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VOL. XII. NO. 35.
ATLANTA. GA., FRIDAY . SEPTEMBER 12,1913.
Copyright, 1906.
By The Georgian Co.
2 CENTS.
GODBEE SLAYING CASE
Marry Scott, the Atlanta Pinkerton
AB»nt placed in charge of the Inveetl-
aration into the big 171,800 robbery
from the Southern and Adame Ex-
ijreac Companies made hie first (state
ment in reference to the mystery
Priilay.
The detective announced that be
lied become convinced that the money
was not taken while in transit on the
trains fTom New York to Savannah.
‘The robbery was committed either
at one end of the line or the other."
!»• declared. "The money either was
citolen eoon alter it left the Chase Na
tional Bank In Nw York or elee after
1t had reached Savannah. It see ms
moat unlikely that the theft took
?>|aee In any other manner.
"This le not the work of an amt-
leur. nor does it eeem powiible to me
for any of the messengers to have got
into the safe and the seals hot be
broken. I know we are going to hare
our hands full before the mystery la
jslYed."
Crime Complete Mystery.
rfeott and J. B. Hockaday, superin-
'endent of the Southern Exproas.
went to Savannah immediately upon
receipt of the news of the big rob
bery They were compelled to admit
PViday forenoon that the crime wac
hiLit as baffling no when they started
work upon it.
Only two features promise any tan-
SflWe clew.
One Is that there was no way bill
received for the money—Indicating
that one was never made out and the
money must hare been trtoien at the
other end of the line, or never put
in the trunk that was sealed.
The other Is that the persons who
Itnew the money was to be shipped
oan he numbered on the fingers of
one hand. Even the banks to which
It was consigned did not know on
■what train to expect It.
W. l~ Sehlndell, express messenger
on the Coast Line's train No. 89. that
left New York late Monday night and
brought the trunk supposed to con
tain the money, did not leave the car
until it reached Florence, S. C-, his
point of relief and home
Messenger Called Int# Prefc*.
He did not know there was money
in the trunk, ho claims, and he had
no way bill for any. He merely had
a way bill for the steel "through
trunk" that Is often brought down on
this train. He was brought to Sa
vannah from Florence by a telegram
from General Manager Hockaday and
Harry Scott and was closeted with
them the greater part of Thursday
evening He was subjected to a rigid
third degree examination, hut came
forth unscathed, according to Scott.
The shipment was received by the
Adams Express Company and nom
inal], transferred to the Southern
Express Company at Washington. No
real transfer lakes place, however,
and for this reason the officials are
at a loss to determine whether to cen
ter their activities at this end of the
line Florence, the only place of trans
fer ' or Jersey City, where the trunk
was sealed In the presence of the
agents and the money supposed to
** — J 11 a .-1 In le In Inulp
have
been deposited In It in their
Dixie Women to Spin
Miss Wilson’s Linen
Washington, sept. ia. — mi«s
JesMe Wilson, second daughter of the
President, whose marriage to Francis
B. Sayre, of New York, in the White
House on November 25 will be the
eoclai evant of the season, has de
clared emphatically for an all-Amer
ican trousseau made of American
goods by American women.
Part of the trourse&n will be spun
of linen by the mountain women of
the South, in whose uplift all the
Wilson ladies have shown much in
terest.
Shaved Her Husband
But Fondled Her Dad
WOMAN ON TRIAL AS SLAYER OF
HER FORMER HUSBAND’S BRIDE
Mis. Edna
Perkins
God bee
in court.
Physician, Sentenced to Hang,
Sure Governor Will Approve
Board’s Recommendation.
I Passengers on Liner Tell How
New York Mayor Spent Last
Hours Playing With Child.
fApress Money Was Stolen Either
at Starting Point or at Savan
nah, Declare Detectives.
CLEVELAND, Sapt. 12. — Even I
though Ernest A. Wallman made hie J
wife ehave him every Sunday morn- j
ing. and even though Mr». Louise A.
Wallman biased and caressed her ;
father, John Mahoney, instead of her ;
hugb&nd, there wuu no divots grant
ed on the petition and croes?-petition
in the case of Wallman ve. Wallman.
On the stand. Wallman admitted
that he didn't Hite to have* hia trifo
make more fuse over h*r father than
ohe did over film.
‘Bald’ Jack Rose Hits
Reform Hypocrites
SOUTH NORWALK, CONN., Sept. |
12.—“The underworld will gradually j
die for luck of population, when the
reformer* In eur State reformatories
lam to o« living example* of what
they preach and do not practice,”
said Jack Roae, the former gambler
and Rosenthal witnwe. In an addterr
here.
Rose took the lecture platform for
the benefit of the Batst Norwalk Epis
copal Church.
Third Child Born to
Ethel Barrymore
NEW YORK. Sept. 18.—A third
child—a hoy—was horn to Mrs. Rus
sell O. Colt (known on the stage as
Ethel Barrymore) Tuesday at the
Colt home Ht Mamaroneck.
He will he named John Drew Colt,
after Mias Barrymores uncle. Little
John has u brother, Samuel, S years
old. and a starter, Ethel, not ouite 3.
Mre. Colt, when able, will appear in
the new' Haddon Chamber* play,
“Tante."
Edwin Gould Plans
To Fly to Florida
NEXT YORK, Sept 1?. — hkiwin
Gould has purchased two hydro-
aeroplanew uno m planning a flight
along the coast from New London
to Palm Beach. He haa been spend
ing aeevral weeks in Chicago watch
ing Harold McCormick's airboat and
perfecting his flying.
The Urgent Gould airbekt will carry
ei* person* and will be the most lux
urious Ip. the world. The flight down
the coast is to take place next month.
Duke of Manchester
Is Sued as Bankrupt
Speelar Cable te The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, Sept. 12.—The Duke ol
Manchester, ht|Bband of Helena Zim
merman, of Cincinnati, is hopelessly
In the toll* of the money lenders. A
petition in bankruptcy, filed by one
of them, will be heard in the Bank
ruptcy Court.
The Duke owns 70,000 acres and a
magnificent gallery of old masters,
but there are either entailed or heav
ily mortgaged.
Tax for Bachelors
And Childless Wives
^Superintendent Hookad*y w»ld:
•1 have absolutely no statement to
make The robbery Is probably the
largest In the hletory of our eem-
oany and it Is certainly the most
baffling The whole official end of
the company is disorganized over the
news and we will have to wait until
things gate normal and then get to
work We have examined the me.e-
■enaert ana a!! those who could have
been implicated on this end of the
lire and it hasn't developed anythin^'.
None oi them could have known the
mnnsv WQ<? '-fl that tf&if! T in •-!*
money
CINCINNATI. OHIO, Sept. 12.—
Bachelors and chi’dDss wives are to
to be made a source of income for
the State of Ohio If the plana ad
vocated before the Woman’s Tax
payers’ League are carried out. The
plan is to tn$ single men about 10
per cent.
Married women who have been in f
that Sta^e for twenty years and are
not mother? are to be taxed also. ac
cording to tho scheme..
SAVANNAH Sept. 32.—In a state
ment on the recommendation by the
priaon board for his full pardon, Dr.
W. J. Me Va ugh ton, central figure in
one of Georgia’s greatest murder
tny8terleu, Paid to-day:
"I have no plan,for the future ex
cept to go back and try and retrieve
what has beer; lost—my practice,
many of my friends and virtually all
the money I fever had.
‘Tt’e quite a price to pay for cir
cumstantial evidence, but I have no
bitterness in my heart toward any
one or anything in the world, but the
most kindly feeling. I am going right
back where I lived before and T sin
cerely trust the people will repone in
me the same confidence they did
when I lived and worked among
them.” x
Had Faith in Providence.
“I am surprised and not surprised,”
he aald. “Always I felt that the just
God who watches over the destiny of
us all would not let me come to grief,
and something fold me that all would
be well. And then I reflected that I
had been imprisoned, tried and sen
tenced to hang for a crime it. would
have been impossible for me to com
mit, even admitting that Flanders did
not kill himself by the habitual use
of some drug, and what I have been
through, made me so bitter ae to
think that mistakes sometimes hap
pen and the innocent are sacrificed
on the altar of justice.
“I feel to-day like everything Is go
ing to be right.” He looked from his
narrow cell window across the pret
tiest park in Savannah, a jungle of
palmettos and nweet-flowering vines
"The sun shines, the birds sing and
the world is green. From my window
here I have looked out across this
park and seen the hundred* 3 of little
children playing on tfie ®oft, velvety
grass, and it has seemed that my
heart would buret when I thought of
my own little boys and the life that
would be before them.
Hope* to bo Free by Winter.
' Before the winter comes 1 hope to
be free and back with my people in a
vain effort to make up for the weary
months and years that have been lost.
"I feel my situation keenly, and sit
ting here with nothing to do but
think. I can appreciate the feeling of
my prosecutor and of those who have
fought against the Prison Commission
making a favorable recommendation.
I do not think they really believe me
guilty, but rather that they have, so
worked themselves up they can t see
the other aide of the case, the facts
that stand out so glaringly to acclaim
me absolutely innocent.
“I have all the confidence in the
world that Governor Slaton will ap
prove the recommendation of the
Prison Commission, and for the first
time since I was imprisoned feel al
most carefree and happy.
“They say that I have smiled
through it all and borne everything
with a wonderful fortitude. My con
science ha‘i been clear and I felt that
after all a smile was the beat medi
cine for the feelings of myself and for
those around me. I knew that 1 was
to be here for quite a long time, no
matter what happened, and I decided
to make myself as comfortable as
possible and to get all the enjoyment
out of my unenviable position I
could.
“I have learned to know the pris
oners by name. Some of them are
good, some are bad, but nearly all of
them have had a kind word and pleas
ant smile for me. They always
stopped for a little chat und to in
quire after my case. \ made myself
as useful as possible when any of
them were feeling bad and acted as
an unofficial physician for the jail.”
Dr. McNaughton’s shout of joy
when he was first given the news rang
down the long corridor* of the jgij
and word passed from ceil to cell.
“Dr. Mac is pardoned.’” The first
persons to congratulate him were his
tellow prisoners, those who are on the
name floor with him, the greater
number of them long-term men. and
two or thr-*e negroes who are under
the dfeoth sentence or 4 ’nclfipr on
murder charger,
i
j Special CflDle to The Atlanta Georgian.
i QUEENSTOWN, IRELAND, Hept.
j 12.—The death ship Baltic of the |
| White Star Line, bearing the body of
Mayor William J. Guy nor, of New
York City, strived in port at 4:25
a. m., bringing fresh details of the
famous American's death.
The stateroom occupied by Rufun
W. Gaynor, son of the late execu
tive, was roped off and guarded by a
cordon of ship's stewards. It was
explained that young Mr. Gaynor was
overcome by his father’s death and
had been suffering intense mental
anguish for nearly 48 hours.
Officials of the consular office in
Queenstown visited young Mr. Gay
nor and later viewed the body of his
father, which had been temporarily
prepared and lay in a stateroom.
Officials who had entrance to Ru- j
fus Gaynor’s stateroom raid that the ,
young man had not slept an hou- 1
since, his father’s ^iul<len. death at ? |
o’clock Wednesday afternoon. Nor j
had he eaten anything. He has oeen I
constantly under the care ol* the phfp'e
physician
When .Mayor Gaynor embarked for
a tie a voyage on Thursday, September
4, it wap known that his physical con
dition was run down. Mr. Gaynor
showed signs of weakness, but after i
the ship had been at soa a few days [
he seemed to grow better. He spent
much of his time alone or with his
6on.
Seemed To Be Improved.
Officers of the Baltic, it was learned
here, repeatedly asked Mayor Gaynor
if they could not perform ?omc spe
cial service for him. but the sick man
would reply: “If you treat me as well
as you t^eat others. I’ll be satisfied.
I am only a passenger like the others.
I am content.’’
The morning of Mayor Gaynor'fi
death the sick man seemed in better
spirits than usual. He walked the
deck for some time in the warm sun
shine, accompanied by the small son
of one of the passengers. A warm
attachment had sprung up between
the tall, grave, gray-bearded man and
the little 3-year-old boy.
Mr. Gaynor hac been telling the lit
tle fellow stories about some of the
big fish which live in the sea and
laughed heartily at some of the ques
tions which came back to him.
Shortly before t o’clock Rufus Gay
nor went below to look after his fa
ther's luncheon. He returned shortly
to find his father huddled up in n
deck chair. Young Mr. Gaynor
thought at first that his father was
sleeping and shook him gently by the
shoulder. The pallor of the recum
bent man’s face caused his son to be
come alarmed and the ship’s surgeon.
Dr. Hopper, was called. He immedi
ately pronounced Mayor Gaynor dead
from heart failure.
Son Near Collapse.
Although Rufus Gaynor realized
that his father’s condition of health
was serious, he was completely
stunned by his parent’s sudden death.
It was all he could do to write the
wireless message which was received
in New York City yesterday morning
by Robert Adamson, Mr. Gaynor’a
secretary.
Dr. Hopper, who was more or less
acquainted with the history of Mayor
Gaynor, said that his constitution
steadily had been declining since he
was shot by a maniac in Hoboken, N.
J., three years ago. Mr. Gaynor’s
frame was emaciated, and Dr. Hop
per said that it was only by the most
tremendous exertion of will power
that the dead official could li*.ve held
himself to his tasks.
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III PLEA
10II
Divorcee Accused of Double Slay
ing at Millen Tells of Unhappy
Marriage to Judge.
TO EDIT CUPID
I
Mayor Lends Support to Friends
of Romance—City Spooning
Reservation Urged.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia —Fair Friday and Sat
urday: warmer.
New hope for the spooners was
found Friday in the attitude of a
group of Councilman who have deter
mined that kissing shall not be ta
booed in Atlanta. Reluctant us they
are to interfere with the affairs ot
the Police Commission, the appeals oi:
Cupid for a fair chance has found
listening ears, and daily conferences
are being held in a certain office in i
the Grant Building over plans to re
verse the police policy on spooning.
Ordinarily Council would not have
the authority to interfere with the af
fairs of the Police Commission, but
just now canvasses are being made
for next year’s elections to the Po
lice Commission. Every Commis
sioner has his ear to the ground. .As
Council Is to do the electing, the will
of Council is supreme in matters o:
police policy, for the present, at least.
Open Kisejng Season Expected.
Some of the regular attendants at
theae daily conferences are Alderman
J. W. Maddox, Councilman Albert
Thomson, Councilman Claude C. Ma
son and Councilman Claude L. Abh-
ley.
Impatiently they are waiting for
the action of the Police Commission
at the .special meeting Wednesday
night, when the kissing and spooning
situation will be considered thorough
ly. Authoritative reporta have it that
the Police Commission will declare
for a more liberal policy.
It must not be overlooked that in
all this complex fight Mayor Wood
ward and :he Council are thorughly
Ogreed for the first time since he be
gan his administration. Mayor
Woodward Is in full sympathy with
this movement of the Counciltnen
He took the initiative himself the
other day and railed Police Chief
Beavers to his office io protesi
against the warfare of ih- police
against Cupid’s victims.
Mayor Aids Cupids’ Friends.
He did not have much luck in his
efforts to get Chief Beavers to let
uf). according to reports of that se
cret conference that have leaked out,
so he lias thrown his support to the
Counciltnen who are working through
the Police Commission.
Alderman Arthur H VanDyke has
come out bolder than the rest. The
Eighth Ward Alderman would con
vert the little plot on Forsyth street
that adjoins the City Hall into a pub
lic kissing park.
“We must nor Rill romance in At
lanta.” declared Alderman VanDyke.
That’ what we are about to do. That
property belongs to the city and does
not seem to be serving any purpose.
Council should grant an appropriation
to make it into a public kissing park
WA could even alio v the policemen
to use *t.
“T am sure Mayo’ Woodward will
approve thk plan "
She is confident
of acquittal,
and is one
of the calmest
persons in
the crowded
little court
room. Her sons
are aiding
her defense.
Anna Held Against
Stage for Daughter
NEW YORK, Sept. 12. — Anna Held,
who. with her daughter Llano, ar
rived recently from Europe, does not
encourage the latter to follow iior
mother’s footsteps
“No, 1 hope to keep her u way from
the stage,” said Mis» Held, "and I
will see to it that .she sees as many
sides a» possible. There is good, but
a good deal that, iy bad.’’
Miss Held has grown thinner .-rince
the last time jiie visited Amerh Her
figure is now’ svelte and girlish.
Society at Capital
Drinks in Baltimore
BALTIMORE MD, Sept. 12.—For
some time scores of Washington so
ciety women have been motoring to
Baltimore luncheons. The reason ha-
leaked out.
“President Wilson has placed a ban
on women drinking in Washington,’’
said one of the fair visitors, “and tne
new law* prohibit women from drink
ing in public.”
The drinks served ihe women are
disguised. Cocktails are served in
coffee cup?.
EMUS
CHINA APOLOGIZE
Nippon Warships at Nanking Are
Ready to Enforce Terms of
Peremptory Note.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
PEKIN, Sept. 12. The existing ten-
| eioti between the Chinese and Japa-
; rie.se Governments over demands uf
the Japanese in connection with the
■ killing of three Japanese citizens at
j the recent bttle at Nanking between
I federal? and f volutioniste was
heightened to-da\ by a peremptory
| note from Tokio asking for an imme
diate atceptance or refusal. The de
mands include:
Payment of $l,oot indemnity to the
families of tho three slain men; sum
mary punishment of the Chinese offi
cers responsible for the shooting; a
public apology by General Chan?
Hsun, the federal command at Nank
ing. to the Japanese Consul, and the
parade of General Chang H.sun’a
troops before fh»* Japanese Consulate
as a sign of abjection.
These demands are in the hands of
the Cabinet.
There is a force of 2,000 Japanese
marines at Nanking, and the Japa
nese Consulate there in protected by
a battery of quick-firing guns, whiia
there are five Japanese warship* in
the harbor.
Envoy to Germany
Rents 40-Room Suite i He Lost His $50 Dog;
Sues Railway, Wins
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
BERLIN. Sept. 12. Janies W. Gerard,
new United States Ambassador to Ger
many, has given up the idea of renting
a $17,600 house.
To-day lie rented a forty-room suite
in the Esplanade Hotel, one of the finest
In Europe, deciding to occupy the qrnir-
ters ot the "Id United tftatee Em bass;.
ELL1.JAY, 8epl
here before Jutlg
erts. <»f Tioga,
Railroad Cotnpan:
fox hound
by a train.
Judgemen
railroad and
1l. In Justice Court
Wimpey, .1. VY. Rob
in* .il the L. and N.
r $50 ihe value or
have been killed
said
.an rendered again*i the
D* i-uTic wgp appealed.
MILLEN. GA., Sept. 1_\—Only tile
closing arguments remained thi*-
morning before.the fate of Mis. Edm
P. Godbee, charged with the murdei
of her husband and his young brid<
would be in the hands of the Jury.
There will be six speeches during
the day. and the defense, by not put
ting up i-.ny witnesses, will have tli*
concluding argument. Judge Saffold
will make the concluding urgumen
for the defense.
i Two spectacular features marked
the hearing Thursday. One was th*
impassioned statement ol’ Mrs. God-
»ee in her own defense and the othei
the testimony brought forward by the
State.
Mrs. Godbee, her voice trembling;
with emotion, told the jurors that she
had slain Judge Godbee in the Miller;
postoffice solely in self-defense, and
that she had feared he was about to
carry out his threads to shoot her.
She said that she did not fire until he
stepped toward her, reaching towan
his hip pocket and calling her an ob
scene name.
Woman Tells of Alleged Plot.
Strongly discrediting this statement
of the accused woman was the testi
mony of Mrs. Arthur Spader, a tele
I hone operator, who swore to having
overhead Mrs. Godbee confess to the
hiring of a thug to assassinate Judge
Godbee and his wife three months be
fore she did the killing herself.
Mrs. Godbee took the stand again
to deny the sensational story of the
telephone operator. She said that
Mrs. Spader’s testimony evidently waf
inspired by a spirit of revenge. The
I defendant declared that Mrs. Spader-
had been one of her roomers, and
that because of unsavory stories cir
culating In regard to her she had been
compelled to evict her from the
house This angered Mrs. Spader, she
feu Id. and probably was the animus for
her incriminating tale related to tho
Jury.
Tlie story of Mrs. Spader came near
the close of the night se*sion. Judge
Hammond deciding on holding court,
late in order to get the trial through
by Friday night. The .witness wap
nervous and trembling when ahe took
the stand. She had been asked only
a few questions before she was weep
ing unrestrainedly. When it came to
the cross-examination, the attorneys
for the defense found It a difficult
task to get a word from her between
her hysterical sobs. She collapsed
entirely as she was led from the wit
ness stand and out of the courtroom.
Says Thug Was Hired.
She managed to say during the time
she was on the stand that she had
boarded at the Godbee home for nome
time and that she was the chief oper
ator at the Millen telephone exchange.
She testified that Mrs. Godbee. goad
ed into a desperation by the taunt* of
her former husband, had confided in
her that she had hired a negro thug
to kill both him and his new wife.
“She told me that she had endured
his persecutions to the point of mad
ness," said the witness, “and that she
was desperate. I did not give much
thought to the story at the time, as l
did not think it peculiar that she
should talk in this wild wav under th*
circumstances ”
Mrs. Godbee was on the witness
stand two hours. Her statement was
earnestly delivered and created an
impression on the crowds attending
the trial. Many of the marital diffi
culties of Mrs. Godbee and her former
husband were well known
oru
but