New Britain herald., 1928-10-29
SIX LAWYERS ID
 DEFEND TWO BOYS
"1hlil Sliyas" HiIs "Ah'
 Tigh' Cass Against 1hsm

Atlanta, Ga, Oct. 3s H-A cou- ple of college boys who were enjoy ing their usual carefree weekend Saturday. were fighting for their lives from jail cells today, knowing full we'll the police held q confession of two killings in . series of seven holdups that would have done credit to . first class desperado.
 The struggle was revealed not by their calm. serious. and even polite acceptance of unusual surroundings. but by an array of six lawyers re- tained by wealthy families to con- front what the police said was "an air tight murder case" -..
 George Harsh-"Junie" to his fellow students at Oglethorpe uni- versity here-was the author of the confession in the hands of police. The document was withheld but Chief of Detectives A. Lamar Poole. said 1t was clearly case of killing for . thrill that money couldn't buy.
 Won't Comment
 Richard Gray Gallogly was the other young fellow-but he refused to comment on his companions story that he drove the automobile used in the holdups. The confess sion said Harsh was the killer.
 Willard Smith. a druggist, and E. F. Meek, grocery clerk, were slain when they resisted two determined bandits. Both of the killings occur red this month during series of daring crimes of similar nature which police had attributed to Roy Dickerson. nationally notorious bank robber. who escaped from prison in Alabama.
 To newspaper men, who they greeted in their cells exactly as they would welcome guests in their luxurious homes, the youths appar- entIy recognized the serious aspect of their predicament.
 T am deeply sorry" Harsh told . reporter in the privacy of soli- tary cell as a guard stood nearby. 'I know that by my actions l have brought upon myself a great calami- ty, but l have no one to blame but myself. l know that a confession will not do any good to those whose homes have been darkened by our acts, but l have made a complete confession and I will stand by it.. for better or for worse."
 And this from Gallogly fin anoth- CT part of the jail:
 II have not made a statement and right now do not know if l eyer will. But I do want to say and want 1t know that am not standing in the way of police in the investiga- ton of the case. will not do any thing to hurt their case and will do everything to help them that l can without doing anything tJ hurt my self"
 Pleasing Countcnancc
 "June" Harsh is a we'll turned out young man of medium height and pleasing countenance, while Dick Gallogly is tall youth of lowering brown and the aggressive swing ol . football lineman. Both are in theii late teens and members of the so' cially prominent families. Gallogly the son of Mrs. Worth F. Yankey prominent Atlanta physicians wife and Harsh scion of a Milwaukee family whose fortune was accumu. lated in the shoe industry.
 Mrs. J. s. Disisway,sister of Harsh and wife of an Atlanta attorney who visited her brother in jail. wal grief stricken.
 "Whatever he l"cked to enjoy hi, youthful pleasure would and have been giving him. If he needed money. he only had to come and ask for 1t and he would have received it."
 To Aid Son
 James A. Gallogly. father of Dick who was divorced from his wife several years ago. offered from hii home in Miami. Fla. to do what hs could for his son.
 Police first trailed the suspect last weekend when through a phy' sician they obtained information that Harsh had been treated at { hospital here for a bullet wound 1T tho right hip. A cleaning stablish' ment gave them clues to bloodstain' ed trousers in Harsh's home and hi arrest on Oglethorpe Campus follow ed immediately. Within two hour police had full confession. Gal logiy was arrested at Athens. Ga. the same day. where he had gone tt see a football game. The confession was supplemented today with state ment from J. D. Wright, residen manager of a national finance cor poration, who said as a friend O the Harsh family in Milwaukee ant here, he had received a confession from young Harsh and had aided the youth in obtaining hospita treatment for wound inflicted dur inf holdup.
 Willard Smith, the druggist @h' was slain in . holdup on Octobe i6, fired at his assailant just befor couapsing from mortal wound.