Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-15
B ACHELL Or WILL
ACE EINBEZ.ZL|N
CHARGE At FA|RBURN
Confessed Girl Assistant to
, Jail Delivery of Father Also
viii Appear on Campbell
Court Docket
BY WARD GREENE
taft Correspondent of The Journal

Staff Correspondent or The journal
FAIRBURN, Ga, Feb. 12.-Whell
criminal week in the Campbell coun-
ty superior court begins here Mon
day, the docket of cases to be tried
before Judge John B. Hutchinson
will include two of unusual interest.
One of these is the state VS.. r. c.
Bachelor, former vice president OF
the Bank of Palmetto, who was in
dicted Friday on the charge of en-
bezzling the funds of the bank and
absconding last spring.
Another is the charge against
Werner Dorsett, pretty 22-year-olc
Atlanta girl who confessed that she
Struggled saws to her father, ar
aged moonshiner in the Campbell
county Jail, and thus effected his
escape and the escape of four other
convicts last December.
Both trials promise to attract
wide attention.
Bachelor, who surrendered him
self in Dallas, Texas, a few weeks
ago and came back to Georgia with
out fighting extradition, has never
made a detailed statement since he
disappeared from Palmetto las
spring while an audit was under way
that revealed a shortage in his &C
counts estimated at between $50,
900 and 100000.
When he comes into court, he will
be accompanied by his wife anG
inc in
Atlanta. Mrs. Bachelor has STUCK
by her husband all along. She met
him at the train when he was
brought back from Texas, and has
visited him several times in the jail
here.
torney W. G. Post, of Newman.
The case of Werner Dorsett has
some sympathetic phases that have
enlisted the interest of number OF
prominent Atlanta women In her be
half.
Guy Dorsett, her father, is, de
scribed as a Gypsy moonshiner' by
the authorities-that is, moon
sinner who wanders from county tc
county, operating his still in dill
ferent places at uncertain Intervals
He is said to have been Gin the
y
Dorset was captured by Sheriff
Jenkins last spring in the southern
part of the county. He was releas
ed under bond, but when he wa:
tried and convicted last fall ant
sentenced to serve two years on the
chain-gang, he was lodged in tht
Campbell county Jail.
There he was visited by hi:
daughter, Werner, who, according tc
her own confession, brought hin
saws, hidden beneath her skirts
with which he broke Jail. Four 9th
er convicts in the same cell also
got away. Three of them were cap
tured. but Dorsett and negro nam
ed Evans are still at large. One
of the captured men 'squealed,'
and Werner was arrested.
When she was arraigned in court
she confessed and pleaded guilty, but
Judge Hutchinson suggested that She
withdraw the plea.
"a girl like this oughtn't to bt
sent to the state prison farm" said
the Judge. Her associations there
may ruin her life. The state legis-
lature should make some provision
&c punish such girls, and yet not
punish them so severely. Her chief
crime was love for her father"
What disposition will be made OF
her case when it is called this
week. is 4 subject of no little spacu
latiOn in Fairburn.
Werner is out under bond. She
lives at a girls home in Atlanta
Friday the grand Jury indicted her