The Washington times., 1925-03-07
At TORNEYS
CUT OFF
SCULPTOR Declares There Will
Be No Compromise Unless
Charges Are Dismissed
By r. E. POWELL,
international News Service.

By r. E. POWELL,
international News Service.
GREENSBORO, N. c., March z.
Gutzon Borglum and his secretary
arrived here today direct from
Washington, where the sculptor
conferred with friends on his
fight here to escape extraditlon
to Georgia to answer criminal
charges growing out of his de-
struction of working models for
construction of the Confederate
memorial on the face of Stone
Mountain.
Both Sides Ready
Colonel w. w. Fuller will repre-
sent Borglum in the hearing late
today or tonight, which will be
held before Judge Michael Schenck.
Robert Ramspeck, solicitor gen
eral of De Kalb county, Ga, has
arrived here to represent the Stone
Mountain Memorial Association,
which is seeking Borglum's return
to Georgia to answer charges of
malicious mischief and larceny. 1t
IL charged that he destroyed some
Of the models for the Stone Noun
tain Confederate Memorial and re.
moved others.
The sculptor was loquacious at
breakfast before he met Colonel w.
w. Fuller, his friend, and Albert
Howell, of Atlanta, his personal
counsel.
Mr.. Fuller cautioned Borglum not
to talk further with newspaper men
until after he had conferred with
e. s. Parker, jr., who will direct
the legal fight in the continued
hearing on the writ of habeas Cor.
pus here this evening.
No Compromise, He Says
The artist had little to add to
statements he has heretofore made
concerning the controversy. He re-
peated that there could be no COM
promise so long as the criminal
charges were pressed, but he fire.
Quently expressed the hope that the
South would be permitted to handle
the situation alone.
1T is the South's affair and the
South can handle it," BorgiuD1 de.
-clared. He appeared to he dis
turbed by the report that a creditor
had attached his Connecticut prop
erty for collection of notes amount
ing to $500 He said he had not
seen the news item printed concern
ing It yesterday. He was enthusiast
tic over the action Of the Salisbury,
n. c., chapter of the Daughters If
the Confederacy in passing resolu-
tions deploring the turn given TO
the controversy by the Stone
Mountain Memorial Association,
for the monument.
Lawyers Confer.
Colonel w. w. Fuller, formerly
general counsel Of the American
Tobacco Company and close friend
Of the sculptor, and Frank Fuller,
his nephew, who will appear in the
case as one of the Borglum attor-
neys, arrived in Greensboro last
night and held a long conference
with E. S. Parker, Jr., Greensboro
attorney who obtained the order
which released Borglum last Satur-
day after he was arrested here on
request of Georgia authorities.
Neither Parker nor Fuller would
Greensboro, in common with rest of
the country, is keenly interested.
Georgia Sheriff on Hand.
Robert Ramspeck, solicitor gen
eral of Dekalb county, Georgia, and
the sheriff of that county arrived
here late yesterday and conferred
with w. P. Synum, who. with State
Senator Charles u. Harris OF
Raleigh, will represent the Stone
Mountain Memorial Association at
the hearing before Judge Michael
Schenek. The judge rs holding court
at Wentworth, thirty miles from
here, and is not. expected to reach
Greensboro before o'clock.
The Georgia officers nave been
busy explaining that, i'll the event
Borglum is returned TO Georgia he
will be given fair trial"
OF course he will get fair trial
In Georgia" Ramspeck sad. I'VE
have no interest in this controversy,
but are here to ask that Borglum
be extradited just as any other
fugitive from justice. No one in
Georgia wants to railroad BorgIIm
20 prison and ne can make as sat
tsfactory bond there as he can In
North Carolina
Political Pressure.
Borglum's partisans IN North
Carolina, however, do no; feel 80
assured Of the treatment the scuIp-
tor would receive there. Political
pressure is being exerted to have
Governor Mclean refuse to honor
the requisition of Governor Walker.
Recognizing this. Solicitor Ramspeck
said he would employ additional
counsel when the extradItiOn hear.
ing is held in Raleigh.
Seldom has a fugitive from jus
tice been surrounded by such con
picuously influential friends. So
marked is this condition that the
Georgia officers openly assert he
deliberately came to North Caroline
rather than contend elsewhere
against extradition.
Some indication Of the prominence
OF the artists friends in this Stat,
can be gathered from the week enc
party which he attended last Sun