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EXTRA The Atlanta Georgian Read for Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use for Results EXTRA VOL. XII. NO. 108. ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1913. b/W&IS?' Co. 2 CENTS. p « c OFFICIAL DEMAND MADE FOR PRISON PROBE C C&) C&J c&j 'Mrs. Crawford Attached in Letter 600 GIRLS TO WRITE ON CHILD-WELFARE SHOW $ 23 S3 HD’ ON TO STAY, SAYS BEAVERS IF IEKE1 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. h|s 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. 1 J 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