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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS, MONDAY, APRIL 38, WIT
Where and With Whom Was
Mary Phagan Before End?
Lane Too Busy to Augustan Heid as I Climax in Church
Accept High Honor Thief Blames Races Contest Sunday
Slaying of Mary Phagan Arouses
Friends of Family to Threats
of Violence,
JL “I wouldn't have liked to be 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 ■ \V. Epp*. 246 Kox
Street, whose home adjoin* that <»f
Mr*. Coleman, mother of the slain’
girl.
By to-day the first hot wave of In
dignation that cried for the blood of,
the criminal had had titne to subside,
but the feeling still van high in the
neighborhood of the Coleman home-
The morder was the sole, topic of
conversation. Men who knew thej
family and other# who hail seen Mary \
go to her work in the morning con
gregated in excited grom>* on the
street corners At hist they were not;
willing that the law should take its
course They feared that the mur
derer, if he were (aught, might in
*ome way escape the consequences of
his , rime
SyrnDithy for Stricken Mother.
• in the homes of the shocked com
munity the women talked in hushed
tone* of the tragic end of Mary Pha
gan Might not their own innocent
little girls be in danger of the same
fain? 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 ii was not any one
of their homes on which the pall of
the great tragedy had fallen, but their
hearts went out in sympathy for the
stricken mother
Home of them were with their hut*
hands in the hist cry for vengeance
that went up when the news of the
crime Atm brought to the neighbor
hood They saw- the Imminent dan
ger hovering over the childhood of
the city They agvv the peril of their
own little ones The author of the
black crime, must he punished as lie
deserved, and at ogre, they insisted
To-dav they are saying that the
young working girls of the city arc
considered the rightful prey of the
beasts in men's t lot hex that go about
Tragedy Comet Home to Them.
"W« are ull working people out
here." said Mr Epps, who was stand-j
tug m a group of his neighbors "In '
\va?
silt*
or
must be tilled,
'’actory at ten
pay due her,
sure she then
Detect ives t<j-da\ are iisiut; all 1 heir resnmves to learn where Mary Phagan
pverv minute of Saturday and S i urday night, whom she saw. with whom
talked, and what she said.
There are wide blanks in the story of her movements, these
12:10 p. rn.— Mary Eliugun appeared at tlx* National Pencil I
ft ecu minutes after 12 o'clock noon, Saturday, and drew the
$1.1 it). She chatted a few minutes with friends. The manager is
left the building.
She told her mother she was going to mV the Memorial Day parade.
Did she go straight from the factory to sec the procession? Who joined her?
Where did she stand? When the procession had passed, where did she go? Did
someone, that early in tin day , start weaving around her the net which later
caused her denth?
10 p. m. — E. S. Skippe r, 221 1-2 Peters Street, saw a girl answering the de-
si i iptimi 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 front her companions. She seemed to be under the in-
fluonce of an opiate, not of drink.
Was this, in truth, Mary Phagan?
they been, and where did they go ?
12:30 a. m.—E. I,. Sentell, who
If so, who were the y ouths? Where 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 1
3 a. m.—The mutilated body of Mary Phagan was found in a dark corner of
the National Pencil Factory basement, 37-31) South Forsyth Street, by the night
watchman.
Here are the gaps from 12.1 o 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 tilled in these blanks, the murderer of
Mary Phagan will he known.
I
• f the great Sunday
to California to Receive Degree
of LL. D.
Secretsry of the Interior Cannot Go | Aged Man. Charged With Mleappro-j ionte , t b , tv . e(!
th.. Second Baptist and the First
Christian Churches will be leached
next Sunday morning at a Joint ses
sion in the Auditorium instead of
AUGUSTA, QA., April 2*. A L> . . -
Telegram From Kahn Intimates
That Barkers of Metropolitan
Company May Attend.
WASHINGTON. April 28. — Score-
tary of the Interior Franklin K Lane
has bt i u forced by presaurb of public
business to decline an invitation
from Dr. Benjamin Iiie VVheelfcr.
president of the University of Cali
fornia! to receive the highest honor
within the gift of the university, mo
degree of LL. D.
At that time it is the intention
of the University of California to con
fer the degree upon Uolonul George
\V. Goethals. chairman of the Isth
mian ('anal Uommusian. and the di
recting genius of construction work
upon the Panama r’unal-
JAMESON PROBABLY WILL
DECLINE ARKANSAS OFFER
cline it.
priating $14,000 Belonging to
Ward. Arrested «t Track.
uty Sheriff left to-day for Buliimor*
lo bring back to Augusta A J. Gcmley,
the aged Augusta man who i* charged
th church that won the contest. T .e
attendance at both schools has in-
t teased lo such an extent that neither
church is large enough.
The event promises to be so strik-
witli misappropriating funds of inline that motion picture men have an-
estate of wtiloh ho wan trustee, and nounetd that they will have Aim
. , , . • made of the children marching to
also as guardian for a minor cmi«i,| lh Auditorium.
Mias Agnes Kernaghan. j The principal speakers will be Dr.
The amount involved i* $14,000. Tne John E. White, pastor of the Second
company who was on Gouby’s bond Baptist Church, and John S. Spald
Lifelong Friend Saw Girl
and Man After Midnight
Edgar L. Sentell, twenty-one years
old. a clerk employed in <\ J. Ham
per's stbre, and whose home, is at 82
Davis Street, was one of the first
to give the detectives a hopeful clue
half tlie homes the hoV* and girls do ] (0 the solution of the hideous mys-
what the> can lo help in the support j
of the family. This means mat ou?
children are not *af«- on the streets. Sentell, a well-known young man.
even in ttie daytime j had known Mary Phagan almost all
"Th* tragedy cornea home to us alt hpr „ f( . \\lun sll , was just be
for we are all in a little community . . ..
here. It i„ a little village In Itself Xln""'* '» U>'nk of dull* with »eve<
and every one know* every one else i a thought of dreary factories ami the.
Tt was a hard blow to us when we I tragedies of Ilf*, he used to see her
playing in the streets of East Point
learned the terrible story uf Man
Phagan’s death. Hardly a one* of us
but knew the little girl, at least by
sight.
"The men here were aflame with in
dignation last night. It would have
gone hard with the murderer of th
Georgia Doctor Will
when her folks lived there. She yva*
a pleasant, cheerful little girl then
and her later year*—tragically brief
—had not changed her. Her light
„ blue eyes laughed at the world in
little <Hii if they could have got theii lllo8e days with all the rogttishuess
hands on him a (} 0or gi a country girl's can. and the
cares and worries that came whan
she had to make htT own pitiful liv
ing had not obliterated their smile.
rs a \ jr ' Tt t It was 30 minutes after midnight.
Set Masonic Record .*»•■.•
I work at Hamper * saw' Mary » ha-
gun coming down Forsyth Street
J. P. Bowdom, of Adatrsville. to near Hunter
u, aH rirartri Outside of the stragglers about the
Head Both Grand Chapter and ! heap hotels in that district, there
Grand Council. were few on the streets at that time.
The intermittent lights of cheap fruit
nv.-.iv i* * a, , . „ ,, , and soda water stands, the flickering
MA< UN. IjA Apni 1-or tin tUnVA . of a whistling peanut roaster
first time in the history of Masonry in! here ami there, added enough light
Georgia one man will this year hold to the dull glow of the city lamps to
the highest offic e in both the Grand , lin ^ ul
Chapter of Royal Arch Masons and ‘ \j Mlv phagan. at that hour *<f the
the Grand v'ouncii of the Royal and night, was u c onspicuous flgure.
Select Masters. He is Dr J P. Bow Fourteen-year-old girls on the streets
* . .Hu .-v.au of Atlanta at midnight are not so
doin. of Adanswlle 'plentiful that they’ro not noticed
This week lie will he made grand j Sentell. then, walking south on For-
higit priest of the (Stand Chapter, syth Street saw Mary Phagan tip
succeeding Dr W E England, of (’«- proaching him. She was walking a*
dartown. and grind master of the a medium gait on the inside of the
Grand Council, succeeding Rev. A E pavement.
Sansburn. of Eatonton. These two on the curb side of the pavement
organizations w ill meet here to-mor- | parallel w ith her, keeping step with
row and Wednesday, w ith about Mifl | Lor. but exchanging no w ords, w alk
Masgns in attendance ,.d R tall slender man.
Th- twelfth annual seMlotl of the! Exchanged •'Hello.."
Order of the Eastern Star will meet
at the same time, with 78 chapters,
represented by about 150 delegates.
CHORUS GIRLS IN MACON
HAVE PTOMAINE POISONING
MACON, GA . April 2k Six chorus
girls of a tabloid musical comedy
company are in the hospital, two crit
ically id from ptomaine poisoning.
Arriving in tlie < it\ last night, th*
troupe went to a cafe for supper. An
hour later the young women were
seized witn convulsions. Uity authori
ties are trying to ascertain what kind
of food was eaten and how it be -
Of me infected
Sentell looked at him more or les*
casually hut sharply enough to de
scribe him later to the detectives.
"Hello, Mary” said 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 as
if she was tired or angry That the
man of mystery was her companion
he had no doubt. As HonteH de
scribed him Inter to the police:
He was six feet tall or ovei
His hair was black and curly and
his face, not unattractive, was ot
dark complexion.
He wore a blue suit and tan shoes
and a straw hat.
He was of slender build and ap
peal'd to he about twenty-A vo yearn
old.
At t» o’clock yestopday morning
Sentell was oi a street car when he
heard that a girl named M iry Him gar
had been found murdered. lie hur
ried to lu v home and found his feur-
w ere vended. W ith ; boy friend of
the victim’s sister he hastened to
(’liief l.anford’s office and on his (due
the dot active d* part mem got busy at
• nee.
It i.s known that Mary Phagan
came to the city a few minutes after
noon on Buturcluv und left an English
Vvenue car at the corner of Broad
and Hunter Streets. Motornian W.
M. Matthews knew the girl from hav
ing had her as i passenger on his
car ;i number of times and says pos
itively that slit left his car at th"
corner *f Broad und Muntep Mtreets
and that he s«w ter walking up Hun
ter Street in the direction of For
syth. Conductor W\ T Hollis watt
in chgrgo of the car that reached the
corner of Marietta and Broad al 12:0?
o’clock Saturday afternoon and says
that he knew tii 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 anythin- further about the
movements of the child although lie
says that h«‘ is sure that slm was
still on the car when it left the cor
ner going south on Broad Street.
Antther S*es Companion.
it was reported lo the detectives
that (’onductor Guy Kennedy of the
English Avenue line had admitted
having In ought a young girl, answer
ing the description of the little vic
tim into the city on his car about
8:45 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
ge) but when .seen by a Georgian te-
porter declined to make any state
ment other than that lie had seen
C'hicif Heaver* and that the (’liief had
asked that he not say anything a bmp
it to anyone. He admitted, however,
that he had ^I the man again yes
terday afternoon and the man had
told him that he had been out with
another girl Saturday night.
Having seen tin* man at least twine
and talked with him once. Kotine
dy will undoubtedly be nblo to rec
ognize him
TARIFF BILL WILL
AID G.O.P.-PAYNE
WASHINGTON. April £S. The
flood of campaign-flavored tariff ora
tory in the linage began to ebb to-day
and by to-night the set ypeephes will
have been exhausted. To-morrow the 1
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 tin
present law wHiich the Democrats
plan to do away' with. Payne defend
ed his hill and asserted the pending
Democratic measure would work
enough havoc to the industries of the ;
country to assure the return of a j
Republican House in the next Con- j
gressional election
Representative Rainey , of Illinois, '
Democratic member of the Ways und
Means Committee, defended the in- I
come tax and made an attack upon
“swollen fortune*.”
He declared that swollen fortune.; 1
in this country are "haaed on fran |
chises. tariff protection or patents." ;
Few fortunes, he assorted, had been ;
accumulated except through Federal
favors of some kind.
Otto H. Kahn, chairman of the
board 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 he
only too glad to appear again in At
lanta next year. ]
The telegram indicates that Mr.
Kahn and other New York directors, | MACON GA.. April 28. Rev 8. Y
lead*™ l«. the worW and j Jam e,ou. KWlcfcnl of Muner Uni-
foremost backers of grand opera, in - , . , . . r .
lent! to I., present. ! versity, is ronsiUering .lie offer
Colonel feel telegraphed Mr. Kahn by Ouathtts Baptist Culleae of At'ha
ute Saturday night, advising him of ,| r . lp bj a . Ark. Ho probably will de-
the splendid sueoeta of the week. Mr.
Kahn's reply was soon furthcoming
and the warmth of his words demon
strates his entire satisfaction. This
is his complete reply lo Colonel Heel;
Directors Hera Next Year.
Mr. \V U. Fuel. Atlanta Musie
IVHival Asso iatlon, Atlanta,
Ua :
Delighted with your telegram.
Many thanks in the name of all
directors and on belts'? of Metro
politan opera Company to your
self and your associates and your
splendid and inspiring public. 1
knew that all the artists would give
their very best to Atlanta and am
delighted at yuur public's won
derful response, demonstrating
once more its understanding and
love for operatic art. Opr only
regretful thought in that we were
unable to spend this seek among
our friends in Atlanta; but we
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 KAHN-
Pm I Compliments Operagoers. , .,
' [ ant to emphasize.” said Colonel | tinsldes filled with bile anti indi-
p,-el "everybody connected in anv i jgestible waste, remember tne mo
unt with the achievements of th ; | menb Diapepsin comes in contact
, week 1ms done hie duty. | with the Stomach all such distress
Our people have responded nobly j S vanishes. Its truly astonishing
Friends have come in largo numbers ((almost marvelous and the joy is
from every section of the Houth tolDts harmlessness,
help us, and to all of them i return's A large flfty-cent rase of tapes
Sincere thanks for their inspiring , {Diapepsin wtl give youia hundred
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makers of* public opinion. I can nQtiS e J hack. .
' say too much. Thev have opened to ? s worth its weight in gold to
1 us' their column**. Their writers and men and women who can t gel their
reporters hav^ noi only caught the fire j stomachs regulated. It belongs in
of the divine music, but they have i> ,)Ur home should always be kept
thrilled the minds and hearts of ?handj in case of a sjc.v. sour, upset v j
others. To them our association and sstomach during the day or at night. ^ |
the musical public owe a debt- of grat- (! ts L 1 v *1 uiuHejst. surest and most
Unde which it is pleasing t<; acjmi; j
but difficult to repay”
made the shortage good
Gouley had been missing since May
l, 1912, and bad been traced to Ire-
iand, back to Xe>v York and to many
places throughout the United Btftles.
The aetectiveu finally arrested him a :
the Havre DeGrace race track in
Maryland. He is reported to huv*
said that gambling was tha cause of
hi* downfall.
ing. superimendent of the Sunday
.school, and Dr. L. Bro ker, pastor
of the First Uhristian Church, and
•\ I.eCraw, superintendent of the
Sunday school.
Attendance at the Baptist sell ml
yesterday was 1.840 and at the Chris
tian 1.946. Mince the contest w.is
started the Baptist school has gained
4&K and the Christian school 326.
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Commencing Thursday, May I st, and concluding Sunday, May 4th,
a Free Theater Ticket Coupon will appear daily in The Georgian and in
Hearst’s Sunday American. These will be numbered consecutively, and
the set of four will be redeemable at our office, 20 E. Alabama St., for a
ticket admitting the holder to one of the performances of the Miss Billy
Long Stock Company, now playing at the Atlanta Theater.
No Rcstrictions-No Guessing Contest-
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Firs! Coupon Appears Thursday, May 1st
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