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VOL. XI. NO. 24ti.
ATLANTA, GA.. MONDAY, MAY 19, 1913.
2 CENTS EVER YWHERE
LAWYER FELDER SAYS GREAT MYSTERY
WILL BE CLEARED IN A FEW HOURS
10 SOLVE
“I'm a Trust,” Caruso
Confides to World
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
PARIS, May 19.—Caruao is a famil
iar Ofure on the boulevards these af
ternoons, sitting out on the cafe ter
races chatting with friends, obligingly
signing autographs and making cari
catures for strangers recognizing him.
Being asked if he was to sing in
Pari* this spring, he quickly put his
fingers over his lips as a "hush!” sign,
and whispered:
"1 don’t believe so. I’ve an impre
sario who has monopolized and syn
dicated me—made me into a trust, in
fact—so I’ve no liberty at all. He
doesn’t let people hear me for noth
ing. the scoundrel, much as I’d love
to sing for anybody who'd really like
to hear me.”
J. WYLIE SMITH'S OWN
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Tells a Tale of Many Thrilling Adventures
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He Fought Two Years for His Freedom
!
Famous Detective Expected to
Arrive From Europe and Start
Work Before June 1.
STARTLING NEW EVIDENCE
IS REPORTED DISCOVERED
Important Revelation Looked For
To-day—Search Being Pushed
With Renewed Vigor.
Colonel Thrftnas B. Felder an-
nounced Monday morning that he had
received word from William J. Burns
that he would arrive in America be
fore June 1 and would probably he on
the scene of the Phagan slaying be
fore that date.
Colonel Felder said the great de
tective had taken an unusual interest
1n the Phagan mystery and he would
not be surprised to hear from him in
America any day soon.
"Rums is mor* interested in this
case than I have known him to he ii* j
another.” said Colonel Felder. ‘T am
advised that he will hasten his re- j
turn from Europe on this account and
be in America some days before June
1. He will, of course, come direct to
Atlanta.
“The meantime developments since
his investigator has been here are
more than satisfactory. The Burns
detective convinced Mr. Dorsey Sun
day afternoon that he had touched
upon heretofore overlooked evidence
of importance, and in bis report to
day we expect valuable information."
Search Grows More Active.
With investigation into the mystery
more active Monday than it hag been
at any time during the last two weeks,
the Solicitor was hopeful that impor
tant developments would be made
during the day.
The special representative of the
Burns agency was reported to have
.‘•truck upon an important and hereto
fore overlooked clew that throws a
new light on the case. He will make
a definite report at 11 o’clock this
morning at the office of the Solicitor,
when it is not unlikely some an
nouncement will be made.
Colonel Felder, the Burns detective
case for several hours Sunday at the
home of Colonel Felder. The confer-
and Solicitor Dorsey discussed the
ence was to acquaint the Burns man
with the progress in the case by the
other detectives and to obviate the
necessity of personal examination of
a number of witnesses.
Want Case for Grand Jury.
No announcement would be male
following the conference, but the So
licitor was hopeful that developments
this week would enable him to pre
sent the case to the Grand Jury Fri
day in clear and concise form.
New Comet Pale
It Has No Tail
('A M BRIDGE. May 19 The
Schaumasse comet, the latest visitor
from the inter-stellar regions. Is
rather disappointing to the ordinary
star gazer, according to a report of
observations received in the Harvard
observatory. Prof. Barnard, of the
Yerfces Observatory at Hake Geneva,
Wis., has been unable to find any
semblance of the usual fiery append
age. commonly known as a tail. The
comet's illuminating powers have
reached only the tenth magnitude.
Astronomers hope the comet’s bril
liancy will increase in the next few
weeks.
La Follette Halts
1916 Boom for Him
MADISON. WIS.. May 19.—It de
velops that the State Republican love
feast at Madison was prevented from
becoming a formal opening of Sena
tor La Follette'# candidacy for Pres
ident in* 1916 by a personal message
from the Senator saying that he was
not ready for any such move at this
time.
It developed also that there have
been conferences between the La
Follette leaders and their former
foes, the followers of Senator Spoon
er, looking to a union against the
Bull Moose.
May Stop French
Papers in Alsace
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
BERLIN, May 19.—With a view to
preventing the growth of anti-German
feeling in Alsace-Lorraine the Fed
eral Council of the German Empire
is considering exceptional measures
to be adopted.
One of them is aimed at newspapers
in the French language, the circula
tion of which in the annexed provinces
may be prohibited by order of the
Governor if he considers them anti-
German in sentiment and the other
intends to give to the Governor the
power to suppress any society which
he regards subversive to public order.
T. B. FELDER, THE LAWYER WHO IS RESPONSIBLE
FOR THE WORK OF THE BURNS DETECTIVE, SAYS SUR
PRISING PROGRESS HAS BEEN MADE IN THE PHAGAN
CASE, AND HE BELIEVES THE MYSTERY WILL BE
CLEARED IN A FEW HOURS.
“THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT THE SLAYER WILL
SOON BE FOUND,” MR. FELDER SAID.
JUNTA IS FOUND IN PARIS PLANNING
OVERTHROW OF HUERTA GOVERNMENT
PARIS, MAY 19.—A STRONG AND WELL ORGAN
IZED JUNTA HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED HERE TO EFFECT
THE OVERTHROW OF THE HUERTA GOVRNMENT IN
MEXICO. THE INSURRECTIONARY FORCES ARE WELL
SUPPLIED WITH FUNDS. WHICH ARE REPORTED TO
COME FROM THE FAMILY OF FRANCSCO I. MADERO. JR.,
FORMERLY PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC.
Bryan Reiterates
Grape Juice Pledge
WASHINGTON, May 19.—Secre
tary of State Bryan reiterated his
temperance pledge to a troop of Boy
Scouts who presented him with an
engrossed copy of a resolution in
dorsing his action in “banishing
strong drink” from state functions.
He assured his little visitors that
so far as he was concerned “grape
juice diplomacy” had come to stay.
The Sunday American goes every
where all over the South. If you have
anything to sell The Sunday Amer
ican is “The Market Place of the
South.” The Sunday American is the
best advertising medium.
THE MAN OF MYSTERY
EXPLAINED!
On page 3 of this edition appears the first in
stallment of a great baseball serial by A. H. C.
Mitchell.
It is called “The Triple Tie.”
It is a solution of The Georgian’s mystery pic
ture which has caused so much comment in the past
three weeks.
It is an enthralling story.
The scenes are laid in Atlanta. Many of the
characters are real Atlantans.
By J. WYLIE SMITH.
(The refugee president of the de
funct Commercial Loan and Dis
count Company, who, after evad
ing extradition during two years
of service in the msurrecto army
of General Orozco, in Mexico, re
turned to Atlanta to stand trial
because he is dying with tubercu
losis—a phantom of his former
self.)
I have decided to tell my story ex
clusively through The Georgian—and
what a story it is!
It is brimful of intrigue and treach
ery, battle and blood, and the horror
of slow, certain death. As I lie on
my cot in the hospital quarter of
the Tower It seems* too hellish for a
human being to have endured such
experience on 'earth. I would that I
could close mv lip;? In silence and pass
into forgetfulness.
.Then I think of the days when I
was strong in heart and hand. None
of the old knights enjoyed such ad
ventures. About it all there was a
tinge of romance. A woman, who was
fair to look upon reached out a help
ing hand and saved me once. A faith
ful dog kept me from being cut into
ribbons. I have know-n friendship
that would have warmed the heart
of the most fiendish devil. 1 have felt
the inspiring triumph over unscrupu
lous foes.
But now I am penniless and dying.
My wife, the little woman whom I
love so dearly and who has stood by
me so loyally, is working in San An
tonio as a took to support herself
and my little six-year-old girl I
saw the child as 1 came, through; the
mother was too ill to come to the
train.
God, how I would love to go and
live with them. But I’ll never livi
to pay the penalty for my offense.
Death before me is too certain. The
terror of it all is their struggle to sur
vive their awful poverty. But to
my story.
1*11 begin with the day I realized
my business was doomed to collapse
1 left Atlanta. I will tell ale my
erienees-—experiences that were
thrilling hut ended in a horror such
as only Edgar Allen' Poe could pic
ture.
I Left With Little Money.
I left Atlant/ at 2 o’clock on the
afternoon of June 14. 1911, with an
amount of money that was a mere
bagatelle—s*ome folks believed and
still believe that I have had a large
amount of cash hid away somewhere,
and it has caused me trouble more
than once—I was obliged to depend
on friends to get from place to place.
I spent the first night at LaGrange,
stopped at Talladega. Ala.. Meridian.
Jackson. Clarkesville and Lula. Miss.
In Helena. Ark.. I wrote to my brother,
Berry Smith, and decided to wait for
an answer. I had not stopped long
enough for a newspaper to catch me
and I did not know what the situation
in Atlanta was. My brother’s letter
enlightened me as to the anger of
my former associates and I hit the
trail again.
At Tucumori, New Mexico, I wrote
and waited for another letter from
home. I learned they were after mi
and I wasted no time getting across
the border.
I Reach Mexico.
(>n July 4 I arrived in Chihuahua, a
city of some 35,000 people in tht State
of Chihuahua. This event and an
other on the same day the following
year have made July 4 a more im
portant day to me than the anniver
sary of American independence. It
was the beginning of freedom then
and the next year, not only for me, but
through me for others.
I had no money and at first I
strolled the streets bewildered and
despondent. Then I ypied a hotel,
the Robertson House. I have always
been able to talk, no matter how di
lapidated or downcast I was. So I
brushed into the hotel with as confi
dent an air as I could assume.
A dark, keen-eyed youth was lean
ing over the desk. Well, before I
went to bed that night I was calling
him "Honolulu George.” He took
me into his room and fed me at his
Continued on Page 2, Column 4.
PHILADELPHIA, May 19.—Miss
Kathleen Page, daughter of William
Hines Page, American Ambassador to
England, admitted at Pembrooke
Hall. Bryn Mawr, that she was look
ing forward with interest to her visit
next month to the Court of S f .
James.
"I suppose we will do some enter
taining.” she said, 'but father is go
ing to be a diplomat, not a society
man."
When ask,ed if she thought she
might become so attached to England
that she would want to make her
home there and perhaps marry an
Englishman, she replied:
"I haven’t had time to think of
marriage, but w^hen I do the man
must be an American, and just half
as good as father.”
“Little Minister" to
Be Made Into Opera
oecial Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, May 19.—Alice Nielsen,
who will appear in the "Secret of
Suzanne” at its opening performance
at Covent Garden, says all arrange
ments have been completed for Woiff
Ferrar to make J. M. Barrie's ''Lit
tle Minister” Into an opera. She ex
pects that it will 1 e finished in a
year, and its title will be "Lady Bao-
by.”
The libretto will he In English.
M me. Nielsen hopes that it will
he produced at the Metropolitan Op
era House in New York If this can
not be arranged she intends to pro
duce It herself.
Bishop Keeley at Columbus.
COLUMBUS.— Bishop Keeley. of
the Savannafi diocese of the Catholic
Church, was in Columbus Sunday and
conducted the 10-o'clock mass and
confirmed a class in the afternoon at
5 o'clock. ^
Carmichael. All escaped without a
scratch, except Mr. and Mrs. Car
michael, who were slightly bruised,
but badly shocked.
Winter Alfriend and Hughes Rob
erts came up in a machine just after
the accident happened. Mr. Alfriend
took Mrs. Carmichael In his machine
and rushed her to her home. 645
Edgewood Avenue, Jnman Park.
The Hirsch car was badly dam
aged.
Hirsch Tells of Crash.
The accident occurred about 5:30
o’clock as the party were riding Into
town over the beautiful East Lake
Road. Mr. Hirsch told the story of
the accident to a Georgian reporter
as follows:
"There is a little house and an em
bankment at the East Lake approach
to the crossing and I could not see. I
had slowed my machine down to a
walking pace and listened for a train
but could hear none.
"Just as we came upon the track
the iron monster was upon us. I do
not know at what rate it thundered
up. but It looked as big as all the
trains I have ever t*een combined into
one.
"We were almost on the track. I
shoved on my emergency and turned
my car as much as I could in the di
rection the train was going.
No Time to Leap.
"That was all that saved us. In
stead of absolutely demolishing us
the train sideswiped us. We all tried
to jump, but did not have time we
were hurled out.
“Except for the shock none of us
were hurt to amount to anything.”
Mr. Hirsch is a member of the firm
of Hirsch & Spits Manufacturing
Company. Mr. Carmichael is the
manager of the furniture department
of M. RiLh 6c Bros. Co,
Story That Dr. Stone’s Nomination
\Y as Planned Long in Advance,
Vigorously Denied—Wilson Warns
Presbyterians That Interest in Re
ligious Life Must Be Revived.
Accusations tliat the election of Dr. John Timothy Stone as
Moderator of the Northern Assembly was a “frame-up,” and, in
stead of being a non-political action, was one of the most deep-
j laid schemes ever perpetrated on a General Assembly, has aroused
great indignation among the friends of Dr. Stone, and were vig
orously denied Monday.
To the charges that six men
were in conference the night be
fore the election with a view to
paving the way for Dr. Stone's
election, the adherents of the
new Moderator hotly reply that
such was not the case.
The burden of the charges of con
spiracy rest chiefly upon the Rev.
William R. King, of Monmouth, 11!.,
who placed Dr. Stone's name in nom
ination. and Mr. Ellis, editor of The
Continent, who seconded the proposal.
Reply in Detail,
approach me n )r
TAKES UP
Efi BOND ISSUE
Special Committee To Be Named
to Report on Plan for Improve
ments, Says Thomson.
Dr. Stonfe to
"Mr. Ellis did not
communicate with me in any way .is
to the nomination of Dr. Stone.” de
flated Dr. King in answering the
charges, "and in so far as I am aware
had no Inkling of my intention. As -t
matter of fact. I had not the pleasure
of Mr. Ellis' acquaintance until the
day after the election.”
I)r. Stotne denied the rumors and
said he would reply in detail in the
Assembly.
With the opening of Monday’s ses
sions at the three Assemblies, muen
important work will be taken up. The
general conversation regarding the
speech of Dr. Warren H. Wilson be
fore the Country Life meeting Sun
day afternoon has created a buzz of
discussion among the members of th*
conventions, and in all probability
some action toward offsetting the
general abandonment of churches
throughout the United States, as
averred by Mr. Wilson, will be recom
mended.
Now Aged 100, Has
Never Worn a Hat
SOMERSET. PA. May 19. Mrs.
Mattie Crlse, who became 100 years
old yesterday, received the well wish
es of over 1,500 residents of this coun
try' in her home, ten miles from here.
For 100 years Mrs. Crlse lived in
the same place and in that time
never saw a railroad train, street car
or telephone. She never wore a
bat, a Knitted hood taking place.
Councilman Albert Thomson Monday
said Council would approve his resolu
tion creating a special committee to
consider a sewer and park bond issue.
Reevral Councilmen have shown inter
est in his plan for municipal •improve
ments. The object of the committee is
to have a detailed report on the advisa
bility of a bond Issue.
Councilman Thomson's idea is that If
bond money can be obtained to complete
the sewer system outlined and to ex
tend the park system, the city’s nor
mal income will be sufficient to carry
on street improvements and other muni
cipal works.
Among important matters presented
to Council Monday afternoon will be
Mayor Woodward’s veto message on the
fire probe committee’s report, published
in full in The Sunday American.
The recommendation of the streets
committee that $30,000 be apportioned
for the regrading of Whitehall Street
will be read and referred to the finance
committee.
Councilman Claude L. Ashley will de
mand a report from the police commit
tee on his race 'segregation ordinance.
It is charged that the police committee
wants to kill this ordinance by pigeon
holing it A bitter fight will develop If
its adoption is insisted on. not only ne
groes being opposed to it, but many
influential white men. who own houses
rented to negroes.
The new dirt ordinance also will be
presented. Council Claude L. Ashley
championing it and Alderman James W.
Maddox, a grading contractor, leading
rhf* opposition The present dirt law
has proved ineffective.
If you have anything to sell adver
tise in The Sunday American. Lar
gest circulation of any Sunday newt-
paper in the South. 4 .