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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 ALWAYS FIRST <0> <fl) The SUNDAY AMERICAN Order It NOW 0 Both Phones Main 8000 EVENING EDITION 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. The Atlanta Read for Profit---GEORGIAN VVAA7 ADS--~Use for Results JAPAN RESENTS UNITED STATES’ REPLY