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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. LIFE PLEA THAT FLANDERS DOCTOR WHO IS MAKING DESPERATE FIGHT TO ESCAPE THE GALLOWS Statements that Fred Flanders, al-t times during the day while with me. leged to have been murdered by I)r W: J. MrNaughton, the Emanuel County physician under sentence of take his medicine. Some of it was i death, took his own life by slow de gree poisoning in an effort to combat the ravages of Bright* disease were made in affidavits of two Thomasviile citizens, filed with the Prison Com mission Tuesday morning by Judge Saffold. McNaughton’s attorney. Judge Saffold personally presented to the commlaalon the evidence, which be declared is absolute and indisputa ble proof that Flanders died by hie liquid, and some small tablets or pills. Sometimes he would take one or the other, and again I have seen him take both. "I remember one day I was in the store of W. J. Taylor, at No. 6 Broad street, in Thomasviile, and Mr. Flan ders said to Mr. Taylor, 'Would you mind taking some medicine?' Mr Taylor said, ‘Certainly not’ Mr. Flan ders then walked to the water bucket, and while preparing the medicine, own hand and not by the hand of Dr McNaurhton. Th. affldartu. h. ; whlch h * h * d *> ut ln ‘ «»“»• “*? ••■•red farther, could reoul. only In *■ to W " me " om « • an absolute pardon for the Emanuel County man. The commission will consider the new evidence with other affidavits filed Monday afternoon. Swear He Took Medicine D«ily. The affidavits were made by W. J Taylor, clothier, and A J. Stapaln-nd, County Surveyor of Thomas County. Both swear they became acquainted • lth Flanders on the orraslon of hl.J thr## or folir Tlmee visit to Thomasviile, where he was Interested in the lumber business for several weeks They also corroborate each other in the statement that Flanders seemed to be ill and took medicine daily, sometimes several times during the day. They assert further that Flan ders remarked every time he took the medicine that It was going to kill him some day. Here is Stanaland’s state ment. “I recall distinctly Mr. Fred Flan ders, who came to Thomasviile for the purpose of looking over some mill timber which'he and a Mr. Thompson afterward bought. I accompanied them over the property as guide and surveyor, and was with them daily for « week or ten days. “I remember Mr. Flanders took medicine daily, sometimes several Mr. Taylor In his affidavit cor roborates Mr. Stanaland, and adds that Flanders on several occasions took his pencil out and mashed some thing. and that while stirring it In the glass remarked that "This is go ing to kill me some day.” Flanders, he swears, made this statement every time that he took the medicine in his presence, which was The good character and reputation of both Taylor and Stanaland Is at tested in the affidavit by W. H. Rock well, president of the First National Bank of Thomasviile. Judge Saffold and Colonel John Bennett, attorneys for Dr. McNaugh- ton, are being aided in their fight for the physician’s life by the Rev. Dr. John S. Wilden, pastor of the South Side Baptist Church, of Savannah, who has been McNaughton’s pastor during his incarceration. Dr. Wilden arrived ln Atlanta Tuesday morning He declared that Dr. McNaughton was confident of receiving a full par don. The condemned man, he said, had put his faith in God with the declara tion that “The truth of his inno cence would come out through the works of the Almighty.” •Illif*? ^ SSi if! S *»» Xe QMS LATE DENIES THAT MEN HELD HER CAPTIVE W. ,T. M’NAUGIITON. Man Who Served 17 Years Should Have Been Released July 12. Addresses Pastors. Mrs. Adams Says Estranged Hus band Started Story for Pur pose of Humiliating Her. Accused by Woman As Husband's Slayer That he remained in prison exactly 46 days longer than was necessary because of a misunderstanding in Washington over the character of his sentence was the information con veyed Tuesday morning to Thomas Bram, who was released from the Federal prison on a parole last Wed nesday after serving seventeen years. The information was received by George P. Freeman, who was instru mental in getting Bram’s p&role, from Representative William Schley How ard, who Inclosed a letter from C. H. McGlasson, Acting Superintendent of Prisons, with headquarters at Wash ington. Mr. McGlasson says he discovered Pram's case was not one of that class held up pending the Attorney Gen eral’s construction of the parole law. as Bram was sentenced by the court to life Imprisonment and not sen tenced to be hanged and later com muted by the President. If it had not been for this misun derstanding, Bram would have been ^paroled about July 12. He was aware of his eligibility to parole long be fore July 12. and ln anticipation of his release he became perhaps the hap piest man among the hundreds behind the bars. When July 12 arrived, however, and then the next day and following day* and no news of the parole cam**, Bram began to see visions of months, perhaps years, of further imprison ment. But finally he received the pa pers which made him a free man. The Labor Day festivities Monday put a temporary check on Bram’s ef forts to land a job in Atlantu. How ever. he declared he is going cam paigning again Tuesday, with every hope of getting work before Wed nesd&y. He says he is willing to do anything honest. Mr. Freeman, his best friend, adds anything without Sunday work, for Bram, he says, aft er serving seventeen years in the Federal penitentiary deserves at least one day of rest each week. Bram was the invited guest and epeaker at the Atlanta Pastors’ Union at Wesley Memorial Church Monday morning. Bram will speak from the pulpit of the Rev. Hugh S Wallace, pastor of the Jones Avenue Baptist Church. Wednesday night at 7:45 o’clock. Mrs. T. T. Adams, of Marietta, re plied Tuesday to the sensational story that she had been held a captive by several men at No. 169 Central ave nue, succeeding ln getting free only about two weeks ago. Mrs. Adams denied there was any truth in the report, and declared that it was circulated by her husband, from whom she has been separated two years, to embarrass and humiliate her. She said it was false that she con templated prosecuting four men room ing at this house, as she bad no charges on which to prosecute them "The men named by Mr. Adams to the police,” she said, ‘‘are roomers at this place, and I want to say to the public that my sister and myself al ways were treated with the utmost re sped and courtesy by them. “Mr. Adams’ statement that I 1n tended to prefer charges against any or all of these men is absolutely false 1 can not Imagine why he should try by police aid to got my trunk from No. 169 Central avenue, unless it Is to cause me a lot of notoriety. My trunk is there at my own request, and no one has authority to remove it.” LEXINGTON, Sept. 2.—Upon affi davit of Mrs Jake Motley, Eugene Hunt, 49 years old, has been lodged in Jail charged with the murder of Jake Motley, who was shot from am bush as he was entering the barn at his home. « The woman charges Hunt had re peatedly urged her to obtain a di vorce and marry him, and particu larly on the night of the assassina tion he urged her to go to the home of her father, which she did. Hunt was to spend the night with Motley. Hunt claims he was in bed when the shot was fired and later assisted the wounded man to the house Insane Savant Dies; Labor Cure a Failure 140 Drilled for Tech Fall Entrance Tests JEFFERSONVILLE, IND., Sept. 2. Allen L. Harbolt, former principal of the Charleston School and one of the most prominent educators ln In diana, Is dead here to-day, having lost his mind through overstudy. Harbolt, realizing his condition, at tempted to regain his health by work ing as a day laborer. Makes His Wife Sit On a Red-Hot Stove One of the largest summer schools in the history of “Tech.” having 140 students, will close Friday. The lads have been drilled, and Professor Mor ton states that they are fully qual ified to pass the fall entrance exam inations which will be held Septem ber 8. Present indications are that the enrollment will be nearly 100 greater than last year. Speaking of the summer school. Professor A. B. Norton said: ”It has been a great aid in getting men ready for entrance this fall. The Southern colleges have been put on the unit basis, which is the entrance plan of the best educational centers, and ex cellent results are expected.” AGED RAILROADER DEAD. AUGUSTA.—John S. Cook, for nearly 40 years the master mechanic at the Georgia Railroad, died at John Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. He was 86 years old, and was born in Brooklyn. W A. Watters, assist ant master mechanic, will probably succeed him. SAVANNAH, Sept 2.—For making bis wife sit on a red-hot stove be cause she delayed his dinner. Lewis Wimbrush. No. 537 Olive street, was heavily fined by Recorder Schwartz to-day. When Wimbrush went home for dinner last night it was not ready When it was finally served it did not euit him. He lifted his wife bodily and threw her across the stove. Her caught fire and she was bad- bumed. ^ CHEAP EXCURSION TO FLORIDA Via G. S. & F. Railway. Fare from Macon to Jacksonville $4.00, Palatka $4.50, St. Augustine $4.50, and Tampa $6.00. Propor tionately low rates from in termediate stations. Spe cial trains leave Macon 10:30 a, m. and 11:30 a. m. September 9. Tickets lim- i ited five days. C. B. RHODES, G. P. A. Macon. Ga. / * - —— Are You Sick, Diseased, Nervous, Run Down? Have You Blood Poison, Kidney, Bladder and Urinary Troubles? Dr. IF 80. CONSULT (FREE) Huftm. Atlanta's L«ng EstsMIshnd, Mast RsilabU Specialist I curs to itaj ctimt NERVE, BLOOD and Skin Disease*. STRICTURE. Proatatic Tmublsa. VARICOCELE. HYDROCELE. Kidney. B'.addar and Urinary Dtsaasea Piles and All Chronic and Prleate Disease* of Men and Women I sire to*, the celebrated German prepara tion. for Blood Prison and Guarantee re sults Everything absolutely confidential. If yeu can't aall, writs. Free Oensultatlen and Advloe to all. HOURS e i n to 7 pm Sundays. 9 to 1. DR. HUGHES Oaaaafts Third National Bask. (•Vb N. Bread St.. Atlanta. Ga. Railroads and Capitalists Made Defendants in Suit to Dis solve Coal Trust. The Kind You Have Always Kon^ht has borne the signa ture of Chas. H. Fletcher, and has been made under hU personal supervision for over 30 years. Allow uo one to deceive you in this. Counterfeits, Imitations and •* Just-as-good” are but Experiments, and endanger the health of Children—Experience against Experiment. What is CASTORIA PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 2.—A civil suit, having for its object the disso lution of the so-called hard coal trust, was filed in Federal Court here to-day by United States District At torney John C. Swartley, against the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company and other railroads, and George F. Baer and nine other indi viduals. The suit was brought in be half of the Department of Justice. The papers in the suit, which was brought under the commodity clause of the Sherman anti-trust law, charge that the monopoly grew through the formation of the Excelsior Enterprise Company, created in 1871, which final ly became the Reading Company, and leased railroads and canals intersect ing the anthracite coal mining region until absolute control was secured. The defendants are the following: The Reading Company, the Phila delphia and Reading Railway Com pany, the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, the Central Railroad Company of New Jersey, the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Com pany, the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company, the Wilmington and North ern Railroad Company, the Lehigh and Hudson River Railway Company, the Lehigh and New England Railway Co., George F. Baer, George F. Ba ker, Edward T. Stotesbury, Henry C. Frick, P. A. B. Widener, Henry A. Dupont, Daniel Willard, Henry P. Mc Kean and Samuel Dickson. The court Is asked to make an or der restraining the defendant com panies from transporting coal for in terstate or foreign trade. The companies have an aggregate capital stock of $117,500,000. and a to tal funded debt of $322,108,444. X-Ray Shoes to Go With X-Ray Skirts Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. , LONDON, Sept. 2.—X-ray skirts are to be accompanied by X-ray shoe?, according to the latest glimpse of coming fashions. The uppers of the new footwear are made of Irish lace. Last installment city tax now due. Pay now and save cost. FAVORITE HERE WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY OFFERINGS, BEST MAKES included in our GREAT CLEARANCE SALE at about half price on Easy Payments. Ivers & Pond, Chickering & Sons, Bush & Gerts, Kranich & Bach, Kurtzmann, Knabe Bros. WE MUST AND WILL MAKE ROOM $275 Mahogany Case (new) .... $127 $300 Walnut Case (new) .. ... $136 $325 Mahogany Case (new) .... $146 $350 Oak Case (new) ... $158 Special List Good Makes $375 New Mahogany, $168 $550 Packard, Mahogany (new) $318 $500 Kranich & Bach, Mahogany $312 $500 Bush & Gerts, Mahogany ... $308 $450 Standard Make, Mahogany . $188 $500 Frederick Player (new)... $268 CLEARANCE SALE, BEST MAKES USED UPRIGHTS $500 Painter & Ewing $243 $450 Strohber, Mahogany ... $238 $400 Kimball, Oak $187 $450 Conover, Mahogany ... $193 $400 Standard Make (new) .. $183 $375 Standard Make, Oak .... $138 $475 Vose & Sons, Walnut . $168 $400 Bush & Gerts, Mahogany $138 $400 Hallet & Davis, Walnut $136 $350 Sterling, Ebony $112 $350 Cooper, Ebony $ 75 Anyone Living in or Near Macon Wili Find Same Bargains at 157 Cotton Ave. tal 64 PEACHTREE ST. MACG?i!--157 Cotton Ave. CMtoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is Pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and \Viu<l Colic. It relif ves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulency. It assimilates tlio Food, regulates th* Stomach and jlowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. The Children’s Panacea—The Mother’s Friend. The Kind You Me Always Bought Bears the Signature of * r +0 In Use For Over 30 Years. SEMI-ANNUAL STATEMENT For the six months ending June 30, 1913, of the condition of the NATIONAL LIFE ASSOCIATION Organized under the laws of the State of Iowa, made to the Governor of the State of Georgia, pursuant to L hf> laws of said State. Principal office, Tenth Floor S. & L. Building. I. INCOME DURING FIRST SIX MONTHS OF 1913. Credit balance J 740,879.58 Gross amount paid by members to the Association or Its agents, without deductions for commissions or other ex penses, as follows: ^ 1. Membership fee $ 79,197.98 8. Assessments .' .. .. 193,483.90 4. For reserve notes » 39,150.97 Total paid by members ..$311,832.85 5. Interest 15,362.66 7. Cash received from all sources, viz* Annual agents’ commissions 1,659.04 Change of beneficiary « 49.00 Total income 328,903. Total • $1,069,783.15 II. DISBURSEMENTS DURING FIRST SIX MONTHS OF 1913. Losses and claims (see detailed schedule filed with annual statement in office of Insurance Commissioner brought down to June 30, 1913). $114,500.00 Annual payments and assessments returned to members 6,401.93 Total paid to members $120,991.93 3. Commissions and fees retained bv agents.. .. 72,706.05 4. Commissions and fees paid to agen ts 10,046.26 6. Medical examiner’s fees, whether paid direct by members or otherwise 7,541.18 7. Salaries and other compensation of officers and other office employees 17,824.82 8. Rent, $1,455; taxes. $3,921.48; Insurance De partment fees, $1,991.13 7,367.61 10. Advertising, $384.29; blanks and printing, $2,- 217.49 2,601.78 11. All other items, viz 9.712.82 Iowa National Bank 18,014.34 Total disbursements $ 266,806.79 802,976.34 Balance $ III. INVESTED ASSETS. 2. Loans on mortgage (first liens) «»n real estate, as per Schedule A filed with annual statement in office of Insurance Commissioner, brought down to June 31, 1913 . .$415,665.00 6. Cash in office 2,476.91 7. Cash deposited in banks on reserve fund ac count 27,046.62 9. All other assets, viz: Reserve fund notes not yet due 357,787.81 Total net assets * $ 802,976.34 IV. CONTINGENT ASSETS. 1. Interest due and accrued $ 8. Annual payments on premiums due and unpaid on mem bership in force V. LIABILITIES. 2. Losses in process of adjustment, or adjusted and not due (number of claims, 14) $ 4. Losses resisted by the company (number of claims, 6).. 7. Borrowed money, including interest due or accrued 8. To officers or others for advances on account of expenses of organization 18,946.16 41,000.00 24,000.00 17,000.00 20,408.70 7.780.56 Total liabilities VI. EXHIBIT OF CERTIFICATES OF POLICIES—NUMBER AND AMOUNT. Total Business First Half of 1913. NUMBER. AMOUNT. Policies or certificates in force December 31, 1912.... Policies or certificates written during first half of the year 1913 3,169 Total 18,284 Deduct number and amount which have ceased to be in force during first half of 1913 1,228 Total policies or certificates in force June 80, 1913 17,056 Losses and claims on policies or certificates unpaid December 31, 1912 Losses and claims on policies or certificates incurred during first half of the year 1913 16,115 $30,139,500 .00 3,169 6,674,000. .00 18,284 *36,713,500. 00 1,228 4,463,500. 00 17,056 *32,350,000. 00 14 * 38,000. 00 66 122,000. 00 Total Losses and claims on policies or certificates paid dur ing first half of the year 1913 155,000.00 114,500.00 Business in Georgia During First Half of 1913. Policies or certificates in force December 31, 1912 . Policies or certificates written during first half of the year 1913 NUMBER. AMOUNT. 106,000.00 137,000.00 Total Deduct number and amount which have ceased to be in force during first half of 1913 Total policies in force June 30, 1918 Losses and claims on policies or certificates incurred during first half of the year 1913 94 * 243,000.00 20 43,000.00 74 * 195,000.00 i * 3,000.00 i * 2,000,00 Total .. .. A copy of the act of incorporation, duly certified, is attached to the an nual statement in the office of the Insurance Commissioner. STATE OF IOWA—County of Polk. Personally appeared before the undersigned H, Perclval Pyle, who, be ing duly sworn, deposes and says that he is the vice president of the Na tional Life Association, and that the foregoing statement is correct and true. PERCIVAL PYLE, Vice President Sworn to and subscribed before me this 27th day of August, 1918 BERYL PARKS, Notary Publia, S. W. JOINER, GEN’L AGT, For Georgia, Florida and Alabama. 608 Temple Court Bldg., Atlanta, Ga. Use American Want Ads