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About The Augusta daily herald. (Augusta, Ga.) 1908-1914 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 12, 1908)
THE AUGUSTA DAILY HERALD VOLUME XUI., No. 281 IIM MYSTERV PROBIM SOLVED MAN WHO BOUND AND STRANGLED MRS- THOMP SON, IS THOUGHT TO BE ONE NOW IN CUSTODY MADE THREATS While Smoking Opium Made Remarks That May Aid In His Conviction CHICAGO—Luman C. Mann, son of O. C. Mann, of Oak Park, charged with the murder of Sirs. Frances Gilmer Thompson, in a Michigan av enue rooming house, three months ago, was arraigned Monday before Judge Gemmell in the Harrison street municipal court. Friends and business associates, it is said, of the elder Mann stand ready to furnish .bail in any amount. The police declare they have se cured a net of oircumstantlal evi dence that will prove young Mann was the person who bound the wom an hand and foot and then strangled her to death—that he is the my sterious Raymond, for whom detec lives nave been hunting for months. Women, about several of whom there is a deep mystery are to be the principal witness against the prisoner. The police say that two wives will appear against the ac cused strangler. Mann's parents say that he never has been married. Miss Daisy Potts, 1719 North Saw yer avenue, whom Mann says is his dance, declares her belief in the pris oner’s innocence, and says that she will do everything in her power to save him. Following the identification by Mrs. Hamilton, proprietor of the Michigan avenue rooming house, of one of the keys carried by the prisoner as tho one which was missing after Ray mond left the house, the police pre pared to put Mann in the sweatbox. Mrs. Hamilton says she geve the key to Mann and it is said to fit the iook in the door of ths room used by "Raymond.” Inspeotor wheeler today declared that the prtsoner showed signs of breaking down This hope of a breakdown and possible confession was strengthened when the police learned that Mann was a constant user of cooaitie. Without tt*e drug the pollee be lieve he will break down. Inspector Wheeler also has learned that sev eral months prior to the tragedy Mann tpok Mrs. Thompson to a place in Clark street, where they both t-moked opium. "Never mind, little girt, this wom an I am with will make- me rich. She lias promised to give me half at her jewels and diamonds, but I mean to get all of them. You hear what I say? Dll get sfl! she’s got. If I have to choke her;” This, aeordlwg to the police, is the substance of tlires*e Mans made to wife No. 3, previous to the discovery of the strangled body of Mrs. Thomp son lh the Michigan avenue house Mrs Msmn will go on the stand, it is said, and repeat the conversation In which the threats were used “I am innocent and can prove my innocence I never saw or heard of this Mrs. Hamilton before she point ed me out to the poHce," said the prisoner Monday. “The whole affair is a Joke,” de eiared young Mann’s father today. The police win never convict my, son. I’ll gtve io charity W they get a eocvlcrion. Thia talk about my son s wfves Is absurd. Sty son hae no wife and never had a wWo I'm his father and ought to know. If the police think they have any wives of Lumen's on tfielr styf, they are mightily rale taken, that's all.” Ah alibi will be Mann's principal defense IN SMALL BOX AEROPLANE IS PUT Herring's Machine Will Get Government Test in Few Bays. NSW YORK.—In a package no: much larger than an ordinary «ravel in* trunk, A M. Herrin* will ’oday ship hi* aeroplane to Fort Myer. where It will be assembled for the government trial* scheduled for to morrow Mr. Herrin* state* he wIP probably receive an extension of one week before the thirty-day period of teats begins. One Interruption after another has delayed the finishing of Mr. Her rings machine two months, as hi* m&ls were to have started August to the testing of the Wrlgh' Ever, now the not as complete as Mr Herrin* wnmod to mike It, nut It is said to be mechanically more perfect than anv ng machine ever re constructed and It* performance a' Fort Myer v be watched wrh keen •st Intet eat, both here and la Eu tope. SERIOUS RIOT HUS FATAL ENDING FAIRMONIt, W. Va.—At Enter- I rise, nine miles from here, a serious riot broke out Sunday among the miners and some outside men, with the result that three persons are at Fairmont hospital dying from gunshot wounds and ten others are suffering from minor injuries. The riot was the outgrowth of grievances between two factions. The fatally injured: FRANK OLIVO, shot through arm and left side; will die. JAMES FISHER, shot in head and skull fractured. DAVID SEGOM. shot twice in the breast, one going through the body. LARGEST CONTRACT FDR CO! EVER CLOSED. PITTSBURG. Pa—The Pittsburg- Buffola Coal Company announces the closing of one of the largest coal contracts in the history of the world a contract which will require 4,000 men working steadily five years to fill. The contract calls for the deliv ery of 3,000,000 tons of coal yearly for five years to the M. A. Hanna company, of Cleveland. The Pittsburg-Buffola Coal Compa ny announces it. will put three large new mines at once on this job, and will devote every ton of their conbia ed output, to filling this contract. PRES. ROOSEVELT SENT REGRETS TO CONGRESS Was Unable To Attend the North Carolina Peace Congress. GREENSBORO, N. C.—At the open ing of the North Carolina peace con gress Monday in (he great audito rium purchased from the Jamestown Exposition, in the presence of a vast audience assembled for the Greens boro Cemennlal and first North Car olina peace congress, a message of hearty smypathy was read from Pres ident Roosevelt. "I wish I could be at your congress As H is not * possible, may I ask through you, to convey* to those as sembled the assurance of my hearty smypathy and my hope for a success ful meeting.” A delegatien waited upon the pres ident and invited his co-operation for effectiveness of the North Carolina program for peace in all prop'" ways and especially by attending the cen tres*, but his official duties made this impossible. To this delegation Pres ident Roosevelt expressed emphatic approval of the North Carolina pro gram, and promised his assistance in all possible ways. What, the prest dent said was read to the congress in connection with the following let ter; “I am glad to learn that the North Carolina peace society has declared It self in favor of adequate armament as well as effective arbitration. There is no inconsistency in advocating both of these things at the present time, on the contrary those who have tho public welfare at hearl fail in the per formance of a part of their dutv if they neglect to labor for both. Ef fectual arbitration should be desired by every far-sighted citizen; while Hr ler present conditions, not to pro vide adequate armament would be In excusable on the part of those chart? ed with the respcnsiblli'' of preserv ing the rights of our people The growth of tb* acceptance of the prin ciple of Inter-national arbitration is necessarily slow; we should do ail we can to hasten it; but as the world Is at present. It Is well to remember that the acceptance of rhts principle In anv measure whatever depends exclusively upon the effective support It receives from the half dozen pow er* of great war like strength. As things actually are at the present day, we are helpless to further the cause of peace and of effective Internation al arbitration unless just and peace able intentions we add a stqutheart and a strong arm and this means military and naval prepared ness to a far grea'er degree than Is at present the case “This purpose In view I am now negotiating arbitration treaties with the various nations of the world; and the senate is ratifying them. I most earnestly hnpl that at the same lime, as an even more Important step to wards peace, the present congress will provide for further battleships and a sufficient number of eolllers, and for the thorough fortification of 1 Hnwsi; and Guantanamo "I desire to thank you for this op portunlty to support a genuine peace society in Its efforts for lnter-nstionsl arbitration, for peace societies merely Jeopardise the national welfare and are profoundly hostile to American national life. If they obstruct the gov. rnment In providing ample military nd naval power to meet conditions in the actual world oi today.” Forecast for Augrunta and Vicinity—Fair Tonight and Tuesday AUGUSTA, GEORGIA MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 12, 190 S. MINISTER MS OF HOI® EDGE WAS NAMED AS CO-RESPOND ENT, AND EXPLAINED HIS FOSITION IN THE CASE FROM THE PULPIT ALLEGED HYPNOTISM Does Not Possess the Power And The Whole Busi ness Was Trumped Up On Him. PLEASANT HILL—Rev. B. Q. Den ham, former pastor of one of tho Christian churches of New York, hut for the past four months in charge of the "First Church of Christ" of Pleasant Hill, and who was named as correspondent in the divorce case re cently brought by and decided in fa vor of E. Barto Hall, a Long Island club man, and son of a millionaire, made a statement from bis pulpit in regard to the charges. There had been prayer by the min ister, and an eloquent plea for grace of spirit to heed the divine teachings to forgive and forget, and an even more touching sermon on the "Lives that Lift.” Then he told of the train of circum stances, which though he has con stantly maintained his innocence, has all but wrecked his career as a min ister. “I know however, that my name and reputation has gone, and that I must leave the work by a word, not a burden upon this beloved church, but between my God and myself it is well, for He knows that my hands are clean of the infamous charges.” He announced that, therefore with Sunday evening's sermon, his work as pastor here would be terminated. Dismissing the charge that he had hypnotized Mrs. Hall with the remark that those here and elsewhere who had known him for years knew that he had no such power, the Rev, Den ham made the definite counter-charge that when Mrs. Hall returned to New York she was put in charge of two professional hypnotists, to whom the alleged confession involving him was made. Affidavits to this effect, he says, have been made and will soon be in his possession. The min ister's contention, in brief, is that E. Barto Hall, whose young wife was persona non grata with Hall's father was order by ills father to get rid ot the unpopular daughter-in-law or be dishonored. ITALIAN FLEET NOW INMNESS SPrCZIA, Italy.—The Italian fleet, whh h returned here from the annual manoeuvred, has been ordered to hold Itself In readiness to put to sea at a moment's notice. This Is taken to mean that Italy Is not satisfied with the progress of events in tue Balkans, and desires to have her naval vessels In readiness for any call that may be made upon i them. THAW REINED BACK TO ASM WHITE PLAINS, N. Y. The hear ing Into the sanity of Harry Thaw be. fore Justice Mills In the supreme court hare Monday was dismissed this morning, and Thaw was remanded hack to Matteawan Insane asylum. CRUSHED TO DEATH UNDER AUTOMOBILE An Employee In the Comp troller’s Office Wa« The Victim. NEW YORK, —Martin Conly, Jr. an employe In the comptroller's of fice, and son of Martin Conly, as semblyman and democratic leader of the second district of Brooklyn, was crushed to death under a 60-horse power automobile at 1:30 a. tn , Mon day, when the machine, which was whirling along at the rate of forty miles an hour, leaped from the road crashed through an Iron fefiee, an 1 landed, bottom upward. In the open -.ub-way cut of the lx<n* Island rail road and Atl-jWc avenues, East New York. JILTED BY SWEETHEART, ATTEMPTS SUICIDE NEW YORK John Edwards, 30 ! years old, homeless and Jilted by his Philadelphia sweetfieart, attempted I to Jump from the Brooklyn bridge In to the Ess river today. Police Cats tain Murphy of the bridge station r anch* him as hi wee climbing down the promenade Into the roadway and took him to the Adams street police court, where he Is held pending an l examination Into his mental condition PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD TERMINAL CORPORATION OFFICIAL SAYS BUSINESS BETTER CHICAGO—E. 11. Gary, chairman of the board of United States Steel corporation, is in Chicago for a short visit. "The business situation In the east is slowly picking up." said Mr. Gary, and there is a healthier tone to every, thing In general. I believe that the country Is rapidly getting into Its stride again, and we will have as AUSTRIAN MINISTER REPORTED ASSASSINATED 0 VIENNA. A minor that Count Forguqh, tho Austrian minister to Servyi, ftps been aHSasKlnatort. ba.> thrown this city into a fever of v,a cltemont. The foreign office discredits the rumor. Bride Took Morphine In Depot Waiting Room ST. LOUIS Mrs. Marion Joneß, a girl brido of 13 months, of Brook lyn, N. Y., swallowed morphine In the crowded first class waiting room of the union station here Sunday. She is at death's door, and when she rouses herself from the stupor into which the drug ha thrown her, alternately prays for death and bemoans the loss of her husbands love, which she aays caused her allempt on her life. The Jones came here from Brooklyn two weeks ago. Powers Bottled Up Ammunition And Servia Could not go to War BELGRADE.—WhsI eventually so bered the Herviau fire-eaters and made them amenable to reason, was a paralyzing statement by Ihe prime minister that. Servia could not pos sibly conduct, a war, because she has no ammunition for her artillery, and could not got any. Aeordlng to (he best reporth. the premier made it clear that the ammunition on hand would nol outlast a sheet skirmish Hitched Freight Train to Hotel To Kill Non Union Workers YOUNGSTOWN, O An atl otupi was made yesterday to wreck tli ..» hotel at Mahoning and Oak Hill avenues, owned by I K IllgcafrlU, by hitching a freight train to nn iron beam In ih<- building and pulltiu It down Bari of the building was wrecked, and the lodges, mostly non union Iron workers, were tumbled about, but not seriously injured Political News Mr. Taft left Cincinnati at. 7 a. rn on a special train for a three days’ | speaking tour of Ohio, three day* In ! the south, next Sunday In Washing ton. a day In New Jersey and Mary land. another.lD Ohio, three days In; Indlana/a week In New york, with a closing meeting In Youngstow on the night before election. Mr Deb* In Philadelphia said Roosevelt “has reduced the office of president to the level of the ward heeling politician With the repub llcans It Is Wall street und Taft, and with the democrats It Is Tammany ' and Graft. '* Registration figures show that there has been a falling off In republican as well as democratic district* y n jfow York City. The New York Ccntrsl Federation of Labor, 57 to :4 voted to uphold Mr. Ootnper* In hi* support of Bryan. TAFT ON TOUR. CINCINNATI William H. Tuft. left. thL cltv this morning for a continu ous campaign on the road until elec t|on night. For three dsy* he will j devote his attention to bis borne j state. real prosperity as ever as soon as the election is settled "We have no idea who will be elect ed. The big corporations are not. working against Taft and are, I be lieve, taking little pari in tho cam paign. The large business Interests are nol. taking an active part, because they realize that mixing in politics will no longer be tolerated by the pub lie.” | He told In detail of how Ihe govern ment had failed to get transit for am munition from lh'- Creusot factory through Switzerland or Germany, both islslng insuperable difficulties. An appeal, he said, whs Ihon made to Austria, which readily agreed to pornilt the transit of the ammunition through her territory, but repeatedly postponed the fulfillment of her prom ise and Servlu was still unable to i procure It. COTTON WORKERS STRIKE IBOIIT SETTLED. LONDON Thf* fitrJkrs of tlx* cotton operative* in Diinoftnflhir* in nu good hh nettled. It. can Up d"flinlt«lv *inr.- •d ihut rnitnv of th*' m*n will return to work rfurliiK the pro nmt work hh h re Hub o f a conference between t.h* ftpinnern Ht.tl rr.rd room tradoK union , and the nmit*r* federation. A five Por cent reduction in wjscfw will in* accepted, and the employer* on thir part will cooperate with th<* opar.i tl vtftt In reopening and Mottling he wape Munition noon a bettor banlM : three month* hence SEAMEN SAFE IN PORT, BOSTON Captain Monroe and five lof Ihe crew of the British Schooner Sirocco, supposed to have been lost when thetr vessel w*; wreck'd off i the Florid" coast October I, were I landed here by fruit steamer liora- I tiua. DAILY AND SUNDAY, $6.00 PER YEAR. First, corner to bo finished of tho New Pennsylvania Railroad tunnel Terminal in Now York'City. When the whole building is completed U will Include two blocks from 31st to 33rd street, between 7th and 9th avenue. 1,000 trains dally will bo handled In the new station. ORVILLE WRIGHT IMPROVES RAPIDLY If Continue*, Will Be Able To Leave Hospital In Three Weeks. WASHINGTON II Orville Wright. Ihe tniured aeroplanist now at the Fori Myer hospital, coni limes lo im prove at the present rule, he will bo allowed to go to his homo, In Dav lon, Ohio, In three weeks. Tin broken bones are knitting satisfactorily, and Mr. Wright Is looking forward to lilt return home. Mr. Wright expressed Ids Intention of completing the aeroplane trials at Fort Slyer himself, which, according (u the nine muni ha exleualon granted by the war department, will end on .(fine 23. Mr. Wrlgld does nol wish to leave the completion of them* trials lo his broth nr Wlllmr. who has been making aeroplane world records In Franco. i nine HE ARRESTED fas RIOTING SPARTANBURG. H. C.—Nine nr rests have been made as the result of an attempt made to take John Irby, negro, charged wlih attempting to make a criminal assuuit on Mlsm Lil lie liempsoy last Saturday morning, from the county Jail Saturday after noon and night. Those under urrcsl are: John I’arks, who is said to have fired Into Hie jail. drover Fowler, who Is charged wllii altempHng to heal down Ihe Iron gate ul the Jail. Bud McCarter. Ben McCarthy. William Burned. Oscar Carver. Wiley Burnett. Cicero Thomas. Nolan Richardson. The arrests were made during Hun day and .Sunday night bv detachment * of soldiers. Ben McCarthy, Orkver Fowler and Nolan Richardson arc nr ranging to give bond. While the excitement had died out to a considerable extent, there is much suppressed feeling among the citizens of the mil; towns, particularly In Saxon Mill village wlo-re the crime against the young lady was commit ted. Many ugly threats are being A Collect For Club Women KEEP I S, (i GOB, FROM I'/TTINKHS; BUT I S BK LARGE IN THOUGHT, IN WORD, IN DEL’D LLT US HE DONE WITH FAULT-FINDING AND LEAVE OFF SELF SEEKING. MAY WE PCI AWAY ALL PKETKNBE AND MEET EACH OTHER FACE FACE WITHOUT SELF PITY AND WITHOUT PREJUDICE. MAY WE BE NEVER HASTY IN JUDGMENT AND ALWAYS GENER OI s LOT I .4 TAKE TIME FOR AM, THINGS; MAKE US TO GROW CALM, SERENE, GENTLE. TEACH US TO PUT INTO actio; our better impulses, straightforward and UNAFRAID. ORAN THAT WE MAY REALIZE IT IS THE LIT TLE THINGS THAT CREATE D 1 FFERENCEB; THAT IN THE BIG THINGS OF LIFE WE ARE AT ONE AND MAY *H STRIVE TO TOUCH A VI) TO KNOW THE GREAT, COMMON WOMAN’S HEAR I OF US ALL, AND, O LORD GOD, LET US FORGET NOT TO HE KIND! MARY STUART SKUPSHTINA ACTS 01 WAN SITUATION VIGOROUS ACTIVITY WILL BE DISPLAYED TO PROTECT NATIONS THREATENED INTERESTS - J>- MONTENEGRO LOYAL MMSSMid The People Will Sacrifice Their Last Drop Of Blood Unless Grie vance is Righted. BELGRADE At extraordinary ses sion of the Skupshtina. Monday morn ing the following resolution was unanimously passed: "The Skupshtina after hearing tho explanations of tho government and the steps where taken by it, they ox poet I leu a vigorous activity will ho d splayed for the protection of tl.a ii'illoib threatened interests. With this object in view tho Skupshtina will support the government to the fullest extent." UKTTINJE, Montenegro—The Mon tenegrin national assembly opened here Monday in an extraordinary ses sion. The war fever resulting front the annexation by Austria-Hungary of lloslim, and Herzegovina, which Is running high has ben slrmiffThenod by the Dellicoge message to parlfs menl from Brines Nloholaß, who de clared Ihat the annexation of these lwo provinces had lnfil,ot«d a crying wrong upon the people of Montene gro and Hull tho peaceful endeavors now on fool have resulted In righting tills grievance, the message was re ceived with cheers mid other denum atratlons of approval. Throe Millions for War. BELGRADE, Servis The national assembly In extraordinary session tills morning voted $3,000,000 as a mil itary appropriation ami (he following resolution wns unanimously passed: "Tho Skuptschlna, after hearing the explanations of Hie government and the slops taken by It expects vig orous activity will be displayed for the protection of the nstlon’s threaten ed Interests. With tills object, in vluw the national assembly will give the government Its most hearty support, ami co-operation." henrd on all sides, and three compa nies of soldiers, the Hampton Guards, of tills city; Train ham Guards, of Laurens, and Morgan Rifles, S. C. N. 0., arc Hull on duty, and will prbbably remain on duty for several days. It was sluled al Ihe jail today that, the troops would remain on duty until conditions become normal. The court of common pleas, Judge Klugh, Is In session here Monday, and It Is the tlret lime In the history of Spartan burg llial court, has been held with companies of soldiers patrolling tho court house square. Pickets arc kept eomitanly on duty around the court house and the jail. DEMOCRATS SURE TO CARRY HEW YOfiK STATE BUFFALO, N. Y. William J. Cnn nors, chairman of the Democratic state com mi lice predicted Mondarv llial Louis Btuyvesant '’hauler would carry the state by 200,00 ft, and that Bryan’s plurality In the state would reach 100,00 ft. "Mow manv counties will the dem ocrats carry? the state chairman was asked ’ It is absolutely certain that Bryan will carry 2t counties and Uhanler 2f»." replied Mr. '’minors, adding' 1 may give you a lit i of them before the close of the campaign.”
