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Ready for Battle Over Jim Conley’s Story
Lipscomb State Board Bill Vir
tually Killed, but Sheppard Sub
stitute Gives Reformers Hope.
With the Lipscomb tax reform bill,
which creates a state board of tax
equalizers to have supervision over
county boards, virtually killed in the
House Wednesday afternoon by the
adoption of the Stovall amendment
striking out all of Section 16, defining
the powers and duties of the proposed
state board, interest among the Rep
resentatives centered Thursday In the
Sheppard substitute, which abolishes
the state board and establishes only
county boards.
The adoption of the Stovall amend
ment places the perfected Lipscomb
bill, as amended by the Ways and
Means Committee, in the peculiar po
sition of creating a state board, pro
viding for its salaries and then shear
ing it ef all power.
It presages the defeat of the Lips
comb measure if it ever comes to a
vote in the House, and the passage of
the Sheppard substitute is considered
almost a certainty.
Three Amendments Defeated.
The discussion on Section 16 of the
Lipscomb bill Wednesday afternoon
clearly defined the issue as whether
the House desired a bill creating a
state board or county boards only.
Three amendments offered by Moss
of Cobb, Fullbright of Burke and
Greene of Houston, which made
changes in the powers of the State
board and added to the powers of the
Comptroller General, were voted down
by practically the same vote by whicn
the Stovall amendment was adopted.
The vote on the Stovall, amendment
striking out the section was 106 to 68,
Several speeches were delivered la
the House during the Wednesday aft.
emoon session, most of them in favor
of the adoption of the Lipscomb bill
and the creation of a State Board of
Tax Equalizers. Mr. Henderson, of
Jones County, created a sensation
when he declared 95 per cent of the
people of Georgia commit perjury In
making their tax returns.
Cities Not Behind Bill.
“I want to refute the statement
that the cities are behind the Lips
comb bill,” Mr. Henderson said. "Tne
country people are in favor of tax re
form. I come from a county where
there is no town of more than 500 in
habitants, and I believe the people of
my county honestly want a tax equal
ization measure. The people of my
county are tired of committing per
jury in making their tax returns.
“The people of Georgia commit
perjury if they return their property
for taxation at less than a fair val
uation, and I believe that 96 per cent
of them do this very thing. I defy
any one to say that the present tax
system of Georgia is not an induce
ment to perjury.”
The speaker was interrupted by Mr.
Strickland, of Pierce County.
“Do I understand you to say,”
asked Mr. Strickland, “that 95 per
cent of the people of Georgia commit
perjury?”
“They do,” replied Mr. Henderson,
“if they subscribe to the oath at the
tax receivers.”
In Neither Class.
"Will the gentleman 'please state
which class he is in—the 5 per cent
or the 95 per cent?” inquired Mr.
Strickland.
“Unfortunately I am in neither,
said Mr. Henderson. “It has never
been necessary for me to go before
the tax receiver save for a very small
amount of personal property."
Mr. Dorrough of Franklin and Mr.
Meadows of Wayne also spoke in fa
vor of the establishment of a State
board. Mr. Dorrough cited figures to
show that the State board system had
worked well in other States.
"Georgia is from 25 to 50 years be
hind her fister ^tates in matters of
tax equalization,”' he declared.
Mr. Meadows declared that the
State board would work no hardships
on those who now make fair returns
fon their property, but is intended for
those who evade the law and return
their property at less than a fair vai-
Heat Makes Senator
Forget His Collar;
He Pays Calls, Too!
WASHINGTON, July 31.—‘Pretty
hot to-day,’ observed Senator Thorn
ton, as he boarded an elevator at the
Capitol to-day.
"Yes,” replied the runner, “but I see
you are going: the limit in trying to be
comfortable.”
“How is that?” inquired the Sen
ator, with an uneasy tremor in his
voice.
The runner silently pointed at the
Senator’s neck, and Mr. Thornton
grabbed it with both hands.
There was nothing there but neck.
The Senator had neglected putting on
collar and n?ckt«e until the last min
ute becau.«e of the excessive heat, and
then fared forth without them.
“Blushing Primroses!” exclaimed
the Senator, “and I have been out
making departmental calls. I just left
Postmaster General Burleson.”
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Jail for Life Faces
Victim of Alimony
MACON, July 31.—J. C. Brooks, a
Central of Georgia Railroad conduc
tor, expects to spend the remainder
of his life in jail, owing to his inabil
ity to give the $750 alimony bond re
quired of him by the Superior Court.
When Brooks failed to make his ali
mony payments promptly, he was
sent to jail for contempt of court.
When that sentence expired, he was
assessed a bond. Being unable to
give that, he must stay in jail. He
states he and his relatives have ex
hausted every effort to procure a
bondsman.
Brooks having previously announced
a determination to leave the jurisdic
tion of the court if he ever got out
of jail, even the professional bonds
men are afraid to take a chance on
him. He is ordered to pay Mrs.
Brooks $40 a month for life.
J.H,Hunter New Head
Of Brinson Railroad
SAVANNAH, July 31.—Following
the consummation yesterday of the
sale of the Brinson Railroad to New
York capitalists, represented by
James Imbrie, and the formal trans
fer to that syndicate of the holdings
of George M. Brinson, president of
the road, a meeting of the directors
was held, and the following officers
were elected to serve under the new
regime:
President, John Heard Hunter, Sa
vannah; vice president, John E. Foy,
Savannah; directors, James Imbrie,
New York, chairman; Mills B. Lane,
J. H. Hunter, E. T. Comer, R. M.
Hitch and H. D. Stevens, of Savan
nah, and John F. Wallis and Mr.
Goodbody, of New York.
Columbus Doctor
Accuses His Wife
COLUMBUS. July 31.—Alleging
that his wife, Mrs. Kelley Cooke, had
been untrue to him, and naming
Charles D. Hunt, Jr., a business man,
as co-respondent, Dr. W. L. Cooke
has filed suit for divorce.
Dr. Cooke, who is a deacon in the
First Presbyterian church of this city,
names a number of occasions on
which his wife was unfaithful to him.
The Cookes were married in Wash
ington, D. C., in 1905, and have one
child, a boy, 3 years age. The
husband asks for the custody of the
son. Mrs. Cooke has gone to her peo
ple in Bristersburg. Va.
China Rebels Slay
Helpless Thousands
Special Cable to The Georgian.
VLADIVOSTOK, July 31.—Dis
patches received here tell of the
wholesale massacres in China by the
rebels.
The rebels swept through Thibet,
killing thousands of men. women and
children. It is reported Thibetians
who could not flee to safety commit
ted suicide in preference to falling
irto the hands of the Chinese.
One report stated that the Thibe-
tian natives had almost been exter
minated by the Chinese rebels.
NAVAL DESERTER CAUGHT
COLUMBUS.—Marsh Weinburg, an
alleged deserter from the United
States Navy, is held at police head
quarters in Columbus, awaiting or
ders from the Navy Department in
Washington. He is alleged to have
>4bcortaH Tiilv 1 in Savannah.
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Mary H. Bramlett Pushes Search
for Robber Who Killed Cafe
Owner in San Francisco.
Determined to find the slayer of
her brother, Mary H. Bramlett, of
No. 299 Edgewood avenue, sister of
D. Q. Bramlett, who was killed by a
robber in San Francisco on June 16,
has offered a reward of $200 for the
apprehension of the guilty man. The
body of Mr. Bramlett was brought to
Atlanta about ten days ago for inter
ment.
Mr. Bramlett was in the restaurant
business here until about six years
ago, when he moved to San Francisco.
At the time of his death he was pro
prietor of a restaurant on Market
street.
The death of Mr. Bramlett was
tragic. According to the dispatches
he had just closed his store at mid
night and was in the act of counting
his earnings for the day, when a
stranger entered and demanded th^
contents of the cash drawer. Caught
unawares and helpless before the re
volver which the robber thrust in
his face Mr. Bramlett complied.
As the robber turned to go, how
ever, Bramlett grabbed an awning
crank and followed. Just as he
raised it the robber turned and fired
twice, both bullets taking effect in the
head.
The police failed to locate the rob
ber and every clue has been run down
without avail. Mrs. Bramlett. who
has lived in Atlanta about fifteen
years, is determined, however, that
no stone shall be left unturned to
apprehend the guilty person.
The $200 reward will be forwarded
to the authorities in San Francisco
immediately upon the apprehension of
the robber.
Mrs. Oelrichs Seen in
Semi-Swallow-Tail
NEWPORT, July 31.—The latset
morning costume from Paris was
worn at the Casino by Mrr. Charles
De Loosey Oelrichs. It was a split
panel skirt costume, split well up the
back.
The jacket was in semi-swallow tail
effect, with the back trimmed with
thick French blue silk, with a paro-
sol to match. A mushroom-like hat
was trimmed with a small white
feather and white cord.
Plump and Dimpled
Babies All Wrong
BOSTON. July 31.—“I want to tell
the mothers of those babies that have
been exhibited in the baby contest
that every one of them is a little
obese wretch,” said Dr. Charles E.
Page, No. 120 Tremont street, to-day.
“Every farmer knows better than
to fatten his animals so,” he con
tinued. “A fat body means a fat
heart, a fat liver and fat kidneyR,
and these heavy babies are already
victims of fatty degeneration.”
Jersey Fishers Get
1,300-lb. Mackerel
ATLANTIC CITY. N. J.. July 31.— 1
After an exciting chase off the inlet
this morning, as they were returning
from the dally trip to the fishing
banks, the crew of the fishing smack
Nettie R. captured the largest horse
mackerel ever caught along this sec
tion of the coast.
After it had been brought ashore
and placed on the scales, it was found
that the fish weighed a little more
than 1,300 pounds. It was harpooned.
STUCK TO LAST ’TIL LAST.
YORK. PA., July 31.—Cornelius
Baer. 88, who had vowed in his youth
to follow the maxium, “Cobbler, stick
to thy last,” died to-day at his bench.
From the time he started to do cob
bler work he was never know to leave
his b?nch except for meals, for church
for clcnti
DETECTIVESFIGURING PROMINENTLY
IN PHAGAN CASE AND FRANK TRIAL;
FACTOR AS
J. N. STARNES. HARRY SCOTT. JOHN BLACK.
Mrs. Vanderbilt Aids
Child Her Auto Hit
NEWPORT, R I., July 31.—Kneel
ing in, the dust of John Street yes
terday. Mrs. Elsie French Vanderbilt
held in her lap the head of 4-year-old
Edward Cannell % who had been struck
and knocked unconscious by her
heavy touring car. It was with the
greatest difficulty that John Flynn,
her chauffeur and bystanders induced
her to let them carry the boy into a
nearby drug store.
Mrs. Vanderbilt was being driven
up John street, when the boy ran in
front of the car. He suffered con
cussion of the brain, and is on the
dangerous list at the Newport hos-
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Negro Holds Posse at Bay,
“Sasses” Recorder and
Threatens to Repeat.
Henry Shelton, a negro convict in
the city stockade, was double-
shackled and closely guarded Thurs
day, following a sensational escape
Wednesday, after which he attempted
to stand off a posse of pursuers with
an ax, and later defied Recorder Nash
Broyles in police court in the after
noon.
The convict made his break for lib
erty while at work with a gang on
Bell street, between Auburn avenue
and Houston street. With guards in
close pursuit, he vaulted fences and
ran through yards, finally seizing an
ax and threatening any one who went
close to him.
The guards finally got the drop on
the ferocious convict and forced him
to throw’ down the ax and surrender.
Later in police court, the recorder
sought to give the negro some good
advice regarding attempts to escape,
when the latter exclaimed:
“Well, I’m going to run away every
chance I have. They’ll have to watch
me good.”
He was given an additional fine of
$25.75 or 29 days each in two cases—
one for escaping, and the other for
cursing and defying th« officers.
DEFIANT CONVICT
PLACED IN ICONS
Dr, B. Clark Hyde
Playing Tennis Now
KANSAS CITY. MO., July 31 —
There doubtless are better players in
the Missouri Valley tennis tourna
ment. 1m t none was regarded with
greater interest from the grandstand
than Dr. B. Clark Hyde, who was tried
twice on the charge of killing Thomas
H. Swope. He was convicted once,
but the Supreme Court reversed the
decision, and the second jury dis
agreed.
Dr. Hyde was paired in the pre
liminaries with Roland Hoerr, of St.
Louis. Hoerr defeated him in straight
sets, 6—0, 6—0.
Unfit To Be Ancestor,
Don’t Wed, Says Blue
WASHINGTON, July 31.—“No one
is fit to be married who is unfit to be
an ancestor,” is the eugenic dictum
iaid down to-day by Surgeon General
Blue, of the Public Health Service,
who says there are 1,000,000 defec
tives in the United States.
“Eugenics* represent to the lay
mind something scientific to be com
bined with love and marriage,” said
the Surgeon General. “It is the funda
mental principle on wwhich we must
build our future generations if this
country is to remain prosperous and
sane.
Mrs. Young Not to
Quit Chicago Schools
CHICAGO, July 31.—Mrs. Ella
Flagg Young will remain at the head
of Chicago’s public schools. She mad #
announcement to-day that she would
reconsider her resignation after the
City School Commissioners refused to
accept it. Only one member of the
board voted in favor of Mrs. Young's
retirement.
Mrs. Young is 67 years old. She
has been connected with the Chicago
schools more than half her life. She
was the first woman president of the
National Education Association.
Atlanta Congressman Declares
That Republican Officials Were
Caught “Redhanded.”
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia—Local thundershow
ers Thursday and Friday.
WASHINGTON, July 31.—That the
investigation into the soliciting of
campaign contributions in the Atlanta
Federal building by representatives of
th* Republican administration during
1912 would be vigorously pushed was
the statement of Representative Wil
liam Schley Howard here to-day. He
was explaining his resolution, which
called upon the Civil Service Commis
sion to submit all documents and pa
pers it held In connection with this
case to the Committee on Reform in
Ihe Civil Service, along with the or
der of the. former Attorney General
quashing the case.
In his explanation, Mr. Howard
made the statement that the present
Attorney General would not allow the
matter to drop, as did his predeces
sor, whom he charged with dropping
the case upon instructions from the
Department of Justice.
“These people were caught red-
handed in the soliciting of campaign
funds for the Republican interests,”
said Mr. Howard. “They were abso
lutely violating the law, in that they
were upon Federal property at the
time they committed the act. The
Secretary of the Civil Service Com
mission in Atlanta did his duty and
reported the matter, but the men
higher up stopped It.
“I shall keep a close eye on this
resolution and will make a strong
fight to punish the offenders for prac
tically holding up the poor employees
of the Government by levying a con
tribution tax upon them.”
Militants Use Torch
To Harass the King
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, July 31.—To further harass
King George, suffragettes to-day set
fire to the luncheon pavilion near the
grandstand of the Goodwood race track.
It was known that the King w'ould
i attend the races to-day and the arson
1 squad of thf nr.itftr.nts became* active.
Considerable damage was done.
A surprise in the trial of Leo M. Frank was sprung Thursday
when Harry Scott, Pinkerton detective who worked exhaustively
on the Phagan riPurder mystery, testified that the prisoner was
composed the Sunday the body was discovered, in direct contra-
diction to the testimony of police winesses.
Solicitor Dorsey expressed his amazement at the testimony of
his own witness.
‘■‘I and the men who have
worked with me have made an
impartial investigation of the
murder mystery,” said Scott be
fore he was called. ‘‘Some of the
evidence has been incriminating
to Frank and some has pointed
the finger of suspicion at the
negro Conley.”
Surprise for Dorsey.
Q. W T hat Is your business?—A. Pin
kerton detective.
Scott then proceeded to very lucid
ly recount Frank's actions on the
Sunday morning the body was found.
He said that Frank said Mrs. White
told him she had seen a negro behind
some boxes on the first floor as she
left the factory Saturday afternoon.
Q. What was Frank's attitude on
Sunday?—A. He was composed.
Dorsey said:
"Your honor, I want to refresh his
memory. I was misinformed as. to
what the witness would testify.”
Attorney Rosser objected.
"I am surprised at the evidence,”
said the Solicitor, "of this witness re
garding Frank’s attitude.”
Noted Nothing Unusual.
"What about his breathing?” asked
the Solicitor.—A. Well, between sen
tences, occasionally he took a deep
breath.
Q. What about the expression of his
eyes?—A. I had never seen him be
fore. The expression of his eyes was
about as they are now.
Frank at the trial wore the same
cool expression he has since the be
ginning. his face utterly devoid of
emotion. The expression of his un
usual eyes was calm.
Gantt Recalled.
J. M. Gantt was recalled a moment'
at the beginning of the morning ses
sion Thursday to tell of the time he
was arrested and the time he was
released. Scott then was called as a
witness and it was expected that he
would be on the stand most of the
day.
The courtroom was crowded as on
every other day of the trial. There
was a noticeable Increase in the num
ber of women present. The seats all
were taken half an hour before the
time set for the beginning of the trial.
Jury Comfortable.
According to the deputy in charge
of the Jury. Drew Liddell, the twelve
men with whom the fate of Leo
Frank will rest, have not discussed
the case at all in their room back of
the prisoner’s quarters.
The jurymen retire early each
evening to be in good trim for the
next day’s ordeal. They arise about
7, jump into cold tubs and breakfast
at a cafe on Pryor street and are in
their room at the courthouse at 8
o’clock.
Several of them have expressed
pleasure at the comforts provided
and the attention given to their
wants. They do not seem to mind at
all the prospect of a long trial.
Seott important Witness.
Scott was in charge of the investi
gation into the murder mystery for
the Pinkertons from the time the
agency was engaged Sunday after
noon, April 27. He worked most of
the time in a sort of partnership with
John Black, the city detective who
wilted under the cross-examination uf
Luther Rosser Wednesday afternoon.
If the Stste fails to bolster its case
by the aid of Scott’s testimony,
neither Detective Starnes nor Black
having contributed any evidence ex
| cept of the most circumstantial na-
upon the story of Jim Conley, the ne
gro sweeper at the factory before the
murder of Mary Phagan. »
Scott, after he became identified
with the case, took the lead in un
earthing much of the evidence. Hi3
operatives found the bloody stick, the
torn envelope supposed to be that of
the slain girl, and the cord, ail on the
first floor near the place where Con
ley admitted he was hiding on th»
day of the crime.
Conley Awaited,
The attitude of Scott himself, how
ever. always has been unfavorable to
the factory- superintendent. He has
contended that the evidence points to
Frank's guilt. He has expressed his
belief In the negro Conley's story.
Conley swore, after making two ad
mittedly false affidavits, that he was
called by Frank Saturday afternoon,
April 26, and directed to assist in the
disposal of Mary Phaga.n’s body. The
body was carried from the rear of the
second floor to the elevator In the
front of the building, down the eleva
tor to the basement and to a trash
heap In the rear, according to Conley’s
remarkable tale.
The negro was expected to follow
Scott on the stand. If Black received
a merciless grilling Wednesday, Con
ley may expect to get one still more
terrible from Luther Rosser, who has
vowed he will break down the negro
and get from him the whole truth in
regard to the slaying of the little
factory girl. Rosser has expressed
his conviction that Cor.ley is guilty
and he hopes to prove it by the ne
gro’s own words on the stand, al
though he is not overly confident of
his ability to do that.
Although the State’s witnesses
were on the stand all of Wednesday
the day wrs distinctly favorable for
Frank, partly because nothing dis
tinctly unfavorable was developed
against him—the burden of proof
being upon the State—but most
largely because of two other factors,
the utter collapse of the testimony of
one of the State’s star witnesses, City-
Detective John Black, and the testi
mony in favor of Frank that was
given by another of the State’s wit-
sses, Miss Grace Hix, a 16-year-
old factory employee.
Girl Helps Frank.
Miss Hix testified that the strands
of hair found on the lathing machine
on the second floor might have been
the hair of one of the other girls In
the factory, many of whom when they
were ready to leave the factory at
night, combed their hair right where
they had been working. She said that
Magnolia Kennedy’s hatr was almost
exactly the color of Mary Phagan’s.
She also said that the red spots on
the second floor might be paint. Sh»
never saw Frank attempt any famil
iarities with the girls.
Black was made the uncomfortable
victim of the fiercest grilling any’cf
the witnesses in the Frank trial have
received up to this time.
Luther Rosser.*chief of counsel for
Frank, tore into Black the instant the
city detective was turned over to him
for cross-examination.
Black Bewildered.
Within the space of 3(1 seconds the
attorney hail Rlack unmistakably be
wildered, aithougn the detective trieS
his best to stick to the details of the
story he had Just narrated under So
licitor Dorsey's questioning.
In another 31? seconds Rosser con
tinued his bulldog tactics and had
Black practically admitting that he
had told an untruth under oath, and
that although a moment before ha
had sworn that he had seen Rosser at
* ture. it will be forced to fall back the police station between 8 and. 8:30