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VOL. XI. NO. 302. ATLANTA, GA„ WEDNESDAY, JULY 23,1913. By c 7Xr^co. 2 CENTS. p & K l°
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TELEPHONE GIRLS HELP POLICE TRAP BURGLARS
FLASHLIGHT OF SOCIETY FOLK AT WATER FROLIC AT FORREST ADAIR'S POOL TUESDAY EVENING I
Trio of Robbers Surprised as
They Are Looting Store Caught
in Long Chase.
The presence of mind of half a
dozen girls employed at the Atlanta
Telephone Exchange, at Ivy and Edge-
wood streets, in notifying the police
when they saw burglars breaking
into the candy store of Michael Koliff,
across the street, resulted in the
capture of two negro burglars early
Wednesday morning.
In the chase and battle which fol- j
lowed the arrival of the police one
of the negroes, Will Wauker, was shot
in the right leg by Call Officer Wat
son, but was not wounded seriously.
The other negro, Dave Smith,‘was
found hiding in a cellar on Houston
street half an hour later by Flair.
Clothes Officer Oresham and Captain
Mayo.
The police declare that the burglars
would have escaped with their booty
had it not been for the telephone
girls, and Chief of Police Beavers
has extended his personal thanks ani
congratulations to the girl* for their
presence of mind.
Heard Glass Crash.
The ^oung women, while working
at 2:30 o'clock Wednesday morning-
heard the sound of breaking glass as
the burglars smashed the window of
the candy store.
Looking out of the exchange win
dow the grils saw the two men en
ter a store. A third posted himself
on tile corner as lookout.
While several of the young women
watched the burglars, another of the
girls telephoned police headquarters
and notified the police.
Assistant Chief Jett, Captain Mayo.
Call Officers Watson and Anderson
and Policeman McWilliams went to
the scene In an automobile. As the
car, driven at top speed, dashed up to
the front of the candy store, the negro
who stood on the sidewalk saw the
officers coming and ran. The police,
thinking he was the only man In the
job, started in pursuit, but were called
back by the telephone girls, who were
gathered at the windows of the plant.
Call Policemen Back.
“Come back,” they cried, "there
are two others in the store I
As the car turned and started hur
riedly back to the store, two negroes
dashed out of the front door and ran
up Ivy street, with the police in pur
suit. The negroes turned down Au
burn avenue and ran to the plant of
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Bacon, Needed at
Capital, Unable to
Address Assembly
Senator Bacon will not be able to
address the General Assembly of Geor
gia in response to the invitation ex
tended him last week, on account of
the absolute necessity of every Dem
ocratic Senator being in Washington
while the tariff bill is before Con
gress.
In a letter expressing deep regret,
Senator Bacon also inclosed a letter
from Senator Kern urging him not to
leave the National Capital at this
time because of the existing strained
relations with certain nations.
The letter was read in the House
and Senate Wednesday morning, and
resolutions of regret at Senator Ba
con’s forced declination were adopted.
Big Fortune Left by
Russian Sought Here
Somewhere in the United States a
Russian emigrant named Trooshkov-
sky .died a few years ago, leaving a
vast fortune, and in the effort to lo
cate In whose hands the estate is now
being held, W. Trooshkovsky, of St.
Petersburg. Russia, has Implored the
assistance of Governor Slaton.
While such information would not
be In the Governor’s office, through
newspaper publicity Governor Sla
ton hopes to be able to furnish the
information requested if Trooshkov
sky lived in Georgia. Any person hav
ing information is requested to com
municate with the Governor.
Cardinal Gibbons 79;
Felicitated by Pope
BALTIMORE, MD, July 23.—In a
modest chapel at the home of T. Her
bert Shrlver, at Union Mills, near
Westminster, Md., Cardinal Gibbons
this morning celebrated the maas of
thanksgiving that marked the 79th
anniversary of his birth. Only mem
bers of the family of the host were
present.
The rest of the day the Cardinal
passed In repose. He received many
telegrams and letters of felicitation,
including a cablegram from the Pope
and rulers of Europe.
LEGISLATOR
SOULE
Assembly Likely to Probe Report
False Representation Was Made
to Boost Salary.
Do You Know
P
the Hottest City
on Earth?
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Representative Connor, of Spald
ing County, introduced a resolution In
the House to-day calling for a legis
lative investigation of the State Ag-.
ricultural College at Athens, particu
larly with respect to Dr. Andrew M.
Soule's connection therewith.
Mr. Connor's resolution recites the
fact that Dr, Soule has been publicly
accused in The Southern Eancier-
Farmer, a poultry and agricultural
magazine, with having obtained a re
cent raise in salary upon false repre
sentations, and calls upon the Legis
lature to Investigate the charge and
summon Dr. Soule before the Com
mittee on Appropriations to answer
the same.
It also provides for the summoning
ofB. M. Blackburn, the editor of the
magazine, who is held responsible for
the charges, to come before thtr com
mittee and substantiate them, If he
can.
The magazine charges that Dr.
Soule recently asked the board to
raise his salary from $5,000 to $6,000
and based his appeal upon the ground
that he had been offered a salary o,f
$8,000 per annum to serve in a simi
lar capacity in the Minneapolis Col
lege of Agriculture.
The magazine says Dr. Soule never
was offered any such sum to serve In
the Minnesota college, nor any sum
whatever, and that hfs correspondence
with the Minnesota college was very
brief, and resulted speedily in the
choice of another man for the place.
The Fancier-Farmer prints that
which purports to be documentary
evidence to sustain this charge.
Besides the direct allegation of ob
taining a raise In salary on false rep
resentation to the Georgia College
management, the magazine attacks
Dr. Soule vigorously for incompeten-
cy and general unfitness for the of
fice he holds.
Postmasters Named
For 3 Georgia Towns
WASHINGTON, July 23. — The
President to-day nominated the fol
lowing Georgia postmasters:
Joseph M. McAfee, Canton. Chero
kee County; Annie K. Bunn, Cedar-
town. Polk County, and George Dans-
by, Rockmai’t, Polk County.
J. N. Brown, a Greek, of No. 49
Luckle street, was arrested Wednes
day for insulting e woman who. In
company with her husband, stood on
the corner of Spring and Luckie
mtfeets.
The husband knocked the Greek to
the pavement. Brown came to his
feet and ran toward Carnegie Way.
The man gave chase and cornered
Brown in front of Engine House No. 8.
Firemen called the patrol w^gon and
Brown was arrested and freed on $100
cash bond.
Slain While Aiding
Brother in- a Fight
DOTHAN, ALA., July 23.—Robert
Moon, aged 20, shot and killed Jo
seph Halsted, 25 years old, in a row
at Memphis Church, seven miles
south of Dothan, late Tuesday night.
Moon shot three times with a pis
tol, all taking effect. He surrendered
to the Sheriff. Moon was in a row
with Jasper Halsted, brother of .Jo
seph, when Joseph interfered. Hal
sted is survived by a wife and small
child.
Young Atlanta Banker Sinks
Rapidly and Dies at Asheville
Following New Treatment.
Atlanta Salesmen
Held as ‘Peddlers'
RICHMOND, July 23.—Arrested
last night at the Instance of the Re
tail Merchants’ Association on the
charge of peddling merchandise with
out a license, J. H. Thrash and W. E.
Holston, young men, both from At
lanta. representing the Fisher Knit
ting Mill Company, were in Police
Court to-day.
They were allowed to go free when
they explained that they were merely
soliciting orders.
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Bitter arraignment of Dr. Franz
Friedrich Friedmann, the German
scientist and discoverer of a serum
hailed as a curative of tuberculoses,
followed the death of Austell Thorn
ton, one of the best-known young
bankers in Atlanta, near Asheville,
N. C., early Wednesday morning.
Thornton’s death was the result of
tuberculosis, which set in fallowing
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. It is al«o 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 lessehing 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 -
mei. private at Oakland.
Breakfasters Eat
On Calmly as Fire
Is Fought in Cafe
Fire which broke out in the celling
of Durand’s Restaurant shortly be
fore 7.30 o'clock Wednesday morning
failed to take the appetite from a
dozen men, who calmly continued eat
ing their breakfast while firemen
swarmed the room. Even when the
firemen mounted ladders and began
hacking at the ceiling the diners were
not dismayed.
The Are was of little consequence,
the ceiling catching probably from a
defective wire near the flue of the
warming retainer. The call brought
out every centra! company, though,
while a great crowd of early morning
workers gathered.
China Quells Revolt;
Shanghai in Danger
Special Cable to The Georgian.
SHANGHAI, July 23.—From reports
received here to-day It is believed the
Chinese Republic will not be torn asun
der. The outlook for President Yuan is
much more hopeful and all indications
point to the Government ruling supreme.
The ro5 r al troops to-day defeated the
Secessionists at Hsuichoufu. An attack
on the arsenal at Shanghai by the
southern army is expected at any mo
ment.
NEGRO SAID TO HAVE
Shoots Stepmother
To Reunite Parents
BASS LAKE, IND., July 23.—Martin
Strasburger tried to kill his stepmother
and then ended his own life, that the
way might be cleared for a reconcilia
tion between his father and divorced
mother.
This is the theory held by many here
as the solution of the double shooting
at Frank Strasburger’s country’ home,
in which the second Mrs. Strashurger
was wounded and Strasburger’s son
Martin killed himself.
Zion City Banishes
Pool and ‘Movies'
ZION CITY. ILL., July 23.—The
young sports and old ones of Zion
City hereafter w’lll go to bed without
rolling their accustomed series of
games of Keely pool. The other resi
dents of the city will retire without
having made their nightly excursion
to the moving picture theater.
The City Council, controlled by the
forces of Oversee.* Voliva, ordered the
theater and the poolroom closed.
BALTIMORE RESORT BURNS.
BALTIMORE, July 23.—Fire early
to-day swept Klein’s Deer Park, a re
sort at Westport, destroying every
building in the place.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia—Local thundershow
ers Wednesday and probably
Thursday.
Here are Wednesday’s important developments in the Pha-
gan murder mystery:
Bloodstained glove of Mary Phagan is said to have been found
on the first floor near the place the discovery of her pay envelope
was made.
New evidence is found tending to establish the identity of the
negro, Will Green, said to have seen the attack upon Mary Pha
gan.
Newt Lee, negro night watchman at the pencil fa-ctory. under
goes a grilling examination at the hands of Solicitor General Dor
sey and his associate counsel. Frank A. Hooper.
J. M. Gantt, expected to give sensational evidence for the pros
ecution at the trial, is in conference with the solicitor and pres
ent at the grilling of Lee.
Leo M. Frank tells Sheriff Mangiim that he is eager for the
trial to begin, and will be ready when it is called Monday morn
ing.
Solicitor Dorsey announces that he will insist that there be
no further delay.
It became known Wednesday
that, the defense in the Frank
case had been informed that the
negro, Will Green, who is said
to have been shooting craps with
Jim Conley the day that Mary
Phagan was* murdered and to
have seen her attacked, and the
Wil lGreen living at 105 Thur
mond street, Atlanta, are the
same person.
Private detectives In the employ of
the defense have trailed the negro
across a half-dozen States and have
missed him by as small a margin as
30 minutes In some of the towns they
have visited in the chase.
Trailed by a Ring.
Charles Fine, proprietor of the Ra
dius Jewelry Company, No. 107
Peachtree street, when he read in The
Georgian that the defense was search
ing for a Will Green, recalled that he
had a ring in his store which was to
have been called for by a negro of
the same name, but which unaccount
ably had been left there without a
claimant. He regarded this as pecu
liar, and notified persons interested In
the defense.
A negro calling himself J. Will
Green visited the store May 16 and
displayed* a rather ornate gold ring,
worth probably $12 or $15. He de
sired to have a Radius diamond set
in it, and said that he would be
around within a day or two after It.
He never returned. It was about this
time that the report spread around
the city that the Phagan murder had
had an eyewitness in the person of a
negro who was shooting craps with
Conley.
A sister of the Will Green who left
the ring at the Jewelry store was seen
Wednesday. She said that her broth
er had left town about two month*
ago and that none of the family had
heard from him since or had any Idea
where he was. She said he was work
ing with some small circus or theat
rical troupe when he left.
Sister Offers an Alibi.
The Green that the detectives have
been pursuing Us known to be con
nected with a circus or show, addi
tional strength thus being given to
the theory that their identity is the
same.
She thought the detectives were
mistaken in believing that her broth
er knew anything about the crime.
He slept practically all the day that
Mary Phagan was murdered, she de- •
dared, and didn’t even go downtown
to see the Memorial Day parade, al
though he was urged by one of his
friends. He was working nights for
the Southern Railway at this time,
according to the sister, joining the
show people a few days later.
She failed to explain why he sud
denly had left town without stopping
to recover the gold ring of consider
able value which he had left at the
Fine jewelry store.
Gantt Sees Solicitor.
J. M. Gantt, a discharged employee
of the National Pencil Factory, who
Wednesday conferred with Solicitor
General Dorsey and Attorney Frank
A. Hooper, denied that he made the
startling statement to them thRt he
saw at 1 o’clock on the day that Mary
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