Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-08
DAUGHTER RUNS
GREAT BUSINESS
PAINTER LEAVES
Whole City Is Stirred Over the
Unusua. End OF Wealthy
Manufacturer,
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meet after the inquest IS concluded.
when future plans 81 the company
wiz be perfected. state Senator Con
rad has been named acting president
by the directors pending the election
of permanent head.
When it h,,am, known Iu Jackson
Vile that Painter mad drowned there
was p wild scramble Go recover his
body Practically every undertaken %
Jacksonville had boat on the river
and with graphing hooks the men
aboard dragged for three hours until
the body was brought up. Moulton
and Kyle were successful The body
was taken TO their morguc and there
Is where a hasty autopsy was per
formed before the Coroners jury had
viewed the body.
Detectives Start Inquiry,
Two physicians representing the
family started removing the heart
lungs stomach. brain and kidneys be-
fore the state had representative
present. These organs were shipped
Immediately 10 Baltimore bat befor.
they could De- delivered there by the
express company the Coroner had
been in Geographic communication
with that city and delivery was held
up until he could direct 10 whom de-
livery should be- made. The shipment
was made in less than twelve hours
after Painter lost his ife No sooner
had 10 become known Ina Jacksonville
that Painter was dead than insurance
agents notified their home offices and
detectives and other investigators
were dispatched tu JacksNFlIe 10y
the FIRST trains.
They Investigated the case thor
oughy and suspicious ui -ulril' ut-
veloped one theory advanced in M
surance circles was that Painter hdh
been taking Dh'oral or some olRe'
drug AMI that this so weakened MIN
that seIl-destrucuun became the re
suit
The jury impaneled 20 sit in the
case Is composed Of men of prom
hence In Jacksonville The members
are
j. e. CouuaIIy spring bed manu-
fdrturer
grocery company
Charles "A Howard big river man
end prominent odd Fellow.
T. g. AIhrjttou. restaurant Urupfle-
tor
n. C. Hopkins. real estate dcn.rr
n r. CulltN d.. editor of "a Jack
-ouville paper
Painter Was Prominent.
Paint. o. occupied au .uNlah." posi-
BAL
official aS Port Commissioner, t tlNlt
leader a- chairman uf tine Board "i
Trades foreign commerce committee,
"a lharif. worker Hs secretary ut the
ChUlreu'- Home society, rrtufmer
as secretary uf the State Anti saloon
League and "a ghurgbmHu az "a uea
con boz the fashionable Riverside HtI-
INST Church His position al Port
Commissioner uH- already been hIlca
by the election Of Zach Anderson and
an the Board of Trade commerce com
mittcy by the election Of Or W. II
Stnson His successors in the other
places are SCI 20 Dee named.
Painter nativ, Of Sew York. r.
year- old. came Co Florida iu 1871
Ten wears later Dee was editing am
agricultural paper az Delaud. Through
that medium be became interested IN
fertilizers and in 1895 located 10
Jacksonville 90 manufacture such
products Three years later bee 'n-
,orporated On, present company As
his only daughter Miss okiD Painter
grew up. he took her irto his office
and gave her IA thorough bushes.
training SO that she has ~ recent
years been one of the directing pow
or. Of tine business Since his death
she has assumed the business Fesron-
sibntles for the family.