The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-10-18
An Officer and Gentleman Unafraid.
From the Atlanta Georgian.


/ You reader, whoever you are, are pro
|foundy convinced if you run true to the form
/ Of the average, that you have many troubles
/ frets and vexations to contend with in this
| life; also many sorrows and grets.
! Let the Georgian say to you that it doubts
whether you have ever experienced sorrow
or a grief so profound and heart-breaklng as
that which came into the life of w. E. Englett,
/ for twenty-One years useful member OF At
lanta's police force, who lies dead today-dead
by his own hand.
! You may think that financial worries have
been given to you in undeSerVed abundance;
you may think that your efforts to support
your family and to meet your obligations to
your fellow men, your state and your city
have been hard; you may teel that some acts
iOf kindness and considerations you have eX-
tended to Others have brought forth upon
their part little of gratitude you may teel that
your employer has not given you a square
deal; YOU may feel that you have not been
given time and opportunity to enjoy the pleas
ures of life, in such degree as you are entitled
to; you may feel that you have experienced a
lot of things that you call trouble and sorrow, |
such as sickness and death; but you have telt
nothing in comparison with what Policeman
Englett--a plain man of the plain people, a
faithful servant-felt by way OF sorrow.
This man killed himself a few days ago,
brooding over the fact that his son is serving
a term in the state prison for burglary.
This son was arrested in New Orleans by
his father. the dead man-arrested at the die
tates of a conscience Spartan III its determine
ton.
He was brought to Atlanta and placed in the
hands of the authorities, for legal and order
lily trial.
After this duty had been performed this
father went forth and mortgaged his little
home-the modest accumulation OF a lifetime
of hard wOrk-to provide competent legal de-
tense for his son.
The son was convicted and sent to the state
farm the father went back to his work.
Then burst his mighty heart"
A few days ago his dead body was found
by a negro scrubwoman. The man had killed
himself in seclusion-had died alone, with his
grief without the reach OF one loving hand
Ito comfort and console his last moments.
Let the Georgian say to you, i'll all human
probability the overwhelming bulk OF you
have never known a quality of sorrow remote
lily approximating that which weighed down
1.-THE heart of this man the day he destroyed
his own life.
How his mind must have gone back to the
day when his son was born-to his boyhood, to
his school days, through his youth and young
manhood and on to the bitter end.
And then to think that despite all his low
ing care and affection, his sacrifices and his
kind regard, his boy had followed the path of
la criminal to disgrace and to Jail.
This man Englett, despite the wreck and
grief of it all, did not live his life in vain.
AS shining example OF profound and abid
ing respect for law and order his name should
Ibe preserved, his memory should be kept
green in this community for a thousand years.
In this mans heart was that which makes
for the best there is in public service-a con- |
scious obligation OF duty that knew no COM
Ipromse-a man so thoroughly convinced of
the sublime necessity of the orderly processes
iof law and order and disposal of criminal cas-
les that he hesitated not one moment to go to |
la city hundreds of miles distant and bring his |
Town son, whom he loved as he could have
loved no other man, straight to the bar of JUS
tce, that he might be tried by the legal pro-
Icesses set up as a vital and necessary part of
our machinery of civilization
What a manly denial of any suggestion that
leads to disrespect and disregard OF law and
1.-THE legal and orderly processes thereof.
The Georgian honors and will revere the
name of w. f. Englett plain man of the
plain people, worthy officer, who low
ed his country and who respected the laws
thereof-a God-fearing man and a gentleman
unafraid.
God rest his broken heart his shattered
mind and his noble soul in everlasting and
abiding peace and comfort.
May the Master reCompense him with ten
derness and loving care in proportion to his
bitter sufferings here below.