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VOL. XII. NO. 21.
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27. 1913.
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FRANK TO LEAD OWN FIGHT FOR LIFE
Frank Trial ‘Temporary Widow’ and
Husband Happily ‘Reunited.’
“If you are not sure whether you
love your husband, let him serve on
a jury for four weeks—then you’ll
know!”
Mrs. Frederick V. L. Smith, of No.
481 Cherokee avenue, said it—and
sighed. But it was a happy sigh,
for Mr. Smith, his face wreathed in
one of those “I, John, take thee, Mary"
smiles, was coming hurriedly up the
sidewalk home from business fully
an hour earlier than usual.
Not 24 hours before they had been
reunited, after Mr. Smith had been
a stranger to his own home—a
stranger to every place except the
Kimball House and the courtroom—
for four long weeks, serving on the
famous Frank jury.
“I don't think there is anything,'*
Mrs. Smith continued, “that would
cause a woman to realize how much
she loved her husband as to have him
be on a jury; to be a 'widow' and
yet know that your huSband is in the
same city that you are.
“Let him pass you two or three
times a day, and not be allowed to
speak to him—only to look and wave
a handkerchief. Let those old dep
uty sheriffs stop him when he goe3
to say ‘hello.’ and caution you to be
quiet when you start to ask him if
he is being taken care of, if he gets
enough to eat and if his plo.thing
needs mending—why, I don’t see how
you can help making a vow never to
speak a cross word to him.
•Little Dan Cupid may bear the
burden during courtship and honey
moon, but after marriage he has a
great aid in jury service. I’ll just bet
if a womaii who fusses and nags her
husband would let him serve on a
jury for a month or so she'd be per
manently cured.
• It’s & tv.?rible thing to be a tem
porary wRn'v. There must be a bet
ter word to e^^ess it than ‘terri
ble,’ but ii I don’t know *t,
unless I say it was simply awful. I
had almost rather my husband would
be dead than be on a jury. I don't
think a real widow has a bit harder
time than a ‘temporary one.’”
Mrs. Smith, besides being one of the
most beautiful of the eleven “temV
porarv widows,” is also one of the
most remarkable. When her husband
was caught in the jury net he was
not given time to get any one to take
charge of his business.
So Mrs. Smith, despite the fact that
she had a baby to take care of. step
ped into the breach, and during the
four weeks of the trial has conducted
her husband's business afTairs a well
as he could himself. Every morn
ing saw her at his office in the Em
pire Building—and every noon and
evening saw her at the doors of the
courthouse waving greetings to her
“dead” husband.
Wife at Last Collapses.
The strain, however, was too great,
and during the last week of the trial
Mrs. Smith worked solely on h-r
“nerve.” She came home Monday
evening very nervous, and shortly
after 8 o'clock, when she received a
telephone message from her husband
that he was coming home, she col
lapsed.
Mr. Smith, returning at 1 j o’clock,
after an absence of four weeks, found
his wife unconscious and physician*
bending ove r her. Mrs. Smith was
unconscious foi* nearly two hours, and
for more than half an hour of that
Lime it was feared she was dead. By
Tuesday afternoon, however, she had
fully recovered her strength.
Solicitor, However, Is Undecided
Whether to Move Against the
Negro This Week or Wait.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atalnta and
Georgia^—Generally fair Wed
nesday and Thursday.
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In the desperate battle that has been
started for the life of Leo M. Frank,
sentenced Tuesday to hang October
10 for the slaying of Mary Phagan,
the two brilliant legal generals, Luther
Rosser and Reuben Arnold, will have
in active council with them the con
victed man himself.
Solicitor Dorsey, asked Wednesday
when he probably would ask for the
indictment of Jim Conley as an ac
cessory after the fact, said that he
knew of no reason why It should not
be done at once on the convening of
the Grand Jury.
He added, however, that he had
made no decision on the matter, and
that the indictment might be asked
when the Grand Jury sits this week
or the indictment might be allowed
to hold over for some time. The So
licitor had every confidence that the
verdict of the jury* in Frank’s case
would be upheld.
Frank told friends Wednesday that
he was planning to have a large part
in the conduct of the fight to obtain
a reversal of the verdict of last Mon
day afternoon. Frank rendered his
attorneys assistance during the prep
aration of his case for presentation at
the trial which has just ended, but
all of the decisions of any conse
quence were left to them.
The convicted man followed every
move of Rosser and Arnold, as well
as of Solicitor Dorsey, with an un
ceasing vigilance and with a thor
ough comprehension of the purpose
involved. Friends say he feels that
he is competent to have a part In
the mapping out of the future cam
paign for his life and liberty, and ex
pects to have a considerable voice in
every plan that is proposed.
It is his life that is at stake, and
he Is convinced that he has obtained
a sufficient knowledge of legal pro
cedure at least to advise and sug
gest and, at times, direct as to what
shall be done.
October 10 Jewish Sacred Day.
That he Is not without tactical abil
ity In a law court was demonstrated
by his statement to the Jury,
An impressive coincidence in the
sentencing of Leo Frank to hang or.
October 10 Is that this is the most
deeply sacred day of al of Frank’s
religion—-the Day of Atonement It
is the day for confession of sins. It
probably is as universally observed
by members of this faith as Good
Friday, for example, is observed by
the Roman Catholics.
The setting of this date, however,
may be regarded as little more than a
formality, as It is certain that Frank
will not go to his death on that day.
The arguments for a new trial will be
heard on October 4, and if the motlor
Is denied an immediate appeal will be
made to the Supreme Court, and this
will necessitate a postponement in
the date set for the execution while
the matter is being thrashed out in
the higher courts.
While the beginning of the real
battle will not take ntaee until Octo
ber 4. Frank's lawyers entered at once
into a new plan of campaign for his
freedom. Reuben Arnold is taking a
few days’ vacation, but will return to
the city shortly to resume his work
on the case, in the meanwhile wit
nesses are. being examined and data
obtained in reference to several of
the points on which a new trial will
be asked of Judge Roan.
Bad ‘Boy’ of 63 Is
Forced By Father
To Sign the Pledge
CHICAGO. Aug. 27—The sad story
of an erring son has been placed on
police court records. William H.
Palmer, Jr., Is his name. He is a
rollicking rake of 63, and his father.
William H. Sr., who is 86. called on
the police to check William's industry
in the sowing of wild oats. Said the
father to Judge Sabath:
‘‘I think he should stop sowing wild
oats. He drinks a great deal. He
comes home and acts like a young
colt. I find It difficult to control him.
You can .see for yourself that he
must be hard for me to manage. He
weighs 250 pounds, while I weigh only
95. He is out every night carousing,
calling on women, and I can’t do any
thing with him.
“I tell him he’ll ruin his constitu
tion if he keeps on the way he’s going.
He always ha? been a wild, head
strong boy. I want you, Judge, to
help me make a man of him. He’s
got to sign the pledge ”
“I agree with you,' said the Court,
addressing the father ‘'William is
getting to be a big fellow now. It's
time he learned to behave himself.
I’ll give him just one minute to sign
the pledge."
William signed. *
Slayer of Former Husband and
Bride Turns Her Prison Into
Dainty Boudoir.
Willard Exonerated
By Coroner’s Jury
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 27.—After
several hours of deliberation over the
testimony presented by witnesses of
last Friday’s fight at Vernon between
Jess Willard and "Buil” Young, which
resulted In the death of the latter, the
Coroner's jury returned a verdict ex
onerating Willard.
Several physicians who attended
Young after the fatal blow was de
livered testified that the Wyoming
fighter's physical condition was bad
and that Young had a cigarette heart,
and that he was suffering from .in
affection which had robbed him of
stamina which he may have formerly
possessed.
The verdict of the Coroner's jury
will have no bearing upon the pros
ecution of Willard, McCarey and the
others charged with manslaughter,
according to a statement of Prosecu
tor W. J. Ford after the inquest.
Boys' High Seeks
Alma Mater Song
Plans for offering a cash prize for
the best original words for an alma
mater song for the alumni of the
Boys' High School of Atlanta are
complete.
The purpose of the contest is tc
arouse interest among the hundreds
of alumni of the Boys' High School in
the alumni organization. The class
of 1910 has taken the lead in this,
and the cash prize has been raised
among its members.
Among the speakers at the 1910
class banquet recently were Dean Pa-
den, president; E. H. Orr, Jr., James
Manry, Joseph Yampolsky and James
Mangum
Danish King Saves
Actress From Sea
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, Aug. 27.—According to
The Budget, King Christian of Den
mark, while cruising in the royal
yacht, Rita, off Jutland, rescued Cine
ma. the actress, from drowning.
Cinema, a Copenhagen actress,
jumped overboard from a boat to es^,
cape fighting boatmen.
She becajne exhausted and the
King ordered the royal boat lowered
to rescue the actress, who was taken
aboard just in time.
Honors Requisition
Asked by Sulzer
HARRISBURG. PA.. Aug. 27.—
Governor Tener has honored requisi
tions for Daniel Buegeleisen, charged
with forgery, and Charles Clay, with
abandoning children, on request made
by William Sulzer as Governor of
New York.
He did this on an opinion furnished
by J. E. B. Cunningham, First Depu
ty Attorney General.
MILLEN, GA.. Aug. 27.—In a cell
transformed as if by magic into a
boudoir, as dainty and complete as
can be found in any home. Mrs. Sarah
Perkins Godbee, charged with the mur
der of her divorced husband and his
young bride, awaits her preliminary
hearing in the Jenkins County courts
Thursday as calmly and dispassion
ately as though she had already been
assured of her freedom.
The cell itself reflects the cheerful
ness and hope that fill the accused
woman’s mind. Despite the steel ceil
ing, the rough concrete floors and the
iron bars, her cell is attractive and
distinctly feminine. The roughness
of the floors is concealed by soft rugs,
the iron bars at the windows are hid
den behind little white curtains that
catch every flutter of the breeze; the
toilet accessories, washstand and
china are in blue and white, the color
In which her home is furnished.
All the Comforts There.
Two white beds with fresh linen,
two rockers and several straight
chairs. a little blue and white table
on which rests a vase constantly
filled with fresh flowers, a glass pitch
er of ice water, a glass stand filled
with fruit, a bottle of toilet water,
stacks of magazines and letters—all
combine to transform the cell into a
typical woman's room.
Mrs. Godbee takes as much care and
pride in her personal appearance as
she d»es in the appearance of her cell.
She usually w r ears negligee—a dainty,
pale blue kimono brocaded in pink
and yellow butterflies and finished
with Valenciennes laces. She is rarely
alone at night. Her relatives or her
daughter. Miss Sarah Godbee, more
usually the latter, always spend the
night with her. The daylight hours
see streams of friends coming and
going, all with words of encourage
ment and many with fresh dainties
and conveniences for her comfort.
Mrs. Godbee’s calmness and care
free attitude is the marvel of Jenkins
County officials. She talks and laughs
as she did before the double murder
of which she is accused; she chats
freely with her friends, and is always
glad and willing to see visitors. Gos
sip of the current topics of the day
falls from her lips as readily now as
before the crime, and she has become
an inveterate newspaper reader.
Keeps Silent on Killing.
Only on one subject does Mrs. God-
bet* preserve a close silence. Of the
killing of Judge Godbee and* the
events leading up to it she will say
nothing. She will give no inkling of
the causes that led her to shoot her
former husband and his bride, and si
lence is the only answer to inquiries
as to her line of defense.
When the killing is brought up,
Mrs. Godbee always smiles softly and
changes the subject of conversation,
prattling Innocently of the latest hap
penings in Mlllen society or of the
great world events.
The excitement created in Millen
by the killing hau not subsided,
•though it has been almost two weeks
since the crime was committed. Sen
timent appears to be divided, some
claiming that the accused woman has
suffered until she could suffer no
longer; while others express the opin
ion that Judge Godbee was not alto
gether to blame for the marital trou
bles that brought on his death.
Four Atlanta Boys
On 15-Day Hike to
New York on Bet
From Peachtree to Broadway is a
long walk, but four Atlanta boys set
out Wednesday to accomplish it in
fifteen days, as the result of a bet of
$500 made between them and George
Alien, of the Central Railroad.
The boys are Lloyd Snead, 19 years
old. No. 236 Cooper street; Clarence
Burel, 18 years old, No. 79 West North
avenue: Jack W. Lipscomb, 22 years
old, No. 232 East Hunter street, and
F. J. Lipscomb, 18 years old. of the
same address.
The distance from Atlanta to New
York afoot is more than 900 miles.
The condition of the bet is that the
boys walk it in fifteen days. This wifi
necessitate them covering 60 miles per
day.
Oldest Sneezer Is
Dined by Hay-Fevers
BETHLEHEM, N. H„ Aug. 27.—
America's oldest sneezer — Major
Richard Muckle, of Philadelphia, aged
88—wa* given a banquet here last
night by the United States Hay Fever
Association. The major has suffered
from the sneezing, sniffling fever for
75 years.
Cummins Predicts
Free List Change
WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.—Progres
sive Republican Senators to-day fore
cast the acceptance by the majority
of the Senate Finance Committee of
a modified form of the Kenyon
amendment to the tariff bill providing
for the free listing of trust-made
goods.
The Kenyon amendment .provides
that the courts shall decide whether
monopolies exist. Senator Cummins
to-day declared he expected the
amendment to be so modified that the
determination of whether competi
tion exists shall be left to the Presi
dent.
All Japan for War,
Claims Tokio Editor
BOSTON, MASS., Aug. 27.—Joseph
D. Halluday, editor of The Japan Ad
vertiser. of Tokio, who has arrived
here by steamer from Yokohama, de
clares all Japan is eager for war with
the United States.
The uneducated classes would
plunge Into the struggle at once, first
seizing the Philippines and Hawaii,
but the educated classes favor wait
ing ten years until the Russian war
debt shall have been extinguished he
said.
"The feeling," Mr. Halluday added,
"is that the white and yellow races
mull fight out their differences.”
News Butcher Fined
For Selling Liquor
TIFTON, Aug. 27— J. C. Dasher,
news butcher on the Atlantic Coast
Line between Waycross and Albany,
was arrested here Tuesday afternoon
by Chief of Police J. O. Thrasher,
charged with keeping on hand intoxi
cating liquors for illegal sale.
Dasher entered a plea of guilty be
fore Recorder J. S. Ridgdill and was
fined $75 or four months in the chain-
gang.
Powers Let Turkey
Retain Adrianople
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
CONSTANTINOPLE. Aug. 27.—
Announcement was made by the
grand porte to-day that the Euro
pean powers have agreed to allow'
Turkey to retain Adrianople, in spite
of the threats of Bulgaria to try to
take Adrianople as soon as she can
collect sufficient resources to declare
war.
Fugitive Boxer Asks
French Citizenship
Special Cable to The Georgian.
PARIS. Aug 27.—Through his coun
selors Jack Johnson, the negro cham
pion heavyweight pugilist, who fled to
France from the United States after he
had been convicted in the latter coun
try of w’hite slavery, to-day tiled dec
larations of his Intention to become a
French citizen.
E FDR PEACE
K PRESENT n
WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.—Emphasizing the fact that the
United States must remain the firm friend of the people of Mexico
in their present stress and trouble, President Wilson to-day read
his long awaited message on Mexican affairs to Congress.
The message was distinctly pacific in tone and contains little
in the way of recommendation for future policy except the single
one that this Government must urge earnestly that all Americans
should leave Mexico at once and that the Unted States should as-
sit them to get out of Mexico in every way possible.
The President counsels delay
CHATTANOOGA MAN MISSING.
CHATTANOOGA, Aug. 27.—E. VV.
Reed, local manager for H. G. Wool-
worth, disappeared August 9 and has
not been heard of since. Mrs. Reed
is visiting relatives in New York and
has no information concerning hej
husband.
before further action is taken
and says:
The President counsels delay be
fore further action is taken and says:
“Impatience on our part w'ould be
childish and would be fraught with
every risk of wrong and folly. Th?
door is not closed against the re
sumption, either upon the initiative of
Mexico or upon our own, of the ef
fort to bring order out of the confu
sion by friendly co-operative action,
should fortunate occasion offer.
Must Await Understanding.
“So long as the misunderstanding
continues we can only await the time
of their awakening to a realization
to the actual facts. We can not
thrust our good offices upon them.
The situation must be given a little
more time to work itself out in the
new' circumstances, and I believe that
only a little while will be necessary.
The circumstances are new. The re
jection of our friendship makes them
new and will inevitably bring its own
alterations in the whole aspect of af
fairs. The actual situation of the au
thorities at Mexico City will presently
be revealed.”
President Wilson’s message is un
expectedly brief and closes with the
statement that several of the great
Governments of the world have given
the United States their generous mor
al support in urging on the provision
al authorities at Mexico City the ac
ceptance of our proffered good of
fices in the spirit in which they were
made. The President relates the cir
cumstances leading up to the Lind
mission and all the facts in connec
tion with it.
His recommendations are less dras
tic and less conclusive than was ex
pected.
The President’s Message.
The messag follows:
Gentlemen of the Congress—It is
clearly my duty to lay before you very
fully and without reservation the fact,
concerning our present relations with
the republic of Mexico. The deplora
ble posture of affairs in Mexico I ne*d
not describe, but I deem It my duty
to speak very frankly of w’hat this
Government has done and should seek
to do in fulfillment of its obligation
to Mexico herself, as a friend and
neighbor, and to American citizens
whose lives and vital Interests are
daily affected by the distressing con
ditions which now obtain beyond our
southern border.
"Those conditions touch us very
nearly. Not merely because they lie
at our very doors. That, of course,
makes us more vividly and more con
stantly conscious of them, and every
instinct of neighborly interest and
sympathy is aroused and quickened
by them; but that is only one ele
ment in the determination of our duty.
“We are glad to call ourselves the
friends of Mexico, and we shall, I
hope, have many an occasion, in hap
pier times, as well as in these days
of trouble and confusion, to show
that our friendship is genuine and
disinterested, capable of sacrifice, and
very generous of manifestation.
Will Prove Sincerity to Mexico.
"The peace, prosperity and con
tentment of Mexico mean more, much
more, to us than merely an enlarged
[ field for our commerce and enterprise.
They mean an enlargement of the
* field of self-government and the
realization of the hopes and rights of
a nation with whose best aspirations,
too long suppressed and disappoint
ed, we deeply sympathize. We shall
yet prove to the Mexican people that
we know how to serve them without
first thinking how we shall serve our
selves.
“But we are not the only friends of
Mexico. The whole world desires her
peace and progress, and the whole
world is interested as never before.
Mexico lies at last where all the world
looks on. Central America is about
to be touched by the great routes of
the world’s trade and intercourse run
ning free from ocean to ocean at the
Isthmus. The future has much in
store for Mexico, as for all the States
of Central America, but the best gifts
can come to her only if she be ready
and free to receive them and to enjoy
them honorably.
"America in particular—America,
North and South and upon both con
tinents—waits upon the development
of Mexico: and that development can
be sound and lasting only if it be the
product of a genuine freedom, a just
and ordered governments founded up
on law. And so can it be peaceful and*
fruitful of the benefits of peace. Mex
ico has a great and enviable future
before her, if only she choose and
attain the paths of honest constitu
tional government.”
Situation Not Promising.
“The present circumstances of the
republic, I deeply regret to s&y, do
not seem to promise even the foun
dations of such a peace. We have
waited many months, months full of
peril and anxiety, for the conditions
ther to improve, and they have not
improved. They have grown worse,
rather. The territory in some sort
controlled by the provisional author
ities at Mexico City as grown smaller,
not larger. The prospect of the paci
fication of the country, even by arms,
has seemed to grow more and more
remote, and its pacification by the
authorities at the capitol is evidently
impossible by any other means than
force.
“Difficulties more and more en
tangle those who claim to constitute
the legitimate government of the re
public. They have not made good
their claim, in fact. Their succcss-
in the field have proved only tempo
rary. War and disorder, devastation
and confusipn, seem to threaten to
become the settled fortune of the
distracted country.
“As friends we could wait no longer
for a solution which every week
seems further away. It was our duty
at least to volunteer our good of
fices—the offer to assist, if we might,
in effecting some arrangement which
would bring relief and peace and set
up a universally acknowledged politi
cal authority there. •
“Accordingly, I took the liberty cf
sending the Hon. John Lind, formerly
Governor of Minnesota, as my per
sonal spokesman and representative
to the City of Mexico.
W. R. POPE DIES AT MONTICELLO
MONTICELLO.—W. R. Pope died
at his home here to-day, after a
three-days illness. Early Sunday
morning he was stricken with par
alysis. He was manager of the
Planters’ Warehouse and was about
57 years of age. The funeral will
take place Thursday.