The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-08-23
INTERVIEWS With
CITY OFFICIALS
The Police Justice, Chief of Police
and Officer Who Made the Arrest
Give Their Opinions of the Affair
With Facts in the Case.

The following facts with reference
to the carriage affair which has been
the scubject of much discussion recent
ly were gathered by the News for the
sole purpose of putting the matter be-
fore the public in its proper light The
information herein contained may be
depended upon as being thoroughly
reliable and the facts as near COM
plete as is possible to get them.
In order to get this information,
those parties who were in position TO
know were consulted, and the sub
stance of their interview Is given in
the order in which they were taken.
Judge Davis Version.
Judge Davis, police justice, gives
out the following as his imprss IN
as gathered from his observations at
the time of the trial; The tale the
woman told was about as follo rs:
| That she came in over the Gulf and
! Ship Island from Birmingham and
was at the Northeastern depot when
she was asked by a young man 10 so
out driving. That while out driving
she got pretty full, but could not ident-
ify the young man with whom she rode.
She was asked on the stand if she
had been harmed or had been subject
, ed to any insult, and she said no. On
the stand she was smiling all the
time She said that this was not the
first time she had been In jail, and
that she had a husband somewhere
but did not know where he was. The
driver of the hack had Just stepped
across the street to telephone to a
lodging house to have a room prepared
for her when she was found in the
hack by The officers. The chief of
police at Laurel says that she is Civ
ing them no little trouble there aud
that her conduct is reprehensible."
Mr.. Williams Version.
Chief Williams in discussing the
case. in effect said: con my arrival
at the station house the morning after
the woman had been arrested went
down into the Jail and had 4 talk
with her and asked her for n state
ment Of the affair. Her mother vas
at the time in the Jail, having brought
the girl some clothes and something
to cat. She (the girO stated TO ne
that the Young man had invited her
to 90 driving with him and she A.
cepted the invitation. On the trip
she took two drinks and did not know
ANYTHING else until she walked up IN
the station house. She said that she
was not in the habit of going on such
trips but thought that It would be all
right to go. Asked If she had been
insuIted or harmed in anv way she
said she had not: that she did not have
anv money and did not lose anytime,
and that she was just out for good
time She raid this was not the first
time she had been in Jail, and lauchcd
AZ to remark. She said she won't
frsm birmingham II Ia a,;lso1 end
from there she came here. md I'm
herr sfe intended to go to Laurel 10
WORT IN a cotton MILL"
strlcEe DoHERTy's VERSION
Officer M. Dohertv who arresisa ''se
YOUNG woman in the carfiase ses7'
NV ettention was first called 70 re
hack cn account of th.egroans fhas
: heard. Upon investigators the noise
tcpra the woman in the hco' o.
Tic ba.k in a speechlasr condisrn
caused. as I supposed. from excessive
drinking. At the time there was no
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