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CIRCULATION SUNDAY 1 AMERICAN OVER 100,000 The Atlanta Georgian. , * Read for Profit---GEORGIAN WANT ADS---Use for Results VOL. XII. XO. 34. ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1013. 2 CENTS, 'more 0 HOME EDITION EXPRESS ROBBERY LOSS $75,000 MILLIONAIRE BARLOW HERE FOR CHILD; NOT TO ASSAIL EX-WIFE +•+ . +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ -i-e-t- •!•••!• Board Recommends Pardon forMcNaughton +*4- +•+ +•+ +•+ •f**+ +•+ +•+ 4*»4- +•+ 4.*.!. 4.,.]. +•+ +»4* +•+ 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 Continued on Page 2, Column 6. 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.