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VOL. I. NO. 18.
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ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, AUUUST 3, 1913.
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GIVEN LIFE
Judge Sentences Brothers Found
Guilty of Slaying Woman’s Hus
band to Die, but She Is Given
Mercy Recommended by Jury.
^peal Is Announced After Final
Judgment in Conspiracy Case
That Has Stirred Hall County.
Love Notes Read to Trial Jury.
PRIZE WINNERS IN THE
PONY CONTEST WILL BE
ANNOUNCED TO MORROW
O N account of the vast num
ber of votes which poured
in Upon the Contest Editor on
the closing day and night, it
has been absolutely impossible
to make the announcement of
the prize winners in the great
Georgian and Sunday Ameri
can Pony Contest in to-day’s is
sue.
An extra force of clerks has
been put to work counting
votes and subscriptions re
ceived, and the announcement
of the winners will be made in
Monday’s Atlanta Georgian.
WATCH FOR IT.
GAINESVILLE, Aug. 2.—In the
past there have been several murder
trials in Hall County, but probably
none created greater interest than the
three this week of Mrs. Silva Haw
kins and Bartow and James Cantrell,
jointly indicted for the murder of Ar
thur Hawkins, the woman’s husband,
May 28. The woman to-day re
ceived a life sentence and the Cantrell
brothers were sentenced to hang Sep
tember 26.
With the aid of Sheriff Spencer and
other county officers Solicitor Gener
al McMillan succeeded in obtaining
the evidence on whfch to convict the
murderers.
Prior to moving to Bellton in
March, Hawkins and his wife lived
in Gainesville. They decided to make
a crop this year, and with their four
children moved near the Cantrell
home. Jim Cantrell, a widower with
two children, was living with his
mother and sisters. Bartow Cantrell,
his 16-year-old-brother, was living
near by. Soon after the Hawkins
family moved in that neighborhood
Jim Cantrell was taken sick with
mumps. Mrs. Hawkins went to the
house and saw him.
Intimacy Develops Fast.
An intimacy developed. Within
two weeks after they met Cantrell
and Mrs. Hawkins had kissed, accord
ing to the evidence. They saw each
other very nearly every day, and nu
merous letters passed between therft—
letters in which she called him "sweet
boy,” in which she told him how
much she thought of him; that she
had no pleasure except in his com
pany; that she loved him better than
any other man in the world; that she
had rather give up her baby than
give him up.
In these letters she told him that
she wanted him to kill her husband
"Arthur.” In one of them she said
he could kill “Arthur” and put the
body on the railroad track, and then
she would get a. lot of money.
In another she said she would go
with him and they would follow "Ar
thur” out some place and kill him,
and that nobody would ever know it,
and then they would live together,
and she would take care of his chil
dren.
Mrs. Hawkins, according to the tes
timony, bought shells from a hard
ware store in Lula and with Cantrell’s
aid unloaded the shot, melted them
into a slug and loaded the shotgun
with which Hawkins was killed.
Both Mrs. Hawkins and Cantrell, so
the evidence declared, asked Bartow
Cantrell, the 16-year-old boy, to kill
Hawkins. With shotgun and pistol,
he planted himself behind a barn.
When Hawkins came by a shot was
fired by Bartow Cantrell, the one shot
producing death.
Tries to Buy Strychnine.
, The evidence further showed that
Jim Cantrell, at the instance of Mrs.
Hawkins, had tried to buy strychnine
in a Gainesville drug store, "presuma
bly to give to sick hogs.” The drug
gist would, not let him have it. On his
return without it, Mrs. Hawkins said,
so it was testified, that it was well he
did not get it, for she was going to
give it to “Arthur" in the morning.
While Mrs. Hawkins and the two
Cantrells were prisoners in the Hall
County jail a note was passed by Mrs.
Hawkins to Jim Cantrell in which she
said she would "stick to them,” and
that they would not hang if they
would “stick to her,” that while they
were in trouble and might get sen
tences they would not hang.
In their trials of the case both Jim
and Bartow Cantrell turned State’s
evidence against Mrs. Hawkins, and
their evidence corroborated that con
tained in the letters. The evidence of
Mrs. Cantrell, mother of the Cantrell
boys, and of their sister also bore
out their claims.
Denies All Knowledge.
In her statement to the jury Mrs.
Hawkins said that she had nothing
whatever to do with the murder and
that the Cantrell boys had killed him
because he had threatened to report
them for making whisky.
The Joint trials were taken up
Monday and continued throughout
the week. Though the weather was
sweltering, large crowds were in at
tendance each day. Jim Cantrell was
first placed on trial and was convict
ed of being an accessory before the
fact, without recommendation. Bartow
Cantrell was then tried and found
guilty of doing the actual killing, and
a verdict of murder without recom
mendation was returned in his case.
Mrs. Hawkins was the last to be
tried. She was convicted as an ac
cessory before the fact, the jury rec
ommending mercy.
Notice of appeal was made in each
case.
Chauncey Depew? Oh,
Yes! He Was Second
President of the U. S.
So French Doortender Admitted Him
and He Was Shown
Full Honors.
Special Cable to The American.
AIX-LES-BAINS, Aug. 2.—Mr.
Chauncey M. Depew was denied admis
sion to the Villa Des Fleures for a few'
minutes last night, but when finally he
was admitted an extraordinary honor
was paid to him.
Despite the evidence and the sacred
word of his friends, Mr. Depew was de
tained at the door with many Americans
looking on, indignant.
Indignation gave way to amusement
when an employee suddenly recognized
Mr. Depew, nudged a colleague and ex
claimed:
“Mais laisse le done passer. C’est le
deuxieme President Des Etats-Unis.”
(Why, let him pass. It is the second
President of the United States.)
Forthwith Mr. Depew was recognized
by all as the immediate successor of
George Washington and all doors were
opened. ~
September Morn
Should Pay Visit
to Atlantic City
Stockings About All Necessary bath
ing Garb for Women There
Under New Rules.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Aug. 2.—
Women bathers may appear hence
forth on the beach here in the most
abbreviated of skirts. Also they may
wear those garments slashed any
where from an inch above the knee
clear to the waist.
One-piece swimming suits are legal,
too, as long as there is a bloomer ef
fect from the waist line down.
But there is one “don’t.” Girls more
than 16 years old can not go about
publicly without stockings. The en
forcement came yesterday when a girl
was banished from the beach because
her shapely nether extremities did not
have the customary encasements.
M MTS CONLEY TO BRING FRANK CASE CRISIS
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ery of Derelict to United States
Hydrographic Office.
INVESTIGATION IS ORDERED
Remnant of Ship Believed To Be
Resting on Ledge of Rock
Off Grand Banks.
Anna Held Breaks
Her London Contract
British Public Failed To Be Im
pressed by Her Diamond-
Studded Stockings.
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, Aug. 2.—Anna Held, who
was engaged to appear in the London
Opera House Revue for four weeks at
$1,250 a week, quit suddenly on Mon
day evening after the show and has re
turned to Paris.
The London public failed to appre
ciate the diamond-studded stockings of
the famous actress and the management
repented of its contract.
One thing led to another and Miss
Held shook the dust of London from
her feet a week before the contract ex
pired.
PHILADELPHIA, Au£. 2.—Much
of the mystery surrounding the sink
ing of the White Star steamer Ti
tanic with 1,600 of her passengers
on April 14, 1912, may be dispelled by
the discovery of a wreck, believed to
be part of the hulk of the ill-starred
vessel, standing on end in the At
lantic Ocean off the Grand Banks of
Newfoundland, virtually on the spot
where the disaster occurred.
Captain Remnant, of the British
steamship Luciline, which arrived at
Philadelphia from Bordeaux several
days ago, reported sighting th e dere
lict, and the United States Hydro-
graphic Office has begun an investi
gation to learn more about the wreck.
Much Importance Attached.
Lieutenant Commander Lande-
burger, United States Hydrographer
stationed in this city, attached much
importance to this report.
Should the vessel sighted by the Lu
ciline prove to be the remains of the
Titanic, the story of the memorable
wreck would be rewritten. The fact
that, after more than a year, the
hulk stands vertically in the waves,
protruding eight feet or more above
the surface, would indicate that a
submerged ledge of rock had pre
vented the wreck from going to the
bottom of the sea.
If such a ledge exists—and evi
dences of one was reported as long
ago as 1723—then it is probable'that
the foundering of the Titanic was
caused by the hidden obstruction rip
ping open her hull as much as by
her collision with the iceberg.
Would Absolve Captain.
Should these theories prove to be
facts. Captain Smith, who was in
command of the Titanic and perished
when his vessel went down, would be
absolved of the charge of lack of
vigilance, and damage suits against
the International Mercantile Marine
based on the disaster would fail, lo
cal admiralty lawyers say, for the
same reason.
Captain Remnant, of the Luciline,
believes that what he saw was the
wreck of the Titanic or a part of it.
Cats’ Organs Live
Long After Death
Dr. Alexis Correl Tells How
Developed Technique to
Perform Feat.
He
Bacon Blocks Bryan
Nicaraguan Treaty
Georgia Senator Tells Secretary of
State That Agreement Can
Not Be Ratified.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.—Secretary
Bryan’s Nicaraguan protectorate pol
icy has failed. The idea of bringing
peace and prosperity to Nicaragua by
extending to that republic the terms
of the Platt amendment, which regu
lates relations between the United
States and Cuba, has aroused so much
antagonism that Senator A. O. Bacon,
of Georgia, chairman of the Foreign
Relations Committee, has informed
Mr. Bryan that such a treaty can not
be ratified.
He has advised Mr. Bryan that the
Nicaraguan policy must be confined j
to the pending treaty, under which i
the United States will pay $3,000,000
for exclusive rights to the Nicaraguan I
canal route, a naval base in the Gulf
of Foriseca on the Pacific Coast and
at Corn Island, off the Atlantic Coast
Mrs. Champ Clark to
Write Autobiography
Wife of Speaker to Tell of Her 20
Years in Public Life at
Capital.
Leo M. Frank and his constant guardian, Sheriff Mangum. The Sheriff is with the accused
man at all times during the long-drawn-out trial.
STATE FORGES CHAIN TO
NEW YORK, Aug. 2.—The manner
| in which he kept the organs of a cat
• alive through transfusion for thirteen
: hours and a quarter after the animal
j from which they had been separated
* was dead is told by Dr. Alexis Car-
| rel in the current number of The
[journal of Experimental Medicine, the
j official magazine of the Rockefeller
j Institute for Medical Research.
j In June, 1912. Dr. Carrel began, he
writes, to develop a technique by
! means of which a system of organs
could be made to live and function
ate when separated from other or
gans, and he has now perfected thit
technique.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.—Mrs. Champ
Clark, wife of the Speaker, is writing
her autobiography, in which she will re
late her twenty years’ experience in so
cial and official life at the national capi
tal.
Mrs. Clark is an admirable raconteur,
and the book is said to bristle with good
anecdotes of notable men and women.
In addition t^> the Washington chapters,
the book will dwell on Mrs. Clark’s girl
hood in Calloway County, Missouri, and
her married life there.
The book is awaited with keen inter
est by Mrs. Clark's friends, as she has
said she Is writing for “posterity” and
the records must be absolutely correct.
Mrs. Clark has a graphic, convincing
stxle, and a subtle vein of humoV run#
through her writings.
B. 0. Forbes Sails
To Seek Safeguards
For U. S. Investors
Business Envoy of the Hearst News
papers to Investigate Methods
of Europe.
NEW YORK, Aug. r 2.—B. C. Forbes,
business envoy of the Hearst newspa
pers, sails to-day for Europe, where he
will inquire into the laws in force in
different countries governing the re
sponsibility of promoters, corporation
directors and officers, and also the
measure of publicity insisted upon for
the protection of investors.
American legislation on these impor
tant matters, it Is now recognized, is
utterly Inadequate to prevent fraud and
imposition costing the public several
hundreds of millions of dollars annually.
As the number of Investors in this
country increases, the urgency of pro
viding safeguards against unacrupulous
and negligent promoters, directors and j
officials becomes more und more pro
nounced.
The New York American and other
Hearst publications, which have consist- i
ently championed the fullest possible
corporate publicity, will take up the sub
ject vigorously next month.
Queen and Duchess at
Odds Over Low Gowns
British Royalty Refuses to Counte
nance Fashionable Costumes at
Wedding of Kinswoman.
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, Aug. t.—The antipathy of
Queen Mary to low-cut afternoon toilets
has been the cause of some friction be
tween her Majesty and the Duchess of
Fife regarding the latter's wedding ar
rangements.
The Queen will permit Princess Mary
to be a bridesmaid only on condition
that none of the bridesmaids wears a
frock cut lower than one inch in the
neck in front.
The Duchess of Fife resents such re
strictions, and has appealed to her
mother and to Queen Alexandra, but
Queen Mary refuses to alter her atti
tude.
CUM! bill is
CULLED PUNIC BAR
Senate Chairman Owen Asserts It
Will Actually Make Money
for Bankers.
JUDGE 0. K.’S RELIGIOUS
’’MOVIES” ON SABBATH
MADISON. WI9., Anp. 2—Judge
John C. Fehlandt, of the Municipal
Court, ruled to-day that the motion
picture theaters in Madison may re
main op^n on Sundays without fear of
arrest if pictures of a religious char
acter or which the court might find
morally uplifting are displayed and a
percentage of the receipts is given
to charity.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.—With the
broad assertion that “panic will be
impossible if the Administration cur
rency reform bill is passed,” Senator
R. L. Owen, of Oklahoma, chairman
of the Senate Uominittee on Banking
and Currency, to-day replied to bank
ers who demand to know what ad
vantages they will gain from the bill.
Owen asserts the hill will safeguard
banks against occasional runs, giv<*
the ordinary State bank peace of mind
against possible artificial panics, and
that while the hanker loses 2 per cent
on a part of his reserve deposited with
the Federal Reserve Bank, he actually
will make money by other advantages.
Senator Owen points out that a re
serve of 15 per cent will be sufficient
instead of the 25 per cent now car
ried. With the same money, he as
serts, a bank of $100,000 capital would
make $2,750 each year more than un
der the present law.
In reply to the suggestion that
bankers should control the Federal
Reserve Board because they are “put
ting up all the money, he replied that
the banks are not putting up money,
but are merely lending credit, and
that the Government is really supply
ing the money which is not supplied
by depositors themselves.
Flying Fire Engine
Predicted by Mayor
Silk Hatted Executive of New Eng
land Town Expects Air Craft
to Fight Flames.
BOSTON. Aug. 2.—A flying machine
fire department for Salem was predicted
to-day by John F. Hurley, silk-hatted
mayor of that city.
“This is the age qf the motor-driven
vehicle.” he said, “and horses are too
slow for Salem. We are going to have
flying machine fire engines, flying ma
chine garbage'-wagons, etc.”
First Week of Battle Has Fixed the
Time Almost Exactly According to
Theory of the Solicitor—Doctors’
Testimony Has Important Bearing.
BY AN OLD POLICE REPORTER.
'T' Mary Phagan met her tragic death in the National Pencil
1 HERE are two tenable theories of the manner in which little
Factory on Saturday, April 26.
Either she was murdered by Leo Frank, as charged in the in
dictment, or she was murdered by James Conley, the negro sweep
er, employed in the factory.
If there is another theory, it has not been advanced.
The theory that Frank killed the girl is the one set up by the
State; the theory that Conley killed her is the one to be set up by
the defense.
Which, if either, is the true theory?
That is the all-absorbing puzzle engaging the attention of At
lanta and Georgia to-day.
MANY POINTS CLEARED UP.
The trial of Frank has progressed wearily as to detail, hut
it has gone far enough for many points to have been cleared up.
The State has sought to show this:
Mary Phagan left home at 11:45, and arrived at the fac
tory at or about 12 o’clock.
She went to Leo Frank's office to draw her pay, after its de
livery to another person had been declined the afternoon before,
and, therefore, she must have been in his office not later than
12:06, if not a trifle earlier.
Here she appears in life for the last time, so far as any living
being will say.
According to the expert testimony of Dr. Roy Harris, the girl
was dead within from thirty minutes to three-quarters of an hour
Enters Home of Farmer at Night a ^ er sbe a ^ e ber lunch of cabbage and bread—as disclosed by an
and After Braining Him, analysis of the contents of her stomach—-and, therefore, must have
Attacks Children. J
been killed between 11:45, when she concluded her lunch, and
CAIRO, Aug. 2.—A negro entered 12l30.
the home of deorge nodifnrd. a n-- Monteen Stover testifies that Frank was not in his office from
County, living about six miles from 12:05 to 12:10, after Mary Phagan arrived there, and still well
catro, ami with an ax brained him. within the period of time in which she must, according to Dr.
his wife and five children late last Harrig haye been
Mrs. White testifies that she left the factory about 1 o’clock,
Negro Tries to Slay
Family of 7 With Ax
In Row Over Melon
The details of the crime an* meager. j
The only clew as to the guilty party j
le from one of the little girls, who
has revived sufficiently to make a
statement. She says that she was 1
awakened by the n«- * <> coming into
the house. As she f ■ mod he hit J
her in the head with the ax and then
struck her father, mother and some of j
te smaller children.
One girl, about 12 years old, was
struck In the head and knocked down,
but a# she fell she g:a'jbed the negro
around the legs and threw him. This
frightened the negro and he ran, leav
ing his ax in the house. The girl guv*
the alarm and several neighbors came
to the house.
The ax and a pair of shoes, left in
the yard, were identified to-day by the
wife of the suspected negro. One of j
late
night. Some of the children have r«-
vived, but the father and mother are j
stiii unconscious and the chances for 1 at which time she saw a negro loafing about the steps leading
their recovery are very .“light. U p to Frank's office. Presumably, this negro was Conley.
In addition to the foregoing, the State has endeavored to
show that part of Mary Phagan’s pay envelope was found, after
the crime, near her machine in the factory, that a strand of her
hair was found on a lathing machine near where her body was
supposed to have fallen first, and that blood spots were found
near a dressing room she sometimes used?
These are the big circumstances upon which the State pro
poses. to base Conley’s story of how he was called upstairs by
Frank, after Frank presumably had murdered the girl, and hired
to help conceal her body in the basement.
MUCH DEPENDS ON CONLEY.
Conley’s story, on the stand and under cross-examination, will
make these circumstances either highly important and damaging
to Frank, or of relatively small account.
The defense will contend that it is by no means conclusive
Rodlford's daughters says that this: tliat the'girl died within the narrow limits of time set up by Dr.
negro and her father had some words. H j though it might have been effected in that time—
a few days alto about a watermelon . “ ’ ° , ,
patch. This is the mly motive that j and if it was, that Conley still might have been the slayer and
can be given for the crime. | n0 | i Frank.
TlnrvDc in ‘MToJiTrUpoo seems certain that Mary Phagan was killed early in the
JjlUJJoo Ill IN iglihUI Coo a ft t . r n 0 on of April 26, or fatally disabled then, if killed later, ns
To Be Barefoot Bride she never was seen to emerge from the factory after she went iti
I about noon.
The defense will claim failure upon the part of the State to
show conclusively a motive for the crime upon the part of Frank,
but it will contend that the motive upon the part of Conley was
robbery.
It will say that Conley, although not known to have been in
the factory at all when Frank was indicted, since then has heed
found to have been there as early as 10 o’clock in the morning,
was there before 12 and after 1, had been drunk during the morne
mg, and was, when Mary Phagan came down the steps to emergs
from the factory by way of the gloomy passage, still partially
drunk, “broke,’-’ and wanting both more whisky and soma, monej
to purchase it—that, iri'this condition, he saw Mary PhijjAa, witi|
Daughter of Rich Pennsylvania Mer
chant Climbs Out Window
to Join Fiance.
WAYNESBURG, PA.. Aug. 2.—
j Barefooted, bareheaded. without
! money and scantily clad, Lena Cage,
j the 15-year-old daughter of Charles
| Cage, a wealthy merchant of this
city, eloped early this morning. She
I climbed from the window of her home
i shortly after midnight, and getting in
i a big motor oar with her suitor,
j Franklin Hurley, disappeared.
The girl’s father, with several of-
i fleer*, has searched in vain for the
pair.
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