The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-22
LAUGH ON THE LAWYERS
SLOAN BEING OUT OF REACH PUTS
THEN ON A BLACKLIST.

An Attempt Made to Bring Him to
Georgia Once Before, But Foraker
-Raissd a Point That Saved Him-Rep-
resentative Lsgal Lights the Victims
ofrhe Blackmsiler's Spleen.
ATLANTA. GA, Nov. 21.-The entire
legal fraternity here is deeply stirred Up
over a circular that has made its appear
ance among well known lawyers and BUSH
ness men. The circular is sent out by the
Continental Collection Union of Cincinnati,
and is evidently a desperate matchmaking
scheme. From the following extracts It's
character can readily be understood: I'VE
are Obliged to withdraw our recommended
tions of the lawyers named below and TO
expel them from membership in the Con-
tfnental Collection Union. We have found
them utterly dishonest, they having repu-
dated their written agreements and refuse
70 nav their debts. We have found, after
long experience, that an attorney who
won't pay his debts is a person not to be
trusted in Judiciary capacity.
THEIR REMOVAL DECIDED ON.
1--WE have decided now TO remove the
mask from these men and uncover them to
the general public with the hope that it may
he the means of driving them out of the
profession. We ask the aid end influence OF
honest and conscientious LAWYERS, as we'll as
all merchants, manufacturers and bankers,
20 assist US in the movement we have in
augurated. If you refuse to employ
the men whose names we here give
in any manner whatever they will soon
be seeking an occupation in some other line
of business and the bar relieved of their
~ - a.,
tion."
THE LAWYERS NAMED.
The Atlanta lawyers whose names are
attached are: Walter II. Rhett. Tompkins
g. Brandon, ]. d. Cunningham, Alex. c.
King, H. @. Erwin, B. NJ. Turner, G. w.
Slidell, James W. Green, George p
Roberts, Thomas F. Ashworth, and Hulsey
g. Batemann. They are all men Of the
highest standing, and are highly indignant
at the slanderous work of j. II. Sloan
whose name as president it bears. Among
the hundred other prominent lawyers,
representing every part OF the state, whose
Dames appear in the circular, are Judge
Gober and Judge Alexander of Marietta,
Lester & Ravenal OF Sevan-
nah, John s. Schley Of Savan-
nah, Congressman Thomas Z. Watson,
Judge Kibbee OF Hawkinsville. and other
equally well known and able lawyers. Sloan
uAue nlulsen KNOWN among Une lawyers
several years ago, when his agent went
over the state and secured the names Of a
large number of members of the profession
as Subscribers to illegal and financial
register" the contracts, were not full
filed, it appears, and the men whom he
now denounces, or attempts to blackmail,
refused to pay for what they deemed they
never got.
A PREVIOUS CIRCULAR.
A circular similar to the one just dis
tributed here was issued in an attempt to
extort the money from the lawyers. The
Atlanta attorneys secured indictments
against Sloan, and on the governors re-
QUESTION sent an agent to Cincinnati 10
bring HIM to Georgia to answer the charge
of libel. Ex-Gov. Foraker defended
him, and it was held that Sloan could
not be brought here for trial because he
had never been inside the state Of Georgia,
and was therefore not a fugitive from
Justice. II be should ever set foot inside
the Georgia lines Sloan would find it diff
cult to get out again.