Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-11-06
z OFFICIALS SKILLED
INPISTO| F|GHTA1
TENNESSEE POLLS
3 Shot in Chicago; Troops
Guard Against Fraud
in New Mexico

JACKSON, Tenn, Nov. &C. w.
Bartholomew, seventy, judge in a
polling precinct at Middleburg,
Tenn, and his son, j. l.. Bartholo-
NEW? forty, were killed and PROT
w. w. Rogers wounded shortly be-
fore noon today by Dan G. Powers,
fifty, who was defeated in the Au-
gust primary as Republican candi-
date for magistrate in Henderson
county, according to advices received
here from Lexington, county seat oil
Henderson county.
Rogers was acting in the role OF
peacenaker when he was wounded
according to reports received mere.
Powers is said to have escaped IN
an automobile after the shooting.
THREE SHOT IN BATTLE
AT POLLS IN Chicago
CHICAGO. Nov. 4.-One man was
Shot and killed. another mortally
mounted and a third. Claud Maddox
was seriously wounded in revolver
fight outside of a polling place where
voters were balloting today. The
slain man and one of the wounded
were unidentified. the latter being
unconscious and in a dying condition,
when taken to the county hospital.
Election officials and police said
they did not know whether the Shoot
ing had anything 20 do with the cleo
ton or not.
According to police reports Mad
dox and the other two victims were
in an automobile when another car
drove up alongside and its occu-
pants, four men, opened fire on
them.
The slain man is believed to have
been John Mackey, a police charac-
ter once connected with the valley
gang" a band of west side gangsters
with which Terry Druggan, more
lately q beer magnate, recently ar
rested in San Francisco, was affiliat-
ed before he became more opulent.
Anthony Kissane, another gang
ster, was arreS ted and questioned in
connection with the shooting.
Nathan Feinstone, q La Toilette
precinct worker, was found bleeding
in the street near a polling place as
the result of having been slugged.
Mrs. Englert, a La Toilette worker.
reported to party headquarters. Mrs.
Engert took Feinstone to a hos
pital and then returned to the pou.
ing place.
Let them come back, I'm not
afraid of the whole gang" Mrs.
Englert said.
Earlier in the day Anton RuG
fatally injured after he had gone
to a polling place to vote. The
police began a search for several
men without any information AS to
the ca Use OF the shooting. The at
tack was the f.lst violence IL con-
nection with the election.
Rudzinski dropped when a fusil-
lade of shots was fired in and about
the polling place on West 45th street,
east of the stockyards.
The wounded man. who is forty.
seven years old, was a teamster, had
not been active politically and the
police were uncertain whether he
was the intended target or the vic
tim of mistake.
The victim had found a line of
men ahead of him and fearing he
would be late at work he started
to leave. Then the shooting occur
red.
The shots were fired from a black
automobile. The police learned that
several men shortly before had APP
peared at the polling place and asked
for Michael Hastings, said to be
Democratic precinct captain.
MARTIAL LAW DECLARED
IN NEW MEXICO COUNTY
LAS VEGAS, n. NJ, Nov. 4
Martial law was proclaimed in San
Miguel county, of which Las Vegas
Is the county seat, last night by
Governor j. T. Hinkle, who, in a
statement to newspaper men, said:
There is going to be an honest
election in San Miguel county, even
if troops are necessary to supervise
the polls. mean to see that the peo-
pie have the opportunity to vote
without intimidation"
The proclamation became effective
at p. m.
]. w. Skipwith, adjutant general,
announced that guardsmen would
not attempt to influence voters, but
would he assigned to police duty in
each precinct. The soldiers, number
ing about $50. will be on duty, it was
said at least until the boxes con
tanning the ballots cast today have
been returned TO the courthouse.
Reports that United States Mar
shall Romero, Republican, has been
swearing in extra deputy marshals
in various parts of the state resulted
last night in protests being sent by
United States Senator A. A. Jones
and Congressman John Morrow to
the attorney general in Washington
alleging unwarranted interference
with tho election.
The decision to send troops here
was due, it was said, to feeling
aroused over the suspension recently
by d. ]. Leahy, district judge, of
Sheriff Lorenzo Delgado.
GUARDSNIEN AT POLLS
IN BLOODY WILLIAMSON
MARION, ILL.,, Nov. 4.-National
guardsmen, on duty here two
months today, were stationed at va
rious polling places of Williamson
county on request of Sheriff George
Galligan, who announced last night
rumors of alleged intimidation CT
voters had reached him. The issue
in the county election is between the
ku l%luX Khan and it's o.,aQsaAa q
Republican candidates for county
offices are known to have been as
sured the support of the khan, ia
view Of the fact that the Democratic
county committee recently adopted
a resolution condmening the organ.
cation.
STRONG GUARD PROVIDED
AT OKLAHOMA POLLS
TULSA, Okla, Nov. Especial
deputy marshals were stationed at