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VOL. X. NO. 245.
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Mrs. Robert L. Clay Is Shot;
Three Times by Husband
Following Quarrel.
TRAGEDY IS REALIZATION ,
OF DEAD WOMAN'S DREAM
Couple Spent Stormy Wedded
Life-Hearing of Divorce
- Plans. Man Arms Self.
Tn exactly the manner of her dream
of four nights before. Mrs. Robert L.
Clay was shot three times by her hus
band last night, about 10 o’clock, in
the hallway of her sister’s home at 201
Lee street, West End. She died an
hour later at Grady hospital.
Words between the two over a dam-]
age suit Mrs. Clay was bringing against |
th e Georgia Power Company is said to
have been the direct cause of the shoot
ing. Mrs. Clay said, just before she
died, that her husband was angry when
he shot, and had no reason at all
Friday morning Mrs. Clay told her
sister Mrs Smith at whose home she
was staying, that sh* had dreamed of
being shot three times by her husband.
Ciav. non in jail at the Tower, will say
r.o’hlne All day he has been sitting n
a corner of his cell with his face in
hts hands. A cellmate says. hoMVffi
that earl:- In the night he claimed to
have shot hl-, wife because she dldn t
love him.
Clay was separated from his wife at
the time of the shooting.
Divorce Intention
Angers Husband.
The marital relatione of the Clays
had bc--n verv unhappy, according to
common information. They had been
married five years During that time
the’ were separated five times, and
their trouble-- frequently crept into po-
Growing tired of this. Mrs. Clay is
reported to have told a friend that she
was going 'to sue for a divorce. This
got to the ears of Clay. With pistol in
pocket, he went to the Smith home
and asked for his wif. She had been
staying there for a long time. Mrs.
Smith’met him and to her he appeared
tn a good humor. Finally Mrs. Clay
came in and he asked her where she
had been She told him that she had
rarrie d their Httle two-year-old child
to the physician for ear treatment. He
then asked to have a few words in pri
vate with her.
They were interrupted only once,
when W W Smith asked them if they
would go to church. Th- Smiths were
later awakened b> three pistol shots
and -»me down into the hall where the
< l? s had been talking and found Mrs
< lav lying across a chair with the
husband standing over her
' nv-> policemen were hurried to the
house and Clay was arrested in front
of a drug store at Le° and Gordon
streets, where h» had gone after the
shooting.
Child PleaxJs With
Father to Leave.
From a few broken sentences mum
bled by Mrs Clay at the Grady hospital
before she died, it was learned that the
two had been quarreling about things
tn genera! At 930 o’clock she asked
him to go to hit home tn Murphy street
and he refused Rhe Insisted. Their
little child, before going to sleep, had
pleaded with its father to gn home and
leave mother alon®.
Finally he agreed to go if she would
talk to him a few moments longer. She
declined, and he began to shoot
Clay is 27 years old. and has several
brothers. He is said to have been in
jured me.ntflllv by a blow on the head.
To a cellmate he stated that he shot
his wife because she didn't love him.
Clay was undei probation for non
support of his chi’d Saturday he was
arrested by Probation Officer Coogler
and asked to make a showing as to
what he was doing for the boy. Al
though Clay was not able to do this, he
was finally released when he promised
that he would mike an effort to go hack
to his w ife.
Mrs. Clav was formerly Miss Kate
Hughes, of t'olumbus, Ga. She told
her sister. Mrs. Smith, of a dream she
had Thursday night She said she had
• d-eamed of being shot three times by
her hustand. According to her state
ment before dying, the shooting was an
exact realization of the dream
The bod: of Mrs. rla cats re
moved to Poole’; undertaking parlors.
No funeral arrangements hare yet been
made
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit —GEORGIAN WANT ADS —Use For Results
Woman Slain by Her
Husband, and Slayer
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Mrs. Kate Hughes Clay, who
was shot and killed last night by
her husband, following a quarrel,
and Robert L. Clay, the-husband,
who is now under arrest in the
Tower.
HEARST PRESSMEN IN
LOS ANGELES REFUSE
TO JOIN IN WALK OUT
LOS ANGELES. CAL.. May 18.—
Pressmen on The Examiner and The
Herald. th- two Hearst newspapers in
this city, have refused to walk out in
obedience to telegraphic orders to do so,
issued by President Berry, of the In
ternational Web Pressmen’s Union.
The two newspapers are issuing their
editions as usual, and in view of the
flat refusal of their pressmen to obey
instructions from President Berry, no
trouble is anticipated here
The decision of the men to stick by
their contracts with the Hearst news
papers was reached after full consider
ation of the situation.
Chicago Printers
Refuse to Walk Out.
CHICAGO, May 13. —Newspaper pub
lishers today predicted a speedy end of
the strike of the pressmen, stereotypers
and wagon drivers, following the action
of the 'Typographical Union is voting
not to rescind any of tb«ir present con
tracts and join the strikers. The ac
tion, taken in a formal meeting of the
local union, followed a similar vote
taken informally some days ago. The
pressmen made a desperate effort to
get the printers to join the walkout.
The pressmen today admit that the
failure to secure a sympathetic walk
out by the printers haw made their
fight desperate
Newspapers today were printed and
distributed under almost normal con
ditions.
Other Unions
Refuse to Strike.
H N Kellogg, of Indianapolis, sec
retary of the American Newspaper
Publishers Association, has wired to
Atlanta an expression of his astonish
ment at the sympathetic strike called
in The Georgian’s pressroom.
Mr Kellogg’s telegram contained the
names of the following cities, whose
pressmen’s unions have declined to
take part in the sympathetic strike:
Albany. Bloomington, Boston. Cin
cinnati, Detroit, Fort Worth. Indian
apolis. Kansas City. Lynn. Milwaukee.
New Haven. New York. Providence. St.
Joseph, St. Louis Salt Lake City,
Springfield, Mass,. Syracuse. Tacoma.
Toronto. Troy and Washington, D. C.
$440, n OO PLANT IS
UP FOR AUCTION AGAIN
Council was expected tn approve the
$440,0011 bid of the Destructor Company
of New York this afternoon unless W.
H. Saw yer &• Sons Co. make a definite
proposition to dispose of the city’s gar
bage in a private plant and back up
such an offer with a certified check.
Alderman A. .1. Johnson renewed his
fight on the acceptance of the $440,0’00
bid at the meeting of the finance com
mittee this afternoon L E. Greer and
John Eberson. of the Manitowoc Engi
neering Works of Wisconsin, which ’he
Sawyer company represents, were pres
ent to submit propositions for a re
duction plant. The finance committee
has decided to eolve the garbage
problem and final action will be taken
if the Manltowdc people do not present
a definite proposal for a private reduc
tion system.
F. L. Sawyer said today that they
were ready to build a private plant and
dispose of the city s garbage
ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY. MAY 13, 1912.
GUARDS KILL
TO PROTEST I
WEAKENED.
LEVEES
Negro Uprising Adds a New
Peril to the Situation in
Louisiana.
CONVICT SEEKING TO
AVOID WORK SHOT DEAD
Millions More Damage Certain
as Crisis Nears —Additional
Drownings Reported.
NEW ORLEANS, May 13.—Addi
tional peri! has been added to the flood
situation in Louisiana by an outbreak
of negroes. The blacks have looted the
’owns of Bachelor, Fordoche and
Grosse. State troops may have to be.
sent to subdue them.
From New Roads. La., came ’he re
port that a convict laborer, who was
pressed into service* with other con
victs to help strengthen the Mississippi
levee at Morgansea. was shot bv his
guard while trying to escape today, ac
cording to a telephone message re
ceived by the chief of police there A
second convict who tried to escape was
captured
The climax of the flood situation is
expected within the next 48 hours, as
the flood crest is expected to be reached
some time Tuesday night. United States
government engineers say that if the
levees hold out until Wednesday all
danger will have been passed.
Millions of Dollars
Damage Is Certain.
Nevertheless, damage th the extent
of additional millions is anticipated
from the waters pouring through the
crevasse into the plantation and sugar
cane belt, which will not go down prob
ably for a week.
Back water from the Terras crevasse
has reached Irwinsville and a fleet of
boats was sent there today to rescue
150 persons marooned in the town. The
situation in-Morgansea is also critical,
due to the weakness of the levee at
that point.
Three additional deaths are reported.
At Gilbert Mrs. S. N. Dorsett, wife of
a lawyer, was drowned when a canoe in
which she and her husband were escap
ing capsized. Mr. Dorsett was saved.
At Etherwood E. S. Upton and wife
were drowned while rowing to the res
cue of several negroes marooned in a
tree. Their boat upset in the swift cur
rent:
Waters in Sight
From State Capitol.
Baton Rouge reports today said wa
ter from the Torras crevasse is in sight
from the state capilol and rich sugar
plantations across the river in West
Baton Rouge parish are partially inun
dated.
The water appeared suddenly in the
rear of the plantations around Cham
berlain and worked rapidly down until
it was near the town of Port Allen just
across the river.
Tlie planters in the Baton Rouge sec
tion did not believe that the water from
the Torras crevasse would reach their
lands and had made no defensive prep
arations.
The loss to the sugar planters across
the river will be heavy.
BOARD IS DIVIDED ON
SUNDAY PARK BATHING
Though President J. O. Cochran de
clared today that the park board la prac
tically sure to vote to allow swimming
in Piedmont park lake on Sunday, Com
missioner M B Young asserted that yys
board will stop the practice.
Since the board revoked the rules of
last year which permitted Sunday swim
ming. Commissioners Cochran and W. C
Puckett have been hard at work to have
the action rescinded, and they claim to
have won seven of the twelve votes But
now Commissioner Young has taken up
the fight He called a conference of
board members tn his office Saturday af
ternoon and afterward declared that the
serenity of the Sabbath would not be
disturbed by swimmers He did »ot say
how many votes he had lined up.
Voting a’ the cigar store at the cor
ner of Peachtree and Decatur streets con
tinued today. More than 500 votes were
cast today, many women voting The ma
jority is said to be overwhelmingly in
favor of the Sunday plunge
FATALLY HURT JUMPING
TO LIFE NET FROM FIRE
NEW BEDFORD MASS , May 13- One
man was burned to death and another
probably fatally injured when he jumped
from- the third story to a life net in the
street in a fire at a lodging house at
6 Pear! street ear!'- today The dead amn
is Jar Werlyzek, 60 years cld.
Confessed Robber in
$25,000 Diamond Case
To Arrive Late Today
George Kaul, the former hotel steward
who has confessed his part In the rob
bery of J 25.000 worth of diamonds, is
expected to arrive in Atlanta from New
York this afternoon at 5 o’clock, in cus
tody of Detective John N. Starnes
Kaul already has been indicted by the
(rand jury and will be held in the Tower
pending his trial in the criminal branch
of the superior court George Wren. Hie
first man to be arrested in connection
with the robbery, is also under indict
ment. Carl Roddy, who was brought back
from New Orleans, has not been indicted,
but his case will be taken up by the grand
jury at its next session
It is announced today that Roddy's
attorneys will make no demand for a pre
liminary hearing, agreeing to let the case
go before the grand jur: This means
that there will be no preliminary trial
for either of the trio
Paster Richeson,
His Death Near,
Collapses in Cell
BOSTON. May 13.—Rev. Clarence V.
T. Richeson, who began probably the
last week of his.life today, unless. Gov
ernor Foss and his council grant a res
pite or commute his death sentence to
life imprisonment, collapsed tn the
Charles street jail today.
The jail physician declared this was
due to the long ordeal of examination |
as to his sanity by three of the experts
selected by Governor Foss to examine
I Richeson. He did not take his cloth
ing off last night and was unable to
sleep at all.
Warning that the incessant exam
ination of alienists might drive Riche
, son. slayer of Xvis Linnell, to insan
i tty was sounded by Dr. C. V, Cilley.
i thy jail physician,
Warmer Days Coming:
I Frost Not on Program,
Weather Man Assures
Normal warnath and clear weather
are soon to return after the nipping
weather of last night and early today.
The coldest point of the sudden drop
in temperature was reached at s o’clock
today, when the official thermometer of
the weather bureau registered 49" de
grees. Last night It seemed much cold
er and people on porches sought extra
wraps or hastened into th* parlor with
a chilly feeling ’hat seemed unnaltiral
in May. For those on sleeping porches
a few more blankets than usual were
needed to make their airy beds com
fortable.
Snow and freezing temperature ap
peared today in Denver, Colo,, and Du
luth, Minn. The sudden cold was
caused by an area nf low presrure
throughout this section and a conse
quent inrush of the cold air of the
north.
No further cold Is expected, and there
is no fear on the part of the weather
man that frost will appear to injure th*
peach crops or vegetables.
SEVEN ARE ON TRIAL
’ FOR THE DEATH OF GIRL
HENDERSONVILLE. N. C.. May 13.
Seven persons went on trial here today
to answer charges connecting them with
the mysterious death of Myrtle Haw
kins. whose body was found In
Osceola last September. They are A. B.
McCall, Beatrice McCall, his wife: George
Bradley, Dan McCall, "Boney" Bradley.
Mrs. Nora Britt and Mrs Liczle Shaft.
The first three are charged with the kill
ing and the other four with being acces
sories.
J F. Spainhour, of Morganton, for four
teen years solicitor of the Hendersonville
circuit, is assisting Solicitor Johnson in
the prosecution.
Whether the girl died from an operation
or from an overdose of chloroform Is
problematical. The body found in the |
lake was identified by the clothing, which
relatives aitd friends claimed was the
same worn by the Hawkins girl when she
left her home shortly before her disap
pearance
The report from Atlanta that W O.
Shellnutt, a traveling man. claimed to
have seen Myrtle Hawkins in Jackson
ville. after the body had been found In
the lake, is no’ given credence, bj’ many
who have followed the case closely.
READY FOR ARGUMENTS
IN TRIAL OF FLOYD ALLEN
j WYTHEVILLE. VA.. May 13.—Counsel
I for the prosecution and defense were en
i gaged today In preparing Instructions in
the case of Floyd Alien Each side sub
mitted a long list w-hich Judge Staples
considered It is believed that the argu
ments will begin this afternoon About
eight lawyers will speak and they will not
be limited In time
40 PASSENGERS SEE MAN
DROWN FROM A LAUNCH
SAVANNAH, GA , May 13 —Falling into
the water from a gasoline launch when
the railing gate, on which he was sit
ting. opened, Paul Rakoske was drowned
in the Savannah river yesterday after
noon Two score people on board the
City of St Louis witnessed the accident,
but were unable to help the victim The
body has not been recovered. Rakoske
leaves a wife and family
SALMON SALAD MAKES
ARTILLERYMEN ALL ILL
NEWPORT. R I . May 13—Salmen
made into a vinegar salad has caused the
illness of a!! the members cf company A,
coast artillery, at Fort Adams.
A Futile Strike
Os Misguided Men
The effort nf the International Printing Press
men's union, at the direction of President Berry,
to tie up The Georgian has miserably failed. And
an aet of had faith that any honest workman ought
td be ashamed of is in a fairway to meet its just
reward.
Taken absolutely unawares, and on short no
tice. 'Hie Georgian was delayed for xn hour or more
in getting out Saturday evening. But today a full
press-room crew has been recruited, and The Geor
gian is bcirig printed about as usual. The noon
edition appeared on time.
The unwisdom of the action of the Atlanta
pressmen's union in agreeing to this absurd, base
less. unfair and unreasonable strike, is illustrated
by the fact that their own union confreres in New
York. Boston, Cincinnati. Indianapolis, Los An
geles. Kansas City. Syracuse, Albany, and many
other cities, refused to agree to violate their sol
emn contracts with publishers in order to help
President Berry make one last desperate stab at
Air. Hearst and the other newspaper publishers in
Chicago. The outcome in Atlanta will be addition
al evidence that the Atlanta web pressmen have
followed bad advice.
Any individual or organization which can not
be relied upon to keep its word, especially when
that he written in black and white so clearly as to
leave no ground for disagreement as to terms and
meaning, can not expert success* to attend its en
terprises.
The union pressmen in Atlanta have shown
that a contrail with them is worthless. The Geor
gian. therefore, will not depend upon them in fu
ture. bu’t will undertake to show that it (‘an and
will be published on its own resources. The ac
tion of the web pressmen in Atlanta and San
Francisco. where a sipiilar sympathetic, strike was
called, shows that these men do not realize the
necessity of repairing the prestige and reputation
of organized labor from the damage it sustained in
recent records of violence. For they are adding
exploded contracts to physical destruction as a bur
den for organized labor to carry.
The Georgian and Mr. Hearst have always
been fair, even liberal, to organized labor. This
newspaper has kept every jot and iillle of its con
tracts with the unions with which it deals. Mr.
Hearst has always done so. I’he only criticism of
Mr. Hearst's relations with union labor has been
from other publishers on the ground that he was
too liberal with them, paid too high wages, and
employed 100 many men. It *eems almost ironical
that a Hearst newspaper, without refusing a single
demand of its men. and in the face of a sol
emn. undisputed contract with its employees,
should be involved in a strike. Those who are re
sponsible for it will have to bear the burden of its
conseqtiences. To them this will be the loss of good
positions with a generous employer, and a prompt,
liberal paymaster.
The Georgian will continue to be published
daily, and will have the svmpathy and support of
all people who believe in the faithful keeping of
promises and the unvarying performance of ivritten
contracts.
History of Pressmen’s Strike
On Newspapers of Chicago
Here is a statement from The Uhl
cago Examiner giving a record of the
events leading up to the strike of th
pressmen on the newspapers of that
city: i.
In view of the only partial circula
tion of the Chicago newspapers during
the newspaper pressmen's, drivers' and
stereotvpers’ strikes, republication is
here made of the earlier announcements
giving the essential facts in the situ
ation.
On May 2 the publishers made the
following announcement:
On Anri! 30. at 12 o’clock midnight,
the management of The Chicago Exam
iner and The Chicago American posted
in its press room the announcement
that the contract between those papers
and the Chicago Newspaper Web
Pressmen's union No. 7 having expired,
the management elected to come under
the provisions of the contract between
the Chicago local of the American
Newspaper Publisher' association, of
which The Chicago Examiner and The
Chicago American are members, and
the pressmen's union, and would as
sume ail the obligations and exercise
all the rights of the other members of
the. Chicago local under the contract,
adding that the management would re
fer to arbitration, as pi’ovi’led in the
contract, anv differences that might
arise
After the announcement had been
read, the men. acting under the order of
the president of the union resumed
work without protest and thus ac
knowledged their acceptance of th
contract.
On Vay 1 the management announced
that it tvould exercise its right under
the contract tn determine the number
nf men to be emplo ed on each press,
and ordered each r: f s to be injured
with the same number cf men as other
members of the Chicago local employ
on presses of similar size and product.
The members of the union refused to
work under this order. The manage
ment then offered (■’ permit the men
thus proposed to he laid off to report
as usual for work daily, but not to
work on the presses, and to submit the
question at issue tn arbitration, and
in the event of a decision sustaining
the position of the union to pay these
men full wages from the time they were
laid off up to tlie date of the decision
of the arbitrator. The members of th
union refused to work under this offer.
The management then notified the
men that their continued refusal to
work -would constitute a strike, and
that in so striking the union would be
breaking the contract between the pub.
Ushers association and the union The
members of the union continued to re
fuse to work and walked out of the
office.
Under the circumstances, the Chicago
local of the American Newspaper Pub
lishers association now declares the
contract between ft and Chii.rgo N'ew«
paper Web Pressmen's union No 7
broken by the union and. therefore, ter
minated. The press rooms of all tlie
members of Chicago local of the Amer
ican Newspaper Publishers association
will, th-refore. hereafter be eondiv ted
without recognition of the Jurisdiction
of Chicago Newspaper Web Pressmen's
union No 7.
It is the purpose not to disturb the
working condition and wages of the
former contract, and to this end the
continued co-operation of all emiilm ees
without discrimination Is Invited
Bv order of the 3E -n loral nf the
jmeriean Nc-wspape- P'iblishe r s a'?o
ciatlon.
VICTOR c LAWSOX P’-eeldent.
henry N t 4RY, Feere’arv.
Chicago, May 2, 1912.
j HOME
EDITION
PPTf I !’’ On Trains. FIVE CENTS.
* AXLV.U. !n Atlanta. TWO CENTS
WIN OHIO
TO DEFEAT
COLONEL
OR DIE
Loss of Home State Meant
End of the President’s
Political Hopes.
ROOSEVELT TO FOLLOW
RIGHT UPON HIS HEELS
Cabinet Chiefs in Spectacular
Battle—Rough Rider De
pends on Big Cities.
COLITMBVS, OHIO. May 13.—Prw
iflen’ Taft b*«an hig final fight to cap
ture Ohio tn the Republican presiden
tial primary a week from tomorrow.
The president’s fight in his home state
this week is expected to be one of the
most spectacular of the campaign, for
he will cross verbal swords with Colo-*
nel Theodore Roosevelt at every turn.
The former president is expected to
b"gin his campaign in Ohio tomorrow,
and the trails nf the present national
executive and his predecessor will cross
in many Instances.
Because of the loss of prestige which
even a split delegation to the Chicago
convention would give him. the presi
dent has come into Ohio to do or die.
It is his supreme effort of the cam
paign. While he Is confident, his man
agrrs are not so optimistic.
Cabinet Chiefs to
Fight for Taft.
The president was scheduled to de
liver his first speech today at Marietta,
with other stops scheduled at Waldo,
Cambridge, Newcomerstown. Dennison.
Urichs ville. St. Clainsvllle, Bellaire,
Bridgeport and Steubenville. After
leaving the Ohio valley at. Marietta,
Mr. Taft's Itinerary took him back to
the Ohio river at Bellaire.
Leaders of the Taft wring of the Re
publican party claim Toledo, despita
the fact that it is the home town of
Walter Brown, the Republican state
chairman, who is avowedly for Roose
velt.
The Taft men are not so sanguine,
however, ar regards Cleveland and this
city. They are confident that Mr. Taft
will carry Cincinnati, his native city.
Mr. Taft will he assisted on his cam
paign throughout Ohio by a number of
other speakers of national reputation.
According to the program. United
States Senator Elihu Root, Secretary
Knox and others will go into the state
before the primarr- election and help
out their chief
The first round was fought In Marietta
at 8 a. m., and then the president whirled
away to other Ohio towns. At each stop
Mr. Taft delivered new blows in support
of his plea for rehomination.
In his speeches today he laid particular
stress upon the legislative record of his
ad ministration.
At Caldwell President Taft branded
Theodore Roosevelt as “an unsafe man”
in his speech today. Th» president be
gan the assault on his predecessor at
Marietta and kept it up along his route.
Declares Roosevelt
To Be “An Unsafe Man.”
Speaking in the train shed at Mariet
ta, he said:
"If I believed that mere audacity of
statement would carry this election I
would despair of the future of this re
public.” He drew the first part of his
talk from the record of his administra
tion and was cheered when h- declared
the part' In the past four years has
turned a deficit of J 50.000.000 into a
surplus of $40,000,000.
He scored Roosevelt for misquoting
him. and said:
"He should be visited with the pun
ishment of defeat. It is unsafe to put a
man like him into the white house for a
third time. When the people approve
an administration it has been the cus
tom of th- Republican party to renom
inate the president again, but only
once.”
The same sort of drizzling, cold rain
v hi< h marked Taft’s first two days in
Ohio, last week was falling when he be
gan his tour today. Soon after the spe
cial reached thi.-s town local politicians
and committeemen began to climb on
the president’s car.
Clark Leading
In Tennessee
NASHVILLE. TENN.. May 13.
* 'h imp <’lark will go Into the Tennes
see Democratic state convention on
Wednesday with 130 1-2 instructed votes,
being only 45 behind the com
bined instructed vote of the other three
< andidates forth- presidency. He will
lead Harmon bv 87 votes. Underwood,
b. 127. and Wilson, by J 22 The total
Instructed vote is 426. Clark having 45
