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Che Marietta Fonrwal
JOURNAL, ESTABLISHED 1866.
VOL. 48.
TRAIN HELD UP AND
ROBBED AT VININGS
Lone Bandit Takes Money At
Point of Gun From
The Passengers.
A real old fashioned train robbery
took place on the fast ‘passenger
train of the N. C. and St. L. last
Friday night between Vinings and
Bolton while the train was travel-
ing Southward.
Just after the train passed Vin
ines the Pullman car conductor start
ed through the train to make out his
report and was confronted at the
door of the rear car by a masked
man who levelled a big black pistol
in his face and told him to “hold
up your hands.” The conductor at
tirst thought that the man was jok
ing but when the command was re
peated in a stern voice the conduc
tor knew that he was up against
a real highwayman.
The man then ordered the passen
gers in the car to the front and toll
them one at a time to deliver their
purses. Various sums were taken, to
talling about three hundred dollars.
When the robber had secured what
he believed to be all the money the
passengers had he went to the back
end of the train, pulled the emer
gency brake cord and when the train
slowed up swung off the rear plat
form and disappeared in the dark-
As soon as the robber made for
the rear platform to make his es
cape the conductor rushed through
the train and found one of Fulton
County’s policeman, the only man on
the train who was armed. Togeth
er they rushed to the rear of the
train and fired at the robber as he
dropped from the platform but were
unable to hit their mark in the
darkness. X
Word was immediately telegraph
ed to Atlanta giving a description
of the man and the Fulton County
police and Sheriff Swanson and dep
uty Sheriff Hicks, of Cobb County,
were soon on the scene. No trace of
the robber could be found on the
Cobb County side of the river but
the Fulton County officers located a
man answering the description of
the bandit. He gave a different name
from those on letters addressed to
him, which were found in his pock
ets, and he is being held in the
Fulton County pail as a suspect un
der the name of James Nolan.
Tuesday night, however, the At
lanta police were put on notice by
Fred Ball, a chauffeur, that a man
whom he had known about three
years had confessed to him that he
held up the train and had committed
other robberies, including the theft
of $l,OOO from a Cedartown farmer
about three weeks ago, and the theft
of some diamonds from a manufac
turer of jewelry in Atlanta.
The police got busy immediately
and acting under Ball’s direction
traced Freeman to the Marietta car.
They rushed ahead of the car in
Ball’s automobile and boarded the
car at the next stop and placed Fren
man under arrest. They brought him
to Marietta where it was said that
he had two accomplices. When the
car reached Marietta the two pals
must have been on the lookout for
they could not be found. They had
registered at the Kennesaw Hotel as
H. D. Freeman and brother, Macon,
Ga., and left two suit cases. They
évidently knew that the officers were
on their trail and skipped for they
faever returned to occupy their room
or to call for the grips. The officers
from Atlanta came up Wednesday
alternoon and took charge of the
IWo suit cases as evidence and car
ried them back to Atlanta.
Posters pasted on the suits cases
as is the custom of some hotels led
10 the belief that the men had been
Stopping at the Ansley hotel in At
lanta and the shirts in the suit cases
bore the name H. .D Freeman, but no
address,
The other two suspects were later
arrested in Atlanta and are being
“¢ld under the names of R. S. Free
an, E. H. Freeman and T. H. Wha
ley. The oldest is only twenty years
O age and the youngest is just 17.
There may be some argument as
10 whether the men should be tried
‘I Fulton or Cobb County as the rob
bery took place while the train was
Passing from one county to the other.
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KING BAGGOT SCORES
- GREATEST SUCCESS Iy
~ “ABSINTHE® MONDAY
Universal Four Reel Feature
Film at Gem Theatre
Next Monday.
Much has been justly said of the
marvelous historical play. . ‘‘lvan
hoe,” based upon Sir Walter Scott's
famous novel, produced by the Imp
Company during their sojourn in the
British Isles. As a spectacular pa
geant this play has unparallelled
merits. On its release it establish
ed a record of sales in the British
Isles and brought unlimited ecredit
to the Universal Film Manufactur
ing Company. However, it was
only one of the many pictures pro
duced under the masterful hand of
Director Brenon while in Europe.
Others are to be exploited. Among
them ‘““Absinthe,” perhaps one of the
most striking pictures of the lot.
Unlike its predecessor, ‘“lvanhoe,”
it is a play surrounding two charac
ters wholly, that of the Absinthe
fiend, enacted by King Baggot, and
his unfaithful wife played by Leah
Baird. Without a question it is the
greatest role that Mr. Baggot has
appeared in up to date, and Miss
Baird is disclosed as an emotional
actress or the highest type.
The story is tragic in theme, mark
ing the awful and inevitable conse
quences that follow the cultivation
of the absinthe habit. The drink ab
sinthe to France bears almost the
same relation as opium does to the
Chinese nation. 1t is used by the
high and low in France and might
almost be called the national drink.
Used mildly it acts in the same way
that whiskey does, but when used to
excess it takes a grip upon the vie
tim that is more difficult to loosen
than perhaps any other drug, not ex
cepting morphine and opium. Amer
ica, relegating it to the same class
as these latter drugs, has legislated
against its importation. Other na
tions have followed in its wake, and
at the present time France is con
templating drastic laws forbidding
its manufacture and sale. .
Herbert Brenon is the director of
the picture. In an accidental way
he was brought into contact witha
some of the terrible victims of this
drug and had the opportunity of ob
serving some of its awful tragedies,
and it was this that suggested the
play which is about to be released.
Many of the scenes for the picture
were taken along the Champs Ely
sees, the River Seine, and in Mont
Matre, the Tenderloin of Paris.
To better acquaint himself with
the habits of an absinthe fiend and
to secure the proper enviroment, Mr.
Baggot went down into the Tender
loin district of Paris and lived for a
week. His studies brought results
of a remarkable nature. For the
first time in any motion picture the
exact methods used by an absinthe
fiend to prepare his drink and his
conduct afterward will be shown by
him. While the drug has no hold
upon the American people, the real
istic portrayal should act as a moral
lesson to all and any against the use
of alcohol and drugs in general.
All of the scenes were taken in
and about Paris. To take some of
them, those that form one of the big
climaxes of the third reel, the Com
pany made an excursion to the Bois
de Boulogne, one of‘ the nation’s
most beautiful parks. King Baggot,
as the artist, Jean. Dumas is seen
lashing his horse into a gallop, anx
ious to get to a place in the woods
where he can strangle the woman
who has betrayed him. In the tak
ing of the scene Mr. Baggot was
wounded by Miss Baird, who struck
him a blow while resisting an attack
of the supposed absinthe fiend. Th=
emotional strain upon Miss Baird
was terrific and she put herself o
completely into the part that she
fainted twice during the taking. Mr.
Baggot sustained a badly lacerated
lip and the loss of a tooth.
The Universal Company feecls con
fident that this production is going
to create a sensation equal in its way
to that of “Ivanhoe.” Aside from
the superb character studies of Mr.
Baggot and Miss Baird, it has an en
grossing, pathetic story, coherent in
every detail; it is swift in climatic
action and has unusual suspense. The
ANID COURIER.
MARIETTA, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 23, 1914,
JURY HAS NOT AGREED
ON 8. A. FITE VERDICT
Up to Six Oclock Thursday
Night Had Not Reached
A Decision
As the Journal goes to press
Thursday night no verdict has been
reached in the case of B. A. Fite, of
Kennesaw, charged with shooting
into the house of W. P. Whitaker
Monday night January 12th. It is
expected that a mistrial will be or
dered before the adjournment of
court this week.
The case went to trial Tuesday
and went to the jury Wednesday
night.
Mr. Fite was represented by Judge
Morris, Captain Fred Morris and
Colonel Geo. D. Anderson.
Solicitor General Clay was assist
ed by Colonel Charlie Griffin.
The evidence was all circumstan
tial and did not differ materially
from the facts as stated in last weeks
Journal.
atmosphere in that most of the
scenes are exterior, is, of course, of
a perfect kind.
Briefly the story is as follows:
Jean is the son of parents of the
middle class, wholesome and clean.
Against the counsel of his father he
pays attention to one of the servants
of another household, a beautiful
girl who seeks the pleasures of life
beyond anything else. It is through
this girl that he first becomes ac
quainted with the drug, absinthe.
It is while he is under its influence
that he is enduced by her to steal
back into his father's house and rob
him of his savings with which to
purchase finery for her. His moth
er is heartbroken, while the father,
furious, drives the son from the
house with instructions never to re
tuarn.
Time elapses. The son is now
married to the adventuress. As
long as the money which he had
stolen lasted, she was happy, though
her husband continously sank more
deeply into the clutches of the habit
which she had taught him.
The day comes when he finds his
pockets emty. The wife leaves him
for one who can satisfy her finan
cial demands. Jean takes the road
downward, and we soon find him in
a desolate state, a drug fiend and a
member of a Paris Apache gang It
is while acting as a cab driver in a
scheme to rob a couple spotted by
his friends in the park, that he finds
his wife a passenger in his cabh.
Then follows the terrible ride alorg
the Boulevard, out into the country
and out into the woods. He leaves
her for dead, and, returning to his
haunt, saturates himself with the
drug to an extent that almost causes
his death.
Awakening the next morning, a
sad wreck of his former manhood,
he staggers through the streets back
to his father’s house. The meeting
with his mother is a pathetic picture
in the extreme. A more sad and im
pressive tragedy could hardly be im
agined. The father returns, faces
the desolate boy and his heart breaks.
Handing him a gun, he sends the
boy into the streets, determined that
he shall work his own destiny. We
leave the victim following along be
hind a troop of soldiers, dragging
the gun at his side and jeered at by
the horde of waifs. The question of
whether he conquers his weakness
or not is left open. There is a sug
gestion that he does and we like to
think so, for after all he was only an
unhappy victim of circumstances.
adv.
WE WAN'
at once, loan applications
“or $5OO to $250 on either
‘ity or farm real estate se
curity. We have fine lists
>f real estate for sale. Call
by and see us. William
Tate Holland, successor to
R. N. Holland and* Son,
No. 1 Reynolds Building,
Marietta, Ga.
PROGRAM [N HONOR
OF ROBERT F. FIF
Daughters of The Confederacy
Hold Interesting Exercises
—Veterans Present.
The U. D. C. celebrated the birth
day of Robert E. Lee Monday after
noon at the residence of Mrs. S. A,
Anderson who was assisted in re
ceiving and serving refreshments by
Mrs. Wayland Camp and Mrs. Tilden
Connor.
A dozen confederate veterans were
present and during the social hour
after the ladies program they talked
of wartime scenes and memories.
Mr. W. J. Manning said he had vi
sited the confederate museum in
Richmond on several occasions and
realized the importance of presery
ing the relics of the war. He was
overcome with emotion when he saw
the blood-stained uniforms, guns
and camp utensils encased in glass.
The statisties in the Georgia room
are conceded to be the most valuable
in the museum. Mr. Manning also
related an incident of a boyish sol
dier named Kirkland, who was a
confederate, but during a battle in
freezing weather he took five can
teens of water to the wounded feder
als who were suffering with thirst
and cold. At first the enemy aimed
a volley at him but on realizing his
merciful errand they dropped their
guns, threw their caps into the air
and loudly cheered the brave anl
tender youth.
Capt. Tom Hardage spoke of the
scenes at Appomattox and paid a
tribute to Robert E. Lee.
Amnng the visitors was Mrs. Bar
bour, who is a native of the state
that zave Jefferson Davis to the
South, and by request of Mrs. Lyon
STATEMENT
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
MARIETTA, - GEORGIA
At the close of business, January 13, 1914, as called for
by the Comptroller of the Currency, Washington, D. C.
RESOURCES
Loansand Discounts . . $454.422.54
Real Estate : : : . 8,468.24
Overdrafts . : . : 514.83
U. S. and Other Bonds : 108,251.52
Furniture and Fixtures . . 1,500.00
Cx\SH .
In Vault . , $38,580.36
With Banks . 70,775.91
U.S. Treasury 3,900.00 115.256.41
$686,413.40
LIABILITIES
Capital : . . . $100,000.00
Surplus and Profits ; : 71,764.89
Circulation ; : y i 75,000.00
Bills Payable . ; : : none
DEPOSITS ; ) : . 439,648.51
. $686,413.40
Over 25 Yoars of Successtul Business
OFFICERS.
J. E. MASSEY, President. G. P. REYNOLDS, Cashier.
JOS. M. BROWN, Vice President D. R. LITTLE, Asst. Cashier.
GITY MAY FIGHT FIRE
WITH AN AUTO TRUCK
Mayor Dobbs Thinks Money
Can Be Saved On Horse
Feed and Attention.
Mayor Dobbs and the member of
council met informally Tuesday
night to consider the advisability of
trading the chemical engine for an
auto truck. Mayor Dobbs figures
that there might be a saving in ex
pense as it is now necessary to feed
and care for two horses. That ex
pense would be saved.
The matter was not definitely do
cided but will be looked into fully.
she made a brief talk. She had 21
first cousins in the war and she has
been instrumental in erecting the
second confederate monument in Ab
erdeen, Miss. Speaking of visitors,
one familiar face at these meetings
was missing, that of Rev. Elam
Christian who has so recently pass
ed over the river to rest forever un
der the shade of the trees.
The program of the U, D. C. con
sisted of appropriate readings by
Mrs. E. W, Little and Mrs. M. R.
Lyon. Mrs. Patton sang ‘“My Old
Kentucky Home"” with accompani
ment by Mrs. C. P. Stephens, who
also played for Miss Augusta Cohen
to sing ‘‘The Vacant Chair.”
Miss Annie Lucia Warren sang
“Just Before the Battle, Mother"
accompanied by her mother, Mrs.
John Warren.
Sarah Wood Gramling recited
‘““The Sword of Lee’” Dbeautifully.
This is a long poem and it was quite
a feat of memory for so young a
child,
This meeting was most enjoyable
COURIER, ESTABLISHED 1901.
JOE EOGE SET FREE
BY GOVERNOR SLATON
Boy Convicted of Participation
in Austell Arson Case Given
His Liberty.
Governor Slaton signed an order
last Saturday afternoon commeunt
ing the sentence of Joe Edge to pres
ent service. He, together with Pete
Edge, was tried for assault in Jan
uary 4 years ago, and were conviet
ed of firing a small store which was
part of the hotel at Austell.
Pete Edge escaped from the pene
tentiary after having served about
three years of his ten year sentence.
Joe Edge was the younger of the
two, being about 17 years old, was
confined to the penitentiary in De-
Kalb county.
The letter conveying the informa
tion from the Governor, was carried
by Col. Fred Morris, attorney, to
Mrs. Edge on Sundey afternoon. She
is a widow old and feeble, who has
never failed to believe Joe, her son,
to have been influenced by older
heads to play the part which he took
in the crime, and through it all has
remained faithful, looking forwarl
to the day of release,
Speaking of her conduct at the
time the information was conveyed
to her, Col. Morris said: ‘“Her joy
and gratitude cannot bhe described.
Tears and smiles were mingled free
ly first one then the other as she un
dertook to tell of her appreciation.
It was enough to touch a heart of
stone; it was joy unspeakable. 1
ghall never forget that scene.”’
and the attendance very large. Mrs,
Nesbitt was providentially detained
in Atlanta by a sudden heavy rain
and was greatly missed by every one.
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