The Atlanta Journal,
Thursday, 6th November 1913,
PAGE 1, COLUMN 5.
Her Attorney
Asks for Special
Solicitor to Bring Case Be-
fore Next Grand Jury
Anxious to clear the cloud from her was
charged by a justice court warrant seven months ago with the murder of her
husband, the late Joshua B. Crawford, in 1909, Friday took steps to force a
trial of her case.
Attorney Burton Smith, representing
Mrs. Crawford, appeared before Judge W. D. Ellis and asked what a special
solicitor general be named to bring the Crawford case before the grand jury.
Judge Ellis declined to act, as Judge
Ben H. Hill is now exercising complete jurisdiction over criminal matters, but
Judge Hill has promised to name a solicitor for the case during the present
week.
Because of the disqualification of
Solicitor Hugh M. Dorsey, whose firm has been engaged in part of the multiplex
Crawford estate civil litigation, the criminal matter has not yet reached even
the grand jury. It is expected, however, that Judge Hills appointee will make
an effort to get the case up next week.
The case against Mrs. Crawford will be
pressed by Attorney J. S. James, who represents litigants, who are seeking to
wrest from the widow the $250,000 estate left by the husband, and for which
they claim she poisoned him.
A justice court warrant has also been
drawn against Frederick Lumb, a New York barber, who, it is alleged, conspired
with Mrs. Crawford to bring about the death of her aged husband, but Lumb has
never been arrested. Should he be arrested he could not be brought here from
New York until after a grand jury indictment had been returned.
PAGE 2, COLUMN 1
REV.
CRAWFORD JACKSON
IS FULLY EXONERATED
Court Throws
Out Case
Against Head of Juvenile
Home-Friends Pay
Tribute
Complete exoneration has resulted in
the case of Rev. Crawford Jackson, head of the Juvenile Protective association,
who was the subject of sensational charges made some time ago by a young girl
in his employ.
While the charges resulted in Mr.
Jacksons indictment by the grand jury at that time, the case has since been
nolle prossed. Solicitor Hugh M. Dorsey went before Judge Benjamin H. Hill, of
the criminal branch of the superior court, stated that he had carefully investigated,
had found them without any foundation whatsoever, and asked that the cast be
dropped, to which Judge Hill readily agreed.
In this connection it is interesting to
note the loyalty of Mr. Jacksons friends while he was laboring under the
unjust charges. Not only did the officers of the Juvenile Protective
association come forward with voluntary testimonials to his good character, but
many friends and acquaintances made it a point to testify to the splendid
reputation of the accused and to the nobility of the work which he had been
doing.
JUDGE HIM BY HIS WORKS.
Chief of these testimonials is one by
General Clifford L. Anderson, in which he says that Mr. Jackson should be
judged, not by false statements, but by the work which he has been doing.
Modestly and quietly, says General
Anderson, has Rev. Crawford Jackson pursued the even tenor of his way for the
last twenty years, devoting all his energies to one purpose, the establishment
of laws designed to make good men and women of chanceless boys and girls.
General Anderson says that Atlantas juvenile court is due largely to the
efforts of Mr. Jackson, that his help has been state-wide in scope, and that
having been associated personally with Mr. Jackson he was convinced that the
charges against him were groundless.
The work of the Juvenile Protective
association, as indicated in an outline, has indeed been a great one. It is
shown that this organization is responsible for Atlantas juvenile court, for
the state reformatory for boys, and for other reformatories not only in Georgia
but throughout the south. In all his work the testimonials indicate that Mr.
Jackson has been the leading and most courageous spirit.
His friends rejoice in his vindication,
even as they stood by him when he was under fire.
These are some of the testimonials
which came to Mr. Jackson before his vindication:
TRIBUTES FROM FRIENDS.
I congratulate you on your conquest
over your enemies. **** I sincerely hope there will be no more put-up jobs on
you.
(Signed.)
MRS. A. F. TAYLOR,
Atlanta, Ga.
Dear Friend
and Brother:
I assure you, you have my deepest
sympathy and confidence. In the end you will win. * May God help and
sustain you in this hour of persecution.
Your friend and brother,
(Signed.) J. A. MOSS,
Tignall, Ga.
God bless you, Brother Jackson. I have
been thinking about you. They tried to get it on you, but they could not do
it.
(Rev. C. A. Ridleys spontaneous
statement in the Central Baptist church before a large congregation on October
26, on recognizing Mr. Jackson in the audience.
Judge W. R.
Hammond, Atlanta, Ga.
Dear Sir:
We believe him incapable of so gross a
crime as he has been accused. His conduct while visiting in our home here at
Junior State, warrants this faith in him.
We believe God gave him this work to
do and feel that we should help carry out Gods plan by helping to accomplish
the work with him.
Very sincerely,
(Signed.)
C. M. COPELAND, Supt.
(MISS) CLIFFORD HENDRY, Matron.
(MISS) MABLE HOKE,
Teacher.
I have known intimately Mr. Crawford
Jackson for many years and have never known anything in his conduct other than
that of a Christian gentleman.
As founder of the Juvenile Protection
association, which before being chartered and after has led to the creation of
several institutions for the welfare of juvenile delinquents, he proved his
foresight, his philanthropy and efficiency.
W. R. HAMMOND.
This way of accepting the word of
whimsical girls on the merest pretext of imposition has long since gone too
far. They seem to invite and work for cheap notoriety and revel in sensation
born of the carnal nature. Be assured of my confidence and assistance when you
can use me.
Sincerely
yours.
A.
A. DELOACH.
From my
frequent association with and intimate knowledge of Mr. Crawford Jackson for a
number of years; also the vital and ceaseless work he has done for misdirected
children in this city, state and throughout the southland. I am prepared to say
that he is not only the father of the organized movement for juvenile reform
legislation, but that is beyond my comprehension why any person or persons
would seek by criticism, or insinuations to hinder either the man or the
movement. J. L. ANDERSON.
PAGE 9, COLUMN 1
Bridge Tea
to Be Given by
Committee on Education
Mrs. Spencer R. Atkinsons committee on
education of the Atlanta Womens club will give a bridge tea at the Hotel
Ansley on Thursday afternoon, November 13, at 3 oclock.
Mrs. Atkinson and her very large and
able committee are bending every effort to make this tea an enjoyable affair as
well as a great success financially.
The following ladies, who compose the
committee, are requested to meet with Mrs. Atkinson at the Atlanta Womans club
Friday morning, at 11:30 oclock:
Mrs. John K. Ottley, Mrs. James
Jackson, Mrs. W. B. Price-Smith, Mrs. Robert Zahner, Mrs. William Percy, Mrs.
Linton Hopkins, Mrs. H. H. Tucker, Mrs. H. H. McCall, Mrs. A. P. Coles, Mrs. D.
C. Lyle, Miss Alice Baxter, Mrs. William Everett, Mrs. Lyman Amsden, Mrs.
William Spiker, Mrs. Clyde King, Mrs. Louis Magid, Mrs. H. Pound. Mrs. J. P.
Delaney, Mrs. J. P. Delaney, Mrs. McD. Wilson, Miss Isma Dooly, Mrs. Woods
White. Mrs. W. D. Coleman, Miss Sailie E. Brown, Mrs. A. R. Colcord, Mrs. M. M.
Davies, Mrs. Edgar Dunlap, Mrs. S. W. Foster, Mrs. W. L. Peel, Mrs. Irving
Thomas, Mrs. Hugh Willett, Mrs. Samuel Bowman, Mrs. Hugh Dorsey, Mrs. Albert
Akers, Mrs. J. R. Watts, Mrs. J. R. Hardin, Mrs. H. B. Scott, Mrs. Harvie
Jordan, Mrs. Bolling Jones, Mrs. Arthur Powell, Mrs. H. E. Stockbridge, Mrs. H.
B. Wey, Mrs. V. H. Kriegshaber, Mrs. John M. Slaton, Mrs. Nellie Peters Black,
Mrs. Dave Morgan, Mrs. Edward Lyle, Mrs. Percy Adams, Mrs. E. L. Connally, Mrs.
Louis Gholstin, Mrs. C. H. Johnson, Mrs. George H. Clayton, Mrs. Charles
Godfrey, Mrs. Alonzo Richardson, Mrs. J. O. Matheson, Mrs. A. O. Woodward, Mrs.
M. C. Russell, Mrs. Claude Neely, Mrs. B. D. Gray, Mrs. Salmon and Mrs. David
Bootes.
PAGE 17, COLUMN 5
JUDGE
HILL WILL NAME
PROBATION OFFICER
SOON
Plans
Leniency for First Of-
fenders Who Can Show
Past Is Not Shady
Judge Ben H. Hill, of the criminal
division of the superior court, during the present week will appoint a
probation officer for his court, under a recent act of the legislature creating
the position.
At Thursdays session of the court,
Jude Hill said it would be his policy to allow first offenders in misdemeanor
cases, where a good record was proved to go on probation.
Four young white men, who have entered
pleas of guilty in misdemeanor cases, are being detained until the appointment
of the probation officer.
Judge Hill in his statement referred to
the act creating the position, and stated that in each instance a twelve
months sentence will be imposed and suspended only during the good behavior of
the probationer.
He made it
clear that while he will give first offenders, wherever their record justifies
it, the chance allowed them by law, they will have to live up to the
requirements imposed by the court.