Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-05
TERROR-HAUNTED
HOME AWAITS
BA[|LES
Fannln County Will Regard
Jail HoneymoonerS With Hate
as Having Betrayed 1t.

bessie Battles. the mouutaiusers girl
bride who spent her honeymoon i'm the
Fulton county Tower. viii go today
to Fannin county. and to little cabin
twenty miles into the forest from Blue
Ridge. There she will wait until Har-
vey Battles, her husband. gets out Of
prison; then the real life Of the two
will start. The six months honeymoon
spent in the Fulton county Tower
doesn't count
The home that she viii make for her
husband in the mountain. however. will
be haunted by terror, a terror which
was voiced in the Federal court yes
terday, when the girl and her husband
were released by Judge Newman after
being held six months as Witnesses
Harvey Battles was promising Judge
Newman that he would return if he
We're allowed to go free.
IN SHORE git back, Judge" he said
earnestly.
IF they cont Kill him up i'm F'anuin
county" said his lawyer, omiuous}y.
Many Of Buliles' neighbours in Fan
min county do not love him. In At
lanta b. was held as q witness. aud
witness however innocent he is OF
trearhery to his comrades in the noun
tains. must always be the object Of sus-
picion on the part Of the mountaiucers
Assistant District Attorney Henley
talking 10 Judge Newman. admitted
That Battles was in danger in Fannin
county, Even if Battles has told moth
ing, he will be suspected by his friends.
and on the other hand, Battles is re-
lated TO the Wrights
Narrowing Murder Story.
John Wright, it must be known. is
charged with the murder Of Moultrie
Hughes. The story Of the killing is
narrowing. Hughes, it is recorded was
called out Of his little cabin. in which
sat his Wife nursing a tiny baby, with
several older children playing around.
Wright, it is said, and Frank Duuisil
shot the mountaincer, knocked down
his wife. who rushed TO his rescue, and
killed the baby in her arms
Vengeance has been sworn in Fam
min county against John Wright And
Battles is related to him by marriage.
Bessie Baliles is a close knswoman Of
the fugitive Wright
1t will be nome Of terror that the
two young mountain people will start
for 1t is likely that Harvey Battles
realized his danger when he told Judge
Newman yesterday that he might move
from Fannin altogether and make his
home in Lumpkn county and start Il
farm. Lumpkin, south of Fannin. is
more open than the mountain county.
and there Is less feeling against the
Wrights
With Bessie Battles today Will 90
Homer Wright. fourteen years old. back
TO his mountain home in Fanuin coun-
IT, Homer Wright is the son Of John
Wright, who is charged with the death
of Manltrie Hughes. But the boy fears
no danger, He is going back to his
mother, he says, and on the little farm
will take the place Of his father. who
Is hiding from the officers
Young Battles and his bride and the
boy Wright go back to Fanuin county
relatively wealthy persons after their
stay in the Fulton county Tower. The
service as Witnesses has gained for
them per diem of 81. They were paid
$40 apiece Yesterday when released
from the Tower, afruonce for Fauuin
'uanty mountaineers.
The assault to murder charge on
which Harvey Battles was arrested
Yesterday after Judge Newman mad
ordered him released from the custody
al Federal officers 81, Thought to be in
significant. At least. Harvey Battles
lnG his Wife hope so and hone TINT