Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-10
COL. ELDER
ACCUSED Of
CARRYING
Pts 7 OIL
Blank Bill of indictment Drawn
Also Against Police CON-
missioner Fain.

A blank bill of indictment, charg-
ing Colonel T. b. Fielder with mis-
demeanor in the carrying of conceal
ed weapons, was presented to the
Grand Jury when it met Tuesday
morning in the Thrower Building.
The Indictment is another chapter
in the sensational Fielder Lanford
controversy, which had its beginning
in the publication of the details of
a dictograph plot to obtain bribery
evidence against Colonel Fielder.
A personal clash between Chief Of
Detectives Lanford and Colonel Fell
der during the Grand Jury hearing
gave rise to the present action. Grim
nations and determinations were fly
ing back and forth when the two men
leaped from their chairs in an ante
room and started toward one an
other.
Felders hanl is said to have reach
ed toward his hip pocket. Dr. Horace
Grant, who stepped between the an
CRY men, has been subpenaed as the
principal witness, and 1t is under
stood that he will testify he saw the
weapon exposed when Fielder reached
toward his pocket.
The Vice Probe.
That the vice probe will conducted
with undated vigor by the Grand
Jury-yvasv indfrgted by the drawing of
blank bill of indictment against
Mrs. y. P. Powell. convicted last week
as the proprietor of disorderly house
and sentenced TO twelve months in
Jail
Many witnesses were on hand TO
testify against Mrs Powell and it is
understood that many others will be
named for indictment by the Grand
Jury before the session is concluded.
It is the intention of the Grand Jury
TO make the most thorough and
sweeping sort of an investigation of
the reports Of widespread immortality
i'm the city.
Exception was taken to the state
ment of Chief Beavers that he was
prevented from closing of the most
notorious resort in the city through
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II win be the purpose of the Grand
Jury to show that the courts are not
interfering in the closing Of the i'm
moral resorts.
Fain Also Accused.
Another blank indictment in the
wholesale vice probe was drawn
against W. f. Fain a member of the
Police Commission, the tale of whose
alleged conduct i'm an Ivy Street re-
sort startled the Grand Jury last
week. Fain vase harged with a mis-
demeanor in the bill, and it is under
stood that the alleged occurrence in
this resort was the basis.
j. A.. Skaggs. of the Southern EX-
press Company, and Allen Young, a
real estate agent, were subpenaed as
witnesses. Fain's case was on the
calendar after that Of Colonel Fielder
All Witnesses Resummoned.
Practically every witness who had
testified was summoned again late
Monday afternoon. Although neither
Foreman L. H. Beck nor Solicitor
Hugh VI. Dorsey would discuss the
meeting. witnesses themselves were
certain the jury had reached an elev-
enth-hour decision TO make an ex-
haustfve investigation Of alleged vice
conditions.
Chief Of Police James L. Beavers,
A. :. Colyar. Jr., and Colonel Thomas
B. Fielder were the only witnesses not
subpenaed
Carl Hutchinson, the young attorney
who furnished the jury with a list
of ALLEGED houses in our midst and
who agitated a more thorough probe
when the jury announced last week
its investigation had been concluded,
was one Of the first TO receive d sum
mons
Allen Young. real estate man, who
was called before the jury to tell Of
An alleged fight in a disorderly house
IL -hieh g man high up in police cir
cles was said 10 have figured, was
summoned To appear before the jury
Wednesday. While a deputy was IN
his office with the subpoena the Solic-
f-ors office telepboned him TO appear
before the jury Tuesday and again
Wednesday.