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N COURT BY
H enry m. flagler,
great railroad builder,
who is regarded as the man
who opened Florida to the
world.
Wei! 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.
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
Cra wford will case.
Two of the men, <\ W. Walton, of
Buckhead, and W. H. Byrd, 41 West
Twelfth Street, were badly beaten
yp. both showing black eyes and con-
’ tlisions on their faces wherQ Smith
struck them. The other three men
also were given severe drubbings be
fore friends and policemen 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
'i talking to her. WaLtrtn, it is claimed,
approached and said:
Walton Objects to Action.
“Here, you; don’t talk to that wo
man ! ”
“What do you care?” asked Smith.
“Do you own her?"
“Yes, I do," answered Walton, and,
it is said, raised his arm ms though
intending to strike the attorney.
Walton is a powerfully built man,
fully as large as the attorney. Hardly
had 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
into the fray. He was met with a
stiff right arm jolt from Mr. Smith
and was knocked down for the count.
Three Men Enter Fray.
Then three men who had entered
the court house with Walton and
Byrd, and who were with them when
the attorney knocked them down,
leaped at Smith. The attorney met
them, and knocked them down as fast
as they came at him. One of them he,
knocked down twice, while one blow-
sufficed to put the other two hors
de combat.
Before the five -mien could arise|
and rush the attorney, deputy sher- I
iffs. policemen and friends of the at-
Monicy rushed betw een them and pre-
*vence& further hostilities. Included
in the rescue party were Deputy
Sheriffs John S. Owens, Dave Goodlin,
Newrvc.n Garner and Attorneys Reu
ben Arnold and Colonel James An
derson.
Attorney Smith’s hand was bleed -
* ing from the force of the blows he
had struck the five men, and on one
of his knuckles was wound from
one of his opponent’s teeth. His
friends started to take him out of
the building, and as they passed Wal
ton, the latter began getting up from
the floor.
Wanted to Continue Bout. 9
“I’m ready for you again,” he re
marked.
Mr. Smith tried to break away from
his friends and expressed a desire to
again knock Walton dow n, but he was
restrained and went to his office,
•where physicians dressed his wounds.
Walton and Byrd and the other three
. men left the building immediately.
The fight lasted about two minutes.
Several women who were in the
corridor near the belligerents,
became hysterical and fairly fought
their way into the court room. Deputy
sheriffs were called to quiet the ex- I
citement.
Mrs. Cash Tells Story.
The woman over whom the fight
started was M rs. Cora Cash, of Buck-
head. According to Mrs. Cash, she
and her daughter, Mrs. Violet Whit
mire, wore sitting on a bench near the
entrance to the court room, when At
torney Smith came up and began
Stalking to Mrs. Whitmire, an attrac
tive young woman.
Then, Mrs. Cash says. Walton ant
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- j
an, and the fight followed. I
Cornell Men Prove
Good Breadwinners
ITHACA, N. Y., May 2,.—It is
found that 1,069 Cornell undergrad
uates are. partially self-suppporting,
and their combined earnings a year
amount to $184,906, or $173 per capita,
by figures compiled by an organiza
tion of working students.
This sum represents 32 per cent of
their college expenses, which amount
ed to $573,794. Only 123 students are
earning their room and board.
Of individual earnings, 380 men
made between $100 and $200, 218
between $200 and $300, 51 from $300
t,o $400j 31 between $400 and $500,
and 42 more than $500.
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 lie mi^ht gather pointers on
how to conduct the police court in
Jacksonville, of which he will assume
charge 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
('HIC AQO, May 20.—Mary Perry,
said to lie the heaviest woman in the
world, was seriously ill to-day at the
County Hospital and. fear was ex
pressed that she would not recover.
She was brought to the hospital
from an amusement park on a spe
cially constructed stretcher. She
weighs nearly 600 pounds.
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
,it his home, in honor of Judge Wil
liam T. Newman. Judge Mose3
Wright and Federal and Superior
Court 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
Poster Advertising Association is be
ing held at the club house on Dog
River, \vhe*re officers will be elected.
Georgia Ish represented by J. H. Shipp,
Oordeie; F. H. Powers. Macon; Will
J. Perry, New nan; M. T. Price, Sa
vannah, and Julius DeGive and Ros-
ooe C. Maesengale, Atlanta.
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tise in The Sunday American. Lar
gest circulation of any Sunday news
paper in the South.
End Comes to Builder of Over-
the-Sea Railroad at His
Home in Florida.
BEGAN LIFE AS CLERK
IN A GROCERY STORE
First Fortune Swept Away by
Poor Investment, He Left
$100,000,000 Estate.
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 wag 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,’’
wag born in a little village juat 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.
Goss Out to Sock Fortune.
So he started from home, with a
few dollara-4» 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 young
Flagler to open a grain business in
Bellevue, Ohio. And here began a lit -
He 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 wfcnt 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, w ho 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 bounds. His wife became the
mtstress of a fine mansion on Fifth
Avenue, New York, as well as a pala
tial country home on Long Island and
in Florida, and to all < utward 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, la
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 connectipn 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
Kf^VWest. 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,
Solicitor General Dorsey Declares
All Evidence Will Go to the
Grand Jury Friday.
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 Tuesday morning that the
State's 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 woman 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, slacked considerably.
Colonel Thomas B. Felder said thlx
sum would not be sufficient if it be
came necessary for the Burns men to
Connecticut To Be
Taft's Official Home
NEW IIAVFIN, CONN., May 20.
former President Taft is preparing to
transfer his voting residence from
Ohio to Connecticut. He will have his
nann* put on the list of “voters to be
made ” and in September the board
for admitting voters will pa sc on hU
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 not be eligible for the city elec^-
tlon in the fall, but will be qualified
for the State election in 1914.
Roosevelt's Double
Searching for Wife
MADISON. WIS.. 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, hot* written to Sec
retary of State Donald, asking that a
wife be found for him. Graves lives
in Alberta, Canada.
In his 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.”
FIGHT STORMY
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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.
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paper in the South.
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 da^v 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. "1 am not
at liberty to make public the result of
my investigation, but we have cer
tainly made progress.”
Search for Phone 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 be at
taches of the pencil factory.
Chief of Detectives Newport Lan-
ford said that he had learned from
a responsible source of a switchboard
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
wore detailed to the search that will
take in every private branch ex
change in Atlanta.
Colonel Felder raid that he had
New Dalton Business House.
DALTON.—Ground has been broken
for a three-story brick building to be
erected by L. H. <’raw ford 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.
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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. TutwMer, 200 South Pryor Street,
is prostrated and his aged mother,
Mrs. T. B Sutton, added this new
sorrow to that cart over her by the
death of her husband a month ago.
Although but 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
second 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 etroke 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.
F'ollowing 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 she
was sure would come.
In his conscious moments the young
bridegroom-to-be talked constantly of
the happiness that lay in rtore for
them when he got well. Nurses and
attendants at the hospital heard wit**
aching h- arts the plans for the future
that the couple made as during the
long days and nights they sat holding
hanqs.
Mr. Sutton was alone when 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 the last time late Monday af
ternoon, wUep 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 tw r o bade each other good
bye, and Miss Tutwiler, prostrated by
her sorrow, was taken to her home.
After Miss TutwMler left his room
Hutton sank rapidly, and soon re
lapsed into a coma from whch 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 be married on April 23.
Arrangements had been made f^r 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
111. Thinking the illness soon would
pass, no halt was made in the plans
for the wedding. 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
he 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
would recover from his illness, Miss
Tutwiler fully completed the final
details of her trousseau.
But the wedding gown was never to
be 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 tyr home.
During the dajr her family became
alarmed, and physicians were called.
Her condition ia considered serious,
Moderator St niggles to
Keep Order as Dis
cussion Over Union
College Charges
Crows Bitter.
Vigorous Defense of In
stitution Made by Dr.
Francis Brown; Re
cess Taken to End
Uproar.
Stormy outbursts, silenced hy 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
parliamentary procedure, from which
relief was obtained only by the recess
taken until the afternoon.
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.
I he majority, however, were eager to
have the question settled once and for
all.
Dr. Howard Agncw Johnston, pas
tor of the First Presbyterian Uhureh.
Stamford, Conn., was the author of
the motion to postpone aotion indefi
nitely.
"Sit down!” some militant preacher
at the side of the room shouted ns
soon as he realized the import of the
motion.
The e.vs of Moderator Stone blazed
as he pounded thunderously with his
gavel.
“I want no such expression in this
Assembly," he ordered. “I am saying
this to the man who made that re
am rk. I do not care who he may be.”
Spirited Defense.
The debate proper had not begun
when the morning session adjourned.
Dr. Francis Brown, president of the
seminary which is under fire, was
permitted to close the remarks whicn
he had started when the session ad
journed Monday afternoon. After this
ensued the maelstrom of motions and
points of order that kept the session
in a turmoil until recess.
Dr. Brown came to a spirited de
fence of Union Seminary, its direc
tors and Its faculty.
He was especially angered against
what he described as a libel upon the
spiritual character of one of the pro
fessors, Dr. William Adams Brown.
Divine Aid Asked.
Many women were among the spec
tators in the packed balcony when the
debate was Rtarted by Dr. Francis
Brown, president of Union Seminary.
The walls were 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 w'ere 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 was a marked murmur
of dissent when President Brown, of
Union Seminary, declared that he
metophorieally had been met at the
door of the Assembly hall with a club
Continued on Page 2, Column 8.
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Tuesday and Wednesday.