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EXTRA The Atlanta Georgian Read for Profit—-GEORGIAN WANT ADS— (Jsc for Results VOL. XII. NO. 3. ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1913. * y c tfX g ,Tc 0 . 2 CENTS. FLORIDA EXTRA JUDGE'S RULING STATE VICTORY •(••*!* +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ •!•••}• +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ *!*•+ +•+ •!•«*!• •!*•*!• +•+ •!*•+ +•+ 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