Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-24
INGRAM GOES To
FAMILY IN HILLS
MoonShiner- MOuntaineer Feels
Grateful to AtIantanS for Sc
curing His Freedom.

There was once an old rhymester who
sang about the time to help Il man
was when he was in need" Trite and
bromide, you say?
Yes-it is agreed-the old verse
lmps slightly However, taking a
chance on being branded as belonging
to the ancient and honorable body Of
epieram makers-a body concerning
whom he probably knows about az
much as the ordinary man, John In
gram. moonshiner, mouutaineer and
until Saturday held in the county jail
on Federal charge. believes such the
cries and expresses them in his quaint
but original manner.
Amt no use taldn', a man KANT
jest tell you all how SIGH things is. But
ef live I'll try to prove how much you
all helped me when you took me out'E
down yonder."
Atlantans Extend Help.
Ingram, who, through the help eX-
tended him by prominent Atlantans,
Henry Schaul, Chess Lagomarsino and
w. NJ Lewis, who read his story in The
Georgian, was bailed from Jail given a
purse of money, clothes and candy for
his kids" because these three men, Hike
Ingram, thought things want jes' right
tibet took q man from his family and
left en- to starve"-left for his noun
tain home late yesterday
Standing on the steps Of the train
bound for Blue Ridge, Ga, from where
he would be forced to walk the 26 miles
10 ig lai in
Union County-the place where there
are no Acknowledgment said to a
Georgian reporter:
I'm goin' as straight home as the
train and my OF legs II carry me. l
amt sayin' I amt done no wrong in
maxim moonshine. Blockadin' is a poor
business to be in, and | swears right
now I'm through with all that. What
said to you all about the fairness Of let
tin me lay in Jail here jest cause l
couldn't make that $500 bond and get
home to my folks and children and keep
food on their table. 1 meant.
That was what made me feel
things want jes' right. There my
folks was sufferin' because the gov
eminent had me down yonder. That
want right, no way you take it. An
to find that these men here in Atlanta
felt the same as me made me take a
holt on hope again, and l tells you and
them they won't be disappointed"
LavshIy Provided for.
Ingram, before he was sent home,
was lavishly provided for. The old
man, arrested in his old butternut suit,
was taken from Jail. where he had been
kept a month and week, was given a
suit of clothes, q suitcase, linen, ties.
collars and, lastly, but not least, some
"sweeties" for his babies.
"ThetH tickle them babies most TO
death" said Ingram. 81 CANT remember
when they've he'd any sech things. We
all in the mountains don get much to
eat like that, and it'll shore mex 'em
happy"
The old moonshiner viii have to re-
turn here in October for trial. In the
meantime he says he is going to pat ir
crop on his little patch of rented
mountain land and keep his family
from want"
AS the train pulled out of the Union
station, old John said;
ut shore is good to feel that a man
kin pin his faith to his fellow man and
git need when he needs it,"
Which, after all, If John probably
knew it, sums up in one sentence what
it took that old verse maker some four
stanzas to say. and what 1t takes At
lantans and kindly hearted people
everywhere about a second to think
but sometimes long to do.