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■ new trial asked
FOR TWO YOUTHS
SENTENCED TO HUNG
Confessed Slayers of Rey
nolds Salesman Fail to
Win Jury’s Recommenda
tion to Mercy
BUTLER, Ga., Dec. 20.—Two Tay
lor county youths, one still in his
teens, today are incarcerated in the
A local jail with a lone chance for liv
ing longer than a month. One of
them just recently announced he had
"made peace with God" and joined
the church while the other asked
1 his prison mates to pray for them
just before they came here Tuesday
morning for trial.
Willie Jones, eighteen, and Gervis
Bloodworth, twenty, were convicted
last night of the murder of H. F.
Underwood, medicine salesman, near
Reynolds, in this county, December
3. “f he jury, composed for the great
er part of farmers, did not recom
mend the meres' of the court as re
quested by defense attorneys but
gave them the extreme penalty—
hanging. The execution date, was set
by Judge Munro, presiding, for Janu
ary 18.
« New Trial Asked
The lone chance for the boys to
escape the death penalty lies in
the granting of a new trial January
15. A motion was immediately filed
by attorneys for the defense, when
the verdict was returned, and the
date set for the hearing to be held
in Columbus. If the boys are hanged,
it will take place in the county jail
4 here, where they will remain until
their fate is finally known.
When the verdict of the jury was
read at 10:50 o’clock last night, Jones
and Bloodworth appeared to be
dazed. The latter awkwardly brush
ed away the tears from his eyes
with his hands. Jones was better
able to control his emotions, al
though he, too, had difficulty in
keeping tears back, Mrs. Jane
Jones the heart-broken mother, and
Mrs. Homer Jones, sister-in-law, who
is out on SSOO bond in connection
with the slaying, both wept.
* Mrs. Homer Jones is charged with
"receiving and concealing stolen
property.” It is the contention of
-he authorities that she received a
portion of the money alleged to have
been taken off the body of Unuer
wood oj r the' two boys..
“No, sir. I reckon not,” was the
4 sobbed answer of Bloodworth to
Judge Munro's question as to wheth
er he had anything to say after
he was sentenced to pay with his life
for the slaying of another. He was
the first to know his penalty, io
the same question a few minutes
later, Jones, a tall blonde youth, re
plied. "no sir.”
Plead Guilty, Mercy Asked
The trial of the boys was the most
unuusual ever held at Butler, and
late yesterday afternoon counsel for
defense, after consultation, created
a sensation when it was announced
that the youths admitted everything
charged by the state and entered
pleas of guilty, but asked the mercy
of the court, indicating that a verdict
of life imprisonment would be ac
ceptable. . . , ..
The turn in the trial by the de
»• sense in admitting that the alleged
confession of Jones made in the Mus
cogee county jail at Columbus was
not taken under pressure was the
most interesting move of the trial,
which began Tuesday morning. The
defense soon after the opening of the
. trial began to attack the alleged con-
* session in an effort to get it ruled
out but were unsuccessful because
of the many witnesses the state
placed on the stand to corroborate
the contention of the solicitor that
he personally had heard the state
ment of Jones.
The crime for which the boys were
convicted was the shooting to death
of H. F. Underwood, a medicine sales
man, near Reynolds the early part
of the month. Underwood was slain
t with a shotgun loaded with buckshot,
the full force of the load entering
. the back of the head, causing death
almost instantly.
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Klan Organizer Flees
For Life as Meeting
Breaks Up m Riot
WILMINGTON, Del., Dec. 20.--
Dr. J. H. Hawkins, klan organizer
and representative of the Imperial
Palace, and hia wife arrived in Wil
mington today after being chased
twenty miles by angry klan oppo
nents. The pursuing party fired a
score of shots at th& Hawkins motor
car which is scarred by bullets.
The chase followed a riot at Kim
bleville, near Westchester, Pa.,
where Hawkins spoke.
Hawkins sharply criticised a reli
gious denomination which is opposed
by the klan. Cries of “liar” arose
from the rear of the hall.
When members of the klan made
efforts to quell the disurbance about
fifty men left the hall, tearing the
doors from their hinges and hurling
bricks back through the doorway.
As f-oon as the meeting was over
Hawkins and his wife hurried into
a waiting automobile. They had just
started to Wilmington when they
were attacked. The automobile sped
away pursued by a number of men
who began firing at it. A number
of shots struck the car.
Hawkins declared he would give
the number of the pursuing car to
the authorities.
3,000 Die; 23,000
Homeless in Quake;
Lake Disappears
BOGOTA, Columbia, Dec. 20. —
Three thousand are dead and 23,000
homeless as a result of the earth
quakes which devastated the vol
canic region along the frontier be
tween Ecuador and Colombia, it
was learned today as reports of the
full extent of the disaster reached
the capital.
One lake, known as Las Granadas,
near the town of Tulcan, was swal
lowed up when the earth was rent.
Four towns were wiped out.
Off Ford for Life,
Says Man Who Put
His Name on Ballot
ADRIAN, Mich., Dec. 20.—James
W. Helme, who recently filed peti
tions at Lansing, placing the name
of Henry Ford in the Democratic
column of the ballot in the presi
dential primary next spring, said he
“is off the Ford candidacy for life’’
in commenting today upon Mr.
Ford’s statement of yesterday in
which the automobile manufacturer
declared he would not oppose Presi
dent Coolidge for election.
“The object of filing Ford peti
tions at so early a date,’’ Mr. Helme
said, “was to force a statement and
find out where we were. The spectre
of a possible Ford candidacy has
demoralized both old parties and
their leaders and brought dissension
to third party organizations. All this
now is removed and we can settle
down to the fact that there will be
no Ford in the race.’’
MRS. FORD IS GLAD
HUSBAND QUIT RACE
ALBANY, N. Y„ Dec. 20.—Henry
Ford, by announcing he is for Presi
dent Coolidge for president and ap
parently out of the presidential race
himself, evidently has made Mrs.
Ford a Christmas gift that is more
than pleasing.
“I know it is best. I am glad,”
she said when informed here of the
announcement of her husband.
Then she revealed that Ford had
thought of the matter seriously, for
she said:
“We talked it over many times.”
Mrs. Ford who was en route to
Troy to attend a Christmas celebra
tion at the college her niece is at
tending. left today for New York.
Committee Sees End
Os Cotton Troubles
In Ban on Gambling
MANCHESTER. England. Dec. 19.
The joint committee of masters and
cotton operatives, appointed to dis
cuss the situation brought on by ex
tensive speculation on the Liverpool
market, came to the unanimous con
clusion, it is learned, that an im
provement in the critical condition
of the industry could be attained by
stopping speculation. It is esti
mated that the operations of gam
blers have taken &50,000,000 from
the cotton trade.
The meeting also was of the opin
ion that an increase in cotton pro
duction in the British empire was
essential to the salvation of the in
dustry, and members of the confer
ence, therefore, strongly urged treat
er practical support by the govern
ment. It was contended that, if am
ple British supplies of cotton were
forthcoming, such gambling as has
recently hampered the trade would
be impossible. Greater production
of empire cotton would also prevent
what was described as maneuvering
in America to force up prices.
Fifth Living Generation
Os Family Begins With
Birth of Florida Baby
BURLINGTON, la., Dec. 20.—A
baby in Tampa, Fla., born Wednes
day, has the unique distinction of
being the youngest member of five
living generations.
Word came late this afternoon to
Mrs. B. F. Wright, living at Wapello.
lowa, north of Burlington, that a
daughter had been born to her great
granddaughter, Mrs. Mary Paxton
Cannon, in Tampa, Fla. Mrs. Can
non is the daughter of Dr. William
Paxton, widely-known veterinarian,
who formerly lived in Wapello.
The five generations of the
Wrights now living are Mrs. W. F.
Wright, who is a great-great-grand
mother to the Cannon baby; Mrs.
Ida Merrick, great-grandmother;
Mrs. "William Paxton, grandmother;
Mrs. Cannon and her baby daugh
ter.
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Rewards of S7OO
In Jackson County
Murder Mystery
ATHENS, Ga., Dec. 20. Sheriff
Collier today expected his investiga
tion of the deaths of Mrs. Mag. Sim
mons and her 7-year-old daughter,
Rosalie, to move easier, with rewards
totaling S7OO outstanding. The char
red bodies of the couple, wife and
daughter of a Jefferson man, were
found Sunday morning in burned de
bris of a farm shanty, long since
abandoned.
Confident that the bodies were
those of Mrs. Simmons and her
daughter, after the husband and
father had told him that thej’ left
home Saturday night to visit their
daughter in Athens in response to
what was thought to be a written
summons from her, Sheriff Collier’s
inquiry moved rapidly to Athens’,
where he learned they were met at
the train by a man, were later seen
with the man uptown in an automo
bile and since not seen at ail, so far
as the sheriff oan learn.
Sheriff Collier has sifted several
clues as to the identity of this man,
and then came to the point of ask
ing the state to offer a reward of
SSOO for his apprehension. To this
amount the county added S2OO. The
sheriff has stated that his investiga-
I tion was based strongly on the the
■ ory that the man who met Mrs. Sim
mons had had an intimate acquaint
anceship with her, but he also stated
that there was a possibility that rob
j bery could have been the motive for
I the killings. It was ascertained that
I the woman withdrew S3B from a Jef
j ferson bank prior to her departure
i from her home community. John
Simmons, husband of the slain wom
an, countering the report of a cotton
mill superintendent under whom Mrs.
Simmons was employed that she had
quarreled with him and planned to
leave home, told Sheriff Collier that
there had been no ripple in their do
mestic felicity.
Governor’s Hunting
Party Reports Killing
Eleven Deer on Isle
Governor Walker’s hunting party
on Cumberland island killed eleven
deer on Monday and Tuesday of this
week, according to reports brought
back to Atlanta by members of the
party, who returned Thursday. Gov
ernor Walker and several others
stopped off at Fitzgerald, to hunt
birds and ducks for the remainder of
the week.
The deer hunt was on the Car
negie estate on Cumberland island,
by invitation of Maurice Carnegie,
who is now on the island. The isle
abounds in deer, wild turkeys, squir
rels and ducks, privately stocked
and protected the year round. It is
the property of the estate of Thomas
Carnegie, a brother of Andrew Car
negie the steel magnate.
In the deer hunting party were:
Governor W'alker. his son, Harrell
Walker; Colonel E. P. Dobbs and
Judge Newton Morris, of Marietta;
James Dozier, of Atlanta; Charles
Brown, of Cordele; Representative J.
B. Copeland, of Valdosta; James V.
Poole and C. E. Gregory, of Atlanta;
Mayor Malcolm McKinnon, Solicitor
Frank Scarlett, County Warden E.
F. Higginbotham, L. A. Miller Lee
Bunkley, J. B. D. Paulk and Robert
Bunkley, all of Brunswick.
Secretary Wallace
Assailed by Senator
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—Secre
tary Wallace was assailed today in
the senate by Senator Caraway,
Democrat, Arkansas, in connection
with President Coolidge's order with
holding further federal aid from
the state of Arkansas until
there has been an investigation of
previous expenditures from the fed
eral fund.
“I have no objection to an inves
tigation; I’ve asked for it,” said Sen
ator Caraway.
“But I would urge when it is
done that it be done by honest men
and I know the secretary of agri
culture doesn’t want it done that
way. I have reason to believe that
every dishonest deal in Arkansas
had sympathy here in Washington.”
BONDS BILE'S CASH
OUTLAY IS LIMITED
UIH LEGION PLAN
BY DAVID LAWRENCE
(Special Wire Service to The Journal.)
(Copyright, 1923.)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20—The
American Legion has been assured
by Chairman Green, of the house
ways and means committee, that the
bonus bill will be considered along
with the tax revision measure, with
the prospect that congress will have
an opportunity to vote first on the
bonus, thus indicating to the fram
ers of the tax bill how much reve
nue will be needed to meet the pay
ments to the ex-service men.
Until the bonus bill is disposed of,
the total expenses of the government
for the next fiscal year can not be
estimated accurately. Nor can con
gress determine how the income tax
shall be revised until it knows how
much money has to be raised.
Passage of the bonus by both
houses seems assured and the Amer
ican Legion seerns confident of adop
tion over a presidential veto. In
the face of these facts, and also with
a, majority of (he ways ‘and means
committee itself favorable to the
bonus, the situation now turns on
what will be .the actual cost of the
bonus.
, Why Estimates Vary
There have been varying esti
mates, due largely to the fact that
there are five separate methods of
payment and each veteran is given
the right to avail himself of any one,
but only one, of the following plans:
1. An adjusted service pay. This
plan is limited to veterans whose ad
justed service credit is not more
than SSO. A veteran who has served
100 days on this side of the Atlantic,
being paid at the rate of $1 a day,
would have a credit of SIOO, but
there would be subtracted from this
the S6O paid him when he was dis
charged, so that the cash outlay
would be S4O. Those with longer
service would not get more than SSO
in cash, so the total cash payment
is known definitely to be in the
neighborhood of $16,000,000.
Overseas veterans have a higher
credit, but the total cash is 'about
the same. Popular impression seems
to be that the cash payments can
go higher than sixteen million, but
under the bill introduced by Sena
tor Curtis, of Kansas, which is the
American Legion measure, the cash
payments are limited.
Paid-Up Insurance Clause
2 Adjusted service certificate.
This permits the veteran to receive
a paid-up insurance policy, payable
at the end of twenty years. To in
duce veterans to take this plan, a
25 per cent increase »n the amount
of his adjusted service credit is
given, that is, he is paid on the
same basis ashe had served one
fourth more ti;_n he has actually
been in the service. An Interest pay
ment of 41-2 per cent, compounded
annually for twenty years, also is
included and if the veteran dies be
fore the end of the twenty years, his
family or estate gets the full value
of the certificate.
3 Vocational training is given at
the expense of the government to an
amount equal to his adjusted service
credit, plus 40 per cent, at the rate
of $1.75 per day.
4 Farm or home aid is given for
the purpose of enabling the veteran
to make improvements on city or
suburban home or farm or to pur
chase the same. An amount equal
to his adjusted service credit plus
25 per cent is given to those choos
ing this plan.
5 Land settlement is to be ar
ranged whereby preference is given
veterans when public lands and In
dian lands are opened to entry.
The American Legion estimates the
cost of the various plans based on
the idea of 75 per cent taking the
certificate plan, 22 1-2 per cent tak
ing the farm, home and land set
tlement aid and 2 1-2 per cent taking
vocational training, as follows:
Certificate plan, $-3,364,909,481.
Farm, home and’ land settlement,
$412,425,000.
Vocational training, $52,325,000.
Cash, $16,000,000.
Total, $3,845,659,481.
This, of course, is to be spread over
a period of forty-three years, of
which $1,136,741,670 would be paid
from now to 1943 and $2,708,917,811
from 1943 to 1960.
If all the ex-service men took the
certificate plan, the legion estimates
the total cost would be $4,486,545,975.
If all took vocational training, the
cost would be $2,093,000,000. If all
took the farm and home aid and land
settlement plan, the eost would be
$1,833,000,000.
No estimate, therefore, can be re
garded as final except the one with
respect to immediate cash payment.
It would be possible, of course, for
the man holding adjusted service cer
tificates to borrow at least half of
the face value of his certificate. All
sides seem agreed that the passage
of the bonus would add at least three
and three-quarter billions of dollars
to the public debt of the United
States.
Houston Fire Toll 6
HOUSTON, Texas, Dec. 20. —After
an all-night search of the ruins of
the Capitol hotel, destroyed by fire
here early Tuesday, the death toll
remained at six today. Five are still
missing.
The Weather
FORECAST FOR SATURDAY
Louisiana: Partly cloudy to
cloudy, probably local rains; cooler
in northwest portion.
Arkansas: Unsettled, probably
local rains; somewhat colder.
OKLAHOMA: Partly cloudy,
somewhat colder in east portion.
East Texas; Unsettled. prob
ably local rains in east and south
portions; somewhat colder in north
portion.
West Texas: Generally fair, lit
tle change in temperature.
North Carolina, South Carolina
and Georgia. Local rains; mild tem
perature.
Florida: Probably generally fair,
fair.
Extreme northwest Florida, Ala
bama and Mississippi: Rain, mild
temperature.
Tennessee, Kentucky, West "Virgin;
ia, Western Pennsylvania and Ohio:
Occasional rain; mild temperature.
Atlanta, Ga., Saturday, December 22, 1923.
Fate of Fox, Coburn Slayer,
Is Placed in Hands of Jury
NEWS OF THE WORLD
TOLD IN BRIEF
ATHENS.—Admiral Coundouriotis
assumes regency of Greece.
ATHENS. Delegation represent
ing varying political parties leaves
Athens for Paris to invite former
Premier Venizelos to return to
Greece.
BERLIN. —Although Bavarian diet
votes 91 to 54 in favor of plenary
powers bill, passage of bill fails for
want of necessary two-thirds ma
jority.
CHICAGO.—Estate of $1,200 000
was left by William A. Pinkerton
noted detective, who died recently,
according to his will just filed for
probate.
WASHINGTON.—Extensive hos
pitalization program is being mapped
out by Director Hines, of veterans’
bureau, for consideration of Presi
dent Coolidge.
PARIS. Chamber of deputies
votes pension of 40,000 francs yearly
for Madame Curie, as nation’s trib
ute to her work in discovery of
radium.
ATHENS. —Greek government in
forms diplomatic representatives at
Athens that departure of king and
queen is temporary pending settle
ment by constituent assembly of
problem of regime.
LAKEHURST, N. J.—Commander
F. R. McCrary, of navy dirigible
Shenandoah, announces that craft
had proved satisfactory in first tests
made in connection with proposed
flight to polar regions next year.
LOS ANGELES. —Federal authori
ties begin an investigation of the
charges made in a complaint by Hel
en La Male that her husband, Elsier
La Male, motion picture director, had
attempted to sell her to a Juarez,
Mexico, negro for $500,000.
WASHINGTON. —Hiram Johnson
and Senator Underwood, who are
among avowed candidates for presi
dency, decline to comment on Henry
Ford’s declaration for Mr. Coolidge,
although they make it clear that
they consider it big political news.
WASHINGTON Russian For
eign Minister Tchiterin declares Sec
retary Hughes is using influence
against agreement between Russia
and United States and is preventing
understanding that would help peace
of world, Moscow dispatch says.
WATERTOWN, S. D —Plans to
put Henry Ford’s name on primary
ballot are being carried forward by
South Dakota Ford-for-President
club, regardless of Ford’s declaration
that he would not be candidate for
president, James F. Houlihan, chair
man, announces.
WASHlNGTON.—Contributions of
SI,OOO each to Harding Memorial
fund have been received from Ambas
sador Moore, at Madrid, and Amabas
sador Flogg, latter on eve of recent
departure for London.
NEW YORK. —Rev. Dr. Leighton
Parks, rector of S-t. Bartholemew’s
Protestant Episcopal church, in
New York, denies that he has defied
Bishop Manning, and his statement
is regarded by friends as attempt to
avert further -discord within the
church. _
NEW YORK.—Formation of syn
dicate of London banking houses,
with capital of 5,000 000 pounds to
which control of Chester concessions
in Turkey eventually might pass,
is announced by H. G. Knowles,
counsel for Ottoman-American De
velopment company, which held con
cessions. 1
WASHINGTON. Secretary
Hughes makes public what are de
scribed as authentic intercepted in
struction from Russian communist
leader Zinoviev to workers’ party of
America outlining detailed plan for
a proletarian revolution in United
States and the "raising of the red
flag over the White House.’’
Citrus Shippers Will
Organize m Orlando
ORLANDO, Fla., Dec. 20—A meet
ing of paramount importance, which,
it is anticipated, will be attended by
leading citrus shippers throughout
the state, will be held here Friday aft
ernoon at 2:30 o’clock, to perfect
plans for the completion of the or
ganization of the Flowers Growers
and Shippers league, it was announc
ed this morning. .
11 Rice Growers Fined
For Attack on Editors
STUTTGART, Ark., Dec. 19.
Pleading guilty to rioting and ma
licious mischief, eleven rice growers
who were indicted in connection with
the attack recently upon the plant
of the Free Press, local weekly news
paper, during which the editors of
the paper, R. A. Berry and T F.
Lawson, were beaten, paid fines of
SIOO each in circuit court here late
yesterday. The court dismissed
charges of assault and battery and
aggravated assault pending against
the defendnts.
Dr. J. Louis Kelley
Dies at Gibson Home
GIBSON, Ga., Dec. 20. —Dr. J.
Louis Kelley died at bis residence
here at 3:30 o’clock Wednesday,
dren, two sisters, Mrs. B. H. Haw-
Other than his wife and three chil
kins, Miss Mary Bessie Kelley, and
three brothers, T. J. M., H. H. and
F. G. Kelley, survive him.
Funeral services were conducted
Thursday from the Methodist
church here.
Six Men Blown to Death
LAHORE, India.—The superintend
ent of police and a number of con
stables were arresting Dhanna Singh,
a notorious Babar Akali leader, when
the bomb the man was carrying ex
ploded. Singh and five policemen
were blown to death.
World’s Longest Tunnel
LONDON. —Extension of the city
and South London tube to Morden
has begun. When completed it will
be the longest tunnel In the world.
WASHINGTON.—American Fed
eration of Labor decides to undertake
relief work for support of labor or
ganizations in Germany.
NEW YORK.—The Times declares
that German holdings in the United
States amount to about $200,000,000,
according to the estimates of in
formed bankers.
NEW YORK.—Bishop Manning
appeals to Episcopalian rectors in
diocese of New York asking for a
truce in religious dispute until after
Christmas season.
MEXICO ClTY.—General Sanchez,
insurgent Mexican army chief, has
gone to Esperanza to discuss plan
that will end the Mexican conflict,
the newspaper El Dictamen says.
RALEIGH, S. <\—Burton S. Tuck
er, boy of sixteen, and Mrs. Susan
Simpson, aged forty, have been re
married at Carthage, N. C., a.news
paper here says.
BOSTON.—Fourteen men brought
here by the coast guard cutter
Tampa after the cutter had seized
six motor boats that had visited a
British rum ship are released.
BERLlN.—Munich correspondent
of Vossische Zeitung reports circula
tion of rumors that national Socialist
uprising is imminent there, and that
authorities are taking precautions.
ATHENS. Attempts upon life of
Colonel Botzaris, Greek delegate on
international committee for delimita
tion of Greco-Albanian frontier, is
reported to have been made on
Janina road.
NEW YORK~j7~A. H. Hopkins,
chairman of committee of 48, charac
terizes Henry Ford as a “reactionary
of the first water” for his announc
ed support of President Coolidge in
coming campaign.
WASH IN G TON.—I m proved agri
cultural and banking conditions
throughout country are reflected in
operations of war finance corporation
in past year, according to annual re
port to congress.
MEMPHIS. General evangelists
of the Methodist Episcopal church,
in session at Memphis, denounce
modernism in Methodist church,
south, as destructive doctrine, and
reaffirm believe in apostles’ creed
of Protestant Christianity.
NEW YORK.—Rev. Charles Fran
cis Potter, Unitarian, defeats Rev.
John Roach Straton, Baptist funda
mentalist, in a debate at New York
City on the subject: “The Bible Is
the Infallible Word of God.” Com
mittee of judges renders decision. I
CHICAGO. —C. E? Ruthenburg,
executive secretary of the Workers’
Party of America, in signed state
ment, made public at Chicago, de
clares that Mr. Hughes’ disclosures (
involving Soviet Russia “are forgery
and an attempt to mislead people of
United States.”
WASHINGTON. Representative
Longworth appears to house Repub
licans and Democrats to play poli
tics as little as possible that house
may work efficiently, while Repre
sentative Howard, Nebraska, urges
Republicans to ally with Democratic
"progressives” and support liberal
legislation. ,
BOSTON.—The Pilot, official pub
lication of Roman Catholic arch
diocese of Boston, of which Cardinal
O’Connell is head, discusses problems
that face Episcopalians and other
Protestant denominations, and de*
dares there are no shadows of doubt
to “darken the Roman Catholic’s
celebration of Christmas festival.
BOSEMAN, Mont.—Officials at
Montana State college report that
College Elvira, a junior four-year
old Holstein heifer owned by col
lege, has broken world’s record for
milk and butter production among
cows of her age owned by state in
stitutions by producing 21,970 pounds
' of milk and 1,098.5 pounds of but
-1 ter in a year’s test.
Eggs at Kansas City
Drop to 33 Cents
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 20.—A
drop of two cents in the local egg
market today brought the totla de
cline since last Saturday to seven
cents. Selected eggs today brought
only 33 cents, while a month ago
they brought 59 cents.
Montgomery Capitalist
Dies by His Own Hand
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Dec. 20.
Mr. Samuel B. Marks, Jr., local cap
italist, died here Wednesday after
noon of pistol wounds said by the
coroner to have been self inflicted.
The body was found in a cemetery
where he had gone alone early in the
afternoon. Despondency over ill
health is believed by friends to have
been the cause.
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STRONG SPEECHES
Bl COUNSEL MARK
CLUSE BF BIG TRIAL
Jury Gets Case Shortly Be
fore 11 O'clock Thursday
Night and Retires to Hotel
Under Heavy Guard
The fate of Philip E. Fox, head of
the publicity department of the Ku
Klux Klan and slayer of Captain W.
S. Coburn, attorney for the Colonel
Simmons forces went into the hands
of a jury shortly before 11 o'clock
Thursday night.
Arguments in the case were com-,
pleted at 10 o’clock when Solicitor
John A. Boykin finished a three-hour
appeal for Fox's conviction, carry
irg with it the death penalty. Judge
G. 11. Howard then delivered a
lengthy charge, in which' he stressed
the rules of the court on testimony
relating to the sanity or insanity of
the defendant, and at 10:24 o’clock
the case was placed in the hands of
the twelve men who are to decide
the defendant's fate.
Only Three Verdicts Possible
- In charging the jurors Judge How
ard instructed them that under the
law they must return either a ver
dict of guilty, carrying with ’it the,
death penalty; a verdict of guilty
with a recommendation for mercy,
which will mean life imprisonment,
or a verdict of acquittal. The only
other possible outcome would be a
mistrial.
Judge Howard showed that al
though a man is presumed to be in
nocent until proven guilty and the
burden of proving guilt is on the
state, a man is also presumed to be
sane until proven, insane and the
burden of proving insanity rests on
the defense. He instructed the jury
that it will act as judge as to the
credibility of witnesses and of the
evidence.
‘A witness, npt an expert, is per
mitted to testify as to his opinion of
the sanity or insanity of any defend
ant on trial, after giving his testi
mony as to his reason therefor,” he
said. "And in weighing such testi
mony the jurors are authorized to
consider the opportunities of the wit
nesses for knowing the facts about
which they testify.”
Jury Under Guard
Under guard of several deputy
sheriffs the jurors went to their
quarters in the Ansley liotel and
retired for the night, Judge Howard
• having recessed court until 9
■ o’clock Friday morning.
I Preceding the argument of Solid-
I Boykin, which was a stinging de
-1 nunciation of Fox, the closing argu
ment for the defense was made by
j Attorney Hugh M. Dorsey, former
1 governor, who made a dramatic ap
' peal for an acuqittal for Fox. He
followed Assistant Solicitor E. A.
Stephens, who demanded in. behalf
of the state that Fox pay for his
crime with his life. The morning
i was taken up by Attorney Robert B.
Allen, of Dallas, for the defendant.
Begs for Death Penalty
Solicitor Boykin, begging for &
verdict of guilty without a recom
mendation for mercy, declared:
“Let’s have the rope. Let’s let
the rope mean something. I am not
vindictive. I want a man to know
that when he kills a man he must
answer to a jury for his deed and
be punished, and then he will hear
the voice of God that has sounded
down through the ages from Sinai,
"Thou shalt not kill, and not the
voice of hell.”
lie declared that Fox did not hear
a "voice from heaven,” but rather
"one from hell;” that the motive for
the killing had been definitely es
tablished, and that if the defendant
were freed his friends would take
him back to Texas and give him a
great banquet.
The defense closed its case at 5:30
o’clock when Attorney Hugh Dor
sey concluded the final argument in
behalf of Fox. In a fiery speech
the former governor declared that
the state had failed to break down,
its proof of the defendant’s insani
ty and urged Fox’s acquittal on th*
ground that when he slew the law
yer he was not mentally responsible.
Boy Bridegroom
And Widow Rewed
To Thwart Law
JERSEY CITY', N. J., Dec. 21.
Determined that points of law shall
not separate them, Burton S. Tucker
and his wealthy wife of "16-50” mar
riage principals, were rewedded at
Carthage, N. C., according to word
reaching officials here.
The Tuckers are under indictment
for perjury based on alleged mil
statements made when securing
their first license to wed in Hudson
county, New Jersey, October 2.
The couple returned to Southern
Pines, N. C., after the ceremony yes
terday, it was said.
He Scared ’Em Out
FAVERSHAM, Kent, England.—
A man entered the dock with a black
cat under his arm here the other
day. But it proved good luck for
him. The magistrates dismissed the
case _________________
200 Escapes From Death
GENEVA—Peter Mehrig, who
had more than 200 narrow escapes
from death while an Alpine guide,
died at Zermatt at the age of 81.