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The Atlanta Georgian.
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ATLANTA GEORGIAN
VOL. 1. NO. 191.
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1906.
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Whole Pacific Coast
Up in Arms Over
Threats.
STATING UNTRUTH
CHARGED TO TEDDY
Senate Demands Facts Re
garding School Situation
in San Francisco.
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THEY SHALL NOT HANG,
I HAVE A CARD TO PLAY’
—ATTORNEY COOPER.
“Milton and Jease Rawlins won't hang on Friday. I believe the peo
ple In Lowndes county want their sentences commuted and I bllleve the
prison commission will do so. I haven't played my last card yet far those
boys.”
Attorney John R. Cooper hasn’t quit fighting for Milton and Jesse
Rawlins, although he could not save their father from the gallows.
This Is how he spoke Tuesday In Macon regarding the boys and he
says he Is determined to save them. He Is depending on the prison
commission to commute their sentences, but If this Is not done, It Is known
that Attorney Cooper has other cards to play In his game of life, and
death. In fact, he said as much, but Just what legal steps he would
take > In case the pardon board turned him down he declined to say.
If the governor of this state and the prison commission refuse to
save those boys from the gallows in the face of their father's dying state
ment and In the face of the public sentiment of Lowndes county. It will be
an outrage,” he said. “Their own pcop!» In Lowndes want them saved
from the scaffold and the wishes of those people should be respected.”
THREE MEN HOLD FA TE
OF BOYS IN THEIR HANDS;
IS IT LIFE OR DEATH?
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San Francisco, Dec. S.—President
Uoosevelt has stirred up a storm In
California, which Is fett from end to
end along the Pacific coast by the
statements In his message on the
Japanese question. Among the masses
of the people and particularly among
the tabor unions, the most bitter feel
ing has been aroused.
'Oregon and Washington ns '
California have declared for the ex
elusion of the Japanese and to ull these
states the president's words come ns u
direct affront.
Declares it Not True.
The president Is excoriated for Ills
threat to use troops and he openly Is
charged with deliberately misstating
the position taken by the authorities of
this city and the state.
The Chronicle declares that the pres,
dent has overstepped hie authority In
i m eat (filing to coerce San Francisco,
It says:
“The president says 'to shut out
Japanese from public schools Is
wicked absurdity.' They are not shut
out from the public schools. That
an untruth. The president demands
more power 'to enforce the rights of
aliens under treaties.' The context
shows that his assumption Is that the
Japanese have a treaty right to enter
our schools. There Is no basis of fact
for that assumption.
Won't Bs Coerced.
“He recommends that the Japanese
lie by special law admitted to naturall-
ration. Its natural effect must be to
cause a Japanese exclusion art to bo
pressed.
“Ho says that In the matter of the
exclusion of Japanese puplle 'All of the
forces, military and civil, of the United
States which I may lawfully employ
will be so employed.’ This Is an Implied
threat to use military force to put
Japanese children Into our schools
when he well knows he has no author
ity to do anything of the kind and that
any such attempt could only lead to his
•ovn Impeachment.
"That expression and the whole tone
of the paragraph will strike the coun-
trr as an exhibition of Impotent rage
which It is mortifying to see In a for
mat message of the president.”
The Dally Call Is Inclined to ridicule
President Roosevelt for his “excited
ihetorlc and his misinformation.”
Upon the decision of the prison com
mission Thursday hangs the fate of
Milton and Jesse Rawlins under sen
tence to die Friday on the same gallows
from which their father plunged
death Tuesday.
Will It be life—life with prison
stripes for the balance of their time on
earth—or Ignoble death?
No man knows now save, perhaps,
the three who hold two human lives In
the hollbw of their hands. No one en
vies them the hard task before them.
Has the law been satisfied In the death
of J. G. Rawlins and the negro, Alt
Moore?
8halt the dying statement of the fa
ther or the negro prove more potent In
deciding the fate of the boys? Will the
commission believe the father's state
ment that the boys were not present
when the crime was committed, or will
Alf Moore's reiteration of their guilt
weigh more?
On the desk of the commission at the
rapltol lies a huge bundle of petitions,
letters and pleas for commutation for
the boys. More than a thousand names
appear on these petitions and letters.
Not more than half a doxen letters In
that lot protest agnlnst commutation
for Milton and Jesse Rawlins.
From Lowndes and Coffee and Ber
rien comes the mass of petitions and
letters pleading for mercy for misguid
ed boys. But letters have come from
all parts of Georgia—from farmers,
doctors, business men, professional men
—from men and women alike, the pleas
for commutation.
The Georgian's staff correspondent
tells of the great revulsion of feeling In
Lowndes county since the execution of
the old man and the negro.
Evidently the people, or a large part
of them, believe that the murder of the
Carter children has been fully revenged
and that Justice Is satisfied. They
want Milton and Jesse Rawlins sent to
prison for life.
All these things will weigh with the
commission Thursday when It meets to
pass upon the cases. All the evidence
and arguments have been made before
the board weeks ago.
All they will have to do now Is to
determine from these facts and within
their own consptences whether the cir
cumstances warrant snatching two boys
from the gallows.
Attorney Cooper's caustic criticisms
of tho board will not weigh with them
In the slightest degree.
Will It he life or death for Milton and
Jesse Rawlins?
THE8E SKETCHES OF CHE8TER GILLETTE, WHO WAS FOUND GUILTY OF THE MURDER OF
HI8 8WEETHART, GRACE BROWN, WERE MADE IN THE COURT ROOM AT HRKIMER, N. Y., WHILE
THE YOUNG MAN WA8 ON THE WITNESS STAND TELLING HIS STORY TO THE JURY.
CHESTER GILLETTE DOOMED TO DEATH
FOR ENDING LIFE OF HIS SWEETHEART
MAY IN8TITUTE SUIT
TO 8ETTLE THE TROUBLE.
Washington. Dec. 6.—A. resolution
by Senator Flint, of California, direct
ing Secretary Metcalf, of the depart
ment of commerce and labor, to furnish
the Renato with all the official letters,
lelegram* and report* In connection
with his Investigation of the Japanese
attendance In the public achools of San
Francisco, If not Incompatible with the
public Interest, was unanimously
adopted today by the senate.
Suit is likely to be begun by an In
dividual and to be an application for an
injunction to prevent the San Fran-
• iRco Hchool board from according dlf-
“I TRIED TO KILL HIM;
SORRY THAT I FAILED ”
SAYS ALBERT THOMAS
Aa a result of alleged domestic trouble*,
Albert I.. Thomas, Ci years of age, of OH
Himpson street, a car Inspector for the
Ren board Air Line railway. Uto Tuesday
nfteruoou at Marietta street and Hell
wood avenue, tired five pistol shots nt Dr.
William Cawlicrn, of 775 Marietta street,
wounding him In the hand. In the arm,
and lu the hip. Two of the tiullets x
wild.
Young Mra. Thomas, about whom the
trouble Is said to have hceii caused
reported to have left her home some time
Monday, taking with her the only child, a
boy 4 years of age, and neither wife nor
ehlld has been seen since by the husband
and father.
Immediately after emptying his revolver,
Thomas walked Into the drug store of Dr.
George Y. Pierre, at Marietta street and
Bellwdbd avenue, and telephoned for the
Kcbols and Gordon, and waa taken
to the police station.
The wounded physician was removed to
his home, where he is being attended by
Dr. Wllltsm Perriu Nlcolson. Ills wounds
are not considered serious.
“Wanted To Kill Him.”
Thomas declares that Dr. Cnwhern had
he fully In-
desire to klfl ns only ii mere "matter of
duty.
“And If he had not run like n seared
rabbit when I commenced shooting. I
would have got him, too." remarked the
prisoner Wednesday morning to a Geor
gian reporter.
Thomas had gone to the scene well pre
hod no buslusss trying to kill him with
such a weapon. If I had beeu armed
weapon
_ JOOd fUL.
ry. 1 would hare fixed
bt. Cawhern protests “that Thomas shot
— — - aays
must have tried to kill him because of
a debt contracted in the purchase of
piece of property.
“My Duty to Kill Him.”
When asked for a statement, Thomas
said:
“Dr. Cawhern has been my family physl-
clau for three years, and I finally learned
be had tibnusU my confidence In him.* lie
earn* between me and my wife, and wreck
ed what was once a happy little home. 1
felt It was ray plain duty to kill him.
ond this I fully Intended to do when I
shot him. I thought that his home might
Just as well bo wrecked aa my own.
mlsroudtict had been carried on to such
ped rial ting my house. A human being,
you know, can stand Just so much and no
more, and this conduct had gone so far I
... Arnold to defend him. Mr. Arnold had
a long consultation with his client at the
police station Wednesday morning, after
which he announced that he thought be
would let Thomas waive preliminary exam
Inatlon and be hound over to the state
courts without going into the merits of the
case at this time. The case Is set for
trial Thursday morning before Hecordei*
Broyles.
Relatives of Thomas state that his wife
Informed him Sunday afternoon she in
tended to leave him. and that when he
went home from his work Monday after
mred for bis mission, his revolver fully noou he found she had kept her word.
Foaded and sir extra round of cartridges Tn • Mra. Thomas waa located Wednesday
pocket. When he turned his pistol ‘ “ *
the five extra enrtrldges over to C<
When Jury Mikes
Verdict He Wires
His Father.
JUDGE IS TO PASS
SENTENCE THURSDAY
Convicted Youth Says He
Was Astonished at
Finding of the
Jurors,
his
extra eartrldges over to
Policeman Echols. Thomas said:
J am sorry I failed to kill him, but
he ran when I shot. This old pistol Is no
good, anyway. It Is nearly worn out. I
afternoon at the home of her slater,
Mra. Cook, at 23 Orchard street, where
she had been for several days. She
made an absolute denial that her hus
band’s charges were true.
MAIMED WIFE FORGIVES;
CRUTCHFIELD TO WHEEL
HER IN ROLLER CHAIR
than to white puplis. While Mich
►tilt would be begun by an Individual,
the department or Juitlce would Inter
vene in behalf of the Federal govern
ment.
Feeling on the Japanese queallon to
day haa not abated >o tar a, the mem-
•tem of congreu from the Pacific coa.t
are concerned. They are bitter over
the president’* language and over
what some of them eon»lder the threat
to coerce California by the lire of the
armed force* of the nation If necen-
►ary.
In congre,, not only Southern mem
ber. of the hound and lenate are op-
1'o.ed to further extension of the Fed
eral power, but many Northern mem
ber. take the ,ame view.
INJUNCTION AGAINST
►STREET RAILWAY CO.
Judge Pendleton granted an Injunc-
tn the ,u perl or court Wednesday
morning agalnit the Georgia Railway
Electric Company, re,training
• i
jnsm temporarily from changing their
racks In Decatur, DeKalb county. WII-
am H. Ansley et al. brought the pe-
tlon. They allege that the defendant
ureaten* to remove Its track where
‘Tosses a street near their residence
, . ,l Place some distance away. They
' 'aim such removal will damage the
property and ask for a perpetual In
junction,
j. H. Crutchfield, who was recently
acquitted of the charge of assault with
Intent to murder his wife, Mrs. Sallic
Crutchfield, has taken up his domicile
at the home of his maimed wife, 300
South Prym* street, and the two are
now living happily together.
If the weather is favorable Thursday
afternoon. Crutchfield says he Intends
to take his wife down town In a roller
chair so that she may see the Christ
mas displays In the big stores. This
will be the first time the wounded
woman has been out since the night she
was shot by her husband.
Mr. Crutchfield haa purchased a cost
ly roller chair for his wife and In this
he will roll her through the streets until
she becomes able to use crutches,
says she shall want for nothing and
that he Intends to use every effort to
make her as happy as possible.
Mr. Crutchfield, when seen Wednes
day morning, said nls wife was »m
proving rapidly and that she In now
able to be up and play the piano.
“My wife has forgiven and forgot
ten,” he said, “and we are now' living
together happily.”
Mr. Crutchfield was highly elated
over tne Improvement In his wife’s con
dition and said he was anxious to take
her out to see the Christmas sights.
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ARCTIC DANGERS
DWARFED RY N.Y.
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Philadelphia, Dec. S.—Mrs. Peary,
wife of Commander Robert R Peary,
the Arctic explorer, is still 111 at the
Hotel Walton.
The commander made the following
reply to a query as to the dangers of
the Arctic regions:
“Merely living in those regions Is
not as perilous as living In New York
ity. You don't have as many things
to «lodge; no trolley, cars or automo-
Herkimer, >>. Y„ Dec. 8.—The Jury [n
the Chester-Gillette case found the de
fendant guilty of murder In the first de
gree for killing his sweetheart, Grace
Brown, after It had been out for fiv
bout's.
The prisoner took the verdict os
calmly as he has taken every other
Incident In this unusual trial,
though his face w*as chalk white and
he showed his nervousness by constant
]y puffing his cheeks, he woe much
calmer than the Judge on the bench
who received the verdict,
When he had known his fate, Gillette
Immediately took a piece of legal cap
paper, folded It In half, tore off part of
It, and wrote a telegram to his father
telling him of the verdjet.
To bs 8sntsncsd Tomorrow.
Sentence was put down for tomorrow
at 10 o’clock on the request of Senator
Mills, who asked for two days to pre
pare a motion to set aside the verdict.
Gillette appeared with his wrist
handcuffed to that of I'ndcr Sheriff
Klock. His face was white with an al
most unearthly color, and his eyes were
nothing but two oblong, dark spots,
which looked as If they had been
burned In. His air was calm, though.
It has been through the trlAl, and :ic
was apparently much more self-collect
ed than the deputy who had guarded
him all the time he has spent in jail.
Gillette was led to a seat and as
sumed his old attitude. He looked
straight before him, with Almost no
expression on his face. It wan plain to
those who watched him closely that be
w'as frightened. It was fully ten min
utes before his counsel arrived through
the door which led from the private
chamber.
Jury Announces Verdict.
Immediately ‘upon arrival of the
judge the Jury door was unlocked and
the Jury filed in. After the Jury had
taken their seats amid a deathly si
lence, Clerk Burney said:
"Gentlemen, have you arrived at a
true verdict and chosen one of your
number to speak for you?”
Marshall Hatch, the first man tn the
front row of the two solemn lines of
Jurors, got to his feet and replied:
We have. We find the defendant
guilty as charged Iq the Indictment.”
Gillstts Writes Telegram.
Gillette was sitting cornerwise In
his chair. He glued his attention upon
Hatch. His legs were crossed, his fa
vorite attitude during the trial. As
the words that were destined to send
him to the death chair w*ere spoken
there was not a sign of a change in
the prisoner. Not a quiver showed that
he had heard them. His features were
set and his face was colorless. His
expression was blank and he uttered
no sound.
After a moment Gillette leaned over
to the piece of paper which lay In front
of him and wrote this telegram to his
father;
“Dear Father—Found guilty; w*11
write. Cheater”
That was all.
“Mr. ilatch,” said Clerk Burney, “do
you find this man guilty as found *n
the Indictment?”
Asks Tims to Fils Motion.
Twelve times he asked that question
and one by one the twelve men got
upon their feet ond said, “I do.”
Ry this time Mr. Mills w'as on his
feet to ask that a judgment should not
be pronounced until Thursday so that
he could have time to prepare a motion
to set aside the verdict.
It was learned that the jury had sort)
MOTHER OF GILLETTE
UNNER VED B Y VERDICT
Denver, Colo., Dm. 5.—After waiting from 10 o'clock a. m. until after
10 at night, the verdict of guilty of murder In the first degree was de
livered to the mother of Chester Gillette. She had borne herself for 1J
long hours with remarkable fortitude, but when ehe wae told of the ver
dict she dropped her head In her folded arms and moaned: "My God! My
son. Chester, how can I believe In a merciful God any more?”
She waa shaken with sobs for five minutes and then recovered her
self. Holding her head up and drying her eyes, she said:
“But there is a merciful God; He will save my boy. He must be
saved."
Her husband sat by her, holding her hands, but saying nothing.
After n moment's pause she managed to gather together her mental
forces and dictated the following telegram to be dispatched to her unfor
tunate son:
“My Own Dear Boy—God still reigns. Tour Innocence will be proved.
We have sent word that the case Is to be appealed. Keep up your cour
age. Trust In God. Our trust Is there. He will not fall ps. We have
faith In your Innocence and the truth shall prevail'. God willing, 1 shall
be at the next trial. "YOUR MOTHER."
FINLEY IS ELECTED
HEAD OF SOUTHERN-
SUCCEEDING SPENCER
W. W. FINLEY.
Elsctsd president of Southern railway to succeed lato Samuel Spencer.
New-York, Dec. 5.—At a special meeting of the board of di
rectors of the Southern railway, held here today, W. W. Finley
was elected president to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Samuel Spencer. Mr. Finley was formerly second vice presi
dent of the company.
six ballots were taken before tho twelve
men agreed. Up to that time the jury
had stood II for conviction and 1 for
acquittal.
The Jury. It was stated, would have
reached its verdict quickly had It not
been for the one Juror who thought
Grace Brown was a suicide. The other
eleven argued against this theory’.
Did Not Expect Verdict
Gillette was apparently in a hurry to
get out. He walked briskly to the dojr
and was led to the Jail. When he got
there any sign of fear which he had
shown had entirely vanished.
“That’s a pretty verdict," he said to
his Jailer, “and I did not expect It. I
did not have uny witnesses, but^I did
think the Jury would disagree.”
“The reporters want to see me?" he
ased later of Sheriff Richards. "Tell
them I have nothing to say, only I did
FAST MAIL TRAIN
HI COAST LINE
not expect that verdict. Well, 1 guess
1*11 turn In now," he added, and un
difficulty In reaching an agreement and dressed and went to bed.
CREICHTOI
IS EXPELLED
FI
Conference Unfrocks
Editor of Christian
Appeal.
THREE MEMBERS
REFUSE TO SIGN
Attorney Announces Appeal
of Case to General
Conference.
Special to The Georgian.
Columbia, S. C., Dec. G.—The Jury of
thirteen from the Methodist conference,
appointed by Bishop Wilson last Wed-
neaday to try Editor C. W. Creighton
of The Christian Appeal on a charge of
libelling the preaiding elders of the
conference. In stating that they consti
tuted a ring to control tho conference
and that for years they had been Im
posing on the preachers by being able
to control the appointments, reported
Its verdict to the conference this morn
ing.
The verdict sustains the charge of
gross Immorality and finds that “he l«
tereby deposed from the mlnletr>’ and
Is expelled from the memberahlp of the
Methodist Episcopal church. South.”
Three of the thirteen voting member,,
of the Jury refused to sign the renoit.
They are Messrs. J. B. Traywlcfc, W. B.
Wharton and W. H. Arlall.
Report Is R.sd.
Soon the report was read and It »n
received In silence, there being no dis
cussion of It under the church law.
Rev. A. Coke Mann, a defense wit
ness and a strong supporter of Mr.
Creighton, arose to a question of per
sonal privilege. "All I want to say." he
began, trembling with emotion, "Is thac
If that verdict Is tru. and correct, sim
ilar charges should be brought against
three-fourths of the membership of th«
church In this state, for the seme tell-
being indulged In against the rlnx
Mr. Creighton Imw attacked throughout
this.”
"I rise to a point of order," said the
Rsv. Dr. John O. Wilson, at one lime
presiding elder and for a number <>f
years editor of the Southern Christian
Advocate, Jumping to hla feet and In
terrupting Mr. Mann. The point tvs.
at once sustained and after the Ite\.
Dr. J. W. Daniel, attorney foe Mr.
Creighton, had given notion of an ap
peal to the general conference, which
meets three years hence, the confer
ence formally ndjournd and the anneal
appolntmnts were read.
About two-thirds of the members of
the conference lied lott the city In -.pit.
of Bishop Wilson’s request that t..em
bers. leave on permission of the con-,
ference and only a small crowd heard
the verdict.
Mr. Creighton did not appear on the,
floor of the conference. He says he lia.i
Just begun hie fight against what )>«;
terms "the ring” controlling the con
ference and that he proposes to preset
and lecture throughout the state.
IS CRITICALLY ILL!
AT HIS RESIDENCE
Prominent Business and
Club Man at Death’s
Door.
James R. McKeldln, wealthy clubman
sod business man, lies st his home, II North
avenue, critically III.
For severs! weeks, Mr. McReldln has
been Indisposed, bnt his' condition ha*
grown steadily worse, until Wednesday ir
was announced that very slight hope* were
ei tertalnrd for his recovery.
As president of the Piedmont Driving
Club, Mr. McKeldln Is one of the
known clubmen In the South. A gentle
man of the moat polished manners, bril
liant Intellect and widely popular In
off* circles, the announcement of bis crlt-
_ Illness will bring genuine and general
nine** to a wide circle.
In the business community, Ur. McKeldln
equally prominent aa vice president of
the Bra ol Atkins, McKeldln k Drown,
wholeasle hatters. He Is Identified with
many other enterprises, and has always
been known as one of Atlanta's most p ab-
lie-spirited cftlsena.
leal
tor <
Since news came from Washington
that the Southern’s fast mall from
Washington would be annulled January
5, there has been considerable anxiety
here as to mall facilities from the East.
Botnettme ago rumors were current
here that the Atlantic Coast Line would
establish a fast mail between Washing
ton and Atlanta.
Official denial comes, however, of
this from Third Vico President J. R.
Alvaniah Rhodes.
Alvantah Rhodes, the infant daugh-
of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Rhodes. Jr .
died Monday afternoon at the family
residence, 1*7 Smith street. The fu
neral services were conducted Tuesday
afternoon at the Glenn Street Baptist
church. The Interment was in West-
view cemetery.
Kenly, of Wilmington, (n charge of t h
operating department. His tciegrai
is ns follows:
Atlanta Georgian:
Atlantic Coast Line has made no ar
rangements for. and has not consld
ered the establishment of a fast ms:
train from Waghfugton to Atlanta.
J. R. KKNLT.
