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VOL. XII. NO. 5.
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, AUGUST 9,1913.
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PAPER MODEL OF PENCIL FACTORY
PUT BEFORE JURY BY THE' DEFENSE
Hatred Against Americans in Cap
ital Stirred by President—Lind
Warned Not to Come.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.—
The administration to-day
decided to ignore entirely
the note sent by President
Huerta to the American gov
ernment and to direct Spe
cial Envoy Lind to proceed
to Mexico City without de
lay on his arrival at Vera
Cruz to-night, unless he be
held back by armed force.
‘ ‘ The President declines
to be bluffed,” stated a
prominent government offi
cial to-day.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
MEXICO CITY, Aug. 8—With the
approval of Provisional President
Huerta, arms were issued to-day to
the students of the National Military
Academy, who yesterday drafted a
resolution praising Huerta for de
claring Jofrn Lind, the special Amer
ican envoy, persona non grata to the
Mexican Government
A number of residents in the Amer
ican colony, who have fortunes in
vested in Mexico, are planning to
make a demonstration Sunday when
protests will be lodged against the
action of President Wilson in sending
a personal representative to Mexico
City and urging that the Mexican
Government be upheld.
Foreign Minister Aldape and other
members of the Cabinet are doing all
in their power to arouse the patriot
ism and enthusiasm of the people.
Meetings of young hot bloods, who
are standing up for President Huerta
in his defiance of the Stars and
Stripes, are being encouraged.
Mexican secret service agents have
been detailed to watch every move
ment that Mr. Lind makes here and
the envoy will be under constant sur
veillance.
The newspapers to-day carried
flaming stories of “Yankee interfer
ence,” and warned the State Depart
ment to recall Mr. Lind from Vera
Cruz and not allow him to come to
Mexico City.
Direful consequences are promised
if President Wilson and Secretary
Bryan continue their present course
of trying to Mettle the internal af
fairs of Mexico while withholding of
ficial recognition of the Huerta ad
ministration.
All the papers carry warm words ot
praise for Huerta and promise that
he will stand like a rock in behalf of
his policy of “Mexicans for Mexican
affairs.”
United States warships in t'ne har
bor at Vera Cruz were in wireless
communication with the New Hamp
shire, upon which Mr. Lind, is com
ing. and it is expected that the New
Hampshire will reach Vera Cruz about
9 o’clock to-night.
Some Would Ignore Lind.
There was a gathering of Cabinet
Ministers and Huerta a therents n
Congress at the National Palace to
day, at which the existing American-
Mexican situation was thoroughly
discussed Some are for completely
ignoring Mr. Lind, while the radicals
Insist that he shall be expelled un-
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Delegates at Jacksonville Meet
Unable to Agree on Way to
Beter Prices.
JACKSONVILLE, Aug. 8.—After
discussing the naval stores market
from all angles for two hours, the
200 naval stores operators who met
here this morning decided to return
home and let each man do what he
thought best toward working out a
plan for better prices.
Different plans were proposed for
bracing up the market, but none was
accepted. It was the consensus of
opinion that a curtailment of pro
duction would be the only thing that
would boost the price. The methods
of bringing about this curtailment
was the question they were unable to
settle.
The independent producers in the
West are making money and refuse
to quit shipping. This spoiled the
plan to suspend operations all over
the country'. It was suggested that
the factors be asked to refuse to ad
vance any' more expense money to
their customers. This plan was
thought too drastic and was aban
doned.
Another plan was to dump all of
the overproduction on the market,
thereby cutting the prices to such
a point as to force the Westerners
to suspend operations. Several opera
tors objected to this plan, because
they had not sold anything this year,
and the present market price would
not net them anything for the year’s
work.
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Model shows basement where body was found; ground door, where Jim Conley sat, and second floor, Frank s office in front,
and in rear machine room, where State says Mary Phagan was killed.
Electric Co. Blamed
For Lineman's Death
GAINESVILLE, Aug. 8.—An in
quest over the body r of J. R. Peter
son, lineman for the Southern Bell
Telephone Company, killed Thursday
when he came in contact with a live
wire of the electric light company,
was held this afternoon.
Justice A. R. Elmore, as Coroner,
rendered a verdict that the Gaines
ville Gas and Electric Light Company,
by “gross and culpable negligence,”
was to blame. This fs the second case ^
of the kind in three weeks. The oth- t
er victim was C. D. Murray, a lineman j
for the Western Union.
The heavy wires of the electric j
company are devoid of insulation In I
places. The company' was ordered to j
pay damages .at the last term of
court for the injury to a child by a
broken live wire in the street.
Peterson’s body, accompanied by'the
widow and two daughters, was sent to
Jacksonville this morning for burial.
Striker Fined $50 in
Mobile Assault Case
MOBILE. Aug. 8.—Two warrants
were sworn out in the Inferior Crim
inal Court Friday against Joseph
Mahler, one by Philip Shock charg
ing threats to do him bodily harm,
and the other by William Kling of
the Home Industry Iron Works,
charging that Mahler Is Interfering
with persons engaged in lawful work.
The recond warrant was issued
under the boycot law. Mr. Shock is
general foreman of the plant.
Mahler was sentenced to pay a fine
of $50 or serve 90 day's in jail by
Acting Recorder Robert E Gordon
Friday. Notice of an appeal was giv-
en and bond fixed at $200. William
Agnew, the man who is alleged to
have been assaulted, was not in’court
Mahler had no witnesses. He did not
testify.
Habeas Corpus to
Free Lee Sought
Iu Superior Court
Charging that Leo M. Frank,
charged with the murder of Mary
Phagan, is being given all the liber
ties of a “detailed guest” while con
fined in prison, while the negro Newt
Lee, who Is held as a witness only,
is being treated as a criminal. Attor
ney's Graham and Chappell, represent
ing Lee. late Friday afternoon swore
out a writ of habeas corpus for the
release of Lee. The nearing has been
set for Saturday morning at 10 o’clock
before Judge George L. Bell, of the
Superior Court.
The petitioners set forth that Sher
iff Mangum is treating Newt Lee as
an ordinary criminal, despite the al
leged fact that he is only a witness in
the Mary Phagan case, having been
released from the charge of murder
by order of Judge Ellis, who. it s
claimed, ordered the sheriff on dis
position of a former writ not to con
fine Lee as a criminal but as a wit
ness.
The petitioners set forth further
that Frank, who is charged with the
murder from which Lee was released,
Is being given all the liberties and
privileges of a “detained guest, even
being allowed to visit the dining room
where he takes his meals.”
It was charged this afternoon that
this latest move Is part of a general
attack on the Sheriff inspired by po
litical motives.
Record Auto Trip Is
Made iu Alaska
VALDEZ, Aug. 8.—The first auto
mobile trip from Fairbanks to the
coast was completed to-day when
Robert Sheldon drove his five-pas
senger car into Valdez, having cov
ered the 363 miles in 54 hours, actual
running time.
Engineer Prevents
Wreck by Wild Dash
EUFAULA, Aug. 8.—The morning
train from Atlanta and Macon was
almost wrecked on a trestle two miles
from Eufaula. which a few year*-' ago
was the scene of an accident in which
several people were killed and nu
merous others injured.
Just as the train was crossing the
trestle the tender jumped the track,
and In order to pull the train to a
place of safety Engineer Ed Scovall
opened the throttle wide and went at
full speed across the bridge. There
the tender was righted.
Alabama Judgeship
I s Sought by Three
ANNISTON, Aug. 8.—Much interest
is expressed here in the appointment
by Governor Emmet O’Neal of a suc
cessor to Probate Judge W. H. Cooper,
whose death at Birmingham Thurs
day' created a vacancy.
This will be the second time within
about a year that Governor O’Neal
will have had the opportunity of mak
ing an appointment to this offioe.
When the health of Judge E. F. Orodk
necessitated his giving up the office.
Representative J. J. Arnold was named
to fill the unexplred term. He wav
defeated by Judge Cooper in the pri
mary last year and has himself been
in bad health recently.
E. D. Willett to-day eliminated
himself from the race, leaving W. F.
McCartney', Mr. Crook and Mr. Ar
nold in the field.
Weyler Uses Mailed
Fist iu Strike Riots
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
BARCELONIA. Aug. 8.—Martial
law’ was proclaimed here to-day on
account of violence in the general
strike.
General Weyler. commander in
Cuba at the time of the Spanish w'ar,
was responsible for the declaration of
martial law.
Postal Fraud Case
To Be Beguu Monday
GADSDEN, Aug. 8.—The trial of E.
C. Drew, the Fort Payne promoter
charged with using the United States
mails to defraud, will begin here in
Federal Court next Monday'.
There is a mass of testimony', and
the trial will be lengthy and prob-
ablv sensational. It is syld that
Drew’s alleged victims are to be
found in several States. The Grand
Jury spent two days making the in
vestigation.
It ie said Drew wrongfully used the
mails to induce persons to subscribe
to stock in an oil company he was
promoting at Fort Payne.
Bride Sees Husband
Slain by Live Wire
ANNISTON, Aug. 8.—In the pres
ence of his bride of a week, Howard
Dill, a young electrician, was electro
cuted on a pole by' 60.000 volts pass
ing through a wire at Coldwater Sta
tion, six miles from Anniston. The
wife telephoned for help. She is
prostrated by grief now.
Mr. Dil was'a son of Policeman Joe
Dill, of Anniston.
MESSENGER BOYS WIN STRIKE.
MOBILE. Aug. 8.—The strike of the
Western Union messenger boys for
car fare on messages outside of the
retail business district and to the sulT-
j urbs, which started yesterday after-
I noon, came to an end this afternoon
j when their demands were granted.
I The strike paralyzed the company’s
business for a while.
Eugland Rapidly Is
Besting Demon Rum,
King’s Doctor Avers
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, Aug. 8.—In addressing
the International Medical Congress
to-day Sir Thomas Barlow, M. D.,
personal physician to King George
and president of .the congress, de
clared that England is rapidly be
coming the most temperate nation in
the world. He declared that the use
of alcohol in the army and navy is
diminishing at a fast rate.
Dr. Beale, of Texas, one of the
American delegates, in speaking of
pellagra, said it cost 3,000 lives in
America in 1912, and that there were
fully 50,000 persons afflicted with the
disease.
Professor Pasteur told the congress
that the use of radium as a cure for
cancer has proven successful and
probably will come into general use.
Farmer’s Beans Are
Cooked by Lightning
WASHINGTON. Aug. 8.—William
Williams, a truck farmer, went out to
gather unme string beans for the
family table the other day. Much to
his surprise, he discovered that they
were deliciously cooked.
He thought for a time that he had
out-Burbanked Burbanks, but a little
reflection divulged the reason. In
planting he had placed wires between
the poles, and during a recent storm
lightning struck the wires and cooked
the beans*.
‘Side-Door Pullman’
Improvement Urged
CINCINNATI, Aug. 8 —At the first
day’s session of the annual convention
of the Intlnerant Workers’ Associa
tion to-day a request was formulated
to be presented to the Interstate
Commerce Commission to compel rail
roads to put some modern improve
ments on freight cars.
They say ocean steamships now are
provided with gymnasiume, sun par
lors and golf links; that Pullman cars
have sanitary cups which the porter
provides on request, but that freight
car roads are still as "hard as the
heart of the railroad detective.”
GRUBB TO HEAR RATE CASE.
GADSDEN, Aug. 8—Judge W. I
Grubb, who has been presiding over
Federal Court here, adjourned court
until next Monday and departed fot
Birmingham, where, It is understood,
he will take up the supersedeas in the
Louisville and Nashville rate case.
3 Negro ‘Detectives’
Are Nearly Lyuched
PENSACOLA, Aug. 8.—According
to a dispatch from Iilountstown, Cal
houn County, three negro “detectives”
barely escaped lynching yesterday
when it became known that they had
“buncoed” authorities of that county.
However, the Sheriff took them into
custody and protected them.
Two weeks ago, it appears, the ne
groes were hired by the prosecuting
attorney of Calhoun County to get
evidence of the sale of liquor and
gambling. They w T ere provided with
a small amount of money,
f The names of about 50 negroes
charged with gambling and with sell
ing liquor have been furnished to the
j Sheriff and many arrests were made
during the last two weeks. So many
of the employees of a Blountstown
Manufacturing Company were taken
into custody that the mill had to sus
pend until the cases were disposed of.
When some of the cases went to
trial yesterday it developed that the
negro detectives had no evidence, but
the accused had ample evidence to
prove their innocence, many of them
establishing alibis.
Ostend Bathing Suits
InU.S.? Goodness, No!
NARRAOANSETT PIER, Aug 8 —
“Arty woman who takes surf baths
may for a trifling amount of money
appear to advantage on the beach—an
accomplishment not to be held lightly,
a» all women know,” says Mrs. Henry I
Hutt, former wife of the artist.
“At Ostend. where women go to L
the beach In coats, one-piece bathing!
suits may be all right, but in Amer- |
ica, where we lounge so much upon
the beach, they would cause riots.” |
Paris Gown Saves
Life of Vanderbilt
LONG BEACH. N. Y., Aug 8 —That |
William K. Vanderbilt. Jr., had a nar. |
row escape from death in the automo
bile accident that claimed the life of
S. Osgood Pell and William Lalmbeer
because of the fact that he wished to
protect a Parisian gown worn by Mrs.
Pell, became known when he testified
at the inquest.
He would have been In the machine
had he not stopped to secure a linen
duster with which to cover Mrs. Pell’s
gown.
The rest of the party w*ent on with
out waiting for the couple, who took
another car and followed.
Portions of E. F. Holloway’s testimony were badly shaken
Solicitor Dorsey finished a grilling cross-examination of the Na
tional Pencity Factory timekeeper and watchman late Friday.
Holloway appeared a very willing witness for the defense and
j Dorsey went after him viciously as soon as Reuben Arnold was
j through the direction questioning.
The Solicitor, by his line of questioning, first imputed that
Holloway had sought to get Kendrick, a former night watchman
to swear that Frank had been in the habit of calling him up at
night as he called Newt Lee. Holloway denied this indignantly.
Dorsey next asked Holloway if he had not told L. P. Whitfield,
a Pinkerton operaitve, to come around the next day and he was
sure the detective would find something. The next day the bloody
club was found. Holloway also denied this.
Holloway testified that N. V. Darley left the factory at about
9:20 o’clock. Dorsey showed him his own affidavit saying that
Darley left with Frank about 10:45.
Holloway gave Jim Cor.ely the lie when he was recalled to
the stand. Under the guidance of Reuben Arnold, he took up
Conley’s charges of grave misconduct against Frank and denied
each one of them.
The day watchman declared that he always, had been in the
factory at the time Conley testified he had watched at the door
for Frank and that he was positive such things never had taken
place.
Holloway asserted that Frank never had brought women to
his office and that women never were in his office, except mem.
bers of his family.
Conley when he made his sensational charges of misconduct
against Frank, cited Thanksgiving as one of the days that Frank
had women in the factory. Holloway said Conley was not in the
factory that day.
Reubne Arnold brought out the striking fact that it was
snowing on Thanksgiving Day as a point against Conley’s state
ment that a woman visited the factory that day and that she wore
white shoes and white stockings.
Failure of George Epps, the 14-year-old newsboy, to appear
in response to the call of the defense led Attorney Arnold-to ask
Judge Roan if he could not get an attachment for the lad. It was
explained that the court deputies merely had been unable to locate
the missing witness and that he would be brought into court the
first thing in the morning.
That the door leading from the entryway on the first floor,
of the National Pencil Factory, which had been nailed up since the
first of January, was found broken open shortly after the murder
of Mary Phagan was the startling testimony of N. V. Darley at the
trial of Leo Frank Friday afternoon.
No testimony of this nature had been presented before and no
intimation of such a discovery had been made during the investi
gation of the murder mystery. Its production, if the statements
remain uncontroverted, opens up the possibility that the murderer
of Mary Phagan attacked her on the first floor, broke open the
door into the rear of the building and threw the body down on*
of two trap door, one of which opens onto a chute and the other
onto a steep stairway.
The defense did not appear to be abandoning its theory that
Conley might have attacked Mary Phagan and thrown her down
the leevator shaft only a few feet distant or down the scuttlehole
right by the elevator. On the contrary, Reuben Arnold in ques
tioning Darley and other witnesses emphasized the ease with
which such a deed might have been accomplished. It seemed to
be the effort of the defense at this time not to center upon any one
theory, but to show the jurors that the negro might have perpe
trated the crime and disposed of the body in any one of four or
five v/ays.
Darley, in advancing the striking possibility that the body had
been carried through the door on the first floor into the rear of
the building, said that the door had been nailed up again a few
days after the crime as mysteriously as it had been broken open.
Darley said that he had kept watch of employees after the
murder and that his suspicion immediately had fastened upon Con
ley because of the negro’s peculiar actions. He said he had de
tailed the day watchman to montain an espionage over Conley.
C. B. Dalton’s story recevied a severe blow at the hands of
Darley. Darley said that no negro night watchman had been em
ployed at the factory before April, 1913. Daltcn tlod of night
visits at the factory prior to this time and said he was met by a
negro night watchman.
Solicitor Dorsey, cross-examining Darley, made the witness
admit that detectives had been in the factory after the crime and
might themselves have broken open the door.
The solicitor has brought out that if the body had been thrown.