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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-06-24
MURDERER, BANK ROBBER, BURGLAR,
BUT HE'S ABOVE ALL PETTY VICES

The most amazing criminal in the
history of the police records of crime
is Jay B. Allen burglar, robber and
murderer, who has stolen $4,000 in
eight years, accompanied by a con-
federate walked into a Brooklyn saw
ings bank, killed two men and escaped
With $4,000 in cash.
Allen-he prefers this name among
4 dozen aliases-is remarkable, not
for what he has done, but for what
he is.
When I went to the office of Dis
trict Attorney Harry Lewis in Brook
Ign to meet and sketch this man,
started to talk to the detective who
sat handcuffed to him--thinking the
copper was the criminal!
Allen himself is q Well-dressed,
blond young gentleman, with every
mark of refinement in his face. He
has a soft voice. pleasant manners
and is quite at his ease with every
one. Nobody in America, 1 dare say,
looks less like a hardened criminal.
His hands are white and his nails
we'll manicured. He looks like,
moving picture here-nearly six feet
tall, erect, with square jaws, good
eyes and fine forehead.
Allen never SWears: he says that
he has never uttered a profane word
or told smutty story. He doesn't
chew tobacco and has never used
drugs. He told about his life and
exploits with a sincerity that car
ried conviction.
Allen left his home in Alberta,
Canada, eight years ago at the age
of eighteen. In his eight years of
crime he claims to have stolen about
$4,000.
Allen was caught as a result of
what he said was his thirteenth
18th of December when he entered the
Brooklyn bank and, as he says, had
to shoot a couple of nice, but i'm
practical young men there"
II don't mind tell you," he said,
that that was my thirteenth bank
hoIdup. 1 have, of course, taken part
in many times thirteen holdups, but
that was my thirteenth experience in
walking into bank and getting
away with whatever I could pick
up"
Allen was convicted and sentenced
to life Imprisonment for killing
pal named Davis in Tacoma, Wash.
They had an argument over politics,
Davis accused the young gentleman
burglar of not having any red
blood" Davis attempted to pull a
gun and Allen shot him.
Allen thinks that altogether his
eight years of crime have been fair
Il had about $4,000 when I was
arrested" he said. "The average
saIaried man would consider that
bank role quite ample at the end Of
eight years of toll, should say"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-06-24
Prisoners Starved and
Tortured bV Germans

additional light has been thrown
on conditions in the Baltic provinces
by Colonel A. j, Carlson, of the
sanitary corps Of the United States
army, professor in the University
Of Chicago, who arrived last week
in Paris from Riga.
Colonel Carlson found the Riga
prisoners overcrowded with starving
men and women, who, it was admit
ted by the German keepers, were
given only enough food to keep
them alive, although the American
food administration was supplying
women, Colonel Carlson said, were
at the mercy of officers in prisons
without matrons. Prisoners were be-
ing tortured and executed daily in
a manner which he declared was
equally as revolving as when the
Red terror prevailed
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-06-24
WALLET
INTO MAIL BOX;
FOILS FOOTPAD
F Followed by HighWayman,
Albanian Deposits VAL
tables in Box; Receivers
Them at PoStoffiCe
What do the postmen find in the

What do the postmen find In the
mail boxes besides mail?
According to Postmaster Boiling
Jones the Atlanta collectors daily
return from their rounds with nom
mailable articles ranging from dog
collars to Liberty bonds, diamond
rings and roll of greenbacks.
A roll of bills contained in a bulg-
ing wallet, was brought to the post
office a few days ago by one OF the
mailmen who cover the burnt dis
trict. No explanation of its pres
ence in the box could be given until
a prominent business man rushed in
to Postmaster Jones and laid claim
to the purse. He had been walking
home through the burnt district the
night before, he said, with his
monthly salary of several hundred
dollars in his pocket, when he found
he was being followed.
In trailing his man for several
blocks. this shadow" acted so sus-
piciously that no doubt was left but
what a hold-up was contemplated.
With quick thought the moneyed At
lantian dropped his fat wallet int~
a mail box as he passed, and walked
slowly ahead A few minutes later,
crossing a particularly desolate part
of the district this mail box bank
err was looking down the barrel of
gun and the shadow" was going
through his pockets, disguised to
find only a few small coins. Wallet
and greenbacks were delivered next
morning by Postmaster Jones, after
complete identification had been es-
tablished.
According to Postmaster Jones
rarely q day passes that mailmen Go
not come in with non-mailable arti-
cles. Usually they are gloves or
handkerchiefs or powder puffs which
women have accidentally let fall
from their hands when mailing a
letter or package. Occasionally there
are diamond rings which have slip
ped loose from dainty fingers caught
beneath a heavy mail box lid.
Many people keep their Liberty
bonds and Thrift stamps in desk en-
velopes, and frequently these en-
velopes are mistakenly dropped in
the box as regular letters. Once a
southside mailman plunged his hand
into the depths of a box and was
bitten by a rat which mischievous
boys had dropped inside with little
thought for the harm their joke
might cause. Excepting the rat, all
these articles were brought to the
postofice and later returned to their
owners whenever DOSSible
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-06-24
Small Boy Diving for Rocks Finds Body
OF Drowned Soldier at Bottom Of Pool

A small boy diving for rocks Mon
day night accidentally discovered
the body of James r. Smith, soldier
Il ON Camp Zachary Taylor, lying
QE the bottom Of the Shelby Park
municipal swimming pool in Louis
Vile, Ky.
For more than an hour, while hun
dreds Of men, women and children
splashed and played in the cooling
waters, the body Of the drowned
soldier lay on the bottom of the
pool, undiscovered.
The manner in which he was
drowned was a matter of conjecture
to his four companions, who were
swimming with him a short while
before he sank. When they missed
him they thought he had gone into
the clubhouse and dressed. AS the
pool was crowded to capacity they
did not even look for him.
The only Disagreement on Smiths
body was a big bruise in the CEN
ter of his forhead.
1t is thought that Smith. in div
ing, struck an obstruction at the
bottom of the pool, probably a con-
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-06-24
Is Your Blood
For Iron?
Iron Is The Red Blood Food That Gives
You Strength, Energy and Power
How To Make The Test That Tells

Actual blood tests show that q tremen-
dously large number of people who are weak
and i'll lack iron in their blood and that they
are i'll for no other reason than lack of iron.
Iron deficiency paralyzes healthy, forceful
action, pulls down the whole organism and
weakens the entire system. A pale face,
nervous irritable disposition, a lack of
strength and endurance and the inability to
cope with the strong vigorous folks in the
race of life-these arc the sort of warning
signals that Nature gives when the blood is
getting thin, pale, watery and literally starv-
ing for want of iron. If you are not sure of
your condition, go to your doctor and have
him take your blood count and see where
you stand or else make the following test
yourself: See how long you can work or
how far you can walk without becoming
tired; next take two fvc-grain tablets of
Nuxated Iron three times per dSy after
meals for two weeks. Then test your
strength again and see how much you have
gained. By enriching the blood and creating
new red blood cells, Nuxated Iron strength.
ems the nerves, rebuilds the weakened tissues
and helps to instill renewed energy and
power into the whole system.
Unlike the older inorganic iron products
Nuxated Iron is easily assimilated, does not
inJure the teeth. make them black nor upset
the stomach. The manufacturers guarantee
successful and entirely satisfactory results
to every purchaser or they will refund your
money. It is dispensed by all good druggists.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-06-24
IMAM WHO CAUSED
NURSES ARREST
WILL FACE TRIAL

PARIS, June 21.-Irial before q
French military tribunal of Castor
Qulen, charged with having betrav-
ed Edith Cayen to thu Germans,
will opel the first week in July.
Judging from the evidence
brought out during the preliminary
hearing, Quien will receive little
mercy. The trial is expected to oc-
courtmartial. More than sixty
witnesses have been summoned, IN
Guiding Madame Bodart, one of Miss
CavelIS co-workers, and Prince and
Princess Crouy, who assisted Miss
Cavell in gcrtirg allied soldiers out
of Belgium :ato Holland AND France.
Testimony in the preliminary
hearing, which will also be present
ed at the trial, showed that Quien,
who had been convicted Of various
minor oftenses during he war, was
at ST. Quentin when the Germans
himself on familiar terms with
them, it was testified, and was
nicknamed Double Metre ttwo
yarder), because of his great
stature. The complete story, as re-
vealed in the testimony follows:
in northern France and Belgium
were angered at the fact that hun
dreds OF Belgian and allied SOL
diers, hidden in various villages,
were eventually Struggled through
the lines into Holland or France by
an organization known to have its
headquarters IN Brussels.
Quien, who by some combination
of circumstances was then in Brus-
sells, posing as al allied aviator who
had been obliged to allg4t behind mo
ing his plane had evaded capture.
Along with several French soldiers,
he was hidden for a time at the
chateau of Prince and Princess
Crouy. There Louise Thuliez, the
school teacher who has recently
been decorated with legion Of hon
or. secretly passed him on to Brus-
sells by way of Mons. At Brussels
he was lodged for several days IN
Miss CavelIs nursery. Finally an
engineer named Capiau and Madame
group Of allied soldiers to the Dutch
frontier where by payment of SIS
head to smugglers, they were
conducted into Dutch territory.
Once at The Hague, Quien made
no further effort to get into France.
and betrayed to the Germans the
entire organization for helping al
lied soldiers out of Belgium.
Miss Cavell was tried and eXecut-
ed shortly afterward. Miss Thuliez
was likewise sentenced to death,
but was pardoned. Princess Crouy,
Madame Bodart and Capiau were
sentenced to twelve years hard la
Dor. An architect named Baucq,
also betrayed by Quien, was shot at
the same time as Miss Caveu.
Quien continued in the employ of
the Germans in various capacities
finally establishing himself in In
terlaken, where he worked with
their most noted SniaS.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-06-24

crete post. The force of the blow
doubtless stunned him, and his
body did not rise to the top, in the
opinion of life guards, who are con-
fldent if he had risen to the surface
he would have been observed.
Smith went to the pool with his
four friends shortly after o'clock.
After they had been in the pool a
short while Smith told one of them
he was going to "try a dive for a
change" Two saw him dive.
Several score of persons dived
from the same board in the same
spot as Smith afterward, but it was
not until 1880 o'clock when Ray
mond Burke, a small bay, diving
for rocks, felt the body with his
hand. He notified life guards, who
recovered the body.
Smith was 10 years old. He was
the son of Robert A. Smith, $50
Lynn street, Louisville. His appli-
cation for discharge from the army
had been made, and he had expected
to return to civil life soon. He is
survived by his parents, two broth
and sisters
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-06-24
Ruptu1~ 9 >>SlEs
1000 /.7211uaUy

Seven thousand - each year are laid
away-the bEriI. v,'",.t-ta c being marked
Rupture Why: Re@auso the unfortunate
ones had neglected Themselves or had been
merely taking care Of the sign (swelling)
of the affliction and paying no attention to
, the cause. What are You doing? Are you
neglecting yourself by wearing a truss, APP
piiance, whatever name You choose to call
it, At best the truss is only a makeshift
"a false prop against a cOllapsing wall
and cannot be expected TO act as more than
a mere mechanical support. The binding
pressure retardS blood circulation, thus rob-
bling the weakened muscles of that which
they need observation-disclosures.
But science has found a way, and every
truss sufferer in the land is invited to make
a FREE test right in the privacy of their
own home. The FLAPAO method is unques-
tionably the most scientific, logical and sue
cessfuI self-trpa tment for rupture the world
has ever known.
The FLAPAO PAD when adhering closely
to the body cannot possibly slip or shift out
of place, therefore, cannot chafe or pinch.
soft as velvet-easy to apply-inexpensive.
To be used whilst you work and whilst you
sleep. No. straps, buckles or springs at
tached.
Learn how to close the hernial opening as
nature intended so the rupture CAN'T come
down. Send ycur name today to FLAPAO
Co., Block 1C1. ST. Louis, Mo-. for FREE
trial Flapao and the information necessary.
(Advt.)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-06-24
Georgia Man Has 1926
LiVinu Descendants

Mr. W. T. Brant1ey. who is we'll
TO man OF une
is now eighty-fve years of age and
is still quite active for a man of
that age. He is the father of thir
teen children, all married and doing
well. He has one hundred grand
grandsons were subject to the army
draft after the United States had de-
clared war against Germany. His
wife, who lived to be quite old, died
a few years ago, since which time
he has lived with his children, going
from one home to another, just as
the notion suited him. Besides the
one hundred and thirteen descend
ants as above enumerated. he has
thirteen great grandchildren, which
makes a total of one hundred and
tWenty-SiX descendants
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-06-24
Depressed German Teacher
Commits Suicide in N. Y,

Depressed by q series of embar-
easements following the declaration
of war, Gerard A. Richling, former
ly instructor of German at Column
bia university, took his own life in
hi sresidence, at No. 38S Lafayette
avenue, Brooklyn. He tried to hang
himself on a chandelier, but the fix
ture broke and he was asphyXiated.
Richling was thirty-one years old,
and was the support of his aged
parents. At the time the United
States went into the war he was
teaching German at Columbia uni
versity, and when the institution
dropped this course he entered the
officers training camp at Plattsburg.
After six months there he was re-
jected for service because he was
two pounds short of the required
weight. He then obtained a place
as teacher Of German at Transyl-
vania college. Kentucky, but left
when he was accused of pro-German
leanings.
Just after 5 o'clock one morning
last week Richling's mother was
awakened by a crash in his room
and he was found dead
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-06-24
Bills VIII rovide for
Two Georgia Canals

WASHINGTON, June 21'-Repre-
Eleventh Georgia district, will in
troduce next week two bills asking
a government survey and coast esti
mate of two canals from the At
lantic to the Gulf of Mexico. One
bill will attempt to revive the old
ST. Mary's and ST. Marks canal pro-
iect, which has been before congress
for many years.
The other will ask for a canal be-
ginning at the mouth of the Alta
maha river, thence tlong that river
to the Ocmulgee, and then to some
point on the latter river between
Hawkinsville and Abbeville, and
thence along Bluff and Gum creeks
to the Flint river and south to the
Anal chiCOla and the gulf.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-06-24
JUICE
FOR FRECKLES
Girls! Make beauty lotion for
a few cents-Try it!


Squeeze the juice Of two lemons
into bottle containing three ounces
you have a quarter pint of the best
freckle and tan lotion, and COM
plexion beautifier, at very. very small
cost.
Your grocer has the lemons and
any drug store or toilet counter will
supply three ounces Of orchard white
for a few cents. Massage this sweet
ly fragrant lotion into the face, neck,
arms and hands each day and see
how frecls1es and blemishes disappear
and how clear, soft and rosy-white
the skin becomes. Yes! 1t is harm
less anC never irritateS.-i AdvtD
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-06-24

lights into the arms of wealthy Eng
lishmen.
All four of the actresses named
married men of title and wealth. So
did the girl from Atlanta. After d
whirlwind courtship of only a few
weeks, she became the bride Of
Lewis, who, with the late Barney
Barnato, owned the biggest liza
monds in South Africa. the Debeers
and Kimberley mines, from which
nearly all the first-class diamond
output of the world is drawn.
The marriage attracted internation-
could scarcely be numbered in mill
lions. Some idea of it may be OBJ
tanned when it is stated that, accord
ing to good report the Barnato-LeWiS
interests paid more than 500, 100000
war tax to Great Britain.
Eas Lived Abroad
During her years of married life,
n made he eTeh home Between a rS 1on eTs
Paris and South Africa, although
several times she came to Atlanta
to visit her mother. Mrs. Stra-
han, too, went abroad and was a
guest for a long time in the Lewis
town house in London and the Lewis
country home in Kent.
Then came the war. Pet" was in
America at the outbreak. She hur-
ried home to England and for more
than four years mother and daugh-
ter were separated, while Mrs.
Strahan dreamed her days away in
the little house on Alexander street
and Mrs. Lewis, with other promi-
nent British women, gave themselves
heart and soul to winning the war
for the empire.
At the first opportunity. Mrs.
Lewis planned to return to see her
mother, but the red tape still in
vogue for months after the armistice
prevented her getting a passport. At
last she brought enough influence to
bear and a month ago sailed from
England, coming straight to Atlanta
after rea ching New York
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-06-24
OLD AGE STARTS
WITH YOUR KIDNEYS

have settled down for good. At the
HARLEM Oil has been relieving. the
weaknesses and disability due to ad-
vancing years. It is standard old
time home remedy and needs no in
PRODUCTION. GOLD MEDAL HARLEM
Oil is inclosed in odorless, tasteless
capsules containing about S drops each.
Take them as you would pill. with a
swallow Of water. The oil stimulates
the kidney action and enables the
first sign that your kidneys are not
working properly. go to your druggist
and get a box of GOLD MEDAL Haar-
lem Oil Capsules. Money refunded If
they do not help you. Three sizes.
But remember to ask for the original
imported GOLD MEDAL brand. In
sealed packages,
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-06-24
Confessed Bandit and Murderer Sings Hymns
BHthey, Reads and Eats With Unworried Air


Showing no more emotion or con-
Germ than would an ordinary person
sOiourning in hotel, George Fawcett
Handy, confessed bandit and muir
derer Of two employees of the East
Brooklyn Savings bank, spent Sunday
n the Raymond street Jail in New
York. He ate three large meals, read
services in the prison chapel, read
the Sunday papers, exercised in the
prison courtyard and chatted pleas
antly wit hthe two keepers who at
all times are stationed just outside
his cell.
Handy slept the entire night
through and on awakening called a
CHEEKY good morning. to the guards
and made inquiries as to when break
fast would be served.
81 have an excellent Appetite he
said. 81 hope you serve good coffee,
because I'm very fond Of it,
Apparently the coffee came up to
his expectations, for he asked for a
second cupful. which was given him.
Later. when asked if he wished to
attend chapel, he agreed readily, but
specified that he would prefer to at
tend the Protestant services. In the
chapel as everywhere else he imme-
diately made himself quite at home.
and soon his voice was ringing out
above the others in the singing of
the hymns.
After services he asked for the
morning newspapers, which were CIV
en- him. Eagerly he turned to the
articles about himself. which he read
with the suggestion of a smile upon
his thin lips, but he made no COM
ment. After an hour of exercise in
the courtyard he ate a hearty din
ner of corned beef and cabbage,
which he praised, and then, to the
amazement of the guards, he asked
to be allowed to read some books on
psychology. There being none in
the prison library. he was given a
novel, which he read with great in
terest until late in the afternoon,
when he had a conference with Frank
McCaffery, who has been assigned to
defend him. In this discussion, as in
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-06-24
Detective Poses as
Priest With Sick Man

Charges that an operative OF tne
William j. Burns international De-
tective Agency in Denver, Col, dress
ed as a priest and sat with crucifix
at the bedside of a sick man in an
attempt to get evidence. We're made
last week by Meier Steinbrlnk, at
torney, at the hearing before Deputy
State Controller Boardman, in New
York, for the revocation of the
Burns license.
Mr.. Burns said that he didn't know
until after the event that the detec-
tive had dressed as a priest.
az do not approve of anything OF
that kind and will not permit it, he
said.
tions, Mr.. Burns said he did not per
init operatives to get a man drunk to
make him talk. He had no objection,
he said, to a detective standing at the
stand for a deliberate attempt to
force a conversation with alcohol.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-06-24

Science says that old age begins with
weakened kidneys and digestive
organs.
This being true. it is easy to believe
that by keeping the kidneys and d.
gestive organs cleansed and in proper
working order. old age can be deferred
and life prolonged far beyond that
enjoyed by the average person.
For over 200 years GOLD MEDAL
organs to throw off the poisons which
cause premature old age. New life and
strength increase as you continue the
treatment. When completely restored
continue taking a capsule or two each
day. GOLD MEDAL HARLEM Oil Cap
sules will keep you in health and vigor
and prevent a return of the disease.
Do not wait until old age or disease
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-06-24
PIE ACHER CURED
zwn
Of PEL-LI.AGRA
After Trying TWENTY One
Doctors in Vain, Alabama
Preacher Takes BAUGHNS
@TREATMEMT and Is Com
DIeteIy Cured

sCalera, Ala.-The Rev. J. w.
Jones, of this place, writes as fol
lows: "I want to say that 1 am, at
last, we'll of pellagra. [ tried TWEEN
ty-one doctors, but got no better.
Then 1 took Baughn's Treatment for
three months. and think 1 am COM
pleteIy cured. The trouble has not
returned and I can't say too much
for Baughn's Pellagra Treatment. l
know that 1 could not have lived If
1 had not taken it. L thank the
good Lord and will praise this treat
ment wherever I 60"
Hundreds of similar letters bear
out the fact that Pellagra IS cur
able. Don't give up in despair There
still is hope. You, too, can be cured
of this dreadful disease, which shows
itself by such symptoms as: Red
hands. skin peeling off, sore mouth.
lips. throat and tongue flaming red
with much mucus and choking; in
digestion and nausea; diarrhea or con-
stipation. Write today to the Amer
lean Compromising Co., Box SSH,
Jasper, Ala, for free book on Pei
lagra and full particulars about
Baughn's Pellagra Treatment, which
is guaranteed 10 cure, or money re-
funded.-{AdVtD