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MAZE OF LIES OF
Police, Despite Conflicting Affida
vits, Call Him Strong Wit
ness Against Frank.
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their theory that the negro was the
most important witness against Leo
M. Frank, in the fp.ce of the contra
dictory stories and lies in which he
had been trapped.
They were strongly disposed to glfre
full credence to Conley's second affi
davit. although the negro’* midden
anxiety to talk after three weeks of
silence and the maze of falsehood in
which he was at once involved served
suddenly to shift the responsibility
for Mary Phagan’s death from Leo
Frank to the sullen black man, in the
Judgment of many who havfe been fol
lowing the evidence closely.
Chief Lanford and Detective Harry
Scott, of the Pinkertons, announced
Thursday morning, however, that they
regarded the second affidavit of Con
ley as the final and conclusive piece
of evidence needed in preparing a case
against Frank.
Rejected First AfFidavit.
Others who have weighed the evi
dence carefully declare there are
many more significant Indications that
Conley was the slayer than there are
reasons to believe that Frank is
guilty.
The detectives rejected the first af
Adavit of Conley, 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 unbelievable
to bold the theory that the murder
was premeditated.
Yet they accept the second af
fidavit, which indicatesidenticallv
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 w<ith him, where Conley
says that he wrote the notes at
Frank’s direction.
The negro in his spcond affidavit
suggests no other motive that could
have impelled Frank to ask 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 is inescapably sugges
tive 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 at by everyone.
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
against Conley greatly outweighs that
against Frank. The assertion is free-
Jy made that it would be far easier
to convict Conley, if the police were
bo disposed, than it will be to convict
Frank. Here are a few reasons ad
vanced:
When the factory superintendent
•was permitted to go before the Coro
ner’s jury by his attorney, he an
swered all the questions in a straight
forward, unwavering manner, never
once being trapped in a lie or mia-
Btatement.
In marked contrast is the conduct
of Conley ever since his arrest at
the time of the inquest three weeks
ago. When discovered at the factory.
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SISTER THINKS
Mrs. Pearl Hartley, Prostrated by
Shock, Declares Robbery Was
Motive for Crime.
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RULE COAST SHIPS
Banker, Pardoned When “Dying,”
Purchases Steamers for New
York-to-South Trade.
NEW YORK, May 29.—Charles VV.
Morsp, convicted of bank wrecking
after the 1907 panic and pardoned by
President Taft (in the ground that he
was dying. Is not only attempting to
secure a monopoly of Hudson River
steamship, traffic, but Is reaching out
along the Atlantic Coast.
This became known to-day when 1*
was learned that Morse 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 his schemes.
The ships are so big they can not
be brought through the canal con
necting Lakes Erie and Ontario, con
sequently they will have to be reduced
in size. They will be enlarged after
they reach tilts port.
Morse may extend his operations to
the Pacific when the Panama Canal Is
completed.
FELDER BRIBERY
CHARGE EXPEGTEC
he was washing a shirt which he
sought to hide from the person who
had found him out.
He was taken Into custody and
gave his address as 911 Tattnall Street.
Investigation disclosed that Conley
was lying and that he had not lived
on Tattnall Street for months, his ac
tual residence being 172 Rhodes
Street.
He was asked to write, and he told
the officers he could not w rite a word.
He refused to be Inveigled into mak
ing an attempt at handwriting of any
sort. He would not put a pencil to
pjaper that the detectives might get a
specimen of his penmanship. Cor 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 he had been lying again.
Just as the Grand Jury was about
to sit and It appeared likely that
Crank would be Indicted, the negro
broke his silence for the first time.
He told the detectives that it was lie
who had written the notes, but that
he had w ritten them at Frank's dicta
tion on Friday, April 29, Frank had
approached him In an aisle at the
factory and had asked him to come
Into the office, he said. He remem
bered that it was four minutes before
1 o’clock.
That he had been at the factory
Saturday he denied emphatically. Be
tween 10 o’clock In the forenoon and
2 o’clock in the afternoon he had been
on Peters Street, according to hts
The detectives ridiculed his story
and continued examining Gradually
he broke down under their question
ing. and It was established that he
had been’lying again and that he
actually had been in the factory Sat-
urdav presumably at the very time
the girl was murdered. This was the
first time his presence In the factory
in Saturday had been known.
He had kept It a most profound
secret up to the time It was gouged
out of him by the detect ves He
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 l ha-
gan when she came in the building.
Out of all who entered or left, the
murdered girl and Lemmte Quinn ap
pear to be the only ones he missed
seeing, according to his story.
He explained this by saying that
he must have fallen asleep for a lit
tle while. He saw Miss Oorlnthla Hall
and Mrs. Freeman leave a few min
utes before 1 o’clock, but did not see
Mary l’hagan enter about five min
utes'after the hour. Neither did he
see Lemmie Quinn, who is said to
have been at the factory about U:lv.
If tbe negro’s final affidavit is taken
as nearer the probable truth than hts
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
bv the third degree of the police sta
tion? . ...
“Why should a man of sense, if he
w ished to keep his crime undiscover
ed. proclaim it to the negro, in his
office by the question: ‘Why should 1
hang?"’ . ...
"Why should he approach this ne
gro more than an hour before this
crime was committed?
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Believed Beavers Will Try to Have
Grand Jury Consider Accuh-
satioris Against Attorney. \
That bribery charges against Col
onel Thomas B. Felder and others
will be placed before the Fulton Coun
ty Grand Jury by police officials, was
the indication when G. C. February,
secretary of Chief of Detectives Lan
ford, and the person alleged to have
been offered $1,000 in bribe money,
secured a subpena Thursday after
noon for A. S. Colyar, Jr., to appear
before Solicitor General Dorsey and
give testimony Friday morning.
The subpena formally summoned
Colypr, who was the author of the
dictographing of Felder and Mayor
Woodward, to appear before the
Grand Jury. The preliminary hearing,
however, will be in Solicitor Dorsey’s
office.
That February carried away with
him a number of subpena blanks is
taken to mean that others will be
called upon to testify.
At the hearing of testimony Friday
morning it is believed that Lanford
and Police Chief Beavers will endeav
or to show Solicitor Dorsey the
plausibility of their bribery charges
and ask that the matter be placed
before the Grand Jury.
In line with this action, Chief
Beavers called upon Carl Hutcheson,
the attorney, again Thursday morn
ing for the list of. ‘‘protected disor
derly houses’’ which Hutcheson de
clared he held, and which Hutcheson
said he would reveal in an effort to
prove that vice under police protec
tion is rife in Atlanta.
Hutcheson three days ago, in an
swer to Beavers’ defl, declared that
he would give the police official the
list on Thursday. On that day, how
ever. Hutcheson stated the list was
not yet prepared. He informed Beav
ers lie would have it ready, though,
w’ithin a short time.
Colyar was formally released Thurs
day of the $1,000 bonds under which
lie was given his liberty following
forgery charges made against him by
ei Knoxville, Tenn., woman.
Colyar’s release followed the failure
of the Knoxville police authorities to
send a man to Atlanta to take him
back at the time specified by Police
Chief Beavers.
Shot His Neighbor;
Gets Year in Jail
MACON, GA.. May 29.—Mallary
Bedlngfield, found guilty of shooting
at another because of the shooting of
his next-door neighbor, Ferd Gutten-
berger, whom he claims he mistook
for a burglar, this morning was sen
tenced as for a misdemeanor, being
given twelve months in Jail.
Guttenberger recovered, although a
bullet passed through his body.
Gibson Jury Unable
To Agree on Verdict
NEWBURGH, N. Y.. May 29.—Aft
er having been out all night, the jury
in the trial of Burton W. Gibson, the
New York lawyer charged with
strangling Countess Rosa Menschik
Szabo on Greenwood Lake July Itf.
1912, to secure her estate, was still
deadlocked this morning.
It was rumored that the jurors
*tood 11 to 1 for conviction.
The jury In Gibson's first trial dis
agreed.
Scandal Forces Out
High British Official
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, May 29.—Sir Rufus
Isaacs, Attorney General of England,
has tendered his resignation to Pre
mier Asquith in consequence of the/
notoriety his name has attained in
connection with the Marconi expos
ures.
The Jewish Express states that the
Premier has refused v to accept the
resignation, but that it has not been
Mill Employees of
Gov. Foss on Strike
BOSTON, May 29.—Fifteen hun
dred employees of the Sturtevant
Blower Works and the Becker Milling
Company’s plant, concerns in which
Governor Eugene N Foss is largely-
interested, went on strike to-day.
The strike practically tied up both
plants.
A wonderful magazine given
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I next Sunday American.
L
Wf, because he was in Chattanooga
yesterday morning. When he drove
rne from home to the car line Sunday
morning when I started to Chatta
nooga he told me he might be up
there before the reilnion was over.
Yesterday afternoon the landlady
told me the house had burned down.
She knew Wade, and she told me she
saw him In front of her house ye.^ter-
day morning, wearing overalls Just as
when he la said to have left home.
Two boys were with him, but they
didn’t go in the house. Wade was in
Chattanooga when my wife and
daughter were murdered, and he
couldn’t have done it.”
Goes to See Ruins.
Leaving Carson & Treadwell’s of
fice, 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
neral of his wife and daughter. Both
bodies will be taken to MeansviUe,
Oa., at 4 o’clock Friday morning, to
be buried in the family lot, where
Mrs. Stevens’ father and mother both
have been interred in the last two
years.
Lonnie Blevins, 17 yekrs old. who
isays he left San Francisco for Tampa
Imd 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
VAild not give a connected story. The
p%Ace attach little significance to his
arrast or his presence in Atlanta,
Tells of Attempted Attack.
An important clew, given Sheriff J.
A. MccVrdy, of DeKalb County, who
is in change of the investigation, was
revealed m. the statement of a neigh
bor to the <- 1 8(ect that a Mexican half-
breed, formerly employed by Mrs
Stevens, had 'attempted to attack
Nellie Stevens s^me time ago.
This declaration was made by Mis?
Josephine McCauley, 790 Glenn wood
Avenue, an intimat* friend of both
the slain mother and daughter. Miss
McCaulay said that omv a few days
ago Mrs. Stevens had <old her of
shooting at the discharge^ halfbreed
when he appeared at the\ country
home. Mrs. Stevens had s\id that
she fired twice at the man, and that
he escaped into the clump of woods
adjoining the house. Sheriff MdCur-
dy has ordered a country-wide search
made for the halfbreed.
Discovery Wednesday morning that
Mr. Stevens had purchased an axe
some days ago offers a possible clew
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 tp
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 mysjtery. 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 of 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
missing.
Coupled with other theories as to
the murder is one which shows 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 filled 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 hidden 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 Gnve 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 w ith 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. C. Stevens’ book.”
In the list of the Ten Command
ments. two of them were marked in
pencil. They were:
“Thou shalt not kill.”
“Honor thy father and thy moth
er.”
Several passages in the book of Ex
odus were marked, all bearing on the
relation of the son to the parents.
One of these reads:
“And he that smiteth his father or
his mother shall surely be put to
death.”
Verses of the same chapter were
• Do marked, one reading:
“And he that curteth his father or
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ILLIAM STEVENS, husband and father of the woman
and girl whose charred bodies were found in the fire
ruins of their home on McDonough Road, and whose deaths
are laid to a slayer. Mr. Stevess says his son is innocent.
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, who occu
pied the deserted cabin until three
weeks ago, is being sought by officers
Thursday in the general plan of inves
tigating every one on whom suspicion
might possibly turn. Where he went
after leaving the Stevens home has
r.ot been learned.
The search of the cabin revealed
discarded clothing, supposed to have
been left by Wilkes. The clothing is
said to ht*ve been damp. On an old
table was also found a caseknife.
In the corner of the room was an
old ax. It bore spots, but these are
believed to be rust. This is not
thought to be tjie missing Stevens’
ax, which was practically new ana
bright. {Sheriff McCurdy said Thurs
day he believed this ax was at the
bottom of the well in the yard of the
burned home.
Search is also being made for qn
unidentified negro who once worked
for a Mrs. Nort, said to be a friend
of Mrs. Stevens. This negro wrote
Mrs. Nort a letter asking ner for a
recommendation, but she failed to
grant his request. Last Saturday the
negro is said to have called her up
over the telephone 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
of 32 caliber.
Her revolver is still missing.
The finding of the discharged car
tridges has only served to intensify
fhe baffling mystery as to what took
place in the murder room. It has
given rise to 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 shell 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 hifc 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 daughter, had
passed through that place yesterday.
Policeman Clarence Hamilton, who
is detailed on the mystery with De
tective Rosser, immediately notified
Falrbyrn, Newman, Palmetto and
other towns along the route to be on
the lookout for the half-breed and
take 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 heart in
a silence broken only by her own sobs
and the hushed patter of childish
footsteps, as her children play quietly
about the house.
She is Mrs. Pearl Hartley, sister of
Mrs. Sarah C. Stevens, whose charred
body was found lying beside that of
her adopted daughter in the smoking
ruins of their farm home seven miles
from Atlanta. Prostrated by the
shock of the tragedy, with her imagi
nation made vivid by her suffering
and grief. Mrs. Hartley is seeing in
the darkness of her room the terrible
happenings of that night of horror.
Mrs. Hartley’? only surcease from
suffering came for a few moments
late Wednesday afternoon, when, un
der 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
thb anguish that tore at her heart,
emphasized her words as she cried for
vengeance on the murderer.
“Why do they always murder wom
en?" she cried. “It is terrible. Little
girls are murdered when they go onto
the street, and now a woman is not
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 th'e most dramatic and
pathetic incidents of the entire trag
edy. She was downtown Wednesday
morning shopping, when word came
to her home on Dalney Street that her
sister and niece had been murdered.
Mrs. Lena Thompson ,a neighbor, of
24 Dalney. Street, volunteered to go
downtown and And Mr?. Hartley and
tell her the sad news.
After a search of an hour Mrs.
Thompson found Mrs. 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 wa? wrong,
pushed through the crowd and hur
ried to Mrs. Thompson.
“What is it?” ?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 that
she had been badly injured.
“It’s worse than that,” Mrs. Hartley
cried. “1 feel it! I know it i? worse
than that!”
She screamed and fainted in the
arms of Mrs. Thompson. She
was soon revived and taken to her
home. Mrs. Thompson endeavored to
calm her on the 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 ker
face.
“Oh, mamma.” she cried. “Aunt Sa
rah and Cousin Nellie have been
killed!”
With a scream, Mrs. Hartley fell to
the ground in a 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.
Militants Fire Hay
And Farm Buildings
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, May 29.—Having terror
ized most of the cities of England, the
militant suffragettes now are paying
their attentions to the rural districts.
Three fires were reported to-day
from farms near Richmond. Hay
stacks and farm buildings were
burned and about the ruins were scat
tered placards and copies of The
Suffragette.
NOTTINGHAM. ENGLAND. May
29.-—Suffragette set fire to the freight
sheds in the railroad terminal here
to-day. The fire was extinguished
after $5,000 damage was done.
Railroad Commission Directs the
Company to Provide for the
Rush-Hour Crowds.
Continued From Page 1.
made on this route week days, as
directed on other named routes, to
accurately ascertain measure of
regular traffic.
ROUTE NO. 20—College Park. East
Point and Hapeville: Actual counts
of week-day loads at peak points to
be made during next five months, to
ascertain accurately if there ie 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’? 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 demand?.
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 swung 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 a
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 to
Utah, the investigator told the court.
Grand Lodge Ses
Ends—Atlantan
Grand Represent
SAVANNAH, GA., May 29.-
the conclusion of business this aftc^
noon the Grand Lodge of Odd Fel-1
lows of Georgia adjourned to meetl
next year at Macon. A feature of to
day’s session was the report of the
committee on Odd Fellows’ Home,
headed by T. S. O’Neil. This report
and the agitation to establish the
home provoked the liveliest discus
sion of the meeting. Legislation af
fecting 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. B.
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.
John W. 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,
and C. A. Vonderluith, Athens, treas
urer.
Mrs. Hester Millon, of Thoma^vUIe,
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
tary, and Mrs. Sarah Lutici, Augusta,
treasurer.
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
Washingi&’fi ^College of Law. placed
the burden of blame for the agitation
for the recall of judges.
The speaker took to task a class of
“shrewd and highly educated law
yer?.” whom he termed “flaw finders,”
and declared they were “enemies of
decent government.”
1,400 Taken From
American Liner on
Rocks Off England
LIVERPOOL, May 29.—The Amer
ican liner Haverford, bound from Liv
erpool to Philadelphia with 1,400 pas
sengers on board, crashed upon
Daunts Rock, outside of Queenstown
Harbor, to-day in a thick fog.
A big hole was rammed in the ship’s
hold and she began to settle. Wire
less calls brought help, and all the
passengers were taken off.
A wireless message said the ship
was in a dangerous condition.
Americans Victims
In London Hotel Raid
LONDON, May 29.—American tour
ists were among the victims of a rob
bery at the fashionable Hotel Berke
ley in Piccadilly early to-day. Armed
burglars bound and gagged two por
ters, who were acting a9 w r atchmen,
opened a safe and made off with a
great sum of money and jewel?.
Scotland Yard detectives were as
signed to the case. It is believed the
robbers fled to France. The Berkeley
is one of the best-known hotels In
London and much frequented by
American tourists.
Break Down the Cost of Living
Your meat bill is far too high — you
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.
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 free recipe
book. Eat less meat—eat FAUST SPA
GHETTI, cut down cost of living.
-4f all Grocers—5c and 10c packages.