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THE WEATHER. Fair tonight and tomorrow. Tem peratures: 8 a, m„ 68 degrees: 10 a. m.. 76 degrees: 12 neon. 78 de grees; 2 p. m„ 80 degrees. VOL. X. NO. 251. ■HI, IS i EIDIH ' sums 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? ,* » V > ■. ; - -• x ’ 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. * 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 Continued on Page Two. ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, MAY 20. 1912. “I LOVE FIRST SWEETHEART . . __ BEST,” SAYS BRIDE WHO JILTED — . . c a i / z r t /* fl SFy ctEWbMB y Ar t \ MMI / - - ; -Si ImBF 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. ■jjAaiirCl 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- Mku -V ■ I "****» «' / I I \ / / / WBRik ***'*■■ H C:' FwH 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 Continued on Page Two.