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JUDGE IN AUTO SAVES BODY
Submarine Sinks Former Ca
nadian Liier Royal Edward
in Aegean Sea.
600 REPORTED SAVED.
First Transport to Be Sunk by
German Raiders Since
War Began.
; LONDON, Aur. IT. The British
rtuUrtoT Edward. While en
the way to the Dardanelles, hu been
torpedoed and' sunk "by a Oejman
'.submarine In the Aegoan Sea.
Announcement to this effect was
made officially to-day.
8lx hundred men were saved out of
thirty-two military ofBcers, 1,550
troops and 220 other persona on
board.
. ' The text of the announcement Is as
follows:
"The British transport Itoyal Ed.
ward was sunk by an enemy subma
rine In the Aegean last Saturday
morning. According to the Informa
tion at present available, tlio trans
port had on board 32 military officers
and 1,850 troop's. In addition to tho
ship's crew of' 220 officers and men.
"The troopn consisted mainly of
reinforcements for the Twenty-ninth
Division and details of the Hoyal
Army Medical Corps1
4 "Full Information has not yet been
received, but It 1s known that about
00 have been saved."
Whether the U boat that torpedoed
the Hoyal EdWurd passed through the
Dardanelles (from Constantinople,
eluding the allied fleet, or operated
from a secret base along the Asia
Minor coast, was the subject of much
peculation here. Tho Germaus are
known to have sent several sub.
marines to the aid of the Turkish
forces at the Dardanelles, including
the U-61, which made the Journey to
Constantinople, sinking the British
battleships Triumph and Majoatlo en
oute. t
DUte. I
I The steamer torpedoed was the for-
' n ji XT . 1. II T" a I
saer wanauip.ii Aiurtuurii unci Avuyui
Edward'of Toronto, Canada.
She was a 11,117-ton steel triple
screw steamer, owned by the Ca
nadian Northern Steamship Company,
and' Is understood to have been com
mandeered by the British Government
for use as a transport at the be
ginning of the war.
Tli Royal Edward was built In
ltOI at Glasgow. She was S2 foet
long and bad a 60. foot beam. She
was equipped with wireless,
This Is the first troopship sunk by
a German submarine during the war.
One transport was sunk In an en
gagement oft the Turkish coast In the
Quit of Smyrna several days ago, but
without serious loss of lite.
ANOTHER TRANSPORT IS
- REPORTED SUNK AT
i THE DARDANELLES
1 PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 17. IleporU
brought over on the American liner
Dominion, .which arrived yesterday
from Liverpool, were to the effect that
the American liner Merlon, rcqulsl
tloncd by the British Admiralty as a
troop ship, had been sunk, by the Arc
1.000 BRITISH SOLDERS DIE
IN TRANSPORT TORPEDOED
, ON IP TO DARDANELLES
AFTER
EDDIE DUGAN HURT .
, IN AUTO SMASHUP
Belmont's Jockey and Party Are
Injured When Machine Runs
Into Tree at Spa.
(Special From Staff Correspondent.)
SARATOGA, Aug. 17. Eddie Du
gan, August Belmont's Jockey, and
Ills bride; Edward McDrlde, ownej:
of several nign pricea race norsoi.
Including the $25,000 George Smith,
his wife, Mrs. J. P. Mayberry, wife
ofxJohn Maybesry, the 'well known
trainer, and a Van named Schmidt,
were injured. In an automobile smash-up-here
early, ,to-day.
The machine In which the party was
riding from' Saratoga take toward
the 'Vlllago'crashed, Into a tree at, the
foot of Carroll's Hill.- The car was
completely wrecked. The front wheels
were torn off and the upper part of
the body ripped off as cleanly as It It
were struck by a giant cleaver.
How the occupants escaped death
Is a miracle. Two autos, which were
running behind the wrecked machine,
picked up tho Injured persons and
brought them to tho city. Dugnn and
his wlfo and Mrs. McDrlde wore taken
to the Dugan cottage on Nelson Ave
nue. Mclirlde,' Mrs. Mayberry and
Bchmldt were removed to the Sara
toga Hospital. Mrs. Mayberry Is the
most seriously hurt. Mclirlde has a
fractured leg. Schmidt was uncon
scious nil morning and Is bMlovcd to
bo Injured Internally.
PICKPOCKET IN COURT
REALLY ANNOYS TAILOR
Unfeeling "Dip" Touches Borsodi
for Money He Had to Pay
Friend's Fine.
Stephen norsodl, a tailor, No. 417
East Ninth Street, was prodigiously
annoyed in the Yorkvllle Police Court
to-day and ho hod his reasons. He
stated them in a loud voice to Mag
istrate Krotel, the court attendants,
the prisoners, reporters and specta
tors. All agreed that his annoyance
wa Justified.
It seems, he had come upwthcre to
pay the fine for a friend of his who'
was charged with disorderly con
duct. The fine wns tlO. and when
liorsodl went Into the court room he
had 15 securely buttoned up in his
nip pockoi. wncn ne went up tome
bench to hand over ten of It lie
found that somo one in the court
room hud slit the pocket open and
abstracted the whole fifteen. He
sold that wus no way to run a
court room.
When his oration on the subject
woe over the court attendants per-
suaaea mm to go eiscwnere.
of tho Turkish batteries at the Dar
danelles.
The Merlon, took out from Liverpool
for the Dardanelles a general cargo of
food supplies and many'soldlers, being
practically a troop ship. She Was In
charge of Capt. Hlckson, an officer of
tho British naval reserve force, who
succeeded Capt Hull, her former com
mander.
The Morion, like her sister ship, tho
Haverford, had been running In the
American Line service between1 Phila
delphia and Liverpool for ieS-ernl
years. She was built on the Clyde iq
180!, and was registered in the name
of the International Navigation Cora
pany. oho nod passenger 'accommo
dations for 2,000 soldiers.
OUTER FORTS FALL
AT 2 FORTRESSES
IN GERMANS' PATH
i
Capture, of Knovo and Novo
Georgiwsk From Russians
Now Imminent.
9,385 MORE PRISONERS.
Army of From 50,000 to 100,
000 Surrounded in One
Stronghold.
I1KHLIN (via wireless to London),
Aug. 17. The Russian fortress of
Kovno Is believed about to fall before
von Hlnde,nburgV attack.. German
troop, nqder Oen. vein Elchorn. hayo
stormed and captured the fortifica
tions defending- Kovno, between the
Nlemnn and Uctla Rivers, taking 4,500
prisoners and 240 cannon.
Novo Georglevik, where a Russian
army estimated at from 50,000 to
100,000 Is surrounded, cunnot long
withstand the German attacks. Three
of the northeastern forts have been
taken, this afternoon's official state
ment declared.
Tho armies operating In this theatre
of wnr have added 9,385 'to their
prisoners.
The official statement says:
"Army group of Field Mnrshnl von
Hlndenburg: Further battles in the
region of Kuplskt resulted success
fully, and 625 prisoners. Including
hrro officers, us well "as three machlno
guns, fell Into nur hnnds.
"The troops of tho army of Gen. von
Klchorn, under the leadership of Gen.
Lltrmnnn, took tho forts of Kovno sit
uated between the Nlenicn and Gesln.
More than 4,600 Russian were taken
prisoners, and more than 240 cannon
and numerous other materials wore
captured. ,
"The armies of Gen. von Hchnli: and
Gen. von Gallwltr. by dint .of contlnti
ous fighting drove their opponents
further back lit an easterly direction,
nnd 1,860 Russians, Including eleven
officer, were tuken prisoners, and one
cannon and ten machine guns were
captured.
"On the northeastern front of Novo
Georgievsk a large fort and two In
termediary fortifications were taken
by, storm. On tho other front wo suc
ceeded almost everywhere In forcing
the enemy further back. We captured.
2,400 prisoners, together with 19 can
non and other materials.
. "Army groups of Prince Leopold nnd
Field Marshal von Mackensen : Thetfo
army groups are continuing further
their victorious progress.
"In their official communication of
Aug, 1 the Russian army authorities
asserted that thy advanced guards of
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DENIES MURDERS:
No Tangible'Evidence Yet On
Which to Charge Crimes to
Mari in Baltimore.
TELLS OF BLOOD SPOTS.
Companion Says She Has
Always Believed He Slew
Children Here.
(Special from a 8taff Correspondent
of The Evening World.)
BALTIMORE, Md.yAug. IT, Threo
hours grilling by Acting Captain Oil;
dea and, Detective Copt. McQovern of
New York have failed-to cHtabllsh
nriythlng tnnglblo with which to
fasten on Edgur Jones the murder of
Anna Leonorc Colin and Charlln Mur
ray, the New York children who wcru
killed nnd mutilated last spring by n
"Jack the Ripper." Jonos. who wns
hrrcsted hero In company with Oraco
Elliott, the, woman whoso drunken
revolutions led to his being suspected
ns the ripper, flatly denies ull knowl
edge of the crimes, but In his replies
to the questions put to lilm ho gave
the detectives u quantity of Informa
tion which they must chock up on
before dropping their Investigation.
Tho prisoner persists In his con
tention that his name Is Edgar Jones,
not Applllln Holfo, and ho says he wns
born and raised In New 'York City.
He refused to give the detectives any
iminples of his handwriting except
Ids signature, saying that "until ho
know what he wan doing," ho would
not write tho addresses of the Cohn
nnd Murray famlUcx, whore the "Jack
the Ripper" letters were received dur
ing the reign of terror caused by tho
two murders.
He Identified an his proiierty nong
bladed knlfo taken from lilm when
he was arrested here on July 30 for
Intoxication, hut denied threatening
the Elliott woman wtlh It. He con
firmed the wtjman's assertion that hs
had slashed his own arm while they
were at Utackwcll's Island, nnd safd
he did It thinking she wns preparing
to leave him and ho wanted to "bring
her back,"
DECLARES BLOOD STAINS
CAU8ED BY A FALL.
At llrst Jones would not admit that
he had come in Into on the night when
his companion accuses htm of return
ing home covered with blood, but
when confronted with the woman's
statement, he reluctantly admitted
that on one occasion he couldn't re
member the dute he had been an
hour and a half late and hud fallen
down tho steps to tho basement.
His story of his wanderings with
the Elliott woman after they loft tho
hospital together corresponds qultu
closely with tho woman's own ac
count. Ho told of living first at No,
210 Second Avenue. Later ho said
they moved to No. 150 East Tenth
Htroet, where they lived with a Ger
man family named I,owrey. Ho
worked In a packing house for a
while,, he said, and about that time.
which was lato In March, they went
to live on Ilethune Street.
On April 28, said Jonos, they moved
to No. 60 West Twelfth Htreet, and n
little later to a furnlAhe.d rooming
hoise at No. 18 West Thlrty-slxth
Street.
On the second or the ninth of May
he was not sure which ho declared
that tho woman who had been posing
as his wife nnnounced that they wore
(Continued on Fifth Page.)
RIPPER
WOMAN ACCUSES
LYNCHES FRANK
SLAYER LYNCHED BY
GEORGIA MOB TO-DAY;
VICTIM OF HIS CRIME.
MARY PHAfiN
ROCK CRASHES ON TRAIN;
FIVE MEET DEATH
Twenty Others Injured When Boul
der Smashes Two Cars and
Causes Wreck in Tunnel.
CHARLESTON, W. Vtt., Aug. 17.
The smoker and baggago car of a
pasHongor train on the Coal Rl'vor
Uranch of the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad were crushed to-day by a
heavy rook as tho train was puxing
through Plnaclo Tunnel neur Mc
Corkle, W. Va. J. C. Fennltuore, a
wealthy coal operator of Huntington
nnd Ht. Albans; John Turley ot Alum
Creek, W. Vn.; J. O, I'lymale of Galll
polls, Ohio.
The news vendor, whoso name 'has
not been ascortulned, and another
unidentified man were killed. Twenty
or .more passengers were Injured.
Wreck trnlns worn hurried to t)ie
sceno and tho punscngors Imprisoned
In tho tunnel were rescued.
CAMER0NIA SAFE IN PORT.
,
Cunxnl I.I ii r i' Arrlw nl Drrrnnek
From A,t York',
GLASGOW, Aug, 17. The Cunard
liner C'nineraiila, cju oIiu I III im?-
:u'iig"r, arrived nt Greenock from
New,, York to-dey,
sttBHTssi'.BllllllliH
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RAID ON GEORGIA PRISON;
FRANK HANGED TO TREE
Armed Men in Autos Raced 100 Miles to Girl
Victim's Home to Stage Lynching Governor
Declares Guilty Will Be Punished Women and
Children in Crowd Fighting toMutilate theBody
(8PECIAL TO THE EVISNINQ WORLD.)
MARIETTA, Oa., Aug. 17. Leo M. Frank was hanged to a tree near the roadside two
miles from this place early to-day by a mob of 25 armed then who took him by force from
the State' prison farm at .WillcdKcville shortly before midnight and brought him here in an
auto, a distance of more than 100 miles, to put him to death. They hanged him at a spt
close to the birthplace of 14-ycar-old Mary Phagan, of whose murder he was convicted in
Atlanta two years ago. Recently he was saved from the electric chair Qofernor Slaton,
then in office.
The. brutal lynching ot Frank has aroused the entire South. Gov. Harris of Oedrgia
has already arranged to conduct an investigation with the object of running down the
lynchers. An inquest under the direction of special officers and a special lawyer employed
by the Commissioners of Cobb County was begun here this afternoon.
Frank's body is in Atlanta but in a wl concealed hiding place. It will probably be sent
in secret to Brooklyn for burial. Frank's aged parents aro in Brooklyn at this time. His
wife, who collapsed at MillcdRCvlllc when she heard her husband had been kidnapped by
a mob, was prepared for the news that he had been lynched and has gone to the home of a
relative at Athens, Qa.
From Milldp-eville Fmnle wn lirruiolii In MirUtii In W i.ir
"GOD LET.ME LIVE
FOR A BRIGHTER DAY,"
FRANK'S LAST WORDS
(flpdil WTi Keiln WoriJ.)
NHW ORI.IJANH, Aug. 17. Dan
Lehm. Southern superintendent of
tho Hums Detective Agency, han
Just received a lettor from Leo Jf.
Frank which Is believed contained
his last written words. Referring
to his recovery, Frank said: "Hurely
God lias let mo live und uidrd mo In
this dark hour for a brighter day,
which must be near nt hand,"
LOUIS MARSHALL SAYS
THE STATE OF GEORGIA
IS NOW ON TRIAL
ALU ANY. Aug. 17. Louis Mar
shall, who acted as attorney for Leo
M. Frank In the United States Su
preme Court, was vehement In his
denunciation of Frank's slayers when
ho heard to-day of the lynching of
his former client.
"It seems incredible' he said, "thot
In any clvllliod community It can bo
posslblo for such a recrudescence of
savagery and brutal lawlessness to
mnnlfest Itself. It Is a stain upon
our country und an Ineffaceable blot
unon the name of Georgia. Here woji
a man of whoso Innocence every fair
minded, unprejudiced tninKer wno
had occasion to study the facts was
unqualifiedly convinced.
"His sufferings und martyrdom aro
at on end, but he had not lived In
vnln. Frnnk Is no longer on trial. In
fuct, ho never nnd a trial, nut
Georda l now on trial In the forum
of clvlIUatlon. Will sho vlndlcnto her
laws? Will she permit the miscreants
who committed the murder and that
most shameful of things who
Instigated it to go unwhlpped of Jus
tice?" Hoy Killed lir Full From Window,
EMhs Hhrrlmer. eight years old, ell
f.-.im the iUth floor fire escape sNo
210 Hecond Htreet, to-duy, and was ln
t-inth- killed. The boy's mother be.
rum hysterical and attempted to
throw h'Tnelf from a window, but she
was retrained by neighbors and was
trenKd by Dr. l'nn'pck of Utllerue Ho
l'lul' lllr, Proalmtril by Ural.
Francla Hughes, a clgur maker of
, No 481 Klril Avenue, died to-iUy nt
liU homu huvlng boen proitrsttd by
the heat.
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mobile wltli six seven other cars trailing along behind. The actual
lynching occurred several hours before the body was discovered swing
ing from a limb at 8.30 o'clock. The victim of the mob was not shot.
Shameful scenes attended the swarming to the scene of the lynch
ing of thousands of persons from Marietta, Roswell and other small
settlements nearby and even from the city of Atlanta. Frank's body,
lwcause of the absence of Sheriff Hicks and Coroner Booth, was allowed
to hang as a public spectacle for two hours and fifteen ntlmrtes.
A jabbering,, disorderly crowd swarmed the woods and the road and
many were the commendatory remarks heard respecting the swift move
ments and daring of tlie first automobile lynching party in the history of
the South. At 10.30 o'clock the crowd, numbering 6,000 or more per
sons, including many hundreds of children and swarms of women, was
entirely beyond the control of the county authorities.
The gathering was impatient for action. A resident of Marietta, who
is said to have assaulted William J. Burns, the New York detective, when
he was here investigating the Phagan murder in the interests of the Frank
family, obtained the attention of the
H..1 ! . I .I. e rt i
mat me rxwy or ran dc pumiciy mutilated.
This suggestion met with mingled protest and approval- Half a
dozen leading citizens of Cobb County addressed the crowd, all advo
cating that the officers of the law be allowed to take charge of the situa
tion. Finally Newton A. Morris, former Judge of the Superior Court
here, after a short convincing talk, advocating that an Inquest be held,
put the question to a vote. A great roar of approval greeted his sug
gestion, but the yells of those who advocated' mutilation were also heard.
The body was cat down at 19.46 o'clock and placed oh Ue greaad nader
the tree with hundreds pressing so closely aralast the nea eagaged la the
work that they it ere almost powerless. Beyers! nea forced their way to
within reaching distaace ot the body and kicked the rwollea face of the
dead man with their heary boot. Frank's hlooditalaed shirt was almost
completely torn off by souTcnir hunters.
Under the direction of Judge Morris the body was stuffed Into a
big basket and lifted Into a wagon. It was announced that the body
would be taken to Marietta and that Coroner Booth would begin an in
quest at noon.
200 Autos Chased Judge
in Race to City of Atlanta
As the wagon was forced through the struggling, excited crowd it
became apparent that the bloodthirsty persons who were bent upon
mutilating or 'burning Frank's remains were strong In numbers and ag
gressiveness and were gradually getting together, Judge Morris, fearing
that these men would seize the body, ran his automobile alongside the
wagon and ordered that the body be placed In the tonneau.
The basket containing Fraak'a body was harriedljr lHted, auaost
thrown Into Judge Morris's car. Tells froai the disorderly eleaaest warned
the Judge and others who had soatht to control the iltoatloa of the-
iaalaeace of trouble. Jadf Jforrls,
"C ,, ,t ,,, U IHJk AUIV
gathering and vehemently proposed
sfJTr
with the ksra of his ear souiltf a
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