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VOL. XI. NO. 309. ATLANTA, GA„ THURSDAY, JULY 31,1913. Br Co TY.Telr^’co. 2 CENTS. p &a£ 0
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FACTOR YMA CHINIST GIVES STARTLING TESTIMONY
BEAUTIFUL WIFE OF
PHAGAN DEFENDANT
U
The House general appropriations
bill, calling t; ' approximately $280,-
000 more in disbursements than in es
timated revenues, is doomed to re
ceive a slashing when it is considered
in executive session by the Senate
Wife of accused
factory
superintendent,
sketched by
Georgian artist
in court room,
as she defiantly
watched
State’s
attorneys.
Boys in Jail Try to
Hang Cellmate for
Informing on Them
FITZGERALD. July 31.—The time
ly Interference of Sheriff Fountain
prevented the hanging of a prlsonei
by hie cellmates in the Ben Hiil
County jail. The near-victim and the
plotters are all boys from 10 to 16
years of age. They had been arrested
for robbing the grocery store of Isler
Brothers.
Officers caught one of the boys in
the act and he told who were with
him. resulting in their arrest. Sherlfl
Fountain placed them in one cell.
During the night the boys who were
"turned up" made a noose from strips
torn from a sheet in the cell and were
In the act of hanging the informer
when the Sheriff discovered them.
Do You
Know
Ice Users Cheated
By Short Weighing;
Negro Drivers Fined
A systematic ice steal, through
which numerous Atlantans have been
consistently swindled, was brought to
light in Police Court Thursday morn
ing when two negro employees of
the Atlantic Ice and Coal Corporation,
Will Gifford and Dan Irwin, were ar
raigned. Another negro, Tom Wil
liams, Implicated in the steal, failed
to show up and was ordered rear
rested.
Inspector of Weights and Measures
Buchanan, who trapped the negroes,
presented evidence to show’ that for
weeks they have been giving short
weight to customers on their routes,
frequently stealing as much as 100
pounds out of 400 pounds The in
spector. by shadowing the negroes and
carefully weighing the ice after it had
been delivered by them, obtained con
clusive; evidence
Irwin was fined $15.75 and Gifford
$10.75,
Appropriations Committee Thursday
afternoon.
Senator Stark, chairman of the
committee, Thursday morning de
clared he w’ould fight the bill as now
drawn to the last ditch. Members of
the Senate committee, he says, will
not adopt the bill until the House
provides some means for balancing up
disbursements with revenues.
Although not generally known, .Sen
ator Stark and other members of his
committee have lined up behind Gov
ernor Slaton in his efforts to get leg
islation through frhich will relieve
the present financial embarrassment.
Should the oonlmittee withhold its
approval of the House budget, it will
be up to the lower house to legislate
through the taxing bills or else lose
its fight for an increase in appropria
tions.
That the House will never allow tn^
latter to be done is certain, for pres
sure is being brought to bear for nec
essary increases in certain appropria
tions.
Winds and Showers
Temper Heat Wave
Moderately cool breezes Thursday
tehipered the sweltering heat which had
held Atlanta in its embrace for a week.
The morning started with the mercury
at 75, a high minimum for Atlanta. At
l o’clock the thermometer registered 86
degrees.
The official forecast is thundershow
ers Thursday night or Friday.
The greatest
known.
See Page 17.
depth
Blalock to Assume
His Duties on Friday
Special Agent Shawhan arrived in
Atlanta Thursday from Washington
to effect the tranter of the office of
Internal Revenue Inspec tor on Fricay
Henry S Jackson. Taft appointee,
will be succeeded by A. O. Blalock, of
Fayetteville.
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 necktie until the last min
ute because 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.”
Convict Freed of
New Theft Charges
SAVANNAH. July 31.—W. O.
Brown, already smder conviction and
serving a sentence for embezzlement
of funds from the Southern Cotton
Oil Company, of which he was for
merly manager of the seed and fer
tilizer department, was acquitted to
day in Chatham Superior Court of
additional charges of misappropria
tions of money while connected with
that company. Brown was brought
from State prison to face the addi
tional charges
The Jury returned a sealed verdict
Tuesday night, which was not opened
until this morning. Brown’s wife was
elated at the outcome of the trial.
Moultrie Feudist Is
Guilty; Brother Tried
MOULTRIE July 31 —After delib
erating many hours the Jury trying
the case of James Hart, charged with
the murder of J. M. Harnage, returned
a verdict to-day of voluntary man
slaughter.
Jerry Hart, a brother of James
Hart, is on trial to-day for the murder
of Horace Harnage, the charge grow
ing out of the same affray for which
his brother was convicted.
The trouble between the Harnages
and the Harts took placein May in a
roadway near Berlin andBkps the cul
mination of a number misunder
standings.
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
into the hands of the Chinese.
One report stated that the Thibe-
tian natives had almost been exter
minated by the Chinese rebels.
MULE’S KICK FATAL.
VALDOSTA. July 31.—John Leper,
of Hickstown, Fla., is dead as the re
sult of being kicked In the head by a
mule. The animal strayed to Mr. Lo-
per’s place. When he attempted to
put it in his lot until the owner came,
the mule kicked him on the forehead,
fracturing his skull.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia—Local thundershow
ers Thursday and Friday.
I
I
Murderer of Dallas Typist Ex
pected to Seek Last Look at
Victim—Teeth Prints Clew.
Two Suffocated as
Ammonia Pipe Bursts
ATHENS, July 31.—Two negroes
are known to have met almost instant
death at the ice plant of the Atlantic
Ice and Coal Corporation this after-
Doon, when an ammonia pipe burst
In the storage room, where they were
al work. Before they could be res
cued they had suffocated.
The fumes are so strong where the
men were caught that it has been
impossible to get into the room, and it
is not known w hether any other em
ployees were overcome.
Decies Wins $6,000
Suit Over Mansion
•
Special Cable to The Georgian.
LONDON, July 31.—Lord Decies,
who married Vivien Gould, was to
day awarded $6,265 with $5,000 costs
in his counter claim for overcharges
against Holland, Hannen & Cubitts,
the builders who repaired his home
at Stoke Pogis.
Jn his testimony Lord Decies de
scribed himself as an easy mark,
charged the builders with putting in
bills twice for the same work. Lord
Decies declared that he gave instruc
tions for building the mansion Just
before he was “to be married to an
American lady.”
DALLAS, TEX.. July 31.—Love let
ters written to Miss Florence Brown
opened a new line of investigation to
day in the most puzzling murder in
the history of this section. The let
ters were guarded by the police, and
nothing of the contents nor the iden
tity of the girl’s admirer was re
vealed.
The body of the murdered stenog
rapher was buried to day. A half
holiday was declared in most of the
stores in Dallas. Chief of Police Rya.n
detailed every officer that could be
spared for duty at the funeral. He
expected the murderer to be there.
“To the man capable of such a
hideous murder,” said the chief, “the
attraction to the church would be so
great that he could not resist, if he
was within a reasonable distance.
Guard for Mob Violence.
“That mysterious eharm that
haunts the vicious murderer wHl im
pel him to try to have one more
glimpse of the body from which he
drove the life.’’
Preparations were made to guard
against mob activity ( if the slayer
of the stenographer is captured at the
funeral. It was certain that thou
sands w r ould be in the vicinity of the
Brown home and the church. The
men of Dallas County have discussed
what they believe should be done to
to slayer of the young stenographer,
who had scores of friends and no
enemies.
Father Watches by Body.
To-day in the home of the Brown
family the mutilated body of the girl
lay in the only quiet room. The house
was besieged by hundreds of curious.
The roms were filled kith sympathetic
ic frierrds and mourning relatives.
The girl’s father, Policeman Brown,
who walked the beat on which the
office of the real estate firm is lo
cated, remained beside the casket.
He was the first to reach her side
when the murder was reported to the
police. He has been unconsolable for
more than 100 hours.
Missing Tooth a Clew.
The man who is convicted of tne
murder of the girl will have one le.^s
than a normal number of teeth. Im
pressions of the marks on Miss
Brown’s arms showed they were made
by teeth set in the strong jaws of a
male. One tooth was missing.
Great faith was placed in the newly
discovered love letters* by the city de
tectives on the case They believe the
man who wrote the message of love
to the girl on Monday slashed tne
throat that twelve hours before was
uttering the words of hymns in the
choir loft of the little Baptist Church.
Atlanta Minister to
Head Masonic Home
BIRMINGHAM, July 31.—The Rev.
S. C. Williams, of Atlanta, has been
elected superintendent of the Ala
bama Masonic Widows and Orphans
Home at Montgomery and will take
charge August 15. The selection was
made here at a meeting of the board
of control, of which Ben M. Jacobs, of
Birmingham, is chairman.
Rev. Mr. Williams succeeds Rev.
Mr. Graham, who has been in charge
since the institution was completed
several months ago, but who has re
signed.
Brenau Head Not
Alarmed by Dog Bite
I)r. T. J. Simmons, president of
Brenau College for girls at Gaines
ville. recently reported to have been
bitten by a mad dog. is* in Atlanta.
Dr. Simmons said that while a dog
had snapped at him and had broket
the skin of his finger, he was certain
the dog was not mad, and he felt no
alarm.
Slayer Convicted
By Circumstances
Faces the Gallows
DALTON, July 31.—The Jury in the
Dan Hatfield murder case to-day re
turned a verdict of guilty of murder
without recommendation, the verdict
meaning a death sentence for the de
fendant. The jurors were out fifteen
hours, it being understood that the
question of a recommendation was
what held them.
Hatfield was convicted of the mur
der of Will Parrish. He was at-
raigned before Judge Fite Wednesday
morning when court opened, and the
entire day was consumed in the hear
ing.
The evidence introduced by the
State virtually was all of a circum
stantial character. The defense had
two alleged eyewitnesses to killing
of Parrish, who swore that Hatfield
shot in self-defense w'hile Parrish wag
advancing on him with an ax. These
two, John and Tom Nicodemus, were,
however, jointly indicted with Hat
field as accessories to the crime.
Mulhall, Lobbyist,
Once Was Policeman
WASHINGTON. July 31.—The
cross-examination of Colonel M. M.
Mulhall by attorneys for the National
Association of Manufacturers, the ac
tivities of which he revealed in 5,000
letters, was begun before the Senate
Lobby Inquiry Committee to-day.
The first question was whether
Mulhall w r as not discharged from the
Cleveland, Ohio, police force In 1883
after two years’ service for violation
of a State law.
“No, sir; It was a political remov
al,” answered Mulhall.
Pants Pocket Bank
Is Robbed of $2,000
INDIANAPOLIS. IND.. # July 31.—
Joseph Diamond, a painter employed
by an automobile company, to-day is
minus $2,000 in gold and currency
because he lacked faith In banks and
kept his savings in his room at a
boarding house.
Because of intense heat the front
door was kept open during the night.
The money, his life's savings, was
tied in a handkerchief in Diamond’s
4 German Officers
Tried as Traitors
Special Cable to The Georgian.
BERLIN, July 31.—Four officers of
the Ordnance Department, Lieuten
ants Tllllan, Hanst. Hose and Schieu-
der, were brought before a military
court martial to-day on the charge of
betraying military secretR, the accept
ance of bribes and insubordination.
The ctiarges grew out of their giv
ing secret information to representa
tives of the Krupp ordnance factory.
CRUISER SINKS SHIP.
Special Cable to The Georgian.
LONDON, July 31.—The British
cruiser King Alfred collided with and
sank the Spanish steamer Umba off
Spurn Head. Boats from the cruiser
rescued the crew of the sunken ves
sel.
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R. P. Barrett, a machinist on the second floor of the National
Pencil Factory, gave unexpected and important evidence for the
State Thursday at the trial of Leo M. Frank. He told for the first
time of finding between April 28 and 30 part of a pay envelope un
der the machine used by Mary Phagan, who was murdered in the
factory April 26.
Barrett is the factory employee who made the startling dis
coveries of the spots resembling blood near the water cooler at the
ladies’ dressing room on the second floor and the strands of red
dish brown hair on the lathing machine about 20 feet from the
Phagan girl’s machine.
The witness repeated his story
of the finding of the supposed
blood spots and the hair. He
made probably the best witness
the State called during the fore
noon to strengthen its theory
that the murder was committed
on the second floor of the fac
tory.
‘I know it was blood!” was the re
peated assertion of Barrett when At
torney Rosser, Frank’s lawyer, tried
to force him to admit that the deter
mination of whether it was blood was
a matter for a skilled chemist.
Harry Scott, Pinkerton detective;
Monteen Stover, a 14-year-old factory
employee, and Mel Stanford, another
employee at the factory, were the
forenoon’s witnesses.
Scott refused to be cowed by the
battering attack of Luther Rosser,
chief of Frank’s c^mnsel, and fought
back viciously a various times dur
ing his cross-examination. He was
inclined to argue with both Attorney
Rosser and Solicitor Dorsey, and at
one time blazed forth angrily when
he thought that Dorsey was charging
him with holding something back.
Defense Discounts Scott's Story.
Rosser succeeded In impeaching
Scott’s testimony to a certain extent
by showing that his testimony at the
Coroner’s inquest differed in some re
spects from that given at the trial,
and that the testimony at the inquest
lacked much that was contained *n
his testimony Just givpn under the
questioning of Solicitor Dorsey, al
though Scott had sworn at the in
quest that he was telling all he knew.
It was evident as soon as the Pin
kerton detective was called that a
sharp battle was to ensue over his
testimony. A liveh- tilt occurred be
tween Rosser and Dorsey before Scott
had been on the stand five minutes.
The testimony had progressed only a
little further when Dorsey claimed
that he had been trapped by the wit
ness into believing that testimony .»f
another sort would be given.
Dorsey demanded the privileee of
asking leading questions in order to
determine whether Scott's memory
was faulty or if he was purposely
holding something back.
Haas Wanted First Reports.
The Solicitor rot from his witness
the details of his engagement by th»
National Pencil Company and sougnt
to emphasize that Herbert Haas, one
of Frank's attorneys, had tried to in
duce Scott to withhold his evidence
from the police, but Scott cn cross-
examination declare that Haas asked
only that the evidence be given the
pencil factory officials first.
Scott testified that Frank in ths
first days of the investigation had told
him that J. M. Gantt, a discharged
factory employee, knew Mary Pha
gan well and was familiar and inti
mate with her, the Solicitor by this
evidence seeking to show a disposi
tion on the part o* r rank to throw
suspicion on someone else.
The detective described FYank’s de
meanor as extremely nervous at the
interview Tuesda’Alight, April 29, be-
tween Frana and Le Scott said that
i Frank hung his head, crossed and re-
e
SB
crossed his lev®. rubbed his face and
lips w ith one hand and then the other,
and seemed not to know where to put
his hands.
Rosser GrBIs Scott.
Rosser, cross-examining Scott,
made the detective xdmit that he had
not told of these circumstances be
fore the Coi’oner's inquest and had
not stated any of the conversation be
tween Lee and Frank which he had
Just told to the Solicitor. Going fur
ther, he forced Scott to admit that he
had said at the inquest that he had
heard none of the conversation.
Scott told Dorsey that he had mads
a thorough search of the first floor of
the factory soon after his services
were engaged, and that he had found
no ribbon, purse, pay envelope or
bloody stick wh*ich later was said to
have been found near where Jim Con
ley was hiding, by Pinkerton opera
tives.
Scott said that he had looked fo?
blood spots, but that most of the evi
dence of this sort had been chipped
u before he entered the case.
Rosser and S ott engaged in a heat
ed argument when Rosser called at
tention to the fact that the detective
had not mentioned at the Coroner’s
Inquest Frank’s alleged remark in re
gard to Gantt’* intimacy with the
Phagan girl.
Scott gave as hi* excuse that it was
an oversight, or that he possibly had
not been questioned on that matter by
the Coroner.
“I am not fool enough to give away
the whole case in detail at a prelimi
nary hearing, anyway,” added Scott.
R. P. Barrett, the machinist at the
pencil factory, who discovered the
strand of hair on a lathing machine
and spots resembling blood on the
floor, was called to the stand at the
conclusion of Monteen Stover’s testi
mony.
Dorsey Quizzes Scott.
Solicitor Dorsey started his ques
tioning of Harry Scott with the
query:
Q. What is your business?—A,
Pinkerton detective.
Q. Do you know Leo Frank?—A,
Yes.
Q. When did you first see Frank?
A. Monday, April 28, at 7 p. m.
Q. w\iere was that?—A. In Frank’s
private office.
Q. What was Frank's attitude?—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
before. The expression of his eye*
was about as they are now.
Frank, sitting a few feet away, wors
the same cool expression he has had
since the beginning, his face utterly
devoid of emotion. The expression
of his unusual eyes was calm. Dor*
sey resumed his questioning.
Q. What did he say?—A. “I suppose
you have heard of the horrible mur
der In this factory. The directors and