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State Hits Complexity of Report Made Day of Trayedy
NEWSBOY WHOSE EVIDENCE IS
UNDER FIRE OF THE DEFENSE
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George Epps,
boy friend of
Mary Phagan.
Dr. Starnes Leads
Organists’ War on
Old ‘Jingle’ Hymns
Never again will Atlanta churchgoers
or any other churchgoers, for that mat
ter, “ringle and Jingle" on such familiar
hymns as "Throw Out the Life Line,"
“The King's Business,” etc.. If Dr. Per-
cy Starnes and his followers at the na
tional convention of organists at As-
bury Park, N. J.. have their way.
Numerous delegates, headed by Dr.
Starnes, announced disapproval of cer
tain hymns sung for generations.
No hard and fast line has been drawn
In this contemplated omission. Any
thing with a "ringle or a jingie," the
progressives assert, should be omitted
from hymnals, nevei to be resurrected,
even in the wee little country church
just on the edge of the backwoods
The progressives ai'e no respecters of
persons. Witness the fact that some of
the hymns placed under the ban were
penned by Wesley and Isaac Watts.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia—Local showers Satur
day and Sunday.
Goose Hits Paralytic;
Quick Cure Wrought
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 9.—Arthur J
Reddington. a rancher, suffering from
partial paralysis of the arms and leg*
for several years, was hobbling around
near his ranch when a goose fl-?w
across the road and struck Redding
ton on the back of the neck.
He instinctively threw up his hands
to his neck. When he rec jvered nia
composure, he found that he had tiie
complete use of his arms and legs.
BLUDSOE USED FUNDS
DROWNS INWALLST.
Dancers Rush From Sinking Boat
While Engineer Holds Prow
on Shore, Then Dies.
MEMPHIS, TENN., Aug. 9.—Diver*
who explored the steamboat Peters
Lee on the bottom of the Mississippi
River at Lake Providence, La., to
day reported finding the body of En
gineer Frank O’Neil, his hand hold
ing the engine throttle.
He died there when the boat cank
last night, having stayed at his poBt
and held the boat’s nose against the
shore until the last of the 50 passen
gers, most of them women, were
helped ashore.
O’Neil’s act is practically a realisa
tion of the martyrdom of Jim Blud-
soe, famed in the poem a s the steam
boat engineer who held her nose to
the bank till all were saved, then was
burned to death at his post.
A dance was on when the Peters
Lee struck a sunken coal barge. A
hole was torn in her side. The cap
tain ordered the pilot to steer for the
shore. The boat struck the mud and
officers and crew began taking off the
passengers.
Frank O’Neil in the engine room
kept the stern wheel churning while
the water poured into the hold.
A negro shouted through the en
gine room door that the boat was
sinking.
"I know it!” shouted O’Neil. "You
fellows get on up front where you can
get off! I’ll hold her nose against the
shore!”
The last passenger was safel> land
ed when the boat sank in 40 feet of
water.
5-Year-Old Girl Run
Down by Doctor Is
Only Slightly Hurt
Eatie Pierce, 5 years old, daughter
of R. E. Pierce, No. 154 Ormond
street, had a narrow escape from se
rious injury Saturday when she was
Struck by an automobile driven by Dr.
E. V. Bailey, whose office is in the
Empire Building.
The child in crossing Capitol ave
nue at Ormond street stopped di
rectly in front of the machine as it
rounded the corner. The physician
brought his car to a speedy halt and
was the first to reach the girl’s side.
He rushed her in his machine to her
home, where it was found she was not
badly hurt.
Mrs. Pierce, the mother, declined to
make a case against the physician,
and Call Officer John West accord
ingly took no action.
Booksellers Ban
Hall Caine's Book
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, Aug. 9.—Hail Caine's
new novel, "The Woman Thou Gavest
Me,” is still under a partial ban, al
though the big lending libraries have
removed the boycott.
Smith & Son decline to sell the
novel* at their numerous railroad
bookstalls throughout the British
I^les.
PREMIER GETS HERO CROSS.
ATHENS, Aug. 9.—Premier Veni-
zelos, of Greece, was to-day decorated
by King Constantine with the grand
cross of the Order of Our Saviour for
his valuable services to Greece during
the Balkan wars.
Asbury H. Hodgson,
Influential Citizen
Of Athens, Is Dead
Asbflry Hyll Hodgson, of Athens,
well known to many Atlantans, died
la ft night at his summer home at
Dillard. Ga., where ho had gone in
the hope of recuperating. He had
been in feeble health the past few
years.
Mr. Hodgson wag a successful busi
ness man of Athens. He was active
in the work of upbuilding hi? home
town. At the time of hi* death he
was a member of the drm of Hodg
son Brothers, preHdent of the South
ern Manufacturing Company, one o?
the largest cotton mills in the State,
und was interested In many other
concerns. He was a steward of the
Methodist church. He aided many
charities.
Surviving him are his wife: two
daughters. Mrs. Julie Hodgson Mc
Neil and Mins LIU Hodg?*on: four
C. N.. Frank, Henry and As-
biirv Hull Hodgson. Jr., and seven
brothers. E. R , T. A., J. M.. Captain
A. C., George T., Colonel F, G. and
F. M. Hodgson.
New Brain Surgery
Device Is Invented
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, Aug 9.—Delegates to the
big medlca! congress are greatly in
terested in Dr. R. H. Clarke’s device
for maoping out the brain and remov
ing parts which are perhaps keys to
various disorders of the body.
The instrument has a tiny tele
scopic knife, supported on a minia
ture bridge, and the direction of the
knife and depth to which it goes 1?
regulated to a hair's breadth by %
series of scales.
Surgeons who examined the ma
chine are convinced the time is not
far dtetant when they will be able
with it to operate for paralysis and
insanity.
Chairman of Investigation Com
mittee Hints at Impeachment
Proceedings.
RAIL MAIL CLERKS TO MEET.
An important meeting of the At
lanta Branch of the Railway Mail
Association will be held at the Rail
road Y M. C. A. at 8 o’clock Saturday
evening.
Police Seek Missing
Mother and Child
Detectives Saturday searched for
Mrs. Edna E. Mills, 26, and her pret
ty 6-year-old girl, who arc reported
to have disappeared Thursday from
their flat in the Fairley Apartments.
W. W. Mills, thp husband, has fur
nished a description of the missing
wife and child, and has asked the
police to use every effort to find
them.
According to information obtained
by the husband, Mrs. Mills and the
little girl went with another woman.
NEW YORK, Aug 9—Governor
William Sulzer, of New York, wa*
nearly $50,000 in debt as the result of
stock market speculations at the time
of his nomination, and used contribu
tions to his campaign fund to make
additional purchases of stocks while
this debt was hanging over him, ac
cording to testimony presented to the
Frawley committee of the Legisla
ture.
The evidence is sufficient to war
rant proceedings to impeach the Gov
ernor for violation of the corrupt
practices act, Chairman Frawley de
clares. A decision as to the Commit
tee’s recommendation is expected by
Monday.
The Governor, according to the evi
dence, had dealings with three dif
ferent stock exchange firms and was
saved from being sold out by one firm
by L. N. Josephthal, a Wall street
banker, and a member of the Gov
ernor’s staff as naval reserve aide.
Josephthal, it was brought out, t>ald
a debit balance of $26,739 still stand
ing against the account on July 16
last. This was after the Governor had
received repeated calls for more mar
gin.
Used Campaign Funds.
The Governor's transactions with
the other firms were for cash, and it
was in connection with one of these
that Governor Sulzer, according to
the evidence, used campaign con
tributions.
Arranged chronologically, the testi
mony appeared to show that on Janu
ary 1, 1912, there stood on the books
of the stock exchange firm of Harris
& Fuller an Indebtedness of $48,599
against the purchase by Governor
Bulzer of 600 shares of “Big Four,”
200 shares American Smelting and
Refining Company and 100 shares of
Southern Pacific. This testimony was
given by Melville B. Fuller, a member
of the firm who on Wednesday had
refused to answer the questions of
the committee. Before testifying his
counsel announced that the Gover
nor had agreed that "Mr. Fuller's lips
should he unsealed.”
There were no other purchases of
stock recorded on this account, ac
cording to the witness, until Decem
ber 5, 1912, when the Governor bought
100 shares of "Big Four,” making 600
in all. On December 11 the firm, ac
cording to u letter produced by the
witness, made its first call upon the
Governor fur more margin. The books
showed that on November 18 previous
the Governor had paid in $10,000
against the account, and that on De
cember 16, apparently in response to
the call for margin, he paid In $6,000
more.
During Governor’s Campaign.
In October of the same year the
evidence indicated that Frederick Col
well, the Governor’s alleged "dummy,”
purchased from Boyer, Griswold &
Co., 200 shareH of "Big Four” railroad
stock outright at 60, for $12,025, the
$25 representing commission. This
was at the height of Mr. Sulzer’s
campaign for the governorship and
transcripts from the firm’s books
showed the stock bought on October
lb was paid for partly In checks, at
least two of which were identified in
the testimony as Sulzer campaign
contributions. There were seven
checks in all. and the others are
charged by Eugene L. Richaids, coun
sel for the committee, as having been
also campaign checks.
Strikers Beg for
Copper Mine Jobs
CALUMET, MICH., Aug. 9.—An end
in the near future to the strike of
18.000 copper miner? in the Calumet
region was predicted to-day by the
operator?* when 1.000 members of the
miners' union appeared at the »'h1-
umet and Hecla company’s mines ear
ly to-day and asked for rhelr old Job*.
Reports from over the district to
day said that mijes were being put
in operation with fhe aid of non-union
workers and deserting strikers.
4 Husky Militants
Flog Physician of
Horae Office Staff
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, Aug. 9.—Four militant
suffragettes seized Medical Officer
Pearson, of the Home office staff, as
he was leaving Holloway jail and
horsewhipped him. The militants
had chosen four of the biggest and
strongest of their number and when
Dr. Poarson tried to get away he was
thrown to the pavement. Finally po
licemen and pedestrians interfered
end Peurson was rescued.
While the women were wielding
their whips on the doctor’s face they
kept up a continual shout of “You
will kill our leaders, will you?” and
"We will give you a taste of your own
medicine.”
The women escaped in the crowd.
Inspired by the horsewhipping,
Mary Richardson, a militant, went on
a rampage and was arrested for hurl
ing bricks through the window' of a
stationery shop.
Members of the arson squad set
fire to ail the schoolhouses in Sutton,
near London. The flames were ex
tinguished before the buildings were
destroyed.
House Votes Three
Appropriations for
Agricultural Work
The House of Representatives Sat
urday passed several important ap
propriations.
For the Entomological Department
to fight black rot and the boll weevil,
the arch enemies of cotton, $20,000
was voted.
For publications and maintenance
in the Department of Agriculture,
$10,000 was appropriated.
For the chemical department In the
Department of Agriculture $7,500 was
ordered.
These bills now go to the Senate
for approval.
Woman as ‘Cabby’
New York's Latest
MOUNT VERNON, N. Y.. Aug. 9.—
Spying that in these days when wom
en ar? invading every business field,
a w’oman has Just as much right to
be a hack driver as a stenographer,
Mrs. L. J. Moses, of The Bronx, has
demanded a license to drive a hack.
She is about thirty years* old, and
attractive.
There was consternation among the
hackmen when they saw Mrs. Moses
take up her position at the main New
Haven Railroad station and put !n a
bid for fares. Mrs. Moses has a
brand new surrey and a fine horse.
TO FACTORY OFFICE,
ESS TESTIFIES
Lightning Wreathes
Phone Girl's Head
CHICAGO. Aug 9.—Report was
madetoday to the office of the Chi
cago Telephone Company of the
bravery displayed by Miss Alma Met-
tier, a telephone operator who stuck
to her post in the company’s exchange
in Whiting, Ind., during an electrical
storm, while the building caught fire
from lightning three times. The three
flre« occurred between II p. m. and
dawn.
Firemen twice drove back the
flames from the switchboard while
Miss Mettier remained at work.
Boy Scouts Bury Lad
Killed by Lightning
Funeral service over the body of John
Stanley, who was killed by lightning at
Dublin Thursday afternoon, took place
at Poole’s chapel Saturday morning.
The Boy Scouts of Decatur acted as
pallbearers and a guard of honor. In
terment was at West view cemetery.
Young Stanley was the son of Com
missioner of Labor H. M. Stanley. He
was struck while in an open field near
Dublin. He was found lying face down,
his arms under his body, dead. No one
was with him when he was struck.
Slayer of Savannah
Girl Gets Life Term
SAVANNAH, Aug. 9.—After being
out 24 hour? a trial Jury found Hugh
Harrison guilty of the murder of
Ruth Hester nnd recommended mercy.
The prisoner was immediately sen
tenced to the penitentiary for life.
Harrison was apparently unmoved
by the verdict,
The second week of the Frank trial ended at 12:30
Saturday with a bitter battle in progress over the testi
mony of Herbert G. Schiff, assistant superintendent of
the National Pencil Factory.
Schiff was called soon after court opened in the fore
noon and was on the stand when the adjournment was
taken until Monday.
Schiff, besides denying that Frank evsr had women in his of-
fioe, describes in elaborate detail the duties of the superintendent,
particularly his work on the afternoon the little Phagan girl came
to her death. It was the purpose of the defense to show that it,
would have been most improbable that Frank, after committing
a murder, calmly could have sat down with the burden of guilt,
resting on his conscience and proceeded with his usual preciseness
in the intricate and involved computations required in making
out the financial sheet.
Dorsey was given the witness toward the close of the session
and started at once to attack Schiff’s estimates of time that it'
would have required for the various details of the work. Schiff
made a good witness and the solicitor was able to make little head
way in his cross-questioning.
Says Frank Explained Nervousness.
Schiff admitted to Dorsey, however, that Frank was really
anxious to get the Pinkertons on the job and that Frank called,
from his home three times at intervals of little more than half an
hour, instructing Schiff to take the matter up with Sig Montag,
one of the officers of the pencil factory company. He said Frank
declared it to be the factory’s duty to its employees.
Schiff also admitted that Frank several times explained his
nervousness of Sunday, the day when the body was found, by the
abrupt manner in which he had been taken from his house without
any breakfast or coffee and by the visit to the morgue where the
light suddenly was turned upon the body of the girl victim as
she lay before his eyes.
A search Saturday for C. B. Dalton, the man who told of vis
iting the factory with Miss Daisy Hopkins, developed that he had
disappeared from the courthouse. He was called for by the de
fense when court opened, but did not answer. One of the girls
mentioned in his story declares in a letter to The Georgian, that
Dalton lied in his statement.
The cross-examination of Schiff will be resumed when court
opens Monday morning.
Financial Sheets Put In Evidence.
Reuben Arnold had in court the financial sheet over which
there has been much discussion since the murder mystery deveolped.
Schiff identified the series of figures and notations as in Frank’s
handwriting. Arnold had also every financial sheet for the year
previous to the crime, and Schiff identified them all as Frank’s
work. He said that the least complicated of the financial sheets
never took less than 2 1-2 or three hours to compile.
The financial sheet identified as the one Frank prepared the
afternoon of April 26, the day of the murder, was displayed as an
evidence that the writing of Frank was not tremulous, irregular or
in any way different from his handwriting in the 51 other financiaJ
sheets on file.
Schiff went into the highly complex methods in which th«
financial sheet is made up, in order to show for the defense th«
clarity of mind that was required in order to complete the sheel
without mistake or confusion
He narrated that costs and
profits were estimated each week
on thousands of pencils of dif
ferent classifications and grades,
on hundreds of gross of rubber
plugs, on the various classes of
leads, boxes, "skeletons’’ or.
which the pencils were arranged
ami other items of material that
entered into the manufacture of
the pencils. Schiff also read a
number of orders to illustrate the
amount of other work that ordi
narily is taken care of on Satur
days.
An attac k \vu? made upon the testi
mony of young George Epps when
court opened Saturday morning. Epp?
was called to the stand and n^ade to
tell of the visit of a Georgian repor-
27 He was asked why he had not
told at that time hi? story of ridin§
to town with Mary Phagan on thf
she was killed. Epps declared
day
that he did not talk to the reporter.
The reporter, John Mitiar, was
cal led immediately after and testified
that he talked at length with both
the Epps boy and his sister in an
effort to determine who la**t had seen
the murdered girl and when. The re
porter declared that the sister re
plied that sne had seen Mary Phagan
Thursday before, but that young
Epps, although present, said nothing,
except that he had seen the girl oc
casionally. Arnold questioned the
boy.
Q. Do you recollect the Sunday the
body was found?—-A. Yes.
Q. Do you remember a gentleman,
a Mr. .Minor, coming to your houa?
and talking to you and your sister**
—A. Yes. A
Q. Didn’t he at<k you when was the
ter at hhs home Sunday eevnlng, April la^st time either of you had seen Marj
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