The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-06-27
PAGE NINE
AS tO Jesse Mercer, His Lies,
and His Threats

| liz newspapers last week were carrying
lot OF stuff written by our Game Warden
whose office should never have been created,
and which should be abolished.
In brief, was accused of having "lured"
certain heirs of the Boyd Estate into bringing
suit against the Executors, and of trying to
swindle the widow of my "late partner" out
of her husbands share Of the fee
Mercer included in his TRADE threat to
come to Thomson and Ehorse-whip' me-
The very first that knew Of the Boyd es-
tate was learned from letter written to me
by an heir who then lived in Alabama She
appealed to me to take her case against the
MERGERS Afterwards other heirs employed
me.
/ had never heard Of any of these people,
and have never met any of them. The letter
which follows this, came to me, unsolicited
/ had not made any effort to secure such a
testimonial
Of course, I appreciate it, deeply.
AS to the fees In the case. mine was sent to
me in the form of check, by the late James
w. Green. He Of course, kept his share of
the fee.
No part of Mr.. Green's fee was ever in my
possession, or control.
There has never been any question of the
fee between his widow and myself.
No one, save Mercer, has ever claimed that
L owe n6r a CenUr-Of ever ola.
Mr.. Green was not my partner; he was my
sons partner.
Mercer also claims that Mr.. Green and I
swindled our clients in the settlement.
The letter given below sufficiently answers
that.
Finally, as to the horse-whipping threat I
have only to say that none but cowardly brag-
CARTS ever make such threats.
Let me add that the whole matter so far as
Mr.. Green, our clients and myself were con-
cerned, was closed up. several years ago; and
there has been absolutely no issue between Mr..
Green and myself, nor between our clients
and myself nor between Mrs. Green and
myself.
Flint Ca, June 18th, 1912.
Editor Georgian
Seeing a communication in your paper, issue
June 18th, under the caption, "I'll Cowhide Wat
son, Is Threat Of Mercer, in justice to the heirs
of the Boyd Estate who employed Watson and
Green to represent them in recovering their share
of said estate and also in justice to Mr.. Watson,
wish to ask of you space in your paper to permit
me to make statement.
AS my wife is of the heirs referred to by
Jesse Mercer, consider his thrust direct insult
to those heirs referred to- as well as to Mr..
Watson.
AS to Watson and Green Inducing and Iuring'
us into the lawsuit the charge is absolutely false
and there is not word of truth in it. Mrs FL L.
West, then of Cott0nton Ala, but now of Rich
land, Ca fred the first gun in opening said law
Guit She wrote Mr.. Watson, asking him in re-
@4S1 to representing her. About the same time
was communicating with John Mercer in regard
to my wife's part Of the estate l told Mr.. Mercer
that needed money and that we wanted it,
He wrote that he didn't doubt that needed it
but that he couldn't get it. About this time re-
ceived letter from Mrs. West stating what she
doing, and asked me what I thought about it,
We got busy and employed Watson and Green to
represent US
These two robbers John and Jesse Mercer
caught on to what was in the air, and fixed up a
stock certificate for $500 and mailed it to my