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VOL. XXIII. NO. 99.
SCIENTIST TELLS OF LIFE
TEN THOUSAND YEARS AGO
BY O. 33. KEET.EB
It Is a pleasure to meet people at
the top, no matter what of, if you
can make that out. I .mean people
who are authorities in their lines,
be the line pugilism, piano or paint
ing, atavistics or archaeology. The
man who has done things is a good
man to talk to. And at the IPied
mont hotel Tuesday morning I had
the pleasure of talking to a man of
whom It has been said, he stepped
the limits of civilization back two
thousand years.
Dr. John F. Peters, of the Univer
•ity of the South, the archaeologist
who headed the University of Penn
sylvania expedition that began the
•xcavations at Nippur in 1888, is in
town for three lectures, Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday evenings,
at Emory university.
Dr. Peters is getting along in
years now—a small, sturdy gentle
man with thin white hair. He wore
a. black skull cap indoors and smok
ed a mild cigar as we talked. And
he told me things that made my
eyes stick out; not things he had
read, which are the basis for most
of the optical protrusions the aver
age man can cause, but things he
had seen. Dr. Peters dwelt but light
ly on the times he and his compa
triots almost were massacred in the
Babylonian valley; that was a cheap
sort of adventure, he seemed to
think.
But when they finally got into the
treasure-trove of Nippur; when, aft
er months of toil and danger and
disappointment and bad luck, word
was flashed about the camp that
they were “finding something” at
last—
Story of Treasure
Dr. Peters’ eyes sparkled and his
hands trembled, as he told of that
store of treasure; the stock of a sort
of old-time Jeweler, who made
“votive offerings” for kings to the
temples; the period could be estab
lished accurately bj the names of
the kings an lapis-lazuli and mal
achite.
‘‘How long ago? Oh, some four
teen hundred years before the Chris
tian era,” he said, carelessly. “We
were very lucky. It was near the
top of the ‘mound.’ You see, the
excavations are in layers. This age
overbuilt the one before, as the
houses of mud-brick crumbled ahd
settled down. 'Kjjis workman's shop
might well have been far down. But
it was near the top; they hadn’t built
over his former site in many a cen
tury, while the wood chest in which
were his treasures moulded away—
moulded away in its packed earthen
covering. You could trace the out
line of the wood, where it had been
In the clay»that surrounded it. And
the ‘stock’ was a treasure indeed.”
It was at noon of a Saturday that
the “find” was made; and usually
they stopped at noon on Saturdays.
But not that Saturday. They work
ed until dark; and then went at it
with dawn, with a heavy
guard of Arab warriors about the
place.
The varied materials found in the
stock established the fact that there
was at that time, 1,400 years be
fore Christ, trade with countries far
and wide; glass stained with cobalt,
that must have come from China;
lapis-lazuli from here; malachite
from there; ivory from yonder—im
mensely important commercial data
for the pages of the world’s history.
Said He Was Wrong
"And they told me I was on the wrong
scent!” chuckled Dr. Peters. ‘‘They
said I was all wrong. And for years
asfter that I had to stand alone on
the era of the old King Sargon—
who many said was a myth, and then
placed him at 4,000 B. C. I didn't.
They were calculating him from the
date of his grandson, Naram-Sid,
whose name was found by a king in
■working over the foundations of a
temple in another city, about 800 B.
C. This king, who was more of a
reformer than a warrior, left an in
scription that he had found Naram-
Sid’s name, the first time it had been
seen in eighty generations. The sci
entists were using forty years to the
generation; but I calculated many
times and found the average duration
of a royal generation was under thir
ty years. I knocked off • 1,000
years from the period of Naram-Sid
and his grandfather, the great Sar
gon—l hate tod to do it; but we must
take the truth as we find at. I set
them around 2,800 B. C. —and cor
roborative evidence since has prac
tically settled the matter.”
These dates are rather staggering
to the layman. And when Dr. Peters
told of finding trades of a great Jew
ish colony on a former canal near
Nippur, from the time when Ne
buchadnezzar overcame the Jews and
took them into captfvity—the same
old Nebuchadnezzar who was the
pioneer of all breakfast-food cranks
and went out and ate grass’—l asked
him when Nebuchadnezzar flourished.
If' always had seemed a fearfully
long time ago to me—back in Bible,
times, I called it; so long ago that
even the long arm of science couldn’t
reach it.
Dr. Peters chuckled again.
‘‘Oh, that was not very long ago—
-698 B. C.,” he said.
Comparatively recently, it now ap
peared. Nearly a thousand years
after the shop fell in on the stock-in
trade of the old jeweler discovered
■ by Dr. Peters. And the old city of
Nippur and its great temple went so
much farther back than that —so
much farther.
' Were Great Writers
"They were great writers, those
old chaps,” said Dr. Peters. ‘‘They
i invented the. cunieform system—the
wedge-system— of making records
on clay tablets. The great temple at
Nippur also was a university. It
had its library It had its text
books. There were songs—on clay
. tablets. There were bookkeeping
I sytems. We could tell when this
man and that, working at the tem
ple, had run away from his job and
> his name had been taken off the pay
roll. They gave receipts to men who
brought sheep there for food or sac
rice. They were very business-like,
fdur or five thousand years ago.”
And down they went, layer on lay
er, into the old city of Nippur, not
far from Babylom between the Ti
gris and the Euphrates.
‘‘How old do you suppose that city
really is?” I asked.
"Older than the written record ex
tends,” said the doctor. “We can go
back to Sargon accurately; say 2,800
B. C.. or 4,700 years ago. Nippur
was as old as/ probably older than,
another city built on what was then
the end of the Persian gulf. That
gulf has receded at the rate of 100
feSt a year, due to alluvial deposits
by the Tigris and the Euphrates and
other rivers. Calculated in this man
ner, by its distance from the gulf
now, that city must have been built
7.000 B. C. And Nippur probably is
older still.”
Nine thousand years ago! And peo
ple built cities then, and there were
civilizations, and conquests, and serv
ants and masters. And the begin
, nings of books and libraries and uni
versities. There were no movies and
telephones then —there w-ere certain
advantages of living in that era. The
i archaeologists are the boys; they
don’t have to deal in generalities,
like the geologists. They get the
record on things—they literally dig
it up.
DR. JOHN F. PETERS, dis
tinguished archaeologist, who
is in Atlanta for three lectures
at Emory university, Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday even
ings. Staff photo by. Winn.
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MIimiMITIES
REQUEST SOLDIERS
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i WILLIAM/SON, W. Va., May 17.
Mingo county authorities today were
waiting for a reply to their latest
appeal to Governor Morgan, asking
that he urge the war department to
send federal troops into the battle
zone along the West Virginia-Ken
tucky border in this district. The
appeal, forwarded last night, inform
ed the executive that the situation
was critical, adding that further out
breaks along the Tug river front
were expected.
U. S. NOT FAVORABLE
TO MARTIAL LAW
WASHINGTON. May 17.—The fed
eral government is not dispose ! to
declare martial law and employ regu
lar troops in the Mingo county, West
Virginia, strike region, merely to an
ticipate a situation that may get
beyond the control es the stat* au
thcrities, Secretary IVeeks declared
today.
Although he had telegrams from
the governors of both West Virginia
and Kentucky ask'ng. for federal
troops and the promulgation of‘ the
pioclamations already signed by
President Harding declaring martial
law, Mr. Weeks said the latest re
ports to the war department indicat
ed that the situation to he more
quiet. Firing practically had ceased,
he said, and no one had been killed
or wounded for two or three days.
“Kentucky has 60Q state troops ”
Mr. Weeks sad, “and large numbers
of special cilicers have been sworn
in in both states. It is true that West
Virginia has no state troops, but the
forces on the spot seem to have the
situation well in hand.
“It will be time to take so serious
a step as a declaration of martial
law when the affair becomes more
serious than it is now.”
• The situation along the Kentucky-
West Virginia border was discussed
by President Harding and his cabinet
and it was indicated that the decision
was affirmed to send federal troops
into the region only as a last resort.
It was indicated the governors of the
two states would be advised that the
army would be employed on police
work onjy where states failed to
maintain order.
Southern Ireland
In Ruins After Orgy
Os Fire and Battle
LONDON. May 17.—Smouldering
ruins dotted southern Ireland today,
memorials of an orgy of violence in
which 4hirty-six/ives were lost over
Whitsuntide.
Up to last night there were thir
ty-three dead, mostly soldiers and
police. The three additional were
prisoners named Flynn, Ryan and
Aherne, who were shot when they
attempted to escape after their cap
ture by a raiding party.
Reprisals followed swiftly on the
Sinn Fein outbreaks. Every ambush
was answered by a raid. Families
suspected of Sinn Fein sympathies
were given an hour’s notice to re
move their valuables, after which
their homes were fired.
From Cork to Dublin, the skies
were reddened during the night.
The carnival of violence reached
its climax coincidently with the most
promisihg peace negotiations yet
suggested. Premier Lloyd George
and “President” De Valera were ex
changing notes in an effort to ar
range a meeting.
The negotiations were reported to
have been started through the ef
forts of Martin Glynn, former gov
ernor of New York, who was here
early in May. He was said to have
provided intermediaries who let De
Valera understand that’ the premier
was willing to see him.
House to Consider
Veterans’ Relief Bill
WASHINGTON. May 17.—The
house is expected to begin consider
ation within a few days of the Sweet
bill to consolidate various govern
ment agencies dealing with relief
for war veterans. The measure was
taken up today by the commerce
committee.
A subcommittee, headed by Rep
resentative Sweet, Republican’, lowa,
author of the bill, already has heard
the views of representatives of bu
reaus that would be affected and
of veterans’ organizations.
The measure provides for consoli
dation in one bureau unaer the treas
ury department of. the war risk in
surance bureau, the rehabilitation di
vision of the board for vocational
education, and sections of 'he public
health service that deal with sick and
disabled ex-service men.
BIND OF YEGGMEN
IS ROUNDED UP OF
FEDEHALJNSPEGTORS
*l’l'l e round-up of a famous band
of yeg’g’men, charged with robbing
more than a hundred banks and post
offices in every state from South
Carolina to New York over a period
of two years, was. completed in Co
lumbia, S. C., Monday by Atlanta
postoffice inspectors, who returned
Tuesday and submitted their report.
Federal inspectors have been
scouring the country for these men
for eighteen months. Some of the
defendants are wanted in as many as
eight for robbery, the inspec
tors declared.
The men, all of whom are held in
default of heavy bonds, are:
William Brawley, Dewey Dennis,
Alex Cartledge, Lloyd Lorrick, Wil
liam Norvell, W’illis Cartledge, J. M.
Goff and Watson Walace. Wallace,
alleged by inspectors to b ethe chief
of the band, is under arrest at
Springfield, 111. All the others were
arrested in or neap Columbia.
Long Chain of Robberies
At the Atlanta postal inspection
headquarters it was stated the
round-up was the most important
made by the government in a num
ber of years. A long chain of rob
beries in approximately one-third oi'
the states in the union is charged to
the gang, and in their capture the in
spectors believe they have the men
who are responsible ' for the robbery
from the banks and postofflces of tre
mendous amounts.
According to Atlanta inspectors
who laid the trap that finally caught
the alleged yeggmen, the band had
its southern headquarters in Colum
bia, and its eastern headquarters in
New York. Its members had been
constantly engaged in doing bank
and postofiice “jobs” for -two years,
and up to a few months ago they had
completely baffled the authorities
who were seeking to appreh'end
them, inspectors declared.
The yeggmen made a specialty of
rifling safe deposit vaults in banks,
and their efforts in this direction
netted them countless thousands,
said the inspectors.
Extensive Operations
The rifled postofflces and blew
bank safes in a dozen or more Caro
lina towns on an average of once
a year, and then proceeded eastward,
taking banks and postofflces, almost
as they came to them, the inspectors
said. A large number of their ef
forts were -unsuccessful, but the
hauls made from the successful rob
beries made their regular expedi
tions extremely profitable, it was
stated.
The government first broke into
the big syndicate three months ago
when a trio of the leaders of the
gang were nabbed by inspectors in
various parts of the country. All
three of these men are now doing
time in federal prisons, and informa
tion obtained from them led to the
capture Monday of the remaining
members, inspectors said.
The members of the syndicate now
under arrest will be held for trial,
first in federal court in Columbia
for the South Carolina robberies, and
then in the other states in which
they operated.
Conservatives Win
Overwhelming Victory
In Italian Elections
ROME. May 17.—Returns from the
national elections today rolled up an
evergoing conservative majority.
Reports came slowly from widely
scattered districts and the press hes
itated to make predictions. The gen
eral opinion seemed to be that the
next chamber will contain from 250
to 285 members of the coalition head
ed by Premier Giolitti—the party op
posing radical Socialists, communists
and other extremists.
It was believed other parties will
be represented as follows:
Official Socialists, 90 to 110; popu
larists, 90 to 107; communists, 10 to
15; republicans 10 to 15; fascist!, 20
to 35; combatants, 10 to 13; Slavo-
Germans, 10 to 11.
Rome’s complete figures gave an
idea of how the vote was going. Its
returns showed: Coalition, 29,000;
Socialists, 15,000; Popularists, 10,-
300; Republicans, 6,500; Communists,
3,900.
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ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY ,MAY 19, 1921.
GRAFT CHARGED
DY ‘BODTLECCER'
Predictions Tuesday by 13. J.
Gantt, prohibition supervisor in the
southeast, that Atlanta’s bunco
probe might lead tu “frame-up”
charges against his agents, were
published almost simultaneously
with a sensational statement by Nat
McWhorter, a negro bootlegger,
charging that he had paid federal
“dry” agents for protection.
McWhorter had previously test!*
fied at the bunco probe that he
had pair? City Detective W. L.
Payne S2OO a week for nearly two
years as insurance against raids.
Supervisor Gantt issued a flat de
nial of McWhorter’s charges.
Director Gantt declared that his
forces in Atlanta have been more or
less demoralized since the investi
gation before the council'manic com
mittee began six weeks ago. He said
his agents have pointed out to him
that under offers of immunity and
with public sentiment apparently
against them charges may be made
at any time against federal agents.
He declared he has assured his men
that he will protect them at all costs
and that their work is continuing,
although considerably -handicapped.
Director Gantt characterized the
action of officials in offering immu
nity to witnesses against officers of
he law as a dangerous practice, and
asserted that such a practice does
not make for the increased efficiency
of officers nor for improved prohi
bition conditions.
“My men are uneasy, in view of the
present situation, lest they will be
Victims of charges by bootleggers
and other criminals who are arrested
by them in liquor raids, and they
do not desire to continue their oper
ations unless given an assurance that
they will be protected. I have given
this assurance and am doing every
thing I can to bolster up their morale
under the trying circumstances that
are confronting me,” said Director
Gantt.
The dry chief went on to say that
liquor runners have always been
eager to thrust at the officers who
arrest them, and that his observa
tion has been that offers of immun
ity pave the way for perjured testi
mony.
“My department is not concerned
in the present bunco investigation in
Atlanta. It does not interest us one
way or the other, and its outcome
can have no bearing on the future
conduct of the federal department
•here, but I do know that the investi
gation now under way is seriously
retarding law enforcement in At
lanta and that it is materially lessen
ing the efficiency of all officers en
gaged in enforcing the laws of both
the state, city and . federal govern
ment.”
Director Gantt declared his agents
have been thrown in constant touch
with the Atlanta police and the de
tective department, the county po
lice, and other law enforcement
forces and that they have always
received complete co-operation from
all of them.
“Indeed, I believe I have secured
better co-operation in Atlanta from
all departments than in any other
city in my district, which comprises
four states,” he declared.
Mr. Gantt sa.d his agents have been
‘‘going slow’” in their operations
since the beginning of the bunco
probe, but that by- constantly im
pressing on them that he is squarely
behind them they are gradually
branching out and going after the
bootleggers in old-time form. He
predicted, however, that it will be a
long time before the prohibition en
forcement department in Atlanta ful
ly recovers from the demoralizing ef
fect of the probe. -
KELLEY ANSWERS
SHABPCRITICIGMS
Attacking J. J. Brown, state com
missioner of agriculture and L. B.
Jackson director of the state market
bureau B. Kelley president of the
Georgia Farm Bureau Federation, on
Wednesday issued a statement re
plying to a communication, given out
Tuesday by Nir. Jackson in which
sharp criticism was made of the
farm bureau and of Dr. A. M. Soule
president of the State College of
Agriculture,
Characterizing the statements oS
Mr. Jackson and Commissioner
Brown as having been inspired by
‘‘malice and .’.ense ignorance,” Mr.
Kelley makes a vigorous defense of
the farm bureau and repeats his pre
vious assertion that the abolition of
the state bureau would be distinctly
beneficial to the farmers of Geor
gia.
The statement from Mr. Jackson’s
office on Tuesday followed the pass
age of resolutions by the farm bu
reau convention in Atlanta on Mon
day condemning the Sapiro cotton
marketing plan and advocating the
abolition of the state bureau of mar
kets.
Ur. Kelley’s Reply
The reply from Mr. Kelley fol
lows:
“My attention has been called to
the article in your paper of the
17th to a cdmmunication by L. B.
Jackson in reply to a resolution of
the Georgia Farm Bureau asking
that the legislature transfer the bu
rea of markets to the College of
Agriculture, thereby saving the
state in this one particular approxi
mately $50,000 per annum, and in
cidentally the embarrassment of Mr.
Jackson of supplementing this fund
by asking these taxpayers to per
sonally subscribe additional funds,
amount unknown.
“Hard times are with us and the
farmers of the state need some re
lief and it is necessary to economize
everywhere practicable, and we think
the support of the bureau of mar
kets is a useless expenditure and
this amount could be saved to the
taxpayers and still have a more ef
ficient service rendered the state by
the college and its corps of trained
market experts than by the present
bureau of markets, that is render
ing practically no service, so far
as the average farmer knows, other
than the issuance of the marketing
bulletin, which should and would be.
continued by the college as a clean
market bulletin with advertising and
news items left out.
“We think this is the only state
where a newspaper is published by
the state bureau of markets withthe
market feature a sideline only.
Attack on Bureau
“This article of Mr. Jackson's is
not so much a defense of the bureau
of markets as it is a tirade on the
Georgia Farm Bureau Federation and
Dr. Soule, president of the College
of Agriculture. Dr. Soule is an ex
cellent gentleman of high character
and training and is doing a splendid
work at the college and throughout
the state for agriculture and for the
farmers. He and the college are
working hard to do active, intelli
gent and constructive work. The
College of Agriculture and Dr. Soule
can take of themselves and need no
defense by me from such petty and
foolish attacks.
“The farm bureau is a farmers’ or
ganization, organized to encourage
and promote co-operation of all agri
cultural interests in every effort to
improve facilities and conditions for
the economic and efficient protect
tion, .conservation, marketing trans
portation and distribution farm
products, and is independent of any
other organization or institution. Its
polices are shaped and directed by
ab advisory board, composed of two
members from each of the congres
sional districts, a man and a wom
an who are active bona fide farm
ers, and is supported by membership
dues paid by each member and from
no other source.
“The charge and malicious insinua
tions of both Mr. Jackson and Mr.
Brown or anyone else that the funds
for the organization of the federa
tion came from Wall street, or from
any other source inimical to agricul-
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FRANKLIN K, LANE.
WILSON CABINET
MEMBER, IS DERD
ROCHESTER, Minn., May 18.
Franklin K. Lane, former secretary
of the interior, died at a hospital
here, early this morning. Death was
due to an attack of angina pec
to ria.
Mr. Lane was operated on here
May 6 for gallstones and appendici
tis and was said to be recovering
when heart disease from which he
had suffered from time to time dur
ing the par' eight months develop
ed. Hospital physicians expressed
the belief that the operation would
remove the heart affection but an
attack early today developed fa
tally.
Immediately after he had recov
ered from the influences of the
anaesthetic Mr. Lane said: “I am
surprised to be alive. I hope to be
able to live a long life doing good
things for others without thoughts
of money.”
Mrs. Lane and George W. Lane, a
brother, were called to the former
secretary’s bedside shortly before 5
a. m. today, and were with him when
he died, at 6:10 o’clock. Last night if*’
was thought Mr. Lane was much bet
ter. His brother spent several .jiours
with him and when he left Mr. Lane
said:
you in the morning.” •
Although Mr. Lane said following
the operation that he was “surprised
to be alive,” his improvement had
been so marked that his death was
unexpected. His son, Franklin K.
Lane, Jr., and his daughter, Mrs.
Philip Kauffman, of ( Washington,
were at <heir homes when their
father died, as was his sister, Mrs.
M. A. Anderson, of Oakland, Cal.
George W. Lane said this morning
that his brother left “no estate what
soever.”
Mr. Lane’s body will be taken \o
Chicago tonight, accompanied by his
brother and his widow.
Forty Per Cent Apple
Crop in North Georgia,
Says Market Agent
That the apple crop this year in
north Georgia will be only forty
per cent of normal, is the state
ment made by E. Ragsdale, special
marketing agent of the United States
bureau of markets, who returned to
Atlanta Saturday from a trip through
the apple-raising section of north
Georgia.
Mr. Ragsdale works in conjunuc
tion with the state college of agri
culture, and with the farm bureau
movement.
He said that he had made a care
ful survey of the conditions through
out the entire apple belt, and thy.t
he found that the cold weather, to
gether with certain tree fungi had
combined to destroy at least, sixty
per cent of the total crop this year.
However, he added, that rhe value
of the crop will be greatly mhanced
by its smallness, and that the ap
ple producers will most likely re
ceive more for the apples they will
actually market this year than if
they were to market a full normal
crop. He said that he understood
that practically all of the apple coun
try in the northwest nad been se
verely hit by cold weather, and that
the crops there would be practi
cally negligible.
Governor Harding to
Tour West and South
WASHINGTON, May 17. —Governor
Harding, of the federal reserve board,
announced last night he would leave
tomorrow for a two weeks’ tour of
the agricultural and’ industrial cen
ters of the middle west and south.
The purpose of the tour, the gov
ernor said, was to acquaint ihmself
more fully with the individual prob
lems of those sections and discuss
them from a national point of view
with representatives of farmers,
business men’s and bankers’ associa
tions.
DORSEY IV/lf SIYUVD PA T
ON PUBLISHED CHARGES
FRANKLIN K. LANE, for
merly secretary of tire interior
in President Wilson’s cabinet,
who died. Wednesday.
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ERANKLIN K.JLANX
BOARD ANNOUNCES
BE REDUCTION
FOB RAILWORKEHS
CHICAGO, May 18.—The United
States railroad labor board an
nounced late yesterday that it had
decided that “prevailing conditions
justify to an extent, yet to be de
termined a readjustment downward
of the wages of the employes of
the carriers which are parties to the
disputes already heard by the
board.
The announcement, which affects
iabor on practically every road in
the country, was entirely unexpected,
as the board only began formal con
sideration of the case yesterday.
The board declared it would hand
down its final decision in all wage
disputes prior to April 18, on June
1, to be effective July 1.
BEIOIILLSMFIIHEFI
SENTENCED TO PEN
PHILADELPHIA, May 18.—Mrs.
Emma C. Bergdoll Tuesday wss hen
tenced in the federal district court
to onq, year and one day in the
penitentiary for conspiracy to aid
her sons, Grover C.~TTergabll and”
Erwin R. Bergdoll, to desert the
United States army, and was fined a
total of $7,000.
Judge Dickinson announced the
prison sentence would be remitted if
the fine was paid within the present
term of court, ending the second
Monday in June.
The same conditional sentence was
imposed on Charles A. Braun, Mrs.
Bergdoll’s eldest son, who changed
his name because of the notoriety
caused by Grover’s escapades, and
on James E. Romig, a friend of the
family.-
Albert S. Mitchell, an automobile
salesman, and Harry S. Schuh, in
dicted for aiding Erwin Bergdoll to
desert, were each sentenced to six
months and SI,OOO fine, in the Mercer
county jail, at Trenton, N. J. Their
sentences also will be remitted if the
fines are paid before the second Mon
day in June.
Mrs. Bergdoll said the court Could
not lose sight of the fact that.she
was a mother and that her offense
involved her sons.
“No one would wish to visit upon
you,” said the court, “their sin's sim
ply because the justice which awaits
and will surely be meted out to them
was and has been for a time delayed.
How much of the offenses of which
you are guilty was the act of a fond
and foolish mother, arid how much
was due to a base motive we cannot
certainly know. Your motive, how
ever, does not affect your guilt, al
though it may mitigate the punish
ment. We give you, as the law in its
mercy commands us to do, the bene
fit of the doubt.
“No one would wish to see a moth-’
er sent to jail for merely helping her
sons, guilty as they were.”
In sentencing Romig, who is 70
years old, Judge Dickinson said his
only claim to leniency was his age.
Judge Dickinson admitted all five
defendants to SIO,OOO bail each, pend
ing the outcome of an appeal on
writs of error. .
Seay Tells Gruesome
Details of How He
Murdered His Wife
ALBANY. Ala., May 17.—W. F.
Seay, accused of the murder of his
wife, whose nude body was found
at Florence Sunday night with the
head beaten in by a rock, was rushed
here for safe keeping this morning,
following his capture by a police
man at Florence, early today. Seay,
according to authorities, confessed
to the murder after his capture, and
calmlv told how he had beaten his
wife to d§ath after a bitter quarrel.
The fugitive, who had been sought
bv posses with bloodhounds since the
finding of his wife’s body, was taken
while ringing the doorbell of his
mother’s apartment at Florence. He
confessed on the way to the police
station, it is charged, and today he
again told the details of the crime.
Seay said that he tried to choke
his wife, but that she almost over
came him, according to authorities.
Then, he said, he seized a rock and
beat her head to a pulp and after
wards mutilated her body in the hope
she could not be identified if found.
Seay declared that his mother and
his wife wanted to send him to an
insane asylum. Authorities believe
that he intended to kill both of them.
When arrested, he had a piece of
iron, wrapped with a handkerchief,*
with which it is believed he intend
ed to attack his mother.
Seay, in his alleged confession, is
declared to have told how he and his
wife went for a walk and sat down
on a rock. They had an altercation,
he said, during which he charged her
with indiscreet conduct. Then, he
said, he placed his arms around her
and suddenly started to choke her.
“She was hard to kill,” he is al
leged to have declared.
Mrs. Seay, the daughter of A. A.
Williams, prominent Florence resi
dent, had been cautioned by her
mother to beware of her husband, it
is said, but laughed at the warning.
They had previously had trouble.
A special term of criminal court
will be ordered so that an immediate
trial may be had. Sqay was rushed
from town before news of his cap
ture spread. He said he had been
hiding near Cypress creek since the
killing and has seen many persons
hunting through the underbrush in
an effort to find him. It is believed
he will plead insanity.
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Governor Dorsey on Wednesday is
sued his reply t.o State Senator .
Samuel L. Olive, Judge NV- E- H.
Searcy, Jr., and others who have
criticized his recently published
pamphlet on race relations in Geor
gia.
The governor does not recede from
his position or modify his conclu*
sions as set forth in the pamphlet.
He takes the position he took at
the outset, and reiterates that po
sition, which is that “it Is a mlstak*
to suppress the facts, but the part
of honesty and wisdom to look them
squarely in the face.”
It will do no good, he asserts,'
for the newspapers of Georgia to
declare that Georgia is no worse,
when it comes to lynching and mot»
violence, than other sections of the
country, “for that is not correct,
as our record is exceptionally
bad.”
So far as the judges of the su«
perior courts of the state are con
cerned, Governor Dorsey makes the
point that he sent them at once,
upon its issuance, copies of his pam
phlet, and cites the fact that Judge
Andrew J. Cobb, of Athens, a for
mer superior court judge and former
supreme court judge, was one of
the men to whom he submitted the
pamphlet prior to its issuance, and
that Judge Cobb approved it and
approved its issuance.
Quoting at length from a letter
received by him from another su
perior court judge, name he
does not give, the governor shows
that this judge heartily indorsed th<
pamphlet after reading it.
“You have probably stuck the bow
of the chip of state ino a hornet’s
nest,” this judge wrote tire governor,
“but that v/ill pass. Southern peo
ple are proud and quick to resent
criticism but after the storm has
passed they will rectify thalf*
wrongs. Every southern white man
who will face the facts knows that
the negro is not treated with that
justice which ‘slfould ciaracter.ze
our dealings with a race- which ar#
the wards of the Caucasian race.'*
This view expressed by the un
named superior court judge, in ths
governor’s opinion, will be the final
view taken by 95 per cent of the
people of Georgia. Ho declares it la
futile to attempt to show that his
pamphlet was exaggerated.
Replying to Senator Olive’s criti
cism that the pamphlet is calculated
to disturb farm labor conditions.
Governor Dorsey declares that his
leading motive, second to the motive
of justice, was the improvement ot
farm labor conditions, for the reason,
as he asserts, that hundreds of ne
jjroes are fleeing Ifoni Georgia farms,
and two counties have left in them
no negroes at all.
“Experience has demonstrated,” the
governor declares in this connection,
“that a small minority of lawless
people are driving the negroes away
by their senseless cvruelties, and that
the law-abiding class, which is over
whelmingly in the majority, must
put a stop to these cruelties."
Futher in this connection, the gov
ernor declares that the cruelties ar®
not consisted to farms, but recently
work on a railroad was stopped be
cause negroes were employed and
a lumber camp was threatened wlta
dynamite because it employed ne
groes.
The governor asserts that such
conditions cannot continue and ex
presses the belief that conservative
men like Senator Olive and Gover
nor-elect Hardwick will "see the wis
dom of dealing with the situation
along the lines suggested by me.”
As to Judge Searcy, of Flint Ju
dicial circuit, who was very Severn
in his criticism, Governor Dorsey’s
comment is that the judge has lost
his “judicial calm,” and that the
heated tone of his communications
strengthens the governor’s conclu
sions as to the cases in Judge
Searcy’s circuit and verifies hin
judgment as to the wisdom of with
holding the names of his informants.
There was not a case cited in tha
pamphlet, says the governor in con
clusion, which was not supported
by a signed letter or report, and
this evidence is open to the inspection
of judges, solicitors, members of the
legislature, editors, preachers and
other leaders of opinion to whom ha
appealed. He declares unequivocal
ly that issuance of the pamphlet was
wise, because outside papers ara
praising Georgia instead of criticiz
ing. He closes with the statement
that he is confident of a final ver
dict by the people in support of what
he has done.
Text of Statement
The text of the governor’s state
ment is as follows:
Addressed to People
“To the People of Georgia:
“Hon. Samuel L. Olive, president of
the senate, is correct in saying: The
governor states that the negro has
been lynched and cites five cases.'
"Nothing could better illustrate tha
moderation of the statement made by
me Reference to the treatment
of the negro in Georgia. While I
mentioned only five cases, since 1885
mobs in Georgia have shot, hanged,
burned or drowned 415 negroes, soma
of them women. Since these figures
were compiled, in the last sixty days
a mob has taken a helpless old ne
gro woman from her home and
drowned her by night.
“The senator is mistaken in say
ing that the Case No. 5, the burning
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