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FLORIDA EXTRA The Atlanta Georgian Read for Profit— -GEORGIAN WANT ADS---Usc for Result3 VOL. XII . NO. 27. ATLANTA. GA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1913. Copyright. J90®. By The Georgian Co. 2 CENTS. FAY NO MORE — _ EXTRA POISON CHARGE A CONSPIRACY, WIDOW SAYS +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ •EH *• + + •* + • + +•+ + • + + • + + •+ + •+ 4.,+ •!•••!• +•+ +•4* +•* GODBEE DIVORCE PAPERS FOUND HERE TO AID SLA YER +•+ +•* +•+ +•+ 4..+ +•+ +••5- *•+ +•* +•+ +•+ 4-»4* *!*••!• v 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 The suit was en tried April 29, 1907, and was later withdrawn.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.