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UEATIRT’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, DA., SUNDAY. AUGUST 24. 1913. MRS. GHEE CALM; CALLS SELF A TOOL OF JUSTICE Divorced Wife of Millen Judge, Who Killed Him and Young Bride, Shows No Remorse. Planned Shooting With Care. Vincent Astor Reported Captured J175J(il)T0BE Name Is Linked With Miss Sands GIVEN IN POIZES •* +•+ *•* +•+ *•* +•+ rnn i iiir ptipi/ Match Long Predicted by Gossips rUH LIVE u i IM Miss Elizabeth Sands and Vincent Astor. Trouble Alleged to Have Started Twenty Years Ago Over Prison er’s Property—Jurist Is Said to Have Slain Brother-in-Law. MILLEN, Aug. 23.—Convinced that she has been an instrument of Jus tice. satisfied that the work she had planned for days has been well per formed, Mrs. Edna Perkins Godbee, in her cell In the Jenkins County Jail, to-day calmly and confidently awaits the hour when she will face a court to Harness Race Purses at Panama- Pacific Exposition Will Total $225,000. SAN FRANCISCO, Auk 2*.—'The greatest live stock show in the his tory of the world is assured ut the Panama-Pacific International Expo sition in 1915. Following the appro priation by the exposition mamige- I ment of $175,000 for awards for prize- , winning live stock, and the news that $225,000 is offered in purses for har ness races, each new announcement bv Chief of the Department of Live Stock D. O. Lively discloses increas ing interest in the forthcoming live stock exhibition. The live stock department has at its disposal 50 acres of ground which will be devoted to the erection of live stock buildings, a hall for live stock congresses and agricultural meetings, America's Oldest Church Discovered Ruln« of Centuries-Old House Worship Off Yucatan Visited by Explorers. of NEW ORLEANS, Auk 23,—-The ruins, of the oldest Christian church In America have been discovered on the Island of Cosumel off Yucatan by Professor Morley and Jesse Nusbaum, of the Harvard-Ran Dlepo expedition. Cosumel has not been visited by white men for almost a centurv, and Morley and Nusbaum had thrilling adventures, but deny that Its people are cannibals. The scientists were equipped with a moving picture out- Pt, but in leaving the Island for the mainland their canoe was tips, t and much of the photograph materiel w is spoiled. While Cosumel Is only 311 bv 7 miles In extent. It was found extraor dinarily rich in monumental and architectural remains. It was here that Cortez had a fierce battle with the natives and erected what is de clared to have been the first Christian church in America. Repeats His Wedding Date as Punishment Husband Who Told Court He Wished to Forget Marriage Hae New Litany. MILWAUKEE, Aug 23.—••.Tune 14 1887," Philip Leborskl will have to re peat ten times a das for the next 60 days in order to keep cut of the houas of correction, by sentence pronounced upon him by District Court Judge Eis ner Leborskl. who Is a wealthy real estate owner, whh arrested when a patrolman found him shaking hla fist and nwearlng at his wife, while ehe wan perched on the gable of their residence. In the trial LeboreKl told the Court he wa.s trying to forget he was married and that he had succeeded In forgetting the date of the ceremony. The Court In formed him that no man had a right to forget such a date and then ordered his case continued 60 days and told Le- borski to recite the .'ate of the wedding ten limes dally or would have to go to Jail. Leborskl ■tsi t ed his recitations before he was out of the courtroom and his wife was icing tha counting Crusade Started on Big Sunday Dinners Domestic Science Teachers of Kan sas Schools Are Enlisted In The Campaign. TOPEKA KAN8, Aug. 2S.—The custom and the physical requirement* that a man must rest at least one day in seven have brought about a cam paign In Kansas against the big Sun day dinners that have so long been the delight of the average man. The domestic science teachers of the schools have enlisted the aid of do mestic. aclance students throughout the State and the big Sunday dinner is going the way of the hard biscuit and the underdone meat in the Kan sas homes. The campaign was starred a year ago at the University of Kansas, but it now has thf> support of every high school and college with domes tic science courses. Maryland Jews to Raise Shaft to Friend Thomas Kennedy, Who Passed Law Giving Them Right to Hold Office, To Be Honored. HAGERSTOWN. MD, Aug 13.— Mendes Cohen, of Baltimore, a grand nephew of one of the first Jaw* elect ed to office in the State of Maryland, will act a* treasurer of the fund to be raised to build a monument to Thomas Kennedy, author of the law passed In 1826 that gave Jew* the right to hold office. Kennedy wa» famous In several other respects than as champion of the cause of polltfcal equality, for which he fought as a member of the Legislature eight years. He wrote many ballads that aroused the mar tial ardor of hi* fellow cltlzsn* In the days preceding the War of 1812. arclay i B-R-V-I-G-E BARCLAY & BRANDON Service as Funeral Directors is Widely Known for Its Dignity and Exclusiveness One very important point is that Barclay & Brandon alone can furnish you with a COMPLETE AUTOMOBILE FUNERAL, as they have just purchased a $7,000 Packard Hearse, the only Auto Hearse in the State. Choice of either auto or liorse-drawn hearse. In time of bereavement it is assuring at least to know that there is some one to whom you can intrust all the details of a funeral service, secure in the knowledge that every requisite will be care fully attended to. This you may expect AT ALL TIMES from BARCLAY & BRANDON 246 Ivy Street, Corner of Baker Phones I IfL'Z 5S 168. answer to the law for the slaying of her former husband, Judge Walter M Oodbee. and the bride who had taken the slayer’s place In his affections. Mrs. Godbee saw life pass from the body of the man with whom she had lived for years, and there was no re morse shown on her face. While im prisoned for his slaying she was told that she must also answpr to the charge of having murdered his wife. Rha did not blanch. • She had determined on the death of both. She had planned her deed care fully. She believed that she was Jus tified in resorting to arms to avenge her real or fancied wrongs, and per sons who know her best declare she Is ready to meet the consequences. No effort to obtain ball has been made by her. She has waived the right of preliminary trial. She is con tent to remain In Jail until her time of trial comes. Started Twenty Years Ago. The attitude of this woman, who has passed her fiftieth year, i a one of the most remarkable features of this remarkable tragedy. Twenty years ago, when Judge God bee and his second wife found they were mismated, the foundation for the double slaying was laid. The cli max came Monday morning- in the Millen postoffice, when Judge Godbee was almost instantly killed and his young wife fatally wounded by pistol shots fired by the woman from whom be had been separated by the courts. Roth Judge Godbee and the woman neld as his slayer are of prominent Jenkins County families. Godbee had oeen prominent in politics. He had been married three times. His first wife died manv years ago, but. at his request, he ia buried at tier side in the cemetery at Wavnes- boro. Soon after her death he‘mar ried Miss Edna Perkins, daughter of the late Mills Perkins, and heiress to considerable property. They lived In apparent happiness intil the early nineties, w-hen the flr^t Tigris of trouble came. At this time Judge Godbee acquired rights to oer- • lin properties which belonged to n!s vifr before their marriage. It is •barged that the Judge afterward sold bis property and reinvested the pro- •eeds for his own personal benefit. Shot Brother, Is Rumor. Then there is an old storv that rears ago in Burke County Judge Godbee became involved in a difficul ty with a brother of the woman he afterward married, and killed him. He pleaded self-defense and was ac quitted. There 1s no record., though, that this trouble had any bearing on the marital differences of the coupler Friction between the couple reached a critical stage ten years ago. when Mrs. Godbee filed suit for divorce In Jenkins County, charging cruelty on the part of her husband. She declared that the Judge had hu miliated her before her children, had driven her from hi® room and ha1 nailed the entrance between the two chambers in which they lived. Even after this suit was filed there was a reconciliation, but the trouble cropped out again about five years ago. when Mrs. Godbee again enter-d suit. She was grnnted absolute di vorce. but the judge was successful In resisting her plea for alimony. Mrs. Godbee was also given the custody of her minor child. Miss Sarah God bee. with whom she lived at the time of the tragedy. Divorce Didn’t End Trouble. The divorce decree did not end the troubles of the pair, however. Mrs. Godbee always contended that the money on which Judge Godbee was living luxuriously after the decree rightfully belong to her. It is certain that she was in strait ened circumstances at the time of the killing, and it is believed that the sight of another woman enjoying the fortune she believed hers, while she virtually was living in poverty, ha.1 no little to do with her determination to take justice into her own hands. For after the divorce Judge Godbee married again. His third wife was Miss Florence Bover, 25 years old, of Youngstown. Ohio. After their meeting at the sea shore Judge God bee continued his courtship at her home, and little more than four months ago he brought her to Millen is his bride. A crisis was reached. Soon after the judge's return, it is declared, he received demands from his former wife that he contribute to the support nf her and her daughter. In these demands she cited the fact that fhe was entitled to at least part of the in come he derived from property which had originally been hers. Judge Feared for Life. Intimate friends of the judge say ‘.hat from that time on he feared, not onlv for his own life, but for that of his bride. So alarmed did he become that on -eceiving a threatening letter Sunday ae refused to take his bride to church. Although he was a steward of the First Methodist congregation, and re quested the pastor, the Rev. K. E r 0 c,p to come to the Hotel Estelle, where he had apartments, tc conduct private prayers. It '\a that on that same day Mrs. Godbee No. 2 decided on the deed she committed Monday. She got into communication with Marshal P. T. Foote and requested him to call on her at her daughter’s home. There, the marshal says. Mrs. God bee showed him a .32-caliber pistol. “Will this kill as quickly as* a .38?" was the surprising question he was asked. “It will if it hits the right spot,” he replied. She seemed satisfied with the answer and the interview closed. This same pis«tol was in Mrs. God* bee’s handbag Monday morning when she went to the Millen postoffice. She knew that each day the Judge visited there early in the forenoon to Inquire for mail. She was seated writing as he entered the building, accompanied by his young wife. The slyaing fol lowed. Mrs. Godbee died Tuesday tight in the apartments in which she nnd her hu5»band had 'lived during the two months of their married life. Mrs. G. W. Boyer, mother of the slain bride, was en route from Williamsport to Millen when her daughter died. Bulk of Estate to Daughter. The will of Judge Godbee has been found in the possession of W. B. Wal lace, a merchant, and one of the dead man’s closest friends. The val ue of the estate Is between $45,000 and $50,000. He bequeathes the bulk of his property and securities to his daughter by his first wife, formerly Miss Maggie Godbee, now married and living in Augusta. Small portions of the estate are left to Frank Mills and King Godbee, eons of the divorced wife, and Miss Sarah Godbee, also an issue of the second marriage. The divorced wife is not provided for In the instrument. Frank Mills Godbee has been appointed tem porary administrator of the estate of Judge Godbee, and A. R. Anderson, temporary administrator of the estate of Mrs. Florence Boyer Godbee. The third Mrs. Godbee has been buried beside her husband and his first wife in Waynesboro. The condition of Mrs. Boyer, the slain bride’s mother is suid to be somewhat improved fol lowing her collapse upon first seeing the dead body of h,er young daughter. Her two sons have come from Penn sylvania and will remain with her un til she returns to her home at Wil liamsport. Neither of the boys expresses any animosity toward the slayer of theii sister and her husband, but both Join their mother in hoping that exact Justice will be done. Archibald and LeRoy Boyer the brothers, have not yet decided whether they wi l attend the trial of the second Mrs. Godbee. Fiancee-To-Be Measures Up to Rigid Requirements of Young Multi-Millionaire’s Mother. NEWPORT, Aug 23.—Decidedly the most interesting aftermath of the re cent Newport yacht races is the per sistent report that Miss Elizabeth Sands, beautiful daughter of Mrs. Frederick Sands, of this city, occupies the place of honor in the affections of Vincent Astor. head of that family and heir to its huge estates. This report, which has been cur rent in social circles here and in New York, took the form of n practical certainty, according to society’s self- constituted soothsayers, when it was noted that in the party taken to the races by young Astor was only one at three girls to whom he paid marked attention last year. That one, of course, was Miss Sands. It has long been known and great ly gossiped about at afternoon teas and other social functions that young Astor has felt a strong liking for the young beauty ever since they were school children. Society wiseacres, who have long ago hung up lr. their mefital art gal leries a picture of young Astor and Miss Sands as a happy married cou ple, w r ere not at all discouraged when the young man’s affections at times seemed to wander from hla child hood’s choice. “Just wait until Vincent's mother gets back to America and resumes her place at the ‘helm,’” said these social clairvoyants, “and you’ll notice a sudden slump in the fortunes of Elizabeth Rands’ attractive rivals ’ The prediction was based upon a firm belief that the aristocratic for mer Ava Willing would see to it that her son, who is now the head of the family and chancellor of its inexhaus tible exchequer, should maTy f*ome- one who measured up In every wav to her rigid requirenvnts as to an cestry, connections and social stand ing. a race track, and an open field upon which will be held drills, international cavalry horse contests, polo contest* and exhibitions of the prize live stock of the world. The live stock buildings will be con structed more from an exhibition standpoint than in keeping with any farm utility plan; the vast rows of barns which have characterized the live stock departments of other ex positions will be avoided. • Every separate section will be shown under a single roof. In addition to the $175,000 set aside by the exposition management to he used in cash premiums, more than $45,000 has been offered by organiza tions representing various phases of the live stock industry. Of the prizes offered by the exposition. $50,000 will be given to horses, $50,000 to cattle, $25,000 to sheep and goats, $25,000 to swine, $12,000 to poultry, pigeons and pet stock, $7,500 to carloads of cattle, sheep and swine, $5,1)00 for prize winning dogs and cats. The department is mailing arrange ments for holding the biggest poultry show on record, and birds from all over the world w'ill compete for In ternational prizes. The pigeons will take their place in the exposition not only as applied to the fancy, but as a utility, and some of the birds will be used as ^carriers, taking part in races across the continent from San Fran cisco. Under the auspices of the Pacific Uoast Trotting Horse Breeders’ Asso ciation, the exposition will give two harness race meets, one in the spring and one in the fall of 1915, at which there will be offered $225,000 in stakes and purses. With one or two excep tions, the special stakes included in the grand aggregate of $225,000 will be the greatest that ever have been offered. This Picture Shows the Very Finest and Best Equipped Ambulance in the Entire South The Barclay & Brandon PRIVATE AMBULANCE is positively the very last word in up-to- date Ambulances. Nothing could be more complete—not a single thing can be suggested that might tend to give further and more complete comfort to the patient, that is not already a part of its wonderful equip ment. 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