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EXTRA The Atlanta Georgian. Read for Profit---GEORGIAN WANT ADS---Use for Result5 VOL. XII. NO. 34. ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12.1913. Copyright, 1906. By The Georgian Co. o PFYTS VAY NO *- 1 -I MORE EXPRESS ROBB LOSS $75,000 MILLIONAIRE BARLOW HERE FOR CHILD; NOT TO ASSAIL EX-WIFE *•* +•+ +•+ +•+ +•* +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ *•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ BoardRecommendsPardonforMcNaughton *r#*F *!•••!• +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ t**!* +•+ +•+ 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 - Continued on Page 2. Column 4. 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 Continued on Page 2, Column 6, 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 Continued on Page 5, Column 1, V 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, . 0 s