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The Atlanta Georgian Rwd For GEORGIAN WAN/ ADS-Use For Results. VO L. XL XO. 112. CITY WINS IN CDURTFIGHT ON LOOKER | CLUBS i State's Highest Tribunal Holds Georgia Athletic Was Not’ 1 Entitled to Injunction. I OFFENDERS CAN BE TRIED before the recorder I « I Solicitor Declares He Now Can Proceed Against Violators of Ordinance. •i t und oi the city gov- it on certain Atlanta lock won by the municipality , , .. ate supreme court de- Sup lor Court Judge Pen ,• erred in refusing to , injunction applied for by . ' (•„,, u■ Athletic club. Tl./ n,. .m that any cases made otiieers of clubs for viola itt's locker ordinance can ■ d in recorder’s court. The ,-ib , i fused to enter into a 5 lidity of the city’s ... ■ 1 that It was legitimate court to refuse the in- ■ vases been instb .atened for violation of . to be a criminal stat- ''■forgia Athletic Nev- Ordinance. if- r the city had amended club ordinance, because . court had declared it void ’ re that sought to tax the itliout authority of char i- Athletic club sought t<> !■ ■ tom closing its doors - ordinance which did not . arry ■'.• license tax feature. n tiii- ■ .-•« that Superior "i ludg. Pendleton refused to act. <i tins action the city fret. ■ 1 j new ordinance under bodied in a charter .; •<! by the legislature, omit ine citv was given :<> t:x locker clubs. ■ die passage of this third Georgia Athletic club, " our on the -ecoud, the Or s E un<] the Knights of the •uni before Judge Pen- • ■ <ht to restrain the city ■ m. nt of the latest law. Postponement of 0' ?es Granted. ing tade. in w hich the ...• nt was stacked as ttn . ml Invalid, i temporary ■' ning the city from pro ••■..■•st the clubs was issued or court. Tile cases have i brought to formal trial be r- Jadgo Pendleton. ises were set for liear- • ’.visit.n today, but attor- P. .'•■•• granted a post- laysoi: n discussing ;■ . . said: ts will let us put the ci in tiie recorder's court, .. tii. city wants." ail three clubs are oper- ■ho temporary injunction tim superior court. AMBASSADOR REID ’S SERIOUSLY SICK: CANCER RUMORED ’"'N. la-.:, in. The condition of ■""1. ambassador of the United : Court of St. James, who I >t' asthma, took a turn for -• this afternoon. After a con ' "f physicians at the arnbassa .•■m e the announeimt ,-:t at his condition was ser'- o-. • unable to leave his bed at all t hus deprived of the res* been securing by sleeping in ' t en his asthma has prevented his J.i.g flat. tT "ti.-ted that the specialists, at ’ 'si nation today discovered indlca- * cancerous growth. :>■ e: rumor was set at rest, •hen the physicians issued towing bulletin: • American ambassador is suf- i a severe attack of his old trouble. He is much ex hut there are no compllca- AC I£n SSES MAKE MOST I HRIFTY wives, tis said 1 1 'HK, Dec. 13.—“ Actresses ”’“ t business women and make • ■‘■t ■ hrifty wives,” declared Mrs, v ■ before the Proles omen’s league bazaar. Rich Girl Leaves Her Fiance in Lurch to Wed Old Sweetheart t - South Carolina Bank President’s ■ Daughter Elopes With North Carolina Judge's Son i SPARTANBURG, S. C„ Dec 13.—Al i 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, I a prominent cotton broker of this city, and was married last night In Gaff | ney. j Miss Burnett is the daughter of W. : E. Burnett, president of the First Na tional bank, and one of the wealthiest I men In the state. Mr. Cooke Is a son •of Judge Charles M. C<w>ke, of the , North Carolina supreme court. His ; home is at Louisburg. I The elopers took Emory Burnett, l thirteen-year-old brother of the bride, | into their confldence. and it was in his j 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 ease of a mishap. Mr. Cooke and Miss Burnett were old sweethearts and had set the date of their wedding for December 4. But Miss Burnett, while visiting in Alabama, met Mr. Daniel and became engaged .to him. Yesterday afternoon she changed her mind. Her parents today refused to talk about the elopement. Emory Burnett said just before leav ing Gaffney, after the 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, Dec. IS.—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, alighted from a car near his home, his arms tilled 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 fled. Bleed ing profusely, he picked up the Christ mas presents and walked a mile and 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 31.146,000 would be necessary. At the first of 1912 there were 21,551 pensioners on the list. Os these 1.605 were dropped during the year. The 19,946 left received $1,180,000 from the regular fund and $13,360 in special pen sions. This yea ■ there are 808 new appli cants for pensions. Figuring the nor mal rate of deaths, he estimates that there will be 18,991 to.draw pensions next year. RACES RESULTS. AT JUAREZ. First—Garden of Allah, 2. first: Loan Shark, 7-5; Azurea, 5-2. Also ran. Green Cloth, Maud McKee. Pretty Dale. Janus and Tom G. Second—Black Mate. 8. first; Eye Wit ness, 4: Godfather, 2. ENTRIES. AT JUAREZ. FIRST— Selling, two year olds, uG fur longs <101: Mother Katebfm 102. Zeno teck 102, Bula Welsh 105. Mereurium 105, Garter 105, Sharper Knight 10a. Luria I0;>. Sprightly Mis.- 108, xSwift Sun 108. < on nßsSc<>Nl> Selling, three year olds and up. n't furlongs <13): J-ady Young 107, xKiora 107. I’lfrun Im. Minco Jimmie 107, Bredwell 107, xOrbe laid HO. Lantern 11~. Iron Queen 112. Butter Bail 112, I rank M Hogan 112. Hidden Hund 112. Itos.' Poser 112. Native Son 112. THIRD- Selling. thTee year olds and UP s'e furlongs <l3. xEthel Sampson 102. xCarnarada l°2. xp u ke of Bridge water 107. Auto Girl 10.. A 1 . Moon 10., «onir of Rocks 112. rlalene Gale H 2, Evran 112 salvage 112 I-ady Willie 112 Zool 112 I Iro 112 FOURTH Handicap, all ages. o> 2 fur longs <sl: I’anzaretta H 5, la<ly Andilta 98, Kootenay 100. Cracker Box 112, law ’‘VIFTH Selling, three year olds and up. 6 furlongs <'>• xo.ean Queen 10 !- T" 1 V Jle 104 ”uck 106. Sir Alveseot 107, Coll net 110. Chapultepec 114 SIXTH Selling, three year olds and ■ m mil' and <?• ■ 'rpertn G 105 Lily Paxton 105. xßoae O Neil 10., C ;- r i O p n prenilce allowance claimed. Weather clear, track fast. ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1912 MASKED MEN USE LUSH ON HALF-BREED IN DALTON John Watkins Is Ordered toi 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. j DALTON, GA.. Dec. 13.—A band of between 25 and 30 heavily masked and 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 the whipping they gave him three days In which to leave Dalton, warning him that if he did not leave they would re 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. I Tiie first person visited by the mask ■ ed men was Mat Nations in North Dal j ton. They comtnandec! him to dress! i 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 • -u.nor that he was Intimate with a number of questionable white women, and without hesitation he confessed to it. Then with men holding him se curely to th- 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 first time Doc Posey, a self confessed white assailant, was hanged. Twice during a period when numerous incendiary flies 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. j ASKS SIX MONTHS MORE TIME TO BUILD PEACHTREE SEWER Chester A. 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 has decided it is better to give him more time than tv attempt to collect the bond. Mr. Dady *s excuse is the exceptionally bad weather and inability to get crushed stone. GEN. C. L. ANDERSON GIVEN LOVING CUP BY GUARD OFFICERS General Clifford L Anderson, retiring brigadier general of the National Guard of Georgia, today is receiving the con gratulations of friends on a handsome loving cup presented him last, night at a banquet at the Capital City club by the Atlanta officers of the military organi zation. The presentation speech was made by Colonel E. E. Pomeroy, commander of the- Flfth regiment. Adjutant General Obear acted as toast master, and speeches were made by Gov ernor Brow n, Colonel Van Orsdale, Colonel | Thomas, Major Palmer. Major Smith, i Captain Kimbrough and Captain Meikle- I han. General Anderson responded to the ' presentation speech. General Anderson has made a capa ble and popular official. He is sue- i reeded by Brigadier General Walter Har- ' ris, of Macon. TEN ELECTED BY COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY CLUB The council of the University club has announced the following elections: ward C. Hill, George Howard Stone, Dr. A. B. Elkin, Dr. H. C. White, O. H. Langford. James T. Colson. Robert Wad dell Barnes, Charles Kennon Henderson, I Jr.. Homer Virgin Reynolds and Hollis T Hope THE WEATHER Forecast: Fair tonight and tomor row; warmer. Temperatures: Ba. m., 32: 10 a. m., 38; 12 noon, 44; 2 p. m., 46. HE IS A SLUGGER WHO MAY BECOME CRACKER •. 7 - s j A l, 5 TlpL e I 1 y I /M ” WL- I a (V B- . J v r ' I '4 1 XL. v ’ tO / It' a fill I /Va Illi- w- 7/ \ x w ? / \ Lt JAY KIRKE. This ha rd otifflefi!??’ of the Bos’, on Nfltionais will probably be sold to Billy Smith within the next few days. Kirke hit well over .300 last season in Boston, but his fielding was not of big league caliber. With Callahan, Bailey and Kirke in the outfield, Atlanta would have the greatest hitting garden trio in the Southern league. W. R. HEARST CONTRIBUTES SIOO TO THE EMPTY STOCKING FUND The Empty Stocking fund is growing rapidly. Generous Atlantans have sent in liberal checks 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 in 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 Christmas Editor of The Georgian, or yon can toss your com or greenback into the Christmas barrel at Five Points tomorrow afternoon. , Help Gus Edwards Help the Fund Ii 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 by the CleyeLund-Manning Piano Company, and its stage will be a big nwtor truck borrowed by The Georgian from the Velie Company. And on this portable stage a bunch of Gus Edwards’ prettiest chorus girls, here 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 and sporting editions of The Georgian to passers by. And they won’t be particular about returning change. McGrath and Me Rae will paint the signs asking for your help. Send your contributions to the Christinas Editor of The Georgian—NOW. CAPTAIN HAS TRAVELED 4.000.000 MILES ON SEAS PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 13.—-With the arrival of the British tank .steamer Saxoleine in port yesterday. Captain J. P. Ciosby, master of the craft, com pleted the unique record of 4,000,000 miles of travel upon the high seas. Cap tain Crosby, who is 75 years old and looks 25 years younger, has lived upon both ishlps and steamers since he was a boy of 15, and the grand total of his voyages Is equivalent to 160 trips arounc the world. ROBERTS HEADS EXPRESS CO. NEW YORK, Dec. 13. -D. I. Roberts, of the Delaware and Hudson railway, was torlay elected to succeed the late Senator Platt as president of the United States Express ‘,’ompany DR. J. E. WHITE BUYS ON PEACHTREE CIRCLE For $8,500 hilgar J. Perkerson has sold to Dr. John E. White, pastor of the Sec ond Baptist church, a piece of property in 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 in the rear Jacob Buchanan has sold to John AT Cheatham for J 5.100. Nos 124 and 126 Gilmer street This property Is 50 feet northwest of Pratt street. J. D. Brad well, administrator for Mrs. Ermie Pope, lias sold to Charles J. Mar tin for $5,700. sixteen acres In land lot 152, 303 feet on Wesley avenue, corner of Howell Mill road. CONGRESS ADJOURNS DECEMBER 19. WASHINGTON, Dec. 19. The seriate today adopted a resolution to adjourn for the Christmas holidays on December Hi and reconvene on January 2. The house had already adopted It. I TNT I CH T IDITION ♦ CLAY DIES BEGGING IN VAIN ID BE BURIED BY SIDE OF WIFE HE SLEW 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 bis death on,the Tower gallows today lat 12:12 o'clock pleading in vain with his aged fatluT-in-law. James I W. Hughes, to permit his body to rest beside the wife he slew oiv | Maj- 12. As the doomed slayer stood on the fatal death trap, his legs and' | anus bound, the hangman's noose about his neck, and Deputj’ Sheriff l Wilej r Roberts about to adjust the black eap. he turned to Hughes, who stood with bared head but three feet away, and made his final request. As he had always done, he called the aged father of thrt slain woman “Uncle Jim." “J want to make one last request. Uncle Jim." he said, “befortf I go into eternity. I want you and Mrs. Hughes and all the family to forgive me for what I've done, and I want you to let my body rest; beside that of my 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 party in the death chamber. “Bob, T forgive you. but I can not let you be buried beside mj’ | daughter,” said Hughes. Clay’s face paled, and his hands twitched. “Oh, please. Uncle Jim; please giant 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 please bury me beside her grave?” All eyes were centered on the old gray-haired father of the vic tim. lie hesitated a moment, and then shook his head negatively. “Please, Uncle Jimy God will bless you if you will." cried (.'lay. But the old man was firm. Confessed That He Feigned Insanity. "Then. Uncle Jim. let me be buried on the other side next to my little baby, won’t you?” again pleaded Clay. "There’s not room enough,” was the only reply. Clay heaved s sigh, as his Anal 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 Clay was probably the most dramatic ever witnessed in Fulton county. Beginning at 9 o’clock, when Clay broke his silence of seven months and confessed that he 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 hfs brother, Julius Clay, he was ready to go, he talked, prayed and sang Incessantly until his form shot through the gallows trap. Having played the game and lost, it seemed as though he wanted to use every one of his remaining moments in making up for the time he had spent in his long silence. In his lust statement on the gallows he talked for twenty minutes without a pause, repeating much of wliat he had already said in the death cell In the earlier hours. The voice that had been silent so long was atrong and clear, and rung out through the stillness 6f the death chamber with a real note of tragic elo quence. He declared lie killed hLs wife simply because he loved her 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 1 had killed her through hate. I knew she would not live with me, and 1 lust felt that I would rather we were both dead than living apart.” Clay has! previously confided to a relative that it was his Intention at the time.of the murder to kill himself also, but that when he raised the revolver to his temple, "something warned him not to shoot." So touching was the scene on the gallows that nearly every man pres ent'wept, Sheriff Mangum, unable te check the tears that streamed down his face during the final moments Three ministers, Rev. Mr. Foote fte\ Hugh Wallace, pastor of the Jones .’.venue Haptlst 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 of iron. Not once did he show the slight est sign of a breakdown. Throughout the grim proceedings ho frequently smiled as he declared he was going to heaven, and there was not so much as a tremor of emotion in his voice. Ttie calm manner In which he went to death was one of the moat remarkable fea tures of the execution. Clay’s last word, after the black cap 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE had forever shut out the light of day and Sheriff Mangum hud grasped tho fatal lever, wan a protest that the ropo about his neck was too tight. Front th" black cap came the muffle! words, directed to Sheriff Mangum: “Daddy, this rope's 100 tight. You'it choke me before the drop falls.'’ "Hut, Bob, your time's up now." re piled Hie sheriff "All right," murmured Clay with res ignation. "I'm ready." As the sheriff pressed the lever ha called out: “Good-bye. Bob. may God hava mercy on your soul." The trap doors swung apart, tn<t bound form of the wife slayer shot downward like an arrow, there was a. swish of Hie rope, and all was over. The drop fell at 12:12. 'At 12:27 Clay was pronounced dead by Dr. Samuel H. Green, county physician. Just before t'Jay was led from thd death cell to Hie gallows, Willtamr Young Howard, a Jail prisoner and » former evangelist singer, sang a solo—• "I tin Happy in Jesus." Execution Delayed To Let Him See Son. Howard and Mrs. M. I. c Smith, missionary of the Second Bapt’Mt church, then sang. “Will There Be Any Stars in My Crown?" and “There’s g Fount Filled With Blood." Clay Joined heartily ii, the singing of both of hymns. The Hirer ministers were wltr Clay in Ids cell for some time, playing with him ami reading Scripture, ami 'said the last itos on the gallows. Tim most ulYeetipg scene of the pro* ceedfng- took place w hen Clay ba.de fare well to ids tliri e-y ear-old son, Robert 1.. ( lay, Jr. It was the first time h<*. had seen the boy- since the tragedy. Clay's request, Sheriff Mangutn post poned Hie execution from 11 o’clock :<g 12 o'clock in order that the little fellow might be brought to the Jail. The Httl-> boy was accompanied by his two aunts, sisters of tbi slain mother, .Mrs. W. W« Smith, of 9;>2 Glennwood avenue, ami Mr-. S D Pergantls. of 11 Harold ave nue. When little Robert was ushered int i the cell. (In- lather brok. down and cried ilk .. child. Reaching His liifnd t through tin bar-, he clasped the boy, and fairly smothered Idm with kisses. I lie little fellow appearetj completely bewildered. 11. -aid not a word. When tin child was finally torn from Clay's amis, tin ...tiler buried Ijls face in his hands ano moaned piteously, praying to God to watch over and care for tins boy in Hie future years. ill response -to Hie pleadings of Clay, both sisters-in-law freely forgave him. “Thank God, you have forgiven me."’ he exclaimed. "God has forgiven me. and I want the forgiveness of every - body ”• Clay's Remarkable Statement on Gallows. hi his statement on the gallows Clay said: “1 did me Intend t 0 kill mv wife, and would not have done so had I gon. to God in prayer. Kate and I had quar reled. and I felt that she am; her peoplo had turned against me. But when f Went to her home on the night of Ma.' 12 ft was solely to talk to her and mv precious boy. "1 kmdt down to phiy with the litt'a boy—he was Just two years old—and ho pushed me away . My baby pushed bis own daddy away. “‘Go away, papa; go on back home’ the little fellow told me. 1 went crazy for a moment. 1 guess. I sprang to my feel Mv wife was coming toward mo