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State Hits Complexity of Report Made Day of Tragedy
NEWSBOY WHOSE EVIDENCE IS
UNDER FIRE OF THE DEFENSE
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, “rlngle find 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 “rlngle or a Jingle,” the
progressives assert, should be omiited
from hymnals, never to be resurrected,
even in the wee Mttle country church
Just on the edge of the backwoods.
The progressives are no respecters of
persons. Witness the fact that some of
the hymns placed under the ban were
penned by Wesley and Isaac Watts.
TO BUILD 15 SCHOOLS.
GADSDEN, Aug. 10.—J. E. Wil
liams. County Superintendent of
Education, has received $2,500 from
the State to be used in building rural
schoolhouses. Fifteen buildings are
required and the people of those com
munities will raise part of the
amount necessary.
Goose Hits Paralytic;
Quick Cure Wrought
LOS ANGELES. Aug. 10 —Arthur J.
Reddington. a rancher, suffering from
partial paralysis of the arms and legs
for several years, was hobbling around
near his ranch when a goose flew
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 >vered ni3
composure, he found that he had the
complete use of his arms and legs.
Booksellers Ban
Hall Caine’s Book
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, Aug. 10.—Hall 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
Isles.
PREMIER GETS HERO CROSS.
ATHENS. Aug 10.—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
Asbury Hull Hodgson, of Athens,
well known to many Atlantans, died
la.««t night at his summer home at
Dillard. Ga., where he had gone In
the hope of recuperating:. He had
been in feeble health the past few
years.
Mr. Hodgson was a successful busi
ness man of Athens. He was active
in the work of upbuilding his home
town. At the time of his death he
was a member of the firm of Hodg
son Brothers, present of the South
ern Manufacturing Company, one of
the largest cotton mills In the State,
and 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 Miss Lill Hodg?-»on; four
sons, C. N. t Frank. Henry and As
bury Hull Hodgson. Jr . and seven
brothers. E. R., T. A., J. M.. Captain
A. C., George T., Colonel F. G. and
F. M. Hodgson.
Dancers Rush From Sinking Boat
While Engineer Holds Prow
on Shore, Then Dies.
MEMPHIS, TENN. Aug. 10.—Divert
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 ink
last night, having stayed at his post
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 realiza
tion of the martyrdom of Jim Blud-
soe. famed in the poem as 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
oflicers and crew began taking off the
passengers.
Frank O’Neil In tike engifee room
kept the stem 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.
Chairman of Investigation Com
mittee Hints at Impeachment
Proceedings.
NEW YORK, Aug. 10.—Governor
William Sulzer, of New York, was
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.
- Jpeeplithal, it was brought out, paid
5-Year-Old Girl Run
Down by Doctor Is
Only Slightly Hurt
Estle Pierce, B years old, daughte"
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 Cal! Officer John West accord
ingly took no action.
New Brain Surgery
Device Is Invented
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, Aug. 10.—Delegates to the
big medical 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 Is
regulated to a hair's breadth by a
series of scales
Surgeons who examined the ma
chine are convinced the time is not
far distant when they will be able
with it to operate for paralysis and
insanity.
Police Seek Missing
Mother and Child
Detectives Saturday searched for
Mrs. Edna E. Mills, 26, and her pret
ty 6-year-old girl, who are reported
to have disappeared Thursday from
their flat In the Fairley Apartments.
W. W. Mills, the husband, has fur
nished a description of the missing
wife and child, and has asked the
police to use every effort to And
them.
According to information obtained
by the husband. Mrs. Mills and the
little girl went with another woman.
a *InrffliraffSB 6f $$6,739 still stand
ing against the account on July 15
last. This was after the Governor had
received repeated call3 for more mar
gin.
Used Campaign Funds.
The Governor’s transactions with
the other Arms 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
Sulzer of 500 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 be 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 a letter produced by the
witness, made its first call upon the
Governor for more margin. The books
showed that on November r8 previous
the Governor 1Tad 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 shares 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 flrrh’s books
showed the stock bought on October
16 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. Richards, coun
sel for the committee, as having been
also campaign checks.
order It would hardly do any good
to appeal. Judge Shelby offered Mon
day as the time for listening to ar
guments. Briefs have been sent to
Judges Pardee and Shelby.
Arnold Sees O'Neal
Regarding Judgeship
ANNISTON, Aug. 10.—J. J. Ar
nold, whom Governor O’Neal appoint
ed probate Judge to successd E. F.
Strikers Beg for
Copper Mine Jobs
CALUMET. MICH., Aug. 10.—End
In the near future to the strike of
18.000 copper miners in the Calumet
region was predicted to-day by the
operators when 1,000 members of the
miners’ union appeared at the Cal
umet and Hecla company’s mines ear
ly to-day and asked for their old Jobs.
Reports from over the district to
day said that mines were being put
in operation with the aid of non-union
workers and deserting strikers.
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.
Grubb Sets Monday
For Rate Argument
BIRMINGHAM. Aug. 10.—Judge
Grubb, of the Federal Court, hearing
argument on the restraining order to
prevent the Alabama Railroad Com
mission putting into effect the 2 1-2-
cent passenger rate Tuesday next, de
cided that inasmuch as Judges Shel
by and Pardee sit with him on the
original question is would be neces-
Held in Florida as
Slayer of 5 in 1896
JACKSONVILLE, X Aug. 10—A
white man who gives his name as W
T. Blackerby has been arrested at
Kissimmee, charged with the mur
der of his wife and four other per
sons in Santa Clare, Cal., which
crime was committed seventeen years
ago. He will be held until Califor
nia officers are sent for him.
The description sent out from Call
fornla tallies exactly with the man
held at Kissimmee, even to a mark on
one of his feet. Blackerby denies he
is Dunton, the man who did the kill-
in California, but ex-Sheriff Prevatt,
who arrested him, says he admitted
killing two men in that State.
Girard, Ala,, Postoffice
Growth Phenomenal
COLUMBUS, Aug. 10.—A remark
able record is shown by the report
of the Girard, Ala., postoffice for the
year ending June 30. 1913, which has
just been made public.
The report for June 30, 1912, show’ed
the receipts of the office to be $3,-
976.49, while the report for June 30,
1913, showed that the receipts for the
year were $19,213.16, or an increase of
$15,236.67.
The Increase is partly on account
of the establishment of a number of
wholesale houses. Two additional
clerks have been employed in the of
fice during the past year.
Law League Notifies
Tenderloin to Leave
EUFAULA, Aug. 10.—Following the
refusal of the City Council to abolish
the restricted district, representatives
of the Law and Order League served
notice on residents of the district that
unless they leave the city within a
reasonable time the league will carry
Its case before the Grand Jury and
have the State courts take the action
that the City Council refuses to take.
The Council believes that segrega
tion is the best solution of the social
evil.
WITNESS TESTIFIES
to her death. It was the purpose of the defense to show that it*
would have been most improbable that Frank, after committing
The second week of the Frank trial ended at 12.-30
Saturday with a bitter battle in progress over the testi
mony of Herbert 6. Schiff, assistant superintendent of
the National Pencil Factory.
Schiff was called soon after court opened in the fore-t
noon and was on the stand when the adjournment waa
taken until Monday.
Schiff, besides denying that Frank ever had women in his oft.
flee, describes in elaborate detail the duties of the superintendent,
sary to get a majority of the three particularly his work on the afternoon the little Phagan girl came
on the subject of the restraining or
der pending an appeal from the de
cision.
judge Grubb made the statement, a murder, calmly could have sat down with the burden of guilt,
however, that without a restraining x» _ , . . , , t ... . . ,
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. SchifC
made a good witness and the solicitor was able to make little head
way in his cross-questioning. i
Says Frank Explained Nervousness.
Schiff admitted to Dorsey, however, that Frank was really
Crook, resigned, but who was not anxious to get the Pinkertons on the job and that Frank called!
defeated by W. H. Cooper, who died ----- ■
last Thursday, went to Montgomery
yesterday to see the Governor in re
gard to a second appointment as pro
bate Judge.
John M. Crook, chief clerk, has de
nied that he Is an applicant for the
place, as have A. H. Sheppard, clerk
of the City Court, and W. L. McCaa,
who managed O’Neal’s campaign In
this county. Thisl eaves only Judge
Arnold and W. F. McCartney,
newspaper man, in the race.
from his home three times at intervals of little more than half an
hour, instructing Schiff to take the matter up with Sig Montagu
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 hia
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
local light suddenly was turned upon the body of the girl victim asj
she lay before his eyes.
A search Saturday for C. B. Dalton, the man who told of via.
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 girlsj
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 whicl$
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
work. He said that the least complicated of the financial sheets
never took less than 21-2 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 financial
sheets on file.
Schiff went into the highly complex methods in which the
financial sheet is made up, in order to show for the defense the
clarity of mind that was required in order to complete the sheet
without mistake or confusion.
lie 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” on
which the pencils were arranged
and 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 attack waa made upon the testi
mony of young George Epps when
court opened Saturday morning. Epps
was called to the stand and made to
tell of the visit of a Georgian repor-
27. He was asked why he had not 1
told at that time his story of riding
to town with Mary Phagan on the
day she was killed. Epps declared.
that he did not talk to the reporter, j
The reporter, John Minar, was j
called immediately after and testified \
that he talked at length with both
the Epps boy and his sister in an
effort to determine who last had seen
the murdered girl and when. The re
porter declared that the sister re- '
piled that she had seen Mary Phagan
Thursday before, but that young
Epps, although present, said nothing,
except that he had seen the girl oc- 1
casionally. Arnold questioned tha
boy.
Q. Do you recollect the Sunday the
body was found?—A. Yes.
Q. Do you remember a gentleman,
a Mr. Minar, coming to your house
and talking to you and your slBter?
—A. Yes.
Q. Didn’t he ask you when was the
ter at his home Sunday eevning, April last time either of you had seen Mary
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