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ALWAYS FIRST <@> ® The SUNDAY AMERICAN Order It NOW- « Both Phones Main 8000 The Atlanta Georgian Read, for Profit---GEORGIAN WAlSiT ADS---Use for Results VOL. XI. NO. 257. ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, MAY 31,1913. Copyright, 1906, By The Georgian Co. 2 CENTS POLICE AFTER ANO I HER CONFESSION 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 ehe had cleared her name and won back her husband. Inspector Henry H. Maddox, of the city sanitary department, the tale of whose insulting remarks to Mrs. Kugler caused her husband to leave her In a rage, was lined $26.75 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 ■\yould 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." t 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 she 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 nvrong-doina.” 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 was no excuse for his unreasonable conduct in leaving his wife Friday night and swearing that he would not return to her util she had cleared her name. Pair Kiss and Make Up. A complete reconciliation was ef fected and the reunited couple left the station talking gaily. Mrs. Kugler , charged before the court that Maddox had insulted her last Wednesday by coming to her house in her husband's absence and remarking that he had seen her on the street with another man the day before and had seen her go into 73 Fairlte Street with him. 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 soon as the charges were filed against him, admitted to Recorder Broyles that 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. 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 tha' he mentioned no address in his con versation with Maddox. Rice was f given an admonition similar to that received by Maddox. 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 Mc- 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 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. Bloodgood 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. SILENCE OF LEY PUT TOENDBY When All Else Failed, Chief Lan- ford Confronted Negro With Accusing Interview, Bryan Gloating Over Election Law Victory WASHINGTON, May 31.—Smiling in his satisfaction over realizing a reform for which he had fought for nearly a quarter of a century, Secretary of State Bryan to-day signed the proclamation of the seventeenth amendment provid ing for the direct election of United States Senators. Three earnest champions of the amendment were at his side—Harry St. George Tucker, of Virginia, who made the first fight for it In the House 22 years ago; Representative Rucker, of Missouri, who piloted the clause to its final passage in the House about a year ago; Senator Borah, of Idaho, who fa thered the amendment in the Senate. 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 3G—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 this 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. Waiters in Senate Cafe Get No Tips WASHINGTON, May 31.—Patrons of the Senate Cafe do not have to put on glasses to read on the bill of fare this order made by Manager Lofstrantf: “Waiters are forbidden to receive tips.” 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 I late Friday afternoon. Chief Lanford, in telling of the I cross-examination pf Conley on Thursday afternoon which resulted in j his confession, said that Conley for j 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. Jt seemed that all the theories the detective force had so carefully and painstakingly built up were about to be shattered. “I was racking my brain for some thing else that might be of aid in getting Conley to ten 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 be^n for several hours Interrogating the man without result, I handed the pa per to Conley, 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 goln’ to lie to you no longer.’ And the confession as contained in his latest affidavit followed. FREE TO-MORROW' -WITH THE- SUNDAY AMERICAN A beautiful Magazine will be given FREE with every copy of the Sun day American to-morrow. It will contain the opening chapters of JACK LONDON'S NEW STORY " The Scarlet Plague” Order Your Paper Now Both Phones Main 8000 d a TWO ATLANTA GIRLS IN NURSERY TABLEAUX Miss Floyd Foot, standing, who is ‘Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary, ’ ’ Miss Charlotte Wilkins, who is a La France Rose in Mary's garden. Horse Sets Record As Parcel Post Aide WASHINGTON, May 81—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. 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. t C. <& St. L. road, crashed into an Illinois Central freight train near here yesterday. His head was bruised. Thoso arc two of the many charming girls who took part in the Mother Goose Pageant on the lawn of Mrs. Clyde King’s Druid Mills residence Saturday afternoon, under the auspices of the Joseph Habersham Chapter, Daughters of the American Rev olution. “Joe” Wilson Gets Good Job at Last BALTIMORE, May 31.—Joseph R. Wilson, brother of the President, has accepted a position with a leading bonding company, whose headquar ters are here, It was announced to day. His title, it was said, would oe 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. THE WEATHER, Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia—Fair Saturday and Sunday. Rides Her Pony 30 Miles to Be Married MILWAUKEE, May 31.—Elizabeth Waukechon, a Menominee Indian maiden, J7 years old, has proved to officials of the Menominee reserva tion that although the Government’s laws may dominate the red man the gentler sex is still able to defeat “justice.’ When the Government attempted to take her away from her parents’ fireside to the Indian school, she rode thirty miles on a pony to find and wed her lover, John Waupekau- nee. H, L. SAYLER, MANAGER FOR PRESS ASSOCIATION, DEAD INDIANAPOLIS, IND.. May 31.—H. L. Sayler, aged 50, manager of the Chicago Press Association, who was stricken with apoplexy last night when dining at the home of William Fortune, died to-day. Mr. Sayler had attended the Speedway race He is survived by a widow and one son. Insurance Merger to Bring $500,000 Here Approximately $500,000 In premium in come will be added to the banking busi ness In Atlanta by the absorption of the Teutonia Insurance Company by the Hartford Fire Insurance Company. The Teutonia Company’s headquarters were at New Orleans, and the amount of its premium Income last year totaled $900,- 000. More than 40 per cent of this busi ness will be diverted to Atlanta, to be. handled by Egleston & Prescott, general Southern agents for the Hartford. The Teutonia decided to discontinue business while in healthy condition rather thari to face the probably preca rious fate brought upon it by keen com petition and cutting of rates. Balkans Battle as Envoys Talk Peace Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. ATHENS. GREECE, May 31.— While Balkan peace envoys of the states in the Balkan league were fra ternizing in London and affixing their signatures to a treaty with Turkey, a 'hree-hour artillery duel between Bulgarians and Greeks was being fought at Elevtheron. Bulgarians are said to have opened the conflict by firing on the Greek cruiser Spetsai. Other clashes are re ported. * Police Hope Meeting Will Prove Whether Negro Will Stick to Latest Story Under Eyes of the Man He Accuses—Ready to Pay Penalty. A determined effort is being made by the police department to bring Leo M. Frank face to face with his accuser, Jim Conley, the negro sweeper. 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 Phagau, and dictating the notes that were found by her body. They desire also to give Frank an opportunity to deny the ne gro’s story as Conley is re peating 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 subject, unless it was to his most intimate friends who have visited him in his cell. He still refuses to have anything to say or to have Conley brought to hl» 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. Conley 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 strongly accuses and have him repeat the terrible charges. Some believe that If Conlev Is alone guilty 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 Case. 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 y>wn family, but his most intimate friends say that he has played cards with their, and conversed freely on the topics of the day as he has read of them in the dally papers, but that he never has discussed the Phagan mystery direct ly and at length. Some of his friends 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 has 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 hang 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: “ ‘Stop; wait a minute. I know 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 tion, peered through the bars of his cell iu the Fulton Tower and pro- L nounced his readiness to die for his crime as an accomplice, 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.’ ” 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 Frank 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. The paper of neither cor responds to that described by Conley as the kind Frank used. What dees Conley’s assertion signify? Harassed by questioners’, bombard ed with hostile queries, importuned and threatened in an effort to get at the truth in the terrible pencil fac tory mystery—in the minds of many a mystery no longer—this 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 Story. Like an unwinding panorama, he laid before his questioners in the elo quent, if often almost incoherent, jar gon of Decatur Street the shifting scenes 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 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. “I waited and waited, boss,” he said. “I thought Mr. Frank would sure see me. 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 his mood changes—like 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 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 a 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,