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RS. CRAWFORD TELLS HER ROMANCE
The Atlanta Georgian
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VOL. XII. NO. 111.
ATLANTA, GA.,
TUESDAY.
DECEMBER D.
1913.
Copyright, 1906,
By The Georgian Co.
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Winecoff Probes $ /25,00( Fire; Man FItinted
RUINS OF WINECOFF
HOME, BURNED WITH
DAMAGE OF $125,000
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ALDERMAN MADDOX FINED IN POLICE COURT
Search is bein& made for ;
terious man who is reported to have
* Iren seen by neighbors fleeing from
the home of W. F. Winecoff, in Ans-
ley Park, just about the time the fire
: broke out Monday night destroying
the palatial $100,000 structure.
The damage was estimated at about
$125,000, including valuable paint
ings. Jewels valued at $8,000 were
. recovered by Mrs. Winecoff early
Tuesday.
Mr. Winecoff Tuesday morning en
listed the services of an expert fire
Girl Battles With
Masked Hair Thief,
But Loses Tresses
ASHEVILLE, N. O., Dec. 9.—After a]
I masked white man had attacked her j
with a knife, with whidh he cut the long
I wavy black tresses from her head and ■
! had left her lying on the floor of her j
home, eleven miles from here, in an un- I
j conscious condition, Altha Creasman, a ^
15-year-oid girl, recovered conscious-' i
ness and rode two miles on horseback ;
! to give the alarm, in her struggle to
save her hair, the girl grasped the sharp |
knife blade and snapped in in twain, j
T here are deep cuts on her hands and |
face. Tiie man. who is described as j
tall and dressed in black, also took $5.12 i
from a purse in a dresser drawer in the j
girl's toom.
Officers and bloodhounds failed
track the man and efforts to find
strand of the girl’s hair were futile.
Corn From Argentine
Another scene in the police court
•career of Alderman J. W. Maddox
was enacted Tuesday morning when
the city official was fined $10.75 by
Recorder Broyles on a charge of in
terfering with a policeman in the
performance of his duty.
This latest charge followed a col
lision between a heavily-loaded
wagon owned by the Alderman and
an automobile driven by R. C. Thomp- T"l p.,1 *P-in/>n in Qonfl-i
son, of the Trio Laundry, which oc- 1 U \J U l 1 I IDU 111 OUUIII
curred at Peachtree and Pryor streets
S "n Maddox following his j ’^oa.W
wagon in a bugg>, witnessed the ac , imported into this country under the
cident, and straightway declared it j new tariff, will arrive in Mobile. The
to have been the fault of Thomp- , railroads announce that arrangements
son. The latter insisted that the have been made to distribute these ship-
blame rested with the wagon driver. ! nients throughout the South.
Thompson summoned a policeman
to arrest the driver for reckless driv
ing.
According to the story told by
Merchants say that the price of corn
will be reduced 20 per cent by these im
portations- Each shipload comprises
proximate!** 8,000 tons. They will
rive, in Mobile twice each month.
Known Dead Now Reaches 150.
%
Serious Conditions Still Exist
in Stricken Section.
DALLAS, TEXAS. Dt-c. 9.—With
several thousand refugees marooned
in half-flooded cotton ginhouses and
dwellings, flood conditions in Central
and Southern Texas still were unre
lieved to-day. Civic organizations in
the largest cities in the State have
organized relief expeditions which will
get into action as soon as the waters
recede enough to permit the penetra
tion of the devastated country.
The total known dead was in
creased to-day to 150, and reports
( Tub sent out * ireulars estimating tlie
total dead at 500.
Desperado in Mine
Holds Up Pursuer;
To Try Gases Again
BINGHAM, UTAH. Dec. 9.-—Seven I
j Sheriffs and their deputies who have 1
been searching the Utah-Apex mine
I for Raphael Lopez, the Mexican des-
I perado who killed six men, began |
I preparations to-day to fill the mine j
again with poison gas in an effort to |
suffocate the bad man. The previous i
effort failed, although smudges were j
kept burning at all the mine entrances
for three days, and the poison fumes
were pumped into the underground
workings.
The belief that Lopez was still alive
In the mine was confirmed to-day by
Pete Koras, who said that while
searching in the mine Lopez had
caught him, held a revolver to his
side and relieved him of his tobacco
and candles. ,
Bulkheads were put back in place
to-day and smudges were prepared
for lighting.
Will Select Long and
Short Term Senator
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There's Absolutely No Founda
tion for Poison Accusation!”
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MOBILE, Dec. 9.—The State Dem
ocratic executive committee of Ala
bama at its coming meeting will au
thorize the nomination of two Sena
torial candidates, one for the short
and the other for the long term.
Hobson and Underwood are urged
by party leaders not to try for the
short term.
Thieves Get 6 Cents
In Raid on a Store
Two bold burglars, who broke Into
the Highland Avenue Pharmacy on
Tuesday morning about 4:30 o’clock,
after spending an hour carefully re
moving a pane of glass from the door,
searched the place thoroughly and
found—6 cents.
They were frightened away by W.
R. Armistead, a street car conductor,
w'ho passed the store on his way to
work.
Prince of Wales Sees
Gaby and Is Scolded
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
PARIS, Dec. 9. The campaign in Lon
don against Gaby Deslys was organized
by Queen Mary, it was stated to-day.
The Prince of Wales went to the Pal
ace Thea^-r to see Gaby glide.
His mother scolded the heir to the
British throne, and called in the Bish-
of London and Kensington and
urged them to start a crusade against
immorality in the music halls.
Argentine Horse
Given to Roosevelt
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
BFENOS AYRES, Dec. 9.—Colonel
Roosevelt, who arrived here from Bahia
Blanca, visited the Club Hipico Argen
tine, which held a grand tournament
and presented one of the finest horses to
the ex-President.
Rural Mail Delivery
For All U, S. Asked
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—Representa
tive Griest, of Pennsylvania. intr«>duced
in the House a hill providing for the
extension of free carrier delivery to all
villages of 1,000 population and over,
where the postoffice fer a community
I has gross receipts of $3,000 annually.
$1,000,000 Gold for
Chicago ‘Stockings’
CHICAGO, Dec. 9.—More than $1,-
000,000 in gold will he given to em
ployees of Crane & Co., the Pullman
Company the International Harvester
Company and the Illinois Steel Com
pany for Christmas.
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r Above, an employee of the Winecoff home exploring a fireplace in the ruii
hidden in the fireplace for safekeeping. Below, ruins of the palatial residence.
ruins where $8,000 worth of diamonds and other jewels, property of .Mrs. Windcoff, were recovered. They had been
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’Iv^tigator, who is conducting an ly all day, going over the ruins from j might dissipate the mystery.
laustive m-obe in the hone of as- , , . >Jr. Winecoff declared he would
,ausuve piooe in tne nope as , top to bo[tt>m and ml „utely examln- .C pa re no palns t „ the (>rigln „ f
fainins the cause of the tire. The iho ftrK _ Further steps are expected
, , . in? every phase and feature in an '
whose name lias been with- i »
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Thomson in court Tuesday, when Po-
liremun Bust wick arrived on the
sofene, the Alderman instructed hit
driver to proceed and pay no iieed to
th** officer’s presence.
I Th»- wagon coritin ed down Pcc •;li
tre© to Currie
Ilceman walk!
tin.* Alderman
come to a
ireet, with the po- 28 DEGREES AT JACKSONVILLE.
*t its side. Finally JACKSONVILLE. Dec. 9.—The
ilered his driver to temperature here dropped to 28 de-
whereupon a copy greei* 4 degrees below freezing, at 5
.‘tv c*d on Hie driver 1 o’clock tlr* morning.
Compelled to Wash
Auto, This Wife Sues
JERSEY CITY. N. J.. Dec. 9.—In her
petition for alimony, Mrs. Annetta Slo
cum alleges that her hu&band compelled
her to wash his automobile and do other
heavy work
Dramatically proclaiming her
innocence of the charge of caus
ing the death by poisoning of her
husband, Joshua B. Crawford,
and asserting that he insisted
upon marrying her over her pro
test after he had received an
anonymous letter denouncing
her, Mrs. Mary Belle Crawford
took the stand for the first time
Tuesday in the famous tight over
her deceased husband’s estate.
“It’s not' true; I never dreanhed of
harming my husband. There’s abso
lutely no foundation for anyone to
make such a charge against me,” she
naid, gazing directly at Charles Wal
ton, one of the 48 contesting heirs,
who received one settlement and who.
Mrs. Crawford states. was friendly
with her for two years after her hus
band’s death.
With the exception of a momentarv
breakdown. Mrs. Crawford was col
lected on the stand. When Attorney
Reuben Arnold made reference to the
testimony of Charles Crawford that
she had taken a vial from her belt anc
shakeit some powder into a paper and
given it to her husband in the pres
ence of a number of relatives, Mrs
Crawford smilingly declared:
Lays Prosecution to Envy.
“If I was going to administer poison
to anyone, I suppose I would have
more sense than to give it in the pres
ence of other persons.”
She directly charged her prosecu
tlon as the result of jealousy of other
women, who were angered by the fact
that ‘‘Uncle Josh*’ Crawford h$d se
lected h'-r as a wife instead of them
She frankly admitted that she ha 1
married him because of the fact that
he would provide a comfortable home
for her the rest of her life, but this
was mutual, she said, as he wanted
someone to make a home for L’m.
and he wanted her because she was a
good cook and a hard worker.
Mrs. Crawford said she considered
the matter deeply, however, and it
was some time after his proposal
before she accepted him.
‘‘There has ben talk of why I went
by the name of ‘Mrs. Savage’ in
Jacksonville. and the insinuation
made that I wefit under that name
for fraudulent purposes,” said Mrs.
Crawford. “My maiden name was
Mary Belle Savage, and I was mar
ried twice before I married J. B.
Crawford, obtaining divorces from
my other husbands. One was named
Bishop and the other McKinnon.
“After obtaining the last divorce
in Pittsburg, which fas my home, I
took my maiden name of Savage. I
had asked for it in my divorce pe
tition, and my lawyer told me after
obtaining the divorce that I was en
titled to my maiden name.
Ran Boarding House.
“I operated a boarding house in
Pittsburg, My boarders were all
high-class people. Mrs. Painter, who
was a neighbor of mine, persuaded
me to go to St. Augustine and operate
a hotel there. She said she had a
splendid business proposition. I wa-<
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