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VOL. XII. NO. 18. ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1913. 2 CENTS.
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Court Adjourns Until Monday With Argument Unfinished
JUDGE PRESIDING
IN FRANK TRIAL
REPORT LIND THAW TO BE
IS SLAIN
Friends of Fugitive Plot to Rush
Him From New Hampshire
to Maine Coast.
SHERBROOKE, QUE., Aug. 23.—
Realizing that deportation awaits
their client, the lawyers represent
ing Hairy K. Thaw at a conference
to-day decided to drop th© habeas
corpus proceedings If Thaw would
consent.
H. L. Frazer and W. K. McKeon,
two of Thaw’s counselors, visited the
jail and laid the proposition before
Thaw, who took the matter under
consideration.
The Government has decided to de
port Thaw either to Vermont or New
Reports of Bulgar
War Cruelty Denied
By U.S. Missionary
Speolal Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, Aug. 23.—Dr. L. D.
Woodruff, an American missionary
stationed at Phllipoppolls, Bulgaria,
to-day sent a communication to the
| Foreign Office denying that the Bul
garians in Adrlanople were guilty of
atrocities.
Dr. Woodruff claims to have been
upon the scene after the Bulgarians
took possession of Adrlanople. 4ie
says that the story of outrageous
cruelties on the part of the Bulgars
all have been inspired in Constanti
nople and Athens.
If there Is an international Investi
gation, he says, he will testify in be
half of Bulgaria
Atlanta Bids G. A, R.
Veterans Visit City
Secretary Fred Houser, of the At
lanta Convention Bureau, la buay
preparing a pamphlet on hlatoric At
lanta, which will be distributed
among the O. A. R. veterana who will
attend the encampment in Chatta
nooga next month, and which, it la
hoped, will Induce a number of them
to vtalt Atlanta.
The pamphlet deacribes in detail
the hlatoric apota around Atlanta and
contalna many photoa of old battle-
| fields. Mr. Houaer already has heard
from a party of Boston veterana that
will make the trip to Atlanta.
Mrs. Pankhurst Not
A Deserter, She Says
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
TROUVILLE. FRANCE, Aug. 23.—
"That is a libel," cried Mrs. Emme
line Pankhurst, founder of militant
methods In the English suffrage
movement, to-day when she heard of
a rumor current in London that she
had deserted the cause.
“X am going back when I regain my
health, and again will lead the forces
of militancy,” Mrs. Pankhurst said.
Mrs. Pankhurst la living at the
height of luxury here. Her suite in
the hotel costs $20 a day.
9:30 o’clock this morning. He was
knocked out last night at the Ver
non Arena by Jess Willard, “white
hope” prize fighter, with an uppercut
on the point of the chin.
He /as removed to a hospital un
conscious, and surgeons to-day per
formed a trepanning operation in the
hope of savipg his life. He did not
regain consciousness after the blow
was struck.
Willard was arrested shortly be
fore Young died.
Young was still unconscious from
the effect of Willard’s right uppercut
to the chin when the doctors opened
his skull, and no anesthetic was used
for the operation.
Young'3 bout with Willard was his
first appearance as a principal in a
boxing card. He came here from
Wyoming as sparring partner of Lu
ther McCarty, who was killed by a
blow from Arthur Pelky at Calgary
He was greatly devoted to McCarty
and it was he who insisted, after Mc
Carty's death, that the latter had
been poisoned, and asked for an ex
amination of McCarty’s stomach.
His theory, however, was scouted
by those who had handled McCarty
and were at the ringside when he
met death.
9-Year-Old Slayer
Is Jailed at Perry
PERRY. Aug:. 23.—George McClue-
ter, a negro boy, 9 years old, is In
jail here, having stabbed to death
Coy Barrett, 13 years old.
The killing occurred on J. A. Wood’s
place on the Perry and Fort Valley
road, just beyond Myrtle. While the
boys were playing they became In
volved in a fuss. The only witness
was Joe Barrett, a 6-year-old negro.
Money Bill Makers
To Ignore President
WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.—Repre
sentative Henry of Texas, who • *
leading the so-called “insurgent"
movement against the Glass currency
bill, declared to-day that the effort*
of President Wilson and Secretary
Bryan to prevent amendments to the
bill would not head off his proposal
for greater credit for the farmers.
Senator Bristow’s
Typist Shot Fatally
WASHINGTON. Aug. 23.—D. H.
Shultz, 30 years old, early to-day shot
and probably fatally wounded Francis
A. Reilly, 20 year9 old, a stenographer
employed by Senator Bristow, of
Kansas. Reilly lies at Casualty Hos
pital and Shultz was last seen near
the District line, going toward Bal
timore.
Shultz, it is said, had sought the
companionship of Reilly constantly
since Reilly was employed as a clerk
at the Progressive headquarters here
during the presidential campaign. Re
cently he asked Reilly to accompany
him to California. Reilly refused.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia—Local showers Sat
urday; fair Sunday.
vate wire and for a time created wild
excitement in the Capital. The State
Department immediately got in com
munication with Mexico City and two
hours later announced that there was
no truth in the rumor.
That the United States has adopted
a policy allowing the Federal troops
in Mexico to receive practically un
limited supplies of arms and ammu
nition, was indicated by Secretary of
State Bryan to-day, when he con
firmed the report that 40,000 rounds
of ammunition had been allowed to
cross the border at El Paso, Texas.
Undisturbed by reports that Huerta
may change the present status in
Mexico by recalling his note of re
jection of the Lind proposals. Presi
dent Wilson to-day is assembling
material for the message he will do
liver in Congress next Tuesday. ,
The President is not inclined to en
courage the typical Huerta policy of
changing front overnight, and will
not change the tenor of his message
unless General Huerta formally an i
officially withdraws his objection and
accepts the proposals sent to him.
Hampshire, probably on Wednesday
or Thursday of next week.
A plan is shaping to snatch Thaw
out of the hands of the law, smug*)*'
him aboard a private yacht to Bueno»
Ayres and eventually to provide him
a permanent haven on a vast private
estate in the interior of Germany.
Oscar Von Hoffman, of Kulmbach,
Bavaria, whose father owns the es
tate in question, outlined this plan
here to-day. Von Hoffman ia an old
friend of Thaw. His father is a big
landed proprietor in the town of
Kulmbach, Bavaria, Germany.
“Suppose Thow is hustled by his
friends to the nearest seaport on the
New Hampshire and Maine coast,”
said Von Hoffman. “Let him be put
aboard a private yacht, a fast one. I
expect to be with Thaw through this.
My pla* is to take him down to
Buenos Ayres to get a good rest, sev
eral months, if necessary. Later,
when Thaw wishes, we will charter a
yacht and steam across the Atlantic
to a German port.”
Thaw now has retained ten lawyers
Continued on Pago 8, Column 5.
Perry Ship Replica
Is Damaged by Fire
CHICAGO, Aug. 23—The manage
ment of the Perry Centennial cele-
i hration and second annual water car-
ntva! to-day refused to dlacuss the
toss by fire of a $15,000 display boat
and heavy damage by fire to a replica
| of the Perry flagship Niagara.
Threats had been made py Indus
trial Workers of the World to blow
up ships ar 1 men taking part in the
celebration. Thirty men were com
pelled to dive into Lake Michigan and
swim 100 yards in chilly water to
save themselves.
Atlant, Girl Hit
By a Stray Bullet
CEDARTOWN, Aug. 21—A. J.
Sanders, a merchant, shot at John
Rogers at the Seaboard station to
day, as a large crowd was waiting
for a train, the bullet went wild and
struck Miss Frances Brown, daugh
ter of R. H. Brown, of Atlanta, who
has been attending a house party
given by Miss I^ois Mundy. The bul
let struck her in the hip, making a
painful and perhaps serious wound.
Sanders claims he shot at Rogers
in self-defense.
Automobile Collides
A white-hot phillippic, the masterpiece of his career
and one of the greatest ever heard in a criminal court in
the South, was hurled by Solicitor Hugh M. Dorsey di
rectly at Leo M. Frank Saturday in the final plea of the
State and held a packed courtroom tense and thrilled as
the grim tragedy of Memorial Day was unfolded.
The Solicitor was at the height of his eloquence at
1:30 o’clock when court adjourned until Monday. He
had been speaking over six hours. The case will proba
bly go to the jury before Monday noon. The Solicitor
was cheered again as he left the courthouse.
The Solicitor had been talking about six hours, including the
time on Friday, when he turned to the Judge and asked for a re
cess, saying he was exhausted. Arnold conferred with Judge Roan
and it was finally decided that the trial should be adjourned until
Monday.
Mr. Dorsey analytically dissected the alibi the defense had put
forward for Frank and cited from the prisoner’s own statements
to upset it. He pointed to similarities of expression in Conley 'i
and Frank's assertions in upholding the truth of the negro’s state
ments.
In an impassioned reference to the slain girl the Solicitor had
many in the courtroom in tears. Mrs. Coleman, mother of Mary
Phagan broke down completely, and Frank’s wife wept silently.
Says Frank Breaks Own Alibi.
Mr. Dorsey declared Frank’s alibi was shattered at once by
the fact that Frank told the police on April 28 he wqf at the fac
tory at 1:10, while Helen Curran said she saw him at 1:10 at White
hall and Alabama streets, and that Frank later changed his story
to bolster up an alibi.
The Solicitor denounced Frank in the most violent terms as
a “red-handed murderer” and a pervert who had plotted to lay
the crime upon Conley. He charged that Frank planned to have
Conley return to the factory and burn the body and would have
had the detectives arrest Conley in the act. He asserted, further
more:
That the expression ‘ ‘ nothing startling has happened, it is too
short sinoe you left for anything startling to have happened” in
Frank's letter to his uncle tended to show Frank's guilt;
That the prisoner had been trying for weeks to get Mary
Phagan’s favorable attention and the tragedy was the result of
her refusal;
That the reference to the toilet in the death notes proved
Frank dictated them because Conley always used the word “done;”
the State says the crime was committed;
Charges Notes Prove Frank’s Guilt.
That the use of the word “did” in the death notes proved
Frank dictated them because Conley always used the word “done.”
That wholesale perjury had been used by the defense in the
effort to build a protecting wall around the prisoner.
Frank never flinched under the Solicitor’s fiery attack. He
seemed to be following his words closely but gave no sign of emo-
NEW YORK, Auk. 23.—An auto-
mobile collided with a steamboat here
last night.* The auto wag wrecked
Its several occupants were slightly
injured.
The accident, it may be explained,
did not occur at sea. The boat was
in dry dock, the driver of the auto
lost control of his machine, and it
plunged down a hill and crashed into
the moored boat.
With a Steamboat tlon _. .. .. . $ ,
The crowd in the courtroom was plainly with the Solicitor, al
though for the most part it preserved absolute decorum. Once a
titter ran around when Dorsey made a sally in a tilt with Arnold
and Judge Roan threatened to have the courtroom cleared.
The greatest crowd of the trial was attracted for the final
affray and a thousand men and women begged in vain for ad
mittance to the courtroom. Occasionally Dorsey’s voice could be
heard in the street and there would be a murmur of applause.
Dorsey’s speech appears on page 2 and 3.
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Story of
BASEBALL
“The Plot for
the Pennant”
By HUGH S. FULLERTON
This Absorbing Short Serial Begins in To-morrow’s SUNDA Y AMERICAN
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