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2 Til h ATLANTA GEOKtiiAJN AMT JNEVVfe, MOiNDAY, MA A 5, 1913 FRANK TELLS HIS STORY ON Hugh Dorsey, Solicitor General, on left, and Judge W. D Ellis. The former is hard at work on the Phagan case. The latter has charged the Grand Jury to probe the slaying thor oughly and the servant. Did von see Mr. or Mrs. Selig A 1 did not see Mrs. Se lip 1 am not sure whethtr I saw Mr Selip or not Q How did you come to town? A. On the car. Q. Which line? A. 1 have the choice of two line* I do not remem ber the one 1 took Q. What lines are there? A. The Washington Street and the Georgia Avenue lines 1 don't recall which one J used. Q Did you talk to any one on the car? A. 1 don’t remember. Q What time did you arrive at the factory? A About 8.25. Q Who was «t the factory? A. Holliway, the day watchman, and the office boy, whose name 1* Alonzo Mann Q Was the front door locked? A No Q. Where was Holliway? A By the time clock on the second floor, his usual place. Q Were Holliway and the office boy the only persons there? A Prom all 1 remember • Q Do you remember that any one was buck about the machinery? A. 1 don’t know of any one being: there. Tells of Employes’ Arrival. Q How long after you arrived was it before others came In'* A. I don't know exactly, but think it was about half an hour. Several persons <«me in for pay ♦envelopes One man came in for his son's envelope and another for his step-son's enfelope. One was Jimmy Graham's father. y. Was it a half or a whole holi day? A It was Memorial Day and i he factory force had been granted a « Hole holiday The office force was to report for the handling of orders. q Did any girls come in for their 11h> envelopes? A. Nettie Smith got her*,and her sister’s. Q. Did you wait on them? A Yes. Q Were there any others in the office at the time? A I don't r^mem- ber Q Wan there a clerk in the of fice? A. The place of the clerk Is vacant, but it was being taken by one of the salesmen, Herbert Hchiff 1 do not remember whether or not he was at the office at the time I paid Nettie Smith. Q. Was Schiff in the office at the time you paid these envelopes? A No. sir. Q Who occupies the outer office? A. The Monographer Q Was there any one in the outer office at the time 0 A 1 don’t know. Q Who ia the stenographer? A. Miss Eubanks Q Do you know- her given name? A. No. Describes Morning’s Work. Q How long after you went there before aome one else connected with fu place came In’* A. About half an hour. Q Who was it that came in? A. Mr. Darley, Wade Campbell and sev ers! others. Q Can you tell us what you did during the morning? A Went over the mail and took up various matters with the managers and made up some orders. Then what did you do” A Went to the manager's office. Q What time was that? A About 1b o’clock. Q Did any one go with you? A. No. Q What did you do before this? X l talked several minutes with Darley and Campbell. Q- Hid you do anything at all on 'he financial sheet? A. No. Delves Into Busin*** Details. ‘ oroner Donehoo here questioned Crank at length on eacfft detail of his work in the office at the factory during the forenoon of Saturday. Vpril L’6, and as to the manner the financial sheets and cost sheets of the company were made up. Coroner Donehoo asked: Did you make out the financial sheets Saturday?” a. Yes Pastor Urges Inspectors To Protect Working Girls. Hr. Andrew R. Holdrrby. of Moore Memorial Presbyterian Church, re ferring to the Mary Phagan tragedy, • esterday urged that the city of A - lanta provide women Inspectors to ;ook afle the working girl* of the city. He also warned parents not to <11st uas the details or Ihe aftalr wl'h i iiair children. Atlanta has been excited and torn b> the sickening crime." said Dr. Holderbv. and the whole community has become demoralised. But why should we wax hysterical because one demon has committed a das tardly deed? The crime has been perpetrated, but It might have been <ix»n. In any other community Ef fort is being made to clear the mvi. tery and punish the criminal, so why should noi the public be satisfied ' "This city is no worse than others simply because one such crime has been enacted. The people and the police department are not to blame for the deed. Girls Exposed to Dangers. "One note of warning, however, may b* sounded. Atlanta can not be too careful of her working girls man\ of whom are exposed to the most insio mus of dangers T believe It is the duty of the city in afford the very besr, protection for these girls, and. of course. It Is the duty of every family to guard them Voung gtrls who come In contact with the public daily face untold dangers. Mothers and fathers, after all, muc give them their greatest protection "But the city should provide Inspec tors to look into conditions that sur- -.und working girls and the ireat- n er* accorded them, if this were r ne efficiently, there would- not like- • occur any such hideous clm-s t» ‘net pure and innocent girls." POTEAT DELIVERS Furman University President De clares Religious Despotism Has No Place in America. Dr Edwin M Poteat. president of Furman University, Greenville. H. delivered Sunday night at the Baptist Tabernacle the address which he at tempted to make before the Sociologi cal Congress’ last week and which wii stopped by the presiding officer. Dr A J. McKelway. "The National Stewardship'' was Dr Poteat'a subject. He disclaimed any intention of attacking either Jews or Catholic*, but stated that a discus sion of his theme necessitated men tion of the part plaved in history by the Jewish raoe and the Catholic Church; how that mf**ion had been fulfilled and that now th* American people were Intrusted with the charge of fostering democracy, both in gov ernment and religion Dr Poteat. In part, said "America Is commissioned of God to guarantee personal liberty, both relig ious and civic In Its final analysis the struggle of the world from the beginning of history ha a been one be tween despotism and democracy. Rus sia. Turkey and Germany—the latter In lesser degree are about the only countries in the world where despotic governmental rule still sways. China is the latest convert to the rule of de mocracy. Founded on Raligioua Liberty. "In religion it is the same Amer ica is founded or. ‘ ne principle of re ligious liberty, and the Catholic Church, which represents the hardest and most stringent despotic rule, has no place in America. As an American citia-n, 1 claim the right to fight a church that strikes at the foundation of democracy in re ligion. The priest is exactly 2.00(1 years out of date. When the veil of tlie temple was rent, the function of the priest was destroyed and the indi vidual was given personal access *lo God. "The Catholic priest Is the most enormous anachronism In the world to-day And while we are bound to recognize the right of every Individual to\ worship God as he chooses, the American nation can not. and will not, submit to the encroachments of ihe despot, even in religion. ‘‘The Jewish race lost Us divine commisHion when It rejected Jesus as the Saviour. Up to that time it hud been the leader In religion. Every great Idea contributed to the thought of the world came from the Jew*?; In fact, the Jews were chosen of God. but they rejected the stone that Is the keystone of the arch. Jawa’ Mission to Prapare. "The Jews’ mission was to prepare a soil for the reception of the t'hrls lian religion, for they were the first people of the world who conceived a God or deity who was moral. In busi ness and commerce the Jews are lead ers; in fact, there la buf one city in the worid where the Jew Is not at the very top In business He met his match in the Biot of Edinburgh. "In America to-day. the Immediate conflict is between the bosses and the people The whole country is watch ing Woodrow Wilson In deepest anx iety to see what he will do with the situation. But America's world mis sion to establish and preserve a kingdom In which the people rule, both in religion and in the national Government." • PHAGAN SLAYING MYSTERY Urges Enforcement of LawsRegulating Locker Clubs and Against Sun day Tippling, Questionable Houses and Carrying Concealed Weapons. Coroner's Jury Likely to Hold Both Prisoners Expect Hawthorne To Ask for Parole Priaon Board Probably Will Consider His Plea With 109 Othera Monday Afternoon. Julian Hawthornes plea for parole probably will be among the 109 ap plications considered when the At lanta Federal Prison Pardon Foard njeets Monday afternoon. The fact that a ruling of the presiding judge set the technical beginning of his sen tence of a year and one day for us ing the mails to promote a fraudu lent mining scheme for November. Instead of March, when he was in carcerated. makes him eligible to pa role at this time. The failure of R. V T,aDow. presi dent of the board, and Sewell Key, its secretary, to arrive early Monday morning delayed the session, sched uled for 9:30 o’clock. Members present when the meet ing was called and adjourned were William H. Moyer, wiruen of the prison; J. Calvin Weaver, prison phy sician: M. Ix Covington, parole offl cer. and Frank Rodgers, clerk. CRAZED RUSSIAN FANATIC KILLS 2, FATALLY HURTS 3 Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. ST. PETERSBURG. May 6 A Russian religious pilgrim, who had been given shelter last night by a farmer living near Pskov, went in sane during the night and attacked the family with a hatchet killing the wife and a child and fatally wound ing the farmer and two other chil dren. The maniac then tried to commit suicide. He was arrested. BANKER SENT TO PRISON. UOLUMBUS. OHIO, May 5.—George .1 Mag y, secretary of the defunct Teutonia Saving? and Loan Company, to-day pleaded guilty to the charge of making false reports and was sen tenced r 0 three years' imprisonment In i lie follow ing story will be i found tiie developments in the. Pha-; g;in case up to the time the inquest was resumed Monday afternoon: It is said, but without authority, that a great deal of very important evidence has been accumulated, blit that It will not be presented at the Coroner's inquest Instead, it will go directly Into the bands of So licitor Dorsey, who, as the chief prosecuting officer of Fulton County, Is really In charge of the case now, although it has never been the duty of a prosecuting officer to interfere with the functions of the Coroner. May Hold Both Lee and Frank. It seems probable that both Frank and Lee will be held for the Grand Jury. The testimony brought out at ihe Coroner's inquest will be turned over to Solicitor Dorsey, who wi'l study it carefully and make such fur ther investigations as he may deem necessary, using the detective force of the city for that purpose. Judge Ellis of the Superior Court on Monday instructed the May Grand Jury to investigate the mystery In a thorough manner. It Is not likely, however, that the Grand Jury will take up the caae for several days. The matter of presenting evidence on which indictments may b found is In the hands of Solicitor Dorsey. H * has charge' of the Grand Jury, and it is he who presents the evidence and who frames the indictments, and it. may take him several days o strengthen tain links in the chain of evidence. so that when Indictment are brought they will be found to bo legally correct and will leave no op portunity for the lawyers engaged by the accused to make objections lr court. It is the Intention of Solicitor Dor sey to keep secret all evidence in his possession until the matter has been passed upon by the Grand Jury, in dictments found and the case brought to trial Frank Maintaina His Innocence. Everything depends upon what transpires at the Coroner’s inquest. Frank's testimony may make neces sary an entirely new deal of the cards. He etlll maintains his innocence, and Lawyer Rosser, his counsel, declares that there is no evidence by which to connect him with the case. Coroner Donehoo will hold a con ference with Chief of Detectives Lan- ford and Solicitor Dorsey before the inquest to decide upon the witnesses who will be asked to testify. In addition to Lee and Frank, the detectives will have on hand persons they have been interrogating since the inquest adjourned last Thursday. Sev eral of these are said to have made disclosures of great Importance. Dorsey’s Action Misconstrued. There seems to be a misapprehen sion in the public mind about the at titude of Solicitor Dorsey. Rumors on the streets and gossip in newspaper? that he "has taken the Phagan case out of the hands of the police and out of the control of the Coroner” is not true, for the very simple reason that Mr. Dorsey is the chief prosecuting officer of Fulton County, superior to the police, the detectives and the Cor oner. lie may act with them or inde pendently of them As Solicitor he is the most important official in the county government, more powerful than the Mayor or the Police Com mission The Phagan case is in the hands of Mr. Dorsey now, as it has been from the beginning The function of the Coronet's office is simply to gather testimony and evi. dence that is turned over to the So licitor for him to act upon. Statement by Solicitor. Solicitor Dorsey made this state ment : "Mr. Scott, of the Pinkertons, has given to this office valuable informa tion The policy of the Pinkertons is to establish the truth. They recog nize that this > (floe will receive from them to that end any information they have, but under no circum stances do they expect to get any in formation we have gathered from other sources. The Grand Jury did not take up the Phagan case Monday. After passing on a number of routine matters It adjourned until Friday, but in the meantime will hold itself in readiness to a call from the Solicitor should he deem it necessary Mr. Dorsey said he was agreeably satisfied with the progress he had made in the case, and he was de veloping every clew' that was of im portance. He has given over his en tire time to directing the investiga tion, he said, and would not see any one to-dev except on matters relating to it. Deputies from his office and private detectives in the county's employ have made search after search of the building Many articles that were left there by the police have been brought to his office, and will be kept there until examined Monday a dir tv. grease-soaked broom and the lan tern that was in the cellar, were brought to his office. He will have them examined for blood stains or finger prints He said that to the best of his knowledge the coroner’s inquest would be resumed Monday afternoon. Coroner Donehoo said that practi cally all of the employees of the pen cil factory would be at the inquest this afternoon ready to testify if called upon. With the employees of the paper factory wnere Mary Phagan worked before she wont to the pencil factory the witnesses will total nearly 100. The detectives say that all of these persons, a large number of whom were 911 the streets the Saturday aft ernoon of the tragedy, already have been questioned and that none of them saw Mary Phagan after she is known to have gone to the pencil fac tory for her money Saturday noon Chief Lanford was authority for the statement to-day that probably some of the most important evidence would noi be disclosed ar tne -inquest, but would be reserved and presented be fore the Grand Jury. ‘‘We are not showing our full hand yet.” said one of the detectives. "We will submit sufficient evidence before the coroner? Jury to warrant holding the two men now in custody, but we do not deem it advisable to tell every thing until we present it to the grand jury. Three or four of our most Im portant witnesses will be saved until after the case goes to the Grand Jury." Rumor of New Important Witness. A rumor is in circulation that among the witnesses for whom the detectives have been searching is a young woman who Is said to have been wifTl Mary Phagan when Mary went to get her pay envelope Satur day noon at the pencil factory. The identity of the mysterious girl has not been disclosed. The report is that she was overheard to remark that she waited outside the factory w'hile Mary was in getting her envelope, and that after she had waited about half an hour a man came out and told her she needn’t wait any longer, as Mary would be detained by some work she had to do. The detectives immediately started a search for the young woman In tlie hope that she would be able to give a good description of the man who told her she need wait no longer. Miss Beulah Daniel, daughter of G. T. Dan iel. of Mableton, Ga.. wa« in a Mari etta store when she overheard the conversation, but little importance was attached to it until she repeated it to her father. He then notified the au thorities and the search was taken up. Bloodstain Tests Kept Secret. Dr Claude A. Smith. Ci^ Bacteri ologist. to whom the shirt found in a barrel at Lee’s home was given for an analysis of the bloodstains, would not make public the result of his in vestigation this forenoon. Chief Lan ford said that he would rece've the* report later. Chief Lanford’s secretary. G. C. February, was occupied this forenoon in compiling all of the statements made thus far to the detectives and In making a review of all the clew's that had been received and followed to their original source. The com pilation will be added to as new de velopments occur. Efforts to cap Lee Fail. Hoping to catch Newt Lee in som admission that will signify that he has more knowledge of the killing of Mai*} Phagan tha he has been willing to tell, Deputy John Owen, who has been stationed at the jail nights, has kept a very close watch on the prisoner and has questioned him repeatedly. After talking with* Lee for some time last night. Owen posted a man behind the watchman's ce'l to learn what he would say to his cellmate, Dewberry, who is waiting to hang fir murder. "They seem to think you know more about the murder than you have to’ i them,” Dewberry was heard to say Lee. "I’ve told them everything I ktoow," was the reply. "They seem o think you’re trying to protect some man. Dewberry con tinued. ‘‘I declare, if l knew who did It, I would tell quick enough and get my self out of this.” Let said. Gompers' Sentence In Bucks Case Cut Court of Appeals Reduces Punish ment for Contempt to Thirty Days in Jail. WASHINGTON. May 5 The Dis trict of Columbia Court of Appeals to-day reduced the sentence of Sam uel Gompers. president of the Ameri can Federation of Labor, in the Bucks Stove and Range Company contempt case to 30 days in jail. The sentences of John Mitchell, vice president, and Frank Morrison, secre tary were remitted and fines of $500 imposed. Chief Justice Shepard dissented. Judge W. D Ellis, of the Superior Court, delivered the following ad dress to the new Grand Jury, and touched upon the Phagan case: ‘‘Under our system of judicial pro cedure. we have in the Superior Court of this county six terms each year. Grand juries are drawn and Impaneled at each term, but the du ties of making investigations into matters of a general nature, such as the inspection of the offices, the books, papers and records of the Clerk of the Superior Court, of the Ordinary and of the County Treas urer. the duty of examination of pub lic buildings and their condition, the examinations of the lists of voters, and the examination of convict camps, the inspection of the jail and such other matters concerning the public welfare, the peace and good order of the county at large, are re quired at the March and September terms "While such matters are looked after by the grand Jurie of the terms named, yet you are not pro hibited from inquiring into such mat ters if you deem it necessary, or if brought to your attention by the court or the ^Solicitor General. Cites Violation of Liquor Law. ‘ You are impaneled at this the May tefm specially to Inquire into and take action upon cases of viola tion of the penal code. While you are to consider all violations of the law. and bring to trial by presentment or indictment all who are probably guilty of crime, 1 w ill call your spe cial attention to some matters. ‘‘Look to the violation of the law against the sale of intoxicating liq uors. Find true bills against all who conduct clubs, which are run for the purpose of selling liquor. Un der the law*locker clubs can be oper ated, but if a club is organized or maintained for the purpose of mak ing money by the sal» of intoxicating liquors, those who operate or main tain it are violators of the law. "If a locker club, organized for so cial pleasure, is conducted as such an organization, it is permitted that the' members may keep liquor as a part Ct the social establishment; but if the sale of intoxicating liquor is the pur pose and the social feature only an excuse for the organization or opera tion, then those who run such an al leged club are guilty and should be brought to trial. Defines Tippling Houses. ‘‘I want again to call your special attention to Keeping open tippling houses on the Sabbath day. Every club, no matter how well organized and operated within the law, is a tip pling house if the members are per mitted to assemble there on Sunday and drink intoxicating liquors. Even a private citizen would be guilty of keeping a tippling house on the Sab bath day if he allows his friends and neighbors to assemble in his parlor and drink intoxicating liquors on Sunday, and this would be true even If he furnished the liquor free or al lowed those who assemble to bring it with them. I charge you to look closely into this matter. “I wish to Invite your careful at tention to the law against carrying concealed weapons. No man. under the law. has a tight to carry a con cealed weapon. Officers of the law may openly carry them and private persons may carry them openly oy obtaining a license, but nobody has a right to carry a deadly weapon con cealed. This is a free country, and life and person ought to be safe in it. ‘‘Good people do not go armed, but the vicious and desperate do go armed. The good citizen is certainly as cour ageous as the bad. and he is entitled to walk In the pathways of life with out being at the disadvantage of be ing shot down by some cowardly vil lain who walks about armed and equipped for slaughter. Law Bars “Gun Totars.*’ • “If all men are to have an equal showing, all ought to be allowed to go armed or all ought to be compelled to go about unarmed. The law has decided which equality shall exist, r and It declares that no man shall go about with concealed weapons and none shall carry pistols even openly unless he shows some reason for It and publicly procures a license. “It is claimed that public houses of prostitution have been abated in this county. Of course, it is desirable that prostitution should cease, but the abatement of the evil of lewd houses in known localities makes it most probable that assignation houses will spring up. and that the illicit intercourse will be shifted from known localities to dark and secret places. “A thousand such cases are not in the aggregate so revolting as one case of seduction of a virtuous girl or the rape fttt4 murder of Life Mary Pha gan. I charge you to look carefully and deliberately into all these mat ters. and especially to investigate sus pected places of assignation or houses or places run for the purpose of pros titution under the name of rooming houses "The Mary Phagan case call* for your immediate and vigorous attention. The power of the State is behind you. What ap pears to be an awful crime ha* been committed and the welfare of the community, the good name of Atlanta, public justice and the majesty of the law demand at the hands of this Grand Jury and of all officers of the law the most searching investigation and the prompt brtnging to trial of the guilty party. "This is a good community. There are thousands of intelligent and law- abiding people, a vast majority of our people are good and virtuous, but, like all other communities, there are bad people in it. The reputation and progress of Atlanta attracts to it large numbers of people from all parts of tne country' and some of the worst people from other places come here and add themselves to the baa element of our county. Let the Grand Jury get after the bad element. You indict all violators of the law In Fulton County and the court will see that speedy trials will follow and that certain punishment will be in flicted on the guilty. Should Not Exploit Crima. ”1 do not sympathize with the com mon cry that humanity ic* all bad. I do not believe that the tendency of humanity is for the bad. I beiievo that it is unfair to cry out in a sort of wail of despair because crime fs committed. I doubt if the holding out to public view of all the frailties of the human tide is conducive to the public good. “There is no perfect community anywhere, and probably never will be upon thq face of this, world of ours; but in trying to elevate and promote good citizenship, in trying to suppress crime and disorder, we should not be led into the error of bringing reproach upon the people of one of the best communities in the world by exploit ing the misdeeds of a few . "Let us rather contend for reaching to the high level of honesty and virtue and at the same time ferret out and punish the guilty who are upon us, and who, by their conduct, violate the laws which condemn the vicious and which give praise to and provide for the well-being and safety of the good. Recalls Oath of Secrecy. ”1 want to remind you of your duty as to matters which occur in tiie Grand Jury room. Your oath is to keep secret the State’s counsel, your fellows’ and your own. unless called on to give evidence thereof in a court of justice. “The object of the law is to allow the utmos 1 ; freedom in the Grand Jury room, in making honest and fair in vestigations. It is bad faith, and a violation of his oath, for a grand juror to tell what transpires in their delib erations. but it is not an uncommon thing for the general public to be in formed of things that transpire during the investigation of alleged crimes. “Look to this, and if there is a vio lation of It. you should investigate, And out who has betrayed the confi dence reposed, and report to the court the offending person.” Police Hunt Missing Tallulah Falls Man Mystery 8hrouds Whereabout* of Thomas Smithson, Who Dis appeared Last Wednesday. Mysteriously missing since last Wednesday, Thomas Smithson, chief mechanic at Tallulah Falls, is being sought Monday by the police. Smithson disappeared in Atlanta, and his wife, who Is here aiding in the search, fears harm may have be fallen him. Smithson came here Tuesday to ! have some repair work done on a house he owns at 180 Hampton ,,Street. He visited this place Wednes day, made all plans for the work, land then vanished. He is 51 years I of age. Mrs. Smithson is at the home of The American-Georgian ?ony Contest Vote Coupons Hearst's Sunday American and Atlanta Georgian PONY CONTEST VOTE COUPON, MONDAY. WAY 5, 1S13 GOOD FOR 5 VOTES Voted for .* % Address Voted by CARRIERS’ AND AGENTS' BALLOT. Hearst’s Sunday American and Atlanta Georgian PONY CONTEST VOTE COUPON, MONDAY, MAY 5, 1913 GOOD FOR 5 VOTES * Voted for Address Voted by . SCHOOL BOYS’ AND GIRLS’ BALLOT. HI 11; GIRL PIKEVTLLE. KY„ May 5.—The story of how a 16-year-old girl, in an effort to end the moonshining ca reer of her two brothers, caused two deaths and the serious wounding of another man, was told in official dis patches to the Government authori ties to-day. The girl, Ardelia Hall, went to Deputy United States Marshal Mark Porter, tn Pikeville, Ky., and told him where her brothers were running a moonshine w’hisky still at Blue Notch, in the mountains, and offered to lead a party of officers to the spot. Porter swore in John Sloan, of Pikeville. and Marlon Ramey, of Elk- horn City, Ky., as deputies and, led by the girl, went to the still. They were destroying the apparatus •when fired on from ambush by Solo- man Hall, Dave Hall and Tom Rid dle, a negro,. Sloan and Ramey fell dead and Porter was seriously wounded. Por ter returned the fire, using Sloan’s re volver, until he became unconscious. The moonshiners seized the girl and were dragging her toward the Virginia State line when she broke away and, catching Porter’s horse, rode into Elkhorn City and spread the alarm. A posse is searching the moun tains for the moonshiners, and a bat tle is expected If they are overtaken. ED TO MERGER her half-brother, Alva Murdock, 55 Howell Street. Debts Paid by Mother; Martin May Return It Is Believed Missing American Will Sail from London This Week. j Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. j LONDON, May 5.—Although the J. j Wilberforce Martin mystery remains unsolved, it is said here that his dis appearance was arranged by his cred itors, to whom he owed about $300 - 000. Scotland Yard received word from Memphis that. Martin’s debts, had been settled by his mother. He now is at liberty to return home. It is be lieved Martin has returned to Lon don and will sail for America this week. f JURY IN SMITH SLAYING TRIAL UNABLE TO AGREE SPRINGFIELD, OHIO, May 5.—The jury in the case of Dr. Arthur Smith, charged with the murder of his wife, disagreed to-day. The jury had been out since Saturday afternoon. SIXTY NEWSPAPER MEN ARE ARRESTED IN MEXICO CITY MEXICO CITY. May 5.—Sixty newspaper men are under arrest here fora demonstration protesting against the suppression of the radical news- paper 1 -* El Voto and Vox de Juarez. Council Ignores New Woodward Charges No Official Attention Will be Paid to Fire Alarm Accusations—Mayor Threatens Court. Council will approve the report of the investigating committee exoner ating all city officials of charges < f graft, it was declared Monday. Beth committees were in session up to 3 o’clock drafting the reports, and ah the members were agreed. The re ports will be read Monday afternoon. Mayor Woodward’s new* bitter crit- lcsms of excess charges on the n w tire alarm system will pass without formal official attention from Council. Mayor Woodward himself said he ex pected no action from Council. “The only way 1 have of making ■ effective fight is to refuse to sign th check for the first payment on .he system and air the matter in court,*” he said. “I don’t expect to get any real action from Council on these graft charges. They can’t afford t? condemn anyone.” He said he did' not know yet wheth er he w ould take his fire alar a charges into court. Forces Way in Jail And Shoots Prisoner Montgomery Lawyer Tries to Avenge j Slaying of Uncle—Crazy, Says Father. MONTGOMERY. ALA. May 5.—W. J. Fuller, widely known lawyer, rush »d I by the turnkey at the county jail to day, and. drawing a pistol, fir°d through the bars of a big cage where negroes were confined. A negro, charged with some minor crime, re ceived a painful flesh wound in the leg. Fuller intended the bullet for another negro, Bud Hannon, charged with the slaying of his uncle, Consta ble Thurman, here last week, b it Hannon escaped unharmed. Fuller’s father appeared at the iei shortly afterward and stated he would sue out a writ of lunacy for his son, the latter himself now being held as a prisoner, charged with assault with intent to murder. Bequeathing the bulk of her esrtatn, amounting from $115,000 to $120,000. to Mercer University, the will of the late Mrs. Barbara C. Dodd, who died here April 30, was filed for probate in the Fulton County Court of Ordinary Monday. To the Gr^dy Memorial Hospital Mrs. Dodd 1 bequeathed the proceeds of a $2,000 fund for the maintenance >f the infants’ ward at the hospital. This amount was left in trust with the Central Bank and Trust Corporation together with a like amount for the Georgia Baptist Orphanage at Han - ville. A sum of $1,500 was i*n trust for the maintenance of her grave, any excess in its earnings to go to Mer cer. w Mrs. Fannie 1 Ackerman, of New York, sister of Mrs. Dodd, receives $5,000 outright, while her brother, Henry E. Dibble, of CampbellsCounty, was left the earnings of $5,000 placed in trust with C. E. Currier, executor of the estate. Barbara E. Dibble, a niece, living in Montgomery, receives $2,000 and a handsome marquis ring set with nine diamonds. All her other jewelry is to be sold by the Central Bank and Trust Cor- poratlon k the proceeds to go to the Home for Old Women in Atlanta. This will amount to several thousand dollars. The remainder of the Dodd estate is bequeathed to Mercer University, which, it is estimated, will comprise an immediate donation of practically $100,000. At the death of her broth r an additional $5,000 will go^to the Baptist college, it having been made residuary beneficiary. Mrs. Dodd whs the widow of Philip Dodd, a wealthy wholesale grocer o*f Atlanta, reputed as a man of great wealth. She had but the two near rel atives. None of their children, except the niece in Montgomery, was named as beneficiary in the will. It is said that in 1000 Mrs. Dodd destroyed a will by w’hich she. had bequeathed most of her property to relatives. "N Next week. Beautiful Bedding Plants, 3c each. Atlanta Floral j Co., 555 E. Fair Street. Our Christmas Saving Club Is Still Open By special request we have extended the time for a few days longer, and have rydered new supplies. But when these supplies are exhausted, the Club must close. Join today and avoid disappoint ment A nickel will start you. 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