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.... mf TTTK ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. TEKSDAV. APRIL 29. 1912,. FACTORY EMPLOYE’S ARBI “™ AS SLAYER NEAR. AS RESULT RS. J. W. COT.FWAN, below, mother of slain Miry Pha- gar, and Ollie Phegan, si-ter of the murdered nir! Mrs. Coleman is piostrated by grief over the crime, and warns all mothsrs of working girls to watch carefully their loved ones. GUILT WILL BE FIXED DETECTIVES DECLARE Continued From Page One. the executive head of the National Pencil Company's factory, and| considered that the action was warranted from the standpoint of safety if for no other reason. SLAYER’S HAND PRINT LEFT ON ARM OF GIRL Hope for apprehension of the slayer of Mary Pliagan has rome to the police with the discovery of distinct finger prints, stamped in blood on tile sleeve of the dead girl s jacket. The discovery was made by a Georgian reporter in the course of a minute inspection of the girl's clothes yesterday evening. The finger prints are on the right arm of the light silk dress. The imprints of two fingers arc just below the shoulder, staining purple the lavender of the child's dress anti penetrating to the arm. as if they were established at the pressure of powerful lingers grasping her arm. A third print is that of a thumb, blurred somewhat as with a great pressure, but offering possibilities of analysis. ' With 1 In* discovery of the linger prints, detectives employed in the ease be lieve they hav a tangible clew. The Bertillon system of detection will be brought into play, and suspects will be placed through its unfailing catechism. The search for other finger prints will be made zealously. Detectives of the Pinkerton agency, several of whom are on Ihe ease, are known to affect largely this mode of detection, on the theory that every man has his distinctive finger prints, and that the impressions of the lingers of no two individuals are identical. The evidence borne in finger prints is regarded as conclusive in modern courts. On this fact the police of Atlanta to-day are hoping more firmly than ever that they will be successful in their trail of the man who killed little Mary Pliagan, l)r. .) W. Hurt. County Physician, conducted last night a close examination of Mary Phagan s body, in the effort to deter mine the nature of the injuries indicted by her brutal slayer. He entered alone the chamber in which the dead girl lay. and at the conclusion of It is inspection refused to make a report of what he had found out. Militants’ Violence Arouses Bitter Feeling — Mrs. Pankhurst Still Outside Bars. Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. LONDON, April 29. -England .s becoming thoroughly moused again*! ; the violence of the militant suffra- gettcH, and the early prophecy of Mr*. , Emmeline Pankhurst t: ^t thc“ would bo *i o ar of the sexes seems nearer j of fulfillment than ever before. Anti-ruffragiits at a meeting to* j day made angry speeches, condemn- { Ing.the suffragetten for burning the [ grandstand on the Neville athlete field. A number of suffragettes pres ent tried to speak. They were seized by the antis and severely assaulted, i Because of her physical condition, . Mrs. Pankhrust. who was temporarl:» released from Holloway Jail \prll 12 i because of Illness brought on by a , hunger strike, was granted an exten sion of leave to-day by the home >f- flee. $100,800 for a Gainesborough. LONDON, April 29. Thomas Oainesborough s painting. "The Mar ket Dart,” out of Sir Lionel Phillip 1 *’ collection, was sold by auction for, $100,800, ;i record price for a Dairies norough ’picture. VICE SQUAD' FOR ID.EJllOPEII ;e parade cookinc school Startling Plan Is Proposed by Daughter-in-Law of Presi- l dent Tyler. NEW YORK. April 2# In Hitpa rade of May 3 let there be a banner marked 'Vice.' If only one woman marches behind that banner, thus de claring her desire to free herself from the dominion of man. the sight of that brave woman would stir every heart and th** cause would take an onward .sweep toward success. Will .. that banner wave in that procession, and who will be that brave woman?” This is the proposition put up to the Woman Suffrage Parade Commit tee by Mrs. G. Vere Tyler, widow of Dr. Lachlan Tyler, who was a son of President Tyler. Furthermore, Mrs. Tyler not only makes this appeal, but she has found m woman who has promised to march carrying the banner. “I have read this call sent out by the Women Suffragist Committee asking ill women to Join the march." she remarked, "and I trust they arc sincere it. their declaration. 1 am going to test their sincerity. If they are sincere no woman in that great aggregation of New York women could possibly object to the woman who will bear the banner*'Vice’ and behind whom will march, I hope hundred** of her sisters in the sam<- profeasion." ' Martin in England, His Family's Theory Ad Asking for Communication With Missing Man's Brother Gives New Turn in Case. Special Cable to The Atlanta Georqian. LONDON. April 29 Fresh dev* 1- opments are expected in the mystery surrounding the disappearance of Jo seph W. Martin, of Memphis, Term., as the result of an advertisement i* Toe London Times to-day. Tills ad. which appeared in *he “personal column.' said that It is ' the utmost importance that Mr M a * tin communicate with his brothe The insertion of the ad in a London newspaper would indicate that Mar tin's family believes Mr. Martin Is atill in England and that he is volun tarily hiding. The police have dropped the sea n I for Martin. OCILLA RAILROAD TO BE l EXTENDED 230 MILESi Daughters Unite With Ladies' Auxiliary of Y, M, C. A. to Raise Funds. The Ladies Auxiliary of the Y. M U. A. and the Daughters of the <’on- federac.v, of A lanttt. have united In one big cfTori to lalso funds for the daughters, T icy will establish \ cooking school in tin Y. M. <\ \. building to nn for two week*. The school will teach every kind of cooking kn twn to the culinary art. Not only will ‘he "every day” menus be prepared, but the pies that mother used to make, and the latest crea tions from the Parisian kitchens will be taught. The Atlanta Gas Company has vol unteered to furnish materials and pay all expenses for the exhibit! >i,. The school will be run every after noon from 3 until 5:30 o'clock. li will be in charge of Mrs. St. R. Dull, an expert. Students to Build Columbus Caravel Harvard Men Plan to Pass Through Panama Canal in Replica of Ancient Craft. MADRID April 29 The studen's of Harvard University have asked v’ayo t'uga, the designer of the lumbu.s caravel at the Chicago exp •- | sitlon. to sell his designs, as they propose to construct a similar care ive! to pass through the Panama C.i- ■ nal at its inauguration as a compli ment to Spain. It is proposed that the ships shall go to San Fraud sc j afterward. Senoi Puga replied that he won'*! present the designs willingly without I anv cost. Models of to* Nina the Pinta and I the Santa Maria. I’olumbu?' thr^e 1 famous little vessv's. Mere exhibited I at th- Columbian Exposition in Chi cago in 1893. "' 1,1 ' ■■■' T ' r irr Fire in Magazine Menaces U, S. Ship | Crew of Supply Boat Celtic Risk Lives Battling Flames Which Threaten Explosion. LOYALTY SENDS GIRL TODEFENDMULLINAX A I NASH VI 1.1.1: *;.\ A; i .1 ' • Sfcbjifchern Railroad Company, an noupcep that r.'- road will <>xttnd it 1' tines front Mjicon to Jacl,.-u»wLU. a | jfiistanCe of 23ft mile- The road w ill travers** h r}< IT *»>»*■• ■ ;ion of Georgia The following<ttn porta nt towns will be touched, jf'it* tt aid. Perm and Rochelle. ' Th ilia Southern aftcady is op Tfuiivj fifty mil » of ruAd. Celtic, tied up at the w Yard, risked their Are which was dis- starboard magazine t* d presumably from thus!ion among casks a! hundred gallons of iti i alcohol. It Brave little Pearl Robinson! Her loyalty and devotion to Arthur Mullinax. me of the four men held in connection with the brutal strangling of Mary Pliagan. form the only bright feature In a sordid and revolting crime. What did she care for the stares of the groups of people that hung about the detective headquarters when the life of her lover appeared to be in danger? What did she rare for the re marks that were directed at her when she pushed and shoved her way through the morbid crowds awaiting for a new sensation? What difference did it make to her that her name instantly would be on the lips of everyone as the defend er of a man pointed out by one wit ness as the mysterious person with little Mary Phagan the last time she was seen alive? Love Gave Her Courage. It was the ages-old story of a wom an's heart refusing to believe any ill of Hie man to whom it is pledged and devoted. In the young heart of pretty Pearl Robinson was implantejl that eter nally feminine and eternally remark able attribute ns deeply ns though slm were twice her Ik years. She knew Arthur Mullinax. liked him. probably loved him with the im plicit trust of a woman. He had been good to her. kind to her. and always gentle and eourteou- Tha* w.is enough lie could not have been guilty of the terrible deed that has shocked a community as it has not been shocked before in years. And she was not afraid to tel! to the world her confidence in the In nocence of the man toward whom the watering and shifting finger of sus- m. ion had pointed at "various time.- the authorities began following Ws of the hatYiing in connection with the gruesome kill ing. How could they associate him with such an act —that of a fiend and beast? When the first shock had passed she was all action. She would tell the officers their mistake. She had no sooner made up her mind than she proceeded to carry out her inten tion. "Arthur Did Not Do It!” A few minutes later she was in til ■ office of t'hief of Detectives Lanford. She was surrounded by sharp-eyed and keen-minded detectives. Th it did not disconcert her In the leas'. She trembled from the thoughts <f the terrible crime with which the name of her lover had been linked, but not from any fear of the guilt of him she had come to defend. "Arthur did not commit that awful deed," she told Chief Lanford. in a positive and not-to*be-eontradic*.ed manner. That settled it. She had said the final word. < >f course, she went on and told of his movements on the night of the tragedy, and with the aid of his landlady established a very strong alibi. But that was incidental in her mind. All that muttered and was consequence was what her heart told her—"A it bur did not do it." GARRISON MOVES TO RID THE ARMY OF POLITICS WASHINGTON, April i’9.—Seore tary Garrison has issued an order ti put an end to appeals to him for favored treatment of individual of fleers of the army and to stop politi cal "influence." According to the or der any communication made to the War Department outside the regular military channels for favored treat ment of an offl. , r in any w ay, will promptly be referred to that officer Mary Phagan's Stepfather Thinks She May Have Written One cf the Messages Found. Continued From Page One. most interested person in the world in saving the hide of the night watchman? Did the child write the notes her self. was she forced to write them, or did somebody else write them? The notes are written to throw sus picion off of the night watchman. Translated in that way. the argu ment would go to bear out the ex pressed belief of the girl'.- stepfather that the negro committed the crime. Ollie Phagan. the 18-year-old sis ter of Mary, said that, while she did not know, of course, she did not be lieve that Mary wrote either of the notes. She knew her handwriting well, and the rough letters did not look lik<> hers, although they might possibly be. Real Scene of Struggle Found. Excitement prevailed to-day among those interested when it was found that the scene in which the fearful 'truffle between the dead girl and her assailant took place was not on t!u* second floor of the pencil factory, as it was thought, where a few strands of her hair were found in i the cogs of a steel lathe, but in the dressing room of the place. This was made certain by drops of blood all over the floor of the room, and a lag of her dress that was picked up and which showed that it had been used to gag her. The strip was of silk, and had been cut with a knife from the front of her lavender dress, which was new. and which the child was wearing for the first time. It was said that the discovery was made by some qf the girls employed at the factory, who slipped upon the blood which, In one place, had formed a small pool. The ran out excited by the appearance of the place. The I dead girl’s hair had only caught in ! the steel lathe when her mflrdered had dragged her by it. This would go to corroborate the belief of several persons acquainted with the tragedy's various angles that Mary Phagan never left the building, or at least only for a short while from the time she entered it to get her money Saturday until her life less form was picked up and carried from the basement by the authorities. They say she might have etiher been accidentally locked in, or purposely taken back in the building by her murdered, who obtained entrance either by a key or went in by prying off a staple from an alley door. WATER RATE IN MACON RAISED TO TEN CENTS' MACON. G.V. V)iril 29.—The mini-| mum water rate for wholesale con-! same vs was raid'd last night from S I to 10 cents. The raise has been h -j for* the Water Board 1 *r two year. | It was carried by a divided vote i Has the murderer of pretty little Mary Phagan slipped the net that the polite moot carefully spread for him? Is th. author of the trims that shocked the city and State with Its terrible brutality still at large? Is the mystery, a® baffling, in its myriad conflicting elements as it is revolti ig in its details, Kill as far from ;olution as It was when the beaten and bruised little body of Mary Pliagan was found lifeless in a pile of trash and litter in a Forsyth Ftreet basement ? When the city detectives and Pin kertons picked up the twisted skein?* of evidence this morning they ad mitted that they were as badly tangled as when they laid them down after working incessantly upon them until long after midnight. They are positive, hovever, that the guilt will be almost certainly fixed be fore nightfall. It only remains to follow each thread of evidence out to "To what person will the damning thread lead?" is the question that be holding the entire city in suvpense. No other tragedy in years has so grlpjfed thf people as this one of the laughing, inpocent girl lured to htr death. When the final truth is known will the accusing finger-point of guilt b* leveled at— Newt Lee, the negro night watch man, against whom suspicion was strongly directed to-day. although he at first was held only as an important witness. Or— Arthur Mullinax, of 60 Poplar Street, formerly a street car conductor, w ho was the flrrt man arrested and se riously regarded as the possible mur derer. The evidence against him is slighL Or— J. M. Gantt, an employee of the Na tional Pencil Company until three weeks ago, arrested as he got off a car in Marietta yesteiday. The evi dence against him is far from con vincing. Or— Geron Bailey, negro elevator man in the pencil factory, who was ar rested at about the same time a* Mullinax and held os a material wit ness. Or— Some man whose name has not been previously mentioned in connection with the case. Police Expect Results. The police are confident that they will know in a few hours the identity of the slayer. Chief Beavers, Chief of Detectives Lanford, Detectives Black. Starnes, Has’Iett. Rosser and Bullard and Pin kerton operatives were on the case again early this morning. Out of the many clews obtained yesterday they expected to get a definite lead and bring order out of the confusion that hampered the first two days’ work. They have everybody in custody against whom suspicion has been strongly directed. They have a mass of Information and a mas« of testi mony, much of which is conflicting From this they will eliminate the in accurate and improbable and proceed carefully to weave the net of evi dence.’ No mystery in recent years has served to excite the public mind a> the Phagan murder. Detective head quarters have been thronged with per sons who have believed that they had clews to the perpetrator of the crime. All day yesterday was a ceaseless procession going into the detectives’ offices and'another procession coming out. The officers were harrassed as much as they were aided. Many Worthless Clews. Countless persons came to give general information about Mullinax, or Gantt, or Lee, or Bailey. Others came to identify Mullinax as the man they had seen with a girl on a certain street at a certain time Saturday night. Others were pure that it was Gantt they had seen. Some of the information was abso lutely worthless and some was re garded as furnishing possible dews*. While some of the officers .were hearing the various tales of these peo ple. other detectives were putting the prisoners through a grilling examina tion of their whereabouts at every minute of Saturday night. Third Degree for Lee. Newt Lee. the black night watch man. was given the "third degree” in the belief that he knew much more about the crime than he professed. He snowed signs of weakening seve- al time?, but each time recovered be fore he had made any admissions se riously damaging either to himself or any of the other prisoners. The shifting of suspicion to Lee wa?« the most startling development of this forenoon, although what basis it had in actual evidence is hard to determine. It is known that the Cole man family are inclined to believe that he knows a great deal more about the crime than he has been pleased to tell. Screams in the build ing were heard by persons in the livery stable nearby, according to stories Current to-day. How could Lee have made his rounds overv half hour and not have heard them, mem bers of the Coleman family ask O. L. Bagiev. ’ shipping clerk for the Atlanta Milling Company, was with Gantt Saturday night and left him a few minutes after 1ft o’clock, according to a statement to a Geor gian reporter. Bagley declared: "Gantt is but a casual aequaitanee of mine, though 1 have known him for about a year. I do not believe he is the kind of man who would have committed the crime. "I met him early Saturday night in the Globe pool room and talked to him some time. My brother and a friend of Gantt’s, named White, were playing a game of pool. Gantt dojs not play and we sat down and watched my brother and White. About 10 o’clock Gantt and myself strolled out of the pool room and walked around. We went a block or two out Whitehall Street, then turned and j came back, walking back to Alabama i Street and up Alabama to Broad Street. I told Gantt that I was going to catch a oar and he said he would go back to the pool room. 1 noticed that he walked up Broad Street, my car came along and I went home. 1 caught the 10:30 o’clock car. Had Started West. "In the course of our conversation Gantt told me that he had left Atlanta to go to San Francisco anil had gotten as far as St. Louis but had been held dp there several days on account of high water. He said he then changed his mind and came back to Atlanta. "He also told me that he probably would go to farming; that his mother had offered to give him a 500-acre farm near Marietta. "That Gantt could have met th-. Phagan girl la.or in the night and committed the crime appears iinprob- ; able to me. as most of his conversa tion was about him preparing to get married in August. He eeemed to be very much in love with the young lady. "Our meeting Saturday night was’ accidental. I had not seen him for three or four weeks and asked him where he had been. He then told me of going to St. Louis." Chicago Theater Will Hold ‘Remnant’ Sales Cuts to 50 Cents $2.50 Seats Unsold Hour Before the Performance Begins. CHICAGO, April 29.—A “remnant” sale of tickets is announced by a leading downtown theater. Hereaf ter all seats unsold at 1:30 -o’clock on matinee days and 7:30 o'clock at night will be sold at 5ft cent?. T i ■ first of the sales will be to-morrow night. Regular prices range from $2.50 to 75 cents. Managers of other theaters said the plan would bring about a snail advance sale and a jam at the box office an hour before the curtain rose. “Watching Baseball Games Is Harmful" Play Furnishes Too Much Excite ment for Spectators. Says Dr. Sargent, of Harvard. Slayer of C. M. Goddard Con victed of Manslaughter, but Judge Allows Jury Poll. Superior Judge L. S. Roan to-day declined to pass sentence on Elmer T. Darden, found guilty last night of manslaughter, until he had discussed the case with the jurymen to definite ly established their idea of the weight of the sentence to be imposed. Darden, convicted of the man slaughter of C. M. Goddard, who was shot to death in the Union station March 13. received the verditc form ally in Criminal Court this morning. His attorneys instantly asked for a poll of the jury and this was granted by the court. The jury reached a verdict at 9 o’clock last night after remaining out two and one-half hours. The defense introduced only one witness, Darden, who made a long statement to the jury, in which he narrated the events that led up to the fatal encounter in the Union Depot. The statement had been prepared in advance by Darden and his attorneys, but several times Darden entirely forgot it and branched off into an arraignment of the man he shot. A great many spectators at the trial and his attorneys said Darden’s statement to tbe jury wa largely responsible for his conviction. Judge L. P. Roan's formal charge, excluded the probability of finding ,i verdict for acquittal, except in more flagrant cases, and it was a foregone conclusion the jury would not acquit the prisoner. During the long trial he sat with his three children, Mrs. May Pierce, Fred and Naomi Darden. When the judge was charging the jury as to the verdict in the event of Darden being found guilty of murder, the two gir s broke down and wept. The father, sitting between them, placed his arm around their shoulders and said: "Don’t cry, my children; don't you see I’m not crying. It doesn't matter much." A. W. Long, a witness introduced by the State in rebuttal of the testi mony of Darden, told of Goddard’s dying statement. "Yes, L know Mrs. Darden." the dying man told him. "She was a good, honorable woman—one of the finest women in the world. I am sor ry lor her sake.*’ CAMBRIDGE, April 29.—Dr. Dud ley A. Sargent. Harvard's expert on physical culture, said to-day: "The excitement attending bad games is harmful. Thousands of men and boys and even women become unduly excited over the athletic prowess of professional players. "There is nothing wrong with a ball game as such any more than there is with a theatrical perform ance as such, but such games arouse emotion without furnishing a motor outlet. We arc overdoing one phase of the so-called love of sport." MARKET OPENING. NEW ORLEANS COTTON. Quotations in cotton futures: ‘Bally’ Customs Men Hold Wedding Gifts Sir Wilfred Peck Declines to Pay Duties on $10,000 Worth of Presents for His Bride. NEW YORK. April 29.—This is Sir Wilfred Peck’s opinion of the United States customs officials, expressed to day : "I say, mv word, what a bally, blawsted, mercenary set you chaps are." Sir Wilfred landed to-day on the liner Lapland. With him were about Slft.ftftft worth of bridal presents in tended for Mias Edwina Thornburg, a St. Louis beauty and heiress to whom he will be married ori May 7. The customs officials insisted on turning Sir Wilfred’s trunks topsy turvey. after which they told Sir Wil fred iie would have to pay 45 per cent duty on the presents. Sir Wilfred balked. "I cawn’t do it. ’y'know,” he ex claimed. "The mercenary chaps” were ob durate. Sir Wilfred finally quit the pier, leaving his wedding gifts behind. FLOWERS and FLORAL DESIGNS ATLANTA FLORAL CO. Both Phones Number 4. 41 Peachtree ' First Prev. IQpenlHighlLow j Call.'^Close. April . ! TT.88 May . . .12.04:12.04 12.03 12.03 12.00-01 June . . 11.94-90 .July . . .11 81,'11.8! 11 .80 1 1 .80 11 .78-79 Aug . 11.43 IL.13'11.43 11 .43 1 1 .43 Sept. . . 11 .18-20 Oct 11.09 1! .09 11.09 11 .09 11 .08-09 Nov 11.08-09 Dec. . . . ti. 10 11.10 11.10 11.10 11 .08-09 .Ian. . . . 11 .21 11.1211.12111 .1211.10-12 Pel) ,ll .09-1 ! NEW YORK COTTON. Quotations in cotton futures: ATLANTA THEATER 1!|Ms 15c to 50c ALL THIS WEEK Except Wed L Thurs. Nights Miss BILLY LONG And Company In A Butterfly on the Wheel First Time in Atlanta 1 First! Prev. Open;High Low Call. Close. April 11.43 Ma> .1 1.25 11.29 11 .25 11.29 11.25-26 •lune . 11.90 11 .90 11.90 11.90 11 .37-38 July . 1.1.40 11 .41 11.40 11.40 1 1 .37-38 Aug .11.25 11.25 11.25 11 .25111.22-24 8*»pt. 11.03-05 Oct . . 11 .01.11.01 11.00 U.00 10.99-11 Dec. . 11.05 11 .05111.04 11 .0411 .03-0-1 .Ian. .11.01 11.02 11 .01 11.02'JO. 99-01 Mch. . . : 11.07-09 LYRIC This Week Mats. Tues., Thurs., Sat. BILLY THE KID A DRAMA OF THE WEST. With the Young American Star, BERKELY HASWELL. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET. LIVERPOOL. April 29.—Due 5 points lower on May and 2Vi^3 ! ~ points lower on other positions, this market opened quiet at a net decline of 4f&4 1 / £ points on near months and 3<&'3% points de cline on late positions. At 12:15 p. m. the market was steady at a net decline of 3 points on near positions and 2Vi points lower on distant months Spot cotton steady at 2 points de cline; middling 6.68d: sales. 8.00ft bales, including 7.70ft American bales; re ceipts, 10.000 bales. Home Again With Vaudeville CflDCVTU Mat. To-day 2:30 rundl in To-nicht at 8:30 To-night at 8:30 NEXT WEEK Sophye Barnard--Lou Angler & Co.—Chris Richards — Gaby — i . . Heim Children—Barr ! Gui Edwatfs & Hope—Muriel & j Kld Kabaret Francis and Others.... ] COMING! BASS' MAY SALE See Big Bargain Ad in Wednesday Georgian