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LUCKY PALMER
\ CASE WHERE TRUTH IS STRANGER
: THAN FICTION.
A Remarkable Case in Which a Southwest
4 Georgia Safe Blower Figures--Saved
from the Gallows,
From the Atlanta Herald.
One of the most remarkab'e cases that
has figured injthe penitentiary records in
vears has just come to light. It is a
vivid illustration of the old saying that
truth is stranger than fiction.
" }ie principal figure in the story is a
convict named Wilson Palmer. He was
the leader of the bloody riot over a year
ago at Cole City in which several guards
and prisoners were killed or wounded
and several convicts escaped.
[t was this Palmer’s brain and nerve
that plunned the desperate enterprise
and carried it through.
palmer and two mnegroes who had es
caped with him were subsequently re
mptm‘ed.
Acainst each of them were three
charges of murder. One of the negroes
Was convicted and hung. The other
negro—John Rutherford of Atlanta—was
centenced to hang but got a new trial,
and his fate is not yet finally decided.
PALMER THE LEADER.
Palmer was sentenced to hang.
From the first he had no hope of any
other prospect. He faced the prospect
of death with conposure. Expecting to
die goon I.le.m'ade, in confidence to his
Jawyer, certain disclosures cencerning
his past life. This he regarded as neces
sary, as it concerned his family and some
property.
It was a strange story.
His family was a very respectable one,
and very wealthy. They live in Penn
sylvania. Thelawyer, without disclosing
the secrets of his client, substantiated
the truth of what he had been told.
It was Palmer’s intention to die with
out ever letting his family know of the
disgrace he had brought upon them,
THE FAMILY INFORMED,
The lawyer, confrary to the commands
of Liis client, broke his own promise of
secrecy and wrote to Palmer’s family,
They had been trying to find him for
years.
Palmer, be it understood, is not the
man’s real name.
About three weeks ago, it will be re-‘
membered, Col. J. W. Echols, of Pitts-j
burg, Pa., came to Atlanta. He is an
old Georgia boy, and of course had to
account for himself. He replied thas he
had come as a member of the Scotch
[rish executive committee, to arrange
for the meeting of the convention in At
lanta, :
[t created no comment that Col. Ech
ols had a companion—a quiet, well
dressed gentleman who wanted no intro
ductions and kept himself studiously in
the background. Nobody but Col. Ech
ols kuew that such a man was Lere, in
fact,
That man was a brother to Wi'son
Palmer, the condemned conrviet,
Tiie meeting of the brothers at Cole
Uity was a picture too patheted to de
scribe in words.
PALMER'S LIFE SAVED.
To make a long story short, Palmer’s
life was saved upon the merest techni
cally, He ,was tried upon two of the
three charges of murder—after getting a
iew trial—and both times was found
guilty and recommended to mercy.
There is still another charge of mur
der against him, but it is probable that
he will not be tried again, the cases all
being closely identical and the evidence
the same,
To-day Capt. Bill Starnes, the conviet
guard, left for Cole City to bring Palmer
t Fulton county jai,
[t has been deemed proper to transfer
1‘““1 from Cole City to another camp, for
tear of lynching, the feeling against all
”"!-"]‘ men being very strong in Dade
Cove/ Y
), . *y o 4 .
Palmer was the happiest man that ever
received a sentence for life. It saved
his neck,
He talks and acts like a different man,
He says that God has been good to him,
and that he will gepye out his life-sen
tence in thankfulness and grateful re
membrance,
. Mhatis a chapter in the life of a son of
. l‘“‘“‘m'.\' family, educated, given every
.ulwnrzluc in life, saved from the hang-
L’,’"“ l’)’):l legal miracle—a Georgia con
et Palmer’s true name is Dennis,
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. “ntle spring loses many of its terrors
\\{tl‘l‘ Fh(: system is fortified by the use of
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e Vonderful tonic-alterative has long
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There is 1 wnd insures a speedy recovery.
to Chil(.h-g’t o lOQSt danger in giving it
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DYING OF LOVESICKNESS,
A Young Lady Marries an Old Clergyman
to Save His Life.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
BALTiMORE, Maurch 24.—The mar
riage last night of Rev. Dr., Je'd,
Webster and Miss Bertie M. Skinner is
the culmination of a romantic courtship.
Dr. Webster was a widower, with grown
children, one of whom at least is older
than his bride. He is one of the most
pominent Methodist ministers in the
city, and was a few days ago elected pre
siding elder of the East Baltimore dis
trict. Until this event he was pastor of
the rich Madison avenue church, and
waile so serving fell in love with Miss
Skinner,v;ho is the daughter of a wealthy
shipbuilder. The families on both sides
opposed the union, and the pressure was
too great for Miss Skinner ard she broke
off the engogement.
This blow to his cherished hopes
caused the clergyman to get quite sick.
Inquiries were informed that it was over
wrought nerves; but it threatened to be
eome serious, and his family became as
anxious for the marriage as they had
been to prevent it. Miss Skinner con
sented to renew the engagement and to
an immediate marriage. This worked
charmingly on the reverend gentleman
who rose from his sickjbed, was married
last night and is now with his wife on .a
bridal tour.
Should Writea Suppl;-t_me—ntary Treatise.
Mrs. Hutchins, the New J ersey widow
whose husband five years ago left his
entiie estate of $30,000 to Henry George
for his ‘‘Progress and Poverty” propa
ganda, is now a pauper and an inmate of
an alms house, and itis said that Mr.
George’s net share of the J arndyce-like
proceeding was s3Bo—for the posession of
which he is still suing his own attorney.
All the rest of the money went for law. A
more remorseless instance of progress
and poverty jor all concerned save the
lawyers is not recorded in the annals of
litigation; and it should prompt Mr.
George to write a supplementary treat
ise to show that existing social condi
tions, after all, are not 'devoid of their
benignant phases—at least toward mem
bers of the bar,
The Observant Womano.,
“A person who makes it a point to
study other people caun form wunerring
conclusions.” remarked the observaut
woman to her companion as they sat in
the street car.
“Indeed:” replied the latter with in
terest.
“Yes, indeed! Now notice the girl
across the aisle. Ordinary people would
see nothing special about her. but I can
tell that she is a convert bred girl.”
“How can yon tell that?”
*By the way she holds her feet on the
floor. You notice her left foot is set
squarely down. The right one is at an
angle to the left, and with the heel
placed midway between the left heel and
toe. Convent girls are always trained
to sit with their feet that way. Now,
['d be willing to wager my week's allow
ance that if you spoke to her she would
open her eyes and say, ‘lf you please,
with a rising inflection, meaning, in
plain English, ‘What is it? "
“I'll speak to her,” replied the wom
an’s cowmpanion, ‘“and see if you are
right.” ;
Then she turned to the convent bred
girl and asked:
“I bey your parden, but if you are ac
quainted with this portion of the city.
will you tell me how faritis yet to
Franklin street?”
The: shy creature lifted her eyes to her
gquesticner, and in a low, sweet tone, re
plied:
“What yer soy?”
Then the observant woman said that
the next corner was where she wished
to get off. —New York Sun.
A Quaint Bit of Praise.
To be eunlogized when dead is more
often the lot of a man rhan to be praised
in life, but surely a quainter cowmpliment
was never paid a dead man than was
received by Talleyrand, for when his
demise was annouuced to one of his
acquaintances, the latter exclaimed, “He
must have had some gopd reason foi
dyingt | think [ will be at least i} my
solt’.’; and forthwith went to bed,
Yet another compliment to a dead man
was attered by the Marchioness of —.
who. when told that the celebrated
physician Borden had been found dead
in bed, exclaimed,; "Ah! Death was so
afraid of him that he did not dare attack
him except when hc was asleep.”—Lon
don Standard. .
Famine Carried Otf 9,500,000 People.
The worst calamity from famine ever
recorded took place in the years 1877 and
1878 in China. Complete crop failures
took place in all the northerh provinges,
and the number of those who perished
from want of food was estimated at
0.500.000, As the internal communica
tions of a country are improved the dan
ger of wholesale starvation is much les
sened. —Providence Journal.
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Are months when Ayer’s Sarsaparilla proves especially beneficial. The free use of animal
food during winter, while living in over-heated, ill-ventilated rooms, and taking insufficient
out-door exercise, tends to load the blood with impurities, which manifest themselves in
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orders. Ayer's Sarsaparilla, being a powerful and highly-concentrated alterative, is the
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