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VOL. XI. NO. 238.
WRATH KB: FA IB. ATLANTA, (!A.. FK1 DA V, M A V 9. 1913. 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE p Mh s e°
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, May 9.—Fresh suffra-
gette outrages stirred England to
day. Members of the “Young Hot
Blood” service of the Women’s Social
and Political Union burned Oaklea
mansion, at Barrow, causing h $50,000
lo*«.
Other members of the union at
tempted to attack Premier and Mrs.
Acquith and First Lord of the Ad
miralty Winston Churchill and Mrs.
Churchill as they were on their way
to the Victoria Railway station to
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Asquith and Mr. and
Mrs. Churchill were leaving on a
journey to Venice, where they will
embark upon the Admiralty yacht
Enchantress for a cruise through the
Mediterranean for inspection of Brit
ish fortresses and navy depots.
Saved by Their Guards.
Only the fact that they had a tyeavy
bodyguard of policemen, soldiers and
private detectives saved them from
injury at the hands of militant suf
fragettes.
Mrs Flora Drummong, or “General”
Drummond, as she is known because
of her Amazonian qualities, who col
lapsed in Bow Street court yesterday
during the trial of the women arrest
ed in the raid on headquarters of the
Women’s Social and Political Union,
was in a serious condition t.o-day.
She had refused to eat for a week to
spite the government and her health
has become so badly deranged as a
MILLTQWN WILL SCHOOL PUPILS 10
FISH. REGARDLESS SING IN CONCERT
Mayor Pafford Declares Georgia
Laws Give Residents Right to
Angle in Banks Pond.
Citizens of Milltown, Ga.. deny that
the-town is in a state of excitement
and that it will be necessary to ca 1
out troops to preserve order. Mayor
William F. Pafford has issued a state
ment declaring Game Warden Bois-
elafr became unduly alarmed.
Governor Brown has not considered
sending troops to Berrien County. It
ia hardly likely he will.
Until the Legislature changes the
law' 1 . Milltown sportsmen will continue
to angle for the elusive trout in Bank?'
fishpond so long as they have per
mission from, owners of the land on
which the body of water is located,
according to Mayor Pafford.
“Section 7 of the game law privi
leges a person to fish with permission
from the owner of the land, which
the 20 persons arrested had." he de
clared.
“The statement of State Game and
Fish Commissioner Mercer that his
wardens have been intimidated and
that the local authorities are too much
in sympathy with the lawless ele
ment to give any assistance is un
true,” said Pafford.
Boisclair made 20 arrests of per
sons. He charges he was prevented
from prosecuting the cases because
the justices of the peace declared he
would not convict any of the parties.
The whole matter hinges on a land
dispute. The Banks estate claims to
own all of the property on which the
pond is located. Other property own
ers sgy a title to all of the property
has never been vested with Banks.
GIRLS TO TELL IN PULPITS
OF WORKING CONDITIONS
BUFFALO, N. Y.. May 9.—Horrified
by the stories told them by some of
the girl department store clerks who
are on strike, many ministers* to-day
invited the girls to occupy their pul
pits Sunday and repeat there the true
conditions under which they work.
M ISS KATHERINE VICKERS, one of the most popular
girls in West End, who will be crowned Queen of the
May Festival at the Joel Chandler Harris home on May 24.
FRANK AND LEE HELD:
ATTACK PREMIER ASQUITH
Churchill in Party Saved From ‘Wild
Women’ by Guards—‘Arsonettes’
Blamed for £50,000 Blaze, and
Dynamiters Swear to Brave Death.
result that an operation may be nec
essary. She was removed to a nurs
ing home this morning
Love Wins New Ally.
Interesting sidelights on the or
ganization of militants are being
brought out at the trial of the mili
tant leaders. Leaders seized by the
police include a number of passionate,
burning love letters from a former
Socialist member of Parliament. The
letters show that he is infatuated
with one of the leaders of the “wild
women” and that he allied himself
with the “cause” at her command.
Other documents show that the
most dangerous branch of the union
Is called the “Service of Young Hot
Bloods.” No one but young unmar
ried women of high courage are ad
mitted. These are some of the ques
tions put to them before they are ad
mitted into this branch of the union:
Furnish the Arson©ttes.
Are you willing to die a violent
death to-day?
Are you afraid of dynamite or
any other high explosive?
Will you swear to hunger strike
if sent to jail?
Will you renounce the softer
characteristics of womankind in
favor of a great princiole?
Are you healthy and strong and
able to hold your own against a
single policeman?
The arsonettes and the members of
the dynamite squad are recruited
from the “Y. H. B.” service.
\
Photo by Stephenson.
Eighth Grade Will Render Folk
Song Program in Auditorium
Friday Evening,
The eighth grades of the city
schools, assisted by a selected num
ber of the seventh grades, will sing
in concert at the Auditorium Friday
evening at 8 o’clock. The program
will be folk songs of many countries.
William M. Slaton. Superintendn:
of Schools, will be in charge of the
evening's program. Dr. Percy J.
Starnes, the organist, will be accom
panist. Mias Kate Harralson. direc
tor of music of the'schools, will con
duct the chorus.
Thirty-five of the city schools wi]
be represented.
Some of the boys from the first
grade of the Boys’ High School have
been invited to have charge of dis
tributing the programs and seating
the audience. The concert is open to
the public.
The program reads:
Songs of England—"The Fox
Hunt;” “Weel May the Keel Row.”
Songs of Scotland—“Flow. Gently,
Sweet Afton;” “Auld Lang Syne.*’
Songs of Scotland and France by
Seventh Grades—“Blue Bells of Scot
land:” "My Normandy.”
Songs of Ireland—“Spirit of the
Summer-Time;” “Isle of Beauty.”
Songs of Wales—“The Rising of
the Lark;” “Why Lingers My Gaze?"
Songs of Austria and Italy by
Seventh Grades—“The Hills of Ty
rol;" "Santa Lucia.”
Songs of America—“’Way Down
Upon de Swanee Ribber;” “Home,
Sweet Home.”
U.S. CHECKS TOLL
OFTilBEHGULOSSS
Death Rate Decreased From
174,5 to J39.7 Per 100,000
Population in Last Decade.
LEOPOLD’S WIDOW,
DIVORCED, TO WED
Morganatic Wife of Belgian King,
Freed From M. Durrieux, Ac
cepts German Army Officer.
PRAY FOR MORE CHILDREN;
STORK BRINGS TRIPLETS
NEW YORK. May 9.—The prayers
of Lewis and Rebecca Isler were
granted to-day when the stork
brought them triplets. Since last
January when their four children
were burned to death in a fire which
destroyed their home the lslers had
offered up daily prayer* for more
children.
WASHINGTON, May 9. -That the
death rate in the United States from
tuberculosis during the decade end
ing in 1910 has diminished from 174.5
per 100.000 of population to 139.7 was
the statement made here by Dr.
Frederick L. Hoffmap of Newark, in
an address before the sociological
section of the National association
for the study and prevention of tu
berculosis.
“In other word?,” said Dr. Hoff
man. “nearly 200,000 lives were saved
from 1909 to 1910, in the campaign
against this disease.”
Dr. Hoffman stated that the death
rate in New York City. 289.1 in 1881,
had declined to 180.1 in 1912. He
made no mention of any mo-called
“cures.”
Surgeon B. S. Warren, of the U. S.
Public Health Service. affirmed
that deaths of government employees
from tuberculosis were much lower
than that of other laborers in similar
occupations, because of the superior
sanitary conditions.”
“About 50,000 new’ cases of tuber
culosis arc constantly drifting about
the country for long periods without
even consulting physicians,” was the
statement by Dr. Harry Lee Barnes,
superintendent of the Rhode Island
Statp Sanitarium.
CONGRESSMEN TO PLAY
BASEBALL FOR CHARITY
WASHINGTON. May 9.—A ball
game between teams composed of
members of the House of Represen
tatives will be played here May 17 for (
the benefit of local playgrounds.;
President Wilson has promised to at-J
tend. Victor Murdock, Progressive
leader, will umpire. Representative
Webb, of South Carolina, will pitch
for the Democrats, and Representa
tive Norton, of North Dakota, for #.he
. ibUcan*.
“Phagan Mystery Now Is in State’s
Hands and Every Effort Will Be
Made for a Speedy Solution,” De
clares Solicitor General Dorsey.
l.eo M. Frank, superintendent of the National Pencil Fac
tory, and Newt Lee, the ni^ht watchman, are held under charges
of murder, as the following verdict of the Coroner's jury will
show:
Atlanta, Ga.. May 8, 1913.
We, the Coroner's jury, impaneled and sworn by Paul"
Donehoo, Coroner of Fulton County, to inquire into the
cause of the death of Mary Phagan, whose dead body now
lies before us, after having heard the evidence of sworn wit
nesses, and the statement of Dr. J. W. Hurt, County Physi
cian, find that the deceased came to her death from strangu
lation. We recommend that Leo M. Frank and Newt Lee be
held under charges of murder for further investigation by
the Fulton County Grand Jury.
(Signed, HOMER C. ASHFORD, Foreman.
DR. J. W. HURT, County Physician.
Frank and Lee are awaiting the consideration of their eases
Special Cabl® to The Atlanta Georgian.
PARIS, May 9.—Within less than
24 hourv after she had obtained *a di
vorce from her 8°cond husband^ M.
Durrieux, it was reported to-day that
Baroness Vaughan would soon marry
again
Baroness Vaughan was the mor
ganatic wife of King Leopold of Bel
gium, and bore him two sons. Aftei
Leopold's death she married M. Dtir-
rieux. but enfc*n?d suit for divorce, al
leging infidelity. A decree was grant
ed in her favor yesterday.
Baroness Vaughan began life as a
washerwoman, but her beauty at
tracted the eye of the ag«ed Belgian
King, who took her under his protec
tion and showered wealth upon her.
Her next husband, it is said, will be
a German army officer.
Crosses the Atlantic
To See a Ball Game
Relative of Pierpont Morgan Says
He Is Going Right Back
to Paris.
NKW YORK, May 9. -A passenger
came over on the ICronprinzessin <V-
cllie to see one good American ball
game. He is G, D. Morgan, an Ameri
can who lives in Paris, and rays he is
a relative of J. Pierpont Morgan.
“I want to see jrnt one good old
baseball game and then J am going
right back.” said Mr. Morgan.
HISTORIC CHICAGO THEATER
BOUGHT BY MOVIE CONCERN
CHICAGO, May 9. - Mt Vickers’
Theater was sold to-day to owners of
a string of moving picture houses
and neighborhood theaters The deal
is said to have Involved an amount
exceeding $500,000. The theater will
be turned into a cheap vaudeville
hippodrome.
by the Grand Jury, which met
As Solicitor Dorsey has fol
lowed the investigation closely
since it began and part of the
time has had detectives of his
own working on the case, it is re
garded as probable that he would
have it ready for presentation
to the grand jury some time on
Monday.
In this event a decision as to
whether indictments shall be re
turned may be reached by Monday
night.
Solicitor Dorsey said Friday he
would give the Phagan case all of his
attention and present his evidence to
the Grand Jury as quickly as possi
ble.
The solicitor has shown an anxiety
to avoid delays of any nature in hunt
ing down the slayer of the Phagan
girl, and now that the Coroner’s jury
has turned the case over to the so
licitor and the Grand Jury it may be
taken for granted that the investiga
tion \vill be hurried along with all
possible speed.
Case ih State’s Hands.
“The case now is fully in the hands
of the Stale,” said the solicitor Fri
day morning. “It will not be pre
sented to the Grand .Jury Friday, but
I shall endeavor to present it at the
earliest possible moment. The instant
that I have a complete case I shall
bring it to the attention of the Grand
Jury. It is my desire to bring the
slayer of Mary Phagan to justice with
the greatest dispatch. A great crime
has been done and I am no less eager
to see the guilt determined than the
general public.”
It required the Coroner’s jury about
twenty minutes to frame its formal
verdict Thursday night. The jurors
received a brief charge from Coroner
Donehoo and filed from the Commis
sioners’ room in the police station at
6:08 o’clock. At 6:28 they were back
with their verdict.
Coroner Donehoo admonished the
Jurors to be as ready to hold a person
who they thought might be withhold
ing information of the crime as to
hold a person they regarded as the
possible culprit. A person possessing
knowledge of the crime and withhold
ing It. he said, was an accessory after
the fact.
An immediate hush fell on the
packed room when the jurors return
ed. There was a dead silence except
for the voice of Homer C. Ashford,
foreman of the jury, when the verdict
was read.
Girle Testify Against Frank.
The inopt damaging testimony
against Frank in regard to his treat
ment of employees at his factory was
saved until the last hours of the hear
ing. Girls and women were called to
the ftand to testify that they had
been employed at the factory or had
had occasion to go there, and that
Frank had attempted familiarities
with them
Nellie Petti?, of 9 Oliver Street, de
clared that Frank had made improper
advances to hShe was asked 'if
Friday morning.
the
she ever had been employed at
pencil factory.
“No.” she answered.
Q. Do you know Leo Frank?- A. I
have seen him once or twice.”
Q. When and where did you see
him?—A. In his office at the factory
whenever i went to draw my sister-
in-law's pay.
Q. What did he say to you that
might have been improper on'any of
these visits?—A. He didn’t ‘exactly
«a,y—he made gestures. 1 went to
get sister’s pay about four weeks ago
and when I went Into the office of Mr.
Frank 1 asked for her. He told me I
couldn’t see her unless “I saw him
first.”
Says He Winked at Her.
“I told him I didn't want to see
him.' He pulled a box from his desk.
It had a lot of money in it. He
looked at it significantly and then
looked at me. When he looked at me.
he winked. Ah he winked he said:
‘How about it?’
“I instantly told him I was a nice
girl.”
Here the witness stopped her state
ment. Coroner Donehoo asked her
sharply:
“Didn’t you say anything else?”
“Yes, I did! 1 told him to go to
h—1! and walked out of his office.”
'I homas Blackstock, who said that
he was employed at the factory about
a year ago testified as follows:
Tells of Frank’s Conduct.
g. Do you know Leo M. Frank?—
A. Yes.
g. llow long have you known him?
A. About six weeks.
g. Did you ever observe his con
duct toward female employees of the
pencil factory?—A Yes. I’ve often
seen him picking on different girls.
Q. Name some.—A. I can’t exactly
recollect names.
g. What was the conduct you no
ticed particularly ?
The witness answered to the effect
that he had seen him place his hands
with undue familiarity upon the per*
son of girls.
Q. Wee it often? A. A half dozen
times, rnaybe He generally was seen
to become that familiar while he was
touring the building.
g. Can’t you name just one girl?—
A. Y'es. Magnolia Kennedy.
g. Did you see him act with undue
familiarity toward her?—A. No. 1
heard talk about it.
Q. Before or after the murder?-—
A. Afterward.
“Girls Tried to Avoid Him.”
g. When did you observe this mis
conduct of which you have told?-
A. A year ago.
g. Did you hear complaints around
the plant ?■ A. No. The girls tried
to avoid him.
Mrs. C. D. Donegan said she was
connected with the pencil plant for
three weeks. Her capacity was that
of forelady. She resides at 165 West
Fourteenth Street with her husband.
Her testimony follows:
State your observations of Frank's
Continued on Page 2, Column 5.
ALL THE EVIDENCE TO BE WEIGHED
UNDER DIRECTION OF SOLICITOR DORS!
THE PHAGAN CASE WILL BE CAREFULLY INVE
GATED BY THE GRAND JURY UNDER THE PERSON
DIRECTION OF SOLICITOR DORSEY.
SEARCH FOR NEW AND IMPORTANT EVIDENCE ST!
GOES ON.
ALL THE DETECTIVES ENGAGED ON THE CASE A
STILL AT WORK.
IS THERE ENOUGH EVIDENCE TO INDT
LEO FRANK AND NEWT LLE. MEN I
LAWYERS ON FRIDAY FREELY DISCUSSED
GAL ASPECT OF THE PHAGAN CASE. IT WAS T!
ERAL OPINION THAT THE GRAND JURY Vvv [,
EVIDENCE NOT/ YET MADE PUBLIC BET)
FRANK AND LEE. THE STATEMENTS , ,
CORONER’S INQUEST THURSDAY Bi Dl.
SCOTT AND BLACK, THAT THEY HAVE NO P0S:
IDENCE AGAINST ANYONE, WAS A GREAT SU
TARIFF BILL IS
OP TO SENATE;
Democrats Rejoice as the House
Passes the Measure by the
Vote of 281 to 139.
WASHINGTON, May 9—The Un-
derwood tariff bill, with the lowest
Import dutiaa ever imposed by an
American measure, is now up to the
Senate Finance Committee.
The bill'® passage through the Sen
ate will be fought at every step by a
Republican organization apparently
entirely ir. accord on this subject and
entirely willing to spend unlimited
time and energy in an effort to de
feat it.
Leaders of the Democrats on the
Senate Finance Committee, which will
harjdle the bill, express the belief that
it will go through in practically the
same form a* it passed the House,
and that their small majority will
stand firm to the last.
Few Cnanges Likely.
Subcommittees of the Finance Com
mittee which have been investigating
the schedules of the bill for the last
few weeks plan to make a few
changes in several schedules, but
wool and sugar and other schedules
which brought out the hard fighting
in the House are not to be touched,
according to the present plan. The
income tax and administrative fea
tures also are to stand.
Democratic leaders acknowledge
that the two Senators from Louis
iana will not accept the sugar sched
ule, and that they might be willing to
combine with others* to defeat the
whole bill.
On the final test in the House last
night the vote was 281 to 139, five
Democrats voting against the bill and
two Republicans voting for it. Four
Progressives supported the bill and
fourteen opposed it, while one Inde
pendent Progressive joined with the
majority.
House to Mark Time Now.
When Speaker Clark announced the
vote in loud tones that revealed his
satisfaction exhuberant Democrats
hoisted h stuffed Democratic donkey
over the heads of their colleagues
in the rear of the chamber, a ripple of
applause followed and the gavel fell
on the first chapter in the history of
President Wilson's extra session of
Congress.
With the bill on its way to the Sen
ate. there was a rush of Representa
tives for their homes. In the House
adjournment will be taken three days
at a time beginning next week until
June 1. In the meantime, the Sen
ate Finance Committee will study
the bill while the House Ways and
Means Committee will organize com
mittees preparatory to the transaction
qf business next month.
TOR DALLAS TO
CAPTURE MEET
Atlantans, 200 Strong, Leave on
Special Train Friday Night for
Convention in Texas.
I want to again express my ap
preciation for the assistance of
Mr. Hearst and hit newspapers
throughout the country. If At
lanta gets the 1914 meeting Mr.
Hearst and his papers will be
largely reeponeible. — POTKN -
TATE FORREST ADAIR.
“The Imperial Council will meet in
Atlanta In 1914. Personally I have no
doubt of it. We have hotel accom
modations: Memphis has not, and we
have made a remarkable record in
raising a fund of $76,000 In one day
that every Shriner In America knows
about.
And we leave to-night for Dallas
better equipped to extend an invita
tion of this kind than any * city or
Temple that has extended a like in
vitation in a great number of years.”
With this statement Forrest Adair,
potentate of Yaarab Temple, an
nounced Friday morning that every
detail of the pilgrimage to the con
vention of the Imperial Council of
Shriners at Dallas. Tex., was com
plete and Atlanta's delegation, nearly
200 strong, would leave in a special
train over the Southern Railway at
10 o’clock Friday night.
Reach Dallas Sunday.
Early Sunday morning the Atlanta
pilgrims will have crossed the hot
sands and entered the Oasis of Dallas.
They will go into the city with their
coats on their arms, prepared to
drown out any discordant note, from
Memphis, or anywhere for that mat
ter. with the now familiar slogan:
“Atlanta, 1914.”
At Birmingham. Meridian, Shreve
port and a score of points along the
line, Atlanta boosters will board the
train, and go with the delegation to
Dallas to swell the total and bring
the convention to the Southeast next
year.
Mr. Adair and his official delega
tion, W. A. Foster, John A. Hynds
and Claude H. Hutcheson, of Jones
boro, will extend the Invitation.
They will be fortified with official
invitations from the Mayor and City
Council and every tFades organiza
tion in the city, as well as open con
tracts from every hotel in Atlanta,
assuring accommodations for as many
as 4.000 Shriners, the number ex
pected here next year.
.. No “Holdup” in Rates
The beauty of the hotel contracts,
as explained by Mr. Adair, is that
“inauguration rates" will not be
charged.
“Only the regular rates." .said Mr.
Adair, “will be in force, an«l X havgt