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\ OL. XL NO. 112.
GUY IVINS IN
GOURI FIGHT
GN LOCKER
GLOBS
State's Highest Tribunal Holds
Georgia Athletic Was Not |
Entitled to Injunction.
OFFENDERS CAN BE TRIED
BEFORE THE RECORDER
Solicitor Declares He Now Can
Proceed Against Violators
of Ordinance.
. . ,un<i of the city gov-
~ i.i-n-.'s tight on-certain Atlanta loek-
H won by the municipality
. -. -i. tin- state supreme court de-
, ; -wit Superior Court Judge Pen
hue not erred in refusing to
tin injunction applied for by
(.no,gia Athletic club.
means that any cases made
nst th officers of clubs for viola-
■ >n ■ the city's locker ordinance can i
;... prosecuted in recorder’s court. The;
K.-i tribunal refused to enter into a
. . of :11c validity of the city's
The ■ outt held that it was legitimate
fie' the trial court to refuse the in
junction when eases had been insti
tuted or threatened for violation of
what purported to be a criminal stat
ute.
Georgia Athletic
Fights New Ordinance.
Last fall, after the city had amended
i-s tlrst locker club ordinance, because
m supreme court had declared it void
on the feature that sought to tax the
organization without authority of char
ter. the Georgia Athletic club sought to
enjoin the city from closing its doors
under a second ordinance which did not
carry the license tax feature.
It was in this case that Superior
Court Judge Pendleton refused to act.
Subsequent to this action the city
cuunei, ’ranted a new ordinance under
provisions embodied in a charter
amendment passed by the legislature.
In ...e amendment the citv was given
charter right to tax locker clubs.
1 oilowing the passage of this third
• ■.’dliian -e the Georgia Athletic club,
already in court on the second, the Or
der of Bees and the Knights of the
Mystic Ark went before Judge Pen
deton and sought to restrain the city
from enforcement of the latest law.
Postponement of
Cases Granted.
On the showing made, in which the
' carter amendment was atacked as un
'"nstitutlonal and invalid, a temporary
ordc. restraining the city from pro-
■ "’ding against the clubs was issued
by ’lie superlo court. The cases have
been brought to formal trial he
re Judge Pendleton.
he three cases were set for hear
'■ 8 in third division todav. but attor
neys for the clubs were granted a post
ponement.
ity Attorney Mayson, in discussing
■■ ■ ■ vision today, said:
if the courts will let us put the
'tises on trial in the recorder's court,
'" 1 all the city wants."
At. present all three clubs are oper- i
' ll l'lder the temporary injunction |
' by the superior court.
AMBASSADOR REID
IS SERIOUSLY SICK: I
CANCER RUMORED
J ’NDON.. Dee. 13.---The condition of i
• elav. Heid, ambassador of the United j
’ a at the Court of St. James, who j
Hl of asthma, took a turn for:
• ■ loon. After a
J tation .>; physicians at the ambassa- I
i p sid<nce the announcement wa;
• * ’hat his condition was serious.
, '** was unable to lea\e his bed at all
an " was lhus deprived of the rest
has been securing by sleeping in
■ •■h when his asthma has prevented his
Wng fl a t.
rumored that the specialists, at
• ■ ' examination today discovered indica- ;
of a *’anrerous growth.
<Le cancer rumor was set at re.-t. ■
'•'"*ver, when the physicians issued
Allowing bulletin:
' American ambassador is ?-uf« i
''•'l* from a severe attack of his old j
trouble. He is much ex-'
T pl unt there are no com plica- |
ACTRESSES make most
THRIFTY WIVES, ’TIS SAID
YORK, Dec. 13.—“Actr- .-.si s
‘ ‘-it business women and iiial.c :
thrifty wives,” declared Mrs. I
'■.'‘.T" Neld »ng e r before the Profc- !
•'"‘id It omen's league bazaar. j
I
The Atlanta Georgian
- Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WAOtT ADS~Use For Results.
MASKED MEN
USE USD ON
HALF-BREED
IN DALTON
John Watkins Is Ordered to
Leave Georgia City in Three
Days or Be Hanged.
MOB GOES ABOUT ITS WORK
QUIETLY. BUT DETERMINED
Victim of Cowhiding Confesses
-
to Intimacy With Question-
- able White Women.
DALTON. GA., Dee. 13.—A baud of
between 23 and 30 heavily masked ami
black-robed men, at 2 o’clock this
morning, administered a severe whip
ping to John Watkins, a half breed, at
Thornton avenue and Hawthorne street,
in the center of one of the city’s most
popular residential sections. After tin
whipping they gave him three days in
which to leave Dalton, warning him
I that if he did not leave they would re-
I turn and hang him.
So quietly and orderly did the mob
go about its task that this morning less
than 50 people knew of what had taken
place.
The first person visited by the mask
ed men was Mat Nations in North Dal
ton. They commanded him to dress
and accompany them.
Half Breed Whipped
After Confession.
Proceeding to Watkins' home in the
western part of the city, the mob se
cured him. Before applying the lash
they asked him as to the truth of a
rumor that he was Intimate with 3
number of questionable white women,
and without hesitation he confessed to
it. Then, with men bolding him se
curely to the ground, a sound whipping
was administered, followed by the
warning to leave.
This is the fourth time masked bands
have operated here within the past five
years. The tlrst time Doc Posey, a self
confessed white assailant, was hanged
Twice during a period when numerous
incendiary tires were taking place here,
masked bands left conspicuous warn
ings, which resulted in a cessation of
the work of the firebugs.
Watkins this morning promised to
leave without accepting the three days
in which to prepare for his move.
ASKS SIX MONTHS
MORE TIME TO BUILD
PEACHTREE SEWER
Chester X. Dady, who has the con
tract to build the Peachtree creek sewage
disposal plant, has asked for another six
months extension of time in which to
complete the plant.
Chief of Construction Clayton said he
did not expect the plant to be com
pleted within this extension, but the
sewer committee will recommend to
council Monday that it be given.
While Mr. Dady gave a bond to finish
the plant in a time limit which expired
almost six months ago, the sewer com
mittee lias decided it is better to give him
more time than to attempt to Collect the
bond.
Mr. Daily’s excuse is the exceptionally
bud weather and inability to get crushed
j stone.
GEN. C?L. ANDERSON
GIVEN LOVING CUP
BY GUARD OFFICERS
| General Clifford L Anders »n, retiring
• brigadier general of the National Guard
l of Georgia, today is receiving the con
gratulations of friends on ;< handsome
| loving cun presented him lusi night at a
I banquet at the <’api’.;il Citi’ Hub by the
I Atlanta* officers of the military organ!-
I zation
The presentation speech was made by
i Colonel E. E. Pomeroy, commander of the |
1 Fifth regiment.
Adjutant General Obear acted as toast
master, and speeches were made by Gov
ernor Brown. Colonel Van Orsdale, Colonel
Thomas, Major Palmer. Major Smith,
captain Kind r <»ugh and Captain Meikle
■ ham. General .\nders«»n responded to the
• presentation speech
General Anderson has made a capa
ble and popular official. He is suc
' needed b\ Brigadier General Walter Har
' rte, of Macon. '
TEN ELECTED TO COUNCIL
OF THE UNIVERSITY CLUB
The council of the University club has I
!announced the following elections:
I Edward <’. Hill. George Howard Stone,
-Dr. H. Elkin. Dr. H <'. White, O 11. |
i Langford, James T. Colson, Robert Wad- :
I dell Harries. Charles Kennon Henderson,)
Jr . Homer Virgil Reynolds and Hollis T.
j Hope. _ [
CONGRESS ADJOURNS DECEMBER IM.
I >V tSHINOTON, I>• I'.'. The renal’-
I loday adopted a resolution to adjourn
for the Christmas holidays on December I
1 jt. and reconvert'’ on January - The bouse i
j had already adopted it. '
I Rich Girl Leaves Her
Fiance in Lurch to
Wed Old Sweetheart
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South Carolina Bank President’s
Daughter Elopes With North
Carolina Judge's Son.
SPARTANBURG, S. C., Dee. 13.—Al
though the engagement of Miss Ger
trude Dupre Burnett to Charles Den
son Daniel, of Montgomery, Ala., had
been announced, the wedding date set
for January 1, several functions had
already been given honoring the bride
to-be. and invitations to the approach
ing marriage had been addressed ready
to be mailed, Miss Burnett eloped in
an automobile with Wilbur C. Cooke,
a prominent cotton broker of this city,
and was married last night in Gaff
ney.
Miss Burnett is the daughter of W.
E. Burnett, president of the First Na
tional bank, and one of the wealthiest
men in the state. Mr. Cooke is a son)
of Judge Charles M. Cooke, of th<
North Carolina supreme court. His;
home is at Louisburg.
The elopers took Emory Burnett,
thlrteen-year-old brother of the bride,
into their confidence, and it was in his
automobile that the trip was made to
Gaffney. As a precaution, another car,
driven by R. H. Nesbitt, trailed be
hind young Burnett’s machine in case
of a ftiishap.
Air. Cooke and Miss Burnett were old
sweethearts and had set the date of
ihelr wedding for December i. But Miss
Burnett, while visiting in Alabama, met
Mr. Daniel and became engaged to him.
V esterday afternoon she changed her
mind. Her parents todav refused to
talk about ttie elopement.
Emory Barnett said just before leav
ing Gaffney, after tile bride and bride
groom had gone:
"Gee, I hate to go home and meet
dad."
SANTA CLAUS ON WAY
HOME WITH TOYS IS
SHOT BY A ROBBER
PITTSBURG, Dee. 13.—James Ken
nedy's little tots at home will find their |
stockings filled with candy and presents
on Christmas morning, but Santa Claus
may die a martyr for his children's
happiness.
Kennedy, who is a farmer, uliglijpn
from a car near his home, his arms
filled with toys for his children. He
had purposely waited until after dark
so he could enter the house and hide
the presents so the tots at home would
not find them until Christmas. Two
highwaymen suddenly stepped from a
shadow and ordered him to throw up
his hands. Hampered by the packages,
the farmer was unable to comply quick
ly and one of the men fired.
Kennedy fell. The men lied. Bleed
ing profusely, he picked up the Christ
mas presents and walked a mile and i
half to his home. He was found to be )
dangerously wounded and was hurried
ly removed to a Pittsburg hospital,
where his condition today was said to
be critical.
18,991 PENSIONERS
OF STATE TO NEED
$1,146,000.00 IN 1913
State Pension Commissioner Lindsey
today completed his estimate of the
pension fund for 1913. indicating that
there would be 18,991 pensioners next
year, for whom $1,146,000 would be
necessary. ‘
At the first of 1912 there were 21,551
pensioners on the list. Os these 1,605
wete dropped during the year. The
19.946 left received $1,180,000 from the
regular fund and $13,360 in special pen
sions.
This yfear there are 808 new appli
cants for pensions. Figuring the nor
mal rate of deaths, he estimates that
tiiere will be 18,991 to draw pensions
next year.
ACCUSED PREACHER
TAKES STAND WITH
TEXT OF SCRIPTURE
Houlton, Maine, Dec. 13.—“ The
Lord is my light and my salvation: whom
shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of
my life”—David.
With the words written as his dally
text, Rev. Charles N. Emelius, on trial I
with Mrs. Annie Jabobson, his mother-in- i
law. and Edgar Jacobson, her son, for
the murder of Augustus Jacobson, the
New Sweden farmer, went upon the wit
ness stand today.
The co-defenilants in this remarkable
trial had explained in court their move- )
ments on the night of the alleged mur- !
der ami had denied In full the accusations'
against them. It was Emelins’ turn to- I
day. He was dressed immaculately. Ah
he Stepped to the witness stand he smiled
pleasantly at the jury.
The big crowd in the court room was 1
composed largely of women
U. S. TRUST BUSTERS
ATTACK CANDY MEN
AS “CONSPIRATORS”
t'HILADELI’HLt, Dec. 13. The candy j
trust was attacked by the government l
here today when representatives of the
department of Justice filed a civil suit
against the Jobbing Confectioners asso
ciation in the United States court. The
aliegatlon of the government Is that mem
ber: and off i. i r of the association have'
' imbfned and conspired to coerce candy
manufacturer.’ and prevent them selling
directly to retailers, consumers nr jobbers |
■r than the members of the aHsocia
tioi. The association is declared a com
bination in restraint of trade and its dis
solution is asked
ATLANTA. GA.. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1912
CLAY DIES BEGGING IN VAIN
TO LIE BESIDE WIFE HE SLEW
Clay’s Son Who Held Up Hanging y
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W. R. HEARST CONTRIBUTES SIOO
TO THE EMPTY STOCKING FUND
The Empty Stocking fund is growing rapidly. Generous
Atlantans have sent in liberal cheeks to help make a real Christ
mas for the children of the poor.
William Randolph Hearst telegraphed SIOO from New York
today to be added to the fund.
Surely a great city so prosperous as this, there is enough
holiday money to make every boy and girl happy if it were dis
tributed properly.
You can have your share in the happiness of making others
happy if you will act quickly. There are two ways. You can
send a check to the Christinas Editor of The Georgian, or you
can toss your com or greenback into the Christmas barrel at
Five Points tomorrow afternoon.
Help Gus Edwards Help the Fund
It will be a unique performance, this al fresco entertainment
at. the busiest corner, perhaps in the face of a biting wind.
Gus Edwards, the man who proved he hadn’t forgotten his
childhood by writing “School Days,” and Manager Hugh Car
doza, of the Grand, have joined in an offer to head the Empty
Stocking fund. Gus Edwards himself will play the piano loaned
for the occasion b\ the Cleveland-Manning Piano Company, and
its stage will be a big motor truck borrowed by '['he Georgian
from the Velie Company. And on this portable »tage a bunch
of Gus Edwards' prettiest chorus girls, lo re for their engage
ment at the Grand next Week, will sing and dance for the pleas
ure of "the crowd, while other girls of next week's bill sell home
ami sporting editions of The Georgian to passers by. And they
, won't be particular about returning change. McGrath and Mc-
Rae will paint the signs asking for your help.
Send your contributions to the Christmas Editor of The
Georgian—NOW.
CAPTAIN HAS TRAVELED
4.000.000 MILES ON SEAS'
PHILADELPHIA, Dee. 13. -With the
arrival of the Brltisn tank Hteamer
Saxuielne in port yesterday, I'aptain J.
P. Crosby, master of the eraft, com
pleted the unique record of 4,000,000
miles of travel upon the high seas. Cap
tain Crosby, who is 76 years old and
looks 25 years younger, has lived upon
i both shijis nod steamers .slnee he was a
buy of 15, and the grand total of his
voyages is euuh aleir. iu 160 trips arounc
the world.
DR. J. E. WHITE BUYS
ON PEACHTREE CIRCLE
For $8,600 Edgar J. I’erkersun has sold
to In John E. White, pastor of the Sec
ond Baptist church, a piece of property tn
lot 15 of block 5, fronting Peachtree cir
cle The frontage Is not given, but the
, lot has a depth of 220 feet and is 25 feet
tn the rear.
Jacob Buchanan has sold to John A.
| Cheatham for $5,100, Nos. 124 and 126
! Gilmer street This property Is 50 feet
northwest of Pratt street.
.1. I> Bradwell, administrator for -Mrs.
, Ermle Pope, has sold to Charles J. Mar
tin for $5,700, sixteen acres in land lot
152, 303 feet on Wesley avenue, orner
of Howel! Mill road.
After Confessing He Shammed Insanity;
Slayer, Head in the Noose, Pleads
With Father-in-Law to Bury Him
Beside Victim, But Is Refused.
Robert L. < lay went to his death on the Tower gallows today
at 12:12 o’clock pleading in vain with his aged father-in-law. James
'A Hughes, to permit his body to rest beside the wife lie slew on
May 12.
As the doomed slayer stood on the fatal death trap, his legs and
arms bound, the hangman’s noose about his neck, and Deputy Sheriff
Wiley Roberts about to adjust the black cap. he turned to Hughes,
who stood with bared head hut three feet away, and made h’s final
request. As he had always done, he called the aged father of the
slain woman "ITiele .lint,"
“1 want, to make .me last retptesl, l iiele Jim,” he said, “before
Igo into eternity. I want you and Mrs. Hughes and all the family
to forgive ine for what I've done, and I want you to let my body rest,
beside that of toy precious little, true love.”
The aged man. brushing tears from his eyes, looked straight into
the face of his doomed son-in-law. A hush fell over the little partv
in the death chamber.
“Bob, I forgive you, but I can not let you be buried beside my
I daughter,” said Hughes. '
Clay’s face paled, and his hands twitched.
“Oh, please. Uncle Jim; please grant this last request,” he plead
ed. “Let me go into the great beyond with the assurance that I'll
rest beside my precious girl. Won’t you jtlea.se bury me beside her
grave ? ’ ’
All eyes were centered on the
old gray-haired father of the vic
tim. He hesitated a moment, and
then shook his head negatively.
“Please, Uncle Jim; God will
') bless you if you will,” cried Clay.
I Bitt the old man was firm.
Confessed That
He Feigned Insanity.
“Then. Uncle Jim. let me be burled
on the other side next to my little baby,
I won’t you?” again pleaded Clay.
i “There’s not room enough,” was the
only reply.
Clay heaved a sigh, as his final plea
was denied.
“That's all right, you’ll soon be with
your Lord," whispered Rev. Chauncey
Foote. Baptist city missionary. Clay
smiled, and exclaimed:
"Thank God for that—thank God."
The execution of Cfay was probably
the most dramatic ever witnessed in
Fulton county. Beginning at 9 o’clock,
when Clay broke ills silenc of seven I
months and confessed that lie had been
shamming insanity to save his neck, the
whole time of preparation was replete
with striking and affecting incidents.
From the moment Clay first opened his
lips and told ills brother, Julius t'lay,
he was ready to go. lie talked, prayed
and sang incessantly until his form
shot througli the gallows trap. Having
played the game and lost, it seemed as
though he wanted to use everj one of
his remaining moments In making up
for the time lie had spent in his long
silence.
In ills last statement on tlie gallows
he talked tor twenty minutes without a
pause, repeating much of what he had
already said in Hie deatb ''el! in the
earlier hours.
Killed Her, He
Says, Through Love.
The voice that had been silent so
long was strong and clear, and rang
out through the stillness of tile death
chamber with a real note of tragic elo
quence. He declared he killed his wife
simply because he loved iter and be
cause she would not live with him.
"Oh, God. how I loved my little prec
ious, darling wife. And God will not
hold my sin as great as if I had killed
lie, through hate. 1 know she would
not live with me, and 1 lust felt that
I would rather to' were both dead than
living apart."
Clay had previously confided to a
relative that It was his intention nt the
time of the murder to kill hirnself also,
but that when he laiged the revolver
to his tetnpli. ' thing warned him
not to shoot.”
So touching was the scene on the
gallows that nearly every man pres
ent wept, Sheriff Mangum, unable tc
check the tears that streamed down his
face during the final moments. Three
ministers, Rev. Mr. Foote, Rev. Hugh
Wallace, pastor of the Jones Avenue
Baptist church, and Rev. B. F. Fraser,
pastor of St. Paul Methodist church,
feelingly offered words of encourage
ment to the man who stood on the
brink of eternity
Rope Too Tight.
His Last Words.
Clay met his doom with a nerve ot
Iron. Not once did lie show the slight
est sign of a breakdown. Throughout
the grim proceedings he frequently
smiled us he declared he wits going to
heaven, and there was not so much us
a tremor of emotion in his voice. The
calm manner in which he went to death
was one of the most remarkable fea
tures of the execution.
C lay a last word, after the black cap
HOME
IDITION
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE
had forever shut out the light of day
and Sheriff Mangum had grasped the
fatal lever, was a protest that the rope
about his neck was too light.
From the blaek cap came the muffle 1
I words, directed to Sheriff Mangum:
. "Daddy, this rope's too tight. You'll
choke me before the drop falls."
"But, Bob, your time’s up now," re
plied the sheriff.
"All right,” murmured Clay with res-
I ignatlon, "I'm ready."
, As the Sheriff pressed the lever he •
called out:
"Good-bye, Rob. may God hav<
mercy on your soul."
The trap doors swung apart, the
-hound form of the wife slayer shot
downward like an arrow, there was a
swish of tile rope, and all was over.
The drop fell at 12:12. At 12:27 Clay
was pronounced dead by Dr. Samuel h
Green, counts physician.
•lust before Clay was led from th s
death cell to the gallows, William
Young Howard, a jail prisoner and
fol mer evangelist sing. . sang a sc'
"1 Am Happy in Jesus.”
Execution Delayed
To Let Him See Son.
Howard and Mrs. .VI. L. r Smifl
missionary of the Second Baptist
church, then sang. "Wilt There B, An;
Stars in .My Crown?” and "There's <
Fount Filled With Blood. ' Clay joined
heartily in the singing ~f p o th of these
hymns. The three ministers were wit
-1 lay ill his cell f,, ■ some lime, praying
Witli him and reading Scripture, and
said the last rites on rhe gallows.
Th., most affecting scene of tin pro
ceedings toofc.place when Clay bid fur.
well to his three-year-old son,' Robert
''lay, Jr. It was the first lime he
had seen the boy sine, th, tragedj. •
Clay’s reoucst, Sheriff Mangum post
poned the execution from 11 o’clock to
12 o'clock in order that th.- little felloe
might be brought to the jail. The lift;-
boy was accompanied by his two aunts
sisters of th slain mother, Mr.-. \V. V
Smith. Os 952 Glennwood avenue, an'
Mrs. S. l>. J-< -gantis. of 11 Harold live
mu*.
j Pathetic Scene As
He Greets Boy.
Whet, little Hob.- .. t ushe.-ed fnt ~ £
, ' l '' ‘ '' 'her b.ok. down and zj
cried like a child. Reaching his hands
through th, b.i.rs, he clasped the boy. TC
and fairly .-.mothered him with kisses. 1
Tin little fellow appeared completely
bewildered. He said not a word. When
the child war. finally torn from Clay's
arms, the father burled ills face In his
bunds and moaned piteously, praying to
God o .witch over and care for the
boy In the future years.
In response to the pleadings of Clay,
both Sisters-in-law freely forgave him.
"Thank God, you have forgiven me,"
he • xelainied * God has forgiven me,
an?! I want the forgiveness of every
body ”
Clay's Remarkable
Statement on Gallows.
In Ills statement on the gallows Clav
said:
"I did not intend to kill my wife, and
wouldnot have done so had I gone'to
God tn pray.-r. Kate and I had quar
reled, and I felt that she and her people
had turned against me. But whet. I
Went to her home on the night of May
12 it was solely to talk to her and my
precious boy.
"I knelt down to play with die little
boy—he was just two years old—afid ho
pushed me away. Mj baby p'ushed hi.
own daddy away.
“ *(y<« away, papa; go on back home/
the little fellow told me. i went crazy
for a no nent, I guess. I sprang to m
feet. -VI y wife was coming’ toward me