The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-25
REVENGE WANTED BY RYDER.
NAMES OF SOME OF HIS BROTHERS.
ALLEGED LYNCHERs GIVEN.

The List Sent to Gov. AtlSinsOn-The
Governor Sends IL to the Solicitor
General at TaIbotton to BE Laid
Before the Grand Jury Now in
SesSion-Ryder starts for TaIbOttOn
TO Appear Before the Jury in Per-
son.
Atlanta. Ga, March 24.-Dr. C. A Ryder,
brother of DR.. w. L. Ryder, who was
lynched a Talbotton last July has sprung
a sensation. He has written a letter to
Gov. Atkinson in which he gives the names
of the men who. he alleges, are guilty of
the lynching of his brother
This letter reached the Governor yester-
day To-day he forwarded 1t to Solicitor
General Gilbert to be presented to the
grand jury. which is now in session at
Talbotton. He also wired DR.. C. A. Ryder
at Gainesville, telling him to proceed in
person to Talbotton and lay before the
solicitor all the additional Information in
his possession which bears on the case.
To this message DR.. Ryder replied that he
would go at once.
DR.. Ryder, in his letter. names the fol-
as having been implicated in the lynching:
DR.. Billy Bryan, VIII Parker, Albert
Owen, Will Leonard. Tim Leonard, John
Parker, Riley Parker, It'll" Harris, and
Finley Greene.
The letter. which appears below, is SEN
sational in every detail. The writer af-
firms that every one in Talbot county
knows the names of the lynchers and
charges that threats have been made
against him if he did not drop the inves-
tigation. He states that the case was
worked up by Pinkerton detective and
gives the sources through which the infor-
nation was received. The charges are
made by DR.. Ryder in the most unequivocal
language, and are of such positive char
acter as to demand an investigation.
In the letter DR.. Ryder says: I'VE had
hoped to be able to punish the dastardly
murderers, but 1t seems that the laxity
of our laws, and the indifference of the
officers in the counties where said tragedy
occurred, convince us that it would be
useless to try to punish these outlaws.
We have incurred considerable expense in
this investigation and regret none of 1t,
but we know that unless we had the full
co-opera ton of the state and county Off
cjals it would be a waste of time and mo-
ney for us to proceed, but it has been said
before, and l now repeat 1t, that there is
hardly a man. woman or child In Tai
bottom that could not give you the names
of these murderers, and yet nothing has
been done by the officers there sworn to
uphold the law.
THE parties named above lived in the
northern and eastern part of Talbot coun-
ty and were seen at a late hour going
west on the road to Waverly Hail. which
as in Harris county.
Mr. Robt. Leonard, the liveryman, hired
or loaned the most of the teams.
HE has lived there all of has life and
knows everyone in the county, and OF
course he must have known to whom he
hired his teams.
THE negro, Will, who drove Leonard s
hack, knows them, and Albert Baldwin,
whose father was in the livery business,
knows them ALL
Miss Owen and DIR. Ryder were engaged
/. to be married. The doctor appeared sud-
denly at her home one evening about three
years ago and without a word shot and
killed her He then ran and jumped into
a pond, trying to drown himself, but fail
ed. He was captured, had several trials
and was convicted, but was afterwards
taken from jail and hanged. His friends
claim that he was demented The muir
dered man, as well as his brother, was a
prominent doctor.