The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-10-06
Asked For Strychnine.
ASKED TO ALLOW BAIL
Petition Presented to Superior Court
Judge Thursday Afternoon.

Petition Presented to Superior Court
Judge Thursday Afternoon.
Thursday afternoon Attorney Will
kinson went to Cuthbert and pre-
sented petition to Judge Worrill
of the superior court praying that
Mrs. Atkinson be released from Jail
under bond in such sum as the court
might fix. The petition was as fol-
lows:
Georgia, Terrell County.-To the
Honorable VIM. C. Worrill, Judge
of the Superior Court of Said Coun-
ty: The petition of Mrs. L. J. At
kinson respectfully shows that she
is q married woman, and is the wife
of L. J. Atkinson, and has resided
most of her life in Terrell county,
resides in said county at this time
and has for the past several years
in the village of Chickasawhatchee
in the Third district of said county.
THAT petitioner resides with her
husband in said village, and up to
August %, 1909, in the home of an
afflicted relative of her husband by
the name of William Glaze, who was
a half brother of petitioners hus-
band, which said Glaze was looked
after and cared for by petitioners
husband and herself at all times,
but that on the 23rd day of August
last said Glaze died.
ION the morning of said date Pc
|titioner's husband went away several
miles to labor at his usual occupa-
ton, namely: that of a carpenter;
and later petitioner arose from her
bed, prepared breakfast for herself
and the deceased, and after a period
of an hour the deceased complained
of being i'll, took sick and died about
the hour of ten o'clock a. m. Later,
or the next day, an autopsy was held,
the stomach of the deceased removed,
and it is alleged that same, with its
contents, were subjected to chemi-
cal and physiological test, and
strychnine therein found in sufficient
quantity to produce death
ION the 27th day of September,
1909. petitioner was arrested on
warrant based on the affidavit of ].
C. Joiner, wherein petitioner was
charged with the crime of murder,
in that she willfully and maliciously
killed and murdered the said Will
liam Glaze by giving him strychnine
with intent to kill and murder him,
the said William Glaze, and the
same having come on for hearing be-
fore the committing magistrate, one
NJ. w. MCLendon, Justice of the
Peace in and for the 1673rd district,
G.. NJ, of said county, petitioner was
bound over without bail and com
mitted to the county Jail in said
county.
Petitioner shows that she is a
woman who is delicate physically,
is unaccustomed to confinement, and
that confinement in the county Jail
will likely injure her health.
THAT she did not commit the
crime as charged, or any other crime,
but has always maintained herself
in the community in a respectable
and proper manner.
That the evidence does not show
the guilt of petitioner, a brief of
which, as adduced on the commit
ment trial, is hereto attached and
made a part of this petition, and
reference to which is prayed as often
as may be necessary.
That petitioner or her husband
have no property; at least, petitioner
has none, and her husband has none
which he is able to control or dis
pose of in her behalf at this time.
Wherefore, the premises consid-
cred, petitioner prays that the court,
in a reasonable exercise of the dis
erection allowed by law, will grant
her a bond in such sum as may seem
reasonable, just and proper in the
premises"