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V. PHAGAN MYSTERY SOLVED! v Chief Detective Lanford, at 2 P. M., Said: “We Have Evidence in Hand Which Will Clear the Mystery in the Next Few Hours and Satisfy the Public.” The Atlanta Georgian EXTRA No. 5 VOL. XI. NO. 229. WEATHER: - FAIR. Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS - U$e For Results ATLANTA, GA„ TUESDAY, APRIL 29,1912. PRICE TWO CENTS. PAY N '° MORE HUST1IAWILL Official Announcement of Deci sion to Force Evacuation of Scutari Is Made. Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. VIENNA, April 29.—Announcement | was made at the Foreign Office to day that Austria had decided finally to act independently in the expulsion of the Montenegrins from Scutari. The statement said: Austria finding that the Am bassadors’ conference in London has produced no results, this Government has decided to take matters into its own hands and carry out the powers’ decision regarding the evacuation of Scu tari. Italy is protesting against Austria’s act Ion. Peace Ambassadors Startled. LONDON, April 29.—After having adjourned until May 1, the Ambassa- j dors’ conference unexpectedly re- mimed its sessions in the Foreign Of fice this afternoon. This procedure was brought about by Austria** announced determination to act independently in driving the Montenegrins out of Scutari. Montenegro Starts To Fortify Scutari. PARIS. April 29.—Montenegrins are determined to hold Scutari against any action that Europe may take. Work of fortifying the city has start ed. Gunn, ammunition and provision* are being taken into the city. This information was received here to-day in a Scutari dispatch. Although the bulk of the Montene grin army has been withdrawn from Scutari, King Nicholas’ military operations are veiled in mystery. The diplomatic representative here of Montenegro declares that, if the powers force Montenegro to give up Scutari. King Nicholas will abdicate. The envoy denies Nicholas bargained with Eased Paaha for the surrender of Scutari. A Cattaro telegram said that it was reported there that a hostile demon stration had been made in Cettinje against the Austrian Minister to Montenegro. Porte Lends Support to Albanian Independence. CONSTANTINOPLE. April 29.— The Porte to-day sent instructions to all the Turkish ambassadors and ministers abroad to support Eased Pasha’s proclamation of the inde pendence of Albania with himself as King. According to the belief here. Eased Pasha hoped he might be able to re tain the suzerainty of Turkey over Albania by setting himself up as monarch. Turkey also is taking hope from rumors of dissension among the allies. Bulgarian troops are said to have been repulsed in several sanguinary engagements with Servians near Monastir and with Greeks near Sa lonika. Turkey has protested to the powers against the aid given the Bal kan States by Russia. Montenegro to Abandon Scutari, Says Diplomat. VIENNA. April 29.—According to secret information to Austria, It was learned from a diplomatic source to day, Montenegro will eventually evac uate Scutari, after having made a further show of defiance to Europe. A Cettanje dispatch dedares Crown iTince Danilo yesterday presented the keys of Scutari to King Nicholas there amid a frenzied demonstration. Fire Probe Delayed Again for Witness Mysterious Reynolds Wires Mayor He Can Not Reach Atlanta Before Thursday. Council’s committee probing the fire department has postponed its meet ing for to-day until Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock on account of the absence of Thomas Reynolds, the mysterious witness from Baltimore, whom Mayor Woodward expects will present some important new evidence. Reynolds is in Cincinnati, and May or Woodward has received a telegram from him stating that he can not reach Atlanta until Thursday. Martin in England, His Family’s Theory Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. LONDON, April 29.—Fresh devel opments are expected in the mystery surrounding the disappearance of Jo- seph W. Martin, of Memphis, Tenn., as the result of an advertisement in The London Times to-day. This ad. which appeared in Hie ' personal column,” said that it is of the utmost importance that Mr. Ma"- tin communicate with his brother. The Insertion of the ad in a London newspaper would indicate that Mar tin’s family believes Mr. Martin is ; still 1n England and that he is volun tarily hiding. Your Name There? Don’t be discour aged if your name has not appeared among the lucky ones who receive a dollar. Yours may he in to-day’s Geor gian. It will pay you to read the “Want Ad” sec tion. PASTOR PRATS FACTORY HEAD FRANK AND WATCHMAN FOR JUSTICE IT L NEWT LEE ARE “SWEATED” BY POLICE There Is Every Reason for Start ing Now if You Wish To Be One of the Winners. Mother and Aunt of Mary Phagan Swoon at Burial in Marietta This Morning. Details of the contests for the Shetland ponies The Georgian and Sunday American are to award a? prizes have been announced. Many nominations preceded the an nouncement of details. Since publi- 4 cation of the details In The Georgian Monday there has been a veritable flood of entrants. What wonder? The contest entails the most pleasant kind of work and the prized are an incentive to any boy or girl. Anyone seeking subscriptions for Ylie Georgian end Sunday American, we believe, will be received kindly In any Georgia home, and any contest ant may be proud of the ponies and carts which are on tlie way here to be distributed as prizes. The contestants already in the field, of course, have an advantage. There is every reason for starting now. Ask your friends to save for your candi date the coupons from The Georgian and Sunday American. They will do •r gladly. *4 Your Friends Will Help. Ask our friends who do not sub scribe for The Georgian and Ameri can to subscribe. You will be asking them to do a favor to themselves, for they will get at no advance over the regular price the best newspaper in the South, besides helping you. And if all your friends already sub scribe to The Georgian and Ameri can, as no doubt most of them do, ask the.n to pay in advance. Thev will gain by this, as well as you.. Remember, there are eight districts in the city; two prizes for the Slate at large, one outside the State, be sides the prizes for carriers and agents. A subscription to the daily and Sunday papers for one year counts for 3,500 votes. Subscriptions for less terms count in a carefully grad uated scale down to 100 votes for one month’s subscription to the dally alone. Not Limited in Territory. The districts are not pitted against each other. Contests are on an ab solutely equal footing. All you have to do to win is to get more votes than any other contestant In your own neighborhood. You are not lim ited to your own neighborhood in taking subscriptions or obtaining vote coupons, but can have votes credited to you for coupons or subscriptions received from your friends regardless of where they live. Meanwhile, do not overlook your opportunity to enjoy a play at the At lanta Theater free of all cost. Miss Billy Long is playing there you know This week the attraction i« “The Butterfly on the Wheel,” an attraction which made a profound sensation in New York. The Georgian and American have no seats for this week’s perform ances, but we have watched the pro duction carefully in order to be able to tell cur readers what they may expect from the company. We arc glad to be able to an nounce that the stock company head ed by Miss Long demonstrates that It is capable of giving a splendid pro duction of the most trying play. At tractions as strong and stronger than “The Butterfly on the Wheel” are booked for succeeding weeks, and, without reservation, we can promise our readers the opportunity of see ing as good theatrical attractions as it ever baa been the good fortune of Atlanta to enjoy. R member, there is no contest for theater seats. Simply clip the cou pons from Thursday. Friday and Sat A thousand persons saw a minister of God raise his hands to heaven to day and heard him call for divine Jus- ' tice. Before his closed eye* was h littio casket, its pure whiteness hid by the banks and banks of beautiful flow ers. Within the casket lay the bruised and mutilated body of Mary Phagan the Innocent young victim of one of Atlanta’s oiackest and most bestial crimes. The spirit of the terrible tragedy filled the air. An aunt of the stran gled girl suddenly screamed, fell over in her seat and was carried from the church in a swoon from which she did not fully recover for hours. The stricken mother collapsed and it was feared that her condition might become critical. The scene was In the Second Bap tist Church at Marietta, where Mary ! Phagan had lived when she was .» child of only three or four years. An immense crowd was at the stati . t wlLe.n the funeral train arrived at 10 o’clock. Many of them were young people who had played about wRh | the strangled victim when she had ( lived there years before. Mother Collapses at Station Just as Mrs. W. J. Coleman, mother of Mary, wan being helped into a cab. the pure white coffin was lifted from the car. Mrs. Coleman saw it and j the single glance was sufficient to awake afresh the torrent of fearful j memories. Hhe screamed and fell into tht arm* of her husband. It was some time before she could be taken to the church to witness the rites over her daughter whose life had been sacri ficed to the brutality of some man. “Nearer. My God. to Thee, sang the choir when the little casket was borne into the church and carried forward, where It was covered with flowers. Rev. T. T. Linkus. of the Christian Church at East Point, whose Sunday school Mary had attended tn the earlier years of her laughing, happy childhood, was the minister “May God bring the man guilty of this terrible crime to justice,” was the supplication of the minister as he raised his hands above him “May God aid the officers of the law in detecting and bringing be hind the bars such a man.” he con tinued. Aunt Screams and Faints. H1g words were interrupted first by the sobs of one member of the fam- ity and then by another Miss Lizzie Phagan, an aunt of the strangled girl, uttered a piercing scream. Sh# was unconscious when those by her picked her up. She was taken home in a carriage and Dr. W. M. Kemp was called. He had great difficulty In reviving the grief-stricken woman W. J. Phagan. the girl's aged grandfather, sat with his white head bowed in sorrow. The tears ran down his furrowed cheeks unheeded. He was utterly broke® and crushed by the calamity which had visited him and his family in his last years. All the way from New York, where he was on board one of the United States battleships, came Benjamin Phagan tc witness the tragic? funeral of his innocent young sister. With him ware his brothers, Joshua and Charles, and his sister, Ollle Phagan A sad procession moved to the lit tle cemtery where the coffin was low ered Into the grave that had been prepared. Mrs. Coleman collapsed again at the grave and It is greatly urday i sues of The Georgian and i feared that she will be seriously af from next Sunday’s American, maillfected by the ordeal through which them in. and ge* a reserved seat in | phe has passed the best part <-f hr- house.I Leo M. Frank. Officials of County Schools Open Meet Gov.-Elect Slaton and Mayor Wood ward Among Speakers to Wel come Delegates Here. The annual convention of the coun ty school officials opened in Taft Hail of the Auditorium-Armory to day. Governor-elect John M. Slaton, J. G. Woodward. Mayor, and Super intendent E. C. Merry, of the Fulton County schools, made the welcome addresses The meeting will conclude Thurs day and be followed by the conven tion of the Georgia Educational As sociation. The first session will be held Thursday evening at H o'clock and th% last Saturday morning ai 9 o'clock. Foe of Steel Trust Is Now a Bankrupt Coatesville, Pa., Publisher Who Bared Pool Says He Is Victim of Revenge. WASHINGTON, April 29.- S. B. Kauffman, owner of the Coatesville (Pa.) Daily Union, who gave the Stanley Steel Inventigatlng Commit tee evidence of the steel plate pool, Jh now a bankrupt. At the time he unwillingly testified that the pooling agreement had been printed In his ahop Kauffman told Representative Stanley he would be driven out of business. Kauffman s paper was .sold by tin Sheriff. He lays advertisers with drew. coerced by Steel Trust influ ences. He has filed complaint wii.h Representative Stanley. Mysterious Action of Officials Gives New and Startling Turn to Hunt for Guilty Man—Attorney Rosser, Barred, Later Admitted to Client. Has the Phagan murder mystery been solved? The police say they know the guilty man. Chief of Detectives Lanford at 2 o clock this afternoon told The Georgian: “ We have evidence in hand which will clear the mystery in the next few hours and satisfy the public. ” All the afternoon the police have been “sweating" Leo M.' Frank, superintendent of the factory where the girl worked, and putting through the “third degree" Lee, the negro watchman at the factory. A blood stained shirt, which the detectives say they found at the home of Lee, was shown to the negro this afternoon in an ef fort to break him down. The negre admitted the shirt v'as his, but declared that he had not aeon it before for two years. Lee was under a grueling fire of questions all day. Shortly before Superintendent Frank was brought to the station Detective Black came from the home of Lee. He carted a package under his arm. He would not divulge its contents, but very soon after it was obtained Frank was under arrest and Lee was confronted with the garment. There was an unconfirmed rumor that Lee had broken down and given most important information to the police. Detective Black and Harry Scott, Pinkerton man, left police headquarters at 2:110 for West End to arrest a negro woman friend of the black prisoner. The net was evidently being tightened about Newt Lee, the night watchman. Superintendent Leo M. Frank, head officer of the National Pencil Company, was taken from the factory shortly before noon by Detective Black and Harry Scott, of the l v ' ikertons. The police say that Frank is not under arrest, that he was put under police guard for his’own personal safety, and that there are no charges against him. Why, then, did the police act? There must be some reason other than the man's personal safety, under eonsderation. Frank lias not yet figured as of im portance in the case. Attorney Barred, Then Admitted Luther G. Rosser, attorney for Frank, endeavored to see his client. The police refused 1o let him do so. W hv ? Lawyer Rosser retired hastily declaring he would apply to Judge Bell for a writ of habeas corpus for his client, and would l.ms take him out of the control of the police. Later, when Rosser's determination to fight for Frank be came known, Chief Beavers admitted that the exclusion of Rosser "was a mistake," that the police orders had been taken too liter ally, and Rosser was then permitted to talk to his client. Rosser abandoned his plan to sue out a writ of habeas corpus. The police “explanation" onL added mystery to mystery, and really explained nothing. When Rosser reached the police station he was told that strict orders hail been given against anyone seeing Frank. If Frank was not under arrest, by what right was his lawyer forbidden to see him? As soon as the police station was reached Frank was taken at once into the detectives office and the doors were barred against all. The detectives would say nothing of what took place behind the closed doors. The detective office is on the third floor. At the bollom of the stairs on the second floor Call Officer John West was stationed to liar all who attempted to go to the floor above. Frank To Be Kept Under Guard It was learned late this afternoon that Ffank will he held on the technical charge of ‘'suspicion.’’ He will not be placed in a cell, but he will be under guard. An extra policeman will be em ployed to keep watch over the factory superintendent in the police station and Frank will pay for the services of this man. Luther G. Rosser, counsel for Frank, would not make a defi- 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 $1,300. The Amount Now Stands : $1,800 RE W A 1 I J