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VOL. XII. NO. 2. ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, AUGUST 5,1913. bAtWoV^co. 2 CENTS. p morb°
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Doctors Rushed to Scene.
SAVANNAH. Aug. 5.—The en^ine*r
is reported dead and sixteen passen
gers and trainmen more or less se
riously hurt as the result of the
wreck of Central of Georgia passen
ger train No. 4 at Oliver. 46 miles
west of Savannah, at 8 o’clock this
morning.
The train was en route to Savannah
from Atlanta. All day coaches were
derailed, but the heavy Pullmans re
mained on the track. About 150 feet
of track was torn un.
. The cause has not been ascertained.
A wrecking train carrying physicians
and nurses was rushed from Savan
nah. Officials of the road here have
not received a list of the injured.
In addition to Atlanta cars the
train carried Pullman cars from Bir
mingham. picked up at Macon.
Judge Heard's Fifty
Children to Gather!
New York Gunmen
Fatally Shoot Man
Accused as Squealer
NEW YORK. Aug. 5.—A shooting
affray identical in many respects to
the assassination of Herman Rosen
thal occurred in Third avenue early
to-day when throe gunmen shot and
mortally wounded William Lusttg. 20
years old, member of a respectable
family.
The gangsters tossed theirRevolvers
into* the street and tied in an auto
mobile.
The shooting is blamed on members
ot “Dopey Benny’s” gang, who charged
Lustig with being a stoolpigeon for
District Attorney Whitman.
Lustig’s brother is employed in the
District Attorney’s ottice.
Poetess on Trial as
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Slayer Stirs Court
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
PARIS, Aug. 5.—An unusual scene
took place in the courtroom at Agen,
in the department of Lot-et-Garonne,
where Mme. Crespy, a beautiful
young poetess, is on trial charged
with the murder of Abbe Chassing, a
young priest, who was her sweet
heart.
After the prosecutor had spoken of
the woman's infatuation for the
priest, he declared that Mme. Crespy
had slain the priest because she be
lieved he was preparing to shift his
affections to another woman.
“That’s a lie,” cried Mmo. Crespy,
leaping to her feet. "I know he
would never love another.' It was
some time before she could he quiet
ed.
REBELS TORTURE
THREE AMERICAN!)
Lumberman Cut and Beaten.
Father, Lashed to Tree, Sees
Daughters Attacked.
Kl, PASO, TEX,. Auk 5.—The story
of the torture to which Clarence H.
Cooper, an American, wav compelled
to submit at the hands of Mexican
bandits of Castillo’s command was
forwarded to the State Department
to-day. Codper. who is acting super
intendent of the Pearson Lumber
Mills in Mexico, was cut across the
throat, beaten almost insensible and
forced to open the company's vafo in
the office at Pearson, Mexico. The
bandits, the report said, obtained
$1,500 in cash. D. Duthe. an Ameri
can employee of the mills was being
held for $200 ransom.
According to Cooper’s story the
men intended to drown him in a near
by mill pond because they did not get
the $5,000 they had demanded.
Two of the bandits leading him to
the pond fell into an excavation and
he escaped.
A report from Tampico to-day said
that Mathew Gourd, an American far
mer. was lavhed to a tree and forced
to witness an attack on his two
daughters by bandits.
Dallas Man Dying
From Fracture; Fall
From Car Mystery
In a dying condition from a frac
ture at the base of his skull, a man
named Adair, whose home is in Dal
las. Ga.. is at the Atlanta Hospital.
He was injured w hen he alighted from
a car on the Marietta street line at
the corner of Marietta and Thurmond
streets about 8 o’clock Monday night.
Confusion exists as to how the ac
cident happened. One report says
Adair jumped from the car while it
was moving. Another report was to
the effect that he was pushed or
thrown from the car by 'a sudden
jerk.
At the Atlanta Hospital Tuesday
little hope was held for his recovery
A relative called at the hospital Tues
day morning and later notified the
injured man’s wife at Dallas.
Hightower’s Slayer
Begins His Sentence
DUBLIN, Aug. 5.—A. L. Lynn,
given a life sentence for killing F.
M, Hightower at his home in Lau
rens County Iasi December, has been
taken to Lyons to serve his term on
the Toombs County chaingang.
Lynn and his wife both were tried
at the January term of the Superior
Court of this county for the killing,
his wife claiming that she shot High
tower because he insulted her whilt
they were alone in the Lynn home.
The trial jury exonerated Mrs. Lynn,
but found Lynn guilty of murder and
recommended life imprisonment.
COLLEGE MERGER
Wesleyan. LaGrange and Andrew
Will Not Be Consolidated Be
cause of Complex Interests.
MACON. Aug 5.—The proposed
consolidation of Wesleyan. La-
Grange nnd Andrew Female Colleges
has been abandoned as Impractica
ble. In a statement issued by offi
cials of the three Institutions, it is
said:
“Negotiations were conducted dur
ing the spring by the presidents and
executive boards of these several in
stitutions, looking to a consolidation
that we hoped w'ould advance the
usefulness of all the institutions in
volved and promote the cause of
Christian education generally. The
proposition was heartily approved by
the representatives of all the insti
tutions. However, it was discovered
w'hen detailed plans of finance and
administration were considered, that
the interests of each were so complex
and varied as to make it practically
impossible to work out a satisfactory
arrangement. In this all parties con
curred. No such consolidation propo
sition will, therefore, be presented to
the conference this winter.”
ENVOY TO CHINA NAMED
WASHINGTON, aug. 5.—The nom
ination of Professor Paul S. Reinseh,
of the University of Wisconsin, to b •
Minister to China, wa* sent to the
Senate to-day by President Wilson.
Jim Conley was made cut an Ananias, an illiterate
Ananias, but a very cunning one, nevertheless, before
the jury in the Frank trial Tuesday.
Luther Rosser brought up in rapid succession the
negro’s false statements in his three affidavits and made
him admit they were all lies.
But—
Although confessing to the falsity of various portions of Ms
first and second aff idavits, and even of his third one, Conley stuck
resolutely to the main part of his incriminating charges against,
the young "actory superintenhent. He would not be shaken in
this.
When asked about lying statements he made to the detec
tives, Conley generally replied:
“If you have got it down there in them papers, I must have
said it.”
Ready With Explanations.
As an explanation of the reason he never mentioned in his en
tire string of affidavits that he was at the factory as early as 8:30
Saturday morning of the murder, the negro said:
“I didn’t want to put myself at the factory twice. There
wasn't nothing doing at the factory in the morning, and I didn’t
think there was any use in putting myself there in the morning. ’ ’
“Wasn’t there another reason, Jim, for you not telling about
being there in the morning?” asked Rosser, insinuatingly.
This was the first open indication that Frank’s lawyer was
working for what he hoped would be a confession from the negro's
lips.
Asked why he didn’t tell the whole truth, even in his last
affidavit, Conley could only reply that he didn't want to tell
all his story against Frank at once. Rosser got the negro to say
that he had talked with Solicitor Dorsey six or seven times and
had added to, or changed his story slightly each time.
It was the persistent endeavor of Rosser to get before the jury
the fact that Conley in his third affidavit had said he was telling
“the whole truth,” and yet. when there was no apparent reason
for holding back anything, had continued to lie about the events
of the day and had kept a dark secret that he was in the factory
early in the morning.
If Conley’s third affidavit was now admittedly false in many
respects, although Convey declared it was the truth when he wai
making it, what reason was there to believe that this tale Conley*
had told the jury had in it much else than falsehood?
This was the question that Rosser evidently was trying to
place in the minds of each of the twelve jurors.
Rosser got Conley to say that he lied about the time he got up,
about the time he left home, about the time he first went to the
factory, about the time he bought a flask of wMsky, about the time
he first met Frank, and about the length of time that Frank stayed
at Montag Brothers, and about the time N. V. Darley and Miss
Mattie Smith left the factory.
Rosser Suddenly Shifts.
Rosser suddenly shifted from his examination of Conley as to
his previous statement and began to question him about the crime
itself.
He took up in rapid sequence the various phases of Conley's
story of the events just before and just fo'lowing 12 o’clock on the
day that Mary Phagan was killed—the entrance and departure of
factory employees, the coming of Mary Phagan, the girl’s scream
in the rear of the factory, the visit of Monteen Stover to the fac
tory, and finally the disposal of Mary Phagan's dead body by Con
ley at the direction of Frank.
During a brief recess, a strychnine tablet was given Conley
as a bracer for the ordeal through which he was to pass.
Just as it appeared that Rosser had reached the point where
he proposed to go after the negro in savage fashion, Attorney
Hooper broke in with a strenuous objection to the manner in which
Frank’s lawyer was seeking to impeach the witness.
lie insisted tfiat all the affi
davits be read to Conley where
it was esired to question him in
regard to events he had told of
previously.
•Judge floan ruled in favor of
the defense am
proceeded along th same lines.
Ro-ser evidently was determined to
break the negro down in short order,
as he started off in his quick, aggres-
I sive fashion, and with little of the
easy manner of his early questioning
of the day before.
Conley was as unconcerned and
cool as when he first went on the
stand to tell his remarkable story. He
answered the questions readily and
refused to be confused or mixed.
Rosser at opee began asking him
the questioningi ron, ” rnins hls part in the crim<> - He
1 brought out the contradictions in
Conley’s various sworn statements.
Q. You hail your second talk with
Black and Scott on May 24?—A. I
disremember.
Q Jim, you told them you wrote
Judge John S. Heard will hold the
annual reurritvn of his children and
grandchildren at Grant Park on Au
gust 7, his seventy-eighth birthday.
Hitherto the reunions have been held
at the old homestead on the Chatta
hoochee River near the Sandy Springs
ramp grounds.
Judge Heard is the father of 23
children, 15 of whom are living. He
has 35 grandchildren living. All will
he present at the reunion, and a pic
nic dinner will be served.
Colonel John \V. Moore will speak.
Shippers Defrauded
By Railroad Scales
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.—The In
terstate Commerce Commission made
public a report to-day declaring that
70 per cent of the track scales now
in use on railroads of the country
are inaccurate and antiquated and
that many should be rebuilt and that
additional scales should be installed.
The investigation shows that the
scales now in use. because of inac
curate weighing, are defrauding the
shippers of the country out of thou
sands of dollars annually.
Plot to Dvnamite
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Calumet Dam Foiled
CALUMET, MICH.. Aug. 5.—Civil
and military authorities are seeking
rne copper strike sympathizers who
were connected with the theft of dy
namite from the Alimeek and MohawK
mines, and a reported plot to destroy
♦ hr Calumet dam and cut off the city’s
water supply.
A? soort as the dynamite theft was
discovered a heavy guard of troops
was thrown around the dam. No ef
forts were made by dynamiters to
approach the structure.
Bull Moose a Hero;
Will T.R. Cry Faker?
INTERNATIONAL FALLS. MINN..
Aug. 5.— While crossing the Rainey
River near here on a raft Clyde W.
Buell, a student at the State Univer
sity. fell into the water and was be
ing carried toward the rapids w'hen
he paw a bull moose swTimming to
ward him.
The young man caught onto the
animal’s antlers and was towed
ashore.
Canary Bird Flees;
Cat Brings It Back
READING, PA.. Aug. 5.—While
Mrs. Franklin Woods, of Denver
township, was cleaning her canary
bird’s cage the* canary flew away.
-The same day the family cat disap
peared.
Four days later the cat returned,
holding the missing bird by a wing.
There was not a scratch on the bird.
4,010 MERCHANTS
OPEN GREAT MEET
Forsyth Theater Reserved for the
Delegates—Crops and Kindred
Subjects Under Discussion.
With every indication that the
registration will go to 4.000 before
the end of the sessions, the Southern
Merchants’ Convention opened Tues
day morning at the Auditorium. The
convention was called to order at 10
o'clock to hear addresses of welcome.
At 10:55 the real work of the gath
ering began, the topic for the day be
ing crop diversification. Related
8*ubjects, euch as marketing grain,
live stock and the effect of this course
on credits, were scheduled for treat
ment in addresses.
The delegates will go to the For
syth Theater Tuesday night. The
entire house has been reserved for
the occasion. The registration office
opened at the Auditorium Tuesday
morning at 7 o’clock, and was busy
from that time forward.
There will be no sessions Wednes
day, but. they will be resumed Thurs
day.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for tlanta and
Georgia—Fair Tuesday and
probably Wednesday.
Witness Admit Wholesale Lying, but
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He Is Truthful Now
dSH KILLS
LUTHER Z. ROSSER.
REUBEN ARNOLD.
Passenger From Atlanta Derailed
Near Savannah—Nurses and
FIGHTING FACES OF THE TWO MEN WHO AREH
BATTLING TO SAVE LIFE OF LEO M. FRANK