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fTTCARST'S SUNDAY AMERICAN, 1 ATLANTA, OA.. SUNDAY, DECEMBER
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WIFE; HELD IS 'TIGER
,). 1). Summers, Selma, Ala., Durggist, Freed of
Charge of Hurling Wife to Death. Rearresed
on Charge of Violating Liquor Laws.
ABA., Deo. 6,—Rearrost on
tti. hax*e at violating the liquor laws
» the fate of J D. Summers after
had been freed by a jury of the
rge of the murder of hts wife,
uie B. Summers, last April by
;-.r >wintr her from a second-story
window.
He was released by the Sheriff
nortly after being arrested.
The murder trial was one of the
mott sensational In the history at
Selma. t . '
The indlotmsnt against Summers
ras returned by the Grand Jury which
•-djonmed ten days ago. It was a
surprise. He nas been prominent in
»he city, and, while he ha# never prac-
■;,ed medlplne, he has conducted a
drug store for years and Is known
a, 'Doctor'’ Summers. He had
C.aesed considerable wealth, and
when hts wife died on April 28 and
whispering* about her death began to
be beard, widespread Interest was
awakened in the manner of life of
Summers and his wife.
Ones Resided in Atlanta.
Summers and his wife left here a
vear or two ago and resided In At
lanta a snort time, but soon returned
to Selma, It was alleged that they
did not live happily together.
On Thursday night, April 26, Po-
iceman William Barker, according to
hts testimony, saw Summers coming
down the stairs from tha aecond-story
apartment over an empty store. He
swore he saw Summers walk out to
the sidewalk, pi$k up the limp form
of a woman and taka the body back
upstairs. He was only a short dis
tance away, but, knowing something
of the couple, he did not Investigate,
thinking the woman was only drunk
and needed aid to get to her rooms.
Barker says Sumomrs carried the
body of hts wife across his shoulders
and placed her in bed at 12:45 o’clock
in the morning.
Other witnesses have sworn that no
doctor was called until 7 or 8 o'clock
next morning and that the woman
was badly hurt.
When Mrs. Hattie Watkins and
Mrs. Annie Russell, neighbors, were
called In to ssslst in shrouding the
body, it Is said they were astonished
at the bruises on the body.
Coroner Decides to Act.
Reports became so sensational that
( oroner Jud Breslin. at the Instiga
tion of Assistant Solicitor Mangum,
began an Inquest. He caused a post
mortem examination to be made by
Dr. J. S. Chisolm and Dr. T. G. Du-
Bose. They reported that the wo
man’s spinal column had been broken,
and that she appeared to have been
beaten.
The Coroner’s jury committed Dr.
Summers to jail, but he was allowed
bail by Judge J. W. Mabry. He was
at liberty until an indictment was
If I Ale That
I Would Die
You WlU Never Fear Food It
You Go to a Dinner Carry
ing One Little Stuart’s
Dyspepsia Tablet.
Too needn’t pass op ail those savory
dishes lust because you are afraid of
what the stomach will say to them
Armed wtth a box of Stuart’s Dyspepsia
Tab'ets, you oan bid defiance to the
most cantankerous stomach and be as
sured that your food will be perfectly
d'gented In spite of the stomach's ob
jections.
found and he was recommitted to
-jail.
Witnesses for the State bore out
the evidence submitted by the phy
sicians in their post-mortem exami
nation. The theory of the State, as
brought out by Solicitor Thompson,
was that the woman had received her
fatal wounds at the hands of her hus
band.
The evidence tended to show there
had been an estrangement, that Sum
mers had often beaten his wife, that
they had separated once and had
gone back together again, and that he
was brutal In the extreme toward her.
Witnesses swore he showed no signs
of emotion while he waited in the
room with the body of his wife.
Mrs. Watkins, who was one of the
first to reach the bed on which the
dead woman lay, said he greeted her
with a single "good morning," and
walked out of the room as prepara
tions were begun for the burial.
Jury Representative Body.
Seven witnesses were examined by
the State and a long list of citizens,
neighbors and friends of the accused
were called by the defense.
At the conclusion of the examina
tion of witnesses for the defense,
Former Congressman W. B. Craig,
of counsel for defense, moved to ex
clude all of the State's evidence on
the ground that the corpus delicti, or
body of the crime, had not been
proven. In fact, he argued, no crime
had been committed and showed the
hand of the defense to the effect that
the deceased came to her death by
reason of accidentally falling from
the second-story window of their
apartments, combatting the State’s
theory that she had been struck a
blow which rendered her unable to
keep from falling through the open
window. The motion was refused by
Judge B. M. Miller.
The defense sought to show that
the dead woman was addicted to the
habit of strong drink and succeeded
in getting the fact before the Jury
that she was seen In a drunken con
dition the day before her fall from
the window.
While more than 60 men were sum
moned for the trial, it proved to be
an easy matter to get a jury. Men
from all walks of life, merchants,
clerks, farmers, machinists and engi
neers, were on the jury.
Arguments of counsel were ex
haustive
Critic Criticised, He
Sues Show Manager
JOUET, IBB., Dec. 6.—A suit for
$10,000 damages is the latest event In
the war between M. R. Kelly, dra
matic critic for The Herald, and the
management of a burlesque show at
the Orpheum Theater.
Kelly saw the show and was so
pained his review waa far from com
plimentary. Charles T-eRoy manager
of the company, addressed the audi
ence and said the hostility of the crit
icism was due to Kelly having been
[•thrown out of the theater.
Kelly was accosted by one of the
j troupe, who struck him in the face,
j breaking his glasses and >«*vlng him
i on the street,
j This disagreement was patched up
: later, but Kelly filed suit against Be-
Roy and the theater,
Meanest Bridegroom
Takes Justice’s Hat
BOS ANGKBES, Deo. 6.—Justice
I Summerfleld entered his courtroom to
day without hie customary smile and
Jaunty manner It appears that when
he married a loving oouple the evening
before the bridegroom not only did not
pay him any fee, but walked off with
the magistrate's brand-new hat.
“t Just bought that hat,” said Sum
merfleld "It was an expensive one.
That man I married wore a hat that
looks as though he got It at a rummage
sale He Is tha meanest man in 1-os
Angeles County."
Godbe Motion for
New Trial Put Off at
Counsel's Bequest
I December 18 Date of Hearing AI le
gations Made of Prejudice by
Three Juror*.
AUGUSTA, Dec. 6.—At the request
of Solicitor General Moore and the
other attorneys for the State, Judge
Hammond to-day postponed the con
sideration of the motion for a new
trial for Mrs. Edna Perkins Godbe
until Thursday, Deeemb.er 18.
The attorneys for the State had
been unable to see the amended mo*
tlon for a new trial until a few min
utes before the hearing was called
tp-day.
The amended motion charges that
the court erred in many instances in
charging the jury; that three jurors
were prejudiced, iind that each of the
three stated before the trial that Mrs.
Godbee should hang. The jurors
mentioned are Samuel Palmer, the
foreman, and Hoyt D. Brinson and
George W. ‘Johnson. It is claimed
that Palmer made the statement that
the defendant ought to hang to O. B.
Brown at Stellaville; that Brinson
told J. M. Brinson that she ought to
have her neck broken, and that John
son also said she ought to have her
neck broken.
Mrs. Godbee was convicted at Mil-
len in September and given a life
sentence for the murder of her former
husband, Judge W. T. Godbe© and his
second wife, Mrs. Florence Boyce
Godbee.
Macon Lawyers Plan
New Year Banquet
MACON, Dec. 6.—The lawyers of
Macon will hold a banquet, the first
since they dined Judge Emory Speer,
five years ago, on the night of Jan
uary 1, 1914.
At the annual meeting of the Ma
con Bar Association to-day the need
for the lawyers to get closer together
was stressed and the banquet was
pointed out as tho best means to this
end. The Bar Association also took
definite steps toward the establish
ment of a central law library, to be
maintained by annual assessments on
all lawyers of the city. Judge Nat E.
Harris was re-elected president; Du
pont Guerry, vice president, and Wal
lace Miller, secretary.
At Every Banquet You Will Always
See Some Perron Who la Afraid i
of Food."
Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablet* are * 00 * n ‘
pound of pepsin, and those elements that
must be secreted by the stomach if the j
food is to be digested When the stom
ach fails to secrete enough of these di
gestive agencies, the only sane remedy
s to supply a sufficient quantity of these
Aments to digest the food. This Is the
service for which Stuart's Dyspepsia
Tablets were made and they are recom
mended by leading doctors and seten-
ste. One or two of theta tablets is
sufficient to digest the largest dinner.
They stop almost instantly ail form* of
’’.digestion, such as sour stomach,
Gening, heartburn, dizziness, brash and
dysentery. Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets
•ntain digestive elements, a single
•"-"ain of which is capable of digesting
3.990 grains of food, such as meats, eggs,
grains, vegetables, starches and mineral
matters of all kinds.
If your stomach is sluggish or worn
ut, let Stuart's Dyspej^sta Tablets do
vour digesting for you until the stom
ach can recuperate Give it a little va
cation. It has a hard enough struggle
at the best, with all you put in it. And
even when your stomach is in perfect
condition, you wdll occasionally need one
after a big banquet or other social affair
tnat taxes your stomach to the utter
most.
Make Btuart's Dyspepsia Tablets th«
ever-ready friend and assistant to your
stomach Get a 50o bo* of your drug
gist to-day.
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Governor’s Wife to
Buy New Leg for Dog
GRAND ISBAND, NEBR, Dec. 8 —
Through the thoughtfulness of Mrs.
Hiram Johnson, wife of the Govern
or of California, Honk, a railroad dog
of Grand Island, is to have a new
wooden leg.
Mrs Johnson passed through
Grand Island. As she looked through
the Pullman window Honk limped up
with a conductor. Mrs. Johnson,
calling the conductor, said: "Please
get me the address of the owner of
that dog. When I get back home
1 11 send him a wooden leg.”
Kansas Man Planning
Cruise of 7,000 Miles
KANSAS CITY, MO., Deo. 6.—Be
fore the Sweetheart, Edward H.
Witte’s new ocean-going launch, with
her owner and a party of friends on
board reaches Chicago next April,
she will put 7.000 miles of water be
hind her.
The cruise will take the Witte par
ty down the Missouri and Mississippi
Rivers, through the Gulf of Mexico,
UP the Atlantic coast to New York,
through the Erie Canal and the Great
Bakes to Chicago. _
Elopers Win Pace;
Arrested, Then Freed
WINONA, MINN., Deo. 6.—An hour
and a half after William Iseness and
Rosie Moss, of Sparta, WIs.. had been
married In Winona a message was re
ceived from the bride's father asking
the police to arrest them, in an effort
to prevent their marriage.
Ttie father was advised that the
service had been performed.
The two were taken into custody, but
later the father asked that they be re
leased and permitted to return home to
receive bis toisivenesa,
Man Weeps as He
Prosecutes Brother
MACON, Dec. 6.—George Anderson,
proprietor of a hotel in Denver, wept
Prevent 5Kin
Blemishes
By Using
Cutlcura Soap
and Olntmeni
They do so much to promote and
maintain the purity and beauty oi
the complexion, hands and hair un
der all conditions, and are unexcelled
in purity, delicacy and fragrance for
the toilet and nursery.
Cutlcur* Soap And Ointment sold threufbout thi
world. Liberal sample of eacli mailed free, wltb
32-p. Sook Addreee ‘Cutlcura.'' Dept 8R, Breton
■9-Men who shave and shampoo with Cutlcur*
Roap will find It beet for skin and scalp.
Neglected Kidneys
cttu.se headache, dizziness, lame
back, torpid liver and dropsy. If
you arise unrefreshed in the
morning, are weak, depressed and
have indigestion, all are symp
toms of kidneys so diseased that
the, blood is improperly purified.
You need
Warner’s Safe Kidney
and Liver Remedy
because it goes right to the seat
of th* trouble and is the most re
liable and successful kidney and
liver remedy known to-day.
Nothing else can do you so much
good, for it has a persistent re
storing action on the kidneys and
liver which brings perceptible re
lief almost immediately
Mrs. E. Arnold, Kersey, Polo.,
writes: “T suffered from kidney
trouble and found no relief until I
commenced using Warner’s Safe
Kidney and Liver Remedy. Two
months after I began using it I
was a well woman.”
Sold
by all
DrusQlstt
1— Kidney and Liver Remedy
2— Rheumatic Remedy
3— Oiabotea Remedy
4— Aathma Remedy
5— Nervine
6—Pill*
Constipation
Biliousness
like a chiltl to-day us he stood at the
bar in Police Court and prosecuted
his half-brother, T. F. Wyche,
charged with the theft of diamond*
and other jewelry belonging to An-
dereon, who ia here at the bedside of
their dying mother.
“I am doing this because I believe
it is best for th© boy’s own good,” Mr.
Anderson sobbed.
The man to whom Wyche pawned
the jewelry testified. The Recorder
bound the defendant over to the Su
perior Court under bond of J300 for
larceny from the house.
Deer So Plentiful
Cows Are Labeled
DANBURY, CONN., Dec. 6— Under
the law which protects them until
1917, deep are becoming so numerous
In this section that they are a men
ace to automobiles on the State roads.
The strong headlights of automobiles
have the same effect as "jacking," the
animals walking Into tho bright rays
Just as they do when shooters use a
calcium light to kill ueer nt night.
George C. Manchester, of New York
City, who arrived hero from tho
North, reported that a buck with larg«
antlers was attracted by his search
lights near Kent and that he was go
ing so fast he could not avoid hitting
the animal,
In confirmation of this story, a
veracious correspondent says that
farmers are now labeling their cows
so that Immigrant servants can tell
them from the deer.
Tree Sawing Device
Supplants Woodmen
LEWISTON, MAINE, Dec. 6.—Dan
iel W. Smith has Invented a machine
fnr sawing trees down with a mini
mum amount of waste and labor.
Penobscot lumbermen who have
been trying the appliance out say it
is likely that next season will find
many of the Eastern Maine lumber
camps equipped with the new device.
Suit Is Entered for
Former Town's Site
ATCHISON, KAN&, Dec. 6—The
passing of a historic Kansas town is
recalled by an action filed in the
District Court, here by Albert J.
Schoenecker to gain possession of the
town site of Pardee, containing about
five acres.
The town, now extinct, was named
for Pardee Butler, who, in the border
days, was tarred and feathered and
sent alone down the Missouri River
on a raft.
Write for a free sample, giving
the number of remedy desired, to
Warner’s Safe Remedies Co.,
Dept. 435, Rochester, N. V.
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Goodyear Raincoat
Great Holiday Sale
BEGINS MONDAY, DECEMBER 8th
Buy Handsome,
Stylish, Practical
at 331 CENTS ON THE $1
Mr-
Xmas Gifts
Santa Claus has just arrived—wearing a GOODYEAR RAINCOATof course! and will
make his headquarters at this store for the next six days—almost GIVING AWAY Goodyear
Waterproof “Winterproof” garments to ev^ry one of his thousands of Atlanta friends, young and old.
Our mammoth factories MUST GO ON, regardless of unfavorable weather—the result is—
THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS tied up in surplus stock—regular high-grade Goodyear Water
proof Overcoats, Raincoats, Gabardines, Silk Coats and Slip-Ons for Men, Women and Children. We
will literally “throw them at your feet” this week special at 33 1-3 cents on the dollar. Garments “that
will keep you dry in wet weather and warm in winter”—useful, comfortable, dressy, stylish Christ
mas Gifts. If you have any regard for the value of a dollar, you will COME or ORDER BY
MAIL. All purchases made for Christmas Gifts will be put up in handsome Xmas boxes and
~ delivered Christmas morning if desired.
SALE STARTS 8 A.M. MONDAY!
$9.00 RAINCOATS
For men, women and chil
dren. Splendidly made of
double texture cloth; every
seam securely sewed, then
vulcanized. A perfect fit
assured.
$2.98
$11 English Slip-Ons
For men and women. Nob
by styles, in excellent all-
wool, double texture cash-
mere, Regulation or Raglan
shoulders. Note the finely
tailored finish.
$3.78
$12.50 Silk Coats
fit • • • •
Ladles’ handsome Silk _____
Coats, with English ”
metallic back — blues
and blacks, worth
$12.50. this sale, choice
$3.98
. $3.98
Extra
Special
$1.79
$5 Values
$20 Priestley
Cravenettes
Priestley’s English
Cravenetted H o m e -
spun Cloth Overcoats
Imported direct from
London. They’re ab
solutely waterproof.
Two coat* In one.
$8.50
Imported English Slip-ons for
men, women and children. Prac
tical, handsome, long-wearing
garments. They were
$5—this sale
$1.79
$40 Goodyear
Overcoats
Guaranteed water
proof. Made of fine
Scotch Tweed*. Also
In rich English mix
ture*. One of the
handsomest line* of
waterproof overcoats
for men and women
ever shown In this
olty.
$17.50
Extra Special
$5 Boys 7 and
Girls’ Eng-
lish Slip-Ons
The finest models of
the season; sizes 6 to
16 years. Regular $4
values. Sale price,
$1.79
$3.50
Girls’
RainCapes
Capes of the
beat mate
rial; careful
ly made and
g u a ranteed
water proof.
Regular (3.50
value. Sale
price,
$15 English Slip-Ons
For men and women. Splendid example* of
what Goodyear quality
really Is. Made of
cashmere in the popu
lar shades of tan and
brown.
$5.69
$ ll Poplins
(Imported)
For Women
A direct Importation
of women's waterproof
coats In poplin and
silk. Beautiful shades
of blue, tan and gray.
Also In black.
$4.48
Extra Special
’1.79
$5 Values
Imported English Slip-ons for
men, women and children. Prac
tical, handsome, long-wearing
garments. They were « , —q
$5—this sale $1./“
Everybody is Going to the Busy Goodyear Store!
Extra
Salespeople
Will Be
On Hand
MAIL ORDERS
Out-of-town folks may share In this wonderful Raincoat Sale. Select any Coat advertised
and we will send it by Parcel Post the same day your order Is received. We fit you as
well as If you were here—the name “Goodyear” Is your protection.
GOODYEAR RAINCOATCO.
35 Peachtree Street — Next to Nunnally’s --- 35 Peachtree Street
GIFTS
Stored and
Delivered
Christmas
If Desired