The morning news., 1897-08-18
T4E lNHUMAN FATHER FOUND.
IN rtLluR LEFT HIS CRIPPLED
NOV TO DIE IN THE WOODS.

r,o,DIcSs Child Left in the For
%rar Atlanta Fer Insects and
arasts to DevOur Is Identified and
7berc viii BE an Arrest-Fuller 10
chorrcd with an Attempt to
nurder.
..-,~+a Ga. Aug. 17.-Dr. J. NJ. Hoo
NJ Woodbury., Meriwether county,
,.s i4endded the little cripple boy who
fonrd in the woods near here sew
-.i 1avs ago. as Render Fuller, the son
NJ Bud" Fuller, citizen of Woodbury..
7.,., Dstective Harris has sworn out
--..-.,nt for the arrest of Fuller, charging
..s,,u with intent TO murder. To-day
-..,ae was received a police headquar-
from Sheriff NJ r. Morrs of Spald-
-.- county. He says he had investigated
TIL lreyv that Fuller was the father of
.zo.1ir3 and that he would have him ar
rstel.
soV,. minutes later Dr. Hooten arrived
s-,, Woodbury. and went at once to the
r-,.t. hospital. where he identified the
.,f9 rs Fuilers. The little fellow has
taen a hopeless cripple from his birth.
As .oon as DR.. Hooten saw the child he
,,i..l TO its uncle J. 7. Y. Brown, to have
a warrant sworn our for the father and to
,,sve him arrested and brought to At
gg1t3
PYd Fuller. the father several years
..so married the sister of Brown, who is
tbe agent for the Georgia Midland and the
Macon and Birmingham railroads at
Woodbury.. His reputation is said not to
have been of the best When his wife
died wear ago his mother took his three
,+so children to care for Recently one
of her daughters d.ed and she returned
tho Htte cripple 20 its father. When he
rafurend to Woodbury. without his child
sod The accounts of finding cripple here
were read in the papers, suspicion at once
pointed 10 Fuller the guilty man.
Col, w. r. Reviu of the executive de-
.osunant. and Mr. A. H. ReVill, the Off
rial stenographer of the Coweta circuit
we're on the train last Friday with Bud
FuUer. the man who is said to have left
his child to starVe in the woods near At
lant3 and these gentlemen say there was
aothine unusual in his appearance or con-
duct that day. both of them knew him
as he is a resident of Merwether county
and they talked with him on the train
puUer got off the Southern railway train
al Griffin and remained there till the af-
teruoon.
AIr. W. H. Revill was on the train and
noticed that Fuller had a copy of news
paper in his hand which contained an ac-
count of the finding of the little boy and
as it occupied a prominent position on the
first page he could not have failed TO see
rhe article He did not show any particu-
Lar interest in the paper, however, and
talked with Mr. Revill in his usual way.
W B. Fuller, the father of the deform-
IaFt Il ia
woods south of the city last week, was
brought to Atlanta tonight by the sheriff
of MeriWether county. He will have to
stand trial for assault with intent to muir
der and from present indications the horri-
ioe crime will be fastened upon him.
Fuller is a man of 30 a farmer near
Woodbury. Meriwether county and justice
of The peace in his district. He is wild
over and has one other child. Before his
w.e's death she had separated from him.
Fuller appears TO be shrewd and cunning
and although he denies that he is the gull
ty one, the police are sure he is bad
man. Shortly after being lodged behind
the bars Of the police station Fuller was
placed in a patrol wagon and taken over
10 the Grady hospital 20 be confronted by
the unfortunate child which has not yet
recovered sufficient strength to be able to
talk He made no display of emotion when
taken to the little white bed in which the
ceserted child lay asleep and did not hesi-
tate to say that it was his when asked by
the police. The child was awakened and
recognized the man, but could rot be in
uuced to call him papa" or talk
RULER took the child's hand in his and
leaned over and kissed II on the cheek as
the officers ordered him away. The man
declares that he brought the child to At
laata for medical treatment taking him
TO the Grady hospital where he was refus-
ed
MS visit to the hospital is confirmed
by the house physician. who recognized
MN tonight After failing at the hospi-
taL Fuller says he gave the child to
woman named Willingham TO keen for fif-
teeu days until DR.. Goldsmith returned
rom New York, paying her s.. He could
not tell the police the address of this wO-
man whom he had never seen before the
(1F he gave her the child. He accuses
yer OF leaving the little cripple in the
woods TO starve and be eaten by the ants
lhe police do not give credence to the
E'orY, because Fuller does not explain
"o" ho came TO register under the name
"i Byrd Indian Springs" at the Jackson
O'.eL where he stopped with the child on
Is arrival in the city nor can be account
=" ms mysterious absence from the hotel
Llsl thursday night returning Friday
morning without the child as he says he
Friday
NO such inhuman cruelty as the deser-
non oil the little cripple has ever been
recorded In the annals of local crime and
Z tNcu feeling has been exhibited against