People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1893-07-07

uepOslCOrs III IulI. ne sU0Ck-uO1u0rS
will get about seventy-fve cents in
the dollar on their stock.
Redwine, the trusted employee who
appropriated something over hun
dred thousand dollars of other peo-
pies money, will probably get about
half the term in the penitentiary that
a Georgia Judge recently gave a
'nigger" for stealing an old shotgun.
SEVERE SENTENCES.
Judge Bartlett, who some weeks
ago sentenced man to the peniten-
tiary for twenty years for stealing
shotgun, has just sent up small
boy for two years for stealing forty
FIVE cents worth of old newspapers.
MoraJ: Don't steal if you can
help it, but if you are born to steal
and can't help it, try your hand on a
bank or a railroad, where you will
have at least an even change between
the penitentiary and the United
States Senate. By all means steer
clear of shot-guns and old news
papers.
DOES JUSTICE DISCRIMINATE
Hun Brotherton, the 19-year- old
son of Elk Police Commissioner
Brotherton Of Atlanta, who was IN
der arrest on the charge Of assault
with intent to murder, has been al
lowed to plead guilty to the minor
charge Of shooting at another, and
was fined $500.
Boggan, whose curls were clipped
by young Brotherton's bullet, says
that he was offered $4,000 to com
promise the case and that he refused
to do so. He claims that the action
of the solicitor in substituting the
lighter for the graver charge was
without his knowledge or consent.
query: If the case had been re-
versed would Boggan have been al
lowed to escape with light fine?
BEHEADED HIS MOTHER.
In Reynoldstown, village just
beyond the city limits, there lived
poor but happy family, consisting Of
father, mother and seven children.
The Oldest child, Tom, a youth Of
nineteen and an imbecile from birth,
was the pet as well as the care Of the
household.
J. NJ. Pagan, the father, and the
three next Oldest children find en-
ployment in the city-leaving the
imbecile boy and the three little chill
dren at home with the mother.
On Thursday afternoon Mrs, Fa-
gan lay down upon pallet for
nap. The idiot son coming in from
play and observing his mother asleep,
went back into the yard, secured an
axe and beheaded her.
After seyering the head from the
body the imbecile in idiotic glee CON
tinued to chop the dlsmembered
head in pieces.
Tom was considered harmless, and
idiot as he is, was loved and petted
by every member of the household
He will never realize the enormity
of his act nor the grief he has
brought upon an humble but happy
household. He is now an inmate of
Fulton county jail, where he will re-
main until carried to the asylum.
GEORGIA STATE FAIR.
Col. John Waddell, the president
of the Georgia Agricultural Society,
has been down to Augusta making
engagements for holding the fair in
October. The society has never had
a better president than Col. Waddell. |
The fair, under his management, is
bound to be a splendid exhibit of |
Georgia's boundless resources, and |
we hope it will also prove an equally |
splendid financial success.
TREY GET AWAY.
For the third time within a few
months the prisoners confined in
Monroe county jail have made their
escape. A ram-shackled Jail is not
altogether bad idea 1t is much |
cheaper sometimes to get rid of a
bad citizen by letting him escape
than it is to convict him. 1t cost
Bib county, few years ago, some
to convict q prisoner. A
ram-shackle jail can be kept up in
definitely for less money.
ATLANTA BANKS ALL RIGHT.
The yearly statement of the city
HANKS shows avarv institution IN