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"Situations Wanted" Advertisements FREE in The ATLANTA GEORGIAN The Atlanta Georgian. ‘ 'Situations 11 ’anted' ■ Advertisements FREE in The ATLANTA GEORGIAN 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. Continued on Page Nino* 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. 00000000000000000000000000 o a O President Roosevelt's message to O O congress will be found on pages O O 4 and 5 of this Issue of The Geor- O 0 glan. O O O 00000000000000000300000000 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 Continued on Page Sev