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VOL. XII. NO. 108.
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1913. b/W&IS?'
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Missive Sent to Aged Capitalist
L Denounced as Work of Illit
erate, Jealous Person.
jr An unexpected sensation was
pprungr In the bitter fight over The
‘$250,000 will of “Uncle Josh" B. Cra Wo
lford Friday morning when an ano.ny-
mous letter, containing wild and
I startling charges against Mrs. Belle
Crawford, battling to uphold the will
in her favor, was admitted in evi
dence after a long legal wrangle.
The letter produced by the won-
‘inn’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 have
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 S..vage, that was
her name by her first husband.
She has been married two times
and she don’t li\e 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 I Lashby. Ho
will tell you, for I told him all
about it to-day. So he is some
surprised to hear about it. This
N is all. FROM A FRIEND.
Second Letter Mentioned.
i A further sensation was suggested
in 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 thl 3 letter but Attorney
James insisted he had proved it ex
isted. The auditor asked for proof
of James’ contentions.
The contestants also introduced
FTiday the interrogatories of Dr.
Claude Griffin, a young physician of
Carrollton, Ga., who saw the autopsy
Performed by Dr. Harris. Dr. Grif-
said that in his opinion Crawford
did not die of pneumonia, but was not
Ver >- explicit In his testimony as to
Whether there was evidence of poi
soning.
Doctors Testify for Widow.
frr. E. C. Thrash and Dr. Bates
^i >ck were placed on the stand by
* Irs - Crawford’s attorneys following
the
announcement by Attorney James
nat he had nothing further to offer
a ihe present time, after submit-
Cng the anonymous letter received by
^ Ir Crawford.
&°th physicians expressed the opin
ion that a color or qualitative test for
Poison four years after a body had
^ontinysci Page 5, Column 4.
8 Die in Blizzard in
West; Business in
Denver at Standstill
DENVER, Dec. 5.—The gTeat-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
lost men perished in the blizzard.
The snow in Denver reaches a
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.
Ail 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. Jester, of Woodruff, S, Q., 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.
CITY CLEAN
CHIEF
“The Law and Noble Policemen
My Weapons in Fight,” He
Writes in Magazine,
Dixie Man, Famed
In Canal Work, Dies
BALTIMORE. Dec. 5.—Lieutenant
Colonel David B. Gaillard. member of
the Panama Canal 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 one 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
Memyss 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 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
ward about it than others, and I
think the cause of this is largely due
to the attitude of the citizens in the
community 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 tn ill back them up in these re
forms. But where there is doubt in
the officer’s mind about this, he nat-
i/^lly 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,
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 brieve 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
MISS BELLA LEVY.
MISS MARY WALKER.
PET KITTEN! FLEAS! OIL!
MATCH! CHOMSKY! COURT!
Continued on Page 5, Column 1.
$250,000 a Year for
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 man or woman
—will be detailed in
Next Sunday’s American
Order from your dealer or by phone to
Main 100.
A. S. Chomsky, a merchant at No.
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 fire to her pet
kitten after she had soaked it in oil at
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 its 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 as
to the best method to rid her pet of
insects. Chomsky, she said, had ad
vised saturating the kitten with kero
sene.
Mrs. Stansell purchased a quantity
of kerosene and gave the kitten a
bath. An hour afterward the little
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
the flaming match to the floor the
playful cat pounced upon it, and its
oily fur caught the flames.
The merchant denied emphatically
that he set the cat on fire for the
sport of seeing it burn, as wa*
charged.
for Best Essays by Pupils.
Elaborate Daily Program for Exhibit.
Mrs. Pankhurst on
Hunger-Thirst Strike
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
. EXETER, ENGLAND, Dec. 6.—
! 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.
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.
Mrs. Pankhurst collapsed late this
afternoon and a physician was called
in to attend her.
Atlanta Mailing Its
Xmas Gifts Early
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 be placed in the lobby to
assist in expediting the mailing of
packages.
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 developed to-day that President
Wilson is suffering from a slight
touch of fever due to an attack of the
grip, lodged in hfcj nose and throat.
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Six hundred Atlanta school girls
are busy Saturday arranging their
notes on the Child Welfare exhibit
and Public Health exhibit which they
visited Thursday as guests of the
show, and 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 which 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 of the
High School, and were shown every
department and feature of the ex
hibit.
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.
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.
The regular kindergarten classes,
with a demonstration by the home
makers’ class, will occupy the morn
ing hours on Saturday, and in the
afternoon two 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.”
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 his experience and condi
tion gave him the next three games, j
and the match, after a grand uphill
battle. A big gallery watched the j
Play.
Mayor to Approve
Salary Increases
Mayor Woodward gave assurance
Friday that he would approve the ac
tion of Council and the Aldermanic
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 street property own
ers, the amount left over from the
$30,000 fund subscribed by private
citizens for that Improvement.
Southern Officials to
Greet Harrison Here
Local officials of the Southern Rail
way are preparing for the visit of
Fairfax Harrison, the new president
of the road, when he cornea to At
lanta soon after Christmas on a tout
of Inspection.
Atlanta Parks Are
Worth $1,200,000
In preparing hts 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 $186,654
and their present value is approxi
mately $1,200,000.
SAVAbTN AH FUGITIVE CAUGHT.
JACKSONVILLE, Dec. 6.—Craw
ford Vassar, a negro, wanted for mur
der in Savannah, was arrested here
by Detective J. Q. Quattlebaum to
day.
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Congressman, on Request of De-
partment of Justice, Starts
Compilation of Data.
FOR OFFICIAL
RAGE R FAULTS
AND ENTRIES SEE
SPORTING PAGES.
WASHINGTON, D ,C., Dee. 5.
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-
e r a 1 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 la willing to
give the Department of Justice an op
portunity to take the Initiative In an
Investigation, but unless ft acts he
will seek a Congressional probe.
United States Wants Facts.
Although It Is known that the de
partment has done little 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 1*
warranted. He suggested that It la
unnecessary for the House to act lit
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 Intel
prison affairs as administered unde*
Warden Moyer. Mr. Howard said
to-day:
To Let Department Proceed.
"I have had a long talk with As
sistant Ai -.;ey 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 capably
of handling the situation. In .view of
such a statement, I regard It as fat*
to give the 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 a probe.”
Park Also for Probe.
Congressman Park, the new mem
ber from the Second Georgia District,
told The Georgian correspondent to
day that he Is considering the Intro
duction of a resolution similar to that
suggested by Congressman Howard.
Mr. Park, former Judge of the Albany
Circuit, said he had read the Haw
thorne charges and had determined
to write the author, who served a
term In the prison, for a definite
statement of his allegations. Judge
Park said he would approach the
question with an open mind and
would hear both sides before taklo*
action, if he decides to co-opera-
v. h Mr. Howard.
Congressman Howard is aware
that present officials of the depart
ments seem rather averse to starttn#
an Investigation, but he was more en,
couraged after the talk with Assist
ant Attorney General Graham.
Mr. Howard’s further action de
pends upon the attitude of the De
partment of Justice after going ovcj
his papers. . 4