Atlanta Georgian. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, October 26, 1912, EXTRA, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextTHE WEATHER Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia: Fair today and tomorrow. VOL. XL NO. 72. EIGHT MS FDR SLAYER JfSTEMS YOUTH K McDonald Is Found Guilty of Voluntary Manslaughter. Whisky Blamed. ■boy pleads lack of EDUCATION TO COURT ■ lodge Roan Says Juries Must Stop Appalling Increase in Atlanta Homicides. I I Frank McDonald, former waiter in ■ Durand’s restaurant, was today sen- ■ tenced to serve eight years in the pen ■itentiary for the killing of R. L. Ste ■vens, son of former Railroad Commis ■sioner O, B. Stevens, after the jury try- ■ iug his case had returned a verdict of ■voluntary manslaughter. | I "Youth doesn't need a stimulant, ■youth needs cold water poured over its ■head every day. I am confident if ■mere had been no liquor in this affair ■ynu would not stand before me today,” ■ eiid Superior Judge L. S. Roan today ■in sentencing McDonald. | | There is altogether too much killing Bln this country,” continued the jurist. B”If it does not cease, we will stand ■before the world a nation of homi- B<’ides. The records of this court in this ■respect are appalling. , ■Whiskey Blamed ■ For Tragedy. J | "I am confident that a man can go ■through life without killing another, B„n< I 'UI sure that if you young men ■had ad been sober Stevens would not ■ ' in his grave today and you would ■ rot be standing before me facing a ■prison term.” I I Voluntary manslaughter was the ver ■dict returned by the jury at 8:30 o clock ■last night, but not rendered until court ■ opened today. In pasisng sentence, ■Judge Roan said he took into consid- ■ eration McDonald’s youth, his good ■ record and his limited education. J. D. ■ Kilpatrick. retained by O. B. Stevens ■f. aasist the prosecution, told the court ■that the dead boy’s father did not seek ■vengeance. ■ Never Had Chance, ■ Says McDonald. I McDonald took the verdict coolly and ■ ei> n spoke a few words before sen ■tenced was past. "I am a poor boy,” he said. "I never ‘■had a chance to get an education. I ■have had to work hard all tny life and ■ ’ ask you to be as light with me as you ■ can.” || Evidence given to the Jury showed ■ that McDonald stabbed young Stevens ■ fatally on the night of June 25 in a ■ ' vr--!. The stabbing occurred at the ■ turner of Pryor street and Auburn ave- ■ nue. Stevens died the next day at the ■tirady hospital. ■ WILSON’S CAMPAIGN LEADER IN PERSONAL CHARGE OF GA, FUND KI Grattan Colvin, formerly of Atlanta. ■ who iias been practicing law in New ■ Yoik for the past twelve years, has ■ been rent to Georgia by the national ■ committee in order to bring himself ■into closer touch with the local com- ■ ’'iitt.es looking after the raising of Hlunds for the Wilson campaign. KI He has taken an office at No. SOS ■ 'l'.ii'ii National bank building, and is ■making Atlanta his headquarters. KI '>l' Colvin believes that if a ‘‘whirl- ■ w tn<." campaign for funds is waged ■throughout the state during the next ■ '”'• 'lays, Georgia will take its proper ■ 1"" ■■ among the large contributors to " Wilson campaign fund. ■I ls . prepared to issue certificates to ■ ‘ otitributors to the National Wilson ■ '"'' Marshall league in amounts from ■'H ’ 1 *l(io, as fast as contributions may ■ ■eaeh him. ■ I'olvin has received several tele- ■ Tamis during the past few days urging ■"" -••ry great need of funds at head- ■ <1 Uiirtcrg, Flayer of girl is CAPTURED IN WOODS ■ "Xl>||\. ORE, Oct. 26.—80 b Mor- ■ ■ ho disappeared after the killing ■ ' Virginia Hart, was captured tn ■ 'ods two miles from here. Miss ■ v. ho recently came here from ■ hv was followed to this city by ■ '•‘-' "i. v, ho was an unfavored suitor. ■ "t'.ny woman was passing along ■ street early in the evening when ■ shot and killed. I’. B. Crane B injure,! by a built t when he at- ■ to take Morgan’s gun frffltp The Atlanta Georgian Read For Profit—-GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results. Police in Dilemma How To Stop Cock-Crowing At the Break of Day Mayor Approves Minister’s Com plaint of Early Morning Sere- | nodes by Neighbors’ Roosters. SAVANNAH, GA.. Oct. 26.—Mayor j George W. Tiedeman Is of the opinion i that the protest of Rev. W. T. Dakin, rector of Christ Episcopal church, against the early morning crowing of roosters, is a reasonable one, and that the minister is entitled to relief under the provision of the city ordinance for the suppression of nuisances. But the mayor declines to commit himself as to how the nuisance shall be abated. Rev. Mr. Dakin filed his protest with the police. He says that the crowing of the cocks arouses him of a morning at an hour before any well regulated min ister has any idea of beginning the strenuous labors of the day. He ac- ' knowledges that his neighbors, for the most part, have but one rooster each, f but it is their concerted crowing at the crack of day that caused the min- I ister to complain. The fact that the I roosters are owned individually has proved $ stumbling block to the po- I lice. The discomfiture of the minister was not lessened when, after having filed his complaint, his neighbors and their offspring made sounds in imitation of a rooster’s "cock-a-doodle-doo” as he passed. NATIONAL BANK CALL DENIED UNTERMEYER, MONEY TRUST PROBER WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—Attorney I General Wickersham has advised the president that the request made by Samuel Untermeyer, attorney for the j Pujo money trust investigators on Oc- ' tober 2, that the comptroller of the cur rency issue a call for the condition i of national banks, in order to obtain ! certain data as to the relations and in- ' terests of the directors of one national bank to that of another can not bei complied with. Mr. Untermeyer also desired to oh tain the facts concerning credits on long accounts in national banks in New York city. Mr. Wickersham’s decision states that, as those matters are privileged under the law, national banks can nor. be compelled to submit these facts. The comptroller of the currency is only al lowed by law to make four calls of na tional banks during the year. and The data so collected is held in confidence. WILSON TO RESUME CAMPAIGNING, T. R. HAVING RECOVERED PRINCETON, N. J., Oct. 26. -Gov ernor Wilson has announce,] that he will resume his active campaigning on Monday, when he will speak at two big rallies in Philadelphia, a meeting of independent Republicans at the Acade my of Music and a Democratic meeting at Convention hall, which has a seating capacity of 19,000. For the balance of next week the gov ernor will campaign through New Jer sey to help the legislative ticket and speak at New York on October 31. The trip through New Jersey will be made by automobile. The governor will take the stump again because reports from Sagamore Hill say that Colonel Roose velt is in a fairway of recovering his full strength within a few days. Should the colonel suffer a relapse. Governor Wilson will cancel all his en gagements. YEGG IDENTIFIED AS PSEUDO SLEUTH WHO ROBBED ATLANTAN NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 26.—Robert C. Witt, confessed jewel robber, former con vict and wanted for "jobs” in various parts of the country, now in jail here, has been identified as the self-styled "Burns detective” who robbed W. G. Bla lock. of Atlanta. Ga., here on October 11. Blalock's whereabouts are not known, but Witt confessed to having duped the Atlanta visitor. When Blalock arrived at the depot. Witt walked up to him and "arrested him.” "Here, give me your trunk checks and money I’m a detective—it’s for safe keeping," the self-styled sleuth told the visitor. , Blalock, astounded at the detective s boldness, complied. He learned later that he was the victim of a fraud. He com plained to the police, and by tracing the trunks Witt was located at a boarding house When arrested ft was found that he had robbed the landlady of about SSOO worth of jewelry. The Atlanta city and telephone direc tories fail to show a W. G. Blalock. Oth ers of that name disclaim any knowledge of the reported New- Orleans robbery. WILSON ASKS $12,500 GIFT BE RETURNED TO HARVESTER HEAD FLINT MICH., Oct. 26.—William Jennings Biyan. who is making a speaking trip in Michigan, announced yesterday that Governor Wilson has re quested Cleveland Dodge, who collected a fund from former Princeton men. to return the $12,500 gift made by Cyrus H. McCormick to aid M ilson. Bryan said that Governor Wilson, while real izing that the gift was made by a for mer Princeton man. did not want the impression to gain ground that he was obligated to any special interest. ATLANTA, GA., SATURD AY, OCTOBER 26, 1912 BECKEIIWILL SPEND IM II BEITH HOUSE At Least That Period Will Elapse Before Appeal Can Be Disposed Os. GUNMEN IN TERROR AT SHAPIRO'S CONFESSION I j i Frantic to Make Deal for Clem- i ency With Prosecutor Whit- man. But Efforts Fail. NEW YORK. Oct. 26. Charles Beck er, former police lieutenant, convicted of the murder of Herman Rosenthal, will spend at least a year In the death j house at Sing Sing before the execu tion of the sentence to be imposed I upon him Wednesday by Judge Goff. Becker will be taken to Sing Sing . immediately after sentence. He was I automatically dropped from the police I rolls as a result of his conviction, i Appeal in the Becker case will bo i filed by his attorney, John F. Mclntyre, as soon as he is sentenced. This will I act as: a slay of execu!ion and it will be almost a year befote final decision can I be made in the cage. The four indicted gunmen—“ Lefty I Louie” Rosenberg, "Dago Frank” Ciro flci, "Gyp the Blood" Horowitz and Whitey” Lewis—ate in abject fear in ’heir Tombs cells. The conviction of Becker was a blow to them and weak ened their hopes of freedom, but the announcement today that William Shapiro, driver of the "murder car." had made a complete confession. nam ing all the occupants of the car, has’ fllted tlmn wltih terror. They ImpTnred their attorney to- make a deal with Dis’ trict Attorney Whitman whereby they would be-saved from the electric chair on the condition of a full confession. ) but Whitman is said to have rejected i the proposition. Either "Whitey" or “Lefty Louie" will be the fl: st to come to trial. The case will open on November 7. Fol lowing the gunmen, “Jack Sullivan” ■ will be placed on trial. He has been a ' tool of Becker’s. SOUTHERN PUTS ON ANOTHER TRAIN TO NORTH AND FLORIDA An additional solid through train be tween Cincinnati and Jacksonville Is to be inaugurated by the Southern rail way November 24. when trains Nos. 5 and 6, now operated between Cincin nati and Macon, will be extended to Jacksonville on approximately the same schedule as was operated last year. It has been determined to have it leave both Cincinnati and Jacksonville shoitly before noon each day. arriving at Jacksonville and Cincinnati shortly after m on on the following day. South bound this train will pass Atlanta be tween 3 a. m. and 4 a. m., and north bound between 8:30 p. m. and 9 p. m. Forth convenience of Atlanta pas sengers sleeping car will be run be j tween Atlanta and Cincinnati, in which passengers arriving in Atlanta can re main until 7 o'clock. There will also be a sleeping car run on this train be tween Chattanooga and Jacksonville, I which, in connection with the Atlanta- I Cincinnati ear, will furnish an attrac | live sleeping car- schedule between At ! lanta and Chattanooga. FAST WOMEN AND SLOW HORSES CAUSE OF SUICIDE | ELIZABETH. N J.. Oct. 26.—John Schneider, son of a Union farmer, took carbolic acid and died from its effects. He was found in a lot with a note be side him, which read: I "Fast women and slow horsts were too much for mo.” He was twenty eight years old and of splendid phy sique. Schneider had become melan choly, it was said by relatives today, because of an ailment which recently afflicted him and caused deformity. He was one of ten sons, all stalwart men. FIRSf POLICE WOMAN’S CONFERENCE IN SESSION PORTLAND, OREG., Oct. 26.—The first police woman's conference ever held is in session here, with representa tives from California, Washington and Oregon cities. COUGHS UP LUNG STONE WEIGHING 14 OUNCES CHARLEROI. PA., Oct. 26.—Harry Sample, a farmer, coughed up a lung stone weighing fourteen ounces while in a coughing fit. The stone is one of the largest tn medical history. JOY AND GLOOM Copyright, 1912, International News Service. ~Your honok Deputation has! i wane heke mr ?_ dubbs SFsechoarv Y BEEN ATTACKS M THE PROSECUTION AMD J I THE W REFoKH COTERIE. A MAN OF / ‘HWf CALLED a V4ITWESS To PROVE THAT / STAHDIN(< iHTHE COM MONO SpESE ATTACKS ARE SLANDEROUS 7 j- VIHO WIILTELLXoUXNHATAFINf: . .Ah J ANt> BASELESS vjA The DEFEHDANT is- MR DtiBBS / -Z PLEASE take the witness stand f SOLEMNLY) TStsiV MRDuBBS HovZ d? SWEAR-q-R-K R-1— G y .Lonq Hame Tou Known) |THIR,TrI ARE'fou Familiar vvtm A /VTmTY •nYour opinion N f SOMETHING HIS CHARACTER. AND HIS 15 HIS REPUTATION AMOHq fIPDCCI habits and his Doinqs? those who know him? y “lurXCIL: * wWJM J Xw&W 4 YVCiI&C' BSgr 17 NORTHERN STATES SAFELY FOR WILSON, LEADERS ARE TOLD NEW YORK. Oct. 26. —Democratic national headquarters received reports from 17 Northern states, declaring that the ticket headed by Governor Wilson would be successful in those states. Among the callers at headquarters was Congressman William F. Murray, of Massachusetts, who told National Chairman William F. McCombs that he is confident the Democrats will secure six new congressmen in his state. "We are sure to re-elect the four we now have, and with the six others that we feel confident of. the Democrats will have the ten out of the state's quota of fourteen in congress." said Mr. Murray. COLUMBUS SOCIETYWOMEN TO SECURE FAIR EXHIBITS COLUMBUS, GA., Oct. 26.—Mrs. (’or. nelia B. Osborn, who has charge of the woman’s department of the Georgia- Alabama fair, has appointed Mrs. Charlton E. Battle. Mrs. Rhodes Browne, Mrs. Ira ('lark. Mrs. Davt I Greentree, Mrs. C. I. Groover. Mrs. P. J. McSorley ami Misses Minna Bloom, Isa bel Battle, Annie Lou Grimes, Alma 111- ges, Louise Joseph and Alice Lee to as sist in securing and arranging the ex hibits. All are prominent in social cir cles and their connection with the de partment assures its success. END OF WEST VIRGINIA MINERS’ STRIKE NEAR I CHARLESTON. W. VA.. Oct. 26. I One thousand striking coal miners have ! returned to work in the mines of the I Four States Coal Company at Doro | thy. It is believed this marks the be | ginning of the end of the strike of the I 10,000 miners in the Kanawha field. SNEEZES 15 MINUTES AND DIES IN HOSPITAL DENVER, Oct. 26.—W. H Wentworth, 111 at the counts' hospital, was seized to day with a sneezing fit, which lasted 15 minutes, and killed him. Acceleration of the heart caused death. MORGAN’S PROFIT ON FORMING TRUST ONLY A TRIFLING $3,000,000.00 NEW YORK, Oct. 26. -The firm ol J. P. Morgan it Co. received only $3,- 000,000 (not $13,000,000) for its work in organizing the International Harvester Company, according to the testimony of William Hamilton, Jr., of the Mor gan firm, who appeared at the govern ment suit agMnat the company. Hamilton testified that Morgan’s firm gave $13,500,000 to William C. Lane for 165,000 shares of the Harvester stock, which at that time was worth only $16,500,000, a profit of $3,000,000. and the only profit Morgan got. INJUNCTION DENIED RACE TRACK MEN IN FIGHT ON MILITARY MICHIGAN CITY, IND.. Oct. 26. Judge Tuthill today refused to grant an injunction asked by the Mineral Springs Jockey club, prohibiting soldiers from interfering with the racing there. The injunction had been asked against the governor, and tlie state of ficers and the officers of tin- militia. It was brougitt on the ground that sol diers sent to the track had been quar tered there *n time of peace, in viola tion of guaranteed constitutional rights. ORGANS REMOVED FROM BODY NORMALLY ACTIVE NEW YORK, Oct. 26.—A heart, stom ach and kidneys taken from their flesh encasement and transferred to glass jars by Dr. Alexis Carrell, of the Rocke feller institute, are performing their normal functions. TOLD HUSBAND FELL IN - BATTLE, SHE KILLS SELF ATHENS. Oct. 26.—Madame Vlachao, a member of the Greek aristocracy, committed suicide today after reading a report that her husband, an officer in the Greek army, had been killed in the storming of Elassona. Later it develop ed that be was oniv slixbtlv wounded NEGRESS FANATIC, SLAYER OF 22, GETS SENTENCE OF LIFE LAFAYETTE, LA., Oct. 26.—Clemen tine Barabet, "ax” woman of a sacrifi cial religious sect, was yesterday sen tenced to life imprisonment after testi monye proving she had killed seventeen negroes. The evidence was not com pleted when the verdict was rendered, partial vidence having been introduced to corioborate the statement of the mulatto girl that she had slain 22 per sons. She was formally charged with 17 murders. The jury held that the woman was responsible for her acts, even though evidence to show that she had degener ate tendencies was submitted, and. the jurors said, accepted as true. The woman was head of a sect be lieving that murders would add to their glory in the next world. Their series of slayings, all committed with an ax, had caused a panic among the colored pop ulation of the state. COMMITS SUICIDE WHEN ENGAGEMENT IS BROKEN COLUMBUS, GA.. Oct. 26.—Becom ing despondent from disappointment in a love affair. F. M. Richardson, book keeper for H. Rothchikl. shot himself through the head late yesterday after noon, dying at 3 o’clock this morning. He was 27 years of age. He had ex pected to be married in a short time, but friends say the engagement was broken, which caused him to end his own life. The body was taken to Har ris county, his old home, today. PLAGUE OF BIG BEARS PEEVES PENNSYLVANIANS WARREN. PA., Oct. 26. Bears are overrunning Warren county and have become a nuisance and a menace to property and residents of the country districts. At Corydon recently two big bears were killed by a freight train. Several have been reported killed at other places by the railroad officials. Several big lumber camps have had their larders depleted a numbsr of tinwAii bv liPut'K IXTRAI 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE P^ R N E ° DR. MERRITT IS IMPEDING PROBE,SATS VAN DYKE Aiderman Charges That Battle Hill Head Keeps Witnesses From Testifying. PHYSICIANS IN DEFENSE OF TUBERCULOSIS HOME Declare It Is Managed in First- Class Shape Witnesses Charge ‘‘Roughness.” Aiderman A. H. Van Dyke, who is pressing the charges of mismanage ment against the Battle Hill Tuber culosis sanitarium, said today that he had been given a list of names of in mates of the institution who want to testify in the probe, but whom Dr. S. W. Merritt, superintendent, would not permit to come to the hearing. Aiderman Van Dyke said Miss Loeb, of the Anti-Tuberculosis association, had given him the names and that he was going to see to it that the persons testified if the committee had to go out to them. The eouncilmanic probers of the Bat tle Hill Tuberculosis sanitarium are to day confronted with a long and tedious task; for, after a three-hour session yesterday afternoon at which much pa thetic testimony was heard from in mates and former inmates of the insti tution, a large number of persons still desire to give evidence. The probers will meet again Tuesday afternoon. Doctors Testify For Institution. With Dr. Claude A. Smith, dfrectot of the city's laboratory of hygiene, and Aiderman F. J. Spratling conducting the defense of the institution. Dr. E. C. Thrash. Dr. A. B. Elkin and Dr. L. C. Roughlln, who have had experience with tuberculosis sanitariums, were in troduced as experts to show that the institution was properly run. They all praised the institution. Dr Thrash said he was amazed when he learned that it cost less than $40,000 He said it would be a credit for a $75,. 000 institution. They all testified that tubercular patients were extremely hard to manage and that discipline was the first law- of such an institution. Dr. Elkin said that he was once con nected with the city tuberculosis sani tarium in Louisville and that patient. s in a free city institution expected and demanded more than they did in a pri vate institution. Defend Methods, Tell of Difficulties. The doctors declared that they saw nothing but what they could praise on an inspection of the institution. Dr. Thrash said frequently he ad vised patients who were sleeping in cold air to put their heads under cover for a tew moments to stop their coughing. He said in treating tubercular patients it was best to prevent them from coughing as much as possible. They declared that pork and weiner wurst were good food for patients not suffering from indigestion. Tell of “Nuisance” At City Hall. Dr. J. P. Kennedy, city health officer, and Dr. J. G. Hall, city phvskian, were called before the committee to tell of an alleged nuisance caused by tuber cular infected persons coming to the city health office to be examined. They said they had objected to the condition because at times there were from ten to fifteen tubercular infected persons waiting in the office to be examined Dr. Merritt did the examining, and Dr. Kennedy said that Dr. Merritt had been tardy in keeping his engagements several times. But he said that most of the trouble was caused by patients being sent over to the citv hall from the Anti-Tuberculosis association's » clinic at all hours of the day. Dr. Kennedy said he was a member of tlie committee of three, with Dr. Smith and Mr. Spratling. in charge of the institution. He said Dr. Merritt had explained his lateness all right, and that he had no complaint against him or tlie institution. Cross-ques tioned by Dr. Smith, he said council had passed a resolution providing for a tuberculosis clinic in the basement of the city hall, that tlie examination of patients might not conflict with any de partment. “Told Him To Stuff Gauze in Throat.” In a sworn statement, E. W. John son, of 391 Peachtree street, an in mate. said that Dr. Merritt had told him to stuff a piece of gauze down his throat and put his head under the cov er to silence his coughing. He said Dr. Merritt said the coughing disturbed