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t 2 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. /Both Phones Number 4. 41 Peachtree, ATLANTA THEATER Mat (Rees Wed .id Sat ALL THIS WEEK Eicept Wed & Thurs M|Ms Miss BILLY LONG And Company In A Butterfly 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 Sophye Barnard-Lou j 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. stw hat __ BLACK CURLY HAIR COMPLEX!□(>: DARK 6 FT m SMB / 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. BLUD SUIT, £5 W OI/D m snots' 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.