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VOL. XII. NO. 34.
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12.1913.
Copyright, 1906.
By The Georgian Co.
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MRS. GODBEE LOSES FIGHT FOR DELAY; JURY IS CHOSEN
AcAdoo Foils Plot
Of New Orleans to
Get Shriners' Goat
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.—Shall i
goat, American bom and a Mystic
Shriner, be allowed to re-enter thi
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 Shriners re
turning from a visit to Panama with
the goat in tow.
“Our goat is 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.
All
Millen and the Countryside
Flock to Court as Trial of
Divorcee Opens.
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 j
and their descendants that he is go- ■
ing to cut the plantation up into
farms, build each of them a house, j
stock the farms and let them run j
them themselves
His only condition is that they ask |
credit of no one.
House Sends Tariff
Direct to Conference
'team-
Laughs at Report That It Was Feared He Would
Try “Kidnaping.”
day at Crookhaven from
ship Baltic:
To Robert Adamson. Secretary
to Mayor Gay nor, City Hall. New
York City Father died Wednes
day at 1 o’clock. Death due to
heart failure. Notify mother.
R. W. GAYNOR.
R. W. Gaynor is Rufus Gay nor, son
of Mayor Gaynor, who accompanied
his father abroad.
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.
Carnegie Hero Dons
Stripes of Convict
Determined to regain possession of
hie pretty 8-year-Oid daughter, Mad
eline, who is now with her mother,
Mrs. Edith Barlow, at No. 219 West
Peachtree street, even if .he lias to
carry' his fight to the highest tribunal,
J. E. Barlow, millionaire Cuban pro
moter, stopped in Atlanta Thursday
on his way from Havana to New
York, for a conference with his at
torneys, Burton Smith and Arthur G.
Powell.
“I am the best friend she has in
the world," Mr. Barlow said, refer
ring to his divorced wife who is a
professional masseuse at the Wes*
Peachtree address, “but I am not go
ing to let her keep our little girl if 1
have to spend every cent of my for
tune to prevent it.
“It is the farthest from my inten
tion to reopen the disagreeable fea
tures that were aifed during the
injit for divorce. I have only the
kindliest feelings for Mrs. Barlow.
Not to Attack Wife.
“I have told her even since our
divorce that if at any time she was in
need or desired assistance of any
kind she could call on me at once and
I would be glad to aid her to any ex
tent.
“I feel it my duty, however, to have
the care and custody of our little girl
To anyone familiar with the proceed
ings of our divorce trial the reasons
are readily apparent. I do not care
to discuss them except to say that I
am in a much better position to look
after the child’s education and mor
als than the mother.
“My lawyers, I believe, do not pro
pose to offer any
Barlow.
critcism of Mrs
It is not our intention to do
the permanent custody of tne child *o
me. It is most irregular that the Or
dinary of the county should make a .
decision overruling that of the Su- j weak that he could hardly
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 w r ould be kidnaped while he was
in town.
Tm here in the flesh all 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. “I 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.
Held on Charge of
Poisoning Wife
WILMINGTON. Sept. 11.—Charged
with the murder of his wife by
strychnine poisoning, which Is 1-
legcd to have been administered in a
doe*, of epsom salts, Joe Smith, of
Linden, is in jail at Fayetteville pend
ing a verdict of the Coroner's jury.
Contents of the stomach have been
sent to Raleigh for chemical analysis.
INDICTED AS WHITE SLAVER.
MERIDIAN, MISS., Sept. 11.—Last
night the Grand Jury returned an in-
WILM1NGTON. Sept. 11. Ben J.
Cottle, member of u prominent Cape
Fear lamiiy, for several years a pros
perous young druggist in this city,
was to-day sentenced to one year on
the county roads for selling alcoholic
beverage.
Cottle two or three years ago .Fas
awarded $1,000 In money and a prize
by the Carnegie Hero Commission for
Mayor Gaynor and his son sailed j the daring rescue of the little daugh
ter Liverpool from this city on board
the White Star Liner Baltic on
Thursday, September 4.
% At that time Mayor Gaynor was so
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. ' corning from the convict camp six
Mayor Gaynor, who 'immediately | south of Miami, and have not
previous to his departure was noml- oeen recaptured.
I ter of Dr. M. M. Caldw’ell. who was
j being taker, down a street to the river
; at break neck speed by’ a horse at-
| tached to a buggy.
4 Convicts Escape
MILLEN, GA., Sept. 11.—Within a
! few miles of the place where she was
j horn 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-
I bee to-day w f as put on trial for the
murder of the wife of her former
husband, Mrs. Florence Godbee,
whom she slew 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 ter a
continuance md later a demurrer to
the indictment «
Jury obtained Easily.
The ease with which a Jury was
obtained Was a great 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 when the
time arrived for the trial of Mrs.
Godbee.
Pa.
The woman, wno has remained si
lent in the county Jaii since the day
she startled the community by shoot
ing down Judge Godbee and his wife
in the Millen postoffice, has won the
sympathy of many of the townspeo
ple.
That she was the victim of insult
ifter 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.
Tall 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 Mfe. 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-
! national testimony that is promised
WOULD FREE
DOCTOR
MIAMI, Sept. 11.-*—R. McReady,
j convicted of forgery: George Roberts,
I sent up as a wife deserter: Donald
, Kane, burglar, and J. M. Rogers, also
! convicted of forgery, escaped this
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
They pried aside the bur* while a
guard slept. M< Reudy was arrested
in Georgia and brought here on requi
sition papers. Rogers’ sentence was
nearly up, but he would have been
immediately rearrested on a charge
from Georgia.
Bogus Lord Arrested b ier bu,iet * first at th#> y° un * woman
-P y, and did net attempt to shoot the
Un r orgery Lliurge judge untii she had ttred tw ° Hh ° u
SELMA, ALA., Sept. 11 “Lord"
Darnelly is under arrest at Savannah,
Oa., after fleecing V. B. Atkins'. Jr., of
Selma, of $3u.
The "Lord" signed the name of E.
B. M. Atkins, brother of V. B.. to a
telegram asking that money be sent
1 and that a check to cover would fol
low. This same
anythin? that would harm hoi; in any j dictment against Wiley J. Jackson, a
respect. We feel that we can stand | prominent railroad man at that place. |
on the dec'sion of ‘he Superior four-
.of Stewart County, which awarded
charging him with violating the Mann
white slave act
will be administered from now on
until a new Mayor Is elected by Pres- J .several well-knoun young men of
ident Kline, of the Board of Alder- Selma of small sums during the past
men, who has been acting Mayor in j several months. Atkins has gone to
the absence of Mr. Gaynor. | prosecute the bogus lord.
NEGRO WOMAN SUICIDES.
I GADSDEN, Sept. 11.—In a fit of
jealous rage to-day, Lily Hambries,
negro woman, drank a large quan
tity of carbolic acid and died In the
1 office of Dr. C. L. Guicc. where she
was* removed for treatment.
News of the sudden death of Mayor
Gaynor created a wave of sorrow’ at
the City Hall. The flag was imme
diately placed at half-mast. Many of , J
Mr. Gaynor’s friends and admirers
were unable to believe the in tel! i -
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Prison Board by Two to One
Urges Liberation of Physician
Held in Jail as Slayer.
A recommendation for a full par
don for Dr. W. J. McNaughton, con
victed of the murder of Fred Han
ders. was sent to Governor J. M. Sla.
ton Thursday 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 u 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 miftake was made.
The action of the State in nolle
proving the case against Mrs. Flan
ders, who was Jointly indicted with
McNaughton, also is sharply criticised
by the two Commissioners.
“By this order" they my, “this
commission was deprived of ihe 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 tiie Governor’s reprieve meant
and wimt tills commission desired
when they requested the reprieve. A?
a result, when 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 tine
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 wap 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 i» Inno
cent, or at least there is such a douot
and such a failure to exclude even
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
Godt.ee, a* a matter of fact, directed 1 for hle recommendation for comma-
j tation to life imprisonment. The ev
idence, in the first 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 moat stubbornly
contested legal battles in Georgia
criminal annals, interest never flag
ging from the time the physician wag
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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From Florida Camp ! it will be the contention that this
was tlie final act of persecution by-
Judge Godbee that goaded his form
er wife into a fury and led her to
empty the revolver she was carrying
into Ills 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
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.
Lord” has fleeced I “ 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
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Strike Ties Up Ship
Loading at Mobile
MOBILE, Sept. 11.—Every’ member
of the white Longshoremen’s Union
in Mobile went on a strike to-day at
noon, tying up the loading of every
timber and cotton ship In port The
white men are contending for the
loading of timber from barges, work
formerly done by the negro union
men, and at the same time are strik
ing in sympathy with the negroes
who demand an increase of 5 cents an
hour in wages for loading lumber into
ships.
The strike, it is believed, will be
settled as soon as the union men in
other ports will not unload ships sent
from here. More than 1,000 are out.
Birmingham Man Is
Shot; Wife Arrested
BIRMINGHAM. Sept. 11.—Robert
R. Butler, who runs a tailoring com
pany, was shot and dangerously
wounded at the home of his wife at
Woodlawn Thursday morning. The
shooting is said to have taken plac3
during a scuffle between the husband
and wife.
The couple had been separated, and
it is said the woman sent for the
husband to-day and when he went to
the house the shooting followed. Mrs.
Butler has been detained.
Escaped Four Times
On Pleas of Insanity
GADSDEN, Sept. 11.—Dave Tarvl»,
charged with criminally assaulting a
7-year-old girl, Is being tried for his
sanity.
Judge Bilbro overruled a motion
for a change of venue and attorneys
for the defense made application for
a writ of de lenatico Inquirendo,
which was granted by the court.
The State has evidence that the
girl is Tarvin's fourth victim and each
time he has escaped the death penalty
by a plea of insanity.
Woman to Fight
For Kidnaped Son
SAVANNAH, Sept. 11.—The Asso
ciated Charities here sent Mrs. Julia
Anderson, of Barnesville, S. C., to
Columbus. Miss., where she will fight
to gain possession of her 8-year-old
son, Bruce, kidnaped a year ago.
W. C. Walters Is being tried there
on a charge of kidnaping a boy named
Robert Dunbar, who disappeared at
the same time the Anderson boy did.
Mrs. Anderson claims the Dunbar boy
was never found and the boy now In
Mississippi Is her son. The two boys
are strikingly alike.
Excise Commissioner
To Answer Charges
BIRMINGHAM, Sept. 11.—Follow
ing the swearing out of warrants
against W. C. Agee, president of the
Excise Commission of Jefferson
County, on the charge that he receiv
ed a gift, gratuity or present or
something of value while in office, it
was announced to-day that steps
would be take looking to citing him
to appear and explain why he has not
been carrying out the law’ rigidly
covering the operation of saloons in
Jefferson County.
Postmaster Names
Republican for Job
DURHAM, Sept. 11—A hot fight
has begun here over assistant post-
moster’s job.
M. W. McCullom is the choice of
Democrats, and R. P. Reade, chair
man of the county executive commit
tee, has gone to Washington to lay
his case before the Postoffice Depart
ment. On the other hand, W. T. Car
penter, Republican, is recommended
by Postmaster J. A. Giles for the
place.
MISS SEBRING IMPROVES.
JACKSONVILLE, Sept. 11.—Miss
Inez Behring, daughter of Council
man W. R. Sebrlng, who accidentally
shot herself in the breast while care
lessly handling a revolver at hef
home here on July 9, is rapidly re
covering from her Injury.
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
vestigatlon.
Fifty thousand dollars was 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 oo
one of the envelopes from which th#
money w r as 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 he an Inspection
of the finger prints of every person
who could have had anything to dc
with the robbery.
It Is on this slim clew that the au
thorities are* working now. So far as
Is known, they have no ore under
suspicion. If the finger-print clew
falls to Implicate any of the em
ployees. the detective# 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 w’her
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 ft 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 was the finger
print that the officials expect to prove
of value, .
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