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VIL. XII. NO. 10.
ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1913.
Copyright. 1906,
By The Georgian Co.
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Conley Admitted Mind Was Blank Day of Crime, Girl Says
National Guard Command to Obey
Lieutenant Governor — Execu
tive Told of Impeachment.
ALBANY, N. Y., Aug, 14.—Formal
nptice was served on Governor Wil
liam Sulzer to-day that he had been
impeached by the New York State
Assembly i*r “high crimes and mis
demeanors," lnoluding the alleged use
of money contributed to his campaign
for speculation in Wall street.
At the same time the bitter fight
between Governor Sulzer and Lieu
tenant Governor Martin H. Glynn for
control of the Great Seal of the State
waxed more bitter. Acting Adjutant
General E. V. Howard, replying to re
ports that Governor Sulzer would call
out the national guard if necessary to
keep possession of the Executive
Mansion, declared that he recognizes
Mr. Glynn as the constitutional Gov
ernor of the Commonwealth and
would respect any orders signed by
the Lieutenant Governor. This ren-
1 ders Governor Sulzer helpless so far
as the military is concerned.
Mrs. Sulzer Is Prostrated.
Official notice fo quit the duties of
Governor was tendered to Governor
Sulzer by Patrick H. McCabe, of the
Senate. Mrs. Sulzer, who is pros
trated over the attack made upon her
husband's honesty, was in serious
. condition to-day. Doctors were rush
ed from New York City to attend her.
Accompanied by a bodyguard of
strong-arm men. Governor Sulzer
walked from the Executive Mansion
to the Capitol shortly before noon.
Asked for a statment, he said:
“Not a word. I am now in the
hands of my counsel."
A special detail of policemen also
was provided for the Governor's
safety.
Await Ruling of Court.
Governor Sulzer told friends he
would not relinquish the reins of
power until removed by the Court of
Impeachment, composed of the Sen
ate and a majority of the judges of
the State Court of Appeals, whirh will
sit September 18.
A number of friends greeted the
Governor after he arrived at the
Capitol. In answer to inquiries about
the condition of Mrs, Sulzer. he said:
“Mrs. Sulzer is seriously ill. We are
gravely concerned. She has been
hysterical and during the night was
in a state of nervous collapse."
In spite of this pathetic feature
the political enemies of the Gover-
t nor did not lessen their efforts. Qn
the Other hand, it seemed that the
bitterness had increased.
With the'details of the actual serv
ice of the Governor out of the way,
everybody settled back to watch the
fight for the possession of the office
, of Governor.
President Sends No
Message to Sulzer.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 14.—The
White House has sent no word either
or advice or sympathy to Governor
Sulzer in the present crisis in his ca
reer. Rumors that the President was
interfering in the situation met a
strong denial to-day.
CLASSMATES OF
TESTIFY HIS
R. A. WRIGHT
Anderson Accused of Having Ex
ceeded His Authority—Rules
Committee Also Scored.
Dies From Well Gas
Saving Friend's Life
DALTON. Aug. 14.—Volunteering to
go to the assistance of Jim Seay, wh )
had been overcome by gas while
cleaning a well on the Looper farm
south of here. E. A. Harden, an age i
farmer, gave up his own life after
saving that of his friend.
Harden entered the well and suc
ceeded in tying a rope around Seay’s
body before he himself was overcome.
g eav was hauled to safety, but no one
volunteered to go after Harden until
Ilf. was extinct.
$200,000 BANK SHORTAGE.
TRENTON. N- J-. Aug. 14.—The Rose
vine Trust Company, of Roseville. N.
j w as ordered closed by the State
banking department to-day. A short
age of $200,000 is reported.
Charging that President Randolph
Anderson has usurped power as pre
siding officer of the State Senate, and
charging further that the Senate
Rules Committee, which is appointed
by the President, is*a "fraud and a
cheat and a swindle on the public,”
Fred Kea. Senator from the Sixteenth
District, Thursday declared he would
rise to a question of personal privi
lege to state his charges when the
Senate convenes for its final session
at 3 o’clock.
Senator Kea declared that the Rules,
or Steering Committee has deliberate
ly blocked bills through the efforts of
the “city lawyers” which compose Its
membership.
Here are the charges as stated by
Senator Kea:
I charge the President of the
Senate with usurping power, and
I back up the charge with a state
ment made to me by a member of
the House to the effect that Pres
ident Anderson made statements
to one member of the Houes that
if a certain member voted against
the kindergarten bill that he
would see that that member did
not pass any bill by the Senate.
I further charge that he, Ander
son, took Senate Bill No. 66 after
it had been reported by the com
mittee that it do pass, and held it
up for the third reading more
than two weeks on the pretense
that he desired to make some
minor changes in said bill. But
under this pretense he without
authority referred the bill back to
the committee, which had no au
thority to act on same, and by
undermining they killed it.
I charge that the Rules Com
mittee is a fraqd and a cheat and
swindle on the public. I back up
this charge with the fact that the
Rules Committee is composed en
tirely of corporation lawyers with
the exception of one or two, there
for giving the farmer no repre
sentative in that important body,
wriich steers much of the legisla
tion which goes through the Sen
ate.
As a result of the fact that this
body is made up of corporation
lawyers, w r ith the exception of one
or two and the farmer having no
represenetation, many measures
purporting to help the farmer
have been Choked out of existence
during the present session.
I further charge that Senate
Bill No. 87, which I presented in
the Senate at the beginning of the
session, has been ready for the
third reading since July 17. but
has been blocked by this same
Rules Committee.
Hart Appointment
Indorsed by House
A resolution indorsing Governor
Slaton’s appointment of John C.
Hart as Tax Commissioner was in
troduced into the House Thursday
morning by Judge Hopkins, of Thom
as, and passed unanimously.
The resolution sets forth that "it
is the opinion of the House that no
more judicious appointment could
have been made,” and that "the house
do congratulate the Governor and the
people of Georgia upon this most ex
cellent appointment.”
$100,000 Offered by .
Griffith for Ty Cobb
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.—One
hundred thousand dollars has been of
fered by Clark ^Griffith, manager of
the Washington baseball club, for the
release of Tyrus Cobb, of the Detroit
club.
This is the world's record price foi
a baseball player, and it is even said
that if the Detroit club turns down
the offer Griffith will Increase the
figure. Griffith says that with Cobb
he can win the pennant. *
War on Misbranded
Soft Drinks Opened
W.H,Locke, President
Of “Phillies,” Is Dead
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Aug. 14.-—
William H.. Locke, president of the ITilV-
adelphia baseball ebjh, of the National
League, died here to-day. He was ill
several months.
Locke formerly was secretary of the
Pittsburg club, of the National League,
and took over the executive position
with the Philadelphia club after Horace
Fogel, former president, was deposed.
Glacier in Nevada,
24 Years Old, Melts
RENO, NEV., Aug. 14.—For the
first time since 1889 and for the
fourth time in 50 years, the snow has
disappeared entirely from the north
eastern slope of Mount Rose’s sum
mit.
For the first time in 24 years the
glacier of solid ice that has remained
visible throughout the summer, had
disappeared to-day.
RICH DECATUR MAN
SUICIDE BY POISON
WASHINGTON. Auk. 14 — In an ft-
fort to protect the public from mis
branded products the Department of
Agriculture has assailed certain .soda
fountain drinks.
Announcement of judgment against
a consignment of orangeade was made
to-day. The product, shinned by a
Chicago concern and branded ' or
angeade,” was discovered to be made
of a solution of invert sugar and
tartaric acid, artificially colored.
Mrs. John Astor Joins
Sunday Dance Antis
NEWPORT, Aug. 14.-Mrs. John
Astor let her guests* go at 11:59 o’clock
Saturday* night, so they could not
dance on Sunday, and thus joined
forces with Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish to
stop. Sunday dancing at Newport.
But there are those who entertain
w'ho will dance Sunday or any other
time, as did the Sidney Colford guests
Saturday night at the Clambake Club,
which extended into Sunday.
A. J. Grubb, a wealthy contractor
and builder, living at the old Mell
homestead, No. 1508 DeKalb avenue,
North Decatur, committed suicide
shortly before noon Thursday by tak
ing strychnine. He had been despond
ent for several days over business af
fairs and also was in failing health.
His favorite sister. Mr«. Sophia
Smith, died Tuesday, and this seemed
to affect Grubb deeply.
The funeral Of Mrs. Smith was held
Thursday morning, but Grubb said
that he did not feel well and would
not attend. Harvey Grubb, his 19-
year-old son, worrying about his fa
ther, also stayed awaty from the fu
neral services.
About 10 o'clock Mr. Grubb went to
a drug store near his home and pur-
Self-Administered
Drug Kills Doctor
SELMA, 'Aug. 14.—Dr. John W.
Fielder, aged 27, a prominent physi
cian of Benton, Ala., died in the Sel
ma Hospital from an overdose of
strychnine administered hyperderm.-
cally in his own arm. The hospital
physician says he was dead in fifteen
minutes after injecting the poison.
It is beiieved self-destruction was
Benton a purpose. He is said to have
been addicted to the drug habit. He
leaves a young wife.
.chased a vial of strychnine, stating
that he wished to poison a dog. Short
ly after he returned to the house, his
son Harvey w'as aroused by groans
issuing from Mr Grubb’s bedroom.
Rushing into the room. Harvey found
his father wTithing on the bed. He at
once called the' Grady Hospital, and
an ambulance made a record run to
the Grubb home. It was too late,
however, as Mr. Grubb died in his
son’s arms a few moments before the
ambulance arrived.
Mr. Grubb was one of the pioneer
citizens of North Decatur, and had
been a successful business man. He
is survived by his wife, Mrs. Eliza
beth Grubb; one daughter, Mrs. H.
Pierce, and four sons, Jack, Harvey,
William and Claude Grubb.
Mississippi Town to
Have Policewoman
Calls Sunbath Best
Tuberculosis Cure
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, Aug. 14.—The virtues of
the sunbath cure, or heliotherapeu-
tics, were sung by Dr. Rollier, of
Leysin, at the Medical Congress to
day. This treatment, he snid, cures
external forms of tuberculosis of
every variety at all degrees and all
ages.
The direct action of the sun and
air, h® as^rted, is the most energetic
tonic. It also reduces pain, forms a
powerful microbe-killing agent, and
conduces most powerfully to the
growth of new skin.
Wilson Halts Move
To Delay Money Act
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.—Presi
dent Wilson to-day sent word to the
Democratic Senators at the Capital
through Secretary Tumulty that ie
was opposed to any Congressional
recess which would postpone consid
eration of the currency bill until Oc
tober 14 or November 1.
Word was brought back to the
White House that the President’s
wishes would be followed.
The President views the proposed
recess as a menace to the passage
of any currency legislation. He be
lieves the rece-is talk was instigated
by the minority.
Have Cheer! Worst
of Summer Is Over!
Here’s comfort for perspiring Atlanta
Accusing to Forecaster Von Herr
mann. the hottest weather of the sum
mer is past and the remainder of Au
gust and September will be cool and
pleasant He says the summer of 1913
has nut been a record-breaker for heat.
Wednesday night was cool, the Gov
ernment thermometer registering 74 de
grees at 7 o'clock Thursday morning
Fair weather Thursday nigh®
Friday is forecast.
and
Dr. W. L. Pickard to
Preach in Atlanta
MERIDIAN, MISS.. Aug. 14.—The
Co-operative Purity League of Merid
ian has made application to City
Council for the appointment of a
woman police officer to afford better
protection foY young girls.
The application will be granted.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia—Generally fair Thurs
day and Friday.
Miss Helen Curran, a pretty girl of 17 years, proved
one of the strongest witnesses Thursday for the defense
in establishing what will be claimed as an alibi for Leo
M. Frank. She testified that she saw Frank at 1:10
o’clock the afternoon Mary Phagan was murdered stand
ing by Jacobs’ Drug Store, Whitehall and Alabama
streets, apparently waiting for his car home.
The State fought hard against the “alibi” wit
nesses.
The defense devoted most of the forenoon session to produc
ing persons who had seen Frank on the day of the tragedy. Miss
Curran was probably the most important as she was the only one
who professed to have seen Frank immediately after the time he
has stated he left the factory.
Others were called who saw him as he arrived home at about
1:20 o’clock, or as he was on his way back to the factory later in
the afternoon. It was the purpose of Frank's lawyers, so far a3
they could, to account for every minute of his time furing the day.
Appreciating that the case of the State against the defendant
was hit by Miss Curran’s story, Attorney Frank A. Hooper made
a determined effort to confuse or break down the young witness,
but failed to shake her in the least.
The significance of the girl's testimony is apparent in the light
of Jim Conley 's story. The negro said he and Frank started to
dispose of Mary Phagan's body at 12:56. Allowing two minutes
for Frank to get from the factory to Whitehall and Alabama
streets, he-would have had to leave the building at 1:08. This
would have left* but 12 minutes for the two to dispose of the body
and do everything else the negro mentioned.
Conley testified that
Dr. W. L. Pickard, of Savannah, one
of the best known pulpit orators in the
South, will preach at the First Baptist
Church, Peachtree and Cain streets, at
11 a. m. and 8 p. m. next Sunday. The
subject in the morning will be "The
Love of God." and in the evening "Own
ing the Earth. ’
Dr. Pickard is a native Georgian, pas
tor of the First Baptist Church. Savan
nah, and a member of the hoard of
trustees of Mercer University.
FIRST GAME POSTPONED.
Rain prevented the first game of the
double-header between the Crackers and
Lookouts at Ponce DeLeon Park this
afternoon. It was announced that the
second scheduled •'onteyt would start at
3:45 o’clock, weather and grounds per
mining.
e was
in the closet in Frank’s office
eight minutes. This would have
reduced the remaining time to
four minutes. Part of this was
occupied in writing the notes,
Conley says.
Thirty-two Minutes to
Dispose of Body.
If the negro could have written
the foifb notes in two minutes, two
minutes would have been left for the
disposal of the body. But Harry
Scott, Pinkerton detective, said that
Conley took six or seven minutes in
writing one test note exactly like
the shorter note that was found by
the slain girl’s body. The defense
contended that this, in view of Miss
Curran’s testimony, puts Conley’s
story in the realm of the impossi
ble.
Miss Curran said that she lived at
No. 160 Ashby street and that she
knew Frank from trying to get a
position as stenographer at the fac
tory one time. She said that on the
day she saw Frank she had an ap
pointment to meet a girl friend at
Jacobs’ store at 1:15. She left
Kress’ store at 1:05, she testified, and
had been at Jacobs’ only a short time
when she observed Frank.
Attorney Hooper brought out the
fact that her father is employed by
Montag Bros., who also are interested
in the pencil factory. He asked her
at one point in his examination:
Miss Rebecca Carson, called pri
marily as un alibi witness, told of
uspicious conversations and actions
of the negro Jim Conley.
No. Miss Rebecca, I wasn’t at the
factory Saturday. I was so drunk
that I don’t know what 1 did or where
I was,” she testified that Conley said
when she asked him on the Monday
after the crime if he had heen in the^ from the courtroom because of the
fondant well and that they knew his
character to be very good.
Sig Montag of Montag Bros.,
treasurer of the National Pencil Com
pany. told of his part in the hiring
of the Pinkertons and of Frank’s de
meanor the Sunday the body of the
girl was found. He testified, in refu
tation of Jim Conleys’ story about
watching at the front door at the di
rection of Frank, that the first floor
on occasions of which Conley told
was the property of the Clark Wood
en ware Company, and that it was
used by the pencil company only as
an entrance.
Montag was asked by Dorsey just
before he left the stand if he tried
several times to hire a horse and bug
gy the afternoon of April 26 from W,
D. Brown, a West End liveryman.
The witness said he had not.
"Don’t you know that Kress’ store
was closed all of Saturday afternoon,
April 26?”
"It wasn't closed at the time I went
in there in the afternoon.” she replied.
The attorney also sought to show
that the crowds were so dense that
afternoon that she would not have
been likely to see Frank.
Miss Curran was the first of a Ion?
string of alibi witnesses for Fran!:.
Still others are to be called to present*
to the jury a record of the defend
ant’s every movement throughout the
day so far as it is known.
Important Battle
Lost by Defense.
An important battle was lost by the
defense in the Frank trial Thursday
in the over-ruling of Luther Rosser's
motion for the expunging of Solicitor
Dorsey’s questions of the day before
• relating to Frank alleged acts of im-
I morality.
The defeat of Attorney Rosser came
immediately after Solicitor Dorsey
had failed in an attempt to have '
Frank’s mother and wife excluded
factory at the time the murder was
ommltted.
She also said that Conley had ap
peared greatly startled when Mrs.
Carson, her mother, had said in his
presence that she thought they would
And the murderer when they found
the negro that Mrs. Arthur White saw
at the foot of the stairs.
Two more character witnesses. Har
ry E. Lewis, of Brooklyn, formerly
the District Attorney of New York,
and Herbert I^asher, of Fleischmans
N. Y., a classmate of Frank’s at Cor
nell, testified that they knew the de
elder woman’s sensational outburst of
the afternoon before, when she dra
matically denounced the Solicitor for
his charge of grossly improper Con
duct against her son, the defendant.
Judge Rorfn refused the motion of
the Solicitor, but said that he would
refuse them admission if another out
break of the sort took place.
With the preliminary skirmishes of
the day settled, the defense set out
with great minuteness to complete its
record of Frank’s movement®
throughout the day of the crime
Miss Helen Curran, No. 160 Ashby