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McClelland Charges Will Be Con
sidered at Once, but Formal Ac
tion Probably Will Be Delayed
Until Council Makes Report.
Investigation Will Be Started To
day by Committee Named by
Mayor Pro Tern Warren—Can-
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Accuser of Councilmen to Ask
Leave of Absence—“I’ve Done
My Share; They Can Go on
Without Me Now,” He Asserts.
Alderman .John E. McClelland’s
charges of graft laid to three mem
bers of City Council Alderman J. W.
Maddox. F. J. Spratling and I. N.
Ragsdale—will receive quick action.
The Grand jury will take up the
matter immediately.
Council will this afternoon appoint
a committee to begin investigation.
At the same time Alderman Mc
Clelland will ask Council for 60 days'
leave of absence, because of ill health.
"I have presented the charges. I
will give the names of the witnesses.
After that it is not my fight,” he said.
To Insist on His Presence.
Members of Council will insist,
however, that he be present during
the investigation. They threaten
counter charges.
John S. Owens, foreman of the
Grand Jury, to-day said the publica
tion of Alderman McClelland's charges
would cause the Grand Jury to take
them under consideration at its next
meeting, which will be Wednesday.
He explained, though, that he did not
expect any formal action until Coun
cil’s committee has made its report.
As soon as Council convenes this
afternoon Mayor Pro Tern. James E.
Warren will announce the probe com
mittee, already created by an act
passed at the last meeting and ap- J
proved by Mayor Woodward. Alder- j
man John S. Candler will be named
chairman and he will call his com- j
mittee together at once.
New Fire Probe Evidence.
Having persuaded members of the
fne department investigating com
mittee to reopen their investigation
of the charges against Fire Chief
Cummings, Mayor Woodward an
nounced to-day that some startling
new evidence would be presented.
Chairman J. H. Harwell and
Charles W. Smith, of the committee,
were in his office at the time. Chair
man Harwell said- he would coll an
early meeting of the committee at
meeting of Council this .afternoon.
The report of the committee vin
dicating Chief Cummings practically
was agreed upon until the Mayor
renewed his efforts at the instiga
tion of Thomas Reynolds, the myste
rious detective from Baltimore.
Referring to Councilman Albert
Thomson’s criticism of him in The
Sunday American, Mayor Woodward
said he was too busy to pay any at
tention to the “whimperings of a dis
gruntled politician."
"His charges are absurd," said
the Mayor. “I did not appoint him
to any Important committee places. 1
< *nsidered only men of ability."
No refutation of Alderman McClel
land's charges by the Councilman be
acu?*es, are expecte.d until the Council
committee begins its work.
McClelland to Attend Meeting.
Alderman McClelland said he
«anted to inform the Council that
he would be present at the meeting
this afternoon, despite the advice of
his physician and family.
“They have tried to stop me by
bluffing and threats.” he said. “I
won’t be bluffed. I’ll prove my
barges. I am ready to give the
committee a list of the witnesses to
be subpenaed. Then thfey can go
ahead with the prosecution.
"I do not intend to appear in the
role of prosecutor.”
While Councilmen A. K. Colcord
and S. S. Shepard, two of the‘in
vestigating committee Mayor Pro
Tern. Warren announced he would ap-
T -int. object to serving, it is said
that Councilman Colcord has recon
sidered and will accept the appoint
ment and thai Councilman Shepard
peeteri t<> be- announced is S.
Candler, rhainnnn: A. K. Colcord. S.
S. Suepanl. Jc *.**«' M. Wood ami
ii. Boynton.
Wedding Qifts for
Kaiser’s Daughter
Worth $2,500,000
All the Royalties of Europe Will
Gather at the Brilliant
Ceremony.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, April 21.—The prepara
tions for the wedding of Princess
Victoria Louise, the Kaiser's daugh
ter, to Prince Ernest of Cumber
land, give promise that it will be
one of the most brilliant ceremonies
ever seen in Europe.
The galaxy of royalties to be pres
ent will include the Kaiser and
Kaiserin. the King and Queen of
England, the Czar of Russia, the
King and Queen of Italy, Archduke
Franz Ferdinand of Austria, the
King of Denmark, and probably the
kings of Roumania and Norway.
The value of the wedding presents
is estimated at $2,600,000. The Kais
er’s gifts to his daughter include
jewelry of his own designing. The
bride also will receive costly gifts
from all the royalties of Europe.
Many German cities have voted
sums up to $50,000 for wedding gifts.
Posse Surrounds
Slayer in Swamp
Lynching Is Likely in Jefferson Coun
ty—Negro Fugitive Killed
Plantation Foreman.
LOUISVILLE, GA., April 21.—
Sheriff Smith and a posse to-day have
Bob Kitchens, a negro, surrounded
in a swamp near Grange, twelve
miles west of here, in the edge of
Jefferson County. A lynching is
likely if the negro is caught, unless
the Sheriff can elude the pursuing
mob.
Kitchens yesterday killed Fore
man Brantley on J H. Hook's planta
tion. near northern Washington
County. Details of the killing have
not been obtainable. The negro fled
Into Jefferson County. Last night
Sheriff Smith started in pursuit.
IDE ASSESSED
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Figures Leak Out Despite Efforts
of Officials to Keep Them
Awav From Public,
OTHER PROPERTY INCREASED
Councilman diaries W. Smith
Succeeds Alderman McClelland
as Tax Committee Head.
Ex-King Mauuel Will
WedKaiser'sRelative
Dethroned Ruler, Once Slave of Gaby
Deslys. to Marry Princess Vic
toria of Hohenzollern.
LONDON. April 21.—Confirmation
of reports that ex-King Manuel, of
Portugal, who was reported to be
infatuated with Gaby Deslys, the
French dancer, is to marry Princess
Augusta Victoria, of Hohenzollern.
a close ldnswomap of Emperor Wil
liam, was secured to-day at Manuel's
London residence.
Manuel is visiting the princess at
her father’s castle in Sigmargen.
Prussia. The former ruler of Portu
gal is 24 years old and his bride-to-
be is one year his junior. She is
the eldest child an i only daugnter of
Prince William, of Hohenzollern,
head of the ntvn-reignlng Catholic
branch of the family.
City tax assessments on banks
have been increased more than
$1,000,000 this year.
This was learned to-day from an
authentic source, despite efforts of of
ficials to keep it secret. The increase
j is based on larger capital, surplus and
undivided profits.
This increase is the largest ever
imposed on Atlanta hanks in one yea.*.
Also it is a positive evidence of their
growth and prosperity. At the lax
ate of .0125 per cent it gives an ad
ditional income of $12,500 to the city.
City Gets $200,000.
The total increase in personalty as
sessments, it is estimated, will exceed
$4,000,000. Reports have been made
that realty assessments will be $12,-
| 000.000 more than last year, making
a grand total Increase of $16,000,000.
This means a net increase in income
of $200,000 from this source. *
These favorable reports, though,
form a contrast to the unsettled con
ditions that have reigned in the tax
office since the first of the year.
Sweeping changes inaugurated by
Alderman John K. McClelland have
been resisted by the three tax asses
sors. J. L. Harrison, C. D. Meador and
John Malone.
A new order was seen to-day with
the announcement by Mayor Wood
ward of the appointment of Cc inci’-
man chs-rtea W. Smith, of the Nimh
Ward, to succeed Alderman McClel
land as chairman of the tax commit
tee.
Lightens McClelland's Duties.
Mayor Woodward is relieving Al
derman McClelland of some of his du
ties as a means of persuading him
to withdraw his resignation as Al
derman.
“I am going into the issue of ‘.ax
equalization thoroughly,” said Coun
cilman Smith, "but whatever is done
will be done without any fuss and
feathers."
G, 0, P. Senators Drop
I Fight on Nominees
Republicans Will Not Oppose Demo
cratic Appointments Where
Terms Have Expired.
WASHINGTON. April 21. Demo
cratic Senators breathed easier to-day
when they learned thei*' Republican
colleagues had modified a plan for
warfare on Democratic nominations
by limiting their opposition to nomi
nations of Democrats who are to sup
plant Republican officeholders whose
terms have not expired.
Some of the Republican Senators
wanted to hold up all of the Presi
dent’s nominations in retaliation for
the blocking of President Taft's ap
pointees last winter.
A committee of the Republican cau
cus. to which the question was re
ferred. reported against wholesale ob
struction.
Banker, Pellagra
Victim, a Suicide
John R. Lockerman, of Unadilla,
Ends Life While Brooding
Over Affliction.
UNADILLA, GA.. April 2J.—Brood
ing over the fact that he was a victim
of pellagra. John R. Lockerman, cash
ier of the Bank of Unadilla, to-day
committed suicide in the bank. He
shot himself through the mouth with
a revolver kept In the bank for pro
tection. His body fell behind the vault
and was found a few minutes later by
,his nephew. Robert A. Coiling, an em
ployee of the institution.
Lockerman had been cashier and a
director of the bank since it was or
ganized in 1898. He is survived by a
wife, one child and several brothers
and sisters.
GOVERNOR BROWN HONORS
REQUISITION OF BLEASE
The continued efforts of Governor
Cole L. Blease. of South ('arolina
obtain the extradition of "Bertie”
Young from Georgia. for alleged
complicity in the slaying of George
McGreer at Greenville, were rewarded
to-day by the granting of the requisi
tion by Governor Brown.
6,000 to See Brilliant Opera Premiere To-ni
3 Famous Stars to Feature Opening Performance
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Noted Singers Rejoice Over Week’s Stay in Atlanta
I>inh (4ii!v and Kim Forma rloiir.: a vigorous lurkry--trot al
ilu‘ Georgian Terrace.
Underwood Tariff
Bill Reintroduced
Senators Opposed to Free Wool and
Free Sugar to Get
Hearings.
WASHINGTON. April 21.—Repre
sentative Underwood to-day reintro
duced in the House the tariff bill as
amended by the Ways and Means
Committee and the caucus.
Mr. Underwood did not present any
written statement regarding the num
ber of changes agreed upon by the
caucus. Among those were the plac
ing on the free list of shoe machinery,
cream separators, buckwheat and rye
and the extension of the income tax
exemption to savings banks "not con
ducted for profit."
Democrats of the Senate Finance
Committee decided to-day to grant
hearings to Senators opposed to free
wool and free sugar in three years.
Tidal Wave Wrecks
Pavilions at Tybee
Savannah Rushes Aid to Save Beach
Buildings Threatened
by Sea.
SAVANNAH. GA., April 21. A ti
dal wave to-day caused several thou
sand dollars' damage to pavilions and
bath houses at Tybee Beach. Prop
erty owners are working hard to pre
vent a repetition of the disaster by
another tide this afternoon. Car
penters and laborers from the city
went to the beach this afternoon in
response to a call for help.
The principal damage was done to
the big pavilion of the Tybee Hotel,
pilings have been washed away and
wharves are showing signs of weak
ening under the strain.
Temporary pilings will be driven
and an attempt made to tie the bath
houses temporarily so that the high
water will not float them out to sea.
Pastor’s Daughter
Weds Saloonkeeper
Macon Clergyman Objects to Per
forming Ceremony, but Vidalia
Girl Insists.
MACON, GA.. April 21. Miss Em
ma O. Sykes, daughter of a Baptist
minister at Vidalia. who has been
visiting friends in Atlanta, met her
sweetfccnrt, H. A. Wilkes, of Bruns
wick. here yesterday afternoon by
appointment, and they wet> married
by Rev. E. C. Dargan. The groom Is
a saloonkeeper.
The pastor who performed the cere
mony was shocked at the idea of a
clergyman’s daughter marrying a sa
loon man. but when fihe young wo-
I man insisted he pronounced the nup
tials.
The Sunday American qoes every
where all over the South. If you have
anything to sell The Sunday Amer
ican is "The Market Place of the
South." The Sundsv American is the
i best advertising medium.
Lad Crazed by Bite
Of Water Moccasin
Combined Efforts of Four Policemen
Needed to Take Him to
Grady Hospital.
Norman Jones, 19-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Jones. 121 Jef
ferson Street, is at the Grady Hos
pital. a raving maniac, as the result
of being bitten by a large water
moccasin shortly before noon to-day.
The police, hurriedl> summoned,
found the entire neighborhood in *
panic. The boy was struggling in the
arms of those endeavoring to hold
him and making frantic efforts to bile
those who came near him.
Despite the combined efforts of four
policemen, it was necessary to hand
cuff him to get him to the Grady
Hospital.
Early to-day the moccasin, which
he had captured In a swamp, got
away, and it was In an attempt o
capture it that Jones was bitten
The Sunday American goes every
where all over the South. If you have
! anything to sell The Sunday Amer
ican is "The Market Place of the
i South." The Sunday American is the
A best 'advertising medium.
Paul Alt-house and Leonora Sparkes showing an admiring
audience how friendlv they are.
BOY TELLS POLICE
Lad, Eight, Declares Negrc Man
Brought Him Here From Macon
on a Freight Train.
Bareheaded and barefooted a
bright-faced, blue-eyed boy of eight
years to-day wandered into the At
lanta National Bank Building and
] told a remarkable story of having
| been kidnaped by a strange negro in
! Macon this morning at 3 o’clock and
| brought to Atlanta on top of a freight
i train, lie gave his name as Theodore
' Roosevelt Henry and said his mother
j is Mrs. Margaret Henry, of 340 Co-
i lumbus Avenue. Macon,
i (l. H. Uarefoot, who is connected
| with the office of Dr. J. H. Powell. 315
'Atlanta National Bank Building, took
the lit lie chap to the police station
unci turned him over to Uhief Beav-
lens-
Society Folk of Dozen States Are
Here for Gayeties—Record
Sale of Seats.
OPERA FOR TO-NIGHT. •
Fuccini’s ‘
IN
Manon .
Lescaut
Des Grieux
Geronte.
Manon Lescaut.'
ITALIAN.
Lucrezia Bori
Antonio Scotti
Enrico Caruso
Andrea de Segurola
Lit i U
H BELIEVE
Edmondo Angelo Bada
L'Oste Paolo Ananian
Maestro Di Ballo Albert Reiss
Un Musico Maria Duchene
Sergente..Vincenzo Reschiglian
Lampionajo Pietro Audisio
Comandante Giulio Rossi
Conductor: Giuseppe Sturani.
The curtain will rise prompt
ly at 8 o'clock and the doors
will be closed.
Colonel W. L. Peel announced
to-day that no person will be
admitted after the curtain
rises untii the end of t e first
act.
The attendance to-night will
be about 6.QOO.
With Caruso, the world’s greatest
tenor: Lucrezia Bori, the newest so
prano star, and Scotti, favorite of all
baritones, in the principal roles, At
lanta- fourth grand opera season will
open to-night.
"Manon Lescaut.” a Puccini opera
which gives opportunity for wonder
ful singing, scenery and costuming,
will be the opening work of the
week and it promises to eclipse
“Aida" and “Gioconda," the premieres
of past seasons, in-splendor.
The success «>f the reason already
is assured. More than $70,000 har
poured into the box office and it is
that, between $90,000 and
$100,000 will be spent by music lovers
before Saturday closes the engage
ment. The guarantee asked by the
Metropolitan management has been
passed by many thousands.
Audience to Set Record.
The audience for the opening night
promises to be the most brilliant ever
seen at the Auditorium Every box
and practically every ■•at will be
filled. Tj'he leading . ... folk of n
dozen States are in Atlanta for the
week. The most elaborate gowns ever
Former Pulaski Official Enacts
Double Tragedy Following
Domestic Troubles,
COCHRAN, GA.. April 21 Dome -
tie troubles that had caused a sep
aration several months ago result ■
to-day in A. J. Thompson, one of tin
most prominent men of this section
shooting his wife to death and ther
committing suicide. The double trag
edy leaves a 10-year-old son an o •-
phan.
Thompson fo mFUy 'was Commis
sioner of Roads and Revenues of Pu
laski bounty, before the creation
the new county of Bleckley, of whirl
'drhran is couivy seat. His br.ci
Morgan Thompson, is Mayor of Haw
kinsville.
Guard Royal Party
provided for an Atlanta spring have
w v been purchased by Atlanta women.
From Suffragettes Se h ?r”-un.m r y b “*c " m rival ,h *
Extra Precautions Taken F3 Protect
King and Queen on Tour of
Western England.
—
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
I LONDON, April 21. -Elaborately
I guarded from suffragettes, King
| George and Queen Mary left London
t«>-day for a four-days’ trip through
Western ‘'England. The King and
Queen will spend most of their tim**
in Cheshire, where they will visit the
extensive railroad and potter" works
■lain clothe detectives ao'Otnpany
eir majesties end the usual precau
tions have been doubled.
coloring.
Singers Take Morning Strolls.
Most of tiie members of the Met
ropolitan Company arrived in Atlanta
at 5:30 o’clock this morning, but the
•‘•Airly hour did not prevent many of
the curious gathering at the station
to catch a glimpse of them. Prac
tically all of the troupe are registered
at the Georgirn Terrace Hotel and
th: ir presence kept the place in a
m 1 i. ed state of excitement all morn-
Brother of Poisoned Swainsboro
Man Admits, However, There Is
a Possibility She Gave Fatal
Drug to Husband Unknowingly.
Declares He Wishes to Correct
Impression That Slain Planter's
Relatives Believe Widow Inno
cent—Alleges Sympathy Plot.
Concedes McNaughton May Have
Concealed Deadly Purpose from
‘Disloyal Wife,' but Asserts She
Administered Arsenic to Mate,
SWAINSBORO. April 21*—Jordan
Blander*, one of the brothers of th®
late Fred Flanders, for whose death
Dr. W. J. McNaughton has been sen
tenced to death and Mrs. Mattie Inlan
ders. his wife, is now under indict
ment for murder, has given out a re
markable. statement from the family
of the dead man.
“We do not concede the inno
cence of my brother’s wife,” he
says. “We do not for a moment
doubt her guilt.
"But we do recognize a differ
ence between the guilt of Mrs.
Flanders and Dr. McNaughton.
Mrs. Flanders actually adminis
tered the poisons which resulted
in his death, but it does not nec
essarily follow that she knew the
character of the drugs. I am
quite sure now, although unknow
ing at that time, that even I also
have administered poison to my
brother.
“We know that not every dis
loyal wife is willing to join in a
plot to kill her husband, and not
every man who conceives a plot
to murder his affinity’s husband
and secure his property, as well
as his wife, is willing to trust her
with the secret of his intention.”
Jordan Flanders’ Statement.
The statement of Jordan Flanders
follows:
No one regrets the necessity
of this continuance more than
the Flanders family. The con
stant worry and repeated prepa
rations for this case have been a
great strain on us. I would be
thankful, indeed, if it could be
terminated, but there are so many
witnesses scattered over the .State
that it seems, even with every
effort, qlmost impossible to pro
cure their attendance when need
ed. We can only do all in our
power, and f sincerely pray that
at the July term nothing will pre
vent a final disposition of this
ca se.
Until the night before the case
was called we expected fully to
be abie to dispose of the case, but
the presence of our absent wit
nesses was so very material that
even Colonel J. Alex Smith and
Colonel Luther Rosser, represent
ing the defendant, were obliged
to concede the force of our posi
tion. The Flanders family have felt *.!
since they have been engaged in
the prosecution of this, the high
est i rime known to law. that they
v isaed to do everything in their
power to insure this case being
disposed of fairly and impartially.
Alleges Plot to Mislead.
We have rigidly refrained
from rushing into print to poison
the public mind, feeling that such,
a course, while possibly approved
by usage when indulged in by the
defendant, is unbecoming when
used in behalf of the State. But
the persistent efforts to mislead
the people of Georgia unfamiliar
with this crime, by the manipu
lation of an evidently carefully
planned campaign devoted to the
writing of such articles, have led
us to the conclusion that it is our
duty to the people of Emanuel
County to set right some of the
erroneous impressions sought to
be made.
Dr. McNaughton has been sen
tenced to death, and. as we all
know from our knowledge of hu
man nature, that fact in itself is
s iffi < :it to rally to his support
all of those well-intentioned but
misguided people who. being of a
orn-t to their rooms and indulj
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