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VOL. I. NO. 15.
CMWFDRD WILL
CASE BECOMES
POISON PUZZLE
Report of Chemist After Body Is
Exhumed Indicates Presence of
Quantities of Morphine.
ACTIVITY AMONG MAN’S HEIRS
Parties to Litigation Now Promise
Searching Inquiry, and Fulton
Grand Jury May Act.
The Crawford will case, which for
four years has been fought back and
forth in the courts of Fulton County,
and which is still apparently far from
a final settlement, has developed into
a “poison mystery."
This new and sensational turn to
the litigation over the more than
SIOO,OOO estates of the late J. B. Craw
ford and his first wife. Mrs. Nancy
E. Crawford, came when Dr. F. C.
Harris, secretary of the State Board
of Health, declared that chemical
analysis of Crawford's stomach
showed opium and morphine in large
quantities, and that his lungs showed
no indications of death from pneumo
nia.
When he died in March, 1909, his
physician, Dr. J, W. Hurt, who is also
the physician for the Coroner of Ful
ton County, gave pneumonia as the
cause of death.
Body Exhumed Year Ago.
Just one year ago, on June 12, 1912.
and more than three years after
Crawford's death. Dr. Harris, with
the Coroner of Carroll County, where
the body was interred in the family
cemetery at Carrollton, exhumed the
body and then began the chemical
analysis to which he has just testi
fied.
Counsel for the contesting heirs
now intimate that a more exhaustive
investigation of the poison mystery
will probably be made and that in
dictments may be sought before the
Grand Jury.
Joshua B. Crawford was a well
known character in Atlanta for many
years. He was recognized as shrewd
in business deals and close to the last
penny in all financial transactions in
his own and his first wife’s name.
He owned $75,000 to SIOO,OOO in real
estate and $20,000 to $25,000 in cash,
notes and other negotiable paper. He
loaned much money and added to 'his
fortune by demanding every penny of
interest called for in the notes and
mortgages, as well as the full princi
pal when due. If payment was not
forthcoming he realized on the se
curity he invariably required.
Crawford was born in October, 1833.
His first wife, Mrs. Nancy E. Craw
ford. was eight years his junior. She
died early in 1908. at the age of 66.
Twelve months later he married
again, his second wife being prob
ably 20 years younger than the first.
Within a month or six weeks after
this marriage he died, at the age of
75.
Made Wills in 1907.
Crawford and his first wife made
their wills at the same time in 1907.
about a year before she died and two
years before his death. By her will
he inherited her estate. His will pro
vided that in the event he survived
his wife the estate should go to the
four minor children of George Craw
ford, an adopted son. and to C. S.
Crawford, a nephew, and Lula Miller,
a niece. Following his second mar
riage, a new will was not made and
the old will was automatically set
aside, she Inheriting the property.
A contest was set up by George
Crawford, for his minor children, and
C. S. Crawford and Lula Miller, bene
ficiaries named in Crawford's will. In
1910 a compromise was reached
whereby property estimated at be
tween $25,000 and $30,000 was carved
out of the estate for these contest
ants. this being estimated as the val
ue of the Nancy E. Crawford estate
that had descended to Joshua B.
Crawford upon his first wife's death.
But none of that property has yet
come into actual possession of these
heirs, as one legal question after an
other has been raised to keep the es
tate tied up in litigation.
Undue Influence Claimed.
In 1912 thirtten other heirs at law
—brothers, sisters. nephews and
nieces of Joshua and Nancy Craw
ford —jointly brought suit to set aside
this settlement, C. S. Crawford being
one of the number, contending that
his second wife exerted an undue in
fluence over Crawford while he was
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Don’t Fail to Begin Cosmo Hamiltons Story, ‘Adams Clay/ in Next Sunday’s American
Girls Immune From
Spankings in School
City Superintendent of Sacramento
Exempts Them From Sting of
Disciplinarian’s Ruler.
SACRAMENTO, July 12.—Begin
ning with the new school term in
Sacramento it will be mighty fine to
be a girl. The City Superintendent of
Schools has formulated a new rule
which exempts girls from spanking
and subjects boys to the “ruler sting"
up to the time they are ready for en
trance into high school. The same
rule provides that boys when they go
to the high school shall have grad
uated from the “spanking class” as
well as the elementary schools.
Spanking girls has been found to
be unsuccessful in the local schools,
while the same operation adminis
tered on their brothers has been
found to be highly beneficial.
Matrimonial Wave
Is Sweeping Country
Philadelphia Reports That It Is Keep
ing Pace With Other Cities
in Marriages.
PHILADELPHIA, July 12.—The
matrimonial wave which started in
Chicago recently has spread over the
entire country until the number of
marriages in various large cities have
eclipsed all records. Marriage Li
cense Clerk Ferguson said the month
of June had established the highest
record in the history of the local bu
reau.
Mr. Ferguson's attention was called
to reports from Chicago, New York,
Boston and other cities concerning the
unusually large number of marriage
permits that are being issued. With
true civic pride, the Clerk said Phila
delphia was holding its own in the
record increase race.
Ministers Snub
Evangelist Sunday
New Bedford Preachers Decide Not
to Invite the Former Baseball
Player.
NEW BEDFORD, MASS., July 12.
Protestant ministers of New Bedford,
after discussing Billy Sunday, the
evangelist, in frank fashion, at their
annual Cuttyhunk outing, voted unani
mously not to invite Sunday to con
duct revivals here, as had been planned.
The chief objections advanced were
that Sunday’ requires Protestant
churches to abandon all but their Sun
day School services during his stay, and
that the expense would be very heavy.
But there was also discussion as to
Sunday’s preachings and as to his mo
tives. Appropriately enough—since Sun
day played big league ball once upon a
time, the ministers took a recess and
played a game themselves before coming
to their final decision. A letter from
Sunday was read at the meeting
First Woman Named
For Illinois Position
Governor Appoints Her Head of Tu
berculosis Institution on Recom
mendation of County Board.
CHICAGO. July 12.—The first wom
an to hold the position and also the
first woman to be appointed to a
county position since the suffrage bill
was signed by the Governor is Miss
Ada Belle McCleery, who was ap
pointed head of the tuberculosis In
stitution at Dunning. She was chosen
by President McCormick, of the coun
ty board, to succeed Cox. who resigned
recently.
In her new capacity she will have
complete charge of the administra
tion.
Miss McCleery has been director at
Camp Goodwill, Evanston, for three
years.
Wins Suit for SIOO
He Bet on Marriage
Bridegroom Wagered He Would Wed
in Year When Taker Backed,
He Resorted to Court.
WELCH, W VA„ July 12.—One of the
most unusual civil suits In the history
of the State was decided here when Dr.
J. L. Sameth was awarded SIOO. with in
terest for a year, against George D.
Kendrick. During the latter part of the
year 1911, during a conversation about
matrimony. Kendrick told Dr. Sameth
he would give him SIOO If he married be
fore January.
The men had been friends for fifteen
years. Dr. Sameth had previously made
arrangements to be married in January,
and after this proposition was made he
prevailed on his fiancee to be married
before January 1. From time to time
Dr. Sameth asked Kendrick for the
money, but the latter always declared
it a joke. Dr. Sameth entered suit and
won. !
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ANOTHER CUBE
15 CLAIMED FOR
CANCER GROWTH
Hungarian Chemists in Passaic,
N. J,, Declare Also They Have
Conquered Tuberculosis.
REMEDY MADE FROM HERBS
Postmaster Mahony and Congress
man Bremner, Patients, Express
Confidence in Treatment.
NEW YORK, July 12—Daniel O.
Dancz and Alexander Horovitz, Hun
garian chemists who have been treat
ing with their new cancer remedy
Congressman Robert Bremner and
Postmaster D. W. Mahony, of Pas
saic, announced yesterday that they
had discovered a positive cure for
both tuberculosis and cancer.
These two men, whose efforts to
save Mr. Mahony and Congressman
Bremner have aroused much interest
in the medical profession, came to
America two months ago, going at
once to the residence of Charles A.
Blczak, at 220 Third Street, Pas
saic.
Thinks He Is Recovering.
“I heard of these men through my
friend Blczak and decided to try their
treatment," said Postmaster Mahony
yesterday In St. Mary's Hospital. “I
had received no benefit by the treat
ment from my physicians. I gained
their consent to allow these men to
treat me and now I feel I am well
on the road to recovery."
Mr. Mahony's optimistic view was
shared by Dr. R. N. MacGuffle, house
surgeon at St. Marys Hospital.
“Mr. Mahony’s condition was criti
cal until two weeks ago, when this
treatment was applied,” said Dr. Mac-
Gussie.
Congressman Bremner, who for
only one week has been undergoing
this treatment, feels much better, too,
it was said at his residence.
One of the patients whose physi
cian has allowed the applciation of
the cure for tuberculosis, is Seward
Wright, of 114 Second Avenue,
Paterson. Last week he received his
first treatment and now he is confi
dent that in four weks he wi’l be well.
Herb Medicine Used.
The treatment for both cancer and
tuberculosis is the administration,
both internally and externally, of
medicines derived from herbs.
The cures are distinct, even the
method of administration being to
tally different.
The two young men worked side by
side for ten years, both at the Gym
nasium and at the Royal University
in Budapest. Mr. Horovitz is the ex
pert on cancer and Mr. Dancz has
made a specialty of tuberculosis.
“Our treatment for cancer,” said
Mr. Horovitz, “consists of the ad
ministration of brown pills from sev
eral herbs. There Is a liquid wash,
also made of herbs. Besides these,
there is a compound made from some
twenty different herbs, applied to the
cancer by poultices."
Experimented on Animals.
“For five years we studied and ex
perimented on animals before we
learned of the compounds,” said Mr.
Dancz. “Then we applied our dis
coveries, first to animals and then to
patients in Hungary. We began our
experiments because of a deep inter
est in botany. In fact, many of our
herbs were discovered by the simple
process of watching animals.
“For instance. I would take two
swine to the woods. One would be
well and one sick. I would watch
closely, seeing what herbs they would
eat. Instinct seemed to direct them
and • by experiments later I learned
exactly what herbs were necessary to
cure certain ailments."
Suffragist Leader
Would Carry Pistol
Following Permit Granted Colonel
Roosevelt and Attorney Whitman,
She Asks Court Same Privilege.
NEW YORK, July 12.—Following the
granting of permission to Colonel Theo
dore Roosevelt and District Attorney
Whitman to carry revolvers, Mrs. Rob
ert H. Elder, the suffragist leader of
Brooklyn and wife of a former assist
ant district attorney of Kings county,
appeared before Chief Magistrate
Kemper and requested to be allowed
the same privilege. The judge gave her
application blanks and said he would
tee that she received the permit.
ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, JULY 13. 1913.
Too Many Colleges,
Government's Plaint
Education Commissioner In His Re
port Declares That Many of
Them Should Be Consolidated.
WASHINGTON, July 12.—That there
are too many colleges in the United
States with inadequate equipment and
support attempting to give full courses
for the bachelor’s degree; that much
duplication is going on, and that
there could be a profitable merging of
existing institutions, is Intimated in
the report of Dr. Babcock in the year
book of the Commissioner of Education.
Many of the States have their work
of higher education centralized in the
State university’ or agricultural col
leges, but in nine States there are
three or more State-supported and
State-controlled institutions.
$34.64 Each Man's
Share of U. S. Money
Government Report on Currency of
Nation Says This Amount Is
Per Capita Average.
WASHINGTON, July 12.—The to
tal amount of money in the United
States at the beginning of the new
fiscal year amounted to $3,718,379,000,
an increase of $12,456,000 over a month
ago. Os this, $3,371,326,000 was tn
circulation and $347,053,000 was held
in the treasury as assets of the Gov
ernment. Estimating the population
of the country as 97,537,000, the
treasury announced that the per cap
ita circulation was $34.64, or an in
crease of 10 cents within a month.
Newsboy Is Named
As West Point Cadet
Congressman Selects Youth for Army
Who Had Supported. Family by
Selling Dailies on Streets
SAN DIEGO, CAL., July 12.-Harold
Qooney, former President and now
Treasurer of the Newsboys’ Club, has
been recommended to West Point Mili
tary’ Academy by Congressman William
Kent at Washington, according to ad
vices received here to-day. Cooney,
who is 18 years old, has supported his
father and mother for several years
selling newspapers. He went to high
school for three years. He has planned
to leave soon to attend a preparatory
school in New York to fit himseU for
the examination. The recommendation
is considered equivalent to an appoint
ment.
Girl Runs Foundry as
Father Breaks Down
Daughter for Six Years After Par
ent’s Health Failed Assumed Ex
ecutive Duties of Business.
GREAT FALLS, MONT., July 12
The directing force of the Great Falls
Iron Works is a woman—Miss N. Ce
rula Woodbury. On the company's
official roster she is designated as sec
retary-treasurer, but as the daughter
of L S. Woodbury, president of the
company, she has for six years as
sumed the duties and responsibilities
of her father, who has been in failing
health and has passed most of his
time In travel.
Miss Woodbury is at the office each
day and keeps in close touch with all
departments of the business.
Greek Theater To
Seat 10,000 Planned
California Man Wants to Have Mas
sive Structure Ready for Christ
mas Day Performance.
LOS ANGELES, July 12.—A Greek
theater of concrete, with stage of classic
lines, with concentric rings of concrete
for tiers of seats rising higher and
higher, that will accommodate 10,000
persons, will be built by Colonel Grif
fith J. Griffith, in Vermont Canyon,
Griffith Park, Hollywood, and will be
presented to the city.
“I hope to have the stage and enough
of the theater completed by Christmas to
seat 10,000 or 15.000 people," said Colonel
Griffith, “so that a celebration may be
held there Christmas day.”
‘Death Merely Habit,’
Says ‘New Thinker'
Author of “How to Live Forever”
Startles Convention at Portland
With Theory.
PORTLAND. OREG., July 12—“ There
is no reason in the world why a person
should ever die,” declared Harry Gaze,
editor of “Life Culture’’ and author of
“How to Live Forever,” at the annual
convention of the National New
Thought Alliance, in session here.
“At 100 years,” he continued, “a per
son should be better to look at, more
fit to live, than he was at 40 years.
Death is merely a habit.”
LAUTERBACH BLAMES ‘WOLF’
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Life Wrecked by Lamar's Friendship
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Lawyer Quails at Lobby Inquiry
MRS. PHILIP VAN VOLKENBURGH and Mrs. Edward Lauterbach are shown at the top.
Below is Edward Lauterbach. He was once leader in polities, the law and finance, but his
fall from wealth and influence has been almost as rapid as his ascension. His wife, to whom he
attributed much of his early training for a career that was filled with success, divorced him —
the first real downward step in his fall. Mrs. Van Volenburg, the .“$10,000,000 widow,” once
his client, was reported in various circles as having played a part in the divorce won by Mrs.
Lauterbach. ........
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Singing Fish Keep
Town From Sleep
Poetess Thinks Lonely Pout Are
Calling Their Mates, but Oth
ers Call It Nuisance.
BELLEVUE, OHIO, July 12. This*
town is all excited over certain sing
ing fish which keep the villagt rs
awake o’ nights These fish, a varie
ty of bull pout, live in the subterran
ean streams which fiow under the
place, and, possibly becoming lone
some, come to the surface and sing
’ Anyway, they gather at the surface
of cisterns and quiet pools in the
gathering dusk and chant in chorus
what a prominent poetess of Bellevue
calls a sweet, sad. haunting melody,
which she likens to the moaning of
night winds through lonely, brooding
pines. But the citizens who are kept
awake are beginning to cuss the gosh
blamed noise
Berry Growers Seek
To Ship Crop by Post
Farmers of Ozark Say That Express
Companies Have Been Getting
Half Their Revenue.
SPRINGDALE. ARK., July 12
Moving the strawberry crop by parcel
post may be undertaken by the grow
ers of this and other berry growing
districts next soason. Efforts to obtain
a special rate from the Government
may be undertaken by the berry asso
ciations within a very short time.
It is asserted by association man
agers of the Southern Ozarks, whence
formerly 1,000 to 1,500 cars of berries
were marketed annually, the express
companies and the commission houses
have taken more than 50 per cent of
the revenue from the berry crop.
15 Cents Every Time
He Signs His Name
LOS ANGELES, July 12.—Mayor
George Alexander, whose term will ex
pire July 7. announced to-day that,
♦luring his four years and three months
in office, he had signed his name 108,000
times In that time he received in sal
ary 115,500. which, if it had been paid
merely for the signing of his name,
would have made the cost of each sig
nature 15 cents.
EXTRA
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
One-Time Leader of New York
Republicans Presents a Pitiful
Spectacle as He Tells of Rela
tions With Wall St. Adventurer
Tells Senate Investigators Thaf
All of His Misdeeds Were Com
mitted to Restore Other Man
to Favor Among the Financiers
The story of a remarkable friend
ship existing between Ikivld l.amar,
known as “the wolf of Wall Street”
because of his subtly unscrupulous
operations, and Edward Lauterbach,
broken and discredited lawyer. Is the
net result of the week's investigation
by the Senate Lobby Commlltee at
Washington.
How Lamar posed as the emissary
and spokesman of Senators and 1 Con
gressmen. how he impersonated high
Government officials In his conversa
tions over the telephone to Wall
Street operators, how he sought to
frighten them into one concession
and another by threat of proposed
Congressional action—and all this not
so much for his own gain as to de
mand recognition for his unfortunate
lawyer friend. Lauterbach, he said—
Is the story.
Lamar long has been a figure of
disrepute on Wall Street, and none
knew this better than Lamar Cyni
cal, sarcastic, bitter, he told the Sen
ate committee that he had been fight
ing to force Wall Street into recogni
tion of himself and of his friend Lau
terbach. He charged his Wall Street
enemies with having circulated false
reports about him. The substance of
his confession was that he would
drive them into the open by hta im
personation of the powers at Wajrti
ington.
Hatred for Ledyard.
The bitterest hatred of Lamar and
Lauterbach was for Lewis Cass Led
yard, attorney for J. P. Morgan * Co.
This was revealed on the. witness
stand when the two admitted having
told Ledyard that they had held con
ferences with the Democratic leaders
at Washington, Including Senator
Stone, Speaker Clark, Congressmen
Riordan and Palmer.
"I determined to fix a game to
force Ledyard Into the open,” declared
Lamar, his voice shaking with emo
tion, “when I telephoned in the name
of Congressman Palmer. For vears
men In Wall Street have been circu
lating stories of blackmail against us.
Ix-dyard and his associates lied ruined
many men. 1 was determined that ha
should not ruin me.”
On the stand Lauterbach saddled
Lamar with the responsibility of most
•f
bach went to see J. P. Morgan, bear
ing a resolution calling for an inves
tigation of the Steel Trust by the
House of Representatives. He de
clared that he did It to heal the
breach between Morgan and
"I thought If Mr. Morgan would ask
Lamar to stop it, it would create good
feeling between the two men.” he said.
The figure of Edward 1-auterbach,
shrinking, timid, before the investi
gators, Is the most remarkable thing
of the week’s revelations. Once Lau
terbach held a position of power tn
politics. Os him had been written at
one time:
“There Is one man in New York at
the present time who is, perhaps, en
titled to. more favors at the hands of
his party than any other citizen of
this State."
Once Republican Leader.
The paragraph was written of Ed
ward Lauterbach in 1898 when he was
a leader among the Republicans, a
man of high place In the law. of
weight in finance, a connoisseur of
art. the owner of a home in the rich
est millionaire block in the world.
Anl then—
Consider Edward Lauterbach, cow
ering before the Ix»bby Investigating
Committee at Washington, almost
tearfully making the admission that
he had lied to Lew is Cass Ledyard in
an effort to get employment, and bail
lied by saying that he could bold oat
influence with Democrats, in a Demo
cratic administration, that the corpo
rations might profit by the weakness
of the popular Representative*.
Such, In a fast, impressionistic out
line, is the story of the fall of Ed
waid Lauterbach, the eclipse of n