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? THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEW S. MON DA Y, APRIL 28. 101.°,. GflSUSPtCT, IMDRIG OF SLAIN GIRL'S AUNT AND SISTER At the ritrht is Miss K'ttli Phafc’iin. aunt of Mary I’liagan, and in her arms is Miss Ollio Phagran. sis ter of the victim, whom site is ti \inir to comfort. Below, the old Granite Hotel building? at J7-J9 South Forsvth Street, now the lionn e of the National Pencil (lornpanv, and scene of the slaying. 3 ITUS SEEN El The story of throe men leading a weeping, unwilling girl on Forsyth Street Saturday night is being sounded to Us depths to-day by At lanta policemen in their efforts to un ravel the mystery of Mary Phagan’s death. The .‘dory is told by E. S. Skipper, of 224 1 -*- Peters Street. He declared that on Saturday night about 10 o'clock he saw a girl whose appear ance Acted 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 hgain lagged behind her companions, as if she feared to go farther. Each time they insisted and she seemed powerless to resist trfem. Skipper declared that he can iden tify the three men. He followed in their wake when first he saw the par ly 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 E'orsyth 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 watch mam 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. Soda Clerk Sought in Phagan Mystery Weeping Girl Like Mary Phagan Seen Saturday in Company of Soda Jerker. The police late this afternoon began a search for a soda water clerk who was seen talking to a girl answering the description of Mary Phagan Sat urday night at 12:10 o’clock, in front of a rooming house at 286 1-2 White hall Street. The information \va.- given to the police by L. B. and R. C. King, brothers, who said they passed the Whitehall Street address at that •hour and saw the couple. Their attention was called to them, they say, by the fact that the girl was sobbing. As the King brothers passed they heard the girl say: "Don’t do that: be a friend to me.” In company with the King brother?* three detectives went to Forsyth and White 11 Streets, where the clerk is said to be working. If he can oe found he will be taken to police headquarters and examined hv de tectives. Who Is This Man? a straw hat. He carried a package tinder his arm Detective Starnes was notified, tint by the time he had taken up the trait, (iant had disappeared. Officers were dispatched to the railway stations and to the Marietta Street cars to thwart him if ho had any thoughts of escaping. K. K. Holloway, timekeeper at the FLOWERS and FLORAL DESIGNS; ATLANTA FLORAL CO. Both Phone, Number 4. 41 Peachtree ! a T I »UT» | ALL THIS WEEK H I L n n I n . ElcPS , 4 p,„, s Mights ™* ATER Miss BILLY LONG Wed and Sat And Company In A Butterfly on the Wheel *ICMs IS* to SOc I Fleet Time In Atlanta This 1 Mats. Tues., Week | Thurs., Sat. billy the kid a DRAMA OF THE WEST. With the Young American Star, bepkely HASWELL. factory, said that he was aware of Gant’s infatuation for the girl, but did not know that sbe accepted his attentions at all Gant had told him, he 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 she knew the mur dered glr! well and that she had heard her girl companions talking a number of times of Gant’s infatuation for the Phagan girl. Sin had heard, she said, that Gant frequently walked home with her and paid her other attentions. Police detectives, after an atl- forenc conference with Deo Frank, permitted the factory superintendent I to go One result of the conference, j however, was to get an important ad- j mission from Newt l>»e. the negro I night watchman, who is» being held as I a material witness. Gant Admitted to Factory Saturday. Mr. Frank told the detectives that after leaving the factory Saturday evening he called up Deo and asked | him if Gant, who had asked permis sion of Frank a few minutes before l to get his sthoes in an upstairs room. had left the building yet. The negro j answered that Gant had obtained his shoes and left the building within ten minutes. This noon. howev« r. Att orn«yf» Du- Home Again With Vaudeville ther Rt uiser ind Ha rbert Haas. who U — n. were repres enting to Le< Sup =»’* cel rinten dent FORSYTH mat. To-dcy 2:30 To-night at S:30 Prank, w ent after the I confere ice in the de tertlvo s' office had Angler A Co.— -Chri* * WT * EEh conelud e<i am 1 quest loned him sh irp- Richards — Ga Helm Children- -Barr «•*** * g»ml t A Hope—Murk !l £ Kid t.L-ct cate* ing him in Francis and O'L « merit, ti te> in iuced 1 im to admit that his first testimony in regard to the time Gant was In the building was misleading. He thought that Gant was there 20 minutes or half an hour. He added the remark, which is re garded as highly important, that Gant, while in the building, called up and talked to some girl. Recent Movements a Mystery. The ease against Gant is made stronger by the mystery surrounding his movements during the past three weeks. Mrs F. C. Terrell, of 284 East Linden Avenue, with whom Gant has been boarding, told a Georgian re porter this morning that three weeks ago to-day Gant packed up all his be longings and left her house, telling her he had secured a good position In California and was going there at once. Gant’s object in telling the Cali fornia trip story to Mrs. Terrell is unknown, but detectives consider his movements during the three weeks that have elapsed since then a strong link in the chain of evidence that is being woven about him Mrs. Terrell said she had not re ceived any word from Gant, and op posed he was in California. She con sidered his silence unusual, because hitherto whenever Gant had been away from home, for ever, a day or two. he had always sent postcards or a letter. Mrs. Terrell also declared that Gant had known the Phagan family in Ma rietta. where Mary Phagan lived ff-r a number of years. Gant has been liv ing with the Terrell family for seven years. Pp to four or live years* ago the Terrells were neighbors of the Phagans in Marietta, and little Mary often played around the Terrell home. It was there that Gant became ac quainted with her. Mrs. Terrell said. Gant is about 22 years old. Strange Notes Increase Mystery. A few inches from the body were found two remarkably strange notes. These notes, incoherent and almost il legible, only serve to increase the mystery. Detectives declared there was no doubt that these notes were written by tjre murderer and were a feeble and tragically grotesque effort at a ruse. They purport to have been written by the girl, and the wording would seem to indicate that she had written them after she was in the throes of death. “A tali, black negro did this,” is the substance of the two notes. The police were notified by the janitor, and several officers were quickly on the scene, immediately starting a thorough investigation. After finding that all of the doors and windows to the. building were se; curely fastened, the police took Newt Dec Into custody on suspicion, believ ing that he could throw light on the tragedy. Dee carried the keys to the building, hut protested that he had admitted no one to the building, and that he had no idea that any one had been inside until he found the body Detectives are certain that the ne gro can explain the mystery of how the girl found her way into the build ing, even if he did not actually com mit the murder. Negro Pleads Total Ignorance. The negro’s solo statement to de tectives since his arrest has been: ”1 didn’t know nothing about It un til l found the body.” Dete< fives, 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, but no amount of questioning could induce him to change his know nothing” statement. To every question he replied: T don't know nothing about it.” Detectives are sure the negro has not told all he knows, and will hold him until the mystery is cleared. The the y that the crime was the work of a negro held full sway and was assiduously followed by detec tives until Sunday afternoon, when E. D. Sentell, of 82 Davis Street, a clerk for the Kamper Grocery Company, divulged the information that he saw Mary Phagan at Forsyth and Hunter Streets Sunday morning, about 12:30 o’clock, in company with Arthur Mul- lina^x. He said they were walking in the direction of the pencil factory, which is but a few doors from this corner. Sentell knew the Phagan girl, and said he spoke to her as he passed. , Since then detectives have been working on both theories—that the e*-L was committed by a negro and t it was the job of a white man and that the negro watchman is an accomplice in that he knew of it. This gave a new angle to the mys tery and set detectives on the 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 he was ques tioned and the contents of the suit case examined. Chief of Police Goodson, of Mariet ta. said this afternoon that Gant ex pressed surprise when arrested, but didn’t make a statement. Gant, it was stated, was extremely nervous when he got off the car, and was evidently expecting something to hap pen. When Hicks accosted him and placed him under arrest, Gant turned 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 the plant of the National Lead Pencil Company, this afternoon said 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 part of the saloon.” While in Hunter’s place Gant and the other man appeared to be in a hurry and kept talking earnestly to gether as though they were planning something. This morning at 8 o’clock Gant, looking like he had not had much sleep, came into the Hunter 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 excited. He stepped quick ly to the door and glanced across at the National Pencil Company ? build ing. and then looked hastily up and down Forsyth Street, lie th* n told McGee ho was going to Marietta and walked rapidly up Forsyth Street. srm sa i BLACK CUffLY^ HAIR CCMFLEXOC DARK 6 FT ml BLUD SUIT. 25 YEARS OLD m SHOD? Edgar L. Sentell, lifelong friend of Mary saw a man answering this description, walkin after midnight Sunday, a few hours before flic Phagan, says lie g with the girl body was found. GANT TELLS fflS OWN STORY TO THE POLICE Continued from Page One. both of them saw me get them and also saw me leave the building. “Then I went back to town and met Arthur White, who is em ployed in the pencil factory; O. G. Bagley, an employee of the At lanta Milling Company, and Bagley’s brother. With them 1 played pool in the Globe pool parlor on Broad Street until 10:30 o'clock, and then I caught a car and went home. “Yes, T knew the girl. 1 knew Mary Phagan quite well, but I swear to you I had not seen her since I left the plant as an em ployee three weeks ago. I am innocent and developments will prove it.” Gant was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Hicks on the 1 o’clock car. He did not appear particularly nervous and was confident that he would be able to demonstrate his innocence, but the de tectives with him were equally certain that the slayer had been captured. A stenographer took a formal statement from Gant as soon as he was brought to the police station. In it he endeavored to account for every minute of his time from Saturday afternoon until the time the body of the girl was found. Gant comes from a well-known Cobb County family and sev eral of his relatives were with him at the police station. Among them were Judge George F. Gober, of the law firm of Gober & Jackson, who- is acting as legal counsel for the young man W. A. Bishop, an officer of Pleads Unwritten Law. and De dares He Thought Encounter Was Duel to Death. Elmer T. Darden, who, pleading H unwritten law, was put on trial for h life in criminal division of Superic Court to-day for the slaying of C. ^ Goddard, a Stone Mountain granil cutter, in the Union station March 1 took the stand in hie own defense th afternoon and made a statement « the shooting and its causes. With the testimony of a dozen ey« witnesses to the shooting, the Sta’ closed its case at 12:30 o’clock ar court recessed until 2 o’clock. The testimony given for the Stai followed the reports of the traged already published. Every attemj made by Paul Lindsay, attorney fc the Goddard family, employed to a Solicitor Dorsey in the prosecution, i send up any of Darden’s children i testify against their father failed. Wife of Slayer Absent. Mrs. Darden, who had sworn thi she would be at the trial to clear h* name of any stigma, did pot appea The State put on Mrs. J. R. Harwe! in charge of the work of the Travel ers’ Aid Society at the Union statior Addle Mays, a negro attendant: Job Beaseley, a negro porter, and Polici man Hardy, all eyewitnesses. Darden’s statement follows: Tells of Losing Money. “I was born in Elizabeth City, Vi March 22, 1868, and married in .Tun 1894. About ten years ago my fathi j left me $35,000. I then was in tl granite business in Vermont. ”1 bought a farm and little quart near Redan, Ga., about eight yea: | ago. Among my first acquaintance were the Goddards, and Cossie Go« card especially. He was closer to n than my brother, and when I was < the road, which was frequent, I had j much confidence in him I asked hi ! to watch over my family. “Finally I got extremely hard t for cash. My wife was a woman 1 high ideals and extravagance, and guess I am largely to blame, for had been her tutor in this particula When I was no longer able to besto ion her luxuries, she became dissatij fled and quarrelsome. I begged her i be patient, telling her that I realizi j that we were almost down and ors \ but that my health was good, F was man of education and could overcon | the obstacles. "On February 12 my wife came ' Atlanta and spent the day and n ! turned on ’the 6 o’clock accommodi j tion train. She told me that she h{ been to the picture shows. Asserts Her Love Waned. “She made other visits to Atlare the following week and once visit! the place where I worked and mai an engagement to go to lunch wil me. She did not fill the ongagemen She told me again she had been > the picture shows. DANGEROUS CALOMEL GOING OUT OF OSI A Safer, More Reliable Rem edy Has Taken Its Place in the Drug Store and in the Home. A few years ago men, womei and children took calomel for * sluggish liver and for constipa tion. They took risks when thej did so, for calomel is a danger ous drug. Your family doctor will be the first to tel lyou this if h« discovers you dosing yourself witt calomel. But the drug trade has found s safer, more pleasant remedy that calomel in Dodson’s Diver Tone. Dealers tell us that their drui store sells Dodson’s Liver Tone ii 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 grow* people. It sells for 50 cts. a bottli and is guaranteed to be entirely satisfetory by all druggists, \vh« will refund your money with z smile if it does not give quick, gen tle relief without any of calomel’! unpleasant after-effects. Marietta and a cousin of the ac cused man, was one of the party. W. M. Gant, and J. D. Gant, Jr., cousins, also accompanied the pris oner to the station. G. M. Hicks. Dep uty Sheriff and the man who arrest ed Gant in Marietta, came from Mari etta with Detective Hazlett. Gant’s father, J. L. Gant, died two years ago. Ex-Representative Sam uel R. McClesky is an uncle of Gant. The young man is single and about 23 years of age. BANK AT CROSSLAND, GA., SUSPENDS OPERATIONS Thousands Died Last Year From Colds, Neglected Too Long MOULTRIE. GA., April 28.—The Bank of Crossland has suspended, ac cording to a telephone message re ceived from there to-day. The news comes from J. F. RoyaJ, a stockhold er and director of bank. An offi cial is said to have confessed a short age. The bank is in the hands of state examiner. Nearly everybody in Atlanta reads The Sunday American. YOUR ad vertisement in the next issue will sell j goods. Try itl 1 Practically every case of pneu monia was first just a cold. Dur ing a hard winter in America hun dreds will neglect the simple cold and succumb to grfppe. 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 blood, and. being unable to perform its functions of cleansing away the waste, undi gested food remains in the stom- COLDS IS ALARMING ach and intestines and ferments The head gets hot. the feet cold ant bowels constipated. Then cold set: in. If JACOBS' LIVER SALT is tak. en immediately, it will ward of! the cold. It relieves the conges, tion. rejuvenates the liver and sendi the blood racing through the veins with a vigor that will instantly dis pel the depressing attack of cold. A simple remedy, but worth it: weight in gold if you value health And it will not put vou in bed Take JACOBS' LIVER SALT be. fore breakfast, an agreeably bub bling drink, and in an hour you'! feel fine. The man who doesn' catch cold keeps his liver lively and you will find no other live: tonic as good as the genuine J A- COBS' LIVER SALT. All drug- gists. 25c. If yours can not sup. ply you. upon receipt of price w- will mail full size jar. postage free Made and guaranteed Jay Jacobs Pharmacy Co., Atlanta.