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1 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. SURELY SETTLES UPSET STOMACHS “Pape's Diapepsin" Ends In- digestion, Gas, Sourness in Five Minutes. ‘Really does - ’ put bad dfomachs i in order ‘really does” overcome indigestion, dyspepsia, gas, heart burn and sourness in five minutes -that -Just that makes Pape’s Diapepsin the largest selling stom ach regulator in the world. 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The headliner to-day on the lie publican side was Representative Payne, of N’exx York, author of tli» present law which the Democrats plan to do away with. Payne defend ed his hill and asserted ihe pending Democratic measure would work I enough havoc to the industries of the ! country to assure the return of a ! Republican House in the next Con- ! gressional election. Representative Rainey, of Illinois. : Democratic member of the Ways and Means Committee, defended the in come tax and made an attack upon ' “swollen fortunes.” He declared that swollen fortunes) in this country are “based on fran- ( cliises, tariff protection or patents.” i Few fortunes, lit* asserted, had been | accumulated except through Federal i favors of some kind. s To Women Broken Down? 2 Whether It's from bueine** carre, 2 household drudgery or overfrequent 22 child-bearing, you need a Restorative 3S Tonic and Strength-giving Nervine ZL and Regulator. 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Alabama St., for a ticket admitting the holder to one of the performances of the Miss Billy Long Stock Company, now playing at the Atlanta Theater. No Restricllons-No Guessing Contest- No Effort of Any Sort Required A Theater Ticket Free lor Every Set of Four Coupons Presented First Coupon Appears Thursday, May 1st Final Coupon Appears Sunday, May 4th WATCH FOR THEM—SAVE 4 COUPONS-and see a really capable company in a high-class play at our expense. HEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN AND THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN