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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
LIFE PLEA THAT FL jUDEHS
DOCTOR WHO IS MAKING DESPERATE
FIGHT TO ESCAPE THE GALLOWS
Statements that Fred Flanders, al
leged to have been murdered by I>r.
W. J. McNaughton. the Emanuel
County physician under sentence of
death, took his own life by rIow' de
gree poisoning In an effort to combat
I the ravages of Bright* disease were
made in affidavits of two Thomasville
citizens; filed with the Prison Com
mission Tuesday morning by Judge
Saffold, MeNaughton’s attorney.
Judge .Saffokl personally presented
to the commlsaion the evidence, which
he declared is absolute and indisputa
ble proof that Fiandera died by hi*
own hand and not by the hand of Dr.
McNaughton. The new affidavit*, he
•aierted further, could result only In
•n absolute pardon for the Emanuel
County man The commission will
consider the new evidence with other
affidavits filed Monday afternoon.
Swear He Took Medicine Daily,
The affidavits were made by W. J
Taylor, clothier, and A J. Stanaland,
County Surveyor of Thomas County.
Both swear they became acquainted
with Flanders on the occasion of his
visit to Thomasville, where he was
interested in the lumber business for
several weeks
They also corroborate each other In
the statement that Flanders seemed
to be 111 and took medicine dally,
sometimes several times during the
day. They assert further that Flan
ders remarked every time he took tnt
medicine that it was going to kill him
aome day. Here is Stanaland’g state
ment:
"I recall distinctly Mr. Fred Flan
ders, who came to Thomasville 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 dally for
a week or ten daya.
“I remember Mr Flandkrs took
medicine daily, sometimes several
| times during the day while with me.
1 We always stopped for lunch where
we could get water, so that he could
take his medicine. Some of it was
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 Thomasville, and Mr. Flan
ders said to Mr. Taylor, 'Would you
mind taking some medicine?’ Mr
Taylor Bald, ’Certainly not.’ Mr. Flan
ders then walked to the water bucket,
and while preparing the medicine,
which he had put In a glass, said
'This 1s going to kill me some day.’ "
Mr Taylor In his affidavit cor
roborates Mr. Stanalarid, and adds
that Fianders 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
three or four times.
The good charac ter and reputation
of both Taylor and St&naland is at
tested in the affidavit by W. H. Rock
well, president of the First National
Bank of Thomasville.
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 In 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."
IS 4G OftYS LITE
Man Who Served 17 Years Should
Have Been Released July 12.
Addresses Pastors.
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 parole, 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
Bram’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 b*»en 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 in 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 days*
and no news of the parole oame,
Bram began to aee 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 Atlanta. How
ever, he declared he is going cam
paigning again Tuesday, with every
hope of getting work before Wed
nesday. 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
apeaker at the Atlanta Pastors’ Unlun
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.
Makes His Wife Sit
On a Red-Hot Stove
SAVANNAH, Sept. 2.—For making
his 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
clothing caught fire and she was bad
ly burned.
DENIES MIN
HELD HER CAPTIVE
Mrs. Adams Says Estranged Hus
band Started Story for Pur
pose of Humiliating Her.
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 in 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 aald It was false that she con
templated prosecuting four men room
ing at this house, as she had no
charges on which to prosecute them.
"The men named by Mr. Adams to
the police,” she said, "are roomers at
this place, and 1 want to say to the
public that my sister ajid myself al
ways were treated with the utmost re
spect and courtesy by them.
"Mr. Adams’ statement that I in
tended to prefer charges against any
or all of these mentis absolutely false.
I can not Imagine why he should try
by police aid to get 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.”
140 Drilled for Tech
Fall Entrance Tests
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 fjtll entrance exam
inations which wi 11 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."
Railroads and Capitalists Made
Defendants in Suit to Dis
solve Coal Trust.
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 I
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. Haer, 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 $1 17,500,000, 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 shoes,
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.
Accused by Woman
As Husband's Slayer
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-
buah 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 houses
Insane Savant Dies;
Labor Cure a Failure
JEFFERSONVILLE, IND., Sept. 2.
Allen L. Harbolt, former principal
of the Charleston School and one of
the most prominent educators In In-
'cilana, 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
AGED RAILROADER DEAD.
AUGUSTA.—John S. Cook, for
nearly 40 years the master mechanic
at the Georgia Railroad, died at
Jo v ■ -? Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore.
He was 86 years old. and was born
in Brooklyn. W .A. Watters, assist
ant master mechanic, will probably
succeed him.
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
ited five days.
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included in our GREAT CLEARANCE SALE
at about half price on Easy Payments.
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L 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 Will Find Same Bargains a! 157 Cotton Ave,
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TMI OINTIU* COMHNf. TT MURRAY STRirT, NCW YORK CITY.
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 .he laws of said State.
Principal office, Tenth Floor S. & L. Building.
I. INCOME DURING FIRST SIX MONTHS OF 1913.
Credit balance 5 740,879.58
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
6. Interest 15,362.66
7. Cash received from all sources, viz*
Annual agents’commissions r . • 1,659.04
Change of beneficiary 49.00
Total income
328,903.55
Total $1,069,783.1?
II. DISBURSEMENTS DURING FIRST SIX MONTHS OF 1913.
t. Losses and claims (see detailed schedule filed
with annual statement in office of Insurance
Commissioner brought down to June 30, 1913) .$114,500.00
2. Annual payments and assessments returned to
members 6,401.93
Total paid to members -$120,991.93
3. Commissions and fees retained by agents.. .. 72,706.05
4. Commissions and fees paid to agents 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
Balance $ 802,976.34
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.S4
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. Borrow€‘d money, including interest due or accrued
8. To officers or others for advances on account of expenses
of organization
13,946.16
41,000.00
24,000.00
17.000.00
20,408.70
7,730.56
Total liabilities $ 69,139.26
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.. .. 15,116 $30,139,500.00
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 30,
' 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
TotaJ
Losses and claims on policies or certificates paid dur
ing first half of the year 1913 59
Business in Georgia During First Half of 1913.
6,574.000.00
$36,713,500.00
4,463,600.00
’ 17,066
IS2.260.000.00
14
J 88,000.00
65
122,000.00
165,000.00
114,500.00
NUMBER. AMOUNT.
49
$ 106,000.00
137.000.00
Policies or certificates in force December 31, 1912 ..
Policies or certificates written during first half of
the year 1913
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 ,,
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 ef theNa-
tlonal Life Association, and that the foregoing statement Is correct and
true. H. PERCIVAL PYLE, Vice President
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 27th day of August 1913
BERYL PARKS, Notary Public,
94
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243,000.00
20
48,000.00
74
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105,000.00
1
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1
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2,000.00
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