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2 Clay, in Speech on Gallows, Warns of Life of Sin and Begs in Vain to Lie Beside Wife He Slew SPENDS HIS LAST HOURS PRAYING AND SINGING HYMNS Slaver, as Execution Draws War, Admits He Feigned Insanity to “Saxe II is Neck;” Begs Forgiveness ot Victim’s Kin. Continued From Faye One. That’* •: ••But I kt; 1 dill wrong, and l*m g Ing to pay th< penalty. Cm going hoim ; to henvcn to j< in toy swo-t Hue lovt my da ling \vif»* end to I »; k• • : .!tt rhiul and again .. . ’ mud in the lap us my dear mothe i ■ nev- " i dad . hoi. h< on earth, but I• ’ ng t■ • i.a • v • I .’lUtifu horn* r <»w - < j dqtih v, • !■ ■ sun re '>• >< ts ond I.- ieav* •• h' \ ■ fa - uh< h autx and ; >\ • ■ • - I M nood • >nh\ I b.op< V«< death v.ill i« an . nd th- t ii. . n in uho Ims . ( • < sir •in Ids bra tfo murd* •Ip> •» | to G<» 1!n pi-,’. ’ H •: I 'ion- •», n . j.ri .ms f w» uld b- .Hi v- too.l and I ’a< uhi s.vt • ‘ mar. and vciub.i . 1• 1 • ■ • , . u \ . into •• ri. • \ in '!■ . o.ai, - j IP .1 • . is t -m* i bus PI. be 1 • . ip , ' of r. 5. ■ it! ! •*. ->/ -bye • to >it .-H. an may God J,»: r\yry-| Visit of Brother Break ; Long Silence. < . ,in ■■ ..I ’ mte.l -ini<‘ j j ..'tj <>*' ’ll. untl; todav, j • j.i ■ '.i l\. ■'. i , ir;mn< nt u , ~,.h . ... vin.li- ■ ■ nti.nhilti l '! I t. . .n' ■ • • i’., and then re- U><-d Into sll. :.>-e It tne visit ..1 Ins b.-tm ' .!-• ■ 1 ' • vtiused ir :’ it ■, .“!'•- 11 t< • y I••* [ v.i,s fitting <■> id I. nil-. hl" bind in his hand h ■ |i th’ b■ <>. m . to hl in through the b...- "Bob, It’s all over, old man," siii Ju,bi: I'lny. •■’l’:i< ' ■ tu> hop’' Your t . hum . s gon. ’ Robei t Clay i-l»nl hia in-ad and smiled faint v. Th. rushed back to hl» pula clinks and his lips opened slowly. ’Phen, with |.|i ctY.i.t ns though his vocal organs lad partly been paralysed by long disuse, he surprised the attendants by sp'-.iklng slowly and distinctly "ThaCs 111! right. I’m reudy to go. I've been r< uly for three months,” he said. He ros. from bls blml: nnd stepped to the grating. UN alster-ln law and another woman, with .'lax’s tiny' no ph. w. hud come to th* corridor them and. the condemn. .1 man extended a thin, white hand through th. bars and placed It t< n.ierly on the head ot' the child. "I've made my peace with God,” h<’ said, gently ami without a trace of ex citement. “I will go to him like a little child. I am going to heaven to jolnj my wife. 1 am ■ ontldent of that. I . want to n buri, d besld ' he'. ” Begs to See His Little Bov A?ain. ,t, it foi ; moment, and >i, e. ',, he wlsned to mike up' 1,j.. ...I .m. o.lhs -lien C. bl oke Int.c ... couvetaation. speaking to] tuim Msito.s, a.t.imiu'i. talking US I ‘ apldl.' I.' • ould. -V,, a't ' a b. I' '• nix lit le boy to ■ f ... i die?” h w.. "I wm t to him gain ” duller Golmm promised to send at cnee and try to locate tin child before l the Irnur of execution, clay cotitln v. d bls eonver-atioti. ■ You were good to me, Mr. Golden,"j > >;) n ‘ I renumber s<Hnethir.ft yt'il j did. When I was taken- up to be r. - sentem'd •' month ago I wan ,'o cold i l inmg!.’ 1 would 11 • < * you mob j .f. y"iir W v-rcoat nmi put U ntoiind | u. shouhivii. 1 haven’t furgoiteii.” Sings Old Hymn As Aged Father Calis. Siu’-'w .fie. .'lay uad broken his si- i lie. . ii. old father. Job.t.son C ay, of ' lit'. Piedmont avenue, and Id- sinter, .Vi -. W. 11. Wltitah I. call.-.; :’.t the Tow. r at.d ..-’le token up to the cor ridor outside the death e. 11. As they i ■ . .. ■ heard C4aj ■ ag loudly , his voice filled v 'll e".io- j tion. The prisoner .ad choSvt. an old I camp-m. eting hymn: 'Tin going holm-. I'm going home. I I’m going horn, to die no m ile." \s the last words died away. Mrs.! Whituket col laps .1 am. sunk to the | rlom . He ■ I’ather cuugbt her In Ills I arms and comforted her. and in. a few ! i ..meats sh> was b-<. up to the grating 1 •if tits eel., .'lay r.-aehed his hands! through tile bars and clasped liers be tween them. Doomed Man Prays As He Holds Sister's Hand. "Don't cry . sister." he said, tenderly. "I'm just going home to mother. We'll all meet there, some day." Mrs. Whitaker sank to b. r km,.- out- ' side the cell and Wept. And, then, clnaping her hands in his own, e.'hiy began to pray v lt is the first piiiye I ever Iward I him utter," bis sister said afterward. I "May ft mean the turning point in ids 1 destiny " Then, while the . k tick,.; off the few minutes remaining of his life, Hcb- Irt <'l.c. talkt ■ ' . • rt -i fhl at- tempt to leign insanity by playing dumb and keeping ills head b< w eti on hi» breast. "It wax awfully mrrd. 1. »ald. .Soye times I thought 1 couldn't stand ; Tiler, w. :. tlm, s a li< i. Iw. :-t. t. cragy, and 1 mo to bite n.y lips to HAS i PHO IX)GRAPH OK CLAY I * .aa v " wl IMWret wB" ?Sk.- 'W- ... / <JbEHEBBeba \ '■HL a/WhE WBIBr / i) aOk ❖ 1 ** •-•••• Robert L. ('lay. wife slayer, who pays the penalty for his erinw on ifallows in the Tower today. I - - (keep back the words And holding my j I head in that on< position marly killed i | me, 1 thought somethin s my neck I I won : . luck before ir re che.t the gal ilows. But I got n< net <i to it Ir. ! ’time, and decided to stick it out to the ’ ■ end. But I never had much hope. | Then Clay spoke with evident pride of tat innnn- r in which he had kept fine- ’ the passing days without read ing a newspaper or convening with ant body or seeming to allow interest it. t'ae world outside "Tile big waist,, o; i.,< kt.nnta Mill png Company Jus. out«!.l<- th. Tow .r Jias !• er 11. y calendar,” lie -nd. "The I whistle blows tlire. times every day | When it does not blow I know it is Sunday. 1 began figuring by tlie whistle when I 11. steam. I counted four Sundays-to a month, and filled in the otlie days, so . I kept Back of the date- I kin w that i I was sentenced on N vetnbe 9. and 1 heard Judge Koan tlx Erl 1 y, 1 hcembet 13, as tile date of < xe< uti.'u I made m sign, but 1 lia.i felt that t s would be the (lay of lib death, f had dreamed that I would die on tin- 13th. some day. and 1 knew that a 1-Tiday would bo chosen by the court. My dream lias come true “Since that day last November m.v | old friend, the whistle, lias told m-’ I every day that I was so much nearer the g uvc. There were to b. Just so many days before my death The whis t.c was to blow Just so many times. 1 heard it blow once tills morning It w ill ; blow again lit noon. But 1 will not hear ii next time." Then (’lay began to speak of his wife again. "I oven Kan better tiiau ail the " bi," he s , ~| "My Gao. bow I !,.■•• 1 her! I’heie was- never anybody who c mid take In-r place I hop- her people will fo-glv, n . as God h. s forgiven me. roil that tiny wi 1 lei me . buried by 1..;- -1., I -by, |y. -on you ou'si.le my (-<< ots of times, ar.d heard you asking questions of we. Sonie- i’HE ATT \NTA GEORGIAN AND XEVvS.FFHDAY, DECEMBER 13. 1912. jtlhies 1 was crazy to speak to y ou. but 1 hud to keep up my g-imo to the lass. I Good • by e." Women’s Prayers Fail to Move Him. In ’lu hopo <»f < hcerinx <’ ay anU strengthening him f«». the merai o.’ •<»day, In the event lie was feigning in sanity. three sympathetic women spent more than an hour t the birred door <»f his t elk yesterdaj afternoon, singing l.vmns and offering fervent prayers for ins soul, 'khe women were Mrs Min nie Everett ami Miss Christian .lohn ><•11. of 342 Simpson street, and Mrs. Lula Medle\. .»f Newport stret-t. Os all those who beard the song* and prayers of the wumen, the dootn “'l himself appeared the least touche ! Not .»nev did t bar moisten his downcast e><‘*. and nut >»nce did hi -peak Leaning against thv cell bats, his gaz. tixvd on the floor, he showed absolute ly no emotion. He merely stood as it fascinated. W hen Dr Samuel H Green cour.tx physician, called at the Tower yegter-I da\ afternoon and made his final ex amination of the pri-oner and found him nervous anU his pulse at !<‘2. h* ' said thi< v as the first evidence shown 1 !of a breakdown. Dr Gr*\ n said this I was a sure sign that Clay was sam and that le realized bis doom wusl close al hand Explanation First Given by Slayer. Tim first explanation of ills crime given by the Bayer following his arr-st w i- the night of the murder, just after lie had been locked in the police siatl.tr When prisoners in the same ward askeu day why lie killed his wife, the slay r. still in a drunk en condition, replied: "I loved my wife, uml she wouldn't live witlt me. 1 couldn't stand to be away from her and 1 killed her." Since that time his lips had be-.’n scaled until today. On his trial, and even when the death sentence was pro nounced, fie never uttered one word ir defense of Ids act He successfully defied every effort and every ruse user to break liis silenc. Boy, 3, Made an Orphan by Execution. The execution of day leaves a lit tle orphan boy. less than three years of age. This little fellow lias beei eared for since tin tragedy by rela tives of tile slain mother, and will bi educated and reared by them. They say they intend to give him every ad vantage j - sible. and to strive in every wax to kt ep this dark htot from stain ing his future. The feeling of relatives of the skill w man was manifested In a dramatic manner when a sister ot’ Mrs. Clay call • d t the Tow. r with tin- explanatior that she "me.ely wished to look id As she gazed through the bars, tin , young woman is said to have ex- I claimed: "Bob, we're going to break your neck you have but a short time to live.' History of Crime For Which Clay Hanged. To the Jailers she expressed the firn j belief that Clay was feigning. | Clay shot and killed ids wife. Mrs 1 Kate Hughe- Clay, on Sunday night May ill. In Mis. Clay's home, 201 Let street West End. i' ay. who w. s living apart from his wile, was intoxicated at the flnu ami fired two bullets into her form as she screan eii and begged him piteously tv spi n lit lit- She died In an ambu late. or, t . way to Grady hospital C.ay was air. ted a short distance from the hous,. Clay and liis wife separated early in January of this year, Mrs. Clay assert ing that Clay came home drunk and abused and mf«tr, at<,! her. Etc- this .ie had ..ini ...rested, and itv was ar raigned in police court. JAP CREW OF SHIP IN MUTINY: THREE SHOT SaN FRANCISCO, Dec. 13. .Seventy eight Japanese, the crew < f the steamer India, mutinied against their others to day while the big vessel was in the har bor here ready to sail for Yokohama. i Three of the sailors were shot. A police I tug with officers armed with shotguns | were rushed to the .scene. 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