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VOL. 1. NO. 190.
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 190G.
URTPIS'. ,n Atlitnta TWO Cr:NT'>
I lUEij. od Trains FIVE CENT'
WITH THE FATE OF TWO OF HIS BOYS HEAVY ON HIS HEART, WITH PROTESTS
OF THEIR INNOCENCE LAST ON HIS LIPS, J. G. RAWLINS, WITH NEGRO ALF MOORE,
DIES ON THE SCAFFOLD FOR THE MURDER OF TWO INNOCENT CARTER CHILDREN
A If Moore Sticks to His Story That the
Rawlins Boys Are Guilty of Murder and
Unless Pardon Board Shows Unlooked
For Mercy They Will Die Friday.
Rawlins and the Negro Drop to Death
From Same Trap at Same Instant.
NEITHER MOVED MUSCLE
AFTER TRAPWASSPRUNG
By PAUL E. WILKES.
Valdosta, Ga., Dec. 4.—Protesting to the last that
his sons were innocent of any crime and that he was
about to die rin the gallows through, fabricated testi
mony, J. G. Rawlins, convicted of plotting the murder
of the two Carter children, died on the scaffold in the
Valdosta jail this morning.
The same trigger that sent Rawlins to his death
sprung the trap under the feet of Alf Moore, the ne
gro who executed the crime which Rawlins planned.
It was 10:55 o’clock when Sheriff Passmore pulled
the spring which released the trap.
When the trap fell from beneath their feet, the
bodies of the two men shot downward. The sheriff had
forgotten to. bind their feet, lmt there was no kicking,
no struggling.
The bodies swayed slightly on the ropes, then all
was still.
A deep sigh of relief went up from the few wit
nesses in the jail.
J. G. Rawlins is a corpse. So is Alf Moore.
Both paid the jlennlty on the gallows this morning
for their crime. /
The drop fell at 10:5.) and neither prisoner moved
a muscle afterwards. The necks of both were broken
by the fall.
They were pronounced dead in twenty minutes.
The murder of tin; Carter children 18 months ago is
avenged. The price for the taking of these lives has
been paid and the state has received that price.
Contrary to the declarations of both old man Raw
lins and his sons, Alf Moore stuck to his former state
ment that the bloody work was done actually by Mil-
ton Rawlins, but he retracted his former statement that
all of the boys were present and knew all about the
crime.
WIFE AND DAUGHTERS.
Preparations for the execution began shortly after
9 o'clock, when Mrs. .1. G. Rawlins and her two
daughters were admitted to tin* presence of the con
demned man. They remained for a half hour and
when they emerged all were hardly able to walk and
were sobbing.
Afterwards several ministers saw Rawlins and
talked with him.
• At 10 o'clock those who were to see the execution
were admitted to the jail and these—they were
about 'Jo in number—crowded into the room, where the
condemned man and his boys were confined. While
IhCse people were having a last word with Rawlins,
Jailer Ellis and assistants were making a last inspec
tion of the gallows. Of the entire crowd, Rawlins was
the least excited, and Sheriff.!. F. Passmore was the
most excited.
To all of those people who called upon him before
I he march to the scaffold was commenced Rawlins had
a kind word and he was in better humor than at any time
since he was put in jail. He realized that the end was
near, and talked about it freely. As he would recognize
some of his friends, he would greet them pleasantly and
bid them goodbve.
LAST THOUGHT FOR HIS BOYS.
Again and again he told those present that his boys
were absolutely innocent of any connection whatever
with the crime, and declared that they were home in bed
when the bloody work was done. The more he talk
ed the more lie realized the short time he had to live,
and his heart softened. Teal’s came into his eves and
rolled down his cheeks. His voice choked with emotion
as he mentioned his boys, and he would take his single
eye from his listeners and turn it toward his sons. Mil-
ton and Jesse.
Leonard could not bear to hear his gather talk and
was in' his eell sobbing on Ills cot, and Milton and
ROOSEVELT WANTS ATTEMPTED CRIMINAL
ASSAULT MADE PUNISHABLE BY DEATH;
NEGROES SHOULD NOT AID CRIMINALS
"THE GEORGIAN GA VE ME
A SQUARE DEAL ALWA YS”
—J. G. RAWLINS
By PAUL E. WILKES.
Valdosta, Ga., Dec. 4.—"Before I die I want to thank The Georgian
and Colonel John Temple Grave*. If all thq newspapers had treated ine
and my boys a* fairly as The Georgian has^ we should not now be In the
shadow of death. Tell the coloriel good-bye for me when you see him."
Those were the words of J. G. Rawlins in the Valdosta Jail on Mon
day, the day before he was hanged. He seemed to believe that the
press was lnrgely responsible for hounding him to the gallows, and he
seemed to deeply appreciate the fair deal which The Georgian gave him,
as It endeavors to give every man.
One of the last things that Rawlins thought of before his death Tues
day morning was the press, and again he remar:**d on The Georgian's
square deal. To the stuff representative of The Georgian, who was near
him In the Jail, he said:
"I want to tell you good-bye and again thank The Georgian for the
square deal. Tell»the management of the paper what I say and thank
('olonel Graves for me."
The President Favors
Quick Trial in
Assault Cases.
SONS 10 FOLLOW FAIHER
UNLESS MERCY IS SHO WN
Unless the pardon commission Intervenes Thursday at Its special
meeting, Milton and Jesse Rawlins, the two eider sons of J. G. Rawlins,
will follow their futher to the scaffold .Friday morning.
It hrul been expected that tin negro Alf .Mooro would make a state
ment on the gallows which might Gear the hoys of the charge of murder,
but the negro went to his death reiterating his former statement ihut the
Rawlins boys were present at the Garter home and that Milton tired the
fatal shots.
Old man Rawlins, the father of the boys, pr» tested to the last that
his sons were at home asleep when the killing occurred and were Innocent
of the crime.
It Is possible that the pardon commission may st“p In and save Alb-
Gai and Jesse lluivllns from denih .*>>' conwiutlni? their sentences to life
Imprisonment. The boys say they do not want this—they want a new-
trial.
OUTBREAKS OF MOBS
IN ALL SECTIONS
Says Negroes Must Learn
That Criminals of Race
Are Their Worst
Enemies.
HARDAWAY IS MISSING;
SEABOARD COMMISSARY
VICTIM OF FOUL PLAY?
Has Not Been Seen;
Since Saturday
Night.
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Police ii ud detective* me assiduously
set retting Tuesday for John F. Ilnrdawny.
commissary elerk snd thue-keeper of the
Seaboard A'.r Wno rhllway, who has been
mysteriously missing since Saturday night,
and who. It Is Iwlleved, may have been
murdered Slid rolilied.
Hardaway Is a brother of Bicycle police
msu W. !►. Hardaway, of 5* I.nrkln street,
land Is well known In Atlanta, especially,
! In railroad circles. He also has a sister re
j siding at list Woodward avenue.
I Hardaway hnd 1200 of his own money In
Ills pockets at the time he vanished mid Ids
relatives fear he has been idolii for the
purpose of rohliery. They are of the opln-
loit his Issly has probably been secretinl In
some secluded spot.
The missing umtt Is commissary clerk and
tliiic-kce|>er for a Idg squad of workmen. In
cluding about IU0 negroes, mid • has lieen
stationed for the past two weeks at Howell
Station, three miles from Atlanta.
Wat Seen Saturday.
lie was lust scon Saturday night at
o'clock, when he left Howell station
come to Atlnuta to visit his brother. Police
man Hardaway, and alighted from a Ken
hoard passenger train uuderneath the For
sjth street bridge. At that time lie com
pletely vaulshcd and .since then nytblng has
lieen seen or heard of him by his relatives
or friends or the railroad people.
He came Into the city with two or Hire**
other white men who are connected with
the Keahoard and who also alighted from
the train under the Forsyth atreet bridge,
but they have been unable to throw any
light on the mystery, having seen nothing
__ __ Ing Informed Officer Hardaway he
was coming Jn to see him and also telllnr
vision* from the commissary to last WL
through Knnday. nud announced he would
return to Howell Station Knnday afternoon.
He fnlled to snow up Saturday night,
however, at the home of hfs brother unit
has never rejnirteil back for duty.
JOHN F. HARDAWAY.
rejHirted back for duty. No
won! of any kind has been received from
hint by his relatives or the railroad people.
Aside from the fact that he hnd a roll of
tax) In his possession, another Incident that
leads to the theory of font play Is the fact
that be rarrted away with him the keys to
the commissary. Indicating that - he fully
expected to return to bis iIkIIm Sunday
afternoon.
A Valued Employee.
The missing man was (stpitlur with Ills
employers and Is said to have frequently
spoken of Ids position and of how liiglily
he valued It. lie hud l*eqh In the railroad
business for some time nnd hi an accident
lost Ills right arm. it being severed «t the
shoulder, lly reason of this fact he hnd
priced his position ns eomiulsMiry clerk
and time keener very much.
Fonduetor Johnson of the Kealtoard train
ou which llarduway canto Into Atlantn Sat
unlay night states *that the missing itinn
conversed with him and appeared In g»*x!
spirits, Ineideiitiilly talking to him of what
a good K>Ii he bad with the mad.
It la thought that |H»*xlhly some one
knew he bud a considerable mil of money
shadowed him lnto*the city, enticed him to
some convenient spot, and then murdered
Policeman Hardaway Is aiding In the
search Tuesday.
••I am satisfied my brother has met with
foul.play,” said the officer. "This Is the
only explanation I can offer. I believe some
one has drugged or killed him in order (•
get big money."
BON OF COLONEL BROWN
MARRIES A 8HOW GIRL
New York. Bee. 4.—It became kuowu to
day that William Jeffreya llrnwn. son of
Colonel William Lee Itrown, formerly pub
lisher of The Hally News, was married to
had route to New York ou a visit to
the Isnlsble of bis father, why la dying
at Great Barrington, Mass.
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Washington Dec. 4—No part
of President Roosevelt’s message
to congress, which was read in
both houses today, created more
interest among the members of the
national law-making body nnd tho
visitors in the galleries than did
the chief executive's comments
and suggestions alien} lynchings.
One of his most important decla
rations was that the crimo of at
tempted criminal assault should be
made punishable by death, in the
discretion of the court. His discus
sion of tile question was with spe
cial reference to (he Atlanta riots.
That portion of the messago
touching the subject of lynching is
ns follows.
Each Section Hat Faults.
j "In connection with tho delays of the law.
I 1 rail yoyr ntteutlor. nud tho attcutiou of j
I tho nation to the prevalence’of crime among
us, nnd, ntmve all. to the opbletnle of*lynch
ing and molt I valence that springs up, now,
In one part of our touulry. now In another.
Each section—North, Smith, Hast and West
—has its own fnttLs; no section can with
wisdom spend its time Jeering at the faults ;
of unother; it should bo busy trying to I
amend Its own ’shortcoming*.
"To deal with the crime of eorrupt.uu. It f
Is necessary to have au awakened p*tliU<
conscience, and to supplement this by what
ever legislation will add speed nud cer
tainty In the execution of the law. Whett
wo deni with lynching even more Is neces
sary. A great many white men are lynched,
but the crime Is peculiarly frequent In re
spect to black men. Tho greatest existing
cause of lyuchliig Is the perpetration, espe
cially by black men, of the hideous crime of
.rape—the most-nboinlunblc In all the cate
gory of crime*, even worse than murder.
Mob* frequently avenge t*e commission of
this crime by themselves torturing to death
the man committing It; thus avenging In
bestial fashion n bestial deed, nud reducing
themselves to a level with the criminal.
Mob Rule Boon 8prtads.
"lawlessness grows by wbatlt feeds upon,
ami when |nobs begin to lynch for rape
they speedily extend the sphere of their j
operations and lynch for ttmuy other kinds
of crime*, so that two-thirds of the lynch
ing* are not for rape nt all; while a con
siderable proportion of the Individuals
lynched are Innocent of nil crime.
"Governor Candler, of Georgia, stated on
one occasion some years ago:
" ‘1 can *sy of a verity that I hare,
within the Inst month, saved the-lives of
half a doxen of Innocent negroes who
were pursued by the mob, and brought
them to trial In a court of law In which
they were acquitted.'
What Galloway Said.
"As Bishop Galloway, of Mississippi, has
finely said:
" ‘When the rule of a mob obtain*,
that which distinguishes n high civilian
rhm Is surrendered. The mob which
lynches a negro charged with rape will
In a little While lynch a white man
suspected of crime. Every Christian
patriot In America uccd* to lift up hi* •
voire In loud and eternal protest against
the mob spirit that Is threatening the
integrity of this republic.' £
"Governor Jelks, of Alabama, flhs recently
spoken ns follows: , #
" The lynching of any persou for
whatever crime Is Inexcusable anywhere
—It Is a defiance of orderly government;
hut the killing of Innocent people under
any provocation is Infiuitely more borri-
mffrwm Sriiumuayj nanus?
PRESIDENT THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
He Declared That-the Crime of Attempted Criminal Assault Should Be |
j Made Punishable by Death. j
STRONG DECLARATION- •
B Y PRESIDENT ROOSE VELT
ON THE CRIME OF RAPE
• - " . ; v*. .vm
level.v colored man nlioulil realize tha: tlio worm enemy of hie r.r i-
Ihe nttra criminal, nnd above oil the riviO'i criminal *fyf» commit, ih*
dreadful crime of rape: and It should lie. felt as In tile hlgheit dr,r.-* an
•ilTenso against the whole country, and ngnlnet the colored race In par
ticular. for a colored man to full to help the officer* <>f the law In hunting
down with all possible earne.<um«* a:# zeal every such Infamous offender.
"M. i over. In my Judgment, the crime of rape should always oe
tnmWied with death. a» Is the-ease v. lth murder: asuault with lutem.l-
comtnlPmne ahould lie nihdc a capital, crime, .u leas:. In thf. discretion,]
of the court, nud provision should la- made l>y which the punishment may
follow Immediately ujmui the nieis • f the offcnoL: -while til. ‘if Is I should
be so conducted that the Victim herd not be wantonly «h:imcd while Riv
ing testimony, and that the least possible publicity:should ba iiwii fetne..
details."—President Roosevelt In his message to congress. r$ad to holly,
houses Tuesday.’ ‘
COLLAPSE OF TRESTLE
SENT LABGRERS DOWN
AMID FLYING DEBRIS
to die when a mob's terrib
aroused. Tbs lesson Is this: No goo.|
eltlxen can afford to countenance a de
fiance of the statutes, no matter what
the provocation. The Innocent frequently
suffer, and It Is my observation, more
usually snffer than the guilty. The col
ored |M*ople must learn not to harbor
their criminals, hut to assist the officers
in bringing them to Justice. This Is
the larger crime, and It provokes such
atrocious offenses as the one at Atlanta.
The two races can never fibt on until
there is an understanding on the part
of both to make common cAuse with the
THE BROKEN TRESTLE.
Heavy cars loaded with dirt brokn through tho structure Tuesday.
Continued on Pago Savon*
By sticking to his post and reversing
his lever, Engineer K. K. Washubauah
pulled his engine from the brink of .1
50*foot fill and probably saved Ills life
In the collapse of the temporary trestle
which seriously injured two whits la
borers and two negroes working on the
"HU" of the Atlanta. Birmingham an.l
Atlantic, near Magnolia and Munguni
streets, shortly before noon Tuesday.
The Injured:
Antonio t’ulo, Italian, boards on Man*
gum street.
E.* M. Kuykendall, white, switchman,
boards on Magnolia street.
John C.'rafg. negro. 135 Baker street;
arm broken, leg badly injured.
W. Moore, negro. Collier street, badly
bruised. r . «
Fred L'oggln. scratched.
•Four cam with four laborers had ju-t
been pushed on to the trestlliwj b> the
"dinkiest" and a dump was btln< ihh.L*
on the west side of all four car- This
threw air the weight of the load -»n
that side and with considerate • r.j< k
Ing of timbers and crushing ! the
entire outfit except the "dinkier' v. e. c
down In a heap. The faff was at f*a»r
60 feet. The temporary timbers I.: .!»n
and shivered like toothpicks.
Engineer Washabaush, who . ugine
was nearest the cars, realised wh.it w.11
happening and without losing hi s m i v*j
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