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MACON, July 12.—1 t is very likely
that a lively incident will develop out
of the action of the Postoffice Depart
ment in asking for the resignation of
Harry Stilwell Edwards, Macon post
master, who is a Republican ap
pointee. It is thought that Mr. Ed
vards will refuse to resign, as the
sen Francisco postmaster has done,
making it necessary for the depart
ment to summarily remove him.
"I was recently advised that my
resignation was wanted.” stated Mr.
Edwards 10-day. “and I have had the
natter under consideration with
friends. I do not care to make a pub
statement just at present, but rest
ssured that 1 will be heard from.”
Custis Nottingham, whom Senator
Bacon has recommended for the place,
is the Senator's local agent In Ma
on, looking after all of the Bacon
roperty interests here. He was for
merly Recorder of the city, and in
ue preconvention campaign last year
•e was an active Underwood support
r. He also has always supported Joe
Brown.
W. T. Morgan, whom Representative
■artlett desires to be postmaster, is
close friend of the Congressman
■nd is well known for his Hoke Smith
sentiments.
Nottingham to Get
Postoffice at Macon.
WASHINGTON, July 13.—Curtis
Nottingham probably will be nomi
: ated as postmaster at Macon. Ga..
♦.MBMpa IPMips Suipaojons
hose resignation has been called for
the Postoffice Department.
The nomination of Mr. Nottingham
ill be in accord with the wishes of !
Senator Bacon. Representative Bart
ss. Us the Sixth Georgia District, it
understood, has a rival candidate.
The Atlanta Georgian
VOL. XI. NO. 293.
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Not Contemplating Divorce, She
Declares, But Will Not Live
With Him Again.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 12.—Inter
est in the Caminetti-Dlggs white
slave case scandal centers to-day in
Mrs. Dreiy Caminettl, the wife of
one of the defendants, who, deserted
for a young society girl, is living in
seclusion with her two children in the
little mining town of Jackson. Cal.
Mrs. Caminetti. when seen by an
interviewer, declared that her only
thoughts were of her little children.
She is 22 years old, girlish in appear
ance and a devoted mother.
“I want to see the men punished,
even though I realize it means the
penitentiary for my husband in case
of conviction,” she declared. “My
only thoughts are for my children.
They are the one? that must suffer.”
While she sat talking, Naolii. a
precocious child peered over her
mother’s lap at a copy of a newspaper
carrying the portraits of the quartrr
involved in the abduction charges—
Drew. Caminetti, Maury Diggs, Miss
Marsha Warrington and Miss Lola
Norris.
"Oh, there's daddy,” lisped the curly
haired youngster. “When is daddy
coming home?"
"There's the tragedy," grieved the
mother. “What does al! the national
entanglement, involving explanations
by Cabinet officers and the Jeopardiz
ing of political fortunes, as has been
hinted In the papers, amount to-be
| side the welfare and the future of
these little babes'
"While 1 am not contemplating di-
Read for Profit—-GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use for Resalts
Sheriff Seeking Widow in Poison Mystery
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Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
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lice.
Reports were current to-day that
followers of General Asbert, one of
the men indicted for the murder of
Riva, would attempt»to storm the jail
and liberate the prisoners.
Asbert has been deposed as Gov
ernor of the Province of Havana by
President Menocal.
Troops still patroled the streets to
day and while there was no outward
disorder there was a strong under
current of hostility.
Bacon Halts Plan for
Bill Drafting Bureau
WASHINGTON, July 12—Senator
Bacon, of Georgia, created consterna
tion in the Senate to-day when he de
clared he was so shocked at the attempt
of Sefiator Owen to have the Senate
pass a bill creating a bureau to draft
bills upon the request of the President
and- others that he was completely
“knocked off his pins. '
The bill was withdrawn for further
consideration. It provides for a com
mittee of eight Senators or 25 Repre
sentatives.
Senator Bacon referred to the Presi
dent as the schoolmaster, who. it is
proposed, shall do work Senators are
supposed to do.
vorce, because 1 do not believe in such
a course to settle domestic difficulty,”
she asserted, “still we will never again
live together.”
She evinced deep concern about how
the denouement of the case might
affect the elder Caminetti.
“Both he and Mrs. Caminetti have
been good to me. I g*t a night letter
or some cheering, thoughtful message
from them every day’. They are «is
•eartbroken over thlt as 1 am,” sht*
concluded.
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1913. 2 CENTS.
Urges Abolishment
Os Death Penalty as
He Goes to Gallows
FOLSOM, CAL.. July 12 —Jake Op
penheimer, the "man tiger,” was ex
ecuted at Folsom Prison.
trap of the gallows was sprung at
10:33 o’clock this morning. Twelve
minutes later Oppenheimer was dead.
He maintained the game spirit that
characterised his whole career of
crime. As he was about to die he
pleaded with the prison officials to
use their efforts to abolish capital
punishment in California at the next
session of the Legislature.
Mabel Taliaferro Is
Wed in Daisy Field
ST. LOUIS, July 12.—After keep
ing her marriage to Thomas J. Car
rigan, of La Peer, Mich., a secret for
more than a month, Mabel Taliaferro,
of Chicago, the actress, formerly wife
of Frederic Thompson, New York the
atrical promoter, admitted here to
day she had been married June 1 in
the Michigan city.
The marriage took place before a
Justice of the Peace, in a field of
daisies that edged down to a river
bank Just outside of La Peer, in order
that all possible secrecy might be
maintained.
T. R. Warns Japs of
American Antipathy
oeclal Cable to The American.
TOKIO, July 12—The Tai-Hei-Yo
News Agency says that Viscount
Kenntaro Kaneko has received a let
ter from Theodore Roosevelt express-
Ing the view that American public
opinion will not permit naturalization
of Japanese ip the United States, as
it would lead to a similar claim on
the* part of the Chinese. Mr. Roose
velt, according to the News Agency,
promised to use hie efforts in his so
lution of the Californian alien land
ownership situation.
Viscount Kanego is a graduate in
law of Harvard University.
$150,000,000 Baby
Gets Farm as ‘Toy’
NEWPORT, R. 1., July 12.—Vinson
Walsh McLean, the $150,060,000 babv,
has a new plaything which his father.
Edward McLean, says is the most
sensible of al! his toys, the total cost
of which would foot up nearly as
much as the salary of the President
of the United States for a year. The
new plaything is a farm with an
Angora goat on it.
With goats, sheep and chickens, and
the negro boy whom his father has
picked out as a playmate, the young
multimillionaire may grow up Demo
cratic.
Outcast White Deer
Herds With Horses
LIBBY, MONT., July 11—Henry
Wegner, who has a ranch on the
upper Yakt. says that a pure white
deer has become associated with his
the horses and follows them into the
horses and follows them into the
corral. Mr. Wegner said it was a
doe and had pink eyes, so he named
it Albino.
Old hunters here say that on ac
count of its freakish apearance It
had become an outcast, and tn such
cases the animal always will go to
a herd of cattle or horses if possible.
Bandit Chief Raisuli
Would Be a German
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
BERLIN, July 12.—Raisuli, ' the
Moroccan bandit chieftain whom
President Roosevelt ordered captured
“dead or alive." has applied to the
Kaiser’s Government to be taken un
der its wing as a German subject and
his request Is now being formally
considered in Berlin.
According to dispatches published
here. French opinion Is somewhat
stirred at the prospect of Ralsuii’s
, formally becoming entitled to the pro-
I lection of the Herman flag.
CONLEY KEPT
ON CHILL
4 nouns
After Gruelling Third Degree,
Officials Refuse to Deny or
Affirm Negro Confessed.
Jim Conley underwent a racking
third degred late Friday afternoon at
the hands of Solicitor General Hugh
M. Dorsey and Attorney Frank A.
Hooper In an effort to verify or dis
credit the W. H. Mincey affidavit, in
which the negro was charged with
confessing to the murder of a girl on
the afternoon that Mary Phagan met
her death.
The grilling of nearly four hours
followed The Georgian’s publication
of the details of Mincey's accusa
tions and was undertaken with the
utmost secrecy, an attempt being
made to avoid knowledge of the
"sweating" becoming public by tak
ing Conley to the Commissioners'
room on the second floor of the po
lice station by a clrcuitoue route.
Negm’e Most Severe Ordeal.
It was 'the most severe ordeal
through which the negro has passed.
Its result was kept a profound secret
both by the Solicitor and Attorney
Hooper. Neither would deny the ru
mor that Conley had made a com*
plete confession admitting that it was
he that killed the little factory girl,
nor would they confirm the report,
which arose when it was learned that
Solicitor Dorsey apparently was mak’_
ing ready to take an entirely new
statement from the negro.
Dorsey, Hooper and Chief Lanford
were present in the Commissioners'
room when the inquisition began.
After a few minutes Chief Lanford
departed and did not return while
the questioning was In progress. He
was Inclined to deny at first that
Conley even was behind the closed
doors. But occuiar proof had been
afforded and the newspaper men hov
ered about the hallway In the hope
that some scrap of information might
come to them.
Policeman Guards Door.
Their hovering tactics received a
bad setback when Chief Lanford de
tailed a policeman to guard the door
and keep all inquisitive persons away.
For an hour Dorsey and Hooper
alternated in shooting questions at
the negro, apparently without getting
anything from him that he had not
already told. Then they removed choir
coats and renewed the grilling. At
one point it seemed Conley must
have wavered in some of his state
ments or changed some of the testi
mony he previously had given. Dor
sey emerged from the room and got
a blotter from Chief Beavers' office.
It was taken to mean that a new
statement was being obtained from
the negro
The questioning was resumed and
the Solicitor from a distant vantage
point could be seen turning sheet aft
er sheet of the testimony already
given by Conley and comparing it
with the statements then being made.
Attorneys Keep Silence.
Dorsey, eoatless and perspiring,
leaned far over the table and asked
the negro question after question, his
finger following the answers which
had been given when the negro was
interrogated before.
Not until after dark did the sweat
ing process cease. Conley was taken
back to his cell and Dorsey and Jloop
er went to their homes. Not a word
could be obtained from either.
Another scene in the murder mys
tery was to be staged Saturday in the
court of Judge Ellis. Here Attorney
Bernard L. Chapped summoned half
a hundred witnesses to testify in the
habeas corpus proceedings he was
bringing to free Newt Lee from the
Tower. Leo M. Frank, under indict
ment charged with the murder of
Mary Phagan, and Jim Conley, aolf
confeseed accessory after the fact,
were two of the witnesses called.
They were expected to testify that »o
far as they knew Newt Lee could
have had nothing to do with the crime
and could have had no material
know ledge of It.
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DEFENSE TO
PUT UP HOT
EIGHT
Slaying Warrant Persecution in |
Will Case, Mrs. Mary Belle
Crawford Declares.
A murder warrant will be served on
Mrs. Mary Belle Crawford by a dep
uty from the Sheriff's office some
time Saturday morning.
The paper was received by Sheriff
C. Wheeler Mangum early Saturday
morning. He made preparations to
have it served at the earliest possible
moment. It wa> signed by C. W.
Baukin, Coroner of Carroll County,
under date of July 10, and charged
Mrs. Crawford with the murder, by
poisoning, of her husband, Joshua B.
Crawford, In ths county of Fulton, on
or about March 27, 100». The war
rant Is returnable to the Fulton
County courts.
The Sheriff haa no authority to fix
• bond, and Mrs. Crawford will have
to be held in the Tower unless at a
preliminary hearing before a Justice
of the peace a bond ia fixed or she is
exonerated.
Mre. Crawford will demand an im
mediate hearing, and the attorneys
who have represented her in the con
tent for the $2(0,000 estate will plead
her case before the Justice of the
peace Reuben Arnold and Luther Z.
Rosser, attorneys for Leo M. Frank,
are among her counsel.
Hold Criminal Hearing.
This action in the famous will case
will shift the scene of notion from the
hearing before an auditor, a strictly
civil procedure, to a criminal hearing
before a magistrate that will consume
the greater part of the day and be a
bittor legal battle.
It will force Colonel J. S. Janies,
attorney for the dissenting heirs-at
law, who had the body of Crawford
exhumed after four years, and who
introduced what he termed "a part
of his evidence of poisoning," to pro
duce all the evidence at bls command
and a rehearsal of the evidence of
Dr. H. F. Harris, of the State Board
of Health.
Attorney Arnold said Mrs. Craw
ford would be completely exonerated
at the prospective hearing before a
Justice of the peace. He said the ac
tion was nothing more than a move
to "force” civil procedure.
“We have had experts at work,
too," said Arnold. "Dr. J. W. Hurt,
the Coroner’s physician for this coun
ty, was Crawford's attending physi
cian, He will testify that he himself
gave Crawford the medicine that con
tained morphine, or opium, and we
wiH have at least eight or ten of ths
most prominent medical experts in
Atlanta to substantiate his state
ments and evidence. We also will
conclusively demonstrate that Craw
ford died of pneumonia.
Persecution Io Claimed.
“It is nothing more than persecu
tion to push such a flimsy charge as
this. The Coroner’s inquest was not
legal, or according to latv, and the
whole thing is Just a flash in the
pan.”
Feeling is bitter between the con
testing parties, and the Sheriff's of
fice feared trouble at the preliminary
hearing, which prooab’y will be to
day.
"It is not really the Crawford heirs
who are fighting me.” said Mrs Craw
ford, "but the rather distant rela
tives who were not mentioned in any
will. I settled with the real heirs ac
cording to the will left by Mr. Craw
ford's first wife. Every one was
satisfied.
“I gave Charlie Crawford more than
he was even entitled to by the will
that wae made before I even knew
the man I later married. He thanked I
me for the generosity by later letting '
the very distant relatives prevail
upon him to fight me. He deeded [
them an interest in his share of the
Centmued en Page 2. Column 6.
Girl Student Lives
Five Months on $lO
ITHACA, July IS.—ln order to
finish her study of the violin at the
Ithaca Conservatory. Miss Clara S.
Loew us, of Towanda, Pa., haa lived
at the rate of 50 cents a week for her
food for the last twenty weeks.
Here is Miss Loewus* daily menu:
Breakfast, one cup of tea, two slices
of toast with peanut butter; lunch
e n, two slices of bread with pea
nut butter and a cup of cocoa; din
ner, one boiled potato with dairy
butter, two slices of bread with pea
nut butter.
| Miss Loewus is 5 feet tall and
weights 115 pounds, and her rosy
cheeks Indicate that she is in the
best of health.
Prison Board Head
Confesses, Is Report
JACKSON. MISS., July 12.—C. C.
Smith, head of the prison board, con
victed Wednesday night of conspi
racy to defraud the State, this morn
ing held a two-hour conference with
Governor Brewer. Smith was accom
panied to the Governor's mansion by
the Sheriff.
Governor Brewer refused to say
what passed between them, but it is
rumored Smith made a complete con
fession of irregularities tn the peni
tentiary department.
Whether Smith admitted there was
any truth in the rumors regarding ir
regularities in the sale of State cotton
la not known.
Casteilane-Gould
Case To Be Retried
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
ROME. July 12.—The Casteilane-
Gould matrimonial suit reached a
further stage to-day when the Vati
can Court of Appeals annulled the
Judgment of the lower tribunal of the
Sacred Rota, which declared the mar
riage valid.
A retrial of the case was ordered,
and Count Boni has hopes of getting
a definite Judgment this time. It he
is disappointed, he will make a final
appeal to the Vatican Court of Cassa
tion.
Chicago’s Mayor to
Ban Cabaret Tights
CHICAGO, July 12.—Mayor Carter
Harrison has announced that he pro
poses to stamp out the wearing of
tighta, singing of suggestive songs and
exhibition of "animal" dances in cab
arets, summer parks and amusement
places. An ordinance prohibiting
these three things will be sent to the
City Council by the Mayor Monday.
”1 dtd not know," said Mayor Har
rison, “that women clad in tights pass
among the tables In some cases."
Japs Protest Being
Listed With Blacks
DENVER, July 12.—A delegation
of Japanese haa notified the city au
thorities to-day that they would ap
peal to the ambassador of their Gov
ernment at Washington to secure the
rescinding of an order issued by Ot
to Thumms, Cominifc’sioner of Prop
erty, barring Japanese from bathing
beaches in the city parks
Tbumrn's order also bans negroes
from the beaches.
$11,698,520 Worth of
Butter Stored in N.Y.
NEW YORK, July 13.—According to
the warehousemen's report for July
1 there was 41,784,000 pounds of but
ter in storage, compared with 33,-
209,000 pounds at the same time laet
year, an excess of 8.576,000 pounds.
At the present wholesale price, 28
cents, the holding represents sll,-
698,520. The average cost of June
butter in New York was 27.81 cents,
compared with 27.31 cents during
June. 1912.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia Showers Saturday
and probably Sunday.
South Georgia
JFTERNOON EDITION
CHIEF SPUDS
POLICE TO
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Grills Sleuths for Laxity and
Theatens 'Suspensions—Girls
to Bare “Ring.”
Smarting under the lash of a
severe grilling given them by
Chief Beavers late Friday after
noon. the members of the de
tective department have entered
the campaign against vice with
renewed vigor.
One of the results of the
Chief’s criticism of the depart
ment was the making of a new
case against Hattie Smith Satur
day morning by Detectives Hol
lingsworth and Rosser.
In his conference with the detective
department late Friday afternoon,
which was held in Chief Lanfod’r of
fice behind closed doors. Chief Beav
ers took the detectives severely to
task for their laxity in reporting vic*
eases. He Intimated strongly that
the detective* were not doing their
duty and not getting results.
Makes Suspension Threat.
"it is as much your duty as it is
the duty of any other man on the
force," Chief Beavers Is said to have
told them, “to report the existence of
vice. In the future all knowledge
gained by detectives as to the exist
ence of immoral resorts must be re
ported at once to headquarters. If
you personally are engaged on some
other case and hav.e not time to work
the vice case, report It so some one
else can Investigate and make the
case.”
Chief Beavers urged the detectlvaa
to greater activity in the war against
vice, and declared that they would
tare the same as uniformed men if it
was shown that they know of immoral
houses and do not report them. They
will be promptly suspended, the chief
said.
Sudden change In the plans of Chief
Beavers in the vice probe resulted
Saturday morning in the trial of per
sons involved before Recorder Broyles.
Hattie Smith, Mrs Lola White, Hoyt
Monroe and Paul Estes were bound
over on SIOO bond to the Superior
Court of DeKalb County on the
charge of disorderly conduct, grow
ing out of a “Joy ride."
A sensation was produced in the
court room when Hattie Smith re
| fused to offer any testimony either af
firming or denying the charges. How
ever, Recorder Broyles found the four
parties guilty on the testimony of the
other three, who admitted that they
took a “Joy ride" to DeKalb County.
As a result of the .decision of the Re
corder, the four parties will be triea
in the Superior Court of DeKalb
County at the coming session of this
court.
Girl to Give Names.
The Wilson girl has told I'hisf
Beavers through Plainclothes Offi
cers Green and McKibben that she
will tell everything she knows about
vice in Atlanta when she is placed
on the witness stand. The Rothste.u
girl, who, the police say. is the leader
of the pair in their immoral enter
prises, has not indicated such a will
ingness to talk, but she has intimated
that she will reveal the names of a
number of men with whom she has
had illegal relations, some of whom,
she asserts, are prominent in the
, business world.
Chief Beavers and Recorder Broyles
expect the story of the Vt ilson girl
to be more important and more sen
sational than the startling tale of
Hattie Smith, who implicated half a
dozen well known Atlantans and
three hotels in her statements. The
fives of the Wilson girl and of Dora
Rothstein, since the Fourth of July,
the police declare, have been of al
most iinb«Llw»bl{> JC-aey