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- STATE FIGHTS FRANK’ ALIBI Mind PHILIP NASH. FRANK HERE TO CHARACTER IS GOOD always FIRST ® <fl> The SUNDA Y AMERICAN Order it NOW^ .— Both Phones Main 100 The Atlanta Georgian. Read for Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use for Results VIL. XII. NO. 10. ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1913. Copyright. 1906, By The Georgian Co. 2 CENTS. ' m a TT° HOME EDITION +•*!• -f*® v •F#4* i ^*•4* +•+ +•+ +•+ *!’#+ d-#n- l*l* *f***|* +•+ 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