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VOL. XII. NO. 7. ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, AUGUST 11,1913. bv’WSMJ’c* 2 CENTS. p m a o t R e°
M A JL—^ JL JL JL i J
BATTLE OF FOOD EXPERTS RENEWED
DIAGRAM OF
ADVANCED
THEORY AS
BY DEFENSE
| Joe Agler Sold to
Jersey City Club;
Price Is $3,000
Joe Agler, the sensational first base
man of the Crackers, was sold this aft
ernoon to the Jersey City club, of the
International League It Is understood
that the price paid for the young athlete
Is $3,000.
Agler will report to the Skeeters at
the end of the Southern League season
The International League schedule calls
for games two weeks after the South
ern closes, and Agler will probably
catch the first train East after the last
game Is played at Poncey Park.
With his mother and hundreds of
neighbors looking on and unable to
help him, 8-year-old Max Roseberry,
son of J. R. Roseberry of No. 448 East
Georgia avenue, clung to a live wire
in the topmost branches of a tree in
front of his home for more than a
half hour Monday morning, with
thousands of volts of electricity shoot
ing through his body.
The child was finally rescued by a
street car motorman, who, protected
with rubber gloves, climbed the tree
and cut the wire at the risk of en
tangling himself. Unconscious the
boy was lowered from the tree and
placed in the arms of his mother.
The little finger of the boy's right
hand was burned completely off. and
the third finger was about half gone^
He was badly burned on the bottom
of the feet, and was so badly shocked
that he remained unconscious almost
an hour.
Dr. W. H. Wright, who amputated
two fingers, stated that the boy will
live.
The little boy climbed to the top of
the tree about 8 o’clock from a small
playhouse in the lower branches. The
feed wires of the Georgia ^ avenue
street car line dun through the upper
branches of the tree, and Max, losing
his balance, to save himself, rf^bed
one of the live wires. He wart Enable
to let loose.
The lad’s screams aroused the
neighborhood, and several hundred
people gathered. Horror-stricken at
the sight of the child writhing help
lessly with his right hand clasping
the wire, the men in the crowd tried
in every conceivable w r ay to get the
boy down.
Before an electrician could be found
or a pair of rubber gloves that would
enable someone to rescue him the boy
had become unconscious and hung
limn and a^arentl- lifeless.
The absence of a pair of rubber
gloves prevented the rescue of the
child for half an hour, and then a
street car came alon<” whose motor-
man had a pair of rubber gloves. He
climbed the tree and cut the wire.
Isadora Duncan Will
Not Quit the Stage
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
PARIS, Aug. 11.—Isadore Duncan
has changed her mind about with
drawing from the stage. She will
leave soon for South America, where
she is under contract.
In a letter to a friend she says that
for some time she was haunted by
the idea of death. At night she saw
virions of three black birds and once
she heard the Funeral March of
Chopin.
She consulted a doctor who told
her she was suffering from nerves.
He prescribed a tonic.
Chicago Bakes One
Hour, Shivers Next
CHICAGO, Aug. 11.—Chill winds
which brought autumn weather gave
Chicago its first real relief from a
week of intense heat to-day. The
comparative cold became so severe
that much sickness was caused. The
temperature standing at 93 at 7
o’clock Saturday evening dropped un
til to-day the mercury hovered near
65.
KANSAS CITY, Aug. 11.—Cool,
clear weather here to-day ended
seven days of torturing heat. Crop*’,
in Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma
still are in danger from the drouth
Temperatures all over Kansas and
Missouri were around the 100 mark
yesterday.
Slays Wife While
Crazed by Liquor
LEXINGTON, Aug. 11.—Report
from McGoffin County, Kentucky, to
day says Allen Howard, attacked by
delirium tremens, after a prolonged
spree, shot his wife dead in his frenzy
at their home when she tried to
quiet him.
Howard escaped to the mountains.
A po#se is in pursuit.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta
and Georgia — Local
showers Monday and
Tuesday.
Plans for the great automobile tour
which Hearat’s Sunday American will
inaugurate to find a new' All-South
ern, open-aH-the-year-round route
from A.tlanta to the Pacific Coast,
virtually have been completed, and
the tour will start on Monday, Au-
I gust 18, under conditions that prac
tically assure the success of the
movement.
The proposed route, which will be
thoroughly mapped and charted by
the pathflnding expedition, will ex-
; tend from Atlanta through Birming
ham, Montgomery, New Orleans,,
Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, Tucson,
Phoenix and Yuma, and will then
connect with the State roads of Cal
ifornia for San Diego, Los Angeles
! and San Francisco. •
The pathfinder will be E. L. Fer
guson, one of the most widely known
automobile drivers and tourists in
America. He has been in Atlanta
for several days, making preliminary
preparations for the tour, and is
much pleased with the response that
greeted the publication of the details
of the movement in yesterday’s Am
erican.
Southern automobilists, who here
tofore have been barred from touring
across the continent via a Southern,
open-all-the-year-round route be
cause no such route has ever been
explored and mapped, have greeted
the movement with enthusiasm and
many offers of assistance.
Big Send-Off Is Planned.
Some idea of the sentiment that
exists among Atlanta motorists can
be gained from the plans that are
being made to godspeed Mr. Fer
guson when he starts on his Journey.
When he leaves Atlanta next Mon
day in the big touring car that has
traveled most of the roads of the
country, he will be escorted out of
the city by many local automobilists
and motorcyclists who realize what
the proposed tourists route would do
for the South, and w'ho are indorsing
the movement with their usual en
ergy and enthusiasm.
It is Mr. Ferguson’s intention, dur
ing the path-finding expedition, to
put forth every effort to interest the
farmers and the citizen® of the cities
and towns he visits in the proposed
route and in good road building all
over the South. The lack of good
roads is all that has prevented the
Southern States from being the Mec
ca c^f motorists the year round, and
it is the purpose vt the newspapers
that are behind the expedition lo
make Mr, Ferguson’® trip a “good
roads booster” from start to finish, so
as to make the proposed Southern
route a reality before the beginning
of the Panama Exposition at San
| Francisco in 1915.
It is estimated that more than 5,000
motor cars will *cross the continent
| from the Atlantic coast during the
exposition, and the manning £nl
charting of a Southern route, with it.§
advantages in climate and scenery,
will divert the greater part of the
traffic from the established Northern
route through Chicago and Denver,
Tuts Uelenst s theory oi the killing of Mary Phagan is that the little girl, after leaving
Frank’s office unmolested, was seized by the negro Conley at the foot of the stairs, crowded back
into the rear room and there battered into insensibility, if not instant death, after which she was
dragged to the trapdoor in . the extreme rear and thrown into the cellar below. Later the negro
went into the cellar, placed the cord around the girl’s neck, and drew it very tight, perhaps thus
snffing out the last fluttering breath of life in the insensible body. The motive assigned to the
negro is robbery.
night demolished that store, and fire
which followed destroyed the entire
block In which the Skinner store was
located. The loss is $50,000, par
tially covered by Insurance.
Early to-day the Sheriff from
Greenville and a posse of regular and
special deputies arrested a negro,
charging him with being the man
who placed the bomb in the Skinner
building. While the officers claim to
have strong evidence against the
black man, they have not stated what
it is. The feeling against the ac
cused is running high, and it is re
ported that the negro has been spir
ited away by two deputies to prevent
any possibility of a lynching.
The buildings destroyed are as fol
lows: Skinner Hardware Company,
loss $6,000, Insurance $3,000; Meach-
am & Kirkland drug store, loss $3,000,
insurance, $1,500; S. E. Berham
clothing store, loss $3,500, insurance
$1,000; People's Bank, all fixtures
lost, but vault and valuables saved;
House * Balliard barber shop, Toss
about $500
Mr. Skinner owned all of the build
ings destroved. The offices of the
Mayor and a number of the city offi
cials were in the bank building. They
lost their office fixtures.
Practically all of the residents were
attending church when the explosion
occurred, and turned out in a body to
flfrht the fire, their efforts confining
the blaze to the one block. There Is
no regular fire department in the
town.
No reason can be assigned for the
motive of the person or persons in
throwing the bomb into the store, un
less it was due to some grudge against
some of the.occupants.
Hope of Early Vote on
Tariff Bill Given Up
WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—All pre
dictions of an early passage of the
Democratic tariff bill by the Senate
are going glimmering. Majority lead
ers realize that, notwithstanding the
fact that they have set a new record
in pushing consideration of this meas
ure, only a beginning has been made,
and the earliest anyone now will
promise completion of the task Is
September 15.
Ten days ago, when a member of
the Finance Committee «ald he
thought the Senate would pass the bill
by Augu5*t 20. there were some who
thought it might be possible, but only
four schedules have now been con
sidered. 36 paragraphs in these hav
ing been passed over for future con*
sideration.
Legislature to enact laws looking
to the reforrp of the tax system and
the equalization of taxes In the State.
Assorting that the greatest dis
parity in the tax returns of the State
is not between the city and rural
communities, but between the rural
communities themselves, Governor
Slaton urged the enactment of a law
that would compel each county to
pay Its proportionate share of the ex
penses of the State.
Shows Disparity in Returns.
“One rural county will make returns
three times as much in proportion to
values as Its neighbors.” said the Gov
ernor’s message. "What sound argu
ment can be offered In favor of this
injustice? County lines are but im
aginary. separating Georgians only by
a fiction, and all should be and I be
lieve are willing to contribute their
proportion to the general burden.
“Legislation accomplishing this
purpose, both in regard to visible and
Invisible property, will So operate as
to make the .same percentage ef
fective on every citizen, regardless of
the county in which he lives.”
Scores State of Treasury.
In his message Governor Slaton
emphasizes the deplorable condition
of the State Treasury, which has nor
nearly enough funds to meet the ex
penses* of the State Government and
asserts that under a system of tax
equalization a deficit of this size
could not exist.
"Tax equalization does not neces
sarily mean increase of taxes,” ne
says’. “The man giving In now’ more
than his due should have his valua
tion reduced to such proportionate
amount as universally enforced will
economically support the State. The
man who is delinquent in this regard
should be raised.”
Sylvia Pankhurst
Captured in Fierce
Riot of Militants
o!
Senate Clears Decks
For Tax Reform Work.
With the decks cleared at last
local bills, the Georgia Senate Mon
day afternoon faced a sharp fight on
the substitute to the Sheppard tax
reform bill following the filing of a
minority report by four of the mem
bers of the Finance Committee.
Senator DuBose, one of the minor
ity signers, declared he would fight
the measure when It comes up for
passage. The bill, he declared, was
not fair to the people and was framed
as a result of “bulldozing” efforts by
the Governor.
On the other hand, Senator Miller,
of the Twenty-fourth, Joint framer of
the bill and chaitman of the Finance
Committee, declared himself ready to
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, Aug. 11.—“You women
are overstepping the ordinary bounds
of lawlessness—you are becoming an
archists,” said the magistrate In Bow
Street Police Court to-day In sentenc
ing militant suffragettes who took
part In street fighting yesterday when
Miss Sylvia Pankhurst led a mob of
10,000 women In an assault upon the
residence of Premier Asquith.
Sunday’s fighting was the bloodiest
of all militant riots. Screaming and
struggling with maniacal fury the suf
fragettes and their bodyguard of hired
dock w’orkers gave the police such a
furious contest that more than 50 per
sons were hurt.
Miss Sylvia Pankhurst had a spe
cial bodyguard of men, but her es
cort was overpowered and she w’as
taken to Holloway Jail.
Visitors HearSheldon
In Fine Organ Recital
More than 2,000 music lovers, In
cluding many delegates to the South
ern Merchants’ Convention, heard
Charles A. t>heldon give one of the
best organ recitals of the year at the
Auditorium Sunday afternoon under
the auspices of the Atlanta Music
Festival Association.
A series of variations on “Old
Folks at Home," w'lth elaborate op
eratic and classical selections, formed
the feature of the concert. Many con
sider Mr. Sheldon at his best in this
class of music. Hi® rendition of the
old favorite, with the beautiful and
difficult variations, was received with
acclaim.
Professor George Bachman, a native Frenchman,
one time an instructor in the well-known Jefferson Med
ical College of Philadelphia, and now at hte head of the
Physiological Department of Physicians and Surgeons,
was the star witness of the defense at the Frank trial
Monday, forming one of the brilliant one of the brilliant
array of medical experts gathered by Leo Frank’s law
yers to batter down the theories and conclusions pre
sented to the jury by Dr. H. F. Harris, Secretary and di-
rectorof the State Board of Health.
Among the distinguished physicians to follow him at the after,
noon session of court were Drs. Willis F. Westmoreland, T. H. Han
cock and J. L. Olmstead, Dr. L. W. Childs, a graduate of the Univer-
stiy if Michigan, was called at the opening of the defense’s case.
Dr. Bachman had no hesitancy in belittling the testimony of
Dr. Harris. He seconded Dr. Childs in saying that it was merd
guesswork to say that Mary Phagan was killed within half or three-
quarters of an hour after she had eaten her simple dinner of cab
bage and biscuit. He was shown the specimen of cabbage taken
from the stomach of the murdered girl and declared that there
was no way of telling hv its appearance that it had not been in the
stomach seven or eight\hours before death came.
Appears to Trip Up Expert.
Solicitor Dorsey set out in the cross-examination to test min.
utely the witness ’ qualifications as an expert. He appeared to trap
him in one or two instances. One was when he asked Dr. Bachman
the meaning of the word “amidulin,” as used in the description
of starch in its various stages of digestion.
“I never heard of such a word,” said the witness.
“You never did?”
‘‘No, and no one else ever did. It isn’t in any dictionary.”
“Nor in any medical work?” inquired the Solicitor.
Webster’s International Dictionary gives the definition of
‘‘amidulin” as “a variety of starch made soluble by heating.”
Dr. Bachman was called to the stand after Solicitor Dorsey
had finished a searching cross-examination of Herbert G. Schiff,
assistant to Frank at the Pencil Factory.
Says Cabbage Was in Stomach Long Time.
The medical expert said that the average time required for the
digestion of cabbage, according to the standard of his profession,
was four and a half hours. The principal process of digestion took
place in the small intestine in the case of cabbage and other carbo
hydrates, he testified.
Attorney Reubne Arnold showed him the specimens of cab.
bage taken from the stomach of Mary Phagan.
“Those pieces apparently were not masticated at all,” the
physician said. “They would have interfered with digestion and
the passage of food out of the stomach into the small intestine by
obstructing the pylorus. They would undoubtedly have kept all
of the solid contents in the stomach for some time.
‘‘Just from my observation of those pieces of cabbage I would
say that they could have been in the girl’s stomach for seven or
eight hours before passing out.”
Attacks Dr. Harris’ Conclusion.
He attacked Dr. Harris’ conclusions based on the fact that
only 32 degrees of acidity were found in the girl’s stomach on the
ground that there was no way of telling whether the acidity ati
the time digestion was stopped was ascending or descending. If
it were descending, he said, it would indicate that the acidity had
risen to its maximum point and was on its downward course, a con
dition which obtains only when the food has been in the stomach
for a considerable period.
Dr. Harris' theory that no digestion had taken place in tho
small intestine he combatted by declaring that the formalin in the
embalming fluid would have destroyed the ferments of the pan.
creatic juice and would have left no way of telling whether or not
Dr. Harris’ theory was correct.
Impossible to Make a Guess.
Attorney Arnold then propounded a hypothetical question to
the witness embracing all of the conditions which were found in
the stomach of Mary Phagan and then asked him if he or any other
dcotor could hazard a guess as to how long the food had been in
her body before death.
Dr. Bachman replied that it would be impossible.
The most important admission that the Solicitor wrung from
the witness was that if one didn’t find maltose in the stomach, but
did find starch it would be probable that digestion had not pro
gressed very far.
Continued on Page 3, Column 6.
Fines Girl Who Wears
Abbreviated Clothes
SAVANNAH, Aug 11.—Recorder
John Schwartz to-day showed his at
titude toward women who appear on
the streets too thinly clad or in
clothes too much abbreviated when
he Imposed a fine of $50 upon Miss
Bessie Carter, who, with Henry
Smoak, strolled on Broughton street,
a principal thoroughfare. In a skirt
that did not reach her ankles and a
low-cut, sleeveless waist.
“I didn’t know' it was any harm,"
said the girt. “I have worn such
dresses on the street before.”
On the re-direct, Arnold asked
the witness:
“Do you know of anyone else
in the world, except Dr. H. F.
Harris, who would venture an
opinion of the nature lie has
given on the data in his pos
session?”
Dr. Baehma nsaid he did not.
He added also that th emedical
profession never accepted a pro
nouncement of this sort unless it
was confirmed by other experts.
New Theory Sprung.
could have compiled Saturday fore
noon, Instead of Saturday afternoon
following: the crime, the intricate
financial sheet which the defense has
introduced.
Herbert SchifT. assistant superin
tendent of the National Pencil Fac
tory, already had identified the finan
cial sheet as the work of Frank, pre
sumably done by the superintendent
on Saturday afternoon, as this was
his usual time for doing It.
Reuben Arnold had displayed :ha
sheet to the Jury and had drawn the
jurors’ attention to the fact that the
A new and important development j writing was regular, clear and with
in the State’s theory of the murder ou t any sign of trembling or nervous-
of Mary Phagan came to light Mon- n ess on the part of the writer. The
day when Solicitor Dorsey sought to | evident purpose was to show that
establish that Leo Frank very easily Frank, after brutally murdering a