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TIE MIST'S SENT)AY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY. AUGUST 2-1, 1912.
IS. GODBEE VtantAstor Reported Ciptured $175.110010 BE
CALM; CALLS
SELF AM
Name Is Linked With Miss Sands
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Match Long Predicted by Gossips
FOR LI STOCK
Miss Elizabeth Sands and Vincent Astor.
OF JUSTICE
Divorced Wife of Millen Judge,
Who Killed Him and Young
Br:de, Shows No Remorse.
Planned Shooting With Care.
Trouble Alleged to Have Started
Twenty Years Ago Over Prison
er’s Property—Jurist Is Said
to Have Slain Brother-in-Law.
Harness Race Purses at Panama-
Pacific Exposition Will Total
$225,000.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 28,—The
greatest live stock show In the his
tory of the world Is assured at the
Panama-Pacific International Expo
sition nn 1915. Following the appro
priation by the exposition manage
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
by Chief of the Department of Live
Stock 1). 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
Ruins of Centuries-Old House
Worship Off Yucatan Visited
by Explorers.
of
Repeats His Wedding
Date as Punishment
Husband Who Told Court He Wished
to Forget Marriage Has
New Litany.
NEW ORLEANS, Aug 23 —The
ruins of the oldest Christian church
in America have been discovered on
the Island of Cozumel off Yucatan by
Professor Morley and Jesse Nusbaum,
of the Harvard-San Diego expedition.
Cozumel has not been visited by
white men for almost a century, and
Morley and Nusbaum had thrilling
adventures, but deny that itg people
are cannibals. The scientists were
equipped with a moving picture out
fit, but In leaving the island for the
mainland their canoe was upset and
much of the photograph material was
spoiled.
While Cozumel is only 30 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.
MILWAUKEE, Aug 23.—“June 14
1887," Philip Leborskl will have to re
peat ten times a da> for the next 60
dayj in or lor to keep cut of th-» housB
of convenor., by serUer.ee pronounced
upon him by District Court Judge Eis
ner.
Leborskl, who Is a wealthy real estate
owner, was arrested when a patrolman
found him shaking his fist and swearing
at his wife, while she was perched on
the gable of their residence.
In the trial Leborskl told the Court he
was trying to forget he was married and
that he hid 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 date of the wedding
ten limes daily or he would have to go
to Jail. Leborskl started his recitations
before he was out of the courtroom and
his wife was .Icing the counting.
Crusade Started on Maryland Jews to
Big Sunday Dinners Raise Shaft to Friend
Domestic Science Teachers of Kan
sas Schools Are Enlisted in
The Campaign.
TOPEKA KANS., Aug. 23—The
custom and the physical requirements
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 science 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 started a year
ago at the University of Kansas,
but it now has the support of every
high school and college with domes
tic science courses.
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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
answer to the law for the slaying of
her former husband. Judge Walter M
Godbee. 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 answer to the
charge of having murdered his wife.
She did not blanch.
She had determined on the death of
both. She had planned her deed care
fully. She believed that she w r a.s 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 bail 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 s one of
the most remarkable features of this
remarkable tragedy.
Twenty years ago, when Judge God
bee and his second wife found they
w-ere mismated, the foundation for
the double slaying was laid. The ell.
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
he had been separated by the courts.
Both Judge Godbee and the woman
held as his slayer are of prominent
Jenkins County families. Godbee had
been prominent in politics. He had
been married three times.
His first wife died many years ago.
but, at his request, he is buried at
her side In the cemetery at Waynes
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
until the early nineties, when the fir4t :
signs of trouble came. At this time
Judge Godbee acquired rights to cer- '
tain properties which belonged to iiis
wife before their marriage. It Is
charged that the judge afterward sold !
this property and.reinvested the pro- |
ceeds for his own personal benefit
Shot Brother, Is Rumor.
Then there is an old storv that!
years 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 is no record., though, that
this trouble had any hearing on the
marital differences of the couple.
Friction between the couple reachel
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 his room and had
nailed the entrance between the two
chambers in which they livTd.
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 granted 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 alwavs contended that the
inonev 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, had
no little to do with her determination
to take justice into her own hands.
For after the divorce Tudge Godbee
married again. His third wife was
Miss Florence Rover, 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
as 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
of her and her daughter. In these
demands she cited the fact that Mhe
w is (ntitled to at leant part of th<> in
come he derived from property which
had originally been hers.
Judge Feared for Life.
Intimate friends of the Judgp »ay
that from that time on he feared, not
nnlv for his own life, but for that of
his bride.
So alarmed did he become That on
receiving a threatening letter Sunday
he refused to take his bride to church.
p p hough he was a steward of the
F*rst Methodist congregation, and re-
, pasted the pastor, the Rev. E. E
r,wp. to come to the Hotel Estelle,
w pro h** had apartments to conduct
private pravers.
it is evident that on that same day
E-R-V-I-C-E
Most Complete Ventilation,
Fullest Riding Comfort
Thomas Kennedy, Who Passed Law
Giving Thtm Right to Hold
Office, To Be Honored.
HAGERSTOWN, MD, A a* 23.—.
Mendes Cohen, of Baltimore, a grand*
nephew of one of the first Jews sleet
ed to office In the State of Maryland,
will act as treasurer of the fund t.o
be raised to build a monument to
Thomas Kennedy, author of tb* im>m
passed in 1826 that gave Jew* the
right to hold office.
Kennedy was famous in several
other respects than as champion of
the cause of political equality, fo»
which he fought a« a member of tho
Legislature eight years. He wroto
many ballads that aroused the mar-
! tlal ardor of his fellow citizens In the
days preceding the War of 1812.
Equipment
Electric
Fan,
Running
Hot
and Cold
Water,
Ice Water,
Steam
Heat
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 or.
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 pistol was in Mrs. God-
bee’s handbag Monday morning when
she w f ent to the Millen postoffice. She
knew' that each day the judge visited
there earlv 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 night in
the apartments in which she and her
husband had lived during the two
months of their married life. Mrs. G.
\V 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 anrl 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, sons
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 tern,
porary administrator of the estate of
Judge Godbee, and A. S. 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 said to be somewhat improved fol
lowing her collapse upon first seeing
the dead body of her young daughter.
Her two sons have come from Penn
sylvania and wih remain with her un
til she returns to her home at Wil
liamsport.
Neither of the boys expresses any
animosity toward the slayer of their
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 will 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 a practical
certainty, according to society’s self-
constituted soothsayers, w r hen it was
noted that in the party taken to the
races by young Astor was only one of
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, w'ho have long
ago hung up In their mental 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 his child
hood’s choice.
“Just wait until Vincent’s mother
gets bark 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 Sands' 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 marry some
one who measured up in every way
to her rigid requirements 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 contests
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 be
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 horsgs, $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, $5,000 for prize-
winning dogs and cats.
The department is making arrange
ments for holding the biggest poultry
show on record, and birds from ajl
over the world will 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
Coast 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 wdll
be the greatest that, ever have been
offered.
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