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BOW STRESSES FiCl
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for lasciviousness, which, uncontrolled
and uncontrollable, ted him to kill
Mary Phagan, was bad, and nev <r
asked them how they knew/'
Dorsey, in spite of the Indignant
denials made on the stand by Miss
Rebecca Carson, related that she was
one of the women who had gone Into
the dressing room on the fourth floor
with Frank.
"What did they fro In there for?"
he asked. "Probably to see if the
girls were flirting out of the windows.
The Judge would not allow me to ask
how long they stayed In there. What
the Judge says 1# law, although 1 do
not always understand It. Anyway,
Frank went in with her and came out
with her."
Dorsey gave up much of the early
part of his address to the emphasis
of the value of circumstantial evi
dence and a definition of a "reason
able doubt." He said that circum
stantial evidence, when it Involved
such a connected train of circum
stances In this case, really was of
more value than direct evidence.
The matter of a reasonable doubt,
he asserted, appeared to have been
hedged with great mystery, although
in reality It was as plain as the nose
on a person’s face.
Rosser's Closing
Speech Eloquent.
A reasonable doubt, he said, was
opposed to an unreasonable doubt. It
was based on reason and was one for
which a reason could be given. It
was such a doubt as to leave the
mind In an uncertain and wavering
condition and to preclude the possi
bility of possessing the moral cer
tainty that the defendant was guilty.
Attorney Rosser, famed as a cross-
examiner and speaker, probably never
made a more eloquent address than he
did Friday In arguing for the life and
freedom of Leo Frank. His words
were full of sarcasm for the police,
'ho detectives, the Solicitor, Conley
and Dalton—Conley, "the black prince
of liars," and Dalton, "the white
prince of liars.”
With cutting satire he character
ized the methods of the detectives as
constituting a school in which Conley
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HEADY FOR FEAST
Southern States Company Agents
Bring Annual Convention to
Brilliant Close.
was drilled and trained in his ever-
shifting, ever-changing story of his
part in the crime.
He dubbed the Solicitor and De
tectives Starnes, Black, Campbell,
Rosser and Scott as "professors."
Chief Lanfnrd happened to walk In
to the courtroom Jus* at this moment.
"Ah, there’s the dean himself,” re
marked Rosser with a mock bow.
Jim Conley was their pupil, he said,
only they probably called him
"James.’’ "Stand up, James, and re
cite," he mlmlced.
Conley’s story he branded as a tis
sue of lies—admittedly lies as It ap
peared in his first and second af
fidavits. and party lies as it was con
tained in his third affidavit.
Defends Character
Of the Accused.
He defended the character of Frank
which he said had been blackened
only by the lies of the perjurer Con
ley and his white ally, Dalton.
He declared the conditions at the
National Pencil Factory were no bet
ter and no worse than at any other
factory employing about 100 women
and abopt as many men. He argued
that the charges of immorality
against Frank were preposterous as
he could not have been on terms of
criminal Intimacy with any number
of his young women employees with
out the factory going to pieces in
short order. If the conditions In the
factory were as they were represent
ed by the prosecution, it would have
been a matter of general knowledge
and th people would have torn down
the factory, stone by stone, the law
yer contended.
Rosser charged that the whole
case against Frank was founded on
flimsy suspicions and that there was
not one direct or weighty piece of
evidence from first to last. He ex
hibited the time chart that Attorney
Arnold had used and showed that it
would have been impossible, from the
viewpoint of the defense, for Famk
to have committed the crime and to
have done all that Conley related.
lie closed with an impressive ap
peal to the Jurors whom he thanked
for the close attention they had giv
en his address and all the testimony
that had ben brought out in the
three weeks and a half.
Cotton Seed Industry
Growing in Georgia
A. A Frierson, secretary of the
Cotton Seed ('rushers’ Association of
Georgia, Saturday mailed to the
members copies of the proceedings of
the annual convention held recently.
The letters contain the rule* under
which the members operate.
Georgia Is one of the greatest pro
ducer* of cotton seed oil, which is
coming Into favor rapidly as a food
product. The annual feedstuff bulle
tin of the Georgia Department of
Agriculture, being printed, will show
a great Increase In the consumption
of cotton seed meal by live stock.
STANDARD HIT BY FIRE.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
SMYRNA, ASIATIC TURKEY,
Aug. 23.- Warehouses owned by the
Standard Oil Company, containing
2,300 cases of oil, were fired to-day.
Everything in the sheds waa burned.
JUDGE PRESIDING
IN FRANK TRIAL
"Plans ready” was the word sent
along Saturday morning to the mem
bers of the Anniversary Club of the
Southern States Life Insurance Com
pany who will banquet at the Hotel
Ansley Saturday night. The South
ern States Company convened Fri
day morning.
Among the speakers at Saturday
night’s affair will be Speaker W. H.
Burwell, of the Georgia House of
Representatives; Cyrus B. Brown,
Assistant Commissioner of Insurance
of Alabama; W. S. Wltham, finan
cier; Clark Howell; J. C. Walden. Sr.,
of Alabama, president of the Anni
versary Club; J. R. Williams, of
South Carolina, vice president and G.
J. McDowell, of South Carolina.
The new officers were elected at
the Friday morning session and will
make their official debut with brief
toasts Saturday night.
The second session of the annual
convention Saturday morning was
featured by a number of interesting
papers, including one by Harvey W.
Laird, assistant to President Moore,
and former Insurance Commissioner
of Alabama, on "The Company With
a Good Name,” and another by J. E.«
McLaughlin, of Atlanta, on "Syste
matic Following Up of Prospects.”
Elkin Gets Rich Gift
From Rexall Club
Leaves Aged Wife
He Beat Injured on
Floor, Goes to Work
After at&cklng his wife, D. H. Kent,
54 years old. No. 84 Lindsay street,
left her lying on the floor with her
right arm broken above the elbow
Saturday morning, and went to his
work at the Jones & Kennedy Furni- i
ture Company, where he is employed
as a collector. He was arrested there
half an hour later. He was released
on 3100 bond and his hearing set for
next Friday before Judge Broyles.
The woman, who Is 60 years old,
was sent to the Grady Hospital by
Policeman Anderson, who answered
the cal. Besides the broken arm, she
is severely bruised about the body,
where she says her husband struck
her.
Kent refused to talk about the
trouble with his wife, except to say
that the quarrel involved two sets of
children and was of olng duration.
Magid to Give Ad Men
And Families a ’Cue
Louis B. Magid. head of the firm of
Louis B. Magid. investment bankers,
will give a barbecue to the members
of the Atlanta Ad Men’s Club and
their wives, sisters and sweethearts
at Tallulah Park, Saturday. August
30.
It is expected that the entire mem
bership of the club will attend the
feast. The party will leave from the
Terminal Station at 6:55 a. m., and
returning, will arrive in Atlanta
about 8:15 p, m.
\Y. S. Elkin. Jr., one of Atlanta’s
' *a<ling druggists, was the recipient
of a handsome chest of silver Friday
as a token of esteem from the Rexall
?lub of the United States. Mr. Elkin
has served as president of the club.
The club has been In annual con
vention in Boston and the suggestion
that Mr Elkin be presented with the
chest of silver met with an enthusi-.
astic approval.
French Flyer Plans
Trip Across Sahara
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
PARIS, Aug. 23.—Lieutenant Chen-
tin, of the aviation corps of the
French army, is arranging to make a
flight across the Sahara desert.
| He plans to start from this city,
traverse Italy, the Mediterranean and
paru of Africa.
Troops to Prevent
Home Rule Rioting
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
DUBLIN, i^ug. 23.—So alarming
have conditions become in Ulster
Province, where the friends and foes
of home rule are at loggerheads, that
the Government has begun mobilizing
a brigade of troops. The district may
be placed under martial law.
Troops will be scattered throughout
the province.
Cat Is a Vegetarian,
Eats Only Raw Food
COLLIERVILLE, TENN.. Aug. 23.
No this is no fl»h story, but facts,
in regard to a cat that makes his
headquarters in the Collierville Mer
cantile store.
This cat is a vegetarian, as he eats
only uncooked vegetables and fruits
carried in stock. He seems to con
sider roast*ng ears best and can,
with ease, dispose of several ears.
Judge
Roan
has con
ducted many
noted
I murder
cases in
his long
career on
the bench,
but never
has he
had a more
difficult
task than
in the
present
trial.
ASK JUSTICE
Dr. McNaughton’s Attorney Is
Retained to Defend Divorced
Wife Who Killed Couple.
MILLEN, Aug. 23.—Following the
funeral of her daughter, Mrs. Florence
Boyer Godibee, the second victim of
the shooting of last Monday, who was
burled Friday by the side of her late
husband, W. S. Godbee, In Waynes
boro, Mrs. G. W. Boyer, of Williams
port, Pa., made her first public state
ment concerning the dual trage.lv
since her arrival from Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Godbee was the only daughter
and had been the idol of the Penn
sylvania home. Nothing had been
spared to give her every advantage.
In speaking of the tragedy Mrs. Boy
er said:
"Florence so often wrote me that
Disfranchise Men
LHlSil Like Tillman, Is Plea
OSHKOSH, WIS., Aug. 23.—Mrs.
B. C. Gudden, one of the leading
clubwomen of Wisconsin, in reply to
the anti-suffrage speech of Senator
Tillman, says:
“The sooner men are disfranchised
the better for the State and family,
judging from Senator Tillman's anti
suffrage comparison of politics with
defiling pitch. He would prefer de
graded, corrupt politics to degraded
and bad women, an Insinuation which
affronts more than a million earnest
women voters and indirectly millions
of good men.”
Court Denies Him
His Wife's Teeth
WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 —Separa.
tlon from one’s wife In the eyes of
the law, furnishes no excuse for at
tempting to separate that wife from
her store teeth, even though the hus-
hand did buy them and considered
them his property.
This is the ruling of Police Judge
Aukam, and as a result, Henry Har
desty to-day is in the workhouse
under a 30-days’ sentence.
“But, Judge, I bought and paid for
them,’’ Hardesty expostulated.
The Judge declined to adopt the
husband's viewpoint.
Judge
Roan.
T
II.S. AIM
Fugitive Quarrels With Lawyers
and Storms in Cell as Battle
Turns Against Him.
CHILDREN EAGER
PEAK RALLY
Grant Park Youngsters in Lead
When Rain Causes Postpone
ment of Contests.
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Sept. .
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Oct.. .
Nov. .
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Dec.. .
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Jan.. .
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Feb
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Mch.
11.SO 11.60 11.56 11.66 11.42-43
May. .
Seven hundred enthusiastic embryo
athletes, the school children who use
the city playgrounds in summer,
eagerly await the second division f
the annual playground field day,
which will be run ofT at Grant Park
next week.
The games were begun Friday aft
ernoon, but owing to the length of
time consumed by the races and the
rain which came up late In the after
noon, only about half of the even's
were completed.
Interest In the second division cen
ters in the # individual events, Inas
much as the Grant Park playground,
by winning six firsts* six seconds and
one third Friday, a total of 49 points,
has captured the point trophy unless
there Is a complete reversal of form
and the Grant Park children fall to
gain a place at any of the forthcom
ing events. The Grant Parkers can
not be beaten if they win one more
event.
The first division of the field day
was held at the Grant Park nlay-
ground under the direction of Jo**
Bean.
Children Cheer Flag.
Prior *to the races Frank Reynolds,
vice president of the Park Board, and
M. B. Youn* 1 ’ a member, raised the
Stars and Stripes to the Playground
flagstaff amid a burst of enthusiasm.
The Fifth Regiment Band furnished
music during the afternoon.
The summary of Friday s events
follows:
Fifty-yard dash boys, aged 6 to 9:
Alteri Mitchell. Pine Hill, first; John
Burk Van Houten, Joyner Park, second,
and Howard McKinley, Grant I'ark.
third.
Fifty-yard dash for boys. 9 to 15:
Roy Vanadore, Pine Hill, first; Henry
Newman. Mims Park, second, and
Marshall Barrett, English Avenue,
third.
Seventy-five-vard dash for senior
boys: James Wright. Grant Park, first;
Hubert Williamson, Grant Park, sec
ond. and Marcus Kidd, English Ave
nue, third.
TO DAY’S MARKET
OPENINGS.
NEW YORK COTTON.
NEW YORK STOCK MARKET.
Stock quotations to 10 a. m :
10 Prev.
STOCK— High. Low. A.M. Close
Amal. Copper. 73% 73% 73Vs 72%
American Can 33V* 33% 33% 33
Am. Cot. Oil.. 44 44 44 43%
Atchison 95% 96% 95% 95%
Can. Pacific... 221 221 221 218
C. and 0 59% 59% 59% 57%
Interboro .... 16% 16% 16% 16
do. pref. . . 62 62 62 61
K. and T. .... 22% 22% 22% 22%
Lehigh V’alley 153% 153% 153% 153%
Reading 161% 161% 161% 161%
So. Pacific.... 90% 90% 90% 90%
So. Railway.. 24% 24% 24% 26%
St. Paul 107% 107% 107% 106
Union Pacific. 152% 152% 152% 152%
U. S. Steel.... 63% 63 63% 62%
COTTON MARKET OPINIONS.
George F. Jones & Sons: "We thinl:
prices will remain at about this level
for the present."
Shearson, Hamm 111 & Co.: "If the
Southwest drouth is breaking up we ex
pect lower prices.’’
Renskorf, Lyon & Co.: "We advise
against the purchases at this level."
Miller & Co.: "It continues a weath
er market, would cover short cotton, as
tve thing the Government report of Sep
tember 2 will be bullish.”
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.
LIVERPOOL, Aug. 23.—This market
was due % to 2% points higher, but
opened steady, at a net advance of 2%
to 3 points. At the close the market
was steady at a net advance of 3%
points from the final quotations of
Friday.
Spot cotton quiet at unchanged quo
tations; middling. 6.62d; sales. 4,000
hales, including 3,000 Amrt*ican; imports,
2,000, of which all were American bales.
LIVERPOOL GRAIN MARKET.
LIVERPOOL, Aug. 23.—Wheat closed
% to %d higher.
Corn closed unchanged to %d lower.
Slit in Skirt Sends
Girl to the Asylum
PEORIA, ILL., Aug. 23.—A slit
skirt landed Miss Edna Kay, 22, and
very pretty, in the insane asylum.
The slit was very extensive, so
much so that a policeman felt that it
offended ordinary modesty. So he
took her to jail, where it was decided
to send her to an asylum for treat
ment.
Sunday American’s Southern Trail
Blazer Finds Gangs of Boosters
at Work on Highways.
CLANTON, ALA., Aug. 23—Path-
finder E. L. Ferguson, of the Hearst’s
Sunday American coast-to-coast au
tomobile highway tour, struck Mid
dle Alabama with his gospel of good
roads to be taught a lesson himself.
Between Birmingham and Clanton
four different squads of men were
passed who were grading and improv
ing the highway. Matured corn and
cotton were being cut down to widen
the road. The people met the good
roads scout car with open arms.
G. W. Wade, proprietor of the hotel
here, received the party as royal
guests. He said:
"I’d rather have good roads than
your money. You are my personal
guests."
Clanton is halfway between Bir
mingham and Montgomery. It was
reached late Friday afternoon, a jour
ney of 53 miles. In Shelby County the
work in progress was on a State aid
road. The other work was specifical
ly for the transcontinental highway.
At every town and village on the
route large welcoming delegations
were seen. Mr. Ferguson said he
found Friday one of the most encour-
aging pathflnding tour days of the
week.
After Montgomery the objective
point of the tour is New Orleans. Mr.
Ferguson is thinking of changing the
route to go by Meridian.
Saturday morning the party was
speeding toward Montgomery.
WEATHER HALTS AIR RACE.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
YARMOUTH, ENGLAND, Aug. 23.
The hydro-aeroplane flight around
Great Britain which started last Sat
urday at Southampton, has been in
definitely postponed because of bad
weather.
she was happy and contented. After
her marriage I asked her if she real
ized how far away she would be
from mother. She said she did, but
that she loved Judge Godbee and
would be cared for and protected. We
all loved him, and he was so careful
to assure me time and again that
Florence would be well provided for.
I did not want her to come so far
away, but when I thought over it I
decided not to interpose where her
happiness was concerned.
“Now it’s all over. My grief ’s
more than I can bear and my daugh
ter’s place in my heart will never be
filled.
Wants Justice Done.
"As to the divorced wife, I hoos
Justice will be done. My daughter
had never done her any harm, and
how she will ever have any peace
again I can not i - e.
"My daughter had never been
South before, but she often wrote me
of things down here and said it was
a great place and the people were so
good and kind. She said she would
always want to live in the South
And now that she is dead, I want her
to sleep forever among the people she
had learned to love so well ani
among whom she was contented and
happy."
Judge Godbee’s safe has been
opened and his effects have been gone
over. All his private papers have
been left in charge of W. B. Wallace,
at the request of all interested par
ties. He and the Rev. E. E. R03;,
Judge Godbee’s pastor, read then.
Practically all his real estate holdinga
were in the name of his daughter,
Miss Maggie Godbee, who lives In
Augusta. He had one policy of insur
ance for $1,000 payable to his slain
J wife.
No Will Contest Likely.
It is not probable that there will
be litigation concerning the division
of his property. It is well worth $30.--
000, and practically all goes to his
daughter Maggie. His will was made
in 1910, and as he married since then,
the Georgia laws make this will void
However, as all his holdings were in
the name of his daughter Maggie, by
direct deed, there is little over which
to contest the will. None of these
deeds were on record, and he held
power of attorney from h1s daughter.
In the last few years sever* r *^ , «-«»
had been started to force him tu .
veal the legal status of his property,
but he either settled of defended them
successfully.
The deeds were placed on record
Rural Mule Lured to
City by Hay Bale
MEMPHIS, Aug. 23.—'Following a
bale of hay in the back of a truck
farmer’s wagon from the Noneon-
nah Valley to Memphis, a mule fell
into the hands of the pound master
Thursday morning. In a few hours
the owner of the mule claimed the
animal.
While nibbling at a bale of hay on
the back end of the farmer’s wagon
the hybrid did not measure the dis
tance he was traveling and was soon
in the city. The farmer caused the
mule’s arrest, and temporary deten
tion.
Chokes on Gum and
Trolley Huns Wild
ATLANTIC CITY, Aug. 23.—Chok.
ing on a piece of gum which became
lodged in his throat, Glenn Grice,
motorman on the Shore Fast Line
trolley system, fell unconscious at his
controller while the car was running
at high speed into this city from
Pleasantville, and in the corhmotion
that followed several women passen
gers became panic-stricken..
The gum Anally was extracted, but
Grice required medical attention.
SHERBROOKE, QUEBEC, Aug. 23.
All indications to-day pointed to the
belief that the real battle to keep
Harry K. Thaw from being returned
to the Matteawin (N. Y.) Asylum for
the Criminal lpsane Anally will be
fought out on United States soil. )
David Reynolds, one of the two im
migration inspectors detailed on the
case by the Dominion Government,
declared positively to-day that Thaw
will be deported next Wednesday int*
New Hampshire or Vermont.
’’Thaw has lost his case before he
really began to Aght,” said Mr. Rey
nolds. “The future events are clear.
If Thaw wins or loses on his habeas
corpus proceedings he will be ejected
from this country. The Department
of Immigration at Ottawa has bei
advised in this matter by the Depart
ment of Justice.”
Thaw now has retained ten lawyers
and is negotiating with attorneys lrt
New Hampshire and Vermont to open
a Aght there for him if he is sent ovey
the line in one of those States.
Quarrels With Attorneys.
The fugitive was in angry frame
of mind to-day. He had quarreled'
with W. L. Shurtleff and with J. N.
Greenshields, two of his counselor?..
With his collar rumpled and hair fly
ing wildly, Thaw stormed about hi9
ceil. He charged that the lawyers
were not doing all in their power to
help him.
The prisoner has telegraphed to
William Blakelee, District Attorney
of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
(in which Pittsburg is located), ask
ing that some official action be taken
to protect him.
Under the Canadian law the immi
gration officials will take charge of
Thaw as soon as he gets out of the
custody of the Superior Court next
week. A court of inquiry then will be
held and it then will be decided that
Thaw is an undesirable alien citizen.
Thaw will be represented by coun
sel at this sitting of the court and
will protest against deportation, de
manding that the Government prove
him insane. The Government expects
to do this, but will allow no time to
be walsted in the process. Papers
have been received here from New'
York State by which the Govern
ment's representatives hope to shtfw
Thaw' a mental incompetent.
Canada then will haye washed its
hands of the case and the fight
will be tranaferred to the United
States.
Changes Mind Frequently.
However, if Thaw' determines to
remain on this side of the border add
Aght his case to a Anish, he might be
able, through technicalities, to remain
here indeAnitely,
The fugitive has angered his law r -
yers by his erratic demands. At times
he will domineer his high-paid coun
selors, and then he will suddenly
turn about and adopt an air of meek
ness. First, he will declare that
speed is necessary, and then will fol
low this with a request that every
technicality be exhausted so that the
Aght may be prolonged. He has
changed his mind a dozen times since
he was placed in Jail.
Thaw's anger has been increased
by the threats of his companion, "Ed
ucated Roger’’ Thompson, the New
York chauffeur, to “squeal.” Thomp
son is in Jail on the charge of aiding
and abetting an undesirable alien to
enter this country, and demands that
the Thaw' lawyers get bond for him,
“Squeal,” screamed Thaw, when he
was told of Thompson's threat. "He
has no information of a damaging
character against me. He can’t get
me in any worse. Let him squeal and
be d—d.”
and the will probated in common
form before Judge F. G. Rabb, Or
dinary of Jenkins County.
Gets McNaughton’s Attorney.
F. H. SafEold, of Swainsboro, at
torney for Dr. W. J. McNaughton, has
been employed to assist in the de
fense of Mrs. Edna Perkins Godbee.
G. C. Dekel and James A. Dixon are
her local counsel. She has made no
public statement, but from bits of
conversation reported to have been
made by her she will contend that
the shooting of Mrs, Godbee was a
mistake. All eyewitnesses agree that
she shot the wife Arst and last.
Jenkins County was placed in the
Augusta Circuit at the last session of
the Legislature, and court will be held
here on the second Monday In Sep
tember. R. Lee Moore, of States
boro, Solicitor of the Middle Circuit,
• ill still act as Solicitor of this coun
ty until tne expiration of his term.
He will have charge of the prosecu
tion. So far no one has been em
ployed to assist him.
In
Atlanta
It’s
The
Geer
*
mn
People look to whenever
they want to biy, sell,
trade, rent, get help or a
position.
No matter what vonr
WANT is, a Georgian Want
Ad will get it.
Con ven fence
Want Ada will be taken
over the telephone any time
and an ** Accommodation
Account” started with yon.
All “Accommodation Ac
count” bills are payable
when bills are presented.
Want Ads will be taken
up to 1 o ’clonk on the day of
publication.