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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. WEDNESDAY. MAY 14. 1913.
DID NOT STEAL
Here He Is Again;
Man of Myi
Heralds a
Story
□
Real Estate Operator Denies
Bei ng Interested in Any Way
. in Brown Tangle.
J G. Reevaa, th*» r^al ^stat* 4 opera
tor accused by Edward M. Lrowp, 20
Hayden Street, of eloping with hi^
bride of four months, made a com
plete denial of Brown’s accusations
Wednesday morning
Mr. Reeves admitted he had been
at the Terminal Station Tuesdav
morning when Brow n declared he met
the real estate operator and after wee
ing his giant stature dec ided not to
"reek summary vengeance upon him.
but that his visit was on business.
He added that if Brown were there
he did not see him. Mr. Beeves
denied, however, that he went to Mu-
con witjh Mrs. Brown nr that he had
ever shown her any attentions.
His statement, in full follows.
Brandt Charges as False.
What Brown has to say about my
going to M icon with hi« wife is un
true Some time ago I sold Brown a:
lot. On Monday he was in the office
to get his papers. He asked that I <
come to see him and bring the pa
pers. 1 was informed of this When
I came in and I went dm* n at about
6 o’clock that same afternoon with
the papers. , -I
‘‘Mr. Brown told me a long talc ni i
woe about his wife and him sepa - |
rating He said he had gotten tire:,
of keeping the whole family lie then
told me he had decided to go to New
Turk and wanted to put his lot back
on the market. When I departed
Brown accompanied me up the street.
At Peachtree and Broad Streets we
parted , a .
“1 did not know anything about his
wife going to Macon, what train she
was going to leave on or anything
else until 1 saw her dt the Terminal
Station, where I had gone to meet
some prospective real estate pur
chasers.
Asked to Inspect Land
Mrs Brown came in with her
mother and another woman They
ccine up to mo and asked about tbe
Macon train schedule. 1 went to as
certain it When I returned Mrs
Brown's mother said she wanted to
taik to me about some land she had
f a ,ale. She said she had 300 acres
of land out near Hawklnsville, tiH.
Tlieo she asked me if I vvouUI
H , ,j it We talked about the
proposition. After they departed for
Macon I returned to my residence.
I kneew- nothing of Brown s ac
cusations until Tuesday noon, t was
very much surprised when they in
formed me at the office that Brown
had been there before me. I uesda.v
at 10 o’clock 1 went again to th« lei
inimtl Station a second time to keep
a business appointment, and if. as
Is said, Brown were there I did not
see him and did not know that he
was hunting for me. He had nevoi
Intimated the evening before that he
had any feeling toward me whatever
In the matter."
3 Days in Rigging
Of Sinking Vessel
NEW YORK. May 14. The story of
frightful days spent in the rig
ging of :t sinking ship was told
by three of the six survivors of the
Russian bark Heinrich Emma, who
were brought Into port to-day.
Terridt gales off rape Hanoi a. on
March 25 caused the Heinrich Emma
to p»*inr •" l»*ak The ship quickly
became waterlogged and unmanage
able. ,nd watei filled the holds almost
to tb«' decks The crew then took to
lh»‘ rigging, where they remained un
til March 29. when the steamer San
effected a difficult rescue.
Buckhead Resident
Badly Hurt by Auto
DENTAL DIPLOMAS EXPERTS STUMPED
Twentieth Annual Commencement State Railway Commission Is Un-
AbouTTovjn
Here he is again.
•lust when you thought that The
Georgians "Man of Mystery.” with
the three ties ranging down his shirt
front, bad vanished as unaccountably
i he first made his appearance, pres
to. up lie bo be!
Returning, he explained that his ap
pearance, disappearances and reap
ing
ices all
that of
ity.
pic turc
for the same pur-
rltlng your interest
ni r
The picture of the "Man of Mys
tery” was published three days In
The Georgian without any explana
tion or comment There was not even
i line to say whether he was a for
eign nobleman or the latest suspect
In some daring crime.
After the‘office of The Georgian
had been deluged with letters asking
the identity of the strange personage
t ame the explanation. It whs simply
this:
The Georgian is about to pub
lish a groat seilal story. It may
be said with assurance that It
is the most Interesting story At
lantans have read in years. This
picture typifies the story. The first
instalment will Appear in next
Monday’s Georg inn.
What should be the title, judg
ing solely from the picture? Five
dollars in gold will be paid to
each of the live best lit era ry judg
ments
The
..lected.
\ clop'
pies .
rived.
of Atlanta School To Be Held
Monday Night.
The degree of doctor of d*»ntal sur-
ger\ will be conferred on young
men at the twentieth annual com
mencement exercises of the Atlanta
I>ental College at the Atlanta Theater
Wednesday night.
Included on the program attending
the dellverj of diplomas will bg a
valedictory address by M. T Mc
Millan and music by Mathiesen s
I land. The degrees will be conferred
by Judge W. R. Hammond. Dean
William (Venshaw. of the college, will
lead his annual report, which will de
clare the past year to have been the
most successful in the history of the
institution.
Following the exercises, the class
will be guests of the school faculty
at a banquet at the Cafe Durand.
Following are the graduates:
Charles Ferrltl Amaeker. Berry lis
ter Aycock. Jr.. James B Burson,
(>rus C. Barker. Earl Dow Bbvers,
Ernest Alexander Branch. Marion Dee
Bro< klngton. William Robert Brady,
Arnold Arthur Conway, William Brit
ton Campbell, Whitfield Cobb, G.
Dowry Clement. Allen Castellaw. Wil
liam Edward Coombs. William H.
Clemons. Enoch Houston Chamber
lain. Benjamin T. Carter. Edward
Clifton Book. Haul McMillan Davis,
Miguel T. Diaz. Clarence A Duncan,
William Oscar Finch. Sanders Fowler,
Hugh Lancelot Futch. James Clen-
plius Gardner, Elbert R. Gilbert. Hen
ry A. Grimes. William Y. Hutchins.
Frank Kellv Haynes, John Edgar
Holt. William It Hicks. Elias l\ In
gram. Oscar Lorenzo Joyner. Albert
A Loflin. Sam Levy, Luther D.
Ivo ugh ridge, William J. Martin. Jo
seph l\ Martinez. Jr.. Robert H. Ma
bry. James R. Moore. James Henry
McDonald Molcolm Thomas McMil
lan, George Lewis McNael, Ijatimer (
Noble*. Henry C. Pierson. Jr., Alfred
Qulmby. Alonzo L Rogers James
Turner Sims. James Frank Stainback,
Leon A. Simonton. John Rowland
Strickland. Conly Smith. Ernest P
Shaw. William George Sanchez. Lem
uel A Taylor, Theodore P. William
son, Charles Maurice Wheeler. Wil
liam Keith Whitson. L. Nett Wilson,
Marvin H Wilson, RanseV Weathers-
bee. William Andrew Wood. William
Co4b) Wright, -it Clarke B Weeks.
Action on Hawthorne
Parole Kept Secret
WASHINGTON, May 14. The eli
gibility for parole during tffe next few
months of Julian Hawthorne and T)r.
William J Morton, convicted in Now
York of misuse of the mails, and
many other prisoners serving terms
in the Atlanta penitentiary, has he. n
determined by the Federal Parole
Board, but the results are withheld
from the public.
Hawthorne and Morton will have
^served the necessary one-third of
their sentences July 25, and, provided
the Parole Board and Attorney Gen
eral MrReynolds approve, they will be
released at that time.
f Buckhead
'i veral g.
broken leg
It <i\H-
; about
»he re-
si, f b< Iru* struck Tuesday night by
fll j . uomot i . driven by J. D. lloyes,
of «> H;.\. Brothers tailoring es
tablishment. 9 Peachtree Street
Ha'<- v is iaken to police headquar
ter.' and lat< i released on $200 bond.
Eyewitnesses declare that the acci
dent wa> unavoidable, the car inov-
lng under regulation Fpeod nnfl tht
born being -ouhded continuously
Mr H. • with a party, was re-
turning film. . mrt-ting <if tht Kp-
Worth » and in turning into
Fit . -■ = ii.-u Ml Reed.
Mont e Carlo Loses
#13,000 to U.S. Girl]
NEW YORK. May 14.—There ar-1
jived here to-day on the lifter Kaiser
Wilhelm Der Grosse pretty 22-year-
old Miss Teresa Haley, of San Fran-1
cisco, with several bags of money
which she won gambling at Monte
Carlo and aboard ship.
Miss Haley announced that - he j
could not just remember how much j
she had won at. the famous gambling
resort, but thought "maybe it was
more than $13,00(9." I
Aboard ship her luck at poker add*
ed about $1,000 mo e to her winnings.
She also won four ship spools that]
netted her a goodly sum
CHECK FOR TAXES, MISSING
3 YEARS, FOUND AND PAID
HE. GA., May 14.—The
►rthem Railroad Company
id a cheek for $596.83 given i
olleetor of Brooks County
on December 20. 1909, for taxes dye
the count' -for that year. It was lost
bv iorm< ; Tax Collector F. 1^. Gib
son, who since had been arrested for
embezzling county funds
The check was found bv the present
title has already been se
ll is now in a sealed en-
in the hands of T J. Pea-
\. cashier of the American Na
tional Brink.
t triginality, literary value and
analytical clearness >v ill be con
sidered in awarding the priza*
Address all answers to "Lit
erary Editor," The Georgian, \t-
lanta. Trie contest closes Bund-ay
night. No answers posted after .
midnight Mav 18 will he con
sidered. v
Uncle Sam Is Ready
to Wash His Money
WASHINGTON, MayJ4 The Fed
eral Government " "money laundry"
will he in full swing this week when
the Treasury Department will begin
ihe operation of four currency wash
ing machines, turning out di illy 100, -
ot'O wash'd and ironed notes which
otherwise would he destroyed.
As the question of forbidding the
washing of money because of the al
leged danger of counterfeiting Is
being agitated In Gon*rp«s, on the re -
.-'lilts of this wock'o "wash" will de
pend the decision on the efficacy of
the "money laundry."
It 's claimed the laundrv will save
the Government half a million dollars
nr more yearly. Advocates of the
washing machine claim It will reduce
the output of tb« Bureau of Engrav
ing and Printing bv 20,000,000 notes
annually.
Junk Substituted
for $20,000 in Gems
»N, GA.. May 14. An express
said to have contained dia-
md jewelry worth $20,000, was
by Rie^ »v Armstrong, of this
the New York jewelrv firm
• White A- Go., several days
! when it arrived at its dcsti-
tbe package contained a few
>f metal and scraps of paper,
lives were put to work on the
id 25 express* employees who
the package ' were closely
led. No trace of the missing
Is has been found and no ar-
‘Alfalfa Bill’ Quits
Smoking ‘10-Centers’
WASHINGTON. May 14. Repre
sentative "Alfalfa Bill” Murray, of
J Oklahoma, announc ed to-day that
j hereafter ho will smoke flve-cent ci
gars usually, and ten-centers only
on special occasions.
"Extravagamv is in the blood of
< very American." said Representative
.Murray to-day. "And I don't propose
while I am in Congress to fall a vic
tim to the wllep of luxury. I am go
ing to lead a simple life and when l
go out of Gongross I will be ready’ to
I put on my blue jeans and do any bit
of carpenter work that is necessary
j on my farm down in Oklahoma.”
Worse Rioting Near
In Cincinnati Strike
'CINCINNATI, May 14.—Prepara
tions to resume service in all street
car lines in the city with cars manned
by strikebreakers were made to-day.
; and'further trouble with greater dis-
I order and rioting than has yet been
i experienced was expected.
The strikers to-day maintained
i their intention to have no negotia
tions with the company until the un
ion is recognized.
White City Park Now Open
Ponce DeLeon Rink Now
Open.
able to Classify It Under Geor
gia Freight Tariffs.
Members of the State Railroad
Commission walked solemnly about
a five -foot length of dogwood g
Tuesday. Then they sat down and
scratched their heads. The log had
given them more trouble and anxiety
than the compilation of their volumi
nous annual repor Even J. Price
Webster, rate expert, was in a quan
dary as to the rate classification the
commonplace appearing pie<> of wood
should receive.
The log was shipped by express
from Savannah and -he Railroad
Commission was petitioned by three
Separate Interests to classify it. Each
interest had a different ra;e it wished
imposed.
The Pelham & Havana Railroad,
running out of Cairo, warned It
classed under "handles, beams and
other woods for manufacturing pur
poses.” This rate is 14 rents.
The man who received the ship
ments for export to Germany, where'
a\ bundles and spokes are made of
the rough wood, thought the regu
lar lumber rates about 9 cents, was
Jusj.
The Atlantic Coast Line, which de
livers the wood at Savannah, de
manded that the Railroad Commission
fix the regular cord wood rate. $2.10 I
a cord.
I Girard Officer Kills
i Another Over Woman
He Meant Wei)
At Any Rate.
"I was amused last Sunday after-
SHE KIDNAPS SON
Denver Police Suspect Wife’s
Charge Against Brokaw Was
Ruse to Get Boy.
COLORADO SPRINGS, COL.. May
in Ormewood, "by a little incident
which happened on a Soldiers’ Home
< ar on which I was a passenger. 1
was on my way home and when the
car started from the corner of De-
(atur and Peachtree Streets it was
pretty well crowded. Several of the
rear seats were occupied by negro
men Half a dozen blocks out the
car stopped and a negro woman got
on. She was dressed in the latest
fashion-—hobble skirt and all and she
had some difficulty in negotiating the
car* steps.
"She got aboard. however, and
caused a stir among the negro men
passengers They recognized her as
some ‘tony’ cook going visitipg to
show off her flashy Sunday clothes
and they bestirred Jhemselves to
show her every courtesy.
"One of the negroes jumped up
from his seat and waved an eloquent
hand in the direction of the vacated
place.
" Take dis -eat.’ he said, with a
winning smile.
Thanks so much,' was the lan-
t'oon, ’ said a gentleman who lives 14.—While her husband was in jail,
charged with assaulting her with a
frying pan. Mrs. • Tillie Seaman
Brokaw. wife of Clarence Pierce Bro
kaw. a former New York financier
and member of the Brokaw family
there, kidnapped their small son.
"Buster," and fled with him on a train
for Chicago
A year or so ago Brokaw kidnaped
his f*on in New York and fled with
him to Colorado Springs. He charged
his wife with conduct that aroused
her wrath and brought forth vigorous
denials Brokaw did not file suit*for
divorce and later Mrs Brokaw came
West and resumed living with her
husband.
A few days ago Brokaw was ar
rested on his wife’s complaint on the
charge that he assaulted her with a
skillet. When the case was called
yesterday Mrs. Brokaw secured a
postponement. Now the police be
lieve the charge against Brokaw was
trumped up in order to get him into
jail while hi« wife fled the State with
their only child, who was responsible
for the reconciliation and whose cus
tody both always demanded.
But the Comiriisfeipn has no clas- , _
sfflcatloh that Ckactly describes that guid answer, but I don’t wish to de-j
five-foot length of dogwood in its prive you-alls.’
offices. It has been unable to render "‘No depravity—no depravity,’ ejae-
■) decision. ulated the other, and half the car
was convulsed."
Lawyers Ask Court
. The Laziest Man
Information Bureau This one
"I have heard of lazy persons.
A court information bureau will be
established if the County Commis- !
sion grants the request of the Atlanta !
Bar Association made Wednesday. A
committee from the association urged ;
that Atlanta's court system had be- i
come so extensive and complicated i
that it was a public necessity to have
a man employed who could keep law
yers and other parties interested in
formed as to the time for trials and I
hearings.
Arnold Broyles, County Clerk, ac- '
companied the committee on its mis
sion. The members of the commit
tee are:
Burton Smith, Judge T. P. West
moreland. E. C. Alston. Ben ,1. Con
yers, Hudson Moore. E. M. Under
wood, Jack J. Hastings, Arminius
Wright, Arthur Heyman and Archi- i
bald H. Davis.
If you have anything to sell adver
tise in The Sunday American. Lar
gest circulation of any Sunday news
paper in the South.
said
the drug clerk, "hut the worst was
one that a well-known physician told
me about the other evening when he
dropped in here to get some supplies
for his medicine chest.
"According to the doctor this man
lived dowm in Arkansas in one of
the small river towhs. He was the
proprietor of a general store.
“One afternoob he was sitting down
behind the counter reading the last
issue of •the country weekly wnen a
customer came in. The customer
was a woman. She wanted a piece
of red calico, and had a sample of
the goods to show exactly what she
did want.
" Uncle George,' said she. I wan-
ter git some goods like this here.
is you got any?’
" I reckon I is.’ said Uncle George,
but sposin’ you-alls comes around
to-morrow when I'm a-standin’ up
an' I wait on you.’ ”
I BUSINESS COURSE
$10,00 MONTHLY
This Method of Paying for Tui
tion Places a Business Edu
cation Within Reach
of All.
The Crichton-Slrumaker Busi
ness College down in the Kiser
Eluilding Is a credit to the South.
It is probably the most elegantly
equipped and most perfectly sani
tary institution in the whole coun
try.
The $10 per month rate for pay
ing tuition recently instituted by
this well-known school marks a
new' era. in business education in
the South. Under this arrange
ment the pupil pays only for what
he gets. Both teacher and pupil
are placed absolutely on their
merit The industrious pupil does
not pay for the idle pupil. In fact,
it is the only logical, common
sense way of conducting an educa
tional institution.
Catalogue and full information
will be mailed on request.
COLUMBUS. GA., May 14.—-H. C.
Elliott, a policeman, is dead; \V. D.
Perry, another policeman, is wound
ed, and Mary Lou Webster, a wom
an of questionable Character, is in
jail to-dav as the result of a pis
tol duel In Girard. Ala., last nigh*.
Elliott shot Perry twice before Perry
fired. Perry's wounds are not con
sidered serious.
The killing grew'out of a dispute
over the woman, about whom one
man had already been killed.
Perry's son, Otis, shot and kil'el
former Chief of .Police James Floyd,
of Girard, last year, and Is now await
ing triaJ. Both Elliot and Perry
have families living in Girard.
PRAIRIE FIRE HITS TOWN.
SASKATOON. SASKA . May 14.—A
prairie Are to-day threatened the town
of Andrews with destruction, but was
got under control after it destroyed
several buildings, including the post-
office.
200 Eagles Attend
Annual Dutch Lunch*
Members of the Atlanta Lodge,
Fraternal Order of Kagles. are still
chuokllns: over'the good times they
had in their hall In the Stelner-Em-
ory RtilldinK Tuesday, night, when
tit" mutual dutch lunch and smoker
»«» held. More than 20(1 members
attended.
The clyb rooms, repainted and dec
orated, were used for the first time
Tuesday night All the rooms on one
side of the long hallway have been
arranged so they tan he thrown open
into one room, where the feast was
served.
The session was presided over hy
.lohn Y. Smith, president of the lo
cal lodge No. 1.
.SLUMP IN PARCEL POST.
WASHINGTON. May 14.—Approx
imately 69,500,000 parrel post pack
ages were handled throughout the
country during the month of April.
This Is a decrease of about 3 per cent,
from the month of March.
ENGLISH
LADIES’ RUBBER-SOLE
OXFORDS
To-day and Thursday Only
Tan Bluchers, with heels and spring heels.
White Buckskin Oxfords with heels.
$5, $4.50 and $4 values. All sizes, all widths.
Now is your opportunity to get a pair of Rub
ber-Sole Oxfords at the right price.
TWO DAYS ONLY
PP»
of H
natlo
IV
Make State and Coun
ty tax returns now. Office
corner Pryor and Hunter
Streets. T. M. Armis-
tead, Tax Receiver.
Best Gasoline - 19c per gal.
Oil 35c per gal.
= Open at Night -
Day & Night Service Co.
*12 Houston Street
Just off Peachtree St.
Allen’s Semi-Annual
Half-Price Suit Sale
Begins To-morrow Morning at Eight o’Clock
It has ever been our custom since this house opened for business to hold a
Semi-Annual Suit Sale---because it is, and always will be, our policy to carry
over nothing from season to season.
We are sure that the suits which we offer you now at half their original sell
ing are better suits than we’ve been able to offer you before at such prices. This
has been an unusually good suit season, both m quantity and quality. In this
sale you’ll find very many recent arrivals, and every one is good. They all go in
this half-price sale, and positively there are no unworthy ones.
You have the unrestricted choice of black, white, blue, shepherd checks, and
all the popular spring colors. Silk suits also included.
$20.00 Suits. . . $10.00
25.00 Suits
30.00 Suits
35.00 Suits
40.00 Suits
12.50
15.00
17.50
20.00
$45.00 Suits.
50.00 Suits..
55.00 Suits .
60.00 Suits .
65.00 Suits .
$22.50
. 25.00
27.50
. 30.00
. 32.50
$75.00 Suits .. $37.50
85.00 Suits
90.00 Suits
95.00 Suits
100.00 Suits
42.50
45.00
47.50
50.00
65 Spring Wool Dresses at Half-Price
All our smart tailored Spring Dresses of Serge. Ratine. Bedford Cord, in black and many colors and shepherd ehecks. will
go in this Half-Price Sale:
S6.25 $18.50 Dresses $ 9.25 $2o.00 Dresses $12.50
20.00 Dresses 10.00 30.00 Dresses 15.00
$12.50 Dresses
15.00 Dresses 7.50
$35.00 Dresses . ... $17.50
40.00 Dresses ..... 20.00
Sale begins Thursday at 8 o’Clock.
J. P. Allen & Co. 5,55
Whitehall