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VOL. XI. NO. 259.
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 1913.
Copyright, 1906, i> r*T?XT r TC
By Tn« Georgian Co. ~ J. ft
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Defense Prepares to Show Glar
ing Discrepancies in Affidavit
of James Conley.
■'Developments of a startling nature
may be expected from day to day in
the Phagan case,” said Chief of De
tectives Lanford Tuesday morning.
"They may be expected right up to
the date that the trial of Leo Frank
begins.
"That we feel we practically have a
conclusive case against the factory
superintendent does not mean that we
are rating in our labors to the slight
est extent. We are a little more at
rest in our minds, that Is all.
"The detectives are working con
stantly on new clews that present
themselves and are investigating every
story that is heard, whether‘it is told
by a witness favorable to Frank or
against him. We wish to go into
court prepared to establish our case
' against Frank so that not a doubt of
his guilt will be possible. That is, of
course, if it still appears at that time
as certain to us that he is the guilty
man as it does now.
With the continued activity of the
detectives, it has become noticeable in
'the last few days that the defense is
at work on its case. Both sides are
preparing for a titanic battle when
Frank is put on trial for his life the
third week in this month. Frank’s
cook is still held at police headquar
ters.
To Cite Time Differences.
Differences in the time given by Jim
Conley in his affidavit and the testi
mony of Coroner’s jury witnesses will
be pointed out in the defense of Leo
M. Frank against the charge of'killing
little Mary Phagan, it was revealed
Tuesday. They will be used as indi
cations of the superintendent's inno
cence because of their many seeming
deviations from fact.
One of the most glaring was the
negro’s declaration that while he was
in Frank’s office to write the notes
Miss Corinthia Hall and Mrs. Emma
Clark entered. Conley said that this
was 1 o’clock or a few minutes after.
But Miss Hall had left the building
more than an hour before, according
to her own testimony before the Cor
oner’? jury.
’’What time was it when you left
the factory?” Coroner Donehoo asked
Miss Hall when she was on the stand
at the inquest.
"A quarter to twelve,” she replied.
"I looked at the clock when I came
down.”
The negro said that he looked at the
clock when he went in the office and
' that it was just four minutes of I
o’clock. He had been in there a few
minutes, he asserted, when the voices
of Miss Hall and Mrs. Clark were
heard.
Another statement which will be re
futed is Conley’s declaration that he
1 assisted in taking the body from
the second floor down to the basement
on the elevator.
To Testify Elevator Didn’t Run.
Two witnesses will be called to
prove that the elevator did not run
that day at the time the body is
said to have been disposed of.
These two witnesses are Harry
Denham and Arthur White. They
were on the fourth floor from early in
the forenoon until after 3 o’clock in
the afternoon. If the elevator had
been run they say they would have
known It. The experiment of running
the elevator has been tried since the
murder. It is said that it can not
be run without the persons on the
fourth floor being aware of it.
The theory that will be presented by
the defense is that Mary Phagan was
the victim of drink-crazed Conley.
From his hiding place near the stairs
he saw her descending from the sec
ond floor. She was alone. He quick
ly stunned her with a blow over the
head, the defense will suggest, and
toppled her down the elevator shaft,
taking her purse and later disposing
of her body.
The alabis which the defense will
Seek to establish are, of course, the
weapons on which reliance will be
* placed to complete the riddling of
Conley’s testimony and affidavits.
Frank had arrived home in the after
noon at the time Conley says the su
perintendent was dictating notes In
his office, according to five witnesses
the defense will be able to call.
U. S. Biggest Market
Place for Canada
WASHINGTON, June 3.—Accord
ing to a report made public to-day
by the Department of Commerce, the
United States ranks second as a cus
tomer for Canadian products and first
as a supplier of Canadian needs.
Canada buys more from the United
States than from all other nations
combined. We also would take the
bulk of the exports except that Cana
da has little to sell that is not pro
duced also in our own country.
The larger takings of Canadian
wheat constitute the principal factor
that makts England loom larger in
the export trade.
Pushes Bet Winner
30 Miles in Barrow
SPOKANE, WASH., June 3.—Roy
McCampbell, of Okanogan, Wash., es
corted by a drum corps, made a thir
ty-mile hike from Okanogan to To-
riasket, trundling a gorgeously trim
med and canopied wheelbarrow in
which sat George Hopkins, the man
who won the bet as to the probable
date of entrance into, Okanogan of
the New Croville-Wenatchee branch
of the Great Northern Railway.
If the line had reached Okanogan by
April 10 Hopkins would have been the
motive power, with McCampbell his
passenger.
Translates Bible
Into New Spelling
CLEVELAND, MINN., June 3.—
Judson Jones, of Cleveland, has com
pleted a translation of the Bible, ac-
cqrding to a system of phVmetic spell
ing. which he devised himself. Most
of the manuscript is being kept in a
safe deposit vault, while the four
books of the Gospels and the book of
Acts are being put into type.
Mr. Jones began his work twenty-
one years ago, when he was sixty
years old, and he has devoted most of
his time since to the translation.
Militants Set Fire
To Boats and House
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, June 3.—Militant suffra
gettes set fire to the Long Bridge
Boat Club house early today, destroy
ing the house and about 50 boats.
Most of the boats were of special de
sign. The damage is estimated at
about $5,000.
Mrs. Flora (“General”) Drummond,
the famous militant leader, and lieu
tenant of Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst,
who was operated on yesterday for
an illness induced by a hunger strike,
was reported improved to-day.
Impure Water Said
To Cause Pellagra
ROME, June 3.—Drs. Scala and
Alessandrini announce that they have
discovered that pellagra is a ‘‘chronic
infection due to silex found as a col
loidal solution in certain drinking
waters.'’ Their theory explains the
peculiar topographical distribution of
the disease, which is limited to the
foreland of mountain ranges, more
particularly valleys.
The Medical Academy of Rome has
accepted the theory and will shortly
apply preventive method.
Edna Goodrich Will
Star in ‘Evangeline’
LONDON, June 2.—Miss Edna
Goodrich intends to star next season
in a version of Longfellow’s “Evan
geline,” dramatized by Tom Broad-
hurst, which Arthur Hopkins will pro
duce in New York. Miss Goodrich
will visit Normandy and Nova Scotia
to get local color.
Sewell Collins has arranged with
the Hippodrome to produce a sketch
on the suffragette question a fortnight
from now.
Says No Meat Diet
Weakens Will Power
PARIS. June 3.—A vigorous attack
on vegetarianism nag just been made
by Prof. Gautier in a Sorbonne lect
ure on the value of various food
stuffs.
"Vegetarianism." he declared, re
duces the energy, weakens the will
power, and lessens the capacity for
prompt decision.”
Wine' Prof. Gautier considered to
be a good instead of a harmful drink.
Stevens Suspects Cower in Cell
in Fear of Lynching—Con
fession Expected.
With Walter Wilkes and Ernest
Maynard, negroes under suspicion In
the Stevens murder, cowering in their
cells in the DeKalb County Jail, with
guards posted to prevent a repetition
of Monday's attempted lynching by
neighbors of the Stevens family, de
tectives on Tuesday began trying to
break down the alibis put forward by
the negros to account for themselves
on the night of the murder.
Both Wilkes and Maynard were still
badly frightened Tuesday morning,
and rumors are being circulated that
the farmers of DeKalb County, balked
of their prey Monday afternoon by the
revolvers of Detective Chief Lanford,
Sheriff McCurdy and Detective Ros
ser, are planning to come en masse
to the Decatur prison and make an
other attempt to lynch the negroes.
Though none of the officials will ad
mit it, it is generally understood that
these rumors are being allowed to
reach the ears of the prisoners, in the
hope that they will break liowp un
der the strain and confess tfiat tfiey
murdered Mrs. Stevens and her
daughter and burned their home. The
negros pace their cells like wild ani
mals, and at every new face that peers
at them through the bars they shrink
back into a corner, with terror writ
ten on their faces
Pair Plead for Protection.
They plead continually with the
guards to protect them from the ven
geance of the DeKalb County neigh
bors of the Stevens family, who, firm
ly convinced that the negroes commit
ted the murder, haye made one effort
to .take the law into their own hands,
and who, it is feared, will make an
other.
Under the strain of their fright the
negroes are gradually weakening, and
o’fficers are confident that within 24
hours one of them will break down
and tell the truth.
The atempted lynching of two ne-
goes Monday on the scene of the
crime was one of the most dramatic
incidents in the history of DeKalb
County. With the negroes tied to a
tree In full view of the ruins of the
homes where the murdered woman
and her daughter- were found, the
fanners took advantage of their op
portunity when Sheriff McCurdy and
Detective Rosser stepped behind the
old barn to continue their search for
clew's.
Hardly had the officers gotten out
of sight than mutterings of venge
ance began to be heard. One of the
farmers secured a large hemp rope
and formed a noose. The determined
farmers pressed closer and fitted the
noose around the necks of the trem
bling blacks.
Chief Prevents Lynching.
As the word was given to raise the
negroes from the ground, Chief Lan
ford leaped from the automobile in
which he had raced from Atlanta,
fearing trouble. With drawn revolver
he rushed at the crowd and grasped
the rope that had already begun to
draw the nggroes from the ground.
Backing up against the negroes, with
one arm thrown protestlngly across
their bodies, Chief Lanford held the
mob off.
For a noment it appeared that the
farmers were going to rush the de
termined officer and attempt to cap
ture the negroes. Before a leader
came forward, however, Detective
Rosser and Sheriff McCurdy rushed
from behind the barn and with drawn
revolvers took their places beside
Chief Lanford.
One of the dramatic Incidents of
the attempted lynching came when
Wade Stevens, son of the murdered
woman, took his place beside the offi
cers, and, armed with a big rock, made
a plea for the enforcement of the law.
"Don't lynch them!" the boy cried.
“I believe they're guilty as well as you
do, but let the law deal with them.
These men (with a wave of the hand
to McCurdy and Rosser) will get evi-
denc% enough to convict htiui"
Noted Franciscan to
Preach at Novena
The public novena in honor of 8t.
Anthony will open Wednesday in St.
Anthony’s Church, West End, under
the direction of Father Flavian Lar-
hee, of Cincinnati, a distinguished
Franciscan.
Father Flavian will preach twice a
day during the novena, which con
tinues for two weeks. His first ser
mon will be at 8 o’clock Wednesday
morning, to be followed by another at
8 o’clock that evening. These hours
will be followed throughout the no
vena.
Father Flavian ' is the guest of
Father Jackson, of the parish.
Wife, Forced to Sell
Jewels, Asks Divorce
Forced by want, she alleges, to sell
her engagement ring, Mrs. Aggie
Dean Rader Monday entered suit
against Frank N. Rader for absolute
divorce and custody of their 2-year-
old boy, Dean Rader. She charges
non-support.
In her petition Mrs. Rader declared
her husband had drank and gam
bled his money away. Rader is a
civil engineer. They were married
August 31, 1910.
The suit was filed by Attorneys H.
B. Troutman and H. L. Graves.
Rebels Lack ‘Nerve’
For Aerial Attack
DOUGLAS, ARZ„ June 3.—The plan
of the Sonora rebels to drop bombs
from an aeroplane upon the Mexican
Federals intrenched in and around
Guayamas has been abandoned.
It was found that the aeroplane,
which is an antiquated machine, ha*
not enough plane surface to riee be
yond the danger zone of 3,500 feet.
In addition, no Mexican has been
found with sufficient courage to as-
cend in the aircraft.
Presbyterians Write
Praise of Atlanta
The executive committee of the
Presbyterian Assemblies, of which J.
K. Orr is chairman, has finished up
Its work and formally disbanded.
The committee received letters from
all parts of the country from Assem
bly delegates, loud in their praise of
Atlanta.
After paying the expenses incurred
by the General Assemblies, the com
mittee found a good balance in the
treasury.
Laughs Himself Sick
At Vaudeville Joke
MILWAUKEE, WIS., June 3.—A
veteran vaudeville joke heard for the
first time by Julius Jeswein, aged 34,
made him to laugh so loud and so
long that the show was Interrupted
until he was helped out to the side
walk.
He continued laughing until at the
end of sixteen hours he became so
weak he lost consciousness. Physi
cians to-day fear the violent laughter
will cause his death.
Macon Again Ready
For Capital Fight
MACON, GA., June 3.—The capital
removal campaign will be renewed
shortly by the people of Macon, under
the auspices of the Chamber of Com
merce and the Mayor and Council.
Both will this week appropriate $500
to defray the expenses of a lobby In
the Legislature. Colonel C. R. Pen
dleton, editor of The Telegraph, is
chairman.
The lobby will seek to have the
question submitted to voters of the
State.^
Turks Give to Allies
60,000 Square Miles
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
CONSTANTINOPLE, June 3.—Tur
key has begun the evacuation of the
60,000 square miles of territory In Eu
rope which she lost to the Balkan al
lies. A dozen transports left Rodesto,
on the Sea of Marmora, to-day, bear
ing Turkish troops into Asiatic ports.
Rodesto is at the western end of the
little strip of land Turkey has been
allowed to retain in Europe.
Strike Paralyzes Spain.
CORUNNA, SPAIN, June 3.—Mari
time traffic is completely stagnated
here oxving to the general strike.
Freight handlers and other dock work
ers have placed pickets about the
wharves and refuse to allow' strike
breakers to go to work.
S HERIFF M CURDY, of DeKalb County, who, with Chief
of Detectives Lanford, led the demonstration against
a mob which saved the lives of the two suspects in the Stevens
eMe.
Methodists Conduct
Mission Pilgrimage
A ’’pilgrimage’' to various countries
where the women of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South support mis
sions will be conducted by the Wom
an's Missionary Society of the Kp-
worth Church Tuesday.
The ’’pilgrims” will visit 15 Mell
Avenue, the exhibit there represent
ing the negro and mountain mis
sions, immigrant missions at 3 Mell
Avenue; Indian work, 14 Mell Ave
nue; Brazilian missions, in South
Mason Avenue; Mexican missions,
in North Mason Avenue, and Jap
anese and the Corean missions.
A drama, “Our Thank Offering.”
will be presented at the Corean sta
tion; also a pageant of little children.
At 5 o’clock pilgrims will be served
tea at th- China station. At 7 o'clock
the Cuban station will be visited.
Hotel Men Seeking
1914 Bankers’ Meet
A campaign to secure the 1914 dton-
vention of the American Bankers’ As
sociation for Atlanta wa? Inaugurated
at the monthly meeting of the Atlanta
Hotel Men's Association Monday night
at the Georgian Terrace.
Present were a number of banker*
who will attend the bankers’ conven
tion in Boston In October. A guar
antee of 2,000 rooms, necessary should
the 1914 convention come to the Gate
City, was declared an easy arrange
ment by the hotel men, and a com
mittee was appointed to find these ac
commodations.
Serious Floods in Spain.
PAMPLONA, SPAIN, June 8.—
Heavy destruction is being done by
floods throughout the province of Na
varre. At Elizondo four persons were
drowped and death.- from drowning
or exposure were reported to-day
from other districts.
Attorney Ready to Go Before Grand
Jury, but Has Not Been Called;
Hutcheson Summoned in the Air
ing of the Dictograph Controversy.
Colonel Thomas B. Felder appeared before the Grand Jury
Tuesday morning at 10 o’clock, prepared, he said, to substantiate
every charge he had made against the police department and its
heads, and promising to open the eyes of the city to a condition
of affairs that was startling in the extreme.
“I have not been served with a subpena to go before the
Grand Jury,” Colonel Felder said, ‘‘but Mr. Hutcheson has been,
and I will be there in ease I am called upon. The people of At
lanta have no idea how far-reaching this thing will be. 1 will
show the conditions as they are, and the men higher up will not
escape. If the grand jury takes up this thing fully it will be the
most sensational probe that has ever been made into affairs in
Atlanta.”
The announcement that the
Grand Jury would take up the
Felder-Beavers-Lanford dicto
graph controversy with the at
tending charges of corruption
and bribery was made late Mon
day afternoon when Foreman
L. H. Beck had the assistant
solicitor general serve a number
of subpenas to those concerned.
Mayor Woodward. Chief of Police
Beavers, Chief Lanford, Charlie Jones,
proprietor of the Rex saloon; Carl
Hutcheson, City Detective John Black
and Mrs. Mina Fomby were the per
sons summoned.
Mrs. Fomby in City.
The fact that Mrs. Fomby, a wit
ness in the Phagan case, has been
: summoned, gave the meeting an air
of mystery It was stated on reliable
Information, however, that her testi-
money wouiu have nothing to do with
the Phagan case. It is understood
that her name was one on the list
that was to be furnished the police
department by Car! Hutcheson, in
which the attorney alleged she was
receiving police protection. It was
also said that the woman was not
out of the city, as hinted a few days
ago, but had merely changed her ad
dress and given the new location to
the Solicitor.
Whether the Jury would take up
charges of Chief Beavers and Chief
Lanford that Attorney Felder offered
a bribe of J1.000 to Lanford’s steno
grapher Febuary, or the counter
charges on the part of Colonel Fel
der and Attorney Hutcheson, would
not be discussed by the foreman.
Chief Beavers. Chief Lanford and
G. C. Febuary, Lanford’s secretary,
were served Tuesday morning., Feb-
uary's subpena demanded that he
bring the dictograph and documentary
evidence he had taken in the affair.
A. S. Colyar, Jr., had not been served,
but Deputy Plennte Minor stated he
would locate him during the morning.
Before going Into the Grand Jury
room Chief Beavers made the follow
ing statement:
"I want the truth of this whole af
fair to be known. If there is rotten
ness In the department I certainly
want to find out about it and get it
out. 1 want the Jury to hew close to
the line and let the chips fall where
they may.”
Can’t Locate Gentry.
The dictograph stenographer,
George Gentry, could not be located
and it was reported he had left the
city. Colonel Felder said he knew of
the young man’s movements, however,
and there was some probability of his
being brought Into the case in a new
capacity.
Foreman Beck would not discuss
the Grand Jury meeting at all. He
denied on several occasions that it
was his intention to take up the mat
ter until it was presented by the So
licitor. The Solicitor, however, knew
absolutely nothing of the nature of
the meeting until Informed by his as
sistant late Monday afternoon. He
said then that he did not know posi
tively the Grand Jury would take the
matter up, but intimated if It did it
would conduct ItB own inve^gation
until such a time as it called upon
him for advice.
It is not probable the jury will be
enabled to examine all the witnesses
or the testimony In the case Tues
day, and It Is likely several days will
be taken before some decision can
be arrived at.
Attorney Hutcheson and Colonel
Felder have the names of several wit
nesses that they probably will ask
the Grand Jury to summon before the
investigation is concluded.
Mercer Frats Get
New Lease on Life
MACON, GA„ June 3.—Trustees of
Mercer University have Indefinitely
''tabled" a resolution to abolish Greek
letter fraternities at the school.
The proposal to eliminate fraterni
ties at Mercer brought a number of
prominent fraternity men from alt
parts of the State here, but none were
permitted to appear before the board.
Although he is a member of the S.
A. E. fraternity, Dr. Jameson Is lead
ing the movement to do away with
chapters.
Train Plunges Into
Stream; 3 Injured
MACON, GA., June 3.—The engine
and ten cars of a west-bound freight
on the Central of Georgia railroad
plunged through a ubmed trestle 20
feet into Beaver Creek last night.
Engineer Oliver D, Touchstone, of
Macon, Is near death and Reese Lump
kin, fireman, and Marcellus Culbert,
brakeman, both negroes, are seriously
Injured.
Heeter Guilty, Says
Citizens' Committee
PITTSBURG, June 3.—The citizens’
committee appointed by the School
Board found that Superintendent H.
L. Heeter, of the Pittsburg: schools,
was guilty of making improper ad
vances to three women.
The committee made no recommen
dations.
Fix Balkan War Claims. __
PARIS, June 3.—M. Pichon, French
Foreign Minister, was to-day chosen
chairman of the international com
mission which will settle financial is
sues arising from the Balkan war. The
sessions of the commission will open
here to-morrow with M. Pichon pre
siding.
Small English Birth Rate.
LONDON, June 3.—The official re
turns show 216,330 births in England
and Wales in the three months ended
March 31. This corresponds to a rate
of 23.8 annually per 1,000 of popula
tion, the lowest rate recorded for any
first quarter of the year since the es
tablishment of civil registration.
Marlborough on Journalism.
LONDON, June 3.—The Duke of
Marlborough attended the annual din
ner of the Printers Pension Corpora
tion. “Journalism and literature,” he
said in the course of a speech, “mun
march haqd in hand. Literaturo^tf|
row s frjin journalism vivfch^ ^HJff
vigor, while journalism lookA,
erature for direction of its
ideas.” *