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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 Continued on Page Two, _ -Jfa| i | 2 pi 415 i 6Tri 5I 9 I*6 [ V 1 p ||KB|R|ißjpo~prrr ATLANTA. 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The Atlanta Georgian Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results 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. , Fo * i w. Lar OIL' 7 ' Jw/ Ir , & ’ ’ ' “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 FLYER DDfflS 0.5. 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. |fti| 1 2I 3 4 5 6 T IBl9llp Li l 12 ||ftß|HpßjPO|A[£\ RV > YY 2;,xxZ--YYYYxxxYYYxYI-X— --—r McElveen, ss. , YY'XX XYXY YYXYXYXx-XYXYXYXYi l -J—YF —X —-x-xxx t -+- —x-- Y--X~Y~t4 — Danzig, lb . Y"* -J< YYYYYYYYYYY YY YY Yy —O' YM . 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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- Continued on Page Two.