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I Mir \T1 WT' r.rnni:! \\ \\D NEWS WEDNESDAY. APRIL 30. 1913. Tells of Watchman L e Explaining' the Notes said he answered the ill to the pencil company plant Sun ny morning. to > l r Continued from Page Two. ordinar> lantern, the globe of which was smoked. It did not give mucn light. "It was about 25 or 30 feet from negro s toilet to w here the body was lying I could not see the body from there with his* lantern, could not nee over 10 or 12 feet with it. “She had on a white underskirt. Her head was in line with the corner of the partition. A flashlight would have shown the bod\. It struck me that she would have been too fa7 behind the partition for the lantern light to allow her. What Ntgro "Thought at Firat.” "The negro watchman told me when he Haw the body at .first he thought some one had placed something there to scare him. He said he did not down there very much going down t time to the toilet. ‘1 questioned the negro at length He said the toilet in basement was for negroes. "After questioning the negro. I called Frank at his residence, but could not get him. I then called Mr. Haas of the National Pen'll Company. One of the women mem bers of the family talked to me Sergeant Hi own instructed me to call some of the head nun of the p**n < il company." Officer Anderson identified the clothing worn by the girl when tie found her In the basement. He was then dismissed. Officer Anderson was called in again and asked to identify the dead girl's clothing In answer to a ques tion, he said the girl's stocking sup porters were unfastened. Q.— Did the negro say it whs a white woman or a negro when he telephoned? A. He said: A white woman has been killed up here." Q. Did he tell you how she was lying'.’ A He said she was on her back. Negro Was Excited. Q Was he excited. A Yes Q How long do you think tiie girl had been dead? A. I don't know much about thut, but she was not much rigid. g. Were there any signs of a scuf fle? A. Behind where she was lying there were evidences of a struggle. We found a bloody handkerchief seven or eight feet from the body. Q.—Di«i you see a handbag? A I did not. I did not sec any evidences of her pay envelope. Q. What kind of investigation did you make? A. The first thing we did was to look for the left shoe. We did not make any investigation on the second floor Sergeant Brown Tells His Story of Finding of Body Mergesnt H. .1. Brown, the second witness at the inquest, corroborated Anderson's story of the finding ol the body. Brown, who was in charge of the morning watch, was one of the four men who answered tic call of the negro night watchman. Newt la*. Brown was interrogat'd as follows: "How did you get to the factory?" “fall Officer Anderson answered the phone call, and Andiraon, Sergeant i>,»bb>. myself and a man named Ung ers—we call him ‘Boots’ went in Mr. Rogers’ car to tin factory." "Who met you w hen you got there'.’" "We got to the building and shook the door H4id a negro came and let us in We a.-ked where the bod.Y was. and the mgro said: Vom< this way. We went to an opening in the floor pear the elevator and we went down i ladder into the basement. Scrg ant Dobbs and 1 wa re in front with the negro, sulking matenes and looking a round. Negro Carried Lantern. “The negro was with us. carrying -f dim lantern. We found the body ly ing lice downward, the arms folded underneath. I looked at the body and said: For Heavens’ sake: it is only a child.’ 1 turned the body over ana It w as cold and stiff. 1 couldn t tell whether ii was white or colored. 1 nibbed the dirt and trash and cinder* from her lace with a pice- of paper, and then 1 said that she was a white girl and others said she was colored. It was not determined until Call offi cer Anderson pulled her stocking down and looked at her leg. Then wc pHw that slieVss white.'* “Did you s« e any indi a .ions of the body having been dragged?’’ "There was an impression on the pathway over which we had come as though something had been dragged along there, but th** light was very dim and it whs hard td tell." "Did you find any paper?" "A couple of notes were picked up. I think mie whs found by Sergeant Dobbs and one was found by me." rf'Was the inside of the girl's mouth ( lean ? ’ "It was covered with dirt." "Was her moutli open?" ‘►Her mouth was open and the tongue was hanging down toward the chin. The lips and the corners of her mouth were covered with dirt." "Was her face imbedded in the ground ?” "I didn’t notice." "Could the dirt in her mouth have come from lying down?” • "Not ail of it." "Did you see a cord around her?" "Yes. a cord was around her neck and a piece of her underskirt was tied around her neck." "Did you go to the back of the building?" "I did." "What did you find?" ‘*1 saw that the staple and lock on the back door had been unfastened." "Whs the door open?" it was unlocked, though, anil Q. I>id you find a n umbrella A. No. Laanlter did Q I.*id you find the notes there? A < )ne of i hem. He then Identified the two notes. Q Were* you at the plant when Lassiter found the umbrella? A. N<»; he found them about 7 o’clock. q Where (Jid you And the body? A About 150 feet from the elevator shaft. g. Did you examine the body? • Y< When I turned the body over I found the face full of dirt, and could not tell if It was a white girl or ne gro. We examined the legs and found it w;ih it white woirvan "I became suspicious of the negro and questioned him. I said: ‘You know something about this,’ and he became very much oxcited We read the notes, and without anyone making comment the negro said the word ‘night’ meant the night watchman. Body Had Been Dragged. "I asked him why he went down stairs and he said to use the toilet. I asked w hy be didn’t use the toilet on the second ih ,(, r and he said white folks didn’t like for negroes to use their toilet. • I bad Williams to lie down on the ground. Unless one looked directly ;ii the body it could not have been seen from the toilet. "In going back to the scone after doybreak, we discovered traces show ing it body had been dragged from where the umbrella was found at the elevator to where it was found.” g Could an ordinary man have taken a body down the ladder? A I don’t think so Q Had the elevator been used that night? A. -There was no way to use -t. The watchman did not know how to run It. g Did the scratching on _‘he ground show that a person might have stopped with the body? A. — No. It w. s continuous. Shoe Found in Path. g Was the shoe found directly on the line in which the body had be'ii dragged? A. Yes. Just a *lt- tle to one side, and also the hat. Sergeant Dobbs described the loca tion of the body, which coincided with other testimony. g. Was her clothing brighter than arv boxes that were around? A.—No. Q Was there any warmth >n body? A. -No. 1 could work the flngets slightly. q. Have you had much experience In handling dead bodies? A.- -No. S' rgeant Dobbs said the negro told hi ii no one had been in the building since fi o’clock. q After the negro had gone up stairs after you found the body, did he go back down stairs? A. —Yes. q. Did you notice any opening >n the partition when you tlrst went down? A.—No. I thought it was a solid wall. j w ! » ri you were in tin building? ; Vi a. ; Q. Where v.'iiu the elevator? A. ! ; don't remember; It was on the second j or third fl 30r. Q is the bottom of the elevator I shaft of concrete, or wood, or what ? A. i don’t know. It was full of j trash and I couldn't see. g. Did you look for signs of a ! s‘ ruggl* ? A. Yes, I saw where some- I thing had been dragged along the I ground, and I traced it back to the ♦ levator shaft. Q. Did you find anything to indi cate that the bod)* came down the . ladder? A. No, sir; the dragging signs went past the foot of the lnd- eleva- 1 saw them between the ind the ladder. From Elevator. g. You think, then, that the body waa dragged from the elevator?—A. | Yes, sir; I think from the evidence that it was dragged from the eleva tor. Q Where was the umbrella?—A.: In the center of the elevator shaft, j closed. Before the witness was dismissed he ! said that he had passed the pencil factory at 1 o'clock Sunday morning | and saw that the back door was • closed. He said he did not pass the j place again until after the body was removed. This was a voluntary | statement from the witness and was j not made in answer to any question. HI 19 FICTORI EVILS Working Conditions Here Wrong, Proved by Phagan Crime, Says McKelway. Witness Saw Slain Girl And Man at Factory Door Machinist Tells of Hair Found in Factory Lathe the Kli-I y tiom standing PAST FIFTY? you NEED “CASCARETS” j What glasses are to weak 5 eyes—Cascarets are to weak bowels. tin* staple was pulled." "Could the staple have been pulled from the outside?' "No, sir." "What kind of lantern did the ne gro have?" "An ordinary lantern with a dirty globe?" How Negro Found Body. "What did Lee say to you?" "He said he knew nothing of tin girl*s death. He said he rarely went Into tin basement and that on this occasion he went to use the toilet. He said after he had used the toilet h< saw the girl’s body lying over there." "Did he . ay how far she was from the toilet?" , "Not In tlgur* », but the toilet is 2.. feet from where the body lay." "Did he say low the bou> w in lying 7" "No, sir. not to me." "Dill he say ne had touched tin body 7" "Not in my presence. "Did you call Mr I tank , o' 1 : ih' • teli phone7" "No, 1 guarded L* while Im rsori I called him.” "How long diil Anderson wait on I Mr. Frank?" "He waited- some time. He asked central to hurry the call He told central that a woman had been rnur derod there and that lie was very anxious to get Mr. Frank." "What kind of clothing did w ear V" "A kind of a purple dress.’ Body Not Obscured. “Could you see the bod where the negro, Lee, was when he said he saw it?" "1 can’t say, but to do that mu would have to look right close." "Did tlic corner of the little n>on obstruct the view of the body from th** toilet"" "I think it would have. of the head and shoulders, not of the legs." "Was the cord around her neck tied In front or behind?" "I think It was looped in the rear." "Did you see evidence of a strug "1 don’t know that I did. We went down into the basement hurriedly and right up to where the negro said tin* body was." "Did you start an Investigation?" "We looked around as much as we could, anil then notified Chief lam- ford, and his men came and took charge of it." "Did you go upstairs?" "No. sir" “Were the gas jets in the basement lighted?" "No." "Did you use the elevator?" "No, w e used the ladder altogether." "Did the negro say that the eleva tor had been used during the even ing?" "No." "Was anything found upstairs when you went up to telephone?" "No, we didn’t look around there much. We had no light.” "How far did the girl’s tongue pro trude from her mouth."’ "This far.” (The witness measure 1 about an inch and a half on his* lingers.) "Was tiie body cold?" "Yes. and a bubbly streak was com ing from her nostril;’. Blood whs run nine from her ears and her mouth." Dr .1 W. Hurt, county physician who performed the autopsy on tin dead girl asked the witness several questions relating to the condition ol the bodv below the shoulders. He asked: "When the stocking was pulled ■ down, did you loosen any strappings j. (; Spier followed Newt Lee on the stand He lives at ( artersv ille, Ga. g. Were you about the National Pencil Company plant? A Yes. sir; o walked over to the Terminal stn- vion from the Kimball Hour 1 was , ith a friend. I left the Terminal station at 10 minutes of 4, then walk ed back there, going back Forsyth Street 1 parsed the pencil factory about 10 minutes after 4 o’clock. 1 noticed a young girl and a young man. a Jew of about 25, talking. Q. Were they excited? A. My im pression was that they were. The girl seemed excited and th' man nor- q. W as bis face flushed A. He had the appearance of having bad a drink. That was my Impression. g. Did you come hack by there later Couple Still There. \ Yes; l came back to the West- *»i',i rni»»n to see a friend. The same couple was there. g. Are you sure they were the .lami! couple? A. I judge* they were. q. Were they in the same posi tion? V. The girl had moved to the outer edge of the sidewalk. Q, Did you see the girl again? A Yes, the next morning I saw ner in the Bloomfield undertaking place. It was the dead girl. g. Have you seen the man since? A I think I did. I saw a man at the pencil factory Sunday whom I was told was Mr. Frank, but i have been told since then that it was not him. Q. When did you learn of this? A. Sunday morning when I was on a car continuing a private investi gation of another matter for which I vas here. I bought an extra, put it in my pocket and did n<>t read it un til 1 got on the car. I was looking for a Fair Street car. g. What time did you catch a car? A. About 8 o’clock. I got off tiie car at Broad Street and talked to a policeman. We walked down to the pencil factory and I told him all 1 knew Q. What was the complexion of the man you saw Saturday. A. I couldn’t say. Q. You are sure he was a Jew? A. Yes. g. How tall? A. A bout to my shoulder g. How was the girl dressed? A. I think her clothes were a little dark. Q. Dill she have ribbon on her hair? A. 1 think so. I think she had her hair banging down the back. g. You can't remernbi r the man. but now remember the girl? A. Yes. Q. Do you know w hi ther she v as bareheaded? A. 1 can't ay Tells Jury He Saw Girl and Mullinax Together so . supporter from ti ors* ■ Most old people must give to he bow els some regular help, else they suffer from constipation. Tin- con dition is perfect!) natural. It is just a>* natural as It is for old people to walk slowly. For age is never so active as Youth. The muscles are less elastic. And the bowels are muscles. So all old people need Cas arets. One might as well refus weak even with glasses at lect this gentle aid ;o wea Tiie bowel? must be kcq This is important at a: never so much as a: flf‘ Age is not u irne U physics. Youth may o* i whip the bowels into activity. B. to active ) j "No. the s j was loose / j Was* the catch on the support**'. ? broken, or only unfastened?" ?l "1 don’t think it wap broken." S "Did Anderson loosen the support- i or ?” j "No." \ I "Did he use any violence in exim- )lining the body?" \\ "No." J Dr. Hurt then turned the witness < back ov« r to the jury. Draw Knot About Neck, s "How.was thi cord tied about het Edge,r 1 Sentell, tiie man who demffleil Mullinax as being the man io saw with Mary Phugan Saturday night, was the first witness to take the stand when the coronet’s jury “omened at 2 : o’clock. The witness said that he worked .if Kampers’ grocery store, slatting to work there last Thursday. He was questioned as follows: g. How late did you work Saturds y night'.’ A. To about 10:30 o'clock. q. What Is your work? A. 1 drive a wagon. Q. What time did you get in with your wagon Saturday night? A. About 9:30.or 10 o’clock. g. What did you do after that? v 1 stayed about the store for a little while, then went down to the drug store on Hie corner Saw Girl and Mullinax. Q. llovv late did you stay there? A. I do not know exactly. I startei. walking to town and when I reached th * Carnegie Library. I waited for a Magnolia street car. I think 1 waited about ten minutes and then found that the ears had quit running. Q. Did you see Mary Phagan Sa‘- urday night? A Yes, sir. Q. Was she with any one? A. She was with this fellow Mullinax. Q. What time was it? A. I to not know exactly, it was some titr** between 11:30 and 12:30 o’clock. I think it was nearer 12:30 o’clock, as the ears had quit running. Q. Where did you see them? On Forsyth Street, near Hunter g. What were they doing? V They were walking toward me. Q Wen the) ogether? A. The) were not exactly together. Q Just how were they" A. Sh was on one side *»f the sidewalk ind Mullinax was on the other. g Dii’ she wea’ a hat? A. N *. Certain of Identity. q. I’.iuhl vou swear that it wa- Mar> Phagan ' A. Yes. g Aiv you sure that it was Mui- linax? A. 1 • ouli! not say positively, but it was a man who looked liki him. and I have not seen anyone who looks so much like the* man 1 saw a Mullinax does. Q. How long hu\> you known Mu! Jina:. A. 1 have just known hi: name since Sunday. g. Did you know him before? -A. I used to see him around the car barns when 1 worked there last June, but 1 did not know his name. Q What were you doing around the car barns? -A. 1 worked there. Q. When did you first hear of the death of the girl? About 10 o’clock Sunday morning when I was on the ear on my way to my aunt’s. Q. How did you know It was Alary Phagan? A. I heard the street car men talking. They said the dead girl's name wu Phagan. and 1 thought it might be Mary Phagan. as I had seen her out late the night before. g. When did you first tell of seeing her? A. I went right on out to the Phagan home instead of going to my audit's to find if it was Mary, and told them at tiie house that I had seen her. g. Where is your home? —A. My people live at East P. int, bui I board at S2 Davis Street. g. What work did you do before going with the Kamper Grocery firm? A. I was in the Navy. Q. When did you quit that work?— A. April lx. Q. How long were you there?—A. About three months. Q. Why did you quit A ?I was dis charged on account of weak eyes. Q. What was the trouble with your eyes? A. I could not see the targets. Q. Do your eyes trouble you ordi narily?—A. No, sir. Q. Are you quite sure they did not fail you when you met this girl Sat urday night?—A. Yes, sir.* Q. Do you drink?—A. Sometimes, but I have never been drunk. g. Had you been drinking Saturday night? A. No. sir. Q Did Alary Phagan look like she had been drugged?—A. No. sir but she looked tired. Q. Did you speak to her? \. Yes. sir. I walked between her and Mul- lirux and said; "Hello. Mary." Q. What did she sav? —A. li 'Jo Ed. g. Did you talk to her an;, more? v No. sir. 1 wa’ked on. Q Did Miry Phagan'? parents a! low her io go out with boxs at night? A No. sir Q Did you say anything to lie: about being out so late?—A. No, sir. 'mi I thought it was unusual. Q How long have you been know- '"ig Mary Phagan? A. Ntarlv all her ife. Q. Did you ever call on he:'.’ \. I vent to her house a good many times. Q. Did you work all day Saturday? — A. Yes, sir. Q Are you sure the girl \v s Mary * uigati. and not some other girl?— ' 1 am positive that it was Mary Phnga n. i Sentell was dismissed :»• this point and the next witness called. R. P Barrett. 18’ Griffin Street. ■ > machinist al the National Pencil Company, was one of the witnesses of the late afternoon. He was «9ked: g. How long have you wo: ked e r the National Pencil Company?—a. Seven weeks the last time. I worked there about two year a ago. Q. Did you know Mary Phagan?— A. Yes. Q. What did she do? A. Sic ran a "tipping " machine. g. When did you last see ffir?— A. A week ago ^Tuesday. Q. Did she work last week?—A. No. Q. You say you worked in the same department with Mary Phagan? Were your machines close together?—A. Yes. Q. Wnen did you go to work?—A. Monday morning. Found Spotn on FI 5or. g. Did you find anything unusual? — A. When I went in I was told that Mary had been murdered in the plant and I saw apots on the floor that I thought w re -.'used oy blood. /i looked as though someone had tried to sweep hem aAvay. and as though whitewash had been poured over them. 1 tailed Mr. Quinn, the fore man, and he notified the detectives. The blocij spbts were chipped up off the floor .ind taken to the police station. Q. Did you find anything on any of the machines? —A. Mr. Quinn gave me some work to do and T started to - <ck on one of the hand lathes. I started to lathe and some hair tan gled in the machine, got twisted :n mv fingers ; called Mr. Quinn and all the girlcame no and identified the hair as that of Mary Phagan. Q. Whose hair do you think it was? A. It looked to me like Mary’s. Q. How long have you known Mary?—A. Six weeks. Q. Was she quiet?—-A. Mary was a very nice, quiet girl, and 1 never had seer, her in any misconduct. Q. Have you *;ver seen any men with Mary?—A. No. 1 have seen M . Gantt come through and speak to a”, the girls, but I never saw him speak to Mary in particular. Q. How lar*^ was the place that seemed marked over with whitewash ’ —A. It was a spot four or five inch-s in diameter. Girls Feared Frank. Q. Did you see traces of blood around the elevator?—A. No, sir. Q. Ho\y far was it from the elev i tor?—A. Fully two hundred feet. Q. Was Mr. Frank familiar w-.h the girl?—A. Not that J know of. Q. Did you ever see them togeth er?—A. I never have. I have hear! the girls singing at their work, and when Mi Frai i; would come the. would stop. They were afraid of dis pleasing him. Q. In what condition was the hair that you found?—A. Taneled an 1 torn. Q. How many hairs were there al together?— A. About a dozen. At this point Mr. Barrett v.as dis missed, and F. M. Berry, assistant cashier of the Fourth National Panic, was called to the stand. Handwriting of Notes is Identified as Newt Lee's F. AI. Berry, one of the most im portant witnesses of the afternoon. ' entifled tiie handwriting on the >i tea round near Mary Phagan s body as practically the same as that of New t Lee. who wrote a test note for the detectives. Mr. Berrv said that be had been connected with the Fourth Nat tonal Bank for 22 years and is at present assistant cashier. During these 22 years he said . thqt he had studi. d handwriting continual !y. He wa9 <lven both notea found by \be body of tiie girl and whs asked if thVy were written by th? same person. H said they were. He then was given a’..other of oth er notes and asked to pick out th one written by the same person that had written the notes found by t.u* body of the dead girl. He selecte i two and said that they had been written by th“ same person that hao written those discovered beside tiie girl. Perry was* dismissed and De tective Starnes called. Detective Stanv.s picked up notes that Berry had picked out yt the collection and said that they had been v. ritter bj Lee. He said that he had dictated one and that an other detect! :e had dictated the oth*r. He said tirai he, dictated one of the in,tea found except the last word 'slef." which he was unable to de cipher. He showed the note to Lee and asked nlnt to write that Iasi word. Starnes said that he wrote *t readily, spelling it again s-l-e-f. ^tcarne? was dismissed and R. P. Bar rett was recalled. Q. Who worked at the plant Satur day afternoon?—A. Two boys worked on the lop floor. One of them named Harry was crippled. 1 don’t know (what the name of the other one was. i Q. Were you at the factory at ul! Saturday?-rA. No. Q. Have you eve heard of an;, on- using the place at night?—A. Yes. -ir. Q., Who used it?—A. \|r. Un^! .> - wav said that he saw young girls, boys and men go in there at nigh:. (Coroner Donehoo asked the ctetec- t VPS to ge* Mr. Calloway. His ini tials or employment were not men tioned by the witness*, but some of the persons present thought the wit ness meant E. F. Holloway, timekeep er in 1 he ~>encil plant.) Q. When did Air. Cado* e... tell you this?—A. To-day. Q. Had you heard it before. A. Yes, sir. Q. Has the night watchman aUva* .<* been a negro? -A. No, we used to have a white man. Q. Did Calloway tell you how thes. people went in that place? -A. No. 1 sir. O. Did J * say who let them ’in? I A. No. si". Dr. A. J. McKelway, president pro tem of the Southern Sociological Congress, declared to-day that if fac tory conditions in Atlanta were w hat they should be 14-year-old Mary Phagan never would have been slain. "If social conditions, if factory con ditions in Atlanta were what they should be here, if children of tender years were not forced to work in thops this frightful tragedy could not have been enacted." he asserted. Dr. McKelway's remarks came in the course of a conversation in which he discussed at length the evils of child labor in industrial plants and the absolute necessity of rigid child labor legislation. A reception at the Piedmont Driv ing Club yesterday marked the close of the four-day sessions of the so ciological congress in Atlanta. Dele gates left last night and to-day for their homes. City Offers $1,000 as Phagan Case Reward At Special Cour.ci! Meeting Called by Mayor Only One Man Opposes Action. At a special session of City Council to-day, called by Mayor Woodward, to give the city’s financial aid to the ap- preheneion of the guilty persons in the Mary Phagan strangling case, $1,000 was appropriated as a reward to the person furnishing information leading to the ar rest of the man or men who committed the deed. The appropriation found one opponent in Councilman Thomson, who said the lure of a high award would be likely to result in the arrest and hanging of an innocent person who might be sworn to his death by some one desiring tne reward. The Councilman said he was in favor of using the money in engaging an ad ditional force of expert detectives. Big Kite Target for New Aeroplane Gun United Ctates Will Remount All Field Artillery for Use Against Airships. WASHINGTON. April 30.—A hui?» kiln. Ilovoi at it height Of 700 feet, will be the target of the. new army aeroplane gun which Is soon to be given it final test at the Sandy Hook proving grounds. Army officials be lieve that it gun which will strike a- swiftly moving aeroplane at a height of several hundred feet is not Im possible. * Secretary of War Garrison has given orders that all field gulls be re- lnounte I on carriages so that they may be used for aeroplane defense. U.S. Asked to Certify Receipts for Cotton Memphis Bankers Seek Protection After Losses Following Failure of Martin’s Firm. •MEMPHIS. TENN.. April 30.—A petition to-day was being circulated among business men and bankers of Memphis requesting Congress to pass ci law giving Government officials power to take char je of any cotton warehouse and issue receipts on stored cotton. This, the backers of ♦he petition declare, would make it impossible for a cotton dealer to bor row money on cotton receipts when there was no cotton in the ware houses. j The petition is the result of the ois- c.ppearanci of Joseph W. Martin, wealthy cotton dealer: the bankrupt cy of the Martin-Phillips Company, of which he w as president, and the dis appearance of Leo Lesser, senior member of the Leaser-Ely cotton firm. PHILADELPHIA OPERA COMPANY, DIPPEL’S PLAN PHILADELPHIA, April HO—It ha- been learned that Andreas Dippel. the* resigned executive of the F-'hiladel- phia-Chicago Grand Opera Company plans to organize an individual com pany that will sing only in this city. It has been announced at E. P. Stotesbury’s office that he will confer with Dippel next Friday. STORM-BATTERED STEAMER ARRIVES AT NEW ORLEANS NEW ORLEANS. April CO.—Badly battered, with two of its crew lost, the Holland liner Sommelsdyk arrived here to-day under low steam. On its wav to this point the boat struck a violent storm on March 18. For sev eral days the crew expected the ship to sink. Inspectors Fail to Dodge Nights in Jail ffooraj! BEb'jtO Four Accused New York Police Must Stay in Tombs During Trial. Rule ihe House NEW YORK, April So.—Before the trial of ox-Police Inspector.” Sweeney. Hussey. Murtnu and Thompson, charged with obstruction bf justice, was resumed to-day, .the four men. handcutted together, were taken to the appellate division of the Suprenu Court for arguments on a habeas cor pus writ. They were trying to get legal sanction for bail, s-o that they would not have to .••;> nd each night in the Tombs during their trial. Justice Ingham t.eckii u tiie four muK stay in jai when not hi court during their trial. T u trial th n was resumed. Boy Sweetheart Says Girl V/as to Meet Him Saturday G. \V. Epos, Jr , 14 years old. o’ 248 Fox Street, who lives just around the corner from Mary Phagan. an 1 who vas hei boy sweetheart, testi fied before the Coroner's Jury this afternoon that Mary Phagan bad asked him to come down by the fac tory and go home with her a few da vs ago. She told him. he said, that Mr. Frank had been in the habit <*;' going down to the front door an 1 waiting there until she came out and looked suspicious at her and wink'd. He was asked: q. When did you see Mary Phagan last?—A. Saturday morning. We came to town on the car together. We got to town at 12 o’clock. When we got off the car she told me that s-e was going to the pencil factory to get her pay and would meet me at ■h” Ffldn Drug Store at Five Points :o >ee the parade at 2 o’clock. 1 | » - krd for her all around at that ti im. '••v ret firm ner. I staved there lurf! about 4 o’clock selling papers. She never appeared. There wasn’t much of n crowd and 1 would have seen her if she had come. Q. Where did you go at 4 o'clock? - \. I went to the ball game. , Q. Where did you go after that?-- A. I went home, reaching there at 1 o'clock. Q. Did you go over to Mary’-* house? A. Yes. I went over there immediately. 3 DEAD IN KANSAS CITY TRAMPS’ REFUGE FIRE KANSAS, CITY. MO.. April 30.— Three men are known to be dead in a fir? which started in the Hurry-1*,* Transfer Company’s, office at Fourth and Wyandotte Streets this afternoon and rapidly spread to nearby lioua* - and buildings. Three men hanging to window ledges in the Helping Hand Hotel were lost when the walls of that building collapsed and seven oth” s believed to have been in the hotel are unaccounted for. No Longer Do Women Fear ■ the Greatest of All Human j Blessings. It is a jo. and comfort 10 know ; that those much-talked-of pains ana other distresses that are sa*d t*> precede chi.d-bear'ng may easily be ato'itd. No woman need fear the slightest discomfort if she will fortify herself with the well-known and time-honored remedy, "Mother’s Friend." This is a most grateful, penetrat ing, external application that at once , softens and makes'plfant the abdom inal muscles and ligaments. They naturally expand without the slight est strain, and thus not only banish all tendency to nervous, twitching spells, but there is an entire freedom from nausea, discomfort, sleepless ness and dread that so often leave their impress upon the babe. The occasion is therefore one of un bounded, joyful anticipation, and too much stress can not be laid upon the remarkable influence which a moth er's happy, pre-ratal disposition lias upon the health and fortunes of the generation to come. Mother's Friend is recomrnendec only for the relief and comfort of ex- pretant mothers, thousands <*f whom have used and n commend it. You will And it on sale at all drug stores at $1.00 a bottle. Write to-day to the P udfleld Regulator Co.. 130 Lamar Bldg.. Atlanta. Ga . for a most ir.- strootive book on this greatest of all subjects --motherhood. CHRISTY CHURCHILL, LAST OF KENTUCKY FAMILY, DIES LEXINGTON, KY.. April 30.— Christy Churchill, the last member of the noted Kentucky family from which Churchill Downs received its name, is dead hero to-day. He suffer ed an attack of pneumonia during the private race meet given by Mrs. Clarence Lebu ;ti Lexington last week. It v knot *' loop* els Into activit\ be used ever >els of the old i FT UP led v rai want 1 is j Policeman Says Body Dragged From Elevator ft M Lass it i. th* policeunan * n j the bottom of the elevator shaft. I j th morning watch pas. the pencil found there also a big ball of red ' fai ;oi 1 . vas (ailed at 3 o’clock in tiie I w lapping twine that never bad been ; uf:» Ho w is :• '•ti ne i as f«fl - opened. (Hera the witn ss was show n iow* the coni that had Strangled the gill Q '• r ’• ’ y ' ;i ! ’ • u " , j and ask- d if that \va* the kind of cord s f“, V T " ? U!V i i;; ;. •’ i ’*«' 1 "1 found. Hr S4id it 'vas not, ' '' > ’ ‘ T i v ovvj ho found was very much find ‘ A. A pa:n- • u flnu it?—A. 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