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THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and Geor
gia: Fair and cooler today; fair
and warmer tomorrow.
VOL. X. NO. 245.
WIFE mw
LOVE ME.
SLIVER
MS
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.
In 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 19 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
the 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 she had dreamed of
being %hot three times by her husband.
Clay, now in jail at the Tower, will say
nothing. All day he has been sitting tn
a corner of his cell with his face tn
his hands. A cellmate says, however,
that early in the night he claimed to
have shot his wife because she didn't
love him.
’ Clay waii separated from his wife at
the time of the shooting.
Divorce Intention
Angers Husband.
The marital relations of the Clays
had been very unhappy, according to
common Information. They had been
married five years. During that time
they were separated five times, and
their troubles frequently crept into po
lice court.
Growing tired of this, Mis. 1 is
reported to have told a friend that she
was going to sue for a divorce. i his
got to the ears of < 'lay. \\ ith pistoi in
pocket, he went to the •Smith home
and asked for his wife. She had been
staying there for a long time. Mrs.
Smith met him and to her hr appeared
in a good humor. Finally Mrs, Clay
came in and he asked her where she
had been. She told him that she had
carried their little 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 IV. W. Smith asked them if they
a mild go to church. I’he Smiths were
later awakened by three pistol shots
and came down into the hall where the
Clays had been talking, and found Mrs.
C'av lying across a chair with the
busband standing over he*.
Five policemen were hurried to the
house and Olay was arrested in front
of a drug store at Lee and Gordon
streets, where he had gone after the
shooting.
Child Pleads With
Father to Leave.
From a few broken sentences mum
bled by Mrs. Clay at the Grady hospital
before she died, it was learner! tha the
two had been quarreling about things
in general M 9:30 o clock she asked
him to go to Iris, home in Murphy street
and he refused She Insisted. Then
little child, before going to sleep, had
pleaded,with its father to go home and
leave mother alone
Finally be 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 mentally by a blow on the head.
To a cellmate he stated that he shot
his wife because she didn't love him.
Clay was under probation for non
support of his child Saturday be was
arrested by Probation Officer Coogler
and asked to make a showing as to
what he was dicing for the boy. Al
though Clay wad not able to do this he
was finally .released when he promise.:
that he would make an effort tn go back
to his wife
Mrs Clay was formerly Miss Kate
Hughes, of Columbus. Ga. She told
her sister. Mrs. Sritith. of a dream she
had Thursday night. She said she., had
• reamed of being shot three times by
her husband. According to her state
ment before dying, the shooting was an
exact realization of the dream.
Th» body of Mrs. Clay was re-
HPwed tn Poole? undertaking parlors.
>n funeral arrangement? have yet been
mad*
» STREBT «ALB.
The Atlanta Georgian
HEARST PRESSMEN IN
LOS ANGELES REFUSE
TO JOIN WALKOUT
Order From President Berry Is
Snubbed- Chicago Printers
Vote Down Strike.
LOS ANGELES. CAL., May 13.
Pressmen on The Examiner and The
Herald, the two Hearst newspapers in
this city, have refused to walk out in
obedience to telegraphic orders to do so,
isstfed by’ President Berry, of the In
ternational Web Pressmen's I nion.
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 rescond any of their 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 has made their
fight desperate.
Newspapers today were printed and
distributed under almost normal con
ditions.
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.
Warmer Days Coming;
Frost Noton Program,
Weather Man Assures
Normal warmth and ciear weather
ar? 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 6 o'clock
today, w hen 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 the parlor with
a chilly seemed unnatural
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 of lo.v pressure
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 th® weather
man that frost will appear to injure the
peach crops or vegetables
Special Train Takes
Atlant' Baptists to
Southern Convention
X special train bearing several hun
dred delegates to the Southern Baptist
convention will leave Atlanta over th-
Seaboard Air Line for Oklahoma '"tty
this afternoon ' Among the delegates
are many prominent Atlantans.
The train will leave at t 40 o’clock,
going byway of Birmingham and
Memphis, thence tn Oklahoma City,
where It will arrive early Wednesday
morning. Among those j n the party
will be Dr. John E. White and Rev. U.
I. Masters. M M. Welch, Walker Dun
son. Dr. J J. Bennett, Rev. William
Russell On en, Ret B P Robertson,
Charles E. Smith, lieutenant governor
of South Carolina: Mrs. W J Neel,
president of the Baptist Women's Mis
s'onar* union, and Mist E L. Amos,
secretary of that organization. The
, party w ill remain tn Oklahoma City
four days.
Atlanta See\s Convention.
OKLAHOMA 'ITY OKI A May 13.
Three Southern cith are contesting
for the 1913 (fleeting of the Southern
Baptists convention, which opens in
Oklahoma City May 15. They are At
lanta. Ga.. San Antonio. Texas, and
Asheville. N C It has been 20 years
since Atlanta entertained the Baptists,
and in the meantime the organization
has doubled numerically and in impor
tance in the religious world.
Read For Profit —GEORGIAN WANT ADS —Use For Results
ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY. MAY 13, 1912.
Gill HDS KILL
TO PROTECT
TOKENED
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 peril has been added to the flood
situation in Louisiana by an outbreak
of negroes. The blacks have looted the
towns o.f Bachelor, Fordoche and
Grosse. State troops may have to be
sent to subdue them.
From New Roads. La., came the 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 by his
guard w hile 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 to 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 w ateA from the Torras crevasse
has reached Irwinsvllle 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* Etherw’ood 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 capitol 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.
The 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,
a rations.
The loss to th® sugar planters across
the river will be heavy.
TWO OFFICERS SLAIN
RAIDING NEGRO GAME;
LYNCHING IS FEARED
GAINESVILLE. FLA.. May 13. -Cain
Ferry, a negro, and his three sons are
in jail under heavy guard for killing C.
H Slaughter. town marshal, and
' 'hatles White, deputy sheriff, at, Arch
er, Fla., near here. Violence Is feared,
as feeling against the negroes is in
tense.
The tw o officers w ere shot down by a
volley fired as they broke in upon a
gambling game at the Perry house in
the outskirts of the town The four ne
groes were arrested by J A. Manning,
another deputy who accompanied
Slaughter and White Manning with a
wound in his abdomen, feigned death
until he had the drop on Cain Perry,
v hen h® shot him and rh®n covered. the
three ?ons
ITALIANS CUT OFF TURK
TROOPS FROM TRIPOLI
ROME. May 13.—Announcement that
the Aegean sea has been blockaded to
Turkish warships, thus cutting off tne
transportation of the Turkish soldiers
to Tripoli via the Mediterranean, was
made in Italy newspapers today .
According to the announcement, Italy
ha.- occupied the following Turkish is
lands in the Grecian archipelago; Kar
pathos, Nlsyro, Stampalia, Thodes and
MORE THAN THEIR MONEY’S WORTH
By TOM POWERS.
Copyright. 1912. by International News Sera ice
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MRS. SMGE IN
SEARGHOF BOND
Signer Must Be Willing to Have
Name Printed, and Husband
Forbids Mortgage.
Some well-to-do Atlanta property
owner who is not afraid to have his
name printed in connection with the
Grace case must sign Mrs. Daisy
Grace's bond if she is to be released
from the Tower before her trial, which
probably will be late in May or some
time in June.
Such a bondsman is needed because
several men who have expressed a wil
lingness to sign the bond do not wish
their names printed in connection with
the case, and the professional bonds
men will not sign a bond for $5,000
unless Mrs. Grace can put up security
to that amount Mrs. Grace can not
place this security because her hus
band. who accuses her of shooting him,
refuses to attach his name to legal pa
pers allow ing her to mortgage her prop
erty in Philadelnhia. His signature is
made necessary by a technicality in
th® laws of Pennsylvania.
Eugene H Grace, the wounded hus
band. whose illness is keeping him a
prisoner in his New nan home. Is nnt
willing that hi? wife be released from
prison pending her trial He declines
to give consent for her to mortgage her
Philadelphia home because she refuses
to agree not to press certain civil
claims whi- h she alleges to hold, against
her husbands busine s assets in At
lanta.
PRAYS for 36 HOURS.
THEN TAKES JUDGESHIP
3IACOK. GA . May 13. Nar E Harris,
chairman nf the board of trustees of the
Georgia of Technology, and for
forty years a member of the Maron bar,
war, ♦‘ day sworn in an judge of the su
perior court of the Macon circuit, suc
ceeding Judge William FL Felton, who
resigned after seventeen years service
to become president nf the Central Geor
gia Power Conipan} and allied corpora
tions. In his remarks frbm the bench.
Judge Harris said he first declined the
office, but after praying over the matter
for thirty-six hours, decided to accept it
He nafd it was relinquishing a lav- prac
tice paying $7,000 a year for an office
n ith a salary of $3,000.
Judge Harris' appointment was an
nounced late Saturday by Governor
Brown.
Wife of Marshal
Dies to Save Him
In Battle on Street
JELLICO. KY.. May 13.—While en
deavoring to save the life of her hus
band, Thomas Bowlin, town marshal,
Mrs. Bowlin was shot and instantly
killed yesterday afternoon In the prin
cipal street of this little mining town.
Crazed by the realization that his wife
had sacrificed her life for his, Bowlin
attempted to kill himself, w hen a friend
knocked his pistol from his hand.
Wiley Parton, w ith whom Bowlin was
engaged in a pistol battle when his
wife interfered, was killed-and Wes
ley Parton, father of the dead man.
was seriously wounded. Al Butcher
and Al Row’lln, th® latter a brother of
the marshal, were both seriously
wounded. They were supporting the
marshal in his fight with the Partons
Th® trouble started when Marshal
Bowlin attempted to arrest Wiley Par
ton for promiscuous shooting in the
streets. Mrs Bowlin heard the shoot
ing and rushed to the seen® just in tim®
to see a weapon aimed at her husband.
She threw herself in front of him and
two shots penetrated her body, causing
instant death.
ROBBERS, ENRAGED AT
SMALL LOOT. SET FIRE
TO SICK WOMAN S BED
CHICAGO. May 13- With both her
hands bulned, Mrs. W. H, Starr, wife of
Dr. Starr, lies today at her home in a
precarious condition following an at
tack of burglars, who entered her horn®,
hound her band and foot, and set fire to
thr bed in which she was lying. By
rolling over the burning bedding, she
was able to put out the fire.
Mrs, Starr, who was ill Saturday, re
mained in bed. Her husband wras ab
sent. A tall man entered through a
window, seized Mr=. Starr and bound
and gagged her. Then he admitted a
shorter man. Removing the gag. they
demanded where Mrs. Starr kept her
mon®y. She said she had no money.
The men searched th® house and found
only a few dollars. Enraged, they set
fire to th® bed and left. Dr. Starr re
turned shortly afterward and found his
wife on the floor of the room, still
bound and gagged
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 lite net in the
street in a fire a' a lodging house at
5 Pearl street earl’ toda- The dead amn
is Jan Werlyzek, 60 years old.
TESTS DRIVING
RICHESON NO
Incessant Examinations by Ex
perts Sure to Take Away His
Reason, Says Physician.
BOSTON, May 13.—Warning that the
incessant examination of alienists
nn'giil drive Rev. Clarence V. T. Riche
son. slayer of Avis Linnell, to insan
ity was sounded here today. Dr. C. V.
< 'illey said:
"The prisoner is absolutely sane, hut
give th® alienists enough time jnd they
will make him insane, just as they
would any man.
"He stood the tests in an admirable
manner, hut too much-of that kind of
stuff will surely have Its effect.
"No man can stand a continuous pro
gram of experts putting him up day
after day for this and that kind of an
examination.”
Dr. Ciller is th® physician at the.
Charles street jail, where the former
minister is a prisoner
Body Pricked With Pin.
Here ar® some of the tests to which
Rieheson has been put during hie ex
amination by three experts, who will
give the final opinion upon his sanity:
His kneeraps were tapped with sil
ver hammei s.
He was blindfolded and mad® to
jump, first on on® foot md then on
the other
He was pricked all over his body with
a gold pin
H® was put through a brisk series of
gymnastic "stunts.”
He was made to hop about the room
half nud®, that the reflex actions of
the muscles might b® observed.
His Last Week Under Sentence.
The last week of life for Rtcheeon.
if the sentence of the<court upon him
Is to b® fulfilled, has opened. Seven
days from today, unless his plea for
mercy is granted, he will have paid the
legal penalty of death.
A further examination of the slayer
b> the three alienists, Dr?. Stedman,
Frost and Tuttle: the report of Dr. L.
Vernon Briggs to the governor, and th®
final arrangements for Hie transfer of
Richeson to the Charlestown prison
were expected today.
SALMON SALAD MAKES
ARTILLERYMEN ALL ILL
NEWPCRT. R. 1.. May 13.—Salmon
made into a vinegar salad has caused the
illr.e-.s of all the members of company A,
coast artillery, at Fort Adams.
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EXTRA
PRICK- On Trains. FIVE CENTS,
r IYIL W. ln Atlanta. TWO CENTS
TAFT IN OHIO
TO DEFEAT
COLONEL
OH DIE
Loss of Home State Means
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.
COLUMBUS. OHIO. May’ 13.—Pres
ident Taft b-»ean his final fight to cap
ture Ohio in the Republican presiden
tial primary a week from tomorrow.
The president's fight in his home state
tills 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
begin his campaign in Ohio tomorrow,
and the trails of the present, national
executive and his predecessor will cros?
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 effot t of th® cam
paign. While he Is confident, his man,
agers 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.
Ui ichsville. St. ('lairsville. Bellaire.
Bridgeport and Steubenville. After
leaving the Ohio valley at Marietta,
Mi. Taft's itinerary took him back to
the Ohio river at Bellaire.
Leaders of the Taft wing of the Re
publican parti claim Toledo, despite
tile fact that it is the home tow’n o'
Walter Brown, the Republican state'
( Imirman. who is avowedly for Roose
velt.
The Taft men are not so sanguine,
however, a, regards Cleveland and this
( ity . They are confident that Mr. Taft
will carry Cincinnati, his native city.
Mr Taft will be 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 primary election and help
out their chief.
Clark Leading
In Tennessee
NASHVILLE. TENN., jfey 13.—Out
of the mess of Tennessee politics, made
bitter by the factionalism of both par
ties. there will come this week some
settlement of the presidential races.
t\tth the Republican state convention
meeting tomorrow and the Democratic
convention scheduled for Wednesday.
As a result of the Republican fight, it
is certain that two delegations will go
to Chicago, one representing the or
ganized narty of the state instructed
for Taft, and th® other delegation, rep
resenting the "home rule” coterie in
structed for Roosevelt. It will then
be up to the national committee to de
cide.
In the ease of the Democrats, how
ever. th® likelihood of two delegations
to Baltimore was brushed aside when
the regular Democrats and the inde
pendeni . through their state commit
tee. joined together in the movement to
select the national delegates.
With 75 per cent of the total conven
tion vote of 1.356 uninstructed. a per
plexing situation is presented, and no
one candidate can claim Tennessee,
though it is the general belief that
Champ Clark has decidedly the best of
it and will in all probability get the
majority of the -’4 votes to the national
concla' e.
Clark Leads All the Rest.
nut of the twenty votes in the. ten
congressional districts it is figured that
Clark will get ten or twelve. leaving
one-half of the district votes to be
dividod between Underwood, Harmon
and Wilson. The placing of this vote
will depend on just how strong Wil
son shows up with the independents,
and two months ago he had them al
mosi to a man. They have organiza
tions in about three-fourths of the
( outvies and in each county where they
have an organization they are entitled
to one-half of the vote.
This independent vote, corralled for
one man. would mean a great deal tn
the bargaining for a tavotite, but it
ma- not be possible for th® Wilson
people to get tn on the trades, for the