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Gainesville Bride to Repudiate
Confession When Taken Be
fore Grand Jury.
GAINESVILLE, July 22.—Repu-
diating her confession as to the shoot
ing of her ball player husband. Tom
Wood, and charging a man with fir
ing the bullet will be the sensational
testimony of Mrs. Pearl Thomas Wood
before the Hall County Grand Jury
this afternoon. This man comes from
a prominent family and his arrest is
expected.
This man was an old friend of Mrs.
Wood’s, and when she was told by
her husband that he was going to de
sert her, It is said, she appealed to
him. He came to the Wood home on
Athens street, where a quarrel began,
ending in the probably fatal wounding
of Wood.
Gainesville is greatly excited over
the shooting. The statement this
morning that Mrs. Wood would com
pletely repudiate her confession and
charge the man with firing the shot
aroused intense interest. The Grand
Jury is in session, and the Solicitor
announced this morning that an im
mediate Investigation would be held.
At a local hospital Tom Wood lies
in a dying condition, a bullet hole in
one of his lungs and with but two
days at the most in which he can pos
sibly live. At the county Jail is his
bride of a few months, completely
prostrated. Tuesday night ehe con
fessed to the killing, declaring that
she had determined to kill her hus
band rather than have him desert her.
She declared that he had decided upon
a separation and was preparing to
leave Gainesville.
Quarrel Precedes Shooting.
According to the account of the
shooting, which, it is said, Mrs. Wood
will make to the Grand Jury, her hus
band, another man and herself were
in the Wood home when a quarrel en
sued, during which the other man
drew a pistol. Wood ran from the
house and as he darted out the front
door the other man shot. Wood falling
fatally wounded upon the porch.
Neighbors rushed in and found
Mrs. Wood weeping over the body of
her youthful husband. An automo
bile was obtained and the wounded
man placed in it. Mrs. Wood accom
panied him to the hospital, holding
Jiis head tenderly in her lap, while
her cries drew the tears from others
in the machine. In contrast to her
piteous condition the husband
charged her time and again with
shooting him. His protestations that
“She shot me!” “She shot me!” con
tinued after he had been placed upon
the operating table.
Bride Goes to Jail.
A few moments after th e wounded
man was taken to the hospital Sher
iff Spencer arrived there. Mrs. Wood
surrendered to him and admitted
that she had done the shooting. She
begged to be allowed to remain with
her husband, but owing to his con
dition and his continual charges that
she had done the shooting, it was
thought best to remove her. She
was taken to the county jail, where
she spent the night weeping and pit
eously declaring her love for her hus
band.
“He was preparing to desert me.
and was going away at midnight,”
she told the Sheriff. "He came to the
house to tell me good-bye. I made
up my mind I would rather kill him
than have him desert me.”
Mrs. Wood is a bride of but a few
months. Wood has played with the
Gainesville ball club for a long while.
The courtship began a few months
ago. when he was Introduced to her
at the ball park. She was Miss Pearl
Thomas, and comes from a highly re
spected family, which has been living
In Gainesville for ten years. Sne was
extremely popular and a host of her
friends called at the county jail this
morning.
Wood’s home is in Nashville and
his parents are expected to arrive
to-day. Doctors state there is no
chance for his recovery.
THE PLAYS
THIS WEEK
“Good Morning, Judge.”
The universal verdict of the patrons
of the Bijou is that this week’s attrac
tion, “Good Morning. Judge,” is one of
the snappiest, liveliest and most pleas-
‘ ing musical comedies of the season, and
judging from the cordial reception that
iias been given the attraction so far,
standing room will be at a premium the
entire week. Differing from most of the
musical comedies that have been offered
at the Bijou, “Good Morning. Judge."
has a well-defined plot, which concerns
the election of a German brewer to the
mayoralty of his home town and the
many ludicrous situations that arises
when the good-natured brewer is forced
to assume the position of municipal
judge
The musical numbers are new and up
to date and the costumes in keeping
with the splendid tone of the attrac
tion.
Forsyth Packed.
“Sold out” has been the record at
every performance at the Forsyth this
week, and a wonderful advance sale for
the remaining performances indicating
that the busy theater is going to make a
new attendance record, possibly eclips
ing the figures set up by Miss Keller
marn two years ago. The show is one
of the strongest that has ever beer, of
fered in vaudeville in Atlanta. There
is not a weak spot, every act counts and
the applause is distributed evenly.
The big feature of the program is the
appearance of John F. Conroy, the only
person who possesses every kind of
medal that has been awarded for hero
ism. Conroy has saved 137 lives. As
sisted by two pretty girls, he gives a
diving exhibition that is superior to any
that has been seen in Atlanta.
Thrills at Big Movie at Grand.
A more wonderful photo-play than
Victor Hugo’s “Les Miserables” has
Rarely been seen. There is interest in
This 12.000 feet of film from the intro
duction of Jean Valjean until the last
inch has been run off. and the Grand
is being filled at the daily matinee and
night performances The characters of
the Hugo novel are played by some of
the most distinguished actors of France.
The performances are given at 2:30 and
ar 8:30.
SUFFRAGE CAUSE HERE
BOOSTED BY BIG MEET
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Enthusiasm Marks Taft Hall Gathering-
“Anti” Partially Converted.
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Spurred to enthusiasm by Mrs.
William Peel, presiding officer, sev
eral hundred suffragists and a suf
fragette or two at Taft Hall Tuesday
participated in a monster meeting, in
many respects unequaled before in
Atlanta. Round after round of ap
plause marked th e efforts of every
speaker.
The meeting was an all-suffrage
affair, for although a debate was ad
vertised not a single out-and-out
anti-suffragist speech was made. Er
nest Neal, member of the House of
Representatives, was the only speak
er of the opposition, and even he de
clared he had little faith in many of
the stock arguments of the antis and
that he wished Mrs. Peel godspeed
in the present movement.
Debate Is Opened.
Following an organ recital by Dr.
Percy J. Starnes. Mrs. Peel called the
meeting to order "If it had not been
for woman,’’ she said in opening the
discussion, "man would still be walk
ing on four legs. But woman has
performed her duty and as a result
all of us are to-day walking on two
legs.’’
Following Representative Neal’s ad
dress, R A. Broyles declared the men
needed the women to help them out in
things political.
Among the other speakers were Dr.
A. M. Hughlett, who declared he was
a suffragist first, last and all the time,
for the reason that women are as in
telligent as men; Mrs. S. E. Cunning
ham. who paid high tribute to the
cause; Mrs. Frances Whitesides, a
leader in the Civic League; Mrs. Mary
McLendon, “the original suffragette."
president of the Georgia League, Mrs.
M. C. Hardin and Dr. John E. White.
Mrs. McLendon Speaks.
Mrs. McLendon spoke of the first
efforts of Georgia women to organize,
and asserted the present movement
would result in a perfect organization
throughout the State.
Dr. White made a vigorous address
in favor of suffrage and sharply criti
cised the “idle rich” woman, who, he
said, 5*ought a good time for life by
marrying a man with an automobile.
At the meeting’s close Mrs. Peel
Invited all anti-suffragists in the
house to stand up. No one stood up.
ACQUITTED OF GRAFT CHARGE.
COLUMBUS. — County Officer
James Palmer has been exon
erated by the Muscogee County Board
of Commissioners of charges pre
ferred by Langdon Bell, a frequent
violator of the prohibition law, that
he had paid the officer for protec
tion.
Young Atlanta Banker Sinks
Rapidly and Dies at Asheville
Following New Treatment.
PIANO SALESMEN
WANTED.
Three wide-awake, energetic,
retail piano salesmen, young
men of ability and experience,
to work city and country trade
in State of Georgia. Good
wages and permanent posi
tions. Apply by letter only,
giving experience, age, salary
expected and amount of busi
ness that salary should pro
duce. Address CABLE PIANO
COMPANY, 84 N. Broad
street, Atlanta, Ga.
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Be Your Own
Boss
A little money linked
with good judgment will
put you in the straight
road to success. Famil
iarize yourself with the
numerous opportunities
to purchase a small
business by reading
carefully the Business
Opportunities listed in
the “Want Ad” col
umns of to-day’s Geor
gian.
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Bitter arraignment of Dr. Franz
Friedrich Friedmann, the German
scientist and discoverer of a serum
hailed as a curative of tuberculosis,
followed the death of Austell Thorn
ton, one of the best-known young
bankers In Atlanta, near Asheville,
N. C., early Wednesday morning.
Thornton’6 death was the result of
tuberculosis, which set in following
an attack of pneumonia eighteen
months ago. When Dr. Friedmann
came to this country last winter with
his serum, heralded as a cure for con
sumptives. Thornton went to New
York and underwent the treatment.
While Dr. Friedmann used the
Bellevue Hospital there in demon
strating his cures, he also did a great
deal of work in hotels among patients
who flocked to Manhattan from all
over the United States.
Treated by Friedmann.
Thornton received his injections at
the hotel where he was stopping, and
it is said that Dr. Friedmann himself
administered them. Ii is also declared
that the German physician charged
young Thornton a fabulous price for
the treatment, one person Wednesday
morning placing the sum at $3,500.
Thornton ended his treatments and
left New York three months ago In
the belief that the serum would prove
a curative, as It had been claimed.
The only Improvement at all notice
able was a lessening of the fever.
"I am firmly convinced," said S. H.
Venable, an uncle of Thornton’s wid
ow, that the Friedmann treatment
hastened Thornton’s end. When he
went to New York to take the injec
tions the young man was not in a
dangerous condition, still almost Im
mediately after he left New York aft
er the serum had been Injected into
him he began to grow weaker. The
plague’s ravages were more notice
able.”
Mr. Thornton was about 31 years
old, and had resided in Atlanta since
childhood. Six years ago he married
Miss Bob Venable.
He was prominent in society and
club circles, being a member of the
Piedmont Driving Club, the .Capital
City Club and of practically every
other prominent social organization
of the city.
The funeral will be held Thursday
afternoon at 4 o’clock from the family
home, No. 611 Peachtree street. Inter
ment private at Oakland.
Mr. Thornton was one of the best
known citizens of Atlanta, and at
the time of his death was a director
in the Atlanta National Bank. He
had large private interests and at one
time was president of the Pine Moun
tain Granite Company. He was edu
cated at the University of Georgia.
His father, the late A. B. Thornton,
was also a director in the Atlanta Na
tional.
He Is survived by his widow and
two children; also his mother, Mrs
Albert Thornton: his brother, Albert
Thornton, and his sister, Miss Janie
Thornton, all of Atlanta.
Uncertainty Regarding Frank
Trial Results in Delay Until
Next Monday.
Because of the uncertainty regard
ing the trial of Leo M. Frank. Audi
tor James L. Anderson Wednesday
postponed the hearing of the Craw
ford will case until next Monday, at
the request of Reuben Arnold, counsel
for Mrs. Mary Belle Crawford, who is
also connected with the defense of
Frank.
Mr. Anderson announced that
should the Frank trial again be post
poned the Crawford case will be called
at that time, but should Judge Roan
decide to call Frank’s trial for Mon
day morning the hearing of the will
case will be Indefinitely postponed. Its
resumption to be governed entirely by
the disposition of the Frank case.
Plan to Explode Poison Claim.
The postponing of the hearing on
Wednesday morning prevented the
introduction of what Mrs. Crawford’s
attorneys claim is their most convinc
ing evidence in Mrs Craw ford’s denial
that she had killed her husband.
Joshua B. Crawford, by poisoning
him. It Is understood that they had
planned to place Dr. J. W. Hurt,
Crawford’s family physician, on the
stand.
Dr. Hurt, Mrs Crawford’s attorneys
claim, will testify that while attend
ing Mr. Crawford during his last ill
ness, he frequently gave him mor
phine and other drugs to allay the
pain. These drugs given by Dr. Hurt,
the defence will claim, are what Dr.
Harris found in Crawford’s stomach
w r hen the body was exhumed and a
post-mortem made.
It Is probable that Dr. Hurt will be
one of the first witnesses when the
hearing is resumed, which. unless the
Frank trial is postponed, probably*
will not be until about the middle of
August.
Search On For Barber.
Attorneys* for the heirs-at-law stat
ed Wednesday that they will continue
the search for FTed Lumb, the barber
who is charged with being Mrs. Craw-
ford’s accomplice in the alleged pois
on plot. Unable to locate Lumb In
New’ York, where he was last heard
of, it is planned to extend the search
all over the United States.
Attorney J. S. James, chief of coun
sel for the heirs, said that Lumb has
lived in different parts of the United
Stater under various names, all of
which are known. It is suspected
that Lumb is living under one of the
names he has formerly used, and ef
forts will be made to obtain trace of
him.
Usury Is Charged to
Columbus Mill Man
COLUMBUS, July 23—G. W. Mad
dox, a cotton mill man, of this city,
has been arrested on a warrant
charging him with usury, the warrant
having been Issued in Justice McCro-
ry’s court, and the charges made by
T. A. Youngblood, a mill operative
It Is alleged that Maddox, under
whom many people were employed,
would lend them money, charging the
operatives 5 per cent per week.
Lobby War Success,
House Doormen Say
WASHINGTON, July 23.—Doorkeepers
of the House declare that President
Wilson’s w*ar on the "insidious lobby"
has made lobbyists scarcer than ever be
fore.
They say that whereas lobbyists for
merly made dozens of trips during the
day to the House chamber with cards
of visitors to members, they now’ make
very few such trips
Slayer of Feudist
Gets Life Sentence
Senator's Daughter
LEXINGTON, July 23.—Andrew
Johnson, charged with being one of
the men who assassinated Ed Calla
han, former noted feudist of the
Breathitt County mountains, has
been found guilty at Winchester. Ky.,
and given a life sentence.
Court immediately began the trial
of Fletcher Deaton, charged with
conspiracy in the assassination plot.
Eighteen more will be tried for the
actual murder, and twelve others for
perjury. These cases are expected to
consume five weeks. The feature evi
dence in each case ts that of the wom
an who traced the murder plots or
who heard the conspirators plan the
murder.
NEW COLUMBUS DEPOT BEGUN.
COLUMBUS.—A force of men ha**
begun tearing down the old Southern
Railway freight depot preparatory to
building a new and larger one. A
temporary depot is being erected on
the site of the old Georgia Midland
depot.
On Socialist Stump
WASHINGTON, July 23.—Mrs.
Nina Lane McBride, daughter of Sen
ator Lane of Oregon, is In Washing
ton visiting her father. Next month
she w’ill commence a tour of the East
ern States, speaking from street cor
ners and In workingmen’s halls on the
Socialist propaganda.
Mrs. McBride met her husband, who
also is a Socialist worker, at a rally
of the party in Portland. Oreg She
met him the second time at a hoboes’
convention in New Orleans. They
w’ere married by a Magistrate.
Wills 8400,000 for
Home for Old Maids
YORK. PA., July 23 —The will of
Miss Anna L. Gardner, which was
probated here, sets aside $400,000 for
the erection and maintenance of a
home in this city for aged unmarried
women of Pennsylvania.
CHAMBERLIN-JOHNSON-DuBOSE CO.
ATLANTA
NEW YORK
PARIS
Student Dedicates
Chinese Restaurant
“If people would look about them
and learn from others, the world
would b* better,” declared Timothy
Tingfang Lew. a young Chinese stu
dent of the University of Georgia, in
an address at the opening of a new
Chinese restaurant at 80 1-2 North
Broad street Tuesday night.
“Everybody can learn something
from those about him." he continued.
"And every nation can learn some
thing from the study of the customs
of other nations. If people would
study other people they would know
more.”
Ex-Postmaster at
Memphis Drowned
MEMPHIS. July 23.—L. W. Dutro,
until recently postmaster, a proml
nent Republican and business man,
w’as drowned late Tuesday afternoon
in the Mississippi River while at
tempting to rescue Mrs. Frankie Brad
ford Gwynne, daughter of a Mrs.
Bradford, of Brownsville, Tenn. Mrs.
W. F. Brooks, wife of a Selma, Ala.,
railroad mechanic, a third member of
the party, did not go in wading. A
step-off in the river bed caused the
death of Dutro and Mrs. Gwynne.
Mrs. Gwynne, a handsome brunette
worked circulation contests on va*
rious Southern papers.
Remnant Day in the Wash Goods
The Selling Starts at Nine o’Clock
You who know the possibilities of our remnant
sales will doubtless be pleased to hear that this one
brings even greater savings than the average. You
may plan accordingly and you will not be disap
pointed.
Remnants carry tlieir own guarantee of worth and desirability
here at Chamberlin-Johnson-DuBose Co.’s—they would never have
become short lengths had they not been fabrics that women liked and
bought freely when they were full pieces and when prices were reg
ular.
For this sale to-morrow we have rummaged out every semblance
of a remnant in the Wash Goods Section and what is more, we have
cut prices more vigorously than ever this summer!
What a fine opportunity it means for those seeking materials for
dresses, waists, skirts and underwear.
Flaxons
Worries Disappear
When You Go to the
Bonita Theater
Allen and Kenna. with the Avi
ation Girls and Fatima Trio, are
real dispellers of glooms at the
Bonita. With every performance
this great combination packs the
beautiful little theater, but the
many electric fans keep you cool
and comfortable. Give your tired
body and threadbare nerves a rest
by a visit to the Bonita.
BINGHAM SCHOOL’S
central purpose for 120 years has been
to make Men of Boys. Asheville climate
world renowned. Organization Military. Two details from U. S. Army al
lowed to N. C. The A M College has one. Bingham the other Target and
Gallery practice, with latest U. S. Army Rifles Lake for Swimming. Sum
mer Camp during July and August. Tuition and Board $150 per Half Term.
$300 a year. Address Col. R. Bingham, Box 6, Asheville. N. C.
Dimities
Nainsooks
Lawns
Swisses
Piques
Voiles
Lingerie Cloth
Mulls
Savings Are
Never Less
Than
ONE-HALF
Often More.
Lengths Two
to Six Yards
Linen Lawns
Irish Linens
Brown Linens
Linen Sheetings
Pillow Case Linens
Ginghams
Percales
Poplins
Crepes
Twenty-two Lingerie and Crepe de
Chine Dresses for Juniors Are $10.75,
Reduced from $17.50, $20.00 and
$27.50. . —Junior Department
t
The occasion of this price is that we would clear away these finer
dresses—so we invite vour help. The lingerie dresses are all white, and
all as beautiful as exquisite laces, embroideries and hand-embroidery and
ribbons applied and arranged by artists could make them. The erepe de
chine dresses are white, light blue and tan. You will find yokes and
slecyps touched with little flower boquets and with rich heavy laces. All
priced at $10.75, when their worth is measured by $17.50, $20 and $27.50.
Men's Sorosis
Low Shoes
Girls * Kimonos, sizes fourteen and eighteen years, in
figured and flowered lawns, that were $1.75 and $2.00,
are marked for to-morrow $1.00. The smaller sizes, two
to twelve years, in crepes and lawns, that were $1.50, are 75c.
offer =!
$5.00 Values . . $3.85
We are cleaning up our stock
of Men’s Oxfords,
all Men’s Sorosis
$5.00 low shoes
for sale at . . .
(All this week)
All Women’s and Children’s Soro
sis Low Shoes on Sale at greatly
reduced prices.
Shoe Department-Annex —
There Will Be No More News of Junior
Suits Such as This—$10.00 for $20.00
to $30.00 Suits.
Four are white serges that were $27.50. Eight are novelty suits of
one shade and style and another—not one of them was less than $20.00,
the highest priced was $30.00.
And wdth these are four misses’ three-piece suits, sizes twelve to
fourteen years, in blue serge. Very attractively fashioned. These were
$22.50. So. in all only sixteen may share these savings.
Agents for Butterick Patterns and Publications
I Chamberlin-Johnson-DuBose Co.