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the weather p,. Fair tonight and Sun- ,rmer tonight. Temperatures: i ' JO degrees; 10 a. m.. 34 de -8 ees 12 noon. 39 degrees: 2 p. m.. 40 degrees ”voL. XL NO. 126. SEEK VEILED WOMAN IN POISON PROBE I Autopsy Made to Clear Death of John Perkins, the Man of Mystery. former wife of dead MAN CITED TO INQUEST She Says He Came to Atlanta to Kidnap Son Awarded to Her by Court. ■ d by a relative’s suspicion of f. U.\. an inquest over the body of j.,.:n Perkins, who died suddenly i istini- night at 23 Washington ~ ~e>. was begun this afternoon at 2:30 and an autopsy was performed mine whether death was caused bv pOiSOI). vr - Gussie Wingard, former wife of p.rXh.-. who had identified him Thurs , < , >rning, was subpenaed to the in < to tell what she knew of Perkins his fate, and it was evident that a _ investigation was to be made. ,i ,l Alexander, of Hillsboro, Ga., a ■ ahir-in-law of the dead man, ar v< r in Atlanta today, and it was his s;ispi'i‘>n and activity that led to the indues’. He told his suspicions to Cor ore Donehoo and Judge Pendleton of he superior court consented to the h" <ing of the inquest. It took place undertaking establishment of Harry G. Poole in East Hunter street, r« the body had lain since Wednes i nigh;, and evidence was expected to >e brought out concerning a heavi ly veiled woman who figures mysteri ously in the case. Story Told of Mysterious Woman. The stomach will be turned over to ik state chemist for analysis. The embalming fluid used to preserve the body will not interfere with the exam nation, according to Mr. Poole, as a formaldehyde fluid was used, and this hr s no effect upon traces of arsenic or other poisons left in the stomach. ircumstances surrounding the life • death of John Perkins; his being >' heed by the present Mrs. Wingard; kidnaping of their eldest son and her recent declarations that he came to Dlanta to kidnap the younger boy; visits to him by the latter, and a re (-•rted attempt by Mrs. Wingard to •wain Perkins' personal effects after his death led to her being summoned '•> the inquest today. Miss Martha C. Yeagin, who iias the •carding house where Perkins died, •-tated today that a mysteriously veiled "•••nan appeared just after the old man •id expired, and that she was about I •><• size and appearance of Mrs. Wln gaii. The latter denied that she had —en to the boarding house. Miss Yeargin told the story today' of • old man’s death and the visit of the mysteriously veiled woman. Standing at me foot of the stairs, at the spot "here Perkins died, she recounted • i t thing she could remember. All Ate Same Things Fw Supper, She Says. Hi ate supper downstairs with us t night." she said. "It couldn’t have n anything there that made him ■' ■. for we all ate the same things Uiout any sickness. It was about 3 "lock that night—Christmas—that we icird him walking upstairs making a noise. 'The old man is sick,' said my sis- Then we heard him come down ktairs, fast. 1 ran out in the hall. He • sitting on the bottom step, here, -nt by the street door. Get a doctor, quick,' lie said. ‘lf • 1 don't, I’ll be dead.' 1 ran to the engine house and a flre m ' time back with me. The old man •sktii him to a doctor and the flre- 1 iclephoned. Before a doctor or an "b'llam <• could come, the old mao dead right there on that step. Sees Veiled Woman Seize Dead Man's Coat. 'There was a lot of excitement then, ‘ourse. My sister and I were alono tb< house when Mr. Perkins got II k, but by this time there was quite a ’■le crowd of men and folks. The am ilance came up and brought a doctor. fills was when I noticed the veiled mm. She came in with the crowd, " I I thought perhaps -she was the wife one of the men. She bent dyer and :/ "d the dead man’s coat, and I asked to slop. She disappeared after- • rd. Yeg l r know Mrs. Wingard by ■Shi' used to live right back of ”'i No: I couldn't say whether oman wa.- Mrs. Wingard o' not. •s about ija same -iz* . and site IVO b"«m. Th.- ball a-n’t Continued on Page Two. The Atlanta Georgian 38 DYNAMITE! DEFENDANTS GUILTY; 2 GO FREE Herman G. Seiffert. of Milwau kee. and Daniel Buckley, of Davenport, la.. Acquitted. —— SENTENCES OF 39 YEARS POSSIBLE: 2 YEARS LIKELY I Sobs of Wives of Convicted Men Fill Court at Verdict. Appeal To Be Taken. INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 28.—Thirty eight of the 40 union labor officials ac cused of conspiracy in the transporta tion of dynamite were found guilty by j the verdict of the jury returned before i Judge Anderson in the Federal court here shortly before 10 o’clock today. ; Two of the accused men were acquitted. They were Herman G. Seiffert, of Mil-; waukee, and Daniel Buckley, of Daven port, lowa. The sound of a pindrop could have I been heard when Judge Anderson asked the jury: "Gentlemen, have you reached aver- i diet?" The answer came. ‘‘We have.’’ The report of the jury as read in I the court room follows: ‘‘We hereby find the defendants (then | followed 38 names. Frank Ryan lead ing, Hockin and C aney following) j guilty as charged in the indictment. “And the defendants Buckley and Seiffert not guilty.” Seiffert and Buckley were discharged at once, and the rest told to keep their seats and were taken in charge by I United States deputy marshals and I plain clothes men. Women Sob As Verdict Is Read. Judge Anderson announced court ad journed until 9:30 Monday morning, when he will take up the matter of sen tences. A few of the defendants paled no ticeably. but most of them sat un moved. The sobs of the women in the court room, In addition to the screaming of the child in the outer lobby, heightened the awfulness of the scene. Marshal Schmidt ordered all the cor ridors cleared on the second floor pre paratory to taking the prisoners away. Court adjourned at 10 a. m. The defendants were singled out one by one, and they were put in the charge of detectives. Butler, Ray and Smith sat chatting and laughing as the other defendants left. Procession Block Long Goes Back to Jail. Forming a procession one city block in length, headed by United States Marshal Schmidt and Superintendent of Police Hyland, the 38 prisoners were marched through crowded streets and landed safely at the Marion county jail at 10:50 o’clock. There was no demon stration. despite the fact that the en tire distance of five blocks was lined with crowds. Each defendant was handcuffed to the guard walking at his side. As the procession left the court building, the agony of the wives and children of the prisoners was heart rending. Tears came to the eyes of many women and men. out of sympa thy for them. No break was made, and the prison ers laughed and made remarks to their friends as they walked along to jail. I Deputy United States marshals were scattered through the crowds that formed along the line of march Woman Faints as Husband Is Called. The wives of nearly a score of the defendants were in court when tile ver dict was brought in. As United States Marshal Edward Schmidt called upon the prisoners by nainf to take their places there were pathetic scenes. Mrs. Frank J. Higgins, of Boston, ' who had been weeping hysterically, collapsed as her husband was ar raigned. She was eared for by court attendants. Mrs. John H. Barry, of St. Louis, wife of another of the prisoners, patted her husband on the back and urged him to be brave. “You can not expect severe punish ment. so cheer up," she exclaimed with a smile as her husband was called io the bar. Th. coolest man hi the room was James Cooney, of Chicago. Cooney had been reading a newspaper and not pay ing t ’• S'iglitest attention to .n'r'ai s " the .'ourt room when ills mum ■••• a:- Continued on Page Two. Read For Profit--GEORGIAN WANT ADS--Use For Results ATLANTA. GA.. SATURDAY. DECEMBER 28. 1912. LAST HANGING OF , WOMAN WAS IN 74 The last woman hanged in Geor gia was Mrs. Mary Eberhart, white, j convicted of murder in 1874. The I price the then governor, James M. Smith, paid for her execution was re election. He refused to heed the I chorus of protests against the hang ing of a woman, and the execution of Mrs. Eberhart was made an issue in his race for re-election. He was defeated, overwhelmingly. Mystery Photograph of an Atlanta Home Window Shade WHO ARE THESE OSCULATORS? —/) // T -t;. ■ - •■'■ \\J|| IRf w / t ( \ A.V-A. j 1 PERFECT SUNDRY ONMTOOILL| It Will Be a Balmy Day—a Day for Outdoors. Forecaster Promises. i That Christmas finery, those jabots and folderols and silk things that San ta Claus brought, will come in handy tomorrow; Sunday will be a day for promenade, and Peachtree and White hall. it is safe to say, will be thronged with Atlanta on dress parade. Christ mas neckties, brilliant and wonderful, will be excusable tomorrow, for the reason that they will be in tune with the day. The weather man promises a day without a cloud, without wind; a day that will be never too cold, and for the most part really balmy; an Indian sum met- Sunday—and, being Sunday, less smoke. It will be a day for out-doors, says Director Von Herrmann. But as he talked today of a glorious Sunday, his worried glance wandered from Atlanta’s position on the weather map to that of Texas. Little black cir cles on the gulf coast indicated increas ed cloudiness. Increasing cloudiness in Texas portends a storm, and a storm in Texas usually plays the merry fire with weather in Atlanta. So, although the director holds out the promise of a Sunday that will pull everybody out doors, he hesitates to talk about what next week may have in store. The Texas storm may nol develop; then . again it may. Bui what if it does? There yet is i Sunday to live, and a big part of Sat i urday which is some day itself. The J thermometer registered a pretty low , figure this morning, going to 28 degrees ' in the early part of the day. but rose i to a satisfactory stage later ANOTHER OF LOAN FIRM HELD ON U. S. CHARGE FINED SSOO W. N. Smith, the second ol th offi cers of the Southern Loan and Trust Company to plead guilty to the charge of using the mails for the purpose of operating a lottery proposition, was fined SSOO, with the alternative penalty of eight months in jail. Judge W. T. Newman imposed sentence in the Unit ed States district court today. The caee against Smith grew out of litigation instituted by the district at torney more than a year ago, which had its first fruit Friday in the plea of guilty entered by E. <>. Heim, an offi cer of the company, against which complaint was,made. The term "lottery" is the legal dell- I nition ascribed by Judge Newman to a I contingent loan and investment sea- I ture implieo in <h»- contiucts of the Southern D 0..,, .. Trust Company. I Four * wn'it i.tla is of tin fr o, \ ore 1 indicted CHILDREN SCORN MRS. KING; REFUSE TO SEE HER AT JAIL I Guess Identity of Pair That Posed Unwittingly and Get a Licking Perhaps. Puzale. Supply the name- of prin- i I eipal figures in this photograph. i Ssh! Not right out loud! Whisper! I Maybe you’re wrong at that. Pro files are deceptive. The girl lives on the north side, lor at ieast that’s where she posed— i unknowingly—for tin picture. She may 1 have been a visitor. Devilish young man who lives out that way ha.d a new camera. Got it for Christmas. Came down the street at night. Saw shadow on the shade. Stopped. Watched. Took time •ex posure. Had plenty of time. Must have been regular Nether.sole kiss, three to the hour Anyway, this is what developed when he put his plate in the bath. He show ed it at the club next day. declined to give the number of the house, and of fered to bet the drinks nobody could name the osculators—-and prove it. There were a dozen guesses, but no proofs. Maybe you have an idea. Maybe you know these profiles. The first answer received will entitle the sender to a licking from the man named, right or wrong. No solutions received over the tele phone. ATLANTA DEATH RATE DROPS 2.45 PER CENT; WHITE RECORD IS 13.46 Statistics compiled by Lenox Thorn toti. of the city health department, show that Atlanta’s death rate has dropped from, 18.70 per 1,000 persons to 16.25 per 1,000 in 1912. The drop is 2.45 per 1,000. He figures that tin negroes compose 38 per cent of the population and the population to be 175.000. There were 1.460 white deaths during the year and l, negro deaths. This inakt s the white death rate 13.46 per 1,000 and the negro death rati 20.82 fit LOOP. "This is the lowest death at- .’ <\u'a has had in ten years; in fact, sine- the town became a city,” said Dr. J. I*. Kennedy, city health officer, today. “The rate of 13.46 for white people is low for any city and most cities have | higher negro death rates titan Atlanta. ’’ BUILDING PERMITS OF YEAR $38,000.00 SHORT OF $10,000,000.00 MARK Here’s a chance for some good ioyal Atlantan to make a hit with his fellow , citizens Building figures today tota $9,962,000, short of $10,000,000 by a paltry $38,000. There are three more working days in tlie year today. Monday and Tuesday —and the building permits should go 1 to $10,000,000 if possible At the rate of advance in tile last few days they will stop a few dollars short, however, and this is the opportunity offered some elite: pi ising Xtlantan—to . put in application or anplirat ons tight quick sot enough ’<> on. i!:- ..f|- ' eleney. Who’ll come to. ' . a n >pc m. house o> • hot'’!' ffl DYKE 15 OUT DF POLICE FIGHT Decides He's Too Busy To Be Chairman of That Commit- tee of Council. Aiderman Arthui H. Van Dyke said today that he had practically decided that he would be unable to accept the chairmansiiip of the police committee of council next year, because of the great amount of time the position would require. Under charter amendments, the com mittee must investigate all hotels and lodging houses and locker clubs the first of the year, before granting them permits to operate. Then in July all near-beer saloons must be Investigated and permits issued. - The alderman’s announcement also means a change of program of the Woodward administration in relation to Police Chief Beavers. It was generally conceded that the new mayor would name Aiderman Van Dyke as the police committeeman, which carries with it a. place on the police commission. Al derman Van Dyke declared war on Chief Beavers several days ago. Either Alderman John E. McClelland or Councilman Orville H. Hall is ex pected to get the place. Neither of them would assume 1 an antagonistic attitude to the powers in charge of the police department at present, even though they are antagonistic to Mayor, elect Woodward. The change Indicates that there will be no fight in the police commission un til the Woodward forces make an effort to depose Chairman Carlos 11 M hoii in March WEALTHY FAMILY GIVES PARTY FOR NEGRO SERVANTS 1 MACON. GA. Dec. 28. Holiday call-| era at th< home of Mr and Mrs. Wil- I liam McEwan Johnston, on Georgia j avenue, wer< amazed vlhti inforiiH-d at th? door ’ha - ip- host and host* were entertaining at a party in honor of their ten negro servants and fourteen of th*' latter's friends. Tn? parlor and reception hall were thrown together and decorated appropriately to the sea on. During the evening a musical pro gram was rendered, and eggnog and other refreshments were served. The party was in progress sot several hours, with Mr. and Mr Johnson actively acting as host and hostess and h< eking to make their guests happy and at horn?. As th*- Johnstons ar. th? wealthier’ of Mat <m’s social families and occupy th** most migmflent bom* on Georgia avenue, their patty I - «•»■< at* d no lit tle surprise, bin they *xplain that they merely sought to duplicate th* fo rte wi*. entertainmentt**r th* - write, a> given by mm-der Mini misrun Brother of Woman, Who Confessed Plotting Husbands Death, Employs Lawyer to Defend Her—Slain Plant er’s Brothers Engage Attorneys. Nick Wilburn Expects to Hang, But Begs That Woman Be Spared-—lnfatuation For Farm Hand Breeds Hatred For Rich Husband, Planned to Spend Insurance on Honeymoon. MAi ttX. GA.. t)<‘f. 28. Scorned by her six children, the misery • and loneliness of Mrs. James King is now complete. Alone and un i comforted, she sal in her little cell in the Jones county jail at Grays ' this morning and wept Her message to her three boys and three girls •to come to see her was ignored by them. The youngest’boy and girl ■ expressed a desire to ’’see mamma, but the older ones strongly ob jected. Sheriff Charles Roberts has given Mrs. King the most comfortable cell in the jail, and has provided for the cooking of her meals by a family servant. He lias also stationed three extra guards in the jail, and will maintain both night and day watches, fearful lest some at ; tempt may be made io remove Mi’s. King. He lias agreed, in response jlo her pleading, not to put her in the Bibb county jail; however, he ■ does not deem it advisable to keep Wilburn in the Jones county prison, which is a small and comparatively frail structure Wilburn will stay in Macon until the day of the trial. Mrs. King's complete confession lasi night, that she had prompted Nick Wilburn to kill her husband on December 12. was followed by the immediate employment of lawyers by her relatives, who only hop< to save her neck and procure for her a life sentence in the peniten tiary. The brothers of the man whose death she inspired have also engaged attorneys and will assist the state in the prosecution. In her little cell last night Mrs. King broke down and told the whole story of the crime, taking all the blame on herself and asking for mercy and sympathy only for her six children, four of whom an under sixteen years of age. She said that love for Nick Wilburn, a farm hand, was the motive which caused her to plot the death of her husband. James King, a wealthy Jones county planter. Adinittiug close friendship with Wilburn for tiie last nine months, Mrs. King said that she so domi nated the young man that she had no difficulty in persuading him to take her husband’s life, especially after she offered to marry him and lo spend Ihe $2,000 life in surance. which they expected to collect, on a honeymoon trip. The confessions of Mrs. King and Wilburn corroborate in detail, only the latter spared the woman as much as possible. Mrs. King says Wilburn should have died before confessing. Wilburn Expects To Give Up Life. Wilburn frankly says that he expects to give his life in return for the one which he ended in cold blood. In his cell in the Bibb county jail today, after reading Mrs. King's confession, he re marked that, he “guessed" they would “both hang together.” “1 hope they will let her go up for life." he added. He says it was a part of the plot that King should be killed with his own gun. Judge James B. Park, of the Ocmui gee circuit, will be asked by Solicitor J. E. Pottle to call a special session of the Jones county grand jury and to convene an early term of the superior court. Under the law, It will be neces sary for a Jury to consider capital cases, notwithstanding that pleas of guilty may be entered, and it will also be up to the jury to say whether or not Mrs. King shall hang for plotting her husband's death. To Induce the Jury to recommend her to the mercy of the court, W. S. Sim mons. of Macon, Mrs. King's brother, I has already hired lawyers. He is grlef ' stricken and dumfounded at tin- uu -1 exporter! developments, but Is deler -1 mined to aid his sister a: far as possi* i ble. Mrs. King Asks To Be Near Her Children. Mrs. King was In an automobile bound for Macon late yesterday after noon win n site bogged She. Iff Roberts to return with her to the Jones county jail. "I want to be near my children," she sobbed, ami she declared that if taken back to the Jail of her own county she would tell the truth about the af'ifr. The sheriff assented, and Mrs. King fulfilled her promise, confessing in th? presence of the sheriff. Detectives Moore and Kia, of .laeon, who worked up the ease agalns: her. and several friends. She said that in October they put strychnine hi Mr. King's poslon, hut that .hen he became violently sick she ga ■ . film an .aaetlc and saved'his life. Xi, i. Wilburn declared to me ■<> HOML nation 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE much that he did not have a friend in , the world that I felt sorry for him and then I fell in love with him, and then 1 began to hate my husband," was the woman's statement. She is the mother of six children. Her older, daughtei 1 married Frank Wilburn, a brother of Nick Wilburn. The King plantation, near Round Oak, is one of the most valuable in the . county. Brother of Slain Man Is Atlantan i - i ~ I am not surprised that mj sister in-law and Wilburn have made com plete confessions. I suspected both of them, and I believe she is as guilty as Wilburn." said William Richard King. i brother of Jim King, who is a bat- ■ keeper at .1. Cohen’s saloon. 77 Peach i tree street, to a Georgian r. isarter this ■ morning. * Richard, or “Dick" King, as he is fa I mlliarly known, said he had suspected his sister-in-law and Wilburn of com plicity in tlie murder from the very first report of the killing. This morn ing he said: "Since both of them have confessed, I have decided to gu to Grays next • Tuesday and assist in the prosecution. ’ Both of them should be hanged for the i crime, and I am going to see that jus • tice is meted out to them, if It is pos Bible that my aid can accomplish aux - I thing. ’ “My dead brother was a good an. i loving husband,” King said. "and“his ; wife mid no onus. to turn against him I regret that she must oe prosecuted 01, account of her children. But the chll dreii can be eared for by their rela fixes better than by the kind of mother they had, and I believe she should bo given the full punishment merited bx the crime." King, salfi ie had been away from Jones (bounty since Nick Wilburn was a boy, and does not know much about his personal habits. 11. said, however, that he had heard several months ago that Mrs. Jim King anti Wilburn had be -1 . oitu intimate "When I worn to my brother’s fu . neral Wilburn was not around the . house, am! certain actions of my sis ter-in-law, along with certain things I heard her say. l*d mo to believe that, botii she. and Wilburn were in soma way guilty.” said King. PARCELS POST TO BRING LOWER EXPRESS RATES CHATTANOOGA, TENN, Dec. 28. - It was learned here today tiiat a sweep ing reduction In ales will be made by . ib Southern Express Company, effec 1 - Ive January 1. in order to compete with t th. patee! post. Tiw general officer i.f the eoiiitiaii.v In <.• would not discuss > the matter