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■ —— THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. In which he handled a person attack* ing him. Plunged Knife Into Breast. Throwing up one arm, knocking the other boy's hand up, he plunged a knife Into his breast, killing him al most Instantly. Evidence In the case showed that after stabbing his play mate, young Barton drew the knife from h> s body, and after wiping the blade on his trousers, shut the knife and placed it in his pocket, then cau tioned another boy not to tell who stabbed Edgar. A pathetic figure was the mother of the indicted boy, who waited In the Solicitor's office, while the Grand Jury was passing upon the case. Court deputies found themselves shrinking from the task of breaking the sad news of her boy's indictment to her. Young Woman Breaks Nows. At their solicitation, an attractive young woman connected with the courts informed Mrs. Barton of the Grand Jury’s action. The news al- most completely prostrated her, while LEADING WITNESSES, • JURY IN GODBEE CASE Solicitor Moore will be the first speaker after dinner, and Judge Saf- fold will conclude for the defense. The court then will charge the Jury. The Jurors should retire to deliberate by 6 p. m. There will be six apeeches during the day, and the defense, by not put ting up eny witnesses, will have the concluding argument. Judge Saffold will make the concluding argument for the defense. Two spectacular features marked the hearing Thursday. One was the impassioned statement of Mrs. God- bee In her own defense and the other the testimony brought forward by the State. Mrs. Oodbee, he.r voice trembling with emotion, told the jurors that, she had slain Judge Godbee In the Mlllen postofflce solely In self-defense, and that she had feared he was about to carry out his threats to shoot her. She said that she did not Are until he stepped toward her, reaching toward 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 phone 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 was Inspired by a spirit of revenge. The defendant declared that Mrs. Spader John Mitchell Is Indicted Two Weeks After Attacking Girl. Boy Stabber Held. .Indications Are Against Charter Reform Victory and Mayor's Control of Council. Continued from Page i. dition to the statement of the defend ant, who said that Judge Godbee threatened her, railed her a vile name, and she shot him first.” “Gentlemen of the Jury,” he said, none of you can doubt the truth of Mrs. Spader’s testimony, and the de fendant told this little woman she had hired a negro to kill Judge Godbee and bis wife and that if he (the ne- gro( djd not do it, she would. She also told Mrs. Spader that she did not want her grandchild to ride with Judge and Mrs. Godbee, as it, too, must suffer when the Judge and his wife were killed. “The defendant expressed no regret after the shooting for killing Mrs. Godbee. If she shot Judge Godbee in self-defense and had no intention of harming his wife, why didn't she say so? She never until yesterday ex pressed any regret for the deed.” Anderson concluded for the State with a strong plea for conviction. Dixon was the first speaker for the defense. He recited the sufferings which Mrs. Godbee hay endured, poke of the threat against her life made by Judge Godbee and told the jury that the defendant had told a plain, straightforward story to the jury and deserved an acquittal. Defense Ridicules Plot Story. Dixon ridiculed the idea of Mrs. Godbee. the defendant, telling Mrs. Spader that she bad hired a negro to kill Judge find bee and his wife; that she would have to have been a fool or a crazy woman to have done such a thing. He said that the defendant had no intention of killing cither Judge God- bee or his wife when she went to the postoffice that morning; that Judge Godbee called her a vile name there and had sent her word beforehand I hat he would kill her unless she left Millen. The attorney wal(l that Judge God- oee was anxious to alienate his chil dren from their mother, but they stuck loyally to her. The defendant ,vas warned by her daughter “to watch out for papa as ho may kill you,” and that was the reason why die was always prepared to protect herself. On the morning of the shoot ing, Judge Godbee, addicted to the lse of morphine, had a desperate ook, Dixon said, ami made a motion vtth his hand us if to draw a pistol after he had insulted the slayer. The diooting of Mrs. Florence Godbee wag purely • accidental, contended Record time in a criminal case was made Friday, when an indictment for assault was returned against John T. Mitchell as the man who attacked a 15-year-old girl on the ^Cascade road, near the old Utoy prison camp, last week. His arrest and indictment presents one of the quickest handled cases on record in Fulton County. Two indictments for murder were returned, one against a 14-year-old boy, Frank W. Barton. He is charged with killing another youth, John Ed gar, on Kennedy street the Fourth of July. The boy is now in the cus tody of the Juvenile Court. The kill ing occurred while he was demon strating to another boy the manner Continued from Page 1. Ing to gain for him the support of Councilman A. R. Colcord. The nib came when it was found that Mr. Col cord was pledged to Fred Lester. A further complication set in with the intimation from Alderman Spratlins that he was seeking the place. Woodward Out for Lester. Mayor Woodward was bitterly op posed to Mr. Anderson being Aider- man without opposition. He tippet off Mr. Armlstead and Mr. Armistead paid his fee and announced he was in the race to stay. In addition, Mayor Woodward let it be known that he was supporting Fred Lester for Po lice Commission. The natural assump tion is that Mr. Armlstead also js back of him, which gives Mr. Lester two of his three ward representatives. According to Councilmanic prece- ient this should insure his election. EISEMAN BROS., Inc. The Best \ Makes of i Clothes for Boys _ Made by America’s Foremost p “Boys’ Cloth ing Specialists” Xoimirucit. 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The speaker de clared that she had a right to kill Godbee to protect her good name If for nothing else. “If it is true that she was suffering from emotional insanity at the* time of the shooting, she is still justified under the law," he said. The speaker said Godbee harassed the defendant for many years, and his treatment of his wife was enough to drive anyone to desperation. He said the defendant did not say that she did not love Judge Godbee. but that she did love him and his bad treatment of her caused her love to grow cold and finally to cease. Dekle said the defendant was being perse cuted and that she was driven to commit the deed. The speaker declared that Godbee showed his heartlessness when he told the defendant she must give up her property or Sarah Godbee. Dekle concluded his address with are now of uppermost interest, and for “snappy” style and GENUINE SERVICE we recommend our BIG VAL UE SPECIAL. 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 i house. This angered Mrs. Spader, she said, and probably was the animus for ' her incriminating tale related to the Jury. The story of Mrs. Spader came near the close of the night session. Judge Hammond deciding on holding court late in order to get the trial through by Friday night. The witness was nervous and trembling when sihe 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 oobs. 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 aome time and that she was the chief oper ator at the Millen telephone exchange j She testified that Mrs. Godbee. goad ed into a desperation by the taunts 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 ine that she had endured his persecutions to the point of mad- nesK\” said the witness, “and that she was desperate. I did not give much thought to the story at the time, as 1 did not think it peculiar that she should talk in this wild way under the j circumstances ” Mrs. Godbee was on the witness ! etand two hours. Her statement was : earnestly delivered and created an ; impression on the crowds attending the trial. Many of the marital difti- j i ulties of Mrs. Godbee and her former husband were well known here, but j she pitilessly bared the intimate de- ! tails ot her life, telling of her unhap- j piness as her trump card in her battle \ But the Mason supporters are sure to develop strong opposition to him later. The significance of the whole epi sode is that there is more interest In the fight for places on the Police Commission than for seats in Council. charter is adopted the j whole Commission is abolished and a new-’ one elected. new That would assure a merry scramble for all places. Mason Sure of Place. But, as stated in the beginning, the close of the primary entrance list insures a continued sway of the old crowd. If Carlos H Mason and his supporters want to be re-elected to the Police Commission they will be, without a doubt. The livest race of all is in the Eighth Ward between John S. Owens and W. A. Hancock. This is a cam paign of the personal strength of both men. They are wary of plat forms. Mavor Woodward is support ing Mr. Hancock, but Mr. Hancock declines to make the campaign on the issue of Woodward. Zest Is added to the race by a hot fight for Police Commissioner from that ward. Alderman A. H. VanDyke. for whose place they are running, is out after the place of Police Com missioner Robert Clark. Both are for Mr. Hancock for Alderman. If Mr. Owens is elected neither one of them w’ould be likely to get the place. Less Interest in Ccuncilmen. As the Councilmanic races are con fined to individual wards, the Interest In them is much less. In the First Ward, J. X. Renfroe. with the sup port of Mayor Woodward, is running against C. D. Alverson. In the Sec ond Ward, C. D. Knight has no op position. In the Third Ward, R. R. Jackson, with the indorsement of Mayor Woodward, came out at the last minute against Councilman Or ville H. Hall. In the Fourth Ward. R. E. George and A. W. Farlinger have entered what promises to be a very* conser vative campaign. Neither of them is a favorite with all the boys for school wear. They stand the rough-and-tumble rebellion of playground romp- ings. Ages 6 to 18 years. Prices $5 to $ 15 All That’s New and Best in Law Brothers for Quality ; famous lines— L “Crofut-Knapp.’’ new ones, both soft selection. They’re New Fall Woolens The two women are .Miss Maud Barnwell and Mrs. Warren del, eyewitnesses of the shooting, and in the center is shown jury which will decide the slayer’s fate. They’re here in great abundance looking through them to-morrow, and early for that Fall Suit order. Suits a threatened her with a revolver; that she had discovered him In thefts of letters from the povtoffice at Perkins. Ga., where he was postmaster fur a time, and finally, she said, he brought to Atlanta and installed her in a house that had ohee been an immoral resort. Later, she claims, he circu lated reports that she was an immoral woman and keeper of a resort. Tells of Marriage. “When my father died In 1886,” Mrs. Godbee said, “he left as execu tors of his Mtate my uncle and cousin. Mr. Godbee came to look over my la ther's mercantile business and bought it. He met me and called on me con stantly. In July of 3S87 we were married. “A few months Iat-'r he began try ing to get hold of my father’s estate, and succeeded in gaining control r.f the plantations. My younger brother. Jake, 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 death our married life grew more unhappy. He insisted upon be ing made the administrator of my mother's property, and finally gained control o? it. My brother Jake was ordered not to put his foot on the place. Judge Godbee’s treatment V'- came almost unbearable. He threat ened the life of Jake. One day Jake, who was coming to the postoffice, was shot 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 see the body. I managed to obtain $1,500 and gave It to him for his de fense in his trial for Jake's murder.” and—the greatest line of School and Dress Shoes for Boys and Children in Atlanta. (Shoe Department—Main Floor, Rear) 10 WHITEHALL ST. 11-13-15-17 Whitehall Street Official Outfitters Boys’ Scouts of America See Our Window Display BOYS’ WEAR for Fall and Winter Is Now Ready to Show You The New He The New Bli The New Ne The New Ur its loses ckwear .derwear | Children’ a Depart merit Entire Second Floor