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TI1E ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATURDAY, MA Y17. 1913.
AUK I
“No One Else Involved---I Am No
Embezzler; I Have No Sensational
Disclosures to Make—I Am Back
to Pay the Penalty of My Eailure.”
Thf> Georgian on Friday published a long, detailed, exclusive
story by J. Wylie Smith, who lor two years has been a fugitive
from justice, following the failure of the Commercial Loan and
Discount Company of Atlanta.
Smith, lying on what he believes to be his deathbed in tbe
hospital ward at the Tower, reiterated on Saturday what he said
in The Georgian on Friday; that he returned to Atlanta because
hp believed he was going to die, and that he wanted to die in At
lanta. He told a Georgian reporter on Friday the story of his ex
periences in the Mexican army; of the privations he suffered, and
of some stirring battles in which he participate!
Smith vigorously denies that
he has any exposures to make
touching the failure of the Com
mercial Loan and Discount Com
pany.
'T shoulder all the blame for that,”
he says. “and 1 have no sensational
disclosures to make.
“There will In* no squealing and no
body else involved. If I live long
enough. I will tell my whole story on
the witness stand. and I have confi
dence enough in the jury that may be
selected to try me to think that m.v
story will be believed.
"Alone in the Failure.”
1 was alone and had no intentions
of incriminating others.
I will tell all I know, and thnt will
involve no one but myself
After I have rested a while in jail
here. 1 expect to get out of prison.
II take the necessary time to
he hooka and papers of the
jmpany to prove that I wa»
or embezzler.
mistake was an honeat one. but
toe failure of the company left me
penniless. If 1 had had ten days more,
I could have pulled through and saved
the company. Time was against me,
and rather than face bankruptcy pru-
< eedings I went away. \
"Now I am back to nav the price.”
Born To Be Fighter.
When the "Commercial Loan and
Dis» ount Company failed, there was
a furor. Anxious clients sought J.
Wylie Smith, but they hunted him in
vain. One night he quietly boarded a
train and left Atlanta, leaving his
wife, his child, his business behind.
Ft is dream of an old age In comfort
was shattered.
"I was born to be a fighter." he re
marked in his cell Friday night. "All
my life I harbored an inclination to
go to war. In my youth I had been
restrained, and then I settled down n
quiet commercial pursuits. 1 thought
the spark was dead.
“But when I decided to flee I like
wise decided to get the excitement I
had been hungry for all my life 1
went to Mexico. 1 had a hard time
making the goal. There were officers
to dodge. The Pinkertons followed.
The border was watched. 1 managed
to slip over the lines, though, and
when 1 did I was safe"
Smith's first job in Mexico was with
the Chihuahua Lumber Company, in
Chihuahua, which lies south of Jua
rez He didn’t stay there long, how
ever.
"I had to lay low then.” he ex
plained. "1 knew the detectives were
warm on my trail. I put through a
few deals for others, though. I stayed
there a month. Then l bought and
sold cattle for a Mexican company.
"All the time the revolutionists were
fighting all over the republic. 1 made
up my mind to join the first command
that came near. One day they burned
a bridge ‘JO miles north of me. That
was enough. I got a horse and rode to
their camp. 1 found it was a w ing of
General Orozco's army, with General
Rojas in command. 1 couldn't talk
much Spanish then, hut 1 made signs
General Rojas came out himself to
look me over when he learned a
gringo'
tlonlwt.
Soaps and cleansing pow
ders may clean your walls,
floors and woodwork, hut
they won’t kill disease
germs
CN does both; it makes
everything with which it
comes in contac
100 per cent clean
It frees the home
of conditions fa
vorable to germ
life, clean from
Assigned to Ranks.
“I was accepted. They gave me a
gun and assigned me to a place In tee
ranks. Evidently they were proud of
their American private, for they gave
me a prominent position at the ex
treme right of the company. Inci
dentally. I was usually tlrHt In the line
of fire. too. General Rojas said he
couldn’t give me a uniform then
or promise me any pay, be
cause the treasury was, as usual,
empty. 1 didn't care. I wanted to
fight.
"I didn’t te|| him how I came to be
in Mexico, and he didn't ask. There
was a mutual understanding He
knew there was a price on my head
and I knew he knew. Words were
unnecessary. There was a sort o( an
unwritten, unspoken contract that I
would not he turned over to the Unit
ed States as long as I paid for pro
tection hv fighting.
“1 want to say without any ego
that l was a brave soldier When
there was a charge to be made I was
generally In front. I was never be
hind the rompanx I led the charges.
One time I captured a cannon, with
five other Mexicans, and turned it on
the Federal troops. They fled. After
that I was a hero. There was noth
ing in the army's scanty commissary
that was too good for me.
Big Corporal His Best Friend.
"The best friend I have ever had
was a Mexican corporal, bigger than
any other greaser’ I ever saw. He
was always at my side with a sooth
ing Spanish word when we were in
danger. He could pick me up in his
arms and carry me Once when a
bullet whizzed through my hat so
close to my head that it raised a blis
ter on my ear. I would have fallen
if his arms had not held me up.
‘‘I thought I had that bullet
through the head
"That corporal won my first pro
motion for me. We were charging
tlie Federal troops near Chihuahua
There was a river between us. There
was nothing to do but w-ade It right
under the nose of the enemy’s guns
As we neared the brink of the stream
on the double quick that big corpo
ral—J don't know any more of his
name than Carlos—-picked me up as if
I had been a pet cat and lifted me
to his shoulders. Then he dashed
through the water. From his hack I
fired two defiant shots at the Federal
troops. We were among the first to
the other side, and led the charge up
the river’s hank. And we won. It
was a complete victory.
When General Rojas rode by a few
minutes later with the satisfaction
of vietorj beaming
called me. ,
" 'Gringo.' he said,
recommend you for
General Orozco.'
Given a Captainoy.
"Two weeks after that 1 had a troop
I was the leader of the best company
in the regiment And I got m\ first
uniform then. too. I still have it." he
said, as he weakly lifted one leg up
and propped It on the foot of the
little iron bed to better exhibit a pair
of well-worn cheap khaki trousers.
“That's the coat under my pillow."
“As a captain 1 was a success. A
few- months later they made me h
member of the general's staff and 'l
had a hand in the planning of cam
paigns and battles.
“1 think I showed the Mexicans
something about war. even if 1 wasn't
a professional soldier," Smith com
mented with a smile and a tinge of
color in his careworn face.
"1 want to state this as a fact: 1
never saw a Pinkerton but once while
I was in Mexico. That was in Juarez
when I Jay in the hospital with a bul
let through my thigh. The detective
came in and saw me. And he was a
good entertainer, let me tell you.
When the Mexicans brought in u
meal he said ‘Do you have to eat
that stuff? Wait! I'll get you some
thing good.'
He went
and ordered
me.
‘That detective used to call at the
hospital three times a day. I guess
he wanted to get on the good side of
me. so 1 would cross the bridge to
El Paso and return to Atlanta under
arrest. When he failed in that he
tried trlekerv
over to the
three meals
restaurant
a day for
ONE OF THE MOST
IMPORTANT DIS
COURSES TO BE DE
LIVERED HERE SUN
DAY WILL BE THAT
OF A NOTED LECTUR
ER, 0 L. SULLIVAN.
NEW YORK, AT CA
BLE HALL AT 3 P. M.
HE WILL SPEAK ON
“THE RESURREC
TION, OR LIFE BE
YOND THE GRAVE."
TWO CHARMING
YOUNG VISITORS
Judge Takes Jury
to a Movie Show
DENVER, May 17.—Judge Rothger-
ber gave a Jury and his bailiff, clerk
and stenographer a rare treat to-day
shortly after opening court. He gave
i a recess and ordered the Jury to ae-
j < ornpany him in a body to a moving
; picture show. They remained through
j an entire act of the show.
They did not discuss the merits of
it. hut on their return discussed the
stairway which leads to the balcony
of the theater, which figured in a suit
| they were hearing
BattlingDamoselIs |
Chilled at Capital n
WASHINGTON. May 17.—The little
pink damosel of Paul Chabas’ "Sep
tember Morn." who has been wander
ing forlornly from city to * city for
months looking for a shop window
home in which she may bathe iti
peace, has reached Washington an i
met a welcome at once as chilling as
the waves which lave her feet and
as warm as the glow which suffuses
her undraped figure.
Debutantes and the young men v. ho
regret they have but one life to give
their high school fraternities have
received her with whispers of admi
ration.
The Rev. t’harles J. Mullaly, presi
dent of the Washington Truth Socie
ty. has appealed to the police for the
picture's removal.
2 Women Accusers
Confront Educator
PITTSBURG, Ma\ 17.—Superin
tendent of Schools S. I. Heeter xvas
confronted with two of his accusers at
a secret meeting of the committee ap
pointed to investigate his moral fit
ness.
The two witnesses are believed . d
| be Margaret Yenny. Heeter* s former
domestic, and M s Alice Lang Wea
sels. Heeler's former stenographer,
who yesterday afternoon filed a signed
affidavit xvith the chairman of th“
committee, in xxhich she accused
j Heetei \xith attempting familiarities
in his office.
AUGUSTA TO AGAIN TRY
FOR COMMISSION FORM
A Util'S
TA
GA
. May
17.
-Friends
of com mi
sMc
Ul g<
nernnv
•nt
here are
planning
to
have
■ anoth
ier
election.
Commissi'
on
gove
rnrnent
lo
st by a
narrow margin i
n aii c
tion held
here last
yea
rl its frj
on*
is believ<
it Will XV'
in t
bis '
time by
fin- ma-
lority.
i White City Park Now Open
TWO MEN LIKELY TO DIE
FROM LIGHTNING SHOCK
MERIDIAN. MISS.. May 17. Rog
ers Ross. 22 years of age. and Henry
Harlow-, aged 35. were seriously In
jured when lightning struck a tret-
under which they and several friends
had sought shelter from tain. A hoise
belonging to a negro was killed out
right. A number of others xvefe se
verely shocked, among them several
boy^. The recovery of both Ross and
Harloxv is considered doubtful.
FLORIDA MONUMENT TO
BE DEDICATED MAY 28
CHATTANOOGA. TENX May 17
The Florida Monument Will be dedi
cated at Chickamauga Park May 2$,
the second day of the Confederate re
union. This \xas agreed upon at a
conference betxveen Senator Pasco
and General E. M. Lane, of the Flor
ida Monument Commission, and the
local committee.
Kina A'fonso 27 To-day.
MADRID. Max 17 King Alfonso
was 27 years old to-day. He cele
brated the dnx by pardoning six n&Qp
condemned to death. 4
Miss Leishman Can
Never Be a Duchess
President to Warn
Cubans to Behave
The largest social events of Sat
urday were arranged for delegates at
tending the Presbyterian Assembly,
now In session in Atlanta.
At the Piedmont Driving Club a
luncheon was given for the repre
sentatives of the women's boards of
the various assemblies. One hundred
and fifty guests were entertained at
an elaborate luncheon, and there was
music by an orchestra. Mrs. John
W. Grant, chairman of the ladies’
ntertainment committee, was the of
ficial hostess, and she was assisted
by the committee members. The af
fair was al fresco.
Following luncheon a reception was
tendered the visitors at Agnes Scott
College. Eighteen hundred guests
were entertained on the lawn, and
punch xvas served from eight floral
bowers.
Mrs. Parker’s Luncheon.
Miss Mary King, who leaves Mon
day to travel abroad, was guest of
honor at a buffet luncheon by Mrs.
William A. Parker Saturday at her
home on North Boulevard. The deco
rations xvere garden flowers and the
■ luncheon table was a mass of pink
peonies. The minor details were in
pink.
Mrs. Parker’s guests- were Misses
Mary King. Helen Rhorer, Myra
Scott, Marie Dinkins. Virginia Bow
man, Helen Brown, Estelle Fort, Mar
garet Traylor, Reble Wilkinson, Jane
Cowles, Elizabeth Black. Sophie Haas,
Lydia McBride. Lawson Hines. Ame
lia Smith. Grace Sims. May Walker,
Jennie Walker, Elizabeth Tuller. Wy-
cHffe Warm, Louise King. Mamie
Kirkpatrick. Helen Dykes. Bertha
Moore, Elizabeth Shippen. Grace
Davis. Ruth Paden amd Jane Robin
son.
For Mrs. Dillard.
Mrs. Alonzo Richardson’s domino
part Friday complimented Mrs.
James Spotswood Dillard, of Lynch
burg. Va. Paul Neyron roses were
decorations and luncheon was served.
Mrs. Erx/vin Entertains.
Mrs. Rush Erwin entertained the
following friends at a box party at
the Atlanta, followed by tea at the
Georgian Terrace Saturday: Mrs. J.
N. McEachern, Mrs. Henry Brittain,
Mrs. Charles Forrest. Mrs. F. J.
Spratling. Mrs. Eugene Boothe. Mrs.
Howard Dobbs and Mrs. John Arnold.
Mrs. Frank Rice to Entertain.
Mrs. Frank Rice will be hostess to
the Woman's Pioneer Society next
Thursday afternoon at her home on
West Peachtree Street. About 75
guests have been asked for the after
noon tea. and the receiving line will
be the officers of the Pioneer Society
and Mrs. Charles Rice. The officers
are Mrs. Joseph H. Morgan. Mrs. An
thony Murphy. Mrs. Frank Rice. Mrs.
William Perrin Nicolson. Mrs. Sid
Holland, Mrs. Joseph Wusthoff and
Mrs. L. B. Wylie.
Silver Tea.
Circle No. 1 of the Young Wom
en’s Missionary Society of the First
Methodist Church will give a silver
tea Tuesday afternoon and evening,
May 20, at the residence of Miss
Hazel Kirk. 119 East Pine Street. The
public is invited.
For Mrs. Saxe.
Mrs. O. C. McCanne will entertain
seven tables of bridge Wednesday for
her guest. Mrs. Francis J. Saxe, of
Seattle, Wash. She will also give a
500 party for her guest, who will be
tendered a bridge Thursday by Mrs.
John Sutton.
For Mr. and Mra. Seydek
Dr. and Mrs. Vassar Woolley will
entertain at tea Thursday afternoon
for Mr. and Mrs. Paul Seydel. of Jer
sey City, who will arrive Monday to
visit them.
U. D. C. to Meet.
A meeting of the Atlanta Chapter,
United Daughters of the Confederacy,
will be held In the Woman's Club
rooms on Thursday afternoon at 3:30
o'clock. The annual reports of offi
cers and chairmen of committees will
be received and a large attendance
is requested. The executive board
will meet at 3 o’clock.
Young People’s Rally.
A rally of young people of all de
nominations will be held Sunday
evening at the Wesley Memorial
Church, when a stereopticon lecture
by Dr. Tuppen will be given, ex
plaining the missionary conference at
Black Mountain. N. C., June 27-
July 6.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
BERLIN. May 17 The proposed
marriage of Miss Nancy Leishman
and the Duke of Croy was discussed
at the annual meeting of the As
sociation of Her German Nobility,
which regulates affairs connected
with the semi-royal houses of the
nation.
The members have unanimously de-
sided that Miss Leishman. the daugh
ter of the American Ambassador, can
never expect to be recognized by a
German court either as a Duchess or
a “Highness."
They declared that no marriage of
a Duke of Croy could be recognized
as regular unless the bride were a
woman "of equal birth.”
Despite this edict, preparations are
making for a wedding in June.
U. B. CHURCHMEN TO
BOYCOTT EXPOSITION
DECATUR. ILL.. May 17.—Because
the Panama - Pacific International
Exposition will be conducted on a
xvide-open" policy the quadrennial
conference of the United Brethren
Church, representing 300.000 church
members In the United States, has
adopted resolutions pledging mem
bers of the church not to attend the
exposition unless the policy is
changed.
Recovery Remarkable.
VALDOSTA Physicians regard as
remarkable the apparently rapid re-
covery of Charles McCranic. A piece
of scmtling. IK feet long, xvas hurled
through his body at a sawmille near
Adel a week ago.
WASHINGTON. May 17.—Presi
dent Wilson is preparing to give
Cuba a broad hint that he expects
it to behave. It was reported that
Dudley Field Malone, Third Assistant
Secretary of State, delegated to at
tend the inauguration of Marco Men-
ocal as President Tuesday, will bear
a message 'calculated to keep down
revolutionary tendencies.
Strong feeling against General
Menocal exists and Liberals made ef
forts to have his election declared il
legal. Since the election last year
the country has* been on the verge
of several revolutionary outbreaks.
Gr.A'IL Members Meet
With Confederates
Atlanta Camp. No. 15P. Confederate
Veterans, will invite members of the G.
A R. and visiting Confederates to a
meeting in the Capitol Monday night.
Many of the older men attending the
Presbyterian Assemblies are known to
have fought on one side or the other and
an invitation will be extended them by
the officials of Atlanta Camp.
DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE
PLANS PUBLICITY BUREAU
NEW YORK. May 17.—Democrats of
the country will be appealed to for small
contributions to maintain a permanent
publicity bureau in Washington. This
was decided at a meeting of the Execu
tive Committee of the Democratic Na
tional Committee Representative A.
Mitchell Palmer, of Pennsylvania, was
elected chairman of the committee.
Dr. Elliott's Lecture.
Dr. John Lovejoy Elliott, of New
York, will deliver the concluding lee-
RESINOL STOPS
ITCHING INSTANTLY
It is a fact that the moment
Resinol Ointment touches itching
skins, the itching stops and heal
ing begins With the aid of Resi
nol Soap, it almost always clears
away all trace of eczema, ring
worm. pimples, blackheads, or
other tormenting, unsightly erup
tion quickly, leaving the skin clear
and healthy.
And the best of it is you need
never hesitate to use Resinol Soap
and Resinol Ointment. There is
nothing in them to injure the
tenderest surface. Resinol is a
doctor's prescription w hich' for 18
years has been used by careful
physicians for all kinds of skin
affections. They prescribe Resi
nol freely, confident that its sooth
ing. healing action is brought
about by medication so bland and
gentle as to be suited to the most
delicate or irritated skin—even of
a tiny baby.
Resinol is sold by practically
every druggist in the United States.
< but you can prove at our expense
w hat it will do for you Write to-
da> to Dept. 22-S. Resinol Balti
more. Md . and we will pend you
by parcel poet a liberal trial of
Resinol Dintment and Resinol
Soap.
ture of a series on ethical culture
whlch has been given this winter in
Atlanta, under the sponsorship of an
organization of 52 prominent men and
women, next Thursday evening at
Gable Hall on “The Driving Power of
Social Discontent.'’ The lecturer is
an authority on his subject, being
head-worker of the Hudson Guild, one
of New York’s most influential social
settlements, and an associate of Dr.
Felix Adler in the Nexv York Society
for Ethical Culture. The lecture here
will be free.
Mrs. Smith Entertains.
Mrs. Paul Smith entertained the
Universalist Church members at a
garden party Wednesday evening, be
ing assisted by Mrs. G. Perry,'Mrs. S.
Wilby. Mr- A. Bates. Mrs. F. W.
Nighbert and Mrs. J. C. Stanford.
Mrs. Cooper Hostess.
Mrs. John Cooper will entertain at
dinner at the East Lake Country Club
Saturday evening for Miss Lillian
Beattey. of Columbus, Ohio, who is
the guest of Mrs. Henry Troutman.
Miss Black Hostess.
Miss Louise Black entertained 12
guests informally at bridge Friday
evening at her home on Spring Street
in honor of Mrs*. Bates Block’s guests.
Miss Lorna Carr, of St. Louis, and
Miss Caroline Scott, of Arkansas.
To Mrs. Bannen.
Miss* Kathryn Wilson gave a mati
nee party at the Forsyth Saturday
afternoon Tor Mrs. J. B. Bannen. of
Winona. Minn., who came Wednesday
to he the guest of Miss Pearl Plitt.
Training School Exercises.
The graduating class of the Wesley
Memorial Hospital Training School
will hold their graduating exercises
the evening of May 23 at the Wesley
Memorial Church.
Tea for Visitors.
Mrs. Willis B. Parks and Miss Aline
Parks will give a tea Tuesday aft
ernoon for their guests. Mrs. J. F.
John, of North Carolina, and Miss
Louise Dowmer. of Hopkinsville, Ky.
Convention in Athens.
A convention of the women of the
Episcopal Church in the Diocese of
Atlanta*- will meet in Athens next
week in connection with the annual
council. The program will open Wed
nesday morning, May 28, at 9 o'clock
with an address by Bishop C. K. Nel
son and the annual address of the
president. Mrs. Emma LeConte Fur
man. of Macon. Memorial resolutions
will be read by Mrs. Charles L. Pet-
tigrew, of Atlanta, and Miss Rosa
Woodberry. secretary. Mrs. Nell
Cooper Frederick, treasurer, will make
the annual reports. Others on the
program are Mrs. Mallory Taylor and
Miss Mary Pearson.
Rev. C. E. Wheat will conduct ser
vices Thursday. Mrs. Frank D. Hol
land will talk on church work among
negroes. Mrs. Nellie Peters Black
will have an article on the forward
work in the Far East.
A NOTRE DAME LADY'S APPEAL
To all knowing sufferers of rheuma
tism. whether muscular or of the 1
joints, sciatica, lumbago, backache,
pains in the kidneys or neuralgia
pains, to write to her for a home
treatment which has repeatedly cured
all of those tortures. She feels it her
duty to send it to all sufferers FREE.
You cure yourself at home as thou
sands will testify—no change of cli
mate being necessary. This simple
discovery banishes uric acid from the
blood, loosens the stiffened joints,
purifies the blood and brightens the
eyes, giving elasticity and tone to the
whole system. If the above interests
you. for proof address Mrs. M. Sum
mers, Box R, Notre Dame, Ind.
NO WASTE ,r your co *'
burns to a
fine ash. with no clinkers or
rocks left in the grate, you are
burning good coal. Use our
■tandard coal and you will be
pleased at results. It’s use saves
money, time and worry—2 and 2
make 4. We have a yard near
you and guarantee prompt de
livery.
Randall Bros,
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Marietta street and North Avenue,
both phones 376; South Boulevard
?. e , ors1a railroad, Bell phone
538. Atlanta 303: McDaniel street
and Southern railroad. Bell Main
354 Atlanta 821; 64 Krogg street.
Bell Ivy 4165, Atlanta, 706; 152
South Pryor street, both phones
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