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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
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E, 111 LEAST, OF ONE
THiNG-A‘G00D RAGGING
By JAMES B. NEVIN.
Header, proverbially gentle, if not
always so, be-glad, be joyful, and be
filled with exceeding thankfulness
that you have not been summoned,
no matter which way, as a witness in
the Frank trial!
Of course, there is a large, fat
chance that you have been summoned
—most everybody has—but be all
those nice things aforesaid, if you
haven’t.
And even at that, knock on wood.
The trial is young yet—it is not
quite three weeks old, three weeks,
count ’em—and there still is time for
somebody or other to remember that
you may know something or other
about something or other that may
have something or other to do with
the case.
Anyway, if you can’t be glad and
all the rest of it, be just as glad and
as nearly all the rest of it as you
can, while the being is good or in
anywise promising.
If you are a witness in the Frank
case, you are skating on about the
thinnest ice ever—it makes no dif
ference whatever whose pond you
are skating on.
You are ambrosia and cake to one
side and you likewise are gall and
wormwood to the other—be very sure
of that!
If your wife will have anything at
all to do with you, and if the neigh
bors love' you any more, when you
get back home, it will be entirely be
cause one side or the other forgot to
mention the fact that once upon a
time you were a horse thief, or some
body said you were a horse thief, or
that you had an uncle who was a
horse thief, or some pleasant little
thing like that.
They don’t care particularly wheth
er you ever look like anything any
more, after they get through with
you down there in the big court now
adays.
Crosa- Examining Is What Hurts.
Always on tiie direct examination,
of course, the sledding is elegant.
The gentlemanly party then asking
you gentlemanly questions wouldn’t
hurt your feelings for the world.
knows you are a law-abiding
citizen, and worthy of any trust. He
ddtes upon you. He loves you. He
is your friend until that thing that
now and then breaks loose in Geor
gia freezes over!
Mighty fine—but you haven’t yet
discovered what’s coming to you!*
Wait until the cross-examining at
torney gets you In his demoniac
clutches!
Far be it from’ him to remember
that you have any kinfolks outside
the penitentiary, or that you ever told
a truth in your life.
. H e plainly but pointedly is perfect
ly willing to bet, right there, that you
couldn't tell the truth in three trials,
and he will lay you big odds on it,
moreover!
Now, of course, the following is not
precisely a sample- of what has been
going on in the courthouse of late,
ever since the trial began, in fact,
but it is about the w r ay it must seem
to many witnesses and spectators to
have been, after the day is over and
they undertake to recall the things
that transpired.
“Mr. Witness,” begins the cross-
examiner, “you told the learned coun-
eel (sarcastic smile) upon the other
side, 1 believe, that you saw an owl
sitting on the back fence about three
minutes and two ticks past 8:34 on
the night of the killing?”
“Mr. Witness” needn’t be the least,
tiny bit fooled by that "Mr.” busi
ness—the cross-examiner would
scorn to call a witness “Mister,” mor^
than once—after that, it merely is
“You, Smith/’ or “Smith,” or “Look
here, now’,” or something snappy and
snortish.
Witnessr “I said I thought It was
an owl—it looked like an owl.”
Begins to Shake Finger.
Attorney: “W-H-A-T! Didn’t you
just now, in the presence of this eru
dite jury (shaking finger vigorously
under witness’ nose), swear positive
ly (shake) and without reserve
(shake), sir (shake, shake, shake),
that it WAS (shake) an OWL?”
"Witness: “Why-er-um-I couldn’t
swear it was an owl exactly—it has
big eyes, anyhow!”
Attorney :“Big eyes? B-A-H! Also
B-A-H, B-A-H! Likewise B-A-H.
B-A-H, B-A-H!! Then (very sarcas
tically) it might have been a cat, eh?”
Witness: “Well, sir (very apologet
ically), I don’t think it was a cat—It
didn’t say ‘Meow!’”
Attorney: “Come, come, person, I
don’t want to know what you THINK
—how dare you think, anyway?—you
didn’t hang around there to HEAR
whether it said ‘Meow,’ did you?”
Witness: “No, sir (very much
abashed); I admit I didn’t hang
around. Owls make me nervous, any
way!”
Attorney: "I’ve no doubt (sardonic
smfle) they make you nervous! By
the way, person, didn’t one of your
honorable ancestors (profound sar
casm) come over to. this country with
Captain Kidd, the .well-known pi
rate?”
Witness: “Um, oh, I ”
Attorney: “Come* come now, an
swer me; speak right out; tell the
truth, If you CAN; did he?”
Drags Wife Into Mix-Up.
Witness: “I really can not say, sir.
You see that’s been so long ago, and
I wasn’t there', either, and ”
Attorney: “Well, you won’t (more
finger shaking under witness’ nose)
DENY that one of your ancestors
may have been a pirate, will you?”
Witness: “I-er-Kump-can’t say. I’ll
ask my wife w-hen I get home. May
be she knows.”
Attorney: "You’ll ask you wife, wil!
you? Is she your OWN wife?”
Here the Pleasant Lawyer gets up.
and says:
“Your honor, I object to that ques
tion. What has a man’s own wife
got to do with this case?”
His honor doesn’t answer right off
the reel, so the other lawyer jumps
up and withdraws the question.
This makes the witness feel pret
ty good, for he knew he had a wife
when he left home that morning, but
he doubts that he can swear positive
ly to any such circumstance now.
Attorney, beginning cross-examina
tion once more: “Let’s go back to that
owl. What sort of an owl was It. if
(more sarcasm) it WAS an owl?”
Witness: “It LOOKED like a
screech owl.”
Attorney: “Well, a screech owl goes
‘Screech’ and a hoot-owl goes “hoot,”
doesn’t it?”
Witness: “I am riot sure, sir. I
think that’s the w: y it is. I don’t
know much about owls.”
Attorney, shocked almost speech-
PENCIL FACTORY GIRL WHO WILL
TESTIFY FOR THE FRANK DEFENSE
Attacks on Dr. Harris
i
Give Defense Good Day
less: “And here you have been telling
this poor, unprotected, orphaned jury,
these swell, elegant gentlemen. ALL
about owls, and now you say you
don’t know anything about them.”
Witness: “Well. ah. oh, I sup ”
Attorney: “Don’t you know an owl
is a member of the striges family?”
Witness: “Of the Who-ges fam
ily?”
Attorney: “Come, now. don’t get
gay with me, atom. Don’t you know
the owl Is a member of the striges
family?”
Witness: “Never met such a fam
ily. They don’t live on my side of
town.”
Attorney: “Well, if you saw in the
big dictionary that the owl is of such
a family, would you say it was true?”
Witness, perking up a bit: “If I
saw it in the city directory, I might
believe it. but what’s the dictionary
got to do with it?”
Attorney, waxing superlatively sar
castic: “Will you. speck on the face
of creation, kindly permit ME to ask
the questions? All I ask of you is
that you let ME do that, then YOU
answer, if you CAN.”
Then the Pleasant Lawyer gets up
again
It certainly is a relief to a witness
wh£n the P. L. arises to ejeculate a
few broken observations. He is the
only rainbow in sight, once things
get going.
Pleasant Lawyer: “Your honor. 1
submit that the big dictionary Itself
Is the highest evidence of what the
big dictionary says. If the learned
counsel on the other side (great
gobs, clusters and festoons of sar
casm) wishes to know WHAT the
big dictionary says about owls,
screech or otherwise, let him tender
the BIG DICTIONARY, and stop
snarling and beefing at this gentle
manly. talented, honest and excep
tionally bright witness!”
The witness thanks the pleasant
lawyer for them kind words, all right,
for they are the first he has heard in
many hours.
Mean Attorney: “Well, animal,
haver you a big dictionary at home?”
Witness: “No, sir; the one I use
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For 18 years Resinol has been a
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Pleasant lawyer: “Now, then,
your honor, since this accommodating
witness has answered the questions,
I move that the able (withering con
tempt) counsel en the ether side be
required to bring the State Library
into court, or shut off their questions
about owls. I move tp strike from
the record exerything this down
trodden witness has said about owls,,
unless the State Library be brought
over and handed to the Jury for ln-^
spection.”
Mean Attorney: “Doe.^ your honor
mean to tell me—ME—that I mu?l
bring the entire State Library into
court, in order to prove that .an owl
is a. member of the striges family,
merely because this stubborn and
evidently partisan witness will not
say?” *
His honor, sighing, patiently: “Well,
gentlemen, what has this aforesaid
and hereinbefore mentioned owl TO
DO WITH THIS CASE, ANYWAY?”
Mean Attorney, getting red in the
face, probably about to explode with
righteous indignation: “What has It
to DO with the case? Why, your
honor, opposing counsel brought out
the question of owls. Didn’t this
witness, brazenly and with palpa
ble malice aforethought, say to this
grand and magnificent jury that when
he went home last Thanksgiving night
he saw an owl sitting on the back
fence?*’
The Grand Climax.
Pleasant Attorney: “I don’t think
the gentleman said Thanksgiving
night; I think it was Christmas. It
makes a lot of difference in the mat
ter of seeiqg things at night, as your
honor may know, or—er—may have
heard, whether it be Thanksgiving or
Christmas. Besides, he didn’t say' he
saw an owl sitting on the back fence.
He merely said he went home that
night on an owl car.”
Everything about owls.^the owl car
and the back fence is ruled out, and
the Mean Lawyer sits down, evident
ly greatly chagrined and angered.
And the witness?
About all the witness hopes as he
leaves the stand is that his wife at
home—if she's still there—loves him,
anyway, and will continue to think
well of him hereafter, notwithstand
ing the fact that he has been a wit
ness in Atlanta’s most famous mur
der trial.
It makes no difference whatever
which side summons you to testify in
the Frank case, it's tough luck! You
can’t win.
You will be made to wish yow
never had been born before they get
through with you—that’s the surest
thing you know!
SUICIDE BY DYNAMITE.
ALTOONA, PA., Aug. 12.—Placing
two sticks of dynamite in his vest
pocket. Henry Boldt, 55, applied a
match to the fuses and was blown to
pieces.
Augusta to Share
Crop-Moving Fund
AUGUSTA, Aug. 12.—Albert S.
Hatch, president of the Merchants’
Bank and a member of the committee
o* Augusta Clearing House Asso
ciation, sent to Washington to con
fer with Secretary McAdoo, of the
Treasury Department, in regard to
money with which to move the crops,
has returned and announces that Au
gusta spoke fer $600,000, t which she
will, get if she wants it! Hatch said
Augusta could have probably gotten
more had she asked for it.
Georgia J.O.U. A. M.
In Session at Macon
MACON, Aug. 12.—yhe nineteenth
biennial convention of the Junior Or
der of United American Mechan
ics met here to-day with about 150
delegates, representing the various
councils in the State, in attendance.
It Is probable that the next meet
ing will go to Athens, and that Ben
jamin J. Symons, of Savannah, will
be elected councilor to succeed Judge
W. W. Shepard, of Savannah. O. H.
Pucke*t, of Atlanta, state treasurer,
is assured of re-election.
Extra Police to Curb
Thieves Bryan Day
STROUDSBURG, PA., Aug. 12.—
Expecting an unusual representation
of pickpockets when William J. Bryan
makes his Chautauqua address here,
August 28. the borough fathers, at
their regular monthly council meet
ing. have taken decided action.
Secretary Williams was directed to
ask Superintendent Groome to have
the State constabulary here on Bryan
day. The occasion is expected to draw
a larger crowd than any circus day
in the last 25 years.
The defense had what was prob
ably Its best day on Monday. Medi
cal experts were on the witness stand
the larger part of the day.- The pur
pose of their testimony was to knock
down, one after another, the sensa
tional statements of Dr. H. F. Harris,
.^secretary of the State Board of
Health. All of the witnesses Joined
in ridiculing every Important theory
or conclusion that was reached by
the distinguished chemist and physi
cian.
Experts for Defense.
These are the medical experts called
by the defense to combat the testi
mony of Dr. Harris:
Dr. Willis F. Westmoreland, first
preMderit of the Georgia State Board
of Health, and president of the At
lanta College of Physicians and Sur
geons.
Professor George Bachman, demon
strator in physiology at the Atlanta
College of Physicians and Surpeona;
formerly one of the faculty of the
Jefferson Madleal College. Philadel
phia.
Dr. T. H. Hancock, a specialist in
surgical practice.
Dc. J. C. Olmstead, a graduate of
Columbia University, and a practi
tioner in Atlanta for 32 years.
Here Is a summary of Dr. Harris’
theories on the death of Mary Pha-
gan and the consensus of the four
medical experts’ opinions in regard
to the theories:
How Views Clashed.
Mary Phagan came to her death
within half or three-quarters of
an hour of the time she ate her
meal of cabbage and wheat bread
at home. The condition of the
cabbage shows it had been In her
slOmach no longer than that when
death stopped the digestive pro
cesses.
“No man in the world could ex
amine those specimens of cab
bage and tell either from their
condition or from the conditions
found In the stomach of the mur
dered girl ^riir.e days after dearth
within hdurs of \he time that
elapsed between her meal and her
death.”
The wound on the back of the
girl’s head indicates that she was
knocked unconscious and later
strangled to death.
Called Reckless Conjecture.
“From the data at hand. It Is
absolptely impossible to tell that
the wound on the head caused
unconsciousness. It is only a rash
and reckless conjecture.”
Mary Phagan was the victim of
criminal violence other than that
superficially apparent.
“This is the most extraordi
nary surmise that eotrld he im
agined. As a matter at fact, he
could not have told from the con
ditions he says were present that
she was a victim of criminal vio
lence, even if he had made the ex
amination within a few hours af
ter death, instead of nine days
later.”
Dr. Harris not only was buffeted
about on account of his startling the
ories and conclusions, but because of
his conduct in the case. Attorney
Reuben Arnold asked Dr. Westmore
land what he would think of a phy
sician or chemist who was called into
a case like that of the Phagan mur
der; who made the examinations ad
mittedly for th e reason that he “liked
the Solicitor”; who conducted all of
his analyses and experiments in ab
solute secrecy, who had not even a
collaborator to check up on him, and
who saved none of the material for
the u»e of chemists who might be en
gaged by the defense.
Solicitor Dorsey at once made ob
jection to the question.
“I don’t know that the question is
admissible, but it ought to be,” re
torted Arnold. “We w'ish to show
that I>r, Harris violated all of Lh,e
ethics vt hiu *prr )fession, as well as
the pjtu-firiple* pfehemesty and decency
and flguj:ncSte4£ (ball's life Is at stake,
your liftnolf! * ELiA case should not b.e
affected by one man’s word who de
liberate^' flejjtr^iyed all of the ma
terial upon which'he says he bases
his theories.”
Dr. WestmoreJand was permitted
to^ristt'er.*** Tie said:
“it is tlwi.etlMcal Mile that a chem
ist or physfriifn either call in another
expert or flrepertvg “£he specimens x>f
his test.” / !;* J
Solicitor DqTstfy * endeavored *to'
show that Dr. Westmoreland might
be influenced in his testimony by a
breach of professional relations with
,D.r. U&rrip which occurred some time
ago.
Attempts to Show Dislike.
"How is you feeling toward Dr.
Harris?” he asked. “Is it kindly or
unkindly?”
The witness replied that it x is
neither one nor the other.
Asked by Attorney Arnold to go Into
the matter to which the Solicitor re
ferred, Dr. Westmoreland said that he
-had ucctexrad . charges of scientific
dishonest^ against D'r. Harris and
that tb« charges had been found .well
grounded, but -were not regarded ms
stiff!» iently grave to’w&rrant any ac
tion. He thereupon resigned from the
State Board of Health; he said, leav
ing Dr. Harris in hfs position of sec
retary. * • * *'
Joel Htirttor, an t^pert public ac
countant, tpstided Just before ad-
joqxnn^nt,. that U,'* ir.” have taker
fcieo- Franks at d^asw three hours to
make up th*- financial ^sheet and bal
ance his accounts *)rx the day that
Mary Phagan jv^s' murdered.
"That wouldn’t have given him
much time to go to the ball game,
would it?” inquired Attorney Hooper.
It is the theory of the State that
Frank wa* planning to go to the ball
game Saturday afternoon and that-he
compiled practically all of the finan
cial sheet Saturday forenoon. This Is
in opposition to the contention of the
defense that Frank did all of the dif
ficult mathematical work in the aft
ernoon, something be could not have
done had he just committed a brutal
murder.
People’s Cry for Justice Is
Proof Sentiment Still Lives
There is as much sentiment in the
world to-day as there was in 1861
or 1776 or 1492 or 1066 or any other
date that may come to your recollec
tion.
It’s not fashionable to say so, but
it’s true. People to-day are too prone
to accuse themselves and their neigh*
bors of being worshippers of Mam
mon and deMaring that the money-
grubbing instinct has crushed out
sentiment, patriotism and honesty.
\ But right now in Atlanta, there Is
a striking example of the goodness
that man’s to-day, just as much
as it has ever been.
It is the one bright spot in the hid
eous slaying of Mary Phagan and
the terrors of the trial of Leo Frank
More people are interested in the
case probably than in any criminal
action the South has ever known.
They are thrilled by it, for they knew
that the officers of the law and- the
Government of the State are spend
ing thousands of dollars to find the
man guilty of her murder and punish
him.
Had Mary Phagan been of a promi
nent hou^, had she been wealthy,
had her family or friends been in
fluential there would *be no room for
comment.
The cynic could say, “Oh, she was
a rich girl, what chance would there
be for a child of the masses?”
But the Phagan case gives this the
lie.
Mary Phagan’s family Is not
wealthy. It is not prominent. It is
not influential. *
And still the great public has Mrimn
By L. F. WOODRUFF.
with a demand that can be heard the
length and breadth of the nation that
ber .slayer be found and punished.
Had Mary Phagan been a princess
of Peachtree instead of Just a little
Atlanta girl—as' good as she‘.■was
pretty—who l^ad to struggle to. p^ake
her living, the sentiment would not
have been half so fervid.
The sympathy that has gone, out
to her and her family is a lasting
proof of Atlanta’s and the South’s de-
“Poor Old Dad/’ Poem
Touches Ham Lewis
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.—Senator
James Hamilton Lewis isn’t the Lewis
who Is advocating a "Father’s Day.”
although hundreds of correspondents
think he is; but— ,
He has received a copy of a song
from a man in Decatur, Ill., entitled
“Poor Old Dad.” The chorus ran:
No. it isn’t meant to slight him,
But it looks a little sad;
All the bouquets made for Mother,
Not a bloom for Poor Old Dad,
‘Poor Old Dad!” sighed Senator,
mocraey.
Lewis. “Now I know
something for him.”
we must do
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900 Young Women
Ask to Join Army
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
PARIS. Aug/l2.—The War Minister
has received a petition from 900 young
Frenchwomen who ask, to be allowed
to Join the army in the auxiliary
services.
They declare they are prepared to
submit absolutely to military disci
pline. adding that their dearest hope
is to consecrate part of their youth to
France, and thus co-operate with
their brethren in the national de
fense.
$6 WRIGHTSVILLE
BEACH
Round trip Saturday, August
23. Special train, sleepers and
coaches. Leave Old Depot 6 p. m.
SEABOARD.
Davison-Paxon-Stokes Co.
475 New White Skirts
in a Special Sale To
morrow at - - -
They Are $1 to $2 Skirts
Brand-new, every one of them—they will go into stock for the
first time—for this special sale Wednesday—and they are such good
skirts that not many who see them will let pass the opportunity to buy
two, three or a half dozen . 0, ...
They are beautifully made in about six stylish models, some with
side inserts or plaits, all button-trimmed. The material is good pique,
in wide and medium welts.
All sizes too—so that even very stout women may share this
economy. . The sizes are—22 to 36 waist, and 36 to 44 length.
Regular $1.00 to $2.00 Skirts—for your selection Wed
nesday at 85c each.
Women's Apparel Section—Fourth Floor,