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VOL. I. NO. 6.
Copyright, 1913, by
The Georgian Company.
ATLANTA. (L\., SUNDAY, MAY 11, 1!)13.
Sir Cecil Spring-Rice’s State
ment to the President That
He Is a “Pupil of Pauncefote”
Astounds American Diplomats.
Wilson Is Notified by Japan That
She Will Protest Against the
Land Act of California—Swift
ness of Action Disturbs Him.
“Spanish Prisoner”
Uncovers a Victim
Hoary Swindle Still Working—John
Booth Sails to Rescue 1m*
# prisoned Beauty.
NEW YORK. May 10. That hoary
relic of olden days, * the "Spanish
prisoner" game, which wore whiskers
when the best of the old-time Amer
ican "bunko steerers" were prattling
babes, was once more taken off th rt
back shelf yesterday, dusted, revar
nished and put on board the Kron-
prinz Wilhelm, of the North German
Lloyd line, which steamed for Bre- I
men.
The gallant American who left ("
rescue the beautiful senorita and her
father, whose fortune is in the hid
den pocket of the portmanteau now |
in the hands of the customs authori
ties of Spain, gave his name as John
Booth. He acknowledged that it was
an assumed name.
Detective Weinthal, of the Hoboken
police, tried to explain to Booth that
he was being victimized, but the man
declared he had cut his eye teeth
and knew how to take care of him
self. He showed Weinthal the let
ters he had received from Madrid,
and said that he was sure they were
genuine.
DF PROF. PECK
Former Columbia Instructor Tak
en Home by Woman He Sepa
rated From Years Ago.
Ramona Borden Missing Again
Girl and Mother Both Disappear
' V*V *,'•••!* v • V v • V V • V ►« • Y
(MS CHUM Young Heiress Seen with Stranger
Strange Psychic Powers of Den
ver Girl Causing Great Interest
All Over Country.
Ramona Bordcu, who ran away a few weeks ago with two
women, now sail to be missing again.
SECOND MATE AGREEABLE REMAINS INVISIBLE ALWAYS
By JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES.
WASHINGTON, May 10.—"I am of
the school of Lord Pauncefote and his
pupil,” was the astonishing and sig
nificant remark by Sir Cecil Spring-
Rice. the new British Ambassador, in
his first interview with the President
of the United States to-day.
This declaration hfcs been the talk
of diplomatic Washington. It is gen
erally construed as a direct announce
ment of the attitude which the Am
bassador will maintain in the further
discussion of the Hay-Pauncefote
treaty and the Panama Canal tolls.
It is well known that Sir Cecil was
sent to Washington at this time be
cause of his intimacy with Lord
Pauncefote and his acquaintance with
the unwritten negotiations attending
the Hay-Pauncefote treaty. It is
generally understood that this remain
places the Ambassador fairly on rec
ord as of the Pauncefote view.
Japanese Ambassador Elated.
The most conservative of diplomats
regard it as remarkable and signifi
cant that this careful and trained
diplomat, in ids first conversation
with the hetid of our Government,
should have so closely allied himself
with the one British statesman whose
name brings up inevitably the con
tention between the United States and
the British Government.
THE JAPANESE EMBASSY IS
REPORTED AS HIGHLY ELATED
OVER THE CONVERSATION.
John Bassett Moore, Acting Secre
tary of State, refused to-day, as
usual, to elucidate any of the ques
tions that have been urged upon the
State Department of Great Britain
and Japan. The central question be
fore the American Government is the
coincidence of the English and Japa
nese claims.
The White House and the State
Department have been notified by the
Ambassador of Japan’s protest
against the alien land act of Cali
fornia as a clear controvention of the
treaty of 1911.
Swift Action Disturbs Wilson.
This swift action of Japan, which is
taken in advance of the signature to
the alien land bill by Governor John
son has had an awakening and dis
tinctly disturbing effect upon the Ad
ministration.
Government officials regard the cit-1
nation as more serious and more
menacing than it has ever been. Ja
pan has been waiting with deep in
terest the presentation of the British
protest against the Panama tolis,
which may be filed at the State De
partment on the same day as the
Japanese protest.
It is known that the reply to the
Japanese protest i.*- already in prepar
ation and that it will take the form
of an evasion of the main charge.
Out of ihe dense fog which has
been raised on the present questions,
the one object of the State Depart
ment will be to avoid direct issues
and enter upon processes of delay.
Character of Japan’s Protest.
It is reported that Mr. Bryan’s hope
is an agreement for a modus vlvendi,
so as to prevent the intrusion of ihe
Senate or House into the affairs, of
the Stathe Department and Japan.
Herr Oscar Explains
His Need of Dippel
Might Use Him to Carry Bricks,
Says the Impresario in Reply
to Consolidation Rumor.
NEW YORK. May 10.—‘‘Dippel? I
Oh, yes. I could use him.” commented j
Oscar IIammer$tein. "Right now. I
could use Dippel to carry mortar and j
bricks. Yes, indeed.”
This was Air. Hammerstein’s reply!
to a report that he and ihe former
manager of the Chicago Opera Com
pany would, join forces in the pro
duction of opera in New York.
Asked concerning the report that
directors* of the Metropolitan Opera
Company have tried to induce him
.o. limit his proposed grand opera
productions next season entirely to
works in English, he .said:
‘‘Lawyers have tried to get us to- j
gether so we could come to some
agreement. There has been no con
ference, however, as yet. It is m
true. I have talked to Otto H. Kahn
about it. I have planned nothing
but opera in English so far. But
if I desire I shall produce in any l
language 1 siee fit."
Republicans May Cut
South’s Delegation
Hilles Calls Executive Committee to
Consider National Convention to
Change Representation.
NEW YORK, May 10.—Charles D.
Hilies, chairman of- the Republican
National Committee, yesterday is
sued a call for a meeting of the
executive committee at the New Wil
lard Hotel, in Washington, May 24.
The meeting will consider the de
mand for a special national conven
tion to change the basis of repre
sentation.
Senator Cummins and other lead-
era want the basis on the vote cast in
each Slate for the Republican candi
date for President, thus reducing th-
power of the Southern States in the
convention. The “Old Guard” is op
posed to any change.
H
Doctor” No Longer;
President Dislikes It
Visitors Learn Title Must Not Be
Used at the White House
From Now On.
WASHINGTON, May 10.—Presi
dent Wilson, vvho’Se biographical rec
ord carries a list of degrees which is
tedious to read, does not like to be
called "Doctor Wilson" any more. Any
one who unes the prefix with his name
at the White House now quickly dis j
covers his error.
A visitor • asked to see the Presi
dent. The messenger whose ilutY it
is to submit the names of callers
handed in thp card, announcing that
"Mr. derived to'see Dr. Wilson."
The messenger was promptly ad
monished that the President mas; not
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ACCIDENTS CHAMBER’S AIM
Japan's protest is very bri^f and I he referred to by that title,
follows the principle of the reply of!
Ambassador Bryce to Secretary Knox PREVENTION OF RAILWAY
refusing to arbitrate upon the Pam- i
ma Canal tolls.
Ambassador Bryce spoke for Sir
Edward Grey, the British Minister /!
Foreign Affairs, and claimed he had
narrowed down the question to one,
namely, that the Panama Canal act
violated the Hav-Pauncefote treaty.
The Japanese protest does not deal
with the rights of the State of Cali
fornia nor with any action that may
asserts that the treaty of 1911 and the
previous agreement with Japan have
been violated. It maintains that it is
for the United States to make proper
be taken by courts or Congress, bq;
Precautionary measures for the
prevention of accidents, particularly
in connection with railroads entering
Atlanta, will be discussed at a meet
ing of the committee on public safe
ty of the Chamber of Commerce Fri
day a’fternoon.
The special matter of the elimina
tion of grade crossings will be taken
up. In this connection correspond
ence between VV, J. Lowensteln.
chairman of the commute', and Mur
phy Candler, chairman of the Rail
road Commission, will be read.
Two Parties Reach Understanding
Christian Science Cure to
Be Tried.
ITHACA, N. Y„ May 10.—In :he
pitiable circumstance of an utter and
hopeless mental breakdown afflict
ing Prof* Harry Thurston Peck, who
for more than a quarter of a century
held the chair of Ancient Languages
at Columbia University, his first wife, ,
Mrs. Cornelia Dawbarn Peck, has as
sumed complete charge of the help
less invalid. This with the consent
of his second wife, whose financial re
sources arc meager. The first wif
started with him on a journey that
will end in her home at Sound Beach, i
Conn. Putting aside all past differ
ences which caused her to divorce
him in September, 1908, the first Mrs.
Peck has cheerfully assumed the task
of nursing the former scholar in his
declining days.
Believes Science Will Cure.
No hope is held out by the special
ists in mental diseases who have ex
amined Prof. Peck while he has be^n
at the City Hospital, that he can
ever recover. His first wife is an en
thusiast in Christian Science, and is
firmly convinced that under her min
istrations her former husband's rea
son can be restored. There is no
j doubt that even in his dazed condi-
j tion of mind, he has taken great eom-
! fort in her presence. Where nurses
I and doctors have proved unable to
; control him—and he has at times ha I
fits of violence—the presence of t?ie
first Mrs. Peck has invariably had a
• aiming effect.
The year following the divorce de-
I cree granted Mrs. Peck against the
I Columbia professor he married Miss
! Elizabeth H. Dubois, a public school
i teacher of New York City, an n-
structor in classics at the Morris
High School. At the time the mar
riage caused some comment because
■ Professor Peck in his prolific writ
ings on women some six years be
fore declared that against the twen
tieth century "intellectual woman ev-
ery man should set his face like
Hint.’’
Women Have No Resentment.
The present Mrs. Peck it is cer
tainly known bears no resentment
! against the first Mrs. Peck because
she has stepped in to care for the
' afflicted scholar. There has been a
i perfectly amicable arrangement be-
i tween the two women. Indeed, since
, Professor Peck’s arrival at the City
Hospital the first Mrs. Peck has borne
the brunt of the expense. The means
'of the professor's present wife are
! very limited. He had no private for
tune and when he lost his post at
Columbia had to depend almost en
tirely on his earnings as a magazine
writer. While at one time these had
been considerable, in his condtion of
waning health they dwindled to noth
ing at ail.
On the other hand, his former wife
received a financial settlement from
Professor Peck at the time of the di
vorce, and afterward he made divers
contributions to her and on behalf of
their daughter, Constance. In addi
tion his first wife had property of
her own. Both wives were at his bed
side for a time, but a day or two ag)
Mrs. Peck No. 2 left this city for a
summer retreat near h^re. Her
whereabouts are known only to the
hospital authorities.
Not Professional Healer.
The former wife—who hopes to do
what the doctors say cannot be done,
restore Professor Peck to his mental
powers —is not a professional Chris-
tion Science healer. But she has a
religious philosophy of her own which
she avers to have found wonderful
ly efficacious in the past, and she has
full belief in her ability to cure h j f
husband despite the verdict of the
doctors, which is that he has "soften
ing of the brain.
Professor Peck ended his long ca
reer at Columbia University following
a suit for breach of promise of mar
riage brought against him by Miss
Esther Quinn, of Boston. She asked
for $50,000 damages. This suit was
dismissed, but she brought another
suit for the same sum and that su;t
is still pending.
The scholar contested the action of
the Columbia trustees bitterly and di
rected his resentment chiefly against
President Butler, whom he sued for
$50,000 damages for slander, a suit
which, however, has never been tried.
He came to Ithaca as a guest of
I Dr. C. H. Galiagher of this * ity.
I whose home lie was staying at the.
time he was stricken.
Corinne Mayfield, However^ In
sists That Her Companion
• Is of the Flesh.
DENVER. May 10.—The story of
"Margie,” the little angel playmate of
Corinne Alberta Mayfield, 5 years old,
daughter of A. U. Mayfield, of this
city, made public a few weeks ago,
has created a great interest among
persons who read the article, and
want to know' more about the strange
visitations of the spirit companion
of the little Denver girl.
Hundreds of letters have poured in
to the Mayfield residence, at 1065
Josephine Street, and dozens of per
sons have called, either out of curi
osity or sincerity.
Little Corinne, who possesses mys
terious psychic powers, plays daily
with an imaginary or spiritual play
mate she always calif* by the name
smvzcs
of “Margie.” This little invisible
companion, which ('• rinse Alberta
describes as being a mere child like
herself, has been the constant play
mate of the Denver girl ever since
she was one year old, at which tirn*
she first began to lisp the name of
“Margie.”
The parents make no attempt at
solving the mystery and students of
psychology are puzzled. Ac counts of
some of the strangest coincidents in
connection with the mysterious ap
pearance of the spirit child have,
come in the mail.
Is This the Spirit Child?
One letter, written by an earnest
woman of Rochester. N. Y., whos
name and street address are with-’
held, recounts a story that is even
more strange than that which is told
of the little Denver girl. The letter
is directed to Mrs. Mayfield, and in
part reads:
"Dear Mrs. Mayfield:
“A few days ago I read about your
little girl. Corinne Alberta, who has
an invisible little playmate called
‘Margie.’ The, story I could not for
get, it is so strange. The picture
of your little girl which appeared
in a Denver newspaper resembles a
little girl we had whose name was
Margie, with beautiful yellow curls
and eye 4 * the color of violet. She
died in June, $911*. She, too, had a
great talent tor drawing, and hail
she lived we believe .she would have
become an artist.
“When Margie was first taken sick
she used to say that a little girl was
in the room wit® her, * dressed in
white, with white shoes and stock
ings. It happened to be on a Sun
day when she began sa.vtng she want
ed white ‘hoes and stockings like
that other little girl.
Hears Cry from the Beyond.
"She called for ihe-m all day and
we could not get them (it being Sun
day). and when Monday came and we
could get them for her, siv was dead.
"Dear little Margie, when we laid
her away she had on her last pair
of white shoes and stockings. At
the time Margie was sick our other
little child, sev^n months old, whom
Margie loved yearly, was ill and we
did not expert him to recover. I
was sitting alone in the room with
the baby in my arms, and though
Margie had been buried two da.vs
previously I heard her call out to me,
‘Baby’s better, mamma.’ It was just
dawn, and I heard her speak as p! ii:,-
ly as I ever did when she was hen
"I am not a spiritualist, but 1 kn »
Margie’s spirit came back, and I a *-
not help hut \vo;i fi r do*?? that in
spirit visit vour little Corinne
Multi-Millionaire Milk Dealer’;- Daughter Re
ported to Have Run Away Again
With Mrs. White.
NEW YORK, May 10 -Miss Ra
mona Borden, 17-yi nr-old daughter
of Gail Byrdem, multi-millionaire
New York milk dealer, whose myste
rious disappearance from a X* w Jer
sey sanitarium several weeks ag *
caused a big sensation, is to-day re
ported to be missing again t
Credence was given the report by
announcement at the Vanderbilt Ho
tel, where Mrs. Borden and her
daughter have been liviftg, that both
left the hotel and that their present
whereabouts are unknown.
The first hint that Ramona had run
away again came from New Haven.
Conner to which place she had gone
with Mrs. Helen Seldon Whi f o. wife
of a rich Cleveland, Ohio, cn-w ng
gum manufacturer, on her recent run
away escapade.
Reported in New Haven.
A dispatch from New Ha/ven re
ported that a woman answering Mr:-.
Whited' description nict two young
girls at the railway station there, the
party going to a hotel vh re they
registered as "Mrs. VY. J. Whitt
and daughters, N’agara Falls. N. Y."
One of the girls answered t.he de
scription of Miss Borden: the oth r
resembled one of Mrs. Whtle’s nieces
who was a member of the previous
runaway party. When Mrs. White
was approached n New Haven by
reporters she* denied that she was the
same woman who connived in *he
Borden girl’s escape from the sanita
rium.
At the offices of Mr. Borden it was
said to-day by Mr Borden's secreta y
that the girls fathei had no knowl
edge of her bring in New Haven.
Mr. and Mrs. Borden are separated,
but not divorced. M-s. Borden makes
her home in Los Angeles. Cal., but
came here when see re- rived news of
her daughter s mysterious disappear
ance several weeks o^o.
Spirit Hands Bless 'Canal Will Open by
Cripple; Cure Him Fall, Sa.ys Engineer
Members of Faith Mission Lay In
valid’s Recovery to Super
natural Visitation.
MIDDLETOWN, N. Y.. May 10.—
Members of Faith Mission in this city
declare that when they saw James
Stacey suddenly start forward In the
dimly TighUd chapel thcTe appeared
two phantom hands over his head.
A blessing seemed to be waved over
him and then the hands disap
peared.
Stacey has long suffered from the
effects of an injury which prevented
him from working. He declares that
on the occasion mentioned above he
felt a shock and in that Instant his
disability disappeared. Since then
lie has been entirely well,
j The storv is vouched for by Elder
1 I). II. Conitling, cashier of the First
i rfi-ric! Rank, who presides over the
i mission.
Management of Work at Panama
Promises Completion of
Work by October.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 10.—Lucius
Deason. engineer in the employ of
the Panama Canal Commission for
four years, to-day declared there whs
no question about water being turned
into the big ditch by October.
"It matters not what reports have
been made b\ certain visitors from
th< Atlantic States,” said Deason.
“All of the arrangements have been
made to turn the water on at the
time published, and it will certainly
be done.
“The work Is nearing completion.
The locks and gates are virtually
completed and things are in readi
ness. After the water is turned on.
all that will be required wilJ be th(
few finishing touches. The manage
ment of the canal has up to this lived
up to every promise and will continue
to do so in the future.”
Detectives in Coroners Jury Probe
Admit They Have Nothing on
Which to Convict Anyone in Mys
terious Tragedy of Atlanta.
TESTIMONY BROUGHT OUT
NO INCRIMINATING POINTS
BY AN OLD POLICE REFORTER.
The iiioxl sensational testimony offered at the Coroner's in-
quest in ihe Pliagun case was lo:;t sight of entirely by the news
papers.
Juror Langford asked Detective Black, who was on the wit
ness stand :
" Have you discovered any positive information as to who com
mitted this murder?”
Detective Black replied, "No, sir. I have not! "
Coroner Donehoo asked Detective Scoll of ihe Pinkerton force
on the witness stand :
"Have you any definite information which makes you suspect
any party of this crime?”
Detective Scott replied, ”1 would not commit myself. 1 am
working on a chain of circumstances. Detective Black has been
with me all the time on the ease anti he knows about the circum
stances I refer to."
As you read this over and consider it carefully, you will be im
pressed by the fact that the two most important detectives engaged
now for a period of two weeks on the Piiagan ease testify under
oath that they have no positive information as to who committed
the crime, in fact really know nothing about it at all.
I am setting down here my own thoughts and ideas, without
intending the slightest disrespect to any official, and further be
cause ! believe i am at liberty to do so because of Scott's and
Black's testimony.
MYSTERY STILL WITHOUT SOLUTION.
In The Sunday American of last week I published an arti
cle saying that the developments of ihe preceding week had led
nowhere, and that the mystery was then as dark and deep as any
mystery that ever puzzled police and detectives.
I can only repeat this statement to-'dav. 1 am not in the con
fidence of any of the detectives, of Solicitor Dorsey, or of Cor
oner Donehoo, or any of the persons engaged in the attempt to
unravel the crime.
I know what the average newspaper reader knows—no more,
no less. I walk about the streets a great deal. I ride on the ears
meet a great many people who talk a bout the terrible affair,
and I believe I am right in saving Ihat the consensus of opinion
now is that the police and detectives are very far indeed from solv
ing the mystery.
In making ibis statement I do not wish to be understood as
easting reflections upon the police or detective force. The men
engaged on the ease are well-meaning, but of limited experience,
and they may have made mistakes.
The perfect detective, like the indispensable man. does not
exist.
All detectives are not “man catchers.” and many detectives
employ very stupid methods in their work. They can see the ob
vious lliings. but they lack imagination. Their minds work like
ii circular saw, and a knottv problem sometimes stops llteir minds
{',0111 working entirely, just as a tangle of knots in a plank being
sawed puts the saw out of business.
CORONER DONEHOO VERY EFFICIENT.
1 pay my respects here to Coroner Donehoo in the way he has
handled the ease. Ilis examinations of witnesses showed unusual
intelligence. His questions were searching and he exhibited a zeal
in the public welfare tlial must not be overlooked. But Coroner
Donehoo is not a Sherlock Holmes. He performed his functions un-
dt-r the law in a creditable manner. He really wasted hours in
asking questions that might have been spared except that there was
always a hope that a blind question might catch a witness off-guard
and there would be an ensuing revelation.
What did the Coroner's inquiry develop?
Take first the ease of Lee. The testimony against him is that
he is the only person KNOWN to have been in the pencil factory
after 6:30 o'clock in the evening until the body was discovered.
Frank testified that lie found three "skips” in the elock tape
Lee should have punched.
Sergeant 1{. J. Brown testified that Lee could not have seen
the body from the place the night watchman told him he firs*
saw it.
Sergeant L. S. Dobbs testified that Lee. without suggestion
j irom any one, said that the words "night witch’’ in one of the