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Anxious to See if Conley Will
Stick to Latest Confession
Under Dramatic Test.
Continued From Pege 1.
a myetery no longer—thte negro with
stood every attempt to shake the re
markable story he unfolded to the
detectives In the startling confession
affidavit and re-enacted at the scene
of the crime Itself.
Sticks Close to 8tory.
Like an unwinding panorama, he
laid before hlo questioners in the elo
quent, if often a'.most Incoherent, Jar
gon of Decatur Street the shifting
soenea In the grim tragedy which
reached Its great climax Friday, but
In which the greatest battle is yet to
be fought In the courts of Fulton
County.
One thing is certain: Those who
have thought that it will be easy for
a skillful lawyer to tear the negro's
story Into tatters must revise their
Judgment. From careful rehearsal,
studied drilling or the indelible im
pression of ghastly tragedy, the pris
oner has learned his lesson well. From
whatever angle he is attacked he tells
the same narrative. Under cajolery
or abuse he is unchanged.
*T waited and waited, boss," he said.
“1 thought Mr. Frank would sure see
ma I thought maybe we could have
a talk and maybe everything would
be all right, but he never would see
me. I tried once and I tried twice
and I tried again, but Mr. Frank never
would see me. So, I guessed it was
Just about time for me to tell the
truth. It looked like Mr. Frank
couldn't get out of It after all, and It
was all up, so I told the truth."
Looks Little Like Novelist,
A shiny-skinned, close-cropped,
thick-chested, low-browed negro is
Jim Conley—with eyes smiling or sin
ister as Ills mood changes—ltke a
thousand and one other negroes that
■'make faithful servants or troublesome
prisoners as their footsteps happen
to fall, and if the story he tells is the
product of his imagination he belies
appearances.
It may be he has learned his tale
as a child learns a fairy story until
It sees the goblins as It plays in the
twilight. It may be that constant
turning over of them in his mind as
he lay in r, police cell for three weeks,
that constant repetition has made the
details come readily to his lips. The
lesson is learned. There is no doubt
of that.
“Jim, why did you write the notes?”
he was asked. “Didn’t it strike you
that 'long tall black negro,' would be
taken to mean you?"
"Yes, sir,” said Conley, readily. "It
did and I tole Mr. Frank so. I said.
‘Look here. Mr. Frank, they're going
to think that means me.’ But Mr.
Frank said he Just wanted it to send
to his mother, so his mother wouldn't
think he done it, and he told-me he
had powerful wealthy folks in Brook
lyn—that was the first time 1 ever
heard he had rich folks up North at
•11. I thought they all lived here—
so I wrote what he told me."
Frank Always Good to Him.
Now this reply, as it is given, sounds
incoherent and preposterous, but it is
given Just as Conley gave it and no
amount of questioning could change it.
“How long did you know Mr.
Frank?" was another question.
"I guess I must a known Mr. Frank
(Conley kept scrupulously to the “mis
ter" throughout) for about two years.
Yes, sir, he was always a good boss
to me. There was never no trouble
about my getting money If 1 needed
It Yes, sir, Mr. Frank was always
pretty good to me."
"And now you're telling a story, Jltn,
that may cost a good boss his life."
"Well, I had to do U. That's all
there was to It, I had to tell the
truth. I waited and waited fob Mr.
Frank to do something and when he
didn’t 1 Just reckoned he couldn't and
it was about all up.”
Three distinct times during the
questioning Conley let drop remarks
that might truthfully be interpreted
as Jubilation that another man was in
as bad a plight as he.
Shows Little Sorrow,
Each time when the remark was
called to his attention he protested
that he had no feelings of malice
against Frank and that he was . not
eager to see him suffer. In spite of
his protests, it was very plain that he
l beheld with little sorrow the pre
dicament of the man he accuses.
The stumbling block of premedita
tion Conley removed entirely. He ex
plained without any apparent hesita
tion that Frank had told him Friday
that he should report Saturday to
move some boxes of pencils that had
been reposing on one shelf for about
two years.
He was absolutely certain that the
killing was accidental.
"Mr. Frank," said Conley, “never
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SET; HORSE Grubb to Decide Contempt Case
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Bankruptcy Suit Caused Charge
Weather Officials Say Mercury
Probably Will Reach 95—No
Rain in Sight.
UNDERWOOD GAG CONLEY STAR
HE WILL BE
POT TO TEST
Democrats Resent Effort to Bind
Them Not to Enact Laws
Leader Opposes.
WASHINGTON, May 31.—Majority
LMder Underwood’s control of the
House will be put to a test Monday
In the Democratic caucus. House
Democrats to-day declared that, while
Underwood was able to apply the
“gag” when the tariff bill was being
put through, It was not at all cer
tain he would be able to do so this
time.
Underwood proposes, it was learned,
to have the caucus pass a resolution
binding all Democratic members to
refrain from enacting any legislation
during the present session except a
brief presentation which Underwood
will specify'.
The resolution will set forth that
there be no legislation except the final
enactment of the tariff bill Into law,
passage of a banking and currency
bill, the passage of a deficiency ap
propriation bill.
If the Underwood resolution is
adopted all kinds of private bills In
which many new members are Inter
ested will be barred from considera
tion.
Tt was snld the resolution probably
will be adopted.
Hunt Relatives of
Drowned Dam Man
The police department Is endeavor
ing to loq&te relatives of B. Powell,
a cofferdam man who was drowned
near Augusta. He is said to have rela
tives in the meat business in Atlanta,
but so far they have not been located.
A telegram received by Chief Beav
ers from the J. G. White Engineering
Company, at Augusta, told of Powell’s
death, and requested that his people
be notified. They stated that the man
was in their employ In the capacity
of cofferdam man. Details of the
drowning were not given.
McGovern Fails to
Oust State Officer
MADISON, WIS., May 81.—That
Governor Francis E. McGovern had
no right to remove Herman Eckern,
State Insurance commissioner, was
the ruling to-day of the State Su
preme Court.
McGovern ousted Eckern for perni
cious political activity on the allega
tion that he had been active in en
deavoring to aid a LaFollette man
for the Speakership of the House in
a race against a “Bull Moosvr."
Eckern barricaded himself In his
office for some days following the ef
fort of McGovern to remove him.
meant to kill that girl. No, sir, he
never had no Idea like that. When
he come running to me and said. ‘Jim
want to make some money quick.’
and I said yes, he said ‘I picked up
a girl back there and let her fall and
her head hit against something.’ and
he told me to get a cloth, and I ran
back and I looked down and i saw
a girl lying on the floor, all still, and
her head was cut, and I hollered,
'Why, Mr. Frank, this girl’s dead.”'
Clings Close to Detail*.
The rest of this chapter of the
heartbreaking story has been told and
retold since The Georgian presented
Conley’s affidavit. The negro clung
tenaciously to the details as he gave
them to the detectives.
He added that he had heard no
scream, but accounted for that by the
distance he was from the scene of the
killing, according to his story—sev
eral hundred feet, he thought.
He declared that a piece of the
girl’s skirt had been torn away. Cer
tain grim questions were put to him
along lines which the detectives have
Indicated they will take. The replies
given hesitatingly and with apparent
unwillingness, were sinister and un
mentionable. but they will play a for
bidding part in the trial of Frank.
Conley asserted that he could not
explain the torn-away staple on the
buck door * n the basement. He as
serted also that he had not put the
death notes beside the body.
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In all the grim annals of Atlanta’s
criminal history an Illiterate negro,
Jim Conley, stands out to-day the
principal figure in one of the most
remarkable and dramatically impres
sive "third degrees” ever administer
ed by the city police.
A chief of police, ordinarily stolid
and unmoved, and chief of detectives
and members of hl« force, a Pinker
ton operative—all men in daily touch
with every sort of crime and evil—
hung with tensest Interest on each
word as it came from the lips of the
negro, and watched, as wide-eyed as
any tyro in man-hunting, the negro’s
every move as he re-enacted Friday
afternoon what he steadfastly assert
ed was his part in the ghastly Mary
Phagan tragedy.
Factory Men Look On.
Dumb under the spell of the drama
In which Conley played a triple role—
first In his own personality, then as
Deo M. Frank, and, finally, as the
young girl victim—two employees of
the factory listened to the damning
accusations that unconcernedly, al
most glibly, were made against their
superintendent. They were Herbert
Schiff, chief clerk, and E. F. Hollo-
day, the timekeeper.
Both had reckoned Frank Innocent.
They had said many times that he
could not have committed the shock
ing deed. More likely, they had de
clared, It was the. negro himself. Yet
here they were the spectators of a
grewsome performance in which
Frank was represented as nervous
and shaking and half in a panic as
he directed the carrying of Mary
Phagan’s limp and lifeless body to the
elevator on the second floor of the
factory and down into the dark and
dirt-strewn basement.
Theatric in Its Appeal. .
Every incident and every clrcun*
stance added to the theatric and
powerful appeal as Conley duplicated
detail by detail the movements he
said were made that fatal afternoon
of April 26. No stagery could have
been more Impressive with weeks of
planning by the detectives. The sin
lster, gray-black factory. Itself, threw
a spell of silence upon the little group
of detectives and police as they en
tered the forbidding doorway.
A score of girls, a number of them
of Just about the age of Mary Pha
gan, were just inside the door when
the automobile of Chief Beavers, Its
curtains tightly drawn, dashed up to
j the front of the building during the
noon hour. Their chatter and laugh
ter instantly was stilled. It had been
more than a month since their young
companion had been taken from them
by a mysterious crime and they had
been able to forget some of its tragic
details, but now the spectacle of a
stern blue-coated officer, a squad of
keen-eyed detectives and a shackled
black man brought back the tragedy
In all its first horror.
Young Girls Shudder.
Some of the girls, pitifully young
and helpless looking, pressed back
against the wall and stood there with
distended eyes and afrighted manner
as the men brushed past and mounted
to the second floor. Several of the
older girls gave hysterical little laughs
which died in their throats when they
noted the dead stillness that marked
the passage of the officers and their
prisoner.
Then followed during the very hour
in which Mary Phagan is believed to
have met her death on April 26 a
reproduction of all that Conley de
dared took place after he heard the
two low whistles with which Frank
was to signal him. With the detectives
following him closely and clustering
about him each time he stopped tc
make an explanation, the negro start
ed at the point he said he first saw
the dead body and went through the
building exactly as he claimed he did
on ’.he afternoon he bore the tragic
burden to the elevator, down to the
basement and then to the dark cor
ner near the furnace.
Do©s Not Break Down.
If the detectives hoped that the plan
of bringing Conley right to the scene
of the tragedy would break him down
and for.’e him to confess that it was
he alone, and not Frank, who com
mitted the crime, they were disap
pointed.
The negro proved himself either a
most consummate actor or a man
who finally was telling the truth. He
was letter perfect, so far as a person
could be in a tragedy of the sort. He
never faltered nor hesitated. Yet he
reproduced in startling detail every
movement and every conversation of
importance which he said took placa
while the body of Marv Phagan was
being hurried to *he basement.
Conley did not pretend too great a
With the thermometer climbing
steadily up Into the nineties, all At
lanta sweltered and groaned In the
torrid blasts of the hottest day of
the year Saturday. And the end is
not yet.
The weather man predicted at noon
that Sunday will be fully as hot as
Saturday, and the chances are very
good for even greater heat. Local
weather officials will not be surprised,
they say, If the thermometer on Sun
day reaches the highest point of the
year. It will undoubtedly reach 90
and may go to 92 or 96.
No rain la In sight for several days,
the weather man says. A careful
scanning of the heavens failed to dis
close even the slightest bit of a rain
bearing cloud. The weather man says,
however that relief In the shape of
showers may come Monday or Tues
day, atmospherical conditions being
propitious for thunderstorms.
Saturday broke all weather records
for 1913. At 7 o'clock Saturday morn
ing the official thermometer at the
weather bureau registered 74. This
Is an unusual height for the mercury
to reach at that hour. At noon the
mercury had climbed into the eighties,
and was hovering around the 88
mark, the highest point reached yes
terday.
At 1 o'clock the mercury passed 88,
and was climbing steadily. That It
would register 90 degrees or higher
by 3 o'clock was considered certain
by the weather man.
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Sunday Speaker to
Talk on Fire of Hell
W. M. Wisdom, of New York, will
deliver a lecture Sunday afternoon at
3 o’clock at the Cable concert hall
on "The Love of God and the Fire of
Hell."
The unwritten but dominant creed
of to-day, "Whatever worshipper
bends before The Best he knows, and
walks true to the purest light that
shine before him, has access to the
highest blessings of heaven,” will be
discussed. Mr. Wisdom will speak
under the auspices of the I. B. S. A.
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Red Men Establish
Fayetteville Lodge
A targe party of Atlanta Red Men,
under the leadership of Past Sachem
C. L. Wooddall, visited Fayetteville
Saturday for the purpose of Insti
tuting a new lodge of Red Men.
I. P. Meeks has organized a lodge
of nearly sixty members composed
of some of the most prominent men
in that section.
The famous degree team of Coman
che Tribe No. 6, Atlanta, will confer
the degrees for the new tribe. Past
Sachems Wooddall and Burke will
officiate in the ceremony of install
ing the lodge.
Army Band Plays at
Grant Park Sunday
The Fifth Infantry band will play the
following program at Grant Park Sun
day afternoon from 3:30 to 6:30 o’clock:
“King Bombardon.” W. P. English:
“Queen of Autumn,” Carl Bigge;
“L’Equestrienne,” Hosmer; “Southern
Roses." J. Strauss: “Silvery Bells.”
Botsford; “In the Shadows,” Stern:
“The Sprites’ Revelry,” Bailey: “Lights
and Shadows." Holmes; “The Grand Mo
gul,” Luders; “T. M. B.,” King.
knowledge. Occasionally when he was
asked a question he woul-t reply: "I
don’t know, boss, I don’t know." He
did not assume to quote Frank ver
batim in many instances. If he was
lying, it was a most amazing fabri
cation he built up. He told more than
enough to demonstrate conclusively
that he knew all about the disposal
of the body. He told enough of his
alleged conversations with Frank to
indicate strongly that they actually
took place, but he did not go into such
a wealth of detail as to give the im
pression that his whole story was a
mass of lies so far as Frank's connec
tion with the affair was concerned.
However, Conley’s credibility will
be a matter for the court to decide.
Several times before he has related
stories of his movements the day of
the crime and has afterward admitted
them false or imperfect.
Displays Little Emotion.
Conley displayed little or no emo
tion in his remarkable recital. Rath
er than detracting from the dramatic
impression, this accentuated it. He
impersonated the actors in the black
tragedy with such unconcern and ap
parent fidelity to detail that the de
tectives were forced to feel that they
were witnessing an almost exact re
production of what took place after
Mary Phagan was killed the after
noon of April 26.
Employees Show Curiosity.
As the elevator passed down with
its* load of detectives, a large crowd
of the factory employees could be
seen gathered in the corridors of the
first floor eager to get a glimpse of
what was going on. They peered
through the openings in the elevator
and after the officers and the negro
had got to the bottom of the shaft
and were making their way to the
place the girl’s body was found by
Newt Lee. one venturesome young
fellow raised the trap door on the
first floor and poked his head Into
the dim light of the basement.
“Get out of there and shut that
door ” Chief Clerk Schiff shouted at
him, and there were no more prying
eyes directed at the strange proceed
ings that were taking place. It was
through this trap door that Conley
said Frank made his way to the first
floor after the body had been dis
posed of.
Left Indelible Picture.
When the remarkable recital was
ended, all who had gone through the
building with the negro had an in
delible picture graven on their minds.
It might not have been what actually
took place at the factory the fatal
day. but it was most realistic and im
pressive.
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MACON, GA.,
May 31.—Colonel
William Arnold
Huff, the 82-year-
old ex-Mayor of
Macon, will next
Tuesday know
whether or not he
will have to serve
a Jail sentence,
pay a fine or go
free on the con
tempt of court
charge filed
against him by
Judge Emory
Speer, of the Un
ited States Court
for the Southern
district of Geor
gia. At that time
the decision of
Judge W. I. Grubb
of Birmingham,
who heard the
evidence, will be
announced In open
court here.
The contempt
charge grew out
of a caustic letter
written by Colo
nel Huff to Judge
Speer last year. In
which the Jurist
was severely crit
icised for his
course In bank-
proceed-
hls court
Colonel
Instituted
years
“Joe” Wilson Gets
Good Job at Last
BALTIMORE, May *1.—Joseph R
Wllaon, brother of the President, hat
accepted a position with a leading
bonding company, whose headquar
ters are here, ft was announced to
day. His title, it wae said, would be
assistant manager of the New York
office and manager of the promotion
and development department at Bal
timore.
Mr. Wilson is a Nashville newspa
per man. Before the organization of
the present Congress he was promi
nently mentioned as a candidate for
Secretary of the Senate.
silts 'INSULTED'
Hansen, Out of Row,
Will Leave England
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, May 81.—J. Salter Han
sen, Chicago theatrical man who be
came embroiled in the courts with
Arthur Bouschier, a London show
producer, over Dr. Henri DeRoth-
schild’a new play, "Croesus,” appear
ed In Bow Street Court to-day and
informed the magistrate he could not
furnish $10,000 to keep the peace, as
ordered.
"I will leave England to-day if you
will reduce the bond to $6,000," Han
sen informed the court. The magis
trate agreed-
Horse Sets Record
As Parcel Post Aide
ruptcy
ings In
against
Huff,
fourteen
still
r
Photo by Thurston Hatcher, Macon.
Colonel William Arnold Huff, aged defendant
in contempt of court case in Macon.
ago and
pending.
The court now
holds *96,000 as
sets of the Huff
estate. Recently
Judge Speer or
dered a distribu
tion of about two-
thirds of this
amount However
Colonel Huff and
five creditors, In
cluding the City
of Macon, which
•has tax and pav
ing claims, are re
sisting this order
Consequently the
litigation will
likely continue for
two or three years
longer. This case
holds the time
record in Federal
courts in Georgia.
Two of Colonel
Huff's sons, Edi
son and Travers
Huff, reside in At
lanta.
The accompany
ing picture of Col
onel Huff is the
first taken of him
in 28 years. It
posed espe-
The
WASHINGTON, May 31.—Postof-
flce Investigators have found that the
cost of delivering parcel post pack
ages ranges from less than 2 to more
than 14 cents a package. The auto
mobile is proving a very dear lux
ury In some large cities and the old
horse is making a record for econo
my.
It is the purpose of the department
to help the expensive offices by call
ing attention to the methods of the
cheaper delivery places.
Sheriff to Evict
A Carnegie Hero
SHARON, PA-, May 31.—'Unable
to pay the interest on money loaned
to apply on his house, after receiving
$1,000 from the Carnegie Hero Com
mission, Henry Herwig will be evict
ed by Sheriff Crain.
Herwig saved two men from drown
ing and the Carnegie Hero Commis
sion sent him a medal and $1,000, but
stipulated he must invest in a home.
He coud not meet the payments and
the house was seized.
Mrs Charles Kugler Clears Self
of Accusations Made by f
Inspector Maddox. «■
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Continued From Pago 1.
was no oxcuso for his unreasonable
conduct In leaving hi* wife Friday
night and swearing that ho would not
return to her until she had cleared her
name.
Pair Klee and Make Up.
A complete reconciliation was af
fected and the reunited oeaple left
the station talking gayly. Mrs. Kugler
charged before the court that Maddox
had Insulted her last Wednesday by
coming to her houee in her husband’s
absence and remarking that he had
eeen her on the street with another
man the day before and had seen her
go into 73 Fairiie Street with Ua
She said he addressed other remarks
to her of an Impertinent and Insult
ing nature and that she ordered him
from the house.
She put on her hat and went Im
mediately to tell her husband of the
incident. Instead of taking steps to
punish Maddox, she told the court
that he turned on her and accused
her of receiving attentions from
Maddox. She said then she deter
mined never to stop fighting until she /
had cleared her name and won back
the love of her husband.
Admits Making Remarks,
Maddox, who was discharged from
the sanitary department, as aoon ae
the charges were filed against him.
admitted to Recorder Broyles th_i he
had made the remarks complained of.
He said that he made them because
he had been told by B. E. Rice, an
other inspector, of a flashily gowned
woman who lived on West Alexander
Street and whom Rice had seen the
day before in company with a man. 4
Maddox said that when he visited
the Kugler residence at 15 West Alex
ander Street he supposed Mrs. Kug
ler was the woman referred to and
made the remarks to her.
Rice was in court and testified that <
he mentioned no address in his con- '
versation with Maddox. Rice was
given an admonition similar to that
received by Maddox.
Friends Are Convinced She Will
Not Live Long Enough to
Serve All of Jail Term.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, May 31.—Militant suf
fragettes “posted” a bomb in the post-
office at Lewisham, a suburb, early
to-day, causing an explosion which
destroyed a number of letters and
packages. There was no one in the
mail sorting room at the time, the
women having chosen an occasion
when human life would not be jeop
ardized.
Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, who was
released from Holloway jail yester
day because of acute dyspepsia and
heart exhaustion, is reported to be
near death. This is the second time
Mrs. Pankhurst has been released by
Home Secretary McKenna since she
was sentenced to three years last
month.
Mrs. Pankhurst has vowed to "hun
ger strike” as long as she is in prison
and her friends are convinced she will
not live long enough to serve her
sentence.
Many lives were placed in peril by
the burning of a railroad signal box
at Beechlands, near Buckingham. The
police who investigated attributed the
outrage to militant women.
Kaiser ‘Peace Lord,'
Declares Carnegie
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, May 31.—“The peace
lord of Europe" is the new title given
Kaiser Wilhelm by Andrew Carnegie,
who is in London to-day, enroute for
Berlin to take part in the quarter
centennial celebration of the Kaiser’s
ascension to the throne.
Mr. Carnegie, who is dedicating the
declining years of his life to interna
tional peace, said:
“Emperor William is the one man
in Europe who can do most to abolish
•war. Instead of being the war lord
he is the peace lord of Europe.”
White City Park Now Open
Will Increase Equipment Follow
ing Purchase of Sunny South
Publishing Co.’s Plant.
Following the purchase of the en
tire plant of the Sunny South Pub
lishing Company, the Southern Rur-
alist Company to-day began to occu
py the whole of the two-story con
crete building at the corner of Pied
mont Avenue and East Hunter Street.
The mechanical equipment is to be
increased at once and it is the pur
pose of the stockholders of The Rur
al is t to enter the general printing
field, although it is announced they
have no intention of conflicting with
the work of any of the existing print
ing concerns.
There is a great deal of printing
sent out of Atlanta, and it is this class
of work which The Ruralist plant will
seek. The Sunny South Publishing
Company, which owned and printed
Uncle Remus' Magazine, had the lar
gest plant of its kind in the South.
F. J. Merriam began the publica
tion of The Southern Ruralist in At
lanta a good many years ago. He is
president of the existing company.
Dr H. E. Stockbridge is editor; D. D.
Hicks, advertising manager, and C. R.
Cunningham, manager of circulation.
Since taking over The Sunny South
plant The Ruralist has appointed C.
H. Pritchard mechanical superintend
ent. He has entire charge of the
plant.
A wonderful magazine given
FREE with every copy of the
the Sunday American.
Mrs. Wilson’s Brother
To Quit Princeton Job
PRINCETON, May 31.—Professor
Stockton Axson, for fourteen years
connected with the English depart
ment of Princeton University, an
nounces that he will tender his resig
nation to the board of trustees next
week.
Professor Axson is leaving Prince
ton to accept a position in the Rice
University at Houston, Texas. He is
a brother of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson.
NEWS JOTTINGS
ABOUT TOWN
Gives Life Trying to
Keep His Goat Dry
BURLINGTON, N. J., May 31.—So
solicitous was he for the comfort of
his pet goat that Porter Naylor, 14
years, lost his life. He kept his goat
in a small shed. When it rained the
boy saw that the water was leaking
through the roof onto his pet.
He was trying to repair the leak
when he slipped from the shed and
broke his neck.
Poultry Thief First
Uses an Anesthetic
The anesthetic negro who first puts
poultry to sleep is the latest comer. He
still is at large, but his sleep-producing
implements were found in tne rear of
James Morgan’s restaurant, 121 East
Georgia Avenue.
Two policemen answered a hurry call.
Searching for the chicken thief they
found a basket full of fat hens and
roosters, all fast asleep. A pint bottle
of chloroform also was found.
Atlantan Hurt in
Dixie Flyer Wreck
FULTON, KY„ May 31.—T. C.
Sherrer, a salesman of Atlanta, was
among the eighteen passengers ■ in
jured when the “Dixie Flyer,” on the
N., C. & St. L. road, crashed into
an Illinois Central freight train near
here yesterday. His head was bruised.
Rev. A. A. Swanlund, pastor of a
Swedish Lutheran church at Thorsby,
Ala., will preach a sermon in the mother
tongue to Atlanta Scandinavians to
morrow afternoon at 3:30 o’clock at tha
English Lutheran Church. Mr. Swan
lund has Just returned from a visit to
the Swedish colony at Fruithurst, sev
enty miles from Atlanta.
Ellis Whitman, a human "rattle-
bones,'' will be demonstrated Saturday
before the Georgia Osteopathic Associa
tion in session at the Imperial Hotel.
Whitman can dislocate almost any of
his Joints or muscles at will and move
his heart from the left to the right side
of ills body. Whitman has been observed
by many prominent physicians.
The meeting of the committee from
Council to act on closing the Forsyth
Street underpass and go over plans pre
pared by Captain R. M. Clayton was
postponed until next Tuesday on account
of the absence from the city of W A.
Winburn, vice president of the Central
of Georgia Railroad.
Your Blood
Needs purifying and your whole sys
tem renovating In the spring, as pim
ples, boils, eruptions, dull headaches,
dyspeptic troubles, loss of appetite
and that tired feeling annually prove.
The most effective and successful
1 medicine for the complete purifica
tion of the blood and the complete
renovation of the whole system, Is A
Hood's Sarsaparilla
It will make you feel better, look
better, eat and sleep better.
Get it today In usual liquid form
or in the tablets called §arsataba.
FORTY IN TALLYH0 PARTY
ARE PLUNGED DOWN CLIFF
DENVER, May 31.—Forty members
of a tallyho party were hurled down
a cliff near Mount Morris late lari
night as they were returning from a
day’s outing when the horses became
frightened. Some are reported fatally
injured.
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The American Sunday
Monthly Magazine, contain
ing the first chapters of Jack
London’s new story, is
GIVEN FREE with every
copy of the Sunday Ameri
can.
We have Beautiful Bedding
Plants 3c each. Atlanta Floral
Co., 555 L. Fair Street.
LOW ROUND-TRIP
RATE TO BALTI
MORE VIA SEA
BOARD.
$20.85 from Atlanta, correspond
ingly low rates from other points,
on sale June 5, 6. 7. Through
trains, electric-lighted steel sleep
ing and dining cars, observation
cars. City Ticket Office, 88 Peach
tree.
Whole Fried
CHICKEN
50c
Saturday and Sunday.
We deliver to any part within the City limits. Call
M. 4818-J.
TRY OUR BASKET LUNCHES.
LOUIS* CAFE
42 S. Pryor St., next to the Old City Hall