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* l 1 i r i M ALWAYS FIRST ® ® The SUNDA Y The Atlanta Georgian HOME AMERICAN Order it NOW Read for Profit—-GEORGIAN WANT ADS-—Use for Results EDITION Both Phones Main 100 VOL. XI. NO. 308. ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 30,1913. B ^XATn’ Co . 2 CENTS. P & R S° GIRL’S STORY HELPS FRANK +•+ +•+ *•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ + •+ +•+ +•+ *•+ +•+ +•+ *•+ *•+ +•* •he* +•+ +•+ Accused Feared to Look at Body, State Claims E 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. 1 . fe mm IMS! ft 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. _ . ..... . „ . '" wsmmmW' 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