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The Georgian Carnet
The BUSINESS
And All Of it Clean
The Atlanta Georgian.
The Georgian Carnet
The BUSINESS
And All Of I»
VOL. 1. NO. 240.
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1907.
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SENSATION IN THAW TRIAL;
TWO JURORS ARE DROPP0)
Campbell and Faire
Are Excused
Tuesday.
FOURTH AND SIXTH
JURORS QUIT CASE
One New Man Selected On
'Morning of Fifth Day’s
Session.
New York, Jan. 29.—The fourth
and fifth juron, Arthur 8. Camp,
bell and B. B. Faire, have been
excuied by content of the attor
neys on both ddei.
Juror Faire said he had not the
remotest idea why he was ex
cuied.
“I was never so astonished in
all my life,” he added.
Juror Campbell declined to
make any explanation.
“As soon as the trial is over,”
he went on, “I will tell all
know. I have no desire to make
a myatery of the matter, but I
cannot talk now.”
Nsw York, Jan !».—Believing that
with tbs aid of hts wits ha had obtained
nine man who would look favorably on
hla oaaa. and that ha would obtain
three more Juron of the earns stamp,
Harry K. Thaw waa In a happy frame
of mind today.
“The Jury Is *11 right," said Thaw,
"and Evelyn Is enUtled to a la rye share
of the credit for what I have done tn
aiding In the selection of these men.
She Is a remarkable Judge of human
natun."
The new special panel of ISO tales
men. ordered tubpenaed by Justice
Fltigerald tn the expectation that the
flrot Special panel otlOO would be ex
hausted before 4b# jury woulf Be ob
tained. were on head early today.
Defense HMee Its Hand.
That the Thaw lawyers hare not re
vealed their whole hand In Che matter
of the line of defense was ehown by a
question asked by John B. Qleaeon, of
Thaw's counsel. Thin wae whether the
talesman would be prejudiced against
l Its defendant It several defenses were
put In.
Another Incident that added to the
mystery aurroundlng the defense was
a long conversation between Hartrldge
and Qleaeon and their client fh the
Tombs after the adjournment of court
yesterday. When Hr. Hartrldge wee
questioned later he said: "There were
only one or two parts Harry did not
undtratand. It wae to put him clear on
these that we had the talk."
When the trial started It waa aald
that Thaw was opposed to having
young unmarried men on the Jury.
Whether this was on the advice of
Evelyn Thaw or not has not been de
veloped.
Barrymore Her Sweetheart.
Ae the first sweetheart In New York
of Florence Evelyn Neeblt. now the
wife of Harry Thaw. Jack Barrymore,
actor and artist, will tell a moat sen
sational story on the witness stand.
Under subpena by ths prosecution,
he will tell of tho early romances in
the life of the beautiful chorus girl
and artist's model and of the war
waged by Thaw and Stanford White,
hla victim, for her charming graces.
He Wes Struggling Artist
Jack Barrymore, who Is a son of the
late Maurice Barrymore, and a brother
of Ethel and Lionel, woe a struggling
artist when Evelyn Neeblt waa a chorui
girl. They became acquainted and
friend* of the couple declaied It was u
case of love at first sight. Barrymore,
the occupant of exceedingly modern
Bohemian quarters In Fifty-sixth
street, made only a bare living at hla
calling.
The pretty chorus girl fared even lit
tle better, and soon both saw matri
monial alliance was out of the question
The beauty of Evelyn Nesblt drew her
Into the Broadway limelight, and two
of those first to become attracted were
Stanford White and Harry Thaw.
Tenth Jurer Chosen.
John A. Dennee. an agent, of fit
Broadway, elngle, 18 year* old. wns sc.
espied this morning ee Juror No. Ifl.
There will be no delay ee soon as the
It men with life snd death power over
the earthly existence of Thaw are duly
mertlaled Into piece. District Attorney
Jerome eeya he will follow Immediately
with his opening addrve*.
This, It le believed, will be brief. In.
deed Thaw's salvation entirely depends
on the success of the emotional In
sanity plea, eo that all that the prose
cution has to do In the beginning Is to
place on the records the facte of the
taking of White's life by Thaw.
Fight ef the Defense.
The tflal really must be the light of
the defense from beginning to end. The
ac|e of White driving a Jealous youth
Into a freniy that made him Irrespon
sible: Thaw's peat, his mantel condi
tion elnce childhood, and then the full
heart breaking story of Evelyn Nseblt
Thaw. After that will come the alien-
lata and other witnesses, seeking to
break dowiw the defense.
“Baker, of Cincinnati.”
The first celled to the witness stand
today waa Theodore B. Boynton, trees-
STUDY OF EVELYN THAW;
DRAWN IN THE COURT ROOM
This is a sketch ef Evelyn Neeblt Thaw by Hearet Staff Artist H.
Richard Boehm. It shows Mrs Tbsw intently fallowing the examination
ef s prospective Juror. It had developed that the talesman wee a friend
ef Thaw's. The interest manifested by Mrs Thaw brought eut some
of the beet points in her fecial expression.
BURNED TO DEATH
IN KINDLING A FIRE
Women Collectors Are
Said To Have Shared
Fund.
WORKED SEVERAL
OFFICE BUILDINGS
Georgian Trails “Charity
Workers” and Learns
Some Past History.
Are you one of the many Atlanta
business men who succumbed to the
winning ways and smiling smiles of a
couple of young'women, well dressed
and prepoeeeeelegi WhQ eeld they wars
collecting monfiy for the Woman’s
Christian Temperance Union?
If you art, maybe you didn't know
that all of the money you contributed
never reached the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union.
The women were'whet Is known to
Secretary J. C. Logan, of the Associated
Charities, as professional charity work-
era, and their graft la a good one.
They work on a salary or commie
ston, and If It per cent of the money
collected from Atlanta business men
reached Us alleged destination, then tbs
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Is In luck.
A few days ago a Georgian reporter
by The Qeor-
thnt this young
A further l
gtan demonstrati
9-Year-Old Melville
Curtis Is the
Victim.
THIN NIGHT GOWN
CAUGHT ON FIRE
Bov Lived Several Hours
After Being Horribly
Burned.
Continued an Page Three.
After sustaining fatal burns about
Ills body while making a lire In the
cook stove at 5 o'clock Tuesday mom-
In” Melville t'urtls, the »-year-old eon
of Or. and Mrs. f\ F. Curtis of Best
Lake, lingered In great agony for four
hours, finally offering a prayer to
heaven asking a blessing upon hla pa
rents. hla. brother and slaters. Just
before he died at 8 o'clock.
The little fellow was conscious to the
last. H* remembered his father, who
arrived as soon as possible from the
sanitarium, on the Boulevard, and
talked with him about receiving the
bums. He was trying to get a-wesrE
of wood Into the stove when a llama
Taught hie night drees In some man
ner. and within a few minutes ha was
enveloped.
Hie scream* brought his mother lo
the kitchen almost Instantly, and she
received several painful burns about
the hands In her effort* to extinguish
the burning clothe* of her little a»n.
This was finally done, but not until
nearly all of hit clothea hsd been
burned away and he had sustained In
juries which ended In hie death.
Several physician* were summoned
end everything possible wee done to
relieve hie sufferings, but they availed
nothing. The funeral will take place et
I o'clock Wednesday from the resi
dence. The body wit), be 'hurled In the
Greenwood cemetery.
Mr. end Mr*. Curtis a brother. Glen,
and two sister*. Addle and Helen, ere
the surviving members of the family.
TILT BEFORE CLUB
A BATTLE ROYAL:
FOBAKEJTIS ANGRY
Ohio Senator Resents Ev
ery Statement of the
President.
Washington.. Jan. 29—The tilt hottreen
the iirvultlent anti Senator Forakor at the
Gridiron t’luli dinner on Hatnntuy night
••nil m*t l*e Ignored or allauctd by club
etiquette. It wm a battle royal
Mr. Kooaevelt waa forrvful—uiorr than
■tmnioii*—and cuttingly Inrlalrc. It la
wild to hare l»een a apccih of biting anr
mam. Interlarded with n vlgorou* vocabu
lary.
If waa taken by all who heard It at a
direct challenge to Kenator Foraker. More,
It wni taken an a lecture to him an an In
diridtat. and thr aennta aa a whale, ertt
In a promlBcuaua company to be Intuited.
From the opening sentence he wae umre
than virile. He did not mince worda. He
Jiurletl hark the gratnltona flings at him-
struct him In hla duty na n senator.
COUNT LEO TOLSTOI
IS CRITICALLY ILL
St. PcteniburB, Jan. 29.—The
condition of Count Tolstoi, the
novelist ond social reformer, is
believed to be critical.
Westingheuse le Better.
Lenox. Mess., Jen. It.—George West,
tnghnuse. Jr. le getting over an attack
■Man
woman, together with e partner.
“working 1 the office buildings to At'
lants and other places where buelneii
an whoWfi tfBTVWlijt tbolr inonej
In a few hour* one morntag e Oeor
flan reporter ascertained .that these
young women gathered In a rich bar
vast, and. atrfinge to relate, few of
those who contributed flve-dollar kills
In response to the winning smiles knew
where their money wet going. All they
•aw was two exqultely gowned young
women, with Pretty emlles. and they
were then numbered among the "fish."
These facie ascertained by The Oeor.
glen were reported to Secretary Lagan,
of the Associated Charities. and then
a systematic Investigation by that In
stitution tree marie.
Macon, Savannah and New York
were communicated with. Enough waa
learned to cause Peerstary Logan to
have the young women In his office tor
e consultation. .
Left Town Suddenly.
And strange to relate once more,
when theeo charity "workers" found
The Georgian nnd the Associated Char.
lUes were on their trail they quit their
work and left Atlanta Sunday night.
Their whereabouts ere unknown.
First of all. Secretary Logan learned
that Mr*. D. I. Bradley, president of
the Juliette Nix Union of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union of Atlan
ta, had authorised Mrs. W. W. Do-
naghy. alleged tn be of somewhere In
New York, when ahe was not on the
road, to collect funde for the building
of a church two mllea from Roewell.
What percentage Mrs. Bradley was to
get she declined to atete to Secretary
Logan.
Mrs. Donsghy could not be found.
8he had been Hopping at the Aragon,
It wae eald, but had left.
These girls, who gave their names aa
Mlsa Harriet Kunert and Mlee Elisa
beth Emmons, were called tq Secretary
Logan's office nfter they had been lo
cated by him In one of th« office build
ing*. Oh the first dty they had been
seen they were lost to n Georgian re
porter In the Century building.
Oirls Ware Employed.
They admitted they were employed
hy Mrs. Donaghy. who had made the
contract with Mrs. Hrudley tn do the
working" In Atlanta tn secure funds
Their memory was not at an good
They didn't know Mrs Donsghy's ad
dress. They didn't know how much
money they had collected when asked
by Secretary Logan, and said when
they got to their hoarding place st
night they knew the amount In their
purse at the time was the amount ee
cured. They admitted that their "ri\.r
off" for their trouble was 20 |>er cent,
but they said they didn't know how
much "rake-off" Mr*. Donsghy got.
They admitted, too. that they didn't
put down on a book all the money they
collected.
In other words, Secretary Logon
learned that Mrs. Bradley and the W •'.
T. U. were absolutely at the mercy if
Mrs. Donsghy and her two charity
''workers"
Arrested in 'Frisco.
Investigation In New York brought
Secretary Logan the Information that n
similar crowd had been run In by the
police of Sen Francisco end Helena.
Mont.. In 1801.
And another strange thing to relate:
W. W. Donaghy and n pretty woman
"worker,” who came from the Knet with
Mm. was part of the gang pinched. Mr.
Donsghy. who made the Atlanta con
tract, carries ths name of the man who
got In trouble In ‘Frisco and Helena.
Whether or not she Is the "pretty
worker” who came from the East with
him at that time lx not known.
And of Miss Kunert. Secretary Logan
learned something, too. He learned
that two years ego In Moron she had
SUDDEN AWAKENING SAVES THEIR LIVES;
HOME OF MRS. E. H. ALLEY WAS IN FLAMES;
MOTHER AND DAUGHTERS BARELY ESCAPE
Firebug Used Oil to
- Start Flames in
House. *
NEGRO SUSPECTED
BY MRS. ALLEY.
Several Closets Concealed
Flames. Which Were
Growing Rapidly.
Mrs. E. H. Alley and her daughter, Mite Emeli* Allky, who narrowly es
caped death in a fir* at their home Tuesday morning.
BEVERIDGE CORRECTED
BY FULTON ORDINARY
Only Ten Children
Apply For Mill
~ Work.
SENATOR SAID '
3,000 APPLIED
Judge Wilkinson Sends Tel
egram Giving Correct
Figures. ——
When Senator Bacon readk a tele-
Tuesday from Ordinary John It Wilk
inson, of Fulton county,! be wilt show
that Senator Beveridge was all at tea
when he declared Monday that 2.000
application* bad been made In this
county for children between 18 and 12
year* of age lo work tn tb* mills.
telegram was received by Judge
WUklnaon Tuesday afternoon from
Senator Bacon telling of Ui* assertion
made In the senate by Senator Bever
idge In discussing the child, labor Mil.
and be asked whether or not It wax
true.
In reply Judge Wilkinson aald there
ul been ten application* tor permla-
eloa to allow children to work between
the ages of ]0 nnd 12 year* elnce ths
first of January, when the law went
Into effect In Oeorgla. Theae children
came under the exception* where they
were the sole support of widowed
mothers or orphans.
Judge Wilkinson further said In hla
telegram that the owners of mill* 'n
Fulton county were anxious to have the
law enforced.
Ill FRONT Of HOE
MAN SENDS BULLET
Tl
CHILD LABOR LAW
SAYS BEVERIDGE
Washington, Jan. J».—Bsnator Bev
sridge, of Indiana, yesterday resumed
his add rose on child labor. Which be ]
began several days ago, but which he
was prevented from concluding at that
time.
In ths course of hla remarks he said
that the child labor law of Qecrgta.lt a
dead letter. He estt tt do*J hot pro
vide a system of Mill Inspection, and
of Georgia, Car.
of Tennessee, and Tillman, of
loatfl ouattaa.
Senator Bacon asked that the child
labor act, passed by the Georgia legis
lature last summer, he admitted toi-tb*
published report of Senator Beveridge's
speech. In connection with his re matter
dealing with Georgia. This the sena
tor from Indiana declined to allow done
and the senator from Georgia gave no.
tics that, at tb* conclusion of Senator
Beveridge’s remarks, he would ask the
attention of the senate long enough to
call attention to the Georgia child ta
bor act approved August L 1106, tn or
der that It might go In the record Im
mediately following the Beveridge ad-
dfm.
Senator Beveridge declared that slice
this lew went Into effect, on January L
forbidding children between 10 and li
years of eg* being employed In mills,
orphans or children
, more then 1,000 ap
plications for permission to work chil
dren in the mills of Fulton county had
been received by Ordinary John R.
Wilkinson, of Fulton county, e
Atlanta Man Commits Sui
cide in Marietta Tues
day Morning.
Kpcrinl to The Georgian.
Marietta, Ga., Jan. 28.—Startled by
the report of a pistol at 6:20 u'clo.'U
this morning. Ernest Weigh, night
ticket agent at the W. ft A. office,
hastened Into the street to find the
body or a man lying tn front of the
Kennesnw hotel, a 18-callber pistol by
his side anti u bullet wound, sclf-ln-
fllcled, above the right eye. The man
hsd fired the fatal shift and Jell dead
In the street. A glance at the hotel
record showed that the imn had not
registered there and as the I. ft N.
train, southbound, had lust passed
through. It la thought the man rams t->
the city and Immediately after arriving
took his lire.
Palters In the pockets bore ths ad
dress John H. Jones, Atlanta, an.l
showed that he was o member of the
International Brotherhood of Machin
ists. member of Odd Fellows' leslge K
114 snd l’owhatsn Lodge, Red Men. of
Atlanta. '
The man waa well dressed In * grnv
worsted suit, patent leather states ami a
slouch hat. ilc looked to be. about -A
year* of age and weighed about li't
poundst
The hotly was taken to an under
taker's parlor to await an Investigation,
which was begun by the chief of police.
loiter In the morning the body was
Identified hy Jsbes Gault, of Cherokee
county, as that of John Jones, who
moved from Canton. Ga.. to Atlanta
about ten years ago. He stated that
alien he lost knew Jones he wss a
widower, with two or three children;
that Jones was a machinist.
The coroner found a verdict of sui
cide end the body was taken charge
of by the local lodge of Odd Fellows.
GOVERNOR MATA
AND TROOPS SLAIN
IN NIGHT CLASH
Rioting Is Threatoued at
Capital of Vene
zuela.
Death is a result of the plot of a
firebug who sought to deal out death
and at the canto time cover up traoes
of robbery—that Is the fate Mrs. K.
H. Alley, of 41 Woodward avenue,
thinks she snd her two daughters nar
rowly escaped early on Tuesday morn
ing.
As It It, her house le almoet demol
ished. Ill - In money, a diamond ring
and other articles of Jewelry are goo*,
and there Is plsnty of evidence 1
flames which came na
three lives were started by an lnoea-
diary.
About 4 o'clock Tuesday morning
Miss Emelle Alley, wbo Is employed at
Jacobs' Pharmacy at the candy conn-'
ter. heard strange noises In ths house
sad awakened her mother, in the
same room with mother and daughter
waa a child, only S years of ago, and
the three were alone In the house. Mrs.
Alley's husband Is a traveling man aad
Is sway from homo for weeks at a
time.
Sailed a Pistol.
Because of this, Mrs. Alley keeps a
pistol .on a chair near the bed, aad
•fixing this she and her older daugh
ter proceeded to make an Investigation.
They listened. Again they hear* the
strange nobs* ee of something falling.
Both were convinced that burglar* were
In the house. They distinctly heard
A* the door of-the bod room was
opened mother and daughter were driv
en beck by a cloud of smoko In which
streaks of flame now and then darted.
Flames An* Dissevered.
Almost suffocated both retreated late
the room and Mias BmeHe uttered a
piercing shriek In aa effort to arouse
the neighbors. Another hasty Investi
gation through tho door leading Into
tho hallway showed that tb* flames
were making rapid progress and that
unless they escaped from tho house
mother and daughters would bo burned
to dtftth.
Plaster. In one of tbs rooms bognn-to
fall snd this added to their terror.
Finally Miss Emelle got on the outside
of tho house and she Screamed until
neighbor* responded and a friend with
a telephone notified Are headquarters.
In no lea* than live places bad Area
been started.
Willi'motml, Cnracoa, Jaii. 29.—
Governor Mala, former minister
of puhlie works of Venezuela,
ami it immlter of armeil troops
were killed lit n rntiHiet wi»t
armed followers of Viee Presi
dent Gomez, of Venezuela, on the
nfirlit of January 27 neeonlinit to
ntlviees received here. Serious
trouble is threatened in Caraens.
it is said, its n t result of the hrnwl.
Mata and his soldiers surprised
a secret mooting in Gomez's
yard mid a light followed. Sev
eral men on both sides were
wounded.
the old Ex|k>*ltl»n cotton mills tor a
number of years, was u member »f the
International Association of Machinist*
and a prominent halite man.
Is wife died shout, ten yenr* ago.
1* survived by three children—a
daughter. Ml** Minnie June*, who Is
now living In Alabama, and two sons,
t'srl June*, who lx aged shout I? years,
snd Bereher Jones, who I* aged about
22, and work* In a local carriage fac
tory
It seems.that Mr. Jones had nut been
In Atlanta fur several months. The
death of hts wlf. was s sever* blow- to
him, and this, followed by rumored do.
mesttc troubles, is mid to have made
him very morose.
| Ha kae a nephew, Arnold Owens, who
' Is employed In Urn Cam run Brick Com.
O* *»*» U 11*48. i ■ .
Fin wo* burning briskly In three
rlofeta, a lounge In -the hell was a
mass or flames end hsd ignited the
woodwork, while names hod started
In a fourth closet.
And further proof that this was the
work of en Incendiary was shown In a
ran of kerosene which had been left
standing In the hell near the hissing
couch.
“There Is no doubt In my mind as
to ths origin of ths fir*. It was the
work of a flrabug. I can only suspect
one person of such a fiendish plot, and
even then 1 can hardly see why such a
murderous piece of work should be at
tempted tor so flimsy a cause,” said
Mrs. Alley.
"A short time ago I declined to rent
an outhouse to a negro end he reseat
ed this refusal no Uttla He Instated
that he be allowed to have the room*,
end demanded reasons why he could
not have them. ,
fiuspeeta a Negro.
'it' Is possible that this wsa his work
end In order to make II profitable ae
sell as work of revenge, h* may hare
■mien my Jewelry and money. Last
week my husband sent me tit end I
placed thl* In a box which I kept In
one of the rloaeta burned out. In this
box I had a valuable diamond ring, to
gether with other Jewelry. Thl* box
and Its content* ere gone. The firemen
raked In the debris for traces of the
Jewelry, but nothing could be found..
"It was an easy matter to secure en
trance to the.reer of the house, end I
believe that one of the not sea my
daughter and myself heard wax tho
falling of on* of the windows ns the
firebug end thlet made hie exit”
The can of oil which the firemen
found In the hell near tb* lounge wo*
kept by Mrs. Aliev In one of the cioeet*
which we* found to be on lire, eo It
hed been removed and need In starting
(he five fire*.
One of the closets tn which the Are
raged wee on* between the room In
which Mrs. Alley and her daughters
were sleeping and the adjoining room.
Saved From Death.
This Is completely burned out end
had not the occupants of the room been
awakened the flames would not have
been long In getting Into the bed room.
In fact, had the live fires been allowed
to eel their way a short time touaer.
the entire house would have been a
man* of flame* en-t thr occupants prob
ably burned to death.
Mir. A!!r\ hsd n--l recovered .
the effect* of her thrilling *m
on Tuesday snd wss «ttil very t