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DOUBLE TRAGEDY IN IRVINE HOME
the weather
Fo r «=as t for Atlanta and Georgia:
fa"" today: showers tomorrow.
VOL. XI. NO. 45.
HOPE IRVINE
KILLS SELF,
HUEIS
DYING
Son of Insurance Clerk at State
Capitol Enacts Double Trag
edy at Marietta Home.
CRUSHES MATE’S SKULL.
SLASHES OWN THROAT
Aftei crushing the skull of his wife
with a baseball bat, Hope Irvine, a
prominent young man of Marietta and
the son of R. C. Irvine, insurance clerk
in the office of the slate comptroller,
stood before the mirror of the dresser
In his bed room this morning at 2:30
o’clock and cut his throat from ear 'to
♦ar with a razor The moon gave the
only light by which he worked.
The wife is at the point of death at
tome of her next door neighbor. W.
P. Jones, this afternoon. She regained
consciousness only a short while ago.
;’t . children are being cared for
h.' i' .s One of the younger ones
- m •']< room when the tragedy oc
curred.
Tic only explanation for the catas
r i ! insanity. Irvine and his wife
h.i> ■•■11 mariied for ten years. They
• '■ - appeared happy. The only it
i regularity in their lives was iqtermit*
• nt attacks of epilepsy he suffered.
M - Irvine awoke last night at 12
o'clock at the cry of her little child. She
attended to it and noticed that her hus
band was sleeping soundly at her side.
Wife Awakened
By Blow on Head.
At 2:30 o’clock this morning she was
awakened by a heavy blow on the
head. In the moonlight she could see
her husband swinging at her with a
club which proved to be a baseball bat
belonging to one of the children.
She attempted to escape from him.
but he continued to club her. finally
breaking the bat into pieces: but not
until after her head had been crushed.
She rushed out into the night clad
en’y in her bed clothes, screaming for
’ “Ip W. P. Jones, a next door neigh
'w. heard her appeal and rushed to ■
’he rescue. He found her in her yard,
rood from her wounds mingling with [
ner streaming hair.
H' carried her into his home and no
fieri the police.
Policemen Stumble
Over Dead Body.
I' ■■•■.■emen Ellison and Drew hastened
the Irvine home at 106 Moon street.
r ’> M H. Pe’.'kinson was called to the
■’ Mrs. Irvine.
" ben the policemen entered the bed
rt of Irvine they stumbled over his
A bloody razor lay on the
■lresser.
Irvine was 36 years old. He was the
I Marietta city salesman for the White
Company of Atlanta.
There is little hope that Mrs. Irvine
’ ill recover.
1 coroner held an inquest this
ning and the jury r.iplered a ver
fl of suicide. '*
STRIKEBOUND STREET
RAILWAY ORDERED TO
KEEP SERVICE GOOD
r 'l l-CTH. MINX.. Sept. 25.—The
railway company here is facing
tm’que problem today. In spite of
i kc of its employees which has
' c ’ rod in rioting and the destruction
| ” roperty, it must at once inaugurate
maintain a service equal to that
■med September 9 w hen the strike
■ a 1 led.
writ of mandamus compelling
was issued by Judge Dibell,
court held that it could neither
the company to reinstate the
cfs nor could it compel the men to
m to work. Hut the company, it
decided, under the terms of its
ichise, must maintain a sufficient
ice.
' " judge intimated that if disor
bioke out again either the city or
ompany could reopen proceed-
MOROS ARE KILLED IN
BRUSH WITH AMERICANS
v ''NILA. P. 1.. Sept. .25. Fifteen
' ■’ ■ killed and four uirmlf ot
American constabulary were
'tided in a fight in the interior, ac
'tig to word received at military
' 'quarters herr tods'. The Moros
‘ pursued into the hush after kill
t Filipino. Among the wounded
_ Lieutenant Preuss, who was in
“ la with W. Morgan Schuster.
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results.
GIHL mils
SffIPEK’S
PUHDDN
10 WED
Youngblood Asks Governor to
Pardon Ex-Chief of Police
So He May Claim Bride.
PROMISED FATHER NOT TO
MARRY UNTIL HE IS FREE
Governor Joseph M. Brown again
has been petitioned to pardon Thomas
Edgar Stripling, convicted, escaped and
recaptured murderer in Georgia, some
time chief of police of Danville, Ma.,
and now confined in the state peniten
tiary for life in expatiation of his crime.
This time the petition comes not in
the form of a voluminous roll backed
by scores of signatures, legal pleas,
and all of that.
The last Stripling petition filed with
the governor came in today’s mail, and
it is signed by one name only, and the
only plea that accompanies it is one
invoked in the name of the little winged
god of Love.
E. T. Youngblood, writing from Tal
lulah Falls, implores the governor te
pardon Stripling, not alone for Strip
ling’s sake and the happiness of his
family, but in order that he—Young
blood —may claim as a bride Stripling’s
daughter. Ruth May. who has promised
to be Youngblood's wife, but who, un
der former promise to her father, will
not wed so Irfng as he wears Hie stripes
of a felon.
Remarkable Letter
Extols Love's Glooms.
Youngblood's letter to the governor
reads as follows:
Dear Governor:
I am a man who comes to you
with a heartbroken plea—a man
you could make happy and save
from becoming a wreck.
Governor, this is a case I do be
lieve you will bear with me in hear
ing. You could not have the heart
to say no to what means so much
to me, and take the pleasure of life
from one that God has set aside to
be happy. It is only through you
that we can be made happy. God
tells me to call on you.
I am 39 years of age. and was
raised in the good old county of
Lee. I hail a chance to cast my
ballot for you three times, but I
never gave this a thought, me being
a man who works for his wages,
and has to go around wherever I
can get work.
During a stay in the city of Co
lumbus 1 happened to fall in love
with one most dear to me. There
isn’t a sweeter or more lovely fam
ily anywhere than Stripling’s. Why
make them unhappy, and keep
Stripling from his dear babies?
And would you stop the enjoyment
of lije for me? I could be a happy
man.
Open your heart, governor, so
that I can get this damsel w ho is so
dear to me. Otherwise, I can not
get her. for her father’s request is
that she stay single as long as he
is in prison, and she is too honest
to do otherwise.
And I don’t think there is an
other one in the whole world to
me like Ruth May Stripling!
Governor, man is not made to
live alone, nor is woman. And to
most men comes a love some time
in their Ilves that makes or mars
them. And what woman lives, who.
deep In her heart, does not cherish
the thought, of the one who Is dear
er than all to her? •
Governor, love rules the courts
and the camps—and the grave.
Love rules the saints above and
men below, for love is all! Love
is heaven, and heaven is love!
I am in earnest about this mut
ter. governor. Can 1 not meet you
somewhere, face to save, and talk
the matter over, in a heart-to-heart
way ? I pray God may prompt you
to answer yes. Pardon Stripling,
governor!
Do not thtow this in the waste
basket. Respectfully.
E. T. YOUNGBLOOD.
The governor Is out of the city today
and will not be back before Friday.
What he will do with the communica
tion from Youngblood only the govern
or knows.
During his first term Governor Brown
refused, after an exhaustive hearing, to
pardon Stripling. when a petition,
widely indorsed, was presented to him
r .jr consideration.
Hi- written and promulgated opinion
then in the Stripling ca-<- has since
become a state classic in Georgia,
ATLANTA, GA„ WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25. 1912.
••••«e»•••e•• a • • « r » » e • • • ® »
J “THE WAGES OF SIN”:
• 'Th< wag■ ot sin is death.” •
• uuot< d Rev. I >t. <'. B. Wilmer to- •
• day w hen he was told by The •
• Georgian of the suicide of a worn- •
• an of the underworld-. •
• "The death of the unfortunate •
• woman is very stid. Bui the man- •
• net of he; death is but another ar- »
• guinent ag inst Hie life she had •
• led, and not against the reform •
• movement. ’’ •
Q POLICE CHIEF AND BOARD HEAD WHO ADMIRES HIS PLUCK
James L. Reavers, head of Atlan
ta’s police, who, by his unexpected
move against the restricted district,
has virtually wiped it out.
4 11 l ’ l "t
|b \
Mr. B dIHHE
' v- This is Carlos Mason,
JL&AdL chairman of police
AN-, board, who says he is
forced to praise the
chief’s nerve.
DISSOLUTION OF OIL
TRUST DIDN'T MAKE
THEM SPLIT OFFICES
NEW YORK. Sept. 25. —Abner S.
Coriell. New York representative of the
Standard oil Company of California,
wiiieb, before the dissolution, was a
leg of lite Standard of New Jersey, tes
tified before Commissioner Jacobs in
the Waters-Pierce hearing today that
since tl>«- segregation lie still maintains
quarters at 26 Broadway, the same as
formerly. Air. Coriell was on the stand
less than a. minute.
Richard Tinsely, treasurer of the
Standard of New York, that
his company had made loans to John
D. Archbold and C. H. l-’olger. Jr., of
the Standard of New Jersey, b,ut re
fused to name the amounts.
It was announced that Archbold
would be subpenaed the moment lie
arrives in this country from England.
He is expected to testify next swek.
AGED MAN, VICTIM
OF DRUG OVERDOSE,
BEGS TO BE SAVED
(’. \V. Meeks, an aged man living a’
209*2 Marietta street, is dnad todav as tin
result of an overdose of strychnine.
Meeks was found in a dazed condition
in his room, and was rushed to Grady
hospital, where he died shortly afterward.
Before losing consciousness Meeks topi 1
hospital physicians that lie had no recol
lection of having taken poison, and begged
piteously that they save his life.
TWO DEATHS ACCIDENTAL.
LA GRANGE, G.\ . Sept 25. After ex
amining witnesses for two nights, a coro
ner’s jury here found that Sim Hard.v and
Sam Newman, who were killed on the
Atlanta and West Point tracks on Sun
day. had come their death b> being hit
h\ passenger train No. 3K Ne wman was |
buried at Roanoke and llard.x ; bod\ w'a - j
interred at Flat Shoals cemetery, this ’
county.
BROYLESBACKSBEAVERS IN
RESORT WAR; GIRL A SUICIDE
••••••••••••••••••••••••••
• Archbold Sails. Sick •
• Os ‘Being Bothered’ •
• SOUTHAMPTON, ENG., Sept.
• 25 -Guarded by three men toward •
• off interi iewers. John D Archbold. •
• of the Standard Oil Company. •
• sailed for New York today on th<‘ •
• Majosth'. Mi Archhold said on •
• sailing that he r- “sit k of being •
• both'*led about political exposures.' •
ARCHBOLD FACES
CHURCH CENSURE
AFTER EXPOSURE
AUBURN. N. Y., Sept 25. Action
to censure John D. Archbold to be token
by the Central New Yolk Methodist
conference was predicted today as a
result of lite exposures of the Standard
Oil president by Hearst's Magazine.
Mi. Archbold is president of the
board of trustees of Syracuse uni
versity, whi.ii is <<mt rolled by the
Methodists, ami he is also a deacon in
that church.
Th<- senate eampaign fund investi
gating eommittee probabl.t will have J.
I’. Morgan and tjeoige W. Perkins be
ll ore it rn xt week when its sessions are
I r.-.-umed al Washington. Colonel Roose.
I velt has deferred the date of his ap
| pearanee owing to a change in his
speaking dates
MEDICAL SCHOOL OPENS
1912-13 TERM TOMORROW
Thr formal opening of the Southern Col
lege of Medicine and Surgery and School
of Pharmacy for the 1912-13 Mesaion will
I take place tomorrow at noon
Extensive improvntm rii m ha\f heel) mad<
I-n ib< <• iiiui’M o' of Uh Inst it nt ion and
literary rcquinnients have been
raised to the Carnegie 14-umt system.
WORLD’S SERIES TO
OPEN IN NEW YORK;
FIRST GAME OCT. 8
NEW’ YORK. Sept. 25.—The National
baseball commission this afternoon set
Tuesday. October 8, as the date for
opening the world’s series. The Giants
and Boston Red Sox will play their
first gamp here on that date.
SHOOTS DOCTOR WHO
QUARANTINED HIM TO
COURT WIFE; IS FREED
CHICAGO, Sept. 25. Thomas L Reeve,
charged with attempting to kill Dr Paul
E. Kelley, was acquitted today. Reeve
shot ami wounded Kelley, charging inti
ma<s between the doctor and Mrs. Reeve
He testified that Dr. Kelley kept him
out of his own home through use of
quarantine regulations while the physi
cian was making love to Mis. Reeve.
CHINESE. G. 0. P. NOMINEE
FOR LEGISLATURE, FOR T. R.
BOSTON Sept. 25. Charles Shue,
a Chinaman, the first to seek public
oftiro in tin- United States ami who was
named as i epresental ive to the state
legislature by the Republican organiza
tion in Ward Seven, declared today that
lie is a, supporter of Colonel Roosevelt.
Shue was nominated to oppose John
I. Donovan Democi.it
Shue is 39 years old, a native of the
United States, bo n in Sea tie, married
ami has three children.
GEORGIAN DIES ABROAD.
I DALTON. GA., Sept. 2w.—A cable
gram received here by W. H Speck
Hom tic consular agent at Neuia Ge
rona. announced that Di. Foster See
bold, a prominent real estate man of
this city, who was <>n a trip to the Isle
of Pines, had died -uddenly He was at
■me time secretary of the local board
of trade.
Mayor and Police Board Head Not
Consulted, But Praise Chief’s Closing
of Fenderloin—Woman Ends Life,
Declaring There Is Nothing Left for
Her—Reformers Offer Help to Un
derworld Residents.
Atlanta today discussed but one topic—th? order of Chief Jlames
L. Beavers closing the resorts in the restricted districts. Develop
ments have followed thick and fast since The Georgian yesterday aft
ernoon announced that the places were being closed by the chief.
The suicide today of a woman inmate of the district was the most
dramatic incident of the new regime. This unfortunate, ordered out
of her house, slashed herself to death with a knife. “I have nothing
left to live lor, ' she wrote in a note which was read by th? coroner.
Mayor Courtland S. Winn and Chairman Carlos Mason, of tho
police commission, say they were surprised at Chief Beavers’ act.
Neither was consulted by the chief, but they will give him support in.
his evident sincere desire to rid Atlanta of vice.
Broyles to Back Chief to Limit
Under Chief Beavers’ direction the police today began a war on
so-called •’hotels” which are in reality immoral resorts. Two men
and two women were arrested in a “hotel” in South Pryor street, and
other arrests will follow.
Recorder Broyles announced that he would back the chief tr» the
limit with stockade sentences.
John -I. Eagan and Marion M. Jackson, two leaders in the Men
and Religion Forward Movement, which has heen waging a spectac
ular campaign against the social evil, began today a canvass of the
city to secure homes and positions for those of the outcasts who are
willing to make the attempt toward leading decent lives. They will
visit the district and ascertain how many women will promise to leave
their careers of vice, and learn what work will be most suitable and
acceptable to them.
Atlanta politicians were dazed. I'he order by Chief Reavers ex
ploded like a bombshell in the political camps in the very height.of the
municipal campaign, and supporters of the rival candidates are won
dering which way to turn, and how the new conditions will affect the
respective candidates. Nobody is willing to discuss the situation. The
reticence of public officials is indicative that they realize-that the
order will affect the political situation in an important way, and they
do not know whether it is wiser to praise the chief or denounce him.
The one thing most evident today is that the act of Chief Reavers
was absolutely free from the influence of politics and entirely inde
pendent of Mayor Winn and every other official of the city. Not half
a dozen persons in Atlanta knew of his order until The Georgian
reached the streets. He had consulted nobody, had asked no official
advice. He was chief, there was the law. and he obeyed it. And it is
a strange commentary on things political that Ihe enforcement of tho
law by an official sworn to enforce it could bring about such a storm.
V ice Commission Sidesteps Issue
Candidates for mayor say today that the matter is something
which will be settled before the new administration takes office, and
decline to give any opinion on it. The vice commissioners, whose re
port on the evils in Atlanta has been formulated after months of argu
ment. refuse to discuss it, and their report sidesteps all reference to
the Manhattan avenue district and merely urges a general reform.
On the street the topic is all-absorbing. There are many who sav
the move of Chief Beavers was a mistake; that the women who are
driven from a “regulated” and supervised restricted district will drift
into residence districts and good citizens will he living next door to
disreputable resorts and in the same apartment houses with objec
tionable characters without knowing it until the disorder becomes
flagrant. But the chief says the women will be watched and the home
districts protected.
The order closing the resorts in
the restricted district, is but a step
in the cleaning up of Atlanta.
Baids on cheap “hotels.” which
are really places of rendezvous,
began today and the campaign will
be continued. 'l'he police have de
termined to close a number of dis
reputable places in various parts
of the city, and women driven out
of the segregated section will find
it difficult to settle in new houses
without being arrested and penal
ized.
The announced determination to
drive disreputable ' hotels" out of busi
ness was followed early today by a raid
on the Albian hotel in South Pryor
st; eel by <Jtfleers Sturdivant and Al
len. plain clothes men. under the direc
tion of Chief Beavers. Jack Goldberg
the proprietor, and Harry Hoodley, a
clerk, were attested and held under
S2OO bond for "disorderly conduct." Two
women, one from Raleiglt and the other
from Asheville, N c . were arrested in
th< house. Goldberg has faced the re
cordei several limes before
"Chief Beavers has made the great-
HOMT
EDITION
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE p^ c
est display of nerve, backbone and
courage ever shown here by a city of
ficial.” today is the opinion of Chair
man Carlos Mason of the police com
mission. in speaking of the action of
the chief yesterday in suddenly swoop
ing down on the tenderloin district and
virtually wiping it off the city map.
"The chief worked this whole thing
out in his own mind, and then did what
he thought to be his duty, without con
sulting any other official or organiza
tion of any kind. His action is strik
ingly remarkable in this respect. He
never informed any member of the po
lice commission of his plans, and re
ceived no instructions from the com
missioners, either individually or as an
official body. What he did was done
at the dictation of his own conscience.
He has shown himself a man of un
questioned bravery and courage.”
• And then Chairman Mason added:
Chief’s Move Was
Surprise to All.
“Some time ago the police commis
sion voted that the chief of police
should be chief in fact as well as name.
That Chief Reavers-is making good as
a real cnief there is no question. His
single-handed extermination of the ten.
derloin demonstrates it thoroughly."
Other members of the police com
mission express themselves along ths
