The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-08-01

certain cases, I desire, in justice to
myself and others, to make the follow
ing statement:
| First. as to the case of The State VS..
Tom Thomas, found on pages l4I and
e48 of the subpoena docket, dated Oct.
8. 1903. W. Z. Hickey and Ellis Lowe,
witnesses. | stated that Mr.. w. +.
Hickey swore out warrant for Tom
Thomas. a negro who was working
for him. charging him with larceny,
that he was arrested and put in jail
and that Mr.. Hickey afterwards made
bond for him, and the negro is now
working for Mr.. Hickey. That an &C
cusation was drawn against Tom
Thomas charging him with larceny,
and l asked Mr.. YeOmans, the sollc-
itor of the city court, to docket this
case and have it tried, as it was my
fathers last year in the sheritf's office
and he would want what there was in 1t
coming to him. The jail record will
show that this negro was arrested and
put in Jail; the subpoena docket shows
| that the subpoenas were issued, and
there is no record on the clerks books
where this case was ever dOcketed or
tried. Now, | simply ask why this
case was never docketed or tried?
Whose fault was it? Why was it not
tried after an accusation was drawn
and a demand made for it to go on
docket? l do not charge this to any
particular one: | only ask why?
| Now, in fairness to Judge Raines, l
wish to state that | used his name in
connection with this case not being
docketed, and after further investiga-
! ton found that he did not have any
thing to do with it.
| The State VS.. Green Wilson. | find
| these names given as witnesses IN this
case on a list furnished the clerk, now
| in the subpoena docket in the clerk S
office: NJ. G.. Hill, j. Patterson, b.
| f. Patterson and j. H. Oxford. L
stated that there was warrant taken
for Green Wilson by Mr. Sem for
| breaking a contract: that he was a
witness in the Arthur Laing murder
case: that Mr.. NJ. G. Hill arrested
| him here in Dawson and found con-
cealed pistol on him, and warrant
was taken for Green Wilson for car
rying a concealed weapon; that his
bond was placed at $500 for this Of
tense, and that it was placed at 500
| for breaking the contract; that he was
put in Jail on default of bond, and
on March IS, 1904, he was taken to
! Morgan as a witness in the Arthur
| Laing murder case, and by virtue OF
an order passed by Judge Spence was
carried to the Albany jail and kept
there until June 49, when he was
brought back to Morgan to be at the
LANG trial for murder; that under an
agreement between the attorneys for
the state and the defendant Green
| Wilson was brought back to Terrell
county Jail on June II, 1904, and on
| June Is the following order was pass
ed by Judge RaineS and the negro was
released and went to work on Mr..
Raines farm.
The Agreement
To Messrs. Waiter Christie and A.
NJ. Raines, Dawson, Ga. Gentlemen:
A controversy having arisen over the
disposition made of the Green Wilson
case who was witness in Calhoun
county in the Arthur Laing case, and
the reasons for such disposition, and
both of you having requested that we
explain our recollection of that trans
action, we submit to you the following
as our recollection of that occurrence:
Green Wilson, alias WilkersOn, was
county Jail under two warrants, and
was bound over to appear for trial at
the CITY court of Dawson at the time
set for the committal trial of Arthur
Laing in Morgan, Ga. He was
witness in that case and was carried
to Morgan by the officers of Terrell
county to testify at the trial of said
Laing. When he arrived there de-
T. hot ia
warrant had been issued by the judge
of the Albany circuit, and that upon
written application made by the states
counsel, who represented that imprOp-
err influences might be brought to bear
on said Wilson by remaining in Ter
rell county jail, the Judge ordered the
sheriff of Calhoun county to take
charge of said Wilson, which he did.
Said Wilson remained in Dougherty
county Jail until said Laing was in
dicted, and allowed to give bail. The
Judge then announced that he saw no
reason for keeping said Wilson in
custody of Calhoun counoy, as he had
testified before Calhoun county grand
Jury in said case. The Laing case
having been continued he called the
ATTORNEYS in said case around the
bench and suggested that he thought
that said Wilson should not be tried
in the city court of Dawson for the
reason that the judge and solicitor of
SAID court were both counsel for said
Laing. We agreed to the proposition,
whereupon said judge suggested that
same be transferred to the superior
court, but counsel for defendant an
nounced that j. A. Laing was knS-
man of said Arthur Laing and was the
solicitor of Terrell superior court and
did not desire to appear as prosecutor
| for the same reason, and the court
agreed that the matter should simply
be left to the action of Terrell county
grand jury. A. NJ. Raines was not
present at the time.
Counsel for defendant assured the
court that they would urge Judge
Raines to act on said suggestion, and
upon returning to Dawson represented
to Judge Raines what they had done,
and assisted in formulating an order