Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-20
GOVERNOR DENIES
APPEALS TO SAVE
BOYS FROM ROPE
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as officials we are bound to uphold
the law, and see that Justice is done,
though the heavens fall
In Eberhart V. State, At, Ga. sos,
609, Judge McCay, speaking for the
court, well and forcefully said:
1T gives us great pain to be com
PEELED by cur sense of duty to the
law and to the public, to affirm this
, judgment. We have, however, no
sympathy with that sicIly sentiment
tality that springs into action when
ever a criminal is at length about to
suffer for crime. 1t may be a sign
of tender heart, but it is also a sign
of one not under proper regulation.
Society demands that crime shall be
punished and criminals warned, and
the false humanity that starts and
shudders when the ak of justice is
ready to strike is a dangerous eIe-
ment for the peace of society. We
have had too much of this mercy.
1t is not true mercy. 1t only looks
to the criminal; but we must insist
upon mercy to society, upon Justice
to the poor woman whose blood cries
out against her murderers That
criminals so unpublished is a dis
grace to our civilization, and we
have reaped the fruits of it in the
frequency with which bloody deeds
occur. A stern, unbending, unflinch-
ing administration of the penal laws.
without regard to position or sex, as
it is the highest mark of civilization,
is also the surest mode to prevent
the commission of offenses.
IF law and order are to reign in
Georgia, the criminal must be taught
that the violation of the law will be
promptly and properly punished. No
sufficient reason has been submitted
TO me for interfering with the rudg-
ment of the court in the due process
OF law and the application for elem
ency is, therefore, denied"
Youths Were Respited
The youths, who were sentenced
TO hang on November 2S. were given
Il respite by Governor Walker until
January so that an appeal might
pe mace Tor Communication to life i'm
pflsonment. The supreme court has
upheld their conviction and action
by the governor now removes their
only hope.
a new development was brought
out In the hearing before the cover.
nor, WheQ Mrs. Addie Jones. mother
OF Willie Jones, admitted that he,
son had been married three wears,
her statement was in answer TO a
question asked during a controversy
over Jones' age. The defense CON
tends that Jones is Is ami Blood
worth 10; the state asserts that
Jones is % and B!oodworth 81. Mrs.
Jones said Willie married when he
was 10 years old and lived with his
wife only five weeks, after which
she deserted him. She is said to be
employed III a cotton mill in TayIor
county.
The youths based their appea! FIR
ciemency on the ground that their
I've dd not permit them ~ realize
me ehormity of their crime, and that
thelr conviction was due partly to
lence.
Solicitor General Walter r. -Four
hoy, of the Chattahoochee circuit
1llu Attorney &. +. McLaughlin. of
columbus, appeared for the state be.
Tore the prison commission and the
governor.
Attorneys Homer iceland. of Rev
ho!ds, and c. w, Foy, of Butler
represented Jones and Bloodworth.
I. S. Underwood. brother of the
murdered man. appeared before the
prison commission and also before
Governor Walker. Mrs. Jones ac.
companled the defense ATTORNEYS 10
the governors office. but declined 20
appear before the prison commission
me crime was committed Decem.
Der ), 1928. According to evidence
at the trial Jones and Bloodwortb
/ shot Mr.. Underwood from behind
AFTER he had picked them up in his
automobile on a lonely road. Robbery
was the motive alleged The auto
pie, containing the Salesman's body.
was found later and the boys wei :
arrested. Their confessions were in
/ iroduced s evidence at the trial.
Ihey are now in The NIuscocee Loun-
" Jail at Columbus.