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Editor Lyons Progress : —Pleas**
grant me space for a reply to the
article of Sheriff lhompson in
your last issue on the ‘Jail Break
ing Question.'
I have no desire Whatever to
make a detailed reply as he has
utterly failed to answer a single
material question raised in my
last communication, but on the
contrary endeavors to detract the
public attention from his official
derelection of duty by personal
references to me.
Now what on earth has any of
my short-comings in life got to do
with his duties as Sheriff of
Toombs County? Is any act of
mine responsible for old Fannie
not being confined in a cell as the
law requires? Hardly.
As to my being a fugitive from
justice, will say that this is the
best answered by the following
certificate of my fellow citi
zens :
We the undersigned citizens of Toombs
and Tattnall counties take pleasure in certify
ing that we have known C. W, Driggers from
ten to forty years, and have never known him
to be a Fugitive from Justice from any cause
as alleged by Sheriff Thompson in his article
in The Lyons Progress of May 36. 191 1:
E P Bomar, V H Coursey, K S O'Neal. G W
Overstreet, E W Overstreet, L L Clifton, R L.
Shuman. S H Stanley, T J Parker. Sol New,
F W Stanley. H H Stanley. C L Stanley. H T
Stanley. W L Stanley. G E Stanley. W S Shu
man, W T Burkhalter. C M Penuel. S J B Alex
ander, A O Wells. H C Beasley, D N Wilks. M
W Rogers. D S Copps, J Q Clifton. A J Mat
thews.T A Scarboro.W T Mooring. John Strip
ling. W B McArthur. C W Stripling. W L Tid
well. J P Adamson, E C Collins, J P Williams
J N Page. S C Rogers. C W Smith, J J Easter
ling. R N Adamson, G C Sapp. T H Sapp, H N
Benton. H F Odom. P H Mullin, L BOdom. Jno.
M Hall. I) K McKinzte. W A Odom, M I Chitty.
J L Hart. Hiram Clifton. Levi McSwaln, Har
dy Tison. C H Williams. F C Clarke.
It is true that I did marry the
widow of U. 11. Harden, and
every one who was acquainted with
us knows that during our married
life I was a true, loyal and devot
ed husband, but bo far as U. H .
assisting me in my trouble
this iB an absolute falsehood; I
never received a penny from him,
but am glad to be able to say that
he and many other good friends
Btood willing to do so, had I need
ed it for they all knew I was fully
justified iu my act. Nothing ill fill
my life lias caused me the regret
that this unhappy incident has,
but if the same occasion arose
again I would act likewise, while
regretting the necessity, which
God grant may never arise.
So far as the matter of the late
Mr. Harden is concerned, the
records of the Ordinary’s office of
Tattnall County, and of the Supe
rior Court of Toombs county is
the beßt evidence of my actions in
this matter. I have done nothing
but assert my moral and legal
rights us the sole heir of my de
ceased wife, and I have assolutely
nothing‘to apologize for.
in regard to my heading a
lynching party, will say that Geo.
B. McLeod, who was deputy Slier
iff at the time referred to, well
knows that I conferred with him
over the situation, and that there
was no intention on my part to
interfere with the course of law
and I am satisfied he will sub
stantiate thiß statement.
It is true that I did make the
statement that I would give SSOO,
to defeat Sheriff Thompson for
reelection, and I have no apology
to make, not that I had any
PERSONAL FEELING against
him, but solely for his inoompe
tenev, as evidenced by these fre
quent escapes under his adminis
tration.
In conclusion, Mr. Editor, I
desire to say that I have no wish
or intention to personally debate
this question with Sheriff Thomp-
Hon. He has endeavored to make
it a personal matter, but I do not
intend that he shall do so; he is
a public official and as such he is
open to public criticism for his,
official acts, and by bis own com
mucications has convicted him
self of incompetency or what is
worse unpardonable carelessness
in the conduct of the Sheriff’s of
gce. Respectfully,
C. W. Driggers.
Lost—Somewhere between the
Empire Store in Lyons and my
home on the Marvin road a cush
ion for a surry. Finder will be re
warded for the return of same to
H H. Mann, Route 1. Uvalda, Ga.
Twenty-five horse power Fric';
Eclipse Engine and 30 horse pow.
boil* r on wheels, good as new at a
bargain. See .J. J. Boyett, Cob’i
town, or write Thos. Camp, 243
Central Avenue, Atlanta, Ga.
Mucii more can bejaccomplished
by more loving kindness and less
abuse.
Thief Cured by Knife.
That, the surgeon’s scalpel has
carved ner propensities for steal
ing from the brain of Jean Thurn
herr ia the belief of Dr. Hubert N.
Rowell, Chief Police Vollmer and
others at Berkeley. The woman
will appear before Robert Edgar,
o justice of the peace, to answer
to a charge of petty larceny next
Monday afternoon. It is believed
the cuse will be dismissed because
of the remarkable change wrought
in the mind of the youthful of
fender.
Jean Thurnherr was operated on
at Merrit Hospital, in Oakland, on
April 12. following her arrest, for
the third time in Berkeley on
: charge of theft. A small part of
i her skull was removed under the
direction of Dr. Rowell. The wo
man is firmly convenced that she
i is permanently cured of her desire
to steal.
1 Almost immediately after the
operation,” said she, ‘‘l felt a
; great change. It seemed as if
something had been lifted from my
mind. Always since I was a child
I was different from the other
girls. I loved the wild life of the
cowboy and wanted to do things
the men did. I don’t know how
the habit of theft took hold of me.
I really didn’t want to steal, but
an lrressitible something came
over me, and then I was sorry.
But now I feel altogether differ
ent.”
Dr. Rowell is extremely hopeful
of a complete cure, and declares
that the results so far have justifi
ed all of the endeavors in the wo
man’s behalf.
‘‘l feel shure that her future
course of conduct will prove to the
public that hers was a case of dis
ease rather than crime,” said he.
“A thorough revolution in the
young woman’s mind has taken
place. Even her old acquaintances
have noted a radical change in her
manner,her tastes and her desires.”
—New York Herald.
Wearing Away of Mother Earth.
Investigations by the United
States Geological Survey of the
erosion ot numerous drainage ba
sins of the United States show
that the surface of the county is
being removed at the average rate
of about and inch in 700 years.
Though this amount seems trivial
when spread over the surface of
the country, it becomes stupen
dous when considered as a total,
or even in separate drainage basin.
Mississippi River, for instace. car
ries annually to the sea 136,400,-
000 tons of dissolved matter and
340,500,000 tens of suspended
matter, and of this total Ohio
rivers caries 83,850,000 tons and
Missouri river contributes more
than twice as much. Colorado
river, which has built up for it
self a vast delta, brings down
more suspended matter than any
other river in the United States,
delivering annually 387 tons for
each square mile of its drainage
basin, or a total of 100,740.000
tons.
The rivers of the United States
carry to the tidewater every year
270,000.000 tons of dissolved mat
ter and 513,000,000 tons of sus
pended matter. This total of 783,-
000,000 tons represents more that
350,000,000 cubic yards of rock,or
610,(K)0,000 cubic yards of surface
soil.lf this erosive action had been
concentrated on the Isthmus of
Panama at the time of American
occupation it would have excavat
ed the prism for an 85-foot level
canal in about 73 days.
If we had but one session of the
legislature every two years, why
money and nerves could be saved.
—Gazette.
Old Technicality still holds his
ground and spits on Justice. Oh,
now long will the poor people
stand it.
Georgia people own about 10,000
automobiles.
Fire Insurance.
Insure your property with Bruce
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i and barns, and on system gins.
Office in New Lyons Hotel.
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