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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-29
PRISONER IS
SILENT On
CHARGE
Man Who photographed Mayor
and Fielder Again in
LimeIight.

A. S. Colyar, whose dictographing OF
Mayor woodward and Attorney Thomas
H. Fielder created sensation last sum-
mer, was placed under arrest Saturday
afternoon by city detectives on a war
rant sworn out in Rome Ga, charging
him with cheating and swindling H ].
Awtrey swore out the warrant and al
leges that the offense was committed
November 8.
Colyar was taken to police headquar-
tiers and detained in the office of Chief
Of Detectives Newport A. Lanford He
declined to discuss the case other than
to say he would be cleared of the charge
He also declined to tell of the nature of
the charge, while the local officers have
not been advised.
The arrest adds another chapter to
the history of a man, who has attracted
attention throughout the country for
many years by the many sensational
things in which he has figured. He
comes from a prominent Tennessee fam
lily, his father being the noted editor OF
a Nashville newspaper.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-29

ooh, it was such fun to fool our
friends! And so romantic!"
And that is the only reason, says
pretty Mrs. w. E. Allaun, daughter
of New York millionaire banker and
prominent society girl of New York
and Newport News, Va, that she
eloped from Norfolk with Mr.. Allaun
who Is known to his intimates as
"Top"-in a six cylinder automobile,
and, after several hundred miles ride,
all cluttered up with incident, landed
at the Piedmont Hotel in ATLANTA,
where they are spending their honey
moon and. receiving the blessings Of
the folks at home.
He Can't See the Romance.
why, of course it was romanticl"
exclaimed Mrs. Allaun. THE wild
ride through the forests of Virginia
and the mountains of the Carolinas,
the adventure with the constable and
the honor of being charter members
of the Grape Juice Club-why, Of
course that was all romance"
Where's the romance" Mr. AL
laun demanded, in running ahead of
a country constable and having the
car break down in a town OF 200 peo-
ple?"
Up TO last Saturday night at mid
night Mrs Allaun was Miss Ann f.
Finch. daughter of NJ. A. Finch, CT
New York and Newport News. Mr.
Allaun is prominent clubman e
Norfolk, and is well known through
out the South. where most OF his
business interests are.
They told all about how they hap
pened TO do It Saturday morning.
I'VE have been engaged for years,
It seems" said Mr., Allaun. and ev-
erybody kept asking us when they
were going 10 be invited to the we'd
ding one of my friends got to brag-
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-29
Burglars Invade
North Side Homes,
Terrifying Women

Burglars terrified women in two
North Side homes Friday night, and
though the police responded to calls
as quickly as possible no clews to the
intruders could be found.
Miss Bertha Franklin, who was
sleeping on the second floor Of the
home OF her brother, Charles Frank
line, at No. Ia West Fourteenth street,
awoke to find a man standing over
her with a fashlight. She screamed.
The burglar leaped out window and
fed.
Mrs. J. Montagon was alone with
four little children at her home. No.
As East Merritts avenue. when she
heard someone crawling on a tin roof
at the rear Of the house. She called
the police by telephone and stood
guard with a pistol
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-29

cling around that he was going to be
best man, and, of course, we just had
to fool them. Nobody knew when we
were going to get married. We didn't
know ourselves until last Friday,
when we planned the whole thing.
Saturday Mrs. Allaun came to Nor
folk and came to my office. | had my
automobile and chauffeur out in
front. and we calmly walked out and
got in like we were going for a ride.
We met severa lof our friends while
driving around Norfolk but none Of
them suspected. We left Norfolk just
Halifax, \. c., about $50 miles, get
ting there about 9:45 o'clock Saturday
night
Married at Midnight.
I'VE woke up the Clerk of the Court
and made him give US a license, and
then a newspaper correspondent got
on our trail and We had TO fly We
motored over to Weldon, \. e.. arriving
there shortly before midnight We
woke up the Rev. j. A. Hornady a
Methodist minister there, and were
married in front OF an open fireplace
Sunday we drove the car 20 Dur
nam, ". -, Wnere we wired our Iolhs
that we were married. Monday we
drove to Greensboro, y. c., and from
there to harlotte. Then we started
TO Anderson and our honeymoon came
near breaking up.
We We're going something like 30
miles an hour through some little viii
lage when a country constable tried
to stop us. He yelled that We were
under arrest and we turned the car
loose, The last we saw OF the con-
stable he was standing In the middle
OF the road waving his arms and
yelling at the top Of his voice"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-29
Seventeenth Infantry
Beats Cavalry Team

The Seventeenth United States In
fantry football team defeated the
Eleventh Cavalry team, from Chatta-
nooga, in a hard fought game at Fort
Mcpherson Saturday afternoon by a
score of 16 to 7.
Coach Devore's men showed the eff
fects of the training they have re-
ceived from the former America
player, and during most of the game
outplayed the soldiers from Tonnes
see Captain Schwartz and Half
backs Arcan and Bradbury played
strong football throughout the game,
their end runs being features Of the
contest Fullback Moore, of the Sew
enteenth, also played hard game,
making several good gains through
the Eleventh's line
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-29
BIGGEST
BY NJ A NY
MILLIONS
November CIearings $7,000,0O0
Over Same Month in 1912.
Week Shows Increase.

With the bank clearings for No
vember, 1918, exceeding by more than
seven million dollars the figures for
November a year ago, indications
were Saturday that the clearings for
the year will exceed by many mil
lions of dollars any year in the his
tory Of the Atlanta Clearing House
Association.
Unless the clearings for Deem
Der fall far short of what they have
ever been for that month";" said ].
G. Lester, secretary of the Clearing
House Association, Saturday morn
ing, this year is going to be the big,
gest we have ever had. and the clear
ings will compare very favorably
with any city in the United States
There are no figures available as
yet on the clearings for the year. but
indications are they will exceed any
other year by many millions of dol
lars"
The clearings for the month Of No
vember, 1913, were $40, 70s, s2S.03, an
increase of s7,1S6,516o3 over Novem-
Der, 1912. This increase is consid-
cred remarkable, as there is usually
a falling off in bank clearings to-
ward the close of the year.
An increase of the same generous
proportions is seen in the bank clear
ings for the week that closed Satur-
day at noon, as compared with the
same week last year. This week the
clearings were s15,3Os, ss1.94, while
last year for the corresponding week
the clearings were only $1S, 12S,i48,9S,
a gain of more than two millions.
The cIearings for this week are sew
eral million dollars smaller than last
week, but this failing off is but the
natural decrease always apparent aft
er the 18th of each month.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-29
Negro Convicted of
Killing H. F. Newsom

A verdict Of guilty. with recon
mendation for mercy. was returned in
the murder trial of Ed Fowler, negro.
charged with killing H. r Newsom. a
young white man, last winter sealed
verdict was returned Friday afternoon
and by consent OF counsel was opened
by Judge HIN Saturday morning The
Jury took the case at o'clock Friday
ana remained out for six hours
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-29
AT JUAREZ.

FTRST-FYve and half furlongs; Durin.
1903 (McDonald). c, 2, even, won; Balti-
more. los (Neylonl, S. So. 7-lo. second !;
third. Time, 1907 3-5 Also ran. Rem.
war, Sheffield. Lucky Ike. Or. Bailey,
Fool o. Fortune
SECOND-Ffve and half furlongs:
Mack Eubanks. 10s tGroth). S-5, 4-5. Ia,
won: Great Friar, Ill (EstepD, 10, 4. 2,
second; No Quarter, l07 (Booker). so,
20, 10. third Time, / :07 Also ran: Lit
tie Birdie. Garden OF Allah, John Hart.
Sigurd. Henry Williams, FRAGILE, Masalo.
Milt Jones, Mia, Commentator.
THIRD-Mie. Brookfeld 90 (Neylon)
4, SIS, As. won, Superstition 109 Gross
So, rs. out, second Cubon LOG Dryer
1, SIS. As third. Time. 80 2-5. Also
ran: Bluebeard Carlton Club and John
Louis
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-29
A. S. COLYER ARRESTED AS SWINDLER AND CHI
LATEST
NEWS

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2s.-Mrs.
Francis Rowes Sayre, formerly Miss
Jessie Woodrow Wilson, sent a let
ter to the House thanking the MEM
bers for their gift to her Of diamond
pendant. The letter was read in tho
House to day and received much APP
plause.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-29
Race Entries on Page 2.

SYRACUSE, N. v, Nov. 2s.-Jas.
A. TsnEyck, rowing coach Of SYRIA
cuse University, to-day set az rest
renuros about his going to Yale az
rowing coach by renewing his con-
tract with Syracuse for a term of
five years at substantial increase
in salary from Syracuse.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-29
Of.
PRISON
EXPOSED
Former Guard Quit Job Because
1t Was "Like Sending Mems
Souls to He'll"

One of the most shocking of all
the tales of the cruelty at the Allan
ia Federal Prison since Julian Haw-
thorne and DIR. w. j. Morton made
their sensational charges against
Warden William H. Meyer, was told
to The Georgian Saturday morning
by J. H. Archer, of Sumter, Ca, for
two years a guard at the institution,
who says he quit because TT was
like sending mems souls to helli"
Mr.. Archer's story of the things he
saw and the things he did during his
two years service under Warden
Meyer is like a page ripped from some
inNuisjtion record. 1t is a picture
al sszssres ana punishments hardly
conceivable in this enlightened age.
He barred the secrets of the "hole," a
place of torture that he says changed
strong men into white-face maniacs;
he tells the details of how men were
chained and shackled to the walls
Of a dungeon for days at time, with
a slice of bread and a glass of water
their only fare; of men who were
thrust into the blackness of the soil
tary'' and came out insane with the
desire to kill; of the man who, his
mind wrecked by the terrible silence
Of the hole" and the strain of his
punishment, tore a great hole in his
side with a rusty nail and ground
fine particles of glass into his own
flesh; of the consumptive who was
locked in his cell and kept there until
remembrance of the young prisoner
who lay for twenty days on the stone
floor of his cell without morsel to
eat.
Meyer Began Use of "Hoe."
It's been several years since l
worked as guard at the Federal Pris-
on" said Mr. Archer, land things
may have changed, but in the light
Of recent revelations I do not believe
they have. I was one of the first
guards who worked at the prison. l
went there while Warden Hawke was
in charge, and later Warden Meyer
came. The hole was there when
Mr. Hawke was there, but | do not
remember that he ever placed a pris
oner in it. But when Warden Meyer
came aid took charge of the prison
there were always half dozen poor
devils chained to the walls, their legs
shackled and their faces pressed
against the solid brick-slowly going
insane in the inky blaclness and the
terrible silence.
There is but one word to use in
speaking of the hole out there at
me prison. That word is hell. If there
Is hell on earth, It is the dungeons
where prisoners are thrown for the
slightest infraCtion of the prison
rules; where mems souls are shrivel-
ed and their bodies destroyed. The
men who are paying their debt to
society out there fear the terrors of
Inc hole more than they fear the
'errors of eternal damnation.
4 can't describe the hole No man
could do that; no man could describe
me agony of men who are forced to
stand for fifteen hours q day for days
d time with their arms outstretch-
90, their noses fattened against solid
prick their feet shaclSled together
Standing all those hours in one posi-
uon, in a cell that has never known
ray Of sunlight, in a darkness so
mick that 1t is sufrocating, and in
Continued on Page 2, Column q.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-29
RACING
RESULTS
AT JAM ESTOWN.

FIRsT-FIve and one-half furlongs:
Executor, lis tButwelD. "a, IL, out.
won; Salon. 108 (Neander). %. SIS. 3-5,
dead heat; Captain Burns, 1903 Fair-
brother). 80. SIS. 3-5 third. Time 1908,
Also ran: Supreme, Flask, Cooster and
Suwanee.
sECOND-About miles, on grass:
Syosset. l46 lTuckey). So. 6-6. Ia, won;
Ragusa, 1876 Oupee), 2, ITO, 1-3, second
Time 4:02 3-5. Also ran; Melos, Ordi-
nary Nat, Azure Maid. Bronte and Clan
Alpine
THIRp-Mile and 10 yards: Colonel
Cook, ia (Fairbrother), IA, out. won;
out. third. Time 40 IS. Also ran:
Jim l., The Urchin, Harvey F, Aware
and Bronte.
ITO (WolD. SIS, 11-2O, 1-5, won; Sack
ond; Perthshire, 1906 (ButwelD. 10, 3,
Sickle, water Welies, scallywag,
Quartermaster also ran.
FIFTH-Sfx furlongs: Brynary 1O5
tGairbrother) So, IL, IL. won: Cap
second Montcalm 1O5 NOLAN, 7, So,
Veneta Strome, Joe Cations, o u Bus
ter. Reputation. Silas Grump, ]. w. Kent
and Royal Onyx.
sIxTH-Mile and 70 yards: Sir Den
rah. LOG (Neander), 3, 9-5, As, won;
Fordmai. 104 (Mclntyre), u, I. 2, sec
ond; SaybrooK, III (Nolan), so. Is, 6,
third Time, 1:4S. Also ran: My Eel
low, Toddling, Garth, Schaller and Earl
Of Richmond.
SEVENTH 49, Mile and sixteenth:
Strenuous, Ill (Troxler), 30, Ia. out,
won; Mary Ann K, 100 (McCshey), 4,
6-5, rs. second; Napier, 101 (ScharD,
10, 4, 40, third. Time, 1:4s 3-5. Also
ran: Altamaha, Jim Caffery and Spell
bound.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-29
BUN DOWN BY AUTO.

JACKSONVILLE, Nov 29.-An-
thony Gormas is in St Luke's Hos
pital with broken rib and general
bruises He was run down by an au-
tomobile owned and driven by Charles
wichmann, proprietor of the Falstarf
Saloon.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-04-17
Judge Wheeler Decides Case.


Judge Wheeler has just handed down
decision in the case of Hattie Carper
against I. NJ. Ridpath ct al, which
case was tried in the Audubon District
court last December In the decision
he upheld the claims of Hattie Carper
From the facts as found by the court
it appears that along about 1873 when
Hattie Carper whose true name was
Hattie johnson was staying with her
mother, Alice Johnson, in Mahaska
County, Iowa, Hattie then being about
A years of age; she there came under
the notice Of Joseph and Rebecca Rid
path and after some negotiations they
took her into their home and had
papers prepared wherein they along
with the mother of Hattie supposed
that the Ridpaths were adopting
Hattie. 1t seems that Rebecca was the
second wife of Joseph Ridpath and
was very anxious to adopt Hattie as
she had no children of her own. The
court found that the agreement was
that the RIdpaths were to take Hattie
into their own home and raise her and
provide for her care, keeping and
education, and that upon their de-
cease she was to inherit the same as
natural child; that they then took
Hattie into their family and she did
not see her natural mother until she
became of age. Shortly after that the
Ridpaths moved to Audubon and lived
here until the death of Mrs. Ridpath
in the year of 1911. Hattie did not
learn that she was other than their
natural child until she was about IA
years of age and she made her home
with them for close to 30 years. The
Ridpaths spoke of her as their adopt
ed" daughter and in the community
she was generally so regarded, but up,
on the death of the Ridpaths an in.
vestigation showed that the articles
had never been made a matter of re-
cord and such being the case, the law
holds that she was not adopted and
could not inherit as such. Substantially
all of the property left by the Ridpaths
consists of 5 lots in Harris Addition of
Audubon, Iowa. Being denied the
right to participate as an heir, Hattie
Carper through her attorneys, Mantz
& White, of Audubon brought action
to enforce an oral contract to adopt
very unusual action and one difficult
of proof. In it she alleged all the
facts leading up to her reception into
the Ridpath family, her services and
devotion and affection for them all
these years, and her belief that she
was adopted, and that it would be
working great injustice to deny her
the right to participate in the distri-
button of their property. The other
heirs of the Ridpaths admitted that
Hattie was in the family of the Rid.
paths for many years but claimed that
she was there under contract for sup
port during her minority, and that up.
on Having attained that she had no
further rights in the matter. J. NJ.
Graham of Audubon and l.. t. Shangle
of Oskaloosa represented the defend
ants in the trial. BY the terms of the
decree rendered by the court, Hattie
Carper is entitled to 7-16 of the prop
erty in Harris Addition, the remain,
der being divided equally between the
three natural children of Joe Ridpath.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-04-17
A Bill to Rob the American Garbage Can.

Senator Smoot has re-introduced his
bill appropriating $4,000 annually to
each state and territory for use through
the agricultural experiment stations,
the results of this particular work to be
printed and distributed, and designed
to teach young housewives and others
how to purchase properly, prepare and
cook food, and how to utilize the food
that is left over. The Senator says
that by robbing the American garbage
can that the cost of living will be re-
duced.
The Washington times., 1913-07-06
Prominent Young Society Couple Married at Noon
At tGe0rgetoWn Home of Dr. Charles D. Pennebaker
Mrs. Richard H. Townsend Is
Rear Guard of Smart Set to
Go to Newport. =

Mrs. Richard H. Townsend. who has
remained in Washington longer than
almost any Of the leaders of the smart
set. will be here during the month OF
July. and will go to Newport in Au-
gust.
Lieut.. Col. Moreton F. Gage. military
attache Of the British embassy, will re-
turn to the Capital early this week, and
will be present at the unveiling OF the
Braddock statue In Rockville on We'd
nesday.
r
John r. Mclean has temporarily
closed Friendship" his country place
near Washington. and has gone to Mar
ragansett Pier, where he is occupying
the Kinney cottage.
=
Maj. Gen. James B. Aleshire, U. 8. A..
and Mrs Aleshire and their daughters,
left Washington today for Wyoming. and
will spend the summer on their ranch.
\
The Washington times., 1913-07-06
Eberhardt and Party
See Places of Interest

Governor Eberhardt of Minnesota
and his party are today sightseeing
at Arlington National Cemetery and
in Rock Creek Park. They will leave
tonight for Norfolk and Old Point
Comfort and then proceed homeward.
The governor declares that the
farmers of Minnesota are opposed to
the free listing of agricultural prod
ucts, but he anticipates no interfer-
ence with their prosperity.
The governor between sightseeing
trips is busy framing his new bill
creating a regulatory and rate-fixing
public utilities commission for Min
nesota. He says the ward politicians
are opposing him strenuously in this
course.
The Washington times., 1913-07-06
COLLEGE STUDENTS
TO LEARN TACTICS
Fourteen Young Men From Dis
trict To Be Among 200 at
Gettysburg School.

The War Department camp at Gettys-
burg will open tomorrow with fourteen
young men from the District enrolled
in the course of special military in
struction, with about 200 others from
the principal universities, colleges and
schools east of the Rockies.
The District members will be: George
town University-W. G. Devine, James
p. Shea, II. w. Carroll and NJ. L.
Harding. George Washington University
e. Clarence Rice. Washington High
School-David II. Blakelock, John L.
Tunstall, Norman c. Rogers, Riehl Ar
mold. c. H. N. Roberts, W. VI. Yater
A. w. Payne, Charles G. Guirollo and
r. E. Ogle.
The War Department proposes.
through its camp at Gettysburg. and
another In California, to found the
nucleus of a body of trained men Of
high intelligence who would be easily
available in case of war. Instruction
in actual military duties will be given
daily.
The Gettysburg camp will be in
charge of Major James II. McRae. of
the Fifth Infantry. at Plattsburg Bar
racks y. Y, with Capt Robert -. Van
Horn, of the general staff, as adjutant.
The Washington times., 1913-07-06
PLANNED FOR
JACKSON BIRTHDAY
Women to Gather at Breakfast.
Men to Celebrate Date BY
Annual Dinner.

The anniversary of the birth Of An
drew Jackson. January s, will be, a red
letter day for Democrats Of both sexe,
In Washington next year. for the wom-
en- of the. Democracy. as well as the
men. will feast on that day. The wom-
en- Of the Wornen's National Democratic
League plan big breakfast in the
morning. In the evening the annual
dinner of the men will be held.
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson will be asked
to be the guest Of honor at the break
fast, and the women Of the Cabinet
will also be special guests. It is be-
lieved that Mrs. Wilson win accept the
invitation. This year at the breakfast
given at R1uschers by women of
Washington Mrs. Wilson was present,
but only after the political aspect of
Was Dissension. So ,
The breakfast of last spring started
out to be given as a Women's National
Democratic League breakfast. Mrs.
Steven B. Ay-es. then president of the
league, being the moving spirit Ru-
mors Of jealousy on the part of other
women's Democratic organizations
arose. and whether Mrs. Wilson was
affected by these or not, It Is known
that she declined to attend the break
fast II conducted by any Organization.
Accordingly. the breakfast was an.
nounced as being given by residential
and official Washington women as a
welcome to the wife Of the new Presi-
dent. and the wives Of the new Cabinet
members.
For some time harmony has prevailed
between the Women's National Demo-
cratic League and the Women's Wilson
and Marshall League, and no occasion
Is likely to arise for the exercise of
more diplomacy by Mrs. Wilson.
The breakfast, which is planned for
January. will be the third of the kind
In Warrington. In 1872 the first, the
Dolly Madison Harmony Breakfast, set
the signal for these affairs here. Mrs.
Wilson attended a big Victory Break
fast" In New York city not long after
the election last fall -.
As Committee. Z
Mrs. Duncan U. Fletcher and Mrs.
Edward Taylor have been named a
committee to make plans for the COM
Ing breakfast by Mrs. William A. Gull
lop. wife of the Indiana CONGRESSMAN,
who Is vice president and acting presi-
dent OF the Women's National Demo-
cratic League. Mrs. Cullop succeeded
Mrs Ayers In the conduct Of the league
when Mrs. Ayres resigned following
open criticism Of her methods of con-
Quoting the financial affairs of the or
ganization. rr
Mrs. Fletcher is the president Of the
Congressional Club and the wife Of the
Florida Senator. Mrs. Taylor is the
wife Of the Colorado Congressman. The
executive board of the league. meeting
yesterday in the apartment of Mrs. C.
c. McChord. IN the New Willard. also
voted that a testimonial be prepared
to Miss Kathrine Dabney, founder Of
the league. A committee which Mrs.
Cullop heads was named to cooperate
with the national Democratic commit
tee In voters' education work
The Washington times., 1913-07-06
Capital Residents Are
Married in Philadelphia

Dspa tches from Philadelphia last
night told of the issuance Of a marriage
license to John E. Chase, a printer, who
gave his address as 1907 North Carolina
avenue, Washington, and Miss Mae
Garner, 7l2 l. street northeast, also OF
this city. They each gave their age as
thrty-siX years.
A license was also ISSUED in Phiiadel-
phia yesterday for the marriage OF
George +. Barnes. a printer. giving his
address as 1860 f street northeast,
Washington, and Miss Pauline S.
Grindle, of Philadelphia. Both couples
said at the license bureau that they ex-
pected to be married in Philadelphia this
week.