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THE ATT. A N'T A dFOTFiTAV AND N E W S. MONT) A V, APRIL 28. 101 A.
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in. and in Iht arms is .Miss (Ulic Pliujran. sis
com.’in-: lii'l.nv, llic old •irnnito Hot<-l building at 37-351
n- Xitii-nial Pencil Cimnanv. and setup of Lin; slaying.
Continued from Page One.
the way and hurry down Forsyth
Street toward Alabama Street,
was dressed in .* blue suit and Wore
a straw* hat. He carried a package
under his arm.
Detective Starnes was notified, but
by the time he had taken up the trail.
Gant had disappeared. Officers were
dispatched to the railway stations
and to the Marietta Street cars to
thwart him if be had any thoughts <»f
escaping.
K. F. Holloway, timekeeper at the
factory, said that he was aware of
Gant's infatuation for the girl, but
did not know that she accepted his
attentions at all.
Gant had told him, lie said, that he
had been greatly attracted by Mary
Phagan and had walked home with
her and had been with her on other
occasions.
Mary Pirk, a girl who worked near
Mary Phagan in the pencil factory,
said to-day that sho knew the mur-
oered girl well and that she had heard
her git ! companions talking a number
»#f times of Gant’s 'infatuation for the
FLiftgnn girl.
Site laid heard, she said, that Gant
frequently walked home with her and
paid hei other attentions.
Policf detectives, after an all-
lorenoo;i < onferen« *• with Leo Frank,
pi emitted tin' factory superintenden*
in g<< One jesult of the conference,
l.uwew.- w.is to gel an important ad
mission from Newt L<« . the negro
night watchman, who is being held us
f< muteri.il witn* •>
Gant Admitted to Factory Saturday.
Mr. 1 "iunit told the detectives that
after leaving th» factor* Saturday
tveiling he called up Lee md asked
him if Gant, who had asked permis
sion of Frank a few minutes before
to get his shoes in an upstairs room
had left the building yet. The negro
answered that Gant had obtained hi."
shoes and left the building within tot'
minutes.
This noon, however. Attorneys Lu-
FLOWERS and FLORAL DESIGNS
ATLANTA FLORAL CO.
Both Phones Number 4. 41 Peachtre
DUDES TELLS
SOT HA?
E. S. Skipper Tells Police He [
Saw Lads Urging Her Down
Street Night of Crime.
BLACK CURLY ^
HAIR
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DARK
The story of three men leading a
weeping, unwilling girl on Forsyth
Street Saturday night is being
sounded to its depths to-day by At
lanta policemen in their efforts to un
ravel the mystery of Mary Phagan’s
death.
The story is told by E. S. Skipper,
of 224 1 -2 Peters Street. lie declared
that on Saturday night about 10
o’clock he saw a girj whose appear
ance fitted the description of the girl-
victim. Three men were with her, all
of them young and flashily dressed.
The girl was reeling slightly, Skip--
per declares, as if rendered dizzy by
drug*. She was crying, and time and
again lagged behind her companions,
as if she feared to go farther. Each
time they insisted and she seemed
powerless to resist them.
Skipper declared that he can iden
tify the three men. He followed in
their wake when first he.saw the par
ty on Pryor Street, near Trinity Ave
nue. At Trinity they turned toward
Whitehall, he said, the men urging the
girl to accompany them. Down White
hall to Forsyth he accompanied them,
and saw them turn north toward
Mitchell Street. There he left them,
going toward the Terminal Station,
his original destination.
Skipper said that the girl did not
appear intoxicated, but merely sick
and pitifully weak.
Following closely on the heels of
his story came to the police to-day
the statement Of Adam Woodward,
night watchman In the Williams Liv
ery Stable, 35 Forsyth Street, three
doors from the factory building. He
told the detectives that about 11
o’clock he heard a woman scream sev
eral times, but. considering it the cry
of a merrymaker, paid no attention
to it.
The time specified in the statement
of the night watchman links closely
with that of the occurrences in Skip
per’s story and. according to police
men, lends"color to the theory that
the three men he saw were the men
who lured little Mary Phagan to her]
death.
BLUD
SHIT
Noted Dixie Athlete
Ou Trial For Arson'
Finger Prints Lead to Charge That
Richard Webb Burned Pro
fessor’s Office.
LEXINGTON. KY„ April 28.—
Richard S. Webb, former assistant
football coach at tlie State University
and known throughout the West and
South as an athlete, was to-day
placed on trial here charged with
i burning the office of P. L. Anderson,
t dean of engineering at the university.
Pleads Unwritten Law, and De
clares He Thought Encounter
Was Duel to Death,
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SHOTS'
Edgar L. Sentell, lifelong friend of Mary Phagan, says he
saw a man answering this description, walking with the girl
after midnight Sunday, a few hours before the body was found,
lie has identified the man as Arthur Mullniax, who, however,
was to-day apparently cleared b y an alibi established by his
sweetheart.
ngineering
Another indictment charges burning
public building.
The case grows out of a college
feud, in which practically the entire
student body took sides.
The chief witness for the prosecu
tion U Ray Campbell, a fingerprint
♦ Xpert from the Indiana Reformatory, i
who sw >• ;> fingerprints on a clock in
Anderson’s office were made bv Webb
Body Dragged by Deadly
Cord After Terrific Fight
Elmer T. Darden, who, pleading tie-
unwritten law, was put on trial for his
life criminal division of Superior
Court to-day for the slaying of C. M.
Goddard, a Stone Mountain granite
cutter, in the Union station March 13.
took the stand in hi>» own defense this
afternoon and made a statement of
the shooting and its causes.
With the testimony of a dozen eye
witnesses to the shooting, the State
| closed its case at 12:30 o’clock and
I court recessed until 2 o’clock.
The testimony given for the State
followed the report** of the tragedy
1 already published. Every attempt
made by Paul Lindsay, attorney* for
the Goddard family, employed to aid
Solicitor Dorsey in the prosecution, to
send up any of Darden's children to
testify against their father failed.
Wife of Slayer Absent.
Mrs. Darden, who had sworn that
' she would be at the trial to clear her
name of any stigma, did not appear.
The State put on Mrs. J. R. Harwell,
in charge of the work of the Travel
ers’ Aid Society at the Union station;
Addle Mays, a negro attendant; John
Beas»eley. a negro porter, and Police
man Hardy, all eyewitnesses.
Darden’s statement follows;
Tells of Losing Money.
“I was born in Elizabeth City. Va„
j March 22, 186S, and married in June,
1894. About ten years ago my father
left me $35,000. I then was in the
granite business in Vermont.
”1 bought a farm and little quarry
near Redan, Ga.. about eight years
ago. Among my first acquaintances
were the Goddards, and Cossie God
dard especially. He was closer to me
than my brother, and when I was on
; the road, which was frequent, I had so
much confidence in him I asked him
to watch over my family.
“Finally I got extremely hard up
for cash. My wife was a woman of
high ideals and extravagance, and 1
, guess I am largely to blame, for I
had been her tutor in this particular.
; When I was no longer able to bestow
J on her luxuries, she became dissatis
fied and quarrelsome, r begged her to*
be patient, telling her that 1 realized
that we were almost down and out,
but that my health was good, J was a
, man of education and could overcome
the obstacles.
“On February 12 my wife came to
Atlanta and spent the day and re
turned on the 6 o’clock accommoda-
; tion train. She told me that she had
| been to the picture shows.
Asserts Her Love Waned.
“She made other visits to Atlanta
the following week and once visited
the place where I worked and made
an engagement to go to lunch with
me She did not fill the engagement,
i She told me again she had been to
j the picture shows.
23 ESCAPE SINKING BOAT.
RATON ROl'GE. LA.. April 28.--
Thirty-ono sailors swam to safety
when a Standard Oil steamer sank)
here after ramming a boat at the
docks. Twenty-six thousand barrel:#
of oil were lost.
ther Rosser and Herbert H i
were representing Suprrin
Fr ink, went to Lee’s cell af
conferem e in the dct. i t iws oui
concluded and questioned him •
ly in regard to Gant.
After catching him in a mi
meat, they induced him to mint:
Phag
o f I e n
It Wl
iith the Terrell family for seven
lip to four or five years* ago
Terrells were neighbors of the
In Marietta, and little Mary
■ d around the Terrell home.
Here that Gant became ac-
with her, Mrs. Terrell said.
out
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Gant was
iding He
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on the Wheel
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novt merits dur
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boarding, to!
i tins mornini
anoe Notes Increase Mystery.
few Inches ,‘rom the body were
I two remarkably si range notes.
i> imtrs. incoherent and almost fi
le.. only servo to increase the
Detective* declared there
no doubt that these notes were
• it. by the murderer and were a
( and tragically grotesque effort
in They purport to have been
in i*> the girl, and the wording
them ; or she was in the
e i w o notes.
vii»- notified b\ the
several officers were
e cone, immediately
•ough investigation.
til 1 found the body.’’
Detectives, however, declare the
locked doors and windows render this
statement unreasonable.
The negro was put through a grill
ing examination time and again Sun
day and last night, hut no amount of
questioning could induce him to
change his “know nothing" statement.
To every question hr replied:
-, 1 don’t know nothing about it.”
Detectives arc sure the negro has
nM told all he knows, and will hold
hint until the mystery is cleared.
The theory that the crime was the
work of a negro held full sway and
was assiduously followed by detec
tives until Sunday afternoon, when E.
L. Sentell, of .82 Davis Street, a clerk
for the Hamper Grocery Company,
divulged the information that he saw
Mary Phagan at Forsyth and Hunter
Streets Sunday morning, about 12; 3u
o’clock, in company with Arthur Mul-
linax. Hi said they wore walking in
the direction of the pencil factory.
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This I Mats. Tues.,
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Week Thurj.. Sat.
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LY THE KID;
A DRAMA OF THE WEST.
Wi’i the Young American Star,
3ERKELY HASWELL.
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• but a few doors from thi
corner. Sentell knew the Phagan
girl, and said he spoke to her its he
passed.
Since then detectives have been
working on both theories—that the
crime w is commuted by a negro and
that it was the job of a white man
and that the negro watchman is an
;u • oniplii e in that lie knew of it.
This gave a new angle to the mys
tery and set delectives on lb** trail of
Mullinax who was found late In the
afternoon and placed under arrest on
suspicion.
Gant was arrested as he alighted
from a street-car from Atlanta, car
rying a suitcase. He was taken by
Deputy Sheriff Hicks, to the office of
Sheriff Swanson, where ho was ques
tioned and the contents of the suit
case examined.
pale and stammered that there must
be some mistake.
Gant in Saloon.
Charles W. McGee, of Colonial
Hills, a bartender in the saloon of
J. P. Hunter, at 38 South Forsyth
Street, across the street from *lv?
plant of the National Lead Pencil
Company, this afternoon safd that
Gant and another man. whom he did
not know, came in his place Satur
day night about 10 o’clock.
“Gant and the other man,” said
McGee, “walked back to the lunch
counter and got something to eat, and
then Gant came to the bar and said
he wanted to leave a pair of shoes
with us until Monday morning. I
told him he could, and the shoes were
placed behind the cigar counter in the
front pa t of the saloon.” *
While in Hunter’* place Gant and
the other man appeared to be in a
hurry and kept talking earnestly to
gether ns though they were planning
something.
This morning at 8 o'clock Gant,
looking like lie had not had much
sle. p. came into the Hunt* r saloon
and got his shoes. He talked to Mc
Gee for a moment? at the cigar count
er, and they discussed the Phagan
murder. McGee jokingly said the po
lice were looking for Gant, and the
latter was ♦•xcitcd. He stepped quick
ly t" the door and glanced across at
the National IViu-il Company's build
ing. and then looked hastily up and
down Forsyth Street. He tlien tuiu
McGee he was going to Marietta ami
walked rapidly up Forsyth Street.
Stretched full length, face down
ward on the floor of basement at the
reare of the plant, the body was
found. A length of heavy* cord or
wrapping twine, which had been used
by the slayer to strangle the child
after ho had beaten her to insensi
bility. was looped around the neck,
and a clumsy bandage of cloth, torn
from her petticoat, as if to conceal
the horrible method of murder
swathed the face.
The stray* end of the cord lay aiong
the child’s back between her two
heavy braids of dark red hair as it
it had been arranged that way de
liberately.
No marks app - red to indicate that
death came by any other means than
stragulation, save a four-inch clean
cut on the back of the head on the
left side.—a serious scalp wound—
and a few bruises on the forehead
and cheeks, on ths left arm at the
elbow and on the left leg just below
the knee.
Body Dragged.
The neck was cut and bruised hor
ribly by the contraction of the heavy
strangling cord .m l tne marks on the
face indicated that the slayer had
dragged the boo: back and forth
ro-s the basen -nt floor to complete
found a few feet away on a pile of
trash. \ plain blue straw hat, with
the band or trimming missing, was
found near the elevator shaft.
Two turquoise-blue silken ribbon
bows were fastened on each side of
the wavy red braid of hair. Strange
ly enough the bows had been kept
In place by the improvised bondage
torn from the underskirt by the slay
er. The bow, said to have been on
the hat, was nev r found.
The horrid manner of her death
marred frightfully the girl’s once at
tractive features.
What had been a soft white skin.—
white almost to translucerce under
which the color might have run in
life in pink swirls—was discolored
and bruised.
T he force of the blow on tne head
had blackened the right eye mil j
swollen both lids beyond recognition.
Into th» forehead cuts and scratches
was grounded dirt and sand.
The marks on he left arm and leg
were skin bruises as if made when
the body was dragged across the-
floor. The skin had been scrapped off 1
in little patches fiom spots about two
to three inches in diameter.
Mary Phagan was 14 years old.'She ’
was slender in stature. She was
perhaps 4 feet. 19 inches in height:
DANGEROUS CALDMEL
GOING OUT OF USE
A Safer, More Reliable Rem
edy Has Taken Its Place in
the Drug Store and in
the Home.
and weighed about 105 pounds.
A few years ago men. women
and children took calomel for a !
sluggish liver and for constipa
tion. They took risks 1 when they
did so, for calomel is a danger
ous drug. Your family doctor will
be the first to tel lyou this if he
discovers you dosing yourself with
calomel.
But the drug trade has found a
safer, more pleasant remedy than
calomel in Dodson s Liver Tone.
Dealers tell us* that their drug
store sells Dodson’s Liver Tone in
practically every case of bilious
ness and liver trouble where calo
mel used to be taken.
Dodson's Liver Tone is a vege
table liver tonic that is absolutely
harmless for children and grown
people. It sells for 50 cts. a bottle
and is guaranteed to be entirely
satlsfctory by all druggists, who
will refund your money with a
smile if it does not give quick, gen
tle relief without any of calomel’s
unpleasant after-effects.
i FATHER AND SON SLAIN
IN MISSISSIPPI WOODS
i* r '
did
egro Pleads
Uhief of Police Goodson, of Mariet-
t » said this afternoon that (Taut ex-
j pressed surprise when arrested but
didn't make a statement. Gant, it
| was suited, was extremely nervous
! when he got off the <*ar. and was
YV in
Hi
led
LAMBERT, MISS.. April 28. Min
ing since Friday . \V A. Rieves. aged
43. and his son. James aged 16. of
Chancey. Miss., were found dead ir
the woods to-day. The father had
been shot in the back of the head;
’in son in the bre; — . A negro, dis-
his work of garr
The child evlJ ntly had stn
and fought frantically before perhaps!
brought to unconsciousness by the j
blow on the hea l.
On her left arm was a small gold
band bracelet that had sunk in to the
white tender flesh as if under the
pressure of a h ivy grip. Two of
the fingers on the left hand were
bruised where a mall signet ring en
circled the third > lende r finger.
The • liild’s fa* »• was covered with
,:irt and .sand when the. detectives
leached the basement after being not
ified by Newt t. i lie negro watch
man. win* called police headquarters
when, .is he asserts, he stumbled over
the little body as he made his rounds.
The fine black particles wer. ground
into the neck an . shoulders, indicat
ing her body "as bumped along the
fiooi dangling ar.rl twisting at the
end of djt s*rroi>ng cord.
Features Marred.
Site was garbed a one-piece
pongee silk dress of lavender, simply
made, and caugh. at the bodice and
trimmed at the Ueeve? with cheap;
lace The dress fell barely be!-*\v the ,
knees. The stockings were black and]
vVVtAkK 45 U P ,L-8- -d pump was oil Ml* :
•Tglll f(MC. T • otlle. pump •■'■as*
MOU FROM COLDS IS ALARMING
Thousands Died Last Year From
Colds, Neglected Too Long
Practically every case of pneu
monia was first just u cold. Dur
ing a hard winter in America hun
dreds will negltsT the simple cold
and succumb to grippe. A cold,
permitted to settle and inflame, is
the beginning of the Great White
Plague itself, for which we are
spending Millions of Dollars to find
a cure.
Most colds are traceable directly to
an inactive liver. You-get overheat
ed. cool off too suddenly and the
pores close. The blood recedes from
the surface and a congestion is pro
duced. The same condition exists
if you sit in a draft or get wet. The
liver finds its efforts overcome by
pressure of the blo#d. and. being
unable to perform its functions of
• leansing away the waste, undi-
«resr<*d food remains in the stom
ach and intestines and ferments.
The head gets hot. the feet cold and
bowels constipated. Then cold sets
in.
if JACOBS’ LIVER SALT is tak
en immediately, it will ward off
the cold. It relieves the conges
tion. rejuvenates the liver and semis
the blood racing through the veins
with a vigor that will instantly dis
pel the depressing attack of cold. A
simple remedy, but worth its
weight in gold if you value health.
And it will not put you in bed.
Take JACOBS’ LIVER SALT be-
; fore breakfast, an agreeably huh-
j filing drink, and ir. an hour you’ll
! feel fine. The man who doesn't
•at*'h cold keeps his liver lively,
and you will find no other liver
tonic as good as the genuine JA
COBS’ LIVER SALT. All drug
gists. 26c. If yours can not sup- .
i ply you. upon receipt of price we
will mail full size jar. postage free
Made and guai-anteed by Jacobs' (
i Pharmacy Co.. Atlanta.