The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-02-03


before this negro recognized him. at
the depot, as the escaped Georgia
convict; where he wilfully and mex
cusably cursed and abused two gen.
tlemen of Danville, Va, which said
conduct on the part Of the chief of
police of the town caused the mayor
to suspend him.
STRIPPING and his accomplice, Ter
rell Huff, also a brother-in-laW, were
confined in the penitentiary. Strib-
ling and Huff had an opportunity to
escape, and Stribling did escape,
while Huff refused. Huff got pos
session of new facts and he put them
before Governor Terrell and these
new facts clearly demonstrated his
innocence and put the crime entirely
upon the shoulders of Stribling, the
brother in-IaW in crime and marriage.
When Strlbling was caught in Dan
vile, Va, he was brought back to
Georgia, and the sentence of the law
was about to be again put into effect.
Whereupon a terrible wave of SEN
tlmentalism was started by certain
parties, in certain quarters, demand
ing his pardOn-not because he was
innocent Of the crime charged not
because any new evidence was found,
not because the laws of our State
had been indicated, but simply and
solely because these sentimental folks
thought the Danville. Va, chief Of
police had been good citizen of that
State, and their plea amounted to
this: Let q red-handed murderer,
sentenced by a Georgia court on the
verdict Of a Georgia jury, escape and
fee to a distant State, where, if it is
alleged he lived a law-abiding life,
he, according to these sentimental
lists, is entitled to immunity from
said sentence of the courts of the
State wherein his dastardIy deeds
were committed.
That may be sentiment, but it is
not common sense, and it is not
justice.
Governor Brown rendered his de-
cision in the case, and held that it
could not be re-Opened, unless they
made it appear to him that new evil
dence could be found. He would not
set aside verdict upon the identical
evidence upon which jury found the
man guilty.
That might not have been senti-
it was Justice, and it tailed with the
letter and spirit Of our laws and our
Constitution.
Governor Brown refused to rape
the Constitution Of his State. His
decision strengthened law enforce
ment in Georgia. He would not per-
NIT the executive branch to become a
court of review; and if Slaton had
followed that precedent, he would
have saved himself from almost uni
versal contempt, at the same time
protecting and UNFOLDING the laws
and Constitution of this great State
Stribling was confined to servitude
at the State Farm, where he now
boards
Nothing more was heard of the
case until Governor Harris visited the
State Farm; and, while at the farm,
the little girl saw the "oId Gov
ernor, the two claspcd hands, min
gled tears and the little girl" won,
as usual.
That visit by our Governor was,
not made until after our Macon Daily
Telegraph published some highly SEN
timental stories about alleged bru-
talities at the said farm. The Macon
daily published columns of dope"
OIL the aforementioned subject State
officials investigated the charges and
found that they were Matched at the
hope" shops of the aforesaid daily
newspaper
1t is beginning to look as though
The Macon Daily Telegraph drama