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I ALWAYS FIRST ® ® The SUNDA Y AMERICAN Order It NOW= The Atlanta Georgian. Read for Profit---GEORGIAN WANT ADS---Use for Results EVENING EDITION DECLA VUJJ. Ail. JAV/. J.**. RES FI tANI M VJJ-V., J O I '{] K1 -TV UVJ OkJX ±xJy m J.&JLU. By T W A he Georgian C U! o [] * j. O. MORE. Vi P HAG AN rLEO FRANK SKETC1 HED.AS HE TOLC HIS ( DW 'N STORY TO Jl JRY In telling of his dealings with the police and Chief of Detectives Lanford, Frank waxed sarcastic in a quiet yet bitter way. But he never let loose his emotion or lost his poise. During the greater part of his story Frank was as calm and statistical as an accountant discussing an audit. At times Frank would lose his air of complete repression and his face for a moment would take on an aspect of deep feeling. He would, how ever, quickly resume his nor mal expression of stoicism. Policeman Sews Up Slit in Skirt i Admits Identity, but Declares the Police Have No Right to Hold Him. COATICOOK, QUEBEC, Aug:. 19.— Harry K. Thaw is under arrest here, according to the police authorities, and he will be held until the Domin ion Government decides what can be ^lone in his case. The police are positive that their prisoner is Thaw. They said he ad mitted his identity. Thaw said the authorities had no right to hold him and that there was nothing for which he could be extra dited and sent back to New York Stats. Thaw was arrested at the instance of Deputy Sheriff Kelsey, of New Hampshire, who saw him on a train on the Maine Central Railway as he was headed for Canada, and followed him here in an automobile. One reason given by his captors for holding him is the $500 reward of fered by Dr. Keib, head of Mattea- wan Asylum, from which Thaw made his escape. Thaw will not discuss his move ments since he got away from the New York institution Sunday morn ing, except to say that he hoarded a train east of Boston. He said he was making for the coast and planned to sail for Europe. Thaw was accompanied here by two men, one heavily built and the other .•light and both smooth shaven. Family to Fight Extradition. (Evelyn Thaw', the estranged wife of the slayer, cowers in this city, afraid of her life. She declared that she would keep a bodyguard about her until Thaw’s actual whereabouts be came known. It is evident that Thaw and his family will make a determined fight against extradition to this State if an attempt is made to bring him back. Thaw’s defense, in all prob ability, will be that his escape was providential. Detectives in the employ of Acting Governor Martin H. Glynn, who is taking unusual - interest in the case, reported the discovery of two of the alleged conspirators and said that ar rests were imminent. It was reported Mr. Glynn would convene the Dutch ess County Grand Jury in extraor dinary session to probe the escape of Thaw. Burns detectives have been brought into the case and are helping in the search for Thaw. Accompanied by Miss Mary Cope- ly, her sister and traveling compan ion, Mrs. William Thaw left to-day for C res son, Pa. Mrs. Thaw refused to discuss the escape of her son further than *o say: “I have positively not heard from Harry since my letter yesterday, bu* hope he is safe and well.” Wife Still in Fear Of Thaw, She Says. NEW YORK, Aug. 19.—Former As semblyman Richard J. Butler a West Side politician and former henchman of Chief of Police •‘Big Bill” Devery, who was reported to have been implicated in the plot by which Thaw escaped, denied to day that he had be«n mixed up in the escape of the Pittsburger. “I know nothing about this, and I certainly had no part in It.” declared Butler. “It is certain, though, that if any man was about to be mixed up in an affair of this kind he would not use his own name. I believe that some gangster who was paid to help Thaw- out used my name. In fact, I believe that I know the man.” Butler admitted that he had been away from home for several days, bu-. denied that he had been in Mat- tea wan. REPORT DF MOVE AGAINST 0. S. DENIED American Charge at Mexico City Not Given His Passports—Sit uation Is Clearing, WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.—The White House to-day received a dis patch from Charge d’Affaires O’Shaughnessy absolutely denying press dispatches to the effect that he had been given his passports by the Mexican Government or that an ulti matum of any kind had been given to him by Huerta. The telegram from O’Shaughnessy is explicit on both of these points, and indicates that the situation has not been changed in any way except that a formal and diplomatic reply to the Bind proposals was transmitted to O’Shaughnessy yesterday by the Mexican Minister of Foreign Affairs, Frederic Gamboa. The tenor of thif reply probably wilL.be made public at the White House later In the day In his telegram to Secretary Bry an, Charge d’Affaires O’Shaughnessy relates the circumstances leading up to the transmission of the Huerta reply to the mediation proposals, which Bind carried from President Wilson to Mexico, and declares that nothing had Indicated that they w-ere in any way offensive to the Mexican Government. Found Reports Were False. He made a trip to the Mexican For eign Office late last night to ascer tain the truth of rumors that he was about to be given his passports, and that Mexico had demanded recognl- AYDEX, N. C., Aug. 19.—A pretty 19-year-old girl appeared in the streets here wearing a generously slit skirt. She did it on a wager. A crowd of hooting men and boys fol lowed her. A policeman escorted the girl to • nearby millinery shop and ordered the slit sewed up. He called a car riage and sent the girl home. Then he chased the crowd away. Good Food Secret of 100 Per Gent Baby PASSAIC, N. J., Aug. 19.—“Good substantial food, well cooked. Is what I feed him,” said Mrs. Thomas Wat- terson, of Passaic, when as»ked how she reared her son, Leslie, the only 100 per cent baby in the “better babies” content. He gets soups, fruits, vegetables, puddings and cereals. U. S. to Aid Japs In Land Law Test WASHINGTON. Aug. 19. It is un derstood that in its efforts to deal fairly with the Japanese Government the State Department has indicated a purpose to facilitate any court pro ceedings that may be brought to test the alien land law legislation In Cali fornia. BARACA-PHILATHEA PICNIC. COLUMBUS.—To-night at Wild wood Park more than 1,000 members of the Baraca-Philathea Union, com posed of Sunday schools in Colum bus, Phenix City and Girard. Ala., will have their first annual picnic. !>ontinueci on Page 3, Column 1 THE WEATHER. Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia—Fair Tuesday and Wednesdy. | Customs Man Noses Out Big Cheese Plot NEW YORK, Aug. 19.—Nicola Ro- melli, a shoemaker, went to the Cus tom House to explain why he tried to smuggle two trunks filled with Parmesan cheese into this countrv. His mission failed and the cheese was sent to public stores. When the shoemaker arrived from Europe he declared he had nothing dutiable. Customs Inspector Piper has an acute sense of smell and sug gested opening the trunks. Issue Warrants For Japanese and Wife WASHINGTON. Aug. 19—The Bu- beau of Immigration has issued war rants for the arrest of Hidekuni ivvata. a wealthy Japanese, and his wife. Norae Iwa-ta, on charges of har boring women for immoral purposes in Fresno, Cal. Iwata and his wife, immigration officers declare, were proprietors )f property w'hlch housed 27 women ar rested in a recent raid by the Fresno police. Man Cashing $45,000 U. S, Draft Arrested Special Cable to The Georgian. BERLIN, Auk. 19—A Kerke bank clerk wrk arresteil to-day Juat as he was In the act o, cashing Iwo New York drafts for $4r>,000. which he had ob tained by the fraudulent use of the se cret code of the Deutscher Bank of I.elpslo. JUDGE STAYS EXECUTION. TIFTON.—Pending an appeal to the State Supreme Court, Judge SV. B. Thomas has indefinitely postponed the execution of I. B. Hall, convict ed of the kllhi^j of Dennis W. Hall and sentenced pr. hang on August 22. Will Turner, formerly employed at the National Pencil Fac tory, testified Tuesday that he saw Leo Frank talking to Mary Phagan about the middle of March in the rear of the second floor and that the girl apparently tried to evade him. Rosser objected to the testimony and the jury was sent out while the point was argued. A crushing blow was dealt the State in the trial of Leo M. Frank Tuesday by the refusal of Judge L. S. Roan to admit, either' while the defense was completing its case or after the State had! taken up the rebuttal, any evidence not directly and at first hand bearing upon the specific acts charged against the factory superin tendent. The ruling was a sweeping victory for the defense. It gave Frank’s case, which had been aided materially the day before by the defendant’s own statement, an added strength and heightened the prospects in Frank’s favor. Solicitor Dorsey tried first to cross-question Miss Daisy Hop kins, one of the defense’s witnesses, as to conversations she was supposed to have had in regard to incidents at the pencil factory in which she and a man undesignated except as her “foreman” were involved. Frank’s name was not mentioned in the indicated charges. The conversation was about a “foreman.” The Ilopkins woman denied again that she ever had made visits to the factory for improper purposes or that she had had the conversations referred to by the Solicitor. Dorsey encountered the same stone wall when h*» tried to draw testimony against the moral character of Frank I from his own witnesses. From W. P. Murk and J. P. Floyd the Solicitor had expected to obtain a recital of th stories of happenings which they said had been related to them Murk, however had mysteriously disappeared from the courthouse when his name was called, and Floyd whs not permitted to go In^o the de tails of the testimony the Solicitor had hoped to bring out. The Solicitor thereafter confined his efforts to bolstering up the char acter of C. B. Dalton, the State’s wit ness who testified to seeing women in Frank’s office, and attacking that of Daisy Hopkins. He called a num ber of witnesses, one of them a cousin of the Hopkins woman, who swore that her character for truth and veracity was bad and that they wouldn’t believe her on oath. Swear Dalton’s Character Is Good. Other witnesses testified that Dal ton's character was good. They were asked by Attorney Rosser if they were acquainted with his court and chain- gang record. They replied, for the most part, that they were not. The brown suit worn by Frank April 26 was identified by Mrs. Emil Selig. his mother-in-law, at the open ing of court in the forenoon and the suit was placed in evidence. The defense prepared to show oy Wiley Roberts, inside Jailer at the Tower, that Jim Conley had been reading since his incarceration there, but the Solicitor objected on the ground that no basis had been laid for the testimony. Daisy Hopkins then was called and questioned, after which the State be gan its rebuttal, the defense having closed its case. While waiting for a witness Solici tor Dorsey arose and made the unex pected announcement that he himself had erased the identification "Taken out at 8:26” on the time slip taken from ttie clock in the factory. Frank had made the charge he had writteen words as an identification of the slip and that they had been erased. The Solicitor declared that he thought the detectives had made the identifica tion. “Frank did not know who made the erasure,” said Attorney Reuben Arnold. Solicitor Prepares To Uphold Dalton. The Solicitor had announced ear lier that his first witnesses in re buttal would be called to support C. B. Dalton and Impeach Daisy Hop kins, who declared sh© had never visited the factory with Dalton or that he had ever introduce^ Dalton to the factory superintendent# Wiley Roberts was askecr^ Q. Has Jim Conley been in yout