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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. - > i ? Fm » n * » f I Ml 4 a n 4 fo ® f ojjf\ ill - ■T' | 1 I"* w I •: r V '4 a 4 10 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. J i .1) 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 Clip This Ad Out and Keep for Reference See Window Displays <