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TTTT7 ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
CLEWS FOUND IN
Pillowslip and Birthmarks on
Girl’s Dismembered Body
May Reveal Iderrtity.
NEW YORK, Sept. 8.—Detectives
both here and in New Jersey to-day
redoubled their efforts to dear up the
mystery surrounding the murder of
the girl whose headless body was
taken front the Hudson River, near
the New Jersey shore.
The finding of parts of the torso
Friday night, and the remaJnder yes
terday, together with a monographed
pillowslip. led detectives to-day to
think that they may soon be able to
llnd the person believed to have killed
the girl aJter an illegal ope-ation, cut
her head, arms and limbs from her
body and then cut the body In hatf
and threw it into the river weighted
with stones.
Detectives so far have established
the following facts:
Four Facts Established.
The murder was committer on
the New York aide of the river.
This has been proven by the grade
Of stone asetl lo weight the body
mica stone—which is found
only In New- York and notdn New
Jersey.
The girl was murdered in a pri
vate house or apartment. An
embroidered pillow-ship bearing
the initial "A" was found wrapped
around one section of the torso.
The date of the crime Wvas not
earlier than August 31. which has
been proven by newspaper wrap
pings around the body bearing
that date.
The victim was not more than
nr, years old. She had an exquls-
lts figure, was a blonde, was used
to wearing ultra low-cut gowns,
was In excellent health and had
four curious moles, or taoo marks,
on her righ shoulder.
Creates Great Sensation.
The legs, head and arms of the girl
are missing Officials are watching
the river shores in the hope that
these may be washed up by the waves
and aid in clearing up the mystery,
which has caused a greater sensa
tion here than did the Guldensuppe
murder mystery a number of years
Exclusive Macon
Club Attacked by
Pastor in Sermon
MACON, Sept. 8.—The Log Cabin
Club, Macon society's exi luslve coun
try organization, whh criticised se
verely by the Rev. W. N. Ainsworth,
pastor of the Mulberry Street Meth
odist Church, in ^his sermon last
night.
“No self-respecting mother will al
low her daughter to attend the
dances at that club," he declared.
He said that a visitor to Macon at
tended one of the dancese last wee...
“What kind of people come here?” he
asked. “The best people of Macon.’
was the reply. “Well, if these are the
best, then heaven pity the worst,” Dr.
Ainsworth quo: 1 him as saying.
BOY, 10, BEGS DOLLAR,
SAVES PET MONGREL
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Aloysius
Skinner
proudly
ransoming
his dog.
HIPS' REIGN
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5,000 Bales Sold
At 12c at Americus
AMERICUS, Sept. 8.—The Ameri-
cus cotton market has been on a
boom since the season opened. Sat
urday the receipts at the local ware
houses brought the total number of
bales received up to 6,000. This is
considerably more than had been re
ceived at thif* time last year.
All were sold for sums ranging
around the 12-cent mark. The entire
amount paid out so far to the farmers
for the receipt of the fleecy staple ia
$315,000.
Auto Fails To Dodge
Water Cart; 2 Hurt
When their automobile skidded in
the slippery path of as prinkling cart
on Peachtree street early Sunday
morning, dived into the water wagon,
was hurled onto the sidewalk, and
then tried to climb a telegraph pole,
I* L. I.atour, traveling salesman, and
L.-B. McLendon, Hotel Imperial night
clerk, were thrown out and badly
bruised.
Latour’s car was wrecked. He has
a broken finger. He said he tried to
dodge past the water cart.
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An inquest will be performed to
day to ascertain exactly how the girl
came to her death. A number of stab
wounds were found on the torso, but
physicians do not think that these
Indlyate that the girl was stabbed to
death.
It was thought at first that the per
son who dismembered the body had
an expert knowledge of surgery, but
later this was discredited by surgeons.
They claim the cutting was not that
of one skilled in surgery, but of a
person familiar only with the loca
tion of the different joints of the
body, as is a butcher.
Newspaper Fixe* Time.
Both sections of the torso were
wrapped in coverings bound with a
grade of wire commonly used by mil
liners. Around the first section of
the torso, in addition to the newspa
pers. was wrapped a pillow rase. It
bore a tag showing that the pillow
was comparatively new, and it was of
a brand made by n Chicago concern
and which has a large sale in this
section.
The authorities are said to be in
receipt of a letter concerning the dis
appearance of Ella Sternemann, of
Brooklyn, which mentions the name
of an East Side physician.
Friends Banquet T.R.
As He Goes ou Hunt
NEW YORK, Sept. 8.—Invitations
to the big farewell dinner to Colonel
Roosevelt to be given by the Progres
sives on the New York Roof Garden
on October 3. the night before he sails
for South America. ar« out. They are
signed by Timothy L. Woodruff as
chairman.
i CAN’T HELP BUT
Every Woman Carta Loving
Glance at Th« Nettling Cud
dled in its Bonnet.
A wuduui’i heart naturally responds to
charm and urertxwea of a pretty child, and more <
U' .lay than ev«r before rfnee the advent of 1
Mother * Friend.
Raise Funds to Build
Government Roads
DALTON, Sept. 8 —All of the coun
ties Interested having made provision
for raising their share of the funds,
Congressman Gordon Lee states that
within a few weeks the Government
will sign up an agreement with Ca
toosa, Whitfield, Gordon and Bartow
Counties for the building of the Gov
ernment highway from Ringgold Into
Bartow County.
A road engineer will arrive In this
section within a short time to make
the preliminary survey.
IMMEDIATE DELIVERIES
OF DRY GOODS WANTED
Marshall Field & Co., in their weekly
review of the dry goods trswie, says:
•Interest in the dry goods trade cen
ters principally on immediate busi-
less. The extreme hot weather of'the
early part of the week interrupted fall
business somewhat, but the cooler days
following brought a large number of
buyers into the market. Road sales
show a fair increase over the corre
sponding period a year ago.
‘The cotton goods market has been
•xclted on account of the advance in the
sriot .'1 raw cotton, due to the sever* 1
drouth in certain cotton-growing States
as reported by the Government. This,
together with the known scarcity of
merchandise, is causing retailers to
place orders on domestics freely for their
current wants.
"The sale of silks for the fall trade
indicates that this is going to he one
>f the best silk seasons for a number of
years A condition exists in the silk
industry that has not been duplicated
in the history of the business A short
crop of silk is reported in .Japan and
Italy, there is a scarcity of manufac
tured lines on hand ami prices are ad
vancing steadily.”
TO-DAY S MARKET OPENING
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.
Futures opened very steady.
Lad, weeping
outside pound,
touches hearts
(also pocket-
books) of kind-
hearted
passers-by, and
now he is
happy.
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Flat Owners’ Protest Against En
forcement To Be Decided at
Meeting Tuesday.
When the Smoke Commission hears
the protest of the apartment house
owners against the enforcement xf
the smoke laws Tuesday afternoon,
the cruicial test in the fight for a
cleaner Atlanta will be on.
The manufacturing plants, rail
roads and office buildings have capit
ulated one by one to the reform
movement. Except iu a few isolated
cases, every downtown furnace will
make far less smoke this season than
last, the city inspectors say. They
point out that there will be no trou
ble to handle the obstinate individu
als in the Recorder’s Court.
Apartment Owners Obstinate.
But in the fight to prevent the law
from affecting apartment houses
many of Atlanta’s most prominent
and influential citizens have com
bined. They are opposed to spend
ing the money it will take to remodel
their furnaces.
Chairman R. M. Harwell, of the
Smoke Commission, declared Mon
day that he believed the Commis
sion would be strong enough to op
pose this influence. He said that
smoke abatement in Atlanta was
past the experimental stage, but that
the apartment houses demanded im
mediate attention because they were
among the greatest sources of the
smoke evil.
Little Smoke in Pittsburg.
“Persons constantly are referring
me to Pittsburg as an example of s
failure to abate the smoke nuisance,”
he said. An official report from the
Pittsburg Smoke Inspector repudiates
these reports and says, among other
things:
“The plain logic of the question is
that just as soon as each individual
will realize that it is his duty an!
that it will work to his own benefit
to co-operate in that which will re
sult in the greatest possible good to
all concerned there will be no more
necessity for any anti-smoke ordi
nance.
“Incidentally, the escape of uncon
sumed hydro-carbon means higher
coal bills, and the only economical
method of getting rid of smoke is to
burn it in a furnace properly de
signed for the purpose.
“The nresent high cost of living has
attracted the attention of property
owners to economy in fuel consump
tion as much as any other economic
oroblem.’’
Crusade Started to Curb High
waymen’s Activity—Mystery in
Shooting of L. H. Britt,
The city police and detective de
partments turned their attention on
Monday to running down hold-up
men. a growing menace tp citizens of
Atlanta. Saturday night four high -
way robberies were reported. In one
case the victim was shot in the
shoulder. In another a man was
robbed of $200.
G. R. Orchard, a West End grocer,
was robbed of $200 in cash as he and
his wife were walking from his* store
to their home on Lee street.
The hold-up of L. H. Britt, a farmer
residing on rrural route No. 3. and
J. C. Rickerson. fixing at No. 160
Metropolitan avenue, in which Britt
received a bullet in the left shoulder,
is shrouded in mystery. The police
have no clew to the assailants. Britt
was taken to Grady Hospital.
No new arrests have been made in
the attempt to hold up C. C. Allen,
who was fired upon by highwaymen
Saturday night as he and a girl com
panion drove in his automobile in
front of No. 18 Garnett street, near
the young woman’s home-. Two bul
lets struck the rear tire of the auto
mobile.
City Detectives Carter and Pope
and S. J. Roberts, special officer, ar
rested Joe Hunter, a negro, of Ma
con, shortly after the occurrence
Hunter was hidin gbetween two box
cars in^he Southern Railway yards.
BAR WOMEN BARTENDERS.
SPRINGFIELD, MAtx&., Sept. 8.—
\ omen are barred from selling or
serving strong drinks in hotels or
restaurants, according to a decisio*
by the License Court.
Mary Phagan Shaft
Fund Inaugurated by
Railroad Trainmen
Plans for a monument to be erected
by public subscription over the grave
of Mary Phagan, killed in the National
Pencil Factory April 26, were made pub
lie Monday by officials cf Atlanta
Lodge. No. 720. Brotherhood of Railroad
Trainmen.
The brotherhood adopted ersoluiions
Sunday afternoon authorizing the ap
pointment of a committee to solicit
funds from the present until Novem
ber 1.
It also was decided to present the res
olutions at the next meeting of the At
lanta Federation of Trades and to ask
the Federation to appoint a committee
^to work jointly with that of the broth
erhood in the collection of the memorial
fund.
Griffin to Ballot on
Educational Board
GRIFFIN, Sept. 8.—Griffin Is in a
w rangle over the ?i. *tion on Sep
tember 17 of a school board. Two
tickets are in the field, and much
hustling is being engaged in by
both parties—the conservatives an 1
the progressives.
For over a generation the Board 'f
Education here has been self-perpet
uating. At the recent General As
sembly Henry Connor, Spalding's
Representative, secured the passage
of a bill amending the city charter
whereby voters are allowed to elect
the Board of Education.
Railways to Boost
Southeast at Fairs
Educational exhibits will be made
at nine Southern State and general
fairs and 26 county and district fairs
during the corning fall by the South
ern Railway pnd affiliated lines.
The roads aim to bring the advan
tages of tl^e section before its own
people and to assist the movement for
better farm conditions in the South
east.
Says Administration Candida 1 .?
and Friends Are in Plot to Kill
Him—Challenges Reply.
MACON. Sept. 8.—There is a sen
sation here in political circles as the
result of the distribution of circulars
published by A. L. Dasher, candidate
for Mayor, in which he criticises m
the strongest terms Mayor John T.
Moore, Mayor Pro Tem Ross Bowdre,
City Clerk Bridges Smith, who is a
candidate for Mayor; Emmet Barnes,
a leading Smith worker, and Corne
lius O’Connell.
The newspapers declined, to handle
the letter in any form, ana Mr. Dash
er then printed it as a circular.
He calls the above-named men
“contemptible cowards,” and discusses
Mr. Smith in the most personal and
scathing terms. His language is
grossly libelous if untrue. Mr. Dash
er dares the men whom he names
to resent what he says.
Cornelius O’Connell published a
card concerning Mr. Dasher last week
and the latter accuses the city ad
ministration officials of having writ
ten it. He says they are behind a,
plot to have O’Connell kill him. The
card concludes by saying that Macon
has a Tammany Hall like New York’«
—“the only difference being in size.”
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LIVE STOCK AND POULTRY CLUB
JACKSON, Sept. 7.—The Butts
County Live Stock and Poultry As
sociation was organized in Jackson
when Sheriff L. M. Crawford was
elected present, A. M. Pace vice pres
ident and J. D. Jones secreary and
treasurer.
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AMERICl'S. Sept. 8.— A new de
partment ha>> been added to the
Americus school system. From now
on a certain part of each day will be
devotedfto teaching the embryo wom
en of the town to cook and sew.
Youngster’s Devotion to Cur Pupp
Triumphs Over Law, Most
Cruel in His Eyes.
Alnysius Skinner w as happy Mon- j
day, but Saturday he could not con
ceive of human misery greater than j
his. as he cried at the dog pound like
he had not cried since it rained or.
the day of the picnic. Tobe was with
in the pound,*and was crying, too, as
only frightened little dogs can cry.
Tobe. now, had a perfectly good
reason for crying. The men were
going to take him'out and kill him
unless his master came to save him
with the $1 pound fee. Anil the mas
ter, who you must have guessed was
Aloysius, had no more than fifteen
i. ents.
The beginning of it all was several
days ago when the official dog
catcher, zealous with his new au
thority, saw Tobe standing in an al
ley, What Tobe was doing In the
nlley has not been explained. It must
have lteen that he went alter a cat,
nfter the manner of all little dogs.
Anyhow, the catcher found him and
slipped a wire noose over his head.
Aloysius searched for several days,
and asked everybody about a dog
with short brown ha r. You know
well that a dog with short brown
hair is a mongrel cur and not worth
anybody's tears, but you are grown
up and hardened. Aloysius, you see,
is only 10 years old.
Someone suggested the city pound.
Thither Aloysius went, to run into
an even more poignant gr'ef when the
obdurate executioner demanded a dol
lar or Tobe's life.
Hence Aloysius was crying. The
dog law seemed a very cruel law.
Even the executioner, if he had not j
been a conscientious man. would
have heeded the pleading of Aloysius.
One man did heed it. He was a
fat, cheery-faced man. and he gave
Aloysius a quarter.
The tears stopped. Aloysius be
came frankly and shamelessly a beg
gar, and it was a very happy little
boy. for all the grime on his face,
who finally gave the pound keeper a
dollar he hud gotten out of the boun
ty of passers-by.
Both master and dog stopped cry
ing together, and Aloysius kissed
Tobe and promised the dog catcher to
keep Tobe close In the yard here
after.
CABLE
|| NEWS
Important Events From AH
Over the Old World Told In a
! Few Short Linaa.
BELFAST, Sept. 8.—A serious ac-
cident happened jupt after midnight
when an excursion train en route to
Strabane from Londonderry left the
rails. The carriages were overturned.
One person was killed and twelve
were injured seriously.
Heir Born to U. S. Duchess.
LONDON, Sept. 8.—The Duchess
of Roxburghe, who was May Goelet,
of Newport, before her marriage, has
given birth to a son. The baby was
born at the London residence of the
Roxburghes. Reports are that the
child is a fine youngster and that the
mother is doing nicely.
Turks to Resist Bulgars.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 8.—The
Turks of Western Thrace have no
tified the various embassies here that
they have proclaimed their independ
ence. They declare that they are
rady to resist any aggressions on the
part of the Bulgarians with force of
arms if necessary.
Dublin Strike More Serious.
DUBLIN, IRELAND, Sept. 8.—
The strike conditions throughout Ire
land are much worse this morning.
Reports from many sections indicate
that trouble must be expected before
the matter is settled. The railroads
have refused to lake any goods for
transportation and traffic practically
is at a standstill to-day.
Gideons Open Series
Of Sunday Meetings
Atlanta Gldeohs began a series of
meetings to be held in the Hotel
Ansley. Judging by the attendance
on the first one. held Sunday after
noon, they will provide a valuable
Sunday religious meeting for many
traveling men.
\V. S. Witham was the principal
speaker at the meeting Sunday. Vo
cal selections were sung by the Misses
Bearden. A. K Todd, president of the
Stale organization, spoke. The speak
er for next Sunday will be Dr. S. R.
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First Illness Since
'65 Fatal to Woman
Mrs. Nancy C. McMullin, 78 years
old, died Sunday night at her home
at Hapeville. She had been ill only a
short while. This w r as her first ill
ness since the Civil War.
Mrs. McMullin’s husband was a
member of the Forty-fourth Georgiy
Regiment and was killed in battle,
leaving her three children, all of
whom survive her. They are L. W.
McMullin, of Atlanta; E. L. McMul
lin, of Hapeville. and Mrs. Laura J.
Sullivan, of Porterdale, Ga. She also
is survived by a sister. Mrs. Martha
J. Smith, of Decatur, fifteeen grand-
hildren and six great-grandchildren.
Funeral services- will be held at the
residence at 5# o’clock Monday after
noon. the Rev. S. W. Reed officiating.
The body will be taken Tuesday
morning to McDonough, Ga., for in
terment.
Alice McCown, the 2-year-old daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert McCown.
died at a local sanitarium Sunday
afternoon. She is survived by her
parents. Funeral services were held
Monday morning at the chapel of
Greenberg & Bond. Interment al
West view.
The body of Mrs. Harding Butt, who
died at a local hospital early Sun
day morning, was taken Sunday
night to Orlando. Fla., for funeral
and interment. She was 46 year-
old. and is survived by three sons.
J. N. Butt, of Savannah; C. J. and
G. M. Butt, of Sanford, Fla., and
one daughter, Mrs. B. F. Higgins, of
Savannah
The body of Mrs. Marv Presley, of
Toccoa, Ga.. who died Sunday even
ing at a local sanitarium was taken
Monday to Toccoa for funeral and
Interment. She was 42 years old,
and Is survived by her hus«band, R.
L. Presley, and two sons.
The funeral of Thomas Crawley, who
died Saturday, was held Sunday
morning at Poole’s chapel. The
body was sent Monday to Westerly,
R. I., for interment.
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of real mint leaves—
if you’re sure you see the
spear in buying Wrigley’s
You’re sure of delicious aid to teeth,
breath, appetite, digestion. You’re sure
of long-lasting enjoyment at low cost
This fragrant pastime is one of the few
things you like that you should like
It’s a blessing to smokers, the favorite
of children, the pleasant occupation
of almost everyone.
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Macon Registration
Breaks All Records
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Clarence Reynolds, of New York,
held the undivided attention of an au
dience of 1,500 at the Auditorium
Sunday afternoon at the organ re
cital under the auspices of the Atlan
ta Music Festival Association. The
recital is the first of a winter series
Among the special selections most
enjoyed was the prelude to “Parsi
fal.” Mr. Reynolds' rare technique
and power of expression deeply af
fected the audience.
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every meal
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