Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-15
.BLEASE ACCUSED
Of CRIME HERE
Fielder Declares South Carolina
Governor Will Be Indicted in
This State.
Continued From Page One.

some he had already pardoned before.
But ! have evidence that Blease Of
fered pardons to men behind the bars
If they would Kill me. That's another
of the crimes | can prove against the
degenerate who is still legally entitled
to call himself the chief executive OF
a great Southern state.
Detective Reed and ] are awaiting
further summons from the investigat-
ing committee at Augusta Reed has
a telegram from Nichols, with whom
he bargained for pardon for the yegg-
man Bentley, which shows us that
Blease accepted the $4,000 bride the
Burns detective pretended to offer him
while the dictagraph caught their bar
gain in the Washington hotel.
Awaiting Further Summons.
That telegram tells Reed (known by
Nichols as Attorney Porter. of Chi
cago) to hurry on South and wind UP
the deal and pay his money and get his
pardon. just as Nichols said he would
fix the governor when they made the
contract That ought to prove to any
commission what sort of man Blease.
is.
Reed and are awaiting that com
mittees further summons. When the
committee gets through. when the peo-
pie of South Carolina know the truth
about the man who has swindled them
out of governorship and when they
have turned him out as they surely win
when his term expires if they do not do
it before-then we win begin our Grim
inaI prosecutions | will not detail now
the crimes we will prove against this
man because it would forewarn him
and his clique, but if justice is done in
South Carolina and here. as it surely
will Bease win go behind the bars for
all the years he lives And that SEN
tence will be no more than he de-
serves
When Blease came to Atlanta for
that commercial congress- continued
Mr.. Fielder - had him Swallowed every
moment of his stay. And my. detec-
tives saw the felony he committed.
That can be proved and if | live I'm
going to prove il, and If ! don't live
there still will be witnesses who will be
able to convict him of that crime
'eed Not Through Yet.
AS Fielder talked Detective Reed, the
Burns sleuth of the dictagraph, came
into the interview. Reed looks for all
the world the double of the late Paul
Morton, secretary of the navy under
Roosevelt, railroad magnate and insur-
ance chief. Reed opened the dictagrapc
which had received the conversation
binding the alleged pardon sale in
Washington
That's the same little machine that
trapped the McNamaras in the dyna-
mite plot" he said. It's the same one
| used to convict the grating council
men at Atlantic City and the legisla
! loyal machine to the Burns detective
agency and it may do some more work
to undo Blease. I'm not through with
! the case yet I'm going to be here for
several days. waiting upon the cali of
| the committee. We had proof even
while the committee was in session that
Nichols was coming along nicely iii bis
negotiations with the governor to sell
US Dentley's pardon. OF course the
telegram telling me to come and wind
! ii up meant that the governor had ac-
cepted $4,000 Tor the pardon and was
ready to issue it, But the dictagraph
may do still more clever work in this
case if it's needed any more