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T THE ATT. A N'T A dFOTFiTAV AND N E W S. MONT) A V, APRIL 28. 101 A. SLAIN v 1 Pi A UNI' AND SISTER r 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 ccmmx 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, 25 » ODD UK 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 nrs St Gant was iding He Recent Mov m ITLANTA * ALL THIS WEEK „i Red k Ihurs NigMs Miss BiLlY LUNG | IM an* And Company In theater A Butterfly on the Wheel fcifhis 15c o 50c Flr*t Time in Atlanta novt merits dur en Vvenue, wii 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. w111 This I Mats. Tues., i Week Thurj.. Sat. I LY THE KID; A DRAMA OF THE WEST. Wi’i the Young American Star, 3ERKELY HASWELL. uuuing, .•mv on** Home Again With Vaude ville /* PCVTU Mat. To-day 2:30 ~ To-night at 8:30 i Barnard - Lou Ar f 4 Co —Chr.fc * t,(T i Ft chords — Gaby — H* n Children—Barr E “ s Lf - O'" oth K*ta r et • 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.