Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-04
JAIL HONEYMOON
ENDS AS WIFE
GOES FREE
Harvey and bessie BaIiIes Re-
leased. But Husband Is Re-
arrested on Old Charge.

-.,-4nn4tlY, aroused to WakefulneSS
-. the iamentable story of youthful
bride and bridegroom from the free
mountains forced to spend their honey
r,oon within the dark confines of
Tower cell has brought about an end
mar anticipated. Bessie Battles, the
,,ountaineer's bride, is free because of
that sympathy. But her mountaineer
husband. Harvey Battles, must remain
m Jail. and the honeymoon is shat
tered.
4 movement to secure them freedom
ended when Federal Judge w. r. New
man released Mr.. and Mrs. Battles and
Homer Wright, fourteen-y year old
hoy. today. requiring no security save
heir own word that they would APP
near as witnesses when the court call
ed them.
But a charge of assault to murder
awaits Harvey Battles in Fannin coun-
~ and no sooner did he reach Forsyth
street. leaving the Federal building,
Than Bailiff Yancey, armed with war
rant. placed him under arrest and es-
corted him back to the Tower. His
girl wife can not rejoin him there, but
will go back to her home in the noun
tains and wait.
The trio from the Fannin county
mountains have been held in Fulton
county Jail, by order of Judge Newman.
as material witnesses in a charge of
conspiracy against two mountaineers,
John Wright and Frank Dunisil. Since
october 10 they have remained in Jail.
Harvey Battles and Bessie Thomson
we're married q few days before they
we're brought to Atlanta, and the trip
to the Tower was their nuptial jour
ney. After five months their peculiar
situation was made public, and work
toward their release was started.
One Offer Refused.
In the Federal court today, when c.
r. Hopkins pleaded for the release of
the three witnesses, J. w. Henley as
sistant district attorney, told Judge
Newman that the young married cou-
pie could probably have attained their
freedom before this: that he under
stood they had refused the offer Of NJ
f. Bryan, a. prosperous farmer of Dab
lonega, to furnish bail; that the girls
father, a prosperous farmer, could have
TODD their bond if appealed to; that
by remaining in the Jail they we're pro-
tected from the vengeance of Fannin
county mountaineers, who did not like
the Young bridegroom: that they were
drawing a per diem of ST, and that the
Young man would have been in the
'annin county Jail on the assault
charge, otherwise, with no profit to
him
Financially, at least, the stay of the
three mountain people was profitable
TO them Today, upon their release,
they were given checks for their per
diem. Harvey Battles drew Sal, his
wife $40, and the boy $40.
The boy looked at his check in
amazement. 1t was as if the idea of
great wealth were hard to grasp. A
fortune-S14O for the boy in a rough
hickory shirt and coarse trousers!
Boy Will Buy Mule.
u kin buy a mule, CANT T." he ask
ed, after a While. He promised the
Judge that he would go home to his
'4''tliSi. anu NOih LOT uei. / ne DON ,
father is a fugitive from justice in the
north Georgia mountains, suspected of
/ The murder of MouItrie Hughes; the
boy himself. in spite of bis fourteen
years, is supposed TO have witnessed
the brutal murder of Moultrie Hughes
and his tiny baby.
Harvey Battles, returning TO the
1 Tower. parted from his wife for the
! hrst time since their marriage Il is
his hope that he will be taken to Fan
mn county on the assault to murder
| charge, and that there his friends will
/ furnish bail leaving him free to start
me home and the real life that the
prison term has delayed.
He will not stay in Fannin county
though, he said, but announced to
Judge Newman that he would go to
Lumpkln county and farm, if he can
gain his freedom.
Mrs Battles probably will go to Fan
min county tomorrow.