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THE WEATHER. Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia) Fair today and tomorrow. VOL. N. NO. 249. NCHEM'S ME FJILS IS DOOM IS FIXED Told That He Must Meet Death tin the Electric Chair, Baptist Minister Breaks Down. j HAD HOPED TO LAST TO SAVE HIS LIFE Governor Foss Says He Will Not Present Pardon Appli cation to State Board. BOSTON. May 17.—Clarence V. T Richeson. former Baptist clergyman was told today that he must die in the electric. chair for the murder of his for mer sweetheart, Avis Linnell. In fear that he would collapse, two physicians were detailed to the Charlestown state pi Ison. The killer of Avis Linnell was not prepared to hear that he must die him self. It was a staggering blow. The first news was taken to Richeson by his spiritual adviser. Rev. Herbert S. Johnson, pastor of the Warren Ave nue Baptist church, and by William A Morse, of the Richeson counsel. Preparations to guard against col lapse of the condemned man were made upon advice of his spiritual advise:. • Rev. Dr. Herbert S. Johnson, who fear ed that Richeson would be utterly pros trated by the new s that his fate had | been finally decided and that his last | hope w as gone. ! He Still Loves Violet Edina nds. • f 1-1- ie an ome facts narrated bv the "alienists who examined Richeson. made cubit'' today, as throwing a light on nite strange character of the man. Riche-on love: Violet Edmands, and believes that sin- still loves him. Her letters to him have been hi* greatest comfort during the days in jail. Richeson declared to the alienists that Avis Linnell bad repeatedly re fused to ma try him. first pleading her musical career a;. an excuse, and after ward declaring that sh« would wed him if lie would leave the ministry. All thought of marriage between them. Richeson declared, was abandoned over a veai before be poisoned the girl. Richeson believes Moses Grant Ed mands is hit; b r t friend. Says Lawyers Made Him Confess. Richeson wanted his case tn com r to trial up to the very time of Ids confes sion. he declares. did not want to eottfess. Finally. moved by the arguments of Ills attorneys, he w rote a confessioij do. ( Idling that he had given the poison to 4 ■ ><. but with no intent to kill hm This confession his attorneys tore up. he said, and wrote another, which they persuaded him to sign and then gavt to the court. Richeson declared that members of th« i.innel! family wore bitterly op pe-od 'o the idea of Avi marrying a Baptist minister. Richeson. a< cording to the alienists, had several accidents when he was a Continued on Page Two. . 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Off Wild Pitches Hit Batsman Passed fells Time of Game Ummrrn MAY 17 1912 Hit Bateman Paired Balls Time of Game Umpires- The Atlanta Georgian Read For Profit —GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results ! Decatar Street All Worked Up as Peace j Justice Fight Ends Decatur street is in a turmoil over coming election. It is being fought in every store and shop in that neighbor hood. Decatur street isn’t especially in terested in the tight between Taft and Roosevelt, or the Clark-Underwood-Wil son contest. It is all worked up over the election of the justice of peace for 1231 district, which comes off tomorrow’. The tifcht is among two Confederate vet erans and one blind man. (me of the vet erans is a national Republican and the other a Democrat heart and soul, but they are all working today to be suc cessor lu the late Justice Landrum. Automobiles and telephones are being brought into play. The candidates are i calling those registered to vote in that district over the phone and visiting those who have no phones. They have offered the use of autos to carry voters to the polls tomorrow, and are using ail In fluence possible to impress the voters with the importance of the election. The voting place is 43L7 Decatur street. 'l'he candidates are Fred Powers, a blind man, and <’aptain S. XV. Seidell and Judge Robert L. Rodgers, both Confederate vet erans. R- R* Men Accused Os Aiding Bandits in Big Train Hold-Up NEW ORLEANS. May 17. —Railroad men w orking on the inside w ere respon sible for the train hold-up near Hatties burg, Miss., early Tuesday morning when lout from $140,000 to $250,000 in’ value was stolen, according to police of ficials here today. Officials of the New Orleans and Northeastern Railroad Company coincide with this view, and are giving the police ail the assistance in their power :o work (Alt the theory. They’ declare that the robbery w ould have been impossible without inside help. Union. Pressmen in Boston Refuse To Go On Sympathy Strike BOSTON. May 17- The Boston news- I paper Web Pressmen's union voted last night that “there was no occasion for striking at present because of the Chi cago situation.'' The union reaffirmed a recent vote to levy an assessment of one day s pay <>a<h week for the benefit of the Chicago strikers. LAWYER SWINDLED HER OF $6,700. SAYS CLIENT M AC< >N . '; A . May 17. John W. Ha \ good, of Fitzgerald, a prominent south Georgia lawyer. must show cause hi tip' United States court here on May 23 why hr -hntild not hr ad judged in eont» > mpt and liable to dis bartnent because of the alleged fraud he committed against Mrs. Caroline A Kilgore, of Utah. | It is t barged by Mis. Kilgore, in a petition Hied here, <ha \ttorn. v Ha; goo'l sold lands belonging to her for about s9,o'io. and represented to her that the sale only realized The order of th” i nnri '«11>» upon him nrodure the » diffm-rr. »■ nn May 23. CHRISTENS RABY “TITANIC.” BUT THE NAME IS Bl JETTED BUD \PI 1. HUNG ARV, May 1? A living ~t Mrid to have hi- infant danght r rh» o-t. nor] Tttani* . as the child was horn llm day th;H Miip sank. As there js no saint by ih.ti name the registei refused-. • ATLANTA. GA., FRIDAY. .MAY 17, 1912. MAY 26 SEES REFORMED SABBATH BATHING Park Board Reverses Its For- mer Action Closing Park ’ Lake by Vote of 9 to 3. MAYOR'S AMENDMENT SEPARATES THE SEXES Several Ministers Join People’s Plea for Recreation and Few Councilmen Aid Cause. Sunday bathing begins in Piedmont park lake on Sunday, May 26. The de cision was reached by the park board by a vote of 9 to 3, after a city-wide discussion and a public hearing at which all citizens were given the privi lege of expressing ’.heir views. The Sunday swim is to be governed by these restrictions: Only'women anil children will 6e allowed in the lake from 6 to 8 o'clock on Sunday mornings and only men and boys between 3 and 6 o'clock on Sunday afternoons. The gates will be closed at other times, and the police department* has pledged sufficient officers to enforce good order. The meeting of the park board yes terday afternoon, when the final vote was taken, showed the intense feeling that has been moused over this issue. I R. J. Guinn charged that th'- park board was rushing matters without giving the church people opportunity io express t heir views. Gwinn Delivers a Red Hot Address. The people of this town love fair play,” he cried, “and don’t ynu believe i hat I his matter won’t bp ultimately taken to the people.” As Mr Guilin is unite a figure in pol itics his statement caused a stir among f hnse p esent. Mayo. told the hoard that he < <»uld !-oc no moral wrong in a Sunday plnnge. ’nd that the recreation in Pied mont park was not a violation of the state law. But. he said, he was unal terably opposed to any m h conduct as that s-hnu n at Piedmont lake lasi sum mer mi Sunday > IL then introduced the amendment. which wa> fmall.y sdnptpd. providing for a segregation of the spx.cs al the lake. Mayor Winn's aim ndment Lt the segregation of the • xp; does not apply to bathing in the park during the week. The lake i t.o b p open on all wppk <Lix - from n'rioi'l; in thp morning until 7 ti’clock in the evening. beginning next T'jpsd.iy. An has been pre xided exclusively for women and chi' 'iren. I'very nne must wear a txvo r>u bathing suit with short sh oves .-’ome of th* members of the board m’pdiet that the strict F-unday regula tion* xx ill end the popularity of th‘ ak*\ osopciallx for morning uso, u Imn only women and children xvill bo per mitted t<» bathe. Rut they sax they will i.\ out thes rides in good faith No further opposition to the Sunday bath i- e\]>ecied from council. UNCLE TRUSTY! Copyright, 1912, by International News Service. A ij>e'a3 let \ \ I "Vz -y tExpvAiN'j xy ,y / y y - z ' i i mT; I 7 \ To - \ ""-o I mqntclairA S/ i i o wr -nV x [At , Wax IA a “William, while yon and Theodore arc enlaced in ;i deadly yyapple for .supremacy here in Ohio, whih fearless politicians are dyino- for their country~ maybe while the air is filled with the coarsest ( anti most unpolished lanifnaye. I will lake a rest in the trenches- itsafer! By the ivay. that gentleman in tjio distance who is liealiiiv it for the primeval forest is Dr. Spitzka, the famous brain exper). He came out with a statement claiming that woman will never be the mental equal of man.’’ Georgian Pictures of Themselves Shown On Screen Tickle U.C L Th* 3 I'nit* 3 d Common la • Travelers sH’v tlvmsch-p- "11 tlu- picture scroll at the Forsyth lart night wlim'lhey at tended the show in a body 2.»0 .<ai: having been reserved for them pre viously bv W <’. Patterson. wlm has handled every convention held in At lanta since Um lon\ th was hud’ The pi< tuies -bowed th»* drunirrmi - corning up Peachtree street in parade, stand ing in front of the Piedmont < heering. and snapshot.; of various li\e wires among them. The photograph- and lantern Mides w . i r made ami presented to the show by Th” Georgian. The.' were taken during the morning and afternoon. and reproduced at th* Forsyth last night. WILHELM SHAKES “MAILED LIST” AT ALSACE-LORRAINE PERLIN. Mav 17. Ml German} is ring ing with the kaiser • latest imliscret iorf. which is nothing le s than a threat to •ma-b the < mist ii nt ion of Al a<-p Lor taino. d’h • remarkable declaration was made at a luncheon given the kaiser by Karon Zorn vmi Thdaeh. secretary for Al sace-Lorraine. Referring t" the political agitation in the province, the kaiser said. “Look her*, gentlemen; if this cop tinues I will destroy your mnstitn tion. So far you have only known me on my good side Yon will kmoy my other side before long. Things <an not continue as they are now I will simply smash the constitution ami make Alsace Larraine into a Rus sian province.’’ The emperor s anger L dm* to the fart that the \lsace parliament pa -ted a vote of censure of the goxernment because the latter boycotted th-- locomotive works at Grafe-iadcti on the* ground that the manager showed French sympathies. Schooner Hit by Ship In Fog Is Believed to Have Sunk With Crew HALIFAX, May 17. The steamer A. W. pe» n . bound for Boston from Hali fax collided with an unknown schoon er last night in a fog. , 'The i ho'»n»T is believed to have stink with all on hoaid, at no trace could be found of her by the Perry’s boats early today. ASKS CUSTODY OF DOG BUT MOT OF HIS CHILD SAX FRANCISCO J| aj 17. Philip N Zurin. defendant in a divorce suit, asked for the custody of a pet dog, but not of his child. .EXTRA - - -- -■■ ■ . --- On Trains. FIVE CENTS. In Atlanta. TWO CENTS PRICE: ALLEN BAND CHIEF 10 DIE IN GiR Leader of Court House Slayers Found Guilty of First Degree Murder by Virginia Jury. JURORS WRANGLE ALL NIGHT OVER A VERDICT Some Stand Out for Lesser Penalty. But Finally Give In. Story of the Case. WYTHEVILLE. VA„ May 17.—Floyd Allen, leader of the Carroll county gang which shot up the court house at Hills ville on Match 14. causing the death of five persons, was today found guilty of murder in the first degree. The verdict of the jury carried with it a penalty of fitath and he will be electrocuted. The jury retired at 12:45 o’clock yes terday afternoon and the verdict of first degree murder was reached only after 'hours of deliberation, in which some of the jurors stood out for a lesser pen alty. I'loyd Allen was placed on trial on April 30 for the tragic court house fight in which Judge Massie. Prosecutor Fos ter and Sheriff Webb were killed. Two oilier persons died subsequently of their w ounds, Allen Turns White As Verdict Is Given. The court room was crowded with spectators at the opening of court to day, and in anticipation of a verdict ex tra precautions had been taken by the ••on I attendants' to pievent any out break Allen, the prisoner at the bar, watched with a sort of grim curiosity the members of the jury as they filed into their seats. ' The specific charge on which Allen had been tried was that of the murder of Prosecutor William L. Poster. "Gentlemen, have you arrived at a verdict ?" neked the judge. "We have," solemnly answered ths foreman, arising in hts seat. Allen leaned forward to hear every . word. As the foreman read the pro nouncement of the jury Allen leaned forward still farther in his chair and a. wave of white passed quickly over the tan of his rugged and weather-beaten ■ features. 1 The verdict returned today made ths ! state's lawyers confident that they would also secure convictions In ths trial of Victor and t'lande Swanson Al len, selected as the next to.be tried. Both are sons of Floyd Allen and wore I captured in the mountains after they fled from the Carroti county court > house. Sentence will not be pronounced on Floyd Allen for the present. This action was taken at the instance of the prosecution, who will use Floyd Allen