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Ulantan Expected to Sweep the
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Alexander Slated Second.
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on the court of appeals are the most I
spectacular and interesting, with the
race for solicitor general of the Atlanta
circuit a close third as a thriller.
The'general trend of opinion In Ful
ton seems to he that Slaton is to win
over Alexander in the county by a com
fortable but no tremendous majority.
Hall likely will receive a light vote
here.
The legislative race is badly mixed,
and the fight between Blackburn. W. M.
Smith, McElreath, W. V Smith and
Cochran as to which two shall be left
it the post is extremely Intercslng
Blackburn Expected To Win.
It is generally agreed that 'Rob"
31ackburn is to win Beyond that leg
slative speculation is varied and widely
livergent.
As pretty a race as ever was seen In
■"ulton is the one between Judge "Bob"
Pottle and Recorder Nash Broyles for
he succession to Judge Pottle on the
tench of the court of appeals.
Judge Pottle was named by format
Jovernor Slaton a few months ago. to
tucceed Judge Arthur Powell on the ap
peals court bomb He aspires to the
•emainder of the unexpired term to
which he was named.
Judge Broyles has been for many
rears recorder of the Atlanta police
?Ourt, and has been actively cnmpaign
ing for Judge Pottle's seat for the past
three months.
It is agreed that the county is to be |
close between these two.
Other Race* of Interest.
The race between Solicitor Hugh
Dorsey and Madison Bell, the present
solicitor’s only opponent, is close
Friends of both men are hard at work
in their behalf, and will be until the
last ballot is deposited tomorrow after
noon.
The races for attorney general, rail
road commissioners and commissioner
of agriculture are attracting consider
able attention and developing some
measure of Interesting form, but, com
pared with the other contests, they
seemingly are looked upon In Fulton as
relatively side Issues.
The various contests have been car
ried on, as a rule, so far as Fulton coun
ty is concerned, good-naturedly and
with a minimum of bitterness and mud
slinging.
JAMES D. PRICE LOOKS
LIKE WINNER IN RACE
FOR SOIL COMMISSION
Reports from Floyd, Clarke, Baldwin
and Lowndes counties, representing the
four corners of the state, indicate that
lames D. Price is waging a winning
fight for commissioner of agriculture.
The dignified campaign Mr. Price Is
making, contrasted with the contest of
his competitors, has made him many
friends. While Blalock and Brown are
accusing one another of belonging to
the fertilizer trust and being “tools" of
mercenary politicians, “Old Jim" Price
has been talking to the farmers, face to
face, in the fields and along the by
ways and hedges, explaining to them
what he proposes to do for their benefit
when he gets elected to the agriculture
department.
CRISP LEADS OPPONENTS
FOR VOTE IN RANDOLPH
CUTHBERT, GA.. Aug. 20.—The hot
race in this immediate section Is that
for solicitor between Castellon and
Bush. It is generally agreed that Cas
tellow will carry Randolph, his home
county, but it Is freely predicted that
the race throughout the circuit will be
very close
Great interest is also being taken in
the race for congress between Crisp,
Mercer and Shaw Crisp seems to be
well in the lead in this county.
MARKET PROPRIETOR
SAYS HE IS BANKRUPT
W. D. Scott, proprietor of Scott's
City Market. 14 Houston street, tiled a
petition in bankruptcy today tn the
Federal court.
His debts amount to $6,562.16, of
which S4.SO" is s< cured by mortgages
on a 43-acre farm in Cobb county. His
assets are returned as $4,325.
LEGLESS LAD IS EXPERT
SWIMMER AND WRESTLER
PHILADELPHIA. PA. Aug 2" -Al
though legless. Tyson Dolw.-r ig>d 14
has become an expert swimmer and
wrestle r
GAIN IN BANK STOCKS.
LEXINGTON. GA , Aug. 2" E J
Bray, tax receiver of Oglethorp. . oun
ty, has completed his con.-o!idat. i n
port of the taxes of the < untv. whict
shows that values have inereasee
$39,275. This gain is mostly in ban!
stock, and not due to realty <<• person
alty.
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MIGHTBW:
ESCAPES IN AUTO
Street Workmen See Burglar
Force Front Door of West
End Drug Store.
While a gang of street sweepers
watched him use his "Jimmy" with
skill, a burglar, whose only shield was
an automobile in which he drove to the
scene, entered the West Eml Pharma
cy and was only prevented from loot
ing the store by the unexpected and
purely accidental arrival of polhemen
walking their patrol. The attempted
robbery occurred early today.
The street cleaners, under Sanitary
Inspector Butler, wore at w qrk at Lee
and Gordon streets when they saw a
big car drive tin to the pharmacy and
stop. Its lone occupant was well
dressed arpl entirely disregarded their
presence as he approached the drug
• tore door. He tried the front entrance
but failed to got In. He then walked
around the corner and tried a side en
trance. It was locked.
He again approached the front door,
this time with a "jimmy." The pres
ence of the puffing auto still protected
him. The street force thought him the
proprietor of the Store He had Just
foteed an entrance when two patrol
men strolled leisurely along
The automobllist saw them. With
out apparent hurry, he entered the car
and drove off
Investigation proved that no one
connected with the pharmacy had
made this early morning call. One
hundred dollars In the cash register,
though, was saved.
GILCHRIST GALLS ■
SPECIAL SESSION
Florida Legislature to Consider
Jacksonville’s Plan for Docks
Costing $1,500,000.
TALLAHASSEE, FLA.. Aug. 20.
Governor Gilchrlat ha„ Issued his proc.
Initiation calling a special session of
the legislature to convene October 1.
This action is In response to a petition
of Jacksonville citizens to pass a bill
giving the city of Jacksonville the pow
er to own and operate municipal docks
and terminals. The petition presented
to the governor had attached 3,000 sig
natures of Jacksonville citizens. Ap
pearing as a committee to present this
petition to the governor were Frank
E. chase, C. M. Cooper, Herbert B.
Race and Captain John R. Slattery.
When the special session convenes
the act, which will be presented for
passage, provides that the citizens of
Jacksonville be allowed to vote upon
a bond issue of $1,500,000. which fund
shall bo used for the purpose of buy
ing. owning and operating municipal
docks and terminals
The regular session of the legislature
convenes April 1, 1913, onlv six months
later than the special session, but the.
city of Jacksonville wants the special
session because it is desired to get the
bond issue through in time to allow
the United States engineers to recom
mend a. large appropriation for the im
provement of the St. Johns river chan,
nel.
PIRATES LOOT ISLAND
I IN HANKOW, AND FLEE
AFTER KILLING POLICE
t .
i HUNG KONG, Aug:. 20.—Chinese pi
rates looted the island nf Cheung Chow,
part of the British colony of Hanhow,
( early today after killing an Italian po
» Hee sergeant and two privates. The
island Is used chiefly as a missionary
sanitarium.
After taking all the firearms and
> ammunition from*the police the piratts
looted the sanitarium and a pawn shop,
where they got SIU.OOO. The govern
ment collector of taxes and several offl
r rials were captured and had to ransom
' themselves.
The pirates fled at daybreak with
3 their loot. Five of them had been
‘ wounded In the battle with the police.
• 18 ALDERMEN ACCUSED
OF BRIBERY ARRAIGNED
DETROIT, Aug 20 Preliminary hear
ings ot the eighteen aldermen accused of
accepting bribes from the Wabash rali
j road were commenced before Justice
I | Stein today Councilman T. G King,
who last night repudiated three confes
sions he was said to have made, was the
I first arraigned. The entire morning sis
,j sion was taken up with quibbling by
counsel over technicalities
WARM RACE IN COLQUITT.
Mi >I'I,TRIE. GA.. Aug 20.—The race
| for representative in Colquitt county is
a warm uni. There are three eandi
h , dates. Cards and circular letters have
■ Ibon issued daily. The candidates are
k| R. L. Shipp, J. A Carlton and J H
i Hires, who is the present repr.wnta-
Itlvi The result tomorrow is uncertain
TEE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS- TUESDAY. AUGUST 20, 1912.
FLORA ZABELLE WILL
DIVORCE HITCHCOCK
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Flora Zabelle. tin 1 actress, and
her husband. Raymond Hitchcock,
matinee idol, whom she intends
soon to sng foi' divorce. They i
have been married seven years.
TUSSLE LEADS TO
GUTTING; I MG
Boy Becomes Angry When His
Friend Hits Him and Plunges
Knife Into Abdomen.
Johnnie Odom, eighteen years of age,
today lies on a cot in Grady liospit il.
probably mortally wounded, and Walter
Katteree, sixteen years of age, occu
pies a cell tn the police station as the
result of the tragic ending of a row
that started in a playful tussle between
the two boys.
Odom -was stabbed in the abdomen.
Hospital physicians say his condition is
precarious and that he likely will die.
Ratteree says he became angered be
cause Odom struck him ever the eye
wjth his fist and that he then used his
knife. He says he already had the open
knife in his hand.
The trouble occurred in the Atlanta
woolen mills, at Oemulgee and Wells
streets, where both boys were em
ployed.
"We began plaj ing,” says Rgtteree,
“and neither of us got mad until John
nie struck me over the eye He struck
me a hard lick, and this made me mad.
1 had my knife in my hand, and almost
before 1 knew what I was doing 1 han
stabbed him."
FOUR TRILLION GERMS
ARE SLAiN IN TEXAS
! SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, Aug. 20.
|ln a fly-swatting contest which has
just dost d here, this city got rid of
[3,157,996 flies and 4,000.000,000.000 dis
i ~a se germs, all killed by children. This
| only accounts for about 1.000,000 germs
la fly. according to the deetors.
i Douglas Baffin, fourtn n years slid.
I won tin first prizi of $lO by bringing in
443.772 dead fibs Douglas works in a
restaurant and trapped Iv. r> one of
the flies where he works. The count
ing was done by a committee from tin
Chamber of Commerce, headed by L. J.
Hart, capitalist and general secretary
of the chambec.
TRAIN STRIKES BUGGY
VALDOSTA. GA. Aug :g.
Hard, n and S I. Millhou .of this city .
narrowly escaped being killed when the
bugge in which they wi re driving was
■ lick by h outhbound Georgia and
F’otida pas--iiK<r ttiiin Harden's leg
or hip was i.roki n. Mill >U" l>. mg only
Actress Returns to America
Both to Play and Get Rid of
Husband.
NEW YORK. Aug. 20.—Flora Zabelle.
■ the actress, who in private life is Mrs.
Raymond Hitchcock, returned on the
steamer France to star for the Shu
berts and incidentally to get a divorce
ftom her actor-husband.
On her arrival the actress discussed
the proposed legal separation in a live,
ly. care-free wav, confessing that she
feared she had violated the best theat
rical tenets by stay ing married to Ray
mond' as long as she had.
. "We’ve been married seven ybars—
, don’t you think it’s time I got a di
vorce?" she asked the reporters, "isn't
that long enough for any theatrical
marriage'.' It surely is longer than most
of them.''
She said she yeas very much in ear
nest about divorcing Hitchcock.
"We don't agree about anything—
about financial matters or theatrical
mutters -or anything. So what's the
use of being mari'ied?”
Witli the actress were her father. M
Mangasarian; iter pretty sister, Chris
tine, seventeen years old, and also
"Cousin Charlie," yvho was down on the
, puss nyi' i list as Charles Kond tzian. It
> was ovi t "Cousin Charlie" that Hitch
cock was said to have quarreled with
his wife on b6nrd the steamer Moltke.
just before she sailed on July 7.
Pass', ngers on the France said that
on the lust voyag" the actress and
’ ; "Cousin Charlie" had a peppery w rangle
■ w hich ended with her telling “Charlie''
that she was "through with him."
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BOND ELECTION IN OGLETHORPE.
, LEXINGTON, GA., Aug 20.—The
I : oad c mimis.-i mi 1- of (tglethorpe
' ■ ounty have e.Lled an election for the
1 y oti : s to decide w hether or not an is
' suunce of bonds to the amount ot
, $4".000 for road purposes should be
I made, the election to be held tomorrow.
JAIL BREAKERS CAUGHT.
HAWKINSVILLE GA. Aug 20.-
Slx of tin ten prisoners who broke
jail '.lst yveek .ire again in custody, twe
> sl.iyv.- and iwo house burners being
4 among the ie-eaptu cd John Dmald
-1 son on> of th. negro. -, is today being
Died on u killing charge.
INSURANCE BILL I
BECOMES ILAW
Long Campaign to Systematize
and Strengthen Regulation
of Risk Firms Won.
The general insurance bill, consid
ered the most important work of the
1912 session of the Georgia legislature, |,
opposed desperately by a certain class ■
of insurance companies in both houses, I
has been approved by Governor Joseph I
M. Brown.
The governor’s approval of the bill
means that the long campaign to sys
tematize and strengthen Georgia's in
surance laws has been brought to a
successful end. To Comptroller Gen
eral Wright, who for years has urged a
change in the state’s antiquated sys
tem of regulating insurance compa
nies; is due great credit. The law,
while drawn by inter-session commis
sion appointed for that purpose, is lit
erally the comptroller's suggestions.
A rigid supervision of co-operative,
assessment and fraternal companies, as
is now' provided for stock companies,
after formation, is perhaps the most
striking feature of the new law. Un
der the ancient statutes, assessment and
fraternal companies were amenable to
nobody. These concerns have run wild
in the Georgia field.
The new measure creates a depart
ment of insurance, separate and dis
tinct from the comptroller general's
office, but W. A. Wright will be at the
head of the new department. By the
terms of the new measure the insur
ance commissioner will be given power
to investigate the formation of all
Georgia companies, stock companies as
well, before Issuing a license to sell in
surance.
SENATE HEM TO i
APPOINT PACES
\
Governor Kills “Rider” in Ap
propriations Bill, Over Which
Legislature Squabbled.
The squabble over the appointment of
senate pages, which furnished the fea
ture of the dying hours of the annual
session of the general assembly the last
two years, was terminated today by
Govertior Brown.
The chief executive vetoed tjte “rider"
to the deficiency appropriation bill, pro
viding the manner in which senate
pages shall be appointed. He put the
appointment back in the hands of the
president of the senate, where it for
merly reposed. All other sections of
the bill were approved.
The governor’s action is a victory for
the lower house of the legislature and a
defeat for Flynn Hargett, messenger of
the senate, who has been accused of
having caused the "rider” to be in
serted in the appropriation bill to pre
serve his patronage.
At the Qlose of the 1911 session Har
gett lost out on the appointment’s at
the passage of an amendment giving
the president power to name the pages.
At close of the 1912 session the ap
propriations bill bobbed up in the house
with the Hargett “rider" very much in
evidence.
The house and the senate promptly
went to the mat. It took three confer
ence committees to straighten out the
tangle. The straightening at the best
was little more than a compromise
which allowed Hargett 25 days of pat
ronage and gave the senate the right
to select the manner o£ appointment for
the. other 25 days.
Tile question raised by the house was
sustained by the governor. The house
had held that the matter was entirely
foreign to an appropriation bill and did
not belong there.
The governor said today >»»t the
"rider" was not germane to an appro
priations bill, and he would not stand
for it being inserted.
PENROSE WILL TELL
ABOUT OIL LETTERS IN
SENATE TOMORROW
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—Senator Pen
rose. of Pennsylvania, today notified the
senate that he will discuss the corre
spondence between John D. Archbald, of
the Standard Oil company, and himself
relative to the $25,000 check immediately
after the reading of the Journal tomor
row. Pending this statement the Penn
sylvanian declined to discuss the matter.
It became known today that John D.
Archbald, whose $25,000 check has stirred
up the Penrose matter, was invited by
Senator Clapp to appear before the sen
ate subcommittee investigating campaign
expenses
Archbald’s secretary replied to the in
vitation that his employer now is in Eu
rope and is expected back in September.
The secretary expressed his belief that
Archbald will not object to appearing be
fore the senate investigators.
FOUND—If you lose anything, and will
advertise It here, you will surely recover
It if found by an honest person. A three
time ad seldom falls. Remarkable recov
eries are brought about every daj
through this column
Do you want to change Jobs? Perhaps
the one you have doesn’t suit your taste
'Or surroundings are disagreeable Or
’ salary isn't large enough Or there’s no
chance for advancement If so. your
i I chance to change Is offered today in The
1 Georgian’s Classified Pages.
BERTH SEARCHED;
SUE FOR SBO.OOO
I
Man Charges Wife, in Night
Clothes, Was Humiliated by
Pullman Conductor.
Charging that his wife, clad only in
i her night robes, was subjected to the
I gaze of her fellow passengers of a Pull-
I man car when the conductor searched
( his compartment with the idea that he
had slipped a woman other than his
wife’ into the berth. Oliver B. Bur
roughs filed suit for $30,000 today in su
perior court. His wife filed a similar
bill, askihg' for ttke damages.
Both the Pullman Company and the
Central of Georgia railroad are made
defendants in the action.
Burroughs avers in his complaint
that he bought railroad passage and
Pullman accommodation for himself and
wife to Jacksonville, Fla., on the Dixie
Flyer.
They had retired, he claims, when, to
his great humiliation, the Pullman con
ductor entered the privacy and seclu
sion of his berth, forcibly tearing aside
the curtains, subjecting his wife to the
gaze of the curious passengers.
For this alleged humiliation he asks
damages.
L/p an d Do
Peachtree
“Old Bill’ Minor
| Is a Bull Mooser.
Ira Damon Steiner and Frank Pythias
| Liebman, two Atlantans known of every
body locally, journeyed recently to Mil
ledgeville, where Clayt Robson lives, and
"Joe” Pottle breathes, and a notorious
I character named Whittaker has his being
Milledgeville is the place where the
state sanitarium for -the. weak-minded is
located, and alsd the flace whfere the
state reformatory is operated, and the
place where—but Ira and Frank didn't go
there to see any of those things. They
went to attend a barbecue, and to inspect
some "sure things" in real estate, for
which the Liebman end of the friendship
firm hath a keen eye.
"The most interesting sight in or around
Milledgeville,” said Mr. Steiner today, "is
old ’Bill' Minor, the erstwhile train rob
ber and general all-around cut-up and
bad man.
"They keep old 'Bill' chained to a post
in the state penitentiary, and they per
mit visitors to see him and converse with
him now and then, at respectful dis
tances. I talked to him quite a while,
and I found him most engaging. He reads
everything he can get his hands on,, and
he is remarkably well informed on cur
rent affairs. I was not surprised to find
that he is a full-fledged 'bull moose' and
an ardent champion of Colonel Roosevelt.
He thinks the colonel is the greatest man
' the world has produced since Napoleon,
and if only he ('Bill') could get away
from that post to which he is chained,
he would be a Rough Rider 'rooter' from
away back, I am sure!”
"I was a witness to that conversation
’ between Ira and ‘Bill’ Minor,” butted in
Frank Liebman, “and. believe me. it was
some conversation! I never before saw
a man keep so 'respectfully distant’ as
Ira kept from old 'Bill.' He gave the for
mer train robber a 25-cent cigar, which
: is the only kind he smokes —the only kind
, Ira smokes, not 'Bill'—arid he poked it at
him on a long stick. As for the conver
sation. it should have been conducted,
really, by long distance phone. Ira talks
’ mighty big about what he said to 'Bill'
i and what 'Bill' said to him, but it was
almost a street car journey between
• them when the conversation took place.
1 think Ira was afraid old 'Bill' would bite
him!”
“Well, anyway,” said Ira, who never
t gets mad at anything Frank Liebman
■ says, "Old 'Bill' Minor is a fine old scout,
- if he does rob trains and shoot up the
t place when he isn't in the penitentiary—
r and he knows all about the -'bull moose'
party, and what it is doing and where
It is going!”
3 And Liebman didn't dispute that.
; MAN IN HIS HOME
IS BEATEN UP AND
ROBBED BY THUGS
i
J. Prysock, 49 Vernon street, last hight
was waylaid in his own home by two
masked robbers, brutally beaten and
kicked into insensibility, and then robbed.
Although Prysock's injuries are pain
ful and lie was considerably bruised, he
r is not thought to be seriously hurt.
Prysock lives alone in the Vernon street
home, and the assailants, evidently aware
-of this fact, broke into the house early
e in the night and secreted themselves.
awaiting his arrival. One of the bandits
f hid behind the door of Prysock’s bed
room, while the other waited just inside
f of the room. As Prysock entered the
c room and struck a match, the hidden ma-
- rauders pounced . on him. extinguishing
. the light, and quickly beat him to the
floor Not satisfied with this, both as
, sailants then viciously kicked him in the
> side and chest until he lost conscious
v ness.
When Prysock regained his senses, the
n robbers were gone and ssl. which he had
in his pocket, was missing
The'victim was unable to give a de
. scription of his assailants.
DRUNKEN NEGRO.
ALBANY. GA.. Aug. 20. —C. C. Mor
gan and D. L. Henderson. Jr., of Vi
enna. W O. Folks, of Montezuma, ffnd
II Ray Slade, of Byromville, composing
r an automobile party from Vienna to
■ Albany, were held up by a drink-crazei:
• negro about four miles from this city
s The negro, who was driving a mule
hitched to a buggy, turned across the
road in such a manner that the auto
s ists could not pass and pointing a pis
, to! at them cursed and threatened
r them until by a dextrous move the
min were enabled to escape. Sheriff
~ Barber was notified and arrested Wiley
e Dixon, who was identified as'the hold-
up negto.
GIRL WIFE JESTS
OF SUICIDE AND
ENDS HER LIFE
Marriage a Disappointment,
Mrs. Nona Wynne Gaily Pre
pares to Kill Herself.
Continued From Page One.
what’s in it,” she said, and still she ,
laughed. The grocer thinks this was
the suicide note.
A letter was also written to a school
friend in New Hampshire. She had
told a teacher of the kindergarten at
tended by her son that her entire mar
ried,life had been a disappointment
Leaving the store at 7 o’clock, she
joined her husband and with him went
to Pink Cherry market. She seemed
in unusually high spirits. At the mar
ket they separated, he going home and
she back to the city.
Where she spent the remaining hours
between then and the time she had
chosen for her tragic deed is not known.
Ends Her Life
At Soda Fount.
At 10:30 o’clock she entered Cone’s
drug store, 58 Whitehall street. There
is a soda water parlor in connection,
and to one of the tables here she went.
A number of others were seated about
enjoying cold drinks during the swel
tering evening.
She was well dressed and her en
trance was noticed by the other cus
tomers. She ordered a drink. Finish
ing this, she went to a telephone booth,
where she spent some moments writ
ing. When she mefged the paper was
grasped in her hand. If she was suf
fering from emotion it was not dis
played on her face.
She summoned a waiter and askec
for a glass of water. It was broughf
her. No one saw her take, the poison
from her handbag, nor did they see her
place it in the water. She drank.
Before the last drops had been swal
lowed, she fell forward. Help hurriec
to her. but she was beyond human aid
Her Last Note
To Husband.
The note she had written In the tele
phone booth was then examined, I
read: -
"Dear Ernest:
"I have stood this as long as J can.
It is alt my fault. Oh, sweetheart, how
I have loved you. I know T can neve'
be happy again in this world. Ernest
don't grieve for me. All I ask you t<
do is to let Clara have my precious boy
Oh, how my heart aches for him! Ah
how I have to live and just pray Got
to forgive me. Tell Mrs. Way to pra’
for me that God may have mercy upot
my soul. NORA.”
"Papa, bury me at Hollywood, ot
the left hand side going out."
There was no clew to her identity
The body was removed to Greenberg &
Bond’s chapel, where it rested all night
unidentified.
Not until the husband had read ot
the drug store tragedy was ft known.
"That's my wife.” he said. He did not
have to visit the chapel to know it.
He declared that the “Clara" referred
to in the note is his wife’s sister. “Mrs
Way,” whose prayers are asked, is the
landlady of t!he house in which they
have lived in Walton street continu
ously since their marriage save for a
brief time when they were at 110 Plum
street, where it Is said the notorious
Dan Shaw was a fellow boarder.
The inquest was held today at Green
berg & Bond's.
Coroner’s Inquest
Verdict Is Suicide.
At the inquest today Coroner Done
hoo decided that Mrs. Wynne had come
to her death by her own hand.
Ernest L. Wynne, husband of the
woman, headed the procession of ju
rors, witnesses and spectators as they
filed into the little room at Greenberg &
Bond's chapel for the inquest. He went
to the side of his wife’s body, which
had been on a couch at one end of the
room, and fell on his knees.
Wynne, himself, went on the stand
during the inquest. He testified that he
left home at 7 o’clock last night with
his wife and went to Marietta and For.
syth streets with her. She told him
that she wanted to go up Whitehall
street, he said, and this was the last
time he saw her alive.
CONFESSES TO
AFTER HIS CONVERSION
AT BIG CAMP MEETING
JACKSON, MISS., Aug. 20.—Within
a few hours after he had professed re
ligion at a camp meeting and joined
the church, Walter Brence. a young
Benton county farmer, went to the
preacher and confessed that two years
ago he killed Lewis Knutt, an aged
Confederate veteran, and declared that
he was ready and willing to take pun
ishment for his crime.
No suspicion was attached to Walter
Brence, and his voluntary confession,
closely following the profession of re
ligion. created a profound sensation in
the community.
Brence insisted that the preacher go
with him to the aged widow of his vic
tim. and at the midnight hour they
entered her home to pray for forgive
ness. Brence then su> rendered to the
officers, and will be given trial at thr
next term of the Benton county circuit
court.
REFRESHING SLEEP
Horsford't Acid Phosphate
Half a teaspoonful In a glass of cok
water before retiring induces restfu
sleep