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ATLANTA, GA., Till'RBI)AY, APRIL 17, 1913.
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Burns Awaits Cablegram From Mem
phis, Believed to Relate to Broker’s
Business Status, After Which, He
Says, He Will Close Case at Once.
Joseph W. Martin.
Declined One Year;
Sentenced for Ten
Governor Commutes Term of Oconee
County Man Who Stole 25 Cents
and Pair of Shoes.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, April 17.—The Memphis, Tenn., end lias become
strangely predominant in the mystery surrounding the disappear
ance of Joseph W. Martin, the wealthy American, missing since
April 3.
Detective William J. Bums declared to-day he believed he |
would be able to close up the case after he receives certain infor
mation from Memphis, believed to relate to the financial status
of the missing man and his cotton brokerage firm.
Rumors which would remove
the mystery and tragedy of the
case were circulated to-day.
These concerned the alleged
forgery pf cotton warehouse
certificates held by the Martin
firm.-
Burns' Men Still Searching.
Burns has promised to produce
Martin by mldnieht. His men still
are searching the Lambeth district
where Martin’s silk hat. watch chain
.-.ml pocketbook were found.
Meanwhile Scotland Yard is keep-
ins up the quest. If the massing
American does not turn up in a few
days Scptland Yard will make ap
plication to the court to open Mr.
Martin’s strong box here to see if his
papers will throw any light upon his
absence.
Cotton Shortage Charged.
According to dispatches from Mem
phis yesterday, relative to the failure
of the Martin Phillips Company, the
assets of the company reported,to the
Federal Court Included 1,800 bales
of cotton, stored in a warehouse, on
which loans had been secured.
There are not more than 94 bales
now In the warehouse, according to
the owner, who also asserts that,
while he had signed receipts for 900
bales, most of it had been removed
without his knowledge.
Telia of $6,000,000 Deal.
NEW YORK, April IT.—A $6,000,-
000 transaction, the details of which
remain strangely unexplained, is at
the bottom of the mysterious disap
pearance in London, on April 3, of
Joseph Wilberforce Martin, the Mem
phis millionaire, according to N. Hill
Martin, hlo brother, who sailed for
England on the Campania after
spending the day at the Waldorf-As
toria,
He declared that his brother on
April 3 sent the family a cable mes
sage saying that he had that day
closed a deal involving the sale of
60,000 acres of cotton land in Ar
kansas and Tennessee, valued at
more than $100 an acre, to an Eng
lish syndicate.
Deal Made Through Agents.
It was understood that the deal
was made through his agents, Bou-
sted & Anderson, a London broking
and banking firm.
"That night," he said, “Joe disap
peared.’’
Then he told how J. Lockhart An
derson, a member of the banking
firm, had been the family’s only
source of information since his broth
er’s disappearance, but declared An
derson had sent them absolutely no
word concerning the several millions
which Hill Martin believes must have
changed hands to close the land sale.
• Joe was no ‘rube.’ ” Mr. Martin
declared hotly. ‘ This puts Anderson
in an' awful hole. When 1 get to
London he will have to do business
with me In a hurry."
Visited in Martin Home.
Anderson, he said, came to the
Fnited States last December to look
over the cotton lands in the inter
ests of the English syndicate, and
was a visitor at the Martin home in
Memphis for several weeks.
"He cabled us all the events which
led qp to Joe’s disappearance," Mi-
Martin said. "buOhas avoided all men
tion of the money my brother is sup
posed to have received for his lands."
Mr. Martin declared that he be
lieved thire was a woman's face back
of the plot.
Fear For His Mother.
MEMPHIS, April 17— Grief over
the disappearance of Joseph W. Mar
tin ar.d the bankruptcy proceedings of
the Martln-Phillips Company, of
which he was president, has cauaed
the serious illness of Mrs. Nina D.
Martin, mother of the missing cotton
broker. Physicians attending her to
day admitted they feared she would
die.
Wm.J. Harris Named 1
Director of Census :
By President Wilson
•Original Woodrow Wilson Man in '
Georgia’ Nominated to Succeed
E. Dana Durand.
WASHINGTON, April 17.—The
President to-day* sent to the Senate
the nomination of William J. Harris
of Cedartown, Ga.,’ as Director of
the Census, to succeed E. Dana Du
rand.
William J. Harris, known as the
original Woodrow Wilson man in
Georgia, is chairman of the State
Democratic Executive Committee,
having succeeded W. C. Wright, of
New nan. to this position at the Ma
con State Convention. He was for
merly State Senator from the Thirty-
eighth District, and served a two-
year term representing Polk County.
He is president of the Georgia Eire
Insurance Company, an Atlanta cor
poration.
The presidential primary of May 1,
1912, was due directly to Senator Har
ris' efforts. Through his insistence
in behalf of Wilson’s candidacy, tlie
executive committee finally called the
primary
Probe To Follow Moore Ousting
Weather Office To Be Cleaned
Dabney, Southerner Will Be Chief
An ambitious attorney got his
client a sentence of ten years instead
of the one year offered by the judge
before whom the case was first heard,
according to evidence submitted in
gathering commutation of the sen
tence of Stonewall Davenport, grant
ed to-day by Governor Brown.
Davenport, when drunk, attacked a
companion and took from him about
25 cents in money and a pair of
shoes.
R. R. Burger, Solicitor for Oconee
County, in whose jurisdiction the
caSe came, issued a warrant charg
ing a misdemeanor and offered to
sentence the man for one year if he
would plead guilty.
Davenport's attorney refused to
permit his client to plead guilty and
demanded an indictment by the grand
jury, with the result that a sentence
of ten years’ penal servitude was im
posed in that court.
Breckinridge Made
Assistant War Chief
Three Other Southerners Given Fed
eral Appointments in List Sent
to Senate To-day.
WASHINGTON. April 17.—The
President to-day sent to the Senate
the following nominations:
General appraiser of merchandise
in the District of Philadelphia. Wil
liam W. Roper, of Pennsylvania.
Auditor of Interior Department,
Robert W. Woolley, of Virginia.
Assistant Secretary of War, Henry
S. Breckinridge, of Kentucky.
Judge of the District Court of Alas
ka, Robert W. Jennings, of Alaska.
United States Marshal for Eastern
District of Texas, Benjamin R
Sherrell, of Texas.
Recorder of land office, Lucius Q. C.
Lamar, of Missouri.
Special fiscal agent of Navy De
partment at London. England, Speyer
Bros.
Assistant Attorney General. Samuel
Houston Thompson, Jr., of Denver.
Son's Fingers Blown
Off, Sues for $15,000
R. M. Wallace Charges Mrs. A. C. H.
Matthewson With Responsibility
for Explosion Accident.
Through his father, Loy Wallace.
' 10 7 year-old son of R. M. Wallace,
who, in September, 1911, had three
lingers blown from his hand by an
explosion of a dynamite cap, filed suit
for $10,000 damages against Mrs. A. C.
H. Matthewson in Superior Court to
day. Mrs. Matthewson was charged
with being responsible for the acci
dent in leaving the box of caps where
the boy could get them. The elder
Wallace also filed j similar suit for
$5,000.
The suits alleged that when Mr?,
Matthewson was nav|ng a street
graded for a subdivision on Green
wich Street, near Sells Avenue, a box
' of dynamite caps, used for blasting,
was left in the highway where the
children who played in the neighbor
hood could get them.
Mr. Wallace alleged that Loy, then
8 years old, took a cap from the box
without knowing it was dangerous.,
and .was sTffKTfT| it wifTt a TiammeY
when it exploded'and tore away three
fingers of his hand.
Negress, Slayer, Is
Lynched by Blacks
Sings Hymn While Being Hanged
by Mob—Killed Husband
With Razor.
STRANDER, MISS., April 17.—Mrs.
“Matt” Mu9ee, a negress, was lynched
here to-day by a rnob of negro men
after she had murdered her husband.
She sang a hymn as she was being
put to death.
The woman attacked her husband
with a razor following a quarrel. In
her anger she nearly severed the head
from the body.
News of the killing soon spread
among the negro colony, and a mob
of men was quickly formed.
The negro mob is the first on record
to execute summary vengeance upon a
woman of their own race, so far as
known here.
Tennessee House
Arrests Hooper's
Private Secretary
Governor's Assistant Took Bills
From Desk of Legislator—Plot,
Say Regulars.
NASHVILLE. TENN., Apirl 17.—
The Tennessee House of Representa
tives to-day ordered George C. Tay
lor. private secretary to Governor
Ben W. Hooper, arrested on a charge
of entering the desk of Representa
tive Abernathy and taking seteral
bills therefrom to the Governor’s of
fice.
Taylor, when arrested and brought
to the bar of the House, stated that
he got th ebills at the request of Rep
resentative Abernathy, a fusiontst,
and stated that he was looking for
the general appropriation measure.
Regular Democrats claim that a
scheme had been laid to get the ap
propriation bill away from the Hou^-
and prevent action until all of the
runaways could return.
Speaker Stanton, following the in
vestigation. stated he thought Taylor
hud transgressed the rights of the
House, but suggested that he be ex
onerated.
The House refused to exonerate
Taylor, but released him from custody
with a warning to in future respect
the rules of trie House.
Proressor Willis L. Moon;.
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Library for Federal
Prison Here Asked
MINISTER’S SON IS SHOT
IN QUARREL OVER GIRL
PARKERSBURG. W. V.. April 17.—
Following a quarrel over a girl earl*
to-day. Roy Buck shot and seriously
wounded Mason Morriston, son of
Rev. A. T. Morriston. former me.: her
of the Legislature. Buck escaped to
Marietta, Ohio, where he was arrest
ed to-day and returned here.
Morriston's condition ie serious.
Senator Hoke Smith Asks Congress
to Give $2,500 for Books
for Convicts.
WASHINGTON. April 17.—Senator
Hoke Smith, of Georgia, to-day intro
duced a bill to appropriate $2,500 for
the purchase of a library for the Fed
eral Prison at Atlanta.
Deputy Warden Wilbur O. Hawk,
of the Federal Prison, when informed
by The Georgian of thd introduction
of the bill, said:
“It is something that we need badly
out hero. We have been working on
the project for some time and I hope
it will 7 go through.
U. S. Fourteenth In
Airship Equipment
Has 28 as Compared to Germany’s
400; Kaiser Spent $28,000,000
In Five Years.
WASHINGTON. April 17. The
United States stands fourteenth
among the .nations of the world in
number of Government owned aero
planes and in Government expendi
tures for aerial navigation during the
last five years.
Figures compiled by the Chief Sig
nal Officer of th»* Army show Ger
many leads with 400 aeroplanes and
‘an expenditure of $28,000,000. The
United States owns 28 aeroplane^ and
spent $425,000 in five years.
Other countries rank above the
United States as follows: France.
Russia. Italy, Austria, Great Britain.
Belgium, Japan, < hilt. Bulgaria.
Gfe'‘ce, Spain an J Brazil.
President Said to Favor Friend of
Senator Hoke Smith for the
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Head of Bureau,
WASHINGTON, April 17— ('buries
W. Dabney, formerly of Knoxville
Tenn., now president of tHe Univer
sity of Cincinnati and connected with
the Weather Bureau during Cleve
land’s administration, probably will
succeed Willis L. Moore, deposed c hief
of the bureau.
A general house-cleaning of the bu
reau is impending and any political
machine that Chief Moore may have
constructed in that department is to
be sent to the “scrap heap.
It was regarded as significant here
to-day that the Department of Jus
tice was called upon to make the in
vestigation of Moore’s conduct in of
fice and that the preliminary findings,
which resulted in the bureau chief’s
dismissal and that of one of his sub
ordinates, have not been made public
in detail.
In the ordinary course of events, it
was pointed out to-day, an investiga
tion would fiave been made by Agri
cultural Department h^ids. without
calling on the Department of Justice.
Congressional Probe Likely.
Moore’s activity in promoting his
candidacy for a Cabinet post may
also be probed by a Congressional
committee. Congressman Fowler, of
Illinois, stated to-day that his resolu
tion to this end, introduced last week,
will be urged.
Professor Moore to-day removed
his effects from tHe Weather Bureau
and established headquarters at the
Cosmos Club, from where, he expects
to conduct a campaign of vindication.
He has indicated that he favors a
general investigation, covering not
only th'e Weather Bureau, but also
other governmental departments.
Dabney a Southerner.
Dr. Dabney, who will likely succeed
Moore, was one of th. latter’s rivals
for appointment to the Cabinet as
Secretary of Agriculture.
Dr. Dabney had the indorsement of
Senator Hoke Smith, of Georgia, and
other leading Southern Di mocrats for
the Cabinet. He has been a clove
personal friend of President Wilson
for more than a score of years and
they have been closely affiliated in
important educational enterprises in
the past.
Dr. Dabney is a Democrat and a
Southerner. He was for fifteen years
president of the University of Ten
nessee at Knoxville.
BEULAH, MISS,, RESIDENTS
READY TO FLEE FROM FLOOD
ROSED ALE, MISS., April I7.-Rm.
idents of Beuiah, Miss., were prepared
to flee to the hills to-day if the- levee
broke there. The walls were still
holding, although it was feared they
might break at any time*. Three hun-
dr°d State convicts were at work on
thv weakened places all last night and
to-day,
Girls Are Seconds
In Schoolboys' Duel
One Sister Sides With Brother and
the Other With Sweetheart.
Another Miss Referees.
CAMBRIDGE. MASS.. April 17.
The story of how one sister acted
as second for her sweetheart while
another sister seconded their brother
in a duel fought between schoolboys
in which a larg* girl acted as referee,
was revealed in court here to-day
when William J. Rounds, Jr., son of
former State Senator Rounds, plead
ed not guilty to the charge of as
saulting Herbert B. Larner with a
penknife.
Miss Lillian Rounds, despite the
protests of her parents, had contin
ued to keep company with Larner.
Young Rounds heard about the secret
meetings and challenged Larner to
a fight. Lillian aided with Larner and
encouraged him during the fight,
while her sister Fannie acted as sec
ond for the brother. Miss Beryl Gro
gan was referee.
PLOT BUILD TO
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Testimony Helps Convict Three
Who Operated in Mill District.
Crusade Commended.
Aroused by the sale of liquor to cot
ton mill operatives and boys in the
vicinity of the Fulton Bag and Cotton
Mills, ministers, women and citizen:-*
of that section have started a vig
orous “clean out” campaign.
As a result of their warfare, three
alleged professional “tigers,” all young
men, were before Recorder Broyles.
Jack Parr was given the limit in two
cases—a fine of $500 and 30 days in
the stockade, and was bound over to
the State courts in bond of $1,000. Jim
Black was given 30 days and was held
in bond of $1,000. C. N. Hughes was
fined $100 or 30 days, and bound over
in bond of $500.
Several women gave testimony
against the three young men. Judge
Broyles commended the crusaders for
their aggressive warfare, and pledged
himself to aid them by imposing the
extreme penalty of the Iaw\
“We want to save these hundreds of
young boys and young men who toil
in the mills, many of whom are falling
victims to these blind tigers,” ex
plained one of the women.
The crusade ig being led by F. S.
Darraeott, special officer of the mills.
Ty Ty Town Tries
To Tax ‘Octopus’
Southern Express Company Asks
Court’s Aid to Escape Payment
of $50 Assessment.
TIFTON, GA., April 17.—The town
of Ty Ty and the Southern Express
Company have appealed to the courts
to adjust their differences.
The town levies an occupation tax
and the Express Company was as
sessed $50. After being duly notified
to pay the tax, and failing to respond,
the agent of the company was ar-
I rested and carried before Mayor Nel-
] son, w ho assessed a fine equal to the
[amount of the tax. Then the com-
t pany secured an injunction restrain
ing the town from imprisoning the
agent or collecting the tax.
Arguments in the case have been
submitted by counsel before Judge
Thomas at Moultrie. He has reserved
his decision.
Boasts Cause Arrest
On Slaying Charge
Negro Who Bragged of Killing Ex
press Messenger in January
Held on Women’s Testimony
HARRY THAW’S LAWYER
INDICTED FOR BRIBERY
NEW YORK, April 17.—Attorney
John N. Anhut. was indicted to-day
by the Grand Jury on the charge that
he offered $20,000 bribe to a physician
at Matteavvan Asylum upon the con
dition that the doctor would decla*-?
Harry Thaw, slayer of Standford
White, was sane.
His boasts that he is a slayer have
thrown the shadow of the gallows
across the pathway of Ed Fowler, a
young negro, W’ho is in the Tower
to-day accused of having killed H. E.
Newsom, an express messenger, at
Whitehall and Alabama Streets last
January.
The negro was held by Recorder
Broyles without bail, after two negro
women had testified that Fow r ler
bragged to them that he stabbed
Newsom to death. Other witnesses,
who chased the murderer the after
noon of the killing, said Fowler look
ed like the fleeing man.
Fowler Ueniqp* he is guilty.
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Aged Pontiff Shows Remarkable Im
provement; Church Heads Fear He
Will Never Be Able to Resume His
Official Duties, Even If He Rocover
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
ROME, April 17.—The Pope was able to sit up for a short’
period this afternoon in an armchair.
Discussing the Pope’s condition with the Spanish Ambassa
dor, Cardinal Merry Del Val expressed fear that even though the
Pope should recover from the present immediate danger of death
his health would be so badly impaired that he would not be able
in the future to administer the affairs of the church. He said the
Papal Court feels genuine alarm over the condition of the Pope.
“One of the causes for anxiety is the advanced age of the Pontiff,
his years having weakened the vital organs in their functions.
There have been incipient symptoms of uraemia, also.
“llis Holiness Pope Pius X is better, but is still extremely
weak.”
This statement was made this afternoon by Monsignor Pori-
lin, riephew of the Pope, who lias watched by the Pontiff for sev-
< ral days.
Monsignor Porilin had just come from the Pontiff s bedside
when he made this announcement.
Clinging to the slender thread
of life with a tenacity which lias
aroused the amazement and ad
miration of his physicians, Pope
Pius X lies close to the shadow
of death, but still fighting vali
antly.
After a consultation between Drs.
Marchiafava and Amici, the following
signed bulletin was« issued early to
day from the sick chamber:
II-is Holiness Pope Pius X
passed the night calmly. He was
disturbed occasionally by the fits
of coughing, but his bronchial
symptoms are better. His tem
perature u'a« 97.8.
it was observed that this bulletio,
unlike most of the others which have
preceded it, did not say that the
Pope’s general condition is good. The
Pontiff was very restless during :ho
night and between fits of coughing
tossed in his bed. The heart action
was sustained by Injections.
Medicines administered internally
have disarranged the Pope’s stomach
and he was seized with a fit of nau
sea after his breakfast, which con
sisted of weak chicken broth and a
thin slice of dry toast.
Soothed by Chapel Organ.
The Pope has become so weak that
he can scarcely raise himself on his
pillow and his voice Is scarcely audi
ble a few feet away. His Holiness
again asked to-day that a small organ
1n a chapel near the sick room be
played, and he seemed soothed by th*
hymns and chants which were in
toned there.
One of the attending physicians to
day said: “The condition of the Pon
tiff is so desperate that I do not think
he will live to see Friday dawn.”
The Italian Government has been
notified formally of the critical plight
of the Pontiff and intimation was
given that death could be expected at
any moment.
Premier Gilotti. who has been In
Turin on a vacation, came to Rome
to-day. cutting his stay short. Be
fore the Premier left for Turin Dr.
Marchlufava had promised to let him
know in ample time to reach Rome
if the Pope neared the threshold of
death. Thus to the return of Signor
OiHoti deep significance is attached.
Conclave Is Imminent.
Although 88 years old and a val
etudinarian. Cardinal Oreglia, dean
of the sacred college, bore up against
age and feebleness and spent the
night In his robes awaiting a sum
mons from the Vatican. It is che
office of the dean of the sacred college
to serve as head of the church gov
ernment in the Interregnum between
the two Popes.
Cardinal Merry Del Val. Papal Sec
retary of State, has wired the papal
nuncios at the capitals of various
countries to inform the foreign Car
dinals that a conclave is imminent.
The Pope’s sisters, Anna and Maria
Sarto; his brother, Angelo Sarto, and
his nephew. Monsignor Porilin. spent
the night at the Vatican, as did Dr.
Amici.
“Another Blessed Day.” .
Pope Pius was awake and conscious
Plans, if Successful, Would Halt
Building of Light Plant by
City of Atlanta.
Secret efforts to purchase the prop
erty on which are located the closed
houses of the former Tenderloin were
unearthed to-day.
If the efforts are successful the
city will be blocked in its plan to
build a municipal light and power
plant in connection with the new cre
matory. The city has not enough
land on which to add the electric
plant to the crematory, and the
“houses In our midst" property is all
that is available.
Agents of the would-be purchasers
have received assurance from the
owners that they will sell. Diligent
efforts to find out for whom they were
acting proved futile. The informa
tion that the owners are willing to
sell shows that the light of Uhief
J. L. Beavers, since he closed them
last October, has ended in complete
victory.
Immediate Action Expected.
Council has contracted with the
Destructor Company, of New York. 10
build a $378,000 crematory and elec
tric power plant. The construction of
the crematory is well under way, but
the contract gives Council the alter
native of rejecting the $100,000 elec
tric plant feature after the crematory
is completed. No plans, therefore,
have been made for the construction
of the electric plant.
Immediate action to secure this
j property is expected of Council.
The crematory site is located be
tween the tanks of the Atlanta Gas
Light Company and the railroad
tracks entering the Terminal Station.
Back of it are the city stables. There
is just room enough for the garbage
destructor on the vacant property, arid
if the stables were torn away there
still would not be room enough for the
electric plant.
Only “Houses” Available.
The only available property is that
occupied by the houses with boarded
windows and doors on the eastern
corners of Hulsey Street and Manhat
tan Avenue.
Another delay in the construction
of the crematory was threatened to
day by the announcement of Mayor
Woodward that he had vetoed the $400
appropriation passed by the last meet
ing of Council for grading on the cre
matory site. Unless this grading is
done, the work will soon be stopped.
Mayor Woodward repeated he w f ould
decline to approve anything regard
ing the cerematory until the Supreme
Court had decided upon the legality of’ when the sun rose this morning. A
the contract, [ smile snread ovar hia ha