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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 presence and valued support. : £4<>llara worth ul satisfaction or And to our loyal newspapers, thos * j > voi|r druggist hands you your mon- 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. 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Swift & Company, USA. thro relie f long > h. rn • It seems tha ii have suffe h*. nm» good NS At Your Dealers FOR READERS OF 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- No Effort of Any Sort Required A Theater Ticket Free lor Every Set o! Four Coupons Presented Firs! Coupon Appears Thursday, May 1st Final Coupon Appears Sunday, May 4th WATCH FOR THEM—SAVE 4 COUPONS-and see a really capable company in a high-class play at our expense. HEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN AND THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN