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CAUSES C. OF 6.
WRECK; 12 HOT
Jo Evidence of Plot Found in In
vestigation of Wreck of
Macon Express.
Investigation to-day established be-
jnd a doubt that a broken rail, not
was the cause of the wreck
’ t’entral of Georgia passenger train
15. Macon to Atlanta, near Love-
Ga., last night, in Vhich a dozen
prsons were more or less seriously
ijufed. v J
|The track was cleared by 4 o’clock
lis morning and traffic was resutned
[ithout any serious delay.
Capt. A. J. Floyd, conductor, had
|s back and right leg badly sprained.
M. Gordon, a news agent, had his
lefc and hip* hurt, and Mrs. J. T.
atthews, of Butler, a tubercular pa
int on her way to an Atlanta san-
Irium, was badly shaken up.
List of Injured.
|Others injured were:
Julia Pope, Albany, Ga., ankle and
ot crushed.
>arl Evans, Macon, slightly
uised.
[Ethel Spence, Thomasville, badly
aken up.
Lula Brooke, Chfettanooga, bruised.
(Mrs. L. E. Brooke, Chattanooga,
uised.
^laybelle * Hawkins, Americus,
fiised.
tars. H. J. Fite, Gainesville, Ga.,
pised.
Mrs. Red G. Henderson and two
Jldren, Knoxville, Tenn, badly
ken up.
loseph P. Hamilton. Macon, nose
|ken, skull contused.
. W. Scott, Atlanta, hip and leg
ft.
^eter Turner, New York, knee
Used.
Charles Newman. New York, fin-*
i broken.
faptain Floyd, veteran conductor,
this morning a graphic story of
happening. His home is at lO^r
tfton Street. He was most seri-
lly injured'*>f th*v passengers, and
1 expects to be on his run again
(hin the next few Weeks.
Captain Floyd's Story.
[\V’e were running at about 45
|es an hour when we struck the
The fourth car was the first to
fe the tracks, the fifth and sixth
next, and these three pulled off
! third car from the front. A rail
jthe inside pf the curve had col-
after the engine passed over it.
The derailed cars leaned against
I side of the embankment without
ping over. There was more ex-^
Jmont than real fright or injury,
ppngers literally swarmed from
I windows.”
heir principal concern seemed to
Whether any one had been injured
|illed.
have been in several wrecks,”
Jaid. "In many of them several
were killed and 1 was not
k*ed at all. Now it seems that I
about the only person anyways
|y hurt.”
Governor Brown Will Not Let
'Doctor Go to Gallows Before
Mrs. Flanders’ Trial.
Dr. W. J. McNaughton, in the shad
ow of the gallows for many months,
will get another chance for his life.
He will be respited by Governor
Brown over into Governor-elect Sla
ton's term.
the poisoning of Fred Flanders, he
has repeately be$n respited by Gov
ernor Browp, and it was learned to
day upon authoritative information
that this course will be followed
again.
Governor Brown has refused to let
Dr. McNaughton go to the gallows
until there no longer remains any
doubt of his guilt. He has announced
right along that he does not propose
to permit an innocent man to hang.
When it appeared possible that addi
tional evidence might be brought out
bearing on McNaughton’s guilt or in
nocence, the Governor promptly
granted a respite.
Trial of Widow Delayed.
This he did again and again until it
was thought that the matter would be
settled definitely one way or the oth
er when the trial of the widow of
Flanders, charged with complicity in
the murder, was concluded. The trial
was scheduled to have begun yester
day, but again was unexpectedly post
poned—this time until July—because
of the absence of material witnesses.
It immediately became a question
of what was to be done with Mc
Naughton, who was doomed by the
terms of his respite to go to the gal
lows next month. Those who had
been acquainted with the Governor’s
attitude in the matter before did not
doubt w hat his action would be.
In respiting McNaughton on the
other occasions, the Governor did so
an the expressed determination that
the condemned man should be given
e\ery opportunity to benefit from any
of the disclosures of the Flanders
trial.
Case to Go to Slaton.
There was no reason to believe
that the Governor would retreat from
his former stand.
There has been no suggestion of a
comutatiori of McNaughton’s sentence.
The Governor has not wished to go
into v tjje merits of the case as they
stand, but has based his clemency on
the possibilities of future develop
ments.
A# Governor Brown will have left
office by. the time the Flanders case
tomes to trial, the final word as to
whether McNaughton shall hang will
rest with Brow n’s successor. Gover
nor-elect John M. Slaton.
Mother Backs Kidnaping Charge
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Mrs. Clark, Angry, Changes Mind
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Grandmother Is Under Arrest
COUPLE HELD FOR
HOTEL SWINDLE
Man and Woman Arrested in New
York Accused of Duping
Piedmont for $500.
Atlanta detective® to-day identified
a couple under arrest in New York
as Herbert Mann alid Mrs. R. E. Thix-
ton, wanted here accused of a $500
check swindle at the Piedmont Hotel,
where they posed as wealthy tourists
and the woman made an elaborate
show of handsome diamonds.
Mrs. Thlxton, as she was know'n
here, attracted much attention during
her stay in the Piedmont by reason
of her gems and stylish gowns. She
is said to have worn a hat valued at
nearly $100.
Mann, accused as her accomplice,
but who apparently had no acquaint
ance with the woman while in the
hotel, spent money lavishly.
The couple were in Atlanta in Jan
uary. They duped the hotel through
worthless checks. The woman had
more than $2,000 worth eff diamonds
on deposit in the hotel safe for safe
keeping, but. had withdrawn these and
It ft before the forgeries were dis
covered.
Spe-cial Detective T. T. Kyle, of the
Piedmont, took the trail of the couple
and followed them through several
cities, but finally lost them in Cincin
nati. He found that they had reg
istered in Knoxville and in Cincin
nati.
In Louisville, he found that the wo
man had lleeced the Henry Watter-
son Hotel of $75, but her male com
panion was not known there.
Detective Kyle returned to Atlanta
from Cincinnati, and nothing further
was heard of the couple until notice
of their arrest in New York was re
ceived. Photographs and descriptions
accompanied the notice, and these
were positively identified by Detective
Kyle and officials and attaches of
the Piedmont.
They will not be returned to At
lanta immediately, as Demopolis, Ill.,
put in a claim for them ahead of At
lanta. They are wanted there for
the same kind of job as at the Pied
mont.
Augustus Hamilton Clark. Jr., 18-montli-old son of Mrs.
A. H. Clark, who aeeused her mother-in-law of kidnaping him.
WOMEN INVADE EVEN
LOGGING PROFESSION
WASHINGTON, April 19.—Woman
has so far Invaded man’s sphere that
the civil service in advertising fer
logging engineers has found it nec
essary to specify “for men only.”
Woman Accused of Stealing Baby
Declares Father Gave Her
Right to Take Child.
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Aroused by the recent actions of
her husband’s parents, Mrs. A. H.
Clark, mother of Augustus Hamilton
Clark, Jr., to-day changed front and
declared that, instead of withdraw
ing the prosecution against Mrs. G. S.
Clark, charged with kidnaping, she
will push it to the end.
Solicitor Dorsey, acting upon Mrs.
A. H. Clark's assertions, early this
afternoon ordered the arrest of Mrs.
G. S. Clark on the indictment charg
ing kidnaping.
The elder Mrs. Clark, in custody
of Deputy Miner, was brought into
the Sheriff's office at 2 o’clock and
held pending the efforts of her attor
ney, Howard Green, to secure the
$1,000 bond necessary for her re
lease.
Claims She Obeyed Son.
While under arrest Mrs. Clark
maintained that she acted only at the
behest of her son, Augustus Hamilton
Clark, and said she did not fear
prosecution.
Augustus Hamilton Clark. Jr., the
2-year-old bone of contention, is now
at his mother's home. 156 Richardson
Street, and his mother declared he
would stay there. In spite of all that
the child’s grandparents could do.
Willful slander on the part of her
husband’s parents and their refusal
to divulge the whereabouts of their
son so that his wife may have an un
derstanding with him are the reasons
given by Mrs. Clark for her new de-
terminatlen.
She Plans to Retaliate.
"I intend to push the kidnaping
charge just as hard as I can,’’ said
Mrs. Clark this morning. "I have not
been treated right in this matter at
all, and I intend to make those peo
ple suffer. My child's grandparents
have given out statements to the
newspapers attacking my character
that are untrue in every respect.”
Mrs. Clark, against whom the in
dictment has been sworn out, still
maintains her belief that she had a
perfect right to take the child away,
and says, furthermore, that both her
son and her daughter-in-law con
sented to give her the child outright.
In talking of the case she displayed
a certificate signed by her son, Au
gustus H. Clark, before a notary pub
lic, vesting in her dll his rights and
authority as father of the child. Tht
certificate Is as follows:
"March 28. 1913.
"To Whom It May Concern:
’’This is to certify that my mother,
Mrs. G. S. Clark, has my full permis
sion to carry my son, Augustus Ham
ilton Clark, Jr., away from Atlanta,
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and that I hereby give to her all the
authority vested in me as his father
under the law.
“AUGUSTUS H. CLARK.
"Sworn to and subscribed before
me this, the 28th day of March, 1913.
"RUSSELL T. HARRALSON,
“Notary Public, Fulton County."
Mrs. Clark says that, despite the
fact she believes she has a perfect
legal right to the child and that the
child’s mother is not capable of taking
care of the little fellow, she will not
make any 1 legal fight to regain pos
session. She says she believes it will
be only a short time before her
daughter-in-law will be ready to turn
the boy over to her.
Wilson Can't See
Cause for War Talk
Declines to Meet California Delega
tion Favoring Anti-Alien Land
Legislation.
WASHINGTON, April 1».—Agina
tion, either at home or abroad, will
not move President Wilson into the
admission that there is any reason for
a war scare in the Japanese situa
tion.
He emphasized this to-day when he
declined to meet a delegation of Cal
ifornians v ho favor anti-alien land
legislation. Through Secretary of
State Bryan the President to-day re
quested Governor Johnson, of Cali
fornia. to use all his influence to pre
vent the passage of any antl-a!ien
land law through the Callforniar«l*e£-
islature without due deliberation $nrd
consideration of the consequences.
The text of the message to Govern
or Johnson was not divulged, but it is
known that it was an emphatic appeal
to prevent any hair-trigger action by
the Legislature, not because the
United States fears a war with Ja
pan, but to prevent possible diplo
matic complications.
12,000 LIVERPOOL DOCK
LABORERS ON STRIKE
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LIVERPOOL, April 19.—Twelve
thousand dock laborers struck here
to-day in protest against Saturday
labor conditions. Shipping will be
hampered seriously.
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