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SUSPECT BOWEN MAKES DENIAL EXTRA Atlanta Georgian Read for Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use for Results VOL. XI. NO. 2:15. WK.vnilill: siiowkrs, ATLANTA. OA.. WEDNESDAY. MAY 7, 1913. 2CENTS EVERYWHERE EXTRA in 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. ■ —i 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