The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1910-06-02

NAKED by appeals for pardon for the
convicted. are the recent contribn-
tons Of MeTiwether county to the an
nails of homicide, lawlessness and
bloodshed in Georgia.
The indictment is not brought by
| The Constitution.
Responsibility rests in records on
file In the Office Of the prison commits
sion, in the court records Of the city
court Of Greenville and In recent is.
sue Of the Meriwether indicator. our
authority for the statement that nine
homicides have followed each other
in the course Of as many weeks.
An Unspeakable Case.
First, as to testimony to the effect
/ that 1t is desperately hard to secure
the enforcement of law in Meriwether
on account of lax public sentiment.
In some respects the case is without
/ parallel in recent chronicles of crimi-
nal Jurisprudence in this state.
There Is pending before the prison
commission an application for pardon
for a white man by the name of Full
ghum, who was convicted in the city
court Of Greenville of the offense of
| carrying concealed pistol.
Upon the filing of the application for
pardon the chairman Of the prison
commission wrote to Judge Henry H.
| Revill, the Judge who presided at the
trial Of Fplghum, requesting that he
/ furnish the commission with the facts
in the case
Judge RevlI's Statement.
The facts as furnished by Judge
Reyill to the prison commission in
substance are as follows:
"Fulghum came to Greenyille the
day the offense was committed and
drew from his pocket a pistol, stating
that he expected to kill a man before
night; after taking drink or two of
whisky publicly on the streets, went
over to Baptist Hill, a negro suburb
of the city, In company with negro
woman, and was said to have at
tracted the attention of passers-by.
Fulghum fired his pistol off and came
very near shooting negro child, me-
gro woman became afraid of him and
ran, pursued by Fulghum. The mar
shall Of the town heard of the disor-
der, hunted up Fulghum and met him
while he was pursuing the woman.
Upon being asked what was the mat
ter Fulghum replied that he intended
to commit IAN unnamable crime there
on the streets. The marshal then stat
ed you will have to go before the
mayor Fulghum then DIRE wa pistol
from his pocket and fired at the off,
Ger twice, putting two bullet holes
through ais clothing the marshal
barely escaping the bullets by grab
bin gthe weapon OF Fulghums 1t
was said by Fulghum in the trial Of
this case that he habitually carried
pistol in his buggy wherever he
went; however he denied carrying it
concealed
Jury Was Lenient.
The petition for pardon recites tho
fact that the jurors who tried him
brought in recommendation to
mercy The petition for pardon is
numerously signed by many promi-
nent Meriwether county citizens and
strong pressure was brought to bear
upon the judge to have him impose a
fine instead Of the chain gang SEN
tence. but the latter, deeming it a
case where nothing short of a term
in the chain gang would be ample pun
ishment for such crime, gave him
six months In the chain gang.
A Bumper Crop OF Murders.
The story of Meriwether's harvest
of homicides from pistol toting,
The following on the subject is Ia
ken from the Meriwether indicator,
"Meriwether had another killing on
Sunday The same old tale.
Game Of skin, jug of liquor, PTS
tolls, dead negro,
sheriff j, b. FARRELL received al
telephone message from Woodbury.
Sunday morninf to bring his bloc.
hounds there for the purpose of trail
ing negro who had killed another in
a skin game.
The fugitive had several hours the
start and fot away.
Nine killings in the county in as
many weeks and all but two grew out
of gambling scrapes, pistols and Ii
quor. The other two were caused by
liquor
mo prosecutions have resulted for
the gamblers. The murderers ana
gamesters are both to go unwhipped
OF justice, the former have taken leg
bail and the latter are needed in the
crops
This is the way it goes.
Human life cheaper than the life
of good dog.
Liquor, pistols, cards
COTTON BUSINESS
IN GREAT DANGER.