Evening Star Newspaper, May 7, 1923, Page 26

—_———————————xu PEONAGE WITNESS DIES OF APOPLEXY Jerry Poppell Was En Route to Testify in Florida Jury Probe. By the Assniatod Press. TALLAHASSEE, Fla, May 7.—Jerry Poppell, chief witness for the prose- cution in a peonage case against two Leon county officials that came as a, result of an investigation into thel death of Martin Tabert, prisoner in a private convict camp, died at Quincy, Fla. Saturday night while en route to Pensacola to testify before a fed- eral grand jury. Although Mrs. Poppell said her husband during a lucid moment pre- ceding his death muttered he had Veen poisoned, the attending phy clan said the former Tallahassee jailer died of apoplexy. Poppell had been suffering from a mental ailment | for several months. While appearing before a legisla- tive committee investigating Tabert's | death, alleged to have resulted from brutal treatment reccived at the camp of the Putnam Lumber Com- pany. Poppell admitted his habitual drinking and in that connection men- tioned the names of Sherlff Jones and Judge Willis. Poppell testified the sheriff and judge conspired to profit in the arrest and conviction of va- zrants. who when sentenced were put o work in the convict camps. Sheriff Jones told the committee he received $20 for each man sent there. Mrs. Poppell sald her husband be- came il near Quincy, falling off the running beoard of their automobile. His death did not become known un- til vesterday, when Mrs. Poppell ar- rived here. —_— OLD-TIME THEATER MAN | DIES AT THE AGE OF 90| Frank Finley Mackay Was Mem- ber of Original Union Square Com- pany in New York. Ry the Associated Press. COYTESVILLE, N. J. May 7.— Frank Finley Mackay, ninety, a mem- ber of the original Union Square Theater Company in New York, is dead at his home. Of late years he had been active in the affairs of the Actors’ Home, New York. Mr. Mackay was b Ontatio. “He Jolmed o thenriog onio: pany at Memphis, Tenn. and later layed in the west. In 1865 Mrs. John PARLEY DELEGATES LEAVING SANTIAGO U. S. Members of Pan-American Conference to Sail for Home May 10. By Cabie to The Star and Chicago Daily News. A Copyrighit, 1928. SANTIAGO, May 7.—The pan-Amer- ican conference delegates from the United States, Colombia, Brazil, Ar- gentina, Cuba, Salvador, Paraguay and Venezuala left Santiago Sunday for the east over the transandean railroad. Those from the United States will sail for home on May 10. Special trains were furnished by Chile and Argentina. Chilean gov- ernment , oflicials, bands and large crowds were at the station to say farewell to the delegates. Official re- ceptions are planned for them at Buenos Alres, Montevideo and Rio de Janeiro. GOVERNOR WILL GREET WOMEN’S CLUBS TONIGHT Atlanta Program Covers Subjects From World Court to Better Kitchens in Homes. ATLANTA, Ga., May 7.—A meeting of the board of directors of the Gen- eral Federation of Women's Clubs, delegates of which are gathered here for their mid-biennial council, was held this morning. The delegates represhnt & membership of about 2.000.000 women and are from all over the Umited Stiates. The formal opening of the council will t&ke place tonight, when addres- es of welcome will be made by Gov. T. W, Hardwick of Georgla and Mayor W. A. Sims of Atlanta. Mrs. Thomas G. Winter of Minneapolis, president of the general federation, ‘| will make the response. Tha program will include virtually evers subject in which the women of the federation are interested and will pange from American participa- tion {n the International World Court to bétter kitchen, in the homes. OFFICE BOY’S $1,500 LOOT GUES LARGELY TO GIRLS Leslie Spraley, Chicago Lad, Ex- plains When Arrested in New York—Had $60. WEW YORK, May 7.—Leslie Spraley, sixteen-vear-old_office boy, who dis- cageared from Chicago recently with $1,500 glven him by his emplover, Duvid Levinson, steel manufacturer, te deposit in a bank, was located in New York. He had just $60 left and rew Offered him an engagemént at!explained to detectives that he had her theater in Philadelphia and he mained in that city until 1869, After ward he played in Boston and in 1872 he went to New York, where he joined the Union Square Theater Companhy. He took part in the first American production of “Two Orphans,’ two er. he became manager of the Street Theater in Phila- . Retiring from that position 9. he became associated with Hopper, after which he be- came dramatic director for Brooke and Dicks Subsequently he played with William H. Crane in “The Fool And His Money.” He was the founser «of the National Congress of Dramatic spent the rest on clothes for himself and on girls he met through a taxi- cab chauffeur. 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