the Summer During D urmg Vacation Remember to Have The T-D Sent to Your Resort Address. Let The T-D Keep You Posted on Richmond's Home News. 65th YEAR VOLUUB or.. M .11 unit 211 RICHMOND, VA., FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1915. .TWELVE PAOES WK£EIf» .RAIN. PRICE. 2 CENTS KUMIflW rUKUW Chief Fioures in Connection With Becker Case KAY5 WITH HIS Llrfc, MAYYIELDWARSAW Ill IN EXPIATION FOR Probable Evacuation of Polish U. S. Demands That Food Be Capital Indicated in Petro- Permitted to Reach Starving SHARE IN MURDER grad Dispatches. People of Capital. KAISER PLANS STATE ENTRY Former Police Lieutenant Protests to Very MUST KEEP RAILROADS OPEN Moment of Doom Innocence of Gambler Capture of City Will Be Made American Citizen Assaulted by Occasion for Great Celebra¬ Zapata Soldiers and Stars and Rosenthal's Killing and Asks Forgive¬ tions in Germany. Stripes Tramped Upon. ness for Those Who Have Wrongly 'A ASIIINGTON, July 20.. I'rtront rep-' Condemned Him. Events reHentation demanding. in the name of Momentous humanity, that food bo permitted to in Warsaw Section reach the starving people of Mexico' DENIES GUILT IN DYING STATEMENT City were sent hy (he State Df partment to-nltrht to are nlgns that nioincii toun r,i>n<>ra!s Carranza. Villa and AND PAYS TRIBUTE TO LOYAL WIFE TIIEini-:rvratd me liiippt'iiInK around Zapata. The notes declare avenues of fl'nrnniT, If fin- e\ii<-unt Inn of the transportation to M^xi<*o City must he I'nllnh cnplfnl luis not ill mill > liei&un. opr-nod to provision trains and kept In Death House at Sing Sing, Former Chief of New It In believed In ninny unnrterM that the ivltliilriimil of the IIukkIiiiik In open. York's Strong-Arm Squad Is Electrocuted.Current not fnr off. Although the text of the representa¬ Is Turned On at 5:47 tions was not made public, it is known o'Clock, and Life Leaves Hte At various point* In Poland the that the document is a forerunner of Two Minutes Later.He Dies With Cross in RimHtfiDM Body continue to clirck the more definite action soon to be taken Auntro-(»ernifiiin In tlielr elTortu to His Hands, and His Last Words Are Have in the form of a demand that the Mexi¬ "Jesus, encircle Womun, hut the eonncnnUH on of vlrw* of the mlllttiry critic* of can factions end their strife and estab-' Mercy Me." the I*ettorrnil nenxpappm nccinn to lish a constitutional government hy point to the fenr tlint tlir ItiiMilnii* means of a Joint conference. Officials will not Ioiik In- nhi.* to back OSSINING, N. Y.t 30..Charles Becker the keep believe General Carranza at Vera Oru7. July paid penalty- the t rem e nilon o pren*«irc of the Teu¬ to-day for instigating the murder three of Herman tonic allien. is in a position to tl»e railroad to years ago ke'-p Rosenthal, the gambler. He was electrocuted in Sing Sing Mexico City from Vera Cruz opon for prison one hour after sunrise. Life left his body at 5: 47 o'clock, Neither the German* nor the Au»- transportation of food beyond Pachuca two minutes after the trinnn elnlui tttty new advance* nlon>c at least, and that either he or electric current was turned on. He died Zapata, a the' .' with cross ncmlcln-ulnr line «hlcli runn in co-opr-ration with Villa, can control (s) m /Vs-sn. in his hands. His last words were: "Jesus, have from the linltle province* ncro** the the line beyond that point mercy on us." frontier of Gallcia. On the contrary Official reports from Mexico City to¬ Ch<3Lrl, Becker met his death without flinching. He entered the fliey admit that the ltii**1iinn on the day said ther<* was actual starvation death Nnre\r front, to th»* *oiillicn*t of there, and that conditions chamber with two priests at his side. They were chant¬ j generally a Wamaw mid In \orthcrn < . it 11 <*la nre were worse than ever. People of all ing litany. Becker joined in, repeating, "Have mercy on us, harrinK their «n)' with henv.v raun- classes are suffering for food, although have mercy on us." terattaekn, anil that the situation there is money in plenty to purchase MURDER OF ROSEHTHAL He walked to the death north of the Mrini-n Hirer and In it. steadily chair, and, taking his seat, thr ooiithcimt, la the l.uhlln dlntrlet, A message from Vera Cruz detailing glanced squarely into the eyes of the witnesses for a brief mo¬ Konerullv In unohniiKctl. an assault upon an American citizen ment. Then he continued the chant, "Have mercy on us, have near Puebla and violation of the mercy on us." Eircpt for the |i t II re of a nfw American flag soldiers a ( by Zapata While the straps were adjusted the chanted a ficrinan ponltlon In the Yn*ge*. rela¬ few days ago served to arouse officials' Lt Is Swift Culmination of Sensa¬ being priests tive prayer, which Becker repeated In it he con¬ calm pretall* on the niM>ttru liete to the extreme gravity of the! tional Gninhler .Made phrase by phrase. front from the *ra Charges his soul to the to Alsnce. In situation. Against lievkcr. signed Almighty. the Itnlian theater both AtiNtrlnut A new division of Mexican affairs Becker received the electric shock in the midst of the prayer. and Italian* are claiming *llglit Vic¬ was created to-day in the State De-I - One m-iiiute later a second* shock was toria*. GISPKa.c-AROVSED IJY sent through his body and- I partmont Leon J Oarova wltS tie-~t the him i pointed chief of the new division,* wftlch! physician pronounced dead. will handle all diplomatic correspon¬ Head of Strong-Arm Squad, Suspect- PROCLAIM HIS INNOCENCE IN DYING I/iN'PON, July 2!>..The probable' ed STATEMENT dence and other business relating to From First, Is Indicted, Given AND PAYS TRIBUTE TO WHO STOOD evacuation of Wnrww and the whole Mxico here-ifter. Two Trials, Convicted and Con¬ WIFE, BY HIM Polish salient by the Russians is in- DETERMINKI) EFFORT TO demned to Death. At 4:30 o'clock Becker gave out the following tyewritten statement as rttcatcd in dispatches received from gkt si itmks tiihoi.gii his dying declaration, signed in his own handwriting: Petrograd to-day. This derision would I Advices to the American Red Cross NEW "VORK, July 30..Herman Rosen- Statement. hal, the for "My Dying come as a surprise to all outside the from Charles .1. O'Connor, its special gambler, whose murder "Gentlemen: .'ha rle.s Becker died ii, the el.-ctric inr.cr councils of tin* Russian representative dlrectinp relief work inj* "I stand before general Mexico City, were communicated to Sec-t' .hair this morning, was shot to death you in my full senses, knowing that no power on earth staff, as the splendid resistance the retary Lansing to-day. He announced 1 >y hired gunmen in the early morning can save me from the grave that is to receive me. In the face of that, in ' if 10, 1012, in from of the Russians have been offering to the Ger¬ later that a determined effort to get July Hotel the teeth of those who condemned me, and in the presence of my God and man effort* to »ncirele the f-uppllos to the capital would ho made. iletropole, on Forty-third Street, a feu*! city wore tens from your God, I proclaim my absolute innocence of the foul crime for which ' M O'Connor's The- murder believed to be evidence of <ira; Duke message, cabled from Broadway. was! I Vera Cruz under date of ' he swift culmination of sensational! must die. You are now about to witness my destruction by the State, Nicholas's to yesterday, wasj intention flghi it out with j as follows: hai ges made ;i. few days before by j Becker Case which is organized to protect the-lives of the innocent. May God -.orenthal Chronology Almighty the Teutonic allies. Scarcity of food is far greater than against Becker, in which pardon every one who has contributed in any degree to my untimely death. Russian It was two weeks ago. It is almost im¬ Rosenthal asserted that Becker, then July II. 1012.Rnsentlial military critics, after con- j publicly And now, on the brink of my grave, I declare to the world that I am possible to buy corn: vegetables are lead of the strong-arm squad of de- aCFUWH Meutennnt Charles Becker, proud versa uoiis with "competent military to have been the husband of the noblest woman far less plentiful than they were two ecti\ es, irecly sold police protection noted leader of the strong arm sijund purest, that ever lived. VUthorities," point out. however, thai of in It j weeks nco. People are actually nd had accumulated thousands of dol- <n lint; raiders, of accepting Helen Becker. This acknowledgment is the only legacy I can leave her. I .uitil the army is properly to , dying equipped of starvation, as I can ars of graft money. Kraft. oppose th- perfect Auatro-Oerman ma- prove by doc¬ bid you all good-by. Father, I am ready to go. Amen. tors Rosenthal went further July 1-.Rosenthal's affidavit OF and EKE nurses. that, Oil We have had no than BECKER. the sensible to do word OEM, chine, thing would Becker In a Mau- "CHARLES j of ie swore that Becker was his silent nKUltiM published (Signed) BECKER." be to avoid battle and withdraw unt.l supplies coming from the states.