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THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia:
Fair Saturday and Sunday.
VOL. X. NO. 250.
RICHESONTO
DIE MONDAY;
HAUNTED
IN DELE
“Save Me From Them!” Con
i demned Pastor Cries Out,
Raving in Terror.
BOSTON, May 18.—Two ministers
are holding the death watch upon Clar
ence V. T. Rlcheson today. The Rev.
Herbert S. Johnson and Chaplain Steb.
bins of the prison divide the time, and
one or the other will be at the cell con
stantly until the moment when Riche
son is led out to be executed on Mon
day morning.
The watch by the ministers is at
Richeson’s plea When told of the gov-
decision, his first request was:
"Dr. Johnson, won’t you stay with
me till then?"
Dr. Johnson agreed, but the strain
upon one man wouid be too great. The
■two ministers accordingly planned to
■’hare the task.
Collapse Hastens
His Execution.
Richeson’s mental and physical col
late e last night has hastened his exe-.
cution. It has been decided to elec
trocute the'murderer of Avis Linnell
Monday morning.
Executions usually have been held
before daylight yuesday.
Dr. Joseph 1. McLaughlin, physician
at the Charlestown state prison. paid
an early visit to the cell today, as a re.
suit of the hysterical attack which the
murderer suffered last night.
Dr. McLaughlin found Richeson in. a
semi-stupor. The first violence of the
attack had passed, however, and Riche
son is physically well. It was only his
mind and horrors which his imagination
has conjured up during the short days
in the gloomy death cell that drove him
to his outburst.
“Save Me From
Them,’’ He Cries.
The persistent delusion that two peo
ple were watching’him was the chief
feature of Richeson’s delirium. Who
these two people were, if the attend
ants were able to understand from
Richeson’s cries, they would not say.
< th. save me! Save me from them!”
the prisoner cried, pitifully, when the
doctor sought to soothe him.
"They're watching me! See them
standing there!" he shrieked, and the
efforts of two guards and the doctor
were necessary to hold the fright-mad
dened w retch upon his prison cot.
One attendant stated afterward that
no name passed Richeson’s lips, and
that he did not refer to the creatures,of
his imagination either as "he” or “she.”
But he cried that "they were watching
him.” The murderer pitched and tossed
upon his bed all nig’ht. When the guards
were changed at 6 o’clock this morning
one reported to the warden’s office:
“Richeson is resting comfortably this
morning. He has been comparatively
quiet since midnight, sleeping fitfully.
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FLOOD FIGHT
CARRIED BY
VICTIMS
TO TAFT
Enraged at General Bixby’s
Refusal of SIOO,OOO Fund to
Save Hymelia District.
NEW ORLEANS. May 18.—Imper
illed citizens of the inundated flood
district about Hymelia today appealed
to President Taft for Federal aid in
their fight against General Bixby, chief
of the engineers, who refuses to ap
prove the $160,000 appropriation des
perately needed by the Mississippi Riv
er Commission to repair the gaping
dikes.
Bixby still persists in this refusal to
sanction the appropriation, and has
even stopped the work of fixing the gap
at Hymelia, despite the fact that 200,-
000,000 gallons of water are pouring
through the break hourly and that the
country, already half under water, is
threatened with millions of dollars of
damage to crops and homes and grave
menace to the lives of thousands of
people.
Citizens Enraged at
General’s Obstinacy.
The citizens of the section are en
raged at his obstinacy in the face of
the imminent danger, and the commer
cial organizations of the vicinity, which
have made the plea to Taft for help,
have the signed petition of hundreds of
victims, declaring that six parishes are
already inundated by this one collapsed
levee Efforts are being made to use
the telegraph in order to get the gov
ernment aid in time to save the section
from complete ruin.
At Aisatja t,he br. ak is now more
than 7.000 .feet in extent, and the in
habitants are fleeing in all directions,
abandoning their homes, catlie and
household goods in their frantic ef
forts to save themselves and their chil
dren.
Repair Work Stopped
At Hymelia Dikes.
At Hymelia the water whirls over
the land without the slightest effort
being made to check it. The engineers,
out of funds, have ceased all work,
waiting for General Bixby to give them
the word to go ahead and fight the
growing inrush of the river.
Dispatches from Hickman. Ky., today
declare that the Mississippi is about to
change its course by cutting across roe
neck at Slough Landing. The river will
thus shorten its route more titan 45
miles, and the change will make New
Madrid, Mo., an inland town instead of
a river village/
CADET DIES WHILE ON
A 64-YEAR FURLOUGH
GUTHRIE. OKLA., May 18.—Thomas
P. Hewitt, 84 years old. who was fur
loughed from West Point Military acad
emy by General George B. McClellan (14
years ago, but who never returned and
who -was technically still a student at
the academy, was buried here today.
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY. MAY’ 18, 1912.
TEDDY'S MACHINE—A PEACH!
, By TOM POWERS.
Copyright, 1912, by International News Service
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Train Bandit Suspects
Reach Booneville, Ark,
50 Detectives Pursue
ST LOI'IS May IS.- A special train
carrying Pinkerton, railroad and St.
Louis detectives, left East Si. Louis
this morning for Booneville. Ark., where
two men, said to be the bandits who
held up a train on the New Orleans and
Northeastern railroad m at Hattiesburg,
Miss., last Wednesday. escaping with
Slto.no'n taken from the express car
safe, were said to have alighted from a
Mobile and Ohio train early today The
sheriff of Booneville was requested lay
telegraph to put sue the two men
The Pinkertons learned last night
that two men carrying nexx suit cases
and answering the description of th
desperadoes were aboard the Mobile and
Ohio train for St. Louis.
The train arrived here at 7:3<> o’clock
this morning. Officers waiting fm Up
men were informed be the eondm tm
that the two had alighted at Booneville
Fifty detectives are on the train fm
Booneville.
PEEVISH PRISONERS IN
A GAS SUICIDE PACT
* 1 M A HA. N EBR , Max 18. - Eleven
prisoners in the county jail here en
tered into a suicide pa< I this morning
and tried to kill themselves by turning
<m the gas in their room.
BAGMEN OF BAGDAD
HOLD PARADE TODAY
The §Kgmen of Bagdad, arrayed, in
rags 4mf tags and silken gowns. plug
hat« and swallow-tails, mother-hub
bards and kimonos, hold their parade
today. They had a band and bagpipes
and :< drum major, and they marched
from the Kiser building in Pryor street
to the Piedmont hotel and back again,
creating mote rumpus than a dog fight
on a quiet Sunday.
The Bagmen of Bagdad is the social
branch of the t’nited Commercial Trav
elers. xvhlch is holding its convention in
\tlanta. "Bagman" in English for
commercial salesman or traveling rep
resentative, vulgarly known as “drum
mer." and "Bagdad" is merely thrown
in because 1 j( j s euphonious, harmonious
and alliterative. Also Bagdad xvas the
home of the late Caliph Haroun al
Raschid, who traveled considerably and
listened to many yarns, qualifying him
as patron saint of the traveling men
and making his city their shrine.
In Wondrous Attire.
Great Killer .1 M. Keely. of Tampa.
Fla., head of the Caspian Guild of the
Ragmen of Bagdad, and T. B. Lewis,
of Atlanta, master of ceremonies, head
. -. the parade, and nearly 200 members
in gorgeous, even wondrous. attire fol
lowed them up Peachtree street. Impe
nd Ruler R F. Somerville, of Dayton,
Ohio, head of the national organization,
v,as in honored guest.
The Bagmen will hold their real high
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jinks tonight in their quarters in the
Kiser building, when numerous candi
dates xvill be initiated.
Columbus, Ga.. xvas chosen yesterday
afternoon as the next meeting place for
the United Commercial Travelers, ami
an election of officers resulted n.« fol
low s;
J. H. Timberlake, of Macon, past
grand councillor; R B. Cole, of Jack
sonville, grand councillor: E. R. Weir,
of Athens, grand junior councillor; J.
M. Keely. of Tampa, grand conductor;
M. J. Heinberg, of Pensacola, grand
sentinel, and M. L. Stern, of Savannah,
grand page. The only contested office,
the grand secretaryship, went to an
Atlanta man, R. L. Wallace. C. K.
Ayer, of Atlanta, and H. M. Merck, of
Gainesville, were chosen executive com.
mitteemen.
The travelers enjoyed a ball game
and the day xvas capped with a banquet,
where there xvas much to eat and much
to be said and much to be heard.
USED INNOCENT CHILD
TO HELP HER SHOPLIFT
,\’EW YORK. May 18.—Mrs. Mary
Mover, of Brooklyn, has been arrested
on the charge of shop-lifting and using
her Infant for that purpose. The baby
was wrapped in a coat, two shirtwaists,
txvo belts, three dresses, two pairs of
stockings and 4<> yards of toweling.
Memorial Tablet in
Capital City Club to
Honor Jack Futrelle
In memory and In honor of Jacques
'Futrelle. the distinguished novelist and
former Atlantan who went bravely to
Iris death in the great Titanic disaster,
the Capital city club will place a mar
ble and bronze tablet In its beautiful
new home.
Mr. Futrelle was a member of the
club at the time of his death, and had
been since his newspaper days in this
city. He was extremely popular among
his associates.
This memo! lai to their former friend
and fellow clubman will be paid for en
tirely by private subscription in the
Capital City club, and every member
will participate in the fund. As a mat
ter of fact, the fund is noxv practically
complete, and the tablet will be placed
in the club house immediately.
James W. English. Jr.. Alfred Newell
and John S. Cohen have been appointed
a committee from the club to draft suit
able and appropriate resolutions on Mr.
Futrelle’s death.
TITANIC DISASTER HURTS
WHITE STAR'S TRAFFIC
LONDON May 18.—When the White
Star line steamship Olympic left
Southampton for New York there xvere
only 82 saloon passengers on board.
'EXTRA
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PR TP F - On Trams. FIVE CENTS,
r XILV-jXL .i n Atlanta. TWO CENTS.
BASEBALL
STRIKERS
PLAN 816
UNION
Detroit Men Threaten to Walk
Out in War Over Ty Cobb,
the Georgia Peach.
JENNINGS SAYS HE’LL
HIRE STRIKEBREAKERS
Athletics May Act in Sympathy,
and “Labor” Organization
of Stars Impends .
PHILADELPHIA, PA. May 18 --
"Unionized baseball" may re
sult from the strike of the
players on the Detroit.
league team, who have thrown
down the gauntlet of battle to the
powers that be because of the sus
pension of Ty Cobb for trouncing
an insolent fan in New York on
Wednesday. After sending an ulti
matum to President Ban Johnson,
of the American league, the Tigers
sent nut appeals to every club in
> the American league to stand by
* them. Some are urging a sympa
thetic strike. A meeting of the
. Detroit players and members of the
Athletics has been called for to
morrow' to form a protective asso-
1 elation.
. Organized baseball today faced
the most serious situation since its
inception and the magnates of the
American league were using every
means in their power to prevent the
disaffection from spreading farther.
It was believed, that the Tigers
would take the field this afternoon
against the Athletics, but only long
enough to allow the first Philadel
phia player to bat. This would
save the club’s franchise, but would
mean a fine of SI,OOO. The strike
has hit hard at the financial side of
the sport and comparatively few
tickets had been sold for today’s
game up to the time when the seat
sale rush is usually at its heaviest.
Ban Johnson Adopts
Mailed Fist Attitude
Ban Johnson adopted the "mailed
list” attitude, according to dis
patches from Cincinnati, declaring
that the prestige of power must be
maintained. On the other hand, the
players have adopted the most
stubborn attitude ever witnessed in
baseball and assurances from mem
bers of other teams that they are
right is strengthening them in their
determination to fight tn a finish