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VOL. XI. NO. 302. ATLANTA, GA„ WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1913. Bj c «* r ^ co 2 CENTS. r ^ R £°
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LANFORD RIDICULES BLUDGEON THEORY
F'OF
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Detective Chief Scoffs at Claim of
Evidence That Club Used by
Negro Was Found.
Chief of Detectives Newport Lan
ford Wednesday morning ridiculed
the story that the defense of Leo M.
Frank has in its possession a bloody
club, alleged to have been found t?y
two Pinkerton detectives on May 10
In the National Pencil factory, and
with which, it is reported, the defense
will contend Mary Phagan was ‘■•lain
by James Conley, the negro sweeper.
Asserting that he knows nothing
whatever of the alleged bloody club,
Chief Lanford declared that, if Pin
kerton detectives found such a wea
pon on May 10, or any other date,
they had failed to report the fa^t
to him. Failure to officially report
such a find would be regarded as a
breach of the pact between the city
detectives and the Pinkertons, as the
latter officers, while employed by the
pencil factory, have been working
hand in hand with city detectives,
with the understanding that any evi
dence they unearthed would be com
municated to detective headquarters.
Has Received No Report.
“If Pinkerton detectives found a
bloody club in the pencil factory they
certainly should have reported that
fact to me at once—I have received
no such report,” said Chief Lanford.
The police regard as significant the
attitude of Harry Scott, who is man
aging the Pinkerton investigation,
and who, subsequent to May 10, has
continued to assert his belief in the
guilt of Frank.
Chief Lanford characterized the al
leged finding of the club as an “ab
surdity,” and scouted the idea of it
having any bearing on the case. He
is satisfied, he .said, that it will never
figure as evidence.
The chief said the only club found
in the pencil factory, of which he had
any knowledge, was a small section (
of broom handle, about a foot in
length, which hung by a cord beside
the desk of Leo M. Frank in the lat
ter’s private office.
Broom Handle Was Found.
This “club” bore no blood stains,
he said, and showed no evidence of
having ever been used as a weapon
In any way. It was too light to have
done any damage had a blow been
struck with it, he said.
Chief Lanford treated the bloody
club story in the manner of a joke.
“Do you see a club there?” re
marked the Chief, pointing to a per
fectly clear spot on his office floor,
when asked as to the reported find by
the Pinkertons.
“Well, that’s the answer.” he con
tinued. “There is Just as much of a
bloody club lying there on that floor
as there was on the floor of the pencil
factory, where it is said the Pinker
tons found their bloody club. The
whole thing is absurd and will have
no bearing whatever on the case of
Frank. I’m satisfied this mysterious
club will never be introduced in evi
dence.
No Weapon Was Found.
“When it is recalled that the very
spot that yielded up this bloody club
w r as searched thoroughly more than a
dozen times by numerous officers prior
to May 10 and no club nor other
weapon was found, the ridiculousness
of this story is apparent. We search
ed that factory from top to bottom
and bottom to top, closely investigat
ing every conceivable place for weap
ons or any other bit of evidence that
might throw’ light on the mystery’,
and yet no club was found.
“There’s absolutely nothing to it.
“In Frank's private office we found
a email piece of broomstick, hang
ing by’ a cord beside his desk. There
w’ere no blood stains on it, and it
showed no evidence of having been
used as a w’eapon. In the first place, I
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Breakfasters Eat
On Calmly as Fire
Is Fought in Cafe
Fire which broke out in the ceiling I
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 w’hile firemen
swarmed the room. Even when the
firemen mounted ladders and began
hacking at the ceiling the diners were
not dismayed.
The fire was of little consequence,
the ceiling catching probably from a
defective wire near the flue of the
warming retainer. The call brought
out every central company, though,
w’hile a great crowd of early morning
workers gathered.
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Noted Sleuth Trails
Warship Plans Thief
NEW YORK, July 23.—Declaring
that he had been commissioned to
work with United States Government
operators in rounding up a band of
international spies, Captain Marian
Herrmann, nominally head of the
Trieste police, but officially known a.«
one of the cleverest secret service op
eratives of Austria, arrived here to
day'.
Captain Herrmann is believed to
have important information bearing
on the recent disappearance from the
naval officers at Washington of plans
for the construction of a new dread
nought.
Republican Regime
In Portugal Totters
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
MADRID. July' 23.—The Portuguese
Republic is tottering. The country
seethes with the revolutionary spirit
to overthrow’ the Republican Govern
ment and re-establish a monarchy.
Travelers from Portugal arriving here
to-day say the movement is the best
organized since King Manuel was de
throned.
Troops are being rushed to all
points in an effort to check the re
bellion. which Government officials
consider the most serious since the
new’ form of government was estab
lished.
Strike Shuts World's
Biggest Copper Mine
CALUMET, MICH., July 23.—Be
tween 15,000 and 20,000 copper min
ers of the upper peninsula went on a
strike this morning, completely tying
up twenty mines in four counties.
The men demand shorter hours and
an increase in w’ages. The Calumei
and Hecla, the biggest copper pro
ducer in the world, has been shut
down.
The men w’ere organized recently by
the Western Federation of Miners.
There has been no disorder.
PRESIDENT
ACCUSED
Assembly Likely to Probe Report
False Representation Was Made
to Boost Salary.
Zion City Banishes
Pool and ‘Movies'
ZION CITY. ILL., July 23.—The
young sports and old ones of Zion
City hereafter will 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 Overseer Voliva, ordered the
theater and the poolroom closed.
Pass the Medals to
These Heroes, Please!
TRENTON. N. J., July 23.—A test
meal of eggs three years old was
made by the State Board of Health
here.
If the board survives. $4,000 worth
of ancient eggs will be released from
cold storage.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgiar—Local thundershow
ers Wednesday and probably
Thursday.
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 Fancier-
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
of B. M. Blackburn, the editor of the
magazine, who is held responsible for
the charges, to come before the com
mittee and substantiate them, if he
can.
Charges M ^representation.
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 of
$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 t,hat hts 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.
Bitter Fight Probable.
Mr. Connor’s resolution, which, un
der the rules, went over for one day,
caused a genuine sensation in the
House and undoubtedly will bring
about a biter fight on the floor.
In addition to that it may hold up
indefinitely the contemplated $100,-
000 appropriation to the college.
The House likely will pass the Con
nor resolution and order the inves
tigation to proceed with all haste pos
sible.
Besides the specific charges set
forth The Fancier-Farmer protests
that Dr. Soule, in The Country Gen
tleman and other publications has
caused ot be printed false and ridicu
lous statements about the South, call
ing the people of Georgia “mossbacks”
and saying that when he came here
originally the State’s agricultural sit
uation was deplorably bad and mark
ed by pronounced unintelligence and
shiftlessness.
Motive Is Discovered.
Back of this entire matter is said
to be the impression that Dr. Soule
is advocating qffuietly but as effect
ively as he may the removal of the
Experiment Station from Griffin to
Athens.
Mr. Connor, the author of the res
olution, is a resident of Griffin and
is, of course, much opposed to the
contemplated change.
This, in connection with the other
charges, undoubtedly means a bitter
and perhaps prolonged fight in the
Legislature, not only over the matter
of Dr. Soule’s opposition, but over the
question of removing the Experiment
Station from Griffin to Athens.
Big Fortune Left by
Russian Sought Here
Somewhere in the United States a
Russian emigrant named Trooshkov-
sky died a few f 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, ha« 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 Shriver, at Union Mills, near
Westminster, Md., Cardinal Gibbons
this morning celebrated the mass 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,
iEcludlng a cablegram from the Pope
and rulers of Europe.
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.
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 fhom 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.
Tokio Prepares New
Land Bill Protest
SAN FRANCISCO, July 23.—A To
kio dispatch to a local Japeneae pa
per to-day said that the Japanese
Government, dissatisfied with the re
ply of Secretary of State Bryan to
its protest against the California alien
land Dill, is preparing a third note of
protest to the United States.
It will be ready for presentation
within a few days.
HER FIRST VOTE “DRY. H
ELGIN. ILL., July 23.—The first
vote of a woman in Illinois on the
saloon question was in favor of
the ‘dry" side. Miss Illione Wilbur,
age 23, was the voter.
The Man Who Said
“There Is Nothing
New Under the Sun”
neglected to read The
Georgian “Want Ad”
columns. New features,
names, opportunities,'
prices and effects are
being introduced daily.
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Georgian “Want Ads”
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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
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 Plain
Clothes Officer Gresham 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 and
congratulations to the girls for their
presence of mind.
Heard Glass Crash.
The young women, while working
at 2:30 o'clock Wednesday morning,
heard the sound of breaking glass is
the burglars smashed the window of
the candy store.
Looking out of the exchange win
dow the girls say the two men en
ter a store. A third posted himself
on the 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 lo
the front of the candy store, the negro
w'ho 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!”
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
the Coca-Cola Bottling Company,
where they separated.
One of them disappeared in the
darkness, but the other wap seen to
run around to the back of the plant.
The police surrounded the place, and
Captain Mayo went into the darkness
after him.
He flushed the negro In a few min
utes, and the burglar ran out into
the open on the rear side of the plant,
directly toward Officer Watson.
Leaps at Policeman.
Th* policeman yelled three times
at the negro to halt. The burglar,
however, continued to advance, and
as he struck at the officer, Watson
leaped aside and fired, the bullet pen
etrating the negro's leg.
The wounded negro was sent to the
Grady Hospital In the automobile,
and the police continued their search
for the other burglar. Half an hour
later Captain Mayo and Officer
Gresham found him crouched in the
darkness of a cellar on Houston
street. Gresham came upon the
negro suddenly, ant} the burglar,
probably thinking the officer was
alone, leaped up with a curse.
Gresham covered him with his re
volver, but the negro continued to ad
vance. As Gresham was about to
fire. Captain Mayo came up and cov
ered the negro and he surrendered.
When the automobile, crowded w ith
police and prisoners, passed the tele
phone exchange en route back to the
station, they were applauded by the
young women who crowded the win
dows and w’ho were responsible for
the capture of the tw’o negroes.
SUFFRAGE CAUSE HERE
BOOSTED BY BIG MEET
Enthusiasm Marks Taft Hall Gathering-
“Anti” Partially Converted.
Only
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© efforts of every
speaker.
The meeting was an ell-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 th" 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," sh© 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
ieader in the Civic League; Mrs. Mary
McLendon, “the original suffragette,”
president of the Georgia League, 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, .“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 ojie stood up.
E. R. Sweat, Seeking Divorce,
Bares What He Declares Was
Attempt on His Life.
That his bride of six months
placed pulverized glass in his
coffee with the evident purpose
of killing him is one of the sen
sational charges made in a suit
for divorce filed Wednesday by
E. R. Sweat, of Xo. 33 Gresham
street, through his attorney, S. A.
Boorstin.
Sweat claims that persecutions at
the hands of his wife, of which the
alleged attempt to administer the
ground glass was the climax, have
left him a nervous wreck and unfit
for work.
They were wed February 8. after a
romantic courtship. Married life soon
palled on the wife, according to
Sweat. Her ill treatment of him
began before a month bad passed, he
says. She reproved him one day, he
recites, by slapping him in the face
in the presence of strangers. Then
she grew’ more persistent.
Sweat swears that she would sleep
the whole day for the sole purpose’
of keeping him awake and tormenting
him when he returned home tired
from work at night.
They separated after an Incident
of July 16. Sweat’s story is that he
came home from work that night and
sat down at the supper table. He
drank one cup of coffee and asked
for another. He says that the second
cup tasted peculiar and that when he
stirred it and got some of the grounds
on his spoon he discovered a quan
tity of pulverized glass.
He declares that he charged her
with an attempt to kill him and that
she replied by hurling the sugar bowl
out of the window and snatching the
coffee cup from his grasp and de
stroying it. She left the saucer on
the table and in this,’ Sweat claims,
there remained some of the glass
which he had removed from the cup.
Sues Money Lenders
For Loss of Position
MACON, July 23.—W. R. Roberts,
a railroad fireman, who lost his po
sition because his salary was gar
nished. has brought suit for $2,000
damages in Superior Court against
King Bros., money lenders, of Atlanta
and Macon.
Roberts charges that he borrowed
$20 and paid back $40, and that King
Bros, then claimed he still ow’ed $22.
Refusing to pay this, his salary was
attached, which entailed the loss of
his position at a time when his wife
was critically ill.
China Quells Revolt;
Shanghai in Danger
Special Cable to The Georgian.
SHANGHAI, July 23.—From reporta
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 royal 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.
Accused Chief of
Feudists on Trial
WINCHESTER, KY., July 23.—
Fletcher Deaton, alleged to be the arch
conspirator in the assassination of for
mer Sheriff Ed Callahan, was placed on
trial after Andrew Johnson had been,
found guilty and sentenced to life im
prisonment.
Mrs. Lillian Gross, daughter of Calla
han, shouted and wept for joy when the
jury pronounced Johnson guilty. She
worked up the evidence on which the
prosecution was conducted.