Tragedy Follows Fight Over Child Custody at East Hunter Street
A boarding house at 261 East Hunter Street becomes the scene of a double tragedy. Benjamin Storey shot Marie Towler Storey near their gate, then killed himself with carbolic acid after a custody dispute over their 17 month old daughter. Neighbors report a bitter divorce struggle and an imminent court case. Baby Lillian will be placed with her aunt Emma Green, while five-year-old Ina Wheeler may go to Mrs Amanda Sadler. The incident leaves two children orphaned and an ongoing inquest planned.
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Tle
East
Hunter Street
Auiet
Marie Towler Storey
Benjamin Howell Storey
Barry G. Poole
Storey
East Hunter
Hill Streets
Archer
Maude
Maude Kessler
Lillian Storey
Emma Green
College Park
Inex Wheeler
Robert Wheeler
Amanda Sadler
Hampton Street
Premonition to Adopt Baby Inez Delayed by Relatives
Four years after warning of trouble, Mrs. Sadler who endured seven child losses offered to adopt Baby Inez if the slain woman’s relatives consent. She said she would provide a good home, noting she is well to do.
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Inez
Pastor lists ten wife rules from a Rockefeller parish
In Cleveland on June 3 Rev. W. W. Bustard of Euclid Avenue Baptist issues a wife decalogue for John D Rockefeller’s churchgoers. The ten points urge marrying for love, restraint in dress, modest domestic conduct, not lecturing others, avoiding nagging, guarding privacy, truthful speech, and keeping home as a woman’s realm.
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Cleveland
Ohio
W. W. Bustard
Euclid Avenue Baptist Church
John D. Rockefeller
Georgia High Court Affirms Penalties Record Set
The Georgia supreme court disposed of 54 capital cases in a year with only two trial court reversals. Sixteen cases involved death penalties. none were reversed. Of the sixteen, two inmates died by suicide and one was killed escaping. Attorney General Felder notes seven capital cases remain pending.
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Georgia Supreme Court
High Court
Felder
Divorce Granted After Wife's Repeated Suicides Attempts
Harry Pratt secures divorce from wife after repeated self harm attempts reported during marriage beginning May 21, 1908. He described incidents including a razor attack in their San Francisco home. Judge Thomas F. Graham noted the continual misery caused by Mrs. Pratt.
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San Francisco
Prison Inadequate Pardons for White Women Slayers
In Little Rock Arkansas on June 3 Governor Donaghey pardoned Stella Schneider and Leila Ford due to lack of facilities for white women at the state prison. Schneider, who poisoned her husband, had received a six year sentence and Ford twelve years for murder. Superintendent Pitcock recommended the clemency citing no confinement space for white female inmates.
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Little Rock
Ark
Pitcock
Donaghey
Stella Schneider
Leila Ford
Brookhaven Club Plans 20000 dollar Improvements
The Brookhaven club plans a new boat house and bath house within weeks after a board vote of 20000 dollars for improvements. It will issue 100000 dollars in bonds to retire 80000 dollars of existing debt and leave a surplus for new work. The lake nearby is unusually clear for Atlanta area bathing. The golf links will be ready by July 15 as a nine hole course, planned to expand to eighteen holes in a few years.
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Brookhaven Club
Board of Governors
Brookhaven
Atlanta
120 Foot Pontoon Bridge Fastest Ever Built
Leavenworth Kansas June 3 sixty men from Company M Third battalion of engineers built a 120 foot pontoon bridge across Merritt Lake in sixteen minutes and thirty five seconds setting a new army and world record.
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Leavenworth, Kans
Merritt Lake
Joker Sends Police on Death Hunt to Cemetery
Chicago June 3 police rushed to 4846 Southport Avenue after an alarm reported several dead at a location described as a cemetery. Officers are seeking the droker as part of the investigation.
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JOKER
Chicago
Southport Avenue
Droker
Mrs Josehine Lawrence Apology Letter To Be Made Public
New York June 3 Complete reconciliation between Mrs Josephine Lawrence widow of a rich patent medicine manufacturer and Russell Hopkins of Atlanta who married her granddaughter is announced. Lawrence releases a letter to Hopkins saying she regrets the suit and retracts unfounded charges noting payments and notes were adjusted with his cooperation and that she still owes the money.
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New York
Josephine Lawrence
Russell Hopkins
Atlanta
Tosephine Lawrence
Seven Convicts Escape From River Boat Near Baton Rouge
Seven white convicts escaped from a quar ters boat on the Mississippi near Baton Rouge early today. Two were recaptured. five or six feet of water in breaks in the levee may have driven others to swamps. Three believed drowned include Charles Thomas of Sedalia Missouri, 20, sentenced for burglary. Escapees: William McGregor of Ontario, Canada, and J B Morgan of Chicago.
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New Orleans
Mississippi
Baton Rouge
Charles Thomas
Sedalia
William McGregor
Ontario
Canada
J. B. Morgan
Chicago
George M. Bir
Cincinnati
Thomas
Charles Flores
Louisiana
Georgian Want Ads Tradition Promises Broad Classified Reach
The notice promotes Georgian want ads as a low cost way to find every kind of listing from jobs and real estate to rooms, offices and lost items. It emphasizes that ads can help locate poultry, farms and business opportunities and urges readers to read, answer, and use them.
Butts County Man Proposes Nighttime Cotton Ginning Law
Representative J Threat Moore of Butts proposes a bill making nighttime cotton ginning in Georgia a high crime and misdemeanor. He argues the practice worsens the cost of living and tempts defaulters, while denying racial motive and pledging support from landowners and merchants.
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J. Threat Moore
Butts
Georgia
Moore
Empire
South
Duffy
Butts County
Dothan man arrested in Savannah for forging check
Savannah June 3 E S Inge of Dothan Ala is under arrest charged with forging the name of Mrs S W Graham of Jacksonville Fla to a check. Several days ago Inge was arrested on larceny charges preferred by Mrs Graham.
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Savannah
E. S Inge
Dothan
Ala
S. W. Graham
Jacksonville
Fla
Inge
Graham
Burning Of Stores Prosecutes Prominent Men
Montgomery Alabama June 3 7 As the result of an investigation by Lorrine Rice state fire marshal of the burning of eight stores at Benton Lowndes county last December five warrants have been issued three arrests have been made and one defendant has given himself up The fifth defendant has not been made known pending arrest Three of the five are prominent white men the other two being negroes C Walter Jones formerly of Lowndes county but now residing in Montgomery surrendered to the sheriff at Haynesville J H Felder a white man and Ike Cunningham and Steve Wagner negroes were arrested Warrants were issued by Probate Judge J C Wood at Haynesville charging the five defendants with second degree arson
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Montgomery
Ala
Lorrine Rice
Benton
Lowndes County
C. Walter Jones
Haynesville
J. H. Felder
Ike Cunningham
Steve Wagner
J. C. Wood
Fire On Cunard Liner Carmania Damages Estimated
Liverpool June 3 Officials estimate damage from the Carmania fire at $340,000 with potential for higher costs as flames burn through the stokehold. the ship remains under control but may burn for days. Investigators probe rumors of arson tied to transport strikers amid a wrecked vessel interior.
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Liverpool
Stoke Wold
Pietro Bonelli Ends Street Organ Tour With $40000
Pietro Bonelli, a 62 year old street organ grinder, sails for Italy aboard the Kaiserin Auguste Victoria after fifty years of performing across the United States Canada and England. He plans Hamburg Paris and then Italy, never to drag an organ through towns again.
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New York
Pietro Bonelli
United States
Canada
England
Italy
Pietro
Hamburg
Paris
Daly to Inspect Dalton Elks Lodge in First Local Visit
Augustin Daly of Macon district deputy grand exalted ruler for north Georgia BPO Elks will spend Thursday in Dalton for the lodge inspection. This marks the first inspection of the Dalton lodge since its organization.
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Dalton
Augustin Daly
Macon
North Georgia
B. P.O. Elks
Health board backs $275000 garbage disposal bid ignored
Forsyth Crematory and Sawyer & Sons fight for contract as finance committee weighs adding $106000 to Destructor Company bid for 1500 kilowatt daily electric plant. Mayor Winn touts saving $180 daily on light bills and readiness to proceed despite tax contract issues. Crematory reps refuse further talks, claim unjust bond, and decline certified ten percent bid.
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Board of Health
Destructor Company of
New York
Forsyth Crematory Company
W. H. Sawyer & Sons, Co
The
Health Board
Finance Committee
Destructor Company
Winn
White Way
Georgia Railway and Power Company
Discharged Soldier Tries Run Ship Single Handed
Victor M. McKinney, a discharged soldier, drank diccarel cocktails aboard the Panama from Colon and attempted a lone takeover of the ship. He arrived in port in irons.
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New York
Panama
Colon
Victor M. McKinney
Irons
Spooney Girl Lets Man Hold Hand. Diamond Gone
Miss Nellie Burns of Uniontown reports to Yonkers police that after a moonlit stroll with a young man she permitted to hold her hand, her diamond ring went missing.
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Spooney
Diamond
Yonkers. N., Y
Nellie Burns
Uniontown
Fimoh Defi Of Watson 100.5 Controversy Sparks Arrest Threat
Publisher Thomas E Watson faces a warrant for improper use mails after a public letter criticizing President Taft. He calls Taft a blundering booby and blames him for Major Archibald Bo’s death aboard the Titanic, asserting persecution by the president and powerful figures. Watson vows to refuse surrender of any words.
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Thomas E. Watson
Taft
Archibald BO
Ous
Rome
Pres
Majo
Thesest
Mr Son
Watson
Taft tied to arrest over pope death and obscenity charges
Thomas E. Watson declares he was notified by a U.S. marshal to expect arrest Monday at noon without seeing a warrant. He alleges prosecution is driven by President Taft and the Catholic hierarchy due to an editorial in The Weekly American on Major Butt’s death. He argues copyright and obscenity claims target his magazine, claiming patriotic intent and questioning government tolerance of a quoted book.
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United States Marshal’s Office
Macon
Taft
Rema
Jeffersoian
M Butt
al Butt
Becaus
United States Army
Major Butt
George Harvey
Harpers Weekly
Harvey
Marconi News Agency
Rome
Jordan Publishing Company
Philadelphia
Twiefth
Jordan Brothers
United States
Ribbon
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W. H. Sawyer & Sons Company
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