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VOL. XI. NO. 308. ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 30,1913. B ^XATn’ Co . 2 CENTS. P & R S°
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Accused Feared to Look at Body, State Claims
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ARTIST'S SKETCH OF FRANK AND
HIS WIFE IN THE COURTROOM
The prisoner
and his wife
are the center
of all eyes.
Mrs. Frank is
at her
husband’s
side throughout
every session.
They
are unmindful
of the gaze of
the curious,
and converse
frequently—
with
satisfaction
on the case.
Delicate and fr;d| as a result of an
operation for appendicitis and a vic
tim of tuberculosis. Jack Davis, a 20-
year-old girl prisoner in the Savan
nah county jail Wednesday morning
received a pardon from Governor John
M. Slaton.
The girl was convicted on the
charge of vagrancy in Chatham Coun
ty in May and sentenced to six months
in jail upon failure to pay the tine of
FREED BY
Mrs. Frank
at times
turns a
withering
glance
toward
the prosecutor’s
table.
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PUNIC FEAR
WASHINGTON, July SO.—Senator
Lewis introduced a resolution in the
Senate to-day authorizing Secretary
of the Treasury McAdoo to withdraw
Government deposits from all banks
which he believes are in a conspiracy
to "intimidate Congress and terrorize
the citizens of the United States
through inciting fear of a panic” and
“which have falsely depressed securi
ties of the United States and discred
ited the bonds of the United States
Government.”
The Secretary is further author
ized to suspend all the privileges en
joyed by said banks and to withdraw
their charter.
Millionaire Is Buried
In Big Cement Block
DES MOINES, July 30.—A coffin
containing the body of Oliver H. Per
kins. millionaire, who died recently,
has been placed in the heart of a
block of cement 10 feet deep by 10
feet square in Woodlawn Cemetery.
An excavation 10 feet deep by 10
feet square was made. Cement was
poured in to a depth of 3 feet, upon
which was placed a steel casket. Then
the pouring of cement was resumed
until the grave was Ailed,
Frank sits
calmly with
his arms
akimbo,
seldom
changing his
position as
the hours pass.
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John D.’s Son-in-Law
Speeds 29 Miles to
Office in Flying Boat
CHICAGO, July 30— Harold F. Mc
Cormick. millionaire sportsman and
Bon-in-law of John D. Rockefeller,
made a successful flight in his flying
boat to-day from his home in
Lakecrest to Grant Park.
He followed the shore line of Lake
Michigan during the 15-mile journey.
Mr. McCormick announced he would
fly from his suburban home to his
office every morning if the weather
permitted. On the trip to-day he was
accompanied by Aviator Charles C.
Witmer.
Starting at McCormick’s private
harbor, the machine was driven sev
eral hundred feet into the air about i
200 yards from the shore. McCor- i
mick maintained a speed of about TO ■
miles an hour, covering the 29 miles
to Grant Park in 28 minutes. He -
made a perfect landing and walked J
half a block to his office. j
Evelyn Just Hates
The Name of Thaw
NEW YORK, July 30.—Evely # n
Npeblt Thaw, or, as she insists on
being called, Evelyn Nesbit, returned
to America to-day on the liner Olym
pic to fill a theatrical engagement.
“If the manager of my production
In New York Insists on billing me as
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw,” she said, "I
shall positively refuse to appear in
his company. I am done with the
Thaw' family for good. It is not right
to make it appear that I am trying to
parade the name of Thaw. I am pos
itively Evelyn Nesbit.”
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia—Local thundershow
ers Wednesday and Thursday.
$100. At the end of a month she was
stricken down by an attack of appen
dicitis, from which fhe recovered only
by the heroic efforts of the State phy
sicians, coupled with her own deter
mination to live, regardless of obsta
cles.
A worse calamity was in store for
her, however. The physicians an
nounced that she was affected with
tuberculosis, and it was then the girl,
in the face of a lingering death in
prl5*on, decided to make an appeal to
be allowed to pass her last days out
side of prison walls. So she wrote to
the Governor, begging him to have
mercy upon her and allow her to go
home to die.
Victim of Misfortunes.
“I have not long to live I know,"
she states in the letter “and the idea
of dying a prisoner is more than I can
stand. I am a girl Just 20 years of
age. and unfortunately wa.« led a wav
from my home a year. I have only
been living a life of shame since then.
I am innocent of the charge against
Continued on Page 5, Column 4.
DALLAS. TEXAS, July 30.—After
hours of the most thorough investi
gation the police of Dallas to-day ad
mitted that they were no nearer a so
lution of the city’s worst murder
mystery than they were when the
body of Florence Brown was found
In the office where she was employed.
A pearl button, evidently from a
man’s shirt, found lying in a pool of
blood was the only tangible clew in
the possession of the police. Wax im
pressions of the Anger marks in the
girl's flesh were taken. The detec
tives on the case have gone over the
scene of the crime a dozen times and
have compiled a complete history of
the young stenographer’s life without
result.
Left Her Home in Auto.
Miss Brown left her home at 8
o’clock Monday morning. S. B.
Cuthbertson, an employee of the real
estate firm employing her. called for
her *n his automobile. Leaving Miss
Brow n at the office, Cuthbertson went
on to the courthouse, where he spent
less than 35 minutes transacting
business. When he returned to the
office, Miss Brown was not at her
desk, but the other employees of the
firm had not noticed her absence.
H. W. Swor, manager of the rental
i department, entered the lavatory and
came upon the girl’s body lying in a
pool of blood. She had been dead
only a short time, and there w r ere evi
dences of a desperate fight waged by
the girl against her slayer.
Rings Torn From Fingers.
Blood was on the wall and the
girl’s throat was cut. Marks on her
left arm showed where strong teeth
had met in the flesh. Two rings were
torn from her fingers. A blood-cov
ered hammer w r as found. The sharp
instrument that cut her throat was
not found. The murderer apparently
left the office in haste, although he
stopped to w’ash his hands of the
girl’s blood.
Search began to-day for a woman
suspect. The police said the scratches
and teetTi marks on the girl’s arm
were not made by a man, but that
they were the marks made by a wom
an fighting.
The lat»t of the 25 white men taken
into custody as suspects were released
to-day.
A new development disclosed by to
day's investigation related Miss
Brown s activity in unearthing crook
edness In the management of part of
the real estate firm’s business during
the absence of Miss Brown’s uncle, a
member of the firm.
Dreams of Baseball;
Chases Fly in Sleep
DALTON, July 30.—Dreaming of
baseball Claude Prentiss, 12-year-old
son of O. G. Prentiss, local agent for
the Southern Railway, thought he was
chasing a fly in the outfield and ran
out of an upstairs window of a bed
room at his home and struck the
brick pavement below.
The little fellow got up, dazed by
the shock of the fall, but only slight
ly bruised.
Mumps Conquered
Through Inoculation
Special Cable to The Georgian.
PARIS. Jely 30.—Inoculation of
children against the mump* is now
possible, according to an announce
ment of I>rs. Nicole, Concell and Roux,
who have been experimenting with
the microbe.
Do You
Know
?
The largest banquet
ever given.
See Page 15.
‘Uncle Joe’ Thrown
Into Lake by Auto;
Never Loses Cigar
DANVILLE. ILL.. July 30.—The
only reason that “Uncle Joe” Cannon
Is alive to-day was the shallowness or
the small lake in Spring Hill ceme
tery. The former Speaker and his
daughter narrowly escaped drowning
when their automobile went over a
fifteen-foot embankment and alighted
right side up in five feet of water.
“Uncle Joe’s’’ teeth clung to the thin,
black cigar.
“f thought we started for a spin,
not a swim,” he yaid gruffly.
Mrs. Ernest Leseure. his daughter,
who was about to faint from fright
laughed. They climbed out of the
machine and waded ashore. “Uncle
Joe” rode home In a grocery delivery
wagon.
$900 Clerk Twits
Mr. Bryan in Verse
WASHINGTON, July 30.—R. E
Norfleet, Jr., a clerk In the Depart
ment of Justice, has written a poem
which was made public to-day, in
which he twits Secretary Bryan for
complaining that he cannot live on
$12,000 a year. The last stanza fol
lows:
All things are out of proportion.
To us all a yard is a yard:
If the Burden falls heavy on Bryan
On us It is equally hard.
And thus we word our petition,
And hope that relief may be near!
For if Bryan ean’t live on a thousand
a month
We can’t on nine hundred a year.
Mexico Frees Three
American Prisoners
WASHINGTON, July 30.—Charge
d’Afralres O’Shaughnessy of the
American Embassy at Metflco City to
day notified the State Department of
the release by the administration of
the three Americans imprisoned at
Chihuahua—Bernard McDonald, min
ing engineer; Charles Biesel and the
latter’s chauffeur.
The Mexican Foreign Office so ad
vised Mr. O’Shaughnessy to-day. Con
ditions are unchanged at San Luis
Potosl and quiet reigns at Madera,
according to State Department ad
vices.
Boy in Knee Pants
Jailed as Slayer
VALDOSTA. July 30—Henry Mil
ler, a boy in knee trousers, Is to-day
in Jail here charged with the mur
der of Walker Smith at Melrose, last
night. Miller, It is alleged, stabbed
Smith to the heart wfith a barlow
knife, Smith dying in a few min
utes j
Miller and Smith were employed i t
the turpentine distillery of W. M.
Miller, brother of the alleged slayer.
Smith had charge of the mules and
objected to Miller riding one of them.
A quarrel followed. The dead man
was 23 years old. He left a wife and
two children.
16-Year-Old Boy On
Trial for Slaying
GAINESVILLE, GA.. July 30.—Bar
tow Cantrell, 16 years old, to-day Is
being tried for the murder of Arthur
Hawkins on May 27. He first decided
to plead guilty and said his brother.
Jim Cantrell, hired him to kill Haw
kins. Jim Cantrell has been found
guilty of murder w-ithout recommen
dation.
Mrs. Silva Hawkins, wife of the
murdered man, has not yet been tried.
Jim Cantrell is likely to be the first
white man to be hanged in Hal!
County.
Sifting of Mnlhall’s
Testimony Is Begun
WASHINGTON, July 30.—Having
protected Martin M. Mulhall while
he has built up a huge mound of ac
cusations against the legislative ac
tivities of fhe National Association
of Manufacturers, the Overman Lob
by Inquiry Committee to-day began
to pick this evidence to pieces to And
just what wrongful acts the manu
facturers committed.
“It is not Mulhall but the manu
facturers who are on trial here,” said
a member of the committee.
FAC
MSS US EVIDENCE
Sixteen-year-old Grace Hix, a pretty employee of the National
Pencil Factory living at No. 100 McDonough road, who identified
the body of Mary Phagan, was called by the State in the trial of
Leo M. Frank Wednesday, but proved a much better witness for
the defense.
Slight and graceful and attractive, the young factory girl
made a decidedly pleasing impression in the half hour she was
on the stand. She answered all of the questions asked her by
Solicitor Dorsey and Atortney Rosser with simple directness and
apparent truthfulness. She was the first witness whose testi
mony was distinctly favorable to the defense.
She was attired entirely
in
white. She seemed not at all
embarrassed by the hundreds of
eyes focused upon her and never
for a moment was confused by
the questions of the attorneys.
Her Ujstiiuyuy areooHMuied •
from first to last by gestures.
She explained conditions and
situations in the factory, it
seemed, exactly as she would
have explained them in the pri
vacy of her own home.
In response to the questions in the
cross-examination conducted by At
torney Rosser, chief of counsel for
Frank, she said that she never had
known of Frank speaking to any of
the girls in the factory except in
connection with their work and never
hau known that he had attempted
familiarities of any sort. As far as
she knew he had never spoken to
Mary Phagan.
Spot* Might Have Been Paint.
The red spots discovered by the de
tectives on the second flqor. for all
she knew, might have come from the
paint room. She said that paint fre
quently was spattered on the floor
when the employees in the paint room
were walking to the dressing rooms.
“And do you girls have a place to
comb your hair?” inquired Attorney
Rosser.
“Yes, we have one, but many of us
girls comb our hair right where we
happen to be working,” she respond
ed naively.
“And are there any of the girls *n
the factory who have hair the col jr
of Mary Phagan’s,’’ continued the at
torney.
“Yes. there's Magnolia Kennedy.
Her hair is almost the same color.”
Point* for Defense.
By the testimony of this one girl
Attorney Rosser ahowed that it was
possible that the red spots on the
floor in the dressing room and to
ward the middle of the factory might
have been red paint and not blood;
that the hair found* on the lathing
machine might have been that it
Magnolia Kennedy, or some other girl,
who had been combing her hair there.,
and, finally, that Frank’s deportment
among the girls of the factory, so far
as she knew, was always exemplary.
The Hix girl was called by Solicitor
Dorsey to tell of her identification of
the body of Mary Phagan the morn
ing after the murder and to describe
some of the physical characteristic* of
the second floor of the factory.
With her testimony he continued n
laying the foundation for his theory
that the attack upon Mary Phagan
was made on the second floor of the
building and not on the first floor,
where Jim Conley was in hiding.
Trie* to Show Frank’s Horror.
He had her tell of the proximity
of the men’s and women’s dressing
rooms on the second floor and how
it would have been impossible for a
person entering the men’s not to have
passed within a few feet of that for
the women.
Solicitor Dorsey, by his other two
witnesses of the forenoon. W. W.
("Boots”) Rogers and Detective John
, Black, sought primarily to place in
Judge Roan Denies
Attorneys Right
To Remove Coats
“If f allow the lawyers to take
during this trial, I
am afraid we will never get
through,*'' said Judge Roan in re
fusing to allow the attorneys the
privilege he had allowed the news
paper men gathered around the
press table. Even some of the
spectators in the row of seats out
side the railing have shown their
disregard of the dignity of the
court by removing their coats.
“It is so unnatural for a lawyer
to take off his coat while In court
that I am afraid they would get too
comfortable If I should—so com
fortable that this case would be a
long time reaching the end. Now,
newspaper reporters are so used
to slipping out of things that they
Just natural’y slip out of their
coats, anyway.”
the hearts of the jurors that Leo
Frank attacked and strangled Mary
Phagan in the factory April 26, and
then, In the revulsion of horror at
his deed, was in abject terror of look
ing upon the face of his victim when
he was taken to the morgue for the
purpose of identifying her.
The Solicitor drew from the two
men other circumstances of the
morning after the crime, which he
evidently proposes to interpret as
significant of Frank’s guilt, but he
laid the greatest stress on the visit
of Frank at the morgue, where both
Rogers and Black testified Frank
avoided gazing at the bruised and
contorted features of the murdered
factory girl.
Say Frank Was Ncrvou*.
Black and Rogers testified that
Frank appeared nervous all the morn
ing after they went for him at hi*
home, 68 East Georgia avenue, and
took him to the morgue and later to
the factory. Rogers was on the stand
about two hours and told a seemingly
straightforward story. He was not
bothered much by the cross-examina
tion of Rosser, but made slight modi
fications to some of the statements in
his direct testimony.
It was evident that Black’s testi
mony was going to precipitate a live
ly squabble between the attorneys the
moment that he went on teh stand.
Attorney Rosser was on his feet with
objections almost every half minute.
Either his objection was leveled at the
manner of Black’s testimony or the
character of the Solicitor’s questions.
Almost Invariably he w r on his point.
Rosser declared that Black was
stating his own conclusions in regard
to the mental state of Frank instead
of merely presenting to the Jury Its
outward manifestations and permit
ting the Jury to judge for itself.
Tc Spring Surprise in Gantt.
Black asserted that Frank was pale
and nervous on the morning of April
27; that he talked excitedly and asked
questions without waiting for an
swers, and that his voice was trem
bling and hoarse, and that he never
entered the room where Mary Pha
gan’s body lay at the morgut*
Attorneys for the prosecution mdU