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VOL. XI. NO. 308.
ATLANTA. GA., TIIURS DAY, JULY 31,1913.
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( Plant’ Charged By State Against Newt Lee
ARTIST'S
HIS W
SKETCH OF FRANK AND
FE 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.
Delicate and frail as a result of an
operation for appendicitis and a vic
tim of tuberculosis. Jack Duvis. 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 fine of
WASHINGTON, July 30.—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.
Senator Stone charged the Repub
licans with attempting to create a
financial panic in the country by pes-
•emistic speeches in the Senate which
were circulated throughout the coun
try and had the effect of making
people fear that hard times were com
ing.
Senator Clark, of Wyoming and
Kenyon, of Iowa, vigorously denied
Stone’s charge and said the trouble
was due to the effects of President
Wilson, Secretary of Commerce Red-
field, and Secretary of the Treasury
McAdoo to force a new economic pol
icy on the country which the coun
try does not want.
JohnD.’s Son-in-Law
Speeds 29 Miles to
Office in Flying Boat
CHICAGO. July 30.—Harold F. Mc
Cormick, millionaire sportsman and
son-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 l .
Witmer.
Starting at McCormick’s private
harbor, the machine was driven sev
eral hundred feet into the air about
200 yards from the shore. McCor
mick maintained a speed of about
miles an hour, covering
to Grant Park
made a perfect
half a block to his office.
70 ’
tne 2y miles I
28 minutes. He |
landing and walked I
Plan to Strip City
Council of Powers
JACKSONVILLE, July 30.—A spe
cial committee of the Central Civic
Committee will meet next Wednesday
evening to draw' up a new city char
ter along commission lines.
The law will not permit of abolish
ment of the City Council, but an ef
fort will be made to strip that body of
its powers.
Rescinds $1,000,000
Assessment Income
JACKSONVILLE, July 30.—After
raising the valuation of business
property in this city $1,000,000 while
sitting as an equalization board, the
County Commissioners met again this
morning and rescinded their action.
The figures given in the Assessors'
I books were accepted as correct.
$100. At the end of a month she was
stricken down by an attack of appen
dicitis, from which she 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 sh? was affected with
tuberculosis, and it was then the girl,
in the face of a lingering death in
prison, 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. 1 am a girl just 20 years of
age, and unfortunately wac led away
from my home a year ago. I have only
been living a life of shares 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 finger marks in the
girl's flesh were taken. The detec
tives on the cas^ 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.
Loft 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
Browm at the office, Cuthbertson went
on to the courthouse, where he spent
less than 35 minutes transacting
business. ^Vhen he returned to the
•fflee Miss Brown was not at her
desk, but the other employees of the
firm had not noticed her absence.
G. W. Swor. manager of the rental
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 were 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 was found. The sharp
instrument that cut her throat was
not found. The murderer apparently
left the office in haste, although he
stopped to wash his Lands of the
girl's blood.
Search began to-day for a woman
suspect. The police said the scratches
and teeth 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 laet of the 25 white men taken
into custody as suspects were released
to-day.
A new' development disclosed by to
day’s investigation related Mis.?
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.
Judge Roan Denies
Attorneys Right
To Remove Coats
"If I allow the lawyers to take
their coats off during this trial, I
am afraid wo 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 w'ould 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 naturally slip out of their
coats, anyway."
$1,000,000 in Bonds
Voted for Roadways
TAMPA. July 30.— By a majority of I
2,169 in a total vote of about 3,100,
with three small precincts missing,
Hillsborough Countv. of which this
city is the county sea. voted yestti-
day to issue *1,000,000 of bonds for
brick roads.
About 60 miles of roads will e
built reaching the county line In four
directions and along olhpr routes laii
out in advance by the County Com
missioners. Tills means a continuous
line of brick roads from Tampa .o
Jacksonville in three years, for sev
eral other countips will bond to build
roads to connect those of Hillsbor
ough and Duval Counties.
Florida Shippers
Get Rate Hearings
JACKSONVILLE, July 30.—Friday
afternoon there will be a hearing in
this city for the purpose of discussing
the raising of water transportation
rales on freight between this port and
Baltimore. The Merchants and
Miners Transportation Company has
made application to increase rates.
The Florida Railroad Commission
has announced a public hearing on
August 6, when "Class P” rates will
be discussed with a view to enforc
ing the ruling of 1905 reducing tha
present rate 20 per cent in Florida.
Boy in Knee Pants
Jailed as Slayer j
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 with a barlow
knife, Smith dying in a few min
utes.
Miller and Smith were employed ; 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.
Jacksonville to
Invite President
JACKSONVILLE, July 30.—A spe
cial committee from the Board of
Trade of this city left here this aft
ernoon hearing a apeciAl invitation to
President Wilson to visit this city on
his contemplated trip to the Canal
Zone.
The same committee will make a
fight while in Washington to retain
Major John R. Slattery, chief of tho
United. States Engineers *n Florida, at
this post for at least two years more.
An order has been issued to transfer
Slattery to Vicksburg on October 15.
Coroner to Probe
Initiation Deaths
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
Haw kins 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 without recommen
dation.
Mrs. Silva Hawkins. w r ife of the
murdered man, has not yet been tried.
Jim Cantrell is likely to be the first
w'hite man to be hanged in Hall
County.
BIRMINGHAM, July 30.—Coroner
Spain to-day summoned a jury to in
vestigate the deaths of two candidate
during an initiation in the Loyal Or
der of Moose last Thursday night.
Twenty-five witnesses w*ere sum
moned to appear to-morrow morning.
The investigation is to be thorough.
Storage Reduced
On Naval Stores
JACKSONVILLE. July 30.—The
National Transportation and Termi
nal Company has made a reduction
on the storage charges of turpentine
and rosin because of the present weak
condition of the market.
The reduction is 3 cents on ros*in
and 4 cents* on turpentine.
Cudahy Employees
To Hold Annual ’Cue
Employees of the Cudahy Packing
Company, of this city, will hold their
annual barbecue at 6 o’clock Wednes
day evening at Grant Park.
It is expected that several hundred
persons will attei^l. J. T. Launius
has charge of the arrangements.
‘It is our contention,
shouted, “that, the shirt, was a
‘plant.,’ and that Herbert Haas,
as an attorney for Frank, de
manded that Frank’s house be
searched so as to open up the
way for a seareh of Newt Lee’s
house.”
Gantt Says Frank Knew Girl.
The most sensational statement of
,1. M. Gantt, rttschui'Ked employee of
the National Pencil Factory, was that
Frank, contrary to the factory su
perintendent’s representatives after
he was arrested, knew Mary Phagan
by sight and by name.
He knew this, he said, because
Frank had remarked to him: “You
seem to know Mary pretty well,
Gantt.”
Gantt’s other testimony was to the
effect that Frank appeared nervous
and fearful at 6 o’clock Saturday
evening.
Dorsey tried to bring out that
Frank had told Black that he thought
Newt Lee knew much more about the
crime than Lee had told and that
the seareh of Lee’s house had fol
lowed this remark of BTank’s.
Attorneys In Wrangle.
A wrangle between the attorneys
occurred over the endeavor of DorBey
to bring this out, and after this was
settled Rosser resumed his attack up
on Black with such terrific effective
ness that Black, shaken and un
nerved, was forced to admit that he
was confused, admit that he could
not swear to the absolute accuracy
of .any of them.
"Boots” Rogers had testified that he
assisted Frank, in removing the tape
from the time clock. Black said he
could not recollect any one assisting
Frank.
"Is your memory so bad that you
can’t remember what you told Mr.
Dorsey only 20 or 30 minutes ago?”
Rosser roared a moment later, when
Black hesitated to repeat some of his
direct testimony.
The attorney alternately bellowed
and laughed at the witness. He fin
ally got him to say he would not even
swear as to Frunk’s conversation in
regard to the time slips.
Factory Girl on Stand.
Sixteen-year-old Grace Hix, a
pretty employee of the National Pen
cil Factory living at No. 100 McDon
ough road, who identified the body of
Mary Phagan, was called by the State
in the trial of Leo M. Frank Wednes
day, but proved a much better wit
ness for the defense.
Slight and graceful and attractive,
the young factory girl made a de-
cidedely pleasing impression in the
half hour she was on the stand. She
answered all the questions asked her
by Solicitor Dorsey and Atorney Ros
ser with simple directness and ap
Important developments in the trial Wednesday of Leo M.
Frank for the murder of Mary Phagan follow:
W. W. Rogers, former county policeman, in whose auto the
police went to the factory the morning the body was found, testi
fies Frank was nervous when taken to the plant and apparently
afraid to look at the body.
Miss Grace Hix, factory employee, testifies Frank rarely spoke
to the girls in the plant and that the young women combed their
hair near the lathe where strands of hair, alleged to be from the
head of Mary Phagan were found.
John Black, deective, testifies that Frank was nervous. His
statement that Frank was “nervous, as any other man would be
who had been arrested,’’ is stricken out on Dorsey’s request. He
is questioned by the State in an effort to show Frank engaged
counsel before he was arrested. Cross-examined by Rosser, he
admits having made a mis-statement and retracts it. He is fiercely
grilled by the defense.
Dorsey, in questioning Black, says the State is trying to show
that Frank “planted” the bloody shirt found in the yard of Newt
Lee’s home and changed Lee’s time slip. Black admits Rosser has
him “confused.”
J. N. Gantt testifies Frank knew Mary Phagan, but admits he
testified at the inquest he never saw Frank with her.
Koliritor Dorsey eaint‘ out with the startling announcement
Wednesday afternoon that it was the State’s contention that the
blood-stained shirt found.at the house of Newt Lee, negro night
watchman at the National Pencil Faetory, was a deliberate
‘plant” to shift suspicion from Leo M. Frank to the negro Lee.
he
first witness whose testimony was
distinctly favorable to the defense.
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
had known that he had attempted
familiarities of any sort. As far as
she knew he had never spoken to
Mary Phagan.
Spots Might Have Been Paint.
The red spots discovered by the de
tectives on the second floor, for all
she knew, might have come from th©
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 color
of Mary Phagan’s," continued the at
torney.
“Yes. there’s Magnolia Kennedy.
Her hair is almost the same color.”
Points for Defense.
Ry the testimony of this one girl
Attorney Rosser showed that It was
possible that the red spots on th©
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 characteristics 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 madf on the second floor of tho
building and not on the first floor,
where Jim Conley was in hiding.
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
the hearts of the jurors that Leo
, Frank attacked
I parent truthfulness.
She!.was the Phagan in
1
eked and strangled Mary
the factory AprJ*26, an<$