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VOL. XII. NO. 116.
ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1913.
Copyright, 1906,
By The Georgian Co.
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ARNOLD ATTACKS DORSEY IN FRANK PLEA
CHIEF LANFORD WARNS ATLANTA
GIRLS TO BEWARE OF 'NEEDLE MEN’
Government Inspector demonstrating how needletnen drug victims to ensnare them into White Slavery.
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Safe Blower Fights Captor Desperately
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Beggars' Trust and | Detectives on Alert to Suppress Wilson to Rename
School for Teaching white Slavers Said to Have Clements; Another
Trade Tricks Found
CHICAGO, Dec. 15.—The police to-,
day discovered a “panhandlers’ trust”
and a school for begging. It is said to
be a national association with “camps”
in several large cities.
“The Gay Cats” is the official name,
(n one of the poorest neighborhoods of
Chicago the members gather every
night in a building rented with money
begged dowtown, and lay plans. Re
cruits are taught all the “tricks of the
trade,” illustrated by competent in
structors who “make up ’ as cripples
and invalids. Acids are used to make
hands and faces appear to have been
scalded.
Police Lieutenant Tames V. Larkin,
who discovered the ‘school,” said a
• Gay Cat” who could, not “cadge” $10 a
day waft not considered a worthy mem
ber.
Urges Bachelor Tax
To Pension Widows
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—A tax on
bachelors in the National Capital to
provide pensions for widows with
children is proposed by Representa-
tive Borland, of Missouri.
The bill, which he has outlined, will
tax unmarried men between 25 and
30 years, $100 a year; 30 and 35,
$200, and $300 a year for those 35
and upward. Widows with one child
under 14 years would get $8 a month
and those with more $4 a month ex
tra for each additional youngster.
Finds a Sun Spot of
409,936,709,169Sq.Mi.
SAN JOSE, CAL., Dec. 15.—A sun
spot covering an area of 409,936,709,-
169 square miles has been discovered
by Father Ricard, of San Clara Uni
versity.
This is the largest spot discovered
in two years, and is believed to fore
cast great atmospheric disturbances.
Begun Work Here,
Student Censor Bars
Spectacular Dances
CHAMPAIGN, ILL., Dec. 15.—After
passing resolutions favoring modern
dances, six clubs at the University of
Illinois created an official tango cen
sor. "The clutch hold," the "bear
cat” and ail spectacular dips »re
Style Trend Laid to
Darwin, Huxley, et al
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 15.—The tango and
the extreme styles in women s clothes
are the direct results of the teachings
of Darwin. Huxley and Spencer who
advocaied worship of ‘ a ood of the
Senses,” according to Rev. Luther L.
Ghief of Detectives Lanford Mon
day morning issued a warning to the
young girls of Atlanta to beware of
the “needle men,” the scientific white
slavers who dull the senses of their
victims with an injection of a power
ful narcotic through a hypodermic
needle jabbed in the arm or wrist,
and who are thought to have fled
from New York City and established
their headquarters In Atlanta.
The Chief also expressed his will
ingness to co-operate with L. J. Ba-
ley, chief of the Southern division of
the Federal Bureau of Investigation,
whose plans? for the suppression of
the gang were outlined exclusively in
yesterday’s Sunday American.
“The danger to which the girls of
Atlanta are exposed from these scien
tific criminals.” said Chief Lanford,
“can not be too greatly emphasized.
The method of the needle men is sure
and swift, and since they leave prac
tically no clews save possible descrip
tions by people who pay no particu
lar attention to them, the difficulty
of apprehending them is great.
Urges Girls To Be Careful.
“Since the unearthing of the gang
in New York we have heard vague
rumors that many of the white
slavers have left the Eastern metrop
olis and come to Atlanta. These ru
mors have been carefully investi
gated. and while I can not yet make
public the Information we have ob
tained. I regard the situation in At
lanta now as being of sufficient grav
ity to make a warning necessary,
especially to girls who go alone to
the theaters and on the streets.
“Too much care can not be exer
cised by girls. They should be on
their guard constantly and should
not enter Into conversation with
strangers, whether men or women;
and if they are seized with a sudden
illness should be careful that they are
not assisted by persons unknown to
them. In the theaters the girls should
keep a watchful eye on the persons
who sit next to them, as the darkness
of the theater affords the needle men
an ideal opportunity for his work.
Should Report to Police.
“Cases of sudden illness in thea
ters or on the streets should be re
ported to the police or Government
agents at once, in order that an ln-
vestigation’m&y be made. It is possible
that some of the many cases of illness
reported in the cheaper playhouses
and on the streets recently have been
due to the worlf of the needle men,
though there have yet been no re
ports of Instances where they have
succeeded in abducting a girl.”
Job Found for Glenn
WASHINGTON. Dec. 15.—That the
President has practically determined
to re-appoint Judson C. Clements, of
Georga, to the Interstate Commerce
Commission became known at the
White House to-day.
Despite his advanced age. Commis
sioner Clements still is vigorous and is
one of the leading railroad experts of
the national. Former Governor Glenn, of
North Carolina, was a candidate for the
place, but President Wilson has decided
to appoint him to the International
Boundary Commission.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia: Local rains Mon
day; fair Tuesday.
Thousands in Riot to
See Stolen 'MonaLisa'
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
FLORENCE, ITALY, Dec. 15.—The
famous .painting "Mona Lisa,” which
was stolen from the Louvre In Paris,
and later discovered here in the pos
session of Vicenzo Perugia, a deco
rator, will be taken to Rome and
turned over to the French Embassy
Saturday.
Thousands rioted outside the gal
lery yesterday when they were un
able to get inside to view the pic
ture. A number of American tourists
came here from Rome in hope of
seeing "La Gioconda.”
Arsonettes Renew
Revenge for Leader
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON. Dec. 15.—The arrest of
Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, president
of the Women's Social and Political
Union, resulted to-day in another
wave of suffragette incendiarism,
A valuable untenanted mansion at
Southern Leigh, Durham Downs, nesto
Bristol, was burned. About the ruins
a quantity of suffrage literature was
discovered attacking the Government
for its treatment of Mrs. Pankhurst.
Wilson's Fever About
Gone, Say Physicians
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—“The Presi
dent is doing very nicely,” was the in
formation at the White House to-day.
Almost the last trace of fever has dis
appeared.
The President has canceled all his en
gagements for to-day, however, and
probably will for to-morrow also.
Must Wed for Love
To Inherit $500,000
CADILLAC, MICH.. Dec. 15.—Chal-
letta Hall, aged 19. wP’ receive the
$'.00,000 estate of her greatuncle, Jo
seph Snyder, who died in San Fran
cisco, if she marries for love within
the next year, .
Driver Reaches Randall Coal Of
fice Just in Time to Save the
Manager’s Life.
Two daring attempts on th^ safes
In the offices of two of Randall
Bros.’ coal yards resulted early Mon
day morning in a small robbery »n
one case and in the other the cap
ture of a negro burglar, after a scuf
fle for a revolver that finally was set
tled by a blow from a hammer on the
head of the burglar.
J. L. Chandler, manager of the Ran
dall coal yard at No. 64 Krog street,
entered his office at 6 o'clock Mon
day morning. As he went in the front
door there was a scramble in the rear
of the office and a rush of steps
through the rear entrance.
In the main office room the flare of
an electric light showed the safe in a
somewhat disfigured condition. The
knpb had been chiseled away and the
door of the safe otherwise camaged
in an effort to get it open without ex
plosives.
On the floor lay a cap and scattered
tools.
Burglar Found in Barn.
Mr. Chandler got a revolver from
his desk and ran out the back door
into a dark-gray mist. Some instinct
led him to the barn, and there, in a
corner, he found a hatless negro
crouching. The negro surrendered
readily, protesting his innocence, out
on reaching the office his first action
was to pick up the cap from the floor
and put it on.
The burglar appeared so submissive
that Mr. Chandler laid down the re
volver while he called the police by
telephone.
% In a twlnklinsr the negro seized the
weapon, aimed it at his captor and
was just about to pull the trigger
when Jackson Reed, a negro driver,
stepped into the office.
Felled With Hammer.
Reed closed with the burglar ami
attempted to take the revolver from
him. The struggle went found and
round the office, knocking over the
furniture, and was terminated only by
a judicious 'blow from the robber's
own hammer, dealt on his skull by
Mr. Chandler.
The police were summoned and the
negro, who pro-iptly recovered con
sciousness, was taken to headquar
ters, where he said his name was
Charley Stevens, of No. 77 School
street.
The other and successful robbery
took place earlier at the Randall coal
office at Boulevard and the Georgia
railroad.
Safe Blown to Bits.
After entering through a rear win
dow, which was forced open, the rob
ber or robbers hie* the safe to pieces,
using such an unnecessary charge of
"explosive that the window’s of the of
fice were shattered and the furniture
and part of the floor wrecked. The
loss was only a few dollars.
At the main office of Randall Bros.,
In the Peters Building, the twin at
tempt on their offices was regarded
as a coincidence.
“We know of no reason for any gen
eral effort to be made on our safes,”
it was said. The offices are about a
‘mile apart. Detectives Hamby and
Dickery were ut on the case.
Stevens was held in $1,000 bond by
Judge Broyles on charges of burglary
and assault with intent to murder.
Boy Jewelry Thief
Confesses; In Jail
DALTON, Dec. 15.—Having confessed
to robbing the home of J. S. Hall, Wil
liam Birch, about 15 years of age, is in
jail here, and a part of the stolen prop
erty has been recovered.
The robbery was made in daylight on
one of the main residential streets, jew
elry valued at about $100 being stolen.
Full Membership of Nearly Every
Congregation Turns Out—Many
Outsiders Attracted.
Go-to-Church Day was a remark
able success—the more remarkable
in view of the rainy and stormy
weather.
Jupiter Pluvius would be chagrined
If ever he had a part in stopping a
hall game oj cutting down the at
tendance at church to a mere hand
ful and his name were not men
tioned in the newspaper headlines the
next day
.But Monday the ministers of At
lanta” 5yere laughing at him. They
had the satisfaction for once of hav
ing registered a decisive victory over
their old arch enemy.
The maker and sender of the rains
scowled and threatened, and even sent
dashes of fine rain and clouds of
damp, clinging mists on Sunday, but
the people turned out just the same.
Pastors Are Happy.
They donned their cravenettes, and
slip-ons. a^ttl rubbers, and so forth,
and hied to church in serene defiance
of the rain god.
The pastors of flocks about the city
were correspondingly happy. Here
was a wet, nasty day, when ordinarily
they would be preaching to an au
dience of about half or a third of its
usual size. Instead they had con
gregations as large as on the most
beautiful, sunshiny day in spring or
summer. Many of them went above
the normal mark by several hundred.
A few even doubled their average at
tendance.
They were unanimous Monday in
their expressions of commendation
of the “Go-to-Church Day” plan
which was suggested for Atlanta sev
eral weeks ago, and the general ac
ceptance which makes it likely that
the day will be observed throughout
all Georgia next year.
Every minister interviewed said
that he had observed a decided help
from the “Go-to-Church” movement,
and he hoped the day would become
a permanent Institution in Atlanta
and the rest of the State.
The Rev. H. M. DuBose, of the
First Methodist Church, estimated
that he had at leas/ 500 oi* 600 in ex
cess of the average Sunday attend
ance. His attendance for the day was
1,500. The larger share, of course, at
tended in the morning. The rain got
in its most effective work in the
evening, but did not prevent a record
being made.
Has Decided Influence.
“The ‘Go-to-Church’ movement cer
tainly had a most decided influence,”
said the Rev. Mr. DuBose. “The
stormy weather would have given me
a small attendance had it not been
for the ‘Go-to-Church’ agitation. I
expect to see permanent results.”
The Rev. A. M. Hughlett, of St
Mark Methodist Church, said in com
menting on the results at his church:
“I hope this is the beginning of a
more friendly era between the news
papers and theichurches. I am of the
opinion that the editors and minis
ters have not quite understood each
other in the past in many cities of
America. This situation rapidly is
disappearing, now’ that they are get
ting to know each other better.
“The Georgian took a decided step
toward bringing the churches and
newspapers into more harmonious re
lations. I feel that the newspapers
can he of great benefit to the
churches, and, therefore, through the
churches to the community. The min
isters are overlooking one of their
most valuable opportunities to further
the spiritual grow’th and attendance
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300 Flood-Bound
Texans, Starving,
At Point of Death
GALVESTON. TEXAS. Dec. 15— A
fleet of motorboats started out at dawn
to-day for Liverpool. Texas, in a des
perate effort to rescue 300 men, women
and children cut off by flood waters
ther,£. Word received during the night
said that if help did not reach the ma
rooned flood victims to-day they would
perish.
The Vnited States revenue cutter
Windom to-day inaugurated rescue
work at the mouth of the Brazos River.
The chief danger in the flood zone now
is starvation. Supplies are being sent
out as rapidly as possible, however.
Contributions of both food and medi
cal supplies are pouring in here and
relief organizations are working night
and day.
Girl Accidentally
Shot by Brother
Reports from the Wesley Memorial
Hospital Monday were that Miss Lulu
Arnall, who was accidentally wounded
by her brother Sunday, will recover, but
tha tshe narrowly escaped death.
Her brother was standing in the door
way of the family home in Hapeville
when the shotgun in his hands was ac
cidentally discharged. A good part of
the load struck Mias Arnall in the neck.
Miss Arnall is 23 years old and is the
daughter of Mrs. Lulu Arnall.
White House Cousin
Not in Social Register
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—Miss
Helen Woodrow Bones, cousin :»f
President Wilson and a member of
the President’* household. Is left out
of the Washington Social Register,
which appeared Wednesday.
The names of President Wilson an I
Mrs. Wilson, the Misses Margaret
and Eleanor Wilson and Mrs. Wilson's
secretary, Miss Isabella Hagner, are
included.
Wiley Sees Suffrage
As Aid to Pure Food
WASHINGTON, Deo. 15.—Dr. Har
vey W. Wiley, noted food expert,
stated*at the first class of the nrv
suffragist school here that not until
women have the ballot will there he
proper pure food laws.
The suffrage school faculty com
prises Dr. Wiley, Dr. Anna Howard
Shaw, Miss Alice Raul, Miss Lucy
Burns and Mrs. Rheta Childe Dorr.
Baptists to Change
Name of Institute
WAYCROSS. Dec. 15.—Friday the
board of trustees of Bunn-Bell Institute
will meet in Waycross to decide on a
new name for the Baptist college lo
cated here.
The proposed change has been under
consideration for some time. A spe
cial committee designated to recom
mend a new name, includes the Rev.
W. P. Price, the Rev. H. R Holcomb
and J. K. Larkin.
Boys' High to Give
Subscription Dance
The Boys’ High School will give a
subscription dance at Taft Hall De
cember 23.
The chaperons will be Judge and
Mrs. Nash R. Broyles, Mr. and Mrs.
T. J. Ripley, Mr. and Mrs. James
Kempton, Dr. and Mrs. George Brown
and Professor W. F. Dykes.
7 Killed, 37 Injured
In Tunnel Collapse
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
BERLIN, Dec. 15.—A railroad tun
nel collapsed • to-day while a train
was passing through it near Chem
nitz, Saxony. Seven passengers were
crushed to death and 37 injured,
seven fatally.
Attorney Reuben R. Arpold, speaking eloquently in behalf
of a new trial for Leo M.M Frank, told the Supreme Court of
Georgia Monday that the National Pencil Factory superintend
ent had been made the victim of the flimsiest evidence that even
sent an innocent man to the gallows.
"Your honors would not believe tliat such inconsequential
and irrelevant evidence could be used to damn a defendant, but
here it is, right here in the record!" he exclaimed. .‘‘It is almost
unbelievable that such methods could be used in convicting
man and that they could be successful in a Georgia court of
justice."
Arnold accused Solicitor Dor-
I sey M laying hold of every in
significant circumstance and
twisting it into a most suspicious
(incident in order to realize his
j ambition for Frank s conviction.
He cited the letter Frank wrote to
his uncle, M. Frank, as an example
of the manner In which Dorsey had
I distorted every particle of evidence
Into a mountain of suspicion.
The letetr. Arnold said, was the
most natural message In the world,
and yet the Solicitor had made It out
as a, subterfuge and as a most positive
indication of Frank’s guilt.
Call# Dorsey Unfair.
Dorsey improperly and unfairly had
argued that Frank’s wife had a con
sciousness of his guilt, Arnold de
clared, because she had not visited
him at the Jail for several days after
his arrest.
He had branded Frank as a red-
handed murderer merely because
Frank had been in the factory at the
time.
The Solicitor had declared the de
fendant guilty, first because he was
nervous, and later because he was
calm and collected.
“He was guilty because
hired counsel,” said Arnold.
he
“He
KILLS LITTLE BROTHER.
LEXINGTON KY.. Dec. 15.—The six-
year-old son of Samuel Walker, of Mt.
Lebanon, killed his foiy-year-old
brother when lie picked up his fath
er’s revolver from a table and pulled
the trigger. %
had
was
guilty because he had told Newt Lee
he could have a holiday Saturday
afternoon, the day Mary Phagan^ was
murdered. He waa guilty because big
John Gantt scared him Saturday
night.
“Why, your honor, they haven’t a
shadow of a case against h rank, ex
cept on the testimony of the lying Jim
Conley.
Evidence Flimsy, He Declares.
“It is built upon just such flimsy
circumstances as I have cited. It is
evidence on which a judge should not
even submit it to a jury.
Discusses Time Element.
The early part of Arnold’s address
to the court was given over to a de
scription of the National pencil fac
tory, where Mary Phagan was mur
dered, and to a review of the entire
case, which he characterized one of
the deepest murder mysteries that
ever had perplexed a community.
His first direct argument had ref
erence to the time element which
played a large part in the testimony
and arguments throughout Franks
trial and later in the arguments in
behalf of a new trial before Judge
Roan.
He contended that the testimony of
the State’s own witnesses made it
palpably impossible that Mary Pha
gan could have been attacked or
murdered at the time the State con
tended the crime was done. George
Epps, a State’s witness, testified that
he rode to town with Mary Phagan
the day she was slain and that she
arrived at Forsyth and Marietta
streets at 12:07 o’clock. Allowing four
minutes to walk to the pencil fac
tory, Arnold argued that the fac
tory girl could not have reached
there before 12:11 o’clock. But the
State, he said, maintained that the
Phagan girl had arrived there be
fore 12:05 o’clock, or actually before
the car on which she rode arrived in
the city. Dorsey had to do this, ac
cording to the attorney, in order to
make it fit in w’ith his theory that
Monteen Stover, who entered the fac
tory,I at 12:05, was unable to find
Franlf in his office because it was at
this moment that the young superin
tendent was in the rear of the fac
tory in the act of strangling the Pha
gan girl o death.
Gets More Time.
Arnold, In asking for an extension
of time before he began his argu
ment, represented that the trial had
been so long and the testimony so
voluminous that it could not be prop
erly discussed In the usual two hours
allotted to each side. He asked for
an extension of at least three hours
Presiding Justice Beverly D. Evans
announced that each side would be
given an additional two hours, which
will complete the case Tuesday after
noon.
Always the exemplification of sar
torial perfection. Mr. Arnold was
dressed in a light brown striped suit
that had the appearance of being
fresh from his tailor. A pair of thick-
soled tan shoes, a negligee shirt witn
blue strifes and a carefully tied
brown cravat completed his visible
attire.
A number of Frank’s friends list
ened interestedly to the arguments
of the opposing attorneys. Detect
ives John N. Starnes and Patrick
Campbell, who were detailed to aid
the Solicitor In the investigation of
the mystery, arrived soon after the
hearing began.
The arguments were heard by Su
preme Court Justices Beverly D.
Evans, S. C. Atkinson and H. Warner
Hill.
It was expected Monday when the
hearing began that the arguments
would be practically In the same or
der as before Judge Roan in the
hearing for a new trial. Attorney Ar
nold making the opening argument
in behalf of a new trial and being
followed by Attorney General Felder
and Solicitor Dorsey, representing
the State, and finally by Attorney
Rosser, who will close for the de
fense.
Judge’s Statement Figures.
The most important of the new”
phases of the case to arise in the
hearing before the Supreme Court
was thatAjf the doubt of Frank's
guilt expressed by Judge L. S. Roan
when he overruled the' motion for a
new trial. This incident was stressed
in the brief and argument and prob
ably will be one of the main points
around which the fight for a new
trial will center.
Judge Roan, in denying the new
trial, stated that he had thought more
about the case than any other over
which he had presided; that he was
not certain of the defendant’s guilt;
that with all the thought he had put
on the case, he was not thoroughly*
convinced that Frank was guilty or
innocent, but that he did not have to
be convinced; that the jury was con
vinced, and ihat he felt it his duty in
view of that fact to overrule the mo
tion.