The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-11-03
NEWS OF A DAY IN
GEORGIA'S CAPITAL
AN EPIDEMIC OF RoBBERIES
MANY SERIOUS CRIMES HAVE BEEN
COMMITTED LATELY.

Atlanta Police Greatly Stirred Up
Over the Crfmes-Seem POwerless
to Break UD the Bands-The Jour
nal Says Savannah and other
Cities Are Losing Heavily In
Railroad Taxes-PnrdOn Is Sought
for NJ. s. Nell.
Atlanta, Nov. 2.-The police are
much stirred up over an epidemic of
burglaries, robberies and assaults, in
few of which they have been able to
make arrests. 1t is getting to be
almost a nightly occurrence that some
store in the heart of the city is enter
ed almost under the glare of electric
lights and the cash register robbed.
At $3.50 o'clock this morning Mrs. J.
B. Dorman was suddenly awakened
and saw a man standing over her
with knife. He made a vicious slash
at her throat, but she pushed him
away and he retreated from the ROOM
He was afterwards arrested and was
found to be B. w. luton, who has
been reared by the Dorman family
The knife used was one that Mrs.
Dorman had given him. His purpose
is supposed to have been robbery.
Late last night unknown white men
suddenly sprang upon Mrs Emma r.
Woodbury., an aged widow, as she
opened her door, and enveloped her in
a quilt. They threatened her life if
she made any cutlery. They robbed
the house and made their escape.
A 15-year-old youth was caught last
night trying tc steal a bicycle. While
he was held by his two captors await
ing the police, he suddenly showed
pistol into their faces, backed out of
the establishment and made his es-
cape.
These are recent samples of nurner-
Gus crimes which Atlanta is suffering
from almost daily.
Mansion ON Trial.
Charles A. Mansion, superintendent
of the Southern Engraving Company,
was placed on trial in the United
States Court to-day on the charge of
having made the plates with which a
large number of counterfeit $40 bills
were printed by the gang, of whom
three pleaded guilty yesterday.
w. L. Wynne, who turned states ev-
idence, declared that Mansion himself
made the plates and that he had
shielded him at first only because of
his wife and children. Night Watch
man Wallace of the Constitution stat
ed Mansion was in the engraving
room on the night on which the plates
are said to have been made.
The trial will be continued to-mor-
row.
Seeking Pardon for Nell.
Attorney Robert L. Colding of Sa-
vannah and Harbormaster James Nc
Bride were in the city to-day. Mr..
Colding came up to present to the
Prison Commission an application for
the pardon of M. S. Nell of Savan-
nah, who is serving a twenty-years'
sentence for voluntary manslaughter.
The commission has not yet acted on
the case.
Successor for Mathis.
The State Normal School trustees
will meet at the Capitol tomorrow to
elect a successor to Prof. ]. b. Mathis
of the chair of mathematics. There
are several applicants, and it may
take two or three ballots to decide it.
Their Sentences COMMITTED.
The Prison Commission to-day COM
muted the sentences of the four State
Fair gamblers who were arrested for
conducting gaming devices at the State
Fair in Macon, as follows: The fines
of Sam Hasten and ]. Weinberg, prin-
cipals, were reduced from $500 to $3.50,
and those of the clerks, ]. II. Wilday
and S. A. Peterson, were reduced from
$500 to 500 each. The Governor APP
proved the findings.
fe Pops with Republicans.
Hon. S. c. Dunlap and Hon. Fletcher
johnson of Gainesville, who were in
the city to-day, stated that the Popu-
lists of the Ninth Congressional dis
trict are preparing to vote right along
for the Republicans, and that the name
OF ]. M. Ashley, Republican candidate
for Congress, win appear on the Pop
ulist tickets
Hon. I. M. Bell and his friends dc
not fear the result, but are making
strong efforts to get out full Demo-
cratic vote.
County Must Pay Expense.
Attorney General John c. Hart rem.
dered an opinion to-day to the effect
that where a felony convict escapes
under the new law. the county must
pay the expense Of recapture. II the
convict is not recaptured, or II a con-
Wet dies, another convict must be sup
piled by the state TO make up the full
quota to which the county is entitled.
Loses Railroad Taxes.
In a statement in the Journal IL II
charged that Atlanta, Savannah and
Macon and the counties in which they
are located lose annually a total Of
1868 in taxes from the railroads az
the result of the difference in the act.
ual value OF their properties as stated
in their petitions filed I'm the United
States court, and the returns OF yalu
alton made to Controller General w
A. Wright.
II Is true that the valuations sci
forth IN the court petitions are COLI
sl6erably greater than the return,
made for taxation, but Controller Gen.
eral Wright states this is a well known
fact and that the railroads in making
their returns stated they we're made OF
the same basis as all other property
IN the state, or about so per cent. Of
actual value. There has never beer
any secret about this. he said.
GUARANTEE CURE ron PILES.
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