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ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY. MAY 31,1913.
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ROOSEVELT
MARQUETT
Celonel Rocs,
tame of Mllw;
there to the e*
n.—
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... trips
irig some
of the locally brewed beer, over hi«
own protest, according to one of the
Colonel's yvltnesses In his libel suit
against Editor George A. Newett, of
The Ishpeming Iron Ore, which was
resumed to-day. The amount the
Colonel drank, however, was only a
swallow.
W. pmelin Roosevelt, a cousin of
the former President, was the first
I witness. His testimony was short,
following the course of previous tes
timony as to the Colonel’s use of
liquors. He was followed on the
stand by William Loeb, Jr., former
private secretary to Roosevelt and
collector of the port of New York.
AM-Day Session.
It was expected that the court
would hold only a half session to
day, but when the session convened
Judge Richard Flannagan announced
that owing to yesterday’s holiday he
felt that the case should be pushed
as rapidly as possible and that an
afternoon session would be held.
William Loeb was questioned by
Attorney Pound.
'’Extremely moderate” was his
characterization of the former Presi
dent’s use of intoxicating liquors.
Q.—Did you accompany the plain
tiff to Speaker Cannon’s birthday
dinner?
A—Y.es.
Q.—What did he drink? I mean in
toxicating liquor.
A.—He drank a glass of champagne
in pledging Speaker Cannon's health.
The witness on cross-examination
said the Colonel, since he retired from
the Presidency, had lunched at hie
house and had partaken of cham
pagne which was served.
Enticed at Milwaukee.
Frank T. Yeree, United States mar
shal for West Virginia, was the next
witness. In reply to questions he said
he was the personal secret service
guard of Colonel Roosevelt when he
was President.
Q.—Did you ever see any Indica
tions that he was under the influence
of liquor?
A—I should say not.
* Q—In all your acquaintance with
the plaintiff, what have you seen him
drink?
A.—A little sguterne mixed with
appolinaris or white rock.
Q—How mueh whisky have you
seen him drink?
A.—-I never saw Colonel Roosevelt
take a drink of whisky.
Q.—Ever see him drink any beer?
A.—Yes, in May, 1903, he was visit
ing in Milwaukee and went to a re
ception tendered him by the Deutscher
Club. He was invited to have some
beer and replied that he did not drink
beer. They urged him. however, tell
ing him it was what made Milwaukee
famous. Then he raised the glass
to his lips and took a swallow of the
beer. That’s the only beer I ever saw
him take.
Wilson's Guard Testifies.
James Sloan, who was Tyree’s re
lief as constant secret service com
panion of Colonel Roosevelt while
President, and now a personal guard
to President Wilson, gave testimony
similar to other Roosevelt witnesses.
William Shauffle, of Cleveland, in
1912 accompanied Colonel Roosevelt
on his trip through Ohio. Shauffle
traced the Colonel’s movements care
fully throughout the trip, denying ern-
phatiyally that Roosevelt used aay
liquors or wines.
Attorney VanBensehotten took the
stand to read a deposition by Albert
Shaw, editor of The Review of Re
views. The deposition said Shaw had
konwn Roosevelt since he was Police
Commissioner of New York. The two
* had been friends, the deposition said,
and Mr. Shaw denied that the former
President was ovefindulgent in his
use of liquors.
Wilson the First
President to Fail to
Honor Soldier Dead
WASHINGTON, May 31.—President
Wilson, Miss Margaret Wilson and
the President’s cousins, Miss Helen
Woodrow Jones and Fitzwilliam Me*
Master Woodrow, motored to Balti
more yesterday. The President did
not attend the memorial ceremonies |
in Arlington and elsewhere.
He is the first President since Hayes
to fail to attend the Memorial Day
ceremonies. The veterans were dis
appointed and distressed. Some ex- I
pressed themselves feelingly.
Ex-Commander George H. Slay-
baugh, of the Potomac Division, said:
“We were much disappointed at the
President’s failure to attend and re
sentment pervades our branch.”
General J. D. Blcodgood said: “It is
very peculiar to have the President
in the city and not have him with us
on this occasion. The veterans are
much disappointed.”
Adjutant General Oldroyd said:
This is the first time in the history
of our organization a President failed
to attend the Memorial Day cere
mony.”
Secretary Bryan attended, but re
fused to make a speech.
Girl Shot in Her
Own Home Accuses
Wealthy Clubman
LOS ANGELES, CAL., May 81 —
Accused of shooting a young woman
under mysterious circumstances, Fred
B. Kolb, a wealthy young clubman,
is under arrest here te-day. The girl
Is Miss Irene Nobel, 22 years old.
The girl was found by hep brother
lying on the floor in her home, Kolb
was at the telephone summoning a
physician.
At a hospital Miss Nobel said Kolb
shot her. She probably will die. A_
letjer threatening suicide was found'
In her clothing,
Kolb is son of a millionaire who
died recently.
Convicts Her Insulter and Regains Husband
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Pretty Atlanta Matron Nips Scandal in Bud
TO END BY
Girl of 15 Ends Her
Life With Shotgun
ROYSTON. GA.. May 31.—Miss Ora
Crider, 15-year-old daughter of J. A.
Crider, a farmer near here, commit
ted suicide by shooting herself with
a shotgun while alone at the house.
The gun was not loaded when her
parents left home. The girl put a
shell in the gun, shut herself in a
room, placed the gun barrel against
her stomach and with a small stick
pulled the trigger. Relatives heard
the shot and rushed to the house,
finding the girl's dead body against
the door.
No cause for the suicide is known.
Millionaire Seeks
Thrill Killing Whale
SAN FRANCISCO, May 81.—John
Borden, young New York millionaire,
left San Francisco to-day on a pri
vate whaling expedition on his $56,000
new whaler de luxe, the Adventuress,
built especially for thi§ cruise.
Borden was accompanied by Roy C.
Andrews, a member of the National
History Museum, an American ex
pert on whales. The main quest of
the expedition is to secure a specimen
of the rare bowhead whale.
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That The Georgian played a con
spicuous part in obtaining the latest
and most Important confession from
Jim Conley, the negro sweeper, in
which he admitted his complicity in
the crime, was the declaration of
Chief of Detectives Newport Lanford
late Friday afternoon.
Chief Labford, in telling of the
cross-examination of Conley on
Thursday afternoop which resulted in
his confession, said that Conley for
a long time persisted in maintaining
that he knew no more of the crime
than that which he had related pre
viously.
After several hours of futile ques
tioning the chief showed him a copy
of The Georgian quoting officials of
the pencil factory to the effect that
they believed Conley the guilty man.
It was then that Conley made his
startling affidavit fixing the deed upon
Frank.
All Questions Failed.
"All lines of questions had been
tried without avail,” said the de
tective chief, in relating the incident.
"We had put Conley through a rigid
third degree, and still he declared
that he knew nothing more of the
crime. It seemed that all the theories
the detective force had so carefully
and painstakingly built up were about
to be shattered.
"I was racking m >' brain for some
thing else that might be of aid in
getting Conley to tell what we suS'
pected he was withholding,” the chief
continued. "I happened to remember
that in last Wednesday’s Georgian 1
had seen interviews with various fac
tory people who declared they thought
Conley guilty of the murder, and that
he was attempting to place the crime
on an innocent man.
Georgian's Story Broke Him.
“Stepping into an adjoining room,
I 'secured a copy of The Georgian
containing the interviews. Carrying
it back into my office, where the
small group of detectives had been
for several hours interrogating the
man without result, I landed t* 16 PA-
per to Copley, remarking: “You can
read this, Jim, and see what the peo
ple over at the factory think of you.”
“He took the paper and in silence
the detectives watched him slowly
and painfully decipher the statements
of Holloway and others at the factory
declaring that he, Conley, and not
Frank, was the guilty man.
"Finally he laid the paper aside,
and looked up with the most worried
expression on his face he has dis
played since his arrest. ’Boss,’ he said,
‘dose people are short bound to hang
me if I don’t tell the truf, and I ain’t
goin’ to lie to you no longer.’ And
the confession as contained in his
latest affidavit followed.
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SPENDS DAY WITH DORSEY
STUDYING HUGE DIAGRAM
OE SCENE GF THE CHIME
Important Developments Looked For,
but Nothing Sensational Made
Public—Insists He Has Told All,
but Further Confession Is Expected,
For hours Saturday James Conley, negro sweeper, whose sen
sational confession accuses Superintendent Leo M. Frank of the
murder of Mary Phagan, explained in detail to Solicitor General
Hugh M. Dorsey the dread mysteries of the National Pencil Fac
tory on April 26, explaining Vuany things that had not been cluar
to the officials, but sticking tenaciously to the story he told the
Mrs. Charles
Kugler, who
won fight to
clear her
name and
wins back
estranged
husband by
convicting
her accuser.
Wall Holding Fill
On Ivy Gives Way
About 100 feet of the big stone wall
that holcte the fill on the east side of
Ivy Street at the corner of Baker
Street is caving, and a number of
men are busy taking out the dirt of
the fill that the wall may be rebuilt.
The cost of repairing this fault will
be considerable, the fill being about
seven feet at this point.
The city engineers explain the
crumbling of the wall by a broken
water main. The wall was built on
a fill and when the water main broke
the foundation was washed away.
However, they assert, the completion
of the regrading of this street will
be little delayed.
Pastor to Preach
In Swedish Tongue
Two sermons in Swedish, to be de
livered by the Rev. A. A. Swanlund
to-morrow, will give Atlanta Scandi
navians the first opportunity in a long
time to listen to religious discourses
in their native tongue.
Dr. Swanlund is pastor of the
Swedish Lutheran Church at Thorpby,
Ala. He has just returned from a
stay with the Swedish colony at
Fruithurst, 73 miles from Atlanta.
Dr. Swanlund will preach at the
English Lutheran Church at 3:30
o’clock Sunday afternoon. He will
speak at 8 o’clock at night at the
residence of A. Johnson, No. 96
Cherokee Street.
McReynolds Blocks
U.P.Dissolution Plan
WASHINGTON, May 31.—Attorney
General McReynolds to-day expressed
his disapproval of the latest plan for
the dissolution of the Southern Pa
cific merger.
He declared that in the near fu
ture he will file a suit tq compel the
Southern Pacific Railroad to give up
the control of the Central Pacific
Railroad.
This ownership, he holds, is in di
rect violation or the law.
Mrs. Charles Kugler Wins Vindi
cation in Charges Against
Inspector Maddox.
Pretty Mrs. Charles Kugler was a
smiling and satisfied victor Saturday
in her court fight which she had de
clared she would continue until she
had cleared her name and won back
her husband.
Inspector Henry H Maddox, of tile
city sanitary department, the tale of
whose insulting remarks to Mrs.
Kugler caused her husband to leave
her in a rage, was fined $25.75 by
Recorder Broyles and was in addi
tion given a sound rating by the Re
corder.
“If you would look after the physi
cal cleanliness of the city only and
would leave the moral cleanliness In
the hands of Chief Beavers, I fancy
you and the city both would get along
better,” said Recorder Broyles. ”In
the future I suggest that you do not
make derogatory remarks about
women, particularly when you are
speaking on hearsay and with such
a misty idea of the woman’s identity
as you were in this case.”
Husband Also Scored.
The husband also came in for a
grilling through the indignant offices
of Detective "Bob” Waggoner, who
asked for permission to address the
court and then asserted emphatically
that a case ought to be made against
Kugler for his strange and cruel
treatment of his wife.
Waggoner said that Mrs. Kugler
had told him that her husband flew
into a fury and beat her when sin
told him of the remarks.’ that Maddox
had made to her and declared that he
was going to quit her until she was
able to clear her name.
“There is no reason why you should
have suspected this woman of any
wrongdoing.” said Recorder Broyles
Mrs. Kugler was forgiving and
would not consent to any prosecution
of her husband. She went from the
court room on his arm and was smil
ing delightedly as she entered the of
fice of Chief Beavers, who proceeded
to give the husband a lecture on his
conduct. Kugler was told that there
Continued on fage 2, Column 8.
Special Session of
Grand Jury Called
Will Reconvene Next Tuesday for
Routine Business Only, Declares
Foreman Beck.
Lewis H. Berk, foreman of the Ful
ton County Grand Jury, which has
been called to meet in special session
at 10 o’clock next Thursday morning,
said Saturday afternoon that the
Grand Jury positively would not take
up either the Phagan case or the
Felder-Beavers row.
The purpose of the special session,
Mr. Beck said, was to appoint certain
committee. Mr. Beck went a step fur-
there and said the Grand Jury had
been called for no other purpose ex
cept to appoint these committees, and
that no other business would be
transacted.
Announcement of the special ses
sion for next Thursday was made
Saturday morning. It was called by
the foreman himself. Following the
announcement. unfounded rumors
were circulated to the effect that the
Grand Jury would delve deeper into
the Phagan murder and possibly also
look into the Felder bribery charges.
Hat, Hose, Kerchiefs
Cause Bruin's Death
Dan Carey, General Manager of
Parks, Saturday told of an autopsy
on the big Russian brown bear,
thought to have come to its death
from eating two feet of rubber hose
and a straw hat.
The rubber hose had been removed
from bruin's stomach before he ate
the. hat, so most of the blame for his
death was placed on the hat. The
autopsy proved the hat had been di
gested, but in the stomach were found
two handkerchiefs and a solid rubber
ball about twice the size of an egg.
TO HEAD KNOXVILLE SCHOOL.
KNOXVILLE, TENN., May 31.—
Professor VV. F. Fleming, of Stone
Mountain, Ga., was to-day elected
principal of the Knoxville High
School.
city detectives.
Conley was taken to the So
licitor’s office at that official’s
request and put through a se
vere cross-examination. With
an elaborate diagram, drawn
for the Solicitor by Hert Green,
a Georgian staff artist, to guide
him, the negro traced the va
rious scenes in the factory after
the slaying of the girl.
He to)d Just where he first claims to
have found her and how he and the
superintendent he accuses attempted
to dispose of the body. The drama
he enacted in the factory Friday for
the detectives he re-enacted for the
Solicitor in the little room at the
court house with the artist's chart as
the stage and his tinge,- as t),e tracer
of tragedy.
Dorsey Weil Satisfied.
The Solicitor was well satisfied with
the results obtained In the secret con
ference behind closed doors and cer
tain points that had been vague to
him before were made clear.
At Conley’s own request, through
William Smith, his counsel, the negro
was later transferred to the police
station. The negro had been so be
sieged by questioners at the county
jail that he asked to be put within
the shelter of police headquarters,
where he had been closely guarded
and where none but policemen had
been allowed to interrogate him.
Conley intimated that he had been
threatened at the Jail, but little ered-
ance was put in his ramblings. It
was plain that he wanted rest. He
had told his story so often—each time,
it may be noted, in almost the same
words—that he was tired. The police
agreed that he had answered enough
questions from outsiders and he was
moved-
Police Urge New Test,
A determined effort is being made
by the police department to bring
Frurjt face to face with his accuser.
The detectives wish to learn how
Conley will go through the ordeal of
confronting the man he accuses of
directing the disposal of the body of
Mary Phagan, and dictating the notes
that were found'by her body.
~They desire also to give Frank an
opportunity to deny the negro's story
as Conley Is repeating it. Frank has
been the man of silence in the Tower.
He has had nothing to say in regard
to the crime to anyone who has
sought to talk with him on the sub
ject, unless it was to his most Inti
mate friends who have visited him
in his cell. *
He still refuses to have anything
to say or to have Conley brought
to his .cell, except by the permission
of his attorney. Luther Z. Rosser,
and in Mr. Rosser's presence.
Plan to Ask Rosser.
The detectives propose to take the
matter up with Attorney Rosser.
They will represent that the case
has reached a stage where it is nec
essary to give Conley’s statements
their final test. Coniey went over
the scene of the crime step by-
step on Friday and never wavered in
his tale involving Frank deeply.
Now it is desired to have him ap
pear before the very man he so
stlmgly accuses and have him repeat
thft terrible charge.-. Some believe
t®> if Conley is alone ^pilty of
the crime, this ordeal will be the final
straw that will bring about his full
confession.
If Attorney Rosser agrees to the
plan, the negro will be taken at once
to the cell of Frank. Conley is still
in an unsettled state from his long
three-day grilling by the detectives,
and is thought to be just in the frame
of mind to break down and make a
full confession, if he knows any more
about the crime than he already has
told.
Silent Regarding the Cate.
In the event that the meeting is
arranged, it will be the first time that
Frank has broken his silence In re
gard to the case. He may have talked
of it to members of his own family,
but his most intimate friends say
that he has played cards with them
and conversed freely on the topics of
the day as he has read of them in the
daily papers, but that he never has
discussed the Phagan mystery direct
ly ar.d at length. Some of his frtenda
have been with him every hour of
every day since he has been in the cell
at the Tower. They have been most
loyal to the imprisoned man.
They declare that he never ha*
mentioned the subject to any of the
attaches of the jail, except occasion
ally to the Sheriff himself. And then
it was in an almost impersonal man
ner.
"I do not know who is guilty," he
said, “but whoever he is, he should
hang.”
Conley Is Ready to Pay
Penalty as Accomplice.
Yes, sir, I guess maybe it’s all over
with me. I suppose they're going to
hung me or send me to the peniten
tiary for life, but I done told the
truth.
“When the Sheriff puts the rope
around’my neck, I’m going to say:
" sto Pi "alt a minqte. I know I
did wrong. I tried to hide that dead
girl s body and I ought to be punished,
but before God I didn’t kill her.’ ”
Jim Conley, negro sweeper, whose
confession that he helped Leo M.
Frank dispose of the body of Mary
Phagan after the superintendent had
killed her, created a profound sensa-
,? ee f r Vl ed though the bars of his
cell in the Fulton Tower and pro
nounced his readiness to die for his
crime as an aceompllce, and in the
same breath protested his Innocence
of the actual murder.
Ready to Face Frank.
“I am ready right now," he said, .
"to face Mr. Frank. I'll look him right
In the eye and I’ll say, ’You know I
didn’t kill that girl. Mr. Frank, and
you know- I'm telling the truth to
these white folks.'” 4
Conley declared again that Frank
wrote one note himself. He said he
had written the “long, tall black negro
message" on single-ruled, white pa
per from a tablet.” He asserted that
1 rank wrote something on paper not
white, but a shade of green or gray
paper that he thought had the letter
head of the National Pencil Company
factory on it.
It has always been taken for grant
ed that the two notes are the work of
one man. Tha paper of neither cor
responds to that described by Conley
as the kind Frank used. What does
Conley’s assertion signify?
Harassed by questioners, bombard
ed with hostile queries, importuned
and threatened in an effort to gat. gt
the truth in the terrible pengK at
tor> mystery—in the minds o fac-
aany