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THh AIIjAxM-V uwmiJJ.VA A.\JJ.\h,V\S MUM DA V, A1 J KJL 2K. 1913.
GIRL FOUGHT DESPERATELY
IN PITCH-DARK BASEMENT
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In the dim, flickering light of Ihe watchman's lantern, the tragedy
was revealed in all its ghastliness.
The girlish form lay amid the trash and sweepings of the base
ment with bruised and bloody face upturned, in a pool of blood,
and with the spotless and freshly-laundered dress of but a few
hours before dyed crimson. The disheveled hair was blood-soaked
from the great gaping wounds on the head.
All about was the evidence of a teriffie struggle. The dilapi
dated condition of the dead girl's clothing and the signs of con
fusion on the dirty basement floor told the iragic story ot the girl s
battle for life.
Fought Slayer Till She Swooned
She had fought her hruta) murderer until the last—until her
Strength had given out and she had swooned into death.
The body lay at a point about 75 feet from an elevator shaft.
Midway between the body and the shaft, on a pile of trash, was
iound one of the girl 's shoes—the one from her left foot—-and her
hat. So ferocious was the slayer that lie had torn the shoe and hat
from the little form as the girl struggled vainly to save herself
from his deadly blows.
About the girl s neck was tightly drawn a strong piece of
twine. A strip of (doth, torn from her underclothing, was ^Iso
fastened about the neck. Not satisfied with the blows he had dealt
on the head—one blow on the bnck of the head being so terrific
as to discolor one of the girl’s eyes—the slayer had resorted to
strangulation to lie sure that the last spark of life had been extin
guished. A big twine had been drawn so tightly I hat it was im
bedded in the tender flesh, leaving the throat and neck discolored
and lacerated.
Strange Notes Increase Mystery
A few inches from the body were found two remarkably
strange notes. These notes, incoherent and almost illegible, only
serve to increase the mystery. Detectives declared there was no
doubt but that these notes were written by the murderer and
'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 tins," is the substance of the two
notes.
The notes are in 1 he hands of detectives, who believe they
ma.\ prove to be valuable clews.
The police were uolifled by the janitor of his ghastly find, and
several officers were quickly on the scene, immediately starting a
thorough investigation.
After finding that all of the doors and windows to tile build
ing were seeiireh fastened, the police look Newt Lee into custody
on suspicion, believing that lie could throw light on the tragedy.
Lee carried the keys to the building, hut protested that he had
admitted no one to the building, and that lie had no idea that
anyone had been inside until he found tin* body.
Detectives arc certain that the negro can explain the mystery
of how the girt found her way into the building, even if In* did
not actually commit the murder.
Negro Pleads Total Ignorance
The negro's sob statement to detectives since his arrest has
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Lifelong Friend Saw Girl
and Man After Midnight
Edgar L. Henteil. twenty-one yean*
old, a clerk employed in (\ J. Kam-
per’a store, ami whose home is at 82
Davis Street, was one of the first
to give the detectives «a hopeful clue
to the solution of the hideous mys
tery.
Sen tell, a well-known young man,
had known Mary Phagan almost all
her life. When she was just be
ginning to think of dolls with never
a thought of dreary factories and the
He \yas six feet tall or over.
His ha!j was black and curly and
his face, not unattractive, was of
dark complexion.
He wore a blue suit and tan shoes
and a straw hat.
He was of slender build and ap
peared to be about twenty-five yearr
old.
At 9 o’clock yesterday morning
Sentell was or a street car when he
heard that a girl named Mary Phagar.
had been fount] murdered. He hur
ried to her home and found his fear
tragedies of life, he used to see her f were verified. With a boy friend of
playing in the streets of East Point the victim’s sister he hastened to
when her folks lived there. She was Chief Lanford’a office and on his clue
a pleasant, cheerful little; girl then
and her later •years—tragically brief
—had not changed her. Her light
blue eyes laughed at the world in
those days with all the roguish..less
a Georgia 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
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 w r ater 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.
the detective department got busy at
once.
It is known that Mary Phagan
came to the city a few minutes after
noon on Saturday and left an English
Avenue car at tile corner of Broad
and Hunter Streets. Motorman W.
M. Matthews knew the girl from hav
ing had her as a passenger on his
caf a number of times and says pos
itively that she left his car at the
corner of Broad and Hunter Streets
and that he saw i.er walking up Hun
ter Street in the direction of For
syth. Conductor W. T. Hollis was
in charge of the car that reached the
corner of Marietta and Broad at 12:07
o’clock Saturday afternoon and says
that he knew the little girl and that
she was a passenger on the trip into
the city. He was relieved at the co
ner of Marietta and Broad and does
not know anything further about the
movements of the child, although he
says that he is sure that she was
still on the car when it left the cor-
Incoherent Notes
Add to Mystery in
Strangling Case
Two mysterious note*-—incoher
ent, misspelled and unintelligible—
were found in the cellar of death.
Were they written by the girl
as she lay In delirium just before
the end came, or
Were they written by her slay
er to throw the police off the
track and turn suspicion towards
a negro?
Here they are:
“He said he wood love me laid
down like the night witch did it
but that long tall black negro did
by his sleb.”
“mama that negro hired down
here did this'I went.to get water
and he pushed me down this hole
a long tall negro black that has
it woke long lean tall negro I
write while play with me.”
But Public Hostility to Wall
Street and Its Business Is
Still Rampant.
Fourteen-year-old girls on the streets ner going south on Broad Street.
£5 YEARS
f Atlanta at midnight are not so
plentiful that they’re not noticed.
Sentell, then, walking .south on For
syth Street saw Mary Phagan ap
proaching him. She was walking at
a medium gait on the inside of the
pavement.
On the curb side of the pavement
parallel with her, keeping step with
her, but exchanging no words, walk
ed a tall 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” 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.
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
6:45 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
ger but w hen 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 about
it to anyone. He admitted, however,
that he had seen the man again yes
terday afternoon and the man had
i told him that he had been out with
To Sentell, Mary Phagan looked as another girl Saturday night,
if she was tired or angry. That the Having seen the man at least twice
man of mystery was her companion j and talked with him once, Kenne-
he had no doubt. As Hentell de- dy will undoubtedly be able to rec-
scribed him later to the police; * ognize him.
Boy and Girl Leap ^Poor Bettors Carry
From Clock Tower
Youthful Loverg Jump One Hundred
and Eighty Feet to Death in
Street.
' I didii’i know nothing about it until I found the body."
Detectivos. however, declare the locked doors and windows
render 1 his statement unreasonable.
The negro was put through n grilling examination time and
again Sunday and last night, but no amount of questioning
could induce him to change his "know nothing" statement. To
evert question lie replied:
"I don't know nothing aboul it."
Detectives are sure the negro has not told all lie knows, and
■uill hold him until the mystery is cleared.
The theory that the crime was the work of a negro held
full sway and was assiduouslv followed by detectives until Sun
day afternoon when E. L. Sentell. of 82 Davis Street, a clerk for
the Kamper Grocery Company, divulged the information that
he satv Mart l’hagan at Forsyth and llunter Streets Sunday morn-
.jiig about 12:110 o'clock in company with Arthur Mullinax. llr
aaid the y were walking iu the direction of ihe pencil factory,
“which is hut a few doors from this corner. Sentell knew the
t-’hagau girl, and said he spoke to her as he passed. ■
that the crime was committed by a tiegro, and that it was the
Since then, detectives have been working on both theories—
job of a white man and that Ihe negro watchman is an accomplice,
in lhat lie knew of it
This gave a new angle to the mystery and set detectives on
the trail of Mullinax. who was found late in the afternoon and
Edgar L. Sentell, lifelong friend of Mary Phagan, says he
saw a man answering this description, walking with the girl
after midnight Sunday, a few hours before the body was found,
tie has identified the man as Arthur Mullinax, the prisoner held
by the police, who vehemently denies he was with the girl.
With is this man .’
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
ANTWERP, BELGIUM. April 28.—
A youth eighteen years* old, and a
nineteen-year-old girl were the prin
cipal characters' in a shocking love
tragedy enacted here.
Arm In arm they climbed to the
clock gallery in the tower of the
Notre Dame Cathedral and from a
height of too feet leaped into space,
falling at the'feet of passers-by.
Every bone In the bodies of the
hoy anil his companion was broken.
As they hurtled through the air sev
eral men arid women who witnessed
the sight fainted.
T.he lovers had placed live letters
to relatives and to the police commis
sary where they easily could be seen
by visitors to the tower.
New Carat Weight
Has Been Adopted
ifled by Newt Dry, 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
ion her body bumped along the
floor dangling and twisting at the
end of die garroting cord.
Feature** Marred.
She was garbed in a one-piece
pongee silk dress of lavender, simply
made, and caught at the bodice and
trimmed at the .‘ .eeves with cheap
lace. The dress fell barely below th*
knees. The stockings were black and
a black gun metal pump was on the
right foot. The other pump was
found a few feet away on a pile of
trash. A plain blue straw hat, with
the hand or trimming missing, was
found near the elevator shaft.
Two turquoise-blue silken ribbon
bows were fastened on each side of
the wavy red braid of hair. Strange
ly enough the bows had been kept
in place by the improvised bandag'
torn from the underskirt by the slay-i
e»\ The bow. said to have been on
the hat, was novsr found.
The horrid maqner of her death
marred frightfully th rt girl’s once at
tractive features.
What had been a soft white skin.—
white almost to transluconee under
which the color -night have run in
life in pink swirls —was discolored
and. bruised.
The force of the blow on the head
had blackened the right eye inti
swollen both lids beyond recognition.
Into the forehead outs and scratches
was grounded dirt and sand.
The marks on he left arm and leg
were skin bruises as if made when
the body was dragged across the
floor. The skin had been scrauped 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.
Uniform Decimal System Will Be
Employed in Selling Precious
Stones.
Eggs Up Mountain
And In a Spoon, at That, Whistling
on Way, to Pay Election
Wager.
PASADENA, April 28.—'Toiling up
tho precipitous foot trail to the top
of Mount Wilson, whistling ditties at
intervals of 200 yards and bearing
hens' eggs in tablespoons. John
Creighton, of Los Angeles, and Abe
Sanders, a Minnesotan, paid a long
deferred election bet to Edwin Carle-
ton.
The victims had six months in
which to discharge their indebtedness
and staved off paj'ments as long as
consistent.
Creighton required five and a half
hours to make the trip of seven and
one-tenth miles from Sierra Madre,
and Sanders was nearly two hours
behind him.
Chub Wall Arrested
After 2 Years’ Hunt
BY B. C. FORBES.
The New York Stock Exchange
governors are manifesting unprece
dented vigilance. They have don©
more real housecleaning than the
public realize. The suspension last
week of two members is significant
of the new order. The Exchange also
probed a complaint against an im
portant banking house, but did not
find that the facts warranted repri
sals.
Several Hundred Members
Nomadic Tribe Are in Atlanta
for Ceremony.
of
The Hearst papers have vigorously
advocated Stock Exchange reform.
They have also insisted again and
again upon a fuller measure of pub
licity. But the managers of the
Stock Exchange have no control
whatever over non-members. This
point is too often forgotten.
Bound by the tie of grief in death,
several hundred men, women and
children made up an odd procession to
Oakland Cemetery this morning. They
were members of the tribe of nomad
Irish horse traders, known every
where as the Clan O’Hara, and they
were burying their dead who had died
in the last year.
The tribe has been in Atlanta sev
eral weeks, waiting for the day of the
funerals. They came here from the
North, and from the W#s»t, traveling
over the country In big wagon cabins.
Atlanta is their burial ground, and
they come each year for the rites.
The tribe members followed seven
coffins to the cemetery to-day, tiny
white coffins of children, larger white
coffins In which lay the bodies of
young girls, and one large black cas
ket, within which was the body of
one of the grandmothers of the tribe.
All the dead were women. Four are
young children, two are mature wom
en. and one is a girl-woman. year-
old Mrs. Mamie Nelson, who in years
youthful was a wife and mother. Her
body has been in Atlanta since last
T.. .. .. 1.1m,. a .-1 . . . . , r K'(ri(l I *1' lip
The Stock Exchange cannot make
men honest. Governments have boon
trying to do that for centuries, but
human nature has remained human
nature. The best the Exchange can
do is to watch closely the doings of
its members and immediately pounce
upon wrong-doers. That more is be
ing done in this direction than ever
before no one familiar with Wall
Street will deny. That there is room
for further improvement is also ad
mitted.
Public hostility to Wall Street is
still rampant. Several rec©nt inci
dents have not tended to allay it.
Numbers of newer industrial stocks
have been handled disgracefully by
insiders. Outsiders have lost heav
ily. Whether the Exchange authori
ties—or the Federal authorities—
can do anything to stop such fllim-
fiamming is an open question.
NEW YORK, April 28—Lack of
uniformity in the weight of the carat
for different countries has induced
American dealers in diamonds and
other precious stones to adopt a uni
form decimal carat weighing exactly
one-fifth of a gram, or 200 milligrams.
The new weight will be used by
American jewelers beginning July 1.
France. Germany, Austria. Italy,
Hpain and Japan now use the inter
national carat. England has not yet
legalized it.
The new weight reduces the size of
a carat by 2 1-2 to 3 per cent.
Mullinax Blundered In
Statement, Say Police
placed under arrest on suspicion.
Body Dragged by Deadly
Cord After Terrific Fight
Stretched full length, face down
ward on the floor of basement at tin
rear© of tlie plant, the body was
found. A length of heavy ord or
wrapping twine, which had been us*d
hv the slayer to strangle the child
after lie 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 .-tray end of the cord lay along
the child’s back between her two
heavy braids of dark red hair as it
1t had been at Tanged tnat way de
liberately
No marks app i c<2 to indicate that
death came by any other means than
stregulat :on « vo a fo. r-in* • an
th:
left leg just below
elbow and
the knee.
Body Dragged.
The neck was cut and bruised hor
ribly by the con: action of tlu heavy
strangling coni and the marks on the
face indicated chat the slayer had
dragged the bon’ buck and forth
'‘cross the basement floor to complete
his work of garrpling.
The v niId evidently had struggled
and fought frantically before perhaps
brought to unconsciousness by the
blow on the head
On h**r left arm was a small gold
Mullinax was arrested by detectives <
late in the afternoon in Bellwood
Avenue, near the viaduct, as he was
on his way to his boarding house.
Mis positive identification by E. L
Sentell. of 82 Davis Street, a clerk
for ihe Kamper Grocery Company,
as the man lie saw with the little
i Phagan girl in Forsyth Street about
12:20 o'clock yesterday morning,-and
I alleged discrepancies in the state
ment of the prisoner led Chief Beav
ers and Chief of Detectives Hanford
io order him locked in a cell and
held on suspicion
Sentell. who knew the dead girl
well and who said he spoke to her
when he passed her and her com
panion at Forsyth and Hunter
Streets, accused Mullinax as the
young suspect sat in the presence of
Chief Beavers. Chief Lanford, Police
Captain Mayo and Detectives Black.
Starnes, Rosser anil Haslett. who had
worked all day on the mystery.
Sentell Positive.
"That's the man who was with the
girl last night.. There's not a doubt
about it I'm positive." said Sentell
as he pointed an accusing finger at
Mullinax.
Mullinax vehemently declared the
accusation false.
“It's untrue—-it’s atl falsi
at home asleep." cried the
dime on his clothes. Mrs. Ruther
ford was questioned by Detectives
Rosser and Haslett, and told them,
they said, that this statement was
false.
Sticks to Denial.
According to the officers. Mrs.
Rutherford said she did not see Mul-
llnnx lust night at all;
her the dollar Saturday
MARKET
OPENINGS
TO-DAY
Federal Officers Hold Georgia Slayer
at Clayton on Charge
of Moonshining.
After a two-years' search, Chub
Wall has been arrested by Federal
Officers and is held at Clayton, Ga.
He escaped from the Georgia authori
ties after having served two years of
a four-years’ sentence for killing an
uncle. Detectives had trailed him
through the Northwest, but he suc
cessfully eluded them until he return
ed to Georgia.
A man of splendid seducation and
from a refined family, Wall has been
in the clutches of the law* several
times. Ten years ago he was con
victed of killing a peddler and given
a life sentence, but was pardoned a
short while afterward. In an alter
cation nearly five years ago, he killed
his uncle and was given a four-years’
sentence.
Would Send Us All to
Jail One Day a Year
NEW YORK STOCK MARKET.
Stock quotations to 10
STOCK— High.
Am. Smelting. 663.;
Am. Locomo.. 34'
Atchison .. 101
Can. Pacific.. 241
I nterboro ...» 15' *
do. pref. .S 52* »
Lehigh Valley 155
National Lead 49
North. Pacific. 114 1 .
that he paid Peo. Gas Co... i09\i
and | heading 159' x
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circumstance against the prisoner.
Mullinax became agitated two or
three times during his examination
by detectives, but stuck to his de
nial throughout the rapid-fire grill
ing.
When seen by a Georgian reporter.
Mullinax talked freely, reiterating his
sweeping denial of any knowledge
whatever of the tragedy. He denied
he was personally acquainted with
tho dead girl, but said he had seen
her one time, when both he and the
girl took part in a Christmas enter
tainment in the Western Heights
Baptist Church.
Girl Supports Prisoner.
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Jersey Judge Tells Church Folks It
Would Do Everybody Some
Good.
NEW YORK, April 28.—Judge Rob
ert Carey, of the Common Pleas
Court of Jersey, believes it would
everybody good to spend one day a
year in jailr Addressing an audience
in the Central Methodist Church «f
Yonkers on ‘The Prisoner at th
Bar. ' the jurist said:
“If I had my way every man arid
woman would serve one day in Ja;l
each year. What a different view of
149* - ; life you would get. You would ex
60^8 | Dibit a new kind of Christianity and I
1 charity.”
June, awaiting the day of burial. The
bodies of the others have been here
less than that time, in the chapel of
Greenberg & Bond, to whom the no
mads always intrust the details of
their tribal burial.
Father Kennedy, in the Church of
the Immaculate Conception, conduct
ed the services this morning. From
the church the tribe made its way to
Oakland Cemetery, where the cere
mony was concluded at the lot which
the tribe owns.
Wagons Bear Mourners’.
The funeral procession was unique.
Behind the somber line of hearses it
came, the free wanderers, riding in
carriages and wagons that have
known the road. Sturdy and weather
beaten, the vehicles were typical of
the people they bore. A number, of
the tribe rode in unwonted automo
biles.
Months that have elapsed since the
death of most of those who were
buried to-day have not served to les
sen the grief of the tribe, it seemed
to-day. In the long line of carriages
were many women who crooned and
wept. Very young children were
frightened and quiet, older children
frankly crying. Here and there a
man, to whom probably one of the
seven wag Very near and dear, was
sobbing loudly; most of the men.
though, rode with faces set and stern.
No Expense Spared.
Tho tribe, reputed to be ‘wealthy,
spares no expense in the burial of Its
dead. The caskets were elaborate and
costly, he hearses were luxuriantly
fitted, and every other appointment of
the ceremony was in keeping.
The tribe members probably will
begin to leave Atlanta immediately,
now that the ceremony that brought
them to this city is over. Next year
they will see each other here again,
at the last of April, when the same
solemn occasion will come, and the
same tie of death will be revealed. It
is the one tie among the member-’,
and it keeps them close together in
heart.
The dead buried to-day were: Mrs.
Mamie Nelson, age 19. who died in
Montgomery. Ala.: Mrs. Bridget Sher
lock. who died at Sparks, Ga.. October
1, 1912; Bridget Costella. age 2 years,
who died at Blackshear, Ga., Novem
ber 4, 1912: Maggie Carroll, age 14.
died at Alene, Ga., September ir», 1912;
Annie Sherlock, age -49, died at Bax
ley. Ga.. October tf>, 1912; Bridget
Mack, age IS months, died in Ala
bama. and Mrs. Bridget O’Hara, who
died In Savannah.
A correspondent has seen a lengthy
communication which is illustrative
of how a good many people feel to
ward Wall Street. He berates me
for not scolding Wall Street enough,
for not “going for’' Albany politicians
and for once in a while diecussing
the better side of human nature. He
refers to the manipulation of certain
newer shares on the Stock Exchange,
and then adds:
“This dirty finance is, in my judg
ment by far the most important
question before the American people
to-day. It seems to pervade all
classes of bankers, promoters and
corporation officials. Every piece
of news is “discounted’' on the Stook
Exchange, which is only another way
of saying that the insiders have
played their official knowledge
against the stockholders and the
public. Juggling of figures for the
benefit of officials, speculating in the
stocks of their companies, is so com
mon as to be almost the rule; and
Wall Street smiles indulgently, a6
who should say, “Yes; it’s crooked
but it’s part of the game."
“The Stock Exchange appears help
less. It does not dare to discipline
any of the “big men,” because it is
absolutely dependent on the oo-opera-
tion of the banking houses and direct
ors of the principal corporations for
its existence.
“A few years ago. when Mr. Harri-
man returned from abroad to die, the
head of one of our largest banking
houses went to see him the day be
fore his death, and was then reported
to have given cut an interview' in
which he said, ‘Mr. Harriman is prac
tically a well man.’ This enabled a
rally in Union Pacific to about 211:
but not so many months later, after
the insiders had unloaded, the stock
was down some 60 points. Did the
Stock Exchange ever take any notice
of this? No: it didn’t dare. This
same banker to-day holds up his head
and takes a prominent part in civic
and charitable movements among
men who presumably are honest and
honorable. Meantime, are we un
charitable in assuming that the bank
ing house of which he is head, sold
its Union Pacific above 200, where it
has never been since?
“While the standard of morality
in Wall Street is so low, it is useless
to hope for improvement from within.
This financial clique has shown itself
impervious to any sentiment of de
cency. and utterly opposed to any ef
fort to destroy its system of graft. »
Incorporation of the Stock Exchange,
periodical reports of earnings, finan
cial conditions, etc., of concerns
whose securities are listed, are steps
toward reform of conditions.
“But the real vital issue is plain
honesty; reforming conditions, aft©"
all, only reforming the machinery.
We must find means of compelling
honest and disinterested service in
the directors of our large corpora
tions. and plain honesty in the offi
cers of our bank.”
band bra
whit*
th
a.
1 sunk In to the
under the
Two ol
Guy Kennedy, a conductor of the
1 was i English Avenue trolley line, on whose
accused | car the Phagan girl had ridden many
nian ! times to and from her Bell wood
Sentell remained positive and never home, whs reported to have also seen
once varied his identification. ! Mullinax and the girl together on
Detectives said Mullinax made a Forsyth Street,
s.n-ions Mumlt’v in his statement investigation, however, developed
the information that the girl Ken
nedy had seen with Mullinax was
not Mary Phagan. Kennedy saw the
. duple early in the night on his car
coining to town.
pn Id
told them that
his hoarding lions* •'.<* 1
i reel before midnight, ami tt
ud Mrs llmiiin lluil»erlV»« *<
mdladv .a dollar for some
rrived
Poplar
NEW ORLEANS COTTON.
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Open High Row (Tail Close.
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June
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Aug.
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; 11.20-21
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Canal Zone Will Be
“Dry" After July 1
NEW YORK COTTON.
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First Prev.
1 Open 1 High : Low Calk Clone.
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Mch.
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11 .47-49
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Special Cable to The Georgian.
PANAMA, April 28.—It is an
nounced that no liquor licenses will
be issued in the Canal Zone after
July 1. At the Dresent time there
are thirty-five saloons in four
towns.
POLICE PROMOTE CRIME,
SAYS CHICAGO PASTOR
CHICAGO, April 28.—Discussing
vice and crime which exists in Chi
cago, Dr. Francis L. Hayes, pastor of
the California Avenue Congregational
Church, told his congregation:
‘ Let Chicago wake up as Pittsburg
has to tlie fa* t—no longer obscured
by official bluff—that the police $>s-
| inns of our great cities promote an*'
j om-ourree crime.”
Well some of us have been trying
our best to preach honesty, and to
! criticise dishonesty. But miracle*
cannot be wrought in the twinkling
* r • ti t of an eve. It is some consolation to
Movie Owner Rewed the trend ,B m the risht
■ Lillian Lorraine and
Show Girl Becomes Mrs. Frederick
W. Gresheimer Second Time
in Thirteen Months.
NEW YORK, April 28.—Lillian Lor
raine. whose *“swing song” in the
“Follies of 1910” lifted her into the
front rank of stage celebrities, again
is the bride of Frederick W. Gres
heimer, a moving picture and real
estate man. Their marriage Friday
was their second in thirteen months.
“Yes." Miss Lorraine told a report
er, “we were married again. You
know Mr. Gresheimer and I went
through a ceremony a year ago last
month, but the fact that he was not
free from his former marriage made
it illegal. Oh! I can’t explain. It was
something about the law.”
As to her possible return to th
Jack London Goes
Into the ‘‘Movies”
Author Will Play the Hero in All
of His Dramatized
Stories.
stage Mrs Gresheimer
undecided. I *
LOS ANGELES, April 28.—Jack
London will enact in motion pictures
all of his novels and short stories.
He made a deal by which a local
concern gets the exclusive use of
London's stories in motion picture:-
all over the world.
"1 shall appear as the leading ac
tor in all my own short stories and |
novals. dramatized into motion pi
tures.’' said London. "I am goin^
into the pictures to give them tin
punch’ that is almost impossible m
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