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VOL. XI1. NO. 117.
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 19115.
Copyright. 1906. <) prVTQ PAY NO
By The Georgian Co. - ' I . \ L O. MOUJ3
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FRANK’S FATE WITH SUPREME COURT JUDGES
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Hawthorne Articles Barred From Federal Prison
Society Girl Works
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1,000 Quarts of Whisky Seized in
Tigers'
Ex-Southern League
Star Rescues Eight j
Children From Fire
With Seven Managers Under Ar
rest, Warning Is Issued to
Locker Clubs.
More than 1,000 quarts of whisky
were discovered at the Western and
Atlantic freight depot, at the foot of
Spring street, by detectives Tuesday
afternoon consigned to Will Strong,
a notorious negro blind tiger keeper,
following the order of Chief Beavers
or a sweeping crusade against the il
licit sale of liquor.
Officials of the Western and Atlan
tic immediately were notified by the
police to hold the whisky pending a
thorough investigation of the
of the shipment and its intended use
in Atlanta. Strong was placed und3r
arrest and will be arraigned for trial
before Recorder Broyles Tuesday aft
ernoon charged with operating a
blind tiger.
The negro has been tried repeated -
on blind tiger charges, particularly
when he was the proprietor of the old
Yendome Hotel in Ivy street, a notori
ous resort, -v
Recorder Scores Clubs.
That Recorder Broyles is working
in harmony with the action of the
police was shown by his severe ar
raignment of the locker clubs in the
ase of J W. Durden, a young medi
al student, who was tried Tuesday
for disorderly conduct.
Young Durden was arrested after
ae had broken into the Girls’ High
School. Washington and Mitchell
street?. Monday night. He had un
dressed, and, leaving his clothing in
the building, proceeded to his home
at No. 151 Capitol avenue, clad only
in a blanket
Letters found afterward in the
clothing identified its owner and Dur
den was arrested. Before Recorder
Broyles he pleaded intoxication and
declared that lie had purchased the
liquor in a locker club of which he
was not a member.
"They must have served some aw
ful stuff up there,” said the Recorder,
"to have had such an effect on you.
Tiies*' miserable locker clubs that dish
"Ui poison to young men should be
severely dealt, with.”
W M. Slaton, Superintendent of
Schools, appeared in court to make a
piea of clemency for Durden. On this
plea, ihe student was fined only $15.75
*nd warned to refrain from further
v '-sits to locker clubs.
Lanford Opens Crusade.
' hief Lanford declared that the
raids conducted on the locker clubs
Monday is* hut a forerunner of a cam
paign of watchfulness that will in
clude every club in the city, from the
highest to the lowest.
The -■ ven managers of locker clubs
"ho w« v. arrested Monday afternoon
* re planning a vigorous fight against
evidence that will be submitted
h Lie C hief, who personally aceom-
Puiied Detectives Moon and Patrick
n the raids. The club men have en-
A attorneys and declare that they
' *rr\ their tight to the highest
uurt In the State before they admit
their defeat.
^ l e have tried to conduct the
: ; ii)s cording to the law,” said one
■ hem Tuesday, ‘ and so far as we
now we have done it. If any person
L*-r than a member has sought liq-
r a> been without our knowl
edge."
CINCINNATI, Dev. 16.—Two per
sons perished in an incendiary fire
which to-day destroyed the old West
End Turner Hall, used by the Salva
tion Army as a lodging house for
needy men. Scores of men were
overcome by smoke. Many were se
riously burned. It is feared that
eight of these may die.
The blaze was discovered by Wal-
lie Mayer, a member of the Chicago
American League baseball club and
formerly star catcher of the Bir
mingham Southern League club, who
risked his life in saving eight chil
dren in a smoke-filled tenement house
next door, to which the flames had
communicated.
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J. C. Roberts, Pardoned, Relates Bitter Personal Attacks Viewed by
W. McE. Johnston,
Of Macon, Is Dead
MACON, Dec. 16.—William McEwen
Johnston, probably Macon’s wealthiest
citizen, died to-day after an illness of
several weeks as the result of paraly
sis. He was 64 years of age
origin j Mr. Johnston came to Macon from
New’ York about 25 years ago, but he
was born and reared in Tennessee. In
New York lie was associated in Wall
street with his uncle, the late Richard
New Horrors—Hearst Papers
With Exposes Ruled Out.
William H. Moyer, warden of the
Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, has
barred from that institution all news
papers containing articles written by
Julian Hawthorne, who begins tl\e
story of his life in the local peniten
tiary in next Sunday’s American, ac
cording to a story told The Georgian
and United States District Attorney
Hooper Alexander Tuesday morning
b> John O. Roberts, who was released
from the prison Monday afternoon,
pardoned after serving five years.
“The order was issued some time
yesterday,” said Roberts. “I learned
of it through one of the convicts who
Wilson, and there made a fortune. He I works in the office. He came to me
was vice president of the American Na
tional Bank of Macon, and largely in
terested in other enterprises.
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Wilson Has Reversed
Lever, Says Uncle Joe
WASHINGTON, Dev. 16.-"President
Wilson reversed the lever, the Demo
cratic CongTess followed his direction.
This reversal has so slackened business
that in many places it has almost
stopped.”
“Uncle Joe” Cannon in this fashion
described conditions in the country,
putting the blame squarely on the Dem
ocrats.
“All business, big and little, was go
ing ahead when this administration be
gan.” he added.
Covent Garden Sold;
Biggest London Deal
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, Dec. 16.—The biggest
real estate deal in the history of Lon
don took place to-day when Walleb>
Deeply, M. P., bought the whole of
the Duke of Bedford’s Covent Gar
den estate for a price which is said
to exceed $15,000,000. The parcel is
fifteen acres in extent and includes
the Market Opera House.
T. R. to Start After
Rome Potters' Field
Claims U, S. Sculptor
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
ROME, Dec. 16.—Franklin Simmons,
the famous American sculptor, who died
in the Hotel D’ltalie Wednesday, was
buried in the potters' field.
Mr Simmons died suddenly while
taking a hot bath in the hotel. He was
not known to the proprietor, and his
identity was not discovered until the
body had been committed to the pauper
burial grounds.
Church Laid in Ashes
By Arsonette Band
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LIVERPOOL, Dee. lb.—St. Anns
Episcopal Church at Aigburti) was
to-day destroyed by an incendiary
fire set by sulfragettes. The damage
was extensive.
A number of suffrage leaflet." were
found about the ruins.
Tired of Foreigners,
Beasts of Jungle! Chinese Burn Towns
Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
'Rl MBA. BRAZIL. Dec. 16.—
ot Roosevelt a*nd his party ar-
to-da> from Porto Mur-
'•oard h Paraguayan gun-
,,Pv will leave shortly for the j of nat ivrs have ;
a unting expedition. A j by agitator."
: pf»ed ;’*p pari y ^ mi j for< ?:•<-
' lages
and asked me if I wouldn’t try to get
someone to make the warden let the
papers come in, because every man of
the 900 confined there wants to read
what Hawthorne hap written. And
Warden Moyer is afraid to let them
do it, because he knows as well as
they do that Hawthorne will write
the truth, and that the truth would
not be very flattering to him.”
Trying to Bar Hearst Papers.
Roberts declared also that it is well
understood among the prisoners that
Warden Moyer is seeking to bar all
Hearst papers from the prison be
cause of the stand they have taken in
the fight for reform and for an in
vestigation of the prison.
“He did bar The Georgian and The
Sunday American once,” said Rob
erts, “but the superintendent of pris
ons came down the same day and
made him rescind- the order. He told
the warden that he must not attempt
I to bar any papers from the prison.
| We have noticed, however, that copies
of The Georgian are awfully hard to
get. and especially when they con
tain a story of the ill treatment the
men are forced to undergo.”
Roberts spent more than an hour
in the office of the United States Dis
trict Attorney with Mr. Alexander
Tuesday morning, and made formal
complaint against Warden Moyer's
conduct of the prison. He told sto
ries of the hardships the men are
force dto undergo, and charged that
Warden Moyer each evening sells to
the surrounding neighborhood bread
baked in the prison bakeshops by the
prisoners, underselling the union
bakeshops and bread dealers of At
lanta and disposing of extra large
loaves for 4 cents each.
Lye in His Milk.
Roberts also told Mr. Alexander of
finding concentrated lye in the milk
that was served to him in his cell,
and of another man who drank a cup
of coffee that contained the lye and
had to be operated upon, narrowly es
caping death. He told of a man
named Kennedy, who has fits' and of
whom Julian Hawthorne has told,
being put in the “hole” and shackled
to the wall, the guards not even
taking him down when a fit came
upon him.
“Kennedy has been in the hole oc
and on for more than three weeks,”
said Roberts. “He told me they
chained him up like a wild beast, and
he was forced to writhe in the ago
nies of his fits while shackled to, the
walls. Kennedy is the man who was
beaten over the head by guards until
the doctors told them to quit, and
after the healing his fits grew worse.
• I found enough concentrated lye
in my milk on September 7, 1912, to
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Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
)XG. Dec. 16.—Many foreign
in peril from a revolt
!hina. British offi-
to-day that hundreds
•med themselves, and.
preach 1 ng dea'L “
HONG I
missionaries are
in Southeastern 1
cials w ere notifie*
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia—Fair Tuesday and
I Wednesday
Politicians as Indications of
Mayoralty Fight.
Bitter personal attacks on each
other over policies of municipal ad
ministration were made by Alderman
John S. Candler and Mayor Wood
ward Tuesday which are interpreted
by many as probable issues of the
coming mayoralty election.
The fact that political experts pick
these two to be the final contenders
for the oftfve of Mayor of Atlanta
next year intensifies lie color of
their lucid diction and sharp re
joinders. Of their numerous and
feeling “respects” the exchanges on
Tuesday carry the weightiest sig
nificance.
It is unusual that such an ordinary
procedure should .have suddenly de
veloped such a tempest. A delegation
of women and men called on Mayor
Woodward Monday and urged an ap
propriation of $500 to open the doors
of the Child's Welfare Exhibit this
weea without admission.
Ashley Introduces Ordinance.
At Mayor Woodward’s request
Councilman Claude L. Ashley intro
duced a resolution providing for the
money at the meeting of General
Council and it passed the lower
branch. When it reached the Alder-
manic Board, Aldermen F. J. Sprat-
ling and J. W. Maddox objected to it.
While they were arguing Alderman
Candler called on City Attorney James
L. Mayson for a ruling as to w hether
the appropriation could be made le
gally.
When he said it could not Mayor
Pro Tern Warren ruled the motion to
pass the appropriation out of order,
and no vote was taken.
Reports were circulated that the
action of the Aldermanic Board was a
personal thrust at Mayor Woodward.
Anyway, Mayor Woodward made it
personal. He said:
“If Alderman Candier had been so
particular about conforming to the
law when, as Acting Mayor last year,
he approved the crematory contract
for $376,000 and the fire alarm con
tract for $106,000, he would have
saved the city thousands of dollars.
“The Supreme Court knocked the
spots off the crematory contract and
it would do the same tp the fire alarm
contract If it should ever have occa
sion to pass on it.
“In view of this, he and Attorney
Mayson are a fine pair to stop an
appropriation of $500 for the children
and mothers of Atlanta, aren't they?
Scores Spratiing, Too.
"As for Alderman Spratiing. he’s
another fine specimen. The public
will remember that he is the Aider-
man who borrowed hundreds of dol
lars from near-beer dealers and J
brewers' agents* when he was slated
to be chairman of the Police Com- |
mittee under Mayor Winn. The Po
lice Committee controls the beer sa
loons of the city and the beer people
were glad to lend him the money, of
course.
“This thing is a sample of what the
people may expect from that bunch.”
Tf Mayor Woodward was displeased
Alderman Candler was more so.
“Mayor Woodward’s statement
speaks for itself in more ways than
one. lie is always ready to violate
the law when it suits his purpose.
“The Child’s Welfare Exhibit is a
fine thing. So are the churches of
Atlanta and the private hospitals fine
things; hut we can’t legally appro
priate money to them.
He’s Ready to Compare Records.
“We were about to establish a prec
edent yesterday that might have
caused much trouble in the future. I
would have liked to have helped the
Child’s Welfare Exhibit, but I had to
be opposed to establishing a prece
dent for appropriating money illegal
ly, no matter how good the cause.
“As to former conduct. I'll compare
re ,. or f!* with Jim Woodward any
time
“IT t iere has ever been an issue
a pn he did !*«•• s and for the worst
nmesl* < f i - I tv l don’t know
a hen ii «««" —
Miss Marie
Freeman,
snapped as she
worked as maid
to get idea of
how a stage
maid should
act.
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Platonic Marriage
Agreement Fails;
Divorce Is Sought
Asserting that he had found it Im
possible to live under the same roof
with his wife. despite the fact that
they had agreed so to live on a purely
platonic basis, J. W, Dun ford Tues
day filed a second petition for di
vorce in the Superior Court against
Mrs. Nanny Dunford.
The petition states that Dunford
filed suit several years ago, but that
it was withdrawn after he and ’lis
wife had reached the platonic agree
ment. He charged cruel treatment in
his first petition, and in the second
one charges that even under the
agreement the cruelties continued.
Mrs. Dunford was Mrs. Nanny
Hamhrick prior to her marriage to
Dunford.
Probe by Grand Jury
For McCann Mystery
NEW YORK, Dec. 16.—District At
torney Cropsey, of Kings County, will
conduct a Grand Jury Investigation into
the disappearance of Jessie Evelyn Mc
Cann. This is In compliance with a re
quest ma*le by the police, who believe
that all the facts connected with the
disappearance have not been given to
them.
Relatives of the girl and numerous
young men will be subpenaed. It is al
leged that her motive for leaving home
has been concealed.
U. S. Radium Wasted,
Says Federal Report
WASHINGTON. Dec. 16 Deposits of |
radium-bearing minerals In the United J
States are being rapidly depleted by I
wasteful exploitation, chiefly for the
benefit of foreign markets, says a re
port Issued by the Bureau of Mines.
From Colorado and Utah, said to pos
sess the most important radium-bear
ing deposits in the world, the report
said, there w r as shipped to Europe in
1912 earnotite ores values commercially
at $792,000.
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City Electrician’s
Pay To Be Raised;
No Protest Made
While Council did not hear ihe "graft”
probe report on City Electrician Turner
Monday, it raised the salary of the office
from $1.80 Oto $2,400 a year, beginning
.January J, 1915. The electrician who
will hold the office under the new sal
ary will be named at the election next
fall.
The probe committee, composed of the
Board of Electrical Uontrol and the
Council Committee on Electric Lights,
will make its report at the next meet
ing. but the fact that the raise in Ihe
salary of the office was allowed to go
through without any protest indicates
that the findings will be mild.
Before the salary raise goes to Mayor
Woodward to be signed it must be
passed by the Aldermanic Board.
N.C.&St.L.Ry.Head
Dying of Pneumonia ,
NASHVILLE. Dec 16. - John W.
Thomas. Jr., president of the Nashville
Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway, who
has been 111 at his home here for some
weeks, has taken a sudden turn for the
w«*rse and his death is expected within
a few hours. •
Mr. Thomas has pleural pneumonia
‘Biggest Night Ever' Gary to Have Woman
Planned in Chicago Head of Police Force
Pretty Marie Freeman, an amateur
actress of no mean ability, lias Solved
the problem of how to act.
Miss Freeman, who lives at No. 148
West Tenth street, will play the part
of the maid in the S. V. I), society
vaudeville entertainment for the
benefit of the Home for the Blind at
the Atlanta Theater Wednesday
night.
The problem then with Miss Free
man was “how to act like a maid.”
The answer was easy:
“Why, I will just go and be one for
a while,” she said, and she, did.
Tuesday morning Manager Frank
Harrell, of the Hotel Winecoff. re
ceived the surprise of his life. It
was in the form of a telephone in
quiry from Miss Freeman to know if
he desired the services of a maid for
a day.
When the object of this inquiry
was explained to him, however, Mr.
Harffell was delighted to give his
assent.
Immediately Miss Freeman donned
he costume which she will use in the
play Wednesday night and repaired to
the Winecoff, where throughout the
greater part of the day she pursued
the duties of a regular maid.
President, Better,
Meets His Cabinet
CHICAGO. Dec. 16. Mayor Harrison
to-day announced that he would not or
der cafes to close 1 o’clock on New
Year s morning, as in former years.
GARY. JND.. Dec 16 Mrs Kate
Woods Ray, a suffrage leader, to-day
was appointed a member of the board
of public safety by Mayor Knotts. The
Managers of the lai g**st restaurants j other two members of r tie board
the loop district predict the
gear night over.” In eleven loop
7..J50 reserva'ion* for <.»oics have
made
promised
will he the
ropolitan i
te*.
to
elect her
inly womai
presld
head
Do 16.—Presi-
has practically
ttack of grip. He
WASHINGTON,
dent Wilson to-ua
recovered from his i
cancelled his engagements for to-<lay,
however, with the exception of .t brief
Cabinet meeting held In the Presi
dent’s library in the mansion and not
in the executive offices.
Dr. Grayron
de
ires
Pres id
Mil.
sta> v\ :
nn
for
A third time within less than
four months the fate of Leo M.
Frank hangs in the balance. Ar-
truments in the appeal for a new
trial were concluded Tuesday be
fore the Supreme (-ourt by an
eloquent and southing address by
Luther Z. Rosser, chief of coun
sel for the convicted man. When
adjournment was taken at 1
o’clock by Justices Atkinson,
Kvans and Hill the ease was in
their hands for consideration.
Frank and his friends first awaited
Ihe outcome of the.charges of murder
against him on August 25 after Judge
Roan had charged the twelve jurors
In the case.
A decision was longer in coming
ifte- the arguments for a new trial
had been presented before Judge Roan
in the week between October 22 and
i'J. His unfavorable ruling Octobei
11 put the "case up to the Supremo
Court.
Virtually Last Stand.
The fight which was concluded
Tuesday is regarded as virtually tlm
last stand of the defense, as the seal
of the Supreme Court’s unanimous
approval on the verdict of the jury
and tin* subsequent decision of Judge
Roan will make it most difficult to ob
tain anything beyond a temporary
respite from the Federal courts or the
Governor of the State.
Tuesday was occupied in the con
clusion of Solicitor Dorsey’s argu
ment and by arguments by Attorney
Rosser and Attorney General Felder.
Rosser attacked savagely the attitude
of the Attorney General and the So
licitor in Their persistence in the ad
missibility of all the evidence that
went before the jury that convicted
Frank and in their contention that
nothing improper was done by the
State in obtaining evidence.
Frank's lawyers charged that the
entire bulk of the testimony bearing
on Frank’s alleged Immorality and
perversion was introduced for the solo
purpose of obtaining Frank’s convic
tion on the charge of murder and nor
because it had any actual relevancy
to the crime of which Frank was ac
cused.
“That jury may have thought they
were writing ’guilty of murder,’ you - *
honors,” he said, “but what they wrote
in reality was ‘guilty of perversion,
guilty of immorality, guilty of the
thousand and one suspicions that the
Solicitor directed against the defend
ant.’
"As feoon as all that filth was al
lowed to come from the lying lips of
( on ley and Dalton, the Jury, of course,
said right away that If he was guilty
of these terrible things, he must bo
guilty of murder, and so they rendered
their verdict.”
Attacks Felder’s Argument.
Attacking Attorney General Fel
der’s support of the Solicitor’s argu
ment that Mrs. Frank’s failure to
visit her husband at the jail was an
indication of her consciousness of his
guilt, Rosser said:
“The Attorney General ventures tht»
assertion that this was entireh prop
er and legal argument. I suspect that
no Attorney General ever made suph/
a statement before in the court
last resort.
“Let us see if it is proper. Tho
Solicitor by his argument virtually
makes the wife take the stand and
testify as to her consciousness of her
husband’s guilt or innocence* /Now.
w«* ire proscribed by the law from
placing her on the stand. If we could
place her on the stand, she would nor.
he permitted to tell whether she re
garded her husband as guilty or in
nocent: that would be a mere con
clusion.
"Yet the Solicitor by his argument,
virtually places her on the stand and
makes her srav: ‘I have a conscious
ness that my husband is guilty of th*>
murder of Mary F’hagan.’
"And the Attorney General of tin*
State comes here and says that it i*
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