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J CUMMING
ISSUERS
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Governor Orders Four Compa
nies of Fifth Regiment, At
lanta, to Guard Prisoners.
STRICT BAN ON PRESS
CRITICISM OF MILITARY
Armed Mountaineers Said To
Be Gathering to Avenge Kill
ing of White Women.
Governor Brown today Issued an of
ficio: proclamation declaring martial
lav. in effect at the town of Cumming,
Forsyth county, Thursday, and in
structed the adjutant general to pro
vide troops to guard negro prisoners
to bo tried in Cumming on that day.
The governor’s act was performed un
der a law passed by the last legisla
ture, giving him power to declare mar
tial law when circumstances render It
advisable. The governor acted on the
advice of Judge Newt Morris, who will
preside at the trial.
Adjutant General Obear Issued or
ders at once, commanding Major I. N.
Catron, of Atlanta, to take four com
panies of the Fifth regiment to Cum
ming tomorrow. Four companies were
picked from the regiment, men of age
and experience being chosen, and they
have been ordered to be In readiness.
The military will take the six negroes
from the Fulton jail tomorrow, upon
an order from the governor, and will
take a train for Buford, thirteen miles
from Cumming. The troops and their
prisoners will march from Buford to
Cumming. The party will leave At
lanta at 2 o’clock tomorrow afternoon
and arrive in Cumming by sunset. The
prisoners will be guarded all night and
throughout the trial.
150 Men in the
Four Companies.
The four companies will have a total
es about 150 men and will be com
manded by Captain Harrison Jones,
Captain Oscar Palmour, Captain W. A.
Leahy and Captain Asa W. Candler.
The orders provide full marching
equipment and a plentiful supply of
ball cartridges for the soldiers. The
officers are ordered to discard the usual
revolver and equip themselves with the
now army derringer pistol, which au
tomatically discharges eleven heavy
bullets and can be reloaded in a. sec
ond.
The town of Cumming is reported to
be preparing for trouble. The moun
taineers for miles around have been
gathering weapons, and there have
been threats that the accused negroes
vould not be permitted to reach the
Jail. The death of two white women
a tne hands of negroes resulted In the
i>r " s t of six . suspected men and a
•oman accused of being an accom-
I ■ <>ne negro was taken from the
omming jail and lynched a few weeks
■ ana the others were saved only by
’• m to Atlanta before the
bad time to form and storm the
Proclaims State
Insurrection.
T proclamation, after citing the
lor Its Issuance, says among
'h f r things:
■’•'soph M. Brown, governor of
' ' ite of Georgia, do hereby pro
state of insurrection In
Forsyth county, Georgia.
Tl military authorities will es-
'he prisoners referred to to
f '"' from their trial, obtaining them
and returning them to proper
■ orities for this purpose.
arrival, the military com
-0 ' r will assume charge of the
' "ion. reporting directly to me
" 'instructions.
P'-rsons who may heretofore
- ' <ll aid to or otherwise sup-
I ' l > ’’ ’be lawlessness hitherto ex-
th ‘ S cnunt - v wh ° shall re-
P'acefu! occupation, hold
h , ' ’"nmuni. ation of any kind
less-’ person, or persons,
' mot be disturbed.
-bts of property of what
an<| * b*' held inviolate
. ' be disturbed, except
~, v n -of the public welfare
■ ’ and OV direct com
’he commanding officer of
n district,
. 11 an d places of business.
. , otherwise ordered by the
•ommamlg-. will be kept
h!; •„ r 1 of peace, and
r , t ' ir e enjoined to continue
t., , "inary peaceful occupa
w:..r. I,s herein provided, or
existence of martial law
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NO. 50.
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For ResuHs.
DIES 111 [«n ;
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STUDENTS
Sam Hyde, Electrocuted at Co
lumbia Today, Makes Queer
Bequest in Death Cell.
PROMISES MEDICS FROM
HOMETOWN HIS REMAINS
Slayer of Wife and Father
Confesses Crime as Hour of
Execution Nears.
The body of Samuel Hyde, taken
from the electric death chair at Co
lumbia. S. C., today, is on its way to
Atlanta. It if the property of three
medical students who knew Hyde be
fore he committed the crime which was
expiated today. The condemned man
bequeathed his body to the young men,
that they might use it for anatomical
studies.
The three students, J. N. Webb. J. C.
Milford and C. C. Horton, are from An
derson, S. C. ( former home of Sam
Hyde, and all are attending the At
lanta College of Physicians and Sur
geons. They will meet the body at the
train, bear it to the dissecting rooms of
the college, and use It throughout the
remainder of the term for studies in
anatomy. Perhaps the skull of Sam
Hyde will in time adorn the college
museum and serve to prove or disprove
the theories of criminologists. His
finger bones may become highly prized
souvenirs among the students, for
medicos have grewsome ideas some
times.
Hyde murdered his wife and her fa
ther early last year, and his case fur
nished one of the most noted legal bat
tles in Carolina history. His trial was
a dramatic one and resulted in convic
tion. Later the officials of the state
penitentiary began to doubt Hyde’s
sanity and a commission of alienists
was appointed to Investigate. After a
long examination the experts reported
that Hyde was sane and should be ex
ecuted in expiation of his crime.
Wasn’t First to
Die in Chair.
Hyde was the first Carolinan sen
tenced to death in the electric chair,
which has just displaced the gallows.
It was his own desire that he be given
this grewsome distinction. But the
examination into his sanity delayed
matters; he was given a long respite,
and in this time four other slayers
went to their death in the chair in the
state penitentiary at Columbia.
To several newspaper men in Co
lumbia Hyde confessed his guilt yes
terday afternoon and said he deserved
to die, and did not desire further res
pite. He said he hoped to meet his
wife in heaven, and had been praying
that both his victims were there. He
seerrted to have no doubt of his own
salvation. He had talked much with
ministers recently, and said he knew
his sins had been wiped out by re
pentance.
The bequest of his body to the medi
cal students was 'drawn up in strict
legal form. Some time ago Hyde ex
pressed a desire to leave his body to
some scientific institution and the three
Anderson students, learning of this,
made a formal request that they be
given the body
Here is a copy of the contract signed
by Hyde and returned to the young
medical students:
State of South Carolina —County of
Anderson.
Contract between S. N. Hyde, of
the first part, and J. C. Milford,
J. N. Webb and C. C. Horton,
for the second part, in regard
to the disposition of the body
of the former.
It is understood and agreed by
the party of the first part, who is
sane, and who is about to be ex
ecuted, that the party of the first
part does hereby donate and give
to the second party his body, and
said first party orders his body to
be turned over to second party as
soon as the execution is over. Said
first party gives his body as an aid
to said students in their medical
work.
(Signed) SAMUEL N. HYDE.
This 26th day of March, 1912.
TO PLAN FOR PROHIBITION.
BIRMINGHAM, ALA, Oct. L—A
meeting of the anti-saloon leaders and
prohibitionists has been arranged for
early in October to take steps looking
to a thorough campaign from now on
looking to state-wide prohibition in
Alabama just as soon as it can be
brought about.
Slayer, 16, Escapes
Long Prison Term:
A Birthday Gift
Judge Thomas Sends Ratteree,
Found Guilty of Killing to
Reformatory.
Convicted of the slaying of Joe Odum
near the Atlanta Woolen mills, Walter
Ratteree, just sixteen years old, today
received a unique birthday present from
the court. Instead of a long term in
prison, he was sent to the reformatory
for an indefinite period.
Young Ratteree was found guilty by
the jury after it had been out about
one hour, but a recommendation for
clemency was handed up with the ver
dict. Judge W. E. Thomas, of Valdos
ta, sitting in criminal court, decided to
be merciful and under that provision
of the law whtich allows the court to
send prisoners under sixteen to the re
formatory, withheld a prison sentence
from Ratteree.
BRUCE-BROWN. RICH
AUTO RACER, DYING;
WRECKED SPEEDING
MILWAUKEE, WIS.. Oct. I.—David
Bruce-Brown, the millionaire automo
bile driver, was fatally hurt in a trial
race over the Wauwatosa Vanderbilt
cup course this afternoon.
Bruce-Brown's mechanician, Tony
Scudelari, was also fatally injured.
While tearing around the dangerous
country roads that form the course at
a speed of 82 miles an hour, Bruce-
Brown and his mechanician were
thrown many feet into an adjoining
field.
Both were unconscious when assist
ance reached them and both were in
jured about the head and internally.
They were hurried to Trinity hos
pital in Milwaukee in an ambulance.
Sensations and thrills marked the
first real try-out? of the course over
which the Vanderbilt, Grand Prix and
other automobile classics are to be run
tomorrow, Thursday and Saturday.
TetzlatT in a Fiat car covered the
course, which is 8.215 miles, in six min
utes and sixteen seconds, a little better
than SO miles an hour.
The spectators were given a thrill
when Caleb Bragg in his big Grand
Prix shot down the stretch at a clip
somewhere around 90 miles an hour
and threw off about two yards of tire,
which shot 1,000 feet Into the air.
George Clark had a narrow escape
from death when he skidded on the
back stretch.
POLITICAL PRINCIPLES
WRITTEN IN SECRET
BY A WOMAN JUSTICE
EVANSTON. ILL., Oct. I.—Mrs.
Catherine Waugh McCulloch, suffrage
leader and justice of the peace, wrote
a declaration of her political principles
as a member of the Progressive party
on the fly leaf of her Bible while in
her class at the First Congregational
church Sunday school. Here is her
code:
No party owns me.
I need not choose between evils.
I will vote for the best man.
Personal profit or personal re
sentment shall not control my vote.
I have only one vote. and I should
use it as though my one vote de
cided each question.
At tile last judgment I must stand
alone, and I can, if I must, stand
alone on election day.
BOYS FIRST AID TO
LAD BITTEN BY DOG;
QUICK TREATMENT
The fast work of a dozen first-aid
to-the-injured youngsters in West End
is responsible for the prompt attention
received by Anderson Scruggs, young
son of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Scruggs, of
47 Culberson street, who was bitten se
verely by a dog late yesterday after
noon.
The boy attempted to separate two
dogs which were fighting In Culberson
street, and one of the animals turned
on him and tore his hand badly. One
of his companions took the youngster
into his home while the others, a dozen
of them, scattered for a doctor. They
posted sentries at every street corner
in the neighborhood to hail the first
physician passing. In a minute or two
a motor car with a red cross on the
radiator came flying out Gordon street
and the scouts stopped it. Young
Scruggs' hand was dressed and band
aged in five minutes after the acci
dent. He is a grandson of the late
Colonel W. L. Scruggs, former minister
to Venezuela.
POWER MAN JAILED
IN BLACKMAIL PLOT
ON WEALTHY WIDOW
SPARTANBURG, S. C., Oct. I.
Frank L. Zemp. assistant superintend
ent of the Southern Power Company, is
In jail charged with attempting to ob
tain money from Mrs. E. G. Cash, a
wealthy widow of this city, through a
threatened letter.
Mrs. Cash received a letter, written
in printed letters, demanding that she
place $l5O in a cigarette box at Main
street and Oakland avenue.
Mrs. Cash complied with the request
in every particular, except she placed
bogus money in the box. In the mean
time she notified the police department.
Plain clothes men went to the seen".
When Zemp and his little child passed
along, he picked up the box and stuck
it in his pocket., The officers placed
him undei arrest,*'
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1912.
GEORGIA R.R. STRIKE BEGINS
TONIGHT; BIG TIE-UP IN SIGHT
DICE MR BRINGS
GRIHIME
Court Records Show Greatly
Improved Condition Since
Closing of Tenderloin. .
Offering the court records of the last
24 hours as an indication of improving
conditions, Chief of Police Beavers to
day predicted a big drop in criminal
cases in Atlanta as a result of his ex
termination of the tenderloin.
The records showed that from mid
night until 8:30 today there was not a
case made in police court, a very un
usual condition. For the eight hours
preceding that only four cases were
made—one of those by the sanitary of
ficer.
“The vice we have wiped out,” said
Chief Beavers today, "was the source
of much other clime In Atlanta. A re
markable reduction already is appar
ent and a greater slump is certain.”—
The restricted district was dark
again last night. Few of its former
tenants remain. The police kept close
watch and there is little probability
that any attempt to violate the ban will
be made.
160 READILY ACCEPT
COMMERCE CHAMBER
MEETING INVITATION
More than 160 acceptances have been
received already by the Chamber of
Commerce in answer to its invitation to
the membership meeting which will be
held next Tuesday evening in the Au
ditorium. The meeting promises to be
one of the best ever held by the organi
zation.
The proposed increase in city tax
from 1 1-4 to 1 1-2 per cent will be the
chief subject of discussion following
the dinner.
It also was announced that J. M.
Hazelhurst, a well known civil engineer,
has been appointed chairman of the
committee on engineering by President
Moore.
HIS DISCHARGE CAUSES R. R. WAR
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CONDUCTOR JOHN T. PASCHAL.
FORECASTS LATE
AND MILO WINTER
Killing Frost Not Due Until Late
in November-Good News
for Planters.
A late and moderately mild winter—
that is the prediction of Weather Man
Von Herrmann, and if his prediction
comes true the farmers of Georgia will
be more than $1,000,000 better off, for
on a late winter depends the salvation
of a great part of the cotton crop of
the state.
The weather man bases his predic
tion on the fact that the earth in the
South is unusually warm just now, be
cause of the abnormal warm spell ex
perienced during the early days of
September, and this condition, he said,
will stave off incipient frosts and much
cold weather until the earth is all
cooled.
"Winter will be at least three weeks
later than usual,” said he this after
noon, "and even then I do not think
that it will be severe. We have had
an unusually long period of severe win
ters. and, according to the laws of av
erage this will be moderate. Last win
ter was 12 degrees below the average
in temperature, while the winter before
was 5 degrees, and that just preced
ing 4 degrees below. It usually evens
up in two or three years, so I ex
pect it will be mild this winter.
“I expect the first frost will come
about November 1, as the average frost
arrives October 17. but I don’t believe
any killing frost will arrive until about
the latter part of November.”
The cotton crop of the state, owing
to the rainy spring, Is more than two
weeks behind, and if the forecaster is
correct the salvation of much of the
crop will be effected. Every farmer in
the state is vastly worried jpst now,
and his forecast will be welcomed by
them all.
NEW BANK CHARTERED.
The secretary of state today received
an application for charter from the
Bank of Reidsville, to be capitalized
at $25,000, X
Order Is Issued by O. R. C. and B. R.
T. Heads for 300 Conductors and
Trainmen to Walk Out at That Hour.
Superintendent Brand Admits Entire System
May Be Tied Up—Dismissal of Conductor J.
T. Paschal, of Atlanta, Cause of Trouble Be
tween Road and Employees.
AUGUSTA, GA., Oct. I.—At 6:30 o’clock. Eastern time, tonight,
300 conductors and trainmen, including baggagemasters, flagmen
and yard crews, of the Georgia railroad will go on strike. The strike
order was issued shortly before noon today by Vice President T. A.
Gregg, of the Order of Railway Conductors, and Vice President James
Murdock, of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, who are in
charge of the situation on the Georgia road for their respective or
ganizations. They are working in concert.
Efforts to bring about an adjustment of differences failed early
today.
Superintendent W. S. Brand, of the Georgia road, this afternoon
admitted that the strike may tie up the entire Georgia system.
23 ON TRIAL FOR
STRIKE KILLINGS
Courtmartial of Two Captains
and 27 Militiamen Begun
at Augusta.
AUGUSTA, GA., Oct. L—The court
martial to try Captains Henderson and
Jowitt and 27 militiamen charged with
being responsible for the death of three
citizens of Augusta who were shot by
soldiers last Friday, convened, at 10:50
o'clock today, Colonel George M. Na
pier, retired, former judge advocate
general, being president. A call of the
roll of officers assigned showed that all
were present except General Clifford
L. Anderson, president, and Major W.
C. Thomas, of the brigade staff.
Colonel Napier inquired of the judge
advocate, Major Claude Smith, if he
bad any matters to present, and he
said that he did not at that time, as he
had not finished preparing the neces
sary papers. He said he would be ready
at 2 o'clock. The court was adjourned
until that hour.
This afternoon there is no further
hope of compromising the street rail
way at present.
Mayor Thomas Barrett late last night
telegraphed to Judson Clements,
of the Interstate commerce com
mission, asking that the Erdman act
be invoked in order to bring about a
settlement of the street railway strike.
The Augusta-Aiken Railway and Elec
tric Corporation is an interstate road
and hauls both freight and passengers,
making the Erdman act applicable, in
the opinion of the mayor.
ORTIE~M’MAN~IGAL
PLEADS GUILTY IN
DYNAMITING CASES
INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 1— Ortie E.
McManigal pleaded guilty on every
count, Olaf A. Tveitmoe and Eugene
Clancy pleaded not guilty, and Judge
Anderson reversed his ruling, made at
the time of the arraignment of the
prisoners in March, and granted
separate trials to the defendants In the
nation-wide dynamite conspiracy when
the famous trial opened in his court
room this morning.
After granting separate trials, bas
ing his action on a technicality. Judge
Anderson again consolidated the hear
ings on the further motion of District
Attorney Miller. The cases will be tried
together, that of Daniel J. Brophy, who
is unable to be in court, alone being
excepted.
The indictments against Patrick
Ryan, of Chicago; J. W. Irwin, of
Peoria, 111., and A. J. Kavanaugh, of
Springfield, 111., were nolle prossed.
Two men, the McNamara brothers,
now serving sentence in California,
were marked on the records “not
found.”
John J. McCray, of Wheeling, indict,
ed with the others, has never been ap
prehended. Daniel J. Brophy, of Brook
lyn, is In a hospital with a broken leg.
This left 46 men to go to trial.
Work of selecting the jury to hear
the cases began at 10:25 o'clock.
The court struck out 45 of the 100
counts in the 34 indictments.
DOCTORS TO MEET AT WAYCROSS.
WAYCROSS, GA., Oct. I.—Doctors
of the Eleventh district will hold their
final convention of 1912 at Waycross
November 19. The meeting promises
to be a busy one. The entertainment
feature will be looked after by Way
cross and the visit of ths physicians
made an enjoyable one.
IXTRAI
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE
The strike is directly the result
of the dismissal of Conductor J.
T. Paschal, of Atlanta, for viola
tion of the sixteen-hour continu
ous service law. When officials of
the road had refused to reinstate
him, a strike ballot was ordered
and the employees voted by an
overwhelming majority to walk
out.
Since the counting of the strike bal
lot was ended yesterday and the result
made known to General Manager
Scott by officials of the union, efforts
had been made to bring about peace.
A conference, called yesterday after
noon between officials of the road and
the unions, ended at 1 o’clock this
morning without accomplishing any
thing. After this conference the rail
road officials issued this statement:
“It is probable that the conductors,
flagmen, baggage masters and yard
trainmen may withdraw from our serv
ice."
This is taken as an admission on the
part of the railroad officials that they
had little, if any, hope of averting a
walkout.
Vice President T. A. Gregg, of the
Order of Railway Conductors, and Vice
President James Murdock, of the
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, are
handling the situation here for their re
spective organizations.
Wife Sure Ousted
Husband Will Win
Mrs. John T. Paschal, of 84 East
avenue, wife of the Georgia railroad
conductor whose discharge over a tech
nicality may cause a strike of 300 train,
men, is more than confident that her
husband will be vindicated in the end.
In whatever action ensues she believes
her husband and his fellow trainmen
will be returned victors.
“I don't know about all the details of
the trouble,” said Mrs. Paschal today,
“but I am sure Mr, Paschal will win.
He is fighting for a principle and the
railroad officials know that he and the
men are right.
“My husband did not tell me about
his discharge until a month after he
had been turned off, because I was 111,
but he said before he left for Augusta
that he intended to fight the thing out
to the end. He did not believe it was
right to be turned off as he was after
twenty years of service.
“Some of the men are saying that the
railroad company discharged Mr. Pas
ctial because he had always been prom
inent in the affairs of the union and
not because he worked his train several
minutes over the time limit.
“I don’t know about that, but I do
know that Jack expects to win this
fight and I expect him to win it, too.”
Mrs. Paschal said that because of
her recent illness she would not be
able to go to Augusta, where the con
test between the men and the railroad
company will be waged if a strike is
called.
"But I will help him to win in every
way I can, because he is right in this
fight," was her parting shot.
R. R.Head Here
Refuses to Talk
Major T. K. Scott, president and gen.
eral manager of the Georgia railroad,
is in Atlanta at the Piedmont hotel.
He has been in the hotel for a week,
confining himself to his room most of
the time. In response to requests for
interviews today, he sent word that he
was ill and would not see any callers.
His private car, the Augusta, is on the
siding near the Union station, where
it has stood for several days.
JUDGE MADDOX FINES SIX
ABSENT JURORS S4O EACH
ROME, GA., Oct. I.—Judge Maddox
has no patience with the juror who,
duly summoned, will not appear when
his name is called in court. He showed
his disgust for the absent juror
he fined six of them S4O each,
