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The■ Atlanta Georgianievening'
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ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 191T
Copyright. 1908. O
By The Georgian Co. v-'xLJN X o.
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WEARING BOOSTER BUTTONS NOW
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RUNMIlltY GIRL
And Persuades Her to Leave
Montgomery and Return to
Atlanta Home.
jn*r<rh«lm* Fr»«nan, ths pretty
<!an*t>ter of Mr. and Mrs.
^At Hyman, of Attanta. Is bark at
ther parent*, after flg-ur-
r that, had them ntar-
tyjW^TMteted OTtth anxiety.
351* youns gtrl disappeared from
tansa SatrrrAay. Her father and
fgoQuH Instituted an Immediate
jggsch. {They thought she might havo
fcaoMBpaoiled a friend from Montgom-
frf fcaclt to the Alabama city. They
*Jr*4 th» Montgomery police. De-
locrtlves Payne and Cloud visited the
heme of the young woman, who had
Just returned from Atlanta, and con-
f rmed the suspicions of Mr. and Mrs.
yeoman by discovering little Miss
Freeman comfortably esconced there
and not at all willing to return home.
Mr. Freeman was notified and ar
rived at Montgomery at 10:50 Sun
day. His daughter meanwhile was
taken to the police station. She met
him with a storm of protestations
against coming back to Atlanta, scold
ing him severely for following her to
Montgomery.
The father argued and remon
strated with her and finally persuad
ed her that the strictness with which
ane was treated by her mother at
home was in reality for her own good
A reconciliation was effected and
and daughter left Ihe station
They returnon 10 Atlanta
onini; train over the Atlanta
-.Vest Point Railroad.
L UTS m
FOR SAFE
LOOTER
Detectives Work on Theory That
Guilty Man Will Squander
$72,000 Express Booty.
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With the advent of the new booster
buttons bearing: the picture of one of
Atlanta's prettiest society girls,
“boosting for Atlanta” promises to
become as great a fad as the tango,
the turkey trot and the hundred and
one other things with which society
whiles away its time.
Xlundreds of Atlanta society per
sons have taken to wearing the but
tons, and they have developed into
enthusiastic boosters for the Gate
City.
Miss Frances Williams, of No. 35
West North avenue, one of Atlanta's
prettiest girls, was one of the first
to take up the new' fad. She obtained
a button shortly after they were re
ceived at The Georgian office and has
worn it proudly and enthusiastically
ever since.
She has enlisted many of her
friends in the cause of "500.000 people
for Atlanta.” and as a result of her
efforts the booster button adorning
the girls of Atlanta nas become one
of tne common spectacles of Peach
tree street.
Almost as many girls as men ar«*
wearing the/11 now. and they are as
enthusiastic as their brothers and
sweethearts over the new’ movement.
Thousands of the buttons have
been given but to firms and business
men. but there are still plenty left
for distribution. Organisations, firms
and others who desire to get some of
the buttons and aid in the good w'ork
of boosting Atlanta can have them
b\ waiting t«» The Georgian or
lloarst s Sunday American and tell-
i ing how nun.' they need. Thej will
I be sent at once to any address.
Qli HOBSON AIDES
Miss Julia Lathrop and Four Other
United States Employees Called
From Stump in Alabama.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 15.—rresi-
dent. Wilson has wielded the "big
stick” on Miss .Julia Lathrop. head
of the children’s bureau of the De
partment of Labor, and four employ
ees of the Department of Commerce,
who are alleged to have been stump
ing Alabama in the interest of Repre
sentative Richmond Pearson Hobson,
candidate for Senator.
All have been recalled from that
Slate as a result of protests made
by friends of Representative Clayton,
recently appointed by Governor
O’Neal of Alabama to succeed the late
Senator Johnston.
It is understood that the protests
charged that these Government em
ployes had violated the executive
order against “pernicious political ac
tivity.” If the charges are substan
tiated they undoubtedly will be rep
rimanded by the President.
Representative llobson is cam
paigning on a personal platform of
woman suffrage and total prohibi
tion and is an advocate also of anti
child labor legislation, which has the
approval of Miss Lathrop.
The four employees of the Depart
ment of Commerce were detailed by
Secretary Red field to deliver com
mercial lectures. It is said they
have devn*ed most of their time to
commendation of Representative
llobson s Wfork and career.
Detective Harry Scott. Atlanta
agent of the Pinkertons, said Mon
day that the hunt for the daring
robber who looted the Southern or the j
Adams Express Company of $72.00b j
in transit from New York to Savan
nah and South Georgia banks had !
narrowed dow'n to two or three ex
press employees, who were being kept j
under special surveillance. He an
ticipated an arrest during the day.
The centering of suspicion on par
ticular employees has not caused the
detectives to relax their vigilance.
On the contrary, the closest sort of a
watch is being kept on every em
ployee of both companies who by the
most remote possibility might have
been connected w’ith the bold theft.
The instant one of these men
emerges nto the “white lights" and
begins spending money freely he will
be arrested as the man who stole the
$72,000, according to Special Agen!
Weaver, of the Southern Express,
who returned to Savannah Monday
from a trip to Florence.
"We expect to make an arrest anv
time now,” said Weaver. “Every man
who could have possibly been con
nected with the robbery is under sur
veillance. Every other man is elimi
nated. It rests wMth two or three.
“We are just waiting for him to
show up. and then we will get him
He can’t hold out much longer. There
Is either a woman back of it or tie
lure of the white lights. It is always
that way. He will remain under cov?r
for a little while, but he will soon
show his hand. It is human nature
for a man with that much money to
put some of it into circulation, par
ticularly with the kind of man wno
would come by it in that way.”
At every point along the l ne to-day
special agents are either riding v
lounging around boarding houses an 1
little depot hotels where the messen
gers hang out. Sleepy-eyed agents as
they come in from their runs are
taken to the office of General Man
ager Hockadav and closely interr •-
gated The search ba« not
cju’Lheti G/i< oi:, aitiio ^h thw princi
pal activity is at the New York end
of the line
The remote possibility, as the offi
cials term it, of an> messenger having
secured the money, at first over
looked, Is being thoroughly gone n <.
Could anyone have duplicate seals to
fasten the wire into the little lead pel
lets, the combination to the safe made
into the express car, a duplicate of
the key kept by the agent at the des
tination. and a duplicate of the key
that unlocks the second lid to the
trunk, this key beine kept under the
first lid in a sealed envelope, the rob
bery might have been made in tran
sit. The officials regard this as high
ly Improbable, but they are investi
gating such a possibility fully.
Rockefeller's Auto
Party Put Off Public
Square of Village
CLEVELAND. OHIO. Sept 15 —
I John D. Rockefeller and a party of
j five were put off the public square in
; Redford. where they went to attend
the Bedford “home-coming celebra
tion.
The oil magnate and his party were
driven in a big red automobile to *he
main street curb on the public square,
but a constable quickly ordered them
away, as vehicles are not allowed :«
stand in the square.
The car was driven into a side
street. Rockefeller shook hands with
Fred B. Senter, president of the
Franklin Oil Company, and then the
machine was driven away. Rockefel
ler declining, with a shake of the
head. Mayor W. B. Yost s invitation to
remain.
Treats 395 Rabies
Patients; All Saved
PARIS. Sept. 15.—Professor Elie
Metchnikoff. of the Pasteur Institute, j
considers the reported discovery of ;
the microbe of hydrophobia by Dr
Hideyo Noguchi, of ihe Rockefeller
Institute of Medical Research, of New
York, to be of great medical impor
tance.
He remarked to-day that not one
death had occurred among the 395
persona treated at the institute in
1912. This is the second time this
record has been made in 27 years
BOLD RAID
Boyd Perry Drives Motor Robber
From Garage—Believed Mem
ber of Daring Band.
Woman Tries Suicide:
Saved by Little Girl
SAVANNAH. Sept. 15.—Mrs. S. E.
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 ihe 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
the ambulance.
Poetess Defends
Girls Who Smoke
The operations of the gang of au
tomobile thieves that has be*»n In
festing Atlanta for the past two weeks
were checked early Monday morning
when Boyd Perry, No. 589 N. Boule
vard, general agent of the National
Surety Company, opened fire with a
revolver on a burglar w ho was try
ing to run hlR automobile out of the
garage. The bullet missed the in
truder. and put a hole in the gasoline
tank of the automobile, but it did the
work.
The attempt made to steal Mr. Per
ry's car was one of the boldest the
gang has made. Mr. Perry was
awakened shortly after midnight by a
noise in his garage, and looking out
pf a window’ saw a man trying to
force open the door. Failing in that,
the burglar went to a window at the
side of the garage, raised the sash
and climbed in.
Mr. Perry secured his revolver and
went outside. As he approached tho
garage he heard th % 1 nirglar trying
to open the door from the inside. Mr.
Perry fired a shot through the door
of the garage, and then opened the
door and rushed In. As he entered
the man scrambled through the win
dow and escaped.
Call Officers Anderson and Watson
made an investigation, but failed to
find any trace of the burglar. The
police think the man is a member of
the gang that has been stealing auto
mobiles from garages and from in
front of office buildings for several
weeks.
CAMBRIDGE. MASS, Sept. 15. -
| Miss Amy Lowell poetess *.nd sister
of Harvard's presid*. nt. has rushed to
I the defense of "my Lady Nicotine,”
and in an interview to-day warmly
defended cigarette smoking by girl«.
"1 wish to deny the recent report
| that I smoked cigars" said Miss
(Lowell to-day. "Cigarette smoking,
I’nowevar is differ-, n; '('her' is nj
(reason why a woman should not
j smoke cigarettes if she so desires."
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Austria Likeiy to
Have Fair Exhibit
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
j VIENNA, Sept 15.—Although the
j Austrian Government has not yet re-
j piled to the United States’ Invitation
1 to participate officially in the Pa-
j ma Fair, there is a widespread'move
ment among the industrialists of Aus
tria-Hungary in favor of sending in
hibits 10 San Francisco.
Many applications for space have
been received already.
Taken to Hospital in
Car That Struck Her
Roxie Carmichael, a negress. was
injured Monday morning when she
was run down at Peachtree and Can
streets by an automobile driven by W.
P. Wash. No. 335 North Jacksou
street. w r ho was on his way to Union
Station to catch a tra ! n for Athene
where he is a student at the unlver-
Mr. Wash took the woman to Grady
Hospital. Physicians state she is ar
seriously injured.
Mr. Wash reported the accident to
the police. No case was made u„Jinst
him
Dairy Agent Protests
Slaughter of Calves
if the Southeast is to become the
great cattle-growing section tt should,
in view of its natural advantages,
farmers must quit selling their fe
male and immature stock, declares
I)r. C. M Morgan, dairy agent of the
Southern Railway He also sounds t
warning against » continuation <f
the wholesale deportation of cattle
from the South.
"Farmers should keep their heifers
and build up the quality of their
stock by the use of pure bred bulls of
dairy or beef type as desired.” nays
Dr. Morgan. "This im the only way to
increase the number or the quality of
cattle in the Southeast. The scarcity
of cattle is world-wide, and it will
never he possible to secure enough
pure L cd cattle to develop the indus
try in the Southeast.”
Rich Man Is Victim
Of Woman Assassin
Bride Here for Lipton
If He Wins Race?
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON. Sept. 15. —At a banquet
in honor of the competitors In the
motor boat races Sir Thomas Dewa«
made an announcement which was
grated with much cheering.
He declared he had reason to be
lieve that if Sir Thomas Lipton
brought back the America Gup he
would also bring back an American
bride.
LEXINGTON. Sept. 13. J. H.
Birchfleid. 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-
►and (’teek. Breathhitt t’ounty.
Birchfleid was brought to the hos
pital here.
Diary of Honeymoon
Used to Win Decree
ST. LOUIS. Sept. 15.—Three weeks
after her marriage Mrs. Charles Huf-
schmidt began to keep a diary for a
divorce suit which she anticipated
bringing
She exhibited ihe record L> show
cruel treatment.
Dr. Hall Delights
Auditorium Audience
Atlanta music lovers heard one of
the best programs of the year at the
Auditorium Sunday afternoon wnen
Frederick Hal!, of Haddon Heights, N.
J., gave an organ recital, one of the
series under the auspices of the At
lanta Music Festival Association in
its quest for a successor to Dr. Percy
J. Starnes
Two of his own compositions were
played, “Rouen Reminiscence” and
“The Gettysburg Reunion,'' and both
were beautiful and magnificently ren
dered. One of the largest audiences
of the year heard Mr. Hall,
than ever before.
The figures are based on compari
sons of union wage scale agreements,
trade union reports and working com
pacts in central cities throughout the
United States from 1907 to 1912.
The bakers fared best ;their wages
were increased 22 per cent in the
six years, while their working day
was shortened nearly one fifth. Stone
cutters and newspaper compositor.'
are the lowest In the scale In the
matter of reduced hours.
Tries to Kill Entire
Family; Three Dead
MEMPHIS. Sept. 15. Kd Baxter, a
laborer, separated from his wife, Jes
sie Baxter, went to her father's home
early this morning and after being
ref lined to see her killed ilenry Smith,
the father-in-law; Mrs. Edna Smith,
mother-in-law, and'Oscar Smith, the
brother-in-law.
Baxter used a gun. lie escaped.
His wife was not Injured.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia—Rain Monday and
Tuesday
New Milk Record
For Jersey Cows
HOUGHTON. MICH.. Sept. 15.—A
new world's milk record for Jersey
cow » has been recorded by Eminent!
Bess, owned by the Roy Cross Farm,
of Houghton County. Michigan. Her
yearly record under the supervision of
the Michigan Agricultural College,
shows a production of 18.783 pound*
of milk, testing 1,132 pounds 9 ounces
of butter.
The former Jersey record, held by
Jacobs Irene, was 17.258 pounds of
milk. The new record exceeds also
the Guernsey breed record, held by
Spotswood Daisy Pearl, by 179 pounds
of milk.
Tift College Expects
Record Attendance
FORSYTH, Sept. 15.—Thia weak
Forsyth again will be alive with col
lege girls. On Tuesday the Bessie
Tift girls will arrive; on Wednesday
they matriculate for the session, and
on Thursday ^opening exercises will
be held in the college auditorium. Tne
principal addresses will be delivered
by the Rev. H. H. Shell, of Douglas,
and Dr. E. C. Dargan, of Macon.
The demand for reservations in the
college dormitories has been greater
than in any former year.
Conductor Is Held
For $16,000 Robbery
GREENVILLE, S. C., Sept. 15.—
J. B. Tipton, a Southern Railway
conductor, who had been held on a
charge of alleged complicity in the
$16,000 robbery at Parr Shoals, on
September 5, was taken to Columbia
last night by an officer of the Co
lumbia police department.
Tipton stoutly denies all knowledge
of the hold-up. He was arrested by
Burns detectives from Atlanta.
Another Big Slide
Goes Into Culebra
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
PANAMA, Sept. 15.—Another slide
on the east hank of Culebra cut near
Gold Hill cast 200 cubic yards of roc*
and earth into the canal bed.
It is not believed that this slide will
delay the flooding of the cut in Oc
tober. but it i! expected that other
slides may follow, . s several milllan
cubic yards of earth are in motlo'l
on Gold Hill.
Schumann-Heink's
Son Weds Waitress
PATERSON. Sept 15.—Walter
Schumann-Heink, son of the famous
opera contralto, was married in Chi
cago July 25 to Mim Daisy Marcus,
until recently a waitress in the res
taurant kept by her father. William
Marcus, in this city. The news of the
marriage did not become public until
to-day
Young Sohumann-Heink is an ac
countant.
Priest Tells How He Slew Girl,
Dismembered Body and Threw
Pieces Into Hudson River,
NEW YORK. Sept. 15.—Hans
Schmidt, aged 32, who officiated aa
a pHest at St. Joseph's Catholio
Church, tills city. Is in Jail here to
day, the self-confessed slayer of
beautiful Anna A uni tiller, aged 22,
w hose torso was found In the Hudson
River, and whose murder was one
of the most shocking In the criminal
history of New York City.
While Schmidt sits calmly In his
cell, announcing in a matter of fact
way that he Is ready to pay the pen
alty for his crime, the distinguished
members of the Catholic clergy here,
piecing together Schmidt’s rather dis
connected story of his past, are mak
ing efforts to lift the hidden pages
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 as an imposter and
that he never was ordained as a
priest.
Through as clever a bit of det*ctiv«
work as the police department here
has ever experienced, suspicion final
ly directed itself upon Schmidt. Tha
officers could hardly credit their con
clusions and were placed in a delicate
position as to how to approach the
priest. Finaly, however!, 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 int<i
the room when Inspector Faurot. wav
ing the picture of the murdered girl
before the priest’s eyes, demanded:
"Vherr is that gir!'’”
Schmidt gave one quick, giace at
the picture, staggered and almost fell.
Then he said: "I killed her; I killed
her because I loved her. Then I
drank her blood.”
Schmidt was ordered to dress and
accompany the officers to the s»ation.
He wanted to go alone to his room,
but the detectives insisted upon ac-
companying him. Schmidt asked per
mission then to go to the bathroom,
but he was searched first and a razor
was found on his person.
“What were you going to do with
that kill yourself?” Schmidt was
asked.
“Yes," he answered calmly; “I made
up my mind to kill myself if I ever
was arrested. But I never thought I
would be.”
Schmidt after being taken to the
police station, made a confession that
covered about 40 pages. He said that
he met Anna Aumuller about two
years before, when he was connected
with the St. Boniface Church where
Miss Aumuiler was employed as a
servant girl.
"I became infatuated with her.” de
clared Schmidt, “and decided to rent
a fiat for her.”
lie rented a tiny place at No. <18
Broadhurst avenue, pal’d a months
rent m advance, bought a few dollars'
worth of furniture and established the
girl there.
Hi* Story of Slaying.
Schmidt’s confession, in concrete
form, follows:
"I .net Anna Aumuller two years
ago at the parish house of St. Boni
face Church. She was employed a« a
vervain there. I was attracted to her
by her beauty, r became infatuated
with her p loved h*r.
“I kllifeti her been OKI I lov ed •*<»