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THE WEATHER.
Fe*ee««t for Atlanta and Georgia:
Local thowora today and tomorrow.
VOL. X. NO. 2«: i.
FIGHT MUI
BABY LEADS
TO DOUBLE
THABEDY
Woman Had Premonition of
Trouble Four Years Ago and
Provided for Child.
STOREY SHOOTS HIS WIFE
AND THEN KILLS HIMSELF
Wide-Eyed Children Fill the
House Today, and Neighbors
Care lor the Orphans.
p,. foot’d < hildran. wide-eyed with
f .it- n-nt. a>» tanging over the fence
iv, running through the halls of the
!. hous» ’ East Hunter street
... f<> t th. nuiet hoarding house has
ouv 'he stege of <* tragedy rno‘'o
■■'me t<» t”< neighborhood than an’’
.drama he-alded from the ragged
• tt'.a da acrot-t. the way. In a dark-
rt d '■><> .■ •« t>o body of Mrs. Mauoe
' . Store- «bot dead last night by
h ,D«h?n< Benjamin Howell Storey.
" O t'-.r.; a half hou' later ;j few blocks
,’.>-n i',r «treet. Hr had crouched on
I h* ijthe’.tnc and swallowed two
oute r* <>f th» fl’ * poison. H's body
e« .t the undertaking establishment
of Harrs G Poole where an inquest is
to br held ioday .
' quarrel separation, attempts at
< onriliatlon. dispute* over bis child.
« ;>t«k' and sullen determination to end
ev «i y tiling these ,cd to Storey > double I
i■ mt H* purchased a bottle of acid,
pj: . ; voice; in Ids pocket and wont
■ - t ~.c fountain at East Hunter and
Hi t street* las’ night at 9 o'clock From
the little store. hr ca’led up his wife.
•>hn conducted » boarding house a
bock down Hunter street He asked
' ' tn «••• him a- the cornet, and
bro fused he threatened to force
oa> Into the house Dreading a
i">bulent -cenr. Mrs Store'- went to
h, r front gate only a few stops from
t' r coot to meet him. A boarder, W.
t \ , 1.,-- rfolleri toward the gate just
..tier Storey had joined 1)1* wife and
-l.r i her to go sot a walk Arche- said
fterwavd that he feared ti oublgg and
. to protect woman
Kills Wife. Then
Foretells Suicide.
Woo i« that man. Maude'' askmi
S .ey Hi* wife rcmatked that Archer
a b**atdo She turned to go back
tn the house, but Storey- called het. and
she turned he fired three tint’s One
~r the bullets entered het heart, and the
tht e were hardly an inch a part. Arch-*i
e tight jhr wounded woman in his :<-ms
and Storey walked down the 'tret ~
Storey was carried Into th*' house
where she died ten minutes later, in tit-’
a , ns <>f Mt«s Maude Kessler, one of
tn* git boarders
Storey went to the junk shop where
hr’ was employed by his b-other. Hes
ter. only a block or two away, anti
... led up hl* broil < by telephone. Ho
tr.d him what bad happened and suit!
* own earthly troubles would be over
In a fet* minute’ Then he walked to
the romer of Connally street and
Woodward avenue and swallowed the
, arbolle arid Morris Rubin, a small
boy. found his body there a short time
ft*-rward and ran to tell the police,
who wot. searching for lite slayer
Dispute Over Child
Led to Tragedy.
y .’isputc live* the custody of baby
Lillian Storey, the sey-enteen-months
o'd daughter of the couple. is- said to
have been the principal cause- of thr
tragedy Storey had repeatedly de
manded that the baby be given to him.
.ire a ins that he did not want his
daughter reared by het mother, while
Mt’ Storey clung to th* baby Aba ■
,'e in the courts, a divorce suit ami a
struggle for the child was to have be*-’
begun soon, according to neighbors fa
miliar with the troubles of the family .
Two c hild **n arc left orphaned by the
double tragedy Baby Lillian will find a
home cvlth Mrs Emma Green, of Col-
■«* Patk. leer mother's sister, while
Inez Wheeler, the five-year-old daugh
icc of Mrs Storey by her first husband,
Robert Wheels-, wilt probably find a
uonie with Mrs Amanda Sadler. of
Han.pion street M-s. Sadler had been
a friend of th* family for yeats. nd
several years ago Mrs. Storey made a
peculiar request.
Had Premonition of
Trouble Four Years Apo.
If anything ev* happens to m? I
want von to adopt Inez." she said "I
feet that shell need a home some day
Will you promise me?"
Mrs. Sadler, who had out seven chil
dren by d**nth, had 1.-a ned to love Baby
Inez and giadl- trail*- the proims*-. Bh<
told a friend of the family today that
•> .• was eady to keep h* i word if th*
relatives of H-e *laln woman wr.tjld
. -n» o' '!'» • cell -o do and could
g*>* i tie hi t « gwd home
The Atlanta Georgian
Redd For Profit —GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results
John D.'s Pastor Gives
Wives lODon'ts: 'Wed
For Love. Not a Living'
Woman In Hobble Skirt, Husband
Patched Trousers, Poor Pair.
He Declares.
CLEVELAND. «»HIO. June J A .
wife’s decalogue." all don’ts, has been
Issued bv Rev. W. W. Bustard, paste*’
of the Euclid Avenu- Baptist church,
which John D. Rockefeller attends.
are the ten:
1. Don't marry a man for a living,
but for love.
2 Don’t ove’dr.-’s
3. A wife with a hobble -skirt and a
j husband with patched trousers make a
■ poor pair
1 4 Don't go around lecturing other
I women on how to b'ing up their chii-
I dren.
5, Don't tell your troubles to your
neighbors.
fi. Don't nag
7 Don't trv to get mpre out of a mir
ror than you put into it.
S. Don’t make gamblers and drunk
ards out of your children by tunning
whist parties foi prizes and serving
punch with a “stick'' in it.
9. Don't forget to tell the truth.
10. Don't forget that home is a wom
lan's kingdom.
GEORGIA HIGH COURT
MAKES RECORD FOR
AFFIRMING PENALTIES
In a single year the Georgia supreme
court has disposed of 54 capital cases
and but in two instances has the judg
ment of the trial court been reversed.
Sixteen of these cases came to ibe
high cour* with the extreme penalty—
—death- assigned, and not a single
judgment was reversed. Os the sixteen
stayers all but three went to the gal
lows. two took their own lives and one
was killed in attempting to escajje.
These figures were given out by At
torney General Felder and cover the
work of the court since July, 1911. Os
the 54 judgments, two were reversed,
three dismissed and the remainder af
firmed. A dismissal amounts to the
same in matter of fact as an affirma
tion. There are seven capital cases
now pending before the court.
HAD TO SPEND TOO
MUCH TIME SAVING
LIFE OF HIS WIFE
SAN' ERAN'CTSCO. June 3 -Too
many attempts upon the part of Mrs.
Pratt to commit suicide resulted in
Superiot Judge' Thomas F. Graham
granting a divorce to Harry Pratt.
From the time of their marriage. May
21 1908. Pratt testified, bis wife made
his fife a perpetual misery through her
attempted suicides
On on*- occasion he was sitting in the
livittg t *>om of their home l eading the
daily paper. Suddenly his wife said:
“Harry, you do not love me!"
“Why do you say that'.’" he asked.
"Because if you did you would not
read the paper." With that she tan
into another room, grabbed his razor
and slashed the arteries in her wrist.
He secured the razor after a struggle
and bound up the wounds.
PRISON INADEQUATE:
TWO WHITE WOMEN
SLAYERS PARDONED
LITTLE ROCK. ARK . June 3. —Say -
' Ing there ate no facilities at the state
prison for confining white women and
on recommendation of Superintendent
Pitcock, of the penitentiary. Governor
Donaghey has pardoned Stella Schnei
de- and Leila Ford, one sentenced Lo
six years and the other to twelve years
fo> murder
Mrs. Schneider poisoned her husband.
There ate now no white women in the
state penitentiary.
BROOKHAVEN CLUB PLANS
$20,000.00 IMPROVEMENTS
The Brookhaven dub. now in the
height of its season, will have a new
boat house and bath house in a few
weeks The board of governors has
voted $20,000 for improvements, and will
issue SIOO,OOO of new bonds to retire
SBO,OOO of bonds now outstanding and
leave :< surplus for new work. The lake
at Brookhaven offers unusually good
battling, for it is the clearest body of
water near Atlanta. The golf links will
be ready for u*se by July- 15. when the
nine-hole course will be completed. It
is to be made an 18-hole course In a
few years.
120-FOOT BRIDGE IS
BUILT IN 16 MINUTES
LEAVEN'Wt’RTH. KAN'S.. June 3.
. Company M, Third battalion of engi
( nee-s, has set a new army and the
world's record so- building a pontoon
( bridge.
Sixty men of the command con
structed a bridge across Merritt lak*
120 feet in length in sixteen minutes
and thirty-five seconds.
!
JOKER SENDS POLICE ON
DEATH HUNT TO CEMETERY
CHICAGO June 3. In response to
an alarm call that a number of peoph
wer* dead at tstk So ithp**-’ avenue
the police dlsi'overed that th*- !• *■ >- wa
I i -cm. tn* The* ar< looking for Hie
Joker.
ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, JUNE 3, 1912.
PEACE REIGNS
ONGE MORE
IN HOPKINS'
ROME
Mrs. Lawrence Writes Russell.
Apologizing -Letter To Be
Made Public.
ADMITS SHE WAS WHOLLY
WRONG IN RECENT SUIT
Pleads She Was Depressed at
Time, and Declares That She i
Owes Money Involved.
NEW YORK. June 3.—Complete
reconciliation lias been effected be
tween Mis. Josephine Lawrence, widow
of a. rich patent medicine manufac
turer. and Russell Hopkins, of Atlanta,
who married her granddaughter, and
against whom she recently began suit
Lo recover part of more than $250.000
he was alleged tn have obtained from
her by playing on her affection for Mrs.
Hopkins and little Josephine Lawrence
Hopkins. her great-granddaughter.
Mrs. Lawrence has sent the following
letter to Mr. Hopkins:
“My Dear Russell —So many
statements have been made in the
newspapers concerning our affairs
that I must Insist on your publish
ing this letter to correct any harm
I may have unintentionally- done
you. I deeply regret the suit be
gun against you. and withdraw
every statement contained in the
complaint which reflects on you in
Admit Charges
Wholly Unfounded.
“The suit was begun at a time
when T was much depressed, and
I realize that my charges against
you were wholly- unfounded. The
contracts under which I gave you
the notes were made at my own
request, and every statement ob
tained in them is true and correct,
and the money- was and is fully
and property due to you.
“At my request you willingly
have returned the notes, so as to
readjust the payments to suit my
convenience, but I still owe you
the money, and when you returned
my notes on Saturday last 1 gave
you a written agreement to pay
you the full amount in certain
specified installments. The state
ment in my complaint that you al
tered the notes without my consent
was a mistake.
"Regretting my hasty- action and
trusting that we may all forget the
unfortunate affair, I am.
“Lovingly yours,
".TOSEPHINE LA WRENCE."
7 CONVICTS ESCAPE
FROM RIVER BOAT;
3 DROWN, 2 CAUGHT
_ NEW ORLEANS, June 3.—Seven
white convicts escaped from a quar
ters boat in the Mississippi river near
Baton Rouge early today. Bwo were
recaptured; two. it is believed, got
away to the swamps, now five and
six feet deep with water from the
breaks In the levee, and three are be
lieved to have been drowned. Among
the latter is Charles Thomas, of Seda
lia. Mo., twenty years old. sentenced
to serve three years for burglary. The
two who now are believed to have
escaped are William McGregor, of On
tario, Canada, highwayman, and J. B.
Morgan, of Chicago.
The three believed to have been
drowned are George M. Dir. of Cin
cinnati: Thomas and Charles Flores, of
Louisiana.
WHAT ARE YOU IN
SEARCH OF TODAY?
N'o matter if it is a
position, help, real es
tate. farms. rooms,
houses, apartments, of
fices. garages, boarding
places, lost articles,
poultry of all kinds,
business opportunities,
or any other conceiva
ble thing, a Georgian
Want Ad will go get it
for you.
Georgian Want Ads
cost little, and accom
plish much.
Read them, answer
them, and use them.
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SATAN A-GINNING
COTTON AT NIGHT
Representative Moore Proposes
Law to Stop Work After
Darkness Arrives,
Representative J. Threat Moore, of
Butts, has discovered a significant and
sinister connection between the high
cost of living and the ginning of cotton
in Georgia after sundown
Having satisfied himself that Satan
has a hand in this post-daylight gin
ning business. Mr. Moore proposes to
introduce a bill in the legislature at its
forthcoming summer session providing
that it shall be a high crime and mis
demeanor to Indulge in that pastime tn
the Empire state of the South
Various persons have accused Mr.
Moore of endeavoring in this proposed
legislation to take a side-swipe at the
colored brother, and to put cotton gins
in the same catalogue with hen roosts,
as proscribed excursion territory after
the shades of night have fallen. Mt.
Moore vigorously repels this sugges
tion. and says that Cuffy is no more
the object of Butts county's legislative
wrath than any other person, regard
less of race, color or previous condi
tion of servitude. Mr. Moore affirms
that his proposed law in no wise con
flicts with either the fourteenth or fif
teenth amendments to the Federal con
stitution.
Unfair to Creditors.
The gentleman from Butts will pro
pose his new law more in sorrow than
iin anger. He feels that the high cost
| of living.puts great and abiding temp-
I tation in the way <>f some folks, and
I that there are many planters—or. at
I least, some —who seize upon the oppor
tunity the darkness affords to gin their
cotton and make a swift ante-daybreak
get-away, in many instances leaving
their long-suffering creditor.** sucking
their thumbs and minus their right
eous dues.
Mr. Moore proposes, kindly but firm
ly. to remove that temptation, and it is
said that he will have the backing of
numerous land owners and merchants
in his benign undertaking.
FORGERY CHARGED TO INGE.
SAVANNAH. GA.. June 3—E S
Inge of Dotban. Ala., is under arrest
here charged with forging the name of
Mr* S W Graham, of Jacksonville.
Fla., to a cheek. Several days ago
Inge wa-> arrr ted on lar*mt.v cl’aig*.?,
preferred b' Mrs. Graham.
BURNING OF STORES
CAUSES PROSECUTION
OF PROMINENT MEN
MONTGOMERY. ALA., .lime 3. T -As
the result of an inrestigation made by
Lorrine Rice state fire marshal, of ths
burning of eight stores at Benton.
Lowndes county, last December, five
warrants have been issued, three ar
rests have been made and one defend
ant has given himself up. The fifth
defendant has not been made known,
pending arrest. Three of the five ate
prominent white men. the other two
being negroes. C. Walter Jones, for
merly of Lowndes county, but now re
siding in Montgomery, surrendered to
the sheriff at Haynesville. .1. H. Fel
der, a white man. and Ike Cunningham
and Steve Wagner, negroes, were ar
rested. Warrants were issued by Pro
bate Judge .1. C. Wood at Haynesville,
charging the five defendants with sec
ond degree arson.
FIRE ABOARD CUNARD
LINERCARMANIA DOES
DAMAGE OF $340,000.00
LIVERPOOL, June 3 Damage
caused by the fire that raged last night
on the Cunard liner Cwmania was to
day estimated at $340.00H by officials
of the company, but they said there was
a possibility that it may go much high
er. The fire was still burning in the
stoke hold today and may continue to
blaze for days, though under control.
Rumors that the fire had been started
by transport strikers were circulated
today and the dock authorities ordered
a complete investigation.
The magnificent interior of the ves
sel is a wreck today.
PIETRO GOES HOME
WITH $40,000.00 MADE
BY ORGAN AND MONK
NEW YORK. June 3.—For fifty years
Pietro Bonelli has turned the handle
of a street organ in every city in the
L'nited States. Canada and Englanu.
He has just sailed sot bls native Italy
with $40,000.
Pietro, who is 82 years old. was on
the Kaiserln Auguste Victoria, and Im
is going first to Hamburg, then to
Paris, and then to Italj H*- Is never
going to drag an organ around a town
again or grind out ragtime and ballads
for the lovers of the street organ.
TO INSPECT DALTON ELKS.
DALTON GA June Augustin
Daly *>f Macon, district deputy grand
exalted ruler for north Georgia. B P. O
Elks, will spend Thursday he r e in
pecting th® Dalton lodge, it wilt h*
fl.yt tnsfe'-rion of tht lodge inc**,
it organisation.
SAYS CITI PLANT
GIBB IGNORED
W. H. Sawyer & Sons Com
pany to Continue Fight for
Garbage Contract.
Although the board of health again
recommended the $275,000 garbage dis
posal plant of the Destructor Company
of New York to the finance committee
today, representatives of the Forsyth
Crematory Company and the W. H.
Sawyer & Sons. Co. carried their fight
for the contract to the finance commit
tee over the head of the board of
health.
The health hoard leaves to the dis
cretion of the finance committee
whether SIOO,OOO shall be added to the
hid of the Des*ructor Company for an
electric power plant with a capacity
for generating 1,500 kilowatts of current
per day. Mayor Winn and other offi
cials ate eager to have t rtfs pram In
cluded to light the White Way ami a
number of municipal buildings. They
have abandoned the idea of building an
electric plant to operate a water pump I
at the river station.
Mayor Sees Way to Save SIBO Day.
“We can figure a saving of SIBO a
day in out light bills with this plant."
said Mayor Winn today. “We can af
ford this plant even if the Georgia
Railway and Power Company revokes
its occupation tax contract."
Officers of tile Fotsyth Crematory!
Company refused to deal further with |
the health board, but said it would
take up its proposal with the finance
committee. They said the board of health
required an unjust bond. They also re
fused to put up a certified check of
good faith for ten per cent of their
$50,000 bid.
MORAL: SHUN “DICCAREL”
(“SQUIRREL”) COCKTAILS
NEW YORK. June 3. -After diinking
a few “diccarel" cocktails on board the
Panama from Colon. Victor M. Mc-
Kinney. a oischarged soldier, tried to
run the ship single-handed. He came
into port In irons.
“SPOONEY” GIRL LETS MAN
HOLD HAND: DIAMOND GONE
V< INKERS N. Y . June 3.—Mi's Nel
lie Burns, of Uniontown, has complain
ed to the police that after a stroll in
the moonlight with a young man here,
v hom vh« permitted tn bold het hand,
ah* tnUsed her diamond ring.
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I’LL FIGHT TH
FINISH, OEFI
OF WATSON
TO 0. S. 1
Editor. To Be Arrested Tor
Says He Will Not Tak
Back a Word.
CALLS PRESIDENT TAFT
A“BLUNDERING BOC
Publisher Declares the All
Obscene Article Was Que
From Copyrighted Book
Thomas E. Watson, a warra'i
whose arrest for Improper use
mails has hern issued, has addr
communication to The Georg
which he outlines his side of '1
troversy with the government.
In this communication Mr. i
scores the president of theMOk
States unmercifully, characters
as a "blundering booby.”
He accuses President Taft o"
the late Major Archibald 83.
president's military aid, on a "r
mis mission" io Rome, and attack
rect responsibility to the pre r
therefore, for the death of Majo
on the Titanic.
For his utterances on these st
in his various publications, Mr
son says he is being persecuted
president and other powerful .
ences looking to Watson's undo!
Declares He Will Not
Taa\ Back a Word.
Mr. Watson announces hie intel
not to "surrender one inch of gtv>
nor to "take back one worjgtf
said in the matters leading ttl '
issuing of the warrant againsr
Those parts of Mr. Watson's g
nication bearing directly on hi the,, x
lead ar follows: f
By THOMAS E WATSONS
I have been notified over the.
telephone from the United States
marshal's office in Macon that I will
be arrested Monday at noon. 1
have not seen the warrant and do
not know what crime is laid at my
door. •
According to Northern newspa.
pers. the prosecution is institute
by President Taft and the Roma/
Catholic hierarchy, because of a/
editorial in The Weekly Jeffersi
nian on the tragic death of MaP
Butt.
The president was accused by
with being responsible for Arg,.-«».
Butt’s untimely end. beca usrThe,
Mr. Taft, the commander-in-chief
of the United States army, had (or
dered Major Butt on a treason
ous mission to the aged Italian
gentleman who is called the pope.
Colonel George Harvey, in Har
per's Weekly, criticised President
Taft for nis private message to the
pope, and was quite as severe in
his language as I was In mine.
Colonel Harvey based hip strictures
upon a cablegram which the Mar
coni News Agency had sent out
from Rome at the time Major Bor
arrived there and was presented
the pope. All the press dispatches
carried the story, and the presi
dent put forth no denial.
President Taft never did deny it,
until after Major Butt's death, and
after other papers besides my owt
were using the incident to his hurt
Anothe' story is that I am bein
prosecuted for having sent obscen
literature through the mails. It >- -
charged that some Latin quotatior
in the May number of tny mag
zine are obscene. If so. why
not the government prosecute the
publishers of the book from which
I quoted? I had a right to as
sume that what the government
had tolerated In the publishers of
that book, it would tolerate in any
one who, with an honest, patriotic
purpose. quoted from that book. /
Book He Quoted /
From Copyrighted. /
Mv motive in quoting from tfy®
book was patriotic and educational.
This work was issued by the Jor
dan Publishing Company, of Phila
delphia. My copy is of the twlefth
edition, which was published in
1895. It was copyrighted in 18,22
by Jordan Brothers.
Why does Ihe United States gov
ernment protect with its copyright
3 book which is unfit for the mails?
The I'nited States malls make no
objection to Ribbon's Rome, al
though many of his Latin notes are
far more obscene, and are used for
a less praiseworthy purpose than
those I quoted
The Federal government is
bounding me. trying to destroy a
bu'ines- which has cos' me ftve
of the hardest work I eser
did, and about HQ.OOO of hard ca»b
