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VOL. XII. NO. 3.
ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1913. * y c tfX g ,Tc 0 . 2 CENTS.
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Dr. Harris Unshaken On Time of GirTs Death
ONE OF WITNESSES FOR DEFENSE
Buys an Automobile
With Small Change
SELMA, Aug. 6.—Burwell Hardy
has bought a brand new runabout au
tomobile. And it Is all paid for, too.
Burwell called at a local garage a
day or two ago and asked the prices
on machines of various sizes and
types. He told the dealer he would
call again next day, which he did,
and asked to be driven over the city.
This was done. He said that he
would come again. He did next day.
Burwell told the dealer to take him
out to the little store he conducts in
East Selma and he would get the
Mobile Girl Is Found Probe Continues in
Helpless on Street
Moose Lodge Deaths
Mrs. Emma Freeman, who will
testify for Leo Frank.
money. This was done and Burwell
lugged out a box of money. In the
box was $650 in nickels, dimes and
quarters, nothing larger than a “two-
bit" piece.
Girl Leads Strike
Of 10,000 Knitters
NEW YORK, Aug. 6.—Three thou
sand more knitting mill operatives
Joined the strike here to-day, bring
ing the total number of strikers,
mostly women, up to 10,000.
The strike is being led by Miss
Jennie Persley, 20 years old.
WOULD WORK PAUPERS.
ANNISTON, Aug. 6.—Commissioner
J. C. Chandler, of the County Board
of Revenue, to-day submitted to the
board a plan by which he believes the
county’s* alms house can be made self-
supporting by working the inmates
on the farm.
MONTGOMERY, Aug. 6.—Miss Ma
rie Pollard was picked up on the
streets of Montgomery at an early
hour to-day in a semi-conscious con
dition. She is the daughter of prom
inent parents in Mobile, who have or
dered an investigation.
The girl declared she met Leslie
Brown, of Mobile, on the street, when
he gave her a drink and that was the
last she remembered. She was visit
ing in Montgomery.
ADVOCATES PIG CLUBS.
ANNISTON. Aug. 6.—N. R. Baker,
State Rural Supervisor of Public
Schools, addressed the Calhoun Coun
ty Teachers’ Iinstltute here to-day.
He urged that more attention should
be paid to pib clubs along with girls'
tomato clubs and boys’ com clubs.
WEST POINT GIRL WEDS.
MOBILE, Aug. 6.—Elisha D. Sas
ser, of Bixley, Miss., and Miss Nellie
L. Simpler, of West Point, Ga„ were
married here to-day In the probate
court by Judge Price Williams, Jr.
BIRMINGHAM. Aug. 6.—Mat
Stradford, an electrician, told the
Coroner's Jury Investigating the
deaths of Christopher Gustin and
Donald Kenny, during their initiation
into the local lodge of Moose, that
he had sold the magneto used by the
Moose to the local Elks’ lodge, which.
In turn, sold it to the Moose. He
saM that the magneto could have
generated 2,000 volts of electricity,
enough to kill a man or to send a
message to Nashville. D. O. Echols,
undertaker at Ensley, said that Ken
ny's body had a black spot on the
breast when it arrived at the under
taking place the morning after lodge
meeting.
Many witnesses are being examined
in the investigation.
W. C. T. U. BARS SUFFRAGE.
GADSDEN, August 6.—Fearing It
would cause a breach in the ranks,
woman's suffrage was not permitted
for discussion at a district meeting
of the W. C. T. U. here to-day.
Minister Accused of Accepting
$1,500 From Own Brother, Who
Was Friendly With Wife.
MACON, Aug. 6.—The Rev. E. T.
Moore, a Baptist minister, at Ander-
sonville, formerly of Macon, is
charged by Attorney Oliver C. Han
cock, in a suit brought in the city
court of Americus, with extorting
$1,500 from his own brother as a price
for silence in court as to his brother's
alleged intimacy with Mrs. Moore.
Mrs. Moore now is living with her
parents at Eufaula, Ala., and the two
children are temporarily in her cus
tody. Rev. Mr. Moore, while here, re
sided in the Mercer University com
munity and was highly esteemed both
as a man and a minister.
Last year Rev. Mr. Moore obtained
a divorce from his wife In the Bibb
Superior Court, after a hotly contest
ed trial. He charged her with being
unfaithful. One of the alleged co
respondents swore to improper rela
tions with Mrs. Moore, who is a strik
ingly handsome woman of about 35
years. It is now charged that Rev.
Mr. Moore found his own brother and
Mrs. Moore in a compromising posi
tion and that he threatened hip broth
er, who was about tc be married, with
exposure unless giver. $1,500.
Attorney Hancock alleges , that he
can prove the facts and the actual
payment of the money.
This charge forms part of a suit
brought for the recovery of a fee for
legal services. Mr. Hancock claims
that Rev. Mr. Moore has not only re
fused to pay him for services in pro
curing the divorce, but also borrowed
$50 while the case was pending which
he also refuses to repay.
Comer Picks Garber
To Manage Campaign
BIRMINGHAM, Aug. 6.—Former
Governor B. B. Comer announced to
day that Alex M. Garber, former At
torney General of the State, would be
his campaign manager. A hot cam-
; paign will be waged.
I Comer and Walter D. Seed, now
j Lieutenant Governor and a candidate
' for Governor, will meet In debate
Friday morning in Tuscaloosa and
1 interesting addresses are expected,
j Comer and Seed are both prohibition-
| ists. However, Comer has not been
! giving prohibition much attention in
| his campaign so far. Seed claims to
! be the “real prohibitionist” in the
race.
8 Strikebreakers
Arrive at Mobile
MOBILE. Aug. 6.—With the arrival
of eight strikebreakers from New
Orleans, employers say they have al
ready half completed a victory over
the striking boilermakers, machinists,
ship-carpenters and caulkers*. Al
though the men on strike watched
local stations for the arrival of strike
breakers, the eight men say they
reached here without the knowledge
of the working crafts. ,
No violence has been shown by the
strikers The police have notified
them that no picketing will be al
lowed Employers of shipworkers and
ironworkers are scouring the country
for non-union help.
First Bale in Selma
Sells for 16 Cents
SELMA, Aug 6.—The first bale of
cotton this season sold at auction on
the Selma Cotton Exchange at noon
to-day for 16 cents a pound. The
W. L. Thompson Company was the
buyer The movement of the crop
will become general in the next few
days. Fields are now' white with open
staple.
Two other bales were received to
day at this market. The season starts
ten days earlier than last year.
Commissioner Drysdale, of Duval
County, Accused at Jackson
ville of Raising Notes.
JACKSONVILLE, Aug. 6.—At noon
to-day Richard D. Drysdale, County
CommlMsioner for the Second Dis
trict of Duvall county, was arrested
at the close of a session of the Board
on a warrant charging forgery.
The warrant grew out of an affi
davit sworn to by the firm of Coons
and Golder, who allege that last May
they gave to Drysdale two notes for
$750 each and that he cashed the
notes at the Barnett National Bank
after raising them to $1,750 each.
The arrest of the popular official
caused a F*ensatlon at the courthouse.
Officials of the Barnett Bank stated
this afternoon that the notes had
been made out in blank form by
firm of Coon and Golder and that
Drysdale had filled them in for
$1,750.
Mr. Golder, President of Coons and
Golder, who signed the affidavit,
stated that the notes were not made
out in black form and that if held
up to the light it would be seen that
they had been tampered with.
Mr. Drysdale was released on a
bond of $1,040. —
Justice C. D. Abbott, who made out
the affidavits and warrant, stated
later that the affidavit was faulty in
that the copy of the original note was
for $1,750 InsteacP'nf $750.
Miami Women War
On ‘Indecent’ Dress
MIAMI, Aug. 6.—Women of Miami
composing the Purity League have
decided to wage war on slit skirts and
silhouette gowns.
At a meeting of the league a reso
lution was adopted binding each
member to act as a committee to
watch for the new costumes and
whenever one is seen to notify the
w’earer to go home and “put on some
thing decent” on pain of being re
ported to the police—even though
there is no city ordinance prohibiting
the wearing of garments of the kind.
The women are also highly Indig
nant because there is no ordinance
regulating the hour of bedtime for
youngsters, and they are preparing a
monster petition to the City Council
asking that body to pass a curfew
law’.
Miami 17 Years Old;
To Celebrate Event
MIAMI, Aug. 6.—Miami, the magic
city of Florida, will be seventeen
years old Friday. A big celebration
commemorating this event begins
Thursday, to continue through Satur
day.
The city was incorporated August 8,
1896, and to-day claims a population
of 14,834. The first train arrived in
Miami April 23, 1896, and the first
permanent structure was erected that
summer.
Miami celebrates her birthday every
year, this time with excursion trains
from Jacksonville and Key West over
the Florida East Coast Railroad, the
building of which made the city pos
sible.
Postal Fraud Case
Indictment Likely
GADSDEN, Aug. 6—The Federal
Grand Jury is preparing to make a
report in the case of E. C. Drew, the
Fort Payne promoter charged with
using the mails to defraud. If an In
dictment Is returned against him he
will be tried Immediately.
Drew is already under conviction
in one case. He was sentenced to
the Federal Penitentiary at Atlanta,
but took an appeal to the United
States Court of Appeals. His opera
tions have been extensive. Witnesses
from Maine, Massachusetts and other
Eastern States are here.
Wilson, Bryan and
Daniels Will Visit
Mobile in October
MOBILE, Aug. 6.—President Wil
son has conditionally accepted an In
vitation to visit Mobile during the
Southern Commercial Congress and
the Panama Canal Celebration In Oc
tober. Secretary of State Bryan and
Secretary of the Navy Wilson have
also accepted Invitations.
The Invitations were presented to
day by Governor O’Neal and a dele
gation of Alabama and Southern con
gressional representatives.
Secretary Bryan will speak on
“Farther South” and Secretary Dan
iels on ‘‘The South and Our Navy.”
John Barrett, of the Pan-American
Union, will discuss “What the Canal
Means to Pan-America.”
Georgia Boy Finds
Sailor's Life Hard
TAMPA, Aug. 6.—Fifteen-year-old
Emmett Smith, of Columbus, Ga.,
struck town this morning on the Brit
ish steamer, St. Ronald, and Is sure
glad to be on American soil again.
He and another boy ran away from
home several months ago and shipped
on an Italian bark at Mobile for Rio
De Janeiro, receiving treatment on the
way* that convinced them that the
sailor’s life was not their sort.
They got away from the bark at
Rio and went to the American Consul,
who kept the boys until young Smith
got a chance to come here on the St.
Ronald. He was passed into this
country by Immigration Officer Wha
len and has telegraphed to his father
for funds.
Runaway Physician
And Girl Returned
TAMPA, Aug. 6—Dr. Gull M. How-
sley, w’ho eloped from here with his
13-year-old sister-in-law, Anita Cas
tellanos, in November, was brought
back from Corss Beck, Texas, by
Deputy SherlfT Woodward to-day and
will be arraigned in criminal court
to answer to a charge of enticing a
girl away from home for immoral pur
poses.
Howsley says his wife was not kind
to him; that he consulted with the
girl and they decided to leave. He
says he did not mistreat the child.
The girl appeared in the Sheriff’s
office to-day wearing a child’s sun-
dais and knee skirts.
Taken to Hospital to
Have Button Removed
EUFAULA, Auk. 6.—Dervine. the
little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. C.
Mercer, of Clayton, this county, was
rushed to a hospital at Montgomery
to-day to have a button removed from
one of her nostrils.
The child put the button In her nose
while at play and has been suffering
muhe pain
Her parents and local physicians
were unable to remove it.
Prisoner Leaps From
Police Chief's Office
BIRMINGHAM. Aug. 6.—As Her
bert Thomas, of Louisville, was being
Interrogated in the office of Chief of
Police Bodeker this afternoon he at
tempted to escape by Jumping out of
a window. He missed a shed roof
and fell to the sidewalk, 20 feet be
low. He sustained serious Injuries,
but will recover.
Thomas had been arrested by De
tectives Cole and Goldstein.
Tubercular Persons
Barred as Teachers
ANNISTON, Aug. 6.—The Calhoun
County Medical Society has received
a suggestion from County Health Of
ficer R, L. Hughes that all teachers
of the county be examined by health
experts with special reference to tu
berculosis.
Those found to be afflicted with the
latter disease will be barred from
teaching in the public schools.
CHILD FATALLY SCALDED.
HUNTSVILLE, Aug. 6.—Mrs. D. V.
Hartman, while canning preserves at
Abingdon, overturned a kettle of
boiling fruit on the body of her two-
year-old baby, fatally scalding the
child.
A decisive victory was scored by the State Wed
nesday afternoon in the bitter struggle over the admissi
bility of certain portions of Jim Conley’s testimony
which has reference to Leo Frank’s alleged conduct with
women visitors at the factory.
Judge Roan ruled that all of Conley’s testimony
should stand; he also ruled that the testimony of C. B.
Dalton on the same subject insofar as it was corrobora
tive of Conley’s statements might be presented, and that
he would rule on it a3 it came up.
Judge Roan’s only ruling which favored the defense was that
the proposed testimony of young George Epps was entirely inad
missible. The part of Epps' testimony to which the defense ob
jected was that Mary Phagan had told him that she was afraid
of Frank, and that Frank had tried to flirt with her.
Mistrial Talk By Arnold.
The announcement of Judge Roan’s ruling was a signal for
a murmer of applause and a stamping of feet about the room.
Reuben Arnold was on his feet instantly.
“Such a demonstration might easily cause a mistrial,’’ he
cried.
“The jury is not in,” Solicitor Dorsey remarked.
“That makes no difference, the jury might have heard it,” re
torted Arnold. “If any applause like thi soccurs again I shall
move that the courtroom be cleared.”
Dr. H. F. Harris, who collapsed on the stand last Friday, was
recalled as soon as the ruling was announced. He was able to
present nothing new for more than half an hour due to the clash
over the admissibility of testimony in regard to some of his scien
tific experiments which the State asserted had a bearing on the
case.
“I say with almost absolute certainty that Mary Phagan lived
not more than 30 or 45 minutes, ’ ’ said the medical expert, as soon
as he had been recalled to the stand by Solicitor Dorsey.
Dr. Harris declared there could be no doutb as to the result
of his analysis of the contents of the girl’s stomach. The cabbage
she had eaten had been hardly affected by the digestive juices, he
said. Answering the contention of the defense that cabbage is
especially hard to digest, the physician said that the biscuit the
girl had eaten had progressed no further in its digestion than the
cabbage.
Hot Argument Over Excluding Testimony.
The State has virtually completed its case.
It was reported during the confusion after the judge’s an
nouncement of his ruling that Reuben Arnold had made a motion
for a mistrial. Mr. Arnold later explained that he had made it,
and then withdrawn it because the jury was not in the room.
The fight to exclude Conley’s testimony in regard to Frank’s
alleged conduct proved one of the exciting incidents of the morn
ing session. The argument was still in progress when court ad
journed for the noon recess. That and Conley’s sensational declar
ation that Frank had hid the murder victim’s silver-plated mesh
bag, for which the detectives have been searching for months, in
the safe in the factory office immediately after the crime were the
features of the day.
Reuben Arnold argued that it was inadmissible because irrele
vant and immaterial, and that it was a violation of the general 1
principle in law that because A committed X last year, it can not
be introduced to show that he committed X of which he is now
accused.
Early Ruling Is Promised.
Combating the contention of Attorney Hooper that the objec
tion of the defense had not been made until the lawyers for Frank
had cross-examined the negro and found that they could get no
reversal of statements from him, Arnold cited cases in a large
number of States indicating that it is a well defined privilege that
testimony may be stricken out at the instance of the defense even
after the cross-examination has taken place. Judge Roan said
that he would make his ruling early in the afternoon session.
Colonel Arnold grew faint during the argument and got the
judge’s consent to talk sitting.
Attorney Rosser's manner was angry and threatening when he
arose for the re-cross-examination of Jim Conley, who had testified
to seeing Frank hide Mary Phagan's purse in his safe. He began
at once a vicious attack on Conley’s story of the mesh bag. H»
asked when Conley first told this remarkable tale. Conley said bo
couldn’t remember.
“Why didn’t you tell all this when you were telling ’the whole