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HEARRT’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY. APRIL 20, 1013.
STRINGER LAIS
IS,000 THEFT
Atlanta Society Approves Trot and Tango'LM RUSSELL
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Express Messenger, in Jesup Jail,
Tells Story of Crime to Sun
day American.
FELL WHILE INTOXICATED
Habit Just a Month Old—Refused
to Touch Another Package
Containing $4,500.
One-Step Here Has None of Dis
agreeable Features, Miss
Jane Cooper Declares.
JESUP, GA., April 19.—J. B.
Stringer, the young express messen
ger arrested to-day for the theft of
15,000 In currency in transit between
Brunswick and Atlanta banks, from
the Souhern Express Company, told
the story of his crime and Its causes
to The Sunday American as he sat
Id his cell In the county Jail. He
blamed drink for his plight.
Stringer, a slight oountry boy,
seemed frightened and on the verge
of an emotional collapse in the Wayne
county Jail this afternoon. With his
Angers nervously working and pinch
ing at his face he explained the as
tonishing case.
The boy made the remarkable state
ment that he spurned a package
whioh contained $4,600—the com
panion of the one he stole.
“I let It lie there, in the car.” he
said. “'I did not want It. After I
had taken the one package, the other
seemed to repel me.
“It Is all because I drank too much
Wednesday night. I don't know of
anything else that made me take the
money. I have handled many pack
ages containing thousands of dollars
before this, and, did not want to take
them.
Began Drinking Month Ago.
‘ But about a month ago I started
to drink a little, and Wednesday night
I drank too much. My nerves were
shattered. In the car the temptation
t ame to me to take the money oul
of the package.
"The temptation was new to me,
but nervous and sick as I was I did
not seem to care I cut up some
papers I had in the car to read, and
put the scraps in the package, re
sealed It, and put the money In the
safe until I got to Jesup. Somehow
I could not urge myself to touch the
other package with the $4,500.
"When I got to Jesup, I took the
money with me, got a glass Jar from
the restaurant, went down the rail
road to the water tank and buried the
money.
"Then I sat down, still and quiet,
for the first time since the impulse
first came to me. The thought of
what I had done sobered me, and
I saw what a fix I was In. I decided
to return the money, but they caught
me.”
Alone in His Offense.
The boy declared that he was alone
In his offense, and that nothing had
Inspired him to steal the money ex
cept the drunken Impulse.
"Before I left Brunswick on the
trip,” he said, “I had no thought that
I would take the money. The Idea
had never entered my head. It came
all at once, like that, and seemed to
hold me.”
The boy seemed ignorant and help-
less. ( He has not employed a^lawyer,
and \said he did not km>V what he
would do.
"I don’t know what will happen,”
he said, in a tone of hopelessness.
"And I don’t know what to do. 1
can’t do anything, I reckon.”
Stringer waived preliminary hear
ing, and his case will go to the grand
Jury for consideration. A bond of
$6,000 was fixed, which the boy has
not furnished. The Superior Court
session begins here next week, with
Judge E. Graham, of Hazelhurst, pre
siding. and It Is probable that he will
be tried then.
Superintendent Knowles, of the
Southern Express Company, was
her e to-day, but would make no state
ment except that the entire $5,000 had
been recovered, and that Stringer had
taken it. He left this afternoon with
his detectives for Brunswick, but will
be here Tuesday when court convenes.
Express Thefts Infrequent.
Local officials of the Southern Ex
press Company, discussing yester
day the theft of $5,000 by J. B. Strin
ger, declared that they did not fear
repetitions of the offense. Dishonesty
among employees, they said, is in
frequent.
Here is how Joseph E. Skaggs, At
lanta agent of the company, answer
ed the question as to why so few
packages containing money were
stolen:
Because of the inherent honesty of
the employees.
Because the employees are trusted
implicitly and respect their trust.
Because there is a fraternity among
l he employees of the express com
panies that makes them work to
gether for the company and for them
selves.
Only 1 in 1,000 Goes Wrong.
’ Express companies work on the
theory," said Mr. Skaggs, “that all
men are honest until they are proven
otherwise, and though, of course, we
do not throw temptation in any man’s
way more than is necessary, it Is a
fact that the honesty of the express
employee is the safety of the pack
ages. Honesty is a better safeguard
than all the systems of protection
that could be devised, and if you let
a man know that you trust him, it is
a 10 to 1 shot that he will be honest.
‘And when you put a bunch of
honest men together, give them re
sponsibility and treat them so they
regard your interests as their own,
there you have a safeguard against
any yielding to temptation. This is
proven by the fact that though the
Southern Express Company has 15.-
000 employees, the percentage of
those who go wrong and try to steal
valuable packages is not more than
one in a thousand, and I doubt if it is
even that large.”
A reporter for The Sunday Amer
ican yesterday started to call up a
number of Atlanta's most prominent
society women to ask their views up
on the tango, turkey trot and other
of the latter day dances now in vo
gue.
Imagine his surprise when the an
swer came over the telephone. ‘ Ma
dame Is taking her dancing lesson.”
The answer was sufficient enllght-
ment. Atlanta society, even to it*
most conservative element, is putting
the stamp of its approval on the new
dances. And what is more, Atlan
ta society has started a class of in
struction in the new wrinkles.
Import Dancing Instructor.
WltnesB the advent to Atlanta of
C. V. Zebley, dancing master ctf
Washington, whose wark has taken
Will Take Moving Pictures of Eu
ropean Working Women as
High Tariff Argument.
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NEW YORK. April 19/ Lillian
Russell is going to Europe early In
June on a novel philanthropic project,
Accompanied by moving picture op
erators, she will visit England,
France, Belgium, Holland. Germany.
Austria, Russia and Italy for the pur
pose of making pictures of the women
workers in those countries. She in
tends next winter to lecture on the
subject of labor slavery in Europe.
The pictures will illustrate her ad
dresses Mias Russell said to-day:
"1 intend getting material that will
ease the discontent of women with
their lot. 1 think that our women live
In an industrial paradise compared
with most other nations. I am going
to get pictures of English women
dragging coal trucks like beasts of
burden for a shilling a day.
“I will show Belgian and Dutch
women tugging at plcugha and *S;ar •
rows and pulling barges like oxen. I
will show the field labor of women in
Austria, Germany, Russia and Italy.
1 will show the abominable condi
tions under which the poor live and
toil all over Europe.
“During the Congrestflonal cam
paign* next fall I -hall go on the
stump with my motion pictures in
aid of those candidates who favor
protection of American industries."
$38,000,000 IS URGED
FOR FLOOD RELIEF WORK
WASHINGTON. April 19,-Appro-
priation bills carrying in the aggre
gate more than $8,000,000 have been
introduced in Congress for relief of
flood sufferers in Ohio, Indiana and
Illinois, and for repairs to the dams
in the Ohio River and to the levees
in the Mississippi. For repairs to the
levees along the Mississippi River
$80,000,000 is said to be necessary.
‘Hold-up Insurance'
Issued in Mew York
Timid Citizen Can Now Pay Premium
and Trot Home Happily. Re
gardless of Footpads.
NEW YORK, April 19 The recent
Increase in the number of lmid-ups
here has resulted in I,ip indemnity
firms Issuing "holil-up Insurance."
The timid citizen who fears his
homeward Journey will be molested
by the man with gun und mask has
only to go to his broker, fill in a
policy, pay a small premium and
trot happily homeward.
Some concerns will protect attains!
burglars, tuxi bandits who lift the
till after trussing tl lerk up and
storing hint beneath the counter, or
the pickpocket who removes your
roll in a crowd.
"It's a new kink,' but the public are
beginning to catch on to it." said E.
R. Shephard, a manager of one of
the firms dealing In the new insur
ance. “It should he a perfect god
send to women shoppers.”
New Skirt Shows
Limbs to the Knee
F'esh-Colored Stockings Revealed by
Slash In Front of the
Garment.
NEW YORK, April 19.—Fifth Ave
nue was treated to a view of the lat
est freak of fashion to-day when a
trim little blonde strolled up the ave
nue above Forty-second Street wear
ing a skirt that was divided in front.
Am the little woman walked along,
the divided skirt gave'an ample
glimpse of flesh-colored silk stockings
to the point just below the knee
The new skirt wa» of Heavy dark
blue cloth of moderate width and of
ordinary walking length. The divi
sion In front was cut away much in
the fashion of a man's cutaway coat
and wan bound with heavy black
braid.
Just what style it was above the
knees no one see hied to notice.
FIND THREE DEAD
IN ANCIENT WELL
Illinois Woman and Her Two Chil
dren Slain and Their Bodies
Hidden for Week.
ELGIN, ILL,, April 19. -Search for
Mrs. Maud Sleep and her two chil
dren. who disappeared last Monday
evening, ended to-day with the find
ing of the three bodies In an aban
doned well on her husband's farm
near Elgin.
Mrs. Sleep had been shot four times
and the two children hud been beat
en to death. The Elgin police be
lieved all three had been murdered
and their bodies thrown into the well.
There were four bullet wounds in
Mrs. Sleep’s body. An ax, stained
with blood, was found in h shed near
the well. It was supposed the alayer
of the trio killed the children with
the ax after shooting the mother to
death. '
Posses of farmers were organized
this afternoon to search for traces of
the slaver of Mrs. Sleep and her two
children. A lynching ia expected if
the murderer ia found.
At the inquest begun by the Coro
ner this afternoon a note was pro
duced. It was found In the well and
whs signed “Maud.” The note said:
Dear Father—I have killed my
self. Good-bye.”
The note was not In the handwrit
ing of Mrs. Sleep, according to neigh
bors who were close friends of the
murdered woman. The police ware
convinced It was a forgery-
EDITOR NELSON FREED
OF CONTEMPT CHARGE
JEFFBRBON CITY, MO., April 19.
William R. Nelson, owner of The
Kansas City Star, who was charged
with malice in the publication of an
article in his paper, was found not
guilty in the State Supreme Court
to-day. Mr. Nelson wan held in con
tempt of court last February for the
publication of the article and sen
tenced to serve one day in Jail.
RETIRING HERD IS
HISSED BYD.R.fl.
Delegates Show Disapproval of
Criticism Directed at New
President, Mrs. Story.
WASHINGTON. April 19. Mrs.
Matthew' T. Scott, the retiring presi
dent-general of the D. A. R., was
roundly hissed by the delegates this
morning when she complained that
Mrs. William Gumming Story, of Newr
York, new president-general, was
using her new privileges to interrupt
her while speaking.
The congress passed a resolution
indorsing the official report of Gen
eral Leonard Wood, which asks for
the restoration of the army canteen.
They also passed a resolution indors
ing the Sunday opening of Mount
Vernon, which was strenuously op- *
posed In an address by Mrs. Amos
G. Draper, of the District of Colum
bia, who said that while she had no
personal feelings in the matter, the
D. A. R. c<ingress should not go on
record officially as breaking the
American Sunday.
With resolutions of thanks for ev
eryone from the President of the
United States down to the firemen
stationed in the hall, the congress
adjourned without delay at 2:45
o’clock, the historic election battle
of 1918 becoming a thing of the past.
LAND STEFANS0N FINDS
WILL BELONG TO BRITAIN
LONDON, April 19,—Vilhjalmar
Stefanson, leader of the Canadian
Arctic expedition, sailed to-day by
the American liner St. Paul.
Before sailing the explorer said
that as the Canadian Gpvernment is
paying the expense of the expedition
on condition that it. sailR under the
British flag, any new land discovered
will be part of the British Empire.
“This would not be so,” Stefanson
said, “had the original plan been car
ried out and American and Canadian
funds been used jointly to support
the expedition.”
Photo by Hirshburg.
Above is Miss Jane Cooper, who is said to be the best dancer ol: the tango and turkey trot, in At-
lanta. Below is Mrs. W. A. Speer, who puts strong approval on the dance as it is performed in At
lanta and is a member of a dancing class which is learning the new steps.
him into the White House and into
the solicitation of society leaders to
teach them the newest steps—the
tango, the long Boston, the one-step,
which is our old friend the turkey
trot in classical disguise, and the
other new things. The leaders, chsr
acteristically Atlantans, have re
solved not to do the thing by halves,
"Having adopted the new ball room
steps, we decided to learn them well,”
said one society woman.
Enter Mr. Zebley with his mis
sion.
Under a veil of discreet privacy,
his classes were organized before he
was engaged. Then Atlanta society
cast about for an Instructor of caste
and ability. His clientele in Wash
ington society recommended Mr. Zeb
ley.
Since his arrival in Atlanta sev
eral days ago, his work has been con
ducted behind the same barrier of ex
clusiveness that marked the prelim
inary organization of hlz classes. The
pupils are chaperored and only by
permission of the chaperones is one
to be admitted during the periods
of instruction.
And as to Joining the classes, well
”We are very sorry, indeed," po
litely but firmly, "but the classes are
all made up.”
Classes For All Ages.
Instruction is given only In the au
ditorium of Cable Hall.
There are morning classes for ma
trons, four times a week.
There are classes for younger mem
bers of the society set, conducted of-
There are classes for the children
of Atlanta's first families.
Everybody is learning it. Atlanta
society has gone in wholeheartedly
or the new steps in bail room darn -
ing, and the old order, its members
prophecy, is passed.
"The new forms of ball room danc
ing seem to have come to Atlanta
to stay," said Mrs. W. A. Speer, who
is one of Mr. Zebley’s pupils. "Their
adoption is general, by the young
sets and the older sets. This ought
to prove that they are something
more than a fad, when the more ma
ture persons go in for them.
"And the new steps are popular
and leasing. There is no objection
to any of the regular dances when
they are danced well, and they fur
nish desirable variations from the o'd
steps."
Most popular of the new wrinkles,
members of the society set declare, is
the long Boston—point de tour, it is
called in technical terms, of dancing
—which has become a figure in every
dance.
And the turkey trot,—but no, it is
not au fait to dance the turkey trrt
with the new order. Tn its pla^e
Atlanta is learning the one-step.
The difference is largely one of
names. Mr. Zebley explains that he
turkey trot is based on elgnt figures
and the one-step on four. But, taken
by and large, the distinction Is one
for expert opinion.
To be sure, the one-step that Atlan
ta society is learning has not the
features that made the turkey trot
the horror of the sedate.
Sewing circles. It is expurgated
and tamed and put on basis of the
purest technique. The one-step that
Mr. Zebley is teaching Atlanta so
ciety is made desirable because the
positions in which the danf'ers are
placed are not objectionable.
“Position Is The Thing.”
“The position is the thing," said
Mr. Zebley yesterday. “It is that
which made the original turkey trot
sensational and objectionable. It Is
because of the position of the dancers
that the -bunny hug and the grizzly
bear, freak dances, cannot survive.
In fact, they have not survived. But
the turkey trot—or rather, its tech
nical relative, the one-step—is harm
less and even pleasurable.”
But Mr. Zebley would not talk much
about himself or his work in Atlanta.
He is as exclusive as his patrons,
and said that he desired their per
mission before telling of his classes,
or even of talking about the dances
he is teaching them.
The work of the master wifi keep
him in Atlanta about seven weeks,
the courses he has outlined covering
about that period. Which means tha:
with the opening of the summer danc
ing season at the Piedmont Driving
Club, the Capital City Club, the At
lanta Athletic Club and other clubs
whose members are from exclusive
circles, the new steps will have in
quired absolute sway.
Miss Cooper Likes It.
Miss Jane Cooper, a popular mem
ber of the younger set, bears the rep
utation of being the best dancer In
Atlanta of the turkey trot, the tango,
and other new steps. Miss Cooper is
grace personified, and she does not
believe in “ragging" the danc-s.
which is the usual manner of their
production on the stage and in cab
arets and public places, and which
has gained for them unenviable and
often undeserved censure.
1 like the new steps," Miss Cooper
says, “because they are easy and pro
duce little fatigue, yet are as exhil
arating was as delightful as the old
time waltz and two step. Of course,
the turkey trot is a step which can
easily be carried to a disagreeable ex
treme. but that is usually the fault
of the dancer, and not of the dance.
“I consider the turkey trot wht’h
people give a most objectionable per
formance, and I wish to emphasize
the fact that the way we—that is,
the Atlanta girls and boys give the
dance, Is entirely different, and has
none of the bad features of the ex
aggerated dancing. In fact, the way
we dance Is quite an improvement
on the way the turkey-trot Is given in
other cities
’When 1 was in Washington recent
ly. people would stop dancing to
watch us—Lucy Hoke Smith, myself,
Lamar Hill and Marian Smith—for
our dance was something entirely
new to them, and not at all like their
turkey trotting."
Athletes Balk at
New Strenuous Dances.
CHICAGO, April 19.—Now it's the
athletes who balk at the turkey trot
and the tango that has a tang. They
say the new dances require too much
exertion.
Coach Denis Grady, of Northwest
ern University, was glad to-day when
told the dean of women had asked
the Sorority girls to refrain from
dancing the tango and other new
movements. Miss Irene Blanchard is
dean of women.
Coach Grady said:
“The exertion a man puts in in one
evening of dancing the new dances is
equivalent to the energy he extends
in an afternoon’s football practice. I
will be glad to see the girls abolish
the new dances."
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