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VOL. XI. NO. 235. WEATHER: SHOWERS. ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, MAY 6, 1913.
CENTS EVERYWHERE '
Body of Mary Phagan Exhumed,
Bloodstains on Clothing Analyzed
and Every Effort Made to Uncover
Additional Clews in the Mystery.
Solicitor General Dorsey, Chief of Detectives Lanford, Chief
of Police Beavers, and all men wo king under them in the Phagan
case seem thoroughly satisfied with the progress they are making
in the great mystery. They are actively engaged in many un
known directions-—as they say, “piling up evidence to strengthen
the case.”
What evidence the officials 1 aye other than that which has
already been made public they ref ise to divulge. Solicitor Dorsey
declines to make public his case ii the newspapers. He is investi
gating every phase of the matte)' through trusted men working
under his own direction.
ll is.perfectly proper for the chief prosecuting officer to with
hold any and all evidence until s ich time as he may present his
case to the Grand Jury.
That there is new and start
ling evidence seems true, but
just wital it indicates the offi
cials refuse to say, and the news
paper reporters, therefore, are
merely guessing at what may
be, or may not be, the actual
facts.
Solicitor JDorsey
the nature of tin
coveries.. but Lis
vas reticent about
most recent dis-
jurded statements
indicated that he considered, the dis-
i u;sun. ; which have "been made b>
the force of detective.', physicians and
chemi.sis working - under his direction
a.s having a mo-i. important bearing
on the solution of U'ic crime.
Air. Dorsey issued this statement:
l see in an interview attributed
tv- Quinn that I asked him if he
was not paid by counsel for Frank
to protect Frank.
This statement, so far as 1 am
concerned, is absolutely false.
Throughout my talk with him I
did not mention the name of coun
sel nor did I. intimate that counsel
had been giiilty of any such con
duct.
ft is known that a more thorough
and minute examination of every lo
cality and every article having any
connectioi or possible connection
with the slaying of Alury Phagan is
being made now limn was undertaken
in the first few days of the mystery.
I nder he direction of Solicitor
Dorsey, ehemrets have made a new
analysis of the blood found on the
factory lloor, ■where the Phagan girl
evidently struggled with her assail
ant.
Dr. H. F., Harris, director of‘the
Slate- Board of Health, is making a
second examination of the body of
the slain girl, which was taken from
tiie grave in the cemetery at Ma
rietta.
Whether u Was from any one of
the sources that Solicitor Dorsey ob
tained his new lead* in tracking down
the slayer, he would not- say. He
would only repeat that every clew-
that offered the slightest ray of hope
would be followed to the end.
May Have Been Hurled Down Shaft.
A startling theory announced by
the Solicitor is that the body of Mary
Phagan was thrown, a ive, down the
elevator shaft from live second floor
to the basement. He has found thP
the soil at the bottom of the shaft is
soft and that the girl might not hav?
been seriously injured by a fall of
this die La nee. He would not be sur
prised If subsequent developments
proved that the girl was slain not
on tire second floor of the factory, but
in the basement at just about the spot
where the body was found.
To insure that not the smallest par
ti. ie of evidence is overlooked. Solici
tor Dorsey is continuing his rigid in-
vi .^ligation of the factory itself. Elec-1
slayer may be turned up.
The report of Dr. Harris probably
ill not be made public until Thurs
day, when the inquest resumes. Mean-
chile, the Solicitor is working on the
Information that he receives from
ime to time from Dr. Harris; from
he chemists who have analyzed the
bloodstained chips of wood taken
from the factory floor, and from Dr.
• Maude A. Smith, city bacteriologist
who has uiu^yzed the bloodstains on
■ he shirt found at the home of Newt
Lee.
Solicitor Dorsey telegraphed to
New York Tuesday to verify a state
ment concerning Frank contained in
«' n unsigned letter. The Solicitor
t aid that the Pinkerton detectives
would not be admitted to his confer
ences with the city police.
The Grand Jury' will meet Friday
; nd probably will take up the ease
then if a verdict has been rendered
) y the Goroner’s jury.
Candler and Street
Car Officials Confer
Company Reported Willing to Meet
Push Traffic Suggestions More
Than Half Way.
P. S. Arkwright, president, and the
• raffle officials of the Georgia Rail
way* and Power Company* held a long
• onference with C. AT. CandleTTchair
man of the Georgia Railroad Com
mission. in reference to the conges-
ion of street car traffic in Atlanta
(hiring rush hours.
Statistics recently given the com
mission, showing the fare register
readings at terminals and cross
own points for a period of a week,
were considered. -
Mr. Candler submitted suggestions
; nd criticisms. It is understood that
'he officials are ready to meet the
i ommission’s suggestions more than
.alf-way. Increased service, it is
j aid, has been delayed only to see
what the commission intended to
order.
Way cross Girl, 15,
Vanishes in Woods
Country Searched for Pretty Lee
Hall, Believed Insane or Victim
of Foul Play.
WAYCROSS. GA.. May 0.—Pretty
.Bee Hall, a 15-year-old girl, yesterday
: uddenly left her home a mile north
of Waycross, rushed into the thick
roods bordering Kettle Creek and
disappeared. It is feared she may
have been a victim of foul play. The
• ntire county is being scoured for th
missing girl. She was seen entering
•he woods, and when her father called
she broke into a run. Hall states no
lan is involved as far as he knows,
but thinks his daughter has lost »r
nind.
Leo M. Frank on Way
From Tower to Inquest
Photograph of Leo .M. Frank, showing Chief of Detectives Lanford and Chief Beavers on either'side.
Slayer of King of • | Typists’ Uniforms
Greece a Suicide! Please London Girls
Assrssin Leaps to His Death From
Window of Pojice Building
in Athens.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, May 6.—A news agency
dispatch received here to*-day from
Ahens states that Aleko Shinns, the
anarchist who assassinated King
George of Greece in Salonika on
Man ii IS. jumped from a win* *.\ In
the policq building and killed him
self.
How ihc prisoner eluded the jailers
is not told in the dispatch.
Schinas killed the King by firing
point blank into his back while h
was walking along the streets of Sa
lonika. He gave as an explanation of
the crime that in 1911 he had applied
for assistance at the King’s palace
and had been driven away.
Society Folk Nabbed
As They Soil Dice
Chicagd Host Has His Guests Taken
to Police Station as
Joke.
•
CHICAGO. May 6. —An even dozen
prominent society arid business folk
of Chicago learned to-day that their
arrest on a charge of gambling at the
home of Richan
land Park, a fas hi on a
all a joke.
The guests of Peyt
rolling dice on thf
ing greenbacks or
“bones.” Peyton
police force—the ch
si stunts-—"arrest’' 1
* them to the polic
I w 1th gambling.
Peyton, in High-
uburb, was
“They Double the Life of Our Private
Dresses,” Says One, and Are
Very Becoming Beside.
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, May to.—London typists
have become reconciled to the uni
form. It was feared there would be a
great revolt on the part of the young
women of this avocation when a lead
ing firm adopted a specific style of
dress for them, but there has been no
open protest.
"We were inclined to believe the
management could not possibly select
a ; ostumc becoming to all of Us,” said
Mis Dorothy Clegg, a* pretty young
typist to-day, “but we were mistaken.
A dressmaker took our measurements,
and a few days later the dresses ar
rived. They are idea! business dresses.
Cinnamon in color, and in the Empire
style, they harmonize with the cream
and green color scheme of the office* - ’-
“The fu 1 1 sleeves ar ( * appreciated.
The low neck and the fullness of the
skirt give perfect freedom, while the
narrow cuffs give a neat effect. Our
private dresses have now double the
life, owing to the protection afforded
them. When-the day’s work is done
wo can slip off the Empire dress in
less than a minute.”
ON LAST LAP 5,000-MILE
TEST OF ARMY FOOTWEAR
WASHINGTON, May G -Former
Sergeant John Walsh, I T . S. A., started
for Columbus, Ohio, to-day on the Iasi
lap of his ofp ial te'-* of army shoes
He ha > covered 5,000 miles.
Walsh left For: Slocum July ii.
1 1912. He has covered all military
posts and will have been gone a year
and two months when he reaches Co
lumbus. He is 63 years old and will
I receive $2,000 for his efforts.
Jack London Faces
Charge of Assault
Writer Accused of Eeating Mail He
Disarmed and Ejected From
His Ranch Home.
Villages War for
Railway Station
Wiley Claims 23 People and Is "Cow
Center”—Mathis Depends on
Natural Beauty.
SANTA ROSE, CAL., May 6.—Jack
London, the famous author, traveler .
and landowner of Glen Ellen, and his
guest. John J. Burns, of San Fran
cisco. must answer to a charge of
i
battery next Monday us a result of j
trouble on the London ranch.
Mrs. J. H. Shepard and her sister ;
had tome words, according to Shop- \
ard, and because Burns, who w.isj
present* refused to interfere on behalf l
of Mrs. v Shepard. Shepard is alleg 'd
to have made a demonstration with a
revolve..
London and Burns are said to have
taken the weapon from Shepard,
grappled with him ami forcibly eject- j
ed him. Shepard declared London i
choked and abused him.
G. T, Wrenn, Diamond
Thief, Begins Term
Participant in Gilcey Robbery Leaves
Medical School to Surrender
at Tower.
George T. Wrenn, sentenced to the
Fulton County chaingang for twelve
months in connection with the Gilsey
| diamond robberies at the Piedmont
Hotel more than a year ago, b« gan the
I service of his sentence tDi>• morning.
| He came to Atlanta yesterday and
! surrendered to the cofinty authorities
t the Tower.
Wrenn h^s been out
as sentenced, and ha
Rabun County is at white heat, and
tho old feud between the towns of
Wiley and Mathis in at its height. The
vital question of which place gets a
regular railroad station with an agent
in charge is to he determined this
week b> the Georgia Railroad Com
mission.
Wiley claims the greater population.
Within a radius of on< mile from
Wlhy there are 23 persons living, it
ha's l.e- ru*-hown con lihdvely. It claims
also to be “tho natural center of the
cow movement,” whatever that may
mean,
Mathis lalms that it is due to b^-
com- a great summer resort because
of the Ijrauty of the lake created there
by the Georgia Railway and Power
Company’s dam.
Photographs of#- the surrounding
country, letters from almost every
Slate between Ohio and the District
of Columbia, a mass of evidence and
many personal appeal have reached
the Railroad Commit-ion on the sub
ject.
Police and Strikers
In Syracuse Battle
Twenty-five Wounded, Two Fatally,
In Fierce Clash—City Under
^ Martial Law.
Councilmen and Officials Advo
cate Fund for Concerts Dur
ing Summer Months.
Music in Grant and Piedmont Parks
at least four times a week through the
summer is the plan actively urged ov
park officials and a number of Coun-
cilmen. Councilman (Maude L. Ashley
Monday introduced a resolution n
Council appropriating $5,000 for, the
purpose. To-day his move is hacked
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 Asi^ey said that with
an additional gift from the Georgia
Railway and Power Company It would
be possible to have music in both
parks • very evening and Sunday aft
ernoon.
“The Park Board is heartily in fa
vor of Councilman Ashley’s j an," said
J. O. Cochran, president.
Dan Carey, General Manager of
Parks, is a strong advocate of park
music.
1 KILLED AND 1 INJURED
WHEN AUTO OVERTURNS
BIRMINGHAM, ALA., May 0.—J. L.
Thornhill, aged 30, was instantly
killed and H. O. Glasgow was seri
ously injured when an automobile
they were in late last night turned
over on the county road outside of
Greater Birmingham.
The machine fell over a smaU em
bankment in making room for an
other automobile to pass. Both men
were employed by the Tennessee Com
pany at Edge water. Thornhill was-
from Osica, Miss.
Youth Arrested in Connection W ith
Phagan Mystery Protests Innocence.
Woman Says He Mo ;ned, “Why
Did I Do It?”—Local Men Skeptical.
*
Chief of Detectives George Peyton, of Houston, Texas,
sent the following telegram to Chief of Police Beavers, of At
lanta, Tuesday:
"Am still holding Bowen as per your wire this morning,
lie did stop at 185 Ivy Street. He denies everything. The t
evidence here is very strong against him. Mrs. A. Blanohard,
formerly of Atlanta, first to suspect, gave first information
about him. Answer soon.
HOl’STON, TEXAS, May 6.- Paul P. Bowen, arrested be-
I cause of the suspicion of the local authorities that l 1 was con
nected with the murder of Mary Phagan in Atlanta, d ni 1 Tues
day all knowledge of the girl and the crime except s;.« lie read o£
it in the newspapers.
A score of clippings telling the story of the little girl s death
were found in the young man's loom. Ilis only explanation was
that Atlanta was flis home town, and he was parte ularly inter
ested in the crime because of that.
The police here regard as more significant than the clippings;
the stories of Bowen's actions in his room at the St. Jean Hotel,
and lajer at a rooming house, lloomers in adjoining, rooms are
said to have been disturbed by his moans and muttcrings and by
his constant pacing of the floor.
"Why did I do it? Why did
I do it?’’ he is declared to have
repeated to himself incessantly.
Complaint was first made to the
hotel authorities and later the
police were notified.
Bowen was arrested last night by
Chief of Police Davison, Chief of De
tectives Peyton ami Detective Hilton
at 1520 Texas Avenue.
“A night of terror. ’ as officers term
it. led to tho detention of Bowen.
Sunday night in room 214, at the
St. Jean Hotel, the young man paced
the floor and moaned. Persons in ad
joining rooms were unable to sleep,*
and reported to the management that,
something was wrong in the room.
An investigation disclosed Bowen
poring over letters and newspaper
accounts of the murder and crying
aloud.
“Oh. why did l do it?” he is said to
have cried.
“i would not have done it. 1 ought,
not to have done that. If I had it
to do over 1 wouldn’t do it.” were re
peatedly heard by those who listened
and who frequently walked through
the hall in a iieffort to ascertain some
cause for the peculiar actions of the
man.
Monday th*- young man was shad
owed and the matter was reported *>•
the detective department. About f*
o’clock he registered off and moved do
Texas Avenue and Crawford Street,
There he engaged a -room for a week.
Last night, shortly after midnight, me
officers went to the pi.ice. Bowen an
swered a knock at hi.s room door, and
then straightened himself and looked
directly at the officers.
Holds Knife in Hand.
“Who are you fellows and what do
you want here?” he asked.
The officers answered that they
wanted to talk fo him and he then in
vited - them into his rooffi. He kept a
distance from them, however, and he'd
an open knife In his right hand. Bow
en appeared nervous throughout th„'
conversation of perhaps fifteen min
utes, but replied to all queried
promptly and to the point.
When one of them told him to “con
sider yourself under arrest” he coolly
answered, “That’s all right, hut you've
got the wrong man.”
Bowen closed his ’knife and handed
JURY HAS SILVA'S CASE
SYRACUSE. X. Y
flowed in the streets
olic Cathedral to-day
men fought 500 fre
. May fl — Blood
about the Cat t-
v. hen*50 polic.-
Italian strik-
SA VANN AH, GA., May 6.—With
no immediate prospect of a verdict,
the jury is still out in the case of
Isaac Silva, who was tried in the
Superior Court yesterday for causing
he turn of the
1 the suburban
and his two as-
guests and tak
station chars. *j
trie lights have been strung in every j
nook and corner of the basement.
«. jer ••.•.fore : t wUs black and gloomy.
T< lirt and tra-.i covering t’n floor i
being searched painstakingly in the
hi.tiH that some tell-tale clew*may be |
was taken
chaingang
months dis
• hammer.
twel
*ts. Twenty-five
Two may die.
The city Is undei
' saloon in Svrucus
vvoundei
m< n
THE WEATHER
lartial law. Lv
has been orcu
Forecast for Atlanta: Snowers.
Temperatures: 8 a. m.. 73 degrees
10 a. m.. 77 degrees; 12 noon. 83
degrees: 2 p. m.. 8G degrees. Sun
rise. 4:43; sunset. 6:26.
PROTESTS EXCLUSION ACT.
Washington. May fi!]i*m Mar
• <•;’ I .os Argilos. to-day proteste
Un-sin- ir Wib m a; a Inst the pros
t Chinese exclusion act, which h
v.s .s unfair.
If you have anything tc seii. adver
tise in The Sunday American, Larg
est circulation of any Sunday news
paper in the South.
If you have anything to sell, adver
tisr in The Sunday American. Larg
ect circulation of any Sunday news
per in the South.
FOR CHORUS GIRL’S DEATH j" <»» 0,11 r and 8at on the ’ ilU ' 01
the bed. To one officer lie pointed out
hip 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 wouUt so
the death of Esther O’Mara, of Bos
ton. Mass., a chorus girl, known as
Marian Leonard. She died front th<
effects of morphine injected into hei
hip.