The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-02-26
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Atlanta, Ga, Feb. 24.-Will Judge
Ben H. Hill, Of Fulton superior
court find Governor-Elect Hugh M.
Dorsey in contempt OF court if he dis
covers that the governor-elect was
responsible for the publication in the
Atlanta Constitution OF an affidavit
bearing on the Boots Rogers high.
way robbery trial which he has refts-
ed to allow the governor-elect to put
before the trial jury?
Judge Hill announced yesterday al
ter he had declared mistrial in the
Rogers case because Of the publica-
ton OF the affidavit, that he was go
ing to investigate the circumstances
surrounding its publication" and that
if he found that anyone CONNECTED
with the defense was responsible for
its publication he would hold the par
ty or parties in contempt"
And no wthe Atlanta bar and the
Atlanta public are awaiting with keen
interest the next development They
are. waiting to see whether Judge Hill
discovers that the governor elect was
Irresponsible for the publication of the
J afhdavit; and to See whether the Judge
VIII hold the governor elect in con-
tempt OF court and send him to JAIL"
as the Judge openly declared yester-
day he would do, should he find that
anyone connected with the defense in
spired the publication.
Involving, as it does. so1nany pro-
minent and notorious personages and
parties, the case has stirred more in
terest thany any court trial Since the
Frank case, in which Governor Elect
Dorsey won his spurs and his subse-
quent political triumph
Boots Rogers, who was Dorsey's
star witness in the Frank trial, is in
dicted for holding up factory pay
lrnaster and robbing him of $1,000.
| The paymaster has identified Rogers
as the guilty man. Come to trial Roe-
ers is represented by Governor Elect
| Dorsey. Taking the stand in his own
| defense, Rogers proclaims his inno-
cence and accuses one NJ. ]. Yarter,
taxicab drivers, not only of this but
,another payroll robbery Rogers as
serts that he and Detective APT Camp
bell and John Starnes, who worked
up the evidence for Dorsey in the
Frank case, photographed Yarter and
overhead him confess the two robber-
les to woman connected with a
counterfeiting case. AS counsel for
Rogers, Governor Elect Dorsey un-
dertakes to put Campbell and Starnes
as witnesses to corroborate Rogers
photograph story. Judge Hill rules
them out. When the trial adjourns
| for the day, Judge Hill allows the Jury
to so home, warning them to read no
newspapers. Next morning, (yester-
| day. the Atlanta Constitution comes
out with Campbell's affidavit relating
| the photograph plant and over it is
ernIhe edsun-coaederreding
headline reading: "Yarter Admits
j Robbing Boykin States Campbell"
On re-convening the trial Judge Hill
demands TO know if the jury have seen
the publication, three of them admit
they read the headlines" which was
on the front page, and Judge Hill de-
clares a mistrial, following which he
announces that he will undertake to
hnd out if anyone connected with the
defense was responsible for the publ
GATOR OF the affidavit
| Meanwhile, Solicitor John A. Bow
kin, who is prosecuting Boots Rogers.
and who took occasion in the course
OF the trial TO rap City Detective
Campbell and Starnes for busying
themselves to clear the indicted de-
PENDANT instead OF working with him
as the states prosecuting officer, will
take advantage OF the postponement
70 investigate report emanating
from Fulton county Jail TO the effect
that Boots Rogers and his attorney.
Hugh NJ. Dorsey, attempted to induce
Dan Carr, an alleged street car bandit,
to confess to the holdup with which
Rogers is charged, assuring him that
he void get no more punishment than
the sentence already coming to him
in the street car holdup.