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1 ALWAYS FIRST ® ® The SUNDA Y AMERICAN Order It NOW====== Both Phones Main 100 The Atlanta Georgian. Read for Profit---GEORGIAN WANT ADS---Use for Results VOL. XII. NO. 8. ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1913. Copyright 1906, By The Georgian Co. 2 CENTS. ! M A on?° FRANK PLANNED CRIME, STATE’S THEORY SOLICITOR HUGH DORSEY GRILLING WITNESSES IN- FRANK CASE Dorsey Arising to the Full Power of a Dynamic Attack on a Witness A *■ ACT PASSES A W. H. Hutchins, No. 152 Confeder ate avenue, assistant engineer at the N. P. Pratt Laboratory, No. 88 Au burn avenue, was blown twenty feet against the side of the building Mon day mori^ng about 4:30 o’clock when ‘a compressed air tank exploded while Hutchins and half a doz. negro workmen were tilling it. The negroes were al^o thrown against the walls, but none was in jured. Hutchins received several small cuts about his head and face, and was severely jarred. Hi? key ring, which was attached to his belt, was I blown off. It was found 50 feet from ! where the explosion occurred. The air tanks in the laboratory are about five feet long and two feet in circumference, and are used in the bottling operations. Four of them were being filltl under the direction of Hutchins when the accident hap pened. The explosion shook buildings j block away, and was heard a quarter of a mile. The noise and jar awoke practically every person in the neigh borhood. Many parties rushed to the building expecting to find workmen dead or seriously Injured. All of the men in the plant were slightly stunned and were just regaining their fee. when the first of the rescuers arrived. Police Sergeant Hewett, who was | more than a quarter of a mile away, , at Piedmont avenue and Houston Street, heard the explosion and went to the factory. He took charge of 'the situation and sent Hutchins home. The negroes returned to their work. It Ail Depends on The Point of View Fires Bullets Into Bodies of Dead Men S A V A N X A H. GA., Aug. 12.— Recorder John E. S c h w a r tz fined Miss Bessie Car ter $50 for ap pearing in the shopping district here in a short skirt and low-cut waist. CLARKES- BURG, W. VA. Aug. 12.—A young w o m an arrested for wearing an “ expose gown" was discharged by the Mayor, who called her cos- t u m e “becoming and artistic.” Flies 800 Miles in Day Without Stop Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. BREMEN, Aug 12. Aviator Regain, flying for the Pommery trophy, arrived here to-day after covering 800 miles on a non-stojf flight. The Pommery trophy goes to the aviator making the longest cross-country flight between sunrise and sunset of the same day. TRENTON. TENN., Aug. 12.— Armed with two automatic pistols. J. A. Alford, a prominent citizen of Rutherford, shot and killed W. F. Coulter and his son, Harry Coulter, | two prominent lawyers of this place. After the Coulters had fallen. Alford fired several bullets into their life less bodies. Alford arrived on a M. and O. train f nd when he alighted he began firing on his victims. Domestic trouble is said to have caused the killings. Alford surren dered to officers and was lodged in jail. Postal Receipts Here op 2 Larger Cities Tf Figures made public by Postmaster Hugh McKee show that the receipts for the last fiscal year at the Atlanta postoffice were gre. ter than the offic *s at Louisville and New Orleans, both larger cities than Atlanta. The receipts at the local office were $1,328,011.14, at New Orleans $1,182,- 76LI2 and at Louisville $1,163,598.18. RY Last Bill Passed By House Provides W.&A.Investigation OFZI The Able Manner in Which Dorsey Has Handled Case Has Added to His Reputation. Dorsey Waxing Sarcastic in the Course of a Cross- Examination. fW ... •THE WEATHER. Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia—Fair Tues day and Wednesday. Dorsey Gentle and Persuasive. IN Governor Slaton Tuesday refused to honor the requisition papers of Governor Cole Blease, of South Car olina, t for J. J. Zaohry, of Augusta, who was charged with kidnaping his own child. The decision of the Gov ernor followed a sensational hearing in the executive offices late Monday. Governor Slaton based his refusal on the fact that no State law had been violated by Zaohry In South Carolina and that the whole ease was against the defendant grew out of the desire of Mrs. Zaohry to obtain the custody of the two children. One of the most spectacular fights for the extradition of a citizen ever recorded in Georgia occurred in the Governor’s offices Monday. Charges and counter charges were hurled in turn by counsel for the defense and for the State of South Carolina, and at one time a personal mix-up be tween Attorney Dunbar, representing Mrs. Zachry. and Attorney Phinizy. representing Mr. Zachry. who charged that the rase had been prosecuted with all the “vindictiveness” that Mr. Dunbar could summon, was nar rowly averted by the Governor. “You may wax just as enthusiastic as you like.” said Governor Slaton to Mr. Phinizy, “but you can’t say those things. That will not do here." The hearing was as unique as it was spectacular. With the Governor sitting as both court and jury, at torneys for the defense and plaintiffs were allowed to argue their cases to their hearts’ content with frequent interruptions by the Governor, who kept close tab on every bit of evi dence offered. T A bill providing for a commission of eight members to Investigate the value of the Western and Atlantic Railroad and make recommendations for its lease was passed by the House of Repre sentatives Monday afternoon, being the last House measure that will be passed during the present session. The commission will be composed of I two members from the House, two from J the Senate, the chairman of the State Railroad Commission, and two civilians to be appointed by the Governor. Th*« hill carries an appropriation of $5,000 for expenses. The House also passed, by a vote of 120 to 0, the “blue sky” law which re quires registration of securities before stocks and bonds of a concern cart be placed on the market. It is designed to prohibit the sale of “wildcat” stocks. With the Senate substitute for the i Sheppard House taxing bill back in | the House for ratification after pas- I sage in the Senate in a night session Monday, and the possibility of the Administration taxing bills being thrown out on constitutional grounds, the wave of tax reform in this session of the Legislature reached its crest Tuesday morning. Lenders in the Senate declared Tuesday morning that a serious doubt exists as to the constitutionality of presenting the three Administration taxing bills which were defeated iti the House last week. The legal point is said to rest upon the constitution ality of presenti ig bills in one bouse after they have been defeated In the j other. Should this opinion hold, the 1 three bills offered for the Administra tion by Senators Miller, McNeill and I Tarver will be thrown out and the Senate will rest on its laurels earned late Monday evening when the sub stitute to the Sheppard bill was passed, 29 to 12. Senate leaders declared Tuesday morning that it was now squarely up to the Lower House to redeem Itself and adopt the taxing bill as passed by the Senate. Should the House as sume a generous attitude in the mnt- I ter and ratify the Senate bill, the Senate in turn, the leaders of this body sav, will put back the $280,000 i appropriation which it sliced off (, f the House general appropriation bill last week. This can be done, it Is claimed, without financially embar rassing the State Treasury with such a taxing law on the statute books as II JAIL REC Electric Light Men To Meet in Macon MACON. Aug. 12.—The annual con vention of the Southeastern section of the National Electric Light Asso ciation, comprising the States of Georgia. Florida, Alabama and th«- Carolina*, will begin In Macon Thurs day morning. About 400 electric light I men are expected to attend. Thursday night there will be a re ception at the Dempsey Hotel and Fri da/ a barbecue for the visitors at the Log Cabin Club. A number of prom inent men are scheduled to make ad dresses. Disease Turns White Children Into Black PHILADELPHIA. PA.. Aug. 12.— Eighteen-month-old twin boys in the Children's Homeopathic Hospital are suffering from one of the rarest dis eases known to medical science. It has changed their color from white to black. The disease is pseudo leucamia, or Hodgkin’s disease, and it i.v an af fection of the lymphatic glands in which the number of white blood corpuscles Is increased and the red blood corpuscles greatly diminished. The State definitely announced Tuesday in court at the Frank trial its theory that Frank deliberately pre meditated and planned a crimina' attack upon Mary Phagan Friday, April 25, the day before she came to the factory and was slain. Frank A. Hooper, associated with Solicitor Dorsey in the prosecution, made the surprising announcement of the State’s attitude during a heated argument over the admissibility of a portion of the testimony of one of the defense’s witnesses, Miss Hattie Hall, stenogra pher at Montag Bros, and occasionally employed at the National Pencil Factory. Dorsey and Hooper were objecting strenuously to the admis sion of a phone conversation between Frank and Miss Hall in which Frank was reported to have asked Miss Hall to come over to the pencil factory to assist in the clerical work, saying: “I’ve got so much work to do that it will take me until 6 o ’clock to get it done. ’ ’ Hooper, after the Solicitor had objected to the question on the ground that it was self-serving and proved nothing, declared that the conversation not only was self-serving, but was made in de liberate anticipation of Mary Phagan’s visit to the factory in the afternoon. “This remark was made on Saturday morning, the day after Mary Phagan’s pay envelope was refused Helen Ferguson,’’ said Mr. Hooper. “It was made in anticipation of her visit in the after noon. It is the State's contention that Frank deliberately pre-ar ranged corcumstances favorable to an attack upon the girl and in cidents serving to divert any suspicion from himself.’’ That the State was working upon the theory of premediation was hintd by the questioning of Helen Ferguson several days ago,