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VOL. X. NO. 252.
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It's Taft Weather. But Roose
velt Men Say They Will
Win Primaries.
COLUMBUS, OHIO. May 21.—The
Ohio presidential primary is proceed
ing with exceeding slowness today, less
than one-fourth of the qualified voters
having iegistered their choice between
Taft and Roosevelt or between Harmon
and Wilson at 3 p. m. The betting at
that hour was nearly even between
the two Republican candidates, while
odds of two to one upon Harmon
against Wilson prevailed throughout
the state Even at these odds there
were vcr> few IVilson takers for the
opinion is prevalent throughout the
state that the New’ Jersey governor is
meeting a decisive defeat.
On the Republican side the confl
uence of T ift supporters seemed large
ly based upon the excellent weather
which prevailed throughout the com
monwealth. The more jubilant of the
president’s friends declared that if the
sun kept shining all day long he would
make a complete sweep of the state.
Roosevelt men admitted that they
would have preferred rain in the farm
ing districts to make agricultural work
impossible for the day and permit the
ruralisi.- io get to the polls.
Split Delegation
Is Looked For.
I nbiased observers, however, are of
the opinion that the slow vote means
that the Buckeye Republicans will split
the delegation and that Ohio’s repre
sentation to the Chicago convention
will not he solid for either of the Re
publican candidates.
I’he complicat’d ballots of the Re
publican- seem to insure a primary
v fiasco equivalent to the results in New
Yoik ■ it\ and Massachusetts. Many
voters spent more than five minutes
trying to vote as they wished and none
left the booths within three minutes.
The Taft men ridiculed this claim,
declaring that there had been a great
gain in Taft sentiment as a result of
the President's tour of tne state.
The opinion was general that Sena
tor La Follette would poll only a scat
tering vote that W’ould not affect ma
terially the verdict of the people on
the Taft-Roosevelt fight.
\- regards the Democrats, the politi
cal prophets said it looked as if Gov
ernor Harmon would carry his own
state, despite the well-organized ef
forts of the Woodrow Wilson follow
er;., Wilson has been aided by Na
tional Committeeman Harvey C. Gar
ber. and the latter today reiterates his
belief that the New Jersey governor
would sweep the state, even against
an Ohioan
Election officials predicted that there
would be a large number of Republican
ballots thrown out as defective. The
' Republican primary ballot is very com
plicated. The names of the candidates
for the presidential nomination did not
appear upon the Republican ballot, nor
was thare anything on it to indicate
which delegates to the national conven
tion are pledged to this or that candi
date.
T. R Talks Fight, But
Dodges Prediction
NEW YORK, May 21.—"1 am a bet
ter warrior than prophet.” This was
the statement made here today by
Theodore Roosevelt upon his arrival
from the Ohio primary battlefield.
The Colonel arrived at the Pennsyl
vania station at 8:08 o'clock, and was
met bv a number of friends. He W’ent
into an impromptu conference in the
waiting room, mapping out plans for
his New Jersey campaign. Still talk
ing ’fight.” he and his followers en
tered the dining room and had break
fast
The Colonel said he was going
straight to Oyster Bay to rest up be
fore his campaign in New Jersey. He
will spend Thursday, Friday and Sat
urday in Governor Wilson’s state. He
seemed to fee! pretty sure that the
Ohio primarv election would give him
an even break with Mr. Taft. After
expressing bis poor opinion of his own
uiialiflcations as a prophet, he contin
ued ■
■ The Ohio fight has been one of the
hardest of the campaign, and I am
glad to get a rest."
Colonel Roosevelt announced that he
v -uld not go to South Dakota for a
presidential campaign, although he had
Reived a number of invitations to
-’0 so.
Cleveland Picks
Roosevelt to Win
cppVELAND. May 21. —Thar forty
thousand cotes would he cast in Cleve-
I inday at th’ presidential primary
v.- th» ]■< edict’"it of leaders on both
/ ii. mli.iw m-.: an rarlv heavy vote Sixty
' ~i ti e vote i’ wa as erted,
ivouhl be *u ’ ui'li'ii i’he weather is
(f.’a. Betting Harmon and Rou»e-
Aa lt at the fa orites.
The Atlanta Georgian
Ball Strikers Fined
SIOO Each; Cobb Case
Is Left With Johnson
PHILADELPHIA, May 21—A fine of
SIOO each has been assessed against
each member of the Detroit American
league team who participated in the
strike because of the suspension of Ty
Cobb.
This is the agreement reached by
which the tangle was cleared up. The
fine was imposed by President John
son, of the American league. This fine
is at the rate of SSO a day for the time
that the men refused to play and is
the regulation penalty for the offense.
The magnates also decided to take
the question of handling rowdy spec
tators In the grandstands out of the
hands of the umpires and put it in the
hands of the local club management.
The local managements are to call on
the local police power to put an end to
attacks on ball players by rowdy spec
tators.'
The case of Ty Co£>b was left entirely
In the hands of President Ban John
son, who said he w ould go to New’ York
late today to take evidence of those
who saw the assault at the American
league park.
Women Now Fight
For Places at the Bar
Os State of Georgia
Already the bar of the state has de
cided upon an open discussion of the
question, and the
demand of women that they be ad
mitted to practice in Georgia courts
will be carried to the supreme court
for a ruling, while the bill giving the
admission to the bar will be again in
troduced in the legislature.
The Georgia Bar association, com
posed of the leading attorneys of the
state, will hold its annual meeting at
Tybee Beach next week. May 30 to
June 1. when the principal topic of dis
cussion will be: "Shan Women Be Ad
mitted to the Bar of Georgia?” It will
be led by Judge Henry C. Hammond, of
Augusta, with E. B. Black, of Atlanta,
and Roland Ellis, of Macon, among the
speakers.
Two women will be striking figures
in the fight for recognition of the wo
man in law. They are Mrs. Minnie
Anderson Hale, who was graduated
with honors from the Atlanta Law
school last season, and Mrs. Georgia
Mclntyre Weaver, a member of the se
nior class which win receive IT*
plomas in June this year. Both are
residents of Atlanta and both have
proved by actual work that they are
qualified for practice in the courts.
2>ooo Churches Need
Preachers: Better Pay
Urged as a Remedy
LOUISVILLE, KY„ May 21.—That
there are 2,000 pastorless churches in
the Presbyterian denomination was the
assertion made by Dr Joseph Wilson
Cochran, secretary of the board of ed
ucation, to the general assemble.
Dr. Cochran appealed for better
financial support for the ministers, de
claring that young men would not re
gard the ministry as a. man’s ‘job until
the church paid a man’s wages.
"We are gaining barely enough men
to supply the church." he said. "In
calling for more men we are calling for
heroes who must face starvation
wages."
One result of merging ministerial re
lief and ministerial sustenance funds
is expected to be that annuities as high
as SSOO can be paid ministers out of
service, whereas the maximum has
been S3OO. The project to raise a fund
of $10,000,000 to provide adequate pen
sions will be pushed.
JULIAN V. BOEHM IS
RAPIDLY IMPROVING
After submitting to a serious opera
tion at a local sanitarium on Monday.
Julian V. Boehm, well known Atlanta
insurance man with the Union Cen
tral Life Insurance Company, is re
ported to be rapidly gaining in
strength. His physicians say the op
eration was successful and that he will
probably be back at his desk in a short
time. Mr. Boehm has many friends
who will be pleased to hear that he is
progressing.
Young Men
s P
in search of Opportu
nity will do well to
read the Help Want-
: -
ed Advertisements in
The Georgian each
day. Many a man has
found his chance
through the Waht
Ad pages of The
Georgian.
See . oday s Wahi Ads
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results
BROWNFINDS
ANSWER TO
SLAYERS
IN BIBLE
Governor Quotes Old Testa
ment, Refusing to Stay
Five Executions.
Georgia slayers who appeal to Gov
ernor Brown to save them from paying
the death penalty will find their final
answer in the Mosaic law.
The governor today turned to the
Old Testament injunction to justify his
action in refusing to stay execution in
the five murder eases appealed to him
during his present term of office.
"Moreover ye shall take no satisfac
tion for the life of a murderer, which is
guilty of death: but he shall surely be
put to death. Whoso killeth any per
son. the murderer shall be put to death
by the mouth of witnesses." says verses
30 and 31 of Thirty-fifth Numbers—
the law that the governor has taken to
supplement the drastic statutes of
Georgia.
Noticeable Fall
In Clemency Pleas.
The chief executive made known the
fact that he had sought Biblical com
mandment to help him reach a conclu
sion when the prison commission gave
out the information today that there,
had been a falling off of appeals for
clemency since the governor’s firm
stand in the Jefferson and Alford cases.
Judge Patterson, one of the commis
sioners. in speaking of the matter,
said:
“There has been a noticeable de
crease recentlj in applications for
clemency in murder cases since the
governor has gone on record io? op
posed to rereysing the ”oixrv
I '■’tJS 'We. \ A-~-- —» *>.
“ar “ a ’nt in
murder cases to the capitol now unlecs
the, have extraordinary evidence.”
Governor Upholds
Verdicts of Courts.
Although the entire prison commis
sion recommended that James Jeffer
son of Columbus, convicted of the
murder of Policeman Marchant be
given life imprisonment instead of
death. Governor Brown, after days of
deliberation, decided that the verdict of
the courts should stand.
Twice Governor Brown respited Ed
Alford, the Macon slayer, upon the
pleas of his attorney that the man was
first insane and then dying of tubercu
losis. On May 10 the governor re
fused to act again, and Alford went to
his death on the gallows in the Bibb
county jail.
Jefferson thwarted the law by tak
ing poison in his cell In Columbus on
the night before he was sentenced to
die.
Girl Elopes Sitting
On Handlebars of
Fiance's Motorcycle
MILWAUKEE. WIS., May 21
Seated on the handle bars of a motor
cycle designed to carry only one pas
senger, Miss Thera Knudson eloped
to Waukegan with Evan Davies. In
the same way she returned to Mil
waukee again as Mrs Davies. Now’
Davies is having a second seat put on
the machine.
The elopement was planned after Miss
Knudson had .accepted Davies’ invita
tion to go for a spin. There was only
one place for her to ride, and she
perched on the handle bars. As they
flew through the street? of Milwaukee
they decided to be married, and the
motor chugged its way to Waukegan,
where they visited the office of a jus
tice.
P* Harris, Veteran
Atlanta Fireman, Dies
In His Wife's Arms
Henry P Harris, one of the. oldest
and most popular members of the At
lanta fire department, died in his wife’s
arms today as he was being led from
the front porch of his home, 54 Irwin
street, to his bed- room. Mr. Harris
was stricken as he sat on the porch.
He had been in ill health for several
months but his death was wholly un
expected.
Mr. Harris was stoker of fire com
pany No. 6, in the Boulevard, having
been a member of that company for 18
years He went with the fire depart
ment when No. 6 < ompany’was organ
ized, being the only charter member of
the company at the time of his death.
He was a member of Fulton Lodge.
Odd Fellows, and was also a Fellow
Craft Mason, being a member of At
lanta Lodge .
Mr. Harr’ i survived by his wife
nd three children Lottie, Frances and
Ellie- all girl , the- oldest of whom is
:ged 15 tea" Funeral arrangements
w ill be announced lai-tat
ATLANTA. GA., TUESDAY. MAY 21, 1912.
W omen, Clinging to OldHome, Defy Police
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Thp top picture show:- Miss Annie Sullivan wcppinp on the
shoulder of her sister. Mrs. Mary Yancey, as their home was
torn down. Below is Mrs. Yancey standing guard with a small
rifle in her hand for protection.
Opening of Swimming
Season atPiedmont Is
Delayed Till Saturday
Dan Carey announced today that the
opening of the swimming season in Pied
mont park lake had been postponed, from
tomorrow until Saturday No water has
been pumped into the lake for the past
several days because II has been neves
‘sary to stop the principal pump at the
river station for ’tr»" - and the water
nffieiair tiave been conserving their re
serve supply.
Lack of Silk Pants
Worries Britons on
Eve of Royal Levee
LONDON. May 21.—The strike of tai
lors has caused a Shortage of silk
trousers. The odd situation threatens
seriously to interfere with the forth
• orning royal levee at Buckingham pal
ace.
Home Torn Up as They Weep
and Plead in Vain With
Workmen.
Dispossessed of their home and
thrown Into the streets, bag and bag
gage. by a squad of sheriff’s deputies,
Mrs. Mary Yancey and Miss Annie Sul
livan, daughters of the late Dennis Sul
livan. a well known Atlanta pioneer
and ; capitalist, today refused to leave
the old homestead at 287 Decatur
street Armed with small rifles, they
today defied the police to move them
The home is torn down; their furni
ture is in the gutter and their belong
ings are strewn from sidewalk to side
walk A mob of the curious stood
about the house today as the two
ducky women maintained their stand.
The workmen who began to tear
a wav the house Sunday night were
putting the finishing touches to the job
today. Every now and then one of the
women Implored’them to go away' and
leave them the home of their youth
Ever since their dispossession Saturday
night the women have kept guard over
the place. They have slept on the
front porch of a store house next door.
Mrs Yancey Didn’t
Authorize Sale.
The house was sold by a commission
of three last Tuesday, apparently with
the permission of the Sullivan heirs,
but. Mrs. Yancey today denied that she
knew anything about it or authorized
the sale In any way. The commission
was appointed by Judge Ellis of the su
perior court.
According to a statement of R. R.
Jackson, one of the commission who
sold the property, the Sullivan estate
was originally in the possession of
John Yancey, son of Airs. Mary Yan
cey. By a legal process, however, it
was taken from him. Recently Mrs.
Yancey asked the court to make a
treble division of the estate, and Judge
Ellis decided that the only way was to
sell the property and divide the pro
ceeds. Accordingly two other holdings
were sold and then the Decatur street
property last Tuesday.
Mrs. Yancey denied all this today,
declaring she had never consented to
the sale of any property, and her re
moval from the place was worse than
Siberian barbarism. She told the offi
cers who informed her last week that
she would have to get out, as the place
had been sold, that she was living in a
house that belonged to her father and
had been willed to her in accordance
with tfie laws of the state of Georgia
and the United States of America. She
refused, therefore, to go.
Saturday night officers came again.
Mrs. Yancey stood pat and she was up
held in her stand by her sister. This
time the officers brushed her aside and
entered the house. In a few moments
her possessions were being loaded out
of the front and back door. She plead-
Corrtinued on Paste Three,
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4= EDITION
PRiri?. On Train®. FIVE CENTS.
A Atlanta. TWO CENTS.
RICHESON
BRAVELY
GOES TO
CHAIR
“I Am Willing to Live or
Die—” Last Words Ut
tered by Slayer.
SMILES AT SUMMONS TO
BEGIN DEATH MARCH
Repeats Confessional in Clear
Voice as Straps Tighten.
Victim’s Mother Forgives. ?
BOSTON. May 21.—The body of
Clarence VUgil Thompson Richeson,
the former pastor, who was electro
cuted in Charlestown prison at 12:17
o’clocjt this morning for the murder
of Avis Linnell, lay today on a marble
slab at the city morgue in North Grove
street. Crowds of curious people who
had surrounded the prison, despite a
heavy rain, as the execution was tak
ing place, moved back and forth be
fore the barred doors of the morgue
while the post mortem examination,
the final act in th» drama, was being
performed.
Before Richeson paid with his life
for the death of the pretty Hy
annis .choir singe’’ on October 15,
1911. at the home of the Bos
ton Young Women’s Christian asso
ciation. he wrote a full statement. This
was turned over to his spiritual ad
viser. the Rev. Herbert S. Johnson. It
may be made public later.
That an envelope containing cyanide
of potassium, the poison with which
Avis Linnell was killed, had been sent
to Richeson a few hours before he died
became known today. It came from
New York city, but failed to reach the
prisoner, the packet having been
opened by Warden Bridges
No Signs of Fear ,
As Death Approached
That Richeson died bravely was the
unanimous verdict today of all the
witnesses who attended the execution.
He showed no signs of emotion or fear,
and his actions bore out his recent de
termination:
“I have given myself to God I will
die like a man ”
Rev. Mr Johnson said
"Richeson died like a man He dis
played the same courage and fortitude
in the death chamber that has marked
his conduct throughout his imprison
ment.”
William A Morse, chief counsel for
Richeson and a witness, said:
"Mr. Richeson left his cel! and walked
to the chair unassisted. He displayed
superb courage; he met his fate like
a man. He made no closing state
ment.”
Singing in Cell as /
Summons Came
Richeson left his cell at 12:08 o’clock.
When the witnesses, headed by War
den Bridges, filed into the short corri
dor separating the death cell, the voices
of Richeson, Chaplain Stebbins and the
Rev. Mr. Johnson could be heard sing
ing hymns, Richeson singing in a clear
voice with much feeling
Tlfe last lines sung by the threq in
the death cell were:
"For I know what’er befall me
Jesus doeth all things well.”
There were ten witnesses in the
party, including Rev. Father Murphy,
the 'haplain of the. prison.
Attorney William A. Morse said:
“For two hours I had a closed con
versation with Richeson and we talked
very confidentially over all matters. He
expressed to me all that he wanted
done. I shall carry out his wishes. He
was ready to go. brave and reconciled.
He asked me to go with him to the
death chamber and I did.
Felt He Had
Paid His Debt.
"He wanted to say to the world that
he had paid his debt, and felt that he
was going home to God for a larger
service of life; that he had failed here
and that he had suffered enough to
know that he would be forgiven, and he
was glad to go, and thus be given an
opportunity for larger service in an
other world."
Richeson, just before leaving his cell,
shook hands with Attorney Morse, then
with Chaplain Stebbins and then with
Dr. Johnson. His face was lighted up
with a bright smile. He stood straight
as an arrow. His eyes looked straight
ahead, unflinchingly.
Turning to Deputy Warden Allen.
Richeson then said, with the smile stiil' ■
