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VOL. XII. NO. 28. * ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1913. B/rK’SEWITc* 2 CENTS.
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Mrs. Zella Bennett Aids Defense
Counsel in Alleged Poisoning
Case—Bitter Toward Accusers.
Mrs. Zella Bennett, the devoted
daughter of Mrs. Mary Belle Craw
ford, took up her mother’s defense
Thursday in a statement declaring
and reiterating her confidence in Mrs.
Crawford’s innocence of any part in
Joshua Crawford’s mysterious death,
and Repressing the deepest bitterness
toward those who instigated the
charges.
Mrs. Crawford, with the accusation
of her husband’s murder hanging over
her, has found almost her sole con
solation in the unswerving loyalty of
her daughter. The suspected woman
lives with Mrs. Bennett and the lat
ter’s three children at No. 674 West
Peaechtree street, and has seldom ap
peared in public since the poisoning
charges were preferred against her.
Mrs. Bennett has been the almost
constant companion of Mrs. Craw
ford for more than three years, and
the ties of love that bind her to her
mother have been strengthened by
the trying incidents of the past two
months. She unconsciously has as
sumed a protecting attitude toward
Mrs. Crawford, and protests' her
mother’s innocence with greater em
phasis than even V. . Crawford her
self.
Broken by Mother’s Arrest.
Mrs. Bennett has suffered from the
persecution which she asserts her
mother is undergoing to an even
greater extent than the accused
woman. She is bitter toward Mr.
Crawford’s relatives, who are con
testing her mother's righ't to the
Crawford estate, and doubly bitter
toward those who caused her arrest
and incarceration in the Tower.
“When they arrested mother and
took her to jail,” Mrs. Bennett said.
“I thought my heart would break. I
knew she was innocent, and had no
fear but that everything would come
out all right. But the sight of mv
mother behind the bars of a prison
was almost more than I could bear. 1
think I suffered even more than she
did—and God knows such persecu
tion's has been her lot recently is
enough to make any woman suffer, it
is bad enough to be accused of any
crime at all—but to have them say
my mother killed h*r husband, a man
whom she loved and who loved her
devotedly—I can conceive of nothing
more horrible or trying to a woman'**
soul.
"None of these relatives who are
robbing Mr. Crawford's grave and
trying to make iny mother out a bad
'woman loved him with one-half the
love my mother bore for him 1 know
my mother loved him, and I have
never seen her so happy as she was
when she told me she was going to
, "marry Mr. Crawford. And I was hap
py, too, because I knew Mr, Crawford
was a good man, and whatever makes
my mother happy makes me doubly
so.”
Adviser to Parent.
Besides being her most loyal sup
porter, Mrs. Bennett has been an ac
tive adviser of her mother. She has
suggested plans for defending Mrs.
Crawford that are considered valuable
by the accused woman's attorneys
and that doubtless will be carried out
should the Grand Jury indict the ac
cused woman and the case come to
• rial. She has been instrumental in
keeping her mother in a happy frame
of mind, cheering Mrs. Crawford and
encouraging her with tender care,
even though her own heart be sad.
Mrs. Bennett and her husband made
a great sacrifice in order that she
might be with her mother. When Mr.
Crawford died she was living in Pitts
burg, where Mr. Bennett was in busi
ness. At the request of her mother.
( hey gave up their Pittsburg home
and came to Atlanta that she in.ght
be with Mrs. Crawford.
Government Plans
To Set Clocks of
Nation by Wireless
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4.—Jewelers,
railroad officers and others who de
sire to have the correct time to a
fraction of a second may have it
flashed to them by wireless from Ar
lington, Va.. providing the city they
live in has a wireless station of any
kind.
’t’he wireless waves from the Gov
ernment station at Arlington are
powerful enough to reach Chicago and
even farther West. Twice a day from
the Arlington station the correct timj
is sent broadcast. It may be caught
with even the simplest amateur wire
less outfit if the machine is tuned to
2,500 meter wave lengths.
As the waves travel at the rate of
about 280,00’ miles a second, one need
not worry -p *ch about, the length of
time it t * the waves to get from
Arlingtor him.
Clarke Snaps Fingers
In Face of Tillman
WASHINGTON. Sept. 4.—Senato
rial nerves, on the •'ragged edge” by
reasons of the long tariff debate af-
most caused a fight among the Sen
ate Democrats.
"Pitchfork” Ben Tillman innocent
ly unfolded a letter and began to read
it as Senator Clarke, of Arizona,
started a tariff address.
Clarke, annoyed at the-crackling of
Tillman’s letter, walked over to the
South Carolinian and loudly snappel
his fingers beneath his nose.
Tillman and Clarke glared at each
other for a time, and then Tillman
retired to the cloak room to finish
perusing his epistle.
U.S. Women to Wear
Trousers of Harem
NEW YORK, Sept. 4.—The well-
dressed woman this winter will wear
a skirt that is designed to look pre
cisely like the Turkish trousers of
the women of the harem. Miss
Marian C. Foltz, fashion scout for
one of the city’s biggest department
stores, who arrived to-day from Paris,
says it’s all the fault of the Balkan
war.
"No lingerie will be w’orn,” said
Miss Foltz, "tights being the rule. In
fact, it looks as though the petticoat
and fluffy “tinder-things have been
banished forever.”
Found His Bride on
Football Gridiron
PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 4.—A ro
mance which had its beginning on
Franklin Field during a football
game in 1910 when "Texas” Ramsdell
was the star player for the University
of Pennsylvania, terminated when the
former world’s champion sprinter and
all-round athlete married Miss Nina
Foster, a popular Darby school
teacher.
Fred L. Ramsdell was graduated
from the university as a civil en
gineer in 1911. He will become one
of the proprietors of a school at San
Antonio, Texas, his home city, after
his wedding tour.
Travis and Evans
Meet in Golf Play
GARDEN CITY, N. Y.. Sept. 4.—
When Walter J. Travis, of New’ York,
and Chick Evans, of Chicago, teed
up this morning in the third round of
the amateur national golf champion-,
ship at the Garden City Club, the
crowd was the largest so far this
week.
The other matches were Thomas
M. Sherman, Utica, vs. J. G. Ander
son. Boston; Archie Reid, St. An
drews, vs. Jerome D. Travers, Upper
Montclair, and Fred Herreshoff, Gar
den City, vs. Parker Whittemore, Bos
ton.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia—Fair Thursday and
Friday.
‘They’re Railroading Me, w He
Cries Before Being Arraigned.
Actual Deportation Near.
COATICOOK, QUEBEC, Sept. 4.—
Fighting in the last ditch against de
portation from Canada, Harry K.
Thaw\ the fugitive from the Mattea-
wan asylum for the criminal insane,
was arraigned before a board of in
quiry composed of representatives of
the Canadian Department of Immi
gration to-day.
Although Thaw had been warned
by Attorney W. K. McKeown that the
decision of the board probably would
be against him. he w’as more cheerful
than he had been several hours ear
lier.
Thaw raged in his quarters in the
immigration building, declaring that
representatives of the Immigration
Department and William T. Jerome,
former District Attorney of New’
York, were in league to "railroad’’
him back to Matteaw’an.
Shortly before 7 o’clock Thaw re
ceived a message from his mother,
Mrs. William Thaw’, which read:
“Keep a brave heart. I am coming to
help you.”
Denies He Broke Down.
Immediately the prisoner took a
brighter view of things. He sent out
for his breakfast, which he'ate with
apparent relish. Then he summoned
the newspaper men.
"There are reports abroad that I
collapsed last night and am a nervous
wreck, but these are untrue,” declared
Thaw\ “I have not lost hope, and I
believe that those who are in con
spiracy to rush me out of the country
in defiance of law and justice will not
prevail.”
The board of inquiry is composed
of E. Blake Robertson. Deputy Super
intendent of the Department of Im
migration, and Immigration Inspect
ors T. D. Williams, David Reynolds
and T. E. Garceau.
Thaw’ is only nine miles from the
United States border. An official ap
proved order for his deportation
would probably find him on United
States soil in less than twenty min
utes.
Thaw Fears Kidnaping Plot.
The program of the immigration
authorities is to rush Thaw over the
line as quickly as a touring car can
carry him. He will be deiivi r^u up
to the Sheriff of the county in which
he finds himself. In the meantime,
Former District Attorney Jerome and
Captain John Layton, a private de
tective who carries a warrant for
Thaw’s arrest on a charge of conspir
acy, together with half a dozen other
private detectives and representatives
of New York State, will keep pace
with the automobile in which Thaw
is deported.
Thaw fears that Jerome’s nun will
kidnap him as soon as he leaches
Vermont, before he can be taken in
charge by the Vermont autnorities.
There have been persistent reports
that Jerome planned to seize Thaw
forcibly and then dash across Ver
mont and New Hampshire with Thaw
a prisoner in an automobile.
The biggest crowd in the history of
Coaticook gathered here. Many vis
itors deserted the provincial fair in
Sherbrooke and came here. As a
public attraction Thaw had the Sher
brooke fair beat all hollow. It was
here that Thaw was first lodged in
jail after being arrested by Consta
ble John Boudreau before being taken
to St. Francis jail in Sherbrooke.
Alienists Begin to Gather,
Dr. Beauchamp and Dr. Gurd, who
examined Thaw in St. Francis, arriv
ed here to-day. This led to the belief
that the immigration authorities had
rescinded their ruling that aliin'sts
representing Thaw wmuld not be al
lowed to testify before the board. Dr.
Raymond Keib, superintendent ot the
Matteawan Lunatic Asylum, cane to
testify that Thaw is insane arm nas
been for at least five years.
Sermon by Bram,
Ex-Prisoner, Makes
Former Guard Cry
Thomas Bram, the paroled Federal
prisoner, will speak at the Jones Ave
nue Baptist Church Sunday night in
connection with the administration of
the ordinance of baptism to a number
of applicants. The service will begin
at 7:45 o’clock.
Bram spoke at prayer meeting at
the church Wednesday night. Fol
lowing the service one of Rram’s old
prison guards at the Federal Peni
tentiary stepped up to him with tears
in his eyes and said:
"Mr. Bram, 1 am a better man for
having heard you to-night.”
“I appreciate that all the more,” re
plied Bram, “remembering that when
I was a prisoner in your charge you
never treated me as such, but 'as a
brother.”
Ticket Seller Fined
For Pummeling Boy
A. D. Jordan, a ticket seller at the
ball park, was fined $10.75 by Re
corder Pro Terft Preston Thursday on
a charge of assault and battery made
by the father of 15-year-old Leo
Gross, who rents cushions in the
grandstand.
The difficulty arose when Jordan
attempted to drive Gross from the
park before the game "Wednesday
The boy refused to leave, claiming
that he had business there, and wa3
badly beaten up by Jordan.
Freed of Speeding to
Save Life of Child
CHICAGO, Sept. 4.—George A.
Reuss, who drove his automobile to
his home in < >ak Park, a suburb, at
a rate of 40 miles an hour, w’as freed
by Municipal Judgd Kendall when
Reuss explained that his baby had
swallowed sixteen pennies and he was
hurrying home to get a doctor to save
the child’s life.
The speedy trip saved the child. The
pennies were recovered.
Eugene Field Shaft
In Chicago Planned
CHICAGO, Sept. 4—Plans for a
memorial for Eugene Field, the poet,
started to-day in Chicago, and a cam
paign of publicity to cover the United
States was being formulated.
Contributions are to be used to erect
a monument over the grave of the
children’s poet, and if enough money
is obtained a memorial is to be placed
in Lincoln Park. Field died eighteen
years ago.
Wilson Sends Cheer
To U. S, School Boys
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4.—A mes
sage from President Wilson to 9,000,-
000 school boys in the United States,
who will soon tal^e up their fall
studies, was given out at the White
Hoduse.
"My warmest greetings to the boy?*
on their return to school,” wrote the
President. "May the year bring thep»
every good thing and strengthen them
in all the ideals of their service.”
Clubwoman Killed
By Nephew's Auto
ASHLAND CITY, TENN., Sept. 4.
Mrs. W. Pardue, prominent in wom
an’s club circles in Tennessee, was
killed by an automobile driven by her
nephew, James Majors.
The machine ran her down as she
was crossing the street.
Pastor Quits ‘Worst
Town' as Hopeless
SHARON, PA., Sept. 4.—The Rev.
H. E. Renicks has resigned the pas
torate of the Farrell Baptist Church,
declaring that Farrell, Pa., was the
worst city in the Western Hemi
sphere and that it w’aa impossible for
him to save it from meeting the fate
of Sodom and Gomorrah.
He came to this town from Spring-
field, Ohio, tw’o years ago. He has
opinions of the old school Baptists
that conflicted wdth the view’s of his
congregation, and recently refused to
sanction a church fair and social,
saying that they were "unholy.”
Gertain members of his flock took
him to task for this, and the church
was rent asunder by two factions.
Then he preached a sermon about the
unholiness of the Sunday pleasure-
seekers, and finally gave up his task.
Augusta to Charge
For Use of Streets
AUGUSTA, Sept. 4.—General Man
ager Mason, of the Atlanta and Caro
lina Construction Company, after ap
pearing before the City Council of
Augusta asking for a franchise to use
the streets for an electric railroad io
connect Augusta and Atlanta via Ath
ens, was informed that a previous
franchise granted his company would
be renewed.
He w’as told also that the city
would charge a license of $1,666.66 for
the use of its streets per annum until
the present franchise of the Augusta-
Aiken Railway and Electric Corpora
tion and various steam railroad cor
porations expire, and that after that
the franchises will come higher.
‘Rules Strict,' Says Superinten
dent Slaton—Office Thronged
by Pupils and Parents.
Man, 96, Dies After
Fasting for 55 Days
HARRISBURG, PA., Sept. 4.—-Wil
liam Beidleman, aged 96. died to-day
after starving himself for 55 days and
18 hours. A tray of delicacies was
beside his bed when he died.
Beidleman was in excellent health
when he suddenly refused to eat. Phy
sicians could find no reason for his
action.
Mob Chases Fugitive
Into Another State
LOUISVILLE, KY., Sept. 4.—From
Tennessee into Kentucky a mob of 100
men chased George Hinton, a negro,
charged with attacking a young white
woman near Portland, Tenn.
He was arrested near Scottsville,
Ky., by Sheriff Flowers, who landed
him in jail at Bow’ling Green, Ky.,
after a wild drive across country to
escape the pursuers, who made their
way back to Tennessee when they
found they were outwitted.
"Vaccination is a most important
factor in protecting the health of
school children, and our rules in this
connection are most rigid,” said Su
perintendent W. M. Slaton, of the
Atlanta public schools, Thursday. “As
a protection against smallpox it Is an
absolute necessity, and should there
be laxity In enforcing the rule an epi
demic might result.
“Children are admitted to the
schools on the issuance by a physi
cian of a certificate that the child has
been vaccinated ^successfully. They
also are admitted when a physician
certifies that he has vaccinated the
child three times within twelve
months without success.
"When two physicians certify that
it would endanger the life of a child
to vaccinate him, and also when it is
shown that a child already has had
smallpox, a certificate is issued to
them by me.
•There is one thing I wish the pub
lic and the physicians to understand
thoroughly. It Is that a physician
should not issue a certificate that a
child has been successfully vacci
nated by him until after the vaccina
tion has taken. There have been in
stances where children have been vac
cinated and the physician has issued
them a certificate before it is known
whether the treatment has been suc
cessful.”
Superintendent Slaton and his offle®
force are exceptionally busy this week
issuing school certificates. More than
500 women and children called there
Wednesday afternoon, while Thursday
morning found a great crowd await
ing his arrival at the Boys’ High
School.
Audubon Official
To Talk on Birds
A general invitation has been issued
to the public to hear the address to
night of James Henry Rice, Jr., field
agent of the National Audubon So
ciety, at the North Avenue Presbyte
rian Church, No. 527 Peachtree street,
at 8:30.
The subject is "Birds and Their Use
to Man." The Boy Scouts will act as
ushers.
Money Lenders Are
Hit by Georgia Road
AUGUSTA, Sept. 4.—For many
years it has been the practice of somp
of the employees of the Georgia Rail
road to lend money to other em
ployees at various rates of Interes:.
With the advent of Acting General
Manager J. H. Ellis it is understood
that this practice has been broken up.
Under the old system of lending
money the person lending it received
a high per cent, while the official
who paid off received a per cent for
collections made. In this w r ay several
comfortable fortunes have been made
by a number of railroad employees.
Since the coming of Mr. Ellis the
Georgia employees have been given a
regular pay day, something which
they have not hnd in a number >f
years.
Operated on 24th
Time in Ten Years
YUMA. MICH.. Sept. 4.—Fred May-
bury, 23, was operated on to-day for
the tw’enty-fourth time in ten years.
His initial visit to the operating ta
ble was made when his right hand
was cut off Maybury next lost his
left leg. Then he was stricken with
appendicitis. Next a stray shot de
stroyed his right eye, following which
necrosis developed in his left arm and
several bones were removed at dif
ferent times. A part of his liver was
removed in the last operation.
Girl Admits She Lied
To Shield Caininetti
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 4.—Attor
neys in the trial of F. Drew Caminetti
to-day expected to have the evidence
against the alleged white slave law
violator concluded by this evening.
Witnesses for the defense, it was sari,
would take up but a short time.
I.ola Norris, the young Sacramento
girl who eloped to Reno with Cami-
nettl, completed her story yesterday
with an admission that she had iied
to officers who arrested the two cou
ples because she wanted to shield
Caminetti, whom she loved at that
time.
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EINISR
Finn Clan. Goaded by Two Stinpi
ing Defeats, Threaten Des
perate Battle To-day.
Weather Forecaster Von Here*
mann thinks the rain will hold
off long enough for the Crackers
to defeat the Gulls tgain this aft
ernoon, though showers are ex
pected during the evening.
By 0. B. KEELER.
It is now entirely up to Joe Con*
zelman and Jupe Pluvlus. If Jo«^|
big drop is w-orklng and Jupe’s is not,
we will call it a day’s work, allsquar^
with the Gulls, and set the stage
Waterloo to-morrow.
Whose Waterloo, of course, is
speculative topic.
But in the meantime there is d®«
ploying betwixt our brave lads airdl
the supreme moment one Billy Ca-mP*
bell and a collection of savage Scarv*
divanlans, furious Finns, or plain*
scrappy Mobile ball players, according
to taste in alliteration and sociology^
To-day’s game will be for blood.
Further than that this affiant de*
poseth not and is not tempted tg
depose.
Serious for Gulls Now.
It Is useless to bear down on thg
Importance of this game. For th*
Crackers It means just as much as th$
game Tuesday and the game Wed*
nesday—which is everything. To th«
Finns, while they may lose this gams!
and still win the pennant, the contest
is almost as critical.
For if the Crackers continue thehl
smashing plunge to a drawn battle*
the final game will find them wir^j
the reek of gore In their nostrils anil
the glare of battle In their eyes. An<#
Just as surely the Gulls will feel th^f
cold nudge of the wall at their backsy
If the Crackers can win to-day, tliA
Gulls will be on the run. They hav^j
lost their last five games in a row*:
and no team, however hardy, can taka
that kind of steady beating without
flinching. It isn’t in human stamina*
The Crackers have won while th^
Gulls have lost; won by desperate bal|
playing; won by fighting when bal4
playing would not serve the turn.
Inch by inch, Bill Smith and his mer^
have fought up out of the last ditch.
If they can win to-day the Gulls must
change places. In the last game it
will be Mobile on the defensive—and
on the run.
Campbell Is Primed.
Billy Campbell has a wise old noo*
die, a fork-hand delivery, and the fin*
est iittle balk motion in this league.
He is primed to beat the Cracker?, iff
he can. The Mobile support yestera
day was brilliant; the Crackers’ wa|
ragged. To-day there may be »
change.
Both the previous games have been
close. There Is a big chance that on®
or the other team will crack to-day,
and a big score—a lop-sided victory—*
will result.
And if we win to-day—well, there's
a movement afoot among the Atlanta
merchants and business houses to
close up shop to-morrow afternoon,
und everybody go to the final game of
the series and lift it over to the right
side by sheer dint of deep-chested
rooting.
Did you ever notice how the Allans
ta merchants and business men al
ways are there with the rally in tho
pinch?
The line-up:
Atlanta. Mobile.
Agler, lb Stock. »s.
Long, If Starr, 2b.
Welchonce, cf O’Dell. 3b.
Smith. 2b Paulette, lb.
Bisland, ss Robertson, cf.
Holland, 3b Schmidt, c.
Nixon, rf Clark, If.
Chapman, c Miller, rf.
Conzelman. p Campbell, p.
Umpires—Pfenninger and Rud-
derham.