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NEWNAN, FRIDAY, F E B. 26
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR.
OTHER SIDE OFG. H. BELL CASE
Chairman Board of Trustees Replies
to Attack on State Sanitarium.
The JcfTerHonlan.
Eatonton, (la., Feb. 8, 1909.
lion. Thoa. E. Watson My Dear Sir:
A copy of The Jeffersonian of the 4th
inst., containing a letter relating to
the trial of Mr. Geo. H. Bell, on an is
sue of lunacy, your comments thereon
and a letter from yourself to me, has
been handed me by a friend. The
■"marked copy,” which you intended
should be sent me, has not been re
ceived.
After reading these I visited M i I -
ledgevllle in order to ascertain whether
McNeil’s statements could he verified.
1 was cognizant of many things that
occurred at the trial, but I left the
court before the trial was concluded.
There are many errors of a serious
nature in McNeil's letter which I will
proceed to point out.
I was present at tho trial by virtue
of my office as president of the board
of trustees of the State Sanitarium,
and because 1 felt a lively interest in
Bell’s case, having been present just a
week before when he was examined
and pronounced insane by a specialist
in the treatment of mental and nervous
diseases from Atlanta; on which occa
sion he aroused my profound sympathy.
Save making a few suggestions, I took
no active part in the trial, though to
wards the end of it I was unexpectedly
called as a witness to testify about the
examination referred to above. All the
jurors, except one. were in their seats
when I entered the court-room, and I
took it for granted, without inquiry,
that they were such upright and intel
ligent citizens as the law requires.
I have more recently made inquiry
of the Ordinary as to the selection of
the jury, and he authorizes me to say
that the allegation of unfairness as to
their selection "is a lie out of the whole;
cloth; that lie ordered the Sheriff to
summons a jury of the best citizens of
the county, and that he did so; and
that he never saw a jury of higher
character empanneled in the county.”
The jury did not stand seven to five,
but seven to four, one of the twelve
having been excused during the pro
gress of the trial by McNeil’s consent.
Why does he say that they stood seven
to five?
1. McNeil complains that a juror —a
city policeman voted to remand Bell
to the sanitarium. What, of it? I sup
pose that a city policeman is not de
barred from jury duty. This juror,
however, voted to release Bell.
2. He complains that one of the jury
who voted to remand Hell was “an un
dertaker who furnishes coffins for pau
per patients at the sanitarium. ” 1 do
not think that such an occupation dis
qualifies a man for jury service, but sis
si matter of fact all coffins for pauper
patients are made in the workshops of
the sanitarium. But, strange to say,
the said undertaker voted for Bell’s
discharge.
II. He complains that one of the ju
rors who voted to remand Bell to the
institution was "one who supplied
brick, cement, etc., to the institution.”
Strange notion that one whom we occa
sionally deal with in business transac
tions is unfit to serve as a juror in a
case in which the dealer may lie sup
posed to have an interest. But, be
that as if may, this juror also voted
for Bell’s discharge. It appears, there
fore, that three of the four jurors who
voted for Bell’s discharge were men
who, in McNeil’s opinion, were too de
praved by self-interest lo render an
honest verdict. Funny, isn’t it? But I
have no doubt myself that they voted
according to their conscientious convic
tions.
4. lie says (hat one of the jurors
was a druggist who "fills prescriptions
and supplies drugs to the sanitarium.”
Untrue again. The sanitarium buys
drugs by wholesale and employs by the
year one of the best apothecaries and
pharmacists in the State to compound
them and fill prescriptions.
5. lie says that two of the jurors
were “near relatives of one of the at
torney a” who represented Ul<? Otylum,
and that one wfts a ”son-in-law of the
■ J iate l)r. Powell.” It is true that one
of the attorneys and two of the jurors
married sisters, and that one of the
jurors, whose wife wns resting in the
Milledgeville cemetery many years be
fore Bell came to the sanitarium, was
a son-in-law of the late Dr. Powell.
Do these facts disqualify them? The
laws of Georgia are the best authority
on this question. They place no ban on
jurors in such circumstances. The
truth is that no one had any interest in
this trial but Bell- -he had a most vital
interest, because it was a suit for his
liberty. The only possible interest that
anyone else could have is that general
interest that arises from their duty to
see that the mandates of the law are
observed. 1 have personally known the
three jurors last mentioned for many
years, and can testify that in their
community they rank as high in re
spect of honesty, veracity and general
integrity as you and 1 and McNeil rank
in our respective communities, and that
they would revolt as sternly against
rendering a perjured verdict as would
either one of us. But why this on
slaught on jurors? Is it made on the
hypothesis that there is no faith, no
honesty, no truth, no integrity among
men, and that all are dominated bv sel
fishness and sordidness? With all my
soul I do abhor and despise such a sen
timent.
Neither is it true that the officials at
the sanitarium refuse to discharge
Bell because he “knows too much
about their management to be allowed
to go at large.” This is a mean and
contemptible innuendo. Bell knows no
more about the management of the in
stitution than thousands already know,
and than all men may know, if they
want to. The doors of the institution
are open six days in the week, the year
round, to all visitors from this land
and all other lands, and, within proper
restrictions looking to the welfare of
patients, are free to make such inspec
tion as they please. Neither is it true
that he is detained because he has
written letters about the institution.
True, he has written letters that are
grossly abusive and grossly false, but
he is considered irresponsible. He said
on the witness stand that he had writ
ten one hundred and thirty or forty of
ihese letters. So far as I know only
two of thorn have been published; I
suppose that all other editors written
to had the penetration to discover that
they were Die fulmination of a griev
ously distempered mind. Nor is it true
that the officials of the sanitarium fur
nished all the evidence. They furnished
what they could, certainly, as it was
their duty to do. It is usual, I think,
for parties to a suit to furnish all the
evidence in their behalf that is admis
sible in the courts. The case required
technical and expert testimony, and it
was got where it could he found. There
was no expert and technical testimony
in behalf of Bell, except from one wit
ness, and for that reeason his proof,
though coming from respectable
sources, was of very little value.
Bell was sent to the sanitarium at
the instance of his father, his commit
tal papers are formal and regular, and
just such as the law requires the sani
tarium to receive. He has now living
a father, a wife, brothers and sisters
and other kinsmen. Some of them
have visited him from time to time at
the sanitarium, and have always seen
and conversed with him when he would
allow them to do so. They are cogni
zant of his condition. And yet not one
of them has ever instituted proceed
ings looking to his discharge, nor. so
far as I know, even requested his dis
charge. These facts are to me very,
very significant of their opinion as to
his mental condition. . . .
Bell had a most fair and impartial
trial. Before the case was begun the
attorneys for the sanitarium were in
structed to put no impediments in the
way of a most thorough investigation,
to object to nothing, to admit all evi
dence offered by Bell’s attorney, wheth
er competent or incompetent. And it
was so done. Much evidence offered by
the sanitarium that we thought valuable
was ruled out. In his opening address
to the jury our attorney stated emphat
ically that while the suit was against
Dr. Jones, the superintendent, that
neither he n«r any other officer of the
sanitarium had any personal interest
in it whatever; that the issue was
solely the sanity or insanity of Bell,
and that if the evidence should show
that he was sane enough to lie libera
ted the officers of the sanitarium would
be as much delighted as anybody.
Hell is a man of keen and vigorous
intellect, his memory is good, tie is a
fluent talker and makes a very favora
ble impression on people so long as he
does not talk on subjects of hia delu
sion. He intensely believes that his
father attempted to murder him by
slow poison, and that it is his continu
ing purpose to murder him. He in
tensely thinks that his wife is unduti-
fuI to him. I am informed that both
his wife and his father are most excel
lent, people, and have always treated
him in the most affectionate manner.
-I have the best possible proof that his
wife lives in a state of anxiety and
fear lest when liberated he may do her
serious injury, lie intensely believes
that some of the people in Swainsboro,
Ins home town, and all Federal and
State authorities, all editors of news
papers, and the officials at the sanitari
um, are united in a criminal conspiracy
to keep him in the sanitarium. He be
lieves also that he can have conversa
tions with people at great distances;
that lie can hear their voices and un-
dersland the words they speak. His
case is pronounced delusional insanity
by specialists in the treatment of men
tal and nervous diseases, and they
think that it would be dangerous for
him to go at large. If, in view of these
facts, he can fie lawfully liberated the
officials a( the sanitarium would joy
fully welcome the event.
Now, Mr. Watson, this is a great in
stitution, a noble charity ; there are
within its walls more than three thous
and people, all sick, and dependent,
and many helpless; all are either par
tially or totally bereft of their reason.
Its superintendent and his staff of phy
sicians are, without exception, high-
minded and honorable Christian gentle
men ; they are men of high attainments
in their profession ; their characters are
as precious to them as yours and mine
are to us. They have a great burden
to hear of sympathy and service to
these, the most unfortunate and help
less of all people. Their responsibility
cannot be measured or understood save
by those in like situations, and, worst of
all, they have frequently to endure in
silence the unfounded and cruel criti
cisms of people who take no pains to
acquaint themselves with either their
copduct, their duties or their achieve
ments.
Added to these considerations there
are ten trustees of the institution, sup
posed to be men of character and capac
ity, who devote their time, their talents
and their experience, unselfishly, and
with meager compensation, to its gov
ernment. They fling aside their own
business, and separate themselves from
the felicities of their own homes, un
mindful of personal sacrifices, in order
that the unfortunate insane may find
here a tranquil haven where they may
possibly have restored to them God’s
greatest blessing, the use and integrity
of their reason. How ought these men
to be treated? Ought they to he made
the subjects of ignorant, goundlessand
unsparing criticism, or ought they be
cheered, upheld and sustained in all
their rational efforts to ameliorate the
condition of these unfortunates?
Very truly yours,
Thos. G. Lawson.
Fell From Scaffold and Injured His
Back.
Thirty years ago James C. Lee, of
1100 9th St., S. E , Washington, D. C..
fell from a scaffold and seriously in
jured his back. In telling about it he
says: ‘‘My suffering was terrible:
from the small of my back all around
my stomach was just as if 1 had been
beaten with a club. 1 tried all kinds
of plasters, belladonna, capcjne and
porous, without getting relief, and
bought so-called electric belts, but
none of them did me any good.
“One day, while working near my
daughter’s house, my back pained me
so badly that 1 had to quit. 1 went into
the house and lay down for ease. My
daughter had a bottle of Sloan’s Lini
ment in the house and she rubbed my
back well with it and gave me some to
trfke home. I used six and a half bot
tles of Sloan’s 25c. Liniment and can
do as much work now as any man in
the shop, although I am sixty-seven
years old. I would not be without
Sloan’s Liniment for any consideration
and recommend it to anyone suffering
pain. ”
Industry need not wish.
Communicated.
A Thriving Neighborhood.
It is not often that I feel inclined to
write for the press, hut, working about
and around the Welcome neighborhood
just, west of town this week, has put
me in a retrospective frame of mind—
the contrast in rjrops, the manner of
preparation and cultivation, the pro
gressive young farmers, with those of
forty years ago in the same locality.
The farmers and their manner of farm
ing in those days is not a pleasant
theme to dwell upon ; therefore, I shall
skip that part.
That vast area—most of it in the
woods and old fields turned out—had im
pressed me as being very poor, as well
as quite hilly. But a few years ago it
was put on the market. The first year
a portion of the land was contracted for
at $8 per acre, hut the party forfeited
his trade by paying $100 to be released.
Within the next year or so most of the
land was sold at $10 per acre. The
same land could not be bought cow at
$40 per acre. Young men bought it,
and handsome buildings and neat cot
tages have since been erected along the
I highways, and dinner bells ring at all
I the homes. Then came the school bell;
i then followed the church bell. (The
| two last I shall make mention of in the
near future, for they are the hope and
salvation of the country.)
It ih a thrifty community—no drones
among them. It was here I first no
ticed progressive farming. Those far
mers were not satisfied to stay in the old
rutB. Deep preparation in the fall; rip
ping up the Btalks as early as the cotton
was picked, with two and sometimes
three mules to the plow ; labor-saving
machinery of all kinds to be found on
a first-class farm.
Your readers know I love to talk,
and hear you talk; but as I am “rained
in” and can’t get out. I wish to write
about a farm I saw to-day—that of J.
F. Dial. He has a nice home, splendid
tenant houses, all necessary outbuild
ings, (such as barns, stables, shelters,
etc.) All are located around where the
old Joel W. Berry farm-house formerly
stood. 1 was there for the purpose of
terracing his farm. There was not a
terrace on it, but all the rows were laid
off with fine judgment; none of it
cleared until a few years ago. I began
on a hill near the house. A young man
on the place told me that it was an old-
field new-ground, had been in cultiva
tion just one year, and that it made a
bale of cotton or more per acre. I did
not doubt it, after looking at those
stalks and the fine cultivation. A por
tion of the hill had been in cultivation
two years. It was cultivated by Ned
Cavender, and he made fifteen bales on
seventeen acres. He is a hustler to
work. Just across the branch, in a
large cornfield, was a fine crop. There
was a 4-acre cotton patch on new-
ground that made five bales of cotton
last year. I was shown a poplar stump.
Mr. Dial cut the tree down and sawed
it into planks. The tree made ten
stocks 10 feet long each. It made 410
feet to the stock, and Mr. Dial sold the
lumber for $80—enough from one pop
lar tree to pay for eight acres. There
are a number of large (line trees on
that piece of land that would easily
sell for $60 per acre.
I terraced a field just west of Mr.
Dial’s house that was said to contain
35 acres, (It cannot be more than that,
for I terraced tho whole field in less
than two and a half hours.) The man
who worked it last year plowed an old
$50 mule and made 21 bales of cotton,
which at 9c. brought him $945, and cot
ton seed from same $190—a total of
$1,135 for a $50 mule to make.
Mr. Dial has nearly 400 acres of land,
all kinds of farm machinery and a saw
mill. lie has sawed from the place and
sold as much lumber as the place cost,
and much more besides.
Now, what I have written of this
farm I could write of scores of other
farms around there. In fact, I know
of no other large farming community
just like it. It is an inspiration to go
among them—some of them my old
army comrades, and their sons. I raise
my hat to them. They are the salt of
the earth—God’s noblemen.
John B. Goodwyn.
An O’er True Tale.
The other day a local merchant hap
pened to see a farmer receiving some
goods at the depot, and noticed that
they came from a Chicago mail order
house. He noticed also that the goods
were right in his line, and the same he
had carried in his store for years. He
immediately approached the farmer and
said: “I could have sold you every ar
ticle you have there for less money
than you paid the Chicago house, and
saved your freight besides.” “Then
why didn’t you say so?” answered the
farmer; ”1 have taken The Times for
a number of years, and have never seen
a line about you selling these goods.
This mail order house sent advertising
matter asking for my trade, and they
got it. If you have any bargains, why
don’t you have them put in the paper,
so we can see what they are?” That
ended the argument, and the merchant
went and communed with other mer
chants who never advertise, and com
plained to them that the mail order
houses were ruining their business.—
Valdosta Times.
It is not an infrequent occurrence
that merchants complain of people who
send away from home for goods, when
the same articles could be purchased
from them, and at possibly less cost.
And yet these merchants are to blame.
They do not let the people know what
they have for sale, and the out-of-town
man does; hence the mail order busi
ness. The time is past when people
hunt up articles they want by making
the rounds of the stores. They now
wait for the merchant to hunt them up,
and the live merchant gets the trade.
—Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
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No woman can be truly beautiful who
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Mr. Ruffly — “I called because I
thought you were out. ’ ’
Miss Pert—“Well, 1 thought I was
out, too. The maid must have thought
you were someone else.”
1 Resolutions on the Death of Miss
Annabel Lundie.
“God’s ways are past finding out.”
It is not for us to question the myste
rious dealings of Providence in taking
away our sister and co-worker, Miss
Annabel Lundie, who fell asleep on
Jan. 20, 1909. For months she had
been in ill health, and at times her suf-
l fering was intense, but she bore her
I affliction with marked patience and
j Christian resignation. In all the rela-
| tions of life - in the quiet home circle,
; where she was so thoughtful and use
ful ; among her friends, and in the mis
sionary societies—she was helpful, and
her gentle, womanly influence was felt
and recognized.
Whereas, It has pleased our Heaven
ly Father to call her away in the rmdst
of her years of usefulness. Therefore,
be it resolved—
1. That in the death of Miss Annabel
Lundie the Home and Foreign Mission
Societies have sustained a great loss.
Although to our finite minds it seems a
strange dispensation, we believe “ail
things work together for good to them
that love God.”
2 2. That the memory "of her pure,
sweet life will linger with us as an in
spiration to high and noble purpose,
and that we may bear with patience
and submission the sufferings of this
life.
3. That we sympathize most tenderly
with||the mother and brother in their
grief. May the same Christian faith
which characterized the life of their
loved one sustain and comfort them in
their great sorrow.
4. That we record these resolutions
in our minute book publish them in
our city papers, and send a copy to the
family. Mrs. G. E. Parks,
Mrs. Sam Banks,
Mrs. R. W. Freeman,
Committee.
—There have been very considerable
contributions in aid of negro schools in
the South at the hands of Northern
givers, but according to evidence sup
plied to the Montgomery Advertiser by
the officials of the State Colored Teach
ers’ Association of Alabama, the South
has spent fifty dollars for educating the
negro where the North has spent one
dollar. Taken as a whole, the condition
of the negro population of the South is
far preferable to that of the negroes
who have drifted Northward.—Phila
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