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VOLUME XII.
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1913.
NO. 33.
GEORGIA DEMOCRATIC
BY
LETTERS!.CHICAGO
Negro Lawyer Declares That
“Gangsters" Kidnaped Him
and Carried Him to the Ex
aminer Office
: Members of Electoral College
Cast Ballots for Wilson
and Marshall
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—A story of
how copies of letters from John D.
Archbald to former Senator Foraker and
other public men were taken from the
l Standard Oil company’s office at 26
* Broadway by W. W. Winkfield and
‘. Charles Stump, negro messengers, em-
’ ployed by the' company, was told to the
senate campaign fund investigating com
mittee today by Gilchrist Stewart, a ne-
■fc-ro law clerk.
The negro Stewart says he was em
ployed by Mr. Foraker to investigate
whether certain photographs of letters
were forgeries. Winkfield was found in
Chicago Stewart said and told him a
story of how he and Stump took copies
of letters from the Standard Oil files
and disposed Of them to a representative
ot the New York American.
While fn Chicago on December 31,
the negro declared he was kidnaped by
'‘gangsters/’ taken to the office of the
' Chicago Examiner and robbed of a num
ber of letters and papers, including two
letters to him from former Senator
Foraker.
The men who kidnaped him, he said,
told him they were policemen, exhibited
what purported to be warrants, and at
tempted to make him believe the Ex
aminer office was a police station.
HOUSE ANNULS TAFT’S
CIVIL SERVICE ORDER
Amendment to .Postoffice
Bill Puts Fourth Class Un
der Appointments
(Bv Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—An amend
ment to tbs postoffice appropriation
bill to annul the executive orders
which placed fourth-class postmasters
and assistant postmasters and clerks
of first and second-class potoffice Un
der civil service, was adopted by the
house today sitting as a committee
of the whole. It was offered by Rep
resentative Cutlop, of Indiana, and wilt
have to come, before the house again
when it finally passes on the bill. All
Republicans refrained from voting.
IT
IE OE MERGER BOARD
Alleged Differences Between
Faculty and President of
College Will be Heard
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
MACON, Ga., Jar.i. 13.—Charges not
yet made public and not even known to
President S. Y. Jameson, of Mercer uni
versity, will be heard before a special
committee composed of the board of
trustees next Wednesday afternoon,
when they gather here to make an in
vestigation of the administration of
President Jameson. T. A. Parker, of
Waycross, will act as chairman of the
investigating committee.
Since the Mercer removal question
first arose, dissatisfaction is said to
have prevailed between the head of th e
college, the faculty and certain mem
bers of the board of trustees. It is said
a hard fight was made at the last an
nual meeting-of the trustees against his
re-elf-ction as the college head. At the
investigation those who have grievances
against Dr. Jameson will be allowed to
testify.
HASN’T SEEN CHARGES.
President Jameson refused to make a
statement this morning regarding the
investigation, stating that he had not
yet been presented with a copy of the
charges and was not prepared to make a
public statement. He declared, how
ever, that he would demand a written
charge and would be ready to establish
proper defense when the time came. He
is now serving his seventh term as col
lege president, having been at the col
lege head since 1906.
A* committee • of the board
of trustees of Mercer univer
sity, charged by resolution passed
at the last special meeting ot that body
here in December with a thorough in
vestigation of the administration by
President S. Y. Jameson of the college
affairs, is expected to begin work during
this week.
It is understood the committee will
have particularly to do with th^ re
lation of the president of the univer
sity to the faculty. Dissatisfaction
has been heard coming from certain
laculty members which has given
rise to current talk that all is not
harmony between the head of the uni
versity and his subordinates.
Not Unlawful to
Call Man an Ass
—In Switzerland
(By Associated Press.)
SEURICH, Switzerland, Jan. 13.—It is
lawful in Switzerland to call a man an
Ms either in anger or otherwise, accord
ing to a decision by the cantonal tri
bunal here today. The court declined to
award damages in a suit arising out of
a quarrel between two prominent citi
zens.
Georgia went Democratic by a unan
imous vote Monday when all fourteen of
the members of the state electoral col
lege cast their ballots for Governor
Woodrow Wilson, of New Jersey, for
president of the United States and for
Governor Thomas R. Marshall, of In
diana, for vice president.
The Georgia electors met at noon in
the senate chamber, at the capitol, and
at the same hour the electoral colleges
in all of the states of the union held
similar meetings.
Judge Andrew J. Cobb, of Athens, tvas
chosen president, and B. M. Blackburn,
of Atlanta,. was. elected vice president.
Walter E. Steed-, of Butler, was the
temporary chairman. None of these gen
tlemen had opposition.
John C. Reese, Atlanta correspondent
for the Macon Telegraph, was elected
messenger to convey the Georgia vote
to Washington. Mr. Reese won out on
the second ballot over Flynn Hargett,
messenger of the Georgia senate, and
Harllee Branch, a reporter of The At
lanta Journal.
Mr. Reese is one of the best known
and most popular newspaper men in
Georgia.
On the first ballot for messenger the
vote was: Reese, 6; Hargett. 4. and
Branch, 4. The second and final ballot
stood: Ree^se, 8; Branch, 4, and Hargett,
2. Friends of the other candidates
then moved that Mr. Reese’s election
be made unanimous, which was done.
At 1 o’clock the electors took a recess
of half an hour in order to afford Sec
retary Blackburn time in which to pre
pare the three certificates, which will
officially show that Georgia cast its
vote for Wilson and Marshall. Each of
these certificates, one of which must be
filed with the United States district
court, one with the secretary of state,
and the other be sent to the national
senate by the messenger, had to be
signed by each of the electors.
Members of the electoral cellege'were:
State-at-large, Judge A. J. Cobb, of
Athens, and Walter E. Steed, of Butler;
Fir^t congressional distnct, Judge E.
C. Collins, of Reidsville; Second dis
trict, B. W. Fortson, of Arlington;
Third district, John B. Hutcheson, of
Ashburn; Fourth district, C. C. Min-
ter, of Cusseta; Fifth district, John B.
Suttles, of Fairburn; Sixth district, O.
J. Coogler, of Jonesboro; Seventh dis
trict, J. M. Laing, of Calhoun; Eighth
district, J. C. Williams, of Greensboro;
Ninth, district, W. E. Simmons, of Law-
rencevilierTehth district, H. P. Blount,
of Grovetown; Eleventh district, Ty. R.
Frier, of Douglas; Twelfth. district, J.
Hunter Johnson, of Jeffersonville.
Ways and Means Committee
Closes Hearing on Revision
of Lumber Schedule
0.5.
ARCHBALD GUILTY OF
MISUSEJF OFFICE
Noted Jurist is Found Guilty
of Misusing His Office and
Power as Judge for His Own
Personal Gain
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—Judge Rob
ert W. Archbald, of the commerce court,
was found guilty today by the senate
sitting as a court of impeachment, of
having misused his office and power as a
judge for his personal gain. The penal
ty is removal from his high office.
Archbald was convicted on the first
count of the thirteen the house of rep
resentatives brought against him. It
charged that he had used his position
as a judge to persuade the Erie Railroad
company to give him and E. J. Williams,
of Scranton, Pa., an option on a coal
dump at a price probably $30,000 less
than Its real value.
On this, the first charge, the senate
'Voted 68 to 6 for his conviction of “high
crimes and misdemeanors/' Although
the verdict insured Judge Archbald’s
removal from the bench and the service
of the United States courts, the senate
proceeded to vote on the other twelve
counts of the articles of impeachment.
At his trial the accused judge admit
ted practically all the facts of every ac
cusation brought against him, but pro
tested in defense that none of them was
wrongful nor corrupt, nor could he have
been convicted in any court of law for
them.
The conviction upon the first count
came with an unexpected majority
against Judge Archbald, only two-thirds
being necessary for a conviction. As
the roll call proceeded sixty-eight sena
tors rose slowly in their places and pro
nounced the world “guilty," in low tones.
As the vote on the first article was
announced, Senator Hoke Smith, of
Georgia, moved that the senate go into
executive session. He said that he be
lieved that a vote on the other counts
mi^ht be dispensed with or abridged
by secret deliberation.
Senator Culberson and Senator Poin
dexter objected that the senate should
not vote on the-articles in executive ses
sion, After some discussion Senator
Smith withdrew his motion and the
clerk proceeded to read the second ar
ticle.
Senator Bacon, who had presided
throughout the impeachment proceed
ings, asked to be excused from all votes
unless his vote was necessary to a de
cision. On the second count Senator
Smith, of Georgia, also asked to be ex
cused from voting.
Before the first article of impeach
ment was read, Senator Kern, of Indi
ana, Senator Dillingham, of Vermont,
and Senator Bradley, of Kentucky, asked
to be excused from voting, because they
had not been present throughout the
trial.
(By Associated Pr6ss.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—“Free lum
ber” as part of the Democratic tariff
program of the coming extra session of
congress seemed assured today at the
hearing beforp the house committee on
ways and means. The lumber schedule
was closed so far as the hearings were
concerned. The colloquies Detween the
Democratic members of the house and j
witnesses indicated the intention of a
majority of the committee upon put
ting rough and dressed lumber, hewn
and squared timbers, shinglaf?, laths
tnd fence posts on the free lists.
Representative Kitchen. of North
Carolina, Democrat, referred incident
ally to meats, and Representative
Longworth, of Ohio, Republican, asked:
“Do you Democrats purpose to put
meat on the free list?”
“Yes,” replied Mr. Kitchen. “I’m
going to vote for it.”
Reprosntative James, of Kentucky,
Democrat, in the cross-examination re
ferred to the “greater necessity for
conserving the interests of the poor
people than of conserving lumber.”
The lumber and silk sched
ules of the tariff were the
issue in testimony today before the
house ways and means committee. There
was no Democratic bill for these sched
ules at the last session, as in the case of
chemicals and iron and steel, to afford
a tentative plan for the committee.
Schedule “D" of the present law cov
ers timber, sawed boards, posts, clap
boards, laths, caskets, blinds, cabinet
furniture and so on, at ad valorem du
ties ranging from 10 per cent on posts,
30' per cent on boxes, barrels, casks j
and hogsheads to 45 per cent on willow
furniture and a variety of rates on vari
ous classes of lumber.
Schedule “L” covers silk, velvets,
cheniles, handkerchiefs, ribbons, laces,
yarns and threads. Silk no further ad
vanced than carded or combed is as
sessed 35 cents a pound; spun silk or
silk yarn at a sliding scale with a min
imum of 35 per cent ad valorem, and
silk manufactures 50 per cent.
The Silk Association of America was
among the organizations represented to
day. With the passing of these two
schedules the committee will have dis
posed cf five of the fourteen schedules
of the tariff law so far as the hearings
are concerned.
The program is to take up tomorow
the left over witnesses on the metal
schedule. Those expected, practically all
of whom have assured their appearance,
include W. L. Kann, of Pittsburg; S. P.
Ker, president of the Sharon, Pa., Steel
Hoop company ; J. T. Rose, of the Atlan
ta Steel company; George L. Hamilton,
of Boston, for textile manufacturing in
terests; Walter Laidlaw, of New York,
for pumping machinery manufacturers;
R. E. Jennings, of Reading, Pa., for the
Halcomb Steel company; Edwin K. Ba
con, of Mansfield, Ohio, for the Globe
Steel company; E. P. Reichelf, of New
York, for the American Swiss File and
Tool company.
The free list which President Taft
vetoed included hewn and squared tlm-
ENTRYMEN AND RAILROAD
FIGHT FOR OIL LANDS
Southern Pacific Road Has
Patents on Lands Now
Gushing Oil
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—An empire
of oil lands worth probably mor e than
half a billion dollars was the prize
which brought groups Of opposing law
yers today before the supreme court.
tfhe occasion was the argument #of
what reply the court should make to a
request for instruction from the United
States circuit court of appeals
for the Ninth circuit, which
was unable to decide . whether
the Southern Pacific Railroad
company or Edmund Burke and other
separate entrymen were entitled to val
uable tracts of land, now said to be
gushing forth oil in California.
The railroad company has received
patents to the land. The government
recently brought proceedings to have
the patents cancelled, but that question
is not before the court. The patents
contained a provision excepting all
mineral lands from the grant. It is
this provision which now furnishes the
principal contention.
Burke and those in a similar position
claim that the exception prevented the
land passing to the railroad and that
they arc entitled to thd land under pres
ent entry. The railroad contends that
the exception is void and, anyway, that
evidence cannot now be produced to
show the lands are “mineral” or oil j
lands, the government having issued a j
patent for them and no fraud having j
been practiced upon it.
Primarily the Southern Pacific rail- 1
road alone is concerned in the present,
controversy, but the same exceptions |
are contained in patents to practically
every land-grant railroad traversing the j
west, and so all will be affected by the j
decision.
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THE NEW BUSINESS BAROMETER
BLEASE AND HIS EOES
WILL STIR LEGISLATURE
Factional Fight on All Legis
lation Will Mark South Car
olina General Assembly
(By Associated Press.)
COLUMBIA, S. C., Jan. 13.—The gen
eral assembly of South Carolina will
convene in its annual session at noon
Tuesday. There are sixteen new mem
bers of the senate and twenty-eight
who have held over and were re
elected. In the house only 34 of the 124
members who served in the last assem
bly were returned. All members are
Democrats.
The session is expected to be fea
tured by the introduction of several
important bills, among which will be a
measure providing for compulsory edu
cation. On the recommendation of F.
H. McMaster, state insurance commis
sioner, a bill to provide for the grant
ing of life insurance and annuities by
the state to its citizens under the su
pervision of a commission composed of
state officials will be introduced.
Members-elect of th e general assem
bly have announced their intention of
offering a bill to provide for the sale
of intoxicating liquors under the con
stitutional provision that this can be
done when the goods ar e contained in
the so-called “original packages.”
As a rule the state officials in their
annual reports to the general assem
bly have made few legislative recom
mendations. The measures recommend
ed by Governor Blease will not be
kihown until his annual message is read
to the general assembly.
Benjamin Ryan Tillman will be re
elected to the United States senate by
this legislature, having been selected
over two opponents at the primary last
summer.
There is a decided probability that a
strong factional fight on all legislation
will develop in the South Carolina legis
lature similar to the one of the ses
sion of 1912.
162,576,320 PAID EOR
ENGLISH TELEPHONE LINE
British Government Now Owns
Its Own System Through
out Kingdom
MEYER ASKS FOR THREE
NEW BIG BATTLESHIPS
WASHINGTON. Jan. 13.—Renewal of
the fight for an increase in th e number
of the battleships to be built during
the fiscal year, for which appropriations
soon will be mi.de, has started a cam
paign by the two battleship program
advocates looking to a compromise on a
single battleship.
ber, shingles, laths, fence posts and
rough or dressed lumber.
William Uptegrove, of Brooklyn,
N. Y., today asked the committee to
retain the present tariff of 15 per cent
ad valorem on sawed boards, planks
and cabinet woods not further manu
factured than sawed and 20 per cent ad
calorem on veneers.
(By Associated Bress.)
LONDON, Jan. 13.—The British gov
ernment is to pay to the National Tele
phone Company of the United Kingdom
the sum of $62,576,320 for its property,
according to a decision reached by the
railroad and canal commission sitting
as a court of arbitration
The whole of the telephone system
in the British Isles passed into the
hands of the state on January 1, 1912.
The National Telephone company orig
inally asked $105,000,(H>* for its inter
ests, but during the seventy-three-day
trial just ended this claim was reduc
ed by many millions.
It had been expected by stock ex
change experts, however, that the com
pany would receive from $80,000,000 to
$90,000,000. The stock of the company
immediately upon announcement fell
from 141 to 109.
The arbitration has been one of the
most important in the history of the
country.
During the trial the parties came to
an agreement as to the cost of the
THOMAS TEACHERS ASA
FOR BETTER SALARIES
Resolutions Will Be Sent to
the Teachers of Every
County of Georgia
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
THOMAS VILLE, Ga., Jan. 13.—Just
before their adjournment here yester
day afternoon, the members of the
Thomas County Teachers' institute
passed the following resolutions:
“Whereas, the teachers of the public
schools of Georgia are employes just
as others employed in the various de
partments of the state. And where
as, an unjust discrimination is made
in the payment of salaries as between
the teachers and other employes, the
latter being paid promptly, while the
teachers are compelled to take what
is left in the treasury or discount their
claims in order to meet their obliga
tions.
“Therefore, Resolved, that we, the
teachers of Thomas county, Georgia, in
institute assembled this tenth day cf
January, 1913, do respectfully ask the
general assembly of Georgia to enact
such laws as will place the teachers of
Georgia upon the same footing as other
employes of the state, either by keep
ing the general and special appropria*
tions for the common schools separate,,
or by devising means by which the
object of this resolutions can be at
tained.
“That we respectfully ask all other
teachers of the state to co-operate with
us in this matter.
“Be it further resolved that a copy
of these resolutions shall be sent to
the daily press of the state.”
A copy of these resolutions will be
sent to the teachers of every county
in the state and the members of the
institute of Thomas county state that
this is the initial step in a general ef
fort on the part of all the teachers In
the state to have laws enacted tending
to the prompt payment of the salaries
of the teachers. They seem very much
in earnest in the matter, and say that
all of the teachers are as one with them
and will no doubt join in this great ef
fort they are beginning to change mat
ters.
ESSEX CAVALRY TROOPS
WILL ESCORT WILSON
PEACE LOOMS BRIGHT AS
TURKISH CABINET QUITS
Announcement That Cabinet
Will Resign Greeted as
Sign of Peace
New Jersey Cavalrymen Se
lected as Personal Escort for
President at Inauguration
(By Associated Press.)
LONDON, Jan. 13.—Turkish newspa
per Easflr-I-Efkiar says that the Otto
man cabinet has decided to resign, ac
cording to a dispatch today from Con
stantinople. This is believed to indi
cate the predominance of the influence
of the war party.
The issue of peace or war will rest
with Constantinople after the Anal
drafting of the note to the Ottoman gov
ernment, which will be settled at today's
meeting of the ambassadors at the
British foreign' office. The ambassadors
will today decide also the mode and
time of presentation of the document to
the porte.
The convocation of the Turkish grand
council Is considered a sign In favor of
peace. If Turkey were ready for war,
the calling of the council would be un
necessary. Like that of I87S, at the
time of the Russp-Turkish war, the
present grand council appears destined
to share with the Turkish cabinet the
responsibility of making peace, on this
occasion by yielding the fortress of
Adrianople.
This, however, is not the view held by
the Ottoman peace delegates here, who
persist In the opinion that nothing can
possibly induce the porte to renounce
the historic Mohammedan capital.
Envoys of the Balkan allies express
the opinion that the note drafted by
the European powers would acquire
greater weight If presented to the Otto
man government collectively by all the
European ambassadors in Constantino
ple. They think that if it should be
presented by the Austro-Hungarian am
bassador in his capacity as dean of the
diplomatic corps, it might lose impor
tance owing to the Austrian embitter-
ment against some of the Balkan states.
Negotiations continue between M.
Jonesou, of Roumania, and Dr. S. Dan-
eff, leader of the Bulgarian peace dele
gation. It seems that Bulgaria ques
tions strongly Roumania’s neutrality,
and it is declared she is able to prove
that Bucharest allowed 800 trucks of
war material from Germany to pass
through Roumania territory on the way
to Turkey.
Citizens in Cincinnati, Ohio,
and in Kentucky Cities of
Covington, Newport and
Dayton Seek Shelter
(By Associated Pros,.)
CINCINNATI, Jan. 13.—The Ohio river
continued to rise steadily, but more slow
ly here today, the stage at 9 o’clock' be
ing 61.2 feet. The government forecaster
predicted that the rise would continue
today and tomorrow and that probably
a maximum stage of 63 feet would he
reached. This prediction was made on
the assumption that there would be no
more rain In the next two days.
It was estimated today that 3^000 per
sons had been driven from their homes
in Cincinnati and the cities of Covington.
Newport and Dayton, across the river
in Kentucky. Many factories have been
flooded and hundreds of persons thrown
out of work
The authorities in the four cities are
doing all in their power for the flood
sufferers. In Cincinnati Dr. Otto P.
Geler, of the department of charities and
corrections, has been placed in charge of
the relief work. He has opened soup
houses and inaugurated other means of
succor.
Mayor Hunt has issued a proclamation
asking for funds to aid sufferers. In
addition he will ask council to approve
a 320,000 special bond Issue which is
to be added to the fund.
In Kentucky cities churches, school
houses and police stations are shelter-
ingr the homeless.
Cold Weather Checks
Rise of Lower Ohio
(By Associated Press.)
PADUCAH, Ky„ Jan. 13.—Cold weath
er had checked the menacing rise in the
lower Ohio river today, and it was be
lieved the flood stage would not be ex
ceeded at this point.
This morning the gauge read 40.2
feet, a rise of seven-tenths of a foot
during the night. The crest was ex
pected to reach here Tuesday.
Government forecasters had Issued a
warning Sunday that the river would
reach forty-seven feet at Paducah, but
it was thought this morning that the
gauge woiUd- nci-axcettd forty t r ,
Train service was resumed today as
washouts were repaired.
1,000 Reported Homeless
In Vicinity of Louisville
(By Aa.oo4.ted Press.)
LOUISVILLE, Jan. 18.—Police and
fire department employes working to
move families from districts menaced
by the Ohio river flood were cheered
this morning by news that the rise was
less rapid than registered last night.
While nearly 1.000 persons were home
less today and the outlook was that
this number would be doubled, yet It
was believed property damage would
not be as heavy as in previous "rec-
ord” floods.
When the river broke over the “cut
off” embankment east of Louisville this
morning it began to flood an area of
several square miles, out of which some
/ 300 families already had been moved.
The embankment, calculated to keep off
the water until the stage reached thirty-
seven feet, resisted until 37.6 was reach,
ed. At 10 o’alook the river touched
thirty-eight feet and was rising at rate
of one-tenth an hour. The weather bu
reau predicted a maximum of forty-one
feet by Tuesday night or Wednesday
morning, six inches less than the high
water of 1907.
Workers in boats today were anchor
ing light buildings likely to be moved
when the water reaches its highest.
Refugees of the poorer classes were be
ing quartered in the school houses and
cared for by charitable organizations.
BECKER EXPECTS LIBERTY
IF NEW TRIAL IS GRANTED
(Bv Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON. Jan. 13.—Major Gen
eral Leonard Wood, chief marshal of the
inauguration day parade, has received
word from President-elect Wilson that
the latter has determined upon the Es
sex troup of New Jersey calvary as his
personal escort on March 4.
Applications for favorable places in
the lino of the parade are beginning to
pour in on the committee and before the
end of the week General Wood expects
to have a definite idea of the extent and
character of the comfng pageant.
Marshals for the naval contingent and
the veterans’ organizations probably will
be named this week. .The extent of the
naval representation in the parade will
not be settled until the return of the
Atlantic fleet, now in Cuban waters, to
Hampton Roads.
JUDGE THURMOND WILL
PRESIDE AT JACKSON
plant, the sum being $51,568,825. The
court then had to decide the percent
ages which should properly be added
to that sum and also the depreciation.
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
JACKSON, Ga., Jan. 13.—Judge A. S.
! Thurman, of the Monticello city court,
! has been secured by Judge Fletcher to
j preside during the trial of the damage
j cases against the Central Georgia Power
! company. The defendant company holds
that Judge Fletcher, of the city court of
j Jackson, is disqualified to hear these
cases, owing to the fact that he repre-
| sents certain citizens of the county in
proceedings seeking to have the com
pany abated as a nuisance. This mo
tion was argued before Judge Fletcher,
who held that he was qualified. The
matter has been carried to the court of
appeals.
There is a large number of these cases
set for trial the second week of city
ct urt, which convenes here Monday.
The damage cases are set for a hearing
the week of the 20th, *md Judge Thur-
xuaD has agreed to preside at that tim6.
Spends Time in Death House
Singing and Reading Bible,
Says Another Prisoner
(By Associated Pros*.)
NEW YORK, Jan. 10.—Former Police
Lieutenant Charles Becker, under sen
tence of death for the murder of
Gambler Herman Rosenthal, continues
in a hopeful frame of mind In hie cell
at Sing Sing prison, according to one
of nls recent fellow-inmates.
Lawrence J. Spohr, former corporal
of the United States army, who was
condemned to die for the murder of his
sweetheart, but who has just been sent
from the death house to the JalJ at
White Plains for a second trial, tells
the story of Beckers days at Sing
Sing.
Spohr says he was known as the
"mayor of the death house,” by virtu,
of being the best educated man there,
until Becker arrived and succeeded
the title.
"Becker confidently expects to get a
new trial, and that he will eventually
be acquitted,” said Spohr. "He is the
most religious man in the place and
every night reads the Bible and leads
In the singing of two or three hymn,
and sometimes popular songs la
which the 'gunmen' Join. Beclcar doe*
not talk about his case, but epends
most of his time studying the legal
points of it and he is usually In a
hopeful frame of mind.”