Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-24
INGRAM GOES To
F NI[Y 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 a man
was when he was in need" Trite and
bromide. you say?
Yes-it is agreed-the old verse
limps slightly However, taking
chance on being branded as belonging
to the ancient and honorable body Of
epigram makers-a body concerning
whom he probably knows about as
much as the ordinary man. John In
gram, moonshiner, mountaineer and
until Saturday held in the county Jail
on a Federal charge, believes such the
cries and expresses them in his quaint
but original manner.
Amt no use tallIin, a man KANT
jest tell you all how sich things is. But
eff l 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
purse of money, clothes and candy for
his kids" because these three men, like
Ingram, Thought things want jes right
tibet took a 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 &c miles
to his home. near Blairsville, up in
Union county-the place where there
are no acknowledgement said to
Georgian reporter:
I'm goin' as straight home as the
train and my OF legs II carry me.
amt sayin' I amt done no wrong in
maxim moonshine. Blockadin' is poor
business to be in. and 1 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
couldn't make that $500 bond and get
home to my folks and children and keep
food on their table. l 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
Nd IL l IISult IO way Sou tune H. an
to find that these men here in Atlanta
felt the same as me made me take
holt on hope again, and I tells you and
them they won't be disappointed"
Lavishly 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 a week, was given q
suit of clothes, a suitcase, linen, ties
collars and lastly, but not least some
"sweeties" for his babies.
"Thetll tickle them babies most to
death" said Ingram. 81 CANT remember
when they've he'd any sech things. W.
all in the mountains don get much to
eat like that, and it'll shore mex 'em
happy
The old moonshiner will have to re-
turn here in October for trial. In the
meantime he says he is going to put iE
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:
1T 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 It takes At
lantans and kindly hearted people
everywhere about a second to think
but sometimes long to do.