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■ Til E \TLANTA ^ EC) KOI AN" AST) NEWS. RICH MEXICAN BLAMES NEW YORK BANKERS FOR HUERTA'S TROUBLES P.AiriOl.O l?Ol)RJ< < EEX AM) IMS SONS. BARTOEO. .JK.. RAFAEL. .1 \ M ES Declares She Shot Husband Be cause She Thought That He Was Reaching for Gun. Continued from Page ». i..e pitilessly bared the intimate de- ails oi her life, telling of her unhap- • news at* her trump card in her battle or Treed om. Mrc. Godbee told the Jury that nft- •r her marriage to Judge Godbee in .887 she has known but few days of happiness. She charged that her for mer husbend had robbed her and her brothers and aietera of their father’s • .state; had killed her younger broth er, Jake Perkins, and em-aped without punishment; had choked and slapped .er, and struck her with hia flt.t, and hreatened her wltii a revolver; that sue had diecovered him in thefts of etters from the pootofflee at Perkins. • ie., where he was postmaster for a •me. and finally, she aaid. he brought to Atlanta and installed her in h ouse that had -once been an immoral lesoit. Later, she claims, he circu ited reports that she was an Immoral woman and keeper of h reeari Tells of Marriage. When my father died in 1886," v/ra. Godbee iwid, "he left aw execu- lors of his state my uncle and cousin. Air. Godbee came to look over my fa ther’s mercantile business and bought He met me and called on me con stantly. In July of 1887 we were married. ‘ A few months later he began try ing to get hold of my father’s estate, and succeeded in griming control "f the plantations. My younger brother, fake, had trouble with Judge Godbee over the property, and there was con stant friction between the two. My mother died in 1889. Follow ing her Ueuth our married life grew more unhappy. He Insisted upon bo ng made the administrator of iny mother's property, and finally gained ontrol of it. My brother Jake was ordered not to put his foot on ths place. Judge God bee’s treatment b«- • amc.* almost unbearable. He threat ened the life of Jake. One day Jake, who was coming to the postoffice, wa» ehot and killed by* Judge Godbee. In telling of the killing. Judge Godbee said he had done it for my sake. He would not let me go to the funeral or ae the body. I rnanuged to obtai.i | *1,600 and gave it to him for hia de- | Tense in his trial for Jake’s muTder.” Airs. Godbee. told the Jury that! -Portly after the killing of her young- -r brother Judge G-odbee took $2,000 I .>r her money’ and bought a hotel in j Milieu, where they lived a y ear, Sh- , -aid they separated during t*liat tlmu j because Judge Godbee started a scan- \ dal to obtain possession of the hotel property. It was settled by’ Mrs. <K>d- I i»ec signing a deed of the properiv mining it over to her husband. Worked as Housekeeper She told of their reconciliation | :ew months later, ui the request of her husband’s relatives, and declared ; that she was forced to work In the j mtel at housekeeper’s wages of $10 a 1 month. One morning, Mrs. Godbee said, rue , , woke to find her husband bending j over her with a revolver In his hand. . Shortly after this they separated and were estranged for three years. Bo- : • oming reconciled, she said he brought het to Atlanta find estno- ished her in a house at No. 398 Pied- ; mont avenue, which si” said had \ bad reputation. She charged that ; while in Atlanta he failed to properly I provide for her, forcing lied to run I the household on less than $4.30 0 , week. Svme time later they returned ;o Millen, where, she says Judge God- i>ee became addicted to morphine. SIk* ilien divorced him and asserted that ite continued to annoy her and circu late reports about her character. Attc ,’ ludge Godbee and his bride came iu Milieu Mrs. Godbee saUi she got niut anonymous letters threatening he* ife unless she left the town. Airs. Godbee told the jury that even after Judge Godbee came to Milieu with hia new wife he annoyed her and persecuted her Slie said she shot he.' former h us stand because he called her a vile name as she came out of tho postoffice only a day after he had told his daughter. Sarah Godbee, that hef mother was only a common woman of he streets The trial of >'i>. Godbee aroused the public to a higher pitch of ex citement than any other case In years. The courtroom was crowded to its capacity as she was making her impressive statement, and when court reconvened in the evening the s . fine was duplicated. Slain Girl’s Mother Weeps, v pathetic figure at the trial was uat of the slain girl's mother, Mrs. M. B. Boyer, of Williamsport, Pa. She burst into tear* during one part of Mrs. God bee's recital, ana could not be comforted. Many women were in he courtroom throughout the day. In act, they exceeded the men in num ber * # v as told L> Mis* Maude Barnwell. ;c young assistant at the postofllce. who 'va.fe present ana r witness of Lh# r.Mgedy She lest idea that Mrs. God bee fireu the last shot into the body f j£ige Godbee’s bride, ka c2: ~ ay mad*' tc» ehske lid to day s market opening Wool Trade Discounts Effect of Tariff Bill NEW YORK STOCK MARKET. Stock flotations to 10 a. ciflo.. and I. Kidnaping by Friends, Enemies and Canada Feared—Contin uation of Case Expected COLKBHUuK. X. H., Sept. 12.—— : Thirty guards, all hetivily armed, guarded Harry K. Thaw, the human ■ shuttlecock, when he was taken from I the Munadnock House to-day' for :ir- • ralgnment before Justice of the Peace I Carr on the charge of being a fugitive from justice. Bei’oie Justice Carr called the case attorneys representing I Thaw and Coos County said that an J agreement had been reached by which ; the case would be continued. On account of the threats made by i Thaw’s friends to kidnap him and ; carry him out of this State and on | account of Thaw’s own fears that lie ; would be seized by Captain John Lanyon, a deputy keeper at Mat- , tea wan, and hurried back to Dutchess ! I County, New York, Sheriff H >lman i Drew and Chief of Police Charles ; Kelly each contributed to the guard, j STOCK- Atrial. Copper. Am. Beet Sug. American Can Am. T.-T B. H. T Can. I Colo, i Interboro ... do. pref. .. Mo. Pacific... N. Y. Central. North. Pacific Pennsylvania. Peo. Gas Co.. Reading Rock Island.. So. Pacific.... So. Railway.. Union Pacific. U. S. Steel.... Utah Copepr.. V. -Car. Cham. High. Lo 10 Prev A.M. Close Bt )STO; trade aho Sept. 35 180 v* 32% 02% 30% 96% . 112% 112% 1241 16 J * 130 T £ 891 „ • 32% 16 0-% 30% 96 V* 11.2 VJ 112% 12*4% 1«1% 17% 24 V* lo 4 % 68% 56% 34 154 % 68% 29% 35 130% 89 % 224% 32% 16 62% 30% 96% 112% 112% 124% 161% 24% J 64% 68% 56 34 34% 130% 88% 224 32% 16% 62% 111% 124% 161 % 24% 154 63 Va 55% 31% 12.—Tiie local wool *nly mild interest In the j passage of the new tariff bill by' the ! Senate. It is felt that most of the pos sible effect of the bill has already I been dis oiinted, though It is admitted I that u failure finally t" tix the date i for Schedule. K in accordance with -the Senate provisions would work some I hardship Total sales of wool the pas’ i week are estimated at somewhat mor* than 3,000,000 pounds. Prices are not materially changed. Territory wools I have been fairly active, but fleeces am I foreign wools are Quiet. Receipts'll! pounds for the week end ed and Including Wednesday were as | follows: n 13. 1912. Domestic 5.602 350 .3.437.97; Foreign 2,012.516 2,11.7,05 1 ! Totals 7.614.866 10,665.O'.. Total receipts < f 7.6! 4.866 poumi'S [compared with 7,115.454 the preceding i week, of which 6,933,808 were domestic. Receipts in pounds from and including ‘ January 1, 1913, as compared with the | corresponding period in 1912. were a> follows: LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET. Domestic Foreign . 1912. . .129.127 779 . . 48.170,068 1912. J 97,987.87 100,761,46 Futures opened quiet and steady. September Sept.-Oct. < )ct.-Nov. Nov.-Dec. , Deo.-Jan. Jan .-Feb. Feb.-Mar. Mar.-April A pril-Ma; . May-June. June-July . July-Ajag. Opening Range 2 7.05%-1.05 6.92 -6.92% 6.87 -6.86% 6.82 -6.8<.’% 6.81%-6.80% 6.82 -6.80% 6.82 6.83 -G.82% 6.83 % -6.84 % 6.81 -6 80 P. M. 7.04 6.91 % 6.85% 6.79 6.79 6.79% 6.80 6.80 6.82% 6.81 6.80 6.79 Prev. Close 7.13% 7.02 6.96 6.89 V* 1 6.89% 6.90 6.90% 6.91% 6.91 V£ 6.91 1 » 6.89% 6.87*'• Totals 177,297,847 298,749.334 iMEW YORK COTTON. COTTON MARKET OPINIONS | I | |First! Prev. i Open (High! Low ICall I Close Sept. . . . 12.89 12.89 1 12.89 ! 12.89 12.96-97 Oct. . . . 12.85'12.85112.83il2.85112.97-9k Nov. . . . ' 12.88-90 Dec. ■ 10 i- 80 12.75 '.2.77 12.89-90 Jar. . . . 12.67 12.67|l2.65 12.66 12.79-80 Feb 12.80-80 Mar. . . . 12.74)12.77112.74 12.77112.89-90 Mav . . . 12.81 12.83 i2.8t 12.83 12.95-96 Tune 12.97-99 July . . . 12.84 12.84112.84}12.84112.98-90 LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET. LIVERPOOL Sept. 12.—Due 3% to ! 4% points lower, this market opened : ] steady 8 to 9 points lower. At 12:15 j p. m., the market was quiet 7 to 9% j points low'er. Later the market declined ' 1% points from 12:15 j*. m. Spot cotton 12 points lower; middling j 7.69d: sales 8.000 bales, including 7,200 ; American. B. F. Hutton & Co.: Further reces sions are not unlikely, but we would not follow the decline; in fact, would rather prefer purchases on good breaks. Logan & Bryan: Whiie prices may react further, we do not feci disposed to encourage sales at these prices. I Sept. Sternberger, Sinn & Co.: On good de- : P ct dines we favor the long side the Miller & Co.: At the moment .... , market contends with the elimination of . G G the short interest and the lack of spec- Fy-”.- ulative buying. We. however, consider , *'{*“■ the market a bull proposition. NEW ORLEANS COTTON. I 1 .Firstl Prev. •Open KighlLow Call.I Close 1 12.6 4112.6 5! 12.6 4 1 12.65 i 12.7 8 - 7 9 | 12.84-86 1 12.78|12.78|l2.77ll2.78; 12.87-88 12.80 12.82112.80! 12.82! 12.90-9 J | 12.87-89 12 9lil2.9lil2.91il2.91 13.00-01 13.00 72.00 12.99 12.99 13.09-10 Nov. Dec. . testimony to bear «»ut the statement of the defendant that the killing of the young woman was accidental and occurred merely because she got in the range of the bullets that were in tended l’oi her former husband. Mir Barnwell insisted, howevei. that the infuriated woman not only fired the first shot into the body of the young Mrs. Godbee. hut that, after both her victims imd fallen to tiie iloov. she had reached over the body of Judge Godbee and sent an other bullet into the body of her yonnger riv.l. Mrs. Warren Daniel, whose resi dence is directly across the street from the * sene of the shooting, sup ported the testimony of Miss Barn well. It was impossible for the at torneys l’or the defense to shake her testimony in the least. Bank Clerk Tells of Tragedy. T. W. Anderson, clerk in the Jen- Jins County Bank, testified to the same effect, declaring that he saw the bodies of the young Mrs. Godbeo and her husband fall out of the post- office door as he was standing 111 the doorway of the bank. He said that he saw Mrs. Florence Godbee, tiie young wife, trying to i ise, and then I saw the divorced woman loan over her ami fire another bullet into her ! body’. The State tailed Rosa Bartley, « : negro servant girl, to establish the di- i vorced Mrs. Godbee's feeling toward 1 the young Woman who iiad supplant- I ed her. The negiess said that she had heard Mrs.* Godbee remark that some day’ when she met Mis. Flor ence Godbee on the treet she would slap her lace and show her who sh*» I was. [ The Stale and t lie* Prosecution ! tested their cases at 9:80 in theeven- i ing. Judge Hammond was desirous ’that tiio lawyers make their argu- | ments and send the case to the Jury [before court adjourned, but several*of ; the attorney s declared they were too i fatigued Mississippi’s Richest Planter Weds Nurse MEMPHIS. Sept. 12.—Love at first i sight three weeks ago led to the mar- • riage here Friday’ in the Peabody | Hotel of M. C. Gatlin, of Walls. Miss., , reputed to be the wealthiest planter | in that State, and Miss Bettic Verger. | a trained nurse of Greenville. Miss. They met in August through letters t written by Mrs. John Stansell, cousin j of the bride and a friend of Gatlin. Sanitary Troughs For Horses Urged I • LEVF.LA ND. Pept. 1—Ullrich Richter, a contractor, has asked that sanitary drinking caps be provided for horses to prevent poisoning by ,drinklng from stag nan: water , troughs The new drinking cups will be ar ranged so that the water will run through them with such force ae to ■ keep thopn elggr Says 11 is (’ountrymen (Yuisider Wilson Crazv- 11 ore to Put Sons in Military College. Ciuti’grng Uml the bankers of New York City are behind Yhe present trouble in Mexico, and that the Mex ican people consider President Wood- row Wilson of the United States crazy a man as Francisco I. Madero,” and a tool in the hands of the great American financial interests, Bartolo l>o.lriguez. a wealthy landowner and ranchman of Tampico. Vera Cruz, Mexico, who is in Atlanta io put his three sons in the Georgia Military Academy, told an interesting story Friday morning of conditions in the southern republic. Mr. Rodriguez declared emphati cally that reports emanating from Mexico are garbled and distorted. He declares that, with the exception of roving bands of Constitutionalists and followers of Zapata. Mexico is quiet. "If it had not been for the bankers and financial interests of New York City," Mr. Rodriguez said, "the trou ble in Mexico would have been over long age*. * lt is these same big bankers, de sirous of controlling the country and grabbing all the vast resources of the republic* who have caused the trou ble. "It was they who caused the send ing of the special envoy, John Lind, to Mexico City t«» bulldoze President j H uerto; it was they who caused the garbled and distorted reports of con ditions in my country to b€ I throughout the United States: it was they who tried to induce your Presi dent to send the American army into j my country; and they' were behind j the proclamation issued by’ President Wilson asking Americans to leave the countr as Francisco Madero ever was. They regard him as a tool—an unwilling tool, perhaps, and an unknowing tool, but a tool, nevertheless—in the hands of the New York banking interests. "There is not now and there never has been, any necessity for American interference in Mexico. There is ont a 'situation' to cope with. Mexico is as orderly o« the United States. "It is true ther was rebellion when Purfiro Diaz was ejected from the country, and when the insane Madero was dethroned by General Huerta. "But now the Huerta government is established; it has control of the great public utilities; the railroads are running all. over the republic and all of the States are under the con trol of the Government. "It is true that there are roving bands of highwaymen and robbers, called Constitutionalists and Zapa tista. But does not your United States have robbers and highwaymen? Tho Constitutionalists and the Zapatists, for all their high-sounding names, oc cupy the same plane in Mexico that your bands of burglars and thieves occupy in the United States. "President Iluerta is one of the most maligned men in the world. He has been lied about In America be cause he will not bow down to the New York bankers and let them con trol our country, pread | "The Mexican people consider Pres ident Huerta somewhat in the light that Americans consider George Washington. He rescued the republic from almost certain ruin. He has been handicapped by' your President Wilson and your Mr. Lind but even with their interference he has done Their reasons for trying to stir up j wonders for Mexico, a war between the United States and Mexico can be plainly seen by any one who will take the trouble to look. Mexico is one of the richest countries on earth in natural resources that need only development. Thousands o fAmericans have invested their cap ital in my country, and are making fortunes. "The control of many of the great industries slipped from the hands of "American newspapers have print ed much about the demands of your President Wilson and your Mr. Lind that President Huerta shall not be a candidate in the coming elections. The Mexican people know, and have al ways known, that he has never in tended to be a candidate "There is only one man in Mexico who has the approval of all faction 0 and who can bo elected President. the financial interests of New York, j That man is Felix Diaz and they started the trouble. To frighten Americans into selling out their holdings and leaving Mexican industries in their control; and to prevent any more Americans from going into the country. “You ask me what the people of Mexico think of your President, Woodrow Wilson. If 1 am placed in jail for uttering it 1 must speak the truth. Francisco I. Madero was de throned president of Mexico be cause the people of Mexico did not want him They regarded him as an irresponsible man. crazy man in the control of the America interests. "Americans who live in Mexico did not approve of the orders of President Wilson that they leave the republic. They laughed at him. There was never any reason . why they should leave Mexico, Americans are in no more danger in my country than ther would be in their own, and in most cases are in less danger. "It is perhaps true that Americans have been killed in Mexico. Does anyone expect thousands of them to live in a country and never get oi trouble, when they are of alt classes 7 Are not Mexicans Killed In tee Unite . , i _ * mancial j States . ^ "In my own cit> of Tampico, a c&y tentative members of the American colony went to the United States Con sul and told him they did not. ap prove of President Wilson’s action In attempting to interfere with Mexi can affairs. "Not an American of the better class left Tampico during the trouble, and but very few Americans left the entire republic. The only Americans who left Mexico and who took ad vantage of the American offer of free transportation were the bums and the loafers, who seized the chance to get back home for nothing. "To start a war with Mexico would be the worst thing the United States could do. It would embarrass thou sands of Americans who are living happily and making money in my country. ‘No nation is more friendly toward the United States than is Mexico, and I do not think there will ever be any necessity for America to send an army across the border." Besides his three sons, Bartoio. Jr., Rafael apd James, Mr. Rodriguez was accompanied to Atlanta by An tonio Ohlrlnos and his two sons, Se- varo and Porfirio, also of Tampico, who will also enter the Georgia Mil itary Academy. Ills own action in sending his boys to America to be educated and tho fact that the majority of the wealthy citizens of Mexico send their sons to this country' instead of to Europe, Mr. Rodriguez declares, is proof that the better class of Mexicans entertain nothing but friendly feeling for Amer ica. Tampico, where Mr. Rodriguez has extensive business interests, and near which is located his large cattle ranch, is one of tiie largest cities in Mex ico. It is located on the Gulf, in the •State of Vera Cruz, and is one of the greatest oil-producing points in the world. Mr. Rodriguez says $30U,OOU,OOU is invested by 62 companies in oil w’ells and equipment, most of which is con trolled by Americans. The wells yield on an average 110,000 barrels of crude petroleum a day. The great Comic Section 'of The Sunday American will keep you in yood humor all week. All your favorites, all doing funny stunts. Order your paper now. 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