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FORMER JUDGE CANDLER ON LACK OF RESPECT FOR THE LAW
John S. Candler, now Alderman, and former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and previous to lliis Judge in the Superior Court, made an address to the graduating class of the Atlanta Law School in which he said: •
“The idea of taking an ignorant man, working on him until 4 o’clock in the morning, then fiar ! “A detective who would voluntarily go on the stand ought not to be believed. The purpose of
in a flashlight in his face and saying, ‘We know you killed somebody,’ is worse than the Spanish in- a detective is to find evidence, and not to swear that the evidence he has is true; The detective is in
quisition. Such a practice has no place in the law,and that’s why the public are losing confidence in j terested to convict the man whom his evidence involves, and, therefore, he is not a competent wit-
and respect for the officers of the court. | ness. ’ ’
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Damage Already Reaches Into
Millions—Golf Links Are Pro
tected Against Loss,
PUBLIC BUILDINGS GUARDED
Attack on House of Lords Planned
by Suffrage Leaders as
Next Move.
LONDON, May 11.—Inquiries Insti
tuted at Lloyd’s have developed the
fact that the insurance companies are
reaping a golden harvest as a result
of suffragette depredations. Busi
ness has received a great im|i#tus
both from the insurance of golf links
as well as from Are risks.
Numerous golf clubs have insured
hgainst revenue losses as the result of
militant interference, while others
have taken out policies insuring golf
greens against damage by suffra
gettes. The premiums charged are S3
per green per annum, the-limit of the
underwriters’ liability being $250 on
each green.
These insurances, however, were
mostly fijr three "months, because it
is believed that the trouble will be
settled In that time either by a tri
umph of the militants or by the sup
pression of their campaign.
Insurance against fire has be-n
equally brisk, but owing to the great
competition in this business rates
have not been affected.
Damage to Date $5,000,000.
Estimates of the financial loss
; caused by suffragette outrages, pre-
' pared for the Home Secretary, put the
amount as $5,000,000. This sum docs
not Include the expense of employing
laige'numbers of extra police, detec
tives and watchmen to protect Minis
ters, public buildings and meetings.
Three detectives have been assigned
to -protect each Cabinet Minister at all
times. All suspected persons are shad
owed by plainclothes men and all pub-
UV buildings are under special guard.
Since the defeat of the woman suf-
' frage Dill large numbers of former
constitutional suffragists have Joined
the militant movement. An attack on
the House of Lords is one of the new
plans, and this is to be accomplished
by means of a suffragette typist who
could get a position on the reporting
■taff of tlie upper hoi»e.
Arrests Check Riots.
>n apite of the sensational outrages
* - of the past week and although the
militants are keeping up a strong
’bluff, their organization -has been
shaken by recent arrests of leaders.
The militant acts now being commit
ted are the handiwork of suffragettes
working independently, and the au
thorities believe that the removing of
the central controlling influences will
soon break up the campaign of de
struction.
, ') This optimistic view is not shared
by politicians generally, who believe
that as long as money is forthcoming
crimes will be committed.
Chinda and Bryan
Discuss U. S, Reply
Secretary and Ambassador Confer
More Than an Hour Over Pro
test/on Land Law.
WASHINGTON. May 12.—Viscount
Chinda, the Japanese Ambassador, to-
daySconferred with Sec-etary of State
Bryan for more titan an hour con
cerning the final answer of the United
States Government to the forma:
protest filed by Japan in regard to
the proposed anti-alien land law in
California.
BAFTIST-METHODIST NEXT
SUNDAY SCHOOL CONTEST
A meeting of Baptist ministers
and Sunday school superintendents to
consider the advisability of challeng
ing the Methodists to a Sunday school
contest will be held at the First Bap
tist Church Sunday afternoon at 3
o'clock.
If a contest is decided on it will
be conducted along the lints of thr
one between the Second Baptist
Church and the First Christian
G.-urch.
Accuser of O’Hara
Now Denies Charge
Maud Robinson Admits Signing Affi
davit, but Says It Contained No
Allegation of Immorality.
CHICAGO, May 12.—Maud Robin
son, who signed an affidavit charging
improper conduct against Barratt
O’Hara, Lieutenant Governor of Illi
nois and chairman of the Senate
"White Slav^ Committee, ‘was the first
witness to-day before a sub-edmmit-
tee appointed to investigate the af
fair. She denied absolutely that there-
had been anything improper in her
relations with the Lieutenant Gov-
eroriffr. f
She admitted signing an affidavit,
but said it contained no charge of
immorality.
The woman testified that she had
never had improper relations with
O’Hara. When she was questioned
as to her making the affidavit about
a trip to Chicago from Springfield,
she said the affidavit was made at
the instance of Samuel Davis, of a
liquor firm in Springfield.
“He said the affidavit was only to
make a bluff with and that it would
not be made public under any cir
cumstances,” she explained.
Fight Over Tallulah
Falls On in Earnest
Georgia University Professors Make
Depositions—Case Comes Up
for Hearing May 26.
Professors C. M. Strong and J. C.
Cope, of the University of Georgia,
and John D. Moss made depositions
to-day in the case of the State against
the Georgia Railway and Power Com
pany.
This is the beginning of the fight
of the conservationists, headed by
Mrs. Longstreet, to preserve Tallulah
Falls, which they claim will be irrep
arably spoiled as a scenic spectacle
if the Georgia Railway and Power
Company is allowed to operate the
huge power plant it has built at the
falls.
The case comes up for hearing May
26 at Clayton, Rabun County. Thom
as S. Felder, Attorney General, will be
assisted by R. C. Ellis and Edgai*-
Watkins. The power company is rep
resented by Charles Hopkins, L. Z.
Rosser and Al^x King.
1,000 School Pupils
Sing Choral Festival
Seventh and Eighth Grades Give
Folk Songs in Auditorium Gay
With Class Colors.
Gay with their school colors. 1,000
pupils of the eighth grades of the
public schools, assisted by pic ked rep
resentatives from the seventh grades,
gave a choral festival at the Audi
torium Friday night.
“Folk Songs of Many Countries”
made up the program. Miss Kate
Harralson, director of music in the
schools, led the chorus, and Dr. Percy
Starnes played organ accompani
ments.
Thirty-five schools were represent
ed. The seventh grade singers were
from the Crew Street. Edgewood,
Calhoun Street, Formwalt Street,
Peeples Street. Lee Street, Pryor
Street arid Williams Street schools.
High School boys acted as ushers
at^d distributed programs.
Railroad Displaces
Last Illinois Stage
Drivers Lay Down Whips and Attend
Dedication of New Line That
Ends Their Business.
CHICAGO. May Ten stage
drivers, the last of their tribe in Il
linois, put aside their long whips to
day and attended the dedication of
the 16-mile stretch of railroad from
Palatine and Wauconda. Ill., 35 miles
northwest of Chicago, which put them
out of business.
The stage drivers made their last
trips yesterday, conveying passen
gers, freight and mail to the nearest
railroad points. To-day the last
spike was driven into the raflr»id
track that connects Wauconda with
the rest of the world.
The railroad was financed and built
by farmers.
TROLLEY STRIKE FAILS TO
STOP CINCINNATI SERVICE
CINCINNATI, May .—Despite the
fact that more men quit work to-day
! in the Cincinnati street car strike, the
company had little trouble maintain
ing schedules on all hut a few of the
smaller routes. No disorder of any
Lyind occurred this morning
" Further reinforcements are expect
ed by the strikers during the day.
Bride-to-Be Was Bride-in-Fact
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HIS WIFE
Wedding Date Fixed for lune 1
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But Miss Slater Chose April 27
MRS. HOWELL B. SCHUMI’ERT.
Joseph A. McCord and J. K. Ottley
Confident Convention Will Come
Here After Invitation.
Convicted Slayer of C. M. God
dard Swears Out Habeas
Corpus Writ.
COURT SETS HEARING MAY 17
Injunction Served as Woman Is
About to Leave Atlanta
for Vermont.
Rimer T. Darden, convicted ©layer,
swore out a writ of habeas corpus
Saturday to take from his wife, Nao
mi Carter Darden, the custody of
their four children, on the grounds
that she is not a fit person to have
the care of them.
Darden is under bond 'pending a
hearing of an appeal of his case. He
was sentenced to three years on the
chaingang for killing C. M. Goddard,
des’pite his plea of the “unwritten
law.”
A temporary injunction, granted by
Judge J. T. Pendleton, was served
on Mrs. Darden Saturday at her
home on Crew Street, just as she
was prewiring, to leave for the sta
tion to take a train *fot Vermont*.
Judge Pendleton named May IT as
the date for the trial, and in the
meantime Mrs. Darden vvas com
manded not to leave the county.
The children are Naomi, age
twelve; Elmer T.. Jr., age ten; Rod
ney. age six. and Emma, age three.
Darden alleged that his wife, from
whom he is separated, intended to
take the children to a permanent
home outside the State of Georgi
He said the responsibility for the if
education and care rested inainlv on
him and he wanted them taken from
her.
Darden is represented by Attorneys
John S, McClelland and W. M. Smith j
Vegetable Wagon
Merely Liquor Van
Negro Seen Taking Sack From Ve
hicle. and, Pursued, Cornered
With Contraband Goods.
When a countryman early Saturday
drove through Haynes Street crying
out fresh country vegetables for sale.
James Crawford, a negro, was seen to
step into the street and lift from the
bottom of the wagon a half filled tow-
sack.
Other negroes thought him a thief
and gave chase, (’rawford ran into
a building at Haynes and Dover
Streets* where he was cornered and
held until Police Call Officers Coch
ran and Long arrived. The sack was
found to contain a wholesale supply
of liquor.
The negro admitted to the police
that he had bought the liquor from
the “vegetable man,” declaring the
farmer was selling liquor from tht
wagon apd was merely using the veg
etable? as a blind. A search was
made for the farmer, but he could not
be found.
Recorder Broyles fined the negro
$50.75.
Atlanta has an excellent chance to
be convention »city for the American
Bankers' Association In 1914.
Joseph A. McCord, vice president
of the Third National Bank, returned
Saturday from a meeting of the Exec
utive Council of the association at
Briarcliff, N. Y., expressing confi
dence that the annual gathering will
be held here next year. Mr. McCord
and J. K. Ottley, vice president of
tlie Fourth National, carried the At
lanta Clearing House invitation. Mr.
McCord said they met with a hearty
reception.
“1 think we shall have the honor
of playing host,” said Mr. McCord.
"Up to the present time, no other
city ha? extended an invitation. Com
petition. though, usually is keen when
the general convention meets.
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Bulgaria and Servia
Agree to Peace Pact
Rumor of Threatened Hostilities
Started for Political Purposes,
Believed in Austria.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
VIENNA, May 12.—Threatened hos
tilities between Bulgaria and Servia
have been avoided, according to dis
patches published to-day In the offi
cial press. These said the two Balkan
countries had reached an agreement
respecting the redivision of the ter
ritory conquered from Turkey.
As a mark of pacific Intention, each
country has agreed to demobilize a?
soon as peace is declared.
Many persons In officialdom believe
recent reports of dissension in the
Balkan League were encouraged bv
the members of the confederation for
political purposes.
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Sell Tags to Help
Seek Missing Girl
Indiana Cities Plan Unique Method
for Giving Financial Aid to
Katherine Winters' Father.
NEWCASTLE, IND., May 12.—A
tag day in every city in Indiana was
planned to-day by friends of Dr. W,
C. Winters, father of Katherine Win
ters, the missing Newcastle girl who
has not been heard from since March
21.
Thousands of tags were being sold
on the streets of Newcastle to-day in
an effort to raise a large fund to be
used in prosecuting the search for
the little girl.
DRINKS QUART OF LIQUOR
W ONE HOUR; UNCONSCIOUS
SAVANNAH, GA.. May 12.—James
Carney is in a hospital in a critical
condition to-day as the result of!
j drinking a quart of whisky in an'
hour. He was picked up in an un-
J conscious condition by the police. 1
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GUARD OF SECRECY IS
SEARCH BY SOLICITOR
Names of Witnesses Withheld by
Dorsey to Prevent “Manufacturers
of Public Opinion” Getting in Touch
with Them—Satisfied with Progress.
Solicitor General Hugli M> Dorsey declared Saturday after
noon that he was very well satisfied with 1 lie progress made in the
investigation of the Phagan murder mystery and made the signifi
cant remark that he would not reveal the names of new witnesses
so that manufacturers of public opinion could not get to them.
The Solicitor held a conference with lh-. H. F. Harris, of the
State Hoard of Health, who examined the girl’s body. Dr. Harris
said he would rush his report in time for presentation to the Grand
Jury when that body takes up the mystery next week. The Solici
tor would not reveal just what the physician has learned so far.
~~ The examination of the bloo(j^
Dental Inspection
In Schools Urged
Chamber of Commerce to Aak Coun
cil for Appointment of Exam
iners for Pupils.
Becomes Mrs. Harrell B. Schum-
pert on Day She Announced
Engagement.
Not content to wait until the first
Sunday in June to he married, once
their engagement had been announced,
pretty Miss Lillian Dua Juan Slater,
of 136 Rawson Street, and Howell B.
Schumperf^ 185 Washington Street,
went to the parsonage of the Rev. W.
C. Schaeffer on April 27—the day
their friends were given notice of the
impending marriage—and were wed.
Their friends—even the bride’s par
ents—will be surprised when they
read the news to-day.
From parents, friends and acquain
tances the marriage has been kept
secret. Miss Siater, or Mrs. Schum-
pert, going to her home and Schum -
pert to his boarding house. Since
the marriage the newspapers have
published the picture of the young
woman as a pretty bride-to-be of
June, and both have smiled, content
to wait until a little rose-bower of a
cottage in Stokes Avenue was finish
ed for their occupancy.
Confesses When Shown Proofs.
smiling gayly, Mrs. Schumpert ac*
mitted all the 4 interesting details t(\-
day when the records in the Ordi
nary’s office were placed before her as
conclusive proof that she had mar
ried ahead of time.
“Yes,” she said, “Howell and I
went to church an April 27, the day
our tngagement was made public.
After the service he said he wanted
to show me something, and he pulled
out a marriage license he had bought.
He wanted to get married right away,
ar<l 'I didn’t see the use o? waiting
until June.
“So, with 'two friends, Miss Inez
Roart and Marvin Beddingfield, whom
we knew we could trust, we went
around to Rev. Mr. Schaeffer’s house
*nd were married.
Even Father Doesn’t Know.
“No, even my father doesn't know
about it. but I don’t think he will ob
ject, because he likes Howell, but I
am sorry it came out to-day, as we
w anted to wait until our house is fin
ished before we told everybody.
“It was so funny to see my picture
in the paper, spying that J was en
gaged, when I v.as really married, but
we had decided not to tell, so wi
kept mum.”
Wore Other Fellow’s Roses.
Miss Slater, who works in the of*
flee of the auditor of the Atlanta and
West Point Railroad, has been pass
ing her husband’s house in Washing
ton Street every morning since the
marriage. He ha* waited for her on
the porch, and together they have
strolled downtow n, discussing the lit
tle house in Stokes Avenue, but say
ing never a word of the marriage.
“It was funnjV’ said Mrs. Schum
pert, “that i should have worn a
bunch of roses on the night of my
wedding that another fellow ssnt to
me. but i didn’t expect to get married
until Howell showed me the marriage
license.”
Three Men Held for
Mysterious Stabbing
Painter Slashed at Vaduct, Unable to
Tell Who Cut Him, Is Also
Arrested by Police.
Atlanta Mason Given Banquet.
DALTON.—Western Chapter No.
80. Royal Arch Masons, entertained
State Lecturer McHan, of Atlanta, at
a banquet at the Masonic Temple
here last night.
Three men were held in the police
station Saturday as the result of the
mysterious staooing of W. C. Joiner,
a pailiter livfhg at 455 Whitehall
Street.
Joiner, who was badly slashed
across the face, said he was cut by a
man he did not know, who ran past
him on Viaduct Way, near Peachtree
Street. L. Edge, a salesman, of 731
Woodward Avenue, and T. C. Lamp-
kin and W. F. Lampkin, father and
son, of 33 Simpson Street, on the
viaduct at the time, were arrested.
Edge admitted he ran through Via
duct Way to board a car, but denied
doing the cutting.
Joiner Is also held in the police sta
tion.
3 DEAD, 50 INJURED IN
COAL MINE EXPLOSION
UNION TOWN, BA., May —$8
quantity of dynamite in Sunshine coal
mine No. 1. three miles from Mason-
town. exploded this afternoon.
Three are known to be dead and
fifty are injure#.
BESSIE TIFT CLOSES MAY 26.
FORSYTH.—The commencement
season at Bessie Tift will begin May
22 and close May 26. The baccalau
reate sermon will be preached by Dr.
J. L. White, of Macon, while the bac
calaureate address will be delivered
by Rev. Alex W. Bealer, of Eastman.
Proper dental Inspection , of the
school children of Atlanta will be
urged upon the City Council by the
Chamber of Commerce. The appoint
ment of dentists to make regular in
spections and to see that children
having teeth complaint receive prop
er treatment, will be recommended.
The city already has a method of
medical inspection which has given
material results. It Is proposed to
have dentists work in connection with
the physicians, many of the children’s
ills being laid to the fact that their
teeth are being neglected.
Dr. <’. M. Barnwell, chairman of the
dentistry committee of the Chamber
of Commerce, has called a meeting T>f
the committee for 5:30 o’clock Tues
day afternoon.
Attorney Attacks
Savannah Charity
Gazan Says Organization Does Noth
ing but ‘Investigate’ While
Unfortunates Starve.
SAVANNAH, GA., May 12.—Simon
Gazan, an attorney, scathingly de
nounced the Savannah Associated
Charities in police court to-day dur
ing the hearing of Annie May Bacon,
a 16-year-old girl, charged with the
theft of a bicycle. Miss Helen Pen
dleton, general secretary of the As
sociated Charities, was prevented
from replying by a ruling of the Re
corder. The girl was finally turned
over to the attorney, who promised
to look after her.
“All the Associated Charities does
is to investigate and investigate,” he
said, “and while they investigate the
unfortunates starve.”
Miss Pendleton was visibly excited
when she left the court room.
The action of Attorney Gazan was
voluntary. He had not been retained
to defend the girl.
Beavers’ Manager Is
Fined $500 or Prison
Broyles Binds H. R. Pitts Over, Also,
to State Courts for Violating
Liquor Laws.
H. R. Pitts, manager of the Bea
vers’ Club, Saturday was fined $500
or 30 days by Recorder Broyles and
alsd was bound over to the Stat?
courts in bond of $1,000 accused of
violating the liquor laws.
The case was based on testimony
given by W. T. Brownlee, of Law-
renceville. who said he had purchased
liquor in the club, paying for It in
cash and without having to exhibit a
membership card. He said he had an
old visitor’s card, now out of date, but
did not even show this. Pitts and
other attaches of the club denied
Brownlee's story, declaring they had
never seen him before.
stained shirt in the back yard
of Newt Lee's home was also
continued. and the Solicitor was
far from convinced that its sig
nificance had been rightly de
termined.
Mr. Dorsey worked all day Satur
day on the case and announced that
he would continue all of Sunday so
that he could present his evidence
to the Grand Jury as early as possi
ble next week.
Confers With City Sleuth*.
A conference was held with the
city detectives, who' are working in
co-operation with the State, but none
of the details could be learned. Strict
secrecy is being maintained regard
ing new developments.
Evidence “exclusive and valuable’*
in the Mary Phagan case has been
obtained So much the Solicitor
said to-day, and no pnore, declaring
details of the evidence would be re
vealed at qhe proper time.
The evidence is the result of work
by private detectives engaged by tha
Solicitor, among them one whom he
termed .“the best detective in Ameri
ca,” when speaking of him Friday.
He mentioned the important evi
dence when he discussed the state
ment by Monteen Stover, the 14-year-
old employee of the National Pencil!
Company, that is in direct contradic
tion to the testimony by Leo M.
Frank, the suspected factory superin
tendent.
Ofher Evidence More Important.
The Solicitor was interested In the
girl’s statement, but declared that the
other evidence in his hands was far
more important and tangible.
in opposition to the testimony of
Leo M. Frank in the Mary Phagan in
quest was the statement of the Sto
ver girl. The evidence that she will
bear is to the effect that she was in
Frank’s office at 12:05 o’clock and a
little later on the Saturday afternoon
preceding the discovery of the slain
girl’s body, and that she found it de
serted.
According to Frank's testimony, he
was in his office from 12 o’clock until
12:25, when Lemmie Quinn, his fore
man. came in. During that time, ho
said, Mary Phagnn came in, about
12:05 o’clock, to receive her pay.
Monteen Stover is certain that, she
reached Frank’s office at exactly 12:05
o’clock. She has been retained as an
important witness.
Remembers the Tims.
I “The minute I got to the office floor
when I went up to get my pay,” she
said. ”1 looked at the clock. I wanted
to know if it was time to draw my
money. I would have looked at it,
anyhow, I suppose, as it is always
customary for me to punch it in*
first thing upon entering the place to
go to work.
“It was five minutes after 12. I
was sure Mr. Frank would be in his
office, so I stepped in. He wasn’t in
the outer office, and I went into the
inner office. He wasn't there, either.
I thought he might have been some
where around the building, so I wait
ed.
“The whole place was awfully quiet.