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^■ ■ f 1 Hi «4 THE ATLAMA UKOliGIAN AND NEWS. BOY SOOT FOR BURGLAR WINDOW LURED Hi "Santa Clans maxi a me steal!" That was the xplanatlon offered Tuesday by Raymond Sisson, the 12- year-old son of Councilman .1 D Sis son. of the 1**1 fth Ward, for his pres ence Monday In the store of G Walker of No. 356 Marietta street, where he was shot by Mr. Walker while attempting to rob the place "Santa, made me do it," the boy said. "1 didn’t Intend to be a bad bov; I just wanted tome candy and nuts for Christmas 1 wasn't *oing to steal any money, because I can get aJl that 1 want from my papa. I don't care for money, anyway. 'Tv* been thinking of all the candy and nuts I’m Ruing to fret for Christ mas for a long time, and when papa and mamma went down town last night to give Santa Claus our ad dress and tell him what to bring me. ] thought so much about It that I couldn't stay in the bouse. "1 started walking along Marietta street, and when 1 passed Mr. Walt Uer’s store I saw a pane of glass had been broken out of the window The window’ was filled with just the kind of candy and nuts J like, and I wanted some. Couldn't Wait for Santa. "Of course, I knew papa would see *anta all right and that lie would bring me lots of them, but I couldn’t wait "I tried to go away from the store, but 1 couldn't. It seemed that every thing was just fixed for me. There wasn’t anybody in the store, and the more I looked In the window the more I wanted some of the candy and nuts. So I slipped in through the window and was starting to fill my pockets with the candy and nuts when I heard a noise I turned and saw a man He kicked at me pnd 1 started to run. Someone shot me as 1 tried to climb through the win dow.” Young Sisson is at Grady Hospital, ■where he was taken immediately aft er the shooting He is not seriously hurt. The bullet entered the left shoulder and came out under the lef* arm. inflicting a painful but not dan gerous wound. He probably will be able to leave the hospital in a few and when he does he say* he intends to be the best boy in the world Going To Be Good. Now. i'm ging to mind my papa and mamma.” he said, "and be a good boy. Maybe Santa Claus won't come to Pee m* now’ that I’ve been so bad, but T guess 1 deserve It I’m going to sell my two rifles, because I might shoot someone some time, and I’m going to keep away from the crowd of bad boys I've been running with, too.” Th* boy's father was notified of the shooting by Mr. Walker, who is a warm personal friend of Mr Sisson, Just as the latter was leaving his home to search for his son. Tuesday morning Mr. Sisson declared bis be lief that his son was led into th* burglary h\ a crowd of older boys Cashier of Failed Bank Defendant in Bankruptcy Action T Court Clerk Dies in Burglars Pass Up Motorcycle Crash Christmas Presents with whom he has bean consorting for the last few days, and declared that h e intends to Investigate thoroughly with a view to rounding up the boys he says are really responsible for th* robbery. "Raymond is not a bad boy," Mr. Hinson declared, "but of late he hoi been running around with some boys who do not bear good reputations. He has only been doing this for a week or so. I went to Ntwnan sev eral days ago for a few days, and when I returned I learned that Ray mond had been ataving out late and consorting with tome bad boys. "J told him not to, and he aaid he wouldn’t. Last night Mrs. Sisson and myself went downtown, telling Raymond that we were going to see Santa Claus and tell him our street address. We told Raymond to stay At home, and h** promised. I think he nas been led into this by other boys, and I’m going to find them." Mr Walker expressed great regret that he had shot the boy, and de clared I hat he would not have used a weapon had he known the intruder was only a child. ”lt waa dark in tlie store” said Mr. Walker, 'and i thought the bur glar was one of the negroes who have been trying to get into my place for several weeks. I've been sleeping In the rear of the store in the hope of catching some of them and when Raymond came into the store* I thought It was one of them, and fire 1." It is understood that the police will take no action ugainst the hoy be cause of his youth and the circum stances surrounding the affair AUGUSTA, Dec 23 An involuntary petition In bankruptcy lias been filed with the <’lerk f the UnUed States j Court against Cashier James P. Arm strong, of the failed Irish - American Hank The three creditors filing the petition and the amounts involved are Andrews Bros , $569.56: .1 H White A Co., $m 86, im tba Hill Gro< oiy < Jon* pany, $25.12. The petition alleges that Armstrong committed wof bankruptcy when lie gave a security deed to the Citizens and Southern Bant on December .‘5 on Ids real estate holdings and equities in prop ertles whirl) he did not own outright and wneu he. paid In full on December 10 a bill lie owed Castleberry A Wilcox Turnverein Plans Big Christjnas Tree FOB ALL; PRICE STILL BIER Kris Krlngl-e U the same »ort of jolly old soul as Hanta Claus, and the members of the Atlanta Tumve- rem, organized In 1873. will introduce to their children under 15 years of age a regular Kris Kringle and a loaded chariot of toys at 8 o'clock Christmas Eve In the auditorium of the Turners, on South Pryor street. There will be a great tree there, and Wedcmeyers Band, and gifts for the children and then an evening of dancing for the older people. New man Lasser and C. C. Gillett have prepared the program Lecture Pays Church Debt toDr.MacArthur L)r. Lincoln McConnell’s lecture on "Colored Polks,” delivered Monday night at the Tabernacle to defray a debt of unpaid salary to the former pastor, Dr. Robert MacArthur, real ized $900 from the ticket sale, practi cally covering the church’s Indebtel- There will be plenty of turkeys for everybody that wants the lordly bird for his Christmas dinner. But there are enough people wanting turkeys to maintain a rattling good price, right around 30 cents a pound, for the said lordly birds in Atlanta. That is to say, the supply is good and the demand Is keeping step. Big dealers said Tuesday morning that the rush was on and was being met without any great difficulty One produce company received Monday morning a solid carload of turkeys from Rogersvllle, Tenn. "It was some shipment." said the head of the firm. "Thirteen thousand pounds 1,306 individual turkeys One of them was quite a bird. He weighed exactly 61 pounds on the hoof, after his long Journey.” He was quite »ure this monster was not an ostrich in disguise, but he hadn’t decided what to do with him "I guess we'll have him dressed and put on exhibition for a day or two,” he said. The McMillan company was ar ranging to deliver to the commissary of the Seventeenth Regiment at Fort McPherson 3,090 pounds of dressed turkey, purchased a week ago for the Christmas dinner of the American Tommy Atkins. The lecture, one of Dr. McConnell's regular lyceum addresses. proved highly entertain.ng and extremely In structive. Masons of Hapeville Elect New Officers 300 Children Help S. C. Orphans’ Fund Thomas Lewis, as worshipful mas ter. is to head the Hapeville Masonic Lodge, No. 690. following the regular election of officers Monday night. Other officers chosen were S. Du rand Adams, senior warden; H. D. Heery, junior warden; J A. Wise, treasurer; H. A. Coleman, secretary. D. B. Evans, tyler, W. S. Wells, senior deacon: W. T. Akin, junior deacon. L. T. Carter, senior steward; W. C. Carter. Junior steward; Dr. Samuel Hape, chaplain, and L E. Mann, as sistant chaplain. A handsome Masonic jeweled em blem was presented to Past Master D. B. Evans. MOVING PICTURE SHOWS A Christmas entertainment for the benefit of the Thorn well Orphanage, of Clinton, S. C., will be held in the Sunday school rooms of the Central Presbyterian Church Tuesday at 7:30 p. in. Nearly 300 children, none of whom were admitted abovfe the age of 13. are in the school this year. About 60 have been taken In during the last few months. S. A. E. FRAT MEETING COLUMBUS, Dec 23 The Province convention of the 8. A. E. Fraternity will meet in Columbus December 29-30, with visitors from the leading colleges of Georgia and Alabama. .1 D. Mc Cartney Is president. Strange Sights in Bog Seen by Capitol Men The wonders of the Okefenokee swamp were being recited Tuesday b> State Entymologist I^ee Worsham and Gov ernor Slaton's executive secretary, Hardy Ulm, who have just returned from a trip to the wilds of Georgia. At their offices at the Capitol they told stories of strange insects, birds and fish and some strange fish tales, too, after the fashion of true nature lovers. The two Cornell scientists who accom panied them went on to Ithaca. The Atlanta "nimrods” brought back a bear skin which they admitted under pressure had been given them by a huntsman of the swamp district. Horace Vose, ‘Friend Of Presidents,’ Dies WESTERLY. R. I . Dec. 23. Horace Vose, a poultryman. who since the days of General Grant bad sent a prlz<> tur key to the President of the United States every Thanksgiving day, is dead Mr. Vose had been ill the last six months. He* was born in Westerly on May 12, 1849 lie married Susan Ches bro. and two children survive. They are Charles Vose and Mrs. Otis. T T Mrs. S E. Folger, wife of a build- ng contractor, and her pretty daugh ter, Irene, of No. 14 Hood drive, were in the court of Recorder Broyles Tuesday to tell of a savage attack they said had been made upon Mrs. Folger by L. C. Todd, a young man In the employ' of the Excelsior Steam Laundry. Todd, they testified, had struck at Mrs. Folger and then had choked her and brandished an open knife before her, threatening to end her life. None of the testimony satisfactorily ex plained the motive for the alleged at tack. Todd was fined $25.76 by Re corder Broyles, and was bound over to the City Criminal Court under $1,- 000 bond. The young man Is a second cousin, of Mrs. Folger's husband, who is ab sent in Florida on business. Four years ago he began rooming at the Folger home. Mrs. Folger testified in court that he had not been staying at her home for a year, but fre quently had vlsted there, against her wishes, and had made numerous threats against her life. Todd declared that he was still a boarder there, but that Mrs. Folger and her daughter were simply en raged at him and were trying to get him Into trouble. He denied that he had choked or slashed at Mrs. Folger with ids knife, but admitted that he had slapped at her. He said that she had dodged the blow. Mrs. Folger and her daughter told the court that they' had been shop ping In tow r n Monday, and that Todd met them on the street and followed them home, boarding the same street car with them. They declared that, after they had left the street car, he engaged In an angry dispute with them, and suddenly seized Mrs. Fol ger's throat with both his hands and began choking her. When she broke away, Todd drew his knife, according to their story. The cause of the altercation was not explained, and Todd refused to throw’ any liglht on it when he was Interviewed after his hearing. Todd stayed at the Folger home Monday right. Early Tuesday morn ing Mrs. Folger called the police de partment. ('all Officers Jones and Gorman found Todd in bed and placed him under arrest. MILLEN, Dec. 23.—Caidell Parker, lerk of the Superior Court of Jenkins County, was killed and Thomas Aarons, a nephew of former State Senator O. B. Aarons, was seriously hurt in a motor cycle collision on the outskirts of Wh en late Monday. Both were riding rap idly without lights. Mr. Parker was a son of R W. Par ker, one of the wealthiest men and larg- st properly holders of Jenkins County. He leaves a wife, formerly Miss Flor- nce Chance, and two small children. TWO AND A HALF DOLLAR GOLD PIECE FOR A CHRISTMAS GIFT Atlanta's Oldest Savings Will Supply You. Bank T VAUDETTE Wednesday. “Her Father'* Story.” a two- reel Broncho drama of Intense In terest. Steinway Quartet. This Is the last week of this splendid quartet. THE ELITE Wednesday. •‘The Whirlpool of Despair,” a great Warner feature filled with human Interest and pathos. ALAMO NO. 1 Wednesday. “The Sheriff and the Rustler.” a two-reel Sellg drama that Is said to be better than “The Law and the Outlaw.' Eddy Clarke. ALAMO NO. 2. Wednesday. The Hon Algernon,” a strong Vitagraph drama “A Dip In the Briny,” a Sellg comedy that Is a scream. Tom Kane, the Irish Caruso, and Cliff Wtnehall. the peer of Jewish character entertainers. ALCAZAR THEATER To-day. '“’The Raid of the Human Tigers " One of the really great features of the Chrlstmastiae. Hughes and Lange, highbrow en tertainers. SAVOY THEATER To-day. ”The Jew's Christmas.” featur ing Philip Smalley and Lois Weber, n a three-reel Universal that >s as odd as It Is Interesting. THE MONTGOMERY Wednesday. •’The Bio Horn Massacre.'' a fl r eat feature in two parts that will interest all. The Berman Trio, the Juvenile entertainers. If business and distance * combine to keep you away from the family gathering at Christmas, why not take your place in the family circle by telephone? Send your voice and make Christmas Day brighter and happier for all bee a use of your thoughtfulness. Why puzzle your brain about what tn give for a Christmas present? Some people suffer a nervous breakdown, and almost go crazy in solving this prob lem. The Georgia Savings Bank and Trust Company, the bank that makes saving easy by accepting deposits as small as $1. will give you a brand-new Two and a Half Dollar gold piece of the 1913 coin age for its equivalent, in any other de nomination. A passbook would also be a nice thing to put in the stocking. This hank pays 4 per cent Interest and would _ WHITLOCK'S FATHER DIES. CLEVELAND, Dec. 23.--Tbe Rev. Edward D. Whitlock, fRt'ner of Mayor Brand Whitlock, of Toledo, and now Minister to Belgium, died here to-d&y of pneumonia The Christmas spirit has got into the porch climbers’ association. At a morning burglary, perpetrated in broad daylight Monday at the home of J. H. Hall, No. 820 Hill street, about $500 worth of clothing and valuable articles were taken, but special care evidently had been, used by the thief to leave an assortment of Christmas gifts. For example, a cut glass punch bowl had been moved about the house XMAS RATES Reduced over N., C. & St. L. Ry. and W. & A. R. R. Apply any Agent. as If in contemplation of its sUndln* and when the burglar derided It v. ,, a Christmas gift he left it. NEW MUSICAL COMEDY COMPANY AT DUTCH MILL MAKES BIG HIT A new musical comedy compan with new faces throughout and ' semblance of a plot, is the offerin'- at the Dutch Mill this week. anT Judging from the many encore-- ]; was a decided hit. The chorus * composed of girls who are not only fasetnating, but who can slug and dance as well, and the leads are a above the average. It is the policy of the new management of tlm Dutch Mill to give good, clean shows—one that women and chi: dren can see and enjoy, if you want to see a real clean, good show, go to the Dutch Mill. Gifts for Men At Reduced Prices Owing to our reorganization sale all Holiday gift goods must be closed out by Wednesday night. This is positive—the goods must go and prices have been named on Christmas gifts of every description that will surely move them if you only take the trouble to look. We needn’t dwell on quality, you know full well what to expect at this shop—the prices are eye-openers. Here are a few suggestions: Smoking Jackets, Bath Robes, Lounging Robes, Umbrellas, Walking Canes, Silk Mufflers, Handker chiefs, Neckwear, Hosiery, Combination Sets, Gloves, Belts, Suspenders Garters, Novelties, Link Buttons, Scarf Pins, Tie Clasps, Sweater Coats, Tuxedo Suits, Dress Suits, Overcoats, Raincoats, Clothing of every description. vnuld appreciate your savings account GEORGE M. BROWN. President JOHN W. GRANT, V. President' GRANT, V. President; JOSEPH E. BOSTON, Secretary and Treasurer Advt. All gift articles packed in handsome individual boxes Cl oud-Stanford Co. 61 Peachtree Street Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company Special Notice Hearst’s American and Atlanta Georgian’s Christmas Distribution and School Children’s Con test will close promptly at 9 o’clock to-morrow night, Wednesday, December 24th, Warning All subscriptions must be verified by the circu lation department before prizes can be distributed. Turn your subscriptions in early and aid us in mak ing the awards at an early date,