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VOL. XI. NO. 310. ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1913. 2 CENTS.
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Dorsey Clears Way for Jim Conley’s Story
Noted Author-Convict Pictures in
Strange Allegory What Penal
Reforms Would Do.
Four men sat around a table at
one of the western windows of the
great dining hall; one of them was a
recent arrival at the prison. * * *
The last course of dinner had been
served and the 400 friends were en
joying their coffee: a few were
smoking cigarettes, for this was
Sunday an ( ] tobacco was allowed to
all who cared for it, on that day.
The band was playing Beethoven’s
’Moonlight Sonata;” the music vi
brated softly and remotely on the
air. The hall had marked archi
tectural beauty, and the colors and
decorations were quiet but effective.
The tables were arranged with aisles
between, at the intersection of
which stood immense orange trees
and standard roses alternately.
That is the setting that Julian Haw
thorne. in what is probably his last
article for “Good Words.” the maga
zine of the Atlanta Federal prison,
provides for a remarkable dialogue
between the four men on "Jails of the
Future,” forecasting prison reforms.
It appears in the August number,
and is without doubt one of the best
that the noted writer has produced
since his incarceration In prison. One
of the four men is a newcomer, both
to the prison and to the country, and
to him is explained the workings of
a system that has revolutionized the
treatment of crime and changed jails
from "hells to a kind of ante
chamber to Paradise."
The dialogue is fanciful, but It un
doubtedly depicts conditions th'.t
Hawthorne believes must exist when
humanity has come to recognize crime
as a disease and treat it as such.
That portion of the article that de
scribes the workings of the jails of
the future is as follows:
“No More Lawyers.”
"When we found we were Jailing
about a million men a year, and that
the faster the lawyers made laws, the
greater was the number of law
breakers. iome of the sane ones got
together to talk it over.
-They fixed it so that there snould
be no more lawyers admitted to the
bar for 50 years, and those already
practicing should be charged 75 per
cent of their incomes in taxes. No
. lawyer was eligible for election i?
any Legislature or office of public
trust.
-A body of 500 experts was set to
work revising the statutes, and they
reduced the number of them 90 per
cent. All artificial crimes—those cre
ated by laws—were cut out; only kill
ing, stealing and lying were left in.
if these were committed owing to
congenial defects, or under 'abnormal
conditions, the perpetrators were put
under medical care; if otherwise, th*
culprits were tried and sentenced, but
were given their, choice of going to
jail, or carrying rouqd their necks,
by a small steel chain, a pewter disk,
on which was engraved the crime
and the penalty. At first, nearly
everybody took the disk, but after a
few years the majority preferred the
jail. The jails, meanwhile, had been
undergoing strange transformations,
both actual and theoretical.
"It began to be realized that the
handling of crime was the most im
portant function of the State and
problem of society. If even justice
were done, everybody would be n
prison, and so-called officers of Jus
tice were often the worst of the lot.
Best Men as Wardens.
"Accordingly, the very best men of
the community u4re appointed’ war
dens and guards of jaila Upon elec
tion. these men w'ere given a free
hand and all the funds they wanted
to carry out their plans. All th old
Jails were torn down and new ones
built upon ditferent principles, both
of construction and administration.
"In a few years Jails had become a
kind of universities for training men
who were found to be below the aver
age in intelligence, character or hab
its in the obligations and responsibil
ities of the best citizenship. All kinds
of trades and nrofessions^were taught
theoretically and practically, and the
*jhen were put to work as soon as
possible a,t such employment as they
selected or as were chosen as most
suitable for them.
"Along with all this was established
Continued on Page 5, Column 2.
POETPAYSTRIBUTE TO
'ANGEL OF U.S. PRISON’
AN APPRECIATION
TO MRS. EMMA NEAL DOUGLAS
Beautiful, gracious Spirit of human pity and kindness.
You, from your tranquil retreat, remember our need and our blindness;
You speak not, but stretch your hands, full of plenty and healing.
Not cold and disdainful, but gentle and tender irith sisterly feeling:
From your height serene you step down to comfort our gloom, and
remind us
To hope and be strong, and to leave our evil and error behind us.
Our void is filled with your bounty, ire bless your name, though
unspoken.
We hail you the herald of God. whose mercy your mercies betoken.
—By REGISTER NO. 1,1,35.
This inspiring verse is by Julian Hawthorne, dedicated to
the “Angel of the Federal Prison" in “Good Words, - ’ the Fed
eral Penitentiary publication.
Mystery in Blaze
That Does $2,000
* Damage to Store
Fire of mysterious origin early Fri
day morning damaged the building
occupied by the G. A. and F. Grocery
Company, at No. 23 Piedmont avenue.
The loss is $2,000. Firemen conquered
the blaze in a hard fight.
The fire was discovered soon after
3 o’clock by Call Officers McHugh,
Arnold and McWilliams, who thought
they heard a pistol shot in the neigh
borhood of the store. They found
the second floor of the stor.e in flames.
They think now what they supposed
was a shot was an explosion.
Policewomen Must
Be Single and Large
CHICAGO. Aug. 1.—The City Civil
Service Commission has decided that
unmarried women of generous pro
portions are the most desirable police
women.
Widow's are not barred, but they
must be young and vigorous. Exam
ination for ten policewomen wili be
held soon.
X-Ray Skirt Breaks
Up Baseball Game
SOUTH NORWALK, CONN..—A
girl with a diaphanous skirt ended
a baseball game here between the Na
tionals and the Westports. The man
ager of the Westport team called the
game off In the ninth inning when
his outfielders turned all their at
tention to the maid with the gausse-
like skirt, who stood Detween the sun
and the fielders.
Three dies were bated to the fence
without the players making a move
to intercept them.
Heat Kills 901 Babies
In Chicago in Month
CHICAGO, Aug. 1.—The heat wave
that gripped Chicago for three days
was broken today by a strong breeze
off Lake Michigan. Figures made
public to-day by the Health Depart
ment showed that heat had contrib
uted to the death of 901 babies ’in
Chicago between June 14 and July 12.
During the same period last year
809 deaths occurred among children
under two years.
Woman Is Named to
Supervise 'Spooning'
ASBURY PARK, N. J„ Aug. 1.—
Mayor R. S. Bennett has appointed
Mrs. Nanette, a social worker of Bal
timore, as a special boardwalk po
licewoman.
She will watch the "spooners" and
"mashers” and act as a censor of the
bathing costumes
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia—Occasional thunder
showers Friday and probably
Saturday.
Society Women in
Pajamas Dance at
Narragansett Ball
NARRAGANSETT PIER. R. 1.,
Aug. 1.—Stories of a gay .mm* a: the
Point Ju<A|^Country ClmPat which
several of ^Htw omen guests are de
clared to havt^ianced in pajamas un
til sunrise, are being circulated here
and are almost as much of a sensa
tion as the hunt for the Jewel thieve*
Some of the best known young ma
trons and maids of New York and
New England society were among the
guests. Turkish costumes are said to
have vied with the pajamas.
One observer says fifteen of the
women wore ankle watches. Dete ;-
tivea guarding the country club, it is
said, to learn something of the jewel
thefts, were ordered off bv Malcolm
Stevenson, who was giving the party.
Widow Will Inspect
Harriman Railways
NEW YORK, August 1—Mrs. L. H.
Harriman. acompanied by her daugh
ter. Miss Carol Harriman. will leave
early in August to visit her ranch in
Idaho. \
There was a report which C. C.
Tegethoff. of the Harriman estate, re
fused to deny or confirm, that, Mrs.
Harriman will be accompanied by
railroad officials and engineers for
the purpose of making an official in
spection of the Harriman railroad
properties in the West.
Massacre and Pillage
Continued by Turks
Special Cable to The Georgian.
SOFIA, Aug. 1.—The Turks are con
tinuing their campaign of massacre
and pillage in the country near De-
deagatch. All the men in the villages
or Tartar!are. Se’ilu. Saryta and
Lachman, were killed when the Turk
ish troops entered thoee places.
The torch was applied to all pub
lic buildings and looting began. All
who opposed the Turks were tortured
before being killed.
Fire Alarm System
Nearing Completion
Work on the new fire and police alarm
signal system is being rushed by the
Okenite Company, despite the fact that
an injunction restraining the city from
paying for the work has been sought
on the ground that the contract is a
moral obligation, and therefore not le
gal.
Fire Chief Cummings speaks favorably
of the new system, believing It will
meah the saving of many thousands of
dollars. The total cost of the new sys
tem will be $106,000.
$1,000,000 Estate
Willed to Charity
DECATUR. ILL.. Aug. 1.—The will
of Mrs. Anna B. Milliken. widow of
the founder of Milliken University,
just made public here, gives the fam
ily estate of neatly $1,000,000 to char
itable and educational institutions.
The will provides th^t the Milliken
mansion here shall become a mu
seum of art*
Government to Minimize Money
Stringency During Crop
Moving.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.—To facili-
tate the movement of crops, the Ad
ministration. through Secretary Me-
Adoo, announces that $25,000,000 to
$50,000,000 of Government funds will
be deposited in the national banks *f
the South and West at once. Federal.
State and municipal bonds and prime
commercial paper will be accepted as
security for the money, upon which
the banks will pay 2 per cent interest.
Unusual Amount Needed.
The motive of the Administration in
establishing this new policy is to an
ticipate the money stringency in the
late summer and fall, which accom
panies the marketing and movement
of crops, especially when the crops
are unusually large, as the harvest
now beginning forecasts. intends
to prevent or minimize the usual
tightness of money.
The Secretary announces that Gov
ernment bonds will be accepted at
par as security for the new deposits,
and that the additional money would
be placed only with banks which
have taken out at least 40 per cent of
their authorized circulation.
United States 2 per cent bonds,
serving as security for most of the
national bank circulation, have been
depressed recently to new low market
records, dropping to 95 3-4 during the
past few f days. The Secretary’s will
ingness to accept these bonds at par
as security for the $25,000,000 to $50,-
000,000 of promised deposits and the
inducement to the national banks to
increase their circulation up to the 40
per cent limit are expected to help in
restoring the parity of the depressed
2s by creating a new market for them.
To Accept Commercial Paper.
For the first time in history the
Government will accept prime com
mercial paper as security for depos
its. This privilege will be granted,
announced the Secretary, in order 13
make these special deposits available
to the banks on securities readilv
within their reach.
‘‘The commercial paper submitted,"
added Mr. McAdoo, "shall first bs
passed upon and approved by the
clearing house committees of the cities
in which the banks offering such pa
per may be located. All commercial
paper and bonds must finally be
passed upon and accepted by the Sec
retary."
Try a 3-Year Egg:
Ten Tons on Sale
TRENTON. N. J., August 1.—The
State Board of Health has released
ten tons of cold storage egg?, worth
$4,000, which had been held by the
Government for the last three an< a
half years in a warehouse in Jersey
City.
Doctors and reporters had eaten
cake, custards and ice cream made
from the eggs, and not one of those
daring persons had died, so the board
decided the eggs were flt for other
stomachs.
Rich Business Man
Slain by Burglar
TOLEDO, OHIO, Aug. I.—F. # V.
Wilder, aged 73. a wealthy business
man, was shot to death in his home
here early to-day by a burglar he dis
covered in the act of robbing the
house.
Wilder’s daughter heard the shot
and rushed into the dining room Just
as the aged man fell to the floor
dead. The robber escaped.
DORSEY UNAFRAID AS
HE FACES CHAMPIONS
OF THE ATLANTA BAR
FALLS 100 FEET, UNHURT.
GAINESVILLE. FLA. Aug 1.—
After falling 100 feet from a balloon
here Fred Lowen was unhurt. His
fall was broken by the branches of
a tree.
This shows the
Solicitor warily
noting the
moves of an
opponent.
1
The defense played one of its strong cards in behalf of Leo M.
Frank Friday when it secured from N. V. Darley, manufacturing
head of the plant and State's witness, evidence that the prisoner
performed three hours of the most intrioate mathematical work
just after the time the prosecution claims Mary Phagan was slain.
This, the defense brought out,
Hugh M.
Dorsey,
Solicitor and
prosecutor of
Leo M. Frank
Up Against a Hard Proposition Youthful Solic
itor Is Fighting Valiantly to Win Case.
By L. F. WOODRUFF.
Georgia’s law’s most .supreme pen
alty face8 Leo Frank.
A reputation that they can not be
beaten must be sustained by Luther
Rosser and Reuben Arnold.
Atlanta’s detective department's fu
ture is swaying on the issue of the
Frank trial.
But there is a man with probably
as much at stake as any of the hun
dreds who crowd Judge Roan’s court
room. with the exception of Frank,
and he is accepting the ordeal, though
he realizes it. as calmly as a person
who has nothing more serious to de
cide than whether he will order his
steak rare or well done at breakfast
time.
Hugh Dorsey is hereby introduced.
He is known pretty well in Atlanta
without introduction, but as chair
men on political meetings insists on
telling the audience that the Presi
dent of the United States if* about to
speaK or that the Secretary of State is
endeavoring to earn an additional
amount to his yearly $12,000, Mr. Dor
sey- can be placed before the public
without fear of violating precedent.
Consider Hugh Dorsey.
Consider Dorsey’s Job. His posi
tion as public prosecutor places on
him the duty of sending someone to
the gallows, end this time it ia Leo M
Frank, against whom he must direct
his efforts.
The proposition of convicting &.man
is as common in the life of a Solicitor
as paying hi-* car fare home. But
here’s a different proposition. Dorsev
is confronted with the task of getting
a conviction over the efforts of Luther
Rosser and Rueben Arnold to obtain
an acquittal.
And anyone who knows Atlanta,
who knows Fulton County, who
knows Rosser, who knows Arnold,
realizes that this Is a task from which
Hercules might sidestep, a labor that
is more tremendous than the building
of the Panama Canal or the success
ful storming of the fortress of Gi
braltar.
And still Dorsey has gone into the
Continued on Page 5, Column 5.
required an exceedingly clear
mind.
Darley also gave testimony as to
Frank’s nervous and upset condition
on the tw'o days following the mur
der of Mary Phagan.
The statement® of Darley came as %
complete surprise. The nature of the
testimony had been carefully guarded
by the Solicitor.
Darley declared that he and Frank
arrived at the factory at about tho
name time Sunday morning, April 27,
rtrrfp th«t he first noticed Frank s
nervousness w’hen he saw the factory
superintendent’s hand tremble vio
lently when he grasped the elevator
rope to run the elevator down into
the basement.
"When we got down to the base
ment," continued Darley, "and Frank
started to nail up the back door. I saw
that his hands were trembling and I
took the hammer and nailed up the
door myself, because I thought I could
do it better than he could."
Darley also told that when he rode
with Frank to the police station Mon
day, Frank sat on his knee.
"I could perceive that his whole
body was trembling and shaking,”
said Darley. "I noticed It all of the
way to the station house."
Club Not Found in Clean-Up.
Solicitor Dorsey asked Darley about
a general clean-up ordered by a gen
eral Insurance inspector who visited
the factory' Apjril 28. Darley replied
that the factory had been cleaned on
the first and second floors on or be
fore May 3.
Dorsey then called for the bloody
club that was said to have been found
on the first floor May 15 near where
Jim Conley was sitting. Dorsey threw
it down with a clatter by the chair of
the witness.
“Was any club of this sort turned
up during the cleaning process^”
shouted Dorsey.
"No," the witness replied.
"And was not this a thorough
cleaning?" the Solicitor asked.
"It was a general cleaning." replied
Darley.
Frank Explains Nervousness.
Darley said that Frank later ex
plained his nervousness of Sunday by
saying that he ho-d not had any
breakfast and that he had Just lookel
upon the body of the dead girl at the
morgue. The witness added that
Frank did not appear completely up
set Monday, a» he was able to trans
act a number of business affairs.
Darley, in spite of his testimony,
which will be interpreted by the State
as incriminating against Prank, prob
ably was a® valuable a witness for
the defense as he was for the prose
cution. It was under the skillful
questioning of Attorney Reuben Ar
nold, who had begun to take a more
active part in the cross-examinations
than he had at first, that Darley tolo
of the intricate work that Frank did
on the afternoon of April 26 after
the time the State claims that Frank
murdered the Phagan girl.
Mrs Arthur White, wife of one of
the employees of the National Pencil
Factory, who declared she saw a ne
gro hiding behind some boxes on the
first floor of the plant on the day
Mary Phagan was killed, was the first
witness called Friday.
The State with her testimony Legan
to pave the way for the appearance
of Conley, who. it is believed, would
be the last.witness to be called by
Solicitor Dorsey, as he would be the
most snectacular. ^
1 The first witness said her husband
had been working at the National
Pencil plant about two year®.
Tells of Going to Factory.
Q. What Is your husband's name?—
A. John Arthur White.
Q. Where does he work?—A. At the
National Pencil Factory. He has
worked there about two years.
Q. Where was he April 26?—A. At
the pencil factory.
Q. Did you go to the pencil factory
that day?—A. Yes; about 11 o’clock.
Q. Did you see Frank?—A. Yes; he
was in his outside office.
Q. What did you say to him?—A. 1
told him I wanted to see Mr White.
Q. What did he say?—A. He asked
me if I was his wife. He said be
thought so, as I looked like y Camp
bells. c
Q. Did you see your husband?—A.
Yes; he sent for him.
Q. Did you go upstairs at 11: JO a.
m.?—A. No.
Q. What time did you leave?—A.
About ten minutes to 12.
Says Frank Jumped.
Q. What time did you come back?
—A. About 12:30.
Q. Whom did you see?—A. I -Saw
Mr. Frank standing at the safe in hi®
office.
Q. What happened then?—A. I
asked him if I could see Mr. White.
As I spoke to him he jumped.
Q. What did you do then?—A. I
went upstairs to see Mr. White.
Q. Did you see anybody else in the
office except Denham, White and Mr.
Frank?—A. No. sir.
Q. Did you see anyone eflse as you
came down?—A. I saw a negro.
Q. Where?—A. He was sitting ot* a
box near the stairway that leads up
to the second floor.
Q. Where did you see Frank the last
time?—A. In hig outside office.
Q. Where was your husband and
Denham at work?—A. On the fourth
floor.
Said Sh# Had Better Go.
Q. What were they doing?—A
Working on a machine with a ham
mer.
Q. When did you first hear the ham
mer?—A. When I got on the fourth
floor.
Q. Did you see Frank again before
you left?—A. He came up on th®
fourth floor.
Q. Did anybody say anything about
your going up to the fourth flooT?—
A. Yes; Frank told me to go up there.
Q. What time did Frank come to
the fourth floor?—A. Some time be
fore 1 o’clock.
Q. Where were you at 1 o’clock ?—
A. At McDonald’s furniture store.
Q. Why did you leave before 1
o’clock?—A! Mr. Frank said, "Arthur,
if your wife wants to get out before
3 o’clock she had better leave now. 1
will go as soon as I get my hat and
coat."
Frank in Office as She Left.
Q. When you cUme down, did you
see Mr. Frank?—A. Yes; when I went
down he was sitting in his office.
Q. Did he have on his ha* and coat
as If he were going out?—A. No.
Q. What was he doing?—A. A^riting.
Q. Could your husband and Den
ham see the stairway from upstair®
where they were working?—A. No.
Rosser took the witness on cross-
examination.
Mrs. White, you talked about this
matter to Mr. Arnold and myself,
didn’t you? You told us you left the
factory about 1 o’clock?—A. Yea
Q. You don’t mean to change your
statement bv saying it was ten min«
utes to 1 when you left, do you?—A. I
can t say exactly what time it