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VOL. XII. NO. 18.
ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, AUGUST 25,-1913.
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Court Adjourns Until Monday With Argument Unfinished
JUDGE PRESIDING
IN FRANK TRIAL
Jesse Willard's Blow to Chin Kills
Former Sparring Partner of
Luther McCarty.
REPORT UNO THAW TO BE
IS SLAIN
Friends of Fugitive Plot to Rush
Him From New Hampshire
to Maine Coast.
SHERBROOKE, QUE.. Aug, 24 —
Realizing that deportation awaits
their client, the lawyers represent
ing Harry K. Thaw at a conference
to-day decided to drop the 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
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, Aug. 24.—Dr. L. D.
Woodruff, an American missionary
stationed at Philipoppolis, Bulgaria,
to-day sent a communication to the
Foreign Office denying that the Bul
garians in Adrianople were guilty of
atrocities.
Dr. Woodruff claims to have been
upon the scene after the Bulgarians
took possession of Adrianople. He
says that the story of outrageous
cruelties on the part of the Bulgar*
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, is busy
preparing a pamphlet on historic At
lanta, which will be distributed
among the G. A. R. veterans who will
attend the encampment in Chatta
nooga next month, and which, it is
hoped, will induce a number of them
to visit Atlanta.
The pamphlet describes In detail
the historic spots around Atlanta and
contains many photos of old battle
fields. Mr. Houser already has heard
from a party of Boston veterans that
will make the trip to Atlanta.
Mrs. Pankhurst Not
A Deserter, She Says
I Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
I TROUVILLE, FRANCE, Aug. 24.—
"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 Ix>ndon that sho
had deserted the cause.
"I am going back when I regain my
health, and again will lead the forces
of militancy,” Mrs. Pankhurst said.
Mrs. Pankhurst is living at the
height of luxury here. Her suite In
the hotel costs $20 a day.
Atlanta Girl Hit
By a Stray Bullet
CEDARTOWN, Aug. 24.—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 Lois Mundy. The bul
let struck her In the hip, making a
painful and perhaps serious wound.
Sanders claims he shot at Rogers
in seif-defffnse.
He did not
after the blow
• :30 o'clock this morning. He was
knocked out last night at the Ver
non Arena by Jess Willard, "white
nope" prize fighter, with an uppercut
on the point of the chin.
He was removed to a hospital un
conscious, and surgeons to-day per
formed a trepanning operation in the |
hope of saving his life,
regain consciousness
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.
Toung'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- j
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
met death.
9-Year-Old Slayer
Is Jailed at Perry
PERRY, Aug. 24.—George McClus-
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.
he
Dies Trying to Land
Bie Fish He Hooked
Money Bill Makers
To Ignore President
WASHINGTON, Aug. 24.—Repre
sentative Henry of Texas, who *s
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.
CIRCUS TRAIN IN WRECK.
CEDAR RAPIDS. IOWA, Aug. 24 —
According to a report received here,
the Ringling Brothers Circus train
was wrecked between Cedar Rapids
and West Liberty to-day. Loss of
life was said to have occurred.
Senator Bristow’s
Typist Shot Fatally
WASHINGTON, Aug. 24.—D. H.
Shultz, 30 years old, early to-day shot
and probably fatally wounded Francis
A Reilly, 20 years 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 Reiily 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.
Perry Ship Replica
Is Damaged by Fire
CHICAGO, Aug. 24.—The manage
ment of the Perry Centennial cele
bration and second annual water car
nival to-day refused to discuss the
loss 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 ny Indus
trial Workers of the World to blow
up ships and men taking part In the
celebration. Thirty men were com
pelled to dive into Lake Michigan and
swim 100 yards in chilly water to
cave themselves.
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 de
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 1
officially withdraws his objection and
accepts the proposals sent to him.
LEAPS 18 STORIES TO DEATH.
CHICAGO, Aug. 24.—An unidenti
fied man jumped from the eighteenth
story of the Masonic Temple into
State street this afternoon and was
killed outright. Thousands of per
sons were passing the building.
Hampshire, probably on Wednesday
or Thursday of next week.
A plan is shaping to snatch Thaw
out of the hands of the law, smuggle
him aboard a private yacht to Buenos
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 is 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 plan is to take him down to
Buenos Ayres to get a good rest, sev
eral months, it necessary. I-ater,
when Thaw wishes, we will charter a
yacht and steam across the Atlantic
to a German port.”
Thaw now has retained ten lawyers
and is negotiating with attorneys in
New Hampshire and Vermont to open
a fight there for him if he is sent over
the line in one of those States.
It was learned to-day that Thaw
had no railway ticket for Detroit,
Mich., when arrested on Canadian.soil
and can not claim to be a tourist
passing through this country.
Minister of Justice Doherty to-day
Satterfield Elected
Ordinary of Cherokee
CANTON, Aug. 24.—In a special
election held in Cherokee County for
Ordinary to fill the unexpired term of
Judge W, J. Webb, who resigned to
become postmaster here, J. M. Sat
terfield defeated F. M. Blackwill by a
majority of 84 votes.
Mr. Satterfield will assume the du
ties of the office as soon as he re
ceives his commission from the Gov
ernor.
Continued on Page 8, Column 5.
Automobile Collides
With a Steamboat
NEW YORK, Aug. 24.—-An auto
mobile collided with a steamboat here
last night. The auto was 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.
Here’s Actress Who
Doesn't Ask Alimony
NEW YORK, Aug. 24.—Most of the
court attaches nearly fainted yester
day when the attorney for Dorothy
Maynard, an actress, who is suing
Madison Smith, an actor, for divorce,
solemnly declared that Dorothy does
not want any alimony.
All she wants is freedom and that
Madison support their child.
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 vsdthJiidge Roan
and it was finally decided that the trial should be adjourned until
Monday.
Mr. Dorsey analytically dissected the alibi the defense had puB
forward for Frank and cited from the prisoner’s own statement*
to upset it. He pointed to similarities of expression in Conley’*
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 was 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 denounrffed 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 bum 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 since 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 Ma.y
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
tion.
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 i
mittance to the courtroom. Occasionally Dorsey 's voice coul '
heard in the street and there would be a murmur of applau./
Dorsey’s speech appears on page 2 and 3. -—-