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The Atlanta Georgian.
vol. 1. NO. 212.
Warrant Is Sworn Out
For Another
Man.
EXPECT ARREST
AT ANY TIME
Xew Suspect Is Under Ar
rest in Another City
It Is Said.
What may prove to be aensatlonal
development® In the strange mystery
of Bailiff Dodgen's death are expected
by the time the, hearing is held Monday
to determine whether or not the pris
oner.* now held In the Tower In con
nectlon 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 for another man
has 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 that death was deult
to Dod gen.
There Is also grounds for suspecting
that Mrs. Stamper’s statement to a
friend of the dead bailiff that she did
not fire the fatal shot rpay be only
plan to throw suspicion away from the
mlsilng man for whom the warrant Is
out.
U is known where this man Is. and
officers will probably leave Saturday to
get him. Even If It Is shown he did
not handle the death-dealing gun, it
Is quite probable thnt he can throw
some light on the dark affair.
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1906
PttTfTTC. In Atlanta TWO cents.
A XVAUCi. on Trains FIVE CE.vra
RACES
JORDAN CASE CONTINUED;
WITNE8SE8 WERE ABSENT
On account of the absence of wit
nesses for the prosecution, application
for a commitment trial for R. A. Jor
dan, Mrs. Wlltle Stamper, Mrs. Bessie
Garey and Miss Addle Goss, who aiv
held in the Tower for Investigation
connection with the murder of John
Dodgen, on December 16, made before
Judge Pendleton, In superior court,
Saturday, was continued until Monday
mnrnlmr at ft e'rlnrk wh*n .Tuitjr« Rr
will hear It.
WORD CAUGHT
IN HOBART, 0KLA„
AFTER LONG SEARCH
t*|H-. ia| t„ The Georgian
.uattsnoogn. Tenu..
inooga, Tenu., Dee. 2).—Cbarli
swnffonl, a young man of IMkevllle, wli
acquitted, together with two of b *
woth. ru, of the charge of the aswisiilnutl.
t'f their uncle, late Keimtor \V. I.. Tollett,
*“'• "ho was charged with the murder
rotiiH>nr of uii Inoffensive Jew In the w-
. 1 ’ Dayton some months ago, has li
down at last.
awaffoni wim raptured In Hobart. Okla.,
'•> Sheriff Frazier, of Itben eotiuty, and
reriniHon, of Bledsoe county, mid brought
* “ **" where he will remain In Jail
of his trial. Hwnfford wn
„ . - —» after the murder of the Jcv
, j, Dayton and Imlgrd In Jail there, hut to
I 1 *. 11 nothing waa heunl of him
today.
t‘» this city, whe
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* Augusta, Oa, Dec. 29.—In the O
2 “dlcatlon of Hephzlbali Ma- O
” ”"nlc temple, at Hephzlbah. Ga.. O
S “lerday there were most Im- O
[Missive ceremonies. Among the O
•nicies placed In the corner-stone O
n ** r « eople, of The Georgian and O
B the three Augusta papers, as O
2 ?*H as a history of the ‘ ‘
a history of the lodge, V
0 w lu, ' n hy H. S. Jones. Esq., of 0
o L", 1 " «Mty. and a history of Heph- O
2 'Ihah, written by Walter A. Clark, O
treasurer of Richmond county. O
o ... I . ur * c number of Augustan* O
2 attended the ceremonies. O
PCOOOOOOOOOOOOCHKKIOOOOOOOO
SMALL NEGRO GIRL
SHOT OH NEGRO BQV
Prohibition Election
IsNowInevitableand
Will Surely Carry
—MAYOR JAMES G. WOODWARD
“We-nnrfcoing-tB'imve n prohibition election, and 1 firmly
believe it is going to carry.”
This statement wns made by Mayor Woodward Saturday
morning to a 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 and 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, and we will be in for two years
of no saloons.
“As far as 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!
Major 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 saloons and raising the whisky licenses.
Ilis message will be along the same lines followed in the in
terviews he has given out, explaining the veto. lie will plead
that no changes be made in the ordinance adopted 19 years ago,
thereby opposing every single provision in the ordinance recent
ly passed by council.
lie 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. lie wants absolutely no changes, and will argue that Atlanta
now is the best governed city, as regards whisky, in the country.
WHISKY MONOPOLY.
The mayor’s main argument will be that the adoption of the
ordinance will create a whisky monopoly, to which n prohibition
election, he says, is infinitely to be preferred.
“The small denier,” Mayor Woodward said Saturday morn
ing, “must be 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 iii regard to a prohibition election, in which ease 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.
NEW 0RLEAN8.
New Orleans, La., Dec. 29.—Here
are the results of today’s races:
FIRST RACE—Gold Proof. 3
won; Tom Manklns, 4 to 1, second
Conjuress. 4 to 1. third. Time, 1:14.
SECOND RACE—Morales, 11 to
won: Chase, 2 to 1, second; De Oro,
even, third. Time, 1:15 2-5.
THIRD RACE—Phil Finch, 9 to
won; Minnie Adams, 2 to 6, second
Peter Sterling, even, third. Time, 1:4#
1-5.
FOURTH RACE—Juggler. L ....
won; Rusk, g to 1, second; Charlie
Eiutman, 7 to 10, third. Time, 1:11
FIFTH RACE—Shawana, 3 t <
won; Padre, even, second; Flavlgny,
to 2. third. Time, 2:34 4-5.
SIXTH RACES—Henry Watterson, _
to 2, won: Florlsel, 4"to 5, second; Pr.
of Woodstock, 8 to 5, third. Time, 1:46.
SEVENTH RACE—Lady Charade,
to 1, won; Scalp Lock, 5 to 2, second
Erla Lee, 3 to 1. third. Time. 1:45.
Entries For Monday.
First Race—Five and a half fur
longs, selling: Fancy Dress 111, John
Peters 114, Tyrolian 105, Come On
Sam 106, Chieftain 108, Pretty Doreen
101, Tlchomlngo 106. Favorite 107, Fox
Hall 110, Coeur De’Llon 113, My Dulcle
106, The Thrall 114. Penrhyn 111, Pln-
stlcker 103, Luzarlnn 112.
Second Race—Six and a half fur
longs, selling: John Kauffman 103,
Gold Duke 100, Cannon Hall 122, Ad-
Jurd 113, Kohlnoor 117, J. P. Mayberry
117, Malacal 102, Optional 112, Bane
ful 97, Pompadour 103, Villa 97. Billy
Vertress 109, Helen Lucas 97, Earl of
Leicester 100, Tad Bell 120,
Third Race—Five (urlongs, purse:
Brlttainby 100, Entrevoua 97. Nedra
102, Buren Arnold 97, Miss Bertha 97,
Expect to Sec 105, Malta 97, Sir Mince
meat 97, Toy Boy 102, Harry Gardiner
97. Baker Paul 97, Robert .Minton 97,
Odd Trick 97, Dick Shunley 97, The
Scout 97.
Fourth Race—Mile, purse: Sonanta
, Telegrapher 99, Orbicular 110, Gre-
vllla 104. Thats Whnt 99. Missouri Lnd
107, Polly Prim 96, Lady Rather 107,
Niblick 96, Merry Scott 97.
Fifth Race—Mile and seventy yards,
purse: Hickory Corners 102, Harma-
kls 102, Terns Rod 102, Kitty Platt 107,
Huntington 102, Rather Royal 107,
Jungle Imp 105, Barnle Cramer 102,
Florlzel 102, Claremont 105, Footllght's
Favorite 102, Langford James 102,
Drnmlo 105.
Sixth Race—Mile and a sixteenth,
selling: Benevolent 102, Bitter Hand
95, Fonsoluca 107, Oheron 99. Silver
Skin 106, King Ellsworth 110. Abe
Meyer 104, Merryck 102, La Cache 101,
Bitter Brown 94, Fred Hornbeck 104,
Pride of Woodstock 103, Lady Charade
98. Omar Khyyam 97. Foreigner ml.
GIRL IS KILLED
BY HERBROTHER
Carrie Moninger and John^Moninger. ^ Qirl Was Accidentally Killed
HILL PROTEST
AGAINST LOSS
Mass Meeting Called
in Washington by
Catholics.
vim
MANY SPEAKERS ~
WILL BE HEARD
M. Briand Declared in Paris
That Liberty Is Enemy
of Church.
Pretty Carrie Moninger, 1? Years Old, Slain
Accidentally by Twelve-Year-Old
Brother.
DID CARRIE MONINGER
FEEL PEA IH 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 und had expressed an earnest
desire to live.
On Christinas the girl was presented with a handsome watch and
chuln 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 wnnt to live a long time
und enjoy this pretty present."
It was only Friday night, while at the home of a neighbor, that
the girl, In tnlklng of her watch, said:
"If I Should die, 1 would wnnt mamma to get my watch and chain."
in less than twenty-four hours the girl was a corpse.
New York, Dec. 29.—Scorch Is being
conducted by private detectives and
lawyers employed bv Mrs. Isuhel \V
Von Alstyne, divorced wife of tho
wealthy Guy Chase Van Alstyne, for
her 4-year-old son, D'Arcy, who wns
kidnaped from her room In the Gllsey
house early yesterday. The kidnap
ing Is one of the most sensational of
all the Incidents In the stormy
reer of the Van Alstynes. It was kept
secret until today.
Mrs. Van Alstyne says she recog
nized her husband as one of the kid
napers.
CAUSES DELAYS
FOR 24
GEORGIAN STOR} BRINGS
COM FORI AND SYMPAIHY
lO MRS. ISRAEL RUSSELL
ifri— le " h °otlng at pigeons Saturday
Brrm on * l US Reed street, Harry
den,r a 12-year-old negro boy, accl-
IU “ lljr "hot Ida May Smith, a 6-year-
rui. irro girl, with a 32-callber parlor
tna h r hullat entered the child’s side
fh» R^*."*'* entirely through the body.
Ie.nl. 11 * lrl w *» taken to the Grady
W, '“. In a dangerous condition. The
. r. boy ha, not yet been found by
police. •
It was Just a title story In The
Georgian, but It brought happiness to
helpless mother with three children
and at a time when happiness counts
for so much—at Christmas.
It resulted in a Hood of sympathy
and help for this mother and her every
want was soon supplied.
She 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
she was called to The Georgians at
tention by Major Berrlman. of the Sal-
vatlon Army, now she has hope and ev
ery line of her letter breathes a spirit
of courage.
This Is what she says:
•The Atlanta Georgian, Atlanta, Ga.
“Please let me express my sincere
and heartfelt thanks for your great
kindness to me and my little children
In our hour of trouble. Your kindness
and that of your readers who helped
us has inspired me wllh hope for the
and f hope to be at work soon. I am
so thankful that God sent me to the
Home. The matron Is 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,
“MRS. ISRAEL RUSSELL."
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.
ADOLPH BUSCII
IS SOME BETTER
St. Louts, Mo.. Dec. 29.—Adolphus
Busch, the rich brewer who Is con.
fined to his home with a severe attack
of pneumonia, suffered a sudden re
lapse early today. The attending phy
sicians worked with him until the mid
dle of the forenoon, when It was an
us oa. nou ?.T l t( ?‘ h S , had and his
future. 1 am feeling much better now condition showed improvement.
freight wreck at Blacksburg, S.
C., Friday has completely blocked traf
fic on the Atlanta and Charleston di
vision nnd no trains hnve 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,
arrived InAtlanta at 4 o'clock Saturday
afternoon. All are running on the reg.
ular schedule of No. 39, due In Atlan
ta Saturday at 3:30, No. 37. due at
3:66, having been absorbed by the de
layed trains.
This is the way the delayed trains
are 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 at 3:55 o'clock Friday
afternoon, will arrive 3:35 n. m.
Third Section No. 39—Second section
oT No. 37. due 3:66 o’clock Friday after
noon, will 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. 36's train,
due Saturday morning at 5:10 a. m
While handling n 22-caliber parlor
rifle at I0» home, Saturday morning at
lO:? O'clock, little John Moninger, 12-
year-old'son of Christopher Moninger,
of 64 East Harris street, shot his pretty
15-year-old sister In the left temple, In
fllctlng a wound from which the girl
died a few minutes Inter on the operat
ing table In the Grady hospital.
The shooting Is believed to have been
accidental, 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 engaged In sweeping. She had
Just remonstrated with her brother
ubout bringing mud Into the house, nft-
er she had cleaned It, and, raising the
broom, told him to go out In the yard
to play with Ills gun.
At this the little boy pointed the rifle
at IiIm winter and evrlftlmeri:
"Look out. I’ll shoot you.”
Instantly this remark was followed
by it loud report and the Kiri sank to
the Moor unconscious, with a bullet In
her bruin.
Brothsr Panic 8tricksn.
With a piercing scream, the boy
threw the Run aside nnd cried out:
"Oh, I’ve shot sister. My God, what
III I do.”
Darting through the hallway and out
of the front door, the boy, terribly
frightened, ran to the home of tho
next-door neighbor, told of what he had
done, und beggeil that a doctor be sum
moned. The boy then ran around to
the home of a play-mate In Ivy street
and remained there for some time,
flnully returning to his home about
11:30.
Mrs. Moninger, the mother, was on
the back (torch placing Ice in a chest
at the time of the shooting and was
an eye-witness to the terrible tragedy.
Shortly afterwards, as she wept hys
terically and moaned piteously for the
deud 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
the daughter with her broom raised.
The mother started Into the kitchen to
O EMPEROH 18 TO AID
a FIGHT AGAIN8T LAW. o
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Rome, Dec. 2#.—Emperor Frans O
O Joseph, of Austria, and Cardinal O
O Vaszary, archbishop of Qrau, 5
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O 00Q each to enable the pope to O
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Washington, Doc. 29.—A man meet
ing will be held Sunday night at the
Columbia theater for the purpoze of
entering a protest against the action
of the France ‘government In confls- 1
eating the property of Catholto
churches In France.
The list of speakers demonstrates
the hearty co-operation which Catho
lics of Washington have In other:
churches In the struggle. Among the
speakers will bo the following: Rev.
p. J. Stafford, Rev. John VanSchalrk,
Jr., pastor of the Church of Our
Father; Rev. Abram Simon, of tho
ascertain the cause of the words and h' 1 “aan^‘ , ?? t BalTtSlS™ th rn!? 0 M.. E ' l8 ‘i r
to smooth over the matter, and Just as I — Baltimore, and Major E.
she did so, heard the report of the rille. I H.ttf*oji r5 »it2’ El N ? w York. P. o.
Rushing to the prostrate form of the U ** chalrman of th »
dying girl, the mother raised her head *'
and tried to get her to speak. The fa- BRIAND SAYS LIBERTY
tal bullet, however, had severed the Dn, " r,L ' liberty
life chord and the girl never uttered a I ® ENEMY OF CHURCH
sound after being shot. . Paris, Dec. 29.—M. Briand voiced
Died on Operating Table. I ” on>e views and direct sentences In
Neighbors notified the Grady hoe-1 the course of his speech on the ra-
rltal and the unconscious girl was I Uglous bill In the senate today, which
hurriedly taken there In on ambulance. I WB * received with applauee on the left
She was at once taken Into the operat- “ nd murmur* from the right.
Ing room and tho physicians worked! " We ar « giving you liberties," ha
energetically to save her life. If possl- I ,ald - "Liberty la the worst enemy tha
ble, but to no avail. She continued to church can meet. If public worship
gasp until u few minutes before 11 c ®“®* ln France, It will cease only by
o'clock, when sho died. |°™* r ? the.Tatlcan.^and the country
To a Georgian reporter little John I I'm no°t‘ '’Sly^ratblfl^'tK't 0 ^
following' statement•*** *° b *’ made lho |p tt P®?>: «?» « much ln_need of pro-
andir£VXr'M e c&
The church's lose of property waa,
- ----- The bill would piece'
cleaned It and was playing with It. It. ...„
buHeth®r own (aulf . Iu „ wulll „ ,
1^'kUrh.n - A'Jie" ,"' ar iL d lnt ? the church within the law In eolfej
tho kitchen to get a knife to prlio out I of herself and oblln the nnnn. i# »,.• i
■he bullet and sister told mo not to I deslred to continui'ralut^TtA re- 1
< i?J« e - n ' * a Y' n * * was Just spreading sort to private worship, and this
She struck! me'nnT't p .rar. f noth ® r - measure never would be accepted by'
She struck me and I started to raise the Catholics of France* ‘
the gun. telling her In fun to look out
or I would shoot. In some way the
trigger caught In my panta and the
gun fired. 1 was just fooling with sis
ter nnd did not mean to shoot.”
Mrs. Moninger said she heard her
daughter tell the boy not to come Into
the kitchen on account of bringing In
dirt. She saw the girl, she says, then
raise her broom and punch at her
brother, as though scared, and heard
her exclaim:
"John, don't point that gun at me.'
Christopher Moninger, the father,
who Is employed at the brewery, said
he was satisfied the shooting was an
accident.
The boy has been In possession of
SLASHES THROAT,
AFTER ARISING
rne ooy nos Deen in possession of , , „ .
the fatal rifle for the past four years Brooded Over Bad Health)
and on ono occasion accidentally shot!
and Sought to End His
Troubles. . . , ;
HUM'
himself In the hand.
Miss Carrie was a bright and popu
lar girl and a pupil In the seventh
grade of the Ivy street school. John Is
u pupil of the fourth grade of the same
school. The family Is German and
belongs to the German Lutheran
church. The dead girl was a member I Special to The Georgian,
of that Sunday school and had re- Greensboro, Ga, Dec. 29.—J.
cently been awarded a prize In the I Barnes, section master for the White
shape of n handsome book, for faithful Plains and Union Point Railroad, cut
'his own thifiat at about 6 o'clock this
morning. Bad health is said to be the
cause of the deed.
He resided at Biloam and
brother of Josh Barnes with C.
Wylda at Au
attendance.
yld* at Augusta.
Barnes died In a short while. He
was aged about 60 years.
TAFT NO CANDIDATE,
BUT WON’T SIDESTEP;
R 0 OSE VEL T’S CH0ICE\MM MR,FELDER
TO
will arrive at 2:60 p. .
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 mail train,
due at 11:07 p. m„ as all the mail that
had accumulated In Atlanta for New
Orleans and the southwest went out on
the train made up by tbe West Point
Fridav afternoon.
Washington, Dec. 29—With regard to
the published statement thut he would
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 correspondent* of put
ting further Inquiries to me, I wish to
say that my ambition Is not political;
that I am not seeking the presidential
nomination; that I do not expect to be
the Republican candidate If for no
other reason than because of what
seems 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 am not fool
ish enough to say that In the Improb-
come to rne I should decline It, for thls|
would not b« true.”
President Wants Him.
The president would like to be sue-1 demerrer of defendsnt In the css*
... of Thomas B. Felder axslnst the Hartford
ceeded by Secretary Taft. He has so ininrancc Company for the recurery of HO,,
many times Indicated as much to call- IW0 now pen,ling In tbe United States court
era that there need be no qualification I *•" eustulncd by Jedge Newman In an opla-
about the atatement. But the pres.dent XSfi«'Sl!hf; t,, w r i!fo Jr h £“..2X5 7‘f®
has not been fortunate In designating I . The eult was brought by Mr.
heir, to his crown. There was a time Rim* /ismth'” mid£ wRhX'”',!., u,y
when he believer! Secretary Boot the| t( > uerelop Its business for a certsl i > j
right man. Secretary Root doubted hta P 7oto, , N?wm*a held the coetrect
own availability, and he Is now consld- I negotiable,
ererl entirely out of the running. I ■ - ■
Then the president .took up Taft. HE USES RAZOR
There Is excellent ground for the belief AV U7T PI,”o rpnr)A . .,
that the publication In Washington, in „ , 1
Ohio, in New York, and other cities, of Cnrr ! , f ' jjj" D*®'-*-—Angered be
the report, with aaeumptlon of author-1 h * "L*? r ^***f® d to ,lve w,,h ! >•
Ity. that Secretary T.ft had «ttn»t«21t^b^^t^herenm*
able event t> at the opportunity to run his case to his friends waa decidedly throat witha razor and the?
for the great office of president would emburrasslng to Mr. Taft. | mountains. A posse la In
fled to t
