The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1893-09-30
The Perry's Bridge School.

To the Editor OF M~erldl0na1:-
That he may longer intrude him.
self upon a community, in which he
is not wanted. G. G. Roberts, the
cunning wolf dons the garb Of al
innocent lamb. and tries to convince
an outraged people, that the honest
objections of respected citizens are
only the brays of the proverbial ass,
bat all of that, and his villainous
blasphemy will not avail him any
good in the Judgment Of an intelli-
gent and impartial public.
To answer to this, I propose to
prove that G. G. E. is only carry
ing out a threat that he made a few
years ago, after the Grand Jury of
which I was Foreman, found a true
bill against him for numerically
beating one of his pupils, which he
(R.), was teaching in the town of
AbbevilIe, viz That he(R.) would
get even with John Nugier. d
I hereby reafirm every charge in
my former article, and ! am ready
to prove the truth Of same by every
honest man of Perry's Bridge, and |
know them to be all honest, as to
the fair trial of my son to which he
(R } refers to. 1t is we'll to state the
facts hat I can also prove.
q. G. Roberts claimed that OBJ
scene notes had been passed by some
of his pupils, but claimed further
that he was unable to find out the
guilty party, therefore asked that a
committee Of four, viz: W. ID.
Gooch, J. NJ. Ransom, j. 3. Mills
and J. Nugier serve for the purpose
of Investigating the matter. While
this committee had the subject under
consideration. and before any report
was made r. took it upon himself
to ezpel my nine year old son, as the
guilty party from school; notWith-
standing that he (R.) had told the
committee that he was sure none of
the little children had anything to
do with the writing of the notes.
Knowing from the evidence in
possession of the committee that an
injustice had been done my sou, I
appealed to the Parish Su~perinten1-
ent of public schools for redress, and
the committee was made up, viz : Of
which the Superintendent was chair.
man and Messrs. Fl. j. Stansbury
and Geo. Root made up the commit
tee and investigated the matter aud
found that my son and an innocent
con of J. e. Gooch were the guilty
parties. and were suspended, mot
from school for one month.
Mr.. Gooch did whimper, ana did
whimper as hard as he knew how.
/ then asked the committee on
what grounds they arrived at their
conclusion, was it from positive evil
dence or circumstancial evidence.
The chairman answered that it was
'circumstantial evidence only"
[ then told the committee that it
they had taken this step to set a
moral example I cheerfully submit.
ted.
I know now, and have believed
the beginning that my son was
innocent of the charge. | would not
have mentioned this subject had not
injected it into his article.
As to the sanitary condition of
school house and premises from
June 26th up to the present time, |
know nothing as I am no longer
of the school, but l do know
hat during last Spring and on up
June Oath the cistern and premi-
'es were in a very unsanitary con-
lition and for several months a part
II the fencing was down. A state
affairs that never before existed
the management of the eff
,ient teachers who have had charge
If the school. tn my capacity of
;~rustee, | reported the existing con
lition of affairs to the proper authori.
les.
No content with all of this shortly
after he became 30 oppressive and
'verbearing toward nv three oldest
ons, viz Aubrey, Claude, John.
hat they positively refused to 60 to
chool to him any longer.
Again, contrary to the orders of
he Superintendent he (R.) suspend