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The Atlanta Georgian Read for Profit---GEORGIAN WAhT ADS---Use for Results VOL. XT. NO. 258. ATLANTA, OA., TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 1913. Copyright, 1906, By Th# Georgian Co 2 CENTS P * AT N0 MORE EXTRA TO 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 T Miss Alice Ormond Weds in Paris +•+ 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., T, ilMII 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,