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THE ATLANTA (J KOKH I AN ANT) NKVVH
1 Dead, 2 Dying, in
Augusta Accidents
M RS. J W. COLEMAN, below, mother of slain Mary Pha-
gan, and Ollie Phagan, sister of the murdered girl. Mrs.
Coleman is prostrated by grief over the crime, and warns all
mothers of working girls to watch carefully their loved ones.
Twelve Ponies Like This One
With a pony cart and harness for each, will
be given away to boys and girls. .’. Y
Fireman Crushed to Death, Girl Hit
by Auto and Boy Fractures
Skull in Fall.
AUGUSTA, QA„ April 29.—On** man
dead and a young: woman and a boy
.tret dying: a8 the result of a serlcK of
accidents in Augusta last night.
Pat Callahan, a fireman, was run
over and crushed to death by a fir*
truck. He swung on the wagon as it
left to answer a call, and, falling, went
directly beneath the wheels.
Miss Ernestine Batey was run over
by an automobile driven by Mrs. VV.
K. Hagler. Her pkull was fractured
Miss Batey la a niece of Mrs. Asa G.
Candler, of Atlanta.
Clifford Carper, aged io, suffered *
fractured skull in falling down the
steps at the playgrounds of the John
Millege School.
Who Would Be the Most Inter
ested in Saying That the Night
Watchman Did Not Do It?
^ Every Pony
a sound, healthy,
serviceable pet.
Every one
broken to drive.
All of them
gentle, kind
and
While the tendency of the police
straight through hap summed to he to
doubt that Mary Phagan, the mur-
d-ored girl, really wrote the simr.l
notes fbund beside her body purport
ing to give a clew to her murderer,
the grlrl'e siepfatlier, W. J. Colemau.
think* It possible that she may have
written one of the scrawls.
That one ie the note written on th**
little yellow factory slip so faintly
traced 1t Is almost Impossible to revd
It. It 1* the one that says:
mama that negro hired down
here did this I went to get water
and he pushed ms down this hole
a long tall negro black that has 11
wroke long lean tall negro I write
while play with me.
"Somehow, It looks like her hand
writing to me, said Mr. Coleman.
"But, of coursi 1 can not be sure.
ttow, about the other note I am
doubtful, it seems to be written too
well for the child to have done It n
the almost insensible condition she
must have been in at the time
Whether "he wrote either of the notes
of her own accord, though, or wheth
er she was forced to do 1t 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 Mi
Coleman doubts is the one scrawled
on a notepad. It reads as it was at
first translated:
He said he wood love me laid
down 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 studied 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 wer e
meant to mean "night watch," which
is relative to the subject. With these
changes the note would read.
"He said tie wood love me laid down
play like the night watch did it, but
that long tall black negro did It by
hie self."
They ask: If the murderer told
the child he was going to "plav like
the night watch did It," and then the
child goes on to explain that It wasn’t
the night watchman at all that did
it, but another negro, wouldn't that
appear that the child was endeavor
ing to shield the night watchman?
Argue Againet Watchmen.
They also ask: Would a child in
the predicament Mary Phagan was
supposed to be In, Insensible and her
mind wandering, be thinking of try
ing to shield a night watchman In
her note, even before she described
the man who had treated her so
GARRISON MOVES TO RID
THE ARMY OF POLITICS
WASHINGTON, April 21. Seers-
tany Oarrisrth has Issued an order tc
put an end to appeals to him for
favored treatment of Individual of
ficers of the army and to stop politi
cal ‘'Influence.’' According to the or
der any communication mahe to the
War Department outside the regular
military channels for favored treat
ment of an officer In any way, will
promptly be referred to that officer.
He will be required to report to the
Secretary whether he 1s rc.qponsibh
for tfueh requests
'mm.
Make Your Letters
Help Bring Shrine
itered in the A merican-Georgian
it clear that there is to be no lack of interest
the slogan that accompanied nomination blank:
Everybody Urged to Use Reminder
of Atlanta's Conquest for Con
vention on £very Missive.
Everyone who writes a letter can
help Atlanta to win the honor of*en
tertaining- the next Imperial Council
of the Mystic Shrine.
Fred Houser, secretary of the con
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Across the bottom of the last sheet
say:
Atlanta. . 1JH4, ln,»$rlal CoUricll
Shrine.”
Business firms are requested to
have this printed on the stationery
they will use for the next month, or
else have it typewritten at the end of
every letter. The man who really
wants to help can have the same In
scription on the envelopes.
In this way thousands upon thou
sands of reminders will he sent to in
fluential quarters which could be
rules published yes-
should read them
The plan for distribution of prizes and the contest
terday will appear again to-morrow. Every contestant
carefully.
Subscription blanks and printed instructions for the use of contestants
will be ready within a few days. For the information of those who want to
begin work at once we publish the following:
ptclon off of the night watchman.
, Translated In that way, the argil-
? ment would go to bear out the ex
pressed belief of’ the girl’s stepfather
that the negro committed the crime.
1 Ollie Phagan, the 18-year-old sis-
I - 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 like hers, although they migh*
possibly be.
Excitement prevailed to-day among
s those interested when it was found
I ' that th* 1 scene in which the fearful
struggle between the dead girl and
her assailant took place was not on
the second floor of the pencil factory,
as It was thought, where a few
strands of her hair were found hi
the cogs of a sto*>l lathe, but In the
) dressing room, of the place. Tills was
{ made certain b\ iii" >i hi.
<* over the floor of the room, and i
sj lag of her dress thui w , > . .
) and which showed t hat it had be* i
s used to gag her. The strip was of
> j silk, and had been cut with a knife
> from the front of her lavender dress.
>1 which was new. and which the child
s| w as wearing for the first, time.
{i It was said that the discovery was
i | made by some of the girls employed
oat the factory, who slipped upon the
s [ blood which, in one place, had formed
( a small pool. They ran out excited by
) the appearance of the place. The
t \ dead Kiri's hair had only caught in
| the steel lathe when her murderer
j had dragged her by it.
. ; This would go to corroborate the
] belief of several persons acquainted
5 I w ith tlie tragedy’s various angles that
s. Mary Phagan never left the building.
S i or at least only for a short while
< from the time she entered it to get
> her money Saturday until her life-
< Uess form was picked up and carried
>! from the basement by the authorities.
silver and which has not yet been
found, did not contain any valuables
and she had very little money in it.
When she had started off to town
Mary had told her mother she needed
only a. dime-—that she was going to
get her pay and wouldn’t want any
more. Her hair ribbon and other lit
tle belongings, along with her parasol,
the child's sister had also seen and
recognized.
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