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Wednesday, December 17, 1924.
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ifeorge came in, talking In an
undertone with his associate, He
nodded reassuringly to Elien. When
he went away again, and disap
peared througli one of the doors be
hind the judge’s bench, she saw
Ryan come In.
He had the air of a man who
had breakfasted well, and who was
full of confidence. Ellen felt a
wave of sheer hate shake her. How
free he was; how comfortably ready
for the day’s work! And Gibbs—
Gibbs would come In between two
guards— s *
“This Is merely tb% paneling of
the jury,” George had told them;
“it may take several days. It’s a
long, stupid business. »»
With a great stirring and mur
muring In the room, Gibbs came In,
with a court officer. He was pale,
but seemed neither self-conscious
nor nervous, as he came quickly to
his seat at the end of one of the
tables. Then he saw Ellen, who
was only ten feet away, and who
sent him n brave smile. Ellen's
heart was torn within her. Gibbs,
with that little new droop to his
broad shoulders, a spectacle for this
stirring roomful!
Everybody rose, and she rose,
too, dizzily. The clock was on
the stroke of ten, and his honor
came promptly and quietly through
a door at the back, to his large
chair. ' A clerk leaned over him
to murmur some message; he
nodded quickly; the clerk went
eat. The case ef tbe State versus
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Thomas Gibbs JosselynwnS called.
For days the paneling of the
Jury dragged on, and the long
hours In the courtroom were weari
some and uneventful. Then sud
denly there Was a full Jury, and
the trial began. Ellen was dazed
by the preliminaries, and the cross
questioning seemed to her singular
ly Irrelevant. George would hsk
an apparently unimportant ques- The
tion, and nodding, Bit down.
district attorney would Jump up
with another, leading nowhere, as
far as Ellen could see. Between
George and Ryan there was a run
ning fire of hot words. Ellen was
amazed to see them speak civilly
to each other the moment court ad
journed. At luncheon she would
eagerly question George as to the
significance of this point or that.
The trial lasted for only a day
less than three weeks. Ellen had
moved her place to Gibbs’ side, and
although they rarely spoke, she
knew he was as much comforted
as she was by this arrangement.
For two days, cruel and exhaust
ing-days. she was on the stand.
Mary Cutter and George Lnthrop
were amazed at the courage and
strength she found for the ordeal.
She had promised them she would
not break down, but she did for
a moment, when Tommy’s name
was mentioned. And perhaps that
moment, when the sensitive mouth
quivered, and the blue eyes
brimmed with tears, was as favor
able to Gihh*’ cause as any logic
or eloquence could have Been.
For it slowly became evident
that no eloquence and no logic
could avail in defense of a man,
young and rich and handsome, who
had turned from this devoted little
wife to another woman, who had
quarreled with the generous father
who was that other woman’s hus
band, who had threatened and
brooded over the quarrel.
Day after dav the net tightened
about him. Ellen, listening and
watching, sometimes felt aa if she
were In an oppressive dream. Oh,
it could not be Gibba who was
trapped here; It could not be
Topim.v's father Who was the chief
figure In one of the sensational
murder trials ef the day!
On the afternoon before the
final summing-up, when all the tes
timony was In, and It remained
only for the prisoner’s counsel and
the district attorney to present to
the Jury their versions of the case.
Ellen was spending an hour with
Gibbs. His months of confinement
and mental distress had affected
Ws constitution, and a ....... appe
tite and wakeful nights had added
to the misery of the situation.
"I Jnrop from one extreme to
the other, Ellen,” he told her.
"Sometimes I think they’ll bring
In a verdict of guilty—plain and
flat. And then sometimes. I let
myself think that all this has Im
pressed them more favorably than
we—than we fear, you know, and
that I’ll walk out of the room a
free man—with my girl on my
arm »»
His voice broke, and Ellen burst
Into bitter sobbing. He put his
arms about her, and kissed the top
of her soft hair.
“Look here, dear,” he said, after
a while, “I want to talk to you
for a few minutes. We don’t know
what’s ahead of us, and I want to
say this while I have a chance. M
*They sat down on the bed, side
by side, and he locked liis arm
about her.
“One thing I want to say Is this,”
Gibbs said, slowly. “I wasn’t a good
husband to you, the last year, but
it was only that T was a tool, Ellen.
I never was untrue to yon, even In
my thoughts, »
- I know It!” she said fervently,
raising her wet eyes to meet his.
“Oh, Gibbs, my own sweetheart,”
I she, burst out, her eyes brimming
again, “what haven’t you given me?
—a little country girl who never
had anything In her life until you
came along! Paris, and my ^oy,
and my little girl—and your love,
Gibbs, that made life seem a mir-
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“Don’t cry, Ellen,” he pleaded,
and she made herself be calm
again.
“There’s one thing more I want
to say.” Gibbs said. He got up and
walked about the little room. Ellen
watched him dtstressedly. “I want
you to remember this, and when
yon tell the boy about it, tell him
this, too. _I’ve no reason to He
to you, Ellen, and what I’m telling
you I say as if I were a—a dying
man. It may he my last talk with
you, and I think—I think of that,
when I say it. I think of what yon
have done for me, and of what
you are to me. By my mother's
memory, Ellen, and by the memory
of the little girl—we named for
her!—I never fired that shot I
never had my hand on that re
volver in my life!”
For a minute she stared at him
without a change of expression.
Then he saw an extraordinary look
almost of madness come into her
eyes, and saw her breast rise with
°» e ^^ eat br atIl 'i.>, S i ie ?? a<5e a "
effort to speak, i \\lth dry lips, and
failed, made a second, and sue
ceeded.
“Gibbs!” she stammered, in a
whisper. “You—you!” Her voice
failed her, and she made a gesture
as if for air, still clinging tightly
to his arm, which she had grasped
CTO BE CONTINUED.)
BOIFEUILLET SAYS
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Atlanta, Dec. 17.—Governor
Walker, acting on formal commu
nication of protest filed with him
by John T. Boifeuillet, of Macon,
has withdrawn the commission is-
to
elected to the Georgia public ser
vice commission in place of Mr.
Boifeuillet.
Mr. Boifeuillet contends he was
appointed in 1916 to fill the unex
pired term of Joseph F. Gray,
which ran to Dec. 1, 1919.
He~v^s7~in the geneTaTeleclibn
preceding that date, elected for a
full term of six years from De
cember 1, 1919, which term of
six years will expore December 1,
1925, and on that commission he
has been serving and is now serv
ing, and is entitled to continue
to serve until the first day of
December of next year, and will
so contend should Mr. Bennett at
tempt to take office in January.
Governor Walker says under the
present circumstances he will to
day address a letter to Mr. Ban
nett withdrawing the commission,
without prejudice to his case, in
order that both sides may be
heard by the governor on a date
to be set, on equal footing.
Georgia this year increased the
proportion of watermelons sold
under the co-operative association
plan by 72 per cent.
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is buying this year nearly eight
millions' dollars worth of tobacco—
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GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS
KILLS YOUN I
SHOOTS WIFE UNO
Macon, Dec. 17—James A.
Swain, 27, proprietor of the Drive
It Yourself car rental agency,
shot and killed James Walter
Johnston, 17, last night.
Then he leaped into an automo
bile and less than five minutes
from the time that Johnston fell,
Swain shot his 17 year old wife,
fired on his mother-in-law, Mrs.
W. E. Gregory, and attempted
to shoot himself.
Mrs. Swain is at the Macon hos
pital, suffering from a serious
wound in the right arm.
Sheriff’s deputies reached the
Swain residence while Swain was
snapping his pistol trying to blow
out his own brains, but the car
tridges wouldn’t explode.
Members of the Johnston fam
ily said last night that Miss Vir
ginia Fowler, whom Walter John
stori was to have married today,
told them after the killing that
she had been notified early yester
day by telephone by an unidenti
fied person, that Swain had
threatened to kill
Swain’s wife and the girl
self.
She did not warn Johnston,
was quoted as having said.
Swain Denies Jealousy.
At the county jail Swain
that he was jealous of his
whom he married about a
ago.
He insisted that there was
triangle affair, but told
ances that he wasn’t good
for his wife; that he “loved
ground on which she walked. tt
He expressed the hope that
would live, but said he
that he must die for his crime.
GIRL SLAYER OF.
Atlanta, Dec. 17.—Shortly after
the Fulton county* grand jury
Tuesday indicted Claude A. Roark
as the slayer of Miss Vena Moore,
Western Union automatic oper
ator, Solicitor General John A.
Boykin set January 7 as the date
for trial.
One Witness.
Only one witness was examined
by the jury. She was Mrs. Annie
Norris, J an employe of the Wes
* , ern Union, . who , saw Roark D , shoot , ,
Miss Moore to death as aha sat
at her work * in the big operating
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Roark , transferred . . , from . the .,
was
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Death Shows California Husband,
Married Seven Years, Was Woman
Loa Angeles, Dec. 17.—Paul J.
Beach, who claimed to be a form
er Chicago packing house official
and Sacramento railroad employe,
who died recently, was a woman,
the physicians and nurses who at
tended “Mr.” Beach at “his'’ last
illness, revealed, today. “He” was
45 years old.
The dual personality existed 24
years, seven of whieh presented
“Mr.” Beach to the world as a
married man.
** Mrs. >* Beach, formerly Miss
Florence A. Dillon, with whom
I he” went through a marriage
ceremony in Sacramento in June,
1917, died last May.
Disappeared.
• • Mr. >» Beach is said to have
been a native of Tennessee and
is said to have Jed the life of
a normal girl until 21, when she
disappeared and took up a career
as a man in a Kentucky bank.
At various times since “he
police station, where he has been
held since the killing, to the Ful
ton county tower. There he will
remain until the day of trial,
when his fate will be decided by
a jury in Fulton superior court.
Retains Lawyer.
Roark stated, however, while he
was being transferred from the
police station to the tower, that
he had retained William Schley
Howard as counsel, and that he
had authorized # him to issue a
statement for him within the very
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