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I !IK ATLANTA (iKOKKIAN AND NEWS.
BOTH PARENTS
CHILD LOSE
Mother's Plea for Her Custody
and Alimony Denied — Court
Gives Girl to Grandmother. .
An attractive woman and her pret
ty daughter of 11 year-, who d»*-
• dared she would rather live with her
rather than with her mother, were
ihe centra! figures in a plea for tem
porary alimony and custody of th*
\ v hild in Judge Bell’s court Thursday
morning. The woman was Mrs. Mary
Anderson, who is suing her husband,
Harry W. Anderson, Jr., for divorce,
and the daughter was their child,
Margaret Anderson.
The child has been in the custody of
her father's mother since last May.
.fudge Bell said neither the mother
nor the father was entitled to the
• •hild, and ruled that she remain with
Mrs. Harry \V. Anderson, Sr., who re
sides on Peachtree road, and to whom
ihe husband was instructed to pay
120 per month for the care of the
hild. The plea for alimony was de
nied the younger Mrs. Anderson
The husband, who runs a garage In
Porter place, testified that he wan
making not more than $8 or $10 a
week out of the business. Mrs. An
derson in her petition for divorce al-
eged drunkenness and abuse on the
part of her husband.
Witnesses for the husband said his
wife had been guilty of such profani
ty that the proprietor of a boarding
house asked them to leave.
In her petition the mother said she
desired to place the child in a school
at Harrisburg. Pa., the mother’s horn .
where she married Anderson in 189^.
She declared that the child's granu-
rnother wanted to put the child in a
Catholic school in Savannah.
The child, when asked If she was a
<'athollc, replied: "No; I am next to
it.” explaining that she was an Epis
copalian. Even Judge Bell indulg'd
n a laugh.
"The question as to where the child
snail be sent to school may be taken
up later The child can not be taken
out of the jurisdiction of the court
without a special order from the
- ourt.” said Judge Bell.
He ruled that the mother might see
the child at stated times, but could
not be allowed to take her out.
MAYOR GAYNOR OF NEW YORK
To Quit the Blues . D|£S SU qq ENLY ABOARD SHIP
Lieutenant Georf
of the Fulton Hlu
Regiment, will resign shortly, a
cording to information *n Htate mi
tary circles Thursday.
Captain Jones, it is saul, will off
his resignation as u result of the ii
ness of his father and other reason 1
Another resignation reported at Stat*
military headquarters is that of 8e»
ond Lieutenant A. O. Gates, of tin
Fulton Fusileers. Company H. Hot.
Lieutenant Gates and Lieutenant Me
Catty will also resign for busine-
reasons.
Two recent
photographs
of William J.
Gaynor, who
died on an
ocean liner
as he sought
health in
a sea trip.
Vice Squad and Dog
Cost City Damages
Attorney W. C. Monday has filed a
petition for damages to Council,
charging that he has been more im
posed upon by Chief Beavers’ "vice
-quad" than any innocent spoonen-.
He charges that two members of
this famous squad "were spying on
some dogs that were playing on th-
Capitol grounds." One of the officers
shot at a little pup. he says, and hit
him in the leg. Mayor Woodward und
the claims committee promised him
Wednesday that the city would reim
burse him for his hospital excuses
<nd his loss of time.
First Englishman to
Own an Anto Dead
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON. Sept. 11.—Evelyn Ellis
l ie first Englishman who owned
an automobile, is dead at the ag-
»f 71.
Ellis bought a five-horsepower Pan-
.ard machine in 1895 and drove it at
ten miles an hour in defiance of the
law. hoping to be prosecuted and
thus draw attention to the car.
King Edward had his first motor
ride in Ellis’s car.
The picture
below shows
Mr. Gaynor
just before he
; sailed, holding
the emblem of
his party in
the mayoralty
race—-a shovel.
Heart Disease Fatal to Mayor as j
He Takes Ocean Trip for
His Health.
Rival Factions Seek to
Pick Up Gaynor Strength
Robin Pardon Given
By Sulzer Held Void
KINGSTON. N. Y.. Sept. 11.—Judge
liasbrouck has derided the Joseph G.
Robin habeas corpus proceedings ad
versely to Robin. Hr holds that Gov
ernor Sulzer. who pardoned Robin,
was impeached by the Assembly und
while awaitin'- trial is divested of the
right to exercise executive power, in-
luding the pardon power.
The court holds the Assembly, in
impeaching Sulzer, acted in a judicial
capacity and was properly in session.
when the appe-
“ v OU tite is normal and
WflN" you are able to eat
without distress;
but how quickly
you go “down to de
feat” when the “Inner
man : ' becomes weak
Play safe, and at the
first sign of trouble you
had better take
HOSTETTERS
STOMACH
BITTERS
It will help yon mrn-
tjjrue to be a “-winner. ”
NEW YORK, Sept. 10.— Muyor Gay- j
nor’s death came as a shattering blow |
to the political structure that had j
been built for the November elec- j
tlon at which the city ticket was the :
center of interest. For the office of .
Mayor there had been selected by
Tammany Judge Edward E. McCall;
the fusion committee of 107 bad j
named John Purroy Mitchell, Colloc- |
tor of the Port; the Gaynor fusion !
and nominating league had named ■
Mayor Gaynor.
With Mayor Gaynor out of the race,
the two-sided fight leaves a complex
condition. Many of the Gaynor lead
ers had Jtssailed Mitchell bitterly.
Mitchell had not been soft In handling
the Gaynor men. The prospect for
harmonizing the remaining Gaynor
forces and the Mitchell element, while
excellent as to the voter element is
difficult as to the leaders. The atti
tude of the leaders on both sides in 1
attacking Tammany makes it ex- ,
tremely* difficult for the Gaynor forces
to amalgamate with Tammany.
Mitchell Stands to Gain.
The chances are that the death of
Mayor Gaynor will add appreciably
to the Mitchell strength. Conserva- |
tive men said to-day that it would
assure his election. On the other j
hand, if the Gaynor leaders can not *
see their way plain to accepting the
Mitchell nomination as representing
all fusions and insist upon fighting
the Mitchell element to the finish, ;
McCall will reap some added benefit. J
In that even the race would be close.
The actual situation is that both
the Mitchell and McCall forces are
seeking to-day to pick up the Gaynor
strength. The announced intention of
Comptroller Prendergast and Presi
dent McAneny to accept places on the
Gaynor ticket, made public just be- j
tore the news of Mayor Gay nor’s (
death came, leaves Mr. Mitchell free
to accept the nomination of the In- I
dependence i^eague, and It is ex- j
pected he will so accept. If he does
not, then the Independence League
would almost of necessity have to j
name a candidate of its own.
A definA** idea of the situation may
be drawn from the vote in the last j
Liner Baltic Due at
Queenstown Friday
LIVERPOOL, Sepi. 11.—
The liner Baltio. upon which
Mayor Gaynor died, is not due
here until late to-morrow night
or Saturday morning.
She is due at Queenstown
Ireland, to-morrow morning.
election for Mayor. The consolidated
returns showed:
Hannurd, Republican. 177,
Gaynor, Democrat, 250.3S7.
llearst. Civil Alliance, 154,187
Total vote, 581.878.
That the G&Vnor vote was a Tam
many vote is shown beyond question
by the vote for K. R. Moore, the Tam
many candidate for Comptroller, who
polled 250,092 votes in the face of an
unusually hot personal fight.
On the face of the actual figures
this three-cornered race promised to
give Judge McCall an easy plurality
of the total vote, assuming, as the
record of the past justifies, that the
Tammany machine strength was poll
ed for its candidate and the oppo
sition was divided between Mitchel
and Gaynor.
It will be seen that the combined
anti-Tammany vote exceeds the Tam
many vote by 81,104. with the Tam
many problem that of finding a way
to split its opposition.
Bryan Is Shocked
By Gaynor’s Death.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 11.—"I am
shocked to learn of Mayor Gaynor’s
death." said Secretary of State Bryan
to-day. "The . ews is so sudden that
I can not even believe it to be true.
He was a strong man in marty re
spects and I know that New York will
feel his lose.*’
NEW YORK, Sept. 11.—The fol
lowing radiogram was received to
day at Crookhaven from the steam
ship Baltic:
To Robert Adamson, Secretary
to Mayor Gaynor, City Hall. New
York City: Father died Wednes
day at 1 o’clock. Death due to
heart failure. Notify mother.
R. W. GAYNOR.
R. W. Gaynor is Rufus Gaynor, son
of Mayor Gaynor, who accompanied
his father abroad.
Mayor Gaynor and his son sailed
for Liverpool from this city on board
the White Star Liner Baltic on
Thursday, September 4.
At that time Mayor Gaynor was bo
weak that he could hardly walk up
the gangplank of the ship. Once on
board, he sank down upon a couch
and could not speak. He attributed
his trouble to a recurrence of a throat
ailment induced by the bfillet of an
assassin at Hoboken three years ago. |
Mayor Gaynor planned to sail for
home immediately upon his arrival at
Liverpool, thinking that the voyage
would restore him sufficiently to take
part in the fall campaign.
Mayor Gaynor, who immediately
previous to his departure was nomi
nated for re-election upon an inde
pendent ticket, had planned to make
a strenuous campaign this fall.
His death will have considerable
effect upon the political situation in
this city.
At the White Star Line office it
was said that the Baltic should be
between 300 and 40«» miles off the
coast of Ireland to-day.
At 10 o’clock offclals of the line
said they had received no report of
Mayor Gaynor’s death.
Crookhaven is on the coast of Ire
land. There is an important wireless
station there. From Crookhaven the
death message was relayed to New
York. . .
Alderman Kline Acting Mayor.
The duties of Mayor of New York
will be administered from now on
until a new Mayor Is elected by Pres
ident Kltne. of the Board of Aider-
men. who has been acting Mayor in
the absence of Mr. Gaynor.
News of the sudden death of Mayor
Gaynor created a wave of sorrow at
the City Hall. The ttag was imme
diately placed at half-mast. Many of
Mr Gaynor’s friends and admirers
were unable to believe the intelli
gence and besieged the office of Mr.
Adamson, private secretary of the
late Mayor.
The cablegram telling of Mayor
Gaynor’s demise was received at City
Hall at 4 a. m.. but lay unopened on
Mr. Adamsons desk until the Secre
tary made his appearance nearly six
hours later.
Mrs. Gaynor. who has been spend
ing the summer at the Gaynor sum
mer estate at St. James. Long Island,
was immediately notified of her hus
band’s death. She w as overcome with
grief.
The Gaynor family sent word to
the son. Rufus, to have the remains
transferred at Liverpool and brought
back at once for burial.
It is not expected that any legal
technicalities will hold up the return
of the body.
Intimate friends of Mayor Gaynor
believe his death was undoubtedly
hastened by grippe and throat trou
ble. His private physician advised
the ocean trip.
It is believed also Lj^at the strenu
ous days just preceding the Mayor's
departure weakened him. He was in
a quarrel with the newspapers, beset
by political enemies and engrossed in
some of the biggest municipal prob
lems that ever beset the biggest city
of the North American continent.
He had just got through with a so
lution of the subway problem, a gi
gantic project, involving the expen
diture of $60,000,000.
Waldo Deeply Shocked.
Police Commissioner Waldo, the
warm personal friend of the late
Mayor, heard of Mr. Gaynor’s death
w’hile he was helping drill 500 recruit
policemen.
"That is terrible," cried Waldo. "It
is a terrific blow to the city of New
York."
Commissioner Waldo and Fire
Commissioner Johnson immediately
issued orders that all the flaga on the
police stations and firehouses of the
city should be placed at half-ma. c n:.
When Commissioner Waldo entered
his office later he held a handkerchief
to his eyes. Waldo is a burly, rug
ged. red-laced man who has received
honors for bravery while serving in
the United States Army in the Phil
ippines. but he made no effort to hide
his grief to-day.
A complex situation is brought
about by the death of the Mayor.
Mayor Gaynor was elected upon the
Democratic ticket, but Adolph L.
Kline. who temporarily succeeds
Mayor Gaynor is a Republican. An
other feature of the change is the
fact that Mr. Kline was not elected
president of the Board of Aldermen,
but came into that executive position
through the resignation of John Pur
roy Mitchell, who left the board to
accept the post of collector of the port
of New York.
Gaynor’s Secretary
Former Atlanta Man.
Robert F. Adamson, secretary to
Mayor Gaynor, and the first person
to receive news of the passing of New
York’s Chief Executive, is a formei
Atlanta newspaper man, a nephew of
Congressman W. C. Adamson.
For a number of years Mr. Adam
son was a resident of Atlanta, where
he began his newspaper career. He
has been in New York for the past
fifteen years, where he has made a
reputation in the newspaper world.
He was selected as secretary by
Mayor Gaynor because of his activity
in the campaign and his special fit
ness for the position.
Mr. Adamson was with Mayor Gay
nor when the shot was fired that ul
timately caused his death. When the
Mayor reeled as the bullet struck him,
Adamson sprang to his assistance and
caught him in his arms.
During the entire time of the con
finement of the Mayor after the
shooting Adamson was by his side,
and it was he who bore the burden
of the work and responsibility of the
Mayor’s office until Mr. Gaynor re
covered sufficiently to take up his
duties again.
James Abner Gill, sixty-seven years
old. No. 200 Hardee street, died
Thursday. He is survived by three
sons. W. M. Gill, the Rev. E. B.
Gill and G. E. Gill; two sisters, Mrs.
Belle Joyner and Mrs. Maggie Oak
ley. of Bridgeport. Ala., and two
brothers, J. T. O*” and L. A. Gill,
of Bridgeport. The funeral will be
conducted Friday afternoon from
the Edgewood Baptist Church.
i Prison Commission Votes Two to
One to Free Doctor Accused
of Poisoning His Friend.
Continued from Page 1.
once l» Governor Slaton, the con
demned man has never lost hope of
receiving a full pardon or a commu
tation.
Fred Flanders, alleged victim of the
F',manuel County physician, died on
June 4, 1910. A few days later ru
mors. at first faint and indefinite, as
to improper relationship between Dr.
McNaughton and Mrs. Flanders, be
gan to circulate.
Relatives of the dead man had the
body exhumed and ordered a post
mortem examination, which, it was
alleged, revealed that the stomach of
Flanders contained a small quantity
of arsenic, although not enough to
have caused death.
Doctor and Woman Indicted.
Soon thereafter Dr. McNaughton.
who boarded at the Flanders home,
was arrested on the charge of ad
ministering arsenic to Flanders to
produce his death. His motive, it was
charged, was a de?*ire to be rid of an
obstacle to his familiarity with Mrs.
Flanders.
Following the joint indictment of
Dr. McNaughton and Mrs. Flanders,
the Emanuel physician, was tried in
October. 1910, convicted, and sen'-"*
tenced to be hanged.
Then followed the great legal battle
for McNaughton s life, which had its
echo as far north as Washington.
D. C., where the case wap reviewed at
length by the Supreme Court of the
United States on appeal from the
lower court, where the case was tried
three times. Although the highest
court in the land affirmed the decision
of the lower court, attorneys for Mc
Naughton continued the fight.
Stay after stay of the execution of
the physician, which originally was
set for the iall of 1910, was obtained
through Governor Brown, who de
clared repeatedly that the condemned
man would not hang ufitil Mrs. Flan
ders was tried. The last respite
granted in June, 1913, put the case in
the hands of Governor Slaton.
Mrs. Flanders Not Tried.
In the meantime Mrs. Flanders
waited nearly three years in seclusion
for the trial, which, it was alleged, the
State did not want. Finally, after
^Ix postponements the case against
her was nol prossed in the Superior
Court of Fulton County in July.
It was this turn of affairs which
prompted the attorneys for Mc
Naughton to renew the fight on the
grounds that if Mrs. Flanders was not
guilty of her part of the original al
legations Dr. McNaughton could nol
be.
About ten days ago Judge Saffold
and Colonel John Bennett, of Swains,
boro, attorneys for McNaughton. sub
mitted to the Georgia Prison Com
mission new evidence in the form of
affidavits of two Thornasville citizens
who swore that Flanders had taken
drugs in their presence which he de
clared would kill him some day.
Feeling Seems Reversed.
Attorney A. S. Bradley, represent
ing the State, appeared on the scene
at this juncture with affidavits which
he claimed impeached the affidavits
of the defense. Following the argu
ments by bc*th sides, the case went vo
the Prison Commission for final de
cision.
All sorts of charges, which have
stirred the State, have been hurled
during the course of the McNaugn-
ton-Flanders case. Perhaps the most
startling of these was the charge of
the condemned man that certain
"factions" in Emanuel County were
plotting to hang him in order to
maintain its supremacy and power.
Although public sentiment was
strongly against the physician in the
beginning of the trial, recently, it is
said, a feeling in his favor has come
about. In anticipation of a full par
don Dr. McNaughton less than three
weeks ago announced his intention of
resuming his profession.
Girl, 15, Sues Cotton
Mill for $10,000 for
Disabled Left Hand
Girl toilers, none of whom appeared
to be more than 16 years old, ap
peared in City (’ourt this morning to
testify in the suit for $10,000 damages
brought by^pretty^ ni** M* 1 ’ 1 ’!,
phens, 15 years-old, against the Gate
City Cotton Mills for injuries to her
hand sustained at the mills three-
years ago.
The accident occurred three years
ago when the child's left hand became
entangled in the cords used in weav
ing the mills product and the i-kin
and tendons torn away. It is claimed
that she never will regain control of
her fingers.
Arrested as He
Leaves Prison
Thomas Howard, who has just
completed a year’s sentence at the
Atlanta Federal Prison, will be re
turned to Little Rock to-day, where
he will be tried for several post-
office robberies in Arkansas. Louisi
ana and neighboring States.
It was in 1910 that Howard was
arrested in southern Louisiana, after
a chase of years through many States.
A small boy said to have been kid
naped by Howard was charged with
being his assistant in many of the
crimes. The boy’s mother joined in
the search for Howard. The finding
of the boy led to the capture of
Howard.
Howard was taken to Little Rock.
His arrival at the prison was sensa
tional. He became violent w’hen the
Jailers refused to allow him to take
his suitcase into his cell with him.
Investigation showed the grip con
tained several bottles of sweet oil
and several packages of needles, with
which it would have been possible
for him to have filed his way to lib
erty through the iron bars.
The order for his transfer was
handed down by Judge Newman
Wednesday afternoon. He was re
leased from the Federal Prison and
immediately rearrested.
GRIFT 1 MILK
Cup Defender To Be
Built by Herreshoff
BRISTOL, R. I.. Sept. 8.—The candi
date for the America’s cup defense hon
ors against Sir Thomas Lipton’s chal
lenger. to be built by “Nat’’ Herre
ehoff, for a New York syndicate, will be
75 feet on the water line, Mr. Herre
shoff announced to-day.
The syndicate will be headed by for
mer Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, o£
the New Y’ork Yacht Club; J. P. Mor
gan and Frederick G. Bourne.
Mr. Herreshoff announced that he had
been given a free hand in the matter
of expenses and design. He added that
he would not accept a commission for
another candidate for next year’s in
ternational honors.
Chamber of Commerce Committee
Adopts Resolutions Welcoming
All Good Dairies to Atlanta,
The Chamber of Commerce pui»
milk committee met in the office ot
Dr. S. A. Visanska. chairman, Thurs
day and adopted resolutions denying
the charges of a numbfi of dairymen
that the pure milk propaganda was in
the interest of personal gain of the
members of the committee.
They pointed out that there were
good dairies* as well as bad ones in
Atlanta, and that their object was to
make them all good. The resolutions
declare the committee is not interest
ed in any foreign corporation, buL
that any and all good dairymen are
welcomed to Atlanta. They declare
the charges of the dairymen absurd.
Macon Sleuths
Shadow Dasher
MACON, Sept. 11.—Arthur L. Dash
er. candidate for Mayor, who charge,
recently in a circular that the lead
ers of the administration had plotted
to kill him, to-day accused Chief of
Police Chapman of having him shad
owed by plainclothesmen. The Chief
denied it.
“Why, then, were three of them
sitting directly behind me at Council
meeting?” asked Mr. Dasher.
The Chief replied that he had sen.
them to the Len G. Broughton revival,
and that the officers had strolled into
the council chamber, which is in the
same building, because they would
rather hear politics than sermons.
Mr. Dasher said he was not satit
tied with the explanation.
Photographs of the newest
hats for fall and winter are given
in The Sunday American. Just
from Paris. Called “flapper”
hats and “flopper” hats. Every
woman will want to see them.
2 Killed, 3 Injured, by
Boiler Explosion on
Torpedo Boat Craven
SAVANNAH, Sept. 11.—Chief Wa
ter Tenders McCaffray and Milton
were killed and Machinists Swina,
Daughton and Gabbitt badly scalded
when tTie Craven torpedo destroyer
was badly damaged by a boiler ex
plosion off Tybee coast last night.
The injured are being cared for 'it
Fort Screven Hospital, one of them,
Daughton, being reported to be in a
critical condition.
The Craven was towed to port by
the destroyer Yamacraw.
Rat Cripples 500
Telegraph Offices
MEMPHIS, TENN., Sept. 11.—The
electrocution of a rat in the switch
board of the Memphis Electric Com
pany put out of commission 500 of
fices of the Postal Telegraph between
Cairo, New Orleans and Nashville.
The car power was off in this city
and hundreds of Memphians walked.
Skyscraper elevators also were use
less.
GET SEA ISLAND COTTON.
GAINESVILLE, FLA., Sept. 11.-
Three cars of sea island cotton have
reached Savannah. There were 60
bales of over a hundred pounds each.
The cotton this year is of excellent
quality.
REFRESHING SLEEP
Horsford's Acid Phosphate
Half a teaspoonful In a glass of cold water
before retiring induces restful sleep. Non-Alco
holic. AdT -
THE ATLANTA COL
LEGE OF PHARMACY
completes its summer session at the
Atlanta Theater to-night, the exer
cises beginning at 8:30 o’clock.
There will be delightful music, and
the public is cordially invited to at
tend—seats free. The faculty is com
posed of Dr. George F. Payne, presi
dent; Dr. Hal M. Davison, Dr. W. A.
Medlock. Dr. H. Carl Owen and Dr.
W. E. Person.
The following gentlemen will re
ceive the degree of Ph. G.:
Miguel A. Alliegro, Cuba; Owen F.
Baynard, S. C.; George H. Bean.
Tenn.; Grover C. Brannen. Ga.;
Homer D. Breazeale, S. C.; Marion
Browning, Cuba; Mrs. Marion
Browning, Cuba; R. M. Barnett, Ala.;
Carlos Cassanovas, Cuba; Hugh C
Dover, N. C.: Mrs. Emili Gomez,
Cuba; T. D. Guffin, Ga.; Samuel H.
Hirsowitz, Ga.; F. P. Johnson, S. C.;
Edwin A. Jones, Ga.; E. R. Kaisei
Ga.; W. W. Munson, Miss.; Robert
C. McDowell, Texas; H. H. McDon
ald, Miss.; J. Frederick Pt^ole, Ga.:
Marshall R. Riviere. Ga.; "John B
Smith, S. C.; Claude E. Sherrer
S. C.; J. Louis Stephens, Ga.; C. W
Thrasher, Miss.
Marshall R. Riviere will also re
ceive the degree of Ph. C. (Advt.)
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