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The Atlanta Georgian.
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VOL. XII.
NO. 9.
ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1913.
Copyright 1906,
By The Georgian Co.
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Leaps to Defense of Son at Dorsey's Question
BATTLE TO
SULZER
WOK
Deserted by Friends, He Waits
Through the Night, Com
forted by Wife.
ALBANY, Aug. 13.—The
Court of Impeachment will
meet at the Capitol Septem
ber 18 at noon.
ALBANY. N. Y., Aug. 13.—Gov-
trnor William Sulzer was impeached
by the New York Assembly to-day by
i vote of 79 to 45. The specific charge
In the indictment of “high crimes and
'misdemeanors'' was that he used
moneys cohirilftited to hW campaign
for speculation in Wall street. The
vote was taken at 5:15 o’clock after
a night of acrimonious debate.
Wall street has claimed many vic
tims, both high and low, but few
cases have afforded a more pathetic
spectacle than that of Governor Sul-
ier, standing alone after having
fought his way up the political lad
der through fifteen years or more
of grueling battle.
To controvert 'evidence produced by
the Frawley legislative committee,
which showed that Governor Sulzer
had used money contributed to his
campaign for stock speculation, Mrs.
Sulzer, was prepared to go upon the
stand to testify that she indorsed her
husband's name to checks without his
knowledge and used them for stock
purchases. Flven this noble wifely
sacrifice, declared the Governor’s op
ponents. would not save him from po
litical annihilation when the impeach
ment proceedings are actually begun
by the managers appointed by the as
sembly.
Friends Make Hard Fight.
Governor Sulzer’s friends, includ
ing Republicans, Democrats and one
lone Progressive, made a spirited
fight, but the antagonists wer? strong
in numbers and logic and were able
to prevail.
While the all-night battle raged
Governor Sulzer remained alone in
the the executive mansion, "the peo
ple’s house,” as he called it, refusing
to see any one or to be seen. Com
forted only by his wife he remained
in lpnely vigil until after dawn, when
a messenger informed him that he
had been impeached. Tears streamed
down the Governor's face when he
heard the news.
k Governor Sulzer will be tried by the
Senate and a majority of the judges
of the State Court of Appeals, the
evidence being presented against him
by managers appointed by the Assem
bly.
Directly after the vote had been
taken in the Assembly, Speaker
Smith appointed Assemblymen Van-
Woert, Cole and Bradley to inform
the Senate officially of the impeach-
ment.
Speaker Smith announced also that
no time would be lost in preparing the
articles of impeachment for presen
tation to the court, but Mr. Sulzer
has twenty days in which to prepare
his defense.
Shunned in Hour of Trial.
The articles of impeachment will
be drawn up by Assembleymen Levy
of New York, Deitz of Brooklyn, Kel
ly of Dutchess County, Daley of
Onondaga County and Bryant of
Genesee County. Air. Bryant is a Re
publican. the others are Democrats.
After this committee had been ap
pointed there was a conference in the
office of Senator Frawley, chairman
the committee which investigated
fhe Governor. Efforts to get word
from Mr. Sulzer, however, were un
availing. In the darkened executive
chambers Mr. Sulzer restlessly paced
up and down. One wild report was
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Soldier Held for
Attempted Attack
PENSACOLA, Aug. 13.—Jack Gord,
a soldier from Fort Barrancas, is be-
in?? held in irons at the navy yard
charged with attempting to attack a
prominent young woman at Warring
ton. No warrant has been issued for
him, although the United States Dis
trict Attorney is now investigating
the matter. It is claimed the soldier
went to the room of the young wo
man in his stocking feet and wearing
no coat or shirt. When the young
woman screamed, the soldier ran and
Deputy Game Warden Chapman
knocked him down with a brick. The
clothing of Gord was found down
stairs.
The soldier denies all charges,
claiming that his clothes had been
stolen and that he went Into the
room upstairs in order not to expose
himself improperly clad.
Carmack Trial Nears
Finish at Opelika
OPELIKA, Aug. 13.—It is probable
that the trial of Homer Carmack,
which began Tuesday afternoon, will
be concluded by noon Thursday. Car
mack Is charged with murdering J.
J. Folke, an aged Phoenix City mer
chant, on Sunday night June 22.
The State is represented by Solici
tor C. A. L. Samford, of the Law’ and
Equity Court of Lee County, assisted
by his brother, T. D. Samford, while
the defense is being represented by C.
A. Hayes, of Phenix City, and Judge
A. E. Barnett, of Opelika. Judge Lum
Duke is the trial judge.
Former Neighbor
Of C.BJDalton,Who
Attacks Character
Indorses Hearst's Sunday Ameri
can Trail-Blazing Trip Through
Dixie to San Francisco.
Victims of Promoter
Found in Many States
GADSDEN, Aug. 13.—Cashier Boh-
lin, of the Fort Payne bank, testified
to-day that E. C, Drew, the oil well
promoter on trial here for using the
mail to defraud, had deposited $19,000
In the bank between January 1 1912,
and the present date. It was a lap
shown he had deposited $6,000 in a
bank at Collinsville.
The money was secured from in
vestors, the largest amount from any
one person being $1,000, which Mrs.
Belcher, residing in Maine, had sent.
Drew’s alleged victims are found in
many States.
Feud of Gamblers
Cause of Killing
BIRMINGHAM, Aug. 13.—That the
killing of W. Louie (Pat) Roney by
Ed Ellis on one of the principal
streets of Birmingham on the night
of July 31 was a chapter of a feud
among gamblers was brought out in
the preliminary hearing, which has |
been concluded, Ellis being released
on $2,500 bond.
Louie Smith, a partner of Ellis,
was killed in Montgomery by Roney.
Smith had killed Brooks Fuller, an
other gambler, some months before.
Boy Shoots Matches
From Air Gun; Fire
EUFAULA, Aug. 13.—Mrs. H. C !
Reynolds was seriously burned about '
the hands and face to-day in trying to j
extinguish a burning mosquito net j
and save her home from destruction.
Mrs. Reynolds’ son. Henry Rey
nolds, was shooting matches from an
airgun when one of them struck the
iron bed, ignited and set fire to the
net, which started a big flame.
Board of Examiners
For Trained Nurses
TALLAHASSEE. Aug. 13.—Under
the provisions of a 1913 legislative act
providing for the State registration
of nurses, Governor Park Trammell
has appointed the following trained
nurses as members of the State Board
of Examiners:
Miss Anna Davids, of Miami; Miss
N. B. Prewitt, of Tampa; Miss Irene
M. Foote, of Jacksonville; Miss Maud
Yothers, of Orlando; and Miss Anna
L. Rutherford, of St. Augustine.
REV. C. E. WHEAT WILL RECOVER
GRIFFIN. GA., Aug. 13.—The Rev.
C. E. Wheat, rector of St. Georges
Episcopal Church, who was stricken
with ptomaine poisoning last Sat
urday. continues in a very critical
condition, but his physicians state
that the crisis has passed and that he
will recover.
A resolution offered by Senator Mc
Neill. of the Twenty-second, indors
ing the campaign inaugurated by
Hearst’s Sunday American in co-op
eration with other leading Southern
newspapers to blaze an all-Southern
highway from Atlanta to San Fran
cisco, waft passed unanimously by
the Senate Wednesday morning.
In offering the resolution Senator
McNeill declared that the proposed
campaign undoubtedly meant much
not only for Georgia, but for the whole
South, as it will afford a direct road
from the East to the South and thence
to the Pacific Coast, where the great
Panama-Pacific Exposition will be
held in 1915.
“I offer this resolution for the ln-
iorsement of the Senate,” said the
Senator, "because the campaign is
an effort to increase interest in good
roads and highways in additions to
affording a route from New York to
the Pacific,Coast through the South.
The campaign is featured by the fact
that it will not cost the State of
Georgia one cent.”
Senate Resolution in Full.
The resolution adopted by the Sen
ate follows:
Resolved, That whereas the
campaign inaugurated by Hearst’s
Sunday American in co-operation
with other leading Southern
newspapers for an all-Southern
transcontinental highway from
Atlanta to San Francisco will
mean much for the promotion of
good roads in Georgia as well as
better facilities for the inter
change of farm products between
different States, this Senate does
hereby indorse this movement,
thereby encouraging the senti
ment and interest for better roads
and highways.
The Senate indorsement of the cam
paign followed fast on the heels of the
indorsement of Governor John M. Sla
ton, who declared Tuesday that no
better sign of the progress of the
people could be had than just such
movements as this one.
Other prominent citizens, including
Shelby Smith, County Commissioner,
also have placed their hearty stamp
of approval on the project.
In fact, interest in the proposed
tour has exceeded the fondest e pec-
tations of the good roads and high
way boosters, who are leaving no
stone unturned to make the trans
continental path-finding tour a suc
cess in every particular.
Pathfinder Arrange* Details.
Perhaps the busiest of the boosters
is "Pathfinder” Ferguson, who will
conduct the big campaign. Mr. Fer
guson arrived in Atlanta last Satur
day, and since that time he has gone
into every detail of th« first lap of
the Journey from Atlanta to Birming
ham. Scarcely a single detail of the
"official” start, which will be made
next Monday, has been overlooked
The pathfinders have their road maps
in readiness and the Atlanta boosters
who will have the parade in hand
have announced "ready.”
The parade will be one of the larg
est ever witnessed in Atlanta. Amon:
those who will participate will be the
Chief of Police, the Fire Chief, vari
ous city officials and other prominent
citizens. Mr. Ferguson will go direct
to Anniston, Ala., from Atlanta and
thence to Birmingham, the first "offi
cial” stopping place. The proposed
route extends through Birmingham,
Montgomery, New Orleans, Dallas,
Houston, San Diego, Los Angeles to
San Francisco.
Crowd Flees as Flames Near the
Ammunition Room Over Taft
Hall—Damage Heavy.
Rapidly making toward the room
where many thousand rounds of am
munition were stored, fire did several
thousand dollars' worth of damage in
the storeroom of the ajrmory over Taft
V. S. Cooper,
farmer of
Walton County,
who testifies he
would not
believe Dalton
on oath.
Cooper’s son
.at, on his knee
while the father
was on stand.
Death Answers an
Invitation to Speak
GADSDEN. Aug 13.—When the
Etowah County Veterans’ reunion
opened here to-day it developed that
the late Senator Joseph F. Johnston
had been invited to make an address
Senator Johnston died before mak-
ingZ-response to the mviLaLu*^*
Hall in the Auditorium early Wednes
day afternoon.
The main auditorium was not touch
ed, however. The blaze did not get
within 100 yards of the huge organ.
The fire was discovered by Sergeant
Wardwell, of the Artillery Corps, who
happened to be In the basement at
the time. Smoke came down the ele
vator shaft and he rushed upstairs
into the office of H. J. Weaver, the
keeper of the building. They hurried
to the upper floor and discovered
smoke coming out of the storeroom
in which the tents of Companies C
and D are kept. An alarm was turn
ed In and several companies re
sponded.
Firemen Find Door* Locked.
It required several minutes for the
firemen to gain entrance into the room
on account of the door being locked.
The armory is on the top floor and it
was necessary to use an aerial truck
and enter through the window. The
firemen were driven back for some
time by the heavy smoke from the
burning tents and were compelled to
play several streams on them f »r more
than half an hour.
The tents which were burned were
used in the recent encampment at St.
Simons Island, and it is qu’ r « proba
ble that the fire had smoldered for
several days. The loss to the National
Guard will amount to several thou
sand dollars.
It required but a few moments for
the room to fill with water to a depth
of more than two feet, the fl>e bring
unusually hard to quench on account
ot the waterproof tents, and having
started In the center of a huge pile <>f
canvas.
Plastering Loosened. *
The water seeped through the fi' or
and the ceiling over Taft Hall, loos
ening the piaster there, while a neuvy
stream flowed down th»- stairways in
to the great lobby. When the fire
was extinguished the firemen under
took the task of baling out the store
room. using large galvanized tuba lor
woik.
TAX BILL IS PASSED
AFTER HARD BATTLE
If Representatives Sheppard of
Sumter County and Stovall of Elbert
County stand by their guns during
tiie two remaining sessions of the
Legislature, a determined fight to in
duce the House to reconsider its ac
tion in passing the Senate tax revi
sion bill, providing for a State Tax
Commissioner and county boards of
assessors, will be inaugurated Wed
nesday or Thursday.
Both Mr. Stovall and Mr. Sheppard
made strenuous efforts to get the
floor immediately after the passage
of the bill with a motion to reconsid
er, but were ruled out of order at
their first attempt by Speaker Bur-
well. Then Ed Wohlwender, of Mus
cogee, stepped into the breach with
one of his filibusters, and their op
portunity was gone. They have served
notice on the House, however, that
they will make a motion to reconsid
er at the earliest possible opportunity
Friends of the measure, however,
who passed it after one of the most
spectacular fights in the history of
Georgia, declare that they have no
fear that the efforts of Mr. Sheppard
and Mr. Stovall will succeed. Backed
by the approbation of Governor Sla
ton, who Issued a statement Tuesday
night that the House deserved the
thanks of the State, they have ao
fear that their work will be destroyed
during the short remaining time of
the session.
Several members who voted against
the tax bill declared Wednesday
moaning that in v : ew of their friend
ship for the administration they will
no; support a motion to recor.sid o r.
pen though it Lome from Sheppard
and Stovall, rec^mzed leaders of the
Mrs. Rae Frank, mother of Leo Frank, caused a dramatic scene in court Wed
nesday afternoon by rising in her chair and denouncing Solicitor Dorsey as he was
making charges of grossl yimproper conduct on the part of Frank with young girls
in his factory.
The Solicitor was asking Ashley Jones, an insurance man, if he had ever
heard of a story that Frank had taken certain liberties
with one of the girls at the factory c mfwcympfwy ..’.
with one of the factory girls, giving her name.
Mrs. Frank goaded into hysteria by the accusa
tions against her son, rose, trembling with fury, from
her chair, and shrieked:
"No, nor you either!”
She shook her finger at the Solicitor and would have continued
had she not been restrained by her relatives and court attaches.
Frank himself sought to calm her, and the younger Mrs. Frank
joined in the efforts to quiet the older woman.
"We will have to listen to these slanderous lies and calumies
and this scurrilous defamation as long as the trial lasts,’’ said
Attorney Arnold. "It is outrageous, but we may as well meet it
calmly.”
Mrs. Frank was led from the room hysterically weeping.
Pantomime Is Described.
Dr. Owens told of the re-enacting by himself and three other
men of Jim Conley’s story of the disposal of Mary Phagan’s body,
j The testimony went in over the vigorous protest of Solicitor
Dorsey.
Dr. Owens said that one of the men acted the part of Conley
and another of Frank.. The other two men were timers. It re
quired eighteen and one-half minutes to take the supposed body
to the basement from the office floor and return to Frank’s office,
going through all of the movements described by Conley and re
peating all of the conversation Conley quoted in his statement. 1
This did not include the time spent in Frank's office where the';
i negro said the notes were written.
Attorney Hooper gave Owens a long cross-examination to
demonstrate that the re-enactment of Conley’s story could not b«
taken as an accurate measure of the time required for the disposal
of the body.
Attorney Arnold again threatened to move for a mistrial when
the Solicitor began his cross-examination of Jones.
Dorsey asked Jones if he had not heard of Frank holding
young girls on his lap in his office and taking other liberties with
them.
"That is outrageous," shouted Arnold. "I shall move for a
mistrial if such a question is asked again. It is most unjust and
prejudicial that the gossip of crack-brained extremists should
be allowed to come before this jury.
Dorsey Promises to Back Charges.
"I’m not four-flushing,” retorted the Solicitor. “I’ll bring wit
nesses here to prove all I have charged.”
Jones said that as an insurance man he had the most favorable
reports of Frank’s character, and that he had never heard any of
the reports of immorality and improper conduct.
Solicitor Dorsey spent two hours Wednesday afternoon trying
to break down the story of Lemmie Quinn, foreman of the metal
dpeartment at the National Pencil Factory.
Quinn had testified that "he visited the office of Leo Frank at
12:20 or 12:25 the day the Phagan girl was murdered.
Dorsey with all his might sought to raise the suspicion in the
minds of the jurors that Quinn either was not at the factory at all
or that he came there much earlier than he testified.
He asked the witness if he had not told Policeman Payne that
"he was glad he had not been in the factory the day the girl was
killed, ’ ’ and if he had not also denied it to Detectives Starnes and
Black. Quinn denied that this was true.
"Isn’t it true,” asked the Solicitor, "that you never said
anything to anyone about having been in the factory on Saturday
until after you had a conference with Frank, although you were
with the officers off and on all day the Monday following the
crime?’’
Quinn acknowledge this was true. Quinn had explained this
weeks ago on the ground that the police were at that time arrest
ing every one and he did not want to be involved.
Three witnesses were produced by the defense to testify to
Frark’s good character. When the first one was called Solicitor
Dorsey objected, saying:
"I don’t see how thi* testimony is material, your honor, unless
the defense intends to malke the defendant's character an issue,"
anti-tax reformers in the House.
It took singing, much argument, a
wild ride to the Capitol in an auto
mobile, a deciding vote by the Speak
er and one of Ed Wohlwender’a noted
filibusters to pass the bill, but after
three hours’ hard work, in which
every foot of the march to success
was a battle, it was finally done.
Bob Blackburn, of Fulton, led the
singing that put courage into the
hearts of the tax reformers; Hender
son of Jones made the wild ride to
the Capitol and cast the tying vote at
the last moment, and then Speaker
Burwell stepped into the breach and
saved the bill by casting the vote that
broke the tie and made the bill a law.
Sheppard, of Sumter, denounced the
measure, declaring that it< is uncon
stitutional, and Stovall, of Elbert, de
livered an equally strong Eipeech
against the bill. McCrory, of Schley
County, and Conner, of Spalding, aiso
denounced it. Among those who
spoke in favor of it were Wimberly,
of Bibb; Jones of Coweta; Swift,
of Muscogee,- Fullbright, of Burke,
and Greene, of Houseton.
At 6 o’clock Holtzclaw, of Hous
ton, called the previous question, and
at 5:15 the roll call began on the
measure. The closeness of the vote
was apparent before half a dozen 1
namen were called. The vote see- |
sawed during the entire roll call. At
no time was either side more then
three votes ahead. W’hen the verifi
cation of the roll call began at 6:10
o’clock the antis had 86 votes and
the reformers 83 Then one of the
members arose and changed his vote
from yea to nay, changing the figure*
to 85 to 84.
Then Gower, of Crisp, bethought
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