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VOL. XII. NO. 108.
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1913. By c X rl ""' ,906 '
Ueorgian Co.
o f!ENTR pay no
- V-C-LX A tO. MORE.
FINAL!
PRISON PROBE DEMANDED BY HOWARD
F USED
Missive Sent to Aged Capitalist
Denounced as Work of Illit
erate, Jealous Person.
An unexpected sensation wa«
sprung In the bitter fight over the
,L'>0,000 will of “Uncle Josh" E. Craw-
■ rd Friday morning when an anony
mous letter, containing wild and
st: r ling charges against Mrs. Belle
Crawford, battling to uphold the wifi
in her favor, was admitted in evi
dence after a long legal wrangle.
The letter produced by the wom
an’s counsel on demand of Attorney
J. S. James, who represents the 48
heirs 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
charges.
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 h#Ye
been the work cf 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 unde • 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 bad woman and
a thief, and there is a warrant in
Pittsburg for her arrest for false
pretenses, and as she has told
you her name is Savage, that was
her name by her first husband.
She has been married two times
and she don’t live with her second
man. go 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 * Eashby. Ho
will tell you, for I told him all
about it to-day. So he is some
surprised to hear about it. This
FROM A FRIEND.
Second Letter Mentioned.
A further sensation was suggested
in Attorney Jame9’ demand for a sec
ond letter, said to have been written
to Mrs. Crawford, then Mrs. Savage,
b y ’Uncle Josh.” Attorney Arnold
oenied any knowledge of the exist-
en ce of this letter, but Attorney
James Insisted he had proved it ex
ited. The auditor asked for proof
of James' contentions.
J" 11 ® contestants also introduced
Friday the interrogatories erf Dr.
laud*. Griffin, a young physician of
arr .ton, Ga., who saw the autopsy
Performed by Dr. Harris. Dr. Grif-
fin Bald that in his opinion Crawford
d <i not die of pneumonia, but was not
Wr - V xplicit in his testimony as to
"he’her there was evidence of poi
soning.
Doctors Testify for Widow.
E. C. Thrash and Dr. Bates
k were placed on the stand by
‘ ' 1 rawford’s attorneys following
,‘ e iinn °unoement by Attorney James
‘ a be had nothing further to offer
Present time, after submit-
* r ■ e anonymous letter received by
raw ford.
' Physicians expressed the opin-
jr bat a color or qualitative test for
)n four years after a body had
Continued on Page 5, Column 4.
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 5.—A detach-
ment of Federal soldiers sent to at
tack the rebels at Las Pifes, State of
Puebla, was completely destroyed. Of
the 90 men in the detachment, 69 were
killed in battle with the rebels and 20
who had been wounded were put to
death on the battlefield by the victors.
Only one man escaped and he was so
badly wounded that he will die. An
other Federal force with two field
gun shas been sent to attack Las Pilas,
where the Zapatistas have entrenched
themselves.
BURLINGTON, VT., Dec. 5.—The
Tenth Cavalry, composed exclusively
of negroes, which has been stationed
at Fort Ethan Allen for the past four
years, left to-day in special cars for
New York City, where it will embark
to-morrow for Galveston, Texas, to do
border duty along the frontier.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—A plea for
“a sufficient number of torpedoes to
meet the probable requirements of
war” was made by Rear Admiral N.
C. Twining, chief of ordnance of the
navy, in his annual report to Secre
tary of the Navy Daniels to-day.'
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—There will
be no army maneuvers and joint mi
litia instruction camps next summer
unless the Mexican situation be
cleared sufficient! to permit the
withdrawal of regular troops now on
the Mexican border. This statement
was made to-day before the House
Military Affairs Committee by Sec
retary of War Garrison, who told the
committee it would be impossible to
hold these customary events with the
greater portion of the regular army
doing patrol duty along the Rio
Grande. Brigadier General Mills
asked the committee to include in the
army appropriation bilk an item *o:“
$1,350,000 to enable the State militia
to participate in the maneuvers.
GALVESTON, TEXAS, Dec. 5.—The
30-mil© levee at Bryan broke to-day
and the waters dashed through, car
rying half a mile of the dam. Three
additional counties in the richest agri
cultural belt of the State are flooded
as a result. Residents are fleeing to
the hills. Loss of life has not yet been
reported.
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 5.—Two ne
gro teamsters, Jesse Simms, aged 16,
and Walter Hiohbaugh, a~ed 21, were
shot and severely wounded while
driving an ice wacon near Senate
avenue and Sixteenth street shortly
before noon.
BERLIN, Dee, 5.—E:nperor Wil- |
■ •am to-day ordered the garrison at ;
j Zabern, Alsace, to go to maneuvers
I because of the trouble betwoen the
troops and the townspeople. He fur- j
ther ordered court-martial proceed- j
ings agamst soldiers who affronted
civilians to be hastened.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—W. W.
Finley, president of the Southern
Railway, left an estate of $185,000. ac
cording to hie will, filed for probate
to-day. A life interest is devised to
his widow and at her death it goes in
trust to the five children. Should Mrs.
Finley remarry, the trust created be
comes immediately effective.
NEW YORK, Dec. 5.—Miss Rose
Pressman, the pretty stenographer
who killed Nathan Chase, an em
ployee of her uncle, yesterday, and
then shot herself, will recover and
will have to face trial for murder.
Friends of the girl declared to-day
that she shot Chase because of un
requited love, but at the New York
hospital where she is a patient the
girl refused to discuss the matter.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—A bill ap
propriating $925,000 for four new rev
enue cutters to be stationed on the
coasts of Maine and California and
in the Gulf of Mexico was reported to
the House to-day by the Interstate
Commerce Commission.
CITY CLEAN
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—Mrs. Thos.
R. Marshal! wife of the Vice Presi
dent of the United States, to-day en
listed in the fight which Washington
women are waging against high-
priced eggs. She Declared herself to
be in perfect sympathy with the
movement to reduce the price by boy
cott, and suggested that Federal leg
islation similar to that recentlv
adopted by the State of Indiana rela
tive to cold storage products be en
acted.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—The In
terstate Commerce Cornmission to
day appealed from the decision of the
Commerce Court in the tap line cases.
The cases now will go to tne Supreme
Court of the United States.
NEW YORK, Dec. 5.—The indict
ment of Arthur A. McLean, treasurer
of the Democratic State committee in
highway graft investigation, was to
day declared by attaches of the Dis
trict Attorney to he only the begin
ning of the final round of the big
politicians. McLean is the most in
fluential man yet na.ied in true bills,
but it is expected that others of even
greater prominence will be indicted.
INDIANAPOL.S. Dec. 5.—The strik
ing teamsters this afternoon voted
that all men should return to work
to-morrow for all “fair” employers.
These include all that have agreed to
sign the union scale and means that
1.000 men will resume work at once.
The vote followed an address by In
ternational President Tobin, in which
he advised such action and discour
aged the general strike proposition.
NEW YORK, Dec. 5.—Sharp at
tacks on the Progressive party and
on Theodore Roosevelt punctuated
the speech made here to-day by State
Chairman Barnes to the conference
called by Republican leaders to map
out the future of the party in this
State and in national affairs. In his
prepared address Mr. Barnes com
pletely ignored the attacks that have
been made upon him seasonally, but 1
replied to charoes that the party has .
outlived its usefulness.
QUINCY, MASS., Dec. 5.—'Three j
hundred men cmploved in the Fore '
Riven Shipbuilding Company, a part I
of the Schwab Steel interests, struck I
to-day. A general strike of 3,200 j
other employees is predicted. Trou
ble results from the failure of the
company to live up to its agree
ments.
“The Law and Noble Policemen
My Weapons in Fight,” He
Writes in Magazine.
“All the good people of any city
have to do Is to stand together and
the gates of hell will not prevail
againsrt 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 Jafties L. Beavers in a special
signed article in The Detective, of
Chicago, which ha9 devoted an entire
section of its December number to a
history of the Atlanta police depart
ment.
As to the importance of activity on
the part of the good people in crush
ing vice, the chief says:
“Our cities of to-day are going
through a cleaning and renovating
that has long been needed, and the
officers whose duty it is to do this
work are going at this in some way
in most every city in the country.
But some of them are more back-
v/ard about it than others, and I
think the cause of this is largely duo
to the attitude of the citizens in the
community toward these reforms.
“There are very few officers but
8 Die in Blizzard in ATHLETIC CLUB OPE NS
West; Business in
Denver at Standstill
A report from Central City, in the
mountains, says eight miners who
depth of from two to five feet. Auto
mobile and wagon 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.
BASKET BALL SEASON
Walter
ing his utmost
to block the
heave for the
net.
BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, Dec. 5.
Juan Aguilar, a Mexican, was shot on
the street here to-day when W. A§
Rutledge, a wealthy jeweler, openeef
fire on J. J. Ha'nsworth, whom Rut
ledge accused of wrecking his home.
An investigation has been ordered
bv the Federal authorities because
of the delicate relations between this
country and Mexico. Aguilar will re
cover, but Hain&worth will die.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—The Sen
ate to-day passed a bill extending for j
60 days the time in which the segre- j
gated coal asphalt land of the Choc
taw and Chickasaw Indians may be j
classified and appraised for sale.
LAREDO. TEXAS, Dec. 5.—For the
first time since the revolt and over
throw of the Madero administration in
Mexico last February, trains are
operating over the National Railways
from Laredo to Mexico City.
The influx of refugees from Mexico
continues, 300 arriving here to-day.
PRINCETON, N. J., Dec. 5.—Harry
Roy Ballin, of New York, was this
afternoon elected captain of the 1914
Princeton football team. Only mem
bers of the squad who played % in the
Harvard and Yale games voted. Bal
lin is only 19 years old and is a can
didate for "All-American” honors at
right tackle.
RACING RESULTS
AT CHARLESTON. *
FIRST—5 1-2 furlongs: Bastante,
112 (Waldron), 21-2, 6-5, 3-6, won;
Pulsation, 115 (Ward), 4. 8-5, 4-5, sec
ond; Stellata, 112 (Miller), 10, 4. 2.
third. Time 1:10 1-5. Dick’s Pet,
Helen M., Lancewood, High Class.
Cliff Maid. Water Lad, Tomboy also
ran.
SECOND—>Six furlongs: Veneta
Strome, 114 (Doyle), 11-5, 7-10, 1-5,
won; Big Dipper, 104 (Bender), 11-5,
7- 10, 1-5, second; Chilton Queen. 114
(Byrne), 2, 7-10, 1-5, third. Time,
1:16 1-5. Cliff Top, Elja Curry, Metra
E., Gagnant. Snowflake also ran.
THIRD—Six furlongs: Ann Tilly,
104 (J. McTaggart), 1, 1-3, out, won;
The Busy Body, 114 (Baur), 30, 8, 3,
second; Chemulpo, 114 (J. Callahan),
20, 8, 3, third. Time, 1:15 1-6. Syl-
vestris, Terra Blanca, Loretta Dwyer,
Jacquelia, Miss Primity also ran.
FOURTH—Seven furlongs: Prince
Ahmed, 114 (Deronde). 9-20, 1-6, out,
won; Jabot, 111 (J. Callahan), 20, 4,
8- 5, second: Star Bottle, 111 (Right-
myer), 8. 2, 1, third. Time. 1:30. Dy
namite, Stentor. Sepulvedo also ran.
FIFTH—Mile: Ralph Lloyd, 102 (J.
McTaggart), 2, 4-5, 1-3, won; Matser
Jim, 108 (Deronde), 20, 7, 3, second;
Charlier, 116 (Buxton), 2, 7-10, 7-20,
third. Time, 1:43 1-6. Joe Stein,
Outlan, Sir Denrah, Ford Mai and
Spar Pole also ran.
SIXTH—Mile, and three-sixteenths:
Dr. Waldo Briggs, 109 (Buxton), 7-5,
3-5, 1*4, won; Marshon, 105 (Martin),
5, 2, 4-6, second; Napier, 110 (Scharf),
15, 8. 3, third. Time, 2:03 1-5. Charles
F. Grainger, Mr. Fellow, Night of Un-
cas, Tas Pay, Irish Kid also ran.
AT JUARE*..
FIRST—-Five furlongs: PaPnhach-
api, 109 (Klrrchbaum), 6. 2, 1, won;
Droll, 109 (Vandusen), 6, 2, 1, second;
Dr. Bailey. 112 (Gross). 30, 15, 6 third.
Time, 1:00. Cash Girl, ta Hy Yip,
Renwar, Lillian K., Hattie Me. Augus
tus, Heinze, Lucky Ike, Sheffield,
Christmas Eve, Society Bird, Redondo,
Fool O’Fortune also ran.
SECOND—Six furlongs: Dynamo,
105 (Neylon), 1, 1-4, out, won; Weya-
eoke, 112 (Loftus), 6-5, 1-4, out, sec
ond; Hasson 109 (Benton). 10. 3, 1,
third. Time 1:12 4-6. Kali Inla, Jewel
of Asia also ran.
THIRD—5 1-2 furlongs: Birdman,
104 (Neylon). 1, 2-5, out. won; Round
Up, 101 (Claver), 4, 3-2, 3-6, second;
My Buena, 109 (Ormea), o, 8-5, 7-10,
third, ^ime 1:07. Tranaac Malay,
G. K. Davis, Ceos also ran.
R9.ce Entries on Page 2.
Coach Bean
will start
Saturday
night’s game
with the same
line-up as he
presented last
fall, namely:
Forbes apd
Smith, for
wards ; DuBard,
center; Carter
and Weaver,
guards. This
team is a
mighty fast
one.
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 when we fail to do what we
know to be our duty on this account,
1 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 coward Joins In with and
consents to things that his con
science tells him are wrong when he
sees an opportunity to get money and
position thereby.
"The only trouble with our cities
is that the criminal class and their |
sympathizers are always awake to
their interests. They try 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
Continued on Page 5, Column 1.
‘Tiger’s’ Christmas
Stock Confiscated
A large Christmas stock of blind
tiger goods was raided Friday by De- |
tectlves Chewning and Barker, and I
its owner, Mary Walton, a negro, who
resides in the rear of No. 37 Moore
street, was sentenced by Judge
Broyles to 30 days in the stockade
The stock consisted of 400 half
pints of corn, 100 pints of rye and
75 quarts of both rye and corn.
And Now C. Starr
Is Signed to Help
Manage Pelicans
MOBILE, ALA., Dec. 5.—Charley
Starr, for two years second baseman
and captain of the Mobile club under
the management of Mike Finn, who
secured him from Buffalo, has been
traded by Mobile to New Orleans and
will have charge as manager of the
playing end of the team, while John
ny Dobb:* will look after the business
end of the affair.
Starr announced several .weeks ago
that he did not want to come back to
Mobile, and the owners thought it
best to grant his request, as the
change would be beneficial in view of
the fact that a new man was to take
charge of the Gulls.
The information was obtained here
from local headquarters.
Ex-Convict Is Held
As Navy Deserter
Oscar Arthur, a well-appearing man
of 23 years ago, was turned over to
the naval authorities Friday.afternoon
and is being held at the police station
for transfer to Norfolk, Va., where he
is to be courtmartialed for desertion
from the United States Navy.
Arthur was released from the Fed
eral penitentiary Friday morning after
serving a 15-months sentence for
postoffice embezzlement. He was
charged with having appr^rl" * d
money to his own use while postmas
ter at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. In
floelng from this charge Arthur is also
declared to have deserted from the
navy.
Mayor to Approve
Salary Increases
Mayor Woodward gave assurance
Friday that he woUId approve the ac
tion of Council and the Aldermanlc
Board providing for increases next
year In the salaries of school teach
ers, firemen and policemen
Also he will approve the payment of
*7,000 to the Ivy etreet property own
ers, the amount left over from the
$30,000 fun(l subscribed by private
citizens for that improvement.
Smith Again Wins
Handball Title
Carlton Smith retained the title of
handball champion of the Atlanta
Athletic Club in the challenge match,
played Friday afternoon with M. E.
Keeler, who won the recent tourna
ment which decided the challenger
for the title match.
The match was hard and fast in
the extreme, going the full five games
Keeler started with a rush, and won
the first two games. Then Smith
settled and hie experience and condi
tion gave him the next three games,
and the match, after a grand uphill
battle. A big gallery watched the
play.
IS HELD IT
Congressman, on Request of De*
partment of Justice, Starts
Compilation of Data.
Coach Joe Bean’s Quintet to Start
Schedule Against Fast
Bessemer Team.
Basket ball and dancing will be re
sumed at the Atlanta Athletic Club
down-town building Saturday night.
Joe Bean’s quintet opens the season
in a game against the fast Bessemer
Athletic Club aggregation.
The winter basket ball-dancing par
ties are very popular with the young
social set of the city, and Saturday
night’s opening feast is sure to at
tract a large crowd.
Coach Bean promises to turn out
the fastest team the Athletic Club has
ever had. All of last season’s quintet
have returned, including Smith and
Forbes, forwards; Dubard, captain
and center, and Carter and Weaver,
guard 8.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—Demand
ing a prompt investigation of the af
fairs at the Federal Penitentiary in
Atlanta, Congressman William Schley
Howard held a long conference this
afternoon with Assistant Attorney
General Graham, under whose depart
ment comes the Federal penal insti
tutions.
The Assistant Attorney General re
quested Congressman Howard to pre
sent the Department immediately with
all the evidence in his possession re
garding conditions at the penlten-
i 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 he
will seek a Congressional probe.
United 8tates Wants Facts.
Although it Is known that the de
partment has done little toward in
vestigating the prison, and seema dis
inclined to do so. Mr. Graham told
Congressman Howard to-day that the
department wanted the facts, and
would institute an inquiry if It Is
warranted. He suggested that It is
unneceesary for the House to act in
the premiees, 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 as administered under
Warden Moyer. Mr. Howard said
to-day:
To Let Department Proceed.
“I have had a long talk with As
sistant a. -.*y General Graham, and
am to supply him with all the data In
my possession. He assures me that
if there is anything wrong at the At
lanta prison the Department of Jus
tice wants to know it and is capable
of handling the situation. In view of
such a statement, I regard it as fair
to give tne department a chance and
shall soon present the charges 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 & probe.”
4 Corn Show Boys
Win Scholarships
Announcement of the awards of four
scholarships offered at the Corn Show
by Congressman J. R. Walker for com
raised In the Eleventh District were
made Friday afternoon.
The scholarships, which provide a
free course in the Boys’ Corn Club
short session at the State College of
Agriculture, were won by J. O. Lucas,
Brooks County; Ward Cornelius.
Clinch County; Elzle Aldrich. Appling
County, and Dan Clough, Jeff Davis
County. ■
MACON, Deo. 6.—Dan O'Connell.
r oprietor of four saloon*, pleaded
guilty in the City Court this after
noon to violating the prohibition l«w
at each of the place*. and was fined
$1,625 by Judge Hodge*. The fine we«
paid.
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, Dee.
5.—Premier W. A, Watt of Vlotorla
and his Cabinet resigned to-day.
Member* of the Labor party wIM dom
inate tho next mlnlotry,