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VOL. XI. NO. 307.
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, JULY 29,1913.
Copyright. 19*6,
By The Georgian Co.
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ATTACK FRANK’S DEFENSE
PRISONER FRANK AND SHERIFF
ON WAY FROM JAIL TO COURT
Bitter Fight Certain ! Sylvia Pankhurst's
Over Currency Bill
WASHINGTON, July 29—A bitter
it on the question of prohibiting
■Hocking directorates in all banks
ler the proposed Federal reserve
tern, provided for by the Glass
rency bill, Is anticipated in the
nocratic caucus of the House to
called August 11.
•resident Wilson is opposed to this
posal, although the Democrats of
House Banking and Currency
nmittee have accepted such a pro-
al by a vote of 6 to 5.
Arrest Causes Riots
Special Cable to The Georgian.
LONDON, July 29.—Charged v "eh
making a demou>straUo»i 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
i 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.
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Powers Threaten
To Drive Out Turks
Special Cable to The Georgian.
VIENNA, July 29.—It was officially
confirmed to-day that if Turkey fails
to evacuate Adrianople th e powers
will land troops and drive the Porte
from the city.
LONDON, July 29.—The Ambassa
dors’ conference resumed its discus
sion of the situation in the Balkans
at the Foreign Office to-day.
STAND RIGID TEST
Penalty Clause To Be Enforced if
Plant Is Not in Operation by
August 15.
"If the crematory is not complete 1 !
and in operation by August 15, as
called for in the contract, the penal
ty of $25 per day will be paid by the
Destructor Company,” said Council
man Claude Ashley, chairman of the
Committee on Sanitation.
“Tests under the supervision of a
competent engineer will be made, and
I will devote all the time I can to the
tests, so if the plant Is accepted jy
the committee it will do what the
contract calls for.
“I have my doubts as to the ability
to burn garbag. composed of 0.13
pound of combustible material to 1.95
water, but the company claims this
can he done. However, it will hardly
be necessary to burn garbage in such
proportions.
“Another thing is the fact that
there is only one generator for the
entire plant, and should this generator
become disabled from any cause, the
whole plant will be compelled to shut
down. There should be another gen
erator in place in case of accident.”
That the test will be severe and
complete is certain, for Councilman
Ashley y.'ill personally supervise the
tests, having a competent man there
in his place during his absence.
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BITTER FIGHT 0 VER DEA TH NOTES
House Leader Calls Lobbyist
Blackmailer to His Face Be
fore Inquiry Committee.
WASHINGTON, July 29.—Repre-
sentative Underw’ood. 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. H3
came unexpectedly, and hl9 usual
bland smile was not oh 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 House leader undsr
oath.
“Is this Mulhall?” inquired Under
wood, pointing his Anger at the lobby
ist, who was sitting in the witness
chair in an apparently disinterest
ed attitude.
Calls Him Blackmailer.
“In the public interest,” declared
Underwood, “I think men who take
liberties with the name? of public meu
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.’’
Underwood was angered because
Mulhall had written in his letters that
he had seen Underwood and obtained
information from him about the
make-up of the committees of the
House.
Underwood declared that Mulhall
was giving false information to his
employers. This testimony that Un
derwood objected to was developed
at the session of the committee yes
terday.
While Underwood was making his
statement to the lobby committee,
Colonel Mulhall denounced him for
making accusations against him
(Mulhall) and said he would call on
the country to decide “which is the
cleaner of us.”
Declares Mulhall Lied.
Mulhall wrote in a letter to J. P.
Bird, previously read, that he had a
long interview with Underwood re
specting the chairmanship of the
chairmanship of the House Labor
Committee. This position was given
to William B. Wilson, now Secretary
of Labor. »
Mulhall said in this letter that he
had learned from Underwood that
Wilson first was considered for chair
man of the Census Committee.
“The whole statement is a lie out
fof whole cloth,” said Underwood. "I
was chairman of the committee which
named Mr. Wilson as chairman ol
the House Labor Committee. There
never was any question about Wilson
being named chairman of the com
mittee on Labor.
T never talked to this man in my
life. The only time he ever saw' me,
apparently, was when I was w’alking
through a corridor of the House.”
Senator Reed then asked Mulhall if
he wished to say anything.
“To the statement of the gentle
man that I lied, I want to say that 1
met him in the back hall near the
stairway of the Capitol,” replied Mul
hall, “asked him questions and as I
stated yesterday he answered them
like a gentleman. I do not wish to
contradict him and I do not want to
cast any reflection upon him, but be
fore the examination is over Mr. Un
derwood will take back part of what
he said.”
Former Tennessee Governor As
sumes Blame for Arrest in
Raid—Wife Is Loyal.
NASHVILLE. July 29.—Ex-Gov
ernor M. R. Patterson, who was
caught in a raid on a house%in the
restricted district last Thursday nigh*,
crushed and deeply mortified over the
affair, has been Joined by a faithful
wife in a statement to the public, and
in breaking the silence which he has
steadfastly maintained admits that he
was In a stupor from drink at the
time of the arrest. He offers no apol
ogy for his transgression, but makes
a public pledge that such an occur
rence shall not be repeated. The
statements follow':
I am leaving for home to-night
with Mrs. Patterson, who has
been with me for two days, and
before going I wish to express
the deepest appreciation of us
both to the friends and those who
were not my friends in the past
for their kind and generous sym
pathy.
For my own part in this un
fortunate affair I have no excuse
*o offfcr and have borne the con
demnation of my vwn conscience.
My mission in Nashville was
not political, as has been errone
ously assumed, but purely legal,
and while waiting the return of
Mr. Nall, of Nashville, from Red
Boiling Springs, who had in his
possession certain papers which I
was to examine, I began to drink,
and continued until all sense of
respsonbility w'as gone.
However gross my delinquency,
I w’ant the world to know that It
is my last offense, and the weak
ness will never be repeated which
brought upon me and mine this
deep humiliation and gave to my
enemies an opportunity for re
venge.
MALCOLM R. PATTERSON.
My heart and my sympathies
are all with my husband, and I
love him with all the strength of
my soul. He has been shameful
ly, cruelly treated, and I stand
with him in this hour of trouble.
MRS. M. R. PATTERSON.
HILLSBOROUGH VOTES
ON $1,000,000 BONDS
TAMPA, July 29.—Hillsborough
County, of which Tampa is the coun
ty seat, voted to-day on an issue of
$1,000,000 of bonds to be devoted to
building brick roads. There was a
general sentiment for the bond Issue,
especially in the city where 80 per
cent of the voting strength is located
and more than 80 per cent of the tax
is paid.
It Is planned to build about 60 miles
of brick roads.
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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 wrhen
she was attacked.
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Asks Congressional
Inquiry in Mexico
WASHINGTON, July 29.—A
resolution proposing that Senate
and House committees investigate
conditions in Mexico and recom
mend a solution of the present
difficulties there was introduced
in the House to-day by Represen
tative Stephens, of Texas.
Triple ‘Alibi’ Fails
To Save Dr. F. Bird,
Autoist, From Fine
Dr. Frank Bird, whose automobile
ran dow'n C^. H. Phillips Monday aft
ernoon in Lee street near Murphy
avenue, was arraigned before Record
er Nash Broyles Tuesday morning
charged with reckless driving. He
pleaded guilty and was fined $25.76.
Dr. Bird said his car was a new
one, that the steering gear failed to
perforin its proper function and also
a woman was driving the car at the
time of the accident.
“That being the case,” said the Re
corder, "I advise you to at once dis
pose of the machine or not to venture
out upon the public highway and en
danger the life and limb of the pub
lic until the machine is put in good
repa#\”
Mayor Swearingen
Starts Warfare On
Auto Speed Demons
JACKSONVILLE, July 29.—Mayor
Van C. Swearingen’s suit against the
Board of Bond Trustees to decide
who has the right to control the po
lice department has not as yet been
filed. Inquiry to-day at the Mayor's
office elicited the fact that a rough
draft of the bill had been prepared,
but that the paper had not been filed
and might not be until Wednesday
afternoon.
The Mayor has started a fight to
get the police to enforce the speed
laws of the city In such a manner aj
to catch those who are really a men
ace to life and limb, and not those
who merely break the speed limit i.i
the outskirts of the city.
Thief Gets $75,000 in
Gems From Former
Miss Mary Harriman
NARRAGANSETT PIER, R. I.,
July 29.—The entire collection of Jew
els of Mrs. Charles C. Rumsey, who
was Miss Mary Harriman, daughter
of the late E. H. Harriman, has been
stolen, it was announced to-day. The
gems are worth $75,000, one piece
alone—a string of pearls—being val
ued at $50,000.
Mrs. Rumsey put the gems in a bu
reau drawer in her bedroom Saturday
night. Sunday night she opened the
drawer to don some of the jewel*.
It was then she discovered they were
missing.
Says He Married
While On a Spree;
Seeks Annulment
PENSACOLA. July 29.—Nathanioi
Allen, Jr., has filed suit in Circuit!
Court to annul his marriage to Katie
Pugh Waters, which occurred »n
Brewton, Ale., in march, 1910.
Allen declares he was Intoxicated [
at the time of his marriage and had
been for more than a week. He
charges that his wife’s family con
spired to bring about the marriage.
He even claims that he does not re
member the marriage, and that it
was only after some of his friends
had informed him of it that he be
came cognizant of the fact.
Buffalo Organizer
Located in Chicago
MACON, July 29.—S. S. Bak and W.
S. Wells, Supreme Lodge representa
tives of the Benevolent Order of Buf
faloes, have come to Macon to
straighten out the affairs of the order
which were put In such tangled shape
here last week by Dr. Bernard C.
Goldberg, of Atlanta, an organizer,
who. it is alleged, absconded after
obtaining cash payments from scores
of Macon citizens and for whom there
is a warrant now outstanding.
Bak and Wells state they have ap
prehended Dr. Goldberg in Chicago,
and that they will bring him back to
Macon for prosecution.
Here are Tuesday’s important developments in the trial
of Leo M. Frank on the charge of murdering Mary Phagan
in the National Pencil Factory, Saturday, April 26.
Newt Lee, negro night watchman at the pencil factory,
leaves the stand after four hours and forty minutes of exami.
. nation and cross-examination with the essential points of his
story unshaken.
Efforts to discredit the negro’s story result only in show
ing several discrepancies in the story he told before the Cor
oner’s jury and his testimony on the stand at the trial.
All attempts to confuse Lee by telling him that the ste
nographer’s report of the inquest has him making slightly dif
ferent statements met invariably with his declaration that
“they didn’t get it right down there.’’
L. S. Dobbs, police sergeant, testifies to the finding of the
body of the Phagan girl and says that Lee had a ready in
terpretation of the two notes when they were found by the
dead body.
City Detective Starnes testifies to finding bloodstains on
second floor and says Frank was nervous the day after the
crime. He says he found what he took to be fingerprints of
blood on a door in the basement.
Starnes is closely cross-questioned by the defense in an
effort to show the spots he thought blood might have been
aniline dye. In a lawyers’ clash over certain questions Solici
tor Dorsey is told to “sit down’’ by the judge.
Court adjourned until 9 a. m., Wednesday.
City Detective J. M. Starnes told late Tuesday afternoon at the
trial of Leo Frenk of the finding of a number of red splotches re
sembling blood in the northeast corner of the women’s dressing
room in the National Pencil Factory, testimony on which the pros
ecution relies to support its theory that Mary Phagen was mur
dered on the second floor of the building.
Starnes said that the principal
part of the largest splotch was
about as big as the palm of his
hand.
He also testified that he found blood
about 40 or 50 feet from the dressing
room toward the front of the build
ing, and that he discovered what he
took to be finger-prints of blood on
the door of the basement. The finger
prints, he said, he chipped off and
now has the chips of wood in his of
fice.
Starnes asserted that there were in
dications that a white substance had
been used with the evident purpose
of eradicating what appeared to be
bloodstains. The detective described
Frank as nervous when he was
brought down to the factory the
morning after the crime.
Tells of Clock Tests.
He said In reply to Solicitor Dor
sey's questions that he had witnessed
the new night watchman make a
complete series of punches in the time
clock for an entire twelve hours with
in a space of five minutes, In an ef
fort to support the theory the State is
expected to advance that Frank doc
tored the time tape submitted to the
police department which seemed to
show that the neight watchman, Lee,
had made three skips.
Attorneys Go After Lee.
Newt Lee, night watchman at the
National Pencil factory, was har
assed and assailed by counsel for
Frank in a vain effort to win from
him admissions ading the theory
that he was otherwise involved in the
crime than as the man who found the
body. Lee was on the stand from 9
o'clock to 11:40 a. m.
However, through Lee and Ser
geant L. S. Dobbs, one of the officers
called to the factor^ the morning ot
Sunday, April 27, the attorneys for
Frank laid the groundwork for the
elaboration of their theory that Jim
Conley was the murderer of Mary
Phagan and that Lee assisted in writ
ing the notes that were found by her
body.
From Sergeant Dobbs. Luther Ros-
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ers Tuesday and Wednesday.
ser, chief of counsel for Frank, ob
tained these admissions:
Point# in Dobbs’ Story.
That Lee, ignorant and illiterate,
was able to decipher and explain in a
flash the mysterious notes over which
the officers had puzzled for several
minutes.
That Lee spoke up and said, refer
ring to the words “night witch” m
one of the notes: “That’s me, bo3s;
that means the night watchman.
That the condition of Mary Pha-
gan’s begrimed and bruised face gave
the indication that the girl had been
dragged along the dirt floor of the
factory basement, although Jim Con
ley, in his story of his part in the
crime, declared that he had carried
the body to the trash heap in the rear
of the basement.
That Dobbs, with the aid of an elec
tric flashlight, was unable to tell
whether the slain girl was w’hite or
colored until he had pulled down her
stocking, although Lee had testified
to being able t~> tell that the girl was
white by the dim rays from his smoKy
lantern while he was standing at a
distance or five or six feet.
Lee’s Story at Variance.
That Dobbs at the Coroner’s inquest
testified that he had had a Mr. Wil
liams lie down in the place where
Mary Phagan's body was found and,
taking the position Lee said he was
in when he first saw the body,
covered that, as a matter of fact, the
body could hardly be seen from this
point unless one was looking especial
ly for it.
Lee testified, under the cross-ex
amination of Attorney Rosser:
That the time he found the body
was the first time he had gone far
ther than 25 feet from the ladder in
the front of the basement that night
That he knew it was a white wom
an, although he did not approach
nearer the body than five or six feet,
and had no light except the dirty lan
tern.
That he recalled that the officers,
with a flashlight, were unable to
identify it a» white or colored for
some time.
That he did not say, “That’s me,
boss." referring to one of the notes,
but something to the effect that “They
are trying to ut this on me.”
After a short battle of words be
tween Rosser and Solicitor Dorsey.
Reuben R. Arnold, associated with
Rosser, asked for the first time dur
ing the day to be heard, and plainly
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