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Newspaper Page TextTHE WEATHER Forecast: Fair today and tomor row. Temperatures: Ba. m., 36 de grees; 10 a. m., 41 degrees; 12 noon, 46 degrees; 2 p. m„ 50 degrees. VOL. XI. NO. 101. DHMHIG AOMITSHEIS FIEIOm SLAYER J. Frank Hickey. Accused of Killing 7-Year-old Joseph Josephs, Breaks Down. CALLS FOR MINISTER AND CONFESSES GUILT Thirteen Child Murders Believ ed to Have Been Committed by Inebriate. BUFFALO, N. Y., Nov. 29.—J. Frank Hickey, under indictment for the mur der of seven-year-old Joseph Josephs at Lackawanna about a year ago, has confessed. Announcement of the con cession was made today by District At torney Dudley, who also stated that Mickey had confessed the murder of Michael Kruck, committed in Central park. New York about ten years ago. Hickey’s confession ciearing up fhese two mysterious crimes did not come as a. surprise, as the authorities had claimed they had overwhelming evi dence against him. Hickey spent Thanksgiving day alone in his cell, except for a brief talk with the district attorney. He grew nervous mid asked that a minister be sent in to iiim. Late in the day the district at torney was summoned to Hickey’s cell. Calls For Preacher A Second Time. The activity about Hickey's cell con tinued until late into the night and the county authorities admitted that the ■ isoner had again asked for a minis ter. Hickey was indicted by the Erie county grand jury following his arrival ;:t ijn inebriate farm in New Jersey, but before he was brought into the state. The prisoner will be arraigned Mon day. It is believed Hickey will plead irre sponsibility due to alcoholism. When arrested he declared the only charges that could be brought against him were those of drunkenness? District Attorney Dudley’s announce ment was: , lici’.-y has confessed to me that he nurdeied the Josephs boy In . wanna in October of last year, and al-o the murder of Michael Kruck, a newsboy who was strangled to death m 1 'entral park in 1902. ‘‘There are a number of details in connection with the confession which I lie not care to discuss now." Identified As Suspect of Long Ago. Detective Sergeant Jeremiah Lynch today identified Hickey as the man v kotn he arrested for the Kruck mur- ■ ten years ago. Hi. key recognizee Lynch and greeted him cordially. ffiel.-ty’s arrest came about through t ■ receipt, by police in various cities. , : nonyrnous postcards confessing the two .‘layings with which Hickey Is ' .[■..god. and eleven others which have ,t been verified. The caids evidently v •■r.. written by the same person. The writer of the cards said he was forced to commit, the crimes by a fiend ♦sh. uncontrollable desire to kill small • 1 >ys'. MARSHAL OF SYLVANIA KILLS FORMER OFFICER SYLVANIA. GA., Nov. 29.—Morgan Odom, marshal of Sylvania, shot and killed Spurgeon Overstreet here late yes terday Overstreet, who was formerly marshal, had a difficulty on the street the night before, but no one considered ii as serious. * Odom escaped, but was afterwards placed under arrest. Further than saying : hat the killing was in self-defense, Odom will not talk. Overstreet was prominently connected. He was a son of Lon Overstreet and first cousin of E. K. and J. W. Overstreet. He was about 30 years old and unmar ried. Odom is about 45 and lias a fam- JlJ Overstreet was shot through the head after he hail declared that Odam was afraid to shoot. Not much excitement has prevailed, but a vigorous prosecution will follow. NO ROW IN RANKS OF BULL MOOSE PARTY, SENATOR DIXON SAYS WASHINGTON? 39 Chairman Hixon, of the committee, denied today that < olonel Xsevelt is M •<> “rge ,0 to smotoh over a row t.e-txa.en George AV. Perkins and other members of the Bull Moose party. Dixon admitted that lie l‘ a,! ’ .. kft.int; to tile formed that Kousex ‘ t to smooth ,‘Meago bar- The Atlanta Georgian Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS —Use For Results. Goes Broke at 2 A.IVL Calls Police to Raid Game: Seven Nabbed Nesbit Says He Was Cleaned Out at Poker—Others Say They Played Set-Back. -m, ’ - Tne wail of a loser caused a raid early today on the Leland house, 31 Houston street, in which seven young men were arrested on the charge of playing poker. T. W. Nesbit, the man who wailed, was among those arrested. Nesbit telephoned to the police sta tion at 2 o’clock this morning that he had just gone broke in a game and wanted the police to raid it. When Plain Clothesmen Carter and Boyce ar. rived they found that the game had broken up. They took all the young men in the room, however. They were H. B. Down ing, M. H. Pierce, H. V. White, W. W. Pye, E. K. Lenwood, R. W. Kennedy and Nesbit. All of the j’oung men, save Nesbit, declare they were playing “setback.” They’ will be tried today. YOUNGEMBEZZLER IS GIVEN SENTENCE OF TWELVE MONTHS H. G. Newman, twenty years old, was found guilty’ of embezzlement today and sentenced to twelve months im prisonment by’ Judge Roan in the su perior court. Judge Roan said he would follow the recommendation of the jury and sentence Newman as for a misde meanor. but he would prefer to send him to the state farm. “A physician says this boy’s father and three sisters died of tuberculosis,” said the court. "The boy should be sent to the state prison farm, where he’ could live in the sunshine and be treat ed.” Newman was prosecuted by W. F. Wesley, a loan agent, who had ad vanced Newman a total of $1,099.10 within the past yedr, to be loaned at interest among the employees of the Cherokee Life Insurance Company, where Newman was employed. Wes ley testified that Newman had made no accounting to him of this money. HIGH RATES ON CALL MONEY BEING PROBED BY TREASURY DEPT. TVASHINGTON, Nov. 29. —The pre vailing high rates on call money in New York are being investigates by’ the treasury department, to determine whether a money’ stringency exists. While Secretary’ of the Treasury Mac- Veagh says that no plans are being made to send portions of the treasury surplus to the big centers.-Assistant Secretary’ of the Treasury Bailey’ has left for Chicago to make an examina tion of conditions in that city. He will also go to St. Louis and interview bank ers there. Whether the treasury’ will relieve the tight money conditions, which seem to exist, will depend en tirely upon Mr. Bailey’s report. CHURCH IS HURT BY REPAIRS TO STREETS; ASKS READJUSTMENT A readjustment of the proposed new grade of Ivy’ street will be taken up by’ the streets committee of council this aft ernoon at the request of the •members of the Sacred Heart church. According to the proposed grade the street level will be higher than the church entrance. Rep resentatives of the church will urge that a lower grade be built. Except for this new objection to the plan for improving Ivy street, the city and county officials are ready’ to’begin the work. If the streets committee ac cedes to the request of the church peo ple the committee will recommend to council that a new grade be authorized. The project is to reduce the grades on Ivy street and put down a smooth pave ment that the street may attract business houses, thus relieving the congestion in Peachtree street. WILSON WILL INVITE CHIEFS TO POWWOW TO DISCUSS CABINET HAMILTON, BERMUDA, Nov. 29.—A national gathering of Democratic leaders for the discussion of cabinet appoint ments and the national legislative pro gram. to be held after the return of President-elect Wilson to the United States, is the plan now under consider ation by the governor, it. was learned here today. Mr. Wilson is said to favor this idea to prevent jealousy of any one man or faction. In such a "convention” all leaders will meet on a common level. William J. Bryan will be one of the central figures at the conference, Gov ernor Wilson admitting today that he had written to Mr. Bryan inviting him to the conferences at the end of the pres ent vacation trip. The president-elect branded as "nonsensical" reports that Mr. Bryan would come here. 2 HURLED TO STREET AS AUTO HITS DRAY; DRIVER OF CAR FINED R L. Frost, an autoist stopping at the Terminal hotel, was fined $50.75 by Recorder Pro Tern Preston today as the result of an accident yesterday aft ernoon at Ponce DeLeon and Pied mont avenues, while Frost was return ing from the football game. His car struck a dray, which was crossing Ponce DeLeon, and hurled its two occupants, a negro and white man, high in the aft. Both escaped injury, however. Witnesses said Frost was diivir.g at a rate about 40 miles an MOPffISH 111 TERRIBLE MUPfIIE TYPHOON Islands South of Manila Swept by Great Storm Just Reported. ENTIRE CITY OF 140.0G0 POPULATION WIPED OUT Governor General Rushes Ship load of Supplies For Refu gees— Details Lacking. WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.—Seven teen thousand persons are reported to jr- '• St I • mO : ' Hl' y ‘aMwKa ... jntaewE.; jx J I s. Tins picture shows a man playing a slot machine, and it shows what his playing leads to. Council will pass an ordinance this afternoon to preyent this scene’s enaction. have perished in a typhoon which swept across the Philippines to the south of Manila on Tuesday last, according to belated advices reaching the war de partment today from Governor General Forbes, of the Philippines. Telegraph communication from Ma nila southward has been destroyed, and it Is almost impossible to obtain accu rate information regarding the extent, of the damage. The town of Tacloban, the capital of Leyle, having a popula- i tion of about 14,000, is reported entirely > destroyed. Caplz, the capital of the province of l that name, and an important sugar port, also was badly damaged and from 3,000 • to 5,000 persons killed. Many Americans live there. No re- I port has reached the department con- i cerning their fate, but Governor Forbes reported that he had sent a shipload of food and materials for repairs to Taclo ban and would follow that with as much more provisions as he could obtain in Manila. The Red (Toss bureau here probably will send several thousand dollars at once for the relief of the sufferers. \TLANTA. GA.. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 29. 1912. Evelyn Wren on the Slot Machine and the Empty Stocking TOLL: MISERY AND $200,000 // x « / - X £ ‘ /£, A.X \ \ \ \ CZARINA ATTEMPTS SUICIDE AT NEWS HER SON CAN NOT RECOVER BHRLIN, Nov. 29. L’ode dispatches re ceived today from St. Petersburg say that the czarina attempted to commit suicide on Wednesday after being In forrrted by court physicians that there was no hope for the complete recovery of Grand Duke Alexis, the young czare witch. The condition of the czarina's health I has steadily been growing worse since i her son was stricken. No details of the manner in which she tried to end her life | are given in the dispatches. ORCHESTRA PLAYS ALL NIGHT FOR MAN ABOUT TO BE HANGED SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 29. Ed ward Williams was hanged In the San Quentin prison today for murder. The prison orchestra played old tunes for him nearly all night, at his request. Wil liams was formerly a professional mu sician. He murdered two women in Butte I • “iniik ■ Slot Machines Mean Empty Christmas Stockings 'Wil • ML V V \ ' A: ■ Ey - wX W A ’ ■W• jCBR?- : 4\ I Kr nkl i \ £ ■ WL N I I I I iRk- *L« * g ’ ] A i t • I 1* ' I U-W\ / 1 ; ■ WF/ ■ « Ts W/_ I \ ' I V wSkflX * I I ... p' V ' Council Will Banish Device Whose Motto Is “Go Broke or Get Drunk.” The first step toward sending to the junk heap the slot machines that cost Atlanta between $200,000 and $500,000 a year was taken this afternoon when council's committee on legislation drew up an ordinance barring the machines from saloons an locker clubs, and voted unanimously to urge immediate action upon council at its meeting Monday. By Evelyn Wren. There will be empty stockings in At lanta Christmas morning—-empty stock ings that mean shattered hopes of boys and girls—because foolish fathers keep playing a game that was made to rob simpletons. , Two hundred thousand dollars—per haps half a million —a year is the slot machines' toll. On $200,000 every child In Atlanta could be guaranteed a Christmas that they would remember for years. Two hundred thousand dol lars would make every home bright «in our greatest holiday. Two hundred thousand dollars would bring the same joys to the humblest homes of the poor est factory strugglers here that the children and the men and women of the Peaehtrees have al Yulctide. And every day dollar after dollar is being spent in the hopeless, fnultless, barren task of trying to beat a ma chine that was not built to be beaten; that holds out no reward more than that by some strange fffeak of fortune the playe. may be able to buy a dozen beers, where hi' might only buy one be fore, and go to his wife and children a dozen times more drunk than he might have been had "fortune" not smiled on him. Every sensible man and woman knows that there is no chance for a man who plays the slot machines to profit. The makers of the machines did not construct them to lose money. They constructed them so they could not lose. They arranged the mechan ism so that the player could win just enough To give him hope of final suc cess. Just as easily they could have arranged their cogs and‘levers so that it would be impossible for the winning numbers or combinations ever to ap pear. But they didn’t want to do this. Oh, no!. Even an imbecile will not butt his head against a stone wall. They made their machines so that the silly people who play them can boastfully say. “Well, I beat it that time," and then come back the next day to fritter away their last nickel in the hopeless task of trying to beat it again. No one has ever heard of a "gam bler" playing one of thes>- machines. “Gamblers” are persons who play to win. They do not play unless they think, their chances of winning are great. Have you -<een a slot machine? Do WEN WON'T SERVE INFORMER Patron Who Had Dealer Fined For Impure Product Now Is Boycotted. Because Gus Castle. 99 West Peach tree street, had a dairyman arrested and fined for selling bad milk, Atlanta dealers have declared a boycott on Cas tle. he believes, and are refusing to sell him milk. He spent an hour Thanks giving afternoon trying to find an open grocery store In order to buy condensed milk for his baby daughter. A short time ago the little girl be came violently ill and physicians pro nounced it ptomaine poisoning, caused from milk which was impure. Castle had the seller arrested and the recorder imposed a tine. Next day Castle called another dairy and asked that a bottle of milk be sent to his home. "All right, 1 will rush it,” said the dairyman. "Who is it, please?" “Gus Castle, 99 West Peachtree," was the answer. There was a moment’s pause. Then the dairyman replied: “Sorry. All our drivers are out. Couldn’t get It there today. Good-bye.” Castle called up others and none would deliver milk to him when they learned his name and address. One went so far, he said as to declare open ly he would not sell to Castle. TROOPS TO PURSUE BAND OF MEXICANS IN N. MEXICO HILLS EL PASO, TEX., Nov. 29 -General E. Z. Steever is preparing today to dispatch United States troops Into the mountains of Sferra county, New Mexico, where the sheriff reports 25 to 30 armed and mount ed Mexicans, supposed to be rebels from Mexico. For some time former rebels have been creating fear and terror in that section of New Mexico and the southeastern sec tion of Arizona in the mountains, and a number of peace officers have been killed. Sheriff W. C. Kendall, of Sierra county, has gone with a posse of fifty men from Hillsboro to intercept the present band, the members of which have been inquir ing about the supplies available at a number of small towns in the mountains near where they are located. There are United Ktates troops to the south of them along the border, and these will be started north If the civilian posse does not meet and disperse or arrest the bandits L. Ju. _ . 1. . , ' -aBBSMaaA- ..... HOHL, EDITION 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE BLOODSTAINS HOLD PAIR IN SLAYING MYSTERY Man and Woman Taken by Police as Killing of Peddler Is Probed. , j SEAMSTRESS SAYS SHE KNEW ROBBERS’ VICTIM Denies, With Companion, That She Can Tell Anything of Aged Vender’s Death. Blood stains on an abandoned sutt of clothes of Robert Lee Sloan, of Ros well, Ga,, found In his room at 108 GII-, met street by police today, are believed by detectives working on the case t® connect him with the slaying of Wil liam Franklin, the aged peddler, found slugged in Decatur street Sunday. Sloan Is being held at police station pending a. thorough Investigation. Miss Chloe Austin, a seamstress, In whose house Sloan was arrested Thursday night, also Is being detained. Miss Ruby Gaither, the landlady off the lodging house In Gilmer street, gave the police the information In reference to the stained clothes. She also in formed them that the day after Frank lin was found Sloan bought a new suit of clothes and put the stained gar ments in a closet in his room. Sleuths Say Woman / Bought New Apparel. Detectives say Miss Austin bought an entire outfit of new wearing ap parel the same day Sloan made his purchases. Money, which they sus pect Was taken from the peddler, they believe was spent on the new raiment, Sloan denies any knowledge of the case. He says he Is a married man of family In Roswell and has no con nection with Miss Austin, save that h« Is a friend of her mother. He says ho was paying a simple social call last night when he was taken. The seamstress admits that she knew Franklin, but also denies any knowledge of how he met his death. Motive Believed ♦ To Have Been Robbery. The police are endeavoring to trace all the movements of both Sloan and Miss Austin during Sunday and a few days just previous thereto. Although no formal charge has been brought against either, detectives working on the case declare that their Investigation will show that 1f Sloan and the woman are not directly responsible for the slaying they will be able to give valu able Information to aid them in thetf search. Franklin, they declare, had quite a sum of money always on hand. They assert that he never banked it, hut al ways carried several hundred dollars on hfs person. He was penniless w’hen he was found and robbery Is believed to have been the motive for the slaying, CHIEF WEATHER MAN TRIES TO REGULATE ENGLISH Weather reporters representing va - rlous dailies the country over are to bo regulated by the United States weather bureau, or at. least the cards sent over the country by Chief Willis Moore in dicate that. No longer will the renorter be able to lightly call the “observer” the “weather man.” Hereafter he carefully must abstain from mentioning the name of the local representative of the bu reau, so far a* Is possible. He carefully must remember to call the local office the “local office of the United States weather bureau," and when he quotes the forecast he must be sure to have down the exact words of the forecaster and not stretch the prediction in any way. A little card expressing all these de sires of the “United States weather bu reau” was received by "Section Direc tor” Von—beg pardon—the section di rector of the local office in his morn ing’s mail, and faithfully he furnished it to the waiting reporters In spite of the cards however, he says I tie cold weather will nq longer be with us, and that within a few days it should be nice and warm. Clear skies . also are predicted. "But look at that smoke." he groaned us he pointed through the window. MILITIA CHIEFS TO NORFOLK. General William G. Obear, Colonel O'Leary and ''aptaln Kimbrough, of the j Georgia state troops, will leave for Nor folk this afternoon, where they will at, J lend on December 3-6 the annual meet- i ing of the National Guard UHa-x-iatiotN.Jal ./ 41 .... ... .