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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-22
PRETTY WIDOW
To Be TRIED FOR
KILLING SPOUSE
Fate of Mrs. Stroud Rests on
Testimony of Her Companion
at Time Of Tragedy,

SHREVEPORT. June 21.-Mrs.
Belle Stroud. "a years old and pre-
possessing, will face trial here June
% for the murder or her husband,
who was killed April 10 in the pub
lie road near Vivian when he at
tempted to ehastise her for riding
with Edward Beeler a friend of the
family.
Beeler was also shot accidentally
by Mrs. tSroud.
The killing was one of the most
sensational that ever occurred in this
part of the South and was. followed
by an attempt TO lynch Mrs Stroud
and Beeler. Officers. by quick action
got the pair away from Shreveport
and the woman has since been IN
prison here because of her inability
to furnish a $4,000 bond.
Sentiment Shifts to Woman.
Recently there has been a change
of sentiment In regard to the tragedy
and reports here are to the effect
that even those who were bitter to-
ward the woman now hope she will
be acquitted.
Mrs. Stroud is an expert horse
woman and frequently drove a hand
some horse which her husband had
given her on the second anniversary
Of their marriage. on the day OF
the killing she and Beeler were can
tering along the South Road near
Vivian when Stroud met them. He
shouted curses, according to the
wife, and, dismounting, attempted to
drag her from her horse. She re-
sisted and it is alleged, he made a
movement as if to draw a weapon,
when she took a pearl-handled re-
volver-also a gift of her husband
from her bosom and shot him in the
side. The second shot struck Beeler
in the leg. This Infatuated the wom-
an and, leaping from her horse, she
closed in on the already wounded
husband and shot out his brains.
Escapes From Hospital.
Beeler was taken to a hospital
here where ii was deemed necessary
to amputate his wounded leg. Re
Gently he escaped from the institu-
ton, it being intimated that either
friends of one side or the other had
induced him to leave. He was cap
tured at a railway station and will
be kept in the jail here until he gives
his testimony, which the defense eX-
poets will acquit the woman, but
which. on the other hand, the State
hopes will bring conviction.
At first Beeler said he loved Mrs
Stroud and he limited that should she
| be acquitted there would be a quiet
| little wedding. But OF late he has
experienced a change of heart.
| 81 lost a leg-that's enough fol
me-" is all the statement he woulc
make when visited in his cell
Judge John r. Land will preside
at the trial and District Attorney w
A. Mabry viii be the prosecutor.
Former District Attorney James NJ
Foster will defend the woman.
And l will not get "a cent" hi
said. THE woman is deserving OF
sympathy and am sure she will be
acquitted"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-22
NameleSS Man to
Undergo Operation
Surgeons Will Attempt to Learn
Who Stranger Is, Who Has Been
in Hospital Four Years.

ROCHESTER, MINI, June FL
Upon the dizziness and skill of sur
geons at the Minnesota State Hos
pital here depends the solution Of
what for four years has been one
of the most mysterious cases of lost
identity in the Middle West After
four years surgeons at the hospital
announced they viii operate on -. c.
r." a man 40 or 40, found wandering
aimlessly about Waseda, Mimi, in
June, 1907.
The man is known as -. c. r."
because those initials were found
sewed in the lining of his coat. In
the four years the man has been at
the hospital he has not uttered word
At first he was sickly but now he
is robust and healthy. The man ap-
pears to hear and understand, but
when it comes to expressing his
thoughts by means of signs his mind
seems to fail him, and 1t has been
with the greatest difficulty that the
physicians have learned the little they
have about him.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-22
VASSAR GIRL To
MAKE EUGEN|C
STATE SURVEY.
Miss Adele McKinnie Is Girl and
Michigan the Commonwealth
She Will Investigate,
BEGAN STUDY IN NEW YORK
Institution Changed from Trying
to Improve Breed Of Animals
to a Human Basis.

DETROIT, June 21.-Miss Adele E.
McKinnie, recent Vassar graduate,
whose parents are wealthy residents
of Cleveland. will, on the first of next
month, with two assistants, begin,
under State authority. a comprehen-
sive eugenic survey of Michigan.
A commission of which Dr. A. NJ.
Barrett. superintendent of the psy-
chophathic hospital at the State Uni
versity, is chairman, discovered that
the number of mentally defective is,
relatively speaking, increasing twice
as rapidly as the number of mentally
normal
Named Field Worker.
Miss McKinnie has been appointed
chief field worker for the commission.
This means that she and her two as
sfstants will make what in lay terms
may be called a genealogical tree of
each one Of several hundred of the
inmates of the State home at Adrian
for delinquent girls. and of the State
Training School and Home, where
there are LOO feeble minded of all
ages.
Never has it been so easy for the
unfit of a species to survive as at the
present time" says Miss McKinnie
formerly the struggle for existence
extinguished the weakest, but to-day
every charitable measure we support
makes 1t more easy for the physically
and mentally subnormaI not only to
exist but to procreate.
IF each feeble-m minded individual
could be the last of his or her strain
in 30 years we could have minimized
the number in the State"
Study Human Breeds.
There is an institution at Cold
Spring Harbor, Long Island, about
80 miles from New York. which was
originally created for the purpose Of
improving strains of live stock by
breeding only from the healthiest ami
mails.
Why not an institution to teach
that is quite as important to have
humans well born as well as cattle
and sheep and horses and pigs, sug-
gested some scientific mind
The suggestion was approved. An
drew Carnegie furnished the money to
meet the purposes Of an endowment
fun, and the Cold Spring Harbor
Institution changed its work from
seeking to improve live stock to dem
onstrating ways for producing a
AaA 81 AtltAb VI lLNhAalAJ anu Illy 5ACdi-
ly strong men, women and children
and less mental detectives. Eugenic
Record Office, Cold Spring Harbor,
is now the official office.
Big Glasses Deter Minds.
It is there that Miss McKinnie,
upon finishing at Vassar, qualified
for the work she is doing in Michi-
gan.
ne feabIe r,inded ~ tho ,,,bI;c
schools Miss McKinnie concludes
from restricted investigation that
there are more or less, according to
the BinOt test, two or more years
below the mentally normal.
1t is impossible, she says, in a large
room where the teacher often has
more than one class, for them to get
proper instructions. They are often
called truants, incorrigibles or unruly,
yet their troubles all trace back to
their mental defects.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-22
Big Growth Shown
in Commerce Report
Increases Are Remarkable in Ex-
portation of Iron, Copper, Wood, d.
Cotton, Leather and Oil.

WASHINGTON, June 21,-In a re-
port by the Department of Com
merce phenomenal gains are shown in
the sales abroad of the great manu-
featuring industries engaged in the
expectation of iron, copper, wood,
cotton, leather and mineral oils dur
ing recent years.
The report reads:
Taking these six great groups of
manufactures-iron, copper, wood,
leather, cottons and refined mineral
oils-their aggregate expectation
shows a growth in the 20-year period
from SIPS, 100000 in 1898, to 1896, 600, -
600. and about 1915. 100000 in 1913.
This indicates a gain of 500 per cent
in the exports of these six great
groups of manufactures in the 20
year period, against a gain of 126 per
cent in the exports of all other do
nestle products during the same pc
riod.'
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-22
II Am a Butterfly on
the WHEEL" Is Cry
Of Woman in Jail

~ am being bounded to prison
by men-men-men! II is The
Butterfly on the Wheel all over
again.
"They call me a thief. am not
yet. What ! may become after
they are through with me, Heaven
only knows! | may become SO
embittered toward this man. made
world and its man made laws that
when ! come out | shall be a re-
morseless enemy of society.
81 am an innocent women, but
have confessed to being a thief to
save myself from four years in
Auburn Prison and to get a lesser
sentence in the Bedford Reforma-
tory."-Mrs. Randolph Fitzhush,
"The Woman of Mystery"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-22
Gets Insurance on
Mythical Persons
Agent Is Sent to Prison When He
Admits Collecting on Policies
Of Imaginary Beings.

COLUMBUS. Ohio. June 21.-
Pleading guilty of using the mails to
defraud and of having collected life
insurance on the supposed deaths Of
persons who never existed William
Vokolek. an attorney Of Pittsburg.
was to-day sentenced by United
States Judge.
Vololek made a plea for leniency,
declaring that the charge against him
was the result of a conspiracy grow
ing out Of the rivalry between life
insurance companies which made a
speciality OF insurance among the
foreign born population.
At the same time, however, he con-,
fessed that he had collected $500
on policies held on the lives Of ficti-
tious persons. 1t is said that charges
are pending against Vokelek in sew
eral other States in connection with
what was known as the graveyard
insurance" scheme.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-22
Woman PatrOnizes
Mans Barber Shop
Manager Of Place Declares That Gilt
tering Mirrors Are Attraction
That Fair Sex Can't Resist.

VENICE. Col. June 21.-A woman
with the courage Of her convictions,
throwing off convention, attracted at
tention in a BARRIERS chair in Wind
ward Avenue, where she was enjoy
ing a facial massage with all the
sangfroid Of the male patrons Of
the shop. She said her name was
Mrs. BERTHE. but declined to be inter
viewed concerning her preference for
barber shops as opposed to hair
dressing parlors.
Fred Fuller, manager Of the estab-
lishment, says that the mirrored
walls and ceiling prove the attrac-
ton to the women. He believes that
the glittering plate glass may prove
so attractive that 1t may become nes-
essary for him to employ women bar
beers to care for the patronage OF the
gentler sex.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-22
Girl Saves Pupils
From Prairie Fire
Young Woman Makes Children Re-
cite Their Lessons While Flames
Roar All Around Them.

MOOSEJAW SASK., June I'll
Surrounded on all sides by a raging
prairie fire, which fed upon tall
grasses and dense underbrush that
grew to the very doors Of the little
log schoolhouse in which she was
hearing classes, Miss Esther Smith. a
school teacher near Poplar Creek. in
the South country saved more than a
score of pupils and herself from prob
able death in the flames
Word of her presence of mind was
brought to this city by members OF
the Royal Northwest Mounted police.
Miss Smith rushed them to a cleared
spot. Within few moments the de-
serted schoolhOuse was a mass of
ruins.
While the flames were raging on all
sides and blazing twigs and sparks
were falling among them, the teacher,
despite the smoke and intense heat.
continued her classes, forcing the
pupils to pay strict heed to their les
sons.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-22
Gettysburg Offers
Brides to Veterans
Mayor Establishes Matrimonial
Bureau for Benefit Of Old Soldiers
At Semi-centennial Celebration.

GETTYSBURG, June 21-Not every
Civil War veteran who comes to Get
tysburg for the celebration of the
semi centennial OF the battle viii
come for that purpose alone is the
belief of ]. Allen Holzworth, Burgess
Of the town. who has opened a sort
Of an impromptu matrimonial bureau,
which he hopes will benefit both Wis
iting veterans and available Gettys-
burg brides. Mayor Holzworth's idea
was inspired by the following com
munication from a Civil War veter-
an in St James, Mo; There are
four or five OF us old veterans OF the
battle of Gettysburg who will be in
your city at the celebration, and II
you have got few good widows or
old maids who would like to marry
and go West, we can accommodate
few. They must be good house
keepers and not too young"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-22
Girl Constable
Carries Revolver
Proves Efficient Officer Of Court at
Newcastle, Ind, Wears Badge
of Her Office.

NEWCASTLE. Ind, June 21.-Miss
Anna Payne is serving as a special
constable here. and her work is prov
ing to be entirely satisfactory, and
remunerative to herself
As an officer Of the court she is
entitled to carry a revolver and does
so when occasion demands. Her
star is worn all the time, however
as an insignia of authority and the
power of the great State Of Indiana.
An emergency arose some time ago
which resulted in her appointment as
peace officer. which position she has
since filled with credit to herself and
the court as well.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-22
So Fair He Couldn't
Resist Kissing Her
Girl In Pretty Frock, Wins Heart Of
Elevator Decentralization
Blocks Street Traffic.

NEW YORK, June 21.-Trafic in
Ann Street was blocked at office
closing time yesterday by a crowd
surrounding man and young
woman in front of AZ. where both
are employed.
He kissed me-" declared Miss
Gertrude Puzio, a stenOgrapher. re-
siding at 1893 Allen Street. He kissed
me all the time we were coming down
five floors in the crowded elevator.
Then he followed me out here and
kissed me again"
The man. William Donovan, eleva-
tor operator in the building, confessed
to a policeman who arrested him.
She was dressed all in white" he
said. land she was so darned pretty
l just couldn't help kissing her"
In Night Court Donovan was fined
IS, which he could not pay.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-22
Two Days Accidents
Cost Tacoma $4,000
Authorities Are investigating De-
struction Of Waste Pipes and
Damage to Water Reservoir.

TACOMA. June 21.-Three serious
accidents that will entail an expen-
diture Of $4,000 to remedy have oc-
CURED on Tacoma's two big water
power projects during the last two
days. officials kept the matters COW
cred up until to-day. Either dyna-
mite or lightning destroyed the lower
half of 46-inch wooden waste pipe
splintering 1t to slivers; a half-dozeu
plates on the floor of the reservoir
at La Grande were cracked, and prac-
tiCally the same thing happened at
the big reservoir at Mcmillan on the
Green River gravity system.
City authorities are noncommittal
other than to say that an investiga-
ton is in progress.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-22
Sub Treasury Has
Laundry for Money
Director Declares That Bills Can Be
Washed at Less Cost Than
Required to Print Them.

CHICAGO, June 21.-A money
laundry" has been installed in the
Chicago sub treasury. The laundry
consists of washing machines in
which Uncle Sans soiled paper mon
ey Is restored TO condition as clean
and crisp as the day the bills left
the Bureau of Engraving and Print
ing in Washington.
The completed machine is the re-
suit of an idea advanced more than
three years ago by Joseph s. Ralph,
director of the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing that 1t is cheaper to
wash sOiled money than to destroy
the bills and print new ones.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-22
Powerful Washington Friends Said
To Be Determined to Save
Her From Prison.

NEW YORK, June 21.-Waiting in
her cell in the Tombs for the court to
fix her term of Imprisonment for
thefts from society women in fash
ionable churches, Mrs Randolph
Fitzhugh" is a mystery that New
York students of criminology have
been unable to fathOm.
When the woman was first arrested
on complaint of Dorothy Fisk, daugh
ter of Pliny Fisk, the banker, who
accused her Of stealing a gold mesh
bag, she gave the name of Mrs. Ran
dolph Fitzhugh"
Prominent Families Suggested.
Then the suggestion drifted out
that she was a close relative of for
mer Governor of Florida. Later the
word came that she had in her veins
the blood Of the famous Randolph and
Fitzhugh families of Virginia. She
neither confirmed nor denied the re-
ports.
After she had pleaded guilty to the
charges she declared that her real
name is Catherine Fennell, but no
word was spoken Of her family con-
nections.
This much the New York detectives
know: She is of Southern birth and
raising, and a Southerner of refined
and educated family. Her soft drawl-
ing voice. her patrician features, her
calm and pose all tell this wildly.
Money had been spent literally in
her defense, though it was never dis
covered where this revenue came
from.
Her trial came to an abrupt end
when on its second day Abraham
Levy, chief counsel, refused to go on
with the proceedings and announced
his withdrawal.
Before Judge Swami and the jury
could recover from their amazement
Mr.. Levy went on to say that he stood
ready to return the $4,000 cash re-
tainer given to him by relatives of
the defendant. The battery of cOun-
sci associated with Mr.. Levy also
withdrew.
After a moments whispered con-
versation with Assistant District At
torney Presiding Judge Swami re-
quested the jury to leave the room,
Hundreds of fashionably dressed
women who crowded the court room
to capacity started loud murmuring,
and with difficulty were quieted by
court attendants.
Says She Dismissed" Them.
Judge Swami then asked why coun-
sci had withdrawn Mrs. Fftzhugh
arose and in intensely dramatic fash
ion walked to the rail and said in a
loud voice:
Il have personally dismissed my
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-22

counsel for their refusal to obey my
instructions"
She would not explain what the in
structions We're, but demanded the
right to get Greed NJ. Fulton, a prom
inent Washington attorney and per-
sonal friend of her family, on the
long distance wire.
Judge Swami granted this request,
and, accompanied by FIVE court at
tendants and seven detectives, Mrs
Fitzhugh went to a public telephone
booth and called up Washington
3742."
Rumors spread quickly that Mr..
Levy had advised her to change her
plea to guilty and that she had re-
fused. This proved later to have been
the case.
The response from Washington
stated that Mr.. Fulton's telephone had
been disconnected
When informed of this Mrs. F'itz-
hugh collapsed, and DR.. Mcguire, of
the Tombs, was hastily sent for. She
rejected his services and announced
that she would fight the battle alone.
Judge Swami would not permit it and
ordered her to procure counsel imme-
diately.
Plea of equity" Comes.
The trial was resumed at 2:15 p. m,
and Judge Swami announced that
Louis Spiegel, a criminal lawyer, of
346 Broadway, had been retained to
continue the case. Motions to dis
charge the jury on the ground of a
mistrial We're denied. and then for two
hours whispered conversations were
had between the lawyer for Mrs.
Fitzhugh, Judge Swami and the de-
PENDANT.
At 3 o'clock the jury was recalled,
and Albert Church, brother-in-law OF
Miss Dorothy Fisk took the stand.
Before he could testify, however, Mr..
Spiegel stopped the case again and
requested the right further to con-
suit with his client.
At this point Judge Swami con-
ferred with the Assistant District At
tOrney, who whispered to the defend
ant She thereupon arose and plead o.
ed guilty to second degree grand lar
ceny on both indictments. Judge
Swami Immediately remanded her to
the Tombs for sentence.
Washington friends Of Mrs. Ran
dolph Fitzhugh are determined to
save her from prison.
A reporter found the young South
ern woman huddled in a corner OF
her dark cell IN inc Tombs yester-
day. In an exclusive interview she
said:
i was told that l must plead gull
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-22

ty, although innocent, to escape a
sentence Of ten years in Auburn pris-
on. All the horrors were pointed out
to me. My lawyers said II | would
plead guilty the judge would suspend
sentence or give me a short term in
Bedford RefOrmatory. With every
body advising me differently and my
lawyers threatening to desert me.
became wild and thought was choos-
ing the least Of two evils.
Prison Can't Reform Her.
They can not reform me bv send
ing me to Bedford. They can not re-
form an intelligent, God fearing WON
an who knows right from wrong. II
l were honestly guilty they could only
reform me through loving guidance in
surroundings far different from a re-
form school
IF they cast me among these aw-
full creatures it may kill me, or with
the cruel stigma of prison on me /
shall emerge embittered. Perhaps ]
shall then revenge myself on the So
ciety that condemned me by its man
made laws and become a really clever
and INSCRIPTIONS thief.
u have tried to save myself and
my family. Now they must save me
for my little boys sake"
Mrs Fftzhugh, as she prefers to
call herself declared she could have
proved an alibi that she was in Wash
ington at the time Miss Dorothy w.
F1sk's gold mesh bag was stolen from
St. Bartholomew Church had not her
Washington Witnesses failed her.
Every one deserted me at the last
moment" she cried. the tears once
more flooding her eyes. u have no
hope now save District Attorney
Whitman He can help me if he
chooses"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-22
1900 MILES OF TRAILS IN
OZARK COUNTRY MARKED

MONETT. MO, June 21.-The
Ozark Trails, a system Of 1,5O0 miles
of connecting roads, is now being
marked and routed in every direc-
ton in Southwest Missouri. The pro-
moter is w. H. (Coin) Harvey Of
Monte. Ne, Ark. Two hundred miles
of the trails have been marked,
There win be two markings. The
one now being made consists of white
rings painted on telephone poles,
trees and bridges This marking will
be folloded later by a copyrighted
sign painted in green letters, in which
the letters 70. T." meaning Ozark
Trails will be prominent.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-22
DIVORCED WIFE PLEADS
EX-HUSBAND'S FREEDOM

COLUMBUS, KAN, June 21.-The
love of a divorced wife for her hus-
band caused Judge Sapp in the Dis
trict Court to defer for a week the
sentencing Of ]. A. Mcconnell. Of
Galena, Kan, convicted of manslaugh-
ter for killing Kibby Beam The for
mer wife Of Mcconnell is seriously
i'll. Despite their separation Mrs. Nc
Connel gave all her small savings
for McConnelps defense, and it was
to spare her feelings that sentence
was deferred.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-22
Tramp Finds $4,000
In Cabin of Hermit
Wanderer Enters Hut as Reeluse Is
In Throes of Death With
Fortune In Pockets.

HUNTINGTON, Pa, June 21-When
an unidentified tramp received no re-
Spouse last night as he knocked on
the door of the cabin Of Willis
Browning, a hermit, on the ridge
across from the Barree Forge, he
opened the door. There he found the
recIuse in the last throes of death by
pneumonia, and before neighboring
farmers could be summoned Brown
ing was dead.
In the pockets Of a coat in the
cabin was $4,000, all but $1,000 be-
ing in big bank notes. Browning
came here five years ago, and talked
with no one but the storekeeper from
whom he bought supplies, never told
where he came FROM and no living
relatives are known
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-22
COURT RULES THAT STATE
OWNS BEDS OF ITS RIVERS

M'ALESTER. OKLA. June 2l-
That the State OF Oklahoma owns the
river beds of streams, known as nav
lgable, was the decision Of Federal
Judge Ralph f. Campbell sitting in
regular court at this place.
Under the decision all land lying
between the high water marks, on
either size of such streams, in the
State Of Oklahoma belong to the
State, while the land lying between
the meander lines and high water
mark belong to the allottee.