The Indianapolis times., 1928-10-29
HOLD COLLEGE
YOUTHS IN z
THRILL DEATHS
One of Pair ConfeSSeS He
Killed Two Clerks in
HoIdupS.
WHISKY Is BLAMED
Classmates Rate Men as
Bit WiId,' but as
Good Fellows
BY E. w. LEWIS
United Press STAFF Correspondent


ATLANTA, Ga, Oct. 29.-Two
young college men who wanted
greater thrills than the ones pro-
vided in routine college life faced
today the probability of trial for
murder.
The Fulton county grand jury will
be asked Tuesday to indict the two
for first-degree murder of two
store clerks killed in recent holdups
here.
George Harsh, Oglethorpe univer-
sity undergraduate, confessed, ac-
cording to police, that "for the sake
OF thrill" he participated in hold
ups in which Willard Smith, drug
clerk, and E. H. Meek, grocery store
clerk, were slain.
Harsh implicated Richard Gray
Gallogly, a classmate, whose family
has long been prominent in civic
and social life here.
Harsh blamed whisky" and the
tedium of a blase life.
Gallogly, brought to Jail here
from Athens, Ga, where he went
to see the Georgia Tulane football
game, asked detectives not to put
him in the same cell with that
squealer" He has refused to dis
cuss the charges.
Two Were ''Bit Wild"
The youths appeared in striking
contract to the usual occupants of
the jail. They seem the usual type
pictured as typical" of college
men.
Both have dark wavy hair and
almost classic features.
Gallogly, his classmates said. was
a dreamer, good-natured and "a
fine fellow"
But these classmates were in
clinad to rate the two as a bit
wild"
Harsh, whose home is in Milwau-
kee, was an excellent markham.
One of his stunts was the placing
of a bullet through the very center
of the college clock.
Arrest of Harsh Saturday came
after two weeks of work by detec-
tive John Lowe.
On Oct. 6, young unmasked
bandit went into grocery store in
a residential section and held it
up. He heard the crack of 9 re-
volver as he was about to leave. The
bandit swung around and fired. E.
II. Meek, clerk, fell dead.
Again on Oct. 16 there was an
other holdup Staying. Willard
Smith, a drug clerk, was ordered to
put EN- up"
Bandit Is Wounded
He reached for a gun instead.
wounded the bandit in the thigh,
and was wounded fatally himself by
the return fire.
Harsh claimed, in his detailed
story to police, that Gallogly drove
the car and that he did the Shoot
ing.
Il am deeply sorry for all that has
come to pass. Heaven knows it
would not have happened had it to
be done over again." he told news
paper men.
Harsh said that bad liquor and
fast living resulted in his decision
to find thrill in holding up stores.
He needed no money. Friends said
ne squandered a great deal at
school, where he took only easy
courses, intending, they said, to be
"a journalist"
A blood stained pair of trousers
led to Harsh's arrest. Detective
Lowe was informed that a doctor
had treated youth for bullet
wound in the thigh a few hours
after Smith was killed. He couldn't
identify the wounded man.
Lowe then started a search of dry
cleaning establishments, finally
tracing a pair of trousers that had
been cleaned of blood to the apart
ment where Harsh stayed.
Harsh had linped about the uni
versity campus for a week after
Smith was killed, friends said.
Il had a bottle on my hir and fell
on it. Got pretty bad cut" he
told one of his fraternity brothers.
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