Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-14

that George Craw1ey will be deliver
ed to the military authorities to be
tried for desertion and for the muir
der. Of United State Marshal Ben f.
Dixon, near Blairsville, Ga.
Mr.. Alexander held that the &C
cused man could not be tried in the
federal = courts. because Marshal
Dixons death did not occur on gov
eminent property. He can be tried
by military authorities, however, be-
cause he is still a soldier though
charged with 18th -, de es. I'll l.,,,.o.a
In order to hold the fugitives UNI
til final disposition of their cases
can be made, all three of the men
George and Decatur Crawley and
nesday morning before United States
Commissioner w. Colquitt Garter for
commitment hearing. The three
were held over without bond to
the federal grand jury on the charge
of conspiracy in the murder of Mar
shall Dixon. Decatur CraWley and
Blaine Stewart were further charged
with aiding and abetting George
Crawley in deserving from the army.
When these cases are presented to
Gerstood that charges also. will be
presented against Felix and Frauh
Crawley and Gordon Bowers. who
have been confined in the Tower for
some time.
Stewart and George, and Decatur
morning that. any Of the three had
killed Marshal Dixon, or knew how
the killing took place. They will
plead. at their trial, that Dixon was
killed in a scuffle over gun and
that his death was accidental horni-
eide.
It developed Wednesday morning
that the two Crawleys and Blaine
Stewart were captured largely be-
cause of the love of the two broth
ers for Their mother, an old woman,
age 70 years, who is sick in a cabin
near the foot of Bald mountain.
Glenn Young, the stoclIy department
of justice agent, tracked them to
log house only a stones throw from
this cabin, and there made them
day morning. Immediately after
ward he took them to their mothers
beside, so that they might receive
her benediction and say farewell to
her The four then started for At
lanta-two of the prisoners hand
cuffed and one of them free.
young's Story
In the marshaPs Office at the Fed
era! building, Glenn Young told
Wednesday morning of how h. foil
lowed the three fugitives by their
footprints in the snow that lies deep
on the great Smoky mountains. fol-
lowing them always at night; of how
he pushed on mile after mile. al
though he had been out of the hos
ritaI only week: and of how. final
ly. he reached their cabin in the
first early light Of morning.
In natter-of-fact words he de-
scribed his entrance-one man step
ping into a room occupied by three
outlaws whom picked troops from
Camp Gordon had failed to capture
one man, far away up there at the
foot of BALD mountain, calmly ignor-
;ro the chances of death and pushing
open the door of that cabin as coolly
as he would step across the threshold
of a hospitable friend.
On his hin was a Springfield rifle.
in two holsters swinging from his
a 45-automatic. Neither of the three
men moved-nor the woman. There
was a woman-Pose era view, sister
of George and Decatur THROUGH
the deep SHOWS of the Smokes. along
paths that offered little foothold,
she had trudged with her brCthers-
one of those women of the mountains
th9t have the courage of men.
They looked at each other in sill
enre. way I'D there in the mountains
the three outlaws and the woman.
and the stookv little man in til"
doorway. There were three rifles
md half ?. dozen nisto7e in The room.
Nobody used thnm. Some men are
born with = ccol. indomita1 le cour-
age that shows in their eyes. Glenn
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