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Colonel Roosevelt Denies He
Was Drunk
Shuots Denial That Bull Moose
Party Is Paying Cost of His
$10,000 Libel Suit.
MARQUETTE, MICH., May 27.—
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt to-day
took the stand tn his suit against
George Newett, editor of The ish-
peming Iron Ore. Colonel Roosevelt
denied emphatically that he ever
drank intoxicating liquors to excess
as charged in the editorial that re
sulted in his (10,000 libel suit.
He said he did not drink beer or
whisky, except under the direction of
a doctor, but admitted that he some
times drank light wines.
He related briefly his career up to
the time the editorial from The Iron
Ore was brought to him as he lay
in a hospital in Chicago, after hav
ing been wounded by a would-be as
sassin in Milwaukee.
Saya Editorial Angered Him.
"I was very indignant,” said the
colonel, “when the editorial was
shown me."
The former President mounted the
stand after a stormy few minutes dur
ing which Attorney Pound, represent
ing the plaintiff, was interrupted fre
quently by Attorney Belden while
making his opening statement. At
torney Belden, Newett’s counsel, de
clined to make his statement until
after the testimony was taken.
Colonel Roosevelt took the stand at
9:30 o'clock this morning.
Replying to questions regarding his
life and career, he said he was born
in New York City, completed his stu
dies at Harvard in 1880, was elected
to the New York Legislature in 1881,
appointed New York civil service
commissioner in 1887, police commis
sioner of New York City in 1890,
elected Lieutenant Governor in 1891.
resigning in 1897 to become lieutenant
colonel of the Rough Riders in the
Spanish-American war, being pro
moted to colonel after the battle of
Santiago.
Tell* of War Service.
Strenuous objection was made by
the defense to Roosevelt's replies re
garding the number of times he was
under Are in the Spanish-American
war, but the court overruled them and
the former President continued his
story, declaring he was under Are
many times, more particularly at San
.Tuan Hill.
He told of his election as Governor
of New York in 1898; as Vice Presi-
Florida Mob Tries
To Lynch Head of
Negro Pythians
PENSACOLA, FLA., May 27.—
When a Jacksonville-New Orleans
train pulled into Milton, 20 miles east
of here, last night a mob of 76 men
met the train and demanded. S. W.
Green, of New Orleans, chancellor of
the negro Knights of Pythias, who
was occupying a Pullman drawing
room. He was only saved by the in
terference of Sheriff Harvell and dep
uties. of Santa Rosa County.
Green bought a Pullman ticket from
Jacksonville to New Orleans. Sev
eral mobs met the train along the
route before it reached Milton, but did
not find him. At Milton, Green, see
ing the mob, attempted to escape.
Green is now in jail at Milton for
safe keeping and charged with vio
lating the “jim crow” law.
He barely escaped a mob at De-
Funiak on May 18 while going from
New Orleans to Jacksonville.
Plans to Entertain
Justice Lamar Off
Becau.«e of lack of time, plans of
Atlanta attorneys to entertain Jus
tice Joseph R. Lamar, of the United
States Supreme Court, who will pass
through Atlanta Wednesday after
noon en route to Warm Springs to
deliver the chief address at the meet
ing of the Georgia Bar Association,
have been abandoned.
After the session*: at Warm Springs
Judge Lamar will hurry back to
Washington, where a decision in the
Minnesota rate case is expected soon
from the Supreme Court.
War on Fraternities
Launched at Mercer
MACON, GA., May 27.—A petition
signed oy more than 200 non-frater
nity students of Mercer University,
asking for the abolition of the Greek
letter chapters at Mercer will be
presented this week to the faculty.
As President S. Y. Jameson is now
of the belief that frats are a detri
ment to college work, it is expected
the faculty will recommend to the
trustees that the fraternities be abol
ished.
Time for Protests
To Tariff Bill Ends
WASHINGTON. May 27.—Holding
sessions day and night the ten Demo
cratic members of the Senate Com
mittee on Finance will begin at 6
o'clock this evening the actual fram
ing of their amendments to the Wil-
son-Underwood tariff and income tax
measure, which they hope to present
to the Senate within three weeks.
At 5 o’clock the period for hearing
protests against the bill will expire.
The Sunday American goes every
where all over the 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.
Attorney Carl Hutcheson Accuses
Beavers of Permitting Unlaw
ful Houses to Operate.
Ignoring the fresh volley of charges
made by Carl Hutcheson, an attorney,
who offers to cite resorts which are
allowed to operate by the city police.
Chief Beavers Tuesday morning re
iterated bis declaration that the entire
matter would be laid bare before the
Grand Jury for decision.
Detective Chief Lanford revealed
another angle of the warfare when
he declared that the fight being made
against him was backed by the gam
bling ring of Atlanta. C. C. Jones
was named as the leader of the oppo
sition in this fight.
Beavers in commenting upon Hut
cheson’s charges, declared that they
were inspired by Thomas B. Felder,
with whose office Hutcheson is con
nected, and that the attack was not
therefore that of Hutcheson, but ot
Felder and his 'gang.”
Hutcheson, a young lawyer con
nected with the firm Felder, An
derson, Whitman & Dillon, wrote
an open letter to Chief of Po
lice Beavers, charging him with per
mitting unlawful houses to operate on
certain city streets and promising to
give addresses if the Chief asks per
sonally for them within three days.
Beavers to Ignore Attack.
Characterizing Carl Hutcheson as of
too little importance to warrant an
answer to his charges made against
the police force. Chief Beavers de
clared that he would ignore him al
together.
"1 don't care to answer Hutcheson’s
attack,” said the police official
"Hutcheson is too small a fry to even
take notice of. An answer to him
would give him too much dignity. This
young man is in Felder’s office and is
merely being used as a tool of Fel
der and his gang. Felder prompted
him to make the statement that he
did, and so I will pay no attention to
Hutcheson.
"This matter is going before the
Grand Jury, and not Carl Hutcheson."
Regarded as Reply.
On Monday morning Chief Beavers
declared Attorney Thomas B. Felder
had no evidence of police cognizance
of immoral resorts; that he never had
had any. and that he was only bluffing
when he said he had. Requested t"
reply, Colonel Felder announced he
would make no more statements ex
cept in writing, and that he had
nothing to say then.
A few hours later Mr. Hutcheson, a
member of Colonel Felder s firm, is
sued the letter, which is regarded as
a semi-official reply from Colonel
Felder.
Mr. Hutcheson formerly was a
newspaper man. Shortly after taking
up the practice of law he achieved
State-wide renown by conducting the
campaign of William Schley Howard,
who defeated Representative Leonida-
Livingston and is now serving his
second term in Congress.
Following is Mr. Hutcheson’s open
letter to Chief J. L. Beavers:
Scores Vice Crusade.
J. L. Beavers, Chief of Police,
Atlanta:
Newport Lanford. Chief of De
tect! vea. Atlanta:
In your great crusade against
Sodom and Gomorrah with your
immaculate robes of Puritanism,
I accuse you in all your glory
with allowing certain houses on
Ivy Street, the business of which
is to barter in immoral and in
decent practices, to continue in
flagrant operation. AND YOU
KNOW IT. If you do not, every
sensible citizen of this city, who
knows anything of the world,
does. If you do not know these
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'Ship My Body to
Atlanta/ Farewell
Of Suicide in Jail
L UTHER Z. ROSSER, who is leading attorney of counsel
for the defense of Leo M. Frank, indicted for the murder
of Mary Phangan at the National Pencil factory.
NEW YORK, May 27.—Using his
belt and necktie as a noose, Eber Car
michael, a clerk, who was arrested
yesterday for fatally stabbing Conrad
Braun, subscription manager of Cur
rent Opinion, hanged himself in his
cell in a police station to-day.
Carmichael was said to have been
drinking heavily for some time and
stabbed Braun, a friend of two years’
standing, after Braun had refused to
lend him money.
Carmichael was In bad shape, phys
ically. when locked up and kept
shouting. "Ship my body to Atlanta.”
New Libel Charge
In Marconi Scandal
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON. May 27.—-The third
criminal trial growing out of the Mar
coni scandal began in Old Bailey
Court to-day. It is the Jibe! case of
Godfrey Isaacs, managing director of
the British Marconi Company, against
Cecil .Chesterton, journalist and
brother of G. K. Chesterton, the fa
mous essayist.
('hesterton iil charged with libeling
Isaacs in an article he wrote on the
connection between certain officers
of the British Government and the
Marconi interests.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.. May 27.
Conflicting reports are current here
to-day over the condition of Samuei
Gompers, labor leader, in a sanita
rium here, according to reports, suf
fering from nervous breakdown and
a serious operation.
Gompers’ nurse says he is able to
walk around and that he was on the
boardwalk Sunday, but friends insist
his condition is critical and that he
has had a replase.
$500,000 Telephone
Rate Cut in Chicago
company patrons in Chicago will ben
efit to the extent of $500,000 a year
under the provisions of a new tele
phone rate regulation -ordinance
passed by the City Council.
The ordinance, in addition to sav
ing money for subscribers, provides
for an increase in wages of employees
and pensions amounting to $420,000 a
year.
4 Dead in Crash of
Theatrical Specials
REDALIA, MO., May 27.—Four
persons were killed in a head-on col
lision between two Missouri Pacific
fast passenger trains at Brandt, 20
miles west of Jefferson City, this
morping.
Both trains Nos. 11 arid 12 are
known as theatrical specials.
It is unofficially stated that lap
orders caused the wreck.
Heflin to Lead House
Attack on Suffrage
WASHINGTON, May 27.—Congress
soon will ring with the echoes of anti-
woman suffrage oratory. Represen
tatives Heflin of Alabama and Stan
ley W. Bowdle of Ohio arc both pre
paring extensive arguments again-1
woman suffrage.
Bowdle is a firm believer in "no
votes for women.” and has a lot of
homespun reasoning to present.
BRYAN COMES TO ROUTE LAID FOR
The first member of the Wilson
Cabinet to visit the South will be Sec
retary of State William Jennings
Bryan.
Mr. Bryan will make a trip to At
lanta to deliver the quarter-centen
nial anniversary address to the stu
dents and friends of the Georgia
School of Technolog , at the Grand
Opera House. Monday evening at 8:16
o’clock. It will be the first public
address of such a character that Mr.
Bryan has made since becoming Sec
retary of State.
It will be the first college address
ever delivered in the South by a
United States Secretary of State.
Mr. Bryan will reach Atlanta Mon
day afternoon at 5 o’clock over the
Southern Railway. A suite of roooms
has been reserved for him at the
Gergian Terrace Hotel.
The Sunday American goes every
where ail over the 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.
E
Momentum will be added to the
movement for the Wednesday half-
holiday parade June 4 at « meeting
of retail grocers and commission men
In Taft Hall Tuesday night.
Business vs ill be combined with
pleasure at the meeting. A “Dutch”
lunch will be served and five orators
will be given free- rein. R. A. Broyles.
E. L. 4-dams, W. O. Stamps, John M.
McCulJough and Harry L. Sohlesinger
will bf* the speakers. Little remains
to be done except to formally ap
prove plans already made.
Tfo miles, at least, of emancipated
working people will parade the prin
cipal streets of Atlanta, starting at
1:30 o’clock from the Mitchell Street
vide of the State C’apitol. The line
of march will include Mitchell Street
to Whitehall, Whitehall and Peach
tree to North Avenue, North Avenue
to West Peachtree and West Peach
tree and Peachtree again to Five
Points.
Following the parade, special enter
tainment will he given the merehan r
commission men and other employers
jiiviu* the midweek half-hoiidcU'.
$25,000,000 Annual
Road Fund Feared)
WASHINGTON. May 27.—Claim
ing that a Committee on Good Roads
will open the way to an annual Gov
ernment expense of $25,000,000, econ
omy advocates will tight the creating
of the committee in the Democratic
caucus next week. They declare! the
committee constantly will be agitat
ing for tremendous appropriations
which can not now be afforded.
It is conceded that, if the commit-,
tee is created, its supporters will j
have enough strength to force big
appropriations.
Gompers’ Condition
Serious, Friends Say
Mr. Rosser,
as usual,
is playing a
game of
silence.
He has not
indicated
his line
of defense.
Negro, Whose Story That He Wrote
Notes at Franks Dictation Is Gen
erally Disbelieved, WasOften Drunk.
Mrs. White Can Not Identify Him.
Suspicion in the i’liagan case was Tuesday morning turned
full-tttm* upon James Conley, the negro whose unexpected asser
tion last week that he had written the notes found beside the body
of Mary Phagan, at the dictation of Leo M. Frank, was followed
by a speedy indictment of the pencil factory superintendent.
In the opinion of E. F. Holloway, timekeeper and foreman
in the factory, Conley is the guilty man.
Careful study of the negro's story has revealed many absurdi
ties in its structure, wherein evidences of ehildish cunning are
rife in an effort to throw the blame onto Frank. It is this which
has served to bring the deed to Conley’s door.
However, Mrs. Arthur White, wife of a machinist at the fac
tory, who testified that Rhe saw a negro lurking in the building
between 12 noon and 2 o’clock on the afternoon of the murder,
denied the published report in an afternoon paper that she had
identified Conley as the one. Mrs. White stated Tuesday morn
ing that she had secured only a glimpse of the man. It may have
been Conley, or another negro. Mrs. White was asked to pick
Conley out of a crowd of twelve negroes some time ago, but her
identification was a second choice.
- The police, in Rpite of bending
even effort to show that Frank
is guilty, therefore, have resort
ed to a dissection of Conley’s
story. One of its weakest links,
they believe, is the negro's quo
tation of Frank's statement to
him “ Why should I hang?” That
the superintendent should place
this confidence in the negro
sweeper appears absurd.
Another damaging point against
Conley lies in the declaration of Hol
loway, timekeeper of the factory, that
the negro had appeared for duty in
toxicated on several occasions; that
his duties as sweeper brought him.
in contact with the girls, who feared
him.
Where Was Conley?
According to Conley’s story, he was
on Peters Street from 10 o'clock until
2 in the afternoon of the murder.
Police investigation of this has failed
to prove the statement. Conley ad
mit** that he can not remember any
one whom he saw during that time to
beat up his statement. From 2 o’clock
until 8 Conley wns at his home. This
has hern proven. Conley declares that
from 6 until 8 o'clock that night he
was down town; this aiso has not
been established
Conley states
he
stayed there
night.
the
remainder of
the
According
to
the new theory
of
Conley’s implication, the negro wrote
the notes on Saturday instead of Fri
day. as he claims, and not on any
body's dictation. It is further argued
that, In order to ingratiate himself
with the law, he made his confession
when he thought that the case against
Frank was clinched—that his story
was the product of his own imagina
tion.
Conley's delay in making this con
fession until Frank's indictment
seemed likely is another link against
him.
His detailed account of the incident
of the note writing, in which he even
| went so far as to attempt a quotation
of what Frank said to him. shows
premeditation on the negro's part. ,t
is argued, and further that the story
was conceived by Conley while he was
in prison. However, the negro's child
ish brain was not capable of making
it strong enough to withstand rigid
investigation.
L. F. Holloway, timekeeper 'and
foreman of the National Pencil fac
tory, seen to-day by a Georgian re
porter, said he was confident the ne
gro Jim Conley, under arrest as a
suspect in the Mary Phagan murder
mystery, committed the crime.
Here is what Holloway told the re
porter;
"Jim Conley, when he came to work
here about one year ago, was a pretty
good negro. We had no trouble with
him for about two months. Then Jim
got drunk. He had been running the
elevator and we were afraid, to trust
him afterward. We then put him to
work sweeping in the trimming de
partment. Here Conley was closely
associated with the girls. He used to
move their chairs when he was
sweeping. Conley was the only negro
allowed in this department.
"Jim got so bad he used to carry
whisky with him In his pocket Sev
eral times he w’as caught by em
ployees taking a drink. This was not
known by the management until after
the murder of Mary Phagan.
Drunk in Factory.
“About one week before the crime
was committed the forelady of the
trimming and finishing department,
Miss Eulah May Flowers, went to the
top floor of the building to look over
the stock of boxes. When Conley was
not sweeping he was supposed to fill
the box bins with boxes. When Mies
Flowers moved toward the bin to look
in she stumbled over a form. She
screamed and fell back. It was Con
ley. He was dead drunk. Miss Flow
ers tried to wake him up, but was
unable.
Caught Washing Shirt.
"On the morning of the Coroner’s
investigation. Thursday after the
murder, when the plant was shut
down because we all were called to
the Investigation, I testified and went
back to the factory. As 1 entered the
metal department I heard a splashing
in the cooling tank. There was Con
ley washing his shirt. When 1 entered
he was very much startled and tried
to hide the shirt by trying to drop it
through a crack in the floor. It was
a blue shirt and I saw no bloodstains,
for he had evidently been washing it
for some time as it was pretty clean.
“This is the first time in the year
that Jim Conley worked here that he
ever washed his clothes here.
"Now, I don’t say Conley was de
generate enough to commit a crime so
terrible w hen he was sober, but I am
thoroughly convinced that he
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