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YOL. XII. NO. 2.
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, AUGUST 5,1913.
Copyright. 1906,
By The Georgian Co.
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THIEF SMS mm GIFT
^Creates Alarm That Attracts the
Police, Who See Fire and
Rescue Sleepers.
Hurrying: to investigate the sound
of pistol shots coming from the
home of J. B. Prater, at No. 103
South Pryor street Tuesday morning
at 2 o'clock, Policemen Pearson and
Chapman probably saved the lives of
three men who were caught in the
burning rooming house of Mrs.
Brooks, at No. 88 South Pryor street.
The officers saw the flames* shoot
ing up from the roof of Mrs. Brooks’
home while talking to Mr. Prater
about the burglar who had been dis
covered in his house, and rushed
across the street. By pounding on
the door they aroused the three men
who were the only occupants of the
house, and they succeeded in escap
ing, although forced to leave their be
longings. They were J. C. Johnson,
M. Y. Stevens and I. S. Ford. The
house was badly damaged.
The burglar who was in reality,
perhaps, the means of saving the
jives of the three men, fled after Mr.
'Skater fired three shots at him. The
iiT.ruder was extremely awkward,
.and. while sltpplng through the hall-
*way of the Prater home, stumbled
and fell.
The noise of the fall awoke one of
the women members of the family,
o*nd securing a pistol she ran across
the hallway and gave the weapon to
►Mr. Prater. The latter came out of
his room and fired at the burglar as
the latter ran out of the house.
Policemen Pearson and Chapman,
walking their beats, heard the shots
and hurried to the scene. After
searching the interior of the Prater
•home, they came out on the side
walk and then saw the fire across
the street.
Caminetti Trial to
Follow Diggs Case
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 5.—Maury
I. Diggs, charged with violating the
white slave law, appeared in court to
day ready for trial. Federal Judge
A^anFleet announced that the case of
Drew Caminetti, son of the United
States Commissioner of Immigration,
would be taken up at the conclusion
of the Diggs trial.
The two young men are charged
with taking Martha AVarrington and
•Lola Norris, two Sacramento girls, to
Reno, jMy., for immoral purposes.
bubonic Suspect Is
* Isolated in France
SDecial Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
BREST, FRANCE, Aug. 5.—A case
of suspected bubonic plague was dis-
Vcovered here to-day on a steamer
^m^und from Bangkok, Siam, to Bel
fast, Ireland. ? ,
The patient was isolated until fur
ther examination can be made.
Mother Gives Blood
To Save Daughter
CHICAGO, Aug. 5.—Mrs. Gertrude
Tate was taken to St. Luke’s Hospital
to-day and made ready for an opera
tion by which she will give her
daughter as much blood as Ruth Tate,
18, may need to restore her health.
The hospital authorities said the
only hope of saving the girl was in
tho transfusion of blood.
$80,000 Home Fired;
Militants Suspected
ial Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LYNTON, ENG., Aug. 5.—A man-
owned by the estate of the late
George Newnes was destroyed by
early to-dav by Incendiaries, and
e police are looking for militant suf-
raucttes as the perpetrators.
The mansion, which was one of the
fl,,, t iri North Devonshire, was val
ue' at $80,000. Six firemen were in
jured while fighting the flames by
bon.| explosions.
V
BRYAN
Texans Raising Fund in Desper
ate Effort to Keep Secretary
Off Lecture Platform.
AUSTIN, TEX., Aug. 5.—A plan to
raise $50,000 for William Jennings
Bryan, Secretary of State, was well
under way in Texas to-day.
The fund is to be raised by popu
lar subscription among Democrats of
the State and presented to the Cabi
net officer, providing that he agrees
to forsake the lecture platform dur
ing the remainder of the administra
tion and give his entire time to his
duties at Washington.
More than $4,000 has been sub
scribed in Orange, Tex.
Several Reported
Killed or Injured
In Central Wreck
SAVANNAH, Aug. 5—A Cen
tral of Georgia passenger train
from Atlanta was wrecked near
Oliver early to-day. Several cars
were derailed and several par
sons are reported dead. A wreck
ing train with physicians and
nurses has gone to the scene from
Savannah.
Details are not available at this
hour. Central officials admit the
wreck seems very bad.
Prince Henry Must
Cook Eggs At Eton
LONDON. Aug 5.—When Etonians
reassemble in September for the win
ter “half,” the famous old public
school for the first time in its history
will have as a pupil the son of the
King of England.
The “new boy” will be Prince Hen
ry, the third son of the King and
Queen, who is 13 years* old. j
The King’^ special'wish iJ that he
should be treated like evef-y other
boy. He will have no speoikl privi
leges, and will have to “fag’t for his
seniors; that is, run errands, tidy the
house fagmasder’s room, light the fire,
prepare tea, make toast, cook eggs,
pastries and so on.
$750,000 Gem Theft
Laid to Americans
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
PARIS. Aug. 5.—The Parisian de
tective bureau, in connection with the
theft of a $750,000 pearl necklace be
tween this city and London, are con
centrating their attention on a band
of daring internatioal crooks, well
kovvn to the United States secret
service bureau, believed responsible
for the robbery.
M. Nichlause, in charge of the
search in this country, declares he
has secured information from the pos
tal authorities showing that the neck
lace was stolen either from an Eng
lish channel mailboat or in England.
Out of Jail on Bond
Of Newspaper Men
MACON, Aug. 5.—After spending
17 days in jail because of his failure
to furnish $750 to guarantee the pay
ment of alimony to Mrs. Evelyn
Frances Brooks, his 11-year-old wife
who is suing him for divorce, J. C.
Brooks, a Central of Georgia Rail
road conductor, has secured his lib
erty by giving bond of $250 furnished
by two Macon newspaper men, who
felt a sympathy for him.
Judge Mathews reduced his bond
to $250.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for tlanta and
Georgia—Fair Tuesday and
probably Wednesday.
DIAGRAMS ILLUSTRATING CONLEY’S
STORY OF DEATH OF MARY PHAGAN
1. Frank opened the door and showed me how to lock it.
2. Frank went up to his office and I stayed on the first floor.
3. Miss Mattie Smith came in with Mr. Darley and went out again.
4. Mary Phagan came in; I heard footsteps going back to the metal room.
5. Miss Monteen Stover came in and went out; I heard steps running back to Frank’s office.
6. I sat down on a box and went to sleep; I was awakened by Frank’s stamping his feet for me.
Ill
Europe Calls Canal
Fair Agents Dilatory
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
BERLIN, Aug. 5.—The action of
Great Britain and Russia, which will
probably be followed by Germany; in
declining to take part in the Pai«a*n(r- #
Pacific Exposition in San Francisco
is declared to be not so much of a
snub because of the Panama Canal
tolls, treaty and tariff controversies
as it is the result of the lack of ener
gy on the part of the exposition offi
cials in Interesting manufacturers and
informing them of the cost of send
ing exhibits to a foreign city.
Criticism is heard her© of the "com*
‘mission Vhich President Taft seRt u
inlite. foreign *governmq|ita to th*
fair.
Railroader Known
Here Gets Promotion
The Atlanta commercial office of
the Missouri Pacific-Iron Mountain
Railroad has Just received an an
nouncement of fhe appointment of
J. M. Johnsf ry As vice president of
the Denver, Rioujrande and Western
and Western Pacific railways, in
charge of traffic. Mr. Johnson is
vice president of the Missouri I’a-
ciftc-Iron Mountain, in charge of
traffic. The recent appointment puts
him in charge of traffic over a line
from the Mississippi River to the
Pacific Coast.
Mr. Johnson is one of the best
known railroad officials in the coun
try, and has a host of friends in the
Atlanta territOiJy*
Jim Conley, accuser of Leo Frank, was placed again under
the pitiless fire of Luther Rosser’s cross-examination when the trial
of Frank reopened Tuesday morning.
Rosser evidently was determined to break the negro down in
short order, as he started off in his quick, aggressive 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 once began asking
him concerning his part in the
crime. He brought out. the con
tradictions in Conley’s various
sworn statements.
Q. You had your second talk with
Black and Scott on May 247—A. I
disremember.
D«ni«8 Sleuths Advised Him.
Q. Jim, you told them you wrote
the notes on Friday, didn’t you?—A.
Yes, I told them I wrote them on
Friday.
Q. Then they told you the notes
wouldn’t fit?—A. No. sir, they didn’t
tell m4F tfiat.
Q. They didn’t tell y.ou the notes
didn’t fit in with the other part of
the story?—A. No. sir.
Q. You remember a lot oC other
things, but you don’t remember that?
—A. No, sir, I don’t remember that!
Q. Didn’t Mr. Black and Mr. Scott
tell you that your statement about
writing the notes on Friday was all
rot, and you’d have to change it to
make your story true?—A. No, sir,
they didn’t tell me anything like that.
Q. They tried their best to get you
to change your statement on May 27,
and you wouldn’t do it, would you, Jim?
—A. They questioned me, but they
didn’t try to make me change my
statement.
Fails to Rsmember.
Q. They didn’t question you at all.
—A. They asked me if that was all,
and I said yes.
Q. That was on May 27. wasn't it?—
A. I disremember.
Q. But it was after you had made
your second statement?—A. I don’t
know.
Q. Well, didn’t Lanford and his de
tectives stay with you a whole day
and stick closer than a brother?—A.
No, sir. They talked to me a long
while but they never stuck by me
all day.
Q But they told you your statement
dint soud right?—A. No, sir, they
never told me that.
Q. What did they talk to you about
for four hours a day?—A. They talk
ed to me about a whole lot, about
different things.
Q. What did they talk about?—A.
They asked me if I knew Mr. Frank,
Asked All About Frank.
Q. Don’t you remember anythfni
else?—A. They asked me all about
Mr. Frank.
Q. Did Mr. Black talk *o you?—A.
Yes, sir, he talked to me a whole
lot.
Q. On May 28 you made a tnird
statement, or was it your second?—
A. I think It was the third,
Q. Didn’t you say a while ago that
you made a second statement on May
28? Now you say it was the third.
Which was right?—A. I think it was
the third, but I am not sure.
Q. Why did you change the time
you told them you wrote the notes?—
A. I thought they might think some
thing wrong if I sTuck to the first.
Conley Isolated in Tower.
Conley was brought to the court
house Tuesday morning at 8:15 by
Deputy Sheriff Haygood. Unspent
the night at the Tower in complete
isolation. He was allowed tajsec not
even his own attorney, William M.
Smith, by special agreement of de
fense and State.
It was the first time for months
that the detectives and Smith had not
been permitted to 9ee him whenever
they wished.
Conley, by Smith’s arrangement, ate
SYLVAN1A, GA., Aug. 5.—A heav
ily armed posse, under the command
of Sheriff Joyner, is scouring the
hills of Screven County to-day
searching for Cleveland Mitchell, a
negro w-ho shot and killed A. J. Joy
ner, foreman of the Ziegler Turpen
tine and Lumber Company, last Sat
urday night. Sheriff Joyner is a cou-^
sin of the murdered man.
The posse has penetrated every
section of the county, and the Sheriff
has sent out. fifty pictures of tho
murderer, but no trace has been
found of him since the killing. Sav
oral negroes who were with Mitchell
at the time of the shooting, one of
them his brother-in-law, have be-*n
arrested, but will tell nothing that
might lead to the capture of Mitchell.
The killing ot Mr. Joyner was the
climax of a series of difficulties
which he had been having with the
negroes employed at the turpentine
camp. Mitchell had trouble with Mr.
Joyner about a week ago and quit,
claiming the foreman would not pay
him.
Did Not Take Precautions,
Saturday mornin» r Mr. Joyner had
some words with Mitchell’s father-in-
law, and gave tin negro a thrashing.
The officials of the company and Mr.
Joyner did not suspeit t. t the ne
groes would make any more trouble,
and the foreman did not take any
more than hts usual precautions.
On the night of the murder Mr
Joyner came up town on some bus:
ness, and started home about dark,
getting in his buggy in front of Over-
street's drug store. Warren Nun-
nally got in the buggy with him to
ride a short distance up the stre.i.
in front of the residence of W. C.
Williams the rig was halted by
Mitchell, who sked Mr. Joyner for
a settlement of the amount due him.
Several other negroes were with
Mitchell, but none of them had any
thing to say.
When the negro approached the
buggy Mr. Nunnally got out. leaving
Mr. Joyner’s revolver lying in an ex
posed position on the seat. Mitchell
saw the gun and le Ded forward. Be
fore Mr. Joyner cot ’ get the pist >1
the negro had the weapon and point
ed it. at his former employer.
Shoots Foreman in Side.
“Eve got you now!” he cried.
Mitchell fired as Mr. Joyner lunged
forward to grab his hand, and the
bullet penetrated the foreman’s side.
The negro started to run and Mr.
Nunnally tried to grab him, but miss
ed, and Mltjchell escaped. Frightened
by the sound of th shot, the horse
started to run. with Mr. Joyner
hanging over the side of the buggy.
He fell out after the horse had run
about 100 yards.
Mr. Nunnally and others attract*
by the shooting picked Mr. Joyner up
and carried him to a drug store. He
lived several hours and was con
scious to the end.
Mr. Joyner was well known
Screven County, and came of a prom
inent family. He was buried Monda
nt KriF-ndship <’hu»<h. with the Ma- , „ .
sonic ceremony. He is surviyeo by ' a hearty of steak and ?cram
two small children, \ Ut was
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