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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1909
Page
10
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Governor Brown granted a 28 day respite to J M Elliott of LaGrange who faced hanging for the murder of G L Rivers. The case involves jealousy claims, with a prison commission hearing delayed as Pilotts attorney works on clemency. An October 8 respite had been set, but final disposition before October is unlikely. The piece also notes a college guidance blurb urging Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Ga.
A Georgia wholesale firm falls for a police message about a man named John Smith in trouble. Lawyers clear a different man with the same name for $50, then reveal the misidentification. Police search for the real suspect as the firm realizes the scam.
Council debated city printing contract with union and nonunion firms. Nonunion Cittler Brothers bid won after close vote but notice to reconsider saved the matter for two weeks. Also approved street repaving plans and street name changes tied to Confederate ward reshaping.
Grand jury for the September term of the Fulton County Superior Court heard Judge Pendleton urge four urgent pleas to enforce state laws. Morris Rich was elected foreman and the panel began reviewing sixty or so indictable items. The judge warned that lax enforcement breeds crime and anarchy, stressing the duty to uphold criminal law and inspect prisoner sanitary conditions.
The well known life insurance man Hugh McAfee was attacked near the Majestic hotel about midnight Saturday, cut about the face. Authorities have not acted, rumors of a prominent suspect and a fleeing accomplice swirl as McAfee recovers and friends await his return home.
Citizens of the fifth ward held a meeting at the Anne Wallace branch of Carnegie Library to push for opening the library on November 2. A special merchants committee and a subscriptions drive were appointed to gather funds and books, with Dr Holderby presiding and Julia Rankin reporting on book totals.
Councilman Charles L. Chosewood of the third ward was indicted by the grand jury for assault with intent to murder in connection with a reported attack on R. V. Wilson at White City over a month ago. The knife attack allegedly left Wilson severely cut on the face. Also noted is Dr. J. Knott of East Point accused of firing several times at his wife over three months ago. Mrs. Knott reportedly refused to mogate the case among the sixty cases presented to the grand jury, fifty indictments returned.
Wilburn, a 46 year old tunnel foreman on a railroad project, bought a revolver and cartridges in a hardware store and walked to the State Street Methodist church steps where he killed himself. He wrote the addresses of his brother in Richmond Washington and his wife in Hawkins Tennessee before the fatal shot. No motive was given.
Luke Wood aged 10 a switchman for the Nashville Chattanooga and St Louis railway was fatally struck yesterday morning about 10 o clock by an incoming Louisville and Nashville passenger train. He died at noon in the hospital while switching cars in the yards near Howell Station and standing on the cow catcher of the locomotive.
W Luee Loop, a Louisville and Nashville road worker, stepped to cross the adjoining track and was struck by a fast passenger train. His skull was fractured and both legs broken. he died without regaining consciousness at noon. Survived by wife, a 3 year old child, and four siblings. Funeral at Greenbere, Bond and Bloomfield chapel this afternoon at 2. Interment at West View cemetery.
The seventieth annual Stone Mountain Association session at Stone Mountain Ga endorsed a plan to split into two bodies. Atlanta and Fulton churches may form a new association while Decatur to Social Circle churches keep the old name. Dr I G Walker of Decatur was elected moderator as the assembly approved letters of dismissal for churches joining the new body.
The committee on dividing Stone Mountain Association, led by G Walker and others, urged Atlanta churches to form a new association if desired. Dr John F White outlined the need for a stronger, city-focused effort while preserving fraternal ties. New church applications from Inman Park and Oakland were approved. East Lake was not represented. Temperance policy praised Georgia law. criticisms of near beer and support for cooperation with the Anti-Saloon League were voiced.
Public auction in Silvester, Georgia, saw Alford stock in the Gulf Line railroad sell for 101900 dollars. A syndicate of New York and Atlanta men bid in the stock, signaling planned improvements to the property.
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