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IIF.ARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, HA., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, Ifllfl.
Inquisitorial Body Will in All
Probability Take Up Poison
Case This Week.
WIDOW SEEMS CONFIDENT
Sees Only Move in Will Contest
in Charge Brought by Rela
tives of Dead Husband.
Grand jurors of Pulton County will
this week in all probability begin
fhelr Investigation of the death of
the late Josua R Crawford, wealthy
Atlantan, whose widow ha* been
charged with poisoning him In order
to Ret hLs riches barely a morrth aft
er their marriage In 1909
In the meantime. Mrs Mary Belle
Crawford, the widow, Is at her Peach-
tree street home, serenely confident
that If the Grand Jury should Indict
her she w’ould be promptly acquitted
by a trial Jury She declares the
bringing of the charge of poisoning
against her was done merely as a
new move of the heirs of the aged
real estate operator, who a re fighting
for the $250,000 fortune that wb.m left
to her
Poison Pretence Admitted.
The report of Dr. H P. Harris that
traces of morphine poiaonlng were
found in the stomach of the deceas
ed is not denied by Mrs. Crawford
or her counsel. They simply contend
that this drug wa* prescribed for
Crawford during hie last Illness, and
declare that the attending physician
will take the stand and testify that
he administered the opiate to relieve
the aged man’s pain.
The Crawford heirs, however, tuke
an entirely different view of the mat
ter. Ther charge a deep-laid con
spiracy on the part of Mrs. Craw
ford and Fred T/umb, a barber now
In New York, and who U sought by
the heirs as an accomplice
Their contention la that when J. R
Crawford, then In his seventies, went
to St. Augustine. Fla., In 1909 In
search of health and took board with
Mary Belle Bishop, the woman then
and there planned to wed the old man
and as aeon as she could make him
will her his property, poison him, and
then wed Dumb,
The contesting heirs are nieces and
nephews of the man for who«e wealth
they arc fighting, and though the will
contest has been on practically since
the death of Crawford, it wan not
until a few months ago that the
poison charge whs mad* and the
body wan exhumed for examination
of the stomach.
Sheriff issues Warrant.
A Coroner's Jury at Carrollton, the
old home of the Crawfords, returned
a verdict declaring that the deceased
hod come to his death from poison
administered by his wife.
It was then that the Sheriff of
Carroll County mailed a warrant to
the Sheriff of Fulton for the arrest.
When officers went to serve it, Mrs
Crawford was not at her Atlanta
home, but she afterward surrendered
to the Sheriff here and promptly fur
nished the $6,000 bond required
In addition to the poison charge
the nieces and nephews have alleged
that undue Influence was exercised
by Mrs. Crawford to have herself
made the chief beneficiary in the will
and witnesses have been introduced
at the will hearing to prove that at
the time he uttered the instrument,
Crawford was not only mentally un
balanced through 8«nllitjr, but was
constantly under the influence of
alcohol.
Y ! 0 Rays From Brain of ‘Wizard* Edison
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riinJ Opinions Flash From Thaw to Eugenics
Thomas Alva Edison, as he appears in his marvelous labo-
Back at Work After Brief Vaca- raf °ry iu West Orange, N. J., in which he labors 19 hours a day.
tion, Inventor Is Still “Human
Dynamo” at Sixty-six.
7 Would Do Anything for
Harry if He Asks Me To, ’
Declares Evelyn Thaw
WEST ORANGE. N. J . Sept. 18.—
Thomas Alva Edison, the “Wizard of
Menlo Park,” whone life has been one
invention after another, in hack In
hie wonderful laboratories* here to
day plunged Into nineteen hours of
work a day, after a fortnight’s va
cation In New England.
That Mr. Edison should take a va
cation at all Is regarded as unusual,
for the “human dynamo,” as he is oft
en called, Is a tireless worker at tho
age of 66 Fully recovered from a
slight cold, Mr. Edison Iihs been en
joying himself at Monhegan, Maine,
then at the summer home of hla
wealthy friend, Richard Colgate, th.-i
soap manufacturer, at Lake Run a pee,
N. H.
Mr. Edison looks to-day the man he
is. Ills heavy thatch of white gives
him a distinguished appearance at a
distance. He is about 5 feet 7 Inches
tall and Is thick-set enough to weigh
about 175 pounds.
The traveling public noticed him at
Monhegan, Maine, in Lowell, where he
and Mrs. Edison stayed overnight, to
break their long automobile trip, and
Grows Impatient in Fight on Soil
of United States to Prove
Conspiracy Charge.
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versal in their admiration of him an
were the Canadians. There are ele
ments among the populace who are
emphatically favorable toward his
suit, it is true, but there are many
New Hampshire men who stoutly
maintain that he haa no right to re
main In New Hampshire.
Not that the opinion of the public is
significant in this matter, but that
opinion has been .i spectacular factor
In the case so far, and probably will
continue so. The Monadnock House,
the hotel where he is held, has be
come a public debating field. It* lobby/
being crowded with men for Thaw
and against Thaw.
NEW YORK, Sept. IS.—“There are
many ways in which I could help Har
ry, Just as I have done before. Some
day he will realize that and come to
me asking for help."
The above statement was made to
day by Evelyn Nsblt Thaw aftr she
was asked what she would do if the
attorneys for Harry Thaw should call
her to appear as a witness for him In
his efforts to obtain his freedom.
“There Is nothing in all this world
that I would not do to help Harry'
if he would come to me and make a
request,” continued Mrs. Thaw. “He
realizes that I have sacrificed every
thing in the past for his happiness
and that any one who has gone as far
as I have gone would not ’quit’ until
they had won a complete victory.’’
“Do you believe you could help
Harry' in any material way in his
fight for freedom?”
“Yes, Harry' realizes that. But I
will never give any' assistance to Har
ry until he sends for me as his wife.’
Depend* on His Lawyers.
“There are a hundred ways In which
Harry could communicate with me. I
realize that he can not come to me.
But he doesn’t communicate with me;
he depends upon his high-priced law
yers.”
"Could a friend transmit a message
to you from him that would act the
same as a personal message, so that
you would hasten to his side and aid
In his fight?” Mrs. Thaw was asked.
“Yes.”
“In what way could you help your
husband?”
“I will not discuss that with any
one.” was Mrs. Thaw’s answer. ”1
will say that I stand ready to help
him in a way he knows. But he re
fuses to ask me. But let Harry send
me the proper message and I will
show the world that I stand ready
to again make every sacrifice and do
everything in my power to make Har
ry a free man.”
"Why don’t you communicate with
Harry Thaw’s mother?” was asked.
“Because she cut off my Income
more than a year ago. You all tell
stories of how Harry Thaw’s mother
has worked and sacrificed for him.
but let me tell you that her sacrifice
has not been one-half what Evelyn
Nesblt Thaw's has been.”
Wishes to Win Success.
Asked why she refused to appear
in a vaudeville act billed as Evelyn
Thaw', she answered:
“It was not because the name Thaw
is distasteful to me, but because I
did not want people to come to gaze
upon Evelyn Thaw’, the heroine of a
murder trial, but I wanted to win suc
cess and thereby obtain an income
for my child and myself by real abil
ity and not by notoriety.”
Asked whether she would promise
the authorities that she would live
with Thaw as his wife if he was given
his liberty, Mrs. Thaw' refused to an
swer. She also refused to answer the
question as to whether in case Thaw
regained his liberty she would go
w'lth him to Europe.
Arctic Has No Terror
For College Girls
University of California Graduates
Sail to Spend Year Teaching
In Alaska.
BERKELEY, CAL., Sept. 13.—A
winter In the frozen north has no ter
rors for Miss Florence Getchell and
Miss Lorraine Andrews, two Intrepid
young Berkeley girls, who will leave
soon to teach In the high school of
Juneau, Alaska.
Miss Getchell and Miss Andrews are
both recent graduates of the Univer
sity of California, where they were
very prominent in college doings.
They sailed to-day for Alaska and
will be gone a year.
Miss Getchell will teach mathemat
ics and Miss Andrews will teach Eng
lish. A number of sorority girls will
go up to Alaska on a Jaunt next
spring, and will Join the two girls and
return with them in the summer.
History Study Scored
By School President
Indiana Solon Says World Events
Are Too “High-Brow” for Youth
ful Minds.
“OW!” Corns?
Use “GETS-IT”
“GETS-IT.“ the New-Plan Corn Cure,
Make* Any Corn Shrivel. Vanish.
You'll say, “It does brat all how
quick ‘GETS-IT’ gut rid of that corn.
It's almost magic!" "GETH-IT" gets
every corn, every time, as sure as the
sun rises It takes about two seconds*
at I-rftke Sttnapee, where the Edison*
wound up their New England stay.
Unusually Vigorous.
Tho«e who failed to recognize th*
Inventor saw in him an unusually
vigorous man for his years.
If hla hat was off, one noted In
stantly the wide, lofty brow, the brow
of a thinker As General Lew Wal
lace said of Hlmonldes, the steward In
"Ben Hut,” It is apparent that a man
with such a head must have a tre
mendous brain from cubic capacity, If
I nothing else.
I Mr. Edison has bright eyes, gray-
blue eyes, that gaze over so keenly
Rut they are not merely sharp eyes.
S They arc kindly ones and humorous,
too; for “Wizard” Edison exemplifies
the old saying;
“A little nonsense now and then
Is relished by the best of men.”
Witness his little Joke about “run
ning up to Colgate’s to take a bath”—
a sly illusion to the soap with which
his host is ever associated.
Brain Works Like Flash.
Dressed usually In a sack suit of
dark mixture. Mr. Edison is neat in
appearance. Any idea that an inven
tor has to wear muasy clothes and
necktie askew does not apply to Mr.
Edison. Maybe he is naturally natty,
maybe Mrs. Edison sees to It that her
distinguished husband always Is pre
sentable. Anyhow, he ' as well kept
as a man need be
Speak to Mr. Edison and right away
you realize that you have started
something.
He replies quickly.
His brain seems to work like a
Hash.
His answer comes on the instant,
and is a full, comnkte one. Mr. Edi
son knows what he knows and when
he makes a reply he covers the
j ground.
He uses few' gestures, but he keeps
Ills right hand cupped up against his
right ear because he is hard of hear
ing in the left ear and he uses the
right one He has put his hand up to
that • ;ir ho many thousand times that
i he has actually pushed the lobe of the
ear out a little.
Cordial and Democratic.
He is as cordial ns he Is alert and
as simple and democratic as he is
cordial. Such Is the best known liv
ing inventor in appearance.
Mr. Edison has pronounced ideas on
about ever> topic of current thought,
from “X-ray” gowns to mental stand
ards anil from eugenics to “Casing
Johnny.” as he dubs Harry K. Thaw.
Spellers Stumped by
‘ Rhythm’ First Word
HERE ARE MR. EDISON’S VIEWS
ON SOME OF THE LIVE TOPICS
DANCES AND DRESS—The weird dances and freakish
dressing are not an indication of moral deterioration, but mere
ly the expression of peculiar mental flights. They are here to
day and gone to-morrow.
EUGENICS—A splendid proposition. Affection will not
lip subordinated. As physical and intellectual evolution takes
place atfection will be deeper and lpore wholesome.
THAW—It is about time we lost “Casino Johnny.” The
country is bettor without him and too much publicity has been
given him.
AMERICA—America is the hope of the world. Here we
are constantly advancing, because the mental standard is con
stantly improving as the result of public school education.
TRUSTS—Trusts are good and bad. Government control
means the end of the trusts that conspire against the public
good. It is for the Government to regulate the trust business,
eliminating the bad and protecting the good.
ROOSEVELT A solid man, an honest one, who has been
under fire for twenty years, without one shaft by the enemy
striking a vulnerable spot.
POLITICS -I am a Progressive. Advancement cannot be
attained without these changes. The Republican and Demo
cratic parties stand for the old order of things.
MEXICO—I jatins and Anglo-Saxons do not mix and never
will. Mexico is incapable of self-government. It would not be
wise for us to interfere.
VACATIONS It does seem great to have a day off. What
a wealth of material there is for the human mind to enjoy if
one only has one’s eyes open to it.
WORK -Sometimes, after nineteen or twenty hours’ work;
1 hate to give it up, even for a few hours’ rest.
SLEEP—Sleep is largely a matter of habit.
ELECTRICITY—We are in the infancy of electricity. It
is taking the place of steam the world over.
“CANNED'' MUSIC—It has been the aim of all phono
graph manufacturers to eliminate the scratching noise of the
needle and the composition. Eventually we will produce music
minus all scratching sound.
Chicago Club Members All Miss and
Judges Order Spelling Bee ACCUSED SWINDLER IS
‘Count the Flies/Now
Slogan of Kansas
Novel Method of Making Merchants
Drive Out Pest Decided on
by Board.
TOPEKA. Sept. 13.—“Count the
file®!” Instead of “Swat the fly!” will
be the slogan of the State Board of
Health for next year.
Without getting nearly the amount
of advertising from such a war cry,
the Health Board of Ohio has been
getting results that are entirely satis
factory by the application of a clever
idea which the Kansas board has de
termined to appropriate.
Next year the proprietor of the res
taurant or store who permits flies to
buzz around where flies ought not to
be may expect to find in his daily mail
small cards bearing some such mes
sage as this:
“Dear Sir: "While in vour place of j
business yesterday I counted fourteen
flies. Yours respectfully.
“JOHN DOE.” i
That is the Ohio Idea. The Kansas
Board of Health will have a lot of
cards printed and will get the worn- i
en’s clubs over the State to distribute
them.
INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 13.—History
is one of the most useless subjects
taught in the common schools. In the
opinion of W. W. Parsons, president
of the Indiana State Normal School
at Terre Haute.
President Parsons srvs he bases
his thoughts about history on the
necessary reaction on the part of a
person acquiring historical knowl
edge. To make his words clear, he
said the mind of a child, and even
that of an older person, can not
grasp the magnitude of the battle of
Gettysburg or similar events, which
are the more important history les
sons.
Despite his opinion, President Par
sons did not advocate less history in
the grade schools or any change in
the system of teaching that branch.
Iowa Professor
Scores 'Apostasy'
Professor Lsmson Ssys Colleges
Threaten to Destroy Foundations
of the Government.
Pair of Men Routed When Young
Matron Resents Their Ap
proach With Blows.
LOGANSPORT, TTTD.. Sept. tL—
Mra. Jessie James stood on a corner
in the buslneas district to-day con
versing with her father, John Glnga-
man, and near by, gazing at her, were
grouped five mashers. Mra. James
bade her father good-bye and started
away,
"Oh, you chicken I Busy?” cried
one of the group.
Wheeling around, MY*. James step
ped back to the group, and smilingly
Inquired, “Who spoke?"
One of the crowd stepped out and
asked: "Where you going?”
Mrs. James slammed her fist again*
his face and he staggered. Before he
could recover she atruck again, a fair,
straight blow, which put him to the
aide walk.
Then she rushed upon the other
four, who crowded against a building.
Her attack was so unexpected and
forceful that the quartet had felt
the effects of her fists before one of
them fought back and knocked Mrs.
James across the sidewaJk and
against a mail box.
She stooped, grabbed a loose pav
ing brick and let it fly. It landed
on the head of the man she had
knocked down, and who hxvd risen
and was running away. The other#
followed and boarded an outgoing
interurban car.
From the corner to the place where
they took the car a trail of blood
marked the passing of the one against
whose head Mrs. James’ brick collid
ed.
"Sometimes I carry a gun," said
rr * o'rncnQ AnCH Mrs. James to the crowd that gath-
H A STINGS, MICH., Sept. 13. ere( j about her. "I am glad I dll
Profesicr J. C. Lamson, of Nevada, not have It to-day. Hereafter I will
lowo, one of the most prominent lead- carry it, and 1f I am addressed as *
was to-day Til kill the man who doe*
It.”
ers of the Seventh Day Adventists,
condemned the tendencies In modern
life which, he said, threaten to de
stroy our constitutional government.
Though the professor had for his
topic “Apostates From Republican
ism,” he failed to attack any par
ticular political party and did not say
how he classed the Progressives.
The class of professors in Ameri
can universities and colleges and
others who are Joining them In at
tempting to overthrow' the Constitu
tion in Its present form were de
nounced at length by Professor Lam-
son. Such tendencies, he said, would
commit the Government to religious
legislation.
Safer ‘Harbors’ for
Germany's Airships
Even Subterranean Dock Is Planned
for Kaiser's New Aerial
Dreadnought Fleet.
Special Cable to The American.
BERLIN, Sept. 13.—Germany is pro
viding airship “harbors” along the
French and Russian frontiers. Al
ready she has 30 hangars that shelter
40 dirigibles and are supplied with
stores of hydrogen and petrol.
New and Improved hangars, each
capable of holding two Zeppelins,
will be built at Darmstadt, Mann
heim, Hanover and three other cities.
Some will revolve as the wind varies
to admit monster airships entering or
leaving.
A subterranean dock is planned
to protect the airships from overhead
attack.
Blackmailers Heap
Harvest of $200,000
Los Angeles Chief 8aya Swindlers
Work Under Qulse of Being
Private Detectives.
LOS ANGEI.ES, Sept. 18.—Declar
ing that Los Angeles is Infested with
| blackmailers, operating as private de-
i tectives. Chief of Police Sebastian
recommended to the County Grand
: Jury and to the Police Commission
the passage of an ordinance licensing
i ail private detective Institutions.
I Sebastian said he based his recom
mendations on a record showing the
payment of upwards of 3200,000 in
: blackmail tribute.
TALC IS BORATED
t-i^rpHERE 1, no other Tut-
cum Powder feo sob, so
smooth, so delightfully
perfumed.
GujrvntMi! Par*
10 C«nt* n O#'.
Mined and made oniJ bJT
TALCUM PUFF CO.
Bush Terminal Building
Drootuyn, N. V.
2T/>e object ot putting our
“Madam, If You’d Use ‘GETS-IT* for
Corns. You Could Wear Any Tight
Shoe Easily!”
to apply it Com ptunn stop, you for
get the coin, the corn shrivels up, and
it’s gone! Ever try anything like
that* You never did There”* no
more fussing with plasters that press
on the com, no more Halves that tuke
off the surrounding flesh, no more
hai*dages No more knives, tiles or
rasors that make corns grow and
cause danger of blood poison. "GETS-
IT” is equally harmless to healthy or
irritated flesh. It “gets'' eevry corn,
wart, callous and bunion you've got
"GETS-IT” is sold at all druggist*
l 26 cents a bottle, or sent on receipt
1 of price by J£ Lawrence Company,
Chicago.
Started Over.
CHICAGO. Sept. 13.—The word
“rhythm” almost broke up a spelling
match at the outing of the Empire
Slate Club at Rautlna.
It was the first word given to the
twenty-five contestants -all former
New Yorkers now living in Chicago—
and not a person could spell it.
The judges conferred and started
over again, after promising that
“rhythm” would not be given again.
Mrs. Alexander Dennison finally won.
after her closest competitors had
stumbled over the word “judgment.”
About three hundred attended the
outing, which was if? charge of J. C.
Merrill, president of the club.
TRAILED FOR 5,000 MILES
CENTRALIA, ILL., Sept. 13.—After
having traveled more than 6,000 miles
in an effort to run down a crook, Spe
cial Agent J. E. Stoy, representing a
Chicago furniture company, arrived
here this afternoon.
Stoy has been on the trail of this
man nine months, covering Colorado.
Wyoming, South Dakota. Missouri
and Southern Illinois Traces of the
fugitive's work were discovered in
G&rbondale. Duquoin and Staunton.
He takes orders for a furniture house,
collecting on the orders, and the
goods are not delivered.
WOMAN ELECTED ON
PROGRESSIVE COMMITTEE
LOS ANGELEa, Sept. 13.—Mrs.
John D. Hooker, of San Francisco and
Los Angeles, has been unanimouslv
elected by the Progressive National
Committee at Washington to the of
fice of California national commit
teeman. to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation of Mrs Isabella Bla-
ney. according to an announcement
made here to-day by members of the
Progressive party. Mrs. Hooker, who
is one of the best known women of
California, is now traveling in
Europe.
Greeley Coach Will
Make One More Trip
Ancient Vehicle That Hauled Editor,
Brete Harte and Mark Twain
Will Reappear.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 13*—When
California makes merry at the Por-
tola Festival next October. In this j
city, a post of honor in the parade
will be given to “Charlie McLean No.
1”—a stage coach with a place in the
history' of the State.
This coach is a link with the pe
riod, of Bret Harte and Mark Twain.
According to Honn. from $5,000,000 j
to $10,000,000 in bullion has been
transported in it. Black Bart, Joaquin
Murletta and Yasquez halted it in
their heyday or were defied by its
mesei gets It still Carrie# bullet
holes.
It was in the “Charlie McLean”
that Horace Greeley made his noted
ride to keep a lecturing engagement
at Placerville, when the name wasn’t
Placerville, but Hangtown. Sam
Clemens was its passenger many
times when, in his newspaper day’s,
he covered the Nevada Legislature at
Carson City*.
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in a carton, is to protect it from
flies, rodents, roaches and
all forms of insect life and dirt
Yon know that in the Grocery Store each night
rata hold revelry in the rice barrel.
To guard against this unhappy condition, merely
state
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UTAH TO BOOM STATE
IN ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN
SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 13.—"I am
for Utah.”
Within the next month this slogan
will he fixed in the minds of every*
local Utah maxi, woman and child.
This is the aim of the publicity
bureau of the Salt Lake Commercial
Club.
The plan for financing the bureau
was completed by the finance com
mittee yesterday. The first move was
to order by wire 100,000 “I Am for
Utah” buttons. These will be sold
for 25 cents each. The finance com
mittee hopes to raise an initial fund
of $25,000 by this means.
on your grocery order
10c and 25c
packages
Book of Recipes on Application to
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