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l.asi night, shortly after midnight, me
officers went to the place. Bowen an
ew ored a knock at his room door. an< :
then straightened himself and looked
directly at the officers.
Holds Knife in Hand.
"Who are you fellows and what do
\nu want here?" he asked.
The officers answered thot^ they
wanted to talk to him apd he then In
vited them into his room. He kept a
distance from them, however, and he'd
an open knife in hi* right hand. Bow-
n appeared nervous throughout th:«
. nnversation of perhaps fifteen min
utes, but replied to all querlc*
promptly and to the point.
When one of them told him to "con
sider yourself under arrest" he coolly
answered. "That’s all right, but you’ve
got the wrong man"
Bowen closed his knife and handed
1t to an officer and sat on the wide of
the bed. To one officer he pointed out
his trunk and suitcase—a small affair
In the nature of a traveling man’s
grip. As the officers opened the trunk
they lifted out clothes—some nice
ones that Indicated a well-dressed
man—and these, with letters, post
cards and pictures, were piled on the
floor.
if I had a gun you never would go
through that trunk.” said Bowen. "The
things in there are mine, and not
yours I don’t know anything about
this affair and you'll have to show mo
strong."
Stoutly Denies Crime.
Officers talked to him for more than
an hour at the police station, but
p.owen stoutly denied any knowledge
■r the killing of the young girl. He
ontinued to show nervousness,
‘though, and frequently inquired of
the detectives why he should be treat
ed the way they were doing him.
if I had the least suspicion that
this would happen to me, 1 would not
have been in Houston this long," he
said. "1 would have left here Sunday
night."
Bowen was taken from the room
ing house to the police station and
was pla ed in a cell across the hall
from the Chief of Detectives' offices.
He slept but little and did not undress
to lie down. This morning he was at
the cell door early and looked hag
gard .
Bowen complained of being hungry.
He declared that he was tired—al
most worn out. lie walked the floor
nervously, then sat down on the side
of his cot. Next he stepped to the
grating and Inquired If he whs going
to be allowed to starve to death or
would he be given some breakfast.
About 9 o’clock he was taken into a
private office with Chief of Detec
tives Peyton and Detective Andrew F.
Shelly. He admitted that he lived In
Atlanta and had come from that city
to Houston, but stoutly denied that he
even knew Mary Phagan.
Only Interested, He Says.
When shown the pictures in his
trunk and grip, he pointed out a num
ber of persons, including several
young women, though he declared that
none of them was "Mary Phagan or
any of her kinfolk ”
Bowen Well Educ&tod.
Bowen is 22 years of age and has
light hair. He is well dressed and
well educated. He has been a book
keeper and stenographer, and claimed
ihat he worked in Atlanta for the
Morrow Transfer Company. He gave
his home address as 108 Ivy Street.
He‘Claimed this was his first visit
TDEGULARcare
AV 0 f the teeth is
taught in thou
sands of schools—
because it is worth
while. That has
been proved.
Introduce the “Good
Teeth—Good Health”
idea into your family
today—every one will
profit by it, not only
in better looks, but
also in better health.
But be sure you select a
dentifrice that has no in
soluble grit to scratch.
Be sure also that it is
antiseptic, to check decay,
yet not over - medicated.
Be sure it is delicious in
flavor to make its use
pleasant and therefore reg
ular. Such a dentifrice is
COLGATE'S
RIBBON “***
DENTftL CREDM
Consult your dentist about it
— ask him for a copy of the
booklet “Oral Hygiene.” pub
lished by Colgate £& Company
to Houston He declined to talk to
officers or to tell anything about his
kinspeopl* or any of his business
connections except as given above.
Bowen is slight of build, perhaps B
feet 6 or 7 Inches In height. He
weighs about 126 pounds and appears
brisk and energetic.
He admitted to officers that he had
lived In Atlanta nearly till his life.
He denied, however, that lie knows
anything about the National Pencil
Factory, Leo Frank, the manager, or
nny persons connected with or em
ployed In the factory.
He talked freely about some mut
ters and evasively about others, /ef
forts to corner the young man In
every Instance proved futile.
Letter Signed "M. J. P."
A hundred pictures In his trunk
show auto rides and picnic parties,
individual pictures and groups and
couples. When shown them he mere
ly laughed and made a Jocular re-
| mark about some girl "being pretty.”
There are batches of letters and
1 postcards.
The letters were nearly all from
young women, some of them were
endearing ones. A few were from
young men friends.
Man\ of the letters are signe 1
“Mary," but none is signed "Mary
Phagan." The signature to one let -
j ter is merely the Initials, “M. J. P.”
This Is believed by the Houston po
lice to have been written by the Pha-
! gan girl.
Woman’s Bloodstained Vest.
Hanging from the window of room
■214 in the St. .lean Hotel was found a
! woman’s bloodstained undervest. It
was of small size, as If for u girl from
14 to 16 years of age. The discovery
| of the trader vest was made yesterday
morning. A guest at the hotel saw' U
fluttering from the window and ad
vised an attache of the place. It was
wrapped In a paper and sent to the
police station.
It is believed that an effort was
made to throw the vest out of the
window and that it caught on the
ledge. It was not seen there before
Monday morning, and two guests at
the hotel declared that It was not
there Sunday night. The vest wan
bloodstained toward the top of the
I breast and about halfway down the
! front. The vest Is being held In con
nection with other properties by the
| detectives.
towen told the officers again an<T
I again that he had never heard of the
! girl, but admitted that he knew the
I place where she had worked. Bowen
failed to explain the newspaper clip
pings containing accounts of the mur
der. He was shown them and por
tions of them were read to him. He
admitted that he Is familiar with the
story of the crime, through reading
the papers, and said his Interest was
simply because Atlanta is his home.
Bowen came to Houston Sunday
night, presumably Tom New Orleans,
although this has not been deter
mined. as the prisoner declined to
talk about his arrival as freely as In
did other matters. He went directly
to the St. Jean Hotel and asked for
a dollar room.
"Sorry, sir, but we haven’t got any
thing less than dollar-flfty,’’ said the
clerk Bowen turned and walked to
the door with his grip In his hand.
The clerk called him, but he did not
heed it and started out. The clerk
ran to the door and explained that he
had Just discovered a dollar room va
cant. The young man returned and
registered. On the book he wrote
"Paul P. Bowen, Atlanta, Ha.." boldly.
There was no effort to conceal his
identity or the city from whence he
came
The young man went to his room
and a few minutes later went out for
supper. He had registered at 7:45
o’clock. Before 9 o’clock he was In
his room. He did not retire at that
hour, though
Opening his grip, it developed,
Bowen read and reread some letters.
Most of them were from young
women.
He wept and then threw aside the
missives. Picking from among the
contents of the grip a number of
newspaper clippings, he pored over
them as If eager to get every word of
every sentence. Then he moaned
aloud: "Oh, If I hadn’t done that!
Whut did I do it for?"
A youth named Paul A. Bowen lived
at the Atlanta V. M. C A. until Feb
ruary of 191:5, when he left for Hous
ton. Texas, according to Secretary J.
<' Bell, of the Atlanta association
Mr Bell said Bowen was an ideal
young man and stood high in the esti
mation of the Y. M. C. A workers of
Atlanta. He was a cleric at the* Inman
Yards of me Southern Railway.
Mr. Bell said that to the best of his
knowledge Bowen had not been in At
lanta since he left in 1912. Bowen
’ms living at the Y. M C A. when
Secretary Be’! took up his duties there
and lie din not know how long Bowen
; had been in Atlanta.
—
Defends Bowen.
Charles Kimball, a clerk in the
I master mechanic’s office at the South
j ern Railway shops and a close per-
sonal triend of Paul P. Bowen's, said
| this morning, when seen by a Geor
gian reporter, that he did not be-
I lieve his friend could be in any way
; implicated in the murder of little
i Mary Phagan.
I have Just come back from the
i detectives' office, where I went to car-
, rv a letter which 1 received from
Paul on Sunday morning. April 27*
| he said. "There is nothing unusual
about the letter. It is simplv a per
sonal letter about affairs in which
we were both interested, and my onlv
idea of showing it to the detectives
at all is that it bears a postmark
which might serve to divert sus
picion from him. The letter is dated
( and postmarked Lufkin. Texas. April
; 23. I gave the letter to Detectives
Black and Harry Scott
i As for Bowen, personally, he had a
great many friends here in Atlanta,
and I am sure that they do not take
any stock in the theory that he had
anything to do with the murder or
was even in Atlanta at the time.
"He left here in the early part of
last spring and went to El Dorado.
*“ where he was employed in the
a
OF TRAGEDY
Factory Superintendent Explains
Every Hour of the Saturday
Phagan Girl Was Slain.
Here Is told how Frank passed the
whole day of the Saturday when Mary
Phagan was killed. The following is
taken from Frank’* testimony:
7 o'clock a. m.—Arose and dressed H
home.
—Left home for factory.
8:20—Arrived at factory.
8:50 or 9 M D. Darie.v and other-
entered there.
10— Went over to office of Sig Montag,
factory manager, on Nelson Street.
11— Went ba<% to the factory office.
12— Stenographer and office boy left
him alone In office.
12:10 p. m. Mary Phagan came for
her pay; got It and left He heard
her footstep* die away, aild went on
with hi* work, thinking no more
about her. When she left he thought
he heard her voice In til© outer of
fice.
12:15 or 12:20 Lonnie Quinn, fore
man of the department where Mary
worked, came in.
12:25—Quinn left.
1 —Left the factory.
1:20—Arrived home.
1:40—Finished lunch with his father-
in-law.
2— Left home for factory.
2:40 Spoke to Miss Rebecca ('arson,
forewoman in his factory, in front
of Rich’s store on Whitehall Street.
3— Arrived again at the* factory.
3:10—White and Denham left; he re
mained entirely alone in the factory.
3:20 -Latched the street door behind
them.
3:45—Night Watc hman Newt Lee, ne
gro, came, lie let negro go away
again.
5:30—Finished work on the financial
sheet.
—Finished balancing cash; night
watchman came hack Frank wash
ed his handy, and left factory, leav
ing night watchman with J. M
Gantt.
6:25— Arrived home
6:30—Wife and mother-in-law came
in just as he was telephoning to the
factory. Got no answer there.
7—Telephoned again. Night watch
man told him everything was all
right. He ate supper.
9:30— After smoking and reading since
supper, he went upstairs and lit the
gas heater.
10:30—Bathed.
11—Went to bed.
Sunday, April 27.
7:30 a. m.—Awakened by the phon
Informed of the tragedy. Went to
undertaker’s shop and identities
Mary Phagan’s body as that of th
girl whom lie had paid the afternoon
before,
ATLANTA MAN TO WED
GIRL IN PHILADELPHIA
PHILADELPHIA, May 6 A mar-
rlage license has been issued here
to Harry Weinberg, an optician, of
18-A West Mitchell Street, Atlanta,
to Miss Pearl Arcovit, 2859 Janney
Street, Philadelphia. Me is 30 years
old and she Is 24. They will be
married here to-day.
TURKEY FASTS 24 DAYS.
WHITE OWL. S. I).. May 6 Mil,
Carney, a farmer, has just uncovered
a turkey from a snow hank Which
drifted over it 24 days ago. The tur.
fcey was emaciated but very much
alive.
H UGH DORSEY, Solicitor General of Fulton Superior Court,
now bending every effort toward the solution of the Pha
gan mystery. He is following every clew, and in every way
exerting all his powers and ability in clearing the baffling case.
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Solicitor General Hugh Dorsey.
Phagan Case and the Solicitor Gen
eral’s Power Under Law—Dorsey
Hasn’t Encroached on Coroner.
I A j* mm t
I offices ot the Rock island lines a*
1 clerk. He later became private sec
retary to the superintendent of the St.
Louis and Southwestern line. an1
spent a great deal of his time travel
ing over the lines in the superintend
ent's private car.
“1 have been in correspondence with
him almost continually since ho left
here and have received letters from
him from a great many points out
West."
All the local authorities were in
clined to belittle the Importance of
the Bowen arrest.
Innocent, Says Lanford.
Chief of Detectives Lanford de
clared his belief in the innocence of
Paul Bowen Tuesday. He said that
the detectives of his department had
been tracing the movements of
Bowen since he left Atlanta about
a year ago after he had left the em
ploy of the Morrow Transfer Com
pany. of which he was secretary. In
all this time, said the cnief of d'
tectives, they were unable to find
that he had returned to Atlanta.
On the contrary, Bowen had writ
ten to friends in Atlanta from va
rious points and hail never suggest
ed returning home.
"Bowen didn’t know the girl." said
the chief. "He didn’t know' the girl’s
family. It is preposterous to think
that he would niake a hurried and
secret trip into the city from Lufkin,
Texas, where he was heard from in
a letter hearing the date of April 23,
and then make his way back to Hous
ton, where he was captured.
“Our disbelief in his guilt, however,
does not mean that we are going to
overlook any possibility that he
might have been concerned. Me is
being held for us"
Another Defends Him.
(Marence Duncan, a student at the
Atlanta Dental College, and Bowen’s
room mate at the Young Men’s Chris-
tlon Association, declared Tuesday
afternoon that Bowen had not been In
Atlanta, to his knowledge, sinc^ last
June.
Brother Declares Bowen
Left Georgia in August.
NEW NAN. GA. May 6.—Paul P.
Bowen, arrested in Houston, Texas,
on suspicion of complicity in the mur
der of Mary Phagan. could not have
been connected w ith the Atlanta mys- I
tery, according to members of his j
family here.
Albert Bowen, a brother, said Paulj
Bow en hap been in the Wes*t since I
last August, when he went to Ar
kansas to work for the Rock Island
Railroad. He has never been back
to Georgia since, he declared, but lias
spent the time in Arkansas, Okla
homa and Texas.
On April 21. Albert Bowen declared,
he received a letter from Paul, writ
ten at Alto. Texas, April 17 and
mailed at Tyler. T* \as. April 18, in
which he mentioned having been to
Lufkin a few days before. Another
letter, he said, was written from El
Reno, Okla., April 4. and one was re
ceived juvt previous to that from
Warren. Ark.
The Bowen family stands well here,
the brother. Albert, and father being
connected with fiiercantile establish
ments here in responsible positions.
Friends of the family declare their
belief in Paul Bowen's innocence.
By A GEORGIA LAWYER.
li is absurd to say, as some peo
ple have been saying in Atlanta of
late, that Solicitor General Dorsey
“has taken the Phagan case from the
Coroner," or has "butted in" on the
Coroner’s business in some way.
It would be equally sensible to
say that the commanding general in
a battle had "butted In" on a cap
tain’s business, when, as the battle
progressed, the general gave dire •-
tions of one sort and another to the
captain as to its conduct.
The truth of the matter is, Solicitor
General Dorsey has been in charge of
the* Mary Phagan case ever since it
was brought to light.
Murder is a crime against the sov
ereign State, and not particularly
against either the city of Atlanta or
the county of Fulton, save in so far as
they are a part of the State.
A murder in Atlanta is as mu h
Savannah’s business as It is Atlanta' \
so far as the violation of the laws of
Georgia are concerned.
Solicitor Dorsey is a State official,
and not specifically an Atlanta offi
cial. nor yet a Fulton County offi
cial.
Office Useless in Main.
For certain purposes a Coroner's
inquest sometimes is permitted under
the law prior to Grand Jury Inves
tigation. Many lawyers hold, and
rightly, that the office of Coroner Is
useless in the main, and ought to be
abolished. It Is a relic of old English
procedure, instituted before the days
of newspapers, telephones, telegrams,
fast mails and other quick methods
of communication.
In the absence of eyewitnesses to an
apparent murder, however, a Coro
ner's inquest sometimes may serve an
immediate purpose, and. perhaps, the
Phagan case is a case in point with
regard to that.
The Coroner Is "an officer entire y
and definitely subordinate to the So
licitor General, and does not exercise
any authority except such as he may
exercise under the Solicitor.
The Solicitor assembles*, in his dis
cretion. the evidence against the ac
cused, from it makes out a case for
the Grand Jury, advises and instructs
the Grand Jury as to its duty and
rights in the matter, prepares an in
dictment for the Grand Jury’s consid
eration. which, if found true, must t>e
depended upon to set forth the case
against the defendant to be sum
moned to bar in such exact terms that-
it may be guaranteed to withstand
all attacks of opposing counsel in the
trial of the case.
Ha s Full Responsibility.
The initial and the final responsi
bility for the State's case Is in the
hand* of the Solicitor General.
There never is a minute from the
time a murder is committed until a
verdict is recorded that the State’s
•*uuse is not in the hands of the So
licitor General, over and above all
other officials. .
He can not take a murder cast
“from out the hands of a Coroner,"
because there never was a point of
time in am murder case’s history
that it was not more In the hands of
the Solicitor than it possibly could
have been In the hands of the Cor
oner.
No man may be put in jeopardy of
his life a second time in Georgia (save
of his own motion) in criminal pro
cecdings, but the "verdict” of a Cor
oner’s jury can not be pleaded as for
mer jeopardy.
Policemen, Coroners, Sheriffs are all
peace officers, and have their direct
and indirect duties to perform in tire
presence of crime against the State,
but never is there a time when any
one of them is equal in dignity or au
thority to the Solicitor General.
There is but one trial, upon motion
of the State, of a criminal case in
Georgia, and that is in the court
house, under the direction of the So
licitor.
If a defendant be acquitted, that
ends the matter. If he be convicted,
he may move for another trial or ap
peal to a competent court of review.
The State has no appeal.
Therefore, the law very properly
provides that Coroners’ findings, com
mittal hearings and Grand Jury re
turn;-? shall be merely parts of the
process employed, or permitted, by
the Solicitor, in whole or in part,
prior to the actual trial of a case in
the court house, before the judge and
the trial jury.
There never is any question of the
Solicitor General’s supreme prosecut
ing status in the progress of a crim
inal investigation. Within the wide
and sometimes arbitrary scope of his
office he stands first in responsibility
as the State’s accredited representa
tive and agent in the prosecution.
To be sure, there arc Constitutional
and statutory curbs and restrictions
upon a Solicitor General, but none of
them may be invoked by a Coroner.
MAN TEACHER SUSPENDED
FOR WHIPPING GIRL PUPIL
ANNISTON, ALA., May 6.—Pro-
fessor Palmer L. Williams, associate
principal of the Oxford High School,
has been suspended by the board of
trustees and formally charged with
assault and battery as a result of
severe thrashing lie is alleged to have
administered to Miss Alma Wflkerson,
daughter of T. W. Wilkerson, a dairy
man who lives in South Anniston.
ACTIVELY URGED
Councilmen and Officials Advo-i
cate Fund for Concerts Dur
ing Summer Months.
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Music in Grant and Piedmont Parks I
at least four times a week through the
summer is the plan actively urged ov
park officials and a number of Coun
cilmen. Councilman Claude L. Ashley
Monday Introduced a resolution in
Council appropriating $5,000 for the
purpose. To-day his mqve is backed
by strong support.
"The meager music we have had in
the parks in the past has attracted
thousands," said Councilman Ashley.
"It Is what the people want. This
city, especially the parks, Is for the
people, and It is our duty to give them
the amusement and recreation they
crave."
Councilman Ashley said that with
an additional gift from the Georgia
Railway and Power Company it would
be possible to have music in both
parks every evening and Sunday aft
ernoon.
"The Park Board is heartily in fa
vor of Councilman Ashley’s plan," said
J. O. Cochran, president.
Dan Carey. General Manager of
Parks, is a strong advocate of park
music.
Labor Expert Denies
Low Pay Means Vice
Declares Statement That Immorality
Is Related to Small Wages
Unjust to Girls.
CHICAGO, May 6.—"The statement
that low wages is the cause of most
of the immorality and that immor
ality is necessary or usualy is re
lated to the girl working for small
wages is cruelly unjust. Wages
should not be accepted as a basis of
assurance of virtue or character.”
This statement was made to-day by
Harry T. Powers, State Labor Com
missioner of Michigan, here to attend
the annual convention of the State
bureaus of labor and fac tory inspec
tion.
The convention was opened to-day
by A. L. Garrett, of Texas, first vice
president of the organization.
Wireless Calls for
Police From Mid-Lake
Aerograms Cause Arrest of Gem
Salesmen Who Caused Reign
of Terror on Boat.
DETROIT. MICH., May 6.—Charged
with "assault on the high seas,’
which carries a penalty of fifteen
years’ imprisonment in a Federal
prison, Robert Allan and George A.
Schurtz, diamond salesmen of New'
York City, were taken off the steam
er Western States to-day and held
for the Federal authorities.
A wireless call, sent while the boat
was far out in the lake, brought de
tectives to the dock. Both had small
fortunes in gems.
The men battled nearly all night
with officers on the boat, after in
dulging In liquor, breaking glassware
and starting fights with passengers.
5 CHILDREN BURNED. 1 DYING.
MUNCIE, 1ND.. May 6.—Five little
children were burned, one fatally,
w hen a kettle of boiling tar was upset
at a factory here. Geneva Venable,
covered with the fluid, was plunged
into cold water and became incased
in a hard cake of tar.
ENTRIES
DUCKTOWN COPPER FUME
SUIT BEFORE U. S. COURT
CHATTANOOGA. TENN, May 6.
The case of J. H. and J. 'P. Vestal, of
Ellljay, Ga.. against the Ducktown
Sulphur, Copper and Iron Company
will be concluded in Federal Court to
day. The plaintiffs are suing for
$35,000 damages for timber alleged to
have been injured by copper fumes.
AT PIMLICO.
FIRST—Three-year-old mares, 6 fur
longs: Royal Message 110, Sandvale
106, Orowoc 106, Trifier 106, Hester
Prynne 106, Law r suit 108.
SECOND—Selling, three-year-olds and
up, mile: Hans Creek 96, Madrigalian
119. Dorothy T. Ill, Stelcliff 113, Rock
Fish 96. Mollie Kearney 106, Eddie Gra-
ney 114. Tactics 113, Arran 95, Moon
light 108,- Hammon Pass 111, Jim
Ray 108.
• THIRD— 1 The Severen purse, three-
year-olds and up, mile: Captain Swan
son H3, Mollie S. 114, Cat 109, Golden
Castle 116, Sand Hog 91, Irene Gummell
106, St. .Joseph 111, Crania 109, Moltke
116, Battery 96. Ben Prior 111, H. M.
Sabath 111.
FOURTH —Electric Park steeplechase,
four-year-olds and up, two miles: Tom
Cat 140, Lampblack 140, Bello 147, Young
Morpheus 145. Waterway 135, Guncotton
149, Jesuit 145, Golden 149.
FIFTH - Three-year-olds and up. 6
furlongs: Yorkville 100, Herron 100,
Scallywag 97, Early Light 100. Merry
Task 115. Besom 112. Cadeau 95, Alde-
baran 117. Stentor 115, Joe Knight 112.
SIXTH Selling, handicap, three-year-
olds and up, mile and 60 yards: Spell
bound 105, Working Lad 105. Rook Fish
90, Oakhurst 102, Pardner 106, El Oro
109. Woodcraft 99, Henry Hutchison 106.
Weather clear; track fast. \
AT LEXINGTON.
FIRST—Selling. 3-year-olds and up, 1
1-1.6 miles: Kinmundy 97, Imen 93, Bon
ne Chance 105, Shawnee 107. Apiaster
108, Bit of Fortune 1ta. Judge Kern 93,
Moisant 103. Tom King 105, Mark A.
Mayer 108. Rash 109, Howdy Howdy' 113.
SECOND—Purse, 2-year-old maiden
fillies furlongs: Hinata 110, Honey
Mine 110, Woof 110, .lumelia 110. Bronze
Wing 110, First Cherry 110. Martha Mc
Kee 110. Theoridata HO. Louis Grice 110,
Ovation 110.
THIRD—Selling. 3-year-olds and up.
6 furlongs Transport 95. Benanet 98,
.lust Red 102. Green 108. Automatic 107,
Lady Lightning 109, Gilpy 110. Back
Bar 112. Merrick 113. Amoret 114.
Fourth—Three-year-olds and up.
Brewers selling stakes, mile: Marshon
89. Flying Tom 103. Praetorian 106.
Clubs 107. James Dockery 108, xSleeth
DO. xMockler 114, Flying Feet 110. Bell
Horse 114.
FIFTH—Selling. 2-vear-olds. 4V 2 fur
longs: Parcel Post 105. Ada 105. Rose
Ring 105. Irish Ann 107. Korfhage 107.
Maria Mac 110, Ticktok HO. Buzzaround
111. Frances M 113, Ruby Hyams 111,
Meshash 112.
SIXTH—Selling, fillies and mares, 3-
year-olds and up. mile: Katrine 89. Old
Proverb 93 Stamps 105. Ursula Emma
105. Helen Burnett 109. Floral Day 109.
Supple 109. Oriental Heart 109. Startler
109. Rose of Jeddah 109.
xR. C. Oahn entry.
Weather cloudy; track fast.
If you have anything to sell, adver
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GIRL FLEES FROM OLD GUARD TO GIVE
Emily Douglas, of Daytona, Fla.,
Arrested Here, Says Mother
Tried to Force Marriage.
A story of flight to escape marriage
with a man she did not love was- told
to the police Tuesday morning by
Miss Emily Douglas, a pretty 18-
year-old girl from Daytona, Fla., after
she had been arrested at the Terminal
station as she alighted from the Cin
cinnati and Florida Limited from
Jacksonville, Fla.
According to the story the girl told
Police Captain Mayo, her mother, Mrs.
M. H. Douglas, had tried to force her
to marry a man who lives in Chicago.
Ill. The would-be bridegroom, Miss
Douglas says*, is many years older
than she.
"I told mama I did not love him,"
the girl said, "and she said I had to
marry him anyway. She said he would
make me a good husband. But *
wouldn’t marry a man I didn’t love, so
I ran away. I don’t want to get mar
ried. anyway. I’m too young. I want
to have some fun, and I never heard
of a married woman having any fun."
The girl left her home early yester
day afternoon. An hour later her dis
appearance was noticed, and F. W.
Haskell, w'ho says he is engaged to
marry the girl’s siPter. left Daytona
on her trail. He arrived in Atlanta on
the next train, several hours after she
had been placed under arrest.
Haskell has volunteered to take her
back to Daytona, but the police are
holding her until they hear from her
mother.
Sister Leads Posse
In Hunt for Slayers
Fifty Men Search Kentucky Moun
tains for Moonshiners Who
Killed Revenue Officers.
PIKEVILLEr KT„ May 6.—A posse
of 50 men started to-day through the
mountains searching for John Hall,
Dave Hall and Torn Riddle, who killed
two revenue men in a battle Sunday.
The posse is led by Ada Hall, sister
of the two moonshiners, whom she
betrayed.
Families of the moonshiners are re
ported to be arming to defend them.
A feud is feared.
NAVAL STORES MEN PLAN
NEW SYSTEM OF SELLING
SAVANNAH, GA., May 6.—Nava!
stores factors from Savannah, Jack
sonville, Pensacola and Brunswick
are in session in Savannah to-day to
formulate a plan Which will revolu
tionize the sales end of the industry.
The main idea of the plan is to
establish one handling agency at each
port interested, and then place all
buyers on an equal footing through
selling by grades instead of by lots.
The plan has been explained to the
Department of Justice at Washing
ton by a committee representing the
factors, and it is said the Govern
ment approves it.
BOXERS WILL STAGE BOUTS
FOR ILLINOIS LEGISLATORS
SPRINGFIELD, ILL., May 6.-
Boxing enthusiasts from all parts of
the State are gatherin'- here to-day
for to-night’s boxing exhibition,
staged for the benefit of those legisla
tors who are dubious about approving
any of the various pending boxing
bills.
Childhood Friends Will Present
Bouquet From Yard in Rome
on Trip to Washington.
A huge bouquet of red roses picked
from the lawn where Mrs. Woodrow
Wilson lived as a girl at Rome, Ga.,
.will be carried to Washington and
presented to the President’s wife Ma.
20 by the Old Guard of the Gate City
Guard.
Mrs. Wilson was a Georgia girl, a
daughter of Rev. Mr. Axson, a well
known Presbyterian minister. Sue
spent a great part of her girlhood a:
Rome and knew jpersonalij some
the members of the Old Guard, as i(
was reorganized after the war.
The Old Guard will visit Washing
ton. Baltimore. Philadelphia, New
York, Boston and other points to re
new the friendships that were made
at the time of the historic mission of
peace in 1879. The organization will
call on President and Mrs. Wilson al
the White House, and the presentation
of the flowers will be made at that
time.
The Guard will leave Atlanta Mon
day morning. They will spend Tues
day in the Capital City.
According to present plans, about a
dozen Georgia women, wives and
daughters of the members of the Old
Guard, will accompany them on the
trip North. Between 50 and 6(1 mem
bers of the Old Guard have already
signified their intention of going. They
will travel by special train, coming
back by water via Savannah.
PROSECUTION RESTS IN
SHEDD TRIAL AT AUGUSTA
AUGUSTA, GA„ May 6.—The State
has rested its case in the Shedd mur
der trial and the defense is expected
to consume the remainder of the day
presenting witnesses.
It is believed the defense will rely
on a probable statement by Shedd
that the shooting of “Sonny” Collins
was accidental.
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Plants, 3c each. Atlanta Floral
Co., 555 E. Fair Street.
ATLANTA
THEATER
AIL THIS WEEK/1
Except Wednedsay Night
Miss BILLY LONG
Company In
The Girl From Out
Yonder
NEXT Y/EEK—“Are You a Mason?"
Ssais—Wednesday P, M
FOR5YTH Wat - To-day
rwr ‘* 3 1 1 ® 1 To-night at 8:30
Here for the First Time
BUS EDWARDS K>C KASARET
Wlih 15 Joliy Singing Kids
NEXT WEEK
PAUL
DICKEY
Famous Foot
ball Star in a
Sketch
BELLE STORY, Singing Star
Williams. Thompson & Copeland
Hart's Six Steppers, Riesner and
Gores, and others
REAL COMEDIANS AND GOOD
CHORUS AT BONITA.
A tabloid musical comedy with
a real plot and good actors and
actresses to handle it is the
innovation at the Bonita Theater
this week.
Being a new Company, it was
an agreeable surprise that was
sprung on the patrons of the
house Monday, but there has al
ways been something good at
the Bonita, and this time the
only difference was it was some
thing better.
White City Park Now Open
Vacation days will soon
be here. Your vacation
won’t be complete unless
you have a KODAK.
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has them in all sizes and
at prices to fit every pock-
etbook.
$.1 to $100
WE DEVELOP YOUR *
FILMS FREE.
Expert in charge of our
Kodak department.
Elkin Drug Co.
At Five Points.
OPEN ALL NIGHT.
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