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AREFOUND
INMYSTERY
OF MigalNG
NELMSEIRLS
Truth of the Notesin Which Mrs,
Eloise Nelms Dennis Declared
She Had Killed Her Sister
Beatrice Indicated by Inquiry.
Mrs. Dennis Had Long Planned a
Trip to India, and May Be Now
at Sea—Wired to the Myste
rious ‘Margaret Mims’ for Aid.
Here are the most important new
developments in the Nelms death note
and disappearance mystery:
From many sources it is learned
that Mrs. Eloise Dennis for months
had planned a trip to India.
Conviction 1s strengthened that
Beatrice is slain as death note says
and that Eloise it on the high seas.
Telegram is discovered in which
Eloise imploréd the instant aig of the
mysterious “Margaret Mims.”
Mystery of “L. and B." telegram
June 26 from New Orleans deepens
on. discovery that Eloise or person
signing her name was not in New
Orleans June 26, but had bought. San
Francisco ticket. June 22 and had
reached E| Paso June 25. ;
Investigators reach conclusion that
every move on the strange trip was
caretully planned with the idea of
befogging and misleading pursuers.
John L. Bennett, chauffeur and sup
posed signer of application for money
orders -to . Victor Innes, is eliminated
from the case on testimony of a'man
who witnessed Eloise sign Bennett's
name. :
A Louisiana murder which may
have bearing on the Nelms mystery
ig revealed on the finding of a human
hand near Plaquemine, 90 miles ‘up
the tiver from New Orleans.
A postal card from San Antonio to
the Aetna Life Insurance Company
in Atlanta, where Beatrice held poli
cies, furnishes a clew on which de
rectives work.
Conviction that Eloise Nelms Den
nig is on the high seas salling to
ward India or some other distant
country, while her sister Beatrice is
lying dead, possibly slain in the man
ner described in the mysterious death
note mailed from San Francisco, get
tled Saturday upon those who were
continuing a futile search for a sin
gle definite clew to *he whereabouts
of the missing Nelme sisters.
Fresh revelation: of her intention
as long ago as 1912 to flee with Vie
tor Innes, the Carson City lawyer,
and make her home with him in In
dia, together with every circum
stance of her flight from Atlanta,
served to strengthen this belief.
The baffling personages of Innes
and his companion, “Margaret Mims”
or “Mary Hardman,” as she was va
riously known, thrust themselves
into almost every incident that has
any bearing on the actions of Eloise
and her disappearance, For the firs:
time a telegram was shown Saturday
that bore a frantic message from Elo
ise to the so-called “aunt.”
Demanded Help of Woman.
Eloise demanded the aid of the
mysterious woman, and insisted that
she come at once from Birmingham,
whence she had gone a few days be
fore, and help her.
A prominent man, who was a close
personal and business acquaintance
of Eloise, informed The Sunday
American that the love-mad woman
‘had confided to him her plans and
er fears. She was going to meet
er “aunt” in a few weeks in New
leans, she sald, and from there was
oing West to embark for Indla. In
es, she sald, was making all the ar
ngements, and she did not even
ow the boat she was to take.
Every trace of the fleeing woman
t has been obtained has appeared
darken the mystery. She evident
doubled here and there on her own
il for the deliberate purpose of
warting any who might pursue her,
detectives believe.
nvestigation wae made Saturday of
report from Plaquemine, La, that
of the finding there of a human
6. Few details were given in the
gram from the Chief of Police of
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'Easy to Go to Hell
~ Or to Heaven Now
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‘!ut Delaware Churchfolk Are Golng
to Change Names of Towns a
Century Old.
HARRINGTON, DEL.. July 18.—
Placed under the dan by church people,
Little Heaven and Little Hell, two Del
aware towns, soon will lose their ap
pellati\ns. The churchfolk have decld
ed the names are profane and have be
gun a (novement to have them changed.
The {wo towns are within half a ndle
of each other on the road leading to
Bower’s Beach. Veteran residents de
clare they wers named nearly a cen
tury ago when a party of excursionists
was attacked while en route to the
Delaware Bay shore.
As they arrived in one of ‘the cross
road towns & member of the party ex
claimed: ‘'This {s little hell!"” referring
to his state of mind occasioned by the
attack. Further along the road the
fighting subsided and they declared it
was ‘‘little heaven,” compared to the
first village.
Although they de not appear in the
list of postoffices, mall addressed either
to Little Heaven or Little Hell is sure
of reaching -its destination.
Insists Middies May
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Carry Uirls’ Parasols
WASHINGTON, July 18.—Holding
that gallantry is an inalienable right
in every male citizen, Representative
Britten, of Illinols, protests against
a Naval Academy regulation prohfb
iting cadets from carrying suit cases
or parasols of girl visitors.
He appealed to-day by letter to
Secretary Daniels to have the order
countermanded. If the Secretary will
not do so, Mr. Britten. who is a
member of the House Naval Affairs
Committee, proposes to make. some
legislative move in the matter.
.
Aerial Tramway Over
s .
The Whirlpool Rapids
TORONTO, July 18.—A Spanish
company, incorporated at - Bilboa,
Spain, with Canadian headquarters in
Toronto, has obtairied concessions
from the Niagara Falls Power Com
mission to construct and operate an
aerial tramway across the whirlpool
rapids at Niagara Falls.
The span across the gorge will be
1,180 f2et, the longest of its kind in
the world, and will be utilized for
passenger traffic. The car will be
suspended by six huge cables.
T
Kissless Kiss Kisses
Wife in Peace Kiss
TRENTON, N. J., July 18.—The mari
tal troubles of Stephen and Laura Kiss
have been, settled by ‘a kiss, and the
couple will live together again. &
A vear ago the wife brought suit for
divorce, and the husband notified her a
few days ago that he would rather faée
anything than a court of .chancery.
Thern they decided to patch up their dif
ferences.
Mrs. Kiss left her husband soon after
he returned from a trip to FEurope., She
charged him with non-support. and
cruelty.
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Policemen Musn't
Even Pick Teeth
SPRINGFIELD, MO., July 18-—Mem
bers of Springfield's police force must
pick their teeth and do their smoking
at home as a result of an order just
made by Chief of Police Thomas Hun
ter. .
He has instructed the forty men that
being seen smoking or picking teeth
while on duty will be sufficlent cause
for suspension. He told them that
either practice is beneath a policeman's
dignity.
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‘Ad’ Brings Man 9,000
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Miles to ‘Stutter’ Cure
INDIANAPOLIS, July I§—Frank Ley
land, of Auckland, New Zealand, has!
arrived in Indianapolis, to be cured of
stuttecing by a local institute for stam.
merers.
He traveled 2,000 miles and the trip
required twenty-seven days of continu
ous travel. Mr. Leyland heard of the
local institute through a newspaper ad
vertisement. § i
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Girl Charges Attack
.
By Naval Lieutenant
SEATTLE, July 18 —Miss Lulu Free
burger,« a bookkeeper, to-day flled a
suit against Lieutenant James P. Old
ing. of the United Stdtes navy, charg
ing that he forced unwelcome atten
tions upon her and finally, on July 30
last, attacked her. Lreutenant Olding
{s a married man, living with his.family
in Denny way, this city.
.
Protection by Law
Sought for Calves
WASHINGTON, July 18.-—lnterstate
transportation of immature calves will
be {llegal if a bill intreduced in the
House to-day by Representative Carey,
of Wisconsin, becomes law, Carey oe
lieves that the besf supply would be
conserved if fewer calves were slaugh
tered.
(Copyright, 1918, b,
The C?mmu Comuiy
El fll SMI I H
Editors Don’t Believe He Can Win
U. S. Senatorship, but That Is
What They Thought When He
Won the S. C. Governorship.
His Enemies Quote His Insults to
High Officials—He Relies Upon
Opponent’s Alleged Defection
From the Party in Bygone Days.
SPARTANBURG, S. C., July 18—
With the election six weeks distant,
indications are, accordirg to opinions
gatnered from leading editors at the
annual meeting of the South Carolina
Press Association, that Governor Cole
L. Blease will rot succeed in his at
tempt to wrest from Senator Ellison
Durant Smith the latter’s seatin the
United States Senate.
Governor Blease and his principal
lieutenants will not concede, however,
that he is any weaker now than two
vears ago, when in the face of ap
parsntly the most formidable opposi
tion ever encountered by any candi
date in this State he was re-elected
Governor by a majarity of 3,329 votes
out-of ‘140,737 votes cast. -
As was the case two years' ago,
Blease is being opposed by all the
daily newspapers in the Stats, mos!
of the weekiies,” most of the clergy
men and by Senator Benjamin R.
Tilliman former Governor John Gary
Evans and other politicians who were
influential before Blease came into
potwver. \
| Smith a Favorite.
- Blease, Smith and two other aspir
la,n;s for the toga, W. P. Pollock and
‘L. D. Jennings, have delivered cam
paign speeches jointly at nearly half
6f the county seats of the State and
will visit the others before the elec
tion. The enthusiastic reception given
Sanator Smith by the farmers, who
credit him with having raised the
rrice of cotton by his bills to regulate
the New York Cotton Exchange and
to-abelish trading in cotton futures,
lias led observers to believe that Gov
arnor Blease will lose many of the
;otes he formerly received from the
rural folk. 1
New rules for the grimary election
adopted by the Democratic State con
vention, the delegates of which were
overwhelmingly opposed to Governor
Blease, ~U' have the practical effect,
it is said, .¢ disfranchising many of
Governor Blease's followers, especlal
lv. among the cotton mill workers.
Personal registration is a --— re
quirement. Thea textile workers poll
about 35,000 votes, practically all of
which are conceded to Blease.
May Bar Opponents, Too.
Governor Blease's lieutenants are
hopeful that the new rules will dis
qualify as voters as many of his op
ponents as adherents, ’
Governor Blease's campaign
gpeeches are principallys attacks on
the ‘record of Senator Smith. His
principal charges are that Senator
Smith was a member of the Haskell
convention of the early nlpeties,
which bolted the regular mmorratic‘
party after the nomination of B. R.
Tillman as Governor, and .that Smith,
at another period in his career; voted
in favor of a measure providing for
the payment of $2,000 fndemnity by
the State to the family of a lynched
negro. Blease is also excorlal\nz(
Senator Smith for his failure to drive
negro officenciders out of the employ
of the Federal Government.
Bitter Attacks Made.
Pollock and Jennings are making
terrific attacks on Blegse, harping
day after day on the fact that he has
liberated more than 1,200 convicts,
that he appointed "Jim’ Sottile, of
Charleston, the so-called “Dago king
of the blind tigers,” on his staff, in
stead of a native-born South Caro
linan: that he made charges against
Dr. Eleanora B. Saunders, a young
woman, which a committee of the
Legislature found to hs without foun
dation, and that he has insulted Sec
retary of War Lindley M. Garrison by
calling him *“a pug-nosed Yaniiee.”
Secretary of the Navy Josephus Dan
iels by calling him “a peanut politi
cian.” and Senator John W. Kern by
calling him “that big Yankee from
Indiana.” Blease has so far ignored
these attacks :
ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, 19, 1914
.
I‘W}:usky Sundaes’ to:
Beat State Dry Law
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Topers Order ‘“the Same” at Drug
Stores In West Virginla—
Get Lliquor,
WHEBLING, W. VA, July 18—
Whisky sundaes are the latest inno
vations in some progressive drug
stores of West Virginia. Known lov
ers of liquer are seen eating ice
cream frequently in certain drug
stores. The method, it is sald, is to
wink at the drug clerk and order “the
same.”
Inetead of the usual syrup, whisky
is the dressing. The new sundaes re
semble eggnog, and are filling a long
telt want in sections of arid West
I\'lrglnia..
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Missing Son Found
.
By Vera Cruz Picture
PANA, ILL.. July 18.—A naval pic
ture of men loading rifles on the battle.
ship Florida, at Vera Cruz, Mexico,
which was published in a local news
paper, has resulted in the location of
Walter W. Rench by his parents, after
he had been missing for more than five
vears.
Mr. and Mrs. Rench took up cor
respondence with the Navy Department
and officials are now in correspondence
with officers of the Florida in Vera
Cruz Harbor, in an effort to bring par
ents and son together once more. When
he enlisted Rench gave an assumed
name
.
Woman Convict Costs
State $6OO a Month
OSSINING, N. Y., July 18.—Three
women attendants and three male
guards are provided by the State {or
Mrs. Modeline Perrola, of the Bronx,
‘the convicted murderess, who occu
pies the room in Sing Sing Prison
}onoe occupied by former Principal
' Keeper Connaughton, which over
!lnoks the cellhouse. She costs the
State $6OO a month.
One of the women is a cook. The
other two women are Instructing
Mrs. Perrola in English and teaching
her the alphabet. e
$30,000 Yacht Won
By Toss of a Dime
DETROIT, Jyly 18.—John F. Dodge
and Horace E. Dodge, milionaires, ‘'were
joint owners of the $30,000 yacht Hornel
until the other day, when they were
crogsing Lake Erie on .her. Horace
Dddg& recently built a new yacht cost
ing nearly a quarter of a million, but
he .did not.propose to give the Hornel
away.
The brothers discussed for some time
the amount John should pay for his
brothers’ Interest. Presently Horace
sald: ‘‘Let's toss a coin, the winner
to take the bhoat.”” John won
.
Dentists Are Nearer
. '
Real Painless Chair
' ROCHESTER, July 18.—Extraction
and treatment of teeth without the
sligktest pain is the goal sought Ly
American dentists. At the free clin
ies held in connection with the eight
enth annual convention of the Amer
tcan Dental Association progress
along this line has been demonstrated,
experts using a mixtuge of gas anid
oxygen, which deadens all pain whiie
leaving the patient wholly conscious.
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Twins Are Born in
.
Different Months
ST. CLAIRSVILLE, OHIO, July 18,
Twins were born to Mrs. Louis Boa
ton on different days and in different
months. A girl baby arrived shortly
before midnight, Tuesday, June 30, A
few minutes after 12, on the morningz
of July 1, a sister came.
Inquiry to-day at the Boston home
revealed thiat the two Misses Boston
show promise of long, vociferous
lives, |
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Cigarettes Barred
.
From Harvest Fields
OBERLIN, KANS., July 18.—Cigarette
smokers found na haven on the .big
farm of George Ames, near Oberlin. He
says: ‘
“The man who spends half his time
rolling cigarettes and the other half
smoking and expects to draw $3 a day
will be summarily kicked out. We want |
real men in harvest, and will pay all
they are worth. We will take no chances
on having our entire crop burned up by
careless help.”
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Forest Fire Started
.
By Cigarette Stub
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BANNING, July 18.—After an .n.d.y}
fight, forest fire recruits finally put un
der control a blaze near Cabazan at the
foot of Mt San Jacinto. The fire start.
ed in the Ary brush frem a cigarette
stub and burned fiercely for 24 hours,
threatening the water supply of the‘
Banning Indian reservation.
Spoiled Corn and Buffalo Gnat
Rejected as Theories, but Ex
perts on Thompson Commission
Don’t Advance New Hypothesis.
Cure Seems Far Away as Ever, but
Fresh Air, Rest and Good Food
Yield Improvement, Savants
Find, Just as in Tuberculosis.
SPARTANBURG, S. C., July 18.—
After nearly three years of what is
Geclared to have been the most thor
ough investigation ever made of any
disease-in such a brief period of time,
the Robert M. Thompson Pellagra
Commission, composed of physicians
of the Medical Corps of the United
States Army and Navy and the New
York Post-Graduate School of Med
icine, with'almost a score of assistant
physicians and gcientists, is about to
wind up its work here and turn the
results of its labor over to the United
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© Adele Blood,
§ whose suit
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complicated
'~ and made
{ sensational
by strong
3 “hints that
' Governor
Earl Brewer
' of Missis
{ sippi is inter
' ested in its
successful
outcome,
States Public Health Service,
The princjpal members of the com
mission, which now {s supported
wholly by Colonel Robert M. Thomp
son, of New York, are Joseph F. Si
ler, M. D. captain, .Medical Corps,
United States Army; Philip E. Gar
rison, M. D., passed assistant sur
geon, United States Navy, and Ward
J. Mac Neal, M. D., assistant director,
department of laboratories, New York
Fost-Graduate Hospital.
75,000 Victims in South.
Under the commission's directions,
specialists have inquired exhaustive
ly.into everything which might re
late even remotely to the subject of
pellagra-—the mysterious disease
which, unknown in this country
twenty years ago, now has, accord
ing to Dr. Siler, nearly 75,000 victims
in the South and is filling more
graves, in Spartanburg at least, than
eny other disease. :
While the Thompson commission
has not definitely established the
cause or nature of pellagra nor found
a specific for its treatment, it has
cleared up the situation to this ex
tent:
It has discredited the theory o!
Cesare Lombroso that the disease is
caused by eating spoiled corn.
It has discredited the theory of Dr
Sambon that the disease is transmit
ted by the buffalo gnat. If any in
sect is to blame for the transmission
of pellagra, the commission finds, it
{e one more intimately associated
with mankind than the buffalo gnat
—perhaps the body louse.
The commission finds that pellagra
i« an infection, but not easily trans
rnissible from one person to another.
Persone who contract pellagra are us
ually run down in health and unable
to resist it. Children have it mildly
and get over it. It spreads most fre
quently where sanitary conditions are
rot good. The treatment is much the
came as in tuberculosis—plenty of
rest, good food and fresh air. The
disease is at its worst in summer.
During the winter months the symp
tome sometimes seem to disappear,
but the dizease will return again
with the advent of warm weather,
Actress’ Divorce Suit Is Tangled
Gov. Brewer Said To Belnterested
His Detective Active in the Case
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iHusband Threatens to Sue Executive for Dam
ages, on Charge of Alienation.
NEW YORK, July 18 —The divorce
suit of an actress agalnst an actor
husband rarely causes more than a
passing ripple of interest in this
town. But when the referees in the
cass becomes obsessed with the idea
that a Governor of one of these United
States has interested himself In be
half of the actress' suit—why, then,
the most blase of newspaper readers
18 llkely to sit up and begin to notice
things
Adele Blood is the actress. Fd
ward Davis is tHe hushand. Frederic
C. Leubuscher is the referee.
And Ear! Brewer, of Mississippi, is
the Governor.
The hearing, which is to be resumai
August 9, at present s in a tangle
that would have delighted the soul of
the contemplative Dr. Watson, as of
fering a new problem for the incisive
brain of Mr. Sherlock Holmes.
The Complications.
Another divorce complicates the
case. A certain,stage director, Fred
erick Esmelton Bryant, has brought
suit against his wife, Julie Power,
naming Davis, and thus supplying
Misgs Blood with additional ammuni
tion in her own case against Davis.
Here is the circumstance that in
duces the referee to believe that Gov.
ernor Brewer is concerned.
Ira Sample, a private detective and
said to be “confidential agent’” of
Governor Brewer, gratuitously
scraped together a mass of evidenc.
concerning Davis’ alleged misdoings,
and offered the same to Miss Blood,
by way of making things easy for her
in obtaining a divorce from her hus
band.
This same Sample, also gratuitous
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ly, “promoted” the divorca suit of
Miss Power against Bryant, at the
same time lugging in the name of Da
vis; all of which tended directly to
ald Miss Blood in her suit against
him.
Brewer Saw Her Act.
And all this took place not very
long after the Governor of Mississippi
sat in the guest box at the Century
Theater at Jackson, Miss, and
watched Miss Blood in the star role
of “Everywoman.”
Two statements, both attributed to
(Snmple, made to Harry B. Bradbury,
a lawyer connected with the case,
}are gupposed to be the principal rea
“s«ms, for Referee l.eubuscher's suspi
claneg \
Bradbury declared that Sample had
informed him that he (Sample) had
got into the case “because he was in
terested with the Governor of Mis
lsisyppi. and that Davis and the Gov
lernor of Migsissippi had something
tcgether which made Davis a valua
;b)e man and made Sample a valua
'ble man to the Governor of Missls
f&lppi,"
~ Bradbury also told the referee at
‘cne of the hearings that Sample had
‘lnfnrmed him that the Governor.
“held a grudge against Davis,” and
that he (Sampie) was “out to square
it s ’
Huublnd Asks Damages.
L Davis said last night at the Hote!
Flanders, No. 135 West Forty-seventh
street, that he intends bringing suit
against Governor Ear! Brewer of Mis
sissippi for alienation of the affec
tions of his wife. He did not state
what amount he will agk, declaring
money is not his object.
Organized Labor Resents Attacks
of Former Governor and Declare
He Violated: Law When He Sent
Troops to Augusta and“ Mines.
“Cheap Bid for Farmers’ Unfon
Votes,” Term Glven Reference
.
to Agricultural Organization.as
Superior to Other Unlonists.
The reply.of the Georgtia Federa
tion ofLabor to former Governar Jo
seph M. Brown's attack upon it fol
lows:
To the People of Georgia:
As lJong as Ex-Governor Brown,
week after week, carried on his bit
ter attacks upon organized labor in
his newspapers articles, organized la
bor 4id not think it worth while to
reply to his dlatribes,
This is a free country, and the Ex-
Governor is entitled to his own par
ticular brand of views, if the news
papers will publish them
.
But when he announces in his plat
form, as practically his sole political
plank, false and defamatory matter
and seeks to create prejudice against
& large body of his fellow citizens in
order to be elected to the exalted
office of United States Senator, we
feel bound to protest
Nor do we desire to descend to his
lovel of mers vulgar abuse,
The people of Georgia have twice
honored him greatly, And, while
peoples of sister States in periods of
political aberration have heaped sim
flar honors upon other men, whose
very names have become synonyms
of scorn and jest, and who have
brought no credit to such great Com
morwealths, and it dces not, there
fors, follow that every man elected
to the great office of Governor 'must
necessarily be wise, and just, and pa
triotic, we prefer to reply to Ex-Gov
ernor Brown's attacks in far fafrer
and more parliamentary terms than
is found in his attaclks upon organ
-Ized labor.
Indeed, organized labor truly.con
tributed largely to “Little Joe's”' first
election. The vote-getting (but, as
afterward proved, specious) slogan of
“Brown and Bread,” won him,thous
ands of votes; for to the wage
earners the world over, in all.the
ages, the promisa of more bread dy
patriot or scheming demagogue ‘has
had an alluring effect,
“Liked Unlons Then”
Tn those days, and later4n theearly
part of his {noumbency, Governor
Joseph M. Brown thought vastlyseell
of labor unions. -In stenographically
reported addressea to labor organiza
tions, he fairly bubbled over with
words of praise, love, affection, for
the organized and “horny-handed
sons of toll.”
. Did he not know as much about or
ganized labor then as now? It was
not until Governor Brown showed a
fatal bent of mind to place martial
law above civil law—to substitute
Mausers and drumhead éfourtmar
tials for the orderly processes of civil
tribunals that organized working
men and thousands of other citizens
sorrowfully parted political company
with him.
The Walker County coal mine af
fair (the military uselessly rushed
there at the request of one of his
largest campaign contributors); the
Augusta street railway strike: the
Georgia Railroad strike; in all these
instances Governor Brown, in his
military zeal, rode roughshod over
Federal and State Constitutions and
grossly violated Georgia statutes;
and at Angusta innocent, inoffensive
citizens were outrageously shot down
by his militia.
Was organized labor alone in pro
testing agsinst these acts of the Gov
ernor? No. Scores of newspapers
took him severly to task, and Thomas
E. Watson, whose home is near Au
gusta, and who closely investigated
the facts of that awful massacre, in
several issues of his Jeffersonian,
notably in those of July 3 and 10,
1913, excoriated him and his military
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