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TTTE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
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FRANK DEFENSE OPENS WITH ATTACK ON DR. HARRIS’ EVIDENCE.
Dalton Corroborates Jim Conley’s Story of Women Calling at Pencil Factory
OPINIONS AS 10 TIME OF
GIRL'S DEATH GUESSES, IS
OR. GUILDS' TESTIMONY
Continued From Page 2.
We don't want to argu® 1t. We Jus!
want to be recorded aa objecting
Judge Roan permitted all of the
sample® to go In.
Solicitor Dorsey asked for the bank
book and the cash book of the Na
tional Pencil Company. They had
rot been secured.
Dorsey—We will rest our case, any
way.
The State rested Its case exactly at
12 o’clock
Dr. L. W. Childs, a prominent young
surgeon of Atlanta, was the first wit
ness called by the defense.
Attorney Arnold questioned Dr.
Childs.
Q. What Is your occupation?—A.
Surgery and general medicine
Q Where did you graduate?—A
University of Michigan in 1906.
Q. Where did you practice?—A. I
was first assistant at the Michigan
University Hospital.
Q. How long have you been in At
lanta?—A. About five years.
Q. A body is found at 3 o'clock In
the morning. It is not embalmed un
til 10 o’clock that morning It Is dug
up nine days later and a cut is found
In back of the head There is only a
drop of blood found on the skull
There was no pressure on the brain.
Could a physician have said whether
that blow produced unconsciousness?
A. He might hazard a guess. He
could not tell.
Calls Opinion Mere Guess.
Q. The presence of a drop of blood
would have had nothing to do with it?
A. Absolutely nothing. There was no
pressure, you said.
Q. No pressure at all.—A. Then Its
effect was negligible.
Q. Now is there any way for a doc
tor telling definitely whether or not
that blow caused unconsciousness?—
A. I should say it would he a guess.
Q. Is it possible to tell whether a
wound or cut such as I have described
with the appearance of blood was in
flicted before or after death?—A. If
it was Inflicted in from one to three
hours after death It would have the
appearance of having been inflicted
just before death.
Q. Would you say that such a
wound as I have described could have
been inflicted one hour after death?—
A. It would practically he a guess to
say so.
Q. Would the fact that this body
had been embalmed and buried for
nine days add to the difficulties of
making an examination or not?—A.
It would greatly add to the difficul
ties.
Q. Have you ever heard of a case
on record when an opinion on uncon
sciousness and the length of time the
person was unconscious before death
was placed on what data we have?—
A. Absolutely no.
Blows Often Cause Death.
Q. Have you heard of cases of blows
on the head causing death without
fracturing the skull?--A. Yes, I have
se»-n several cases of sandbagging
W'here the person would die of con
cussion of the brain and there would
only lie a slight swelling where the
blow had been struck.
Q Then there is absolutely no way
of telling the exact result of a blow'
on the head after a post-mortem held
nine days after interment?- A. No.
Q. What class of food does cab
bage come in?—A. Carbohydrates
Q. Are they considered hard to di
gest?—A. As such they are not, but
in cabbage the carbohydrate is mix
ed with cellulose, a woody fiber on
which the digestive Juices have prac
tically no efTect, therefore, it is very
hard.
<J. Ix>ok at this sample (Arnold
showed th® witness the cabbage taken
from Mary Phagan's stomach). Was
that well masticated?- A. Not very
well.
Q. Isn't it a fact that cooked cab
bage is harder to digest than raw’
cabbage?—A. Yes; raw cabbage is
the easiest of all forms of cabbage to
digest.
Cabbage in Digestive State.
Q, What part does the saliva play?
A It acts on the carbohydrates.
Q. What part of the cabbage is the
carbohydrates? A. Seven or eight per
cent.
Q. So saliva only affects that part
of the cabbage?—A. Yes.
Q. Does the stomach do anything
about digesting cabbage?—A. The
muscular effect the churning- might
break it up to some extent.
Q. So the Juices of the stomach in
stead of digesting cabbage merely re
tard it?- A. Yes.
Q. Then where is cabbage really di-
"Better Be Sate
Than Sorry”
It is far better to give
I the Stomach, Liver and
Bowels some help at the
beginning than to keep
j putting it off until sick-
1 ness overtakes you. Be
wise, and keep
HOSTETTER’S
STOMACH BITTERS
handy and take it prompt
ly. It helps overcome all
Stomaeh, Liver and Bowel
His. also prevents Malaria,
Fever and Ague.
gested?—A In the small intestines.
Q. How long would it take boiled
cabbage to pass out of the stomach?
A. About four and one-half hours.
Q. Then w’hen it goes out of the
stomach it is really undigested, is It
not? A. Yes. It may pass out of the
body entirely In the undigested form.
Digestion Easily Retarded.
Q. Are there not a great manv
things that retard digestion?—A. Yes,
the psychic causes fright, anger and
sudden mental excitement—material
ly retard It.
Q. Would walking retard It?—A.
Yes, if the walking was immediately
after the meal, digestion would be re
tarded. These other causes might
totally stop digestion.
Q. Isn’t It a fact that you might
find substances in a stomach that
had laid there quite a while and
practically rio digestive action had
begun?—A. Yes, If the psychic in
fluence had taken place.
y. Don't stomachs differ as much
as minds?—A. Yes. To understand
a stomach you must study it as an
individual.
Mr. Arnold held up n sample of
cabbage taken from the Phag.i.n
girl's stomach.
Q. Would you hazard a guess that
this cabbage had only been In a stom
ach one half hour before death—
I would not.
y. Why?—A. For the reasons I have
stated. The cause of the psychic in
fluences—I know not of—that might
have been brought to bear and be
cause of the varying effects of stom
achs on such a substance.
Denies Accurate Opinions,
y. Do you think a doctor couM
give an accurate scientific opinion by
making such a statement?—A. I do
not.
y. How long would you sny it was
possible for cabbage like this to stay
in the stomach?—A. I have seen cab
bage less digested than that which
had been in the stomach for twelve
hours.
y. When the process of digestion
begins, it begins very slowly, doesn t
it?—a. Yes, it is really indeterminate.
It has not advanced very far when
the food goes to the stomach.
y. How long would it take wheat
bread?—A. I would say about two
and one-half hours.
y. Then solids like cabbage and
wheat bread would be at least two
and one-naif hours passing out of
the stomach, would they not?—A.
Yes.
At this point court was adjourned
until 2 o’clock.
'Blow Would Discolor Eyes.’
Q. Please state whet Iter a bruise
couid be inflicted over the ey e after
death similar to a wound in life.—A.
Yes, as much after two hours.
y. Could a blow on the back of the
head cause a discolored eye?—A. Yes,
or both eyes.
y. What becomes of that epithell
um after death?—A. Before or after
embalming?
y. Would it be decomposed before
ejnhalrning? A. It would.
Solicitor Dorsey then took the wit
ness. His brother, Dr. Rufus T. Dor
sey. a prominent Atlanta physician,
sat by the questioner and frequently
coached him in his examination of the
witness.
y. How old are you?—A. 81.
Q. Where have you lived?—A. Ann
Arbor and Atlanta,
y. How long have you practiced?—
A. Seven years.
y. What do you practice?—A. Sur
gery and general medicine.
y. Don’t most specialists confine
themselves to one study and find their
hands full? A. They learn more by
branching out.
y. Do you undertake to tell this
Jury that digestion begins in the
mouth?—A. Yes.
y. 1 thought mastication was the
office of the mouth? A. It is.
y. Then doesn’t digestion begin as
much when the food begins to cook
as in the mouth? A. No; the diges
tion begins when the salivary glands
begin to yield their juices.
y. Is a turnip of about the saem
property as a cabbage?—A. Yes.
y. Do you consider Dr. Crittenden,
of Yale, an authority?'- A. Yes.
y. Are you familiar with his table
on the relative properties of food?—
A. Yes.
Differs With Authority.
Q. If he says it takes about 3 1-2
hours to digest a cabbage and the
same time for a turnip it is about
right, is it not? A. I think he says
that he is at variance with the other
authorities.
y. Then you are at variance with
him?- -A. Yes.
Q. Who is your authority? A. Dr.
Peterson, an eminent medical expert
and authority.
Q In speaking of digestion of cab
bage and turnips, you have as a
standard, a normal stomach'’ A. Yes.
y. How long after taking food into
a stomach would ybu find pure hy
drochloric acid?—A. 1 tis in the stom
ach before food is taken in and you
will And it there at any stage.
Q. Do you mean to give this as your-
opinion?—A. It would depend upon
* he condition of the glands of the
gastric memhranoe.
y. I am speaking of a normal stom-
aeh Are you familiar with the Ewald
breakfast test? According to this test,
how long would it be before you
would find pure hydrochloric acid?—
A It would depend on the glands.
Q I am asking you about a normal
stomach.
Judge Warns Against Haste.
Arnold objected—He does not give
the witness time to answer.
Judge Roan cautioned Dorsey re-
| garding this.
y. How much add would occur in
i normal stomach one hour after the
j Ewald breakfast test?—A. About 2
; grams. -
y Give me the amount in degrees.
1 A. That is essentially a question for
a laboratory man. We don’t use
those terms in general practice,
y. Well, standard authorities use
; degrees -A It is essentially a labora
tory test and 1 would prefer not to
answer
Q. Well.rt.if you can’t answer it l
will try W*u on something else. Is
this man Hemeter an authority?—A.
If he gives any tables he is.
y. Do you know of him?—A. I have
heard of him.
y. Is he a standard?—A. Yes.
y. I want you to give this Jury the
acidity of an Ewald test breakfast
"in- hour ifttr taking. A That is a
question for a laboratory man.
y. Well, if you can’t that I will
ask you something else. Can you
give me the percentages of the gastric
juices in digestion? A. No, that is in
a branch that is seldom taught.
y. Don’t you know that they teach
that as one of the fundamental prin
ciples of medicine?—A. I take excep
tion with you on that.
y. Can you tell me the functions of
the gastric juices—A. Yes.
Dr. Childs then gave an extensive
scientific explanation, after which
Dorsey propounded a long hypotheti
cal question, to bring out. If possible,
an admission that the cabbage might
not have been in the stomach more
than an hour. Dr. Childs replied that
it would Vie the wildest guess to try
and place the time within two hours.
y. I will get you to tell the jury
why?—A. I will cite a case that came
to my attention when cabbage was
taken from a stomach after twelve
hours.
Arnold Protests «t Mirth.
Q. I am speaking of a normal stom
ach.—A. That might have been a
normal stomach.
y. Well, it certainly would not have
been normal if it was that diseased,
so diseased the cabbage had to be
taken from it.—A. The structure was
normal.
y. Will you tell the Jury that the
juices were normal? A. No.
Dorsey remarked: “Why, of course
not,” and there was a ripple of laugh
ter In the courtroom when Attorney
Arnold jumped to his feet to object to
the Solicitor’s comment.
“Your honor,’’ Arnold said, “that
laughter will have to cease. There is
a bunch of hoodlums back there who
laugh at my friend’s witticisms.’’
Judge Roan—You will have to keep
order in the courtroom, Mr. Sheriff.
y. What is a normal stomach—A.
A normal stomach is one that is un
der normal conditions will digest a
normal amount of food in a normally
accepted time.
Q. Did you ever see any experi
ments except in that case where you
made a man vomit?—A. No, I am not
quoting myself.
Scott Called to Stand.
Q. If a little girl were found six
teen to twenty hours after she was
murdered witli a moist blood spot on
her hair, with a scar on the back of
her head, deep indentations in her
neck, her tongue out, her nails blue,
what would you say caused her
death? - -A. I would certainly say it
was not the blow on the head.
The witness was excused.
Harry Scott, the Pinkerton detec
tive employed by the National Pencil
Company, who has already appeared
as a witness for the prosecution, was
called by the defense. Attorney Ros
ser questioned him.
y. Mr. Scott, you knew on Monday
after the crime that Mrs. Arthur
White, saw a negro near tn« ata r ^«v
on the Saturday before?—A. Yes. sir.
y. Did you tell the city detectives?
A. It is my recollection that I did.
Q. I)i<l you ever ask Mr. Frank if
Conley could write? A. No.
y. When did you discover Jim Con
ley could write?- A. Sunday, May 18.
Q. On May 18. you dictated to Con
ley “that long, tall, black negro did
| it* by hisseif.’’ How long did it take
j him to write it?—A. About six or
! seven minutes.
Q. You were present when be was
i brought before Mrs. White?—A. Yes.
y. Did he move his lips?—A. Yes;
he chewed his lips and looked very
I excited.
y. Did he look nervous, and, if so.
| why 9 A. Well, he could not stand
stib. He twirled a cigarette and look
ed very excited.
y. Did he deny on May 18 that he
aad anything to do with the mur-
I der or had been to the factory?—A.
Y es.
Q Did you try to make him talk?—
A. Yes.
Treated Him ‘Pretty Roughly/
Q. How did you talk to him 9 A. I
I was very stern with him. I tried to
I get from him a confession of the mur
der.
y. Did you give him the third de
gree? A. That depends on what you
call the third degree.
y. Well, you tell me what did?—A.
j Oh, w r e just talked to him. and cursed
| him and treated him pretty roughly.
Q. Did you beat him?—A. No.
Q. Just a scientific third degree?—
A. Well, we did everything we could.
y. You and the city detectives
worked in harmony, each one giving
the other what Vie had discovered,
■ did you not?—A. Yes.
Mr. Rosser showed Scott the first
statement made by Jim Conley.
Q. Did you hear him make this
I statement ? -A. Yes, I wrote it.
y. Is that all he said?—A’. Yes.
y You didn’t know he could write?
A. Yes, 1 had already discovered he
could write.
Q. This information that he could
write came from Schiff and Darley, of
the pencil factory, didn’t it?—A. Yes.
Brings Up Second Statement,
y. When Conley made that second
I statement about the notes, was that
gone over with Mr. I>orsey?—A. Y*»s.
Q. He said: “It did not say any-
| thing about the little girl’s body”?—A.
Yes
y. He repeated agalnthe buying of
the beer and whisky on Peters street?
—A. Yes.
y Conley told you the second time
he was going to tell the truth?—A.
Yes. He sent for Mr. Rlack and made
a voluntary statement.
y. That was Eds first sworn State
ment ? A. Yes. sir.
Q. On May 25. after that statement,
you and Rlack called on Conley again
and questioned him. didn't you?—A.
Yes. About three hours.
y. You gave him the same third
degree you illustrated just now, didn't
vo'!"—A. No, I was stern, but nothing
more.
y. On May 27 you question him
again dldn’pyou?—A. Yes.
y. Then you told him Mr. Frank
would not have written those notes on
Friday and that his story would not
fit?—A Yes
y. How long did you question him?
—A. Five or six hour*.
y. The next day you had him again,
didn’t you?—A. Yes.
y. How long?—A. About Five or
six hours.
y. And he told you he had already
told the truth and would tell no more?
—A. Yes.
Changed Day to Saturday.
Q. On May 28. he made you an
other long statement, after being told
that his former utaTement. showed de
liberation and would not fit: then he
changed the date to Saturday?—A.
Yes
y He told you he had made up his
mind to tell you the whole truth?—A.
Yes.
y. But he still stuck to the state
ment that he got up that morning
about 9 or 9:80 o’clock and later
went to the “Butt In” saloon and
bought a glass of beer?—A. Yes.
y He told you about writing the
notes? How many notes did he nay
he wrote? A. He said he wrote three
on white paper, as I remember.
Q. Did he nay Mr. Frank took a
piece of green paper and wrote some
thing like an ”M” on it?—A. Yes.
Q. Still, he didn’t say anything
about seeing the body?—A. No.
Q. Mr Hcott, what sort of a look
ing negro was Conley the first time
you saw him?—A. He was dirty an1
ragged.
y. You saw him h«re the other day
and he was spick as an onion, wasn't
he?—A. Yes.
Tell* of Frank’s Arrest.
Q. What time of the day was Frank
arrested?—A. About 2 or 3 o’clock.
Q. Didn’t you go to the ractory and
get him at 11:30 o’clock?—A. Yes.
Q. Is It not true that all I did about
It was to get him a guard so that
he would not be put In a cell?—A.
Tes.
y Con'ey told you tnat the reason
be had been washing the shirt was
that he had been wearing it three
weeks?—A. Yes.
y. Is it not true that you told Con
ley every time you thought he was
lying. “That won’t do you will have
to do better than that”?—A. Yes*.
Q. Didn’t he say when he gave you
that final affidavit that it was the
whole truth'—A. Yes.
The jurv at this moment took a
five minutes recess, during which
time they were served with soft
drinks.
Q. Conley stated nothing about
Frank asking him to watch for him?
—A. No.
Q. He said nothing about seeing
Monteen Stover go up to the steps?—
A. No.
y. He said nothing about Mr. Frank
stamping for him?—A. No.
y. He said only that Mr. F*rank
whistled for him?—A. Yes, that was
all.
Q. Did you ever get him to tell you
about that little menh bag?—A. Yes.
I did my best.
Q He never intimated at that time
that he saw It in Frank's office?—
A. No.
•Said Nothing of Parasol.
Q. Did you ever ask him about the
parasol?—A. Yes.
Q Did he tell you he saw it, or
not?—A. My memory is not clear.
Q. Do you want to refresh your
memorv (Rosser handed Scott the af
fidavit)?—A. No. he did not tell me
anything about it.
Rosser paused to partake of a Roft
drink, simacking his lips, he remarked:
“I wish it was a little more sustatn-
ing.’*
Q. Mr Scott, he didn’t tell you any
thing about Mr. Frank’s stumbling
on the floor of the elevator and hit
ting him on the back, did he?—A.
No, sir.
y. Hnw long did he tell von he
stayed In that wardrobe?—A. Fifteen
or twenty minutes, 1 think, I am not
clear.
y. Tn hls lapt statement he said he
wrote only one note, didn’t he?—A.
Yes, sir.
O How Ions: before the beginning
of this trial did you cea.«e communi
cating with Conley?—A. May 29.
Q He gave you two statements 1n
which he said he told all the truth?—
A. Yes.
Q. Did he tell you he had money
and cigaettes in a box. or money and
cigarettes In a cigarette box?—A. I
understood him to say in a cigarette
box.
Q. Did he tell you that he never
saw Lemmie yuinn go in or out of
the factorv?—A. Yes.
Q. Did he ever tell you that poor
little unfortunate girl was nams
Mary Perkins? V No
Didn’t Tell of Screams.
Q. Did Conley ever tell you ne
heard screams?—A. No.
Q. Did you ask him?—A. Yes.
Q. Did he tell you Mr. Frank told
you he had hit her too hard, or had
dropped her?—A. He said he let her
fall.
Q. Did he say anything about hear
ing someone running?—A. No.
Q Did he tell you Frank stamped
first and the next thing he heard was
whistling” A. No.
Q. Did he tell you when he got to
the top of the stairs, that Frank was
standing there with a cord in his
hand?—A. No.
Q. Did you find cords like the one
we have been exhilbtlng here?—A.
Yes.
y. He didn’t say anything about
a rope about the girl’ s neck, did he?
—A. No.
Q. Didn't he say she had a ple.’e
of underskirt around her neck?—A.
He did not.
y. What time did he tell you Frank
whistled when he went up to steps?
—A. Four minutes to 1 o’clock.
While Mr. Rosser studied his notes.
Mrs. Leo Frank leaned over and
whispered in his ear. Rosser re
marked loud enough to be heard it
the press table: “No, I won’t ques
tion him about that.’’
Looks for Discrepancies.
Q. He told you Frank sent him back
there and he hollered back. "This girl
is dead,” and Frank hollered back,
“Bring her up here, anyway.” He
didn’t say he went up to Mr. Frank
and told him the girl was dead?—A.
That is the way he stated it.
y. He told you it was a crocus
sack that he wrapped her up in.
didn’t he?—A Yes.
Q* What did Jim tell
Dorsey Interrupted: "Your honor,
If I am not mistaken, Conley has ad
mitted all of this.”
Rosser: “No, he didn’t. He said
he told Mr. Scott and Mr. Black, and
T want to show that he didn’t if I
car.”
Q Did he tell you he put this sack
with the girl’s body in it over his
shoulders and It dangled about hls
legs?—A. No, sir.
Q. I will get you to state If you said
anything about a slipper or a ribbon
being near the body upstairs?—A. He
mentioned the slipper and the hat,
hut he didn't say anything about a
ribbon.
Q. He told you that Frank stum
bled at the top floor and not at the
bottom floor, didn’t he?—A. Yes.
Q He didn’t tell you anything
about Frank leaving the elevator un
locked. did he?—A. No.
Q. Did he say anything to you
about complaining to Mr. Frank aft
er he had been in the wardrobe—
“you got me in a tight place?”--A.
No. he said he told Mr. Frank he was
sweaty.
Q. He told you Mr. FYank gave him
8200 and then took it back?—A. Yes.
Q. I noticed that in his written
.‘Statement there is some writing; in
long hand In addition to the tvpe-
written statement. Explain how that
happened.—A. The stenographer took
down his statement and wrote It out
I remembered that all of Conley’s
statement about the $200 was not in
it. We had him repeat it and added
it to the statement in long hand.
Q Did you ask him whether there
was any thought of burning the body?
A. He said he didn’t know anything
about that.
Q. Did he tell vou that he prom
ised to come back in 40 minutes anf
burn the bodv. but he went to slee»
and forgot It?—A. No.
Q. Did he sav anything about tel’
lng Mr. Frank “You are a white m*r
and you done it You go down ther*
and do it; lam scared?”—A. No.
Q. Did he say anything about get
ting away?—A. No.
Q. Did he say anything about Frank
saying there would be a way for him
to get into the factory when he cam*-
back?—A. No.
Q. Did he tell you anything about
going across to the saloon and taking
a fish and liver sandwich and look
ing up at the clock?—A. No.
Q. Did he tell you the reason he
d'rtn’t go back and burn the body was
that he fell asleep and didn’t wake up
until 6 o’clock?—A. No.
Q. Did Conley tell you that he talk
ed *to Frank on the steps or on the
fourth floor?—A. The fourth floor.
Q. Did lee tell you that Frank said
to him: “If you had come back there
Saturday and done what Hold you,
there would not have been any trou
ble?”—A. No.
Q. Describe to me the scene when
you convinced Conley he could write?
—A. I called him upto Chief Lanford’s
office and told him I heard he had
told Detective Black he could not
write. I told him learned he could
write and that if he didn’t write we
would produce the source of our in
formation. He took up a pencil and
wrote as I dictated.
Q. You had to convince him you
knew he could write before he would
write for you?—A. Yes.
Solicitor Dorsey took the witness.
Q. Mr. Scott, did you get any in
formation from the people at the
National Pencil Factory about Con
ley being able to write?—A. Not per
sonally.
Q. Didn't you get it from people
wholly disconnected with the fac
tory?—A. Yes.
Q. Didn’t the National Pencil peo
ple know that Conley was arrested
May 1?
Rosser objected.
Dorsey said that It was desired to
show the connection between these
people and the defendant. Judge Roan
sustained the objection.
Q. WhaJ. official did you tell about
Mrs. White seeing a negro on the
steps?
Says Pinkertons Divided.
Rosser objected again. The objec
tion was overruled.
A. I told Mr. Black, Chief Lanford
and Detective Rosser.
Q. Wasn’t Attorney Rosser the first
man told?—A. He w<*e among the
first.
Q. Wasn’t it May 7 and wasn’t he
the first one you told?—A. It was soon
after I heard of it. I am not sure of
either fact.
Q. What time did the State first
learn of this big stick?
Rosser objected and Dorsey said
he was trying to show the attitude of
“these people.”
“I want to prove.” he said, “that
the Pinkertons were divided. Part of
them went with the defense. Mr.
Scott is the only one who sought to
aid the State.”
Q. Were you denied seeing Frank?
Arnold interrupted. “I object to all
of this as being irrevelant.”
Judge Roan: “He can state when
he tried to see him.
A. With Detective Black and Jim
Conley I went to the jail. Sheriff
Mangum went up to see Frank.
Anold objected and was sustained
by Judge Roan, in his objections to
statements on the part of the wit
ness that were conclusions.
Q. When was the last time you saw
Leo M. Frank?—A. May 3.
y. Was there any difference in his
appearance from the first time you
saw him?—A. No.
Conley Made “Things Fit.”
Q. Did Conley eliminate any of *he
statements you objected to?—A. Yes.
Q. Did the changes come from the
detectives or from Conley?—A. They
came from Conley.
Rosser Took the Witness Again.
Q. You all would say “Jim, this
don’t fit.” and then Jim would change
it, wouldn’t he?—A. He made changes
after we told him his statements
wouldn’t fit.
Judge Roan said here that he had
received a request from the jury to
allow three musicians among them to
play the piano at the Kimball House.
He granted the request.
Court then adjourned until 9 o’clock
Friday morning.
Dixie Major Shot
In Battle in Africa
LOUISVILLE, KY„ Aug. 7.—Major
Charles S. Young. IT. S. A., in charge of
the military expedition sent to Liberia
by the United States to train the Li
berian army in modern warfare, was
shot in the right arm and seriously
wounded while leading IJberian in a
battle with one of the fierce tribes o4
the interior. A letter from Malor Wil
son Ballard, of Louisville, told of the
fray.
Young has been ordered to hls home
in Green County until he recovers from
the wound and “black fever” which fol
lowed.
FALLS 3 STORIES IN SLEEP.
CHARLESTON, Aug. 7.—Neal
Rowe, a plumber, dreamed that his
wife asked him to get her a drink
of water. He seized a convenient
tar and walked out of a third story
window, falling to the yard below.
His head was injured, but otherwise
he was unhurt.
TELEGRAPHER BANKRUPT.
Allen C. Travis, a telegrapher,
Thursday filed a voluntary petition in
bankruptcy. He admitted liabilities
of $479.13, with no assets.
The Best Food-Drink Lunch at Fountains
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Avoid Imitations—Take No Substitute.
K. of C, Vote Not to
Move Headquarters
BOSTON, Aug. 7.—The Knights of
Columbus at the thirty-first annual
convention to-day voted down the
plan to remove the national head
quarters of the order from New
Haven, Conn., to Washington.
Those who favored the plan de
clared that, if the headquarters were
moved, a $1,000,000 home would be
erected at the National Capital.
Barrow Appointed
Customs Collector
WASHINGTON. Aug. 7. — The
President to-day sent to the Senate
the following nominations:
Madison R. Smith, of Missouri, to
be Minister to Haiti, and David C»
Barrow, Jr., of Georgia, to be Collec
tor of Customs for the District of
Georgia.
CAN’T REBUILD COMPRESS.
AUGUSTA, Aug. 7.—The Riverside ,
Compress will be unable to rebuild *
in time to do any business this year
At least this is the opinion of L. Q.
Doughty, president of the $100,000
concern which was burned to the
ground here yesterday.
I
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Sale Now On
“Correct Dress for Men”
Essig Bros. Co. August Reduction Sale
33% Per Cent Off for Cash
On our entire stock of Men’s and Young Men’s fine Spring and
Summer Suits. Cassimeres, Worsteds, Cheviots, Homespuns,
Crash, Mohair, Blue Serge. Nothing reserved. 125 Suits in Mo
hair, Cheviots and Worsteds just received (late delivery). All
are included in this sale.
All Suits That Were:
$15.00 Reduced to $10.00
$18.50 Reduced to $12.35
$20.00 Reduced to $13.35
$22.50 Reduced to $15.00
$25.00 Reduced to $16.65
$£7.50 Reduced to $18.35
$30.00 Reduced to $20.00
$35.00 Reduced to $23.35
25 Per Cent on All
Odd Trousers
$5.00 Pants, now. ...
... $3.75
$6.00 Pants, now....
. .. $4.50
$7.00 Pants, now....
....$5.25
$8.00 Pants, now....
.. $6.00
$9.00 Pants, now....
....$6.75
$10.00 Pants, now ..
.. $7.50
We sell the famous
Trousers.
Paragon
ALL STRAW AND PANAMA HATS 1-2 PRICE
Our Suits are made from the best foreign and domestic woolens, by Ameri
ca’s foremost tailors, in sanitary workrooms.
ESSIG BROS.
“Correct Dress for Men’
CO.
26 Whitehall Street