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BURNS AIDE
ISREPORTED
TRAILING A
NEWMAN
Detective Tobie May Leave City
to Seek Youth Seen With
Slain Girl. ^
FINGER-PRINT EXPERT ^
HAS VALUABLE CLEWS
More Than 100 Witnesses Sub-
penaed to Appear Before
the Grand Jury Friday.
It said Thursday that C. W.
Tobie, chief criminal investigator for
the Burns detective agency, may leave
Atlanta on the trail of a new and im-
portant witness, whoso identity he is
carefully guarding.
The man is said to have been with
the girl before she went to the pencil
factory Memorial Day and to have
left the city thaf day. The detective
intimated that the man had not re
vealed himself because he did not care
to be a witness.
It was reported Thursday that P. A,
Fhlk. noted finger-print expert work
ing for Solicitor Dorsey in the Phagan
investigation, had found evidence of
the greatest importance that would be
i'ubrtittted to the Grand Jury when it
takes up the case Friday.
With the* Solicitor and city detec
tives. the expert spent several hour#
Wednesday night minutely examin
ing the clothing worn by the slain
girl, the pad and pencil found in the
basement and other articles that hav*
been unearthed since the Solicitor
took over the case. Several finger
prints that had escaped observation
were clearly brought out by the usa
of chemicals, it was said.
Burns Forces Augmented.
The Burns forces have been aug
mented by a finger-print and hand-
writing expert and another detective.
The three were closeted with the ne
gro, Newt Dee, for more than an hour
Wednesday. Neither would discus*
the interview.
L. J. Fletcher, Bertillon expert at
the Federal prison, was drawn Into
the case by Solicitor Dorsey Wednes
day.
Mr. Fletcher is a handwriting ex
pert as well. He has been connected
with the Government for several
years and has made an intimate
gtudy of criminology. He worked
with Mr. Dorsey’s expert, Flak, when
he examined articles for finger prints
at the Solicitor's office Wednesday*
night.
Department and Pinkerton detect
ives are conducting a relentless
search for the missing mesh hag Mary
Phagan carried to the factory with
her when she received her pay. If
it is found they expect it to prove one
of the most important hits of evi
dence for the State.
City detectives have been assigned
the tark of locating the young wom
an referred to in Mrs. A. A. Smith’s
letter to The Georgian. Mrs. Smith
said she heard a young woman on
Whitehall Street say she was with
Mary Phagan at 4 o’clock Memorial
Day afternooon.
Many Subpenas Served.
Deputies at the Solicitor’s office be
gan Thursday morning serving the
large batch of subpenas for witnesses
in the Phagan case to appear before
the Grand Jury Friday morning at 10
o'clock. More than 100 were issued.
The Solicitor would not say wheth
er he would introduce all of them, but
said he would have them in readi
ness’. Several persons w r hose names
have not appeared in connection with
the case have been asked to testify.
It became known also that expert
testimony on handwriting and finger
prints would play an important part
in the hearing by the Grand June No
less than three famous finger-print
and handwriting experts have been
called into the case by Mr. Dorgey*
and the arrival on the scene Wednes
day of the bee* finger-print expert
with the Burns agency established
beyond any doubt that “finger prints’*
and ’handwriting’’ would be strong
cards to be played by the .State.
Tobie said Wednesday 1*3 action*
OF WALKER
TELL WIFE
OF LOVE
Turkey Trotter at
Tybee Paces Trial
SAVANNAH, GA. t May 22.—John
Hoan, a prominent young man. was
arrested while dancing with a girl in
the pavilion at Tybee because of his
persistence in doing the turkey trot,
bunny hug and other prohibited dance
steps. He was led away to jail, leav
ing his companion alone on the ball
room floor.
Roan disregarded a sign ronspicu*
ously posted in the pavilion, stating
that these steps were prohibited. He
was warned by officers, but paid no
attention to them.
Roan’s friends Anally succeeded in
hailing him out. He will appear be
fore the Town Council of Tybee
charged with disorderly conduct.
B SANDERS WALKER,
• JR., Macon banker dead
from poison he took by mis
take a week ago.
Hurrah! the Piedmont Swimming Season’s Here
t*t *«***}* •?*•*«•
Rising Sun Finds the First 1913 Bather—a Girl
is equal to Jennie's now. Look, she
dives like a didapper.’’
"My, I wish I was a boy again”—
but his thought was interrupted by a
laugh.
“Look at Zode Smith,” he ex
claimed. “As General Manager of the
Waterworks, he had this lake Ailed
up. and as a swimmer, he is about to
splash it all out.”
Dan Caroy on Honflymoon.
As the young day grew, the crowds
increased. Spectators began to gath
er on the grassy banks. Various per
sons began to ask for Dan Carey, the
General Manager of Parks, who start
ed the public bathing there years ago.
Dave Gillespie answered;, x
Crowds Rush to Formal Opening
of Atlanta’s ‘Beach’—Jennie
Perkerson's Title Threatened,
Just as old Mol shot his golden rays
above the horizon, two dull splashes
in the limpid waters of Piedmont
Park sounded, marking the formal
time. And thus was re-christened the
pool which will form Atlanta's play
ground for the summer months.
The Return of Jennie.
Dave Gillespie, the park superin
tendent. soon arrived and began to
look for Jennie Perkerson, the little
girl who won the championship as a
swimmer last season.
“Jennie will be here,” he said. "She
opening of that resort for the sum- I could not’stay away to save her life.
mer.
Pretty Lillian Smith and her fair
sister. Frances, in chic bathing cos
tumes plunged downward from* the
springboard in the new lake. The
waters shot upward high for the tir$t the middle of the lake. Her stroke
But from what I have heard from
some of the likely looking prospects
who have been out this spring she is
going to have a hard time holding her
title this summer.
“Look at that little girl over yonder
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VOL. XI. NO. 249.
ATLANTA, UA„ THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1913.
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE P £Z&°
Miss Lillian
Smith
and
Miss Frances
Smtih,
47 Piedmont
Place,
among those
who opened
Swimming
season at
Piedmont Park
Thursday
Baron Chinda Told to Urge Upon
Bryan Japan’s Interpretation .of
Existing Treaty.
REFERENDUM PROPOSED
DISPLEASES ORIENTALS
This Government, It Is Revealed,
Refuses to Test Alien Law in
Supreme Court,
Special Cabie to The Atlanta Georgian.
TOKIO, May 22.—The reply of the
United States Government to the rep
resentations of Japan relative to the
anti-alien land law in California is
considered unfavorable. This was
learned to-day at the Foreign Office.
Part’ of the reply to-day became
known. It denies any intended in
fringement of Japanese treaty rights.
The United States Government re
fused to initiate any action in the
Supreme Court to test the validity of
the action of the California Uegisla-
ture and Governor Johnson, who
signed the law.
The Japanese government has sent
. instructions to Ambassador Chinda to
press more vigorously the claims of
the Japanese. /
Jn tt* conrmtmidatlnn to the- Japan
ese Ambassador the Foreign Office
urges the necessity of impressing up
on Secretary of State Bryan Japan's
Interpretation of the existing treaty
between this country and the United
States.
Another feature of the reply which
is distasteful to Japan is the pro
posal to submit the anti-alien land
law to a referendum vote in Califor
nia.
Chinda Gives Notice
He Will Renew Protest.
WASHINGTON, May 22.—Viscount
Chinda. Japanese Ambassador to the
United States, to-day eerved notice
on the State Department that next
week he will resume the official dia-
cussion of the controversy arising
from the California land law.
It was learned that Ambassador
Chinda will take up the American re
ply at length when he calls' upon Secs
retary Bryan. It is understood here
that the Japanese official has received
instructions from his Government to
lay particular stress upon the Japa
nese contention that the present slt-
, uation is an infringement on treaty
obligations.
Government dispatches from Tokio
to-day pointed out that the Japanese
Foreign Office considers the American
reply to the Japanese protests as un
favorable, inasmuch as it denied the
right of the Orientals to hold land in
the United States, despite the existing
treatv
Officials here say that this opinion
• arises from the fact that the Japanese
, do not understand the form of gov
ernment of this country and that the
States' rights doctrine is incompre
hensible to the Orient
It is admitted here that the Ameri
can reply was.quite frank, as was the
protest of Japan,'but administration
officials say there was no clause in
the entire note at which the Japanese
should take offense.
Wilson Orders
To Omit “War Talk.’’
WASHINGTON, May 22.—Acting
under orders of President Wilson,
Representative Sisson of Mississippi
to-day went over the rough draft of
his speech on the Japanese situation,
\ to he delivered in the House to-mor
row. carefully expurgating all the
“war talk.’’
The President warned Sisson that
the speech must contain nothing of
an incendiary nature, and Sisson is
editing out ail remarks which are not
•trictly musty and conventional, re
lating to the treaty-making powers of
the Federal Government as fixed by
products of the last 100 years.
Several Republican members have
threatened to question him about his
position on the question of an ade
quate navy, and it is possible that
they fiery Southern orator may de
part altogether from his set speech
and plunge into a discussion of war
passages.
Sisson has been attacke because in
1 a recent speech in the House he de
clared for war with Japan, whereas
he haa fought strenuously in several
sessions against making appropria
tions for battleships.
Photo by Courtesy of Southern Banker.
Iowa Man Dying
As Walker Did
SIOUX CITY, IOWA, May 22.—
Small hope was entertained to-day
for the recovery of Robert Palmer, a
cattle salesman and member of a
prominent Iowa family, who swal
lowed three bichloride of mercury tab
lets.
He has been reading newspaper ac
counts of the slow death of B. S.
Walker, the Macon, Ga., banker, by
the accidental swallowing of the same
poison.
Ball ‘Trust’ Inquiry
Resolution Not Dead
WASHINGTON, May 22.—Repre
sentative Gallagher, of Illinois, denied
to-day that his resolution for an in
vestigation of the so-called baseball
trust was dead.
There have been reports, Gallagher
admitted, that the House Rules Com
mittee, to which his resolution has
been referred, was hostile. He de
clared, nevertheless, that he would
press for a public hearing
“I have some evidence that will
open their eyes,” he declared. *
Son Near Death From
KissingDying Mother
FORT SCOTT, KANS., May 22.—
Carl Heckenliahle. a young farmer of
this county, is near death in a. hos
pital at Wichita, as a result of kiss
ing his dying mother good-bye. The
mother died of blood poisoning. When
her physicians announced death was
approaching, her son embraced and
kissed her.
The next day the young man was
taken ill, eruptions appearing on his
body. Physicians pronounced the case
blood poisoning contracted by the
farewell kiss, and Heckenliahle was
hurried to Wichita for treatment.
The Sunday American goes every
where all over tbe 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.
Look
At This!
S
A large automobile
dealer in Atlanta
says he gets better
results in the auto
mobile columns of
The Georgian and
Hearst’s Sunday
American in the
“Want Ad" sec
tion than any adver
tising he has tried.
These little “ Want
Ad" tablets hit the
spot.
Death From Poison Comes to
Macon Man Just One Week
After Fatal Mistake.
BRAVE FIGHT FOR LIFE
STIRS MEDICAL WORLD
Battle Is Given Up Only When He
Lapsed Into Coma Which
Preceded the End.
By FRANC MANGUM.
MACON, GA., May 22.—B. Sanders
Walker s last words were endearingly
addressed to his wife, who sat at his
bedside, holding his hand, until the
end came Thursday morning at 1:35
o’clock.
Wednesday afternoon, in his last
moment of consciousness when he
roused from the heavy stupor in
which he had lain all day. Mi*. Wal
ker pressed his wife’s hand and said,
faintly: “I love you, Marie.” He
never spoke again. During the night
the stupor deepened, and about 1
o’clock this morning the death agony
began.
The funeral will take place at Mon
roe, Mr, * jvxyhnnrt ■home, .xnd
the present residence of his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. B. S. Walker, Sr. The
funeral will be held Friday morning.
Dies Just Seven Days Later.
Mr. Walker'^ death occurred almost
exactly seven days from the time he
accidentally swallowed the corrosive
sublimate tablet, lacking only an hour
and a half.
As long as he enjoyed a clarity of
mind his mental ^tate was such that
he materially co-operated witty the
physicians in their heroic efforts to
save him, but when uremic poison
ing developed and his brain became
clouded he began to sink.
All hope was abandoned yesterday
morning, the doctors announcing that
it was only a matter of hours.
Mrs. Walker, haggard and worn as
the result of the week's ordeal, is
almost prostrated over the tragic fate
of her husband.
It has developed that Mr. Walker
carried life insurance in excess of
$150,000.
Doomed Man Made
Brave Fight for Life.
The death of B. Sanders Walker.
Jr., ended one of the bravest and most
determined fights against death re
corded in medical history.
A week ago the young real estate
man swallowed a bichloride of mer
cury tablet, thinking he was taking
aspirin. Quickly discovering his mis
take. he began a struggle against the
spread of the insidious toxin which
aroused the'wonder of the medical
world.
In a few hours after accidentally
taking the mercury tablet, which he
well knew was a deadly poison. Wal
ker began a game fight for life. He
declined to surrender to the appar
ently inevitable. A stomach pump re
moved only part of the poison. At
tending physicians told him a portion
of the tablet was left in his system
and that he would die, but he did not
give up.
Soon his kidneys became paralyzed,
then one failed altogether. The pois
on had affected the blood and the
nerve centers, the remaining kidney
was paralyzed and uremic poison
ing set in. Still Walker struggled
bravely, retaining perfect conscious
ness and reassuring his heartbroken
wife and sorrowing relatives.
Telegrams of sympathy came from
far. People as far away as Chicago
used long distance telephones to ex
press sympathy.
Prayers Offered for Him.
Inmates of orphans’ homes, recip
ients of Walker's benevolence, held
services in his behalf, and Macon
churches prayed for him. Physicians
worked unremittingly and Walker
fought with unparalleled gameness.
His nerve kept him alive a week.
Then the poison became diffused and
he relapsed into the unconsciousness
Which preceded
Georgian’s Grandson
On Arctic Expedition
SAVANNAH, GA., May 22.—Mrs.
W. D. Waples, of thLs city, has gone
to Washington to say good-bye to her
grandson, Lieutenant Fitzhugh Green,
who is about to leave for a three-year
trip in the Arctic regions with a spe
cial expedition of the National Geo
graphic Society for the purpose of
studying the topography of the land
and the history of the people in a
part of the icebound regions of the
Far North.
Lieutenant Green is from St. Jo
seph. Mo., where hi* father, Charles
E. Green, son of Mrs. Waples, and
formerly a Savannahan. has resided
since his marriage years ago.
Boasts of Marrying
Jap to Yankee Girl
MINNEAPOLIS. May 22.—”1 have
just married a Japanese to an Ameri
can. and done more for God and Uncle
Sam than your alien land bill will do
in 1,000 years."
This telegram was forwarded to
Governor Johnson, of California by
the Rev. G. L. Morrill, after the min
ister had married Kozo Maihori and
Miss Bertha Royan,
Fool or Knave, Says Johnson.
SACRAMENTO. CAU.. May 22.—
"That minister must be either a knave
or a fool,” said Governor Johnson,
commenting upon the telegram of the
Rev. G. L. Morrill, of Minneapolis.
Sunday Apologizes
To Schumann-Heink
SOUTH BEND, IND., May 22.—A
letter containing an apology for hav
ing called her a “cheap skate” was
mailed to-day by Evangelist Billy’’
Sunday to Madame Schumann-Heink.
Last night the preacher made a pub
lic statement apologizing to the sing
er.
Sunday’s remark that Schumann-
Heink resented was made during a
sermon on “Mothers” when he said
that “Melba, Calve, Fames and Schu
mann-Heink are cheap skates com
pared with mothers.”
Madame Schumann-Heink is the
mother of eight children,
Steamnr Blown Up
By Floating Mine
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
SMYRNA, ASIA MINOR, May 22 —
The French steamer Senegal was
sunk at the mouth of the Gulf of
Smyrna to-day by striking a flowing
mine, planted for the Balkan war. A
large hole was torn In the bottom of
the vessel.
The first wireless report from the
scene stated that all the crew and
passengers, as well as the mail cargo,
were saved. A second report, how
ever, stated that five persons on the
Senegal were killed and six wounded.
2 Fatally Shot in
Feud at Moultrie
MOULTRIE, GA., May 22.—J. M
Homage and his son were fatally
wounded to-day by Jerry and James
Hart, sawmill men. The Homages, it
is alleged, waylaid the Harts several
miles from this city, but in the shoot
ing that followed both of the Harts
escaped uninjured.
The trouble is said to have been the
restilt of a recent timber deal be
tween the Harts and the Homages.
Nearly everybody in Atlanta reads
The Sunday American. YOUR ad
vertisement in the next iaeue will sell
goods. Try it!
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia—Local shower* Thurs
day and probably Friday.
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