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Missive Sent to Aged Capitalist
Denounced as Work of Illit
erate, Jealous Person.
An unexpected sensation was
sprung in the bitter fight over
the $250,000 will of “Uncle
Josh” R. Crawford Friday morn
ing when an anonymous letter
containing wild and startling
charges against Mrs. Relle Craw
ford, battling to uphold the will
in her favor, was admitted in
evidence after a long legal wran
gle.
The letter produced by the wom
an’s conns*; rr of Attorney
J. S. James, who represents the 48
ielrs contesting the document before
Auditor James L. Anderson, was de
nounced by Attorney Reuben Arnold,
for Mrs Crawford, as the venomous
work of an illiterate, Jealous,, igno
rant woman full of vile lies and wild
- harges.
There was no dispute about the il
literacy. Most of the words were mis
spelled, the writing was extremely
poor and looked as if it might have
been the work of a wholly unschooled
person.
Letter Poorly Written.
Here it is, with many of the words
corrected:
St. Augustine. Fla.,
February 20, 1909.
Mr. Croffard:
Dear Friend—I will write to
you to inform you of the plot that
Is laid for you in regard to Mrs.
Savage, the fictitious name that
she is going under in this town.
Her right name is Mrs. Me. Kin
ney, from Pittsburg. Pa. She is a
married woman and has a man
living, and she is had woman and
a thief, and there is a warrant in
Plttsburg^for her arre.\t for false
pretenses, and as she has told
you her name is Savage, that was
her name by her first husband.
fcShe has been married two times
and she don’t live with her second
man, so if there is any wedlock
between you and her you better
cut it out, for she will give you
lots of trouble. You are a too
good a man to be swindled out of
your money in that away. Well,
as I thought that I would take
this on myself as I thought it my
duty, you ask J Lashby. He
will tell you, for I told him all
about It to-dav. So he is some
surprised to hear about it. This
is all. FROM A FRIEND.
Second Letter Mentioned.
A further sensation was suggested
*n Attorney James’ demand for a sec
ond letter, said to have been written
to Mrs. Crawford, then Mrs. Savage,
by “Uncle Josh.” Attorney Arnold
denied any knowledge of the exist
ence of this letter, but Attorney
James insisted he had proved it ex
isted. The auditor asked for proof
■f James’ contentions.
The contestants also introduced
Friday the interrogatories of Dr.’
laude Griffin, a young physician of
arrollton, Ga., who saw the autopsy
performed by Dr. Harris. Dr. Grif
fin said that in his opinion Crawtord
did not die of pneumonia, but was not
•cry explicit in his testimony as to
whether there was evidence of poi
soning.
Doctors Testify for Widow.
Dr. E. C. Thrash and Dr. Bates
Rlock were placed on the stand by
•Mrs. Crawford’s attorneys following
he announcement bv Attorney James
, he had nothing further to off<-r
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8 Die in Blizzard in
West; Business in
Denver at Standstill
DENVER, Dec. 5.—The great-snow
storm which to-day is sweeping
Colorado already has cost eight lives.
A report from Central City, in the
mountains, says eight miners who
formed a rescue party to find two
lo«t men perished in the blizzard.
The snow in Denver reaches a
depth of from two to five feet. Auto
mobile and w’agon traffic is impossi
ble and street car service has been
abandoned for sixteen hours.
Passenger and freight service on
all railroads entering Denver has
been annulled until the storm abates.
All schools in Denver are closed. The
large department stores have taken
entire hotels for housing their help
until the situation improves.
Thinking Cannibals
Had .Eaten Fiance,
Girl Weds Another
MIAMI, FLA., Dec. 5.— Believing
that John Mills, to whom she was
engaged, had been eaten by canni
bals in the South Sea Islands, where
he went last July with a party of sci
entists from Carnegie Institution, a
report to this effect having been pub
lished in American papers. Miss Lyn
wood Watters yesterday married R.
C. .Tester, of Woodruff, S. (\. who
won her affections by sympathizing
with her in the supposed death of the
explorer.
To-day a cablegram was received
from Mills that he escaped from the
cannibals and is on his way home to
claim his bride.
Gil! CLEAN
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“The Law and Noble Policemen
My Weapons in Fight,” He
Writes in Magazine.
Dixie Man, Famed
In Canal Work, Dies
BALTIMORE. Dec. 5.—Lieutenant
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Colonel David B. Gaillard, member of
the Panama (’anal Commission, died
at the Phipps clinic of the Johns
Hopkins Hospital this morning. He
had been ill for a long time.
Colonel Gaillard was one of the
three Southerners who have won
fame by their work in building the
canal, the others being Sibert and
Gorgas, of Alabama Gaillard was
from Charleston, a member of 6ne of
the most prominent families in South
Carolina.
Arsonettes Avenge
Pankhurst’s Arrest
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
GLASGOW, SCOTLAND, Dec. 5.—
Militant suffragettes to-day began
taking their revenge for the arrest
of Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst. Kelly
House, an untenanted mansion, at
Memysfl Bay on the Firth of Clyde,
was fired, with $100,000 loss.
Upon the lawn a number of cards,
bearing suffrage inscriptions, were
scattered. One of them said: “No
peace or truce until Mrs. Pankhurst
is free.”
“All the good people of any city
have to do is to stand together and
the gates of hell will not prevail
against them—the good people of At
lanta would never tolerate a return
to old conditions under any circum
stances.”
This declaration as to the moral
status of Atlanta is made by Police
Chief James L. Beavers in a special
signed article in The Detective, of
Chicago, which has devoted an entire
section of its Dec ember number to a
history of the Atlanta police depart
ment.
As to the importance of activity on
the part of the good people iri crush
ing vice, the chW says:
“Our cities of to-day are going
through a cleaning and renovating
(hat has long been needed, arid‘the
officers whose duty it is to- do - this
work are going at. this in some way
in most every city in the countr\.
But c onje of them are more back
ward about it than others and 1
think the cause of this is largely due
to the attitude of the citizens in the
fommunity toward these reforms.
Two Kinds of Cowards.
“There are very few officers but
who will do their duty if they know
that the people and the officers over |
them will back them up in these re
forms. But where there is doubt in
the officer’s mind about this, he nat
urally will hesitate, especially when
he thinks that his job is at stake. It
Is hard for him to do a thing that
would deprive him of his position —
but wiien we fail to do what we
know to be our duty on this account,
we are nothing less than cowards.
“There are two kinds of cowards:
the moral and the physical coward.
Everybody would say that a coward
was not fit for a police officer. The
physical coward runs when he sees
that he is in danger of being shot.
The moral cow aril joins in with and
consents to things that his con
science tells him am wrong when he
sees an opportunit> money and
position thereby.
“The only trouble with our cities
is that the criminal « lass and their
sympathizers are always awake to
their interests. The\ tr> to make
politicians believe that they can not
be elected without they get their
support, and with decent people in
different and taking no interest In
their community's welfare, it is about
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U. S. PENAL
$250,000 a Year lor
One Woman’s Clothes!
That’s the startling total of the wardrobe
cost for an American millionairess, according
to a Parisian editor. The joy or woe of it all—
depending on whether you are rrfan or woman
—will bo detailed in
Next Sunday’s American
Order from your dealer or by phone to
Main 100.
PET KITTEN! FLEAS! OIL!
MATCH! CHOMSKY! COURT!
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A. S. Chomsky. a merchant at X).
72 Houston 'street, was bound over
under $500 bond by Judge Broyles
Friday on a charge of cruelty to ani
mals, preferred by Mrs. J. Stansell,
who resides above the Chomsky
store.
Mrs. Stansell charged in court that
the merchant had set tire to her pet
kitten after she had soaked it in oil it
his suggestion to eradicate the fleas.
The feline was discovered in the
middle of the street late Thursday
afternoon, a small ball of fire, doing
gyrations in the air and emitting
piercing cries. Mrs. Stansell, who
saw the sight from her bedroom win
dow. recognized the blaze as her pet,
and. rushing downstairs, put,it out
of it^ misery with the aid of a broom.
Then she charged Chomsky with
the deed.
In court Mrs. Stansell declared she
had conferred with the merchant
to the best method to rid v her pet of
insects, (’liomsky, she said, had ad
vised saturating the kitten with k'ero-
sene.
Mrs. Stansell purchased a quantity
of kerosene and gave the kitten a
bath. .An hour afterward the litt!«
animal strolled into Chomsky's store,
its fur still wet with the oil. A few
minutes later pedestrians saw the cat
rushing madly out of the store, its
coat a mass of fire.
Chomsky explained the origin of
the blaze in this manner: He said he
was lighting a cigar as the kitten
came strolling in; that as he threw 7
the flaming match to the floor the
playful cot pounced upon it, and its
oily fur caught the flames.
The merchant denied emphatically
that he set the cat on rire for the
sport of seeing it burn, as was
charged.
Mrs. Pankhurst on Atlanta Mailing Its
Hunger-Thirst Strike Xmas Gifts Early
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian,
EXETER. ENGLAND, Dec. 5.—
Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, famous.
militant suffragette leader, who was
arrested yesterday under the “cat and
mouse act,’’ has gone on a hunger
and thirst strike. The jail authori
ties said to-day that Mrs. Pankhurst
has refused to eat or drink any liquid
since she was placed in jail.
The militant leader plans to force
her own liberation in a week by
means of the “strike.”
Christmas packages continue to
pour into the postoffice and Postmas
ter Jones Friday said he believed the
mailing room would be able to handle
all the Christmas work without the
usual “swamp" a day or two before
Christmas.
Next week four more weighing ma
chines will bp placed in the lobby to
assist in expediting the mailing’ of
packages.
Blalock Returning
With Sack of‘Plums’
With a pocket full of income tax
deputy appointments. A. O Blalock.
Collector of Internal Revenue, is ex
pected to return from Washington
Friday night.
There are nearly 1.000 applications
for the .seven positions.
President Wilson
Still on Sick List
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—President
Wilson still was on the sick list to
day. All his engagements and his
regular Cabinet meeting were can
celed.
It develtfped to-day that President
Wilson is suffering from a slight
touch of fever due to an attack of the
grip, lodged in Lis nose and ihroa..
Six hundred Atlanta school girls
are busy Friday arranging their
notes on the Child Welfare exhibit
and Public Health exhibit which they
visited Thursday an guests of the
show, knd preparing to write essays
on the features of the exhibit that
made the greatest impression upon
them.
Walter H. Rich, of the firm of M.
Rich & Brothers Company, has of
fered $25 in prizes for the best writ
ten essay, by high school girls and
girls from the seventh and eighth
grades. It is hardly probable that
the essays will be completed and the
awards made before the holidays
The interest w T hioh the school au
thorities are taking in the exhibit is
gratifying to the committee in charge
of the show, and it is expected that
the visit of the High School and grade
school girls will be of great benefit
to them. The girls were in charge
of Miss Jessie Muse, principal *>f the
High School, and were shown every
department and feature of the ex
hibit.
Boys to Visit Show.
The schoolboys of the city also
will be shown through the show'. The
pupils of the four high schools of the
city are to be guests of the show Mon
day, and on a later day the boys of
the seventh and eighth grades will be
there.
In addition to the panels that form
the greater portion of the show, an
excellent program has been arranged
for each day by Miss Emily Coye,
who. with Miss Ellen S. Bab
bitt. superintended the setting up
of the show and are in charge of its
operation.
Lectures are given daily by promi
nent physicians and others, and in the
basement are educational moving pic
ture shows that are attracting much
attention. Classes of little girls and
boys from various Atlanta orphan
ages and schools are shown at their
work in the various departments of
the exhibit.
Friday's program promises to be
one of the jnost interesting of the
show. From 10 to 12 o’clock the kin
dergarten class from the School for
the Deaf and the classes in l>asketry
and sewing from the Home for the
Friendless were the principal attrac
tions. and at noon Colonel W. R. Da
ley. head of the Board of Education,
spoke on the benefits that school boys
and girls can derive from the ex
hibit.
At 2 o’clock Friday afternoon pu
pils from the Hapevilie Orphans’
lome will give an exhibition drill,
and at 2:30 the first of the day’s mov
ing pictures will be shown.
At 3 o’clock story tellers from the
Carnegie Library will entertain the
little folks, and at 3:30 a public school
music class will give a program under
the direction of Miss Harralson. A
model class* from the Normal School
will have their exercises and game at
4 o’clock, and from then until 8
o’clock moving pictu r es will be the
feature. At 8 the Caup Fire Girls
w'ill give “Scenes from. Hiawatha.’’
The regular kindergarten elas*es,
with a demonstration by the home
makers’ class, will occupy the morn
ing hours on Saturday, and in the
afternoon tw r o addresses of unusual
Interest will be heard. Dr. Claude
Smith will speak on "How to Select
Your Milk.” and Mrs. Spiker. presi
dent of the Drama League, will tell
the story of the “Blue Bird.”
Southern Officials to
Greet Harrison Here
I^ocal officials of the Southern Rail
way are preparing for the visit of
Fairfax Harrison, the new president
of the road, when he comes to At
lanta soon after Christmas on a tout
of inspection.
While Mr. Harrison will spend only
a short time in Atlanta, it is expected
a number of social events will be
given in his honor.
Sisters Elope With
Brothers at 3 A. M.
LAVONfA, Dec. .*».—A double elope
ment, in which two brothers stole two
sisters from their home in the dead
hours of night and were married at 3
o’i lock in the morning to overcome
parental objections, |ook place here
this week.
Miss Annie Blanche Smith became
#he bride «•» 1 ’harles Sheriff and Miss
Rosa May Smith was married to Mat
thew' Sheriff. The brides are daugh
ters of D. B, Smith, a prominent mer
chant of Lavonia.
Congressman, on Request of De
partment of Justice. Starts
Compilation of Data. ^
WASHINGTON'. D .C.. D<v.
Demanding a prompt investiga
tion of the affairs at the Federal
Penitentiary in Atlanta, Con
gressman William Schley How
ard held a long conference this
afternoon with Assistant Attor
ney General Graham, under
whose department comes the
Federal penal institutions.
The Assistant Attorney Gen
eral requested - Congressman
Howard to present the Depart
ment immediately with all the
evidence in his possession regard
ing conditions at the peniten
tiary. -
Mr. Howard began a compilation of
this data to-day. He is willing to
give the Department of Justice an op
portunity to take the initiative in an
investigation, but unless It acts will
seek a Congressional probe.
United States Wants Facts.
Although It is known that the de
partment hue done lltle toward in
vestigating the prison, and seems dis
inclined to do so, Mr. Graham told
Congressman Howard to-day that tho
department wanted the facts, and
would institute an Inquiry if it 1s
warranted. He suggested that tt is
unnecpssnry for the House to act in
the premises, as the Department of*
Justice stands ready to consider any
evidence laid before It. and to give
it genuine and impartial considera
tion.
Under this promise Mr. Howard
will withhold for the present his res
olution to have Congress look into
prison affairs aa administered under
Warden Moyer. Mr. Howard said
to-day:
To Let Department Proceed.
“I have had a long talk with As
sistant Attorney General Graham, and
am to supply him with all the data in.
my possession. He assures me that
if there is anything w-rong at the At
lanta prison the Department of Jus
tice wants to know tt and is capable*
of handling the situation. In view of
such a statement, I regard It as fair
to give the department a chance and
shall soon present the chargee for
mally to Mr. Graham.
“In the event the department should
decide not to go into the matter, i
should deem It my duty finally to ask
action from Congress, as there un
doubtedly should be a probe.**
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Atlanta Parks Are
Worth $1,200,000
In preparing his annual report, Dan
Carey, General Manager of Parks,
has compiled interesting figures.
There are 32 parks, totaling 840 acres.
Their cost to the city was $188,654
and their present value is approxi
mately $1,200,000.
The most valuable is the Ersklne
Triangle, at the corner of Peachtree
and West Peachtree streets. It Is
.009 of an acre. It coat the city $35<>
in 1891, and a recent cash offer of
$13,000 for it was refused.
TO CHANGE ROAD’S NAME.
SPARTANBURG, S. C., Deo. 6.—
Many changes are planned by the in-
terurban railway, effective January 1,
most important of which will be
changing the name from the Green
ville. Spartanburg and Andereon
Railway Company to the Piedmont
and Northern, the name by which ll
is known in North Carolina.
VALE BASEBALL SCHEDULE
NEW HAVEN CONN.. Dec. J.—The
Yal* University Baseball schedule, an
nounced yesterday, provides for twen
ty six games, not including the dates re
served in case of ties This Is five
games less than last year. New teams
on the list are the Norfolk baseball club,
of Virginia Mount SL Joseph’! Ocdleg**
and Lafayette.