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THE GEORGIAN’S NEWS BRIEFS 5 NEWS OF FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1913 PINKERTONS TRACK MINCEY; POLICE HALT CONLEY GRILL With Pinkerton detectives taking the trail in search of W. H. Mincey, whose startling accusations against Jim Conley stirred the police depart ment and won the negro another “sweating” from Solicitor Dorsey, the Mincey affidavit Friday became the storm center about which the prose cution and defense in the Frank case waged their battle. Despite the degree of indifference with which the detectives and prose cuting officials afTected to look upon the remarkable statements of Mincey, it became known Friday that every effort was being bent toward locating him and turning the light on his past history. It is understood that the Pinkertons have obtained information of Min- cey’s whereabouts, as it has been known since The Georgian published its exclusive story of the affidavit and later Mincey’s detailed account of the significant happenings on the day of the murder that he was teaching school in North Georgia. Although Solicitor Dorsey professes to be not greatly concerned over the effect that the Mincey affidavit may have in his case against Leo M. Frank, it is reported that his office is gathering character witnesses for an attack on Mincey’s credibility. Developments since the publication of the affidavit indicate that the pros ecution feels it must absolutely dis credit Mincey and hia story if there is to be any hope of obtaining a con viction aaginst Frank. Harry Scott, Pinkerton detective, was denied permission to talk with Jim Conley Friday morning when he went to the police station to see if he could wring any additional admis sions from the negro. From the fact that Scott has been working in en tire harmony w r ith the city detective department up to this time, this in cident led to the rumor that Scott had changed his theory of the crime and was inclined to place the re sponsibility upon Conley. Scott refused to say to what ex tent his theories had been altered, if at all. Chief of Detectives Lanfcrd explained that he had full confidence in Scott, but that the Pinkerton was in the position where he had to re port all of his findings to the defense and he did not wish Scott to see Con ley in these circumstances. Attorneys for the defense said in regard to the report that the case might again be postponed, that they knew of no reason why it could not go to trial July 28, the date set by Judge L. S. Roan. They said that their side of the case was complete and that they were prepared to pre sent it to a jury at any time. As bitter a fight as that brought on by the Mincey affidavit is being waged by the members of the Grand Jury and the Solicitor over the question of investigating Jim Conley’s connection with the Phagan murder, with a view of bringing an indictment. A number of the members are said to have de clared themselves in favor of reopen ing the case because of the mass of evidence that has piled up against the negro since he confessed to being in the factory on the day of the crime. The Solicitor, however, is unalter ably opposed to any movement look ing toward the indictment of the ne gro. JUMPS ON A DARE. ATLANTIC CITY, July 18.—A pretty girl visitor late last night Jumped from the steel pier into the ocean. She was attired in ballroom costume. She was hauled out of the water and whisked away in a waiting automobile. After an all-day investigation, the po lice have learned that the girl made a bet on the beach with members of her "crowd” that she would make the leap. The forfeit was a theater party and champagne supper if she didn’t do it before midnight. She won. SENATOR HOKE SMITH SPEAKS. United States Senator Hoke Smith addressed the two bodies of the Geor gia Legislature in joint session at noon Friday in the house. Conspicuous throughout his address was the strong defense of the national administration, the keynote of which Was prophetic of a period of un equaled prosperity throughout the Wilson regime. Senator Smith declared that the Democrats to-day have enough votes In the Senate to pass the tariff bill. He *ald that notwithstanding the cuts made by the national House, the Senate had cut still deeper, and made additions to the free list. NEGRO RUNS WILD. CHICAGO, July 18.—Members of the Board of Trade to-day were thrown into a panic when a negro em ployee went insane. Shouting and threatening to kill anyone who tried to stop him, the wild negro rushed through the cor ridors waving a revolver. A squad of policemen arrived after three brokers had overpowered the maniac. THEY QUIT MEAT. NEWINGTON, CONN., July 18.— Residents of this town have decided to quit eating meat until there is a fall in the price. Vegetables will be the standby. As a result of the boycott several butchers have been forced to close up shop. BUV AVAILABLE RADIUM. LONDON, July 18.—It is reported that the German emissaries who came to London seeking radium have bought every available gramme of the British supply, which is only an eighth of the quantity wanted. They paid cash down. The present price of radium is equiv alent to $2,400,000 an ounce. LARGEST WHEAT CARGO. DULUTH, MINN., July 18.—The largest cargo of wheat ever loaded at the American head of the lakes was taken out on the steamer Wil liam P. Snyder—464,000 bushels. “LOBBY” IS CHARGED WITH SWINGING SALOON VOTE WASHINGTON, July 18.—How the National Association of Manufac turers lined up the brewers and sa loon men of Indiana for the Repub licans and Representative James E. Watson in his campaign for Gov ernor was told in a letter written by Colonel Mulhall to F. C. SchwedL- man, secretary to President Van Cleave, and read before the Overman lobby investigating committee to-dav. Watson, according to Mulhall’s let ter, was not so much afraid of the 30,000 votes the brewers could swing against him as he was of the $250,000 they would put into the last part of the campaign. Accordinf to another letter Mul hall, the field agent of the “invisi ble government,” assured "Uncle Joe Cannon that reports that the associa tion was fighting him were false, and that the association was firmly sup porting him. Mulhall declared he helped Repre sentatives Henry C. Coudrey and Richard Bartholdt, of Missouri, who were re-elected by narrow margins, and also asserted he thought the as sociation deserved the credit for their victories. Edward Hines, of Chicago, said to have boasted that he “put Lorimer over,” came in for notice in connec tion writh a telegram to Mulhall In which he appealed for $1,000 to aid Representative Jenkins, of Wisconsii and offered to supervise the spending of this sum. “I don’t consider Teddy, nor Taft, nor Sherman, nor Foraker equal to VanCleave. Parry, Kirby and the oth ers who have given freely of their energy and their money to the great cause expressed in the principles of the National Association of Manufac turers,” wrote Schwedtman to Mul hall August 28. "There will come a time when the world will know that the Parrys and the VanCleaves of to-day are like John the Baptist of old, speaking thoughtfully of events to come and condemning fearlessly the present wrongs, clearing the way for right eousness and honesty.” In an effort to prevent an enor mous waste of time, the committee as signed clerks to examine the 123,000 letters in the file the association turn ed over to the committee, to cull out those letters which have the greatest bearing on the inquiry. It is pro posed to keep Mulhall on the stand until all of the material correspond ence has become a part of the record. DECLARE HE WAS INSANE. That Joshua B. Crawford was in sane at the time he married Mra. Mary Belle Crawfford and had been entirely irresponsible for several months prior to that time, was the testimony of Dr. R. R. Kimes. expert on insanity and abdominal surgery, introduced by Attorney Joe S. James Friday morn ing in his effort to have the marriage annulled and the $250,000 estate re vert to the heirs-at-law. Dr. Kimes rendered his opinion in reply to a long hypothetical question and was excused without cross-ex amination. During the taking of testimony an other clash In the courtroom was nar. rowly averted. George W. Bolden, a character witness for Mrs. Crawfford, threatened to thrash Attorney James unless he apologized for what the witness considered an insulting ques tion. Colonel James declined to apol ogize and order was only restored when Colonel Anderson ordered the witness from the stand, and he was escorted from the courtroom by the lawyers. “How do you know that Mrs. Craw ford is a lady?” interrogated Attorney James. “I demand that you apologize im mediately for asking such a question,” exclaimed Bolden. “I will not apologize. I do not in tend to take back anything that I say.” “You will take it back or I will make you, if I have to beat you to do it.” “You are at liberty to try that at any time you see fit.” Colonel Anderson, who had rapped several times for order, stepped be tween the attorney and the witness just as the latter got from his seat and started toward the attorney. NOT EVEN A FIG LEAF. INDIANAPOLIS, July 18.—Not even a smile covered John Dougher ty early to-day as he sat in the rear of 233 East Washington street, a square from police headquarters. He didn’t seem to realize that he was shocking the neighborhood. He sat on a box swinging his heels. It might have been the Garden of Eden and he might have been Adam, with out even a fig leaf. In a covering of wrapper paper he was taken to police headquarters charged with “loitering.” It was a hot night. MRS. HUNTINGTON WEDS. PARIS. July 18.—Mrs. Arabella I). Huntington, widow of the late Collis P. Huntington, the multi-millionaire American railroad builder, was mar ried in the American Church to Henry E. Huntington, a railroad man, of New York and Los Angeles, Cal. The bridegroom is a nephew of his wife’s first husband. DIES FROM OVERWORK. LEXINGTON, July 18.—James Gar rard White, aged 67. vice president of Kentucky State University and the last member of the original faculty, having completed his forty-fifth year in June, died to-day of stomach trou ble caused by overwork at the uni versity. COMEDIAN IS FOUND. CHATTANOOGA, July 18.—Raymond Hitchcock, the comedian, was discov ered to-day in a summer retreat on Waldens Ridge. The actor has been in the mountains near here for a week. ACCUSED WIFE IS RIDDEN ON RAIL BY BAND OF WOMEN POLO, ILL., July 18.—Suspicious that Mrs. Minnie Richardson, wife of the crippled keeper of a general store here, w'as more than friendly with her brother-in-law, Will Dun- nill, the village stonemason, a band of women of the village kidnaped Mrs. Richardson from her home, rode her on a rail through the town and dumped her in a mud puddle. After the mud bath they gave her 24 hours to leave the village. Rich ardson mortgaged his store for $1,500 and gave her money to pay her rail road fare. When the men of the town went to Dunnill’s home, he was not there and his wife said he had left the town. She had mortgaged her home to get money for him. Mrs. Peter Stansfield, wife of the blacksmith, who was captain of the women “vigilantes,” said that tho conduct of Mrs. Richardson and Dunnill had been the subject of com ment for nearly a year. The women planned to capture Mrs. Richardson and the men were to take Dunnill, and the rail-riding party was to be a “double-header.” The men failed to find their victim and Mrs. Richardson rode alone. The men stood on the sidewalks and cheered. For ten years Richardson, who is a paralytic, has gone about in a wheel chair. He said to-day: “They were pretty rough on my wife, but I guess she had not done right. I don’t believe she will ever come back.” WILSON ASKS FOR DATA. WASHINGTON, July 18.—In prep aration for the arrival of Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson, now on his way from Mexico, President Wilson to day requested the State Department to furnish him with all the informa - tion relative to the troubles in Mexico from the beginning of the Madero revolt. This mass of material the President intends to read thoroughly, so he will be informed as to all the develop ments of the Mexican situation before the arrival of Ambassador Wilson. Secretary Bryan, who returned from the first lap of his Chautauqua lecture tour this morning, called on the President, bringing a large bun dle of telegrams and correspondence. They included dispatches from Wil liam Bayard Hale, President Wilson’s personal representative in Mexico City, who does not consider the Huer ta regime stable, and Ijas advised against recognition. Suspicions of the sincerity of the representations made by several Eu ropean nations have been raised in Washington by the trail of high finance running through them all. Allegations are made that the crisis is nothing more nor less than a “bond holders’ conspiracy” engineered from Paris. “PROMOTER” IS ARRESTED. NEW YORK. July 18.—Edmund Willcox, accused by the Government as a “get-rich-quick Wallingford” in real life, but who claims he has rs- tormed and has'been leading a new life with his wife and three children in a modest East Side apartment, was arrested to-day by postoffice inspec tors. Until two years ago Willcox had an office in the Metropolitan Tower, where he posed as a promoter of rail roads, banks and mills. When he learned that any new company was being formed, he wrote to the pro moters offering to float the stock. Aft er obtaining a retaining fee, it is al leged, nothing more was heard from him. The specific charge against him is that he obtained $1,000 from Comer L Peck, of Starke, Fla., who operated a 38-mile railroad line between his home town and Jacksonville. Willcox claimed, according to the Government charges, that one of his clients, Colonel James M. Smith, of Smlthonia, Ga., w r ho owns 100,000 acres of land in Florida, had been persuaded by him to buy 20,000 shares of stock of the Central Bank and Trust Company of Georgia, at $102 a share. Colonel Smith denied that he knew Willcox, an- * 1 the Government began an investigation. HUSBAND WAS DEAD. KENOSHA, WIS., July 18—Mrs. Frank J. Eaton, while riding with her husband, felt the automobile turn from the roadway as they were going 25 miles an hour. She saw her hus band was not holding the wheel. Catching it as the car w T as on the edge of an embankment, she brought the machine back into the roadway and stopped it. Her husband had died of heart dis ease. WOMEN CONVICT WOMAN. PETALUMA, CAL., July 18.—A jury of twelve women convicted a woman, Mrs. W. S. Waldorf, upon a charge of battery here. This is the first jury of women that ever tried a case in Sonoma County. Mrs. Waldorf was accused of hav ing slapped a neighbor’s children. The jury way out less than an hour. GIRL SUES VETERAN. PATERSON, N. J., July 18—Miss Emma Mahanney, 16, has sued John Wolf, 70, a war veteran, for breach of promise. Miss Mahanney’s counsel said the couple became engaged and were making arrangements for the wed ding when Wolf changed his mind. Miss Mahanney asks for $25,000. IS POISONED BY CREAM. MARINETTE, WIS., July 18.—After surprising the medical world by re covering, after his neck was broken in a runaway accident several weeks ago, Hiram Reeves, head of a rural telephone company at Oconto, is dying of ptomaine poiyoning from eating Ice cream. HOUSE RATES ARE SLASHED IN TARIFF BILL IN SENATE WASHINGTON, July 18.—The ro- port to Senator Simmons, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee on the Underwood-Simmons tariff bill as amended by the Senate, was placed before the Upper House at noon to day, and debate on the measure im mediately was begun. The report is largely devoted to de fense of the Senate Democrats’ ac tion in reducing rates under the orig inal House measure and to extensive tables showing the percentage and effect of these rates. In a brief introduction, Senator Sim mons declares that the Senate bill, if enac ted into law, “will result in in equitable distribution of burdens and incidental benefits of the Payne-.U- drich system of customs taxation that will tend to disintegrate monopoii- ^ built up under a protective tariff: that will reduce the cost of living: that will increase the opportunities >f the individual citizen and relieve the people from the burdens of a former scheme of taxation.” The Senator points out that the In terests hit by the reduction of duties under the House bill are in almost every instance trusts which have grown rich under a high protective tariff. Among these are the steel, aluminum, cement, callera, asphalt, Standard Oil, sugar, wool and paper trusts. To counteract the millions in im port revenue lost to the Government through the admission of foreign markets under a free list or reduce 1 rate of tariff, taxes have been placed upon bananas solely controlled by :i trust, upon gambling in cotton fu tures, upon the incomes of the rich, upon brandies used in fortifying wines and upon luxuries in general. The total outcome of the Senate tariff labors is a decrease of 27.64 per cent under the Payne-Aldrich tariff rates and of 4.22 per cent under tho House tariff rates. Nevertheless, the report predicts that the business of the Government will be run at a prof it. The official figures, based upon com pilations of Treasury experts for the fiscal year 1913, place the total reve nue, exclusive of the possible revenue from the Panama' Canal, the sinking fund and the national bank note re demption fund, at $996,810,000, against an estimated disbursement of $994.- 790,000 for the same period. This would leave a surplus of $2,020,000. Concerning the steel schedule the report says: “Judged by all available tests, tho American iron and steel industry is fully able to sustain itself without Government aid. It has unrivalei supplies of raw material; it has the use of abundant capital: it is able to export in competition with foreign countries; and the industry has the advantage of low costs. For all these reasons it may be regarded as well fitted as an industry, capable cf standing tariff rates figured on a strict revenue-producing basis.” COMMENT ON BRYAN. LONDON, July 18.—The Standard prints an editorial on “Politicians and Their Pay” this morning, in which it refers to the statement of William Jennings Bryan, the American Secre tary of State, that he can not live on his salary of $12,000 a year. The Standard says: “The poor man’s champion has dis covered that he can not subsist sat isfactorily on $12,000 a year. A good many people in a good many coun tries manage to be comfortable on less than that amount, but since Mr. Bryan first took up socialism as a profession he has done well on the lecture platform. “He has been making $15,000 every year by denouncing the idle rich. If the Union can not pay the same scale he proposes to increase his emolu ments by private exertions, so he will go on tour again.” STANLEY’S SON IS DEAD. SAULT STE MARIE, July 18.—Jack Stanley, 39, son of the famous ex plorer, Sir Henry M. Stanley, died here to-day in a lodging house from tuberculosis. As death hovered near the dying man, he whispered a secret which he had shared only with his wife, for merly Mrs. Violet Lancaster, of De troit. whom he married on the stage of the Odean Theater, Clarksburg, W. Va., four years ago. “I am the son of Sir Henry M. Stanley, the famous explorer. Tell mother.” With these words he sank into subconsciousness. WON’T LET HER MARRY. Despite the pleadings of his aged mother and of Effie Drummond, the girl in the case, who asked that she be allowed to marry him, Joe North, caught by Chief Beavers’ vice squad in a raid on the boarding house of Mrs. Lulu Bell at Fair and Peters streets, was held to the Grand Jury by Judge Broyles Thursday, in the sum of $200. The charge, which from the first story told by the Drummond woman, promised to develop into white slavery, was changed to disor derly- conduct. INSURANCE MEN MEET. MILWAUKEE, July 18.—Sixty men, all prominent in the insurance busi ness, from all parts of the country, were ill to-day following a banquet given during an insurance convention here. 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