The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1922-05-13
Sends Many of KIN to JaiZ---
Now They Try to "Get" He'
Such is Fate of Miss Cora Lee Frazier Sheriff Has to
Protect Her-Father Uncle and Others Face Law as a
Result of Her Revelations of Vice Conditions

Senatobia, Miss. - They're calling
Miss Cora Frazer, Marshall county's
Joan of Arc now.
The 1922 girl crusader, bent on
countrywide cleanup of liquor gangs,
sent her own father to the state peni-
tentiary andS capped the climax today
by sending her uncle, justice of the
peace, to prison for so days. Six 9th
ers,. all relatives in varying degrees
have felt the weight of her ire and her
denuunciation of illicit booze traffic.
Justice of the Peace Garland Frazier
of the Laws Hill district, considered one
of t'le most substantial citizens of Mar
81 all county. If occasionally he took
taste of mountain lightnin nobody
thought him any the worse.
But Miss Frazier, who, had vowed to
break up the county rum ring" as she
called it, didn't look at it that way.
She had her uncle hailed before Judge
Rice.
DRf~Ks HOME BREW
The justice of the peace admitted on
the stand that he had visited his bro
theirs home in Tate county on certain
Sunday and had taken a few drinks of
home brew"
What about the two jugs of liquor
! tied across your saddle when you start
ed homer" asked the girl prosecuting
witness.
THAT was mistake" replied the
justice of the peace, who is so years
old.
Judge Rice sided with the girl and
sentenced the justice of the peace to
pay a fine of $3.50 and spend 80 days in
the county Jail.
Justice Frazier is serving his first
! term, and the conviction in, court
does not it is said, remove him from
office as the alleged offense was OUT
side of his jurisdiction and does not
constitute a misdemeanor in office.
UNRELENTING CRUSADE
How Miss Frazier relentlessly has
warred on moonshining even when
it necessitated sending her own father
to Jail, is the talk of the county She
has brought IL persons to trial in the
Lews Hill neighborhood
! Her father is now serving term in
the state penitentiary; two of her rela-
| tives are in Holly Springs jail, one
charged with murder; two of her cou-
sins are in the Tate county jail charg-
ed with making whisky; two more cou-
sins were sentenced last week for grand
larceny; two broke Jail at Oxford and
are at large.
IT was determined to clean up Laws
Hill and stop the lawlessness," cried
Miss Frazier her eyes flashing at the
end of her latest ordeal in court. i
cannot help it. The truth must be told
and those who are guilty ought to be
punished.
IF the guardians of the law do not
respect the law they administer, what
may we not expect?"
Senatobia, Miss.--Sheriff Williams is
sheltering Miss Caro- Lee Frazier, Tate
county's I7-year old Joan of Arc. due
to threats of her family. including her
own mother to get her for her rum
and vice crusade that led to falling OF
her father and six other relatives.
'"The girl is afraid to return to heI
H own people-and with good reason-and
she is without shelter or home else
\ where" said the sheriff.
Today for the first time while wo-
mems clubs are raising funds to send
her away to educate her. Cora Lee gave
the details Of her flight from home tc
escape a criminal attack. Of her pledge
to rout the rum and vice rings which
infested the remote swamps Of the Tai
lahatchie river even If It resulted In
\ imprisonment of her own relatives.
FATHER IN PRISON
4 Her father IN In the penitsntiary