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.VOL. XII. NO. 24. ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1913. By c T »K r &Tcw 2 CENTS. ^ R N E °
LIND GIVES MEXICO TILL THURSDAY TO ACT
CHARLTON CONVERTED ON SHIP AS
HE GOES TO FACE TRIAL AS SLAYER
Porter Charlton and his wife, whom he murdered.
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SLAYER OF YOUTH HELD FOR MURDER
U. 5. ENVOY
Felix Diaz to Run
For Presidency
LONDON, Aug. 30.—Colonel
Felix Diaz, who is en route to
Japan on a special diplomatic
mission, announced here to
day that he will be a candidate
for President of Mexico to
succeed Victoriano Huerta.
The election will be held Oc
tober 16.
Forger Works New
Game So Easily He
Tries Again; Taken
—
Gaines Presley, 22. a negro, tele
phoned to a department store in
Whitehall street, demanding that a
Mexicans Resent Wilson’s Advice httl * f - d0 * en p^ 1-8 of Bt00kln * s and
j change for $6 be sent to No. 67 Gil-
to Americans to Flee Willing |mer street. When the messenger ar-
' j rived, Gaines kept the stockings and
to n62r From President. the change and gave a worthless
check.
But Gaines is ambitious.
Fifteen minutes later he called up
the same department store and gave
the same order.
This time two detectives went to
No. 67 Gilmer street.
Gaines is in jail, with a dozen
charges, apparently one for each of
the stockings, against him. He had
several checks signed “Mrs. A. King."
Editor Refusing to
Retract Story Slain
SULPHUR. OKI.A, Aug. 30.—J. T.
Schenck, editor of The Sulphur Dem
ocrat, is dead to-day because ho re
fused to eat a clipping out of his
newspaper containing adverse criti
cism of John Lindsay, former County
Treasurer.
Lindsay carried the clipping into
the editor’s office and demanded that
Schenck eat it. When Schenck re
fused, Lindsay fired two barrels of a
shotgun into the editor’s body.
Mrs. X. Y. Sage, Sr., wealthy and
well known Atlanta woman, stumbled
when her foot caught in her gown
in alighting from a street car at
Peachtree and North avenue Saturday
and was badly injured.
Persons who saw' the acident rush
ed to her aid and she was taken to
the Elkin Golsmith sanitarium in an
automobile. There it was said she
had broken her left shoulded and that
•he injury was more painful than
Vsferious. Mrs. Sage is a widow.
Mrs. Sage had come in from her
country home at Waliace station on
the Williams road to look over the
apartment she has rented in the hand
some new Ponce de Leon apartments,
opposite ’he Georgia terrace.
Eritzi Scheff Files
Bankruptcy Papers
new YORK, Aug. 3D.—Fritz)
Scheff. the actress, filed a voluntary
petition in bankruptcy. She gave her
liabilities as $149,356 and assets $74,-
923, the latter mostly real estate in
Virginia.
Included In her liabilities is an item
of $100,000 she stated was the amount
of the suit filed against her by the
Shuberts for alleged breach of con
tract.
Miss Scheff “went broke” through
the opera company she managed last
year.
Solicitor General
Of U, S. Resigns
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.—Repre
sentative J. W. Davis of West Vir
ginia. who was named solicitor gen
eral of the United States, tendered
his resignation to the House today.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
COMO, ITALY, Aug. 30.—The
Crown’s Procurator*: has completed
his work of $ ollecting evidence
against Porter Charlton, the young
American wife murderer, and is ready
to go to trial immediately upon Charl
ton's arrival here.
The examining magistrate, or the
judge of Instruction, as he is known
here, to-day completeed his investi
gation of the life Charlton led here
while he and his wife were on their
honeymoon at Lake Como.
It was found that Mr and Mrs.
Charlton were together practically all
the time, and residents of pavilions
at Menaggio. Maltrasco and other pic
turesque villages on the lake Regard
ed them as an ideal couple, despite
the fact that Mrs. Charlton was near
ly twenty years older than her hus
band.
According to word received here,
Charlton was converted by the chap
lain on the liner He D’ltalia, and is
thinking seriously of becoming amis
sionary If he is acquitted.
Judge Charlton, father of the pris
oner, is believed to have mapped out
a line of defense. It probably will
hinge on the contention that Charl
ton was irresponsible at the time the
minder was rommitterr.
In Charlton’s confession, a ropy of
which has been under the scrutiny of
the Crown’s Procuratore for some
weeks, Charlton declared that he had
been goaded to a frenzy by the con
versation and actions of his wife. He
charged that his wife was a woman of
degraded mind and that her conver
sation was replete with indecencies
which he could not bear to hear.
..r~ THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia — Showers Saturday
and Sunday.
President Delayed
On Trip to Cornish
NEW HAVEN, CONN., Aug. 30.—
President Wilson, en route to-day to
his summer home at Cornish, N. H. t
was disappointed to learn that he
could not reach there until 3 o’clock
this afternoon. A delay of two hours
here held up the train.
No telegrams of an official nature
awaited the President here, and Vie
was hopeful that his week at Harla-
kenden house will not be interrupted
by official cares.
Railroads Paying
Taxes; Teachers to
Get More Money
State Treasurer William J. Speer
has received $239,509.79 from rail
roads in payment of 1913 taxes. The
total amount due from corporations
is $725,521.18. It probably will have
been paid by September 10.
Railroads which have p..id are:
Central of Geor ria, $116,859.85;
Southern, $91,217.82, Georgia South
ern and Florida, $25,364.27; Gulf Line,
$2,491.94; Macon and Birmingham,
$2,304.84; South Georgia, $1,270.99.
With the remainder of the taxes in,
another payment of school-teachers is
likely. Another dividend of 20 per
cent to the teachers would make a
total of 40 per cent of the money due.
MEXICO CITY, Aug. 30.—Advices
from Vera Cruz to-day stated that
Special Envoy Lind would not wait
longer than next Thursday for de
velopments to bring him back to
Mexico City. If conditions at that
time are such that the pacification
negotiations can not be resumed he
probably will wait no longer but will
return to Washington.
Foreign Minister Gamboa indicates
that the negotiations are ended bo far
as his Government is concerned and
says that there will be no definite
move on the part of the Mexican Gov
ernment to resume the conversations.
However, Senor Gamboa said that
President Huerta is open to any fur
ther suggestions* that President Wil-
son carqs to make.
Contrary to his purposes President
Wilson’s repeated demands that
Huerta resign have started a presi
dential boom for the Incumbent of
the National Palace. Although Huerta
can not legally succeed himself he
can follow the course adopted by
•orfirio Diaz of resigning on the eve | IT “
of a presidential election and then yy QIHElIl Oil 1 £11*01.0
being re-elected.
In official circles resentment against
President Wilson’s advice to Ameri
cans to flee the country is growing.
It was pointed out that under the
Guadalupe Hidalgo treaty of 1848 j
Mexico is bound to protect all Amer
icans within her border.
This treaty likewise governs inter
national disputes between Mexico and j
the United States. Through disuse j
it fell into obscurity, and this Is the
first time that mention has been
made of it.
President Huerta is preparing to
to have the attention of Secretary
Bryan called to the treaty.
The suggestion has been made that
President Wilson gave ills advice to
Americans not on account of present
conditions here but because of con
templated action by the United
States.
The railway line to Laredo was
opened to-day after having been
closed for a number of months. Reb
els burned a number of bridges along
the line and dynamited tracks. The
Government will endeavor to keep
the line open for troop movements.
Weds Her Jailer
Americans Gather at
Port to Leave.
Blind’ Beggar Peeps
At Slit Skirt; Jailed!*
KANSAS CITY, Aug. 30.*-M. J.
McCarty, who wore a sign saying that t
he had been “deaf, dumb and blind ;
since childhood,’’ began serving 1001
days on the municipal farm to-day.
He forgot his affliction and stared
at an ankle that showed through a
slit skirt.
Mother Away, Cries
Herself to Death
KANSAS CITY, Aug. 30.—Heart -
I broken because her mother and uric Id
had gone to Leavenworth to visit a
fripQd without her. Marry Harrison
cried^herself to death.
She was 23 years old*
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
VERA CRUZ, MEXICO, Aug. 30.—
There are 150 Americans here either
waiting to take passage for the Unit
ed States or for developments which
ill make It possible to remain In
' this country with safety.
Some of the Americans sought in-
! terviews with John Lind, Special En
voy of President Wilson, but Mr. Lind
could give no information.
For the present, it seems, Mr. Lind
and his conferee. Foreign Minister
Gamboa, are marking time.
Consul General Hhanklin in Mexico
City has been authorized to furnisn
passage money to any Americans who
are temporarily out of funds. In spite
of the protestations of the Mexican
Government that all foreigners ar«-
saf*, both Mr. Hhanklin and Charge
d Affaires Nelson O’Shaughnessy, are
urging Americans to leave at once.
The insistency with which Ameri
cans are warned to leave the country
has angered certain men of President
Huerta’s Cabinet.
‘•This is not a country of brigands
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SHERIDAN, WYO„ Aug 30.—
While on parole from sentence of
from four to fourteen years for vol
untary manslaughter, Miss Jessie
Carmen married former Sheriff Jack
Neal, of Buffalo, Wyo., who was
Sheriff of the jail in which Miss
Carmen was incarcerated during her
trial for the death of James McCoy,
of Sheridan.
Bees To Be 'Movie’
Actors for Uncle Sam
WASHINGTON. Aug. 30.—Bees as
“movie” actors have been drafted In
to service by the Department of Ag
riculture.
They will play stellar roles in a
series of films entitled “The Money
Makers,” which will be used to edu
cate farmers in handling these insects.
Mayor of Denver
Operates On Son
DENVER. Aug 30.—Earl Perkins
was operated upon for appendicitis
by his father, Mayor J. M. Perkins,
while his uncles, Msrs. C. C. and I. B.
Perkins, assisted in administering the
anesthetic.
9 Die in Explosion
Of River Steamboat
PITTSBURG, Aug. 30.—Nine men
were killed and six injured to-day
when the steamer Alice wan blown up
In the Ohio River at Zwickley.
The explosion was caused by boiler
trouble.
Munich Refuses to
Stand for 'Trotting'
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
MUNICH. Aug. 30.—Turkey trotting
in exaggerated form is considered a
breach of law here.
A voung couplt trotted in a public
dance hall and * era fined and jailed.
HEELS OF
LEADER
Burman, Henning and Ricken-
backer Forced Out by Accident.
Terrific Pace Is Set.
Walton Griffith Hit
By Auto; Seeks Girl
Driver Who Went On
ELGIN, ILL., Aug. 30.—At the end
of the eighteenth lap, the midway of
the Elgin road race, Anderson in a
Stultz car was in the lead by four
minutes and seven seconds.
Ralph Mulford in a Mason was sec
ond, being thirteen seconds ahead of
Wlshart in a Mercer.
Bob Burman, with his Keeton car.
was out of the race on his seven
teenth lap. His engine collapsed and
he was forced to push the car off the
course.
Joe Dawson’s rear tire Hurst as he
was passing the grandstand and the
rapidly revolving wheel tossed half
of the scorching hot tire Into the
crowd. It narrowly missed several
spectators. A man who attempted to
pick up the piece of rubber was
burped on the hand.
Msrcer Men in Clever Scheme.
When 136 miles had been covered,
the real race had been between Spen
cer Wishart and Ralph Mulford for
second place. Gil Anderson was hold
ing first place with more than five
minutea’ lead.
It was apparent that the race of the
two Mercer cars was being order from
the pits. Ralph De Palma, who now
holds the cup being raced for to-day,
was not attempting to get the speed
out of his car that was In it. Wishart,
his teammate, was setting the pace
for the other drivers, worrying Ralph
Mulford, a contender who was to be
feared more than any other foe of the
Mercer drivers and compelling Ander
son to keep up a pace that taxed his
Stutz car to the utmost.
It was plainly the obpect of the
Mercer pitmen to have Wishart ex
haust the other drivers and ma
chines, and then De Palma could
pick up speed and pass the fagging
leaders.
Henning's Velie car was officially
declared out of the race. He had
covered four laps when his car went
into the ditch.
Two riacers Near Death.
Ed Rlckenbacher in his Mason car,
the first to meet with a mishap, nar
rowly escaped death when his ma
chine went off the track and over
turned. The driver and Edward
O’Donnell, his mechanician, were
thrown clear of the wrecked machine.
A burst tire threw Rlckenbacher out
of his course and the machine turned
into the ditch going at a furious rate
of speed.
O’Donnell was thrown through a wire
fence, but he was not injured. Rick-
enbacher's only injuries were bruises.
A broken axle on the racing car pre
vented its being repaired to continue
the race.
Twelve cars remained In the entry
list at the starting hour. Harry Endi-
cott, who was prevented from winning
third place yesterday by the crowd
rushing out on the track before the
race was over, withdrew his Nyberg
car from to-day’s card.
Hughes Fails to Start.
The Deltal car, which Joe Dawson
drove yesterday, was not made ready
for to-day’s race because no driver
could be found who was considered
competent to handle It. Hughle
Hughes' Tulsa was scratched.
The starters were:
Driver.
Wm Endicott
Rlckenbacher
Walton Griffith, former University
of Georgia and Atlanta Athletic Club
basketball star and now an insurance
agent In the Alfriend Building, was
walking with the aid of a heavy cane
Saturday as the result of contact
Friday afternoon with an electric au
tomobile on Luckle street opposite
the Piedmont Hotel. Mr. Griffith de
clared that he*would like to know who
It was struck him. but that the girl
driving the car kept going and he was
busy attending to a badly sprained
left ankle.
Mr. Griffith was on the way to the
postofficc to buy some stamps, and
then he intended to go home f -r
lunch. As he stepped off the curb the
car hit him, and a well-dressed young
woman exclaimed. “Good Lord. I
didn’t see him at all!”
There were three other women in
the electric, but they made no ef
fort to stop.
Episcopal Church to
Drop Davidson Case
RICHMOND, Aug. 30.—It was an
nounced to-day that Episcopal Church
authorities have decided not to press
charges against the Rev. Charles S.
Davidson, former rector of the
Church of the Epiphany, Atlanta, who
recently sprung a sensation by burn
ing his vestments at Montlcello and
repudiating the church. In fact, the
Rev. Mr. Davidson voluntarily placed
himself beyond the Jurisdiction of the
church by this spectacular action,
rendering prosecution* by the church
unnecessary, it is stated.
The hearing of charges which had
reference to his conduct while rector
at Buchanan, Va., was scheduled to
take place In Roanoke in September.
Tax Equalization
Deferred Till 1914
No attempt will be made this year
at equalisation of taxes provided in
the bill establishing county hoards of
assessors, according to an announce
ment Saturday by John C. Hart, Tax
Commissioner.
Boards will be named In every
county soon after January 1. The
books of the tax receivers will open
February 1 and close May 1. Within
twenty days the assessors will meet
to go over the tax returns. The re
turns, as they are revised by the as
sessors, will be forwarded to the
Comptroller General by July 1.
Judge Hart said the efficacy of the
new law depends upon the character
of the assessors.
$4,300 Confederate
Bills on Prisoner
The finding by the police of $4,300
in Confederate bills, suspiciously ar
ranged in a big wallet so as to ex
hibit merely the denominations, lead
the police to believe they nabbed a
smooth swindler when they arrested
Dennis Camp, a negro.
The wallet waa found In the negro's
home when officers took him into
custody on the charge of burglary.
Recorder Pro Tem Preston Batur-
day morning ordered him held in
bond of $1,000 in two cases of burg
lary, the robbery of two negro
houses.
Car.
Case
Mason
Mason
Mercer
Stutz
Marmon
Mason
Keeton
Velie
Mercer
Isotta
Erwin Special
Mulford
Wishart
Anderson
Dawson
Haupt
Burman
Henning
De Palma
Grant
Bergdoll
Miraflores Locks
Pass Safety Test
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
PANAMA, Aug. 30—The Miraflores
locks were pronounced water-tight,
after water had been turned into them
for a test.
The last Pacific Ocean dyke will
be dynamited Sunday and the water
let Into the canal as far as Mira
flores.
THREE DIE IN EXPLOSION.
ITASCA, TEXAS, Aug. 30.—Three
men were killed to-day when the
boilner In the Itasca Oil Mill ex
ploded.
ACCUSED SLAYER DENIED BOND
CHATTANOOGA, Aug. 30.—The
perliminary hearing of Pete Shipp,
charged with killing Squire C. A. Be
del!, was continued before Magistrate
Ben Bu*h to-day until next Wednes
day. Shipp, who was arrested at
Oakdale, after being recognized by a
railroad engineer* was denied “Loud.
Columbus Court Officer. Held as
Slayer, Condemned for Fatal
Gun Play.
COLUMBUS, Aug. 30.—Shot down
by an officer of the law for an al
leged offenre for which conviction^ 1
would at best have meant only a short
chaingang sentence, the body of Lu
ther Hawkins, an 18-year-old youth
shid to be from Atlanta, to-day lies
in the morgue of a Columbus under
taker. It will be shipped to Hapc-
ville, where Hawkins’ parents reside.
Hawkins was killed because he
lacked 50 cents of sufficient money to
pay a small board bill and ran to es
cape arrest by the officer called by
an irate landlord.
R. W. Willi*, a bailiff, is in jail
charged with murder, as he fired the
shot that killed the youth. Charles
Jordan is the landlord who sought
Hawkins' arrest that resulted In the
youth’s death. No effort will do
made to secure bail for Willis until
him preliminary hearing early next
week
Luther Hawkins, his brother, An
drew, and another youth came to Co
lumbus earlier in the week seeking
work in the cotton mills. They t were
poor boys. They secured board at
Jordan’s home. Friday afternoon they
were called upon to settle their bill.
The three pooled their cash and
counted it. They lacked 50 cents of
having enough to meet the bill.
The landlord said he would have
them arrested and locked in jail for
beating a board bill unless they paid
the whole amount. Making good his
threat, Jordan telephoned to the
Sheriff’s office and asked that an offi
cer be sent to his boarding house.
Bailiff Willis was detailed to answer
the call.
Told Boys to Run.
Mrs. Jordan realized the plight the
boys were in and sympathized with
them, disapproving *t the course
taken by her husband. She told
them to run. They did. Jordan ana
the bailiff started in pursuit In u.
buggy. They soon overtook Luther
Hawkins and called on him to stop.
Fearing he would be landed In jaii.
the frightened youth kept going. Then
Bailiff Willis drew his pistol and fired.
The bullet struck Hawkins in the
back of the head, going through the
skull and lodging over the right eye.
He fell in his tracks, and in a few
minutes was dead, never regaining
consciousness.
Jordan and Willis left the scene.
The killing was reported to the po
lice. Willis later was arrested at
his home. He denied any intent to
kill Hawkins, declaring that he had
fired only to frighten him, and aimed
above his head.
Citizens of Columbus to-day are
condemning the killing as unjustifi
able and unwarranted. It is declared
that the offense for which Hawkins
was sought did not even warrant the
officer in firing at him, even merely to
frighten him.
Sympathy is with the slain youth,
his brother and companion.
A brother of young Hawkins asked
the Atlanta police department to noti
fy the Columbus authorities tp have,
the body sent here, and was referred
to a local undertaker.