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IN PHAGAN CASE +•* +•+ v*+ ^•v +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ ^tv T. B. FELDER ACCUSED OF OFFERING $1,000 ALWAYS FIRST flf> ($) The SUNDAY . AMERICAN Order It NOW Both Phones Main 8000 The Atlanta Georgian Read for Profit---GEORGIAN WAhT ADS---Use for Results EXTRA VOL. XI. NO. 250. ATLANTA, OA., SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1913. 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE P ^ R *° MIL LIFE Condition of Japanese Emperor Grave j'S-j- v e +•+ Whole Nation Praying for His Recovery Dispute With United StatcsOver shadowed by Alarm 0\fer Ruler’s Illness. partment of the Northern Presbyterians Fails. Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. TOKIO, May 23.—It was reported to-night that Emperor Yoshihito is suffering from pleuro-pneumonia. Throughout the day the Mikado’s temperature reached 102.92 Fahren heit, with no signs of abatement. Attempt to Save Mission De- The Emperor is confined to Ayoama palace, his condition being too low to ; allow removal to the new Chiyoda palace. , A military guard has been placed ! about the palace, although the crowds have been very orderly and quiet up i to date. A number of Shinto priests have left on a religious pilgrimage for Fujiyama, where there is an ancient shrine. Priests to Offer Sacrifices. Sacrifices will be offered up for the recovery, of th,e imperial patient. The following statement was issued to-day by Gount Watanabe: His* majesty is asleep. Condi tions have not changed since yes terday and are net seriotjE*. The Defenders of the church and coun try life department of the Board of Home Missions went down to an in glorious parliamentary defeat at the forenoon session of the Northern Presbyterian Assembly. As a result the report of the exec utive commission stands that this de partment “shall be discontinued as *-oon as practicable.” Ev’ery attempt to revise this deci sion ran against a stone wall in the rulings of the moderator. One com missioner After another essayed to speak on the report, but each was told that no question formally was before the assembly. f F:ev. John Deans, of Brooklyn. N. Y., asked what interpretation was to be made of “as soon as practicable”— thm gWerr-ky- Dr. Mark A. Matthews m presenting the report Wednesday, or that he gave Thursday, or the one he presented Friday morning. Rev. Deans was informed that he was to accept the final explanation. Rev. T. M. Hall, of the Erie, Pa., Pres bytery, sought to introduce a resolu tion bearing on the subject, but was ruled out of order. Bars Reconsideration. As a final recourse, one of the com missioners moved for a reconsidera tion of the portion of the executive commission’s report bearing on the department of church and country life. Moderator Stone ran his eye over the house and ruled that two- thirds of the original assembly con sidering the question must be present to vote on a reconsideration. It was the moderator’s assumption that the two-thirds was not in the audito rium. Although the church and country life advocates were forced to accept defeat in their fight to establish the department permanently as a part of the Board of Home Missions’ activi ties, those at the head of the work declared that they would be able to accomplish this At th< next general assembly. '“We, will simply continue the de partment through the year and then Come before the next Assembly on ejur record.” is the statement made Friday of their contemplated plan of campaign. . / Professing Christians who spend Sundays in their automobiles or on the golf course came in for unre strained criticism from Rev. Fred erick J. Sauber. of Marcellus. N. Y., who submitted the report of the com mittee on Christian life and work. Apathy Blamed for Vice. The apathy and indifference of Christian people was blamed by Dr. dauber for the rapid progress which the white slave evil has made. He called attention to the falling away from the church of the younger gen eration and pleaded for more active evangelistic work. Judging by the figures of additions to church mem bership, he estimated that it required about a half hundred persons one year to get one new member into the church. W. H. Houston, secretary of the vacancy and supply department of the Presbyterian Church, said that there were 3.0d0 young men in the country who had studied for th* Presbyterian ministry who Ver- still without pulpits, while there were many churches about the country without preachers. *His department, he said, was for the purpose of re lieving this situation He asked five years for a trial of the new plan. Drug Traffic Attacked. looking toward the remedying of these conditions, the Assembly voted to instruct the moderator and stated clerk to write, through any of the As sembly boards, to every minister of the church urging him to bring to the attention of every family in hit’ church the needs of the ministry for young men. A strong resolution against inter state traffic in opium, cocaine and other similar dugs was introduced by Dr C. A. R. Javier, of Philadelphia, and passed by the unanimous vote of the Assembly. “The United States was in the lead of the movement to bar international traffic in the drugs.” said Dr. Janvier, “but within her own borders the traf fic is being continued with only a slight .check. Decided action by this assembly will assist in passing the bill which is now' before Congress.” DICTOGRAPH RECORD USED AGAINST FELDER Affidavits and an alleged dictograph record made public Fri day afternoon, accuse Colonel Thomas B. Felder of offering to C. C. February, a bribe of $1,000 for possession of police records of the Phagan case. These affidavits and the dictograph record are Rworn to by A. S. Colyar, .Jr., of Nashville, and February, who is stenographer to Newport Lanford, Chief of the Atlanta Detective Department. The Georgian on Wednesday published the fact that there were rumors on the streets that connected the name of Colonel Felder with the Phagan case in a sinister way. Colonel Felder made a statement to a Georgian reporter to the effect that these rumors were false. At that time, however, the police department was engaged in the effort to entrap Colonel Felder and bring against him a charge of bribery. From developments Friday, it would seem that Colonel Felder was engaged in an effort to entrap Lanford and Beavers. Colonel Felder has issued a statement to that effect. A state ment from Mayor Woodward tends to corroborate it. Chief of Detectives Lanford stated Friday afternoon that the premature publication of the affidavits had thwarted his plans and had defeated justice, and tilat fm” did not know what his fu ture course would be as regards Colonel Felder. No Mention of Case Except About Graft Cmperor Yoshihito of Japan, who is serious 1 v i Empress. bulletin issued by the attending physicians apprised the people o 111(1 thf the real condition of the imperial patient. His majestv had been in good health since ascending the throne, desrdte the report that . he was suffering from weakness of the lungs, and has actively at tended to affairs of state. It is interesting to note that the modern European methods of treat ment are being administered, the Emperor being a progressive. Grave fears are felt that the Illness may prove fatal, leaving Japan with out a ruler at a time made critical by the dispute with the United States. Weakened by Worry. The present illness can be directly traced to a severe cold which the Emperor contracted five days ago. but his condition was aggravated by wor. iv over the diplomatic controversy with the United States over the Cal ifornia land bill. High officials remain reticent on the possible political effect of the Mikado’s Illness. Fount Watanabe, Minister of Imperial Household, is sued a statement for the Lcr.-lt of the Japanese people saying G.at the PJmpero/s condition is not serious. In sphe of this reassuring state ment. however, gravest fears were expressed that the Mikado would not survive. The Emperor's condition has never been strong and the cares of state have tended to weaken him. For the time being tne illness of the sovereign has tended to eclyise the American dispute, but high "of ficials of the government are alarmed lest the death of the Mikado might inflame the people into an irresistible demand for war. Should. Yoshihito die, the dynasty would be in danger. The Crown Prince, Hirohito, is only twelve years old. and should there be a regency It is possible ;hat old quarrels be tween the leading families would flare which would change the future government and identity of the fu ture reigning family. Pulse Remains High. The Emperor’s pula'’ remain* d around 90 to-day ;*id Mis respiration 30. All the theaters have been or dered closed. Among the callers at the palace o express sympathy for the family of the sick man was Arthur Bailly Blanchard. Charge d’Affaires of the United States Embassy. The following official bulletin was issued to-'day by Drs. Miura and Aoyama: The illness of the Emperor has been diagnosed as pneumonia. His fever has increased within the past 24 hours. Yesterday the temperature was 101; last night it was 102. Th's afternoon at 4 o’clock it was 103. Delay in Alien Bill Dispute Expected. WASHINGTON. May 23 —That the illness* of the Mikado, reported in dip lomatic circles to be even more se rious than indicated by press dis patches from Tokio, will delay the continuation of the dispute concerti ng the California land law, was the opinion expressed by diplomats here to-day. It is understood that the Emperor is possessed of a ustifution w hich is not too strong and that an attack of pneumonia similar to the one he 13 now suffering from left him very weak five years ago. Therefore, grave fears for his re covery are entertained here and it is practically certain nothing further will be done about the enactment of .: *■ Webb law until after the Emperor has passed the crisis in his illness*. Japan has until August 10 in which to file her reply to the Bryan note— the Webb will not being enforced un til that da'te—and it is probable that the conferences between Secretary liryan and Ambassador Chinda scheduled for next week will be post poned. Despite the press* dispatches stating j that the American leply to the Japa nese protest has not been favorably received in Tokio, officials here point to the fact that Japan recently has made its appropriation for a proper national exhibit for the 1915 expost- J tion in San Francisco as evidence | that no genuinely grave situation be tween the two governments has yet i been brought about. The President to-day received th* following message from the Mikado in answer to his cablegram of sym- I pa thy sent yesterday: l Deeply touched by your kind message inquiring after my in disposition. 1 express my sincere thanks to yourself. Government and the people of the United State.” YOSHIHITO. Emperor’s Illness Alarms Embassy. LONDON. May 23. Alarmed by the newspaper cables which report Em peror Yoshihito as being in danger of (bath, the Japanese Embassy to-day sent a message to Tokio asking for the very latest news on the Mikado's condition. It wa«* stated that the Ernbassy^had received no Information from the Japanese Government on the Em peror’s illness. Chinda and Bryan To Attend Banquet. PITTSBURG. May 23.—Bara* Chinda, Japannsn Ambassador to th« United States; Secretary of Statt Bryan and GeorRe Guthrie, newly ap pointed Ambassador to Japan, will at tend a banquet in Pittsburg June 8. Mayor Woodward Friday afternoon admitted that he had had conversation with Colonel Felder on Monday. No mention of the Phagan ease was made by the attorney, however, except, in refer ence to police graft. , “Colonel Felder said that he had run across a great many evi dences of police graft in near beer saloons and resorts during the Phagan investigation,’’ declared the Mayor. “He suggested that this evidence be gathered up in an effort to unearth crookedness in the police system. I asked him how the matter could be gone about and Mr. Felder replied that if would take a good deal of money; that he would have to get the evidence in shape first.’’ The Mayor denied that Felder was accompanied by C. C. Jones as has been stated. He said that Felder was alone. The Mayor’s assertion was borne out by Frank Hammond, the official’s secre tary. The sensational charges against Colonel Felder grow out of a plan entered into by Chief of Police Beavers, Chief of Detectives Newport Lanford, his secretary, G. C. February, and A. S. Colyar, Jr., of Nashville. For nearly a week Lanford and Colyar have been working on the theory that they could develop the situation which would enable them to make a charge of bribery against Colonel Felder. Colyar had worked in South Carolina with Colonel Felder at various times in the past, he claimed, and enjoyed Colonel Fel der's confidence. He informed Chief Lanford that Mr. Felder had failed to pay him money due for his work in South Carolina and that he intended to get revenge. Colyar Reported Long Talk With Felder On Monday Colyar reported that he had had long and confi dential talks with Felder and C. W. Tobie, the Burns investigator who was working here ofl Ihe Phagan case under the direction of Felder. He reported that Colonel Felder expressed extreme hos tility to Chief Beavers and Lanford, cursed them and intimated that he would like to get possession of an affidavit the police were said to have secured from Mary Phagan s parents denying that they had asked Colonel Felder to enter the ease and setting forth that they had refused proffers made by Felder. He also reported that he had informed Felder he knew G. C. February, Lanford’s secretary, quite well and hat he was sure he could frame up with February to secure a transcript of the police records and the Coleman affidavit. He said Felder said he would give February $1,000 for them. On Monday night, it is stated, Colyar and February went to Colonel Felder's office and. were in a conference there with Felder for something more than half an hour. Colyar reported Tuesday that at this conference an arrange ment was made for another meeting between February and Felder, the latter promising to give February $1,000 for the Coleman affi davit and the transcript, of the police records of evidence in the case. According to an affidavit made public Friday afternoon, a meeting as held Wednesday afternoon in the Williams House in North Forsyth Street between Colonel Felder, February and Col yar. It is stated a dictograph was placed in the room and that the city detective department now has in its possession alleged dictograph conversation in which Colonel Felder was quoted as offering February money to secure the Coleman affidavit. It is charged by Colyar that Felder offered $1,000 for the affi davit and other police, records of the Phagan case. Colyar Submits Report To Chief Lanford Monday morning Colyar made a written report to Chief Lan ford, the substance of which was as follows: “I met T. B. Felder at 8:15 o’clock Sunday night at the Marion Hotel and went with him to his law offices in the Equitable building, aud held consultation with him until 9:15 p. m. In the meantime, C. W. Tobie, manager of the crim inal department of the Burns Agency, dropped in in response to a telephone call. J was introduced to him and made an ap pointment with him for Monday morning at 10 o’clock in room 300 at the Piedmont Hotel. “I find that Mr. Tobie is a former Pinkerton detective, and that he was discharged from that, agency, as they allege, for corrupt practices. He is now posing as the confidential man of W. J. Burns. “In my conversation with Air. Tobie this morning, he said he would have the inurdere r of Mary Phagan within ten days, and that he had been on the scene long enough to know that the reason he had not been discovered before was on account of jealousy, politics and money. “In tnv conversation with T. B. Felder, he stated that he had some thirty or forty clients, among whom were C.C.Jones, the Henderson Hotel and other liquor clients who were will ing to raise a fund of $25,000 to impeach Jtimes L. Beavers and Newport, A. Lanford, as both of them we r e corrupt, and that Beavers was at the present time living in open adultery with a prostitute, and was drunk half the time, and that Lanford missed his calling when he quit the farm, and threatened to go before the Board of Aldermen and file articles of impeachmeut againRt both them, and that he would have the backing of J. G. Woodward, Mayor of Atlanta; that Carlos Mason and two others of the police board had aPeady gone back on Beavers because he was a fanatic. “He said that lie was employed to prosecute the Phagan murderer by J. A. McCall and other citizens of Atlanta, and that his employment had been ratified by Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Coleman, and that, he intended to have them arrested for per jury and could prove 1he same.’’ (This reference to perju r y is based on the affidavit made by Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Coleman that Felder's employment in the case was without their consent. “In my conversation with him on Monday morning in the club rooms on the eighth floor of the Walton Building, be told me that he was very anxious for me to meet C. C. Jones, aud that he could get me big money if I would help him secure the evidence that would throw Beavers and his flunky, Lanford, out of a job, and that he already had the assistance and co operation of Henry Jennings, forme r Chief of Police. “Said Affidavit Would Raise a Mob” “Further in his conversation this morning he said that the police department was at loggerheads, and that Pat Camp bell was giving Chief Beavers and Lanford the double-cross, and that before the week was out Beavers and Lanford would find that the good people of this city were indignant at their course in the Phagan case, and that the moment they pub lished the affidavit signed by J. W. Coleman and wife r eflect- ing, on his moral character they would go to jail, and that he could speak one word at this time and raise a mob that would hang Beavers and Lanford to a telegraph pole. “He further said that if I would go to work for him and ' Continued on Page 4, Column 1,