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SENSATIONAL ' extra I The Atlanta Georgian VOL. XI. NO. 229. Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS Use For Results ATLANTA, GA., TUESD AY,APR1L29,1£I3. PRICE TWO CENTS. The Georgian’s Offer of $500 Reward for EXCLUSIVE Information Leading to the Arrest and Conviction of the Slayer of Mary Phagan Has Caused Others to Offer an additional $1,000. The Amount Now Stands : $1,500 REWARD! GANTT READING MURDER WARRANT SED BY SLAIN . ' : <1s? That Mary Phagan never left the factory after she entered it at 12:16 o'clock Saturday, the day of her mur der, and that she was killed and her body dragged into the basement by the negro night watchman, Newt Lee. now in jail. Is the firm belief of the child's stepfather. W. J. Cole man. and other members of her fam ily. As for Arthur Mulliqafc. former street car conductor, held on suspi cion, Mr. Coleman told a Georgian reporter he thought him innocent of the crime. He was also very doubt ful if J. M. Gant, ex-bookkeeper for the pencil factory, where the girl worked, had anything to do with her murder or knew anything about it "If the negro watchman did not kill the child, how would it have been impossible for him to heat her. screams going on in the building he asked “A livery stable man next door heard them, and it would have been much easier for the watchman to. If the black did not do it him self, then he must have known something about it, and who the per son was who did it." Outlines Theory of Murder. Then, in broken tones, for he had iust returned from making all at - rruigements for taking the girl’s body to Marietta. Ga.. to be buried, he out lined his idea of how she met her death. "When Mary turned from the win dow after receiving her money," he sa ; d "I think that, instead of going riii-ectlv out. she went to'the dress ing room, perhaps for a drink of wa ter. as one of the notes found said. Superintendent Prank, missing her when he came out and supposing she had left the building, locked her in. The negro watchman must have seen her go into the dressing room, and a. little later seized her a$ii gagged her." Later developments in the story go to show that the spot where the child's hair was found caught on a steel lathe was not the scene of hei st ruggle with her assailant. In the dressing room, it was said by a mem ber of her family, there were plain evidences that the attack was made. She was also gagged in the room, for a strip of her new lavender dress was cut off from the front and bound around her mouth to keep her from screaming Ribbon Found Near Boiler. Another bit of evidence, it was said, that went to throw added sus picion on the black was a bow' of me child's blue ribbon and a hand kerchief found down near the boiler, where he constantly stayed. ■•The negro evidently kept the child in the factory all day, Mr. Coleman said, “and was afraid to attack her until midnight for fear she would scream ot somebody would come. He mav or mat not have knocked her senseless from lhe first, or he may have tied her. I do not know, but when Gant entered the shop it is more than likely that he knew noth ing of the girl's presence there and simply '.vent un and got his shoes, as he said. a,nd went out again. "All this about Mary having been seen on the street at midnight or ai any other time after 12 o'clock in tile day I do not think can be true. 1 believe she •remained all day In the building. \£ter the negro did the vAork, hi was afraid to leave or not to notify the police, which would make appearances worse for him. Therefore he called the officers.” Now Clears Mullinax. Mr. Coleman said he had at first c'ven credence to a report that Mary C.d come home at 6 o'clock Saturday a ' ternoon, and that Mullinax. meeting h r as site got oft of the car, had t ,-#>ri he hack to town with him.. TiiLa Mr. Coleman said, turned out to be untrue. The conductor had made a mistake, and the girl Mulli nax wan with was Miss Pearl Jtob- inson, of Bellwood, as he swore in jail. This was eorrobox-ated by the con ductor nimself. J. O, Home, 11 Coraj Place, on whose ear the reporter rode out to the Coleman home on Lind say Street. The conductor said that Mullinax and Miss Robinson had taken his car out and, knowing Mui- linax. he had talked with him and the girl, who at that time he thought was Mary Phagan. When Mullinax and Miss Robinson reached their cor ner Mullinax remarked that It w a bit chilly and he was going home to build a fire. It was later that they returned to the theater, the conductor said, hut on whose car.he did not krow. P am*, made in the Marv Phagan murder mysterv within SEEK CLEW IN Mrs. Wilson Cheers Dying Consumptive - President’s Wife Takes Flowers to Lad in Poor District of Washington. WASHINGTON. April 29.—The j sympathy and charity of Mrs. Wood- rdW Wilson were Illustrated a few j days ago by her journeying from the | White House to the bedside of a. poor boy who is dying of tuberculosis. Dr. Gary Grayson, naval surgeon and aide to the President who spen Is spare moments caring for the sick j poor, told the President’s wife of a particularly distressing case. Mrs. Wilson was touched. Collect ing a bunch of spring flowers from the garden, she accompanied Dr. Grayson in a White House automo bile to the home of the unfortuna e lad in the poor district of the na tional capital. Commits Hari Kari Over Jap Alien Bill Chicago Oriental’s Suicidal Protest Follows Bryan’s Viait on Way to California. CHICAGO, April 29.—A Chicago Coroner’s jury to-day got its first in troduction to hari kari. when it was called upon to render a verdict on the suicide of Ear Kie Kum, a young Jap anese who ended his life as a protest against the proposed California anti alien land law. For several days* before his death Ear Kie Kum every day bought every edition of every newspaper issued in Chicago, and read every word of the dispatches from Sacramento and Washington On the day Secretary Bryan was in Chicago on his way tb California the young Japanese said he would give several years of his life, for a talk with Bryan. mm- :* 1 Boy Loses Eyes as He Cuts Golf Ball Augusta Lad's Sight Ruined by Acid in Sphere With Which He Was Playing. AUGUSTA. GA. April 29. Richard Stelling. aged 13. of North Augusta, has lost his eyesight by a splash of acid from a golf ball. Young Stelling picked up an acid- filled English golf ball on the Arling ton links and was cutting it open “to see what it was made of” when the knife blade plunged through to til- hollow portion of the baH, splashing the acid into both eyes. FORMER PLAYMATES MEET GIRL'S BODY AT MARIETTA The little town of Marietta. Ga.. where her baby eyes first opened upon the light of day scarcely fourteen years ago, will to-day witness the sorrowful funeral of Mary Phagan, the sweet young girl who was mys teriously murdered in the National Pencil Factory Saturday night and whose body was later found in th basement where it had been dragged by unknown hands. The casket, accompanied by the girl's stricken family her mother and stepfather, her sister Ollie, IS years old, and her three brothers. Ben. Charley and Josh, all young boys, left the Union Depot at S:lo o'clock this morning. Reaching Marietta, it was met by throngs of Mary's former playmates and friends bearing flowers to lay upon the young girl's grave after they have looked for the last time upon h r face. Simple Service. She will be laid to rest in a Utile old-fashioned cemetery where nu merous relatives have preceded her, and her body lowered into the eaitn after a simple funeral service. It will be preached in the Second Bap tist Ch i ch. which stands on the cemetery grounds, the officiating mio- fster being Rev. Dr. Ldncus, pastor of thp East Point Christian Church of which the dead girl's mother is a member. Dr. Lincus will go direct from Fast Point to hold the service. Resides the family, there were prob ably a dozen or„more relatives and friends from Atlanta who will also go up to the funeral. In Marietta (hey were to meet relatives, gathered from several counties, where the news of the child's tragic death lias been wired. The body will be taken to the sta tion in a hearse by the undertake-* in whose shop it has lain for the past two days, while thousands of people came to look upon it. The coffin wJI be of pure white, befitting the inno cence of the young girl lying withfi it, and only a simple plate with the child’s name will appear on the topi Throughout the dnj at the deid girl’s home callers have gone to ex press tHeir sorrow over the tragedy and their willingness to be of who ever servfce they might to the fam ily. The same word met them: “There is nothing that anybody can do—we must only bear it!” Mrs. Coleman III. From tile moment she received th news of her child's death Mrs. Cole man has been unable to leave t.i" house. She has not even visited th. undertaking parlors to see the body. It was not considered best for her in her weakened and nervous condition, caused by the shock of the murd.i. As it is. it is feared that she w 1 break down at the funeral, and every rare will be taken with her on the way to Marietta that she may be strong to fan the ordeal. Although Mr. Coleman, the child's stepfather, had only known Mary since his mar riage to her mother a year ago. he seemed stricken with sorrow over her death, and in speaking of her to a Georgian reporter almost broke dow n in telling the simple arrangements that had been made for her burial. Great bouquets of beautiful flow is have been sent to the home by friends all over Atlanta, and the dead girl's bier at the undertaking shop was fragrant with masses of carnations and roses throughout Sunday and Monday. Hundreds of her boy an i girl associates at the factory and friends of her neighborhood have gon» to see her body. For. although she was such a young gi;j. she had made many acquaintances, and was widely 4 loved. A sensational a few hours. ll will bo based on the firm theory of the police and detectives that the strang led girl was never outside the factory of the National Pencil Company from the time that she went in there for her pay Saturday noon until her dead and mutil ated body was taken to the morgue early Sunday morn ing. The detectives do not believe that Arthur Mullinax is guilty of the murder. They do not believe that J. M. Gantt is guilty of the murder. They do not place any dependence on the identifie ations of Gantt and Mullinax made by various persons before Chief of Detectives Lauford. They are confident that the author of the terrible deed was a person who is not under arrest at the pres ent time. They know his name. They have talked with him. They have his story of what he declares is all he knows of the happenings Saturday night in the building of tragedy on Eorsvth Street. But they are not sat is fieri with his tale. It is known that they will have him behind the bars within a few hours. fi is known that the signs of weakening on the part of Newt Lee. the negro night watchman, have had a great deal to do with the pending sensational arrest. Tlie negro's attitude all along has led to the belief that he was shielding some one. One moment he has almost admitte dthat he is protecting a man who has befriended him and helped him, and an instant later he has suddenly gone back into silence with the solution of the mystery trembling on his very lips. In the still hours of this morning, unknown to anyone save the authorities. Newt Lee was put through a searching, grilling “third degree" that left him weeping and nerveless. Before the hangers-on had congregated about the police station and the herds of informers, witnesses and merely curious had swpt down upon the detective force, Detective John Black quietly made his way to the police station and into the cell of the bowed and almost broken negro. It was hardly 4 o’clock this morning when Lee was startled to see the detective's form before his cell. Black walked in and sat down. From that time for two pitiless hours the detective plied the negro with questions. A grt>al fear appeared on the negro's heart. -Not that he feared for himself or because of his own guilt, but that he was frightened a1 the terrors of the law which slowly were forcing him to open his lips and reveal the man who was hiding behind him. Black tried to remove tile terrors that oppressed the black man. "We know you did no1 do the murder,” the negro repeatedly' was assured. "We know you are guiltless of the whole affair. But we know that you know exactly who did it and lhaf you are protecting that person.” •lust as Lee was nodding his head iu assent, he suddenly would straighten up iu an affrighted manner and declare: "No. no, boss, 1 don't know nothing about it. I don't know nhoting about it, sail. Before (lod, I don’t. Then Black would begin his long line of questioning all over again and would have the negro just oti the verge of the solution of the whole mysterv when the great fear would sweep over him again and he would become silent. What is regarded as a most important and significant circum stance in bearing out the newly developed theory that the girl never left the factory after she went in there to get her pay en velope Saturday noon is the fact that Lee will not swear-that he her leave the building. The negro did not see her go out. No reliable testimony lias been produced that she was seen I roin the time she went, in the building a1 noon, although she most certainly would have been seen 'had she followed out her an- . nouneed intention of seeing the Memorial Day parade. Leo Frank, superintendent of the factory, admits that, he J himself does not know positively of the girl’s leaving the building. the police department, most strongly urged Beavers to-day the advisability of taking Su nto custody for Frank s own protection. He eard serious and well defined threats against Who Would Be the Most Inter ested in Saying That the Night Watchman Did Mot Do It? While the tendency «»f the polie* wtraight through hus seemed to be t doubt that .Mary Phagan. the mu r - dered girl, really wrote the smnil notes found beside her body purport ing to give a dew to her murderer, the girl’s stepfather, W. J. Coleman, thinks it possible that she may have written one of the scrawls. That ore is the note written on the little yellow factory slip so faint’y traced it Is almost Impossible to read it. It is the one that says: mama that negro hired down here did this l went to get water and he pyshed me down this hole a long tall negro black that has it woke long lean tall negro I write while play with me. “Somehow, it looks like her hand writing to me. said Mr. Coleman. "But, of coure I can not be sure. Now. about the other note I in. doubtful. It seems to be written : > well for the child to have done it n tbe almost insensible condition sue mus' have been in at the time. Whether she wrote either of the notes of her own accord, though, or wheth er sh$ was forced to do it by her murderer to turn suspicion from him self. of course is mere speculation. Only time can tell, if anything.” Doubts Other Note’s Authorship. The other note whose authority Mr. Coleman doubts is the one scrawled on a notepad. It reads as it was at first translated: He said he wood love me laid I ifown like the night witch did it but that long tall black negro did it by his self. This note, however, brings up an argument advanced by several people who have atudied it carefully. They have found that in some way one word, “play,” was omitted in the first translation, and they think that in stead of “night witch” the words were meant to mean ‘ night watch,” which is relative to the subject. With these changes the note would read: “He said he wood love me laid down play like the night watch did it, but that long tall black negro did it by his self.” They ask: If the murderer told the chijd he was going to' “play like the night watch did ft,” and then the child goes on to explain that it wasn’t j the night watchman at all that did j it, but another negro, wouldn't that appear that the child was endeavot ing to shield the night watchman/ Argue Against Watchman. They also ask: Would a child in the predicament Man Phagan was supposed to be in. insensible and her mind wandering, be thinking of try ing to shield* a night watchman in her not..-, even before she described the man who had tre cruelly'/ gj Again i Continued; m *e Big Bargain Ad Capt * » C\ , J 1 - /