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6 A HEARS?' 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 DOLL TRUNKS Special at $1.50 TOOL CHESTS Special price 69c You Will Never Fear Food If You Go to a Dinner Carry ing One Little Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablet. You needn't paM up all those savory dishes juat bee hum you are afraid of what the rtomach will say to them. Aimed with a box of Stuart's Dyspepsia Tab'ets. you an bid defiance to the moat cantankerous stomach and bo as sured that your food will be perfectly haeat.Hi in spite of the stomach's ob jections Pair to Roll Around World in a Barrel 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 the trip in twelve years. “At Every Banquet You Will Always See Som4 Person Who Is Afraid of Food." Stuart's Dyspepsia. Tablets are a com pound of pepsin, and those elements that must be secreted by the stomach if the : food Is to be tigerted. .When the atom tu?h fails to secrete enough of these di gestive agencies, the only sane remedy is to supply a sufficient quantity of these elements to dlge«t the food This Is the service for which Stuart s Dyspepsia Tablets were made and they are recom mended by leading doctors and scien tists One or two of these tablets is sufficient to digest the largest dinner They stop almowt instantly all forms of indigestion, such as sour stomach, belching, heartburn, dlaziness, brash and dysentery. Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets! contain digestive elements. * single ! f ra in of which is capable of digesting i 000 grains of food, such as meats, eggs, grains, vegetables, starches and mineral matters of all kinds If your stomach is sluggish or worn out. l-i aiv s Pyapet'- Tablets do your digesting for you until the atom ! ach can recuperate. Give it a little va cation It has a hard enough struggle 1 at the bent, with all you put tn it And j even when your stomach is In perfect : condition, you will occasionally need one after a big banquet or other social affair ! that taxes your stomach to the utter most Make Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets the ever-ready friend and assistant to your ston;ach Get a 50c box of your drug gist u-4a>\ STEEL WAGONS $1.26 values at 98c AUTO VEHICLES $7.50 Childrens Chairs Reduced prices. $2.50 Doll Carts Special at $1.98 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, Desk and Chair Special $3.98 Wheelbarrows 69c Special At . . $2.50 VoEocipedes Sale Price . ■ 90 B Doll Beds $1.50 $1.00 TRAINS GSc Hand Cars $3.75 Table and Two Chairs $3.50 Slock of Mn 8 Furniture, Rugs, Curtains, Etc. Mow Marked One-Fifth to One-Half Usual Price! It will pay you—and pay you big—to select your Christmas gifts of the practical sort here during this sale The nrires on th* Q n waj , gifts—FURNITURE—all now 1-5 to 1-2 below the regular. Can you afford to buy elsewhere? P the ^r eaest of a11 P rac ' GOLDSMITH-ACTON-WITHERSPOON CO 62 Peachtree St. LIFETIME FURNITURE, RUGS AND DRAPERIES 61 N. Broad tical