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OVER 100,000 Circulation The Sunday Americ an Lead* All Competitors The Atlanta Georgian South Georg!» Read for Profit—^GEORGIAIJ WANT ADS-^-Usc for Result* 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. ,.t-- "‘V 'WlWP v-'Y" ' N ■ •v’A . m X ; L s ' >«*> <*2» 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