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BUSY WITH POISON
THE STATE CHEMIST HAS HIS
HANDS FULL.
ANALYSES OF SToMACHS
SOUGHT TO BEAR OUT suspicious
OF EVIL WORK.

stomach of r.. j. Tucker of Dodge
County the Latest to BE Produced
for ExnminntiOn-ThfsI Is DELAYED
Because the Chemist Has to Go to
Gainesville to Testify in a Poison
ing Case-Miss Evrie Weeks stom-
ach Not Sufficient for Analysis.
Body May BE Exhumed.
Atlanta, July 25.-State Chemist ].
M. McAndless has been engaged to
make an analysis of the contents of the
stomach of r. ]. Tucker of Dodge
county, who is alleged to have been
poisoned by his wife at his home near
Dubois last Tuesday night. The stom-
ach was brought here by DR.. J. B.
Clark of Eastman. with the request
that an analysis be made as early as
possible.
Mrs. Tucker and Bob Cawthorn, who
is also involved in the case. are both
! under arrest and in Jail at Eastman.
! charged with the crime and awaiting
the outcome of the investigation.
DR.. McAndless said it Mould be sew
eral days before he could make an
analysis of this stomach. because he
has to go to Gainesville Monday to
testify in case in which poisoning Is
also charged.
DR.. McAndless has not completed the
analysis of the stomach of Miss Evvie
Weeks of Tattnall county, who is sup
posed to have been poisoned by her
| sweetheart, as she died after eating
candy which he sent her. He began the
analysis, but found the stomach empty
He has written the authorities of TAFT
nall county that it will be almost inn
| possible to detect poison in the walls
of the stomach. and If they wish a
thorough investigation they will have
to exhume the body and the liver and
other organs for inspection and anal
ysis.
He has not yet heard from them.
Wright Says no to Atlanta.
City Attorney James L. Mayson this
morning sent the formal demand OF
| the city to Controller General William
A. Wright, asking that the railroads be
made to return their property in such
| a manner as to show the value of the
| real estate and track bed of each COM
pany, and the value of each company's
| property in the city of Atlanta, and
| that upon this basis the pro rata of I'M
| located personal property be made. The
formal demand is made by the city
through City Attorney Mayson in a
! lengthy paper, setting forth the citys
! contention as a result of a resolution
introduced in Council some weeks ago
| by Councilman J. L. Key, and passed
by that body and signed by the Mayor.
> 4 ~.
| troller General Wright is very signifi-
cant. for 1t means that if the Con-
| troller General refuses to comply with
the request, the city of Atlanta will in
stitute suit against the state, in the
shape of mandamus proceedings, TO
compel the Controller General to COM
ply with the citys demand.
Controller General Wright, when seen
about the matter, said:
THE laws of Georgia prescribe only
how / shall disburse the tax money,
and the Supreme Court has decided the
point in question in the eighty ninth
Georgia report. / do not propose to
change my methods in the matter, and
will continue to do as have done In
the past. The city of Atlanta has no
authority to prescribe how l shall dis
burse the moneys, and 1 must proceed
under the Georgia law"
Trouble in Dade Over.
Judge ]. S. Turner, chairman of the
State Prison Commission, who is at
the scene of trouble at the Dade coal
mines, sent the following dispatch to
Atlanta to-day:
"Shelmound, Tenn, July 25.-The sit
uation here has never been very Sc
rious. owing to the firmness of the
warden at the beginning. The trouble
arose from the warden attempting to
punish one of the men for a breach of
discipline. Being a new appointee, hav-
ing only been here a few weeks, the
convicts evidently intended to try his
nerve, and objected to the punishment
being inflicted. They made a concerted
attack upon him, and the guards were
ordered to fire. with the result that one
convict was wounded in the foot and
another slightly in the face by
glancing bullet They were Immediate
ly ordered to the building, where they
remained until this morning. when on
my arrival they moved out promptly
and went to work, expressing peni-
tence.