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VOL. XI. NO. 258. ATLANTA, GA., MONO AY. JUNE 2, 1913. 2 CENTS p &re°
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GUILTY IN
CASE
Judge Grubb Rules Against the
Former Macon Mayor in the
Speer Controversy.
Colonel W. A. Huff, former mayor
of Macon, has been found guilty of
contempt of court for writing cer
tain pointed letters to Judge Emory
Speer in the famous Macon contro
versy. In the letters Colonel Huff ex
pressed unfavorable opinion of the
way Judge Speer had conducted a
bankruptcy case in which Colonel
Huff was interested.
Following receipt of the letters,
Judge Speer filed charges, and Judge
W. I. Grubb announced a decision to
day, holding Colonel Huff in con
tempt.
Colonel Huff was formerly mayor
of Macqn. He is 82 years old. At his
home in Macon this morning, after
rpce [ved notice from his lawyer, At
torney General T. S. Felder, that he
had been held guilty of contempt,
Colonel Huff made the following
statement:
"It is what I expected. At the time
I wrote Judge Speer those letters last
summer I had a vague notion that
perhaps I was committing contempt
of court. However, I was not as fa
miliar then with the law on contempt
as I am now. 1 wrote the letters
simply and solely to let Judge Speer
know what I thought about him and
about the way he had handled my
bankruptcy case. He knows and the
public knows, and on that score 1
am satisfied. There was never any
intention on my part to attack the
judiciary. I was aiming exclusively
at Judge Speer. But if another court,
which I consider an absolutely fair
and impartial tribunal, holds that 1
am guilty, then that settles it, and
I have no protest to make. I shall
take whatever punishment is meted
out to me without a murmur.”
Judge Grubb will be in Atlanta to
morrow for the purpose of conferring
with Mr. Felder in regard to passing
the order of sentence.
Governor Pays Visit
To Franklin County
Governor Brown will leave for
Carnesville, Franklin County, Monday
• afternoon to pay a social visit which
he promised his supporters there to
make before the expiration of his
term. The Governor will spend Tues
day in Carnesville and the Franklin
County folk are planning a general
rally day in his honor.
When Governor Brown's father ran
for Governor Franklin County was his
banner one, giving him more than
1,000 majority. When the present
Governor made his first race the
county proved Hoke Smith's banner
one, but in the la-vt race it swung into
the Joe Brown column by a heavy
vote, giving a majority over bolh
Russell and Pope Brown, and, ac
cording Joe Brown practically the
same vote it had given his father 51
years before.
Roxborough Boy Is
Missing in Atlanta
Making a personal hunt for her
missing son, Virgil M. Collum, 15
years of age, Mrs. G. W. Collum. of
Roxborough Station. Monday asked
the aid of the police.
The boy disappeared last Thursday
afternoon from the home of his auht.
Miss Frances Phillips, in Piedmont
Avenue, near Seventeenth Street. He
arrived at the home of his aunt for a
visit nut mfreks ago, »
Pope Celebrates
His 78th Birthday
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
ROME. June 2.—Innumerable mes
sages of congratulations and good
cheer poured into the Vatican to-day
on the occasion of the seventy-eighth
birthday of Pope Pius X. Many of
them came from the United States.
His Holiness spent the day quietly.
He expressed profound thanks that
he had recovered from his recent ill
ness, and said that he felt that he
had many more years to live.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia—Generally fair Mon
day and Tuesday.
Kentucky Swept by
Destructive Storm
LOUISVILLE, KY.. June 2.—Heavy
property damage was reported to-day
from over Kentucky, which was
swept by a storm yesterday. The
$50,000 home of Lawrence Jones, dis
tiller and horseman, near Louisville
was destroyed by lightning.
Lightning struck the city power
house in Louisville and put the city
street car service out of commission
for several hours.
Vice Board Inquires
Into Wages of Men
CHICAGO, June 2.—The Illinois
white slave commission this week will
concern itself with the wages of men
and the cost of living in Chicago.
Heretofore the committee has in
vestigated women’s and girls' wages.
Now the committee will determine
whether the average workman's pay
is sufficient to permit him to marry
and support a family properly.
Grapejuice Shower
For Secretary Bryan
WASHINGTON, June 2.—For more
than an hour this morning messen
gers were busy storing cases of sub
stantial appearance in the “wine cel
lar” of the State Department.
Following Mr. Bryan’s declaration
in favor of grapejuice as a beverage
practically every manufacturer of
grapejuice in the country sent a case
of his product to the Secretary.
Weston, Now 75, Off
On 1,500-Mile Hike
NEW YORK, June 2.—Cheered by a
large crowd of enthusiastic admirers,
Edward Pay son Weston, the veteran
pedestrian, to-day started on his
1.500-mile walk to Minneapolis from
New York.
Weston wishes to demonstrate that,
although 75 years old. he still is In fit
condition. He will make about 26 1-2
miles a day.
Grounded Warship's
Heavy Guns Removed
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
KIEL, GERMANY, June 2.—The
German cruiser Bleucher, which went
ashore in Great Belt Friday, was
floated to-day after her ammunition
and heavy guns had been removed to
lighten the ship.
A hole was torn in the 9hip's hull
and she will have to be taken out of
commission for repairs.
Vanderbilt Thief
Held in Chattanooga
CINCINNATI. June 2.—Nick Mo
ran. of Cincinnati, a notorious hotel
thief, said to have been the man who
robbed Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt in a
New York hotel of $65,000 some time
ago, is under arrest in Chattanooga.
Tenn.
After his arrest he said he had
robbed guests at four hotels in Chat
tanooga.
CHAS. P. TAFT AT WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON, June 2.—Charles
P. Taft called at the White House to
day and paid his respects to President
Wilson.
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SLAYING
GRILLE
Wilkes and Maynard Taken to
Scene of the Crime for
‘Third-Degree’ Ordeal.
Walter Wilkes and Ernest May
nard, the suspects in the Stevens mur
der, were taken to the office of Chief
Lanford Monday to he questioned in
regard to their whereabouts the night
the Stevens home was burned to the
ground and Mrs. Stevens and her
foster daughter were slain and left in
the building.
Sheriff McCurdy came from DeKalb
County and prepared to take the two
negroes back to the scene of the
crime, to put them through the third
degree.
Both of the suspects, who were
picked up Saturday afternoon on the
identification of Wade Stevens, son of
the murdered woman, have denied any
knowledge of the crime.
If there is any hope of breaking
them down, the officers believe it will
come when the two men are taken to
the burned building in which the
charred bodie? of the two women were
found.
Revolver Taken by Son.
The detectives' hunt for Mrs. Stev
ens’ missing diamond ring, gold watch
and revolver, which were supposed to
have been taken by the murderer,
came to a sudden halt Monday morn
ing when young Wade Stevens ex
plained their disappearance.
Stevens said that he sold the dia
mond ring and the watch in Chatta
nooga two years ago, letting the ring
go for $10. He said he took the re
volver away with him when he went
to Chattanooga last Tuesday night,
the date of the murder, and sold it
there for 50 cents.
Despite the clearing of thirf phase
of the mystery, however, the officers
still are of the opinion that the mo
tive for the crime may have been rob
bery, as the murderer may have had
an idea that Mrs. Stevens J<ept a large
sum of money in her home.
Wilke** and Maynard were kept in
solitary confinement over Sunday. No
one went near them to question them.
It was thought that a day of almost
absolute Isolation would put them in a
frame of mind where they would be
the more easily worked upon Monday.
After they have been taken to the
scene of the murder, it is probable
that they will he removed to the De-
Kalb County jail in Dedatur.
Caught in Lies, Says Sheriff.
“The prisoners have said that they
didn’t have anything to do with the
killing of Mrs. Stevens and the girl,”
said Sheriff McCurdy, “but they al
ready have been trapped in several
misstatements or lies.
“It looks suspicious that they were
together when captured. They were
in a hurry to say that they had just
happened to meet a few minutes be
fore. Wilkes, when he was first
taken, denied for a time that he was
seen by young Stevens Tuesday night,
as Stevens had claimed, but after
ward admitted that this was. true.
“Young Stevens said that Wilkes
asked whether anyone was with Mrs.
Stevens, and, finding that Mr. Stevens
was in Chattanooga at the Confed
erate reunion, said that he guessed
he would go and see if he could get
his old job back. This is a circum
stance that strengthens our belief in
Wilkes’ guilt, although we expect to
get much more positive evidence.”
Beavers to Talk
Over the Felder
Row With Dorsey
Dictograph conversations an(j al
leged bribery charges will be dis
cussed by Chief of Police Beavers
and Solicitor General Hugh Dorsey
at a conference to be held to-day.
Chief Beavers is ready to have ev
ery one who had anything to do with
the graft charges called before the
Grand Jury, and if conspiracy can
! be proven it is very probable there
will be indictments.
However, it is all up to Solicitor
General Dorsey just what will be
(lone. It is thought that, owing to the
present state of the Phagan case, the
dictographers will not be subpenaed
for some time.
Inquiry Into Forest
Service Demanded
WASHINGTON, June 2.—Declaring
that a mighty empire, consisting of
millions of acres of land, has been
given to the railroads for practically
no consideration by the Forest Serv-
Ice, in the name* of “conservation,'’
Representative Humphrey of Wash
ington in the House to-day demand
ed a special Congressional investiga
tion of the service.
Humphrey declared that the rail
roads had acquired great tracts of the
pub’ic lands through the “lieu land
system.”
Smith Plans County
Farm for Fulton
Shelby Smith, chairman of the Ful
ton County Commission, soon will
take up the plan of a county farm for
Fulton, modeled after the one in
Chatham County.
In Chatham the County feeds pris
oners with supplies from the farm.
Mr. Smith was so favorably impress
ed with the system that he at once
announced he would try to have such
an institution established here.
Miss Alice Ormond Weds in Paris
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BUILDING FALLS KILLS SCORE.
SAROOSSA, SPAIN’, June 2.—A
score or more workmen were buried
here to-day in the collapse of a build
ing that had been struck by light
ning. A number of bodies were re
covered.
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Mrs. James Campbell, formerly Miss Alice Ormond, of Atlanta.
NEW YORK, June 2.—Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt, happy and con
tented over •winning his suit in Mar
quette, Mich., Saturday, proving he is
abstemious in his habits, returned
here to-day to resume his duties as
contributing editor.
William Loeb, Jr., formerly private
secretary to Roosevelt, and Lawrence
Abbott, of The Outlook, accompanied
the Colonel, but when the station was
reached Roosevelt broke away from
them and shook hands with the crowd
of friends who met him there to con
gratulate him on his victory.
”1 am not saying anything now, ana
I am not going to say anything,’’ he
said.
NEW YORK, June 2.—Despite re
ports of increasing revolt in Mexico,
the Mexican Government to-day suc
ceeded in borrowing $76,730,000 in
New York, London. Paris and Berlin.
Of this $26,730,000 was borrowed for
the Mexican National Railways Com
pany, which had to begin paying off
to-day $10,000,000 to holders of 4 1
per cent two-year notes.' Payment
here was made by the Union Trust
Company. The remaining $50,000,000
is for the use of the Government.
American banking houses figuring
in the loan were Speyer & Co., Kuhn
Loeb & Co., Ladenburg, Thalman &
Co. and J. Henry S< hroeder & Co.
The Mexican Government informed
the financial group that with the funds
in question revolution could soon be
put down throughout the republic.
Spend Her Honeymoon in
South Africa, the Wife of
James Campbell,
Announcement of the marriage of
Miss Alice Ormond, society favorite
of Atlanta and a writer of note, to
.lames Campbell, of Paris, France, on
May 22 has come as a great surprise
to Atlanta friends of the young bride.
Equally as interesting are the plans
of the couple for a honeymoon in
South Africa and other remote trav
els.
The marriage has been made known
by the bride's mother. Mrs. Florence
Root Ormond, who. with her daugh
ter. has been spending the last three
months in Paris.
Mr. Campbell is an American who
has lived the past two years in Paris.
He is connected there with Archie
Selwyn. who owns the production
rights to “The Blue Bird” and “With
in the Law.”
While at present the young couple
are in London, they will leave shortly
for South Africa, where Mr. Camp
bell will present the Maeterlinck pro
duction.
A cordial interest will center in this
marriage, the bride having lived in
Atlanta until a few years ago. when,
with her mother, she went to New
York to devote her time to literary
work, in which, through her maga
zine •writings, she has made a name
foP herself.
She is a sister of Mrs. Hinton Hop-
kinr, and of Sidney Ormond, of At
lanta.
Defense to Cite Discrepancies in Time
to Disprove Conley’s Affidavit-
Sheriff Denies Friends of Superin
tendent Approached Sweeper in Cell.
After a two-hour grilling by Solicitor Hugh M. Dorsey Minola
McKnight, a negro woman about 21 years old, was taken to police
headquarters and is held under suspicion in connection with the
murder of Mary Phagan.
She is believed to have made sensational disclosures to the
solicitor.
. At the police station she was in hysteria, shouting:
“lam going to hang, but I didn t do it. ’ ’
Five persons will he prepared to testify at the trial of Lee JL
Frank that he arrived at home for luncheon at 1:20 o’clock the
Saturday afternoon that Mary Phagan was killed, which would
have been an impossibility, the defense will assert, if Frank had
directed the disposal of the body and dictated the notes at the
time the negro alleges.
Testimony before the Coroner’s jury by Frank ^nd others in
dicated strongly that he was at home by 1:20 the afternoon of th<
crime. Conley in his affidavits declared that lie went into Frank!
office at four minutes before 1 o’clock. He said that after a c
vernation of a few minutes Frank heard voices and shoved Coni
mto a closet. Miss Corinthia Hall and Mrs. Emma Clark enter©
Conley was kept a prisoner in the closet, he said, for eight or ten
minutes.
It was after this, hp said, that
Frank asked fiitii if he could
write. Conley swore in his af
fidavit that he answered in the
affirmative, and that he was di-
rected to write several notes,
most of which began: “Dear
mother, a long tall black negro
did this by hisself.”
After this, followed the giving of
$2.50 to the negro, according to his
story, as well as the givipg of the
$200 which later was taken back by
FYank.
All of the incidents that the negro
has detailed. In the minds of many
interested in the case, would have
kept Frank at the factory considera
bly after the time that five witnesses
will swear he arrived home.
Wife and Her Parents to Aid.
These witnesses are Mr. and Mrs.
Emil Selig. Mrs. Frank, the cook in
the Selig household and an acquaint
ance of Frank who is said to have
seen him riding home in the street
car.
Adding doubt to the negro’s affida
vit is the testimony of Miss Corinthia
Hall before the Coroneer’s Jury. Miss
Hall testified that she left the build
ing about 11:45 Saturday forenoon.
Conley described her as coming to
Frank’s office more than an hour later.
Sheriff Mangum made indignant and
emphatic denial Monday of the re
ports that Conley had been ap
proached, threatened or Intimidated
while he was In a cell at the Tower.
Conley, he said, was not threatened
in any way. He was not approached
by friends of Leo P'rank and no one
was permitted to see Conley whom
the negro did not Wish to 9ee.
“There is not a bit of truth in the
statements that have been made to
the effect that Frank’s friends were
allowed to get to Conley and mak'j
attempts to frighten him into a con
fession." said the Sheriff. “It was re
ported that a group of PYank’s
friends, with a bottle of liquor, went
to Conley’s cell. This is absolutely a
fabrication.
Treats All Prisoners Alike.
“Frank is no more to me than Con
ley, so far as the law is concerned.
The law tells me to prtoect all my
prisoners without fear or favor. This
I have done, and this I shall continue
to do. Conley wa9 treated exactly as
Frank has been, or as anyone else
awaiting trial or the action of the
Grand Jury,
“If anyone came to see him, he was
asked first if he wished to see that
person or persons. If he said he did
not, his wishes were regarded to the
letter.
"The report that I am seeking the
Jewish support and the Jewish vote cr
any other class or race or national
ity, as against another, is most absurd
upon the face of it.
"I have nothing to say against Chief
Lanford. I would cnly suggest that
he try his case in the court and not
attempt to settle the whole case and
hang one man or another before the
twelve men the law prescribes have
had a chance to pass on the prisoner’s
guilt or innocence.
Conley made a personal request of
Chief of Detectives Lanford Monday
morning to be taken to confront the
factory superintendent.
“I think I could make him tell
everything if I could just go there to
his cell and tell my story again,” said
the negro. Conley repeatedly urged
upon Chief Lanford that he be allowed
to face P'rank. He declared he thought
his presence would break Frank down.
The Chief regarded Conley as sin
cere* in his request, but said that he
would make no further effort to bring
the negro and the factory superin
tendent together. All rested in the
hands of Luther Z. Rosser, PYank’s
attorney, Lanford announced.
“I have made several attempts to
take Conley to PYank’s cell since the
negro began making his disclosures,”
explained Chief Lanford. “All efforts
have been unavailing. Frank stead
fastly has refused to talk with the
detectives or with anyone whom the
detectives may bring to see him. At
torney Rosser may arrange for a
meeting of this sort, but the detective
department has given it up.
Conley Not To Be Indicted Now.
“If Rosser Is confident that Frank
is innocent, he may think it will help
his client's case to give him a chance
to see the negro and deny his tale.”
Chief Lanford said that there would
be no bar to Conley's testimony at
the trial of PYank. Conley, he said,
would not be indicted as an accessory
after the fact at the present time, but
more likely would be indicted after
Frank’s fate was determined in. Qne
way or another. In the meantime he
will be held as a material witness like
Newt Lee, the negro night watchman
at the factory,