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VOL. XII. NO. 24.
ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1913. 2 CENTS.
CHARLTON CONVERTED ON SHIP AS
H E GOES TO FAC E TRIA L AS SLAYER
Porter Charlton and his wife, whom he murdered.
IS. SAGS HURT
IH FALL FIFA
STREET GAH
Mrs. I. T. 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
serious. Mrs. Sage is a widow.
Mrs. Sage had come in from her
country home at Wallace station on
the Williams road to look over the
apartment she has rented in the hand
some new Ponce de Leon apartments,
opposite the Georgia terrace.
Fritzi Scheff Files
Bankruptcy Papers
NEW YORK, Aug. 31.—Fritlzi
Scheff, the actress, filed a voluntary
petition in bankruptcy. She gave her
liabilities as $149,856 and assets $74,-
923, the latter mostly real estate in
Virginia.
Included in her liabilities is an item
ef $100,000 she stated was the amount
of the suit filed against her by the
Shuberts for alleged breach of con
tract. ,
Miss Scheff “went broke’ through
the opera company she managed last
year.
McDermott Quizzed
On Pawnbroker Bill
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 —Repre
sentative James A, McDermott, of Il
linois. was qusetioned by the House
Lobbv Inquiry Committee to-day as
to relations with Washington pawn
brokers. who, according to previous
testimony, loaned him money and
were quite friendly with him about
the time the loan shark bill was be
fore the House. This bill threatened
to drive all pawnbrokers here out of
business.
On to-day’s cross-examination de
pends whether the committee will
recommend McDermott's expulsion
from the House.
Courtroom at Como, Scene of the
Tragedy, Set for Life Battle
of Young American.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
COM*), ITALY, Aug. 31.—The
Crown's Procuralort- has completed
his work of collecting; evidence
against Porter Charlton, the young
American wife murderer, and is ready
to go to trial immediately upon Charl
ton’s arrival here.
The examining magistrate, or the
judge of Instruction, as he is known
here, to-day completeed his investi
gation of the life Charlton led here
while he and his wife were on their
honeymoon at Lake Como.
It was found that Mr. and Mrs.
Charlton were together practically all
the time, and residents of pavilions
at Menaggio, Maltrasco and other pic
turesque villages on the lake regard
ed them a$ 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 Re 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
muider was committerr
In Charlton’s confession, a copy 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.
President Delayed
On Trip to Cornish
NEW HAVEN, CONN., Aug. 31.—
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.
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.-UI are:
Central of Geoi la, $116,859.85;
Southern. $91,r 17.82, 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 la,
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.
‘Blind’ Beggar Peeps
At Slit Skirt; Jailed
KANSAS CITY, Aug. 31.—M. J.
McCarty, who wore a sign saying that
he had »heen “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 skirl.
Mother Away, Cries
Herself to Death
KANSAS CITY. Aug. 31.—Advices
broken because her mother and uncla
had gone to Leavenworth to visit a
friend without her. Marry Harrison
cried herself to death.
She was 23 years old.
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SLAYER OF YOUTH HELD FOR MURDER
Felix Diaz to Run
For Presidency
LONDON, Aug. 31.—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 Iluerta.
The election will be held Oc
tober 16.
Mexicans Resent Wilson’s Advice
to Americans to Flee—Willing
to Hear From President.
MEXICO CITY, Augr. 31.—Heart-
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 so 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 cares to make.
Contrary to his purposes President
Wilson’s repeated demands that
Huerta repugn have started a presi
dential boom for ttie incumbent of
the National Palace. Although Huerta
can not legally succeed himself he
can follow the course adopted by
Porflrlo Diaz of resigning on the eve
of a presidential election and then
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
Mexico Is bound to protect all Amer
icans within her border.
This treaty likewise governs inter
national disputes between Mexico and
the United States. Through disuse
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 his 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.
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
half-dozen pairs of stockings and
change for $5 be sent to No. 67 Gil
mer street. When the messenger* ar
rived, Gaines kept the stockings ai\d
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 lor each of
the stockings, against him. He had
several checks signed “Mrs. A. King ”
Editor Refusing to
Retract Story Slain
SULPHUR, OKLA., Aug. 31.—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
shotgun into the editor’s body.
Woman on Parole
Weds Her Jailer
SHERIDAN, WYO., Aug. 31.—
While on parole from j^entence 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. 31.—Bees as
“movie” actors have been drafted in
to service by the Department of Ag
riculture.
They will play stellar role.** in a
aeries of films entitled “The Money
Makers,” which will be used to edu
cate farmers in handling these insects.
Americans Gather at
Port to Leave.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
VERA CRUZ, MEXICO, Aug. 31.—
There are 150 Americans here either
waiting to take passage for the Unit
ed States or for developments which
will make it possible to remain in
1 this country with safety.
I 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 who
are temporarily out of funds. In spite
of the protestations of the Mexican
Government that all foreigners are
safe, both Mr. Shanklir and Charge
d’Affalres 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 countrv of brigands
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Mayor of Denver
Operates On Son
DENCER, Aug. 31.—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. 31.—Nine men
were killed and six injured to-dav
when the steamer Alice was 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. 31.—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.
Never abaltlng In her loyalty even
after her husband had been convict
ed of one of the most shocking crimes
in the history of Georgia, Mrs. I^eo
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
mountain 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 ie
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 she 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 a a 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 yea»*s 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, however, reassured by her
husband’s cheerful optimism and she
enters eagerly with him into the
preparation of certain phases of the
case, 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 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 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 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’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 great
blow to him, and for a time the phy
sicians feared for hLs life.
Reuben Arnold, who has been rest
ing for a few days since the trial, is
expected to be back at work at the
case next week. A long fight in the
courts is anticipated before Frank’s
fate finally is decided. A refusal by
Judge Roan to grant a new trial will
mean an appeal to the Supreme Court,
and this undoubtedly will entail
i months of litigation.
Walton Griffith Hit
By Auto; Seeks Girl
Driver Who Went On I
Walton Griffith, former University
of Georgia and Atlanta Athletic Club
basketball star and now an insurance
agent In the Alfrlend 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 Piedmonf 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
postofflee to buy some stamps, antf
then he Intended to go home for
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. 31.—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 Monticello and
repudiating the church. In fact, the
Rev. Mr. Davidson voluntarily placed
himself bej^ond 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 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 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 was found In the negro’s
home when officers took him into
custody on the charge of burglary.
Recorder Pro Tem Preston Satur
day morning ordered him held In
bond of $1,000 in two cases of burg
lary, the robbery of two negro
houses.
Miraflores Locks
Pass Safety Test
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
PANAMA, Aug. 31.—The Miraflores
locks were pronounced water-tight,
after water had been turned into them
for a teat.
The last Pacific Ocean dyke will
be dynamited Sunday and the water
let Into the canal as far as Mira
flores.
ACCUSED SLAYER DENIED BOND
CHATTANOOGA, Aug. 31.—The
perliminary hearing of Pete Shipp,
charged with killing Squire C. A. Be
dell, was continued before Magistrate
Ben Bush to-day until next Wednes
day Shipp, who was arrested at
Oakdale, after being recognized by a
railroad engineer, wag denied bond.
BOY IS SHOT
81 BAIL
EBT
Columbus Court Officer. Held as
Slayer, Condemned for Fatal j
Gun Play.
3Jj
COI.UMBTTS, Aur. 31.—Shot flow*
by an officer of the law for an aka
leged offemse for which cornrictio^
would at best have meant only a ahorfll
chalngang sentence, the body of La—,
ther Hawkins, an 18-year-old yoolfe
said to bo from Atlanta, to-day lie*
in the morgue of a Columbus under-*
taker. It will be shipped to Hapw
ville, where Hawkins' parents reside^
Hawkins was killed because
lacked 50 cents of sufficient money t#
pay a small board bill and ran to
cape arrest by the offl< er call ad try
an irate landlord.
R. W. Willis, a bailiff, is in j;**
charged with murder, us he fired tb*%
shot that killed the youth. Charles
Jordan Is the landlord w'ho sought
Hawkins’ arrest that resulted in th*
youth’s death. No effort will oo
made to secure bail for Willte nnr.H
his preliminary hearing early ntxfe
week
Luther Hawkins, his brother, Anm
drew, and another youth came to Co
lumbus earlier In the week seeking
w’ork 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 an4
counted it. They lacked 50 cents of
having enough to meet the bill.
The landlord said he would haw*
them arrested and locked In jail for
beating a board bill unless they paid
the whole amount. Making good hte*
threat, Jordan telephoned to tl»*
Sheriff’s office and asked that an offi
cer be sent to his boarding house,
BallifT Willis was detailed to answerf
the call.
Told Boys to Run.
Mrs. Jordan realized the plight thm
boys were in and sympathized with
them, disapproving of the. course
taken by her husband. She told
them to run. They did. Jordan and!
the bailiff started in pursuit In a<
buggy. They soon overtook Lutes**
Hawkins and called on him to stoo*
Fearing he would be landed in jatV
the frightened youth kept going. The*
Bailiff Willis drew his platol and fired.
The bullet struck Hawkins in thd
back of the head, going through th*
skull and lodging over the right ey<*
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
his home. He denied any intent tes
kill Hawkins, declaring that he had
fired only to frighten him, and aime<$
above his head.
Citizens of Columbus to-day ar®
condemning the killing as unjustifl-*
able and unwarranted. It is declare.*
that the offense for which Hawkin#
was sought did not even warrant th*
officer in firing at him, even merely t*
frighten him.
Sympathy is with the slain youth,
his brother and companion.
A brother of young f Hawkins asked
the Atlanta police department to noti- |
fy the Columbus authorities to have
the body sent here, and was referred
to a local uncLertsUier. __