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VOL. XT. NO. 257.
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, MAY 31,1913.
Copyright, 1906,
By Tha Georgian Co.
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Suspicion Points to Former Em
ployees—Violence Feared if
Pair Are Captured.
In an effort to locate Walter
Wilkes and Ernest Maynard, the ne
gro and the halfbreed sought as sus
pects In the murder of Mrs. Sarah C.
Stevens and her daughter, Nellie Ste
vens, and the burning of their lonely
country home, Sheriff J. A. McCurdy,
of DeKalb County, and Detective
Rosser on Saturday are scouring the
country near the Stevens farm.
Mounted on horseback and equipped
to stay in the woods for several days,
the officers purpose to question every
person within a radius of five miles,
In order to gather all available Infor
mation regarding the crime, and to
obtain, if possible, information that
will lead to the capture of Wilkes
and Maynard. The officers plan also
t» make another and more thorough
search of the Stevens home for possi
ble clews, and probably will have the
well dragged.
No Claws in the Well.
The latter, however, has about been
abandoned as a possible hiding place
of clews. A newspaper man went
down Into the well at the end of the
rope during one of the Investigations
land found nothing In a flfteen-minTite
search.
Sheriff McCurdy announced this
morning that he has entirely elimi
nated Wade Stevens, son of the mur
dered woman, and that all his efforts
will be directed toward the capture of
Wilkes and Maynard. Both young
Stevens and his chum, “Red” Mer
chant, were taken to Decatur by the
Sheriff late Frfaay afternoon and re
leased.
It Is not thought that the negro and
the halfbreed are in Atlanta. De
tectives have searched every negro
hiding place In the city and have
.found no trace of them. It has been
learned, through the statements of
Wade Stevens and several of the ne
gro’s friefida, that Wilkes was in
■ town last Tuesday, the day of the
murder, but no trace can be found of
him since that time.
Boy’s Story is Proven.
A five-hour investigation of the
scene of the crime and the surround
ing country Friday afternoon de
veloped the fact that Wade Stevens
was telling the truth when he said he
left his home about 8 o’clock Tues
day morning, that the man Whom L.
O. Self saw loitering about the Stev
ens home late Tuesday afternoon was
not Wade, and that the negro and the
half-breed who are now under sus
picion. Walter Wilkes and Ernest
Maynard, have been suspected of be
ing connected with several petty
crimes in the neighborhood, and are
considered two of the most treacher
ous negroes in that section of the
country.
Wade’s story of leaving home Tues
day morning was corroborated by J
SU Cowen, who lives a mile beyond
the Stevens home, and who Is one of
the most prosperous farmers of the
section. Mr. Cowan stated positively
that on last Tuesday morning about
10 o'clock, he met young Wade Stev
ens in the road about a mile and a
haif from the Stevens home. The
boy, Mr. Cowan said, was walking
slowly. They exchanged greetings,
Mr. Cowan said, but had no conver
sation.
It is not thought that any valu
able Information will be developed
from L. G. Self's story of seeing a
man loitering about the Stevens’
home Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Self,
who is the neighbor to whom Nellie
Stevens took her brother's clothing,
said he parsed the Stevens home
about 6 o'clock Tuesday afternoon,
and saw a man walk from the front
of the house to the rear and disap
pear behind the building.
Did Not Identify Man.
The little girl, Nellie Stevens, was
at the other side of the house, feed
ing the ducks. It was first reported
that Mr. Self had identified the man
be saw as Wade Stevens. He said
Friday afternoon that he saw only
(,he man's back and could not identify
^ him. He said he could not tell how
' ’ he was dressed, how large a man he
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Rides Her Pony 30
Miles to Be Married
MILWAUKEE, May SI.—Elizabeth
Waukechon, a Menominee Indian
maiden, 17 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.
“ 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 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.
Horse Sets Record
As Parcel Post-Aide
WASHINGTON, May 31.— Postof
fice investigators have fouhd that the
cost of delivering parcel post pack
ages ranges from less than 2 to mofe
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 dexiartment
to help the expensive offices by call
ing attention to the methods of the
cheaper delivery places.
Balkans Battle as
Envoys Talk Peace
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
ATHENS, GREECE, May 3L—
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 three-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.
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.
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.
Atlantan Hurt in
Dixie Flyer Wreck
FULTON, KY, May 31.—T. C.
Sheerer, 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 Load wan Utmuvti.
Mrs. Kruger Says She Seeks Vin
dication in Charges Against
Inspector Maddox.
Declaring that her husband had quit
her as a result of the sensational lh-
cident was capped by the arrest Fri
day of Inspector Henry H. Maddox,
of the city sanitary department on
a charge of disorderly conduct while
in her home, Mrs. Charles Kruger, 15
West Alexander, appeared before
Chief of Police Beavers Saturday
morning to fight for vindication of
herself and to regain her husband.
Mrs. Kruger appeared before the
sanitary board Friday and made the
charge that Maddox had come to her
home and insulted her. She told
Chief Beavers that her husband had
left her. She then declared it her in
tention to fight for the prosecution of
Maddox to prove to her husband that
she was not guilty of any miscon
duct.
Maddox, who is a brother of Aider-
man James W. Maddox, of the Fifth
Ward, was discharged from the sani
tary department immediately follow
ing Mrs. Kruger's charges.
Fights for Vindication.
Mrs. Kruger, in her statement made
before the board. Is said to have de
clared that Maddox came to her home
during her husband's absence. Mad
dox. was placed under arrest on a
charge of disorderly conduct, as a re
sult of Mrs. Kruger’s complaint.
Not until Mrs. Kruger appeared
at the police station Saturday morn
ing, however, did the startling infor
mation come to light that her hus
band had deserted her as a result of
the episode.
Mrs. Kruger then declared that her
fight was more for the love of her
husband than the punishment of Mad
dox. and that in securing the latter
should would gain the former by her
own vindication.
Friedmann Leaves,
Not Flees, for Home
NEW YORK, May 31.—Dr. Frederick
F. Friedmann, discoverer of the turtle
vaccine for tuberculosis, to-day an
nounced that he will Bail for Germany
next week in consequence of the action
of the New York Board of Health in
barring his cure here.
“I am not running away, but I feel
that my mission in this country is fin
ished," said Dr. Friedmann. The phy
sician would not say what plans he
will make for the care of his patients
here
Cloudburst in W, Va.
Leaves Path of Ruin
ORLANDO, W. VA., May 31— Orlando,
a town in the southern part of Lewis
County, at the Junction of the West
Virginia and Pittsburg division of the
Baltimore and Ohio Road and the Coal
and Coke Railroad, was the center of
a disastrous cloudburst late last night,
immense property loss has been Inflicted
and it is feared there was loss of life.
Reports hav£ reached here of a num
ber of bridges going out on the Coal and
Coke and Baltimore and Ohio Railroads,
including one at Walkerville.
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 the 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.
Army Band Plays at
Grant Park Sunday
The Fifth Infantry band will play tha
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'Equestrlenne,’’ Hosmer; "Southern
Roses." J. Strauss; "Silvery Bells,”
Botsford: "In the Shadows, ’ Stern;
"The Sprites’ Revelry," Bailey; "Lights
and Shadows." Holmes: ‘The Grand Mo-
ftuV Ludprs; "T. M. B.," King.
Huff to Know Fate Next Tuesday
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Grubb to Decide Contempt Case
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Bankruptcy Suit Caused Charge
Photo by Thurston Hatcher, Macon.
Colonel William Arnold Huff, aged defendant
in contempt of court case in Macon.
MAPON, OA.,
May 31.—Colonel
William Arnold
Huff, the 82-yeaf-
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
Bpeer, 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
ruptcy proceed
ings in his court
against Colonel
Huff, Instituted
fourteen years
ago and still
pending.
The court now
holds $96,000 as
sets of the Hilff
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
was posed espe
cially for The
Georgian.
Millionaire Seeks
Thrill Killing Whale
SAN FRANCISCO, May 31. 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.
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 Ric«5
University at Houston. Texas. He is
a brother of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson.
Chamber Works for
Vital Record Bureau
A committee on vital statistics from
the Chamber of Commerce began work
Saturday to throw the weight of its in
fluence behind the medical societies in
having a State board of vital ntatistlcs
Dstabllsheh. The committee was organ-
zed with Alfred C. Newell chairman,
md Dr Stuart Roberts secretary.
Dr. J. P. Kennedy, city health officer,
who appeared before the committee.
d that Georgia was one of the four
: tates in the Union that had no legisla
tion on the subject.
Atlanta Men Speak
At Decatur Smoker
The program for the "homecoming
smoker" at Decatur Tuesday night has
been announced by President W. J.
Dabney, of the Decatur Board of Trade.
The affair will be held at the DeKalb
court house at 6:30 o’clock in the
evening.
Among the speakers are: Wilmer L.
Moore, president Atlanta Chamber of
Commerce; *R. W. Walker, mayor of
Madison; R. F. Gilliam, mayor of Kirk-’
wood; Walter G. Cooper, secretary At
lanta Chamber of Commerce; Alonza M.
Field, representative from DeKalb in
the Legislature; Forrest Adair and
C. J. Haiden.
Doctor Blows Life
Into 1-Pound Baby
NEW YORK, May 31.—A one-pound
infant—a girl—visited the home of
Mrs Mildred Williams, of Far Rock-
away, to-day, three months before she
was expected.
Dr. William H. Nammack, Coroner’s
physician of Queens, was hastily sum
moned. He believed the tiny child
was dead. He blew his breath into
the infant’s mouth and nostrils and
by other artificial means induced res
piration.
French Playwright
Still Is Pondering
Reporters’ Queries
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
PARIS, May 31.—In an article print
ed In to-day’s issue of L’lllustration,
Pierre Loti, the famous French play
wright and author, says that the fol
lowing are some of the question ask
ed him by reporters upon his recent
visit to New York:
Are you an anarchist?
Are you an idiot?
Are you in favor of polygamy?
What are your views on rhinoceros
hunting?
Are you feeble-minded?
What is your income?
Were you ever in jail or an insane
ax Hum?
Do you believe in the sterilisation
of criminals?
What do you think of American
girls? (Loti had only been in Amer
ica an hour.)
Can you cook?
Would you marry a suffragette?
Isn’t America a great country?
Year of Hard Luck
For Col. Roosevelt
MARQUETTE, MICH. May 31.—
Colonel Roosevelt thinks he’s had a
hard and expensive year. He said:
"It's tough when a man gets shot
up and has a wedding in his family
and gets into a libel suit all In one
year. That bullet in Milwaukee cost
me about $3,000; the wedding about
the same. I’ve no idea what this af
fair is going to cost me."
Prosecution in the libel action for
$10,000 brought by Theodore Roose
velt against George Newett, editor
of The Ishpeming Iron Ore, was ex
pected to be completed to-day.
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."
Hansen, Out of Row,
Will Leave England
8peclal Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, May 31.—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-
schlld's 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.
"1 will leave England to-day If you
will reduce the bond to $5,000," Han
sen Informed the court. The magis
trate agreed.
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 guilt,” he
said, “but whoever he is, he should
hang.”
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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 negro has lied before and has been broken down in hia
stories. The detectives wish to learn how he will go through tha
ordeal of confronting the mail he accuses of directing the disposal
of the body of Mary Phagan, and dictating the notea that were
found by her body.
They desire also to give Frank
an opportunity to deny the ne
gro’s story as the negro 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 be to
his most intimate friends who
have visited him in his cell.
He still refuses to have anything
to fray or to have the negro brought
to his cell, except by the permission
of his attorney, Luther Z. Rossere,
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 the negro’s statements
their final test. The black man 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. Sotne believe
that if the negro 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 cbnfession, if he knows any more
about the crime than he already baa
told.
Silent Regarding the Case.
In the evnt 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 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 th Imprisoned man.
They declare that he never
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Conley Is Ready to Pay
Penalty as Accomplice.
“Yes, sir, I guees 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 g-olng to say:
“'Stop; wait a minute. 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
Phagen after the superintendent had
killed her, created a profound sensa
tion, peered through the bars of his
cell in the Fulton Tower and pro
nounced hie readiness to die for his
crime as an accomplice, and in the
same breath protested his Innocence
of the actual murder.
Ready to F* e 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 th0 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 does
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 .rfe " *“
detectives in the startling confasslon
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 asy 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 h® is unchanged.
“I waited and waited, bass,” he said.
"I thought Mr. Frank would sure see
me. I thought maybe we could have
a talk and myabe everything would
be all right, but he never would see
me. I tried once and I tried twice
and I tried a^ain, but Mr. Frank never
would see me. So, I guessed It ws
just about time for me to tall t’
truth. It looked like Mr. -Fro