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NEW CLEWS FOUND IN NELMS MYSTERY
Frame-Un Charaged to W. J. Burns in Carman Case
CARRANZA SPURNS U. S. DIPLOMACY
NO TERMa Or
HEWARD O
CURRENDER
Refuses to Promise Sparing of
Life or Property, but Will
Curb Excesses.
By LAURENCE TOD.
WASHINGTON, July 18.—No
pledge of any kind will be given
either by the Constitutionalists to the
T'nited States or the Mexican Fed
erals who remain under arms until
the forces of the revolution shall be
in full control of Mexico City. No
pomise of the sparing of life or prop
erty will he made. No terms of any
kind will be offered as a reward for
surrender.
This was the ultimatum announced
to the world to-day by the spokesman
of the Carranza Government here. It
was given In answer to the reports
that the State Department had at
tempted to secure from Carranza
guarantees of amnesty and of con
cessions to the more powerful groups
which have opposed the revolution.
Would Make Plots Quickly.
Rafael . Zubaran Capmany, head of
the junta, and Luis Cabrera, one of
the civil leaders of the revolution,
pointed out that the best means of
pacifying Mexico would be the occu
pation to the capital before the ene
my should be granted any encourage
ment. Should they be left secure in
life and lands while still able to fight,
they would quickly begin to plot the
overthrow of the new regime.
This declaration was made with the
added comment that since the new
Government sought the recognition of
foreign nations it could be counted on
to commit no excesses of punigshment,
nor confiscate property where con
fiscation.was not required by the pub
lic welfare. a
Friars To Be Evicted.
For the sake of public safety, a
general eviction of the friars now In
Mexico in violation of the law of 1872
is to be carried out. At the same time
the landed estates of the church de
clared by the law of 1856 to be the
property of the nation are to be con
verted to the uses of the people. Pub
llc worship and the use of church
buildiings for that purpose wlll be left
undisturbed.
(At a dinner given by Senor Zu
baran to the press in celebration of
the flight of Huerta, the Constitution
alist predicted complete reorganiza
tion of the country on a basis of land
reform within a year. .
Upon the subject of the debts con
tracted by Huerta, the Constitution
alists were reticent to-day. They ad
mitted only that the demand of Eiu
ropean powers that these debts be
paid would be ca,re;ully considered.
Wilson in Muddle.
This phase of the Mexican situa
tion furnished an additional cause for
worry for the Washington Adminis
tration, although it is belleved Car
ranza will recognize the justice of
these claims. Strong representations
are being made by the War Depart
ment to Carranza to this end.
This situation places the Govern
went in an embarrassing position,
ooth toward the Federals and the
Constitutionalists, as President Wii
son, through ' his representative In
Mexico John Lind, several months
ago prevailed upon Carranza to is
sue a statement disowning all re
sponeibility for debts contracted by
the resigned President.
The recognition of Huerta's Pres
idency, however, was given by the
European powers and experts in in
ternational law say these financial
obligations are valid and binding on
Mexico. The United States, there
fore, finds itself in the position of
backing these claims.
Huerta Seeks Refuge
Under German Flag.
By JOHN WINKLER,
PUERTO MEXICO, July 18.—From
nis private car, surrounded by 3500
Continued on Page 2, Column 6.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
Mrs. Pankhurst Set
Free From Cell by
HungerStrikeAgain
Speclal Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, July 18.—The hunger
strike again triumphed over the Brit
ish Government to-day when Mrs.
Emmeline Pankhurst, who had been
rearrested on Thursday under the
“cat and mouse act,”” was reieased
from Holloway jail.
The famous militant leader was
weak and emaciated, having refused
to eat anything or drink water since
she was incarcerated.
Detectlves from Scotland Yard
were detailed to keep Mrs. Pank
hurst under surveillance and it is
expected that she will be arrested
again when her health gets Letter.
The greater part of the three years’
sentence which was imposed upon
Mrs. Pankhurst for conspiracy on
April 3, 1913, is 'still hanging over
her head.
City's ‘lllegal’ Debts
Nearly All Paid Off
Atlanta is now free from so-called
illegal debts, excepting the $13,000
remaining unpaid on the site for the
proposed new city stockade. Mayor
Woodward is very proud of his rec
ord in reducing the short-term obli
gations of the city.
The $13,000 which remains to be
paid out on the original purchase
price of $25,000 for the stockade will
be liquidated before the end of the
year, Mayor Woodward says.
. .
Vice President and
. .
Wife at Field Meet
WILMINGTON, DEL., July 18—
Vice President Marshall, who arrived
here with Mrs. Marshall by automo
bile last night, attended the meet of
the Irish-American Athletic Associa-~
tion this afternoon. To-morrow aft
ernoon he will review the troops of
the Delaware militia in annual en
campment on the State rifle range.
On Monday Mr. and Mrs. Marshall
will return to Washington. ‘
" . .
Rail Rate Decision
. Expected Tuesday
WASHINGTON, July 18.—The In
terstate Commerce Commission to
day quickly nailed a report sent
broadcast by scheming brokers that
the railrocads’ plea for a 6 per cent in
crease had been granted. The deci
sion is expected about Tuesday.
.
Ride on Grandpa's
Knee Fatal to Baby
DAVENPORT, lOWA, July 18—
While being trotted on her grandfa
ther’s knee, Viola Penrod, 3 months
old, pulled a kettle of boiling water
from off a gas stove and was fatally
scalded.
.
Receivers Sought
' .
For oil Companies
TULSA, OKLA., July 18.—It was
announced that a petition would be
filed Monday at Atoka asking for the
sppoiintment of receivers for the
properties of the Texas Company and
Producers’' Oil Company.
EORGIA possesses
G more live stock
than any other
State in the Southeast.
There are reasons: Cli
mate, healthfulness,
cheapness of feed,
range. It's a paying in
dustry, too. If you
wish to know where to
secure a superior strain
to better your breed,
read the “Poultry, Pet
and Live Stock™ classi
fication in the “Want
Ad" section of The
Georgian-American.
VYOL. XII. NO. 302
DOGTORSUED
FOR 330,000
BY SLEUTH
Detective, Orders Court Action
Following Attack on Him for
His Work in Mystery.
NEW YORK, July 18.—Detective
William J. Burns announced to-day
that he had instructed his lawyer to
sue Dr. Edwin Carman and Attorney
George M. Levy, counsel for Mrs.
Florence Carman, for $50,000 each for
defamation of character.
This actlon is an aftermath of at
tacks made on the detective for the
course he has followed in investigat
ing the murder of Mrs. Louise Balley
in the office of Dr. Carman at Free
port. It was carged that the detec
tive had “framed up” on Mrs. Car
man.
Referring to the attack made upon
Lim by Mrs. Carman after she was
released from jall, in which the ac
cused woman declared she was being
“framed up” by detectives, Burns
said:
“Jt is to be expected that an at
tack of that kind would be made upon
me. People who are gullty always
come across with a knock.
No Mystery, He Says.
“There is no mystery in the mur
der of Mrs. Baliley. The footprints
are absolutely perfect. There is no
doubt that Mrs. Carman fired that
shot. The ridiculous display Dr. Car
man and his wife made of themselves
on the night of thé murder proves to
be the strongest kind of circumstan
tial evidence. Why didn’'t they im
mediately send for the authorities?”
In a voice broken by sobs and that
grew tense and passionate at times,
Mrs. Jennie Durvyea, mother of Mrs.
Louise Bailey, to-day Dbitterly de
nounced the Nassau County Grand
Jury because it has returned only a
manslaughter indictment against Mrs.
Carman. i
Mrs. Duryea charged that Mrs. Car
man concealed the truth, and she
declared:
“1 would have been the first to for
give Florence Carman if ‘'she had
frankly confessed the guilt which 1
believe is in her heart. »
Points to Motive.
“Never was there a murder where
the motive was stronger,” declared
the grieving mother. “Never Wwas
there a murder where every circum
stance pointed more clearly toward
one person. I firmly believe she
killed my daughter Louise.
«] can not see where there is any
law that would let her go free. T
don’t think that Mrs. Carman meant
to kill my innocent daughter. 1 be
lieve that she wanted to kill her hus
band because she thought him faith
less. If she had come out and said, ‘T
shot to kill this husband, whom I have
known to be faithless for years,’ the
world would have accepted her as a
wron‘ed woman, and 1 would have
been one of the first to forgive her.
But, in place of that, they have be
smirched my innocent daughter; they
have blackened her good name; they
have broken my heart. I will not
rest until 1 have cleared my daugh
ter's good name.”
To Go Into Hiding.
Freed on $20,000 bail after arraign
ment on a charge of killing Mrs. Bai
ley, Mrs. Carman is now making
preparations for a trip to New Jersey,
where she will remain in hiding until
her trial is called in October.
Mrs. Carman declares that when
everything is over she will return to
her home in Freeport and be happy.
Before she is brought to trial, she
says, she will do everything she can
to find the criminal in whose place
she stands. accused.
It became known to-day that Sheriff
Stephen Pettit, of Nassau County, has
signified his willingness to testify for
Mrs. Carman when she is placed on
trial at Mineola. S
ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, JULY 20 -1914.
ik .
1,000,000 Georgia
&o North in Month
MACON, July 18—Five thousand
cars of watermelons, making a total
of fully 1,000,000 specimens, will be
shipped North from Georgia during
the next four weeks, according to
special railroad agents who have as
sembled in Macon to arrange for the
distribution of the season’s crop. It is
declared that the crop is the heaviest
on record and the largest ever raised
by any State. Last year less than
25600 cars moved out of Georgia.
300 Cars Shipped in Week.
THOMASVILLE, July 18—More than
300 carloads of watermelons have
been shipped from this territory qur
ing the week, and there will he
shipments going forward for proba
bly a month more, though not in as
large quantities, The rains have made
the young melons lin the flelds ripen
very rapidly, and there are others
coming on that will be ready from
time to time.
The prices this week have been
lower and have ranged anywhere
from $lO to $6O a carload. It is ex
pected that they will pick up again in
a few days, however, as the mar
kets get somewhat cleaned out of the
numbers now on hand.
Inventor Elopes on
Eve of F-Ray Test
Special Cable to The Atlanla GeEorglan.
ROME, July 18.—The police
throughout Italy to-day searched for
Ulivl, the famous engineer and in
ventor of the “F” ray for exploding
¢istant mines, who eloped from ¥lor
ence with his flancee, Mary Fornari.
The couple disappeared on the eve of
the official test of Ulivi's invention.
Admiral Fornari, father of the
young woman, has entered a charge
af abduction against the Inventor.
He had refused to consent to the
marriage until the invention had
been successfully tested.
Appeals to Police to
Find Runaway Son
W. O. E. Wilson, of R. F. D. No.
2, on Highland avenue, has asked the
Atlanta police to seek his 16-year
old son, Jim Wilson, who ran away
last Tuesday after telling his friends
he was going out into the world to
make his fortune. .
When last seen the boy wore 2
black and white shirt, blue serge
trousers, a blue serge cap and black
tennis shoes. Mr. Wilson asks that
anyone having information about the
boy telephone him at Ivy 742-J.
'
Railroad Folk Grow
.
Oranges in Waycross
et
. WAYCROSS, July 18-—lntending
merely to beautiy small vacant plots
of ground about the Union Station,
the Atlantic Coast Line has shown
Waycross people that oranges can be
grown here successfully. When A
McCranie was district superintendent
here he had Satsuma orange trees
planted for ornamental purposes only.
Now the trees are bearing, although
no special attention has been pald
toward their cultivation.
. .
Wilson Quits Work to
Recover From Illness
WASHINGTON, July iB.—Presi
dent Wilson abstained from all work
to-day in an effort to rid himself of
the last effects of indigestion from
which he has suffered for several
days. He will not return to the ex
ecutive offices before Monday.
Dr. Grayson, the President’s physi
cian, believes his patient will have
fully recovered next week.
HORSE COMMITS SUICIDE.
GRIFFIN, July 18.—A runaway
horse, hitched to a grocery delivery
wagon, owned by Edwards & Niles,
dashed into a moving freight train
ard was killed. The horse caught its
bead and shoulders between two box
cars and was dragged 50 feet,
JILTa B-VEAT
aIIITOR FOF
OLD LOVER
SAVANNAH, July 18.—When Karl
Gustave Karsten, son of the late
president of the University of Illi
nois, arrives in Savannah from Eng
land rext week to claim as his bride
Miss Florence Martha Pickard, the
daughter of the new president of
Mercer University, Dr. W. L. Pick
ard, he will find that she has proven
the old adage that “old loves are
best.” His bride-to-have-been s
speeding toward New York and Nova
Scotia with her husband, Leverett
R. Harrison, an old sweetheart to
whom she was married late Friday
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afternoon by the Rev. M. J. Epting,
of the St. Paul's Lutheran Church.
Mr. Harrison, who for many years
had been a devoted admirer of Miss
Pickard, arrived in Savannah last
Sunday, the day on which the an
nouncement of her engagement to
Mr. Karsten was published. Since
her flance was on the high seas en
route from England for the wedding
July 28. Mr. Harrison took advan
tage of the opportunity to pay des
perate court to Miss Pickard. Per
severance finally won. Yesterday af
ternoon Mr. Harrison drove up to the
Pickard home in a 'motor car, os
tensibly to take Miss Pickard and
her sister, Miss Elizabeth Pickard,
for a ride. They soon secured a li
cense from the Ordinary and then
lwem to the home of the Rev. Mr.
Eptinz, where the ceremony was per
formed.
Then the newlyweds went back to
the bride’'s home and asked her pa-
Irents for their blessing, got it, and
boarded a train for New York,
iwhence they will go to Halifax, Novia
Scotia, where they will make their
home.
Loved in Childhood.
The wedding of Miss Pickard and
Mr. Harrison was the culmination of
a romance beginning when both were
children, and which sailed along
smoothly until Mr. Karsten appeared
on the scene some eight years ago.
At that time Miss Pickard was at
the University of New Mexico, and
had broken her engagement to Mr.
Harrison through some trivial mis
understanding. To New Mexico came
Mr. Karsten, saw Miss Pickard and
fell head over heels in love. For
eight years he has been pressing his
suit, his happiness interrupted only
by occasional visits of Mr. Harrison
to the home of his former sweetheart
A few vears ago Mr. Karsten wen.
to England as a Rhodes scholar, anl
has just graduated from Oxford.
i Mr. Harrison. after an absence »>f
| several years, came to Savannah ve'y
| unexpectedly last Sunday, enlisted the
aid of a younger sister of Miss Pick
ard, and immediately began a defer
mined assault on her heart that finally
was successful, .
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Police Seek Daring
Daylight Burglars
Who Stole Jewelry
’ The police are seeking two men be
lieved to have committed a daring day
light burglary Friday at the home of
Mrs. M. J. Clifford, No. 314 Peachtree
street, when jewels valued at about §2OO
were stolen from the roms of Mrs, E.
A. Eshe and her daughter, Alice Eshe.
Mrs. Eshe could not explain hpow the
burglars entered her room and that of
her daughter, but it is belleved that
the men got in the house by an open
window.
The missing gems Include a gold
watch and chaln, a sapphire brooch,
surrounded by pearls; a lavalliere, with
amethyst setting In center, surrounded
by pearis; goid bracelet, engraved Alice;
an emerald ring and a dlamond bar pin.
.
Huie to Push Plaza
Bill in Legislature
The city plaza bill will be called
up for consideration before the W.
and A. Railroad Committee of the
Legislature early next weck, probably
next Wednesday. This assurance was
given to Mayor Woodward Saturday
by Senator Hulie, of the Fuiton Coun
ty delegation in the General Assem
bly.
Senator Hule was an early caller
at City Hal]l Saturday, and told May
or Woodward of his interest in the
bill and of his purpose to obtain an
early hearing.
NEW DEPOT WORK STARTED.
GAINESVILLE, July 18.—Work on
the Galnesville Midland MSRailway's
new $15,000 freight and passenger sta
‘ tion has begun here, and it is expect
«d that the building will be compieted
anrd ready for occupancy by Octo
lber L
Caucus Not Able to
Force Nomination of
Jones for Bank Job
WASHINGTON, July 18~—That 4
caucus would not be able to force
the nomination of Thomas D. Jones
as a-member of the Federal Reserve
Board became evidént when a num
ber of Democratic Senators declared
they would not enter such a caucus.
Senator Reed, of Missouri, who is op
posed to Jones, sald:
“]l am not a rebel against my party,
but I have never heard of making a
confirmation the subject of caucus
action. Always in both parties con
firmations have been considered a
matter of conscience, and this nomi
nation especlially should be considered
in that category.”
Senator Martine, Democrat, of New
Jersey, who ulso is opposed to Jones,
denounced the caucus idea. He an
nounced, however, that he would vote
for the confirmation of Paul M. War
burg.
In the light of Senator Reed's re
fusal to attend any conference, it is
rot likely that such a meeting will be
held.
Man Held in Chicago
Not Guyton Banker
Officers of the Eflingham County
Bank, of Guyton, say they are sur
prised at a news dispatch from Chi
cago telling that a man named J. W.
Brittingham, who claimed to be vice
president of the bank at Guyton, was
arrested for refusing to pay his taxi
cab fare.
The bank officials declare no man
by the name of Brittingham is con
nected with the institution, 1
EXTRA
NDIGATE
[RUTH OF
MURDER
NOTES
Mrs. Dennis Long Planned Trip
to India—Wired Woman to
Help Her.
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 is strengthened that
Beatrice is slain as death note
says and that Eloise is on the
high seas.
| Telegram is discovered in which
~ Eloise implored the instant aid
~ of the mysterious “Margaret
i Mims.”
| Mystery of “L. and B.” tele
gram June 26 from New Orleans
deepens on discovery that Eloise
l 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 ths strange
trip was carefully planned with
the idea of befogging and mis
leading pursuers.
John L. Bennett, chauffeur and
supposed signer of application for
money orders to Victor Innes, is
eliminated from the case on testi
mony of a man who witnessed
Eloise sign Bennett’s name.
A Louisiana murder which may
have bearing on the Nelms myas
tery is revealed on the finding of
a human hand near Plaquemine,
90 miles up the river from New
Orleans.
A postal card from San Anto
nio to the Aetna Life Insurance
Company in Atlanta, where Beat
rice held policies, furnishes a clew
l on which detectives work,
Conviction that Eloise Nelms Den
nis 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, set
tled Saturday upon those who were
continuing a futile search for a sin
gle definite clew to the whereabouts
of the missing Nelms sisters.
Fresh revelations of h&: intention
as long ago as 1912 to flee'aith Vic
tor Innes, the Carson City lawyer,
and make her home with him in In
dia, together with every circum
stance of her flight from Atlan‘w‘f
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
eny bearing on the actions of Eloise
and her disappearance. For the first
time a telegram was shown Saturday
that bore a frantic message from Elo
{se 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, whq was a close
personal and business acquaintance
of Eloise, informed The Georgian
faturday that the love-mad woman
had confided to him her plans and
her fears. She was going to meet
her “aunt” in a few weeks in New
Orleans, she sald, and from there was
going West to embark for Indla. In
nes, she said, was making all the ar
rangements, and she did not even
know the boat she was to take.
Every trace of the fleeing woman
that has been obtained has appeared
to darken the mystery. She evident
ly doubled here and there on her own
trail for the deliberate purpose of
thwarting any who might pursus her,
the detectives believe. .
Investigatjon was made Saturday pl