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VOL. XT. NO. 258.
ATLANTA, OA., TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 1913.
Copyright, 1906,
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DETECTIVES’ PISTOLS
With the ropes around their necks, Ernest Maynard and Wal
ter Wilkes, the negroes suspected of the murder of Mrs. William
Stevens and her daughter, Nellie, who were found in the ruins
of their home near Constitution, were saved from lynching late
this afternoon at the point of detective’s guns.
The negroes had been taken to the scene of the crime by Sheriff
McCurdy and Detective Rossr and were tied to a tree while the
officers scoured the neighborhood for clews.
A party of about twenty framers, determined on vengeance
cut the suspects from the tree while the detectives were away
and rushed them to a nearby barn. The two ropes were slung over
a tree and the ends slipped about the negro’s necks.
Chief of Detectives Lanford, heading another party arrived in
an automobile just as the proposed lynching was about to be con-
sumated. At the point of a revolver he held the would-be lynch
ers at bay and aided by Deputy Sheriff P. H. Livsey, Sheriff Mc
Curdy and Detective Rosser saved the two men, rushing them back
to Atlanta in an automobile.
The men will be sheltered at police headquarters where they
have been since their arrest Monday.
Roth of the suspects, who were
Beavers to Talk
Over the Felder
Row With Dorsey
Dictograph conversations anfi 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
done. It is thought that, owing to the
present state of the Phagan case, the
dictographers will not be subpenaed
for some time.
picked up Saturday afternoon on the
identification of Wade Stevens, son of
the murdered woman, have denied an>
knowledge of the crime.
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 this 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 kept a large
sum of money in her home.
Wilkes and Maynard were kept in
solitary confinement over Sunday. No
one went near them to question them.
It was thought that a day of almosi
absolute isolation would put them in a
frame of mind where they w’ould be
the more easily worked upon Monday.
After they have been taken to the
scene of the murder, it is probable
that they will be removed to the De-
Kalb County jail in Decatur.
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 wnen caDtured. 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.”
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.
IXICO OBTAINS
BUILDING falls kills score.
SARGOSSA, 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 rejr
covered.
NEW YORK, June 2.—Despite re
ports of increasing revolt in Mexico,
the Mexican Government to-day suc
ceeded lr. borrowing $76,730,000 in
New York, London, Paris and Berlin.
Of this $26,730,000 \Yas borrowed for
the Mexican National Railways Com
pany, which had to begin paying off
to-day $10,000,000 to holders of 4 1-2
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 Schroeder & Co.
The Mexican Government informed
the financial group that with the funds
in question revolution could soon be
put down throughout the republic.
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 ship’s hull
and she will have to be taken out of
commission for repairs.
Missouri Supreme
Court Frees Editor
JEFFERSON CITY, MO., June 2.—
William R. Nelson, editor of The Kan
sas City Star, was ordered discharged
from the custody of the Sheriff of
Jackson County by the Supreme
Court enbanc this morning, following
a habeas corpus proceeding, filed
when the editor was adjudged guilty
of contempt of court.
Nelson was adjudged guilty of con
tempt of court in publishing an arti
cle saying a judge held attorneys’
fees must be collected in divorce cases
before they are dismissed. He was
sentenced to one day in jail.
BUY CITY
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Miss Alice Ormond Weds in Paris
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Bride of Theatrical Producer
Atlanta Girl Won Fame as Writer
Inquiry Into Forest
Service Demanded
WASHINGTON, June 2.—Declaring
( that a mighty empire, consisting of
• millions of acre9 of land, has been
given to the railroads for practically
I 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
public lands through the “lieu land
system.”
Vanderbilt Thief
Held in Chattanooga
CINCINNATI, June 2.—Nick Mo
ran, of Cincinnati, a notorious hotel
thief, said to have bepn 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.
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.
Two Widows Killed
As They Go to Mourn
CHICAGO, June 2.—For several
hours yesterday two aged widow
wept at the graves of departed loved
ones in a Chicago cemetery. As they
left the cemetery Mrs. Marie Blau-
rock, aged 68 years, whispered to
Mrs. Johanna Shalk, aged 76: “It
can’t be much longer.”
To-day the bodies of the two wom
en were removed to their homes. The
automobile in which they were riding
home was hit by a street car.
City Council Monday afternoon
agreed to the proposal of the finance
committee to buy the crematory for
$260,000 and pay for it this year.
The resolutions submitted by the
committee were adopted with only
one dissenting vote, that of Council
man O. H. Hall.
The resolutions provided that such
appropriation? as may be necessary to
pay for the crematory in 1913 be made
by the authorization of Council. The
proposition, as ratified by the finance
committee and the Destructor Com
pany, of New- York, is that the city
buy the plant for $260,000, paying
$125,000 of the amount at once and
holding back $135,000 until the plant
has demonstrated that it will burn
garbage for 25 cents a ton and fulfill
its other guarantees.
Provision is made also that if any
of these payments be delayed the De
structor Company is to be paid 7 pe
cent from the time the payment
should have been made.
Councilman W. G. Humphrey, who
submitted the resolutions to council,
said that the city would be saved sev
eral thousand dollars by the new con
tract. A saving og $16,800 will be
made on the face value of the con
tract, he said, the old one calling for
a price of $276,800, and the new one
for a price of $260,000.
Pope Celebrates
His 78th Birthday
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
ROME, June 2.—Innumerable mes-
1 sages of congratulations and good
j cheer poured into the Vatican to-day
| on the occasion of the seventy-eighth
1 birthday of Pope Pius X. Many of
I them came from the Vx ted States.
His Holiness spent ine 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.
F. Townsend Martin
to Publish Memoirs
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, June 2. — Frederick
Townsend Martin has signed a con
tract for the publication of his mem
oirs. which will be the seventh of
r a series of memoirs of notable per
sons published by Eveleigh Nash.
Weston, Now 75, Off
On 1,500-Mile Hike
NEW YORK, June 2.—Cheered by a
large crowd of enthusiastic admirers,
Edward Payson Weston, the veteran
j 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.
Mrs. James Campbell, formerly Miss Alice Ormond, of Atlanta.
Germany Wins Big
Order From America
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
BERLIN, June 2.—Newspapers an
nounce that the Siemens-Sehuckert
Electric Works of Berlin have beaten
their powerful American competitors
and obtained contracts for gigantic
power plants in Chile.
The first order represents $3,000,000,
and others of equal magnitude are to
follow. They come from the Chile
Exploration Company, which plans
extensive exploitation of Chilean cop
per ore after the opening of the Pan
ama Canal. The exploration com
pany is said to consist of North
American capitalists.
Boy Shoots to Death
Sister's Sweetheart
NEW ORLEANS, June 2.—Florville
LaConte, 14. shot and killed William
Easton, 19. his sister’s sweetheart,
here Sunday, as the sequel to a vio
lent quarrel between the girl and Eas
ton.
The shooting occurred just outside
the LaConte home, from which the
boy had driven Easton at the point of
a shotgun.
LaConte declared Easton was abus
ing his sister.
Dam Owners Tried
For Austin Flood
1 WELLSBORO, PA., June 2.—After
numerous delays Gedrge C. Bayless,
president of the Bayless Pulp and
Paper Company, and Frederick M.
Hamlin, superintendent of the com
pany, were placed on trial here to
day for alleged criminal responsi
bility for the breaking of the dam
at Austin September 30, 1911, when
80 lives were lost.
The company owned the dam and
It is charged the disaster was due to
criminal negligence.
The little town of Austin, with a
population of 3,000, w'as wiped out by
the flood.
Peace in Balkans
Assured by Pact
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
SOFIA, June 2.—Definite ground
now exists for belief that war be
tween the States of the Balkan
League has been avoided.
Premier Guechoff to-day announced
that a common agreement had been
reached whereby the preifilers of all
the Balkan League States soon will
meet and renew’ the agreement by
which the confederation is held to
gether.
Will 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
James 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, w’ith 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,
W’ith her mother, she went to New
York to devote her time to literary
work, in w’hich, through her maga
zine writings, she has made a name
for herself.
She is a sister of Mrs. Hinton Hop
kins and of Sidney Ormond, of At
lanta.
Woman Questioned by Dorsey, Be-
comes Hysterical; Solicitor Refuses
to Tell Whether She Gave Impor
tant Information; Alibi for Defense.
T.R.,
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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 front
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.
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.
Kentucky Swept by
Destructive Storm
Minola MeKnight, the negro cook in the household of Mr.
and Mrs. Emil Selig, 68 Georgia Avenue, with whom Leo M.
Frank lived, was put through the severest sort of grilling in the
office of Solicitor Hugh M. Dorsey Monday in an effort to break
down Frank’s alibi which tends to show that he was at home
about the time James Conley swore the notes found by Mary Pha
gan ’s body were written.
The negro woman grew histerical and her shrieks and protes
tations could be hear dthrougli the closed door. She maintained
to the end of the two hours of rapid-fire questioning, however,
that Frank had arrived had arrived home by 1:30 o’clock the Sat
urday afternoon of the crime.
She was taken into custody
on information said to have been
furnished by her husband. She
later was taken to the police sta
tion to be held under suspicion.
The details of her statements to
the solicitor and the full miport
of the information said to have
been disclosed by her husband
have been shrouded with the ut
most secrecy by Solicitor Dorsey,
it is said, however, that she de
clared to the last that Frank had
arrived home by 1:30 o’clock to
her positive knowledge.
Her sobs and hysterical cries were
heard soon after she entered the of
fice of the solicitor. 4 Mr. Dorsey was
able to quiet her for a few minutes at
a time, when it is supposed he obtain
ed her statement of Frank’s where
abouts on Saturday, April 26, so far
as -she knew. At detective head
quarters, the officers were non-com-
mital as to the nature or value of the
testimony that the engro woman had
given.
It was on the negro cook that the
defense had relied to assist in proving
an alibi for Frank when his case
comes to trial this month.
The woman was in hysterics at po
lice headquarters and kept shouting.
“I am going to hang but I didn’t do
it. I don’t know a thing about It.”
Four other persons will be prepared
to testify at the trial of Leo M. Frank
that he arrived at home for luncheon
at 1:20 o’clock the Saturday after
noon that Mary Phagan was killed,
which would have been an impossi
bility, 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 and others Indicated
strongly that he was at home by
1:20 the afternoon of the crime. Con
ley in his affidavits declared that he
went into Frank’s office at four min
utes before 1 o’clock. He said that
after a conversation of a few minutes
Frank heard voices and shoved Con
ley into a cioso-t. Miss Corinthia Hail
and Mrs. Emma Clark entered. Con
ley was kept a prisoner in the closet,
he said, for eight or ten minutes.
It was after this, he said, that
Frank asked him if he could write.
Conley **wore in his affidavit that he
answered in the affirmative, and that
he was directed 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
$2.60 to the negro, according to hts
story, as well as the giving of tho
$200 w’hich later was taken back by
Frank.
All of the Incidents that the negro
has detailed, in the minds of many
interested in the case, wmuld 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
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.
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 two weeks ago.
FORMER ATLANTAN’S GAGY DIES
MOBILE, ALA., June 2.—Dorothy
Ewing Peper, age five months, daugh
ter or Mr. and Mrs. Herman R. Pe
per. rormer residents of Atlanta, died
to-day at the family home here. The
body will he sent to Atlanta to-night
for Interment. \
Adding doubt to the negro’s affida
vit la the testimony of Miss Cjrinthta,