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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.MONDAY. APRIL 2R. 101T
SLAIN GIRL’S AUNT AND SISTER
At 1 lit* rij'iit is .Miss Wutli I’hagan. aunt of Mary I’lia^an, and in her arms is Miss Ollie I’hauan, .sis
ter of the victim, whom she is trying to comfort. Below, the old (iranitc Hotel building at 37-39
South Forsyth Street, now the home of the National Pencil Company, and scene of the .slaving.
Continued from Page One.
the way and hurry down Forsyth
Street toward Alabama Street. He
was dressed In n blue suit and wore
a straw bat He carried a package
under bis arm
Detective Starnes was notified, but
by the time he had taken up the trail,
Cant had disappeared. Officers were
dispatched to the. railway stations
and to the Marietta Street cars to
thwart him if he had any thoughts of
escaping.
K. F. Holloway, timekeeper at the
factory, said that lie was aware of
Gant’s infatuation for the girl, but
did not know that she 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-4av that she knew the mur
dered girl well and that she had heard
her girl < ompanion* talking a number
of times of Gant’s infatuation for the
Phagan girl.
She had heard she said, that Gant
frequently walked home with her and
paid her other attentions.
Police detectives, after an all-
forenoon conference with Leo Frank,
permitted ilia factory superintendent
to go. One result of the conference,
however, was to get an important ad
mission from Newt Lee. the negro
night watchman, who Is being held as
a material witness.
Gant Admitted to Factory Saturday.
Mr. Frank told the detectives that
3 YOUTHS SEEN
after leaving the factory Saturday
evening he called up Lee and asked
him if Gam. who had asked permis
sion of Frank a few minutes before
to got his shoes in an upstairs room,
had left, the building yet. The negro
answered that Gant had obtained his
shoes and left the building within ten
minutes.
This noon, however. Attorneys Lu-
FLOWERS and FLORAL DESIGNS^
ATLANTA FLORAL CO.
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ATLANTA
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ALL THIS WEEK
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And Company In
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on the Wheel
it, 15c In 50c Flr»t Time In Atlanta
This
Week
Mats. Tues.,
Thurs., Sat.
BILLY THE KID
A DRAMA OF THE WEST.
With the Young American Star,
BERKELY HASWELL.
ther Rosser and Herbert Haas, who
were representing Superintendent
Frank, went to Lee’s cell after the
conference in the detectives’ office had
concluded ami questioned him sharp-*
ly in regard to Gant.
After catching him in a misstate
ment, they induced him to admit that
his llrst 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 us highly important, that
Gant, while in the building, called up
and talked to some girl.
Recent Movements a Mystery.
The case against Gant is made
stronger by the mystery surrounding
his movements during the past three
weeks. Mrs F. O. Terrell, of 284 East
Linden Avenue*. with whom Gant has
been hoarding, told a Georgian re-
pnru-r this morning that three weeks
Hgo to-day Gant packed up all his be
longings and left her house, telling
her he had secprod 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 - ap-'ed 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 sup
posed he was in California. She con*
Home Again With Vaudeville
rnRQYTH Mat * To-day 2:30
■ vital in To-night at 8:30
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Angler & Co.—Chris WEEN
Richards — Gaby — l
Heim Children—Barr 6u, iettri.
A H^pe—Mur*el A
Kit tafearet
,* unusual, because.
Gant had been
for even a day or
s sent postcards or
sidered his slier
hitherto when* v
away from horn
two. he had alwj
a letter
Mrs. Terrell also declared that Gant
had known the Phagan family in Ma
rietta, where Mary Phagan lived for a
number of years. Gant has been liv
ing with tho Terrell family for seven
years. Up to four or five years ago
tho Terrells were neighbors of the
Fhagans 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 tho 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
w ritten b> the murderer agd 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 tall, 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 s-cene, immediately
starling a thorough investigation.
Alter finding that all of the doors
and windows to the building were se
curely fastened, the police took Newt
Lee into custody on suspicion, believ
ing that he could throw light on the
tragedy. Lee carried the keys to the
building, hut protested that he hau
admitted no one to the building, and
that he had no idea that any one had
been inside until he found the body.
Dotec fives are certain that the ne
gro can explain the mystery of how
the girl found her way into thejbuild-
ing. even if he did not actually com
mit the murder
Negro Pleads Total Ignorance.
The negro’s sole statement to de
tectives since his arrest has been:
*1 didn’t know nothing about it tin-
Who Is This Man?
E. S. Skipper Tells Police He
Saw Lads Urging Her Down
Street Night of Crime.
The story of three men leading a
weeping, unwilling girl on- Forsyth
Street Saturday night is being
sounded to its depths to-day by At
lanta policemen in their efforts to un
ravel the mystery of Mary Phagan’s
death.
The story is told by E. S. Skipper,
of 224 1-2 Peters Street. He declared
that on Saturday night about 1C
o’clock he saw a girl whose appear
ance fitted the description of the girl-
victim. Three men were with her. all
of them young and flashily dressed.
The girl w as reeling slightly, Skip--
per declares, as if rendered dizzy by l
drug?. She was crying, and time and
again lagged behind her companions,
as if she feared to go farther. Each
time they insisted and she seemed
powerless to resist them.
Skipper declared that he can iden
tify the three men. He followed in
their wake when first he saw the par
ty on Pryor Street, near Trinity Ave
nue. At Trinity they turned toward
Whitehall, lie said, the men urging the
girl to accompany them. Dow n White
hall to Forsyth 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 watchman in tha Williams Liv
ery Stable, 35 Forsyth Street, three
doors from tho factory building. He
told the detectives thqt 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.
The time specified in the statement
of the night watchman links closely
with that of tho occurrences in Skip
per’s story and, according to police
men. lends color to the theory that
the three men ho saw were the men
who lured little Mary Phagan to her
death.
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BLACK CURLY
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til 1 found the body.”
Detectives, 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:
’ I don’t know nothing about it.”
Detectives are sure tho negro has
not told all he knows, and will hold
him until the mystery is cleared.
The theory that the crime was the
work of a negro held full sway and
was assiduously followed by detec
tives until Sunday afternoon, when E.
L Scntell, of 82 Davis Street, a clerk
for the Hamper Grocery Company,
divulged the information that he saw
Mary Phagan at Forsyth and Hunter
Streets Sumlax morning, about 12:30
< clock, in company with Arthur Mul-
llnav H* said they were walking in
the direction of the pencil factory,
which is hut a few doors from this
corn ! Senlell knew the Phagan
girl, and said he spoke to her as he
passed.
Since then detectives have been
working on both theories—that the
crime w is committed by a negro and
that it was the job of a white man
and that tho 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, hut
didn’t make a statement. Gant, it
was stated, was extremely nervous
when he got off the tar and was
evidently expecting something t<* hap-
peR. W hen Hicks accosted him and
placed him under arrest, Gant turned
Noted Dixie Athlete
On Trial For Arson
Finger Prints Lead to Charge That
Richard Webb Burned Pro
fessor’s Office.
LEXINGTON, KY„ April 28.—
Richard S. Webb, former assistant
football couch at the State University
and known throughout the West and
South as an athlete, was to-day
placed on trial here charged with
burning the office of P. L. Anderson,
dean of engineering at the university.
Another indictment charges burning a
public building.
The case grows out of a college
feud, in which practically the entire
student body took sides.
The chief witness for the prosecu
tion is Ray Campbell, a fingerprint
expert from the Indiana Reformatory,
who swore fingerprints on a clock in
Anderson’s office were made by Webb
23 ESCAPE SINKING BOAT.
BATON ROUGE, LA., April 28.—
Thirty-one sailors swam to safety
w'hen a Standard Oil steamer sank
here after ramming a boat at the
docks. Twenty-six thousand barrels
of oil were lost.
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 hi in 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’s build
ing. and then looked hastily up and
down Forsyth Street. He- then told
McGee he was going to Marietta and
walked rapidly up Forsyth Street.
FATHER AND SON SLAIN
IN MISSISSIPPI WOODS
LAMBERT MISS.. April 28. Mis?-
ing since Friday, \Y A. Rieves, aged
43. and his son, James, aged 16. of
Chancey. M *s . were found dead ii:
the woods to-day The father had
been shot in the back of the head:
the son in the breast. A negro, dis
charged recently bv Rieves. is sus
pected.
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Edgar L. Sentell, lifelong friend of Alary Phagan. says he
saw a man answering this description, walking with the girl
after midnight Sunday, a few hours before the body was found.
He has identified the man as Arthur Mullniax, who, however,
was to-day apparently cleared b y an alibi established by his
sweetheart.
Body Dragged by Deadly
HE SLEII *L
Pleads Unwritten Law, and De
clares He Thought Encounter
Vs/as Duel to Death.
Elmer T. Dai den, who, pleading the
unwritten law . was put on trial for his
life criminal division of ‘Superior
Court to-day for the slaying of C. M.
Goddard, a Stone Mountain granite
i cutter, in the Union station March 13,
took the stand in hie own defense this
afternoon and made a statement of
| the shooting and its causes.
With the testimony of a dozen eye
witnesses to the shooting, the State
closed its case at 12:30 o’clock and
j court recessed until 2 o’clock.
The testimony given for the State
followed the reports of the tragedy
already published. Every attempt
made by Paul Lindsay, attorney for
the Goddard family, employed to aid
Solicitor Dorsey in the prosecution, to
i send up any of Darden’s children to
testify against tHeir father failed.
Wife of Slayer Absent.
Mrs. Darden, who had sworn that
she would be at the trial to clear her
| name of any stigma, did not appear.
The State put on Mrs. J. R. Harwell,
in c harge of the work of the Travel
ers’ Aid Society at the Union station;
Addie Mays, a negro attendant; John
Bea?«eley, a negro porter, and Police
man Hardy, all eyewitnesses.
Darden’s statement follows:
Tells of Losing Money.
”1 wa's born in Elizabeth City, Va.,
March 22, 1868, and married in June,
1894. About ten years ago my father
; left me $35,000. I then was in the
granite business in Vermont.
"I bought a farm and little quarry
near R-dan, Ga., about eight years
ago. Among my first acquaintances
were the Goddards, and Cossie God-
dard especially. He was closer to me
than my brother, and when I was on
the road, which was frequent, I had so
much confidence in him I asked him
to watch over my family.
"Finally I got extremely hard up
for cash. My . wife was a woman of
high ideals and extravagance, and 1
guess 1 am largely to blame, for 1
j had been her tutor in this particular.
When I was no longer able to bestow
! on her luxuries, she became dissatis
fied and quarrelsome. I begged her to
be patient, telling her that I realized
that we were almost down and out,
i but that my health was good, I was a
I man of education and could overcome
! the obstacles.
i ‘ On February 12 my wife came to
Atlanta and spent the day and re
turned on the 6 o’clock accommoda
tion train. She told me that she had
i been to the picture show's.
Asserts Her Love Waned.
"She made other visits to Atlanta
the following week and once visited
the place where I worked and made
an engagement to go to lunch with
me. She did not fill the engagement.
She told me again she had been to
the picture shows.
Cord After Terrific Fight [DANGEROUS CALOMEL
GOING OUT OF USE
Stretched full length, face down
ward on the floor of basement at the
reare of the plant, the body was
found. A length of heavy cord or
wrapping twine, which had been used
by the slayer to strangle the child
after he had beaten her to insensi
bility, was looped around the neck,
and a clumsy bandage of cloth, torn
from her petticoat, as if to conceal
the horrible method of murder
swathed the face.
The stray end of the cord lay along
the child’s back between her two
heavy braids of dark red hair as if
it had been arranged that way de
liberately.
No marks appeared to indicate that
death came by any other means than
stragulation, save a four-inch clean
cut on the back of the head on the
left side.—a serious scalp wound—
and a few- bruises on the forehead
and cheeks, on the left arm at the
elbow and on tho left leg just below
the knee.
Body Dragged.
The neck was cut and bruised hor
ribly by the contraction of the heavy
strangling cord and me marks on the
face indicated that the slayer had
dragged the bouji back and forth
across the basement floor to complete
his work of garroting.
The child evidently had struggled
and fought frantically before perhaps
brought to unconsciousness by the
blow on the head.
On her ^eft arm was a small gold
band bracelet that had sunk in to the
white Lender flesh a* if under the
pressure of a h ivy grip. Two of
the fingers on the left hand were
bruised where a small signet ring en
circled the third slender finger.
The child's face was covered with
dirt and sand when the detectives
leached the basement aftor being not
ified by Newt Lit, the negro watch
man. who called police headquarters
when, as he asserts, he stumbled over
the little body as he made his rounds.
The fine black particles were ground
into the neck and shoulders, indicat
ing her body was bumped along the
floor dangling ar.d twisting at the
end of the garroHng cord.
Features Marred.
She was garbed in a one-piece
pongee silk dress of lavender, simply
made, and caugh at the bodice and
trimmed at th* . moves with cheap
lace. The dress r 11 barely hel \v tht
knees The stock, ngs were black and
a black gun n^c »l pump was on the
right foot. The other pump was
1
found a few feet away on a pile of j
trash. A plain blue straw hat, with l
the band or trimming missing, was* (
found near the elevator shaft.
Two turquoise-Jplue silked ribbon \
bows were fastened on each side of j
the wavy red braid of hair. Strange- ?
ly enough the bows had been kept j
in place by the improvised b.-.ndag <
torn from the underskirt bv the slay
er. The bow, said to have been on
the hat, was never found.
The horrid manner of her deu.tr.
marred frightfully the girl’s once at
tractive features.
What had been a soft white skin,
white almost to translucence under
which the color might have run in
life in pink swirls—was discolored
and bruised.
The force of the blow on the head ■
hud blackened the right eye ind i
swollen both lids beyond recognition, j
Into the forehead cuts and scratches
was grounded dirt and sand.
The marks on he left arm and leg! \
were ekin bruises as if made when !
the body was dragged across the
floor. The skin had been scrapped off
in little patches Lorn spots about two
to three inches in diameter.
Mary Phagan was 14 years old. She
was slender in stature. She was!
perhaps 4 feet, 10 inches in height ,
and weighed about 105 pounds.
A Safer, More Reliable Rem- j
edy Has Taken Its Place in \
the Drug- Store and in
the Home.
A few years ago men, women
and children took calomel for a
sluggish liver and for constipa
tion. They took risks when they
did so, for caioniel is a danger
ous drug. Your family doctor will
be the first to tel lyou this if he
discovers you dosing yourself with
calomel.
Rut the drug trade has found a
safer, raorp pleasant remedy than
calomel in Dodson’s Liver Tone.
Dealers tell us' that their drug
store sells Dodson’s Liver Tone in
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 grown
people. It sells for 50 ets. a bottle
and is guaranteed to be entirely
satisfetory by all druggists, who
will refund your money with a
smile if it does not give quick gen
tle relief without any of calomel’s
unpleasant after-effects.
MORTALITf FROM COLDS IS ALARMING
Thousands Died Last Year From
Colds, Neglected Too Long
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 grippe. 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. T'ne 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
ach and intestines and ferments.
The head gets hot. the feet cold and
bowels constipated. Then cold sets
In.
If JACOBS* LIVER SALT is tak
en immediately it will ward off
the cold. It relieves the conges
tion. rejuvenates the liver and sends
the blood racing through the veins
with a vigor that will instantly dis
pel the depressing attack of cold. A
simple remedy, but worth its
weight in gold If you value health.
And it will not put you in bed.
Take JACOBS’ LIVER SALT be
fore breakfast, an agreeably bub
bling drink, and in an hour you’ll
feel fine. The man who doesn't ]
catch cold keeps his liver lively, i
and you will find no other liver \
tonic as good as the genuine JA
COBS’ LIVER SALT. All drug
gists. 25c. If yours can not sup
ply you. upon receipt of price we
w ill mail full size jar, postage free.
Made and guaranteed by Jacobs'
Pharmacy Co., Atlanta.