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VOL. XI. NO. 220.
ATLANTA, (!A„ FRIDAY, APRIL 18.1913.
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Devotion to Mother
Leads Augusta Boy
To Brave Jail Term
Parole Granted Young Man Who
Wandered Five Years Following
Escape From Gang.
Mrs. A. H. Clark Secures Indict
ment of Mother-in-law on the
Charge of Stealing Her Son,
Missing the Last Three Weeks.
Young Wife Alleges Child Was
Taken as Climax of Plot by Hus
band’s Family to SeparateThem,
Asserts They Alienated Him.
Augustus Hamilton Clark, Jr., 2 1-2
years old, to-day is back in the arms
of his overjoyed mother, Mrs. A. H.
Clark, 156 Richardson Street, after
having been missing for three weeks,
while Mrs. G. S. Clark, the boys
grandmother, has been indicted by the
Grand Jury on a charge of kidnaping.
Affectionately fondling the little
chap, Mrs. Clark said: ,
"No earthly power can separate us
again. I’m going to keep him if I
have to keep my arms about him ail
the time."
The boy was forcibly recovered by
Mrs. Clark from the grandmother
after the latter is said to have brought
him back here from Chicago. The
etder Mrs. Clark left here with the
• child about three weeks ago, and since
then the mother had been almost dis
tracted.
Shortly after this, Mrs. Clark's hus
band alsK> disappeared, leaving her a
farewell note.
j Says Husband Loves Her.
•■Clark and Mrs. Clark were married
4 January, 1909, at which time Clark
was 20 years of age and a student.
Mrs. Clark declared to-day her hus
band loves her, but that his parents
exerted an undue influence over him
and finally weaned him from her.
After the husband left, the wife had
his mother indicted by the Grand Jury
for kidnaping. She has not yet been
arrested.
The young wife’s last message from
the missing husband was this fare
well note:
“When you get this, I’ll be gone. I
am not deserting you, and may God
grant that some day the tangled snarl
of our lives may be straightened.”
Mrs. Clark said:
"Mr. Clark's mother was just jeal
ous of me and she and her husband
have brought all of this about. They
objected to our marriage because Mr.
Clgrk was so young and because he
was a student in school. They were
so bitter against the marriage that
they went so far as to attempt to
have it annulled. This move failed,
hut they would pot rest satisfied.
Claims Parents Won Him.
"They tnen set about to wean my
husband from sue and to kill his love,
and they lost no opportunity to strike,
They have succeeded in making it un
pleasant all the way through. The
climax came when my husband’s
mother spirited my precious boy
' away, and when my husband himself
left me. I’m sure he would never
have thought of doing me this way
had it not been for the persistent and
nagging influence exerted over him.”
The young couple boarded with
^lark’s parents last winter, but a
short time ago deedide to go to
housekeeping. The young wife said
that when she and her husband
moved her mother-in-law begged her
to leave little Augustus with her,
promising to take the little fellow
back to her the next day.
Mrs. G. S. Clark, when seen to-day
bv a Georgian reporter, admitted she
had taken the child from Atlanta un
der a prearranged plan with the
child's father, and said the plan failed
because she had been forced to bring
the child back here until Clark could
make arrangements for its care in
Chicago.
“My son was anxious to get his boy
from the mother in order that he
would have better care and asked me
to take him to Chicago," said Mrs.
Clark. “My son made all of the ar
rangements for the trip and provided
the transportation. It was the plan
for me to go first with the baby, and
he was to join us a week later, which
he did. As my son had made no defi
nite pians in Chicago for the future,
however I decided to bring the baby
hack to Atlanta temporarily. When
everything was ready, I was to take it
hack to Its father.
The story of a boy’s yearning for
home and his aged mother, so great
that he returned to this State after
five years of wandering and submit
ted to being sent back to the chain-
gang, from which he had escaped, w as
told to-day in the granting of a parole
to W. J. Collier, of Augusta, by Gov
ernor Brown,
Collier, who was a young man of 20
years when he was sentenced to two
years on the chaingang for breaking
into freight cars, was brutally beaten
by the whipping boss. After he had |
borne this treatment and suffering for J
several months, he made his escape
one night and for five years remained
undiscovered until he walked in upon
the officers in Augusta and gave him
self up.
"I can not stay away from my
mother and sister any longer,” was all
that he said In explanation.
An investigation disclosed that a£L T
er Collier escaped from the brutality
of the whipping boss, he went into
another State and obtained employ
ment, learning the painter’s trade. He
sent money regularly to his mother,
who is old and feeble, and to his un
married sister. Letters from his em
ployers said that he was honest and
straightforward in every respect.
SPEER ITTH
Governor Defends Action in Call
ing Out Troops During the
Augusta Car Riots.
’M A TOOL OF THE PEOPLE’
Measure Giving Him Power to
Prevent Strife Was Given Usual
Publicity, He Asserts.
Mercury Reaches 81;
Sets Heat Record
Summer Here to Stay, Says Weather
Man—Higher Temperature
All Over South.
If you have anything to shed pre
pare to shed them now.
For Atlanta, after having weather
that would be a credit to Labrador,
is to-day enjoying her first taste
of real summer weather. At the lo
cal weather bureau this morning it
was stated positively that the days
of cold weather are over, and the
season of barefooted boys and swim
ming parties is here at last.
At 6 o’clock the thermometer at the
bureau registered 53 above zero. With
the coming of dawn the mercury shot
upward. It climbed steadily all day,
and by 1 o’clock reached 81 degrees,
where it will rest in triumph until to
morrow, when it plans to go even
higher. The mark of 80 is a record
for this year. The conditions
throughout the South to-day are
the same as in Atlanta. The
weather is fair from St. Louis to
New Orleans, and the mercury is ris
ing steadily.
D.A.R.Race Narrows;
Mrs, C.B, Bryan Quits
‘Harmony’ Candidate From Memphis
Leaves Contest to Mrs. Story
and Mrs. Horton.
WASHINGTON, April 18.—Mrs.
Charles B. Bryan, of Memphis, Tenn.,
the “harmony” candidate for presi
dent general of the D. A. R., withdrew
her candidacy to-day.
. The nominations were closed formal
ly this morning and the race now is
between Mrs. William C. Story and
Mrs. John Miller Horton.
The third ballot for the presidency
was begun shortly before li o’clock
to-day. The voting machines will be
closed at 5 o'clock and the result will
be announced an hour later.
The voting was expedited to-day by
a rule permitting delegates to vote in
any order they please.
Heretofore the delegates have voted
by States, and it has been necessary
to get an entire State delegation to
gether before the next State could
cast its ballot.
Aide in Row Fatal to
Infant Loses Appeal
Supreme Court Holds Lou Miller
Responsible for Part in Heard
County Slaying.
An echo of a famous Heard County 1
shooting case came to-day when the
Supreme Court sustained the Heard
County Court in its denial of a new
trial to Lou Miller, convicted of mur
der as the second principal in the
lulling of an infant child of D. S.
(“Doc”) Bell during a gun fight at!
Beil’s home.
It was brought out in the trial that
Daniel, the principal, and had urged
Miller had procured a rifie for John
Daniel on. Miller denied this.
His attorneys asked for a new trial,
asserting that additional evidence had
been obtained.
Governor Brown replied to-day to
Judge Emory Speer, who, in a speech
this week before the Georgia Federa
tion of Labor in Savannah, bitterly
criticised the Governor’s' action in
calling out the troops at the time of
the Augusta street car strike.
“The laws are on the books,” said
the Governor, “and 1 am going to
obey them ‘so long as they remain
there. If the people of Georgia do
not wish me to call out the militia
in times of threatened or actual out
break, they had better remove those
law’s from among the statutes.”
Governor Brown answered the
charge that the measure had been
“sneaked” onto the statute .books by
remarking that if six readings, three
before the Senate and three before
the House, and a consideration of
thirteen months were not sufficient
to get a proposed measure before the
attention of people, thpn the legis
lative procedure also should be
changed.
Law Passed in 1912.
The bill w’as read before the Sen
ate three times in the session of 1911,
where it was passed unanimously by
a vote of 37 t<^ 0. It was read in
the House twice in 1911, and the third
time in 1912. Then it was put upon
its passage in the House by a vote of
116 yeas and 9 nays.
Governor Brown declined to reply
to the attacks made upon him in the
resolutions passed by the Federation
of Labor, saying that adequate re
ply was contained in the address
made by him last October on “The
Supremacy of the Law.”
Governor a Tool of People.
“I am a tool,” he said. “I am the
tool of the people of Georgia. I w’ear
a collar, but it is the collar of the
laws of the State.”
He quoted the measure under which
he acted in calling out the troops,
which reads, in part, as follow's:
“Whenever any judge of the su
perior court, or a city court, county
court, county sheriff, mayor of any
incorporated city, tow r n, or village, in
this State, whose authority shall rank
in the order named shall have reason
able cause to apprehend the outbreak
of any riot, rout, tumult, insurrec
tion, mob. unlawful assembly, or
combination to oppose the enforce
ment of the law by intimidation,
force, or violence, within the juris
diction of w'hich such officer is by
law a conservator of the peace, which
can not be speedily suppressed or
effectually prevented by the ordinary
posse comitatus and peace officers,
it shall forthwith become the duty of
the judge, sheriff, or mayor to report
the facts and circumstances to the
Governor and t<f request him to order
out such portion of the militia of the
State as may be necessary to preserve
the peace, and it thereupon shall be
the duty of the Governor, if he deems
ouch apprehension well founded, to
order out, or direct to be held in
readiness, such portion of the militia
of the State as he may deem ad
visable for the enforcement of the
law; and when the Governor orders
out troops, as herein provided, he
shall thereupon by proclamation de
clare a state of insurrection in the
locality in which the disorder is lo
cated.”
Woman Raffles in
D, A, R, Convention
Notice Read From Platform Brands
Woman Wearing Lace Scarf
as Thief.
Nearly everybody in Atlanta reads
The Sunday American. YOUR ad
vertisement in the next issue will sell
goods. Try it!
WASHINGTON, April 18 —The fol
lowing notice was read aloud from
the platform at the D. A. R. Congress
to-day:
“Lost, at a reception at (name of
hotel given), one lace scarf. Woman
was seen wearing it out underneath
her coat.”
S TATE ENTOMOLOGIST
E. LEE WORSHAM,
whose “long’ distance” salary
will be attacked by the new
Director of the State Experi
ment Station.
rr ~'"i':
Demand Worsham, Entomologist,
and Dr. White Be Cut Off Ex
periment Work Payroll.
A fight, beg,up by farmers of Geor
gia. to prevent ,the re-electUm. p.f E„
I,. Worsham, of •Atlanta, "State V.ny6
mologist, and Dr. H. C. White, Y>f
Athens, professor of chemistry at the
State University, as members of the
Griffin Experiment Station staff, will
come at the meeting of the board of
directors of the station April 22.
Agitation, fostered by communica
tions from many Georgia farmers and
pushed by agricultural papers, has
brought the issue to an acute situa
tion. The result will be an attempt to
oust the two absentee members of
the Gritfin faculty when the board
meets next week.
The Southern Cultivator, of Atlanta,
a farm publication, has been vigor
ous in protesting against the reten
tion on the station staff of men who
are not at Griffin and “on the job!”
Both Paid by Station.
Dr. White draws a salary of $1,800
from the station, while being em
ployed by the University of Georgia.
E. L. Worsham, State Entomologist,
is on the salary roll of the experi
ment station to the extent of $1,000 a
year, while employed as State Ento
mologist.
This showing has been made by
farmers in their communications to
the agricultural press of the South,
and is the basis for the organization
of a faction which will present deter
mined views to the board of direc
tors next week, denouncing the em
ployment of official? whose time is
not spent in active attendance on
their jobs.
The issue will be sprung when the
directors go into the matter of elect
ing a new staff. Much of its out
come depends upon the attitude of
Professor R. J. H. DeLoach, recently
appointed director of the experiment
station. He will be drawn into the
fight, although he does not enter
upon his duties until July 1, for the
reason that the board, at its last
meeting, decided to permit him to
suggest the persons who should be
elected on his staff April 22.
Will Respect His Wishes.
The wishes of the new director,
then, will be respected, according to
the prevailing opinion, in view of the
fact that the board has assured-him
of Its purpose to enter into whatever
plans would be for the upbuilding of*
the station—an assurance which was
given before he would permit his
name to be used.
The fight, its backers have declared,
is not against Dr. White or Mr. Wor
sham as individuals, nor against their
fitness for their ’.cork, but against the
principle of paying salaries to mem
bers of the station staff who are not
continuously at the station and in
co-operation with the other members
of the force.
LIFE RESTS
Postponement Till July of Trial of
Mrs. Flanders Defeats the
Governor’s Purpose.
Six Burned in Oil
Explosion in Hotel
Fire Near City Hall
White Clerk at Fairlie House Injured
as He Tries to Save
Negro Cook.
WIDOW AGAIN DISAPPOINTED
Absence of State Witnesses
Given as Cause of Delay in
Noted Poison Case.
When the Emanuel County Superior
Court to-day postponed the trial of
Mrs. Mattie Flanders It again threw
back on the hands of Governor Brown
the life of Dr. W. J. MoNaughton.
Dr. McNaughton is under sentence
to hang for the murder by poison of
the husband of Mrs. Flanders.
Governor Brown has repeatedly res
pited Dr. McNaAighton's sentence,
stating that he would not permit him
to be hanged until all possible doubt
had been cleared by the trial of Mrs.
Flanders, also charged with complici
ty in the same crime.
Term Expires Before July.
Governor Brown’s term of office will
expire before the Flanders case is
taken up in July.
Unless he takes action which will
have effect after the expiration of his
term. Dr. McNaughton will go to the
gallows in May.
It Is possible for the Governor to
commute Dr. McNaughton’s sentence.
It Is also possible for him to grant
another respite for such a term that
Mrs. Flanders will be tried before the
execution. That, however, would put
final action on the McNaughton case
up to Governor John M. Slaton.
Widow's Trial Delayed.
SWAINS BORO, GA., April 18.*—Mrs
Mattie Flanderr. charged with com
plicity in the death of her husband,
Fred Flanders, In the famous Dr. W.
J. McNaughton poisoning case, will
not be tried until the July term of
Emanuel Superior Court.
When her case was called at 8:45
o’clock this morning it was continued
because of the absence of material
witnesses. All the veniremen who had
been summoned for jury service were
dismissed and the continuance an
nounced by Judge J. T. Rawlings.
Mrs. Flanders left the court house
with a disappointed look. Her fa
ther, who accompanied her here from
her home at Bartow for the trial,
openly expressed indignation at the
delay. Both Mrs. Flanders and her
father desired thet the trial proceed
at this time without further postpone
ment. The continuance was at the
instance of the State, the absent
witnesses being for that side.
Missing Witnesses Essential.
Airs. Flanders and her father will
return to Bartow this afternoon.
The absent witnesses causing the
continuance are Dr. Houston, of Au
gusta, and V. W. Brown, of Quitman.
The testimony of each Is considered
material. The court agreed to the
State’s contention in this respect. Dr.
Houston was appointed by the court
as an expert to make investigation as
to the alleged arsenic poison that it
is contended caused Flanders’ death.
The defense acknowledges that his
testimony is material. Brown testi
fied at the trial of Dr. McNaughton
that on passing through Covena he
had seen McNaughton and Mrs. Flan
ders kiss and had also seen Fred
Inlanders carrying a torch at night to
light the way for McNaughton and
Mrs. Flanders, who walked behind
him.
Mrs. Flanders Confident.
Before court convened to-day Airs.
Flanders said;
“There is no doubt of my acquit
tal. I am innocent and expect to
prove this. I do not want the case
postponed or nolle prossed. I want
the trial to go on, so that I may be
vindicated in the eyes of the world.
I shall* go before the jury firm in the
conviction that after they hear all
that the State can bring against me
they will feel that I have committed
no crime, and will bring in a verdict
in my' favor.”
The impression is general that sev
eral days will be consumed In the
trial of the case. The trial will be
one of the most expensive Emanuel
County has ever had. The cost for
jury' service alone will amount to ap
proximately' $400. It is anticipated
that the minimum cost of the trial
will be $1,000.
A white man and five negroes were
burned, one of them perhaps fatally,
in a gasoline explosion in the kitchen
of the Fairlie House, near the city
hall, this afternoon. The white man
was John Duggan, clerk at the hotel,
whose clothing caught Are when he
attempted to save the life of Grace
Wallace, the negro cook.
Duggan was severely burned about
the legs and body, but it is not
thought his injuries w’ill prove seri-
ious.
The Wallace woman was probably
fatally burned. When Duggan ran
ino the kitchen she was afire from
head to feet and her hair was blaz
ing. When the flames were exting
uished she had been seriously burned
about the head and body. Both
Duggan and the negro woman were
taken to Grady Hospital.
Four of the negro waiters at the
hotel were slightly burned on the
hands and arms when they tried to
extinguish the flames without call
ing the fire department.
The explosion was the result of a
mistake on the part of one of the
negro waiters. He saw a ran of
gasoline setting on the floor and
started to fill the kettle with it.
The damage to the building was
small.
Theft Discovered When Official of
Atlanta Institution Opened Bruns
wick Deposit; Messenger Said to
Have Admitted Resealing Envelope.
Five thousand dollars in currency has disappeared myste
riously in transit between the Brunswick Bank and Trust Com
pany and the Central Bank and Trust Corporation. The theft
was discovered when officials of the Atlanta bank opened the
sealed package and found, instead of money, newspaper clippings
of the same size and thickness.
Crane Declines Post
At Court of Russia
President Wants George W. Guthrie
to Go to Japan and Frederick
C. Penfield to Spain.
BURNS DROPS
MARTIN CASE;
E
WASHINGTON, April 18.— It was
learned that at the White House to
day' that Charles R. Crane, of Chi
cago. to whom the President has ten-
’ dered the Ambassadorship to Russia,
will not accept the offer.
There bad been some doubt at the
j White House as to whether Mr. Crane
could give up his business interests
to go abroad.
Mr. Crane declared on March 6 that
he would not accept any' po.«t outside
of the United States. Eater he con
ferred with the President. The con
ference did not change liis decision,
and he now is on his way to Chicago.
Other selections determined upon
| by President Wilson, although the
nominations will not be sent to 'he
Senate for at least a week, are:
George W. Guthrie, of Pennsylvania,
for Ambassador to Japan.
Frederick C. Penfield, of Pennsyl
vania, for Minister to Spain.
‘He’s Alive and Well,” Asserts
American Sleuth—Reward Of
fered by Friend Withdrawn.
Nearly everybody in Atlanta reads
The Sunday American. YOUR ad
vertisement in the next issue will sell
goods. Try it!
J. Ham Lewis’ Linen
Costs Two Days’ Pay
Stops to Change Shirt and Loses
Chance to be Sworn In as
Senator.
WASHINGTON. April 18.-—Fifteen
minutes spent in grooming himself
Tuesday morning before making an
appearance in the Senate chamber
I cost Senator James Hamilton Lewis,
• of Illinois, two days of his term as
I Senator.
Instead of leaving his hotel for the
! capitol promptly after arrival. Col-
i onel Lewis took time to change his
, linen and reached the capitol to be
sworn in only to find the eSnate had
i adjourned till Thursday.
The new Senator does not intend
to remain in the aristocratic hotel
! where he is now stopping
“I cannot afford it.” he said. ”i
have no desire to emulate the fools
or the rich. I shall get a modest
apartment.”
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, April 18.—Detective
William J. Burns to-day withdrew
from the search for Joseph W. Mar
tin, the missing Memphis, Tenn., cot
ton broker, who disappeared on April
3.
According to Burns. Martin is alive
and well, and not in London, he says.
The detective eays he has received
information from his New York office
which satisfies him on this point.
He will not say' w here Martin is, but
i declares that -the missing man is not
in London, and'adds:
“My information compels me to
withdraw from the case, which is no
longer a mystery. Martin is not in
any physical danger.”
Some mystery attended the with-,
drawai of the famous detective, al
though his action was not entirely
unexpected.
The offer of a reward for Martin
previously issued by J. Lockhart An
derson, the English friend of the
missing American, had already been
| withdrawn.
Scout Kidnaping Theory.
Private detectives w'orking on the
case, who intimate that they' had “in
side information” of which the pub
lic knew nothing, declared that Mar
tin is alive and that he was not forci
bly kidnaped.
The latest word received at the po
lice headquarters was that Mr. Mar
tin was well known in the fashiona
ble West Side gambling resorts and
that he had lost a big sum of money
before he disappeared.
The affairs of the Martin Cotton
Brokerage House and of the Arkansas
Land Company, which the missing
American came here to promote, are
under investigation.
The funds were intended to lift
put to the credit of the Bruns
wick bank with the Central,
which handles its account heye.
The shipment was quite in the
regular course of daily business.
The cashier of the Brunswick in
stitution personally delivered the
package to the Southern Express
Company. The envelope was sealed
with the bank’s seal, and red wax was
used.
Opened and Resealed.
When received here, the envelope
had been opened at one end, the red
seal evidently had been bent back,
then put In place again and held
there by black wax. From the fact
that the Southern Express Company
uses black wax, and from other in
dications in the case, an express mes
senger is suspected.
It is reported that one messenger
already has admitted to his superiors
that he rescaled the package, though
he says he did not get the money and
simply found that the envelope need
ed closing.
Theft Is Not Denied.
At headquarters of the Southern
Express Company' in Atlanta, officials
were reticent. No denial is made of
the circumstances, but no informa
tion is forthcoming as to the result
of investigations.
The leading officials of the com
pany in this territory were gathered
nearly all day in the office of the com
pany's counsel.
At the Central Bank and Trust Cor
poration it was .said that the package
was received in the regular course of
business, was signed for along with
several other shipments of currency,
and that the theft was not discovered
until an official opened the envelop©
In question.
Mrs. Wilson Piques
Capital Modistes
Has Spring Dresses Made in Balti
more to Keep Within $1,000
Allowance.
WASHINGTON, April 18.-—Mrs
Woodrow* Wilson is having her spring
clothes made in Baltimore in order to
! keep within her allowance of $1,000
1 for dresees. This has proved a great
i shock to the modistes and dressmak
ers of the National Capital, who had
counted on the publicity’ of such serv-
| ice.
The simplicity of dress Mrs. Wilson
is making fashionable prevails among
i the women of the Cabinet.
If you have anything to soil adver
tise in The Sunday American. Lar
gest circulation of any Sunday news
paper in the South.
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Wilson Not to Back
Up on Tariff Stand
Threatens to Carry Issue Before
People if Senate Tries to
Raise House Rates.
WASHINGTON, April 18—There
will be no backing water by President
Wilson In his attitude on the tariff.
Early in his administration he told
the old party leaders of Congre.s«s
what he expected in the way of a
tariff bill as carrying out the party
pledger.
He has reiterated this position to a
number of callers and has gone so far
as to threaten if the Senate under
takes to raise the rates as provided in
tlie House bill, he will carry the mat
ter before the people of the country.
This intended course was imparted
by him to one of his> visitors t 0 -dav
and < ommunicated informally to cer
tain Senators who are regarded as be
ing in favor of certain increases in
the Underwood bill.
Find in Sea Message
Left by Col. Astor
BOSTON, April 18.—Captain J.
Willis, of the British tramp steamer
Lonscar, which arrived here to-day.
reported picking up at sea a small
board bearing a message and signa
ture of John Jacob Astor.
He has wired the contents to Mrs.
Astor.
W, & A. R. R. CONDEMNATION
BILL IS DEFEATED, 15 TO 14
NASHVILLE, TENN., April 18.—
The Bass bill, authorizing th^ city'
of Chattanooga to condemn the West
ern and Atlantic Railroad y r ards In
Chattanooga for the opening of Broad
Street, was defeated by a vote of 15
to 14 in the Tennessee Senate to-day.
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