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T 1 l GUILT WILL SE M' fISS PEARL ROBINSON, sweetheart of Arthur Mullinax, the man questioned by the police in connection with the slaying of Mary Phagan. Her story cleared Mullinax of any suspicion of complicity in the crime which has shocked Atlanta OFFICIALS SIT Admit Chain of Evidence Is Still. Tangled, hut Assert Solu tion Is Near, 111] V •Atty IIAt iprem of th* rrim* that and State with It* stfll at larg*? In its It is I details, set ill a* fsr! i It was when It Ta the author shocked the city terrible brutality Ti the m.vsfary, as baffling myriad conflicting element* a* revolt 1ng In Its from tolutlon t beaten and bruised little body of Mary Phagan was found lifeless in i rile of trarti and Utter In a Forsyth Street basement? When the city detectives and Pin kertons picked up the twisted skein;-* of evidence thin morning they ad mitted that they were as badly tangled as when they laid them down after working incessantly upon them until long after midnight. They are positive, however, that the guilt will be almost certainly fixed be fore nightfall. It only remains to follow each thread of evidence out to "To what person will the damning thread lead?” is the question that is holding the entire city in suspense. No other tragedy in years has so gripped the people as this one of the laughing, Innocent girl lured to her death. When the final truth'll known will the accusing finger-point of guilt be leveled at— New’t Lee, the negro night watch man, against whom suspicion wns strongly directed to-day, although he at first was held only ns an important witness;. Or—- Arthur Mullinax, of 60 Poplar Street, formerly a street ear conductor, who was the fir?t man arrested and se riously regarded as the possible mur derer. The evidence against him Is flight. Or— J. M. Gantt, an employee of the Na tional Pencil Company until three weeks ago, arrested as he got off a car in Marietta yesterday. The evi dence against him is far from con vincing. Or— Geron Bailey, negro elevator man in the pencil factory, who was ar rested at about the same time ae .Mullinax and held as a material wit ness. Or— Some'man whose name has not been previously mentioned in connection with the case. Police Expect Results. The police are confident that they will know' In a few hours the Identity of the slayer. Chief Beavers, Chief of Detectives Lanford, Detectives Black, Starnes, Haelett, Rosser and Bullard and Pin kerton operatives were on the case again early this morning. Out of the many clew's obtained yesterday they expected to get a definite lead and bring order out of the confusion that hampered the first two days' work. They have everybody In custody against whom suspicion has been strongly directed. They have n masF of Information and a mass of testi mony, much of which is conflicting. From this they will eliminate the in accurate and improbable and proceed carefully to weave the net of evi dence. No mystery In recent years has served to excite the public mind as th* Phagan murder. Detective head quarters have been thronged with per sons who have believed that they had clew* to the perpetrator of the crime. All day yesterday was a ceaseless procession going into the detectlv offices and another procession coming out. The officers were harrasaed as much as they were aided. Many Worthless Clews. Countless persons came to give general information about Mullinax or Gantt, or Lee, or Bailey. Others came to Identify Mullinax as the man they had seen with a girl on a certain street at a certain time Saturday night. Others were sure that it was Gantt they had seen. Some of the information was abso lutely worthless and some was re garded as furnishing possible clews. While some of the officers were hearing the various tales of these peo LOYALTY SENDS GIRL TO DEFEND MU LLIN AX Brave little Pearl Robinson! j And she wa9 not afrakl to tell to Her loyalty and devotion to Arthur j the world her confidence in the in- Mullinax. one of the four men held j no. once of the man toward whom the in connection with the brutal strangling of Mary Phagan, form the only bright feature in a sordid and revolting crime. What did she care for the stares of the groups of people that hung about the detective headquarters when the life of her lover appeared to be in danger? What did she care for the re marks that were directed at her when she pushed and shoved her way through the morbid crowds awaiting for a new sensation? What difference did it make to her that her name instantly would be on the lips of everyone as the defend er of a man pointed out by one wit ness as the mysterious person with little Mary Phagan the last time she was seen alive? Love Gave Her Courage. It was the ages-old story of a wom an's heart refusing to believe any ill of the man to whom it is pledged and devoted. In the young heart of pretty Pearl Robinson was implanted that eter nally feminine and eternally remarn- able attribute ns deeply as though she were twice her 10 years. She knew Arthur Mullinax, liked him, probably loved him with the im plicit trust of a woman. He had been good to her. kind to her. and always gentle and courteous. Tha* w r as enough. He could not have been guilty of the terrible deed that has shocked a community as it has not been shocked before In years. wavering and shifting finger of sus picion ban pointed at various times since the authorities began following out the many clews of the baffling mystery. She was astounded, overcome, when she read that Mullinax had been held in connection with the gruesome kill ing. How could they associate him with such an act—that of a fiend and beast? When the first shock had passed she wms all action. She would tell the officers their mistake. She had no sooner made up her, mind than she proceeded to carry out her inten tion. "Arthur Did Not Do It!” A few* minutes later she was In the office of Chief of Detectives Lanford. She was surrounded by sharp-eyed and keen-minded detectives. That did not disconcert her in the least. She trembled from the thoughts of the terrible crime with which the name of her lover had been linked, but not from any fear of the guilt of him she had come to defend. "Arthur did not commit that awful deed,” she told Chief Lanford, in a positive and not-to-be-contradicted manner. That settled It. She had said the final word. Of course, she went on and told of his movements on the night of the tragedy, and with the aid of his landlady established a very strong alibi. But that was incidental in her mind. All that mattered and was of consequence was w’hat her heari told her—"Arthur did not do it.” THE ATLANTA GEORG TAX AND NEWS 5 [ II U HOT SPRINGS LIVER BUTTONS END CONSTIPATION pie. other detectives were putting the prisoners through a grilling examina tion of their whereabouts at every minute of Saturday night. Third Degree for Lee. Newt Lee, the black night watch man. was given the "third degree” in tlie belief that he knew much more about the crime than he professed. He showed signs of weakening Reve al times, but each fore he had made ; riously damaging or any of the oth The shifting, of wap the most sta of this forenoon, a Suggestive Illustrations Clipped From Magazines Pasted Up About Scene of Tragedy, Pictures of Salome dancers In « ant\ raiment, and of chorus gins in different posture* adprned the walls of the National pencil Com pany’s plant. They had been clipped from a theatrical and prize-fighting magazine. A more melodramatic stage setting for a rendezvous or for the commit ting of h murder could hardly have been obtained. The building Is cut up with partitions, which allow of a person passing about from one part to another without attracting the at tention of other*. While the main en trance is used in gaining entrance to the building, the first floor is vacant, this space having formerly been leased out by the National Pencil Company. A person could enter the building, descend the ladder to the cellar and not attract the attention of those above. One could likewise move from one floor to the other w ith out being noticed. Stygian blackness greets those who enter the cellar. Two gas jets afford a flickering, sickly light, w'hich seems only to add to the pitchy darkness. Temptations Many. That temptations probably were laid across the path of the girls who worked in the plant was not denied by Superintendent Leo Frank. Instead he admitted that It was highly prob able. "In a plant of this size, where 170 people are employed, and among them a large number of girl?, it is quite probable that some of them were ap proached by some of the men work ing in the shop,” said Mr. Frank. “A force of this kind is continually shift ing. and undoubtedly many low char acters have worked there. It has been our effort to eliminate them as much as. possible and the foreman have been strict in this regard. "Under the present conditions of moral? in Atlanta, with the segregat ed district abolished, these low char acters undoubtedly have grown worse That our janitor was bribed to allow them in the building, while a surprise to me, is not an unbelievable sugges tion. Such fellows as these might be expected to stoop to such things.” ‘Bally’ Customs Men Hold Wedding Gifts Sir Wilfred Peck Declines to Pay Duties on $10,000 Worth of Presents for His Bride. NEW YORK. April 29. This is Sir Wilfred Peck’s opinion of the United States customs officials, expressed to day: “I say, my word, what a bally, blawsted, mercenary set you cnaps are.” Sir Wilfred landed to-day on the liner Lapland. With him were about $10,000 worth of bridal presents in tended for Mies Edwina Thornburg, a St. Louis beauty and heiress to whom he will be married on May 7. The customs officials insisted on turning Sir Wilfred’s trunks topsy turvey. after which they told Sir Wil fred lie would have to pay 45 per cent duty on the presents. Sir Wilfred balked. “I cawn’t do it. ’y’know.” he ex claimed. "The mercenary chaps” were ob durate. Sir Wilfred finally quit the pier, leaving his wedding gifts behind. 1 Feel as Though I Could Die/ Sobs Mary Phagan's Sister Among ail the hearts that are bow^d down in sorrow over the mur der of Mary Phagan, the 14-year- old factory child found dead in the National Pencil factory Saturday, there is none who feel* the suffer ing and the anguish of the separa tion *n keenly a* her sister, Ollie, 18 years old, her companion since child hood. For with her it is the suffering of youth, when the ro.se-veil nf life has been lifted to show its tragtc and terrible side in all it* fullness for the first time. And it is all the more pitiful foi her because it is the kind of suffering that brings to one that sense of despair and a later sadness that makes the whole world seem never quite the same again, no mat ter what happens. Something of il* sweetness and joy has gone out to stay. * "Oh, T am so lonely without her,” the young girl told a Georgian re porter as the tears fell down her face unheeded. She was at her little home on Lindsay Street. "Mary and T were always together and we al ways told each other everything. We slept in'the same bed at night; we had ever .since we were little bit o' kids; and we always talked after the lights were out. There wasn’t a thing that Mary wouldn’t tell me, and I w’ould always advise her and tell her what I thought was right if little questions would come up be tween us. She was always such a good little thing, nobody could help loving her!” She clasped and unclasped her hands in front of her as though she did not know* what to do, and leaned upon the bureau as if she w-ere tired. “I Never Had But One Sister.” “I don’t know what I’m going to do—I haven’t got anybody now,” she said. "I never had but one sister, and she’s gone.” Her voice choked and she could not go on for a time. When she did it was to speak of how’ she was in Ma rietta when the tragedy happened and how the news came home to her mother on Sunday morning. She had not been home to go to the poor little body in the undertakers’ parlor* shortly after it was taken there. "The first mother knew of it ail was a little before 5 o’clock Sunday morning.” she said, her lips quiver ing. "A girl named Helen Ferguson, who lives near her© and who has a telephone. w r as called up by Grace Hicks, the girl w ho identified Mary’s body. Grace told her to come right on over and tell mother what had happened. Saturday night when Mary hadn't come home they had all been worried. I Mary had said she was'coming right: back after the parade, but didn't show j up. Then somebody remembered she | had said she had heard the show at j the Bijou was good—some of the girl? 1 had told her—and she would like to J go, but she wouldn’t go without she j had some one to go with her. When ! she didn’t come home a little later} they all thought maybe she had found some of the girls anyway and gone, and so Mr. Coleman, her stepfather, went downtown to bring her home. He waited until the show was over and everybody had filed out of the theater, but Mary was,not with the crowd. Mr. Coleman had returned home and found Mrs. I’oleman and another woman, who had stayed with her while he had gone to town, “till up and waiting for him. Then was when they decided that Mary had met up with her aunt from Marietta and gone home with her. She had intend ed going anyway Sunday. "But I know Mary’s safe,” said Mrs. nl to ihe door, -aid Miss Hander- w that Marv had Coleman, and after few minutes they all went to bed. The Awful News. When Helen Ferguson’s footsteps touched the front pnrcli a I 5 o’clock the sound waked h* r mother imme diately. "There's Man now!" Mrs. Coleman exclaimed as she s..t up oil the bed. “No, it ivn't either,” declar'd Mr. Coleman. "I feel it's news for us. and bad news." Mrs*. Coleman "Mrs. Coleman son. "did you k been killed?" "Mh, it can’t b* possible!" her moth er sobbed. "What, do you mean? I don’t understand you. Tell me how. Maybe you’re mistaken maybe it isn’t Mary.” Hut Mis? "Henderson said that Miss Hb’kg was positive in her identifica tion. And then Mr. Coleman came out and brought her mother in the house, she was crying so, and then a* quick ly as he could be dressed and went downtown to look at the body. There was no mistake. It was Mary. Her voice was pitifully like a child's when .“he had finished, as she asked The Georgian reporter if he thought the man would be captured. "If the get him they ought to treat him just like he treated her,” she de clared. "Oh. my poor little sister! He had no pity for her, and they oughtn’t to have any for him. Oh, God, I just feel as if I could die." She will attend the funeral of her sister in Marietta, going up with the family Tuesday. She was formerly employed at a downtown department store, but recently gave up her posi tion. She is very pretty and attrac tive. slenderly built and resembles her si?ter to some extent, It is said. Old Arctic Pioneer To Seek Polar Dead Capt. Peter Bayne. 69, Survivor of Hall Expedition, 1866-69, May Find Franklin Victims. SEATTLE, April 29.—Capt. Peter Bayne, 69, probably the last survivor of Dr. ('baric* Hall’s expedition thru sought for three years, beginning n 1866, for traces of the remains of the Sir John Franklin expedition has un dertaken to complete the work he began as a young man. He has purchased the old Arctic schooner Dux bury and is now out fitting her for a cruise to Victoria - land, where Sir John Franklin’s body i& buried In a tomb made by bis HIGHER COST OF DRUNKS STRIKES ANNISTON, ALA. ANNISTON, ABA., April 29.—A beer or “red-eye" spree In Annldton on Sunday Is as expensive as chutn- paerne on any other day. Some time asro Ueoordrr Creen an nounced that he would raise the line $1 every Monday morning for persons convicted of being drunk on Sunday. The price has now reached 920. Next Monday the price for plain Sunday drunks will he 931. Germany's $250,000,000 Gold. BKRI/IN. April 29. The statement of ihe Imperial Bank of Germany shows for the first time in its his tory that there is over 9250,000,000 In ", Oh it, the vaults of the bHtik. The Kind You Have Always Bought has borne the signa ture of (Jhas. H. Fletcher, and has been made under hi* persona) supervision for over 30 years. 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Bagley "Gantt is i^ut a < asufi of mine, though 1 hav for about a year. 1 do j is the kind of man wh cammitteA the crir !*. -'ll iliet him < irly |£ati tiic Glob* pool ro- ui . time recovered be- in\- admissions se- eitftier to himself r prisoners. Mispicion to Lee riling development Ithough what basis valence is hard to !o\vn that the Ooie- nclined to believe great deal more than he has been r* am9 in the build- >> persons in the •by, according to «Iav. How could rounds every half card them, mem- n;family ask. ypping clerk for any, was and left -.talk * ! him some time. My brother and a friend of Gantt's, named White, were' playing a game of pool. Gantt does not play and wo sat down and w atched my brother and White. About 10 o’clock Gantt and myself strolled out of the pool room and walked around. We went a block or two out Whitehall Street, then turned and came back, walking back to Alabama Street and up Alabama to Broad Street. 1 told Gantt that I was going to catch a car and he said he would go back to the pool room. I noticed that he walked up Broad Street, my car came along and 1 went home. I caught the 10:30 o’clock car. Had Started West. "In the course of our conversation Gantt told me that he had left Atlanta to go to San Francisco and had gotten as far as St. Louis but had been held up there several days on account of high water. He said he then changed his mind and came back to Atlanta. "Ife aH«o told me that he probably would go to farming; that his mother I had offered to give him a 500-acre ! farm near Marietta. "That Gantt couid have met the Ph -ran girl later in the night and committed the crime appears improb- ibh to me. as most of his conversa- i ion was about him preparing to get I married in August. 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