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ALWAYS FIRST ® The SUNDA Y AMERICAN Order It NOW— r The Atlanta Georgian. Read for Profit—GEOR GIAN WANT ADS—Use for Results EVENING EDITION Both Phones Main 100 VOL. XII. NO. 2. ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, AUGUST 5,1913. bAtWoV^co. 2 CENTS. p morb° l CONLEY FALTERS BUT CLINGS TO MAIN STORY +•* *•* 4-«4- 4-»-s- +•+ +•+ 4-»4- 4-«4- * 4-«4* +•+ 4-»4* 4-»4- +•4- Says 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 *■ ♦ 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 i/ 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 I 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