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k r. I 1 - •'il I | * m THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS, MONDAY, APRIL 28. 1013. FI Where and With Wham Was Mary Phagan Before End? w itli whom Slaying of Mary Phagan Arouses Friends of Family to Threats of Violence. "I wouldn't havi- liked to he held responsible 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 Epps, 246 Fox Street, whose home adjoin* that of Mrs. Coleman, mother of the slain giri. By to-day the first hot wave of In-: dlgnation that cried for the blood of ( the criminal had had time to subside, t but the feeling still ran high in the, neighborhood of the Coleman home. The murder was the sole topic of j conversation Men who knew the, family and others who had seen Mary go to her work in the morning con gregated In excited groups on the J street corners. At first they were not , willing that the law should take its course. They feared that the mur- j dcrer. if he were caught, might In some way escape the c onsequences of his crime. Sympathy for Stricken Mother. in the homes of the shocked com munity the women talked in hushed tones of the tragic end of Mary Pha gan Might not their own innocent little girls be in danger of the aame 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 on* 1 of their homes on which the pall of the 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 t the city. They saw the peril of their own little ones. The author of the black crime must be punished as he 1 deserved, and at once, they Insisted To-dav they are saying that the >oung working girls of the city arc considered the rightful prey of tin* i beasts in men’s clothes that go about ! the city. Tragedy Comes Home to Them. "We aie nil working people out} here." said Mr. Epps, who was stand- L ing In a group of his neighbors "In half the homes the boys and girls do what the> can to help in the support of the family Tills means, that out •children are not safe on the streets, even 1n the daytime. The tragedy comes home to us all for we me all in a little community here. It is a little village in itself, and every one knows every' one else. It was a hard blow t learned the terrible story of Marj Phagan’s death. Hardly a one of us | bu; knew the Util sight "The men here were aflame with in dignation last night. It would have must be filled, '’uetorv at tell pay due her, sure she then Detect iv< - to-day are. using all their resources to learn where Mary was everv minute of Saturday and Saturday night, whom she saw, she talked, and what she said. There are wide blanks in the storv of’ her movements. These 12:10p.m.—Mon Phagan appeared at the National Pencil 1 or fifteen minutes after 12 o’clock noon, Saturday, and drew the ■■R.CO. She chatted a few minutes with friends.. The manager is left the building. She told her 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 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. hi. L. Sentell, who had known Mary Phagan nearly all her life, saw her with a man ho 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. Site spoke to Dim. 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 Factory basement, 37-39 South Forsyth Street, by the night watchman. Here arc the gaps from 12:15 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 filled in these blanks, the murderer of Man - Phagan will be known. Lane Too Busy to 1 Augustan Held as Accept High Honor j Thief Blames Races Climax in Church Contest Sunday Secretary of the Interior Cannot (JoL A 9 cd Man ' Charged With Misappro-j Telegram From Kahn Intimates That Backers of Metropolitan Company May Attend. Otto H Kahn, chairman of the boarS of directors of the Metropolitan opera Company, has assojred Colonel to California to Receive Degree of LL. D, WASHINGTON. April 28.—Secre tary of the Interior Franklin lv Lane has been forced by pressure of pubic business to decline an invitation from Dr. Benjamin Icie Wheeler, president of the University of Cali fornia, to receive the highest honor within the gift of the university, the degree 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 Isth mian Canal Commission, and the di recting genius of construction work upon the Panama (’anal. W L. Peel, president of the Atlanta Music- Festival Association, in a tele gram made public to-day, that the great musical organization w ill be only too glad to appear again in At lanta next year. ] The telegram indicates that Mr. Kahn and other New York directors, j lenders In the financial world «n< J ! J ime80n president of Mercer Uni- foremost backers of grand opera, in- tend t,, he present. verslty, is coneidenng the offer made Colonel Peel telegraphed Mr Kahn by Ouachita Baptist College of Arka- late Saturday night, advising him of dplDhia Ar li He probably will tie- I 11.1 f Vfr* h JAMESON PROBABLY WILL DECLINE ARKANSAS OFFER MACON. GA., April 28.—Rev f>. Y. Lifelong Friend Saw Girl and Man After Midnight Edgar L. Sentell. twenty-one years old. a clerk employed In C. J. Kam- per’s store, and whose home Is at 82 Davis Street, was one of t # he 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 all her life. When she w*as just be ginning to think of dolls with never a thought of dreary factories and the us wh« we | tragedies of lif*>, he used to see her playing In the streets of East Point girl, at least by j when her folks lived there She 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 gone hard with the murdeiet of the : blue eye* laughed at the world In little "Irl if they could have got theti days with all the roguishne*.* hands on him H <},, 0 rgla 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 home from his work at Hamper's saw Mary Pha gan coming down Forsyth Street to 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 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 a conspicuous figure. Fourteen-vcar-old girls on the streets of Atlanta at midnight arc not so plentiful that they're not noticed. Sentell, then, walking south on For- e Grand Chapter,! a y»h Street saw Mary Phagan ap IS. England, of Ce- ; nroachlne him. She was walking a Georgia Doctor Will Set Masonic Record J. P. Bowdoin. of Adairsville, 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 Koval and Select Masters. He is Dr J. P. Bow doin. of Adairsville This week he will be made grand high priest of th succeeding Dr W irrtit on the inside of the dart own, and grand master of the j a medium Grand Council, succeeding Rev. A. E pavement. Bansbum. of Eatonton. Those two on the curb side of the pavement organizations will meet here to-mor- parallel with her, keeping step with row and Wednesday, with about 500 her. but exchanging no words, walk- Masons in attendan The twelfth annual session Of the order of the Eastern Star will meet at the same time, with 78 chapters. ‘»epresented by about 150 delegates. CHORUS GIRLS IN MACON HAVE PTOMAINE POISONING MACON. GA girls of a tabloid company are tn thf Rally ill from p Arriving In the < troupe went to a < hour later the \ seized with eonvt ties are trying to of food was eat came infected il L’s six chorus musical comedy lospital. two crit- tnaine poisoning, y last night, the supper. An ► omen were Mty authorl- n what kind tv it be lt fe f ci oung isions hi ed a t{Ul slender man. Exchanged “Hellos. Sentell looked at him more 'or less casually but sharply enough to de scribe him later to the detectives. ’’Hello. Mary" Mild Sentell. • Hello, Edgar" said Mary That was all. Sentell kept on his way. The couple, now behind him were swallowed up in the gloom of Forsyth Street. <To Sentell. Mary Phagan looked If she was tired or angry. That t man of mystery was her companion lie had no doubt. As Sentel scribed him later tc* the police: He w as six feet tall or ovei His hair was black and curly a his face, not unattractive, was dark complexion. He wore a blue suit and tan and a straw hut. \ He was of slender build and hi peared to Ik- about twenty-five yearr, old. At 9 o’clock yesterday morning Sentell whs 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 boy friend of the victim’s sister lie hastened to <’hief Linford’s and on his clue the detective department got busy at .pc. It is known that Mary Phagan came to the city a few minutes after noon on Saturday and left an English Avenue car nt the corner of Broad and Hunter Streets. Motorman W. M. Matthews knew the girl from hav ing had her as i passenger on his car a number of times and says pos itively that she left Ills car at the corner >f Broad and Hunter Streets and that he saw i er walking up Hun ter Strict in the direction of For syth. ' Conductor W. T Hollis was in charge of the < at* that reached the corner of Marietta and Broad at 12:07 o'clock Saturday afternoon and says that he knew th~- little girl and that she was a passenger on the trip into the city. He was relieved at the cor ner of Marietta and Broad and does not know nnythinr further about the movements «*f the child, although he says th it be is sure that she was 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 on his car about 6:4.'i 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 « 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 aboui it to anyone. He admitted, however, that he had seen the man again yes terday afternoon and the man had told him that he had been out with another girl Saturday night, Having seen th.' man at least twice and talked with him once. Kenne dy will undoubtedly be able to rec ognize him. TARIFF BILL WILL AID U.P.-PHE the splendid success of the week. Mr Kahn's reply was soon forthcoming and the warmth of his words demon strates his entire satisfaction. This is his complete reply to Colonel Peel: Directors Here Next Year. Mr. \Y 1. Peel. Atlanta Music Festival Association, Atlanta. Ga. Delighted with your telegram. Many thanks in the name of all directors and on behalf of Metro politan Opera Company to your self and your associates and your splendid and inspiring public, f 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 and love for operatic art. Our only regretful thought ie that we were unable to spend this week among our friends in Atlanta; but wo are looking forward with the most pleasurable anticipations to the privilege of doing so next year. Kindest regards and best remem brances to you all. OTTO H. KATIN. Peel Compliments Operagoers. • 1 want to emphasize,” said colonel peel. “Everybody connected In any ■ ay with the achievements of the week has done hie 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. dine it. 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The .max of the great Sunday liool attendance contest between I the Second Baptist and the First Christian Uhurches will be reached' I next Sunday morning at a joint sos- i -4i>m iii the Auditorium instead of in | th church that won Hie contest. The I attendance at both schools has in- i i rased 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, pas*Dr - of the First Christian Church, and r. v. LeCraw, superintendent of the Sunday school. Attendance at the Baptist school vesterday 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 226. >; II -I Your Chance to Furchase "Really does ' put bad stomachs f in order—“really does’’ overcome ■ indigestion, dyspepsia, gas. heart- 15burn and sourness in five minutes that just that- makes Papa’s /Diapepsin the largest selling stom- jach regulator in the world. If jwhat you eat ferments into stub born lumps, you belch gas and /eructate sour, undigested food and Mu-id; head is dizzy and aches; breath foul; tongue coated; your insides filled with bile and indi gestible waste, remember the mo ment Diapepsln comes in contact, with the stomach all such distress vanishes. It's truly astonishing— almost marvelous, and the joy is its harmlessness. \ large fifty-cent case of Pape's WASHINGTON. April 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 1 House will get d6wn to actual con- 1 sideration of the Underwood bill tin- j der the five-minute rule. The headliner to-day on the Re publican side was Representative Payne, of New York, author of the J present law which the Democrat- plan to do away with. Payne defend ed his bill and asserted the pending Democratic measure would work ! 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." 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No Restrictlons-No Guessing Contest- No Effort of Any Sorf Required AThealer Ticket Free ior 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 capable company in a high-class play at our expense. HEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN rea Hy AND ATLANTA GEORGIAN ‘ ( t .1 4 0