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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN .ANT) OTEWS. 7 FEARED DEATH Mr*. Stevens' Lawyer Tells of Her Obtaining Will Because of Presentiment. Attorn*? Harry Ethrtd*e, of At lanta, for 15 years personal counsel for Mrs. Sarah H. Stevens, the wo man thought to have been murdered at Constitution, when her home was burned Wednesday night, gave In teresting Information Friday regard ing the life and character of the wo man who had been his cUent. "I have been closely associated with Mrs. Stevens for the last 15 years and am certain that I knew of every trans action she was engaged In. "Mrs. Stevens was the only wo man- contractor In this city. During her life she built nearly 150 houses In and around Atlanta. In East At lanta she built 53 houses. "About four years ago Mrs. Stevens had me draw up her will. Several months ago she came to the office and asked for the document, as she stated she had a presentiment that she had not long to live, although she looked in perfect health. "The substance of the will, so far as I can remember, was that her hus band was to receive a life interest, and at his death the entire estate was to go to the two children, Wade and Nellie. I am of the opinion that the will was burned In the Are of Wed nesday night. “Mrs. Stevens never kept a bank account or money in the bank and would not accept a check. She had no faith In banks and this may be responsible for her death. I am of the opinion that she was murdered by the negro the police now suspect and that his motive was robbery. However, I am sure the slayer did not get any money in the house at this time for Mrs. Stevens has re cently met with several business re verses and was hard pressed. In Financial Straits. “T knew Mrs. Stevens well. Two days before the crime she was in my office and I showed her a bill for $18. She replied that It would be impos sible for her to pay It because she did not see how she could get the money. “Mrs. Stevens was trying to nego tiate a loan several days ago to mort gage the farm of 160 acres, which was not entirely paid for, although Mrs. Stevens had an equity in it of about $10,000. * “If Mrs. Stevens had the money, she would have given her boy, Wade, railroad fare to Chattanooga. He had asked his mother for this several days ago. "One of the finest characters I have ever seen In a human being Mrs. Save money NOW on | Furniture at High’s. JACK LOW® TAe SCARLET PLAGUE Detain s mil MAGAZINE GIVEN WITH NEXT SUMIH CHIEF BEAVERS S It POLICE it M Stevens possee^ed. Her sense of jus tice was keen and she was as honest as the day is long. I have known her to sell a house for less than it cost to meet a note due. The last sev eral years Mrs. Stevens had not beert particularly successful and her real estate transactions had barely netted her a living. I very much doubt It her total estate will amount to $8,000. Paul Etheridge, brother of Harry Etheridge and a member of the law firm, met and talked with Mrs. Ste vens often when she came to the of fice for advice regarding business matters. He volunteered to recite the last conversation he had with Mrs Stevens. “She came In the •office and sat dpwn and talked about things in gen eral. Finally the conversation drift ed to her son, Wade. Mrs. Stevens told me what a fine boy he had turned out to be; that he was ploughing and had put in a splendid wheat crop. She invited me out to see the place, and especially urged me to come on account of the wheat crop. Says Boy Is Innocent. “It is ridiculous to imagine the boy, although he was a harum-skarum boy, would burn up hig mother and sister, and then leave to see his father in Chattanooga. The boy has a straight alibi. How could he have been in Chattanooga the next morning at 6 o’clock if he had burned the house early the same morning. “One thing I am convinced of, and that is that his mother did not want Wade to go to Chattanooga at this time and leave her all alone unpro tected on the farm with his little sis ter. The boy’s sister, Nellie, hid Wade’s clothes or took his Sunday clothes to the home of Selfs, the near est neighbor. This, of course, aggra vated the boy, and he went to Chat tanooga in spite of everything. No money and ragged, he hoboed his way to Chattanooga. Had his mother had money to give him I am satisfied she would have done so. “When I first heard of the death of Mrs. Stevens I immediately said to my brother, Harry, ‘That woman was murdered.’ Anyone familiar with conditions out in that section and the architecture of the Stevens house wiii agree with me that the house never caught fire accidentally.’’ Atlantan Held for Motorcycle Death MACON, GA., May 30.—Edward A. Green, of Monticello, 59 years old, who w'as struck by a motorcycle last Monday, died last night. He was an invalid and was being wheeled across Mulberry Street when the machine, operated by W. J. Radcliff, of Atlanta, struck him. Radcliff is under arrest and his case will be investigated by the Grand Jury to-day. A wonderful magazine given FREE with every copy of the next Sunday American, THE SUMMER TERM BRINGING MANY NEW STUDENTS TO THE SOUTHERN BUSINESS COLLEGE Enroll Now Before the Rush Occasioned by the Closing of the City Schools Begins. Several Students Secured Po sitions This Week. Have you secured a seat for your summer business course at the Southern Shorthand and Business University yet? If not, you had better do so just as early as possible, because the indications point to the largest summer term enrollment Jn the his tory of this long established busi ness school. Miss Eunice Burkett has Just ar rived from Sumter, South Carolina, and enrolled at the Southern. Miss Orabelle Jones entered this week from Chattsworth, Ga. Mr. W. N. Growden came in yes terday from Tullahoma. Tennessee, and entered for the combined book keeping and shorthand course. Mr. J. B. Hollis, of Shawmut, labama, is among the new ar- ivals. Mrs. Emma Richards, of Mariet ta; Mr. Alvin Hall, of Empire; Miss Beulah Garner, of LaGrange; Mr; A. H. Edwards, of Claxton, are also among those who have just entered the Southern. Among those who have enrolled this week living in the city are Mr. Harry Grant. Miss- Leila Mel vin, Mr. Louis Kay, Mrs. Kate Chambers. Miss Gladys Cox. Several Secure Positions. Among the several students who have accepted positions during the past few days Mr. W. A Ware writes badk to the Southern from Lakeland, Florida, as follows: “As you are aware, I am with the J. Nesbit Hazlehurst Engineering Company. “I consider nothing more impor tant for a young person than to have a knowledge of Commercial Law and Accounts. “I have attended the Southern Shorthand and Business Universi ty, and can say with pleasure and sincerity .that the training given in this college is the equal of any commercial school, to the best of my knowledge, in the South.” Mr. Ware belongs to that class of young people who are going to take their places as “leaders” in the business world. Good character and ambition, coupled with the Southern s practi cal business training, will bring J success more quickly than anything j rise, / Mr. J. C. Meredith, who came ' from Jackson, has just finished the (' Bookkeeping and Shorthand course j in the Southern, and yesterday the W. ARTHUR WARE, Who has just accepted a position in Lakeland, Fla., after taking a course irrthe Southern Shorthand and Business University. managers of the school sent him to a firm at Ball Ground. Mr. R. L. Martin, of Biscoe, N. C., completed the combined course at the Southern this week, and at once accepted a steno-bookkeeper's position with the Seaboard Air Line Railway, Jacksonville, Florida. Miss Allison, Mr. Starr, Mr. Gantt, are others who have just secured positions. Be popular with the business men —they are always seeking the Southern’s graduates. Enter now; don’t delay; fall in with the crowd, then you’ll be sure of a position. Call, phone or write for cata logue. A. C. BRISCOE. Pres. L. W. ARNOLD. Vice Pres. 10 West Mitchell Street. Atlanta, Ga. Prof. Tlios. L. Bryan. lecturer and Representative. Send 25 cents for Professor Bry an's hook on Punctuation. Board Grants Him Promotion Power and Passes Resolution of Confidence. Eleven of the twelve members of the police board voted last night to give Chief James L. Beavers plenary power in selecting patrolmen and pro moting officers in the line. The chief thereby virtually is piade dictator in hie department. This action was embodied in a reso lution expressing implicit confidence in the chief, also in N. A. Lanford, chief of detectives It broke a dead lock in which the board stood six to six on the election of a sergeant nom inated by Chief Beavers. Express Desire for Peace. When the board assembled the struggle between the Mason and Woodward factions, instead of becom ing accentuated, was abandoned by leaders of both contingents, who ex pressed a desire for harmony. J. B. Newell, a detective who had been nominated by Chief Beavers to suc ceed the late Sergeant K. S. Foster, was thereupon elected almost unan imously. Commissioner Clarke was not pres ent. Mayor Woodward and Commis sioner Johnson voted for other can didates, explaining that they did so only because of pledges. Introduced by C. A. Garner. The resolution making Beavers chief of the poljce department in fact as well as in name, and expressing confidence in him and the chief of detectives, was introduced by Com missioner C. R. Garner. It was adopt ed unanimously. Following is tha resolution: Whereas it is essential that there should be harmony in the police force and its officers; and Whereas at this critical time there shoujd be no mistake in the public mind concerning the atti tude of this board toward Chief James L. Beavers and Chief of Detectives N. A. Lanford, and their work as chiefs of the forces under them; be it Resolved, That this board has implicit confidence in the chiefs, their work, and the entire force, and be it further Resolved. That it Is the sense of this board that the chief of police should nominate the officers and men to serve under and with him in his work. Woman Leaps From 10th Floor to Death CHICAGO, May 30.—Relatives of Mrs. Bruno R. Belz, of Hinsdale, Ill., are trying to-day to find the reason for her suicide last night. The woman Jumped from the tenth story of the Masonic Temple, struck wtlh terrific force in the alley below' and was picked up a few minutes later dead. Her neck, arms and legs were broken. ii ISSUE SEEN Bf Says Finance Committee Probably Will Urge Funds Both for Crematory and Schools. W. G. Humphrey, chairman of the Council Finance Committee, declared Friday that the committee would not only provide for the purchase of the crematory, but probably would also recommend a bond Issue to Council. "Out financial situation demands a bond Issue,” he said. “The temper of the committee seems to be to urge a bond election for an English-Commer cial Girls' High School and five new ward schools—two in the Ninth Ward, one in the Eighth Ward, a new Ira Street School building and a new Da vis Street School building. The cost of these buildings would be about $350,000. “When we go Into the matter, the proposed bond issue may be increased to $1,600,000, providing for new girls and boys' high school buildings, a Cyclorama building and some money for trunk sewers. “Must Spend More Money.” "Our tax rate is low. We’ve got to spend more money to keep up with the growth of this city." Chairman Humphrey said his plan for securing the crematory would be to lease It for this year and take an option to purchase It next year. In this way, he explained, none of the special improvements outlined would be stopped and the incinerator would be put into use as soon as possible. “If we don’t pursue this plan, we will have to put up all the money now, stopping all special improve ments, such as the Whitehall Street reerading, the building of a Girls’ English-Commercial High School, a nurses’ dormitory, etc.” The Finance Committee met Friday morning to take up the matter, but adjourned until Friday afternoon be cause City Attorney James L. Mayson and h1s assistant, W. D. Bills, Jr., were engaged in a trial. Hold Budget for Decision. The members of the committee ex pressed themselves as desiring to buy the plant outright at once. They de cided not to go any further with the Jure budget until the crematory mat ter was settled. Samuel N. Evins. attorney for the Destructor Company, is desirous of selling the plant outright at once. He said the price of $276,000 could not be reduced, because under the credit plan all the defewed payments were to bear Interest. Mayor Woodward said he was anx ious to help Council get out of the hole. “I tried my best to prevent them from getting into this mess, and now I want to get out.” he said. “But that plant Is not worth any $276,000." Mrs. Willet Did NOT 0. K. the Turkey Trot Th* Georgian very gladly give* promlnenc* to the following letter: Th* reported Interview bearing the heed line*, “Mia. Willet Stamp* ‘Turkey-Trof a* O. K„” which ap peared in your paper of May 26, ae coming from Macon, O*-, wa* entire ly unfolded and mleleadlng. I beg that the following eta*ement be given the same prominence that the new's story carried: While busily engaged in the morn ing session of the district conven tion of the Georgia Federation of Clubs, I was approached upon the platform by a reporter, who asked my opinion of the “turkey-trot’’ and other modern dances. I promptly responded, "1 can give no opinion upon that subject, ns I have never seen the so-called mod ern dances. In a general way, all sensible people deplore extremes of any kind.” This concluded the Interview. I make this statement despite my aversion to further publicity In the matter, because I feel that the in terview, and especially the headlines as used in your paper, misrepresent not only me, as an Individual, but the organization of which I was at one time the head. MRS. HUGH M. WILLET Heiress Who Was Abducted to Wed ALLENTOWN, PA., May 30.— Miss Anna E. Steckel, a Vassar graduate, society belle and $1,000,000 heiress, who figured in a sensational abduction case a few months back, to-day announced her 'engagement to Arthur H. Cole, Harvard student and son of a Haverhill, Mass., at torney. Samuel Sinclair, Jr., former State Highway Inspector, who was in love with thje girl and wanted her to marry him, is now in jail serving a six months’ sentence on the charge of abducting her last January. Americans in Paris Honor LaFayette Special Cable to The Atlanta Oeoralaq PARIS, May 30.—Services com memorative of the memory of La Fayette were held here to-day by Americans. United States Ambas sador Herrick, in the presence of United States Consul General Frank Mason and the entire staff of the United States Embassy', plaoed a wreath upon LaFayette’s tomb in the Plopus Cemetery. Nearly everybody In Atlanta reads The Sunday American. YOUR ad vertisement in the next issue will sell goods. Try it! Griffin Takes On Airs of Heal City GRIFFIN, GA.. May 30 Griffin City Council has voted $5,006 to the light, water and sewerage commission for extensions. A fifty-year franchise has been granted Frank L. Fuller and ae soctates, of North Carolina, for a gas plant, a $5,500 auto fire truck has been added to the fire department, and thc*e Is now In progress a whirlwind cam paign to raise a popular fund of $6,000 to establish a board of trade. FREE, NEXT SUNDAY. The American Sunday Monthly Magazine, contain- ing the first chapters of Jack London’s new story, is GIVEN FREE with every copy of the next Sunday American. WINS LAND CASE Rabun Jury Declares State Has No Claim to Tallulah Fall* Gorge. CLAYTON, GA„ May 30.—The State of Georgia ha* no claim to the lands In the gorge at Tallulah Falls, where the Georgia Railway and Pow er Company Is constructing Its dam, power plant and reservoir, aocordlng to a verdict of a Jury 1n Rabun Supe rior Court. But the State will ask a new' trial, and eventually appeal to the State Supreme Court. The liti gation will not end until the higher tribunal hands down a decision. Jury Out Two Hours. The jury's verdict In the suit that had bsen on trial here since Monday to determine the State’* right to claim title to the gorge land was returned shortly after 6 o’clock laert night, after the case had been In the Jurors' hands two hours. The Georgia Railway and Power Company was declared to have legal titles to the lands it had pur chased for the power plant. Judge J. B. Jones. In his charge to the Jury declared that a verdict must be rendered on law' and justice and not on sentiment or emotion The jury was composed of eleven farmers and a country school teacher. Daniel M. Kell, a farmer more than 60 years of age, was foreman. Attacks Mrs. Longstreet. In the argument for the power company, before the case reached the Jury, H. H. Dean, of Gainesville, charged Mrs. Helen D. Longstreet, who has been the chief spirit behind the litigation, with "malicious hound ing" of the power company. Com menting on her failure to be present at tbe trial, he said: “She’s deserted at the very crisis of the suit. She doesn't want this case tried. She wants It postponsd and dragged out so that It tsJsnt bs held as a terror over the head of ths power company." The attorneys from Atlanta who participated In the trial return fhere to-day. CHAMBERLIN ■ JOHNSON ■ DoBOSE CO. Atlanta New York Paris Furniture For the Home & A big five-story store filled with it, that you may choose to a nicety just the kind you would h a v e in your home. Chantberlin-Johnson-DuBose Company CHAMBERLIN-JOHNSON-DuBOSE CO ATLANTA NEW YORK PARIS A Sale of Hair Goods Switches at Half and Less Than Half-Price At the outset we would have it clearly understood that the reason back of this sale is not to be found in the switches them selves. Every switch included in this sale is from our own stocks! Every switch is thoroughly sterilized, as pure and clean and sweet as it could possibly be. Every switch is made up of first and second quality hair mixed. They measure from 24 to 30 inches in length, they weigh from V/2 to 2 ounces. All shades included, from light blonde to dark brown and mixed grays. You will have little trouble in se curing just the shade you require. These prices are made merely to adjust stocks, you benefit. The switches themselves are representative values at regular prices. None of these is subject to exchange or return. $4.00 $4.50 $5.00 $6.50 Switches are $2.00 Switches are $2.00 Switches are $2.50 Switches are $3.00 $ 8.50 Switches $10.00 Switches $12.00 Switches $14.50 Switches are $3.75 are $4.50 are $5.50 are $7.00 $18.50 Switches, gray only, are $9.00 Chamberlin=Johnson=DuBose Co. CHAM BERLIN-JOHNSON-Du BOSE CO. ATLANTA NEW YORK PARIS $7.95 Junior Department—Third Floor Let the Junior Miss Note Tomorrow’s Opportunities They are worthy of note! There are Junior Woolen Suits at, near and less than half, and there are Linen Dresses at exactly half-price. But here— Junior $15.00 and $17.50 Woolen Suits .... And not just a few of these, but all of the fine mixtures and serges and striped suits, in navy, brown and gray! Usually they are tailored styles with the semi-fitting back of grate ful lines. Some show rather fancy collars—sailor collars often—others revers of moire. Suits that the young woman who will travel this summer will find of fine service. $7.95 hardly represents the cost of making such suits. $12.50, $15, $18.50, $22.50 Hfllf-Prirp and $25 Junior Linen Dresses “III I LHvO Half-price, and right now is their season. These are our ehoicesf lin en dresses for young women. Which mmcans they show the season’s smart est style points—hand-embroiderv and attractive little turns to the wavs the waists are fashioned—some of them are what are called coat dresses, with a waist of one color and the skirt of another. And they are all of substantial—in color and weave—long-wearing linens, browns, tans, blues and pink. .1 Girls’ Percale Dresses 98c Newly arrived and therefore choicer. Choicer not only because they are so fresh and immaculate, but because they show little style points that have just been brought out. One of these is the extremely long waist simulating the Balkan fashion. Choose from white and from colors. Sizes six to twelve years. Girls’ Balkan Dresses $1.50 These in sizes six to fourteen years. And these, too, have the attractiveness about them that at* taches to newly arrived merchan dise. They are of white percale, trimmed with red and blue braids and bands. Cool, summery, ser viceable and—they are usually fine values for $1.50. 49c More of Those Remarkable Children’s Wash Dresses at Remarkable because the ginghams and percales are of such splendid quality—they wash beautifully—and because they are so neatly made and trimmed. Long-waisted and plaited skirts and little straight one-piece dresses. White-grounds mostly with pretty dots and little figures and stripes. Choose a half-dozen of a size and every one may be an indttSdrral style. Sizes two to six years. Chamberlin=Johnson=DuBose Co.