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NEGRO KILLED SUNDAY
BELIEVED TO BE ONE OF
SLAYERS OF JIM HEARD
John Anderson Kills
One and Wounds
Another.
Aa the result of a row Sunday night
■hortly after 6 o’clock at the home of
John D. Anderson, a negro, 49 Wal
lace street, Anderson shot and killed
Arthur Aabury, a negro, and danger*
otisly wounded his-brother, Ernest As-
bury.
The Asbury brothers were regarded
by the police as bad characters, and,
after his arrest, Anderson declared they
had both boasted to him of having been
in the crowd of negroes! that shot and
killed County Policeman James Heard,
Kn Browhsvllle, during the riot. John
Asbnry, another brother, ‘who 1
thought to be in Memphis, was ac
cused of assassinating Policeman Carl
Mills, In Whitehall street,, in August,
1898, but was acquitted. Anderson
says the Asbury negroes had also*
boasted that John really did kill Of
ficer Mills, but that it could not be
proven.
Anderson protests that he acted
Sunday night purely, In self-defense.
Anderson’s wife and the Asbury broth
ers are related, and Anderson found
them at his home Sunday night, both
Intoxicated, ho says.
He states that the negroes started a
disturbance and that when he Inter
fered Arthur Asbury attacked him with
a knife, slashing his coat Just over the
left breaNt. Anderson then seised a
revolver, he says, and pushed Asbury
away from him. Anderson says An
bury made a second advance, and that
he then shot him. He says that Ernest
Asbury also made a movement as
though to attack him, at which he shot
him. y
Arthur Asbury was shot in the lower
rum of the neck, the bullet cutting the
jugular vein. He bled to death within
a short time. Ernest Asbury was shot
twice In the abdomen and once In the
left arm. He Is In the Grady hospital
and denies the sfory told by Anderson.
After shooting the two brothers An
derson summoned both the police and
the hospital ambulance. He said he
thought he was cut himself until after
his arrest. He was taken Into custody
by Bicycle Policemen Brannan, Norris,
looker and Doyle. ■
Anderson Is a porter at the shop of *>>'
the waterworks near the Tech school.
MAJOR WALTZ GOES
TO WAR. COLLEGE
Major Millard P. Walts, formerly with
the Department of the Gulf In Atlanta,
and who was assigned to the general
staff, has been appointed secretary of
t be war college In Washington.
General 1 Barry, who was formerly
head of the Department of the Gulf
here, Is president of the war college.
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L ASTRAY OF HOPE FOR RAWLINS
DIES WITH GOVERNOR’S REFUSAL
Crime One of Most
Terrible in History
of Georgia.
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ply.
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TWO SONS MAY FOLLOW
OLD FATHER TO SCAFFOLD
Unless the prison commission Interferes in its special meeting Thurs
day, Milton and Jesse Rawlins will follow’ their father to the gallon's on
Friday.
Apparently the commission has awaited until the eleventh hour to de
cide In order that an opportunity may be given for any* confession Tues
day by J. G. Rawlins or the negro, Alf Moore.
Old Mun Rawlins has steadfastly contended that his boys played no
part In the tragedy. Alf Moore has as firmly contended ail the time
that Milton and Jesse were present and aided In the butchery’ of the Car
ter children. Nothing has moved him from that position.
YV1U the shadow’ of death wring words from him that mgy mean life
to the joys? >
OLD MANRA WLINS PREACHES
SERMON FROM JAIL WINDOWS;
OLD MOTHER WON’T COME
JOHN R. COOPER,
ttorney who has fc
hard for J. G. Rawlins'
By PAUL E. WILKES.
Valdosta, Ga., Dec. 3.—Never before*
In the history of Lowndes county were
the people so stirred to a high pitch
of fury as when news reached Valdos
ta on the morning ot June 13, 180$,
tiiat on the night befote assassins had
surrounded the house of YV. L. Carter,
some ten miles In the country, and
had shot dow*n In cold blood his two
children, YVIHIe and Carrie.
And when more details of the crime
became known this fury* increased. The
people of Lowndes demanded that the
murder of these children be avenged.
They wanted the guilty parties caught,
and they were In a state of feeling
to deal swift Justice to them when they
were caught.
Evidence as to who committed the
crime was soon forthcoming. YY\
Carter, father of the children whose
lives were snuffed out by assassins’
bullets, came to town and tbe story he
told led to the arrest of three sons of
Carter’s neighbor and bitterest enemy-
together with-a negro, Alf Moore.
The story of the feud which led up
to the killing Is a long one und ex
tends back to a time when J. G. Raw
lins and his family lived In Coffee
count)’. He had for his neighbor there
YV. L. Carter, and a series of Inci
dents led to g bitter feeling between the
two.
Then Rawlins moved to Lowndes
county, near Valdosta, and It was not
long before he was doing well. He
owned his farm, had a good house and
w’eil kept stock and was prosperous.
Friends In the county he had by tlje
hundred, and many a time parties of
these friends would visit his place and
partake of his generous hospitality.
One day Rawlins found he had a
new* neighbor, and further investigation
Special to The Georgian.
Valdosta, Ga., Dec. 3.—J. G. Rawlins,
Lowndes county’s most noted prisoner,
delivered a regular sermon Sunday to
a large crow’d of people who assembled
around the Jail. His cell overlooks tbs
street and he can see and easily con
verse with people standing on the side,
walk-and In the street. The burden of
his remarks was a warning to young
men. In which he stressed the point
that mere goodness or morality would
not save them from the tortures of the
damned, that they must Join the church
and be baptized. He spoke of the un
certainty of life, and said:
"I have only forty-eight hours to
Jive, but some'ot yon standing out there
may not live even as long as that. But
If you live forty-eight years, or a hun
dred years, what does that amount to
compared with eternity? I ask you
young people, where do you expect to
spend eternity? That Is tbe Question
of all questions, nnd you had better be
giving it your serious thought."
A number of ministers who have been,
attending the South Georgia confer
ence w’ent to the Jail yesterday after
noon, accompanied by several ladles,
and a *few of the brethren undertook
to minister spiritually to the con
demned men, but with absolutely no
success.
One brother asked him: "Don’t you
believe that God is merciful and will
save you If you put your trust In Him?"
M Yes," returned Rawlins, *i know God
Is merciful, but He will not save me
unless 1 get rid of the malice in my
heart and forgive those who have
wronged me, and I can’t do that.
"I Just want to ask you a few ques
tions, minister," he continued, and then
launched out into a recital of the al-
1 leged wrongs done him by YV. L. Car
ter, the prosecuting attorney and other
officials connected with his trial, ahd
wound up by saying: "Now, If you
had gone through this, could you for
give and forget?”
Knows the Bible.
Rawlins knows, the Bible almost by
heart, and was quick to combat the
pleas of the preachers with some pas
sage of Scripture which he contended
doomed him to eternal punishment. One
minister finally told him that It he be
lieved as he said he did (the preacher)
thought, too, that he was eternally
lost.
Sheriff PAssmore received a letter
yesterday from J. G. Rawilns’ nged
mother, who lives at Jacksonville. In*
Telfair county. In reply to one he had
written at Rawlins' request. The Uulh-
er was acquainted with the day and
hour set for the execution of her son,
and wan asked If she had any wishes
as to the disposition ot Ms body, or
desired to attend the execution.
She wrote that she was so old and
so feeble and heart-broken that she
would not make the trip here. She in
structed the sheriff that If Rawlins'
wife did not carry the body to Coffee
county for interment for the sheriff to
see that It was given n decent burial In
the cemetery here. Rawlins' mother
is more than 80 years old.
Sheriff J. F. Passmore received a
message from Hahlra t»*\y Informing
him of the sudden death his brother,
D. YV. Passmore, one of the leading citi
zens of the county. No dealla were
given, the message stating that while
he was walking In his yard he had
fallen and riigd. The deceased .was a
prominent farmer, and luid served a
number of terms on the board of coun-
ty commissioners of thja county.
Is a brother-in-law of Sheriff Pass-/
more, of Lowndes county’, and this
made the case al! the more sensational.
The arrest of Milton., Jesse and
Leonard Rawlins followed Immediately
and these arrests were followed by that
of Alf Moore, the negro. Old man
J. G. Rawlins was In Valdosta the
night of the killing and remarked to
Sheriff Passmore while In towm that if
Carter and his family drere burned to
death that night he would be charged
with the crime. He was very careful,
too, to see several persons and have
the time noted In order to prove
alibi.
Alf Moore's Confession.
After his arrest, the negro. Alf
Moore, made a full confession nnd de
clared old man Rawlins bad hired him
to kill the Carter family and had sent
his three sons with him to assist In the
Job. The negro said Rawilns told him
to kill Carter and hin wife, set lire to
the house and as the children ran out
of the house to deal death to them.
According to his confession, neither he
nor Leonard tired a shot, but It showed
that the bloody work was done by Mil
ton and Jesse.
Except for the statement made i»y
Carter that Tim McDonald and his eon
were with the assassins. Alf Moore’
confession tallied wtlh • what Carter
swore on the witness stand. The Mc
Donalds, however, were never Indicted,
although Carter's statement and that
of his family Implicated them.
When all these bloody* details became
known the people demanded a speedy
trial and for a time It was feared that
the entire crowd would be lynched.
They were Indicted and tried at a
special term of Lowndes superior court
In July, 190E and convicted. Old man
J. G. Rawlins and his sons. Milton and
Jesse, and Alf Moore were sentenced
to liang. Leonard was recommended
to mercy by the Jury and got a life
term In the pen.
Then It was that Attorney John R.
Cooper, who has made such a'strenu
ous fight for the lives of lit" clients,
began his hard work to save them from
the noose. He appealed the casee of
the father and three eons to the su
preme court of Georgia, and In Novem
ber, 1805. that tribunal affirmed the de
cision of the Lowndes superior court.
Attorney Cooper then sued out a writ!
of error and carried the cases to the
cumin IS RUNG UP
ONSESSHCONGRESS
Continued from "Page One.
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Ply. *
Brewton, F. L Stokes.
YViightsvHle circuit, \V. M. Causey,
supply. '•
Rlddlevllle, to be supplied.
Davlsboro, YV. A. Brooks.
Bartow, J. P. Dell.
\VadIey% J. N. Pencock.
ljouisvllle, YV. W. Seal.*.
Adrian, C, G. Earnest. »
Adrian circuit, W. C. Davis.
Swalnsboro, H. P. Myers.
Swalnsboro circuit, I. K. Chambers.
Rock ledge, J. A. ffconyers, supply.
Yidalla circuit, A. YY*. Rees.
Htillmore, YV. Snow.
Bulloch Mission, R S. Stewart,
clraymont and Monte. V. P. Scoville.
R. M. Wesley, supernumerary.
Garfield, E. C. YY'HIIs, supply.
Empire, A. P. Segars.
Dexter, J. P. Bros*.
Cochran, J. P. Chelfielif.
cedar Grove, C*. C. Lowe, supply. "
Mldvllle, T, B. Kemp.
Nannie Lou Wart hen institute, YV. F.
Quilltan, president.
FRENCH~TRAINING SHIP
VI8ITING ORLEANS PORT.
Special to Tbe Gcurxisu.
New Orleans. Dec. 3.—Tile French
training ship Duguay Troufn has ar
rived in port on a visit, coming from
Santiago de Cub*. The Trouin In
tended visiting Havana, but the yellow
fever there brought about a change In
the plans and the Cuban capital w.ie
showed him that this new neighbor was
his old Coffee county enemy, YY*. L.
Carter.
Old Fsud Renewed.
It was not long before they began
having trouble. The first clash came
when people to whom Rawlins leased
part of his land for turpentine pur
poses encroached on Carter's land. This
was followed by other things which
caused the bitter feeling to Increase
and both men were constantly in court
with their disputes.
Both Rawllnk and Carter were
preachers—Rawlins being connected
with the Baptist church and Carter
with the Methodist church. But ft was
Rawilns w’hn had the friends and the
Influence. His sons, Leonard. Milton
ami Jesse, knew this, and in taking up
their father’s fight with neighbor Oar-
To protect himself Carter had Rawilns
placed under a peace bond. This hap
pened a few* days before the tragedy
for which Rawilns paid the death pen
alty and for which Milton and Jesse
are under death sentence and Leonard
to a life term In the pen.
Night of ths Tragedy.
Ho this w’as the condition of things
when on the night of June 12 Carter’s
house was attacked. On that night ho
heard a noise In his yard and the two
children who were killed went out »o
ascertain the cause. As they went Into
the yard a shot rang out In the still
night and Willie Carter fell to the
ground with a groan. HI* sister, Car
rie, ran to his side with a cry and a*
she bent over her w’ounded brother
there v ere two more flashes, two more
tei\ they depended on him to jet them | , hot , f , he mt „ glrl r< „ ov , r d . ad
out of scrapes they might get Into.
And he generally did.
Rut there came a time when Rawilns'
friends began asking themselves If he
was always right in his contentions
with his neighbor. Carter began to
gain ground In public sy inpathy. Their
differences Increased and a series of
squabbles, in which both Rawilns and
his boys participated, resulted In war
rants being sworn out for the old man
and his sons. This was the state of
affairs when. In the spring of 1905.
! Carter was *hot at from ambush and
badly wounded In the leg. He drooped
when shot and Rawlins told It about
that he hud at last killed Carter. He
said further that Carter had been look
ing for him with u gun, but he shot him
flrst. *
Carter was found where* he fell, but
no gun was there. He told bis side of
the story*, which showed he had been
shot from ambush, nnd this caused
more of the friend# of Rawlins to de
sert him. The** began to believe now
that he was determined to kill Ids en
emy. As a result of this attempt on
Carter’s llfc*. a warrant was sworn out
against Rawlins charging him with as
sault with Intent to murder. This only
Increase*! Rawlins’ anger and he made
Aa these two shots were flred Carter
opened the door to call his children and
saw them. He saw assassins were at
tacking his family and its barricaded
the house. Home time later the wound
ed lad crawled to the door, begged ad
mittance and was dragged through. He
lingered through the night and died ttu
next morning.
It was a night of terror that Carter
und his family spent. Every now and
then a shot would ring out and a bullet
would bury itself In the side of the
house. Another daughter Inside the
bouse came to her father’s help—for
lie was still crippled from the wound ho
had received when shot by Rawlins
from ambush—and tearing a board
from the kitchen, poked a gun through
for her father to ttse. He flred a shot
and this caused the attacking party to
leave shortly afterwards. This was
about midnight, but until daylight the
family remained behind barricaded
doors watching the life of young Willie
Carter pass away, wMIe the body >f
tbe little girl stiffened In death In the
yard.
In telling his story Carter declared
that he saw the sons of his enemy
the
attacking party, and he also named
open threats to take the life of Carter, Tim McDonald and his son. McDonald
United States supreme court In YY’ash
ington. That court affirmed the de
cision of the Georgia supreme court In
April, 1900, and once again the old man
and his sons heard the sentence of
death passed upon them.
A Fight for Life.
But even then Attorney Cooper did
not give up hope. It was old *man
Kuujtns himself who came to hie at
torney's rescue this time. He made a
confession. He admitted that he had
hired Alf Moore to kill Carter, but he
denied that the negro received Instruc
tions to kill any other member of the
family’, and he denied, too, that hi *
boys knew anything about the crime.
So Attorney Cooper ingdo an extra
ordinary motion for a new trial on the
grounds of newlydlscovered evidence,
but Judge Mitchell, of the Lowndes su
perior court, refused this motion, and
once again the supreme court of Geor
gia all limed the decision of the lower!
court.
The next step In the lega) battle was
when Attorney Cooper asked Judge
Emory Speer In the United States court
In Macon for a writ of habeas corpus
on the ground that preachers had been
excluded from the Jury list when Raw
lins was tried and it wus declared that
this was class legislation and uncon
stitutional.
Judge Speer refused the writ and an
appeal was taken to the supreme court
In Washington. This court affirmed
Judge Speer’s decision in November of
this year. In the meantime Attorney
Cooper had made an appeal to the pris
on commission asking clemency for
Milton and Jesse nnd to liuve their sen
tences commuted to life imprisonment
while for Leonard he asked a pardon.
A final step In the fight was taken
when at the November term of the
Lowndes superior court Attorney Coop
er ikked Judge Mitchell for a new’ trial
on the grounds tlmt the record* of the
court did not show that either Rawlins.
or hi* counsel were present when sen- j
tenee v.as passed. This was refused
and Judge Mitchell refused to sign the
bill of exceptions which Attorney Coop- j
er took to his rulings^ Attorney Coop
er then Asked the Tieorgiu supreme
court to compel Judge Mitchell to do]
this and this was refused. In one of the! columns to ait Inquiry Into the probi
most Important decisions ever render- 1 bllitles of a Japaneee-American war,
•J*? * h « "" Inter*," «hlch I, Inl^.ilns
court had to consider the lives of rourt.,
men on the one side and on the other wholly convincing.
th« Mifui-L—ramt of tbs law snd tbe I The writer encountered » man whom
ending of litigation. The court took the; he described as a compatriot of Presi-
latter side. I dent Roosevelt, as a well-informed dip.
Ths Last Card. i lomat, accredited to a neighboring pow .
The last card was played Saturday’ {er. This diplomat, according to
when Attorney Cooper asked Govenmr Presse, explained that the situation
Terrell to respite Rawlins In order that I wad us important to France as to
his sanity might be tested and at the! America. He said that Japan had
same time he iietttloned the prison menaced b ranee before, but gave pref-
commission for element y. erence to Hussia. J.»|>an had her bat.
The trial of old man Rawlins and |U« | ready to attack and take In-; -
sons waa Intensely dramatic at times.! China.
At one stage oMl Mrs J. G. Rawilns, J mown. w
the mother of the condemned boys, j HUGO 18 8ET FREE;
asked Sheriff Passmorq to bring her a* CONSPIRACY NOT PROVEN.
hand satchel she carried with her and j ■ > -- ■
In this satchel the sheriff found a re- ] M|hi I*I to Tbe Geurgitio. ..
volvcr. He entered court flourishing Norfolk. Vo.. Dec. 3.—George Uugo,
Md'fnmMt'if 1 \n %a iX-« e nJSlnS 1 convicted by a Jury and given ten years
nun ii« nad found ft In Mi*. Rawlins lin j ai . VIl .
satchel. The owner explained, how- ,n the penitentiary undei the new Vii-
ever. that she had come from her home j glnla law for conspiring to degrade his
in the country alone, that her husband ; wife for divorce evidence, after she
resign *later. The other new members
succeeded to vacancies caused by il^atli.
Two vacancies remain, those caused by
the deaths of Representatives Ketch-
am, of New York, and Hoar, of Massa
chusetts.
After appointing the usual commit
tees, as ivas done In the senate, and
adopting resolutions In memory of the
lato Representative Hitt, of Illinois, and
other members who died during the re*
cess, the house adjourned until Tues
day.
To Read Message Tueaday.
The flrst business to be transacted
will be the reading of the president’s
message.
Before, during and aftef the brief
session of. the house today, bills and
resolutions in great number were
poured Into the hopper, gobbled up by
the clerks, run through the stamping
machine and chucked away In pigeon
holes, many of them to remain there.
They Covered every variety of subject
from simplified spelling and the dis
missal of the negro troops, to the Tan-
ama canal and the currency question.
They do things differently in the sen
ate. every bill and resolution being pre
sented In open session by the member
fathering It. As the rules ot the sen
ate forbid any business of this charac
ter until afteu the receipt of the presi
dent’s message, the brain product of
senators will not be revealed to the
flubllc until Tuesday afternoon.
Unfinished Business.
The list of unfinished business which
went over from the flret session of the
present congress Is formidable. Here
It Is:
Immigration restriction (In confer-
ence).
Santo Domingo treaty.
Isle of Pines treaty.
Morocco treaty (upon which a vote
will be taken on December 12).
Decision In Senator Smoot's case.
Campaign fund publicity.
Prohibiting corporations to contrib
ute to campaign fund.
Ship subsidy.
To make Porto Ricans United States
c It! sen*.
Reduction of tariff on product < *»f
Philippines.
United States to own Us embassbM
and legations abroad.
To build government powder factory.
Appalachian snd Wnlte Mountain
forest reserves.
Copyright Revision.'
Copyright revision.
Modification of Chinese exclusion
law.
Prescribing punishments on high
seas.
Codification of revised statutes.
Navy* to have biggest battleship
afloat.
Removal ct customs duty on work*
of art.
Swamp reclamation similar to Irri
gation statute.
i'able to Guantanamo and canal z >tt*-.
Anti-injunction bill.
Eight-hour laiv.
Nominations of Isthmian canaf com
missioners.
Army and navy dental surgeon corps.
Increase of artillery corps.
To punish Improper use of Stars anil
Stripes.
Retirement of superannuated Federal
elertts.
To establish postal savings banks
and parcels post.
Limiting working hours of railway
employees.
frinceHs,
“MENACED BY JAPAN
Paris, Dec. 3.—La Presse devotes
and nil her sons vvette prisoners und
that she carried It tor her own protec
tion.
All during tbe trial Mrs. Rawlins
yjeen devoted to her husband and boys
and she has presented a pathetic pic
ture all the way throuirb
had married Hugo, to save him from
serving ten years In the penitentiary,
was today set free.
Judge Hancket decided that the evi
dence was Insufficient to warrant a
conviction of conspiracy nml the stats
bad !»• * new evidence.