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,'\ ,\l» .\ I-. \\ >. ROMANCE LEFT OUTBID ASDIVORCECOURTGRINI1S I DECREES BY SCOR ACCUSED WIDOW WHO TELLS OF HOW AGED CAPITALIST WOOED HER Vou may call il the Bridge of Righs if you incline to romance -or the Mill qt the God* Rut It’s just m plain divorce court. And the romance In left outside, or maybe buried back In the dead past that isn’t so dead that it may not reach out and ho.d up the hand raised for the oath to tell the truth, the whole Have you ever sat for an hour in a Georgia divorce court with a packed docket ? If not, it’s just as well. Faith in love and trust, and honor, and human nature, doarn't gain any laurels frorn the rue and wrack and grote»querie of the grind How the Mill Works That's what It is a grind “Whitten against Whitten, says the Judge -Judge Ren Hill, f<»r In stance. Tuesday, continuing the dis position of 191 cases, a record fr»r Georgia "Whittsn against Whitten.’ repeats the clerk, and no hint in his business like tone* hears witness tr> the trag edy of a house divided against itself You sit forward a hit (if it's your first experience) and prepare f*>r tears; for protestations; for the har ing of a human heart. A young woman soberly dressed, comes forward from the crowded benches site in the chair before the jury holds up her right hand; swears to tell the truth. The mumbled, hurried oath conveys no idea of solemnity The man might as well be Having "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party.'* so far as h)« expres sion and inflection go Then the story -of a wrecked and ruined life, is it” Just Matter of Fact. It doesn't sound like it Answering the question* of her lawyer, the young woman speaks In a low. mat ter-of-fact voice She might be re lating the details of a shopping ex cursion. if she had more animation Surely this can’t be a tragedy. Where are the tears; the protestations; the accusing finger the "I came home from church. He waited for me in the house and hit me with something I didn’t wee what It was • • * because I was knocked down • • • No. T don’t know yet what he struck me with. * • • When I could. I gto up and got out Into the back yard. 1 wanted to lest. • • • When I came to, I was lying on the ground. Then • • » Is this little woman talking about HERSELF and HER HUSBAND? No tears No particular complaint in the dull monotony of "the truth, the whole truth.” No clasping of the hands. No gestures. The jurors do not lean forward. Their faces do not flush. Veins do not sprout on their foreheads. The judge does not shift uneasily in his hair. He looks with compassionate eves upon the little woman in the chair. The lawyer does not raise clenched hands to heaven Children Mere Incidents Lawyer, court, jury they might 1>> frying a condemnation case with a I disputed land \alue. "Children?" the lawyer asks, negli gently. "Three." she says and she looks as if she might be 20, only more mat ter-of-fact. The children themselves seem Incidents; nothing more. "The case Is with the jury.” the judge announces. The young woman looks at the twelve men, but without apparent interest. Will they file out? Will they confer? What are the • ourt's instructions'.' The Judge says something about cruelty involving mental or bodily pain, danger to life or limb. His speech consumes ten seconds, per haps The jury does not do anything per- ■ eptible In the front row-, one juror, with pen and ink, writes on a docu ment the lawyer has handed him. Then Comes Another. The "first decree" has been grant ed. The case has consumed three min utes and forty-four seconds. The little woman leaves the wit ness chair. She walks out into the rowded courtroom, and seats herself, hesitatingly Two or three other "Gru Judge "Ora clerk. The And et. after a four-minute like eggs to wizened, lift He is sell against his She cursed net Gray.” repeats the Continues. further down the dock- »roc e Hit on of three and asra -for all tie world order—comes a fragile, «* old man of the farm, us In his "whole truth” .vife. She abused him. im. She struck him. All Unemotional. Struck him with what? The details come as unemotionally as the checking of a load of building material "She hit me with a board <»r plank about three feet long, with a 10-penny nail sticking through the end—that's what she hit me with." There Is a throb of laughter in the courtroom, but the wrinkled old face does not change a 11 n» There Is no tragedy In the recital and no play for humor Was he injured by the attack? Yes; the nail stuck in his thigh. Causing him bodily pain? He reckons so No Cause, He Declare*. Had he spoken to the defendant, or given an> cause for the attack? Me had not. The court instructs the Jury to de cide if the little old man had been cruelly treated, with treatment in volving mental or bodily pain, danger to life or limb. The foreman writes. The clerk tuk»*M the paper The little old man walks out between the railing*. Time, four minutes, flat. "Hudson against Hudson," say* the Judge. "Hudson aga.nst Hudson,” repeats the clerk The grind goes on What of the Other Side? Once In a while, in the si ght in tervals. you wonder about the OTH ER SIDE of these undefended canes. What would they say. the absent ones, the accused? Doe* the "whole truth" do them whole Justice? . • Did that blow Tall wit hout a w arn ing, with no cause from taunt, or reproach, or abuse? Did she never treat him coldly was she alwaft s pa tient; always true; always the sin ned against? In all the grind, no hint is given of any blame that might rest on the petitioner. Always it is the ungov ernable temper; the avarice; the worthlessness; the drunkenness, the unfaithfulness; the brutality of the accused And the Grind Goes On. What could the other side say for itself? The Jury doesn't know. The Jury doesn’t hear Ho the Judge calls, and the clerk re peats. and the truth is promised, and the witness speaks, anu the foreman writes. And the grind goes on. .. Sayres Guests of U.S. Envoy in London Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. LONDON. Dec. 9. Mrs. Francis R. Sayre, daughter of President Wilson, who Is here on her honeymoon, was the guest of honor to-day at a lunch eon given by Miss Page, daughter of \Y II Page. United States Am bassador to England Mr. Sayre this afternoon accom panied Ambassador Page to Cam- bridge »•> attend the commernorutioD leant of Trinity College. Actress to Address Savannah Boosters SAVANNAH. Dec 9 Mme. Lea Less I Munthe, one time actress-lm- presaarior. who has recently moved to Savannah for her health, will ad dress a rally of the Boosters’ Club on the evening of December 19 It will be the first time a woman has addressed such a meeting In thin city. cSo Mrs. J. Crawford, will go on the witness stand in the battle for the $250,000 estate of her aged hus band to refute charges of other heirs that she forced him to marry her. C&J In the picture below is the late J. B. Crawford, the wealthy Atlan tan whose sud den death now is attributed to poison plot which heirs contesting his will lay to his widow. C& 1 .h Continued From Page 1. not. clearing much in Pittsburg, and the proposition appeared attractive, and I decided to go. We took the hotel, and 1 furnished the money to begin operations. Mrs Painter was to furnish halt' ot It, but or paid it in. She handled the office work, while I looked after the actual run ning of the place "I first met Mr. Crawford when he came to the hotel. He was with his niece. Miss Scott, who was in bad health. My attention was first called to him by Mrs. Painter, who said that he said he would riot stay at the regular rates. 4ml she suggested that we give him a lower rate, which I agreed to. "The first intimation of marriage came in a joking way a few days after this. Mr A’ravvford, Mrs. Burns- ner. Mrs. Painter. Mr. Lashley, a relative of Mrs Painter’s, myself and a number of others were in the of fice of the hotel, when Mr Crawford remarked that he was looking for a cook. Mr. Lashley suggested that there were a number of widows in the room who might prove to be good cooks. ".Several days later 1 was in the kitchen preparing some vegetables when Mr. Crawford came in and paid m« some motley. He said, ’You work all the time, don’t you?’ and T replied Mysterious Wan Seen Fleeing From the Burning VVinecofF Homo Is Hunted. Continued From Page 1. have seen the mysterious runner just as the flames burst through the house. No one was in the house at the time of the fire, which burst forth about 8:30 o’clock Friday night. Mrs. Winecoff and her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Frank Winecoff. were at the Forsyth and Mr. Winecoff and his s«»n, Frank, had gone downtown to attend the press banquet at the Ho tel Wincoff. 1 Chief Cummings said Tuesday that ] the fire was remarkable in that it i was the first residence fire in the history of his connection with the 1 fire department in which it was ab solutely impossible for the firemen to j enter the house from any point. House Balked Entrance. "When we arrived on the scene , flames “Were bulging from every door and window, and there was no point through which we could enter the house. I was told that from, the mo ment the blaze was first discovered there was not a chance for the house, as the whole of the interior appeared a veritable furnace. ‘There was absolutely no way of arriving at the cause of the fire, as th^» cause was completely destroyed before we could get into the house.” Mr. Winecoff Tuesday was unable to give a definite estimate of his lose, but it will be great. The total dam age is roughly estimated at $125,000, with insurance covering but 40 to 50 per cent of this amount. Fire Protection Poor. A mass of blackened ruins Tuesday marked the site of the palatial home and aroused residents in the vicinity to their perilous lack of fire protec tion. Only the solid marble walls were left standing to indicate the former magnificence of the building, which was erected five years ago at a coat of more than $100,000. The destruction of the residence was wrought by a fire of mysterious origin which sprang up Monday night a few minutes after Mr. and Mrs. Winecoff had left the house. Mr. Winecoff to be present at the press banquet in the new Winecoff Hotel and Mrs. Winecoff to attend the the ater. Mr. Winecoff before daylight Tues day went with Policeman Mab'omb 10 the ruins and in th» room that had been his wife’s found more than $8,000 worth of diamonds und other Jeweis. The step* had been entirely burned away and the two men had to get into the room by means of a ladder. Mr. Winecoff poked about the ashes and charred timbers with a stick and fint iiv located the fireplace It was in here that Mrs. Winecoff had kept the valuable gems secreted, and they were found practically undamaged bv the scorching through which they had { asaed. About $3,000 worth of silver plat.- also was recovered Tuesday, bur some of this was considerably house at the time the fire started. Th* blaze first was noticed by E. D. Crum , of No. 102 Peachtree circle. He soUn : - ed the alarm at about 8:30 o’clock. The nearest fire station is on North avenue. By the time the lone com pany had arrived at the Winecoff home the flames had leaped through the rooms, igniting the coatlv tap - tries and other furnishings, and wer© beyond all control. The flames raged unchecked, th© firemen being powerless to make any impression on them. The disastrous • uiflagration brought to the atten tion of the resident* in that sec;ion of the city more forcibly than m other circumstance their woeful la ic of adequate fire protection. Frank Harrell, manager of the Winecoff Hotel, where Mr Wine*- -T was expected to dine later in tho evening, was telephoned and asked to inform Mr. Winecoff of his I095. Tho latter, however, could n l be found at. the moment, and Mr. Harrell went to the Forsyth Theater .and took Mrs. Winecoff in an automobile to her home, which wan still wrapped in. flames when they arrived there. Mr. Winecoff, arriving a few r mi* damaged. Most of it can be restored ! utes later, was stunned momentariv Alon" with the burning of the home j by the devastation he saw. When I10 with its luxurious furnishings the •»- 'had recovered from the first shock < f tire wardrobe of Mrs. Winecoff. con- bis groat loss, he said that not mcro sisting of many costly gowns, was than half the cost of the residence consumed in the .Lames. Not a single was covered by insurance, piece of furniture was left by the fire. So far as known, no one was in the Typewriters rented 4 mos. $5 up. Am. Wtg. Mach. Co. Mother Stanislaus Tells of Recovery ) Throat Troubles, like continued cough* and ) colds, often seriously affect the lungs if you ( hare not found any improvement from the ) treatment you haro tried. 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It is a positive fact that Croxine l promptly overcomes such disorder It soaks right in, cleans out tne stopped-up kidneys and makes th:m filter and sift out the poisonous wa-Te matter from the blood. It neutralizes and dissolves the uric acid that lodges in the joints and muscles, causiro* rheumatism; soothes and heals the deiicate linings of the bladder. .More than a few' doses of Croxone are seldom required to relieve even . the obstinate, long standing cases. You will find Croxone entirely dif ferent from all other remedies. It i.* so prepared that it is practically im possible to take it without results. An original package costs but a trifle, and your druggist is authorized to re turn the purchase price if Croxone fails to give, the desired results the | very first time.—Advt. Fine Overcoats At Greatly Reduced Prices We show a beautiful collection of very fine Overcoats. When we say fine, wc mean Coats which sell regularly at $35 to $75. « The kind of Overcoats you seldom find in stock—anywhere. These Coats are made from the most expensive and exclusive fabrics, such as one sees in the upper-class custom shops, and the styles are the favored fashions of to-day. If you are interested in fine Coats you should see these, for they are really very desirable—and the prices are so materially reduced. Cloud-Stanford Co. 61 Peachtree Street. that 1 did most of the time. ’You never go out at all pither’.” he said, anti 1 told him that I got out very little, as 1 was pretty - busy. ‘Well, you are a pretty good cook, and I need someone to look after me,’ he said. ’My relatives won’t, and I want you to go back to Georgia with me. I told him I would let him know about it. “While we were talking Mrs. Paint er came to the stairway and said. ‘Mr. Crawford, you had better look out.’ He replied that we were Jxith of age. ”1 thought nothing more of this. A few days later Mrs. Bursner came to me and said she had received a pro posal. I did not ask her from whom, neither did she tell me. I was glad that she had a chance to marry again, as she was in poor health and needed someone to care for her. “About a week later 1 went to the market and Mr. Crawford saw me from the park He came up to and began talking of me marrying him. Denies Proposal to Other Woman. “'Make up vour mind to go back to Atlanta with me,’ he said. I told him that he had proposed to Mrs. Bursner, and he said he had not, but that he had told her he was looking for a wife. He said he wanted me because j I was s good cook, and that Mrs I Bursner wanted him to pay for her divorce, which he had refused to do. A day or two later he asked me to i accompany him to Atlanta and help him care for his niece, Miss Scott, on the train. "She had become very ill. and I agreed to. Before we left there Mr. Crawford became more insistent that l marry him and I told him 1 would give, him his answer in four days. Mrs. Painter and Mrs. Bursner did everything possible to discourage me from making the trip. 1 did not un derstand why they did this then, but later learned that Mrs. Bursner had planned to make the trip. "I looked after Miss Scott on the train and gave her every attention. The charge that l attempted to choke or abuse her in any way is absolutely untrue. Consents to Wed Him. n I remained in Atlanta a day. go ing out to his home. I consented to I marry him and decided to return to | St. Augustine and arrange my affairs. He went to the bank and obtained $50. which he gave me to pay my expenses on the trip. "When I returned to Atlanta I went directly to his house? It was 6 o’clock in the morning, and as soon as I I reached there I knew Something was ] wrong. There was an air of gloom. I went out immediately and prepared his breakfast. Miss Scott and little Helen Crawford were there. While | we were at breakfast Mr. Crawford told me that he had received a very , bad letter. He then showed me the ' anonymous letter which he had re ceived in St. Augustine. I told him the facts that were not true, and re minded him that I had told him 1 was divorced, had children and that he knew why I went by the name of Mrs. Savage. He admitted this. I then told him I could not marry him. “He insisted that he did not be lieve the letter as it was anonymous, and said he w*anted me to marry him. 1 again refused, and he continued to insist until I finally agreed. I re turned to Atlanta on Saturday and we married the following Tuesday. He selected the preacher and Charley Crawford obtained the marriage li cense." "Mr. Crawford was never drunk in the time that I knew him. Two weeks after the marriage he received some whisky and drank some toddies. I made some of them for him, but he never drank to excess. He developed a bad cold and severe cough, and Dr. J. W. Hurt, who hud been calling to see Miss Scott, prescribed a cough medicine for him. He gave me in structions to give him this whenever he had a bad coughing attack. Nurse Gave Hypodermic. "He was up until the Saturday be fore he died on Monday. Sunday a trained nurse was called in and she gave him a hypodermic Mr. ('raw ford was perfectly sane all the time j knew him. and was rational until an hour before his death. “About two hours before he died I was sitting by the fire in his room and he said, ‘Belle, vou look wor- FOR A CHRISTMAS GIFT ried.’ I replied that 1 was worried about him. and he said that I must j not. He said, ’You treat me so well Atlanta’s Oldest Savings Bankj^ Xbffn % what 1 would have d. *• ' 1 told him I was more than glad to wait on him, and wanted him to get well. We 1 | talked for some time. W hy puzzl. your brain about what to | At this point Mrs. Crawford broke I into quiet sobs. Mr Arnold suggest- j ed that she leave the room for few LOOK! LOOK! TWO AND A HALF , DOLLAR GOLD PIECE Will Supply You. Georgia Savings Bank and Trus ny the bank that makes saving >y accepting deposits as small as will give vou a brand-new Two Half Dollar gold piece of the 1813 ' for 1 < equivalent in any other .^nomination A passbook w Christmas present? Some I a nervous breakdown, and j raxv in solving this prob . . . . , , ' moments but she composed herself and continued. She told of the relatives being friendly with her. especially Chhrl s Crawford and Charles Walton, w.io, , she said, came to her house a num- j her of times after her husband’s be a nice thing death. eking. 1 Attorney James took up the cross- 4 per cent interest ami i examination, but had not progress d savings account, f ir when Auditor Anderson asked him how long he would require to ttn- RR> >\VN. ’A XT V. President. President. I ish. th >urs. a \ until Two Solid Carloads of Fine Sample Pianos and Player Pianos Direct from Factory, Or dered Especially for the Big Holiday Sale. Here are a few golden opportunity that you may never get again. Call at our store and be convinced what we are telling you is true. Here is a few of many of the grand bargains from the two carloads of fine Pianos— 1 Fine $400 New Sample Piano $287.00 1 Fine $350 New Sample Piano \ $24:9.00 1 Fine $300 New Sample Piano $216.00 1 Fine $250 New Sample Piano $179.00 1 Fine $200 New Sample Piano $143.50 SLIGHTLY USED AND SECOND-HAND PIANOS 1 Fine Mahogany Case, was $400, now $125.00 1 Fine Oak Case, was $400, now $110.09 1 Fine Second-hand Upright Ebony Case... $ 87.00 1 Fine Second-hand Upright Walnut Case. _ $ 52.00 Do not delay. Call at onoe, while you have a large stock to select from. Make your wife or daughter an Xmas present of one of these fine sample pianos. Bear in mind, every piano is fully warranted for ten years. Call, make your selection and make a small deposit, and we will hold the piano to be delivered Xmas eve, if so desired. Bear in mind this is a real, bona fide sale. Open every evening until 9 o’clock. Cut this “ad” out, bring with you, and we will allow a cash credit of $10.00 on any new piano in our house. Raflrosd Fat e Refunded to Out-of-Town Purchasers BROS. PRYOR STREET W. H. HOWARD, Proprietor Bel! Fhone: as i: Ivy SCS2. TH