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I V ALWAYS FIRST # ® The SUNDA Y AMERICAN Order it NOW ========•= Both Phonea Main 100 The Atlanta Georgian home EDITION Read for Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use for Results VOL. XII. NO. 27. ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1913. Copyright, 1906, By The Georgian Co. 2 CENTS. PAY NO MORE — POISON CHARGE A CONSPIRACY, WIDOW SAYS +e+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ + •+ +•* +•+ +•* +•* +•+ +•* +•* GODBEE DIVORCE PAPERS FOUND HERE TO AID SLA YER +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ + •+ •Fa-J- *•* *•* +•* +• + + • + THAW ORDERED DEPORTED Attorneys for Divorcee Who Slew Former Husband and Bride Get Evidence Here. THE WEATHER. Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia—Fair Wednesday and Ttnrsday. Electrically Grown Peaches and Onions Form Prize Exhibit LIBERT YVILLE, ILL... Sept. 3.— Raising vegetables, grains and fruits by electricity is the latest in scientific farming. The "electric method" is being used by Samuel Insull, president of the Com monwealth Edison Company, on his farm near Libertyville. Today those who visited the Lake County Fair at Libertyville saw Mr. Insult's "electric" fruits, vegetables and grains "Any one who knows anything about electricity knows that it is a great fer tiliser." said Mr. Miller, who is In charge of the exhibit. "In the early spring when one wishes to force onions and radishes, the current is applied more frequently and one can almost see things grow." Old records of a suit for divorce in April, 1907, by the late Judge W. S. Godbee against his first wife,who killed the judge and his bride in Millen recently, which Judge Saf- fold, Mrs. Godbee’s attorney, claims is proof that Mrs. Godbee was not the aggressor, were unearthed in the Fulton County Superior Court Wed nesday morning. The suit was en tered April 29. 1907, and was later withdrawn. Judge Saffold claims, when Judge Godbee discovered that his wife had considerable money. Judge Saffold, who is in Atlanta to get a pardon for Dr. W. J. Mc- Naughton, the Emanuel County phy- siciarv, declared Wednesday the new evidence in regard to the early mari tal relations of Judge Godbee and his first wife would be used in the trial of Mrs. Godbee next week. He declared further that he is i i- vestigating a report that Jud§e God bee took Mrs. Godt>ee to a question able house on Piedmont avenue when the couple came to live in Atlanta several years ago. Charged Cruelty to Wife. The petition of Judge Godbee for divorce in the Superior Court of Fulton County was filed on April 29, 1907, and was attested by Clerk A. B. Harrison and Paul S. Ethridge, the plaintiffs attorney. Deputy Sheriff W. C. Tolbert served the defendant with a copy of the petition. According to the petition Judge Godbee and the defendant were mar ried on July 12, 1887, in Burke Coun ty, Georgia, and lived together is man and wife until 1907. with the exception of the year 1897, when they were separated for about two months and from 1901 to the latter part of 1-004. N Judge Godbee asserts further that each of the separations alluded to were brought about by th*» cruel and Inhuman treatment of the petitioner by the defendant. "Your petitioner,” it is stated, "al leges that practically during the en tire period of his married life with the defendant she has been harsh and cruel in her treatment of him, has been absolutely devoid of the af fection due from a wife to her hus band, that she has made his life utterly unbearable; and that your petitioner has been forced to sepa rate himself from the defendant us above alleged, fearing lest she would take him unawares and do him bodi ly harm. Says She Humiliated Him. "The petitioner.” it is asserted further, "never fails to use every op portunity to humiliate your defend ant in the presence of friends, or in the presence of. strangers or even in the presence of his own children. She has time and again ordered him tu leave and threatened him if he did not leave. "Petitioner has bornu this treat ment in silence, and has done all in his power to ameliorate matters, but to no purpose. Defendant has be come more and more violent in her manner towards petitioner and her threats have become so frequent and so malignant that defendant can not in safety be in her presence. It is stated further that petitioner shows that defendant is well pro vided for in worldly goods and has an abundance of property In her ow i name to support her. Three Officers and Five Seamen on U.S. Ship Die in Storm NEWPORT NEWS, VA„ Sept. 3.— Three petty officers and five seamen from the battleship Nebraska were drowned in Hampton Roads to-day when a launch from the battleship was caught in a water spout during a hurri cane whidh swept this section. An unconfirmed report says that the Old Dominion steamer Mobjack went down near the mouth of the York River during the storm. Girl Robs Prince of Famous Czar’s Ring Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. ROME, Sept. 3.—The sensational theft of-a priceless and historic piece of jewelry by a woman from a Rus sian nobleman was reported to the police to-day. Prince Urossoff, of St. Petersburg, told the police that while traveling from Vienna to Venice he fell in with a young woman with engaging man ners and invited her to drink wine with him. The Prince was drugged, and when he recovered he found he had been robbed of a ring and a $500 watch. The ring had been presented by Peter the Great to one of tjie Prince’s ancestors. Promoter Held on Swindling Charge A. G. Kent, a moving picture pro moter, was bound over under $500 bond by Recorder Pro Tern Preston Wednesday on a charge of swindling made by J. B. Bolles. with whom Kent boarded at No. 28 South Kirkw’ood street. According to Bolles, Kent gave him a check on the National Bank of Cuba, at Matanzas, for $75.25 In pay ment of board. The check was re turned marked "No funds.” Kent’s wife, a pretty young woman, created a stir in court w’hen she went into hysterics as her husband was taken out by officers to be locked in a cell. Five Arraigned for $750,000 Gem Theft Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. LONDON, Sept. 8.—The five men arrested yesterday, charged with complicity in the theft of a $750,000 pearl necklace between this city and Paris, were arraigned to-day and re manded for a w r eek to enable detec tives to work up further evidence against them. All are jewelers. Their names are Lockett, Grizgard, Silverman, Gutwirth and McCarthy. # Chief Inspector Ward believes the men compose part of an international band of crooks. Tight Shoes Keep Apollo From Navy SPRINGFIELD. MO.. Sept. 3.—Be cause he had pinched his feet Into shoes several sizes too small, thus contracting "hammer toes.” Frank Eversley. a well-built young man, was turned away from the United States Naval Recruiting Station. The applicant was in practically every respect the nearest perfect specimen of physical manhood who has ever applied at the recruiting sta tion, but his ambition for a dainty foot has ruined his chances for naval service. DEATH TIES In Last Hours Picturesque Bandit Bares Secret Passages in His Life History. "Old Bill” Miner, formerly of the Jfessie James bandit gang, and one of the most picturesque highwaymen of the past half century, has made his peace with the world. "Old Bill” died at 9:25 o’clock Tuesday night at the State Prison farm near Milledge- ville. Death is supposed to have resulted from hardships suffered when he es caped from the farm last summer. For several days Old Bill hid in a dense swamp without food or water. Since that time he had suffered from gas tritis and his health had failed rapid ly. He was 76 years old. Before he died "Old Bill” had a con fidential talk with Warden J. E. Smith and gave him some of the secret his tory of his life, Which he asked to be made public after his death. He also gave the name^f a sister in Kentucky whonmhe wished notified of his death. This has been done and she will ar rive in Milledgevllle Wednesday to take charge of the body. Despite his lawless career, which he started at the age of fifteen years, "Old Bill" boasted that he had never harmed a woman or child or robbed an individual. He terrorized express trains, holding them up at times sin gle-handed. Had Code of Honor All His Own. He held tc & code of honor pecu liarly his own. His victims were cor porations, especially the express com panies, against which he held a griev ance. He claimed that never during his many sensational holdups of ex press trains did he demand mon ey of passengers, but confined his operations to the baggage and express cars which he looted of thousands of dollars. Among his "ten commandments" which he held to was one w hich com manded : "Never take what belongs to an other man. Rob only corporations.” Others were: Never fail to help a woman. Keep every man’s good will. Give a fellow money when he needs it. Never say a bad thing about a man when you can say a good one. And don’t squeal. "Old Bill" was sent to the Milledge- ville farm about two years ago for train robbery near Gainesville. De spite his years, he declared to the prison officials that they could never keep him. Soon afterwards he, with Tom Moore and John Watts, made the stockade. Moore was killed while resisting arrest, and Miner was captured in South Georgia. "Old Bill” claimed that he could have made his escape, but would not desert his comrade, w r ho broke his leg while climbing over the sockade. Wouldn’t Desert Comrade. After being brought back to the farm. Miner was put in chains, but his health became so feeble that he was unshackled, and he escaped again last summer, this time with Widencamp and Wiggins. Widen- camp was drowned in the Oconee River and Miner was recaptured. When he was returned to the prison, "Old Bill”"*declared that if his life lasted he would escape again. Before his first arrest in Georgia he had escaped from a penitentiary In Can ada. Miner took an active part in guer rilla warfare during the war between the States. He also fought in Indian campaigns in the West. He had traveled throughout the world, going from the California coast to South America, and from there to Africa, Alaska and Europe. At Monte Carlo he gained note as a gambler, drop ping $5,000 in an evening's play. FUGITIVE IS Accused Poisoner Of Husband, With 2 Grandchildren Army-Navy Game Goes to New York WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.—Acting a conference here to-day, at which it was decided to play the annual foot- Put in Motor Car and Rushed to Town Where He Entered Can ada From United States. SHERBROOKE, QUE . Sept. 3—Judge Hutchinson main tained the writ o fhabeas cor pus and ordered Thaw to be set free .taken in charge by Mrs. Belle Crawford, Viola Ben nett arid Russell Bennett. NDICT HER immigTatio nauthorities and sent to Coaticook for deporta tion . Preparations ha dbeen made in advance to whirl Thaw away to Coaticook, Que., for arraignment before a board of inquiry of the immigration de partment. Ex-District Attorney W. T. Jerome, of New York, who is here in the interest of New York State, predicted that Thaw would be back on United States soil within 24 hours. Immediately after Judge Hutchinson handed down his decision officials of the Cana dian immigration bureau took Thaw in charge Asquith Forgives Women Assailants ELGIN, SCOTLAND, Sept. 3.—At the personal request of Premier Ap- qulth, the two militant suffragettes who attacked him, Winnie Wallace and Flora Smitri, will not be prose cuted by the Crown’s counsel. The women made two attacks upon the Premier, the first upon the golf links on August 29 and the second in church last Sunday. Mr. Asquith said he did not care to aggravate the women by prosecuting them. President Returns To the White House WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.—After spending a three-day vacation at his summer home in Cornish, N. H., President Wilson returned to Wash ington at 11:38 o’clock to-day and soon was at his desk in the White House. President Wilson passed the scene of the wreck at Wallingford, Conn., about 9 o’clock last night and from his rear platform saw much of the ruin of the wrecked Pullmans. $5,000 More Voted to Courthouse Planners A payment of $5,202.50 to the archi tects on the new courthouse was au thorized by the Board of County Com missioners Wednesday. The sum of $41,505.50 has already been paid, which will make a total of nearly $47,000. The contract with the architects culled for a fee of five per cent on the total cost of the courthouse, which is ap proximately $1,100,000. The total amount the architects are to receive is $55,000. Thousands Acclaim Gaynor as Candidate NEW YORK, Sept. 3.—Three thou sand persons, representing 40 political organizations, marched to the City Hall headed by six brass bands to day and acclaimed Mayor Gaynor as an independent nominee to succeed himself. Many of the marchers carried shov els as the shovel is the symbol of the Gaynor ticket. It is supposed to stand for Mayor Gaynor’s activities in get ting new' subways for the city. August Heat Still Haunts September Atlantans sweltered Wednesday un der the rays of a regular midsum mer sun, the official thermometer reg istering 88 degrees tit 1 o’clock. Scarcity of breeze made the temper ature in the shopping district stand at about 93. The mercury did wot drop below 70 degrees Tuesday night . Fair weather, with practically no change of temperature, is predicted for Wednesday night and Thursday. Declaring she is being persecuted, Mrs. Mary Belle Crawford, accused of the murder of her husband, Joshua Crawford, in At lanta four years ago, and a prin cipal witness in the famous Craw ford will case, charged Tuesday morning that the heirs-at-law of Mr. Crawford and their attor neys have formed a' plot to prejudice public opinion against her, and by unfair means, break the will of Mr. Crawford, by which she received more than $100,000. Mrs. Crawford saye she aekg onlv for fair play. She was unable to speak of the charge against her—of plotting with Fred Lumb, a barber, to give her husband arsenic instead of medicine—without tears Ailing her eyes. She steadfastly maintains h»r innocence, and declares she has no fear of the outcome of her case. “God knows—and these people know, too.”—she said, “that I am in nocent of the murder of my husband. I don't see how they can think I’d do such a thing. Mr. Crawford's memory is sacred to me, and I love him OOW-mora-than any of these peo ple who are trying to drag my good name in the dirt and take from me what is rightfully mine, if Mr, Craw- fo-d knew that his relatives, in their graed and avarice, accused me of murdering him. he would turn over in tis grave. Nothing But Persecution. "I am not being prosecuted legally on the charge of murdering my hus band. It is nothing but persecution. These people and their lawyers have done everything they could to injure my reputation. They have tried to connect me with people I never even heard of, and they have done every thing they could to rake up some thing bad In my past life. But couldn’t do It. and they never will be able to. I’m not ashamed of any thing I ever have done. These charges of murder they have brought against me are nothing but trumped-up excuses to win their case and break Mr. Crawford’s will by unfair means. They have tried as J hard as they knew how to prejudice public opinion, and have sent emis saries to my friends, urging them to turn against me. They have caused garbled reports of the case to be pub lished in other cities where I formerly lived, in the hope that my friends there would desert me. Their only purpose in causing my arrest was to stir up a sentiment against me that would have a bearing on the dispo sition of the will contest. But I am not afraid of them, nor of anything they can do. Their ef forts to turn my friends against me have failed. I have no fear that I will be indicted when the Grand Jury considers these trumped-up charges of murder, and the investigation can not come too soon to suit me. I have nothing in my w'hole life to conceal, and will willingly tell everything I ever have done. I know I can prove my innocence, and they know it. Declares She Will Fight. * They hope to cause me ho much suffering and humiliation that I’ll give up the Aght and let them take what I believe is rightfully and legally mine. I’ve suffered enough during the past few months with their ac cusations and the strain of it all but they haven’t broken my Aghting spirit. I’ll Aght for what is mine and to clear my name as long as there is a breath of life in me. "I believe my friends will aid me. Not one of them has deserted me because of the misrepresentations made to them by these people who pose as Mr. Crawford’s loving rela tives yet who care little enough about his memory to try to prove he was crazy.” Mrs. Crawford is living at her home 674 West Peachtree street with her daughter, Mrs. Zella Bennett, and her three grandchildren, Viola, Russell and Ralph Bennett. It is the same house in which Mr. Crawford died on March 28. 1909. and in which she has lived during the time of her resi dence in Atlanta. Tindall Judge of Children’s Court For Fulton County Probation Officer W. W. Tindall will be the Judge of the Children’s Court created by the recent Legislature. The judges of the Superior Court are author ized under the act to appoint the judge of this court, and their recommendation was filed with the County Commission ers Wednesday. Tindall was the man recommended. Commissioner Clifford L. Anderson ex pressed opposition to the appointment, expressing the opinion that a probation officer should not be made a judge, holding that the officer might be too much inclined to sending children to a reformatory. The salary for the new judgeship is fixed at $200 a month, and in the ap pointment of Tindall as judge the Su perior Court judges recommended that his salary be increased to this amount. Atlanta Gets Meet; 2,000 Will Attend The Brotherhood of St. Andrew will hold its 1914 convention in At lanta. This organization, which is a national association and part of the Episcopal Church, is unusually large and will be attended by more than 2,000 delegates from ail parts of the United States.