The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-13
FAMOUS CRIMINAL CASE IS RECALLED BY MASSEY WILSON Some Atlanta Gossip About Other Former Alabamians
 in That City FUZZY WOODRUFF
 IS WRITING SPORTS Rev. W. R. Hendrix, Former Bir- mingham Pastor, Is Having Great Success at Wesley Memorial
 in Atlanta
ny HERvEy ". LAIRD

Atlanta. June 2.-tSpecial. )-Masscy Wilson. former attorney general of Alabama, but now president of the ln- ternational Life Insurance company of St Louis. spent much of the week in Atlanta, where he is at work on a reinsurance deal of Importance
 The talk of the Leo Frank ease brought to his mind that of John Will Hams. the man who killed Robert Hpp many years ago in Cullman county, Alabama, and who. after hard and sensational fight. was barely rescued from the gallows by former Gov R. B. Conner q voted against his pett- ton for clemeney.n said MT. Wilson. who was member of the pardon board but it Is just possible that might act differently now"
 MT. Wilson stated that he was not so much inclined to capital punshm ent as he once was. though he had no opinion at all on the Frank case "rhe death penalty is very serious matter shall become less and less disposed .o inflict 1t as time goes on. l know that my own mind has changed on it in a measure, even though I recognize that it must be in many cases. But 1t Is an awful thing to take human lifc.'
 Mrs. Wilson was with her husband, spending a day or so here with rela- ti4es. They had been in Florida where business called MT. Wilson and went back to St Louis. Mir Wilson is mak- ing of his company a great success, It's business has grown from $l ,000,c00 to over S4o.000. 900 since he became as- sociated with it in 1911.
 Royer's Love for Alabama W. C. Rover the well known man ager of the Piedmont hotel. yearns for Alabama like schoolboy in his first term away for the family fireside. He spent quite a while in Montgomery, where he became greatly attached 10 many of the prominent people of the state
 Though a Georgia business man for most of his life, James E. Hickey. pro- pretor of the Piedmont. is as much in love with Alabama as his associate, MT. Rover. He has had charge of tine Exchange hotel at Montgomery since l golf tournament at Montgomery, feel ing much improved in health and l spirits.
 Fuzzy" on the Job Newspaper men and the public gen erally will be interested to know that Fuzzy Woodruff is making the sport ing page of the Atlanta Georgian mighty good reading these days. He | answered an s. O. s. call from Man 1 aging Editor James Nevin a few weeks ago and is doping out the doings and l the undoings of the Atlanta team in | his own inimaeable way. Say It easy, ! but if must be said; Fuzzy has his picture at the top of the B. B. Column i every day it iooiSs fix h!.a. or like he looks sometimes
 Another Alabama boy who Is nlak ! ing history, copy and reputation on the Georgian is Tarleton Collier. for merly with the Montgomery Advertiser and at times a tutor at Auburn. Ora matics music. the arts and the gen eral literary assignments fall to him for the most part He also looks aft CT the capitol and subs on the political
 detail under Big Chief Nevin. who
 knows politics in Georgia like Hugf | Roberts knows it in Alabama.
 Alabama Ministers Work Rev w. R. Hendrix. pastor of St | Marks Methodist church, one of thu l most prominent congregations In At lanta. comes from north Alabama, an'
 was for many years in the north Ala bama conference. He served st. Johni and Woodlawn churches in BirminE 1 ham and went from there to Louis l-yille Ky. He was transferred to At lanta three years ago to take charg of the large downtown church knowi | as Wesley Memorial.
 Since going to St. Marks in Decen
 Der last MT. Hendrix has had grea
 success His congregations are large | often so large that the church will no
 hold them His work in Wesley Me morial gave him wide acquaintancs 1t being an institutional church ol
 modern lines seeking to be of serv ice to the people in the heart of tn city.