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1 A t FTEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN. ATLANTA E DMUND ALLEN, warden of the Illinois State prison at Joliet, and Sirs. Allen, “the Prisoners’ Angel,” who was slain by one of the more trusted convicts of the honor system she aided so greatly. But Keeper of Joliet Retains Faith in Con victs Who Cry for Life of Murderer of New . Orleans Stage Beauty. CHICAGO, July 3.—The “honor system” in State prisons has been given a staggering arraignment. The beautiful young wife of Warden Edmund M. Allen, of Joilet Penitentiary, Illinois—Odette Allen, a former comic opera favorite—known to the convicts as the “Angel of the Prison,” is dead, brutally murdered, and strong evidence points to a product of the “honor system.” as her murderer. Two years ago that system was inaugurated by her husband at Jpliet among the convicts. Joliet became the most talked of prison in the world. Crushed and broken-hearted now by the death of the woman he idolized, he still de fends it. It is defended by Governor Dunne, the warden’s stanch sup porter, ip his belief that the worst criminals can be regerenated by kindness, by appealing to the smold ering instinct of trreir manhood. Opponents of the “honor system” now declare vociferously that the "honor system" must go—that the dis covery last Sunday of the mutilated, seared body of beautiful Odette Allen, the kind, tender-hearted woman who, it is well known, inspired the warden to establish the “honor system”—ut terly disproves its merit, brands it, Instead, as a terrible menace. Was New Orleans Beauty. Mrs. Allen was 34 years old. She formerly was Miss Odette Mazie Bor deaux. a native of New Orleans. At 21 she joined a musical comedy company In New Orleans. She possessed tal ent and beauty, and when “The Merry Widow” company was organized she was made an understudy to Ethel Jackson, who played the title role. Shortly afterward she was given the title role to a road company. She met Edmund M. Allen in Chi cago about six years ago. They were quietly married, and then Mrs. Allen left the stage. When her husband was appointed warden of Joliet penitentiary by Gov ernor Dunne in 1912, Mrs. Allen’s In fluence did much toward establishing the “honor system.” It was due to Mrs. Allen’s influence that the Joliet prison band was al lowed to leave the penitentiary walls on various occasions unaccompanied by a guard. Trusted Convict Suspected. Singularly indeed, suspicion of hav ing been the slayer of Odette Allen now centers on the convict who, above all the other 1,800 inmates of Joliet, was favored by the “honor system,” and the one who especially had been honored by the murdered woman. “This man is “Chicken Joe” Campbell, a negro, convicted of manslaughter in Chicago five years ago and sent to the penitentiary to serve an indeter minate sentence of from one year t6 life. Several months ago he was cho sen by Mrs. Allen to act as her per sonal servant. Attempts to obtain a confession from Campbell have failed. A dogged denial Is his answer to all accusa tions. Meanwhile a net of circumstan tial evidence has tightened around the suspect. Mrs. Allen’s body was found in the warden’s suite on one of the twin beds there. Her skull had been fractured and her body was fearfully burned. A fire was iaging in the room. Campbell Last in Room. Campbell was the last man in the warden’s suite Saturday night. He carried a thermos bottle to Mrs. Al len’s room at 5:50 Sunday morning. He came down with the dog 25 min utes later. Dr. J. P. Benson states Jiis belief that Mrs. Allen’s skull may have been fractured by a blow from the thermos bottle. The negro went out five minutes before fire was discovered. He insisted there was no Are when Captain of the Patrol Clarkson point ed to smoke coming from a window. A bloody collar belonging to Camp bell was found In Mrs. Allen’s closet. Campbell says he cut his chin while shaving, but no wound Is found. The most damaging evidence against Campbell came out in the tes timony of Michael J. Kane, assistant deputy warden, who has been em ployed at the penitentiary for 30 years. Deputy Kane said he saw Campbell change his clothing during the excitement attending the finding of Mrs. Allen’s body. Other circumstances have put an other negro trusty. Walter Edwards, * TM Colonel, Backed by Lodge, Dis approves U. S. Giving Pref erence to Foreign Laws. WASHINGTON, July 3.—Whether the United States is to abide by its own laws on naturalization and citi zenship or give preference to those of foreign nations is a question now be fore the State Department, and a question of special interest in these parlous times of international com plications. Also, three authorities have become involved in debate on the subject. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge and Colonel Theodore Roose velt advocating the recognition of the American laws, and Secretary of State Robert Lansing at present leaning to. ward observance of the foreign laws. In a nutshell, the question, as epit omized by Colonel Roosevelt, is: “When is an American an American?” To which Secreary Lansing replies that an American frequently has a "dual nationality," while Richard W. [Flournoy, Jr., chief of the Bureau of Citizenship, uses the phrase, “alter- | nate nationality.” The question first was evoked through the case of P. A. Lelong. of New Orleans, who was born in the (United States of a French father. In answer to an inquiry as tq his status, j Secretary Lansing wrote to Lelong I that he “was born with a dual na tionality,” and, therefore, the State Department “could not give assur ance that he would not be held liable for the performance of military duty in France, if he should place himself in the French Jurisdiction.” In a let ter of April 2, 1915, Secretary Lansing quoted the French Civil ('’ode defin ing as a Frenchman “every person i born of French parentage, in France J or abroad.” Whereat arose Colonel Roosevelt land said: “It is dangerously close to 'treason to the United States that men born here of foreign parentage, men who have served here in the militia, j who have voted and held office and have exercised other rights to he told by fhe State Department that if they visit countries where their parents were born they can be seized, pun ished for evasion of military duty and be made to serve in the army." In this line, also, he pointed nut that if General Goethals went to Holland or Admirals Osterhaus or Schroeder went to Germany they might he seized under the “Lansing doctrine.” "Me care Of Your Hair CnttcnmSoap Shampoos Aj— most effective when aid'd by light applications of Cuticura Ointment. Samples Free by Mall Out 1 cur* Soap and Ointment told everywhere Liberal sample ot each mailed free with 32-p book sddress post-cerd CuUeuv*." Dept IU, Bestoa under suspicion. He had access to the linen closet. He changed his clothes immediately after the fire. He was in the building at the time of the fire. He insisted Mrs. Allen's body was in bed when other men in the smoky room could not see it. The other convicts without excep tion believe Campbell to be the mur derer. Their admiration for the war den’s dead wife and their fear that the murder will cost them their “honor privileges" inspire them with ha*e. They would rend him to pieces if he were not kepty in solitary confine ment. Nearly 1,000 convicts were at the noon meal in the main dining room the day after the murder when a man rose from his seat and shouted: "Boys, follow me and we’ll string him up!” Violence Prevented. A hoarse cry reverberated through the mess hall. Seventeen convicts leaped from their seats and started to gather around the leader. Armed guards seized them and hustled them off to their cells, while other deputies scattered through the room to pre vent furuier trouble. The danger was past for the moment, but mutterings were still heard. Then the warden’s brother stood up and announced he had a message from Wraden Allen. It was the first as surance many of them had that (he warden was still alive. He had not been at the prison all day, and this served to strengthen the rumors that he, too, would not return. “Boys,” said Jim Allen, “the war den Is coming back.” A hoarse cry followed. “But he Is not coming back unless you help him in this time of trouble. He has placed you on your honor and he will continue to do so. You are his friends and he needs all of his friends at this crisis. Do nothing to violate the confidence he has in you. He will come back, but he won’t If you do violence here to-day.” Was to Go With Husband. So far as is known, Campbell, the personal servant, is the last person to have seen Mrs. Allen alive. Mrs. Allen, disappointed by her dressmaker at the last minute, had been unable to accompany the war den when lie started on a ten-day trip to West Baden. Ind., the night before, and had been the only occu pant of the bedroom. At 6:10 o’clock, nearly an hour be fore her usual rising time, the gong rung by a push button at her'bed side set up a clamor. Usually such a summons Is answered at once by Campbell, whose station is in a den opening off the bedroom. The bell continued to ring steadily, as if an impatient finger were press ing against the bedroom button James Larkin, a keeper, was at breakfast in the butler’s pantry, around h bend in the corridor. He ran into the hall and met George Simpson, another negro house serv ant, who had been across the corridor in another suite. Fir© Alarm Sounded. “The lady’s ringing,” snapped Lar kin “Why don’t you answer?” “It ain't my bell,” protested the ne gro. “Where’s Campbell?” The keeper raised his voice and called Campbell. There was no reply from the negro, but Larkin’s call and the continued, unbroken ringing of the gong brought Harry Rogers, a night turnkey, from his post on the lower floor. ‘I smell smoke.’’ Rogers announced a6 he rekohed the head of the stair case, panting. “Get to the Are whis tle!” The convict firemen raced to their rendezvous, the boiler room A half dozen of them followed Michael Kane, day captain of the department, into the warden’s house. With them ran Christy O’Leary, the warden's chauf feur. Kane, O’Leary and the rest found Larkin beating with his fists against the locked door connecting the bed room with the Governor’s suite. Smoke was curling through the cracks between dc or and frame, and Kane’s arrival whs greeted by a crashing of glass as the bedroom windows fell out. Body Is Found. O’Leary smashed a panel of the aoor with a wrench and reached through and turned the key. Smoke billowed forth in a cloud that drove back the fire fighters. "Mrs. Allen’s in there!” cried some one in the crowd. “No, she’s not,” another voice con tradicted. "I just saw her run up the stairs.” Later it developed that the woman seen on the stairs was Katherine Al ien, Mrs. Allens 17-yeur-Oid step daughter. By the time the flames had been drenched out it was 6:40 o’clock. O’Leary and Kane groped their way into the room, stumbling over the ruins of a lounge. They came to the twin beds. The charred posts were still standing. The rest had gone up in the fire. O'Leary bent over the bed nearest the den door—the one occupied by the warden’s wife. “My "God!” he cried. “There's Mrs. Allen!” Bell Saves House. Through all this time the bell had 1 been ringing. O'Leary saw why. The alarm had been sounded automati cally w'hen the wooden covering had been burned off and the wires short- | circuited. Had it not been for this j freak of the flames the w'hole building might have been burned out und ail evidence of a crime destroyed. The excitement apparently had not ; disturbed Campbell, who was loiter- j ing behind the greenhouse, outside the prison walls and about 100 yards up the drive, while Mrs. Allen’s pet { bull terrier romped on the lawn. Close to the hou»e and outside the I walls Captain A. J. Clarkson, chief | parole agent, was strolling at the | same time. He heard the crash of J glass and saw' smoke coming from the windows of the warden's bedroom. j Clarkson started intx> the house, then spied Campbell walking slowly toward him in the driveway, the ter rier worrying his heels. “Quick!” yelled Clarkson. ‘War den's house if* afire: * “Don’t think so, boss.” replied the negro, who seemed neither surprised nor excited by the news. “See any . ■ smoke? I don’t.” The Negro's Story. “Are you blind?” Clarkson de manded. “Come on!” “I ain’t been in the house since a few minutes after 6," the negro said. “It was just 6 when Mrs. Allen called me. I was sittin’ in the den since half-past 5. “ 'You get me the papers, Joe,’ she said. I got ’em for her and filled her thermos bottle with ice water Then she says to me to be sure to tell the barber she wanted him to wake her up at 9 o’clock, because she w r anted a shampoo. “Mrs. Allen got back into bed after she let me in and she didn't lock the doer when I went out. “Whenever I ain’t got anything else to do I'm supposed tc take the dog out. So, seeing Mrs. Allen was goin' to sleep till 9. I went on out.” Warden Allen was reached by long distance telephone at West Baden and hurried back to Joliet, a broken hearted man All he could say was: ( "I didn't want tc leave h**r Some thing told me not to go without her Artists and Autos Hurt Jewel Trade Gem Dealers, in Convention, Favor Campaign to Revive Lagging Business. ATLANTIC CITY, N J., July 3. Automobiles and magazine illustrators were held to be responsible for a slump in the jewelry trade that had cost manufacturers and dears millions inthe last two years, by delegates to the an nual convention of the National Whole sale Jewelers’ Association here. Members of the association said the artists were omitting Jewelry from their cover designs because they lacked in formation on the subject and feared to blunder. The motor car was called the biggest menace to the jewelry trade, since both jewelry and automobiles were con- siered luxuries and women preferred handsome cars to gems. The delegates favored a $100,000 publicity campaign to show that jewels were essential to good dressing. COUNT IN WORKHOUSE. NEW YORK. July 3.—Count Wil liam do Classan, 30, a member of a prominent and wealthy French fam ily, was sentenced to thirty days on Blackwell's Island by Magistrate Her bert on a. charge of annoying women in Central Park on June 10. Tries to Steal Ride; Gets a Job Instead BALTIMORE, July 3.—Henry Day, 18. of Washington, hopped on an express train out West to steal a ride home on the “rods.” He had no idea how fortune was to smile upon him. He was caught in the act of boarding the train before the eyes of President Willard and Vice President Thompson, of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Hauled before the officials. Day said he started a year ago to seek his for tune in the West, had reached Wy oming. worked on a ranch, became homesick and was then trying to get to Washington. The railroad offi cials, impressed with Day’s frankness, had him scrubbed up, took him aboard their private car and brought him to Baltimore. On the trip East Day made so good an impression that President Willard and Vice President Thompson gave him a clerkship with the railroad. ‘Old-Fashioned’ Cook Wins Biscuit Prize Couple Find Work After Long Trudge That Gave Him Relief From Tuberculosis. MINNEAPOLIS. July 3—Walking more than 500 miles, from Chicago to Minneapolis, carrying a heavy pack on her back, and leading by the hand Claude W. Deelany. her husband, who is affected with tuberculosis, Mrs. Sylvia Deelany, 24, cut off her hair and sold it when the pair were stranded. From the sale of her hair she obtained $1.50 to buy food for her husband and herself, both weak from the exertion, and again they trudged on to Fixcelsior, where she obtained employment as maid in the home of F. H. Meyer, and her husband was given work as gardener Meyer had them taken into custody to explain the disappearance of five rings and some clothing from the Meyer home, but after thinking over all that the woman had gone through and the »ad plight of the man he re fused to prosecute and the two were freed. Sheriff Langum says an effort will be made to have the Associated Char ities obtain transportation for the couple to Colorado or some other mountain State. “Claude was a chef in Chicago.*’ says Mrs. Deelany. “and we were get ting along nicely. Then he was stricken with tuberculosis. He lost his Job. Then our landlord turned us out. “We decided to come West. We started to walk, and at first made only a few miles a day, hut when we got into the country Claude gained strength. I carried the blankets and coffee pot. We camped by the road side and slept on the ground “When we got here I looked for work, but couldn’t find any. Then I was walking by a hair store one day and the thought of selling my hair occurred to me “I went in and they clipped my hair I got $1.50 for it. That gave ,us something to eat. The next morn ing we walked to Excelsior and both got work at the Meyer home.” Looks forTree toHave Peaches and Cream Big Wind Drove Milkweed Through a Tree and Now It Ha* Sprouted. BENZONIA, MICH., July 3.—Enos Martin is showing visitors to his farm what he thinks will be the greatest horticultural curiosity in the coun try. Last. June, when the big wind cut through Benzie County, it hit Enos’ peach orchard. It tore up a few of the trees. After the windstorm Enos discov ered a stem of a weed driven entirely through the body of one of his beat peach trees. He left It there to show- people how strong the wind had been to drive a tender weed stalk through the peach wood. This spring, to his surprise, Enos found that the weed stem was putting out leaves and wondered what it was. Now that the leaves are uncurling, he has discovered that it is a milk weed, and he thinks that it will unite with the peach and that next month he can serve peaches and cream off the same tree. William C. Plunkett Ends markable Year With • Honors. Wakes to Find He Enlisted for War TORONTO, CANADA. July 3.—Purely Douglas Bailey, son of the Professor George Bailey, of Cazenovla, N. Y., re covered from a lapse of memory and found that he had enlisted In the Cana dian Dragoons on March 11, under an other name. He walked Into police headquarters and was so affected when he heard of the efforts made to And him he had to be sent to the hospital bar racks. Bailey received a shock from lightning in Denver, and disappeared while on his way to a Syracuse physician. Sends Socks to Army, Gets a Romance Note WASHINGTON. July 3.—Mrs Susie Jones, wife of John Jones, recently sent socks and shirts to the striving' war riors in Europe. In the box she in closed her name and address Mrs. Jones received a letter from Corporal Richards, of the Police Rest Camp, sta tioned at Southampton, England, telling her he had received the shirts and socks. Going on the principle that letters found in bottles have given rise to ten der attachments between the sender and the finder, the corporal, in his message, hints at a romantic sequel to the gift Mrs. Jones says, however, he must look elsewhere for his motion picture plot. Want to Fight? Go to Europe, Reads Sign CHICAGO. July 3.—“If you want to fight go to Europe.’ ’is the substance of a sign posted in the Municipal Court bailiff’s office by Frank KremI, the chief clerk. The notice reads: “After to-day no more arguments as to any foreign country will be tolerated in tills office. Our flag is the red. white and blue, and If you want to fight for some other flag, leave at once. They all need you badly.’’ Ever}- warring nation is represented among the employees of the office Krc.inl says his action was due to quar rels arising in his office. CAMBRIDGE. MASS., July 3.-4 blind boy. jo \cars of age. has en4 at v.ird He is William C. Plunkett,j R*»\l,tiry. who -ntered the uaivers I last September with honors, and ! ! ha j >r.ood the pace in academl- wcj «^t Cambridge. ’’ •* -un s Plunkett ha «* mst in j first vear, which is the most ►•von to students n j•• - •* <. on Of their faculties, has given him cour in his hope that he will be able to ] all the way through college and eaj a degree. A typewriter of peculiar constrij tion has enabled Harvard’s blind to maintain a high standing in all M clas es At Harvard, w! r ■ora of national reputation lectures, one of the paramoun^^^B of the students is that of writij notes on the classroom lectures, sightless student is unable to ti pen and ink like the undergraduates, but a tyj writer which marks the paper on roll with Braille point character* i. ablcs him to take down the lectulj and preserve them in such a msnf that he can read them with his gers. and thus he as well prepared] re dto as the other students. i Plunkett Is a familiar figure in college yard, and his dailj wal| about university territory have abled him to know the lay of tl | perfectly. With the aid of a cane can now make his way from tl freshman dormitory, where he llvj to the Harvard yard unassisted, is often accompanied by nis i mate. Carl A Mendum. The oth members of the freshman class do j that they can to aid Plunkett in work. Zinc Prices Doubled By European War WEBB CITY, MO., July 3.—A new world's reoord price for zinc was es tablished in the Joplin district, when $80 a ton as a basis price for 60 per cent ores was offered by buyers. This is $5. better than the previous high basis. Since the outbreak of the European war prosperity has hit Misouri’s great lead and zinc mining district in bunches. Ore one year ago was selling at $35 and $40 All mines are running day ami night, old diggings long idle are being reopened and the biggest boom In years is on. LimeJoss in Tuberculosis In The Journal of the American^ Medical Association (January 171 1914). was th© following: W “It has been many times stated that in tqberoulosla or In the pr©4 tuberculosis stage an increase^ amount of calcium (lime) I* lost both In the urine and fecee. In fact, i demineralization has been thought td be a forerunner of the '-'•veloomeni of tuberculosis.” 1 If tuberculosis Is due to lime lose! the success of Eckman’s Alterative in Its treatment may he, due, nfl part, to it* content of a I combined with other valuable inJ gredients as to be easily assimilated! Always we have urged con-sumpJ tlves to attend strictly to matter* ofl I'xi.i.hut often some effective r m* J dial agent is needed. In many case of apparent recovery Eckman’s Al4 terative seems to have bupi - A thid need. It contains no opiates, nar-fl eotics or habit-forming drugs, so ifl safe to try. Sold by Jacobs’ DriM Stores and tther leading f Eckman Laboratory, Philadelphia, f KOKOMO, IND., July 3.—Old-fash ioned biscuits, “such as mother used to make," scored a signal victory over the cooking school kind when Miss ^Blanch James was awarded an electric range for having baked the best pan of bis cuits in competition with a score of other girls. Miss .Tames had never had any do mestic science training, but won over girls who bad been students in the do mestic science, department of the Ko komo High School. Miss James said she. learned to bake good biscuits in helping her mother in the kitchen. $100 REWARD For I. H. Cheek, ape 28, height, about 6 feet 2; weight about 160 pounds: light hair, blue eyea, blonde. Likely dlagula ed. Cash Grocery Co. will pay $100 for hla arroat anywhere. Arreet and wire JAMEQ L. BEAVERS, Chief of Po. lice, Atlanta, Qa. —LOOK! - BIGGEST REDUCTION EVER MADE IN DENTAL WORK EOR TEN DAYS ONLY Best Set Of Teeth . . Gold Crowns Bridge Work . „ „ w AH Silver Fillings All Cement Fillings . ALL WORK GUARANTEED- RAffK.888 METHODS. “THE OLD RELIABLE." ATLANTA DENTAL PARLORS Eat«toll»hed 10 year* same location. CORNER PHAOHTREB AND OECAtUR 8TREET8. ‘3 25o 25c '■StQrn. 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