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r T TF! ATLANTA OF/JRGT V\ A\l) NEWS MOXDAY. \PRIL28. 1013.
Where and With Whom Was
Mary Phagan Before End?
Slaying of Mary Phagan Arouses
Friends of Family to Threats
of Violence.
“1 wouldn't have liked to 1m* b f dd
r^cponaible for the fate of the mur
derer of little Mary Phagan if the men
in this neighborhood had got hold of
him last night,” was the statement
to-day of Georg- W. Kppp, 246 Fox
street, whose home adjoins that of
Mrs. t'oleman, mother of the slain
girl.
By to-day the first hot wave of in
dignation that ( lied for the blood of
the criminal had had time to subside,
but the feeling still ran high In the
neighborhood of the Coleman home.
The murder was the sole topic of
conversation Men who knew the
family and others who had seen Mary
Ka to her work in the morning con
gregated in excited groups on the
street corners. At first they were not
willing that the law should take its
course. They feared that the mur
derer. if he were caught, might in
some way escape the consequences of
his crime.
Symo*thy for Stricken Mother. #
In the homes of the shocked com*
' munity the women talked In hushed
tones of the tragi- end of Mary Pha-
gan Might not their own innocent
little girls he In danger of the name
^fate? Was it safe to permit them to
go alone about the city, even in the
light of broad day? They were filled
with gratitude that it was not any one
of their homes on which the pall of
the great tragedy had fallen, hut 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
crime was brought to the neighbor
hood. They saw the imminent (lun
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 an he I
deserved, and at once, they insisted.
To-day they are saying that the
young working girls of the city arc
considered the rightful prey of the
beasts in men s clothes that go about
the city.
Tragedy Comes Home to Them.
"We are all w orking people out |
here,” said Mr. Epps, who was stund
sa w
Mary Phagan
with whom
Dctoni ive.s to-day are using all their resources to learn where
was every minute of Saturday and Saturday night, whom she
she talked, and what she said.
T here are wide blanks in the story of her movements. T hese must he tilled.
12:10 p. m.—Mary Phagau appeared at the National Pencil Factory at ten
or fifteen minutes after 12 o’clock noon, Saturday, and drew the pay due her,
$1.00. She chatted a few minutes with friends. The manager is sure she then
left the building.
She told hf*r mother she was going to see the Memorial Day parade.
Did she go straight from the factory to see the procession? Who joined her?
Where did she stand? When the procession had passed, where did she go? Did
someone, that early in the 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 Pryor Street near Trinity with three youths. She was crying, and seemed to
he trying to get away from her companions. She seemed to he under the in
fluence of an opiate, not of drink.
Was this, in truth, Mary Phagan 1 ? If so, who were the youths? Where had
they been, and where did they go?
12:30 a. m.— K. L. Sentell, who had known Mary Phagan nearly all her life,
saw her with a man he identities as Arthur Mullinax, 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 Marv Phagan was found in a dark corner of
the National Pencil Factory basement, 37-39 South Forsyth Street, by the night
watchman.
Here are the gaps-—from 12-15 Saturday afternoon to 10 o’clock Saturday
night. From 1(1 o’clock Saturday night to 12:30 o’clock Sunday morning. From
12:30 o’clock Sunday morning until 3 o'clock Sunday morning.
Lane Too Busy to Augustan Held as Climax in Church
Accept High Honor | Thief Blames Races Contest Sunday
Telegram From Kahn Intimates
That Backers of Metropolitan
Company May Attend.
?
When the police and
Mary Phagan will b(
detectives have tilled in these blanks, the murderer of
known.
Lifelong Friend Saw Girl j
and Man After Midnight
Edgar L. Sent?ll, twenty-one years
old. a clerk employed in C. J. Kam-
pcr'ff store, and whose home Is at 82
Davis ’Street, was one of the first
ing in a group of his neighbors. "In j to give the detectives a hopeful clue
half the homes the boy* and gli h do j to the solution of the hideous rnya-
what they can to help In the support ;
oi* the family. Tnis means that our
children are not safe- on the streets,
even is the daytime.
"TVw* tragedy comes home to us alt
for we art all in a little community 1
her*. It is a little village in itself,
and « very one knows every one else. 1
It was a hard blow to us when we,
learned the terrible story of Mary j
T’hagan's death Hardly a one of ui
but knew the little girl, at least by j
sight.
"The men here were aflame with In
dignation last night. It would have
gone hard with the murderer of the
little "•irl if they could have got theil
hands*on him."
Georgia Doctor Will
Set Masonic Record
J. P. Bowdoin, of Adairzville, to
Head Both Grand Chapter and
Grand Council.
MAf'O.N', OA April 2*.—For the
I name oi « wi
first time in the history of Masonry in! here and there, added
Georgia one man will this year hold! to the dull glow of the
the highest office in both the Grand 1
Chapter of Royal Arch Masons and
the Grand Council of the Royal and
Select Masters. He Is Dr. J. P. Bow
doin. of Adairsville.
This week he will be made grand:
high 4>riest of tlie Grand Chapter,
succeeding Dr. W. B. England, of Ce- !
dattown, and grand master of the*
Grand Council, succeeding Rev. A E i pavement.
Sansburn of Eatonton. These two on the curb side of the pavement
organizations will meet here to-mor- parallel with her, keeping step with
row and Wednesday, w ith about 600 j her. but exchanging no words, walk-
Ma.sons in attendance
The twelfth annual session of the
Order of the Eastern Star will meet
at the same time, with 78 chapters,
represented by about 150 delegates.
tery.
Sentell. h well-known young man.
had known Mary Phagan almost all
her life. When she was just be
ginning to think of dolls with never
a thought of dreary factories and the
tragedies of lif“, lie used to see her
playing In the streets of East Point
when her folks lived there. 8he was
a pleasant, cheerful little girl then
and her later years tragically brief
had not changed her. Her light
blue eyes laughed at the world In
those days with all the roguishness
a Georgia country girl’s can. and the
cares and worries that came when
she had to make her own pitiful liv
ing had not obliterated their smile
It was 30 minutes after midnight,
when Sentell, going borne from his
work at Hamper'V saw Mary Pha-
gmi coming down Forsyth Street
near Hunter.
Outside of the stragglers about the
cheap hotels In that district, 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
•nough light
Ity lamps to
make pedestrians easily distinguish
able.
Mary Phagan, at that hour of the
night, was a conspicuous figure.
Fourteou-> ear-old girls on the st reets
of Atlanta at midnight are not so
plentiful that they’re not noticed.
Sentell, then, walking south on For
syth Street saw Mar.v Phagan ap
preaching him. Sim was walking a*
a medium gait on the inside of the
CHORUS GIRLS IN MACON
HAVE PTOMAINE POISONING
MAC< >N. GA .
girls of a tabic
company are in
lcally ill from
Arriving in the
April -'s Six (bogus
Id musical comedy
he hospital, two crit-
ptomaifie poisoning.
( ity last night, the
troupe went# to a
hour later the
aeized with convi
ties are trying to a
of food was eaten
came infected.
•»fe for supper. An
oung women were
sions. (’ity author!-
lacertain what kind
*nd how it he
ed a tall slender man
Exchanged "Hellos.”
Sentell looked at him more or lcs«(
casually but sharply enough to de-
scribe him later to the detectives.
• Hello, Mary" said Sentell.
"Hello. Edgar" said Mary
That was all. Sentell kept mi his
way. The couple, now behind him.
were swallowed pp in the gloom of
Forsyth Street.
To Sentell. Mary Phagan looked as
if she was tired or angry. That the
man of mystery was her compan 5 ~"
he had no doubt. As Sentet
scribed him later to the police:
He w as six feat tall or over.
His hair was black and cur
his face, not unattractive, w
dark complexion.
He wore a blue
and a straw hat.
He was of slender build and ap
peared to be about twenty-five years
old.
At 9 o’clock yesterday morning
Sentell was or a street car when he;
heard that n girl named Mary Phagan 1
had been found murdered. He hur
ried to her home and found hie fear
were verified. With u. boy friend of
the victim’s sister he hastened io
Chief Hanford’s »fflc * and on his clue
the detective department got busy at
once.
It Us ki ow n that Maty Phagan
came to the city a few minutes after
noon on Saturday and left an English
Avenue car at the corner of Broad
and Hunter* Streets. Motorman W.
M. Matthews knew the girl from hav
ing had her as i passenger on ids
car a number of times and says pos
itively that she left his car at the
corner >f Broad and Hunter Streets
and that he s«*w i er walking up Hun
ter Street in the direction of For
syth. Conductor W. T. Hollis was
In charge of the ( ar that reached the
corner of Marietta and Broad at 12:07
o’clock Saturday afternoon and says
that he knew the little girl and that
she was h passenger on the trip into
the city. He was relieved at the cor
ner of Marietta and Broad and does
not know anything further abbut the
movements of the child, although he
sb(s that he is sure that she was
still on the car when it left the cor
ner going south un 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 on his car about
6:45 o’clock Saturday afternoon, and
had later seen her in company with
a man on the streets. He is said to
have furnished the detectives with a
description of the mysterious stran
ger but when 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 anyone. He admitted, however,
that he laid seen the man again yes
terday afternoon and the man had
told hftn that he had been out with
another girl Saturday night.
Having seen the man at least twice
tnd talked with him once. Kenne
dy will undoubt *dly be able to rec
ognize him#
TARIFF BILL WILL
AID G.O.P.-PAYNE
WASHINGTON. April 28. The
flood of campaign-flavored tariff ora
tory in the House began to ebb to-day
and by to-night the set speeches will
have been exhausted. To-morrow the
House will get down to actual con
sideration of the Underwood bill un
der the five-minute rule.
The headliner to-day on the Re
publican side was Representative
Payne, of New York, author of the
present law which the Democrats
plan to do away with. Payne defend
ed his bill and asserted the pending
Democratic measure would work
enough havoc to the industries of ih n
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
chises. tariff protection or patents.”
Few’ fortunes, he asserted, had been
accumulated except through Federal
favors of some kind.
Otto H. Kahn, chairman df the
boar I of directors of the Metropolitan
Opera Company, has assured Colonel
W. L. Peel, president of the Atlanta
Music Festival Association, in a tele
gram made public to-day. that the
great musical organization will bt
only too glad to appear ggain In 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.
colonel Peel telegraphed Mr. Kahn
late Saturday night, advising him *, delpHla. Ark
the splendid success of the week. Mr.
Kahn's reply was soon forthcoming
and th*» warmth of his words demon
strates his entire satisfaction. This
is his complete reply to Colonel Peel.
Directors Here Next Year.
Mr. W. L. Peel. Atlanta Music
Festival Association, Atlanta.
Ga.;
Delighted with your telegram.
Many thanks in the name of al!
directors 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 would give
their very best to Atlanta and am
delighted at your public’s won
derful response, demonstrating
once more its understanding an’d
love for operatic art. Our only
regretful thbught it* that we w ere
unable to spend this week among
our friends in Atlanta; bu^ we
arc looking forward with the most
pleasurable anticipation^ to the
privilege of doing so next year.
Kindest regards and best remem
brances to you all.
OTTO H KAHN.
Peel Compliments Operagoers.
• I want to emphasize,” said Colonel
Peel. "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.
"And to our loyal newspapers. thos<> i
makers of public opinion, I can not j
sav too much. They have opened to |
us their columns. Their writers and
Secretary of the Interior Cannot Go
to California to Receive Degree
of LL. D.
WASHINGTON. April 28.—Secre
tary of the Interior Franklin Iv Lane
lias been forced by pressure of public
business to decline an invitation
from Dr. Benjamin Ide Wheel' r.
president of the University of Cali
fornia. to receive the highest hoT\bc
within the gift of the university, i he
ilcgree of LL. D.
At that time it is the intention
of the University of California to con
fer the degree upon Colonel George
W. Goethals. chairman of the Js f .b*
tnian Canal Commission, and tfie di
recting genius of construction work
upon the Panama Canal.
priating $14,000 Belonging
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.
Aged Man, Charged With Misappro-j The climax of the great Sunday
. ! «< hool attendance contest between
0 * the Second Baptist and the First
Christian Churches will be reached
'next Sunday morning at a Joint ses
sion in the Auditorium instead of in
the church that won the contest. The
attendance at both schools has in
creased 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 havd films
made of the children marching to
the Auditorium.
AUGUSTA, GA., April 28.—A Dep
uty Sheriff left to-day for Baltimore
to bring back to Augusta A. J. Gouley.
the aged Augusta man who is charged
with misappropriating funds of an
estate of which ho wa** trustee, and
also as guardian for a minor child,
Miss Agnes Kernaghan.
The amount involved is $14,000. Tne
company who was on Gouley’s bond
made the shortage good.
Gouley had been missing since May
1, 1912. and had been traced to Ire
land, back to New York and to many
places throughout the United States.
The detectives 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 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 the
Sunday school.
Attendance at the Baptist sellacd
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.
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