Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-27
0L SEN CASE
To FURNISH
THRILLS !.
Witness Says Judge Wrote plot
Article and Next Day Pre-
pared Denial.

SAVANNAH, Jan. 27.-Taking of
testimony in the alleged plot to as
sassinate Judge Emory Speer will
furnish the thrills in the Congress
sional probe to-day, according to r.
L. Colding, who has been summoned
as the first witness.
Colonel Colding's testimony will
deal with the Olsen case, one of the
most famous in Chatham County.
Olsen. the keeper of the sailors room
ing house, was tried before Judge
Speer on a charge of shanghaiing.
Judge Speer, according to Colonel
Colding and newspaper men, wrote a
story for the papers stating that Oh
SENS friends were going to assassi-
nate him, and the next day wrote a
story denying this. Colding was the
attorney for Olsen. He has made the
charge that in conducting the case
Judge Speer was eminently unfair to
The defendant and left no course open
10 the jury but to fine him.
Beach Case Figures.
That other evidence heretofore not
touched upon in the Speer hearing
would be introduced at the session
to-day, provided the witnesses could
be reached, seemed t. be certainty.
Uhnp II hacor,a I,.ou,,, tbat a ,,,,y, :
Der Of former court officials had been
called and would probably take the
stand.
Another sensational development
the case may take was limited at in
the investigation yesterday, when
Chairman Webb tried to bring out
the facts in connection with the
Beach bankruptcy case, and the pro-
ceedings of former Referee Max
lsaacs, Of Brunswick, in throwing the
company into the hands of receiver.
Since the company's affairs went into
the Federal Court Max lsaacs has
been indicted in the State court for
0aratry or. soliciting accounts with
which to throw the affairs of the
company into the United States
Court.
The company had assets of about
100000, and, according to the attor-
news for it, was in a thriving 'condi-
Ton when its progress was estopped'
Although these proceedings took
place only a few months ago, the
company has been handled well and
again in a thriving condition.
Leading Witnesses Absent.
To-day it depends largely on what
Witnesses will be available as to what
direction the case will take, Some OF
me attorneys who are under sub
pena are at Washington in the inter
eSt Of having a new district and
Judge provided for this territory and
may not return until Wednesday
Ihey are, of course, called in rela :
uon to different cases and instances
ana many new facts, or. alleged facts
VIII be brought out.
Three of the most prominent mem
uers Of the bar in the State. Judge
samuel B. Adams, General P, w
Ie!arim and Colonel A. r. Lawton
wee president of ten Central of Geor-
sa Railroad, are yet to be called upon
10 testify
ouoee Adams and Judge Speer
b,,. lormerly warm personal friends
So a. lollowing a difference in oper
eur svarl they became the bitterest OF
5 SrsiIlles General Meldrim, who will
ss,5oabiy be the next president of the
5s,'eFlcan Bar Association, 1t is un-
5ss.{ood, will only testify as TO the
All alihg Of the judge IN court and the
"esea undue influence he exercised
MIN olonel Lawton, 1t Is understood
~. testify in regard to the old Cen
a., Railroad bankruptcy case and
Il the larger corporation affairs