Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-05
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BA[ILES
Fannin County Will Regard
Jail Honeymooners With Hate
as Having Betrayed 1t.

bessie Battles, the mountaineer's girl
bride who spent her honeymoon in the
Fulton county Tower. viii go today
TO Fannin county. and to a 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 Will make for her
husband in the mountain, however. will
be haunted by terror, 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 IL he
were allowed 10 go free.
'Tl shore git back. judge he said.
earnestly.
IF they don't kill him up IN t'annin
county said his lawyer, ominously.
Many of Baliles' neighbors in Fan
min county do not love him. In At
lanta he was held as a witness and a
witness, however innocent he is Of
treachery to his comrades in the noun
tains. must always be the object of sus-
piciop on the part Of the mountaineers
Assistant District Attorney Henley
talking to Judge Newman, admitted
that Baliles was in danger in Fannin
county. Even if Battles has told moth
ing, he win be suspected by his friends
and on the other hand. Baliles is re
lated 20 the Wrghts.
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 Dunisil
shot the mountaincer knocked down
his wife, who rushed to his rescue, and
killed the baby In her arms
Vengeance has been sworn in Fan
min county against John Wright. And
Battles IS related to Ahim by marriage.
bessie Battles Is a CLOSE kinswoman Of
the fugitive Wright.
II will be a home dc 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 ne might move
from Fannin altogether and make his
home in Lumpkin county, and start q
farm. Lumpkin, south Of. Fannin. is
/, .A..F.
and there is less feeling against the
Wrights.
With Bessie Battles today will go
Homer Wright, fourteen years old, back
10 his mountain home in Fannin coun-
~. Homer Wright is the son OF John
Wright, who is charged with the death
Of Moultrie Hughes. But the boy fears
no danger He is going back to his
mother, he says, and on the little farm
win take the place of his father, who
il hiding from the officers
Young Battles and his bride and the
boy Wright so back TO Fannin county
relatively wealthy persons after their
stay in the Fulton county Tower. The
Service as witnesses has gained for
taem per diem of 81. They were paid
$40 apiece yesterday when released
from the Tower. afflueuce for Fanniu
county mountaineers,
The assault To murder charge on
which Harvey Baliies was arrested
Yesterday after Judge Newman had
ordered him released from the custody
Of Federal officers Is thought to be in
significant. Al least. Harvey Battles
and his wife hope SO, and hope that
he will soon be out 10 start a home
after a chatting six months delay in the
Tower,
Battles viii be taken to Fanniu coun-
ty jail on the assault to murder capias
AS soon as the sheriff of that county
comes to Atlanta to take him over. He
hopes there to find a bondsman and to
be freed immediately time. at least,
TO start the spring planting and TO be-
gin building home.