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om ‘ taken an active step in the direction of identifying and punishing the overnor Offers Reward for Arrest FINAL Sbe_ “Circulation Books [“Citroulation Books Open to All’ | to All, ‘World, FI “ail basiniedlsp. EAL, ONE CENT. coors {hhe'wew Works World). NEW . Ee. [Sei Ra MAYOR OF ATLANTA WHO DEFENDS MOB IN PUBLIC SPEECH FRANK REFUSED 10 CONFESS ON DEMAND OF LYNCHERS; GOVERNOR OFFERS REWARD Mayor of Atlanta Defends Mob and) Warns Ex-Governor, Who Once Saved Slayer, to Stay Away For a Year. : ee to, The Evening World.) ATLANTA, Ga. i. 18.—No State official in authority has as yet J-G:‘WoOoDowaRDB. SAY FATHER SLEW CHILD TO ‘ANNOY’ WIFE HE HATED Alienists at Trial To-Day De- clare Murderer Liebman Is Sane. Preferring not to pronounce the death sentence so long as there was any possible question as to the prison- er’s sanity, Judge Wadhams in the Court of Special Sessions to-day tm- panelled a jury to hear testimony on the mental condition of Hyman Lieb- man, convicted of murder in the first degree a month ago for killing his daughter Sadie by throwing her from the window of his home at No. 78 East Ninety-eighth Street, March 17. His other child, Samuel, was seriously in- jured in the same way. When Liebman came up for sen- tence to-day his counsel, Fred A. Ware and Samuel Feldman, informed thé court that their client had been examined by two allenists, Drs. Will- fam Mabon, Superintendent of the State Hospital on Ward's Island, and Herbert C. Cornwall, consulting neu- rologist at Fordham Hospital. Though Liebman had dented the crime at the time of his trial, said his attorneys, he had admitted it to the doctors, ‘With that Judge Wadhams had the jury impanelled, and Dr. Mabon tes- tifled that he had found no evidence of insanity. “He told us his life with Mrs, Lieb- man was one of constant bickering,” said the physician, “and that he threw the children from the window to get revenge on her, being well aware of her love for them, I do “We want to know,” the leader Is Continued 0 on Heoon a Faas.) ) — SARATOGA ENTRIES. ———e GARATOGA, N. Y., Aug, 18.—The entries for to-morrow’s races are as twenty-five members of the mob that lynched Leo M. Frank at Marietta yesterday. Gov. Harris returned to-day from Fitzgerald, Ge., where he went yesterday morning, while the fate of Frank was still in doubt, to address a reunion of the State Confederate Veterans. “This affair is shocking and I am going to have it investigated to the very limit of my power,” said Gov. Harris. Qov. Harris this afternoon an~- ®ounced he would offer a suitable re- ward for the lynchers’ Apprenension.‘STRIGTER CENSORSHIP Postcards bearing pictures of Frank + @angling at the end of a grass rope! FOR SAYVILLE WIRELESS looped over the limb of a giant tree were barred from the mails to-day. ‘Those who believe Frank was inno- (Government Takes Action Follow- cent maintain that the Governor should have cancelled his speaking en- ing Recent Disclosures Regard- gagement and remained in the capital ing the Plant, to take charge of the situation, The Governor 1s too busy defending him-| WASHINGTON, Aug, 18.—Secre- elf to initiate any effective movement | tary of the Navy Daniels admitted to discover and punish the lynchers. | to-day that the navy had taken addl- FRANK DECLINED TO MAKE Al tional censorship precautions at the STATEMENT. / | Sayville wiretess station, following “Mr. Frank, we are now going too|the recent conference between the ‘what the law said to do—hang you by | Secretary and Editor John Rathom of the neck until you are dead. Do you/the Providence Journal. want to make any statement before|* Bathom saw the Secretary in Wash- we do it?” ington and laid before him certain ac- ‘This question, it was learned on re- | ried call ior Supe Bullard of the Mable authority here to-day, was put pore Batts Barte. in charge of the to Leo M. Frank by the leader of the 7 . it was sald. fucd Gish Iyeched big, aa ha st00d| en sh ocruuetetrend unde Ai eaett: ‘under the tree in Marietta’s outskirts, i mecnaaee so wasucnies from which he dangled a few minutes | peer ee to ec eerascated certain fater, a corpse. facts concerning German commercial “No,” Frank was said to have re-| messages sent from this country via Sayville which were apparently com- mercial orders for purchases or sales of silks, laces or other fabrics, * then quoted as having asked, Although the Secretary admitted “whether you are guilty or innocent pat Mt cy Yd pitene orders annemed of killing little Mary Phagan.” bility that others might have been Frank, it is stated, did not at first | cunningly arranged code messages of repty. There was a pause, at the end | Brine Unnorenace to the German Gov- of which it Is said the mob leader re- peated his question. “1 think,” Frank'ls declared to have | SIX STEAMSHIPS ADDED answered then, “more of my wife and 7 er than 1 do of my own life.” mather than 1 do of m9 ovonee man| TO SUBMARINES’ TOLL v treated on his way from Mill- ile to Marietta. On the con- pe ef ee oudated, ba was wade Two British Vessels and Three Neu- ‘as comfortable as possible, Rha jours trals Latest Victims of Ger- was said to have been made in pies complete silence, 80 far as man U Boats. Frank was concerned. LONDON, Aug. 18,—Six steamers, Atlanta was amazed to-day at the] threg of them neutral vessels, have news from San Francisco that Mayor | been sunk by German submarines in J. G, Woodward of this city had de-| iho jayt twenty-four hours, The crews of all were saved, Despatches this afternoon added the 2,702-ton British steamer Bonny and the Spanish steamer Jsodoro to the list of U-boat victims. The small Liverpool steamer Maggie was sunk to-day by a submarine. The British steamship Thornfeld, follows: not think the man has any paternal Fido RACH—For tnorearelda: gelling, 19 |488 tons gross, of Liverpool, also bas] ¢eeling whatever.” et listo i iy; | been sunk, Dr. Cornwall testified that Liebman 110; faa a {38:| Zhe Norwegian steamers Romulus | way sane and was “simply the ex- Ateeplechase: bandicap; set). | 284 Mineral were previously reported | treme type of the absolutely selfish we He oleh! Fie: es | euBk, man, He has no regard for any one rps peat but himself and he killed the little girl to anvoy his wife.” On hearing this testimony and that of several lay witnesses, the jury found Liebman sane, aad Judge Wad- hams then sentenced him to die in the electric chair at Sing Sing dur- The Mineral was a vessel of 649 tons gross, was built in 1490 and was owned in Narvik, The Romulus, of reo | $20 tons gross, Was built in 1913 and hailed from Kragero, The Bonny was owned by the Brit- ish and African Steam N tion tb: cha selling; for en te th, ibis, re 2 a a cut off from wire communication with No definite news concerning loss’ of life hae been received from Galves- ton, which city ie believed to have been hardest hit. A newspaper man. whe got within sight of Galveston anid evidences of destruction that met hie eyes indicated the damage there weuld exceed that of the 1900 storm. At ‘Texas City ten soldiers and thirty to forty civilians were killed. according to reports published tn Houston papers that reached Templo and San Antonio to-day. A report that the bodies of eight women washed ashore at Texas City were believed to have come from Galves- ton, gave the only detailed informa- tion of Joss of life in the latter city. ‘The soldiers killed at Texas City were Privates John J. Murphy, Charles 8. Miller, Joseph R. Shankel, Haiman Samet and Paul A, Seurcan, all of K Company, Twenty-third In- fantry; Corpl. William H. Moore and Privates Albert Mitchell, Thomas A Watson and Henry J. Rivage, all of M Company, Twenty-third Infantry, and Cook Bader of the Quarter- master’s Corps. Bight men are reported dead near | Morgan's Point and three bodies were washed up to-day at Sylvan Beach from some place in the bay. Six persons are reported drowned at Laporte, twenty miles southeast of Houston, on Trinity Bay. ‘Three lives were lost at Seabrook, | twenty miles trom Houston, and the| town practically annihilated, accord- ing to reports receiyed here. Houston is reported to have auf: | fered damage variously estimated as| totalling from one to five million dol- lars, but only one life is reported lost there. | Eighteen are said to be dead at Hitchcock, two at Bellaire and four at Port Arthur. A newspaper man who reached Vir- ginia Point, the north end of the causeway that connects Galveston with the mainland, and viewed the stricken city reported that nothing wasp to be seen of several great grain elevators that stood near the wharfs. He sald the drawbridge in the cause- way had been washed away and that the high water evidently had been several feet above the causeway. He believed the number of buildings de- stroyed in the city would run into thousands, He said he saw @ thou- sand bales of cotton along the prairie between Virginia Point and Lam- arque, far inland, evidently carried there from the Galveston docks. Dead farm anim also were strewn over the prairie. ‘The flood waters are reported three miles further inland than tn 1900. ‘One estimate places the damage at Toxas City at $400,000. The city has been placed under military rule, anu the soldiers are assisting in the re- very of boc’cs from the water Many of those who met death at Texas City were killed in the collapse of buildings, An appeal for food and supplies for the inhabitants of place has been sent ou, ‘The storm is said to have done little} damage along the coast from Corpus Christi to Brownsville and no lives} hig, one Company of Liverpool, She was built] ing the week beginning Sept. 26, are reported lost in that district | ¢ effect that Poi sabel, reporte : Rar ee En ea STEAMSHIPS DUE TO-DAY. | yesterday an being flooded, was safe poredale, td) “ess fe le va} soereecteral A refugee from Kemah, a coast hg Es Serami Port Antonio...10 A. M.|town, said only one house was left ee Medina, Galveston . +10 A. M.| standing in that place. +11 Ae My! The damage to cotton will be from ¢ of promise and went to Di terney Perkins. year the actress made an affidavit de oVn. Rose, Criminal searchlight hastened to the ever, course and arriving to-da her the | —. | ment Jand food 100 DEAD IN GULF STORM: GALVESTON STILL CUT OF ———__-+ -——____. {Damage to City Believed Greater Than in Disaster of 1900—Loss in Stricken Cities and Towns Tctals Many Millions. DALLAS, Tex., Aug. 18.—Nearly one hundred lives were lost and mil- Mons of dollars’ worth ot property destroyed in the West Indian hurricane that swept the Texas coast yesterday and the day before, according to In- formation received to-day from the stricken districts which have been the outside world. ACTRESS ARRESTED AFTER FILING SUIT FORBROKEN HEART SPA TRACK FAST FOR FIRST TIME IN THREE WEEKS Sanford Colors Carried Across Finish Line Four Lengths Ahead in Opening Race. SARATOGA RACE TRACK, Aug. 18,—The track was fast for the first time in three weeks this afternoon. A good sized crowd was out and the racing promised to be of the exce! lent order, The Grab Bag, for two- yeur-olds, was the day's feature, The early withdrawal of Dominant and the adding of Bonnie Toss made it look @ very ede Bae Pa 5 eaten ri ia Bye it Gio ise pe Beautiful Woman Charged oa. ere, el and te be ar . * velyn ©. 1h Manat) 4 Be cs 7 With Perjury by Banker Fy ag ji t,t Ree eer. Sento, Pin |, Hastens, Andrew Cuneo, Yvette de Von, the pretty who On Jan, 22 of hearing the banker, asked Magistrate Corrigan in the Tombs Police Court for a warrant for the arrest of Miss The pretty little actress was aprehended at her rooms in the Hotel Brevoort by Detectives Rotehford and gloomy ike expensively ‘and exquisitely gowned and not much frightened by the charge against her. John Reilly, Miss de Von's attorney, Témbs Police C on hearing of his cllent's predicament and asked Magistrate Corrigan for an immediate hearing. She appeared in the Building beauty, Courts of Lawye who represented Mr. Cuneo, asked the case go over till Friday, and it was then that Miss de Von showed signs of breaking down. h Bhe bore up, and being fixed at $1,000. Senaneineeentneaneian FEAR FOR OVERDUE STEAMER United Fratt Liner, With 62 Passen- (Special to The Evening World.) NEW ORLEANS, La, Aug the Gulf, Five vessels passing did not Sixty-two passenger! | 15 to 2% per cent. of the entire crop of Central Texas and will oat | growers millions of dollars, according on reports recetyed Central to estimates based In Austin from towns in | Texas. At che in) Austin made to-day to preparations Continued | op ‘Second Page) lttle actress who played a star engage- ment with Andrew Cuneo, when he | was her Boris and she his Domini In their dmprovised “Garden of Allah," and Is now seeking surcease fi rom the sorrow of a sundered at- strict At- doldstein, how- case went over, her bail 18,—The United Fruit steamer Marowijine, Belize to New Ori duo, has not been he fears are felt that si cident In the great storm that swept . two days over+ are aboard. Adjutant General's Depart- to rush tents, clothing Galveston and other Seratched— Senator Cases, Jom, The Sanford colors were carried across the finish line firat in the opening scramble when Turner got Silica away flying and won by four lengths. ilica never left the ques- tion of euperiority in doubt C, wae second all the way, and but for Silica might bave won the race. Chance was a good third and the rest were badly strung out. Silica was run up from $600 to $4 t which price she was bid in by her owner. SECOND, RACK tachment by suing In the Supreme | _ Steepl iy eid mtn Hage he |Court for $50,000 for alleged breach ai ee ga sine oat on arti: of promive, was arrested to-day, — ower the ition, charged with perjury. Banker Cuneo took a leat trom} a ym James W. Osborne's book on breach |g Pees “Aivow, 148 (Bryant): Also ren-—Buckthora, Old Bait came to life ia th chase coming from nowh clearing the last jump to beat ouc this |which was affied to her complaint; | bo ndown, and in that aMdavit the banker| Coy geval waved ndiam Arrow, claims the perjury was committed, tt & most glaring form of re- District Attorney Perkins, after| versal, Old Salt had no speed last time but to-day he was a front runnar for a while. He dropped away froin the pace jast time around only to come again after the race had devel- oped Into a two horse affalr between Bryndown apd Indian Arrow. Bryu- down finally disposea of Indian Ar- row, but it was no use once Old Salt began to run Oto the he, Set erie Be “SRT, 4 Four Fe er iss “Owner, tart $b curt Pramaige Ti Ty een that $2.39, spleen, 4 ad 1a (eater). Boor, aed two year olde, Mandare, ah men tabs, a eer Mchine, Trastien a 2 60. Son a: int MW ateon, Kaui: ete Booka alo fal BD RACE Pew gT00, ty Noaled five. turlonas.— be sirelah{ $4.90. place , Afmaine,, 120 {Nanda second: Mlae. Fay, ri $3.00, hia “me Di Po pat T'see ties ws a ens Se |GANZEL TO TAKE CHARGE | OF BROOKFEDS MONDAY | John H. Gangel, formerly of the Rochester Internationals, will succeed Lee Magee as manager of the Brook- feds. Ganze! will join the team on Monday in Baltimore, —————>—_—_—_ ‘The Dacia, so Now the Frenoh s from ber sight the PARIS. Aug. were sola, Her new French owner named her the Yser! She sailed to-day under, the tri-color from Cherbourg for pe gd to take on @ cargo of fer Evelyn | ZEPPELINS KILL {0 IN RAID ON LONDON; RUSSIANS LOSE KOVNO WITH 400 GUN (RACING) GERMAN ARSHP RADERS SLAY CIVILIANS, 36 HURT; TWO WOMEN AMONG BEAD Gen.von Hindenburg ‘sArmy Smashes Into Great Kovno Fortress After’ Weeks’ Bombardment—More Forts Fall at Georgiewsk. RUSSIAN RETREAT GENERAL PETROGRAD LINE ree LONDON, Aug. 18.—Zeppelin airships again raided the Engi East Coast last night, killing ten persons and wounding thirty-six. Te 4 ego’ statement said the Zeppelins escaped. The official statement said the “east counties” were ralded.. tie was taken to mean that Kent and Essex, lying directly east-of London, in which the eastern suburbs of London are located, were visited by the with all the forts and war Th not yet determined, has been in Ger- | man hands since last night, | fortress. -\crossed the Bug southwest of Brest Zeppelins. One of the raiding dirigibles is be- Heved to have been hit and damaged by anti-aircraft guns stationed along the coast. The bombs damaged sev- eral buildings, including a ehurch, “Zeppelins visited the eastern coun- tles last night and dropped bombs,” said the Admiralty statement. “Our anti-aircraft guns were in action and it is believed one Zeppelin was hit. Due to the dificult atmospheric con- ditions tho Zeppelins escaped. “Bome houses and other buildings, including a church, were damaged, The dead include s¢ven men, two women and one child, The injured were fifteen men, eighteen women and three children. All the victims were civilians.” ‘This is the third alr raid by Zep- peling on the east coast within eight jays and the seventeenth alr invasion of England since the war began. A total of eighty-five persons have been BERLIN (via wireless to Sayville, L. L), Aug. 18—The great Russian fortress of Kovno was captured by the Germans last night. official an- nouncement from the War Office to- day declared: “The fortress of Kovno, together material “More than 400 cannon were taken. The fortress was captured by storm in spite of the most tenacious resiat- ance by’the Russians.” The fortress of Novo Georgiewsk ts about to fall, German troops have stormed and captured two more of the forts on the northwestern side of Novo Georgiewsk. ‘The whole Russian line extending north from Brest Litovsk is in re- treat, The armies of Gen. von Scholtz and Gen. von Gallwits are approach- ing the railway leading from the fortified city of Bielostok to Brest Litovsk, marching against the seo- tion of the railway lying between Biclostok and Bielsk. Six hundred prisoners cannon were taken tn the capture ‘of the Novo Georgievsk forts. MACKENSEN SURROUNDING BREST LITOVSK. At the southern end of the Russian line of defense Brest Litovsk is now under attack by Mackensen’s troops, who drove the enemy across the Bug and into the outer positions of the Mackensen’s troops, having Litovsk, pressed on across the rall- way connecting Viodaya and Brest Litovak and are now attempting to surround the fortress. Kovap fel) under the eye of Gen. Great Kovno Fortress Is Taken; Novo Georgiewsk’s Fall Near killed by bombs dropped from aircratt over England end 267, have been injured. On the night of Aug. 9. Zeppetine ralded east coast towns, killing fours — teen person’ and wounding fourteen, One of the Zeppelins, the Admiralty reported, was destroyed by English and French fliers near Ostend. Last ‘Thureday night Zeppelins again hom- barded the coast counties, killing ol persons and wounding twenty-three. This afternoon's official statement, | like those issued following previews air attacks, contained no mention of the localities raided. A Central News despateh Amsterdam saya four Zeppelins e hted passing over the islands land and yee ott Netherlands coast. were sail from the east im direction of the English coast. hour of their appearance ls not von Hindenburg. man campaign in the east augurated, The six great fending the gity from the south) were simply blown te Pieces by the incessant pounding ef Germany's great 42-centimetre guna and a host of minor pieces. BIG GUNS SMASHED FORTRESS IN A WEEK, ‘ The forts of Kovno have been under direct attack for gearcely ® week, demonstrating again the a= periority of moderp artillery ever fort structures. The German siege howitzers were moved in loser euch day, and on Monday battered a gap in the Russian fortifications southwest of the city, through which Gen. von Eichorn threw several regi- ments, ‘The big guns were rushed up to this new position and opened @ vielent fire upon the prnicipal forte defending Kovno from the weet, including the three located at the confluence of the Niemea and the Villya Rivers. In fantry assaults continued the day, and although reports Berlin veaterday that all the forts hed been taken it was not until last aight that the Slavs finally surrendered Lod elty. r ‘The Russian garrison ta’ y over the railway to Vilna aa » Kovno was the stronghold barred the German advance om the Warsaw-Pe!