Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-08-14
REWARD OFFERED
FOR APPREHENSION
OF MOB MEMBERS
One Man Held in MiIIedge-
Vile Machine Guns
Mounted to Prevent Rope
tition of Disorders

The full power of the executive
department will be used" to stop
the series of floggings in Macon,
Bibb county and other, mob outrages
in the state" Governor Walker
stated in announcing ward S
for the arrest. with evidence to con-
vict, the persons connected with the
recent whippings in Macon and an
invasion of the state reformatory,
at Milledgeville.
The governor offered reward Of
$500 for the leader of the Macon
flogging party and 500 for each
member. He offered similar rewards
for the leader and members of the
mob thai '~vaded he state reforma-
tory.
The governors action came after
he had investigated both the Bibb
county floggings and the occurrence
at Milledgeville. In his proclama
ton offering the rewards. the gov
ernor charged the Baldwin county
mob with committing the offense of
rioting and later assaulting Jim
Douglas, negro janitor at the State
Reformatory.
The Bibb county floggings began
several months ago, when whippings
were administered DR.. Eugene
Schrieber, formerly of Boston; Dr..
r. N. Mills. Lynwood l.. Bright and
others. Mrs. Frederick Pace, of
New York, was taken captive by the
party when Bright was whipped. but
was not flogged.
Thursday night, four men were
flogged and left in the woods near
Macon according to reports given
police. r. E. Bobo proprietor. of a
small grocery store; Ollie M. Perry,
under Indictment for alleged Illicit
liquor traffic; Gus Roberts, a re-
ported friend of Perry, and J. 3.
Goodyear, were the men said to have
been whipped
FIRST ARREST MADE
IN WHIPPING CASES
MILLEDGEVILLE Ca, Aug. II.
Thes-fiEst arrest in connection with
whippings in middle Georgia took
place at 5 o'clock Saturday after
noon, when ]. j. Nolan, former guard
at training school for boys, was
taken into custody, on a charge of
melting to riot
The arrest was made by Sheriff
S. L. Terry. Preliminary hearing
will take place next Saturday
Mrs, Orion Manson, superintendent
of the boys training school, an
nounced Saturday that machine gun
with an experienced operator had
been set up at the school for the
purpose of protecting the inmates
and the people employed there. She
also said that other means had been
taken to protect the institution from
possible attack.
Nolan is accused OF being the
moving spirit in a visit to the re
formatory of a band of 25 or 30
Mary Thomas, negro attendants, for
the purpose of flogging them. Nolan
is said to have had a grudge against
the negroes because of his dismissal
from the institution where he had
been guard for Is years.
The band failed to get the negroes
because of armed resistance.
Earlier the same night the mob
seized Jim Douglas, brother OF
Thomas and administered a severe
lashing, because he would not tell
them where Thomas could be found
Mrs. Manson declared tonight she
had received threats that the build
ings housing the negro boys at the
institution would be dynamited. She
added that last night approximately
twenty-five cars were seen parked
about two miles from the reforma-
tory, but, because, she said, of the
heavy guard thrown around the
buildings, no effort was made to
come near the grounds.
The superintendent also declared
she had received an ultimatum from
the inmates, their ages ranging from
6 to IS years, that they would run
away in a body if adequate protec-
ton was not furnished them. There
are about 200 youngsters at the in
Stitution
NO ARRESTS MADE
By MACON AUTHORITIES
MACON, Ga, Aug. 12-Neither
county officers nor the police had
made any arrests in connection with
four whippings of Thursday night
up to late hour Saturday. The Of
ficers insisted that they had nothing
to work upon; that the victims we're
unable to identify the men who
flogged them.
r. E. Bobo, one of the men
whipped Friday said that he had
been given AZ hours in which to
leave the city on penalty of death.
He said that he had done nothing
wrong, and hat accusations of his
kidnapers were false. The man sad
that his friends he'd advised him to |
disregard the warning.
Ollie M. Perry, another victim If
the whipping, is said to be a victim
of tuberculosis. He recently returned