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ilONDAT EyENTXG, APRIL 28, 1913. TI1E 'ATLANTA JOURNAL. MAN HELD FOR GIRLS MURDER A FOB'S HE WAS WITH ANOTHER WHEN WITNESS SAWi HIMiEAST I STRAND OF HAIR IN MACHINE ON SECOND FLOOR MAY BE CLEW LEFT BY MARY PHAGAN Writing inlncoherenl 1 'Notes Is Not Like That of Dead Girl The Atlanta Journal Great $7,000 Booklovers Arthur Mullinaxr Trolley Conductor, DehiesT That" ETT ySentell Sawf-Him -Saturday 4 Night With- Mary 4 What the a aeries of 75 pries pictures Campaign Is each representing the title of ono boob. Ono to be published each day, commencing April 8. 'Prises valum at 87 008 to -Contestant securing the most correct answern No soliciting, or voting necessary.

In this Campaign. Cut' tha' picture out each day, as they appear In The Journal-V- Our NEW Booklovers catalogue contains All the tltlee used hi this Campaign. can secure one at The Journal Office for tie; by la the great aid to Contestant. You have the RIGHT TO TEX VOTERS ON EACH PRIZE PICTURE Enter and get In line foe your chare of tho 87.008. campaign I open to all residents of Georgia.

Alabama, Florida Vsrth Boisth Carolina. Louisiana. Mississippi and Toneesssa Be complete prize list os another pare. -cut atogg this uhe Picture 1. Mary' Phagan' own handwriting, as shown In her address she wrote 'for Sunday school teacher, 2.

Written by Lee at' suggestion of detectives for purpose of comparison. 3 One of notes found in cellar. 4. Also written by Lee -at suggestion of detectives. CORONER'S JUPy Vims SCENE of Murder add adjourns WITHOUT RENDERING VERDICT WHAT BOOK DOES THIS PICTURE REPRESENT? Writ Title andram ef Author In Form Below.

7ltl6 Author VV WtV Your Name Street and Number B'SdV8r8fBVvr Qr Ha Fg oVo 8 8 rt' bV Oity of Town No. 23-rApril 28, 1913 No. 23. WM8 until you have all ths answers to tho pictures bsl iloturs before -Arthur Mullinax. Identified 6y E.

L. Sentell. of 12 Davis street, clerk for Hamper Grocery company, a.a. the man1 whom ii saw with Phagan, the murdered girl, at midnight Saturday, denies any part.1 In the atrocious add declares that 'h Will able to prove an alibi. Subjected to.

a qulxxinr Tn the office of Chief, of. Polk' jteavers. told an apparently straightforward story ef. Ms actions On. he night preceding finding, of the bod) of.

bin statement by the. police. bowYcr' developed-discrepancies, they Ho 1 held in solitary 'confinement on a tentative-charge of suspicion. r. who' was an acquaintance of ihe dead girl.

tsld the that -hi as Jier at Forsyth and Hunter streets with Mulltnax at o'clock Sunday morning. He said he spoke td her and that the former, street car man tipped, his hat in response to the salutation. In ths presence of. Chiefs: Beavers, Chief of Detectives Lanford, Police Cap-, taip' Mayo- and the clerk and Mullinax were brought face to The clerk reiterated his identL flea tfon. s.

Pointing, at the prisoner, he said --v- "That is the man- who was with the girl last, night I'm Theres no doubt about It 'It's false 1 Its lie! cried the man accused. was at home asleep, and Can-prove 1 Bentell never "waveted In his contention, however, -WAB WITH ANOTHER." V-' Muilinsx told the police following his arest Sunday, that hs had callad on a girl friend. Mias Pearl Robinson, who lives In Bsllwood avenue, and later accompanied her to the Bijou theater. 'We came downtown on an English avenua car, got off at Marietta and Forsyth streets, and pent directly to the theater. We arrivsd at about tho middle of the first show: and left about ths mlddls of ths sscopd.

Than wa boarded a car and took i the girl home. The only time was nsar the Intersection where Bentell aqyq he saw me with Miss Phagan was whey I took the car with Miss A coincidence lit the care la- the fact that Mias Reblnapn wore the same- kind of a dress and ig of the same.alxe and appearance a( tho murdered girl. Friends of Mullinax declare that this shows that Sentqll jljji, mistaken In his identification. ivj we arrived at Miss Robinsons house ws talked 'for awhile, Mullinax said in his 1 guess I stayed there for fifteen minutea Then I went home. room at 80 Poplar street, in Bellwood.

When I got there gave Mra Emma Rutherford, ipy landlady, a dollar which owed her. She slipped It under her pillow, went to bed then, and didn't know of tbs murder ufitil Sunday morning. THE VITAL. FLAW. -In this part of the suspects statement tho polleo believe they have picked a vital flaw.

Mra Rutherford, they say declares that Mullinax did not come home- Saturday night and pay her a dollar. Ho gave it to ms Saturday at noon she said. It! hla cell at tho jail Mullinax la denied to all Although obviously perturbed over his arrest, he haa remained cool and haa told time and time again the asms story of hla actions on the night of the crime. To reporters ha said that he had known' the murdered girl but casually. He denied that he had become acquainted with her on her frequent rides on hla car between the pAncll factory and her home.

This, also, la in contravention of other testimony In the hands of the police, officials declare. It la said that witnesses have told -of frequent conversations between Miaa. Phagan and Mullinax on ths street car of which ths suspect was In charge that would not come under the designation ef casual acquaintance. MET AT CHURCH SOCIAL-, I met her at a social In Western Height Baptist church last Christmas, said the. prisoner.

"That la the only time I knew her. 'Anybody tbat says I was a good friend of Mrs lies. Why, I was never even introduced to the glrL We both took In the entertainment. She depicted Sleeping Beauty in a playlet. I did a black-face act and sang In a quartet, During the show standing In tha wings waiting for my turn to go on.

Miss Phagan came up to me. 'You look fine In black 1 face she said to me. Then I said. Then Ill keep my face black Alwaya It waa a Joke, added the alleged murderer As he smiled grimly. Mulltnax said that that was the last time be had seen the girl to talk to her, I haven't been with her since Christman I never saw her Saturday night.

My arrest la all a horrible mistake, but Im not worrying much, because the police can't hold an Innocent man long and I am an Innocent man. Samples of Mullinax handwriting were compared witb tbat the notea found by the dead girls body in the pencil factory basement. Tbs penmanship did not tally. BLOOD POISON Cured by III and 814 Over 888 treatment riven. oooto oavlt, TOB AuatoU BuUdlag Mo.

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thorn In, for no- partial Tha Atlanta JournaL CUT ALOXB THE BOOKLOVERS CAMPAIGN AT YANCEYS HARDWARE STORI Its Discovery Leads to Theory That She May Have Been Attacked There and Then Dragged to Factory Basement Ths finding of half a dozen strands of hair In th rog of a aieel lathe In the metal room on the second floor of the National rnrll company' factory, and the discovery of blood aplotchea on the floor, early Monday morning, arouaed the belief that thla was the arena of the merrier of fourteen-year-old Mray. Pliagan, Sunday morning. Thate a-ere no other evidence of a death etruggl here, hut there waa little In the room that rould have been dteturbed by a combat. The hair la of the aame ahade that of the- murdered girl. I A cunning effort had been made to conceal the blood alaina on the floor by the smearing of some kind of a jHwdcr oer the eurface.

A alngle drop of congealed blood waa found, however, by a Journal reporter, and a further investigation revealed more. In the fchaente of contradictory evidence. It In now the belief that the girl waa killed in thin room and her body then dragged to the opening in tin: Aral flnoi. wheie it wan lowered to the basement. tends to implicate more than one murderer, as the girl weighed 159 itoiiml.

t'ALLKli TIIKIIK FOR PAY? Mien Phaaun formerly In the very roor.i In which site is believed to have met death. Pin- mid four ither glria weie emiilnyerl tlseie in manufacturing the metai capn vl.ich fasten the tuhher eraser to Uie end of pencila. last because of a short age in material, she and her companions were laid off by A. Quinn, foreman of the shop. They were to return 'to woik when metal On Friday, Foreman Quinn endeavored to locate Miss Phagan and her companions.

ile wanted to tell them to vail for their puy on Friday, as Faturday, the regular payday, was a holiday. Owing to the fact that the dead girl could not be reached by telephone, she waa not notified of the cfiange In an on Faturday she Vnl to the factory expecting to get her money, What she did after her arrival has not yet been determined by the police Mias Phagan waa the stepdaughter of J. V. Coleman. Her mother was prostrate with grief on feunday when, after spending a sleey.Y-es night, worrying over her oVaghter's unexplained absence, rit was told that the girl was he rfctini of one the most atrocious murders In the criminal history of Atlanta.

Funday night she became hysterical. and physician were summoned. The girl aim has three brothers. Two lira in Atlanta, and one Joined the navy but six months ago. NKGHO FOUND BODY.

Newt Lee. negro nightwatchman. discovered the body of the girl at 3:80 O'clock Sunday morning. He' called the police, wlio hastened to the sceen In an automobile. The hlack tnet the machine and told an almost incoherent story of how he had stumbled on the body in the darkness of the basement.

Ills iiuinner aroused Immediate suspicion in the minds of the oflicers, and he was lstrr taken into 'custody. He denies knowledge of the crime, however. Tho limbs of the rnrpe'had grown Vivid, hut the blood which had flowed from the deep wound on the girls head was still damp. Oilier ciidcnrr of murder were all a twilit. The handkerchief of the vic tim was fuund forty feet nivny.

It was saturated with blood. A ru. tiler handkerchief man's was found beside the body. It. too, was soaked in blood.

A hat and parasol, later Identified as lielonRlng to the murdered girl, were found in the elevator shaft. MKSII HANDBAG MIFFING. Iler inesli handbag, said to have contained a few dollars in cash and valu-less personal effect, was missing, how-fver, thougli the was said to have taken It from home with her. On her wrist waa a plain gold bracelet. It waa bent, and was splotched with blood.

Ipuii a linger of her left hand waa a snul signet ring upon which was engraved 'V." It was 6 o'clock Sunday morning before the girl was identified. Miss Grace llirks. one of the girl employed In the factory, was brought to the sbene In an automobile, tfhe swooned ss eo.n as she saw the senseless form and battered faco of her former companion. It's Mary riiagan," she moment Ister. "Poor Mary:" A few hours later detectives reached the conclusion that the girl had been drugged before the murder, either while In the factory or before her ar- riial their.

An examination showed that a criminal assault had preceded the homicide. A crude garrotte, manufactured ot two strips of underclothing torn from tlio gill's body, had been used to choke her. Apparently it had been placed about her lirek and then twisted. On of the theories of the police Is that the girl and her later murderer or murderers! entered tho building through the Forsyth street entrance, and that tho perpetrator of the crime left through a roar door. This theory la borne out by tho fact that a door per-injttlnir enr throiiRh an alley to Went Hunter atrert win forced open.

Tle staple holding the lock' was torn from the woodwork. HANDWRITING NOT KNOWN Efforts to identify tlie penmanship of tbs notes found by the dead girl's aiue failed. Famples of her handwriting, of MuUinav'a and of that of the regro watchman. 11 fait' to agree with it If oilher of tlie men wrote toe niea-oac a they successfully disguised their handwriting; if the girl really did vrrrto the missive, she dW so in the throe of approaching death. One of the notes was penciled on an order blank of tne rN ECHO'S STORY UNSHAKEN.

iN'ewt Lee. negro nightwatchman, held suspect in solitary conflmoent, de-tJed absolutely any knowledge of the i rime. Without weakening or changing iji first statements. In any way. tho le hlack stood several aeen gii the hands of the police Sunday.

His story- was not shaker. Art onipr.nktl by reporters and detectives, he waa taken Sunday to the basement in the pencil factory where be discovered the remain of the pretty girl. In pantomime he re-enacted the finding of the body. A detectl-e lay on the -floor in tne rxact spot where the body wee found. The lights were turned out and tne negro told to diPici -actions earlier In the morning.

While the small aud-ieiite looked on. the Mack descended the ladder through the tran door outside. ID remained thrwa few moments and thou ualked over to the side oi the side of the detective. 1 'Thats the way It happened, he sahw The police-adroit that the negros tale of the finding of the body is plausible possible. Meet Again Wednesday Morning When Witnesses Will Be Examined-Five Hundred People Present When Inquest Was Begun For an hour Monday morning a jury empaneled by Coroner Paul Donahue groped through dark basement Passageways and first floor rooms In the factory of the National Pencil company hunting for evidence that would aid them in reaching a verdict as to who murdered pretty Mary- Phagan.

At tho end of their hunt the body adjourned. They will meet again Wednesday morning at 9 oclock to continue their investigation. Many witnesses who esn throw a light on the actual crime, the actions of the deed girl tit- of the suspects under arrest will tie examined then, ft is probable, also, that tbs prisoners now held in Jail also will tcjijfy. The Jury met at J. Bloomfield's undertaking chapel, South Pryor street, shortly after 10 o'clock.

It was composed of these: J. C. Hood. Clarence Langford, Glenn Dewberry. Homer C.

Ashford, John Miller and C. Y. Sheets. Mr. Ashford was foreman.

Tlie first official act of tlie Jury was to view the remains of the 14-year-old girl. Behind closed doors the coroners talesmen inspected the fatal wounds and brulaca on the girl's body. witnesses were called. One or two who had beeu told by the police to present were excused and told to report again Wednesday morning. They and many others probably will be heard at that time.

A throng of S00 persons had gathered at the undertaking parlors to hear the Inquest. They were excluded by the police and. when the Jury, headed by Coroner Donahue, finally left the fiincr-al parlors for the scene of the murder, the Investigators had to elbow and shoulder their way across a crowd-banked sidewalk. Every inch of ground, every thing that ha been mentioned in connection with the case were examined by the Jurors in the pencil factory. They were accompanied by three or four policemen on ihetr tour, and the many details of the mystery given them to unravel, if.

possible. Once in their two luvirsEina vona ass mniy to emms. City detectives, detailed to run down the murderer' or mur- derers fourteen-year-old Mary Phsgan, are endeavoring to clear up the mystery surrounding the authorship of two crudely written and badly composed notes which were found near the corpse of the murdered girl In the basement of the pencil factory. These notes were written in lead pencil. They are misspelled, fncoherent and nearly unlntelll-ble.

They present two quetions to the minds of the detectives': Frst: Were they really written by the girl while suffering the last throes of a delirious death? Second: Are they the handi work of the murderer, to divert suspicion from himself toward a fictitious negro. One of the notes reads as follows: "He said he wood love me laid down like the night witch did It but that long tall black negro did by his sleb." Hero is the other: mama that negro hired down here did this I went to get water and he pushed me down this hole A long tall negro black that has it woke long lean tall negro I write while play with me. Today In Congress BEN ATE. Met at noon. Several nominations received from tho president.

Committee on education and labor agreed to favorably report nomination of Chariest. P. Kelli as commissioner of labor statistics. Sundry civil appropriation bill reported. Chairman Martin an- nounclng he would it up for consideration at next meeting.

Senator Kern's resolution for investigation of the West Virginia coal strike was reported and will be. considered Thursday. HOUSE. Met at 11 a- and resumed tariff general debate, which will close tonight. Representative Rainey spoke in favor of tariff: Representative Payne against it.

Sisson delivered a war speech supporting proposed California antl-gllen land law. Calhoun Masons Meet CALHOUN, April 28. A banquet was given Tuesday night by ths Royal Arch Masons at which the.Adalrs-ville chapter was entertained. State Lecturer McHan was In charge of the ceremonies of the occasion, and tandl-dates were initiated into the Royal' Arch degree at the rloee of the banquet. Two Journal Booklovers interested the Campaign Editor very much In Tanoeya Hardware store on Saturday afternoon, though they did not at the time know that they were talking to anyone connected with The JournaL They bad corns in to see the Majestic Range that Tho Journal has on exhlbltoln as one of the prizes In the Great 87,000 Booklovers Campaign, and the Editor dropped in to get a line on a good Booklovers story.

And these ladles are enthusiasts, and while they are out looking at all the prises, it does not look to us as if either one of them expects to land down In the 865 class, as that is ths value of the prizes they were looking at. The question of pictures published so far came up, and ono of the ladies thought they were pretty hard ao far, when the other lady opened her handbag and took out the twenty prize pictures, separating them according to the way dha. looked at them; whether easy or hard, and When aha was through they were lined up in thla way; In the easy ptls there were Nos. 1, 5, 4, 6, 7, 8, 11. 13, 14.

15, 17 and 10, and in tha hard pile there were Non 8, 8, 0, 10, 18, 18. 18 and 20. "Now, you take No. 0. for instance, I place that with the hard ones, because there are ao many titles that would fit It and be good, answers, and I hav not decided what ten I will use on that one.

You take Nos. 1. 5, 11, 15, 17 and IS and. look them over closely, and you will find them ao easy that they almost yell the titles at you. I think my plan of setting the hard ones to une aide and going over them one by one when I have an hour or two to spare is a good one, as I find that pictures thaf seemed very hard on the first tryout come easy to mo the second or third time.

Another plan that waa suggested In one of the stories is to go through the Catalogue to become familiar with all the title so that when you see a picture you will remember a title that will just fit 1 thoroughly enjoy the work and will fed well repaid for the time devoted to It. no matter what win. Oh, yea. I am going to win something, and I have visited all the stores and know the prises and will know Juat what I am getting when I receive Tho Journals order for a prise. Tea I would rather have that thousand dollars, because I could -do a lot of good with It, Good day, gentlomen, must be getting on home and get dinner ready, investigation a lantern was placed on the spot on the basement floor where Newt Lee, negro night watchman, says another lantern was sitting when- he discovered the body.

Apparently there was doubt in the minds of soma of the Jurors as to whether or not it would be possible for one standing where the negro said he stood to see a body. What the consensus of opinion among the investigators was. is not known, however. Shovels, tools, pieces of wood and other objects lying in the basement were examftied for evidence that there had been possible weapons in the attack upon the girl. The search along this line was fruitless.

Th Jury viewed the machine room in the second story, upon' the floor of which blood stains were found Monday morning. They saw the lathe to which a few strands of hair were found clinging by a workman. They visited the lavatory and several other rooms in the building. At the conclusion of the search no juror expressed an opinion. They will reserve -their Judgment until the conclusion of the Inquest.

This probably will be on Wednesdaj'. Thousands Visit Morgue To View Girl's Body Six thousand people, according to reliable estimates, visited I. J. Bloomfield's undertaking parlors Monday morning to see the body of Mary Fhagun: It was the largest crowd, police say, that had ever viewed a murder victim's body In Atlanta. Scores of friends, hundreds of acquaintances and fellow-workers In the pencil factory and thousands of simply curious walked around the' bier between 7 oclock and noon.

So far as known, no relatives appeared. The mother of the girl is 111 at hef home aa a consequence of her daughter's death and other members of the family are at her bedside. Tn the endless line In and out of the undertakers establishment were old men and young men and old women and young women. There were women with babes in their arms and fathers with their sons. And there were do Kens of girls Who worked In the pencil factory.

Its Mary, It'a Mary, sobbed one girl as she elapsed the lifeless face of her former companion in her arms. She had heard of her friends death, but was overcome with grief when she looked on the lifeless body of the pretty, fourteen-year-old girl. There 'was little emotion displayed on the faces of most of those who called, though. Apparently they had come just out of curiosity. has committed and the suffering he has caused both to bis victim and her relatives.

Mr. Phagan was ao overcome that lie had to take to his bod, but he declared that lie would attend Inquest over tho remains of hla granddaughter Monday morning. However, his condition was such during the early morning that hla relative feared he would wot be strong enough to make the trip to Atlanta and face the ordeal of the Subscription Coupon Booklovara Campaign Editor. Tha JournaL A Atlanta. Pleas enter my name aa a aubscrlber to Tha Atlanta JournaL Dally and Sunday, for which 1 agroo to pay at tha regular rata GODS VENGEANCE WILL STRIKE BRUTE WHO KILLED HER, SAYS GRANDFATHEROF MARY PHAGAN Street and City or Town.

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Tli Booklorora Campaign Editor, Ttw Atlama Journal. Atlanta. On. .1014 Pica fcml at Booklurori Campaign pictures and coupon aa follows: Pte turn amt coapoDt. Calling upon God Almighty to visit speedy vengeance upon the murderer or murderers of his fourteen-year-old granddaughter, Mary Ihagan, whose mutilated body waa discovered Sunday morning in the basement of the National Pencil companys factory on Forsyth street, AY.

J. Phagan, an elderly eitiaen cf Marietta, declares that he will never rest until the fiend or fiends er brought to justice. 'The old man almost collapsed when he learned of the awful crime, and he sobbed piteously as he prayed for divine aid In clearing up the mystery, surrounding the murder of the girl. The living God will gee to It that the brute la found and punished according to his aim" declared Mr. phagan.

1 hope the murderer will be dealt witb a he has dealt with that tender and innocent child. 1 hope that he suffers anguish end remorse in the same measure that she suffered pain and shame. niai -r ru-nru (nin mu Fliamc. No punishment is too great for him. Hanging cannot atone for the crime he Million's Deaih-Dust KILLS BOGS Karmic except to all kinds af hi wet.

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