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VOL. XI. NO. 247.
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, MAY 20. 1913.
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5 THRASHED
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Well Known Lawyer Whips One
After Another in Dispute
Over Witness.
HYSTERICAL WOMEN FIGHT
TO ESCAPE FROM CORRIDOR
Deputy Sheriffs Part Contestants
After Two-Minute Battle.
Victory Ready for More.
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H enry m. flagler,
great railroad builder,
who is regarded as the man
who opened Florida to the
world.
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Burton Smith, well-known attor
ney and brother of Senator Hoke
Smith, on Tuesday afternoon thrashed
five men who objected to him con
versing in the corridors of the court
rooms in the Thrower building with
a woman witness in the famous
Crawford will case.
Two of the men, C. W. Walton, of
Buckhead, and W. H. Byrd, 41 West
Twelfth Street, were badly beaten
up. both showing black eyes and con
tusions on their faces where Smith
struck them. The other three men
also were given severe drubbings be
fore friends and polieemeh separated
the belligerents.
According to eyewitnesses of the
fight, Attorney Smith had .stopped
Mrs. Cash as she passed through the
corridors of the building and was
talking to her. Walton, it is claimed,
approached and said:
Walton Objects to Action.
“Here, you; don’t talk to that wo-
I man!”
“What do you care?” asked Smith.
I “Do you own her?”
‘Yes, I do,” answered Walton, and,
K it is said, raised his arm as though
k intending to strike the attorney.,
Walton is a powerfully built man,
K fully as large as the attorney. Hardly
jhad the words left his mouth, how-
■ ever, when Attorney Smith lunged
■ forward and struck Walton squarely
■ on the point of the jaw. Walton fell
■ limply to the floor, and Byrd rushed
m into the fry. He was met with a
^mstiff right arm jolt from Mr. Smith
Bland was knocked down for the count.
Three Men Enter Fray.
Then three men who had entered
®the court house with Walton and
By rd, and who were with them when
th< attorney knocked them down,
■ ‘Heaped at Smith. The attorney met
' them, and knocked them down as fast
X*as they came at him. One of them he
■knocked down twice, while one blow
Jmsufficed to put the other two hors
Hfde combat.
t Before the five men could arise
Band rush the attorney, deputy sher-
k iffs. policemen and friends of the at-
^Htorney rushed between them and pfe-
■vented further hostilities. Included
Bin the rescue party were Deputy
■Sheriffs John S. Owens, Dave Goodlin,
■Newton Garner and Attorneys Reu-
■ben Arnold and Colonel James An-
Bderson.
| Attorney Smith’s hand was bleed-
Ring from the force of the blows he
Rhad struck the five men, and on one
|lof his knuckles was a wound from
Bone of his opponent's teeth. His
[• friends started to take him out of
la the building, and as they passed Wal
loon,' the latter began getting up from
1 the floor.
Wanted to Continue Bout.
"I’m ready for you again,” he re-
! marked.
Mr. Smith tried to brehk away from
F his friends and expressed a desire to
i again knock Walton down, but he was
l restrained and went to his office,
I where physicians dressed his wounds.
I Walton and Byrd and the other three
I men left the building immediately.
The fight lasted about two minutes.
Several women who were in the
I corridor near the belligerents,
I became hysterical and fairly fought
I their way into the court room. Deputy
I sheriffs were called to quiet the ex-
I citement.
Mrs. Cash Tells Story.
The woman over whom the fight
[ started was Mrs. Cora Cash, of Buck-
head. According to Mrs. Cash, she
[ and her daughter, Mrs. Violet White-
l mire, were sitting on a bench near the
entrance to the court room, when At
torney Smith came up and began
F talking to Mrs. Whitmire, an attrac
tive young womifh.
Then. Mrs.. Cash says. Walton am
Byrd came up and demanded that
Smith stop talking to the young wom
an. Smith retaliated with his ques
tion as to the ownership of the worn-
i an, and the fight followed.
Woods Favored for
4th Circuit Bench
WASHINGTON, May 20.—The Sen
ate Committee on Judiciary has
ordered favorably reported the nom
ination of C. A. Woods, of Charleston,
S. C., to be Judge in the Fourth Judic
ial Circuit and Judge Edward K.
Campbell, of Birmingham, Ala., to be
chief justice of the Court of Claims.
A sharp fight was made against
Woods, charges having been filed
against him alleging he was a mem
ber of a political ring in South Caro
lina. **
Jacksonville to Get
‘Jedge Briles' Justice
That he might gather pointers on
how to conduct the police court in
Jacksonville, of which he will assume
<*harge June 1, Judge W. W. Ander
son sat through the session of Re
corder Broyles’ court Monday an in
tensely interested spectator of the
proceedings.
Judge Anderson expressed himself
as greatly pleased with Judge Broyles’
methods and his determination to
enforce law.
Heaviest Woman Ill
In Chicago Hospital
CHICAGO, May 20.— Mai*y Perry,
said to be the heaviest woman in the
world, w*as seriously ill to-day at the
County Hospital and fear was ex
pressed that she would not recover.
She was brought to the hospital
rom an amusement park on s a spe
cially constructed stretcher. She
weighs nearly 600 pounds.
Oapitol Dictographs
Alarm Congressmen
WASHINGTON, May 20.—Congress
men holding a meeting in. one of the
committee rooms at the Capitol were
alarmed when they were informed that
each of the four committee rooms con
tains a dictograph.
The instruments were installed for
convenience in calling clerks.
BIG BARBECUE GIVEN"
FOR JUDGES AT ROME
ROME. GA„ May 20.—Twenty-five
Georgia lambs, 100 chickens and 50
gallons of Brunswick stew were
served at an old-fashioned barbecue
given to-day by Wright Willingham
at his home, in honor of Judge Wil
liam T. Newman. Judge Moses
Wright and Federal and Superior
Gourt officials. There were 500 per
sons in attendance.
GEORGIA IS REPRESENTED
AT POSTERS’ CONVENTION
MOBILE. ALA., May 20.—The sec
ond day's session of the Southern
Foster Advertising Association is he
ing held at the club house on Dog
River, where officers will be elected
Georgia iv represented by .1. H. Shipp
Cordele; F. H. Powers. Macon; Will
J. Perry, Xevvnan. M. T. Price, Sa
vannah, and Julius DeGive and Ros-
coe C. Massengale, Atlanta.
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End Comes to Builder of Over-
the-Sea Railroad at His
Home in Florida.
Solicitor General Dorsey Declares
All Evidence Will Go to the
Grand Jury Friday.
Connecticut To Be
Taft's Official Home
BEGAN LIFE AS CLERK
IN A GROCERY STORE
First Fortune Swept Away by
Poor Investment, He Left
$100,000,000 Estate.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgi a—Local showers
Tuesday and Wednesday.
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA., May
20.—Henry M. Flagler, wealthy rail
road builder and owner, died here to
day.
Mr. Flagler had been sick for three
months, although it was thought sev
eral weeks ago that he would recover
Mr. and Mrs. Flagler came here In
February. At that time he was suf
fering from excessive nervousness. A
general, breakdown followed.
Mr. Flagler, one of America’s fore
most financial giants, and known in
the South as the "King of Florida,”
was horn in a little village just south
of Rochester, N. Y.. In 1850. His fa
ther was pastor of the village church,
and at the age of 14 Henry decided
that his mother and sister could get
along more comfortably if he ceased
to be one of the family burden.
Goes Out to Seek Fortune.
So he started from home, with a
few dollars in his pocket, and grad
ually worked his way westward to
Republic, Ohio, where he went to
work in a country store for $5 per
month and board.
Strict economy soon enabled voting
Flagler to open a grain business In
Bellevue, Ohio. And here began a lit
tle business which ultimately result
ed in the formation of the greatest
corporation in the world.
Mr. Flagler used to ship his car
loads of grain to Cleveland, where it
was sold for him by a young com
mission merchant named John D.
Rockefeller.
Loses All in Salt Venture.
After amassing a fortune of $50,000
in Bellevue, he went to Saginaw,
Mich., and made an unsuccessful ven
ture in the salt business, losing every
dollar of his money. With the aid of
money furnished by his wife’s rela
tives, he moved to Cleveland and re
entered the grain business. He re
newed his acquaintance with John D.
and William Rockefeller, who were at
that time confining their efforts to the
oil refining business. He became in
terested in the brothers’ new venture
and in 1867, with the aid of more
money from his wife’s relatives, he
entered into a $100,000 partnership
with the Rockefellers and Samuel
Andrews.
Wife Becomes Insane.
Mr. Flagler’s second marriage oc
curred in 1883. and in the next ten
years his fortune increased by leaps
and hounds. His wife became the
mistress of a line mansion on Fifth
Avenue. New York, as well as a pala
tial country home on Long Island and
in Florida, and to all outward ap
pearances Henry M. flagler was the
happiest man in the world. Then a
terrible misfortune came into his life.
His wife's mind became unbalanced.
The grief-stricken man kept the awful
truth hidden as long as possible. He
paid thousands and thousands of dol
lars to alienists in the hope of re
storing her mentality, but her condi
tion gradually grew worse. When, in
1899, the unfortunate woman finally
became unmanageable, the Standard
Oil magnate was forced to have his
wife declared legally insane.
Divorces Insane Wife.
The following year a law' was
passed by the Florida Legislature,
whereby permanent Insanity was
made ample grounds for a divorce. It
was alleged at the time that this law
was passed for the benefit of Mr.
Flagler, who had come to be a power
in Florida as a result of his vast
railroad and hotel enterprises.
He devoted a great deal of his
money and energy toward the up
building of the State of Florida, and
making the southeastern peninsula
one of the greatest winter resorts
in the world. His greatest work in
this connection was the completion
recently of the extension of the Flor
ida East Coast Railway from
Knights’ Key to Key West, which is
known as the “railroad over the sea.”
This stretch of track is 156 miles
in length and connects the chain of
islands between the mainland and
Key West. Its construction was one
of the greatest engineering feats of
the present age. as it is built almost
entirely over water.
Mr. Flagler's fortune was esti
mated at $100,000,000,
THINKS MORE ARRESTS
WILL MAKE NO CHANGE
Mrs. Jane Carr Begs Women to
Help Solve Mystery—Burns
Agent on New Trail.
Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey
announced Tuesd:^’ morning that the
States case against Leo M. Frank
and Newt Lee in connection with the
Phagan murder, would go to the
Grand Jury Friday of this week. He
said that he could anticipate no new
arrest or development that would
make it necessary to change this plan.
Mrs. Jane F. Carr, 251 Ponce De
Leon Avenue, in an open letter, asked
•every w£oman in Atlanta to con
tribute to the fund to employ the
Burns detective and Mr. Burns him
self to work in the Phagan investi
gation. She appealed to women of
every walk in life to give according
to their means.
“What if Mary Phagan were your
child?” was the subject of her letter.
Felder Asks for Funds.
The Burns fund, after going above
the $2,000 mark, -lacked considerably.
Colonel Thomas B. Felder said this
sum wmuld not be sufficient if it be
came necessary for the Burns men to
NEW HAVEN. CONN., May 2D.—
Former President Taft is preparing to
transfer his voting residence from
Ohio to Connecticut. He will have his
name put on the list of “voters to b*
made.” and In September the board
for admitting voters will pasy on his
qualifications, after an examination
which will include the applicant’s
reading, as usual, of any section of
the Constitution of the United States
that the board may select.
As President Taft must live in the
State one year before he can vote, he
will r>ot be eligible for the city elec
tion in the fall, but will be qualified
for tye State election in 1914.
Roosevelt's Double
Searching for Wife
MADISON. W1S., May 20.—Albert
Monroe Graves, who describes him
self as Colonel Roosevelt’s double, ex
cept that his teeth are more human
than Roosevelt’s, has written to Sec
retary of State Donald, asking that a
wife be found for him. Graves lives
in Alberta, Canada.
In lfis letter to the Secretary of
State he said:
"I can lick Roosevelt at anything.
I never failed to carry my own pre
cinct and I was never licked by a
Democrat.”
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HERESY FIGHT STORMY
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Controversy Stirs Assembly
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School Head Answers Critics
Dr. Francis
Brown,
President
Union
Theological
Seminary,
who vig
orously
defended
the doctrinal
views of
his college.
FIANCE STRICKEN ON
WEDDING EVE IS DEAD
make an exhaustive investigation, and
asked the people to contribute liber
ally to the end that Atlanta’s great
est mystery be satisfactorily cleared.
C. W. Tobie, chief of the Burns'
criminal investigation department,
was even more optimistic Tuesday
morning than he was Monday that
the Phagan mystery would be cleared
to the satisfaction of Atlanta.
"Another day on the scene has only
convinced me that the crime is far
from the most baffling the Burns de
tectives have solved,” he said at his
hotel Tuesday morning. "I am not
at liberty to make public the result of
my investigation, but we have cer
tainly made progress."
Search for Phono Girl.
City detectives are searching for
a telephone girl who was reported to
have heard a conversation over the
telephone the night of the murder
between two persons said to he at
taches of the pencil factory.
Chief of Detectives Newport Lan-
ford said that he had learned from
a responsible source of a sw itchboard
operator who was reported to have
overheard a conversation that would
be of the greatest importance in the
Phagan case. He would not say
whether he had learned the identity
of the girl.
A corps of department detectives
were detailed to the search that will
take in every private branch ex
change in Atlanta.
Tobie Follows New Lead.
Colonel Felder said that he had
New Dalton Business House.
DALTON.—Ground has been broken
for a three-story brick building to be
erected by L. H. Crawford on North
Hamilton Street. The first and second
floors will be used for business pur
poses and the third floor by the Dal
ton Lodge of Odd Fellows.
Continued on Page 3, Column 7,
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Stricken on the eve of his wedding
day, R. W. Sutton, 25 years old, of 419
Washington Street, is dead at the
Grady Hospital—a victim of menin
gitis. His bride-to-be, Miss Lillian
A. Tutwiler, 300 South Pryor Street,
is prostrated and his aged mother.
Mrs. T, B. Sutton, added this new
sorrow to that cavt over her by the
death of her husband a month ago.
Although hut a few doors down the
corridor from her son, Mrs. Sutton,
who is paralyzed and unable to move,
has not been Informed of her son’s
demise. Physicians feared that this
se< ond shock would prove fatal to her.
The younger Sutton’s death oc
curred at 2 o’clock Tuesday morning.
It was the culmination of a ir’troke of
meningitis the day before he was to
have married Miss Tutwiler, three
weeks ago. With the same affliction
his father had died.
Fiancee Became His Nurse.
Following his removal to the hos
pital, his fiancee became his nurse.
During the three weeks of anxiety
which came, when death was ever
present and physicians shook their
heads in forebodings, the young couple
did not despair. Miss Tutwiler kept
her newly-made wedding gown in
readiness for the wedding which ah'*
was sure would come.
In his conscious moments the young
bridegroom-to-be talked constantly of
j the happiness that lay In store for
them when he got well. Nurses and
attendants at the hospital heard wit-
aching hearts the plans for the future
that the couple made as during the
long days and nights they sat holding
handfk
Mr. Sutton was alone w'hen death
came. Miss Tutwiler, exhausted and
worn out by her constant vigil at the
bedside of her lover, was prostrated
Monday when told by physicians that
here was no hope. She visited Sut
ton for tlie last time late Monday af
ternoon, when already death was at
the door. She was the last person Mr.
Sutton recognized.
Recognized Her While Dying.
When she came into his room and
laid her hand on the wasted arm, the
eyes that were fast closing in the
last sleep lighted up. Choking with
sobs, the two hade each other good
bye, and Miss Tutwiler, prostrated by
her sorrow, was taken to her home.
After Miss Tutwiler left his room
Sutton sank rapidly, and soon re
lapsed Into a coma from w'hch he
never awakened. Death came to his
relief a few hours later. The young
man’s father, T. B. Sutton, died re
cently of the same disease.
Mr. Sutton and Miss Tutwiler had
planned to he married on April 23.
Arrangements had been made for the
wedding, the minister had been en
gaged, and the friends of the* happy
couple had been Invited. On April
22 Mr. Sutton suddenly was taken
ill. Thinking the illness soon would
pass, no halt was made In the plans
for the w'eddirig. On the morning of
April 23 Mr. Sutton was suffering In
tense pain and a physician was called.
In the afternoon of the same day
be diagnosed the trouble as menin
gitis, and ordered the young man tak
en to Grady Hospital.
Girl Plans for Wedding.
The friends of the young people
were notified of the illness of Mr.
Sutton, and the wedding was post
poned. Confident that her lover soon
w*mld recover from his illness, Miss
Tutwiler fully completed the final
details of her trousseau.
But the wedding gown was never to
he worn, and to-day it lies unfolded,
emphasizing the grief of the young
woman. Miss Tutwiler was hysteri
cal with grief when she learned of
her fiance's death, and on Tuesday
morning was prostrated at her home.
During the day her family became
alarmed, and physicians were called.
Her condition irf considered serious.
.Moderator Struggles to
Keep Order as Dis
cussion Over Union
College C barges
Grows Bitter.
Vigorous Defense of In
stitution Made by Dr.
Francis Brown; Re
cess Taken to End
Uproar.
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Stormy outbursts, silenced by the
active gavel of Moderator Stone, only
to break out afresh, marked the bitter
Union Theological Seminary contro
versy on the floor of the Northern
Presbyterian Assembly Tuesday fore
noon.
Half a dozen men were on their
feet simultaneously, clamoring for
recognition by the chair. Toward the
close of the forenoon session, the dis
cussion was Involved In a tangle of
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parliamentary procedure, from which
relief was obtained only by the recess
taken until the afternoon.
Mr. Flagler died at 10 o'clock. The
end was peaceful. To those at the
bedside it seemed that the sick man
died in his sleep. Among those in the
death chamber were Mrs. Flagler and
Mrs. Harry Harkness Flagler.
The body will be placed in the mau
soleum In the Flagler plot at St. Au
gustine. The date of the funeral
probably will not be fixed until to
night.
The Intense feeling of the commis
sioners cropped out in many different
ways, and the moderator was able to
maintain a semblance of order only
with the greatest difficulty.
“Sit Down,” the Cry.
An unexpected but futile effort was
made to avoid the issue by tabling the
resolution condemning the seminary.
The majority, however, were eager to
have the question settled once and for
all.
Dr. Howard Agnew Johnston, pas
tor of the First Presbyterian Church.
Stamford, Conn., was the author of
the motion to postpone action indefi
nitely.
"Sit down!” some militant preacher
at the side of the room shouted as
soon as he realized the import of the
motion.
The eys of Moderator Stone blazed
as he pounded thunderously with his
gavel.
“I w r ant no such expression in this
Assembly,” he ordered. “I am saying
this to the man who made that re
mark. I do not care who he may be.’*
Spirited Defense.
The debate proper had rtr»t begun
when the morning session adjourned.
Dr. Francis Brown, president of the
seminary which is under fire, wa-3
permitted to close the remarks which
he had started when the session ad
journed Monday afternoon. After this
ensued the maelstrom of motions and
points of order that kept the sessipn
in a turmoil until recess.
Dr. Brown came to a spirited de
fense of Union Seminary’, its direc
tors and its faculty.
He was especially angered against
what he described as a libel upon th«
spiritual character of one of the pro
fessors, Dr. William Adams Brow r n.
Divir.e Aid Asked.
Many' women were among the spec
tators in the packed balcony when the
debate w r as started by Dr. Francis
Brown, president of Union Seminary.
The walls w’ere lined by several score
of men, who were compelled to stand.
Even the upper gallery had its fringe
of keenly Interested listeners.
In the main auditorium every seat
was taken. Ushers were instructed to
keep the doors barred while the de
bate was in progress.
Moderator Stone ruled at the open
ing of the discussion that there should
be no disorder of any sort. To insure
the carrying out of his order, he for
bade applause of any sort during or
after the speeches.
He called upon Dr. Henry Sloane
Coffin, one of the instructors in Union
Theological Seminary, and Rev. C. A.
R. Janvier, of Philadelphia, to invoke
the aid of God in deciding the ques
tion.
In spite of Moderator Stone's ruling
that there should be no applause or
manifestation of approval or disap
proval, there w*a« a marked murmur
of dissent when President Brown, of
Union Seminary, declared that he
metophorically had been met at the
door of the Assembly hall with a club
Continued on Pa^e 4, Column 5.