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KARST'S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, C.A., SUNDAY, MAY 11. 1013 SEALED AFFIDAVITS MAY SOLVE THE PHAGAN MYSTERY Modern Third Degree Barbarous, Says Judge Candler Ma ry Phagan* s Death Is the Only Fact Developed in Inquiry Into Factory Crime Detectives Should Make, and Not Give, Evidence mi HE SMS Robert T. House, a Special Po liceman, Gives New Evidence to City Detectives. In the evidence obtained Saturday In the Mary Phagan case, one piece that the detectives regard as the most important bore on Frank's alleged conduct when he was In company with a young girl In Druid Hills Park. The new evidence came from Robert F. House, a special police- inair. who le In the employ of th* Druid Hills I*and Company House declared that he had ejected a man from the purk at one time from whom he obtained damaging admis sions House visited the county Jail and was taken to the cell of Frank. Ha Identified Frank as the man whom he sent from the perk. House told the officers that since reading cf the Phagan murder he had recalled that the man he ejected from the park told him that he was superintendent of the National Pencil Company. Came Frequently to Park. The park guard related that the Incident to which he referred occur red more than a year ago. He said that he had noticed the man come frequently to the park with the girl. When they appeared one afternoon shortly after 2 o’clock, he mu!<1 he determined to shadow them He fol lowed them and then suddenly sur prised them by Jumping into view. The man whom House Identified as PYank came forward and told the officer that he did not want the girl’s identity to become known and pleaded with House not to have them ar rested. House declared that the man was profusely grateful on his assur ance that he would not do so. House hap made a sworn statement In regard to the occurrence and will be used as a character witness against Frank. New Testimony 8«cret. Sealed affidavits, particularly one made by a person whose Identity has been kept secret by the police, are expected to help raise the curtain of mystery which has hitherto enveloped the death of little Mary Phagan when the case Is presented to the Grand Jury the latter part of this week. The affidavits were furnished to Solicitor Dorsey by Chief of Detec tives Hanford and number among them that of Monteen Stover and a 'mysterious person.” It Is said that the latter was la close vicinity of the pencil factory on the afternoon of the tragedy and heard the screams of the ill-fated girl. Solicitor Dorsey yesterday declared that the sealed documents had not seen the light of day since they w ? ere signed by the witnesses and handed to him. The Solicitor Intimated, however, that in these affidavits the State expected to find the chief pow er for its prosecution of the cane be fore the Grand Jury. Great Mass of Evidence, He Saye. So far, Mr. Dorsey declared, no one had been taken into his confi dence, save one detective, whom the Solicitor termed "the greatest in America-” The two have accumu lated a great max* of evidence, In cluding samples of handwriting; of almost every one who might nave been concerned In the tragedy; also photographs and other material which might direct the accusing finger of the law in the right direction. Solicitor Dorsey would not discuss the finding of the medical expert who made an examination of the slain girl's body upon Its second ex humation. However, great Impor tance is attached to it. Despite the great mass of evidence already obtained, and which the So licitor is now shaping for Its pres entation to the Grand Jury. Mr. Dorsey declared that the “erlmlnn.1 expert 1 ' still is busily engaged on other phases of the puzzling case, the greater part of which is expected will be in substantiation of the sealed affidavits' contents. No detail is be ing overlooked, and when the case goes to trial Mr. Dorsey said that he expected to have every link In a finely woven chain of circumstances per fected. Lee's Attorney Makes Statement. Bernard L. Chappell, attorney for Newt Lee, the negro suspect, said yesterday that he had accepted the <ase only after an investigation of five days that convinced him the ne gro had told nothing but the truth In connection with the murder. He said that if any later developments pointed to the negro’s guilt, he would not represent him Chappell was for four years assist ant to the Solicitor General at Bir mingham, and said Ms experience in this conn the negro Before ;> he spent wdiicn he tar.gl? bin pressed w the fact advanced the crime* them, but practically at rhe Co Dr. Ha Dr. H. State Boa urday nig that he h drug in h of Mury The rui Dr Harr-L report to he disclos* cations tin fore sh The rumor is belie from the seer i > Dr Harris and t ‘ I am not at lib nn oi den\ tie §W • HJB&ke public nothii innocent ccepting t ne case, he said. hours wit i Lee dailv. In < xhausted every means to in his sta tements and ftpd ence that le was not tell- hing that he knew. said he \ as stronglv Irn- ith the n 'gro because of that wh< •n theories were to him tl at would “shift ’ he woul i not encourage stuck to his statement as that given roner’s in- rris Silent on Findings. F. Harris. director of the rd of Hea th. refused Sat- ht to disc uss the report is analysis of the contents Phagan's stomach. mor spreac 1 Saturday that » Jiiid sub mltted a formal Solicitor 1 >orsev. in wtiicb ed that he had found indi- at the girl was drugged be- was attac ked and killed. Atlanta Jurist Condemns Useless Statutes That Tend to Force Law Violation. Alderman John H. Candler, former Justice of the Supreme Court of Geor gia, yesterday reviewed for The Sun day American the address which he delivered before the graduating class of the Atlanta Law School earlier In the week. The address included an Indictment of Georgia's multiplicity of laws and of lawyers who work for gain and for personal success rather than for the administration of the law—two ag*m' lea, he said, which breed a gen eral contempt for all law, inciting lawlessness. “It was an attempt to impress upon the young lawyers a sense of the no bility of their calling,” he said yes terday, “and of the solemn respon sibilities of the legal profession. It was a plea for the supremacy of the law and for the single-minded devo tion of lawyers.” Supremaoy of the Law. Reviewing the address, Judge Can dler mentioned nn article by Gov ernor Brown regarding the supremacy of tho law and referring to the at titude of the Hearst newspapers In this connection' ‘Strong and good,” was Judge Can dler's comment. • No newspaper should prominently publish the details of sensational af fairs,” he continued, “unless it keeps before the minds of its readers the fact that the publications are not to be considered evidence in court, or sufficiently conclusive as to create prejudice. This The Georgian and Sunday American have done. Then he analysed his address be fore the law students. "It was along this line,” he said, *T urged the supremacy of the law. It was not Inspired by any recent case, as the Phagan case nor did It have any connection with a particu lar case “I said that there Is evident a dis regard and a conn nipt for law, re sulting from the multiplicity of law* and the laxness with which most of them are enforced. "The Lord thought He could run the world with ten commandments, but the Georgia Legislature takes 10,- 000. Tills has a demoralizing effect on the general tone. “There are | -> many misdemeanors. That there should be too many of the graver crimes is a natural result. That Is one reason why, perhaps, it has been necessary for me. as a judge on tho bench, to sentence more men to be hanged, who have bfcen hanged, than all the judges of Great Britain combined since 1860.” Judge Candler uttered the state ment with solemn emphasis, and for a moment was silent. There was something of awe In his tone. “Too many laws and laxity of en forcement breed contempt,” he de clared. "Just so long as we make laws by the books full over summer wo will have laws violated.” He drew back to his original theme. Incidental Lesson. “But all that Is Incidental to the lesson which I sought to lay out be fore the young lawyers,” he said. “They have a duty toward tho State that makes their calling holy; the duty Is toward the State even before it Is toward themselves and their per sonal gain. “I told them to get into politics— that is, if they get In with the right motive—not for their own advance ment, but because they know the law and the theory of law, and can best serve In the making and administra tion of laws. That Is the function of politics, and the function of the law yer. “I told them that the lawyer who seeks only his gain, and not the in terests of the law; the lawyer who strives after a verdict favorable to his client, whether that verdict Is de served or not; the lawyer who wants ’success' and 'results’ first of all—that such a lawyer 1s not mindful of the oath he taken to become nn adminis trator of the law.” Tie dug one list Into his palm. “An administrator, not a Juggler of the law,” he repeated. “And because there are lawyers who are Jugglers of the law we have another reason why there Is a contempt for the law. In such nn Instance there is contam ination and rot ti nners In the foun tainhead of Justice; surely, then, the whole Rtream becomes contaminated and 1 filthy. “I told them not to Intrude them selves into their pleading. A law yer should not tell a Jury I don’t be lieve this' or ‘I do believe that’ when he is talking to the twelve men. Such a statement Ip not evidence; it Is not regular.” Here he laughed. "I told them that some of them were not even competent witnesses. But. seriously, such statements re veal their undue interest or prejudice. They are the products of either igno rance or viciousness. Legal Profession Holy. 'The profession is holy. Its fol lowers should have a single-minded devotion.” J UDGE JOHN S. CANDLER. Ilf blames the multiplicity of Georgia laws for the contempt the people feel toward their enforcement. you have the devotion to duty that should be the ideal of the detective— and of the lawyer, too.” Coercive methods of obtaining evi dence he denounced. "I told the young men,” he said, "that the alleged ‘third degree’ meth ods, of which one reads nowadays, are no better than the thumbscrew and the rack of the Spanish Inquisi tion. “Here you have another reason why the courts and laws are losing In their command on the public re spect. Such practices have no place in the law or In Justice. Third Degree Not Law. “Is It law* to take an ignorant man, work on him until 4 o’clock in the morning, then flare a flashlight in his face and say, ‘We know you killed somebody?’ "And if the ‘wrong man' is pun ished! Every time the ‘wrong man’ Is punished, safeguards are thrown about the right man.’ the man who deserves punishment. Civilization can not well proceed unless the laws are administered sanely, calmly, stu diously, without juggling and with out ulterior motive beyond the mo tive of seeing that the law’ is carried out. The law. you see. becomes a ailing as high as the ministry or as any other profession, for the law yer’s responsibility is tremendous. “All that is what I endeavored to tell the young men of the law r Hchool,” he concluded. “It was not my intention to denounce customs or conventions of any nature. The mul tiplying of laws, the alleged methods of the detectives, the violations and disregard of law—all these may find remedy in the lawyer's devotion to his duty, and to his oath. This is what I told them. The other things were incidental, and merely illustra tive. “For Instance—did I say there were too many law’s? Then I implied that a lawyer, with his knowledge of the science of law, can serve his country by helping to repeal the useless ones. 1 had no Intention to talk of specific laws. Some may have fancied that I referred to the prohibition law. I did not. I favor it. “Did I mention the fact that de tectives should not use certain meth ods? 1 merely meant to imply that they should follow’ the line of their duty—to find evidence, not to make it —and to use this as an object les son to law’yers, that they also should do their duty.” The address was made before 75 members of the Atlanta Law School’s class of this year. The law’ school is a local independent institution of which Hamilton Douglas, a member of the Atlanta Bar. is dean. Judge Candler is frequently a lecturer be fore the classes. Frank Is Awaiting Action Of the Grand Jury Calmly ro\ . :. Solicitor.” ml tor. er to my report He drew upon other professions for illustration, making them analogous. In his consideration of the detective’s prof» ssion, he denounced methods in vogue among detectives. “As it should be the lawyer's sin gle-minded Interest to bring about the proper administration of the law, regardless of the effect, so it should be the business of the detective to gather evidence; not to give It. A de tective who would voluntarily go upon the stand ought not to be believed. It is his purpose to find evidence, und to £,-< t othe rs to produce It; not to make it himself, or to swear that his evidence is true. The detective is in interested witness, necessarily, and therefore not competent.” 1 <dd Allan l^inkerton tk He mentlo: os the mode for the truth ness of purpe dler related, me of an ins' employed to Leo M. Frank, calmly and without any apparent fear or apprehension, is awaiting the* decision of the 24 men who will determine this week whether or not an indictment shall be re turned against him in connection with the killing of Mary Phagan. Yesterday—which was very much like the other days that he has been confined In the Tower—he read, said a few words now’ and then to the guards, greeted members of his family as they came to see him and dis cussed various subjects with them in a quiet, matter-of-fact manner, not at all as though the burden of a great crime were resting on his soul. Frank Has Privileges. Except that he is deprived of his liberty and most effectively guarded, Frank is not without the majority of the privileges enjoyed by the rest of the people In Atlanta. He may eat what he wishes He may read the newspapers, the magazines, the cur rent novels—anything he desires He may see whom he wishes. He has not been deprived even of the accounts of the grewsome tragedy whose victim was an innocent and pretty little girl. He has read them dispassionately, as ho does every thing. He has followed the various ries carefully, reserving com- with nee wh< gather ets that tent ais the gal low’s. T who sought | ment, so far as is known, for his counsel and members of his family. Ilis relatives have visited him freo- Daily they have brought him the Ice delicacies that the spring inar- ^ * j ket nffords. He has not been com- m- I r** 15 *'- to rel> upon the plain ja'! ere ’ fare that most of his jailmates get. single-minded- “ Judge Can-1 Pinkerton told I re be had been I t evidence in a \ , use, and where » This, of course, is not a special privi lege. Any of those aw’altlng trial or the action of the Grand Jury may have the extra luxuries if they care to buy them. Several of Frank's close friends have been in to see him. He has met them pleasantly, according to the jail attaches. His lawyer, Luther Z. Ros ier, also has been in brief conference with him. Strain Has Told. The strain of the nearly two weeks’ imprisonment unquestionably has told on the young factory superintendent. He is paler than he was two weeks ago. He is slightly haggard, but through it all he has been calm. Im perturbable. “I expected nothing else at this time.” was his quiet comment when told of the action of the Coroner’s jury. Since then his attitude has been the same. He expresses his confidence that he will be cleared In the end. He declares his belief that the courts w ill find the guilty man and that ne will be set free. Until then he is will ing to wait and take his present in carceration philosophically. GRASSHOPPER PLAGUE IN CENTRAL MISSOURI FEARED SKDALIA, MO. May U) —Many grasshoppers have made their appear ance in Central Missouri, and farm ers express the fear that great dam age will be d°De to growing erepa this summer. This is said to be the earliest date grasshoppers have ever 1 • <fi'r, known in such large numbers in Missouri. BY JAMES B NEVIN. Mary Phagan is dead. She was murdered. Leo Frank, and Newt Lee are in jail, upon the findings of a Coroner’s jury, hold as suspect® for investiga tion by the Grand Jury. Here is a case of cause and effect involving the most elusive series of connecting events that ever came un der my observation of criminals and crime, through fifteen years of varied newspaper experience In a number of American cities. It Is not my purpose here to try this case. Such comments as I may set down are personal merely. I did sit through the last day of the Coroner's inquest, but beyond that, my information as to this strange case came to me by way of the mouths and pens of persons charged with some measure of re sponsibility for fixing the truth of the matter in such wise as it might be fixed. My facts are authoritative, my conclusions strictly my own. Wherefore, what I say, and the way I say it, the substance thereof and the form, must be taken as some thing said In sincere desire neither to/prejudice the case for or against anybody, nor to Influence its final ad justing in any manner whatever. It Is my opinion that the slayer of poor, little Mary Phagan has not yet been found or identified. More over within my mind there dwells an ever-increasing doubt that her slay er, or slayers, ever will be appre hended. Case Against Prisoner*. As I see it, a wabbly circum stantial case has been made out against Frank, apd all but no case at all against Lee. All other lines of investigation ap pear to have been abandoned. Seem ingly, the prosecution is up against the necessity of proving that either Frank or Lee, or pocsibly both, ac complished Mary Phagan’s murder— or some person or persons unknown, and as yet unsuspected, did it. This case, w’hile amazingly com plex in many of its phases, still is astonishingly commonplace in others. As has happened many and many times before, the newspapers have had very few facts to chronicle as the news of the crime and Its pre liminary Investigation. There are few’ newspaper men any where who do not know all too well the disposition of the public in sit uations of this port. Hungry for sinister facts upon which to fix re sponsibility for crime, and the facts not being available, the public pro ceeds to fix up of its own notion an assortment of near-facts to suit its purposes. The most horrible false details have been conjured up In some dis ordered brain hereabout, and imagi nary facts and circumstances of this little girl's death have been passed from lip to lip In revolting detail. It was bad enough, as It was—but it was not bad enough, even at that, for the morbid trend of some peo ple’s thoughts. Whispered Detail* Untrue. Those on the inside of this Investi gation tell me—and I am speaking of those who KNOW whereof they speak —that these w’hispered details are, almost entirely, without any founda tion in fact. They say that the girl’s death was accomplished In cir cumstances paralleling numerous cases of a similar sort, but not sen sationally otherwise. The newspapers, curiously enough, have been,shot at from two amaz ingly opposite standpoints, therefore —by one sensation-hungry contingent charging them with underdoing the news, and by another charging them with overdoing it! They were snapped at by some for printing the horrible truth and by some others for not printing the even more horrible untruths. It has been rather trying of course—and sometimes I feel that surely some people must experience a measure of shame in that they so readily sought to shoulder blame on the press of Atlanta for the disap pointment arising out of their own impatience that the Phagan mystery did not clear up as rapidly as their gnawing curiosity demanded that it should. In undertaking to reach an Intel ligent, fair-minded, and rational point of view In such a case as the Phagan murder, albeit primary con clusions always are subject to revi sion and readjustment, one should honestly endeavor to rid his mind of those things he knows to be untrue and irrelevant. He should put him self in the attitude of a juror and ask himself, upon his honor, if he would hold thus and so. against this or that defendant or suspect in peril of hit life. When the Phagan case, as con cerns the suspects now in Jail, is removed from out the mass of mis information. near-facts, pure false hoods, and prejudice, what remains of it? What is there left that will stand up before a Jury and fix re sponsibility for Mary Phagan’s mur der upon somebody now in custody' Lee's Straight Story. I looked Newt Lee over carefully observed his manner and his general bearing on the stand, during the sit ting of the Coroner's jury on Thurs day. I have studied his testimony as delivered at the hearing. Lee is just an ordinary negro. There are half a million Newt Lees In the South to-day. He told a simple, straightforward story from the first— and no amount of prodding has caus ed him to swerve a hair’s breadth from it. I observed him in the dingy little Coroner’s cour + room—or in the roonr wherein the Coroner’s hearing was conducted—and heard Mr. Donehoo ply him with questions. The Coroner made a distinctly fa vorable impre?*slon upon me. He Ip alert, certainly most Intelligent, evi dently feeling both the importance and the restrictions of his position— and yet, what came of his examina tion of Lee? To my mind, nothing —absolutely nothing, to Lee’s lasting disadvantage. If Lee committed the crime, he is a most unusual negro—rather than a most eoaunonplaee negro, such as I take him to be. If he killed Mary Phagan early in the evening of April 26—and he must have murdered her early In the evening, if at all—and remained in the building with her dead body until 4 a m., then to call the police, he is the most astonishing negro that ever came under my ob servation! If, however, there were other cir cumstances tending to show that he did do it, nevertheless. I might in cline to waive the first cited unnat ural and unheard of circumstance, and say all right, he may have done It. Improbabilities of Case. But w r hat are those ‘‘other circum stances?” Is there anything one- half so damaging against Lee as the very circumstances of the crime and its discovery and first alarm are fa vorable to him? Well, there are the notes. Did Lee write them after having committed the deed, and in seeking to turn an ticipated suspicion aside? Or were they written by another party neith er-Lee nor Frank, who, surprised by Lee, was not permitted to get away without leaving these notes as evi dence of Lee’s Innocence, after hav ing bribed J/?e to silence? What a mass of improbability? If Lee was guilty himself and antici pated suspicion o? himself, w’ould he not have made off from the scene of his crime immediately after its con summation? Nine hundred and ninety-nine negroes out of every one thousand would have done that. Is Lee the only exception in the thou sand? Maybe so, but it will be ex tremely difficult to prove it, I sus pect. If Lee committed the crime and then dragged the body to the cellar of the National Pencil Factory, there to la> It In the dirt until he sent in his 4 o’clock alarm, why w’as the staple of the door leading into the cellar broken from the outside? Was this done to arouse the suspicion that the murderer and the murdered came into the cellar through the cel lar door, and that, therefore, the crime was committed by some one outside the factory? This necessa rily would mean that the real mur derer inside the factory, after com mitting his crime, dragged the body to the cellar, then went outside, broke the staple of the door, re-entered the building and awaited his next move, the belated alarm to the police. Where Was Mary Phagan, Did Lee do that? He is a most exceptional negro, if he did. And yet, if murderer and murdered real ly did enter that cellar from the out side. and after dark, or near dark, what became of Mary Phagan from the time she was paid oft at noon until dark or near dark, as the case may have been? Could she have been outside the factory any of that time, or part of that time, and no living soul be willing to testify to that fact to-day? Against all these fine spun theories, must be set off Lee’s remaining in the factory certainly many hours af ter the murder was committed, his alarm to the police near daybreak, his straightforward story, and his satisfactory bearing since the crime w’as brought to light. Did Lee murder Mary Phagan? If not, does he know’ anything of who did murder her? Or is he utterly innocent of all connection with it? Personally, I incline to the last conclusion, but I may be altogether w'rong. It looks to me more probable that Lee did the perfectly negro-like thing in this Phagan case, and not the unusual or very-much-out-of-the -way thing. Well, if not Lee, was Leo Frank concerned in this killing? A jury likely will pass upon that, for I suspect the Grand Jury will in dict Frank. There is some circum stantial detail connecting him with this crime that may or may not mean much. I looked Frank over critically at the Coroner’s inquest. Just as I look ed Newt Lee over. Appearance of Frank. Frank looks very unlike the tradi tional murderer. That spells little If anything, perhaps—at least, noth ing of itself. And yet a man’s .gen tlemanly appearance should count for something, when there is nothing much established against him other wise. Frank evidently Is of a nervous dis position. He is more or less fidgety, and, rather think, a trifle "pushing’ in his ordinary manners. I think, too, he Is self-opinionated—maybe when a boy he was pretty “fresh.” But withal I should put him down, had he never been held for a mur der. as a likely sort of citizen, apt to get along well in the world, sure to accumulate a good many friends as tie went and never likely to set the woods afire, unless by accident. Frank did have the opportunity to commit the deed. He was in the fac tory many hours after Mary Pha gan received her $1.20 pay at noon. Presumably Mary Phagan w’as in the factory also, as she has not been accounted for alive after she received her money the hands of Frank. Frank might have killed her, thrown her body into the cellar, framed the notes, broken the staple from outside the cellar door, and re mained about the place until the ne gro watchman came on for the night. Unfortunately for Frank, it is eas ier to make out a case of w'hat he might have done than it is to make out a case against somebody else as to what HE might have done. But, while Frank MAY have done all these things, where is the evi dence that he DID do them? Such as there is is purely and loosely cir cumstantial, and woefully lacking in detail at that. Solicitor Is Puzzled. Solicitor Dorsey plainly is puzzled almost to his w'its end by the mys teriousness of the Phagan case. I doubt capitally, although he has not said this to me, that he believes he has sufficient evidence to Justify an indictment either of Frank or Lea I think he DOES believe that he la on *the right road, but that he Is fir from being In sight of the end th*r*-< of. Have the pjolice and other official® “held back” evidence to be laid be fore the Grand Jury? I do not think so. But If they have, then, of course, it is impossible'to form an Intelligent opinion of the Phagan case at thl®, * "stage of the proceedings. I incline to suspect that everything by way of evidence is well In hand and, generally speaking, public prop erty now. I believe the Solicitor i* hoping that additional evidence MAY be bi ought to light and a firmer prima facie case made out before In* dictment is sought. But, even after indictment, It is a, long, long road to conviction in cir cumstantial cases, even of the strong est kind. As to the attempts to break down Frank’s character—well, there has been testimony submitted pro and con on th-at phase of the case. To my mind, the evidence submitted in vindication of his character has out weighed that against it—that is to say. the preponderance is favorable to Frank. The fact that Frank has “winked” at this person or that person, while not to his credit, will not of itself, convict him of the murder of Mary Phagan. I have said before in this article that Frank may have inclined at times in his youth to be “fresh,’* and it may be that he never has en tirely recovered from it. Who, then, DID murder Mary Pha gan? The question is almost as far from an answer to-day, I think, as it was when Mary Phagan’s dead body was dragged to light on that early Sunday morning in April. Maybe the authorities are on the right road; maybe poor Mary Pha gan’s slayer is a thousand miles away from Atlanta; maybe he has brushed elbows' with thousands of Atlantans within the week. Maybe he even has attended the Coroner’s hearings, and maybe he is cynically amused at the fiounderings of the officers, seeking to locate him. Maybe the murderer of this child is in the Tower, and that eventually responsibility will be fixed upon him. Much Worthless Data. At the Coroner's inquest, ninety- five per cent, of the questions asked were irrelevant, and ninety-nine per cent, of the information obtained woithless. Necessarily this was so, because there was so very, very lit tle to go on! The Coroner, the So licitor, and the jury did the best they could—angels could have done no bet ter, perhaps—but there was so little by way of fact to predicate question® upon. If the cases against Frank and Lee break down, where shall investiga tion begin anew? If there were other clews to be obtained, over and beyond the pitiful few that were ob-„ tained, could they be picked up now? It is within the range of the possi ble, but hardly within the range of the probable. So far, I am convinced of but one lone fact—pathetic in its isolation— and that is that poor, little Mary Phagan is dead. „ ^ “Ancestors’ They were rich. He was an engaging youth —she was pretty as a picture. Happiness, in their vocabulary, was only another word for pleasure. They thought they loved each other. And so they were married. Every married couple, and every couple about to be mar ried, should read this intense story of real life, by Gouverneur Morris Illustrated by James Montgomery Flagg Harry and Margaret thought they had everything that makes for happiness in life. London. Paris, Rome, Vienna knew swift cars flung the miles away; the smoke of their yacht lav low along the horizon. Then, as though some evil spirit had tlm between them the thin edge of [a gigantic wedged and day Their married life is being lived todav, and will be lived countless times again, by many couples who make the same mistake. Read how Harry and Margaret worked out the problem for them selves and just in time —found the key to the happiness they had missed. In the June number of ‘America’s Greatest Magazine” Now on the news-stands 15c a copy F*. JMi.i