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THE ATLANTA GEO EG! AX AND NEWS.
HIKE BE LIES If
Police, Despite Conflicting Affida
vits, Call Him Strong Wit
ness Against Frank.
Continued From Page 1.
elleve
that Fra nli
Thf detectives rejected the first af
fidavit of t'onley. in which he said
Frank dictated Friday the notes that
were found by the body of the slain
giri Sunday morning on the ground
that it was absurd and unbelievaVEe
to hold the theory that the murder
was premeditated
Yet thev accept the second af
fidavit, which indicatesidenticaMy
.-the same thing, in that Frank
met Conley at Nelson and For
syth Streets before 11 o’clock
Saturday morning, April 26, be
fore the crime was committed,
and told the negro to wait for
him, later taking Conley to the
factory with him, where Conley
says that he wrote the note* at
Frenk’e direction.
The negro in his second affidavit
suggests no other motive that could
have impelled Frank to avk him to
come to the factory shortly before
noon on Saturday Conley says that
Frank told him to wait secreted on
the first floor until he heard a whistle.
When he heard the whistle he says he
went upstairs and Frank dictated the
notes
Why Many Suspect Conley.
All of this la inescapably sugg s
five of premeditation on the part f
Frank, if Conley's story is to be be
lieved. but the theory of premedita
tion has been scoffed a I by everyon-.
Including Chief Lanford and Harry
Scott.
In fact, it never seriously was con
sidered by anyone, say those who are
Inclined to believe the evidence
againat Conley greatly outweighs that
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Banker, Pardoned When “Dying,” I Grand Lodge Session at Savannah
Ends—Atlantan Is Named
Grand Representative.
Purchases Steamers for New
York-to-South Trade.
st Frank. The assertion i
ide that it would be far
nvlct Conley, if the polh
iposed, than it will be to «
were
on viot
When the factory superintendent
permitted »«> go before the Coro
ners jury by his attorney, he an
swered all the question* in a straight -
forward, unwavering manner, never
ore r being trapped in a lie or mis
statement.
In marked contrast is the conduct
of Conley ever since his arrest at
th r time of the inquest three weeks
age \Vhen discovered :il the factory,
he was washing a shirt wrhlqli he j
sought to hide from the person who
h e round h in out.
Tie was taken into custody and i
gave bin addrosM as 02 Tattnall Strec.
Investigation disclosed that Conley I
was lying and that lie had not lived J
on Tattnall Street for months, his ac
tual residence being 172 Rhodes
jsi i ret
He was asked to write, and he told
the officers lie could not write a word.
He refused to he inveigled into mak
ing an attempt at handwriting of any
sort. He would not put a pencil to
paper that the detectives might get a
specimen of his penmanship. For a
long time they believed he was so
ignorant he could not write his own
name. Then they found some leases
he had signed for watches and knew
that ho had hern lying again
Just ns the Grand Jury was about
to si: and it appeared that
Frank would be indicted, the negro
broke hi? silence for the first time.
Hp told the detectives that it was he
who had written the notes, but that
he had written them at Frank's dicta
tion on Friday. April 25. Frank had
approached him in an aisle at the
factory and bad asked him to come
Into tile office, he said. He lemem-
bered that it was four minutes before
1 o'clock
That lie had been at the factory
Saturday' he denied emphatically. Re-
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NEW YORK, May in,—t'harle* W.
Morse, convicted of hank wrecklngr
after the 1907 panic and pardoned by
President Taft on the ground that he
was dying, is nol only attempting to
secure a monopoly of Hudson River
steamship traffic, but i« reaching out
along the Atlantic Poast.
This became known to-day when P
was learned that Mom* has bought
four lake steamers for coastwise trade
between New York and Southern ports
and will attempt to become the domi
nant figure in steamship traffic on the
Atlantic Coast he was planning to be
come when the financial earthquake
of 1907 upset hi" schemes.
The ships are so big they can not
be brought through tile canal con
necting Lakes Krie and Ontario, con
sequently they will have in lip reduced
in size. They will be enlarged after
they reach this poft.
Morse may extend his operations to
the Pacific when the Panama Canal is
completed.
tween 10 o’clock in the forenoon und
o'clock in tlte afternoon tie had been
on Peters Street, according to his
story.
The detective* ridiculed his story
and continued examining. Gradually
he broke down tinder their question
ing. and tt was established that he
bad been lying again and that he
actually bail bern In the factory Sat
urday. presumably at the very
the girl was murdered,
first time Ills presence in the factory
on Saturday had been known.
He bad kept It a most profoun 1
secret up to the time tt was goug
out of him by the detectives,
weakened further and admitted that
he had been hiding down on the first
floor as persons went in and out.
He described practically every per
son that entered or left the factory
between 12 and 1 o’clock. But he de
clared that he did not see Mary Pha-
gnn when she came in tlte building.
Out of all who entered or left, the
murdered girl and Lemmie Quinn ap
pear to be the only ones he missed
seeing, according to his story.
He explained this by saying that
lie must have fallen asleep for a lit
tle while. He saw Miss Corinthia Hall
and Mrs. Freeman leave a few min
utes before 1 o'clock, but did not see
Mary Phagan enter about five min
utes after tlte hour. Neither did he
see I.emmle Quinn, who Is said to
have been at the factory about 12:15.
If the negro's final affidavit is taken
as nearer the probable truth than his
first, those who are acquainted with
Frank are of the opinion that there
are still most important questions to
be answered convincingly. They are
these, assuming that Frank is guilty:
"Why should a man of Frank's in
telligence—a man who is highly edu
cated and who has won a position of
responsibility—virtually make a con
fidant of another man. especially an
ignorant negro, easily broken down
by the third degree of the police sta
tion?
•Why should a man of sense, if he
wished to keep his crime undiscover
ed. proclaim it to the negro, in his
office by tlte question: 'Why should 1
hang?’"
"Why should he approach this ne
gro more than an hour before this
crime was committed?
Finally, why should a man of in
telligence have recourse to notes at
all when he would know they ulti
mately would serve to fasten the
crime on the guilty person rather than
to divert suspicion''
If the detectives follow out their
intention of using Conley as a ma
terial witness, it is regarded as like
ly that they will have difficulty in
obtaining the acceptance of his a fit
davit and testimony in view of the
many lies in which he has been
trapped The repudiation of the first
affidavit, even on the representation
that he set the date originally on Fri-
da> he. a use of the fear that he would ! special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian
be hanged if admitting he was In the rONDON „ ° "'
factory Saturday, is thought to ren- |, . ‘ • -• Sil Rufus
dm the second affidavit practically t !*■ Gen * r ® 1 of England,
worthless so far as its legal weight "’"^nation to Pre-
,s concerned m, f r . A . SqU i h 1,1 consequence of the
Thefact that the detective* have h * s altain ^ t«
corroborated Conley s description in 1 01 ' llh Marconi expo*,
his second affidavit of ihe persons he n ,. , . .
saw while he said he was in hiding on ! n . e . • ewtsh Express states that the
the first floor only moot* firmly es- ^ remier aas , to accept the
tahlishes in the judgment of many | resi # natlon - hut that it has not been
the fact that Conley was at the fac
tory the afternoon of the murder and
had as favorable an opportunity to
attack and kill Mary Phagan as Leo
Frank had.
Tha corroboration, in their opinion,
does not add one jot to the possibil
ity that Frank might have dictated
the notes.
SAVANNAH. GA., May 21* With
the conclusion of business this after
noon the Grand Lodge of Odd Fel
lows of <ieorgin adjourned to meet
next year at Macon. A feature of to
day's -fusion was the report of the
committee on Odd Fellows' Home,
headed by T. S. O'Neil. This report
rind the agitation to establish the
home provoked the liveliest discus
sion of the meeting. Legislation af-
feeting the conduct of lodges and
complaints and grievances were also
considered.
Two steamers took the visitors
down the Savannah River this aft
ernoon.
The election'of Thomas M. Haynes,
of Savannah, as grand master, the
choice of other officers, including the
retiring grand master, W. S Cole
man. of Cedartown, and Dr. L. It.
Clarke, of Atlanta, as grand repre
sentative to the Sovereign Grand
Lodge, and the competitive degree
drill at the Savannah Theater last
night, completed the session yester
day.
lohn \V. Bennett, of Waycross, who
went into the ’Grand Lodge with
enough strength to elect him without
difficulty, moved that Dr. Clarke be
elected grand representative, and this
was done by acclamation. The other
officers are W. B. Sloan. Gainesville,
deputy grand master; Frank Harrell.
LaGrange, grand warden; T. R. Rob
ertson, LaGrange, grand secretary, i
and C. A Vonderluith, Athens, treas
urer.
Mrs. Hester Millon, of Thomasville,
was elected grand warden of the Re-
bekah Assembly, defeating Miss Nell
Rodrigues, of Macon. The other offi
cers are Mrs. J. W. Gholson, Mil-
ledgeville, president; Mrs. Ivy’ Hen
derson. Savannah, vice president;
Mrs. A. L. Moore. Fitzgerald, secre-
tar.\, and Mrs. Sarah Lutici, Augusta,
treasurer.
Tariff Bill Delay
Likely To Be Avoided
WASHINGTON, May 29. Confer
ences between members of the Senate
!• ini nee Committee and members ot
the lower house who were in charge
of various sections of the Underwood
tariff bill will be the rule until the
bill reaches the floor’ of the Senate
The sub-committees were working
on the bill to-eia\ fn secret session.
If agreement can be reached between
the tariff experts of the two houses
the chances of long delay in confer
ence will be avoided.
Gibson Jury Unable
To Agree on Verdict
NEWBURGH. X. Y . May 29.— Ak-
er having been out all night, the jury
n tlie trial of Bttrlon W. GibSon. the
New York lawyer charged w'th
strangling Countess Rosa Menschik
Sz.abo on Greenwood Lake July Ik
1812, to secure her estate, was stili
deadlocked this morning,
• r "-as rumored that the Juror,
-.’ovd 11 to 1 for conviction.
The jury ’.n Gibson’s first trial dis
agreed.
Scandal Forces Out
High British Official
Mrs. Pearl Hartley, Prostrated by
; Shock, Declares Robbery Was
Motive for Crime.
Continued From Page 1.
j She knew Wade, and she told me she
| saw him in front of her house yester
day morning, wearing overalls just as
\ hen he Is said to have left home,
i Two boys were w ith him. but they
didn't go in the house Wade was in
I Chattanooga when my w ife and
! daughter were murdered and he
couldn’t have done it.”
Goes to See Ruins.
Leaving Carson & Treadwell's of-
| flee, Mr. Stevens said he was going
to the ruins of his home. He first
visited the Patterson undertaking es-
; tablishment and arranged for the fu-
j ueral of his wife and daughter. Both
j bodies will be taken to Meansville,
| Ga., at 4 o’clock Friday morning, to
i be buried in the family lot, where
Mrs. Stevens’ father and mother both
i have been interred in the last two
years.
Lonnie Blevins, 17 years old, who
says he left San Francisco for Tampa
and from there came to Atlanta, Is
held at police headquarters to-day.
He said he arrived in Atlanta last
Friday. He was detained because he
could not give a connected story. The
police attach little significance to his
arrest or his presence in Atlanta.
Tells of Attempted Attack.
An important clew, given Sheriff J.
\ McCurdy, of DeKalb County, who
is in charge of the investigation, was
revealed in the statement of a neigh
bor to the effect that a Mexican half-
breed, former!v employed by Mr*
Stevens, had attempted to attack
Nellie Stevens some time agfl.
This declaration wau» made by Mis?
Josephine MeCaulav, 790 Glenn w ood
Avenue, an intimate friend of both
the slain mother and daughter. Miss
McCnuiay said that only a few days
ago Mrs. Stevens had told her ot
shooting at the di c charged halfbreed
when he appeared at the country
home. Mrs. Stevens had said that
she fired twice at the man, and that
be escaped into the clump of woods
adjoining the house. Sheriff McCur
dy has ordered a country-wide search
made for the halfbreed.
Discovery Wednesday morning that
Mr. Stevens had purchased an axe
some (Iriys ago offer- a possible clev.
to the weapon used by the murderer
in crushing the skulls of his victims.
The axe is, so far, missing, though
the, ruins of the burned dwelling and
surrounding vicinity have been care
fully searched for it.
Ax Apparently Used.
The sharp, knifelike cut across the
top of Nellie Stevens’ skull seems to
bear out the theory that the murderer
used the ax to slay his victims.
Possibility that the weapon used
by the murderer was thrown into
the well near the house has lead
Sheriff McCurdy to order the well
dragged.
Atlanta police and detective offi
cials have joined with the DeKalb
force to solve the mystery- Detective
Chief Lanford assigned Mounted Po
liceman Hamilton, who was a close
friend of the Stevens family, and
Detective Rosser to work on the case.
Sheriff McCurdy obtained this re
inforcement Thursday morning when
he held a conference with Lanford.
A unique incident of the blaze
which burned the Stevens home to
ashes was revealed in the finding of
fifty-seven chickens dead in a coop
fifty feet away. The coop was not
even scorched by the heat.
That robbery was the motive of the
murderer has been established by the
disappearance of jewelry and a large
quantity ot money which Mrs. Stev
ens was known to have had in the
house at the time.
Woman's Jewels Missing.
Neighbors stated that Mrs. Stevens
possessed a diamond ring valued at
$400 and two gold watches. These are
Mill Employees of
Gov, Foss on Strike
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(Blower Works and the Becker Milling
I Company's plant, concerns in which
I Governor lingerie N Foss is largely
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The strike practically tied up both
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missing.
Coupled with other theories as to
the murder is one which show's the
work that of two negroes who were
said to have been seen driving away
from the burning home at sunrise
Wednesday morning. The men rode
in a one-horse wagon, the body of
which was tilled with oats. Tracks
of the horse were found on a spot
near the ruins. In the immediate
vicinity was discovered a small pile
of fresh oats. Human footprints were
found nearby.
Despite the assertion that the ne
groes drove away, Sheriff McCurdy’s
men made a careful search of the
woods surrounding the home, believ
ing it highly probable that the mur
derer might have hidde’n therein to
watch the burning house, and will
scour the woods again to-day. An
other theory is that he might have
been wounded by Mrs. Stevens before
he killed her, and had been forced to
drag himself to the woods for escape.
That the man may be lying there
now is a possibility expressed by the
police. The shell found In the shot
gun used by Mrs. Stevens was found
to have been discharged.
Does Bible Give Clew?
A search Thursday morning of an
old deserted cabin 100 yards from the
destroyed Stevens’ home, in which
Mrs. S. C. Stevens and her adopted
daughter Nellie, were murdered and
then cremated, disclosed a Bible con
taining numerous marked passages,
tragically coincident with the reported
conduct of her own son toward her.
This cabin was occupied at different
times by negro servants who worked
on the Stevens place. It had been
vacant for three weeks.
The Bible reposed on a dust-cov
ered mantel in the dingy shack. On
the flyleaf appeared this inscription:
"Mrs. S. O. Stevens' book.”
In the list of the Ten Command
ments, two of them were marked in
pencil. They were.
"Thou -halt not kill.”
"Honor thy father and thy moth
er”
Several passages in the book of Rx-
• Tlus were marked, all bearing on the
relation of the son to the parents.
One of these reads:
"And iie that smiteth his father or
Ms mother shall surely be put to
death.”
Verse* of the same chapter were
aLo marked, one resiling:
"And he that curfeeth his lather or
M RS. WILLIAM STEVENS, in two photographs, ard below, her daughter, Nellie, who were
slain a”d their bodies incinerated in their lonely country home on McDonough Road. The
two women were alone when they met death, their husband and father, a Confederate veteran,
being in Chattanooga to attend the reunion. He has hurried home to join in the hunt for the
slayer.
his mother shall surely be put to
death."
"And if any mischief follow, then
thou shalt surely give life for life."
Negro Is Sought.
Walter Wilkes, a negro, w ho occu
pied the deserted cabin until three
*eeks ago. is being sought by officers
Friday in the general plan of inves
tigating every one on whom uspicion
might possibly turn. Where he went
after leaving the Sttvens’ home has
rot been learned.
The search .-f the cabin revealed
discarded clothing, supposed t<» have
been left by Wilkes. The clothing is
said to have been damp. On an old
table was also found a caseknife.
In the corner of the room was an
old axe. It bore spots, but these are
believed to be rust. This is not
thought to be the missing Stevens’
axe. which was practically new and
bright. Sheriff McCurdy said Thurs
day he believed this axe was at the
bottom of the well in the yard of the
burned home.
Search is also being made for an
unidentified negro who once worked
for a Mrs. Nort, said to be i friend
of Mr. Stevens. This negro wrote
Mrs. Nort a letter asking her for a
recommendation, but she failed to
grant his request. Last Saturday the
negro Is said to have called her up
over the telephon and remarked that
he didn't need a recommendation any
way. "that he was working for her
friend. Mrs. Stevens." No one has
been found who knows anything of
this negro. He is described as being
black and thick.
Gun Shell Is Found
B. R. Peavy, a farmer who was on
the scene of the crime all night, made
an extended search of the ruins, and
in the room where the charred bodies
were found discovered a shotgun
shell. The primer was dented, indi
cating that it had been fired. The
single-barreled shotgun found beside
the remains *of Mrs. Stevens was
empty. Peavy also found a discharged
revolver cartridge, of .38 caliber. Mrs.
Stevens’ revolver is said to have been
<rf 32 caliber.
Her revolver is still missing.
The finding of the discharged car
tridges has only served to intensify
the baffling mystery as to what took
place in the murder room. It has
given rise ’.o several theories. It has
been suggested that there may have
been a gun battle between Mrs. Ste
vens and the assailant. There is still
another theory that the murderer may
have shot Mrs. Stevens with a re
volver, and. as she fell, seized the
shotgun, with which she was trying to
defend the home, and with it shot the
girl to death. Officers are satisfied
that Mrs. Stevens had leaped from
bed and seized the shotgun to protect
herself and little Nellie, but it is a
matter of pure speculation as to how
the s»hell came to be discharged.
The time of the tragedy, or at least
of the fire, was fixed Thursday in a
statement by Farris Simmons, a
brakeman of the Southern Railway,
who said he passed on his train be
tween 12 and 1 o'clock Wednesday
morning and saw the house in flames
The railroad is but a short distance
from the burned home. This would
make it positive that the murder was
committed about midnight or before
that hour, and the Stevens boy will
merely have to show that he left for
Chattanooga before that time.
Suspect Trailed.
Telephone information from Red
Oak. a short distance south of At
lanta, was received at the police sta
tion Thursday afternoon to the effect
that a suspicious stranger, believed to
be Dan Walker, the suspected half-
breed Indian who was shot at by Mrs
Stevens several weeks ago when he
insulted her adopted .laughter, haci
passed through that place yesterda>
Policeman Clarence Hamilton, who
is detailed on Ihe mystery with De
tective Rosser, immediately notified
Fairburn. New nan. Palmetto and
other towns along the route to be on
the lookout for the half-breed and
Like him into custody, pending in
structions from Atlanta.
Sister Believes
Son Innocent.
In a darkened room in a little house
at 33 Dalney Street, with a physician
in almost constant attendance, lies a
woman prostrated by grief. Absolute
quiet has been ordered by the doctor
and the anguish tears at her heait in
a silence broken only by her own sobs
and the hushed patter of childish
footsteps as her children play quiet!}
about the house.
She is Mrs. Peari Hartley, sister of
Mrs. Sarah C. Stevens, who?e charred
body was found lying beside that of
her adopted daughter in the smoking
ruins of tneir farm home seven miles
from Atlanta. Prostrated by the
shock of the tragedy, with her imagi
nation made vivid bv her suffering
and grief. Mrs. Hartley is seeing m
the darkness of her room the terrible
happenings of that night of horror.
Mrs. Hartley’s* only surcease from
suffering came for a few moment'-
late Wednesday afternoon, when, uii-
dfcr the influence of opiates adminis
tered by her physician, she recovered
sufficiently to talk to a Georgian re
porter. Mrs. Hartley sobbed audibly
throughout the interview, and her
eyes, red with weeping and reflecting
the anguish that tore at her hear.,
emphasized her words as she cried for
vengeance on the murderer.
“Why do they always murder wom
en?" she cried. "It is terrible. Littl p
girls are murdered when they go onto
the street, and now a woman is no',
safe even in her own home."
Faints at News.
The notifying of Mrs. Hartley of
the death of her sister and niece
formed one of the most dramatic and
pathetic incidents of the entire trag
edy. She was downtown Wednesda:
morning shopping, when word cam*
to her home on Dalney Street that her
sister and niece had been murdered.
Mrs. Lena Thompson .a neighbor, oi
24 Dalney Street, volunteered to go
downtown and find Mrs*. Hantiey amt
tell her the sad news.
After a search of an hour Mrs
Thompson found Mra Hartley in the
Kress store on Whitehall Street. As
she stood trying to locate the sister of
the murdered woman in the crowd of
shoppers Mrs. Hartley, warned by in
tuition that something was* wrong
pushed through the crowd and hur
ried to Mrs. Thompson.
"What is it?” s»he cried. "What's
the matter?”
Mrs. Thompson, seeking to break
the news gently, told her that her sis
ter’s home had burned down and tna
*he had been badly injured.
"It’s worse than that.” Mrs. Hart!-
cried. "I feei it! 1 know it i- wors
than that!"
She screamed and fainted in tri
arm- <»f Mrs. Thompson. Si
w as ‘soon revived and taken t<? her
home. Mrs. Thompson endeavored to
calm her on tiie trip on the street car
with the assurance that everything
was all right.
As Mrs. Hartley entered her yard,
one of her little daughters ran out of
the house, tears streaming down her
face.
"Oh. mamma." she cried, "Aunt Sa
rah and Cousin Nellie have been
killed!”
With a scream. Mrs. Hartley fell to
the grodfidj in' ■) swoon. She was
picked up by Mrs. Thompson and
members of her family and carried
into the house. A physician was
called and administered opiates. Un
der the influence of the medicine she
was able to sit up in bed for a few
moments late in the afternoon, but
collapsed again when she learned that
her nephew', the son of the murdered
woman, was being sought by the po
lice as the murderer of his mother.
BETTER SERVICE
Railroad Commission Directs the
Company to Provide for the
Rush-Hour Crowds. v
Continued From Page 1.
mace on this route week cays,
directed on other named routes, to
accurately ascertain measure of
regular traffic.
ROUTE NO. 20—■College Park. Ka>t
Point and Hapevlllet Actual counts
of week-day loads at peak points to
be made during next five months, to
ascertain accurately if there is over
congestion in regular traffic.
ROUTE NO. 23—Buckhead Line:
Tripper service previously ordered
by the commission to Sixth Street
on West Peachtree has been re
cently extended by the company to
Dead Man s* Curve, the end of dou
ble track, which gives local service
this far on a ten-minute headway
during rush hours and to that ex
tent relieves congestion on the
Buckhead cars. In addition, double-
headers in the morning and after
noon hours, for congestion during
those hours arising out of construc
tion work in the northern part of
the city, are operated and will be
continued as necessity demands*.
Counts, during morning and after
noon rush hours, for the next five
months, of actual loads at the peak
point of the Buckhead line, have
been ordered, and will determine the
necessity of further relief on this
route.
Grounded German
Battleship in Peril
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
DANZIG. GERMANY, May 29.—
Danzig harbor was all but closed to
day by the German dreadnought Koe
nig Albert, which went aground Mon
day and which has fcwung across the
mouth of the Vistula River, prevent
ing all but the smallest vessels from
entering or leaving.
The position of the warship is dan
gerous owing to the drifting silt which
is threatening to sandlock the ship.
Fear’s Wives Were
Near, Beer and Dear
CHICAGO. May 29.—That George
Fear, who disappeared mysteriously
in Chicago recently, and who was al
leged to have wives under the names
Near.. Beer, Fear and Dear, was *
Mormon was the explanation made in
the County Court yesterday by an in
vestigator who had discovered the
case.
Fear is said to have come to Chi
cago with his various wives to work
on an invention. The high cost of
living sent him scurrying back io
Utah, the investigator told the court.
Recall Clamor Laid
To Corrupt Lawyers
WASHINGTON, May 29. -On the
shoulders of corrupt lawyers. Senator
Charles E. Townsend, of Michigan,
speaking before the graduates of the
Washington College of Law, placed
the burden of blame for the agitation
foCthe recall of judges.
The speaker took to task a class of
"shrewd and highly educated law
yers'.” whom he termed "flaw finders."
and declared they were "enemies of
decent government.”
Break Down the Cost of Living
Your meat bill is far too high —
don’t need half the amount of meat
you’re eating now—cut your
meat bill two-thirds and
substitute a food
that is far more
nutritious and costs
one-tenth the price
— FAUST SPA
GHETTI.
A 10c package of FAUST SPAGHETTI contains
more real nutrition than 4 lbs. of beef and it is much
easier to digest.
you
is made from Durum wheat, the cereal so extremely
rich in gluten—that element which builds muscle,
bone and flesh. FAUST SPAGHETTI is a delicious,
savory, appetizing food that can be served in
many different ways. Write for fuee recipe
book. Eat less meat—eat FAUST SPA
GHETTI, cut down cost of living.
At all Grocers—5c and 10c packages.
MAIILL BROS.
St. Louis, Mo.