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OL. XL NO. 111.
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■dqe Pendleton Upholds Act
■s Constitutional While Ex
f tending His Sympathy.
■oULD HAVE OPPOSED IT
I IF MEMBER LEGISLATURE
"iB County officials fighting tne new sal
’.aw were given a iolt today when
J. T. Pendleton, of the Fulton
court, upheld the mandamuses
by the county commissioners
Andrew P. Stewart, tax collec
.l. W. Armistead, tax receiver, and
R. Wilkinson, ordinary.
is the first time since tne salary
was passed that it has been tested
,hp courts - and tlle county officials
jaMm appeal Judge Pendleton's decision
the supreme court of the state. The
e contend that the saiar\ act is nn-
:optional, and for that reason nave
to make a report of expenses
to running their offices.
■With J D. Kilpatrick representing
three officials and Luther Z. Rosser,
sßuVv attorney, acting for rhe board of
the mandamuses came
fl>r bearing before Judge Pendleton.
-owing arguments by Kilpatrick and
. the court declared that he must
the mandamuses and declare
new law constitutional.
Budge Extends
Sympathy.
"There are a number of ugly features
.he new law. but I do not think that
affect its validity or that they
"However, I sympathize
these officials and their stand. Had
■Mbe.n in the legislature which passed
*?Mlis act. I would have voted against it.”
■■ Ail the other county officials except
Bi three mandamused have turned in
schedule of expenses. The hear
before the supreme court will not
up for many months, in the
it is thought that the ofli-
BMlals will continue to operate their of-
S under the old fee system, which
new ,aw renders obsolete.
declares Act Is
■Jnfair to Officials.
aB Asserting that the act gave the coun
auditor power to do everything but
an official’s cigar account, Kil
trick attacked the constitutionality of
new law.
aS "It is a fine example of unfair legis-
said Kilpatrick, “instigated by
who believe that any reform
Bh-y advocate should be rammed down
throats of the people. It is like the
that seeks to give the re-
additional power so that a man
®San be sent to jail for six or twelve
because he doesn’t follow the
certain people direct. It is bad law
be traveled."
Ml He launched his attacks on the law
:; - \ari.ius angles. leaving hardly a
of the legislation untouched.
1 " said that it was unconstitutional in
ways.
[accuses husband
OF T AK 1 N G LODGE
FUNDS HELD BY HER
H '-sorting that her husband was not
Bl'""tent to live off her earnings alone.
■ ‘tic took funds belonging to a lodge of i
B ieh she was treasurer, Mrs. Annie I
■ 1 ■ Barry told superior court today
■ "■anted a divorce from William R. I
■ ’iai i-y. she also asked an alimony ver- I
■ ■ t. hoping the court would make Rar- |
■ ' go to work.
B, 'lts. Barry said tiiat shortly after
I wr marriage her husband told tier to I
■ ‘t a job and earn some money. As I
■ ’? as she obtained employment, she I
Bi'?' Ile quit wor k and lived from her;
■ 'me. When funds were short he
■ upped into the treasury of the lodge, I
k ’' nr ’b p was forced to make the short-
■ ' good. In addition to this, she as-
I iied, he treated her cruelly.
115-YEAR-OLD SLAYER
ASSERTS HE WAS DRUNK
I SI'NBURY. PA.. Dec. ll.—Peter Ber-
■ fifteen-year-old slayer < f
■ hirles Augustine, of Exchange, was
■ “d before Judge Moser and as teats
■ • oiled down the boy's cheeks he was
■ 'deneed to serve a term of ten years
■ purate confinement and hard labjr
■ Im county prison
H 'hen asked why he had killed \u-
■ ' the boy said lie did not know.
■ ’’'ng he was drunk at the time of
■ crime.
Write It 12-12-12:
YotTll Not Get Chance
Again in Your Lifetime
These Identical Numbers for
Month, Day and Year Will
First Occur Again in 2012.
When you took your pen in hand to
day and dashed off the date in your
usual hurry, you did something you
never can do again in your lifetime.
You wrote three identical numbers for
the month, day and year—l 2-12-12, just
like that.
Just a year and a month and a day
ago there was a combination of six
straight lines, 11-11-11, for the date.
But this is the last time you'll ever have
the three numbers all alike. For there
isn’t any "13” month.
The three-number combination will
not occur again until 2010. The three
twelve combination can not be used
again until 2012.
However, if you're fond of thirteens,
tomorrow will be Friday, the thir
teenth, an excellent day to refrain from
betting on what Mr. Woodward will do
next, or when the smoke nuisance will
be abated.
CONFESSES PLOT TO
SLAY WILSON ON HIS
RETURN TO COUNTRY
NEW YORK, Dec. 12. —On his con
fession that he planned the assassina
tion of President-elect Wilson on his
return from Bermuda as well as that of
a former employer, Herman Steinberg
was held for the grand jury w ithout bail
this afternoon by Magistrate Cornell in
the Tombs police court. Steinberg, who
said he w-as nineteen years old, had
been arrested an hour previous to his
arraignment outside the Oak street sta
tion by Detective Gorevan.
When searched a revolver, full loaded,
which he said he- had purchased in
Hartford. Conn., to carry out his plan
of assassination, was found In his pos
session.
LOCKER CLUB CASES
TO BE HEARD SOON
IN CRIMINAL COURT
Indictments returned by the Fulton
grand jury some six months ago against
the officers of ten Atlanta locker clubs
are booked for an early trial in city
criminal court. Because the true bills
charge the locker organizations with
violation of the prohibition law, a mis
demeanor, the authorities had the cases
transferred from superior to city court.
Judge Calhoun announced yesterday
that he hoped to call the first locker
club case today If the run of his docket
permitted it.
These indictments were returned last
spring after the grand jury, of which
T. K. Glenn was foreman, had made an
Investigation of locker club conditions.
Mr. Glenn financed the investigation
and as a result of testimony- given to
the jury- by his detectives, indictments
were returned against the proprietors of
ten organizations.
HELD FOR KILLING AFTER
ONCE BEING EXONERATED
WAYCROSS, GA., Dec. 12.—J. O.
Brown, returning here today to an
swer to charges that grew Out of the
killing of P. W. Sweat, an Atlantic
Coast L’ine section foreman, was con
fronted with a w-arrant charging mur
der, after he had been exonerated by
a preliminary- hearing. Bail has been
allowed. The trouble between Brown
and Sweat was because of relations
Sweat claimed Brown bad with one of
his daughters.
RACES
ENTRIES.
AT JUAREZ.
FIRST —Selling, two year olds, fur
longs (8): xGreen Cloth 100. xLoan
Shark 100. Azurea 102. Maud McKee 102.
xGarden of Allah 102, Pretty Dale 102,
Janus 105, Tom G. 105.
SECOND—Selling, four y ear olds, 8 fur
longs (16): xßarney Oldfield 105, Oswald
B. 106, Quick Trip 106, Annual Interest
106, Rye White 106. Sir Barry 106, Prin
cess Industry 106, Guy Spencer 106, Black
Mate 106. Ki" l'"l. l’f<.re 106. Sw-<l« Sam
106, Godfather 100, Suffragist 109, Bell
Snicker 109.
THlßD—Selling, three year olds and up.
mile I 151: El I’atO 103. Lehigh 103.
Hughie Quinn 106, xßalcliff 107. xßuby
Knight 107, Folk 112, Dorothy Ledgett 112.
Aragonez 112, M. Cambrni 112, John Louis
112. Lambertha 112. Rose Vale 112. Lotta
Creed 112. Force 115. Judge Walton 115.
FOURTH Banduni', all ages, 7 fur
longs (5): Cross Over 98. Loween 100.
Lack Rose 105, G. M. Miller 112, Melton
Street 113.
FlFTH—Selling. 3 year olds. 6 furlongs
(6): Evelina 102, Tilford Thomas 105,
Mlmorioso 108, Russell McGill 108, Oak
land 111. Sepulveda 114
SIXTH Selling. 3 year olds ami up,
mile i 5): Sister Florence 95. Mycenae
101 Ymir 108. Flying Eeet 108. Eeather
Duster 113.
xApprentlce allowance claimed.
Weather cloudy; track fast.
THE WEATHER
Forecast: Fair and colder tonight
and tomorrow. Temperatures: 8 a.
m., 29; 10 a. m„ 30: 12 neon. 32; 2
p. m., 34.
ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1912.
ROCKEFELLER
IKK KBS
CHE 8F
ll PSNIC
Coup in Copper on Wall Street
Brought Disaster to Nation.
Probers Hear.
POCKETED MILLIONS AND
BROKE LITTLE INVESTORS
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—Having
established the facts that a vast ma
jority of the transactions on the New-
York stock exchange are speculations
wherein nothing of value passes be
tween purchaser and seller, anil that
the Rockefeller-Rogers group made mil
lions out of a. market coup in Copper
in -1907, the Pujo congressional com
mittee investigating the money- trust
settled down today to hear further in
iquities of Wall Street.
According to evidence before the
committee, the copper coup, carried off
by William Rockefeller and H. H. Rog
ers in the spring of 1907, was largely
responsible for the panic that year.
After driving the price of copper to a
high water mark, Rockefeller and Rog -
ers unloaded their holdings, making
millions in profits, and thousands of
little investors were wiped out. *
Immense Longs >
Daily for Speculation. . .
That 110.000,0<)0 is the average amount
lent daily for the transaction of busi
ness on the New York stock
was among the startling testimony
given today. Sometimes the amount
has run as high as $35,000,000.
The witness who gave this testimony
was J. H. Griesel. wh" has be» n a mem
ber of the New York stock exchange
for 29 years. In tiis testimony Griesel
spoke carelessly of vast sums as thougli
he were discussing dollars and cents
instead of millions.
The biggest lenders, the witness said,
are the ('base National bank, the City
bank, the National Bank of Commerce,
the First National bank, Speyer & Co.,
Kuhn Loeb & Co., and J. P. Morgan &
Co.
The witness described himself -as a
member of the “loan crowd” on the
New York exchange, and testified that
the lending usually began at about 11
o'clock, or an hour after tlie stock mar
ket opened in the morning.
When the witness began to use tech
nical terms, Attorney Samuel linter
ineyer, counsel for the committee, asked
the meaning of the phrase “renewal
rate,” which Griesel had mentioned sev
eral times. This, said the witness, was
the amount of money known to be avail
able each morning for exchange pur
poses.
Mr. Griesel qualified as an authority
on the subject when he said he repre
sented a number of big banking houses
on the New York stock exchange.
“Kuhn Loeb & Co. and J. P. Morgan &
Co. do a big business, but do not stay
in the market all th ■ time.” said the
witness. "Sometimes they are out of
the market for a month at a time. No
body goes to Morgan & Co. unless they
need help badly.”
“The City bank.” he testified, “did not
loan as much money a- Kuhn Loeb &
Co. Sometimes Kuhn Loeb & Co., when
they get a lot of money from a bond is
sue, lend out $15,000,000 a day,
“This is true of the other big lenders
also.”
Untermeyer asked the witness if he
had a record of his business on Novem
ber 29, when call money at 20 per
cent. Griesel thought he loaned $20,000,-
000 on that day. Griesel said the bulle
tin record of the loans at the money
stand did not cover any loans made
after 12 o’clock. On November 29 about
$5,000,000 was loaned before noon. On
that day the witness loaned $10,000,000
between 2 and 2:30 o’clock.
Brokers Never
See Collateral.
The loan brokers. Griesel said, never
saw the collateral. The loan clerks in
the banks took care of that. Steel
stock was considered the best collat
eral, even when it paid no dividend.
"Steel always had a wide margin,” said
Griesel.
Untermeyer wanted to know if Steel
got a "wide margin" because It was
thought good collateral. The witness
said he could not answer that
“You cun put mon- New York Central
common into n loan than Steel," finally
said the witness, trying to make a dis
tinction between the character of col
lateral and the amount of money that
ould be rained on a particular stock.
■ Chorus Girls to Sell Georgians for Christmas Fund
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Gus Edwards and Troupe Will
Entertain at Five Points for
Poor Kiddies.
The contributions to date follow:
J. M. Slaton $25
F. J. Paxon 25
R. F. Maddox 25
Forrest Adair 25
J. W. English 25
John E. Murphy 25
W. T. Gentry 25
George Adair 25
Joe| Hurt 25
W. H. Glenn 25
E. H. Inman 25
A friend 25
John W Grant 10
Henry Durand 10
R. J. Guinn 5
E. P. Ansley ... 21 5
E. C. Peters 5
M. L. Thrower 5
S. B. Turman 5
M rs. J. M. Slaton 10
Mrs. E. L. Connally 10
Mrs. Robert Maddox 5
Mrs. J. M. High 5
Mrs. George McKenzie 5
Mrs. P. H. Alston 5
Oscar Elsas 10
M. H. Wilensky 5
A friend 5
J. S. Akers 5
Clifford L. Anderson 5
Dr. E. G. Ballinger ... 5
Chief J. L. Beavers 5
Carlos Mason 10
Marion Jackson 5
A friend 5
Mr. and Mrs. John F. Kiser ... 10
Morris Brandon 10
Dr. George BrCwn 5
J. P. Allen 5
Robert L. Cooney 5
J. J. Disosway 5
Marion Cobb and Florence
Jackson Bryan, Jr 5
Total $490
Pretty chorus girls will sell Georgians
at Five Points next Saturday afteinoon
for the Empty Stocking Fund, while
Gus Edwards, composer, dancer and
pianist, will rip unlimited ragtime out
of a piano it. a big automobile truck.
That’s tin contribution of Manager
Hugh Cardoza, of the Grand theater.
Continued on Page Two
Banish the Ghost of an Empty
Stocking From Your Xmas Feast
On Christmas mornin" your children will .jump from their
warm beds to run laughing in glee to the well-filled stockings
at the mantel, filled in the night by a Santa Claus whose liber
ality was limited only by your good fortune in a year which
has been prosperous. They will shout with joy over the good
things Santa has bought, and you, smiling at their joy. will find
the greatest happiness of your own Christmas clay.
But if you could look through the walls and across many
streets you might see a little room, dark and comfortless,
where a child is sitting on a tireless hearth, clasping an empty
stocking. hung there on Christmas eve because the unquestion
ing faith of a child was stronger than the cold reasoning of
the parents who knew only too well that Santa Claus comes
not to the homes of the penniless.
Ts you could see that picture on Christmas morning wouldn’t
you pause in your happy merriment and say:
“If I had only known in time!”
The Georgian, by its Empty Stocking fund, is trying to tell
you in time. Contribute as liberally as yon can, and your
Christmas morning will be happier for the realization that you i
did what you could.
Send your contribution to the Christinas Editor of The
Georgian.
GIRL, WOUNDED BY
TOY PISTOL, LOSES
EYE; MAY NOT LIVE
Following a surgical operation for
the removal of her left eye, Bessie Tug
gle, the ten-year-old girl shot by her
small brother with a toy pistol, still is
unconscious in Grady hospital. It is
believed the bullet is imbedded in he
brain.
The condition of the little girl is pre
carious, and the physicians are in
doubt as to her chances of recovery.
Whether a further operation will b<i
performed In an •■ffoii to locate th ■
bullet has not been decided.
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NIGHT
EDITION ♦
UNION TELEGRAPHERS
OF WESTERN UNION CO.
THREATEN TO STRIKE
SIOUX CITY, IOWA, Dec. 12.—A tel
egraph operators' strike in the Western
Union Telegraph Company's offices
throughout the country is Inevitable,
according to statements by S. J. Konen
kamp, president of the Commercial
Telegraphers' Union of America.
Konenkamp said he ha<] demanded of
the officials that the six operators dis
charged for joining the union be rein
stated. The company refused. He will
leave for Chicago tonight to go Into
conference with othe: officials of the
organization
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE ’’i^l 0
BROWN AGAIN
REFUSES TO
RESPITE
GUY
Family Asks That Doomed Man
Be Given More Time to
“Prepare for Eternity.”
SLAYER LISTENS UNMOVED
TO BUILDING OF GALLOWS
Two ne>< pleas were before Governo»
Brown today- for clemency- in the case
of Robert Lee Clay, condemned to die
on the scaffold at noon tomorrow in
Fulton county jail.
His attorney, L. F. McClelland, went
before Governor Brown and asked a
stay of execution in order tiiat the case
might be carried before the prison
board for a hearing. ■
Tiie faithfuK’father and suiter asked
that he be permitted to live another 30
days, if for no other reason than that
h<- might “better prepare himself to
meet his God."
Both pleas were denied by Governor
Brown, who announced that he would
not Interfere in the case.
Convinced Clay Has
Had Every Protection.
r The governor was late getting t<s ’hf'rf
office today. He spent last night in
Marietta, and It was well after noon
when he reached Atlanta. He found
the Clays waiting for him —this time
fortified witli an attorney.
The governor listened patiently- to ins
petitioners, but it was evident soon aft
er they had departed that no profound
impression m the direction of clemency
had been made upon his mind.
He is convinced tiiat Clay lias had
every protection tiiat he is entitled to,
and lie is convinced, moreover, from a
reading of the record in the case, thai
the man's crime wg.s deliberate and
malicious murder. He does not believe
any end of justice would be served by
executive interference.
Women Sing Hymns
For Doomed Man.
He does not think, in addition, that
he is called upon to say how much time
a man shall have to prepare himself for
death in circumstances of this kind.
Dr. S. H. Green, county physician,
made another examination today of
Clay’s mental condition and declared
that he is sane. He asserted that tho
prisoner could talk rationally If he
would.
Dr. Green added that, for the first
time the prisoner showed traces of
nervousness and that he appeared to
be on the verge of a collapse as he
neared the noose.
Three women called on the .slayer to
day- and prayed and sang hymns for his
soul. Relatives also called to comfort
him.
His silence unbroken and his expres
sion of imbecility unchanged, was take;-,
from his cell on the second floor of the
Tower this morning and lodged in a lit
tle box of a room adjoining the death
chamber.
Over the condemned man was placed
a death watch and within sound of his
eats jailers busied themselves during
the morning with preparation for the
execution. Clay exhibited no interest
in the proceedings. He ate a hearty
breakfast tit 7 o'clock and smoked
cigarettes incessantly, but to his jailers
he showed no sign of weakening.
He sat silently cell starring
straight ahead witlrtßns jaw dropped
and his eyes fixed—exactly as he has
sat for four months, wearing what
three allenis's have pronounced a mask
of insanity.
Doomed Man’s
Attorney Gives Up Hope.
William M. Smith, the doomed man’s
attorney, said today that he had given
up all hope of saving his client’s life.
The governor, he said, was the last te
sort, and when the chief executive de
cided not to interfere with the sentence
of the court Clay's fate was sealed.
Smith asserted that he hoped to have
Dr. James Baird and Dr. S. H Green
ma ke artexamination of Clay today. He
said that Dr. Green had agreed to go to
the Jail and repeat his tests, but the at
torney de-dared that the doctors' exam
ination probably would be unfavorable
to the prisoner. He admitted that there
was little or no chance to prevent Clay’s
death
"There is no chance to obtain a lu
nacy commission to examine Clay,” said
I Smith. "Th<- law requires that a show
ing be mud .■ before tile governor if such
