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TTIE ATLANT \ (iK<)K<JI .AN AND MAYS TLESDAl. MAS <i.
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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ft;rough that trunk,” said Bowen. "The
things in there are mine, and not
vours I don’t know anything about
this affair and you’ll have to show me
strong.”
Stoutly Denies Crime.
< iffieers talked to him for more than
an hour at the police station, but
Bowen stoutly denied any knowledge
of the killing of the young girl. Ho
continued 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, “i would have left here Sunday
night.”
Bowen whs taken from the room
ing house to the police station and j
was placed In a cell across the hall
from the Chief of Detectives’ offices, j
He slept but little and did not undress
, tg lie down. This morning he was at •
the cell door early and looked hag- j
gard
Bowen complained of being hungry. !
He declared that he was tired—al- !
most worn out. He walked the floor
nervously, then sat down on the side
of his cot. Next he stepped to the i
grating and inquired if he w as 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 j
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 lectures in his
trunk and grip, he pointed out a num
ber of persons,* including several
young women, though he declared that J
none of them was "Mary Phagan or :
any of her kinfolk ”
Bowen Well Educated.
Bowen Is 22 years of age; and has ■
• light hair. He is well dressed and
.Well educated. He lias been a book-!
'keeper and stenographer, and claimed >
that he worked in Atlunta for the
Morrow Transfer Company. He gave!
"bln homo address as 108 Ivy Street.
^ He claimed this was his first visit
' to Houston. He declined to talk to j
ItjiRcers or to tell anything about his I
kinsjK-oplc or any of his business
connections except as given above.
Bowen is slight of build, perhaps 5 I
. feet 6 ol 7 inches in height. He
weighs about 125 pounds and appears
brisk and energetic.
He admitted to officers that he had
•lived in Atlanta nearly all Ills life,
.lie denied, however, that he knows
any tiling about the National Pencil
‘'Factory, Leo Frank, the manager, or
any persons connected with or em
ployed in the factory,
1 He talked freely about some mat
ters and evasively about others. Rf-
forts to corner tlie young man in
every instance proved futile.
Letter Signed “M. J. P.”
A hyndred 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
postcards.
The letters were nearly all from
young women; some of them were
endearing ones. A few were from
young men friends.
Many of the letters are signed
“Mary.” but none is signed “Mary
Phagan.” The signature to one let
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
114 in the St. .lean Hotel was found a
of
d undervest. It
if for a girl from
The discovery
made yesterday
the hotel saw it
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14 to Hi yearn of i
of the undervest v
morning. A gunat
fluttering from th
vised an attachee 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 vent out of tie
window and that It caught on tin
ledge. It was not Been there before
Monday morning, and two gjeftt* at
the hotel declared that it was not
there Sunday night. The vest wav
bloodstained toward the top of the.
breast and about halfway down the
front Tin- Vest is being held In con
nection with other properties by the
detectives.
Bowen told the officers again and
again that he had never heard of th<*
girl, but admitted that he knew the
place where she had worked. Bow'-n
failed to explain the newspaper clip
ping.* containing accounts of the mur
der. II*- was shown them and po -
tions of them were rend to him. He
admitted that he is familiar with the
story of the crime, through reading
the papers, and said hix interest was
simply because Atlanta js hi» home.
Bowen came to Houston Sunday
night, presumably from New Orleans,
although this has not been deter
mined, as the prisoner declined to
talk about his arrival as freely as he
did other matters. He went direc tly
to tho'St. Jean Hotel and asked for
a dollar room.
“Sorry, sir, tjut wt* haven't got any
thing less than dollar-fifty,” said the
clerk. Bowen turned and walked t<.
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, (3a..” boldly.
There was no effort to ’conceal his
identity or the city from whence he
came.
Thy young man went to his room
and a few minutes later went out for
supper. He had registered ut 7:45
o'clock. Before 4 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 dippings, he pored over
them as if eager to get every word of
every sentence. Then he moaned
aloud: “Oh, If 1 hadn't done that!
What did 1 do it for?”
A youth named Paul A. Bowen lived
nt the Atlanta Y. M. <\ A. until Feb
ruary of 1912, 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 clerk at the Inman
Yards of ihe Southern Hallway.
Mr. Bell said that to the best of h»s
knowledge Bowen had not been in At
lanta since he l^eft in 1912. Bowen
was living at the Y. M. (\ A. when
Secretary Bell took up his duties there
and he did not know how long Bowen
hud been in Atlanta.
Defends Bowen.
Charles Kimball, a clerk in the
master mechanic’s office at the South
ern Railway shops and a close per
sonal friend of Paul P. Bowen’s, said
this morning, when seen by a Geor
gian reporter, thut he did not be
lieve his friend could be in any way
Implicated in the murder of little
Mary Phagan.
“1 have Just, come back from the
detectives’ office, where I went to car
ry a letter which 1 received from
Paul on Sunday morning. April 27.”
he said. “There is nothing unusual
about the letter. It is simply u per
sonal letter about affairs in which
we were both interested, and my only
idea of showing it L> the detectives
at all is that it b^trs 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.
"As for Bowen,’personally, he had a
great many friends hero 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 >f
last spring and went to Kl Dorado,
Ark., where he was employed in the
offices of the Rock Island lines as a
clerk. He later btfame private sec
retary to the superintendent of the St.
Louis and Southwestern line, an 1
spent a great deal of his time travel
ing over the lines in,the superintend
ent*® private car.
”1 have been in correspondence with
him ulmost continually since hi* left
here and' ijavc received letters from
him from a great many points out
West."
All the local authorities were in
clined to belittle the importance of
the fcBowen arrest
Innocent, Says Lanford.
Chief «>f Detectives Lanford de
clared his belief in the innocence of
Paul Bowen Tuesday. He said that
tic detectives of his department had
been gracing tin* movements of
Bowen since he left Atlanta about
year ago after he had left the em
ploy of the Morrow Transfer Com
pany. of which he was secretary. In
ail this time, said the chief of de
tectives. they were unable to find
that he had returned to Atlanta.
On the contrary. Bowen had writ-
'cn to friends in Atlunta from va
rious points and had never suggest
'd returning home.
"In •wen didn’t know the girl.” said
the chief. "He didn’t know the girl’s
iimlly. It is preposterous to think
ttujt he would make a hurried and
Solicitor (tenoral Hugh Dorsey.
Phagan Case and the Solicitor Gen
eral’s Power Under Law—Dorsey
Hasn’t Encroached on Coroner.
he
da'
l from in
April 23.
back to Hous-
guilt. however,
e icrc going to
ilitv that he
corned, lie is
By A GEORGIA LAWYER.
It is absurd to say, as some peo
ple have been saying in Atlanta of
late, that Solicitor General Dorsey
"has taken th< Phagan case from the
Coroner,” nr 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 direc
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 nnr'h
Savannah’s business as It Is Atlanta’*,
so far as the violation of thq 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 anti 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 entirely
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 be
depended upon to set forth the case
against the defendant to bo sum
moned to bar !n such exact terms that
it may be guaranteed to withstand
all attacks of opposing counsel in the
trial of the cast*.
Ha^ Fuli Responsibility.
vfce initial arid the final respond*
“from out the hands of a Coroner,”
because there never was a point of
time in any murder case’s history
that it was not more fh 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 o£
his Mfe a second time in Georgia (save
of his own motion) in criminal pro
ceedings. 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 the
presence of crime against the State,
but nev< r is there a dime 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 Siatf*. of a criminal case in
Georgia, amt that is in the court
house, under the direction of the So
licitor.
If a defendant be acquitted, that
ends tlu- matter. If he be convicted,
he may move for another trial or ap
peal to a competent court of review.
Tin* 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 tin* 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 he invoked by a Coroner.
Wireless Calls for
Police From Mid-Lake
Aerograms Cause Arrest of Gem
Salesmen Who Caused Reign
of Terror on Boat.
DETROIT, MICH.. May 6.—Chaiged
with “assault on the high seas,"
which carries a penalty of fifteen
years' imprisonment in a Federal
prison. Robert Allan and George A.
Sciuirt/.. 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 gents.
The men battled nearly all night
with officers on the boat, after in
dulging in liquor, breaking glassware
and starting fights with passengers.
I
Am
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now in charge of the men’s
’ art men t of the Fred S. Stew-
10 LIFT VEIL OF MYSTERY!
t
Factory Superintendent’s Statements
on the \\ itness Stand Considered
Distinctly Favorable to Him.
Leo M. Frank’s testimony before
the Coroner’s inquest threw no new
light upon the Phagan case. Indeed,
if it did anything it strengthened the
belief in the minds of many persons
that the mystery is far from solved.
Frank's testimony was distinctly
favorable to him. He was on the wit
ness stand for several hours. He
answered every question in a
straight-forward manner. He was not
more nervous than any other man in
the room. He never halted for a word
to make reply. The impression made
upon those present was good.
The bringing into the case of an
other man not heretofore mentioned
as having been in the factory on the
day of Mary Phagan’s death does not
seem to have in any way helped to
clear the mystery.
Quinn Talks Freely.
Lemmie Quinn, foreman, whose
name was mentioned by Frank, ap
parently had nothing to conceal
either! for he talked with the de
tectives and police without reserve,
and gave a clear statement of his
work in the factory. His testimony
did more, if anything, than the tes
timony of any ’other person to shift
tiie suspicion that has been attached
to Frank.
Close reading of the testimony leads
to the opinion that the police have
not yet solved the great mystery.
Frank is in the Tower to-day. He
will be heard again on Thursday. Tbe
police may have some important
questions to a-k him. but if they
have, they gave nothing to indicate it
at the inquest on Monday.
Solicitor Dorsey, now in active
charge of the case, feels certain that
the mystery soon will be solved. All
the officials are reticent. They re
fuse to discuss the tragedy with re
porters.
Following Every Ciew.
Many baseless rumors are in circu
lation on the street:-, and the public
clew presented to them.
The police and detectives are work
ing diligently and following every
clew preseneed to them.
It is too early to forecast what the
authorities have in store in the way
of additional evidence, but that
brought out yesterday pointed the
finger of suspicion at no one at alL
ll was simply negative. It involved
the witness no more than suspicion
already had involved him, and was
not at all damaging to Lee, who is
being held with Frank in connection
with the mystery.
Quinn was examined by Lanford
and Scott, of the Pinkertons. He
corroborated Frank’s story in detail.
H#* wds permitted to return to his
home' at 31-B Pulliam Street.
Quinn was foreman of the depart
ment in which the victim worked.
He had known her ever since she
first was employed with the concern.
A stormy scene is said to have'en
sued during the interrogation to
which he was subjected at headquar
ters. To a reporter he declared that
Scott and Solicitor Dorsey charged
him with having accepted a bribe.
He says he retorted to the charge:
“Show me the man that says I took
a bribe, and I’ll whip him on the
* pot.”
Quinn was asked if Frank’s state
ment were true, and he replied:
"Yes; it’s true. I left my house
Saturday morning about ?1:45 o’clock.
()n the way uptown I stopped into
Wolfsheimers and bought an order
of fancy groceries. I stopped at an
other place and bought a cigar.
“Then I went to the factory. I
wanted to see Frank and tell him
‘Howdy do.’ I knew he would be
in the place. He is always there
on Saturdays. It was about 12:15
or 12:30 when 1 arrived at the
building. 1 saw no one in front
or as 1 went upstairs to the office.
“Frank was at his desk. He
appeared very busy. I stepped in
and said: Well, I see you work
even on holidays. You can’t keep
me from coming around the build-
in on Saturdays, either. How do
you feel?’
“He said he was feeling good.
He didn’t appear agitated or
nervous. I didn’t want to dis
turb him, so I left. 1 wasn’t in
the plant for more -than two min
utes. As I came downstairs on
the way out, I saw someone In the
rear of the first lioor—a person
whom I would have no grounds
whatever to suspect. v
Believes Frank Innocent.
"No! I won’t divulge his name. I'M
tell the detectives in time. I’m glad
Frank told tin* Coroner o‘f my visit.
It was I who refreshed his memory
of the incident. He apparently had
forgotten it. 1 have not been keeping
it secret. I told the detective Satur
day of the visit.
• I have known Mr, Frank for years
and I know he is not guilty.”
Quinn declared that he was in the
building about two minutes. He said
that he did not see Mary Phagan.
He is outraged at the treatment he
alleges was accorded him by the de
tectives.
‘ They were insulting and seemed to
doubt my statement," he said. “In an
insinuating manner Chief Lanford
plied the question: ‘So you put your
self there about the time the Phagan
flrl left the factory, eh?’"
Quinn was an ardent admirer of
the murdered child. He says she was
one of his most industrious em
ployees.
He is married and has one child.
His connection with the National
Pencil Company dates back sev
eral years. 0
Quinn said that it was he who re^
freshed Frank’s memory of his pres
ence in the building shortly after noon
of the day on which the girl is sup
posed to have been slain.
“I called upon Frank at the jail.”
he said. "The moment I reminded
him of my visit, he recollected it. He
apparently had forgotten it.”
The inquest was adjourned at 7:18
o’clock. It will be resumed at 9:30
Thursday morning. The two-day
postponement* is to permit detectives
to garner evidence they announce
available.
Tells Actions in Detail.
In detailing every move on the day
,!ai v Phagan was killed. Frank said
jio rose about 7 o’clock Saturday
morning and was at the office by 8:20.
About 9 o'clock Foreman M. D. Dar-
lev and others entered his office and
tujked business matters with him.
DSY 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’s testimony:
7 o’clock a. m.—Arose and dressed at
home.
8—Left home for factory.
8:20—Arrived at factory.
3:50 or 9 M. D. Darley and others
entered there.
10— {Went over to office of Sig Montag,
factory manager, on Kelson Street,
11— Went back 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 footsteps die away, and went on
with 'his work, thinking no more
about her. When she left he thought
he heard her voice in the outer of
fice.
12:15 or 12:20—Lennie 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 Parson,
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; lie re
mained entirely alone in the factory.
3:20 Latched the street door behind
them.
3:45—Night Watchman Newt Lee, ne
gro. came. He let negro go away
again.
5:30-r-Finishjed work on the financial
sheet.
6— Finished balancing cash: night
watchman came back. Frank wash
ed his hands’, 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 phone.
Informed of the tragedy. Went to
undertaker’s shop and identified
Mary Phagan’s body as that of the
girl whom he had paid the afternoon
before.
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Cl FLEES FROM
ILi
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 EmUy Douglas, a pretty 18-
year-old girl from Daytona, Fla., after
she had beep arrested at tfie Terminal
station as she alighted fr$m 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 saye, is many years older
than she.
“I told mama I did not love him.”
the girl said, “and she said 1 had to
marry him anyway. She said he would
make me a good husband. But I
wouldn't marry a man I dinn't-love, so
1 ran away. I don’t want tb get mar
ried. anyway. I’m f6o young. 1 want
to have some fun, and I never heard
of a married woman having any fun.”
The girl left her homefearly yester
day afternoon. An hour later her dis
appearance was noticed, and F. W.
Haskell, who says he is engaged to
marry the girl’s shier, 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.
I
TOPEKA. KAN’S., May 6.-W. H.
Caldwell, who was adjudged legally
dead by the Kansas Supreme Court in
a .‘•'uit by his wife for his life insur
ance, has returned to Topeka after
an absence of eight years. He left
Kansas on account of his domestic
trouble, he says.
The judgment for the insurance
probably will be set aside.
Frank testified he went to the office
of Sig Montag, factory manager, on
Nelson Street, at 10 o’clock, and re
mained there for nearly an hour.
He returned at 11 o’clock and an
hour later the stenographer and the
office boy left him alone, Darley and
the others having departed. He
thought it was about ten minutes aft
er noon that Mary Phagan came in
to got her pay envelope and after re
ceiving it started out of the door,
stopping only to ask if an expected
shipment of metal had arrived. He
heard her voice as she seemed to be
talking with another girl outside. He
heard the footsteps die away and be
lieves Mary Phagan left the building,
he testified.
Visited by Lemmie Quinn.
Lemmie Quinn, foreman of the
tipping department, came into the
factory at 12:15 or 12:20, just after
the Phagan girl had left. Frank said
that th e foreman merely greeted him
and conversed for five or ten minutes
and then left.
Frank said that he himself left the
factory at 1 o’clock and went home for
luncheon with his father-in-law, Emil
Selig. He left home to return to the
factory at 2 o’clock, arriving there
about 3 o’cock, and speaking to sev
eral acquaintances on his way*.
At 3:10 o’clock Harry Denham and
Arthur'White, two employees who had
been doing some work on the holiday,
punched tiie clock, stopped to talk a
few minutes with Frank and then quit
the building, leaving Frank there
alone.
Sees Watchman and Gantt.
Newt Lee. the night watchman,
came at 3:45, but was told by Frank
that he might go away until 6 o’clock.
The watchman returned at 6 o’clock
and a few minutes later J. M. Gantt
appeared at the factory and asked
permission to get a pair of shoes he
had left in the shipping room. Frank
left before Gantt had obtained his
shoes.
Frank said that he arrived home
at 6:25 and that his wife and mother-
in-law entered as he was calling
Newt Lee to see if Gantt had left the
factory. Lee did not answer at this
time, but answered when Frank call
ed at 7 o’clock. Frank testified that
he remained in the house from this
time until he went to l\ed at 11
o’clock. He was awakened at 7:30
o’clock the next morning by the tele
phone call which told him of the
tragedy.
Sister Leads Posse
In Hunt for Slayers
Fifty Men Search Kentucky Moun
tains for Moonshiners Who
Killed Revenue Officers.
PIKEVILLE, KY., May 6.—A posse
of 50 men started to-day through the
mountains searching for John Hall,
Dave Hall and Tom 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.. Muy 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 fooling 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
SPRING FIELD, 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.
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 gpod at
the Bonita, amf'this time the
only difference was it was some
thing better.
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 May
20 by the Old Guard of the Gate City
Guard.
Mrs. Wilson was a Georgia girl, a
daughter of Rev. Mr. Ax^on, a well
known Presbyterian minister. She
spent a great part of her girlhood at
Rome and knew personally some of
the members of the Old Guard, as it
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 t.he J me of the historic mission of
peace in 1879. The organization will
call on President and Mrs. Wilson at
the White House, and the presentation
of the flowers will be made at that
time.
The Guard wifi 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(L*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.
Men Learn to Cook
As Women Ask Vote
Nine Don Aprons and Enter Kitcher
of Cornell University Domestic
Science Department.
ITHACA, May 6.—Cornell student
are preparing for the role which ma;
be man’s when women have the bal
lot. Some of them have already be
gun to fit themselves to take thei
Place at the head of the kitchen.
Nine male students haye this vea
registered in the domestic scienc.
department of tbe College of Agricul
lure. Among them are Watson, o
t tie varsity baseball team, and L. c
\\ hitney, of Rochester, a- member u
the Glee Club.
Watson, Whitney and the other
spend the regular hours each day it
the kitchen laboratories, clad it
aprons, kneading dough, studyinf
recipes, cooking and washing dishes.
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Plants, 3c each. Atlanta Floral
Co., 555 E. Fair Street.
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