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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.”