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6 A H KARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1913. POISONED NEEDLES USED Salas Builds Wall Across Railroad in A Battle for Land Naval Stores Man Also Defies City. Fear of Mine Leaves Him Victorious. SHOW FREE TO Startling Revelations of Drugging of Victims in Picture Shows Revealed Following Arrest of Youth in New ark-New Vice Methods Exposed. NEW YORK, Dec. 6.—The arrest of Annand Megaro in Newark, N. J., on the chrirge of having used a “poi soned needle" on Mrs Marjorie Graff, of Brooklyn, while the young woman was seated beside him in a Newark theater, has aroused the heads of so cieties for the protection of young girl*. As a result of th* efforts of these •ocloties an investigation wa« 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 elave branch of the secret service have Wen 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 IvOuiEe G. Vreeland, of the Girls* Friend Society of St George’s Par ish. of the experience of a young* jcirl under the rare 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 a 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 in darkened moving picture theaters, have been reported to the police. The drugs used in these cases are hyosolne or cocaine The former which has recently come into general use ; s a substitute for morphine in 1 the treatment of acute mania and de lirium, I.-* comparatively ea*y to ob tain. It takes effect much more rap idly than morphine or chloral. One plunge of the needle is folowed by immediate faintness and loss of speech. Unconsciousness quicly fol lows. Tills 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 gTain. How Drug Affects Victim. Curare, the drug which is alleged to have been used In the Newark case, is very rare and can not be re lied upon to produce the stupefying effects desired. It usually excites convulsions. It is a concoction made by Bouth American Indians from the bark of a tree and boiled down and mixed with the venom of certain poisonous reptiles. Megaro. 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. C. A The young man was bom 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 Col lege of Pharmacy. His uncle then became disgusted with his apparent lack of ambition and he left home and sought work in various places around the city. He lately had been employ ed in a drug store. Medical examination of the needle found in the box in which Megaro waa 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, Deo. Fleming D. tTinaley, member of one of the most prominent families In the State, re cently acquitted by a Superior Court Jury of a charge of larceny after trust in connection with the failure of his cotton firm, has now been Indicted by a. Federal Grand Jury in a like raae Tinsley is charged with taking $60,- 600 from the Merchants National JIack. of which he was a director, Through the representation that there waa enough cotton in the warehouse to protect the loan. Joseph Hull, father of T1nel*r*a partner. Dan Hull, who is one of the wealthiest citizens In the State, made the money good with the bank. Man Weeps as He Prosecutes Brother MACON, Dec. 6.—Georg© Anderson, proprietor of a hotel in Denver, wept like a child to-day aa he stood at the bar in Police Court and proeecnted his half-brother, T. F. Wycha, charged with the theft of diamonds and other jewelry belonging to An derson, who is here at the bedside of their dying mother *T am doing this because T believe It Is best for the boy's own good,** Mr. Anderson sobbed. The man to whom Wycha pawned the jewelry testified. The Recorder bound the defendant over to the Su perior Court under bond of $300 for larcenv from the house. Prevent 5Kin Blemishes SAVANNAH, Dec. C. K. S Ha'iAV wealthy naval stores and fertilizer man. is becoming famous in Savan nah in a three-cornered row with the city and the Central of Georgia Hall way. Ka!a<« recently purchased extensive wafer frontage In doing so he got a sidetrack belonging to the Central Of Georgia Railway and a lane be longing to the city. He immediately started closing the lane and tearing up the cobble stones, but an injunc tion stopi>ed him. Ho 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 erected across the opening a sign the size of a large billboard warning the railroad , not to again trespass on hi* property. Just what plana he has made he would not say, but «<> sure are the company employees that he nas planted a mine, that no one will take 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 car break ing. Allie Griffin, Eugene ( ox and Daly Monroe pleaded guilty’and were sentenced to 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 Lopez, the des perado who killed six men, was not found Searchers came upon a cave-in and it was supposed the bad man suc ceeded in staying on the side of this where the poison gases pumped into the mine to suffocate him could not penetrate. Dr. John E. White, Pastor of First Baptist Church, to Deliver an Address. The Child Welfare and Public Health Exhibit In the old Leyden House on Peachtree street will be open Sunday from 1 o’oiock to 6, with every department of the exhibit, ex cept the moving pictures, in full op eration. The “movies," though of an educational character, will not be shown because of the city ordinance which prohibits the showing of mov ing pictures on Sunday. No admission will be charged Sun day. Because of the few hours that the exhibit will be open no attempt • ,s been made to arrange one of the elaborate programs that have fea tured the show during the week. Dr. John E. White, pastor of the. Second Baptist church, will deliver an 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 have 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, and the conference is proving one of <ts most Important departments. It is expected that there will he more babies brought to the show for the 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. Barron Case Opens Augusta Liquor War AUGUSTA, Dec. 6^—C. A. Piequet, attorney for Sol Barron, proprietor of the Metropole near-beer saloon, must show cause Monday before Judge Henry C. Hammond, of the Su perior Court, why his place should not he closed as a public nuisance Barron has been ordered to produce in court his Federal license to retail whisky. This is expected be an im portant factor in the case, as tending to show Barron's Intent to sell malt and spirituous liquors. The opening skirmish In the Au- gueia campaign will be watched with Intense Interest There unqnestlona- blv is a hard fight ahead of the Law Enforcement League, for It has been remarked “it will be as hard to get whisky out of Augusta as it was to rid Sodom of sin." Augusta never has been totally dry. Real ‘Sticky’ Party Given by Bachelor FORT VALLEY. Dec. «.—Illustrat ing Fort Valley's predilection to tear off stunt* 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 was made from or chards that abound on the 1,200 acres of his ancestral farm, gave a “syrup sopping” party at his colonial home, a fe-w miles east of here It was unquestionably the “stick!- ! est" social event of this or any other sea son. The invited guests went out in au tomobiles and were “cllngingly" re ceived by the patriarchical 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, R. C„ Dec. 8.—Bur glars entered the postoffice at Blythe* wood, a small town near Columbia to-day and rifled a quantity of regis tered mail. The home of t\ie post master and a dry goods store were 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. 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. Same supposedly clever pickpocket no doubt is severely kicking himself this morning. At the same time, J. NS'. Barwlck, a traveling salesman, Is gyfnnlng over the smooth way In which he “put one over” on the thief. Berwick walked into the postoffice Saturday afternoon to send off a money order, end noticed a conslder- abh crowd about the money order window. He had Just hail a check cashed for Jr.O, and put the money in his vest porket and returned the purse to his hip pocket. A few momenta later Barwlck eased into the crowd and worked his \jav to th- window. When he emerged he felt for his purse. It was gone. He felt for Ills money In the vest poeke; It was intact. Detective Ros ser a,is notified by Barwlck in the hope that the empty purse might lead to the capture of the dlsapt>olnted pickpocket. Colyar Trial Is Set For Tuesday at Rome 'Hie trial of A. S Colyar, the “dicto graph expert and secret conversation procurer." on a charge of swindling 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. Colvar was arrested on complaint of .Mrs. Awtrey’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. 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 home 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, has issued a card telling of the con junction of the dates. 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 necessary 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. REAL HIGH-CLASS MUSICAL COMEDY AT THE BONITA The highest priced and best Musical Comedy Company on the i road is booked for the Bonita for ; all next week. The girls are all beauties, and know how* to sing ; and dance. The cc*medlans are < a\vay above the average. Dick Tope, leader of the orches tra, has added a violin and cor net, and the music in itself is ; worth the 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 1V. Cranfyshaw Diamond Merchant and Jeweler I 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 most 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 W. CranfyshaW 16 Whitehall Street Atlanta National Ban\ Building Indicted for Stealing Six Spools of Thread SAVANNAH, Dec. 6.—Henry Mar shall, of VIdalla, has been indicted by the Federal Grand Jury because it *s alleged he stole six spools of threal, valued at 6 cents each, from the mptls when ho was acting as rural carrier. His case will come up for trial at this session. It cost the Government more than $100 to g*t the necessary witnesses to secure tho Indictment. Suspenders Make Vagrant a Suicide NEW YORK, Dec. ♦>.— With the aid of his suspenders, Joseph Grant, 45, banged himself early to-day in a celi in Raymond street jail. Brooklyn. He had boon committed on a vagrancy charge. 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No less than 75 members of the McAdory Clan 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 Carlt<»n 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. Pair to Roll Around World in a Barrel NEW YORK, Dec t? Antonio Zan- ardi and Eugene Blsbiarno. Venetians, will attempt to roll around the world in a huge barrel for a prize of $2,000. Starting, here, they expect to make the tnp$n twelve years. “At Every Banquet You Will Always See Some Person Who It Afraid of Food." 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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 IS. 69c Play Stoves SM.69C Desk and Chair Special $3.98 Wheelbarrows Special 00 c $2.50 Volocipedes Sale C* -f AQ Price . *P J* Doll Beds $1.50 $1.00 TRAINS 69c Hand Cars $3.75 Table and Two Chairs $3.50 $65,000 “ l! Furniture, Rugs, Curtains, Etc. Now Marked One-Fifth to One-Naif Usual Price! It will pay you—and pay you big—to select your Christmas gifts of the practical sort here during this sale. The prices on the greatest of all prac tical gifts—FURNITURE—all now 1-5 to 1-2 below the regular. Can you afford to buy elsewhere? GOLDSMITH-ACTON-WITHERSPOON CO 62 Peachtree St. LIFETIME HIRNITDRE, HESS AND DRAPERIES 61 N. Broad