Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, May 21, 1912, Page 1

e ————— oL 1 ERTIE FA | Congressman 8. M. Sparkman, who | flflnwulnfi lis hastening to the bedside of his| |\\i:o. who is not expected to live. The Congressman will bg here this morn- ing. Up to an early hour this morning Mrs, Sparkman was alive, although her condition was said to be critical. Sbe has been sick for some time and for a while the doctors hoped to sus- Speeding home from Washington | as fast as tiains can bring him ls" -xD COMES 110 TWELVE-YEAR- 0LD LAD WHILE BATHING IN LAKE MORTON. 1.:ie Fanchor, the twelve-year- ¢ ~on of M. B. Fanchor, who re- e Published in the Best Town in the Best Part of the Best State. LAKELAND, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1912. RIGHESON PAID THE MURDER OF AV LINELL ‘Wert to Death Chair Bore Himself Bravely to s, 0 was drowned at about 1 o'clock _duy while bathing in Lake Morton. young Fanchor, with another boy, vamed Earl Morris, and some other .nions, was bathing in Lake yorton ut a point mear the foot of Kkootuky avenue. The lad was ng on his back, according to < catement of spectators, and a w..o dashed over his face, partialiy him. He then began ug and quickly sank, the wa- 1o leing between five and six feet Coop. The cries of his terrified com- 1oions attracted the attention of s )8 Jewett, who lives close by, i rushed to the rescue. Heed- of the fact that he was fully ‘Lod he plunged into the water <oon reached the spot where, as i=lied toward the lake, he had 2t sight of the lad’s head near He succeeded in locat- ace, i« body, but as it was almost ! his depth and he was encum- I with his clothing, he was forced 1o leuse his grasp before he reached LOW water, The Body Rescued. ‘e meantime, Dick Cornelison ‘0 his assistance, and between ¢y soon had the body on the Some one telephoned for a ai, and Dr, Sullivan and Dr. ! rushed to the scene in an le. When they arrived they Lat efforts at resuscitation e made, but an examination i life was extinet, 1t was ped by the shit be revived, irazed by the fact that he v s dinner after being tak- water, evidencing that romained, It appears, hoy was too long in or that the system, all efforts at how- there was sonn . in the northwestern part of the .' tain her. rescuers that | as they | On Saturday there was a turn for the worse, and then it was that the Congressman was summoned home. The doctors are making every eftort to at least keep her alive un- til the Congressman has returned.— 50DY WILL FIRST BE SUBMITTED the Enfl EXECUTION WAS ONE OF THE MIISI_S[IB[:ESSHI[ ON RECORD: ! shine with which Ohijo’s primary day | Tampa Tribune. SUNSHINE MAXES TAFT FORCES HOPEFUL FOR OHIO VICTORY (By Associated Prees.) Columbus, O., May 21.—Taf: managers declare that the bright sun- dawned this morning was indicative of a sure victory for the president Many farmers, they said, who wer» supporting Roosevelt were behind with their work and would not leave the fields to vote. Roosevelt sup- porters stuck to their former claims that the majority of the delegates would be for the colonel. Almost all of the five thousand voting precinets in the State open| at 5:30 and will close at S:do or! 6 o'clock. Two presidential candidates, Taft| and Gov, Harmon will cast their votes | in Cincinnati Roosevelt has gone to Oyster Bay ! SERIOUS UPRISING OF NEGROES N CUBA (By As-ociated Press.) Havana, May 21,—The nt today disclaimed further fnowledze e ding the negro up- but the opinion is spreading that conditions are rapidly growing | | Cuban Lovernme rizing rore serious It is reported today that two armed parties are operatingz in the Matanzas province, Orders proving fruitless {vern issued this morning for addi- Jewett Had Narrow Escape. | tional tioops to take the ficld clison states that when) ' T the scene Mr. Jewett had H i wps and was about l-!'cwu “PHISI“E As he didn't know at the BEEN SUPPRESSED (By Associated Press.) t there was a boy in the went in to assist Mr. Jew- latter told him about the ©went after the body aft- Washington, May 21.—The Cuban 2 Mr. Jewett. The body by | government has expressed confidence “me had moved out to where | that the recently discovered conspir- was very deep. While inacy of the negro element of the is- ‘or Cornelison freed himself of [ land to revolt has been successfully “s and pants, and the latter, | suppressed, according to State de- ng his watch and some other | partment advices from Havana to- e s have not yet beem recov-|day. ROBBERY OF JEWELAY STORE AT BARTON remains were taken shortly i accident to the home on street, the family having pre- d ¢ been notified. The body being 4rm when it reached the home, Jving near went to work to Bartow, May 21.— (Special)— resuscitate the boy, a bicycle Some time during Sunday night or “Iog brought into commission | .11 \ionday morning robbers en- = A: “':' that the lungs might be | . 4 the jewelry store of Mrs. M. E. {174 with air and life be restored. | 5, y1e on Wilson avenue. The jew- f'fl""" however, were all to ¢Iry cases were rifled and many val- Ay uable articles were carried away. will be held some time | y; o 5o, bbs estimates her loss at T'ow, the exact hour having not from $600 to $1,000. The robbers “% determined. The family have left no clue whatever. pest sympathy of everyome in “idden and heartrending " | INOTHER AVWTOR 0 4 cur FALLS T0 DEATH of “he Star's lady autoist e y (By Associated Press.) has accomplished the well- Sikaaciia { Xenia, 0., May 21.—Fred South- [ssible and almost unbeliev- ¢ Mi olis, amateur aviator, - : A is, al ’ ‘mely, she eut a pig's tail o > ¢ her auto without cutti fr s i 1o without cutting O, ;. jon field, this morning and was o his young days. We can- instantly killed. *in how it was done, and she “plain herself—but it was %1 it cost her three dollars Tate, it would have taken The dock men at Havana have been '0 pay for the enmtire pig.— |on a strike, in which they were as- ta Star sisted by the marine firemen. 3 ) ineral ON STRIKE AT HAVANA. 2an RIED TO AMHURST TO BF LAID BESIDE THAT OF YR BEETS ™ %5 o IT SILEHN OUR OF MONGHT PENALTY FOR with Firm Tread, and TO AUTOPSY, AND THEN CAR- GRIP FOUND FLOATING IN WIRE LAKE. Early this morning a suitcase \\‘.l\‘ found tloating in Lake Wire, and for | several hours the authorities were of | the opinion that a murder had ln'l'II: committed. Marshal Tillis was soou | on the job, but he was unable to se- | care any such evidence, and about w0 o'clock a negro appeared at the city hall, described the contents u:'} the grip and was allowed to take it. It appears that the negro, who is from Bartow, went down to Plant ity yesterday afternoon, and when THE LAKELAND EVENING TELEGRAM No. 172 RESIDENGE WA STRUGK BY LIGHTAING TODA ELECTRICAL STORM PLAYS ITS PRANKS ABOUT DWELLING OF C. E. M'MULLEN. About 11 o'clock this morning the he got there he found his grip had | alarm ot fire was sounded, aud it Leen stolen. Hearing that there had | 98 found that the house of Mr. . K. Leen one found here, he came up, McMullen on Sowth Florida avenue and identified the property as his. | Was on fire, caused by the building The grip contained some men's cloth- | having been struck by lightning. The ing. The thief evidently took what | e department responded immediate- HIS MOTHER. (By Associated Press.) Boston, Mass,, May 21.-—The mis- shapen corpse of Clarence V, T. Richeson, who was executed just aft- ¢r midnight for the murder of his cast-off sweetheart, will be claimed by his brother Douglas today, and srobably taken to Amhurst Court- bouse, Va., to lie beside that of his t:other, Before the young murderer's body 18 turned over to his brother it will be placed under the county physi- cian’s knife for a legal autopsy. That his brain will bg given o a medical college is denied. The execution of Richeson is de- clared to have been the most success- ful since the installation of the elec- tric chair here. The current was crly applied once, and fifteen min- utes after he was taken to the death cell. The warden and other legal witnesses filed back into the office and signed the necessary papers <ml-l THE COMPLEE HTORY The erime for which Clarence Vir- il Thompson Richeson, at the time o liis arrest pastor of the Immanuel church of Cambridge, was sentenced | to die in the electrie chair, was the cont A murder of his former sweet- | Weart, 1 years old Avis Linnell, of | Hysnnis, o papil in the New Eng- land Conservivory of Musie in Bos- | ten The g 0 Hothe way of ‘h-? nister's ma v Mi \'ll)ll'l‘ mands, a =0 rl and iress | of Brookline, bo ongh an oens{! gagement which visted b '\\a-lry”! the two and becanso ot @ condition in | which Miss Linnel] tound herself. The girl was deceived into aking a| poison given her by Wictieson which she believed would remedy tias cons | dition and died in her roows 4t the Young Woman's Christinn As- tion, on the evening of Ot On that day invitations had sued for the wedding ceremon was to unite Rev. Mr. Richeo-n and Miss Edmands. As pastor of a small churcl Cape Cod town of Hyannis tvo in the vears before, the handsome and « oqient minister, then 33 years old. had heen attracted to Avis Linnell who was an exceptionally pretty girl of i° -ars. | She lived with her parents o r fa- ther, Edgar Linnell, beinz on- tractor and builder. It was 17 am- bition to become a teacher i she was attending the Stare ° yrmal school at Hyannis. Miss Linnell joined I on's church, was baptized by o be- came a member of the chur = choir. In a short time, early in @0 Miss Linnell was displaying t.amond ring and confided in her = © friends that she was to be marr 1y the minister the followinz © "'b“r}’ Abandoning her plan of - 0ming a; school teacher Miss L' ‘~:flzan preparations for her wed: of her trousseau was ©f the two paid a visit 1o Ho- S. Cotton of Brewste to officiate at the Friction developed son and his deacons over the young min oz manner and his + AREHTwS There was also a .”, the loss of $50 in mon s . S ¢ in the pastor's left by a parishio study. The minister ¢ been robbed of the ™ jared he ha:ll mey. Shortly! | Tmanuel irg thut the orders of the court had Leen complied with, After Richeson's collapse Friday it was feared he would be unable to stand the final trial but his steps didu't falter and he answered the questions as to his faith in God put to him by the ministers without flinching, Richeson went to thy death chaie this morning at 12:10 and seven minutes later was pronounced dead. He maintained his composure until the last, His last words were “God will take care of my soul. | forgiv: I am willing to die.” Those who witnessed the execution and who were with the condemned man during his last moments, wer» Rev. lerbert S. Johnson and Rev, M. J. Murphy, the Catholic prison chuplain, Douglass Richeson, of Chicago, be- i* in ghe city, Richeson begged to sce him during the afternoon, bu! the brother refused to go to him. everybody. OF AICHESON'S CRINE atterward it was learned he had sent “n a o similar sum by money order lmmi town to a woman in Salt} onearhy Lake City, Utah lowed and he accepted a call 1o the His resizuation tol- Baptist church ol Cam- hridge When Richeson went to Camdivida Miss Linnell went to the Conserva ory of Mu-ic in Boston. She wa dneed 1o oattend the conservator Voo the minister in the idea taat by the enltivation of her voice, which ad given izns of much proniioe i o Hyanni- church choir, she wonld ‘trer fiv herself to hecome Lie wife O the minister’'s recommendation he wanted and threw the grip into|l¥, and the blaze was put out befors the lake. REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES MAKE m“u" ws“l"fi 'lln'mu:h two upper bedroor STOCK; SAYS STONE (By Associated Press.) 21.— Senator Stone, of Missouri, today addressed the Senate on *“The Modern Damon und Pythias and Correlated Subjects Pertaining to Current Politics.” e declared the Taft and Roosevelt con- of vaudeville stunts in politics without Washington, May troversy “a series spectacular a parallel in the history of our coun- try, and which 1 devoutly hope will ot again be repeated.” He sald “The vorld outside looks on aghast and the press and reading public of Eu- rtope and enlightened nations every- where criticise, cartoon, laugh and taunt.” He declared the Democratic candidates conducting them- selves with dignity and propriety. TRYING T0 CURTAL GOTTON SPEGULATON (By Associ Wiashington, ) were ed Press.) 2. Determined any damage from fire had been done, The house, however, was consider- ably damaged from the bolt of light- ning, which struck the house nead the chimney, coursing downward to the dining room and kitchen. Plastering was knocked off of several of the 1coms, and the woodwork was splin- tered at various places in the dining room and kitchen. The dishes on the dining table were knocked off, and the furniture generally disarranged. Mrs. MeMullen, Miss Roseberry and Mrs, Guy Platt Johnson, and little son, werg sitting in the parlor at the time, and were uninjured. Mrs. Johnson's little son, Lee, was lying on the tloor of the parlor and was struck by some falling plastering, but other than a few bruises was unhurt, Mrs, MeMullen had just entered the parlor from the dining room and had she been a moment later she wou'd undoubtedly have been Killed. In one of the upper bedrooms the lightning played havoe with various articles of apparel, a straw hat be- longing to Alonzo Trueblood, who rooms there, having heen almost com- pletely wrecked, several large holes Baldf an inch in diameter having heen torn in the top. At the time of the excitement the rein was pouring in torrents, hut not undaunted, the fire department re- sponded at once, and the seene soon after the alarm sounded. were at The family are con ulating them- to curtail the sp ation in cotton L Conzress today passed a bill provid- | Ping o exact information in the | Lopring ns to the aereaze in cultiva | L ron and in the antumn as to the pro Cdnction from same acreage. The | Moo a epted the sen amend ant oo the House bill making un- | 4 i becesary reports on the condition in | FAnznst, Septmber and Octoher | WELVLLE, LA, NOW [ helves that the occurrence was not although it was not withont an unusnal amount of ex- 1o citement BEYOND THE ALPS LlESngALY. TO EE LEADING FEATURE. PumpKkinville, Fla, May 15, 1912, Fditor Lakeland Evening Teles crant: Please insert something like this in your bright paper, which is vahiug in disceminating te girl took a room at the Youns | Woman's Christian Association quar-| | ters on Warrenton street, Boston. Sha ;r!")’\l'l‘ a dilizent student and con- tinued her church work by teaching n the Sunday school of Tremont Temple, the leading Baptist church of the city. There were frequent meetings between Miss Linnell and Richeson. The successes which the young rreacher attained in his larger sphera of usef Iness made a marked impres- sion m him. Surrounded by in- fiuenti: friends and associates his ambition, widened. He began to pay court to Miss Violet Edmands of Prookline, the daughter of Moses irant Edmands, a prominent Baptist layman and trustee of the Newton Theological Seminary. from which Richeson had been graduated Miss Edmands was prominent socially an-ll was wealthy in her own right, as well as entitled to share in the es- tate of some 2550004 left by her grandfather. Entrance to the ex- clusive home of the Edmands had been easy to the minister as the pas- tor of the church the family attend- €d, and in a short time he was ac- cepted as suitor for the daughter: hand. At the same time Richeson was: rieeting Miss Linnell as formerly But one day he borrowed the dia- riond ring he had given | on the pretext that the stons ting. He did not return it needed reset- Even- | tually the newspapers announced the engagemen: of Rev. Mr. Richeson anl Miss Violet Edmands. The Linnell family demanded an explanation. The minister promptly declared the story a “newspaper fake” and was believed. The invitations to the wedding of (Continued on Page 2.) (By Associated Press.) Melville, La., May 21 Every store Lere has water over its floors in va- rious depths before long almost all residences will have been invaded. Families are mov- ing to upper stories, It is fe 1 Indications are thit that railroad connections will soon be | broken as a result of track wash- outs ler =0 much i s“m“l“s FH“M Flnuujl\nm\h-rlw-, not only in Pumpkinvilie but also in many surrounding towns The graduating class of the Pump- kinville / day evening at the beautiful and pal- ademy held a meeting Fri- atial home of Miss Angelina Pump- kin. At the suggestion of Mr. Co- lumbus Lysander Applejack, who leads the class, not only on the Ath- letie field, but also in the ficld of pa- it was decided to give the triotism, DENVER CLOSES TODAY (By Associated Press.) Denver, May 21.-—After a bitter campaign the candidates for city and county offices being voted for today, the contest is mainly between the Democratic organization and the citi- zens’ ticket .IIEIIIIITSIPUYEIIS FINED | FOR REFUSAL TO PLAY illfl[n CAMPAIGN IN (By Associated Press) Philadelphia, May 21.—The Amer- ican League fined cach member of the Detroit baseball team one hundred dollars today for refusing to play here Saturday and Monday. The farmers of unnually $8,000,006 for their be The railroad companies receive $2- Michigan receive 000,000 in freight in hauling all th products that are connected with sugar factories. Thirty farmers are interested. | * | passe proceeds of the exercises which are to be held in Lakeland next week to the Daughters of the Confederacy of Lakeland, that they may carry forth to greater glory the noble work they are engaged in. Mr. Applejack spoke very feelingly of our duty as citi- zens of a noble Southern city. He will deliver an inspiring and uplift- itg lecture at ths graduation exer- cises, entitled, Beyond the Alps L Traly, and he will no doubt astonish all who hear him. If you think the last part ought to e a little stronger, I have no ob- jection to your changing it, provid- ing make grammatical or rhetorical errors Hoping to see I am Yours very truly, you no his notice in print |COLUMBUS LYSANDER APPLE- | JACK. f . 17.882 ALIENS, ! Sta s recently gath d in New | York show that during first eizht 17.882 alien stecrag The | majority of them went to western days of May sors arrived at New York thousand | towns and a few were enrouts to ! Hawaii. TP e i .~