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VOL. XII. NO. 24. ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, AUGUST 30,1913. By^TOVATb* 2 CENTS. *&&<>
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MRS. FRANK AIDS FIGHT FOR LIFE
RENOUNCES SOCIETY
AND ENTERS CONVENT
MISS NORA M’CALL.
Young Woman a Daily Visitor to
Condemned Husband’s Cell
in Fulton County Tower.
Never abaiting In her loyalty even
after her husband had been convict
ed of one of the most shocking crimes
In the history of Georgia, Mrs. Leo
M. Frank has been a dally visitor at
the Fulton County Tower since the
end of the trial and has assisted
* Frank materially in going over the
moustsdn of testimony that piled up
during the four weeks.
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
life was In progress she could only
suggest now and then to Frank, by
whom sue sat. or to one of his law
yers, who sat just in front of her.
Sees Frank Each Day,
When Solicitor Dorsey declared
that she never had gone to the po
lice station to see her husband and
laid great stress on this point as
an indication that she knew Frank
was guilty, she leaned forward In an
excited protest, but as no wife is
permitted to testify for or against
her husband in a case of this sort,
she was forced to keep her silence.
When the new trial comes—and
she is confident that one Is coming—
she proposes to see that there shall
be some way 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.
Every afternoon from about 2
o'clock until 5 she is with Frank in
his quarters at the Tower. She nev
er is quite able to escape from the
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 Alary Phagan on
October 10.
Reassured by Husband.
She is, however, reassured by her
husband's cheerful optimism and she
enters eagerly with him into the
preparation of certain phases of the
rase, in which 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 la 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.
lylother Leaves City.
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 in crit
ically 111. She is expected to be in
Atlanta at the time the arguments
for a new trial take place before
Judge Roan October 4.
Frank's 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 greai
blow to him, and for a time the phy
sicians feared ter his Ilfs.
Railroads Paying
Taxes; Teachers to
Get More Money
State Treasurer William J. Speer
has received $239,509.79 from rail
roads in payment gf 1913 taxes. The
total amount due from corporations
Is $725,021.18. It probably will have
been paid by September 10.
Railroads which have paid 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.
AUTflISTS
Ashley Opens War on
Sidewalk Oil Tanks
Councilman Claude L. Ashley is aft
er the automobile supply merchants
and others who have installed gaso
line tanks on the sidewalks in front
of their places of business. At the
meeting of the Street Committee of
the Council Friday, he declared the
tanks were 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. City At
torney Mayson was asked for an opin
ion. His ruling will affect many mer
chants.
Death of Samuel Goldstein Under
Motor Stirs Police Department.
Driver Is Arrested,
Tax Equalization
Deferred Till 1914
No attempt will be made this year
at equalization of taxes provided in
the bill establishing county boards 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 lo the
Comptroller General by July 1.
Judge Hart said the efficacy of the
new law depends upon the character
of the assessors.
Woman Knocks Out
Trolley Conductor
CHICAGO, Aug. 30.—Miss Mary
New’aski, 200 pounds of heavier, ap
peared in Municipal Court to-day to
answer a charge of being disorderly.
She admitted that her action might not
have been "ladylike,” but insisted that
it was effective.
Conductor Cpnway on a Wentwortn
avenue car accused Miss Newaskl 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 down on the
head of Conductor Conway. When
Conway regained consciousness, he
called a policeman.
Lid Goes on Dancing
In Chicago's Cafes
CHICAGO, Aug. 30.—Chicago tan-
goists early to-day danced and wrig
gled, dipped and kicked for the last
time in the restaurants of the city
To-day the ordinance prohibiting
dancing in restaurants and cafes, ex
cept by professional entertainers, be
came effective.
Every restaurant in the eity in
which dancing ha® been permitted
among the patrons celebrated the
banishment of the dance. Patrons
danced from 6 o’clock last evening
until closing time this morning.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia — Showers Saturday
and Sunday.
Fugitivs Loses for First Time in
His Fight Against Deportation
to United States.
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 when 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.
TUe injured man w f as rushed to the
Atlanta Hospital, where an invest!- I
gation revealed a fractured skull. He
died a short while later, having never
regained consciousness.
Goldstein had just left a car at
the corner 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,
who 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, I
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, throwing him to the pavement.
“My machine ran on for some dis
tance before I could atop 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, Mr*
Sadie Gordon and Abe Goldstein. The
body was removed to the Greenberg
& Bond undertaking establishment
and funeral arrangements will be an
nounced later.
SHERBROOKE, QUE., Aug. 30.-—
Harry K. Thaw, for the first time
since he crossed the border into Can
ada. lost a skirmish to-day in the
battle which must result either in his
release or his deportation.
Attorneys representing the Canadi
an Government strained every point
possible in the endeavor to put Thaw
into the hands of the immigration au
thorities for deportation to-night.
They did not succeed in this, but
they did succeed in strategy, which
caught the defense unprepared, when
Constable Boudereau, of Quebec, was
given a writ of habeas corpus, re
turnable Tuesday. The Constable
is in the position of demanding the
liberty of the man he arrested on Ca
nadian soil.
C. D. White 1 mngrn. R Frazer,
Thaw’s barristers here, regard the sit
uation as so menacing that they tele
graphed J. N. Greenshleld, an asso
ciate in the case, to come at once
from Montreal. He hired a special
train and set out with the avowed in
tention cf breaking all speed records
for the 100 miles* t oSherbrooke.
Jerome was jubilant.
“Harry is just as good as on the
way to Matt*awan now,” he said.
The Pght opened to-day when Thaw
did not appear in court in answer to
a writ o* habeas corpus returnable at
10 o'clock this morning
As the upshot of the early argu
ments came the Boudereau writ—
habeas corpus writ No. 3—in the
case.
City Officers Will
Observe Labor Day
The city hall wil be closed Mon
day, Labor Day. An order granting
Woodward Friday afternoon, and the
building will be closed all day,
though the Mayor announces that h«
may be doing a little work In his
private office.
Monday is the regular meeting
day of the council, but even if a
quorum is present it is doubtful if
a meeting wil be held. Instead ad
journment will be taken and the
mmbers probably go to the ball game
in a body.
Man Hit by Auto Is
In Serious Condition.
G. Y. Yarber of Vinings station,
who was knocked dgwn by an auto
mobile in Forsyth Street Friday af
ternoon is at Grady Hospital in a
serious condition. His skull is frac
tured. No case has been made agipst
Dr. J. K. Barren of No. 92 Lawton
street, who was driving the car that
struck Yarber. Pye-witnessew say the
accident was unavoidable,
Mr. Yarber, it was said, attempted
to cross the street midway between
Mitchell and Hunter streets. The
street was crowded with vehicles. As
Yarber stepped from behind a trolley
car Dr. Barrett's auto, going south,
struck him. Dr. Barrett took him to
lh^ hospital.
Fire Threatens Huge
British War Stores
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
QUEENSTOWN, IRELAND, Aug.
30.—Fire broke out to-day on Haul-
bowline Island in Cork Harbor, where
the naval warehouses and stores are
located. There are a number of pow
der and dynamite magazines on the
island.
The flames spread swiftly, threat
ening to sweep the island.
Carnegie Given
A Dutch Medal
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
THE HAGUE, Aug. 30.— Grand
Cross of the order of Qrange-Naswau
wa* conferred on Andrew Carnegie
by Queen Wilhelmtaiia of The Nether
lands in commemoration of the in
auguration of the Palace of Peace.
She is
niece of
Tammany
candidate
for Mayor
of New York.
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New York Beauty Declares She
Has Had Lifelong Desire to
Make Such Sacrifice.
Mother Away, Cries
Herself to Death
KANSAS GITY. 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.
c?he -3 year* old*
NEW YORK. Aug. 30.—Actuated by
a lifelong desire to give herself, her
brain and body, her education and
talents to the service of God, MU*
Nora McCall, young and beautiful,
will renounce the world and society
on September 8 and enter the Sacred
Heart Convent. In thr* e month® she
will become a novice, then a nun for
eeven years, and she will then take
the vow® which will »hut her off for
ever from the outside world-
Miss McCall Is one of the mos‘
popular members of New York so
ciety, and is a niece of Public Serv
ice Commissioner McCall. Tammany
candidate for Mayor. Until she en
ters the convent at Kenwood, near
Albany, she will be the center of
gayety and many fetes will be given
In her hono**.
In an interview’ in which she ex
plained why she will become a nun,
Mis® McCall likens the sacrifice of
friends and happiness she will be
compelled to make to the sacrifice of
a soldier who gives up hi® loved ones
to tight for the honor of his country.
“We must sacrifice ourselves for
a principle, M Miss McCall said, “the
se*tidier sacrifices his home, his loved
ones, everything that is dear, for a
principle—for the honor of hi® coun
try. The same reason stands him
in good stead when death cornea, and
he smile® and passes on gladly, giv
ing his life to service.
"My sacrifice will be to give up the
thing® I have always done, my friends,
gayety and.jharm of society; to
give up dancing, singing and playing
which as u girl I love.
"I have been loved all my life. 1
have been shown every luxury and
have boon showered with attentions
and blessings. Yet through It all 1
had a feelirg that it was not right—
I had an indescribable desire to give
myself to God while I was young and
fresh, keen and warm-blooded. God
does not want the useless husks—
people who have known pleasure and
life and turn to Him merely because
they seek a new diversion. He wants
youth and talent, fresh, young peo
ple who will give their lives to him
through love of service.’
President Delayed
On Trip to Cornish
NEW HAVEN. CONN.. Au*. SO.—
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 two hours
here held up the train.
No telegrams of an official nature
awaited the President here, and he
was hopeful that his week at Harla-
kenden house will not be interrupted
by official cares.
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‘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 stared
at an ankle that showed through a
slit skirt.
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Editor Refusing to
Retract Story Slain
SULPHUR, OKLA., Aug. 30.—J. Y.
Schenck, editor of The Sulphur Dem
ocrat, 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
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
bhotgun into the editor's body.
Rickenbacher and Mechaniciar
Miraculously Escape as Speed
ing Car Turns Turtle.
COLUMBUS, Aug. 30.—Shot down by an officer of the law
for an alleged offense for which conviction would at best have
meant only a short chaingang sentence, the body of Luther Haw
kins, an 18-year-old youth said to be from Atlanta, to-day lies in
the morgue of a Columbus undertaker, awaiting instructions from
the slain boy’s relatives.
Hawkins was killed because he lacked 50 cents of sufficient
money to pay a small board bill and ran to escape arrest by the
officer called by an irate landlord.
L. Willis, a bailiff, is held in jail charged with murder, as he
fired the shot that killed the youth. Charles Jordan is the land
lord who sought Hawkins' arrest that resulted in the youth's
death.
Luther Hawkins, his brother
Andrew and another youth came
to Columbus earlier in the
week seeking work in the cotton
mills. They 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 <>0
cents of having enough to meet
the bill.
The landlord said he would have
them arrested and locked in Jail for
heating 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.
Mrs. Jordan realized the plight the
boys were In and sympathized with
them, disapproving of the course
taken by her husband. She told
them to run. They did. Jordan ana
the bailiff started in pursuit in a
buggy. They soon overtook Luther
Hawkins and called on him to stop.
Fearing he would be landed in Jail,
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 unarranted. It Is declareo
that the offense for which Hawkins
was sought did not even warrant the
ofiieer is firing at him. even merely to
frighten him.
Sympathy is with the slain youth,
his brother and companion.
Puzzle--Where Are
This Man’s Brains?
MEMPHIS. Aug. 30.—Physicians at
a local hospital have found a re.
markable patient in Edward Wood*
I ton, who was shot by Mrs. Julia Tyler.
The bullet panned through hi® head,
entering the lobe of the left ear and
coming out on the opposite side.
Woodaon will recover.
ELGIN, ILL., Aug. 30.—“Bill" En-
dlcott in his Case Tornado racing car
shot over the line al exactly 11
o’clock to-day and the Elgin national
road race, the big event of the fourth
annual auto speed program here, was
on.
At 30-second intervals eleven other
racers were sent away by Starter
Fred Wagner.
A crowd estimated at 50,000. which
officials of the race said would be in
creased to 75,000 before the close of
the race, watched the beginning of
the Western motor classic.
Ralph DePalma wa® given a rousing
send-off. He was defending the cup,
which he won in this race last year,
and he was wearing the laurels he
won yesterday when he finished first
In the Chicago Automobile Club tro
phy event.
Two Racer# 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 Rickenbacher out
of his course and the machine turned
into the ditch going at a furious rate
of speed.
'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 wa® prevented from winning
third plyce 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. Hughia
Hughes’ Tul6a was scratched.
The starters were:
Car.
Case
Mason
Mason
Mercer
Btuta
Marmon f
Mason
Keeton
Velie
Mercer
Isotta
Erwin Special
Driver.
Wm Endlcott
Rickenbacher
Mulford
Wish art
Anderson
Dawsorj
Haupt
Burrnan
Henning
Pe Palma
Grant
Wergdoll
J. J. THOMAS HONORED.
J. Jefferson Thomas has been ap-
’ pointed adjutant general on Gercnal
Joseph W. Preston’s staff, Commander
of eGorgia Division, U. C.
Mayor of Denver
Operates On Son
DENVER, Auk, SO.—Earl Perkin*
was operated upon for appendicitis
by Ills father. Mayor J. M. Perkins,
while his uncles, Msrs C. C- and 1. B.
Perkins, assisted In administering th«
anesthetic. L