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VOL. XI. NO. 242.
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 14 1913,
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MYSTERY
LIKELY
Probably Will Not Reveal Pres
ence in City as He Investi
gates Phagan Case.
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lone] Thomas B. Fplder said
"Wednesday that Detective Wil
liam J. Burns had not arrived, as
yet. in New York from his Euio
pean trip, but that as soon as he
did he undoubtedly would start
at once for Atlanta to work upon
<h» Mary Phasran stran^lii.?
mystery.
Colonel Felder is acquainted
with I lie day and the hour on
which the famous sleuth will
.reach this city, but for the pur
poses of the investigation he is
withholding the information.
"There was no authority for the
‘Statement that Detective Burns would
be in New York Tuesday." said
Colonel Felder. "The date of his ar
rival has been known ip my office,
hut it hae not been made public."
"It is quite likely that the gre.it
detective will come quietly and un
announced into the city, make his
investigation of the mystery and slip
out before many persons are aware
from their own knowledge that he
has been working on the case."
In Touch With Burha Agency.
Colgnel Felder has been in con
stant touch kith Raymond Burns, son
of the detective, who is sec r etar>
ami treasurer of the Burns Agency,
end has offices in New York. The
agency is being placed in possession
of the important new developments
in the mystery as rapidly as they
occur. An outline of the whole case
will be laid before Burns the instant
that he arrives at his New York of
fices. /
That increasing importance is be-
ing attached to the notes that were
found beside the dead body of Mary
Phagan was in Heated Wednesday
when several handwriting experts
were called before Solicitor Genera.
Hugh A!. Dorsey.
An expert testified at the Coroner's
West that the notes, in his opinion,
were written by Newt Lee, the night
watchman at the National Pencil
Factory. The expert was corrobo
rated by the unofficial testimony of
two other experts.
The Solicitor, however, has not been
satisfied with the evidence he had
on this important point. Experts were
found who disagreed <jwith the con
clusions presented to the Coroner's
jury. The writing in the notes found
near the body of Mary Phagan. they
declared, was much better than the
normal writing of Newt Lee.
Difference in the Slant.
The writing showed evidence of
education and training which Lee did
not possess.
Lee would have had to be. under in
struction for two or three months,
they said, before he could show the
improvement that is evident between
the test specimen of his handwriting
and the handwriting of the notes.
Lee's normal handwriting shows a
decided slant. That of the notes close
ly approaches the perpendicular.
The final letter in each of the words
written by Lee ended abruptly. The
final letters in the notes were round
ed acrefully. indicating a consider
able instruction in penmanship.
A poem said to have been written
by Mary Phagan will form one of the
specimens of her handwriting which
will be compared with the notes
found in the basement of the National
Fencil Factory. The poem is entitled
"My Pa," and Mary is said by her
stepfather, J. W. Coleman, to have
been the author.
• The poem follows:
My i>a ain’t no millvunalre, but. Gee!
He's offul smart!
He ain't no carpenter, but he can fix a
feller's cart;
He ain't no doctor, but, you can bet he
Continued on Page 2. Column 3,
to Complete Term
Filibuster Will Keep Harris Out
y • *!* 4*o4* +•+
First Real Fight on a WilsonMan
W. J. Harris,
of Atlanta,
whose
nomination
for director
of the census
has caused
hot fight
in the Senate.
BATTLE OVER CHIEF’S RULE MEMBERS OF COUNCIL -
VOTE TO COME HERE
CLIMAX
Race Has Narrowed Down to Drs.
Maitland Alexander, Pittsburg,
and S. S. Palmer,Columbus.
Democrats Ready for Truce When
Nomination of Georgia
Man Is Blocked.
WASHINGTON, May 14. —Satisfied
that Republican opposition to the
confirmation of W. J. Harris, of
Georgia, as Director of the Census,
will continue to manifest ttself in
filibusters until July 1. when the
resignation of E. Dana Durand, now
Director of the Census, becomes ef
fective. Democrats were ready to-day
to declare a temporary truce.
This fight is the first real battle on
a Wilwn appointment.
Republicans assert that the Harris
appointment is pollticai and that Du
rand should be permitted «o serve out
his term.
The rules of the Senate permit one
member to conduct a filibuster with
out limit. The determination of Sen
ators Burton, Townsend, LaFollette
and Cummins to stave off Harris'
confirmation is apparent.
YAQUI CHIEF, MEXIC0 7 S
SITTING BULL, IS SLAIN
BISBEE. ARIZ.. May 14.—A pri-
vate dispatch received here .to-day
states that Chief Buie, of the Yaquis,
who has been fighting with the So
nora State troops in front of Guaya-
mas. has been killed. Buie was known
as the Sitting Bull of Mexico.
Matus. another warrior, has been
elected chief. The rebels planned to
make another assault some time to
day.
Gonzales, in Cuba,
Would Be at Home,
Says Cole Blease
COLUMBIA, S. C., May 14.—'“I have
always heard that chickens would
come home to roost, and I am not
surprised that the Cuban is trying to
go back home," said Governor (’ole L.
Blease to-day in commenting upon
the probable appointment of William
Gonzales, editor of The Columbia
State, as Minister to Cuba.
Gonzales is one of Blease’s most
bitter political opponents. In the last
South Carolina campaign Blease fre
quently referred in his speeches to
Gonzales as a "Cuban."
Governor Blease declared to-day
tiiat B. R. Tillman, senior Senator
from South Carolina, is "weak-mind
ed." He was discussing the effort to
unseat R. S. Whaley, elected to Con
gress from the First District.
"1 think it Is really amusing to see
Benjamin Ryan Tillman and Willie
Gonzales playing anty-over. Benny
throws the ball over to Willie, and
Willie kisses it and throws it baek to
Benny."
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia — Occasional local
showers Wednesday and prob
ably Thursday.
A spectacular contest for the mod-
eratorahip of the Presbyterian As
sembly, U. S. A., will reach its cli
max at 3 o'clock Thursday afternoon
when the forces behind Dr. Maint-
,and Alexander, of Pittsburg, and Dr.
S. S. Palmer, of Coluurbua, Ohio, meet
in the first test of strength Dr.
William McKibbin. president of Lane
Theological Seminarr. of Cincinnati,
has been put forward, but pre-con
vention gossip has it that the final
fight will be between Drs Alexander
and Palmer
Members of the progressive wing
of the denomination are strong In
their contention that there is no rad
ical candidate for the moderatorship.
They charge that in violation of pre
cedent and the expressed rule of the
assembly, an organization has been
effected in support of Dr. Alexander
and that solicitations in his behalf
have been made for months past.
It has been made to appear, they
say, that Dr. Palmer is a radical,
and that he is lined up with Union
Seminary. Dr. Palmers friends
claim that while he ffc a progres
eive, he is not a radical.
Foresee Doom of Radical.
No radical can win the moderator-
ship according to commissioners who
are already here and who are warmly
discussing the oncoming battle of bal
lots. No ultra-conservative can be
elected, they also agree.
Intense interest centers In the fight
for moderator, in that its result will
have a significant bearing on the fu
ture policy of the church. It is slated
that the moderator appoints the exec
utive commission, a body with con
siderable power in the assembly, par
ticularly between meetings.
"The great question at issue in this
Atlanta meeting." said a prominent
commissioner Wednesday, "is wheth
er or not the church will continue its
present progressive policies or return
to the methods in vogue 50 years
ago."
The contest for moderator is, in
some respects, a fight between the
two great Presbyterian seminaries of
the country, Princeton and Union. It
is a recognized fact that Princeton is
the most conservative of conservative
theological institutions, and that
Union has adopted many of the mod
ern tendencies and has on its staff
numerous of the most advanced think
ers.
Schools Are Brought In.
It is claimed that Dr. Alexander is
Closely allied with Princeton and
that he was offered a place on its
used against Dr. Palmer that he is
board some time ago. It has been
a Union Seminary graduate, but it Is
stated authoritatively that Hie Is of
McCormick Seminary in Chicago,
which is regarded as one of the "safe
and sane" Presbyterian institutions
of the country.
The progressives answer the charg
that Dr. Palmer is a radical by citing
the fact that for years he has been
a member of the evangelistic com
mittee of the assembly, whose con
servatism is unquestioned.
As a result of the agitation between
the two forces of the assembly, the
work of the Home Mission Board will
come into review. For 50 years thv
board acted as merely a distributing
agent for the churches’ funds to
needy mission fields. Ten years ago
it adopted a progressive policy, in
stituting departmental work, tack
ling all the big American questions
of the day. It extended its work to
the immigrants, the workingmen, the
Indians, employing experts as field
secretaries. An effort will be made
to force the hoard to return to Us old
functions.
Sees Progressive Victory.
Speaking of the fight, a commis
sioner said;
There r re no parties or divisions
Continued on Page 3, Column 3.
AS
FIGHTS
Police Commission Deadlocked on j
• I
Beavers’ Right to Select
Men for Promotion,
Friends of Police Chief James L
Beavers Wednesday declared that the
long established policy of permitting
the chief to be chief in fact as well
as name—the real head of the po
lice department—is in serious jeop
ardy as the result of the stormy
session of the Police Commission
Tuesday njght when the Woodward
faction came near wresting from the
chief the power to nominate officers
for promotion.
While the effort was unsuccessful,
it went so far as to apparently
hopelessly deadlock the commisaio’i
over the election of a successor to
the late Sergeant K. S. Foster. It
is the first time that such a dead
lock has been known in the Police
Commission.
It was brought about when Com
missioners W. A. Vernoy and Charles
R. Garner "turned" and voted with
the Woodward faction Both of these
commissioners heretofore have con
sistently backed the chief and have
been regarded as among his warmest
supporters, and as opponents of May
or Woodward.
Their change against the chief
made a tie vote—fi to 6—and ren
dered the election of a sergeant im
possible.
Marks First Real Claah.
The deadlock marked the first real
clash since Mayor Woodward became
a member of the commission. When
it became apparent that th& commis
sion was deadlocked hard and fast,
and an all-night session seemed im
minent, the meeting suddenly ad
journed in confusion
Supporters of Chief Beavers said
Wednesday that they were at a loss
to understand the unexpected lineup
of Commissioners Vernoy and Gar
ner. Mayor Woodward and his right-
hand man on the commission. Com
missioner George E. Johnson, seemed
well satisfied.
Friends of Chief Beavers and Chair
man Mason, however, expressed them
selves as sanguine in the belief that
they would be able to regain the lost
ground.
Some of the chiefs supporters free-
ly asserted that this move by the
Woodward faction to cripple the pow
er of Chief Beavers and place elec
tions in the hands of the commission
is the opening wedge In a fight to
eliminate civil service from the de
partment and revert to the old sys
tem of biennia! elections. This prom
ises one of the hottest factional fights
ever known in the police department.
Should the present move of the
chief's opponents succeed, it will mean
that the chief of police will have no
hand in the selection of officers for
promotion.
Johnson Starts the Fight.
The fight against Chief Beavers was
started by Commissioner Johnson,
who. without giving the chief time to
recommend his choice for promotion,
nominated Roundsman Whatley and
insisted on his election. The fight for
■the chief was led by Commissioner B.
Lee Smith, who declared this move
to be a grave injustice to the chief
and a serious mistake.
Commissioner Johnson said the
commission had made a mistake in
ever setting the precedent of allow
ing the chief to select officers for
promotion, and declared he stood
ready to rectify that mistake. Mayor
Woodward and Commissioner Colcord
also Insisted that the power of nam
ing the officers be taken from the
chief and given to the commission.
Commissioner Smith cited the com
missioners to the fact that they had
gone on record previously as making
the chief the real head of the derart-
menf.
The dead-locked Ilne-up was as
follows. *
For the Chief—Chairman Mason,
Commissioner* Fain. Rmith, McEftch-
ern. King and *T>ozler.
Against the ♦♦'hlef—Commissioners
Vernoy. Garner. Johnson. Colcord,
Clark and Mayor Woodward.
F ORREST ADAIR, Potentate of Yaarab Temple, v/ho has
led in the great fight to bring the 1914 Shriner meet to
Atlanta. He has won the title of “the lh eit wi c at the Dallas
convention,” working unceasingly for the Gate City.
Another violent outbreak against
the authority of the game laws was
reported to State Game Warden Jesse
E. Mercer Wednesday by two of his
deputies.
E. L. Waggoner and A. S. Johnston,
of ciarkston, DeKalb County, were
targets for a fusillade of shots Tues
day night when encamped near the
banks of the Venable pond at Stone
Mountain
Due either to the poor aim of the
poachers of to their intention of only
scaring the deputies away, neither of
the officers was wounded.
Mercer to Investigate.
The outbreak it Stone Mountain, in
conjunction with the trouble at Mill-
town, where Deputy Boisclair report
ed that he was arrested, threatened
and nearly mobbed, is engaging the
entire time of the State Game War
den's office.
After instructing Deputy Waggon
er that he should not hesitate to re
turn the fire if there ns as any more
shooting. Mr Mercer made 'prepara
tions to go in person to Milltown with
Deputy Boisclair, there to Investigate
for himself the exact conditions.
The cases against the persons for
whom Boisclair swore out warrants
for wishing illegally at Milltown will
be heard Monday and Mr. Mercer
Will be at the hearing Boisclair a'so
will be a defendant. ihe charge
against him being carrying concealed
weauons. , a
JACKSONVILLE. FLA.. May 14.
H. P. McNeil, a wealthy saloon man
of this city, was shot at his Pablo
Beach summer home to-day and is
now in a local hospital with a bullet
in his brain. The attending physi
cians say he can not recover. His
wife and chauffeur were arrested,
charged with the crime.
The chauffeur told the police that
the three went together in a room
in the house, and tiiat McNeil drew
a gun on his wife. When he at
tempted to dissuade McNeil from
shooting, the chauffeur said, he wig
knocked down, and in the scuffle
which followed McNeil was shot in
the back of the head.
McNeil is a brother of VV. D. Mc
Neil. a Macon lawyer and State Sen
ator-elect. His father, W. A. McNeil,
is in the ice cream business in Way-
cross. Mrs. McNeil Is a sister of
Representative "Chic” Acosta, of Du
val County. Florida.
COLONIAL WARS SOCIETY
APPLIES FOR A CHARTER
SAVANNAH. GA., May 14. An ap
plication for a charter for the So
ciety of Colonial. Wars In the State of
Georgia lias been filed in the Supe
rior Court. The incorporators are O.
Noble Jones, C. H. Banks. J. (>. Hatch,
R T Waller. If. M. King. TAJ. Charl
ton. c T Salisnas. Thomai Gamble.
Jr.. TV. R. Lea ken. J. A. G. I'frfion and
\V I.. Grayson, of Chatham County,
and K. D. Meador, of Glynn.
Ballot on Meeting Place
To Be Taken Wed
nesday Afternoon —
Memphis Only Rival.
DALLAS, May 14.—At
lanta wins the Shrine con
vention for 1914.
By JAMES B. NEVIN.
DALLAS. TEX., May 14—Taka
Eorreat Adair * wmd for it, Atlanta
Is xoing to win to-
Just Uefore closing
ords and going Into t
the Imperial council of
Slirlnc to-day Mr. Adair and his
faithful Vaarab boosters and boom
ers held a final council of war.
After checking every name on th“
roll* or representative* and the Im
perial- council, and after tightening
up all the rivet, everywhere, the
conference decided that Atlanta
should win over Memphis bv approx
imately two to one. and that only
the most unexpected and unantici
pated complication could prevent At
lanta rapturing the 1914 gathering
It Is not to he supposed that this
campaign in Dallas has been all eaay
salllng On the contrary, much of
It has been exceedingly rough, al
though never dangerous, so far is
the Yaarahs could sec.
Memphis has made a game flgV
and has had stout-hearted friends
on hand waging her battle. It has
been clearly shown, however, that
Atlanta has very much the better of
Memphis in the matter of hotel ac
commodations. and the Dallas gath
ering has been flooded with Invita
tions from officials of Georgia and
the city of Atlanta, clubs and busi
ness organizations, as well as many
private persons.
The publicity work has been in
telligently handled. That large en
tertainment fund, reaching well to
ward $100,000, coupled with the as
surance that there is more monev
where that came from, all aerved
to make Atlanta's success seeming
ly certain.
Little Talk of "Dark Horae."
There has been some jealousy
cropping out, of course. Some del
egates having no particular love
ther for Atlanta or Memphis, al
though few' of that sort have been in
evidence, have undertaken to start
talk of a "dark horse." and in that
connection, both Atlantic City and
Boston have been mentioned as ac
ceptable meeting places for next
year Baltimore has also been men
tioned.
In the main, however, the contest
for the nonor of entertaining the
imperial council uas been confined to
Atlanta apd Memphis, with Atlanta
always leading easily.
It is predicted that there will be a
much larger crowd in Atlanta next
year than is now in Dalla.s In the
first place, the Shriners have been
convinced that Atlanta has the hotel
accommodations and the funds to
make things hum. neither of which
Dallas has had to the extent of mak
ing this year's session all It might
have been.
In the second place, the enthusiasm
of the Atlanta delegation has been of
a genuinely winning variety ail the
time. It Is a foregone conclusion that
the Imperial Council is to meet in
San Francisco in 1915. the year of
the Panama Exposition, and for that
reason It is the purpose of the Shrin
ers to have next year’s session in the
East.
Ballot Wednesday Afternoon.
The balloting on next year’s meet
ing. expected to take place between
now and 1 o'clock, was deferred till
later in the afternoon.
It Is expected that Atlanta will win
easily In the early stages of the vot
ing. If intelligent leadership, ear
nestness of purpose and thoroughness
of method count for anything, For
rest Adair's fight should win to-day.
Ho reached here among the first,
and ihere is not a delegate or a rep-
resentativ whom he hfta pot aaea^pea*