Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-09-18
CROWD SHOWERS
DEFENDANT WITH
CONGRAT ULAT|ONS.
City Solicitor Moore to Con-
tinue Prosecution of 9th
ers Accused of Implication
in City Whipping Cases

MACON, Ga, Sept. 15.-(By the
Associated Press.)-Dr. c. A. Var
brough, Macon dentist, today was
acquitted of charge of rioting in
connection with the logging last
year of r. f. Mills, former Macon
chiropodist and barber.
Judge Gum, when it was an.
nounced the verdict had been reach,
ed, warned the spectators, who filled
about two thirds of the courtroom,
against making any demonstration.
When c. w. Schaefer. foreman of
, the jury, handed the verdict to So
! licitor Roy w. Moore, the courtroom
was absolutely quiet. When the yer.
dict was read there was no demon
stration. DR.. Yarbrough sat quietrly
until court was adjourned, when
friends crowded around to congratU-
late him. Among these were scores
of women.
Congratulated by Scores
The affair developed almost to
| the proportions of u reception for
DR.. Yarbrough and his attorneys.
The jury was out three hours
/ and five minutes. The case was
placed in their hands at 1915
! o'clock. At 3:15 p. m. Judge Gum
entered the courtroom and instruct
ed the sheriff to bring in the jury.
AS the judge completed his instruc
tons to the audience the jury filed
In and at 1920 the foreman handed
the verdict to Solicitor Moore. The
The solicitor said that J. +. Alex.
ander, who is charged with having
been one of a band of men who
logged Ollie Perry, probably would
/ be the next accused man to be tried
City Judge Holmes Johnson, of
| Grays, will hear the Alexander case,
it was announced. Judge Will Gum,
! of the Macon city court, is distantly
related to Alexander, and for this
reason is disqualified.
COuI trOOm Crowded
- The courtroom at today's session
! was crowded to capacity. Scores OF
women were in the crowd. a
The jury came into the court
room at 1875 p. m. to receive from
Judge Gum an explanation of the
charge as to the necessity of one of
the men named in the charge with
DR.. Yarbrough being proved to have
been on the scene of the fogging
IL. d. Patrick and J. e. Bloodworth
are named in the charge against DR..
Yarbrough but the cases were sepa
| rated.
After the judge had read his
charge again he notified the jury
that he would have their dinner sent
to them in the jury room. Court then
recessed until 3 o'clock.
Today was the fifth day Of the
trial in Macon city court. Attorneys
said this was the longest trial of
misdemeanor charge in court in
Bibb county in many years.
DR.. YarbrOught. admittedly
member of the Ku Klux Khan, was
put on trial last Tuesday on the
first Of seven charges against him.
Selection of the jury took up the
first half day and the taking of evil
dence lasted until noon yesterday,
the defense being virtually confined
to an effort to discredit state wit
nesses through bringing out of ALE
cations derogatory to their charac-
ter. A number of the witnesses in
behalf of the dentist, including his
leading counsel, John p. Ross, adj
mitted their membership in the Ku
KluX Khan, while others testified
they had made application for mem
bership or asked that they be not
required to answer the question.