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IN SESSION
)ases
adjourned term of Supe-
court for Decatur county
convened here Monday
Kgg with Judge Frank
presiding and Solicitor
e n at his post of duty,
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BAINBRIDGE, DECATUR COUNTY. GEORGIA*£RIDAY, JULY 7,
Disposed of From the Crimi
nal Docket
. Judge and Solicitor started
heels of justice to grinding
lively rate from the very
day , and during the whole
things have been moving
gat a rapid gate,
a civil cases have been'tried
, pt those that were heard be-
the Judge without a jury
a few divorce cases.
.mong the cases disposed of
his writing are the following:
; u gene Devoe, selling whis-
' verdict of guilty,
ron City Drug Company, vio-
the prohibition law, ver-
t of not guilty.
ohn Donald, assault with in-
lt to murder, verdict of not
Ity. This was a case that
been on the docket for two
three years. John Donald
„ accused of shooting at an-
ier negro with intent to kill,
was brought out ift the testi-
my that '.the other negro was
ing to shoot Donald and that
shot in self defense. In this
the Judge directed a verdict
acquittal.
Amos Martin' was put on trial
d found guilty of selling whis
sy,
Tom Burroughs plead guilty to
lling whiskey, as did also J.
. Bolton.
The case against A. Spears for
ihing on Sunday was tried, re-
lting in his acquittal.
Jim Craven entered a plea of
llllty to two charges for selling
hiskey.
Richard Williams entered
ilea of guilty to the charge of,
tealing a goat and was sen-
meed to twelve months on the
lain gang.
C. R. Cooper, a colored drug-
istof Bainbridge, was arraigned
’or selling Cocaine in violation of
tie law and was convicted.
Ernest Burroughs, robbery,
erdict of guilty.
Maril Walden was arraigned
m a misdemeanor charge and a
erdict of guilty was returned
George Glisson, who was ar-
signed on the charge of shoot,
ng at another was discharged
on demand.
In the case of James Griffin
inarged with a misdemeanor,
verdict of not "guilty was re
urned.
Joe and Ed. Winberly was
tied on a charge of simply lar-
e ony and the jury returned a
verdict of not guilty.
Will Thomas was arraigned oh
charge of misdemeanor and a
mistrial was declared
Amos Martin was found guilty
0n a charge of misdemeanor.
A verdict of guilty was re
turned in the case of T. W. Sal
ter, charged with a misdemean-
Bnrroflghs Boys Broke Jail
Arthur, Tom and Ernest Bur
roughs, three brothers, broke jail
here last night and made good
their escape.
The three burroughs boys were
in jail for various offenses. Tom
had been convicted on a charge
of selling whiskey and Ernest
had been found guilty on a charge
of robbery. Arthur was in jail
awaiting trial on a charge of sell
ing whiskev.
Two of the men were in one
cell and one in another. They
effected their escape by sawing
a lock in two and afterwards
sawing two bars out of two win
dows leading to the outside of
the cells. Sheriff Emanuel found
a couple of “hack” saws this
morning broken and lying on the
sills of one of the windows.
With these it is believed they
did the sawing.
Information gathered from
other prisoners in jail went to
show that the sawing began
last night about nine o’clock. It
is said that Tom and Ernest es
caped about midnight. Arthur
got out about four o’clock in the
morning.
Every effort possible is "being
made to apprehend the fugitives
and it is believed they will be
oaught within the next few days.
These boys have given the
officials of the county a great
deal of trouble and no stone will
be left unturned to have them
brought back.
Working For Another Road
The chances are that Bain-1 Southwest Georgia. In fact,
bridge will soon have another Bainbridge is the logical gate-
Developmeats yester-
$1.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE;
railroad.
day point strongly in that direc
tion.
If enthusiasm and down
right earnestness on the part of
the business men of Bainbridge
can bring the road here it is a
certainty beyond doubt. These
business men of Bainbridge are
wide-awake on the proposition
and nothing in the bounds of
reason will be left undone to se
cure the road.
The road will extend from
Camilla south and will finally,
it is understood, reach the Gulf.
It will extend nortlj to Hawkins-
ville for the present but will be
extended further north in fu
ture.
A number of the prominent
business men of this city went to
Camilla yesterday and met with
some of the officials of the road
and the business men of Camilla
and held a consultation at that
place, afterwards coming to
Bainbridge to study the proposed
route to this place and south of
here,
The officials of the road are
studying the route carefully, and
while nothing has been given
out, it is hoped that a very favor
able impression was made and
that something good for Bain
bridge will be announced in the
near future.
If this road is secured it will
open up one of the finest and
richest ten itories in Southwest
Georgia that as yet is untouched
by any road. It is believed that
the local freight alone in this
territory would be a payingprop
osition.
The road officials made a most
favorable impression on the
minds of the citizens of Bain
bridge who met them yesterday
and it is hoped the great unde
veloped section through which
they passed made such a favor
able impression upon them that
nothing can induce them to car
ry the road in any other direction
than by Bainbridge.
Bainbridge is the logical rail
road center for the future in a
wide stretch of territory in
•Jessie Goodwin entered a plea
of ffuilty on a charge of misde-1
Menaor. t
C. A. Westbrook was tried on |
a charge of misdemeanor and a
'erdict of guilty was returned.
V* J. Bass was pronounced
<ridty on a misdem&anor charge.
Acme of tho3e found guilty ex-
rM one mentioned had been
•cntenced up to this writing
in, ay at n oon). Several other
$wtant cases are being tried
nus afternoon.
Jury Opposes New Circuit.
GEORGIA,—Decatur County:
May Adjourned Term 1911,
Superior Court. Held July 1911.
Understanding that a bill has
been introduced in the House of
Representatives to create a new
Judicial Circuit, to be composed
of the Counties of Brooks,
Thomas, Grady, and Decatur,
We the undersigned members of
the Grand Jury of Decatur Su
perior Court, now in session at
the May 1911, Adjourned Term
thereof, do hereby enter our
protest against the placing of
Decatur county, in the proposed
new Circuit, or in any other
circuit at this time. There is no
need nor necessity for such Leg
islation in so far as the Courts of
Decatur are corncerned. Its
Superior Court dockets are not
congested, but on the contrary
are in better condition than for
years.
Representing as we do every
section of this county, we know
the sentiment of the people on
this subject, and we feel justi
tied in filing this protest against
any Legislation affecting the
present status of Deeatur county
as a component cart of the Al
bany Judicial Circuit, and we
urge our immediate Representa
tives and Senator in the present
Legislature to vigorously resist
the passage of any such bill or
bibs. . u ,
This resolution being signed
by the members of the Grand
Jury, is made a part of the Gen
eral Presentments of this body,, „
d STcS Want Word Trust
Court of Decatur county is re- Atlanta, July 5.—Mr. Ander-
quested to send certihed_co ? ies j _ of chatham> introduced in j th
way to the Gulf for a number of
grteat lines, that are and will
be headed in the direction of the
Gulf.
With a railroad through the
territory mentioned a number of
new towns will spring up and
hundreds of new fams will be
opened. It means the coming
into life of a territory as large as
a good size county and among
the richest lands in Georgia.
A BUinber of the business men
of Camilla accompanied tne road
officials and those from Bain
bridge back to the city yesterday,
among them being Judge W. N,
Spence, J. A. McLain, Henry
Touchton, E. E. Cox, Mr. Tipton,
F. S. Perry and others. Mr. W
T. Hargrett and other officials of
the road were in the company
from Camilla.
The following from the Camilla
Enterprise has just come in :
A patty of prominent citizens
of Bainbridge swooped down on
Mr. W. T. Hargrett, General Su
perintendent of the Gulf Line, in
this city yesterday and demanded
a hearing as to why his road
should not be built direct to their
city. v
In the party were Messrs Ea;
Perry, J. W. Callahan, C. H.
Caldwell, Col. R. G. Hartsfield,
Capt. J. R. Sharp, J. W. Butts,
Mr. McFarland, Mr. E. J. Willis,
Mr. Nussbaum, Dr. J. D. Chason,
Messrs. C. S. Hodges, A. Ball
and others. They came in four
or five big touring cars and af
ter a short consultation with Mr.
Hargbett, they took he and
several gentlemen from Camilla
back to Bainbridge to show them
the fine country to be traversed
by the railroad and the thriving
city which they want the road to
touch.
So far the route the Gulf Line
will take after leaving Camilla
has not been definitely decided.
Cairo and Pelham are both
anxious to have the road turn 1
their way and no\y that Bain
bridge has entered the contest,
it is hard to tell what will be
done.
Thrf’k robbt Mea ’in three days
is a plAty -tv: Jd record for Bain
bridge, yev,. w.\at is about the
status so far, and one of them
was committed in broad daylight.
Some time Saturday night a
robbef, or possibly a gang
of robbers broke into the A. C.
L. freight depot and stole a quan
tity of good. It is not known
just what was darried away, but
some of the booty consisted of
GENERAL EVANS
LAID TO REST
Confederate Chieftain Buried With Homs
by State Officials and Military.
Atlanta, July 5.- Wrapped in
his beloved uniform, the gray of
the Southern Confederacy, Gen.
canned goods. It is said that I ciemant A. Evans, soldier,
signs were seen out in the woods preacher and past commander-
some distance from the depot
where it is supposed some of the
canned goods were broked open
and eaten.
On the same night, probably
1 between midnightand day, May’s
drug store was entered, the cul
prits effected an entrance by
breaking out a pane of glass from
one of the windows «in the rear
of the store. Not very much is
missing from the drug store.
Some cigaretts and other small
articles are gone, the cash regis
ter entered and something less
tHIm a dollar taken from it, but
beyond tlfat they have found
very little missing. The thieves
in this instance were evidently
after money, or else they were
afraid to handle such tjjjngs as
they could get in a drug store.
Tuesday afternoon while Mr.
J. K. FaVar and family were
away attending q. picnic their
home was entered by some
thieves and five or six rings
stolen, some> of them being
diamond rings, the number cost
ing four or five hundred dollars.
The house was badly rifled, but
nothing else was missing except
the rings, a lot of othefr jewelry
being overlooked
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Lost Fine Horse Tuesday.
Mr. IC. A. Bass lost hif fine
horse Tuesday, the animal hav
ing to be shot on account of in
juries it received while running.
Mr. Bass and family were at
Reynoldsville at a picnic and in
the afternoon some boys were
.running the horse of Mr. Bass
Jnd other horses. In the running
the horse of Mr. Bass in some
way tore the muscles loose from
bop fore legs.
he injured animal was care-
L v examined and it was de-
'\h_at 'the b?st thing that
one for the creature
an end to its su%tj
w. Bass prized the animal
erynjjpffilv. In speaking of it
one daj\this week he said the
horse was worth every cent of
five hundred dollars.
: $
I Bower-Fleming Realty Co., %
| BAINBRIDGE. GEORGIA. j
Heat Kills Thirty-Two.
of the same to our immediate .son,
Representatives and Senator,
(Signed)
C. S. Hodges; D. K. Talbert,
C C. Gibson;- Jas. H. Emanuel;
J H. Brinson; S. D. Miller; W.
J. Duke; Thomas Parker; J. D.
Faircloth; H. J. Maddox; E. H.
MaxweH; W. C. Swain; G. W.
Hagan; I. B. Trafford: D. C.
Ballou; S. J. Smith;
W. M.
Langford: G. H. Cook; W. G
Harrell; J. W. Napier; 0. C.
Duke.
the House today a bill which pro
poses to prohibit the use of the
word "trust” in the name of any
business company or organiza
tion, except where it is under
special state supervision and si
ject to examination by the state,
the same as is the case with
banks. Violation is made a- mis
demeanor.
d Another
One
News reached tffe city early
in the week that a negro living
somewhere in the west side had
died from the effects of gunshot
wounds received Saturday or
Saturday night. The name of
the dead man has not been learn
ed, though he is said to have
been the son-in-law of Milo Bird,
who is said to be the negro who
did the shooting.
Officers went over in the
neighborhood to look for Bird,
but he had made good his escape
from the community and could
not be found.
None of the particulars of the
killing has reached this office.
in-chief of the United Confeder
ate Veterans, was laid to rest in
Oakland Cemetery here this af
ternoon. National guardsmen,
wearing the blue he once opposed
but serving it in his native
state of Georgia, sounded taps
and a salute as the body was
lowered to its last abode.
The funeral was one of the
most impressive held in this city,
marking, as it did, the passing
of one of the few remaining gen
erals who served for the South
in the memorable struggle of the
60s. The Legislature adjourned
out of respect and the body of
the veteran was followed to the
grave by Gov. Smith and staff,
Gen. Mills, commanding the De
partment of the Gulf, United
States army, State House officers, t
members of the National Guard,
Confederate veterans and mem
bers of the House and Senate.
The body was taken to the
state capitoi in the forenoon,
where it lay in state for several
hours. Then, accompanied by
the honorary escort, it was taken
to the First Methodist church,
where services were conducted
by Bishop Candler and the Rev.
Dr. -Hamill of Nashville, chap-*
lain of the Department of Ten
nessee, United Confederate Vet
erans, of which Gen. Evans
once was commander. Dr.
Hamill took the place of Chap
lain General Cave, who was un
able to come.
After the services at the '
church the casket was carried to
the cemetery, where the last
rites were said in the presence
of veterans, members, of the
Ladies' Memorial Association,
Daughters of the Confederacy,
representatives of the board of
trustees of Emory College, of
which he was a member, and
representatives of many othor
organizations,
The burial was in the lot owned
by the Ladies’ Memorial Asso
ciation in the shadow Of the Con
federate monument. v
Two of the general’s sons, who
are residents of Mexico, were un
able to attend the funeral. The
absence of an escort of United
States troops was explained by
the fact that all but a small
guard had been removed from
Fort McPherson to the Mexican
border and had not returned.
5.-
t.wo persons,
babies gnrf
in Chicago
day of the pr<
wave.
Thelemperaturo was r#orded
at 1QJ5 in^he weather bureau
at 2:30 o’clock this after- The Misses Howell, who ha\e
^ equalling the highest point been visiting Mrs. A. M. Ramsev
reached yesterday while at the for the past several days, have
street level the mercury climbed I returned to their home in Val-
to 108 degrees. | dosta.
Revival Services Closed.
The revival services at the
Methodist church closed Sunday
night with one of the best ser
vices during the meeting.
Much and lasting good has
been accomplished by the revi
val. The effects of the work
done will be felt in Bainbridge
for a long time to come.
More than fifty new members
were added to the various
chujrches in the city as a result
of the meeting.
Evangelist Bass and Stapleton
will be in Texas for some time
holding revivals in that state.