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LUTHER ROSSER EXEMPLIFYING THE GENTLE ART OF CROSS-EXAMINI
To the casual spectator who fpcls no personal interest in the outcome of the
Frank trial, the one trreat feature of the courtroom is the cross-examining of the
State'8 witnesses bv Luther Z. Rosser. Rosser roars Rosser whispers, Rosier
threatens. Rosser pleads, Rosser insinuates, Rosser cajoles, Rosser jests.
At the left is shown Rosser holding his arms out as though to receive and
clasp to his breast the answer about to come to a difficult question he has put.
At the right is Rosser grinning sarcastically. A witness for the State has
just said that his memory was as fresh after two years as two days.
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esual for scratch pads like the one
found In the basement near Mary
Phagan's body to be discovered in
any part of the factory. He said
the same of the pay envelopes like
the one found by Mary Phagan’s ma
chine. He asserted that the envelopes
were scattered on every floor of the
factory every pay day. A ripple of
merriment was caused when Attorney
Arnold, referring to R. P Barrett and
his discoveries of pay envelope, blood
spots and strands of hair, designated
him as “Christopher Columbus Bar
rett.”
After a sharp tight between the at
torneys, Attorneys Arnold and Ros
ser succeeded in getting before the
.lurv that other persons as well as Leo
Frank were excited and nervous after
the tragedy. Judge Roan was In
clined at first to sus^ln the prose
cution’s objections, bin later decided
that testimony of this sort might be
admitted in order that the defense
might show' that these signs of ner
vousness need not he taken as indi
cations of guilt.
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clouded by
anger.
Frees Deserted Mother of Coal
Operator’s Two Children After
She Shot at Him.
Expects to Pay for Hauling Away
Shrubs and. Gets Five Dol
lars for It Instead. 1
Are five and a half ounces of cab
bage to be the principal factor In
lending a man to the gibbet?
If the prosecution Is warranted In
Its belief in the vital and incriminat
ing Importanre of the testimony of
Dr. H. F. Harris, director of the State
Board of Health, this Is exactly the
outcome to be expected In the trial of
Leo M. Frank, charged with the mur
der of little Mary Phagan.
It remains, however, for the State
to show explicitly Just how the sen
sational statements made last Friday
afternoon by the medical expert any
more clearly connect Leo Frank with
the terrible crime than they connect
Ilm Conley, the negro, who was skulk
ing In the National Pencil Factory at
the same time. The testimony of
Mrs Arthur White is relied upon to
do that very thing.
Harris Testimony Is State's Best Card
The Harris testimony was without
doubt the highest card the prosecu
tion has played since the trial of
Frank started. No other evidence
ever has been brought out In the
three months of the murder mystery
that fixed so definitely and apparent
ly so far beyond dispute the time
that the pretty factory girl met her
death.
As the testimony stands, no oppor
tunity having been given for cross-
examination or refutation. It Is eas
ily the most damning that has been
placed before the Jury. It will re
main so until the lawyers for the de
fense are able to attack the doctor's
testimony or are given the opportu
nity to attach to It a significance en
tirely different than that advanced by
the State.
Dr. Harris analvaed the contents of
the murdered girl's stomach He
found there 160 cub centimeters, c
about five and two-fifths ounces, of
cabbage and biscuit. This was the
meal Mrs. J W. Coleman. Mary's
mother, testified that her daughter
had eaten Just before she left home
en the day of the tragedy.
Met Death in Half
An Hour After Dinner.
The process of digestion had barely
begun. Dr Harris showed two spect-
tnensjjjf cabbage which had been in
litny men’s stomachs for an hout.
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»!on The cabbage taken from the
stomach of Mary Phagan still showed
the texture of the vegetable's leaves.
The digestive fluids seemed to have
acted scarcely at all. The presump
tion was, therefore, said Dr Harris,
that the little girl had met her d*>ath
within half an hour after she had
eaten the simple meal at her home In
Bellwood and had left for the pencil
factory. At the most, that was three-
quarters of an hour.
Dr. Harris save his testimony with
a professional assurance, the effect ol
which can be counteracted only by
the uttermost skill of Luther Rosser
and Reuben Arnold. He was positive
that the girl was killed within a half
or three-quarters of an hour after she
had eaten.
This meant that she was attacked
and murdered between 12:OR. which
Is about the time the State believes
she entered the factory, and 12:20.
It was at 12:06 that Monteen Stover
said she entered and found Frank ab
sent from his office.
The courtroom was hushed as Dr.
Harris described the wounds of the
girl in a manner that vividly por
trayed the State's theory of horn the
girl met her death.
Sue was attacked near the lathing
machine. There was a struggle. Her
assailant. Infuriated at her resistance
or fearful of the approach of persons,
struck her fiercely over the right eye.
Dr. Harr’s described the injury. It
mu°t hpve been made with the fist,
he said, or with some soft instru
ment. as there were few signs of
abrasion of the skin, only a swelling
ar.d discoloration.
The blow felled the girl to the floor.
She struck her head against some
hard substance. Dr. Harris indicated
this by testifying that the skin above
the wound on the back of the head
had been shoved upward slighty, a
circumstance which woud hardly have
obtained had the blow on the back
of the head been delivered by a club
or other instrument.
Strangulation Theory Given Added
Weight.
Further to clinch the State's in
dictment, charging strangulation, Dr.
Harria was positive that the blow
on th^i back of the head could not
twm caused £*b-
Aviator Quells Fire
4,000 Feet in the Air
EVERGLADES BEING
$400,000,000 in Autos
Are Exported in Year
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.^-Accord-
ing to figures compiled by the Bureau
of Foreign and Domestic Commerce,
Department of Commerce, $40,000,000
worth of automobiles and parts there
of were sent out of continental United
States in the fiscal year IT 1 3. against
about $1,000,000 worth In 1903, a dec
ade earlier.
These figures of 1913 include $26.-
000,000 worth of finished automobiles
sent to foreign countries.
CABLE
|| NEWS
Important Events From All
Over the Old World Told in a
| Few 8hort Lines.
CHICAGO, Aug. 2.—"I thought I
was a goner," said W. C. Robinson,
an aviator, as he related his feelings
while he was fighting a fire that
threatened to destroy his aeroplane
4,000 feet above Chicago’s business
district.
Crowds aiong Michigan Boulevard
and aviators at Cicero flying field
watching through glasses thought he
was a “goner," too. But Robinson,
alone in the flaming aeroplane, fought
the fire with a hand chemical while
he made a perfect descent and landed
just as the planes collapsed.
Lands Formerly Valueless Now
Worth Large Sum, Says W. E.
Hall, Atlanta Geologist.
Business Buildings in Decatur.
Two new brick business buildings
are now under construction in Deca
tur on McDonough street. One is a
two-story affair to be occupied by
George Brothers with a wholesale and
retail department store. The other
building is being erected by W. A.
Ozmer, contractor for Mrs. H. E.
Goddard, and will be occupied by the
Johnson Hardware Company.
MADRID. Aug. 2.—The Provincial
Governors of Spain have been given
strict orders to forbid gambling in
casinos and clubs at watering places.
Help! Mother-in-Law!
Judge Answers Call
General Strike in Spain.
MADRID. Aug. 2.—A general strike
V expected to take place throughout
Spain as the result of the walkout
of the employees in the textile indus
try. The strike continues to spread.
Forty thousand men have quit work
and the industry is at a standstill.
the assailant to choke the unconscious
little girl. There were indications of
a criminal attempt before the girl’s
death. Of all this the medical ex
pert told while Leo Frank looked on
him with the same speculative ex
pression he had given the other wit
nesses. The accused showed neither
by the flicker of an eye lid nor the
paling of a cheek that the graphic
reproduction of what the State re
garded as the circumstances of th»
gruesome crime had affected him in
the least.
If the prosecution Is able \o es
tablish the accuracy of the conclu
sions reached hv Dr. Harris as a re
sult of his analysis and examination,
it then will ask:
“If Jim Conley t 8 the murderer of
Mary Phagan and attacked h*r be
tween 12:06 and 12:20. how did h«
happen to be dosing on a box by tbe
side of the Malrs on the first floor
when Mrs. Arthur White came down
stairs at about 12:50?"
As it stands, the testimony of Dr.
Harris is not by any means conclu
sive. It is. however, far the most
damaging evidence that has been sub
mitted.
An interested public is awaiting the
AlP < l|iV-£; ? 1
Turk Army Wreaks Havoc.
SOFIA, Aug. 2.—The Turkish ad
vance through Thrace continues to
day, according to reports received
here. The Porte army is leaving a
wake of desolation. Bulgaria is con
sidering appealing to the other Bal
kan states to present the Turks’ ad
vance.
OMAHA, NKBR., Aug. 2.—tester
L. King, a wealthy business mail
here, secured an injunction enjoining
his mother-in-law, Mrs. Levi Gard
ner, of Harvard, Ill., to keep out oa
his home.
Mrs. Gardner has been visiting the
King afmily several months, and ac
cording to King caused trouble be
tween him and his wife. Mother-in-
law* refused to leave when requested
to do so, and King obtained the in
junction.
Put Poison in Food;
Sent to Reformatory
Threatens Lord Rothschild.
LONDON, Aug. 2.—On a charge of
demanding $150,000 from Lord Roth
schild and threatening him with
death if the payment was not made.
Heinrich Kemmerkothen. a German
clerk, was to-day arraigned in Bow
Street Police Court and held without
bail until Friday next. '
Bulgars Strengthen Army.
SOFIA, Aug. 2.—Believing that the
peace conference now, being held at
Bucharest will arrange all difficulties
between the Balkan states within four
days. Bulgaria is taking steps to
strengthen he* army. To-day the
Sobranje. the national legislative
body, passed the bill providing for
$10,000,000 for military purposes.
Peace Delegates in Session.
BUCHAREST, Aug. 2.—The Bal
kan peace delegates to-day continued
their deliberations. It is expected
that ultimate peace will be assured
within a week. The Bulgarian and
Roumanian delegates also are pri
vately discussing % new line of de-
rrAa^r^ion pjl fTMClXtftfW
GREENSBORO, Aug. 2.—Lucindy
Park, a negress convicted of a simple
assault on an indictment charging as
sault with intent to murder for plac
ing strychnine in food prepared for
the family of B. P. Kimbrough, a
prominent dairyman and farmer re
siding near Greensboro, was sen
tenced indeterminately by Judge
James B. Park to the State Reform
atory at Milledgeville.
The negress appears not to be mor<°
than IT years of age.
Vital interest throughout the United
States is being taken in the drainage
of the Florida Everglades. Warren
E. Hall, district engineer of the Geo
logical Survey stationed in Atlanta,
whose territory embraces the south
eastern portion of the United Stages,
made a two weeks' survey of the
heart of thq great swamps in company
with M. O. Leighton, E. T, Perkins
and Isham Randolph, members of the
Florida Everglades Commission. Mr.
Hall declares great work is being
done in regard to draining off the
water, thus making thousands of
acres of land formerly valueless now
worth large sums.
The Government is taking an active
hand in furnishing information which
will be of great assistance to the
commission in figuring out the various
cuts to be made for cana-Js. Nine
Government stations have been estab
lished in the Everglades.
“While in Florida assisting the
Commission to determine the feasibil
ity of draining portions of the Ever
glades,” said Mr. Hall,’’ I saw only
a small amount of the work previous
ly done. It was most pleasing and
satisfactory as far as I could deter
mine from the reports and my per
sonal observations."
OBITUARY
PITTSBURG. Aug. 2.—“Women sin
emotionally, unthinkingly; men often
sin calculatingly, knowing they can
escape penalties,” said Police Mag
istrate Daniel Winters in discharging
a woman who shot twice at. but
missed, a man she alleged was the
father of her two children and who
cast her aside and married another
after she had lived with him eleven
years.
The woman is Miss Alice Hopkins,
aged 33 years, and the man is C. H.
Wisser, 60, a wealthy coal operator.
“I do not advocate shooting, but
the peculiar circumstances gives this
woman a great deal of latitude, said
the magistrate. If judges would treat
man and woman exactly alike, I im
agine there would be less masculine
license.
Man Should Not Escape.
‘It is rot fair that a woman should
be an outcast and a man escape
blame. In the case of a man and a
woman about town, except where the
man started the woman on her down
ward course, it is different.
“But wffien a man, as it seems Wis
ser has done, lives with a woman as
his wife, and that woman has been
faithful to him and has borne him
children whom she is rearing to the
best of her ability, then that woman
should get at least as much consider
ation as the man.
“Except for the perfunctory fact
that no marriage ceremony has been
performed, ho and she are man and
wife, and even he does not deny that
she has been faithful.
Why Should She Bear Blame?
“Then why, in the n^me of justice,
should she bear all the blame? There
is something wrong about a social
system that accepts such a man and
ostracizes this woman.
“Some say I have established a
precedent in the Wiaser-Hopkins case.
If I have. I mean to follow* it up. 1
do not mean I would desire to con
done faults of women and punish
only those of men, but I would like to
feel that I could be fair and square
to both, and judge them from a
standpoint not infiuyced by sex dif-
“No, there isn't a thing I want
that a want ad would bring me," said
a North Side woman to a Georgian
want ad contestant as he chatted
with her on her front veranda “Un
less Icould get rid of that unsightly
big shrub in the front yard. It cuts
off my view and I'd like to pay a man
to take it it up and haul It away."
“I believe you can do better than
that,” said the contestant, who knew
something of plants. "Let me sell it
for you.”
And next afternoon there came a
couple Just completing a new home
who wanted adorn their lawn, and
they gladly paid $5 for the shrub
and bore the expense of moving it.
that’s what a want ad will do.
The contestants now at v.ork are
running across a world of human in
terest stories. They find many strange
,’lV' an< ’ man y queer situations.
But they are rounding up the ads.
Contestants who are not informing
their friends about the race are over
looking their best opportunity. They
should tell every acquaintance, for
everybody is using vent ads and ev
ery ad might mean a hundred or two
votes for a friend just as well as not.
The Want Ad Man will show con-
testants how to secure the friends'
aid If you 11 ask him.
And if you haven’t entered the con
test now is the time. You still have
an excellent chance to get a start
Drug Store Changes Hands.
The Hopkins Drug Companv of De-
caair has been sold by Edwin Davis
to Henry P Jordan, of Tucker. Ga.
Mr. Jordan has a dairy near Tucker.
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Express Profits Cut
$750,000 by State
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 2.—The
Wells-Fargo Express Company to
day faced a cut of $750,000 in i s
yearly profits as the result of a ruling
of tne California Railroad Commis
sion abolishing the present ra»es and
providing more than 3,000.0jO new
rates.
Figures submitted to the commis
sion showed profits of $842,097 last
oa property valued at $613,233*
The body of Joseph Thomas Campbell,
who died at the residence of his son,
No. 154 South Gordon street, Friday,
was taken to Centerville. Ga., Satur
day. Mr. Campbell was sixty-one
years old and is survived by his wife,
three daughters. Mrs. E. A. Sexton, of
Stone Mountain: Mrs. J. H. Hannah,
of Porterville. Ga., and Mrs. O. R.
Williams, of Atlanta; five sons, C. M.
Campbell, of Snell, Oa., and G. A.,
R. L., Ii. J. and J. T.. Jr., of Atlanta.
Funeral services at Gear church, Cen
terville.
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The body o, J. R. Reid, who filed at the
residence, No. 177 West Alexander
street, at 6 o’clock Friday morning,
will he taken to Temple, Ga., for in
terment, following funeral services at
the residenoe at 3 o’clock Saturday
afternoon. Mr. Reid was twenty-
three years old, and is survived by his
parents. Mr. and Mrs. Reid, two
brothers and four sisters.
CHICAGO, Aug. 2.—There was no
chance for Max Rubin, in Jail, to be
bailed out in the usual way. Still he
wanted to get out, even ff his next
summer resort had to be the county
hospital.
He pretended to have swallowed bi
chloride of mercury tablets and was
baled out with a stomach pump. In
deed. he was baled out so many times
that he finally admitted -v «t, h* had
not. taken the poison at ao.
NEW YORK STOCK MARKET.
Stock quotations to 1(1 a m.:
10 Frew,
STOCK— High. Low. AM. Closes
Amal Copper. 69 68% 68% 69%
American Can 32 32 32 31%
Atchison . 96% 96% 96% 96%
Can. Pacific.. 215 315 215 215%
c. and 0 53% 53% 53% 54
Consol. Gas... 131 131 131 131
Brie 28 28 28 28 I
N. Y. Central. 98 98 98 97%
Reading 158% 158% 168% 168%
So. Pacific.... 91% 91% 91% 91%
St. Paul 104% 104% 104% 104%
Union Pacific.. 148% 148 148 148*1
U. 8 Steel. .. 68% 58% 58% 69
Utah Copper- 47% 47% 47% *7%
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