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ANOTHER DAY
OFJXECUTION
Mrs. Nobles Has Passed One
More of the Days on
Which She
WAS SEHTEHCEO TO DIE,
One Week More and She Will Either
Have Closed Her Career Or She
Will Have Been Saved.
Again has Mrs. Nobles, the old woman
over whom the shadow of the gallows has
been hanging for so many years that it
now must have a horrible familiarity for
her, passed another of the days set for
her execution.
And naturally the hope that springs
eternal in every breast still stands be
tween her and the carrying out of the
sentence of the court so often delivered.
'There is not the slightest change in the
manner of the old woman. She still greets
visitors in the same way and still gives the
same answers to the same questions, for
what new questions are left to ask her?
But the old woman does not want to die. I
She clings as hard to life as though it held
in store for her all the brightness and all
the hope that she had perhaps in her child
hood home, before she met her husband
and before the real battle of her dreary
life began.
Unless the Board of Pardons Interferes
she will die on next Friday. But she does
not believe she will pay the penalty of her
crime upon the gallows. She says that
“they will not let an old woman hang,”
and more emphatically than ever does she
deny her complicity with Gus Fambles in
the killing of her old husband.
THE BOARD’S VIEW.
There is only one view for the Board.of
'Pardons to take of the case. They can
not commute the sentence of Mrs. Nobles
and let Gus Fambles hang so long as they
(believe that the old woman was the prin
cipal in the killing and that she hired the
negro to kill the old man. But they can
find some reason to doubt the story of the
negro. But this is not probable.
The fact of the matter is that the Board
has nothing but the purest sentiment to
go upon unless they believe that the old
woman did not have a fair trial and that
she might be acquitted or sent to the asy
lum if she han another chance. They can
not consider the sentiment in the case.
There is not a man in Qeorgia who will
say in cold blood that he wants to see the
old woman hang, and there are very tew
people who can conscienciously say that
she should not hang if indeed she killed
her husband.
APPEAL OF GRAY HAIRS.
’But the fact remains that she is a wo
man—an old woman whose grey hairs ap
peal more strongly than anything else in
the case to the individual members of the
board. She is an old, old woman. There
is nothing in the future for her but the
prison, and the death angel is even now
waiting for her, the grave is yawning and
the end will soon come in the good time
of Providence itself without the aid of
the hangman. Aye, if he should but come
tonight how happy would be the solution.
All these delays have been but refine
ment of cruelty. The old woman has suf
fered such punishment, such slow torture,
such agonies of dread as the history of the
inquisition fail to produce. The law and
the courts and the lawyers have tortured
the worn and tired soul until death could
but be a relief, but not that hideous death
—the most hideous and most horrible of
them all, as those who have seen such ex
ecutions will testify. Has she not suf
fered a thousand deaths, if indeed there
is reason left. How many time in the last
few years has she seen the setting and
'the rising again of the sun, marked by
the shadows of the bars of her cell win
dow, and counted the hours, almost the
minutes that she had to live. How much
remorse, how great the struggle and how
pitiable the feeble prayer that came too
•late that has gone up in the silence of the
night—a prayer to the court of last re
sort a prayer to the giver of life for a lit
tle more time and a little more life.
SIMPLE FACTS.
■All this is not sentiment. It is a fact.
The woman has been tortured with slow
torture, she has died a thousand deaths
unless she is without brain and without
feeling and there is really no reason to
think that she is except from the fact that
she is alive today. For what old woman,
endowed with her full faculties, could have
stood the strain?
The Board of Pardons has a terrible task
before it. and will be right whichever way
it decides-
But there is another phase to this close
of the chapter of two lives.
The people of Twiggs say that they will
oppose by armed force any effort to carry
out the sentence of the court upon one of
these prisoners without the other.
Os course no one attaches any real im
portance to this statement, coming from
a few individulas who are no doubt in
earnest, but are really thoughless in mak
ing an assertion that would stamp the best
people of Twiggs county as lacking entire
ly in the preper respect for the government
of their state. The statement has been so
frequently made that people have not
stopped to think, really believe that if
lus Fambles were to be taken to Jeff er
onville to be hanged while Mrs. Nobles is
till alive and there is a chance of her es
aping the gallows, it would be necessary
o send troops in order to assist the sher
iff in the carrrying out of his duty.
That is all nonsense! There would be no
interference. There would be no demon
stration of armed force, but there would be
a deep feeling of injustice and the state
cannot afford to so offend the people of
Twiggs or of any other county in the
state.
ABOUT GUS FAMBLES.
As a matter of fact, the one cannot be
taken and the other left. If Mrs. Noblese
hangs Gus Fambles must hang, and vice
versa. That is one thing which is morally
certain.
Both of these prisoners are guilty and it
will never be known how much more guil
ty the one is than the other, but it is
very certain that the sense of moral re-
sponsibility of the one is no greater than
that of the other.
Gus Fambles is an ignorant, brutalized
negro, without education and no better
than a savage. He would kill a missiona
ry and eat him if he were hungry as read
ily as a native of the Cannibal Islands,
i He has, though, the same horror of death
and he too has suffered the same tortures
or he too is a maniac without reason, and
as such should not be hanged. So far as
the punishment goes, both these creatures
have been punished, if indeed it is pos
sible for them to feel, ai<i if they cannot
feel they should not be hanged.
And the negro in his cell and woman in
hers are awaiting the action of the Board
of Pardons and the governor, while the
people of the state watch the struggle
with the deepest interest.
Will the cat put the mouse out of its
misery?
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| and that, too, by a lady in this country.
“Disease fastened its clutches upon her
I and for seven years he withstood its se
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discovered away to recovery by purchas
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H« Had Cautioned Man Who Nailed Him at
a Museum Exhibition.
Cincinnati, March 25—Without imme
diate attention an ordinary’ person would
bleed to death from such an accident as
befell J. R. James at the Museum Monday
afternoon at the public test of his freedom
from pain.
A half-drunken butcher from the West
End insisted upon doing the “crucifying”
act.
Fearing that a refusal would be a vio
lation of his written contract, James con
sented, as no one else at first would vol
unteer to take the butcher’s place.
James cautioned the butcher in regard
to the position of the bones and arteries
of his hand.
The very first nail was sent crashing
through a bone of the right hand.
The bone splintered, but there was no
pain.
The butcher then place the left hand of
James against the prong of the tree and
hammered a nail through that member.
The nail punctured an artery.
James was quickly released from his po
sition, and grasping the injured member
he checked the spurting blood. The audi
ence scarcely’ knew’ w’hat had happened,
supposing that it was usual for him to
bleed.
The punctures emitting blood healed in
less than an hour, but the wound bled
internally, and the hand swelled consider
ably.
Monday night, after his exhibitions had
been concluded, James took a pocket-knife
and cut open the wound. He washed out
the congested blood without assistance,
and then walked home, with his little boy
swinging on the injured member.
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Seattle, Wash., March 25.—An important
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which has just been organized by New
Yorkers, who propose to build a standard
gauge track from Portland to Seattle, and
northward from Seattle to the interna
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Canadian Pacific and Union Pacific ter
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The indications are that the great Van
derbilt interests are back of the enterprise,
with a view to securing continuous track
age from New York to Puget 'Sound. The
Canadian Pacific already co-operate with
Vanderbilt lines eastward. The Vander
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and will be joined in Seattle by the new
line. The terms of the 'franchise call for
the completion and operation of the new
road within eighteen months.
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Would United States is Opinion of Sir Chas.
Dilke.
London, March 25.—Sir Charles Dilk,
in speaking of the relations between the
United States and Spain, said that there
was no doubt that if war came the United
States would more than hold her own.
Asked as to the attitude of other na
tions in the case of war, Sir Charles said:
“Japan is perhaps the only nation that
might be tempted to interfere. She has
not found the opportunity for expansion,
and a war with Spain might tempt her to
grab the Phillipine Islands. I regard it as
improbable that England would in any way
take part in such a war officially, but the
sympathies of England would all be with
the United States.”
CASTORiA
For Infants and Children
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MACON NEWS FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 25 1898.
SUIT AGAINST
THEOSDPHISTS
The Anti-Tingley Faction
Wants to Get the Work
of the Society.
INTERNAL DISSENTIONS
Have Divided Them and They Are at
Loggerheads—Do Not Approve
Her Methods.
It would seem that there is a very con
siderable row among the Theosophists,
and that the breach in the ranks is widen
ing.
It is well known that 'two factions have
been created in the order, the one siding
with Mrs. Catherine Tingley and the other
with Mr. Hargrove, of London.
Mrs. Tingley, it would seem has been
somewhat self-assertive and her followers
say that she has the right and the au
thority’ to assume all the prerogatives to
which she lays claim, but this is denied by
the other side, and there does not seem to
be any’ chance of an early healing of the
sore. At any rate information has reached
Maccn that a suit has been instituted in
New York against Mrs. Catherine A. Ting
ley for the purpose of the recovery of the
archives, books and treasury by that por
tion of the society which has declared
against her.
The plaintiff is Alexander H. Spencer,
who is the vice president of one branch of
the Theosophical society.
Os course it is known here that the The
osophical society changed the name under
which it used to be known, and is now
called the Universal Brotherhood.
The Universal Brotherhood is the spe
cial undertaking of Mrs. Tingley, and un
der her the society has assumed that
name.
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