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Senator Broyles, Dying, Kills Foe
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Mississippi State Senator and
Tennessee Lumberman Battle
to Death With Ax and Gun.
Dispatches received In Atlanta
Tuesday told of the death of Dr. H.
F. Broyles, a State Senator of Mis
sissippi and cousin of Recorder Nash
R. Broyles, of Atlanta, in a duel be
tween the Senator and E. F. Ken
dricks. a wealthy timberman of Sel
mer. Tenn., on the top of a lake dam
fit the Greenwood Springs summer re
tort near/ Aberdeen, Miss., Tuesday
morning.
Dr. Broyles was well known In At
lanta, having been in this city ten
days ago. accompanied by two police
officers of his State, to take back
A. D. Oliver, a swindler, who had been
released from jail after serving a
three-year sentence. Dr. Broyles wis
one of the victims of Oliver’s alleged
crooked operations in Mississippi and.
had brought requisition papers to take
the prisoner back to his State for
trial.
Through Recorder BroyUs the Sen
ator had been introduced to Governor
Slaton and secured the Governor's
signature to the requisition papers.
He returned to Mississippi just last
Wednesday.
Broyles died with a bullet in his
heart and Hendricks’ skull was cleft
almost by the keen edge of an ax
wielded by the Senator as the revol
ver of his foe discharged.
Bo quickly was the double tragedy
enacted, that a •score of persons on
the hotel veranda, who had seen the
start of the difficulty and were run
ning to separate the men. gained only
half the distance before they were
paralyzed with horror as the flash of
the revolver and the fall of the
death-dealing ax brought the two
men down together to the stone floor
ing lifeless.
Follows Business Quarrel.
The bodies rolled off the dam and
fell a distance of 20 1 feet into the
gully below, where they were picked
Up.
The fight to death brought to an
©nd a quarrel of a year’s standing
between Broyles and Hendricks
which found its oigin in the value
of some timber holdings which the
former had sold to the latter and his
Bon.
By chance the two men came to
gether at the Greenwood Springs Ho
tel, which was owned by the Senator.
The old quarrel was renewed and a
clash was averted between them in
the hotel lobby last night.
Slaying Stirs Whole State.
This morning the men came to
gether again, on top of the dam.
Whether by appointment, is not
knowm, but early risers at the hotel
fiaw them there and gave the alarm.
Several persons shouted to the dis
putants and started running toward
them.
As they did so, Senator Broyles
was seen to stoop over and pick up
an ax lying on the dam. At the same
time Hendricks drew a revolver. As
Hendricks’ revolver flashed. Broyles
burled the ax in his opponent s skull.
The double slaying Is one of the
moat startling that has been commit
tel In this State in years, owing to
the prominence of the men involved.
3 Brothers Run for
Mayor in 3 States
DUNELLEN. N. J.. Sept. 16.—Three
Latham brothers are running for
Mayor in three different States.
E. B. Latham is a candidate in
Dunellen, N. J.; W. E. Latham in
Nev, Britain. Denn., and Melville
V lowa.
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Two Evangelists
Clash With Their
Hearers;! Whipped
GADSDEN, Sept. VIDALIA, Sept.
16. —When Henry 16. —Additional In-
Guffey, a Holy terest was thrown
Roller preacher, into the tent meet
told his followers ing being con
during a sermon ducted here by
that all the Bap- “Uncle Charlie"
tlst dead are in Wilkerson when
hell and that the L. L. Foss, of this
living ought to be place, arose and
there, James glared that the
Sampson, a Bap- Preacher was all
■_ wrong, and de
tlst layman, rush- m anded the right
ed from the star- to preach the ser.
tled band of wor- mon. He also
shipers. knocked asked to be al
the preacher down lowed to divide
and beat him. time. His request,
Sampson la under however, was not
bond. granted.
2 Brothers Killed
In Carolina Feud by
Same Load of Shot
AUGUSTA, Sept. 16.—8. V. and
W H. Hogg, prosperous farmers at
Kline, S. C., were killed with the same
load of shot this morning that was
fired from a gun in the hands of J. W.
Hogg, a distant relative.
The men met at one of the village
stores and W. H. Hogg and a man
named Barnett engaged in a fight. J.
V. Hogg went for another brother to
see that W. H. Hogg would get a
square deal, and when he returned
J. W. Hogg, who seems to have taken
sides with Barnett, fired at the broth
ers while they were standing close
together. Both fell, one dying in
stantly and the other In a few min
utes.
$500,000 Gems Found
In Street in London
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON. Sept. 16.— a laborer
walking through St. Paula road in
North London on hla way to work to
day. picked up a brown paper parcel
which contained 48 pearls, worth over
>500,000.
They wore part of the $750,000
necklace owned by Max Meyer and
stolen between Paris and this city in
June.
13c Cotton in Year ’l3
‘Hoodoos’ 13 Hoodoo
TIFTON, Sept. 16. —Is 13 a hoodoo
after all? All th© hoodoo seems to
h” e been knocked out In the year
'l3. many farmers realizing their
dreams of 13-cent cotton.
What 13 had to do with cotton
ginning in Tift County can’t be said,
but the Government’s report for cot
ton ginned in Tift County up to the
first of September shows 1,313 bales.
Dixie Is Awakening,
Says Woman Leader
WASHINGTON, Sept. 16. That
woman suffrage is winning the South
after a half-century of indifference
was the claim made here by Mrs.
Solon Jacobs, president of the Ala
bama Woman Suffragists, who Is
seeking means to further the cause.
Miss. Kate Gordon, of New Orleans,
has invited all Southern Governors to
meet in New Orleans in November to
draft a model suffrage amendment. .
100 Near Death in
Pennsylvania Wreck
COATESVILLE, PA., gept. 16.—”
More than 100 passengers on the
Pennsylvania Railroad’s Pittsburg
Flyer narrowly escaped death or se
rious injury to-day when three
sleeping cars left the track, went
down an embankment and one of
them turned over.
A broken rail caused the wreck.
Only two persons were Injured.
Slaying Revealed by
Telephone Message
CLEVELAND, OHIO, Sept. 16.—A
mysterious telephone message led
the police to-day to a room in the
house at No. 411 Hill avenue, where
they found a woman, named Ritger,
28, dead. It Is believed she was mur
dered.
The mysterious- telephone infor
mant, a man, has not been located.
POLICE SAY
SCHMIDT
IS ARGH
SLAYER
Story of Alleged Accomplice Re
veals Priest Who Killed Anna
Aumuller as Counterfeiter.
NEW YORK, Sept. 16.—1 n the be
lief that he has committed other mur
ders than that of Anna Aumuller, the
girl whose torso was found in the
Hudson River, the police to-day plan
ned to put Hans Schmidt, the priest
who confessed to slaying the girl,
through an examination intended to
force him to reveal every act of his
shrouded past.
That Schmidt was a counterfeiter,
as well as a murderer, came to light
to-day through the arrest short
ly after midnight of Ernest Ar
thur Muret, a bogus dentist, and Ber
tha Zech, his girl assistant.
It also w’as developed by the Cath
olic clergy’ that Schmidt was an Im
poster, having forged the credentials
as a priest which he used in this
country.
Muret, under merciless grilling by
the police, not only admitted that he
knew’ both Schmidt and the murdered
girl, but also confessed that Schmidt
had been a partner of his in a coun
terfeiting scheme.
After the arrest the police raided
Muret’s flat and also another flat
which it had been found was rented
jointly last June by Muret and
Schmidt. In the latter flat was found
a complete counterfeiting outfit, in
cluding chemicals, tools, a printing
press, several half-destroyed bogus
bills and a loaded revolver.
In the flat in which Muret lived
w r ere found a number of surgical
tools, such as are used to perform il
legal operations.
Girl Held as Witness.
Whether Muret will be charged
with direct connection with the mur
der and the dismemberment of the
Aumuller girl’s body, is a matter
which the police would not discuss
to-day. They claim they are holding
the Zech girl as a material witness,
w’hile Muret’s confession that he at
tempted counterfeiting is sufficient to
hold him.
The discovery of the counterfeiting
establishment w’ill of course bring the
United States Government into the
priest's case.
Muret told the police to-day that
shortly before the death of Anni
Aumuller the girl had visited Central
Park and was blistered by poison
ivy.
When he p.sked Schmidt September
4. three days after The murder, how
the girl was, the priest replied, ha
says, “Oh. she’s in great shape. Poi
son ivy will never bother her again.’’
Priest Sleeps Well.
Schmidt spent a restful night in his
cell. The enormity of his crime does
not seem to bother him. He ate a
hearty breakfast and seemed calm
and undisturbed.
He still refuses to see reporters,
denying interview’s on the ground th.it
“no one can understand the acts of
great men.”
While police officials, the Coroner,
and the Prison Warden held different
views concerning Schmidt’s sanity,
the prisoner continued to ridicule the
idea that he is insane.
“I am sane; there never has been
any insanity in my family,” he re
peated time and again.
Warden Fallon declares Schmidt is
the most dangerous lunatic, confined
in the Tombs prison in forty years.
The Catholic clergy here to-day de
voted most of their time to tracing
Schmidt’s past. They now are con
vinced that he Is a regularly ordained
priest, but that his past has been a
shady one, both here and in Europe.
As far as they have been able to
learn, Schmidt was ordained in 1907,
Continued on Page 4, Column 1.
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1913.
JONES IN CHARGE AT POSTOFFICE; -
HINTS AT REORGANIZATION SOON
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Sunday Joy Riders
Need Not Pay Taxi
Bill, Court Rules
Joy riding on Sunday will be inex
pensive for those who do not pay the
taxi driver in advance, according to a
decision handed down by the Court of
Appeals Tuesday morning In the suit
of A. L. Belle Isle, who operates a lo
cal taxicab company, against H. T.
Jones. The case was taken to the
Court of Appeals on a writ of cer
tiorari issued by Judge George L. Bell,
of the Superior Court. It was held
that rent for the auto used could not
be legally collected if the machine
was used on Sunday.
Jones hired an automobile from
Belle Isle on Saturday night, May 24.
and after using it for a while, ordered
an additional machine. The evidence
showed that the machines were used
for pleasure and that the renting of
automobiles for such a purpose »n
Sunday was illegal.
“As the letting of automobiles for
pleasure ridese was a work neither of
charity nor necessity, the contract as
to the automobile hired on Sunday
was void ab initio,” the decision reads.
Reference was aiso made that It is a
crime to operate a business on Sun-*
day unless necessity demands it, and
that “tbe law will n t enforce a con
tract the performance of which is
made penal.”
Crematory Again
Declared No Good
Councilman Claude L. Ashley,
chairman of the Council Sanitary
Committee, and Mayor Woodward
held another conference over the cre
matory Tuesday, at which they de
cided the plant was entirely unsatis
factory. * One of the motors was still
out of order and but a small amount
of garbage was being burned.
Both Councilman Ashley and May
or Woodward declared the plant must
comply absolutely with the specifica
tions before any more money would
be paid on it.
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First Change in Force May Result in the Ousting
of Negro Carriers.
Declaring that he does not con
template any immediate changes in
the personnel of his force. Bolling H.
Jones, successor to Hugh L. McKee
as postmaster of Atlanta, took office
Tuesday morning. Mr. Jones inti
mated, however, that there might be
some change in the working force
later, perhaps within a few’ months.
It is generally understood that the
new official’s first move toward
changing the make-up of his force
will be the ousting of the negro let
ter carriers, as it is known he is op
posed to negroes holding positions of
so much responsibility.
Mr. Jones became formally post
master with the signing of a receipt
for the postage stamps and other
supplies in the Federal Building,
which had been charged to Mr. Mc-
Kee. He was ready to take off ice
early Mondav afternoon, having fur
nished his bond and subscribed to
the oath earlier In the day. The de
lay was occasioned by the fact that
Retiring Mayor
Frees All Convicts
COLUMBIA, Sept. 16.—Mayor Sain,
of Orangeburg, S. C., who has re
tired after two years of service to be
i replaced by commission form of
government, celebrated his retire
ment to-day by giving freedom to
the city convict chaingang at work
on the roads.
Wilson Back at His
White House Desk
WASHINGTON, Sept- 16—After a
brief stay at his summer home in
Cornish, N. H., President Wilson re
turned to Washington.
The return trip was made without
incident.
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Bolling IT.
Jones, new At
lanta postmas
ter, on left,
and T. G. Hart,
the superin
tendent of
mails, who, it
is said, will
continue in
his office.
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the “postoffice day” ends at mid
night.
Mr McKee, who retires after three
years and six months of service,
1 stated Tuesday morning that he ex
pects to remain in private life for at
least three years. He has moved his
office to the Moore Building, where
he plans to engage in the real estate
business.
Forty members of the boards of di
rectors of the Atlanta Merchants’ and
Manufacturers’ Association, the At
lanta Freight Bureau and the Credit
Men’s Association called at the Fed
eral Building at noon Tuesday and
paid their respects to the new post
master. The delegation was headed
by H. T. Moore, manager of the
Freight Bureau.
The visit was made as a mark of
respect and courtesy to Mr. Jones,
who is a director in each of the or
ganizations that were represented.
The pa?ty met at the offices of the
Freight Bureau, in the Rhodes Build
ing. and proceeded to the Federal
Building in a body.
Fined for Striking
His Daughter-in-Law
F. M. Sweat was fined $25 and costs
in Judge Calhoun’s court Tuesday on
a. charge of assaulting his daughter
in-law.
Sweat testified that the trouble be
gan when, he asserted, Mrs. Sweat
tried to kill his son by putting broken .
glass in his coffee on July 27.
Mrs. Sweat declared her husband
came home drunk and broke a glass,
the piece* falling in his coffee cup.
She asserted that shd left their home
on McAfee street after being accused
of the poison attempt, and that when
she came back after her clothing F.
M. Sweat struck her. The woman’s
husband did not appear In court.
Politicians Whet
Ax for Beauchamp,
City Tax Receiver
Politicians are whetting their axes
for the political head of George Beau
champ. City Tax Receiver. It was re
ported Tuesday that an agreement
had been reached whereby Mr Beau
champ would be dropped when It
comes time for Council to elect tax
officials the first of next year
Mr. Beauchamp was independent of
the Tax Assessors until friction re
sulted in a charter amendment being
passed by the General Assembly put
ting him under the Assessors. That
amendment sticks, whether the new
charter is adopted or not. Councilman
Orville H. Hall fought strenuously to
prevent the passage of the amend
ment to save Mr. Beauchamp Now
Mr Hal! declares to his friends that
he has discovered that Mr. Beauchamp
was Instrumental in bringing out op
position to him for Councilman from
the Third Ward Mr. Beauchamp is
supporting R. R Jackson for Council
against Mr. Hall. Mr. Hall, in turn,
has Joined with the opposition to Mr.
Beauchamp.
Men Duel All Night
Before One Is Slain
ASHEVILLE, Sept. 16.—Jim Chris
topher, charged with killing his cous
in, Will Christopher, was surrounded
near here to-day by a posse and taken
Into custody.
Both men were desperate fighters,
and the struggle continued aJI night
before Jim Christopher overpowered
hls man and slew’ him.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia Rain Tuesday;
warmer; Wednesday probably
fair.
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Dr. Lincoln McConnell, In Hot
Reply to Woodward, Upholds
Anti-Kissing War.
Dr. Lincoln McConnell. In a letter
burning with sarcastic criticism and
Innuendoes, made heated reply Tues
day to the attack made upon Mm by
Mayor Woodward.
The minister, after Implying that
Mayor Woodward had been an ex
drunkard and other unenviable
things, branded him as a "common
scold" and flung down the gauntlet
to him In the declaration that he was
perfectly willing to doff his clerical
garments at any time the Mayor felt
that his health and happiness de
manded satisfaction.
Dr. McConnell denied that he had
inveighed against “spooning." “Hear,
en forbid!" he declared. 'T merely
was taking a stand for law and order, .
which the Mayor had attacked."
McConnell's Letter.
Hie reply to the Mayor, except for
one unprintable expression. Is gtv«n
here In full:
Here Is Dr. McConnell’s letter:
James G. Woodward. In the Mayart
Office, Atlanta. Ga.:
Sir—l have your very Int resting
letter of thia date and think It but
proper. In view of the fact that you
have honored me with three sheets of
matter and 10 cents poetaga, to re
ply to you In somewhat extended
fashion.
In the first place, you were not my
subject Sunday night. I had a larva
subject. You were merely an illus
tration. I was preaching on “Sowing
the Wind and Reaping the Whirl
wind" (Hosea vlll:7), and was trying
to show that the laws of cause and
effect operated In all realms, not
merely the physical. I was showlag
that the "wind" of bad thinking re
sulted In the destructive mo-al
"whirlwinds.’’ etc., etc., and in de
veloping .he thought I came natural
ly to that bad conduct called crime
and lawlessness, and here Is where
you came in. I was talking against
the dangerous tendencies of our ttma,
and I referred to the fact that "many
good men so talk at times as to cause
the thoughtless to believe that they
have no respect for the law. its offi
cers or machinery, the inevitable - >-
suit of which must be the breaking
down of <.he last vestige of tear or re
spect that remains In the minds of
the criminally inclined for the law,'
I said: "I was amazed the other day
to read what seemed to be an inter
view from our Mayor himself, In
which he scathingly attacked the po
lice, referring to them In such con
temptous terms as to Indicate his
utter lack of respect for them. Tak
ing as an excuse the recent arrests of
some person) for ’spooning,’ Ms
sneered at the snake in the grass
methods.’ etc, etc, in such manna
and terms as to bring the very offles
into disrepute. According to the re
port he did not confine his sneers t»
the particular men who made the ar
rests. but the Impression Is Inevita
ble that he, the head of this great
city, feels a contempt for the officers
of the law.”
Actually and More.
I said further: “If Mr. Woodwar3
does not know that such expressions
from a man In his high position are
dangerous and have a tendency to en
courage the vicious, he Is too big a
fool to be the head of thts eity, whils
If he really feels as he seams to feel,
he is unlit for the place.”
As nearly as I can recall my words,
that is what I said on that subject,
so you see I was not accurately re
ported. for I actually said more about
you than the report indicates.
The fact Is, no reporter was here.