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VOL. XII. XO. 34.
ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1013. 2 CENTS, 'more 0
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EDITION
EXPRESS ROBBERY LOSS $75,000
MILLIONAIRE BARLOW
HERE FOR CHILD; NOT
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MRS. GODBEE LOSES FIGHT FOR DELAY; JURY IS CHOSEN
Laughs at Report That It Was Feared He Would
Try “Kidnaping.”
ietermined to regain possession of
pretty 8-year-o.d daughter. Mad-
le. who is now with her mother.
Edith Barlow, at No. 219 West
ichtree street, even if he has to
ry his fight to the highest tribunal.
Barlow, millionaire Cuban pro-
ter. stopped in Atlanta Thursday
his way from Havana to New
"k. for a conference with his at-
neys. Burton Smith and Arthur G.
veil.
1 am the be?»t friend she has in
world.” Mr. Barlow said, refer-
g to his divorced wife who is a
>f°ssional masseuse at the Wes*
ichtree address, “but 1 atn not go-
■ to let her keep our little girl if 1
^•e to spend every cent of my for-
le to prevent it.
It is the farthest from my inten-
n to reopen the disagreeable fea-
‘es that were aired during the
t for divorce. I have only the
idllest feelings for Mrs. Barlow.
Not to Attack Wife.
T have told her even since our
orce that if at any time she was in
ed or desired assistance of any
id she could call on me at once and
rould be glad to aid her to any ex
it.
‘I feel it my duty, however, to have
} care and custody of our little girl,
anyone familiar with the proeeed-
of our divorce trial the reasons
? readily apparent. I do not care
discuss them except to say that 1
i in a much better position to look
er the child’s education and mor-
; than the mother.
‘My lawyers, I believe, do not pro
pose to offer any critcism of Mrs.
Barlow. It is not our Intention to do
anything that would harm her in anv
respect. We feel that we can stand
on the derision of the Superior Cour*
of Stewart County, which awarded
the permanent custody of the child to
me. It is most irregular that the Or
dinary of the county should make a
decision overruling that of the Su
perior Court, which has the supreme
Jurisdiction in*a case of this kind.
“We expect to make our fight on
the strictly legal aspect of the case.”
Laughs at Kidnaping Scare.
Mr. Barlow laughed when told of
the fears of his former wife that Mad
eline would be kidnaped while he was
in town.
“I’m here in the flesh ajl right, and
I’m here to fight the case to a finish,
but I do not propose to resort to anv
such tactics,” he said. T am going to
use every legal means at my com
mand to regain possession of the girl,
but I shall go no further than this.
I think this will be sufficient.'’
The contest over the possession ' f
Madeline began the early part of Au
gust, when Barlow was in Cuba and
his present wife was visiting, with
Madeline, in Lumpkin, Stewart Coun
ty, their old home.
:he weather.
recast for Atlanta and
gia — Fair Thursday;
3er; Friday, unsettled.
British Win Second
Motor Boat Contest
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
COWES. ENGLAND. Sept. 11.—
The British motorboat Maple Leaf
this afternoon won the second race jf
the series for the international tro
phy. The French boat Despujons II
was second and the American en
trant. Ankle Deep, finished third.
The Disturber III. another Ameri
can boat, was fourth.
day at Crookhaven from the . £, team-
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. GAYNO-R.
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 I.lner Baltic on
Thursday. September 4.
At that time Mayor Gaynor was so
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 bullet 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 400 miles off the
coast of Ireland to-day.
At 10 o’clock offcials 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 Kline, 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 Citv Hall. The flag was imme
diately placed at half-mast. Many of
Mr. Gaynor’s friends and admirers
were unable to believe the intelli-
Contmued on Page 2, Column 4.
McAdoo Foils Plot
Of New Orleans to
*Get Shriners' Goat
WASHINGTON. Sept. 11.—Shall t
goat, American bom and a Mystic
Shriner, be allowed to re-enter th-i
country' of its birth at the expiration
of Its travels?
This question was put up to the
Government to-day in a telegram
from a party of St. Paul Shrtners re
turning from a visit to Panama with
the goat in tow.
“Our goat 19 excluded from entry
to his native heath by the health au
thorities at New' Orleans.” wired the
Shriners to Secretary of the Treasury
McAdoo.
“This is not an alien goat nor a
goat without a country. It’s an Amer
ican goat. Admit him,” ordered Sec
retary McAdoo.
Judge Roan Picked
To Get Appointment
To New Judgeship
Well-founded rumors were circu
lated at the State Capitol Tfitirsday
morning that Judge L. S, Roan would
be appointed to the Superior Court
Judgeship created by the last Legis
lature.
Although many rumors have gone
the rounds, the one forecasting the
ppointment of Judge Roan is said to
strike just a little closer to the mark
than the others _
One rumor had it that Chief Jus
tice Ben Hill, of the Court of Appeals,
would be appointed, being succeeded
on the Appeals Court bench by Judge
Roan.
Gives Plantation to
His Father's Slaves
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 11.—Wil*
liam Reilly, owner of a large planta
tion at Monroe,' near here, notified
all the former slaves of his father
and their descendants that he is go
ing to cut the plantation up into
farms, build each of them a house,
stock the farms and let them run
them themselves
His only condition is that they ask
credit of no one.
House Sends Tariff
Direct to Conference
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.—By a
vote of 87 to 190, the House to-day
determined to send the tariff bill,
with the Senate amendments, direct
to conference.
Republican efforts to have the
amendments considered separately in
the House proper were defeated. The
minority assailed the gag rule brought
in by the Democrats.
Democrats Meet to
Finance Campaign
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.—Mem
bers of the executive committee of
the finance committee appointed by
the National Democratic Committee
to devise plans for continuing the
Democratic campaign will meet here
to-day.
The purpose of the meeting is to
raise funds for the distribution of
Democratic literature and to plan
State organization.
Wilson Appointees
As Envoys Favored
WASHINGTON. Sept. 11.—The
Senate Committee on Foreign Rela
tions to-day decided to report favor
ably the nominations of Preston M.
Goodwin, of Oklahoma, to be Minis
ter to Venezula; Charles Voplcka. of
Illinois, to be Minister to Roumhnia,
Servia and Bulgaria, and Jefferson
Caffray. of Louisiana, to be secretary
of Legation at Stockholm, Sweden.
Centenarian Recalls
Kiss of LaFayette
BOSTON. Sept. 11.—Mrs. Emily
Chamberlain. wh> has just celebrat
ed her one hundredth birthday, de
clared that in 1824, when General
LaFayette was in this country, she
was among the school children who
cast flowers before him and were
kissed by him.
All Millen and the Countryside
Flock to Court as Trial of
Divorcee'Opens.
MILLEN. GA., Sept. 11.—Within a
few miles of the place where she was
born and reared and in the little
town where she spent a great many
years of what she terms an unhappy
married life, Mrs. Edna Perkins God-
p
bee to-day was put on trial for the
murder of the w'ife of her former
husband, « Mrs. Florence Godbee,
whom she sley on the morning of
August 18.
The State decided to try her first
for shooting Mrs. Florence Godbee,
because it believes that it has a
stronger case than the charge against
her for the murder of Judge Walter
S. Godbee, her former husband.
The trial proceeded rapidly. Judge
Hammond overruling a motion for a
continuance and later a demurrer to
the indictment.
Jury Obtained Easily.
The ease with which a jury was
obtained was a greht surprise, as It
had been predicted that several days
would be required to get twelve men.
Millen was wrought into a high
pitch of excitement to-day w'hen the
time arrived for the trial of Mrs.
Godbee.
Pa.
The woman, who has remained si
lent in the county jail since the day
she startled the community by shoot
ing down Judge Godbee and his wife
in the Millen postofflee, has won the
sympathy of many of the townspeo T
pie.
That she was the victim of insult
after insult heaped upon her by the
man who once was her husband and
that she was deprived of her inheri
tance by him before their separation
Is the story that is on every lip.
Tell of Slurrinq Remark.
This is the story, the details and
tragic ending of which will be told
the jury by the skilled lawyers whom
Mrs. Edna Godbee has engaged to
conduct the fight for her life. Th it
the judge accosted her in the •post-
office the day of the tragedy or that
he made a slurring remark in refer
ence to her in her hearing is the sen
sational testimony that is promised
by the defense.
It will be the contention that this
was the final act of persecution by
Judge Godbee that goaded his form
er wife into a iury and led her to
empty the revolver she was carrying
into his body and that of the pretty
woman at his side who had taken
her place in the Judge’s affection.
Combating the claim of the de
fense that the shooting of the young
Mrs. Godbee was not Intentional and
was in the nature of an incident to
the main purpose of the distracted
woman—the slaying of Judge Godbee
—the State was prepared to intro
duce evidence when the trial began
to the effect that the divorced Mrs.
Godbee, ns a matter of fact, directed
her bullets first at the young woman
and* did net attempt to shoot the
judge until she had fired two shots
at her rival and a third one into the
prostrate body as it lay on the post-
office floor.
Judge Tried to Shield Bride.
Then, according to the story of the
tragedy, as outlined by the prosecu
tion, the infuriated woman turned
the weapon upon her former hus
band and killed him instantly.
"We will he able to establish these
facts by a number of witnesses,” said
Colonel W. H. Davis before the trial
began. Colonel Davis, with A. S. An
derson, is assisting Solicitor Moore in
the prosecution.
“As the young woman fell to the
floor pierced by the bullet wound.
Judge Godbee threw his arm about
her shoulder, receiving a bullet wound
in the upper arm that shattered the
Continued on Page 5, Column 1.
Prison Board by Two to One
Urges Liberation of Physician
Held in Jail as Slayer.
A recommendation for a full par
don for Dr. \V. J. McNaughton, con
victed of the murder of Fred Flan-
ders. was sent to Governor J. M. Sla
ton Thur.^ay by the Georgia Prison
Commission.
The vote was 2 to 1 for a full par
don, Chairman Davison and Commis
sioner Rainey voting for the pardon
and Commissioner Patterson holding
out for commutation to life imprison
ment. The majority ruling, the rec
ommendation went to the Governor as
a full pardon.
Commissioners Davison and Rainey
in recommending a full pardon
charged that a careful examination
of the evidence at the trial shows the
case to be a weak one, the motive
given being surrounded by unnatural
and untrue evidence.
State Sharply Criticised.
The Commissioners also state that
the prosecution refused to allow the
defendant to have present at the
chemical analysis of the stomach and
organs of the deceased a known
chemist of ability, that he might see
that no mistake was made.
The action of the State in nolle
prossing the case against Mrs. Flan
ders, who was jointly indicted with
McNaughton. also is sharply criticised
by the two Commissioners
“By this order,” they *«y, “this
commission was deprived of the ben
efit of the result of a Jury trial of the
case and it was done by the prosecu
tion on their own motion and must
have been with full knowledge of
what the Governor’s reprieve meant
and what this commission desired
when they requested the reprieve. As
a result, w'hen the case was again
presented to the commission a month
ago they were met with a state of
affairs in which one conspirator had
been set free—the conspiracy thus
done away—and an-effort being made
to hang the other conspirator on a
theory of conspiracy which by this
act was virtually admitted not to
exist/’
Another feature of the long fight
for the physician’s life that weighed
most heavily with these two Commis
sioners was the newly-produced evi
dence before the Prison Commission
that Flanders had been sick for a
period before his mysterious death
and that he had been in the habit of
taking medicine which he had de
clared some day would kill him.
Believe Doctor Innocent.
In closing, the majority members
of the commission say they are con
vinced that the defendant Is inno
cent, or at least there is such a doubt
and such a failure to exclude every
reasonable hypothesis save that of
the guilt of the accused as to make It
a duty to recommend a pardon.
Judge Patterson gave four reasons
for his recommendation for commu
tation to life imprisonment. The ev
idence, in the flrHt place, he states Is
wholly circumstantial. In the second
place, the new evidence produced be
fore the commission, he declares, au
thorizes a commutation of the sen
tence. Thirdly, the failure to prose
cute Mrs. Flanders, he says, makes
the imposition of the death penalty
unwarranted, and, fourthly, the new
evidence from Thomasville is merely
cumulative and is what was before
the courts on the extraordinary mo
tion for a new trial.
Case Fought Stubbornly.
The case against Dr. McNaughton
has been one of the most stubbornly
contested legal battles in Georgia
criminal annals, Interest never flag
ging from the time the physician was
arrested in June. 1910.
Tried, convicted and sentenced to
death on three occasions and respited
four times by Governor Brown and
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Don't Lie to Yonr
Wife! You'll Stutter
In Your Next Life
CHICAGO. Sept. 11.—"Don’t lie to
your wife. Don’t break any vows.’’
If you do you will suffer as one young
man suffered, in the opinion of a
young woman who attended the
’’question and answer” meeting of the
Theosophical Society here. She (her
identity was not disclosed) sent the
following question to the platform:
“A bright young man friend of
mine has a habit of stuttering.
Naturally this is a great detriment
to his business career. What was
the Karma (cause) ?’’
"Well,” said Mrs. Marie Russak,
an expert in the occult, "he must have
lied to his w-lfe. I know of one case
in Madras where a man is mute be
cause he lied to his wife."
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 Swinn,
Daughton and Gabbitt badly scAlded
when the Craven torpedo destroyer
was badly damaged by a boiler ex
plosion off Tybee coast last night.
The injured a.re 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 Yamairaw.
Barbers Ask Chief to
Close Sunday Shops
Declaring that section 1799 of the
city ordinance prohibiting barbers
from keeping shops open on Sunday
is being violated, R. E. Rollins, sec
retary and business manager* of the
Atlanta lodge of the Journeymen
Barbers’ International Union, has
written Chief of Police Beavers ask
ing that the law be upheld, or the
ordinance revoked.
Rollins, in his letter, cited the Geor
gian Terrace, the Hotel Ansley, the
Piedmont Hotel and several clubs.
Slaton Completes
W. & A. Commission
G. Grundy Jordan, of Columbus, and
Fuller E. Callarway, of LaGrange.
were appointed by Governor Slaton
Thursday morning to jhe commis
sion which will investigate the release
of the Western and Atlantic Railroad.
The appointments Thursday complete
the commission of seven members.
The commission will be called to
gether Immediately.
Jordan Is a prominent business man
of Columbus, while Calloway is one
of the largest cotton mill promoters
In the South.
Chamber Bulletin
Number 1 Just Out
Volume 1, number 1, of the Atlanta
Industrial and Commercial Bulletin,
issued by the Chamber of Commerce,
is off the press and 2,500 copies have
been distributed. It was compiled by
W. H. Leahy, head of the Industrial
Bureau.
The bulletin contains facts about
Atlanta and its many advantages as
a business and residential town.
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.
James Farley, Noted
Strikebreaker, Dies
PLATTBBITRG. N T„ Sept. 11 —
James Farley, the famous strike
breaker. died at his home here to
day of tuberculosis. He was 40
years old. and during the latter years
of his life, when he had to give up
his strenuous duties breaking strikes,
he devoted himself to horse racing.
Treasure Chest From New York
to Savannah for Georgia
Banks Looted.
A daring and mysterious robbery
of nearly $75,000 from the Southern
Express Company became known in
Atlanta Thursday when Detective
Harry Scott and other Pinkerton
operatives .and Superintendent Hock-
aday, of the express company, hur
ried to Savannah to take up an in
vestigation.
Fifty thousand dollars wras con
signed from the Chase National Bank
of New York to the Savannah Bank
and Trust Company. A consignment
of $21,000 more was bound to the
Brunswick and Valdosta banks. Other
smaller sums are .said to be missing.
The detectives believe that It was
an “inside job” and that some of the
express company's employees are in
volved in the big robbery. The only
clew they have Is a finger print on
one of the envelopes from which the
money was extracted.
Clerks Will Be Quizzed.
A rigid examination of every clerk
In the employ of the company who
has the handling of the consignments
of the money will be made by De
tective Scott and the other opera
tives who have been sent him from
other Pinkerton offices. The first
move Is expected to be an Inspection
of the finger prints of every person
who could have had anything to do
with the robbery.
It Is on this slim clew that the au
thorities are working now. So far as
Is known, they have no one under
suspicion. If the finger-print clew
falls to implicate any of the em
ployees. the detectives will be forced
to attack the baffling mystery from
another direction. They admit that it
is the most mysterious disappearance
of money with which they have had
to deal In years. It Is also the great
est robbery in the history of the
Southern Express.
Scott will be assisted by detectives
from the large Eastern offices. The
police officials In every city in the
South and East have been notified
to be on the watch for any clew.
Treasure Trunk Rifled.
The robbery came to light when
the trunk supposed to contain the
$75,000 was opened in Savannah and
found to be empty. Superintendent
Hockaday. in Atlanta. Immediately
was wired of the big robbery, and,
obtaining the services of Harry Scott,
he boarded a train for Savannah. Of
ficials of the company admitted the
robbery as soon as they were ques
tioned, but declared they wer at a
loss to hit upon any reasonable
theory.
The money was placed in a sealed
trunk at Jersey City Monday night
on the Atlantic Coast Line’s train No.
89. It was receipted for. The trunk
was not opened, nor did it leave the
car except at Washington, when the
Adams Express Company transferred
it to the Southern.
It reached Savannah at 3 o’clock
Wednesday afternoon. The robbery
was discovered immediately. It was
Impossible to secure the name of the
messenger, but It Is understood that
someone higher up is suspected, on
account of it having been practically
impossible for the messenger to have
secured the money and replaced the
seals.
No evidence that the trunk had
been tampered with was found on
the outside, butonthe inside one or
two envelopes were found torn open,
and on one of them wa.s the finger
print that the officials expect u> prove
of value.