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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
KNEW GIRL
Discharged Pencil Factory Em
ployee Says Accused Men
tioned Her to Him.
Continued from Page 4.
“You seem to know Marv Phagan
pretty welt.”
Q. Who had you been talking to?—
A. Mary Phagan.
Q. What time was this?—A. Some
time after Christmas, I don’t remem
ber exactly.
Q' bat was the relation of your
ramlly to the Phagan family?—A.
Personal acquaintances.
Q. How many times did you go
back to the factory after you were
discharged?—A. Twice.
, Q/ Dld y° u s «e Prank?—A. Yes,
both times.
Q. Did he make any obtion to your
coming?—A. No.
Q. How about one girl getting the
Pay of another girl?—A. It could be
done with the consent of Prank
Knows About Punch Clock.
Q. Do you know about that punch
clock?—A. Yes.
Q. Do you know how- long It would
take a man who understands the
clock to make punches for twelve
hours. A. About live minutes.
Q. Who took your place?—A. I
don t know.
Q. Just previous to your being dis
charged had Frank said anything
about your services?—A. Yes. he said
he had the best office force' he had
ever had.
Q. Could Prank sit at his desk and
see the employees register at the time
clock?—A. Me could If the safe door
was closed.
Q. Could he stand up and see with
the safe door open?—A. Yes.
Gant Relates Shoe Incident.
"Did you see Frank Saturday, April
26?—A. Yes. about 6 o’clock.
Q. Tell what happened.—A. I was
talking: to Newt Lee about getting
some shoes I had left In the factory.
Lee said I couldn't get In I told him
I would come back Monday. About
that time Mr. Frank came clown the
s*teps and when he got within about
15 feet of me he hesitated and start
ed to go back. Then Tie saw I was
looking and came on. When he got
right at me he kind of jumped back.
I told him I wanted to get a pair of
shoes I had left there. He said he
thought he saw a negro sweeping
them out—a pair of tan shoes, at
least. I told him I had some black
ones there, too. - He told Newt Lee to
go on up with me. and we found both
pair.
Q. What was Frank*? attitude?—
A. He seemed nervous.
Q. Did he look at you as he passed
out?—A. No. hung his head.
Court Adjourns.
Here Rosser took the witness on
cros^-examination.
Q. Your recollection was fresher
then than it is now?—A. Yes.
Q. Was not this question asked be
fore the coroner? ‘Did you ever see
Frank with the girl?’ and you an
swered 'No’ ?—A. Yes.
Q. You never heard the little girl
say anything about being mistreated?
—A. No.
When Gantt was called down from
the stand, the course of the trial was
interrupted for a moment with the
consent of both sides to permit a
Juror to sign a life insurance policy.
He was Monroe S. Woodward.
Court then adjoured until 9 o’clock
Thursday morning.
Attracted by the report that the
State intended to introduce its most
important witnesses during the day, a
larger crowd than that which clam
ored for admission on the first two
days of the trial besieged the court
house Wednesday morning as the time
for the resumption of the Frank trial
approached.
Caminetti and Diggs
Trials Start Monday
SAN FRANCISCO, July SO.—Drew
Caminetti and Maury I. Diggs, ac
cused erf violating the white slave law
by taking Lola Norris and Marie
Warrington from this State to Ne
vada, were called in Federal Court
here to-day to plead to the charges.
The trial will be started Monday, ac
cording to expectations of attorneys
on both sides.
Charles Harris, a Sacramento at
torney, accused with Diggs of sub
ornation of Jury, was expected to en
ter a plea of not guilty.
Snake Rattles Sent
To U. S. Postal Chief
WASHINGTON, July 30.—Fourth
Assistant Postmaster General Blakes-
lee, in charge of rural free delivery,
to-day found among his mail a small
pill box containing ten rattles and
two buttons from the tail of a rat
tlesnake, and the following letter from
Sarah Deles, of Pleasant Views, Oolo.:
“I killed the rattler on the morning
of the I9th Inst, on the way to my
letter box. I am 78, year* and two
months old.”
RETURNS FROM EUROPE.
JACKSON.—After an absence of
three months In Europe, Dr. Robert
VanDeventer, pastor of the Jackson
Baptist Church, returns to the city to-
Dream Tango and
Horse Trot Make
Others Look Slow
NEW YORK, July 30.—Two new
dances, the dream tango and the horse
trot, soon will make their appearance.
Uriel Davis, dancing master to the
“four hundred,” who drived from
Europe to-day. says the new dances
will make the tango, the turkey trot
bunny hug. banana peel glide and the
others look like an old straw bonnet.
He is going to teach the summer
colony at Newport the new ways to
glide. The horse trot, he said, is a
modified turkey trot, the dancers flit
ting over the waxed surface like
prancing steeds, instead of wobbling
all over the floor.
He declined to tell what his new
tango is like.
U.C1 BUILDING
Deed Conveying Property to Rpal
Estate Firm Signed When Last
$65,673.71 Is Paid.
Tile formal transfer of the Young
Men’s Christian Association building
at the corner of Pryor street and Au
burn avenue to the Chamber of Com
merce Realty Company took place on
Wednesday at 10:30 o’clock, when a
deed was signed by Captain J. W.
English, chairman, and J. K. Ottley,
secretary of the board of trustees of
the Young Men’s Christian Associa
tion.
At the same time a transaction was
consummated by which a loan of
$100,000 was placed upon the prop
erty by the New- York Life Insurance
Company. Of this amount $60,000 was
paid to-day and the remainder will be
paid by the insurance company when
improvements on the building are
completed about the middle of De
cember
The building was purchased from
the Young Men’s Christian Associa
tion more than a year ago by the
Chamber of Commerce Realty Com
pany for $160,000 and Anal payment
was made to-day with two checks
aggregating $65,673.71. payable to
Robert J. Lowry, treasurer of the
Young Men’s Christian Association,
and delivered this morning to Marion
Jackson, president.
Those present at the formal trans
fer were Marion Jackson, president;
Captain J. W. English, chairman of
the board of trustees; J. K. Ottley,
secretary of’the board of trustees, and
J. P. Jackson, general secretary, rep
resenting the Y. M. C. A.; W. G
Cooper, secretary of the Chamber or
Commerce, and Shepard Bryan, rep
resenting the New York Life Insur
ance Company.
This brings to consummation the
first and most important feature of
Wilmer L. Moore’s* program an
nounced when he began his term as
president of the Atlanta Chamber of
Commerce.
Improvement of the building al
ready has begun and a committed on
manufacturers’ exhibits is engaged
upon a plan to organize an associa
tion of manufacturers to place the
manufacturers’ exhibits in four floors
of the building above the second.
TAX EQUALIZERS
HOUSE FIGHT
6ection of Lipscomb Bill Giving
State Power Fought at First
Afternoon Session.
CAMP MEETING PLANNED.
ROME.—Plans are just about com
pleted for the annual camp meeting
at Morrison’s camp grounds. The ses
sions last for two weeks and during
that time the camp grounds resemble
a tented city.
ATLANTAN’S BROTHER DEAD.
ROCHESTER, N. Y., July 30—Eb-
en R. Clark, aged 71, brother of Mrs.
Laura Merrill, of Atlanta, Is dead
his home here of h*art failure. The
burial will be Thursday in Albion, N.
For the first time since the present
Legislature convened, the House held
an afternoon session Wednesday, for
the further consideration of-the Lips
comb tax reform bill, which creates
State and county boards of tax equal
izers. The vote on the motion to hold
an afternoon session, offered by
Hardeman, of Jefferson, was 73 to 56
in favor of it.
The fight over the tax reform bill
was more strenuous at to-day’s ses
sion than at any time since the bill
was introduced. While fifteen sec
tions of the bill were adopted Tues
day, the whole of Wednesday morn
ing was taken-up with the discussion
of section 16. This section is con
sidered one of th*e most important of
the bill, and those who oppose the
Lipscomb measure have trained their
guns on it.
Section 16 defines th6 duties of and
confers certain powers upon the pro
posed State board of equalization It
provides that the State board shall
have supervision over the county
boards, and that it shall be the duty
of the State board to compare the tax
digests of the various counties to as
certain whether there is a uniform
valuation of property. The section
gives the board authority to deduct or
add to the tax valuations of the prop
erty as returned by the county board.
Shepherd’s Measure Scored.
Shepherd, of Sumter, was severely
criticised by Smith, of Muscogee, for
introducing a substitute to the Lips
comb bill which abolished the Statf
board and left only the county
boards.
\ “It is up. to this House,” said Mr.
Smith, “to determine whether Mr.
Shepherd is sincere in offering his sub
stitute, or whether he is offering a
sham and a fraud ’to mislead the
members of the House and the people
of Georgia. He tries to make people
think he is working for tax revision,
and he is doing nothing of the kind.
He says he is the friend of the far
mer, yet he wants to establish coun
ty boards with no supervision and
saddle the necks of the farmers with
the same yoke that increased their
burdens twenty years ago.
“He admits that the county boards
alone, as tried in 1891. were a failure,
yet he wants to establish them again.
The establishment of a State hoard
will not increase the taxes of the
honest man in Georgia one penny,
but it will get thosq who do not
make honest returns on their prop
erty/’
Mr. Shepherd declared that the
State board idea is a farce, and said
so much power should not be vested
in three men.
“The only difference between my
bill and the original bill,” he said, “is
the establishment of the State board.”
Several Amendments Offered.
Others who discussed the bill were
Fyllbright, of Burke; Myrick, of
Chatham; McMichael, of Marion;
Blackburn, of Fulton, and Wimberly,
of Bibb.
,.^our amendments were offered to
the section by Representatives Full-
blight, Greene, Moss and Straddle.
Representative Straddle, of Elbert,
wanted to amend the hill by striking
out section 16. Mr. Green, of Hous
ton, wahted gto amend the bill by
striking out the section and inserting
the following:
“The Comptroller General shall
have supervision over the county
boards, and shall inspect and Investi
gate the tax returns. If he dissents
with them he shall send the ‘State
Property Inspector’ into the county
to investigate and report to the
Comptroller General, who shall
change the returns as he sees fit.”
Moss, of Cobb, presented an amend
ment to Fullbright's amendment,
which provides that if the county
and State boards disagree, the Comp
troller General shall determine a fair
return on the property.
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Bail Allowed Trooper
Who Killed Comrade
INDIANAPOLIS, IND., July 30.—
At the request of Major Gordon W.
Balin, Judge advocate of the Indiana
National Guard, Judge Collier to-day
fixed the bond of Sergeant Edwin
Ball, indicted by a special Grand Jury
for first degree murder, at $5,000. The
amount probably will be furnished by
officers of the National Guard.
Bal^ fatally shot Guardsman Walter
Dowell, of Madison, Ind., when the
latter attempted to escape while un
der military arrest for having a quart
bottle of liquor in his possession while
en route to the State encampment.
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termination by U. S. Troops
Calls It Slaughter.
me, however, but being caught in bad
company, I am having to suffer the
consequences, while the other girls
paid their fine* and are free to-day.
“I was without friends or money
and in bad health, too, so I couldn’t
pay my fine, but had to come to jail,
and being ignorant of the law, I knew
not how to prove my innocence and
had no money to pay a lawyer to de
fend me.
• “I beg you from the depths of my
heart to grant me the release. I am
not bad at heart,* your honor, and my
only desire is to return home to my
dear mother, who is an invalid, and
be a good girl. God will surely blesr
you if you will permit me to go. I
will never get in any trouble any
more,\ for I will go home and be a
good girl. I trust ^nd pray that you
will grant me the release.”
Plea Touches Governor.
Governor Slaton’s heart was touch
ed by the appeal. He investigated the
case carefully and Wednesday morn
ing wrote out this brief statement,
which will carry Jack Davis back to
her home and her mother:
“Petitioner nas been in Jail for two
months, during which time she has
been subjected to a capital surgical
operation. Her offense Is not vicious
and I approve the application.”
The Governor also granted a pardon
Wednesday to Joe Playmate, a negro
convict in Brooks County, who is on
the verge of death.
Strike Intensified by
Delaying Arbitration
CALUMET, MICH., July 30.—Five
representatives of the mine operators
in the Calumet copper region had not
been selected to-day to confer with
Governor Ferris and five union dele
gates at Lansing in an effort to 'end
the stike of 18,000 mines. The oper
ators would not say whether they
would join the conference.
The strike situation appeared to be
more critical to-day.
ARTILLERY FOR ROME.
ROME.—If plans now on foot suc
ceed a company of field artillery will
be formed in Rome. Barry Wright,
who has had considerable military
experience, is back of the movement.
There are now batteries at Atlanta
and Savannah.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 30.—The
story* of the killing of 2,000 Moros in
the Philippine Islands by General
Pershing’s soldiers was related here
to-day by John McLean, a civilian
employee of the United States army,
quartermaster's department, who ar
rived from Manila on the steamer
Persia.
He said 196 women and 340 chil
dren were killed/in one d&y’s fight
ing.
When the Moros saw the battle was
lost to the American troops, they held
their women and children in front of
them as shields, and the fire from the
rifles and machine guns of the troops
mowed them down by scores.
“The news of the fighting was
strictly censored at Manila,” said Mc
Lean. “The American and Philippine
officers only allowed the most mea
ger reports to leak out of Jolo while
the treacherous Moro bandits were
being exterminated.
“At the battle of Bagsak the scenes
after the fighting were horrible. As
the American troops rushed up the
side of the mountain to the edge of
the crater, the MoroB seized women
and children, many mere infants, and
held them up to smeltf themselves.
Hundreds of them were literally shot
to pieces. "
“It was believed that every Moro
that took part in that battle was kill
ed. By General Pershing’s order, all
of the bodies were burned.”
Chattanooga Widow
Rome Banker’s Bride
ROME, July 30.—The marriage on
July 4 of Mrs. George C. Mahar, a
wealthy woman of Chattanooga, to C.
L. Payne, assistant cashier of the
Exchange National Bank, here, has
just been made known.
Payfle s wife continued to reside in
Chattanooga until this week, when
she paid her first visit to the home
of her husband. This makes her third
matrimonial venture. She was a
widow when she married Mahar. He
lived with her only a few weeks and
she obtained a divorce. She owns
considerable property in Chattanooga.
BALTIMORE, MD.
$20.85 Round Trip $20.85
Tickets on sale August 1,
2 and 3. Return limit Au
gust 15. Through electric
lighted steel sleeping cars.
Dining cars on most con
venient schedules.
SOUTHERN RAILWAY.
Last Day for Silks at these Pre-Inventory Prices---
Final Clearance of 85c to $1.50 Silks at
Because we won’t invoice broken-lines and short lots of silks
we have grouped these rich and fashionable fabrics at 39c. But you must buy
them to-iporrow ! If a single yard remains'at the tap of the closing bell, it
will be put away or go back to its original pri ce.
The silks are the choice stylish weaves eve a now selling elsewhere ntffull priee. They are
fresh and fashionable. The lengths extend from 5 to 30 yards. Scarcely a piece shorter than
a dress length. Included are
85c showerproof foulards—handsome all silk fabrics; the summer silk par ex
cellence. Staple colorings in neat designs. 39c.
85c chiffon taffetas—a soft, free flowing silk in solid colors and changeables. 27
inches wide. ChlfTon taffetas are “good” for fall. Buy now; save over half. 39c.
$1 to $1.50 silks—a glorious miscellany of Jacquard silks, warp prints, flowered taf
fetas, shantung crepe, novelties. Widths from 24 to 36 inches. 39c.
(Silk Annex—Main Floor)
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25c Non-Odor
: Powder, 16c
•2 “Eversweet,” “^piro” and
*2 “Perspiro”—all perspiration de-
Sg stroyers that do away with any
tg odor from summer heat or perspi-
Ig ration.
:» 50c Face Powder
=2 Mme. Isabelle’s face pow- n n
.J der, soft and pure. Dalntl- A / p
ly scented; a delightful w
powder for summer.
5c Soap5,2c
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■2 Standard 5c soap, includ-
j2 ing tar soap, glycerine and Cpl-
> gate’s hotel soaps.
(Main Floor, Center)
: 100 Safety Pins
*2 Usually 5c a dozen ; here are /\
$ dozen, 40c worth, for I MC
3; 19c. All nickel plated ^ v '
'2 Graduated sizes from the very
Remember Thi
WcIISiS Clearance Sale
Is a
Not
Many of These Waists
Clearing broken lines and short
lots of waists. They’re piled heaping
high on half a dozen tables. Not
many of a kind, but a goodly number
at each price. ’Twill pay you to look
them over. ;
\CQ_,for $1 waists—white voiles and l
J */C» lingeries. High or low neck, long ]
or short sleeves.
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<J* 1 for $1.50 to $2 waists—white voiles '
ip $• and lingeries." Summer’s smartest -
.49 for $2 and $2.50 waists—man-
styles.
nfsh shirt' styles In white lin
ens; soft cool suumler waists In white J
vollesrand lingeries. - -. J
for $3.50 to $6350 waists—the j
ones and 'twbs of a kind of
our best sellers. Lingerie and voile;’
beautifully made. High and low neck,
d* $ QC for $3.50 to $4 shirts—all silk shirts, mannish style.
*P A .170 Black or colored stripes on white ground. Soft de
tachable turn-over collars.
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small to the very large.
18 Collar
Supporters
10c
Waists at Half Price
Our finest numbers of all white lingerie waists, and black and
colored silk or chiffon waists. Former prices.
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Spiral collar supporters, 6 on card,
usually 10c a card, 3 cards here to
morrow for only 10c.
(Main Floor, Center)
Were $5.00 to $16.50.
Now $2.50 to $8.25.
(Ready-to-Wear
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-Second Floor) JJf
Ball Bearings
Give Minimum
Operating Effort
19c,25c,39c&50c1 A r
Jewelry to Go at
Odds and ends that we don’t care to in-
I voice. But if the one piece you want is here—
; and it doubtless is—the saving will be worth
' while. Choose from
Bar pins—Sash Pins—Belt Pins—
Brooches—Beauty Pins.
I Variously gold and silver plated and set with stones.
69c Lavalliers 39c
Chains of German silverwlth Sterling or German
silver pendants). Some With stone settings.
$1 Opera Chains at49c
Popular 54-ineh opera chains. Some German silver
with platinum, gun metal finish; others of real
gun metal. Enriched with pearls and stones.
(Main Floor, Center)
98c Petticoats 49c
Made of fine cambric, fit smooth and snug without
a wrinkle. Cut in the new narrow styles. Made
of fine white cambric, finished at bottom with,
embroidery scalloping.
(Muslinweai—Second Floor)
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75c Long Silk Gloves
Forget the price—these are not *'
flimsy, make-believe silk gloves. No, g'
they arp pure thread silk in the ^ g=»
Tricot weaves—firm and flexible. 16-butfon length, "S
too, full fashioned and finely finished. Double £;
tipped fingers. Broken sizes in b’aei; and white;
about all sizes In tan, pongee, navy and lavender.
(Gloves—Main Floor, Left) 5b
50c to 75c Stocking s
29c I
Broken lines and sizes of boot
silks and all-silk stockings in col
ors only, and embroidered and
lace lisle stockings in black and colors. Most
extraordinary values, because we wish to
avoid invoicing broken, lines.
35c & 50c Stockings 25c
Their maker say they’re “seconds”—let.
him have his way. We’ve examiuydThe,.stock
ings; the “hurts” are hard to find. Madq of
fine lisle, full fashioned and finely finished. All
sizes. Black only. ( Main Floor >
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Ball Bearing; Long Wearing
Think of everything that is mod
ern and useful in typewriter con
struction-then add twenty to thirty
per cent for increased efficiency due
to ball bearings—that’s
The L. C. Smith & Bros. Typewriter
It’s compact, complete, easy to
operate, durable and proof against
inexperience and carelessness.
Ball bearings permit closer ad
justments without binding than any
other form of bearing. Expressed
in human effort, this means that the
operator can do more work—-better
work, with the least physical and
mental strain.
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about typewriter efficiency
L. C. Smith & Bros. Typewriter Co.
Office and Factory af Syracuse, N. Y.
121 N. Pryor St., Atlanta. Ga.
August /
Furniture Sale
Starts Friday,
August 1st.
Save up to Half
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Clearing 50c to $1 z
Belts at 25c
Some are the last of broken lines; !
others are odds and ends; still others
that are the ultra-smart styles too dis- j
tinctjve to meet the popular taste. j
Choice 25c. There are
—$1 calfskin belts In solid brown.
—$1 black and white kid belts. .
—$1 black and white sllk-etriped elastic
holts with pearl buckle.
—50c white kid belt trimmed with black
patent leather. .
—50o black patent leather ami white kid
belts, ribbon run with Bulgarian silk.
—Choice of the lot 25c.
(Bolts—Main Floor, Cent«r>
$1.50 Ratine 95c
| The fashionable ratine in
I the tousled Turkish toweling
I weave. It bears your favor;
| you have bought it freely all
I season long at $1.50.
| Just two pieces left—a Copenha-
i gen and an Alice blue. Scarce-
| ly worth invoicing two pieces,
therefore 95c, Instead of $1.50.
I 45 Inches wide.
I (Embroideries—
Main Floor, Right)
Toys, Games, Etc.,
at Halved Prices
Dolls, scores of them;
games of many kinds; vehi
cles; doll carriages; baseball
bats and gloves; toys; sand
tools, et cetera, are at about
half price and even less.
Great opportunities for the
kiddies.
(Main Floor, Right)
Ribbon Remnants
at Half Price \
A tropical flower garden; rain- |
bow colorings riotously awhirl;
fashionable Roman stripes;
captivating plaids—just a lit
tle bit of everything that has
been popular this season.
Widths from 1 to 8 Inches.
Lengths from 1-2 yard to 3
yards. Prices
Were 5c to $1.50
Now 3c to 75c.
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'inal One Day Sale of Laces at
Formerly Selling at 35c, 50c, 75c to $1.50
What a glorious day’s lace selling there’ll be! Atlanta, we believe, has jg
! seen nothing like it before. Ss
I For there are fashionable shadow laces in bands and flouncings fromf 5 to 18 inches 5;
' wide. Formerly 35c to 69c, now 25c. .... „ ^ , -j ,
| There are Venise Bands, Filet and Val Laces in bands from 3 to 5 inches wide and *.
! edges up to 9 inches. Formerly 39c to 75e, now 25c.
| s ee these pretty insertions in cotton torchons, Vais, Oriental and Venise laces. 1 to JG
1 o i o inehes wide Formerly selling at 6Qe to $1.50 the dozen yards, now 12 yards for 25c.
‘ | (Roady at 8:30. Laces—Main Floor, Right)
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