Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-12
VICE INQUIRY
|SRESUMED
BY GRAND
JURY
Grand Jury Refuses to Return
True Bill Against Colonel
Thomas B. Fielder.

The vice probe in Its various ram
ifications was resumed by the Grand
Jury Thursday morning. Before ex-
aiming any witnesses, the jurors dis
cussed an early investigation of the
dictograph charges. 1t was undei-
stood witnesses would be summoned
during the day and the matter taken
up Friday and probed until the sub
stantial facts We're brought to light.
The first bill Of Indictment to be
acted upon Thursday was against
Colonel T. Il. Fielder. charged with
carrying a pistol Or. Horace Grant
the only man who claims to have seen
a revolver when Colonel Fielder and
Chief Detective Newport Lanford
were preparing to fight, waited his
turn to go before the jury. He said
he would tell everything he knew
about the clash in the witness room Of
the Grand Jury Wednesday Of last
week
The Grand Jury had found no
grounds to sustain an indictment
against Colonel Fielder. Foreman
Beck said that the Grand Jury will
take up the dictograph scandal as
soon as possible, possibly during the
present week.
Probe Gun Totins" Charge.
Investigation into the charge that
Colonel T. h. Fielder carried a con-
cealed weapon at the time of his
clash with Chief Lanford in an ante
room of the Grand Jury chamber oc-
cupied the entire time Of the Grand
Jury Thursday forenoon.
Dr. Horace Grant was one of the
He was present at the
time Colonel Fielder is alleged to have
reached toward his hip pocket. He
stepped between the men and said
later that he felt the gun in Colonel
Folders pocket.
Newton Garner, a deputy In Solic-
itor Dorseys office, and Deputy Sher-
lift PIennie Miner also were called be-
fore the Grand Jury. Mr.. Minor is
understood to have testified that he
did not, as reported, relieve Colonel
Fielder Of any weapon after the ex-
element was over so as to protect
the colonel in the event he was
Garner testified that he saw no
weapon in Colonel Felder's pocket and
that to the best Of his knowledge he
had none.
Some members Of the Grand Jury
have taken the position that the facts
contained In the distograph record Of
the conversation in room 81 Of the
Williams House and the charges that
have been exchanged between Colonel
Fielder and the head Of the detective
department are of so grave a nature
that they can not be dropped without
a searching effort to establish the
truth on one or the other side in the
Dietograph Probe Promised.
Then, it is understood, the probe
will go deep into the alleged corrupt
conditions. and If there is any truth
in the accusations that followed so
closely on the heels Of the published
"dictograph bribery charges these
witnesses viii be able 10 establish it,.
Colonel Fielder announced Thursday
that he would have George Gentry,
the photograph stenographer, in town
at any time the Grand Jury might call
Tor him. and that the young man was
willing to go on the stand and give
further facts substantiating his AFT
davit published Wednesday.
Chief of Detectives Lanford said he
vas investigating Gentry's hurried
departure from Atlanta, with a view
to establishing his theory that the
youth had been lured away BY a pri-
waite detective In the employ Of Colo
mel Fielder. He said he did not be
Iieve the affidavit was genuine and
that if Gentry were brought back to
Atlanta he would swear the dlcto-
graph report as published was accU-