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Being the News of Each Day of the Week in Condensed Form Specially For the Busy Man and the Farmer
VOL. V. NO. 32.
Sc A MONTH. 36c A YEAR
ATLANTA, GA., WEEK ENDING JULY 29.1913,
Entered at the Atlanta. Ga.. PostofTIce as Second Class Mall Matter.
Published Weekly By
THE GEORGIAN COMPANY
20 E. Alabama-st.. Atlanta. Gl
ROSSER TRIES TO
INVOLVE NEGRO
T HIS is a picture of Leo M. Frank, the young pencil factory
superintendent, who was placed on trial in Atlanta on
Monday charged with slaying Mary Phagan, a girl employee
of the concern.
WILSON OPPOSED
TO INTERVENTION
Newton Lee, Night Watchman, Is
Grilled by Lawyer for De
fense in Frank Trial,
Carranza, Therefore, Looms Up
as the Hope for Peace in
Mexico.
A startling turn to the trial of Leo
M. Frank was given Tuesday by the
determined efforts of Frank's attor
neys to connect Newt Lee, night-
watchman at the National Pencil
Factory, with the murder of little
Mary Phagan.
Luther Z. Rosser, chief counsel for i
Frank, revealed the hand of the de- i
fense for the first time when he be- j
gan a merciless cross-examination of
the negro which was intended utter
ly to discredit Lee's testimony and
show that he knew much more about ;
the crime than he ever had told in his i
two appearances before the Coroner’s
jury and in his sweating at the po
lice station.
Rosser's inquisitorial tactics
brought remonstrance after remon
strance from Solicitor Dorsey, but
was allowed to continue on a ruling
from Judge Roan.
Rosser read extracts from Lee’s
testimony at the Coroner’s inquest
and pointed out descrepancies and 1
omissions. When these were called
to the negro’s attention, he declared
emphatically that the stenographer i
had made a mistake.
After a short battle of words be- I
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
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.
The Solicitor objected strongly to
arguing before the jury the admis
sibility of this testimony of Lee’s
and the jurors were excused while I
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. i
Arnold the two notes found in the ;
basement and Judge Roan ordered j
the jury to retire. Mr. Arnold said:
“The defense expects to show that
the two notes 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 negro did it by his-self.’
“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 this 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 ii.terpretation of the
notes.
65 RIOTERS IN IRONS.
OSSINING, N. Y., July 29.—Sixty-
five of the Sing Sing prison ‘ 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 the Win
chester County Grand Jury.
KILLS EX-WIFE; WOUnV SELF.
BIRMINGHAM, July 29— \renzied
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.
Kills His Sister by
Mistake for Burglar
ELBERTON, July 29.-Mack Guest
shot and instantly killed his lw-year-
old sister last night, mistaking her
for a burglar. She w*as visiting from
the country.
Guest told his sister to leave a
window open when she retired. About
10:30 o’clock Miss Guest decided to
dose the window. Mrs. Guest awoke,
telling her husband someone was
breaking into his sister’s room. Guest
secured a shotgun and shot his sister
in the back. No arrest has been
made. Guest is prostrated.
TRY TO ROB JUROR’S HOUSE.
Two negro burglars made two at
tempts Monday night to enter the
home of F. V. L. Smith, No, 481 Cher
okee avenue, one of the jurors in the
Frank trial. They were frightened
away by Mrs. Smith, who was alone in
the house with her 4-w*eek-old child.
Mrs. Smith saw the negroes on the
porch the first time and succeeded in
frightening them away by making a
noise in the house. She had hardly
taken her seat, however, when the
would-be burglars returned. Mrs.
Smith calmly walked to the phone and
telephoned the police.
HIS BLOOD MAY SAVE WIFE.
CINCINNATI, July 29.—In order
to save the life of his wife Joseph
Tinker, manager of the Cincinnati
Reds, may be compelled to submit to
an operation for transfusion of blood
at a Kansas City hospital.
Mrs. Tinker, who was until recent
ly in a Chicago hospital, has suffer
ed a decided change for the w’orse, and
a telegram summoned the Reds’ lead
er to her side.
N He left the team in Brooklyn and
started immediately for Kansas City.
REAL ESTATE MEN ENTERTAIN.
WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, July 29.
One thousand real estate dealers in
the United States arrived here to-day
to take part in the National Real
Estate Convention. The Government
and the railroad are entertaining the
visitors with the idea of counteract
ing the unfavorable impressions being
expressed regarding Canadian real
estate specualtion.
Bees Usurp Bed and
Couple Can’t Sleep
BUCK GROVE. IOWA, July 29.—
A swarm of bees does not form as
easy a resting place as a feather bed,
as Mr. and Mrs. Nels Wingrove dis
covered. Going to bed in an upstairs
room in the dark, as was their cus
tom, they heard the buzzing of bees.
It was discovered that a swarm of
bees had settled in their bed.
PAGE DELAYS HIS ARRIVAL.
ROMP], July 29.—Although Thora\3
Nelson Page, the new Ambassador to
Italy, will leave the United States on
September 3, he will not be at his post
by the middle of the month, as he has
decided to go first to England and
stay some time there. By so doing ha
will avoid arriving in Italy long before
the time when he can present his cre
dentials to the King, who generally
does not return to the Capital until
the reopening of Parliament, usually
the second fortnight in November.
Mr. Page, even more than his pred
ecessors, will be confronted by the
difficulty of finding a suitable resi
dence. as nearly all the apartmon'f
in the Roman palaces are occupied by
tenants who have no desire to vacate.
BRIDE DENIES POISON PLOT.
Emphatic denial of her husband’s
charges that she tried to kill him by
putting particles of broken glass In
his coffee cup are made in the cross
bill filed by Mrs. Blanche Sweat in
anew er to the petition for divorce filed
recently by her husband, E. R. Sweat.
The husband bases his plea for di
vorce on the assertion that his wife
had tried to kill him by placing the
glass in his cap.
In her cross bill Mrs. Sweat de
clares that Sweat himself had. through
accident and while drunk, placed the
broken glass in the cup.
25 YOUNG MEN HELD
DALLAS, TF3XAS, 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
she w'&s attacked.
DENOUNCES MULHALL.
WASHINGTON, July 29— Repre
sentative Underw r ood, Democratic
leader of the House, appeared before
the House Lobby Investigation Com
mittee to-day and charged that Col
onel 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 Hashed fire and he was
clearly angry through and through.
Underwood w r as not sworn, having
become involved in an argument with
Senator Reed before Chairman Over
man of the committee, had an oppor
tunity to place the House leader un
der oath.
“Is this Mulhall?” inquired Under-
w'ood. pointing his finger at the lob
byist, w'ho was sitting in the witness
chair in an apparently disinterested
attitude,
“In the public interest,” declared
Underwood, “I think men w lid take
liberties w'ith the names of public men
should be confronted and made to
prove their charges.
“I regard this man as a blackmailer.
He has even blackmailed the men who
employed him.”
SAY SLANDER CAUSED KILLING.
Investigation by detectives Tues
day morning bared a sensational story
of the alleged cause of the killing of
Samuel Jackson. 40 years old, an en
gineer in the employ of the Georgia
Railroad, who was shot by W. D.
Partee, a fellow-engineer, in tho
roundhouse of the road late Monday
afternoon.
According to information obtained
by Detectives Sturdivant and Davi j,
the shooting of Jackson was the di
rect result of charges made by Par-
tee that Jackson had been intimate
with the wife of an ther engineer on
the same road. Partee and Jackson
both ran engines on the main line ol
the Georgia.
MAY CALL IN BOERS.
JOHANNESBURG, July 29.—Busi
ness is at a.complete standstill here.
The miners, angry over the refusal of
the Government to meet their de
mands, are in an ugly mood. Threats
to burn the mining property havo
been made.
The men also resent the report th;it
the Government intends to . bring
commands of armed Boers to quell
any possible rioting.
CZAR’S DAUGHTER TO WED.
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 born No
vember 3, 1895, and Prince Charles
October 3, 1893.
SHE COULDN’T PLAY PIANO.
NEW YORK. July 29 —Five dollars
a week alimony was granted Mrs.
Amelia Cohn after she told the, court
her husband abandoned her because
she could not play the piano.
Her husband said the trouble was
“too much mother-in law.”
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 ara
willing to apply and exhaust. All ef
forts to mediation they are willing •<>
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 Unit <i
States in Mexico unless the compul
sion should be stronger than policy
and forced by evident unavoidable ne
cessity.
So, therefore, Carranza looms tu- on
the Mexican horizonr as the man of
the future, the next revolutionary dic
tator or President of the so-called
Mexican republic.
If the present attitude of neutrality
restricts the advantage of Huerta »n
importing arms or gives equal chanca
to Carranza with Huerta, then tha
s of our own arm agree per-
with the optimist of the con
stitutionalists and revolutionists that
within 60 days Huerta will be rele
gated to the ranks of the discredited
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.