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Slaying of Mary Phagan Arouses
Friends of Family to Threats
of Violence.
i “i wouldn't have liked to be held
responsible for the fate of the mur
derer of little Mary Phagan if the men
Ly tin thi? neighborhood had* got hold of
Hphlm last night.” was the statement
Sio-day of Georg? W Epps, 246 Fox
*jHtreet, whoso home adjoins that of
.Mrs. Coleman, mother of the slain
I |girl.
f f By to-day the first hot wave of In-
f ;illgnation that cried for the blood ofi
the criminal had had time to subside.
V Amt the feeling still ran liigli In the
^neighborhood of the Coleman home.
The murder was the sole topic of j
^conversation. Men who knew the.
Ip?family and others who had seen Mary j
gro to her work in the morning con- j
gregated in excited groups on the i
" Street corners. At first they were not |
"Willing that the law should take its
bourse They feared that the mur
derer, If he were caught, might In 1
»ome way escape the consequences of
iftis crime. f
Sympathy for Stricken Mother.
; In the homes of the shocked com-
ttnunity Ihe women talked in hushed j
tones of the tragic end of Mary Pha
gan. Might not their own innocent
little girls be in danger of the same
tr, fate’’ Was It safe to permit them to
go alone about the city, even in the j
light of broad day? They were filled
with gratitude that it was not any one
jii of their homes on which the pall of
' he great tragedy had fallen, but their
hearts went out in sympathy for the
stricken mother.
Some of them were with their hus
bands in the first cry for vengeance
that went up when the news of the 1
crime was brought to the neighbor
hood. They saw the imminent dan
ger hovering over the childhood of
the city. They saw the peril of their
own little ones. The author of the
black crime must be punished as he |
deserved, and at once, they insisted.
To-day they are saying that the
young working girls of tlie city are
•^considered the rightful prey of the
beasts in men s clothe* that go about
t hf •
Tragedy Comes Horn® to Thom.
« "We ate all working people out
here.” said Mr. Epps, who was stand
ing in a group of his neighbors. “In
“-half the homes the boys and girl-* do
- w hat they can to help in tile support
*<»f the family. This means that our
Children are not safe on the streets,
even in the daytime
I “The tmgedv comes Imine to us all,
4-for we are all in • little community
where. It is a little village in itself
fsnnd every one knows every one else.
|vlt was a hard blow to \m when we
f learned the terrible story of Mary
Phagan’s death. Hardly a one of us
, but knew the little girl, at least by
sight
: ‘‘The men here were a Maine with in
dignation last night. It would have
-gone hard with the murderer of the
% little •■Jrl if they could have got theli
■ p hands on him.”
Georgia Doctor Will
Set Masonic Record
J. P. Bowdoin, of Adairsvilie, to
Head Both Grand Chapter and
Grand Council.
MACON, GA.. April 28.—For the
first time in the history of Masonry in
Georgia one man will this year hold
the highest office in both the Grand
Chapter of Royal Arch Masons and
the Grand Council of the Royal and
Select Masters. He i Dr J. P. Bow
doin. of Adairsvilie
This week he will he made grand
high priest of the Grand Chapter,
succeeding Dr. \V. E. England, of Ce-
dartown. and gr ind master of the
Grand Council, succeeding Rt v. A E
Sansburn. of Eatonton. These two
organizations will meet here to-mor
row and Wednesday, with about 50(11
Masons in attendance
The twelfth annual session of the!
Order of the Eastern Star w ill meet I
at the same time, with 78 chapters.,
. lepresented by about 150 delegate.-.
CHORUS GIRLS IN MACON
HAVE PTOMAINE POISONING
MACON, GA April 2s Six chorus
girls of a tabloid musical « omedx
company are i.i the hospital, two crit
ically 111 from ptomaine poisoning
Arriving in the city last night, tin
troupe went to a cafe for supper An
hour later the young women w. r<
^seized with convulsions. City authori
ties are trying to ascertain what kind
of food was >'Hten and how it be
came infected.
Telegram From Kahn Intimates
That Backers of Metropolitan
Company May Attend.
Where and With Whom Was 1ITIMTI SETS
Mary Phagan Before End?
I>«*tc«*tivrs to-dav ,-tro using all tlu-ir resources 1o I thru when- Mary Piiagan
was evfM-v mi mite uf Saturday and Saturday night, whom she saw, with whom
she talked, and what she said.
There are wide blanks in the story of her movements. These must be tilled.
12:10p.m.—Mai' Phagan appeared at the National Pencil Factory at ten
or fifteen minutes after 12 o'eloek noon, Saturdav. and drew the pay due her,
*1.<)<>. She chatted a few minutes with friends. The manager is sure she then
left the building.
She told her mother she was going to see 1 lie .Memorial Day parade.
Did she go straight from the factory to see the procession f Who joined her!
Where did she standf When the procession had passed, where did she go! Did
someone, that early in tin* day, start weaving around her the net which later
caused her death ?
10 p. m.—E. S. Skipper, 224 1-2 Peters Street, saw a girl answering the de
scription of Mary Phagan at about 10 o’clock Saturday night. She was walking
up Prvor Street near Trinity with three youths. She was crying, and seemed to
be trying to get away from her companions. She seemed to be under the in
fluence of an opiate, not of drink.
Was this, in truth, Mary Phagan ? If so, who were the youths ? Where had
they been, and where did they go?
12:30 a. m.—K. E. Sentell. who had known Mary Phagan nearly all her life,
saw her with a man lie identifies as Arthur Muilinax. walking north on Forsyth
Street near Hunter at about 12:30 o'clock Sunday morning. The girl was tired
and angry. She spoke to him.
Did she and her companion go at once to the pencil factory?
If not, where did they go ?
3 a. m.—The mutilated body of Mary Phagan was found in a dark corner of
the National Pencil Faetory basement, 37-39 South Forsy th Street, by the night
watchman.
Here are the gaps from 12:1.7 Saturday afternoon to 10 o’clock Saturday
night. From 10 o’clock Saturday night to 12:30 o'clock Sunday morning. From
12:30 o’clock Sunday morning until 3 o’clock Sunday morning.
When the police and detectives have tilled in these blanks, the murderer of
Mary Phagan will be known.
' Lane Too Busy to Augustan Held as
Accept High Honor Thief Blames Races
Climax in Church
Contest Sunday
Otto H. Kahn, chairman of the
boar3 of director? of the Metropolitan
Opera Pompany, has assured Colonel
VV. L. Pee!, president of the Atlanta
Music Festival Association, in a tele
gram made public to-day. that the
great musical organization will be
only too glad to appear again ii> At
lanta next year.
The telegram indicates that Mr.
Kahn and other New York directors,
leaders in the financial world and
foremost backers of grand opera, in
tend to be present.
< ‘olonel Peel telegraphed Mr. Kahn ( _
late Saturday night, advising him of ■ , , hj Ark
the splendid success of the week. Mr. ,pnm '
Kalin's reply was soon forthcoming {
and the warmth of his words demon
strates his entire satisfaction Thl« j
i» his complete reply to Colonel Peel:
Secretary of the Interior Cannot Go
to California to Receive Degree
of LL. D.
WASHINGTON. April 28.-Secre
tary'of the Interior Franklin K Lane
has been forced by pressure of .public
business to decline an invitation
from Dr. Benjamin Idc Wheeler,
president of the University of Cali
fornia, to receive the highest honor
within the gift of the university, i ie
degree of LL. D.
At that time it is the intention
of the University of California to con
fer the degree upon (’olonel George
W. Goethals. chairman of the Isth
mian Canal Commission, and the di
recting genius of construction work
upon the Panama Canal.
Aged Man, Charged With Misappro* ,
priating $14,000 Belonging to ,
Ward. Arrested at Track.
JAMESON PROBABLY WILL
DECLINE ARKANSAS OFFER
MACON, GA., April 28.— Rev. S. Y.
Jameson, president of Mercer Uni
versity, Is considering the offer made
by Ouachita Baptist College of Arka-
He probably will de
cline it.
AUGUSTA. GA., April 2 V A Dep
uty Sheriff left to-day for Baltimore j
to bring back to Augusta A. J. Gouley. |
the aged Augusta man who is charged
with misappropriating fund? of an
estate of which he wae trustee, and
also as guardian for a minor chiid,
Mi.-s Agnes Kernaghan.
The amount involved is $14,000. T ie
company who was on Gouley’s bond
made the shortage good.
Gouley had been missing since May
l, 1912, and had been traced to Ire
land. hack to New York and to many
places throughout the United States.
The detective?* finally arrested him at
the Havre DeGrace race track in
Maryland. He is reported to have
said that gambling was the cause of
his downfall.
The .max of the great Sunday
school attendance contest between
the Second Baptist and the First
Christian Churches will be reached
m .; Sunday morning at a joint ses
sion in the Auditorium instead of i:i
th church that won the contest. Tne
attendance* at both schools has in-
i leased to such an extent that neither
church is large enough.
The event promises to be so strik
ing that motion picture men have an
nounced that they will have films
made of the children marching to
the Auditorium.
The principal speakers will be Dr.
John E. White, pastor of the Second
Baptist Church, and John S. Spald
ing. superintendent of the Sunday
school, and Dr. L. C. Bricker. pastor
of the First Christian Church, and
V. LeCraw. superintendent of thv*
Sunday school.
Attendance at the Baptist school
yesterday was 1.640 and at the-Chris
tian 1,946. Since the contest w is
started the Baptist school has gained
488 and the Christian school 326.
Lifelong Friend Saw Girl
and Man After Midnight
Edgar L. Sentell, twenty-one years
old. a clerk employed in C. J. Ham
per's store, and whose home is at 82
Davis Street, was one of the first
to give the detectives a hopeful clue
to the solution of the hideous mys
tery.
Sentell, a well-known young man.
had known Mary Phagan almost ail
her life. When she was Just be
ginning to think of dolls with never
a thought of dreary factories and the
tragedies of llf°, he used to see her
playing In the streets of East Point
when her folks lived there. She was
a pleasant, cheerful little girl then
and her laier year-—tragically brief
—had not changed h«*r. Her light
blue eyes Igughed at the world in
those days with all the roguishness
a Georgia countr girl’s can. and the
cares and worries that came when
she lmd to make her own pitiful-liv
ing had not obliterated their smile.
It was 30 minutes after midnight,
when Sentell, going home from his
work at Hampers
gan coming down
near Hunter
Outside of the stragglers about the
cheap hotels In that district
Mary Plia-
Forsyth Street
there
were few on the streets at that time.
The Intermittent lights of cheap fruit
and soda water stands, the flickering
flame of a whistling peanut roaster
here and there, added enough light
to the dull glow of the city lamps to
make pedestrians easily distinguish
able.
Mary Phagan, at that hour of the
night, was h conspicuous figure.
Fourteen-year-old giVls on the streets
of Atlanta at midnight are not so
plentiful that they're not noticed
Sentell, then, walking south on For
syth Street saw Mary Phagan ap
proaching him. She was walking a
a medium gait on the inside of the
pavement.
On the curb side of the pavement
parallel with her, keeping step with
her, but exchanging no words, walk-
id a tall slender man.
Exchanged “Hellos.’’
Sentell looked at him more or less
casually hut sharply enough to de
scribe ilm later to the detectives.
• Hello. Mary” said Sentell.
‘ Hello. Edgar” said Mary.
That was all Sentell kept on his
wax. The couple, now behind him
were swallowed up in the gloom of
Forsyth Street.
To Sentell, Marx Phagan looked as
if she was tired or angry. That the
man of mystery was her companion
1m had no doubt. A- Sente!' de
scribed him later to the police:
He was six feet tsll or ove*
His hair was black and curly and
his face, not unattractive, was of
dark complexion
Hr wore a blue suit and tan shoes
and a straw hat.
He was of slender build and ap
peared to he about twenty-five years
old.
At !> o'clock yesterday morning
Sentell was or a street car when he
heard that a girl named Mary Phagan
had been found murdered. He hur
ried to h» r home and found his fear-’
were verified. With a‘hoy friend of
the vkilim's sister he hastened to
Chief Linford's office and on hSs clue
the detective department got busy
mp c.
It i.s known tliat Mary Phagan
came to tho city a few minutes after
noon ori Saturday and left an English
Avenue car at flu corner of Broad
and Hunter Streets. Motorman W.
M, Matthews knew the girl from hav
ing had her as * passenger on his
car a number of times and say? pos
itively that she left ills ear at the
corner >f Broad and Hunter Streets
and that he s..\\ i ep walkim; up Hun
ter Street in tic* direction of For
syth. Conductor W. T. Ilollis was
In charge <>f the car that reached the
corner of Marietta and Broad at 12:67
o’clock Saturday afternoon and say?
that he knew th little girl and that
she was a passenger on the trip Into
the • it\. He xx as relieved at the cor
ner of .Marietta and Broad and does
not know -anythinr further about the
movements of the child, although he
says that he is sure that she !x as
still on the car when it left the cor
ner going south on Broad Street
Another Sees Companion.
It was reported to the detectives
that Conductor Guy Kennedy of the
English Avenue line had admitted
having brought a young girl, answer
ing the description of the little vic
tim into the city op his car about
6:4.'. o’clock Saturday afternoon, and
l ad later seen her in company with
n man on the streets. He is said to
have furnished the detectives with a
description of the mysterious stran
ger hut xvhen seen by a Georgian re
porter declined to make any state
ment other than that he had seen
Chief Beavers and that the Chief had
asked that he not say anything about
it to anyt.no. He admitted, however,
that lie had seen the man again yes
terday afternoon and the man had
told him that he had been out with
another ^iri Saturday night.
Having seen the man at least twice
and talked with him once. Kenne
dy will undoubt dly he able to rec
ognize him
TARIFF BILL WILL
AID G.O.P.-PMfl
Directors Here Next Year
Mr. W. I. Peel. Atlanta Music
Festival Association, Atlanta,
( if) .
Delighted with your telegram
Many thanks in the name of all
d.rectors and on behalf of Metro
politan Opera Company to your
self and your associates and your
splendid and inspiring public. I
knew that all the artists w ould give
their very best to Atlanta and am
delighted at your public's won
derful response, demonstrating
once more its understanding and
love for operatic art. Our only
regretful thought is* that we were
unable to spend this week among
our friends in Atlanta; but we
are looking forward with the most
pleasurable anticipations to the
privilege of doing so next year.
Kindest regards and best remem
brance? to vou all.
OTTO H. KAHN.
Peel Compliments Operagoers.
■ I want to emphasize.” said Colonel
Pee] “Everybody connected in an>
way with the achievements of the
week has done hi?* duty.
‘Our people have responded nobly
Friends have come in large numbers
from every section of the South to
help us, and to all of them 1 return
sincere thanks for their inspiring
presence and valued support.
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The headliner to-day on the lie
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present law which the Democrats
plan to do away with. Payne defend
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Representative Rainey, of Illinois. :
Democratic member of the Ways and
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