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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-25
FENN At RAID To
FACE HIST AN|LY
CordeIe Man Backs Down After
Boarding Train for Home.
Going Back West.

Is
CORDELE GA, Oct. 25.-'T can not
face the embarrassment of meeting my
wife and children and friends under such
circumstances, was the excuse Augustus
J. Fem, former wealthy Cordele lumber
man, gave for not returning TO his old
home, after boarding train for this city
at New Orleans yesterday. J. ]. Williams
and Joseph Epsy. sons -in-law of Fem: J.
I. Hill and J. G. Jones, Cordele law
yers, and Sheriff John Ward, of Crisp
county, who went to New Orleans when
it was discovered Fem was there, re-
turned this morning without him. At
the last moment Fem backed down.
81 have business matters in Mexico to
attend to and I will just go back to Ell
Paso. l may return home some day but
not SOON" was his parting with his
friends. His sons-in-law still urged him
to return, assuring him that a reconcilia-
ton was possible with his wife and chill
dren, but he still refused and left the
train.
AS yet Mrs. Nancy f. Fem, wife of the
man supposed to have been drowned in
the Alphabetical river two and a half
years ago, and who brought suits to re-
cover $4,000 on insurance policies carried
on the life of Fem, has made no state
ment whatever as to whether she desires
him to return.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-25
Retrenchment
Policy Likely.

Mr.. Woodward's statements point to
a policy of retrenchment next year If
he attempts to nullify the crematory
contract, council will be faced with one
of the most serious problems it has
ever known. This contract is held by
the Destructor Company of New York.
Work is to begin on the new plant
shortly. But all the officials agree that
when 1t comes to living up to the
strict letter of the law, the policy de-
manded in the vice crusade and the
locker club war, the moral obligation
contracts are without the bounds.
Mr.. Woodward has planned with
Chief OF Construction Clayton a general
inspection of all city construction work.
He VIII make this investigation before
he goes into office.
Il am informing myself upon all mu-
nicipal matters, said Mr.. Woodward.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-25
ALBANIAN, UNABLE
TO SUPPORT WIFE,
COMMITS SUICIDE

BIRMINGHAM, ALA. Oct 25.-D T
White, until recently residing at AZ
White street, Atlanta. shot himself
through the brain in the Southern hotel
here last night. He was found dead
this morning.
He left letter. addressed to his wife
in which he asked for pardon for the
rash act, saying that he was unable to
support her as he desired. Coroner
Brasher investigated the case and pro-
nounced 1t suicide. This is the second
Albanian to suicide here within a
month.
Mrs. White is now living with her
mother, Mrs. Stevens, on Ashby street.
The family left the White street ad
dress a month ago.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-25
DANIEL BROS. SITE
WILL BE SOLD AT
PUBLIC OUTCRY

No. IS Peachtree street, occupied by
Daniel Bros. is to be sold at a commits
sioner's sale before the court house
door at IL o'clock noon the first Tues
day in November, by Forrest q George
Adair.
This and two other parcels are in the
estate Of the late John w Mercer, of
Greenville. The other pieces are 81 feet
on Marietta street just beyond Thur
mond, extending back to the w. g. A.
railroad right way, and known as
1856 1913 $40 Marietta street, and 50 feet
on Bell street, Immediately south OF
Edgewood avenue.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-25
DOUGLAS FARMER,
GORED BY A BULL AT
STATE FAIR, MAY DIE

MACON, GA, oct 25.--O. H. Sci
man, a young farmer from Douglasville,
Douglas county, was seriously injured
at the state fair grounds today, and is
expected to die. as the result of an at.
tack on him by an enraged bull
The animal gored the mans right
leg. ripping the flesh open to the bone
from the knee to the thigh. and then
trampled on him. Selman was pre-
pairing feed for the animal when he was
attacked. He Is at the city hospital.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-25
HUB TALLEY AGAIN
GETS STAYING WRIT
AND ESCAPES JAIL

Hub Talley has again slipped
through the hands of the authorities
and is enjoying the delights of free
dom.
The elusive young man. who first
thwarted the authorities by being sent
to the state insane asylum on a writ
of lunacy. put another one over" today.
when, through his counsel. Attorney
John Y. Smith, he obtained from su-
perior Court Judge Bell a supersedeas.
This proceeding stays the execution
of the stockade sentences, and gives
Talley permission to appeal the recent
habeas corpus proceedings to the cour;
of appeals.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-25
WOODWARD BRANDS
CREMATORY ILLEGAL

James G. Woodward, mayoralty
nominee, declared today that the con-
tract made by the mayor and council
for $276,000 garbage disposal plant
was illegal and that the bond given by
the crematory company to guarantee a
compliance with the city specifications
was not worth a cent because Il was
based on an illegal contract.
The point in the contract Mr. Wood
ward attacks is that the city gives its
moral obligation for all of the cost price
but $4,000, while the city chapter spe-
officially states that the council of one
year can not spend the income of an
other year.
Chief Of Construction Clayton, who
was standing in the group talking to
Mr. Woodward, said that a similar
contract had recently been broken by
sewer contractor in Savannah. The
law preventing council from spending
a city's future income is a general state
law and applies to all cities.
1t is not that Mr.. Woodward's point
is new that makes it important, but
the fact that he, as the next mayor,
makes it.
In his announcement statement for
the mayoralty, Mr.. Woodward attacked
the present administration for pIedging
so much of the city's future income.
Several hundred thousand dollars have
already been pledged, the mayor and
council having passed the Ivy street
Improvement project and the council
having approved the plan OF purchas-
ing a fire alarm system by the same
means within the last few days.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-25
Slayer of Fellow officer BeId-
ing Found Not Guilty by Jury
After Being Out is Hours.
MUST ANSWER CHARGE
THAT He WAS DRUNK
Suspension Order Is Effective
Until Board Hearing-Freed
Man Tells Sensations.

Bicycle Patrolman J. Wesley Camp.
who slew his fellow officer. Samuel H
Bedding, in the rooms they had occupied
for years. was found mot guilty" in
Judge Roan's court this morning by
jury which had been out for sixteen
hours.
The verdict came as staHllng sur
prise to many, and after the jury had
asked the judge to recharge them on
the elementary grounds of the burden of
proof
Ballot after ballot was taken before
the twelve good men and true" de-
cided to give Camp, who had been at
tackled as victim of delirium tremens
and charged with frenzied murder, his
liberty.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-25
Contract Could
Not Hold Good.

IF the humblest citizen should take
this matter to the courts, the contract
would not hold" said Mr.. Woodward
But the members of council who voted
for it could be held personally liable,
where they own any property Alder
man A. ]. Johnson is the only one on
record against the plan"
Following Martin Amorous' inter-
view in The Georgian denouncing the
building of the new crematory as a
waste of funds and declaring that it
would create such a nuisance that the
people would demand it's abandonment,
Mr.. Woodward went to the city hall and
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-25
Suspension Order
Issued by Chief.

Unless relatives Of j. w Camp pre-
vail upon him TO resign from the police
force, he will face another trial on No
vember IA. This time Camp will go
before the police commission to answer
charges of drunkenness preferred
against him by Police Chief Beavers.
Chief Beavers called Camp and his
attorneys into consultation today and
announced that he expected to lodge
charges with the commission. The chief
issued an order Of suspension against
Camp, which will be effective until the
police board hears the case. Carlos
Mason, chairman of the commission,
said today that he had been led to be-
lieve by members of Camps family that
the officer would resign from the force.
The charges grew out of expert tes-
timony submitted by DR.. r. D. Longino
at Camps trial, to the effect that ha
had treated the officer for delirium
tremens a week or so before the shoot
ing of Belding.
After narrowing night, in which
several men stood out for a conviction
of some kind. the jury came into the
Judge Roam was on the bench and
Camp as cool and unconcerned as ever.
awaited the word that would decide his
fate
But the jury wanted recharge. Aft
er having listened to many hours of
evidence and an exhaustive charge from
the judge, they wanted the court to tell
them upon whom the burden of proof
rested.
Judge Roam, Of course, answered that
It rested upon the state and that Camp
was presumed to be innocent until
proven guilty
At the same time the court added a
few words about a reasonable doubt"
the usual advice given by a Judge in
such cases.
The jury returned to deliberate. while
the sparsely crowded court room waited
eagerly. Camp betrayed no emotion.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-25

Efforts of county officials to have the
hangings conducted privately, as re-
oujred by law, were futile. Because Of
the smallness Of the Jail, which would
not permit the erection of a gallows
within the structure, a wooden scaffold
was constructed in a field half mile
from the court house. This was sur
rounded by a fence fifteen feet high,
forming an Enclosure about 80 feet
square.
About midnight a mob went to the
site of the scahold, tore down the high
fence and made a monster bonfire of
the lumber and timbers. This morning
only heap Of charred embers was left
Of what had been the fence The scat
fold was not molested.
Ordinary H. V. Jones early this morn
ing ordered the fence rebuilt. but when
he undertook to secure lumber with
which to rebuild 1t, not dealer in town
could be found who would sell the ma
terial. Consequently it became neces-
sarv to conduct the double hanging in
the open, in full view of the assembled
multitude.
The two companies of militia that ac-
conpanied the two prisoners from At
lanta arrived here at o'clock this
morning with the condemned negroes
in custody. They were taken imme-
diately to the courthouse, where they
we're confined until removed to the gal
lows. A picket line was thrown about
the courthouse. the fence around the
square being the dead line. strong
Guard was maintained inside the build
ing with Major l. J Catron personally
in command. Only military and court
officials, physicians and q minister
were passed through the lines.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-25
FOUR WOULD BE KISSED
BY OSCILLATION ENEMY

MINNEAPOLIS, MINI. Oct Is
DR.. p b. Hall, who caused a bit Of
commotion by saying that even appen-
dicitis can be transmitted through a
kiss and that the only safe way to kiss
a woman was on her photograph, ar
rived at his Office today to find the
photo Of four beautiful girls, none that
he had ever seen before. each bearing
the inscription, Il want to be kissed"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-25
EACH FREED 3 TIMES;
REWED AFTER 20 YEARS

KALAMAZOO. MICH, oct. 25-Mrs.
Melissa Keef at Grand Rapids, today was
to wed Eugene Morse. a former husband,
from whom she separated ten years ago
Nearly twenty years ago the couple were
first married, and after living together
nine years they separated. Since then
twice.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-25
FOURTH OLD VET DIES
IN ONE WEEK AT HOME

w. d. Broadnax, aged Sc years, was
the fourth veteran to die at the Soldiers
home in the past five davs when he
passed away yesterday Two died Tues
day night. while one died last Sunday
Mr.. Broadnax was member of Com
pany II, Eleventh Georgia cavalry. dur
ing the war The funeral arrangements
will be announced later.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-25

Twenty minutes later, the twelve
men filed in once more and, amid a
strained silence, the foreman announced
the verdict:
I'VE find the defendant not guilty"
A few friends of Camp. including his
lawyers, rushed to congratulate him.
hut the officer himself took it all with
remarkable stolidity
Il had no idea" said Camp to
Georgian reporter, that would be con-
victed. | was confident all the time that
a full recital of the facts would result
In my acquittal. But no one except the
man who has been in a similar position
can realize the terrible strain of the
ordeal | have gone through. To wait
in a prison cell for the trial. to sit in
the court room while able lawyers de-
mand your life, and then the suspense
while the jury delberates--it is awful.
Thank heaven. it is over"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-25
Woodward Agrees
With Amorous.

Mr.. Woodward agrees In the main
with Mr.. Amorous' view of the crema-
tory plan. He said that the old crema-
tory was too valuable to be torn down,
and that the new one was too much in
the nature of an experiment to cost SO
much money
Mr.. Amorous said that the real null
sance of the new crematory would be
the passage Of so many garbage wag
ons and trucks through the center of
the city to the new crematory. He
said that smaller. cheaper crematories,
on the order Of the old one which cost
only 100000, but burns half as much
garbage as the new one is supposed to
burn, should be built in different sec
tons of the city. This he said, would
save the city money by shortening the
hal11S
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-25

made an investigation OF the contract.
He did not say what he intended to
do when he entered office, but he has
always been opposed to spending the
city's future income, while the present
administration has started many im-
provenents by that means. When the
.crerIfatory contract was made, however,
there was little apprehension among the
councilmen that any antagonistic out
slider would be elected mayor.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-25
Another Trial
Faces Officer.

The probability of another ordeal
looms up before Camp--trial before the
police commission on the charge OF
drunkenness. A number of witnesses
charged that he was intoxicated at the
time of the shooting. With his lawyer,
the freed policeman will see Chief
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-25
Crowd, Determined to Witness
Execution, Burns the Fence
Around GaIIoWS.

CUMMING, GA, Oct. 25.-Amid the
cheers of thousands of spectators gath
cred about a hollow square, 200 yards
from the gallows, Oscar Daniels and
Ernest Knox, negroes, paid the death
penalty here today for assaulting and
causing the death of a young white
woman near Cumming, in Forsyth
county, September 8, less than seven
weeks ago. They were convicted three
weeks ago yesterday.
The double trap was sprung by Sher-
iff w. w. Reid at 1913 O'Clock, and
twenty minutes later the two bodies
were cut down and placed in a single
pine box to be buried by the county as
criminal paupers this afternoon. They
will not be accorded a funeral by mem
bers of their own race as there are
practically no negroes left in Forsyth
county and the few remaining are
afraid to venture out on such a mis-
sion.
Neither negro had a word to say
while on the scaffold. They went stol-
idly to their DEATH apparently unmov-
ed by the fate that awaited them. Be
fore they were placed on the gallows,
however, both made brief statements.
Daniels insisted he was not guilty, but
Knox confessed.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-25
Sheriff Springs
The. Trap.

Sheriff Reid, himself, sprung the trap,
but Deputies Lummes and Jones assist
ed him in blindfolding and tying the
negroes and adjusting the death caps.
Rev. F. P. Wills, pastor of the Cumming
Baptist church, offered prayer as the
negroes mounted the scaffold. Dr. c.
T. Brice and Dr. ]. A. Orwell pronounc-
ed them dead after the hanging.
Only these attendants, county Off
GERS, newspaper representatives., mem
bers of the dead girls family and SOL
diers were permitted within the 200
yard area. Two companies of Atlanta
militiamen formed dead-line and kept
the thousands of morbidly curious
men, women and children-Out of reach
Of the scaffold. But they were salts
fed to stand on the surrounding hill
sides and view the spectacle from a
distance. Estimates Of the crowd vary,
but it is not exaggerating to state that
no less than 5000 persons assembled
here for the event-the first legal exc
cution in Forsyth county in more than
half a century.
The soldiers left Cumming early this
afternoon on their return to Atlanta.
Cumming was under martial law today
for the third time within six weeks
first. about the time of the crime later,
at the trial and now for the executions.
The presence of soldiers in this little
mountain town has become rather COM
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-25
gHE WEATHER

Forecast: Fair tonight and Satur
day. Temperatures: s a. n., ~; 10 a.
~, 81; IL noon. 60; 2. M, g..
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-25
Court Room Silent
As Verdict Is Read.

eagerly. Camp betray
Evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1907-1913, 1912-08-10

untlI-my lady raised her hand to
her brow: abruptly Jet it fall In the
shadow on the other side Of the hearth
some one moved; some one who hal
been watching her and who now
stepped out into the light.
Are you better?" said voice.
She stared. On the bold. swarthy
features Of a young man now standing
and looking down at her. the light
narcd and cleaned; the open shirt re-
vraicd n muscular throat; the down
turned black eyes were steady, solicit
Gus. His appearance was unexpected,
yet not quite strange; she had seen
him before. but, In the general sur
prise and perplexlty of the moment,
did not ask herself where The inter-
val between what she last remem-
bered on the beach-the rush and
swirl of water-and what she woke to.
absorbed the hazy workings of her
mind.
The young man stopped; stirred the
FIRE. and after pause, apparently to
give her time TO collect her thoughts.
repeated his question: Are you bet
ter, now"
"Oh, yes" she said. with an effort,
half sitting up. And then irreleyantly,
Evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1907-1913, 1912-08-10
ILLUSTRATIONS BY ny 1OAkT=f2S

left low and fat-to the right,
marked by the dark fringe of for
est Which way should she go? IT.
resolutely she turned in the direction
Of the wood.
Saladin, her horse, seemed in I'M
usually fine fettle, and the distance
separating her from the land was
soon covered; but still she continued
to follow the shore, swinging around
and out toward a point some distance
seward. Not until she had reached
that extreme projection of land, where
the wooing green crept out from the
forest as far as it might, did she
draw rein Saladin stopped, albeit
with protest, tossing his great head.
you might as well make an end of
that, sir" said the girl, and, spring
ing from the saddle, deity secured
him. Then turning her back toward
the Mount, shadowy pyramid in the
distance, she seated herself in tho
grass with her eyes to the woods.
Not long, however, did my lady re-
main thus; soon rising, she walked
toward the shadowy depths. At the
verge she paused; her broWs grew
thoughtful; what was it the woods
recalled? Suddenly, she remembered
"a boy she had met the night she
left for school so long ago, had told
her he lived in them. She recalled
too, as child, how the woman, Marie,
who had been maid to her mother,
had tried to brighten her about that
sequestered domain, with tales of
fierce wild animals and unearthly
creatures, visible and invisible, that
roamed within.
She had no fear now, though faint
rustlngs and pulsation of sound
held her listening, Then, through the
leafy interstice, a cleaning and flash
ing, as if some one were throwing
jewels to the earth, lured her on to
the cause of the seeming enchant-
ment-a tiny waterwall!
The moment passed; still she lin
gered Around the Mounts high top,
her own home, only transeendent ST.
lence reigned; here was she surround
ed by babbling voices and all manner
OF merry creatures-lively little squir-
rels; winged insects, romping in the
twilight shade; portly and well-sat-
isGed appearing green monster who
regarded her amicably from a niche
OF green. A butterfly, poised and
Evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1907-1913, 1912-08-10
A Butterfly, Poised and Waving Its
Wings, Held Her for a Long Time.

waving it's wings, held her a long
time-unttl she was suddenly aroused
by the wood growing darker. Raising
her eyes, she saw through the green
foliage overhead that the bright sky
had become sunless. At the same time
a rumhling defamation, faint, far-ofr,
broke in upon the whisperings and
tinkIings Of that wood nook Getting
up, she stood for q moment listening;
then walked away
Near the verge OF the sand saladin
greeted her with Impotence, tossing
his head toward the darkening heav-
ems Nor did he wait until she was
fairly seated before starting back at
a rapid gate along the shore But the
girl offered no protest; her face
showed only enjoyment A little wild
he might be at times. as became one
Evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1907-1913, 1912-08-10
Texas Governor Tired,
Of Uncle Sans Inactivity
(By United Press.)

Houston, Texas, Aug. 1oa-Governor
Colquilt is today awaiting a reply to
his ultimatum telegraphed 10 the War
Department last night, stating fatty
that unless u. S. troops were sent to
repel inyasions Of Mexican rebels into
Texas territory, State troops will be
sent to the points involved.
Evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1907-1913, 1912-08-10
THE PASSING OF ROMANCE.

"'Clicb, click. click went the tele;
graph sounder and out in the wilder
ness in an isolated way station of
great trans-eoninental railroad sat the
lonely night operator, his ears strain
ed to catch every dot and dash and
his eyes glued to tAe spot, now moth
ing but blot of murky darkness,
where ne knew the flashing headlight
of the overland Limited would nrst
meet his gaze Around about, through
the partly opened window, the only
unds were the dismal howlings of
Il Q coyotes and the swishing of the
wind through the ravines. The il.
terror OF the station was poorly illuEl
med by the fitful glare or smokey
kerosene lamp. 1t was no easy matter
to keep ones senses alert under such
conditions. Suddenly the station call
came in ON the sounder SIX
SIX it clicked The drowsy operator
sat up with a start"
No more will to- romantic writer
picture such scenes, for, with the con-
tinued and steady introduction OF the
telephone on railroad systems for hand
ling and controlling the movements of
trains. such conditions will be ...lngs
ct the past within very short time.
: does the halo of romance, with
whi,l the night telegraph-operator of
tIe aims and the wilderness has been
s.'rounded, fade away before the re-
= orseless advance of he bright and
more efficient light of modernism.
The new order of things makes it
p"r;cetly feasible to do away with the
night operator at the isolated way-sta.
tons An electric company railway
specialist recently mentioned the fact
that one railway system, to whic-. -
had sold telephone train dispatching
equipments had done just this thing
aud that each passenger and each
conductor has been furnished with
so-called "paster key" for the stations
along the line to enable him to enter,
lin the telephone receiver rom the
hook, put himself in instant communi'
cation with the train dispatcher at
headquarters, receive his orders verb
ally and go on his way,
Not very romantic but surely ocono'
mical aud highly efficient.