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VOL. XI. NO. 299. ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, JULY 21, 1913. 2 CENTS.
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INDICT CONLEY, DORSEY SAYS
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Peachtree Throng Sees Woman
Tussle With Rival—Princi
pals Make Escape.
Two women and a man who was
said to be the husband of one engaged
in a struggle before hundreds of pe
destrians on Peachtree street In front
of Parks-Chambers'-Hardwick Com
pany’s store at 2 o’clock Saturday aft
ernoon and fled before their names
or the cause of the trouble could be
discovered.
“Dr. Smith,” shouted the second
woman, who rushed up to the man
and the woman in the store.
“Mrs. McRae again ”
The woman hurled a bottle of
brownish liquid at her enemy. They
clinched as they tussled toward thi
door, and those around said carbolic
acid was used in the encounter.
Woman Makes Escape.
As a crowd rushed up the woman
called Mrs. McRae hurried into th*
store and caught the elevator. She
went to the third floor and hurried
down the back stairs.
“Dr. Smith’’ and the woman who had
made the attack hurried around the
corner.
A policeman who was on the corner
had rushed up. He said he talked
with the woman called Mrs. McRae.
She said her opponent was the di
vorced wife of Dr. Smith and that
they had been separated for five
years.
No Arrests Made.
The policeman said he noticed a
little blood on the woman’s arm. As
all participants hurried away and no
one who was present desired a
prosecution the policeman said ne
would make no arrest.
Clerks in the store said they did
not recognize any of the principals
with the possible exception of the
man. They were not sure about him,
but thought he lived in a downtown
hotel.
All they knew of the affair was
what they saw' and the exclamations
of the woman said to be the divorced
wife of the man.
The man, they said, seemed so be
wildered by the fury of the woman
who had attacked his companion that
his only thought seemed to be to get
away.
Mayor Cuts Pigeon
Wing to Prove He
Has Quit Fighting
Alderman J. H. Harwell, famed for
his wit, Saturday asked Mayor Wood
ward if he ever expected to quit quar
reling. Mayor Woodward replied that
already he had quit. The bond com
mission was in session and proof of
the change immediately was de
manded.
“If you mean that, Jim, dance a Jig
while I pat,” said Alderman Harwell.
Alderman Harwell patted his hands
and kept time with his foot while
Mayor Woodward cut a few fine ca
pers across the committee room of the
City Hall and the committeemen
roared with laughter.
3 Hurt in $15,000
Fire at Way cross
WAYCROSS, July 20.—Three per
sons were injured, one seriously, and
property worth $15,000 was destroyed
in an early morning Are on Elizabeth
street to-day which destroyed the
boarding house operated by W .A.
Jones. The boarders escaped in their
night clothes.
L. B. Boggs, City Building Inspec
tor, injured a foot; A. C. Monroe, a
fireman, was hit on the head by a fall
ing timber, and F. D. Rexler was bad
ly burned about the face and arms.
J. W. Cox, a boarder, lost a $400
diamond ring and $130 in cash. L. B.
Harriell, owner of the house, esti
mates his loss at $5,000, with partial
insurance.
S PACT SPLITS
Rooming House Keeper Also Says
Man Tried to Poison Her.
Jealous, Police Say.
Both Swearingen and Jackson
ville Trustees Want Place, but
Can’t Agree on Means.
Harry Thaw to Sue
His Former Lawyer
PITTSBURG, PA., July 20.—Roger
C’Mara. trustee for the estate of Har
ry K. Thaw, bankrupt, was to-day
authorized by Referee William R.
Blair to begin legal proceedings
against Clifford W. Hartridge, in the
United States courts or in the State
courts of New York, for the recovery
of any funds that might be found or
which might be due the estate of
Thaw.
The purpose of the action is to try
to recover the $21,000 which Hart
ridge, as attorney, is alleged to have
claimed for expenses incident to the
first trial of Thaw for the murder of
Stanford White.
Chauffeur Faints
At Wheel From
Effects of Heat
J. L. Walton, 38 years old, a chauf
feur residing at 16 Ashby street, col
lapsed from effects of the heat while
driving his automobile down Peachtree
street shortly after noon Saturday..
Walton slid down in his seat, releas
ing the steering wheel. A pedestrian,
passing, noticed the man’s plight, and.
jumping into the machine, brought it
to a stop.
Walton was rushed to the Grady Hos
pital in a semi-conscious state.
Prompt Arbitration
Urged by Trainmen
NEW YORK, July 20.—Prompt ac
tion by the United State Senate in
confirming the appointees of Presi
dent Wilson to the special board
which is to arbitrate the difficulties
between the 100,000 employees of the
Eastern railroads and the railway
managers were demanded to-day by
William G. Lee, president of the
Brotherhood of Trainmen, and A, B.
Garretson, president of the Order of
Railway Conductors.
"Delay or failure to confirm such
appointments only makes it more
impossible for us to control the sit
uation,” they asserted.
High Collar Kills
Heat-Stricken Man
PITTSBURG, PA., July 20.—Harry
D. Wingert, a graduate of Western
Reserve College, was overcome by the
heat while waiting in an office for a
friend, and was strangled to death by
a high collar he wore.
American Team Wins
Whack at Davis Cup
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
WIMBLEDON, ENG., July 20.-
The American tennis team to-day
won the right to play the English
team for the Davis trophy.
After defeating the Canadians in
the two single matches yesterday,
Maurice McLoughlin, of San Fran
cisco, and Harold Hackett, of New
York, representing the United States,
won from R. B. Powell and B. P.
Schwengers, the Canadian runners-
up, in the doubles to-day, the scores
being 6-3, 6-3, 12-10.
30,000 Strikers in
Chicago Arbitrate
CHICAGO. July 20.—The two most
serious labor difficulties in Chicago this
year were cleared to-day when the
Building Construction Employers’ As
sociation notified the Building Trades
Council that the lock-out against 30.-
000 union men would end Monday, and
suburban street car employees went
back to work, satisfied that the new
syndicate would grant their demands for
higher wages.
Building operations amounting to more
than $40,0000,000 will he resumed Mon
day when the building trades lock-out
ends. An agreement was signed for a
permanent arbitration board.
Electricians Name
National Officers
CHATTANOOGA, July 20.—The Na
tional Electrical Contractors' Associa
tion has elected the following officers:
President. Ernest Freeman, Chicago;
First Vice President, J. C. llatzel. New
York; Second Vice President, W. L.
Hutchison Kansas City; Third Vice
President, J. C Kendler, Los Angeles;
Treasurer, John R. Galloway, Washing
ton; Secretary, W. H. Morton, Utica;
Sergeant-at-Arms. J. C. Sterns. Buf
falo.
The next meeting will be held in De
troit.
SNEEZES SHOT FROM HEAD.
NEW' YORK, July 20.—Mrs. Barbara
Vaughn, *>f this city, who was shot in
i i* forehead 30 years ago, was seized
with a violent fit of sneezing at her
home and the bullet dropped out of her
nose.
Police investigation of the burning
of the home of Mrs. A. C. Klapper, at
No. 256 East Hunter street, Saturday
morning, for which G. A. Vaughn, an
employee of the Boston Trading Com
pany and a roomer at the Klapper
home, is held on suspicion of being
the incendiary, took a new and unex
pected turn Saturday afternoon.
Mrs. Klapper, when questioned by
Detective Coker. declared that
Vaughn tried to poison her one day
last week. -
“I was sick,” Mrs. Klapper said,
“and asked Vaughn to bring me a
glass of water. He w’as very ner
vous when he brought it, and I be
came suspicious that something was
wrong. I looked into the glass, and
lying on the bottom were some white
powders. I was sure they were poison,
and refused to drink the water.
Vaughn offered to bring me another
glass, but I refused to have it.
Calls Boarder Jealous.
“I am sure Vaughn tried to poison
me. He is insanely jealous of me,
and he has several times threatened
to hurt me and to destroy my proper
ty.”
Vaughn was taken from his cell and
grilled by Detective Coker and Chief
of Detectives Lanford for more than
an hour Saturday morning, in the
hope of getting him to admit some
connection with the burning of the
Klapper home.' He was also asked
about Mrs. Klapper’s assertion that
he tried to poison her.
He admitted taking her the water,
but denied that there were any pow
ders in the glass.
Love Affair Alleged.
The police say that Vaughn was* in
love with Mrs. Klapper, and declare
that she admitted that he had paid
her attentions for the past year or
more.
In addition to the police investiga
tion, State Fire Marshal W. R. Joy
ner announced Saturday morning
that he has started a probe of the
fire which destroyed the root of Mrs.
Klapper’s homo, causing damage of
$500. According to the firemen, the
blaze started in a closet in Vaughn’s
room on the second floor.
Vaughn was charged with trying to
burn the building by Mrs. Klapper.
According to the story she told the
police, she quarreled with Vaughn
before he went to work this morning,
and Vaughn made threats and then
w'ent into his room.
Calls House Over Phone.
A few minutes later, she says, he
hurried downstairs and went down
town. Half an hour later he called
her on the telephone and asked if
everything was all right, she says,
and one of the other boarders who
answered the phone told him the
house was on fire. Vaughn imme
diately left his office and rushed to
the scene of the fire. Mrs. Klapper
was standing near the door wring
ing her hands, when Vaughn ap
peared and started into the house. She
intercepted him.
“You’ve burned my house!” ah?
screamed. ‘Til have you arrested.”
Mrs. Klapper began struggling with
Vaughn, and Call Officer Watson
came up. At the requeat of the worn-
an, who declared she would prefer a
formal charge against him, Vaughn
was arrested and taken to police
headquarters.
Militants Put Torch
To $25,000 Mansion
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, July 20.—Militant suf
fragettes resumed their “votes for
women” warfare to-day. A mansion
at Torrance, in Lancashire, was de
stroyed by fire, with a loss of $25,000.
The mansion was situated near the
ruins of Ballikinraln Castle, whicn
was burned by militants recently.
NEW ENTRY ENLIVENS
BIG BEAUTY CONTEST
Athletic girl
whose face
friends say
should
adorn Booster
Button
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Search for
Atlanta’s
prettiest
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the town.
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JACKSONVILLE. FLA., July 26.—
The fight between the Board of Bond
Trustees and Mayor Van C. Swear
ingen seems to be drawing to a close
in one particular and widening in an
other. Both sides have agreed that
the matter must be settled, but there
is a division of opinion as to the man
ner in which it is to be brought about.
The Mayor wants to take the ques
tion to the courts and the Bond Trus
tees want to name a board of arbi
trators. The point to be decided in
this instance will be, w’here Is the
dividing line between the tw’o differ
ent branches of the city government
when it comes to authority over the
police.
At a conference between the Mayor
and four of the members of the Board
of Bond Trustees the matter of sus
pending Chief Roach was not men
tioned. Mayor Sw’earingen declares
he considers the chief suspended and
believes he would be sustained by the
law' and the courts.
City Attorney P. H. Odom on Sat
urday gave tTfc Mayor ah opinion ui
the case, in w'hich he declared that
the Mayor had the right to suspend
the chief of the department. The
Mayor has not as yet filed his charges
against the new chief and stated to
day that he did not know when he
would do so.
Seattle Sailors on
Ship Under Guard;
Socialists in Jail
SEATTLE, WASH., July "'-.—Sail
ors and officers from the reserve fleet
who w'ent ashore yesterday and raid
ed Socialist and Industrial Workers
of the Wolrd headquarters, doing $6,-
000 damage, are to-day under special
patrol guard on the Virginia, the flag
ship of Rear Admiral Reynolds.
Many Industrial Workers are in
Jail, having sought refuge there last
night from personal violence which
they feared at the hands of the sail
ors and 100 militiamen and citizens
who assisted them.
The city of Seattle has ordered an
investigation, and naval authorities
have requested a report on the con
duct of the sailors.
Secretary of the Navy Josephu:
Daniels, whose address incited the
sailors, said his references to the un
desirability of the red flag in America
were not intended for local applica
tion.
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Slit Skirts Only for
Old Folks, Says Judge
LEXINGTON. KY., July 20.—
“Grown-up folks may w'ear slit
gowns, but the young shall not,” de
clared Judge J. P. Scott, of the Ju
venile Court, here in sending Mar
garet Murphy, 16, to a convent for
having improper guardianship. The
girl was arrested while “joy riding”
with a young man. She was dressed
in a smart slit gown.
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Proposal to Rename
Street Stirs Council
Marshalls to Lose
The‘Borrowed Baby’
WASHINGTON. July 20.—There is
grief in the Marshall household and
the Vice President has lost much of
his accustomed cheerfulness, for the
“borrowed baby,” Thomas Marshall
Sutherland, is going home.
The baby has been for two months
the light and sunshine of the Vice
Presidential apartment, but now he
misses “mamma’’ and “mamma”
misses him. so that, reluctantly, the
Marshails are going to return him to
his parents, the Rev. Dr. and Mrs. A.
D Sutherland, In Berkley Springs, Md.
Brass Band to Lure
Drowsy to Church
A brass band playing in front of a
church for an hour will be used Sun
day by the Baptist Tabernacle to at
tract people to the services.
Sunday will be primary day at the
Tabernacle and it has been deter
mined to get everyone for several
blocks to attend church for this oc
casion. The band will play with the
aim of waking up everyone in that
neighborhood.
Following the concert the primary
day exercises will begin, being re
viewed by Professor E. M. Poteat, of
Furman University.
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Miss Helen Goodrich Considered Excellent Type.
Race Is Gaining Popularity.
Council la being stirred by the at
tempt to change the name of Murphy
avenue to Whitehall street. Council
man T. J. Kimbrough, of the Tenth
Ward, made the suggestion. An at
tempt to have the question taken up
Friday was made by Mr. Kimbrough,
but objection by Chairman Orville Hall
on the grounds that property owners
should be given a hearing held up the
proposition. It is planned to continue
Whitehall street to the city limits.
The Street Committee has under ad
visement also the changing of the
names of McDaniel, Exposition and
Lowndes streets.
The beauty contest Saturday
caught all eyes that hitherto have
evaded its lure with the nomination
of Miss Helen Goodrich, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Goodrich, of No.
801 Edgewood avenue, Inman Park.
The whole object of beauty, of
course, is to attract the eye. The
question of whose face is to adorn
the “500,000 Club” booster buttons
has come to dominate the talk of the
town. Atlanta is famous for her
pretty girls.
Two Near Death in
Auto-Trolley Crash
W. E. Jones, driver of a Coca-Cola
auto truck, and the motorman of a
Courtland street car had a narrow'
escape from death Saturday morning
when truck and car collided at the
comer of Courtland and Pine streets.
The truck escaped damage, while the
front of the car was wrecked.
Both Jones and the motorman
jumped for their lives when they saw'
a collision was unavoidable. Passen
gers on the car w'ere thrown about,
but no Injuries were reported.
Charges have been filed against
Jones for reckless driving. He will be
given a hearing in Recorder’s Court
Monday.
Miss Goodrich is a graceful, ath
letic girl with very rich brow’n hair
and deep brown eyes. She is re
garded as a fine type of Atlanta girl.
The beauty contest is to continue
for some days yet. Who the prettiest
girl is to be is as much a puzzle as It
was at the beginning. Yet the ques
tion must be decided before the “500.-
000 Club” buttons can be ordered
and the club actually organized.
Nominate your candidate at once
and send in her photograph.
War Chiefs Inspect
Memphis Shaft Site
MEMPHIS. Tenn.. July 20.—Sec
retary of War Garrison. Major Gen
eral Wood, chief of staff of the army,
and Major James B. Aleshire, chief
of the quartermaster’s department,
arrived in Memphis to-day and were
met by an entertainment committee
headed by General Luke E. Wright,
former Secretary of War, and Mayor
E. H. Crump.
They inspected the site for the
statue of DeSoto and left for Little
Rock, Ark.
What, Woman Jury?
‘No,’ Savs a Woman
CHICAGO, July 20.—A woman re
fused to-day to consent to a jury of
iwelve women, “tried and true,” to try
her case in court.
Mrs. Elizabeth Schank, a dress
maker. defendant iu a suit over a $50
dress made for Mrs. R. Davenport,
declared men, ‘who are the best
judges of veracity,” shall hear the
case.
“What! a woman Jury?” exclaimed
Mrs. Schank. after talking with her
lawyer. “Not on your life!”
Action Deferred on
New Refunding Bill
Action on the bill introduced by
Representative Aiken, of Brunswick,
to provide for the refunding of the
bonded indebtedness of municipali
ties w'as postponed when the meas
ure was given a hearing Friday after
noon by the House Committee on
Constitutional Amendments.
Judge Harry F. Dunwody, of Bruns
wick, appeared in favor of the bill,
while Attorney John D. Little, of At
lanta, opposed it.
POLICE DIG INTO GAME.
CLEVELAND, OHIO, July 20.—Po
lice dug through a two-foot wall an I
raided a gambling house on Wood
land avenue early to-day. Six men
were arrested.
LEAHY TAKES POST AUGUST 1.
Wade Hampton Leahy, general pas
senger agent of the Atlanta, Birming
ham and Ailantic Railroad will take
office August 1, as head of the new bu
reau of industry and statistics of the
Chamber of Commeroe.
Solicitor Dorsey expressed as
surance Saturday afternoon that
the Grand Jury never would in
dict Jim Conley before the trial
of Leo M. Frank.
At the same time it became
known that attorneys for the de
fense had made the usual move
of asking that the jurors to pas*
on the guilt or innocence of
Frank be drawn from the Grand
Jury box instead of the petit
jury box.
“There is no more chance that Jim
Conley will be indicted,” said the So
licitor, “than that the judge will ac
cede to the remarkable request of the
defense for a jury picked from the
Grand Jury box.”
Has Filed a Protest.
The Solicitor already has filed a,
protest against the proposed pro
cedure which the defense is said to
have suggested.
“It is Irregular In the extreme,” said
the Solicitor. “It never has been done
before to my knowledge. I am not
Informed as to its legality. That
matter I have not looked up, but I
have protested against it and will
fight any such move.”
The Solicitor’s assurance that no
Indictment would be brought against
Conley was taken to mean that he
was in possession of evidence Which
he believed would be sufficient ef
fectively to deter the Jurors from
charging the negro with the crime.
Can't Predict “No Bill.”
“I can not believe that any .Grand
Jirry, with the knowledge of the facts
before It. could bring an indictment
against Conley,” he said.
Asked if he thought that a “no
bill” on the charge of murder would ,
be brought out against the negro, the
Solicitor refused to make further*
comment
He intimated, however, that ho
would be present at the hearing and
that he would fight every effort to
lay the formal charge of murder
against Conley.
Crucial Battle Coming.
With the first skirmish won or
those In favor of the indictment of
Conley, the hottest battle is yet to be
waged behind the closed doors of the
jury room. The question first will be
on whether the grand Jurors consider
it proper at this time to reopen the
investigation whose first chapter re
sulted in the indictment of Leo M.
Frank on the charge of slaying Mary
Phagan. Solicitor Dorsey will lay be
fore the body for the first time all of
his reasons for desiring a postpone
ment of all further investigation until
after the trial of Frank.
Should the solicitor be driven back
from this position by the Grand Jury
again disregarding his wishes and
taking up the investigation, he will
be forced to take refuge in the last
ditch and make his fight against the
indictment of Conley.
With all the weight of evidence
which has piled up against the negro,
it is regarded as beyond the realm
of possibilities that he could persuade
the jurors to return a “no bill” against
Conley on the charge of murder. Dor
sey’s one remaining hope at this time
would be, it is said, to induce the
Grand Jury to waive definite action
until after the trial of Frank, when
it will be in a position to say whether
an indictment shall be drawn against
Conley as an accessory after the fact,
to which he has confessed, or as the
actual murderer.
Dorsey Refuses to Comply.
The Solicitor's attitude in the mat
ter plainly was shown by his state
ment when Foreman Beattie went to
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