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VOL. XII. NO. 22.
ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, AUG. 28, 1913.
Copyright, 1906.
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DORSEY COMBATS FRANK’S PLEA
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j Concert Proceeds to
Aid Free Music Fund j
A military concert will be given
I Thursday evening at the Auditorium-
Armory by the Fifth Regiment Band
of the Georgia National Guard, and
the Atlanta Musi^ Festival Associa
tion, beginning at 8:30 o’clock. Prices
of admission will be 25 cents and 10
cents, and the money will go to the
fund to continue the free Sunday con
certs.
Chief Musician C. E. Barber, of the
Fifth Regimerft, will lead the band
and play the cornet solos. Charles
Sheldon will be the organist.
The program will include the ren
dition of “The Crucifixion” in the form
of a cornet and trombone solo, ac
companied by the band and great
organ.
Dorsey Cites Frank's Statement
on Stand, “Now Is the Time,
This Is the Place.”
Solicitor Dorsey was as busily en
gaged on the Frank case Thursday as
he was any day before Leo Frank
was convicted of the murder of Mary
Pnagan. if the factory superintend
ent finally succeeds in avoiding the
penalty fixed it will not be because the
Solicitor has not fought to the utetr-
most of his strength to jjut the rope,
around Frank's neck.
Briefly but pointedly Solicitor Dor- |
sey Thursday morning summed up his
’ opinion of Leo Frank’s latest alleged
statement concerning the trial and
the Solicitor’s speech.
“Frank,” said the Solicitor in his
quiet manner, “declared on the stand
that ’now was the time and here the
place.’ That’s all I have to say.”
The Solicitor declared that the
State would ask the new' Grand Jury,
which will be sworn in Tuesday, to
indict Jim Conley immediately as in
acknowledged accessory after the fact
in the murder of Mary Phagan. He
declared further that he had no in
tention of asking for a shortening of
the sentence, as this was in the prov
ince of the Grand Jrry and the judge.
No Vacation for Dorsey.
Although worn out as a result of
the long strain. Solicitor Dorsey de
clared Thursday that it was his in
tention to Keep right at work without
taking a vacation. A few days of
“taking it easy,” he said, will put him
in excellent shape for the remainder
of the summer.
The wheels of activity in the Solici
tor’s office, which had stopped for a
few hours alter Frank’s conviction
was obtaineu, started again Thursday
as noiselessly and smoothly as though
- there haa been no interruption of
their tireless activity.
if the lawyers for Frank are going
to put forth herculean efforts to save
him from the gallows, every move on
their part will be met with the most
stubborn resistance by Dorsey.
When they announced that they
* would ask Judge Roan for a new trial,
the Solicitor calmly gave out that he
proposed to ask the indictment o:
J,m Conley as accessory after the
fact from the next Grand Jury at its
first session.
in mis he appears to display a cer
tain confidence that .the verdict of
the twelve jurors last Monday will
not be set aside. U Frank at a sub
sequent trial u re found not guilty of
the murder, Conleys conviction as
accessory after the fact, if not illegal,
at least would be anomalous, in that
there could be no accessory after
the fact ot the iLurder if a jury de
cided that Frank was Innocent.
The announcement by Frank's at
torneys that they would continue their
tight into the nigher courts in the
event that Judge Roan refused them
a new trial, was met by the renewed
activity of the solicitor in seekin &
out new evidence against the convict
ed man.
Exactly as though Frank were still
In the Tower awaiting trial, trie So-
’licitor gathered about him Vvednes-
* day and Thursday the detectives wu.
have been working on the case and
Instructed them to run down rumors
he had heard during the last aays c.i
the trial in respect to evidence which
SortinuCu on Page 5, Column 1.
Mercury Mounts to
92 After Cool Spell
After two weeks of moderate sum
mer weather, Atlanta sweltered
Thursday under regular midsumer
heat. The temperature was down as
low as 669 during Wednesday night
but after sunrise the mercury rose
rapidly, and at 1 o’clock stood at 88
at the weather bureau, while down
town themometers registered 92. The
heat was made more noticeable by the
absence of the usual breeze. There
has been only one hotter day this
month, the temperature reaching 93 at
the weather station on August 11.
The forecast is fair and cooler
weather Thursday night and Friday.
One Dead, Many Injured in
Flames on World’s Greatest
Liner at Hoboken.
NEW YORK, Aug. 28.—The Ham
burg-American liner lmperator, the
biggest passenger - carrying ship
afloat, which arrived in port last
night with 3.100 passengers on board,
was swept by fire to-day as she lay at
her pier in Hoboken, N. J.
Second Officer Herman Gerbracht
lost his life while trying to close the
fire doors and confine the flames to
the fifth deck, or provision room.
It was reported that two seamen had
been burned to death, and for a long
time they were missing, but subse
quently were found.
Many of the crew were injured
fighting the flames and battling with
the 2,000 steerage passenger* who
i w’ere panic-stricken a,s the fire raged.
The damage to the ship Is esti
mated at $100,000.
First Cabin Deck Saved.
By the terrific work, the flames
PETERBOROUGH, ONTARIO, Aug. were kept from spreading to the first
28.—Four persons are know f n to have cabin and the superstructure, and
been killed and many injured to-day j within four hours the flames were un-
when the Turnbull department store der control. They had licked their
collapsed. Clerks, workmen and shop- way into the coal bunkers, however,
pers went down in the crash, and it j and the firemen settled themselves
is feared many of them were killed. J down to carry on a patient battle.
Weakening of the.walls, due to al- j The danger, however, to the ba!-
teratlons being made in the building, I ance of the ship was entirely over,
caused the collapse. | Captain Ruser said.
~ j If the fire had occurred at sea un-
TnHcPP PfiHTl Off On der the same conditions, the tragedy
U UUgC XbUail \J1L Vil | probably WQuld have been a dU pii C ate
Vacation In East ° f ,he Titanic disaster
Dignified Governors
Stay Late For Tango
COLORADO SPRINGS, Aug. 28.—
Well, the tango isn’t such a naughty
dance—if you want to take the opin
ion of a large number of Governors
for it.
The State executives who are in
convention here looked at a tango ex
hibition last night. They looked long
and critically. At the conclusion of
the dance there were encores. Also
more encores. When the tangoers
were too tired to respond to more
encores the Governors gravely an
nounced that “although we had noth
ing like that in our time, this tango
dance looks very, very Interesting.”
Aged Woman Killed
By Fall Down Stairs
While coming down stairs in the
home of her son-in-law, R. G. Ander
son, No. 4 Baltimore block, Thursday
morning. Mrs. E. M. Wilson, aged 68
years, missed her footing and fell to
the bottom of the steps. She was
taken, unconscious, to the Grady Hos
pital, and died without regaining her
senses.
The accident to Mrs. Anderson is
the second In the family within three
weeks. E. G. Taylor, Mrs. Wilson’s
brother-in-law. is at the Grady Hos
pital with a fractured hip. Anderson
is a fireman at station No. 11.
4 Die in Collapse of
Department Store
Girl’s Prayer For
Death Answered
YONKERS. N. Y., Aug. 28.—Ruth
Hamilton died In answer to her
prayers. Brief periods of lucidity
during the night, which alternated
with long lapses into unconscious
ness, were spent by the girl in pray
ing that she might join her boy lover.
Charles Rich, who shot and killed
himself, after mortally wounding
her.
They had ben sweethearts a few'
months, and had agreed to die to
gether.
The lmperator got into her berth at
7:15 o’clock last night with the big
gest passenger record in the history
of trans-Atlantic travel. Among her
763 first-class passengers were George
Ade, William Ellis Corey, Samuel Un-
termyer, Paul Warburg, Mrs. Rudolph
Spreckels, F. W. Woolworth, Julius
P. Meyer, vice president of the Ham
burg-American line, and Allison Ar
mour.
Flames Spread Quickly.
* The fire was discovered in the pro
vision room on the ship about 5
o’clock. Fed by the oils and fats of
| the foodstuffs, it spread rapidly. The
| crew was assisted by the trained fire
Officials of the county chaingang j fighters from Hoboken, Jersey City
camp in Oakland City were looking J and New York.
Judge L. S. Roan, who presided over j
the Frank trial, accompanied tyy his
wife and son. left Atlanta Thursday
morning for New York and other j
Eastern points.
Judge Roan probably will remain ]
in the East about ten days or two {
weeks, as he is badly in need of a
rest after the strenuous four weeks
of the noted trial.
Convicts in County
Camp are Robbed
Thursday for thieves in their midst.
The camp had been robbed. A lot
of clothing, razors and other articles
were stolen.
The police suspect that the robbery
may have been an inside job.
Vardaman Goes to
Aid of LaFollette
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.—Senator
The provision room is in the after
part of the vessel. So swiftly did the
flames eat their way that it had been
communicated to the second cabin
before the alarm became general.
Steerage passengers, hearing the
crackling of the walls and stays, set
up a cry of fright which echoed over
the Entire ship.
Smoke rolled upward from the liner,
giving the impression on shore that
the Hamburg-American pier was on
w’as defeated.
one of the first to reach the provision
1 ‘ | room. He personally took command
Camp Perry Shooter
Accidentally Slain
Vardamaan' of Mississippi. In the Sen- | tire. Police reserves were rushed t)
ate to-day, cast his vote in favor of i the scene.
the LaFollette amendment to the tariff j Captain Ruser, chief of the flvo
bill increasing the rates of the income j commanders of the leviathan, wai
tax provision.
The amendment
t0 43 ! and directed the fight against the
flames. The room was seething not
and filled with smoke, but the men
dashed in with lines of hose and soon
thousands of gallons of water were
i being poured upon the blaze.
CAMP PERRY, OHIO, Aug. 28.— | When the woodwork of the second
Francisca Zagara Ballon, a Peruvian,! cabin ignited, word v..~s sent to the
was killed to-day when a rifle in the j pier to summon the land firemen, ant*
hands of Juan E. Zegarra was dis : j a general alarm was turned in to the
charged accidentally. ! Hoboken fire department.
This is the first fatal accident that The land force was soon on th»
has occurred at the shooting matches scene, and several high-pressure
held on the Camp Perry range. j streamg we re added to the fight.
, . -j j Acts of heroism mingled with acts
Morgantnau Made j cowardice during the worst of
TT a T> , m 1 I the flre - The hero the disaster was
U I bi hnvoy to xlirKey I Second Officer Herman Gerbracht.
* | This, brave seaman voluntarily gave
WASHINGTON, Aug 28.—President ! up his life w'hile struggling to clo?
Wilson to-day sent to the Senate the t | ie fireproof .floor- to confine the
name of Henry E. Morganthau, of New
York City, to be Ambassador to Turkey. * Continued on Page 2, Column 5.
Mystery in Theft
of $26,000 Jewels
CHICAGO. Auk. 28 —The police to
day faced a deep mystery in the theft
of $26,000 worth of gems from a big
downtown Jewelry store.
The thief, the police believe, intend
ed to steal the sample case of William
H. Antone, salesman for an Eastern
firm, but made a mistake and took the
sample cases of Charles H. Anderson,
salesman for a Philadelphia house.
Antone s sample case contained $100,-
000 worth of stones.
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Newport’s Newest
Beauty 6 Feet 2
NEWPORT, Aug. 28.—Mrs. Mitchell
Henry is New port's newest and most
amazing beauty.
Apparently Newport’s taste has
veered from the petite and dainty.
For Mrs. Henry, according to report,
stands six feet, two Inches, in her
stockings. ,
Mrs. Henry is an Englishwoman.
On her last trip across she came
with the Duke and Duchess of Man
chester. They visited the Goulds at
Lakewood. They are now visiting
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred G. Vanderbilt
at Oakland Farm
'Don’t Worry,’ Says
Woman 103 Years Old
WHITTIER, CAL.. Aug. 28— Mrs.
Lydia Heald Sharpless has Just cele
brated her 103d anniversary.
Mrs. Sharpless, who was the first
woman In Whittier to register after
the enfranchisement of women, said
her longevity was due to her living up
to her motto, “don’t worry.”
Milwaukee to Have
4 Women ‘Sheriffs'
LAW BARS HUERTA AS CANDIDATE
“It should be well understood that the ad interim constitutional President could not be elected President
or Vice President at the forthcoming elections, already called for October, because our own laws prohibit him.
from being a candidate.
‘Neither the solemn declaration of this high functionary (Huerta) nor the most insignficant of his acts—
all of which have been done with a view of obtaining a complete parifleation of the country, which is the
supreme national aim, and which he has decided to briing about in spite of everything—has authorized any
one even to suspect that such are not his ultimate intentions.''
CHARGE D’AFFAIRES OF
U, S, AT MEXICO CITY
NELSON O ’SI IA U( i IIN ESSE Y, WIFE AND CHILD.
Moonshiners Saved
By a Mountain Girl
ASHEVILLE, Aug. 28.—Betrayed
by an apparently unobserving, sing
ing, barefooted mountain girl, three
internal revenue officers, working out
of the Asheville headquarters of the
department, after walking 51 miles
In three days through the mountain
fastnesses of Western North Carolina,
lost their would-be prisoners, but
managed to seize four Illicit distil
leries in Graham County.
Officers Henry, Shelton and Brown
have made a report of the cas** to
their chief, R. B. Sams, in Asheville.
Insanity Follows
Holy Roller Trance
GADSDEN. Aug. 28.—James Brown,
a Marshall County farmer, has gone
violently insane following religious
excitement* cause by a Holy Roller
meeting which he attended. He was
taken to the asylum at Tuscaloosa
to-day.
When Brown “got religion" he talk
ed In “strange tongues” while under
the “spell” that followers of the cult
claim was cast over him. He never
recovered his mind after going into
a trance.
MILWAUKEE. WIS., Aug. 28-
Four women Deputy Sheriffs have
been apj>ointed by Sheriff McGreal,
their terms to sover the period of the
i State Fair, September 8 to 12.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia—Local showers Thurs
day; fair Friday.
Deputy Sheriffs
Arrested as Rioters
STEUBENVILLE. OHIO. Aug 38 —
John F. Lloyd, secretary and treas
urer of the Pipe Tin Plaie Mill: Edward
Mensor, manager; Captain .John Brad
ley, and four deputy sheriffs, were ar
rested and lodged In the county jail
without ball to-day on the charge of
having participated in the rial In this
city In which eleven men, mostly mill
strikers, were shot.
The four deputies defied the city police
and threatened to shoot them when
taken.
House Delays Probe
of Speer Until Fall
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.—The House
Judiciary Committee met this after
noon and considered the request of
Judge Emory Speer of Georgia that the
investigation of his alleged misconduct
be postponed until cold weather. It was
agreed to put it off puntil the late fall
Judge Speer yesterday submitted a
statement by his physician that he was
suffering with hay fever and asthma,
and to come to Washington at this
time of'the year might endanger his life.
Escaped Decatur
Convict Captured
AUGUSTA, GA.. Aug. 28.—Will Peel
er. an escaped convict, who was serv
ing a 15-year term on the DeKalb
County chaingang for burglary, com-
mited In Burke County nearly three
years ago, was captured late Wednes
day Just after he had come over the
North Augusta bridge from South
Carolina.
Peeler will be returned to the De-
Kalb County authorities.
SANTA CRUZ, MEXICO, Aug. 28.—It was learned on the high
est authority to-day that if President Huerta is forced to resign at
the behest of the United States he will head a fresh revolution and
will place himself at the head of all the regular soldiers who will
mutiny.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.—John Lind, special envoy from
President Wilson, in Mexico, was to-day ordered to return to Mexi
co City from Vera Cruz.
The order for the return to the Mexican capital of Mr. Lind
followed the receipt here of a very optimistic message from Mr.
Lind in Vera Cruz.
It is probable, unless the present program mascarries, that
there will be & full discussion in the Mexican capital to-morrow
night or Sunday relative to the chief points at issue between the
United States and Mexico, the principal one of which is the elimi
nation of Huerta.
In his latest note to the American goverment Huerta with
draws his demand for an immediate exchange of Ambassadors be
tween the two governments, which would involve recognition, and
amends this to ask that the present personnel of the Embassy in
Mexico City be kept unchanged until after the October elections.
General Huerta points out in
his second note that a provisional
President of Mexico is debarred
by the Mexican constitution from
succeeding himself. Therefore,
the request made in the Ameri
can nte that he, not be a candi
date was made without knowl :
edge of the Mexican constitu
tion, which expressly stipulates
the very thing anticipated by
the American proposals.
This would indicate on the face
of it that Huerta admita that he con
stitutionally la debarred from being a
candidate at the polls next October.
It Is pointed out In administration
circles, however, that General Huerta
may resign the presidency at any
time between now and October and
thus make himself eligible as a can
didate.
Cunning Trap Seen.
The second note does not carry
much weight in Washington. State
Department officials see In it a clev
erly devised trap by which the United
States would recognize the present
de facto administration of Mexico. If
It assented to Huerta’s view and as
sumed that he was constitutionally
rovisional President of Mexico
the
ad Interim the United States would
have swept the ground from beneath
Its feet In Its refusal to recognize the
Huerta regime in Mexico as more
than a de facto administration.
Unusual activity was noticed in the
White House, and in the State and
War Departments. Secretary of
State Bryan expressed belief that his
message of the day previous to the
United States Embassy and to all
consular agents, instructing them to
render every possible aid to Amer
icans departing from Mexico, would
prevent any Americans from suffer
ing at the hands of the Mexicans.
The consular agents have been in
structed to provide with funds every
American not able financially to buy
passage to the United States, and a
number of ships are riding In every
Mexican harbor, ready to aid in the
exodus.
Following a long conference between
President Wilson and Assistant Sec
retary of War Breckenridge. It was
expected that a movement of troops
would be Immediately ordered to the
Mexican border. It is the President's
plan, not only to strengthen the bor
der patrol, but he desires the strictest
vigilance by troops already guarding
the international line.
The full text of the answer of Fred
eric Gamboa, Mexican Foreign Min
ister, to the note sent to him by Spe
cial Envoy John Lind, under date of
August 25, characterized by Minister
Gamboa as Mr. Lind’s second note,
follow »:
“Yesterday I had the honor of re
ceiving from your hands a note in
which you are pleased to state that al
though you have no instructions from
the President of the United States of
America in the scope of your instruc
tions, you reply to the note of this
Government, given to you through me.
of the 16t6h instant. You are pleased
to repeat from those same instructions
the paragraph, which, translated, says
literally:
“ ‘We wish to act in the present cir
cumstances under the Inspiration of
the most lively and disinterested
friendship. We propose, in all that w*e
do or say by reason of this serious and
intricate situation, not only to main
tain the most scrupulous respect for
the sovereignty and Independence of
Mexico, and we consider ourselves ob
ligated to that respect by all the con
siderations of honor and right, but as
well to give all possible proofs that
we are working only in the interest of
Mexico and not for any person * 01
group of persons who might have
claims relating to themselves or to
their properties in this country and
who might consider* themselves with
a right to demand their settlement.
“ ‘What we intend is to counsel
Mexico for her own good and In the
Interest of her own peace and with
no other object of any kind. The Gov
ernment of the United States would
consider itself discredited if it had in
mind any selfish or ulterior motive,
considering that the negotiations in
hand concern the peace, welfare and
prosperity of a whole people.
“ ‘W'e are working, not with selfish
Interest, but In accordance with the
dictates of our friendship tow'ard
Mexico.’
Denies De Facto Government.
“In spite of the fact that at the
beginning of the note which I now
answer you state that you lack In
structions from the President of the
United States of America after the
statement which I reproduced above,
you state in the name of that same
President that the method indicated in
my note of the 16th instnat in so far as
it concerns the recognition of the
present Government (w’hich I may
say in passing is quite far from be
ing a de facto Government, as you
have chosen to qualify it), or of any
other future Government of Mexico—
this you add is something which only
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