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PRETTY NURSE SMILES ON STAND
BU I JUST MUST CRY AFTERWARD
Miss Kmilv Townsend, who testified “Uncle Josh’' Crawford was not poisoned.
is. I
Clever Inside Politics Will Be
Shown in Council Meeting.
Gossips Say.
ri^vor inside politic*- will b«
played at the next meeting of the
City Council, it waa L uned Tin
by which Police Gnmmlsaloner .1 X.
Me Sac hern ant? Marco 11UH M A ruler
■on. member of the Board of K ;ca
tlon. both of the Seventh Ward, will
exchange places Mr .1clint hern
term would have expired next March
but. political ffouHlpa say. if tils huc-
c»K»ur were elected t»y th<* new Gout,
cil Fred Laater had enough pledged
votes to land the pin «*. wmle t: <• n.
Jo lit y partv In the old Council war.
Air. Anderson.
The politicians have never f irgivon
Mr Lester for the part h«- took in a I
recent charter reform campaign. Mr
Letter having acted as manager of
the campaign
Graham P. Dnzlar nlao resigned as
Police f'ommiasioner from the Tenth
Ward at the meeting of Council
Monday. The majority party is '
agreed on G. P. Dixon as his sue
cemmr.
The two new elections to the Po- j
lice Commission will strengthen)
Chief Beavers’ support, hut It does
net aeem to contribute anything to
ward a solution of the problem of
electing a successor * to Chairman
Carlos H Mason from the four ac
live candidates
H M. Patterson has resigned from
the Cemetery Commission and P 1.
Corley lias given up his place on th**
Smoke Commission
Arthur ilornun was elected n mem
ber of the Library Board to sin coed
T R. Gay, resigned, Monday
Cloudburst Drowns
10 and Swoops Away
60 Houses in Texas
FORT WORTH, TEXAS, I)e<. 2
Ten persons were drowned early this
morning at Belton when a 30-foot rise
• wept down Nolan Creek, following
a cloudburst Sixty houses were
swept away. The flood caught the
homo of W C, Polk, drowning Mix
Polk and five children. Another
family also was lost.
Rains throughout Texas have put
many' rivers out of their banks. Scores
of bridges have been washed away
The gas supply of Dallas was cut
off to-day because the pipe line from
the natural gas fields was damaged
by water.
U. S. Bureau Warns
Of Heroin as Drug
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 -Warning
was Issued to-day by the Department
of Agriculture against the increase in
the use ofo ’’heroin” by persons ud-
dteted to the drug habit.
The department says its investiga
tions have shown that many persons
who formerly used morphine and co
caine have begun taking this ’’little
known, but dangerous," drug since
the passage by' the States of laws
preventing the Indiscriminate sale of
morphine and cocaine.
FREE COUPON
Tn HE A RUT’S SUNDAY AMERICAN and AT
LANTA GEORGIAN Free Christmas Gifts Dis
tribution.
GOOD FOR 5 VOTES
For
Address
Dist.
Fill in your favorite’s name, and send to
Offer Department, and 5 votes will be credited
in favor of candidate.
Not good after December 6.
Grand Jury Probes
Wreck Fatal to 9
EUFAULA, ALA.. Dec. 2—The Grand
Jury of Barbour County, which spent a
day investigating the recent wreck on
the Central of Georgia Railroad, near
Eufaula, In which nine persons were
killed and more than 200 injured, found
no evidence of criminal negligence for
the wreck.
The Jury’s report. Just, filed with the
court, contained no reference to the
probe, in which it called nearly a hun-
drew witnesses.
B. F. STOCKTON
plumbing
24 S. PRVOR Street
■OTM PHONtS 1«|
Our coals will please you
Call us.
CARROLL & HUNTER
FRAMERS ID PUSH SCHOOLS 8F CITY
LI IS SEISM!
That an attractive* woman who ap
peared composed upon the witness
stand and whose pleasant smile de
cidedly cheered those in the court
room should find it necessary to go
to her home and have a big cry illus
trates that “a woman’s a woman for
a’ that.”
This is true of Miss Kmily Town
send, the trained nurse who attended
Give Vour Wife This House For Xmas!
H uy It Fo r
$ioo Dowri--
$26 Monthly!
No Mortgage
This House Has
Electric Lights
and City Water
H
ERE is a handsome home that has Just been completed and you can
BUY It on our DIVIDED PAYMENT PLAN $100 down, and $26 a
month! No mortgage to assume
This house Is on a lot 75 by 157 feet, fronting east and Is well
shaded It has electric lights—-city water and also fresh, sparkling well
water tile sidewalks and tile yardwalk Extra large front veranda and
latticed bark porch Three bedrooms, a cozy dining room, a ni* c par
lor, a spurious kitchen and china « losef.
This la one of the prettiest homes at CAPITOL VIEW (inside of
Atlanta's city limits)—and is only an 18-minute street ear ride from the
postoffice We have other nice houses, fit CAPITOL VIEW, which \o-.j
can BUY for $100 down, and as little as $21 a month and NO mortgage
to assume
Present your wife with one of these splendid homes as a Xmas
gift' Y ou occupy the house while paying for it.
or rail at our
W. D. BEATIE, 207 Equitable Bldg.
II. Main 3520 Atlanta Phone 3520
‘‘Uncle Josh” Crawford during his
last illness, and who took the stand
Monday in behalf of Mrs. Mary Belle
Crawford, his widow, who Is charged
with his death.
Miss Townsend is attractive, and
her smile, which was caught un
awares by a Georgian photographer,
is of the kind that must serve as a
wonderful tonic for her patients.
“But I don’t like to go on the wit
ness stand; every time I do I have
| to go home and have a cry, and it
upsets me for a day or two," she said
when asked how she liked to be a
witness.
"No one relishes the idea of being
i haled int" court. Then the way the
lawyers look at you and ask you ques-
! tions is enough to run a body crazy,
j Every time I am called as a witness
l have to go home afterwards and
shut myself up in my room and Just
give way.”
The testimony of Miss Townsend
corroborated that of County Physi
cian J. W. Hurt, who attended Mr.
Crawford. She is quite positive that
the wealthy and aged farmer came to
1 his death through natural causes and.
not as the result of poisons, which 1
hia relatives charge were administer
ed to him.
She told of him taking the cough
medicine prescribed to relieve him of
a very painful cough and of admin
istering a hypodermic under the doc
tor’s Instructions several hours be-
j fore Mr Crawford’s death
“He displayed absolutely no symp
toms of poisoning,” was her declara
tion.
j Crawford Heirs
; Repeat Plot Charge.
Another effort to establish the fact
of a conspiracy between Mrs. Mary
Belle Crawford, chief beneficiary of
her husband’s $250,000 will, and Fred
Lumb, an itinerant barber, will be
made by Joshua Crawford’s heirs-at-
law when the hearing is resumed be-
| fore Auditor James L. Anderson on
Thursday.
Colonel J. S. James, attorney for
the heirs, said Tuesday that recent
investigations had revealed to him
more conclusive evidence of a plot
between Mrs. Crawford and Lumb
than he had possessed before.
He declared that he would seek to
prove that Lumb and Mrs. Crawford
really were engaged to Vie married
while in St. Augustine, w’here Mrs.
Crawford, then Mrs Savage, con
ducted a hotel.
Lumb Denies Charges.
That this marriage was postponed
so that the woman might marry
Crawford for his money and later,
having rid herself of the old man,
marry Lumb will be the contention
I which Colonel James will endeavor
to prove.
I Lumb. answering to a statement of
j interrogatories, has categorically de
nied all of the charges made against
himself and Mrs. Crawford.
He maintains that he knew Mrs.
Crawford only casually in St. Augus
tine and that the only time he ever
! saw Joshua Crawford was one day
when one of the persons about the
hotel asked him to go up to one of
the rooms and assist in dressing an
old man. He said that Crawford ap-
I peared very feeble.
The suggestion that Crawford cams
to his death through poison adminis
tered by his wife or with her aid is
laughed at by her attorneys.
They brought out in Dr. J. W.
Hurt’s testimony Monday the physi
cian's opinion that the aged man did
not come to his death through poison
and that the morphine found in his
body might very easily have been
contained in th > cough medicine that
wus given him from time to time.
Dr. Hurt said that he was con
vinced that Crawford died of pneu
monia and not from any kind of poi
soning.
Girl Commits Suicide
By Drinking Chloral
TALBOTTON. Dec. 2.—Miss Annie
Lou Hale, 23 years old, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. James Hale, of Pleasant
Hill district, Talbot County, commit
ted suicide by taking chloral that had
been left by a physician for her mo
ther. with instructions to be very
careful with it.
Miss Hale arose before others of
the family were up and took a big
dose of the poison. She died in twen
ty minutes after the doctors arrived.
Her body was interred this afternoon
at Pleasant Hill Cemetery.
Shows New Method
Of Reflex Anesthesia.
Members of the commitee who
framed the new traffic ordinance are
planning to make a fight for its adop
tion. Councilman W. G. Humphrey
said if the City Council expected to
heed every objection Atlanta never
would be relieved from the congested
conditions in the center of the city.
Because of the fight being made
against the ordinance by society
women who drive machines and oth
ers whose personal interests are con
cerned, there were some amusing ef
forts by members of Council to avoid
being on the committee that is to
conduct the public hearing.
On the motion of Alderman John S.
Candler the ordinance was referred
to the Street Committee. Alderman
Candler had to leave the meeting be
fore adjournment. As soon as he was
gone Councilman Orville H. Hall got
a motion through to reconsider the
action on the ordinance, and he then
made a motion, which carried, re
ferring the ordinance to a committee
including all the members of the Al-
dermanic Board.
This is the first time Council ever
took such action. After the Alder-
manic Board has finished its duties
as Aldermanic Board Thursday it
will adjourn and convene a9 a spe
cial committee on traffic legislation.
Persons interested in the new traf
fic laws will be given a chance to be
heard.
Birmingham Police
Hold Atlanta Couple
BIRMINGHAM, Dec. 2.—Eunice
Edmondson, aged 19, of No. 18 Fulton
circle, and Paul Preston Moore, No.
221 Baronne street, Atlanta, were
taken in by the police to-day at a
South Side boarding house. The wel
fare department will send the young
woman back to Atlanta, and Moore
is to be turned over to Federal au
thorities.
Moore is said to have married Miss
Carrie L. Brown. The Edmondsoa
girl said she was under the belief
she was to be married. She and
Moore have been here about six
weeks.
FIGHT FATAL PISTOL DUEL.
BATES, ARK., Dec. 2.—In a pistol
duel at break of day City Marshal
W. T. Francis was fatally wounded
and James Black was shot five times
in the body w'hen Francis attempted
to arrest him.
The State Superintendent of
Schools Tuesday announced the ap
portionment of the State school fund
as it will be distributed through the
various cities and counties.
The total amount to be distributed
is $2,550,000. This goes to the coun
ties and to the city schools, accord
ing to the school population of each.
Several counties will get hack from
the State a great deal more by w r ay
of the school fund than they pay into
the State Treasury In taxes, but this
condition is not unusual and this
year’s distribution differs only slight
ly from last year’s.
The per capita expense of the
schools to the State is $3.17, which
is a decrease per capita from last
year of 27 cents.
No Delay in Distribution.
The total amount to be paid, for
Instance, to Fulton County, is $19,-
474.14.
The city of Atlanta gets from the
State, exclusive of the Fulton appor
tionment, $101,912.33.
DRUNKEN CABBIES MUST GO.
War against intoxicated hack driv
ers was declared by Recorder Broyles
in Police Court Wednesday morning
when he fined Hugh Hector, a negro
cabby, $10.75 and ordered his hack
driving permit revoked. “Every cab
driver who gets drunk is going to get
the same dose,” said the Recorder.
Mr. Clarence Angier
long known, very much loved, and
greatly respected in the Life Insur
ance business, has been appointed
Special Representative of this
company. He will have his
office at 403-410 Empire Building.
It is not necessary for me to say
that any business with which Mr.
Angier is connected will be handled
in the same way as Mas everything
he has done up to this time. This
company cordially recommends Mr.
Angier to all classes of insurance, but
most especially to those whose busi
ness is large enough to make busi
ness protection desirable. Mr. An
gier will make a specialty of this fea
ture of our business.
NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE
COMPANY.
R. L. COONEY.
Inspector of Agencies at Large.
(Advt)
HARTFORD, CONN., Dec. 2.—Dr. j
W. H. Fitzgerald, of New’ York, at a j
clinic for twenty-four physicians to- j
day demonstrated his new method of ;
redox anesthesia.
By mere pressure upon nerves in |
the neck, throat or nose, he makes
parts of the body insensible to pain.
THE GEORGIAN TERRACE HOTEL
Is now eenducted on both the American and European Plana. Rooms
from $1.50 up,
Restaurant (American plan), $40.00 monthly, $10.50 weekly, or
without lunch (except Kimrtays), $145.00 monthly, $9.00 weekly.
Also a la Carta Service.
Orchestra.
Here is an EXCEPTIONAL CHANCE to
buy vour Xmas presents at prices FAR BE
LOW COST.
We are holding a
PUBLIC AUCTION
of thousands of dollars worth of Diamonds,
Watches and all kinds of Jewelry that must be
turned into cash immediately.
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You Get the Benefit
Sales at 10:30to 12:30 A. M., 2:30 to 5:30 P.M.
7:30 to 10:30 P. M.
MARTIN MAY
19 Peachtree St.
“Law Bros, for Quality”
X
mas
Gift;
For M
en
That Are Appropriate and Useful
From "Laic Bros.,'’ the Man sShop, Where V ou Can Make
No Mistake in the Quality and Correct Details
of Mens Likes and Dislikes
“The Spirit of Christmas” is filliny our store—
showcases, shelves and wardrobes are packed with hand
some, durable gifts. It is none too early to make your
selections. You can have them delivered now or later.
The prices range from 50c to $12.50.
Neckwear (Silk and Velvet), remarkable assortment,
at 50c to $1.50
Silk Sox, all colors (boxed) per pair 50c to $1.50
Handsome Belts, with initial buckles, at $1.50
Men’s Initial Linen Handkerchiefs (6 in box), per box $1.50
Men’s Initial Cambric Handkerchiefs (6 in box)
per box 75c
Men’s fine Linen Handkerchiefs (6 in box),
per box $2 and $3
Leather Collar Boxes, at $1, $1.50, $2, $2.50 and $3
e
Knitted Silk Scarflers (in boxes), at $1.25 to $3.50
Men’s Handsome Umbrellas at $3.50 to $12.50
Men’s Lounging Robes at $3.50 to $8
Men’s Silk Lisle Sox (4 pairs in box), per box $1.00
Men’s Shirts at $1.00 to $5
Men’s White Silk Handkerchiefs at 75c to $1.50
COMBINATION SETS
Lounging Robe and Slippers $5 to $10
Silk Sox, Tie and Handkerchief (in box) ... .$1.50 and $2
Sox and Tie (in box) 75c, $1.00 and $1.50
Silk Sox, Tie and Reefer (Full Dress, in box) $3.50 and $5
Suspenders and Garters (in box) $1.00
Ladies Fine U mbrell
as
With Beautiful Handles of Gold, Pearl, Etc.,
at $3.50 to $12.50
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