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VOL. I. NO. 19.
Copyright, 1913, by
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ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY. AUGUST 10, 1013.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
Ambassador Sends Mysterious
Message to Commander of Fleet
for Meeting Immediately on
His Arrival at the Mexican Port,
Alabama Burglar
Caught in Florida
James Duncan Charged With Rob
bing Telephone Exchange and At
tacking Operator at Center.
HOME, Aug. 9.—Wanted for rob
bing the telephone exchange at Pied
mont, Ala., near here, and for attack
ing the operator, Miss Belle Kirk
patrick, Jim Duncan has been cap
tured in Miami, Fla.
Duncan is alleged to have commit
ted the crime on June 10. Miss Kirk
patrick was badly injured hy the ne
gro, it is claimed. She was bound and
gagged with a stick. She suffered a
nervous breakdown from the effects of
the injuries, and for a while it was
feared she would not survive. A heavy
reward will be paid.
Huerta Maintains Iron-Hand Atti
tude in Spite of International
Menace From Revolutionary Ar
mies and Threatened Coercion.
Ellis Gets Hearing
Monday for Killing
Twenty-eight Witnesses Summoned
at Birmingham for Preliminary
Hearing of Roney’s Slayer.
Special Cable to The American.
VERA CRUZ, MEX., Aug. 9.—John
E. Lind, special envoy to Mexico, ar
rived here at 1 o’clock this afternoon
on the battleship New Hampshire. He
was at once transferred to the battle
ship Louisiana.
BIRMINGHAM, Aug. 9.—Twenty-
eight witnesses were summoned to-day
for the preliminary trial of Ed Ellis,
gambler, who two weeks ago shot and
killed Pat Roney, of Montgomery, an
other gambler, and said to be a gun
man, on the streets of Birmingham.
The trial is set for Monday after
noon before Judge Abernethy, of the
Court of Common Pleas. It is claim
ed that the killing was the result of a
gamblers' feud in which two men had
been killed at Montgomery.
VERA CRUZ, Aug. 9.—Captain
Snowden, of the battleship New
Hampshire, at the direction of John
Lind, Special Ambassador from Pres
ident Wilson to Mexico, to-day sent
the following wireless to Admiral
Fletcher, commander of the flotilla*of
United States warships in the har
bor here:
“Governor Lind wishes to see the
United States Consul and Admiral
Fletcher immediately upon his arrival
at Vera Cruz Saturday. Governor
Lind will not go to Mexico City until
Sunday.”
Sensational rumors were circulated
as to the cause for the conference.
The New Hampshire will probably ar
rive this evening.
Militia Company
Asks for Discharge
Selma Soldiers Say State’s Support
Is Insufficient to Maintain
Organization.
MEXICO CITY, Aug. 9.—Maintain
ing his iron hand attitude in spite of
international menace from revolution
ary armies and threatened coercion,
Provisional President Huerta to-day
continued his diplomatic battle with
the United States by giving orders
to draft another note of protest
against the coming of Special Ambas
sador Lind, unless the United States
recognizes Mexico or halts Mr. Lind
before he arrives in this city.
Situation Is Ten§«.
A tense situation exists here pend
ing the arrival of Mr. Lind, who has
been retarded by the State Depart
ment at Washington.
Huerta’s hope that defiance of the
United States might break down the
revolutionary spirit in the north
seems to have been futile, according
to a message from General Venys-
tiano Carranza, leader of the rebels.
This was a reply to overtures to
Carranza to join his forces to the j
regular army in the event of a “for- |
eign invasion.” However, Huerta has
gained fresh followers among the rad
ical element by his deflance of Pres
ident Wilson. Supporters of the pro
visional president charge that the
United States is preparing to act as
it did in Cuba.
Sensational reports were current to
day relative to the diplomatic mission
of General Felix Diaz to Tokio. Os
tensibly Diaz is going to thank the
Japanese Government for its repre
sentation at the Mexican centennial,
but the belief is growing that Japan
has consented to make a treaty with
Mexico, and that Diaz is really a spe
cial ambassador. This treaty, it Is
reported, has to do with a league of
common interests and not with com
mercial right. It follows the move
ment of the Government to Invite 50,-
000 Japanese emigrants here to colo
nize the state of Morelos, which has
been nearly depopulated by the re
bellion.
Insists on Recognition.
WheUrer Huerta has any more cards
to play in his diplomatic fight agains*
outside interference with Mexican af
fairs is a question known only to the
provisional President and his closes,
advisers. Huerta insists on “recog- I
nition and no parley,” but the Gov
ernment is not in condition to enforce
his threat by war.
The national treasury is nearly de
pleted, and the army material of the
country has been thinned to a mini
mum by three years of revolution.
By diplomacy, however, he might
still be able, by playing upon the
Latin-American republics’ fear of an
nexation and upon the hc.stility of
foreign powers to the spirit of the
Monroe Doctrine, to force the United
States into a compromising position.
Even Nelson O’Shaughnessy, Charge
d’Affaires of the United States Em
bassy here, is not acquainted with the
details of Mr. Lind’s mission. He
has so informed the Mexican Foreign
Minister.
SELMA, Aug. 9.—Company C, the
Abbott Rifles, for ten years one of the
most perfectly drilled militia compa
nies in the State, wdll ask immediate
honorable discharge from the com-
mander-tn-chief of the Alabama Na
tional Guard, Governor Emmet
O’Neal. Captain L. C. Boggs 4ieads
the company now.
The officers complain that the State
support is not sufficient to keep up
the company, w'hich has long been
Selma's pride.
Sues for $3,000
Worth of Whisky
8elma Police Chief Defendant
Litigation Growing Out of
Prohibition Raid.
In
SELMA, Aug. 9.—Papers were
served on Chief of Police E. T. Wal
ters this afternoon in a suit to re
cover 98 packages of whisky held by
the city. It was taken In a raid
on the home ot Ira Jefferson, a ne
gro, a year ago. The whisky is val
ued at more than $3,000.
Jefferson served time on the roads
after conviction for having the whis
ky in his possession in violation of
the prohibition laws.
Court to Probe Five
Slayings Next Month
Birmingham Court Docket Contains
169 Case6—700 Witnesses Are
Summoned.
Dodges One Train;
Killed by Another
BIRMINGHAM. Aug. 9.—As O. C.
Greer stepped off a track of the Louis
ville and Nashville Railroad at Dolo
mite, a few miles south of Birming
ham, to-day to get out of the way
of a train, he stepped In front of a
Southern Railway train and was
killed instantly.
Green was 35 years old and un
married.
Do Yoy Know
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The Greatest
Fortress
See First
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Alabama Faces Political Problem
as Result of the Death of
J. F. Johnston.
HOBSON ALREADY IN RACE
Amendment Providing for Direct
Election Causes Doubt as
How to Fill Vacancy.
Slit Skirts Furnish
Mosquito Clan With
Choicest Barbecue
FRANK OR CONLEY? STILL QUESTION
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Tralnload of Winsome Stenographers
and Milliners Have to Tramp
Through Stegomyia Belt.
Issue Firmly Drawn Between Two Men
NEW YORK, Aug 9.—“All those In
favor of silt skirts, please stand up.”
Millions of full grown mosquitoes and
three or four little fellers were rushing
wildly out of their apartment houses
on he Flushing Meadows, about 7
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BIRMINGHAM, Aug. 9—Alabama
to-day faces a political problem which
is exciting the keenest interest all
over the country. With the death of
Joseph Forney Johnston, senior
United States Senator from Alabama,
gossip is rife concerning his succes
sor. Conjecture has been complicat
ed as a result of the recent amend
ment to the Federal Constitution pro
viding for the popular election of
United States Senators.
There is much more at stake than
that, however.
The death of Senator Johnston has
created an acute situation in the Na
tional Senate, where the tariff pro
moters have but a bare Democratic
working majority with which to pass
the Underwood-Simmons tariff bill
It has become Imperative that every
Democratic seat be filled.
O’Neal Asks Advice.
A vacancy exists. Political leader*
in the State realize the gravity of
the situation and It Is for this rea
son alone that Governor O’Neal tele
graphed to Attorney Genera! Mc-
Reynolds to ascertain the proper pro
cedure in naming a successor. A
sealed reply has been received, but
its contents are being withheld by
Attorney General Brickell until the
dead Senator has been buried.
In the meantime politicians arc
gueaeing. Some, who keep in dost*
touch with affairs of state, hold that
the Governor may make an appoint
ment; while others are of the de
cided opinion that no such appoint
ment can be made under the present
Federal law without the ratification
of the Legislature.
In this connection it 1s pointed out
the present Alabama Legislature even
if called together might not be able
to elect bec ause of existing vacancies.
Oscar Underwood, the floor leader
in the House, and framer of‘the pres
ent tariff law, is being most promi
nently mentioned as a successor to
Senator Johnston. John B. Knox, a
warm friend and supporter of Gover
nor O’Neal, and for a long time prom
inent in Alabama politics, is another
whom the political forecasters are
watching closely.
Although Mr. Knox, who is sum
mering In Massachusetts has thus
o’clock last night, and took part in the
most rollicking barbacue ever held ir.
the East.
Right in the middle of the salt grass
waste were five cars of a Long Island
Railroad train, stalled. The lights were
out, men were running up and down
shouting orders and Flushing was two
miles away. After the train had stood
for a few minutes, out of the passenger
cars poured the choicest morsels of hu
manity that Mr. and Mrs. Culex Pun-
gens and the little Pungenses ever saw.
There were stenographers, typewriters,
cashiers, millinery attaches and buxom
matrons. Silt skirts were numerous.
In an endless procession the five hun
dred and more suburbanites trailed over
the ties toward Flushing. There is
some style in the mosquito belt and
every member of the family seemed to
know at once which of the passengers
was dressed a la mode. The squeals
and slaps of the fair ones as they tried
to stop the onslaught sounded like a
tattoo.
The procession lasted for more than
two hours and when the last stenog
rapher reached home a unanimous vote
was taken declaring the mosquito a
pest. Of course, there were some men
along, but what self-respecting mosquito
would bother with them at such a
time?
Crime Definitely Fixed on One of Pair
BIRMINGHAM, Aug. 9—The Sep
tember Grand Jury docket has been
set fur the first two weeks of the
month, the jury to be organized and
charged by Judge Fort on Septem
ber 1.
There are 169 cases already on the
docket and 30 more, including five
murder cases, are to be put in.
Thus far 700 witnesses have been
summoned.
O. C. Greer, 35 Years Old, Meets
Tragic Death at Dolomite, Near
Birmingham.
Famous Case to Solve Mystery of
Slaying of Mary Phagan Enters Its
Third Week With Public Opinion
Constantly Shifting.
By AN OLD POLICE REPORTER.
The second week of the trial of Leo Frank, charged with the
murder of Mary Pliagan in the National Pencil Factory on the aft
ernoon of April 26, came to a close Saturday noon.
The State \s ease has been entirely made up in its primary as
pects, and the defense has gone into its story of the great crime
sufficiently to make clear both its theory and probable line of
deeding.
ie public, as the case has progressed, has been swayed this
way and that, and to-day the remarkable mystery of Mary Phagan’s
untimely and tragic end remain/!,
Not a move
escapes this
man’s restless
eyes, though
his face
is calm.
in hundreds of minds, quite as
much of a mystery as ever.
The Battle Is a See-Saw.
The State has had its good
days anil its bad days, and the
defense lias met the same fate.
At times things have s°'u.ri
dismally dark and gloomy L.r
Frank, while at other times the
clouds apparently have lifted
from about him decidedly.
has been made
This much
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clear:
far given no Indication of being an
aspirant, yet it is said to be practically
certain that he will be in the race.
He was defeated three years ago by
Senator Bankhead, Junior Alabama
Senator.
There are still others also. Frank
P. Glass editor of The Birmingham
New?, and one of the “Original Wil
son men.” is thought to have a splen
did chance at the .uenatorship in case
Governor O'Neal is permitted to ap
point, as he Is one of O’Neal’s warm
est friends. J. Thomas Heflin, pres
ent Congressman, is another, as are
also William I>. Jelks, former Gov
ernor, and Captain Frank S. White,
one of Birmingham’s most prominent
lawyers.
Of course, there is another pos
sibility—Richmond Pearson Hobson,
hero of the Merrimac—who had been
conducting a most vigorous campaign
succeed Senator Johnston. Of
ADMITS HE’S DECENT IN
ANSWERING MARRIAGE AD
to
course Hobson will continue his race
—he will not receive the appointment
from Governor O’Neal, for they are
bitter political enemies.
Former Governor Comer may make
a race against Hobson. Should this
happen Alabama will see one of the
moMt spectacular political fights in
the history of the State.
YONKERS. Aug. 9—Reginald I*.
Shennan, editor of The Rye Courier, al
ready has received one reply to the ad
vertisement inserted in his paper by a
• gentlewoman with large tract of land
not far from Port Chester,’’ who is seek
ing “an unselfish, decent, self-support
ing man for a husband.’’
He turned the letter over to the ad
vertiser, whose identity is being guard
ed carefully. The letter bore a Brook-
I iyn postmark.
AUTOS EMPTY CHURCHES,
SAY COUNTRY PREACHERS
MANHATAN, KANS., Aug. 9 —
The dwindling of the congregations ot
country churches, due to the new era
of automobiles, which makes it ea?y
for the rural residents to attend serv
ices in nearby towns and cities, will
be discussed at th^ Conference ot
Rural Leaders, July 21 to 25, at the
Kansas Agricultural College. Mem
bers of the organization declare that
Kansas now has about 1,200 aban
doned churches in the farming dia-
tricU. L
Either Leo Frank will he
shown to be responsible for the
death of Mary Phagan, or Jim
Conley will.
The one is the heart and soul
of the State’s contention, and
the other is the heart and soul
of the defense’s contention.
Frank is battling not only to
clear himself but to convict
Conley.
Conley is battling not only to
clear himself, but to conVict
Frank.
The only difference is that Con
ley, although not yet indicted,
expects to be convicted as an ac
cessory after the fact of the
murder, in any event, whereas
Frank, alraedy indicted, ex
pects to come absolutely clear
and free of all possible connec
tion with the crime.
The one has a heretofore good
name to restore in all of its un
blemished integrity, the other
has merely his present reputa
tion for criminal inclination to
preserve against sinister enlarge
ment.
The issue has been sharply and
indelibly drawn—it is either Leo
Frank’s life for Mary Phagan’s,
or it is Jim Conley’s.
The State has shown, or has
endeavored to show the follow
ing things:
THAT Frank, shortly after noon on April 26, and before five
minutes past noon, lured Mary Phagan, for an immoral purpose,
to the rear of the second floor of the National Pencil Factory, and
there, because she would not yield to his desires and demands.)
he knocked her down and immediately thereafter strangled her to
death with a small cord, about one-eighth of an inch in thickness.
THAT after strangling her, Frank remained with her dead
body until after a girl caller in his office had departed, when he
tiptoed to the front of the floor whereupon the murder had been
consummated, and secured the help of a negro sweeper, Jim Conley,
employed about the place, to dispose of the body.
THAT Conley, under the direction of Frank, wrapped the
dead body in a piece of heavy cloth, carried it to the elevator, and
thence on the elevator to the basement, where it was placed in an
Jack London Puts
Jok6 On His f upondix °k scure comer in the rear, later to be found by Newt Lee, a negro
^ night watchman, generally held guiltless of direct connection with
Novelist Tells the Latest on Former
Part of Himself and
What’s Left.
LOS ANGELES. Aug. 9.—Here is
the latest joke Jack London, the fa
mous author, is telling on himself:
London \va.« operated on recentlv
for appendicitis. After the ordeal
the surgeon held up the severed ap
pendix in his fingers for the patient
to see. The author looked at .t
thoughtfully then grinned and said:
“It was a case of all alone in Lon
don, wasn’t it, doc?”
the crime itself.
THAT Frank, after hiding the body, with Conley’s assistance,
then induced Conley to write and place beside the dead girl cer
tain illiterate notes fixing the crime, in so far as they might, upon
some other person than either Frank or Conley, and that Frank}
for Conley’s services, paid him the sum of $2.50, but not until
he had first paid him $200, which was withdrawn under promise
to restore that sum later.
THAT Frank had an L rstanding with Conley, whereby
Conley was to return to the . p ^ry later in the afternoon on Satur
day and burn the body, in the basement furnace, but that Conley