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M> M-.WS/n h.SDAV. A PHIL 'JD. 19TJ. FACTORY HEAD TAKEN INTO 11$ TODY; LAWYER, BARRED, EATER ADMITTED TO CLIENT Continued From Pago On# flite Rtateiiifiit this afternoon as to liis plans for ohtaiuiiiK Hu* free I iorn of his client. He said that lie would institute proceedings if j ae considered Frank was being held an unnecessarily long time. At the same time that the Frank proceedings were under way j (Sober & Jackson, attorneys for J. M. (Santt, also in custody in eon nection with the crime, made formal application for a writ of. tabeas corpus before Judge Hell and a hearing was set for 4 o'clock his afternoon. Frank previously had been questioned by the police. He was brought to the station Monday morning in company with his at tornevs and there made a lengthy and detailed statement to the detectives. The authorities had announced they believed Frank hail :io Knowledge of the crime. Their sudden action to-day appears to be freighted with great significance in view of the fact that they have already quizzed him as to all he knew in connection with the affair. At the factory of the pencil company reporters were suddenly txcluded. "We’ve lieen harassed enough by the reporters of the news papers, ’ was the explanation volunteered by Kd .Montag, in charge. "This plant has had all Ihe notoriety it wants.” In the working ranks of the National Pencil Company is be iicved to be the last hope of solving the great strangling mystery. If these workers are barred to the press and to the public and ad mission is denied to the factory, those in authority have effectually dosed one of the most important avenues for the solution of the ,'ritne. Frank Last in Building Frank, to a Georgian reporter, just before his arrest, said: "No one is more anxious to learn of the whereabouts of Mary Phagan Saturday afternoon and night than 1 am. The com pany is exerting every effort to get information and has em ployed a Pinkerton detective to work on the ease. Officials of the, company also thought it best to retain counsel 1o assist in the in- vrstigation, while every one of the foremen and head men about the factory is endeavoring to find out if any of the employees know anything. I deeply regret the carelessness shown by the police depart incut in not making a complete investigation as to finger prints ind other evidence before a great throng of people were allowed to enter the place. "The affair is exceedingly embarrassing to me. To know that the authorities even felt that they should detain me for a while ami question me leaves a had taste, and I am dofng every thing possible to locate ihe guilty mail.” Arthur White and Harry Denham, the last two workmen in the factory plant the day of the tragedy, declared to The Geor gian that when they left the building shortly after J o'clock in he afternoon Superintendent Frank was the only man remaining. White’s statement follows: “Denham and 1 went to the factory to work on Saturday, al though it was a holdav. We left shortly after 3 o’clock in the afternoon. “We punched our time at exactly 3:10 o'clock. “On our way out 1 stopped in Mr. Frank's office and bor rowed two dollars of him. Denham went in with me. Neither of ns saw anyone else in the building. When we left Frank was the only person remaining. Saw Gantt in Pool Room “Denham and I stayed together most of the afternoon, and in the evening we went to the Globe pool rooms on Broad Street, near Marietta. We had been in there a little while when I saw John Gantt come in. He did not play, but. sat down and watched the game. ' “In a little while we went out, but returned in a few min utes and stayed tinttl after It) o’clock. Finally lie said thal lie guessed he would go home, and that was the last I saw of him." Denham’s statement is substantially the same. He said that he saw no one else in the factory aside from his fellow’ work man, White, and Superintendent Frank. Mrs. Leo Frank, wife of the superintendent of the pencil factory, declared lo-dav before the arrest that, her huabnad was anxious to do everything in bis power to clear up the Mary Phagan mystery and regarded the feeling against him as totally unwar ranted. "I do not care to go into any of the details of the crime.” said Mrs. Frank. "My husband is a* the office and is perfectly competent to give out all information. Any knowledge I have of thr affair I got from him. "All that I know is that lie is doing everything to solve the mystery, lb lias engaged detectives and is personally investigat ing many of the clews.” An investigation was couduited at the plant of the pencil factory this afternoon in ait effort to find some employee who pos itively had seen the Phagan girl after she drew her pay Saturday noon at the office of Superintendent Frank. The canvass of cm plovers was made under the direction of Frank hmself. Mrs Leo M. Frank, wife of the factory superintendent; his father and brother called at the police station this afternoon to aid Ihe closely guarded Frank. They were not given admittance at once, as Frank was under going an examination in the office of the detectives. They were taken to the office of Probation Officer ( oogler, where they waited. Restraining her tears with difficulty. Mrs. Frank declared her belief in the entire innocence of her husband. She preferred not to talk at length of the ease and said thal it had not been discussed in their home. She broke down several times while talking and burst into tears. bu1 recovered herself and continu'd the conversation. husband is absolutely innocent #iul able to take care of YOUTH HELD IN PHAGAN CASE John M. Gantt, held in connection with flic investigation of the strangling of little Mary Phagan in the National Pencil Factory . Here Gantf is shown reading the warrant for bis arrest on a charge of murder. Ib- stoutly denies any connection with the crime. An alibi story, told by his sister, may clear him of suspicion. STEPFATHER OF DEAD GIRL OUTSPOKEN AGAINST NEGRO WATCHMAN, NEWT LEE That Mary Phagan never left the factory after she entered it at 12: IB 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, novv in jail, is the firm belief i of th^ child's stepfather, W. J. Cole man, anl other members of her fam ily. As for Arthur Mulliijax, 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 tiie 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 hear 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, tjien 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 just returned from making all ar rangements for taking Ihe 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 said. "I think that, instead of going directly out, she went to the dress ing room, perhaps for a drink of wa ter, as one of the notes found said. Superintendent Frank, 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 afrl 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 her struggle 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 aroupd 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 the child’s blue ribbon and a hand kerchief found down near the boiler, whdre 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 or somebody would come. He may or may not have knocked iier senseless from the first, or he may have tied her. I do not know, but when Gant entered the shop it is more tiian likely that he knew noth ing of the girl’s presence there and simply went up and got his shoes, as he said, and went out again. “All this about Mary having been seen on the street at midnight, or at any other time after 12 o’clock in the day I do not think can be true. I believe she remained all day in the building. After the negro did the work, he was afraid to leave or not to notify the police, which would make appearance* worse for him Therefore he called the officers.” Now Clears Mullinax. Air. Coleman said he had at first given credence to a report that Mary had come home at fi o'clock Saturday afternoon, and that Mullinax, meeting her as she got off of the car, had taken her back to town with him. This report, Mr. Coleman said, turned out to be untrue. The conductor had made a mistake, and the girl Mulli nax was with was Miss Pearl Rob inson, of Bell wood, as he swore in jail. This was corroborated by the con ductor himself, J. C. Horne, 11 Corai Place, .on whose can the reporter rode out to the Coleman home on Lind say Street. The conductor said that Mullinax' and ATlss 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 Alary Phagan. When Mullinax and Miss Robinson reached their cor ner Mullinax remarked that it was a bit chilly and he was going home to build a tire. It was later that they returned to the theater, the conductor said, but on whose car he did not know. SCENE AT PHAGAN FUNERAL In front are Benjamin Phagan, brother of Mary Phagan, who came from New York, where he is stationed on a United States battleship; and Miss Ollie Phagan, sister of the dead girl. In the rear are-friends of Mar#.. The photograph was snapped at Bloomfield's morgue as the body was leaving for Marietta to-day. himself in the matter,” she said. “I would rather that any state ments should come from him. We discussed the matter hardly at all in our home.” Mrs. Frank is a striking appearing woman of about 30 years. With her were her father, E. Selig. 08 East Georgia Avenue, of the West Disinfectant Company, and a brother-in-law, A. E. Marcus, of the Marcus Clothing Company. Frank's Rise in Company Rapid Frank is 27 years old and has been married three years. His wife was Miss Lucile Selig. Frank and his wife live with her fa ther at 68 East Georgia Avenue. Frank was induced to come to Allanta about five years ago by his uncle, E. M. Frank, of this city, lie formerly lived in New York, and was in the employ of the Sturdevant Fan Company. He is an expert mechanic and his rise has been rapid with the Na tional Pencil Company. Coming here in a minor capacity, he was not long in being promoted to a position of authority. A short time later he was made superintendent. HERS TO FIGHT WEDDING HELD UP PAVING CONTRACT 2 HOURS B¥ JINX Atlanta Will Lose $25,000 This Year on High-Priced Asphalt. Commissioner Says. County Commissioner Tull C. Wat ers to-day announced he would open a fight on the county’s asphalt con tracts at the next meeting of the Commission. He said he could not understand why Commissioners Shel by Smith. W T. Winn and S B Turman insisted on higher price ma terial when scientific tests proved it was not better than low priced ma terial. “Chief of Construction Clayton is right in this controversy.*’ said Com missioner Waters. “Chemical analysis is the proper way to determine the worth of asphalt. Why should the county pay $44 a ton for asphalt when the analyses show we can buy mate rial just as good for $21.75? Tins would make a difference of more than $25,000 this year.” Commissioner Waters said the Commission did not advertise for bids. The plan to buy the high priced lake asphalt, he said, came to the Board as a written report .signed by three members Commissioners Smith. Winn and Turman. This was a majority. Although Commissioners Waters and Clifford Anderson protested they wejre over ridden. Augustans Go to Justice When Only Minister Available Re fuses to Marry Divorcee. Mr. ami Mrs. A. L. Campbell to-day are speeding West on a marriage tour which began last night after hours of delay, because every Atlanta minister was attending the Sociological Con gress. < From 5 until 6:SO o’clock their search wae thorough and diligent— from- oia- church and parsonage to another, while a crowd of friends fol- lowed. Finally Rev. C. T. A. Pise was located at his home, 19 Brown Place. "Now,” laughed Miss Hadley, the bride, “we’ll soon be happily mar ried." “No such luck." said the Jinx, who had been in the wedding party for more than an hour. It so happened the fair Miss Hadley was formerly Mrs. Cleveland Barnes, a young divorcee from Augusta. The minister declined to tie the knot with out first securing the permission of the Bishop. Fifteen minutes later Justice of the Peace Charles Girardeau pronounced Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Campbell man and wife. They will live v. Atlanta. - Au gusta has been their heme. Brown Offers $200 for Capture 1 of Slayer—C. C. Jones Also Gives $100. Governor Joseph M. Brown to-day offered a reward of $200 for the ap prehension and conviction of the mur derer of little Ijdary Phagan and May or James G. Woodward issued a call for a special meeting of Council for tomorrow morning at 10 o’clock, urg ing a $1,000 reward. Governor Brown's decision was leached on receipt of the following letter from Solicitor Hugh M. Dor sey: “From the best information obtain able, it is my belief that the circum stances surrounding the death of lit tle Miss Mary Phagan indicate a most brutal murder, probably attended with another horrible and detestable crime. “The officers of the local police and detective departments seem to be using their best efforts toward the solution of the mystery, but I believe it advisable to ask that you offer a reward for the apprehension, with evi dence to convict, of the guilty par ty.” The Mayor's message follows: “To the General Council, City of At lanta : “Gentlemen—The General Council of the city of Atlanta is hereby called to convene in special session to-morrjw morning at 10 o'clock, April 30, 1913 to take cognizance, in an official way, of that most brutal crime that was committed in this city on last Sat urday night. “I think it is proper that the city government should take some befi ting action as regards this most de plorable matter, which, as it is, is liable to cast . unenviable criticism upon the name of our fain city, and I would suggest that your honorable body offer a suitable reward of not less than $1,000 for the capture of the brute or brutes that committed such an outrageous crime. I feel satisfied that every taxpayer'of this city w ill heartily co-operate in indorsing the action of the Mayor and General Council in offering this reward. # Re spectfully submitted. ’ J. G. WOODWARD, Mayor.” CUSH OF SEXES Militants' Violence Arouses Bitter Feeling — Mrs. Pankhurst Still Outside Bars. Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. LONDON. April 29.—England is becoming thoroughly aroused against the violence of the militant suffra gettes, and the early prophecy of Mrs. Emmeiine Pankhurst that there would be a war of the sexes seems nearer of fulfillment than ever before. Anti-suffragists at a meeting to day made angry speeches, condemn ing the suffragettes for burning the grandstand on the Neville athleVc field. A number of suffragettes pres ent, tried to speak. They were seized by the antis anu severely assaulted. Because of her physical condition, Mrs. Pankhrust. who was temporarily released from Holloway jail April 12 because of illness brought on by a hunger strike, was granted an exten sion of leave to-day by the home of fice. Nearly everybody in Atlanta reads The Sunday American. YOUR ad vertisement in the next issue willieell gcods. Try it! i CHECK YET ON TARIFF BILL TALK Underwood Permits Free Discus sion—Republicans to Offer Flood of Amendments. WASHINGTON, April 29.—With Democratic Leader Underwood deter mined to pass his tariff bill at the earliest possible moment, the House to-day plunged into actual considera tion of the measure under the five- minute rule. Underwood still was determined to allow full and free discussion and ample opportunity to offer amend ments. He is not disposed to resort to gag rule. It was known, though, that the Democratic leader will re sort to a gag as soon as he becomes convinced that an attempt is being made to delay the bill. The best opinion was that if no re sort to a rule is had it will take at least two weeks to complete the read ing of the bill. On th e other hand. Underwood can force immediate ac tion by making a rule. Some idea of the number of amendments that will be offered can be obtained by the statement of a prominent Republican who declared he had fifty amendments to offer to the chemical schedule alone. LEGISLATORS PLAY BALL. COLUMBUS, OHIO. April 29.— Democrat and Republican baseball “bugs” in the lower house of the Ohio Legislature crossed bats at the Amer ican Association Park here to-day. FLOWERS and FLORAL DESIGNS? ATLANTA FLORAL CO.i Both Phones Number 4. 41 Peachtree ATLANTA THEATER Matinees Wed. and Sat. Nights 15c io 50c ALL THIS WEEK Except Wed. & Thurs. Nights Miss BILLY LONG And Company In A Butterfly on the Wheel First Time In Atlanta LYRIC This Week fn?ats. Tues., Thurs., Sat. BILLY THE KID A DRAMA OF THE WEST. With the Young American Star, BERKELY HASWELL. Home Again With Vaudeville CASDCVYM Wat. To-day 2:30 ryndY in To-nlzht at 8:30 Sophye Barnard--Lou Angler & Co.—Chris Richards — Gaby — Heim Children—Barr & Hope—Muriel & Francis and Others.... NEXT WEEN Gus Edwards Kid Kabaret