The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-03-25
fReb. Norton SaidIf, Reb. Norton Lied.
The following letter explains itself:

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Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga.
Dear Mr. Watson:
Since the appearance of your article in refer
ence to the action of the South Georgia Conference
agreeing to raise $4,000 for foreign missions, ons
Reverend c.. A. Norton Ga Methodist preacher sta
toned at Eavile, Ga.) says that Ex-Governor Henry
d. Mcdaniel and yourself swindled the heirs OF one
A. J. Roberts out of estate worth 900, $4,000
of which went the poor children of Green County,
and $4,000 to the heirs of a Mrs Starks. He says
that Mcdaniel was Executor of the estate, and that
A. j. Roberts gave some valuable papers into your
keeping and you claimed that you lest them, and
a while after that the Court House was burned
down and all records with it, and while after the
burning Mcdaniel and yourself each built a palatfal
home, and have lived in luxury ever since. He,
c. A. Norton says that he has been to your home
and has eaten bread with you, and that he thought
you right good fellow then, but knowing you as
he does now, he would not believe you on your
OATH
Now brother, this talk is likely to damage our
cause in this county (Schley). Will you for the
sake of your old friends in old Schley, give a
full and plain account of the whole transaction In
your weekly Jefersonian? I have always had per-
feet confidence in you, and will continue to have
until I know of truth that you the rotten
hearted scoundrel this says you are.
I am your friend, T. }. PlLCHER"
Answer: [ was never an associate with Ex-
Governor Henry d. Mcdaniel in any law case
whatsoever, so far as [ can recall. was never
an opposing counsel in any case, wherein he
was engaged so far as | can remember.
The charge that Henry d. Mcdaniel ever
swindled any person, or any estate, out of $780,
600, or other sum, is, in my Judgment, an IN
famous SANDER
If ever | heard of the A. ]. Roberts case or
estate, before this, the fact escapes my
memory. Nor did | ever before hear Of the
heirs of Mrs. Starke."
The man who says that | ever swindled the
Roberts estate, any other estate, or any
person, out of 100000, or any other sum, is an
INSCRIPTIONS liar.
If Henry d. Mcdaniel was Executor of the
Estate, he was in full possession and control
of it. Whatever that honest and able gentle
man did with the assets, was, feel sure done
according to law. If Ex-Governor Mcdaniel
is not incapable Of cheating and swindling,
then we have nobody who is.
1t may be possible that Rev. c. A. Norton
has, in years gone by, been entertained at my
house. If So it is apparent that my hospi-
tally has been too lax, and that | have opened
my doors and given room at my board to at
least one man who was unworthy of being
treated as a gentleman
Not one cent did ever get from the Estate
of A. J. Roberts, and never have | lost papers
that caused the loss of any Estate. No such
claim has ever been made. If there lives
human being who had the right to make such
a claim, the presumption is that it would have
been made, for my residence is known and my
solvency unquestioned.
If Rev. c. A. Norton has long known what
rascals Ex-Governor Mcdaniel and [ areas
he now admits--he should not have waited
until I exposed the present unnatural and I'M