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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 vention bureau, tells how. 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. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall or Delivered by Out-of-Town Agent. “Itching Eczema Drives Me Wild' ZEMO Stops Itching Instantly) Delivered by City Carrier. ( There are many causes of pre- n j mature gray hair—sickness, a ner- ? j nous temperament, impoverished n > blood, deficient scalp nutrition. ? j sometimes it is hereditary and the s > daughter finds herself quite gray j s in her early thirties. 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