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Exposes Great Tammany Graft
SPEER PROBE
HINGES ON
ILLNESS
Congressional Investigators to De
termine on Nov. 10 if Judge’s
Condition Will Permit Hearing.
> ASHINGTON, Nov. I.—The sub
n.lttee of the Hoose Committee
Judiciary, • appointed to invest!
■ charges against Federal Judge
■.mory Spe.r, of Georgia, to-day de
ded to meet November 10, as
i.nined, and receive a report on the
onditlon of Judge Speer, who Is se
tlously ill, according to his counsel.
H Callaway.
Judge Speer's condition then will
Htermine the future course of the
mniittee. ,
Huff to Have
Many Witnesses.
MACON, Nov. 1. —When the special
- . mnmlttee of the House Judiciarv
Committee comes to Macon to pur
sue its probe of the official record oi
Judge Emory Speer, there will be a
o: Io of witnesses in waiting, as th<
■-ult largely of the personal efforts
-: 1 'oionel W. A. Huff. The subqom
is due to come here Monday,
bovember 10.
J-M’-ing the last month Colonel Huff,
iio made the first charges against
Judge Speer, has been to all parts of
Georgia, and has arranged for more
han a score of men and women to
Pi-ear befoie the committee, in ad
; :'on to these witnesses, there will
those regularly summoned by the
Gove ri.ment, and who were inter
iewed during the summer by Spe
ial Examiner R. C. Lewis, of the
Department of Justice.
Ift a letter *to Congressmen Bart
and Hughes, Colonel Huff stated:
When 1 testify before the com
ittee 1 want Judge Speer, to be
here he can see and hear me. and
•then he testifies I want to be pres
ent. so that 1 can look in his eyes as
I hear what he has to say for him-
' mugh the investigation is un
r’aken by the Government, wlth
t anyone appearing as prosecutor,
1 is no doubt that Colonel
Ui.fr.s original accusations laid the
mdation for the probe. These ac
>- itions were embodied in the two
■ e .r-is which Colonel Huff sent to
Judge Speer on July 29, 1912, and
which are now a part of the court rec
ord. As the result of sending these
etters. Colonel Huff has been found
guilty of contempt of-court, and is
awaiting the passing of sentence.
Judge Speer has expressed to close
friends and relatives his determina
tion to appear for “himself at the
hearings of the committee, cross
examining the witnesses. Two weeks
-| he told his son-in-law. A. H. Hey
"i rd, that he would adopt this policy,
even if he had to come to Macon on
a co:.. However, it is probable that
• the investigation he will receive
-he assistance of Judge A. J. Cobb,
1 A liens; Judge Enoch Calloway, of
Augusta, and Orville A. Park, of Ma
un. all of whom are his close per ■
sonal friends.
ere Is a growing impression In
on that Judge Speer will never
1 able to preside over nls court
l: or to appear before the in-
f 'igatlng committee. It Is believed
hat his health has been wrecked
" ' 'hat he Is doomed to be an in-
The fact that the judge has
8- stones and must, sooner or later,
uopes to recover, nave an oper
">■ '1 taken as substantial founda
f r this widespread belief. How
'c. hi s relatives are encouraged by
■ally improvement, and express
utmost confidence in his ultimate
very.
Cincinnati Woman
Is Football Coach
a ?3 IXNATI ' Nov - 1-Mrs. Charles
■ khart. of Cincinnati, la tha firs!
an football coach. Tn her college
“he performed on several Vassar
dr ‘*'tic teams.
Burckhart is chief aeetetant to
Miner, of the Price Hill eleven,
aB coached the team In several
ised by Eastern teams.
The Atlanta Georgian
Read for Profit---GEORGIAN WANT ADS---bse for Results
VOL. xn. NO. 79.
INVESTIGATORS AWAIT
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Howard Says New
Money Law Would
Forestall Panics
Congressman William Schley How
ard, explaining in Atlanta the prin
ciple of the currency bill now under
consideration by Congress, declared
that with the bill a law a panic would
be Impossible.
"As every business man knows," he
said, "95 per cent of the country's
daily commerce is done without the
exchange of a dollar i n money. The
trouble with the present law ts that
it is not elastic. Say a man has a
business with a capital of $50,000 and
his credit is $50,000. When his credit
and his capital have been converted
Into time paper, the man is absolute
ly In the hands of his banker as re
gards a further exp insion of hi» busi
ness.
"Now, under the new currency bill
this time paper, if declared good col
lateral could demand a loan. In th's
way business men could force credit
to expend in tight times. It Is sim
ple. secure and flexible, and with ft
in operation no panic could come.”
Courthouse Scare
As Pistol Explodes
When a pistol belonging to Newt
Garner, one of the attaches tn the
Solicitor General’s office, fell to the
floor, causing one of the cartridges
to explode, snortly after noon Satur
day. frightened people rushed fro-n
the Thrower Building, sure that an
other chapter was being added to At
lanta's murder history.
Deputy Sheriff Plennle Miner was
standing by Garner, and each of them
Is credited with breaking the stand
ing high jump record, while Stenog
ranher High Howell demolished a
waste basket and chair In his start
at the explosion.
A peculiar fact was that the spot
where the bullet struck could not be
located.
52 Pacific Islands
Bought by U.S. Judge
WASHINGTON, Nov. I.—H. E. Coop
er of Honolulu. Federal judge for Ha
waii who >* In Washington, has just
concluded the purchase of 52 islands
which form the Palmyra group In the
South Pacific
Judge Cooper purposes to take a col
ony of native Hawalians to settle the
Islands which abound in luxuriant oo
soanut grovas.
u. s.
Judge
Emory
Speer
under
fire
in
Congress,
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« Slaton Proclaims
Georgia Products
Day November 18
e J
I Governor Slaton issued a procla-
II mation Saturday morning setting
aside November 18 as "Georgia Prod
ucts Day, and suggested that it bo ,
generally observed. The proclama-
. tlon was issued at the request of the
- Georgia Chamber of Commerce, and
is in effect an Indorsement of the
1 work of that organization.
The Governor named November 18
® I because the State chamber has set
‘ aside that date for meeting In all
” I towns where chambers of commerce
*; and boards of trade have affiliated
I with the State organization. The
meetings will convene at the same
hour, and ways for the upbuilding of
the State, especially for developing
Its resources and encouraging the
J reliance of the people on Georgia
products, will be formulated.
e 'Wife Asks Divorce
s On Many Charges!
2 Alleging cruel and inhuman treat
. ment, drunkenness and non-support,
! Mrs. Alberta Richards filed suit Sat
’ urday for divorce from F. H. Ricli
n
_ ards.
The petition alleges they were mar
rled August 19, 1909, and lived to- '
t gether until September 20, when the
petitioner was forced to leave her
t husband. Richards is said to have
e left Atlanta.
Tigers Down Yale in
Cross Country Run
PRINCETON, Nov. 1. —On their
* first cross-country race of the season
t the Princeton Tigers ran away from
’ the Yale squad, winning first, second,
0 fourth, sixth and eighth places The
score was: Princeton 22; Yale 3
j Barnett, of Princeton, finished first,
.■covering tho six miles in 33 minutes
» seconds- i
ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1913.
‘BLACK BOOK’
PUBLISHED
Ry SLEUTH
Stenographer’s Record of Con
versation of Convicted Murphy
Man Accuses ‘Gang.’
NEW YORK, Nov. I.—Detective
William J, Burns to-day made pub
lic the contents, or part of them, of
the "black book" containing the dic
taphone record of the interview at
Blng Sing in which former State Sen
ator Stephen Stilwell, serving time
for bribery, told John 4 Hennessy
and a lawyer representing William
Sulzer that he would swing six votes
In the high court of Impeachment bee
fore which Sulzer was tried in favor
of the defendant in exchange for a
pardon.
Stilwell further offered to produce
evidence which he charged would
send Senator James J. Frawley, chair
man of the committee which investi
gated Sulzer, and Charles F. Murphy,
leader of Tammany Hall, ty jail.
Stilwell in his conversation, not
knowing that a stenographer was
copying it at the other end of a dicta
phone charged:
That he saw a man band Frawley
money.
That certain Senators took $5,000
annually from the brgwery interests.
That Frawley asked SIO,OOO to kill
a certain bill.
That Thomas O’Neil, a Tammany
man. paid $12,000 for the nomination
for Registrar, turning the money over
to James E. Gaffney, friend of Mur
phy.
That Senator Wagner, President of
the Senate, transmitted orders In the
name of "the boss.”
That a person called "F” padded
pay rolls.
19-Year-Old Arkansas
Boy To Be Executed
LITTLE ROCK, Nov. I.—A 19-
yeur-old boy will be elctrocuted Th
ArkaiiKaw thirteen days hence unless
something happens tn his favor. H«
is Arthur Hodges, of Arkadelphia.
When a deputy constable tried to
arrest him last July for a trivial of
fense, the boy suddenly whipped out a
pistol that had escaped the deputy’s
search and shot the man through the
heart.
The Arkansas Humane Society is
trying to obtain a hearing for the
jouth, and hnn employed attorneys to
Have aie J Ifta, if possibU.
EIND HEADS
PARLEY OF
POWERS
Special United States Envoy
Chief Figure at Con
ference.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
VERA CRUZ, MEXICO. Nov? I.
With 2,500 troops massed in the gov
ernment barracks to prevent any out
breaks, diplomatic conferences are
now going on that are to have a
marked effect on the future of Mex
i Ico. John Lind, special United States
i envoy, is the chief figure In the pour
| purlers The conferences are sur
i rounded with the utmost seereoy.
The German and Russian Minis
ters arrived here late yesterday. That
important plans are under way was
indicated by the fact that they con
sulted with General Maas, the mili
tary commander, before they notified
Mr. Lind of their arrival.
The French envoy Is expected here
to-night, and it is probable that the
Norwegian Minister also will come.
Thus far there has been no Intima
tion that Sir Lionel Carden, the Brit
ish Minister. will come.
The massing of troops in the bar
racks shows that the situation caused
by the editorial attacks on United
States Counsul Canada is growing
tense. Huerta's followers are bitter,
and are influenced by La Union,
the chief government organ here.
Army Transport
Suddenly Docks.
PHILADELPHIA. Nov. I.—The ar
my transport Panther arrived at the
Philadelphia Navy Yard to-v'ay. Her
mission Is not known, but her arrival
makes three transports now at the
navy yard. The Hancock and the
Prairie docked several days ago. The
officials of the navy yard did not know
the Panther was on her way here
until she was reported at Reedy Is
land.
Wilson and Bryan in
Long Conference.
WASHINGTON, Nov. I.—With a
long conference between President
Wilson and Secretary of State Bryan
to-day the development of the new
Mexican policy of the administration
advanced one more step.
It Is reported that Envoy Lind is
pessimistic over the prospect of get
ting an early announcement from
General Huerta as to the result of
the election. President Wllsiii now !
Is waiting for this announcement, but i
It has become obvious that dilatory j
tactics are being pursued to force the
United States into an awkward po
sition. It Is probable, therefore, that
the President will take decisive ac
tion without regard to It. Tills is ex
pected to be a recognition of the bel
ligerency of the Constitutionalists,
which is a cardinal feature of the
new policy.
That President Wilson has succeed
ed In blocking the vigorous pro-
Huerta program mapped out by Sir
Lionel Carden, the British Minister
to Mexico, Is accepted as a fact in
administration, circles.
John Lind will communicate the
new American policy regarding Mex
ico to the representatives of the pow
ers now gathered at Vera Cruz, ac
cording to a rumor current In Wash
ington to-day.
Both Sides See
Great Victory.
NEW YORK, Nov. I.—With New
York’s most acrimonfouH campaign
rapidly nearing its climax and the
election but two days away, manage™
of the rival political factions to-day
put out claims that were distinctly
contradictory.
Conservative estimates of fusion
leaders place the plurality of John
Purroy Mitchel, fusion nominee for
Mayor, at approximately 50,000. Tam
many leaders claimed at least as
great a plurality for their Mayoralty
nominee, Judge Edward E. McCall.
NASHVILLE DEMOCRAT
BOUGHT BY LUKE LEA
ASHEVILLE, Nov I.—Senator
Luke Loa, owner of The Nashville
Tennessean, who cams to Asheville
from Washington to-day to spend his
seventh wedding anniversary with his
wife, under treatment here, an
nounced that he had purchased out
right The Nashville Democrat and
that Its publicatios would bo discon- I
tinned after tomurrowA Sunday’s, odl-|
Uon 4
Copyright. 1908,
By The Georgian Co.
Atlanta Convict
Tied to Walls of
Prison 10-Hours
Freed Convict Makes This Charge
and Avers Moyer Only Tries to
Keep Up Appearances.
Further allegations of shameful
conditions at the Atlanta Federal
Penitentiary were made Saturday
»
night by a convict just released from
that institution which he never had
expected to leave alive.
The details of dark-age barbarities. |
denied by the prison officials as often
as they have been alleged by guards
and ex-convicts. Including Julian
Hawthorne, were repeated.
The story reiterated the charges of
incompetency on the part of Warden j
Moyer. It was one whioh purported 1
to lay bare the sham and pretense of
the prison administration. It branded
al) of the so-called "reform" as "a
brave show for the especial benefit of
the Government inspectors and the
visitors, but a show which, stripped
of its sham, had underneath only a
brutal and callous disregard for the
moral and physical welfare of the
I
prisoners.
Fayette Salter, a "lifer," sent up
from Mobile in December, 1898,
charged with killing a mail carrier
between Evergreen and Bellville, Co
nocuh t'ounty, Alabama, and robbing
the mail, was the author of the latest
charges.
Trussed to Wall.
The witness whose evidence con
victed Salter was found to be mental
ly unbalanced and irresponsible, and
Salter's sentence was at once com
muted vo his present term 08 sen lee,
there being no other evidence against
him. He served eighteen months in
Raleigh, N. C.;,three years in Nash
ville, and ten and n. half years in At
lanta.
"They say there are no tortures,” |
said Salter. "I was trussed up. face '
to the wall, and with my arms held j
outstretched by manacles, tor ten
hours. When they let tin- loose I just !
dropped to the cement floor fipin ex
haustion. and I didn’t rise till the next
morning. Thie wu» during Warden
: Moyer's administration.
"They say there Is no 'hole.' That's
right, there isn’t any 'hole,' when
the newspaper reporters and the vis
itors go through the 'pen.' But the
poor prisoner that thoughtlessly in
fracts a rule knows that thene ts
one.
"There are a number of thre§-cor
nered cells in the isolation building.
A man can be chained up to the
j doors of any of these cells. Many of
j them have been. There are littlo cots
in these cells. These are the cells
that are shown the visitors. But
down beneath them there is the
‘hole.’
No Cots in Celle.
"The cells underground have no
cots. When a man drops, he drops
on the cold cement floor. If they
want severely to discipline one of the
prisoners they can make one of these
little cells practically air-tight and
then turn on the steam through the
pipes.
"Warden Moyer’s Idea is to make
a show. He wants his prison known
as a model institution. He wants to
Hee how little he can feed the men
on. Fully seventy-five per cent of
the men have stomach trouble of
Home sort from having to eat the
sour bread and meager rations that
are doled out.”
Salter said that negroes are in
charge of white men in many in
stances; that the men In the tuber
culosis camp are Insufficiently clothed
because of the warden’s false econ
omy, and that the prison physician
treats the convicts without any re
gard for their particular ailments.
Salter will leave to-day for his home
In Mobile.
WOMAN GETS 12 MONTHS
IN LIQUOR SELLING CASE
WAYCROSS, Nov. 1. —One of the
few Instances known In Georgia since
prohibition went into effect where u
white woman received a twelve'
months' sentence for selling whisky
went on record at the Clinch Superior
Court, just adjourned, when Thaney
Jowers entered a plea of guilty. She j
| will serve the sentence on toe State |
laria.
2 CENTS.
JUDGETOSIGNBILL
OF EXCEPTIONS WITH
CHANGE IN REMARKS
Georgian’s Report
Made the Record I
The Georgian’s report of Judge I
L. S. Roan’s remarkable expres
sion of doubt in refusing to grant I
Leo M. Frank a new trial was j
I Saturday incorporated into the ot-
I fleial bill of exceptions by com-
I mon consent of Solicitor Hugh M. '
I Dorsey, Luther Rosser and the I
court itself.
Mr. Dorsey objected to the re- j
port of the judge's words as first |
given in the bill by Frank’s law
yers and the difficulty was solved
by accepting The Georgian’s ver
sion. it is probably the first time
In court history that a newspaper
report of a legal proceeding has
been used as a court record. It
will be noticed by those who read
the original report that a phrase
lias been eliminated. Here Is The I
I Georgian's report, dipped from i
| yesterday’s Georgian by the law
yer and made a court record:
"Gentlemen, I have thought
about this case more than any
other I have ever tried. I am not
certain of this man's guilt. With
all the thought I have put on this
case. I am not thoroughly con
vinced that Frank Is guilty or in
nocent. The jury was convinced.
There is no room to doubt that. 1
feel it Is my duty to order that the
motion for a new trial be over
ruled."
Municipal Judges
Named to Replace
Justices of Peace
The Superior Court judges of Ful
; ton County Saturday afternoon noml-
I nated the five Municipal Court judges
I who are to replace the justices of the
peace, the nominees being L. F. Mc-
Clelland, E. D. Thomas, J. B. Ridley,
T. O. Hathcock and L. Z. Rosser. Jr.
These nominations were referred to
Governor Slaton tor confirmation and
the selection of a chief judge.
The chief judge will begin his du
ties at once, but the associates will
not assume their duties until January
1, when the offices of justices of the
peace are abolished. The salary of
the chief judge is to be $3,600 a year
and $3,000 for each of the associates.
Judge Ridley is the only justice of
the peace to receive one of the new
places.
Find Mutilated Body
In‘Black Hand Zone’
NEW YORK. Nov. I.—With the
throat cut from ear to ear and the
tongue missing, the body of an Ital
ian was found to-day In a stretch of
marshland near Twelfth avenue, I
Brooklyn, a district known as the I
"black hand murder zone” because of
the frequency of such crimes there.
The only clew to the Identity of the '
victim was the monogram "R. R.”
upon the shirt. The police attribute!
the murder to the Mafia.
—.■ ' —...
Lew Shank's Job No
Picnic, Believe Him!
INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. I.—Mayor
Lew Shank, in a political speech, took
occasion to recount some of the per
plexities of his office. He said:
“Between telling saloon keepers not
to get nervous and telling preachers
that the lid was on tighter than bees
wax, I’ve had one heluva time the last
four years. If I hadn’t gone to Louis
ville once or and played the
ponies I would have gone crazy.’’
The Major expresses his sympathy
for whoever succeeds him.
' Mrs. Pankhurst To Be
Invited to Asheville
ASHEVILLE, N. C„ Nov. 1.
suffraglHts will Invite Mrs. Emmeline
Pankhurst tn come to ft hevllln and
deliver an address.
SLAYS BROTHER-IN-LAW.
LEXINGTON, MISS.. Nov. I.
Smith Turner shot and killed R. K I
Cooley, his brother-.n-.u-. ,
I after a nisugreement over the settle- ,
i ut c. h>ig p.ai.t,vti estate. Tur- *
bur fiurrandareo u> the Sheriff
EXTRA
With the bill of exceptions
signed by Judge L. S. Roan, the
last fight for a new trial for Leo
i M. Frank has begun in earnest
j Solicitor Dorsey was furnished
i with a copy of the exceptions in
I the rough form that he might
1 peruse it while the stenographers
| are rewriting certain pages.
A change In Judge Roan's aston
I ishing statement that he Is not con
vinced as to Frank’s guilt or inno
cence as reported by the defense was
made on Solicitor Dorsey’s objection?
that the words accredited to Judge
Roan in the bill were not exactly the
words he had spoken. Judge Roan’s
I expression of doubt will undoubtedly
be the defense’s main reliance in the
fight far a new trial.
Georgian Report Corrupt.
"The Georgian had your words, ex
act, your honor,” said Solicitor Dor
sey to the court.
A copy of Tho Georgian of Fridas
was called for by Judge Roan, and
the statement therein was declared
by him to be correct.
This read:
"Gentlemen, I have thought about
this case more than any other I have
ever tried. lam not certain of this
man's guilt. With all the thought I
have put on this case I am not thor
oughly convinced that Frank is guil
ty or Innocent. But Ido not have to
be convinced. The jury was con
vlnced. There is no room to doubt
that. I feel that it is my duty to ol
der that the motion for a new trial
be overruled.”
Attorney Herbert Haas insisted
that Judge Roan had not made the
remark: "But.l do not have to be
convinced,” and the judge agreed with
him.
Agreed to Chang*.
"I will ask you gentlemen to chang*
the wording of the bill of exceptions
to this, leaving out the words: 'Bn
I do not have to be convinced,’ ” said
Judge Roan.
All the attorneys agreed, and The
Georgian's report was made the oft!
cial record.
Those In the judge's chambers at
' the time were Solicitor Dorsey and
i Attor -ys Luther Rosser, Reuben Ar
’ nold, ” -rbert Haas and Leonard
I Haas. The bill of exceptions is un
| usually long, containing all of the
| charges Included tn the amended mo
tion for a new trial, besides tho re
marks made by Judge Roan.
Frank’s attorneys labored on th*
bill until late Friday night. Judgt
Roan was advised by them that it
would be ready by 9:30 o’clock, and
was In his chambers awaiting them
They later advised that it would be
10:30 before they would finish. It wa»
20 minutes before 12 o’clock when
they arrived.
BUI Read In Part.
Colonel Rosser at once stated -o
Judge Roan that they desired to re
write some of the pages. Sollcltoi
Dorsey had previously said he woulo
not require a reading of all the ass!
davits listed, as the total reading o’
the bill probably would require thre,
hours’ time.
H? naked the the port relative to
Judge Roan's remarks might be rea<
so that it could be agreed upon wjti
out further delay.
Judge Roan was anxious to -Igi
the bill of exception.- during til*
I morning as ..rruugnrer.ts uau bee
| made with Goteruor Slaton to uuaill?
I him for the Court of Appeals, Soli,
’tor Genera- Uriel, of y.c Stone f'pu:
; -"reult for judge o ' tl.-u . ;v i
to succeed Judge koxa. uuS