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I THE WEATHER. Forecast—To-day and to-mor row, partly cloudy, with varia ble winds. The GEORGIAN WANT ADS J L/ Use Tor Results J11 nr* VOL. XL NO. 222. BK OFFICIALS HE ACCUSES Probers To Be Formally Appointed To-day Will Take Up the Charges Against Ragsdale, Maddox and Spratling—Statement Branded Lies. Maddox Says Allegations Are a Mass of Lies—Ragsdale and Spratling Also Make Brief General Denial j Colonel' Astor left $5,000.000 to Sensation in Council To-morrow. Alderman John E. ' McClelland has tiled sensational charges against three Aldermen, accusing them of having acted in violation of the law to their own profit. The accused are Aldermen J. W. Maddox. I. N. Ragsdale and F. J. Spratling. Maddox alone replied at any length, branding McClelland’s statement as a mass of “lies.” The other two con tented themselves with the declaration that they would be ready to prove their innocence when the Council committee meets. 'Pile investigators will be formally appointed this aft ernoon and sensational developments are looked for. Alderman John S. Candler will be chairman of the committee. Here is a copy of McClelland’s statement addressed to .Judge Candler, fur nished to the newspapers: CHARGES AGAINST MADDOX. "‘'sybu. .John S. Candler, Chairman Special Investigating Committee • City Council, City. Dear Sir: Under the resolution approved April 11. 11)13, and } in fuftnerance of the orderly proceeding of your honorable com mittee. I do hereby charge as follows: That Alderman J. \V. Maddox is engaged in the business ot excavating ! Vd removing dirt, and rock, and has violated seetlou 100 ol the City Cqiie., > ' 1910. provided as follows: It shall not be lawful for any member of the General Council to be interested, either directly or indirectly, in any contract with the city of Atlanta. 1he Mayor and General Council, or any one or more of them, having for its object the public improvement of th< city. W any part thereof, or the expenditures of its moneys. A violati n of this section by any member of the General Council, aha. on conviction thereof, bo punished as prescribed in section 1310 c the Code of this State (being section 1039 of Criminal Code of 18951. 1 ch „rge that said Alderman has repeatedly, openly and notoriously, ac cepted d performed sub-contracts for the removal of rock, dirt and grading, from persons, firms and corporations who had contracted with the city of Atlanta for the construction of public improvements. Said direct contracts having been made and entered into while said Maddox was an official mem ber of the Board of Alderman of the city of Atlanta. Morgan's Estate Is Largest Ever Given in the U. S. Lowest estimate of val ue of real estate, in surance, bank, railroad, industrial and other stocks . $40,000,000 Value of art collections, conservatively e s t i - mated . 60,000,000 Total . . . i.$100,000,000 How it compares with other in herited-fortunes: John Jacob Astor $87,216,691 E. H. Harrlman 69,686.654 Cornelius Vanderbilt 68,350,000 Russell Sage 79.000,000 John L. Kennedy 65,553.000 Marshall Field 70.000.000 Jay Gould 78,000,000 W. H. Vanderbilt 40.000.000 Mr. Morgan left $3,000,000 to each daughter, $100,000 a year and residences in town and country to wife, residuary estate absolutely to wife, $5,000,000 -to daughter, and residuary to his son. Vincent. Mr. Harriman and Mr. Sage left their entire fortune absolutely to their wives, without reserve. Cornelius Vanderbilt left $1,000,- 000 to eldest son and namesake and more than $60,000,000 to his sec ond, Alfred. Jay Gould left $5,000,000 special bequest to eldest son. George, and divided all the rest equally among his five children, boys and girls alike, giving each one more than $10,000,000. ATLANTA. HA.. MONDAY. APRIL 21. 11)13. STRINGER LAYS tUH THEFT FI TO DRIKKING ‘ 0 Express Messenger, in Jesup Jail,! Urges Conciliatory Policy Toward Tells Story of Crime to Sun- ! Japan on Alien Land day American. \ Legislation, 2 C lb NTS K VERY WHE RE P ^ R S° M RS. COPLEY THAW, formerly the Countess of Yarmouth, and sister of Horry K. Thaw, who will marry Geoffrey G. Whitney, p banker, of Boston, at Cumberland Island, Ga., to morrow . FIND THREE DEAD IN ANCIENT WELL Illinois Woman and Her Two Chil dren Slain and Their Bodies Hidden for Week, ELGIN. ILL.. A]” i 1 21. ~-Search for ! Mrs. Maud Sleep and her two chil- [ dren. who disappeared last Monday j evening. end<*d to-day with the fin 1- j ing of the three bodies in an aban- i cloned well on her husband's farm near Elgin. ! Airs. Sleep had been shot four times and the two children had been beat en to death. The Elgin police be lieved all three had been murdered ■ind their bodies thrown into the* well. There were four bullet wounds in Mrs. Sleep’s body. An, ax, stained with blood, was found in a shed near the well. It.was supposed the slayer of the trio killed the children with the ax after shooting the mother to death. ., , , . . . , t • i • „ . , Posses of farmers were organized I further charge tha£ his said conduct was so openly violative of said I ti .; v afternoon to search bar traces </ of Mrs. Sleep and her two A lynching is expected if Courtland S. Winn, requested said Maddox to either abandon said contracts section that the then presiding Mayor of the city of Atlanta. Honorable the slaye children, the murderer is found. At the inquest begun by the Coro ner this afternoon a note was pro duced. It was found in the well and was 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 l'rlends of tlm murdered woman. The police were convinced it was a forgery. New Skirt Shows Limbs to the Knee c. to resign his official position, in order that the charter law of (he city might he respected and obeyed. , I further charge that said Maddox declined to comply with the request of Honorable Courtland S. Winn, and that he neither resigned his said posi tion as alderman, nor abandoned his contracts; and that he continued to openly violate said section. I further charge that the object of said section was to pevent any offi cial from using his position to advance his personal interests; and that ^aid conduct upon the part of said Maddox was detrimental to the interests of '.he public, and that he did, as an official, use his official position for the purpose of advancing his pecuniary interests. CHARGES AGAINST RAGSDALE I charge that I. N. Ragsdale, a member of the Aldermanic Board of the Flesh-Colored Stockings Revealed by city of Atlanta, is, and has been, engaged in the barter and sale of live ! Slash in Front of the stock, and that, since his-election to the Aldermanic Board, he had occupied \ Garment. ‘'position on the Board of Fire Masters—a department of the city which is constantly engaged in the purchase and sale of live stock. 1 charge that said Ragsdale, directly or indirectly, formed with others dummy partnership, known as J. R. Lawhon & Company, and that said Lawhon contributed no substantial capital to said firm: and that the capi tal of said firm was almost entirely contributed by said I. X. Ragsda’e. di et tiy, or indirectly, and another firm which likewise dealt largely with the city of Atlanta in live stock, I charge that said J. R. Lawhon & Company since the election to office • f said Ragsdale lias been constantly buying and selling live slock for the city of Atlanta through the said Ragsdale, as the official representative of the city of Atlanta and member of the Board of Fire Masters. Said dummy partnership was formed and said transactions were had by said Ragsdale for tbo end and purpose that he would be colorable protected from section 100 of the Code of 1910, which is above fully set forth. I charge that said Ragsdale has further, in violation of said section directly, sold live stock to the city of Atlanta, and has had warrants and vouchers issued to him directly by the city, transferring !o hint public funds in payment of said sales. I further charge that live stock, the property of the city of Atlanta, lias been condemned as being unfit for use. and that (he disposal of the same was delegated to the said Ragsdale: and that he did sell said live stock, without public advertisement or competitive bids, to his dummy partner ship, Lawhon & Company, or others interested with him, for sums less than the real value of said stock. I further charge that said transaction constituted a deliberate disregard of the obligations and trust imposed upon, and assumed by, the said Rags dale as a public official of the city of Atlanta, and were in denial of the legal restrictions imposed by said section 100 of the Code of the city of Atlanta. CHARGES AGAINST SPRATLING. i charge that F. J. Spratling. a member of the Aldermanic Board of the city of Atlanta, was nominated at a primary held in the fall of l!'H. which -aid nomination was the equivalent of a legal election: ihat h • was the XKVV YORK. April - I. Fifth Ave nue was treated to a view of the lat est freak of fashiqn 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. As the little woman walked along, the divided skirt gave an ample glimpse of flesh-colored silk stockings to the point just below tin: knee. Tile new skirt was of heavy dark blue cloth of moderate wqitii and of ordinary walking length. The divl- f m in front was cm away much in the fashion of a man's-cutaway coat and was bound with heavy black braid. Just what style it wa.s above the knees no one seemed to notice. Convict Succeeds To Title in England Noble Prisoner Has Spent Most of His Time Behind Bars in United States. LEA YEN WORTH. KANS., April 21.—Fred Grey, serving a sentence for misuse of the mails, was notified to day tli^J he lias succeeded to a Brit ish title and a largo estate in Eng land on account of th»» death of his older brother. Hi: term will expire .Iune 10. and he will Icjave at once for England hi • Id. Knglhii i . . .charges c t te j dnl} elected a member of the Aldermanic Board A Her said noun j the mail.- Continued cn Page Two. Ji* i i. frouiot.ng sale lei!;., his la‘T nr I FELL WHILE INTOXICATED Habit Just a Month Old—Refused to Touch Another Package Containing $4,500. JESUP. GA.. April 21.—J. B. Stringer, the young express messen ger arrested to-day for the theft of $5,600 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 in his cell in the county jail. He blamed drink for his plight. ^Stringer. a slight country boy. seemed frightened and on thi verge of an emotional collapse in the Wayne county jail this afternoon. With his fingers nervously working and pinch ing at his face h»* explained the as tonishing case. The boy made the remarkable stene ment tlliat he spurned a package which 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 1 had taken the one package, the other seemed to repel me “It is all because I drank too much Wednesday night. J don’t know of anything else that made me take the money, *1 have handled many pack ages containing thousands of dollars before this, and did not want to taki them. Began Drinking Month Ago. “Bui about a month ago J stalled to drink a little, and Wfnli^^ugy uighi,. 1 drank too muqh. M? nerves were shattered. In the car the temptation came to me to take the money out of.the package. “The temptation was new to me. but nervous and sick as T was I did not seem to care. I cut up sonic papers 1 had in the car to read, and put the scraps in the package, re pealed it. aryl put the money in the safe until 1 got to Jesup. Somehow, f could not urge myself to touch the other package with the $4,500. “When 1 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 tin money. “Then I sat down, still and quiet, for the first time since the impulse first came tp me. The thought of what I had done sobered me. and I saw what a fix I was in. 1 decided" to return the money, bui 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 lefr Brunswick on the trip.” he said, "1 had no thought that I would take the money. The idea had never entered my head. It came .til 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 know 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. I ean’i do anything, I reckon.” Stringer waived preliminary hear ing, and his case will go to the grand jury for consideration. A bond of $5,000 was fixed, which the boy lias not furnished. The Superior Four: session begins here next week, with Judge E. Graham, of Haselhurst, pre siding. and it is probable that he will be tried then. Superintendent Knowles, of the Southern Express Company. was here to-day, but would make no state ment except that the entire $5,000 had b£en recovered, and that Stringer had taken it. fie 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 «>f 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 the employees of the express com panies that makes them work to- geiher 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 aru honest until they are proven otherwise. «*nd though, of course, we do not. 1 iirov temptation in any man’s, way more than is necessary, it is a fact that the honesty of th» express employee is the safety of the pa<‘k- ^ges. honest' is a better safeguard than all the system of protection liiat could be d- - <1. arid if you let ,.;au i nov that you trmt him >♦. L DISREGARDS ALL PROTESTS Alarmed Over Growing Anti- American Feeling in the Ori ental Kingdom. WASHINGTON. April 21.--Presi dent Wilson, thoroughly alarmed over the rising tide of anti-American feel ing in Japan, caused Secretary Bryan to send a telegram to Governor John son. of California to-day. urging a conciliatory policy toward the Orien tal nation in the proposed alien land legislation. The step was taken by the President over the protest of the California del egation. the members of which declare that the national government has no right to interfere in a matter so vital to the social and industrial life of that community. Here Is the message to Governor Johnson: “The President directs me to say £«* £ 7 a* 1? ' >' ?:-J - i ; 4 1 mmm tV • *• m ■ * *4' * *, * A* S' Lhai while ht fully' recognizes the right of the‘people of California to legislate according tt> their judgment on the subject of land tenure, lie feels it hb : duty to urge a recogni tion of the international character of such legislation* Being anxious to preserve,and strengthen the long standing friendly relations existing between this country and the nations of the Orient, he very respectfully but most earnestly advises against the use of the word 'ineligible to citizen ship.’ He asks that you bring this view to the attention of the legisla tes! He believes the Senate bill as telegraphed to the Department of State is greatly to be preferred. That bill limited ownership to citizens and those who had declared their inten tions to become citizens. (Signed) “W. J. BRYAN.’ Japanese Start Trouble. The telegram was the result of a two-hour conference between the President and the State Department officials. Confidential reports were read which tell that the warring po litical factions in Japan are making use of the California incident to arouse feeling among the uneducated masses which could easily precipitate war. The following interviews obtained by The Sunday American correspond ent indicate clearly the attitude of the California delegation: Representative Kent: '.Japan is running its usual bluff. The pre tense that, the Japanese nation does not recognize racial distinctions in its international relations is absurd. There are racial distinctions which must be reckoned within international intercourse, and Japan should ac knowledge this and tak* a broad view of the question.” Says Delay Is Dangerous. Representative Raker: “If the California Legislature will only go ahead and pass its legislation the disturbance will subside and the alien act can then he calmly viewed through the ordinary diplomatic channel. The legislation itself is not half so dangerous as the delay which gives opportunity for agitation and Japanese jingoism.” Congressman Kahn: “What is all the turmoil about? Is California to he prohibited from doing what the 1'nited States Government and many' of the State Governments have al ready done? States where the race problem does not enter have auti- alien laws. California is clearly’ with in its right:; and is dealing with a problem far mut> vital u> »ts future than that which existed when other Stat* adopted similar legislation. I %m> furr' Will Outbid Detroit ] || I 11II miCCCI I - For Asphalt Expert j‘-'LL I nl« nUddLLL Chairman Smith Says County Must Have Proctor, No Matter What the Cost. 'll TO GOD’ Opening Words Commit Soul to Savior and Urge Children to Keep Christian Faith—Relig ious Spirit Is Manifest, Widow Gets $1,000,000 inr Trust, $100,000 Annual In come and City and Country Homes—3 Daughters Share. Two Sons-in-Law Draw $1,000,— 000 Each—Art Treasures Go to J, P. Morgan, Jr,—$3,000,- 000 to Relatives and Others, Chairman Shelby Smith, of :ae County Board, said yesterday ire had telegraphed C. A. Proctor. Detroit hn phalt expert, asking what salary fi- would accept to supervise the roa work of Fulton County. Mr. Smith said the county would outbid Dc troit for Mr. Proctor’s services if nec essary. Smith said that .ince Proctor had declined to accept the position of** fared him at ;i salary of $3,600 he had made an extensive investigation that developed the fact that Proctor was one of the five first-class asphalt experts .available in the United States and that he was doubly determined Fulton County ami Atlanta should have the best. “Wo want Proctor at any cost." he said. “We have talked our situa tion over with him in detail, and would rather have him than any man we know of. “Proctor gets something over $4.- 000 now, and we’ll have to come si hit stronger than that. I have no doubt the city will pay its share of the e what u good dll pay salary when they man he is.” 'Hold-up Insurance’ Issued in New York Timid Citizen Can Now Pay Premium and Trot Horne Happily. Re gardless of Footpads. will ilslaj NEW YORK April 2). The recent increase in tlie number of hold-ups here has resulted in big indemnity ! firms issuing “hold-up insurance." The timid citizen who fears his homeward journey will be molested by the man with gun and mask has only to go to his broker, fill in a policy, pay a small premium and trot happily homeward. Home concerns will protect against burglars, taxi bandits who lift the till after trussing the clerk up and j storing him beneath the counter, or j J the pickpocket who removes your j | roll in a crowd. ! “It's a new 'kink.’ but the public are I beginning to catch on to it; said »’. I R. .‘hephaid. a manager of ope <.f j new insnr- j *i*fect god Will Take Moving Pictures of Eu ropean Working Women as High Tariff Argument, NEW YORK, April 21.—Lillian Russell is going to Europe early in June on a novel philanthropic project. Accompanied t>y moving picture op erators. she will visit England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Austria, Russia and Italy for the pur-j 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. Miss Russell said to-day: “I 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 Lugging at ploughs and har rows and pulling barges like oxen. I will snow the field labor of women in Austria. GeTipany. Russia and Laly. 1 will show the abominable condi-1 tioiia under which the poor live and toil all over Europe. ' During the Fong essional cam paigns n< xt fall I shall go on the stump with my motion pictures in aid of those candidates who favor protection of American industries.” Southern Cooking ■Just Suits Senators Dixie Manager to Supply Hungry Statesmen With Hot Biscuit and Cor^ Pone. WASHINGTON, April 21.—South ern cook nig, which has become fa mous all over the world, lias won an other victovy. It his captured no lo-*.s important a body than the United States Senate. The Committee on Rule- of that body settled the “liun- ger strike” existing bv deciding to NEW YORK. April L«.—“1 commit my tfoul into the hands of my Sa viour. in full confidence that, having redeemed it and washed in His moot precious blood, He will present it faultless before the thi*one x of my HeavenL Father; and 1 entreat my children to maintain and defend at all hazards and at any cost of personal sacrifice the blessed doctrine of the complete atonement for sin through the blood of Jeans Christ, once offered, and through that alone.” This is the striking utterance which begins the, last will and testament of John Pisrpont Morgan, who died at Rome on March 31 last, whose body, heaped bver with flowers from fhe crowned heads of Europe, was a fort night later brought back to his own land an I last Monday was borne to its last resting place at Hartford, < ’©nn. Ever since the funeral the publica tion of the great financier’s last will has been awaited with keen expecta tion, and it'is safe to say that of all the interesting testaments of eminent citizens of America that of Mr. Mor gan is by far the most interesting. No Idea of Fortune. As to the amount of the estate, there is nothing in the will to give any accurate idea, and the executors declare no announcement will be ( made on this point until the ap praisal has been made for determin ing the State inheritance tax. The amount of bequests and trusts named by specific sums is under $20,- 000,000, but the entire residue of the estate is left to J. P. Morgan. Jr., who is designated by hi? father to be come the chief heir, not only to his fortune, but to his many charitable and artistic activities. Mr. Morgan has apparently pro vided with painstaking care for every contingency that might affect hir family or his banking firm and to hie executors, his son. John Pierpont Morgan. Jr., his two sons-in-law, William Pierson Hamilton and Ii. L. Srftterlee, and his friend. Lewis Cass Ledyard. he gives careful directions under many clauses a« to alternate course of procedure. Grandson Is Trustee. His grandson. Junius Spencer Mor* gan, Jr., a youngf man of only 2R now a student at Harvard, is repeat edly nominated to take up important duties in the event of death of hi* father, John Pierpont Morgan, Jr. ’ The question most frequently asked lias been as to the disposition of Mr Morgan’s collections of pictures and other art treasures. Mr. Morgan makes plain what his own hopes on this point have bean, and leaves his son entire freedom on the matter. His will declared he left tin- mat ter of establishing a permanent dis position of these collections until lo * late, and says: “It would be agree able to me to have the ‘Morgan Memorial,’ whicli ’ forms a portion ' * the property of the Wadsworth Athe naeum at Hartford. Conn., utilized to effectuate a part of this purpose. I do not. however, by the expression of these wishes, Intend to impose upon my said son, or my said grandson, any duty or obligation, legal or mora'. nor to qualify, in any manner or in any degree, hie absolute and unquali fied ownership jf said collections, should they pass to him under thtw will.” Chephard, manage firms dealing !n the engap He hot deli. I EDITOR NELSON FREED OF CONTEMPT CHARGE \ \ JEFFERSON CITY, MO.. April l William R Nelson, owner of T; Kansas City Star, who was charge with malice in the publication of j article in his payer, was found n guiltv in the State Supreme Coi to-day. Mr. Nelson was held in eo tempt of court lest February for 1 publication of tiio article and *. t«* serve tint* fia\ in ja.1l.