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tiirough that trunk,” said Bowen. “The
thing- in there are mine, and not
yours I don’t know anything about
this affair and you’ll have to show ipc
strong ”
Stoutly Denies Crime.
Officer* 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. He
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, I would not
have been in Houston this long ' he
said. “I would have left here Sunday
night.”
Bowen was taken from the room
Ing house to the police station and
was placed 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- i
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 was 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-1
fives Peyton and Detective Andrew F.
Shelly. He admitted that he lived In
\tlanta and had come from that city
to Houston, hut stoutly denied that he
even knew Mary Phagun.
Only Interested, He Says.
When shown the pictures In his
i unk and grip, he pointed out a num
ber of persons, including several !
\oung women, though he dec lared that
hoik of them was .Mary Phagan or
c.\ of her kinfolk ”
Bowen Well Educated.
Bowen is 22 years of age ami has !
light hair. He is well dressed and j
wadi educated. He lias been a book- j
lo cpcr and stenographer, and claimed 1
:li!»t he worked in Atlanta for the|
Morrow Transfer Company. He gave
his home address ns 108 Ivy Street.
He claimed this was his first visit |
to Houston. He declined to talk to |
• fficers or to tell anything about his
klnspeople or any of his business j
onnections except as given above.
Bowen is slight of build, perhaps B ‘
feet 6 or 7 inches In height. He
weigh* about 125 pounds and appears
brisk and energetic.
He admitted to officers that he had
lived in Atlanta nearly all his life.
He denied, however, that he knows
anything about the National Pencil
Factory, Leo Frank, the manager, or
any persons connected with or em
ployed in the factory’
He talked freely about some mat-
»ers 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 partisa,
Individual pictures and groups and
ouples. 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
if 14 in the St. Jean Hotel was found a
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woman’s bloodstained undervent. It
wax of small slace, as If for a girl from
14 to 16 years of age. The discovery
of the undervest was made yesterday
morning. \ guest at the hotel saw it
fluttering from the window Hnd 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 g tests at
the hotel declared that it was not
there Sunday night. The vest wav
bloodstained toward the ton of the
breast and about halfway (Town the
front The vest Is being held in con
nection with other properties by the
detectives •
Bowen told the officers again and
again that he hadi never heard of the
girl, but admitted that he knew the
place where she hnd worked. Bowen
failed to explain the newspaper clip
pings containing account* 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 (rime, through reading
the papers, and said his interest was
simply because Atlanta is his 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 directly
to the Si. 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 Ids 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 ityc book he wrote
"Paul P. Bowen, Atlanta, Ga.” 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 7:40
o'clock. Before 9 o’clock he was In
his room. He did not retire at that
hour, though.
Opening Ids 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 froni among th»*
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!
What did I do it for?"
A youth named Paul A. Bowen lived,
at the Atlanta Y. M. <\ A. until Feb
ruary of 1912, when he left for Hous
ton, Texas, according to Secretary J.
O. Bell, of the Atlanta association
Mr. Bell snkl Bowen was an ideal
young man and stood high In the esti
mation of the Y. M. r. A. workers of
Atlanta. He was a clerk at the Inman
Yards of the 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
was living at the Y. M A. when
Secretary Bell took up his duties there
and he did not know how long Bowen
had been In Atlanta.
Defends Bowen.
Charles Kimball, a Merk 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-
giun reporter, that he did not be
lieve his friend could be in any way
implicated in tlie murder of little
Mary Phagan.
"I have Just come back from the
detectives’ office, where 1 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 a per
sonal letter about affairs in which
we were both interested, and my only
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. L gave the letter to Detectives
Black and Harry Scott.
"As for Bowen, personally, he hnd 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,
Ark., where he was employed In the
offices of the Rock Island lines ns a
clerk. He later became private sec
retary to the superintendent of the St.
Louis and Southwestern line, and
spent a great deal of his time travel
ing over the lines in the superintend
ent’s private ear.
"1 have been in correspondence with
him almost continually since he left
here and have received letters from
him from a great ninny points out
West.”
All the local authorities were in-
< lined to belittle the importance of
the Bowen arrest.
Innocent, Says Lanford.
Thief 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
.: year ago after he hail left the em
ploy of the Morrow Transfer Com
pany. of which he was secretary. In
all 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
ten to friends in Atlanta from va
rious points and had 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 make a hurried and
secret trip into the city from Lufkin.
Texas, where he was heard from in
a letter bearing, the date of April 23
and then make his way back to Hous
ton. where he was captured.
"Our disbelief in his guik. however,
does not mean that we are going to
overlook any possibility thht he
might have been concerned. He is
being held for us"
Another Defends Him.
Clarence Duncan, a student at the
Atlanta Dental College, ami Bowen’s
room mate at the Young Men's t’hris-
tion Association, declared Tuesday
afternoon that Bowen had not been in
Atlanta, to his knowledge, since last
J une.
Phagan Case and the Solicitor Gen
eral’s Power Under Law—Dorsey
Hasn’t Encroached on Coroner.
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 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 v on a cap
tain’s business, when, as the battle
progressed, the general gave direc
tions of one sort and another to the
captain ns 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, anti not particularly
against either the cit> of Atlanta or
the county of Fulton, save in so far as
they are a part of the State.
A murder in Vilanta 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 1s permitted under
the law prior to Grand Jury inves
tigation. Many lawyers hold, and
rightly, that the office of Coroner IV
useless in the main, and ought to b°
abolished. It is. a relic of old English
procedure, Instituted before the days
of newspapers, telephones, telegrams,
fast marts and other quick methods
of communication.
In the absence of eyew itnesses 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, mist oe
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.
Has Full Responsibility.
The initial and the final responsi
bility for the State’s case !s in tHo
llands 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
°ause is not in the hands of the So
licitor General, over and above all
other officials.
lie can not take a murder vase
“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 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
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 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 ca.se in
Georgia, nnd that is in the court
house, under the direction of th'* So
licitor.
If a defendant be acquitted, that
ends the matter. If lie be convicted,
he may move for another (Via! 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
turns shall be merely parts of the
urocess 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 are Constitutional
and statutory curbs and restrictions
upon a Solicitor General, but none of
them may be 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.—Charged
with "assault on the high seas.”
which carries a penalty of fifteen
years' imprisonment in a Federal
prison. Robert Allan and George A.
Sohurtz. diamond salesmen o #
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 m liquor, breaking glassware
and starting fights with passengers.
JULIAN M. RAY.
He is now in charge of the men's
shoe department of the Fred 8. Stew -
art Company. 25 Whitehall Street.
Mr Ray. who has had many years
experience in the shoe business, is one
of the best known and most popular
salesmen in Atlanta. He will be glad
to welcome his friends and customers
at his new location and assures them
of the Ikst possible service.
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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F
actory Superintendent’s Statements!
on the Witness Stand Considered
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Distinctly Favorable to Him.
Leo .Vl 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 cas? of an
other man not heretofore meiiuoneil
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.
Leinmie Quinn, foreman, whose
nkme 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
the 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. The
police may have some important
questions to ask 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. £11
the officials are reticent. They re
fuse to discuss the tragedy with re
porters.
Following Every Clew.
Many baseless rumors are in circu
lation on the streets, 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 wav
of additional evidence, but that
brought out yesterday pointed the
finger of suspicion at n< one at all.
It was simply negative. It involved
the witness no more than suspicion
already had involved him, and was
not at all damaging t</ 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.
He was 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
w'hich he was subjected ai 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 J 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 11:45 o’clock.
On the way uptown I stopped into
Wolfsheimer’s and bought an order
of fancy groceries. I stopped at an
other place apd bought a cigar.
“Then I went to the factory. I
wanted to see Frank and tell him
Howdy do. 1 ' 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 I w ent upstairs to the office.
"Frank wa| 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 builds
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. I 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 floor—a person
w hom I would have no grounds
whatever to suspect.
Believes Frank Innocent.
"No! I won't divulge his name. I’M
tell the detectives in time. I'm glad
Frank told the Coroner of my visiM
It was I who refreshed his memory
of the incident. He apparently had
forgotten it. I have not been keeping
it secret. 1 told the detective Satur
day of the visit.
I have known Mr. Frank for year?
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
girl left the factory, eh?’ ”
Quinn was an ardent admirer of
the murdered child. He says she was
one of his most industrious em
ployees.
lie is married and has •one child.
His connection with the National
Pencil Company dates back sev
eral ..ears.
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
Mary PhagAn was killed. Frank said
he rose about 7 o’clock Saturday
morning and was at the office by 8:20.
About 9 o’clock Foreman M. D. Dar-
ley and others entered his office and
talked business matters with him.
DAY OF TRAGEDY
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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.
8:50 or 9—M. D. Darley and others
entered there.
10— Went over to offic e of £>ig Montag,
factory manager, on Neleon 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 Carson,
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 Watchman Newt Lee, ne
gro, came. He let negro go away
again.
5:30—Finished work on the financial
sheet.
6— Finished balancing cash; night
watchman came back. 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 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.
ADJUDGED DEAD, COMES
BACK AFTER EIGHT YEARS
TOPEKA. KANS., May 6.—W. H.
Caldwell, who was adjudged legally
dead by the Kansas Supreme Court in
a .vuit 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 get 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 Lommie 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 the foreman merely greeted him
and conversed for five or ten minutes
and then left.
Frank said that he himself left the J
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 ther^
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 ha 1
been doing some work on the holiday,
punched the clock, stopped to talk i
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 ha
had left in the shipping room. Frank
left before Gantt had obtained his
shoes.
Frank said that he arrived home I
at 6:25 and that h^s wife and mother-
in-law entered as he was calling)
New t Lee to s*»e if Gantt had left the j
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 bed 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.
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SCHOOL BOYS’ AND GIRLS’ BALLOT.
GIRL FLEES FROM
OLD GUARD TO GIVE
Emily Douglas, of paytona, Fla,,
Arrested Here, Says Mother
Tried to Force Marriage.
Childhood Friends Will Present
Bouquet From Yard in Rome
on Trip to Washington.
A story of flight to escape marriage
with a man she did not love was told
to the police Tuesday morning by
Miss Emily Dotfglas. a pretty 18-
year-old girl from Daytona. Fla., after
she had been arrested at the Terminal
station as she alighted from the Cin-
A huge bouquet of red roses picked
from the lawn where Mrs. Woodrow
Wilson lived as a girl at Rome, Ga .
wiJl be carried to Washington and
presented to the President's wife Mav
20 by the Old Guard of the Gate City
Guard. ,
cinnati and Florida Limited from
Jacksonville, Fla.
According to the story the girl told
Police Captain Mayo, her mother, Mrs.
M. H. Douglas*, hail tried to force her
to marry a man who lives in Chicago,
III. The would-be bridegroom. Miss
Douglas says’, Is many years older
than she.
”1 told mama J did not lov'e him,”
the girl said, “and she said 1 had to
marry him anyway. She said he would
make me a good husband. But 3
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, who says he is engaged to
marry the girl's sis'ter, left Daytona
on her trail. He arrived in Atlanta on
the itext 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.
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Sister Leads Posse
In Hunt for Slayers
Mrs. Wilson .was a Georgia gir’. a
daughter of Rev. Mr. Axson, a well
known Presbyterian minister. S!:e
spent a great part of her girlhood at
Rome and knew personally some of
the members of the Old Guard, as it j
was reorganised 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 187?. 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 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 60 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
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 moonshine rs 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—Naval
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 b£en 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.
REAL CO MEDIANS 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 I
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.
Next week. Beautiful Bedding
Plants, 3c each. Atlanta Floral
Co., 555 E. Fair Street.
ATLANTA
THEATER
Matinees
Wed and Sat
2Sc
Mights 15c to 50c
ALL TH I S WEEK
Except Wednedsay Night
Miss BILLY LONG
Company In
The Girl From Out
Yonder
NEXT WEEK—"Are You a Mason?"
Seats—Y'^dnesday P. M.
FORSYTH Wat - To-day
rUK^T m To-night at 8:30
Here for the First Time
NEXT WEEK
GUS EDWARDS KID KABARET
With 15 Jolly Singing Kids
PAUL
BELLE STORY. Singing Sta'
DiCKEY
Williams. Thomoson & Copeland
Famous Foot-
Hart’s Six Steppers, Riesner and
ball Star ir a
Co es, and others.
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