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VOL. XII
. NO. 27.
ATLANTA. GA.,
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1913.
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THAW ORDERED DEPORTED
Attorneys for Divorcee Who Slew
Former Husband and Bride
Get Evidence Here.
Old records of a suit for divorce
in April, 1907, by the late Judge \V.
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, wore unearthed in the
Fulton County Superior Court Wed-
n- sday morning. The suit was en
tried 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withdrawn.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. Me*
Xaughton, the Emanuel County phy
sician, 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 in
vestigating a report that Judge God
bee took Mrs. Godbee 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 Faul S. Ethridge, the
plaintiff’s 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, 1S87. in Burke Coun
ty, Georgia, and lived together as
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 1904.
Judge Godbee asserts further that
each of the separations alluded to
were brought about by t*“* 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 mane his life
utterly unbearable; and that your
petitioner has been forced to sepa
rate himself from the defendant as
above alleged, fearing lest she would
take him unawares and do bodi
ly harm.
Says She Humiliated Him.
•The petition'-.” it Is asserted
further, “never falls to use every op
portunity to humiliate your defend
ant in the presence of friends, or in
.he presence of strangers or oven in
t jj e presence of his own children. She
has time and again ordered him tu
i.ave and threatened him if he did
not leave.
Petitioner has bora* this treat
ment in silence, and has done all in
. power to ameliorate matters, ^ut
t() n0 purpose. Defendant has be-
,, me more and more violent in her
manner toward petitioner and her
threats have become so frequent and
malignant that defendant can not
safety be in her presence.”
It is stated fur‘her that petitioner
shows that defendant is well pro
vided for in worldly goods and ha* an
abundance of property In her ow i
name to support her,
DELINQUENT TAX SALE.
GAINESVILLE, FLA., Sept. 3.
The delinquent tax saJe of Alachua
county. just held here for the first
tjme in many years, was completed
..‘lore sundown, there being only 397
1 rtifleates issued. A supplementary
. ,i e win be held the first Monday in
Dukes Likely Will
Build Interurban
Roads in Georgia
GREENVILLE, S. C., Spt. 3.—Di
rectors of the Interurban Electric
Railway Company, now building a
network of lines in the Carolinas, have
voted an increase of $2,500,000 in cap
ital stock, making it $7,500,000. While
no statement is forthcoming as to the
purpose of this increase, it is said the
plans include extensions into Georgia
from either Anderson or Greenville.
B. N. and J. B. Duke are the chief
stockholders in the enterprise. It is
known that the Southern Power Com
pany, another Duke corporation, has
recently closed a deal for Tallulah
Falls power, having a transmission
line now in use from Greenville to
that point.
Carolina and Georgia to Connect.
AUGUSTA, Seput. 3— At a meeting
of the stockholders of the Carolina
and Georgia Railway held here J. H
Lott, of Johnston, and J. M. Cranston
of North Augusta, S. C., were elected
directors.
An increase in the bonded indebted
ness of the road from $2,000,000 to
$3,000,000 was authorized.
Michael P. McGrath, contractor fo*
the new road, announced he would be
gin work September SO.
It has been decided to build the
road by Trenton and Johnston to Co
lumbia. From Johnston there will be
a branch line to Greenwood, connect
ing with the Duke system of inter
urban railways that run from Char
lotte to Spartanburg. Greenville, An
derson and Greenwood.
Electrically Grown
Peaches and Onions
Form Prize Exhibit
LI BERT 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
tilizer,” 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.”
In Last Hours Picturesque Bandit
Bares Secret Passages in
His Life History.
Three Officers and
Five Seamen on U.S.
Ship Die in Storm
NEWPORT NEWS, VA., Sept. 3.— j
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 w’hen 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 the
Prince’s ancestors.
Five Arraigned for
$750,000 Gem Theft
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, Sept. 3.—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 week 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.
“Old Bill” Miner, formerly of the
Jessie Janies 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 h# asked to be
made public after his death. He also
gave the name Of'a sister in Kentucky
whom lie wished notified of his death.
This has been done and she will ar
rive in Milledgeville 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 to a 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 which 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,
who 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.
Put in Motor Car and Rushed to
Town Where He Entered Can
ada From United States.
SHERBROOKE, CUE.. Sept.
3.—Judge Hutchinson main
tained the writ of habeas cor
pus and ordered Thaw to be
set free .taken in charge by
Army-Navy Game
Goes to New York
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.—Acting
Secretary of War Breckinridge and
the directors of the West Point and
Annapolis Athletic Associations held
a conference here to-day. at which it
was decided to Dlay the annual foot
ball game of the Army and Navy at
the Polo Grounds, New York, No
vember 29.
Mrs. Belle
Crawford,
Viola Ben
nett and
Russell
Bennett.
Accused Poisoner
Of Husband, With
2 Grandchildren
NDICT HER
any -
immigration authorities
sent to Coaticook for deporta
tion.
Preparations had been made in ad
vance to whirl Thaw away to Coat;- I
cook, Quebec, for arraignment before j
a board of inquiry of the immigration
department.
Ex-District Attorney W. T. Jerome.’
ba^\rt“ President Returns | Thousands Acclaim
States soil within 24 hours.
Immediately after Judge Hutchin
son handed down his decision officials
of the Canadian Immigration Bureau
took Thaw in charge.
Thaw, who had been in the judge s
private office when the ruling was
read, was hustled Into a waiting mo
tor car and the eighteen-mile journej
to Coaticook was commenced
To the White House
Gaynor as Candidate
House Votes Water
For San Francisco j
.—’t’he
WASHINGTON. Sept. 8.—-After
spending a three-day vacation at his
summer home in •Cornish, N, H.,
President Wilson returned to Wash
ington at 11:38 o’clotk to-day and |
soon was at his desk in the White |
House.
President Wilson passed the scene
of the wreck at Wallingford, Conn., j
about 9 o’clock last night and from
his rear platform saw much of the |
ruin of tl
wrecked Pullmans
Courthouse Planners
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4.—inei
oTSrfJT $5,000 More Voted to
San Francisco pa?ed the House:
to-day. The vote was 183 In favor'
and 43 against. .
The right of way is through the! a payment of 15,202.50 t
Yosemite National Park and other | fec t s on the new courthouse was au-
Federal reservations. The city of ( thorized by the Board of County Com-
San Francisco has been In peril of a . mlM | onerg Wednesday. The sum of
water famine for some time, its Are I $41i5o5 .5 0 has already been paid, which
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 «>f the marchers carried shov- I (hi
els as the, shovel is the symbol of the
Gaynor ticket. It is supposed to stand
f« Mayor Gaynor’s activities in get
ting new subways for the city.
the archi-
department having been unable to
obtain water to extinguish fires in
suburbnn sections
The bill has not yet passed the
Senate. The test vote taken before
its final passage indicated but little
opposition.
I will make a total of nearly $47,000.
The contract with the architects called
for a fee of five per cent on the total
1 cost, of the courthouse, which is ap
proximately $1,100,000. The total amount
the architects are to receive Is $55,000.
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 at 1 o’clock.
Scarcity of breeze made the temper
ature in the shopping district stand
at about 93. The mercury did not
J 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 principal 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 againsi
and by unfair means, break
the will of Mr. Crawford, by
which she received more than
$100,000.
Mrs. Crawford says she asks omv
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 filling her
eyes. She steadfastly maintains her
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 now more 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. Cran
ford knew that his relatives, in their
greed and avarice, accused me of
murdering him, he would turn over
in his 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. Bui
couldn't do it, and they never will be
able to. I'm not ashamed of
tiling I ever have done.
These charges of murder they have
brought against me are nothing but
trumped-up excures to win their case
and break Mr. Crawford's will by
unfair means. They have tried as
hard as they knew how to prejudice
public opinion, and have sent emis
saries to my friends, urging them tu
turn against me. They have caused
garbled reports of the case to be pub
lished in other cities where I formeHy
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 t
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 whole 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 so much
suffering and humiliation that I'll give
up the fight and iet 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 fighting
spirit. I’ll fight 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
T> Tj I-. . » , -I pose as Mr. Crawford's loving rela-
JL or a 1 UDllC feCllOOl lives 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.
»Sh<i spends the greater part of her
time playing with her small grand
s. Locke j children, who idolize her. Little Violti
-day for ! who is 8 years old. will not go any*
w'here unless “Grandmamma" is wit*
her.
'Winston-Salem Wins
Carolina League Rag
By Half a Game Lead
RALEIGH, Sept. 3.—A terrific wind
and rain storm, blowing directly from
Cape Hattoras, that swept Raleigh
and this section to-day, brought to an
abrupt end the Carolina Baseball
League season, two games at Durham
and the single game sat Greensboro
and Charlotte being cancelled.
Winston-Salem, finishing one-half
game ahead of Durham, wins the pen
nant. The season would have ended
fternoon.
Plan to Use College
EUFAULA, Sept. 3.—A proposition
to move the public school to the old
Alabama Brenau College buildings,
and to turn the school building into
a public hospital Is to be submitted
to the vote of the people here.
If approved the change will be ef
fective for two years, after which the
city will petition the Legislature to
establish a State school here.
GOVERNOR’S SON UNDER KNIFE.
RALEIGH, Sept. 3.—George Craig,
son of Governor and Mrs.
Craig, was operated on to
appendicitis and this evening was r<
ported as doing splendidly.