Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-12

the truth may ne fairly assumed
from the fact that it was agreed to
as the truth by the employed law
YER of the negroes &C. p. GOree, of
Atlanta), and the solicitor general of
the circuit, Hon. Z. NJ. Owen.
The slightest effort on your part
to discover the truth of these cases
would have placed this record at
your disposal and avoided the Islander
by you of the judiciary, other public
officers, and the people Of The Rock
AMI Epson county.
I'm your entire statement Of those
cases, there IS scarcely a fact stated,
other than that cases were made
against a negro, his son and daugh-
ter, the cases were tried, the parties
convicted and the punishments named
by yo6 imposed; that there was a
controversy between the negro and
a white naighbor over a land line;
that the negro was charged with a
trespass. and on the occasion of his
arrest a near riot was staged.
1.-The white neighbor to whom you
contemptuouSly refer is Mr.. j. Mat
Bevel, a heightened gentleman, than
whom there is no mere !0%@l and
honorable citizen.
THE facts stated IS t. Tia land
line disputes are untrue. Mc-eo|er,
after the line was =s.&eiiaEG1 by
the district processiGrers, this negro
filed objections and thereafter dis
missed them in court. This same ne
gro had a dispute with another white
neighbor adjoining him on another
side-a widow-and not only tres
Der, but travelled 70 and from the
woods with a Winchester rifle
across his lap.
THE charge against the town
marshall is Nn,:uf: TIE alleged
facts that one daughter was kicked
with a female ailment, locked in Jail
and allowed to suffer there, though
N-9&Gj3" for relief, are untrue.
otl2ar Charges Refuted
TIT, charge that the sheriff re-
f:i@"d I" TEX The charges against
those negroes, and under which they
were b~.ii, IS untrue. This is a base
slar&nc CT as faithful and efficient
She";ii as any county ever had.
The charge that threats of iyua1'
ing these negroes caused their re
rloval to another county is untrue
Ed White was sent to Macon at your
request, as governor, made to me.
previous correspondence between
you and me- of file in youf once
would have, If referred to, refresh
cd your memory as to tie facts. This
Negroes son, Who was convicted anC
fined as stated. still lives in this
same community, and has never beer
molosted or harmed.
THE charge that the town marsha
i -, - OF
night and SHOT it up is untrue. 9th
er alleged facts l do not know about
"If true, no complaint has ever
been made to me, the solicitor gen
raj or the sheriff about them. 1t is
strange they got to you, and how
they got there.
ut is true, however, that one OF
he best citizens of the county sign
ed this negro's bond, and it is fur
thcr truey if you care to know al
the truth, that he signed 1t after be
ing Unidentified against any loss BY
reason Of so doing, and Furthermore
getting his account against thl:
negro secured, and the security have
had to pay the penalty of the bono
Isl ,000), as the negro failed to re
SDoad TO his bond after his case was
disposed Of by the court of appeals
and is now q fugitive from the SEN
tence o. court
If tie other cases in your state
ment as to tive negro in Georgia
contain no more of fact and truth
than these now under consideration
a great and unjustifiable wrong has
been done by you to the state ant
its people.
certainly the mis-statement as tt
these cases is an outrageous wrong
against the people of Epson county
it's public officers and the superior
court and its judge.
1T ought not to be necessary tc
SAY TO you, since being governor yor
should know-that the Flint circuit
is composed of eight counties (Spald-