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Atlanta Georgian Reed for Profit---GEORGIAN WANT ADS---Use for Results VOL. XI. NO. 307. ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, JULY 29,1913. Copyright. 19*6, By The Georgian Co. 2 CENTS. p mor£° EXTRA 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. 1 Do You Know ? jest and small- is in the world. Page 14 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. +•+ +•+ +•+ *• + + • + +•+ 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. rs^Mr/r.m 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. 1 I Who Wants a Wants a Wants a Clerk ^ Our “Ads" on swift and silent wings, Tell to the world ten thou- s ^ Read for Profit ^ Ads” \>J ^ Use for Results ^ i Pj J 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- THE WEATHER. Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia—Local thundershow 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 (