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The Washington times., 1911-06-10
AWAIT RETURN OF
STAGE,STRUCK GIRL
TO QUESTION AGENT
Detective Going to Durham,
N. c., for Gertrude
Rollins.

Until Gertrude Rollins. fifteen years
old. arrives here some time within the
next two days, accompanied by Central
Office Detective Baur, Harry White.
theatrical booking agent, will not be
given hearing on the violations of the
child-labor law charged against him.
Detective Baur will start for Durham,
n. C, this afternoon at Ais to interrupt
the stage career selected by Miss Rol-
Inns, the police say, with the aid of Mr..
White.
Miss Rollins disappeared from her
home. 613 East Capitol street, Thursday,
and her mother, Mrs Florence Rollins,
appealed to the police to find her daugh-
ter. An investigation disclosed that Miss
Rollins had been booked for a summer
stock company playing in Durham. At
the request of the local police, ]. +.
Freeland, chief of the Durham police, is
OBTAINING the girl.
White, when arrested yesterday after
noon at his office, lila G street, was re-
leased on $500 bond for his appearance
before the Juvenile Court this morning
He came with his attorney, F. E.
Mitchell, but the Government requested
a postponement, which was allowed.
and the case set for hearing on June 20
White, through his attorney, freely
discussed the charges against him, and
said that he had obtained the position
for the Rollins girl on her representa-
ton that she was eighteen years old.
and that he had required her mothers
signature to the contract. He said that
the Rollins girl told him her mother was
III, but took the contract and brought il
back to him properly signed as far as
he knew.
Captain Boardman said today that the
only case in which the police depart
ment is interested in reference to Mr..
White is the Rollins case.
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A Few Questions.

To the Editor Of THE TINES:
Just a few questions anent the Lomax
case:
1. II il is wrong to hang a woman in
Washington, Is 1t right somewhere else?
2. II II is wrong to hang a woman for
a certain crime, is II right to hang a
man for the same crime?
g. Does capital punishment conduce to
the Iessening Of crime or the elevation
of the moral sensibIlities of a COM
munity?
t. What element of human nature pre-
dominates in the Endorsement and exc
cution OF capital punishment?
s. Which is the higher and more
sacred, life or law?
g. What is the primary difference be-
tween taking human life by law and
taking 1t without law?
Z. There have been cases where 1t was
later found that innocent lives were
taken by law. Was II right or wrong?
If wrong, upon whom does the guilt
rest? CONSTANT READER.
The Washington times., 1911-06-10
Scores Opponents of Hanging.

To the Editor OF THE TIMES:
If you will permit me the space,
will thank you very much to publish
my views in regard to the execution OF
Matte Lomax. cannot help but agree with
John E. Prospect in regard to letting
the law take Its course in such cases.
Some of the people of Washington seem
very much wrought up over this case.
Do you mean to tell me you want to
harbor murder and crime in our city
and country? I say II person be
guilty of murder and proven so by the
law, let him pay the penalty, without
regard to color or sex. Tnere Is no rea-
son why a woman II found guilty OF
murder, and proven so, should not be
executed. We have too many such
cases In our country now to harbor such
things
/ am surprised at The Times in trying
to uphold murder in our city. II our
Senators and newspapers uphoid murder
in our city and country, what can We
expect of the people, and, especially, the
coming generation? Instead of having a
National CAPITAL, we will have a ma
tional slaughterhouse for the whole ma
ton TO bring its crime to. Some say
let this execution take place I cannot
see II that way. AS this Is the National
Capital and the head Of our country,
this is the right place to set the exam
pie. II we allow murder IN the SdpllaI
Of our Country, what can we expect or
the rest of the country?
Do you think It is proper to try to con-
denim the Judgment of our courts when
they are trying to uphold the laws Of
our country?
In regard to the Rev. Simon P. w.
Drew holding a mass meeting to obtain
signers against the execution, does the
word Of God tell him to uphold crime!
No, I think noti Does not the WORD
of God say thou shalt not kill? Is he
trying to commute the word Of God, too,
by saying: Thou shalt kll? AS
minister Of the Gospel, he had better
follow Gods teachings little closer.
I can not say am in favor Of hang
ing. but 1 am in favor of capital punish
ment in cases of murder and assault.
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Salient Testimony in Lomax Trial Reviewed

murdered her husband, the undersigned
desires to ask few questions:
Why should the petticoat be held as a
shield for a crime so atrocious? Does
the mere fact that the man came to his
death by the hands of his wife lessen
to the evidence shown in the case.
brought in a verdict of murder in the
first degree? Does the fact that the
deed was committed in the District
lessen the intensity of death, and would
the Communication Of the sentence i'm
posed render a lesser number of MUIR
ders OF men at the hands OF women?
And, considering ali OF these questions,
would not man committing the same
crime be allowed to go to the gauows
with no universal plea being made in
his behalf for Communication of his SEN
tence? Would the hanging in the Dis
trict Of this woman be any more dis
graceful to the nation than the hanging
elsewhere?
Make Lay a Mockery.
The crime of murder was committed,
a soul has been sent into eternity, and
why should coldNblooded murderess be
allowed mercy?
IN one case should fit in another, and
II, according to the opinion of twelve
men, the evidence was strong enough
to convict Matte Lomax and call for
the death penalty by hanging. no line
should be drawn. 1t would only make
of law a mockery and incite other-wom-
en- Of the same caIiber to murder.
In fairness to men placed in the same
position, the writer is Of the opinion
that the sentence imposed should be
carried out, unless new evidence is
brought out showing extenuating cir
cumstances or facts tending to show
sen-defense. In my opinion, the law
should be no respecter Of sex where
facts show murder READER.
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frienas, would the jury have convicted
her?
Mrs. Bradley lives, why not let Mat
tie Lomax liver
Had the law had It's way in Ken
lucky Mr.. Powers would not have been
in this city today, to plead for the
doomed woman. Is the world worse
that Mr.. Powers is alive, and is now a
member Of the National Congress, by
the votes OF his indicating fellow cit
liens, that are proud that the. gallows
was, in his case, deprived of an in
tended victim.
In my Judgment The Times can give
space to no more worthy agitation than
this one. And the suggestion by Mr..
declare upon the subject is most fit
ting one. Is 1t not disappointing that
the churches have been so reticent or
so negative, upon the archaic barbar1sms
Of the criminal law. Was 1t in the
spirit of the revolving horrors of a
puUic hanging that the Founder Of
Christianity said, LET him that is with
out sin among you cast the first stone
at her, and said to the woman.
Neither do I condemn thee; go and
Was not that better than stoning her
to death? Is that law of mercy and
pardon without life in this age?
l certainly favor the plea for stay
of sentence, not simply that she Is
woman, for woman can be. and has
been, as daring, as desperate, and as
fiendish in crime as man, but because,
no criminal is wholly to blame, and be-
cause capital punishment. death for
death, is not remedial, but vengeful,
and does not tend to humanize, but
does brutalize a community, men and
women, and children. and because
hanging is most aggravatingly and re-
voltingly out of accord with the spirit
of this age. and the high aims of the
American people: and likewise. II we
put ourselves in her place, man or
woman, We would know 1t is not onlv
unjust. but barbarous. ''Alive she Is
our friend; dead. her friends are our
enemies" JAMES HUGH KELLEY.
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Deaths.
WHITE.

Harry A Baker, "a Government Hos
pital for the Insane.
Franz Lucke. Sc, Georgetown University
James Gaghan. 80, Baseball Park, Sew
enth street and Florida avenue north
west
Richard Nelson, Al. Providence Hos
Henry Betazzoni. 81. 432 Tenth street
MARY ar a. Malloy, 81, $500 Champlain
street northwest.
Albert H. Grant. 81, Emergency Hos
Norman F. Mantiply, 46. Georgetown
University Hospital:
Ulysses X. Owens. IS, Emergency Hos
pital.
Charles E. Biggs. IS. 24lo 1 street north
Margaret A. Cummings, 2, 121S V street
southeast. 90,
Annie c. Esthridge. infant, 219 Fifteenth
street southeast.
COLORED.
Norris Wallace, II, Children's Hospital
James A. Slade, IS, 1212 Linden street
northeast.
Bessie Burgess q. Freedmen's Hospital;
Francis Peyton, 81, 4O5 Twenty-second
street northwest -
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Wants Court to Stop,
Motor Chugs and Smoke

To stop the "chug-chug" of automo-
biles and their couds of gasolene smoke
from a. m. until after midnight, he
allege, William A. Fenwick, lessee of
the Donald Hotel. l0dS-l2 Thirteenth
street northwest, today filed an injunc-
ton suit in the District Supreme Court
against Fred n. Stark, proprietor of q
garage in the rear of the hotel
Fenwick says the automobile shop is
a public nuisance, asking a permanent
injunction against the noise, smoke, and
smells, which he says are ''unbearable,' -
and cause his guests TO leave. He says
his guests are deprive of sleep, leopard
izing their health, and he must move
unless the alleged nuisances are abated
Birney & Woodward are his attorneys.
The Washington times., 1911-06-10
ARTHUR WILLIS sPoONE
To the Editor OF THE TINES:
"PetrOliticS,"

New York chauffeurs may learn
something from a recent London police
court case. A taxicab driver in the me-
tropolis was charged with intoxication
and he pleaded that the fumes of the
gasolene from his machine were to
blame IT only had two glasses of
whisky" said the chauffeur to the mag
istrate, land what the policeman
thought were the effects OF alcohol
were due to the fumes from the petrol.
Just before the accident 1 had to blow
some Of the tubes, and inhaled the
fumes" The London papers call this
new excuse "petrolitics." The magis-
trate called the offense plain drunk, "
to use a New York term, and acted ac-
cordingly.-New York Press.
The Washington times., 1911-06-10
Weekly Bank Showing
Was Satisfactory

NEW YORK, June Io.-The weekly
bank statement shows the following
changes:
. Reserve on all deposits, increase.
$3.50, $50.
Reserve on deposits other than United
States, increase, 1870 AIS.
Loans, increase, $6,7S9,SO0
Specie, increase, S42SS, 800.
Loans. increase, Sc, 49, 800.
Deposits. increase. l0,502, 600.
Circulation, decrease, $685., 500.
Total loans tire, S1,352 AZ, 500.
Surplus, S29. 233, 200. as compared with
t2S.52l, 200 a year ago, and s1S.424,s25 two
years ago.
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Husband an Annoyance.

To the Editor OF THE TIMES:
have tried to keep up with the Mat
tie Iomax case, and am anxious to see
what would become OF her. I will not
agree to hanging her. because a woman
with a husband has something to go
through with at times.
II the woman had not had cause to
kill her husband don't htink she would
have done II. MRS. H. n.
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Calls It Inadequate.

To the Editor OF THE TIMES:
Through the remote ages there has
not appeared a more horrifying crime
than that of murder.
Being opposed to capital punishment
upon the ground of its inadeQuacy to
cope with the situation l am there
fore doubly in favor of your conten-
ton in behalf of Matte LomaX. If
you send a petition to the President,
see that my name is written there.
CHARLES CHARLES.
The Washington times., 1911-06-10

I'm not crazy, but If you do not give
me more money ! will kill you"
Sands testified that the woman came
to the oyster house frequently; that
they frequently quarreled about it.
Employees of the oyster house, who
met the woman there when she was
looking for her husband about midnight
the night of the shooting, also testihed
she had threatened to kill him. One OF
them testified she had said to him:
Expect to Kill Him."
He promised to come down to his
room tonight. and he did not come. He
is a low-down pup; he is not as good
as a cur dog. He never will poke his
head inside of this cafe; 1 expect to
kill him."
, John T. Jackson, a colored policeman,
testified he had seen Matte Lomax and
her husband standing on the street one
evening in September, last year; that
they quarreled. and that she said: I
am going to kill you" He tesuhed
she had once met him on the street and
said to him:
II have been down to that house on
Eighteenth street, where my husband
lives at and could not see him; they
wont let me in there. l am going I"
kill him.
When the defendant took the stand
in her own behalf she denied she had
had a pistol when she quarreled with
her husband at the oyster house, ana
also denied having made any of the
threats to kill him.
In his argument, counsel for the de-
Tense maintained that the only evidence
upon which conviction could stand were
these threats, and he contended that
If the jury believed they were made, It
should consider that the woman had
been assaulted so many times by her
husband that she was, naturally, angry
and resentful toward him. and may
have spoken of him in abusive terms.
but that this did not necessarily prove
deliberate. premeditated purpose to
murder him.
Murder in First Degree.
1t was contained that, as part of the
woman's story Of the tragedy had beer
substantiated, it was reasonable to sup
pose the rest of it was true. He cited
the fact that no evidence had been pre-
scented to disprove her account Of what
happened in Lomax's room.
The court Justice Wright informed
the jury in his instructions, that 1t
could bring in a verdict of acquittal on
the ground of self-defense, of murder
in the first degree. of murder in the
second degree, or of manslaughter.
Its verdict was murder In the first
degree, which left the court no alterna-
tive, but to condemn the woman to die
July 81 has been set as the date for
execution Of the sentence.
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Law Is Law.

To the Editor of THE TIMES:
That is a fine piece of work that you
have done in exciting the fool sentimen-
tally among the people in reference to
the case of the woman Lomax,
However, there is nothing original
about your course: You merely follow
in the footsteps Of that yellow journal,
the New York American. Law is law.
it applies equally to both sexes.
II there were less of your kind in the
world II would be better off.
congratulate you upon having reach
ed the pinnacle of idiocy. Yours very
truly, R H. ATKINSON.
17S5 U street northwest.
The Washington times., 1911-06-10
Miss Pendleton Named
AS Wellesley President

WELLESLEY, Mass, June 10.-The
election of Ellen Fitz-Pendleton as pres
ident of Wellesley College was announ-
ced at chapel today. Miss Pendleton as
dean, has been acting as president for
some time. She is the first graduate of
Wellesley TO become its PRESIDENT.
The Washington times., 1911-06-10
Not a Question of Sex.

To the Editor of THE TIMES:
/ feel impelled to add mine to the
swelling volume Of protests against the
hanging Of Matte E. Lomax, and would
be glad if you would permit me to make
nv position clear.
Ftrst-My protest is not based upon
the TACT that the criminal in question
Is woman. l cannot see that the
matter of sex should be allowed to en-
ter at all into the case, or that it has
any legitimate bearing upon the situa-
ton. II capital punishment Is justi1-
able under any considerations, II would
act be the hanging of the woman that
would disgrace womanhood, as has been
urged by some, but the crime of which
she is plainly guilty.
Second-Neither does the fact that
this execution would occur in the Dis
trict Of Columbia, appeal TO my sense
Of Justice, or propricty. To be sure the
Capital Of this great Republic may we'll
set an example worthy of imitation and
emulation by the entire nation, but II
should be very cautious about allowing
justice to be taken captive by senti-
mentalism.
l am opposed absolutely to capital
punishment for at least three reasons.
First On scriptural grounds. The
New Testament furnishes to me the
infallihle rule for mans treatment OF
man under all conditions, and nowhere
within the sacred volume which voices
the new dispensation fulfillment Of the
divine code. can there be found a single
clause authorizing the taking Of life as
a penalty for any specific crime In
deed. both in precept and example 1t is
tom.
Second-I am fully convinced. after
many years of observation, that the
execution of mCrderers BY any method
whatever, has no deterrent effect upon
the criminal mind. When a man or wo-
man murderously inclined. reaches the
point where the act becomes possible,
the vision Of the gallows or electri:
chair fades from sight. Even If detected
in the crime he expects to escape the
extreme penalty, and usually does.
Comparative statistics demonstrate. l
believe, that capital punishment does
not lessen crime.
Third-This awful fact has to be faced
ishment-that sometimes, doubtless more
frequently than We are aware. limo
cent men suffer for the crimes of others
are legally murdered. How unspeak-
ably horrible! Imprisonment for life
with no hope of pardon unless fnno-
cence is established. would, I am con-
WINGED, not only be more in harmony
with the teachings of Christianity, and
more humane, but, at the same timer
more effectively subserve the ends OF
ARTHUR WILLIS sPooNER;
To the Editor Of THE TINES:
I trust the President will not let
Matte Lomax hang. 1t rests with
him now l cannot believe the Presi-
dent will remain silent, after such
appeals as have read in The Times,
our charitable newspaper.
l think she was temporarily insane,
and God only knows what treatment
she received from the man she killed
that prompted the murder in her
heart. We cannot give life, and why
should we stand by and see 1t taken.
1 hope every day will bring more
appeals and that every man and wo-
man that has the honor to know our
President personally will try to
arouse his sympathy for this unfor-
tunate woman. MRS. H. G. COOMBE.
The Washington times., 1911-06-10
Why Petticoat Protection

To the Editor OF THE TIMES:
Having read so much lately relative
to communicating the death sentence OF
Matte Lomax, the negro woman who
The Washington times., 1911-06-10
The Vital Records.
Births.

WHITE.
Dave and Serah Sherling, boy.
J. Earle and Eta Whaley, boy
Orvtlle B. and Mary A. Drown, girl.
Guss and Mary Forte, girl
John NJ. and Ethel NJ Cries, boy.
Bernard and Lille NJ Hazel, girl.
Charles NJ. and Ella E. Kieso, boy.
Luigi and Angela F. Minossi, boy.
Joseph B. and Mabel H. Sampsell, boy.
COLORED.
Edward and Mary Meter boy
The Washington times., 1911-06-10
LOCAL MENTION

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WHITE.
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both Of Washington.
Richard c. Roszel and Flora Gibson,
both Of Loudoun county. Va
George S. Bremmerman and Christina
Hurdle, both of Washington.
Bonnie L. Williams and Lillye A. Tuck
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Walter r. McClatchy, of Washington,
and Loyal E. Shipley, of Atlantic City,
n. ].
washington B. Bowie. of Prince George
County, Nd. and Frances c. Dodge, of
Georgetown, D. {.
Edward Coffman and Alice Mckenley,
both of Washington.
A. Lapin Cohen, of Detroit, and Dora
Sherman, of Washington.
BALTIMORE, Nd. June 10-Marriage
license issued to Robert c. Valentine,
Thirteenth street northwest, Washing
ton. and Ruth ElliCott.
John L. Rotchford, Washington, D. c.,
and Rosala Hobbs secured license to
wed here.
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GET TIE HABIT

The Saturday issue Of Tns
Times has on-the-minuts news
Of the real estate world. Gee
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Mrs, Bradley's Case.

In that same courtroom several years
ago. a jury acquitted the ably defend
ed Mrs. Anna NJ. Bradley, though she
had shot to his death. IN this city, ex-
Senator Arthur NJ. Brown.
II Matte Lomax were white and had
money. or the prestige Of powerful
The Washington times., 1911-06-10
Letters Show People
Greatly Interested in
Lomax WOman'S Case

Letters from readers interested in
the Lomax case continue to arrive at
The Times office in large numbers
with every mail. A few of those re-
ceived today follow:
The Washington times., 1911-06-10

BRAETHoRN CoTTAGE-Most convenient
and desirable location for roomers on the
heights: large airy rooms. For terms address
MRS. MAY s. MARKELL. Braddock. Nd.
The Washington times., 1911-06-10

The weak point in the Lomax defense,
and at the same time the strong point
in the Governments case, was the
testimony Of several persons who de-
clared they had heard Matte Lomax
threaten to kill her husband.
Harry E. Sands, proprietor Of the
oyster house where Lomax was employ
ed, testified that in the spring OF 1910
the wife went to the oyster house and
quarreled with her husband about
money and that she had q. revolver
with her. He said Lomax took the re-
volver away from his wife. Sands tes-
timony concerning this incident was as
follows:
Q.-what did he say to her?
A.-The only remarkes heard him say
were my God, Matte, what Is the
matter are you crazsl" She says. mo.
The Washington times., 1911-06-10
Marriage Licenses.

EDWARD and Mary Meter, boy.
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