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THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia:
Fair today and tomorrow. ♦
VOL. X. NO. 251.
in BEU
BEST, SAYS
BRIDEWBO
JILTED
Pretty Clara Parker. Society
Girl. Elopes on Eve of Mar
riage to Edwin G. Gilbert.
Why? Because I loved Ben best.'*
—Mrs. Benjamin Sullivan.
"I’m lucky to get off.”
- Edwin Glenn Gilbert, fiance who was
“She was my childhood sweetheart,
, ?nd I wouldn’t give her up.”
--Benjamin Sullivan. Benedict.
That tells the story of pretty Clara
Louise Parker, of Gainesville, who was
engaged to wed Edwin Glenn Gilbert, of
Marietta, next week, but who ran away
and married Benjamin Sullivan, of At
lanta, instead. The couple are at the
Majestic hotel today and happy as
'arks, while the discarded fiance doesn't
seem to be eating his heart out through
grief. He only wants his ring and auto
back.
Miss Parker loved Sullivan when she
nas a girl at Brenau college, but he
i ante to 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 at his temporary
lack of attention.
Even the Flowers
Had Been Ordered.
She wouldn't tell a reporter what the
reason was, but anyway she became en
gaged to the Marietta man and the
wedding was set for Tuesday of next
week.'the guests invited and the flowers
orders.. It wss to be a wedding of un
usual moment in Gainesville, for P. N.
’ Parker, father of the bride, is a promi
nent merchant, well to do, and high in
the society set of the mountain town.
“■fter Boyhood
Sweetheart Appears.
* But Sullivan hadn't forgotten his
boyhood sweetheart and didn't pro
pose to have another man walk away
with her as easily as al! that. He met
her several times, and a week or two
ago he succeeded in convincing her that
it was better even to break off an en
gagement than be sorry for life. She
evidently agreed 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 came in a few mo
ments and in it were Miss Parker and
two Gainesville friends, a young man
and his sister. ' Sullivan joined the
party. They drove to the home of the
Rev Mr. England, and Miss Parker was
made Mrs. Sullivan in a moment. Then
they drove back to Gainesville.
The couple went to the home of Mr.
Sullivan's uncle. A. S. Hardy, and tele
phoned the news to the bride's parents.
Whether or not there was an explosion
ov«r the phone Mr. Sullivan wouldn't
sa'.
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
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TWO WIDOWS
DRUGGEDIW
LONELY
HOUSE
Burglars Chloform Woman
and Watchdog and Then
Ransack House.
Mrs. A. I. Reagan, aged 75.’ awoke in
her bungalow near East Lake, on the
South Decatur car line, early today and
found her daughter, Mrs. John Herbert,
aged 40. unconscious on the bed beside
her. There was a stiflling odor of
chloroform in the room, and the two
tiny terriers which the two women had
locked in the room were both uncon
scious from the fumes of the drug.
A burglar had scattered dresses, ta
bleware and furniture all over the
floors and made his escape without
leaving a clew behind him except a
bottle, labeled chloroform. • and still
containing a spoonful of the anesthet
ic. His loot, which might have cost
two women their lives, was $2 in cur
rency taken from the drawer of a desk.
He had left everything else behind.
Burglars Made
Wreck of Room.
Mrs. Reagan and her daughter, Mrs.
Herbert, are both widows, and have
lived for some time in a four-room bun
galow near the trolley line and be
tween the East Lake junction and De
catur. They lived alone, and depended
upon their two dogs to give warning of
the approach of an 'intruder. When
they retired last night at 8 o'clock,
they left the terriers on a cot in the
bed room.
The doors were all locked and the
windows fastened by sticks placed
above the lower sashes. An examina
tion today showed that the burglar had
• put enough power into his efforts to
bend one of the sticks so that the din
ing room window would open, and had
climbed in through this window He
had gone out through the rear door,
leaving it open.
Mrs. Reagan, the older woman, awoke
at dawn, nauseated and with a splitting
headache. She tried to awaken her
daughter, but tfae younger woman was
apparently under the influence of a
narcotic.
Then Mrs. Reagan recognized tha
sickening, sweet odor of chloroform and
looked around the room. It was a
wreck. Tables and chairs were dis
placed and overturned.
Nothing Missing
Except Two Dollars.
Dresser drawers had been pulled from
their places and their contents scat
tered on the floor. Trunks had been
opened and garments strewn in every
room. The intruder had evidently
worked with confidence that he would
not be disturbed after having chloro
formed the women. But when order
was restored Mrs. Reagan found that
nothing was 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 bad sprinkled
nearly eight ounces of chloroform over
the pillows and sheets. which 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 were sleeping as
soundly as their two mistresses had
been.
THE SCORE CARD FOR TODAY’S BASEBALL GAME AT PONCEY PARK
UNCLE TRUSTY! -
Copyright, 1912, by International News Service.
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“Well. William, while we are all in Ohio today looking for votes, let’s have a parade that
will please the ladies. You know the suffragettes are making a big hit in their campaign for
suffrage. And see what the women did at the polls in California the other day! We’ll jolly
the ladies into getting their men folks to vote for us— provided, of course, they can’t vote
themselves. Keep right up close to us. Elihu—l may get thirsty any minute.”
ANOTHER SAYS HE
KILLED DR. KNABE
..PINE BI.I'EE. ARK.. May 20.—J. E.
Guthrie, a Canadian, held in jail here
on a charge of forgery, confessed to
Jailer John Holland that he killed Dr.
Helen Knabe, of Indianapolis, who was
found in her apartments with her throat
cut, several months ago. Revenge is
the motive, Guthrie says, that led to the
killing. Ho asserts he can prove that
he was in Indianapolis on the day of
the murder and that he ran show con
clusively that his confession is true.
ATLANTA, A A., MON DAY, MAY 20. 1912.
Presbyterians Choose
Atlanta for 1913 Meet
LOLISVILLE, KY.. May 20.
The Presbyterian general as
sembly chose Atlanta. fin.. for
‘the next meeting place.
NAT GOODWIN MARRIED
AGAIN? PREPOSTEROUS
LOS ANGELES. May 20. Nat <'.
Goodwin denies that he is married to
Miss Margaret Moreland. The famous
comedian says he wiil.not marry again
Until he leaves the stage for good.
ATLANTA
GEORGIAN’S
SOUTHERN
LEAGUE
SCORE CARD
MONTGOMERY
vs.
ATLANTA
AT PONCEY PARK
GAME AT 3:30 P. M.
MAY 20. 1912
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SHIPSWITHELDUR
BOSTON. May 20. Arch Ei reman, in
.1 Wright biplane, today flew over l-'ort
I Heath and Port Banks and then up
ilu- harbor over the battleships Rhode
Island and New Jersey, and dropped
toy bombs on the forts and the war
ships. The bombs eons! ted of sixteen
ounces of flour.
Inside of each of them was this note:
"What if this wen- sixteen ounces of
nitroglycerin instead of flour?"
freeman passed over l-'ort Heath at
an altitude of between 500 and Too
feet. He dropped three bomb-. One
hit a range finder « >iher hit a man
and the third hit the embankment.
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DEATH CELL HBGS WITH
HYHIS FROM THROAT
OF IIOIEDHSTOI
Richeson, Who Goes to Chair Early
Tomorrow Morning, Bright-Eyed
and With Smile on Lips, Spends Last
Day in Prayer and Reading Bible.
BOSTON. May 20. With his execution only 21 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 prison. Though it had
been expected that he would die early this morning, the electrocu
tion 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 spent Sunday and the
night with the doomed man. They were
his spiritual advisers. Rev. Het belt E.
Johnson and the prison chaplain, Rev.
H. W. Stebbins. The two joined Riche
son in prayer at intervals, while from
the corridor two guards followed every
movement of the little group within.
Richeson bore up well, but was un
able to get any sleep.
"His mind was too engaged to sleep,"
Rev. Mr. Johnson said:
When the ministers left early in the
morning the prisoner lay down, but
tossed restlessly on his cot.
The delay in the execution was later
explained to be due to the fact that yes
terday was Sunday and it is not cus
tomary to call witnesses on Sunday for
an execution.
The little cell was intensely hot to
day. The prisoner lay propped up on
his cot. clad in the rough prison suit, a
pair of trousers of coarse cloth, a rough
pair of slippers and heavy cotton socks
and the plain black and white shirt.
He wore no coat because of the heat.
“I Won’t Make Trouble
at 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 his lips. To
Warden Bridges, on one of the latter's
trips to the cell, he said: "I am ready
to go. I won't make any trouble when
the time comes."
Douglas Richeson. brother of the
prisoner, who is in Boston, said today
that he would not visit the condemned
man before the end.
"I can’t," cried Douglas when Attor
ney Morse urged the trip to the cell;
'"and Douglas had best not come here.
I can best stand It alone," said Riche
son.
Douglas will remain here until after
the execution tomorrow morning. He
will have his brother's body taken to
the home in Virginia.
The condemned man made a will on -
Sunday. It was not a written docu
ment. In fact, there was no written
word at all, for pencil or pen—anything
that he might possibly use'in an af
tenytt to injure himself —is rigorously
kept from the prisoner. Richeson sim
ple told Ids attorney. William A. Morse,
what should be done with the things
that the slayer leaves behind him.
Ri'-h< son's onl.i estate consists of his
clothes and a suit ease full of trinkety,
EXTRA
I’Pir’ff. On Train". FIVE GENTS
1 n_M.-CJ.in Atlanta. TWO CENTS
books and pictures, and odds and Ends.
A life poliej for s2Jlfm -.-as assigned
to counsel, and the house furnishings
which Richeson had secured in antici
pation of his wedding also went Io pay
his attorneys.
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. To Mrs.
Linnell, mother of Avis, he sent four
keepsakes of her daughtc, ami ith
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.
Richeson. during the last IS hours,
has been in turn brave, cheerful, cow
ardly, trembling, gloomy, weeping, hys
terical and heedless. He has devel
oped a passion for discussion of the
Bible and religious teachings, and as’a
result of his desire to have the pastors
always with him, two cots have been
arranged outside his door in the cor
ridor.
One of the guards who attends Rich
eson today said:
"The man is a strange contradiction
in many ways. The strangest thing
about him as compared with the usual
dttnih cell prisoner is his cleanliness.
A dozen times a day he washes himself
in the basin in his cell. Every half
hour or so he is apt to ask for a comb
anil dress his hair, rumpled from lying
on the cot. Richeson has a great my.p
of black hair, and it is always getting
up on end. He lias a habit of running
his fingers through it a good deal of the
time.
Holds Song Festival,
Leads Hymn Singing.
“But th* strangest request T ever
heard in a death house came last n:q
He had been picking at his linger nai <
,with a folded piece of paper. We can’t
let him have a knife or fil •_ of cours*.
Finally he turned to my partner on tty
watch and asked him to manicure his
nails.
“My partner did it and Richeson w>s
hap|p as you please ami thanked him.’*
Richeson held a song sei vice in bi*
death cell last night. He led tin -mj’-
ing. Th* 1 prison 'hipiaiji, R* v. 'lr,
Stebbins; l'cajh- .Vlnry nd the fvr
guard? p with him. S old* nl'- Bi-m.
eson started a simple old hymn, Pom ;
Time We'll I'ndersia nd.” The other
iie n in the death hoir ■■ .-.it a? if sprll-
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