The Marietta journal and courier., 1917-12-07

fled that she did not witness the
deed, the Grand Jury returned the
Indictment.
| bought the lot of land in ques-
ton. paid a reasonable market value
for it, on May 30, 1915. On May
II. 1915 | sold the lot of land to W..
NJ. Murray for the very same amount
Of money that / paid for same Mr..
Murray took charge of the land and
built a house, had saw mill on the
place and was having some timber
cut off when a man by the name of
Lester came up from Savannah and
filed petition to enjoin myself and
Mr.. Murray from trespassing upon
the lot of land. The case came on
for trial before Judge Patterson dur.
ing regular term of Court when Mr..
Clay, the Solicitor General was pres
ent. The plaintiffs in said case un-
dertook to make out their case, but
they stated to the Court that they
had no title to the land, no deed of
any description, but that he thought
his father-in-law had a deed to the
land back in the '40's or sos. The
Judge stated to them that they had
no case. They asked for time to see
if they could find any deeds. The
Court continued the case for them
80 days. Just before the 80 days
was out one of plaintiffs counsel,
went to the Courthouse and dis
missed the case. All of these facts
were known to the Solicitor General
when the indictment was returned. l
went to plaintiffs counsel after the
case was dismissed and told them if
they could get up any title whatever
to the property that would show that
the title under which / bought the
land was not absolutely genuine that
/ would pay back to Mr.. Murray his
money and give them possession of
the land. l also told plaintiffs coun-
sci that whether the plaintiff could
find any title to the land or not or
would state that they believed that
their father ever had any deed to
the land and would make me quit
claim title and would draw draft
for $25000 with quit claim title at
tached through any bank in Marietta
/ would give them that much. Coun-
sci thought this a fair proposition
and thought the matter would be
settled. / have never heard any
thing further from them.
This Indictment was obtained by
the Solicitor General for political
purposes only He went over this
county and the Blue Ridge Circuit
and made speeches in which he stated
he was going to send me to the chain
gang. Immediately after the bill of
Indictment was found he went to H.
B. Moss and told Mr.. Moss that it
was all he could do to get the Grand
Jury to return the bill against me.
and if Mr.. Moss would keep his
mouth shut in the political campaign
from then on, he would mol pross the
bill he had against Mr. Moss and
that he would prosecute me. At the
time | returned from the West my
bond for 81 100000 had been forfeit
ed and the Solicitor General required
the Sheriff to take a bond double
the amount of the first bond. He
did this for no other purpose only
to mortify my feelings, when he
knew at the time that the deed in
question was genuine deed, and
properly witnessed by Miss Florence
Nuckolls and Astor Merritt. Both
of said witnesses having examined
the deed and their signatures and
told the Solicitor General that their
signatures were genuine and that
they saw the deed executed, this was
before / returned from the West.
Last week while the Solicitor was
on trial for using obscene language
to one Mrs. Bobbie Greer, for which
she cowhided him on the streets of
Marietta, Mr.. Clay stated in his
statement to the jury that l had been
bounding him down for the last
eight months, that l was his bitter
enemy. / want to state now that
had no knowledge whatever of his
assaulting Mrs. Greer until about the
time Mrs. Greer whipped him on the
streets of Marietta and l was in no
way responsible for that trouble, and
| am sure that | am not responsible
for his being in house of i'll fame in
Atlanta oTs Nov, II, 1917, drunk
and when he and three women were