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State Hits Complexity of Report Made Day of Trayedy NEWSBOY WHOSE EVIDENCE IS UNDER FIRE OF THE DEFENSE :l # ! ' s#: ■&p' 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 ALWAYS FIRST <n> The SUNDA Y AMERICAN Order It NOW— 1 GTE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. Read for Profit---GEORGIAN WANT ADS---Use for Results HOME EDITION Both Phones Main 100 VO L. XII. NO. 6. 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