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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS,
T-R-EMENS
AND NEGRO IS
Anxious to See if Conley Will
Stick to Latest Confession
Under Dramatic Test.
Continued From Page 1.
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
a skillful lawyer to tear the negro’s
story ihto tatters must revise their
judgment. From careful rehearsal,
studied drilling or the indelible im-
pressioi. of ghastly tragedy, the pris
oner has learned his lesson well. From
whatever angle he is attacked he tells
the same narrative. Fnder cajolery
or abuse he is unchanged.
T waited and waited, boss." he said
“1 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 1 tried twice
and I tried again, but Mr Frank never
would see me. So. 1 guessed it was »
just about time for me to tell the
truth. It looked like Mr. Frank
couldn't get out of 11 after all. and it
was all up, so 1 told the truth."
Looks Little Like Novelist.
FORCED T1T00 Huff t0 Know Fate Next Tuesday
+•+ +•+ •*•••!•
Grubb to Decide Contempt Case
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
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 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.
* Jin\ why did you write the notes?"
he was asked. "Didn’t It strike you
that 'long tall hlaek negro,’ would be
taken to rruan you?"
"Vos, sir," said Conley, readily. "It
did and 1 tole Mr. Frank M". 1 said,
Look here. Mr. Frank, they're going
to think that means me.’ Hut 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 lie
had powerful wealthy’ folks in Brook
lyn—that was the first time I ever
heard he had rich folks up North at
all. 1 thought they all lived here
so 1 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 ga\* It and no
amount of questioning could change it
"How long did you know Mr.
Frank?’’ was another question.
"I guess 1 must a know n 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. Jim,
thai may cost a good boss his life.”
"Well. 1 had to do it. That’s all
there was to It. I had to tell the
truth. 1 waited and waited for Mr.
Frank to do something and when he
didn’t I just reckoned he couldn't and
it was about all up.”
Three distinct times during the
questioning Conley let drop remarks
that might truthfully he interpreted
as jubilation that another man was in
as bail a plight as he.
Shows Little Sorrow.
Kach time when the remark was
called to his attention he protested
that he had no feeling* of malice
against Frank and that he was not
eager to see him suffer, hi spite of
his protests, it was very plain that he
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 r «»
move some boxes of pencils that hau
been reposing on one snelf for a be t
two years.
He was absolutely certain that the
ki’.ling w is accidental.
“Mr. Frank,” Said Conic . "neve*-
meant o kill that girl. No. sir. he
never had no Idea like that. When
he com* running to me and said. *Jim
want to make some money quick,’
and 1 said yes. he said I picked up
a girl ba< k there and let her tall and
her head : against somethin^ ' an<
he told m< to get a cloth, and I ran
back and I ]<>. k*-i down an j i >*\\
a girl lying <>n the Moor, all still, and
her head was cut. and I hollered.
'Why. Mr. Frank, this girl’s dead.'
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White City Park Now Open
IBNLEY STAR IN
PUT TO TEST
Democrats Resent Effort to Bind
Them Not to Enact Laws
Leader Opposes.
WAHHINuTON, June l.?—Majority
Leader Underwood’s control of the
House will 1/e put to a test Monday
in the Democratic caucus. House
Democrats.to-day declared that, while
I’nderwood was able to apply the
"gag when the tariff lull was being
put through, It was not at all cer
tain he would be able to do so this
time.
I’nderwood 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 I’nderwood
w ill specify.
The resolution will sot 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 haired from considera
tion.
It was said the resolution probably
will be adopted.
Hunt Relatives of
Drowned Dam Man
The police department is endeavor
ing to locate relatives of H. Howell,
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 .1 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. \\ IS., June 1 That
Governor Francis E. McGovern had
no right to remove Herman Eckorn,
State insurance commissioner, was
the ruling to-day of the State Su
preme Court.
McGovern ousted Fa kern for perni
cious political activity on the allega
tion that he had been active in en-
i dcavoring to aid a LaPollette man
j for th** Speakership of the House In
' a. race against a "Bull Mooter."
Eckern barricaded himself in his
office for some days following the ef
fort of McGovern to remove him.
kinR story has been told and
ice The Georgian presented
Conley’s affidavit. The negro ilung
tenaciously to the details as he gave
them to the detectives.
He added that he had heard no
ream, but accounted for that by the
distance he was from the scene of the
ling, .According to his story—sev-
I hundred feet, he thought.
4e declared t!m,t a piece of the
l’s skirt had been torn away. Cer-
n srim questions were put to him
ng lines which the detectives have
heart!
retold
| Li
In all the grim annals of Atlanta’ft
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 his 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 at*
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
Uhagan 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
Leo 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
Sehiff, 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 anil every circuit* -
stance added to the theatric and
I 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
ister, 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
the front of the building during the
i noon hour. Their chatter and la ugh-
I ter instantly was stilled. It had beer
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
iletails. but now the spectacle of a
stern blue-coated officer, a squad of
I keen-eyed detectives and a shackled
I black man brought buck the tragedy
in all its first horror.
Young Girls Shudder.
Some of the girls, pitifully young
land helpless looking, pressed back
against the wall iuid stood there with
I 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
clared to<k place after lie heard the
two low whistles with which Frank
Austrian Officers Gave Disgraced
Colonel a Loaded Pistol and a
Book of Instructions.
VIENNA, June t.—Extraordinary
revelations of treachery carried on
for years by a colonel of the Austrian
General staff, who sold secrets* of
vital importance to Russia, are made
in The Military Gazette.
Colonel Redl. one of the chiefs of
the military secret service depart
ment, was summoned to Vienna from
Prague at the end of last week. Dur
ing his absence his flat was searched
and a number of incriminating docu
ments were found. Some of them
showed that he had given to the
Rutwian Government draft plans of
the Austrian and German armies
against Russia in case of war.
The War Office here, on receiving
full confirmation of the report, sent
to Red! two of his fellow-officers.
During the night they informed him
of the charges against him. As he
was unable to clear himself, they
warned him that they would return
at daybreak and arrest him.
On leaving the room one of the
officers took a fully loaded pistol from
his pocket, with a book of instructions
as to how to use the weapon. He
opened the book and placed it in
front of Redl with a meaning glance.
The officers then mounted guar'!
outside the room until the noise of a
shot told them that Redl, who was
only 41 years oid, had chosen the only
way open for officers in such dis
grace. They hastened into the room,
ascertained that Redl was dead, and
returned to the War Office to make
their report.
The War office determined to keep
the matter a profound secret. It was
announced that Redl had committed
euicide as a result of insanity caused
by overwork in his important posi
tion. The hour of his funeral was
not announced, and he was interred
in the simplest manner, without the
military honors due to his rank.
The facts were, however, revealed
when members of Parliament de
manded that the War Minister con-.,
tradict reports concerning the death
of Redl in order to clear his memory.
The authorities were thereupon com
pelled to reveal the facts of the case.
In military circles It Is» declared that
other military men are involved in
the scandal.
Sulzer Clambers on
Grape Juice Wagon
NEW YORK, Juno 1.—Pertain wal
lops handed the demon ruin In Wash
ington and Marquette. Mich., were re
inforced here to-day when It became
known that Governor Sulzer has joined
the grape juice brigade. The an
nouncement was made at the Waldorf
by Mrs. Sulzer, whit is accompanying
tier husband on his swing over the
State in the interest of a direct primary
bill.
"My husband would rather drink
buttermilk than wine, and he. like Sec
retary Bryan, lias become a great devo
tee of unfermented grape Juice."
ind
they
tingly
given h
unwillingness. w *
mentlonable. but
bidding part in t!
Conley assert*«
explain the torn
back door in the
•erted also that
FCR PMYSIl
T.ikf Hotter
! take. The replies,
and with apparent
. sinister and un-
hey w ill play a for-
trial of Frank,
that he could not
iway staple on the
basement. He as-
a had not put the
- the body.
,L EXHAUSTION
* Arid PbMSh.M*
PC f<> a;*d raor
*»■* *n.» wv«k .11g *.><„
was to signal him.- With the detectives
following him closely and clustering
about nim each time he stopped tc
make an explanation, the negro start
ed at the point he said lie first saw
the dead body and went through the
building * xactly as he claimed he did
rn ilie bfterno’oP. he bore the tregie
l urdon to the elevator, d >vvn to the
basement and then to he dark cor
ner near the furnace.
Do®s Not B"eak Down.
m d«j
and force him tg> confess that it was
he alone, and not Frank, who com
muted 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 he in » tragedy of the sort. He
never faltered nor hesitated. Yet he
reprodu ed in startling detv.il every
movement and every confers ttion *.f
Importance which ne said f ook pla.’s
while the body of Marv Phagan was
being hurried to *h* ba«cm£nt. .
Conley did not pretend too 'teat a
know ledge. Occasionally when he v n.s
asked a question he would reply: ”1
don’t know, boss, 1 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 thev 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 ne 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 plate after
Mary Phagan was killed the after
noon of April 26.
Employees Show Curiosity.
As the elevator passed down with
it.* 1 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 Sehiff shouted at
him, and there were no more prying
eyeu directed at tin* strange proceed
ings that were taking place. It was
through this trap door that Conley
Frank ;ra«l. his way to the first
floor after the body had been dis
posed of.
Left Indelible Picture.
\Ynen the remarkable recital was
ended all who h-d 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 mod realistic and im-
pr* sftive.
Bankruptcy Suit Caused Charge
Photo by Thurston Hatcher, »Mao
Colonel William Arnold lluff, aged defendant
in contempt of court case in Macon.
MACON. GA.,
June l.—Colonel
William Arnold
Huff, the 82-year-
old ex-Mayor of
Macon, will next
Tuesday know
whether or not he
w ill have to serve
a jail sentence,
pay a fine or go
free on the con
tempt of court
charge filed
agaifist 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. 1. 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 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
iitigation 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
lluff. 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 Tht
Georgian.
“Joe” Wilson Gets
Good Job at Last
BALTIMORE, June 1.—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.
SUES ‘INSULTER’
Hansen, Out of Row,
Will Leave England
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON. June 1.—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’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.
"I will leave England to-day if you
will reduce the bond to $5,000,’’ Han
sen informed the court. The magis
trate agreed.
Horse Sets Record
As Parcel Post Aide
WASHINGTON, June 1.—Postof
fice 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., June 1.—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 leized.
WEAR DEATH AGAIN
Friends Are Convinced She Will
Not Live Long Enough to
Serve All of Jail Term,
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON. June J. 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 slv
was sentenced to three years last
month.
Mrs. Pankhurst has vowed to "hun
ger strike" as long as she is in prjson
and her friends are convinced sue will
not live long enough to serve her
sentence.
Many lives were placed in peril by
the burning of a railroad signal box
at Reechlands. near Buckingham. The
police who investigated attributed the
outrage to militant women.
Kaiser 'Peace Lord,'
Declares Carnegie
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON. June 1.—"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 Jo most to abolish
war. Instead of being the war lord
he is the peace lord of Europe."
White City Park Now Open
PRINTING FIELD
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-
alist to enter the general printing
field, although it is announced they
have no intention of conflicting with
the w’ork 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 w hich 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; L. D.
Hicks, advertising manager, and C. R.
Cunningham, manager of circulation
Since taking fiver The Sunny South
plant The Ruralist has appointed C.
H. Pritchard mechanical superintend
ent. He has entire charge of the
plant.
Mrs. "Pat” in Barrie’s Play.
LONDON. June 1.—Charles Froh-
man will present in September next
at the Duke of York Theater. J. M.
Barrie's "The Legend of Leonora.”
with Mrs Pat Campbell and Sir John
Hare in the principal parts.
Mrs, Wilson's Brother
To Quit Princeton Job
PRINCETON, June 1.—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 Rico
University at Houston. Texas. He is
a brother of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson.
Mrs Charles Kugler Clears Self
of Accusations Made by
Inspector Maddox.
Continued From Page 1.
was no excuse for his unreasonable
conduct in leaving his wife Friday
night and swearing that he would not
return to her until she had cleared her
name.
Pair Kiss and Make Up.
A complete reconciliation was ef
fected and the reunited couple left
the station talking gayly. 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 Fairlie Street witji 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
trie Kugler residency 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
given an admonition similar to that
received by Maddox.
ODDITIES
—in the—
DAY’S NEWS
Gives Life Trying to
Keep His Goat Dry
BURLINGTON N. J.. June 1.—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 \vho 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.
Atlantan Hurt in
Dixie Flyer Wreck
FULTON. KY„ June 1—T. C.
Sherrer. a salesman of Atlanta, was
among the eighteen passengers in
jured when the "Dixie Flyer." on the
N., O. & St. L. road, crashed into
an Illinois Central freight train near
here yesterday. His head was bruised.
CROWD VIEWS BATHTUB.
Hundreds of Findlay (Ohio) citizens
gathered to gaze at the bathtub of
Admiral Sigsbee. which was recovered
from the wreck of the battleship
Maine, which was placed on the steps
of the court house here because the
committee could not galhe*- enough
cash to mount it.
BUFFALO BULLS BATTLE.—In
a battle at Allentown, Pa., for the su
premacy of Colonel Trexier’s herd of
bison, "Roaring Frank." a 1,400-pound
buffalo bull, killed “Comancne," a
2.000-pound buffalo, considered one of
the finest specimens of the breed.
TINY INSECTS COVER CITY.—
Millions of tiny insects descended
upon Colorado Springs, and residents
and shopkeepers were kept busy
sweeping them from their places and
sidewalks. The name of the insects
is not know and no one knows
whence they came.
TYPIST IS 80 YEARS OLD.—Mrs.
Priscilla J. Gory, 80 years of age, to
day took a position in a Memphis.
Tenn.. attorney’s office as a stenogra
pher. She began taking lessons two
months ago. and says she can get as
much speed from her machine as
though she were a younger woman.
FORTY IN TALLYH0 PARTY
ARE PLUNGED DOWN CLIFF
DENVER. June 1.—Forty members
of a tally ho party were hurled down
a cliff near Mount Morris late las-’t
night as they were returning from a
day's outing when the horses became
frightened. Some are reported fatally
injured.
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
medicine for the complete purifica
tion of the blood and the complete
renovation of the whole system, is
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
It will make you fee! better, look
better, eat and sleep better.
Get It today in usual liquid form
or in the tablets called Sarsatabs.
We have Beautiful Bedding
Plants 3c each. Atlanta Flora)
Co., 555 E. Fair Street.
Veteran Buried at Dalton.
DALTON.—The body of G. WVMul-
linax, one of the three Confederate
veterans who clied during the Chatta
nooga reunion, was interred here to
day. He is survived by five daugh
ters of this city.
Eleven Girls Graduate.
THOM ASVILLE. —The Vashtl
Home held the closing exercises of
the school connected with that insti
tution this week, when eleven girls
graduated.
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