Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 21, 1912, Page 1

OL. LIV.—NO. NORWICH BULLETIN, TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1912 : RICHESON CALMLY MEETS Left Cell Smiling, Gave Counsel Parting Handclasp and Walked to Chair With Head Erect HIS DEATH A A “GOD WILL TAKE CARE OF MY SOUL,” HE SAID Leaves Message to the World That He Has Paid His Debt and Feels That He is Going Home to God For a Larger Serv- ice—Repents of his Sin and Forgives Everybody—Potas- sium Cyanide Sent to Him in a Letter Received Yesterday Clarence V. T, cheson was electrocuted at 1217 this was turned on and the prisoner was de- you here repent of your sin? “I Am Willing to Die. “Do you forgive everybody?” “I forgive everybod: “Are you willing to dle for Jesus' puist clergyman, who the poisoning of of Hyannis, his one-time sweet- was outwardly “I am willing to die—" of the man in the chair, t! headed cane of Warden Bridge crash of a falllng lever and Cla il Thompson Richeson was no composure wh strodes were being as he sat in the electric ch Dead at Instant of Contact. The lithe form of the former pastor surged forward in thongs, but no sound came from the throat of the vietim. | | closed his eyes and kept them Forgive Everybody,” He Said. on_for one minute and_eight seconds. was dead the instant | which was made at ten minutes and two seconds after midnight. the electric Rey, Herbert iritual adviser. his answers he s re of my soul and I wires were physicians, Drs. MeGrath, McLa each in turn applied the stethoscopes to the body of the vie- tim and declared him de Jesus' sake?” well modu- 1 am willing current applied death chair and lald upon a table be- hind a screen. Crowd Outsi One application e the Prison. pected that the wishes of the dead man will be carried out and that | he will be burfed beside his mother in the family lot on Rich in Amherst Courthouse, Douglas Richeson Boston, to take charge of the remains. Sang “Jesus Dosth All Tl the officials and witnesses of execution enterad the death cham- r walking through the prison in a peiting rain, sounding through the walls the strains on Mountain, of Chicago, ain Stebbins, singing. they closed were |men and children stood for more an hour in front of the prison d and after the ex All the time there was a rific downpour of rain. or sign of the happenings inside could reach them or satis(y their curiosit Made Gifts of His Books. Previous to his e presented Mr. Johnson with three me, Jesus doeth all things well | the hour befo: Left His Cell Smiling. But no sound shook hands with William | God. He announced a fe admitted as { the execution, and with the J. Murphy, the chaplain, being also g Jast moment, f | daughter in orde Shaftsbury and with his manusc | be ve books to seve clergymen friends and sasd “I'm ready,” and walk- He was dressed plainly in a suit, a frock coat, white ed_down collar with gold studs front, and with low black His head was others who treasures the eson used constantly wh s the top of one p Richeson had written, “Gone to God, | be Statement for Mr. Johnson. After the execution handed Mr. Johnson statement from Richeson. soon after, as calm as either @ prizon chap- Chaplain Reads from Psalms and Tim- | el 0 (PR0E Ml Bot » personal communication and one | would probably not be made tebbins, the p r the condemne march to the chair. volce rang out through as he read from the 51st Gave Exampls of Deep Religious Faith. | The following statement out by the Rev. Richeson's spiritual adviser, after the | ', upon me, O God, ac- a this statement not so much | , as an item of news as an act of justice | in order to give truth concerning cer- tain questions relating to Mr. Ri have been much in the multitude of Thy Wash me thoroughly from and cleanse me from my acknowledge and my sin The steries that he has been for a| €o0d portion of his time in a state of collapse are absolutely te IL Timothy, first chapter and sleved and am per- he is able to keep that have ecommitted ageinst that day.” A Passage from Hebrews, himself slowly physieal reaction after his counse] an- would not be commuted by the gov- | He did pot eat a mouthful of | hours, The followed lasted hours, and was a perfectly naiu the electric turned to Hebrews is able aiso to oyered till he entered the ccution chabbes he gave an alme perfect example of harolc more truly, & deep rel unto Ged by ek intercession Four prison guards pick Used No Opiates. second erroneous impressio 1 wish to correct b eourage was buoyed up throuch opi- | and medicines, he entered the 2bam intv place through their was 2 quiver placed the £ man's face satisfactorily, Richeson Left no Statement. the entire time over the doomed he could adjust it state prison at Charl town did he take & single drop of med- 1 gpoke to him to- | feine of any kind, day on this point and als to Dr | perime Fhroughont Mot aughiin authorizes me 1o PP Eave anpwer after answor Well Satisied With Atterneys, | tioes propounded him by hesn on tha part of cor his aitorneys, « out an interview immedialely aft s always spolen 1o me and_ahility Phis relates e heuss spent Confident He Would Be Forgiven, said his attorney. conversalion Richeson tonight, and he ! confidentially over all maiter | pressed to me ail that he wanted {end 1 shall carry out all his w He was ready to go, brave and recon- | te Heo asked me to go with him te ! the death chamber, and I did. He wanted me 10 say had paid his debt that he was going home to God for a In | Pledsure there arrived a si opinion nothing mer With | fawyer than was done by those whom alked very | pg employed, Preferred Death to Commutation, and telegrams from attorne . Mr. Richeson appealed his i wish to say te these neve and to all other person steps should have been faken that Mr, Richeson himself | vetoed any such prepesition. plained to him fuily several davs age these lawyers frienids who destred further liligation. | opencd by ¥ declared that wd {n die rather than o secuve |h~; ide of patassiom, commutation of Was Not a Normal Man, T wm ulleding we complainl and no whatsvever when T say my opinis las geown constanily was nol a pormal man i (e past two days | have spent| to the world hat be would be forgiven; that glad to go and to have oppor- 4 larger service in another and | ters addr T#Have Peace of Gef W My Heart” onfess Christ | (e pesce of Hod in Sous ¢ detuily of his thal uo man who could kuvw {ion and have he Lement con- this man w ne, he was on the borderiine of { bad every Fho slatoment waw slven qui by s cure of iy Cabled Paragraphs Lima, Peru, May 20—The excite- ment over the coming _presidential election which has been fixed to take place on May 25 is increasing daily, Plymouth, England, May 20—The report circulated in Cherbourg that the Kronprizessin Cecilie had picked up | HOW THE SUGAR TRUST WIPED some survivors of a wrecked vessel in \ the Atlantic is unfounded. OUT COMPETITION, Aschaffenburg, Germany, May 20— A turners festival held vesterday in the neighboring town of Haibach end- | A HAVEMEYER LETTER ed®Mt midnight in a battle between the peasants und forty soldier spectators. Berlin, May 20—The Reichstag at its | Suggested That Pres tdday’s session appropriated the sum of $62,500 for the foundation and mainténdnee of an experimental in- stitution for aeronautics, lent Morey As- esume Confidential Relation With the Trust to Buy Steck of Beet Sugar Concerns, WIVES OF DEMOCRATS HONOR DOLLY MADISON Mrs. Champ Clark the Toastmistress at Breakfast in Washington. New York, May 20.—In its effort to ove the business of the American ugar Refining company Interests a nopoly in restraint of trade, the ‘Washington, May large com- pany ot demooratic omen. gathered | Eovernment entered upon its sccond here today at a breakfast to recall veck of taking testimony in the disso- 0 tion suit to robing into_the from the hase of a hundred years ago | 116100 sult today Ly probing tncs, the Areinnd T’?“"“”l‘;“fig";“”‘ once domin- | 4. "yforay of Denver, president of the s I HOCIE) g Great Western Sugar company, Was on The women, constituting this fem- |, siand all day, and probably will be inine democracy, were mostly the | L6 Stend all day, and wives and daughters of democrats | ¢3H¢d &4 . o though any woman allied with a dis- Dominant Figure in Industry, ciple of Jefferson was eligible to at-| Although Mr. Morey testified that he tend. The woman thus honored on |was originally persuaded to invest in the 140th annive ry of her birth was | the beet sugar business against his in- Dolly Madison, wife of a president of | clination, he has been a dominant fig- the United States and social arbiter [ ure in the industry for the past de- during four administrations for Mrs.|cade. He had been identified in an Madison was virtually mistress of the | official way with so many companies White House during the regime | that while on the stand he had to refer of Jefferson, whose term of office pre- | to a book for the enumeration of them. Seded Ly s En K Sale of Greeley Plant. Mra. Madison's personality, indelib- | SR O STECON PG At Iy imprinted on the life of her day . 8 T Boneration was recounted by sev. | torney James R. Knapp questioned the and generation, was 3 i eral mode vomen of democracy. particularly concerning the :‘n.l. ‘\'\\:\ ‘:n “.I,mlg:}\'m;) peaking on | €ntry of the American Sugar Refining Mrs. Madisow's character, first paid | COmPany interests into the west. Mr. her respects to Mrs. Madison by | Morey festified about the sale in 1308 recognizing “a large debt to the brignt | °f the Greeley plant, of which he was mind which first thought of promot- | the head, to the late H. O. Haveme; ing good feeling among democratic |of the American company at $125 a Women by having them meet each |Share. At that time he said there Sthisz were but three beet sugar plants in Mre, Champ Clark, wife of the speak. | Colorado, all in active competition. er The government introduced a letter written by Mr, Hevemeyer shortly af- ter obtaining controlling interest of the Greeley plaut to Mr. Morey as follows: To Buy Up Beet Sugar Plants. “It occurred to me ‘lodfl)' that you Man Arrested Claims to Have Had |might probably be willing to assume & g S Gy confidential relation between me and sion; E my associates in reference to a possi- J. S. Emery of | ble purchase of the stocks of the differ- Whitman was arrested in the executive | €1t beet sugar corporations in your department in the state houss {odas | State, perhaps the Lehi company and and will be sent fo Austin farm for | Perhaps the companies of which Mr. L rinue s e Eccles is president. You would have Emery came into the executive de- | {0 employ somebody, of course, in your partment ehortly after noon and am. | INterest and of absolute integrity to nounced that he wished to confer with | keep thorouehly informed of the stocks Governor Foss. Daly asked him his | 0f these different prapertics and advise name wnd Hmery sbid he was Aesop, | DY telegram or letter, as the case might and tbat he was the man closest to | P Of the quantity and rate” days ago| Bought Stocks for Havemeyer. n in which be was | The witness admitted the receipt of 4y his nine-year-old | such a letter from Mr. Havemeyer and that Richeson might | while he said that the proposal by Mr. the hou mistress. e, presided as toast- WouLD ;ILL DAUGHTER TO SAVE RICHESON'S LIFE ton, May { that he had a v ommanded to saved, Havemeyer was not carried out, he-did The visitor was taken to the office | purchase stocks for him, “but it was of Deputy George C. Neal of the state 3 generally known for whom I was act- police and examined. He said that God | ing.” had forbidden tho taking of any mur- | Mr. Morey said that as Mr. derer’s life. He sald he was willing | meyer acquired the controlling stock of to sacrifice his daughter to save Rich- | the Faton and Windsor companes ho eson, not for the sake of Richeson, | (Morey) became prosident of them, but In order that word of God might Bailar ke aved. He is apparently fifty years _ERse of Cousalidation. . $ite and seseral | M. Knapp read a letter of Jan. 2d, 1 fives with his Wife and several | | Mr. Knapp read a letter of s employed I the | 1903, by Mr. Morey to Mr. Havemeyer Have- n. He A. F. Grimes laundry on Fafrmount |In which the ease with which a con- avente, Hyde Park, but has not been Seliaacn oRl BS efiaiod Was polnt. . 3 ed_ou “You went on purchasing stock in at work for two we = various /companies with the idea of PAPERHANGER FELL ultimately soon of consolidating ONTO OPEN SHEARS, | them?” asked Mr. Knapp. | s e “T don't thihk we had the idea as | Blades Entersd Body Near Heart and | e3rly as that,” answored Mr. Morey. o “Didn’t you become president of all . the various companies with the idea of A an ultimate consolidation?” May 20.—Fred | 271" ¥ 3 “T don't think so.” vilson fell froi ree-foot pi ™ % Wilson (oll Som & tite SAO DIAONE | s iwiifnis Wk #t1 Jpi fhe athnd Yt ‘;“_u N"\v““ e "“H"e l‘?l:”' ‘“" when adfournment was taken until to- he had in his ~hands | OTTOW- »dy near the heart, iears from his | MINERS WILL RESUME body, but died from loss of blood be- WORK ON WEDNESDAY. fore assistanc ved. He leaves a fivé children, Sensea Falls, N, Y. shears waich Wilson widow ar | MEXICO INDEMNIFIES GERMANS | Pays §$100,000 to Children and Sur- vivers of Victims of Riot. ed by Both Parties Yesterday. Philadelphia, May 27—Representa- | tives of the anthracite coal mine work- ers and the coal companies met at the headquarters of the Reading company here today and signed the agreement entered into between the operators and the representatives of the workers. The agreement which was favored by committees of both sides was roferred Dby the mine workers at a convention held last week in Wilkesharrs, Pa. The miners ,under the agreement, are b given an increase in wages and other is, This fact has | cencessions, The mining of anthracite tisfaction in Ger- | coal which weas suspendsd during the last seven weeks pending the settls- — ment of the differences between the Father of Twine at 80, operators and underground workers New York, May 20—Dr, Dayid Al- | Will be resumed next Wednesday, yn Gorton, at the aze of 0, is the | proud father of twins, the oniy half- | YOUNG BOSTON WIDOW expected result of a novel and absor) ing experiment in eugenics, For ax- | MURDERED N HER ROOM. t avowedly i1 is; a deiiberate | lesting of a philosopher's theories for | Towe! About Her Neck and Mouth the improvement of the human re Filiod With a Kimono, Amonz Dr. Gorton's medical the- ories is the one that sex of offspring Berlin, May 20,—The Mexican ernment h i to the German g ernment $106,000 indemnitey to ors and children of four Germans <illed at the Coradonga factory, in Paebis, Mexico, during a riotous out- breais fast July, The rieters who were inated Dbroke out of jail on March 15 with the alleged eompligity of the jail offic | caused great dis Boston, May 20—rs. Lillian Jew- letermined at the will of the |ar, a widow 30 years old, was found parcnts. He sst about to bring into | murdered In her apartments in the { ihe worid a son-—and a son there is. | South Fnd today. Her nostrils were Hie ling heen named Allyn, for his | stuffed with string, her mouth chok- i ed with a kimono, a towel was tight- Iy tied about her neck and thern were Dbruises on her head ording to r twin, | Medical Examiner Leary the woman had been dead since Friday. The body was discovered by a man who had a key to the woman's room. He had given her financinl assistance at times, he said, | The police suid tomight that they But the doctor's theory didn’t cover numbers, and to his surprise and of Tennessee, is dead in 84 yor James D. Porter, Former Gavernor | | An of & conter. | NOPed to make an arrest soon, ence with with bis per- | it mission, ONLY ONE JURY SEAT TO POISON SENT TO RICHESON, | FILL FOR DARROW TRIAL Panel About Completed ts Try Counsel of the McNamaras, Letter Opensd VYesterday Centained Deadly Potassium Cyanide, L.os Angeies, Cal, May 20.—Seat Ne, - . 18 in the jury box was the ealy uA- d to Richeson which were | sceupied one when a brief m of arden Bridges today was|the Parrow bribery trial was adjourn- was found to contain cyan-|ed this afternoen afier the gpecial J . |yenite drawn Saturday had been ex- {2t was mailed frem Statien N, New | hausted and a new one had been or- | ¥ork city, on May 19, at 3 p, m, It|dered, eontained po clue to the sender, the| Agdjeurmment was taken to Wednes- bowder being eaclosed in a small sud- | day moruing wielope Tharked “headache pewder,” ulysis developed thai it was peisen Z of The sume naiure us that which kil S. of V. Btaff Appointmenis, ed Avis Liunell | Meriden, Conn, May £—Div Alipeney Morse sadd that he advised | Commander Frank H. Mc@ar of the Warden Bridges 1o maic Aie the | ul Sons wf Veleruns ias an- fact of the veceipt of this powder the foflowlng stafi appeint- Richeson was entirely innocent of any | ments: Bivision chaglain, Rev, Rada kuowledse of jts having been sent, the | W, Houndy of Har(iped; pat altorney declared. He added that he | stiuctor, J, Randail Gleagen of Hssex; 3 son to believe the con- | connse Henry C. Cooley of Water- demned man bad po expectation of any | bury : correspondent for Baaner, R, W such mcans ef demib, Lsbull of Aleriden, Boston, May 20.—Ameng many lat- oRe whie Eonaec ol eed Prosecution of BELGIAN MONARCH INSTITUTES A SHOCKING SCANDAL False Report Charged His Majesty Bt ; The Excellent Order of the Knight Looked For at the Primaries in Buckeye State With ‘Infigality. and the Queen with | and Tadtes o Shod & oociney op e | A Large Vote ked Today—Taft Repeatedly Refers to Roosevelt as a “Bolt- er” in His Final Speeches—Roosevelt Declares the Com- promise Candidate Will be “Me”—Taft Wil Vote Today. the Murder of a Chambermaid at | Garden Party. Standish Worsted company of Plym- outh, Mass., died yesterday after an Bruseels, Belgium, May 20.—A seml. | operation for a cancer, official communication false reports as to the private life of theroval family was issued today In|to the republican the following terms: “Since o recent garden party held at | scend on the conyention Lacken, calumnous rumors have been | punch, put in circulation concerning the pri- vae life of the royal family. It was even declared that on the day of the | ! fudiaet g oS on is no garden parly the queen of the Bel- | hc fastest big ship in the Ger ;. . navy. In a trial trip over a measured gians surprised King Albert in the | . .o " oo ade 20 knots a company of a chambermaid and that | foure ¢ Goeben made 30 knots an the queen shot the woman dead with a revolver, . ; . Baron M i King Surprised and Indignant. N Marschall _von Bisbarstsin “King Albert had no knowledge of |land, will receive a salary of $37,300 these reports, though for several days | vear, the largest salary military officers attached to the court | German official. having learned of them by telephone calls both from Belgium and abroad. After consuitation it was decided to acquaint the king with the report. His majesty was astonished and very inlignant. the authors of the reports and all per- sons repeating them. “Criminal proceedings were institut. procurator.” The na: stands that three names are not given, are being pro- ceaded against for c ders, which take three forms. ing to the first, the queen surprised the king in the company of the chember- maid and killed the latter. According to the second, the queen |railroads over the previous fired upon the king, while the third re- | shown by the Dort makes it appear as if the queen | railroad comm| merely threatened the chambermaid. The king’s private secretary ment tonight said: k, New Haven, have “Or course, the storles are quite un- | been attacked by the biight and a | foundsd. Althaugh, because of my po- | large number of the trees have already | sitlon, 1 cannot be considered an aito- | been cut down, ° | been sgzl:lcr lilmpartlnl witness, I can em- _— ; phatically declare that the happines Rev. J._W. Graffan of Otis, Mass., | of (o roval family has never been | hag accepted a call to the vacant pac disturbed ani that e king and queen | {orate of the First Baptist church at are a most united couple” g K Ster] b begin his work The incident has produced a pro- | srerunE, Jill and will begin his wor found sensation here and public opin- | % ion is greatly wrought up over the | slanders and thefr authors, for the 1913 general assembly of the May Have Started from Below-Stairs | Northern Presbyterian church yester- Scandal. | dav. Rochester and Atlantic City, It is beliaved that the sianders may | WICh Were contenders, withdrew. possibly have had their origin in a r. involving a laly’s maid In attendance | Wes found sully of s on one of the queen’s ladies in question | i HOUt and & court servant. 5 question died in childbirth a few days | ¥ Ser0aY- #g0, about the time the reports gon- cerning the king began fo clrculate, et b rder, who has been caring for the | and jt s thought that this incident | 24€% ; Y 9. may bear some correlation to the ru- | 1SPr colony on O LIpE Mo mors affecting the royal family. of Father Damlen, has contracted the CUBAN NEGROES PREPARING | Feeling That They Have Not Had Thsir Share of Pol Havana, May 30.—There is no room for doubt tonight of the existence of a negro conspiracy extending to all the | by putting oxalic acid in their provinces of the island, with the ap- | Winifred Ankers, a nur: parent intention of taking up arms |on trial yest | @ginst the government today, which | Court Justice was the tenth anniversary of Cuban independence. The negroes appear to have been,roused to rebellion by the denial of ‘what seems to them their the aeronautical division. The order is just political rewards for services ren- | the result of the death of a French dered in the war of independence, in |&viator who lost his life recentl | Agreement With the Operators Sign- | which they constituted a great major- | cause of a heav ity of the Ciban forces. = The feeling against the government has been intensified by a law denying | Into the negroes the right to organize a |on more of the cha political party. The principal trouble now is in the | into vicinity of Sagua La Grande, in Santa Clara province, and Cruces, where two | armed parties’ are operating, and in Oriente province, where seve ars cenverging on Guantanamo Clity with the apparent purpose of making a display of force at that place, The rural guard succeeded in dispersing | cut third 1, one small party and capturing two others, The situation is considered sufi- |to the town officials that clently grave for the government to | toes breed in_ front of his h despatch this evening a column of | Montelair so fast that he car 1,200 men from Camp Columbfa com- | irac posel of cavalry and infantry, with |894,683 of the pests are born in one field and machine guns, bound for San- | day. ta Clara and Oriente provinc absolved from blame, but was com- mended for his courage by Charles B, Burke in the superior court | here today. vith manslaughter by the police. The | Jarre e went by the name of John | pieaded King of Albany Y . Wills of Wideners Probated. ot In Vetoing the Bill in told te Norrisiown. body o ere of B. Widener, use, and S | father of the Titanic victims, executed | abolished. deed of tr per cent. securiti endowment for the Widener Memoria xchool for crippled Dr. Henderson received 452 votes out | R, of 786 legal ballots, of which 524 were | McLean, St. John, N, B.; N. H. Kead, Bady Found in Gonnecticut River, Middletewn, Conn, May i I Body of an unknown man was found | Ten Cents a Hundred fer Flle: fAeating in the Cemnec a man ahout four inches i in ciothes in borer, and had been = jhe waler for bW wochs The Bulletin’s Circulation in Norwich is Double That of Any 0&_er_@aper, and lts Total Girculatinn;s' the Largest in Connecticut in Proportion to the Gity's Population Condensed Telegrams ROOT T0 PRESIDE AT anVE“"M Snow Fell in Portland, Me., and vi- . 5 cinity for 20 minutes yesterday. Never lng s aman has snow falien there so late in May, gatemen and conductors are wearing white duck summer uniforms, Abner Hendee, Wholesale Grain mer- chant of New Haven, died at his home vesterday. CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS, The Cunard Line Will Give one month’s extra pay to the members of the Carpathia's w for services in rescuing the Titani§survivors, handed people, was formed in Orange, Benjamin F. Mellor, president of the dealing with Chicago Suffragists Will Not March convention. hey plan to muster 50,000 women and de- The Turbine Cruiser Goeben is now the new German ambassador to Fng paid to any As a Result of the Smallpox Scare in the Norwich university, a milit ademy at Northfield, VL, many pe ons connected with the school sleeping under canve. _ The Home of the late Isador Straus in New York was sold and in a few menths will be torn down o make | room for a new 16-story apartment | house. He decided to prosecute s Criminal Proceedings Instituted. this afternoon before the Kking’ spaper Le Peuple under- persons, whose The Funeral Services of re Hartley, the Titanic band leader, who | ulating the sia went to his death leading his band, | Accord- | were held at Manchester, Eng and | were attended by 30,000 persons An Increase of $127,150 in dividen: paid by ten of Maine's sixteen King and Queen United Couple. vear, of the annual rej oners. in a state- on East Rock pa | - | | Atlanta, Ga, Was Selected as host Daniel Brackley of East Hampton ing liquor license and fined $300 and sts and sentenced to 60 days in jail t below-stairs scandal at the palace o The maid in Brother Ira Dutton of the Dominican | disease. TO RISE UP IN REBELLION. granted a divorce, C: Matten was killed wh with Guy Davis, mana an_auto company, in the Kast End, Pittsbur Davis was fatally Injured. herine Cauffeld e joy ridi ical Rewards. Charged with P oning Nine Babies was placed | ay beforc cudder in Brookl . Hereafter American Army Officers ho wear glagses will be barred from frost on his glasses. The London Board of Trade Inquiry e Titanic disaster has taken er of a saciety n than that of an investigation e circumstances of a great cat- astrophe, fomcti bands | societies of the Sons of the American | Revolutfon. The Bay state has an | enrolled membership New York second 1,427, £ 1,638, with and Connecti- Edward S. Ellis, Author, complained mosqut- 1ze in keep L k of them. He estimates t! i The Carroll County, Ky., Grand Jury ert while Commended for Killing Burglar. |1s rlx;w"hfl to make an mm».u]..» I | publicans to remember how iong that Pittsfleld, Mass, May 20—John Park- | H. Gilbert of Emglish, Ky, tried to er, a farmer, who shot and killed a |induce Charles Ross to enter the Gil- | burglar who was fleeing from Park- |t home and chloroform Mrs. Gil- | | er's home a week ago, was not only | | Judge Mrs. Emma Mcoshian of Haverhill, ., W ker had been charged ly st for $4,000,000 in four to be used as an Yale's Elihu Club. da Haven, Conn., Ms ldren, AT | etety announced elections as | Taft's Dr. Henderson Leads on Bishop Ballot | follow Minneapolis, May 20.—Rev, Dr, T. 8, | ul E. Roct N ¥ Henderson of Brooklyn, N, Y., on the | Greenwich! Conn, | eighth ballet, which was announced | ate tonight, teok the lead in the elec- Bryce, Rosivn, tion of the seven bishops yet to Dbe [ Chaney, Detroit, Mich. rdier, elected by the general conference of [ Brookiyn, N, Y.; i le: the Methodist Episeopal church here. | 1lL; F. W, Freeman, Riverda Y . Lyman, Hartf H. H. sary te elect, There was no elec- | Bosten, Mess, Mass.: H. W. Robbins, Norwieh (Kansas): (ieorge V, Stanlay, | Great Barrington, Mass; G. B | Stevens, New York City, 20.—The ut river near | Wereester, Mass, May i doek this afternoon by Of. |cents a hundred is the pries placed apman. The bedy was that of | en flies by Mayer David b, ¢ old, five feet |to rid the city of the pest. A fly children for dead fliey —— T ICE_TWO The New York Subway Guards, Senator’s Acceptance d H(lllol' RGOOiVBd MM' man New of the National Committee OHIO CLAIMED FOR BOTH TAFT AND COLONEL date,” hie went on; “"heTl be me. Tl name the compromise platform; 1t will be our platform.” Since Colonel Colonel Harry S. hall in a|New tonight announced United States Senator chairman convention. Root occasioned no surprise. been common gossip in political circles that Senator Root would be acceptable to both the Taft and Roo: Acceptance Received Last Night. the acceptance Chicage, May 20. Roosevelt came inte Ohio & week a2o,he has made nearly He showed no signs of fatigue tonight, and Mis voice, which gave him some trouble on Saturday, was in betier condition. At Coshocton, Colonel Roosevelt was “our next presiden “How do you know he will be?™ & rowd called, the colonel shouted in of Senator |90 speeches. avelt forces, introduced as Senator New when hé made the announcement, “There is nothing more I can say. BOTH CLAIMI;I_G OHIO. “A Taft Victory” and Sweep Predicted For Today. BOLAND'S STENOGRAPHER ON THE WITNESS STAND. Alteged Relations Betwesn Williams and Judge Archbald. May 20 The alleged J. Wiliams to Judge ibald of the commnerce Katydld culm bank deal wera the subject of inquiry today b nouse judiciary Boland of Scranton, Pa., stenographer to W. P, Baldn, accuser | of the jurist, as the principal withess. Mies” Boland swore thal mstead of W. P. Boland baving dictated the let~ Columbus, 0., May 20—Ohio tonight rested from the strain of the ‘Washington, relations of Robert W. Arci presidential is ready for tomorrow's primaries. The last state to hold presi- | dential Walter | home of two of the candidates, Ohio, is considered the crux of an al situation. politi sa present political contest. | state that Colonel Roosevelt sented the platform upon which he is basing his fight. Willlams was the suthar of it. Boland said that Wilbems asked to write the letter ome Boland was absent, told wanted to say, that she complied his request, and the next ted the letter to him for s0id he signed it and letterhead, because it the paper of the Marion Coal with which Williams had friend, the ex-president, h 2 | and Fourteen Hundred Chestnut Trees | N¢Ir ¢ wvels about the sl mon'’s only state. speaki democratic ernor and in several camp Senator Robert M, La Follette opening the fight in the state return- ed last Friday speeches in support of his cause. Goy- limited his c ing in his home state to five night ad- dresses ,which were given over to an- swering Mr. s berated the gov- Miss Boland read to tl memorandum she has her notebook within months of remarks Willlams he dropped into Mr. Boland's affice, The notes were not stemographic re- ports, but mere memoranda. On_Nov. 1, 1911, she said Wiliams told Boland that he woukl have Judge Archbald hand them, the Firie, a few decisions that would make them up and take notice” On Nov. 22 he was credited with saying that he “had sent the judge on an errand” that morning and that “he had not gottem made three ernor five large primary complicated expected until late. e open from 6.30 in the morning until the same hour in the evening. cornered contest are expecting a Because of the The polls will be On Jan. 13, 1912, Miss Foland said, Willlams told her that he thought wags a4 bad idea for him to be amen- clated with Judge Archbald any longer —that the judge was “no good and & ager, was confident tonight gn the eve will not be rejected by “It is a Taft victory and its all over { but looks better for | i ekt id 48 hours’ ago, and it looked mighty Within a Week After She Had Been gf,‘},,;”,fipr’w“,,,n o kot i T there able change in sentiment for the presi- dent among the farmers. Chairman Walter Republican state who has paign in this state, milk, | ters this afternoon without making any final predictions as to tomorrow’s out- e Ohio Roosevelt committee, however, said tonight than it PRINCE'S HEAD CRUSHED IN AN AUTO ACCIDENT, Frederick Killed Nephew of King While on Way to Funeral. Friesack, Prussia, May 20—Prines George William, the eldest son of the Duke of Cumberiand and his chamber- lain Von Greve were Instantly killed in an automobile accident on the high- way near here this evening. Berlin early n the afternoon ing to proceed to of Hamburg to attend the funeral of the rnnce uncle ,the late King Fred- erick VIIL The prince who was at the stecring wheel, probably failed to observe the signs of warning that the highway was being repaired and drove the machine at full speed into a part of the road- way which was belng macadamized. He lost control and the machine was ditched and turned on its end. The ‘s head was crushed. n Von Greve’s neck was broken. ,who was inside the automoblle, suffered from a broken Prince George William was bom in 1880. His father, Duke Ernest August, Duke of Cumberland and Duke of Brunswick and Lunebourg, is head of the house of the Guelphs. own, of the left his headquar- upreme | come, delegates pledged to Theodore Roosevelt will be elected in a substantial majority of the 21 gress districts, we continue to expect a practical complete sweep of the dis- Dbe- | tricts by Roosevelt. CALLED TEDDY A “BOLTER." President Makes Use of the Term in all His Dozen Speeche Dayton, O., May 20—President Taft's seven days of epeechmaking through " Ohio came to an end here tonight wit! Massachusetts Still Leads the State | Oio came to an end here toniht with own_ state | row's primaries republicans of his | The chauffeur and to defeat Colonel Roosevelt, whom Mr. Taft dubbed “the bolter.” All day long In practieally every one of the dozen speeches he made | Taft called upon republicans to con- in mind Mr. Cleveland speech wherein the | president said the colonel prophesied a He continued of the party does not change h | sider | veir's TRIED TO INDUCE HIM TO GIVE UP DRINKING Von Armenthal’'s Swestheart Testifies Before the Coroner's Jury. Chicago, May 20.—A coroner's jury today returned a verdict of sulctde in the case of Henry Spruck wen Armen- thal, a brother of a German baron, who ‘was found shot to death in a hotel here bolt. wreck attitude und is not assured of the nomination by the re- publican_convention. party existed, alwaye stood for | whether rupted man. The crowds that turned out today were fully up to the mark set earlier n and at several towns e estimation o loc wish to see it dis- to gratify the ambition of one rincipal witness at the inquest was Mrs. Frances Rosenblatt, a nisce Nelsan Morris, to wham Ar- enthal referred tn a letter he loft aw the world™ Friends said the coupiels enwagement was broken off on asnotmt of to quit drink- in the campa flcials ar erings. demonstrations | which brought smile to face, Armenthal's fnabllit Mre, Rosanblai! made no refersnce to the reported angugement in her tes- mile bis priy land uny T. L. Rhodes o fident that he will be abi 1 nin New Jersey on Thy believed tonight that rest to- morrow Thursday will not come amiss engagement cne at the polls st Cincinnati and he expects to leaye () | noon for Wasbingor last Friday, in one of which he threat- ened to kill himself, she met him at the home of Atiorney W. D, Jones. “He was under the Influsnos of lq- uor when 1 met him,” she tastified. “1 trisd to preveil drinking, but i did no good. ook serfously Drinking heav him to quit hle threats to end hie Iy cansed his de- in the after- WHEAT TAKES A PURTHER DROP Down More Than Two Cents from Saturday’s Figures. Chicago, May 20. orders executed on & demand WILL BE NO COMPROMISE. Peorin, | Roosevelt Says\ He'll Name Compro- mise Candidate and “He'll Be M Dennison, Ghle, May 20—The Resse- velt campaign in Ohbie came to an end After hie had dellvered his here today, Epescy in Dennison, the former presi- | dent started for Oyster Bay, where te be Wwhen the | he expects from the Ohle primary 20.—Ten | merrew mHight, “onnell | points in his. speeches today, finst that there would be no compro- ht, and was attired | extermination commiitea of schos] |mise in the seleetion of a republican ting that he was a Ja- | teachers is in charge of (he erusade, | candidate for president so far as he and will distribute: rewards o nhwl‘w"m coneerned, ‘Ul padne the compromise candis|