Wednesday, 26th November 1913: Anti Leaders Quiz Chief On Blind Tiger Policy, The Atlanta Journal

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DuBose and Richards Inquire

Why Arrests Arent

Made.

No Money, Is Answer

A query as to

the attitude of the police and detective authorities toward blind tiger conditions

which are alleged to exist in Atlanta, was the meat of a conference which Rev.

Dr. H. M. DuBose and Rev. J. B. Richards, the former an official of the Georgia

Anti-Saloon league, and the latter its secretary, had with Chief of Police

Beavers and Chief of Detectives Lanford in the formers office Wednesday. The

Anti-Saloon leaguers were accompanied to the conference by J. W. Hewitt, a

private detective.

This query

developed the answer of the police authorities, it is said, that their attitude

is to enforce the law as completely as they can, but that they are limited in

their detective work by the lack of city funds for expenses. Without money with

which to buy liquor from blind tigers, the two chiefs informed the leaguers, it

is not possible for them to get proof of sales in violation of the prohibition

law, unless the merest chance leads them within sight of a purchase just when

the money and liquor are changing hands.

Another

conference may be held some time during the latter part of this week or the

first part of next week, at the request of Messrs. DuBose and Richards, but its

purpose is not revealed.

There is

nothing definite at all to give out, said Dr. DuBose after the conference of

Wednesday. We were just consulting with the chiefs along general lines, about

matters in general. Of course, I represent the Anti-Saloon league, and that

faut may indicate the nature of the conference.

Dr. DuBose was

asked if definite evidence, such, for instance, as could be used to convict a

man, was produced before the officers. He answered that the statement was made

at a public meeting conducted by the league some days ago that purchases of

liquor had been made in saloons and other places.

No, sir, no

arrests will be made right now, he answered to another question as to whether

immediate action by the police is to be expected.

That no

exceptional action will be taken by the authorities is indicated conclusively

by their answer Wednesday that they havent a nickel of expense money to work

with.

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Judge

Urges Married

Children to Live

Separate Until Grown

You children should wait until you are

grown and then go back and live together, remarked Judge John T. Pendleton, of

the superior court, Wednesday to Mrs. Frances C. Dempsey and Robert M. Dempsey,

in passing on the formers suit for alimony and support for her tiny baby.

I cant see that either of you is

especially to blame, although the boy acted wrongfully in leaving his wife just

before their baby was born, and he should pay half of what he earns toward her

support. This trouble may blow over in a few years, and when you are old enough

to live by yourselves you may be happy.

According to the story told by A. E.

Aenschbacker, of 270 Sunset Avenue, father of the girl, his daughter and

Dempsey married last year, when she was fifteen and he seventeen years old.

They came asking forgiveness and he forgave them, telling Dempsey he could live

with him, and that he would send him to a night school so he might get an

education.

Things went happily for a while, but

after little troubles Dempsey decided that he couldnt get along at his

father-in-laws and asked his wife to leave with him. She refused and he went

to Birmingham. Lately he has returned and is living at 517 Sunset Avenue. He

has a job paying $11 per week, and Judge Pendleton ordered that he pay $20 per

month alimony.

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JURY MUST

DECIDE ON

REMOVEAL OF BODIES

Court Is Asked to Construe

Will of Mrs. Mary J,

Rucker

A jury in Judge John T. Pendletons

division of the superior court must decide whether or not the bodies of the late

Chapman Powell and his wife, which were interred in Decatur more than fifty

years ago, shall be removed to a vault at Oakland or West View cemetery.

The grandchildren of the deceased

object to the removal of the bodies from the Decatur churchyard, but their

removal is one of the principal provisions of the will of the late Mrs. Mary J.

Rucker, who devoted $15,000 of an estate valued at a quarter of a million dollars

to the erection of a vault.

Accordingly the executor, Charles J.

McKinney, has asked the superior court to construe the will and to decide

whether or not the removal of the bodies is practicable and essential before

the estate can be divided.

PASS ON BEQUEST.

The case will probably not be concluded

until Friday. Another point of interest to be decided is the status of a $5,000

bequest to the Presbyterian hospital, which no longer exists.

The principal heirs to the Rucker

fortune are Mrs. Martha A. J. Powell, a sister of the deceased; G. L. W.

Powell, a brother; P. T. Powell, Houston Powell, John C. Powell, Mrs. Mary

Montgomery, Mrs. Anna Powell Liddell, and Mrs. Mary P. Eberhart, nieces and

nephews. There are several special bequests to other relatives, friends and

servants.

Mrs. Rucker died several years ago, but

her estate has never been out of the courts. Among the property of the estate

is a lot on Alabama streets near Forsyth, which Mrs. Eleanor Gunby claims under

a deed of trust in 1868.

PAGE 9,

COLUMN 2

Chinamen

Go to Court

About Money Raised to

Help Rebuild

Empire

The fact that Chinamen living in

Georgia raised $8,000 to assist Dr. Sun Yat Sen in establishing a new

government in the ancient empire has become public through the filling of an

injunction suit restraining the committee from appropriating the cash to the

individual uses of its members.

The suit was brought in the name of the

Chee Kong Tong, of which Lum Joe is president, and was directed against Loo

Jim, Fong Sing and Charley Lee, Atlanta Chinamen, who were named, when the

money was collected, as a committee to send it to Dr. Sun.

Now that Dr.

Sun is out of power and the money cannot be used for the purpose for which it

was originally subscribed, Lum Joe, as president of the Tong, declares he

wishes to refund it to the subscribers. The committee, however, he alleged,

objects to this plan and would use it for its own benefit. Accordingly the

restraining order was sought and obtained. The suit is set for a hearing on

December 13 before Judge John T. Pendleton. Attorney Eugen Thomas represents

Lum Joe and the tong.