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

.usvmoathy, aroused to wakefulness
nv the lamentable story OF a youthful
bride and bridegroom from the free
,,,o,,ntains forced to spend their honey
.,oon within the dark confines of a
,r,,,er, cell has brought about an end
-o- anticipated. Bessie Battles, the
,,ountaineer's BRIDE is free because of
that sympathy. But her mountaineer
husband. Harvey Battles, must remain
m iail and the honeymoon is shat
tered.
movement to secure them freedom
GUIDED when Federal Judge W. T. New
man released Mr.. and Mrs. Battles and
Homer Wright, a fourteen year-old
hoy today, requiring no security save
their own word that they would ap-
,aa, as witnesses when the court call
I'd them.
But q charge of assault to murder
waits Harvey Battles in Fannin coun-
Nv 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-
,nrrcd him back to the Tower. His
girl wife can not rejoin him there, but
will 90 back to her home in the noun
tJius 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 IS they have remained in jail.
Harvey Battles and bessie Thomson
were married a few days before they
were 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
4. Bryan, prosperous farmer of Dab
lonega, to furnish bail; that the girls
father q prosperous farmer, could have
stood their bond if appealed to; that
by remaining in the jail they We're pro-
tected from the vengeance of Fannin
county mountainous, who did not like
the young bridegroom; that they were
drawing a per diem of 81, and that the
young man would have been in the
Fannin county jail on the assault
OH ~ 70
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 Baliles 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-s140 for the boy in a rough
hickory shirt and coarse trousers.
Boy Will Buy Mule.
Il kin buy mule, CANT T." he ask
ed. after while. He promised the
Judge that he would go home to his
mother, and work for her. The boys
father is a fugitive from justice in the
the murder of Moultrie Hughes: the
boy himself, in spite of his fourteen
Years is supposed to have witnessed
the brutal murder of Moultrie Hughes
and his tiny baby.
Harvey Battles, returning to the
Tower parted from his wife for the
Hrst time since their marriage It is
his hope that he will be taken to Fam
mn county on the assault to murder
charge, and that there his friends will
furnish bail, leaving him free to start
tae home and the real life that the
prison term has delayed.
RE viii not stay in Fannin county.
though, he said, but announced to
Judge Newman that he would so to
LilHpEin county and farm, if he can
cain his freedom
MIS-. Battles probably viii go to Fam
Mn county tomorrow.