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TIIE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.MONDAY. APRIL 28. 1013.
MOTHER SOBS
OVER FITE Of
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investigation of the slaying of Mary Phagan in the basement of the National Pencil Factory in
South Forsyth Street. He stoutly denies any connection with the crime, and declares his arrest
is a “horrible mistake.”
MJILIT, m
“I Could Trust Her Anywhere,”
She Cries, and Adds, “No
Working Girl Is Safe.”
Lying on the bed in her little home
on Lindsay Street, prostrated with
sorrow over the murder of her 14-
y ear-old daughter, Mary Phagan,
Mrs. W. J. Coleman sobbed out the
pitiful story of how sweet and fresh
her child had left home Saturday,
and issued a warning to all Atlanta
mothers to guard the welfare of their
own daughters forced to work for a
living.
“There are so many unscrupulous
men in the world,” she cried. “It's
so dangerous for young girls working
out. Their every step should be
watched. Mothers should question
them and ask them about their work
and associates and surroundings.
They should continually tell them
what they ought to do, and how they
ought to act under certain circum
stances.”
Girl Liked Work.
She declared that she never would
have permitted Mary to go out to
work at the age she did—12 years—if
it hadn’t been that there were five
children in the family and It was
absolutely necessary for all of them
to earn something toward their sup
port. That was before she married
her present husband, Mr. Coleman.
“That was a year ago,” said Mrs.
Coleman, “and then it wouldn’t have
been necessary for Mary to work.
But she had got into the habit of
it and liked it, and I thought she
could take care of herself as she al
ways had.”
“Oh, the poor baby!” she sobbed.
“I did talk to her! I did tell her
what to do! I was always telling
her! And she took my advice, I
know, because she was always so
sensible about everything. Besides,
she never was a child to flirt or act
silly. That’s why I know that when
she went away with this man who
killed her she was either overpow
ered or he threatened her.”
Mrs. Coleman said that girls ought
to look out for themselves, too, and
never permit any familiarity from
men. 1
“When a girl is pretty,” she de
clared, “naturally she is attractive to
men. Mary was pretty, too; and, be
sides that, she was always happy and
in a good humor. She had never
stayed out any night before in the
two years she had been at work. I
could trust her anywhere I knew be
cause she was always so straightfor
ward, and what I thought w T hen she
didn’t come home was that she had
met up with her aunt from Marietta,
who was in town, and had gone home
with her and had no way to let me
. know.”
Too Young to Know.
She covered her face with her
hands.
“And to think that at the time I
•was thinking that she was in the
hands of a merciless brute! Oh, if
only Mr. Coleman had happened
along the street and found her! They
tell me she was crying on a corner
at 12 ^o’clock and this man she was
with was cursing her when a police
man came up and asked her what
was the matter. She just told him
she had got dust in her eye. I guess
the reason she didn’t say anything
was because she was afraid the man
would kill her, and, in fact, just
didn’t know’ what to do. She was too
young.”
But with everything, Mrs. Cole
man said, it wasn't possible for a
mother to be with a child all the
time or to stave off all. harm that
could come to her with advice.
“Even with the greatest care, it
looks like things will happen any
way—we don’t know how or why,”
she declared, weeping. “Oh. it’s ter
rible to think of a young girl coming
to her death like that! And she had
already started home w T hen this man
met her and made her come back to
town with him!”
So Young and Bright.
“Often I watched Mary on the car
when men would look at her,” Mrs.
Coleman said, “but she never paid
any attention to them. 1 think she
must have made the man who killed
her mad, and that’s why he did it.”
She said that when Mary left the
house Saturday she had only intend
ed to go to the pencil factory to
draw the little salary that was com
ing to her—$1.60.
“If you could only have seen her,'’
she told the reporter. “She looked so
beautiful and so young and so bright!
She said she was only going to see
the parade before she came home.
And look now! I am so sorry for all
other young girls working every
where! To think that they’re all open
to the same things, and there is
nothing to protect them; it’s so hard
on mothers: it’s so hard on every
body. But there doesn’t seem to be
any help for it, and that’s the worst
part of it all.”
Capt. Isaac Emerson
Loses Alimony Suit
Codrt Decides He Must Pay Mrs.
Basshor $28,COO a Year
for Life.
BALTIMORE, MD„ April 28.—The
Court of Appeals has decided that
Capt. Jssac E. Emerson, father of
Mrs. Alfred G. Vanderbilt, must con
tinue to pay to his former wife. .Mrs.
Emelie A. Basshor, alimony of $28.-
<•00 a y»ar as Ions; as she lives.
Even tf Capt. Emerson should die
before Mrs*. Basshor Ohe payment i f
This alimony must go on during her
life At the death of Mrs. Basshor
i ho fund supporting the alimony
must go back to the estate.
Superintendent Leo M. Frank Is
Convinced Newt Morris Was
Not Implicated,
Owing to a delay in receipt of
metal shipment part of the plant of
the National Pencil Company had
been shat down tor most of the week
and Mary Phagan worked but part of
the time. A fe v minutes after 12
o'clock Saturday she went to the of
fice and drew her pay. which amount
ed to $1*60.
A holiday had been given the em
ployees on Memorial Day and there
were but very few about the place.
The day watchman left shortly be
fore 11 o’clock, while clerks in the
office left at noon. Two young men
worked on an upper floor until a few
minutes after 3 o’clock, while
Superintendent Leo M. Prank was
the only one connected with the firm,
who was about the place during the
afternoon.
r Frank’s Story.
! “It was about 10 or 16 minutes af
ter 12 o’clock when Mary Phagan
came to my office and drew her pay.’’
said Mr. Frank. “The regular pay
day is Friday, but there are always
a few of the 170 employees who do
not call until Saturday afternoon. J
was in an inner office on the second
floor and handed the girl her envel
ope. She went out through the out
er office and I heard her talking to
another girl. While I could not swear
that they went out of the building 1
am quite sure they did for I would
have noticed any one moving about
the building.
“Shortly before 1 o'clock I went
to the upper floor and told the two
young men there that they had bet
ter go. They said they wanted to fin
lsh their work and I told them they
would have to leave or I would have
to lock them in. They asked what
time 1 would be back and I told them
3 o’clock. They decided to con
tinue their work and I left, locking
the door behind me. I returned short
ly after 3 o’clock and a few minutes
later they left. Harry Denham and
Arthur White \*re the two young
men
“The night watchman. Newt Lee.
had been ordered to report about 4
o’clock as it was a holiday and the
day watchman had been allowed t-
get off. He came in at this time and
1 told him he might go out and come
back about 6 as I would be there un
til that time.
“He came bac k about an hour l iter
and I prepared to leave. As I was
leaving a former employee, John Gantt
• ame in and wanted to get a pair of
-shoes which he had left on the top
floor. I told Newt to go up with him
and get them, arid then left.
Check On Watchman.
GIRL’S GRANDFATHER VOWS
VENGEANCE ON THE SLAYER
Standing with bared head in the
doorway of his Marietta home, with
tears falling unheeded down his fur
rowed cheeks, W. J. Phagan cried to
heaven for vengeance for the mur
der of his granddaughter, fourteen-
year-old Mary Phagan, and vowed
that he would not rest until the mur
derer had been brought to justice.
In a silence unbroken save by the
sound of his own sobs and the noise
of the gently falling rain, the old
man lifted his quavering voice in a
passionate plea for the life of the
wretch who had lured the littl.e girl
into the darkness of a deserted build
ing and strangled her to de^th. It
was an infinite grief—the grief of an
old and broken man—that Mr. Pha
gan expressed when, with hands out
spread imploringly, he invoked divine
aid in bringing the murderer of the
child to justice.
“By the power of the living God.”
prayed the old man, his voice rising
high and clear above the patter of
the rain and the roar of a passing
train, “I hope the murderer will be
dealt with as he dealt with that in
nocent child. I hope his heart is torn
with remorse in the measure, that his
victim suffered pain and shame; that'
he suffers as we who loved the child
are suffering. No punishment is too
great for the brute who foully mur
dered the sweetest and purest thing
on earth—a young girl. Hanging
cannot atone for the crime he has
committed and the suffering he has
caused.”
Slayer Must Be Found.
“The murdered must be found. “The
crime must be fastened on him and
he must be punished. I am going
to attend the coroner’s inquest, and 1
intend to see that the investigation is
thorough and complete. Nothing must
be left undone to bring the cowardly
scoundrel to justice. I will not rest
until the mystery is solved and the
suffering of the child’s relatives is
relieved by the knowledge that the
fiend who killed her will be dealt
with by the law.”
This morning it was doubtful if
Mr. Phagan’s health would permit
him making the trip to Atlanta to
carry out his intention of attending
the inquest. The aged grandfather
was so overcome yesterday morning
when 'old of the death of the child
that he was forced to take to his bed.
where h« remained during most of
1 the day. He rose from his bed when
a Georgian reporter called at his
home only because of the hope that
the murderer had been found, and
to learn more of the details of the
killing.
Sister Prostrated.
His eagerness for news of the death
of his granddaughter was pathetic.
Old and gray-haired, his grief and
suffering showing in the unnatural
brightness of his eyes, Mr. Phagan
listened intently as the reporter told
of the efforts of the detectives to And
the murderer of the child; he nodded
approvingly when told that every
available officer was at work on tin-
case—and he sighed with disappoint
ment when he learned that no con
clusive evidence had been unearth.ed.
A guest at the Phagan home in
Marietta since last Thursday, Miss
Ollie Phagan, a sister of the murder
ed girl, was prostrated when news of
her sister’s death was brought to
Marietta early yesterday morning.
The Marietta relatives were told
of little Mary’s death by a friend
from Atlanta. The sister of the
murdered girl and her aunt, Miss
Mattie Phagan. were dressing to go
to church when a knock was heard
at the door. Mr. Phagan, the girl’s
grandfather, answered the summons.
Little Mary’s sister, warned by
some sixth sense that the caller bore
news from home, stepped silently in
to the hallway. She heard the
words, “Mary—murdered,” and as the
aged grandfather clutched the door
for support, the sister screamed and
fell prone upon he floor. She fras
carried into a bedroom and revived,
and insisted upon going home cit
once.
Sorrow in Marietta.
Accompanied by her aunt, Miss
Mattie Phagan. the young woman
was assisted to a street car. Later
in the day .Miss Ruth Phagan, an
other aunt of the murdered girl, camf
to Atlanta. accompanied by Paul
Camp, a friend of the Phagan fam
ily.
The sorrow of the Phagan family
over the death of the child finds an
echo in the hearts of practically 1
every person in Marietta, and excite
ment is intense in the little city. The
greater part of the murdered girl’s
life was spent there, and the Phagan
family is well known and prominent
in the social and business circles of
the town. Last night little knots of
people gathered on the street corners
and discussed th<» news of the mur
der. and the feeling against the? mur
derer runs high.
In addition to the grandfather, the
relatives of the girl in Marietta in
clude two uncles. R. E. Harvel and
William Phagan. and three aunts,
Misses Lizzie, Ruth and Mattie Pha
gan.
Perry Belmont for
the Philippines Post
New Yorker Will Be Urged Before
Wilson for Position of Governor-
General.
WASHINGTON, April 28.—Perry
Belmont, of New York and Wash
ington, is being urged by New York
Democrats for appointment as Gov
ernor General of the Philippines.
Mr. Belmont desires this appoint
ment through sentiment. His ances
tor, Admiral Perry, opened Japan to
the civilized world. Representative
Francis Burton Harrison, of New'
York, is backing Mr. Belmont and
has arranged for a conference with
President Wilson to urge that Mr.
Belmont be sent -to the Philippines
post.
U.of P.Congratulated
by Empress Eugenie
Say Founding of the Dental Institute
is the Realization of Dr. Evans’
Dream.
PHILADELPHIA, April 28.—A let
ter from the Empress Eugenie has
been received by Dr. E. G. Kirk, dean
of the Dental School, congratulating
the University of Pennsylvania upon
the realization of Dr. Thomas W.
Evans’ dream of founding a dental in
stitute in Philadelphia, the city of
his birth. y
Dr. Evans was a d ntist in Paris
during the second French Empire,
and the Empress took refuge in his
houFte after the fall. The carriage
in which he conducted her over the
French border will be placed in th 1 -
new museum and institute, the cor-
n< rstone of which will be laid on
May 3.
Girl Says Child Gang
Forced Her to Steal
Juvenile Criminals Kidnap Children
and Make Fagins of Them, She
Tells Chicago Police.
CHICAGO. April 28.—The story of
how children kidnap other children
and force them to beg and steal, was
told to-day by \nna Gringer, aged
11, who returned to her home after
being missing 48 hours,
Two girls, older than herself, the
little girl said, compelled her to put
on old. torn clothing and forced her
to go from door to door begging mon
ey and food. She said the girlv
• boasted of having taught several chil
dren to steal.
“I have been in the habit of calling
up the night watchman to keep a
check on him, and at 7 o’clock called
Newt. He said everything was all
right. I asked him if Gantt had got
ten his shoes and he replied that he
had. and had left immediately after
ward. I did' not communicate with
him any more.
“I thought T heard my telephone
ring sometime al out 3 or 4 o’clock
Sunday morning, but decided it was
a dream and did not answer it It
was some time later when the detec
tives called me up and informed me
of the finding of the child. Since
learning of the tragedy. I believe it
was Newt attempting to get me over
the telephone when I decided I was
mistake i about hearing the telephone
ring
“That it was some one beside the
negro who committed the murder is
my belief, for th« negro is a good man
arid 1 have never heard of him get
ting in any trouble or being offensive
in any way to any of the employees.
“I am not very familiar with the
employees in the shop, as there is a
constant changing and 1 was not
brought in direct touch with them. 1
i.id not recall Ma.y Phagan very well,
but remember handing a pay envel
ope to her Saturday afternoon."
Monkeys Find Dying
Easy in Philadelphia
—
More Than Half in Zoo Passed Away
Last Year—Ailments of Other
Animals.
PHILADELPHIA, April 28.—Con
clusive indication that Philadelphia
is still a bad place for monkeys, was
given at the meeting of the Zoolog
ical Society. More than half of the
monkeys in the collection died in the
year of tuberculosis. Some time ago
78 per cent of the monkeys in Phila
delphia died in a year.
Cancer in zoo animals is largely du-*
to the depressed mental condition of
the animal 4 , Incident to their life of
captivity, so it is reported by Dr.
Weidman. the pathologist. Other facts
disclosed by him were as follows:
Cats and foxes are very liable to in
testinal diseases.
A jaguar died or pneumonia.
A polecat died of decomposition.
Kangaroos are msceptible to liver
and kidney ailments.
An ostrich died of a fractured leg.
An antelope was kicked to death.
Two camels died a-welcoming the.
stork.
FORMER PUPIL GIVES
A HAT TO MRS. CLARK
WASHINGTON. April 28.—Mrs.
Champ Clark, wife of the Speake ,
has received a gorgeous black he,
trimmed with a wonderful white os
trich plume, from Miss Jeanette
Deppe, of St. Louis, as a token of
love and affection for her teacher of
the little Missouri schoolhouse.
“Yes, I used to be a school teach
er,” said Mrs. Clark, “and they should
be the highest paid officials in th?
land, for their work is the most im
portant of all.”
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