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•i&v&Bm<<■ ^agrafe mm PP . -niiv. VfTE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. BOW STRESSES FiCl Continued from P.ge 1. 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 E 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. Aug, . 11.83H.83 U.83|tl.83ilL73-75 Sept. . i i | 111.55-57 Oct.. . Nov. . 11.55 11.60|ll.55|11.60jll.48-49 Dec.. . 11.52111.58111.53! 11.58|ll.42-43 Jan.. . 11.50| 11.53 111. 50111.52111.34-35 Feb ill.5211.55 11.52 11.56111.36-38 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.