The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-05-25
-FOUR UNDER ARREST IN CON-
NECTION WITH CHARGE OF
PERJURY AT CARTER TRIAL.
$500 BONDS ASSESSED
Cuthbert Negro Confesses He Was
Made Drunk, Brought to Dawson
and Paid $40 to Swear That Liquor
Found in Crib Belonged to Him.

Ndu6 OEuIAs Drought W DdhSOu
and Paid $40 to Swear That Liquor
Found in Crib Belonged to Him.
Developments of a sensational ma
ture have been unearthed in the case
of Will Carter, an account of whose
arrest following a raid on his negro
hotel and the finding of satchel full
of whiskey in the crib was printed in
the last issue of The News.
The result is that four negroes are
under arrest in connection with per-
jury at the trial of Carter in the
mayors court and the exposure of a
shrewd and deep-laid plot, that was
partly successful, to manufacture evil
dence for the defense.
At the trial of Carter in the may
or's court he denied any knowledge
of or the ownership of the Whiskey
that was found in his crib on the
premises of his hotel and claimed
that the crib keys were carried by
Sol Ware, driver of the defendants
public hack. Ware swore that the
suit case containing the whiskey was
turned over to him by Jesse Sanders
at the Seaboard depot Saturday af-
ternoon on the arrival of the 3
O'Clock train to be taken care of I'M
til the Sunday morning Central train
left for Cuthbert, when he was to
have the grip at the Central depot
for delivery to Sanders. Not know
ing the contents of the grip, Ware
testified, he placed it in the crib for
safe keeping, where it was found by
the police when they made the raid
Saturday night.
Was Not in Dawson.
Jesse Sanders, in his testimony,
verified Wares evidence and explain
ed that he had been on visit to his
brother at Valdosta, who gave him
the whiskey to take to Cuthbert with
him. He contradicted his own state
ments several times in his testimony,
and Chief of Police Turner began an
investigation which developed the
fact that Sanders had been in Cuth-
bert all of last week and was there
on Saturday, the day he said he pass
ed thorugh Dawson and gave the
satchel containing the whiskey to the
hackman.
1t was further learned by Chief
Turner that Clayton Aaron, a Daw-
son negro who at various times has
been arrested on the charge of oper-
ating blind tigers, went to Cuthbert
on Sunday following the raid Satur-
day night, had a conference with
Jesse Sanders and brought him to
Dawson to testify in behalf of Car
ter in the mayors court Monday
morning.
Sanders COnfesses.
A warrant was sworn out for San
ders charging him with perjury, and
Policeman Bridges went to Cuthbert
| Wednesday and brought him to DaW-
son, when a committal trial was
held before Justice Peddy. The pris-
oner, in a statement to the court,
made a clean breast of the whole
affair. He said that he was not in
Dawson Saturday, nor had he been
here prior to the time he accompa-
MED Clayton Aaron from Cuthbert
Sunday night; that Aaron and Will
Carter had promised to pay him
$3.50 to tell Lis tale of owning the
Whfskey; that Aaron kept him filed
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Dawson, and that he spent Sunday
night at Carter's hotel as a guest of
honor. Sanders stated further that
he had to divide his spoils with
Aaron, and was only paid SO and
not $3.50, as promised him, and
that he gave Aaron $3.50 of that
amount.
Other Arrests Made.
At the conclusion of the prison
ers statement warrants were issued
charging Sol Ware with perjury and
viii Carter and Clayton Aaron with
subornation of perjury, and they
were taken in custody by Sheriff Hill.
Bond for each of the four prison
ers was fixed at 5000, and was given
by Carter, Aaron and Ware, and they
were released. Sanders made bond
Friday morning.
A commitment trial for Carter,
Aaron and Ware was set for Friday
morning, but at that tina they waiv-
ed a preliminary hearing.