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IT KARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA. OA., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14$ 1013.
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Nnu Opinions Flash From Thaw to Eugenics
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.
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Grand Jurors of Pulton County will
this week in all probability begin
their Investigation of the death of
the late Jostia B Crawford, wealthy
Atlantan, whose widow has been
charged with poisoning him in order
to get his riches barely a month aft
er their marriage in 15*09
In the meantime. Mrs. Mary Belle
Crawford, the widow, is at her Peach
tree afreet home, serenely confident
that 1f the Grand Jury should Indict
her she would 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 hairs of the aged
real estate operator, who are fighting
for the 1250,000 fortune that wa* left
to her •
Poison Pretence Admitted.
The report of Dr. IT F Harris that
traces of morphine poisoning were
found In the stomach of the deceas
ed is not denied by Mrs. Crawford
or her counsel. They simply contend
that this drug was prescribed for
Crawford during his last illness, and
declare that the attending physician
will take the stand and testify that
he administered the opiate to relieve
the aged men's pain.
The Crawford heirs however, take
an entirely different view of the mat
ter. Thev charge a deep-laid con
spiracy on the part of Mrs Craw
ford and Fred Dumb, a barber now
In New York, and who 1» sought by j
the heirs as an accomplice.
Their contention is that when .1 B
Crawford, then in his seventies, went
to 3t. Augustine. Fla... in 1909 in
aearch of health and took hoard with
Mary Belle Bishop, the woman then
and there planned to wed the old man
and as soon hr the could make him
will her his property, poison him, and
then wed I»umb
The contesting heirs are nieces and
nephews of the man for whoso wealth
they are fighting, and though the will
contest ha# been on practically since
the death of Crawford, It was not
until a few months ago that the
poison charge was made nnd the
body was 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
had come to hie death from poison
administered by his wife
It was then that the Sheriff of j
Carroll County mailed a warrant to |
the Sheriff of Fulton for the arrest, j
When officers went to serve It, Mrs ,
Crawford was not at her Atlanta J
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 nnd nephews have alleged j nl
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 he ring to prove that at
the time he uttered the instrument,
Crawford wan not only mentally un
balanced through ssnlllur, but was
constantly under the Influence of
alcohol.
Back at Work After Brief Vaca
tion, Inventor Is Still "Human
Dynamo” at Sixty-six.
WEST ORANGE. N. J., Sept IX
I Thomas Alva Edison, the "Wizard
Menlo Bark," whose life has been one
invention after another, is buck in
his wonderful laboratories here to
day plunged Into nineteen hours of
work a day, after a fortnight’* va
cation in New England.
That Mr. Edison should take a va
cation at all is regarded an unusual,
for th*- “human dynamo," as he I* oft
en < alled, is a tireless worker at the
age of 66. Fully recovered from a
slight cold, Mr. Edison has been en
joying himself at Monbegan, Maine,
then at the summer home of his
wealthy friend. Richard Colgate, th-*
soap manufacturer, at Lake Buna pee,
N H.
Mr Edison looks to-day the man he
If la heavy thatch of white gives
Thomas Alva Edison, as he appears in his marvelous labo
ratory iii West Orange, N. J., in which he labors 19 hours a day.
TO RUSH CtS[
‘I Would Do Anything for
Harry if He Asks Me To, ’
Declares Evelyn Thaw
Grows Impatient in Fight on Soil
of United States to Prove
Conspiracy Charge.
Continued from Page
versal in their admiration of him as
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 ha3 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 .< 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, itg lobby
being crowded with men for Thaw
and against Thaw.
him j distinguished appearance at u
distance. He is about 5 feet 7 Inches
tall and Is thick-act enough to weigh
about 175 pounds.
The traveling public noticed him at
Monhegan, Maine, in Dowell, where he
and Mrs. Edison stayed overnight. :o
break their long automobile trip, and
NEW YORK, Sept. 1 a.—‘There are
many ways In which I could help Har
ry, Just as I havs done before. Some
day he will realize that and come to
me asking for help.”
The above statement was made to
day by Evelyn Nsbit 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 1 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, Hairy realizes that. But I
will never give any assistance to Har
ry until he sends for me as his wife.’
Depends 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. "I
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
Nesbit Thaw's has been."
Wishes to Win Success.
Asked why she refused to appear
in a vaudeville act billed aa Evelyn
Thaw, she answered:
"It was not because the name Thaw
is distasteful to me, but because 1
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
wMth 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
with him to Europe.
Pair of Men Routed When Young
Matron Resents Their Ap
proach With Blows.
Arctic Has No Terror
For College Girls
University of California Graduates
Sail to Spend Year Teaching
In Alaska.
BERKELEY, CAD., Sept. 18— 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 Mias 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 ■orority 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 Mind*.
at Duke Sunapee, where the SMI sons
wound up their New England stay
Unusually Vigorous.
Those who failed to recognize tha
Inventor saw in him an unusually
vigorous man for his years.
If bis hat was off, one noted in
stantly the wide, lofty brow, the brow
of a thinker. Ah General Dew Wal
lace said of Simonides, the steward in
■ 'Ben Hur,” It 1r apparent that a man
with such a head must have a tre- j
mendous brain from cubic capacity, if
nothing else.
Mr. Edison has bright eyes, gray-
blue gytg, that gata ever so keenly I
Rut they are not merely sharp eyes
They arc kindly ones and humorous. |
too; for "Wizard" Edison exemplifies
the old saying:
"A little nonsense
Is relished by the
now and then
best of men.”
“OW!” Corns?
Use “GETS-IT"
••GETS-IT," the New-Plan Corn Cure.
Makes Any Corn Shrivel. Vanish.
You'll say. “It does bent all how
quick GETS-IT’ got rid of thai corn.
It's almost niagi< !’’ "GETS-IT” gets
• vary corn, every time, a* sure as the
sun rises. It takes about two seconds
"Madam. If You’d Use ‘GETS-IT’ for
Corns. You Could Wear Any Tight
Shoe Easily!”
to apply it Corn pain* atop, you for-
get the ciiin, the corn shrivels up. and
like
no
'''* gone! Ever try anything
that** You never did. There's
more fussing with plasters that press
• »n th*» corn, no more salves that take
•ff the surrounding flesh, no more
i-andage^. No more knives, tiles or
ktora that make corns grow, and
a use danger of blood poison "GETS-
IT" :» equally harmless to healthy or
irritated flesh. It “gets" eevr> . urn,
wart, callous and bunion you’ve g.»t
GETS IT is sold at all ..ungg > -
nis a bottle, or sent on receipt
fof pi E Ijawrtnce t’ornpat •
Chics go.
Witness his little joke about "run
ning up to Colgate’s to take n bath”--
a sl\ illusion to the soap with which
host Is ever associated.
Brain Works Like Flash.
Dressed usually in a sack suit of
dark mixture. Mr. Edison is neat In
appearance. ,uiy idea that an inven
tor has to wear mussy clothes nnd
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 h man need be.
Spettk to Mr. Edison and right away
you realize that you have started
something.
He replies quickly.
His brain seems to work like a
flash.
His answer comes on the instant,
and is a full, comnK te one. Mr. Edi
son knows what he knows and when
lie makes a reply he*- cover® the
j ground.
He uses few gestures, but he keeps
his right hand cupped up against his
light 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 ear so main thousand times that
I be has actually pushed the lobe of the
| car out a little.
Cordial and Democratic.
He is as cordial as he 1s alert and
I as simple and democratic as he is
j cordial. Such is the best known liv
ing inventor in appearance.
Mr. Edison has pronounced ideas <>n
about every topic of current thought,
from “X-ray" gowns to mental stand
ards and from eugenics to “Caslm
Johnny." as he dubs Harry K. Thaw.
Spellers Stumped by
‘ Rhythm'' First Word
Chicago Club Members All Miss and
Judges Order Spelling Bee
Started Over.
CHICAGO. Sept 13.—The word
“rhythm” almost broke up a spelling
match at the outing of the Empire
State Club at Bautina.
It was the first word given to the
twenty-five contestants -all former
New Yorkers now living in Chicago—
ami not a person could spell it
The judges conferred and started
over again, after promising that
“rhythm" would not l»e given again.
Mrs Alexander Dennison finally won.
| after her closest competitors bad
stumbled over the word "judgment.”
About Hire*- hundred attended the
outing, which was in charge of J. C.
J Merrill, president of the club.
HERE ARE MR. EDISON’S VIEWS
ON SOME OF THE LIVE TOPICS
DANCES AND DRESS-Tho 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.
EUGENIOS—A splendid proposition. Affection will not
he subordinated. As physical and intellectual evolution takes
place alfeetion will be deeper and more wholesome.
THAW—It is about time we lost “Casino Johnny.’’ The
country is better 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 T 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 ,atins and Anglo-Saxons do not mix and never
will. Mexico is incapable of self-government. If 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.
‘Count the Flies,'Now
Slogan of Kansas
Novel Method of Making Merchants
Drive Out Pest Decided on
by Board.
TOPEKA. Sept. 18.—“Count the
flies!" instead of “Swat the fiy!” 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 Bottrd of Ohio han been
getting results that are entirely satis
factory by the application of h 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 9ir: While in your place of
business yesterday I counted fourteen
flies. Yours revpectfully',
"JOHN DOE."
That is the Ohio Idea. The Kansas
Board of Health will have a lot of
cards printed and will get the wom
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 says he bases
his thoughts about hintory on the
necessary reaction on the part of a
person acquiring historical knowl
edge. To make his word* 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 Lamson Says Colleges
Threaten to Destroy Foundations
of the Government.
HASTINGS, MICH., Sept 13.— !
Profesacr J, C. Damson, of Nevada,
lowo, one of the most prominent lead
ers of tha Seventh Day Adventists,
condemned the tendencies in modern
life which, he said, threaten to de- ;
stroy our constitutional government, j
Though the professor had for his !
topic "Apostates From Republican- j
ism," he failed to attack any par
ticular political party and did not say j
how he classed the Progressives.
The class of professors In Ameri
can universities and colleges and
others who art* 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.
LOGANSPORT, IND. Sept. 1*.—
Mrs. Jessie James stood on a corner
In the business district to-day con
versing with her father, John Gtnga-
man, and near by, gazing at her, were
grouped five mashers. Mrs. James
bade her father good-bye and started
away.
“Oh, you chicken! Busy?" cried
one of the group.
Wheeling around, Mrs. 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 against
his face and he staggered. Before he
could recover she struck again, a fair,
straight blow, which put him to the
sidewalk.
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 sidewalk and
against a mall 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 had risen
and was running away. The otheia
followed and boarded an outgoing
interurban car.
From the comer to the place where
i they took the car a trail of blood
marked the passing of the one against
| w hose head Mrs. James’ brick collld-
! ed.
I "Sometimes T carry a gun,” said
Mrs. James to the crowd that gath
ered about her. ~I am glad I dll
not have k to-day. Hereafter I will
carry it, and if I am addressed as t
was to-day Til kill the man w’ho does
It.”
Blackmailers Reap
Harvest of $200,000
Los Angeles Chief Says Swindlers
Work Under Qulse of Being
Private Detectives.
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.
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 18. -Decl&r-
j ing that Los Angeles is infested with
j blackmailers, operating aa private de-
j tectlves, Chief of Police Sebastian
! recommended to the County Grand
Jury and to the Police Commission
the passage of an ordinance licensing
all private detective institutions.
Sebastian said he based his recom
mendations on a record showing the
payment of upwards of $300,000 in
blackmail tribute.
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15he object oi putting our
ACCUSED SWINDLER IS
TRAILED FOR 5,000 MILES
CENTRALIA, ILL.. Sept. 13.—After
having traveled more than 5,000 miles
In an effort to run down h 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
t'arbondale. Duquoin and Staunton.
He uikes order* for a furniture house,
collecting on the orders, and he
goods are uot delivered.
WOMAN ELECTED ON
PROGRESSIVE COMMITTEE
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 13.—Mrs.
John D. Hooker, of San Francisco and
Los Angeles, has been unanimously
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
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
to $10,000,000 in bullion has been
transported in it. Black Bart, Joaquin
Murletta and Vasquez halted it In
their heyday or were defied by its
messengers. It still carries bullet
holes.
It was in the "Charlie McLean”
that Horace Greeley made his noted
ride to keep a lecturing engagement
at Place rville, when the name wasn’t
Placerville, but Hangtown. Sam
Clemens was its passenger many
times when, in his newspaper days,
he covered the Nevada Legislature at
Carson City.
UTAH TO BOOM STATE
IN ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN
SALT LAKE CITY. Sept. 13.—"1 am
for Utah.”
Within the next month this slogan
will be fixed in the minds of e%»
local Utah man. woman and child. i i
This is the aim of the publicity I
bureau of the Salt Duke 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 “l Am for
Utah” buttons. These will be sold * •
for 25 cents each. The finance com
mittee hopes to raise ar. initial fund ■
of $20,000 by this means.
in a carton, is to protect it from
flies, rodents, roaches and
all forms of insect life and dirt
Too know that in the Grocery Store each night
ra.ts hold revelry in the rice barrel.
To guard against this unhappy condition, merely
state
on your grocery order
10c and 25c
package s
Book of Recipes on Application to
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