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Jury Convicts Millen Divorcee,
but Brings in Recommenda
tion for Mercy.
AH LE LA ME HEE, 1
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•d a Inst kl*s upon her Up* and rose
to her feet, frazinr calmly at the Jury,
am ready,** she said.
Still Expects Liberty.
silence fell over the crowded court
room as the convicted woman was
led to the doors. The crowd outside,
*rnslnir the dramatic touch given to
the trial wns a* silent as the grave
while Mr*. Godbee entered an auto
mobile that was waiting. She was
followed to the Jail by a number of
her friends, many of them prominent
In Millen society. As the gates
clanged behind her her only words
were
'Til be freed In the long run.”
The daughter. Miss Sarah Godhe*,
remained In the courtroom for sev
eral momenta before she recovered
from the nervous terror Into which
the announcement of the verdict had
thrown her. She was then taken
from the courthouse by friends and
to her home.
The verdict was the climax of Jen
kins county's most dramatic murder
trial. A crowd of more than 1,000
persons gathered at the courthouse
at 8:30 o'clock, drawn by a rumor
that the Jury had reached a verdict
during the night. It was disclosed,
however, that the verdict was not ar
rived at until the twelve men re
turned to the courthouse, one man
having held out all night for a lesser
penalty.
The Jury entered the courtroom at
5:15 o'clock. The crowd had been
augmented until nearly 2,000 people
thronged the courthouse and the side
walk outside. Within one minute
after they took their seats, the fore
man of the Jury rose and announced
the verdict. Judge Hammond Imme
diately pronounced sentence.
The verdict had been expected late
last night, but the Jurors failed to
come to an agreement. At 10 o'clock
Judge H. C. Hammond told the ex
pectant crowd that filled every avail
able foot of space In the courthouse
that the jury was hung and that there
would be no verdict until later.
Big Crowd Gathers Early.
Disappointed, the hundreds of peo
ple left the courthouse and the
grounds and went to their homes.
This morning the Interest and anxiety
were exactly as keen. Early In the
morning crowds began to congregate
on the street and near the court
house. At the regular time for con
vening the little room was packet! full
again
Mrs. Godbee, seeming to feel little
of the weight of the accusation of
killing her divorced husband, Judge
Godbee, and his young wife, was
hopeful through all the time Hhe was
awaiting the verdict, Rhe talked
cheerfully with friends who came to
her side to speak to her.
”1 shall be acquitted,” she said con
fidently. "I shall be free before Sat
urday night, and I shall be In church
Sunday. The members of the Jury
must see that I was Justified In kill
ing Judge Godbee. He had perse
cuted mo and threatened me. I was
afraid when I saw him August 18
that ho was going to carry out his
threat to shoot me.
Makes 8elf-Defenss Plea.
"He called mo a vile name and
started toward me. In my terror and
desperation I simply pulled the re
volver which 1 carried for my pro
tection and shot at him until the
bullets were exhausted. I did not
shoot at his young wife. I did not
realize that 1 had hit her until after
the horror of the thing had passed
sway a little. I did It all In *elf-
defense and desperation. Surely that
is not a crime.”
An eloquent plea In behalf of the
accused woman was made by Judge
F. A. Saffold yesterday afternoon.
Mrs. Godbee and score* of other
p-— sweat me courtroom broke In
to tears when her attorney dramat
ically implored the Jurors not to take
his client away from her daughter,
w ho would be left with no one to care
for her.
He pictured In bitter words the al
leged conduct of Judge Godbee to
ward hi* former wife. He related in-
itances of persecution, of threats and
of vilification. He asked if there
were any woman who would not ha vs
been goaded to desperation by such
persistent humiliation and who would
not have been in fear of her life in
view of the constant threats that
were made against her.
Brands Judge as Greedy.
Saffold represented Judge Godbee
as greedy and heartless, as a man
who would stop at nothing for the
s.ake of obtaining money and luxuries
*or himself.
He pictured Mrs. Godbee as a lov
ing wife who had borne the judge’s
persecutions for years and had given
him possession of piece after piece
of property in the hopes of keeping
his love and making him independent
The attorney declared that she went
pack to him time after time after her
husband had driven her from home
by his 111-treatment, and that, finally,
when he had obtained all her money,
he cast her off and married a young
er woman.
“Godbee aspired to greed and
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way bill, the company from its
agency In Savannah sent a long dis
patch to the officers at New York.
Jersey City and Washington. The
lightning Is expected to strike at one
of these three places.
It is believed that the detectives
know exactly the man who took the
money, but are waiting for his arrest
before disclosing his identity.
Barry Believes Robbery
Occurred in Jersey City.
Robert E. Barry, United States
Postoffice Inspector, one of the best-
known criminologists and efficient
detectives In the Government ser
vice, declared Saturday morning that
It was his opinion that the $72,000
Southern Express robbery occurred in
Jersey City.
“Of course,” said Mr. Barry, “the
money may have been stolen in tran
sit, but I rather think that such Is
not the case. The yeggs who pulled
off the job without a doubt are pro
fessionals and they evidently planned
the crime some days ahead, waiting
for the safe to be shipped.
"The thieves knew that the money
would not be missed until the safe
was opened by the parties to whom
it was consigned. They figured that
Savannah was a considerable dis
tance from New York and that they
would have plenty of time to make
their get-away.
"Southern Express Company detec
tives are most efficient and know just
what agents handled the safe, there
fore by a process of elimination and
deduction they can readily place un
der suspicion the guilty man and if
the man or men have not made a
clean get-away I am more *than con
fident that they will be apprehended
in a comparatively short time.”
370,000 Rail Men to
Seek Wage Increase
MILWAUKEE, Sept. 14—Officers
of four labor unions, representing
370,000 railroad employees, will meet
here about October 15 to plan a gen
eral move for higher wages and Im
proved working conditions. The
unions are the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers, Brotherhood of Lo
comotive Firemen, Brotherhood of
Railway Trainmen and the Order of
Hallway Conductors.
The meeting here will be prelimi
nary to independent action by each
organization.
Big Damage Verdict
Returned in Chester
CHESTER, S. C, Sept. 14.—Papers
have been served on the Lancaster
and Chester Railway In a suit for
damages tf-ought by the Savannah
National Bank for $11,600, growing
out of a shipment of cotton linters.
The biggest award of damages ever
made by a jury in the Lenoir section
of the Carolina# was that in the case
of E. C. Greeb against the Wautauga
and Yadkin River Railroad, tried at
Boone this wofck. A verdict for $10,-
000 was given Green.
Negro Saved From
Kentucky Lynchers
LEXINGTON. Sept. 14.—A mob
formed to-day at Nlcholasvllle, Kv.,
to lynch Joseph Lewis, the alleged
assailant of a prominent white wom
an late yesterday.
Lewis was brought to jail here for
safe keeping. He denies his guilt.
27 DIVORCES IN 3 DAYS.
CHARLESTON, MISS., Sept. 14.—
Chancellor M. E. Denton granted 27
divorce* In three days’ session of
court Six white and 21 negro cou
ples were liberated from matrimonial
bondage.
money; Mrs. Godbee to love and hap
piness. The two ambitions were dis
astrously Incompatible." he said.
Bullet Holes Tell Tale.
"It was Just t question of the two
Inimical natures that caused that af
fair at the postofttee. The woman
who w r as persecuted and oppressed
slew the man who persecuted and
oppressed her. And the bullet holes
in his body tell the tale. They show
he was shot in advancing upon her."
Solicitor General Moore's closing
address was a bitter attack upon the
laxity of the courts In homicide cas^s
where a woman Is the defendant. He
demanded that Mrs. Godbee be mad-
to pay the penalty ns though she were
a man. He said that the law made no
d'stinotion and Jhat none should ex
ist. He described the killing as n
brutal and cold-blooded murder, and
said tha: the punishment should be
the same for a woman as for a man.
Bakesliop Spooners'
Paradise, Employee
Tells Police Judge
A rendezvous of kissers has been
found that seems to be Hafe from the
spying eyes of the “vice squad!”
Victor Zakas, a baker of No. 14
Mills street, told Judge Broyles Sat
urday morning that this spooners’
paradise is at No. 251 Peachtree
street, where Andrew Zakas has a
bakeshop. Zakas said the sweet
hearts of the bakers, afraid to speak
to their lovers on the streets, come
to the bakeshop and “do so much
hugging and kissing the bakers
haven’t time to do much work."
The story of the kisses came out
during the trial of Zakas’ wife, Mrs.
Janie Zakas, who berated her hus
band in front of the bakery Friday
night because she thought he was
doing some of the kissing. Judge
Broyles fined her $15.75.
‘Wriggles' Imperil
U. S., Says Princess
NEW YORK, Sept. 14.—“The tur
key trot, the tango and the bunny
hug constitute a great national men
ace ip the United State.",” de
clared Princess Lowenstein-Wortheln,
daughter of the fourth Eurl of Mex-
borough, a* she sailed to-day for
home.
“The so-called dances are de
structive of young girls’ morals,"
continued the princess.
The princess predicted that Con
gress would soon turn from such tri
vial things as the tariff to American
“wriggles.”
Edison Told Never to
Take Vacation Again
WEST ORANGE, N. J.. Sept. 14 —
Thomas A. Edison, who Is ill at his
home here, has been ordered by his
physician never to take another vaca
tion. He has been ordered to remain
away from his laboratory two weeks
to recuperate from his recent fort
night in New England.
It w’as Mr. Edison's first vacation in
eight years, and according to the doc
tor, the aged inventor is more fa
tigued from his holiday* than he ever
was from working twenty hour* a
day.
Carolina Convict
Scandal Unearthed
‘Don't Gamble,’ Says
King of Monte Carlo
CHICAGO. Sept. 14.—Prince Albert
i I, ruler of the principality of Mon-
j aco, the actual "King of Monte Car
lo,” was in Chicago to-day. The
prince of the tiny “Kingdom of
Chance” is on his w r ay to Cody. Wyo.,
where he wdll meet Colonel William
F. Cody for a month’s hunting in the
Big Horn Basin and the American
Rockies.
"Americans had better keep their
money in their pockets and not risk
It on games of chance,” he said.
RALEIGH N. C., Sept. 14.—As the
result of disclosures at a Wake
County convict camp, S. L. Lee, camp
supervisor, was indicted to-day for
falling to provide proper quarters for
his men and for cruelty to animals.
W. L, Wiggs, general road supervisor,
was Indicted in connection with im
proper quarters.
J. M. Nipper and Jim Johnson,
guards, were placed on trial Thurs
day for assaulting convicts. The
Grand Jury aiso took cognizance of
the fact that the county allows
prisoners only 20 cents a day In work
ing out costs, and asked the County
Commissioners to make a change.
'Toximeter' Gauges
Stage of Intoxication
CHICAGO, Sept. 14.—Now comes
science with the only guaranteed
method of determining whether a man
is drunk. It is the “toximeter.”
It is an invention of a German, Dr.
Schweisheimer. With the new motor
a scientist can tell not only whether
one is drunk, but the degree of in
toxication. The secret of the "toxi
meter" can he found in Di'. Schwei-
sheimer’s well-known work entitled
"Der Alkeholgehalt des Blutes Unter
Verschiedenen Bedingungen."
Vesper Services to
BeHeld atY.W.C. A,
Special vesper service* will be held
at 5 o’lcock Sunday afternoon at the
new’ headquarters of the Atlanta
Young Women’s Christian Associa
tion. No. 1G East Ellis street. The
Rev. A. M. Hughlett will make a short
talk, and Miss Furlow Anderson, a
graduate of the New York Conserva
tory of Music, will sing.
Vesper services will be held at the
headquarters every Sunday afternoon.
Mule, Like Railway,
Is Common Carrier
LOUISVILLE, Sept. 14.—That a
mule is a “common carrier” in the
same sense as the greatest railroad
was the decision of the Franklin Cir
cuit Court in the suit gf A. C. Byars
against a casualty company.
Byars held an accident policy in
suring him while riding on a “com
mon carrier.” He was riding a mule
over a Kentucky mountain road
where mules are the regular medium
of transportation, when he was
thrown off and Injured. He sued for
$153.
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