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VOL. XI. NO. 307. ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, JULY 29,1913. 2 CENTS. p & n l°
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JURY IS EXCLUDED AS LAWYERS CLASH
Carranza, Therefore, Looms Up
, as the Hope for Peace in
Mexico.
By JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES.
WASHINGTON, July 29.—From in
formation which seems to me In the
last degree reliable, I have it that the
Administration—White House and
President—-are rigidly set against in
tervention in Mexico.
All forms of diplomacy they are
willing to apply and exhaust. All ef
forts of mediation they are willing to
try. Perhaps in co-operation with
other nations they might be willing
to intervene, but as an abstract
American proposition, neither the
President nor Mr. Bryan will ever
consent to intervention by the United
States in Mexico unless the compul
sion should be stronger than policy
and forced by evident unavoidable
necessity.
So, therefore, Carranza looms up
on the Mexican horizon as the man
of the future, the next revolutionary
dictator or President of the so-called
1 Mexican republic.
If the present attitude of neutrality
restricts the. advantage of Huerta in
importing arms or gives equal chance
to Carranza with Huerta, then the
experts of our own arm agree per
fectly with the optimist of the con
stitutionalists and revolutionists that
within sixty days Huerta will be
relegated to the ranks of the discred
ited and dethroned and Carranza, for
a time at least, will be the dictator.
This makes Carranza the central
figure of interest, romance and revo
lution in Mexico.
Carranza's Spokesman.
There speaks for Carranza in
shi^gtori,' Escudero, his Minister
Wa sl
ot Finance, his expert in political
economy, soldier, economist, states
man and dreamer—WTUi a career as
romantic and a temper as daehing
as Madero. whom he loved and serv
ed. He was Madero’s bosom friend
and follovced the romantic and tragic
fortunes of the late President with
courage and devotion. He was a
member of the Mexican Congress
when Madero fell. He was Mexico's
spokesman and leader upon the floor.
When the Huerta bullets clipped the
vital cord of Mexico on that midnight
■ ride, Huerta lavished all his blandish
ments and promises upon Escudero to
attach him to himself. He offered him
office and power. Escudero refuse!
Huerta threatened, but still Escudero
refused. Huerta set a limit on Esou-
dero’s acceptance or his banishment.
Filially one day in the Mexican Con
gress with Huerta's soldiers civilian
clad in the galleries and Huerta’s
soldiers full nrmsd in the basement
of the Capitol, Escudero mounted the
rostrum and in a speech ringing with
fire of old Spain and the fervor of the
Aztecs denounced the usurpation of
Huerta, his tyranny and his part ir.
Madero's death. In the storm that
followed he vaulted through a win
dow of the Congressional charabet,
flung on a disguise and escaped by a
waiting train to Vera Cruz.
H<s Esoape.
Huerta’s wires followed him and
Huerta's officers were on his trail.
But two loyal students piloted Escu
dero to a smack in the harbor, where
he set sail for Guatemala, and joined
himself to Carranza, whom he now
holds as fervently as he did Madero
as the leader of the constitutionalists
and the hope of the Mexican people.
This is the soldier-statesman who
with full authority speaks for Car
ranza here in the capital at Washing
ton.
Escudero holds that the Mexican
struggle must last forever, or until
trie people are redeemed from the
bondage of the aristocracy, the church
and the army. The enormous for
tunes piled up during the diplomatic
years of the elder Diaz have estab
lished conditions of money power In
Mexico far beyond the conditions
on Page 2, Column 7.
Ex-Georgian, Held
As Kidnaper, Wins
First Tilt for Child
LOS ANGELES. July 29—A. T.
Martin, a real estate dealer, formerly
of Fulton County, Georgia, won the
first round In his fight against his di
vorced wife, Lillie, for the custody of
their child, Sarah, when Judge Wilbur
allowed him to retain the custody of
the child pending the hearing of the
writ of habeas corpus.
Martin put up $1,000 bond. The
writ was taken out by D. P. Mc-
Loughlin, humane officer, for the
mother, who is in Texas.
The writ alleges that Martin kid
naped the child soon after a divorce
decree was granted Mrs. Martin in
Fulton County, Georgia, in 1911. The
court gave the child to the mother.
According to McLoughlin, Martin
alleges hi* former wife is unfit to care
for the girl.
Crazed at Sight of
Ex-Wife, Man Kills
Her; Wounds Self
BIRMINGHAM, July 29.—Frenzied
at sight of his former wife, Henry J.
Naff, son of one of the oldest families
in Birmingham, to-day walked next
door to his home, where Mrs. Marie
Naff, from whom he was divorced six
months ago, was sitting on the porch,
pulled out a pistol and shot her, and
then put a bullet into his own head.
The woman died on the way to the
hospital, and Naff was pronounced
fatally wounded when he arrived at
an infirmary.
Naff was living with his parents,
while his former wife resided next
door with friends.
Moore’s Aide Heads
U. S. Weather Bureau
WASHINGTON, July 29.—Professor
Charles F. Marvin, chief of the in
strument division of the Weather Bu
reau, to-day was selected by Presi
dent Wilsoh to be chief of the
Weather Bureau.
He succeeds Professor Willis L.
Moore, who recently was dismissed.
Professor Marvin is a native of Co
lumbus, Ohio, but is one of the oldesr
employees of the Weather Bureau.
He has been connected with the in
strument division for 25 years. Ho
is considered by members of the de
partment the most expert of scientific
observers in the bureau.
Secretary of Agriculture Houston
said his appointment was entirely on
merit.
Sylvia Pankhurst’s
Arrest Causes Riots
Special 'Cable to The Georgian.
LONDON, July 29.—Charged with
making a demonstration in front of
Holloway jail, where Sylvia Pank-
hurst, daughter of the militant lead
er, was taken yesterday, two women
suffragettes were to-day sentenced to
two months’ imprisonment and a man
sympathizer to four months in jail.
The demonstrators marched from
the East End to the jail, followed by
a riotous crowd. Violent speeches
were made, blank shots fired from
pistols and windows smashed. The
mounted police had a hard time i i
dispersing the gathering,
Bitter Fight Certain
Over Currency Bill
WASHINGTON, July 29—A bitter
fight on the question of prohibiting
Interlocking directorates in all banks
under the proposed Federal reserve
system, provided for by the Glass
currency bill, is anticipated in the
Democratic caucus -ef the House to
be called Augus* 11.
President Wilson is opposed to this
proposal, although the Democrats of
the House Banking and Currency
Committee have accepted such a pro
posal by a vote of 6 to 5.
Slays Husband Who
Didn’t Support Her
SHREVEPORT. LA., July 29.—Mrs.
N. B. Leopard to-day declared 9he
killed her husband because he would
not support her.
She fired the shot that killed Leop
ard in the presence of her four chil
dren.
House Leader Calls Lobbyist
Blackmailer to His Face Be
fore Inquiry Committee.
WASHINGTON, July 29.—Repre-
sentative Underwood. Democratic
leader of the House, appeared before
the House Lobby Investigation Com
mittee to-day and charged that Colo
nel M. M. Mulhall, the lobbyist, was a
blackmailer.
The appearance of Underwood was
an event not on the program. He
came unexpectedly, and his usual
bland smile was not on his face. In
stead his eyes flashed fire and he was
clearly angry through and through.
Underwood was not sworn, having
become involved in an argument with
Senator Reed before Chairman Over
man of the committee had an oppor-
unity to place the Houfce leader under
oath.
"Is this Mulhall?" inquired Lender-
wood, pointing his finger at the lobby
ist, who was sitting in the witness
chair in an apparently disinterest
ed attitude.
"In the public interest," declared
Underwood, "I think men who take
liberties with the names of public tneii
should be confronted and made to
prove their charges.
"I regard this man as a blackmailer.
He has even blackmailed the men wno
employed him.”
Wins Pie-Eating, but
Dies Within an Hour
WALDEN, COLO., July 29.—Chleb
Evans, 23 years old, consumed eleven
pieces in ten minutes during a pie
eating contest here. He died an hour
later.
He won the prize, a cowboy saddle,
his nearest competitor being able to
eat only eight pieces.
Three of the pieces Evans ate were
made of gooseberries, three of cher
ries, three of custard and the other
two of pumpkin.
Court Too Small;
Trial Held Outdoors
BARNWELL, KY, July 29.—The
preliminary hearing of May Copeland,
confessed slayer of her brother-in-
law, Hugh Atchinson, and Lucten
Turk, her fiance, held as an accom
plice, was held in the courthouse
yard to-day.
The crowd wishing to attend the
trial was so great that Judge Hobbs
ordered a temporary trial chamber
arranged in the open air.
Czar’s Daughter to
Wed Roumanian Heir
Special Cable to The Georgian.
PARIS, July 29.—It was reported
here to-day that the engagement of
the Grand Duchess Olga, eldest
daughter of Czar Nicholas of Russia,
and Prince Charles, "eldest son of the
Crown Prince of Roumania, will be
announced shortly.
The Grand Duchess was ljorn No
vember 3, 1895, and Prince Charles
October 3, 1893.
Highwaymen Slug
Guest at Waldorf
NEW YORK, July 29.—Evidently
the victim of a highwayman’s as
sault, Frederick B. Wells, millionaire
merchant of Minneapolis, was found
to-day lying on the sidewalk at a cor
ner of the lower We6t Side. He was
hatless and coatless.
Wells was hurried to a hospital.
He had been stopping at the Wal-
dorf Astoria.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia—Local thundershow
ers Tuesday and Wednesday.
PRISONER FRANK AND SHERIFF
ON WAY FROM- JAIL TO COURT
Leo M. Frank,
on left,
and Sheriff
C. W. Mangum.
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Army Paymaster
Liable for $86,510
WASHINGTON, July 29.—Captain
R. C. Williams, U. S. A. paymaster
at Olo^gapo, P. I., personally is lia
ble to the Government for $86,510.84
until he presents receipts and evi
dences that he paid out this amount.
Captain Williams says he paid the
money to contractors, soldiers and
others to whom payment was due
from the Gsvernment and that the
receipts were lost in the wreck of the
collier Brutus at sea.
SHIP CUT IN TWO IN CRASH.
MONTREAL, QUEBEC, July 29.—
The steamer Lady of Gaspe was cut
in two by the steamer Queen of Cor
dova near Cape DeLa Madeline. The
steamer Quebec, summoned by wire
less, rescued all the passengers.
Eugenic Bride of
A Month Deserts
BOSTON, July 29.—"Eugenic mar
riage may be all right as a health
proposition, but it isn’t a guarantee of
future happiness," declared Edwin
Perron, of Lynn, the first eugenic hus
band in Massachusetts.
His wife, he says, ran away a month
after the w’edding.
Town of 200 To Be
Sold Under Hammer
10 WATC
65 Sing Sing Rioters
Transferred in Irons
OSSINING, N. Y., July 29.—Sixty-
five of the Sing Sing priso^ "bad
men," who have been holding the
prison in a state of terror, were taken,
heavily shackled, to Auburn prison
to-day.
It became known to-day that the
new administration has been using
the "cooler,” a dark retreat in the
cellar under the deathhouse, for the
safe holding of some of the worst
characters. It was for using this
means of correction that former War
den John S. Kennedy was indicted
in one of the counts found by th#
Winchester County Grand Jury.
SUNBURY, PA., July 29—Pixinos,
a town of 200 population, owned by
J. Warner Mifflin, a brick manufac
turer, is to be sold at auction.
Only two properties in the town are
1 not owmed by Mifflin. Bankruptcy is
the cause of the sale.
A startling turn to the trial of Leo M. Frank was given Tues
day by the determined efforts of Frank’s attorneys to connect Newt
Lee, nightwatehman at the National Pencil Factory, with the mur
der of little Mary Phagan.
Luther Z. Rosser, chief of counsel for Frank, revealed the hand
of the defense for the first time when he began a merciless cross-
examination of the negro which was intended utterly to discredit
Lee’s testimony and show that he knew much more about the crime
than he ever had told in his two appearances before the Coroner’s
Jury and in his sweating at the police station.
Rosser’s inquisitorial tactics
25 Young Men Held
For Death of Typist
DALLAS, TEXAS, July 29.—Twen
ty-five young men, rounded up by the
police after the murder of Miss Flor
ence Brown, were being held to-day
as suspects.
The girl was a stenographer in a
real estate office and was alone when
i she was attacked.
brought remonstrance after re
monstrance from Solicitor Dor
sey, but was allowed to continue
on a ruling from Judge Roan.
Rosser read extracts from Lee’s
tstimony at the Coroner’s inquests
and pointed out discrepancies and
omissions. When these were called
to the negro’s attention, he declared
emphatically that the stenographer
had made a mistake.
After a short battle of words be
tween Rosser and Solicitor Dorsey,
Reuben R. Arnold, associated with
Rosser, as^ced for the first time dur
ing the day to be heard, and plainly
indicated that it was the intention
to prove that Newt Lee was con
cerned in the writing of the two mys
terious notes found by the mutilated
body of Mary Phagan.
Jurors Sent From Room.
The Solicitor objected strongly to
arguing before the jury the admis
sibility of this testimony of Lee’s,
and the jurors were excused while
Arnold outlined the purpose of the
defense.
"We expect to show that two notes
were found by the body of Mary
Phagan," said Arnold.
Solicitor Dorsey had just given Mr.
Arnold the two notes found in the
basement and Judge Roan ordered the
jury to retire. Mr. Arnold said:
’The defense expects to show that
the two notea found in the basement
of the National Pencil Factory were
very obscure notes and the police
were trying to read them in the pres
ence of Lee.
"They read this one: “He said he
would love me. laid down, played like
the night-witch did it, but that long
tall black negro di it by his-self’
Cites Lee’s Explanation.
‘In an instant, Lee said, ‘That
night-witch means me,’" said Arnold.
It showed familiarity with the notes.
This negro who is so dull that Mr.
Rosser has to repeat his questions
now and again interpreted thi mys
terious note in a second and a half."
Here Dorsey interrupted.
"Since Attorney Arnold has the
note itself, there is no reason to ask
what somebody else said about it.”
Assistant Prosecutor Hooper here
joined in:
‘Unless it was intended to try to
connect Lee with the crime, what
someone else said about the notes to
Lee is wholly inadmissible. The
charge first must be made against
him." .
"We don’t have to photograph a
criminal. We have got to begin
somewhere." retorted Rosser.
Judge Roan sustained the defense,
saying that it might produce evidence
to show anxiety on the part of the
negro, or a lucid interpretation of the
notes.
“Suspicion on Lee/’ Says Rosser.
"We expect to show that the notes
were obscure and doubtful in mean
ing. We expect to show that the of
ficers were endeavoring to read them.
But they were of doubtful and strange
meaning. In one of them we will
show that the wording was something
like this, so far as I can decipher it:
‘He said he would love me, laid down,
played/like the night-witch did it but
that lJng, tall, black negro did it hv
his-self.’
"We want to show," continued Ar
nold, "that Lee spoke up and said,
‘That’s me, boss. That means night
watchman.’
“Isn’t It strange that a negro so
ignorant and dull that Mr. Rosser had
to ask him a question ten times over
could in a flash interpret this illegible
scrawl ?”
Rosser supplemented Arnold’s ar
gument by remarking that he regard
ed Lee’s alleged remarks as highly
suspicious, and that he considered he
had the right to question a witness
with a view of showing that a person
or persons other than the defendant
had a part in the crime.
Judge Roan ruled with the deefnse,
and the jury was returned. The judge
declared:
"The attorneys for Frank are privi
leged to bring out evidence showing
anxiety or fear on the part of the
negro.”
Lee Makes Denial.
Lee denied when questioned that he
had said, "That’s me, Boss; that
means night watchman.” He testified
that he told the officers that someone
was trying to put the crime on him.
Sergeant L. S. Dobbs, one of the
officers who visited the factory after
Lee called the police station, testified
before the Coroner’s Jury in regard to
Lee’s ready explanation of the notes.
Rosser ended his cross-examination
of Lee at 10:50 a. m. Tuesday, after
the negro had been on the grill two
hours Monday afternoon and nearly
as long Tuesday.
The efforts to discredit Lee’s story
began the moment Rosser got him on
the stand. He sought first to show
that it was a very peculiar circum
stance that Lee went clear to the rear
of the factory basement, where he
found the girl’s body, when all
through the earlier part of the night
he had gone only a short distance
from the foot of the ladder in the
front of the basement.
Calls Lee’s Excuse Flimsy.
"Every time you went down into the
basement you went only about 25 feet
from the ladder to see if there was
fire in the dust pan," said Rosser, re
peating Lee’s testimony, "and yet at
this time, when you say you found
the girl’s body, you assert that it was
necessary to go clear to the rear to
ascertain the same fact?”
Lee replied that he had gone to the
rear of the basement for another pur
pose and Rosser attempted to show
that this was only a filmsy excuse.
By his line of questioning Rosser
endeavored to ridicule the Idea that
Lee could have identified Mary' Pha-
gan as a white girl by the dim light
of his dirty lantern when, as he testi
fied, he got no nearer than five or six
feet to the body, and when the of
ficers with electric searchlights were
not able to determine whether the
girl was white or a negro because of
the grime and cinders on her body,
until they had pulled down her stock
ing.
Session Full of Clashes.
The session was full of spirited
clashes between Rosser and Dorsey.
It was a favorable forenoon for the
defense, Rosser almost invariably
being permitted to continue the line
of questioning which he was pur
suing.
Rosser, while he succeeded in
showing up discrepancies in Lee’s
present story with that before the
Coroner’s jury, was unable to force
the negro to any admissions incrim
inating in themselves.
Dorsey questioned Lee in re-direci