The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1892-04-06
LUCKY PALMER
c,srw WHERE TRUTH Is STRANGER
\ THAN FICTION.

One Of the most remarkable cases that
hos 4cured in,the penitentiary records in
,.oars has Just come to light. 1t is a
,.ir;d illustration of the old saying that
+rn+n is stranger than fiction.
abe principal figure in the story is
convict named Wilson Palmer. He was
+ho leader of the bloody riot over year
oco at Cole City in which several guards
and prisoners were killed or wounded
and several convicts escaped.
II was this Palmer's brain and nerve
that planned the desperate enterprise
and carried it through.
Palmer and two negroes who had es-
oonad with him were subsequently re-
captured.
Against each of them were three
CHARGES of murder. One of the negroes
was convicted and hung. The other
nogro-John Rutherford of Atlanta-was
sentenced to hang but got a new trial,
and his fate is not yet finally decided.
PALMER THE LEADER.
Palmer was sentenced to hang.
From the first he had no hope of any
other prospect. He faced the prospect
Of death with co nposure. Expecting to
die soon he pade, in confidence to his
LAWYER. certain disclosures concerning
his past life. This he regarded as neces-
sarv. as it concerned his family and some
property.
1t was strange story.
His family was very respectable one,
and very wealthy, They live in Penn
sylvania. The lawyer, without disclosing
the secrets of his client, substantiated
the truth of what he had been told.
1t was Palmer's intention to die with
out ever letting his family know of the
disgrace he had brought upon them.
THE FAMILY INFORMED.
The lawyer, contrary to the commands
of his client, broke his own promise of
secrecy and wrote to Palmers family.
They had been trying to find him for
years
Palmer, be it understood, is not the
mans real name.
About three weeks ago, it will be re-
membered, Col. j. w. Echols, of Pitts
burg, Pa, came to Atlanta. He is an
old Georgia boy, and of course had to
account for himself. He replied thas he
had come as member of the Scotch
Irish executive committee, TO arrange
for the meeting of the convention in At
lanta
1t created no comment that Col. Ech-
OILS had a companiOn-a quiet, we'll
dressed gentleman who wanted no intro
ductions and kept himself studiously ia
the background. Nobody but Col. Ech-
olS knew that such man was here, in
fact
That man was brother to Wi son
Palmer, the condemned convict
The meeting of the brothers at Cole
City was picture too patheted to de-
scribe in words.
PALMER'S LIFE SAVED.
10 make long story short, Palmer's
HE was saved upon the merest techni.
calIy, He was tried upon two of the
Wfee charges of murder-after getting a
new trtal-and both times was found
guilty and recommended to mercy.
IAere Is still another charge of muir
DER against him, but it is probable that
ne Will not be tried again, the cases all
being closely identical and the evidence
the same.
Today Capt. Bill Stames, the convict
guard, left for Cole City to bring Palmer
10 Fulton county jail.
II has been deemed proper to transfer
MN rom Cole City to another camp, for
lear OF lynching, the feeling against all
co}lty. :" D''e
amer was the happiest man that ever
received sentence for life. 1t saved
his neck. ''' w.
1t talks and acts like a different man.
,l' says that God has been good to him,
anu anu that he will serve out his rfe-sen,
membrance. 'A"' ~
bo+
. ra n%t Is chapter in the life of son of
adyentay family, educated, given every
n s,"iIiC .5g IN life, saved from the hang
Wet Wet y "a d regal miracle-a Georgia con
rainier true name is Dennis.
WHOM T" ti spring loses many of it's terrors
AyoIIs 'ie system is fortified by the use of
this ,.o o}SrSaParlIa. With multitlides
suna, "oLugr1Gi tonic-alterative has long
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