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SCHIFF TESTIFIES FOR FRANK + •+ +•+ +•+ +#+ +#+ +#+ +#+ +#+ + . + + * + +#+ +#+ +#+ +#+ +#+ + , + +#+ +#+ + , + +#+ +#+ +#+ + # + y 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 ALWAYS FiRST ® ® Tbe sunda y AMERICAN Order It NOW?-—-===*==_ The Atlanta Georgian. Read for Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use for Results extra! Both Phone* Main 100 VOL. XII. NO. 6. ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, AUGUST 11,1913. 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