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4 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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