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ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1907.
PRICE: S , .»K7SgR?S:
ABLE [Am
AND WRITER
PASSES AWAY:
^thor of “Told by a
Child” Yields to
the Inevitable.
K[H-clal to Th* Ouorglee.
Augusta, 0*.. Jan. 26—Hon. Fred T.
Lockhart, one of the moat prominent
members of the Augusta bar, died this
morning at t o’clock at hie tealdence on
(ireene atreet.
Mr. Lockhart waa born In Lincoln
< minty In 11(0 and wan educated at
the University of Oeorgla and the Unl-
veralty of Virginia, and came to Au-
Ruata about thirty-seven years ago.
In 1(71 he waa city editor of The
I'onstHutlonallst and made quite a rep.
utntlon as a newspaper man. but later
oult It to practice law. He had been
practicing law for about thirty years,
during which time he had become well
known In railroad and financial circles.
He was the leading factor In the con
struction of the Dover and Statesboro
railroad; and has helped In many, suc
cessful railroad projects.
He was a prominent church worker,
and In 1IIJ he was state organlter for
(he Georgia Sunday School Association
and organised an association In every
rounty In Ihe stale- In-potnt of service
lie waa the second oldest deacon In the'
First Baptist church, and at different
times during his residence here he has
been superintendent of the Berean
Sunday school. First Baptist Sunday
school. Calvary Sunday school and the
Chinese Sunday school.
He had written several religious ar
ticles, and one book on the Bible, en
titled'"Told by a Child."
He la survived by his widow and four
children, all of whom reside In this
city.
The funeral services will be held
Sunday afternobn at I o'clock from the
First Baptist church, with Dr. Sparks
W. Melton officiating, assisted by Dr.
W. W. Landrum, of Atlanta.
CARRIE NATION IS COMING;
THE SMASHER TO SMASH IN
ATLANTA FOR WHOLE WEEK
IN BIC EIRE
IN ra
Many Lives May Have
Been Lost in Dover*
*' N. H. f Mill.
MRS. CARRIE NATION.
Will Do Twenty-Minute Lecture Stunt Be
tween Expeditions With Her
Little Hatchet.
Dover, N. II., Jan. 26.—At
noon a hasty aurvey by the fire
men revealed the fact that from
15 to 20 charred bodies were to
be set'll in the ruing, none of
which could be identified. So far
it haa been utterly impossible to
secure a Hat of the missing.
Dover, N. H, Jan. 6.—Owing to the
Awful lack of Are escapes and exits
In the milt of tho Cocheco Manufac
turing Company here several men were
hurt and perhapx a number burned to
death In a Are which occurred this
morning. That fatalities occurred Is
not certain, but possible.
William Turner and James Ashton,
two spinners, who jumped from the up
per stories, suffered from broken
bones. None of the others who jumped
was seriously hurt, but some of the
men who fought their way out through
the smoke and (lames believe that many
men wereTetnihCunii'liius In tlie-tmHd^
Ing. At preseht there Is too much ex
citement and confusion to make a care
ful accounting of employees possible.
Aid was summoned from Portsmouth
to subdue the (tames.
MARK TOLBERT
PASSES AWAY
THAW’S CHIEF DETECTIVE
BRINGS EIGHT WITNESSES
This picture
■ hows three
prominent fig-
trial of Harry
K. Thaw for
the murder of
the architect.
White. At the
left la shown
Del pH In M.
Del mas, the
noted criminal
lawyer of Cal
ifornia, who
will make the
Anal plea for
Thaw.
Tra
*T In th*
center !* » pic
ture of Juatleo
Jimti integer"
aid, who win
Mar tba Thaw
cut In tha au-
prama court.
At tha right la
■hown- Clifford
B. Hardridgw.
chlaf counsel
for tha da-
fenae, who- la
directing Har
ry Thaw’ieaaa
Kingston, Jan. it.—'The III will
again,! Governor Swettenham haa In
creased dally here alnce Ihe day of the
earthquake and the native* are now
muttering against him. HI, handling
of the relief work haa been miserable.
Last night the reserve* were called
nut to check a threatened uprising of
the blacks when the governor’s relief
committee refused aid to any except
church member*.
It waa learned today that the bus!
ness losses on which no Insurance can
be collected will exceed 114,400,000.
Twenty-live of the leading merchants
are bankrupt, and the resources of tho
Island will be taxed lo the limit to
weather the storm.
The Englishmen are Ihe moat Indig
nant of any class of people on the
Island over th* aspersion cast on the
American aollors by Swettenham, who
started the rumor that the American
aallor* had been guilty of looting.
Today Oswald Mlike, one of the lend
Ing lawyers, made a public affidavit
that the American marines had recov
ered 15,000 worth of ht( stock which
looters were making away with and re
fused to accept even little souvenir
from him.
ATLANTA WOMAN
T(
Mr*. Minnie C. Kiser, wife of J. J.
Kiser, a popular member of No. 3 fire
company, accompanied by her father.
Dr. W. T. Taylor, and her sister. Mrs.
Ida B. Jones, of Lillie Bock, Ark.,
will leave Atlanta next month for p
■rip around Ihe world.
The pony will sail from New Tork
on February 4 and will be absent six
months. During this lime all of the
more Important foreign countries will
be visited. Including Ihe Philippines,
rhino. Japan. Africa, Egypt. European
countries, England, Scotland, etc.
BUILD COTTAGE
FOR BURNS CLUB
With Ihe celebration of the eleventh
anniversary of Its existence the Atlanta
Burn* Club take* on new life and pur
pose.
Heretofore It has not been an Incor
Unrated organisation, but at the dinner
Friday evening In the Etowah cafe a
movement waa Inaugurated to Incorpo
rate Ihe Atlanta Burn* Club. The nec
essary legal steps will be taken at
once, and a constitution and by-laws
drafted.
But th* Atlanta Burn* Club will not
be content with Just that much. A com-
mitts* was named to And somewhere
within reach of Atlanta about 25 acre*
of land. On this It I* the purpose of
the club lo build on this Isnd a typical
Bums cottage with the thatched roof
and all that goes to make up the
quaintness and comfort of the old Scot
tish home.
As yet the plans era In Ihe embryo,
but within a very short time It will
lake definite shape.
Ves. Carry Nation Is coming. What
do the burtendera say? "Damnation.”
What do the toper* feel? Consterna
tion.
She Is coming this time, honest. She
will bring her little hatchet, or rather a
whole grip fun of them, and will ar
rive a Week from next Monday, to stay
a whole week.
Mrs. Nation hee contracted with n lo-_
cal theater lo do * twenty-mlnute-rap-
Id.fln-locture stunt between the acts
of "Ten N'tghts In a Barroom."
Then she will gather up her little
tomahawk and go out and do twenty
bur room* In a night.
Th* theater managers received a lei.
ter front Mr*. Nation Saturday morn
ing. Bhe wrote hurriedly from Wash
ington. Where .she was busily engaged,
os she remarked. In trying to "carry ai
nation" for prohibition. That's the rea
son she spelts her front name that
way.
But what will Mrs. Nation do when
she Is not on the stage? Twenty ntln- -
at os a day Is nothing lo occupy a. worn- .
an of her tireless energy and rest less-'
disposition. -e .)
Maybe she'll coll on Mayor Joyner.
-That Is . one of.her *tunte in other
town*, If she does one may look for
lively times around the dly hull. Dan
Cnrey hue already announced his In
tention to tsklng a vacation that week.
In her letter to the managers she ask.
ed that she be lodged In a hotel where
there Is no saloon.
Wonder what she’d do to the ''gal In
the fountain."
FOR MURDERING WIFE
ALREDISTOBE TRIED
Sensational Case Will
Be Heard in Bar
tow Court.
HYSTERIA-BRED QUARRELS
MAY WRECK THAW DEFENSE
Ajwlnl to T&e C.
Tarter*vlllc, Oa., Jan. 26.—When the
rose of the stiitc mralnnt John Franklin
Aired !h called next Tuesday morning
at * o'clock, there will begin one of the'
inoMt remarkable criminal cases that
has ever gone on record In the Bartow :
county superior court, and which wli
perhaps equal any case that has eve
been tried In the state.
Aired, a white man. 64 years of j
age. Is charged in a bill of Indictment ;
that was found by the grand jury of*
this county Inst week with the murdei '
of Cora Aired. Ills wife, at their home,,
near Taylotsvlllc. on the morning of
November 1, 190C. The alleged killing
done In the bed room of Aired and t
his wife and was witnessed by hla |
daughter. Lula, u girl of 19 years. I
The rtory of the crime mid the!
events that led up to It, us told before
the coroner**. Jury, shortl/ after the
killing, forms a narrative of the most
sensational character.
Daughter Pleaded for Mother.
Between 2 and 3 o'clock In the morn
Ing. Aired decluree, he awoke and i
missed hie wife. and. taking his sliot-j
gun from the wail, he slipped out fn the
moon light, when he saw the form of n
man retreating from the chicken house
In the yard, and shortly afterwards
came upon his wife near the spot where
he had first seen the man.
Aired took hla wife Into the house. It
was charged, took his gun from the
wall, and turned It upon her, when she
began to scream, protesting her Inno
cence. He advanced upon her until he
had forced the woman to the fnof of
the bed that was occupied by the 16-
year-old daughter. The daughter at
tempted to plead with her father not to
shoot her mother, when the old man
turned the gun upon her and threat
ened to kill her. The girl covered her
head with the bed clothing.
With ears deaf to entreaty. It la
charged, Aired, in hla fury, placed the
musale of the gun doae to the left
side of his wife, pulled the trigger and
literally blew her heart from her body.
The young girl. Lula, and the Infant
were the only i*ersons present at the
■hooting, but George. 18 years of age,
and the other children, were sleeping In
mArtK L. I OLbtiH •.
Prominent young attorney whose
dsr.th Saturday morning will be
regretted by friends and associates.
Have you soon now 1907 Models
Peerless Franklin and 8tevsns-Duryea
CartJust received by Capital City Auto
Co., Peachtree auditorium?
MOTHER ALMOST
MAD WITH GRIEF
By DOROTHY DIX.
New* York. Jan. 26.—Is pure hysteria
about to wreck the carefully laid plans
of the Thaw defense
Have over-strained nerves, stretched
for months to the breaking point,
■napped under the tension of the long,
exhausting hours In the court room,
and have Thaw's wife and mother and
sUtsss. in^Uia prtvaaLOf.their apart-
menu at the Lorraine, said thin is
which are not” to forgTven an<f wHJcV
seriously menace the welfare of the
prisoner? _ ^ »
There were persistent rumors aft
about the court yesterday that some
thing of the kind had occurred, nor
would It be surprising If such was thp
"In vino verltas.” says the old prov
erb. and If It Is true that men In wine
speak what Uiey think, It ,1s equally
true that women do mo In hysteria.
Many a woman.' under the stress of
nerves, blurts out tile thing that she
has resolved a thousand times over not
to *«ay—the things that prudenc*. dis
cretion and every dictate of reason
bid her keep silent about.
Coolness in Family,
fertalnly It seemed to the onlook
ers In the crust that there was a most
decided coolness between Harry
Thaw's wife and family, und that Ktre.
lyn huddled rather pathetically under
the wing of her chorus girl chum, May
Mackenxle.
The two groups of women erttered
the court room separately. Hvelyn and
her friend a full half hour before the
arrival of Mrs. Thaw* and Mrs. Carnc
the row of Inspectors reserved for
them. Iiehlnd the prisoners and bis
counsel, they scarcely spoke through
out the entire day. When the elder
woman and her daughter arrived they
merely gave Evelyn a curt nod by v/h*
of greeting, and she shrank back al
most as If she had been struck.
In good truth, u more piteous flgu*«*
than the little chorus girl and artist'?*
model coulil scarcely be Imagined. Ooie
was even the bravado of cheerfulness
mid nonchalance she had been crying
vainly to keep up for the past two
days. Bhe came Into court looking like
a flower that had been beaten down
Into the ground and despoiled of Its
beauty by a storm. Her face showed
l>ale and wan under the veil In which
she had tried to shroud It. Him had
seemed sad and miserable before; she
appe ared absolutely crushed and as 'f
there was no spirit left In her. Her
position Is Indeed a forlorn one.
*erted by her own family In her hour *»f
need, neglected by her mother—her
sadness and I mother who did not scruple to share
He was out I h, * r ,0 ® v ** *n<1 fl*hes w hen the girl win
JOHN FRANKLIN ALFRED.
To 8tand Trial For Hie Life on tho
CHargo of Killing Hit Wifo.
a room adjoining.
Hhortly after the killing Aired was
arrested and lodged In the Jail m far-
teravllle. where he has been awaiting
trial at tho. January term of the Bartow
superior court. The case was called
last Monday morning, but was post
poned At tho request of Judge Thomas
W. Milner and Colonel George H. Au
brey, the defendant's attorneys.
Solicitor General 8am P. Maddox will
represent the state.
M18TR1A L~RE 8U LT8
IN WESTFIELD CASE.
What has become of Herman Logan?
This question* has rankled In the
brain of the mother of the 19-year-old
boy, who disappeared from his home in
Ltndale. Oa.. last October, until she
has almost lost her mind.
The father of the *lerellct lad, who
answered tho call of the city and ran
away from home and friends, Is un In-
i valid, parsing away his days In the
I confines of his home.
1 The case of young Logan Is a pecu
liar one. tinged with
i fraught with mystery. - . , . , ...
,*« of hi. companion, one nlgl,I ™ !^;1u“a.':U!n,y' ;;'n:
lH»t October, having a Jolly good time. | togonlxed by her brother. If her Ini*-
and touching terra ilrmn only In thej
high place*, when the call of the city
rang In Ihclr ears. {
The temptation was loo much, und
the next freight train that pulled out |
of Ihelr little vllluge claimed as pas- i
censers Herman Logan, Kills Chant-1
her* and Charley Knight.
When within 40 mile* of Atlanta,
their destination. Ihe conductor espied
Ihelr crouching llgure* and promptly!
put them off. Angry, dl*ap|.dnted, hut
hand'* family turn from her she will
stand practically alone.
Poor Little Evelyn Th»w.
And Kvrlyn Thaw Is not titled for
standing alone. Bhe I* not one of the
women strong In mind end body end
Intrepid of soul, that nature designed
to light their own bailie*. She I* a frail
little creature, as-milch created Jo de
pend on some one else a* the mistletoe
I* to live upon the oak. Bhe was born
to be taken care of. lo lio loved and
(ictted and have some one else smooth
ber iwlluvay In life.
Her helplessness I* as appealing its
a Mllle child's, and now tha! her brief
hour of sunshine Is over nml she strug
gles nbout frightened with broken and
draggled wings, one forgel* all nf her
follies and her sin* and feel* for her
only u vast rompnsslnn. Poor, little
bulteiilv, broken on Ihe wheel of fate.
It Is not bard to understand why th*
Thaw women entertain a certain bit
terness toward her. No doubt they
blame her mostly. If not altogether, for
this tragedy. U Is not In women to he
Just where the man they love and an
other woman are concerned. They bit
terly opposed Harry's mnrrylng Ihe lit
tle chorus girl, and now when It has ill
turned out so much mure tragical than
Ihelr worst fears foreshadowed, they
uld he more than feminine If they
should resist visiting on h*r some *
the blame for Hie agony they uro en
during >
Continued from Page 1, Pint Seetlen.
my rheumatism. I oa far from welL”
Need Another Panel, _
It la believed now by tho prosecution
and th* defense that the trial will bo
qne of the moot long-dragged-out In
the history of tho local criminal courts.
Thera are lees than one hundred of tho
original panel of two hundred talesmen
to be examined and aa each day's delay
adds to the task of securing the other
live necessary then, itTa almost a 1
gone conclusion that tha commissioner
of Jurors win bo compelled to summon
another peas). In this event It wltt.
perhaps require another , week before
the opening address la made.
The countese'of'Ti
been suffering from a
aha contracted the first day of tha
has not venagwdfrfonkir'
the Hotal Lorraine. It was
today that her condition ora* much im
proved and that In all probability ah*
would be well enough by Monday to
resume her place at her brother’s side.
Although wan and pale, Evelyn Me*,
bit Thaw Insists that she Js not feeling
Ihe strain of the court ordeaL
"I mutt Bear UpJ’—Mrs. Thaw.
"The stories about my breaking
down." ah* remarked to ah Interviewer,
“are untrue. 1 can not brook down
at this time. Of courao. the ordeal la
a trying on*, but I must bear up tqp
Harry's saka. H* needs me to comfort
him. Harry feels' aplendid. Ha is
brave, and extraordinarily cheerful,
when all Ihe clrcumstanoes an taken
Into consideration."
The seven Jurors so far Impaneled
spent a most uneventful night fn their
seventeen-room suit* at the Broadway
Central hotel.
As they are not permitted to talk of
the trial, they "are (pending most of
their time playing pinochle and other
card games to pass away tha ttma.
Some at the married men spoke to
their families today over the telephone.
The conversations were overheard by
Ihe guards la attendance.
PL A \MA 7 E Oh MRS. THA W
SHOCKED BY HER LOOKS
Chattanooga. Tenn., Ja
with
26.—The
Floyd Westneld trial, w’hlch hus been
a feature here for some time, resulted
today In a mistrial. IVasttleld is u
negro who wns charged with killing a
deputy sheriff lost Thanksgiving day.
and came near being lynched.
determined and with the enticing vial
of the city still rising before Ihelr
minds, they tramped on until they
reached Ihe welcome shelter of h small
telegraph station which they proceeded
forthwith to appropriate as Ilielr hetl
room for Ihe remainder of the evening.
At the break of dewn the next day
the lads were aroused from Ihelr rath
er difficult slumber* by the familiar
ringing and clanging nnd Halting of u
freight train. Two cuught ll us It pass
ed. but young Ixvgan us* not sufficient
ly suple nf limb and was far too sleepy
lo accomplish the wlll-o'-the-wlsp. the fore she was married
ready bait of a aealuus member of the plttytng her
train crew knocked him from his hold
und left him sprawling on the ground.
The two boy* rate on to Atlanta, but
front that day to this young Logan has
never been seen nor heard of by uny of
hla townspeople. He Is aged 16 yrufs.
weighs ubnut 135 pounds and has light
curly hair.
By ROBERT H. MURRAY.
New York. Jun. 21—Two diverging
paths crossed Friday In the legal arena
where the Justification of Harry K.
Thaw for Ihe killing of Stanford White
Is to stand, or to fall, us the evidence
and ilie will or a doirn men ahull de
termine.
"(Ut. Is not It sharking—Ihe change
In her." dlstressedtr whispered Mis*
Mamie Walker. "And she was so fresh
and stveet snd pretty the Iasi time I
saw her. That was two years ago, be-
Who could help
Evelyn Nesblt nnd Mamie Walker
lived side by side In Allrghaney across
the river from Pittsburg, when they
were children. Thry went to school to.
gether, attended the same dancing
schisd, played with Ihelr dolls, secret
ly cherished singe ambitions, which
both were destined lo realise; roamed consideration for some lime.
Ihe fields, bicycled anjl quarreled.
Their companionship continued until
thr Nesblt* moved lo Pittsburg. Mies
Walker Is now one of the principals in
ft' company which Is having a prolonged
run In u New York play house^
Immediate delivery offered en new
*07 Retries* Franklin and Steven*.Dur-
yea. Capital City Auto Ce„ Peachtree
Auditorium.
Will Cenitruct Batin.
Special lo Tlte Georgian.
Brunswick, Ga„ Jan. 1C—It ’seems
to he definitely settled that the Bruns
wick Blrumshlp Company will con
struct n big Umber basin In the south
end of this city contiguous to their big
warehouses and present docks. The
comiiuny has had this matter under
nature of an'ex
perience.
Extra care la taken In the prepara
tion nf the food of tha Jurors for. In
the event on* Is token III after th*
twelve have been selected, the law re
quires a new trial and the selecting
of twelve more men.
Seventh Juror Friday.
The seventh Juror In the Thaw css*
was selected 1st* Friday afternoon and
he la Malcolm 8. Fraser. Fraaer Is
a dealer In-underwear and a man In
prosperous circumstance*. Apparent
ly he Is a man of a good order of In
telligence nnd he proved entirely satis
factory lo both sides. Like five more
of the panel already selected, Fraser Is
a married i
Tied man.
CANT REACH JURORS.
July sheriffs are gut _
Itaw Jurors today In their
suit* of rooms at th* Broadway Cen
tral hotel. For each furor added an
other deputy sheriff will be assigned
until there will ba twelve of each, with
a few extra sheriffs to attend th* door,
run errands and relieve each ocher.
Never In tb* history of a criminal
cas* have such precautions been taken
lo prevent any effort at tampering with
a Jury. Just why eo much precaution-
is taken Is not evident to taa outside.
might b* made to unduly Influence i
Jury outside of th* court room. This
Is not considered aa any reflection aa
the seven present members of tb*
Jury, ns It l- agreed that they compraa
as high a class of men. as were ever
salaried for such duty. But, even aa
attempt to "reach" a Juror mlgbt result
In n mJeiriuL thus causing a groat ex
pense to Ihe state and probably naaktag
it more difficult for th* prisoner to
hove n fair irtaL
Both side* In tho contest hftva barrel*
of m«oey. The Thaw* have stated tha*
thatr |3ii.000,0(0 Win b* used In Harry*
d MRS.' WHITE NOT INTMMTE9,
g.Mrs. Stanford White, who inherits*
Ihe .Livhltect'a fortune. Ii la .Boat
and says she Is not Intafoetad In
|fight and will not be present at I
time during the trial
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