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THE AUGUSTA DAILY HERALD
VOLUME XIX. No. 56.
WHAT WILL BRYAN DO
IF VILLA PERSISTS AND
CARRANZA REFUSES ?
No Legal Obstacle at All to Sending of Force of
American Cavalrymen to Recover Benton's Body
if it Can Be Located
THAT SUCH WOULD BE ACT
OF WAR DENIED AS PRES’T
WILSON SAYS THAT MEXICO
HAS NO PRESENT GOV’T
Course Would Be One of Last
Resort, But Legality Un
questioned. Has Precedent in
Boxer Uprising in China.
Washington.— Secretary Bryan
went Into conference with the sen
ate foreign relations committee
before noon. He had with him an
armful of books and documents.
Some of them, it was said, related
to Mexico.
Washington.—The State Department
la hopeful that through General Car
ranza, Villa's superior officer, It can
succeed In getting Renton's body. No
answer has been received today to rep
resentations sent to Carranza yester
day.
Secretary Bryan has communicated
to the British embassy the latest mes
sages from Consul Letcher announc
ing Villa's willingness to permit the
widow to view Benton's body but his
refusal to allow its removal. That,
however, may not meet the demands
of the British embassy.
Declines Any Intentions.
Secretary Brvan declined today to
Intimate what he would do in the event
that Villa persisted in his refusal and
Carranza could not be induced to in
tervene.
Discussing possibilities, some offi
cials here said there was really no le
gal obstacle to Brigadier General Bliss
sending a force of American cavalry
men from the border patrol to recover
Benton's body if it can be located. That
such would l>e an act of war which
must first be authorized by congress
was denied by such officials.
President's Declaration.
They pointed to President Wilson's
declaration that there is at. present no
government in Mexico. Such a condi
tion they say w ould Justify such action,
somewhat similar to that taken in Chi
na during the Boxer uprising, when a
large international force entered the
country without any dec a ration of
war. Such a course would be one >f
last resort but its legality was held to
be beyond ouestion.
The 800 'marines already on battle
ships in the Gulf of Mexico will he re
inforced hy 300 more which will nail
f mi Pensacola on the transport Prai
*s>, probably next Sunday.
Overcrowded Warship.
Secretary Daniels explained that I lie
the Prairie is being sent to Vera Cruz
solely to provide accommodations for
marines on already overcrowded bat
tleships and that the three extra com
panies totalling some 300 can be ac
commodated on the Prairie without ov
ercrowding the others.
Secretary Daniels said today that no
orders have been issued for the land
ing of a guard for the legation in Mex
ico City and that no request for such
a force had been received at the de
partment-
J. Hamilton Lewis Makes
Plea For Law Adjustment
Illinois Senator Says, Let Us
Decline to Carry Along
Hoary Precedent
Kansas City.—The sinurdliflcatio*
of court procedure and the creation
of a general popular confidence in the
Judiciary must come largely through
the American lawyer, in the opinion
of Senator James Hamilton Lewis, of
Illinois, as expressed In an address
here tonight at the annual banquet
of the Kansas City Bar Association.
"The government,” Senator Lewis
Bald, "was nearer to civil revolution
a little more than a year ago, than
It ever was over conditions since the
civil war. The belief prevailed that
the government, through the thing
called law, had licensed the commer
cial marauder and legalized ths per
sonal oppressor.
"Three presidents' oT the United
States, Taft, Roosevelt and 'Wilson
each the representative of his party,
have declared that the great wrongs
done" 7 the country were through the
l&w
"Our duty is to awaken to moderi
things; to move nearer the citizens
for whom the law Is created and who,
though the author of ’ the law in
theory, is the victim of Its execution;
abandon ancient forms that were
against common sense; decline to
carrv along hoary precedent. Let
the law be adjusted to the new tem
perature of a new civilization.”
London. —The British gnvern
meht, it was anounoed today Is
still awaiting an answer from the
State Department at Washington
to its request to the United States
government to secure a safe con
duct from General Villa to enable
Consul Perceval of Galveston, to
participate in the investigation
Into the death of Win. S. Benton at
Juarez.
Francis Dyke Acland. parlia
mentary under-secretary for for
eign affairs, stated today in the
House of Commons that the for
eign office was not prepared to
order Consul Perceval to leave El
Paso for the dangerous districts
of Mexico until it had received
some assurance that he would be
safe.
SUPREME COURT
DENIES 8 NEW
MM
Convicted Murderer of Mary
Phaqan Hears News of
Unanimous Decision With
Same Calmness He Has Ex
hibited Since His Arrest
Extraordinary Motion Expect
ed Now to Be Filed in the
Superior Court. Prisoner Still
Expresses Confidence Sent
ence Never Carried Out.
Atlanta, Ga.—The supreme court of
Georgia today refused to grant a re
hearing of the appeal for a new trial
for Leo M. Frank, under death sen
tence for the murder of Mary Phagan.
Chief Justice Kish and Associate
Justice Beck, who dissented from the
court’s decision last week denying the
appeal, concurred In today’s decision,
which was unanimous.
Extraordinary Motion.
The motion for a rehearing was filed
yesterday and was based on the con
tention that certain important counts
in the appeal had been disregarded by
the court. It Is expected that an ex
traordinary motion for a new trial
will be filed within a few days in
the superior court.
Notice was filed In the superior
court 'today by attorneys for James
Conley, the negro convicted yesterday
of being an accessory to the murder,
that they would ask a new trial for
their client, Conley, who was the prin
cipal witness against the young fac
torysuperintendent and is under sent
ence of 12 months in a convict chain
gang.
With Calmness.
Frank received news of today's su
preme court decision with the same
calmness he has exhibited since his
arrest last April, two days after the
murder of the little factory girl. He
expressed confidence that his death
sentence, indefinitely stayed pending
final disposition of his case, would
never be executed.
Huerta’s Soldiers
Hang American; Body
Left For Three Days
Lar«do, Texaa—Official confirmation
of the hanging of Clemento Vergara,
American citizen, by Mexican federal*
near Hidalgo, Mexico, was received to
day by United Htates Consul Garrett
at Nuevo Laredo, The report said
Vergara's body remains hanging three
miles from Hidalgo. Consul Garrett
Immediately left Nuevo Laredo for the
King to See Giants and
White Sox Play Tomorrow
London..—King George and several
members of the royal family are to he
present tomorrow at the baseball game
between the New York and Chicago
teams. The king, who is an ardent
follower of football and cricket, has
never witnessed a first class baseball
game.
Americans In London are hopeful
that the interest displayed In the game
by the king will assist in converting
England to baseball. .
AUGUSTA. GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. FEBRUARY 25. 1914.
PENNILESS GIRL GETS
VERDICT OF $35,000
pit v! /
MSS CATHERINE O’ROURKE.
New York.—The verdict, awarding her $35,000, did not Impress Miss
Catherine o'Kourke, a pretty twenty-year-old Irish girl, so 'much as the
fact that she had been vindicated, when the Nassau epunty supreme court
yesterday ruled In her favor in her suit against the Cunard Steamship Co
The girl charged that she had been suspected of being the mother of an
infant born on board the steamship Campania, during a . voyage to this
country In April, 1911, and that during examinations by the ship's doctors,
her health was irreparably Injured. Miss Oitourke was held in the ship’s
hospital for several days. Then the real mother of the baby was found
and the Uinoeent girl was released.
MANTLE OF SNOW
COVERS THE SOUTH
Sections Invaded That Have
Not Been Visited By the
Fleecv in Past 15 or 20
Years —Atlantic Seaboard
Under White Blanket Today
FURTHER FALL PREDICTED
WITH CLEARING THURSDAY
Falling Temperatures General.
New Orleans Mardi Gras
Thermometers Hover Around
Freezing Point. Minimum of
20 Degrees on Carolina
Coasts.
Washington.—Snow today sent Its
myriad of Invaders Into sections of
the South, where they have not bean
seen before in fifteen or twenty years.
An area of extremely cold air and
with a "disturbance” over the eastern
part of the Gulf oT Mexico, were re
sponsible for the snowfall, the official
at the weather bureau stated today.
More snow was forecast in the eadt
90 GRANDCHILDREN ARE
AT THE GOLDEN WEDDING,
Preston, Minn.—A feature of the
celebration of the sixtieth wedding
anniversary of Mr. and Mrs.
Michael O’Connor her today wax
the presence of ninety grandehb
dren of the couple.
gulf and south Atlantic states tonight
with clearing weather Thursday.
General in Southeast.
Atlanta, Ga. A general snowstorm
throughout.the southeast today broke
weather bureau records of twenty
years’ standing. A white blanket cov
ered tho Atlantic seaboard as far
south as Southern Georgia, and light
flurries of snow wore reported
throughout the gulf states. New Or
leans and Mobile had their first snow
fall in more than ten years.
Southern Georgia.
In Southern Georgia snow reached
a depth of from two to three Inches
for the first time in a score of years.
Columbus and Savannah, Ga., each re
ported two Inches. At Macon, Ga.,
and neighboring cities more than
three onehes had fallen before noon
(Continued on page seven.)
Bishop Keiley’s Sister
Dies From Her Burns
Richmond, Va.—Miss Ellen Kelley,
age 7ft, sister of Bishop Kelley of Ha
vannah and of the late Anthony M.
Kelley, former mayor of RlchmonJ
and later Judge t,f the international
court at died this morning of
burns received yesterday morning
while stirring a fire In her sitting
room.
Live coals, she. said, fell upon the
skirt of her dressing gown, and she
strove In vain to remove It. A negro
maid found her scmt-conscious on a
blazing rug.
BECKER SftYS
"A LONE UIE
WITH HO TURN”
Convicted N. Y. Police Lieut.,
Granted a New Trial, Leaves
Death House —First Thought
Was For His Loyal Wise —16
Months in Death Cell
Probably Will Never Be Tried
Again and Will Alao Probably
Seek Reinstatement on Force.
Four Gunmen to Be Executed
Some Time Next Month.
New York. —Chas. Becker, former
police lieutenant, convicted of Inst!
paling the murder of Herman ltoseu
tliiil, who lias been grunted u new
trial, was visited at Sing Sing prison
today Lay hla attorney, Jos. A. Shay.
Tomorrow, the attorney told llecker,
he expects to serve the remltur of
Hie court of appeals on the prison
ward. Becker then will leave the
death house where he has been con
fined since Hie autumn of 1912 and
be returned to a cell in the Tombs
here until final disposition of hi*
case.
Behind him In the death cells,
Becker will leave the four gunmen—
"Dago Frank,” t'iroflel, "Gyp tha
Blood" Horowitz,
Rosenberg and “Whitey” Lewis —
convicted of the nrtual killing of
Rosenthal and they will be executed
next month unless the governor
grants clemency.
No probable.
The opinion wdis expressed by at
torneys and friends of Bocker that
he would never he tried again, as the
Instigator of the murder of Rosenthal,
and there was alao much talk that
Continued on Page Seven
DEWEY SILENT
IN GERMAN ROW
y
Von Diederichs Says He Re
grets Affair Being Dragged
From Oblivion. Dewey and
He Friends.
Baden Baden, Germany.—Admiral
Von Diederichs himself admits he In
formed the British naval commander
in Manila Bay at the time of the Span
ish-American war that he would shoot
any American officer who attempted
to board a German warship "to make
Inquiry and establish her Identity,” In
carrying out the orders of Admiral
Dewey.
This admission was made today In
the course of a further narrative of
event!- given to the Associated I’resa
Are Bsst of Friends.
Baden Baden, Germany.—Admiral
Von Diederichs, who was cominunder
of the German warships In Manila Bay
at Ihe time of the Spanish-American
war, today gave to the Associate!
I’ress an exhaustive account of the oc
currences at Manila. The German ad
miral says Dewey's story contains
many errors, perhaps due to defective
memory or to misinformation obtained
from subordinates. Me expressed re
gret that the Manila, affair had been
raked out of oblivion.
"Admiral Dewey and I,” he said,
"smoothed over our misunderstandings
and differences some time ago and
have since exchanged visits, letters
and gifts.”
Based on Reports.
Washington.—A dndral Dewey re
mained silent yesterday In n-gyrd to
the agitation created in Germany hy
the publication of Ills memoirs. He
rests upon the statement made in the
introduction to his work, but while,
for the most part, the recital was
based upon personal recollections, In
the case of ail of the circumstances
connected with Ihe battle of Manila
Bay, his statements were based upon
official reporls compiled at the time
and hence unquestionably accurate.
It Is believed by the admiral that a
wrong Impression lias been created
In Germany as to Ills comments upon
the action of the German naval offi
cers ftt Manila hy reason of Imperfect
understanding and unduly condemn
such acts from his books?
In navy circles today It was point
ed out that "With Dewey at Manila,”
a more recent publication by ono of
Dewey's staff officers, now Bear Ad
miral Bradley A. Klske, aide for oper
ations at Ihe navy department, de
voles five pages to the German epi
sode and confirms Admiral Dewey's
staoment at every point,
SHARKEY MUST SERVE.
New York. "Tom” Sharkey, former
pugilist, will have to serve out his term
of thirty days In the Tombs and pay
the fine of SSOO Inflicted on him for
maintaining the saloon on Hast 14th
street, which the court of special ses
sions decided was a disorderly place.
Justice Cohnlan refused today to grant
a certificate of reasonable doubt to
Bharkey, -
DAILY AND SUNDAY. $6.00 PER YEAH.
AFTER EXAMINING,
BODY TO WIDOW
The American Gov't, in Representations, Impresses
Villa With Importance of Turning Over Benton’s
Corpse Following Its Viewing By United States
Army Surgeon
Chairman of the House
Committee Who Will Hoar
Report on Speer Charges
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HENRY D. CLAYTON
HAS SHAKEN HANDS WITH
ALL SINCE WM. H.HARRISON
Washington.—Hobart B. Dixon of
Easton, Md., RO years old. shook handa
with President Wilson today and com
pleted a record of huvlng personally
greeted every president since William
Henry Harrison.
REPORTED SIO,OOO OVERDRAFT
OF TELLER SETTLED BY A NOTE
F. H. Boatwright, Former Paying Teller at Irish American,
Said to Have Overdrawn Account SIO,OOO and Settled it
With a Note. Prediction of 3 0 Cents on the Dollar to De
positors is Liberal Estimate.
The prediction that bus been made
that the depositors of the Irish Amer
ican Bank will get about 30 cents on
the dollar stands and what the deposi
tors are most Interested lti Is the
amount of dividend, they tire going to
receive. This estimate Is said to bo d
liberal ono and It may be b>HH.
The statement of the auditors show
ed a deficit or nearly $300,000, less
about $75,000 for capital Block, sur
plus and undivided profits and theirs
has been charged off about $75,000 for
bad notes. There Is no reoorel of
where the enormous defic it of the bank
has gone. J. I'. Armstrong ha» re
fus'd to make a statement and the
matter Is- left In Ihe dark.
There is an enormous amount of
money gone of which, there is no rec
ord whatsoever, and then In addition
there are overdrafts of $173,000, one of
which was the overdyift of, the In
dustrial Lumber Company for $140,000
Another was one of the former paying
teller, Frank H. Boatwright, for $lO,-
000. It Is understood that Boatwright
settled the overdraft matter with a
note. Boatwright resigned and left
Augusta some, tlmo ago.
Thc-ye are several thousand deposi
tors or the Irish' American In Augus
ta and more than half of a million dol
lars was in the bank on deposit, half
the amount of tlie flood protection
bond Issue of 1912.
IT IS AUGUSTA’S FIRST FALL
OF SNOW FOR PAST TWO YEARS
With over four Inches of snow on
the ground late this afternoon, Au
gustaiiK were confronted with a fore
cast for more snow. For several
hours the fall was an Inch an hour.
"Snow tonight and probably Thors
day. Slightly warmer, with tempera
ture tonight near thirty degrees.” was
the official prediction Forecaster K.
D. Emlght made at 10 a. m.
Indulging In Snow-Balllng.
Snow-balling proved a favorite pas
time In many sections of the city
throughout the day. The low tem
perature, however, caused an uncom
fortable feeling to those who would
Indulge. Nevertheless, many folks,
young and old, were seen "playing"
in the snow and enjoying a "rare"
ENGLISHMAN’S REMAINS
MUST BE DELIVERED ON
AMERICAN TERRITORY
Upon Character of Wounds
Rests Proof of Rebel Gen
eral's Version of Affair.
Further Investigation By
Great Britain and U. S. Will
Depend on Result.
Washington.—Further representa
tions were made by the American
government today to General Francis
co Villa pointing out the Importance
of giving up the body of Wm. 8. Ben
ton, the Englishman recently exxecut
ed at Juarez, whose death la being
officially investigated by both the
United States and Great Britain.
Immediately upon the recedpt al
word from Consul Letcher at Chihua
hua, that Benton's body would be
exhumed for the benefit oT Benton's
widow and relatives who could visit
the Cemetery with an American rep
resentative, a second request went
forth to Villa asking that the corpse
be turned over to the widow on
American territory.
With Disfavor.
Villa’s refusal to accede to the re
quest for the body has not met wtth
favor by officials here who are seek
ing now to Impress upon him the
Importance the world generally will
attach to such a refusal.
General Carranza, chief of all the
Constitutionalist forces. Is expected
In Juarez within a week. It Is under
stood here that he will take charge
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A comparison of the two statements
of the Irish American, ono in Septem
ber last and the other made by the
auditors on Jan. 31st, shows that oil
Jan. 31st, a month and a half after the
bank closed, there was $200,000 mori
on deposit than In September, despite
the fact that there were heavy with
drawals for several weeks preceding
the failure of the bank.
The overdraft account shows that
In September there was a little over
$3,000, while In January there was
$173,000.
There are a great many amazing
things to be found In the statement
of the Irish American Bank’s condition
and, It Is stated, there can be no doubt
about the overdrafts and tho deposits
being us large as the auditors say they
are and there Is no doubt about there
being an enormous deficit also.
Mr. Irvin Alexander, receiver of tho
Irish American Hank, stated this
morning ihnt as an officer of the court
he deemed It the proper course to make
a report to the court with reference
to the report of the auditors on tho
condition of tho Irish American Bank.
Mr. Alexander has not yet had time
himself to go carefully into tho mat
ter, hut when he does he says that as
a court officer he must report to tho
court. Judge H. C. Hammond, of tho
superior court, named Mr. Alexander
as receiver of tho Irish Amoiican Bank
several weeks ago.
good time In Augusta.
The Temperature,
The temperature since early last
night has been going down. At 8
p. m., it was 115 degrees; at mid
night, 32 degrees (freezing); 6 a, m„
29 degrees; 8 a. m., 27 degrees, and
noon It was about at a standstill at
22 degrees. /
The wind throughout the forenoon
was maintaining a velocity of be
tween 10 and 12 miles per hour from
the northeast.
The snowfall at 3 p. m., according
to the V. S. weather bureau, was 4.7
Inches and falling at the rate of an
Inca an hour- - ... .