Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-11-18
'RA|D|NC PARSON' S
WIFE LAID To REST;
TENSUSPECTSHE HELD.
Heroic Woman Paid Elo-
quent Tributes From Many
Georgia Pu|pits


day as alleged members Of the gang
which on Thursday night shot and
mortally wounded Ms. Robert
Stewart, at Draketown, small
HARRISON county settlement, when
she went to the rescue of her hus-
band, the Rev. Robert Stewart, the
raiding larson of the North Georgia
Methodist conference, who was being
abducted
The group were to be given pre-
liminary hearing Wednesday before
a justice of the peace at Buchanan.
The ten men, according to dis
patches from Buchanan, are Tom
Cober and Emmett Hollis, of Haral-
son county; George Hutcheson, Cal
vim and Tom Bishop, of Polk coun.'
ty; Jeff Henderson, and his two sons;
a man named Carter, and one named
Hesterly, of Paulding county.
In statements made to a repre-
sentative Of The Journal, the men
all denied any knowledge of the at
tempted abduction which led up to
the fatal shooting.
A hunt for other members Of the
gang was in progress Monday. Mi.
Stewart, who assisted in the round
up of the ten men in Jail, however.
was not member of the posse, hav-
ing temporarily abandoned the man
hunt to attend funeral services for
his wife, which were held Monday
in a little mining community IN
White county-a community from
which she departed several years
ago as the wife of a Circuit rider.
but to which she returned heroine
and a martyr.
Simple and appropriate exercises
marked the burial. Tributes were
paid to her memory and her last act
the sacrifice of her life to save
her husband-was eulogized. Simi-
lar aulogies were heard in many
churches of the North Georgia con-
ference Sunday, and in all she was
referred to as a heroine, martyr
and a victim of "lawlessness, liquor
manufacturing and liquor drinking
Speaking at the Druid Hills Metho-
dist church Sunday morning, Or.
ELAN +, Dempsey, secretary Of edu.
cation of the conference. declared:
mot once or twice in our Georgia
history have such heroines illustrat-
ed our annals with wifely loyalty
and motherly bravery
While there are such women left
among us. from whom American
youths may be born, and at whose
breasts they may be nourished, we
need not marvel at the heroism OF
Belleau Wood and Chateau Thierry.
which makes America illustrious for
bravery, for she is the bravest OF
the brave"
Dauntless Spirit Praised
Coming of a race who wrought
out the law of habeas corpus, secur-
ing the sacredness of the person, and
who has taught all men to know that
every home, whether palace, lowly
cottage or humble Methodist parson.
age--is every mans castle, her gal
rant rush to her husbands relief,
when assaulted by hoodlums, was al
natural as it was for her to breathe.
Glorious, brave mother. dauntless
mate and wife-we have no mate.
rails fit for your monument and no
words adequate to memorabilia your
greatness
DR.. Dempsey said the citizens al
HARRISON county 'are chasing thosa
criminals and i believe millions o1
true American hearts are cheering
these in their just wrath against
this sin against womanhood, hearth
and home"
"Who fired the shots?" the min.
lister continued. 'Bootleggers, rum
runners-yes."
But not they alone Who fired
that cowardly shot into this brave
little Wife's spine, and who then fired
that other. poltroon shot into her
holy body at it writhed on the
ground?
Whose finger pressed that trig.
ger, l ask? Not only bootleggers
and rumrunners, but very COM
proniiser with evil, every dealer with
these lawless ones, everyone who
by trivial and light speech fosters a
public opinion that makes such
crimes pOssible-every willy-nilly
whislly-bibber and every hip-flask
dance hound and lounge lizard
and above all these, the breiny
scoTndrels in our cities that organize
and exploit for profit this lawless-
ness and every seemingly decent citi-
syltA = l-nt 4
of these had a finger on the trigger
that fired that shot and every one
Of them has the blood Of this holy
woman on their hands. Nor will
aug;1t but the blood OF Christ wash
it from those guilty hands"
Tribute also was paid ,tg Mr. Stew.
art for his jealous an1pxearless fight
for law enforcement. His stand
against violators of the prohibition
laws was lauded particularly, and
reference was made to his many
raids against moonshiners in the
face of threats.
Mr.. Stewart has reputation
throughout the North Georgia con-
ference for his fearlessness in prose-
cution Of prohibition law vio1ators.
and has assisted officers in raiding
stills in Lumpkin, Floyd and Haral-
son COUNTIES.
Mrs Stewart died Saturday at the
Wesley Memorial hospital here. She
was wounded twice, but bullet
which struck her spinal cord and
ranging upward, SCATTERING several
tabrae, caused death. This bur
let. it was stated by Mr. ste wart,
was fired at her as she lay on the
ground after having been struck
down by the first shot, which pene
trated the right arm
Mr.. Stewart, who accompanied MS
wife to the hospital, was not with
her when the end came. He had
returned TO HARRISON county to as
sist in the roundup of her slayers.
Mr. Stewart and his two daughters,
fannie, II years old, and Lorraine. 3,
met the body at Helen, Ga, Monday
and accompanied 1t to the final rest.