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VOL. XI. NO. 2:15. WK.vnilill: siiowkrs, ATLANTA. OA.. WEDNESDAY. MAY 7, 1913. 2CENTS EVERYWHERE
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Body of Mary Phagan Exhumed,
Bloodstains on Clothing Analyzed
and Every Effort Made to Uncover
Additional Clews in the Mystery.
Youth Arrested in Connection With
Phagan Mystery Protests Innocence.
Woman Says He Moaned, “Why
Did I Do It?”—Local Men Skeptical.
Leo M. Frank on Way
From Tower to Inquest
STILL IS « HELD
Solicitor General Dorsey, Chief of Detectives Hanford, Chief
of Police Beavers, and all men working under them in the Phagan
case see.m 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 ease."
What evidence the officials have other than that which has
already been made public they refuse to divulge. Solicitor Dorsey
declines to make public his case in the newspapers. He is investi
gating .every phase of the matter through trusted men working
under his own direction.
Ft is perfectly proper for the chief prosecuting officer to with
hold any and all evidence until such time as he may present his
ease to the Grand Jury.
, That there is uew aud start
ling evidence seems* true, but
just what 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 Dorsey was reticent about
\he nature of the most recent clis-
•overies, but his guarded statements
Indicated that he considered the dis
closures which have been made by
the force of detectives, physicians and
chemists working under his direction
as having a most important bearing
■>n the solution of the crime.
Mr. Dorsey issued this statement:
1 see in an interview attributed
to Quinn that I asked him if he
was not paid by counsel for Frank
to protect Frank.
This statement, so far as I 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 guilty of any such con
duct.
.It is known that a more thorough
and minute examination of every lo
cality and every article having any
connection or possible connection
with the slaying of Mary Phagan is
being made now than was undertaken
in the first few days of the mystery.
Under the direction of Solicitor
Dorsey, chemists have made a new’
analysis of the blood found on the
factory floor, where the Phagan girl
Aidently struggled with her assail-
£it.
0 Dr. H. F. Harris, director of the
State Board of Health, is making a
second examination of the * body of
the slain girl, which was taken from
slayer may be turned up.
The report of Dr. Harris probably
will not be made public until Thurs
day, when the inquest resumes. Mean
while, the Solicitor is working on the
information that he receives from
time to time from Dr. Harris; from
the chemists who have analyzed the
bloodstained chips of wood taken
from the factory floor, and from Dr.
Claude A. Smith, city bacteriologist,
who has analyzed the bloodstains on
the shirt found at the home of Newt
Lee.
Solicitor Dorsey telegraphed to
New York Tuesday to verify a state
ment concerning Frank contained in
an unsigned letter. The Solicitor
said that the Pinkerton detectives
would not be admitted to his confer
ences with the city police.
The Grand Jury will meet Friday
and probably will take up the case
then if a verdict has been rendered
by the Coroner’s jury.
Candler and Street
Car Officials Confer
Company Reported Willing to Meet
Rush Traffic Suggestions More
Than Half Way.
P. S. Arkwright, president, and the w
traffic officials of the Georgia Rail
way and Power Company held a long
conference with C. M. Candler, chair
man of toe Georgia Railroad Com
mission, in reference to the conges
tion of street car traffir in Atlanta
during rush hours.
Statistics recently given the com
mission, showing the fare register
readings at terminals and cross
town points for a period of a week,
were considered. -
Mr. Candler submitted suggestions
and criticisms. It is understood that
the officials are ready to meet the
Photograph of Leo M. Frank, showing Chief of Detectives Lanford and Chief Beavers on either side.
the grave in the cemetery at Ma- commission’s suggestions more than
; half-wav. Increased, service, it is
rietta.
Whether it was from any one of
l»he 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. j
May Have Been Hurled Down Shaft., , „
\ startling- theory announced py | Country Searched for Pretty Lee
(he Solicitor is that the body of Mary ! Hal1 - Believed Insane or Victim
Phagan was thrown, alive, down the j of Foul Play,
elevator shaft from the second floor
| said, has been delayed only to see
what the commission intended to
order.
Waycross Girl, 15,
Vanishes in Woods
to the basement. He has found th U
the soil at the bottom of the shaft iq
soft and that the girl might not hav -
been seriously injured by a fall of
this distance. He would not be sur
prised if subsequent developments
proved that the girl was slain not
on the second floor of the factory, but
i
WAYCROSS, GA.. May 6.—Pretty
Lee Hall, a 15-year-old girl, yesterday
suddenly left her home a mile north
of Waycross. rushed into the thick
woods bordering Kettle Creek an!
disappeared. It Is feared she may
have been a victim of foul play. The
entire county is being scoured for the
n the basement at just about the spot 1 missing girl. She was sieen entering
where the body was found. j the woods, and when her father called
Vo insure that not the .‘■•mallest par- j she broke into a run. Hall states no
tide of evidence is overlooked, Solici- | man is involved as far as he knows,
tor Dorsey is continuing his rigid in
vestigation of the factory itself. Elec
tric lights have been strung in every
nook and corner of the basement,
where before it was black and gloomy.
Te di?c and trash covering the floor is
being searched painstakingly in the
hope that some tell-tale clew may be
It discovered—that the giri’9 missing
purse may be found, or that some ar
tide disclosing the Identity of the
but thinks his daughter has lost »r
mind.
THE WEATHER
Forecast for Atlanta: Showers.
Temperatures: 8 a. m., 73 degrees:
10 a. m. f 77 degrees: 12 noon, 83
degrees: 2 p. m., 86 degrees. Sun
rise, 4:43; sunset, 6:26.
ACTIVELY URGED
Councilmen and Officials Advo
cate Fund for Concerts Dur
ing Summer Months.
Slayer of King of.
Greece a Suicide
Assassin Leaps to His Death From
Window of Police Building
in Athens.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, May 6.—A news agency
dispatch received here to-day from
Aliens states that Aleko Shinns, the
anarchist w r ho assassinated King
George of Greece in Salonika on
March 18, jumped from a window in
the police building and killed him
self.
How the prisoner eluded the jailers
is not told in the dispatch.
Schinas killed the King by firing
point blank into his back while he
was .walking along the streets of Sa
lonika. He gave as an explanation :>f
the crime that in 1911 he had applied
for assistance at the King’s palace
and had been driven away.
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Society Folk Nabbed
As They Foil Dice
Chicago Host Has His Guests Taken
to Police Station as
Joke.
I’HH'AGO. May 6.— An even dozen
prominent society and business folk
of Chicago learned to-day that their
arrest on a charge of gambling at the
home of Richard F. Peyton, in High
land Park, a fashionable suburb, was
all a joke.
The guests of Peyton were caught
rolling dice on the floor and wager
ing greenbacks on the turn of the
“bones.” Peyton had the suburban
police force—the chief and his two as
sistants—“arrest” his guests and take
them to the police station charg'd
with gambling.
Typists’ Uniforms
Please London Girls
i
“They Double the Life of Our Private
Dresses,” Says One, and Are
Very Becoming Beside
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, May JO.—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 costume becoming to all of us.” said
MiDorothy Clegg, a pretty young
typist to-day, ‘‘but w f e were mistaken.
A dressmaker took our measurements,
and a few days later the dresses ar
rived. They are Ideal business dresses,
cinnamon in color, and in tbe Empire
style, they harmonize with the cream
and green color scheme of the office**.
“The full sleeves arc. appreciated.
The low neck and th# 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
we can slip off the Empire dress in
less than a jninute.”
If you have anything to sell, adver
tise in The Sunday American. Larg
est circulation of any Sunday news
paper in the South.
ON LAST LAP 5,000-MILE
TEST OF ARMY FOOTWEAR
WASHINGTON, May 6. Former
Sergeant John Walsh, U. S. A., started
for Columbus, Ohio, to-day on the last
lap of his official test of army shoes
He has covered 5,000 miles.
Walsh left Fort Slocum July 22.
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
receive $2,000 for his efforts.
PROTESTS EXCLUSION ACT.
Washington, May 6.—William Mar
tin. o f Los Angeles, to-day protested,
to President Wilson against the pres
ent Chinese exclusion act, which he
says is unfair.
Jack London Faces
Charge of Assault
Writer Accused of Beating Man He
Disarmed and Ejected From
His Ranch Home.
MANTA ROSE, CAL., May 6.—Jaciv
London, the famous author, traveler
and landow ner of Glen Ellen, and his
guest, John J. Burns, of San Fran
cisco, must answer to a charge of
battery next Monday as a result >1
trouble on the London ranch.
Mrs. J. H. Shepard and her sister
had tome words, according to Shep
ard. and because Burns, who was
present, refused to interfere on behalf
of Mrs. Shepard, Shepard ls> alleged
to have made a demonstration w’ith a
revolve
Loudon and Burns are said to have
taken the weapon from Shepard,
grappled with him and forcibly eject
ed him. Shepard declared London
choked and abused him.
G.T. Wrenn, Diamond
Thief, Begins Term
Participant in Gilsey Robbery Leaves
Medical School to Surrender
at Tower.
George j'. Wrenn, sentenced to the
Fulton County chaingang for twelve
months in connection with the Gilsey
diamond robberies at the Piedmont
Hotel moie than a year ago, began the
service of his sentence thi.« morning.
He came to Atlanta yesterday and
surrendered to the county authorities
at the Tower.
Wrenn has been out on bail since he
was sentenced, and has been studying
medicine at Birmingham. To-day he
was taken to the Bellwood Avenue
chaingang and will spend twelve
months dissecting rocks with a sledge
hammer.
If you have anything to sell, adver
tise in The Sunday American. Larg
est circulation of any Sunday news
paper in the South.
Villages War for
Railway Station
Wiley Claims 23 People and Is “Cow
Center”—Mathis Depends on
Natural Beauty.
Rabun Uounty Is at white heat, und
the old feud between the towns of
Wiley and Mathis is at its height. The
vital question of w hich place gets a j
regular railroad station with an agent j
in charge is to be determined this I
week by the Georgia Railroad Com- j
mission.
Wiley claims the greater population.
Within a radius of one mile from
Wiley there are 23 persons living. It
has been ‘■-hown conclusively, h claims
also to be “the natural center of the
cow movement," whatever that may
mean.
Mathis claims that it is due to be
come a great summer resort because
of the beauty of the lake created there
by the Georgia Railway and Power j
Company’s dam.
Photographs of the surrounding j
country, letters from almost every
State between Ohio and the District I
of t olumbia, a mass of evidence and j
many personal appeals have reached '
the Railroad Commission on the sub- j
ject.
Police and Strikers
In Syracuse Battle
Twenty-five Wounded, Two Fatally.
In Fierce Clash—City Under
Martial Law.
SYRACUSE. N. Y.. May 6 Blood
flowed in the streets about the Cath
olic Cathedral to-day when 56 police
men fought 500 frenzied Italian strik
ers. Twenty-five men were xvoundel.
Two may die.
The city is under martial law. Every
saloon in Syracuse has been ordered
closed.
Police are guarding buildings, whi'c
sullen strikers are gathered in vari
ous places awed by the troops, depu
ties and police.
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.
He did stop at 185 Ivy Street. He denies everything. The
evidence here is very strong against him. Mrs. A. Blanchard,
formerly of Atlanta, first to suspect, gave first information
about him. Answer soon.’’
HOUSTON, TUX AS, May (>.—Paul P. Bowen, arrested be
cause of tbe suspicion of the local authorities that lie was con-
nected with tbe murder of Mary Phagan in Atlanta, denied Tues
day all knowledge of the girl and (lie crime except as he read of
it in the newspapers.
A score of clippings telling the story of the little girl's dealii
were found in the young man’s room. His only explanation was
tHat Atlanta was bis home town, and he was particularly 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 latei' at a rooming house. Roomers in adjoining rooms are
said to have been disturbed by bis moans and mutterings and by
bis constant pacing of the floor.
"Why did I do it! Why did
I do it?" he is declared to have
repeated to himself incessantly.
Oompiaint w r as first made to the
hotel authorities and later the
police were notified.
Bowen wan arrested last night by
Chief of Police Davison, Chief of De
tectives Peyton and Detective Hilton
al 1 f>20 Texas Avenue.
"A night of terror," as officers term
it. led to the 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 I do It?" he is said to
have cried.
"I would not have done it. I ought
not to have done that. If 1 had it
to do over I wouldn't do it,” were re
peatedly heard by those who listened
and who frequently walked through
the hall in an effort to ascertain some
cause for the peculiar actions of the
man.
Monday the young man was shad
owed and the matter was reported to
the detective department. About 5
o’clock he registered off and moved to
Texas Avenue and Crawford Stresi.
There he engaged a room for a week.
Last night, shortly after midslight, the
officers went to the place. Bowen an
swered a knock at his 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 to him and he then in
vited them into his room. He kept a
distance from them, however, and he'd
an open knife in his right hand. Bow
en appeared nervous throughout the
conversation of perhaps fifteen min
utes, but replied to all querie'.
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
it to an officer and sat on the side 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
'.hey 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 1 had a gun you never would go
Music in Grant and Piedmont Parks
at least four times a week through the
summer Is the plan actively urged ov
park officials and u number of Coun-
cllmen. Councilman Claude L. As'nley
Monday introduced a resolution in
Council appropriating $.7,000 for the
purpose. To-day his move 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 Un
people, and it is our duty to give them,
tlte 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 af’-
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 1 park
music.
1 KILLED AND 1 INJURED
WHEN AUTO OVERTURNS
BIRMINGHAM. ALA.. May 6.—J. L.
Thornhill, aged 30, was instantly
killed anil H. O. Glasgow was seri
ously injured when an automobile
they were In late last night turned
over on the county rouil outside of
Greater Birmingham.
The machine fell over a small em
bankment in making room for an
other automobile to pass. Both men
were employed by the Tennessee Com
pany at Edgewater. Thornhill wan
from Oslca, Miss.
JURY HAS SILVA’S CASE
FOR CHORUS GIRL’S DEATH
SAVANNAH, 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
the death of Esther O’Mara, of Bos
ton. Mass., a chorus girl, known as
Marian Leonard. She died from the
effects of morphine injected into her
hip.
S!MU EV