Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-09-04
STEWARDS JAIL
HOLDS PRISONER
MUCHLY WANTED
LAWYER HELD ON CHARGES
Sheriff May Bring Prisoner
to Americas

! Sheriff Fuller stated yesterday that
A. F. Lee the prominent Swainsboro
lawyer captured at Lumpkin and held
awaiting orders from the Emanuel
county authorities, had not as yet been
brought to Americas, en- route back to
the scene of his alleged misdoing.
Sheriff Kersey is expected here today,
en- route to Lumpkin, where he goes
to get Lawyer Lee The following
story from Swansboro is of interest
and reads like a romance:
Swainsboro, Sept. Sword was re-
ceived here last night by Sheriff R. w.
Coursey here that Col. Augustus L.
Lee, one time prominent criminal law
yer of Swainsboro, had been captured
at Lumpkin, Ga, and is in Jail there
pending the arrival of Emanuel county
authorities. Sheriff Coursey last night
sent Deputy Sheriff Kersey after Col.
Lee, and they are expected to return
on today's train.
Col. Lee is wanted on several
charges, but the most serious being
that of attempted criminal assault,
which is alleged to have been com
mitted last June by Lee, after which
he was successful in making his escape
to Florida. The grand jury which met
in October following the alleged crime
indicted him under a true bill for
this offense, and he has since been
wanted here.
From Swainsboro, Col Lee disap-
peared for a short while, but later
turned up at Bradentown, Fla ,
where he engaged in the practice o.
law Never, since he has been viola,-
ing the law has he changed or altered
his name, but clings constantly to that
of Augustus F. Lee.
From Swainsboro, the lawyer first
went to North Carolina where it is
said he eloped with a girl to Knoxville,
Tenn. after which he deserted her and
went to Florida to resume his law
practice. A week or two ago, Col.
Lee eloped with a girl from Milton,
Fla, to Mobile, Ala.
The elopement being strenuously OF
posed by the parents of the girl, Lee
married her in Mobile, and thence he
with his new wife, journeyed to Hat
tiesburg, Miss, where they were de-
tanned by the chief of police of that
place. The chief wired the sheriff
from Hattiesburg that he had Lee IN
custody and requested the sheriff to
come after him and bring the neces-
sary requisition papers.
AS these proceedings we're in order,
Lee wired the sheriff that he would
come to Swainsboro without extradi-
ton papers if necessary, accompanied
| by the sheriff or chief of police from
! that place. This met heartily with the
sheriff's sanction and approval, ami
therefore Deputy Sheriff NJ. Riley, o.
Hattiesburg, Miss, left there with Lee
for Swainsboro, meantime wiring the
authorities here to meet him on the
road.
The party reached Richland, Ga.
when Deputy Sheriff Riley wired Sher-
if Coursey that Col. Lee had jumped
off fast moving train at that point,
The trip being of no avail, the depu-
ty sheriff returned to Mississippi.
1t was late last night, therefore, that
the chief of police at Lumpkin wired
Sheriff Coursey that Lee had been
captured just about nine miles from
where he had escaped. 1t is presumed
here that the escape would have been
effectual had Lee had funds but it is
not known whether he has sufficient
funds to go further and it was upon
receipt of this message that the au-
thorities here sent for the prisoner.
Col. Lees life reads like romance.
When he was but few years younger
he married one of the most beautiful
women of this part of the state. They
went to Oklahoma to live, but while
there the actions of Col Lee were suffi-