Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-12
GIRL HELPSSTACE
! JAIL DELIVERY To
| FREE HER FATHER
Old Man and Four Others Es-
:; caped-Love for Parent
! and Obedience Were Miss
! Dorsett's Motives
BY WARD GREENE
(Staff Correspondent of The Journal)

FAIRBURN, Ga, Feb. liver
Atlanta girl, has confessed that she
was the person who effected the jail
breaking of five convicts in Camp
bell county last December.
Love for her father, AN aged moon
ehiner, sentenced to serve two years
on the changing, was the motive
that led her to risk her own liberty
in a successful attempt to smuggle
him the saws with which he and
the others cut their way to freedom
And now, her father saved, she
) herself faces a prison term. Nor
will she buy forgiveness of the law
/ by revealing the secret of his where
abouts although it is understood
that the prosecution has offered to
be lenient with her if she will tell
/ where he is.
Miss Dorsett until recently worked
In an Atlanta overall factory and
lives in girls home in Atlanta,
4 where she has the reputation of be-
ing a quiet, well-mannered girl
4
Patrons of the home were aston
ished when she confessed her part
IN the Jail delivery, and a number
of prominent Atlanta women have
/ interviewed with the authorities on
her behalf.
She was arrested, but later was
released under $500 bond, pending
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Campbell county authorities.
Werner Dorsett's father is Guy
Dorset, whom Campbell county au-
thorities declare has been a moon
sinner for years, operating stills"
In the southern part Of Campbell
county and in Harris county.
Sheriff Jenkins, of Campbell coun
ty, states that he has tried to catch
Dorset again and again, and sue
ceeded in breaking up a number of
his Stills but WAS unable to effect
a capture until January year ago,
when he chased Dorsett for several
miles after raiding still" and A.
of a negro cabin.
Daughter Visited Him
Dorsett was tried in the superior
court of Campbell county last No
vember, was convicted and was SEN
fenced to two years on the chain
gang. He had been out on bond, but
after his conviction he was returned
to the Jail and the future was black
for him.
In these straights he was visited
by his daughter, Werner, who was
working in Atlanta and had not seen
him for some time, but who must
have loved him dearly.
According to the confession she is
said to have made to Solicitor Lon
Brand later, her father begged her to
''get him out"
IF you ever wanted to do anything
for me, now is the time" he is re-
ported to have told her.
Accordingly, so the story of her
confession goes, she went to Atlanta,
bought the saws and hid them under
her dress when she called on her
father a second time, one afternoon
last December.
To camoufiage her purpose, Sheriff
Jenkins says, she bore large basket
of fruit and offered this to him for
his examination. She was admitted
to the cell occupied by her father,
along with our other prisoners
one under several indictments for
forgery, two charged with burglary
and a fourth held on a misdemeanor
charge.
The next morning Sheriff jenkins
s found the cell empty and his birds
g flown. The bars had been sawed
quite neatly.
Three of the fugitives were recap
tured, but Dorset made a clean get
away. He and negro, Will Evans,
arrested for burglary, have not been
seen since, though the country has
been secured for them.
In the meantime, one of the other
prisoners confessed the circum-
stances of the Jail delivery. Werner
Dorsett was arrested in Atlanta and
lodged in the Campbell county Jail
from which she helped her father to
escape. She confessed to the solicit
tor, it is said. when her case was
called in the superior court, and en-
tered plea of guilty.
Plea Is Withdrawn
Judge OHM 3. Hutchinson, VINO
presided when the girl entered q
plea of guilty to misdemeanor, had
her withdraw the plea.
Criminals must be punished
said Judge Hutchinson, Friday, but
it is wrong to send a girl like this
to the state prison farm. While she
committed a crime she could not
be classed as a hardened crimina.
and it would not be right to seno
her to the farm and possibly darken
her, entire life. think the state
legislature should make some proVi-
sion fofr the punishment of women
who trespassers of the law but
who, like this young girl, are no.
hardened criminals"
The grand jury returned a true
bill against the girl today and her
trial will take place next week.