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CIRCULATION SUNDAY AMERICAN OVER 100,000 The Atlanta Georgian home EDITION Read for Profit'^-GEORGIAN WANT ADS---(Jsc for Results VOL. XII. NO. 87. ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1918. Copyright, 1906, r> rt]?\Tfrc TAT NO By The Georgian Co. ** vJliN I o. MuRK SEEK TO PROVE GIRL SLAYER MANIAC +•+ 4•'••■J* 4-«+ +»4- •{•••!• *|* • *'* •»•••*• +•+ v«v •!•••!• • c- Courts Crowded; Big Cases Held Up FEARS HER DAUGHTER !l WAS LURED FROM CITY +•■«• 4-»4- 4-«4- 4-«4- 4*«* *»•!• +•+ *fr»* ■*■•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ V • *1* MAYOR SCORES COLLAPSE OF CREMATORY Essie Nix, who mother fears was lured from city. Councilman Ashley, After Inspec tion, Criticises Carrier System at Disposal Plant. Atlanta’s new crematory is practi cally out of operation and Monday the carts were turned to the old dumping grounds with their loads of garbage. This was the report made to Mayor Woodward by Councilman Claude Ashley Monday, following a visit by him to the crematory, and criticism of the plant’s collapse was widespread. In his talk with the Mayor, Mr. Ashley severely criticised the ar rangements by which the garbage is transported from the pit to the fur- ncscz, si:i£ TSSsred the suggestion that traveling cranes be suoatitvfsd ^sr the present system. “The system of handling the gar bage in use now keeps one spot in the pit clean. # but fails to properly remove the garbage along the sides of the pit.” he said. Double Strain on Motors. “A great many cables have been broken on the bucket? used, while the heavy strain burns out the motors rapidly. The system in use is similar to the trap-stick system, having a bucket on each end. The buckets are swung out. and at times are at a great angle, making a double strain on the motor? ” "They are three months behind on their promises, and the plant is prac tically at a standstill.” raid the May or, sarcastically. “Why, they said they would have one unit of the plant ready by June 1 and the entire plant completed by June 15. Here it is three months after the time promised for completion and to-day they are not even working the one unit prom ised for June 1. “Someone asked me the other day why we were raising so much of a row about the crematory. Well, J think when a thing costs a city $250,- 000 that we are eniitled to raise a row if the thing is not what it should be. Forfeit a Mere Bagetelle. If we can save the city $50,000 in the cost of this plant I think we will be doing well. And until this plant is ?n perfect working order we are go ing to continue to raise a row. “The contract called for the turning over of the plant to the city August 15 and a forfeit of *23 a day for each day's delay. A month has passed since the rinal date and while we have a forfeit of $23 a day chargen against the manufacturers the tou-.t um of it b it a drop In the bucket .•omnared to what we expert to save the citv on this plant.” Mayor Woodward some time age- appointed Frajik Lederle as the engi neer to represent the city in a test run of the plant. The plant has not yet been turned over to Lederle for tne 30-dav test. Taken to Hospital in Car That Struck Her Roxie Carmichael, a negress, was Injured Mohday morning when she was run down at Peachtree and Cain streets by an automobile driven by W. P Wash. No. 335 North Jacks ,n street, who was on his way to Union Station to catch a train for Athene where he is a student at the univer- lity Mr. Wash took the woman to Grady Hospital. Physicians state she is a o seriously injured. Mr. Wash reported the accident to the police. No case was made against him Copper Plant Given 3 Years to Harness Crop-Killing Fumes Governor Slaton Monday signed an ■ order extending the time in which the Tennessee Copper Company, of , Ducktown. may remedy the damag- I ing status of its plant, as provided ! in the Legislative act passed in Au- ; gust. Under the provisions of this order j the company has three years in which to adjust complaints made against it by North Georgia farmers, and to arrange for the future disposition of its sulphurous fumes that they will cause no damage to surrounding vegetation. In the meantime. however, the company must deposit with the State $16,500 annually for three years, to take care of such damages as may accrue in the meantime. LOSE ONLY Crackers' Star Shortstop Drafted by St. Louis Browns—Sought by Twelye Clubs. Blease Wanted as Witness Against U. S. by Publisher Wilmington, sept. 15.—Cole l. Blease, Governor of South Carolina, is wanted in Elizabeth City as a witness for the defendant in the case of the United States against the publisher of ‘Down Homer,’ a free thought maga zine. W. O. Saunders, who is to be tried October 14 on the charge of publishing. In violation of the Fed eral statute, matter tending to incite murder and arson. Saunders wrote and published an article in which he stated that “Cole Blease ought to bF shot,” and he hopes to prove by the Governor him self that he has not been murdered or incinerated as a result of anything he has written about him. U. S. Parole Board Takes Up 125 Cases The parole board of the Federal prison met Monday morning and v Ei be in session all week. wHh 125 cases to be passed on. Five are life-term cases. Warden Moyer said paroles probably will be recommended to At torney General McReynolds at Wash ington for the majority of the men. All the members of the board are present. They are Robert V. LaDow. of Washington, president of the board and superintendent of prisons and prisoners; Warden William H. Moy er, of the Atlata Federal prison; Dr. J. Calvin Weaver, and Parole Officer M. L. Covington, advisory member. Governor Ready for McNaughtonHearing Governor Slaton has completed his investigation and consideration of the McNaughton record, handed him by the Prison Commission, and is now ready to hear arguments for and against the pardon recommended. If the attorneys interested can agree, the hearing wdll be had within the present week, as the Governor in anxious to dispose of the matter finally. Atlanta Train Near Plunge Into River EUFAULA, Sept 15.—Just after the Atlanta train on the Central of Geor gia Railroad had crossed the bridge over the Chattahoochee River to-day the trucks of the tender jumped the track. Had the accident occurred a few feet farther back the train probably would have toppled 100 feet into the river. Divorce Suit Based On Photo of Woman Because, among other things, she found in her husband's pockets the picture of a scantily clad woman drinking a glass of beer. Mrs. Dell Foret filed petition tor divorce and alimony against L. C. Foret, a tailor, ip Judge Bell’s division of the Supe rior Court Jlonday. Attorney John Y. Smith will rep reseat thep laintiff in the suit. Rivingt~n Bisiand. the Crackers’ sensational shortstop, was drafted by the St. Louis Americans Monday aft ernoon at the draft meeting of the major league clubs in Cincinnati. Twelve big league club owners put in drafts for the "best infielder in *ne Southern League." but the BroVns outlucked the others when the draw ing was made. The following telegram was re ceived by jhe sporting editor of The Georgian this afternoon: Cincinnati, Ohio. Sept. 15. 1913. W. S. Farnsworth, Sporting Edi tor. Georgian, Atlanta, Ga.: We lose Bisiand. Twelve drafts in for him. St. Louis Americans 'fcete him BILLY SMITH. Welchonce Comes Back. Manager Smith is attending the ses sion in Cincinnati He had expected that Bisiand would be drafted, as he knew that he Yankees. Browns. Naps White Sox. Cubs and Cardinals had scouts here in Atlanta during the last six weeks of the Southern Beague season looking over the young short stop. The loss of Bisiand by draft means that Harry Welchonce will be with the Crackers next season Only one man can be drafted from a club. It looks as though every member of this year’s team will be back on the job with the exception of Bisiand and Agler. Agler was bought by Jersey City, but the New York Americans are to get him in the spring. Dent. Long, Conzelman. HollanJ, Thompson and Love have “been cov ered up.’’ There is a chance that Conzelman will make good with Pitts burg and that Dent may land a per manent berth with Washington. Bisiand Real Star. Still both are young, and Clark Grffith likely will send both back for another year of seasoning here. Bisiand was obtained by the Crack ers from the Pirates late last spring. He was an understudy of the great Hans Wagner for two seasons, and, of course, had no chance ot display his worth as long as the big Dutch man was in the game. He hit right around tiie .300 mark all season for the Crackers and cov ered more ground than any inflelder in the Southern league. Conductor Punched Him, Says Plaintiff .The $5,000 damage suit of J. C. Adamosn, a young contractor, against the Central of Georgia Railroad, foi alleged assault by a conductor, was tried Monday morning in Judge Ellis’ division of the Superior Court. Defendant claimed he was struck by a conductor's punch following a dispute over a ticket book with which he wished to pay his fare. Judge John A. Powell, representing the Central/ claimed the defendant was using an other's book. Austria Likeiy to Have Fair Exhibit Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. VIENNA. Sept. 15.—Although the Austrian Government has not yel re plied to the United States’ invitation to participate officially in the Pana ma Fair, there is a widespread move ment among the industrialists of Aus tria-Hungary in favor of sending v- hibits to San Francisco Many applications for space have been received already. ; Judge Russell to Head Appeals Court By Service Seniority Judge Richard B. Russell will be come Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals by right of senorlty of ser vice, and not by election, as has been the prevailing impression. Judge Russell would have been Chief Judge in any event, but under the rules of the court the oldest Judge in point of service becomes Chief Judge automatically, and there fore no election will be necessary in the case of Judge Russell He is the senior member of the court, after Judge Hill, the present Chief Judge, appointed to the new Atlanta Court In order to permit Judge Hill to complete the work he now has in hand before leaving the Appellate bench, the Court of Appeals will hear no arguments between now and Oc tober 13. It may be that Judge Hill will not leave the Appellate bench formally before that date. Americau Miner Is Cruelly Slain by Baudits in Mexico Woman Tries Suicide; Saved by Little Girl l SAVANNAH. Sept. 15. —Mrs S. E. I Johnson. No. 105 President street, Is in a critical condition at the Savan nah Hospital to-day as a result of taking carbolic acid in an attempt at suicide. A little girl in the house, hearing Mrs. Johnson crying, went to her room just as she raised the vial :o her lips. She knocked it from the woman’s hand before she had swal lowed a large quantity and summoned tne ambulance. Diary of Honeymoon Used to Win Decree ST. LOUIS, Sept. 15.— Three weeks after her marriage Mrs. Charles Huf- sehmidt began to keep a diary for a divorce suit which she anticipated bringing. She exhibited the record ? > show cruel treatment. THE WEATHER. Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia.—Rain Monday and Tuesday. SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 15 News of the murder of Morris I’. Root. American superintendent of the El Tigre mines aj. Tepic. Mexico, was brought here by the steamer Peru, which had almost 100 refugees aboard. The mining engineer was intercept ed by bandits on his way to join em ployees of the company preparing to defend the mine property He was cut to pieces. Root was 60 years old and had been in Mexico sixteen years. Max Lambert, another American engineer who arrived on the Peru, was left for dead by bandits who at tacked his home in the state of Tepic. Lambert’s wife and child escaped by crawling through a rear window and he remained to greet the bandits, whose approach was noticed when they were a mile away. When they departed Mrs. Lambert returned and got aid. Treats 395 Rabies Patients; All Saved PARIS, Sept. 16.—Professor Elio Metchnikoff. of the Pasteur Institute, considers the reported discovery of the microbe of hydrophobia by Dr. Hideyo Noguchi, of the Rockefeller Institute.of Medical Research, of New York, to b'r of great medicai impor tance. He' remarked to-day that not one death had occurred among the 395 person* treated at the institute in 1912. This Is the second time thlf record has been made in 2 7 years. Frank Case and New Bench Ap pointments Cause Congestion in Court—100 Await Trial. Solicitor General Dorsey is on a still hunt for a judge to conduct the large grist of cases which have piled up since the June term of court. The Frank trial caused all other court business to accumulate, and the re cent bench appointments still further have delayed the disposal of several scores of cases. More than one hundred prisoners are in the county jail awaiting trial. Some of them have been there much longer than is usual to hold them be- for trial. The Solicitor wishes to have ihern placed jod uml at the earliest possible moment and does not wish to wait until some time in October for Judge Ben H. Hill to take the new Atlanta circuit judgeship if he can avoid this delay. An effort is being made to have one of the Superior Court judges pre side. If this fails, it Is probable that a judge from an outside circuit will be brought in. Conley One To Be Tried. Jim Conley, self-confessed accessory after the fact in the murder of Mary Phagan, will be one of those placed on trial. Nothing of the spectacular interest that obtained at the Frank trial will be shown when the negro Is brought into cour It will be little more than a formality. Conley will plead guilty and will be sentenced. There will be no wi* nesses. Judge Roan will hear the argu ment for a new trial of Frank October 4, but all the subsequent litigation in behalf of the convicted man will be heard by' ano’hpr judge. The recent benefi appointments also may cause another delay in the set tlement of tiie celebrated Crawford case. Mrs. Mary Belle Crawford has been accused of poisoning her wealthy husband. Joshua Crawford. Solicitor Dorsey found himself disqualified to act as the prosecutor of Mrs. Craw ford. Frank A. Hooper and several others were named later to act in this capacity, but the same di squall flea - tion existed in each case. Charles S. Reid finally was selected to draw up the blank bill of indictment against the accused woman and conduct the prosecution. Defense Urges Haste. He was prepared to go ahead with the case until it became known that Governor Slaton had appointed him as tiie judge of the Stone Mountain Circuit, of which he now is prose cutor. This will make it necessary' to select still another attorney' to conduct the case against Mrs. Craw ford and may result in a delay of several weeks more. Burton Smith, one of her attorneys, said Monday that It was the desire of Mrs. Crawford's counsel to bring the accusations to an issue as soon as posible. He declared that if the mem bers of the Grand Jury regarded the evidence against her sufficient to warrant an indictment, her lawyers were anxious that this be done at once so that Mrs Crawford would have the opportunity to defend her self. Misdemeanor Docket Being Cleared Rapidly. Between 20 and 25 misdemeanor cases, including the case of Ike Jack- son, negro, who was sentenced for a year for stabbing a negro woman, were disposed of in Judge Calhoun's division of the City Court Monday morning. More than 200 cases, the heaviest docket in years, probably will he completed this week. Judge Calhoun’s division was called Monday following adjournment of the criminal branch of the Superior Court, presided over by Judg' Roan, who is holding court in the Slone Mountain Circuit. TO 56; DRIZZLE Chilly Rain and Fall Weather Bring Out Overcoats and Start Grate Fires. With the temperature in ihe fifties and a chilling, depressing rain spread ing a mantle of gloom over tlie city. Atlanta Monday shivered in real fall weather. Overcoats made their first appear ance on the streets and brought envy to the hearts of those not so well pre pared or not yet ready to admit that summer had gone. The Peachtree parade was a rather drab affair, lack ing the usual gay coloring. Tiie at tractive had been momentarily laid aside for the comfortable. Coal dealers said that the cool snap brought a lively awakening in their line, scores of housewives suddenly remembering that a cheery blaze at home would not be amiss. The temperature at noon was 56, w ith little prospect of a change for the better, and the weather bureau announced that there would be more rain.to-night and to-morrow. 0 Three Feet of Water In Mobile Streets. MOBILE, Sept. 15.— A total of 11.01 inches of rain has fallen in Mobile within the past two days, doing many thousands of dollars damage. Streets of the business district were flooded three feet. In many places water backed up into several stores. Asheville Dons Furs; Coal Dealers Rushed. ASHEVILLE. Sept. 15.—Overcoats and furs to-day took tiie place of straw hats and summer suits, because of the sudden drop In the tempera ture followed by a 24-hour wintry rain Every other person met on the streets wore an overcoat. The coal dealers of the city have been called upon to add extra equipment, so great was the demand for fuel. No crops will be damaged by the sudden drop. Heartbroken Mother Seeks Pretty Essie Nix, Sixteen Years Old, Missing Since Saturday. Weeping and fearful that her 16- year-old daughter, Essie, had met some terrible fate. Mrs. L. M Nix, of No. 626 Chestnut street, visited detective headquarters Monday morning and reported the circum stances of the girl’s strange disap pearance from home on Saturday. The heartbroken mother said the girl had left home shortly before noon as though going to her work at the main exchange of the Southern Rel| Telephone Company. Since then she neither had seen her nor heard anything from her The girl’s hours at the exchange were from noon until 9:30 at night. When midnight came Saturday Mrs. Nix began to worry. She made inquiries Sunday at the homes of relatives and aqualntances, but none of them had seen the missing girl. Her anxiety led her Monday to re port the disappearance to the police to whom she confided her fears that her daughter had been lured out of the city. The girl is a striking bru nette and is said to have had a num ber of admirers. The mother said that Essie had been acting peculiarly of late. Thurs day night she discovered the girl got off work at 6 o’clock in the evening, but did not get home until very lata She did not work at all Friday, al though her mother did not know this until she began the search Sunday. Mrs. Nix said that her daughter had a craze for the stage and many times had expressed a desire to take up this mode of earning a living. She thinks this desire may have led her i to turn away from home. The girl ran away seven months ago. 'but was j found a week later at the home of | her uncle. Rich Mail Is Victim Of Woman Assassin LEXINGTON, Sept. 13.—J. H. Birchfleld. aged 30. a prominent lum berman. was fatally shot by an un identified assassin, said to be a wom an, concealed in a house on Quick sand Creek. Breathhitt County. Rirrhfleld was brought to the hos pital here. RECITAL Priest Tells How He Slew Girl, Dismembered Body and Threw Pieces Into Hudson River, j NEW fORK, Sept. 15.—Hiwi, Schmidt. Hjared 32, who officia-ted sm a priest at St. Joseph's Catholiai Church, this city, is in Jail here tp-* day, the self-confessed slayer of beautiful Anna Aumuller, aged 22* Whose torso was found in the Hudson River, and whose murder wa* on* of the most shocking in the criminal history of New York City. Willie Schmidt sits calmly in hi4| cell, announcing in a matter of factj way that he is ready to pay the pen-' altv for his crime, the distinguished members of the Catholic clergy here*! piecing together Schmidt's rather dis connected story of his past, art mak ing efforts to lift the hidden paged| of Schmidt s early history In an effort to prove that not only is the man in sane. but that he was thrown into jail in Europe a* an Imposter and that he never was ordained as priest. Through as clever a bit of detective work as the police depaitment her® has ever experienced, suspicion final* I.v directed itself upon Schmidt. Tha officers could hardly credit their con clusions and were placed In a delicar# position as to how to approach the priest. Finely, howeverl. they went to the rectory after midnight Sunday, summoned the priest from his room where he was preparing to retire and got him down to the reception room. Photo Breaks Him Down. Hardly had the priest stepped inr« the room when Inspector Faurot, wav* ing the picture of the murdered girl before tiie priest's eyes, demanded; ' Where is that girl?” Schmidt gave one quick glace at the picture, staggered and almost fell.! Then he said: “I killed her; I killed her because I loved her. Then C drank her blood.” Schmidt wa» ordered to dress and accompany the officers to the station. He wanted to g<> alone to his roonV but the detectives insisted upon ae* rompanyltig !rim. Schmidt asked per* mission then to go to the bathroom* but he was searched first and a razor was found on his person. “What w'ere you going to do with that kill yourself'”’ Schmidt was asked. “Yes.” he answered calmly; “I mark® up my mind to kill myself If T ever was arrested. But I never thought 1 would be.” Schmidt after being taken to tha police station, made a confession that covered about 40 pages. He said that he met Anna Aumuller about tw# years before, when he was connected w ith the St. Boniface Church w her# Miss Auminler was employed as # servant girl. ”1 became infatuated with her,” de clared Schmidt. ”and decided to rent a fiat for her.” He iented a tiny place at No. 6§ Broadhurst avenue, paid a month 9 rent in advance, bought a few dollars* worth of furniture and established th# girl there. His Story of Slaying. Schmidt’s confession, in concrete form, follows: “1 met Anna Aumuller two year* ago at the parish house of St. Bonis face Church. She was employed as Nervaut there. I was attracted to he# by her beauty. I became infatuated \vi‘h her. I loved her. “I killed her because I loved her s<» much. She was so beautiful. 1 could not let her live without me. I made tip my mir.d that she and ff could not live together. I was a priesc and mur; remain with my church. S<» ! opened the ooor of the fiat. She was asleep in the room. I awakened her* and told her I had come to fulfill my tbr«*cr. Then l slew her with a knife. 'St. Elizabeth, of Hungary, my patron saint, had come to me on#