 o’clock the jury again re
sumed its deliberations. At that hour
botli Mr. and Mrs. Gibson were awake
and both were bordering on collapse.
Mrs. Gibson wept violently in the court
room as the jury retired, and hud to be
comforted by two women friends. Gib
son was pale and trembling as he was
led back to his cell, and court attaches
feared that he was going to faint.
Later in his cell Glbaon regained his
composure and sent a reassuring mes
sage to his wife, telling her not to wor
ry, as he was sure "everything would
come out all right.”
go keen was the general interest In
the case that more than 100 spectators
hung about the court-house all night
waiting for a verdict.
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Keeping Atlanta’s Traffic Streams Flowing Smoothly Is No Cinch
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This remarkable! composite photograph shows how the traffic .jumble at Five Points would appear were it not for the efficient work of the traffic cop. On
tb« h ft is K l’. Thornton, a familial- figure at tin- Points, and on the right, Heub Burnett, another guardian at this vortex of scurrying humanity .
‘Broadway's Touted Guardians
Have Nothing on My Men,
Declares Chief Beavers.
Ever stand at r ive Points and watch
the czar review his armies?
Looks like a cinch, doesn't it. stand
ing in tiie street and telling other folks
which way to go and when to stop and
when to come on! Nothing to do but
stand there and hold up a white-gloved
hand and make everybody mind!
But did you ever try standing in one
place five or six hours on a stretch?
Just think how you kick when your
car is three minutes late and the morn
ing is cold and the wind blowing forty
miles an hour. And then just imagine
being right in the middle of the pave
ment with four streams of traffic swirl
ing about you and trying to tangle up.
It must be like standing on a. rock in
the middle of Niagara river, lust above
the falls. And even then the river could
look after Itself and not try to run
four different ways at once and smash
things. Being a traffic cop wouldn’t be
so bad if it were not for the traffic.
B'way Has Nothing on Five Points.
But Five Points is just about as busy
a spot at some times of day as any of
the popular song corners of Broadway
and Umpty-stecnth street. There’s all
the traffic the pavement will bear, and
nobody could crowd In any more. And
Chief Beavers says the Broadway squad
hasn't got anything on his traffic cops,
even if its men are six foot three and
stand like they wore check reins. He
thinks Reub Burnett and Charley
Mitchell are as good as any of them
when It comes to keeping automobiles
from climbing into trolley cars, and
that's what traffic cops are for.
A reporter spent an hour with Mitch
ell and Burnett today. Not exactly with
them, either, for they urged him to get
on the sidewalk, where lie wouldn’t get
run over. He spent the rest of the
hour inside a cigar store, looking out
the glass door, which was warmer and
safer. lie began with an earnest effort
to count the vehicles passing the cor
ner, but quit after the first five min
utes and the first hundred”and seventy
five motors, trucks, drays, cubs, trolley
cars, bicycles and farm wagons. It’ the
statistic-loving reader can get any sat
isfaction from these figures, as far as
they go, he is welcome.
“How many talks pass this corner in
an hour? Ask me something easy. How
many fleas on a hound dog. f'r in
stance?’’ replied Officer Mitel.“ll. !•. an
swer to this simple question. "I'm too
I busy keepin’ ’em gain’ to stop and
' count ’em. Hey you. back ut> there!
I Didn’t you see me give you the stop?
Com 1 on, now. Keep straight across.
Yes, lady, the postoffico is two blocks
“tn-.iglit up and one to the right. No,
ma am, the M estview cars don't pas*
tl ■ "mer. Go up to Broad street. No.
pi; I vii't te” you just where 498
Continued cn Page Two.
.hi, ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26. 1912.
I Moreland avenue is, but that ear'll take
you there.”
I'p Decatur street comes a string of
one-horse drays, creeping along with
each horse’s nose hung over the wagon
bed in front, and every driver half
asleep on his seat. The white glove
goes up. the line halts and jams, block
ing the sidewalk and cutting off forty
pedestrians who want to cross. Officer
Mitchell steps over.
"Go ahead, you,” lie commands, "You
next man, hold up there. Let "these
people by. Open up that line.”
Down comes a six-cylinder ear, lead
ed witji young folks, a woman at the
wheel. It dashes into the jam; she
tries to turn into Marietta street; rind
the driver coming south barely pulls up
his team in time to check a smash.
The woman driver is contrite.
"Oh, I thought you said go ahead."
she explains. The traffic cop is all
smiles.
"Don't ever turn to the left around a
corner,” he says, quietly. "Swing way
out to the right and take the outside.
Then you won’t get into trouble.”
Amateurs Worst To Handle.
Down comes a clattering truck, load
ed loosely with iron bars and clanking
like a tin roof in a gale. The driver
must be making his last trip, for he
sends his mules flying into Peachtree,
only to be checked by that white glove.
“Look here, you,” says the traffic man
“I've warned you once. Next time you
come through here like that it’s you to
the station house. See? Now, drivt
on.”
“It’s negro draymen and amateur au
to drivers that give us the most trou-s
ble,” explained one of the officers
"Folks that are used to passing here
don't worry us much. They drive down
and wait for the signal and don’t lose
much time. But these amateurs, they
come through liekety-split, scared of
their car, and afraid to monkey with
it. and they’re likely to h t somebody.
And the negro drivers, why, they come
a-bustin’ through like they had a ten
acre field to drive tn, 'specially along
late In the evenin’, when they’re <Jh
their way home to hot catfish and beer.
The motormen, too, give us trouble
sometimes, but the company has post
ed orders that they’ve got to mind the
traffic policemen just like anybody else,
and they ain't so bad now.”
Two Me.’ at the Points.
There are two men on duty at Fiv<
Points most of the day. Burnett will
lake the difficult Decatur street cor
ner for an hour, while Mitchell holds
down the lighter corner of Edgewood
and Peachtree. Then they will swat
jobs for an hour. Each is given an
hour and a half off for lunch, and while
one is gone the other must guard all
five of the arteries, which is some job
and E. C. Thornton, one of the best
traffic cops on the force, guards the cor
ner when the others go off duty.
"It wouldn't be so bad if folks didn’t
try to cross the street nine different
ways,” explained one of the traffic men
in a lull He hud just help; lan aged
; woman across the street, protecting her
I three child on. two hand bags, a basket
;*nd -parrot in u cage, and had paused
to run a handkerchief around the in- I
side of his helmet, though the ther
mometer marked around 40. “But they
start across from any old place and
go any old direction. Sometimes they’re
kept hopping lively out in the middle
of the triangle, but mostly they get
over all right. They’ll grab their hats
.■■.nd run across right in front of an au- i
immobile and then stop on the sidewalk
ami look back like they hadn’t been in
a hurry, anyway. Honest, some folks
are funny. And sometimes they'll get
to talking and stroll across, kinder
slow, like there wasn't a trolley car or
a truck in 40 miles, just a" uncon
cerned as you please. It's a wonder
to me there ain't more folks butted
into by bicycles and run over by auto
mobiles than really happens. We can't,
play nurse to everybody on four cor
ners at one time.”
Two Big Rush Periods.
The great rush comes in the morning,
when everybody is hurrying into town
for business, and another is between 4
and 6 o’clock In the afternoon, when
everybody is going home. When the
office buildings begin to pour their in
habitants into street cars and automo
biles, drhen the thousands begin tilling
the sidewalks, when the dazzling head
lights throw their glare into the faces
of drivers coming the other way, when
street car gongs and electric horns be
gin playing the Devil's Ragtime in the
dusk, then the t attic cop begins to
feel that a lonely beat in the suburbs
would be the next beet thing io a per
petual vacation.
"But we take it as it comes.” said
Charley Mitchell, with a tired , look.
"Sometimes it’s bad and sometimes it’s
worse, but you can get used to any
thing.”
And the gloved hand shot up to halt
a motor car until a beer wagon went
clattering by.
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Convict s Plea Cites Turkey Day Proclamation
NOVEL PLEA FOR PARDON
Governor Brown was more or less
“hoist by his own petard”—whatever
that is—today when Joseph Benson,
an unwilling guest of the state at the
prison farm, wrote him petitioning for
release, and quoting the governor’s
Thanksgiving day proclamation to
prove that he ought to have it.
The prisoner clipped from the exec
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And while we are giving thanks
for blessings vouchsafed for our
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the helpless, the disconsolate, the
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in this clinping. the words "seek,”
“needy,”, "helpless” and “disconsolate"
were heavily undeischred, and along
with the quotation from the Thanksgiv
ing proclamation came the following
letter:
Dear Governor —My/term win ex
pire on December 9, and will you
make me and my loved ones hap
pily, as you suggest in your hope
ful proclamation, by letting me be
home with them on Thanksgiving
day? I would like to take Thanks
giving dinner with my folks. That
would bring me joy and fullness.
I am botli "disconsolate" and
"helpless.” Yours respectfully,
JOE BENSON.
■NMH SILENT
ON LIQUOR SALES
Court Officials Ignore Disclos
ures of Vio>ation of Pro
hibition Law.
SAVANNAH, GA., NOV. 26.— A rigid
nilence is maintained in all re
garding the disclosures in Atlanta
touching upon the offering of wiiisi; •
for illegal sale by mail orders by th •
John Sullivan, Jr.. Company, or S; ■
vannah, wholesale distributers.
It is intimated in all such ea- s ti
if proper complaint of infractions of th)
law is made, the officials will "d;,
proper cognizance of the matter.
It Is a notorious fact, however, t' II(4
it is almost Impossible to get S-’ar.
nah people to make complaint in sli ..-
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a Chatham county jurj' to convict t.
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