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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-22
SOLICITATIONS
ENTER FIGHT
On BUDGET

A special committee. headed by w.
F. Mills, of No. 295 Simpson street,
and backed by a large number Of in
dignant women-the mothers of chill
dren attending the Davis Street
School-will begin efforts at once to
tear up the new finance sheet and
get into the budget an appropriation
to build a new school In that dis
trict.
They will see the Mayor, the va
rious members of the City Council,
and especially the members of the
Finance Committee. without delay,
and have a strong set of resolutions
to present at the Council meeting
next Monday.
All this activity follows meeting
Tuesday night at the Jones Avenue
Baptist Church, attended by mem
bers of the Davis Street Improvement
Association, most of the members
being parents of children attending
the Davis Street School,
The failure Of the Finance Commit
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-22
Chauffeur Tells How
He Caught Freeman.

Fred Ball, chauffeur for the Belle
Isle Taxicab Company, told this
graphic story of the capture of Free
man:
II don't come to work until 8
o'clock at night. Last night at about
7 o'clock Freeman called UP and
asked for me. They told him l had
not come on yet. He called UP again
at 1880 and was told the same thing.
He left word then for me to meet
him at Houston and Hilliard street
with my car, just as soon as I re-
ported for work.
Il had known him for some time. l
met him about a year ago at Sa-
vannah. He was going under an as
sumed name.
Appeared Greatly Excited.
81 met him about o'clock and he
appeared very much excited He told
me to take him to Marietta street to
catch a car a, soon as I could. He
said not to drive through the center
of town, but to take roundabout
route.
1--WE had barely got started before
he began telling me about the train
robbery. lie seemed to feel as though
he had 20 tell someone about it, and
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-22
Churches Take Up
Tabernacle's Idea
Of Labor Services

The action of the Baptist Taber-
racle in inviting representatives of
labor unions to address its congrega-
ton may have been unprecedented.
but it is certainly not to remain
unique. Other Atlanta churches are
taking up the idea
The Universalist Church is arrang-
ing labor program" for a day in
the near future, and other similar
programs are pending. The Taber-
nacle meeting was largely attended
Jerome Jones. editor of The Journal
Of Labor: j. w. Armistead. president
of the Atlanta Typographical Union.
and j. l.. Rodier. formerly of Wash
ington, all spoke.
Mr.. Jones' address was on the COM
mon idea of the church and the labor
unions. Mr.. Rodier spoke of the
teachings of Christ with reference to
the claims of labor, and Mr.. Armi-
stead explained in detail the work of
the Atlanta organization
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-22
as ! had Known him fairly well. he

as had known him fairly well, he
told me.
He said that he had pulled the
train robbery alone and had taken his
chances on getting away with it. He
also said that he had robbed w. T.
Morgan, the Cedartown farmer, out
of $1,000 in bills which Morgan had
just drawn from the Lowry National
Bank and said that he had several
hundred dollars worth of diamonds
in his possession which had been
taken from the Vollmer Manufactur-
ing Company on Walton street.
Tells His Employer.
TT put me in a ticklish position,
being made the confidant of this fell
low. I didn't have much to say to
him, but took him to Marietta street.
where I put him off to wait for his
car.
Il guess I might have broken a
few speed limit regulations in getting
back to the Belle Isle office. told
Mr.. Belle Isle about it and asked him
what 7 should do.
Il told hib, Freeman will kill me
If he knows that l ever squealed on
him. Mr.. Belle Isle and / talked it
over a minute, and we decided that
eiiOiN was 6lso 10 uO-
we got hold of Fortson and Green,
two plainclothes men, and took them
on record run to overtake the car.
We left them to get aboard at the
intersection of North avenue and Ma
rietta street.
Pal Had Gone Ahead.
we drove the automobile along
with the car for some distance. The
officers were to wave us if they got
their man and we were to take them
back to town. Pretty soon they gave
us the sign, and in a minute they got
off the car with Freeman
fireman. pay (the policemans son
for whom the officers Immediately
began a search) had already gone to
Marietta and had registered at no.
tel as r. S. Freeman and brother,
expecting Freeman to 3orn him later.
Freeman didn't have much to say
coming back. He saw that he had
said too much already. They couldn't
get him to say much to-day, either,
when they were giving him the third
degree, except to make him admit
that he had disposed of three dia-
monds that were missed from the
Vollmer Manufacturing Company's
store on Walton street"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-22
MAN WHO Confessed
AS BANDIT NOW SAYS
t WAS ALL A BOAST

freeman arrested, placed in the auto
mobile and brough back to police
headquarters in less than 15 minutes.
Freeman was smiling and contemp-
tCous during the grilling at the Po-
lice Station.
Confession nothing!" he exclaimed
after the ordeal was over. II didn't
tell them anything. They think
they've got something on me, but
they haven't.
Sure, 1 told that bunk to Ball, nut
| was just kidding him.. What do
they take me for? Do they think II
had pulled that train robbery l
would have spilled the whole thing
to the first person happened to
meet
Freeman was dressed in a suit Of
clothes of the latest cut. They were
of dark material, with thin stripe.
His brother was not so we'll dressed.
Neither was he so confident and
smiling. Whaley was a picture Of
despair.
The Alleged Confession.
Here is Freeman's alleged confess
sio II:
Il am the fellow that held UP the
train the other night. had had help
in other jobs, but l pulled that alone.
See this cap? That's the one l wore
when l went through the train.
See these two ties? This is the
striped one | had on when I pulled
the trick AS soon as l did the job,
| changed.
I'm the guy that "gypped" that
farmer from Cedartown out of 1000
the other day. too. Another fellow
was with me when we did that. (Here
Freeman mentioned the name of a
youth, the son of a policeman. for
whom the officers now are searching)
my brother and I and young Wha-
ley We're responsible for the jewelry
thefts at the Vollmer Manufacturing
Company. at No. IS IL Walton street.
Ny brother and Whaley. both of
whom work there, got the diamonds
and l disposed of three of them"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-22

Branding his thrilling confession
and his subsequent arrest as sus-
pect in the N, c. & st. l.. train
robbery as nothing but a hoax and a
Joke, R. S. Freeman sat in his cell
at police headquarters Wednesday
afternoon and made to a Georgian
reporter his first public statement of
the series of events that eliminated
n his being locked up as a cool and
daring bandit.
Freeman laughed at his own pre-
dicament, saying that it all had re-
suited from his attempt to have a
little fun at the expense of Fred Ball.
a chauffeur for the Belle Isle Taxicao
Company, to whom he told Tuesday
night a stirring tale of holding UP
single-handed the passengers on the
Pullman car Friday night and COM
pelling them to turn over their valua-
bles
The detectives are not at all certain
but that Freeman actually was only
joking in a boastful way when he
filled Balls ears with the remark
able story:
Chief Mathieson, of the county po-
lice, said Wednesday afternoon that
Freeman's original story of the ho!d-
up sounded very ''fishy." Chic
Beavers said that he would have TO
investigate the tale further before ne
would be prepared to express an
opinion
THE whole thing is lot of bunk,
said Freeman. Il told Ball all OF tnat
stuff, but l was just kidding him.
disposed of the three rings that my
brother and young Whaley took from
the Vollmer firm, all right, and that
why was getting out Of town. saw
my brother and Whaley with two de-
tectives and ! knew they would De
looking for me next.
Wanted Money.
1 disposed of the rings because
wanted to get some of the dough.
was to get half. sold one of them
for S25, another for $50 and thru
for SIS. | haven't got the money for
the second one yet.
The fellows that | know nave
been kidding me about my resem-
olance to the description of the BAN
dit who held up the train. They told
me had better get rid of that striped
tie Of mine or the police would get
me sure. l did as they said and got
me this black bow.
When Ball met me with the taxi
tuesday night, he remarked that II
| had a striped tie I would fit the
description of the bandit. / said:
Here it Isl and pulled it out of my
pocket. He said: You must be the
bandit them and l told him was,
and went on and described every
ming l had read about the train rob
berry
Gust Kidding Him Along"
He mentioned the robbery of that
man Morgan two weeks ago and !
said that l had done that, too, just
70 Kid him along. He said that
must have had pal. and l told him
mat George Mann was my pal, but
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-22
Prisoner Asserts Story
of HOId-up Was Fake

had anything to do with me or my
brother except as a friend, and he
was helping me get away Tuesday
night. Of course, l didn't pull that
Morgan robbery. I never saw Nor
gan and wasn't anywhere near the
spot they say it was done.
IF a young woman had kept a
date with me that night, would have
taken the 11:30 car for Marietta, and
I never would have been caught.
Mann was there at the Marietta sta
ton when Green and F'ortson went
there with me, and he made his get
away right under their eyes. That
made me laugh"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-22
Continued from Page I.

Il Freeman said that he was Is
,.ssrs old and that he lived at No.
% west Pavilion street.
After Another Gangster.
The detectives expect to capture the
toprth member of the supposed gang
turing the day. They have his name,
and have traced him as far as Ma
RATA where he went Tuesday, 1t is
,sid with two suit cases, expecting to
,,est r. S. Freeman in the evening.
An effort will be made to get the suit
asses as it is believed they may
contain some of the plumber that the
ouartet is suspected of stealing
Vreeman's capture came about in a
dramatic manner. Knowing Ball, a
chauffeur for the Belle Isle Taxicab
Company. he called for him on the
taIenhone twice Tuesday night. The
second time he left word for Ball to
meet him with car at Houston and
billiard streets.
Ball arrived there and found Free
man in a highly nervous state. Free
man Jumped in the car, directed Ball
10 take him to Marietta street as
fast as the car would go, and then
hogan pouring out his startling con-
fession of the train holdup and other
robberies.
Hurries to Tell of Confession.
Ball as soon as he had let Free
man off to wait for his car, sped back
10 the Office and notified A. l.. Belle
Isle. proprietor. The police imme-
diately were informed and Plain
flothes officers Green and Fortson,
in one of the Belle Isle automobiles,
racd toward Marietta to head off the
fugitive. The car was overtaken,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-22

and they are going to see that he
keeps his promise.
And they adopted rousing resolu-
tons condemning the new finance
sheet for its failure to provide a new
schoolhouse for their children
Alderman James w. Maddox and
Councilman ]. D. Sisson signed the
resolutions, which urge that the
finance sheet be not approved.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-22

tee to provide at least 100000 in the
apportionment sheet for a new build
ing, and the insanitary and general
ramshackle condition of the present
school, have stirred up the parents of
the Davis Street School children to
boundless protests.
They say Councilman Lee promised
to see that a new school was erected,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-22

Atlanta first, last and all the time for
the regional bank, and any time we
can be of service to you, do not hest
tate to command u.s."
From w. E. Dawson, cashier of the
Byron National Bank, Byromville,
came this message:
1--WE will be glad to join with you
in locating regional bank In At
lanta."
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-22
"CASCARETS" IF c POSITIVE, BILIOUS,
HEADACHY AND UPSET-D|ME A BOX

No odds how much your head aches;
how miserable you are from constipa-
ton. indigestion, biliousness a Gas
caret" tonight Strengthens you out by
morning
Clean your stomach, liver and bowels
tonight; end the headache. biliousness,
dizziness, nervousness, the sour, gassy
stomach, backache and all other dis
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-22

tress relieve your sluggish Liver and
Bowels of all the sour bile, gases and
clogged-up waste which is producing
the misery.
A 10-cent box Of Cascarets keeps your
head clear, stomach sweet, liver and
bowels regular and you feel bully for
months. Don't forget the children
their little insides need a gentle cleans
ing, too.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-22
Asthma-Catarrh
And Bronchitis
IAN Be Greatly Relieved by the New
External Vapor Treatment.

IL, Melt in a spoon little Vick's
cNap-O-Rub" Group and Pneumonia
little up u each H'n no .ns 's and at night
apply wei over throat and chest
covering with a warm flannel cloth.
Leave the covering loose around the
neck so that the vapors of Menthol.
Inhymol, Eucalyptol. Camphor and
rlne Tar, that are released by the
Soody heat, may be inhaled all night
iong. In Asthma and Hay Fever
rub Vick's over the spinal column
70 relax the nervous tension. This
treatment Is not cure" but it has
az least the merit OF containing no
harmful drugs, and 1t Is sold by all
druggists In Csc, SOC. and $1.00 jars,
on 80 days trial. Vick's is also ex-
eeesllent for all Group and cold trou-
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-22
GOING TO BED

With thesenglasses on, not because
they need them to go to sleep, but
simply because they fit so comfort
ably they forgot to take them off.
Bring your oculist prescription to us
and we will prove the above. John
l. Moore & Sons, ~ North Broad St.
-AdVt
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-22
Ford Profit Sharing
Plan Is Aid to Cupid

DETROIT, Jan. 21.-Since the plan
of sharing s10,000,o00 in profits with
employees of the Ford Automobile
plant went into effect rs workers in
the plant have married.
Evening star., 1914-11-22

father went hunting to get little rabbit skin to wrap
the Baby Bunting in. 1t afforded Harold such
disguised delight that felt the rabbit must have
burrowed in tertiary Strata and that the predatory
parents of Baby Bunting must have been the primal
type from which Harold hailed.
But Miss Cooter, who alone could have sympathized
with my scientific delight in this discovery, far
away the Center of Culture that had produced her
We were, however, to meet yet once again. 1t was
year later, board Hudson River steamboat.
She pretter than ever quite beautifully dressed
and her encourage comprised two nurses "a colored
NANNY and pretty SWISS, perambulator with
baby, and a husband. She introduced me to the hus-
band and the babya round rosy baby neither atypical
noratavstic but just of the common oldfashoned kind
"Isnt he cute?" she exclaimed with rapture. 3Smie
at Mama, Baby, and show um's pretty toofs!" Then
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she addressed the child 3doodleum ducksy," while
I stood speechless and staring.
My circular gaze awakened memories of the past.
She asked after Harold.
3He is very we-now," said with point. @May I
be pardoned for remarng that you do not appear to
be rearing your baby upon the System of Child
Culture you formerly followed with such extraordinary
success
No. said the late Mis- Cooter thoughtfuly. @Noo!"
"Why not?' I asked, hot with the remembrance of
Harold's sufferings.
Miss Cooter considered, a beautifully mancured
foreinger in dmple that had observed before.
"Why not? You earnestly advocated the system
for other peoples babies"
@Well,' said the late Miss Cooter, with burst of
candor II reckon because those other peoples
babies. This is mine!"
Evening star., 1914-11-22
BY CHARLES A. COLLMAN

organized, merely safeguard that he would refrain
from his notorious lupne instincts toward vexatious
litigation.
There is another wolf, whose propensties for harm
much overrated who supposed to influence legis
1ation in such a that spectators with whom
he is affiliated may engineer raids the stock market
This mans chief asset, however, lies in being adver
tised wo since he is enabled thereby to sell his
services to unscrupuous stock jobbers.
THESE personalities in the world of wofdom just
cited prey upon the mighty and the men of wealth.
There of another stripe who specialize in
swapping the heels of men pursued by trouble. They
the cruel and cowardy of the pack In 1907
bond broker in difficulties His creditors could
afford to let him fail, since he interested in
some of their undertakings. So they appointed
committee to take charge of his affairs, and tried to
turn into cash some of his marketable holdings.
The bond dealer naturally sensitive regarding
his position and uneasy lest the real truth be known
for his failure, to all intents and purposes.
One day, when he talking to one of his advisers
a card brought in from visitor. The bond man
see him. and returned with disturbed face
saying that there representative of Wall Street
publication outside who wished @wrte up" his bond
business.
@What shall do?' asked the distressed broker.
Neither he his friends had heard of the
alleged publication.
aShow him the way to the door," advised his friend
The broker sensible enough to dismiss his caller
The latter merely emissary from wolfish BROOD
whose members make it practice to bleed embar-
rassed firms, whose troubles privately circulated
through the Street. Only number of their pubca
ton issued but they alter its date to suit
the occasion for printing few thousand copies when
they sell them to frightened broker who
wishes to conceal crisis in his AFFAIRS for his
troubles published his creditors would about his
ears and subject him to great financial loss.
1t happens at times that gray old wolf engages
in fight with pack of jackals much to the entertain
ment of the Street. valuable mining property
fell to the ownership of group of young men with
sporting propensities They thoughtess
than unscrupulous, perhaps; but that did mitigate
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roundings his day nursery intermediate nursery, and
night nursery papered, ted, furnished, lighted,
ventilated, and warmed upon most approved scien
tifc methods he did not thrive, contracting complaints
incidental infancy with passionate enthusiasm, and
keeping them long after another child would have
done with them. And then he complicated an un-
usually violent attack of Group with convulsions and
Miss Cooter guessed she had better resign the case
which she did at once.
XIHEN last looked into the hygienic day nursery
most of the educational objects it had contained
had vanished and Harold lying in the cotton lap
of his recovered Mary, nursing stuffed kitten, and
sucking attenuated thumb. The expression of
gloomy boredom had vanished from his countenance
Mary chanted rirne, deporaby lacking in sense and
construction, about certain Baby Bunting whose
Evening star., 1914-11-22

an entire edition had been printed The ending of the
matter that the sensitive nancier bought up the
de luxe edition at slapping price, rather than consent
to its circulation 1t foolish compromise The
cozening sharper had capacity for doing him HARM
The INSCRIPTIONS historian, however, pursued SINH
lar methods with Others His victims either bought up
his editions else they purchased his 4lbrary which
contained offending volume whose circulation
would have proved Objectionable to the purchaser
The library otherwise consisted of old city directories
obsolete dictionaries, worthless reports, and other
printed rubbish gathered at some auction sale
The historian associated with couple of Wall
Street GHOSTS broken men, who were acquainted
with the lore of the Street. and put their knowledge to
in this Objectionable way. At time they over
stepped the bounds of prudence however, and the dig
nfied historian swiftly sought change of climate in
Europe. In London this man, "Mr. Johnson" after
awhile became destitute. He Southerner of good
family; but had long since out the patience and
indulgence of his relatives Well that they would
not help him out of his predicament, he sent them
cabegram to the effect that "Mr. Johnson had died
suddenly in London, and asked what disposition they
desired to make of his body The relatives, with sghs
of relief at the prospect of at last placing underground
the troublesome uncle who had often disgraced them
gladly sent liberal for the return of his body
to these shores. Whereupon the gallant historian fort
fed with his burial money! returned in state aboard the
next steamship, and reappeared among his friends in
Evening star., 1914-11-22
Drawings by E. Hopper
! DISTINGUISHED looking Individual,

~ presenting excellent init oductions,
called one day upon a Wall Street
financier, whose name was synonym for
probity Smoothing his white whiskers with
an exaggerated, well bred flourish, the visitor
explained that he was preparing to publish
work on the Makers of Wall Street,-histories
of the personalities who had built up the
financial district. He left several galley proofs
with the financier, requesting him to assure
himself that all references to his own life
were correct.
The financier, on reviewing the proofs,
found something therein that made his hair
Evening star., 1914-11-22

himself to work to analyze the merits of the trans
action. Sooner later his penetrative mind detects
a flaw in the financial plan, or exposes point of
attack. He buys up several shares of the companys
stock couple of its bonds places them in the
of dummy, and begins suit enoining the sale
change of securities, whichever is being contemplated
The corporation attacked is often in pressing need
for money, either meet maturing obligations or for
urgent improvements A long drawn out suit, lasting
period of years sometimes is regarded as an ap
pallng handicap by the company's managers, and
small wonder that they often tempted to COM
promise with their troublesome litigant by paying him
large of money behalf of his fictitious client
The lawsuits of the supreme wolf often end mysteri-
ously. Only few years ago he was accredited with
having obtained by secret arrangement more than a
million dollars from great Western corporation.
No greater plague than this exists today in the
world of corporate finance. He is malgned hated, but
feared, and his enemies, powerful though they be- are
powerless against him. They charge him with living
high-class blackmail, collected in the of the
law He, in his defense, maintains that he is guardian
of the rights of stockholders Were his talents directed
for good he could probably rank with the highest nan
ciers of the country.
The financial district at time afflicted with
lawyer of much influence, whose 3strike suits
troublesome that, according to the tradition of the
Street. he received award of ten thousand dollars
from the fund of nearly every large corporation
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rise on end. 1t was a bit of
his early history, of a period
nearly twenty-five years be-
fore, which he thought he had
outlived, even to the ken Of
his intimate associates. He
had once sold abroad an is
sue of bonds on a railroad
long before a pick had been
struck into the ground to con-
struct the line. When the
worthless nature of the bonds
became apparent a CHASTITY
failure ensued on the part of
the firm with which he was
then connected.
When his caller returned
the financier protested Wig
orously against this expo
sition of the skeleton in his
closet. The dignified @his-
torian" was extremely apollo
getic; but through some
misunderstanding on the part
of his publisher his work had
been nut on the presses. and