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ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1915.
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WOOD ALCOHOL KILLS 5
Dr. Louis Hollander, formerly su
perintendent of the Battle Hill Tu-
' heroulosis Sanitarium, Friday con
fessed before the city and county
committee in charge of the institu
tion to spending money for himself
that was intended for other employes
of the hospital. He said he did not
know the amount but would take it
for granted that most of the evidence
collected by Dr. Claude A. Smith and
Dr. J. P. Kennedy, city health physi
cians, was correct.
The confession came at the con
clusion of a lengthy examination by
the committee during which Dr. Hol
lander made rather indefinite answers
to specific questions.
“Do you admit taking money to
which you were not entitled?” Al
derman Edgar Dunlap, chairman of
the committee asked.
Doesn't Know Amount.
‘‘I do,” answered Dr. Hollander.
• How much did it amouht to?” con
tinued the Alderman.
*1 can’t say but I could figure it
up from your list,” said Dr. Holland
er.
•Yes,” said Mayor Woodward "we
know' you can do that but can you
figure it up yourself."
“I do not know the amount you
have there, but I’ll admit it,” said Dr.
Hollander.
Dr. Smith said the total was $850.
Wife Drew Salary.
The largest single item was $450
marked to R. E. Scott, as housekeep
er. at $50 a month. Dr. Hollander
said this was the maiden name of his
wife. He said she would “come out
occasionally and look through the
kitchen and about the hospital.
Dr. Hollander denied evidence that
he took provisions from the store
room. In all other specific instances
he had an explanation. He said he
held back pay of nurses to buy them
uniforms and in other instances he
held back pay to see if they made
good. Only in answer to the general
confession did he incriminate him
self.
The records of his dealings with the
City Comptroller show everything to
be absolutely straight, the signatures
of all nurses and employees who had
testified that they failed to get the
money due them being on the pay
rolls.
"How old are you?’’ asked Mayor
Woodward.
••I am 32,” he answered.
■•Why did you do this?" the Mayor
iitked.
Tempted.HePleads.
"I was in debt and temptation came
my way. In every other way I did
my best to run the institution well
and I think it will show it has been
run well since I went there more
than a year ago.”
"What do you think we should do
to you?" continued the Mayor.
"Speaking for myself. I don t care,
said Dr. Hollander. "My wife and
child are my only concern."
He said if given a chance he would
do all he could to get the money and
repay the city.
The committee excused him from
the room and unescorted he went to
Dr. Smith’s office.
The committee. Mayor Woodward.
Alderman Dunlap. Doctors Smith and
Kennedy and County Commissioner
W. L. Gilbert, decided to confer with
City Attorney James L. Mayson be
fore deciding upon their next step.
Daniel Is Free
of Murder
Charge
After a trial lasting two days, Wal
ter S. Daniel, who shot and killed
William D. Watters In front of the
Carnegie Library March 23, Friday
afternoon was acquitted by a Jury in
the Criminal Court.
The jury retired at 12:25 o’clock,
following the charge of Judge Ben H.
Hill, and returned its verdict of not
guilty after deliberating about twenty
minutes.
Daniel was embraced by his wife
and his sister, Mrs. J. C. Sparkman,
of Memphis, who had sat with him
throughout the trial and who were
overcome with joy at the verdict.
Daniel, as he left the courtroom,
seized his 6-vear-old girl. May, in his
arms and kissed her several times.
After receiving congratulations
from a crowd of his friends who con
gregated in the corridor outside of
the courtroom, and his counsel, John
A. Boykin and John Y. Smith, Dan
iel, with Mrs. Daniel and his little
girl, went immediately to his home,
where a joyful reunion was held.
Daniel was cleared of the charge of
murder on his plea that he was forced
to shoot Watters in self-defense;
that the latter was attempting to kill
him with a heavy pair of pliers.
Hutcheson Likely to
Run Against Donehoo
Attorney Carl F. Hutcheson may
make the race for Coroner in the next
primary against Coroner Paul Done
hoo, it was announced Friday.
Mr. Hutcheson said he had been
approached by a number of his
friends and asked to enter the con
test. and that he had taken the mat
ter under consideration.
N TRAGEDY
Thaw Wins Right to
Test Trial by a Jury
(Bv International News Service.)
NEW YORK. May 14.—Harry K.
Thaw won another point in his fight for
freedom when the appellate division of
the Supreme Court to-day upheld Jus
tice Hendrick in his decis/on granting
the slayer of Stanford White a jury trial
to test his sanity.
Love Is More Sacred
ThanLaw,SaysJudge
STIGLER. OKLA.. May 14.—Love is
more sacred than iaw. This is the
opinion of Justice Crews, who dismissed
Williams Roles, 18. who obtained a li
cense to wed Virginia H. Roe, 16, hv
swearing she was 18.
The bride’s father, who had forbidden
the marriage, caused a warrant to he
issued for Bole’s arrest when the young
couple eloped.
The authorities having made as
much of a mystery as possible out of
the poison of w*hich five persons died,
after a small party Wednesday night
at the home of James Caldwell, No.
52 McDonough street, and the State
Chemist having refused to analyze a
sample of the fluid—there being no
appropriation for such matters—it ap
pears from most accounts that the
fluid was plain w*ood alcohol.
The Coroner Thursday ordered a
post-mortem heiu over the body of
Mrs. Fannie Caldwell, at the request
of physicians at Grady Hospital. Mr.
Donehoo said, hwever, that there
would be no inquest, he having thor
oughly gone into the facts and de
termined that the traged ywas acci
dental.
This is the list of victims:
John Blount, 32 years old, died at
No. 52 McDonough street.
Emmett Blount, a brother, 24 years
old, died Thursday night at a private
sanitarium.
Mrs. .Fannie Caldwell, of No. 52 Mc
Donough street, died at midnight
Thursday.
Mrs. Mary North Blount, of No. 52
McDonough street, 52 years old. died
at Grady Hospital at 6 o’clock Friday
morning.
John P. Lynch, a farmer, died at
Grady Hospital at 8 o'clock Friday
morning.
James Caldwell, husband of Mrs.
Fannie Caldwell, ill at Grady Hos
pital, not likely to live.
Emmett Blount was not at the par
ty. It is said he met John Blount and
Lynch carrying a can of the fluid to
No. 52 McDonough street and was
given a drink by them.
Find Can of Alcohol.
This is the story of the party and
the manner in which the poisonous
liquid was obtained, so far as the facts
had appeared Friday afternoon.
John Blount and Lynch, at work
in the basement of a new apartment
house at No. 6 West Georgia avenue,
found in a laboratory just installed
there by the Interstate Chemical Com
pany a five-gallon can of what they
evidently took to be pure grain al
cohol.
Coroner Donehoo says he is m-
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Powder Firm Stops
War Contract for
Big Order by U. S,
WASHBURN, WIS., May 14.—The
Dupont Powder Company has stopped
the manufacture of powder for a for
eign contract at its great plant in the
wilderness twelve miles from here,
and has begun to fill a big contract
for Uncle Sam.
This was disclosed during a visit
of Washburn residents to Madison
to fight against the proposed enlarge
ment of the plant here. They were
met by representatives of the com
pany.
Under the plea that America needs
the powder, they will end their oppo
sition to the plant, provided it be
brought no nearer to the city proper.
The German contract for $5,000,000
worth of high-power explosive was
filled by shipments to Italy.
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TOTRY TO
By FREDERICK WERNER.
(Special Correspondent International
News Service.)
BERLIN, May 14.—The Austro-
German army under General von
Mackensen, which has rolled back rhe
Russians through Galicia and from
their strong positions in the Car
pathians, is now before Przemysl. it
Commerce Chief to
Visit Merchants Here
Dr. E. E. Pratt, chief of the Bureau
of Foreign and Domestic Commerce,
will arrive in Atlanta Saturday morn-* 'was officially announced to-day by
ing from Washington and meet At
lanta merchants and manufacturers
w’ho are interested In foreign trade.
His headquarters during the day will
be at No. 521 Federal Building, with
W. A. Graham Clark, the local agent.
A luncheon will be given Dr. Pratt
by the Chamber of Commerce, after
which he will proceed to San Fran
cisco, where he is due to attend the
Exposition and address the California
Bankers’ Association.
Piedmont Swimming
To Begin Saturday
Swimmers who enjoy Piedmont
Park Lake are preparing to take the
first plunge of the season there early
Saturday morning, the opening of the
public bathing season in Atlanta.
J. O. Cochran, General Manager of
Parks, Friday said the season this
year would last twenty weeks, and
he gave assurance that the city offi
cials would not attempt to enforce
any finicky rules about bathing suits.
Court Appoints Three
To Run Crematory
Judge W. T. Newman, of the
United States District Court, Friday
appointed a committee of three citi
zens, J. K. Orr, J. S. Coon and Jo
seph E. Sirrine, of Greenville, S. C.,
to take charge of the city crematory
and operate it for six days, on one of
which days a test of its efficiency
should be made.
The city attorneys filed a bill of ex
ceptions to the ruling of the court,
which the court ordered
noted.
filed and
the German War Office. Continuing
their victorious sweep eastward, the
Austro-German forces will attempt to
recapture the city, according to :he
Intimation in to-day’s announce
ment. At the same time it was ad
mitted that the Russians had pene
trated to the German trenches at
Przasnysz before being repulsed.
The claims that the Germans are
in a position to give battle for the
possession of Przemysl is the most
important information given out since
j the announcement of the battle in
Western Galicia and the subsequent
Russian retreat all along the line.
Przemysl was captured by the Rus
sians on March 22 after a siege of
many months, during which it was
gallantly defended by an Austrian
army.
Aliens in England
Rush To Be Interned
By HERBERT TEMPLE.
(European Manager International
New* Service.)
LONDON, May 14.—Interment of
the 40,000 Germans and Austrians in
Great Britain was begun to-day by
Scotland Yard and the special ' war-
constables,'’ working under the direc
tion of the Home Office Many of the
women and children and men too old
for military service will be deported.
At the present time 40,000 unnatu
ralized aliens, of whom 24,000 are
men, are at large. More than 19,000
non-naturalized alien enemies have
already been interned.
Most of the 20,000 aliens in London*
are expected to surrender voluntari
ly for provisional interment until reg
ulation camps are ready. Probably
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GoVer nors
Stand By
IVii/son
Governor Slaton »aid Friday he
was not prepared to express a worthy
comment concerning the President's
note to Germany, having b?en unable
yet to studv the document because
of the pressure of business accumu
lated during the ten days of his ab
sence. The Governor came to his of
fice immediately from a trip from
New York and found a reception
room filled with visitors who had
been Informed of the time he would
return, and his desk covered with
correspondence, »o that tint 11 far Into
the afternoon he had not a moment
to give to study of the lately ex
pressed foreign policy.
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"Republic Behind Him."
SPRINGFIELD. ILL.. May 14 —
Commenting on the President’s note
to Germany, Governor E. F Dunne
said to-dav:
‘‘The President and his advisers at
Washington have acted with the ut
most caution and deliberation. They
have only formulated the position of
this republic as to the protection of
the lives and rights of its citizens
after sufficient time has elapsed to let
reason and law supplant the shock
that resulted from the loss of so
many noncombatant American lives.
"The American nation, through its
President, has spoken and the patri
otic citizenship of the republic stands
loyalty behind him and will sustain
him to the end.”
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"Country Will Approve."
TOPEKA. KAN'S., May 14—The
comment of Governor Capper on the
American note to Germany was em-,
bodied In the following words:
“The country will fully approve
both the substance of the President’s
firm and powerful note to Germany
and the moderation and courtesy
with which the President frames it.
The note Is all the more Impressive
because of its temperate and re
strained language and its spirit of
friendliness and of confidence in the
ultimate justice and good will of Ger
man Government.
"Iyess than the President has said
in this momentous deliverance to the
German Government would not have
satisfied the sense of the great griev
ance that Is suffered in the whole
submarine warfare policy of Ger
many’s navy and more Is not required
to maintain the American nation’s
prestige and self-respect before the
world."
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"Up to Demand* of Occasion "
FRANKFORT. KY, May 14— Pres
ident Wilson Is prompted by patriot
ism, Justice and firmness In the dec
laration to Germany,” Governor Mr-
Cleary said to-day. “The President's
statement seems to me to be positive,
firm, comprehensive and up to the
demands of the occasion."
BERLIN, May 14.—The American note, protesting against
Germany’s submarine war and the killing of Americans in the
“war zone" waters around England, was presented to the Foreign
Office this morning by James W. Gerard, the United States Ambas
sador.
The Foreign Office is now engaged in digesting the contents of
the note and planning the German reply.
Experts See Germany
And U. S. Deadlocked
By A. M. JAMIESON.
(Special Correspondent International
Newt Service.)
WASHINGTON, May 14—The
meeting of President Wilson's Cabinet
to-day w r as devoted to an analysis of
the public reception of the President's
note to Germany. Most of the Cabi
net members make no secret of their
elation over the general satisfaction
and acclaim with which the. note ha.*
been greeted. Many telegrams were
read commending the note and prom
ising the President support in what
ever action he may take.
The Cabinet practically has aban
doned Its consideration of routine and
departmental problems to devote its
time to the foreign situation. Dif
ferences said to have existed in the
Cabinet as to the treatment of the
Lusitania question now have disap
peared. and the President is receiving
full support of the Cabinet.
Expect German Refusal.
That Germany will not yield to the
demands of the United Staes, but will
justify her submarine warfare and
will assert her right to continue the
plans she has laid out to destroy the
cajnmerce of England and all other
nations no# carrying munitions of
war and other supplies to her enemies
is the prevailing opinion in Washing
ton offleal circles to-day.
Then what?
Germany herself must determine.
But it is not believed that Presi
dent Wilson and his advisers will go
further than to denounce Germany as
an outlaw among nations, for war-
actual fighting -is not regarded as a
possibility, as Germany Is the one
belligerent that can not at this time
strike back at the United States. All
her warships, except submarines, are
behind fortifications, therefore she
can not send jioldlers across the At
lantic.
To Avoid Warlike Step.
"On the other hand, it is not be
lieved that the United States would
send her soldiers to European waters
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when there '.«• nothing visible to fight.
The President, it is declared, will di
rect his efforts to the avoidance of
war Tn any Torm. a warlike step to be
taken only when It becomes neces
sary to protect this country’s com
merce on the seas.
If things come to the worst, it Is
said, the President would discontinue
diplmatic relations with Germany,
seize German vessels now interned
in this country* and designate tor
pedo destroyers to convoy merchant
vessels to European ports which are
likely to he attacked by smbmartnes.
"Germany can never meet the Pres
ident’s demands. ’ said a prominent
official to-day. "It is out of the ques
tion for her to do so without aban
doning her submarine campaign al
most entirely. She had staked her
success in the war upon her ability to
paralyze British commerce and if she
should agree to discard this feature
of her war, she would vitally Impair
her chances of victory.”
Look for Quick Reply.
It is not expected that Germany's
reply will be long delayed. The opin
ion Is expressed that President Wil
son can not recede a single step from
the portion he has taken without
impairing American prestige. It is
for this reason that warrlouds are
seen on the horizon to-day. Eevry
expert observer on international af
fairs sees that Germany and the
United States have reached a dead
lock.
In the face of the German crisis the
War Department displayed no un
usual activity to-day. So far as could
be learned not a single order has been
issued out of the usual routine and
no special preparations are being
made to strengthen national defenses
at any particular point.
Secretary Garrison said that he had
Issued no orders of an unusual char
acter, either to the arsenals or the
army. He declined to discuss the
terms of the President’s note to Ger
many or the probable reply of the
Berlin Government.
The German Embassy to-day de
clined to affirm or deny the report
that It had been notified by the Ger
man Foreign Office as to the attitude
to be taken by Germany In response
to President Wilson’s note, presented
in Berlin to-day. It suggested that
the embassy was unlikely to make
any formal statement during the day.
British Embassy officials declined
Safety of Innocents
Issue, Says Taylor
By HANNIS TAYLOR.
(Of Alabama, Former United States
Minister to Spain, and Noted a* an
Authority on International Law.)
WASHINGTON, May 14.—The note
sent by the Secretary of State to the
Ambassador of the United States at
Berlin states the American case
against Germany with a distinctness
which can not be misunderstood by
anyone familiar with the language of
diplomacy.
The crux of the whole matter Is
this:
If a merchant vessel of a belliger
ent is loaded down with contraband
of the most dangerous characetr. the
only penaltj she can possibly Incur
under exlstng international law ift
capture as a prize by the enemy. On
such a vessel a neutral passenger has
certainly al! the right of protection
guaranteed by international law to
one of the belligerent crew. How-I