Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1921-03-23
Turner's Denial
GEORGIA, Coffee County


Personally appeared before me
E. d. Turner who after being du-
ly sworn, deposes. and swears
that he has seen the article on the
front page of the Fitzgerald
Leader of the date of March 18th,
wherein it is stated that he (Tur-
ner) claimed that the men whom
he carried to the shops of the A.
B. and A. railway at Fitzgerald
on the 10th instant, were the ones
who injured and damaged his car.
Deponent swears positively
that he has made no such state
ment; that he has not contended
that the men whom he transpor-
ted to Fitzgerald injured his car,
but on the contrary this deponent
swears that his tires were cut by
a bunch of men, apparently out
laws that met him on the road
from Fitzgerald leading from the
A. B. and A. shops; that there
was a gang of ten or fifteen men
with flashlights stood in the road
and waved this deponent down
with said flashlights, and after
making inquiry as to where he
and the other men were going,
became enraged, and represented
themselves as being union men
and cursed the parties in the car
to being "Scabs" and every other
thing that is in the vocabulary of
people of this description, and out
laws generally.
That then and there part of
gang were behind deponents car
and the air began to come out of
the tires; that he rushed on to the
shops as quick as he could and
upon his arrival investigated and
found the tires on the rear of his
car had been slashed with a sharp
instrument to an extent that they
were practically worthless that
although deponent did not see
these union men cut said tires,
and with the threats they were
making against this deponent and
the people in the car with him.
together with the fact that the air
came out of the tires while thew
were there where this bunch was.
these men are the ones that cut
his tires and the contention made
Ill the Fitzgerald Leader of the
date above mentioned to the effect
that this deponent stated that the
men who went with him on the
trip were the ones that cut his
tires, is absolutely without foun-
datlon; as matter of fact, and
1t is contrary statement of the
facts, and is done by the Fitz-
gerald Leader either by being
mislnformed by some other per-
son or else a wilful statement of
something that is absolutely un-
true.
Deponent further swears that
he did not see Conductor A. M.
Barrett and does not know that
there IS any such man living and
have never had a conversation
with him or any other person, as
stated in the. second paragraph of
the article contained in the Fitz-
gerald Leader that "Deponent
knew too much about the class of
men employed by the A. B. and A.
Railway to again ride them in his
car"
That if Mr.. Barrett made this
statement. it was done without
any statement of this deponent to
him at all, and statement. if
he made, which the Fitzgerald
Leader claims he did, in the sec
ond paragraph of said article, did
1t Rowing it was absolutely false.
Deponent further swears that
Mr.. Crosby, agent of the A. B.
and A. Railway. at Douglas, Ga.
paid him $1,000 for this trip and
that he has not been paid any
amount for his tires, and he has
never made any statement to Mr..
Barrett with reference to what he
got from this trip or damage to
the car, and his statement as al
legged in the last paragraph of arti-
Gle in the Fitzgerald Leader of
March 18th, is totally false and
is absolutely without foundation.
Signed E. D. Turner.
Sworn and Subscribed before
me this 18th day of March 1921
E. l.. Tanner, Notary Public,
State of Georgia.