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’olice, 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 face of the contra
dictory stories and lies in which he
hod been trapped.
They were strongly disposed to give
full credence to Conley’s second affi
davit, although the negro's 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 have 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 aa 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
fidavit of Conley, in which he said
Frank dictated Friday the notes that
were found by the body of the slain
glri Sunday morning on the ground
that it was absurd and unbelievable
to hold the theory that the murder
was premeditated.
Yet they accept the second af
fidavit, which indicatesidentically
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 notes at
Frank’s direction. *
The negro in his second 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 sugg?s-
tive of premeditation on the part cf
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
ly made that it would be far easier
to convict Conley, if the police were
so 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 Jur> by his attorney, he an
swered all the questions in a straight
forward. unwavering manner, never
once being trapped in a lie or mis
statement.
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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W 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.
Mrs. Pearl Hartley, Prostrated by
Shock, Declares Robbery Was
Motive for Crime.
Continued From Page 1.
MORSE TRIG TO FELDER BRIBERY
RULE COAST SHIPS CHARGE EXPECTED
Banker, Pardoned When “Dying,”
Purchases Steamers for New
York-to-South Trade.
NEW YORK, May iy.—<'hnrles W.
Morn.!, convicted of bank wrecking
after the 1%07 panic and pardoned by
President Taft on the K round that he
was dying, is not only attempting lo
secure a monopojy of Hudson River
steamship traffic, but is reaching out
along the Atlantic Coast.
This became known to-day when It
was learned that Moree 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 hie 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 this port.
Morse may extend his operations to
the Paritlc when the Panama Canal Is
completed.
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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 92 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 write a word.
He refused to be 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, lor 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
Frank would be indicted, the negro
broke his silence for the first time.
He told the detectives that it "’as
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 had asked him to come
into the office, he said. He remem
bered that It was four minutes before
That he had been at the factmr
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 his
S ’ The detectives ridiculed his story
and continued examining Gradually
hr 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
urday, presumably at tlve very time
the girl was murdered. 1 his was the
first time his presence in the factory
on Saturday had been known.
He had kept it a most profounJ
secret up to the time It was gouged
0 f w( n i by the detectives. 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. Hut npae
dared that he did not see Mar\ l ha-
gan when she came in the building
Out of all who entered or left, the
murdered girl and Lemtnie Quinn ap
pear to be the only ones he missed
seeing, according to his story.
He explained this by saying t
he must have fallen asleep for a lit
tle while, lie saw Miss Lorinthia Hall
and Mrs. Freeman leave a few min
utes before 1 o'clock, hut did not see
Mary Phagan enter about five min
utes after the hour. Neither d d he
see Lemmle Quinn, who is said to
have been at the factory about 12.16.
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 Franks 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 the question: ‘Why should I
ha **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 Accusa-
sations 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 ih 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
Colyar, who was the author of the
dictographlng 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 (Tailed upon Carl Hutcheson,
the attorney, agaii 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 he would have it ready, though,
within a short time.
Colyar was formally released Thurs
day of the $1,000 bonds under which
he was given his liberty following
forgery charges made against him by
a Knoxville, Tenn., woman.
Colyar’s release followed the failure
of the Knoxville police authorities to
send a man to Atlanta to take him
hack at the time specified by Police
Chief Beavers.
Shot His Neighbor,*
Hets Year in Jail
MACON, GA.. May 29.—Mallary
Bedingfleld, found guilty of shooting
at another because of the shootlpg of
his next-door neighbor, Ferd Out ten-
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 16.
1912, to secure her estate, was still
deadlocked this morning.
It was rumored that the jurors
rrtood 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 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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it, because he was in Chattanooga
yesterday morning. When foe drov^
me from home to the car line Sunday
morning when I started to Chatta
nooga he told me he might be up
there before the reunion 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 yester
day morning, wearing overalls Just as
when he is said to have left home.
Twp 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 ^ill be taken to Meansville,
Ga., 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 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.
A. 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, formerly employed by Mrs
Stevens, had attempted to attack
Nellie Stevens some time ago.
,This declaration waa made by Mis<
Josephine McCaulay, 790 Glenn wood
Avenue, an intimate friend of both
the slain mother and daughter. Miss
McCaulay said that only a few days
ago Mrs. Stevens had told her of
shooting at the discharged halfbreed
when he appeared at the country
home. Mrs. Stevens had said that
she fired twice at the man, and that
'he escaped into the clump of woods
adjoining the bouse. Sheriff McCur
dy has ordered a country-w r ide 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 ( rushing 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 sharpf knifelike cut across the
top of Nellie Htevens’ 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 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 he 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. 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
also marked, one reading
"And he that curseth his father or
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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 ha^
not been learned.
The search ,.<£ the cabin revealed
discarded clothing, supposed to 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 ax. It bore spots, but these are
believed to be rust. This is not
thought to be the 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 an
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 her 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 ror 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
the 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 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 daughter, had
passed through that place yesterday.
Policeman Clarence Hamilton, who
is detailed on the mystery with De
tective Rosser, immediately notified
Fairbum, Newnan, 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’s only surcease froi£
suffering caqne 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
the 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 terr’ble. 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 the 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 find Mrs. 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 was wrong,
pushed through the crowd and hur
ried to Mrs. Thompson.
"What is it?” she cried. “What’s
the matter?”
Mrs. Thompson, seeking to break
the news gently, told her that her sis
ter^ home had burned 'down and that
she had been badly injured.
“It’s worse than that,” Mrs. Hartley
cried. "I feel it! I know it is 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 her
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.—Suffragettcj set fire to the freight
sheds in the railroad terminal heie
to-day. The fire was extinguished
after $5,000 damage was done.
BEHER SERVICE
ON CAR LINES
Railroad Commission Directs the
Company to Provide for the
Rush-Hour Crowds.
General improvement in the street
car service IVi Atlanta furnished by the
Georgia Railway and Power Company
was ordered by the State Railroad
Commission shortly after noon Thurs
day. Practically every line operated
by the company is included in the
list. The order specifies' particularly
the service rendered during rush
hours.
The order, which will benefit thou
sands of persons who are compelled to
use the street cars, was issued after
several conferences between the Rail
road Commission and President Ark
wright, of the Georgia Railway and
Power Company.
On May 5 Chairman Murphey Can
dler addressed a letter to Mr. Ark
wright asking him to make sugges
tions for the betterment of the serv
ice during rush hours. This letter
was replied to on May 23 by Mr. Ark
wright, his letter going much into de
tail.
Suggestions made by Mr. Arkwright
were considered at sessions of the
commission Tuesday and Wednesday,
during which time they were in con
ference with the street railway offi
cials. It is understood that the order
of the commission is agreeable to the
company. The improvement of serv
ice will begin within the next few
days.
Improvements Ordered.
Here are the improvements or
dered :
ROUTE NO 2—Copenhill to West-
view. Rearrangement of schedules
so as to space the headway between
cars now operated more nearly tp
four minutes and secure a more
even distribution of the traffic loads.
Counts of actual loads at peak
points to be made during next five
months and filed with the commis
sion, so as to secure accurate in
formation as to whether there is
excessive congestion.
ROUTE NO. 4—Inman Park-Georgia
Avenue. t A three and one-third
minut^ headway during morning
and afternoon rush hours, on Inman
Par end, with the Georgia Avenue
end provided for by increased serv
ice on Route No. 5.
ROUTE NO. 5—West Peachtree and
South Pryor. Additional cars be
tween Sixth Street crossing on
West Peachtree and Bass Street
crossing on South Pryor, so as to
give, during the morning and aft
ernoon rush hours, a service with
five minutes’ headway.
ROUTE NO. 6—Forrest Avenue and
Capitol Avenue. Actual counts to
be made during morning and after
noon rush hours, at two peak points,
during next five months, to accu
rately ascertain degree of conges
tion, if any, on this route.
ROUTE NO. 8—Fair and Marietta
Streets. The afternoon rush hour
service on this line has been re
cently extended from 6:30 to 7 p. m.,
and schedules now established more
regularly sustained. Counts of
traffic loads to be made on this
route, as directed on No. 6.
ROUTE NO. 10—Whitehall and
Peachtree: Increased service so as
to provide for cars every three and
one-third minutes,' and extension of
afternoon rush hour service to 9
p. m.
Suburban Service.
ROUTE NO. 17—Main Decatur: Ad
ditional tripper cars to Hayes
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Street, so as to give service to that
point with three and one-third min
ute headway, and from there to De
catur on five minutes headway dur
ing morning and afternoon rush
hours, with extension of service on
ten-minute headway from end of
afternoon rush hour period to 9:30
p. rn., in lieu of present twenty-
minute headway. After 9:30 p. m.
the twenty-minute headway will be
operated as now.
ROUTE NO. 19—River Line: Extra
cars on Sundays during summer
months to accommodate extra traf
fic. Counts of traffic loads to be
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 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.
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 as watchmen,
opened a safe and made off with a
great sum of money and jewels.
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.
$480 FOR WASHINGTON’S HAIR.
NEW YORK, May 29.—A lock of
George Washington’s hair brought
$480 at an auction sale here.
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