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THE WEATHER. Forecast—Fair to-night and Saturday. Temperatures—8 a. m., 60; 10 a. m., 66; 12 m., 78; 2 p. m., 81; sunrise, 5:12; sunset, 6:12. The Atlanta Georgian Read For Profit GEORGIAN WANT ADS— Use For Results HOME eomoN VOL. XI. NO. 220. ATLANTA, (!A„ FRIDAY, APRIL 18.1913. 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE p ^° 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. You May Be Winner Read the “Want Ads” to-day and seeil your name is there, if if is and you have it marked when the “Want Ad” man calls Saturday morning in the Speedy Car- terear, he will pre sent you wilh a new doiiar bill. 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. WONDERFUL Feature Paper AY AMERICAN Order YOUR Paper NOW-TODAY