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,F t--. T - il "S THE WASHINGTON TIMES, TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1911. VERDICT EXPECTED More Protests in the L IN BARTON MILLER CA E THIS EVENING iFate of Alleged Embezzler Rests in Hands of -i Jury. only after 3 o'clock. In Criminal came a source or disease Nown . , .. . ... 4v.Put " on tne fields and it becomes rt. No. 1, the case was given to tnelg0,jen graih." Twelve men, locked In a room at the iClty Hall this afternoon are consider ing the guilt or Innocence of John Bar ton Miller, alleged embezzler of 1135,000 Ifrom the wrecked First Co-Operative Building Association of Georgetown, Sh Court, Jury, closing Miller's second trial on the anniversary of his former trial last year. A verdict is expected from the 'Jury late this afternoon. Lengthy Instructions to the jury by Justice Wright marked the finale of Miller's trlal. following four hours of argument today by attorneys for Miller .and the Government. This morning at 10:15 o'clock, Assist ant United States District Attorney James Proctor opened the arguments of counsel, the prosecution and defense be ing given two hours each for analysis lOf the evidence to the Jury. Criminal Court. No. 1, was jammed with spectators during the arguments this morning. Every seat and point of vantage In the aisles of the court room was packed solid with the crowd, Among the throng! were a score of -wit nesses, former directors of the defunct company, and several stockholders who lost their entire sayings of years. A 'half dozen women were among the crowd, but the wlfeteof the defendant was not present. Miller Takesf Notes. Miller made rapid nooes of arguments of Assistant United Staaes District At torney Proctor, prompting his attorneys as to refutation of thei statements of the prosecution. Branding of Miller asi an "embezzler and Dettv swindler in addition," was objected to by Miller's- attorney, Henry E. Davis. He frequently objected to statements of the prosecution, denying the evidence warranted assumptions de clared by attorneys for the Government, causing frequent clashesbetween coun sel. Attorney Proctor declared the undis puted evidenceiintroduced, regardless of disputed facts, showed Miller clearly guilty of embezzlement. Attorney John E. Laskey followed At torney Proctor, making the opening ad dress to the Jury-for the defense. Mr. Laskey said the boot-keeping of the Georgetown company ttlld not require Miller's entry of the Cppp and Black man notes In the cash book, but In other accounts, of whlchfthe records are missing. x Attorney Henry E. Dan-is made the closing plea for Miller this afternoon, declaring the Government had utterly failed to prove Miller guilty either of embezzlement or destruction, of the com pany's books. United States District Attorney Wilson made the closing address for the Gov ernment to the jury, being fjollowed by lhe Instructions to the jury 'by Justice Wright. Of eleven instructions io meijury i- omax (Continued from First Page.) senseless when we do such a thing., I cannot believe that the way to stop murder is to commit more murders, and i, therefore, am horrified at the prospect of the hanging of Mattle Lo max.' Mr. Van Schaick's View. "Now I would call attention to what Mr. Van Schalck said, as follows: " 'Upon what ground do wo base our opposition to the hanging of a woman In the District of Columbia? Simply upon the broad proposition that society has advanced far enough to do some thing else with such women than to destroy them. There Is no sex problem men. Such men and women are the waste products of society. Shall we learn to utilize waste products -of in dustry, agriculture, and even the waste products of spwers and never learn to utilize waste human products? Once tho waste of the house stay ed by the house," said Conway, "and especially repugnant to the Idea of tak lng a woman's life. I also feel that It would be more of a national disgrace to have a woman hanged In Washing- ion tnan in any state. Washington should and does typify the best Ameri can sentiment and ideals In art, sciences, literature, politics, and national llfk. It should typify the best In law and insti tutions. For these reasons, and because I feel our duty to humanity demands that we do more for erring men and women than merelv destroy them. T 'sincerely hope President Taft will com mute the Mattle Lomax sentence." Three More Religious Organizations Join in Pleas for Mattie Lbmax Once waste human products lay In Jails or workhouses, lazy, diseased, im moral. Tcsterday at Occoquan I saw them making bricks, crushing stone, building roads and dwellings, clearing the stump lots and tilling the soli. And In the doing they were being recon structed themselves. " 'Is there nothing, for us to do with men and women who commit the grav est crimes, but to Kill them? That. Indeed, Is tho easiest thing. It takes but little brains to slip a noose and choke out a life. It is as easy to burv a murderer as It Is to hurr n. rtnr. Rut is that all we know as e people? cani we work out a plan to uphold the stern righteousness of the law and protect human society from the impul sive and degenerate, and at the same time utilize the hlghost teachings wo possess on the reconstruction of the de linquent, the rehabilitation of the de ficient, the reform of the offender? "'What If we do have to keep mur derers Incarcerated for life? We may learn perhaps In time why they became murderers. We mav find out a few things even In the churches, which will save other boys and girls, and a thou sand times- over repay the cost." The Line of Duty. "These, two statements go to the root It. Is to strive ceaselessly to make them right. The remedy Is not to kill people after they have committed crime, but to make the environment of people such that they won't want to commit crime. Life is God-given, and was intended to be good, not evil; It Is evil only as It has been nerverted. We should, en deavor to reclaim it to good. "Of course, this cannot be done In a day or in a generation, but it should be the end toward which we labor. Take the case of a child. I don't believe It Is necessary to take a child and put its hand In the fire in order to teach It that the Are will harm It. There Is a better, a more enlightened, more hu mane method. We should appeal to the child's reason, and we should make the environment of the child such that it will have reason to appeal to. That is exactly our duty. In a bigger, broader way. to unfortunate men and women who are still children In mental and moral vision. That Is our duty toward the Mattle Lomaxes of the world. Utilizing Waste Products. "But what, some may ask, are we to do with these grown children In the In terim between today and the day when we realize the ideal? That question Is answered conclusively by Mr. Van Schalck. The people he saw at Occo quan are waste products of society, yet they are producing values for the good of society, ana are receiving every op portunity to redeem themselves by their labors. It will De necessary " riri doers of evil for there will be doers of ..ll .. man., ir ,9 r Viftth tfT thff TlrO- -A hr Miller onlv three were granted oy I . cr,Mair nn4 fnr thlr nfn nro- Justfce Wright, who also denied four tection DUt it is not necessary' to de- We, the officers and members of tho Vermont Avenue Baptist Sun day school, do heartily Indorse and appreciate the stand taken by The Washington Times in the case of Mattle E. Lomax, who was recently sentenced to be hanged for the mur der of her husband. We wish to state that we do not desire to be placed in the light of condoning crime, or hoping that evil doers should go unpunished, btjt the hang ing of a woman in the District at this 'time would cast a gloom over our Christian city. However, we feel or tne case. The fact that we have ; "ir.T., V . """'" UD "' vr murders shows that our social condi- OT." ? L?.eX ? h.a" tlons are not right. Our duty, as I see rame time have Its effect on the corn- Three more religious organizations of colored people have adopted resolutions on the Lomax case. The Baptist Con ference of Colored Ministers, at a meet ing yesterday at Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, by a vote of 14 to 5, declared against the hanging of the condemned woman, and in favor of supporting Tho Washington Times' movement for com mutation of her sentence. It also was decided to participate In the circulation of petitions for signatures to be pre sented to the Presldelft. The Vermont Avenue Baptist Sunday School adopted a resolution Sunday, in dorsing The Times' efforts and declar ing against the death penalty. The Vermont Avenue Baptist Church Is the largest Baptist church of colored people in the country. The Sunday school's res olution ioiiows: e,ase hi biiuiMiftLn wt n l n i emu mi WJ FA tiKnoya EXCURS1DM FWOS a. us.., Lft . . . self-defense. Mrs. Frecmill says: "Let me law De entorced as a warning," and I saj so, too. If there is not a color line drawn in Justice. Do you think the death penalty upon tbls woman would lessen the crimes In the District? I do not. I hope, the President will look upon her case as the Judges and Jurymen look' upon othir women. Mrs. M. K. E. Cites the Divine Will. To the Editor of THE TIMES: Being an ardent reader of your taper. I have become Intensely Interested In the many letters sent you In regard to the hanging next month of this poor, unfortunate woman, Mattle Lomax, and I wish to expressmy opinion In refer ence to same. "What would Jesus do?" Is the ques tion which .comes to my mind as I read of the case, and mv sincere hnna nn,i prayer is that mercv will h ntumti,.! toward this poor soul and she will not ue cnoiceaiio aeatn tor ner crime. "Thou shalt not kill" is meant as much for those who kill the murderer as for the murderers themselves. If God wished her to die there would" not have to-be any capital punishment! She would be found dead In her cell. We do not give life; how dare we take It would be better to put away all those who take life and give them a chance to become educated and made useful to the world. Two wrongs never have made condi tions right, and by hanging this woman here in our Capital would leave In the minds of the entire nation a feeling of shame that never would be forgotten May President Taft be the means of having her sentence changed from death to life Imprisonment! MRS. CLAUDE E. SMITH. Alexandria Negroes, Delay ed on Trip, Ask Re turn of Money. of five special Instructions requested by the Government. History of Case. Justice Wright, following a decision of the District -jCourt of Appeals In gran'lng Mllle- a. new trial last April, refused an Instruction asked by Miller that he" could contend that he was not gul!tv of embezzlement on the ground that "the stockholders were his co-partners. At Miller's former trial last, spring he was convicted by a Jury and sentenced bv Justice Stafford to twenty years in the penitentiary, the District Court of Appeals granting the present new trial on the ground that Justice Stafford had made erroneous Instructions to the Jury prejudiciar to Miller. ' Since his conviction last year Miller has ben at liberty under heavy bonds, and engaged in real estate business In the Oxford bulldln?. i Htrov them." Mrs. Andrews Is one of the best In formed women of the District, and has resided here for more than fifteen years. She has been active In women's club work almost constantly since coming here from Hastings. Neb., when her husband was elected to Congress. Four teen years ago Mr. Andrews was made Auditor for the Treasury, and through out his entire political and official career Mrs. Andrews has shared equally with him interest In the subjects which have demanded his attention. She has been a close student of social and economic problems as well as political questions and has always been active In move ments for the advancement oi numau welfare. Hopes for Commutation. "I instinctively rebel at the thought of organized society taking a human life," said Mrs. Andrews, "and I feel munlty at large. The Sunday school and the Epworth League of the Asbury Church passed resolutions Sunday stronglv commend ing the attitude of The Washington Times In Its work In behalf of Mattlo E. Lomax. A petition for commutation of her sentence was also circulated, and obtained numerous signatures, and will be forwarded to the President. It Is eviflent that the mass meeting of colored people called for this evening at the Cosmopolitan Baptist Church will be largely attended. The committee on arrangements has distributed 5,000 cir culars announcing the meeting, and no tices of the meeting have been sent through all colored organizations of the city. The speakers tonight will be Samuel D. Trultt. attorney for Mattle Lomax; E. M. Hewlett. Henry L. Johnson. W. T. Vernon, the Rev. Simon P. W. Drew, and others. At the meeting plans will be made for circulation of petitions, which will later be presented to the President. Some of the letters on the Lomax case received by The Times today follow: Matter of Respect. To the Editor of THE TIMES: We bury the dead out of respect to ourselves and In honor of their memory; so out of resnect to ourRplvp lot no nnt .have to see or know that a wnmnn dangles at the end of a rope, while her soui taxes its nignt unbidden or un called to Its Maker, not only in the Na tional Capital, but anywhere under the starry nag. a. A. E UJ 17 V ALL THIS WEEK r JaUJI a small silk FLAG! TO EYERY CUSTOMER IV EXTRA! mk WITH EVERY POUND CAN OF OUR TALCUM POWDER We wilKgive absolutely FREE half-pound box of our famous Antiseptic Bath, Toilet and Douche Powder. A Blessing in Powdered Form. for Hot Weatier. Burning and Itching, Use Evans' Compound Toilet Talcum Powder flOLET BOBATED PERRJMELS COMPOUND JTOl LET TALCUM (WAHAUTf CD UKBCRTHC FOOO fr gg-j AND DUUC3 ACTJUHC O.I04.f-g fvHjSv DWJ 3 GiST n? Against Death Penalty. To the Editor of THE 'TIMES. I have read In The Times the different opinions expressed In the case of Mattle E. Lomax. I am a woman and that Is why I can have such an Interest In her. I am opposed to capital punishment and always have been, and I was great ly surprised when I saw that she was to hang on July 31. If we are a Chris tian nation and governed bv the same law In getting Justice, whether we be white or black, all sentences should be the same. I cannot see why this wom an's fate should be worse than Nan Patterson's, Mrs. A. M. Bradley's, and the Mrs. Bonlne's. Mattle Lomax's trou ble was with her own husband, and not another man, and In this case I cannot see why the sentence of death should be Imposed upon her unless It Is her Being a black woman. If she had been a white woman she would have been ac quitted on the ground of Insanity or Denounces Legal Murder. To the Editor or THE TIMES: Much ha been written and published In your paper relative to Mattle Lomax. I am opposed to capital punisnment. No man-made law could satisfy me us to its Justice. The law of God does not sanction it, neither does the heart of man. On; the tables of stone given to Moses was written: "Thou ahalt do no murder;" there were no lfa and ands, theie was no penalty attached. God's command stood, "Thou shalt not." Moses formulated the severa laws that governed the Israelites; he Bald "An eYe for an eye, a tooth for a tooth." He said: "He that sheddeth man's blood by man shall his blood be shed. ' Yet Moses, the greatest law-giver and moral code-maker that ever lived, killed the Egyptian. He looked this way and that, and wnen he saw there was no man, he slew the Egyptian and hid him in the sand." See Exodus chapter 2: 11th to ZSth verse. When Cain killed Abel God put a mark on him that no man should slay him. Christ said to the thief on the cross, condemned to death: "This day shalt thou be with me In Para dise." And at the culmination of that fearful sacrifice for the sins of the whole world he cried: "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." That was 2,000 years ago, and yet to day men consign their fellow-beings to a death, through which they have al ready passed In days and nights of an guish which we could never realize, with the words, "May God have mercy on your souL" How can the legal murder sanctioned by the law or man be Just? The hang man, an officer of that same law, has from all time been held In horror and his identity kept secret. It has not been so long since the wretch who stole to appease the pangs of hunger was ad judged guilty of crime and suffered the extreme penalty of the law. The last criminal of that class, In England, was a young woman who stole bread for her hungry child; she was not hanged, but a Jury of her merciful countrymen turned her alive Into the hands of med ical students that they might fully ex amine through a live subject the cir culation of the blood. This may occa sion doubt, but it Is so written. The time for the law of barbarians, of whatever kind. Is passed. AVhen Gul teau killed President Garfield everyone knew the horrors or that death caused by the hand of a self-acknowledged murderer actuated by personal disap pointment, yet there were lawyers found to defend him. When the good and pure McKInley fell before the bullet of the assassin, sent by an organization that plainly d--clared Its object to be the destruction of all law and order, men pleaded for his life and sought to turn aside the fact that we "have a law and by that law he ought to die." Even In those cases It was evident that public opinion was in a measure against capital pun ishment. But capital punishment will never do away with murder nor any of the crimes that blot tlft earth. Do not hang the woman, not because WASHINGTON TIMES BUREAU, ALEXANDRIA, VA...JUNE 13. After waiting until after 9 o'clock last night for a steamboat that was to con vey them to a down-river resort on the annual excursion of Mt. Jessup's Church, nearly 200 negroes descended upon John Wilson, chairman of the ex cursion committee, demanding the re turn of their mony, and had It not been for the Intervention of Officer Banner T. Young, the man might have been roughly handled. Young carried Wilson to the station house, followed by the mob of excited would-be excurslonUsts, where It was discovered that during the melee the man had been robbed of a bag contain ing about $15 of the receipts. As much of the balance as was left, however, was returned to the excursionists, they tiling In the station one at a time. Wilson later swore out a warrant for the arrest of Joshua Leach, claiming that he had assaulted him. A tine of $5 was Imposed in police court this morning. In recognition of her sen-Ices to R. E. Lee Camp of Confederate Veterans, Mrs. E. H. O'Brien was presented with a handsome loving cup, suitably in scribed, the presentation being made by John M. Johnson. Mrs. O'Brien responded gracefully in a speech In which she reviewed the history of the Lee Camp Hall. All of the auxiliary Confederate associations were present. During the evening a quartet com posed of Mrs. Dr. O'Brien, Mrs. R. F. Downey, Kenneth Ogden, and George H. Evans rendered several selections, following which light refreshments were served. Expense Reduced Dr. Samuel makes no charge for consultation ---.- .....,0 ntnucut visits. .ferBouauy niuug ail glasses he sees to it that not only are they cor rect lOr VOUr PVM. hut that th.v tit vm raAfiil. i&ii5nd comfortably. Hours, 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. From $1 Iin daily. Balcony Parlor-Look for the electric sign. I TU1II I up 0 But one case was before the lurv. and a true bill returned, that of Sadie Ros3, colored, accused of fraudulent!' obtaining $100 from the Alexandria Na tional Bank through the forged Indorse ment to a check of her employer's name. Dr. George T. Kllpsteln. The personnel of the Jury was as follows: R. M. Graham, foreman. E M. Anderson, Urban S. Lambert, Oscar W. Phillips. C. H. Phillips. S. L. Mon roe, J. Fred Blrrell, John T. Harrison. John McCuen. James M. Duncan, C. B. Marshall, and M. L. King. The Past Master's and Most Excel lent Master's degrees will be confer red upon several candidates at the regular convocation of Mt. 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