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Secretary to John E. Murphy,
Weary of Life, Shoots
Self in Abdomen.
SAYS HE ONLY REGRETS HE
DIDN’T KILL SELF OUTRIGHT
Employer. Certain Accounts
Are Straight. Is Unable to
Account for Act.
Wea ■ "f life, S. W. Higgins, private,
o John E. Murphy, Atlanta
capitalist, put a bullet in his abdomen
in his roan ■ in the Tallulah apartments
„n Washington street this morning, and
as he lay dying in Grady hospital ut
g etful sigh that he hafi not
sent the fatal lead through his head, so
that ae might have expired imme
diately.
Higgins i.- about 40 years old and has
lived in Atlanta for the last eighteen
years. H< is known to hundreds as
■■Scab.'' He was a jovial, likeable sort
nf man and appeared to have few cares.
M: Murphy hurried to the hospital
'as soon as he heard of the shooting and
spoke a few comforting words to the
apparently dying man.
“Tired of Life”
His Only Reason.
"Higgins told me,” said Mr. Murphy,
"that I, ‘ had tried to commit suicide
becaus he was tired of life. He would
not git. any other reason.”
Mt. Murphy said that Higgins always
had been a cheerful, competent em
ployee and he could think of no reason
fur him to be so despondent as to desire
to end hi, life. Higgins had been work
ing for the Atlanta, capitalist for the
last twelve years.
As far as Mr. Murphy knows, the
would-be suicide has but one relative, a
sister living in Savannah. She will be
notified nf the shooting. Mr. Murphy
added that ho was certain Higgins' ac
• •■tints all were straight and that it was
nothing in his work that led him to his
act,
I’.it.y. ians at the Grady hospital said
- little hope for the wounded
' 1 xpected him to die before
i -iit'Aii. The bullet entered the abdo-
" and s.werad vital organs.
T-T-T-TH-THROW U-P-P-UP
HANDS. STUTTERS ROBBER
s I l.itl’is Dec. —The highway
;'i w|m attacked Frank Hoffman may
I” "• ■ iititi.■<] by his halting speech.
"T-t-t-t-th-th-throw up-p-p-p y-y
---)"-y<i-yo-ur hands," the man stam
tn<n.| Hoffman did. "G-g-g-g-give
ni-tn-ni-ine y-y-y-your m-ni-tn —"
Aw, si,-,- interrupted Hoffman. "Cut
out t'vtng to talk and get the money.
I <l"n't want that gun pointing at me
so long.”
1 "" robber kept still for the rest of
i'" ■• •dm •• and managed to extract
front Hoffman.
DIES OF BROKEN HEART
WHERE WIFE TOOK LIFE
'HO, Dee. s.—An inquest was
a the case of Louis Larson.
■ 1 >und dead on the floor of his
- Grand avenue. He had
sing four days. The police de
had been dead three or four
1,1 months ago Larson's wife
suicide by inhaling gas in
in which Larson was found
-on received s.’>oo as a bene
"K to N. a. Anderson, of
North avenue, his brother
' 'son sqid Larson probably
” 1 broken heart.
LT; TO AVOID BALDNESS:
EAI THAT IS ALL- -EAT!
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1 >r< - •' -Kat lightly and
‘I the Polish Medical SOcie
' Hotel La Salle listening
the address of Dr. Henry
11 "’■! passed their hands over,
"f their heads where hair
st of them looked doubt
bermin spoke on the gen
of baldness and told his
' '“"- h somewhat hairless
<ll baldness had its origin
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1 ' Several Rome
’ ' lu ’'r arms broken while
l ut ontoliiies Sproull
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'h’tiin. . ||,. was erank
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The Atlanta Georgian
Fead For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results.
Stock Brokers Shiver
Over Prospect of Probe
Into Exchange Secrets
Pujo Money Trust Committee to
Air Operations of Wall
Street Board.
NEW YORK, Dei's s.—stock ex
change brokers here today experienced
a series if chills when it became known
that when the Pujo money trust com
mittee meets in Washington Monday it
will consider the matter of the secret
operations of the New York stock ex
change. Samuel Untertneyer has re
peatedly declared the Pujo committee
would give the stock exchange “an air
ing.”
Revelations made today of an in
vestigation conducted here confirm his
prediction. The investigation of this
financial institution is looked upon as a
serious matter by men thoughtful in
finance, and an inkling of what the com
mittee intends to bring out was easily
guessed when the line of information
suggested by its special representatives,
who have been here for several days,
became know:}. Thus far the data gath
ered tends to show that trading in the
exchange is mostly speculative.
ROME OWLS DEMAND
ACCOUNTING OF CASH
FROM LOCKER CLUB
ROME, GA., Dec. 5. —Sensational al
legations as to the conditions in the
Owls club, and a demand for an ac
counting and a distribution of funds
among the members are made in a pe
tition filed in the superior court. The
suit is an outcome of the recent cru
sade closing all the locker clubs in
Rome, and has caused quite a stir. Six
members are plaintiffs in the proceed
ings.
The indignant Owls claim that when
the club was closed the stock of whis
kies and beer was divided equally
among 229 members, but that there
should now be in the hands of the
treasurer $2,000. belonging equally to
its members in good standing, which
should be distributed upon demand of
the members. It is claimed that the
$2,000 is being frittered away in pay
ing idle people salaries and that the
money is spent without due authority
and wrongfully misapplied. Gross mis
management is charged also. Judge
Maddox will hear the petition Decem
ber 11.
HAYNE WINNER OVER
LITTLETON IN RACE
FOR AUGUSTA MAYOR
AUGUSTA, GA., Dec. s.—By a ma
jority of 79 votes, L. C. Hayne was
elected mayor of Augusta over Dr. Lit
tleton in yesterday’s regular city elec
tion. Dr. Littleton was the A. P. A.
candidate. The Hayne ticket for coun
cilmen won in four of six wards. In
the First and Fifth wards there were
no candidates representing that fac
tion.
Last summer the Littleton faction re
fused to go into a primary, claiming
that the Hayne crowd controlled the
primary election machinery. The cam
paign from that time was bitter.
Littleton carried the First. Fourth,
Fifth and Sixth wards by majorities
aggregating 340, of which 287 was se
cured in the Fifth. 40 in the Fourth. 18
in the Sixth, and sin the First. Hayne
carried the Second and Third wards by
419 majority, getting 234 in the Sec
ond and 185 in the Third.
HEIRS OF VICTIMS
IN DOUBLE TRAGEDY
FIGHT OVER ESTATE
COLUMBUS, GA.. Dec. s.—One of
the hardest fought legal battles ever
waged in Muscogee county has been in
progress for the past two days, in which
Mrs. Loula D. Barlow is seeking to set
up a will to the property of her sister,
Mrs. Blanche Robarts. who was shot
and killed on August 27 last by her
husband.
Mrs. Barlow claims that just before
her sister died she willed all of her
property to her. The heirs of A. M.
Robarts. the husband, who also killed
himself, claim that inasmuch as Mrs.
Robarts died before her husband, he
became her heir, and that consequently
the property revet ted to his heirs at his
death shortly after that of his wife.
The hearing of the. contest was before
Ordinary William Redd, of Muscogee
county, who has not handed down In
decision.
CONGRESS ATTACKED*
FOR PANAMA BILL IN
CANUCK PARLIAMENT
OTTAWA. ONT.. Dec. 5. —The United
States congress was hotly denounced in
parliament yesterday by Sir Geo. Ross,
a Liberal, in an attack on the Ameri
can Panama canal administration bill.
Sir George demanded that Canada
"take drastic action" through the Brit
ish embassy at Washington.
The Canadian Pacific ralway is al
leged to have inspired political activity
against the Panama canal bill because
of the clause relating to railroad owned
ships.
JAP CABINET RESIGNS.
TOKIO, Dm. 5. The expected ■ Isis
in the Japanese ministry caused by
difflt ult.v in tilling the vacant portfolio
of minister of war came toilai when
Hie cabinet resigned in a body, led by
Premier Marquis Saiottji.
ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1912.
GIRL POISONS
HLRSELFHS
EX-SUITOR
LEAHS
Miss Katherine Fleeman Takes
Strychnine When Arthur Fol-
som Quits Her “Forever.”
LAYS LOVE TRAGEDY TO
BEAUTY-MARRING FIRE
Man in Case Boards Train Ob-
livious of Deed of For-
mer Sweetheart.
While pretty Katherine Fleeman lies
close to death today m a white ward
at the Georgian hospital, stricken by a
dose of powerful poison she took to
kill herself, her erstwhile sweetheart,
Arthur H. Folsom, a young automobile
dealer, is believed to be speeding to
New York apparently unmindful of her
fate. v
Leaving her standing on the curb in
front of a boarding house at 101 Capi
tol avenue last night, after informing
her that all was oveff between them,
young Folsom, without a backward
glance, speeded up his machine and
proceeded downtown.
While several women, occupants of
the boarding house, watched her from
the porch, Miss Fleeman stood for a
moment in indecision. Then, taking a
small box of strychnine tablets from
her bag, she swallowed them all, then
went to her room and fell in to convul
sions.
Called Sweetheart
To Come Back.
"Arthur, come back to me," she
called, as the tail lights of Folsom’s big
machine turned into Mitchell street.
Apparently ignoring the girl’s pre
dicament, Folsom drive his machine
to James street and spent some time in
the company of friends. According to
the information given at the house of
his father, Henry L. Folsom, 794 Pied
mont avenue, the youth left for New
York at 12 o’clock last night.
When Miss Fleeman’s condition was
realized, her fellow boarders, who had
watched the closing scene of the little
drama, rushed to her assistance.
"Let me alone." she screamed, strug
gling with her friends: "I want to die.
1 have nothing to live for now. He has
left me forever, because I was burned
and have lost my beauty.”
It was after 9 o’clock before Miss
Fleeman. still in spasms from the ef
fects of the drug, was taken to the
Georgian hospital, in Capitol avenue,
and treated with antidotes. Physicians
at the institution said today that they
had hopes for her recovery, but that
her condiion was serious.
Miss Fleeman’s split with young Fol
som, according to the girl's friends, had
been coming on for some time. Their
acquaintance had lasted five years, al
though Henry L. Folsom, the boy's fa
ther, denied strenuously that the pail
ever had been engaged.
Mrs. Lambert, who keeps the board
ing house at I<H Capitol avenue, and
before whose door the near-tragedy
was enacted, is authority for the state
ment that Miss Fleeman has been de
spondent for weeks over the turn her
affair with Folsom had taken.
"She bought a bottle of chloroform
several weeks ago, and I took it away
from her." said Msr. Lambert. “I did
not know she had the strychnine last
night.”
Beauty Marred by
Accidental Burning.
Last spring Miss Fleeman, who is
said to have been a handsome young
woman, was severely burned at a house
in West End, where her clothes caught
fire from an open grate. Since that
time her health has been bad.
Her friends say that during the last
two weeks Folsom's visits have been ir
regular. and he had told her that they
had besj, call it off.
His coldness, coupled with iter de
pleted physical condition, is given by
Iler friends as the motive for her action.
Miss Fleeman was admitted to the
Georgian hospital as a private patient,
and it was said she was doing well and
would recover, Siu w is not permitted
to talk of the case.
Mrs. I ,;iinliert declared that the girl
appeared despondent on many occa
sions, and Mrs. Lambert thought this
was due to the death of her father, the
girl's illness following her burns, and
her inability to do well in her business
course.
"Tuesday night." said Mrs. Lambert,
"Mr. Folsom came to the house, and
Hie two sat a while in the parlor. Then
they went out for an automobile ride,
and when she got back she said to me,
'lt's all off.' She said they had quar
reled again and could not agree. Last
night she called him up on the phone
and asked him around. He did not
come inside, so Miss Fleeman put on a
wrap and went out and sat in the auto
mobile at the curb.
Presently she < ante in and went to
her bed. She lay down and told me she
had taken poison She did not swoon
on tin sidewalk. Dr. Buford came in.
and we did what we eould to restore
her.
"Mr. Folsom hid been to set Miss
Fieeman ■-> veral times of Into He oe
< asioimlit took lier io the theater, but
tint had mu attendcd*for some time."
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Cornell Student Gains Weight on Reduced Food
LIVES ON 85c PER WEEK
ITHACA, Dec. s.—Raymond Prior
Sanford, of Ithaca, a freshman in the
Cornell College of Agriculture, upon his
own initiative, has undertaken an ex
periment in the study of the actual cost
of sufficient food to keep the body in a
normal, healthy condition. He is mak
ing the experiment upon himself, hav
ing begun on July 4, 1912. when he
entered the summer school here. The
average cost of his food since that time
has been 85 cents a week.
"Two years ago,” said Sanford, “I
read of an undergraduate at Harvard
who, while working his way through
the university, lived on a dollar a week.
When I came here this summer my
funds were small and waiting on table
took so much time that I thought I
would try to see just how cheaply a
fellow eould live without giving up
anything essential to good health and
comfort. The first week I lived on but
ter, eggs and milk, with a little vegeta
ble stuff added. That week $1.50 in
cluded my gas bill.
"The second week I substituted pea
nut butter for regular butter, believing
ft contained all of the fat that butter
contains. I cut out eggs; they were too
expensive. I wont out on the lawns and
dug dock and dandelions and ate that
for my green stuff. During the last five
weeks of summer school my board bill
was $4.25.
“From October 1 to 28 1 had a chance
to experiment more with different foods
WARM MUNICIPAL RACE
IN PROGRESS AT BAXLEY
BAXLEY, GA., Dec. s.—The warmest
campaign that has been waged for years
in Baxley for municipal offices is now on.
The primary Is to be held on Friday,
with two live tickets in the field. The
administration faction has offered Dr. J.
E. Overstreet, one of Baxley's most
prominent physicians and a former may
or, to head their ticket for mayor, with
G N. Weatherly. B W Taylor and H. J.
Jenkins as eouncilmen. The opposition is
running Dave M Parker, a young attor
ney, for mayor, and’)' W. Melton. W F
Brigman and it L. Chambers for cuun
eilinen
Copyright, 1912, International News Service.
and their weekly cost varied from 80
cents to sl. One week it was just 63
cents. In those twenty-eight days I
gained three and two-thirds pounds in
weight.
“My present diet consists of skimmed
milk, which I buy at two cents a quart;
buttermilk, three cents a quart; stale
bread, three cents a loaf; peanut but
ter, ten pounds for $1.50, ordinarily 20
cents a pound; raisins, three pounds for
25 cents; lentils, 10 cents a pound; raw
cabbages, onions, peppers, rice, oatmeal
and what apples I can forage from the
agricultural farms.
"I have consulted the professors of
the home economies department of the
agricultural college, and they tell me
that my diet contains all that is neces
sary for sustenance and much more. My
present plans are to continue this ex
periment until 1 leave college, gathering
data as 1 go along."
Miss Martha Vanßensst laei. profes
sor of home economies, to whom San
ford has applied for information re
garding his diet, said of him:
"He is a strong, healthy, good-looking
young man. and certainly displays great
self-control to deny himself food which
would taste better, although that food
which he does eat has the same con
stituents as those of substances which
go to make up the average meal. His
food is just as nourishing as the meats
w hich richer men cat "
THIS IS “COLUMBUS DAY”
AT GEORGIA-ALABAMA FAIR
COLUMBUS, GA„ Dec. s.—Today is
being observed at the Georgia-Alabama
fair as Columbus day. A special pro
gram was prepared for the occasion
consisting of horse races, airshir
flights, balloon ascensions, fireworks
displays and minor attractions.
The day was opened with a patade,
in which the mayor and aldermanic
body, members of the police and tire de
partments and other representatives of
different departments of tin city gov
ernment participated. Two bantls fur
nished music
POSTMS OF
GEORGIAFDRLORN
■ /
Commissions of Three in First
Class Offices Will Expire
Before March 1.
The attitude of the Democratic sen
ators toward the appointments of
President Taft, to be made between this
time and the adjournment of the pres
ent congress, has brought scant joy to
those postmasters in Georgia whose
commissions expire within the next 90
days.
It assures them a short lease of offi
cial life over and beyond their allotted
time, but it shuts the door of hope for
them so far as further full terms are
concerned.
The commissions of at least three
first class ami highly important Geor
gia postmasters expire between now
and March 1.
Postmaster Edwards, of Macon, will
lie commission!' ss in January; Post
master Barclay, of Rome, will be in
the same fix in February, and Post
master Longstreet, of Gainesville, on
Saturday of this week.
If President Taft recommissions
them, the senate will not confirm the
appointments; if he does not recom
mission them, they merely will hold un
til their successors can be named by
President Wilson, which will not be
long after March 4.
Anyway the present Georgia post
masters look at the problem, they do
not see how they can win. If they
are reappointed, they fail to land the
Jobs; if they are not reappointed, they
fail ot land them, of course—and the
only thing they can hope for. in either
event, is a continuance in office until
Just so soon after March 4 as President
Wilson can have blue-ribboned com
missions made out for their Democratic
successors in office.
EXTRA
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE p^ c
STROKE OF 12
MARKS END
OF CAMINO
EVIL
Police See That Slot Machines.
Are Banished Promptly
at Noon Today.
CHIEF BEAVERS iS NOT
ANTICIPATING TROUBLE
Proprietors of Places Operating
Frauds Now Reconciled to
Decree of Council.
The clock striking 12 for the hour of
noon today sounds the knell of the slot:
gambling,machines that h&ve cost At
lanta between $200,000 and $500,00.) %
year.
Within little more than a week after
The Georgian started its campaign to
rid the city of these fraudulent devices
that have robbed hundreds of the fool
ish of money they could ill spare, coun
cil has enacted an ordinance banishing
them and a vigilant chief of police stood
ready today to enforce the law.
The city has cut the Gordian knot of
technicalities and virtually all of the
proprietors of places operating the ma
chines have reconciled themselves to
the new statute.
Chief Reavers notified Captain Mayo
to have his men inspect every locker
club, neat-beer saloon and pool room
as the clock strikes 12 today to see it
the machines have been removed.
Many Machines
Already Removed.
The chief has learned that many ot
the machines already have been re
moved and said this morning that he
anticipated no trouble. He instructed
Captain Mayo that the devices must
not only be out of operation, but out ot
the places where they have been stand
ing these many months stolidly raking
in the dollars from gullible players.
Captain Mayo's men have been in
structed to make cases against any
pool room, locker club or near-beer sa
loons in which one of the slot gambling
machines is found after the noon hour.
Offenders will he brought before Re
corder Broyles, who has announced hia (
entire sympathy with the ordinaneu
which prescribes penalties of $l9O tims
or 30 days in the stockade, or both.
ILLINOIS LAWMAKER
WOULD STOP BLACKS
AND WHITES WEDDING
BELLEVILLE, ILL., Dec. s.—En
raged by tile marriage of Jack Johnson,
the negro and Lucille Cameron, white,
Charles A. Karch a member of the Il
linois state legislature, stated today hd
would Introduce a bill at the coming
session to prohibit the intermarriage ol
whites and blacks.
“The marriage of that negro to a
white girl in Chicago Is a blemish on
the name of the state," said Karch. "Il
linois is one of the few states of thd
Union which allow miscegenation, amt
it is time to put a stop to it. If this
girl’s mother was powerless to prevent
a rash and terrible act. It is high tiind
the law should intervene. 1 believe tha
white race should be kept free from
taint.”
A DAY CHANGES GIRL
FROM WARD TO SOLE
OWNER OF $20,000,000
L.\ PORTE, INI’. Dec 5 Yesterday
Miss Catherine Barker was a ward. To
day she Is in sole possession of the $20.”
000.000 estate left by her father. John H,
Barker, who was head of the Haskell-
Barker Car Company, of Michigan City,
the largest manufacturers of freight cars
in-the world.
Until Miss Barker became of age. tho
estate 'was in rare of James B. Forgan,
president of th< First National bank, o£
Chicago. Mr. Barker, died in 1910
When it became known the young
woman was the sole heir of $20,000,000,
fortune hunters from al over the world
sought her band. She received thousands
of letters asking alms and proposing va
rious ways to spend her money. The let
ters never went further than the trustee.
Miss Barker is a devotee of outdooff
sports.
THIS BURGLAR TRIPS UP
ON PAIR OF SUSPENDERS
CHICAGO, Dec. 5.—A burglar wh®.
got tangled up in a pair of suspenderg
caused excitement in the household of
Gustave Struckure. at 811 West Huron
street early today. Struckure tired
several shots at the robber, who leaped
through a kitchen window and escaiied.
He carried away a pocketbook con
taining $9. w hich lb found in the trotis.,
ers to which tin suspenders were at
taelied