The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-05-25
PULLED PISTOL ON AUTOIST
A FARMER PAID A 500 FINE FOR
CONCEALED WEAPON.
One Section in the Country Where
Joy Riders Are Polite, Care
full and ObIiging.

From all accounts the people over
the creek, in the Fourth district of
Randolph county, have a speed limit
law of their own, and very effective
wav of enforcing it.
If reports are true (and some who
have had experience vouch for their
correctness) more than one Dawson
iov rider has been brought to sud-
den stop at the point of a pistol and
nprsuaded to move along slowly and
quietly behind the buggy or wagon
of the aforesaid citizen until some
noint in the road was reached at
which the j. r. could pass in his buzz
wagon without crowding the man
with the shooting iron or frightening
his team.
But according to an article in the
Shellman Sun of Saturday the worm
has turned, and one citizen who was
disposed to make an auto man view
the scenery down the barrel of gun
has come to grief by being required
at the recent session of the superior
court of Randolph county to pay a
fine of 500. The Sun tells about
it as follows:
Last week in court in Cuthbert
T. L. Lindsey was fined 500 by
Judge Worrill for having a concealed
pistol The fine, it is presumed, was
only for having had the weapon con-
cealed, the unusual size of the fine
perhaps being the result of Mr.. Lind
sey's haste at the time he threatened
to use it,
"A person travelling by horse and
buggy, if he feels it necessary to
have a gun for protection, should
not carry it concealed, and he should
then not use it or threaten to use
it except as last resort for the pro-
lection of his own life and property
when endangered by some other party
The Lindsey case was the old
story of an automobile and a mule,
but in this case the man with the
mule was not fully justified, as was
testified at his trial.
However, the gun has been
pressed into practical service on
numerous occasions of this kind in
Randolph county. There are plenty
of men in this county who put a
higher valuation on their own life
and property than they do on the
speed driver and his automobile, and
when one of the latter comes whiz-
zing by Indifferent to anyone he
might endanger they will back up
their claim right now, and the sooner
the callous machine drivers of the
country learn this fact the better it
VIII be for them.
There is no reason for trouble be-
tween autoists and those who do not
have machines. There is room for
both, and the machines would do no
harm but for those drivers who de-
Velop speed craze as soon as they
grasp the wheel of an automobile.
There is some subtle influence
about the automobile which is hard
TO understand. People, as rule, ac-
cept automobile accidents as a matter
OF necessity. More people are now
Killed and injured by automobiles
tnan by any other cause in the coun-
Try yet the man who would dare pro-
tect himself against a careless auto
drlyer subjects himself to prosecu-
tlon by the courts. People in At
lanta who will mob a negro for most
any excuse gave only passing men
uon to the black chauffeur who ran
down bright little girl in that city
one day this week.
1t is hoped that some measures
VIII be effected so that citizens gen
orally will not have to contend with
careless automobile drivers"