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SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, DECKATBER
1913.
TO ENTnAP YOUNG GIRLS
Startling Revelations of Drugging of
Victims in Picture Shows Revealed
Following Arrest of Youth in New
ark-New Vice Methods Exposed.
NKW YORK. Dec. 6 The nrrePt of
Armand Megaro in Newark. N J .
on the chargee <*f having used a "poi
soned needle” on. Mrs. Marjorie (IraIT,
of Brooklyn, while the young woman
was seated beside him in a Newark
theater, has aroused the heads of so-
cietlea for the protection of young
girls.
As a result of the efforts of these
nocleties an investigntlon was begun
to-day by the Department of Justice
to determine the extent of the use
of “the poisoned needle” to entrap
reputable young girls into white slav
ery*
Two inspectors of the white slave
branch of the secret service have been
detailed to Investigate cases that
have been reported to the authorities
in this city. More than a dozen such
cases came to light to-day and in
formation has been received that
similar devices have been used by
white slave agents in other cities.
New Drugs Employed.
District Attorney Whitman was in
formed three weeks ago by Miss
Louiso <; Vreeland. of the Girls’
Friend Society of St George’s Par
ish. of the experience of a young”girl
under the care of the society who had
been stabbed with a needle in a mov
ing picture theater in the city
Three young men had attempted to
carry the stupefied girl into n taxi
cab, but were prevented by a com
panion who had insisted that she be
taken to the office of a physician
where she was revived. Several
other cases, each of which took place
1n darkened moving picture theaters,
have been reported to the police.
Thu drugs used in these cases are
hyoscine or cocaine. The former
which has recently come into general
use as a substitute for morphine in
the treatment of active mania and de
lirium, Is comparatively easy to ob
tain. It takes effect much more rap
idly than morphine or chloral. One
plunge «if the needle is folowed by
immediate faintness and loss of
speech, rnconsciousneas rjuicly fol
lows This drug, however. Is ex
ceedingly dangerous A dose of one
grain would be certain to cause death.
The ordinary dose is 1.100 or 1.120 of
a grain.
How Drug Affects Victim.
Curare, the drug which is alleged
to have been used in the Newark
case, is very rare and ran not be re
lied upon to produce the stupefying
effects desired. It usually excites
convulsions. It is a concoction made
by South American Indians from the
hark of a tree and boiled down and
mixed with the venom of certain
poisonous reptiles.
Megan*, the youth under arrest in
Newark, was warmly defended to
day by his former associates in the
Barringer High School and the New
ark branch of the Y. M. <\ A. The
young man was born In the Argen
tine Republic of Italian parents and
was brought to Newark by his uncle,
a reputable physician who desired
him to become a pharmacist.
The boy. however, showed little
diligence in his studies in the high
school and in the New Jersey ('al
lege of Pharmacy. His uncle then
became disgusted with bis apparent
lack of ambition and he left home and
sought work in various places around
the city, lie lately bad been employ
ed in a drug store
Medical examination of the needle
found In the box in which Megaro
was seated when Mrs. Graff was
stabbed is being made, in the mean
time Megaro Is being held In $20,000
bail.
Tinsley Accused of
$60,500 Bank Theft
SAVANNAH. Dec. « Fleming *>•
Tinsley, member of one of the most
prominent families in the State, re
cently acquitted by h Superior Court
Jury of a charge of larceny after trust
Jn connection with the failure of Ills
cotton firm, has now been indicted by
it Federal Grand Jury in a like case.
Tinsley is charged with taking $60.-
f»00 from the Merchants National
Bank, of which he was a director,
through the representation that there
■was enough cotton in the warehouse
Co protect the loan.
Joseph Hull, father of Tinsley's
partner. Dan Hull, who Is one of 1 he
wealthiest citizens in the State, made
the money good with the bank.
Man Weeps as He
Prosecutes Brother
MACON. Dec. 6 George Anderson,
proprietor of a hotel in Denver, wept
like a child to-day as he stood at the
bar in Police Court and proaecuied
liis half-brother, T. F. Wyche,
charged with the theft of diamonds
and other jewelry belonging to An
derson. v. ho is here at the bedside of
their dying mother
“1 am doing this because 1 believe
it is best for the 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 $300 for
larceny from the house.
Prevent SKin
Blemishes
Cuticura Soap
and Ointment
They do so much to promote and
maintain the purity and beauty ol
ihe complexion, hands and hair un
der all conditions, and are unexcelled
in purity, delicacy and fragrance for
the tuilet and nursery.
4". Soap 1 Ointment Mid throii.t.o it t he
• yri Liberal sample of each mailed free, wilt
S:-r> Address ' ( ulleura." Dept SH. Boeton
* n suave and Biiampo<> with Cuticura
l~ ap v... r..id U Pea; lor aam and auUp.
Barron Case Opens
Augusta Liquor War
AUGUSTA. Dec. 6 C. A Diiquct,
attorney for Sol Barron, proprietor
of the Metropole near-beer saloon,
must show cause Monday before
Judge Henry <\ Hammond, of the Su
perior Court, why his place should
not he closed as u public nuisance.
Barron haa been ordered to produce
in court his Federal license to retail
whisky. This Is expected be an Im
portant factor in the cose, n» tending
to show Barron’s intent to sell malt
and spirituons liquors.
The opening skirmish in the Au
gusta campaign will be watched with
intense interest There unquestiona
bly is a hard tight ahead of the Luw
Enforcement Deague, for it has been
remarked “it will be at hard to get
whisky out of Augusta as it was to
rid Sodom of sin.” Augusta never
ha a been totally dry.
Real ‘Sticky* Party
Given by Bachelor
FORT VALLEY, Dec. 6 Illustrat
ing Fort Valley’s predilection to tear
off stunts unheard of before and un
thought of by residents of any other
section was a social affair this week,
when John H. Allen, a confirmed
bachelor, yet on the sunny side of 50,
whose fortune wax made from or-
Cfe&rdS that abound «»n the 1,200
acres of his ancestral farm, gave a
"syrup sopping" party at his colonial
home, a few miles east of here
ll was unquestionably the "sticki
est” social event of this or any other
season.
The invited guests wont out in au
tomobiles and were “obligingly’’ re
ceived by the patriarch!t*tl host, at
the mill, where the cane was being
ground and the juice converted into
the more delectable and desirable
syrup.
Postoffice Robbed;
Dogs Trail Thieves
COLUMBIA, S. C., Dec. 6—Bur
glars entered the postoffice at Blythe-
wood, a small town near Columbia,
to-day and Titled a quantity of regis
tered mail. The home of the post
master and a dry goods store wera
also robbed. ^
The robbers made their escape and
are being trailed by bloodhounds from
the State penitentiary. They filled
a buggy full of shoes and other arti
cles from the dry goods store.
75 of McAdory Clan
Present at Wedding
BIRMINGHAM. Dec 6.—No less
than 75 members of the McAdory
Gian of Jefferson County, brothers,
half-brothers.* aunts. uncles. sis
ters. cousins and other kin. at-
| tended the marriage of Helen Mc
Adory. daughter of Sheriff Walter K
McAdory, and Carlton Smith, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Zack Smith.
The wedding, which was one of the
most interesting of the fall season,
occurred at the First Methodist
Church and was followed' by a re
ception at the McAdory home.
Salas Builds Wall
Across Railroad in
A Battle for Land
j Naval Stores Man A!30 Defies City.
Fe.Tr of Mine Leaves Him
Victorious.
SAVANNAH, Dec. C R. H Salas,
wealthy naval :<*r»s and fertiliser
man. is becoming famous in Savan-
I nah in a three-cornered row with the
city and the Centra! of Georgia Rail-
wa y
Halafl recently purchased extensive
water frontage. In doing so he got
la sidetrack belonging to the Central
of Georgia Railway and a lane be
longing to the city. He immediately
started closing the lane arid tearing
up the cobble atones, but an injunc
tion stopped him. lie then tore up
the Central of Georgia tracks, and
built a thick wall across the open
ing The company sent a switch en
gine and knocked the wall down. He
has now efe* ted across the opening a
algn the size of a large billboard
warning the railroad not to again
trespass on his property.
Just what plans he has made he
would not say, but so sure are the
company employees that he has
planted a mine, that no one will tak-j
an engine in.
Four Sentenced for
Breaking Into Cars
COLUMBUS, Dec. 6 In Federal
Court here Irvin Cummins was con
victed and Frank Hill secured a mis
trial, Cummins being sentenced to
serve a year and a day in the Fed
eral Prison at Atlanta for ear break
ing. Allie Griffin, Eugene Cox and
Daly Monroe pleaded guilty and were
sentenced In two years in .the Na
tional Training School near Wash
ington.
Deputies Fail to Find
Slayer of Six in Mine
BINGHAM, UTAH. Dec. 6. After
nearly one-half of the Utah*Apex
mine had been searched by deputy
sheriffs to-day, Ralph l^opez, the des
perado who killed six men, was not
found.
Searchers came upon a cave-ln and
it was supposed the bad man suc
ceeded in staying on tile side of this
where the poison gases pumped into
the mine to suffocate him could not
penet rate.
Indicted for Stealing
Six Spools of Thread
SAVANNAH, Dec. tl. Henry Mar
shall, of Vidalia, has been ^indicted by
the Federal Grand Jury because it .s
alleged he stole six spools of thread,
valued at 5 cents each, from the mails
♦ when he was acting as rural carrier.
His eu«f* will come up for tripl at this
session.
It cost the Government more than
$100 to get the necessary witnesses to
secure the indictment.
Dr. John E. White, Pastor of First
Baptist Church, to Deliver
an Address.
'Hie Child Welfare and Public
Health Exhibit in the old l^eyden
House o/i Peachtree street will be
< pen Sunday from 1 o’clock to 6. with
every department of the exhibit, ex-
< • pt the moving pictures, In full op
eration. The "movies,” though of an
educational character, will not he
shown because of the city ordinance
which prohibits the showing of mov
ing pictures on Sunday.
No admission will be charged Sun
day. Because *>f the few hours that
the exhibit will be open no attempt
h.r- been made to arrange one of the
elaborate programs that have fed-
• ire<| the show (luring the week.
Dr. John E. White, pastor of the
Second Baptist church, will deliver
• n address* at 3:30 o’clock on the
"Mountain Folk." but with the excep
tion of this there will be no added
features to the show.
Special attention will be paid to
day to the health conference, through
which parents are given an opportu
nity to Jiave their children examined
by prominent, physicians, members of
the Fulton County Medical Society.
The doctors are donating their serv
ices to the show management, and no
charge is made for the examination.
More than 100 children have been
examined since the show opened, an 1
the conference is proving one of fs
most important departments. It is
expected that there will be more
babies brought to the show for :he
free exmaintion to-day than there
have ever been, owing to the fact that
many parents can come on Sunday
who could not come during the
week, and six doctors will be on hand
to do the work.
WHITNEY IN CONCERT.
Myron W\ Whitney, basso, will ap
pear in concert at the Ansley Hotel
December 9 under the auspices of the
Young Women’s Christian Associa
tion. He will be assisted by Margue
rite Valentine, an English pianist.
Clever Pickpocket
Gets Empty Purse
Traveling Salesman Has Laugh on
Thief—Put Money in An
other Pocket.
Some supposedly clever pickpocket
no doubt is severely kicking hijnself
this morning. At the same time, J.
W. Barwick, a traveling salesman, is
grinning over the smooth way in
which he "put one over” on the thief.
Barwick walked into the postoffice
Saturday afternoon to send . off a
money order, and noticed a consider
able crowd about the money order
window. He had just had a check
cashed for $50, and put the money in
his vest pocket and returned the purse
to.his hip pocket.
A few moments later Barwick eased
into the crowd and worked his wav
to the window. When he emerged
he telt for his purse. It was gone.
He felt for his money in the vest
pocket. R was intact. Detective Ros
ser was notified by Barwick in the
hope that the empty purse might lead
to the capture of the disappointed
pickpocket.
Colyar Trial Is Set
For Tuesday at Rome
The trial of A. S Colyar, the "dicto
graph expert and secret conversation '
procurer,” on a charge of swindling J
Mrs. S C. Awtrey. of Rome. Ga., out
of $750 in money and notes, will be
held before a Rome justice of the
peace Tuesday afternoon, according
to dispatches received here last night.
O-’yjir was arrested on complaint
of Vlrs. Aw trey's son, H. J. Awtrey,
of Chicago, who asserts that Colyar
induced his mother to give him the
money to save her son from the pen
itentiary.
IS DORSETFOB
F!
Solicitor Needs Them to Prepare
Brief—Defense to Finish
Them Monday.
Representing that possession of the
original papers in the case of the
State against Leo M. Frank was
m-fessary for the preparation of the
State’s brief, Solicitor General Hugh
M. Dorsey obtained an order Satur
day from Judge Ben H. Hill, of the
criminal division of the Superior
Court, for the return of the papers
to the office of the court clerk.
Clerk John H. Jones was informed
by Herbert Haas, of counsel for the
defense, that Frank’s lawyers were
not entirely through with the papers.
An agreement was reached, however,
which provided for the return of the
amended motion and other papers on
Monday. The brief of evidence was
given into the custody of the clerk.
The defense practically has com
pleted Its work in the preparation for
the new trial argument which has
been set for a hearing on December
15 before the Supreme Court of Geor-*
gia .
Solicitor Dorsey also has been
busily engaged in preparing his brief
and will go before the high court de
termined to establish that the de
fendant is for no reason entitled to
another trial.
Baptist Orphan Day
Set for December 14
Individuals whose interest lies in
the welfare of the Baptist Orphans’
Home are considering it an occasion
for congratulation that the Ingather
ing Day of the iiome should fall si
multaneously with the "Go-to-Church
Day” for Atlanta and vicinity.
December 14 has been named as
the day for both events. H. D. Haw
kins, who is connected with the home,
j has issued a card telling of the con
junction of the dates.
REAL HIGH-CLASS
MUSICAL COMEDY
AT THE BONITA
The highest priced and best
Musical Comedy Company on the
road is booked for the Bonita for
all next week. The girls are all
beauties, and know how io sing
and dance. The cwnedians are
away above the average.
Dick Top*-. leader of the orches
tra, lias added a violin and cor- !
net. and the music in itself is 1
worth tlie* price of admission. If !
you are in doubt as to where to go. ;
you won’t make a mistake if you !
select the Bonita—always good. ;
always clean.
Charles IV. Cranfyshaw
Diamond Merchant
and Jeweler
1 have for this Christmas Season the most
attractive selection of latest NOVELTIES in
GOLD and SILVER.
DIAMONDS, in LA VALLIERES,
BROOCHES and RINGS.
WATCHES in all sizes, for all uses, in
cluding a wide range of the BRACELET
WATCH—one of the mo-t popular articles ever
produced by the Goldsmith.
Brooches, Scarf Pins, Sleeve Buttons, and
a complete line of Gold Jewelry.
The “Lucky Blue Bird” in Brooches, Rings
and Hat Pins.
In Silver—Flat and Hollow-ware for the
table.
And a superb assortment in Purses, Card
and Vanity Cases, and Mesh Bags.
Goods and prices to please every one.
You are cordially invited to call.
Charles IV. Cranlfshau)
16 Whitehall Street
Atlanta National Bank. Building
Suspenders Make
Vagrant a Suicide
NEW YORK, Dec t; With the aid
of his suspenders. Joseph Grant, 45,
hanged himself early to-day in a cell
in Raymond street jail, Brooklyn. He
had been committed on a vagrancy
charge.
6.—With the aid
li
Ate That
I Would Die
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Pair to Roll Around
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NEW YORK. Dec. 6. Antonio Zan-
ardi and Eugene Bisbiarno. Venetians,
will atlempt to roll around the world
in a hiige barrel for a prize of $2,000.
Starting here, they expect to make
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Childrens
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Up the Youngster’s
Buy Them At This Special Sale!
This sale of ours offers an unprecedented opportunity to buy toys.
We have cut the prices, and cut them deep. Why pay the “long” price
for toys when you may select from our unusually large stock and pay
about one-half the regular price?
Kitchen Sets
Sale
Play Stoves
Worth
SI,
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Special
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Wheelbarrows
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$2.50 VoEocipedes
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Table and
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Slock of
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