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The Atlanta Georgian.
VOL. L NO. 61.
ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1906
WILL TRY TO CONVICT
THAW BY AFFIDAVIT
SIGNED B Y HIS WIFE
White Urged Her to
Sue* For Breach
of Promise.
man she MARRIED
PAID HER BIO SUM
Lawyer Hummel Knows Whole
Story—State Is Preparing
to Make Strong Case.
New York, July t.—Details of the
breach of promise suit which Evelyn
Nesblt Thaw contemplated bringing
against Harry X- Thaw several months
before their marriage were revealed
today. The district attorney's office
traces to this nctlon the motive for
killing of Stanford White.
The prosecution has been Informed
that Thaw believed Stanford White In
spired the suit An affidavit made by
Evelyn Nesblt to be used In the suit
is In possession of the state and wit
nesses have been found to whom the
young chorus girl, In a burst of confi
dence, showed love letters from Harry
Thaw, on which the suit was based.
She Feared Thaw.
According to the facts related to the
district attorney, Evelyn Nesblt left
Harry Thaw In Paris because of his
erratic and cruel conduct. She feared
him and returned to New York, taking
ai>artments In a Broadway hotel. 8ho
had with her a number of letters writ'
ten to her by Thaw. In these he paint'
ed a glowing picture of her life If she
married him. ■
Although she .had voluntarily left
Thaw, Evelyn Nesblt expected to re
cover a large sum of money from him.
As to the exteift of White's Influence
In causing her to take such a course,
there Is said to be positive evidence
that when she returned to New York
she met White'at Sherry's with dem
onstrations of alTectlon and they hod
a long and earnet talk.
Qave Her Big Sum.
Following this the affldavlt was
drawn 110. On Thaw’s return' from
abroad he was shown the affldavlL He
at once capitulated, it Is said, met Eve
lyn Neebtt's demand for a large sum
of money and also settled the .fees of
her lawyers, which were heavy. Shorts
ly afterward Miss "Nesblt went to Eu-
Thaw followed her and they patched
up their differences abroad. Later
Thaw learned that Stanford White
had Instigated the nctlon against him,
recording to the story told the district
attorney, and It rankled In his breait.
Wife May Convict Thaw..
The statement la made today that the
district attorney, rellee upon evidence
of Evelyn Neablt Thaw to convict Har
ry Kendall Thaw of the murder of
(Hanford White. The proaecutlon ex
pect* to gain poeaeaslon of an affida
vit mad* by Mrs. Thaw In an action
she contemplated bringing against the
young man before her marriage to him.
This, It was asserted, will be a se
vere blow to the defense, ns It will, It
Is alleged, establish a motive and pre
meditation. '
Stanford White, It la said, directed
the drawing up_ of^thls affidavit, In
DECLARES LETTERS FOR
GERIES.
ARE JOBBED
Bloody Rioting is Re
ported From Vladi
vostok.
GENERALS OP OZAR
ORDERED PROM ARMY
Latest photograph of Mrs. Augustus
Hartje. Love letters alleged to hnvo
been written, by Mrs. Hartje to her
coachman, were read in court on Mon
day last She declared they were for
geries. One of the thlrty-flve read at
i he trial waa: "If you love mo alt
where I can see you."
DENIES GETTING NOTES
FROM MRS, HARTJE
COACHMAN AQAIN. ON. 8TAND IN
CELEBRATED PITT8BURQ
DIVORCE CASE.
which Miss
made serious
ropy of the affidavit. Thaw settled
the girl for a handsome sum, the story
goes
Pittsburgsr to Aid Thaw.
Hhortly after this Evelyn Neablt went
to Europe. Harry Thaw followed, they
met end made up their differences.
Sellers McKee, president of the First
National bank, of Pittsburg, stated at
the Waldorf that he would gladly con
tribute SSOAOO toward a fund for the
defense of Thaw If It should be needed.
Mrs. White, widow of the slain mnn,
«ho had planned to get away from tha
distressing scene end spend an Indefi
nite time In Europe, has Joined with
Richard Mansfield White, the brother,
In an effort to send Thaw to the electric
chair.
Found Nothing Wrong.
The attitude of John D. Lindsay,
president of tha Society for tha Proven
Hon of Cruelty to Children, In an open
Inner addressed to Anthony Comstock,
•ays the closest observation failed to
•how that young girls were taken to
White's studios
"No'Jury In the world will convict
Thaw of murder If the story of Mr*.
Thaw, aa I understand It, la told In
court. There Is no reason to bring up
emotional Insanity as a defense, as this
Cannot be sustained, but.Thaw la right
In believing that he will be Justified In
hie art when the facte are mad* public
»" h- knows them.”
This declaration was made today by
Dr Frank A. McGuire, the Tombs phy.
■iclan. Who he* made a careful study of
ih* physical and .mental condition of
Harry Kenf
ini, rleoned.
I Thaw since be has been
Humrftel Htt Papers,
The breach of promise suit which
Evelyn Nesblt Thaw proposed to bring
faalnst Harry Thaw several months
Itr:* ‘heir marriage, was prepared
■or the young chorus girl by the law
arm Of How# * Hummel.
Hummel, who Is said to have all the
“4 Is the only member of the
arm who has any right to talk about
Mt*rn° Ut ° f tOWn ’ bot W|U r * tDn > this
By Private Leased "Wire.
Pittsburg. Pa, July 6.—The Hartje
divorce case was renewed today with
the same rigor which has character
ized It since the-trial began one week
ago Tuesday.
Hartje waa early on the scene, but
Tom Madlne, former white coachman,
was there' before him. Mr*. Hartje,
the moat Interesting of this trio of
irinclpals In the sensational case, .was
ast to arrive.
Tom Madlne was called, to the stand
aa soon aa the trial began. Attorney
Matron continuing the cross-examina
tion he began Tuesday afternoon.
Madlne denied getting letters from
Mr*. Hartje.
Madlne testified to Hartje having
taken a strange tall Woman to his own
home at 10:10 o'clock at night, while
Mrs. Hartje was away. The woman,
Madlne said,' was taken Into the car
riage with " curtains drawn, at the
Forbes street entrance to Schenley
park.
FOUR ARE DEAD
FROM AN EXPLOSION
ON SOUTHERN GRADE
BROTHER_TO CONTRACTOR AND
FOREMAN ARE AMONG
TH08E HURT.
8pedil to The Georgian.
Chattanooga, Tenth, July B.—In an
explosion" of" powder;on the • Jasper
branch of ; the Stevenson extension of
the Southern railway, four workmen
were seriously Injured this morning.
They are J. L. Yandell, a brother of
Yandell Brothers, contractors: J. T.
Allison, foreman;, J. L. Tudor*, fore
man. and an unknown foreigner. They
were drilling In an excavation near
Jasper when a load exploded, together
with four can* of powder.
All were badly burned and ara In a
serious condition. They were brought
to a local hospital for treatment.
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By Private Leased Wire.
Berlin, July 6.—It la eald to
day that Wilhelm will be the
name of the baby boy bom yaa-
terday to the crown prince and
princess, and who Is Emperor
William’s grandson and dlract
heir to Ut* throne.
Reports of Mutiny of Soldiers
Reach St. Petersburg Prom
Various Sections.
Special Cable—Copyright.
London, July S.—Dispatches from
Toklo received today tell of serious
riots which almost amounted to revo
lution In Vladivostok. The news was
liruught i" XuguKnkl by tho steamer
Colonla.
According to the story told by the
Colonla’s officers, the trouble started
on Saturday when a mob got posses
sion of eight large cases of dynamite
belonging to the government. A loyal
regiment of Cossacks attacked the
rioters and captured thirty of tbslr
leaders, who were locked up.
On 8unday momlng the rioting
broke out afresh. The mob gathered,
determined to resen* tho thirty men
who had been arrested the day before.
There was bloody fighting In the streets
between tho CoesBcks on one side and
tho mob, reinforced by disaffected sol
diers. on the other.
Just before the Colonla sailed the
moli hail raptured a battery of artillery
and was using It In an attack upon the
Cosaacks.
By Private Leased Wlrs.
Odessa, July 8.—At Taganrog a
Cossack regiment has mutinied and
refuses to put down agrarian riots
that are plentiful In the district Es
tates of noblemen have been plun
dered, the Cossacks Joining.
GENERALS ARE CASHIERED
BECAU8E OF THE RIOTS.
Special Cable—Copyright.
Petersburg, July S.—General
Oazeraeff, nf the First guards divisions,
and General Gadu, of tho Preobrajen-
sky regiment, have been cashiered be
cause of the revolt In tho regiment,
and Prince Vassllchlkoff has been re-
llrvi'd from duty us < unmuniler of the
guards corps.
News of agrarian disorders, accom
panied by the burning of a manor house,
comes today from the provinces of
Dcnxn, Kamenetz-Podolsk and Polt
id the districts of Bogorodltsk
Atkarsk.
■ The xemstvos of tho province of Tula
Is bankrupt, owing to the refusal of
the peasants to pay their taxes.
POLICEMEN a’rFiNDICTED
FOR TAKING PART IN RIOT.
By rrivale Leased Wire.
Blalystok, Russia, July 5.—'Twelve
policemen have been Indicted for par
ticipating In the recent antl-jewish
rioting. The mayor hna been removed
by Governor General Rojelsky for re
fusing to call an extraordinary session
of the town council, to deny the ac
curacy of the report of General Bader,
the former governor general, on the
recent massacres.
THE “UNGLORIOUS” FIFTH
'•GREAT DAY, BUT
DURNED GLAD IT'S OVER."
MUTILATED CORPSE IS FOUND ■
OF LONG MISSING MANAGER
OF* PHONOGRAPH COMPANY
tOX8j
and
HUMAN INTEREST
IN THESE STORIES
EPIDEMIC OF RABIE8
IS IN MA|8ACHUSETT8.
Special to The Georgian.
Springfield, Mass., July S.—Hydro
phobia In It* worst form* ha* caused
tha death of IZ-year-old Napoleon E.
Byron, who waa bitten two month*
ago. The fatality Is the first In the
epidemic of rabies now prevalent In
waatam Massachusetts and reported
by expert* to be the most widespread
on record In the country,
L0NGW0RTH8 SIDESTEP
A FILIPINO DINNER.
By Privet* Leased Wire.
London, July S.—Several wealthy
Flllplnoe residing In London had made
arrangements to give Mr. and Mrs.
Longworth a dinner to rignallaa their
acceptance of American rule In the
" mds, but tbe congressman and bis
S left London today on their way
the continent and the dinner has
been Indefinitely postponed. .
TRIE8 TO 8CARiToFFICERS
AND L08ES HIS HAND
By Private Leased,Wire.
Buffalo, N. Y„ July 6.—Patrolman
Chariee D. Fuller was maimed for life
last night, hla right hand being i.i-.wn
off by a premature explosion of a giant
cracker, with which he had planned
to aurprlee hla brother officers, enjoy
ing dominoes at the station house.
THREE LOSE LIVES
IN A HOTEL FIRE
Blaze Was Discovered
in Early Morn
ing*. .
Special to tbs Georgian.
Shreveport, La., July 5.—J. H. Cum
mins, W..H. Kyltr and. Andrew, Carr
were burned to death In a fire In a
two-story frame hotel at Monroe, 1st:,
Body Had Lain in Ra-
' vine For at Least
Five Days.
LETTER AND PANAMA
HAT .FOUND BY SIDE
sleeping on. the second floor, of . the
building. When the Are was discover
ed the entire top of the building was
enveloped In flames.
Kyler, who owned the hotel, waa
found dead on the floor of hi* room,
evidently, having suffocated. The'body
waa In flames when the firemen reach-
ed him.
The bodies of Cummins and ' Carr
were found In the ruins of the build
ing. It la believed that the Are started
In the kitchen and was smothered a
long time before the outbreak.
ACTION IS FILED
D,
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1906 Fourth of July Death Rate
May Equal That of Last Year
B >' Private Leased Wire..
an SSL July B —Telegraphic reporta from all over the country at
^eanr hoar today .how a death roll of thirty-eight a* a raeult of the
hJri—Sff M* Glorious Fourth. Many of the large cities have not
SStTS 5»b murTfe
nn»
i are all in last year's record of 48
us Injuries will probably be equalled.
TAKES HI8 OWN LIFE
BECAUSE LEG IS BROKEN
By Private leased Wire.
Chicago, July 6.—F. D. Callan, a
wealthy real estate broker, becoming
despondent oyer hi* sufferings from a
broken leg, this morning ehot and
killed himself In hla home on Sheridan
road. He was being resuscitated from
an attempt to end hla life with gas
when he secured a revolver and fired
a shot into hla brain.
BREAK8 CHILDS NECK
WHILE IN A ROMP
By Private leased Wire.
Blanket. Tex. July 5—“Oh. papa,
you have killed me," screamed the 12-
year-old daughter of W. w. Nelson.
The child's neck w as found to be brok
en. Nelson was lying on the floor
playing with his children He broke
his daughter's neck by twisting It with
hU leg.
He is Charged With
Conspiring for a
a Monopoly.
By Print# Issued Wire.
Toledo, Ohio, July 8.—A special to
The Press from Findlay says:
"Prosecutor David today filed In
formation against John D. Rockefeller
and the Standard Oil Company charg
ing It,"in -.i Uli . .inspiring I" m-.l!'.p"llze
the production, sale snd transportation
of crude petroleum and Its by-products.
Tha motion .to quash the Indictments
against the Manhattan Oil Company
was denied by Judge Hanker. The
prosecutor say* he will bring all tha
partlea against whom he has Informa
tion to trial In September."
First to File Report.
Captain 8. D. Sant rd < .misiny
Third regiment, miledgetlii-, ts the
first company commander to file his
nartarty re;, .rt m th- office of the ad-
Jutant generaL
Man in .Field Had Attention At
tracted to tbe Scene by Buz
zard Flying Away.
UNFIT MEAT SOLD
Special to The Georgian.
Macon, Ga.,.July 6.—A man plowing
In tha fleld near tha house of Henator
A. O.iBacon. by .whom he Is employed,
this morning had hla attention attract
ed by h Buisard flying from a deep
at 1:10 o'clock this morning. All war* ravine In.the woods. Leaving hla plnw
In the fleld, he wfent to the scene and
found there the corpse of a> dead man,
whose, bones had almost been picked
bare by the buxsard. A letter and a
Panama hat were lying »nenr by, by
which the body, waa Identified aa that
of R. C. Dews, th* missing tnnnnger of
tv* Macon Phonograph Company,
whose continued absence since June 21
ha* been a mystery. The body had
lain In the ravine for at least live
days. t .
Although the contents of tha lettar
reported to have been found have not
been made public. It Is the b«ll«f of
some that tha man suicided, although
no cause can be given for such an
act HI* account* and. business af
fair* ar* said to be In perfect order.
Th* dead man Is survived by a wlfa
and one child, who reside at Decatur,
Os., near Atlanta.
He was a brother of II. W. Deere,
secretary of the East Atlanta Land
Company.
DEAD MAN'8 Br"otHER
LIVES IN ATLANTA.
Mr. H. W. Daws, Jr., of Edgewood,
who work* In the office of Joel Hurt,
In the Equitable building, li
of R. C. Dews. He could
cated by telaphone Thursday afternoon.
Mr*. R. C. Dew* and child, who llv*
■t Ih* residence of Mr. H. W. Dews,
In Edgewood, were reported Thursday
morning aa being In either Forsyth or
Macon.
POLICL FORCE WOMAN
TO HAUL DOWN FLAO
By Private Leased Wire.
Lincoln, Nebr., July 5.—As a result
of threats on tha part of an angry
crowd, th* police yesterday compelled
Miss Anna Tompsett, of (10 South
Twentieth street, to haul down an
English flag which ah* had hoisted at
sterday. Sha cam* bare
recently.
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By Private Leased Wire.
Havre. July 8.—With a bro
ken piston and twenty-four
hours late, the French liner La
Provence was towed into tha
harbor this morning. She had
raced tha Deutschland across
the Atlantic and met with th*
mishap near tbs end of tho
trip.
IN FULTON COUNTY
County Police Declare
it is the Regu
lar • Thing.
ISIS DEATH
TO SAVE MEN
Pleads Guilty to Haul
ing Down Czar’s
Flag.
ALL OTHER OFFICERS
PLEAD "NOT GUILTY"
Vice Admiral Knows Men Acted
as They Did Because of
Love for Him.
By Private loused Wire.
cronstadt, July 8.—In a manly effort
to save the surviving members of his
staff and other officers who he bell' v-
ed surrendered th* gunboat Bedovt »i
account of their affection for tie ir
wounded commander, and their deslra
to save hla life. Admiral Rojeatvcn-ky
has pleaded guilty before a court rour-
In a abort speech to the court the
admiral declared that he took nil the
blame on hla own shoulders and nak.il
that he alone be punished to the full
est extent of the law, virtually an ap
peal for condemnation and death whl. li
Is the penalty for hauling down tha
8t. Andrews cross to a hostile veseei.
All other defendants. Including Captain
Det'olongue, chief of Admiral Rojaat-
vensky's staff, and Captain Barnnoff.
commandant of th* Bedovla, pleaded
li"' ami's
The admiral appeared to have entire
ly recovered from the wounds he re
ceived during the battle of the 8< a of
Japan.
Th crow of the Bedovl will he exatn-
Ined to determine who ordered tho
surrender, the condition of the tea"'!
and the Incident* of the capture. Thu
taking of testimony will occupy rev-
cral days.
WILSON TO VISIT
TO URGE REFORM
, That Atlanta butcher* are dally
slaughtering 'cattle which era not flt
for human food; that Atlanta meat
dealers are dally selling meat from Such
animals to housekeepers throughout the
city; that Atlanta citizens an dally
eating meats which would be condemn
ed by an Inspector who carried out th*
laws of the city. Is the statement made
by members of tho county police.
That there Is anything new Ih such a
statement Is laughed at by the officers,
who say that It has been going on for
years. The casual discovery of one In
stance" and a discussion of th* racent
Investigation* In Chicago following the
disclosures made In "The Jungle'
brought nut the facta
Last Tuesday afternoon Officer Dun
bar, of tba county police, was asked by
a woman living on tha Marietta road to
let her in finding a cow which had
strayed. The search took th* officer
Into a small slaughter house about
three miles from the city, where be
failed to And the cow he wanted, but
found other thing*.
y had Just slaughtered on ,
(fleer Dunbar In answer to ques
tions, "which would have given birth to
a calf within a very short time. Th*
body of th* calf was taken from Its
mother and I cannot say what waa don*
with IL I have no reason to doubt that
the beef of the cow wee sold to butch
era, as I know that .this IS done every
day and has been done for years.-
•Thl* occurred at a small alaughtar
house near the Marietta road, about
three miles from th* city. Th* place le
used by a man named Burdette or Bur-
dett. 1 do not know hi* first name. H*
la a wholesale dealer and eells to th*
meat dealers In Atlanta."
The beef from a cow which fa In th*
condition described by the officer le
unfit for food and Its sale Is forbidden
nr board of health In th* coun
try. The laws fix th* period after
calving at which an animal may be
slaughtered for food and tbs flash sold.
Happens Often.
"That Is nothing," said Chief Tur
ner, of the county police department.
There Is nothing new In It. Why, I
know of hundreds of cases where snch
meat has been sold. Every butcher
handle* IL Not only la the beef sold
from th* cow, but In many Instance*
the unborn calf has been cut up and
sold for veal, though the las' requires
that no calf weighing under nrty
pounds be slaughtered for market."
If the situation t* as described there
Is no safety In th* mere avoidance of
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Chicago parking
sea he* caused a heavy deprecla-
i In the demand for Western meats
Secretary Expects
Have a Heart to
Heart Talk.
to
lly. Private Leased Wire.
Washington, July 8.—Becretai
Agriculture Wilson expect* to
next week on his tour of Inspect
the packing plants. Ho will go t
rngo first, whero he Intends to ci
< tog
folk "I'll II,' "1.
believes he will bo nble to ronvlm <• hla
audience that It Is ttmo to abandon
evil way* and live In obedience to tho
law.
The packers have given many in
surances of hnnest Intentions to II \ o
up to the new law, but the secretary
Intends to look Into nil the nook- and
corner* of tho plants. Dr. A. D. Mel
vin, chief of tho bureau of nnln
hln
llevee the time I
for a gnat exploitation of An
the world over.
In
NEGRO IS STABBED
IN FRONT OP HOME
OFTHEJOOSEVELTS
BLACK 18 MEMBER OF THE CRr»V
OF PRESIDENT’S YACHT
SYLPH.
By I'rlrate leased Wire.
Oyster Bay, July 8.—Pre.l.font
Roosevelt went horseback riding with
the boys today and hts vacitfon may
be said to be on In earnest.
The president, however, did sine
work today and spent a couple of hours
with Secretary Loeb and a pile of offi
cial document*. It was all of a routtnn
nature and after th* work was flnfohed
Secretary Loeb declared that the prea-
tdent would not appear In public again
for some lime to come.
Home Italian laborers and the negro
sailors on th* presidential yacht Sylph
had a set-to during the night In fount
of the executive olflc* and one of the
sailors was stabbed. The crowd wn*
setting off firecracker* and t hen the
Italian* went by made them butt, of
their sport.
One of th* Italians draw it knife and
Inflicted a wound below the sailor's
heart and It was said today that hlq
condition I# critical. He waa taken
aboard the Sylph, where Ills »->ui
was cared for.
and many have i
house- might
ntlrvly upon
ahown that
.laughter
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