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VOL. X. NO. 251.
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HYMNS
Death Chamber Rings With
Song From Lips ot Doomed
Baptist Preacher.
BOSTON. May 20.—With his execu
tion only 24 hours away, Clarence V. T.
Richeson, slayer of Avis Linnell, was
unable to sleep during the night and
today he alternately prayed and read
his Bible in the little death cell at
Charlestown orison. Though it had
been expected that he would die early
this morning, the electrocution was
postponed until tomorrow morning, and
this action gave rise to reports that the
pastor-slayer’s lawyers would make an
eleventh-hour attempt to save their
client. •
Two ministers epent Sunday and the
night with the doomed man. They were
his spiritual advisers, Rev. Herbert F.
Johnson and the prison chaplain, Rev.
H M . Stebbins. The two joined Riche,
son in prayer at intervals, while from
. the corridor two guards followed every
movement of the little group within.
Ric hes m bore up well, but was un
able to get any sleep.
His mind w as too engaged to sleep."
Rev. Mr. Johnson said:
“I Won't, Make Trouble
«t End,” He Says.
Richeson was the calmest, the least
moved, of the little group that spent the
night in his cell. In the. religious dis
cussion it was he who led the talk, and
he who more than any set up a hymn,
in which the others Joined. He was
cheerful, bright eyed, with a smile and
a cheery word ever on bis lips. To
Warden Bridges, on one of the latter s
trips to the cell, he said. "I am ready
to go 1 won’t, make any trouble when
the time comes."
Douglas Richeson, brother of the
prisoner, who ie in Boston, said today
that he would not visit the condemned
man before the end.
! can't," cried Douglas when Attor
ney Morse urged the trip to the cell:
•and Douglas had best not corrie here.
1 ran best stand il ,i’one." said Riche
son
rtougias will remain here until after
the execution tomorrow morning. He
wilt have his brother’s body taken to
thr in irginia.
The condemned man made a will on
i Sundav It was not a written docu-
I ment In fact, there was no written
word at all. for pencil or pen—anything
I that he might possibly use in an at
tempt to injure himself—is rigorously
kept, from the prisoner. Richeson sim
ply told his attorney. William A. Morse.
* what should be .done with the things
that the slayer leaves behind him.
Richeaon’9 only estate consists of his
clothes and a suit case full of trinkets.
1 hooks and pictures, and odds and Ends
A life policy for ?2.00fi was assigned
I to counsel, and the house furnishings
which Richeson had secured in antici
pation of his wedding also w on’ to pay
hi? attorney o .
Forgiveness Asked of
Murdered Girl’s Mother.
To Miss Violet Edmands, his fiancee,
he ordered returned the score or more
of books which she sent to him while
he lay in Charles street jail. Tn Mrs.
Linnell. mother of Avis, he sent four
keepsakes of her daughter, and with
these he pleaded through Attorney
Morse for forgiveness. To his old fa
ther in Virginia the murderer has sent
| his watch. Masonic charm and bits of
personal jewelry.
i)i, o o f the guards who attends Ri< h
eson today said:
"The man is a strange contradiction
in many ways. The strangest thing
about him as compared with the usual
death cell prisoner is his cleanliness
A dozen t imes a day he w ashes himself
ip the basin in his cell. Every half
hour or so lie Is apt to ask for a comb
and dress his hat:-, rumpled from lying
on the. cot. Richeson Has a great mon
of black hair. K-ind it is always getting
up on end. H. has „ habit of running
his fingers through it a good deal of the
jt time.
"But the strangest request I ever
t heard in a death house came last night.
He had been picking at his finger nails
i with a folded piece of paper. We can't
L let him have a knife or file, of course,
f Finally he turned to my partner on the
! watch and asked him to manicure his
nails.
"My partner did it and Richeson was
happy as you pleast and thanked him.’’
Richeson held a song service in his
death cell last night. He led the sing
ing. The prison chaplain. Rev. Mr.
Stebbins: lawyer Morse and the two
guards were, with him. Suddenly Rich
eson started a simple old hymn, “Some
Time vVe’ll Understand.” Tile other
men in the death house sat as if spell
bound as Richeson sang verse after
verso of the hymn. He sang nine hymns
In all during the night, and his song
festival did not end until the early
hours of the morning. When it came
time for the guards of the death watch
io change. Richeson asked that they
all join with him in singing "Nearer,
jq, God. to Thee."
May-Day Festivals of OpportunHieswfS?
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The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit —GEORGIAN WANT ADS —Use For Results
WOMAN,
' LOVELY
WOMAN
Thinks Suffrage Will
Mean End of Chivalry.
PHILADELPHIA. May 20.—Mrs. Em
mett O’Neal. wife of the governor of
Alabama, believes woman suffrag o is
bound to come, though she does not
favor it. and that when it does come
it will prove a death blow to chivalry.
Mrs. O'Neal, who is visiting here with
her husband, said tlial less interest
was felt In the South than in the North
in the woman suffragi movement, and
added:
"Yes. ye-,, it is inevitable, of cour.-e. |
The American man will give a woman |
anything she asks for. But 1 can im
agine the falling away of little courte
sies that women love when once the
vote is obtained.
"I can quite imagine mm drinking
their toasts, 'Here's to women, once our
superiors now out equals!'”
To Walk 400 Miles to
Help Her Nerves.
ST. LOTIS. May 20.--In an rt to
cure nei’V'.usnpss. from which has
he n a sufferer since the San Francis
co eitrthuuake in 19G6, Miss Marie .Rup
perts, of St. Louis. vill 'ittenipi ro
walk to <’hicrigo. 111.
Miss Rupperts is a stenographer.
Great Majority of Honor
Students Are Women.
EVANSTON. ILL., Mav 2 n .—Of 29
students of the senior class of North
western university elected to member
ship in Phi Beta Kappa fraternity, an
honor for high standing. 24 are women.
Suit Rejected by Boy
She Ends Her Life.
! ROCKFORD, ILL.. Ma- 20.—Mrs.
ißegna Nelson., a v idow. aged 31 years.
) committed suicide by jumping into
Rock river aft*’ her proposal of mar j
I riage had been rejected by a \ou s h.
Widow Elected Mayor
By Votes of Women,
SHERIDAN. WYO., May 2'h -Mrs.
Susie \\ issN-r, a widow, has been elect
ed mayor of lb ton. Wyn.. on the inde
pendent ticket. V majority of votes
were cast by v«»men,
Engineer Killed in
Wreck on L & N*
Near Canton,
Engineer f.a»im e r as killed today in
a wreck on the Louisville and Na. shvi’h
railroad near Canton. Ga . according to
dispatches receiird here.
A special train was sen? up at 1
o’clock to bring the body to Atlanta and
it will arrive here about 5 o'clock this
afternoon.
Joel t, k Latimer. the engineer who
vas* killed today in the wreck on the
Louisville and Nashville railroad. lived
at 26 Augusta avenue. He leaves a
wife and children. The family for
merly lived on Fair street, but recently
bought a new home and ha? moved
into it a short ’time befem Mr. Lati
mer’s death.
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MAT GOODWIN MARRIED
AGAIN? PREPOSTEROUS
r r?s XN’GELES, MaV -A Nat C
Goodwin deme- that h<=» is married to
Miss Margaret Moreland The famous
comedian says he will not marry again
until he leaves th p stage for good.
Pin YOJI CONTRIBUTE
TO THIS BRIDAL DOWER?
WASHINGTON. May 20.- Tomorrow
Henrv K. Fulton. who L 72 years old
and is known as "Washington’s mil
lionaire pawnbroker.” will marry Ethel
Tibbetts. 32.
PHYSICIAN AT AGE OF 80
FATHER OF PAIR OF TWINS'
NEW YORK. May 20. At the age o'
80. Dr. Allyn Gorton. of Brooklyn, has
become ihe father of tv ins. a boy and
a girl. Dr Gorton i an enthusiast on
eugenic'’.
FREAK LAMB HAS HOOF
ON THE END OF ITS TAIL
GRAND .UNCTION. COLO. Maj
20. -A sheep belonging to H. B. Woods,
of Mesa county, has given birth to a
lamb which has an inflexible tail with
a hoof on the end of it.
JOHN STERN FETES HORSE
THAT’S TRUCKED HIM LONG
NEW YORK, May 20. —John Stern. I
ownvi of "Baby.” a 29-year-old truck |
horse, gave a reception to the animal i
yestehrday on the Broome street pier. I
Stern figures Hint bis horse has cov
ered 150.000 miles of hauling.
DOOMED SLAYERHeSCAPES
JAIL IN MADISON COUNTY
DANIELSVILLE. GA.. Ma? 20.
Mack Embrey, convicted of a killing |
and s-ntenced to hang, escaped from
the Madison county jail by digging a
hole through his cell floor with a piece
of iron piping, Crawford Powers, a ne
gro prisoner, helped him to escape.
TWO WIDOWS
DRUGGEOIN
LONELY
URMF
HUB f S L
Burglars Chloroform Women
and Watchdogs and Then
Ransack House.
Mrs. 1 A. Reagan, aged 75. awoke In
her bungalow near Ea-t Lake, on the
South Decatur ear line, tarty today and
found her daughter, Mrs. John Herbert,
aged 40. unconscious on the bed beside
her. There was a stifling odor of
chloroform in th . r " m. and the two
tinv teri-ws which the two women had
jockeri n the room were both uncon
scious from the fumes of the drug.
A burglar had scattered dresses, ta
bleware a"d furniture all over the
floors and made his escape without
leaving a ele -. behind him except a
bottle, labeled chloroform, and still
i-cntalning a spoonful of the anesthet
ic. His loot, which might have cost
two vonien their lives, was $2 in cur
i-enr-y taken from an old-time lap writ
ing desk. He had left everything else
behind.
Burglars Mfide
Wreck of Boom.
Mrs. Reagan and her daughter, Mrs.
Herbert, fire both widows, and have
lived for some time in a four-roost bun
galow near th° trolley line and be
tween the East Lake junction and De
catur. They lived alone, and depended
upon their two flogs to give w arning of :
the approach of an intruder. When
they retired last night at s o'clock
they left the terriers on a • ot in thf
bed room. • »-
The d o*wsr.gw»T«r 9 i 1 * +m" k efl—n i.H -Ww
windows fastened by ■ ticks placed
above the low er sashes. An <-xamina- !
tiem today showed that the burglar had |
put enough power into fits efforts to
bend one of the sHeks so that the din
ing foom window would open, and had
climbed in through this window. He
had gone out through the rear door
leaving ft op- n.
Airs. Rc-igan. the older woman awoke
at dawn, nauseated and with a splitting
headache. She tried -o awalcm her
daughtei but the younger woman was
apparently under the influence of a
narcotic.
Then Mrs Reagan rprog-n’7e'l the, I
pfioy of fhloroform cind
Jonker] around room It was a
v reck. Tables and chairs wer* ; dis
placed nd 'c cuturn' d
Nothirtg’ Missing-
Except Two Dollars.
D'-esgnr drawers had been pqi|«d from
their places and their contents scat
tered on the floor. Trunks had been
opened and garments strewn in every
room The intruder hail evidently
worked with confidence that he would
not be disturbed after having chloro
formed the women Rut when order
was restored M'S. Reagan found that
nothing wis missing except the two
one dollar bills she had left In a desk
drawer, the only money she happened
to have in the house.
The burglar had not used a sponge
or handkerchief to apply the drug to
the sleepers’ nostrils. He had sprinkled
nearly eight ounces of ehloi-oform over
the pillows anil sheets. ithich still
reeked of the drug today. The blanket
on the cot where the terriers reposed
.was strongly Impregnated with the an
aesthetic and the dogs wi re sleeping as
aoundlv as their two mistresses had
been.
'Jis. Rt.igan soon succeeded in arous
ing her d.-iitghter and they telephoned
for the police authorities of Decatur.
’Die place is in DeKalb • .aunt? and out
side the jurisdiction of the Atlanta po
lice. Another daughter. Miss Stidie
Reagan, v. ho lives at East Lake, was
summoned, are, then Dr. Hunter House,
>f Kirk'wood, was reached by tel-photic.
He came to th- bungalow and gave
medical attention to the two women,
vim wen extremely ill when the first
excitement had bion followed by the
react ion.
. The DeKalb a ulhot'ities found no
| clew to the burglar, except the eight
! ounce bottle which had contained the
! drug. It bore the label "Jacobs Phar-
| macy," but the cork was evidently old I
and the bottle appeared to have been 1
I some time out of the drug store
Suspicion Points
To But One Man.
Mrs. Reagan believes that both she!
i and her daughter would have been
asphyxiated by the fumes of the an
aesthetic had it not been for the fact
that all the windows of their bed room
were wide open and the fresh morning
air revived the elrii tl?- mother.
"Only one person besides rny daugh
ter and myself could have known that I
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ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, MAY 20. 1912.
“I LOVE FIRST SWEETHEART . .
__ BEST,” SAYS BRIDE WHO JILTED
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Mrs. Benjamin Snliivan, who d<>p> ,1 wish Ip t- ‘irsf 1 /* A
heart on Jhe eve of her marriage to her .-r-i.n-l.
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Pretty Southern Girl Changed Her Mind on IG <
of Wedding— lilted Fiance Says He Con
siders Himself Lucky, But Sighs for
the Ring---.\ Tangled Romance.
"Why? Because I loved B*n best.”
Mi Benjamin Sullivan.
“I'm lucky to get off.”
Edwin Glenn Gilbert, fiance who* was
“She was mv childhood sweetheart,
and I wouldn't give her up.”
Benjamin Sullivan Benedict.
That tells the story of pretty Clara
Eotiisr Parker, of Gainesville, who was
engaged tn w ed Edv in Glenn Gilbert, of
Marietta, next week, but who ran away
and married Beniamin Sullivan, of At
lanta. instead The couple are at th”
Majestic hotel today and happy’ as
larks, while the discarded fiance doesn’t
serin to be eating Ills heart out through
grief. IT %>nly wants his ring and auto
back.
Miss Parke- loved Sullivan when she
was a girl at Brenau college, hut he
came tn Atlanta, and they didn't see
each other for some time. Then she
met Gilbert, who had money and auto
mobiles and was a. fine young chap on
top of that. Maybe Miss Parker thought
she had ceased to love Sullivan: per
haps she was piqued al his temporary
l ick of attention.
She wouldn't toll a i'-poii”, what th-’
reason was. but any wax she became en
gaged to th’ Marietta man and the
wedding ’.m< set fm Tu sda . of next
week, the guesi- incited and the Howers
ordered. It was to he a wedding of un
usual moment in Gainesville, for I’ N.
Parki father of the bride, is- a promi
nent me., hunt, well to do. and high in
the society scl of the mountain town.
Her Boyhood
Sweetheart Appears.
But Sullixan hadn't forgotten his
boyhood sweetheart and didn't pro
pose to have another man walk away
with her as easily as all that. He met
her several times, and a week or tin.
ago he succeeded in convincing her that
it was better even to break off an en
gage tm nt than be sorry for life. She
evidently agr<-< a with him. for last Sat
urday afternoon Sullivan took a train
to Flowery Branch, six miles from
Gainesville, and waited for an automo
bile to arrive, it cam in a few mo
ments and in it w*r ■ Miss Parker and
two Gainesville friends, a young man
ami his sistei Sullivan joined the
party. They drove to tire home of the!
Rex. Mr England, and Miss Parker w.i !
made Mrs. Sullivan in a moment. Then I
they drove back to Gainesville.
The couple went Io the home of Mr !
Sullivan's uncle, A. S. Hardy, and tele
phoned the news to the bride’s parents
Whether or not their was an explosion
over the phone Mr. Sullivan wouldn't
sa v
Didn't Give Them
Chance To Get Mad
"We didn't give them a chance to get
mad.'' he, explained today at the Ma
jestic. “We planned it all and carried
it out before anybody knew anything
about it. and then it was too late to be
mad.
"We spent the night at my uncle's
home in ,Ga im sville and came to At
lanta .yesterday morning early."
The young couple arrived at the Ma
jestic before breakfast Sunday, with
out baggage of any kind. Sullivan
asked for the best room in the house
and got it. on the second floor and next
to the elevator. Thev staved there all
day Sunday and the next anybody saw
of them was early today when la< :•
went to breakfast in the main dining
rjnm. Mrs. Sullivan looked unusually
pretlx in X black satin ilr*ss villi a
skirt just touching her ankl s and hii
brilliant color was heightened b- the
ordeal of running 'lie gauntlet of a
hundred pairs of exes. so all tin- gm s -
had heart! of the elopement. She blushed
when asked of her marring” ami re
ferred all inquirers to "my husband.”
Mr. Sullivan consented to be inter
viewed only after he was convinced
that the papers had the essential facts
anyway. He ranted it plainly slated
that he hadn’t done anything to be
ashamed of. and he was glad Mis. Sul
livan was glad ami eveybody was hap
py, unless it were Mr. Gilbert. He did
not know anything of Mr. Gilbert's
feelings and didn’t seem to care.
But Mr. Gilbert isn't worrying He
heard the news from his fiancee’s father
by telephone on Saturday night. Mr.
Gilbert was preparing for a trip to
Gainesville, but he abandoned it sud
denly.
”1 congratulate myself that I didn't
get her. I think 1 got off lucky. I
have not telegraphed them congratula-
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Benjamin Sullivan, successful
wooer.
lions, and don't intend to write, i'll
have nothing more to do with her," he
said at Marietta today.
"She hasn’t sent back the engage
ment ring I gave her. nor my letters,
pictures or otter presents. 1 don’t
know whethei she will, as I have had
no omniunication with her since she
eloped Saturday night. But I figure I
am Im I. . t<> get ~f as well as I have.
T i” first I I,card about It was on Sat
inilax night wlun Mr. Parker. her
father, telephoned me. And that’s all
I've heard from any of them.
"Vi -. I lei'l my automobile at Gaines
ville • week ago yesterday, for her to
a a Bui 1 don't know whether they
u-.-d my machine for the elopement."
■Mr. Gilbert is a prominent young
tin r. li int of Marietta and is well known
in Atlant?!, in business and socially.
Miss Parker is 20 years old. She
was graduated from Brenau college, at
Gainesville, several years ago. and was
one of the most, prominent society girls
in the old college town. She is a mem
ber of the Phi Mu sorority, and re
cently attended the convention of that
body in Atlanta. She is a cousin of
Miss .Maiian Perdue, of Inman Park,
who was preparing to leave today for
Gainesville, to be an attendant at the
wedding, set for next week
Mr. Sullivan is connected with Jack
son & Orme, in the insurance busi
ness. He is a graduate of Gordon in
stitute. and spent two years at the Eni
versity of Georgia.
"Yes. we will make our home in At
lanta," he said today. "I can’t say just
where yet. «’<■ are thinking of a little
trip, bitt I'm not going to tell you
whore we will go. We haven’t/de
cided."
4th HOME
!•= EDITION
PRIOIR 1 .- On Trains. FIVE CENTS.
X -IXIA CL,. i n Atlanta . TWO CENTS
SIBIKE DF
BASEBALL
PLATERS
ENDED
Agreement Finally Reached
Between Detroit Tigers and
President of Club.
TY COBB PLEADED
WITH MEN TO RETURN
Famous Player Censured by
Atlanta Minister—Upheld
by
PHILADELPHIA. May 20.
The baseball strike is ended and
the Detroit Tigers will line up in
Washington tomorrow in the
| scheduled game against the Sen
i ators.
An agreement satisfactory tn
Ban Johnson, president of the
i American league, was reached be
i tween President Navin, of the
i Detroit, team, and bis insurgent
i players.
PHILADELPHIA. Ml? 29.—1 f the
striking members of the Detroit Tigers
who are refusing to pla.y until Ty Cobb
Is reinstated do net give in within five
days, all will he blacklisted and barred
from the American league
This was the notice served upon the
nineteen players afternoon by Man
ager Hugh Jennings, jfter a conference
of the following American league mag
nates: President Ban Johnson, of the
American league; Manager Connie
Mack, of the Athletics: Manager Mc-
Aleer. of the Boston Amerh ans; Presi
dent Navin, of the Detroit team; Owner
Frank Farrell, of the New York Amer
icans, and Jenrfings.
If the men hold out. It was an
nounced, a team will be made up of
strike-breakers.
After the ultimatum of the magnates
had been served upon the men the
strikers held an executive session, at
w hich Cobb pleaded with the players to
surrender and return to work.
With today's game between the Ti
gers and the Athletics cancelled, both
rtdes had the entire day for confer
ences and meetings to make campaign
plans. The conference between Presi
dent Johnson and President Navin, of
the Detroit club, was scheduled to ba
held before noon, while tomorrow there
wifi be a full meeting of the American
league magnates here to consider the
situation.
The suggestion was made tnat the
trouble be arbitrated, but Johnson
frowned upon this means of settling the
dispute. His ultimatum was that the
authority and discipline of the league
must be upheld. In order to carry' this
out, the most drastic and retaliatory
measures were proposed.
Other Clubs May
Contribute Strikebreakers.
When the ultimatum was served upon
the striking players, their answer was,
"Let them go ahead.”
The status of Ihe nineteen “strik
ers" will be definitely settled tomor
row. The magnates will also act upon
a proposition that the Philadelphia,
Cleveland. Washington. St. Louis, New
Yoik. Boston and Chicago clubs each
contribute two or more players to Man
ager Hughe?' Jennings, of the Tigers,
with which to make up a new team.
A number of the Tigers spent Sun
day iri Atlantic City, returning to Phil
adelphia this morning. Some of the
strikers felt confident that some solu
tion of the trouble would follow’ Mr.
Navin's arrival. Navin has the confi
dence and respect of his men. and it is
said that there has never been any
friction between the players and the
club’s president.
This view was supported by a tele
gram which preceded the arrival of the
Tigers’ president, and which contained
a brief interview w ith him. in which he
felt sure that after "the? all got to
gether the trouble would be thrashes
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