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VOL. XII. NO. 24.
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, AUGUST 30,1913. By C TK r &an*bo
2 CENTS.
PAY* NO
MORE
South Georgia
Of TO DEATH FOR DEBT OF FIFTY CENTS
ri iiiuie
Luther Hawkins Victim of Colum
bus Officer Who Sought to
Arrest Him.
COLUMBUS, Aug. 30.—Slain by an
officer who had been called to col
lect a debt of 50 cents, the body of
Luther Hawkins, a white boy, about
18 years of age, to-day lies in a
morgue here, awaiting instructions
from relatives as to its disposition.
Hawkins was shot and instantly killed
by Bailiff L. >Villis in North High
lands late Friday afternoon.
Luther Hawkins, his brother An
drew and another young man came
here a few days ago seeking work at
a cotton mill. They secured board
at the home of Charles Jordan, and
when they were called ,on forpayment,
the amount exceeded by 50 cents the
money they had. Jordan telephoned
th Sheriff's office, asking that a bail
iff be sent to arrest the boys, and
Willis was dispatched to the scene.
Mrs. Jordan, who sympathized with
the boys, advised them to escape,
which they attempted to do, but Lu
ther was seen by the officer, who gave
chase. The boy, badly frightened, be-
%an to run, and the officer fired, the
bullet striking the boy in the back of
the head and, passing through, lodged
just under the rlglr eye. He crawled
a few* feet after falling on his face,
but died in a few minutes, without re
gaining consciousness. ,
When the officer saw’ that the boy
was dying, he said that he had merely
shot in the air to make him stop and
that he did not intend to kill him.
Willis was arrested at his home a
short time after the killing by the
police. He is being held on a charge
of murder.
The Hawkins boys are said to have
come here from Atlanta.
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 Georgia, $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.
JEROME TO 10T0ISTS
CAMINETTI FAILS
SHIFT BLAMETO
TO
DIGGS
Fugitive May Be Freed at Once Death of Samuel Goldstein Under
Only To Be Nabbed on Im
migration Warrants.
Motor Stirs Police Department.
Driver Is Arrested.
Sunday Shaves for
Churchgoers 0. K.’d
PATERSON, N. J., Aug. 30.—A bar
ber may keep his shop open on Sun
day mornings in this town, provided
he does it solely for the purpose of
shaving a man who wants to go to
church.
This ruling was' made by Acting
Recorder St. Lawrence in the case of
a barber jailed on the charge of vie
lating the Sunday closing law, wha
pleaded that he opened his store to
shave a weli-whiskered man who
wanted to go to church and couldn’t
have gone if he hadn’t been snaved.
Woman Knocks Out
Trolley Conductor
CHICAGO, Aug. 30.—Miss Mary
Newaski, 200 pounds of heavier, ap
peared in Municipal Court to-day to
answer a charge of being disorderly.
I She admitted that he action might not
[have been “ladylike,” but insisted that
[it was effective.
Conductor Conway on a Wentwortn
|avenue car accused Miss Newaski of
failing to pay her fare. In the argu
ment Miss Newaski swung the two
corsets she had just purchased for
[herself and brought them dow n on the
head of Conductor Conway. When
2on\vay regained consciousness, he
called a policeman.
Lid Goes on Dancing
In Chicago's Cafes
CHICAGO, Aug. 30.—Chicago tan-
foists early to-day danced and wrig-
iied, dipped and kicked for the last
[ime in the restaurants of the city
To-day the ordinance, prohibiting
^ancing in restaurants and cafes, ex-
ept by professional entertainers, be
came effective.
Every restaurant in the city in
which dancing has been permitted
lamong the patrons celebrated the
|banishment of the dance. Patrons
anced from 6 o’clock last evening
Juntil closing time this morning.
'Editor Refusing to
Retract Story Slain
SULPHUR, OKLA., Aug. 30.—J. Y.
[Schenck, editor of The Sulphur Dem-
jocrat, is dead to-day because he re-
[ fused to eat a clipping out of his
[newspaper containing adverse criti
cism of John Lindsay, former County
i 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
jlhotgun into the editor’s body.
PARIS TIRES OF CABWOMEN.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian, j
PARIS, Aug. 30.—Women cab driv-
rs are disappearlne. A few years
go there w r ere over 100. To-day there
Te only six or seven. The public no
Dnger patronizes tehm.
Baxley Man Freed of
Charge of Swindling
BAXLEY, Aug. 30.—Homer Reed,
Sr., has been vindicated of a charge
of cheating and swindling preferred
by John M. Miles, an Appling County
turpentine operator.
The charge had been pending two
years. In the meantime Reed had
moved from Savannah to New York.
The charge grew' out of the sale by
Reed of 100 shares of the capital
stock of the Rome Insurance Com
pany.
Miraflores Locks
Pass Safety Test
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
PANAMA, Aug. 30 —The Miratiores
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.
Puzzle-Where Are
This Man's Brains?
MEMPHIS. Aug. 30.—Physicians at
a local hospital have found a re
markable patient in Edward Wood-
son. w r ho was shot by Mrs. Julia Tyler.
The bullet passed through his head,
entering the lobe of the left ear and
coming out on the opposite side.
Woodson will recover.
Carnegie Given
A Dutch Medal
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
THE HAGUE, Aug. 30.—Grand
Cross of the Order of Orange-Nassau
was conferred on Andrew Carnegie
by Queen Wilhelminia of The Nether
lands in commemoration of the in
auguration of the Palace of Peace.
Mother Away, Cries
Herself to Death
KANSAS CITY, Aug. 30.—Heart
broken because her mother and undo
had gone to Leavenworth to visit a
friend without her. Marry Harrison
cried herself to death.
She was 23 years old.
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. assiKed in administering the
anesthetic.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia — Showers Saturday
and Sunday.
NEW YORK, Aug. 30.—The World
this morning in its second edition
prints the following:
SHERBROOKE, QUEBEC, Aug. 29.
—Harry Thaw will be delivered to
the Canadian immigfiration authori
ties tomorrow' (Saturday) morning.
A habeas corpus writ will be sued
out by Samuel W. Jacobs, attorney
for the New' York State authorities
before Justice Hutchinson of the
Superior Court here, calling for
Thaw’s appearance immediately.
This means that Thaw will be
taken to court tomorrow <Saturday)
morning.
Jerome Behind Scheme.
powers as Justice Glbensky. H?
Justice Hutchinson has the same
came here late tonight and assured
Messrs. Jacobs, Jerome and Kennedy
that a w’rit would be granted.
Justice Hutchinson assured the
New York officials he would ^ftmiss
the charges against Thaw so that the
Dominion officials might arrest him
on deportation warrants.
Thep lan to get the w'rit w'as en-
giheered by Mr. Jerome, and it is cer
tain it will be the first victory of the
New York officials.
The Thaw lawyers were called back
here hastily, and conferences were
arranged for Saturday morning, but
Justice Hutchinson is determined to
put an end to the farce which is keep
ing Thaw in jail.
Thaw Likened to Rat.
Under the law. Jacobs has the same
right as Thaw's lawyers to serve a
writ, and Mr. Jerome at once recog
nized this.
Thereupon he advised that Justice
Hutchinson be accepted as the au
thority before ^vhom action might be
taken. This plan w'as adopted after
the Thaw legal experts had disap
peared from the scene of action.
“Thaw' reminds me just now of a
rat in a blind hole outside of which
a cat is waiting,’’ William T. Jerome
said.
Ashley Opens War on
Sidewalk Oil Tanks
Councilman Cluade L. Ashley is aft
er the automobile supply merchants
and others who have installed gaso
line tanks on the sidew'alks in front
of their places of business. At the
meeting of the Street Committee of
the Council Friday, he declared the
tanks w'ere a nuisance and were il
legal.
His protest held up the petition of
the H. W. Bower Company for per
mission to install tanks at No. 107
Marietta street, No. 14 West Harris
street. No. 16 East Tenth street and
No. 107 North Pryor street. 4 City At
torney Mayson was asked for an opin
ion. His ruling will affect many mer
chants.
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.,
was disappointed to learn that he
could not reach there until 3 o’clock
this afternoon. A delay of tw'o hours
here held up the train.
No telegrams of an official nature
aw'aited the President here, and he
was hopeful that his w r eek at Harla-
kenden house will not be interrupted
by official cares.
‘Blind’ Beggar Peeps
At Slit Skirt; Jailed
KANSAS CITY. Aug. 30—M. J.
McCarty, who wore a sign saying that
he had been “deaf, dumb and blind
since childhood,” began serving 100
days on the municipal farm to-day.
He forgot his affliction and 6tared
at an ankle that showed through a
slit ikirt.
Aroused by the frequency of serious
automobile accidents, the police Sat
urday are holding T. A. Curtis, of No.
359 East Tunter street, for the death
of Samuel Goldstein, of No. 336 Wash
ington street.
Goldstein died from injuries re
ceived w hen struck by an automobile
driven by Curtis Friday.
Curtis claims that he did every
thing possible to prevent the acci
dent, and denies the charge of eye
witnesses that he put on extra speed
after running down Mr. Goldstein.
The injured man w'as rushed to the
Atlanta Hospital, where an investi
gation revealed a fractured skull. He
died a short while later, having never
regained consciousness.
Goldstein had just left a car at
the comer of Washington and Crum
ley street when struck by the ma
chine. According to the conductor,
the automobile knocked him down
and then passed over his body, while
the driver speeded up and made away
as quickly as possible.
Denies He Speeded Away.
The conductor caught the number
of the car and reported it to the po
lice, and shortly before midnight De
tectives Harper and Garner arrested
Curtis at his home. He made no de
nial of the accident, but denied that
he speeded away from the scene after
the accident.
“I was driving a car which had not
been run since last fall,” said Curtis,
w'ho works for the Block & Thompson
garage at the corner of Ivy and Gil
mer streets. “We had a chance to
sell the car, and I was trying it out to
see what condition it was in. As I
was going out Washington street I
saw’ the car stop and two men get
off. I was not going very fast, and as
the car stopped I applied my brakes,
but something went wrong and they
wouldn’t work.
“Mr. Goldstein was about halfway
the length of the car and it looked to
me as if he was going to get out of
my way.
Couldn’t Stop Machine.
“When I saw' that he was not, I
honked my horn and yelled at him,
but he did not seem to hear. In an
effort to prevent striking him, l
turned my car to the curb, but the
front wheels would not take it and
skidded along. I did not run over
him, but the side of the car stru-K
him, throw’lng him to the pavement.
“My machine ran on for some dis
tance before I could stop it, the brakes
being completely out of order, and
after it stopped I went back and of
fered assistance.”
Mr. Goldstein was one of the most
prominent real estate men in Atlanta
and had spent most of his life here.
He is survived by two children, Mrs.
Sadie Gordon and Abe Goldstein. The
body was removed to the Greenberg
& Bond undertaking establishment
and funeral arrangements will be an
nounced later.
Man Hit by Auto Is
In Serious Condition.
G. Y. Yarber of Vlning’s station,
who was knocked down by' an auto
mobile in Forsyth Stree’t Friday af
ternoon Is at Grady Hospital in a
serious condition. His skull is frac
tured. No case has been made aginst
j Dr. J. K. Barrett of No. 92 I^awton
1 street, who was driving the car that
struck Yarber. Eye-witnesses say the
accident was unavoidable.
Mr. Yarber, it was said, attempted
to cross the street midway between
Mitchell and Hunter streets. The
street w'as crowded with vehicles. A»
Yarber stepped from behind a trolley
car Dr. Barrett’s auto, going south,
struck him. Dr. Barrett took him to
the hospital.
Mrs. F. Drew
Caminetti, wife
of the defend
ant in the
famous white
slave trial. She
is not attending
the trial, as did
the wife of
Maury Diggs,
the other
defendant.
‘Moosers’ Celebrate
Their First Birthday
CHICAGO, Aug. 30.—Progressives
from every Middle West State gath
ered here today for a picnic in River
side Park. The Chicago Progressive
Club welcomed the guests from nut
side the city with a noon luncheon.
Speches by James K. Garfield.
Henry J. Allen and Mrs. Grace Wil
bur Trout, wffio was one of the in
fluential women in getting the Illi
nois Legislature to adopt equal suf
frage, were scheduled. A message
from Colonel Theodore Roosevelt will
be read.
Germany Refuses to
Stand for ‘Trotting’
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
MUNICH, GERMANY, Aug. SO.—
Turkey trotting in exaggerated form
is considered a breach of law here.
A young couple trotted in a public
dance hall and were fined and jailed.
Young Woman a Daily Visitor to
Condemned Husband’s Cell
in Fulton County Tower.
8 Killed in Blowup
Of River Steamboat
PITTSBURG. Aug. 30—Eight men
were killed and six injured to-dav
when the steamer Pilot was blown up
in the Ohio River at Zwickley.
The explosion was caused by boiler
trouble.
Judge Angered by Attempt of the
Defense to Squirm From Un
der the Charges.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 30.—Attor-
neys for F. Drew Caminetti, charged
with being a white slaver, have made
no apparent headway in th«!r efforts
to put the blame for the elopement
to Reno of Maury Diggs, already con
victed on a white slave charge; Mar
sha Warrington, Lola Norri# and
Caminetti upon the shoulders of
Diggs.
Questions purporting to show that
Diggs was the moving spirit in ar
ranging and managing the trip from
Sacramento to Reno aroused Federal
Judge VanFleet until he asked At
torney Howe:
“Is it your theory that Caminetti
was also abducted and taken over to
Reno?”
When court adjourned last evening
until next Tuesday, Marsha Warring
ton had finished her direct testimony.
She will be recalled by the deefnse’s
attorneys.
The surprise of the trial came yes
terday when Thomas H. Warrington,
father of Marsha Warrington, testi
fied in place of his daughter. White-
haired, clean-shaven, kindly faced, he
testified that F. Dre.v Caminetti, the
defendant charged with violating the
Mann white slave traffic act, called
frequently i. his house for his daugh
ter under the name of “Mr. Whit
man.” Mr. Warrington supposed
“Whitman” was an honorable suitor
for his daughter’s hand.
M. J. Sullivan, probation officer of
Sacramento County, testified that
there had been no complaint made to
him about either Lola Norris or Mar
sha Warrington previous to their
flight on March 10. On cross-exami
nation Marshall Woodworth began to
bring out evidence directly damaging
to the character of Caminetti.
Complaints about both Diggs and
•Caminetti had been brought to Sulli
van about a week before the elope
ment to Reno. Two young girls were
involved and on# of them was now
in St, Catherine’s Home in this city.
HUERTA ANGRY AS
AMERICANS FLEE
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
VERA CRUZ, MEXICO, Aug 30. -
There are 150 Americans here either
w'aiting to take passage for the Unit
ed States or for developments which
will 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 Shanklin in Mexico
City has been authorized to furnisn
passage money to any Americans w r ho
are temporarily out of funds. In spite
of the protestations of the Mexican
Government that all foreigners are
safe, both Mr. Shanklip. and Charge
d’Affaires Nelson O’Shaughnessy ara
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
and boxers,” declared Senor Gamboa.
“We are able to protect ail foreign
peoples. It is not necessary for them
to leave.”
Dr. Urrutia, Minister of the Interior
and the firebrand of the Mexican Cab
inet, denounced the warning as a tricx
on the part of President Wilson to
mislead other nations as to the actual
conditions here.
“Foreign countries are led to believe
that a state of anarchy prevails all
over Mexico, but as a matter of fact
the greater part of the country is
tranquil,” declared Urrutia.
There will be a big demonstration
in Mexico City to-morrow.
French Approve of
U. S. Peace Move.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Ge^.gian.
PARIS, Aug. 30.—The Martin to
day stated that the Frnech ministry
of foreign affairs was convinced that
the United States has the peace and
w'ell being of the Mexican republic
at heart.
“The sincerity and forbearance of
the American people Is w'onderful and
commendable,” said this paper.
The diplomatic representatives of
France at Mexico City have been in
structed to help the United States in
every way possible to bring about
order in Mexico. There is at least
$75,000,000 French capital invested in
Mexico.
Never abaltlng In her loyalty even
after her husband had been convict
ed of one of the most shocking crimes
in th* history of Georgia, Mrs. Leo
M. Frank has been a daily visitor at
the Fulton County Tower since the
and of the trial and has assisted
Frank materially In going over the
mountain of testimony that piled up
during the four week**.
Her Intense Interest in each de
velopment of the case that was man
ifested throughout the trial now Is
receiving a most practical application.
While the battle for her husband’s
!<f‘: was in progress she could only
I suggest now' and then to Frank, by
whom she sat. or to one of his* law
yers, who sat Juwt In front of frrr.
Sees Frank Each Day. * ^QJ 1 ,
When Solicitor Dorsey declared
that she never had gone to the po
lice station to see her huaband and
laid great s»re«s on this point aa
an Indication that she knew Frank
w’a«* guilty, she leaned forward In an
excited protest, but as no wife Is
permitted to testify for or againat
her husband In a case of this sort,
she w'as forced to keep her silence.
When the new trial comes—and
she Is confident that one Is coming—
r*he propones to see that there shall
be some w'ay to show that she never
for a moment entertained the shadow
of a doubt of her husband’s innocence
.and that her demeanor at no time
could be construed as one of sus
picion
Ev*ry afternoon from about 3
o’clock until 5 she is with Frank In
his quarters at the Tower. She nev
er is quite able to escape from th#
consciousness that her husband of on
ly a few years is in the shadow of
the gallows and that, if the judge’s
sentence were to be carried out with
out appeal, he would be hanged as the
brutal murderer of Mary Phagan on
October 10.
Reassured by Husband.
She is, how’ever, reassured by her
husband’s cheerful optimism and she
enters eagerly with him into the
preparation of certain phases of the
case, in w'h’ch Frank is assisting his
lawyers. With Frank, she is sifting
out all in the testimony of the State
and all in the argument of the Solici
tor that is declared by the defense to
be false or without foundation. On
these points the attack of Frank’s
lawyers will be centered if the new
trial is granted by Judge Roan or by
the Supreme Court of the State.
She talks with her husband about
the every-day events at home part
of the time she is with him, but the
greater share of the time is spent in a
discussion of his case and the best
way in which to attack the barrier of
evidence that the State has erected
about him.
Mother Leaves C«ty.
Mrs. Rea Frank, mother of the con
victed man, Joined in these confer
ences for a while, but it became im
perative for her to return to Brook
lyn, where her aged husband is crit
ically ill. She Is expected to be in
Atlanta at the time the arguments
for a new trial take place before
Judge Roan October 4.
Frank’a father, because of his in
validism, was unable to be present at
any time during the rtial. The news
of his son’s conviction was a great
blow to him. and for a time the phy
sicians feared for his life.
Reuben Arnold, w’ho has been rest
ing for a few days since the trial, is
expected to be back at w-ork at the
case next week. A long fight in the
courts ’s anticipated before Frank’s
fate finally is decided. A refusal by
Judge Roan to grant a new trial will
mean an appeal to the Suprem# Court,
and this undoubtedly will entail
month* of litigation*