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The Georgian Carries
The BUSINESS
And AD Of It Clean
The Atlanta Georgian.
The Georgian Carries
The BUSINESS
And All Of It Clean
VOL. 1. NO. 212.
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29,. 1906
PRTnr. Id Atlanta TWO CENTS.
ArxiAUia. on Trains viva cents.
Warrant Is Sworn Out
For Another
Man.
EXPECT ARREST
AT ANY TIME
New Suspect Is Under Ar
rest in Another City
It Is Said. .'
What may prove to be aenaatlonal
developments in the strange mystery
of Bailiff Dodson's death are expected
by the time the hearing is held Monday
to determine whether or not the pris
oners now held in the Tower in con
nection with the crime shall be re
leased on bond.
One of these developments may be
In the form of another arrest. It Is
known that a warrant tor another man
hna been sworn out, and that this war
rant Is now in the hands of officers.
It Is fully expected by witnesses dis
covered by The Georgian and by the
father of the murdered bailiff that the
arrest of this missing man will throw
some light on the mysterious crime
which caused the death of young Dod-
gen.
Reporters for The Georgian have
found a thoroughly reliable witness
who declares that this missing man
for whom the warrant was sworn out
Saturday was In Mrs. Willie Stamper's
house on the night thnt death was de tn
to Dodgen.
There Is also grounds for suspecting
that Mrs. Stamper’s statement to ,,
friend of the dead bailiff that site .: <
not lire the fatal shot may he n:v. .
plan to throw suspicion a.\ay from tt”.
missing man for whom the war...i.t
out.
It Is known where this man Is. anil
officers will probably leave Saturday ,
get him. Even If It Is shown lie d I
not handle the death-dealing gun
Is quite probable thnt he can tin-,
some light on the dark affair.
Abductors Invade the
Gilsey House in
Gotham.
“ Prohibition Election
Is Now Inevitable and
Will Surely Carry ”
—MAYOR JAMES G. WOODWARD
New York, Dec. 29.—Search In being
conducted by private detectives and
lawyers employed by Mrs. Isabel W.
Van Alntyne. divorced wife of the
wealthy Guy ('base Van Alstyne, for
her 4-year-olct son, D'Arcy, who was
kidnaped from her room In the Gilsey
house early yesterday. The kidnap
Ing la one of the most sensational of
all the Incidents In the stormy ca
reer of the Van Alstynes. It was kept
secret until today.
Mrs. Van Alstyne says she recog
nised her husband as one of the kid
napers.
Pour met! Invaded Mrs. Van Al-
styne's room In the hotel at 4 o'clock
yesterday morning. Two seised the
sleeping boy, carried him down four
flights of stairs, and escaped In a
closed carriage. Mrs. Van Alstyne
was held by the others. Her screams
aroused the whole hotel, but not In
time to prevent the kidnaping.
Mrs. Van Alstyne, pressed only In
her night clothes, fought the men as
well as she could. Her night dress
was tom in the scuffle. When the
men disappeared from her room Mrs.
Van Alstyne fainted.
The Van Alstynes separated early
1q 1905, he keeping the boy while his
wife was allowed the privilege of
seeing him once a week. In July of
last year Mrs. Van Alstyne, on one of
her visits, kidnaped him. He was re
covered after a sensational automobile
chase over the greater part of New
Jersey. Mrs. Van Alstyne brought
suit for divorce and was awarded cus
tody of the child with her decree.
GIRL IS KILLED
BY HER BROTHER
Carris Moninger and John Moninger, Girl Who Waa Accidentally Killed
By Hop Brother.
Pretty Carrie Moninger, 15 Years Old, Slain
Accidentally by Twelve-Year-Old
Brother.
JORDAN CASE CONTINUED:
WITNE88E8 WERE AB8ENT
On account of the absence of wit
nesses for the prosecution, application
tor a commitment trial for R. A. Jor
dan, Mrs. Willie Stamper, Mn. Bessie
Garey and Mlsa Addle Goss, who are
held In the Tower for investigation In
connection with the murder of John
Dodgen, on December 18, made before
Judge Pendleton, In superior court.
Saturday, was continued until Monday
morning at 9 o'clock, when Judge Roan
will hear U.
The defendants, accompanied by
their attorneys, J. W. Moore and J. A.
Branch, appeared In Judge Pendleton's
court shortly after 9 o'clock Saturday
morning. Justice of tba Peace Dodgen,
father of the murdered man, accom
panied by Detectives Spradlin and Kil
patrick, who are the prosecutors, were
alio there, Justice Dodgen appearing
In the capacity of attorney with So
licitor Hill.
Attorney Moore made the motion for
a commitment trial, and this was op
posed by Justice Dodgen, who said that
there were several witnesses whose
testimony he considered as Importnnt,
whom he had not had time to sub-
pena; therefore, he waa not ready to go
on with the trial. Attorney Moore held
that the defendants had been held for
Investigation for nearly two weeks, nnd
he thought that the prosecution had
had suflictent time to prepare Its case.
Judge Pendleton, however, stated
that he would not go into the case until
the prosecution waa ready. After some
argument, it waa decided to transfer
the hearing to Judge Roan's court, and
the date named above was agreed upon.
During the proceedings the defend
ing sat on tha front row of chairs
b the court room and besides confer
ring with their attorneys, chatted
(waaantly with several acquaintances,
they appeared‘to be In cheerful mood.
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Special to The Georgian. O
. Augusta, Ga., Dec. 29.—In the O
dedication of Hephzlbah Ma* O
' *onlc temple, at Hephxlbah, Ga,, tt
yesterday there were most 1m- O
prejMjy* ceremonies. Among the O
articles placed In the corner-stone O
w /*re copies of The Georgian and O
of the three Augusta papers, as O
a« a history of the lodge, *jt
written by H. S. Jones, Esq., of 0
this city, and a history of Heph- O
f ,bH h, written by Walter A. Clark, O
treasurer of Richmond county. O
A large number of Augustans O
attended the ceremonies. O
"V.'i'itrit fjoinif to have a prohibition election, nnd I firmly
beiit've it ix e<i ii|r to carry.”
Thin »tnt»ment wh» made by Mayor Woodward Saturday
momiiiK to u representative of The Georgian.
‘‘The prohibition crowd is determined to bring on this elec
tion, regardless of whether-council overrides my veto. The coun
cil nnd the newspapers have so agitated the question that the
election is inevitable.
“When the vote is counted, I believe it will be found that the
prohibition crowd has won out, nnd we will be in for two years
of no saloons.
“As far ns my veto is concerned, this really will have nothing
to do with it. I am satisfied that if council overrides the ,veto, the
small dealers who will be crowded out will precipitate the election,
if nobody else will.”
VETO MESSAGE! •
Mayor Woodward is busy preparing his veto message to coun
cil, which will give in detail his reasons for not approving the or
dinance regulating the snioons and raising the whisky licenses.
His message will be along the same lines followed in the in
terviews he has given out, explaining the veto. He will plead
that no changes bo made in the ordinance adopted X9 years ago,
thereby opposing every single provision in the ordinance recent
ly passed by council.
He is not in favor of the $2,000 license, or a compromise li
cense of $1,500, or of limiting the number of saloons to popula
tion. He wants absolutely no changes, and will argue that Atlanta
now is the best governed city, as regards whisky, in the countrv.
WHISKY MONOPOLY.
The mayor’s main argument will be that the adoption of the
ordinance will create a whisky monopoly, to which a prohibition
election, he says, is infinitely to he preferred.
“The small denier,” Mayor Woodward said Saturday morn
ing, “must he protected. He cannot afford to pay such an exorbi
tant -and prohibitive license as $2,000. The ordinance will place'
the whole whisky business in the hands of a few rich dealers in
the center of the city. It is class legislation.”
Mayor Woodward will probably embody in his message his
views in regard to a prohibition election, iii which case he will say
that the prohibition crowd is going to have the election if the veto
is sustained, and the prohibitionists and the small dealers will
have the election if the veto is overridden.
CAUSES DELAIS
FOR 24
GEORGIAN STORY BRINGS
COMFORT AND SYMPA THY
TO MRS. ISRAEL RUSSELL
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«line its parents were enjoying a O
nr-isttnaa dance, a two-year-old O
!*® y la>r freeling under a snow- O
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‘ nuradsy night, wjth scarcely any O
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It was Just a Title story In The
Georgian, but It brought happiness to
a helpless mother with three children
and at a time when happiness counts
for so much—at Christmas.
It resulted In a liqod of sympathy
and help for this mother and her every
want was soon supplied.
sh e Is Mrs. Israel Russell, and to
show her appreciation of what The
Georgian did. she writes a letter giving
her heartfelt thanks. Discouraged as
she was and almost without hope when
Ihe was called to The Georgians at
tention by Major Berrlman. of the Sal-
vaUon Army, now she has hope and ev
ery line of her letter breathes a spirit
of courage.
Thin I* what she says.
The Atlanta Georgian, Atlanta, Ga-
•1.lease let ir.e express my sincere
and heartfelt thanks for your great
kindness to me and my little C'hl.dren
in our hour of trouble. Your klnilneii
snd >U |hat of your reader, who helped
and I hope to be at work soon. I am
so thankful that God sent me to the
Home. The matron la very kind to
me, and, with such good care, I hope
to get strong and well rapidly.
“Again expressing my sincere thanks
for your kindness, believe me
“Most sincerely,
“MBS. ISRAEL RUSSELL. 1
Mrs. Russell Is now In the Home for
the Friendless recuperating her health
and strength, and she will remain there
until she Is well and strong.
BIG BRICK PLANT
BURNED BY THIEVES
i freight wreck at Blacksburg, 8.
Friday has completely blocked traf
fic on the Atlanta and Charleston dl
vision and no trains have arrived from
New York or Washington since Friday
noon. No details of the wreck have
been received at the general offices
of the Southern In Atlanta, and local
officials can give out no authentic In
formation. It has been learned that
no one was killed.
All five trains, Including four due
Friday and one due Saturday morning,
are expected to arrive In Atlanta some
time between 3 and 4 o'clock Saturday
ufternoon. All are running on the reg.
ular schedule of No. 39, due In Atlan
ta Saturday at 3:30, No. 37, due at
3:55, having been absorbed by the de
laved trains.
This Is the way the delayed trains
nre posted up on the bulletin board at
the Atlanta Terminal station:
First Section No. 30—No. 97's fast
mall train, due at 11:07 o'clock Friday
night, will arrive at 3:30 p. m.
Second Section No. 39—First section
of No. 37, due ut 3:55 o'clock Friday
afternoon, will arrive 3:35 r». m.
Third Section No. 39—Second section
of No. 37, due 3:55 o'clock Friday after-
nooiCwlll arrive 3:40 p. m.
Fourth Section No. 39—39's regular
train, due Friday afternoon at 3:30
o'clock, will arrive 3:45 p. m.
Fifth Section No. 39—No. 35’s train,
due Saturday morning at 5:10 a. m.,
will arrive at 3:60 p. m.
The Atlanta and West Point made
up a train In Atlanta Friday afternoon,
which went out on regular scheduled
time for New Orleans. No train was
made up, however, for No. 97, the New
York and Washington fast mall train,
due at 11:07 p. m., as all the mall that
had accumulated In Atlanta for New
Orleans nnd the southwest went out on
the train made up by the West Point
Friday afternoon.
Clerks Wait 8ince Friday.
Two mall cars and three mnll clerks
have been waiting at the Atlanta Ter
minal station since Friday afternoon at
o’clock for the-delayed malls from
the East. The delayed trains have been
posted to arrive several times since
yesterday afternoon, and the clerks
have already been on duty, without
rest, for twenty-four hours. They will
have been on actuul duty thirty-six
hours by the time their train arrives
In New Orleans Sunday morning, pro
vided the delayed trains arrived on the
time posted Saturday noon.
Several people have been In the
waiting room at the Terminal station
since Friday afternoon waiting for the
arrival of the delayed trains, which
would bring friends and relatives. One
old woman was pretty well fagged out
Saturday noon. She had been eating
In the station cafe and was not hun
gry, but she was exhausted from lack
of sleen. She received the announce
ment of certain arrival of the trains
Saturday afternoon with a more or less
doubtful expression.
Dover, N. H.. Dec. 29.—Flske Broth
ers’ brlek baking plant, the largest In
New England, was burned last night.
The Brc waa started by robbers, who
attacked Charles Ooldthwalte, the as
sistant bookkeeper. Thinking they had after midnight.
DID CARRIE MONINGER
FEEL PEA 7H WAS NEAR
A remarkable coincidence In connection with the tragic death. of
pretty 15-year-old Carrie Monlger Is the fact that on two recent occas
ions she had referred to probable death anti had expressed an earneat
desire to live.
On Christmas the girl was presented with a handsome watch and
chain by a friend of the family in Alabama and she had since been highly
elated over the gift. After receiving the watch and chain and as she
fondly handled them, the girl, buoyant and smiling, remarked to her
mother:
"Oh, mamma, I wouldn't want to die now. I want to live a long time
and enjoy this pretty present."
It was only Friday night, while at the home of a neighbor, that
the girl, In talking of her watch, said:
“If I should die, I would want mnmitia to get my watch and chain."
In less than twenty-four hours the girl was a corpse.
While handling a 22-callber parlor
rifle at hie home, Saturday morning at
10:10 o'clock, little John Moninger, 12-
year-old eon of Christopher Moninger,
of 64 East Harris street, shot his pretty
15-year-old sister In the left temple, In
flicting a wound from which the girl
died a few minutes later on the operat
ing table In the Grady hospital.
The shooting Is believed to have been
occidental, the little boy declaring he
had no Intention whatever of harming
his sister.
The tragedy occurred In the kitchen
of the Moninger cottage while the girl
was engsged In sweeping. She hud
Just remonstrated with her brother
about bringing mud Into the house, aft
er she had cleaned it. and, raising the
broom, told him to go out In the yard
to play with his gun.
At this the little boy pointed the rifle
at Mr .later eml exclaimed:
"Look out, I’ll shoot you."
Instantly this remark was followed
by a loud report nnd the girl sank to
the floor unconscious, with a bullet In
her brain. •
Brother Panic Stricken,
With a piercing scream, the boy
threw the gun aside and cried out:
'Oh, I’ve shot sister. My God, what
will I do."
Darting through the hallway and out
of the front door, the boy, terribly
frightened, ran to -the home of the
next-door neighbor, told of whut he had
done, nnd begged thut a doctor be sum
moned. The boy then ran nround to
oscetialn the cause of the words and
to smooth over the matter, and Just u
she did so, heard the report of the rifle.
Rushing to the prostrate form of the
dying girl, the mother raised her head
and tried to get her to speak. The fa
tal bullet, however, had aevered the
life chord and the girl never uttered a
sound after being shot.
Died on Operating Table.
Neighbors notified the Orady hos
pital and the unconscious girl was
hurriedly taken there In an ambulance.
She was at once taken Into the operat
ing room and the physicians worked
energetically to eave her life. If possi
ble, but to no avail, She continued to
gasp until a few minutes before 11
o’clock, when she died.
To a Georgian reporter little John
Moninger, between his sobs, made the
following statement:
"i got out my rifle this morning and
cleaned It and was playing with It. it
Tras loaded and T tried It. set ihe buiiet
out, hut could not. I then started Into
the kltchffi to get a knife to prise out
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WILL PROTEST
AGAINST LOSS
Mass Meeting Called
in Washington by
Catholics.
MANY SPEAKERS
WILL BE HEARD
M. Briand Declared in Paris
That Liberty Is Enemy
v of Church.
the bullet’ and sister told me not to
come In, saying I was Just spreading
dirt around from one place to another.
Hhe struck me and I started to raise
the gun, telling her In fun to look out
nr I would shoot. In some way the
trigger caught In my panta and the
gun tired. I was Just footing with sis,
ter end did not mean to shoot.'
Mrs. Moninger said she heard her
-laughter tell the boy hot to come Into
the kitchen on account of bringing In
dirt. Hhe saw the girl, she says, then
raise her broom and punch at her
brother, ns though scared, and heard
her exclaim:
“John, don't point that gun at me."
Christopher Moninger, the fathor,
who Is employed at the brewery, said
ha was satisfied the shooting was an
accident.
The boy has been In possession of
the fatal rifle for the past four years
and on ono occasion accidentally shot
hlmaelf In the hand.
Miss Carrie was a bright and popu
lar girl nnd a pupil In the seventh
grade of the Ivy street school. John Is
a pupil of tho fourth grade of the same
school. The family 1s German and
belongs to the German Lutheran
church. The dead girt was a member
of thnt Sunday school and had re
cently been awarded a prize In the
the daughter with her broom raised, shape of a handsome book, for fulthful
The mother sturte-1 Into the kltehep to (attendance.
and remained there for som-f time.
Anally returning to his home about
11:30.
Mrs. Moninger, the mother, was on
the back porch pluclng Ice in a chest
at the time of the shooting nnd waa
an eye-witness to the terrible tragedy.
Shortly afterwards, os she wept hys
terically and moaned piteously for the
deail girl, the grlef-strlcken mother de
clared to everyone she was satisfied
the tragedy was an accident! that little
John had no Idea of discharging the
rifle. •
Mrs. Moninger overheard the words
between the two children In the kitch
en, and, looking through a window, saw
DERAILMENT CAUSED
BY BROKEN TRUCK,
gpectal to The Georgian.
Charlotte.’ N. C., Dec. 29.—As the
result of a freight wreck, two and one-
half miles fr-uih of Blacksburg, S. C„
early Ft Ida* afternoon, fifteen box cars
were derailed and all north and south
bound passenger train delayed until
The derailment was
inspired me with hope for the killed him, the robbers set tire to the I caused by a broken truck,
future! I tin feeling much better now plant. Lou f!M>,00«. 1 No one waa hurt.
TAFT NO CANDIDA TE,
BUT WON’T SIDESTEP;
R OOSE VEL T’S CHOICE
Washington, Dec. 29—With regard to
the published statement that he would
be a candidate for the presidency In
1908, Secretary Taft, In a statement
today, said:
"For the purpose of relieving the
burden recently Imposed by publica
tions upon some of my friends among
the Washington correspondents of put
ting further inquiries to me, I wish to
say thut my ambition la not political:
that I am not seeking the. presidential
nomination; that 1 do not expect to be
the Republican candidate If for no
other reason than because of what
sdems to me to be objections to my
availability which do not appear to les
sen with the continued discharge of my
official duties, but that I ant not fool
ish enough to say that In the Improb
able event that the opportunity to run
come to me I should decline It, for this
would not be true."
President Wants Him.
The president would like to be sue
ceeded by Secretary Taft. He has so
many times Indicated as much to call
ers that there need be no qualification
about the statement. But the president
has not been fortunate In designating
heirs to his crown. There was a time
when he believed Secretary Root the
right man. Secretary Root doubted his
own availability, and he is now consid
ered entirely out of the running.
Then the president took up Taft.
There is excellent ground for the belief
that the publication In Washington, In
Ohio, In New York, and other cities, of
the report, with assumption of author
ity, that Secretary Taft had entrusted
his case to his friends was decidedly
for the great office of president would embarrassing to Mr. Taft.
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Washington, Dec. 29.—A mass moot
ing will be held Sunday night at tho
Columbia theater for the purpose of
entering a protest against tha action
of the France government in confis
cating the property of Cathollo
churches in France.
The list of speakers demonstrates
the hearty co-operation which Catbo- |
lice of Washington hava in other
churches In the struggle. Among the
speakers will be the following: Rev.
D. J. Stafford, Rev. John VanSchaU k.
Jr., pastor- of the Church of Our
Father; Rev, Abram Simon, of the
Plghth street temple; the Hon. Edgar
1. Dane, of Baltimore and Major E.
T. McChrystal, of New York. p. a.
Haltlgan wilt be chairman of the
meeting.
BRIAND 8AY8 LIBERTY
- 18 ENEMY OP CHURCH
Paris, Dec. 21.—M. Briand voiced
some views and direct sentences In
the course of his speech on the re
ligious bill in the senate today, which
was received with applause on the left
and murmurs from the right.
“We are giving you liberties,” he
said. “Liberty la the wont enemy the
church can meet If publlo worship
ceases in France, it will cease only by
order of the Vatican, and the country
will not deceive itself on that point. I
am not entirely satisfied that the
papacy Is not aa much in need of pro
tecting Itself from the France clergy
as from other French cltlsens,
‘The church's lots of property was
her own fault. The bill would plai n
the church within tho law In xpltn
of herself and oblige the pope, if he
desired to continue resilience, to re
sort to private worship, and this'
measure never would be accepted by
the Catholics of France.”
SUSHIS THROIT
ihh mb:
Brooded Over Bad Health!
and Sought to End His
Troubles.
PVTT.
Special to The Georgian.
Greensboro, Go., Dec. 21.—J. B.
Barnes, section master for the Whlto
Plains and Union Point Railroad, cut
his own thrfkat at about 8 o'clock this
morning. Bad health la said to be the
cause of the deed.
He resided at Btioam and was a
brother of Josh Barnes with C. A.
Wylds atjAuguxta.
Barnes died In a short while. Ho
was aged about 50 years.
British Ambassador 8alls.
New York, Dec. 29.—Sir Henry Mor
timer Durand, who was recently de
tached from his post aa British ambas
sador at Washington, sailed for Liver
pool today by the Umbria. Lady Du
rand, Miss Durand and Captain Du
rand accompanied hint.
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