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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (July 4, 1912)
VOL. XXVII. Had Glass House, But Cast Stones C. P. Thompson Indicted for Larceny After Trust by Fulton Grand Jury and His Bond for S6OO is Forfeited. By several reliable witnesses who were present at the rally and barbecue at Alamo, held on June 20th, we are informed that one C. P. Thompson, who was put up before the large audience as chief spokesman, proceeded to villify and speak in very derogatory terms of several Mt. Vernon Citizens, including in his libelous remarks the editor of The Montgomery Monitor. Not to attempt any reply to his dirty aspersions, as no respect able Georgia editor could afford to get down to his level, but purely for the information of Montgomery county people, and our friends on the west side of the county, with whom our relations have been most pleasant, and through whose veins courses the same blood that gives life to many Mt. Vernon citizens, we submit a few plain facts: First, the people of Alamo had a perfect right to attempt the creation of a new county. Second, The Montgomery Monitor has never had a line either for or against “Kent” county, preferring that the people settle this and all other matters of the kind. Third, the moral and law-abiding people of Montgomery county have rights that ought to be respected, regardless of thieves and jail-birds, and have a right to know who people are that come here to dictate to them in their own affairs. Fourth, this C. P. Thompson, who recently came to Mt. Vernon and put up in the office of W. B. Kent, who has been disbarred from the practice of law' by the Superior court, and a recent decis ion of the State Supreme Court, has received the utmost courtesy from the people of Mt. Vernon. Fifth, it was well known to the people of Mt. Vernon and The Montgomery Monitor that C. P. Thompson had been arrested and was under indictment in Atlanta for larceny after trust; but no one attempted to use this information, notwithstanding the fact that he was put forward to address the Confederate Veterans here as an orator and a gentleman, and other brazen-faced efforts made to foist him on our people. Sixth, the records of Fulton County Superior Court show that a true bill was found on the first day of Oct., 1010, and signed by twenty-one grand jurors, including W. .1. Blalock, foreman, the body of which reads as follows: COPY OF THE INDICTMENT. “In the name and behalf of the citizens-of Georgia, charge and accuse C. P. Thompson of the County and State aforesaid, with the offense of Larceny after Trust for the said C. P. Thompson in the County aforesaid on the Ist. day of Oct. in the year of our Lord Nineteen Hundred and Ten with force and arms being then and there intrusted by Mrs. J. C. Bulloch with Three Hundred and! Thirty Dollars for the purpose of paying over said money to Mrs. J. B. Estes in payment of a claim for damage which the said Mrs. J. B. Estes then and there claimed to have against Mrs. J. C. Bul loch for personal injuries claimed to have been inflicted by the said Mrs, J, C. Bulloch upon said Mrs. J. B. Pistes, he, the said C. P. Thompson, after the said money had been intrusted to him for the purpose aforesaid, fraudulently convert the same to his own use, said money of the value of Three Hundred and Thirty Dollars and the property of Mrs. J. C. Bulloch, contrary to the laws of said State, the good order, peace and dignity thereof. “Hugh M. Dorsey, Solicitor-General (SEAL) “H. E. Bulloch, Prosecutor “Fulton Superior Court, 1911.” S6OO BOND IS FORFEITED. Seventh, a rule nisi dated Feb. Ist, 1912, following the well known form reads as follows: “Fulton Superior Court. January Term, 1912. “This day. came Hugh M. Dorsey, Solicitor-General for the Atlanta Circuit, who prosecutes for the State of Georgia, and shows that heretofore to-wit: on the 20th day of September, 1911, Clinton P. Thompson, principal, and J. B. McConnell, security, entered into an obligation before J. H. Owen, Deputy Sheriff of Fulton County, by-which they acknowledge themselves to owe and be just ly indebted to Hoke Smith, Governor of said State and his success ors in office, in the sum of six hundred dollars, ($600.00) to be void on condition that Clinton P. Thompson, principal, should personally be and appear at the Superior Court of said County, on the second Monday in October, 1911, to answer for the offense of Felony and not depart thence without leave of said Court. Now, on this day, the said Clinton P. Thompson, principal, be ing solemnly called to come into court, to answer said charge, and the said J. B. McConnell, his bail having been w r arned to present the body of said principal, whom he engaged to be present this day, to answer said charge; and the said parties respectfully having wholly made default, it is therefore considered by the Court, that the said obligors forfeit their obligation, and that Joseph M. Brown * Governor of said State, and his successors in office, recover against the said obligors the sum of six hundred dollars, ($600.00) the amount of their obligation, so forfeited as aforesaid, unless at the next term of this Court they show sufficient cause why this order should not be made final, and a Scire Facias is ordered to issue, This the first day of February, 1912. (SEAL) Hugh M. Dorsey, Solicitor-General. W. E. Thomas, Judge S. C. S. C., Presiding. Eighth, copies of these papers, bearing the official seal of Ful ton Superior Court, and each one attested by John H. Jones, Depu ty Clerk, are on file in Mt. Vernon, for the information of all parties interested. The Presbyterian Meeting. The protracted meeting is in 1 progress at the Presbyterian church. Two services are held daily, at the usual time in the morning and at night. Rev. L. A. McLaurine of Statesboro, ar rived Monday night, and is doing most of the preaching. The meeting bids fair to be of great uplift to the church and com munity. Mr. Jas. T. Geiger and daugh ter of Glen wood were visitors to Ml. Vernon Tuesday. SlJje iTtxmtiuimprg iUmtttor* New Ginnery At Glenwood. We are pleased to note that still greater preparations are be ing made at Glenwood for gin ning and handling the cotton crop. Glenwood gets a big share of the cotton made in Montgom ery county, and her enterprising men are getting ready to han dle the cotton business in the : most expeditious manner. A large new ginning plant is being erected by Dr. M. Morri son, A. P. Stone, Charlie Gal braith and Sam Reynolds, and will be ready in time for the j new crop, MT. VERNON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 4. 1912. ,°~ • — » y * D xi WOODROW muoy “I hope they’ll never have reason to regret it.—Wilson. ESCHOL GRAHAM CORRECTS THOMPSON Not Meddling, But Offers Some Advice to Friends Worth Considering. Mcßae, Ga., July 1 1912 Mr. C. I’. Thompson, Associate Editor Alamo News, Alamo, Ga. Dear Sir:—l thank you for your recent favor replying to my letter of June 27th addressed to you as follows: “It has been brought to mj attention that in Alamo at the barbecue on the 20th you public ly made the statement, and pub lished it as a rumor in your issue of the 21st of the Alamo News, that I am employed to oppose the new county bill before the Legis lature. I would be glad to know | whether or not you so stated and lif so who informed you that f have been so employed and upon what authority did you make and publish such statement.” I note that you say you do not recall having publicly made die statement that I am employed to oppose the new county bill be fore the Legislature, but that you have heard lam so employed; that Mr. John VV. Clementw told you Mr. Andrew Mcßae told him he believed 1 had been employed by the Mount Vernon people to fight the new county; and that you further state that if the ru mor has no foundation in fact \ that you will publicly correct.it and publish such statement in regard to it as 1 see fit to send you. Mr. Mcßae denies telling Mr. Clements anything of the kind ami I herewith enclose you his affidavit to such effect which I i request you to publish with this ! communication. I intend to ask the Monitor and Enterprise to also publish same. I am not employed to fight the new county. Many of the peo ple interested either for or against it, excepting those who Get their suspicions getaway with : their better judgment, know that 1 have had nothing to do with l the same one way or the other. ; I have friends on both sides of I the issue and for this reason, | notwithstanding I have some property in the proposed new county, taken in connection with the fact that 1 do not reside within the territory affected, I have purposed from the begin ning to hands off in the matter. It is true I have stated that I did not think the new county sould be named Kent, and I am still of the opinion that its au i thor should not undertake to name it for himself. At the.same time I have stated that on ac count of my friends I did not in tend to oppose it. I will further state that Mr. Kent has it with in his power to change the name and that in my judgment if he has the success of the new coun ty bill at heart, he wili not bur den its passage with his own name. 1 am told that Mr. Cromartie, the author of the original bill for new counties refused to let. his new county be named for him .,i it but had the bill amended changing the name from Cromar tie to Jeff Davis. He was pa triotic. llis new county was created. Yours very truly, Eschol Graham, Georgia, Telfair County. Personally appeared Andrew Mcßae who on oath says: “I did not tell Mr. John W. Cle ments I believed Eschol Graham ! had been employed by the Mount Vernon people to fight the new county bill before the Legisla ture.” Affiant further says: “If the said Eschol Graham has been employed to oppose, or is oppos ing the new county it is not with j in my knowledge.” - Andrew Mcßae. Sworn to and subscribed be fore me this Ist day of July 1012, * E. C. Ryals. Notary Public. Col. W. L. Wilson went to Vi i dalia yesterday. Wilson Gets the Nomination Swept the Deck in the 46th Ballot and Gov. Thos. R. Marshall of Indiana is Chosen for the Vice-Presidency. The big Baltimore convention has passed into history. After a warm time for over eight days the big meeting wound up its busi ness and adjourned at 1:56 yesterday morning. Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey and Thomas R. Marshall of Indiana are the Demo cratic standard bearers. Many great incidents, too voluminous to mention here, marked the convention. The first, ballots showed that Champ Clark had the largest following, but could not secure the required two-thirds vote. The last ballot, the 4(sth, gave Wilson 95)0 and Clark 84. Speaking of the convention, after declining to allow his name for vice president, Clark said: ‘‘l never scratched a Democrgtic ticket or bolted a Democratic nominee in my life. I shall not change the Democratic habit now. I am too seasoned a soldier not to accept cheerfully the fortunes of war. *T will support Gov. Wilson with whatever power I possess and hope he will be elected. ‘‘l lost the nomination solely through the vile and malicious slanders of Col. W. J. Bryan of Nebraska. True, these slanders were by inuendo and insinuation, but they were no less deadly f*r that reason.” General News Items Told in Short Meter. Old Bill Minor, the noted ban dtt and train robber, escaped again from the state prison farm at Milledgeville last Thursday night, making twenty-seven times he has taken leg bail du ring forty years. W. J. Widen camp, serving sentence for the murder of Moore, in Tattnall county several years ago, also went away with Minor. A one-legged man named Tompkins is walking from New York to Jacksonville. He passed through Brunswick Tuesday and will make it by Saturday. A pecan grove at Bacon ton, Ga., of 600 acres half in bearing, was sold by Charles M. Barnwell for $200,000, being a profit on his investment of $125,000. Last Saturday as Charles Wade was driving off from the L. & N. depot in Atlanta with a dray load of whiskey ho was arrested. He had five cases each of 48 half pints and five barrels of 50 flints each. This May Be the Reason. W'illiam J. Bryan announced in the convention at Baltimore that, he could not vote for any man who had the support of New York. This statement may tend to solve the mystery why he refused to vote for Charles F. Crisp of Georgia for Speaker, a Southern man and a Confederate soldier. This may also account for his recent attack on Chief Justice White of Louisiana, a Southern man and a Con federate soldier. Mr. Bryan also expressed his displeasure with the appointment of Justice Lurton of Tennessee, a Confederate soldier, and Justice Lamar of Georgia, even going so far as to demand that the President make public the in dorsements on which he made the appointments. Two United States Senators of New York voted in 1894 and in 1911 to confirm the White, Lur ton and Lamar appointments, and several of the delegation from New York favored Representa tive Crisp for Speaker. The feeling of the Nebraskan against anything Southern so indifferent that he never uttered a word of praise for this section except when he needed its vote may be explained now. —Macon Telegraph. This is the Day we celebrate i or would if we had time. Melvin Vaniman, with his bro ther and'three other men, met a horrible death Tuesday when the big arirship in which they were sailing off Atlantic City exploded a thousand feet in the air, burn ing all to death as they plunged down in the water. Three thous people witnessed the awful sight. Miss Josie Oliff of Statesboro was badly hurt Monday after noon by being kicked by a horse that was playing around the lot. Worms have destroyed the en tire cantaloupe crop around Americas. One man had fifty acres and expected to ship twenty cars, but will not , get twenty crates. Charles Baughn, a Savannah boy, leaped into Vernon river and saved from drowning a little girl who had fallen from a boat Friday while on a picnic. He swam to a pole* standing in the water and kept the girl above water until rescued. FORGED CHECK AND LANDED IN JAIL White and Helmick Make Botch and Held For Superior Court. On Wednesday of last week, Charley White, a Montgomery county man and E. D. Helmick, claiming to hail from Buchanan. Mich., wended their way to Mt. Vernon, and securing a blank check at Mcßae Bros. & McLe more’s store, filled it out for $250, writing only the figures in the face of the check, and signed it ‘‘Bill Kent.” The check was made payable to Helmick, and was poorly written in pencil, but was presented to the Mt. Ver non Bank, the men claiming it was for the purchase price of a tract of land. It was apparent that the check was a forgery, and a plausible excuse, that delayed the matter, ! soon had the men under arrest. They were given a preliminary trial before Justice G. J. Stan ford, and each held under bond of SSOO, Not being able to give bond, they are in jail awaiting trial at the next term of Mont gomery Superior Court. From appearance, Helmick is about as much of a greenhorn' as White, who is well known here. NO. 11.
